AND
Exhibit 10.2
EXECUTION VERSION
EXPORT-IMPORT REVOLVING CREDIT, GUARANTY
AND
SECURITY AGREEMENT
PNC BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
(AS AGENT)
AND
CITIBANK, N.A.
(AS JOINT LEAD ARRANGER AND DOCUMENTATION AGENT)
AND THE LENDERS PARTY HERETO
WITH
DASAN ZHONE SOLUTIONS, INC.,
and various of its Subsidiaries
(BORROWERS)
February 27, 2019
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ARTICLE I |
DEFINITIONS.1 |
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1.1 |
Accounting Terms1 |
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1.2 |
General Terms2 |
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1.3 |
Uniform Commercial Code Terms71 |
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1.4 |
Certain Matters of Construction71 |
ARTICLE II |
ADVANCES, PAYMENTS. 72 |
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2.1 |
Revolving Advances72 |
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2.2 |
Procedures for Requesting Revolving Advances; Procedures for Selection of Applicable Interest Rates for All Advances74 |
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2.3 |
[RESERVED]76 |
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2.4 |
Swing Loans76 |
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2.5 |
Disbursement of Advance Proceeds78 |
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2.6 |
Making and Settlement of Advances78 |
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2.7 |
Maximum Advances80 |
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2.8 |
Manner and Repayment of Advances80 |
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2.9 |
Repayment of Excess Advances81 |
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2.10 |
Statement of Account82 |
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2.11 |
Letters of Credit82 |
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2.12 |
Issuance of Letters of Credit83 |
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2.13 |
Requirements For Issuance of Letters of Credit84 |
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2.14 |
Disbursements, Reimbursement84 |
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2.15 |
Repayment of Participation Advances86 |
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2.16 |
Documentation86 |
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2.17 |
Determination to Honor Drawing Request87 |
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2.18 |
Nature of Participation and Reimbursement Obligations87 |
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2.19 |
Liability for Acts and Omissions88 |
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2.20 |
Prepayments90 |
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2.21 |
Use of Proceeds91 |
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2.22 |
Defaulting Lenders92 |
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2.24 |
[RESERVED]95 |
ARTICLE III |
INTEREST AND FEES. 95 |
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3.1 |
Interest96 |
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3.2 |
Letter of Credit Fees96 |
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3.3 |
[RESERVED]97 |
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3.4 |
Fee Letter97 |
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3.5 |
Computation of Interest and Fees98 |
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3.6 |
Maximum Charges98 |
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3.7 |
Increased Costs98 |
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3.8 |
Alternate Rate of Interest99 |
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3.8.1. |
Interest Rate Inadequate or Unfair99 |
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3.9 |
Capital Adequacy101 |
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3.10 |
Taxes101 |
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3.11 |
Replacement of Lenders104 |
ARTICLE IV |
COLLATERAL: GENERAL TERMS 105 |
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4.1 |
Security Interest in the Collateral105 |
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4.2 |
Perfection of Security Interest105 |
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4.3 |
Preservation of Collateral106 |
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4.4 |
Ownership and Location of Collateral106 |
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4.5 |
Defense of Agent’s and Lenders’ Interests107 |
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4.6 |
Inspection of Premises108 |
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4.7 |
Appraisals108 |
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4.8 |
Receivables; Deposit Accounts and Securities Accounts109 |
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4.9 |
Inventory112 |
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4.10 |
Maintenance of Equipment112 |
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4.11 |
Exculpation of Liability112 |
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4.12 |
Financing Statements112 |
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4.13 |
Investment Property Collateral112 |
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4.14 |
Provisions Regarding Pledged Equity Interests113 |
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4.15 |
Agreements Regarding Korean Collateral119 |
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5.1 |
Authority120 |
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5.2 |
Formation and Qualification121 |
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5.3 |
Survival of Representations and Warranties121 |
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5.4 |
Tax Returns122 |
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5.5 |
Financial Statements122 |
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5.6 |
Entity Names123 |
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5.7 |
O.S.H.A.; Environmental Compliance; Flood Insurance123 |
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5.8 |
Solvency; No Litigation, Violation, Indebtedness or Default; ERISA Compliance124 |
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5.9 |
Intellectual Property125 |
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5.10 |
Licenses and Permits126 |
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5.11 |
[RESERVED]126 |
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5.12 |
No Default126 |
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5.13 |
No Burdensome Restrictions126 |
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5.14 |
No Labor Disputes126 |
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5.15 |
Margin Regulations126 |
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5.16 |
Investment Company Act126 |
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5.17 |
Delivery of DNI Agreements126 |
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5.18 |
Delivery of KeyMile Acquisition Documents127 |
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5.19 |
Swaps127 |
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5.20 |
Business and Property of Loan Parties127 |
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5.21 |
Ineligible Securities128 |
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5.22 |
Equity Interests128 |
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5.23 |
Commercial Tort Claims128 |
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5.24 |
Letter of Credit Rights128 |
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5.25 |
Material Contracts129 |
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5.26 |
Affiliate Transactions129 |
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5.27 |
Certificate of Beneficial Ownership129 |
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5.28 |
Disclosure129 |
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5.29 |
Suspensions and Debarment129 |
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ARTICLE VI |
AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS. 130 |
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6.1 |
Compliance with Laws130 |
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6.2 |
Conduct of Business and Maintenance of Existence and Assets130 |
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6.3 |
Books and Records130 |
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6.4 |
Payment of Taxes130 |
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6.5 |
Financial Covenants131 |
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6.6 |
Insurance135 |
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6.7 |
Payment of Indebtedness and Leasehold Obligations136 |
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6.8 |
Environmental Matters136 |
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6.9 |
Standards of Financial Statements137 |
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6.10 |
Federal Securities Laws137 |
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6.11 |
Execution of Supplemental Instruments137 |
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6.12 |
Exercise of Rights138 |
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6.13 |
Government Receivables138 |
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6.14 |
Membership / Partnership Interests138 |
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6.15 |
Keepwell138 |
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6.16 |
Certificate of Beneficial Ownership and Other Additional Information138 |
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6.17 |
Repatriation139 |
ARTICLE VII |
NEGATIVE COVENANTS. 139 |
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7.1 |
Merger, Consolidation, Acquisition and Sale of Assets139 |
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7.2 |
Creation of Liens142 |
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7.3 |
Guarantees142 |
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7.4 |
Investments142 |
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7.5 |
Loans142 |
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7.6 |
Capital Expenditures142 |
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7.7 |
Restricted Payments143 |
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7.8 |
Indebtedness143 |
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7.9 |
Nature of Business143 |
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7.10 |
Transactions with Affiliates143 |
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7.11 |
[RESERVED]144 |
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7.13 |
Fiscal Year and Accounting Changes149 |
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7.14 |
Pledge of Credit149 |
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7.15 |
Amendment of Organizational Documents149 |
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7.16 |
Compliance with ERISA149 |
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7.17 |
Prepayment of Indebtedness149 |
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7.18 |
DNI Subordinated Debt and Obligations150 |
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7.19 |
Amendments to Other Agreements151 |
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7.20 |
Compliance with Borrower Agreement151 |
ARTICLE VIII |
CONDITIONS PRECEDENT. 151 |
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8.1 |
Conditions to Initial Advances151 |
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8.2 |
Conditions to Each Advance157 |
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8.3 |
Post-Closing Covenants/Conditions158 |
ARTICLE IX |
INFORMATION AS TO LOAN PARTIES. 161 |
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9.1 |
Disclosure of Material Matters161 |
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9.2 |
Schedules161 |
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9.3 |
Environmental Reports163 |
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9.4 |
Litigation163 |
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9.5 |
Material Occurrences163 |
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9.6 |
Government Receivables163 |
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9.7 |
Annual Financial Statements163 |
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9.8 |
Quarterly Financial Statements164 |
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9.9 |
Monthly Bank Statements164 |
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9.10 |
Other Reports164 |
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9.11 |
Additional Information165 |
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9.12 |
Projected Operating Budget165 |
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9.13 |
Variances from Operating Budget165 |
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9.14 |
Notice of Suits, Adverse Events165 |
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9.15 |
ERISA Notices and Requests165 |
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9.16 |
Additional Documents166 |
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9.17 |
Updates to Certain Schedules166 |
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9.19 |
[Reserved]167 |
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9.20 |
Notices Required Under Ex-Im Borrower Agreement167 |
ARTICLE X |
EVENTS OF DEFAULT. 167 |
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10.1 |
Nonpayment167 |
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10.2 |
Breach of Representation167 |
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10.3 |
Financial Information167 |
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10.4 |
Judicial Actions168 |
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10.5 |
Noncompliance168 |
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10.6 |
Judgments168 |
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10.7 |
Bankruptcy168 |
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10.8 |
[RESERVED]169 |
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10.9 |
Lien Priority169 |
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10.10 |
Subordinated Loan Default169 |
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10.11 |
Cross Default169 |
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10.12 |
Breach of Guaranty, Guarantor Security Agreement or Pledge Agreement169 |
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10.13 |
Change of Control169 |
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10.14 |
Invalidity169 |
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10.15 |
Seizures169 |
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10.16 |
[RESERVED]170 |
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10.17 |
Pension Plans170 |
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10.18 |
Anti-Terrorism Laws170 |
ARTICLE XI |
LENDERS’ RIGHTS AND REMEDIES AFTER DEFAULT. 170 |
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11.1 |
Rights and Remedies170 |
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11.2 |
Agent’s Discretion172 |
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11.3 |
Setoff172 |
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11.4 |
Rights and Remedies not Exclusive173 |
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11.5 |
Allocation of Payments and Proceeds of Collateral after Event of Default173 |
ARTICLE XII |
WAIVERS AND JUDICIAL PROCEEDINGS. 176 |
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12.1 |
Waiver of Notice176 |
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12.2 |
Delay176 |
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ARTICLE XIII |
EFFECTIVE DATE AND TERMINATION. 177 |
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13.1 |
Term177 |
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13.2 |
Termination177 |
ARTICLE XIV |
REGARDING AGENT. 178 |
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14.1 |
Appointment178 |
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14.2 |
Nature of Duties178 |
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14.3 |
Lack of Reliance on Agent179 |
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14.4 |
Resignation of Agent; Successor Agent; Resignation of Non-Agent Issuing Bank179 |
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14.5 |
Certain Rights of Agent180 |
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14.6 |
Reliance180 |
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14.7 |
Notice of Default180 |
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14.8 |
Indemnification181 |
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14.9 |
Agent in its Individual Capacity181 |
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14.10 |
Delivery of Documents181 |
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14.11 |
Loan Parties’ Undertaking to Agent181 |
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14.12 |
No Reliance on Agent’s Customer Identification Program181 |
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14.13 |
Other Agreements182 |
ARTICLE XV |
BORROWING AGENCY. 182 |
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15.1 |
Borrowing Agency Provisions182 |
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15.2 |
Waiver of Subrogation183 |
ARTICLE XVI |
MISCELLANEOUS. 183 |
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16.1 |
Governing Law183 |
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16.2 |
Entire Understanding184 |
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16.3 |
Successors and Assigns; Participations; New Lenders188 |
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16.4 |
Application of Payments191 |
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16.5 |
Indemnity191 |
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16.6 |
Notice192 |
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16.7 |
Survival194 |
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16.8 |
Severability195 |
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16.10 |
Injunctive Relief195 |
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16.11 |
Consequential Damages195 |
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16.12 |
Captions195 |
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16.13 |
Counterparts; Facsimile Signatures195 |
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16.14 |
Construction196 |
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16.15 |
Confidentiality; Sharing Information196 |
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16.16 |
Publicity196 |
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16.17 |
Certifications From Banks and Participants; USA PATRIOT Act196 |
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16.18 |
Anti-Terrorism Laws197 |
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16.19 |
Acknowledgement and Consent to Bail-In of EEA Financial Institutions198 |
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16.20 |
Currency Indemnity198 |
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16.21 |
Sovereign Immunity199 |
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16.22 |
Ex-Im Subfacility199 |
ARTICLE XVII |
GUARANTY AND SURETYSHIP AGREEMENT 200 |
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17.1 |
Guaranty and Suretyship Agreement200 |
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17.2 |
Guaranty of Payment and Not Merely Collection200 |
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17.3 |
Guarantor and Suretyship Waivers201 |
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17.4 |
Repayments or Recovery from Secured Parties202 |
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17.5 |
Enforceability of Obligations202 |
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17.6 |
Guaranty Payable upon Event of Default; Remedies203 |
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17.7 |
Waiver of Subrogation203 |
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17.8 |
Continuing Guaranty and Suretyship Agreement203 |
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17.9 |
General Limitation on Guarantee Obligations204 |
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17.10 |
Limitation with respect to German Guarantors204 |
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17.11 |
Right of Contribution207 |
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17.12 |
Keepwell207 |
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LIST OF EXHIBITS AND SCHEDULES
Exhibits
Exhibit 1.2(a)Form of Export-Related Borrowing Base Certificate
Exhibit 1.2(b)Form of Compliance Certificate
Exhibit 1.2(c)Country Limitation Schedule
Exhibit 2.1 Form of Revolving Credit Note
Exhibit 2.4Form of Swing Loan Note
Exhibit 8.1(g)Form of Financial Condition Certificate
Exhibit 16.3 Form of Commitment Transfer Supplement
Schedules
Schedule 1.1Lenders and Commitments
Schedule 1.2(a) |
Dormant Subsidiaries |
Schedule 1.2(b) |
Disqualified Persons |
Schedule 1.2(c) |
Existing German Pension Plans/Old Age Part Time Working Schemes |
Schedule 2.21(a) |
Korean and Japanese Loan Facilities to be Repaid at Closing |
Schedule 4.4 Equipment and Inventory Locations; Place of Business, Chief Executive Office, Real Property
Schedule 4.8(j)Deposit and Investment Accounts
Schedule 4.14Pledged Equity Interest Collateral
Schedule 5.1Consents
Schedule 5.2(a) States of Qualification and Good Standing
Schedule 5.2(b) Subsidiaries
Schedule 5.4Federal Tax Identification Number
Schedule 5.6 Prior Names
Schedule 5.8(b) Litigation
Schedule 5.8(e) Plans
Schedule 5.9 Intellectual Property
Schedule 5.14 Labor Disputes
Schedule 5.23Equity Interests
Schedule 5.24Commercial Tort Claims
Schedule 5.25Letter of Credit Rights
Schedule 5.26Material Contracts
Schedule 7.2Permitted Encumbrances
Schedule 7.3 Permitted Guarantees
Schedule 7.4Permitted Investments
Schedule 7.8Permitted Indebtedness
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EXPORT-IMPORT REVOLVING CREDIT,
GUARANTY AND SECURITY AGREEMENT
Export-Import Revolving Credit, Guaranty and Security Agreement dated as of February 27, 2019, by and among DASAN ZHONE SOLUTIONS, INC., a Delaware corporation (“DZSI”), ZTI MERGER SUBSIDIARY III, INC., a Delaware corporation (“ZTI”and together with DZSI and each Person joined hereto as a borrower from time to time, collectively, the “Borrowers” and each, a “Borrower”), PREMISYS COMMUNICATIONS, INC., a Delaware corporation (“Premisys”), ZHONE TECHNOLOGIES INTERNATIONAL, INC., a Delaware corporation, (“Zhone International”), PARADYNE NETWORKS, INC., a Delaware corporation (“Paradyne Networks”), PARADYNE CORPORATION, a Delaware corporation (“Paradyne Corporation”), DASAN NETWORK SOLUTIONS, INC., a California corporation (“DNS”), DASAN NETWORK SOLUTIONS, INC., a corporation organized under the laws of the Republic of Korea (“DNS Korea”), KEYMILE GMBH, a limited liability company (Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung) organized under the laws of Germany, registered with the commercial register (Handelsregister) of the local court (Amtsgericht) of Hannover under registration number HRB 208693 (“KeyMile”, and together with (i) Premisys, Zhone International, Paradyne Networks, Paradyne Corporation, DNS and DNS Korea, and (ii) each other Person joined hereto as a guarantor from time to time, collectively, the “Guarantors”, and each, a “Guarantor” and together with the Borrowers, collectively, the “Loan Parties” and each, a “Loan Party”), the financial institutions which are now or hereafter become parties hereto (collectively, the “Lenders” and each a “Lender”) and PNC BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION (“PNC”), in its capacity as agent for the Lenders (in such capacity, together with its successors and assigns, the “Agent”), with PNC BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION and CITIBANK, N.A., as Joint Lead Arrangers, and CITIBANK, N.A., as Documentation Agent.
IN CONSIDERATION of the mutual covenants and undertakings set forth herein, Loan Parties, Lenders and Agent hereby agree as follows:
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positions as of the Closing Date, provided, that, until any such amendments have been agreed upon, the covenants in this Agreement shall be calculated as if no such change in GAAP had occurred and Loan Parties shall provide additional financial statements or supplements thereto, attachments to Compliance Certificates and/or calculations regarding financial covenants as Agent may reasonably require in order to provide the appropriate financial information required hereunder with respect to Loan Parties both reflecting any applicable changes in GAAP and as necessary to demonstrate compliance with the financial covenants before giving effect to the applicable changes in GAAP. However, notwithstanding anything to the contrary provided for in this Section 1.1 or otherwise in this Agreement, (x) leases of the Companies in effect on the Closing Date shall continue to be classified and accounted for on a basis consistent with GAAP as applied in preparation of the audited financial statements of DZSI and its consolidated Subsidiaries for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2017 for all purposes of this Agreement, notwithstanding any change in GAAP relating thereto, unless the parties hereto shall enter into a mutually acceptable amendment addressing such changes, as provided for above, and (y) leases of the Companies entered into after the Closing Date shall be classified and accounted for on a basis consistent with GAAP as in effect from time to time, unless the parties hereto shall enter into a mutually acceptable amendment to the contrary, except that, notwithstanding anything to the contrary provided for in this sentence (or otherwise in this Section 1.1), to the extent that, after the Closing Date, (1) DZSI or any of its Subsidiaries shall enter into any new real estate lease in connection with a relocation of DZSI’s corporate headquarters facility currently located at 0000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx, and such new real estate lease is on terms no less favorable on the whole, and at a cost to Companies that is equal to or less than, the existing lease for such existing headquarters facility, or (2) KeyMile or any of its Subsidiaries shall enter into any new real estate lease in connection with a relocation of KeyMile’s corporate headquarters and/or warehouse facilities currently located at Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 0, 00000, Xxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxx, and such new real estate lease is on terms no less favorable on the whole, and at a cost to Companies that is equal to or less than, the applicable existing lease for such existing headquarters facility or warehouse facilities, as applicable, each such lease shall be classified and accounted for on a basis consistent with GAAP as applied in preparation of the audited financial statements of DZSI and its consolidated Subsidiaries for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2017 for all purposes of this Agreement, notwithstanding any change in GAAP relating thereto (and specifically notwithstanding the effect of ASC 842). |
1.2 |
General Terms. For purposes of this Agreement the following terms shall have the following meanings: |
“Accountants” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 9.7 hereof.
“Accounts Receivable” shall mean all of each Borrower's now owned or hereafter acquired (a) "accounts" (as such term is defined in the Uniform Commercial Code), other receivables, book debts and other forms of obligations, whether arising out of goods sold or services rendered or from any other transaction; (b) rights in, to and under all purchase orders or receipts for goods or services; (c) rights to any goods represented or purported to be represented by any of the foregoing (including unpaid sellers’ rights of rescission, replevin, reclamation and stoppage in transit and rights to returned, reclaimed or repossessed goods); (d) moneys due or to become due to such
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Borrower under all purchase orders and contracts (which includes Export Orders) for the sale of goods or the performance of services or both by such Borrower (whether or not yet earned by performance on the part of such Borrower), including the proceeds of the foregoing; (e) any notes, drafts, letters of credit, insurance proceeds or other instruments, documents and writings evidencing or supporting the foregoing; and (f) all collateral security and guarantees of any kind given by any other Person with respect to any of the foregoing.
“Accounts Receivable Aging Report” shall mean a report detailing the Export-Related Accounts Receivable (and Export-Related Overseas Accounts Receivable (to the extent Eligible Export-Related Overseas Accounts Receivable are included in the Formula Amount at any time)) for a Loan Facility, and the applicable terms for the relevant time period; in the case of Indirect Exports, such report shall indicate the portion of such Accounts Receivable corresponding to Indirect Exports.
“Acquisition” shall mean any transaction (or series of related transactions) for the purchase or other acquisition, by merger or otherwise, by any Company of (a) Equity Interests in any Person having ordinary voting power to elect at least a majority of the directors of such Person or other governing body performing similar functions for such Person (or otherwise conferring similar control over the governance and policies of such Person), or (b) all or substantially all the assets of any Person (or all or substantially all the assets constituting a business unit, division, product line or line of business of any Person), but not any other type of Investment in any Person (any such Person, and/or assets and/or business unit, division, product line or line of business of any Person, acquired in any such transaction, the “target”).
“Advance Rates” shall mean the advance rates in respect of Eligible Export-Related Accounts Receivable set forth in Section 2.1(a) hereof.
“Advances” shall mean and include the Revolving Advances, Letters of Credit, and the Swing Loans.
“Affected Lender” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 3.11 hereof.
“Affiliate” of any Person shall mean (a) any Person which, directly or indirectly, is in control of, is controlled by, or is under common control with such Person, or (b) any Person which is a director, manager, member, managing member, general partner or officer (i) of such Person, (ii) of any Subsidiary of such Person or (iii) of any Person described in clause (a) above. For purposes of this definition, control of a Person shall mean the power, direct or indirect, (x) to vote five percent (5%) or more of the Equity Interests having ordinary voting power for the election of directors of such Person or other Persons performing similar functions for any such Person, or (y) to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of such Person whether by ownership of Equity Interests, contract or otherwise.
“Affiliated Foreign Person” shall have the meaning given thereto in the Ex-Im Borrower Agreement.
“Agent” shall have the meaning set forth in the preamble to this Agreement and shall include its successors and assigns.
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“Agreement” shall mean this Export-Import Revolving Credit, Guaranty and Security Agreement, as the same may be amended, modified, supplemented, renewed, restated or replaced from time to time.
“Alternate Base Rate” shall mean, for any day, a rate per annum equal to the highest of (a) the Base Rate in effect on such day, (b) the sum of the Overnight Bank Funding Rate in effect on such day plus one half of one percent (0.5%), and (c) the sum of the Daily LIBOR Rate in effect on such day plus one percent (1.0%), so long as a Daily LIBOR Rate is offered, ascertainable and not unlawful. Any change in the Alternate Base Rate (or any component thereof) shall take effect at the opening of business on the day such change occurs.
“Alternate Source” shall have the meaning set forth in the definition of Overnight Bank Funding Rate.
“Annual Audited Financials” shall mean, as to any fiscal year of Loan Parties, the audited financial statements, related statements and reports, related Accountant’s opinion, letters, and reports, and related Compliance Certificates required to be delivered by Loan Parties with respect to such fiscal year to Agent under Section 9.7 hereof.
“Anti-Terrorism Laws” shall mean any Laws relating to terrorism, trade sanctions programs and embargoes, import/export licensing, money laundering or bribery, and any regulation, order, or directive promulgated, issued or enforced pursuant to such Laws, all as amended, supplemented or replaced from time to time.
“Applicable Law” shall mean all laws, rules and regulations applicable to the Person, conduct, transaction, covenant, Other Document or contract in question, including all applicable common law and equitable principles, all provisions of all applicable state, federal and foreign constitutions, statutes, rules, regulations, treaties, directives and orders of any Governmental Body, and all orders, judgments and decrees of all courts and arbitrators.
“Applicable Margin” shall mean, with respect to each Revolving Advance and Swing Loan, and also with respect to Letter of Credit Lender Fees, the applicable percentage as follows:
Domestic Rate Revolving Advances |
LIBOR Rate Revolving Advances |
Swing Loans |
Letters of Credit |
1.50% |
2.50% |
1.50% |
2.50% |
“Application Date” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2.8(b) hereof.
“Appraisal Costs” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 3.4(d) of the Domestic Credit Agreement.
“Approvals” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 5.7(b) hereof.
“Approved Credit Insurance Policy” shall mean, as to any Receivable arising from a sale to a Customer outside the United States of America, a policy of credit insurance for comprehensive commercial and political risk under which the payment and collection of such Receivable is insured, if and to the extent that (i) the insurance carrier, coverage amounts and terms of coverage with respect to such Receivable under such insurance policy shall be reasonably acceptable to
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Agent in its Permitted Discretion (provided that, as of the Closing Date, Euler Hermes is acceptable to Agent), and (ii) such insurance policy shall name Agent as beneficiary, additional insured or lender loss payee, as applicable, to whom all proceeds and payments under such credit insurance policy shall be paid on terms acceptable to Agent pursuant to an endorsement to such credit insurance policy acceptable to Agent in its discretion.
“Approved Electronic Communication” shall mean each notice, demand, communication, information, document and other material transmitted, posted or otherwise made or communicated by e-mail, e-fax, the Credit Management Module of PNC’s PINACLE® system, or any other equivalent electronic service agreed to by Agent, whether owned, operated or hosted by Agent, any Lender, any of their Affiliates or any other Person, that any party is obligated to, or otherwise chooses to, provide to Agent pursuant to this Agreement or any Other Document, including any financial statement, financial and other report, notice, request, certificate and other information material; provided that Approved Electronic Communications shall not include any notice, demand, communication, information, document or other material that Agent specifically instructs a Person to deliver in physical form.
“Approved Ex-Im Currency” shall mean Euros ( € ), Great Britain Pounds Sterling (£), Canadian Dollars (CAD$), United Arab Emirates dirham/ Emirati dirham (AED), and Korean Won (KRW).
“Approved LC Foreign Currencies” shall mean United Arab Emirates dirham/ Emirati dirham (AED), and such other currencies other than Dollars as Issuer and the Bank shall approve in its sole discretion from time to time.
“Approved Fund” shall mean any Fund that is administered, advised, managed, underwritten or sub-advised by (a) a Lender, (b) an Affiliate of a Lender, or (c) an entity or an Affiliate of an entity that administers, advises, manages, underwrites or sub-advises a Lender.
“Bail-In Action” means the exercise of any Write-Down and Conversion Powers by the applicable EEA Resolution Authority in respect of any liability of an EEA Financial Institution.
“Bail-In Legislation” means, with respect to any EEA Member Country implementing Article 55 of Directive 2014/59/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of the European Union, the implementing law for such EEA Member Country from time to time which is described in the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule.
“Bankruptcy Code” shall mean Title 11 of the United States Code entitled “Bankruptcy,” as in effect from time to time, or any successor statute.
“Base Rate” shall mean the base commercial lending rate of PNC as publicly announced to be in effect from time to time, such rate to be adjusted automatically, without notice, on the effective date of any change in such rate. This rate of interest is determined from time to time by PNC as a means of pricing some loans to its customers and is neither tied to any external rate of interest or index nor does it necessarily reflect the lowest rate of interest actually charged by PNC to any particular class or category of customers of PNC.
“Beneficial Owner” shall mean, for each Loan Party, each of the following: (a) each individual, if any, who, directly or indirectly, owns 25% or more of such Loan Party’s Equity Interests; and (b) a single individual with significant responsibility to control, manage, or direct such Loan Party.
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“Benefited Lender” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2.6(e) hereof.
“Blocked Account Bank” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 4.8(h) hereof.
“Blocked Accounts” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 4.8(h) hereof.
“Borrower” or “Borrowers” shall have the meaning set forth in the preamble to this Agreement and shall include their successors and permitted assigns.
“Borrowers’ Account” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2.10 hereof.
“Borrowing Agent” shall mean DZSI.
“Business Day” shall mean any day other than Saturday or Sunday or a legal holiday on which commercial banks are authorized or required by law to be closed for business in East Brunswick, New Jersey, and, if the applicable Business Day relates to any LIBOR Rate Loans, such day must also be a day on which dealings are carried on in the London interbank market.
“Buyer” shall mean a Person that has entered into one or more Export Orders with a Borrower or who is an obligor on Export-Related Accounts Receivable or Export-Related Overseas Accounts Receivable.
“Capital Expenditures” shall mean expenditures made or liabilities incurred for the acquisition of any fixed assets or improvements (or of any replacements or substitutions thereof or additions thereto) which have a useful life of more than one year and which, in accordance with GAAP, would be classified as capital expenditures. Capital Expenditures for any period shall include the principal portion of Capitalized Lease Obligations paid in such period.
“Capitalized Lease Obligation” shall mean any Indebtedness of any Company represented by obligations under a lease that is required to be capitalized for financial reporting purposes in accordance with GAAP.
“Capital Good” shall mean a capital good (e.g., manufacturing equipment, licensing agreements) that will establish or expand foreign production capacity of an exportable good.
“Cash Equivalents” shall mean (a) marketable direct obligations issued by, or unconditionally guaranteed by, the United States or issued by any agency thereof and backed by the full faith and credit of the United States, in each case maturing within one year from the date of acquisition thereof, (b) marketable direct obligations issued or fully guaranteed by any state of the United States or any political subdivision of any such state or any public instrumentality thereof maturing within one year from the date of acquisition thereof and, at the time of acquisition, having one of the two highest ratings obtainable from either S&P or Moody’s, (c) commercial paper maturing no more than 270 days from the date of creation thereof and, at the time of acquisition, having a rating of at least A-1 from S&P or at least P-1 from Moody’s, (d) certificates of deposit, time deposits, overnight bank deposits or bankers’ acceptances maturing within one year from the date of acquisition thereof issued by any bank organized under the laws of the United States or any state thereof or the District of Columbia or any United States branch of a foreign bank having at the date of acquisition thereof combined capital and surplus of not less than $500,000,000, (e) deposit accounts maintained with (i) any bank that satisfies the criteria described in clause (d) above, or (ii) any other bank organized under the laws of the United States or any state thereof
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so long as the full amount maintained with any such other bank is insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, (f) repurchase obligations of any commercial bank satisfying the requirements of clause (d) of this definition or recognized securities dealer having combined capital and surplus of not less than $500,000,000, having a term of not more than seven days, with respect to securities satisfying the criteria in clauses (a) or (d) above, (g) debt securities with maturities of six months or less from the date of acquisition backed by standby letters of credit issued by any commercial bank satisfying the criteria described in clause (d) above, (h) Investments in money market funds substantially all of whose assets are invested in the types of assets described in clauses (a) through (g) above, and (i) with respect to any Foreign Subsidiary of DZSI with respect to investments made in a country outside the United States of America, subject at all times to Sections 10.18 and 16.18, other customarily utilized high-quality investments of credit quality and liquidity equivalent to clauses (a) through (g) above, and, with respect to clause (d) above, with banks of equivalent credit quality, in each case appropriate in the country where such Foreign Subsidiary is located or in which such investment is made.
“Cash Management Liabilities” shall mean the indebtedness, obligations and liabilities of any Loan Party or any of their respective Subsidiaries to the provider of any Cash Management Products and Services (including all obligations and liabilities owing to such provider in respect of any returned items deposited with such provider). For purposes of this Agreement and all of the Other Documents, all Cash Management Liabilities of any Loan Party owing to any of the Secured Parties shall be “Obligations” hereunder and under the Other Documents, and the Liens securing such Cash Management Liabilities shall be pari passu with the Liens securing all other Obligations under this Agreement and the Other Documents, subject to the express provisions of Section 11.5 hereof.
“Cash Management Products and Services” shall mean agreements or other arrangements under which Agent or any Lender or any Affiliate of Agent or a Lender provides any of the following products or services to any Loan Party and/or any of their respective Subsidiaries: (a) credit cards; (b) credit card processing services; (c) debit cards and stored value cards; (d) commercial cards; (e) ACH transactions; and (f) cash management and treasury management services and products, including without limitation controlled disbursement accounts or services, lockboxes, automated clearinghouse transactions, overdrafts, interstate depository network services.
“Casualty Proceeds Event” shall mean the receipt by any Person in cash of any proceeds of any claim, award, or other amount under any insurance policy on account of damage or destruction of any assets or property or as a result of any taking or condemnation of any assets or property.
“CEA” shall mean the Commodity Exchange Act (7 U.S.C.§1 et seq.), as amended from time to time, and any successor statute.
“CFTC” shall mean the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
“CERCLA” shall mean the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act of 1980, as amended, 42 U.S.C. §§9601 et seq.
“Certificate of Beneficial Ownership” shall mean, for each Loan Party, a certificate in form and substance acceptable to Agent (as amended or modified by Agent from time to time in its sole discretion), certifying, among other things, the Beneficial Owner of such Loan Party.
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“Change in Law” shall mean the occurrence, after the Closing Date, of any of the following: (a) the adoption or taking effect of any Applicable Law; (b) any change in any Applicable Law or in the administration, implementation, interpretation or application thereof by any Governmental Body; or (c) the making or issuance of any request, rule, guideline or directive (whether or not having the force of law) by any Governmental Body; provided that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, (x) the Xxxx-Xxxxx Xxxx Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and all requests, rules, regulations, guidelines, interpretations or directives thereunder or issued in connection therewith (whether or not having the force of Applicable Law) and (y) all requests, rules, regulations, guidelines, interpretations 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 (whether or not having the force of law), in each case pursuant to Basel III, shall in each case be deemed to be a Change in Law regardless of the date enacted, adopted, issued, promulgated or implemented.
“Change of Control” shall mean the occurrence of any event (whether in one or more transactions) which results in: (a) any person or group of persons (within the meaning of Section 13(d) or 14(a) of the Exchange Act) other than DNI acquiring beneficial ownership (within the meaning of Rule 13d-3 promulgated by the SEC under the Exchange Act) of 35% or more of the voting Equity Interests of DZSI; (b) during any period of 12 consecutive months, a majority of the members of the board of directors or equivalent governing body of DZSI cease to be composed of individuals (i) who were members of that board or equivalent governing body on the first day of such period, (ii) whose election or nomination to that board was approved by individuals referred to in clause (i) above constituting at the time of such election or nomination at least a majority of that board, or (iii) whose election or nomination to that board was approved by individuals referred to in clauses (i) and (ii) above constituting at the time of such election or nomination at least a majority of that board; and (c) the failure of DZSI to hold, directly or indirectly, 100% of the issued and outstanding Equity Interests (other than any directors’ qualifying shares or other de minimus ownership interest required by Applicable Law to be owned by a Person other than DZSI or one or more of its Subsidiaries) of and otherwise control (x) each Loan Party, and (y) its other Subsidiaries other than Zhone Technologies SA and Dasan Network Solutions Japan, Inc. (or, as to Zhone Technologies SA and Dasan Networks Solutions Japan, Inc., the failure of DZSI to hold, directly or indirectly, the same percentage ownership of the issued and outstanding Equity Interest in either such Subsidiary as held, directly or indirectly, by DZSI as of the Closing Date or the same rights of management and/or control with respect to either such Subsidiary as held, directly or indirectly, by DZSI as of the Closing Date. For purposes of this definition, “control of” any Person shall mean the power, direct or indirect (A) to vote more than 50% of the Equity Interests having ordinary voting power for the election of directors (or the individuals performing similar functions) of such Person or (B) to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of such Person by contract or otherwise.
“Charges” shall mean all taxes, charges, fees, imposts, levies or other assessments, including all net income, gross income, gross receipts, sales, use, ad valorem, value added, transfer, franchise, profits, inventory, capital stock, license, withholding, payroll, employment, social security, unemployment, excise, severance, stamp, occupation and property taxes, custom duties, fees, assessments, liens, claims and charges of any kind whatsoever, together with any interest and any penalties, additions to tax or additional amounts, imposed by any taxing authority or other
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Governmental Body, domestic or foreign (including the PBGC or any environmental agency or superfund), upon the Collateral or any Company.
“CIP Regulations” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 14.12 hereof.
“Claims” shall have the meaning given to such term in Section 16.5 hereof.
“Closing Date” shall mean the date of this Agreement or such other date as may be agreed to in writing by the parties hereto.
"Closing Date Flow of Funds Agreement" shall have the meaning set forth in Section 8.1(bb) hereof.
“Closing Date Korean Yangdo Dambo” shall mean the Yangdo-Dambo Agreement governed by Korean law dated on or about the Closing Date, by and among Agent, the Lenders and DNS Korea, as such agreement may be amended, modified, supplemented, renewed, restated or replaced from time to time.
“Code” shall mean the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as the same may be amended, modified or supplemented from time to time, and any successor statute of similar import, and the rules and regulations thereunder, as from time to time in effect.
“Collateral” shall mean and include all right, title and interest of each Loan Party in all of the following property and assets of such Loan Party, in each case whether now existing or hereafter arising or created and whether now owned or hereafter acquired and wherever located:
(a) |
all Receivables and all supporting obligations relating thereto (including without limitation all Export-Related Accounts Receivable); |
(b) |
all equipment and fixtures; |
(c) |
all general intangibles (including all payment intangibles and all software) and all supporting obligations related thereto (including without limitation all Export-Related General Intangibles); |
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all Inventory; |
(e) |
all Subsidiary Stock, securities, Investment Property and financial assets (but excluding any Equity Interests of any Subsidiary of Borrowers or Credit Agreement Guarantors that does not constitute Subsidiary Stock); |
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all ledger sheets, ledger cards, files, correspondence, records, books of account, business papers, computers, computer software (owned by any Loan Party or in which it has an interest), computer programs, tapes, disks and documents, including all of such property relating to the property described in clauses (a) through and including (h) of this definition; and |
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all proceeds and products of the property described in clauses (a) through and including (i) of this definition, in whatever form. |
It is the intention of the parties that if Agent shall fail to have a perfected Lien in any particular property or assets of any Loan Party for any reason whatsoever, but the provisions of this Agreement and/or of the Other Documents, together with all financing statements and other public filings relating to Liens filed or recorded by Agent against Loan Parties, would be sufficient to create a perfected Lien in any property or assets that such Loan Party may receive upon the sale, lease, license, exchange, transfer or disposition of such particular property or assets, then all such “proceeds” of such particular property or assets shall be included in the Collateral as original collateral that is the subject of a direct and original grant of a security interest as provided for herein and in the Other Documents (and not merely as proceeds (as defined in Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code) in which a security interest is created or arises solely pursuant to Section 9-315 of the Uniform Commercial Code).
Notwithstanding the foregoing, Collateral shall not include any Excluded Property.
“Commitments” shall mean, collectively, the Revolving Commitments.
“Commitment Transfer Supplement” shall mean a document in the form of Exhibit 16.3 hereto, properly completed and otherwise in form and substance satisfactory to Agent by which the Purchasing Lender purchases and assumes a portion of the obligation of Lenders to make Advances under this Agreement.
“Companies” shall mean, collectively, all of the Loan Parties and all of their respective Subsidiaries, and “Company” shall mean each and any of them.
“Compliance Certificate” shall mean a compliance certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit 1.2(b) hereto to be signed by the Chief Financial Officer or Controller of Borrowing Agent.
“Consents” shall mean all filings and all licenses, permits, consents, approvals, authorizations, qualifications and orders of Governmental Bodies and other third parties, domestic or foreign, necessary to carry on any Company’s business or necessary (including to avoid a conflict or breach under any agreement, instrument, other document, license, permit or other authorization) for the execution, delivery or performance of this Agreement, the Other Documents, the Domestic Credit Agreement, or the Domestic Other Documents, including any Consents required under all applicable federal, state or other Applicable Law.
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“Consigned Inventory” shall mean Inventory of any Loan Party that is in the possession of another Person on a consignment, sale or return, or other basis that does not constitute a final sale and acceptance of such Inventory.
“Consolidated Basis” shall mean, with respect to any Person the consolidation of the accounts or other items of such Person and its Subsidiaries in accordance with GAAP.
“Contemplated Rights Offering” shall mean an equity rights offering by DZSI, of the type discussed by Lenders and DZSI prior to the Closing Date, that is consummated and closed following the Closing Date resulting in Net Cash Proceeds in respect thereof of not less than $25,000,000.
“Contract Rate” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 3.1 hereof.
“Contractual Obligation” shall mean, as to any Person, any provision of any security issued by such Person or of any agreement, instrument or other undertaking to which such Person is a party or by which it or any of its property is bound.
“Control Agreement” shall mean a deposit account control agreement or securities account control agreement or blocked account agreement, as applicable, entered into by any one or more Loan Parties, an applicable bank or other depository institution or securities intermediary and Agent, sufficient to provide Agent with “control” (for purposes of Articles 8 or Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code, as applicable) over the deposit account(s) or securities accounts(s) subject thereto maintained with such applicable bank or other depository institution or securities intermediary, and otherwise in form and substance reasonably acceptable to Agent in their Permitted Discretion.
“Controlled Group” shall mean, at any time, each Company and all members of a controlled group of corporations and all trades or businesses (whether or not incorporated) under common control and all other entities which, together with any Company, are treated as a single employer under Section 414 of the Code.
“Corporate Cure Subsidiary” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 8.3(i) hereof.
"Country Limitation Schedule" shall mean the schedule published from time to time by Ex-Im Bank setting forth on a country by country basis whether and under what conditions Ex-Im Bank will provide coverage for the financing of export transactions to countries listed therein. The Country Limitation Schedules most recently published by the Ex-Im Bank as of the Closing Date is attached hereto as Exhibit 1.2(c). By execution hereof, each Borrower acknowledges that as of the date hereof, Agent and Lenders have provided Borrowers with a copy of this most recent County Limitation Schedule.
“Covered Entity” shall mean (a) each Loan Party, each of each Loan Party’s Subsidiaries and all pledgors of Collateral and (b) each Person that, directly or indirectly, is in control of a Person described in clause (a) above. For purposes of this definition, control of a Person shall mean the direct or indirect (x) ownership of, or power to vote, 25% or more of the issued and outstanding Equity Interests having ordinary voting power for the election of directors of such Person or other Persons performing similar functions for such Person, or (y) power to direct or cause the direction
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of the management and policies of such Person whether by ownership of Equity Interests, contract or otherwise.
“Cure Period” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 6.5(d) hereof.
“Cure Right” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 6.5(d) hereof.
“Customer” shall mean and include the account debtor (including any applicable Buyer) with respect to any Receivable and/or the prospective purchaser of goods, services or both with respect to any contract or contract right, and/or any party who enters into or proposes to enter into any contract or other arrangement with any Company, pursuant to which such Company is to deliver any personal property or perform any services.
“Customs” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2.13(b) hereof.
“Daily LIBOR Rate” shall mean, for any day, the rate per annum determined by Agent by dividing (x) the Published Rate by (y) a number equal to 1.00 minus the Reserve Percentage; provided, however, that if the Daily LIBOR Rate determined as provided above would be less than zero, such rate shall be deemed to be zero for purposes of this Agreement.
“Debarment Regulations” shall mean, collectively, (a) the Governmentwide Debarment and Suspension (Nonprocurement) regulations (Common Rule), 53 Fed. Reg. 19204 (May 26, 1988), (b) Subpart 9.4 (Debarment, Suspension, and Ineligibility) of the Federal Acquisition Regulations, 48 C.F.R. 9.400-9.409 and (c) the revised Governmentwide Debarment and Suspension (Nonprocurement) regulations (Common Rule), 60 Fed. Reg. 33037 (June 26, 1995).
“Debt Payments” shall mean for any Person for any period, in each case: (a) interest payments paid or payable in cash by such Person on any Advances or any “Advances” under the Domestic Credit Agreement during such period, plus (b) regularly scheduled principal payments paid or payable in cash by such Person in respect of the Domestic Term Loan during such period, plus (c) any fees, commissions and charges set forth herein or in the Domestic Credit Agreement paid or payable in cash by such Person during such period, plus (d) payments in respect of Capitalized Lease Obligations paid or payable in cash by such Person during such period, plus (e) payments with respect to Interest Expense or regularly scheduled principal payments with any other Indebtedness for borrowed money paid or payable in cash by such Person during such period, including without limitation, (x) regularly scheduled repayments of the Permitted KeyMile Seller Working Capital Facility Indebtedness, and (y) an amount equal to (but not exceeding) fifty percent (50%) of the aggregate amount of the repayment in full in cash of the Permitted LGU Indebtedness on the scheduled maturity thereof as required by Section 7.17(c).
“Default” shall mean the occurrence of an event or circumstance which, with the giving of notice or passage of time or both, would constitute an Event of Default.
“Default Rate” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 3.1 hereof.
“Defaulting Lender” shall mean any Lender that: (a) has failed, within two Business Days of the date required to be funded or paid, to (i) in the case of any Revolving Lender, to fund any portion of such Lender’s Revolving Commitment Percentage of any Revolving Advances, (ii) in the case of any Revolving Lender, to fund any portion of its Participation Commitment in any Letters of Credit or Swing Loans, (iii) [RESERVED], or (iv) pay over to Agent, Issuer, the Swing Loan
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Lender or any Lender any other amount required to be paid by it hereunder, unless, in the case of clause (i) or clause (iii) above, such Lender notifies Agent in writing that such failure is the result of such Lender’s good faith determination that a condition precedent to funding (specifically identified and including a particular Default or Event of Default, if any) has not been satisfied; (b) has notified Borrowers or Agent in writing, or has made a public statement to the effect, that it does not intend or expect to comply with any of its funding obligations under this Agreement (unless such writing or public statement indicates that such position is based on such Lender’s good faith determination that a condition precedent (specifically identified and including a particular Default or Event of Default, if any) to funding a loan under this Agreement cannot be satisfied) or generally under other agreements in which it commits to extend credit; (c) has failed, within two Business Days after request by Agent, acting in good faith, to provide a certification in writing from an authorized officer of such Lender that it will comply with its obligations (and is financially able to meet such obligations) to fund prospective Advances and, if applicable, participations in then outstanding Letters of Credit and Swing Loans under this Agreement, provided that such Lender shall cease to be a Defaulting Lender pursuant to this clause (c) upon Agent’s receipt of such certification in form and substance satisfactory to Agent; (d) has become the subject of an Insolvency Event; or (e) has failed at any time to comply with the provisions of Section 2.6(e) hereof with respect to purchasing participations from the other Lenders, whereby such Lender’s share of any payment received, whether by setoff or otherwise, is in excess of its pro rata share of such payments due and payable to all of Lenders. However, without limiting the generality of or contradicting any of the foregoing, each Lender that is a “Defaulting Lender” for any reason under the Domestic Credit Agreement shall also be a Defaulting Lender hereunder.
“Depository Accounts” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 4.8(h) hereof.
“Designated Lender” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 16.2(d) hereof.
“Disposition” shall mean any sale, assignment, lease, sublease, license, sublicense, conveyance, exchange, transfer or other disposition of any assets. Variations of such term (i.e. “Dispose”) shall have corresponding meanings.
“Disqualified Equity Interests” shall mean any Equity Interests which, by their terms (or by the terms of any security or other Equity Interests into which they are convertible or for which they are exchangeable), or upon the happening of any event or condition, (a) mature or are mandatorily redeemable, pursuant to a sinking fund obligation or otherwise, or are redeemable at the option of the holder thereof, in whole or in part, on or prior to the date that is six (6) months prior to the last day of the Term (excluding any provisions requiring redemption upon a “change of control” or similar event; provided that such “change of control” or similar event results in the Payment in Full of the Obligations), (b) are convertible into or exchangeable for (i) debt securities or (ii) any Equity Interests referred to in (a) above, in each case, at any time on or prior to the date that is six (6) months prior to the last day of the Term, or (c) are entitled to receive scheduled dividends or distributions in cash prior to the time that the Obligations are Paid in Full.
“Disqualified Person” shall mean (a) any natural Person, or (b) any Person listed on Schedule 1.2(b) or any Person that is clearly identifiable as an Affiliate of any such Person listed on Schedule 1.2(b) based on such Affiliate’s name; provided, however, Agent and the Lenders shall be entitled
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to rely in good faith on any representation and warranty made by a potential purchaser, assignee or transferee that such Person is not a Disqualified Person.
“DNI” shall mean Dasan Networks, Inc., a corporation organized under the laws of the Republic of Korea. As of the Closing Date, DNI owned a majority of the outstanding and issued Equity Interests of DZSI.
“DNI Closing Date Loan Amendment” shall mean that certain Amendment Agreement to be dated on or about the Closing Date providing for an amendment to each of the Permitted DNI Subordinated Loans to extend the maturity of each such Permitted DNI Subordinated Loan to a date that is ninety (90) days after the last day of the Term.
“DNI IP License” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 8.3(e) hereof.
“DNI IP Pledge Consents” shall mean, collectively, the written consents from DNI to the granting of Liens in favor of Agent and Ex-Im Agent pursuant to the Korean IP Pledges in the forms, respectively, of Schedule IV to the Domestic Korean IP Pledge and the Ex-Im Korean IP Pledge.
“DNI Subordination Agreement” shall mean that certain Subordination Agreement dated on or about the Closing Date among Agent, Domestic Agent, and DNI, as such agreement may be amended, modified, supplemented, renewed, restated or replaced from time to time in accordance with the terms thereof.
“DNI/DNS Korea Guarantee Fee Agreement” shall mean that certain Guarantee Fee Agreement dated as of April 1, 2015 by DNS Korea as the “Delagator” and DNI as the “Delagatee”.
“DNS Japan” shall mean Dasan Network Solutions Japan, Inc., a Subsidiary of DZSI and DNS.
“Document” shall have the meaning given to the term “document” in the Uniform Commercial Code.
“Dollar” and the sign “$” shall mean lawful money of the United States of America.
“Dollar Equivalent” means at any time (i) as to any amount denominated in Dollars, the amount thereof at such time, and (ii) as to any amount denominated in any other currency, the equivalent amount in Dollars calculated by the Agent in good faith at such time using the Exchange Rate in effect on the day of determination.
“Dollar Equivalent Drawing Amount” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2.14(b) hereof.
“Domestic Agent” shall mean the “Agent” pursuant to the Domestic Credit Agreement, as such term is defined therein.
“Domestic Borrower” shall mean those Borrowers that are party to the Domestic Credit Agreement and the Domestic Other Documents as “Borrowers” from time to time. The parties hereto acknowledge that as of the Closing Date, the only Domestic Borrowers are DZSI and ZTI.
“Domestic Credit Agreement” shall mean that certain Revolving Credit, Term Loan, Guaranty and Security Agreement dated as of the Closing Date among Domestic Borrowers, Domestic Credit Agreement Guarantors, Domestic Lenders, and Domestic Agent, as hereafter amended, modified, supplemented, restated or replaced from time to time in accordance with the terms thereof.
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“Domestic Credit Agreement Guarantors” shall mean the “Guarantors” party to the Domestic Credit Agreement from time to time.
“Domestic Default” shall mean any “Default” as defined in the Domestic Credit Agreement.
“Domestic Eligible Foreign Receivables” shall mean, collectively, all “Eligible Foreign Receivables” of Domestic Borrowers as defined in the Domestic Credit Agreement.
“Domestic Eligible Receivables” shall mean, collectively, all “Eligible Receivables” of Domestic Borrowers as defined in the Domestic Credit Agreement.
“Domestic Event of Default” shall mean any “Event of Default” as defined in the Domestic Credit Agreement.
“Domestic Excess Amount” shall mean, as of any date, the Dollar Equivalent of the positive amount (if any) by which (i) the sum of (x) the aggregate outstanding principal balance of all Domestic Revolving Advances and Domestic Swing Loans as of such date plus (y) the Dollar Equivalent of the Domestic Maximum Undrawn Amount for all outstanding Domestic Letters of Credit in the aggregate as of such date exceeds (ii) Domestic Maximum Revolving Advance Amount in effect under the Domestic Credit Agreement as of such date (as reduced by Reserves established hereunder as in effect as of such date and by Domestic Reserves established under the Domestic Credit Agreement as in effect as of such date) minus the Maximum Revolving Advance Amount (as reduced by Reserves established hereunder as in effect as of such date) in effect under this Agreement as of such date.
As an illustrative example, if (1) aggregate outstanding principal balance of all Domestic Revolving Advances and Domestic Swing Loans plus the Dollar Equivalent of the Domestic Maximum Undrawn Amount for all outstanding Domestic Letters of Credit in the aggregate on any date was $8,000,000, (2) the Domestic Maximum Revolving Advance Amount as of such date (as reduced by Reserves established hereunder as in effect as of such date and by Domestic Reserves established under the Domestic Credit Agreement as in effect as of such date) was $15,000,000, and (3) the Maximum Revolving Advance Amount hereunder as of such date (as reduced by Reserves established hereunder as in effect as of such date) was $10,000,000, then (I) the Domestic Excess Amount as of such date would be $3,000,000 (computed as $8,000,000 - ($15,000,000 - $10,000,000)) and (II) the maximum amount of Revolving Advances permitted hereunder under clause (x) of Section 2.1(a) as of such date would be $7,000,000 (computed as the Maximum Revolving Advance Amount of $10,000,000 – the Domestic Excess Amount of $3,000,000).
“Domestic Foreign Currency Letter of Credit” shall mean any “Foreign Currency Letter of Credit (as defined in the Domestic Credit Agreement) made under the Domestic Credit Agreement.
“Domestic Formula Amount” shall mean the “Formula Amount” as defined in the Domestic Credit Agreement.
“Domestic Letters of Credit” shall mean, collectively, all of the “Letters of Credit” as defined under the Domestic Credit Agreement.
“Domestic Lenders” shall mean the “Lenders” pursuant to the Domestic Credit Agreement, as such term is defined therein.
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“Domestic Loan Party” means any Loan Party that is not a Foreign Loan Party.
“Domestic Maximum Revolving Advance Amount” shall mean the “Maximum Revolving Advance Amount” as defined in the Domestic Credit Agreement.
“Domestic Maximum Undrawn Amount” shall mean, as to any Domestic Letter of Credit, the Dollar Equivalent of the “Maximum Undrawn Amount” as defined under the Domestic Credit Agreement.
“Domestic Obligations” shall mean any and all Obligations other than Ex-Im Obligations.
“Domestic Other Documents” shall mean, collectively, all of the “Other Documents” as defined under the Domestic Credit Agreement.
“Domestic Outstandings Amount” shall mean, as of any date, the Dollar Equivalent of the sum of (i) the aggregate outstanding principal balance of all Domestic Revolving Advances and Domestic Swing Loans as of such date plus (ii) the aggregate Domestic Maximum Undrawn Amount of all outstanding Domestic Letters of Credit as of such date.
“Domestic Rate Loan” shall mean any Advance that bears interest based upon the Alternate Base Rate.
“Domestic Reserves” shall mean any “Reserves” (as defined in the Domestic Credit Agreement) in effect against the Domestic Maximum Revolving Advance Amount at any time.
“Domestic Revolving Advances” shall mean, collectively, all “Revolving Advances” (as defined in the Domestic Credit Agreement) made under the Domestic Credit Agreement.
“Domestic Revolving Credit Commitment” shall mean, as to each Domestic Lender, such Domestic Lender’s “Revolving Credit Commitment” under the Domestic Credit Agreement.
“Domestic Revolving Commitment Percentage” shall mean, as to each Domestic Lender, such Domestic Lender’s “Revolving Commitment Percentage” under the Domestic Credit Agreement.
“Domestic Secured Parties” shall mean, collectively, all “Secured Parties” as defined in the Domestic Credit Agreement.
“Domestic Specified Event of Default” shall mean any “Specified Event of Default” as defined in the Domestic Credit Agreement.
“Domestic Swing Loan Lender” shall mean the “Swing Loan Lender” pursuant to the Domestic Credit Agreement, as such term is defined therein.
“Domestic Swing Loans” shall mean, collectively, all “Swing Loans” (as defined in the Domestic Credit Agreement) made under the Domestic Credit Agreement.
“Domestic Term Loan” shall mean the “Term Loan” (as defined in the Domestic Credit Agreement) made under the Domestic Credit Agreement.
“Dormant Subsidiaries” shall mean, collectively, each Subsidiary of DZSI designated by Credit Parties as a Dormant Subsidiary either on Schedule 1.2(a) delivered by Loan Parties on the Closing Date, or, in the case of any applicable Subsidiary acquired (directly or indirectly) by DZSI in a transaction permitted under this Agreement, in a written notice given to Agent as of the first date
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Credit Parties are obligated to give Agent notice of such acquisition (or, if no such notice is otherwise required, on the date such acquisition occurs), provided that, as of the date of such designation, all of the representations and warranties set forth in Section 5.20(d) hereof shall be true and correct as to such Subsidiary; provided that, notwithstanding the foregoing or anything to the contrary contained herein, Credit Parties may at any time give written notice to Agent that any Dormant Subsidiary wishes to become a Loan Party hereunder, and upon the giving of any such notice and completion by Loan Parties and such Subsidiary of all the requirements of Section 7.12(a), as applicable, with respect to such Subsidiary and the Equity Interests of such Subsidiary as though such Subsidiary was a newly acquired Subsidiary, such Subsidiary shall cease to be a Dormant Subsidiary and shall be a Loan Party for all purposes hereunder.
“Drawing Date” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2.14(b) hereof.
“EBITDA” shall mean for any period with respect to Loan Parties on a Consolidated Basis, the sum of (a) net income (or loss) for such period (excluding extraordinary gains and losses), plus (b) all Interest Expense for such period, plus (c) all charges against income, for such period for federal, foreign, state, local, franchise, excise and similar taxes and foreign withholding taxes of Loan Parties paid or accrued during such period, plus (d) depreciation expenses for such period, plus (e) amortization expenses for such period, plus, (f) the amount of all non-recurring expenses, fees, costs and charges incurred during such period in connection with (x) the KeyMile Acquisition (to the extent incurred prior to the Closing Date), (y) the Transactions contemplated by this Agreement, and (z) any Contemplated Rights Offering, plus (g) the amount of all non-recurring expenses, fees, costs and charges incurred for such period in connection with any proposed or actual Permitted Acquisition or Permitted Investment (excluded any Permitted Investment by one or more Companies in any other one or more Companies); provided that, the amount of all such expenses, fees, costs and charges incurred in any fiscal year and added back to EBITDA under this clause (g) with respect to any proposed Permitted Acquisition(s) or Permitted Investment(s) shall not exceed $1,000,000 in the aggregate, and further provided that, the amount of all such expenses, fees, costs and charges incurred in any fiscal year and added back to EBITDA under this clause (g) with respect to any actual Permitted Acquisition(s) or Permitted Investment(s) shall not exceed $2,000,000 in the aggregate; plus (h) all non-cash stock based compensation expense for such period; plus (i) non-cash goodwill write-offs and write-downs for such period; plus (j) non-cash purchase accounting adjustments during such period; plus (k) any other non-cash charges for such period; plus (l) the amount of business restructuring charges for such period (which, for the avoidance of doubt, shall include the effect of plant closure, retention, severance and excess pension charges); plus (m) the amount of cost savings, operating expense reductions and cost synergies projected by Loan Parties in good faith to result from actions taken or committed to be taken no later than twelve (12) months after the end of such period (calculated on a pro forma basis as though such cost savings, operating expense reductions and cost synergies had been realized on the first day of such measurement period for which EBITDA is being determined and as if such cost savings, operating expense reductions and cost synergies were realized during the entirety of such measurement period), net of the amount of actual benefits realized during such measurement period from such actions; plus (n) the amount of unusual, extraordinary or non-recurring losses or expenses during such period not otherwise covered by any other clause of this definition to the extent acceptable to Agent in its Permitted Discretion; plus (o) the amount of any foreign currency
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translation gains or losses during such period; plus (p) the amount of any cash proceeds received by any Compan(ies) during such period in respect of claims under business interruption insurance; plus (q) [RESERVED;] plus (r) Special Projects Costs during such period; plus (s) costs and expenses for such period related to the initial implementation by the Companies of their “enterprise resource planning” (or “ERP”) systems; provided that, notwithstanding the foregoing, (I) the amounts added back to EBITDA pursuant to the foregoing clauses (l), (m), (n), (r) and (s) in any applicable fiscal measurement period shall not exceed, in the aggregate, fifteen percent (15%) of the EBITDA for Loan Parties on a Consolidated Basis for such fiscal measurement period (after giving effect to such addback), and (II) any amounts added back to EBITDA pursuant to the foregoing clauses (l), (m), (n), and (r) in any applicable fiscal measurement period shall be conditioned upon receipt by Agent, if so requested by Agent in its sole discretion, of supporting documentation and evidence for such addback satisfactory to Agent in its Permitted Discretion.
“Economic Impact Approval” shall mean a written approval issued by Ex-Im Bank stating the conditions under which a Capital Good may be included as an Item in a Loan Facility consistent with Ex-Im Bank’s economic impact procedures (or other mechanism for making this determination that Ex-Im Bank notifies Agent of in writing).
“Economic Impact Certification” shall mean the Economic Impact Certificate (as defined in the Ex-Im Borrower Agreement) executed and delivered by Borrowers prior to or on the Closing Date in connection with the Ex-Im Subfacility, and each future such Economic Impact Certificate executed and delivered by Borrowers in connection with any future extension or renewal of the Ex-Im Subfacility, as any such Economic Impact Certificate may be amended, modified, supplemented, restated or replaced from time to time.
“EEA Financial Institution” means (a) any credit institution or investment firm established in any EEA Member Country which is subject to the supervision of an EEA Resolution Authority, (b) any entity established in an EEA Member Country which is a parent of an institution described in clause (a) of this definition, or (c) any financial institution established in an EEA Member Country which is a subsidiary of an institution described in clauses (a) or (b) of this definition and is subject to consolidated supervision with its parent.
“EEA Member Country” means any of the member states of the European Union, Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Norway.
“EEA Resolution Authority” means any public administrative authority or any person entrusted with public administrative authority of any EEA Member Country (including any delegee) having responsibility for the resolution of any EEA Financial Institution.
“Effective Date” shall mean the date indicated in a document or agreement to be the date on which such document or agreement becomes effective, or, if there is no such indication, the date of execution of such document or agreement.
“Eligibility Date” shall mean, with respect to each Loan Party and each Swap, the date on which this Agreement or any Other Document becomes effective with respect to such Swap (for the avoidance of doubt, the Eligibility Date shall be the Effective Date of such Swap if this Agreement or any Other Document is then in effect with respect to such Loan Party, and otherwise it shall be
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the Effective Date of this Agreement and/or such Other Documents to which such Loan Party is a party).
“Eligible Contract Participant” shall mean an “eligible contract participant” as defined in the CEA and regulations thereunder.
“Eligible Person” shall mean a sole proprietorship, partnership, limited liability partnership, corporation or limited liability company which (a) is domiciled, organized or formed, as the case may be, in the United States, whether or not such entity is owned by a foreign national or foreign entity; (b) is in good standing in the state of its formation or otherwise authorized to conduct business in the United States; (c) is not currently suspended or debarred from doing business with the United States government or any instrumentality, division, agency or department thereof; (d) exports or plans to export Items; (e) operates and has operated as a going concern for at least one (1) year; (f) has a positive tangible net worth determined in accordance with GAAP; and (g) has revenue generating operations relating to its core business activities for at least one year. An Affiliated Foreign Person that meets all of the requirements of the foregoing definition of Eligible Person other than subclause (a) thereof shall be deemed to be an Eligible Person.
“Eligible Export-Related Accounts Receivable” shall mean and include, each Export-Related Account Receivable (excluding any Export-Related Overseas Accounts Receivable) of a Borrower denominated in Dollars or in an Approved Ex-Im Currency arising in the Ordinary Course of Business and which Agent, in its Permitted Discretion, shall deem to be an Eligible Export-Related Account Receivable, based on such considerations as Agent may from time to time deem appropriate. In addition, no Receivable shall be an Eligible Receivable if:
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such Export-Related Account Receivable arises out of a sale made by any Borrower to an Affiliate of any Borrower or to a Person controlled by an Affiliate of any Borrower; |
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such Export-Related Account Receivable is due or unpaid more than ninety (90) days after the original invoice date or sixty (60) days after the original due date; |
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such Export-Related Account Receivable is due from a Customer with respect to which fifty percent (50%) or more of the Export-Related Accounts Receivable owing from such Customer are not deemed Eligible Export-Related Account Receivables hereunder (such percentage may, in Agent’s Permitted Discretion, be increased from time to time), or such Export-Related Account Receivable is due from a Customer with respect to which fifty percent (50%) or more of the Receivables (whether Export-Related Accounts Receivable or otherwise) owing from such Customer are not deemed Eligible Export-Related Account Receivables hereunder or Domestic Eligible Receivables (or Domestic Eligible Foreign Eligible Receivables) under the Domestic Credit Agreement (such percentage may, in Agent’s Permitted Discretion, be increased or decreased from time to time); |
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such Export-Related Account Receivable is not owned by a Borrower or is subject to any right, claim or interest of any other Person other than the Lien in favor of Agent or is not subject to Agent’s first priority perfected Lien or is subject to any other Liens; |
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any covenant, representation or warranty set forth in this Agreement or in the Ex-Im Borrower Agreement with respect to such Export-Related Account Receivable has been breached; |
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such Export-Related Account Receivable is due from a Customer with respect to which an Insolvency Event shall have occurred, or, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, such Export-Related Account Receivable is due and payable from a Buyer who (i) applies for, suffers, or consents to the appointment of, or the taking of possession by, a receiver, custodian, trustee or liquidator of itself or of all or a substantial part of its property or calls a meeting of its creditors, (ii) admits in writing its inability, or is generally unable, to pay its debts as they become due or ceases operations of its present business, (iii) makes a general assignment for the benefit of creditors, (iv) commences a voluntary case under any state or federal bankruptcy laws (as now or hereafter in effect), (v) is adjudicated as bankrupt or insolvent, (vi) files a petition seeking to take advantage of any other law providing for the relief of debtors, (vii) acquiesces to, or fails to have dismissed, any petition which is filed against it in any involuntary case under such bankruptcy laws, or (viii) takes any action for the purpose of effecting any of the foregoing; |
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such Export-Related Account Receivable is due and payable from a Buyer that is, or is located in, the United States; provided however, that this subsection (g) shall not preclude an Export-Related Accounts Receivable arising from the sale of Items to foreign contractors or subcontractors providing services to a United States Embassy or the United States Military located overseas from being deemed an Eligible Export-Related Account Receivable; |
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the sale giving rise to such Export-Related Account Receivable is on a xxxx-and-hold, guaranteed sale, sale-and-return, sale on approval, consignment or any other repurchase or return basis with the applicable Customer or is evidenced by chattel paper; |
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Agent believes, in its sole discretion, that collection of such Export-Related Account Receivable is insecure or that such Export-Related Account Receivable may not be paid by reason of the Customer’s financial inability to pay; |
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[RESERVED]; |
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the Items giving rise to such Export-Related Account Receivable have not been shipped to the Buyer or, when the Items are services, such services have not been performed or when the Export Order specifies a timing for invoicing the Items other than shipment or performance and the Items have not been invoiced in accordance with such terms of the Export Order, or the Accounts Receivable otherwise do not represent a final sale; |
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[RESERVED]; |
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such Export-Related Account Receivable is owing from a Customer whose total Export-Related Accounts Receivable owing to all Borrowers exceed 20% of all Eligible Export- |
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Related Account Receivables, to the extent of the obligations owing by such Customer in excess of such percentage; provided, however, such percentages, as applied to a particular Customer (x) may be reduced at any time by Agent in its Permitted Discretion if the creditworthiness of such Customer deteriorates in the determination of Agent in its Permitted Discretion, and (y) may be increased at any time by Agent in its Permitted Discretion; |
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the Export-Related Account Receivable is subject to any offset, deduction, defense, dispute, credits or counterclaim (because, among other reasons, the Customer is also a creditor or supplier of a Borrower) or the Export-Related Account Receivable is contingent in any respect or for any reason; |
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the applicable Borrower has made any agreement with any Customer for any deduction therefrom, except for discounts or allowances made in the Ordinary Course of Business for prompt payment, all of which discounts or allowances are reflected in the calculation of the face value of each respective invoice related thereto; |
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any of the Items giving rise to such Export-Related Account Receivable have been returned, rejected or repossessed; |
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such Export-Related Account Receivable is not payable to a Borrower; |
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such Export-Related Account Receivable is not evidenced by an invoice which has been sent to the Buyer; |
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such Export-Related Account Receivable did not arise from the sale of Items in the ordinary course of a Borrower's business; |
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such Export-Related Account Receivable arises from the sale of defense articles or defense services; |
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such Export-Related Account Receivable arises from the sale of Items to be used in the construction, alteration, operation or maintenance of nuclear power, enrichment, reprocessing, research or heavy water production facilities unless with Ex-Im Bank’s prior written consent; |
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such Export-Related Account Receivable is due and payable from a Buyer located in a country with which Ex-Im Bank is prohibited from doing business as designated in the Country Limitation Schedule; |
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such Export-Related Account Receivable does not comply with the requirements of the Country Limitation Schedule; |
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such Export-Related Account Receivable arises from a sale of goods to or performance of services for an employee of a Borrower, a stockholder of a Borrower, a subsidiary of a |
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Borrower, a Person with a controlling interest in a Borrower or a Person which shares common controlling ownership with a Borrower; |
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such Export-Related Account Receivable is backed by a letter of credit unless the Items covered by the subject letter of credit have been shipped; |
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Agent or Ex-Im Bank, in its reasonable judgment, deems such Export-Related Account Receivable uncollectible for any reason; |
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such Export-Related Account Receivable is due and payable in a currency other than Dollars, except as may be approved in writing by Ex-Im Bank with respect to Eligible Export-Related Accounts Receivable payable in an Approved Ex-Im Currency; |
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such Export-Related Account Receivable is due and payable from a military Buyer, except as may be approved in writing by Ex-Im Bank, |
(cc)such Export-Related Account Receivable does not comply with the terms of sale set forth in Section 7 of the Ex-Im Loan Authorization Agreement;
(dd)such Export-Related Account Receivable is included as an “Eligible Receivable” (or an “Eligible Foreign Receivable”) under the Domestic Formula Amount or as an eligible receivable under any other credit facility to which any Borrower is a party;
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any of the Items giving rise to such Export-Related Account Receivable are Capital Goods, unless the transaction is in accordance with Section 2.14 of the Ex-Im Borrower Agreement; |
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such Export-Related Account Receivable arises from the sale of Items that do not meet the U.S. Content requirements in accordance with Section 2.01(b)(ii) of the Ex-Im Borrower Agreement; |
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without limiting the generality of the foregoing, no Export-Related Account Receivable with respect to any Indirect Export or that is a Retainage Account Receivable shall be an Eligible Export-Related Account Receivable; or |
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such Export-Related Account Receivable is not otherwise satisfactory to Agent as determined by Agent in its Permitted Discretion. |
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in the foregoing or in any other provision of this Agreement or any Other Document, no Receivable of any Borrower that is also a Domestic Borrower may simultaneously be both a Domestic Eligible Receivable (or a Domestic Eligible Foreign Receivable) eligible for inclusion in the Domestic Formula Amount under the Domestic Credit Agreement and an Eligible Export-Related Account Receivable eligible for inclusion in the Formula Amount under this Credit Agreement, and in the event any Receivable of any Borrower would otherwise fit within the definitions of both a Domestic Eligible Receivable (or, if applicable, a Domestic Eligible Foreign Receivable) under the Domestic Credit Agreement,
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and an Eligible Export-Related Account Receivable under this Credit Agreement, the parties hereto agree that (x) if such Receivable of any Borrower is payable by an Customer located in the United States, it shall be a Domestic Eligible Receivable, and (y) if such Receivable of any Borrower is payable by an Customer located outside of the United States, it shall be an Eligible Export-Related Account Receivable (provided that, for the avoidance of doubt, any Receivable of any Borrower that would otherwise be an Eligible Export-Related Account Receivable but for the provisions of clause (ff) of the definition of Eligible Export-Related Account Receivable set forth in this Credit Agreement shall be a Domestic Eligible Foreign Receivable under the Domestic Agreement if and to the extent that such Receivable shall satisfy all the requirements of the definition of Domestic Eligible Foreign Receivable thereunder).
“Environmental Complaint” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 9.3(b) hereof.
“Environmental Laws” shall mean all federal, state and local environmental, land use, zoning, health, chemical use, safety and sanitation laws, statutes, ordinances and codes as well as common laws, relating to the protection of the environment, human health and/or governing the use, storage, treatment, generation, transportation, processing, handling, production or disposal of Hazardous Materials and the rules, regulations, policies, guidelines, interpretations, decisions, orders and directives of federal, state, international and local governmental agencies and authorities with respect thereto.
“Equity Interests” shall mean, with respect to any Person, any and all shares, rights to purchase, options, warrants, general, limited or limited liability partnership interests, member interests, participation or other equivalents of or interest in (regardless of how designated) equity of such Person, whether voting or nonvoting, including common stock, preferred stock, convertible securities or any other “equity security” (as such term is defined in Rule 3a11-1 of the General Rules and Regulations promulgated by the SEC under the Exchange Act), including in each case all of the following rights relating to such Equity Interests, whether arising under the Organizational Documents of the Person issuing such Equity Interests (the “issuer”) or under the applicable laws of such issuer’s jurisdiction of organization relating to the formation, existence and governance of corporations, limited liability companies or partnerships or business trusts or other legal entities, as the case may be (all of the following rights, as to any applicable Equity Interests, the “Related Equity Interest Rights”): (i) all economic rights (including all rights to receive dividends and distributions) relating to such Equity Interests; (ii) all voting rights and rights to consent to any particular action(s) by the applicable issuer; (iii) all management rights with respect to such issuer; (iv) in the case of any Equity Interests consisting of a general partner interest in a partnership, all powers and rights as a general partner with respect to the management, operations and control of the business and affairs of the applicable issuer; (v) in the case of any Equity Interests consisting of the membership/limited liability company interests of a managing member in a limited liability company, all powers and rights as a managing member with respect to the management, operations and control of the business and affairs of the applicable issuer; (vi) all rights to designate or appoint or vote for or remove any officers, directors, manager(s), general partner(s) or managing member(s) of such issuer and/or any members of any board of members/managers/partners/directors that may at any time have any rights to manage and direct the business and affairs of the applicable issuer under its Organizational Documents as in effect
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from time to time or under Applicable Law; (vii) all rights to amend the Organizational Documents of such issuer, (viii) in the case of any Equity Interests in a partnership or limited liability company, the status of the holder of such Equity Interests as a “partner”, general or limited, or “member” (as applicable) under the applicable Organizational Documents and/or Applicable Law; and (ix) all certificates evidencing such Equity Interests.
“ERISA” shall mean the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as the same may be amended or supplemented from time to time and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.
“EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule” means the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule published by the Loan Market Association (or any successor person), as in effect from time to time.
“Event of Default” shall have the meaning set forth in Article X hereof.
“Ex-Im Agreements” shall mean, collectively, the Ex-Im Borrower Agreement, the Ex-Im Joint Application, the Ex-Im Loan Authorization Notice, the Ex-Im Master Guarantee and the Ex-Im Waivers.
“Ex-Im Bank” shall mean the Export-Import Bank of the United States.
“Ex-Im Borrower Agreement” shall mean, collectively, (i) that certain Borrower Agreement entered into by the Borrowers in favor of Ex-Im Bank, Agent and Lenders dated as of the Closing Date, and (ii) each future Borrower Agreement entered into by Borrowers in favor of Ex-Im Bank, Agent and Lenders in connection with any future extension or renewal of the Ex-Im Subfacility, as any such Borrower Agreement may be amended, modified, supplemented, restated or replaced from time to time.
“Ex-Im Joint Application” shall mean (i) the Joint Application for Working Capital Guarantee executed by the Loan Parties and PNC and submitted to Ex-Im Bank in connection with the Ex-Im Subfacility prior to or on the Closing Date, and (ii) each future Joint Application for Working Capital Guarantee executed by Borrowers and Agent and Lenders and submitted to Ex-Im Bank in connection with any future extension or renewal of the Ex-Im Subfacility, as any such Joint Application may be amended, modified, supplemented, restated or replaced from time to time.
"Ex-Im Loan Authorization Agreement" shall mean (i) the duly executed Loan Authorization Notice executed by PNC as of the Closing Date and delivered to Ex-Im Bank in accordance with the Delegated Authority Letter Agreement (as defined in the Borrower Agreement) setting forth the terms and conditions of the Ex-Im Subfacility, a copy of which is attached to the Ex-Im Borrower Agreement under clause (i) of such defined term as Annex A, and (ii) each future Loan Authorization Notice (or any other such “Loan Authorization Agreement” (as defined in the Borrower Agreement)) executed by Agent and Lenders and delivered to Ex-Im Bank in connection with any future extension or renewal of the Ex-Im Subfacility, as any such Loan Authorization Notice may be amended, modified, supplemented, restated or replaced from time to time.
“Ex-Im Master Guarantee” shall mean the Master Guarantee Agreement between Ex-Im Bank and PNC dated December 31, 2005, as such Master Guarantee Agreement may be amended, modified, supplemented, restated or replaced from time to time.
“Ex-Im Obligations” shall mean any and all loans (including without limitation, all Revolving Advances), advances, debts, expenses, fees, liabilities and obligations (including reimbursement
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obligations and cash collateralization obligations in respect of any letters of credit issued under this Agreement, if any and if applicable) covenants and duties owing by Borrowers or Guarantors to Agent or any Lender arising under, relating to, or evidenced by this Agreement or any Other Documents, of any kind or nature, present or future (including any prepayment premiums, interest or other amounts accruing thereon, any fees accruing under or in connection therewith, any costs and expenses of any Person payable by any Borrower or Guarantor and any indemnification obligations payable by any Borrower or Guarantor, in each case arising or payable after maturity, or after the filing of any petition in bankruptcy, or the commencement of an Insolvency Proceeding relating to any Borrower or Guarantor, whether or not a claim for post-filing or post-petition interest, fees or other amounts is allowable or allowed in such proceeding), whether direct or indirect (including those acquired by assignment or participation), absolute or contingent, joint or several, due or to become due, now existing or hereafter arising, contractual or tortious, liquidated or unliquidated, regardless of how such indebtedness or liabilities arise, including all costs and expenses of Agent and any Lender incurred in the documentation, negotiation, modification, enforcement, collection or otherwise in connection with any of the foregoing to the extent provided for in this Agreement or any Other Documents, including but not limited to reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses to the extent provided for under this Agreement or any Other Documents, and all obligations of any Loan Party to Agent or any Lender to perform acts or refrain from taking any action, provided however, that, for the avoidance of doubt, Ex-Im Obligations shall expressly exclude any Cash Management Liabilities and any Hedge Liabilities.
“Ex-Im Subfacility” shall mean the credit subfacility for Revolving Advances based on the Formula Amount made available by Lenders to Borrowers under this Agreement and the Other Documents.
“Ex-Im Subfacility Outstandings Amount” shall mean, as of any date, the Dollar Equivalent of the sum of (x) the aggregate outstanding principal balance as of such date of all Revolving Advances and all Ex-Im Swing Loans plus (y) the Dollar Equivalent of the Maximum Undrawn Amount of all Letters of Credit outstanding out as of such date.
“Ex-Im Waivers” shall mean, collectively, (i) that certain waiver letter dated December 7, 2018 from the Ex-Im Bank to PNC regarding the Ex-Im Subfacility (as confirmed by that certain email exchange on February 21, 2019 between Xxxxxxx Xxxxx of PNC and Xxxxx Xxxxxxx of the Ex-Im Bank regarding such waiver letter and the scope of the Ex-Im Bank consents and approvals thereunder), (ii) that certain waiver letter dated December 11, 2018 from the Ex-Im Bank to PNC regarding the Ex-Im Subfacility, (iii) that certain waiver letter dated February 13, 2019 from the Ex-Im Bank to PNC regarding the Ex-Im Subfacility, and (iv) any and all other waiver letters sent prior to or after the Closing Date from Ex-Im Bank to Agent or Lenders regarding the Ex-Im Subfacility, as any such waiver letter may be amended, modified, supplemented, restated or replaced from time to time
“Exchange Act” shall mean the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
“Exchange Rate” shall mean, with respect to any calculation of the Dollar Equivalent of any amount denominated in any currency other than Dollars on any date of determination (including the amount of any Receivable denominated in an Approved Foreign Currency outstanding on such date of determination or the Maximum Undrawn Amount of any Foreign Currency Letter of Credit
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outstanding on such date of determination), the prevailing spot rate of exchange for the conversion of such other currency into Dollars as determined by Agent’s foreign exchange department (in the exercise of its ordinary business practices regarding foreign currency exchange for customers of the Agent similarly situated to Borrowers) as of the close of business for Agent’s foreign exchange department on the Business Day immediately preceding such date of determination; provided that, notwithstanding the foregoing, in the context of (x) any actual conversion by Agent or any Lender of any funds received by Agent or any Lender (whether as a payment made by any Loan Party or the proceeds of any Collateral (including any collections on any Receivable received by Agent or any Lender)) from one currency to another for the purpose of applying such funds to the Obligations in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, Exchange Rate” means the spot-buying or spot-selling (as the case may be) rate of exchange at which Agent or such Lender is actually able to exchange the one currency for the other in the exercise of its ordinary business practices regarding foreign currency exchange at the time of such actual conversion, or (y) any actual conversion by Agent or any Lender of the proceeds of any Revolving Advance or Participation Advance made in Dollars for purposes of satisfying any Reimbursement Obligation to Issuer and/or repayment of any Letter of Credit Borrowing in connection with any Foreign Currency Letter of Credit (and/or the determination of the Dollar Equivalent amount of such Reimbursement Obligation and/or any Letter of Credit Borrowing with respect to such Reimbursement Obligation and/or the determination of the amount in Dollars of any Revolving Advance and/or Participation Advance needed/necessary/to be advanced to satisfy any such Reimbursement Obligation and/or Letter of Credit Borrowing), “Exchange Rate” means the spot-buying or spot-selling (as the case may be) rate of exchange at which Agent or such Lender is actually able to exchange Dollars for the currency in which such Foreign Currency Letter of Credit is denominated in the exercise of its ordinary business practices regarding foreign currency exchange at the time of the actual satisfaction of such Reimbursement Obligation and/or Letter of Credit Borrowing and/or of the making of the applicable Revolving Advance and/or Participation Advance to satisfy such Reimbursement Obligation and/or Letter of Credit Borrowing, as applicable.
“Excluded Account” shall mean (a) any deposit account, securities account, commodities account or other account of any Loan Party (and all cash, cash equivalents and other securities or investments held therein) to the extent solely and exclusively used for payment of payroll, employee benefits and withholding taxes, (b) any deposit account, securities account, commodities account or other account of any Loan Party to the extent solely and exclusively used to hold any cash or Cash Equivalents pledged as a Permitted Encumbrance, and (c) deposit accounts of any Loan Party which do not hold more than $50,000 in the aggregate at any time.
“Excluded Hedge Liability or Liabilities” shall mean, with respect to each Loan Party, each of its Swap Obligations if, and only to the extent that, all or any portion of this Agreement or any Other Document that relates to such Swap Obligation is or becomes illegal under the CEA, or any rule, regulation or order of the CFTC, solely by virtue of such Loan Party’s failure to qualify as an Eligible Contract Participant on the Eligibility Date for such Swap. Notwithstanding the foregoing or any other provision of this Agreement or any Other Document, the foregoing is subject to the following provisos: (a) if a Swap Obligation arises under a master agreement governing more than one Swap, this definition shall apply only to the portion of such Swap Obligation that is attributable
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to Swaps for which such guaranty or security interest is or becomes illegal under the CEA, or any rule, regulations or order of the CFTC, solely as a result of the failure by such Loan Party for any reason to qualify as an Eligible Contract Participant on the Eligibility Date for such Swap; (b) if a guarantee of a Swap Obligation would cause such obligation to be an Excluded Hedge Liability but the grant of a security interest would not cause such obligation to be an Excluded Hedge Liability, such Swap Obligation shall constitute an Excluded Hedge Liability for purposes of the guaranty but not for purposes of the grant of the security interest; and (c) if there is more than one Loan Party executing this Agreement or the Other Documents and a Swap Obligation would be an Excluded Hedge Liability with respect to one or more of such Loan Parties, but not all of them, the definition of “Excluded Hedge Liability or Liabilities” with respect to each such Loan Party shall only be deemed applicable to (i) the particular Swap Obligations that constitute Excluded Hedge Liabilities with respect to such Loan Party, and (ii) the particular Loan Party with respect to which such Swap Obligations constitute Excluded Hedge Liabilities.
“Excluded Korean Receivable” shall have the meaning given such term in Section 4.15 of this Agreement.
“Excluded Property” shall mean, collectively (a) any lease, license, franchise, charter or other governmental authorization, or any other contract or agreement to which any Loan Party is a party, and any of its rights or interests thereunder or assets subject thereto, if and to the extent that a Lien in favor of Agent is prohibited by or in violation of (i) any Applicable Law, or (ii) a term, provision or condition of any such lease, license, charter, governmental authorization, contract or agreement; provided, that, in each case, if such Applicable Law, term, provision or condition would be rendered ineffective with respect to the creation or enforcement of such security interest pursuant to Sections 9-406, 9-407, 9-408 or 9-409 of the Uniform Commercial Code (or any successor provision or provisions) of any relevant jurisdiction or any other Applicable Law (including the United States Bankruptcy Code) or principles of equity, or the consent of any applicable Person to the granting of such Lien in favor of Agent has been obtained, then the foregoing shall not constitute Excluded Property (and shall constitute Collateral) immediately at such time as the contractual or legal prohibition shall no longer be applicable; provided, further, that, to the extent severable, Agent’s Lien shall attach immediately to any portion of such lease, license, charter, governmental authorization, contract, agreement or assets not subject to the foregoing prohibitions; (b) any Equity Interests of a Subsidiary of a Loan Party that do not constitute Subsidiary Stock; (c) “intent-to-use” United States trademark applications to the extent that an amendment to allege use or statement of use has not been filed under 15 U.S.C. §1051(c) or 15 U.S.C. §1051(d), respectively, or if filed, has not been deemed in conformity with 15 U.S.C. §1051(a) or (c), it being agreed that for purposes of this Agreement and the Other Documents, no Lien granted to Agent on any “intent-to-use” United States trademark applications is intended to be a present assignment thereof; (d) any Excluded Account of the type described in clause (a) or (b) of the definition thereof (including all deposits and other financial assets maintained in any such Excluded Account); (e) all Real Property including all Leasehold Interests; and (f) cash pledged pursuant to a Permitted Encumbrance; and (g) all Excluded Korean Receivables; provided, however, that Excluded Property shall not include any proceeds (or right to receive proceeds) of any of the assets described in the foregoing clauses (a) – (e) or (g) or any goodwill of any Loan Party’s business associated therewith or attributable thereto.
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“Excluded Subsidiaries” shall mean, collectively, at any time of determination, the Dormant Subsidiaries at such time and the Foreign Legal Restrictions Subsidiaries at such time.
“Excluded Taxes” shall mean, with respect to Agent, any Lender, Participant, Swing Loan Lender, Issuer or any other recipient of any payment to be made by or on account of any Obligations, (a) taxes imposed on or measured by its overall net income (however denominated), and franchise taxes imposed on it (in lieu of net income taxes), by the jurisdiction (or any political subdivision thereof) under the laws of which such recipient is organized or in which its principal office or applicable lending office is located or, in the case of any Lender, Participant, Swing Loan Lender or Issuer, in which its applicable lending office is located, (b) any branch profits taxes imposed by the United States of America or any similar tax imposed by any other jurisdiction in which any Company is located, (c) in the case of a Foreign Lender, any withholding tax that is imposed on amounts payable to such Foreign Lender at the time such Foreign Lender becomes a party hereto (or designates a new lending office) or is attributable to such Foreign Lender’s failure or inability (other than as a result of a Change in Law) to comply with Section 3.10(e) hereof, except to the extent that such Foreign Lender or Participant (or its assignor or seller of a participation, if any) was entitled, at the time of designation of a new lending office (or assignment or sale of a participation), to receive additional amounts from Companies with respect to such withholding tax pursuant to Section 3.10(a) hereof, or (d) any Taxes imposed on any “withholding payment” payable to such recipient as a result of the failure of such recipient to satisfy the requirements set forth in the FATCA after December 31, 2012.
“Existing WF Letters of Credit” shall mean each of the letters of credit listed on Exhibit B to the Xxxxx Fargo Payoff Letter.
“Export Order” shall mean a documented purchase order or contract evidencing a Buyer’s agreement to purchase the Items from a Borrower for export from the United States, which documentation shall include written information that is necessary to confirm such purchase order or contract, including identification of the Items, the name of the Buyer, the country of destination, contact information for the Buyer and the total amount of the purchase order or contract; and if at any time Agent and Lenders shall agree to include in the Formula Amount any Export-Related Accounts Receivable relating to Indirect Exports, in the case of Indirect Exports, such documentation shall further include a copy of the written purchase order or contract from a foreign purchaser or other documentation clearly evidencing a foreign purchaser’s agreement to purchase the Items.
“Export-Related Accounts Receivable” shall mean, collectively, those Accounts Receivable of any Borrower arising from the sale of Items which are due and payable to any Borrower in the United States.
“Export-Related Accounts Receivable Value” shall mean, at the date of determination thereof, the aggregate face amount of Eligible Export-Related Accounts Receivable of any Borrower less taxes, discounts, credits, allowances and Retainages, except to the extent otherwise permitted by Ex-Im Bank in writing.
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“Export-Related Borrowing Base Certificate” shall mean a certificate in substantially the form of Exhibit 1.2(a) duly executed by the President, Chief Financial Officer or Controller of the Borrowing Agent and delivered to the Agent, appropriately completed, by which such officer shall certify to Agent, among other things, the Formula Amount and calculation thereof as of the date of such certificate pursuant to this Agreement and the Ex-Im Borrower Agreement, including, to the extent included in the Formula Amount, Export-Related Accounts Receivable and Eligible Export-Related Accounts Receivable, and, to the extent included in the Formula Amount at any time, Eligible Export-Related Accounts Receivable balances that have been reconciled with Borrower's general ledger, and Accounts Receivable Aging Reports and shall also include either copies of all applicable Export Order(s) or, if permitted by Agent in its Permitted Discretion, a written summary of the applicable Export Order(s).
“Export-Related Collateral” shall mean the Collateral of Borrowers specified as of the Closing Date as the first priority Collateral in Section 6.A of the Loan Authorization Agreement.
“Export-Related General Intangibles” shall have the meaning set forth in the Ex-Im Borrower Agreement.
“FATCA” shall mean Sections 1471 through 1474 of the Code, as of Closing Date (or any amended or successor version that is substantively comparable and not materially more onerous to comply with) and any current or future regulations thereunder or official interpretations thereof.
“Federal Funds Effective Rate” shall mean, for any day, the rate per annum (based on a year of 360 days and actual days elapsed and rounded upward to the nearest 1/100 of 1%) determined by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (or any successor), based on such day’s federal funds transactions by depositary institutions, as determined in such manner as such Federal Reserve Bank (or any successor) shall set forth on its public website from time to time, and as published on the next succeeding Business Day by such Federal Reserve Bank as the “Federal Funds Effective Rate”; provided that if such Federal Reserve Bank (or its successor) does not publish such rate on any day, the “Federal Funds Effective Rate” for such day shall be the Federal Funds Effective Rate for the last day on which such rate was announced.
“Fee Letter” shall mean the fee letter, dated as of the Closing Date, by and among Borrowers and PNC.
“Field Examination” shall mean, with respect to (x) any Loan Party, (y) any Subsidiary or Person acquired (or to be acquired) by any Loan Party that is required to become a Loan Party under the provisions of Section 7.12 hereof, or (z) any assets of any Person or line or business or division of a Xxxxx acquired (or to be acquired) by any Loan Party (or Person that is required to become a Loan Party under the provisions of Section 7.12 hereof), a customary asset-based lender’s field examination and audit of such Person and its business and assets and/or such assets conducted by Agent and its employees and/or any third party retained by Agent for such purpose of a scope and detail acceptable to Agent in its Permitted Discretion.
“Field Examination Fees and Costs” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 3.4(c) of the Domestic Credit Agreement.
“Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio” shall mean, with respect to any Person for any fiscal period, the ratio of (a) the result of (i) EBITDA for such Person for such period, minus (ii) Unfunded Capital
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Expenditures made by such Person during such period, minus (iii) cash taxes paid or required to be paid by such Person during such period, to (b) the sum of (i) all Debt Payments for such Person during such period, plus (ii) Restricted Payments made by such Person during such period, but expressly excluding any Permitted Restricted Payments made pursuant to clause (c) of the definition of Permitted Restricted Payments.
“Flood Laws” shall mean all Applicable Laws relating to policies and procedures that address requirements placed on federally regulated lenders under the National Flood Insurance Reform Act of 1994 and other Applicable Laws related thereto.
“Foreign Cash Liquidity” shall mean, as of any date of determination, the amount of unrestricted cash and Cash Equivalents of Foreign Subsidiaries of DZSI held in deposit accounts or securities accounts outside the United States which such cash and Cash Equivalents are (i) unrestricted, (ii) not subject to any Lien (other than Permitted Encumbrance of the types described in clauses (a) and (k) of the definition of Permitted Encumbrances), (iii) freely available to such Foreign Subsidiaries for withdrawal/transfer without registration or approval of any Governmental Body (other than registrations or approvals by Governmental Bodies in the Republic of Korea that are not materially more onerous or restrictive than the registrations and approvals by Governmental Bodies in the Republic of Korea as in effect on the Closing Date), (iv) freely available for repatriation (by means of dividends and distributions from the respective Foreign Subsidiaries to the respective Domestic Loan Parties) at the option of such Foreign Subsidiaries and DZSI without restriction due to any applicable currency controls of any applicable local Governmental Body (other than currency controls of any applicable local Governmental Bodies in the Republic of Korea that are not materially more onerous or restrictive than the currency controls by Governmental Bodies in the Republic of Korea as in effect on the Closing Date), (v) denominated in Dollars or in a currency that can be easily converted into Dollars on the international foreign currency exchange markets, and (vi) is not and could not reasonably be expected to be at risk of nationalization or expropriation by any applicable local Governmental Body.
“Foreign Currency Hedge” shall mean any foreign exchange transaction, including spot and forward foreign currency purchases and sales, listed or over-the-counter options on foreign currencies, non-deliverable forwards and options, foreign currency swap agreements, currency exchange rate price hedging arrangements, and any other similar transaction providing for the purchase of one currency in exchange for the sale of another currency entered into by any Loan Party and/or any of their respective Subsidiaries.
“Foreign Currency Hedge Liabilities” shall mean the liabilities of the Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries owing to the provider of a Foreign Currency Hedge. For purposes of this Agreement and all of the Other Documents, all Foreign Currency Hedge Liabilities of any Loan Party or Subsidiary that is party to any Lender-Provided Foreign Currency Hedge shall, for purposes of this Agreement and all of the Other Documents, be “Obligations” of such Person and of each other Loan Party, be guaranteed obligations under any Guaranty and secured obligations under any Guarantor Security Agreement, as applicable, and otherwise treated as Obligations for purposes of the Other Documents, except to the extent constituting Excluded Hedge Liabilities of such Person. The Liens securing the Foreign Currency Hedge Liabilities shall be pari passu with the Liens
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securing all other Obligations under this Agreement and the Other Documents, subject to the express provisions of Section 11.5 hereof.
“Foreign Currency Letter of Credit” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2.11(a) hereof.
“Foreign Law Guaranty/Security Documents” shall mean, collectively, (i) the German Law Guarantees and the German Loan Security Documents, (ii) the Korean Law Guarantees and Security Documents, (iii) each other Guaranty from time to time executed by any Guarantor that is governed by the laws of a jurisdiction other than the United States, any State or territory thereof or the District of Columbia, (iv) any Guarantor Security Agreement from time to time executed by any Guarantor with respect to any assets or property of any Guarantor that is governed by and/or creates and/or perfects Liens under the laws of a jurisdiction other than the United States, any State or territory thereof or the District of Columbia, or (v) any Pledge Agreement from time to time executed by any Loan Party with respect to a pledge and creation and grant of a Lien on any Equity Interests of any Foreign Subsidiary that is governed by the laws of the jurisdiction of organization of such Foreign Subsidiary or any other jurisdiction other than the United States, any State or territory thereof or the District of Columbia
“Foreign Legal Restrictions Subsidiary” shall mean any Foreign Subsidiary that (as demonstrated by Loan Parties to the reasonable satisfaction of Agent in its Permitted Discretion) is prohibited by Applicable Law from giving a Guaranty with respect to the Guaranteed Obligations.
Foreign Lender” shall mean any Lender that is organized under the laws of a jurisdiction other than that in which Loan Parties are resident for tax purposes. For purposes of this definition, the United States of America, each State thereof and the District of Columbia shall be deemed to constitute a single jurisdiction.
“Foreign Loan Party” shall mean any Loan Party that is not organized or incorporated in the United States, any State or territory thereof or the District of Columbia.
“Foreign Secured Loan Parties” shall mean, collectively, at any time (x) DNS Korea, (y) KeyMile, and (z) each other Tier I Foreign Material Subsidiary that, as of such time, has fully complied with the requirements of Section 7.12(a).
“Foreign Subsidiary” shall mean any Subsidiary of any Person that is not organized or incorporated in the United States, any State or territory thereof or the District of Columbia.
“Foreign Unsecured Loan Parties” shall mean, collectively, at any time, each Tier II Foreign Material Subsidiary that, as of such time, has fully complied with the requirements of Section 7.12(a). As of the Closing Date, there are no Foreign Unsecured Loan Parties.
“Formula Amount” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2.1(a) hereof.
“Fund” shall mean any Person that is (or will be) engaged in making, purchasing, holding or otherwise investing in commercial loans and similar extensions of credit in the ordinary course of its business.
“Funded Debt” shall mean, with respect to any Person, without duplication, the sum of (x) all Indebtedness for borrowed money evidenced by notes, bonds, debentures, or similar evidences of Indebtedness that by its terms matures more than one year from, or is directly or indirectly
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renewable or extendible at such Person’s option under a revolving credit or similar agreement obligating the lender or lenders to extend credit over a period of more than one year from the date of creation thereof, and specifically including Capitalized Lease Obligations, current maturities of long-term debt, revolving credit and short term debt extendible beyond one year at the option of the debtor, and also including, in the case of Companies, the Obligations and, without duplication, Indebtedness consisting of guaranties of Funded Debt of other Persons, and (y) all “earnouts” and similar contingent obligations in connection with Acquisitions, in each case, valued in accordance with GAAP. For the avoidance of doubt, the undrawn face amount of any letters of credit (including but not limited to Letters of Credit issued under this Agreement and Domestic Letters of Credit issued under the Domestic Credit Agreement) are not included in the definition of Funded Debt.
“GAAP” shall mean generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America, except that, when it comes to the internal and/or consolidating books and records of a Foreign Subsidiary of DZSI, GAAP may mean, at DZSI’s election, the generally accepted accounting principles in the jurisdiction of such Foreign Subsidiary’s establishment or incorporation (including IFRS), in each case as in effect from time to time.
“German Guarantor” means a Guarantor incorporated as a limited liability company (Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung) or established as a limited partnership with a limited liability company as general partner (GmbH & Co KG), in each case under the laws of Germany.”
“German Law Assignment Agreement” shall mean that certain Assignment Agreement governed by German law, dated on or about the date hereof, by KeyMile in favor of Agent and Domestic Agent, as amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time.
“German Law Guarantees” shall mean, collectively, (i) the Guarantee governed by German law dated on or about the date hereof by KeyMile in favor of Agent and Domestic Agent, and (ii) any other Guaranty governed by German law executed subsequent to the Closing Date by any Loan Party to secure the Obligations, in each case as such Guaranty may be amended, modified, supplemented, renewed, restated or replaced from time to time
“German Law Security Documents” shall mean, collectively (i) the German Law Assignment Agreement, (ii) the Share Pledge Agreement governed by German law dated on or about the Closing Date by ZTI in favor of Agent and Domestic Agent with respect to the Equity Interests in KeyMile, (iii) the Share Pledge Agreement governed by German law dated on or about the Closing Date by KeyMile in favor of Agent and Domestic Agent with respect to the Equity Interests in KeyMile Networks GmbH, (iv) the Account Pledge Agreement governed by German law dated on or about the Closing Date by KeyMile in favor of Agent and Domestic Agent, and (v) any other pledge agreement(s), assignment agreement(s), or other security documents governed by German law executed subsequent to the Closing Date by any Loan Party to create a Lien under German law in any assets or properties of such Loan Party to secure the Obligations, in each case as such agreement may be amended, modified, supplemented, renewed, restated or replaced from time to time.
“Governmental Acts” shall mean any act or omission, whether rightful or wrongful, of any present or future de jure or de facto Governmental Body.
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“Governmental Body” shall mean any nation or government, any state or other political subdivision thereof or any entity, authority, agency, division or department exercising the executive, legislative, judicial, taxing, regulatory or administrative powers or functions of or pertaining to a government (including any supra-national bodies such as the European Union or the European Central Bank) and any group or body charged with setting financial accounting or regulatory capital rules or standards (including, without limitation, the Financial Accounting Standards Board, the Bank for International Settlements or the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision or any successor or similar authority to any of the foregoing) and any group or body having financial regulatory authority over any applicable Person or any applicable bank, depositary institution or other financial institution.
“Guarantees” of or by any Person (the “guarantor”) means any obligation, contingent or otherwise, of the guarantor guaranteeing or having the economic effect of guaranteeing any Indebtedness or other obligation of any other Person (the “primary obligor”) in any manner, whether directly or indirectly, and including any obligation of the guarantor, direct or indirect, (a) to purchase or pay (or advance or supply funds for the purchase or payment of) such Indebtedness or other obligation or to purchase (or to advance or supply funds for the purchase of) any security for the payment thereof, (b) to purchase or lease property, securities or services for the purpose of assuring the owner of such Indebtedness or other obligation of the payment thereof, (c) to maintain working capital, equity capital or any other financial statement condition or liquidity of the primary obligor as to enable the primary obligor to pay such Indebtedness or other obligation or (d) as an account party in respect of any letter of credit or letter of guaranty issued to support such Indebtedness or obligation, provided that the term “Guarantee” shall not include endorsements for collection or deposit in the ordinary course of business. The amount of any Guarantee at any time shall be deemed to be an amount equal to the lesser at such time of (i) the stated or determinable amount of the primary obligation in respect of which such Guarantee is made (or, if not stated or determinable, the maximum reasonably anticipated amount of the obligations in respect of which such Guarantee is made) and (ii) the maximum amount for which the guarantor may be liable pursuant to the terms of the instrument embodying such Guarantee.
“Guaranteed Obligations” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 17.1 hereof.
“Guarantor” shall have the meaning set forth in the preamble to this Agreement and shall extend to each Person which may hereafter guarantee payment or performance of the whole or any part of the Obligations, and shall also extend to all successors and permitted and assigns of such Persons, and “Guarantors” shall mean collectively all such Persons.
“Guarantor Security Agreement” shall mean any security agreement executed by any Guarantor in favor of Agent securing the Obligations or the Guaranty of such Guarantor, in form and substance satisfactory to Agent, including with respect to Guarantors that are parties hereto, the provisions of Article IV of this Agreement; as each may be amended, modified, supplemented, renewed, restated or replaced from time to time.
“Guaranty” shall mean any guaranty of the Obligations executed by a Guarantor in favor of Agent for its benefit and for the ratable benefit of Lenders, in form and substance satisfactory to Agent, including, with respect to Guarantors that are parties hereto, the provisions of Article XVII hereof,
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as each may be amended, modified, supplemented, renewed, restated or replaced from time to time.
“Hazardous Discharge” shall mean any Release or threat of Release of a reportable quantity of any Hazardous Materials at the Real Property owned or leased by any Company.
“Hazardous Materials” shall mean, without limitation, any flammable explosives, radon, radioactive materials, asbestos, urea formaldehyde foam insulation, polychlorinated biphenyls, petroleum and petroleum products, methane, hazardous materials, Hazardous Wastes, hazardous or Toxic Substances or related materials as defined in or subject to regulation under Environmental Laws.
“Hazardous Wastes” shall mean all waste materials subject to regulation under CERCLA, RCRA or applicable state law, and any other applicable Federal and state laws now in force or hereafter enacted relating to hazardous waste disposal.
“Hedge Liabilities” shall mean collectively, the Foreign Currency Hedge Liabilities and the Interest Rate Hedge Liabilities.
“Increasing Lender” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2.24(a) hereof.
“Indebtedness” shall mean, as to any Person at any time, any and all indebtedness, obligations or liabilities (whether matured or unmatured, liquidated or unliquidated, direct or indirect, absolute or contingent, or joint or several) of such Person for or in respect of: (a) borrowed money; (b) amounts received under or liabilities in respect of any note purchase or acceptance credit facility, and all obligations of such Person evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes or other similar instruments; (c) all Capitalized Lease Obligations; (d) reimbursement obligations (contingent or otherwise) under any letter of credit agreement, banker’s acceptance agreement or similar arrangement; (e) obligations under any Interest Rate Hedge, Foreign Currency Hedge, or other interest rate management device, foreign currency exchange agreement, currency swap agreement, commodity price protection agreement or other interest or currency exchange rate or commodity price hedging arrangement; (f) any other advances of credit made to or on behalf of such Person or other transaction (including forward sale or purchase agreements, capitalized leases and conditional sales agreements) having the commercial effect of a borrowing of money entered into by such Person to finance its operations or capital requirements including to finance the purchase price of property or services and all obligations of such Person to pay the deferred purchase price of property or services (but not including trade payables and accrued expenses or guarantees or credit support therefor, including electronic trade payable transactions, incurred in the Ordinary Course of Business which are not represented by a promissory note or otherwise reflected as indebtedness in the books and records of the Person and which, unless Properly Contested, are not more than seventy-five (75) days past due; (g) all Disqualified Equity Interests; (h) all indebtedness, obligations or liabilities secured by a Lien on any asset of such Person, whether or not such indebtedness, obligations or liabilities are otherwise an obligation of such Person; (i) all obligations of such Person for “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; (j) off-balance sheet liabilities and/or pension plan liabilities of such Person; (k) obligations arising under bonus, deferred compensation, incentive compensation or similar arrangements, other than those arising in the
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Ordinary Course of Business; and (l) any guaranty of any indebtedness, obligations or liabilities of a type described in the foregoing clauses (a) through (k); provided that Indebtedness, shall exclude any obligation or liability arising from the application or interpretation of ASC Topic 840 or 842 or any related, similar or successor pronouncement, guideline, publication or rule.
“Indemnified Taxes” shall mean Taxes other than Excluded Taxes.
“Indirect Exports” shall mean finished goods or services that are sold by a Borrower to a Buyer located in the United States, are intended for export from the United States, and are identified in Section 4.A.(2.) of the Ex-Im Loan Authorization Agreement.
“Ineligible Security(ies)” shall mean any security which may not be underwritten or dealt in by member banks of the Federal Reserve System under Section 16 of the Banking Act of 1933 (12 U.S.C. Section 24, Seventh), as amended.
“Initial Projections” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 5.5(b) hereof.
“Insolvency Event” shall mean, with respect to any Person, including without limitation any Lender, such Person or such Person’s direct or indirect parent company (a) becomes the subject of an Insolvency Proceeding (including any proceeding under the Bankruptcy Code), or regulatory restrictions, (b) has had a receiver, conservator, trustee, administrator, custodian, assignee for the benefit of creditors or similar Person charged with the reorganization or liquidation of its business appointed for it or has called a meeting of its creditors, (c) admits in writing its inability, or be generally unable, to pay its debts as they become due or ceases operations of its present business, (d) with respect to a Person having its center of main interest (in accordance with EU Regulation 2015/848) in Germany, a reason for the opening of insolvency proceedings pursuant to §§ 17 - 19 German Insolvency Code applies, (e) with respect to a Lender, such Lender is unable to perform hereunder due to the application of Applicable Law, or (f) in the good faith determination of Agent, has taken any action in furtherance of, or indicating its consent to, approval of, or acquiescence in, any such proceeding or appointment of a type described in clauses (a) or (b), provided that an Insolvency Event shall not result solely by virtue of any ownership interest, or the acquisition of any ownership interest, in such Person or such Person’s direct or indirect parent company by a Governmental Body or instrumentality thereof if, and only if, such ownership interest does not result in or provide such Person with immunity from the jurisdiction of courts within the United States or from the enforcement of judgments or writs of attachment on its assets or permit such Person (or such Governmental Body or instrumentality) to reject, repudiate, disavow or disaffirm any contracts or agreements made by such Person.
“Insolvency Law” shall mean as applicable, (a) the Bankruptcy Code, (b) the German Insolvency Code, and (b) any other federal, state, provincial or foreign Applicable Law regarding the insolvency of a Person or a business, or for the relief of debtors or affecting creditors’ rights generally, or regarding the appointment of a receiver, conservator, trustee, administrator, custodian, assignee for the benefit of creditors or similar Person with respect to any Person or the assets or properties of any Person, or regarding the reorganization or liquidation of a Person or a business.
“Insolvency Proceeding” shall mean (a) any voluntary case or proceeding under any Insolvency Law with respect to any Loan Party, (b) any other voluntary proceeding or involuntary or
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bankruptcy case or proceeding, or any interim receivership, liquidation or other similar case or proceeding with respect to any Loan Party or with respect to a material portion of its assets, (c) any liquidation, dissolution, or winding up of any Loan Party whether voluntary or involuntary and whether or not involving any Insolvency Law or (d) any assignment for the benefit of any creditors or any other marshaling of assets or liabilities of any Loan Party.
“Intellectual Property” shall mean property constituting a patent, copyright, trademark (or any application in respect of the foregoing), service xxxx, trade name, mask work, trade secrets, design right, assumed name or license or other right to use any of the foregoing under Applicable Law.
“Intellectual Property Collateral” shall mean all Collateral constituting Intellectual Property.
“Interest Expense” shall mean, for any period, the aggregate interest expense of the Loan Parties on a Consolidated Basis, determined in accordance with GAAP.
“Interest Period” shall mean the period provided for any LIBOR Rate Loan pursuant to Section 2.2(b) hereof.
“Interest Rate Hedge” shall mean an interest rate exchange, collar, cap, swap, floor, adjustable strike cap, adjustable strike corridor, cross-currency swap or similar agreements entered into by any Loan Party or its Subsidiaries in order to provide protection to, or minimize the impact upon, such Loan Party and/or its Subsidiaries of increasing floating rates of interest applicable to Indebtedness.
“Interest Rate Hedge Liabilities” shall mean the liabilities owing to the provider of any Interest Rate Hedge. For purposes of this Agreement and all of the Other Documents, all Interest Rate Hedge Liabilities of any Loan Party or Subsidiary that is party to any Lender-Provided Interest Rate Hedge shall be “Obligations” hereunder and under the Other Documents, except to the extent constituting Excluded Hedge Liabilities of such Person, and the Liens securing such Interest Rate Hedge Liabilities shall be pari passu with the Liens securing all other Obligations under this Agreement and the Other Documents, subject to the express provisions of Section 11.5 hereof.
“Inventory” shall mean and include as to each Person all of such Person’s inventory (as defined in Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code or as such term is used under any Applicable Law) and all of such Person’s goods, merchandise and other personal property, wherever located, to be furnished under any consignment arrangement, contract of service or held for sale or lease, all raw materials, work in process, finished goods and materials and supplies of any kind, nature or description which are or might be used or consumed in such Person’s business or used in selling or furnishing such goods, merchandise and other personal property, and all Documents of such Person.
“Inventory Collateral” shall mean all Collateral consisting of Inventory and the proceeds thereof.
“Investment” means, as to any Person, (a) any Acquisition by such Person, (b) any direct or indirect acquisition or investment by such Person in another Person, whether by means of the purchase or other acquisition of Equity Interests or debt or other securities of another Person (including any partnership or joint venture interest), or (c) any direct or indirect loan, advance or capital contribution to, Guarantee with respect to any Indebtedness or other obligation of, such other Person. For purposes of covenant compliance, the amount of any Investment on any date of
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determination shall be, in the case of any Investment in the form of (i) a loan or an advance, the principal amount thereof outstanding on such date, (ii) a Guarantee, the amount of such Guarantee as determined in accordance with the last sentence of the definition of such term, (iii) a transfer of Equity Interests or other property by the investor to the investee, including any such transfer in the form of a capital contribution, or the issuance of Equity Interests to such investor, the fair market value (as determined reasonably and in good faith by the chief financial officer of the Borrowing Agent) of such Equity Interests or other property as of the time of the transfer or issuance, without any adjustment for increases or decreases in value of, or write-ups, write-downs or write-offs with respect to, such Investment, and (iv) any Investment (other than any Investment referred to in clauses (i), (ii) or (iii) above) in the form of an Acquisition or a purchase or other acquisition for value of any evidences of Indebtedness or other securities of any other Person, the original cost of such Investment (including any Indebtedness assumed in connection therewith), plus the cost of all additions, as of such date, thereto, and minus the amount, as of such date, of any portion of such Investment repaid to the investor in cash as a repayment of principal or a return of capital, as the case may be, but without any other adjustment for increases or decreases in value of, or write-ups, write-downs or write-offs with respect to, such Investment.
“Investment Property” shall mean and include, with respect to any Person, all of such Person’s now owned or hereafter acquired securities (whether certificated or uncertificated), securities entitlements, securities accounts, commodities contracts and commodities accounts, and any other asset or right that would constitute “investment property” under the Uniform Commercial Code.
“Issuer” shall mean, both collectively and individually: (a) Agent in its capacity as an Issuer of Letters of Credit under this Agreement, (b) Citibank, N.A. in its capacity as an Issuer of Letters of Credit under this Agreement, and (c) any other Person which Agent in its discretion, and with the consent of such Person, shall designate as Issuer of and cause to issue any particular Letter of Credit under this Agreement in place of Agent as issuer.
"Items" shall mean the finished goods or services which are intended for export from the United States, either directly or as an Indirect Export, meet the U.S. Content requirements in accordance with Section 2.01(b)(ii) of the Ex-Im Borrower Agreement and are specified in Section 4.A. of the Ex-Im Loan Authorization Agreement.
“KeyMile Acquisition” shall mean the sale by KeyMile Seller and purchase by ZTI of all of the issued and outstanding Equity Interests of KeyMile pursuant to and on the terms and conditions provided for in the KeyMile Purchase Agreement, and the transactions related thereto contemplated by the KeyMile Purchase Agreement to occur substantially contemporaneously with such sale and purchase, including the incurrence of the Permitted KeyMile Seller Working Capital Indebtedness, which sale and purchase and related transactions were closed and consummated on January 3, 2019.
“KeyMile Acquisition Documents” shall mean the KeyMile Purchase Agreement and all of the other agreements, documents and instruments executed and delivered in connection therewith or related thereto (including all exhibits, schedules and disclosure letters referred to therein or delivered pursuant thereto, if any) and all amendments thereto, waivers relating thereto and other side letters or agreements affecting the terms thereof.
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“KeyMile Purchase Agreement” shall mean that certain share purchase agreement dated as of Share Purchase Agreement dated as of October 5, 2018 (deed no. 1206/2018 B of notary Xx. Xxxx Xxxxxxxx, Hamburg) between, amongst others, the KeyMile Seller and ZTI, including all annexes, exhibits and schedules thereto, as amended by that certain agreement on various issues in relation to postponed closing dated as of December 31, 2018 between the KeyMile Seller and ZTI.
“KeyMile Seller” shall mean Riverside KM Beteiligung GmbH, a limited liability company (Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung) organized under the laws of Germany, registered with the commercial register (Handelsregister) of the local court (Amtsgericht) of Hannover under registration number HRB 208686.
“KeyMile Seller Working Capital Facility Agreement” shall mean that certain Working Capital Facility Agreement dated on or about January 3, 2019 between the KeyMile Seller, as the grantor of a working capital facility consisting of a single working capital advance in the principal amount of €4,000,000 funded by the KeyMile Seller allowing the “Retained Cash Amount” (as defined in the KeyMile Purchase Agreement) to remain with KeyMile, and KeyMile, as the recipient of such working capital facility.
“KeyMile Seller Working Capital Facility Guaranty” shall mean that certain Guaranty Agreement dated on or about October 5/6, 2018 by DZSI and ZTI, as guarantors, in favor of the KeyMile Seller, as the grantor of the working capital facility under the KeyMile Seller Working Capital Facility Agreement, pursuant to which DZSI and ZTI shall guaranty such working capital facility on an unsecured but unconditional and unlimited basis.
“Korean Law Customer Notices” shall mean such stamped notices directed to Customers as are necessary under Korean law to (1) where required, obtain the consent of the Customer to the establishment of Liens and/or (2) perfect Agent’s or Lender’s Liens in the Receivables of DNS Korea.
“Korean Law Guarantee and Security Documents” shall mean, collectively, (i) the Guaranty and Security Agreement governed by Korean law dated on or about the Closing Date, by and among Agent, the Lenders, the Borrowers and DNS Korea, (ii) the Intellectual Property Keun-Pledge Agreement governed by Korean law dated on or about the Closing Date, by and among Agent, the Lenders and DNS Korea, (iii) the Share Keun-Pledge Agreement governed by Korean law dated on or about the Closing Date, by and among Agent, the Lenders and DNS, (iv) the Yangdo-Dambo Agreement governed by Korean law dated on or about the Closing Date, by and among Agent, the Lenders and DNS Korea and (v) any other pledge agreement(s), security agreement(s), guarantee agreement(s), or other security documents governed by Korean law executed subsequent to the Closing Date by any Loan Party to create a Lien under Korean law in any assets or properties of such Loan Party to secure the Obligations, in each case as such agreement may be amended, modified, supplemented, renewed, restated or replaced from time to time.
“Law(s)” shall mean any law(s) (including common law and equitable principles), constitution, statute, treaty, regulation, rule, ordinance, opinion, issued guidance, code, release, ruling, order, executive order, injunction, writ, decree, bond judgment authorization or approval, lien or award of or any settlement arrangement, by agreement, consent or otherwise, with any Governmental Body, foreign or domestic.
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“Leasehold Interests” shall mean all of each Loan Party’s right, title and interest in and to, and as lessee of, the premises identified as leased Real Property on Schedule 4.4 hereto.
“Lender” and “Lenders” shall have the meanings given to such terms in the preamble to this Agreement and shall include all of their transferees, successor and permitted assigns. For purposes of any provision of this Agreement or any Other Document which provides for the granting of a security interest or other Lien to Agent for the benefit of Lenders as security for the Obligations, “Lenders” shall include any Affiliate of a Lender to which such Obligation (specifically including any Hedge Liabilities and any Cash Management Liabilities) is owed.
“Lender-Provided Foreign Currency Hedge” shall mean a Foreign Currency Hedge which is provided by any Lender or Agent, or any Affiliate of any Lender or Agent, and with respect to which such provider confirms to Agent in writing prior to the execution thereof that it: (a) is documented in a standard International Swap Dealers Association, Inc. Master Agreement or another reasonable and customary manner; (b) provides for the method of calculating the reimbursable amount of the provider’s credit exposure in a reasonable and customary manner; and (c) is entered into for hedging (rather than speculative) purposes.
“Lender-Provided Interest Rate Hedge” shall mean an Interest Rate Hedge which is provided by any Lender or Agent, or any Affiliate of any Lender or Agent, and with respect to which such provider confirms to Agent in writing prior to the execution thereof that it: (a) is documented in a standard International Swap Dealers Association, Inc. Master Agreement or another reasonable and customary manner; (b) provides for the method of calculating the reimbursable amount of the provider’s credit exposure in a reasonable and customary manner; and (c) is entered into for hedging (rather than speculative) purposes.
“Letter of Credit Application” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2.12(a) hereof.
“Letter of Credit Borrowing” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2.14(d) hereof.
“Letter of Credit Default Rate” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 3.2(a) hereof.
“Letter of Credit Fees” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 3.2(a) hereof.
“Letter of Credit Lender Fees” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 3.2(a) hereof.
“Letter of Credit Sublimit” shall mean $10,000,000.
“Letters of Credit” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2.11 hereof.
“Leverage Ratio” shall mean, for any Person for any period of determination, the ratio of (a) Funded Debt of such Person on the last day of such period to (b) EBITDA of such Person for such period.
“LIBOR Alternate Source” shall have the meaning set forth in the definition of “LIBOR Rate”.
“LIBOR Rate” shall mean for any LIBOR Rate Loan for the then current Interest Period relating thereto, the interest rate per annum determined by Agent by dividing (the resulting quotient rounded upwards, if necessary, to the nearest 1/100th of 1% per annum) (a) the rate which appears on the Bloomberg Page BBAM1 (or on such other substitute Bloomberg page that displays rates at which U.S. dollar deposits are offered by leading banks in the London interbank deposit market), or the rate which is quoted by another source selected by Agent as an authorized information
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vendor for the purpose of displaying rates at which U.S. dollar deposits are offered by leading banks in the London interbank deposit market (a “LIBOR Alternate Source”), at approximately 11:00 a.m., London time, two (2) Business Days prior to the commencement of such Interest Period as the London interbank offered rate for U.S. Dollars for an amount comparable to such LIBOR Rate Loan and having a borrowing date and a maturity comparable to such Interest Period (or (x) if there shall at any time, for any reason, no longer exist a Bloomberg Page BBAM1 (or any substitute page) or any LIBOR Alternate Source, a comparable replacement rate determined by Agent at such time (which determination shall be conclusive absent manifest error), (y) if the LIBOR Rate is unascertainable as set forth in Section 3.8.2(i) hereof, a comparable replacement rate determined in accordance with Section 3.8.2 hereof), by (b) a number equal to 1.00 minus the Reserve Percentage; provided, however, that if the LIBOR Rate determined as provided above would be less than zero (0.00%), such rate shall be deemed to be zero (0.00%) for purposes of this Agreement. The LIBOR Rate shall be adjusted with respect to any LIBOR Rate Loan that is outstanding on the effective date of any change in the Reserve Percentage as of such effective date. Agent shall give reasonably prompt notice to the Borrowing Agent of the LIBOR Rate as determined or adjusted in accordance herewith, which determination shall be conclusive absent manifest error.
“LIBOR Rate Loan” shall mean any Advance that bears interest based on the LIBOR Rate.
“LIBOR Termination Date” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 3.8.2(a) hereof.
“Lien” shall mean any mortgage, deed of trust, pledge, hypothecation, assignment, security interest, lien (whether statutory or otherwise), Charge, claim or encumbrance, or preference, priority or other security agreement or preferential arrangement held or asserted in respect of any asset of any kind or nature whatsoever including any conditional sale or other title retention agreement, any lease having substantially the same economic effect as any of the foregoing, and the filing of, or agreement to give, any financing statement under the Uniform Commercial Code or comparable law of any jurisdiction.
“Lien Waiver Agreement” shall mean an agreement in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Agent which is executed in favor of Agent by a Person who owns or occupies, or holds a senior mortgage with respect to, premises at which any Collateral may be located from time to time.
“Liquidity” shall mean, as of any date of determination, the sum of (a) Undrawn Availability as of such date plus (b) Qualified Cash as of such date.
“Loan Facility” shall have the meaning set forth in the Ex-Im Borrower Agreement.
“Loan Party” and “Loan Parties” shall have the meanings set forth in the preamble to this Agreement and shall include their successors and permitted assigns. For the avoidance of doubt, (x) no Guarantor that is not a party to this Agreement shall be included within the meaning of the term “Loan Party”, and (y) DNI shall not under any circumstances or at any time be considered a Loan Party for any purpose hereunder.
“Loan Parties on a Consolidated Basis” shall mean the consolidation in accordance with GAAP of the accounts or other items of DZSI and its Subsidiaries.
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“Material Adverse Effect” shall mean a material adverse effect on (a) the financial condition, results of operations, assets, business, or properties of Loan Parties taken as a whole, (b) the ability of the Loan Parties, taken as a whole, to duly and punctually pay or perform the Obligations in accordance with the terms thereof, (c) the value of the Collateral, taken as a whole, or Agent’s Liens on the Collateral, taken as a whole, or the priority of any such Lien or (d) the practical realization of the benefits of Agent’s and each Lender’s rights and remedies (taken as a whole) under this Agreement and the Other Documents. For the avoidance of doubt, the parties hereto (x) acknowledge that the definition of “Material Adverse Effect” set forth in the Ex-Im Borrower Agreement is different than the foregoing definition, and (y) agree that such definition of “Material Adverse Effect” set forth in the Ex-Im Borrower Agreement shall only be applicable with respect to those representations and covenants in the Ex-Im Borrower Agreement that use the term “Material Adverse Effect”, and that all uses of the term “Material Adverse Effect” in this Agreement shall be references to such term as defined in the foregoing sentence.
“Material Contract” shall mean any contract, agreement, instrument, permit, lease or license, written or oral, of any Company (x) that accounts for/produces (or could reasonably be expected to account for/produce) more than ten percent (10%) of the gross revenues of Loan Parties on a Consolidated Basis in any fiscal year, or (y) the termination of which could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.
“Maximum Permitted Korean Export-Import Bank Amount” an amount equal to the total principal balance of the Permitted Korean Export-Import Bank Indebtedness remaining outstanding after giving effect to all of the transactions provided for in Section 5 of the Closing Date Flow of Funds Agreement.
“Maximum Revolving Advance Amount” shall mean $10,000,000 as such amount may be increased in accordance with Section 2.24 hereof.
“Maximum Swing Loan Advance Amount” shall mean $2,000,000; provided that, upon the effective date of each increase in the Maximum Revolving Advance Amount in accordance with Section 2.24 hereof, the Maximum Swing Loan Advance Amount shall increase by an amount equal to ten percent (10%) of the amount of such increase in the Maximum Revolving Advance Amount.
“Maximum Undrawn Amount” shall mean, with respect to any outstanding Letter of Credit as of any date, the amount of such Letter of Credit that is or may become available to be drawn, including all automatic increases provided for in such Letter of Credit, whether or not any such automatic increase has become effective.
“Modified Commitment Transfer Supplement” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 16.3(d) hereof.
“Multiemployer Plan” shall mean a “multiemployer plan” as defined in Section 3(37) or 4001(a)(3) of ERISA to which contributions are required or, within the preceding five plan years, were required by any Company or any member of the Controlled Group.
“Multiple Employer Plan” shall mean a Plan which has two or more contributing sponsors (including any Company or any member of the Controlled Group) at least two of whom are not under common control, as such a plan is described in Section 4063 or 4064 of ERISA.
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“Net Cash Proceeds” shall mean:
(a)with respect to any Disposition (other than any issuance or sale of Equity Interests), proceeds in cash as and when received by the Person making a Disposition of assets (including without limitation, any deferred payments of cash, delayed purchase price adjustments or earnouts, and payments on any “seller note”), net of: (a) all reasonable and customary transaction costs and expenses with respect thereto (including, without limitation, any reasonable legal or other reasonable professional fees) or other actual transaction costs and expenses approved by Agent, in each case to the extent payable to a Person that is not an Affiliate of a Company, (b) sale, use or other transaction Taxes paid or payable as a result thereof, (c) amounts required to be applied to repay principal, interest and prepayment premiums and penalties on Indebtedness secured by a Permitted Encumbrance, which is senior to the Lien of Agent, on the assets subject to such Disposition and that is required to be repaid under the terms thereof as a result of such Disposition, (d) income Taxes payable as a result thereof, and (e) reserves or escrows for indemnification obligations and purchase price adjustments and other similar contingent liabilities that are required to be in place under the terms of the agreement providing for such Disposition; provided, that, if any amounts described in clauses (a) – (e) which are retained by any Loan Party in anticipation of paying any item described in clauses (a) – (e) are not thereafter in fact required to make any such anticipating payment and/or released from any such reserve or escrow, such amounts shall constitute Net Cash Proceeds;
(b)with respect to any issuance of Indebtedness or any issuance or sale of Equity Interests by any Company, the cash proceeds thereof, net of all reasonable and customary transaction costs and expenses with respect thereto (including, without limitation, any reasonable legal or other reasonable professional fees) or other actual transaction costs and expenses approved by Agent, in each case to the extent payable to a Person that is not an Affiliate of a Company; and
(c)with respect to any Casualty Proceeds Event, proceeds in cash, as and when received, of such Casualty Proceeds Event, net of: (a) all reasonable and customary collection expenses thereof (including, without limitation, any reasonable legal or other reasonable professional fees) or other actual collection expenses approved by Agent, in each case to the extent payable to a Person that is not an Affiliate of a Company, (b) sale, use or other transaction Taxes paid or payable as a result thereof, (c) amounts required to be applied to repay principal, interest and prepayment premiums and penalties on Indebtedness secured by a Permitted Encumbrance which is senior to the Lien of Agent on the assets subject to such taking, condemnation, damage or destruction and that is required to be repaid under the terms thereof as a result of such taking, condemnation, damage or destruction, and (d) income Taxes payable as a result thereof; provided, that, if any amounts described in clauses (a) – (d) which are retained by any Loan Party in anticipation of paying any item described in clauses (a) – (d) are not thereafter in fact required to make any such anticipating payment, such amounts shall constitute Net Casualty Proceeds.
“New Lender” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2.24(a) hereof.
“Non-Core Companies” shall mean, collectively, at any time (x) all Foreign Unsecured Loan Parties, and (y) all Companies that are not Loan Parties.
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“Non-Defaulting Lender” shall mean, at any time, any Revolving Lender that is not a Defaulting Lender at such time.
“Non-Qualifying Party” shall mean any Loan Party that on the Eligibility Date fails for any reason to qualify as an Eligible Contract Participant.
“Notes” shall mean collectively, the Revolving Credit Note and the Swing Loan Note.
“Obligations” shall mean and include (a) any and all loans (including without limitation, all Advances), advances, debts, liabilities, obligations (including without limitation all reimbursement obligations and cash collateralization obligations with respect to Letters of Credit issued hereunder), covenants and duties owing by any Loan Party (including in its capacity as a Domestic Borrower or Domestic Credit Agreement Guarantor) or any Subsidiary of any Loan Party to Issuer, Swing Loan Lender, Lenders or Agent (or to any other direct or indirect subsidiary or Affiliate of Issuer, Swing Loan Lender, any Lender or Agent), or to Domestic Agent or any Domestic Lender arising under, relating to, or evidenced by this Agreement and the Other Documents or by the Domestic Credit Agreement and the Domestic Other Documents, of any kind or nature, present or future (including any prepayment premiums, interest or other amounts accruing thereon, any fees accruing under or in connection therewith, any costs and expenses of any Person payable by any Loan Party (including in its capacity as a Domestic Borrower or Domestic Credit Agreement Guarantor) or any Subsidiary of any Loan Party and any indemnification obligations payable by any Loan Party (including in its capacity as a Domestic Borrower or Domestic Credit Agreement Guarantor) or any Subsidiary of any Loan Party, in each case arising or payable after maturity, or after the filing of any petition in bankruptcy, or the commencement of an Insolvency Proceeding relating to any Loan Party or any Subsidiary of any Loan Party, whether or not a claim for post-filing or post-petition interest, fees or other amounts is allowable or allowed in such proceeding), whether direct or indirect (including those acquired by assignment or participation), absolute or contingent, joint or several, due or to become due, now existing or hereafter arising, contractual or tortious, liquidated or unliquidated, regardless of how such indebtedness or liabilities arise, including all costs and expenses of Agent, Issuer, Swing Loan Lender, any Lender, Domestic Agent, and any Domestic Lender incurred in the documentation, negotiation, modification, enforcement, collection or otherwise in connection with any of the foregoing to the extent provided for in this Agreement and the Other Documents or by the Domestic Credit Agreement and the Domestic Other Documents, including but not limited to reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses to the extent provided for in this Agreement and the Other Documents or by the Domestic Credit Agreement and the Domestic Other Documents, and all obligations of any Loan Party to Agent, Issuer, Swing Loan Lender or Lenders to perform acts or refrain from taking any action, (b) all Hedge Liabilities, (c) all Cash Management Liabilities, and (d) all rights, claims or obligations coming into existence after the opening of Insolvency Proceedings. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Obligations shall not include any Excluded Hedge Liabilities.
“Ordinary Course of Business” shall mean, with respect to any Company, the ordinary course of such Company’s business as conducted on the Closing Date (or in the case of any Person that is formed and/or becomes a Company after the Closing Date, as conducted as of the date such Person in formed and/or becomes a Company).
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“Organizational Documents” shall mean, with respect to any Person, any charter, articles or certificate of incorporation, certificate of organization, registration or formation, certificate of partnership or limited partnership, bylaws, operating agreement, limited liability company agreement, or partnership agreement of such Person and any and all other applicable documents relating to such Person’s formation, organization or entity governance matters (including any shareholders’ or equity holders’ agreement or voting trust agreement) and specifically includes, without limitation, any certificates of designation for preferred stock or other forms of preferred equity.
“Other Documents” shall mean the Notes, the Perfection Certificates, the Fee Letter, any Guaranty, any Guarantor Security Agreement, any Pledge Agreement, any Foreign Law Guaranty/Security Documents, any Lender-Provided Interest Rate Hedge, any Lender-Provided Foreign Currency Hedge, any documents and agreements giving rise to Cash Management Liabilities, the DNI Subordination Agreement, the Closing Date Flow of Funds Agreement, and any and all other agreements, instruments and documents, including intercreditor agreements, subordination agreements, guaranties, pledges, powers of attorney, consents, interest or currency swap agreements and all other agreements, documents and instruments heretofore, now or hereafter executed by any Loan Party and/or delivered to Agent or any Lender in respect of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, in each case together with all amendments, modifications, supplements, extensions, renewals, substitutions, restatements and replacements thereto and thereof.
“Other Taxes” shall mean all present or future stamp or documentary taxes or any other excise or property taxes, charges or similar levies arising from any payment made hereunder or under any Other Document or from the execution, delivery or enforcement of, or otherwise with respect to, this Agreement or any Other Document.
“Out-of-Formula Loans” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 16.2(e) hereof.
“Overnight Bank Funding Rate” shall mean, for any day, the rate per annum (based on a year of 360 days and actual days elapsed) comprised of both overnight federal funds and overnight Eurocurrency borrowings by U.S. managed banking offices of depository institutions, as such composite rate shall be determined by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, as set forth on its public website from time to time, and as published on the next succeeding Business Day as the overnight bank funding rate by such Federal Reserve Bank (or by such other recognized electronic source (such as Bloomberg) selected by Agent for the purpose of displaying such rate) (an “Alternate Source”); provided, that if such day is not a Business Day, the Overnight Bank Funding Rate for such day shall be such rate on the immediately preceding Business Day; provided, further, that if such rate shall at any time, for any reason, no longer exist, a comparable replacement rate determined by Agent at such time (which determination shall be conclusive absent manifest error). If the Overnight Bank Funding Rate determined as set forth above would be less than zero, then such rate shall be deemed to be zero for purposes of this Agreement. The rate of interest charged shall be adjusted as of each Business Day based on changes in the Overnight Bank Funding Rate without notice to the Borrowers.
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“Participant” shall mean each Person who shall be granted the right by any Lender to participate in any of the Advances and who shall have entered into a participation agreement in form and substance satisfactory to such Lender.
“Participation Advance” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2.14(d) hereof.
“Participation Commitment” shall mean the obligation hereunder of each Revolving Lender to buy a participation equal to its Revolving Commitment Percentage (subject to any reallocation pursuant to Section 2.22(b)(iii) hereof) in the Swing Loans made by Swing Loan Lender hereunder as provided for in Section 2.4(c) hereof and in the Letters of Credit issued hereunder as provided for in Section 2.14(a) hereof.
“Payment Conditions” shall mean, on any applicable date of determination with respect to any proposed transaction(s) as to which satisfaction of such Payment Conditions is a requirement under this Agreement: (a) no Default or Event of Default shall exist or shall have occurred and be continuing on such date, or would occur after giving effect to such proposed transaction, and (b) after giving pro forma effect to such proposed transaction(s) and to any Advances being made in connection with and/or to fund any portion of such proposed transaction(s), in each case as though such proposed transaction(s) and any such Advances had occurred and been made on the first day of the applicable four quarter fiscal measurement period (as applicable), (i) Borrowers shall have Undrawn Availability on such date of not less than $6,000,000, (ii) Loan Parties shall have Qualified Cash on such date of not less than $5,000,000, (iii) Loan Parties on a Consolidated Basis shall have a Leverage Ratio of not more than 3.75 to 1.00, and (iv) Loan Parties shall be in pro forma compliance with each of the covenants set forth in Section 6.5 hereof as of and for the four quarter fiscal measurement period ending as of the last day of in the most recently ended fiscal quarter of DZSI and its Subsidiaries for which the Quarterly Financials have been delivered to Agent .
“Payment in Full” or “Paid in Full” means, with respect to the Obligations, (i) the termination of all commitments of the Lenders to extend credit under this Agreement, (ii) the indefeasible payment in full in cash of all of the Obligations, including interest accruing on or after the commencement of any Insolvency Proceeding, whether or not such interest would be allowed in such Insolvency Proceeding (other than contingent obligations for which no claim or demand for payment, whether oral or written, has been made at such time and obligations in respect of outstanding Letters of Credit, and outstanding Interest Rate Hedge Liabilities under Lender-Provided Interest Rate Xxxxxx and outstanding Foreign Currency Hedge Liabilities under Lender-Provided Foreign Currency Xxxxxx), and (iii) the termination or cash collateralization (in an amount and in the manner required by the Loan Documents) of Revolving Loan Obligations consisting of (A) outstanding Letters of Credit (but not, in any event, in an amount greater than 103% of the aggregate undrawn face amount of such Letters of Credit), (B) Interest Rate Hedge Liabilities under Lender-Provided Interest Rate Xxxxxx (but not, in any event, in an amount greater than 100% of amount reasonably estimated by Agent as the maximum amount of indebtedness, obligations, and liabilities that could reasonably be expected to become due and owing to the applicable Secured Party thereunder), (C) Foreign Currency Hedge Liabilities under Lender-Provided Foreign Currency Xxxxxx (but not, in any event, in an amount greater than 100% of amount reasonably estimated by Agent as the maximum amount of indebtedness, obligations, and
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liabilities that could reasonably be expected to become due and owing to the applicable Secured Party thereunder), and (D) any Cash Management Liabilities (but not, in any event, in an amount greater than 100% of amount reasonably estimated by Agent as the maximum amount of indebtedness, obligations, and liabilities that could reasonably be expected to become due and owing to the applicable Secured Party thereunder).
“Payment Office” shall mean initially Xxx Xxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxx Xxxxxxxxx, Xxx Xxxxxx 00000; thereafter, such other office of Agent, if any, which it may designate by notice to Borrowing Agent and to each Lender to be the Payment Office.
“PBGC” shall mean the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation established pursuant to Subtitle A of Title IV of ERISA or any successor.
“Pension Benefit Plan” shall mean at any time any “employee pension benefit plan” as defined in Section 3(2) of ERISA (including a Multiple Employer Plan, but not a Multiemployer Plan) which is covered by Title IV of ERISA or is subject to the minimum funding standards under Sections 412, 430 or 436 of the Code and either (i) is maintained or to which contributions are required by Company or any member of the Controlled Group or (ii) has at any time within the preceding five years been maintained or to which contributions have been required by Company or any entity which was at such time a member of the Controlled Group.
“Perfection Certificate” shall mean the information questionnaire and the responses thereto provided by each Loan Party and delivered to Agent.
“Permitted Acquisitions” shall mean any Acquisition by any Domestic Loan Party or any Foreign Secured Loan Party so long as and to the extent that:
(a) after giving pro forma effect to such Acquisition (and to any Revolving Advances to be requested to fund any part thereof), the Payment Conditions shall have been satisfied;
(b)the total costs and liabilities (including without limitation, all assumed liabilities, all potential earn-out payments, deferred payments and the value of any other stock or assets transferred, assigned or encumbered with respect to such acquisitions) of all such Acquisitions that are not funded with Net Cash Proceeds of any substantially contemporaneous issuance of Equity Interest (excluding any Disqualified Equity Interests) do not exceed $20,000,000 in the aggregate during the Term; but provided further that, to the extent any such Acquisition shall be made with any proceeds of any Revolving Advance (and/or any Domestic Revolving Advance) and/or any cash of any Domestic Loan Party or any Foreign Secured Loan Party, such total costs and liabilities of all such Acquisitions of any Foreign Subsidiary that will not be a Tier II Foreign Material Subsidiary upon the closing of such Acquisition (as determined in accordance with Section 7.12(b)(ii) (including, in the case of any Acquisition consisting of an Acquisition pursuant to which both one or more Domestic Subsidiaries/Tier II Foreign Material Subsidiaries and one or more Foreign Subsidiary that will not be a Tier II Foreign Material Subsidiary upon the closing of such Acquisition shall be acquired, the portion of the total costs and liabilities of such Acquisition attributable to such Foreign Subsidiary that will not be a Tier II Foreign Material Subsidiary upon the closing of such Acquisition) in any fiscal year of DZSI and its Subsidiaries, taken together with (x) all Permitted Intercompany Advances made during such
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fiscal year under clause (b) of the definition of Permitted Intercompany Advances, (y) all Permitted Intercompany Investments made during such fiscal year under clause (b) of the definition of Permitted Intercompany Investments, and (z) all Investments made during such fiscal year under clause (p) of the definition of Permitted Investments, shall not exceed the Permitted General Investment Bucket for such fiscal year;
(c)the target shall have a positive EBITDA for target and any Subsidiaries on a Consolidated Basis in accordance with GAAP measured for the trailing twelve (12) fiscal month measurement period ending as of the most recently ended fiscal quarter of such target for which audited or management-prepared financial statements are available;
(d) with respect to any Acquisition consisting of an acquisition of the Equity Interests of any Person, all of the provisions of Section 7.12 hereof shall be complied no later than substantially contemporaneously with the closing and consummation of such Acquisition;
(e) the business or property acquired is used or useful in Loan Parties’ Ordinary Course of Business;
(f)without limiting clause (d) above, Agent shall have received a first-priority security interest in all acquired assets or Equity Interests constituting Collateral in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement, subject to documentation satisfactory to Agent;
(g)the board of directors (or other comparable governing body) of the Person being acquired and/or of the seller of the assets being acquired shall have duly approved the transaction;
(h) at least thirty (30) days (or such shorter period as may be agreed by Agent) prior to the anticipated closing date of the proposed acquisition, Loan Parties shall have delivered to Agent: (i) written notice of the proposed Acquisition and a summary of the material terms thereof as anticipated as of the date of such notice, (ii) a pro forma balance sheet and pro forma financial statements and a Compliance Certificate demonstrating that, upon giving effect to such Acquisition on a pro forma basis, Loan Parties would be in compliance with the financial covenants set forth in Section 6.5 hereof as of the most recent fiscal quarter end, (iii) financial statements of the acquired entity for the two most recent fiscal years then ended, in form and substance reasonably acceptable to Agent;
(i)if such acquisition includes general partnership interests or any other Equity Interest that does not have a corporate (or similar) limitation on liability of the owners thereof, then such acquisition shall be effected by having such Equity Interests acquired by a corporate holding company directly or indirectly wholly-owned by a Loan Party and newly formed for the sole purpose of effecting such acquisition;
(j)no Indebtedness will be incurred, assumed or would exist with respect to any Company as a result of such acquisition other than Permitted Indebtedness, and no Liens will be incurred, assumed or would exist with respect to the assets of any Company (including any assets of any target and/or any acquired assets) as a result of such acquisition, other than Permitted Encumbrances;
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(k)if the total consideration, including the purchase price and liabilities assumed, of any such acquisition shall exceed $15,000,000, Borrowing Agent shall have delivered to Agent a quality of earnings report performed by a third party firm acceptable to Agent;
(l)not later than five (5) Business Days prior to the anticipated closing date of the proposed Acquisition, Borrowing Agent has provided Agent with copies of the most recent drafts of the acquisition agreement and other material agreements, documents and instruments related to the proposed acquisition, including, without limitation, any related management, non-compete, employment, option or other material agreements (the “Acquisition Documents”), and, in any event, no later than the closing and consummation of such Acquisition, Borrowing Agent shall provide Agent with true, correct and complete copies of the Acquisition Documents, in each case duly authorized, executed and delivered by the parties thereto, together with any schedules to such Acquisition Documents;
(m)such assets shall be located in the United States or such Target shall be incorporated in a state within the United States; and
(n)no assets acquired in any such Acquisition and/or of any Person acquired in any such Acquisition shall be included in the Formula Amount for any purpose (including any determination of compliance with the Payment Conditions under clause (a) of this definition above) unless such assets will, after giving effect to such Acquisition and the provisions of clause (d) above, such assets will be owned by a Borrower, nor until Agent has received a Field Examination with respect to such assets, in form and substance, and with results, acceptable to Agent in its Permitted Discretion; provided that, upon Borrower’s written request, Agent shall complete such Field Examination as promptly as is commercially reasonable following the earlier of (x) the Acquisition of such Subsidiary, or (y) the time Borrowers shall obtain from any Person to be acquired and/or whose assets are being acquired sufficient access for Agent to commence such Field Examination and Inventory Appraisal, and provided further that, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in Sections 3.4(c) and 16.9 hereof, Borrowers shall be liable for the Field Examination Fees and Costs of any such Field Examination conducted under this paragraph, and such Field Examination Fees and Costs shall not be subject to (and shall not be included in) any generally applicable limitations on the number of Field Examinations, or the Borrowers’ liability for Field Examination Fees and Costs, under this Agreement.
“Permitted Assignees” shall mean: (a) Agent, any Lender or any of their direct or indirect Affiliates; (b) a federal or state chartered bank, a United States branch of a foreign bank, an insurance company, or any finance company generally engaged in the business of making commercial loans; (c) any Approved Fund; and (d) any Fund to whom Agent or any Lender assigns its rights and obligations under this Agreement as part of an assignment and transfer of such Agent’s or Lender’s rights in and to a material portion of such Agent’s or Lender’s portfolio of commercial credit facilities and shall exclude any Disqualified Person, the Loan Parties and any of their Affiliates (including DNI).
“Permitted Discretion” shall mean a determination made in good faith and in the exercise (from the perspective of a secured asset-based lender) of commercially reasonable business judgment.
“Permitted Dispositions” shall mean:
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(a)the sale, lease, license, exchange, transfer or other disposition of equipment that is substantially worn, damaged or obsolete or no longer used or useful in the Ordinary Course of Business of the Loan Parties or their Subsidiaries, and leases or subleases of Real Property that is not useful in the conduct of the business of the Loan Parties or their Subsidiaries;
(b)sales of Inventory to Customers in the Ordinary Course of Business;
(c)the use or transfer of money or Cash Equivalents in a manner that is not prohibited by the terms of this Agreement or any of the Other Documents;
(d)(x) the licensing of patents, trademarks, copyrights, and other Intellectual Property rights on a non-exclusive basis in the Ordinary Course of Business, (y) the licensing of patents, trademarks, copyrights, and other Intellectual Property rights on a non-exclusive to Affiliates of a Loan Party or its Subsidiaries and (z) the licensing of patents, trademarks, copyrights, and other Intellectual Property rights on a non-exclusive or exclusive basis by DNS Korea to DZSI;
(e)the granting of Permitted Encumbrances;
(f)any involuntary loss, damage or destruction of property;
(g)any involuntary condemnation, seizure or taking, by exercise of the power of eminent domain or otherwise, or confiscation or requisition of use of property;
(h)the leasing or subleasing of assets of any Loan Party or its Subsidiaries in the Ordinary Course of Business;
(i)(i) the sale or issuance of Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Equity Interests) of DZSI, (ii) the sale or issuance of Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Equity Interests) of any wholly-owned Subsidiary of a Loan Party that is itself a Loan Party to such Loan Party, and (iii) the sale or issuance of Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Equity Interests) of any Subsidiary that is not a Loan Party to any Loan Party or to any Subsidiary that is not a Loan Party;
(j)(i) the lapse of registered patents, trademarks, copyrights and other Intellectual Property of any Loan Party or its Subsidiaries to the extent not economically desirable in the conduct of its business or (ii) the abandonment of patents, trademarks, copyrights or other Intellectual Property rights so long as (in each case under clauses (i) and (ii)), (A) such patents, trademarks, copyrights or other Intellectual Property rights do not generate material revenue, (B) such lapse or abandonment would not reduce the recurring royalty revenue stream of assets not Disposed of, and (C) such lapse or abandonment is not materially adverse to the interests of Agent and the other Secured Parties;
(k)the making of Restricted Payments that are expressly permitted to be made pursuant to this Agreement;
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(l)any other Disposition permitted under Section 7.1 of this Agreement;
(m)the making of Permitted Investments; and
(n)transfer, assign or pledge to a pension trustee or similar Person any policies of insurance obtained by KeyMile or any other Company organized under the laws of the Germany supporting/safeguarding any pension obligations of KeyMile or such other German Company and/or obligations under any old age part-time working schemes of KeyMile or such other German Company permitted under clause (s) of the definition of Permitted Indebtedness.
“Permitted DNI Subordinated Loans” shall mean, collectively, (i) all Indebtedness, obligations, and liabilities owing by DNS Korea to DNI as lender under that certain loan agreement dated as of March 27, 2018, with a maximum principal loan amount outstanding thereunder not to exceed KRW 1,500,000,000 at any time (the “DNI/DNS Korea 2018 Loan”), (ii) all Indebtedness, obligations, and liabilities owing by DZSI to DNI as lender under that certain loan agreement dated as of December 27, 2018, with a maximum principal loan amount outstanding thereunder not to exceed $6,000,000 at any time (the “DNI/DZSI 2018 Loan”), and (iii) all Indebtedness, obligations, and liabilities owing by DNS to DNI as lender under that certain loan agreement dated as of February 15, 2016, with a maximum principal loan amount outstanding thereunder not to exceed $1,800,000 at any time, as amended by a written agreement dated as of February 27, 2017, and as further amended by a written agreement dated as of that certain amendment 2 to the loan agreement dated as of January 31, 2018 (the “DNI/DNS 2016 Loan”), each of the foregoing as further amended on the Closing Date by the DNI Closing Date Loan Amendment and as further amended, modified, or supplemented in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.
“Permitted DNI Reimbursement Obligations” shall mean all Indebtedness, obligations, guarantee fees, and liabilities, whether contractual, statutory, or under common law (or the equivalent of “common law” in the Republic of Korea) owing from DNS Korea to DNI, contingent or liquidated, in connection with any guarantee(s) given by DNI with respect to (but only to the extent of) (x) the Permitted Korean Export-Import Bank Indebtedness and/or any payments by DNI under any such guarantee(s), (y) the Permitted Korean Development Bank Indebtedness and/or any payments by DNI under any such guarantee(s), and (z) the Permitted Korean Bank LC Indebtedness and/or any payments by DNI under any such guarantee(s).
“Permitted Encumbrances” shall mean:
(a)Liens (x) in favor of Agent, for the benefit of Secured Parties, including without limitation, Liens securing Hedge Liabilities and Cash Management Products and Services, (y) in favor of Domestic Agent, for the benefit of Domestic Secured Parties, and (z) in favor of Ex-Im Bank under the Ex-Im Borrower Agreement;
(b)Liens for taxes, assessments or other governmental charges not delinquent or being Properly Contested;
(c) deposits or pledges of cash to secure obligations under worker’s compensation, social security or similar laws, or under unemployment insurance;
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(d)deposits or pledges of cash, including time deposits, to secure bids, tenders, contracts (other than contracts for the payment of money), leases, statutory obligations, surety and appeal bonds, performance bonds and guarantees, and other obligations of like nature arising in the Ordinary Course of Business;
(e)Liens arising by virtue of the rendition, entry or issuance against any Company or any Subsidiary, or any property of any Company or any Subsidiary, of any judgment, writ, order, or decree to the extent the rendition, entry, issuance or continued existence of such judgment, writ, order or decree (or any event or circumstance relating thereto) has not resulted in the occurrence of an Event of Default under Section 10.6 hereof;
(f) carriers’, landlords’, bailees’, repairmens’, mechanics’, workers’, materialmen’s or other like Liens arising by statute and in the Ordinary Course of Business with respect to obligations which are not due or which are being Properly Contested;
(g)purchase money Liens or the interests of lessors under a Capitalized Lease Obligation to the extent that such Liens or interests secure Permitted Purchase Money Indebtedness and so long as (i) such Lien attaches only to the asset purchased or acquired and the proceeds thereof, and (ii) such Lien only secures the Indebtedness that was incurred to acquire the asset purchased or acquired or any Refinancing Indebtedness in respect thereof;
(h)easements, rights-of-way, zoning restrictions, minor defects or irregularities in title and other charges or encumbrances with respect to any Company’s Real Property, in each case, which were not incurred in connection with the borrowing of money or the obtaining of advances or credit, which do not in the aggregate materially detract from Agent’s or Lenders’ rights in and to such Real Property or the value of such Real Property which do not materially impair the use thereof in the operation of any Company’s business or otherwise interfere in any material respect with the Ordinary Course of Business of Companies and their Subsidiaries;
(i)the interests of lessors (and interests in the title of such lessors) under operating leases and non-exclusive licensors (and interests in the title of such licensors) under license agreements;
(j)Liens that are replacements of Permitted Encumbrances to the extent that the original Indebtedness is the subject of permitted Refinancing Indebtedness and so long as the replacement Liens only encumber those assets that secured the original Indebtedness;
(k)rights of setoff or bankers’ liens upon deposits of funds in favor of banks or other depository institutions and Liens arising under the general terms of business of an account bank, solely to the extent incurred in connection with the maintenance of deposit accounts or giro accounts of the Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries in the Ordinary Course of Business (not incurred in connection with the borrowing of money or the obtaining of advances or credit);
(l)Liens granted in the Ordinary Course of Business on the unearned portion of insurance premiums securing the financing of insurance premiums;
(m)Liens in favor of customs and revenue authorities arising as a matter of law to secure payment of customs duties in connection with the importation of goods;
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(n)Liens on certain accounts receivable of DNS Korea as further specified in Section 4 of the DNI Closing Date Loan Amendment securing the DNI/DNS Korea 2018 Loan to the extent subject to the DNI Subordination Agreement;
(o) Liens on the Equity Interests of Dasan Network Solutions Japan, Inc. securing the DNI/DNS 2016 Loan to the extent subject to the DNI Subordination Agreement,
(p) Liens set forth on Schedule 7.2 hereto; provided that such Liens shall secure only the Indebtedness or other obligations which they secure on the Closing Date (and any Refinancing Indebtedness in respect thereof permitted hereunder) and shall not subsequently apply to any other property or assets of any Company other than the property and assets to which they apply as of the Closing Date;
(q)Liens on assets of Foreign Subsidiaries operating in jurisdictions where retention of title by vendors of goods are customary and enforceable arising under retention of title arrangements with suppliers in the Ordinary Course of Business;
(r)to the extent constituting Liens, any policies of insurance, bonds, or bank guarantees or similar third-party guarantees obtained by KeyMile or any other Company organized under the laws of the Germany supporting/safeguarding any pension obligations of KeyMile or such other German Company and/or obligations under any old age part-time working schemes of KeyMile or such other German Company permitted under clause (s) of the definition of Permitted Indebtedness, in each such case (x) to the extent obtained in the Ordinary Course of Business consistent with the past practices of KeyMile, and (y) so long as the obligations and liabilities of KeyMile or such other German Company to the issuers of such policies of insurance, bonds, or guarantees are unsecured;
(q) extensions, renewals and replacements of Liens referred to in clauses (a) through (p) above; provided, however, that any such extension, renewal or replacement Lien shall be limited to the property or assets covered by the Lien extended, renewed or replaced and that the obligations secured by any such extension, renewal or replacement Lien shall be in an amount not greater than the amount of the obligations secured by the Lien extended, renewed or replaced;
(r)the Permitted Korean Export-Import Bank Indebtedness Liens; and
(s)subject to the time restrictions in Section 8.3(d), the Florida Judgment Lien.
“Permitted General Investment Bucket” shall mean, for any fiscal year, $3,000,000.
“Permitted Indebtedness” shall mean:
(a)the Ex-Im Obligations and all other Obligations;
(b)Indebtedness as of the Closing Date set forth on Schedule 7.8 hereto and any Refinancing Indebtedness in respect of such Indebtedness;
(c)Permitted Purchase Money Indebtedness and any Refinancing Indebtedness in respect of such Indebtedness; provided that the aggregate outstanding principal amount of such Indebtedness shall not exceed $1,000,000 at any time;
(d)endorsement of instruments or other payment items for deposit;
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(e)Indebtedness consisting of guarantees permitted under Section 7.3 hereof;
(f)[RESERVED];
(h)Indebtedness (x) constituting deferred purchase price obligations consisting of standard “working capital adjustment” provisions or similar provisions arising in connection with Permitted Acquisitions, and (y) under non-compete payment obligations arising in connection with Permitted Acquisitions, provided that, such Indebtedness shall at all times be unsecured;
(i)Indebtedness incurred in the Ordinary Course of Business under performance, surety, bid, statutory, or appeal bonds, performance guarantees, and related reimbursement obligations;
(j)Indebtedness owed to any Person providing property, casualty, liability or other insurance to any Company, so long as the amount of such Indebtedness is not in excess of the amount of the unpaid cost of, and shall be incurred only to defer the cost of, such insurance for the year in which such Indebtedness is incurred and such Indebtedness is outstanding only during such year;
(k)Indebtedness consisting of Interest Rate Xxxxxx and Foreign Currency Xxxxxx (including Hedging Liabilities) that is incurred for the bona fide purpose of hedging the interest rate, commodity or foreign currency risks associated with the operations of the Companies and not for speculative purposes;
(l)Cash Management Liabilities;
(m)Indebtedness of any Company or its Subsidiaries in respect of Permitted Intercompany Advances;
(n)any Permitted KeyMile Seller Working Capital Indebtedness;
(o)any Permitted DNI Subordinated Loans, to the extent subject to the DNI Subordination Agreement;
(p)any Permitted Korean Bank LC Indebtedness and any Permitted DNI Reimbursement Obligations related thereto, to the extent subject to the DNI Subordination Agreement;
(q)any Permitted Korean Development Bank Indebtedness, and any Refinancing Indebtedness in respect of such Indebtedness (provided that, notwithstanding clause (a) of the definition of “Refinancing Indebtedness”, the principal amount of such Refinancing Indebtedness may be in a principal amount equal to or less than the outstanding principal amount of such Permitted Korean Development Bank Indebtedness as of the Closing Date, plus the amount of premiums paid thereon and the fees and expenses incurred in connection therewith and the amount of unfunded commitments with respect thereto), and any Permitted DNI Reimbursement Obligations related thereto, to the extent such Permitted DNI Reimbursement Obligations are subject to the DNI Subordination Agreement;
(r)any Permitted Korean Export-Import Bank Indebtedness, and any Refinancing Indebtedness in respect of such Indebtedness (provided that, notwithstanding clause
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(a) of the definition of “Refinancing Indebtedness”, the principal amount of such Refinancing Indebtedness may be in a principal amount equal to or less than the Maximum Permitted Korean Export-Import Bank Indebtedness Amount, plus the amount of premiums paid thereon and the fees and expenses incurred in connection therewith and the amount of unfunded commitments with respect thereto), and any Permitted DNI Reimbursement Obligations related thereto, to the extent such Permitted DNI Reimbursement Obligations are subject to the DNI Subordination Agreement;
(s)Indebtedness of KeyMile and/or any Subsidiary of KeyMile organized under the laws of the Germany (i) arising from pension obligations and obligations under old age part-time working schemes under the pension obligations and old age part-time working schemes of KeyMile or such other German Company in existence on the Closing Date and listed on Schedule 1.2(c) hereof, and (ii) any Indebtedness relating to any policies of insurance, bonds, bank guarantees or similar third-party guarantees obtained by KeyMile or any other Company organized under the laws of the Germany supporting/safeguarding any pension obligations of KeyMile or such other German Company and/or obligations under any old age part-time working schemes of KeyMile or such other German Company, in each such case under this clause (ii): (x) to the extent obtained in the Ordinary Course of Business as required under German Applicable Law, and (y) so long as the obligations and liabilities of KeyMile or such other German Company to the issuers of such policies of insurance, bonds, or guarantees are unsecured;
(t)any Permitted LGU Indebtedness;
(u)Indebtedness secured by Liens of the type permitted under clause (f) of the definition of Permitted Encumbrances; and
(w)Indebtedness in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $200,000 at any time outstanding.
“Permitted Intercompany Advances” shall mean any loans, extensions of credit, and/or advances made:
(a)among any one or more Domestic Loan Parties and/or any one or more Foreign Secured Loan Parties;
(b)by any one or more Domestic Loan Parties and/or any one or more Foreign Secured Loan Parties to any one or more Non-Core Companies (including Foreign Unsecured Loan Parties) in an amount funded during any fiscal year of DZSI and its Subsidiaries not to exceed, taken together with (x) the total costs and liabilities of all Permitted Acquisitions made during such fiscal year pursuant to the final proviso to clause (b) of the definition of Permitted Acquisitions, (y) all Permitted Intercompany Investments made during such fiscal year under clause (b) of the definition of Permitted Intercompany Investments, and (z) all Investments made during such fiscal year under clause (p) of the definition of Permitted Investments, not to exceed the Permitted General Investment Bucket for such fiscal year;
(c)among any one or more Non-Core Companies; and
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(d)by any one or more Companies that are neither Domestic Loan Parties nor Foreign Secured Loan Parties to any one or more Domestic Loan Parties and/or any one or more Foreign Secured Loan Parties;
provided that, in each such case under this definition, to the extent requested by Agent, (i) the applicable loan or advance is evidenced by a promissory note (including any master intercompany note among DZSI and its Subsidiaries) on terms and conditions (including terms subordinating payment of the Indebtedness evidenced by such note owing by any Loan Party to the prior Payment in Full of all of the Obligations) acceptable to Agent in its Permitted Discretion and (ii) the original of such note has been delivered to Agent either endorsed in blank or together with an undated instrument of transfer executed in blank by the applicable the Loan Parties that are the payees on such note.
“Permitted Intercompany Investments” shall mean any Investment (other than a loan or other advance) made:
(a)among any one or more Domestic Loan Parties and/or any one or more Foreign Secured Loan Parties;
(b)by any one or more Domestic Loan Parties and/or any one or more Foreign Secured Loan Parties to any one or more Non-Core Companies (including Foreign Unsecured Loan Parties) in an amount funded during any fiscal year of DZSI and its Subsidiaries not to exceed, taken together with (x) the total costs and liabilities of all Permitted Acquisitions made during such fiscal year pursuant to the final proviso of clause (b) of the definition of Permitted Acquisitions, (y) all Permitted Intercompany Advances made during such fiscal year under clause (b) of the definition of Permitted Intercompany Advances, and (z) all Investments made during such fiscal year under clause (p) of the definition of Permitted Investments, not to exceed the Permitted General Investment Bucket for such fiscal year;
(c)among any one or more Companies that are neither Domestic Loan Parties nor Foreign Secured Loan Parties; and
(d)any one or more Companies that are neither Domestic Loan Parties nor Foreign Secured Loan Parties to any one or more Domestic Loan Parties and/or any one or more Foreign Secured Loan Parties;
provided that, for all purposes under this Agreement and the Other Documents, any guaranty given by any Company with respect to any Indebtedness or other obligation or liability of any other Company shall be deemed to be an Investment by the guaranteeing Company in the Company whose Indebtedness, etc. is being guaranteed, and shall only be permitted to the extent that an Investment in the form of a capital contribution in the amount of the Indebtedness, etc. being guaranteed would have been permitted by the guaranteeing Company in the Company whose Indebtedness, etc. is being guaranteed at the time such guarantee is given.
“Permitted Investments” shall mean:
(a)Investments in cash and Cash Equivalents;
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(b)Investments in negotiable instruments deposited or to be deposited for collection in the Ordinary Course of Business;
(c)Permitted Loans;
(d)Investments received in settlement of amounts due to any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries effected in the Ordinary Course of Business or owing to any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries in any Insolvency Proceeding involving a Customer or upon the foreclosure or enforcement of any Lien in favor of a Company;
(e)Investments owned by any Company on the Closing Date and set forth on Schedule 7.4 hereto;
(f)guarantees permitted under Section 7.3 hereof;
(g)Permitted Intercompany Advances and Permitted Intercompany Investments;
(h)Equity Interests or other securities acquired in connection with the satisfaction or enforcement of Indebtedness or claims due or owing to a Company (in any Insolvency Proceeding of any Customer or supplier or otherwise outside the Ordinary Course of Business) or as security for any such Indebtedness or claims;
(i)deposits of cash made in the Ordinary Course of Business to secure performance of operating leases;
(j)Permitted Acquisitions;
(k)Investments resulting from entering into (i) Interest Rate Xxxxxx and Foreign Currency Xxxxxx incurred for the bona fide purpose of hedging the interest rate, commodity or foreign currency risks associated with the operations of the Companies and not for speculative purposes or Cash Management Products and Services, or (ii) agreements relative to Indebtedness that is permitted under clause (i) of the definition of “Permitted Indebtedness”;
(l)Investments held by a Person acquired in a Permitted Acquisition to the extent that such Investments were not made in contemplation of or in connection with such Permitted Acquisition and were in existence on the date of such Permitted Acquisition;
(m)any Investment by way of (i) merger, consolidation, reorganization or recapitalization, (ii) reclassification of Equity Interests; or (iii) transfer of assets, in each case solely to the extent permitted by Section 7.1 hereof;
(n)to the extent constituting an Investment, any Restricted Payment to the extent permitted by Section 7.7 hereof; and
(o)any other Investments of a type not described in the foregoing clauses of this definition in an aggregate amount not to exceed, taken together with (x) the total costs and liabilities of all Permitted Acquisitions made during such fiscal year pursuant to the final proviso to clause (b) of the definition of Permitted Acquisitions, (y) all Permitted Intercompany Advances made during such fiscal year under clause (b) of the definition of Permitted Intercompany Advances, and (z) all Permitted Intercompany Investments made during such fiscal year under clause (b) of the definition of Permitted Intercompany Investments, not to exceed the Permitted
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General Investment Bucket for such fiscal year for all such Investments made pursuant to this clause (q) in any fiscal year; provided that on the date any Investment is made and after giving effect thereto, no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing or would result therefrom.
“Permitted Loans” shall mean:
(a)the extension of trade credit by a Company to a Customer in the Ordinary Course of Business in connection with a sale of Inventory or rendition of services, in each case on open account terms;
(b)loans and advances to employees and officers of any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries in the Ordinary Course of Business for any other business purpose and in an aggregate amount not to exceed $100,000 at any one time; and
(c)Permitted Intercompany Loans.
“Permitted KeyMile Seller Working Capital Indebtedness” shall mean all unsecured Indebtedness, obligations, and liabilities of (x) KeyMile to KeyMile Seller under the KeyMile Seller Working Capital Facility Agreement, and (y) of DZSI and ZTI to KeyMile Seller under the KeyMile Seller Working Capital Facility Guaranty.
“Permitted Korean Bank LC Indebtedness” shall mean unsecured Indebtedness of DNS Korea owing to any one or more banks organized under the laws of the Republic of Korea (and/or branches under the laws of the Republic of Korea of banks organized under the laws of other jurisdictions) with respect to letters of credit issued by such banks/bank branches for the account of DNS Korea (“Korean LCs”) with an aggregate maximum undrawn face amount (including all automatic increases provided for in such Korean LCs, whether or not any such automatic increase has become effective) not to exceed the Dollar Equivalent of $13,000,000 outstanding at any one time; provided that, such Indebtedness shall only constitute Permitted Korean Bank LC Indebtedness (and Permitted Indebtedness permitted under the provisions of Section 7.8) to the extent that (i) such Indebtedness with respect to each such Korean LC remains fully guaranteed by unlimited and unconditional guarantee(s) thereof by DNI in favor of the applicable bank/bank branch that has issued such Korean LC, (ii) Agent shall be reasonably satisfied in its Permitted Discretion that DNI’s financial condition and financial performance are and could reasonably be expected to remain sufficient for DNI to fully perform its obligations under such guaranty if, when, and as provided for under the terms of such guaranty (and, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, no event of the type described in Section 10.7 shall have occurred with respect to DNI nor shall DNI have become subject to any Insolvency Proceeding), and (iii) no Company other than DNS Korea shall have any obligation or liability (whether pursuant to any guaranty or suretyship agreement or otherwise) for such Indebtedness. For the avoidance of doubt, nothing in this Agreement (including the definition of Refinancing Indebtedness) shall be construed to limit the ability of DNS Korea to obtain/open Korean LCs, replace any Korean LCs outstanding at any time with new Korean LCs (whether or not such new Korean LCs are issued by the same banks/bank branches as the outstanding Korean LCs), or renew or extend any Korean LCs outstanding at any time, so long as the conditions and limitations of the preceding sentence are complied with at all times. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, if Agent
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shall determine that it is not satisfied that DNI’s financial condition and financial performance are and could reasonably be expected to remain sufficient for DNI to fully perform its obligations under the aforesaid guaranty by DNI in favor of the applicable bank/bank branch that has issued Korean LCs, Agent shall provide the Borrowing Agent written notice thereof and such Indebtedness shall continue to constitute Permitted Korean Bank LC Indebtedness (and Permitted Indebtedness permitted under the provisions of Section 7.8) for forty-five (45) days after the Borrower Agent’s receipt of such written notice.
“Permitted Korean Development Bank Indebtedness” shall mean unsecured Indebtedness of DNS Korea owing to the Korea Development Bank under that certain loan agreement between the Korea Development Bank and DNS Korea (with the first draw-down made thereunder in the amount of KRW Five Billion (₩5,000,000,000) on August 8, 2018) and under any promissory notes or other loan documents relating thereto, with an aggregate maximum principal amount (exclusive of interest, fees, and other non-principal amounts) not to exceed KRW Five Billion (₩5,000,000,000) outstanding at any one time; provided that, such Indebtedness shall only constitute Permitted Korean Development Bank Indebtedness (and Permitted Indebtedness permitted under the provisions of Section 7.8) to the extent that (i) such Indebtedness remains fully guaranteed by an unlimited and unconditional guaranty thereof by DNI in favor of the Korea Development Bank, (ii) Agent shall be reasonably satisfied in its Permitted Discretion that DNI’s financial condition and financial performance are and could reasonably be expected to remain sufficient for DNI to fully perform its obligations under such guaranty if, when, and as provided for under the terms of such guaranty (and, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, no event of the type described in Section 10.7 shall have occurred with respect to DNI nor shall DNI have become subject to any Insolvency Proceeding), and (iii) no Company other than DNS Korea shall have any obligation or liability (whether pursuant to any guaranty or suretyship agreement or otherwise) for such Indebtedness, and further provided that, any refinancing, renewal or extension of such unsecured Indebtedness of DNS Korea owing to the Korea Development Bank that constitutes Refinancing Indebtedness under the terms of the clause (q) of the definition of “Permitted Indebtedness” shall constitute Permitted Korean Development Bank Indebtedness (and thereby be permitted under the provisions of Section 7.8) only if and to the extent that any such Refinancing Indebtedness is unsecured and at all times complies with the requirements of clauses (i) through (iii) of the previous proviso. Loan Parties shall provide at least thirty (30) days prior written notice to Agent and Lenders of any intention to incur any Refinancing Indebtedness to refinance the Permitted Korean Development Bank Indebtedness. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, if Agent shall determine that it is not satisfied that DNI’s financial condition and financial performance are and could reasonably be expected to remain sufficient for DNI to fully perform its obligations under the aforesaid guaranty by DNI in favor of Korea Development Bank, Agent shall provide the Borrowing Agent written notice thereof and such Indebtedness shall continue to constitute Permitted Korean Development Bank Indebtedness (and Permitted Indebtedness permitted under the provisions of Section 7.8) for forty-five (45) days after the Borrower Agent’s receipt of such written notice.
“Permitted Korean Export-Import Bank Indebtedness” shall mean Indebtedness of DNS Korea owing to the Export-Import Bank of Korea under that certain agreement for loan (limit) transactions between the Export-Import Bank of Korea and DNS Korea (with the first draw-down
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made thereunder in the amount of KRW Seven Billion Two Hundred Million (₩7,200,000,000) on December 31, 2018) and under any promissory notes or other loan documents relating thereto, with an aggregate maximum principal amount (exclusive of interest, fees, and other non-principal amounts) not to exceed the Maximum Permitted Korean Export-Import Bank Indebtedness Amount outstanding at any one time; provided that, such Indebtedness shall only constitute Permitted Korean Export-Import Bank Indebtedness (and Permitted Indebtedness permitted under the provisions of Section 7.8) to the extent that (i) such Indebtedness remains fully guaranteed by an unlimited and unconditional guaranty thereof by DNI in favor of the Korea Development Bank, (ii) Agent shall be reasonably satisfied in its Permitted Discretion that DNI’s financial condition and financial performance are and could reasonably be expected to remain sufficient for DNI to fully perform its obligations under such guaranty if, when, and as provided for under the terms of such guaranty (and, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, no event of the type described in Section 10.7 shall have occurred with respect to DNI nor shall DNI have become subject to any Insolvency Proceeding), (iii) such Indebtedness shall not be secured by any Liens on any assets of any Company other than Liens on Inventory of DNS Korea (but only to the extent of any such Liens on the Inventory in Korea in favor of the Export-Import Bank of Korea securing such Indebtedness in existence on the date hereof (including, if applicable, Liens on Inventory of DNS Korea acquired after the Closing Date to the extent (but only to the extent) that the existing loan documents, security documents, and pledges between DNS Korea and the Export-Import Bank of Korea with respect to such Indebtedness provide for and would create valid and enforceable Liens on any such Inventory of DNS Korea acquired after the Closing Date) and cash deposit in an amount not to exceed ₩2,500,000,000 at any time (such liens, the “Permitted Korean Export-Import Bank Indebtedness Liens”), and (iii) no Company other than DNS Korea shall have any obligation or liability (whether pursuant to any guaranty or suretyship agreement or otherwise) for such Indebtedness, and further provided that, any refinancing, renewal or extension of such unsecured Indebtedness of DNS Korea owing to the Korea Export-Import Bank that constitutes Refinancing Indebtedness under the terms of clause (r) of the definition of “Permitted Indebtedness” shall constitute Permitted Korean Export-Import Bank Indebtedness (and thereby be permitted under the provisions of Section 7.8) only if and to the extent that any such Refinancing Indebtedness at all times complies with the requirements of clauses (i) through (iv) of the previous proviso. Loan Parties shall provide at least thirty (30) days prior written notice to Agent and Lenders of any intention to incur any Refinancing Indebtedness to refinance the Permitted Korean Export-Import Bank Indebtedness. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, if Agent shall determine that it is not satisfied that DNI’s financial condition and financial performance are and could reasonably be expected to remain sufficient for DNI to fully perform its obligations under the aforesaid guaranty by DNI in favor of Korea Export-Import Bank, Agent shall provide the Borrowing Agent written notice thereof and such Indebtedness shall continue to constitute Permitted Korean Export-Import Bank Indebtedness (and Permitted Indebtedness permitted under the provisions of Section 7.8) for forty-five (45) days after the Borrower Agent’s receipt of such written notice.
“Permitted LGU Indebtedness” shall mean, prior to and through (but not after) June 18, 2019, shall mean, prior to June 18, 2019, unsecured Indebtedness of DNS Korea owing to LG Uplus Corp. under that certain loan agreement dated as of June 11, 2018 between LG Uplus Corp. and DASAN Network Solutions, Inc. and under any promissory notes or other loan
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documents relating thereto, with an aggregate maximum principal amount (exclusive of interest, fees, and other non-principal amounts) not to exceed KRW Two Billion (₩2,000,000,000) outstanding at any one time.
“Permitted Purchase Money Indebtedness” shall mean, as of any date of determination, Indebtedness (other than the Obligations, but including Capitalized Lease Obligations) incurred after the Closing Date and at the time of, or within ninety (90) days after, the acquisition of any fixed assets for the purpose of financing all or any part of the acquisition cost thereof.
“Permitted Restricted Payments” shall mean:
(a)distributions and dividends payable by any Company to any other Company;
(b)distributions and dividends by any Company to DZSI to allow DZSI to make, and distributions and dividends by DZSI to, former employees, officers or directors of DZSI and its Subsidiaries (or any spouses, ex-spouses or estates of any of the foregoing) on account of redemptions of Equity Interests of DZSI held by such Persons, provided that (i) such Restricted Payments are permitted by Applicable Law; (ii) no Event of Default or Default shall have occurred or would occur after giving pro forma effect to any such Restricted Payment (and to any Revolving Advances to be requested to fund any part thereof); and (iii) the aggregate amount of such Restricted Payments shall not exceed $3,000,000 during the term of this Agreement; and
(c)distributions and dividends by DZSI to the holders of its Equity Interests in an aggregate amount not to exceed $10,000,000 to the extent made solely from (and substantially contemporaneously with receipt by DZSI of) the proceeds of any Contemplated Rights Offering that yields Net Cash Proceeds of at least $50,000,000, so long as both prior to and after giving effect thereto, no Event of Default shall have occurred and remain outstanding.
“Person” shall mean any individual, sole proprietorship, partnership, corporation, business trust, joint stock company, trust, unincorporated organization, association, limited liability company, limited liability partnership, institution, public benefit corporation, joint venture, entity or Governmental Body (whether federal, state, county, city, municipal or otherwise, including any instrumentality, division, agency, body or department thereof).
“Plan” shall mean any employee benefit plan within the meaning of Section 3(3) of ERISA (including a Pension Benefit Plan and a Multiemployer Plan, as defined herein) maintained by any Company or any member of the Controlled Group or to which any Company or any member of the Controlled Group is required to contribute.
“Pledge Agreement” shall mean (i) the Share Pledge Agreement governed by German law dated on or about the Closing Date by ZTI in favor of Agent and Domestic Agent with respect to the Equity Interests in KeyMile, (ii) the Share Pledge Agreement governed by German law dated on or about the Closing Date by KeyMile in favor of Agent and Domestic with respect to the Equity Interests in KeyMile Networks GmbH, (iii) the Share Keun-Pledge Agreement governed by Korean law dated on or about the Closing Date, by and among Agent, the Lenders and DNS, and (ii) any other pledge agreements executed subsequent to the Closing Date by any Loan Party or
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other Person with respect to any Subsidiary Stock and/or any other Investment Property of any Company to secure the Obligations, including as applicable any such pledge agreement that constitutes a Foreign Law Guaranty/Security Document, in each case as such pledge agreement may be amended, modified, supplemented, renewed, restated or replaced from time to time.
“Pledged Equity Interest Collateral” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 4.14(a) hereof.
“Pledged Issuer” shall mean any Subsidiary of any Loan Party in its capacity as the “issuer” (as defined in the definition of “Equity Interest”) of any Subsidiary Stock in which any Loan Party has any right, title or interest and which is subject to a Lien in favor of Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties created under this Agreement or any Other Document.
“PNC” shall have the meaning set forth in the preamble to this Agreement and shall include all of its successors and assigns.
“Principals” shall mean any officer, director, owner, partner, key employee, or other Person with primary management or supervisory responsibilities with respect to Borrowers or any other Person (whether or not an employee) who has critical influence on or substantive control over the transactions covered by this Agreement.
“Projections” shall mean, for any fiscal year, the forecasted consolidated and consolidating balance sheets, profit and loss/income statements, and cash flow statements of DSZI and its Subsidiaries for such fiscal year on a quarterly basis and the forecasted Undrawn Availability of Borrowers and Liquidity of Domestic Loan Parties for such fiscal year on a quarterly basis , all prepared on a basis consistent with such Borrower’s historical financial statements, together with appropriate supporting details and a statement of underlying assumptions.
“Properly Contested” shall mean, in the case of any Indebtedness, trade payable, Lien or Taxes, as applicable, of any Person that are not paid as and when due or payable by reason of such Person’s bona fide dispute concerning its liability to pay the same or concerning the amount thereof: (a) such Indebtedness, trade payable, Lien or Taxes, as applicable, are being properly contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings promptly instituted and diligently conducted upon the Person’s actual notice thereof; (b) such Person has established appropriate reserves as shall be required in conformity with GAAP; (c) the non-payment of such Indebtedness, trade payable or Taxes will not have a Material Adverse Effect or will not result in the forfeiture of any assets of such Person; (d) no Lien is imposed upon any of such Person’s assets with respect to such Indebtedness, trade payable or taxes unless such Lien (x) does not attach to any Receivables or Inventory, (y) is at all times junior and subordinate in priority to the Liens in favor of Agent (except only with respect to property taxes that have priority as a matter of applicable state law) and, (z) enforcement of such Lien is stayed during the period prior to the final resolution or disposition of such dispute; and (e) if such Indebtedness or Lien, as applicable, results from, or is determined by the entry, rendition or issuance against a Person or any of its assets of a judgment, writ, order or decree, enforcement of such judgment, writ, order or decree is stayed pending a timely appeal or other judicial review.
“Protective Advances” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 16.2(f) hereof.
“Published Rate” shall mean the rate of interest published each Business Day in the Wall Street Journal “Money Rates” listing under the caption “London Interbank Offered Rates” for a one
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month period (or, if no such rate is published therein for any reason, then the Published Rate shall be the LIBOR Rate for a one month period as published in another publication selected by Agent).
“Purchasing CLO” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 16.3(d) hereof.
“Purchasing Lender” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 16.3(c) hereof.
“Qualified Cash” shall mean, as of any date of determination, the amount of unrestricted cash and Cash Equivalents of Loan Parties held in deposit accounts or securities accounts in the United States which are (i) subject to the perfected first-priority Lien of Agent and (ii) either (x) maintained with Agent or (y) prior to the deadline under clause (y) of Section 8.3(b) for the transfer of the primary cash management accounts and services of Domestic Loan Parties to Agent, subject to a Control Agreement in favor of Agent satisfactory in form and substance to Agent in its Permitted Discretion.
“Qualified ECP Loan Party” shall mean each Loan Party or other Guarantor that on the Eligibility Date is (a) a corporation, partnership, proprietorship, organization, trust, or other entity other than a “commodity pool” as defined in Section 1a(10) of the CEA and CFTC regulations thereunder that has total assets exceeding $10,000,000 or (b) an Eligible Contract Participant that can cause another person to qualify as an Eligible Contract Participant on the Eligibility Date under Section 1a(18)(A)(v)(II) of the CEA by entering into or otherwise providing a “letter of credit or keepwell, support, or other agreement” for purposes of Section 1a(18)(A)(v)(II) of the CEA.
“Quarterly Financials” shall mean, as to any fiscal quarter of Loan Parties, the financial statements, related statements and reports, and related Compliance Certificates required to be delivered by Loan Parties with respect to such fiscal quarter to Agent under Section 9.9 hereof.
“RCRA” shall mean the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, 42 U.S.C. §§ 6901 et seq., as same may be amended, modified or supplemented from time to time.
“Real Property” shall mean all real property assets (whether or not owned in fee, leased or otherwise) of any Loan Party, together with all buildings, fixtures, improvements, leases, licenses, permits and approvals of any Loan Party with respect to any real estate asset, including all of the premises owned and leased by the Loan Parties listed on Schedule 4.4 hereto or hereafter owned or leased by any Loan Party.
“Receivables” shall mean and include, as to any Person, all of such Person’s accounts (as defined in Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code) and all of such Person’s contract rights, instruments (including those evidencing indebtedness owed to such Person by its Affiliates), documents, chattel paper (including electronic chattel paper), general intangibles relating to accounts, contract rights, instruments, documents and chattel paper, and drafts and acceptances, credit card receivables and all other forms of obligations owing to such Person arising out of or in connection with the sale or lease of Inventory or the rendition of services, all supporting obligations, guarantees and other security therefor, whether secured or unsecured, now existing or hereafter created, and whether or not specifically sold or assigned to Agent hereunder. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, Receivables includes all Accounts Receivable and all Export-Related Accounts Receivable and all Export-Related Overseas Accounts Receivable.
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“Refinancing Indebtedness” shall mean any financing, renewal or extension of Indebtedness so long as:
(a)such refinancing, renewal or extension does not result in an increase in the principal amount of the Indebtedness so refinanced, renewed or extended, other than by the amount of premiums paid thereon and the fees and expenses incurred in connection therewith and by the amount of unfunded commitments with respect thereto;
(b)such refinancing, renewal or extension does not result in a shortening of the average weighted maturity (measured as of the date of the refinancing, renewal or extension) of the Indebtedness so refinanced, renewed or extended, and such refinancing, renewal or extension is not on terms or conditions that, taken as a whole, are less favorable to the interests of the Secured Parties than the terms and conditions of the Indebtedness being refinanced, renewed or extended;
(c)if the Indebtedness that is refinanced, renewed or extended was unsecured Indebtedness, then the refinancing, renewal, or extension shall remain unsecured,
(d)if the Indebtedness that is refinanced, renewed or extended was secured Indebtedness, the refinancing, renewal or extension may (but need not) remain secured by Liens on assets of the Companies identical in scope and nature to the Liens on assets of the Companies securing the Indebtedness that is refinanced, renewed or extended that were both (x) in existence and (y) constituted Permitted Encumbrances at the time of such refinancing, renewal or extension,
(d)if the Indebtedness that is refinanced, renewed or extended was subordinated Indebtedness, then the terms and conditions of the refinancing, renewal or extension shall include subordination terms and conditions that are at least as favorable to the Secured Parties as those that were applicable to the refinanced, renewed or extended Indebtedness; and
(e)the Indebtedness that is refinanced, renewed or extended is not recourse to any Person that is liable on account of the Obligations, other than those Persons which were obligated with respect to the Indebtedness that was refinanced, renewed or extended.
“Register” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 16.3(e) hereof.
“Reimbursement Obligation” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2.14(b) hereof.
“Related Equity Interest Rights” shall have the meaning set forth in the definition of “Equity Interests”.
“Related Parties” means, with respect to any Person, such Person’s Affiliates and the partners, directors, officers, employees, agents, trustees, administrators, managers, advisors and representatives of such Person and of such Person’s Affiliates.
“Release” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 5.7(c)(i) hereof.
“Replacement Notice” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 3.11 hereof.
“Reportable Compliance Event” shall mean that any Covered Entity becomes a Sanctioned Person, or is charged by indictment, criminal complaint or similar charging instrument, arraigned, or custodially detained in connection with any Anti-Terrorism Law or any predicate crime to any Anti-Terrorism Law, or has knowledge of facts or circumstances to the effect that it is reasonably
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likely that any aspect of its operations is in actual or probable violation of any Anti-Terrorism Law.
“Reportable ERISA Event” shall mean a reportable event described in Section 4043(c) of ERISA or the regulations promulgated thereunder.
“Required Lenders” shall mean Lenders (not including Swing Loan Lender (in its capacity as such Swing Loan Lender) or any Defaulting Lender) holding more than sixty-six and 66/00 percent (66.66%) of the aggregate of the Revolving Commitment Amounts of all Lenders (excluding any Defaulting Lender) (or, if the Revolving Commitments hereunder have been terminated, the aggregate amount of the outstanding principal balance of all Revolving Advances (other than Revolving Advances held by any Defaulting Lender), the aggregate amount of the outstanding Participation Commitments of all Revolving Lenders (excluding any Defaulting Lender) with respect to all outstanding Swing Loans, and the aggregate amount of the Participation Commitments of all Revolving Lenders (excluding any Defaulting Lender) with respect to the Maximum Undrawn Amount of all outstanding Letters of Credit); provided, however, if there are fewer than three (3) Lenders (excluding any Defaulting Lender), Required Lenders shall mean all Lenders (excluding any Defaulting Lender) and if there are at least two Lenders (excluding any Defaulting Lender), Required Lenders must include at least two (2) Lenders (provided that, for purposes of this proviso, all Lenders that are Affiliates of each other shall be counted together as one Lender).
“Reserve Percentage” shall mean as of any day the maximum effective percentage in effect on such day as prescribed by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (or any successor) for determining the reserve requirements (including supplemental, marginal and emergency reserve requirements) with respect to eurocurrency funding (currently referred to as “Eurocurrency Liabilities”).
“Reserves” shall mean reserves against the Maximum Revolving Advance Amount or the Formula Amount as Agent may reasonably deem proper and necessary from time to time in its Permitted Discretion.
“Restricted Payment” shall mean (a) the declaration or payment of any dividend or the making of any other payment or distribution, directly or indirectly, on account of Equity Interests issued by any Company (including any payment in connection with any merger or consolidation involving any Company) or to the direct or indirect holders of Equity Interests issued by any Company in their capacity as such holders (other than dividends or distributions payable in Qualified Equity Interests issued by Holdings), (b) the purchase, redemption or making of any sinking fund or similar payment, or otherwise acquisition or retirement for value (including in connection with any merger or consolidation involving any Loan Party) of any Equity Interests issued by any Company, or (c) the making of any payment to retire, or to obtain the surrender of, any outstanding warrants, options, or other rights to acquire Equity Interests of any Company now or hereafter outstanding. For the avoidance of doubt, payments and repayments of the Permitted KeyMile Seller Working Capital Indebtedness in accordance with the terms and conditions of the KeyMile Seller Working Capital Facility Agreement as provided for in the exhibits to the KeyMile Purchase Agreement shall not constitute Restricted Payments.
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“Retainage” shall mean that portion of the purchase price of an Export Order that a Buyer is not obligated to pay until the end of a specified period of time following the satisfactory performance under such Export Order.
"Retainage Accounts Receivable" shall have the meaning set forth in the Ex-Im Borrower Agreement.
“Revolving Advances” shall mean all Advances other than Letters of Credit and the Swing Loans, and shall include all Advances made pursuant to Section 2.1 and 2.2 hereof and all Out-of-Formula Loans and Protective Advances, whether funded by Agent or the Revolving Lenders.
“Revolving Commitment” shall mean the obligation of each Revolving Lender to make Revolving Advances and participate in Swing Loans and Letters of Credit in an aggregate principal and/or face amount not to exceed the Revolving Commitment Amount of such Revolving Lender.
“Revolving Commitment Amount” shall mean, as to any Revolving Lender, the revolving loan commitment amount set forth opposite such Revolving Lender’s name on Schedule 1.1 hereto (or, in the case of (x) any Revolving Lender that became party to this Agreement after the Closing Date as a result of any assignment of any Revolving Commitment to such Revolving Lender pursuant to Section 16.3(c) or (d) hereof, the Revolving Commitment Amount of such Revolving Lender as set forth in the applicable Commitment Transfer Supplement, or (y) in the case of any Revolving Lender that become party to this Agreement after the Closing Date as a New Lender pursuant to Section 2.24 hereof, the Revolving Commitment Amount of such Revolving Lender as set forth on Schedule 1.1 hereto as amended and restated at such time in accordance with Section 2.24] hereof); as such Revolving Commitment Amount may be increased or decreased from time to time upon any assignment of any Revolving Commitment by or to such Revolving Lender pursuant to Section 16.3(c) or (d) hereof or any increase of the Revolving Commitment of such Revolving Lenders as an Increasing Lender under and pursuant to Section 2.24 hereof.
“Revolving Commitment Percentage” shall mean, as to any Revolving Lender prior to the termination of the Revolving Commitment of such Revolving Lender and/or the Revolving Commitments of all Revolving Lenders in accordance with the terms hereof, the percentage equal to (a) the Revolving Commitment Amount of such Revolving Lender divided by (b) the Maximum Revolving Advance Amount as in effect at the applicable time of determination.
“Revolving Lender” shall mean each Lender that holds any Revolving Commitment and/or any interest in any Revolving Advances; provided that, each Person that is a Revolving Lender under this Agreement must also be a Domestic Lender under the Domestic Credit Agreement holding a Domestic Revolving Credit Commitment with a Domestic Revolving Credit Percentage corresponding to its Revolving Credit Percentage hereunder.
“Revolving Credit Note” shall mean, collectively, the promissory notes referred to in Section 2.1(a) hereof.
“Revolving Interest Rate” shall mean (a) with respect to (x) Revolving Advances that are Domestic Rate Loans and (y) all Swing Loans, an interest rate per annum equal to the sum of the Applicable Margin plus the Alternate Base Rate, and (b) with respect to Revolving Advances that are accruing interest as a LIBOR Rate Loans for any particular Interest Period, an interest rate per annum equal
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to the sum of the Applicable Margin plus the LIBOR Rate for such LIBOR Rate Loan for such Interest Period.
“Sanctioned Country” shall mean a country subject to a sanctions program maintained under any Anti-Terrorism Law.
“Sanctioned Person” shall mean any individual person, group, regime, entity or thing listed or otherwise recognized as a specially designated, prohibited, sanctioned or debarred person, group, regime, entity or thing, or subject to any limitations or prohibitions (including but not limited to the blocking of property or rejection of transactions), under any Anti-Terrorism Law.
“SEC” shall mean the Securities and Exchange Commission or any successor thereto.
“Secondary Collateral” shall mean all Collateral other than the Export-Related Collateral and Inventory Collateral.
“Secured Loan Parties” shall mean, collectively, all Domestic Loan Parties and all Foreign Secured Loan Parties.
“Secured Parties” shall mean, collectively, Agent, Issuer, Swing Loan Lender and Lenders, together with any Affiliates of Agent or any Lender to whom any Hedge Liabilities or Cash Management Liabilities are owed and with each other holder of any of the Obligations, and the respective successors and assigns of each of them.
“Securities Act” shall mean the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
“Settlement” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2.6(d) hereof.
“Settlement Date” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2.6(d) hereof.
“Special Projects Costs” means, as to any Person, costs associated with or in anticipation of, or preparation for: (a) compliance with the requirements of (i) with the Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act of 2002 and the rules and regulations promulgated in connection therewith, costs relating to compliance with the provisions of the Securities Act and the Exchange Act, as applicable to companies with equity or debt securities held by the public, and the rules of national securities exchanges, as applicable to companies with listed equity or debt securities, listing fees, independent directors’ compensation, fees and expense reimbursement, costs relating to investor relations (including any such costs in the form of investor relations employee compensation), shareholder meetings and reports to shareholders or debtholders, directors’ and officers’ insurance, legal and other professional fees and/or other costs or expenses, in each case, to the extent arising solely as a result of becoming or being a public company; and (ii) ASC Topic 840 or 842; (b) any costs associated with making the Keymile and its Subsidiaries compliant with GAAP; (c) moving the headquarters of DZSI; (d) relocating any testing laboratories of the Loan Parties; and (d) the costs, fees and expenses for the services of any consultants, advisors and other professionals in connection with the foregoing.
“Specified Equity Contribution” shall mean any cash contribution to DZSI in accordance with Section 6.5(d) in exchange for Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Equity Interests).
“Specified Event of Default” shall mean (i) any Event of Default under Section 10.1 hereof, (ii) any Event of Default under Section 10.3 hereof, (iii) any Event of Default under Section 10.7
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hereof, (iv) any Event of Default under Section 10.5 hereof resulting from any breach or violation of or failure to comply with any provision of Sections 6.5, 6.17, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, 7.7, 7.8, 7.10 (but, in the case of Sections 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, and 7.8, only to the extent such breach or violation or failure to comply relates to any guaranty of any Indebtedness, obligation or liability of any Company by another Company, Investment in any Company by another Company, or Loan by any Company to any other Company that is not expressly permitted to be made hereunder), 9.2, 9.7, 9.8, 9.9,and (v) any Event of Default under clause (a) of Section 10.11 as a result of any Domestic Specified Event of Default.
“Subsidiary” shall mean of any Person a corporation or other entity of whose Equity Interests having ordinary voting power (other than Equity Interests having such power only by reason of the happening of a contingency) to elect a majority of the directors of such corporation, or other Persons performing similar functions for such entity, are owned, directly or indirectly, by such Person.
“Subsidiary Stock” shall mean with respect to the Equity Interests issued to a Loan Party by any Subsidiary, 100% of such issued and outstanding Equity Interests; provided that, if (but only to the extent that) a pledge of all and/or any of the particular Equity Interests of the Foreign Subsidiary of a Loan Party shall be prohibited by Applicable Law (as demonstrated by Loan Parties to the reasonable satisfaction of Agent in its Permitted Discretion), the Equity Interests of such Foreign Subsidiary subject to such prohibition shall not constitute Subsidiary Stock. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the parties hereto acknowledge that, due to restrictions under German law regarding creating pledges under German law on the Equity Interests of non-German entities, none of the Equity Interests held by any German Loan Party in any of its Subsidiaries not organized under the laws of Germany shall constitute Subsidiary Stock.
“Surplus Foreign Cash” shall mean, as of any date of determination, the aggregate amount (as demonstrated by Loan Parties to the reasonable satisfaction of Agent in its Permitted Discretion) of the cash and Cash Equivalents of each of the Foreign Subsidiaries of DZSI at such time in excess of (x) the reasonably foreseeable and anticipated cash operating needs of each such Foreign Subsidiary (taking into account reasonably foreseeable and anticipated future cash receipts and revenues of each such Foreign Subsidiary that would reasonably be expected to be available to satisfy such future cash operating needs) and (y) to the extent in excess of the foregoing clause (y), any cash and Cash Equivalents required to be maintained by each such Foreign Subsidiary under (x) any minimum capitalization requirements or other similar Applicable Laws of the jurisdiction of organization of such Foreign Subsidiary or (y) Applicable Laws of the jurisdiction of organization of such Foreign Subsidiary restricting the repatriation of cash or Cash Equivalents outside of such jurisdiction by such Foreign Subsidiary to any of the holders of its Equity Interests.
“Swap” shall mean any “swap” as defined in Section 1a(47) of the CEA and regulations thereunder other than (a) a swap entered into on, or subject to the rules of, a board of trade designated as a contract market under Section 5 of the CEA, or (b) a commodity option entered into pursuant to CFTC Regulation 32.3(a).
“Swap Obligation” shall mean any obligation to pay or perform under any agreement, contract or transaction that constitutes a Swap which is also a Lender-Provided Interest Rate Hedge, or a Lender-Provided Foreign Currency Hedge.
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“Swing Loan Lender” shall mean PNC, in its capacity as lender of the Swing Loans.
“Swing Loan Note” shall mean the promissory note described in Section 2.4(a) hereof.
“Swing Loans” shall mean the Advances made pursuant to Section 2.4 hereof.
“Taxes” shall mean all present or future taxes, levies, imposts, duties, deductions, withholdings, assessments, fees or other charges imposed by any Governmental Body, including any interest, additions to tax or penalties applicable thereto.
“Term” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 13.1 hereof.
“Termination Event” shall mean: (a) a Reportable ERISA Event with respect to any Plan; (b) the withdrawal of any Company or any member of the Controlled Group from a Plan during a plan year in which such entity was a “substantial employer” as defined in Section 4001(a)(2) of ERISA or a cessation of operations that is treated as such a withdrawal under Section 4062(e) of ERISA; (c) the providing of notice of intent to terminate a Plan in a distress termination described in Section 4041(c) of ERISA; (d) the commencement of proceedings by the PBGC to terminate a Plan; (e) any event or condition (i) which might constitute grounds under Section 4042 of ERISA for the termination of, or the appointment of a trustee to administer, any Plan, or (ii) that may result in the termination of a Multiemployer Plan pursuant to Section 4041A of ERISA; (f) the partial or complete withdrawal within the meaning of Section 4203 or 4205 of ERISA, of any Company or any member of the Controlled Group from a Multiemployer Plan; (g) notice that a Multiemployer Plan is subject to Section 4245 of ERISA; or (h) the imposition of any liability under Title IV of ERISA, other than for PBGC premiums due but not delinquent, upon any Company or any member of the Controlled Group.
“Tier I Foreign Material Subsidiary” means, at any date of determination, any Foreign Subsidiary of DSZI (other than DNS Korea or KeyMile) that as of the last day of the most-recently completed fiscal quarter for which Quarterly Statements have been delivered to Agent as required under Section 9.8 hereof (each a “Reference Quarter”), either (x) has EBITDA for the four fiscal quarter measurement period ending with such Reference Quarter (when combined with the EBITDA for the four fiscal quarter measurement period ending with such Reference Quarter of such Subsidiary’s Subsidiaries, after eliminating intercompany obligations) of fifteen percent (15.00%) or more of the EBITDA for Loan Parties on a Consolidated Basis for such period, or (y) has Working Capital Assets (when combined with the Working Capital Assets of such Subsidiary’s Subsidiaries, after eliminating intercompany obligations) as of the last day of such Reference Quarter fifteen percent (15.00%) or more of the Working Capital Assets of Loan Parties on a Consolidated Basis.
“Tier II Foreign Material Subsidiary” means, at any date of determination, any Foreign Subsidiary of DSZI (other than DNS Korea or KeyMile) that as of the last day of the most-recently completed fiscal quarter for which Quarterly Statements have been delivered to Agent as required under Section 9.8 hereof (each a “Reference Quarter”), either (x) has EBITDA for the four fiscal quarter measurement period ending with such Reference Quarter (when combined with the EBITDA for the four fiscal quarter measurement period ending with such Reference Quarter of such Subsidiary’s Subsidiaries, after eliminating intercompany obligations) of five percent (5.00%) or more of the EBITDA for Loan Parties on a Consolidated Basis for such period, or (y) has Working
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Capital Assets (when combined with the Working Capital Assets of such Subsidiary’s Subsidiaries, after eliminating intercompany obligations) as of the last day of such Reference Quarter five percent (5.00%) or more of the Working Capital Assets of Loan Parties on a Consolidated Basis.
“Total Borrowing Availability” shall mean, at any time of determination, the lesser of (i) the Domestic Maximum Revolving Advance Amount as in effect at such time, less Domestic Reserves established under the Domestic Credit Agreement as in effect at such time, less Reserves established hereunder as in effect at such time, or (ii) the sum of (x) the Domestic Formula Amount (calculated without giving effect to or making any deduction therefrom with respect to Section 2.1(a)(y)(iii) of the Domestic Credit Agreement) as in effect at such time plus (y) the lesser of (I) the Formula Amount (calculated without giving effect to or making any deduction therefrom with respect to Section 2.1(a)(y)(iii) hereof) as in effect at such time or (II) the Maximum Revolving Advance Amount as in effect at such time.
“Total Ex-Im Borrowing Availability” shall mean, at any time of determination, the lesser of (i) the Maximum Revolving Advance Amount as in effect at such time, less Reserves established hereunder as in effect at such time, less the Domestic Excess Amount at such time (with such Domestic Excess Amount at such time calculated with duplication of Reserves established hereunder as in effect at such time), or (ii) the Formula Amount (calculated without giving effect to or making any deduction therefrom with respect to Section 2.1(a)(y)(iii) hereof) as in effect at such time.
“Toxic Substance” shall mean and include any material present on any Real Property (including the Leasehold Interests) which has been shown to have significant adverse effect on human health or which is subject to regulation under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), 15 U.S.C. §§ 2601 et seq., applicable state law, or any other applicable Federal or state laws now in force or hereafter enacted relating to toxic substances. “Toxic Substance” includes but is not limited to asbestos, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and lead-based paints.
“Transactions” shall mean the transactions to occur on or about the Closing Date under and/or as contemplated by this Agreement, the Other Document, the Domestic Credit Agreement and the Domestic Other Documents, the incurrence of the Domestic Term Loan, the incurrence of initial Advances hereunder, and the incurrence of initial Domestic Revolving Advances and issuance of the initial Domestic Letters of Credit under the Domestic Credit Agreement, and the repayment of the Existing Xxxxx Fargo Debt referenced in Section 8.1(o) and other repayments of Indebtedness contemplated by Section 2.21(a) hereof.
“Transferee” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 16.3(d) hereof.
“Undrawn Availability” shall mean “Undrawn Availability” as defined in the Domestic Credit Agreement.
“Unfunded Capital Expenditures” shall mean, as to any Company, without duplication, a Capital Expenditure funded (a) from such Loan Party’s internally generated cash flow or (b) with the proceeds of a Revolving Advance or Swing Loan.
“Uniform Commercial Code” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 1.3 hereof.
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“USA PATRIOT Act” shall mean the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001, Public Law 107-56, as the same has been, or shall hereafter be, amended, modified, renewed, extended or replaced.
"U.S." or "United States" shall mean the United States of America including any division or agency thereof (including United States embassies or United States military bases located overseas), and any United States Territory (including without limitation, Puerto Rico, Guam or the United States Virgin Islands).
“U.S. Content” shall mean, with respect to any Item, all the costs, including labor, materials, services and overhead, but not markup or profit margin, which are of U.S. origin or manufacture, and which are incorporated into an Item in the United States.
"Warranty" shall mean any Borrower’s guarantee to a Buyer that the Items will function as intended during the warranty period set forth in the applicable Export Order.
"Warranty Letter of Credit" shall mean (x) a Letter of Credit which is a “Standby Letter of Credit” (as defined in the Ex-Im Borrower Agreement) which is issued or caused to be issued by Issuer to support the obligations of a Borrower with respect to a Warranty or (y) Letter of Credit which is a “Standby Letter of Credit” (as defined in the Ex-Im Borrower Agreement) which by its terms becomes a Warranty Letter of Credit; provided that, the parties hereto acknowledge that (x) as of the Closing Date, the Ex-Im Bank has not approved the issuance of any Warranty Letters of Credit under the Ex-Im Subfacility provided for under this Agreement, and (y) no Warranty Letters of Credit may be issued hereunder (and Issuer shall have no obligation to issue any such Warranty Letter of Credit and no Loan Party shall have any right to request any such Warranty Letter of Credit or to have any such Warranty Letter of Credit issued hereunder) unless and until the Ex-Im Bank shall approve the issuance of Warranty Letters of Credit hereunder in writing pursuant to an Ex-Im Waiver issued by the Ex-Im Bank in its sole discretion following the Closing Date.
“Xxxxx Fargo Ex-Im Subfacility Credit Agreement” shall mean that certain Amended and Restated Credit and Security Agreement, dated as of July 12, 2018, among Borrowers, certain Subsidiaries of Borrowers party thereto, as guarantors, and Xxxxx Fargo Bank, National Association, as Lender, as amended, restated, supplemented and otherwise modified from time to time.
“Valuation Date” shall mean, with respect to any Foreign Currency Letter of Credit or any Ex-Im Foreign Currency Letter of Credit, each of the following: (i) each date of issuance of such Foreign Currency Letter of Credit or Ex-Im Foreign Currency Letter of Credit, (ii) each date of an amendment of Foreign Currency Letter of Credit or Ex-Im Foreign Currency Letter of Credit having the effect of increasing the amount thereof (solely with respect to the increased amount), (iii) each date of any payment by the applicable Issuer under such Foreign Currency Letter of Credit or Ex-Im Foreign Currency Letter of Credit, (iv) the date any Borrowing Base Certificate is delivered, and (v) such additional dates as the Agent or the Issuer shall determine in its Permitted Discretion or the Required Lenders shall require in their Permitted Discretion.
“Xxxxx Fargo Payoff Letter” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 8.1(o)(i).
"Working Capital Assets" shall mean, collectively as to any Person, the Receivables, Inventory, and unrestricted cash and unrestricted Cash Equivalents of such Person; provided that,
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for any calculation/determination as to whether any Foreign Subsidiary organized under the laws of the Republic of India is a Tier I Foreign Material Subsidiary or a Tier II Foreign Material Subsidiary, when determining the amount of the Working Capital Assets of such Indian Subsidiary (but not the amount of the Working Capital Assets of Loan Parties on a Consolidated Basis ), Working Capital Asset shall consist only of the unrestricted cash and unrestricted Cash Equivalents of such Indian Subsidiary.
“Write-Down and Conversion Powers” means, with respect to any EEA Resolution Authority, the write-down and conversion powers of such EEA Resolution Authority from time to time under the Bail-In Legislation for the applicable EEA Member Country, which write-down and conversion powers are described in the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule.
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an Event of Default shall “continue” or be “continuing” until such Event of Default has been waived in writing by Required Lenders. Any Lien referred to in this Agreement or any of the Other Documents as having been created in favor of Agent, any agreement entered into by Agent pursuant to this Agreement or any of the Other Documents, any payment made by or to or funds received by Agent pursuant to or as contemplated by this Agreement or any of the Other Documents, or any act taken or omitted to be taken by Agent, shall, unless otherwise expressly provided, be created, entered into, made or received, or taken or omitted, for the benefit or account of Agent and Lenders. Wherever the phrase “to the best of Loan Parties’ knowledge” or words of similar import relating to the knowledge or the awareness of any Loan Party are used in this Agreement or Other Documents, such phrase shall mean and refer to (i) the actual knowledge of a senior officer of any Loan Party or (ii) the knowledge that a senior officer would have obtained if he/she had engaged in a good faith and diligent performance of his/her duties, including the making of such reasonably specific inquiries as may be necessary of the employees or agents of such Loan Party and a good faith attempt to ascertain the existence or accuracy of the matter to which such phrase relates. All covenants hereunder shall be given independent effect so that if a particular action or condition is not permitted by any of such covenants, the fact that it would be permitted by an exception to, or otherwise within the limitations of, another covenant shall not avoid the occurrence of a default if such action is taken or condition exists. In addition, all representations and warranties hereunder shall be given independent effect so that if a particular representation or warranty proves to be incorrect or is breached, the fact that another representation or warranty concerning the same or similar subject matter is correct or is not breached will not affect the incorrectness of a breach of a representation or warranty hereunder. |
(i)up to ninety percent (90%), subject to the provisions of Section 2.1(b) hereof, of the Dollar Equivalent of the Export-Related Account Receivable Value of Eligible Export-Related Accounts Receivable that are denominated in Dollars, plus
(ii)the sum of (A) up to ninety percent (90%), subject to the provisions of Section 2.1(b) hereof, of the Dollar Equivalent of the Export-Related Account Receivable Value of Eligible Export-Related Accounts Receivable that are denominated in an Approved Ex-Im Currency to the extent that the foreign currency exchange risks to
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Borrowers and Lenders are adequately covered by Foreign Currency Hedge(s) in accordance with the requirements of the Ex-Im Bank as set forth in item #5 of the Ex-Im Waiver letter dated December 7, 2018, and (B) up to seventy percent (70%), subject to the provisions of Section 2.1(b) hereof, of the Dollar Equivalent of the Export-Related Account Receivable Value of Eligible Export-Related Accounts Receivable that are denominated in an Approved Ex-Im Currency to the extent that the foreign currency exchange risks to Borrowers and Lenders are not adequately covered by Foreign Currency Hedge(s) in accordance with the requirements of the Ex-Im Bank, minus
(iii)an amount equal to the sum of (x) ten percent (10%) of the Dollar Equivalent of the aggregate Maximum Undrawn Amount of all outstanding Letters of Credit (other than any Warranty Letters of Credit) and (y) in the event that, at any time following the Closing Date, the issuance of Warranty Letters of Credit is permitted hereunder, one hundred percent (100%) of the Dollar Equivalent of the aggregate Maximum Undrawn Amount of all outstanding Warranty Letters of Credit, minus
(iv)Reserves established hereunder, specifically including but not limited to any reserves to reflect the risks, as determined by Agent in its Permitted Discretion, of currency exchange rate fluctuations with respect to any of the Approved Ex-Im Currencies in which the Eligible Export-Related Accounts Receivable are denominated and/or any of the Approved LC Foreign Currencies in which any Foreign Currency Letters of Credit are denominated (provided that, no Reserve for currency exchange rate Reserves shall be established with respect to Eligible Export-Related Accounts Receivable denominated in any Approved Ex-Im Currencies and/or Foreign Currency Letters of Credit to the extent that Borrowers have entered into appropriate Foreign Currency Xxxxxx to protect against such risks).
The amount derived from the sum of (x) Sections 2.1(a)(y)(i) and (ii) above minus (y) Sections 2.1(a)(y)(iii) and (iv) above at any time and from time to time shall be referred to as the “Formula Amount”. The Revolving Advances shall be evidenced by one or more secured promissory notes (collectively, the “Revolving Credit Note”) substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit 2.1. Notwithstanding the foregoing or otherwise in this Agreement, (A) the aggregate principal amount of Swing Loans and the Revolving Advances at any one time outstanding plus the Dollar Equivalent of the Maximum Undrawn Amount of all Letters of Credit outstanding at such time shall not exceed the Total Ex-Im Borrowing Availability at such time, and (B) the aggregate principal amount of Swing Loans and the Revolving Advances at any one time outstanding plus the Dollar Equivalent of the Maximum Undrawn Amount of all Letters of Credit outstanding at such time, plus the Domestic Outstandings Amount at such time shall not the Total Borrowing Availability at such time.
For purposes of calculating the Dollar Equivalent of the aggregate Maximum Undrawn Amount of all outstanding Foreign Currency Letters of Credit, the Formula Amount, the Total Ex-Im Borrowing Availability, the Total Borrowing Availability, or Domestic Outstandings Amount at any time/as of any date for any purpose under this Agreement (including, without limitation, Sections 2.4, 2.7, 2.9, or 2.11(a) hereof) or the Domestic Agreement, the Dollar Equivalent of
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each Foreign Currency Letter of Credit and each Domestic Foreign Currency Letter of Credit at such time/as of such date shall be the Dollar Equivalent of each such Foreign Currency Letter of Credit and each such Domestic Foreign Currency Letter of Credit as of the most recent Valuation Date.
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Indirect Exports. Borrowers acknowledge that, notwithstanding anything to the contrary provided for in any other provision of this Agreement or any Other Document, Indirect Exports not may be included as Items under this loan facility, and Export Related Accounts Receivable in connection with the sale of such Indirect Imports may not be included in the Formula Amount, except as and to the extent permitted by Section 2.15 of the Export-Import Borrower Agreement. |
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Procedures for Requesting Revolving Advances; Procedures for Selection of Applicable Interest Rates for All Advances. |
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succeeding Business Day unless such day falls in the next succeeding calendar month in which case the Interest Period shall end on the next preceding Business Day. Any Interest Period that begins on the last Business Day of a calendar month (or a day for which there is no numerically corresponding day in the last calendar month of such Interest Period) shall end on the last Business Day of the last calendar month of such Interest Period. Upon and after the occurrence of an Event of Default, and during the continuation thereof, at the option of Agent or at the direction of the Required Lenders, no LIBOR Rate Loan shall be made available to any Borrower, and at Agent’s election, or the direction of the Required Lenders, and upon notice to Borrowing Agent, all LIBOR Rate Loans in effect during an Event of Default shall be converted to Domestic Rate Loans. After giving effect to each requested LIBOR Rate Loan, including those which are converted from a Domestic Rate Loan under Section 2.2(e), there shall not be outstanding more than three (3) Eurodollar Rate Loans, in the aggregate, under the Domestic Credit Agreement or more than two (2) Eurodollar Rate Loans, in the aggregate, under this Credit Agreement. |
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Each Interest Period of a LIBOR Rate Loan shall commence on the date such LIBOR Rate Loan is made and shall end on such date as Borrowing Agent may elect as set forth in subsection (b)(iii) above, provided that the exact length of each Interest Period shall be determined in accordance with the practice of the interbank market for offshore Dollar deposits and no Interest Period shall end after the last day of the Term. |
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Borrowing Agent shall elect the initial Interest Period applicable to a LIBOR Rate Loan by its notice of borrowing given to Agent pursuant to Section 2.2(b) hereof or by its notice of conversion given to Agent pursuant to Section 2.2(e) hereof, as the case may be. Borrowing Agent shall elect the duration of each succeeding Interest Period by giving irrevocable written notice to Agent of such duration not later than 2:00 p.m. on the day which is three (3) Business Days prior to the last day of the then current Interest Period applicable to such LIBOR Rate Loan. If Agent does not receive timely notice of the Interest Period elected by Borrowing Agent, Borrowing Agent shall be deemed to have elected to convert such LIBOR Rate Loan to a Domestic Rate Loan as of the last day of the Interest Period applicable to such LIBOR Rate Loan subject to Section 2.2(e) below. |
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Provided that no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, Borrowing Agent may, on the last Business Day of the then current Interest Period applicable to any outstanding LIBOR Rate Loan, or on any Business Day with respect to Domestic Rate Loans, convert any such loan into a loan of another type in the same aggregate principal amount provided that any conversion of a LIBOR Rate Loan shall be made only on the last Business Day of the then current Interest Period applicable to such LIBOR Rate Loan. If Borrowing Agent desires to convert a loan, Borrowing Agent shall give Agent written notice by no later than 2:00 p.m. (i) on the day which is three (3) Business Days prior to the date on which such conversion is to occur with respect to a conversion from a Domestic Rate Loan to a LIBOR Rate Loan, or (ii) on the day which is one (1) Business Day prior to the date on which such conversion is to occur (which date shall be the last Business Day of the Interest Period for the applicable LIBOR Rate Loan) with respect to a conversion from a LIBOR Rate Loan to a Domestic Rate Loan, specifying, in each case, the date of such conversion, the loans to be converted and if the conversion is to a LIBOR Rate Loan, the duration of the first Interest Period therefor. |
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Each Borrower shall indemnify Agent and Lenders and hold Agent and Lenders harmless from and against any and all losses or expenses that Agent and Lenders may sustain or incur as a consequence of any prepayment, conversion of or any default by any Borrower in the payment of the principal of or interest on any LIBOR Rate Loan or failure by Borrowers to complete a borrowing of, a prepayment of or conversion of or to a LIBOR Rate Loan after notice thereof has been given, including, but not limited to, any interest payable by Agent or Lenders to lenders of funds obtained by it in order to make or maintain its LIBOR Rate Loans hereunder. A certificate as to any additional amounts payable pursuant to the foregoing sentence submitted by Agent or any Lender to Borrowing Agent shall be conclusive absent manifest error. |
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Notwithstanding any other provision hereof, if any Applicable Law, treaty, regulation or directive, or any change therein or in the interpretation or application thereof, including without limitation any Change in Law, shall make it unlawful for Lenders or any Lender (for purposes of this subsection (h), the term “Lender” shall include any Lender and the office or branch where any Lender or any Person controlling such Lender makes or maintains any LIBOR Rate Loans) to make or maintain its LIBOR Rate Loans, the obligation of Lenders (or such affected Lender) to make LIBOR Rate Loans hereunder shall forthwith be cancelled and Borrowers shall, if any affected LIBOR Rate Loans are then outstanding, promptly upon request from Agent, either pay all such affected LIBOR Rate Loans or convert such affected LIBOR Rate Loans into loans of another type. If any such payment or conversion of any LIBOR Rate Loan is made on a day that is not the last day of the Interest Period applicable to such LIBOR Rate Loan, Borrowers shall pay Agent, upon Agent’s request, such amount or amounts set forth in clause (g) above. A certificate as to any additional amounts payable pursuant to the foregoing sentence submitted by Lenders to Borrowing Agent shall be conclusive absent manifest error. |
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Subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, and in order to minimize the transfer of funds between Revolving Lenders and Agent for administrative convenience, Agent, Revolving Lenders and Swing Loan Lender agree that in order to facilitate the administration of this Agreement, Swing Loan Lender may, at its election and option made in its sole discretion cancelable at any time for any reason whatsoever, make swing loan advances (“Swing Loans”) available to Borrowers as provided for in this Section 2.4 at any time or from time to time after the Closing Date to, but not including, the last day of the Term, in an aggregate principal amount up to but not in excess of the Maximum Swing Loan Advance Amount, provided that the aggregate principal amount of Swing Loans and the Revolving Advances at any one time outstanding plus the Dollar Equivalent of the Maximum Undrawn Amount of all Letters of Credit outstanding at such time shall not exceed the Total Ex-Im Borrowing Availability at such time. All Swing Loans shall be Domestic Rate Loans only. Borrowers may borrow (at the option and election of Swing Loan Lender), repay and reborrow (at the option and election of Swing Loan Lender) Swing Loans and Swing Loan Lender may make Swing Loans as provided in this Section 2.4 during the period between Settlement Dates. All Swing Loans shall be evidenced by a secured promissory note (the “Swing Loan Note”) substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit 2.4. Swing Loan Lender’s agreement to make Swing Loans under this Agreement is cancelable at any time for any reason whatsoever and the making of Swing Loans by Swing Loan Lender from time to time shall not create any duty or obligation, or establish any course of conduct, pursuant to which Swing Loan Lender shall thereafter be obligated to make Swing Loans in the future.
(a)Subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, and in order to minimize the transfer of funds between Revolving Lenders and Agent for administrative convenience, Agent, Revolving Lenders and Swing Loan Lender agree that in order to facilitate the administration of this Agreement, Swing Loan Lender may, at its election and option made in its sole discretion cancelable at any time for any reason whatsoever, make swing loan advances (“Swing Loans”) available to Borrowers as provided for in this Section 2.4 at any time or from time to time after the Closing Date to, but not including, the last day of the Term, in an aggregate principal amount up to but not in excess of the Maximum Swing Loan Advance Amount, provided that the aggregate principal amount of Swing Loans and the Revolving Advances at any one time outstanding plus the Dollar Equivalent of the Maximum Undrawn Amount of all Letters of Credit outstanding at such time shall not exceed the Total Ex-Im Borrowing Availability at such time. All Swing Loans shall be Domestic Rate Loans only. Borrowers may borrow (at the option and election of Swing Loan Lender), repay and reborrow (at the option and election of Swing Loan Lender) Swing Loans and Swing Loan Lender may make Swing Loans as provided in this Section 2.4 during the period between Settlement Dates. All Swing Loans shall be evidenced by a secured promissory note (the “Swing Loan Note”) substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit 2.4. Swing Loan Lender’s agreement to make Swing Loans under this Agreement is cancelable at any time for any reason whatsoever and the making of Swing Loans by Swing Loan Lender from time to time shall not create any duty or obligation, or establish any course of conduct, pursuant to which Swing Loan Lender shall thereafter be obligated to make Swing Loans in the future.
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Upon either (x) any request by Borrowing Agent for a Revolving Advance made pursuant to Section 2.2(a) hereof or (y) the occurrence of any deemed request by Borrowers for a Revolving Advance pursuant to the provisions of Section 2.2(a) hereof, Swing Loan Lender may elect, in its sole discretion, to have such request or deemed request treated as a request for a Swing Loan, and may advance same day funds to Borrowers as a Swing Loan; provided that notwithstanding anything to the contrary provided for herein, Swing Loan Lender may not make Swing Loan Advances if Swing Loan Lender has been notified by Agent or by Required Lenders that one or more of the applicable conditions set forth in Section 8.2 hereof have not been satisfied or the Revolving Commitments have been terminated for any reason. |
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Each borrowing of Revolving Advances shall be advanced according to the applicable Revolving Commitment Percentages of the respective Revolving Lenders (subject to any contrary terms of Section 2.22 hereof). Each borrowing of Swing Loans shall be advanced by the Swing Loan Lender alone. |
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Lender on such borrowing date, and such Revolving Lender shall be subject to the repayment obligation in Section 2.6(c) hereof. |
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on such Settlement Date, Agent shall be entitled to recover such amount on demand from such Revolving Lender together with interest thereon as specified in Section 2.6(c) hereof. |
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Each Borrower recognizes that the amounts evidenced by checks, notes, drafts or any other items of payment relating to and/or proceeds of Collateral may not be collectible by Agent on the date received by Agent. Agent shall conditionally credit Borrowers’ Account for each item of payment on the next Business Day after the Business Day on which such item of payment is received by Agent (and the Business Day on which each such item of payment is so credited shall be referred to, with respect to such item, as the “Application Date”). Agent is not, however, required to credit Borrowers’ Account for the amount of any item of payment which is unsatisfactory to Agent and Agent may charge Borrowers’ Account for the amount of any item of payment which is returned, for any reason whatsoever, to Agent unpaid. Subject to the foregoing, Borrowers agree that for purposes of computing the interest charges under this Agreement, each item of payment received by Agent shall be deemed applied by Agent on account of the Obligations on its respective Application Date. Borrowers further agree that there is a monthly float charge payable to Agent for Agent’s sole benefit, in an amount equal to (y) the face amount of all items of payment received during the prior month (including items of payment received by Agent as a wire transfer or electronic depository check) multiplied by (z) the Revolving Interest Rate with respect to Domestic Rate Loans for one (1) Business Day. All proceeds received by Agent shall be applied to the Obligations in accordance with Section 4.8(h) hereof. |
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All payments of principal, interest and other amounts payable hereunder, or under any of the Other Documents shall be made to Agent at the Payment Office not later than 2:00 p.m. on the due date therefor in Dollars in federal funds or other funds immediately available to Agent. Agent shall have the right to effectuate payment of any and all Obligations due and owing hereunder by charging Borrowers’ Account or by making Advances as provided in Section 2.2 hereof. |
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Except as expressly provided herein, all payments (including prepayments) to be made by Borrowers on account of principal, interest, fees and other amounts payable hereunder shall be made without deduction, setoff or counterclaim and shall be made to Agent on behalf of Lenders to the Payment Office, in each case on or prior to 2:00 p.m., in Dollars and in immediately available funds. |
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principal amount of Swing Loans and the Revolving Advances at any one time outstanding plus the Dollar Equivalent of the Maximum Undrawn Amount of all Letters of Credit outstanding at such time exceeds the Total Ex-Im Borrowing Availability at such time, or (B) the aggregate principal amount of Swing Loans and the Revolving Advances at any one time outstanding plus the Dollar Equivalent of the Maximum Undrawn Amount of all Letters of Credit outstanding at such time, plus the Domestic Outstandings Amount at such time exceeds the Total Borrowing Availability at such time), such excess Advances shall be immediately due and payable without the necessity of any demand, at the Payment Office, whether or not a Default or an Event of Default has occurred. |
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Borrowing Agent, on behalf of any Borrower, may request any Issuer to issue or cause the issuance of a Letter of Credit by delivering to Issuer, with a copy to Agent at the Payment Office, prior to 2:00 p.m., at least five (5) Business Days prior to the proposed date of issuance, such Issuer’s form of Letter of Credit Application (the “Letter of Credit Application”) completed to the satisfaction of Agent and Issuer; and, such other certificates, documents and other papers and information as Agent or Issuer may reasonably request. Issuer shall not issue any requested Letter of Credit if such Issuer has received notice from Agent or any Lender that one or more of the applicable conditions set forth in Section 8.2 hereof have not been satisfied or the Revolving Commitments have been terminated for any reason. |
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by Issuer, and each trade Letter of Credit shall be subject to the UCP. In addition, no trade Letter of Credit may permit the presentation of an ocean xxxx of lading that includes a condition that the original xxxx of lading is not required to claim the goods shipped thereunder. |
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Agent shall use its reasonable efforts to notify Lenders of the request by Borrowing Agent for a Letter of Credit hereunder. |
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Borrowing Agent shall authorize and direct any Issuer to name the applicable Borrower as the “Applicant” or “Account Party” of each Letter of Credit. If Agent is not Issuer of any Letter of Credit, Borrowing Agent shall authorize and direct Issuer to deliver to Agent all agreements, documents, instruments and property received by Issuer pursuant to such Letter of Credit and to accept and rely upon Agent’s instructions and agreements with respect to all matters arising in connection with such Letter of Credit, and the application therefor. |
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In connection with all trade Letters of Credit issued or caused to be issued by Issuer under this Agreement, each Loan Party hereby appoints Issuer, or its designee, as its attorney, with full power and authority if an Event of Default shall have occurred: (i) to sign and/or endorse such Loan Party’s name upon any warehouse or other receipts, and acceptances; (ii) to sign such Loan Party’s name on bills of lading; (iii) to clear Inventory through the United States of America Customs Department (“Customs”) in the name of such Loan Party or Issuer or Issuer’s designee, and to sign and deliver to Customs officials powers of attorney in the name of such Loan Party for such purpose; and (iv) to complete in such Loan Party’s name or Issuer’s, or in the name of Issuer’s designee, any order, sale or transaction, obtain the necessary documents in connection therewith, and collect the proceeds thereof. Neither Agent, Issuer nor their attorneys will be liable for any acts or omissions nor for any error of judgment or mistakes of fact or law, except for Agent’s, Issuer’s or their respective attorney’s willful misconduct. This power, being coupled with an interest, is irrevocable as long as any Letters of Credit remain outstanding. |
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Immediately upon the issuance of each Letter of Credit, each Revolving Lender shall be deemed to, and hereby irrevocably and unconditionally agrees to, purchase from Issuer a participation in each Letter of Credit and each drawing thereunder in an amount equal to such Lender’s Revolving Commitment Percentage of the Dollar Equivalent of the Maximum Undrawn Amount of such Letter of Credit (as in effect from time to time) and the amount of such drawing, respectively. |
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amount so paid by Issuer (the “Dollar Equivalent Drawing Amount”). In the event Borrowers fail to reimburse Issuer for the full Dollar Equivalent Drawing Amount of any drawing under any Letter of Credit by 2:00 p.m. on the Drawing Date, Issuer will promptly notify Agent and each Revolving Lender thereof, and Borrowers shall be automatically deemed to have requested that a Revolving Advance in Dollars in the amount of the applicable Dollar Equivalent Drawing Amount maintained as a Domestic Rate Loan be made by Lenders to be disbursed on the Drawing Date under such Letter of Credit, and Revolving Lenders shall be unconditionally obligated to fund such Revolving Advance (all whether or not the conditions specified in Section 8.2 hereof are then satisfied or the Revolving Commitments have been terminated for any reason) as provided for in Section 2.14(c) hereof. Any notice given by Issuer pursuant to this Section 2.14(b) may be oral if promptly confirmed in writing; provided that the lack of such a confirmation shall not affect the conclusiveness or binding effect of such notice. |
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Each Revolving Lender shall upon any notice pursuant to Section 2.14(b) hereof make available to Issuer through Agent at the Payment Office an amount in immediately available funds equal to its Revolving Commitment Percentage (subject to any contrary provisions of Section 2.22 hereof) of the Dollar Equivalent Drawing Amount, whereupon the participating Lenders shall (subject to Section 2.14(d) hereof) each be deemed to have made a Revolving Advance in Dollars maintained as a Domestic Rate Loan to Borrowers in that amount. If any Revolving Lender so notified fails to make available to Agent, for the benefit of Issuer, the amount of such Lender’s Revolving Commitment Percentage of such Dollar Equivalent Drawing Amount by 5:00 p.m. on the Drawing Date, then interest shall accrue on such Lender’s obligation to make such payment, from the Drawing Date to the date on which such Lender makes such payment (i) at a rate per annum equal to the Federal Funds Effective Rate during the first three (3) days following the Drawing Date and (ii) at a rate per annum equal to the rate applicable to Revolving Advances maintained as a Domestic Rate Loan on and after the fourth day following the Drawing Date. Agent and Issuer will promptly give notice of the occurrence of the Drawing Date, but failure of Agent or Issuer to give any such notice on the Drawing Date or in sufficient time to enable any Revolving Lender to effect such payment on such date shall not relieve such Lender from its obligations under this Section 2.14(c), provided that such Lender shall not be obligated to pay interest as provided in this Section 2.14(c) until and commencing from the date of receipt of notice from Agent or Issuer of a drawing. |
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Section 2.14(c) hereof shall be deemed to be a payment in respect of its participation in such Letter of Credit Borrowing and shall constitute a “Participation Advance” from such Lender in satisfaction of its Participation Commitment in respect of the applicable Letter of Credit under this Section 2.14. |
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Each applicable Lender’s Participation Commitment in respect of the Letters of Credit shall continue until the last to occur of any of the following events: (x) Issuer ceases to be obligated to issue or cause to be issued Letters of Credit hereunder; (y) no Letter of Credit issued or created hereunder remains outstanding and uncancelled; and (z) all Persons (other than Borrowers) have been fully reimbursed for all payments made under or relating to Letters of Credit. |
(a) |
Upon (and only upon) receipt by Agent for the account of Issuer of immediately available funds in Dollars from Borrowers (i) in reimbursement of any payment made by Issuer or Agent under the Letter of Credit with respect to which any Lender has made a Participation Advance to Agent, or (ii) in payment of interest on such a payment made by Issuer or Agent under such a Letter of Credit, Agent will pay to each Revolving Lender, in the same funds as those received by Agent, the amount of such Lender’s Revolving Commitment Percentage of such funds, except Agent shall retain the amount of the Revolving Commitment Percentage of such funds of any Revolving Lender that did not make a Participation Advance in respect of such payment by Agent (and, to the extent that any of the other Revolving Lenders have funded any portion such Defaulting Lender’s Participation Advance in accordance with the provisions of Section 2.22 hereof, Agent will pay over to such Non-Defaulting Lenders a pro rata portion of the funds so withheld from such Defaulting Lender). |
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If Issuer or Agent is required at any time to return to any Loan Party, or to a trustee, receiver, liquidator, custodian, or any official in any Insolvency Proceeding, any portion of the payments made by Borrowers or any other Loan Party to Issuer or Agent pursuant to Section 2.15(a) hereof in reimbursement of a payment made under the Letter of Credit or interest or fee thereon, each applicable Lender shall, on demand of Agent, forthwith return to Issuer or Agent the amount of its Revolving Commitment Percentage of any amounts so returned by Issuer or Agent plus interest at the Federal Funds Effective Rate. |
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(i)any set-off, counterclaim, recoupment, defense or other right which such Lender or any Loan Party, as the case may be, may have against Issuer, Agent, any Loan Party or Lender, as the case may be, or any other Person for any reason whatsoever;
(ii)the failure of any Borrower or any other Person to comply, in connection with a Letter of Credit Borrowing, with the conditions set forth in this Agreement for the making of a Revolving Advance, it being acknowledged that such conditions are not required for the making of a Letter of Credit Borrowing and the obligation of Lenders to make Participation Advances under Section 2.14 hereof;
(iii)any lack of validity or enforceability of any Letter of Credit;
(iv)any claim of breach of warranty that might be made by any Loan Party, Agent, Issuer or any Lender against the beneficiary of a Letter of Credit, or the existence of any claim, set-off, recoupment, counterclaim, cross-claim, defense or other right which any Loan Party, Agent, Issuer or any Lender may have at any time against a beneficiary, any successor beneficiary or any transferee of any Letter of Credit or assignee of the proceeds thereof (or any Persons for whom any such transferee or assignee may be acting), Issuer, Agent or any Lender or any other Person, whether in connection with this Agreement, the transactions contemplated herein or any unrelated transaction (including any underlying transaction between any Loan Party or any Subsidiaries of such Loan Party and the beneficiary for which any Letter of Credit was procured);
(v)the lack of power or authority of any signer of (or any defect in or forgery of any signature or endorsement on) or the form of or lack of validity, sufficiency, accuracy, enforceability or genuineness of any draft, demand, instrument, certificate or other document presented under or in connection with any Letter of Credit, or any fraud or alleged fraud in connection with any Letter of Credit, or the transport of any property or provision of services relating to a Letter of Credit, in each case even if Issuer or any of Issuer’s Affiliates has been notified thereof;
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(vi)payment by Issuer under any Letter of Credit against presentation of a demand, draft or certificate or other document which is forged or does not fully comply with the terms of such Letter of Credit (provided that the foregoing shall not excuse Issuer from any obligation under the terms of any applicable Letter of Credit to require the presentation of documents that on their face appear to satisfy any applicable requirements for drawing under such Letter of Credit prior to honoring or paying any such draw);
(vii)the solvency of, or any acts or omissions by, any beneficiary of any Letter of Credit, or any other Person having a role in any transaction or obligation relating to a Letter of Credit, or the existence, nature, quality, quantity, condition, value or other characteristic of any property or services relating to a Letter of Credit;
(viii)any failure by Issuer or any of Issuer’s Affiliates to issue any Letter of Credit in the form requested by Borrowing Agent, unless Agent and Issuer have each received written notice from Borrowing Agent of such failure within three (3) Business Days after Issuer shall have provided Agent and Borrowing Agent a copy of such Letter of Credit and such error is material and no drawing has been made thereon prior to receipt of such notice;
(ix)the occurrence of any Material Adverse Effect;
(x)any breach of this Agreement or any Other Document by any party thereto;
(xi)the occurrence or continuance of an Insolvency Proceeding with respect to any Loan Party;
(xii)the fact that a Default or an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing;
(xiii)the fact that the Term shall have expired or this Agreement or the Commitments have been terminated;
(xiv)with respect to any Foreign Currency Letter of Credit, any fluctuation in the Exchange Rates between Dollars and the Approved LC Foreign Currency in which such Foreign Currency Letter of Credit over time and from time to time is denominated; and
(xv)any other circumstance or happening whatsoever, whether or not similar to any of the foregoing.
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foregoing, Issuer shall not be responsible for: (i) the form, validity, sufficiency, accuracy, genuineness or legal effect of any document submitted by any party in connection with the application for an issuance of any such Letter of Credit, even if it should in fact prove to be in any or all respects invalid, insufficient, inaccurate, fraudulent or forged (even if Issuer or any of its Affiliates shall have been notified thereof); (ii) the validity or sufficiency of any instrument transferring or assigning or purporting to transfer or assign any such Letter of Credit or the rights or benefits thereunder or proceeds thereof, in whole or in part, which may prove to be invalid or ineffective for any reason; (iii) the failure of the beneficiary of any such Letter of Credit, or any other party to which such Letter of Credit may be transferred, to comply fully with any conditions required in order to draw upon such Letter of Credit or any other claim of any Loan Party against any beneficiary of such Letter of Credit, or any such transferee, or any dispute between or among any Loan Party and any beneficiary of any Letter of Credit or any such transferee; (iv) errors, omissions, interruptions or delays in transmission or delivery of any messages, by mail, cable, facsimile, telex or otherwise, whether or not they be in cipher; (v) errors in interpretation of technical terms; (vi) any loss or delay in the transmission or otherwise of any document required in order to make a drawing under any such Letter of Credit or of the proceeds thereof; (vii) the misapplication by the beneficiary of any such Letter of Credit of the proceeds of any drawing under such Letter of Credit; or (viii) any consequences arising from causes beyond the control of Issuer, including any Governmental Acts, and none of the above shall affect or impair, or prevent the vesting of, any of Issuer’s rights or powers hereunder. Nothing in the preceding sentence shall relieve Issuer from liability for Issuer’s gross negligence or willful misconduct (as determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in a final non-appealable judgment) in connection with actions or omissions described in such clauses (i) through (viii) of such sentence. In no event shall Issuer or Issuer’s Affiliates be liable to any Loan Party for any indirect, consequential, incidental, punitive, exemplary or special damages or expenses (including without limitation attorneys’ fees), or for any damages resulting from any change in the value of any property relating to a Letter of Credit. |
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to a steamship agent or carrier or any document or instrument of like import (each an “Order”) and honor any drawing in connection with any Letter of Credit that is the subject of such Order, notwithstanding that any drafts or other documents presented in connection with such Letter of Credit fail to conform in any way with such Letter of Credit. |
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In furtherance and extension and not in limitation of the specific provisions set forth above, any action taken or omitted by Issuer under or in connection with the Letters of Credit issued by it or any documents and certificates delivered thereunder, if taken or omitted in good faith and without gross negligence (as determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in a final non-appealable judgment), shall not put Issuer under any resulting liability to any Loan Party, Agent or any Lender. |
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Voluntary Prepayments. |
(i)Voluntary Prepayments of the Revolving Advances. Borrowers may voluntarily prepay the Swing Loans and Revolving Advances outstanding hereunder at any time in whole or in part, without any penalty or premium. Any and all voluntary prepayments of the Swing Loans and Revolving Advances under this Section 2.20(a)(i) shall be applied: first, to the repayment in full of the outstanding principal amount of any Out-of-Formula Loans and any Protective Advances made by Agent, second, to the repayment in full of the outstanding amount of any Swing Loans, third, ratably, to the repayment in full of the outstanding principal amount of all other Revolving Advances (shared among the Revolving Lenders on a pro rata basis in accordance with their respective Revolving Commitment Percentages), and fourth, if any Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the cash collateralization in full of all outstanding Letters of Credit in accordance with the requirement of Section 3.2(b) hereof, all subject to Borrowers’ ability to reborrow Revolving Advances and request Letters of Credit in accordance with the terms hereof.
(ii)[RESERVED].
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Mandatory Prepayments. |
(i)When any Borrower makes any Disposition of any Export-Related Collateral (other than any Disposition permitted by Sections 7.1, excluding Dispositions permitted by clause (a) of the definition of Permitted Dispositions, which shall be subject to the provisions of this Section 2.20(b)(i)) or any Casualty Proceeds Event occurs with respect to the Export-Related Collateral of any Borrower, Borrowers shall repay the Advances in an amount equal to one hundred percent (100%) of the Net Cash Proceeds of such Disposition or Casualty Proceeds Event, such repayments to be made promptly but in no event more than five (5) Business Days following receipt of such Net Cash Proceeds, and until the date of payment, such proceeds shall be held in trust for Agent; provided however that, no such mandatory prepayment shall be required under this Section 2.20(b)(i) with respect to any such Disposition or Casualty Proceeds Event with respect to the Export-Import Collateral of any Borrower to the extent that the aggregate amount of
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all Net Cash Proceeds of all Dispositions and Casualty Proceeds Events with respect to all Export-Import Collateral of Borrowers in any fiscal year shall not exceed $250,000, and further provided, however, with respect to Net Disposition Proceeds which would otherwise give rise to a prepayment under this Section 2.20(b)(i) (taking into account the preceding proviso), so long as no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing and the Borrowing Agent shall have notified Agent within five (5) Business Days following receipt of such Net Cash Proceeds of the applicable Borrower’s election to reinvest all or any portion of such Net Cash Proceeds (the “Reinvestment Proceeds”) in fixed or capital assets or other assets useful to the business of such Borrower that will be Collateral for the Obligations, the Borrowers shall not be required to make such prepayment out of the Reinvestment Proceeds so long as within one hundred eighty (180) days after the initial receipt of such Reinvestment Proceeds, such reinvestment shall have been consummated (and, for the avoidance of doubt, to the extent such reinvestment is not so consummated, Borrowers shall make a mandatory prepayment of the Obligations under this Section 2.20(b)(i) in the amount of such Reinvestment Proceeds that is not so reinvested on the one hundred eighty-first (181st) day after the initial receipt of such Reinvestment Proceeds). The foregoing shall not be deemed to be implied consent to any Disposition or other transaction prohibited by the terms and conditions of this Agreement or any Other Document.
(ii)[RESERVED].
(iii)[RESERVED].
(iv)[RESERVED].
(v)[RESERVED].
(vi)Subject to the provisions of Section 11.5 hereof, each mandatory prepayment under this Section 2.20 shall be applied to the Obligations as follows : first, to the repayment in full of the outstanding principal amount of any Out-of-Formula Loans and any Protective Advances made by Agent, second, to the repayment in full of the outstanding amount of any Swing Loans, third, ratably, to the repayment in full of the outstanding principal amount of all other Revolving Advances (shared among the Revolving Lenders on a pro rata basis in accordance with their respective Revolving Commitment Percentages), and fourth, if any Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the cash collateralization in full of all outstanding Letters of Credit in accordance with the requirement of Section 3.2(b) hereof, all subject to Borrowers’ ability to reborrow Revolving Advances and request Letters of Credit in accordance with the terms hereof.
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(i)Items to be sold to a Buyer located in a country as to which Ex-Im Bank is prohibited from doing business as designated in the Country Limitation Schedule;
(ii)that part of the cost of the Items which is not U.S. Content unless such part is not greater than fifty percent (50%) of the cost of the Items and is incorporated into the Items in the United States;
(iii)defense articles or defense services;
(iv)Capital Goods unless in accordance with Section 2.14 of the Ex-Im Borrower Agreement; or
(v)without Ex-Im Bank's prior written consent, any Items to be used in the construction, alteration, operation or maintenance of nuclear power, enrichment, reprocessing, research or heavy water production facilities.
(b)Without limiting the generality of Section 2.21(a) above, neither the Loan Parties nor any other Person which may in the future become party to this Agreement or the Other Documents as a Borrower or Guarantor, intends to use nor shall they use any portion of the proceeds of the Advances, directly or indirectly, for any purpose in violation of Applicable Law.
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Notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth herein, in the event any Lender is a Defaulting Lender, all rights and obligations hereunder of such Defaulting Lender and of the other parties hereto shall be modified to the extent of the express provisions of this Section 2.22 so long as such Lender is a Defaulting Lender. |
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accordance with their Revolving Commitment Percentages; provided, that, Agent shall not be obligated to transfer to a Defaulting Lender any payments received by Agent for Defaulting Lender’s benefit, nor shall a Defaulting Lender be entitled to the sharing of any payments hereunder (including any principal, interest or fees). Amounts payable to a Defaulting Lender that is a Revolving Lender (a “Defaulting Revolving Lender”) shall instead be paid to or retained by Agent. Agent may hold and, in its discretion, re-lend to a Borrower the amount of such payments received or retained by it for the account of such Defaulting Revolving Lender.) |
(ii)fees pursuant to Section 3.3(b) hereof shall cease to accrue in favor of such Defaulting Lender.
(iii)if any Swing Loans are outstanding or any Letter of Credit Obligations (or drawings under any Letter of Credit for which Issuer has not been reimbursed) are outstanding or exist at the time any Revolving Lender becomes a Defaulting Lender, then:
(A)such Defaulting Lender’s Participation Commitment in the outstanding Swing Loans and of the Maximum Undrawn Amount of all outstanding Letters of Credit shall be reallocated among Non-Defaulting Lenders in proportion to the respective Revolving Commitment Percentages of such Non-Defaulting Lenders to the extent (but only to the extent) that (x) such reallocation does not cause the aggregate sum of outstanding Revolving Advances made by any such Non-Defaulting Lender plus such Lender’s reallocated Participation Commitment in the outstanding Swing Loans plus such Lender’s reallocated Participation Commitment in the aggregate Maximum Undrawn Amount of all outstanding Letters of Credit plus such Lender’s Domestic Revolving Commitment Percentage of the Domestic Outstandings Amount (after giving effect to any reallocation under Section 2.22 of the Domestic Credit Agreement of such Lender’s Participation Commitment (as defined in the Domestic Credit Agreement) of any Domestic Swing Loans or Domestic Letters of Credit) to exceed the Domestic Revolving Commitment of any such Non-Defaulting Lender, and (y) no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing at such time;
(B)if the reallocation described in clause (A) above cannot, or can only partially, be effected, Borrowers shall within one Business Day following notice by Agent (x) first, prepay any outstanding Swing Loans that cannot be reallocated, and (y) second, cash collateralize, for the benefit of Issuer, Borrowers’ obligations corresponding to such Defaulting Lender’s Participation Commitment in the Maximum Undrawn Amount of all Letters of Credit (after giving effect to any partial reallocation pursuant to clause (A) above) in accordance with Section 3.2(b) hereof for so long as such Obligations are outstanding;
(C)if Borrowers cash collateralize any portion of such Defaulting Lender’s Participation Commitment in the Maximum Undrawn Amount of all Letters of Credit pursuant to clause (B) above, Borrowers shall not be required to pay any fees to such Defaulting Lender pursuant to Section 3.2(a) hereof with respect to such Defaulting Lender’s Revolving Commitment Percentage of Maximum Undrawn Amount of all Letters of Credit during the period such Defaulting Lender’s Participation Commitment in the Maximum Undrawn Amount of all Letters of Credit are cash collateralized;
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(D)if such Defaulting Lender’s Participation Commitment in the Maximum Undrawn Amount of all Letters of Credit is reallocated pursuant to clause (A) above, then the Letter of Credit Lender Fees payable to Revolving Lenders pursuant to Section 3.2(a) hereof shall be adjusted and reallocated to Non-Defaulting Lenders in accordance with such reallocation; and
(E)if all or any portion of such Defaulting Lender’s Participation Commitment in the Maximum Undrawn Amount of all Letters of Credit is neither reallocated nor cash collateralized pursuant to clause (A) or (B) above, then, without prejudice to any rights or remedies of Issuer or any other Lender hereunder, all Letter of Credit Lender Fees payable under Section 3.2(a) hereof with respect to such Defaulting Lender’s Revolving Commitment Percentage of the Maximum Undrawn Amount of all Letters of Credit shall be payable to Issuer (and not to such Defaulting Lender) until (and then only to the extent that) such Participation Commitment in the Maximum Undrawn Amount of all Letters of Credit is reallocated and/or cash collateralized; and
(F)so long as any Revolving Lender is a Defaulting Lender, Swing Loan Lender shall not be required to fund any Swing Loans and Issuer shall not be required to issue, amend or increase any Letter of Credit, unless such Issuer is satisfied that the related exposure and Defaulting Lender’s Participation Commitment in the Maximum Undrawn Amount of all Letters of Credit and all Swing Loans (after giving effect to any such issuance, amendment, increase or funding) will be fully allocated to Non-Defaulting Lenders and/or cash collateral for such Letters of Credit will be provided by Borrowers in accordance with clause (A) and (B) above, and participating interests in any newly made Swing Loan or any newly issued or increased Letter of Credit shall be allocated among Non-Defaulting Lenders in a manner consistent with Section 2.22(b)(ii)(A) above (and such Defaulting Lender shall not participate therein).
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A Defaulting Lender shall not be entitled to give instructions to Agent or to approve, disapprove, consent to or vote on any matters relating to this Agreement and the Other Documents, and all amendments, waivers and other modifications of this Agreement and the Other Documents may be made without regard to a Defaulting Lender and, for purposes of the definition of “Required Lenders”, a Defaulting Lender shall not be deemed to be a Lender, to have any outstanding Advances or a Revolving Commitment, provided, that this clause (c) shall not apply to the vote of a Defaulting Lender in the case of an amendment, waiver or other modification described in clauses (i) or (ii) of Section 16.2(b) hereof. |
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Other than as expressly set forth in this Section 2.22, the rights and obligations of a Defaulting Lender (including the obligation to indemnify Agent) and the other parties hereto shall remain unchanged. Nothing in this Section 2.22 shall be deemed to release any Defaulting Lender from its obligations under this Agreement and the Other Documents, shall alter such obligations, shall operate as a waiver of any default by such Defaulting Lender hereunder, or shall prejudice any rights which any Borrower, Agent or any Lender may have against any Defaulting Lender as a result of any default by such Defaulting Lender hereunder. |
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If Swing Loan Lender or Issuer has a good faith belief that any Revolving Lender has defaulted in fulfilling its obligations under one or more other agreements in which such Lender commits to extend credit, Swing Loan Lender shall not be required to fund any Swing Loans and Issuer shall not be required to issue, amend or increase any Letter of Credit, unless Swing Loan Lender or Issuer, as the case may be, shall have entered into arrangements with Borrowers or such Lender, satisfactory to Swing Loan Lender or Issuer, as the case may be, to defease any risk to it in respect of such Lender hereunder. |
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subject Agent, Swing Loan Lender, any Lender or Issuer to any tax of any kind whatsoever with respect to this Agreement, any Letter of Credit, any participation in a Letter of Credit or any LIBOR Rate Loan, or change the basis of taxation of payments to Agent, Swing Loan Lender, such Lender or Issuer in respect thereof (except for Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes covered by Section 3.10 hereof and the imposition of, or any change in the rate of, any Excluded Tax payable by Agent, Swing Loan Lender, such Lender or Issuer); |
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impose, modify or deem applicable any reserve, special deposit, assessment, compulsory loan, insurance charge or similar requirement against assets held by, or deposits in or for the account of, advances or loans by, or other credit extended by, any office of Agent, Swing Loan Lender, Issuer or any Lender, including pursuant to Regulation D of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System; or |
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impose on Agent, Swing Loan Lender, any Lender or Issuer, any other condition, loss or expense (other than Taxes) affecting this Agreement or any Other Document or any Advance made by any Lender, or any Letter of Credit or participation therein; |
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and the result of any of the foregoing is to increase the cost to Agent, Swing Loan Lender, any Lender or Issuer of making, converting to, continuing, renewing or maintaining its Advances hereunder by an amount that Agent, Swing Loan Lender, such Lender or Issuer deems to be material or to reduce the amount of any payment (whether of principal, interest or otherwise) in respect of any of the Advances by an amount that Agent, Swing Loan Lender or such Lender or Issuer deems to be material, then, in any case Borrowers shall promptly pay Agent, Swing Loan Lender or such Lender or Issuer, upon its demand, such additional amount as will compensate Agent, Swing Loan Lender, such Lender or Issuer for such additional cost or such reduction, as the case may be, provided that the foregoing shall not apply to increased costs which are reflected in the LIBOR Rate, as the case may be. Agent, Swing Loan Lender, such Lender or Issuer shall certify the amount of such additional cost or reduced amount to Borrowing Agent, and such certification shall be conclusive absent manifest error.
3.8.1.Interest Rate Inadequate or Unfair. In the event that Agent or any Lender shall have determined that:
(a)reasonable means do not exist for ascertaining the LIBOR Rate applicable pursuant to Section 2.2 hereof for any Interest Period;
(b)Dollar deposits in the relevant amount and for the relevant maturity are not available in the London interbank LIBOR market, with respect to an outstanding LIBOR Rate Loan, a proposed LIBOR Rate Loan, or a proposed conversion of a Domestic Rate Loan into a LIBOR Rate Loan;
(c)the making, maintenance or funding of any LIBOR Rate Loan has been made impracticable or unlawful by compliance by Agent or such Lender in good faith with any Applicable Law or any interpretation or application thereof by any Governmental Body or with any request or directive of any such Governmental Body (whether or not having the force of law), or
(d)the LIBOR Rate will not adequately and fairly reflect the cost to such Lender of the establishment or maintenance of any LIBOR Rate Loan,
then Agent shall give Borrowing Agent prompt written or telephonic notice of such determination. If such notice is given prior to a LIBOR Termination Date (as defined below) or prior to the date on which Section 3.8.2(a)(ii) hereof applies, (i) any such requested LIBOR Rate Loan shall be made as a Domestic Rate Loan, unless Borrowing Agent shall notify Agent no later than 2:00 p.m. two (2) Business Days prior to the date of such proposed borrowing, that its request for such borrowing shall be cancelled or made as an unaffected type of LIBOR Rate Loan, (ii) any Domestic Rate Loan or LIBOR Rate Loan which was to have been converted to an affected type of LIBOR Rate Loan shall be continued as or converted into a Domestic Rate Loan, or, if Borrowing Agent shall notify Agent, no later than 2:00 p.m. two (2) Business Days prior to the proposed conversion, shall be maintained as an unaffected type of LIBOR Rate Loan, and (iii) any outstanding affected LIBOR Rate Loans shall be converted into a Domestic Rate
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Loan, or, if Borrowing Agent shall notify Agent, no later than 2:00 p.m. two (2) Business Days prior to the last Business Day of the then current Interest Period applicable to such affected LIBOR Rate Loan, shall be converted into an unaffected type of LIBOR Rate Loan, on the last Business Day of the then current Interest Period for such affected LIBOR Rate Loans (or sooner, if any Lender cannot continue to lawfully maintain such affected LIBOR Rate Loan). Until such notice has been withdrawn, Lenders shall have no obligation to make an affected type of LIBOR Rate Loan or maintain outstanding affected LIBOR Rate Loans and no Borrower shall have the right to convert a Domestic Rate Loan or an unaffected type of LIBOR Rate Loan into an affected type of LIBOR Rate Loan.
3.8.2.Successor LIBOR Rate Index.
(a)If Agent determines (which determination shall be final and conclusive, absent manifest error) that either (i) (A) the circumstances set forth in Section 3.8.1(a) hereof have arisen and are unlikely to be temporary, or (B) the circumstances set forth in Section 3.8.1(a) hereof have not arisen but the applicable supervisor or administrator (if any) of the LIBOR Rate or a Governmental Body having jurisdiction over Agent has made a public statement identifying the specific date after which the LIBOR Rate shall no longer be used for determining interest rates for loans (either such date, a “LIBOR Termination Date”), or (ii) a rate other than the LIBOR Rate has become a widely recognized benchmark rate for newly originated loans in Dollars in the U.S. market, then Agent may (in consultation with Borrowing Agent) choose a replacement index for the LIBOR Rate and make adjustments to applicable margins and related amendments to this Agreement as referred to below such that, to the extent practicable, the all-in interest rate based on the replacement index will be substantially equivalent to the all-in LIBOR Rate-based interest rate in effect prior to its replacement.
(b)Agent and the Loan Parties shall enter into an amendment to this Agreement to reflect the replacement index, the adjusted margins and such other related amendments as may be appropriate, in the discretion of Agent, for the implementation and administration of the replacement index-based rate. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement or the Other Documents (including, without limitation, Section 16.2 hereof), such amendment shall become effective without any further action or consent of any other party to this Agreement at 5:00 p.m. on the tenth (10th) Business Day after the date a draft of the amendment is provided to the Lenders, unless Agent receives, on or before such tenth (10th) Business Day, a written notice from the Required Lenders stating that such Lenders object to such amendment.
(c)Selection of the replacement index, adjustments to the applicable margins, and amendments to this Agreement (i) will be determined with due consideration to the then-current market practices for determining and implementing a rate of interest for newly originated loans in the United States and loans converted from a LIBOR Rate-based rate to a replacement index-based rate, and (ii) may also reflect adjustments to account for (x) the effects of the transition from the LIBOR Rate to the replacement index and (y) yield- or risk-based differences between the LIBOR Rate and the replacement index.
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(d)Until an amendment reflecting a new replacement index in accordance with this Section 3.8.2 hereof is effective, each advance, conversion and renewal of a LIBOR Rate Loan will continue to bear interest with reference to the LIBOR Rate; provided however, that if Agent determines (which determination shall be final and conclusive, absent manifest error) that a LIBOR Termination Date has occurred, then following the LIBOR Termination Date, all LIBOR Rate Loans shall automatically be converted to Domestic Rate Loans until such time as an amendment reflecting a replacement index and related matters as described above is implemented.
(e)Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, if at any time the replacement index is less than zero, at such times, such index shall be deemed to be zero for purposes of this Agreement.
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Without limiting the provisions of Section 3.10(a) above, Loan Parties shall timely pay any Other Taxes to the relevant Governmental Body in accordance with Applicable Law. |
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Each Loan Party shall indemnify Agent, Swing Loan Lender, each Lender, Issuer and any Participant, as soon as practicable after demand therefor, for the full amount of any Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes (including Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes imposed or asserted on or attributable to amounts payable under this Section) paid by Agent, Swing Loan Lender, such Lender, Issuer, or such Participant, as the case may be, and any penalties, interest and reasonable expenses arising therefrom or with respect thereto. A certificate as to the amount of such payment or liability delivered to Loan Parties by any Lender, Swing Loan Lender, Participant, or Issuer (with a copy to Agent), or by Agent on its own behalf or on behalf of Swing Loan Lender, a Lender or Issuer, shall be conclusive absent manifest error. If any Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes were in a Loan Party’s reasonable judgment incorrectly or illegally imposed or asserted by a relevant Governmental Body, Agent, Swing Loan Lender, Lender, Issuer or Participant, as the case may be, shall not be indemnified for such Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes by the Loan Party. |
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Income Tax Regulations or other Applicable Law. Further, Agent is indemnified under §1.1461-1(e) of the United States Income Tax Regulations against any claims and demands of any Lender, Issuer or assignee or participant of a Lender or Issuer for the amount of any tax it deducts and withholds in accordance with regulations under §1441 of the Code. In addition, any Lender, if requested by Loan Parties or Agent, shall deliver such other documentation prescribed by Applicable Law or reasonably requested by Loan Parties or Agent as will enable Loan Parties or Agent to determine whether or not such Lender is subject to backup withholding or information reporting requirements. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, in the event that any Loan Party is resident for tax purposes in the United States of America, any Foreign Lender (or other Lender) shall deliver to Loan Parties and Agent (in such number of copies as shall be requested by the recipient) on or prior to the date on which such Foreign Lender (or other Lender) becomes a Lender under this Agreement (and from time to time thereafter upon the request of Loan Parties or Agent, but only if such Foreign Lender (or other Lender) is legally entitled to do so), whichever of the following is applicable: |
(i)two (2) duly completed valid originals of IRS Form W-8BEN or W-8BEN-E claiming eligibility for benefits of an in-force income tax treaty to which the United States of America is a party,
(ii)two (2) duly completed valid originals of IRS Form W-8ECI,
(iii)in the case of a Foreign Lender claiming the benefits of the exemption for portfolio interest under Section 881(c) of the Code, (x) a certificate to the effect that such Foreign Lender is not (A) a “bank” within the meaning of Section 881(c)(3)(A) of the Code, (B) a “10 percent shareholder” of Loan Parties within the meaning of Section 881(c)(3)(B) of the Code, or (C) a “controlled foreign corporation” described in Section 881(c)(3)(C) of the Code and (y) two duly completed valid originals of IRS Form W-8BEN or W-8BEN-E,
(iv)any other form prescribed by Applicable Law as a basis for claiming exemption from or a reduction in United States federal withholding Tax duly completed together with such supplementary documentation as may be prescribed by Applicable Law to permit Loan Parties to determine the withholding or deduction required to be made, or
(v)to the extent that any Lender is not a Foreign Lender, such Lender shall submit to Agent two (2) originals of an IRS Form W-9 or any other form prescribed by Applicable Law demonstrating that such Lender is not a Foreign Lender.
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(B) other documentation reasonably requested by Agent or any Loan Party sufficient for Agent and Loan Parties to comply with their obligations under FATCA and to determine that Swing Loan Lender, such Lender, Participant, Issuer, or Agent has complied with such applicable reporting requirements. |
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Agreement and the Other Documents to such Replacement Lender or non-Affected Lenders, as the case may be, in exchange for payment of the principal amount so assigned and all interest and fees accrued on the amount so assigned, plus all other Obligations then due and payable to the Affected Lender including for any breakage fee pursuant to Section 2.2(g) (as though such payment constituted a prepayment) and any Prepayment Premium or Make-Whole Amount, as applicable. |
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Commercial Code or other Applicable Law. By its signature hereto, each Domestic Loan Party hereby authorizes Agent to file, and ratifies any such filings made prior to the date hereof, against such Domestic Loan Party, one or more financing, continuation or amendment statements pursuant to the Uniform Commercial Code in form and substance satisfactory to Agent (which statements may have a description of collateral which is broader than that set forth herein, including without limitation a description of Collateral as “all assets” and/or “all personal property” of any Domestic Loan Party). All charges, expenses and fees Agent may incur in doing any of the foregoing, and any local taxes relating thereto, shall be charged to Borrowers’ Account as a Revolving Advance of a Domestic Rate Loan and added to the Obligations, or, at Agent’s option, shall be paid by Loan Parties to Agent for its benefit and for the ratable benefit of Lenders immediately upon demand, and upon such demand, may be charged to Borrowers’ Account as provided for in Section 2.23; provided that, promptly following any such demand and/or charge (and in no event later than the next delivery of the statement of account provided for in Section 2.10 hereof), Agent shall provide Borrowers with a reasonable description of such charges, expenses and fees so demanded and/or charged. |
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and agreements shall be genuine and each Loan Party shall have full capacity to execute same; and (iv) each Loan Party’s equipment and Inventory shall be maintained at the locations set forth on Schedule 4.4 hereto (as such Schedule may be updated from time to time in accordance with this Agreement), and shall not be removed from such locations without the prior written consent of Agent except with respect to the sale of Inventory in the Ordinary Course of Business or the disposition of equipment to the extent permitted in Section 7.1(b) hereof. |
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(i) There is no location at which any Loan Party (excluding any Foreign Unsecured Loan Party) has any Inventory (except for Inventory in transit) or other tangible Collateral with a value equal to the Dollar Equivalent of $500,000 or greater other than those locations listed on Schedule 4.4 hereto (as such Schedule may be updated from time to time in accordance with this Agreement); (ii) Schedule 4.4 hereto (as such Schedule may be updated from time to time in accordance with this Agreement) contains a correct and complete list of the legal names and addresses of all warehouses at which Inventory of any Loan Party (excluding any Foreign Unsecured Loan Party) with a value equal to the Dollar Equivalent of $500,000 or greater is stored; none of the receipts received by any such Loan Party from any warehouse states that the goods covered thereby are to be delivered to bearer or to the order of a named Person or to a named Person and such named Person’s assigns; (iii) Schedule 4.4 hereto (as such Schedule may be updated from time to time in accordance with this Agreement) sets forth a correct and complete list of (A) the chief executive office of each Loan Party, (B) each business location at which any unique books and records (not duplicated at the applicable corporate headquarters of such Loan Party) of any Loan Party are kept, and (C) each business location of any Loan Party (excluding any Foreign Unsecured Loan Party) or third-party warehouse/bailee/processor of any Loan Party (excluding any Foreign Unsecured Loan Party) at which tangible Collateral with a fair market value, as to each such location, in excess of $500,000 is located, and (iv) Schedule 4.4 hereto sets forth a correct and complete list as of the Closing Date of the location, by state and street address, of all Real Property owned or leased by each Loan Party, identifying which Real Properties are owned and which are leased, together with the names and addresses of any landlords or other third parties in possession, custody or control of any Collateral with a value equal to the Dollar Equivalent of $500,000 or greater. |
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possession of the Collateral, each Loan Party shall, upon demand, assemble it in the best manner possible and make it available to Agent at a place reasonably convenient to Agent. In addition, with respect to all Collateral, Agent and Lenders shall be entitled to all of the rights and remedies set forth herein and further provided by the Uniform Commercial Code or other Applicable Law. Each Loan Party shall, and Agent may, instruct all suppliers, carriers, forwarders, warehousemen or others receiving or holding cash, checks, Inventory, documents or instruments in which Agent holds a security interest to deliver same to Agent and/or subject to Agent’s order and if they shall come into any Loan Party’s possession, they, and each of them, shall be held by such Loan Party in trust as Agent’s trustee, and such Loan Party will immediately deliver them to Agent in their original form together with any necessary endorsement. |
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any appraisal shall be limited to the liabilities therefor set forth in the Domestic Credit Agreement only |
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Each of the Receivables shall be a bona fide and valid account representing a bona fide indebtedness incurred by the Customer therein named, for a fixed sum as set forth in the invoice relating thereto (provided that immaterial or unintentional invoice errors shall not be deemed to be a breach hereof, and further provided that customary discount provisions offered by Loan Parties to their Customers in the Ordinary Course of Business consistent with past practices shall not be deemed to be a breach hereof so long as the amount/terms of such discount(s) are clearly set forth on the invoice and the amount of such Receivable as reported on any Export-Related Borrowing Base Certificate shall reflect the lowest potential amount thereof assuming application of all such discount(s) available with respect to such Receivable) with respect to an absolute sale or lease and delivery of goods upon stated terms of a Loan Party, or work, labor or services theretofore rendered by a Loan Party as of the date each Receivable is created. Same shall be due and owing in accordance with the applicable Loan Party’s standard terms of sale without dispute, setoff or counterclaim except as may be stated on the accounts receivable schedules delivered by Loan Parties to Agent. |
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Each Customer, to each Loan Party’s actual knowledge, as of the date each Receivable is created, is and will be solvent and able to pay all Receivables on which the Customer is obligated in full when due. With respect to such Customers of any Loan Party who are not solvent, such Loan Party has set up on its books and in its financial records bad debt reserves adequate to cover such Receivables. |
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Each Loan Party’s chief executive office is located as set forth on Schedule 4.4 hereto. Until written notice is given to Agent by Borrowing Agent of any other office at which any Loan Party keeps its records pertaining to Receivables, all such records shall be kept at such executive office. |
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Depository Account or, upon request by Agent, deliver to Agent, in original form and on the date of receipt thereof, all checks, drafts, notes, money orders, acceptances, cash and other evidences of Indebtedness. |
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At any time following the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, Agent shall have the right to send notice of the assignment of, and Agent’s security interest in and Lien on, the Receivables to any and all Customers or any third party holding or otherwise concerned with any of the Collateral. Thereafter, Agent shall have the sole right to collect the Receivables, take possession of the Collateral, or both. Agent’s actual collection expenses, including, but not limited to, stationery and postage, telephone and facsimile, secretarial and clerical expenses and the salaries of any collection personnel used for collection, may be charged to Borrowers’ Account and added to the Obligations. |
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Agent shall have the right to receive, endorse, assign and/or deliver in the name of Agent or any Loan Party any and all checks, drafts and other instruments for the payment of money relating to the Receivables, and each Loan Party hereby waives notice of presentment, protest and non-payment of any instrument so endorsed. Each Loan Party hereby constitutes Agent or Agent’s designee as such Loan Party’s attorney with power (i) at any time: (A) to endorse such Loan Party’s name upon any acceptances, checks, drafts, money orders or other evidences of payment or Collateral received by the Agent; (B) to sign such Loan Party’s name on any drafts against Customers, assignments and verifications of Receivables; (C) to send verifications of Receivables to any Customer; and (D) to sign such Loan Party’s name on all agreements, documents or instruments deemed necessary or appropriate by Agent to preserve, protect, or perfect Agent’s interest in the Collateral and to file same; and (ii) at any time following the occurrence of an Event of Default: (A) to demand payment of the Receivables; (B) to enforce payment of the Receivables by legal proceedings or otherwise; (C) to exercise all of such Loan Party’s rights and remedies with respect to the collection of the Receivables and any other Collateral; (D) to xxx upon or otherwise collect, extend the time of payment of, settle, adjust, compromise, extend or renew the Receivables; (E) to settle, adjust or compromise any legal proceedings brought to collect Receivables; (F) to prepare, file and sign such Loan Party’s name on a proof of claim in bankruptcy or similar document against any Customer; (G) to prepare, file and sign such Loan Party’s name on any notice of Lien, assignment or satisfaction of Lien or similar document in connection with the Receivables; (H) to accept the return of goods represented by any of the Receivables; (I) to change the address for delivery of mail addressed to any Loan Party to such address as Agent may designate; (J) as part of the services offered under to receive, open and dispose of all mail addressed to any Loan Party at any post office box/lockbox maintained by Agent for Loan Parties or at any other business premises of Agent, (J) to sign such Loan Party’s name on any invoice or xxxx of lading relating to any of the Receivables, and (K) to do all other acts and things necessary to carry out this Agreement. All acts of such attorney or designee are hereby ratified and approved, and such attorney or designee shall not be liable for any acts of omission or commission nor for any error of judgment or mistake of fact or of law, unless done maliciously, with willful misconduct, or with gross (not mere) negligence (as determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in a final non-appealable judgment); this power being coupled with an interest is irrevocable while any of the Obligations remain unpaid. |
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No Loan Party will, without Agent’s consent, compromise or adjust any Receivables (or extend the time for payment thereof) or accept any returns of merchandise or grant any additional discounts, allowances or credits thereon except for those compromises, adjustments, returns, discounts, credits and allowances as have been heretofore customary in the Ordinary Course of Business of such Loan Party. |
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least ten (10) days prior written notice to Agent and (ii) if such account is to be maintained with a bank, depository institution or securities intermediary that is not the Agent, such bank, depository institution or securities intermediary, each applicable Borrower and Agent shall first have entered into an account control agreement in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Agent sufficient to give Agent “control” (for purposes of Articles 8 and 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code) over such account (and, if such account is a Blocked Account, such account control agreement shall also comply with the requirements of Section 4.8(h)). |
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Property to the same extent as the original Investment Property of such Loan Party on the Closing Date. |
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Each Domestic Loan Party, for the purpose of granting a continuing lien and security interest to secure the Obligations for the benefit of Agent and each other Secured Party, does hereby collaterally assign to Agent (for the benefit of Agent and each other Secured Party), and pledge to Agent (for the benefit of Agent and each other Secured Party), and grant such a continuing lien and security interest to Agent (for the benefit of Agent and each other Secured Party) in, all of such Domestic Loan Party’s right, title and interest in and to all of the following property, together with any additions, exchanges, replacements and substitutions therefor, dividends and distributions with respect thereto, and the proceeds thereof (collectively, as to all Domestic Loan Parties, the “Pledged Equity Interest Collateral”; provided that, notwithstanding anything to the contrary provided in this Section 4.14, the Pledged Equity Interest Collateral shall not at any time include any Excluded Property): |
(i)all Equity Interests of any Person of any kind or nature held by such Domestic Loan Party consisting of Subsidiary Stock, whether now owned or hereafter acquired by such Domestic Loan Party or in which such Domestic Loan Party now or hereafter has any rights, options or warrants, including without limitation: (1) all of the capital stock, capital shares and other Equity Interests in those Subsidiaries consisting of corporations, companies and other business entities (other than the business entities of the types listed in the following clauses (2) and (3)), including such corporations, companies and entities listed on Schedule 4.14 hereto (as such Schedule may be amended and/or updated from time to time in accordance herewith), (2) all of the partnership interests and other Equity Interests in those Subsidiaries consisting of limited partnerships and general partnerships, including such partnerships listed on Schedule 4.14 hereto (as such Schedule may be amended and/or updated from time to time in accordance herewith), and (3) all of the membership/limited liability company interests and other Equity Interests in those Subsidiaries consisting of limited liability companies, including such limited liability companies listed on Schedule 4.14 hereto (as such Schedule may be amended and/or updated from time to time in accordance herewith), in each case (1) through (3) together with all certificates representing such Equity Interests and all rights (but none of the obligations) under or arising out of the applicable Organizational Documents of such Subsidiaries, and specifically including without limitation, with respect to each such partnership Subsidiary, all rights and remedies of such Domestic Loan Party as a general partner or limited partner with respect to the respective partnership interests and other Equity Interests of such Domestic Loan Party in each such partnership Subsidiary under the respective Organizational Documents of such partnership and under the partnership laws of the state in which each such partnership is organized, and, with respect to each such limited liability company Subsidiary, all rights and remedies of the such Domestic Loan
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Party as a member or manager or managing member with respect to the respective membership interests and other Equity Interests of such Domestic Loan Party in each such limited liability company Subsidiary under the respective Organizational Documents of such limited liability company and under the limited liability company laws of the state in which each such limited liability company is organized); and
(ii)all Related Equity Interest Rights related to any such Equity Interests described in the foregoing clause (i).
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Pledge Representations and Warranties: Each Domestic Loan Party hereby represents and warrants as follows: |
(i)Such Domestic Loan Party has not sold, assigned, transferred, pledged or granted any option or security interest in or otherwise hypothecated the Pledged Equity Interest Collateral in any manner whatsoever, and the Pledged Equity Interest Collateral is pledged herewith free and clear of any and all Liens, encumbrances, claims, pledges, restrictions, legends, options and other claims and charges, other than Permitted Encumbrances of the type described in clauses (a), (b) and (e) of the definition thereof.
(ii)The execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and the pledge of the Pledged Equity Interest Collateral referred to herein, and all other terms and provisions hereof (specifically including Section 4.14(h) hereof and the powers and proxies granted to Agent thereunder) are not in violation of and shall not create any default under any Organizational Documents of any Pledged Issuer.
(iii)There are no restrictions upon the pledge or transfer of, nor on the voting rights associated with, or the transfer of, any of the Pledged Equity Interest Collateral, except as provided by applicable federal and state laws and the terms of the Organizational Documents of the applicable Pledged Issuer and/or as stated on the face of any applicable certificates evidencing any such Pledged Equity Interest Collateral.
(iv)The Pledged Equity Interest Collateral has been validly authorized and issued by each Pledged Issuer thereof and, if applicable, such Pledged Equity Interest Collateral is fully paid for and non-assessable.
(v)Subject to Section 8.3(g), each Domestic Loan Party has delivered to Agent all certificates representing or evidencing the Pledged Equity Interest Collateral, if any, accompanied by duly executed instruments of transfer or assignments in blank, to be held by Agent.
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assets, or otherwise. Any and all dividends, distributions, interest declared, distributed or paid and any proceeds of the Pledged Equity Interest Collateral which are received by any Domestic Loan Party following the occurrence and continuance of an Event of Default under this Agreement shall be received in trust for the benefit of Agent and the Secured Parties; segregated from the other property and funds of such Domestic Loan Party; and forthwith upon demand delivered to Agent as Pledged Equity Interest Collateral in the same form as received (with any necessary documents, endorsements or assignments in blank with guaranteed signatures). All rights and remedies of Agent are cumulative, not alternative. For so long as this Agreement is in effect and until the Commitments have been terminated and the Obligations have been Paid in Full, each Domestic Loan Party hereby irrevocably appoints Agent, or Agent’s nominee or any other person whom Agent may designate, as such Domestic Loan Party’s attorney‑in‑fact, subject to the terms of this Section 4.14, following the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, with the power, at Agent’s option, (i) to effectuate the transfer of any of the Pledged Equity Interest Collateral on the books of each Pledged Issuer thereof to the name of Agent or to the name of Agent’s nominee, designee or transferee; (ii) to endorse and collect checks payable to such Domestic Loan Party representing distributions or other payments on any of the Pledged Equity Interest Collateral; and (iii) to carry out the terms and provisions of this Section 4.14. Each Domestic Loan Party acknowledges and agrees that Agent shall be authorized at any time to provide a copy of this Agreement to any Pledged Issuer as evidence that Agent has been given the foregoing power of attorney. |
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Each Domestic Loan Party recognizes that Agent may be unable to effect, or may effect only after such delay which would adversely affect the value that might be realized from the Pledged Equity Interest Collateral, a public sale of all or part of the Pledged Equity Interest Collateral by reason of certain prohibitions contained in the Securities Act or other applicable securities legislation in any other applicable jurisdiction and may be compelled to resort to one or more private sales to a restricted group of purchasers who will be obliged to agree, among other things, to acquire such securities for their own account, for investment and not with a view to the distribution or resale thereof. Each Domestic Loan Party agrees that any such private sale may be at prices and on terms less favorable to Agent or the seller than if sold at public sales, and therefore recognizes and confirms that such private sales shall not be deemed to have been made in a commercially unreasonable manner solely because they were made privately. Each Domestic Loan Party agrees that Agent has no obligation to delay the sale of any such securities for the period of time necessary to permit any Pledged Issuer of such securities to register such securities for public sale under the Securities Act or other applicable securities legislation in any other applicable jurisdiction. |
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membership/limited liability company interests, partnership interests or other Equity Interests of any direct Subsidiary is exercised, then any and all such new Equity Interests (together with all Related Equity Interest Rights associated therewith) so acquired, other than any Excluded Property, and any and all such new, substituted or additional Equity Interests (together with all Related Equity Interest Rights associated therewith) issued by reason of any such change or exercise to such Domestic Loan Party, other than any Excluded Property, shall immediately and automatically become subject to this Agreement specifically including this Section 4.14 and the pledge and grant of a security interest created by each Domestic Loan Party hereunder and each Domestic Loan Party hereby grants a security interest in any such future Equity Interests of any Subsidiary (together with all Related Equity Rights associated therewith) other than any Excluded Property, to Agent for the benefit of Secured Parties to secure the Obligations. Any and all certificates issued to such Domestic Loan Party with respect to any such new, substituted or additional Equity Interests, accompanied by duly executed instruments of transfer or assignments in blank, shall be delivered to and held by Agent in the same manner as the Pledged Equity Interest Collateral originally pledged hereunder. Promptly upon the acquisition by any Domestic Loan Party of any such new, substituted or additional Equity Interests, Domestic Loan Parties shall deliver written notice of such new, substituted or additional Equity Interests to Agent, which such written notice shall include an updated and amended Schedule 4.14 to this Agreement, which shall upon delivery be deemed to have amended and restated the previously effective version of such Schedule 4.14. |
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members/managers/partners/directors (or similar board) that may at any time have any rights to manage and direct the business and affairs of the applicable Pledged Issuer under its Organizational Documents as in effect from time to time (including in any such case under this clause (i), the right to replace the pledging Domestic Loan Party in any such capacity, and each Domestic Loan Party hereby agrees that, notwithstanding anything to the contrary provided for in Organizational Documents of any such Pledged Issuer, upon any exercise by Agent of any such right under this clause (i) resulting in the replacement of such Domestic Loan Party in any such capacity, such Domestic Loan Party shall immediately and automatically be deemed to have resigned from such capacity without the need of any further or affirmative action of such Domestic Loan Party), and, if necessary in connection with the foregoing, the power to amend the limited liability company operating agreement or partnership agreement, as applicable, of any such limited liability company or partnership Pledged Issuer to effectuate such replacement; and (ii) if the pledging Domestic Loan Party is a general partner or managing member of any such limited liability company or partnership Pledged Issuer, to act as such general partner or managing member of any such Pledged Issuer with respect to any and all business matters relating to the applicable Pledged Issuer and/or its property and businesses for all purposes under the Organizational Documents of such Pledged Issuer and/or under the applicable limited liability company or partnership laws of the jurisdiction of organization of such Pledged Issuer. |
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give a subsequent proxy or power of attorney or enter into any other voting agreement with respect to the Pledged Equity Interest Collateral of any Pledged Issuer belonging to such Domestic Loan Party and any attempt to do so shall be void and of no effect. Each Domestic Loan Party agrees that each Pledged Issuer shall be fully protected in complying with any instructions given by Agent under such power of attorney granted under this Section 4.14(h)(i) and/or recognizing and honoring any exercise by Agent of such proxy granted under this Section 4.14(h)(i). Each Domestic Loan Party acknowledges and agrees that Agent shall be authorized at any time to provide a copy of this Agreement to any Pledged Issuer as evidence that Agent has been given the foregoing power of attorney and proxy. The proxies and powers of attorney granted by each Domestic Loan Party pursuant to this Section 4.14(h)(i) are coupled with an interest and are given to secure the performance of the Obligations and shall continue and be irrevocable (a) for so long as this Agreement is in effect and (b) until the Commitments have been terminated and all of the Obligations have been Paid in Full. |
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To the extent that Agent shall reasonably determine that any amendments to the Organizational Documents of any Pledged Issuer that is a wholly-owned Subsidiary of Holdings and its Subsidiaries are necessary in order for Agent to be granted the collateral assignment, pledge and Liens in the Pledged Equity Interest Collateral issued by such Pledged Issuer provided for herein, and/or to exercise the rights and remedies, or to be granted and to exercise the proxies and powers of attorney, provided for in herein (specifically including without limitation under Sections 4.14(h) hereof) with respect to the Pledged Equity Interest Collateral issued by such Pledged Issuer in accordance with the terms hereof (whether because of any contrary provisions of such Organization Documents or any requirement of the Applicable Laws governing corporations, limited liability companies, partnerships or professional corporations (as applicable) in the jurisdiction of organization of such Pledged Issuer, or otherwise), each Domestic Loan Party shall, within fifteen (15) days of such Domestic Loan Party’s receipt of Agent’s written request therefor (or such longer period as may be agreed by the Agent, in Agent’s sole discretion), adopt such amendments to such Organizational Documents of such Pledged Issuer as Agent may reasonably request. Domestic Loan Parties hereby further acknowledge and agree that, with respect to any Subsidiary whose Equity Interests are owned only by one or more Domestic Loan Parties, if and to the extent that any provision of the Organizational Documents of any such Subsidiary should be deemed to be inconsistent with or to prohibit the granting of the collateral assignment, pledge and Liens to Agent by Domestic Loan Parties in the Pledged Equity Interest Collateral issued by such Subsidiary provided for herein, or the exercise of any of the rights and remedies of and/or proxies or powers of attorney granted to Agent under this Section 4.14, such Organizational Documents of such Pledged Issuer are hereby amended as necessary to allow for such grant and to allow the full exercise by Agent of all such rights and remedies and/or proxies or powers of attorney, and this Agreement shall constitute and be deemed for all purposes and under all circumstances to be an amendment to any such applicable Organizational Document of such Pledged Issuer. |
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Without limiting the generality of Section 4.2 and/or Section 7.12 hereof, not more frequently than quarterly, (I) Agent may request, and promptly following such request DNS Korea |
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shall deliver, (x) updated schedules of DNS Korea’s Receivables, and (y) updated schedules of DNS Korea’s machinery and equipment and other “moveables” (as such term is used in Korean secured lending practice), other than Inventory, and (II) following receipt of such updated schedules, Agent may request, and promptly following such request DNS Korea shall execute and deliver further and/or supplemental and/or updated security agreements/assignments/instruments of pledge governed by Korean law regarding DNS Korea’s Receivables and/or DNS Korea’s machinery and equipment and other “moveables”; provided, that DNS Korea shall not be required to prepare or send any notices to, or requests for waivers or consents from its customers relating to any Receivables except as provided in clauses (b) and (c) below. Subject to the express provisions of the Closing Date Korean Yangdo-Dambo providing for exceptions to the following, DNS Korea shall “xxxx” DNS Korea’s machinery and equipment and other “moveables” as necessary to perfect and protect the priority of Agent’s Liens in such Collateral. |
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Upon the occurrence and during the continuance of a Specified Event of Default, Agent may request, and promptly following such request, DNS Korea shall prepare, execute and deliver undated but stamped Korean Law Customer Notices corresponding to the Receivables of DNS Korea covered by the Korean Law Guarantee and Security Documents then in effect. Agent may deliver such any Korean Law Customer Notices after receipt thereof. |
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Upon the occurrence and during the continuance of a Specified Event of Default, upon Agent’s request, DNS Korea shall use all commercially reasonable efforts to obtain waivers/consents from each of its Customers with respect to any restrictions contained in the contracts, purchase orders, or invoices between DNS Korea and such Customer on the assignment of DNS Korea’s Receivables from such Customer that are legally enforceable against a collateral assignment/assignment of such Receivables in favor of a secured creditor (any Receivables of DNS Korea, if and to the extent covered by such a legally enforceable restriction against a collateral assignment in favor of a secured creditor, an “Excluded Korean Receivable”). |
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Notwithstanding anything to the contrary provided for herein or in any Other Document, in the event that, for whatever reason, the Inventory of DNS Korea shall no longer be subject to the Permitted Korean Export-Import Bank Indebtedness Liens (either because the Permitted Korean Export-Import Bank Indebtedness has been satisfied, because the Export-Import Bank of Korea shall have agreed to release such Permitted Korean Export-Import Bank Indebtedness Liens as to the Inventory of DNS Korea, or for any other reason), Loan Parties shall (x) promptly, and in any event, within ten (10) Business Days, notify Agent of such occurrence, and (y) within forty-five (45) days of such occurrence, take all actions reasonably requested by Agent and Ex-Im Agent to create valid, enforceable, perfected, first-priority Liens in favor of Agent and Ex-Im Agent securing the Obligations on all of the Inventory of DNS Korea. |
ARTICLE VREPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES.
Each Loan Party represents and warrants as follows:
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Authority. Each Loan Party has full power, authority and legal right to enter into this Agreement and the Other Documents to which it is a party and to perform all its respective |
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As of the Closing Date, the only Subsidiaries of each Loan Party are listed on Schedule 5.2(b) hereto. |
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accordance with IFRS (with certain exceptions, in particular those set out in Exhibit 9.3-3 of the KeyMile Purchase Agreement) and fairly represent the assets and liabilities of KeyMile and its Subsidiaries as at the dates and in respect of the periods to which they relate. |
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Each Company is in compliance with, and its facilities, business, assets, property, leaseholds, Real Property and equipment are in compliance with the Federal Occupational Safety and Health Act and Environmental Laws and there are no outstanding citations, notices or orders of non-compliance issued to any Company or relating to its business, assets, property, leaseholds or equipment under any such laws, rules or regulations. |
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Each Company has been issued all required federal, state and local licenses, certificates or permits (collectively, “Approvals”) relating to all applicable Environmental Laws and all such Approvals are current and in full force and effect. |
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excepting such quantities as are managed in accordance with all applicable manufacturer’s instructions and compliance with Environmental Laws and as are necessary for the operation of the commercial business of any Company or of its tenants. |
(d) |
All Real Property owned by Companies is insured pursuant to policies and other bonds which are valid and in full force and effect and which provide adequate coverage from reputable and financially sound insurers in amounts sufficient to insure the assets and risks of each such Company in accordance with prudent business practice in the industry of such Company. Each Company has taken all actions required under the Flood Laws and/or requested by Agent to assist in ensuring that each Lender is in compliance with the Flood Laws applicable to the Collateral, including, but not limited to, providing Agent with the address and/or GPS coordinates of each structure located upon any Real Property that will be subject to a Mortgage in favor of Agent, for the benefit of Lenders, and, to the extent required, obtaining flood insurance for such property, structures and contents prior to such property, structures and contents becoming Collateral. |
(a) |
(i) After giving effect to the Transactions, DZSI and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis are and will be solvent, is and will be able to pay its debts as they mature, has and will have capital sufficient to carry on its business and all businesses in which it is about to engage, (ii) as of the Closing Date, the fair present saleable value of the assets of DZSI and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis, calculated on a going concern basis, is in excess of the amount of the liabilities of DZSI and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis, and (iii) subsequent to the Closing Date, the fair saleable value of the assets of DZSI and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis (calculated on a going concern basis) will be in excess of the amount of the liabilities of DZSI and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis. |
(b) |
Except as set forth on Schedule 5.8(b) hereto, no Company has any pending or threatened litigation, arbitration, actions or proceedings with asserted liabilities in excess of, or that could reasonably be expected to result in liabilities in excess of, $1,000,000 or to otherwise have a Material Adverse Effect. |
(c) |
No Company is in violation of any applicable statute, law, rule, regulation or ordinance in any respect which could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, nor is any Company in material violation of any order of any court, Governmental Body or arbitration board or tribunal. |
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Plan which is intended to be a qualified plan under Section 401(a) of the Code as currently in effect has been determined by the Internal Revenue Service to be qualified under Section 401(a) of the Code and the trust related thereto is exempt from federal income tax under Section 501(a) of the Code or an application for such a determination is currently being processed by the Internal Revenue Code; (iii) neither any Company nor any member of the Controlled Group has incurred any liability to the PBGC other than for the payment of premiums, and there are no premium payments which have become due which are unpaid; (iv) no Plan has been terminated by the plan administrator thereof nor by the PBGC, and there is no occurrence which would cause the PBGC to institute proceedings under Title IV of ERISA to terminate any Plan; (v) the current value of the assets of each Plan exceeds the present value of the accrued benefits and other liabilities of such Plan and neither any Company nor any member of the Controlled Group knows of any facts or circumstances which would materially change the value of such assets and accrued benefits and other liabilities; ; (vi) neither any Company nor any member of the Controlled Group has incurred any liability for any excise tax arising under Section 4971, 4972 or 4980B of the Code which could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, and no fact exists which could give rise to any such liability; (vii) neither any Company nor any member of the Controlled Group nor any fiduciary of, nor any trustee to, any Plan, has engaged in a “prohibited transaction” described in Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code which could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect nor taken any action which would constitute or result in a Termination Event with respect to any such Plan which is subject to ERISA; (viii) no Termination Event has occurred or is reasonably expected to occur; (ix) there exists no event described in Section 4043 of ERISA, for which the thirty (30) day notice period has not been waived; (x) neither any Company nor any member of the Controlled Group has engaged in a transaction that could be subject to Section 4069 or 4212(c) of ERISA; (xi) neither any Company nor any member of the Controlled Group maintains or is required to contribute to any Plan which provides health, accident or life insurance benefits to former employees, their spouses or dependents, other than in accordance with Section 4980B of the Code; (xii) neither any Company nor any member of the Controlled Group has withdrawn, completely or partially, within the meaning of Section 4203 or 4205 of ERISA, from any Multiemployer Plan so as to incur liability under the Multiemployer Pension Plan Amendments Act of 1980 and there exists no fact which would reasonably be expected to result in any such liability; and (xiii) no Plan fiduciary (as defined in Section 3(21) of ERISA) has any liability for breach of fiduciary duty or for any failure in connection with the administration or investment of the assets of a Plan which could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. |
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be updated from time to time in accordance with this Agreement). All such material Intellectual Property owned or held by any Company consists of original material or property developed by such Company or was lawfully acquired by such Company from the proper and lawful owner thereof. Each of such material Intellectual Property items has been maintained so as to preserve the value thereof from the date of creation or acquisition thereof. |
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instrument which has heretofore been delivered to Agent and, with respect to any such amendment, supplement, or waiver occurring after the Closing Date, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. |
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KeyMile Acquisition Documents as in effect on the Closing Date or as amended in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement. |
(e) |
As of the Closing Date, there are no Tier II Material Subsidiaries or Tier I Material Subsidiaries. |
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ARTICLE VIAFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS.
Each Loan Party shall, and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to, until the Payment in Full of the Obligations, the termination of the Commitments and the termination of this Agreement:
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those Taxes, assessments or Charges; provided that Agent shall not make any payment in respect of the Taxes underlying the state tax lien in Florida against DZSI referenced in Section 8.3(d) prior to the deadline provided for in such Section 8.3(d) with respect to the termination and satisfaction of such state tax lien. The amount of any payment by Agent under this Section 6.4 shall be charged to Borrowers’ Account as a Revolving Advance maintained as a Domestic Rate Loan and added to the Obligations and, until Companies shall provide Agent with an indemnity therefor (or supply Agent with evidence satisfactory to Agent that due provision for the payment thereof has been made), Agent may hold without interest any balance standing to Companies’ credit and Agent shall retain its security interest in and Lien on any and all Collateral held by Agent. |
(a) |
Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio. Cause Loan Parties on a Consolidated Basis to maintain as of the end of each fiscal quarter set forth below, a Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio of not less than the amount set forth below for the four (4) fiscal quarter period ended as of the end of such fiscal quarter: |
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Minimum Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio |
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March 31, 2019 |
1.10 to 1.00 |
June 30, 2019 |
1.10 to 1.00 |
September 30, 2019 |
1.10 to 1.00 |
December 31, 2019 |
1.25 to 1.00 |
March 31, 2020 |
1.50 to 1.00 |
June 30, 2020 |
1.50 to 1.00 |
September 30, 2020 |
1.75 to 1.00 |
December 31, 2020 |
1.75 to 1.00 |
March 31, 2021 |
1.75 to 1.00 |
June 30, 2021 |
2.00 to 1.00 |
September 30, 2021 |
2.00 to 1.00 |
December 31, 2021, and each fiscal quarter ending thereafter |
2.00 to 1.00 |
(b) |
Leverage Ratio. Cause Loan Parties on a Consolidated Basis to maintain as of the end of each fiscal quarter set forth below, a Leverage Ratio of not greater than the amount set forth below for the four (4) fiscal quarter period ended as of the end of such fiscal quarter: |
Fiscal Quarter Ending |
Maximum Leverage Ratio |
March 31, 2019 |
4.50 to 1.00 |
June 30, 2019 |
4.25 to 1.00 |
September 30, 2019 |
4.25 to 1.00 |
December 31, 2019 |
3.25 to 1.00 |
March 31, 2020 |
3.25 to 1.00 |
June 30, 2020 |
3.00 to 1.00 |
September 30, 2020 |
2.50 to 1.00 |
December 31, 2020 |
2.25 to 1.00 |
March 31, 2021 |
2.25 to 1.00 |
June 30, 2021 |
2.00 to 1.00 |
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2.00 to 1.00 |
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December 31, 2021, and each fiscal quarter ending thereafter |
2.00 to 1.00 |
(c) |
Liquidity. Cause (x) Borrowers to maintain at all times Liquidity of at least $6,000,000, consisting of at least $3,000,000 in Undrawn Availability and at least $3,000,000 in Qualified Cash, and (y) the Foreign Subsidiaries of DZSI to maintain at all times Foreign Cash Liquidity of at least $3,000,000 in the aggregate. |
(d) |
Cure Provisions. |
(i)Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary set forth in Sections 6.5(a) and 6.5(b) or otherwise in this Agreement, in the event that Loan Parties fail to comply with the requirements of Sections 6.5(a) or 6.5(b) as of and/or for any fiscal measurement period ending on the last day of any fiscal quarter (each an “Applicable Quarter”), until the tenth (10th) Business Day after the day on which the Quarterly Statements for such Applicable Quarter are required to be delivered pursuant to Section 9.8 (such ten (10) Business Day period, the “Cure Period”), DZSI shall have the right (the “Cure Right”) to receive (directly or indirectly) a Specified Equity Contribution, which Specified Equity Contribution shall be included in the calculation of EBITDA solely for purposes of determining compliance with the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio covenant set forth in Section 6.5(a) above for the applicable fiscal measurement period ending on the last day of such Applicable Quarter and the Leverage Ratio covenant set forth in Section 6.5(b) above as of the last day of such Applicable Quarter and for applicable subsequent fiscal measurement periods/measurement date relevant to Section 6.5(a) and (b) which include such Applicable Quarter; provided that: (i) no later than ten (10) Business Days after the date on which the Quarterly Financials for the Applicable Quarter are required to be delivered pursuant to Section 9.8 hereof, the Net Cash Proceeds of the Specified Equity Contribution are actually received by DZSI and remitted to Agent for application to the Obligations as required under Section Error! Reference source not found., (ii) such Net Cash Proceeds of the Specified Equity Contribution do not exceed the aggregate amount necessary to add to EBITDA (in any such case, the “Cure Amount”) to cure the Event of Default arising from the applicable failure to comply with Section 6.5(a) and/or (b) (for the avoidance of doubt, if Loan Parties fail to comply with the requirements of both Sections 6.5(a) and 6.5(b) above, the Specified Equity Contribution shall be in an amount required to cause Loan Parties to be in compliance with both Sections 6.5(a) and 6.5(b) above), (iii) in each four (4) consecutive fiscal quarter period, there shall be at least two (2) fiscal quarters in respect of which no Specified Equity Contribution is made, (iv) no Specified Equity Contribution shall be made with respect to consecutive fiscal quarters, (v) not more than four (4) Specified Equity Contributions shall be made during the Term, and (vi) the increase to EBITDA and repayment of the Obligations in connection with the proceeds of any Specified Equity Contributions be disregarded for all calculations under this Agreement (including any covenant or other provision herein that is subject to
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compliance with a Leverage Ratio or Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio) except for purposes of determining compliance with the Leverage Ratio and the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio under Sections 6.5(a) and 6.5(b) above as of any relevant measurement date/for any relevant measurement period including the Applicable Quarter.
If, after giving effect to the addition of the Cure Amount to EBITDA for the Applicable Quarter, the Loan Parties are in compliance with the financial covenants set forth in this Section 6.5(a) and (b) for such measurement period, the Loan Parties shall be deemed to have satisfied the requirements of this Section 6.5(a) and (b) for such measurement period with the same effect as though there had been no such failure to comply with this Section 6.5(a) and/or (b), and the applicable Default and Event of Default otherwise arising from the original failure to comply with this Section 6.5(a) and/or (b) for the Applicable Quarter shall be deemed not to have occurred for purposes of this Agreement. Upon receipt by Agent of written notice, prior to the expiration of the Cure Period referred to above (the “Cure Deadline”), that the Loan Parties intend to exercise the Cure Right, Agent and the Lenders shall not be permitted to accelerate the Obligations, impose the Default Rate or Letter of Credit Default Rate or to exercise any other rights or remedies against the Collateral on the basis of a failure to comply with the requirements of this Section 6.5(a) and/or (b) until such failure is not cured pursuant to the exercise of the Cure Right on or prior to the Cure Deadline; provided, that, a Default shall be deemed to exist under this Agreement for all other purposes (including Section 8.2) unless and until the Cure Right is exercised on or prior to the Cure Deadline.
(ii)Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary set forth in Section 6.5(c) or otherwise in this Agreement, in the event that Loan Parties fail to comply with the requirements of Sections 6.5(c) as of the close of business on any day, then Loan Parties shall, no later than the fifth (5th) Business Day following the date of the occurrence of such violation of Section 6.5(c) (the “Liquidity Cure Deadline”), cause one or more of the Foreign Subsidiaries of DZSI to repatriate (by means of dividends and distributions from the applicable respective Foreign Subsidiaries to the applicable respective Domestic Loan Parties) Surplus Foreign Cash of such Foreign Subsidiaries to be applied to the repayment of the Revolving Advances and Swing Loans hereunder and the Domestic Revolving Advances and Domestic Swing Loans under the Domestic Credit Agreement (ratably as between the Revolving Advances and Swing Loans hereunder on the one hand (and as among such, subject to Section 11.5, in accordance with Section 2.20(a)(i) hereof), and the Domestic Revolving Advances and Domestic Swing Loans under the Domestic Credit Agreement on the other (and as among such, subject to Section 11.5 of the Domestic Credit Agreement, in accordance with Section 2.20(a)(i) of the Domestic Credit Agreement)) and/or deposited into the deposit accounts of Domestic Loan Parties as necessary to cause the Loan Parties to once again be in compliance with the requirements of Section 6.5(c). If in any such case Loan Parties shall comply with their obligations under the foregoing sentence and, after giving effect to such repatriation of Surplus Foreign Cash and to the repayment of the Domestic Obligations and Ex-Im Obligations and/or deposits into the deposit accounts of Domestic Loan Parties as provided for in the foregoing sentence, the
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Loan Parties are in compliance with the requirements set forth in Section 6.5(c), the Loan Parties shall be deemed to have satisfied the requirements of Section 6.5(c) at all times prior to the date of such repatriation and application with the same effect as though there had been no such failure to comply with Section 6.5(c), and the applicable Default and Event of Default otherwise arising from the original failure to comply with Section 6.5(c) shall be deemed not to have occurred for purposes of this Agreement. Upon receipt by Agent of written notice, prior to the applicable Liquidity Cure Deadline, that the Loan Parties intend to comply with their obligations under this Section 6.5(d)(ii) with respect to any violation of Section 6.5(c), Agent and the Lenders shall not be permitted to accelerate the Obligations, impose the Default Rate or Letter of Credit Default Rate or to exercise any other rights or remedies against the Collateral on the basis of a failure to comply with the requirements of this Section 6.5(c) until such failure is not cured pursuant to this Section 6.5(d)(ii) prior to the Liquidity Deadline; provided, that, a Default shall be deemed to exist under this Agreement for all other purposes (including Section 8.2) unless and until such failure is cured pursuant to this Section 6.5(d)(ii) prior to the Liquidity Deadline
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payable to any Company and Agent jointly, Agent may endorse such Company’s name thereon and do such other things as Agent may deem advisable to reduce the same to cash. |
(b) |
Each Domestic Loan Party shall take all actions required under the Flood Laws and/or requested by Agent to assist in ensuring that each Lender is in compliance with the Flood Laws applicable to the Collateral, including, but not limited to, providing Agent with the address and/or GPS coordinates of each structure on any real property that will be subject to a mortgage in favor of Agent, for the benefit of Lenders, and, to the extent required, obtaining flood insurance for such property, structures and contents prior to such property, structures and contents becoming Collateral, and thereafter maintaining such flood insurance in full force and effect for so long as required by the Flood Laws. |
(a) |
Other than in instances in which any noncompliance, failure or other circumstances which are not reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect, ensure that the Real Property owned or leased by any Company and all operations and businesses conducted thereon are in compliance and remain in compliance with all Environmental Laws and it shall manage any and all Hazardous Materials on any Real Property by any Company in compliance with Environmental Laws. |
(b) |
[RESERVED]. |
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promptly to any material Hazardous Discharge or Environmental Complaint or any Company shall fail to otherwise comply with any of the requirements of any Environmental Laws to the extent such noncompliance would be reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect, Agent on behalf of Lenders may, but without the obligation to do so, for the sole purpose of protecting Agent’s interest in the Collateral: (i) give such notices or (ii) enter onto the Real Property owned or leased by any Company (or authorize third parties to enter onto such Real Property) and take such actions as Agent (or such third parties as directed by Agent) deem reasonably necessary or advisable, to remediate, remove, mitigate or otherwise manage with any such Hazardous Discharge or Environmental Complaint. All reasonable costs and expenses incurred by Agent and Lenders (or such third parties) in the exercise of any such rights, including any sums paid in connection with any judicial or administrative investigation or proceedings, fines and penalties, together with interest thereon from the date expended at the Default Rate for Domestic Rate Loans constituting Revolving Advances shall be paid upon demand by Companies, and until paid shall be added to and become a part of the Obligations secured by the Liens created by the terms of this Agreement or any other agreement between Agent, any Lender and any Company. |
(d) |
Promptly upon the written request of Agent from time to time, Loan Parties shall provide Agent, at Loan Parties’ expense, with an environmental site assessment or environmental compliance audit report prepared by an environmental engineering firm acceptable in the reasonable opinion of Agent, to assess with a reasonable degree of certainty the existence of a material Hazardous Discharge and the potential costs in connection with abatement, remediation and removal of any Hazardous Materials found on, under, at or within the Real Property owned or leased by any Company. Any report or investigation of such Hazardous Discharge proposed and acceptable to the responsible Governmental Body shall be acceptable to Agent. If such estimates, individually or in the aggregate, exceed $100,000, Agent shall have the right to require Companies to post a bond, letter of credit or other security reasonably satisfactory to Agent a to secure payment of these costs and expenses. |
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form and substance acceptable to Agent and each Lenders, when the individual(s) to be identified as a Beneficial Owner have changed; and (iii) such other information and documentation as may reasonably be requested by Agent or any Lender from time to time for purposes of compliance by Agent or such Lender with applicable laws (including without limitation the USA Patriot Act and other “know your customer” and anti-money laundering rules and regulations), and any policy or procedure implemented by Agent or such Lender to comply therewith. |
ARTICLE VIINEGATIVE COVENANTS.
No Loan Party shall, nor shall it permit any of its Subsidiaries to, until the Payment in Full of the Obligations, the termination of the Commitments and the termination of this Agreement:
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(i)any Secured Loan Party may merge, consolidate or reorganize with another Loan Party or Company or acquire the assets or Equity Interests of another Loan Party or Company so long as (A) in each case, Borrowing Agent shall provide Agent with notice of such merger, consolidation, reorganization or acquisition no later than ten (10) Business Days prior to the intended date for such transaction, (B) in connection with any merger, consolidation or reorganization to which DZSI is a party, DZSI must be the surviving entity of such merger, consolidation or reorganization, (C) in the case of any such merger, consolidation or reorganization involving a Company that is a Secured Loan Party at the time of such merger, consolidation or reorganization and a Company that is not a Secured Loan Party at the time of such merger, consolidation or reorganization, the surviving entity of such merger, consolidation or reorganization must be, or concurrently with the consummation of such merger, consolidation or reorganization become, a Secured Loan Party (and all the conditions of Section 7.12 have been and/or are (substantially contemporaneously with the closing on such merger, consolidation or reorganization) satisfied with respect to such surviving entity as though such surviving entity was a newly acquired Subsidiary), (D) in the case of any such merger, consolidation or reorganization involving a Company that is a Domestic Loan Party (either as a Borrower or a Guarantor) at the time of such merger, consolidation or reorganization and a Company that is not a Domestic Loan Party at the time of such merger, consolidation or reorganization, the surviving entity of such merger, consolidation or reorganization must be, or concurrently with the consummation of such merger, consolidation or reorganization become, a Domestic Loan Party (either as a Borrower or a Guarantor (based on whether the Domestic Loan Party to such merger, consolidation or reorganization was a Borrower or Guarantor prior to such merger, consolidation or reorganization)) (and all the conditions of Section 7.12 have been and/or are (substantially contemporaneously with the closing on such merger, consolidation or reorganization) satisfied with respect to such surviving entity as though such surviving entity was a newly acquired Subsidiary), (E) in connection with any merger, consolidation or reorganization to which a Borrower is, and DZSI is not, a party, the surviving entity of such merger, consolidation or reorganization must be, or concurrently with the consummation of such merger, consolidation or reorganization become, a Borrower , (F) in connection with any merger, consolidation or reorganization to which a Guarantor is, and a Borrower is not, a party, the surviving entity of such merger, consolidation or reorganization must be, or concurrently with the consummation of such merger, consolidation or reorganization become, a Guarantor, (G) in the case of any such merger involving a Loan Party that is an Borrower under this Agreement at the time of such merger and a Loan Party that is not a Borrower under this Agreement at the time of such merger, Ex-Im Bank shall have provided its prior written consent to such merger through an Ex-Im Waiver, and (H) Borrowing Agent shall deliver to Agent true, correct and complete copies of all of the material agreements, documents and instruments related
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to such merger, consolidation, reorganization or acquisition concurrently with the next delivery of quarterly financial statements required to be delivered to Agent pursuant to Section 9.8 hereof occurring after the closing of such transaction,
(ii)any Foreign Unsecured Loan Party may merge, consolidate or reorganize with another Loan Party or Company or acquire the assets or Equity Interests of another Loan Party or Company so long as (A) in each case, Borrowing Agent shall provide Agent with notice of such merger, consolidation, reorganization or acquisition no later than ten (10) Business Days prior to the intended date for such transaction, (B) in the case of any such merger, consolidation or reorganization involving a Company that is a Foreign Unsecured Loan Party at the time of such merger, consolidation or reorganization and a Company that is not a Foreign Unsecured Loan Party at the time of such merger, consolidation or reorganization, the surviving entity of such merger, consolidation or reorganization must be, or concurrently with the consummation of such merger, consolidation or reorganization become, a Foreign Unsecured Loan Party (and all the conditions of Section 7.12 have been and/or are (substantially contemporaneously with the closing on such merger, consolidation or reorganization) satisfied with respect to such surviving entity as though such surviving entity was a newly acquired Subsidiary), and (C) Borrowing Agent shall deliver to Agent true, correct and complete copies of all of the material agreements, documents and instruments related to such merger, consolidation, reorganization or acquisition concurrently with the next delivery of Quarterly Financials pursuant to Section 9.8 hereof occurring after the closing of such transaction,
(iii)any Company that is not a Loan Party may merge, consolidate or reorganize with another Company that is not a Loan Party or acquire the assets or Equity Interests of another Company that is not a Loan Party so long as (A) in each case, Borrowing Agent shall provide Agent with notice of such merger, consolidation, reorganization or acquisition no later than ten (10) Business Days prior to the intended date for such transaction, and (B) Borrowing Agent shall deliver to Agent true, correct and complete copies of all of the material agreements, documents and instruments related to such merger, consolidation, reorganization or acquisition concurrently with the next delivery of quarterly financial statements required to be delivered to Agent pursuant to Section 9.8 hereof occurring after the closing of such transaction
(iv)a Loan Party may make Permitted Investments, and
(v)a Loan Party may make Permitted Acquisitions;
(b) |
Dispose of any of its properties or assets, except for Permitted Dispositions; or |
(c) |
Liquidate, wind up or dissolve itself (or suffer any liquidation or dissolution), except for: |
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(i)the liquidation or dissolution of a Borrower (other than DZSI) so long as all of the assets (including any interest in any Equity Interests) of such liquidating or dissolving Borrower are transferred to a Borrower that is not liquidating or dissolving,
(ii)the liquidation or dissolution of a Loan Party (other than a Borrower) or any of its wholly-owned Subsidiaries so long as all of the assets (including any interest in any Equity Interests) of such liquidating or dissolving Loan Party or Subsidiary are transferred (through one or more transactions occurring on a substantially contemporaneous basis) to a Loan Party that is not liquidating or dissolving, and
(iii)the liquidation or dissolution of a Company that is not a Loan Party so long as all of the assets of such liquidating or dissolving Subsidiary are transferred to a Loan Party or a Subsidiary of a Loan Party that is not liquidating or dissolving.
7.2 |
Creation of Liens. Create or suffer to exist any Lien or transfer upon or against any of its property or assets now owned or hereafter created or acquired, except Permitted Encumbrances. |
7.4 |
Investments. Purchase or acquire obligations or Equity Interests of, or any other interest in, any Person, other than Permitted Investments. |
7.5 |
Loans. Make advances, loans or extensions of credit to any Person other than advances, loans or extensions of credit that constitute Permitted Loans. |
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7.7 |
Restricted Payments. Declare, pay or make any Restricted Payment other than Permitted Restricted Payments. |
7.8 |
Indebtedness. Create, incur, assume or suffer to exist any Indebtedness other than Permitted Indebtedness. |
(a) |
Substantially change the nature of the business in which it is presently engaged, nor except as specifically permitted hereby purchase or invest, directly or indirectly, in any assets or property other than in the Ordinary Course of Business for assets or property which are useful in, necessary for and are to be used in its business as presently conducted. |
(b) |
Without limiting the generality of the foregoing paragraph (a), in the case of ZTI, Premisys, Zhone Technologies, Paradyne Networks, Paradyne Corporation and DNS, take any actions, or omit any actions or allow any events or circumstances to occur, that would cause any of the representations and warranties in Section 5.20(b) hereof to become untrue. |
(d) |
Permit any Dormant Subsidiary to (i) render any services to any Customer (other than another Company) that results in the creation of any Receivable or otherwise engage in any business of any kind (other than with any other Company), or (ii) own any property or assets (other than any asserts of property of de minimus value, which may include the Equity Interests of any other Dormant Subsidiary). |
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Form or acquire any Subsidiary unless the formation or acquisition of such Subsidiary shall constitute a Permitted Investment and: |
(i)subject to clauses (ii) and (iii) and Section 7.12(b) below, (x) such Subsidiary shall, concurrently with the formation or acquisition thereof (or, in the case of any Foreign Subsidiary, as soon as practicable thereafter, taking into account the requirements of the Applicable Laws of the applicable jurisdiction of organization of such Foreign Subsidiary), become either (as Borrowing Agent may elect; provided that, notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Section 7.12 or this Agreement, (1) no Foreign Subsidiary shall become a Borrower hereunder or a Domestic Borrower under the Domestic Credit Agreement, and (2) no Person shall become a Borrower hereunder or a Domestic Borrower under the Domestic Credit Agreement without the consent of Agent granted or withheld in its Permitted Discretion and the consent of the Ex-Im Bank) a Borrower or a Guarantor hereunder and under the Other Documents and a Domestic Borrower or a Domestic Credit Agreement Guarantor under the Domestic Credit Agreement and the Domestic Other Documents, and become jointly and severally liable for, and grant first-priority Liens (subject only to Permitted Encumbrances) in favor of Agent for the ratable
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benefit of Secured Parties and in favor of Domestic Agent for the ratable benefit of Domestic Secured Parties on all of its assets and property constituting Collateral to secure, the Obligations (including the Ex-Im Obligations), all pursuant to such joinder agreements and other legal documentation and such other actions as Agent and Domestic Agent may each reasonably require in its Permitted Discretion to establish compliance with the conditions set forth in this subparagraph (i) (which such legal documentation shall include the delivery of such instruments, security agreements, certificates and customary legal opinions as Agent and Domestic Agent may require in its Permitted Discretion in connection with such a joinder transaction, and specifically including in the case of any Foreign Subsidiary a Guaranty and Guarantor Security Agreements governed by of and granting, creating, and perfecting Liens securing the Obligations (including the Ex-Im Obligations) under the Applicable Laws of the jurisdiction of organization of such Foreign Subsidiary, and customary legal opinions of local foreign legal counsel regarding such Foreign Subsidiary and such Guaranty, Guarantor Security Agreements, and Liens), and (y) concurrently with the formation or acquisition thereof (or, in the case of any Foreign Subsidiary, as soon as practicable thereafter, taking into account the requirements of the Applicable Laws of the applicable jurisdiction of organization of such Foreign Subsidiary), Agent and Domestic Agent shall each have received all legal documentation (including the delivery of such instruments, security agreements, certificates and legal opinions as Agent and Domestic Agent may each require in its Permitted Discretion in connection with such a pledge and specifically including in the case of any Foreign Subsidiary a pledge agreement governed by of and granting, creating, and perfecting a pledge securing the Obligations (including the Ex-Im Obligations) under the Applicable Laws of the jurisdiction of organization of such Foreign Subsidiary, and customary legal opinions of local foreign legal counsel regarding such Foreign Subsidiary and such pledge agreement and pledge), and all actions shall have been taken, as Agent and Domestic Agent may each require in its Permitted Discretion to create a Lien and pledge in favor of Agent in the Subsidiary Stock of such Subsidiary to secure the Obligations (including the Ex-Im Obligations); provided that, notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in the foregoing or otherwise in this Agreement, no assets of any such new Subsidiary described in this subparagraph (i) and joined to this Agreement as a Borrower shall be included in the Formula Amount until Agent has received a Field Examination with respect to such Subsidiary and its assets in form and substance, and with results, acceptable to Agent in its Permitted Discretion (and further provided that, upon Borrowers’ written request, Agent shall complete such Field Examination as promptly as is commercially reasonable following the earlier of (x) the acquisition or formation of such Subsidiary, or (y) the time Borrowers shall obtain from any Person to be acquired and/or whose assets are being acquired sufficient access for Agent to commence such Field Examination);
(ii)notwithstanding anything to the contrary provided for herein, no Dormant Subsidiary or Foreign Legal Restrictions Subsidiary shall be required at any time to become a Loan Party hereunder or a Domestic Borrower or Domestic Credit Agreement Guarantor, and without limiting the generality of the foregoing, no such Dormant Subsidiary or Foreign Legal Restrictions Subsidiary shall be required at any time to (x) grant, create, and/or perfect any Liens under any Applicable Laws of any jurisdiction in any of their assets to Agent (nor to Domestic Agent) to secure any of the Obligations, or (y) give or execute and deliver any
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Guaranty governed by Applicable Laws of any jurisdiction (nor, for the avoidance of doubt, become a party to this Agreement as a Guarantor and/or become bound by Article XVII hereof);
(iii)notwithstanding anything to the contrary provided for herein, no Foreign Subsidiary that is a Tier II Foreign Material Subsidiary shall be required at any time to (x) grant, create, and/or perfect any Liens (either under the laws of any jurisdiction within the United States or under the Applicable Laws of its jurisdiction of organization) in any of its assets to Agent (nor to Domestic Agent) to secure any of the Obligations, or (y) give or execute and deliver any Guaranty governed by Applicable Laws of its jurisdiction of organization (provided that nothing in this clause (y) shall in any way contract or limit or affect in any way either (1) the obligations of any applicable Tier II Foreign Material Subsidiary pursuant to Section 7.12(b) hereof to become a party to and Guarantor and Loan Party under this Agreement or any of the provisions of Article XVII hereof or (2) the guarantees and agreements of suretyship given by and obligations and liabilities of any Foreign Unsecured Loan Party under such Article XVII);
(iv)notwithstanding anything to the contrary provided for herein specifically including clause (y) of Section 7.12(a)(i), in the case of any Foreign Subsidiary that is the direct (or “first tier”) Subsidiary of any Loan Party, no Loan Party shall be required at any time to provide any pledges with respect to the Subsidiary Stock of such direct Foreign Subsidiary pursuant to a pledge agreement or other appropriate security document governed by, and be perfected under, the Applicable Laws of the jurisdiction in which such direct Foreign Subsidiary is organized unless such direct Foreign Subsidiary is a Tier I Foreign Material Subsidiary (provided that, with respect to each such direct Foreign Subsidiary of any Domestic Loan Party that is not a Tier I Foreign Subsidiary, the Subsidiary Stock of any such direct Subsidiary of any Domestic Loan Party shall be included in the Collateral and shall be subject to the Liens created under Article IV of this Agreement, but no actions beyond those contemplated by Sections 4.1 and 4.14 shall be required with respect to the creation and pledge of any Lien on the Subsidiary Stock of any such direct Foreign Subsidiary of any Domestic Loan Party).
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Notwithstanding anything to the contrary provided for herein: |
(i)with respect to (x) each Foreign Subsidiary of DZSI (other than DNS Korea and KeyMile and any Excluded Subsidiaries) in existence on the Closing Date that is not a Tier II Foreign Material Subsidiary on the Closing Date, and (y) each Foreign Subsidiary of DZSI formed or acquired after the Closing Date that (as determined as provided for in clause (iii) of this Section 7.12(b) below) is not a Tier II Foreign Material Subsidiary at the time of such formation or acquisition, in the event that any such Foreign Subsidiary shall constitute a Tier II Foreign Material Subsidiary for two (2) (or, with respect to any Foreign Subsidiary organized under the laws of the Republic of India, three (3)) consecutive fiscal quarters), then (1) Loan Parties shall give written notice to Agent no later than ten (10) Business Days following the delivery by Loan Parties of the Quarterly Financials for the second such fiscal quarter of such fact (or in the case of any Foreign Subsidiary organized under the laws of the Republic of India, the third such fiscal quarter), and(2) no later than thirty (30) days (as such time period may be extended from time to time by Agent in its sole discretion) after the delivery of such notice to Agent, such Tier II Foreign Material Subsidiary shall (A) execute and deliver to Agent a joinder agreement satisfactory in form and
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substance to Agent in its Permitted Discretion pursuant to which such Tier II Foreign Material Subsidiary shall join and become a party to this Agreement and the Other Documents as a Guarantor hereunder, and (B) deliver to Agent a certificate of the type described in Section 8.1(q) (including resolutions in form and substance satisfactory to Agent, of the board of directors (or other equivalent governing body, member or partner) of such Tier II Foreign Material Subsidiary authorizing such Tier II Foreign Material Subsidiary to make such joinder, give a guaranty of the Obligations, and otherwise comply with and perform its obligations under this Section 7.12 and this Agreement and the Other Documents generally) provided that, (I) to the extent compliance with the requirements of clause (2) of this paragraph with respect to such Tier II Foreign Material Subsidiary and the Equity Interests would require consent, approval, license or authorization of or any filing with or notice to a Governmental Body in such Tier II Foreign Material Subsidiary’s jurisdiction of organization, Loan Parties and such Tier II Foreign Material Subsidiary shall use their reasonably best efforts to obtain such consent, approval, license or authorization or make such filing or notice, and so long as Loan Parties and such Tier II Material Subsidiaries shall be undertaking such reasonably best efforts, the deadline under clause (2) shall be extended until such consent, approval, license or authorization shall be obtained or such filing or notice requirement shall be satisfied;
(ii)with respect to (x) each Foreign Subsidiary of DZSI (other than DNS Korea and KeyMile and any Excluded Subsidiaries) in existence on the Closing Date that is not a Tier I Foreign Material Subsidiary on the Closing Date, and (y) each Foreign Subsidiary of DZSI formed or acquired after the Closing Date that (as determined as provided for in clause (iii) of this Section 7.12(b) below) is not a Tier I Foreign Material Subsidiary at the time of such formation or acquisition, in the event that any such Foreign Subsidiary shall constitute a Tier I Foreign Material Subsidiary for two (2) (or, with respect to any Foreign Subsidiary organized under the laws of the Republic of India, three (3)) consecutive fiscal quarters), then (1) Loan Parties shall give written notice to Agent no later than ten (10) Business Days following the delivery by Loan Parties of the Quarterly Financials for the second such fiscal quarter of such fact (or in the case of any Foreign Subsidiary organized under the laws of the Republic of India, the third such fiscal quarter), (2) to the extent such Tier I Foreign Material Subsidiary is not already a party to this Agreement as a Guarantor, no later than thirty (30) days (as such time period may be extended from time to time by Agent in its sole discretion) after the delivery of such notice to Agent, such Tier I Foreign Material Subsidiary shall (A) execute and deliver to Agent a joinder agreement satisfactory in form and substance to Agent in its Permitted Discretion pursuant to which such Tier I Foreign Material Subsidiary shall join and become a party to this Agreement as a Guarantor hereunder and under the Other Documents, and (B) deliver to Agent a certificate of the type described in Section 8.1(q) (including resolutions in form and substance satisfactory to Agent, of the board of directors (or other equivalent governing body, member or partner) of such Tier I Foreign Material Subsidiary authorizing such Tier I Foreign Material Subsidiary to make such joinder, give a guaranty of the Obligations, and otherwise comply with and perform its obligations under this Section 7.12 and this Agreement and the Other Documents generally), and (3) no later than forty-five (45) days (as such time period may be extended from time to time by Agent in its sole discretion) after the delivery of such notice to Agent, such Tier I Foreign Material Subsidiary and the other Companies shall comply with all the other requirements of Section 7.12(a) with respect to such Tier I Foreign
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Material Subsidiary and the Equity Interests of such Tier I Foreign Material Subsidiary; provided that, (I) to the extent compliance with the requirements of clause (2) or (3) of this paragraph with respect to such Tier I Foreign Material Subsidiary and/or the Equity Interests of such Tier I Foreign Material Subsidiary would require consent, approval, license or authorization of or any filing with or notice to a Governmental Body in such Tier I Foreign Material Subsidiary’s jurisdiction of organization, Loan Parties and such Tier I Foreign Material Subsidiary shall use their reasonably best efforts to obtain such consent, approval, license or authorization or make such filing or notice, and so long as Loan Parties and such Tier II Material Subsidiaries shall be undertaking such reasonably best efforts, the deadline under clause (1) and/or (2) (as applicable) shall be extended until such consent, approval, license or authorization shall be obtained or such filing or notice requirement shall be satisfied, and (II) notwithstanding anything to the contrary provided for in Section 7.12(a) or otherwise in this Agreement, upon determination by Agent, in its sole discretion, that under the Applicable Laws of the jurisdiction of incorporation of such Tier I Foreign Material Subsidiary, either creation and/or perfection of a Lien in any category(ies) of Collateral and/or specific item(s) of Collateral of such Tier I Foreign Material Subsidiary (and/or of the pledge over the Equity Interests of such Tier I Foreign Material Subsidiary under the laws of the jurisdiction of organization of such Tier I Foreign Material Subsidiary) is either not possible (either categorically or because Loan Parties have been unable, after using their reasonably best efforts, to obtain any required consent, approval, license or authorization of or any filing with or notice to a Governmental Body in such Tier I Foreign Material Subsidiary’s jurisdiction of organization) or would require efforts, costs and expenses, or an effect on such Tier I Foreign Material Subsidiary’s business that would outweigh the benefits to Secured Parties of obtaining or perfecting such Lien (or pledge), Agent may, in its sole discretion, elect to either forgo taking and/or perfecting any such Lien (or pledge) and/or agree that such Tier I Foreign Material Subsidiary shall not be required to create and/or perfect any such Lien (or pledge) until the occurrence of a Specified Event of Default.
(iii)In order to determine whether any Foreign Subsidiary being acquired is a Tier I Foreign Material Subsidiary or Tier II Foreign Material Subsidiary at the time of such acquisition, (x) the EBITDA for such acquired Foreign Subsidiary for each of the twelve month fiscal measurement periods ending on the last two fiscal quarter for which financial statement of such acquired Foreign Subsidiary are available shall be compared to the pro forma EBITDA of Loan Parties on a Consolidated Basis, including such EBITDA for such acquired Foreign Subsidiary, for the same two fiscal measurement periods, and (y) the Working Capital Assets of such acquired Foreign Subsidiary as at the end of the last two fiscal quarter for which financial statement of such acquired Foreign Subsidiary are available shall be compared to the pro forma Working Capital Assets of Loan Parties on a Consolidated Basis, including such Working Capital Assets for such acquired Foreign Subsidiary, as at the end of same two fiscal quarters.
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Enter into (x) any general partnership or limited partnership as a general partner, or (y) any joint venture arrangement (other than as prohibited by the foregoing clause (x) except to the extent entry into such joint venture arrangement, and all Investments made in connection therewith, shall in each case constitute a Permitted Investment). |
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At any time, directly or indirectly, prepay any Indebtedness, or repurchase, redeem, retire or otherwise acquire any Indebtedness of any Company prior to the maturity thereof, except |
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Borrowers may prepay the Obligations (including the Ex-Im Obligations) to the extent permitted hereunder and under the Domestic Credit Agreement or in connection with any refinancing of such Indebtedness permitted pursuant to this Agreement. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, none of the Net Cash Proceeds from any Contemplated Rights Offering may be used by DZSI or any Company to repay any Indebtedness of any Company (other than any voluntary repayment, in the sole discretion of the Loan Parties, of the Obligations/Ex-Im Obligations). For avoidance of doubt, the payment of the Permitted LGU Indebtedness at maturity shall not constitute a prepayment and shall not be prohibited under the terms of this Agreement; |
(b) |
Without limiting the generality of the foregoing Section 7.17(a), at any time (i) fail to cause each of the Permitted Korean Export-Import Bank Indebtedness and the Permitted Korean Development Bank Indebtedness to be refinanced or renewed/extended at the end of any applicable term thereof such that, at no time prior to the Payment in Full of the Obligations, shall any of the principal outstanding under either of the Permitted Korean Export-Import Bank Indebtedness or the Permitted Korean Development Bank Indebtedness become due and payable, or (ii) other than as contemplated under Section 2.21 with respect to the Permitted Korean Development Bank Indebtedness, directly or indirectly, pay, prepay, repurchase, redeem, retire or otherwise acquire, or make any payment on account of, any principal of either of the Permitted Korean Export-Import Bank Indebtedness or the Permitted Korean Development Bank Indebtedness, except in connection with a refinancing thereof, (iii) directly or indirectly make any payment on account of any Permitted DNI Reimbursement Obligations in connection with either the Permitted Korean Export-Import Bank Indebtedness and the Permitted Korean Development Bank Indebtedness, except as permitted under the DNI Subordination Agreement, or (iv) subject to the provisions of clauses (q) and (r) of the definition of Permitted Indebtedness regarding a Permitted Refinancing with respect to the Permitted Korean Export-Import Bank Indebtedness or the Permitted Korean Development Bank Indebtedness, as applicable, after the Closing Date, obtain any additional loan or advance or otherwise incur any additional principal Indebtedness under either of the Permitted Korean Export-Import Bank Indebtedness or the Permitted Korean Development Bank Indebtedness; and |
(c) |
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary provided for in this Section 7.17 or otherwise in this Agreement or any Other Document, fail to repay in full in cash all of the then-outstanding Permitted Korean LGU Indebtedness by the close of business (Korea time) on June 18, 2019. |
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ARTICLE VIIICONDITIONS PRECEDENT.
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Loan Documents. Agent shall have received on or before the Closing Date the following, each in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Agent and, unless indicated otherwise, dated as of the Closing Date: |
(i)this Agreement, duly executed and delivered by each Credit Party;
(ii)the Notes;
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(iii)the German Law Guarantees, the German Law Security Documents, and the Korean Law Guaranty and Security Documents;
(iv)the DNI IP Pledge Consents; and
(v)the Closing Date Flow of Funds Agreement duly executed and delivered by Borrowing Agent; and
(b) |
Domestic Credit Documents. Loan Parties, the Domestic Lenders, and the Domestic Agent shall have entered into the Domestic Credit Agreement and the Domestic Other Documents, all conditions precedent set forth in Sections 8.1 of the Domestic Credit Agreement shall be satisfied (or waived by Domestic Agent), and the Domestic Credit Agreement and all other Domestic Other Documents shall be in full force and effect; |
(c) |
Ex-Im Bank Approvals and Waivers and Conditions Precedent. (i) Agent shall have received all necessary approvals and waivers from the Ex-Im Bank for the terms and conditions of the Ex-Im Subfacility as set forth in herein and the Other Documents, and (ii) the Transactions shall be in full compliance with the ExIm Bank’s Working Capital Guarantee Program; |
(e) |
[RESERVED]. |
(f) |
Financial Condition Certificate. Agent shall have received an executed Financial Condition Certificate in the form of Exhibit 8.1(f) attached hereto; |
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aggregate amount of Eligible Export-Related Accounts Receivables is sufficient in value and amount to support Revolving Advances in the amount requested by Borrowers on the Closing Date; |
(i) |
Undrawn Availability. After giving effect to the initial Advances hereunder and the initial loan advances (including the Domestic Term Loan) under the Domestic Credit Agreement and payment of all disbursements, costs and expenses relating to the Transactions as reflected in the Closing Date Flow of Funds Agreement and otherwise giving effect to the Transactions, and as evidenced by the Export-Related Borrowing Base Certificate and “Borrowing Base Certificate” under the Domestic Credit Agreement referenced in Section 8.1(h) above, Borrowers shall have (x) Undrawn Availability of at least $6,000,000 and (y) Qualified Cash of at least $5,000,000, and Foreign Subsidiaries of DZSI shall have, in the aggregate, Foreign Cash Liquidity of at least $3,000,000; |
(j) |
Blocked Accounts and Disbursement Account. Loan Parties shall have opened at least one Depository Account and at least one disbursements/operating deposit account with Agent; |
(l) |
KeyMile Acquisition. Agent shall have received a final executed copy of the KeyMile Purchase Agreement (including all exhibits, schedules and disclosure letters referred to therein or delivered pursuant thereto, if any) and all material KeyMile Acquisition Documents executed in connection therewith, specifically including the KeyMile Seller Working Capital Facility Agreement and the KeyMile Seller Working Capital Facility Guarantee, each as in effect on the Closing Date, including in each case all amendments thereto, waivers relating thereto, and other side letters or agreements affecting the terms thereof; |
(m) |
Pro Forma EBITDA Leverage. After giving pro forma effect to the initial Advances hereunder and initial Domestic Revolving Advances and initial Domestic Letters of Credit under Domestic Credit Agreement and payment of all disbursements, costs and expenses relating to the Transactions as reflected in the Closing Date Flow of Funds Agreement and otherwise giving effect to the Transactions, |
(i)Loan Parties on a Consolidated Basis (for the avoidance of doubt, including KeyMile and its Subsidiaries) shall have EBITDA for the twelve month fiscal measurement period ending as of December 31, 2018 of not less than $16,250,000, and
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(ii)Loan Parties on a Consolidated Basis (for the avoidance of doubt, including KeyMile and its Subsidiaries) shall have a Leverage Ratio measured as of December 31, 2018 of not more than 3.75 to 1.00,
(n) |
Filings, Registrations and Recordings. Each document (including any Uniform Commercial Code financing statement and Uniform Commercial Code termination statements) required by this Agreement, any of the Other Documents or under Applicable Law or reasonably requested by Agent to be filed, registered or recorded in order to create, in favor of Agent, a perfected security interest in or lien upon the Collateral and in order to terminate the perfected security interest in or lien upon the Collateral of Existing Agent shall have been properly filed, registered or recorded in each jurisdiction in which the filing, registration or recordation thereof is so required or requested, and Agent shall have received an acknowledgment copy, or other evidence satisfactory to it, of each such filing, registration or recordation and satisfactory evidence of the payment of any necessary fee, tax or expense relating thereto; |
(o) |
Payoffs. |
(i)Xxxxx Fargo Payoff Letter. Agent shall have received a final executed copy of a payoff letter, in form and substance and on terms and conditions satisfactory to Agent, from Xxxxx Fargo Bank, N.A (the “Xxxxx Fargo Payoff Letter”) regarding the payment in full of all Indebtedness and obligations owing to Xxxxx Fargo Bank, N.A. and any other applicable lender or secured party under the existing senior secured credit facilities of DZSI and its Subsidiaries agented by Xxxxx Fargo Bank, N.A., other than with respect to the Existing WF Letters of Credit (the “Existing Xxxxx Fargo Debt”) and the release of all Liens on any Collateral in favor of Xxxxx Fargo Bank, N.A. securing such Existing Xxxxx Fargo Debt (other than the XX Xxxx Collateral as defined in the Xxxxx Fargo Payoff Letter) to secure the obligations relating to the Existing WF Letters of Credit,
(ii)Korean Bank Payoffs. Agent shall have received confirmation satisfactory to Agent and Agent’s counsel (including Agent’s local Korean counsel) of the respective amounts and applicable per diems necessary to be paid to the holders of those certain bank loan facilities of DNS Korea listed on Schedule 2.21(a) attached hereto such that, after giving effect to the disbursements and subsequent currency conversion transactions and payment by DNS Korean contemplated by the Closing Date Flow of Funds, all Indebtedness owing by DNS Korea in connection with the such bank loan facilities shall be paid in full and each such Korean bank shall be obligated to release any and all Liens on any assets of DNS Korea granted by DNS Korea to secure such Korean bank loan facilities, and
(iii)Japan Bank Payoffs. Agent shall have received confirmation satisfactory to Agent and Agent’s counsel of the respective amounts and applicable per diems necessary to be paid to the holders of those certain bank loan facilities of DNS Japan listed on Schedule 2.21(a) attached hereto such that, after giving effect to the disbursements contemplated by the Closing Date Flow of Funds, all Indebtedness owing by DNS Japan in connection with the such bank loan facilities shall be paid in full and each such Japanese
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bank shall be obligated to release any and all Liens on any assets of DNS Japan granted by DNS Japan to secure such Japanese bank loan facilities.
(p) |
[RESERVED]. |
(q) |
Secretary’s Certificates, Authorizing Resolutions and Good Standings of Loan Parties. Agent shall have received, in form and substance satisfactory to Agent, a certificate of the Secretary or Assistant Secretary (or other equivalent officer, partner or manager) of each Loan Party dated as of the Closing Date which shall certify (i) copies of resolutions in form and substance satisfactory to Agent, of the board of directors (or other equivalent governing body, member or partner, and in relation to Loan Parties incorporated in Germany, a resolution of its respective registered shareholder) of such Loan Party authorizing (x) the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and each Other Document to which such Loan Party is a party (including authorization of the incurrence of indebtedness, borrowing of Advances and requesting of Letters of Credit on a joint and several basis with all Loan Parties as provided for herein), and (y) the granting by such Loan Party of the security interests in and liens upon the Collateral to secure the Obligations (and such certificate shall state that such resolutions have not been amended, modified, revoked or rescinded as of the date of such certificate), (ii) the incumbency and signature of the officers of such Loan Party authorized to execute this Agreement and the Other Documents, (iii) copies of the Organizational Documents of such Loan Party as in effect on such date, complete with all amendments thereto, and (iv) continued legal existence and, where relevant, the good standing (or equivalent status) of such Loan Party in its jurisdiction of organization and each applicable jurisdiction where the conduct of such Loan Party’s business activities or the ownership of its properties necessitates qualification, as evidenced by good standing certificates (or the equivalent thereof issued by any applicable jurisdiction (if any)) dated not more than fifteen (15) days prior to the Closing Date, issued by the Secretary of State or other appropriate official of each such jurisdiction; |
(r) |
Legal Opinion. Agent shall have received the executed legal opinions of (i) DLA Piper, US counsel to the Loan Parties, (ii) Xxx & Ko, Korean counsel to the Loan Parties, and (iii) DLA Piper, German counsel to Loan Parties in relation to capacity and due execution and Squire Xxxxxx Xxxxx, German counsel to Agent in relation to validity and enforceability, each in form and substance satisfactory to Agent which shall cover such matters incident to the Transactions as Agent may reasonably require and each Loan Party hereby authorizes and directs such counsel to deliver such opinions to Agent and Lenders; |
(s) |
No Litigation. No litigation, investigation or proceeding before or by any arbitrator or Governmental Body shall be continuing or threatened against any Loan Party or against the officers or directors of any Loan Party (A) in connection with this Agreement, the Other Documents, the Subordinated Loan Documents or any of the Transactions and which, in the reasonable opinion of Agent, is deemed material or (B) which could, in the reasonable opinion of Agent, have a Material Adverse Effect; and (ii) no injunction, writ, restraining order or other order of any nature materially adverse to any Loan Party or the conduct of its business or inconsistent with the due consummation of the Transactions shall have been issued by any Governmental Body; |
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Collateral Examination. Agent shall have completed its Initial Field Examination, the results of which shall be satisfactory in form and substance to Agent and Lenders in their discretion, |
(u) |
Fees. Agent shall have received all fees payable to Agent and Lenders on or prior to the Closing Date hereunder, including pursuant to Article III hereof; |
(v) |
Initial Projections. Agent shall have received a copy of the Initial Projections which shall be satisfactory in all respects to Agent and Lenders; |
(w) |
Insurance. Agent shall have received in form and substance satisfactory to Agent, (i) evidence that adequate insurance, including without limitation, casualty and liability insurance, required to be maintained under this Agreement is in full force and effect, (ii) insurance certificates issued by Loan Parties’ insurance broker containing such information regarding Loan Parties’ casualty and liability insurance policies as Agent shall request and naming Agent as an additional insured, lenders loss payee and/or mortgagee, as applicable, and (iii) loss payable endorsements issued by Loan Parties’ insurer naming Agent as lenders loss payee and mortgagee, as applicable; |
(x) |
Consents. Agent shall have received any and all Consents necessary to permit the effectuation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and the Other Documents; and, Agent shall have received such Consents and waivers of such third parties as might assert claims with respect to the Collateral, as Agent and their counsel shall deem necessary; |
(y) |
No Adverse Material Change. Since (i) September 30, 2018 with respect to KeyMile and (ii) December 31, 2017, no event, condition or state of facts which could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect shall have occurred and (ii) no representations made or information supplied to Agent or Lenders shall have been proven to be inaccurate or misleading in any material respect; |
(z) |
Contract Review. Agent shall have received and reviewed all Material Contracts of Companies including leases, union contracts, labor contracts, vendor supply contracts, license agreements and distributorship agreements and such contracts and agreements shall be satisfactory in all respects to Agent; |
(aa) |
Compliance with Laws. Agent shall be reasonably satisfied that each Company is in compliance with all pertinent federal, state, local or territorial regulations, including those with respect to the Federal Occupational Safety and Health Act, the Environmental Protection Act, ERISA and the Anti-Terrorism Laws; |
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Revolving Advances and initial Domestic Letters of Credit under Domestic Credit Agreement so as to consummate the Transactions. |
(cc) |
Certificate of Beneficial Ownership; USA Patriot Act Diligence. Agent and each Lender shall have received, in form and substance acceptable to Agent and each Lender an executed Certificate of Beneficial Ownership for each Loan Party and such other documentation and other information requested in connection with applicable “know your customer” and anti-money laundering rules and regulations, including the USA Patriot Act; and |
(dd) |
Other. All corporate and other proceedings, and all documents, instruments and other legal matters in connection with the Transactions shall be satisfactory in form and substance to Agent. |
(a) |
Representations and Warranties. Each of the representations and warranties made by any Loan Party in or pursuant to this Agreement and/or the Other Documents and the Domestic Credit Agreement and/or the Domestic Other Documents shall be true and correct in all material respects (except in the case of any such representation or warranty that is qualified as to materiality or as to the occurrence of (or the absence of the occurrence of) a Material Adverse Effect (specifically including without limitation the representations set forth in Section 5.5(d) hereof), which shall be true and correct in all respects) on and as of such date as if made on and as of such date (except to the extent any such representation or warranty expressly relates only to any earlier and/or specified date, in which case such representation or warranty shall have been true and correct in all material respects (except in the case of any such representation or warranty that is qualified as to materiality or as to the occurrence of (or the absence of the occurrence of) a Material Adverse Effect, which shall have been true and correct in all respects) on and as of such earlier and/or specified date); |
(b) |
No Default. No Event of Default or Default shall have occurred and be continuing on such date, or would exist after giving effect to the Advances requested to be made, on such date and, in the case of the initial Advances, after giving effect to the consummation of the Transactions; provided, however that Agent, in its sole discretion, may continue to make Advances notwithstanding the existence of an Event of Default or Default and that any Advances so made shall not be deemed a waiver of any such Event of Default or Default; and |
(c) |
Maximum Advances. In the case of any type of Advance requested to be made, after giving effect thereto, the aggregate amount of such type of Advance shall not exceed the maximum amount of such type of Advance permitted under this Agreement, and after giving effect to such requested Advance, there shall be no violation of the terms and provisions of Section 2.7. |
Each request for an Advance by Borrowing Agent or Borrowers hereunder shall constitute a representation and warranty by each Borrower and each other Loan Party as of the date of such
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Advance that the conditions set forth in this Section shall have been satisfied. Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary set forth in this Section 8.2, in no event shall the conditions set forth in this Section 8.2(b) be deemed to have been met during the continuance of any Cure Period.
(a) |
(x) immediately upon the effectiveness of this Agreement, Agent shall receive the executed legal opinions of DLA Piper, German counsel to Loan Parties in relation to capacity and due execution and Squire Xxxxxx Xxxxx, German counsel to Agent in relation to validity and enforceability, each in form and substance satisfactory to Agent which shall cover such matters incident to the Transactions as Agent may reasonably require and each Loan Party hereby authorizes and directs such counsel to deliver such opinions to Agent and Lenders, and (y) as soon as reasonably practical (taking into account all applicable requirements of German Applicable Law, including any notarial requirements) following the closing and consummation of the Transactions: KeyMile and all parties thereto shall execute and deliver (or cause to be executed and delivered by power of attorney) the Pledge Agreements described in clauses (i) and (ii) of the definition of “Pledge Agreement with respect to the Equity Interests of KeyMile and KeyMile GmbH. |
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Customers that is maintained with a bank other than Agent and is not subject to a deposit account Control Agreement complying with the requirements of Section 4.8(h) for the funds in each such collections deposit account to be wired and transferred to a Depositary Account maintained with Agent on a daily basis. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary provided for in the foregoing, with respect to any bank account of any Domestic Loan Party maintained in Canada, no later than date that is ninety (90) days after the Closing Date (as such date may be extended by Agent in its sole discretion), Loan Parties shall either have (i) moved and established (and thereafter continue to maintain) each such deposit account with Agent or one of the other Lenders, or (ii) executed and delivered, and shall have caused the applicable financial depository institution to execute and deliver, a deposit account Control Agreement complying with the requirements of Section 4.8(j) with respect to such deposit account. |
(c) |
No later than thirty (30) days after the Closing Date (as such date may be extended by Agent in its sole discretion), Domestic Loan Parties shall deliver to Agent loss payable endorsements issued by Domestic Loan Parties’ insurers naming Agent as lenders loss payee and mortgagee, as applicable, with respect to each of Loan Parties’ casualty/property insurance policies (including business interruption insurance policies). |
(d) |
No later than one hundred eighty (180) days after the Closing Date (as such date may be extended by Agent in its sole discretion), Loan Parties shall cause that certain judgment (#J180000739870) filed by the State of Florida, Department of Revenue, on November 7, 2018 and that certain judgment (#J180000753236)) filed by the State of Florida, Department of Revenue, on November 14, 2018 (collectively, the “Florida Judgement Lien”) to have been terminated and released of record. |
(e) |
No later than thirty (30) days after the Closing Date (as such date may be extended by Agent in its sole discretion), Loan Parties shall either (x) cause a reputable Korean patent law attorney to deliver to Agent and Domestic Agent a memorandum, satisfactory in form and substance to each of Agent and Domestic Agent in their Permitted Discretion, regarding the rights of DNS Korea (and of any third-party to whom Agent and/or Domestic Agent may transfer DNS Korea’s ownership rights in any registered Korean patents and patent application Intellectual Property that is jointly owned by DNI and DNS Korea pursuant to any exercise by Agent and/or Domestic Agent of its rights as a secured creditor) to freely use and grant licenses with respect to such jointly owned Intellectual Property without payment of royalties or license fees, or (y) cause DNI and DNS Korea to execute and deliver, and deliver to Agent a true, correct, and complete copy of, a license agreement regarding any Intellectual Property that is jointly owned by DNI and DNS Korea granting DNS Korea a license with respect to such Intellectual Property and consenting to a pledge and creation of a Lien in favor of Agent with respect to DNS Korea’s rights as licensee under such license, to be in form and substance acceptable to Agent in its Permitted Discretion (any such license that may be entered into in accordance with the foregoing, if any, the “DNI IP License”). |
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Companies on terms and conditions (including terms subordinating payment of the Indebtedness evidenced by such note owing by any Loan Party to the prior Payment in Full of all of the Obligations) acceptable to Agent in its Permitted Discretion, and shall deliver the original of such master intercompany note has been delivered to Agent either endorsed in blank or together with an undated instrument of transfer executed in blank by the applicable the Companies that are the payees on such note. |
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No later than (x) forty-five (45) days after the Closing Date (as such date may be extended by Agent in its sole discretion), to the extent not delivered on the Closing Date, the original stock certificates (if and to the extent any such exist) representing the Equity Interest of each Subsidiary of any Domestic Loan Party that is either a Dormant Subsidiary or a Foreign Subsidiary (other than DNS Korea or KeyMile), together with appropriate stock powers or other instruments of assignment or transfer undated and executed in blank, and (y) three (3) Business Days after the Closing Date (as such date may be extended by Agent in its sole discretion), to the extent not delivered on the Closing Date, the original stock certificates (if and to the extent any such exist) representing the Equity Interest of each other Pledged Issuer, together with appropriate stock powers or other instruments of assignment or transfer undated and executed in blank, if applicable. |
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No later than March 21, 2019 (as such date may be extended by Agent in its sole discretion), a copy of Form 8-K filed by DZSI with the SEC with respect to the pro forma financial information for the KeyMile Acquisition required to be filed pursuant Article 11 of Regulation S-X (17 CFR 210). |
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No later than ninety (90) days after the Closing Date (as such date may be extended by Agent in its sole discretion), Loan Parties shall cause each Subsidiary listed on Schedule 5.2(a) as not being, on the Closing Date, continuing in existence and in good standing (where such concept is relevant) as a legal entity under the laws of its jurisdiction of incorporation (each a “Corporate Cure Subsidiary”) to either (x) return to good standing as a legal entity under the laws of its jurisdiction of incorporation, or (y) elect to dissolve such Corporate Cure Subsidiary and give written notice to Agent and Domestic Agent of such election, in which event such Corporate Cure Subsidiary shall be dissolved in accordance with Section 7.1(c) within one twenty (120) days after such election (as such date may be extended by the Agent in its sole discretion), and, in each such case, provide written notice of such action, including delivery of a good standing certificate (or equivalent under applicable local Laws), election of dissolution or delivery of evidence of such dissolution. |
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Assignment Agreement and (4) a full list of KeyMile’s IP Rights (as defined in the German Assignment Agreement) existing as of such date; |
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No later than fifteen (15) Business Days after the Closing Date (as such date may be extended by Agent in its sole discretion), Loan Parties shall have caused the Korean IP Pledges to have been duly submitted for registration with the Korean Patent Office; |
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No later than forty-five (45) Business Days after the Closing Date (as such date may be extended by Agent in its sole discretion), Loan Parties shall have made commercially reasonable efforts to cause the applicable Persons to execute and deliver to Agent Lien Waiver Agreements with respect to (i) each leased corporate headquarters location of each Loan Party, (ii) each leased location or third-party warehouse/bailee/processor at which tangible Collateral with a fair market value, as to each such location, in excess of $500,000 is located, and (iii) each leased location at which any unique books and records (not duplicated at the applicable corporate headquarters of such Loan Party) of any Loan Party are kept, subject to any exceptions to the foregoing as may have been agreed between Loan Parties and Agent prior to the Closing Date. |
ARTICLE IXINFORMATION AS TO LOAN PARTIES.
Each Loan Party shall, or (except with respect to Section 9.11 hereof) shall cause Borrowing Agent on its behalf to, until the Payment in Full of the Obligations, the termination of the Commitments and the termination of this Agreement:
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The items to be provided under this Section are to be in form satisfactory to Agent and executed by each Loan Party and delivered to Agent from time to time solely for Agent’s convenience in maintaining records of the Collateral, and any Loan Party’s failure to deliver any of such items to Agent shall not affect, terminate, modify or otherwise limit Agent’s Lien with respect to the Collateral. Unless otherwise agreed to by Agent, the items to be provided under this Section 9.2 shall be delivered to Agent by the specific method of Approved Electronic Communication designated by Agent. |
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and consolidating statements of income and stockholders’ equity and cash flow from the beginning of the current fiscal year to the end of such fiscal year and the consolidated and consolidating balances sheet as at the end of such fiscal year, which such financial statements and balance sheets shall be true, complete and correct in all material respects and fairly present, in all material respects, the financial position of DZSI and its Subsidiaries on a consolidating and Consolidated Basis as of the date thereof and the results of operations for DZSI and its Subsidiaries on a consolidating and Consolidated Basis for such fiscal year and prepared in accordance with GAAP applied on a basis consistent with prior practices, and in reasonable detail, which such consolidated balance sheet, income statement, statement of cash flow, and statement of shareholder’s equity shall be audited by and be reported and opined upon without any qualifications (including any (A) “going concern” or like qualification or exception, (B) qualification or exception as to the scope of such audit, or (C) qualification which relates to the treatment or classification of any item and which, as a condition to the removal of such qualification, would require an adjustment to such item) by an independent certified public accounting firm selected by Loan Parties and satisfactory to Agent (the “Accountants”); provided that, it is agreed by the parties hereto that PricewaterhouseCoopers shall be acceptable as the Accountants. The report of the Accountants shall be accompanied by any Accountants’ letter to management (if prepared). In addition, the reports shall be accompanied by a Compliance Certificate. |
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the holders of its Equity Interests and/or file with the Securities and Exchange Commission (including all Form 10-Q quarterly reports, and Form 10-K annual reports). |
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occurred together with a written statement describing such transaction and the action which such Company or any member of the Controlled Group has taken, is taking or proposes to take with respect thereto to the extent such could reasonably be expected to result in any material liability to DZSI and its Subsidiaries, (c) a funding waiver request has been filed with respect to any Plan together with all communications received by any Company or any member of the Controlled Group with respect to such request, (d) any increase in the benefits of any existing Plan or the establishment of any new Plan or the commencement of contributions to any Plan to which any Company or any member of the Controlled Group was not previously contributing shall occur which could reasonably be expected to result in any material liability to DZSI and its Subsidiaries, (e) any Company or any member of the Controlled Group shall receive from the PBGC a notice of intention to terminate a Plan or to have a trustee appointed to administer a Plan, together with copies of each such notice, (f) any Company or any member of the Controlled Group shall receive any unfavorable determination letter from the Internal Revenue Service regarding the qualification of a Plan under Section 401(a) of the Code, together with copies of each such letter; (g) any Company or any member of the Controlled Group shall receive a notice regarding the imposition of withdrawal liability, together with copies of each such notice; or (h) any Company or any member of the Controlled Group knows that (A) a Multiemployer Plan has been terminated, (B) the administrator or plan sponsor of a Multiemployer Plan intends to terminate a Multiemployer Plan, (C) the PBGC has instituted or will institute proceedings under Section 4042 of ERISA to terminate a Multiemployer Plan or (D) a Multiemployer Plan is subject to Section 432 of the Code or Section 305 of ERISA. |
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The occurrence of any one or more of the following events shall constitute an “Event of Default”:
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ARTICLE XILENDERS’ RIGHTS AND REMEDIES AFTER DEFAULT.
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or at any time thereafter, in its discretion without notice or demand, take the Collateral and remove the same to such place as Agent may deem advisable and Agent may require Loan Parties to make the Collateral available to Agent at a convenient place. With or without having the Collateral at the time or place of sale, Agent may sell the Collateral, or any part thereof, at public or private sale, at any time or place, in one or more sales, at such price or prices, and upon such terms, either for cash, credit or future delivery, as Agent may elect. Except as to that part of the Collateral which is perishable or threatens to decline speedily in value or is of a type customarily sold on a recognized market, Agent shall give Loan Parties reasonable notification of such sale or sales, it being agreed that in all events written notice mailed to Borrowing Agent at least ten (10) days prior to such sale or sales is reasonable notification. At any public sale Agent or any Lender may bid (including credit bid) for and become the purchaser, and Agent, any Lender or any other purchaser at any such sale thereafter shall hold the Collateral sold absolutely free from any claim or right of whatsoever kind, including any equity of redemption and all such claims, rights and equities are hereby expressly waived and released by each Loan Party. In connection with the exercise of the foregoing remedies, including the sale of Inventory, Agent is granted a perpetual non-revocable, royalty free, nonexclusive license and Agent is granted permission to use all of each Loan Party’s (a) Intellectual Property which is used or useful in connection with Inventory for the purpose of marketing, advertising for sale and selling or otherwise disposing of such Inventory and (b) equipment for the purpose of completing the manufacture of unfinished goods. The Net Cash Proceeds realized from the sale of any Collateral shall be applied to the Obligations in the order set forth in Section 11.5 hereof. Non-cash proceeds will only be applied to the Obligations as they are converted into cash. If any deficiency shall arise, Loan Parties shall remain liable to Agent and Lenders therefor. |
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enhancements to insure Agent against risks of loss, collection or disposition of Collateral or to provide to Agent a guaranteed return from the collection or disposition of Collateral; or (xii) to the extent deemed appropriate by Agent, to obtain the services of other brokers, investment bankers, consultants and other professionals to assist Agent in the collection or disposition of any of the Collateral. Each Loan Party acknowledges that the purpose of this Section 11.1(b) is to provide non-exhaustive indications of what actions or omissions by Agent would not be commercially unreasonable in Agent’s exercise of remedies against the Collateral and that other actions or omissions by Agent shall not be deemed commercially unreasonable solely on account of not being indicated in this Section 11.1(b). Without limitation upon the foregoing, nothing set forth in this Section 11.1(b) shall be construed to grant any rights to any Loan Party or to impose any duties on Agent that would not have been granted or imposed by this Agreement or by Applicable Law in the absence of this Section 11.1(b). |
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setoff and application; provided that the failure to give such notice shall not affect the validity of such setoff and application |
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Allocation of Payments and Proceeds of Collateral after Event of Default. Notwithstanding any provisions of this Agreement to the contrary: |
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After the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, all amounts collected or received by Agent on account of the Obligations (including without limitation any amounts on account of any of Cash Management Liabilities or Hedge Liabilities, adequate protection payments and distributions under a plan of reorganization), or in respect of the Collateral may be paid, at Agent’s discretion, over or delivered as follows: |
FIRST, to the payment until paid in full of (x) all out-of-pocket costs and expenses (including without limitation all legal expenses and reasonable attorneys’ fees) of Agent and Domestic Agent to the extent payable and/or reimbursable by Loan Parties under the provisions of Section 16.9 hereof and/or any other applicable provisions hereof or of any Other Document, and/or under the provisions of Section 16.9 of the Domestic Credit Agreement and/or any other applicable provisions thereof or of any Domestic Other Document, including all such costs and expenses incurred by Agent or Domestic Agent in connection with enforcing the rights and remedies of Agent and/or any other Secured Parties under this Agreement and the Other Documents and/or of Domestic Agent and/or any Domestic Secured Party under the Domestic Credit Agreement and the Domestic Other Documents, and (y) all indemnification obligations owing to Agent and Domestic Agent to the extent payable by Loan Parties under the provisions of Section 16.5 hereof and/or any other applicable provisions hereof or of any Other Document and/or under the provisions of Section 16.5 of the Domestic Credit Agreement and/or any other applicable provisions thereof or of any Domestic Other Document;
SECOND, to payment until paid in full of any fees owing and payable to Agent hereunder and/or under any Other Document and to Domestic Agent under the Domestic Credit Agreement and/or any Domestic Other Document;
THIRD, to the payment until paid in full of all Obligations (including Ex-Im Obligations) arising under this Agreement and the Other Documents and/or the Domestic Credit Agreement and the Domestic Credit Agreement consisting of accrued and unpaid interest on any Out-of-Formula Loans and Protective Advances funded by Agent under Sections 16.2(e) and 16.2(f) hereof and not funded by the other Revolving Lenders hereunder and on any “Out-of-Formula Loans” and “Protective Advances” (each as defined in the Domestic Credit Agreement) funded by Domestic Agent under Sections 16.2(e) and 16.2(f) of the Domestic Credit Agreement and not funded by the other Domestic Lenders under the Domestic Credit Agreement,
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FOURTH, to the payment until paid in full of all Obligations (including Ex-Im Obligations) arising under this Agreement and the Other Documents and/or the Domestic Credit Agreement and the Domestic Credit Agreement consisting of the principal outstanding on any Out-of-Formula Loans and Protective Advances funded by Agent under Sections 16.2(e) and 16.2(f) hereof and not funded by the other Revolving Lenders hereunder and on any “Out-of-Formula Loans” and “Protective Advances” (each as defined in the Domestic Credit Agreement) funded by Domestic Agent under Sections 16.2(e) and 16.2(f) of the Domestic Credit Agreement and not funded by the other Domestic Lenders under the Domestic Credit Agreement;
FIFTH, ratably, to the payment until paid in full of (x) all out-of-pocket costs and expenses (including without limitation all legal expenses and reasonable attorneys’ fees) of each of the Lenders and the Domestic Lenders to the extent payable and/or reimbursable by Loan Parties under the provisions of Section 16.9 hereof and/or any other applicable provisions hereof or of any Other Document and/or under the provisions of Section 16.9 of the Domestic Credit Agreement and/or any other applicable provisions thereof or of any Domestic Other Document, and (y) all indemnification obligations owing to each of the Lenders and the Domestic Lenders to the extent payable by Loan Parties under the provisions of Section 16.5 hereof and/or any other applicable provisions hereof or of any Other Document and/or under the provisions of Section 16.5 of the Domestic Credit Agreement and/or any other applicable provisions thereof or of any Domestic Other Document;
SIXTH, to the payment until paid in full of all Obligations (including Ex-Im Obligations) arising under this Agreement and the Other Documents and/or the Domestic Credit Agreement and the Domestic Credit Agreement consisting of accrued and unpaid interest on any Swing Loans or Domestic Swing Loans;
SEVENTH, to the payment until paid in full of all Obligations (including Ex-Im Obligations) arising under this Agreement and the Other Documents and/or the Domestic Credit Agreement and the Domestic Credit Agreement consisting of the principal outstanding on any Swing Loans or Domestic Swing Loans,
EIGHTH, to the payment until paid in full of all Obligations (including Ex-Im Obligations) arising under this Agreement and the Other Documents and/or the Domestic Credit Agreement and the Domestic Other Documents consisting of accrued and unpaid interest and accrued and unpaid fees to the extent not repaid pursuant to clauses THIRD or SIXTH (including but not limited to all Letter of Credit Fees and all Facility Fees (as defined in the Domestic Credit Agreement) and all interest on any Letter of Credit Borrowings);
NINTH, to the payment until paid in full of all Obligations (including Ex-Im Obligations) arising under this Agreement and the Other Documents and/or the Domestic Credit Agreement and the Domestic Credit Agreement consisting of (i) the principal outstanding on any Domestic Revolving Advances, the Domestic Term Loan, or the Revolving Advances, (ii) the principal outstanding on any Letter of Credit Borrowings and cash collateralization of any outstanding Letters of Credit in accordance with Section 3.2(b) hereof and of the payment or cash collateralization of any outstanding Domestic Letters of Credit in accordance with Section 3.2(b) of the Domestic Credit Agreement, and (ii) any Cash Management Liabilities and Hedge Liabilities;
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TENTH, to the payment, pro rata, until paid in full of all other Obligations (including Ex-Im Obligations) arising under this Agreement or any Other Document and/or the Domestic Credit Agreement or any Domestic Other Document which have become due and payable and not repaid pursuant to clauses “FIRST” through “NINTH” above; and
ELEVENTH, to the payment of the surplus, if any, to whoever may be lawfully entitled to receive such surplus.
In carrying out the foregoing, and subject in all cases to the other provisions of this Section 11.5, (i) amounts received shall be applied in the numerical order provided until exhausted prior to application to the next succeeding category, (ii) each of the applicable Secured Parties and each of the applicable Domestic Secured Parties shall receive an amount equal to its pro rata share (based on the proportion that the then-outstanding Obligations (including Ex-Im Obligations) of the applicable category held by each of the applicable Secured Parties and applicable Domestic Secured Parties bears to the aggregate then-outstanding Obligations (including Ex-Im Obligations) of the applicable category) of amounts available to be applied pursuant to each of the clauses above, and (iii) to the extent that any amounts available for distribution pursuant to clause “NINTH” above are attributable to the issued but undrawn amount of outstanding Letters of Credit and/or Domestic Letters of Credit, such amounts shall be held by Agent and/or Domestic Agent (as applicable) as cash collateral for such Letters of Credit and Domestic Letters of Credit pursuant to Section 3.2(b) hereof and/or Section 3.2(b) of the Domestic Credit Agreement (as applicable) and applied (A) first, to reimburse Issuer and/or Domestic Issuer (as applicable) from time to time for any drawings under such Letters of Credit and (B) then, following the expiration of all Letters of Credit, to all other Obligations in the manner provided in this Section 11.5 (beginning with clause FIRST hereof).
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Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 11.5, no Swap Obligations of any Non-Qualifying Party shall be paid with amounts received from such Non-Qualifying Party under its Guaranty (including sums received as a result of the exercise of remedies with respect to such Guaranty) or from the proceeds of such Non-Qualifying Party’s Collateral if such Swap Obligations would constitute Excluded Hedge Liabilities, provided, however, that to the extent possible appropriate adjustments shall be made with respect to payments and/or the proceeds of Collateral from other Loan Parties that are Eligible Contract Participants with respect to such Swap Obligations to preserve the allocation to Obligations otherwise set forth above in this Section 11.5. |
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accrued after the commencement of any Insolvency Proceeding (whether or not such interest is allowed or allowable in such Insolvency Proceeding), default interest calculated at default rates, interest on interest and expense reimbursements, whether or not the same would be or is allowed or disallowed in whole or in part in any Insolvency Proceeding. |
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Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in (i) in Section 2.20, 4.8, or 11.5 of the Domestic Credit Agreement, (ii) any other provision of the Domestic Credit Agreement or of any Domestic Other Documents, (iii) this Section 11.5 or in Sections 2.20, 4.8, or 7.20 hereof, or (iv) any other provision of hereof or of any Other Document, every application of the proceeds of Collateral of any Borrower or Guarantor to the Obligations shall be made in such a way as to comply fully with all of the requirements of the Ex-Im Agreements while giving effect, so far as possible, to such provisions of this Agreement, the Other Documents (other than the Ex-Im Agreements), the Domestic Credit Agreement and the Domestic Other Documents; provided further that, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, all payments and collections on and other proceeds of any Export-Related Accounts Receivable and Export Related General Intangibles (and any other Export-Related Collateral) shall under all circumstances be applied first to the payment and repayment of the Ex-Im Obligations, and, only then, after satisfaction in full of all such Ex-Im Obligations under this Agreement, second, to the remaining Domestic Obligations. |
ARTICLE XIIWAIVERS AND JUDICIAL PROCEEDINGS.
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COURT TRIAL WITHOUT A JURY, AND THAT ANY PARTY TO THIS AGREEMENT MAY FILE AN ORIGINAL COUNTERPART OR A COPY OF THIS SECTION WITH ANY COURT AS WRITTEN EVIDENCE OF THE CONSENTS OF THE PARTIES HERETO TO THE WAIVER OF THEIR RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY. |
ARTICLE XIIIEFFECTIVE DATE AND TERMINATION.
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Any Issuer (other than PNC) may resign its capacity as an Issuer hereunder on ten (10) days written notice to each of Lenders and Borrowing Agent, and upon the effectiveness of such resignation, such resigning Issuer shall have no further commitment, obligation, or duty to issue any new Letters of Credit hereunder and/or to consent to any modifications or amendments or increases to any Letter of Credit issued by such resigning Issuer prior to the effectiveness of such resignation and/or to extend the maturity or term of any Letter of Credit issued by such resigning Issuer prior to the effectiveness of such resignation (and/or to permit any “evergreen” Letter of Credit issued by such resigning Issuer prior to the effectiveness of such resignation to renew); provided that, such resigning Issuer shall remain an Issuer for all purposes hereunder and under the Other Documents with respect to the Letters of Credit issued by such resigning Issuer prior to the effectiveness of such resignation until each such prior-issued Letter of Credit (x) has been fully drawn, (y) expires and/or terminates in accordance with the terms thereof, or (y) is cancelled/terminated and returned to such resigning Issuer with the consent of the beneficiary thereof. After any Issuer’s resignation as Issuer under the provisions of this paragraph, the provisions of this Article XIV, and any indemnification rights under this Agreement, including without limitation, rights arising under Section 16.5 hereof, shall inure to its benefit as to any actions taken or omitted to be taken by it while it was an Issuer under this Agreement as to any Letter of Credit.
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to Lenders. Agent shall take such action with respect to such Default or Event of Default as shall be reasonably directed by Required Lenders; provided, that, unless and until Agent shall have received such directions, Agent may (but shall not be obligated to) take such action, or refrain from taking such action, with respect to such Default or Event of Default as it shall deem advisable in the best interests of Lenders. |
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assignees, may rely on Agent to carry out such Lender's, Affiliate's, participant's or assignee's customer identification program, or other obligations required or imposed under or pursuant to the USA PATRIOT Act or the regulations thereunder, including the regulations contained in 31 CFR 103.121 (as hereafter amended, modified, supplemented or replaced, the “CIP Regulations”), or any other Anti-Terrorism Law, including any programs involving any of the following items relating to or in connection with any of Loan Parties, their Affiliates or their agents, the Other Documents or the transactions hereunder or contemplated hereby: (i) any identity verification procedures, (ii) any recordkeeping, (iii) comparisons with government lists, (iv) customer notices or (v) other procedures required under the CIP Regulations or such Anti-Terrorism Laws. |
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Each Loan Party hereby irrevocably designates Borrowing Agent to be its attorney and agent and in such capacity whether verbally, in writing or through electronic methods (including, without limitation, an Approved Electronic Communication) to (i) borrow, (ii) request advances, (iii) request the issuance of Letters of Credit, (iv) sign and endorse notes, (v) execute and deliver all instruments, documents, applications, security agreements, reimbursement agreements and letter of credit agreements for Letters of Credit and all other agreements, documents, instruments, certificates, notices, writings and further assurances now or hereafter required hereunder, (vi) make elections regarding interest rates, (vii) give instructions regarding Letters of Credit and agree with Issuer upon any amendment, extension or renewal of any Letter of Credit and (viii) otherwise take action under and in connection with this Agreement and the Other Documents, all on behalf of and in the name of such Loan Party or Loan Parties, and hereby authorizes Agent to pay over or credit all loan proceeds hereunder in accordance with the request of Borrowing Agent. |
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financing arrangements of Loan Parties as provided herein, reliance by Agent or any Lender on any request or instruction from Borrowing Agent or any other action taken by Agent or any Lender with respect to this Section 15.1 except due to willful misconduct or gross (not mere) negligence by the indemnified party (as determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in a final and non-appealable judgment). |
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All Obligations shall be joint and several, and each Borrower shall make payment upon the maturity of the Obligations by acceleration or otherwise, and such obligation and liability on the part of each Borrower shall in no way be affected by any extensions, renewals and forbearance granted by Agent or any Lender to any Loan Party, failure of Agent or any Lender to give any Loan Party notice of borrowing or any other notice, any failure of Agent or any Lender to pursue or preserve its rights against any Loan Party, the release by Agent or any Lender of any Collateral now or thereafter acquired from any Loan Party, and such agreement by each Borrower to pay upon any notice issued pursuant thereto is unconditional and unaffected by prior recourse by Agent or any Lender to the other Loan Parties or any Collateral for such Borrower’s Obligations or the lack thereof. Each Borrower waives all suretyship defenses. |
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to serve process in any manner permitted by law or shall limit the right of Agent or any Lender to bring proceedings against any Loan Party in the courts of any other jurisdiction. Each Loan Party waives any objection to jurisdiction and venue of any action instituted hereunder and shall not assert any defense based on lack of jurisdiction or venue or based upon forum non conveniens. Each Loan Party waives the right to remove any judicial proceeding brought against such Loan Party in any state court to any federal court. Any judicial proceeding by any Loan Party against Agent or any Lender involving, directly or indirectly, any matter or claim in any way arising out of, related to or connected with this Agreement or any of the Other Documents shall be brought only in a federal or state court located in the County of New York, State of New York. |
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This Agreement and the Other Documents contain the entire understanding between each Loan Party, Agent and each Lender and supersedes all prior agreements and understandings, if any, relating to the subject matter hereof. Any promises, representations, warranties or guarantees not herein contained and hereinafter made shall have no force and effect unless in writing, signed by each Loan Party’s, Agent’s and each Lender’s respective officers. Neither this Agreement nor any portion or provisions hereof may be amended, modified, waived, supplemented, discharged, cancelled or terminated orally or by any course of dealing, or in any manner other than by an agreement in writing, signed by the party to be charged. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Agent may modify this Agreement or any of the Other Documents for the purposes of completing missing content or correcting erroneous content of an administrative nature, without the need for a written amendment, provided that Agent shall send a copy of any such modification to Loan Parties and each Lender (which copy may be provided by electronic mail). Each Loan Party acknowledges that it has been advised by counsel in connection with the execution of this Agreement and Other Documents and is not relying upon oral representations or statements inconsistent with the terms and provisions of this Agreement. |
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Subject to the provisions of this Section 16.2(b), the conditions, provisions or terms hereof or of any Other Document may be amended, modified, supplemented, changed, varied, made the subject of any consent, or waived in any manner upon consent of Required Lenders, Agent, and Loan Parties and the execution by them of a written amendments or other agreements, documents or instruments providing for the terms of such amendment, modification, supplement, change, variation, consent, or waiver; provided, however, that no such amendment, or other agreement, document or instrument shall: |
(i)increase the Revolving Commitment or the maximum dollar amount of the Revolving Commitment Amount of any Lender without the consent of such Lender directly affected thereby;
(ii)whether or not any Advances are outstanding, extend the Term or the time for payment of principal or interest of any Advance (excluding the due date of any mandatory prepayment of an Advance), or any fee payable to any Lender, or reduce the principal amount of or the rate of interest borne by any Advances or reduce any fee payable to any Lender, without the consent of each Lender directly affected thereby (except that
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Required Lenders may elect to waive or rescind any imposition of the Default Rate under Section 3.1 hereof or Letter of Credit Default Rate under Section 3.2 hereof (unless imposed by Agent));
(iii)except in connection with any increase pursuant to Section 2.24 hereof, increase the Maximum Revolving Advance Amount without the consent of all Revolving Lenders;
(iv)alter the definition of the term “Required Lenders” or alter, amend or modify this Section 16.2(b) without the consent of all Lenders;
(v)alter, amend or modify the provisions of Section 11.5 hereof without the consent of all Lenders;
(vi)release any Collateral during any calendar year (other than in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement) having an aggregate value in excess of $3,000,000 without the consent of all Lenders, except in connection with a Permitted Disposition;
(vii)change the rights and duties of Agent without the consent of all Lenders and Agent;
(viii)subject to clause (e) below, permit any Revolving Advance to be made if after giving effect thereto the total of Revolving Advances outstanding hereunder would exceed the Formula Amount for more than sixty (60) consecutive Business Days or exceed one hundred and ten percent (110%) of the Formula Amount without the consent of all Revolving Lenders;
(ix)increase the Advance Rates above the Advance Rates in effect on the Closing Date without the consent of all Revolving Lenders; or
(x)release any Borrower without the consent of all Lenders.
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Any such supplemental agreement shall apply equally to each Lender and shall be binding upon Loan Parties, Lenders and Agent and all future holders of the Obligations. In the case of any waiver, Loan Parties, Agent and Lenders shall be restored to their former positions and rights, and any Event of Default waived shall be deemed to be cured and not continuing, but no waiver of a specific Event of Default shall extend to any subsequent Event of Default (whether or not the subsequent Event of Default is the same as the Event of Default which was waived), or impair any right consequent thereon. |
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elects to require any Lender to assign its interest to Agent or to the Designated Lender, Agent will so notify such Lender in writing within forty five (45) days following such Lender’s denial, and such Lender will assign its interest to Agent or the Designated Lender no later than five (5) days following receipt of such notice pursuant to a Commitment Transfer Supplement executed by such Lender, Agent or the Designated Lender, as appropriate, and Agent. |
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made after Agent has determined the existence of involuntary overadvances shall be deemed to be involuntary overadvances and shall be decreased in accordance with the preceding sentence. To the extent any Out-of-Formula Loans are not actually funded by the other Lenders as provided for in this Section 16.2(e), Agent may elect in its discretion to fund such Out-of-Formula Loans and any such Out-of-Formula Loans so funded by Agent shall be deemed to be Revolving Advances made by and owing to Agent, and Agent shall be entitled to all rights (including accrual of interest) and remedies of a Revolving Lender under this Agreement and the Other Documents with respect to such Revolving Advances. |
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In addition to (and not in substitution of) the discretionary Revolving Advances permitted above in this Section 16.2, (A) Agent is hereby authorized by Borrowers and Lenders, at any time in Agent’s sole discretion regardless of (i) the existence of a Default or an Event of Default, (ii) whether any of the other applicable conditions precedent set forth in Section 8.2 hereof have not been satisfied or the Revolving Commitments have been terminated for any reason, or (iii) any other contrary provision of this Agreement, to make Revolving Advances to Borrowers on behalf of Lenders which Agent, in its reasonable business judgment, deems necessary or desirable (a) to preserve or protect the Collateral, or any portion thereof, (b) to enhance the likelihood of, or maximize the amount of, repayment of the Advances and other Obligations, or (c) to pay any other amount chargeable to Borrowers pursuant to the terms of this Agreement (any such Revolving Advances, the “Protective Advances”), provided that, no such Protective Advance may be made to the extent, after giving effect to such Protective Advance, (A) the aggregate principal amount of the Revolving Loans (including any Out-of-Formula Loans and any Protective Advances) and Swing Loans then-outstanding plus the Dollar Equivalent of the Maximum Undrawn Amount of all Letters of Credit then-outstanding plus the Domestic Outstandings Amount would exceed the Total Borrowing Availability, or (B) the aggregate principal amount of the Revolving Loans (including any Out-of-Formula Loans and any Protective Advances) and Swing Loans then-outstanding plus the Dollar Equivalent of the Maximum Undrawn Amount of all Letters of Credit then-outstanding would exceed the Maximum Revolving Advance Amount. The Revolving Lenders shall be obligated to fund such Protective Advances and effect a settlement with Agent therefore upon demand of Agent in accordance with their respective Revolving Commitment Percentages; provided that, no Revolving Lender shall be required to fund any portion of any Protective Advance to the extent that, after giving effect to such funding, the aggregate amount of the outstanding Revolving Advances funded by such Revolving Lender (including any Out-of-Formula Loans and/or Protective Advances funded by such Revolving Lender) plus such Revolving Lender’s Revolving Commitment Percentage of all outstanding Swing Loans plus such Revolving Lender’s Revolving Commitment Percentage of the Dollar Equivalent of the aggregate Maximum Undrawn Amount of all outstanding Letters of Credit plus such Lender’s Domestic Revolving Commitment Percentage of the Domestic Subfacility Outstandings Amount would exceed the Domestic Revolving Commitment of such Lender. To the extent any Protective Advances are not actually funded by the other Lenders as provided for in this Section 16.2(f), any such Protective Advances funded by Agent shall be deemed to be Revolving Advances made by and owing to Agent, and Agent shall be entitled to all rights (including accrual of interest) and remedies of a Revolving Lender under this Agreement and the Other Documents with respect to such Revolving Advances. |
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This Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of Loan Parties, Agent, each Lender, all future holders of the Obligations and their respective successors and assigns, except that no Loan Party may assign or transfer any of its rights or obligations under this Agreement without the prior written consent of Agent and each Lender. |
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Each Loan Party acknowledges that in the regular course of commercial banking business one or more Lenders may at any time and from time to time sell participating interests in the Advances to other Persons (each such transferee or purchaser of a participating interest, a “Participant”). Each Participant may exercise all rights of payment (including rights of set-off) with respect to the portion of such Advances held by it or other Obligations payable hereunder as fully as if such Participant were the direct holder thereof provided that (i) Borrowers shall not be required to pay to any Participant more than the amount which it would have been required to pay to Lender which granted an interest in its Advances or other Obligations payable hereunder to such Participant had such Lender retained such interest in the Advances hereunder or other Obligations payable hereunder unless the sale of the participation to such Participant is made with Borrower’s prior written consent, and (ii) in no event shall Borrowers be required to pay any such amount arising from the same circumstances and with respect to the same Advances or other Obligations payable hereunder to both such Lender and such Participant. Each Loan Party hereby grants to any Participant a continuing security interest in any deposits, moneys or other property actually or constructively held by such Participant as security for the Participant’s interest in the Advances. |
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of the rights and obligations of such transferor Lender under this Agreement and the Other Documents. Loan Parties shall execute and deliver such further documents and do such further acts and things in order to effectuate the foregoing; provided, however, that the consent of Borrowers (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed) shall be required unless (x) an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing at the time of such assignment or (y) such assignment is to a Permitted Assignee; provided that Borrowers shall be deemed to have consented to any such assignment unless Borrowing Agent shall object thereto by written notice to Agent within five (5) Business Days after having received prior notice thereof. |
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Any Lender, with the consent of Agent, which shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed, may directly or indirectly sell, assign or transfer all or any portion of its rights and obligations under or relating to any of the Advances or Commitments of such Lender under this Agreement and the Other Documents to an entity, whether a corporation, partnership, trust, limited liability company or other entity that (i) is a Fund and (ii) is administered, serviced or managed by the assigning Lender or an Affiliate of such Lender (a “Purchasing CLO” and together with each Participant and Purchasing Lender, each a “Transferee” and collectively the “Transferees”), pursuant to a Commitment Transfer Supplement modified as appropriate to reflect the interest being assigned (“Modified Commitment Transfer Supplement”), executed by any intermediate purchaser, the Purchasing CLO, the transferor Lender, and Agent as appropriate and delivered to Agent for recording. Upon such execution and delivery, from and after the transfer effective date determined pursuant to such Modified Commitment Transfer Supplement, (i) Purchasing CLO thereunder shall be a party hereto and, to the extent provided in such Modified Commitment Transfer Supplement, have the rights and obligations of a Lender thereunder with respect to the Advances and, if applicable, Commitments transferred to such Purchasing CLO under such Commitment Transfer Supplement, and (ii) the transferor Lender thereunder shall, to the extent provided in such Modified Commitment Transfer Supplement, be released from its obligations under this Agreement. Such Modified Commitment Transfer Supplement shall be deemed to amend this Agreement to the extent, and only to the extent, necessary to reflect the addition of such Purchasing CLO. Each Loan Party hereby consents to the addition of such Purchasing CLO. Loan Parties shall execute and deliver such further documents and do such further acts and things in order to effectuate the foregoing. |
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Agent shall maintain at its address a copy of each Commitment Transfer Supplement and Modified Commitment Transfer Supplement delivered to it and a register (the “Register”) for the recordation of the names and addresses of each Lender and the outstanding principal, accrued and unpaid interest and other fees due hereunder. The entries in the Register shall be conclusive, in the absence of manifest error, and each Loan Party, Agent and Lenders may treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Register as the owner of the Advance recorded therein for the purposes of this Agreement. The Register shall be available for inspection by Borrowing Agent or any Lender at any reasonable time and from time to time upon reasonable prior notice. Agent shall receive a fee in the amount of $3,500 payable by the applicable Purchasing Lender and/or Purchasing CLO upon the effective date of each transfer or assignment (other than to an intermediate purchaser or to a Permitted Assignee) to such Purchasing Lender and/or Purchasing CLO and the resulting adjustment of the Revolving Commitment Percentages. |
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Notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth in this Agreement, any Lender may at any time and from time to 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 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. |
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In the case of hand-delivery, when delivered; |
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If given by mail, four (4) days after such Notice is deposited with the United States Postal Service, with first-class postage prepaid, return receipt requested; |
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In the case of a telephonic Notice, when a party is contacted by telephone, if delivery of such telephonic Notice is confirmed no later than the next Business Day by hand delivery, a facsimile or electronic transmission, an Internet Posting or an overnight courier delivery of a confirmatory Notice (received at or before 12:00 p.m. on such next Business Day); |
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In the case of a facsimile transmission, when sent to the applicable party’s facsimile machine’s telephone number, if the party sending such Notice receives confirmation of the delivery thereof from its own facsimile machine; |
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In the case of electronic transmission, when actually received; |
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In the case of an Internet Posting, upon delivery of a Notice of such posting (including the information necessary to access such site) by another means set forth in this Section 16.6; and |
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If given by any other means (including by overnight courier), when actually received. |
Any Lender giving a Notice to Borrowing Agent or any Loan Party shall concurrently send a copy thereof to Agent, and Agent shall promptly notify the other Lenders of its receipt of such Notice.
(A)If to Agent or PNC at:
PNC Bank, National Association
000 X. Xxxxx Xxx., (2 Xxx Xxxxx) Xxxxx 0000
Xxx Xxxxxxx, XX 00000
Attention:Relationship Manager – Dasan Zhone/DZSI / Xxxxx Xxxxxxx
Telephone: 000-000-0000
PNC Bank, National Association
PNC Agency Services
PNC Firstside Center
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000 Xxxxx Xxxxxx (Mailstop: P7-PFSC-04-1)
Xxxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxxxx 00000
Attention: Xxxx Xxxxxxxxx
Facsimile: (000) 000-0000
with an additional copy to:
Blank Rome LLP
The Chrysler Building – 000 Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000-0000
Attention: Xxxxxxxx X. Xxxxx, Esq.
Facsimile: (000) 000-0000
(B)If to a Lender other than Agent, as specified on its signature page hereto or in the Commitment Transfer Supplement or joinder agreement under which such Lender became a party hereto.
(C)If to Borrowing Agent or any Loan Party:
Facsimile: (000) 000-0000
with a copy to:
Facsimile: (000) 000-0000
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the termination of this Agreement and the Other Documents and the Payment in Full of the Obligations. |
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Captions. The captions at various places in this Agreement are intended for convenience only and do not constitute and shall not be interpreted as part of this Agreement. |
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Counterparts; Facsimile Signatures. This Agreement may be executed in any number of and by different parties hereto on separate counterparts, all of which, when so executed, |
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shall be deemed an original, but all such counterparts shall constitute one and the same agreement. Any signature delivered by a party by facsimile or electronic transmission (including email transmission of a PDF image) shall be deemed to be an original signature hereto. |
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The USA PATRIOT Act requires all financial institutions to obtain, verify and record certain information that identifies individuals or business entities which open an “account” with such financial institution. Consequently, Agent and each Lender may from time to time request, and each Loan Party shall provide to Agent or such Lender, such Loan Party’s name, address, tax identification number and/or such other identifying information as shall be necessary for Agent or such Lender to comply with the USA PATRIOT Act and any other Anti-Terrorism Law. |
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Each Loan Party represents and warrants that (i) no Covered Entity is a Sanctioned Person and (ii) no Covered Entity, either in its own right or through any third party, (A) has any of its assets in a Sanctioned Country or in the possession, custody or control of a Sanctioned Person in violation of any Anti-Terrorism Law; (B) does business in or with, or derives any of its income from investments in or transactions with, any Sanctioned Country or Sanctioned Person in violation of any Anti-Terrorism Law; or (C) engages in any dealings or transactions prohibited by any Anti-Terrorism Law. |
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Each Loan Party covenants and agrees that (i) no Covered Entity will become a Sanctioned Person, (ii) no Covered Entity, either in its own right or through any third party, will (A) have any of its assets in a Sanctioned Country or in the possession, custody or control of a Sanctioned Person in violation of any Anti-Terrorism Law; (B) do business in or with, or derive any of its income from investments in or transactions with, any Sanctioned Country or Sanctioned Person in violation of any Anti-Terrorism Law; (C) engage in any dealings or transactions prohibited by any Anti-Terrorism Law or (D) use the Advances to fund any operations in, finance any investments or activities in, or, make any payments to, a Sanctioned Country or Sanctioned Person in violation of any Anti-Terrorism Law, (iii) the funds used to repay the Obligations will not be derived from any unlawful activity, (iv) each Covered Entity shall comply with all Anti-Terrorism Laws and (v) the Loan Parties shall promptly notify Agent in writing upon any Loan Party obtaining knowledge of the occurrence of a Reportable Compliance Event. |
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any anti-boycott or blocking law, regulation or statute in force from time to time in the Federal Republic of Germany or the European Union and applicable to such entity (including without limitation EU Regulation (EC) 2271/96 and section 7 of the German Foreign Trade Ordinance (Verordnung zur Durchführung des Außenwirtschaftsgesetzes (Außenwirtschafts-verordnung - AWV)). |
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the application of any Write-Down and Conversion Powers by an EEA Resolution Authority to any such liabilities arising hereunder which may be payable to it by any party hereto that is an EEA Financial Institution; and |
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the effects of any Bail-in Action on any such liability, including, if applicable: |
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a conversion of all, or a portion of, such liability into shares or other instruments of ownership in such EEA Financial Institution, its parent undertaking, or a bridge institution that may be issued to it or otherwise conferred on it, and that such shares or other instruments of ownership will be accepted by it in lieu of any rights with respect to any such liability under this Agreement or any Other Document; or |
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able to purchase is less than the amount of the Currency Due originally due to it, the Borrowers shall indemnify and save Agent harmless from and against loss or damage arising as a result of such deficiency. The indemnity contained herein shall constitute an obligation separate and independent from the other obligations contained in this Agreement and the Other Documents, shall give rise to a separate and independent cause of action, shall apply irrespective of any indulgence granted by Agent from time to time and shall continue in full force and effect notwithstanding any judgment or order for a liquidated sum in respect of an amount due under this Agreement or any of the Other Documents or under any judgment or order. |
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Domestic Agent, for the benefit of the Domestic Secured Parties, in any Inventory Collateral pursuant to the Domestic Credit Agreement or any Domestic Other Documents and (y) the Liens granted by any of the Loan Parties to the Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, in any Inventory Collateral pursuant to this Agreement or any Other Documents shall rank pari passu. The parties acknowledge that any proxy or power or attorney granted to the Agent hereunder has also been granted to the Domestic Agent, and the Agent and Lenders consent thereto. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement or any Other Document, to the extent that this Agreement or any Other Documents requires the delivery of any Secondary Collateral to the Agent, no Loan Party shall have any obligation to make such delivery to the Agent, if such delivery has been made to the Domestic Agent, unless the Domestic Credit Agreement has been terminated. Solely with respect to the Secondary Collateral, the Agent’s rights and remedies (including any proxies and powers of attorney) under this Agreement and the Other Documents shall be subject to the rights and remedies of the Domestic Agent and, solely with respect to the Export-Related Collateral, the Domestic Agent’s rights and remedies under the Domestic Credit Agreement (including any proxies and powers of attorney thereunder) shall be subject to the rights and remedies of the Agent. Except in the case where an assignment with respect to this Agreement and the Documents has already taken place under Section 16.3(i) hereof, in no event may the Agent resign as agent under this Agreement, unless Agent has simultaneously resigned under the Domestic Credit Agreement, the intent being that Agent under this Agreement shall also be the Domestic Agent unless an assignment with respect to this Agreement and the Other Documents has already taken place under Section 16.3(i) hereof. |
ARTICLE XVIIGUARANTY AND SURETYSHIP AGREEMENT
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credit may be made to Loan Parties (including without limitation by making available to Loan Parties under this Agreement and/or any Other Document and as part of the Guaranteed Obligations any new loans, advances or other extensions of credit of any kind, including any such new loans, advances or extension of credit of a new or different type or nature (including any new Cash Management Products and Services of any kind, Foreign Currency Xxxxxx of any kind and/or Interest Rate Hedge of any kind) as compared to the loans, advances and extensions of credit available to Loan Parties hereunder as of the Closing Date); (iv) apply any and all payments by whomever paid or however realized including any proceeds of the Collateral or any other collateral or security, to any Guaranteed Obligations in such order, manner and amount as Agent may determine in its sole discretion in accordance with the terms of this Agreement; (v) settle, compromise or deal with any other Person, including any Borrower or any other guarantor, with respect to the Guaranteed Obligations in such manner as Agent deems appropriate in its sole discretion; (vi) substitute, exchange, subordinate, sell, compromise or release any security or guaranty for the Guaranteed Obligations; or (vii) take such actions and exercise such remedies hereunder as provided herein. |
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Upon the occurrence of any Event of Default under this Agreement: (i) Guarantors shall pay to Agent, immediately upon Agent’s demand therefore (except in the case of any Event of Default under Section 10.7, in which case Guarantors shall pay to Agent immediately, without any demand or notice whatsoever), the full amount of the Guaranteed Obligations; (ii) Agent in its discretion may exercise with respect to any Collateral of any Guarantor or any other collateral or security for the Guaranteed Obligations any one or more of the rights and remedies provided a secured party under the Uniform Commercial Code or any other applicable law or at equity (all of which such rights and remedies are hereby deemed incorporated herein and confirmed and ratified by Guarantors as if expressly set forth and granted and agreed to by Guarantors herein); and/or (iii) Agent in its discretion may exercise from time to time any other rights and remedies available to it or any other Secured Party at law, in equity or otherwise. |
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been terminated (provided that, even after such time, each provision hereof that expressly states it shall survive any such Payment and Full and/or termination shall remain in full force and effect in accordance with the terms of such provision), and until such time, no Guarantor shall have any right to terminate or revoke the provisions of this Article XVII nor any of the guarantee and surety agreements and other covenants and undertakings provided for herein. |
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Agent shall be entitled to enforce the Guaranty provided for under this Article XVII (“this Guarantee”) against any German Guarantor without limitation in respect of: |
(i)all and any amounts which are owed under the Guaranteed Obligations (other than only under this clause) by such German Guarantor itself or by any of its Subsidiaries that later become Loan Parties; and
(ii)all and any amounts which are owed under the Guaranteed Obligations by (aa) a shareholder of such German Guarantor or (bb) an affiliated company (verbundenes Unternehmen) within the meaning of section 15 of the German Stock Corporation Act (Aktiengesetz) of a shareholder of such German Guarantor (other than such German Guarantor and its Subsidiaries) provided that
(A)such German Guarantor has entered into a domination and/or profit and loss transfer agreement (Beherrschungs- und/oder Gewinnabführungsvertrag) with such shareholder or affiliated company, and
(B)section 30 of the German Act on Companies with Limited Liability (Gesetz betreffend die Gesellschaften mit beschränkter Haftung) as amended from time to time exempts specific distributions (Leistungen) among parties to a domination and/or profit and loss transfer agreement from the prohibition to pay out assets required for the preservation of the registered share capital (Stammkapital).
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Agent and Secured Parties shall not be entitled to enforce this Guarantee against a German Guarantor, if and to the extent that: |
(i)this Guarantee secures the obligations of an obligor which is (i) a shareholder of such German Guarantor or (ii) an affiliated company within the meaning of section 15 of the German Stock Corporation Act of a shareholder of such German Guarantor (other than a German Guarantor and its Subsidiaries); and
(ii)such German Guarantor has not entered into a domination and/or profit and loss transfer agreement with such shareholder or affiliate and section 30 of the German Act on Companies with Limited Liability as amended from time to time exempts distributions among parties of a domination and/or profit and loss transfer agreement from the prohibition to pay out assets required for the preservation of the registered share capital; and
(iii)the enforcement of this Guarantee would have the effect of (aa) reducing such German Guarantor's net assets (Reinvermögen) (as determined in accordance with subsection 17.10(c), (the "Net Assets") to an amount of less than its registered share capital or, if the Net Assets are already an amount of less than its registered share capital, of causing such amount to be further reduced and (bb) would thereby affect the assets required for the obligatory preservation of such German Guarantor's registered share capital according to section 30 and section 31 of the German Act on Companies with Limited Liability (as amended from time to time), provided that the amount of the registered share capital to be taken into consideration shall be the amount registered in the commercial register as at the date hereof, and any increase of the registered share capital registered after the date of this Agreement shall only be taken into account if such increase has been effected with the prior written consent of Agent.
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The Net Assets shall be calculated as an amount equal to the sum of the values of such German Guarantor's assets (consisting of all assets which correspond to the items set forth in section 266 sub-section (2) A, B and C of the German Commercial Code (Handelsgesetzbuch)) less the aggregate amount of such German Guarantor's liabilities (consisting of all liabilities and liability reserves which correspond to the items set forth in section 266 sub-section (3) B, C and D of the German Commercial Code). The Net Assets shall be determined in accordance with the generally accepted accounting principles applicable from time to time in Germany (Grundsätze ordnungsgemäßer Buchführung) and be based on the same principles which were applied by such German Guarantor in the preparation of its (at the time in question) most recent annual balance sheet (Jahresbilanz). |
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market value of the asset or assets, within a time period reasonably required in order to realise any such asset or assets. |
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The limitations of this Guarantee set out above shall only apply if such German Guarantor delivers to Agent, without undue delay, |
(i)but no later than within 10 Business Days after receipt of a request for payment under this Guarantee by Agent, a notice in writing specifying
(A)to what extent this Guarantee should not be enforced;
(B)the amounts which would, if this Guarantee was enforced, have the effect of (aa) reducing such German Guarantor's Net Assets to an amount of less than its registered share capital or, if the Net Assets are already an amount of less than its registered share capital, of causing such amount to be further reduced and (bb) would thereby affect the assets required for the obligatory preservation of such German Guarantor's registered share capital according to section 30 of the German Act on Companies with Limited Liability (as amended from time to time),
(ii)providing with such notice sufficient supporting evidence, including, without limitation, an up-to-date pro forma balance sheet and a reasonably detailed calculation of the Net Assets (the "Management Determination");
(iii)but not later than within 30 Business Days after receipt of a request for payment under this Guarantee by Agent, an up-to-date balance sheet prepared by a firm of auditors of international standard and reputation which shows the value of such German Guarantor's Net Assets (the "Balance Sheet"). The Balance Sheet shall be prepared in accordance with the principles set out above and shall contain additional information (in reasonable detail) relating to items to be adjusted pursuant to the above.
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If such German Guarantor fails to deliver a Management Determination and/or the Balance Sheet within the aforementioned time periods, Agent shall be entitled to enforce this Guarantee irrespective of the limitations set out herein. For the avoidance of doubt, Agent is entitled to enforce the Guarantee without limitation to the extent enforcement is not restricted based on the Management Determination and the Balance Sheet in any event. |
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the Opposing Balance Sheet enter into a reliance letter with such German Guarantor. The Opposing Balance Sheet shall be prepared in accordance with the principles set out above. |
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In relation to any amounts exceeding the amount which according to the Management Determination, the Balance Sheet and, as the case may be, the Opposing Balance Sheet can be enforced in compliance with the limitations set out herein for which such German Guarantor is liable under this Guarantee, Agent shall be entitled to further pursue their claims (if any) after expiry of six (6) months from the date the Balance Sheet was delivered to Agent. However, such German Guarantor is entitled to object that this amount is still necessary for maintaining its registered share capital (calculated as of the date the demand under this Guarantee was made) in accordance with the above. |
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The limitations set out herein shall not apply: |
(i)if and to the extent, despite being in a position to take measures as described above, such German Guarantor fails to take such measures; or
(ii)if a court order providing for the commencement of preliminary insolvency proceedings in respect of the assets of such German Guarantor has been issued.
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No reduction of the amount enforceable pursuant to this Guarantee shall prejudice the right of Agent to continue enforcing this Guarantee (subject always to the operation of the limitations set out above at the time of such enforcement) until full satisfaction of the Guaranteed Obligations. |
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For the avoidance of doubt, nothing shall prevent Agent from enforcing its rights under this Guarantee against such German Guarantor if and to the extent that such enforcement does not contravene the provisions or such limitations are not required in order to protect the managing directors of such German Guarantor from incurring personal liability exposure with respect to breaches of section 30 of the German Act on Companies with Limited Liability (as amended from time to time and as each interpreted by the German Federal Court). |
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and restated in this Article XVII as an obligation of each Guarantor that is and/or may hereafter be a Qualified ECP Loan Party from time to time. |
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Each of the parties has signed this Agreement as of the day and year first above written.
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ZTE MERGER SUBSIDIARY III, INC., a Delaware corporation |
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PREMISYS TECHNOLOGIES INTERNATIONAL, INC., a Delaware Corporation
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Signature Page to ExIm Bank Borrower Agreement
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Schedule 1.1
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Lender |
Revolving Commitment Amount |
Revolving Commitment Percentage |
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PNC BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION |
$6,875,000 |
68.75% |
CITIBANK, N.A. |
$3,125,000 |
31.25% |
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TOTALS: |
$10,000,000.00 |
100% |
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