Exhibit
(b)(i)
BETWEEN
SIERRA WIRELESS, INC.
as Borrower
AND
THE TORONTO-DOMINION BANK
as Administrative Agent
AND
CANADIAN IMPERIAL BANK OF COMMERCE
as Documentation Agent
AND
THE FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS
from time to time parties hereto,
as Lenders
AND
TD SECURITIES and CIBC WORLD MARKETS,
as Co-Lead Arrangers
MADE AS OF
December 1, 2008
TABLE
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ARTICLE 1 — INTERPRETATION
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1
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1.01
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Definitions
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1
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1.02
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Headings
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21
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1.03
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Accounting Practices
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21
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1.04
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Permitted Encumbrances
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21
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1.05
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Currency
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1.06
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Paramountcy
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1.07
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Non-Business Days
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22
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1.08
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Interest Payments and Calculations
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22
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1.09
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Determinations By the Borrower
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22
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1.10
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Schedules
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ARTICLE 2 — THE CREDIT FACILITIES
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2.01
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Credit Facilities
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2.02
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Purpose of Credit Facilities
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23
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2.03
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Manner of Borrowing
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24
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2.04
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Nature of the Credit Facilities
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2.05
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Drawdowns, Conversions and Rollovers
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24
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2.06
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Agent’s Obligations with Respect to Advances
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25
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2.07
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Lenders’ and Agent’s Obligations with Respect to
Advances
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25
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2.08
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Irrevocability
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25
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2.09
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Cancellation or Permanent Reduction of the Revolving Facility
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25
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2.10
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Termination of LIBOR Advances
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2.11
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Advances under the Term Facility
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26
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ARTICLE 3 — DISBURSEMENT CONDITIONS
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26
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3.01
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Conditions Precedent to an Initial Advance
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26
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3.02
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Conditions Precedent to Subsequent Advances under the Revolving
Facility
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29
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3.03
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Conditions Precedent to Subsequent Advances under the Term
Facility
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29
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3.04
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Waiver
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29
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ARTICLE 4 — EVIDENCE OF DRAWDOWNS
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30
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4.01
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Account of Record
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30
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ARTICLE 5 — PAYMENTS OF INTEREST AND STANDBY FEES
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30
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5.01
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Interest on Prime Rate Advances
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30
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5.02
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Interest on US Base Rate Advances
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30
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5.03
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Interest on LIBOR Advances
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30
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5.04
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No Set-Off, Deduction etc.
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5.05
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Standby Fees
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31
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5.06
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Fees
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31
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5.07
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Overdue Principal and Interest
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31
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5.08
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Interest on Other Amounts
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31
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ARTICLE 6 — BANKERS’ ACCEPTANCES AND LETTERS
OF CREDIT
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6.01
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Bankers’ Acceptances
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32
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6.02
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Letters of Credit
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ARTICLE 7 — REPAYMENT
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7.01
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Mandatory Repayment of Principal — Revolving Facility
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7.02
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Mandatory Repayment of Principal — Term Facility
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7.03
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Voluntary Repayments and Reductions
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7.04
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Mandatory Repayments from Proceeds of Debt Issues
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37
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7.05
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Mandatory Repayments on Additional Financings
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7.06
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Mandatory Repayment on Dispositions
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37
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7.07
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Mandatory Repayments from Proceeds of Insurance
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7.08
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Mandatory Repayments from Excess Cash following Completion of
the W Offer
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7.09
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Mandatory Repayment from Redemption of the W Debentures
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7.10
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Excess Over the Maximum Amounts
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7.11
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Payment of Breakage Costs etc.
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ARTICLE 8 — PLACE AND APPLICATION OF PAYMENTS
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8.01
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Place of Payment of Principal, Interest and Fees
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8.02
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Netting of Payments
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40
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ARTICLE 9 — REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
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9.01
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Representations and Warranties
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40
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9.02
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Survival and Repetition of Representations and Warranties
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45
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ARTICLE 10 — COVENANTS
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10.01
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Positive Covenants
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10.02
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Financial Covenants
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50
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10.03
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Reporting Requirements
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50
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10.04
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Negative Covenants
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51
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ARTICLE 11 — SECURITY
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11.01
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Form of Security
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11.02
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Insurance
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11.03
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After Acquired Property and Further Assurances
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54
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11.04
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Application of Proceeds of Security
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11.05
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Security Charging Real Property
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ARTICLE 12 — DEFAULT
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12.01
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Events of Default
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12.02
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Acceleration and Termination of Rights
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12.03
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Payment of Bankers’ Acceptances and Letters of Credit
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12.04
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Remedies Cumulative and Waivers
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12.05
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Termination of Lenders’ Obligations
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12.06
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Saving
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12.07
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Perform Obligations
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12.08
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Third Parties
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12.09
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Set-Off or Compensation
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12.10
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Realization of Security
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12.11
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Application of Payments
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12.12
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Consultant
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ii
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ARTICLE 13 — THE AGENT AND THE LENDERS
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13.01
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Knowledge and Required Action
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13.02
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Request for Instructions
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60
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13.03
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Actions by Lenders
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60
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13.04
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Provisions for Benefit of Lenders Only
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13.05
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Payments by Agent
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13.06
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Acknowledgements, Representations and Covenants of Lenders
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13.07
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Rights of Agent
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ARTICLE 14 — GENERAL
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14.01
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Exchange and Confidentiality of Information
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14.02
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Nature of Obligations under this Agreement
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14.03
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Addresses, Etc. for Notices
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14.04
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Governing Law and Submission to Jurisdiction
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14.05
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Judgement Currency
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14.06
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Benefit of the Agreement
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65
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14.07
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Survival
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14.08
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Severability
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65
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14.09
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Whole Agreement
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65
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14.10
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Further Assurances
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65
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14.11
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Time of the Essence
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65
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14.12
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Delivery by Facsimile Transmission
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66
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14.13
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Anti-Money Laundering Legislation
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66
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Schedule AA
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Model Credit Agreement Provisions
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Schedule A
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—
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Lenders and Commitments
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Schedule B
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—
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Notice of Request for Advance
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Schedule C
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Repayment Notice
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Schedule D
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—
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Compliance Certificate
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Schedule E
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—
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Borrowing Base Certificate
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Schedule F
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—
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Guarantors on Closing Date
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Schedule 9.01(6)
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—
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Taxes
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Schedule 9.01(9)
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—
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Litigation
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Schedule 9.01(12)
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Description of Real Property
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Schedule 9.01(13)
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—
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Insurance Policies
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Schedule 9.01(18)
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Corporate Structure
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Schedule 9.01(19)
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Relevant Jurisdictions
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Schedule 9.01(21)
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Intellectual Property
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Schedule 9.01(22)
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—
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Material Contracts
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Schedule 9.01(33)
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Non-Arm’s Length Transactions
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iii
THIS AGREEMENT is made as of December 1, 2008.
B E T W E E N:
SIERRA WIRELESS, INC., a corporation existing under the
laws of Canada (hereinafter referred to as the
“Borrower”)
- and -
THE TORONTO-DOMINION BANK, in its capacity as
Administrative Agent (the “Agent”)
- and -
Each financial institution from time to time party to this
Agreement and shown as a Lender on the signature pages hereto
(hereinafter in such capacities individually referred to as a
“Lender” and collectively in such capacities
referred to as the “Lenders”).
AND WHEREAS The Toronto-Dominion Bank will be the Agent as
contemplated by Section 7.1 of Schedule AA;
ARTICLE 1 — INTERPRETATION
1.01 Definitions
In this Agreement unless something in the subject matter or
context is inconsistent therewith:
“Account Debtor” means any Person who is
obligated to pay an Account Receivable.
“Account Receivable” means any right of a
Person to payment for services rendered or goods sold in the
ordinary course of business classified as an account receivable
in accordance with GAAP.
“Acquisition” shall mean, with respect to any
Person, any purchase or other acquisition, regardless of how
accomplished or effected (including any such purchase or other
acquisition effected by way of amalgamation, merger,
arrangement, business combination or other form of corporate
reorganization or by way of purchase, lease or other acquisition
arrangements), of (a) any other Person (including any
purchase or acquisition of such number of the issued and
outstanding securities of, or such portion of an Equity Interest
in, such other Person that such other Person becomes a
Subsidiary of the purchaser or of any of its Affiliates) or of
all or substantially all of the Property of any other Person, or
(b) any division, business, operation or undertaking of any
other Person or of all or substantially all of the Property of
any division, business, operations or undertakings of any other
Person.
“Additional Financing” shall mean any
transaction or series of transactions under which any Person or
Persons acquires, purchases or otherwise effects any equity
interest or investment in, an Obligor or enters into or is
granted any right, option or agreement with respect to any such
transaction, but shall not include (i) any shares or equity
interest in any Obligor issued to any other Obligor;
(ii) any shares or equity interest in the Borrower issued
to any director, officer, employee or consultant of the Borrower
or any Obligor; (iii) any shares or equity interest in the
Borrower issued for the purposes of raising additional funds to
complete the Wavecom Offer.
“Administrative Questionnaire” has the meaning
set forth in Schedule AA.
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“Advance” means a borrowing by the Borrower by
way of a Prime Rate Advance, a US Base Rate Advance, a BA
Equivalent Note, a LIBOR Advance, acceptance by a Lender of a
draft or depository xxxx presented for acceptance as a
Bankers’ Acceptance, the issuance of a Letter of Credit by
a Lender, and any reference relating to the amount of Advances
shall mean the sum of the principal amount of all outstanding
Prime Rate Advances, US Base Rate Advances and LIBOR Advances,
whether as a result of a Drawdown, Conversion, Rollover or
deemed advance, plus the face amount of all outstanding
Bankers’ Acceptances and BA Equivalent Notes plus the
maximum amount payable under Letters of Credit.
“Affiliate” has the meaning set forth in
Schedule AA.
“Agent” means The Toronto-Dominion Bank in its
capacity as administrative agent for the Lenders, including any
successor agent pursuant to Section 7.7 of Schedule AA.
“Agent’s Payment Branch” means the branch
of the Agent located at 00 Xxxx Xxxxxx Xxxx,
00xx Xxxxx,
Xxxxx Trust Tower, TD Centre, Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxx, X0X 0X0,
Facsimile
(000) 000-0000
(with a copy faxed to
(000) 000-0000),
or such other office that the Agent may from time to time
designate by notice to the Borrower and the Lenders.
“Agreement” means this
credit agreement, the
schedules and all amendments made hereto in accordance with the
provisions hereof as amended, revised, replaced, supplemented or
restated from time to time.
“AMF” means the French Autorité des
Marchés Financiers.
“Annual Business Plan” means the annual
business plan of the Borrower, prepared on a consolidated basis,
with detailed financial projections and budgets on a quarterly
basis for the following three Fiscal Years, in each case
consisting of a balance sheet, statement of income, retained
earnings, statement of cash flows, proposed Capital Expenditures
and a list of assumptions upon which such projections are based.
“Applicable Law” has the meaning set forth in
Schedule AA.
“Applicable Margin” means with respect to any
Advance the percentage rate per annum determined in accordance
with clauses (a) through (e) below. For the purposes
of clause (e) below, the percentage rate per annum will be
based on the Total Debt to EBITDA Ratio as at the end of the
Borrower’s most recently completed Fiscal Quarter (in this
definition such Fiscal Quarter is the “Relevant
Quarter”). The Applicable Margin to be applied with
respect to an Advance shall be the Applicable Margin on the
relevant date of the Drawdown, Conversion or Rollover, as the
case may be. Following repayment in full and cancellation of the
Term Facility, the Applicable Margin shall change, if required,
only once per Fiscal Quarter, on the third Business Day (the
“Applicable Margin Adjustment Date”), after the
earlier of (i) the date the unaudited quarterly financial
statements required to be delivered pursuant to
Section 10.03(2) for the Relevant Quarter and the related
Compliance Certificate required to be delivered pursuant to
Section 10.03(3) are delivered to the Agent, and
(ii) the date such financial statements and Compliance
Certificate are required to be delivered to the Agent. Each
Applicable Margin shall be adjusted on the Applicable Margin
Adjustment Date. In accordance with Sections 5.01 and 5.02,
Prime Rate Advances and US Base Rate Advances, respectively,
will be subject to adjustment on such date. Notwithstanding
anything else in this definition, for the purpose of determining
the Applicable Margin following repayment in full and
cancellation of the Term Facility, if the Borrower fails to
deliver financial statements or a Compliance Certificate when
required, the Total Debt to EBITDA Ratio shall be deemed to be
greater than 1.00:1.0 until such documents have been delivered.
For greater certainty, there shall be no adjustments to LIBOR
Advances, Bankers’ Acceptances and BA Equivalent Notes and
Letters of Credit that are outstanding on the Applicable Margin
Adjustment Date.
(a)
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Prime Rate Margin/US Base Rate Margin
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BA Stamping Fee Rate, LIBO Rate Margin, Letters of Credit Fee
Rate
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275 bps
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375 bps (with respect to 80,617,365 Euros of the Lazard
Letter of Credit and any Letter of Credit issued under the
Revolving Facility)
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The pricing grid applies to both the Revolving Facility and the
Term Facility.
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(b) Upon the occurrence of, and during the continuance of,
an Event of Default, the Applicable Margin shall be as indicated
in clause (a) above for the applicable type of Advance,
plus 2.00% per annum.
(c) Upon repayment in full and cancellation of Term
Facility, the Applicable Margin shall be as indicated in
clause (a) above for the applicable type of Advance, less
.50% per annum.
(d) If the Term Facility is not repaid in full and
cancelled on or before the date which is ninety (90) days
following the Closing Date, the Applicable Margin shall be as
indicated in clause (a) above for the applicable type of
Advance, plus .50% per annum.
(e) If at any time following repayment in full and
cancellation of the Term Facility, the Total Debt to EBITDA
Ratio is greater than 1.00:1.0, the Applicable Margin shall be
as indicated in clause (a) above for the applicable type of
Advance, plus .50% per annum.
“Applicable Margin Adjustment Date” has the
meaning set forth in the definition of Applicable Margin.
“Applicable Order” means any applicable
domestic or foreign order, judgment, award or decree made by any
court or Governmental Authority.
“Approved Fund” has the meaning set forth in
Schedule AA.
“Arm’s Length” has the meaning specified
in the definition of “Non-Arm’s Length”.
“Assignment and Assumption” has the meaning set
forth in Schedule AA.
“Associate” means an “associate” as
defined in the Canada Business Corporations Act.
“Auditor” means the Borrower’s auditor,
being KPMG LLP and includes its successors and any replacement
auditor of recognized national standing from time to time.
“BA Discount Proceeds” means, with respect to a
particular Bankers’ Acceptance or BA Equivalent Note, the
following amount:
where
F means the face amount of such Bankers’ Acceptance or BA
Equivalent Note;
D means the applicable BA Discount Rate for such Bankers’
Acceptance or BA Equivalent Note; and
T means the number of days to maturity of such Bankers’
Acceptance or BA Equivalent Note, with the amount as so
determined being rounded up or down to the fifth decimal place
and .000005 being rounded up.
“BA Discount Rate” means, (a) for any
Bankers’ Acceptance or BA Equivalent Note to be accepted by
a BA Lender that is a Schedule I Lender on any Drawdown
Date, Rollover Date or Conversion Date, as the case may be, CDOR
on such Drawdown Date, Rollover Date or Conversion Date, as the
case may be, for a period identical to the term to maturity of
the relevant Bankers’ Acceptance or BA Equivalent Note and
(b) for any Bankers’ Acceptance or BA Equivalent Note
to be accepted by a BA Lender that is not a Schedule I
Lender, the lesser of (i) such Lender’s own
bankers’ acceptance rate if such Lender has a bankers’
acceptance rate and (ii) CDOR plus 0.10% per annum.
“BA Equivalent Note” has the meaning set forth
in Section 6.01(1).
“BA Lender” means any Lender which has not
notified the Agent in writing that it is unwilling or unable to
accept Drafts as provided for in Article 6.
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“BA Stamping Fee” means the amount calculated
by multiplying the face amount of a Bankers’ Acceptance or
a BA Equivalent Note by the BA Stamping Fee Rate and then
multiplying the result by a fraction, the numerator of which is
the number of days to elapse from and including the date of
acceptance of such Bankers’ Acceptance or purchase of such
BA Equivalent Note by a Lender up to but excluding the maturity
date of such Bankers’ Acceptance or BA Equivalent Note and
the denominator of which is 365 or 366, as the case may be in
such year.
“BA Stamping Fee Rate” means, with respect to a
Bankers’ Acceptance or a BA Equivalent Note, the applicable
percentage rate per annum indicated below the reference to
“BA Stamping Fee Rate” in the definition of
“Applicable Margin” relevant to the period in respect
of which a determination is being made.
“Bankers’ Acceptance” or “BA”
means a depository xxxx, as defined in the Depository
Bills and Notes Act (Canada) in Canadian Dollars that is in
the form of a Draft signed by or on behalf of the Borrower and
accepted by a BA Lender as contemplated under Section 6.01
or, for Lenders not participating in clearing services as
contemplated in that Act, a draft or other xxxx of exchange in
Canadian Dollars that is signed on behalf of the Borrower and
accepted by a Lender.
“Borrower” means Sierra Wireless, Inc., a
Canadian corporation, and includes its successors by
amalgamation or otherwise.
“Borrower’s Counsel” means the firm of
Blake, Xxxxxxx & Xxxxxxx LLP or such other firm or
firms of legal counsel as the Borrower may from time to time
designate.
“Borrowing Base” means 80% of the Eligible
Accounts Receivable, less Priority Payables.
“Borrowing Base Certificate” means a
certificate in the form of Schedule E executed by the chief
financial officer of the Borrower on behalf of the Borrower
which shall contain an aged listing of Accounts Receivable and
accounts payable, in each case on a consolidated basis, as of
the close of business on the last day of the preceding calendar
month.
“Breakage Costs” means all costs, losses and
expenses incurred by any Lender by reason of the liquidation or
deployment of deposits or other funds, the breakage of LIBOR
contracts, the redeployment of funds, the loss of investment
opportunity or for any other reason whatsoever resulting from
the prepayment of any Advance, all as set out in a certificate
delivered to the Borrower by any Lender entitled to receive such
reimbursement.
“Business” means the business of developing,
marketing and supporting wireless wide area products.
“Business Day” shall mean any day other than a
Saturday or a Sunday on which banks generally are open for
business in Toronto, Ontario and Vancouver, British Columbia and
when used in respect of LIBOR Advances, shall mean any day other
than a Saturday or a Sunday on which banks are generally open
for business in Toronto, Ontario, New York, New York and London,
England and on which transactions can be carried on in the
London interbank market and when used in respect of US Base Rate
Advances, shall mean any day other than a Saturday or a Sunday
on which banks generally are open for business in Toronto,
Ontario, Vancouver, British Columbia and New York, New York.
“Canadian Dollars”, “Cdn. Dollars”
and “Cdn.$” mean the lawful money of Canada.
“Canadian Welfare Plan” means any medical,
health, hospitalization, insurance or other employee benefit or
welfare plan or arrangement applicable to employees resident in
Canada of an Obligor.
“Capital Expenditures” means, for any period,
any expenditure made by any Person for the purchase, lease,
acquisition, license, erection, development, improvement,
construction, repair or replacement of capital assets, and any
expenditure related to a Capital Lease or any other expenditure
required to be capitalized, all as determined in accordance with
GAAP.
“Capital Lease” means, with respect to any
Person, any lease of (or other agreement conveying the right to
use) any real or personal property by such Person that, in
conformity with GAAP, is or should be accounted for as a capital
lease on the balance sheet of that Person.
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“Cash Collateral Accounts” has the meaning set
forth in Section 2.11.
“CDOR” means, for any day and relative to
Bankers’ Acceptances or BA Equivalent Notes having any
specified term and face amount, the average of the annual rates
for Bankers’ Acceptances having such specified term and
face amount (or a term and face amount as closely as possible
comparable to such specified term and face amount) of the banks
named in Schedule I of the Bank Act (Canada) that
appears on the Reuters Screen CDOR page as of 10:00 a.m. on
such day (or, if such day is not a Business Day, as of
10:00 a.m. (Toronto time) on the preceding Business Day),
provided that if such rate does not appear on the Reuters Screen
CDOR page at such time on such date, CDOR for such date will be
the annual discount rate of interest (rounded upward to the
nearest whole multiple of
1/100
of 1%) as of 10:00 a.m. (Toronto time) on such date at
which the Agent is then offering to purchase bankers’
acceptances accepted by it having a comparable aggregate face
amount and identical maturity date to the aggregate face amount
and maturity date of such Bankers’ Acceptances or BA
Equivalent Notes, as the case may be.
“Change in Law” has the meaning set forth in
Schedule AA.
“Change of Control” means the occurrence of any
transaction or event whereby (a) any Person individually,
or acting in concert with a group of other Persons or another
Person shall purchase or acquire, directly or indirectly,
legally or beneficially, equity of the Borrower, having the
ordinary power to elect a majority of the board of directors of
persons performing similar functions; or (b) the aggregate
number of the voting common shares in the capital of the
Borrower owned and controlled by any Person individually, or
acting in concert with a group of other Persons or another
Person would be at least 50.1% of the total amount of all of the
voting common shares in the capital of the Borrower which are
issued and outstanding. For the purposes of this definition,
“control” of any Person means the possession, directly
or indirectly, of the power to elect or appoint a majority of
the board of directors of, or persons performing similar
functions in respect of, such Person whether through the
ownership of voting securities, by contract, or otherwise.
“Closing Date” means December 1, 2008 or
such later date as may be agreed to by the parties hereto.
“Commitment” means, in respect of each Lender
from time to time, the maximum amount of Advances which the
Lender has covenanted to make as set forth in Schedule A to
this Agreement (which shall be amended and distributed to all
parties by the Agent from time to time as other Persons become
Lenders), which for greater certainty shall in each case be
reduced by such Lender’s Proportionate Share of the amount
of any permanent repayments, reductions or prepayments required
or made hereunder.
“Compliance Certificate” means the certificate
required pursuant to Section 10.03(3), substantially in the
form annexed as Schedule D and signed by a senior officer
of the Borrower.
“Contingent Obligation” means, as to any
Person, any obligation, whether secured or unsecured, of such
Person guaranteeing or indemnifying, or in effect guaranteeing
or indemnifying, any indebtedness, leases, dividends, letters of
credit or other monetary obligations (the “primary
obligations”) of any other Person (the “primary
obligor”) in any manner, whether directly or
indirectly, including any obligation of such Person as an
account party in respect of a letter of credit or letter of
guarantee issued to assure payment by the primary obligor of any
such primary obligation and any obligations of such Person,
whether or not contingent, (a) to purchase any such primary
obligation or any Property constituting direct or indirect
security therefor, (b) to advance or supply funds for the
purchase or payment of any such primary obligation or to
maintain working capital or equity capital of the primary
obligor or otherwise to maintain the net worth or solvency of
the primary obligor, (c) to purchase Property, securities
or services primarily for the purpose of assuring the obligee
under any such primary obligation of the ability of the primary
obligor to make payment of such primary obligation, or
(d) otherwise to assure or hold harmless the obligee under
such primary obligation against loss in respect of such primary
obligation; provided, however, that the term Contingent
Obligation shall not include endorsements of instruments for
deposit or collection in the ordinary course of business.
“Control” has the meaning set forth in
Schedule AA.
“Controlled Group” means all members of a
controlled group of corporations or other business entities and
all trades or businesses (whether or not incorporated) under
common control, which together with the
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Borrower and any of its Subsidiaries, are treated as a single
employer under Section 414 of the Code or Section 4001
of ERISA.
“Conversion” means a conversion of an Advance
pursuant to Section 2.05(1).
“Conversion Date” means the date specified by
the Borrower as being the date on which the Borrower has elected
to convert one type of Advance into another type of Advance and
which shall be a Business Day.
“Conversion Notice” means the notice of request
for advance substantially in the form annexed hereto as
Schedule B to be given to the Agent by the Borrower
pursuant to Section 2.05.
“Credit Facilities” means the Revolving
Facility and the Term Facility and “Credit
Facility” means either one of them.
“Debt” means, with respect to any Person,
without duplication, the aggregate of the following amounts, at
the date of determination: (a) all indebtedness of such
Person for borrowed money; (b) all obligations of such
Person for the deferred purchase price of Property or services
which constitute indebtedness; (c) all obligations of such
Person evidenced by notes, bonds, debentures or other similar
instruments; (d) all obligations of such Person created or
arising under any conditional sale or other title retention
agreement with respect to Property acquired by such Person
(whether or not the rights and remedies of the seller or lender
under such agreement in the event of default are limited to
repossession or sale of such Property); (e) all obligations
of such Person as lessee under leases that have been or should
be, in accordance with GAAP, recorded as Capital Leases;
(f) all reimbursement obligations, contingent or otherwise,
of such Person under acceptance, letter of credit and similar
facilities; (g) all obligations of such Person to purchase,
redeem, retire, defease or otherwise acquire for value any
partnership or shareholder or other equity interests of such
Person; (h) all Contingent Obligations of such Person in
respect of Debt of another Person; (i) the negative Market
Value owing by such Person under each Hedge Arrangement; and
(j) any other obligation arising under arrangements or
agreements that, in substance, provide financing to such Person.
“Default” has the meaning set forth in
Schedule AA.
“Depreciation Expense” means, for any period
with respect to any Person, depreciation, amortization,
depletion and other like reductions to income of such Person for
such period not involving any outlay of cash, determined,
without duplication and determined on a consolidated basis, in
accordance with GAAP.
“Disposition” means any sale, assignment,
transfer, conveyance, lease or other disposition of any asset of
any Obligor in a single transaction or a series of related
transactions and the word “Dispose” shall have
a correlative meaning.
“Distribution” shall mean, with respect to any
Person, any payment, directly or indirectly, by such Person:
(a) of any dividends on any shares of its capital, other
than dividends payable in shares; (b) on account of, or for
the purpose of setting apart any property for a sinking or other
analogous fund for, the purchase, redemption, retirement or
other acquisition of any Equity Interests of such Person;
(c) for the purpose of the redemption of the Wavecom
Debentures; (d) of any other distribution in respect of any
Equity Interests; (e) of any principal of or interest or
premium or fees on or related to an indebtedness or liability of
such Person whether ranking, at law or by contract, in right of
payment subordinate to any liability of such Person under the
Loan Documents or otherwise; or (f) of any management,
consulting or similar fee or compensation or any bonus payment
or comparable payment, or by way of gift or other gratuity, to
any Affiliate of such Person or to any director, officer or
member of the management of such Person or an Affiliate of such
Person or to any Person not dealing at Arm’s Length with
such first Person (for greater certainty, compensation paid by
an Obligor in the course of its business to directors, officers
and members of management of Obligors shall not constitute
Distributions hereunder).
“Documentation” means all systems, user,
technical or other documentation or information (including any
input or output formats, program listings, narrative
descriptions, operating instructions or manuals, specifications,
user guides and systems, user or technical manuals) that have
been, are or may be provided in connection with Software and
includes any corrections, replacements, modifications or
releases thereof or thereto, whether distributed in print,
magnetic, electronic, video or other format.
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“Draft” has the meaning set forth in
Section 6.01(1).
“Drawdown” means:
(a) the advance of a Prime Rate Advance, a US Base Rate
Advance or a LIBOR Advance;
(b) the issue of Bankers’ Acceptances or BA Equivalent
Notes; or
(c) the issue of Letters of Credit.
“Drawdown Date” means the date on which a
Drawdown is made by the Borrower pursuant to the provisions
hereof and which shall be a Business Day.
“Drawdown Notice” means the notice of request
for advance substantially in the form annexed hereto as
Schedule B to be given to the Agent by the Borrower
pursuant to Section 2.05.
“EBITDA” means, for any period with respect to
the Borrower, the Net Income of the Borrower for such period
(a) increased by the sum of (without duplication)
(i) Interest Expense for such period;
(ii) Income Tax Expense for such period;
(iii) Depreciation Expense for such period;
(iv) non-cash stock compensation for such period,
in each case to the extent that such amounts were deducted in
the calculation of Net Income for such period; and
(b) decreased or increased by the sum of extraordinary,
unusual or non-cash non-recurring items, to the extent included
in Net Income for such period.
For greater certainty, (i) any costs that the Borrower has
to expense as a result of changes in accounting rules under GAAP
for acquisitions and (ii) any foreign exchange non-cash
gains or losses, shall not be included for the purposes of
calculating EBITDA.
“Eligible Accounts Receivable” means at any
time, any Account Receivable of the Borrower and each of its
Subsidiaries existing pursuant to the laws of Canada or any
Province of Canada or the United States (net of any credit
balance, returns, trade discounts, or unbilled amounts or
retention) that meets and at all times continues to meet all of
the standards of eligibility for Eligible Accounts Receivable
from time to time established by the Agent and revised by the
Agent. Without in any way limiting the discretion of the Agent
to establish other or further standards of eligibility from time
to time, Eligible Accounts Receivable shall not include any
Account Receivable for which any of the following statements is
not accurate and complete (and the Borrower by including such
account in any computation of the Borrowing Base shall be deemed
to represent and warrant to the Agent and the Lenders that to
the knowledge of the Borrower all of the following statements
are accurate and complete with respect to such account):
(a) it is a valid and legally enforceable obligation of the
Account Debtor;
(b) such account is genuine as appearing on its face or as
represented in the books and records of the Borrower or any
Subsidiary of the Borrower existing pursuant to the laws of
Canada or any Province of Canada or the United States;
(c) such account is free from valid claims regarding
rescission, cancellation or avoidance, whether by operation of
law or otherwise, and except to the extent of any reduction made
pursuant to paragraph (e) of this definition is net of all
then applicable holdbacks provided however, if the Account
Debtor has agreed that it will pay such portion of the account
that is not being claimed to be rescinded, cancelled or avoided,
such portion of the Accounts Receivable shall be allowed;
(d) such account does not relate to services not as of yet
completed;
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(e) without limiting the generality of paragraph
(c) of this definition, is not subject to any offset,
counterclaim or other defence on the part of the Account Debtor
or any claim by the Account Debtor that denies liability in
whole or in part; and, if the Account Debtor denies liability
only in part, the undisputed portion of the Account Receivable
shall be allowed so long as the Account Debtor has agreed that
it will pay such portion not in dispute in accordance with its
terms;
(f) no invoice evidencing it is unpaid ninety
(90) days after the date of it being rendered (i.e. ninety
(90) days from the invoice date);
(g) such account is not payable by an Account Debtor which
is (or who together with its Affiliates are) more than ninety
(90) days unpaid after the date of its invoices being
rendered (i.e. more than ninety (90) days from the invoice
date) with regard to 15% or more of the total accounts owed to
the Obligors by such Account Debtor and their Affiliates;
(h) it is owed by an Account Debtor existing pursuant to
the laws of Canada or any Province of Canada or the United
States of America unless supported by a letter of credit,
insurance provided by Export Development Corporation or such
other insurance acceptable to the Agent;
(i) it is denominated in either Canadian Dollars or United
States Dollars;
(j) it is subject to a first priority security interest in
favour of the Agent that has been perfected under Applicable Law
governing the perfection of such security interest created under
the applicable Security;
(k) such account is, and at all times will be, free and
clear of all Encumbrances other than Permitted Encumbrances;
(l) the Account Receivable does not arise from a sale or
lease to or rendering of services to an Affiliate of any Obligor
or to an employee, agent, shareholder, director or other
representative of any Obligor, or, in each case, to their
respective Affiliates;
(m) in the case of the sale of goods, the subject goods
have been sold to an Account Debtor on a true sale basis on open
account, or subject to contract, and not on consignment, on
approval or on a “sale or return” basis or subject to
any other repurchase or return agreement, no material part of
the subject goods has been returned, rejected, lost or damaged,
and such account is not evidenced by chattel paper or an
instrument of any kind unless possession or control of such
chattel paper or instrument has been delivered to the Agent on
terms acceptable to the Agent;
(n) the Account Debtor of the Account Receivable is not a
Governmental Authority except to the extent the Account
Receivable is assignable without consent or all necessary
consents to assignment have been obtained; and
(o) the Account Debtor obligated on the Account Receivable
has not ceased to carry on business or become insolvent,
admitted its inability to pay its debts as they come due or that
it is otherwise insolvent, made a general assignment for the
benefit of its creditors, or consented to or applied for the
appointment of a receiver, trustee, custodian, liquidator for
itself or any material part of its Property, and no petition has
been filed by or against the Account Debtor under any bankruptcy
or reorganization law which is outstanding at such date.
Any Eligible Accounts Receivable which are at any time Eligible
Accounts Receivable but which subsequently fail to meet any of
the foregoing requirements and any other standards of
eligibility for Eligible Accounts Receivable reasonably
established by the Agent shall, in consultation with the
Borrower (but not subject to approval by the Borrower)
immediately cease to be Eligible Accounts Receivable.
“Eligible Assignee” has the meaning set forth
in Schedule AA.
“Encumbrance” means, in respect of any Person,
any mortgage, debenture, pledge, hypothec, lien, charge,
assignment by way of security, hypothecation or security
interest granted or permitted by such Person or arising by
operation of law, in respect of any of such Person’s
Property, or any consignment or Capital Lease of Property by
such Person as consignee or lessee or any other security
agreement, trust or arrangement having
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the effect of security for the payment of any debt, liability or
obligation of that Person, and “Encumbrances”,
“Encumbrancer”, “Encumber” and
“Encumbered” shall have corresponding meanings.
“Environmental Laws” means any Applicable Law
relating to the environment including those pertaining to:
(a) reporting, licensing, permitting, investigating,
remediating and cleaning up in connection with any presence or
Release, or the threat of the same, of Hazardous
Materials, and
(b) the manufacture, processing, distribution, use,
treatment, storage, disposal, transport, handling and the like
of Hazardous Materials, including those pertaining to
occupational health and safety.
“Equity Interest” means (i) in the case of
any corporation, all capital stock and any securities
exchangeable for or convertible into capital stock, (ii) in
the case of an association or business entity, any and all
shares, interests, participation rights or other equivalents of
corporate stock (however designated) in or to such association
or entity, (iii) in the case of a partnership, limited
liability company or unlimited liability company, partnership or
membership interests (whether general or limited), as
applicable, and (iv) any other interest or participation
that confers on a Person the right to receive a share of the
profits and losses of, or distribution of assets of, the issuing
Person, and including, in all of the foregoing cases described
in clauses (i), (ii), (iii) or (iv), any warrants, rights
or other options to purchase or otherwise acquire any of the
interests described in any of the foregoing cases.
“Equivalent Amount” means with respect to any
two currencies, the amount obtained in one such currency when an
amount in the other currency is converted into the first
currency using the Agent’s noon spot rate on the Business
Day with respect to which such computation is required for the
purpose of this Agreement.
“ERISA” means the Employee Retirement Income
Security Act of 1974 of the United States, together with the
regulations thereunder as the same may be amended from time to
time. Reference to Sections of ERISA also refer to any
successive Sections thereto.
“ERISA Affiliate” means any trade or business
(whether or not incorporated) that, together with any Obligor,
is treated as a single employer under Section 414(b) or
(c) of the Code or, solely for purposes of Section 302
of ERISA and Section 412 of the Code, is treated as a
single employer under Section 414 of the Code.
“ERISA Event” means (a) any
“reportable event” (as defined in Section 4043 of
ERISA or the regulations issued thereunder) with respect to a
Pension Plan (other than an event for which the 30 day
notice period is waived); (b) the existence with respect to
any Pension Plan of an “accumulated funding
deficiency” (as defined in Section 412 of the Code or
Section 302 of ERISA), whether or not waived; (c) the
filing pursuant to Section 412(c) of the Code or
Section 302(d) of ERISA of an application for a waiver of
the minimum funding standard with respect to any Pension Plan;
(d) the incurrence by any Obligor or any of its ERISA
Affiliates of any liability under Title IV of ERISA with
respect to the termination of any Pension Plan; (e) the
receipt by any Obligor or any ERISA Affiliate from the PBGC or a
plan administrator of any notice relating to an intention to
terminate any Pension Plan or to appoint a trustee to administer
any Pension Plan; (f) the incurrence by any Obligor or any
of its ERISA Affiliates of any liability with respect to the
withdrawal or partial withdrawal from any Pension Plan or
Multiemployer Plan; or (g) the receipt by any Obligor or
any ERISA Affiliate of any notice, or the receipt by any
Multiemployer Plan from any Obligor or any ERISA Affiliate of
any notice, concerning the imposition of Withdrawal Liability or
a determination that a Multiemployer Plan is, or is expected to
be, insolvent or in reorganization, within the meaning of
Title IV of ERISA.
“Euros” means the common currency which member
states of the European Union have adopted as a single currency.
“Event of Default” means any of the events or
circumstances described in Section 12.01.
“Excluded Subsidiaries” means collectively,
Sierra Wireless Technology (Shenzhen), Ltd., Wireless
Acquisition Sub, Inc. and 415103 Canada Inc.
“Excluded Taxes” has the meaning set forth in
Schedule AA.
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“Federal Funds Effective Rate” means, for any
day, an annual rate of interest, expressed on the basis of a
year of 360 days, equal, for each day during such period,
to the weighted average of the rates on overnight United States
federal funds transactions with members of the Federal Reserve
System arranged by United States federal funds brokers, as
published for such day (or, if such day is not a Business Day,
for the preceding Business Day) by the Federal Reserve Bank of
New York or, for any day on which that rate is not published for
that day by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the simple
average of the quotations for that day for such transactions
received by the Agent from three United States federal funds
brokers of recognized standing selected by it.
“Filing Letter” means the letter submitted,
pursuant to the Mandate Letter, by the Presenting and
Guaranteeing Bank to the AMF on the date of filing of the
Wavecom Offer, together with all attachments thereto, including
without limitation, the Wavecom Draft Offer Prospectus, the
financial appraisal by the Presenting and Guaranteeing Bank of
the consideration offered for the Wavecom Shares and the Wavecom
Debentures, and a draft of the press release announcement
related to the Wavecom Offer.
“Financial Assistance” means, without
duplication and with respect to any Person, all loans granted by
that Person or Contingent Obligations incurred by that Person
for the purpose of or having the effect of providing financial
assistance to another Person or Persons, including, without
limitation, letters of guarantee, letters of credit, legally
binding comfort letters or indemnities issued in connection
therewith, endorsements of bills of exchange (other than for
collection or deposit in the ordinary course of business),
obligations to purchase assets regardless of the delivery or
non-delivery thereof and obligations to make advances or
otherwise provide financial assistance to any other entity and
for greater certainty “Financial Assistance”
shall include any guarantee of any third party lease
obligations.
“Fiscal Quarter” means each successive
three-month period of the Borrower’s Fiscal Year ending on
or about March 31, June 30, September 30 and
December 31.
“Fiscal Year” means, in respect of the
Borrower, the twelve month period ending on or about the last
day of December in any year.
“Four Quarter Period” means as at the last day
of any particular Fiscal Quarter of the Borrower, the period of
four consecutive Fiscal Quarters which includes the Fiscal
Quarter ending as of the date of such calculation (including the
last day thereof) and the immediately preceding three Fiscal
Quarters.
“French Bidco” means Sierra Wireless France, a
société par actions simplificée having its
registered office located at 0 xxx Xxxxxx, 00000 Xxxxx, Xxxxxx,
registered with the registry of trade and companies of Paris
under management No (“numéro de gestion”)
2008 B 24530.
“French Bidco Loan Agreements” means
collectively, (i) the master intragroup loan agreement
relating to the financing of the Wavecom Debentures dated
December 1, 2008 between the Borrower, as lender and French
Bidco, as borrower in the principal amount of 80,617,365 Euros
and (ii) the master intragroup loan agreement relating to
the financing of Wavecom Shares dated December 1, 2008
between the Borrower, as lender and French Bidco, as borrower in
the principal amount of 137,382,635 Euros.
“Fund” has the meaning set forth in
Schedule AA.
“GAAP” means those accounting principles which
are recognized as being generally accepted and which are in
effect from time to time in the United States, as published in
the Handbook of the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants.
“Governmental Authority” has the meaning set
forth in Schedule AA.
“Guarantors” means, collectively, all
Subsidiaries of the Borrower from time to time (other than
(i) Wavecom and each of its Subsidiaries, unless Wavecom or
any such Subsidiary delivers a guarantee pursuant to
Section 10.01(25), (ii) French Bidco, (iii) Luxco
and (iv) Excluded Subsidiaries) and includes, without
limitation, each of those Persons identified on Schedule E
and their successors and assigns and
“Guarantor” means any one of them.
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“Hazardous Material” shall mean any substance,
product, waste, pollutant, material, chemical, contaminant,
dangerous goods, constituent or other material listed,
regulated, or addressed under any Requirements of Environmental
Law, including, without limitation, asbestos, petroleum product
or by-product, polychlorinated biphenyls, radon and any
“hazardous waste” as defined by the Resource
Conservation and Recovery Act (United States), as amended.
“Hedge Arrangement” means, for any period, for
any Person, any arrangement or transaction between such Person
and any other Person which is an interest rate swap transaction,
basis swap, forward interest rate transaction, commodity swap,
interest rate option, forward foreign exchange transaction, cap
transaction, floor transaction, collar transaction, currency
swap transaction, cross-currency interest rate swap transaction,
currency option or any other similar transaction (including any
option with respect to any of such transactions or arrangements)
designed to protect or mitigate against risks in interest,
currency exchange or commodity price fluctuations and each
reference to a “derivative” in Schedule AA is to
be treated as a reference to a “Hedge Arrangement”.
“Hostile Take-Over Bid” shall mean a Take-Over
Bid by an Obligor or in which an Obligor is involved, in respect
of which the board of directors (or persons performing similar
functions) of the Person whose securities are subject to such
Take-Over Bid has recommended rejection of such Take-Over Bid.
“Income Tax Expense” means, with respect to the
Borrower, for any period, the aggregate, without duplication and
on a consolidated basis, of all current Taxes on the income of
the Borrower for such period, determined in accordance with GAAP.
“Indemnified Taxes” has the meaning set forth
in Schedule AA.
“Initial Period” means the initial offer period
pursuant to the Wavecom Offer Documents as established and
possibly extended by the AMF according to AMF public notices,
and ending on the date of disclosure of its definitive outcome
by an AMF notice.
“Intellectual Property” means the intellectual
property of every nature including patents, patent applications,
trade-marks, trade-xxxx applications, Software , trade names,
service marks, copyrights, copyright registrations and trade
secrets including, without limitation, customer lists and
information and business opportunities, industrial designs,
proprietary software, technology, recipes and formulae and other
similar intellectual property rights.
“Interbank Reference Rate” means the interest
rate expressed as a percentage per annum which is customarily
used by the Agent when calculating interest due by it or owing
to it arising from correction of errors and other adjustments
between it and other Canadian chartered banks.
“Interest Expense” of the Borrower means, for
any period, without duplication and on a consolidated basis, the
aggregate amount of interest and other financing charges paid or
payable by the Borrower, on account of such period with respect
to Debt including interest, amortization of discount and
financing fees, commissions, discounts, the interest or time
value of money component of costs related to factoring or
securitizing receivables or monetizing inventory and other fees
and charges payable with respect to letters of credit, letters
of guarantee and bankers’ acceptance financing, standby
fees, the interest component of Capital Leases and net payments
(if any) pursuant to Hedge Arrangements involving interest, all
as determined in accordance with GAAP.
“Interest Expense Coverage Ratio” means, for
the most recently completed Four Quarter Period the ratio of
(a) EBITDA for such period to (b) Interest Expense.
“Interest Payment Date” means,
(a) with respect to each Prime Rate Advance and US Base
Rate Advance, the first Business Day of each calendar
month; and
(b) with respect to each LIBOR Advance, the last Business
Day of each applicable Interest Period and, if any Interest
Period is longer than ninety (90) days, the last Business
Day of each such ninety (90) day period during such
Interest Period.
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“Interest Period” means,
(a) with respect to each Prime Rate Advance and US Base
Rate Advance, the period commencing on the applicable Drawdown
Date or Conversion Date, as the case may be, and terminating on
the date selected by the Borrower hereunder for the Conversion
of such Advance into another type of Advance or for the
repayment of such Advance;
(b) with respect to each Bankers’ Acceptance and BA
Equivalent Note, the period selected by the Borrower hereunder
and being 1, 2, 3 or 6 months duration, subject to
availability, commencing on the Drawdown Date, Rollover Date or
Conversion Date of such Advance;
(c) with respect to each LIBOR Advance, the period selected
by the Borrower and being 1, 2 or 3 months duration,
subject to availability, commencing on the applicable Drawdown
Date, Rollover Date or Conversion Date of such Advance, as the
case may be; and
(d) with respect to a Letter of Credit, the period
commencing on the date of issuance of the Letter of Credit and
terminating on the last day that the Letter of Credit is
outstanding;
provided that (i) in any case the last day of each Interest
Period shall be also the first day of the next Interest Period,
(ii) the last day of each Interest Period shall be a
Business Day and if the last day of an Interest Period selected
by the Borrower is not a Business Day the Borrower shall be
deemed to have selected an Interest Period the last day of which
is the Business Day next following the last day of the Interest
Period otherwise selected unless such next following Business
Day falls in the next calendar month in which event such
Borrower shall be deemed to have selected an Interest Period the
last day of which is the Business Day next preceding the last
day of the Interest Period otherwise selected, and (iii) no
Interest Period shall expire subsequent to the Maturity Date.
“Investment” in any Person means any direct or
indirect (a) acquisition of any Equity Interest in any
other Person, or (b) any loan or advance made to any other
Person. In determining the amount of any Investment involving a
transfer of any Property other than cash, such Property shall be
valued at its fair market value at the time of such transfer.
For greater certainty an Acquisition shall not be treated as an
Investment.
“ISDA Master Agreement” means the 1992 or 2002
ISDA Master Agreement (Multi-Currency — Cross Border)
as published by the International Swaps and Derivatives
Association, Inc., as amended, revised or replaced from time to
time.
“Issuing Bank” means TD.
“Judgement Conversion Date” has the meaning set
forth in Section 14.05(1)(b).
“Judgement Currency” has the meaning set forth
in Section 14.05(1).
“Lazard Letter of Credit” means the Letter of
Credit issued by the Issuing Bank on behalf of the Borrower to
the Presenting and Guaranteeing Bank on the Closing Date in form
and substance satisfactory to the Lenders.
“Lenders” means the Persons designated in
Schedule A annexed hereto as either a Revolving Lender, a
Term Lender or the Issuing Bank and reference to
“Lender” in this Agreement may mean that Lender
in its capacity as a Revolving Lender, a Term Lender or, the
Issuing Bank, as the case may be, if the context so requires and
“Lender” means any one of the Lenders and
includes each of their successors and permitted assigns.
“Lenders’ Counsel” means the firm of
XxXxxxxx Xxxxxxxx LLP or such other firm of legal counsel
as the Agent may from time to time designate and any and all
local agent counsel retained by XxXxxxxx Xxxxxxxx LLP for
and on behalf of the Agent.
“Lending Office” means, with respect to a
particular Lender, the branch or office specified in
Schedule A from which such Lender makes Advances and to
which the Agent disburses payments received for the benefit of
such Lender.
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“Letter of Credit Fee Rate” means, with respect
to a Letter of Credit, the annual percentage per annum indicated
below the reference to “Letters of Credit Fee Rate” in
the pricing grid in the definition of “Applicable
Margin” relevant to the period in respect of which
determination is being made.
“Letters of Credit” means a letter of credit or
letter of guarantee issued by the Issuing Bank pursuant to the
Revolving Facility or the Term Facility, as applicable, in
either case, at the request and for the account of the Borrower
under this Agreement and “Letter of Credit”
means any one thereof.
“LIBO Rate” means, for each Interest Period for
each LIBOR Advance, the interest rate expressed as a percentage
rate per annum calculated on the basis of a 360 day year,
equal to:
(a) the simple average (rounded upward, if necessary, to
the nearest whole multiple of 1/16 of one percent per annum of
the rates per annum) of the rates for deposits in
US Dollars or Euros, as applicable, in the London England
inter-bank market for a period equal to such LIBOR Interest
Period which appears on LIBOR Page 01 of the Reuters
Monitor Money Rates Service (or such other page as the Agent,
after consultation with the Lenders, shall nominate which
replaces that page for the purpose of displaying offered rates
of leading banks for London inter-bank deposits in
US Dollars or Euros, as applicable, for a period equal to
such LIBOR Interest Period) as of 11:00 a.m. London,
England time on the second Business Day preceding the first day
of such LIBOR Interest Period; or
(b) if a rate is not determinable pursuant to
clause (a) of this definition at the relevant time, as
determined by the Agent, such rate, as determined by the Agent
to be the average (rounded upward, if necessary, to the nearest
whole multiple of
1/16
of one percent per annum of the rates per annum) at which
deposits in US Dollars or Euros, as applicable, are offered
by the principal lending office in London, England of the Agent
to leading banks in the London inter-bank market at
approximately 11:00 a.m. London, England time on the second
Business Day preceding the first day of such LIBOR Interest
Period for a period comparable to the LIBOR Interest Period and
in an amount comparable to the amount of the LIBOR Advance to be
outstanding during such LIBOR Interest Period; or
(c) if the rate is not determinable pursuant to
clause (a) or (b) of this definition at the relevant
time in respect of the relevant period, Section 2.10 shall
apply.
“LIBO Rate Margin” means, for any period, the
percentage rate per annum (expressed on the basis of a year of
360 days) applicable to that period as indicated below the
reference to “LIBO Rate Margin” in the pricing grid in
the definition of “Applicable Margin”.
“LIBOR Advance” means an Advance in United
States Dollars or Euros made by the Lenders to the Borrower with
respect to which the Borrower has specified that interest is to
be calculated by reference to the LIBO Rate.
“LIBOR Interest Period” means an Interest
Period applicable to any LIBOR Advance.
“Liquidity” means the aggregate amount of
(i) the amount of cash held by the Borrower and
(ii) the amount available to the Borrower under the Credit
Facilities.
“Loan Documents” means (a) this Agreement,
the Security, all guarantees delivered by any Obligor pursuant
to this Agreement; and each document, agreement, instrument and
certificate delivered to the Agent by an Obligor on the Closing
Date; (b) the fee letters referred to in Section 5.06;
(c) Hedge Arrangements, the Service Agreements and all
agreements relating to VISA and other charge cards issued by a
Lender; and (d) all present and future security,
agreements, documents, certificates and instruments delivered by
any Obligor to the Agent or the Lenders after the Closing Date
whether or not pursuant to, or in respect of the agreements and
documents referred to in clause (a); in each case as the same
may from time to time be supplemented, amended or restated, and
“Loan Document” shall mean any one of the Loan
Documents.
“Lock-Up
Agreement” means the undertaking to tender shares dated
as of December 1, 2008 between French Bidco, members of the
Xxxxxxxx family and members of the Alard family with respect to
the purchase by French Bidco of 22% of the Wavecom Shares held
by such Persons.
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“Luxco” means Sierra Wireless Luxembourg S.
àr.l., a company incorporated under the laws of Luxembourg
as a société à responsabilité
limitée, registered with the Luxembourg Register of
Commerce and Companies under number B-141993, whose registered
office is at 0, xxx Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxx, X-0000 Xxxxxxxxxx.
“Majority Lenders” means (i) if there are
five (5) Lenders or more, Lenders holding at least
662/3%
of the Commitments under the Credit Facilities and (ii) if
there are four (4) Lenders or less, Lenders holding 100% of
the Commitments under the Credit Facilities.
“Mandate Letter” means the agreement
(engagement letter as supplemented by the lettre
d’instruction) by which the Borrower and French Bidco
engage the Presenting and Guaranteeing Bank to act on its behalf
as (i) presenting bank (établissement
présentateur) pursuant to
article 231-13
of the AMF general regulations in order to file and present the
Wavecom Offer on behalf of French Bidco, and (ii) in its
capacity as guaranteeing bank to guarantee on behalf of French
Bidco the content and irrevocable nature of the commitments
(la teneur et le caractère irrevocable des
engagements) made by French Bidco pursuant to the Wavecom
Offer.
“Mandatory Re-Opening Period” means the offer
period pursuant to the Wavecom Offer Documents to be
compulsorily opened if the Wavecom Offer is successful at the
end of the Initial Period, according to a timetable disclosed by
an AMF notice published after the Initial Period.
“Market Value” means the amount, if any, that a
Person would be required to pay in accordance with the
applicable Lender’s usual practice in respect to any Hedge
Arrangement in order to terminate the Hedge Arrangement as a
result of the Person being “out of the money” on a
xxxx to market valuation of the Hedge Arrangement.
“Material Adverse Effect” shall mean (a) a
material adverse effect on the business, operations, properties,
assets, prospects or condition (financial or otherwise) of the
Borrower (including, for greater certainty, Wavecom ) on a
consolidated basis, (b) an adverse effect on the legality,
validity or enforceability of any of the Loan Documents,
including the validity, enforceability, perfection or priority
of any Encumbrance created under any of the Security, (c) a
material adverse effect on the ability of an Obligor, to pay or
perform any of its debts, liabilities or obligations under any
of the Loan Documents, or (d) an adverse effect on the
right, entitlement or ability of the Agent or the Lenders to
enforce their rights or remedies under any of the Loan Documents.
“Material Contracts” means each of the
agreements identified in Schedule 9.01(22) and any
agreement, contract or similar instrument or understanding
entered into from time to time by an Obligor that is material to
the Business.
“Material Licences” means, collectively, each
licence, permit or approval issued by any Governmental Authority
or any applicable stock exchange or securities commission to any
Obligor that is material to the Business.
“Maturity Date” means the earlier of
December 1, 2009 and the date on which the Credit
Facilities are terminated pursuant to Section 12.02.
“Multiemployer Plan” means a
“multiemployer plan” (as defined in
Section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA) to which any Obligor or any
ERISA Affiliate has an obligation to contribute or with respect
to which any Obligor or any ERISA Affiliate may incur any
liability.
“Net Income” means, for any period, with
respect to the Borrower, the consolidated net income (loss) of
the Borrower, for such period, all as determined in accordance
with GAAP.
“Net Proceeds” means, with respect to any
Disposition, the aggregate fair market value of proceeds of such
Disposition (whether such proceeds are in the form of cash or
other Property or part cash and part other Property) net of
reasonable, bona fide direct transaction costs and expenses
incurred in connection with such Disposition.
“Non-Arm’s Length” and similar phrases
have the meaning attributed thereto for the purposes of the
Income Tax Act (Canada); and “Arm’s
Length” shall have the opposite meaning.
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“Non BA Lender” means any Lender which is not a
BA Lender.
“Obligations” means, with respect to any
Obligor, all of its present and future indebtedness, liabilities
and obligations of any and every kind, nature or description
whatsoever (whether direct or indirect, joint or several or
joint and several, absolute or contingent, matured or unmatured,
in any currency and whether as principal debtor, guarantor,
surety or otherwise, including without limitation any interest
that accrues thereon after or would accrue thereon but for the
commencement of any case, proceeding or other action, whether
voluntary or involuntary, relating to the bankruptcy, insolvency
or reorganization whether or not allowed or allowable as a claim
in any such case, proceeding or other action) to each of the
Agent, the Lenders (and their Affiliates), and any of them
under, in connection with, relating to or with respect to each
of the Loan Documents and any and all Hedge Arrangements, and
any unpaid balance thereof.
“Obligors” has the meaning set forth in
Schedule AA and includes (i) as of the Closing Date,
the Borrower, Luxco, French Bidco and each Guarantor and
(ii) as of the date of completion of the Wavecom Offer, the
Borrower, Luxco, French Bidco, each Guarantor, Wavecom and all
of the Subsidiaries of Wavecom.
“Organizational Documents” means, with respect
to any Person, such Person’s articles or other charter
documents, by-laws, shareholder agreement, partnership
agreement, joint venture agreement, limited liability company
agreement or trust agreement, as applicable, and any and all
other similar agreements, documents and instruments relative to
such Person.
“Other Taxes” has the meaning set forth in
Schedule AA.
“Participant” has the meaning set forth in
Schedule AA.
“PBGC” means the Pension Benefit Guaranty
Corporation.
“Pension Plan” means (i) a “pension
plan” or “plan” which is a “registered
pension plan” as defined in the Income Tax Act
(Canada) or is subject to the funding requirements of
applicable pension benefits legislation in any Canadian
jurisdiction and is applicable to employees resident in Canada
of an Obligor, (ii) a “pension plan” (as such
term is defined in Section 3(2) of ERISA) which is subject
to Title IV of ERISA (other than a Multiemployer Plan), and
to which an Obligor or any ERISA Affiliate may reasonably be
expected to have liability, including any liability by reason of
having been a substantial employer within the meaning of
Section 4063 of ERISA at any time during the preceding five
years, or by reason of being deemed to be a contributing sponsor
under Section 4069 of ERISA, or (iii) any other
pension benefit plan or similar arrangement applicable to
employees of an Obligor.
“Permitted Debt” means:
(a) Debt under this Agreement;
(b) Debt in respect of Purchase Money Security Interests
and Capital Leases in an outstanding amount not to exceed
$5,000,000 in the aggregate at any time;
(c) Debt owing by French Bidco under the French Bidco Loan
Agreements;
(d) Debt owing by Sierra UK under a letter of guarantee
issued by Royal Bank of Canada in favour of H.M.
Customs & Excise in an amount not to exceed 280,000
sterling;
(e) Debt owing by Sierra UK under a letter of guarantee
issued by Royal Bank of Canada in favour of Royal Bank of
Scotland in an amount not to exceed 125,000 sterling;
(f) Debt owing by the Borrower to Royal Bank of Canada
under a corporate VISA account in an amount not to exceed
$125,000;
(g) Obligations under Qualifying Hedge
Arrangements; and
(h) Debt consented to in writing by the Lenders from time
to time and subject to the terms imposed by the Lenders in
connection with such consent.
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“Permitted Disposition” means
(i) Dispositions by the Borrower or Sierra America of their
finished goods inventory to any other Obligor in the ordinary
course of business, in accordance with the historical practices
and solely for the purposes of resale by such receiving Obligor;
and (ii) Dispositions to the extent that no Default or
Event of Default exists and the aggregate fair market value of
all assets Disposed of does not exceed during any Fiscal Year
$100,000.
“Permitted Distributions” means (a) all
cash amounts and dividends paid by any Obligor to (i) the
Borrower or to (ii) an Obligor that owns all of the issued
and outstanding shares of the paying Obligor and (b) all
cash amounts paid by Wavecom to the Borrower for the purposes of
the redemption of the Wavecom Debentures.
“Permitted Encumbrances” means, with respect to
any Person, the following:
(a) liens for Taxes not yet due or for which instalments
have been paid based on reasonable estimates pending final
assessments, or if due, the validity of which is being contested
diligently and in good faith by appropriate proceedings by that
Person for which reasonable reserves under GAAP are maintained;
(b) undetermined or inchoate liens, rights of distress and
charges incidental to current operations which have not at such
time been filed or exercised and of which none of the Lenders
has been given notice, or which relate to obligations not due or
payable, or if due, the validity of which is being contested
diligently and in good faith by appropriate proceedings by that
Person for which reasonable reserves under GAAP are maintained;
(c) reservations, limitations, provisos and conditions
expressed in any original grants from the Crown or other grants
of real or immovable property, or interests therein, which do
not materially affect the use of the affected land for the
purpose for which it is used by that Person;
(d) zoning, land use and building restrictions, by-laws,
regulations and ordinances of federal, provincial, state,
municipal and other Governmental Authorities, licences,
easements, rights-of-way and rights in the nature of easements
(including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing,
licences, easements, rights-of-way and rights in the nature of
easements for railways, sidewalks, public ways, sewers, drains,
gas, steam and water mains or electric light and power, or
telephone and telegraph conduits, poles, wires and cables) which
do not materially impair the use of the affected land for the
purpose for which it is used by that Person;
(e) title defects, encroachments or irregularities or other
matters relating to title which are of a minor nature and which
in the aggregate do not materially impair the use of the
affected property for the purpose for which it is used by that
Person;
(f) the right reserved to or vested in any municipality or
governmental or other public authority by the terms of any
lease, licence, franchise, grant or permit acquired by that
Person or by any statutory provision to terminate any such
lease, licence, franchise, grant or permit, or to require annual
or other payments as a condition to the continuance thereof;
(g) the Encumbrance resulting from the deposit of cash or
securities in connection with leases and other contracts,
insurance, tenders or expropriation proceedings, or to secure
workers compensation, employment insurance, surety or appeal
bonds, costs of litigation when required by law not to exceed
$100,000 or the Equivalent Amount in Canadian Dollars in
aggregate outstanding at any time, liens and claims incidental
to current construction, mechanics’, warehousemen’s,
carriers’ and other similar liens, and public, statutory
and other like obligations incurred in the ordinary course of
business;
(h) security given to a public utility or any municipality
or Governmental Authority when required by such utility or
authority in connection with the operations of that Person in
the ordinary course of its business provided that such security
does not materially impair the use of the affected property for
the purpose for which it is used by that Person;
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(i) the Encumbrance created by a judgment of a court of
competent jurisdiction, as long as (A) the judgment is
being contested diligently and in good faith by appropriate
proceedings and for which reasonable reserves under GAAP are
maintained or (B) is promptly satisfied by that Person and
does not result in an Event of Default;
(j) the Security;
(k) cash collateral security granted by Sierra UK in favour
of Royal Bank of Canada to secure the Debt described in
paragraphs (d) and (e) of the definition of
“Permitted Debt”;
(l) any lien against Sierra UK arising by operation of law
and in the ordinary course of trading and not as a result of any
default or omission by Sierra UK;
(m) Purchase Money Security Interests and Encumbrances
pertaining to Capital Leases, provided that such Liens secure
Permitted Debt; and
(n) such other Encumbrances as agreed to in writing by the
Lenders in accordance with this Agreement.
“Person” has the meaning set forth in
Schedule AA.
“Presenting and Guaranteeing Bank” means Lazard
Frères Banque.
“Prime Rate” means a fluctuating rate of
interest per annum, expressed on the basis of a year of 365 or
366 days, as applicable, which is equal at all times to the
greater of (a) the base rate of interest (however
designated) of the Agent for determining interest chargeable by
it on Canadian Dollar commercial loans made in Canada; and
(b) 1.0% above CDOR from time to time for one month
Canadian Dollar bankers’ acceptances having a face amount
comparable to the face amount in respect of which the applicable
Prime Rate calculation is being made.
“Prime Rate Advance” means an Advance in
Canadian Dollars made by the Lenders to the Borrower with
respect to which the Borrower has specified that interest is to
be calculated by reference to the Prime Rate.
“Prime Rate Margin” means, for any period, the
percentage rate per annum applicable to that period as indicated
below the reference to “Margin over Prime” in the
pricing grid in the definition of “Applicable Margin”.
“Priority Payable” means at any time, any
amount due and payable at such time by an Obligor which is
secured by an Encumbrance or statutory right or claim in favour
of a Governmental Authority which ranks or is capable of ranking
prior to or pari passu with the Encumbrances created by
the Security in respect of any Account Receivable including,
without limitation, amounts due and payable for wages, vacation
pay, termination and severance pay, employee deductions
(including income, withholding, social security and other
employment taxes), sales tax, excise tax, tax payable pursuant
to Part IX of the Excise Tax Act (Canada) (net of
GST input credits), workers compensation, municipal taxes,
government royalties, pension fund obligations, overdue rents or
taxes, and other statutory or other claims that in each case
have priority over or may rank pari passu with such
Encumbrances created by the Security.
“Property” means, with respect to any Person,
all or any portion of its undertaking, property and assets, both
real and personal, including for greater certainty any share in
the capital of a corporation or ownership interest in any other
Person.
“Proportionate Share” means in respect of each
Lender from time to time, (a) with respect to a Credit
Facility or both Credit Facilities, the percentage of each
Credit Facility or of both Credit Facilities, as the case may
be, which a Lender has agreed to advance to the Borrower,
determined by dividing the Lender’s Commitment in respect
of each Credit Facility or of both Credit Facilities, as the
case may be, by the aggregate of all of the Lenders’
Commitments with respect to such Credit Facility or both Credit
Facilities, as the case may be, and, with respect to an Advance,
means the Proportionate Share of the Credit Facility under which
such Advance is made in each case and, (b) with respect to
the Obligations, pro rata in accordance with the aggregate
unpaid amount of the Obligations owed to such Lender, which, in
the case of all Qualifying Hedge
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Arrangements, shall mean all amounts due thereunder including,
with respect to all Qualifying Hedge Arrangements (whether or
not governed by an ISDA Master Agreement), as a result of a
Termination Event (as such term is defined in the ISDA Master
Agreement).
“Purchase Money Security Interest” means an
Encumbrance created or assumed by an Obligor securing Debt
incurred to finance the unpaid acquisition price of personal
Property provided that (a) such Encumbrance is created
concurrently with or prior to the acquisition of such personal
Property, (b) such Encumbrance does not at any time
encumber any Property other than the Property financed or
refinanced (to the extent the principal amount is not increased)
by such Debt and proceeds thereof, (c) the amount of Debt
secured thereby is not increased subsequent to such acquisition,
and (d) the amount of Debt secured by any such Encumbrance
at no time exceeds 100% of the original acquisition price of
such personal Property at the time it was acquired, and for the
purposes of this definition the term “acquisition”
shall include a Capital Lease and the term “acquire”
shall have a corresponding meaning.
“Qualifying Hedge Arrangements” means a Hedge
Arrangement provided by a Lender which is entered into after the
date hereof and is permitted pursuant to Section 10.04(13).
“Related Parties” has the meaning set forth in
Schedule AA.
“Relevant Jurisdiction” means, from time to
time, with respect to a Person that is granting Security
hereunder, any province or territory of Canada, any state of the
United States or any other country or political subdivision
thereof, in which such Person has its jurisdiction of formation,
chief executive office or chief place of business or has
Property and, for greater certainty, at the Closing Date
includes the provinces, states and countries set forth in
Schedule 9.01(19) attached hereto.
“Relevant Quarter” has the meaning set forth in
the definition of Applicable Margin.
“Repayment Notice” means the notice
substantially in the form annexed hereto as Schedule C.
“Requirements of Environmental Law” means all
requirements of the common law or of statutes, regulations,
by-laws, ordinances, treaties, judgments and decrees, and (to
the extent that they have the force of law but nevertheless
including determinations not having the force of law if
responsible and prudent Persons engaged in a business similar to
the Business would observe such determinations) rules,
guidelines, orders, approvals, notices, permits, directives, and
the like, of any federal, territorial, provincial, state,
regional, municipal or local judicial, regulatory or
administrative agency, board or Governmental Authority in
Canada, the United States and any other jurisdiction in which
any Obligor has operations or assets relating to environmental
or occupational health and safety matters (as they relate to
exposure to a Hazardous Material) and the assets and undertaking
of any Obligor and the intended uses thereof, including but not
limited to, all such requirements relating to: (a) the
protection, preservation or remediation of the natural
environment (the air, land, surface water or groundwater);
(b) solid, gaseous or liquid waste generation, handling,
treatment, storage, disposal or transportation;
(c) consumer, occupational or public safety and health (as
they relate to exposure to a Hazardous Material); and
(d) Hazardous Materials or conditions (matters that are
prohibited, controlled or otherwise regulated in connection with
the protection of the natural environment and occupational
health and safety, such as contaminants, pollutants, toxic
substances, dangerous goods, wastes, hazardous wastes, liquid
industrial wastes, hazardous materials, petroleum and other
materials such as urea formaldehyde and polyurethane foam
insulation, asbestos or asbestos-containing materials,
polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) or PCB contaminated fluids or
equipment, lead based paint, explosives, radioactive substances,
petroleum and associated products, above ground and underground
storage tanks or surface impoundments).
“Requirements of Law” means, as to any Person,
the Organizational Documents of such Person and any Applicable
Law, or determination of a Governmental Authority, in each case
applicable to or binding upon such Person or any of its business
or Property or to which such Person or any of its business or
Property is subject.
“Revolving Facility” has the meaning set forth
in Section 2.01(1).
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“Revolving Lenders” means those Lenders
designated as such in Schedule A annexed hereto providing
the Revolving Facility to the Borrower pursuant to this
Agreement.
“Rollover” means a rollover of a maturing
Bankers’ Acceptance or BA Equivalent Note into a new
Bankers’ Acceptance or BA Equivalent Note, as applicable,
or the rollover of a maturing LIBOR Advance into a new LIBOR
Advance, or the extension of a maturing Letter of Credit.
“Rollover Date” means the date of commencement
of a new Interest Period applicable to a Bankers’
Acceptance, BA Equivalent Note or a LIBOR Advance that is being
rolled over or the extension of a Letter of Credit.
“Rollover Notice” means the Notice of Request
for Advance substantially in the form annexed hereto as
Schedule B to be given to the Agent by the Borrower in
connection with the Rollover of a Bankers’ Acceptance, BA
Equivalent Note or a LIBOR Advance pursuant to Section 2.05.
“Schedule I Lenders” means those Lenders
that are banks that are chartered under the Bank Act
(Canada) and named in Schedule I thereto and
“Schedule I Lender” means each such bank.
“Security” means all security (including
guarantees) held from time to time by or on behalf of the
Lenders or the Agent on behalf of the Lenders, securing or
intended to secure directly or indirectly repayment of the
Obligations and includes, without limitation, all Security
Documents.
“Security Documents” means the documents
referred to in Article 11.
“Service Agreements” means agreements made
between an Obligor and a Lender in respect of cash management,
payroll, credit card or other banking services.
“Shareholder Equity” means, with respect to the
Borrower, the total shareholders’ equity of the Borrower
which shall include the stated capital of all classes or
equivalent account in respect of issued and outstanding shares,
retained earnings or deficits and contributed surplus less
minority interests and excluding any amortization or write-down
of goodwill, all as determined in accordance with GAAP.
“Sierra America” means Sierra Wireless America,
Inc., a Delaware corporation.
“Sierra UK” means Sierra Wireless (UK) Limited,
a corporation existing under the laws of England and Wales.
“Software” means, with respect to any Obligor,
all software of such Obligor, including all versions thereof,
and all related Documentation, manuals, source code and object
code, program files, data files, computer related data, field
and data definitions and relationships, data definition
specifications, data models, program and system logic,
interfaces, program modules, routines, sub-routines, algorithms,
program architecture, design concepts, system designs, program
structure, sequence and organization, screen displays and report
layouts, and all other material related to such software.
“Squeeze-Out” means the retrait obligatoire
procedure, by which French Bidco applies to the AMF pursuant
to
Article 237-16
III of the AMF general regulation, for the mandatory acquisition
of all the outstanding Wavecom Shares, if the condition provided
by
Article 237-14§ 1
of the AMF general regulation is met subsequently to the
Mandatory Re-Opening Period, which may be extended to the
mandatory acquisition of all the outstanding Wavecom Debentures
if the specific condition required by
Article 237-14§ 2
is also met.
“Subsidiary” means, at any time, as to any
Person, any other Person, if at such time the first mentioned
Person owns, directly or indirectly, securities or other
ownership interests in such other Person, having ordinary voting
power to elect a majority of the board of directors or persons
performing similar functions for such other Person, and shall
include any other Person in like relationship to a Subsidiary of
such first mentioned Person.
“Support Agreement” means the memorandum of
understanding dated December 1, 2008 between the Borrower
and Wavecom.
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“Take-Over Bid” shall mean either (a) an
offer to acquire outstanding voting or equity securities of a
class of a Person whose shares are publicly traded where the
securities that are the subject of such offer, together with the
offeror’s securities, constitute at least 20% of the
outstanding securities of that class of securities on the date
the offer is made, or (b) any other event which is a
take-over bid within the meaning attributed to such term by any
law, treaty, rule, regulation, or requirement of any stock
exchange or securities commission, or determination of any
arbitrator, court, stock exchange, securities commission or
other Governmental Authority, in each case, applicable to or
binding on any Obligor.
“Taxes” has the meaning set forth in
Schedule AA.
“TD” means The Toronto-Dominion Bank.
“Term Facility” has the meaning set forth in
Section 2.01(2).
“Term Facility Advance Date” means the date
immediately preceding the date upon which French Bidco is
required to purchase Wavecom Shares or Wavecom Debentures in
accordance with the Wavecom Offer pursuant to the terms of the
Wavecom Offer Documents, in relation to, as the case may be,
(i) the Initial Period, (ii) the Mandatory Re-Opening
Period and (iii) the Squeeze-Out.
“Term Lenders” means those Lenders designated
as such in Schedule A annexed hereto providing the Term
Facility to the Borrower pursuant to this Agreement.
“Total Debt” means, with respect to the
Borrower, without duplication and on a consolidated basis, all
Debt of the Borrower.
“Total Debt to EBITDA Ratio” means, at any
time, the ratio of the Borrower’s (a) Total Debt at
such time to (b) EBITDA for most recently completed Four
Quarter Period.
“United States Dollars”,
“US Dollars” and “US $”,
“$” means the lawful money of the United States
of America.
“US Base Rate” means a fluctuating rate of
interest per annum, expressed on the basis of a year of
365 days or 366 days, as applicable, which is equal at
all times to the greater of (a) the base rate of interest
(however designated) of the Agent for determining interest
chargeable by it on United States Dollar commercial loans in
Canada and (b) the sum of (i) the Federal Funds
Effective Rate and (ii) 1.0% per annum.
“US Base Rate Advance” means an Advance in
United States Dollars made by the Lenders to the Borrower with
respect to which the Borrower has specified that interest is to
be calculated by a reference to US Base Rate.
“US Base Rate Margin” means, for any period,
the percentage rate per annum applicable to that period as
indicated below the reference to “US Base Rate Margin”
in the pricing grid in the definition of “Applicable
Margin”.
“US Offer Documents” means the tender offer
documents filed with the Securities Exchange Commission in the
United States, including the tender offer statement, which shall
contain an offer to purchase Wavecom Shares and a related letter
of transmittal and summary advertisement, together with any
supplements or amendments thereto.
“Wavecom” means Wavecom S.A., a
société anonyme organised under French law,
whose registered office is located at 0 xxxxxxxxx xx Xxxxxx,
92442 Issy Les Moulineaux, registered with the Companies
Registry of Nanterre under the identification number 391 838 042
and whose shares are traded on Euronext Paris (compartiment
B).
“Wavecom Board Recommendation” means the board
minutes of W duly executed confirming the execution and delivery
of the Support Agreement and according to which the acquisition
of Wavecom by the Borrower, or an affiliate thereof, through the
Wavecom Offer is in the best interests of Wavecom, its
employees, and, subject to consideration of a fairness opinion,
its shareholders and other holders of Wavecom Shares and Wavecom
Debentures.
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“Wavecom Debenture Premium” means an amount
equal to 2% of the principal amount of the Wavecom Debentures.
“Wavecom Debentures” means the 2,571,884 1.75%
bonds convertible
and/or
exchangeable for newly issued shares or existing shares by
option (obligations à option de conversion et/ou
d’echange en actions nouvelles ou existantes-XXXXXX)
issued by W pursuant to an offering circular dated July 5,
2007.
“Wavecom Draft Offer Prospectus” means the
draft offer prospectus of French Bidco as attached to the Filing
Letter.
“Wavecom Offer” means the take-over bid
(offre publique d’achat) to be filed by the French
Bidco, as the case may be, for the acquisition of all of the
Wavecom Shares and the Wavecom Debentures pursuant to the
Wavecom Offer Documents during the Initial Period, the Mandatory
Re-Opening Period and the Squeeze-Out.
“Wavecom Offer Documents” means, collectively,
the Support Agreement, the Mandate Letter, the Filing Letter,
the Wavecom Draft Offer Prospectus, the Wavecom Offer Prospectus
and the US Offer Documents.
“Wavecom Offer Prospectus” means the tender
offer prospectus (note d’information) publicly
disclosed by French Bidco and approved by the AMF.
“Wavecom Shares” means the issued and
outstanding shares of Wavecom.
“Welfare Plan” means (i) a “welfare
plan”, as such term is defined in Section 3(1) of
ERISA, and (ii) any other medical, health, hospitalization,
insurance or other similar employee benefit plan, agreement or
arrangement applicable to employees of an Obligor.
1.02 Headings
The division of this Agreement into Articles and Sections and
the insertion of headings are for convenience of reference only
and shall not affect the construction or interpretation of this
Agreement.
1.03 Accounting Practices
All calculations for the purposes of determining compliance with
the financial ratios and financial covenants contained in this
Agreement shall be made in accordance with GAAP on a basis
consistently applied for each Four Quarter Period. In the event
of a change in such GAAP, the Borrower and the Agent (with the
approval of the Lenders) shall negotiate in good faith to revise
(if appropriate) such ratios and covenants to reflect GAAP as
then in effect, in which case all calculations thereafter made
for the purpose of determining compliance with the financial
ratios and financial covenants contained in this Agreement shall
be made on a basis consistent with GAAP in existence as at the
date of such revisions.
1.04 Permitted Encumbrances
The inclusion of reference to Permitted Encumbrances in any Loan
Document is not intended to subordinate and shall not
subordinate, and shall not be interpreted as subordinating, any
Encumbrance created by any of the Security to any Permitted
Encumbrance.
1.05 Currency
Unless otherwise specified in this Agreement, all references to
dollar amounts (without further description) will mean United
States Dollars.
1.06 Paramountcy
In the event of a conflict in or between the provisions of this
Agreement including the provisions of any Schedule annexed
hereto or any of the other Loan Documents then, notwithstanding
anything contained in such other Loan Document, the provisions
of this Agreement will prevail and the provisions of such
Schedule or other Loan Document will be deemed to be amended to
the extent necessary to eliminate such conflict. In particular,
if any act or omission of an Obligor is expressly permitted
under this Agreement but is expressly prohibited under another
Loan Document, such act or omission shall be permitted. If any
act or omission is expressly prohibited under any Loan Document
(other than this Agreement), but this Agreement does not
expressly permit such act or
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omission, or if any act is expressly required to be performed
under such Loan Document but this Agreement does not expressly
relieve the applicable Obligor from such performance, such
circumstance shall not constitute a conflict in or between the
provisions of this Agreement and the provisions of such Loan
Document.
1.07 Non-Business Days
Unless otherwise expressly provided in this Agreement, whenever
any payment is stated to be due on a day other than a Business
Day, the payment will be made on the immediately following
Business Day. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if with respect to
any payment of principal or interest on a LIBOR Advance the
succeeding Business Day falls in the next calendar month, the
due date for payment of such principal or interest shall be the
next preceding Business Day. In the case of interest or fees
payable pursuant to the terms of this Agreement, the extension
or contraction of time will be considered in determining the
amount of interest and fees. Unless otherwise expressly provided
in this Agreement, whenever any action to be taken is stated or
scheduled to be required to be taken on, or (except with respect
to the calculation of interest or fees) any period of time is
stated or scheduled to commence or terminate on, a day other
than a Business Day, the action will be taken or the period of
time will commence or terminate, as the case may be, on the
immediately following Business Day.
1.08 Interest Payments and Calculations
(1) All interest payments to be made under this Agreement
will be paid without allowance or deduction for deemed
re-investment or otherwise, both before and after maturity and
before and after default
and/or
judgment, if any, until payment of the amount on which such
interest is accruing, and interest will accrue on overdue
interest, if any.
(2) Unless otherwise stated, wherever in this Agreement
reference is made to a rate of interest or rate of fees
“per annum” or a similar expression is used, such
interest or fees will be calculated on the basis of a calendar
year of 365 days or 366 days, as the case may be, and
using the nominal rate method of calculation, and will not be
calculated using the effective rate method of calculation or on
any other basis that gives effect to the principle of deemed
re-investment of interest.
(3) For the purposes of the Interest Act (Canada)
and disclosure under such act, whenever interest to be paid
under this Agreement is to be calculated on the basis of a year
of 365 days or 360 days or any other period of time
that is less than a calendar year, the yearly rate of interest
to which the rate determined pursuant to such calculation is
equivalent is the rate so determined multiplied by the actual
number of days in the calendar year in which the same is to be
ascertained and divided by either 365, 360 or such other period
of time, as the case may be.
(4) Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary the
Agent shall calculate all fees and interest, including without
limitation standby fees and agency fees according to its regular
practice. For greater certainty all such calculations shall be
without duplication of any day such that neither interest nor
fees shall be calculated in respect of the same day twice.
(5) Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no
event shall any interest rate or rates referred to herein
(together with other fees payable hereunder which are construed
by a court of competent jurisdiction to be interest or in the
nature of interest) exceed the maximum interest rate permitted
by Applicable Law. If such maximum interest rate would be
exceeded by the terms hereof, the rates of interest payable
hereunder shall be reduced to the extent necessary so that such
rates (together with other fees which are construed by a court
of competent jurisdiction to be interest or in the nature of
interest) equal the maximum interest rate permitted by
Applicable Law, and any overpayment of interest received by the
Agent or the Lenders theretofore shall be applied, forthwith
after determination of such overpayment, to pay all then
outstanding interest, and thereafter to pay outstanding
principal, as if the same were a prepayment of principal and
treated accordingly hereunder.
1.09 Determinations By the Borrower
All provisions contained herein requiring the Borrower to make a
determination or assessment of any event or circumstance or
other matter to the best of its knowledge shall be deemed to
require the Borrower to make all inquiries and investigations as
may be reasonable in the circumstances before making any such
determination or assessment.
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1.10 Schedules
The following are the Schedules annexed hereto and incorporated
by reference and deemed to be part hereof:
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Schedule AA
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Model Credit Agreement Provisions
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Schedule A
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Lenders and Commitments
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Schedule B
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Notice of Request for Advance
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Schedule C
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Repayment Notice
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Schedule D
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Compliance Certificate
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Schedule E
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Borrowing Base Certificate
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Schedule F
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Guarantors on Closing Date
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Schedule 9.01(9)
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Litigation
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Schedule 9.01(12)
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Description of Real Property
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Schedule 9.01(13)
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Schedule 9.01(18)
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2.01 Credit Facilities
Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement:
(1) Revolving Facility — The
Revolving Lenders establish (on a several and not joint or joint
and several basis) in favour of the Borrower a revolving term
credit facility (the “Revolving Facility”) in a
principal amount (including Advances made in US Dollars and
the Equivalent Amount in US Dollars of Advances made in
Canadian Dollars) not to exceed the lesser of:
(a) $55,000,000; and
(b) the Borrowing Base.
(2) Term Facility — The Term
Lenders establish (on a several and not joint or joint and
several basis) in favour of the Borrower a non-revolving term
credit facility (the “Term Facility”) in an
amount up to 218,000,000 Euros.
2.02 Purpose of Credit Facilities
Advances under the Credit Facilities shall only be used for the
following respective purposes:
(a) Advances under the Revolving Facility shall only be
used by the Borrower for working capital requirements; and
(b) Advances under the Term Facility in an amount not to
exceed 80,617,365 Euros shall only be used by the Borrower to
complete the acquisition of the Wavecom Debentures pursuant to
the Wavecom Offer in accordance with the Wavecom Offer
Documents. Advances under the Term Facility in an amount not to
exceed 137,382,635 Euros shall only be used by the Borrower to
complete the acquisition of the Wavecom Shares and to fund the
payment of the Wavecom Debenture Premium pursuant to the Wavecom
Offer in accordance with the Wavecom Offer Documents.
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2.03 Manner of Borrowing
(1) The Borrower may, subject to the terms hereof, make
Drawdowns, Conversions and Rollovers as applicable under the
Revolving Facility:
(a) in Canadian Dollars, by way of Prime Rate Advances and
Bankers’ Acceptances (and BA Equivalent Notes);
(b) in United States Dollars, by way of US Base Rate
Advances and LIBOR Advances; and
(c) in Canadian Dollars, United States Dollars, by way of
Letters of Credit.
Letters of Credit under the Revolving Facility may not exceed an
aggregate face value of $25,000,000 or the Equivalent Amount in
Canadian Dollars.
(2) The Borrower may, subject to the terms hereof,
(a) make the initial Drawdown under the Term Facility on
the Closing Date in Euros by way of the Lazard Letter of Credit;
and (b) make subsequent Drawdowns, Conversions and
Rollovers under the Term Facility on Term Facility Advance Dates
in Euros by way of LIBOR Advances. For greater certainty, the
aggregate amount of (i) availability under the Lazard
Letter of Credit and (ii) LIBOR Advances made by the Term
Lenders under the Term Facility, shall at no time exceed the
maximum aggregate Commitment of the Term Lenders under the Term
Facility.
2.04 Nature of the Credit Facilities
Subject to the terms and conditions hereof, the Revolving
Facility is a revolving credit facility and, accordingly, the
Borrower may increase or decrease Advances under such Credit
Facility, by making Drawdowns, repayments and further Drawdowns
of the amount of Advances that have been repaid. The Term
Facility is a non-revolving facility and, accordingly, except
for Conversions and Rollovers made in accordance with this
Agreement, no amounts repaid under the Term Facility may be
reborrowed and the limit of the Term Facility (and the
Proportionate Share of the Term Lenders’ Commitments under
the Term Facility) will be automatically and permanently reduced
by the amount of any such repayment so made. Any amount not
borrowed by the Borrower after the initial Drawdown under the
Term Facility (other than amounts borrowed on Term Facility
Advance Dates) shall be cancelled and may not thereafter be
borrowed by the Borrower.
2.05 Drawdowns, Conversions and
Rollovers
(1) Subject to the provisions of this Agreement, the
Borrower may (i) make Drawdowns hereunder;
(ii) convert the whole or any part of any type of Advance
into any other type of Advance; or (iii) may rollover any
Bankers’ Acceptances, BA Equivalent Note or LIBOR Advance
on the last day of the applicable Interest Period thereof or
extend Letters of Credit in accordance with their terms, by
giving the Agent a Drawdown Notice, Conversion Notice or
Rollover Notice, as the case may be.
(2) In the case of a Drawdown, Conversion or Rollover, the
Borrower shall give the Agent a Drawdown Notice, Conversion
Notice or Rollover Notice, as the case may be, three
(3) Business Days (in the cases of LIBOR Advances,
Bankers’ Acceptances, BA Equivalent Notes and Letters of
Credit) and one (1) Business Day (in the case of all other
Advances) prior to the proposed Drawdown Date, Conversion Date
or Rollover Date, as the case may be.
(3) Each Drawdown Notice, Conversion Notice or Rollover
Notice, as the case may be, shall be delivered by the Borrower
on a Business Day on or prior to 11:00 a.m. (Toronto time)
to the Agent.
(4) Each Drawdown, Conversion or Rollover under the
Revolving Facility shall (i) in the case of Prime Rate
Advances, be in a minimum principal amount of Cdn.$1,000,000 and
in whole multiples of Cdn.$100,000; and (ii) in the case of
Bankers’ Acceptances, be in a minimum face amount of
Cdn.$1,000,000 and in whole multiples of Cdn.$100,000;
(iii) in the case of US Base Rate Advances, be in a minimum
principal amount of $1,000,000 and in whole multiples of
$100,000; (iv) and in the case of LIBOR Advances, be in a
minimum principal amount of $1,000,000 and in whole multiples of
$100,000.
(5) Each Drawdown, Conversion or Rollover under the Term
Facility shall, in the case of LIBOR Advances, be in a minimum
principal amount of 1,000,000 Euros and in whole multiples of
100,000 Euros, or such other
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amount as is required to be advanced to complete the acquisition
of Wavecom Shares or Wavecom Debentures on a Term Facility
Advance Date.
2.06 Agent’s Obligations with Respect to
Advances
Upon receipt of a Drawdown Notice, Conversion Notice or Rollover
Notice, as the case may be, the Agent shall forthwith notify the
Lenders of the proposed Drawdown Date, Conversion Date or
Rollover Date, as the case may be, of each Lender’s
Proportionate Share of such Advance and, if applicable, the
account of the Agent to which each Lender’s Proportionate
Share is to be credited.
2.07 Lenders’ and Agent’s Obligations
with Respect to Advances
Each Lender shall, prior to 11:00 a.m. (Toronto time) on
the Drawdown Date, Conversion Date or Rollover Date, as the case
may be, specified by the Borrower in a Drawdown Notice,
Conversion Notice or Rollover Notice, as the case may be, credit
the Agent’s account specified in the Agent’s notice
given under Section 2.06 with such Lender’s
Proportionate Share of such Advance and by 2:00 p.m.
(Toronto time) on the same date the Agent shall make available
the full amount of the amounts so credited to the Borrower (net
of the amount of the existing Advance being rolled over or
converted as the case may and, if applicable, the BA Stamping
Fee).
2.08 Irrevocability
A Drawdown Notice, Conversion Notice or Rollover Notice, as the
case may be, given by the Borrower hereunder shall be
irrevocable and shall oblige the Borrower to take the action
contemplated on the date specified therein.
2.09 Cancellation or Permanent Reduction of the
Revolving Facility
The Borrower may, at any time, upon giving at least five
(5) Business Days prior notice to the Agent, cancel in full
or, from time to time, permanently reduce in whole or in part
the Revolving Facility; provided, however that any reduction
under the Revolving Facility shall be in a minimum amount of
$1,000,000 and increments of $100,000. If the Revolving Facility
is so reduced, the Commitments of each of the Revolving Lenders
shall be reduced pro rata in the same proportion that the amount
of the reduction in the Revolving Facility bears to the then
current Commitments of the Revolving Lenders in effect
immediately prior to such reduction.
2.10 Termination of LIBOR Advances
(1) If at any time a Lender determines, acting reasonably,
(which determination shall be conclusive and binding on the
Borrower) that:
(a) the LIBO Rate does not adequately reflect the effective
cost to the Lender of making or maintaining a LIBOR
Advance; or
(b) it cannot readily obtain or retain funds in the London
interbank market in order to fund or maintain any LIBOR Advance
for a LIBOR Interest Period selected by the Borrower or cannot
otherwise perform its obligations hereunder with respect to any
LIBOR Advance for any such period;
then the Lender shall inform the Agent and upon at least four
(4) Business Days written notice by the Agent to the
Borrower,
(c) the right of the Borrower to request LIBOR Advances for
such period from that Lender shall be and remain suspended until
the Agent notifies the Borrower that any condition causing such
determination no longer exists; and
(d) if the Lender is prevented from maintaining a LIBOR
Advance, the Borrower shall, at its option, either repay the
LIBOR Advance to that Lender or convert the LIBOR Advance into
other forms of Advance which are permitted by this Agreement,
and the Borrower shall be responsible for any loss or expense
that the Lender incurs as a result, including Breakage Costs, if
the Lender is prevented from maintaining a LIBOR Advance.
(2) If at any time the Agent determines that the LIBO Rate
is not determinable pursuant to clause (a) or (b) in
the definition of “LIBO Rate”, the Agent shall so
notify the Borrower, and the right of the Borrower to request
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LIBOR Advances for such period shall be and remain suspended
until the Agent notifies the Borrower that any condition causing
such determination no longer exists.
2.11 Advances under the Term Facility
(1) The Borrower hereby confirms and agrees that
137,382,635 Euros has been deposited with the Agent on the
Closing Date in cash collateral accounts (the “Cash
Collateral Accounts”) maintained by the Borrower with
the Agent, shall be used by the Borrower solely for the purposes
of (i) securing the obligations of the Issuing Bank to fund
the acquisition of Wavecom Shares and to fund the payment of the
Wavecom Debenture Premium only pursuant to the terms of the
Lazard Letter of Credit and (ii) completing the purchase of
Wavecom Shares by French Bidco and funding the payment of the
Wavecom Debenture Premium pursuant to the Wavecom Offer in
accordance with the Wavecom Offer Documents. The Borrower shall
have no right to make any withdrawals from the Cash Collateral
Accounts at any time. Subject to the terms of the this
Agreement, the Borrower hereby authorizes and irrevocably
directs the Agent, on each Term Facility Advance Date, to
transfer (by wire transfer or otherwise) cash in the Cash
Collateral Account to a Euronext account maintained by French
Bidco for the purposes of completing the purchase of Wavecom
Shares in accordance with the Wavecom Offer and the Wavecom
Offer Documents.
(2) The Borrower further confirms and agrees that a portion
of the Term Facility not to exceed 80,617,365 Euros shall be
available to the Borrower solely for the purposes of
(i) securing the obligations of the Issuing Bank to fund
the acquisition of Wavecom Debentures only pursuant to the
Lazard Letter of Credit and (ii) completing the purchase of
Wavecom Debentures by French Bidco pursuant to the Wavecom Offer
in accordance with the Wavecom Offer Documents. Subject to the
terms of this Agreement, the Borrower hereby authorizes and
irrevocably directs the Agent, on each Term Facility Advance
Date, to advance (by wire transfer or otherwise) all LIBOR
Advances requested by the Borrower, to a Euronext account
maintained by French Bidco for the purposes of completing the
purchase of Wavecom Debentures in accordance with the Wavecom
Offer and the Wavecom Offer Documents.
(3) The amount of cash transferred from the Cash Collateral
Accounts and LIBOR Advances made by the Lenders on each Term
Facility Advance Date, shall automatically reduce the amount
available to be drawn by the Presenting and Guaranteeing Bank
under the Lazard Letter of Credit, such that the aggregate
amount of (i) cash transferred from the Cash Collateral
Accounts and LIBOR Advances outstanding and (ii) the amount
available to be drawn under the Lazard Letter of Credit, shall
at no time exceed the Commitment under the Term Facility.
3.01 Conditions Precedent to an Initial
Advance
The obligations of the Lenders under this Agreement are subject
to and conditional upon the following conditions precedent being
satisfied as of the date of the first Drawdown:
(a) this Agreement shall have been executed and delivered
by all parties hereto;
(b) the Agent shall have received notice as required by the
Agent in connection with the issuance of the Letter of Credit
under the Term Facility;
(c) the Agent shall have received certified copies of the
Organizational Documents of each Obligor, the resolutions
authorizing the execution, delivery and performance of each
Obligor’s respective obligations under the Loan Documents
and the transactions contemplated herein, and the incumbency of
the officers of the Obligors;
(d) copies of all shareholder agreements and partnership
agreements, if any, applicable to each Obligor, certified by
such Obligor to be true, shall have been delivered to the Agent
and shall be satisfactory to the Lenders;
(e) certificates of status or good standing, as applicable,
for all Relevant Jurisdictions of each Obligor shall have been
delivered to the Agent;
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(f) each Obligor shall be in compliance with all Material
Contracts and Material Licences to the satisfaction of the
Lenders, acting reasonably and copies of all Material Contracts
and Material Licences if any, applicable to each Obligor,
certified by such Obligor to be true, shall have been delivered
to the Agent;
(g) the Lenders shall have completed and shall be satisfied
with their financial, business, environmental, tax and legal due
diligence with respect to the Obligors and the Wavecom Offer,
including but not limited to a review of and satisfaction with:
(i) all documentation related to, and all material respects
of, the Wavecom Offer, including, without limitation, the
Wavecom Board Recommendation, the Support Agreement and each of
the other Wavecom Offer Documents;
(ii) the legal structure of the Borrower and its
Subsidiaries, both before and after completion of the Wavecom
Offer;
(iii) all tax and French legal structuring memorandums with
respect to the structuring of the Wavecom Offer and the
transactions contemplated herein;
(iv) three year historical audited consolidated financial
statements of the Borrower and its draft unaudited interim
financial statements for October 31, 2008; and
(v) all Material Contracts and Material Licences.
(h) the Lenders shall be satisfied with the Annual Business
Plan delivered to the Agent;
(i) the Lenders shall be satisfied with the terms of the
Support Agreement, including, without limitation, satisfaction
that, from the Closing Date to the date of repayment in full of
the Term Facility, the Support Agreement contains (i) a
representation from Wavecom that it is not prohibited by
contract or otherwise from redeeming the Wavecom Debentures upon
the occurrence of a change of control of Wavecom and
(ii) covenants from Wavecom to (A) maintain its cash
in an amount not to be less than 110,000,000 Euros, (B) not
make any dividends or other Distributions, (C) not to make
any Capital Expenditures in excess of 5,000,000 Euros in the
aggregate, (D) not to make any acquisitions in excess of
5,000,000 Euros in the aggregate, (E) not to incur any Debt
in excess of 5,000,000 Euros in the aggregate, (F) not to
amend its Organizational Documents, change its capital
structure, (G) not to issue any Equity Interests and
(H) not to, directly or indirectly, solicit, initiate,
encourage or take any other action to facilitate any other
Take-Over Bid of Wavecom;
(j) the Lenders shall be satisfied with the terms of the
Lock-Up
Agreement, including without limitation, that the Wavecom Shares
held by members of the Xxxxxxxx family and members of the Alard
family will be acquired by French Bidco, subject to the terms of
the Lock-Up
Agreement;
(k) copies of the executed Support Agreement, the executed
Lock-Up
Agreement, the Wavecom Board Recommendation and the other
Wavecom Offer Documents certified by the Borrower to be true,
shall have been delivered to the Agent;
(l) the Lazard Letter of Credit shall be in form and
substance satisfactory to the Lenders, and the Presenting and
Guaranteeing Bank shall have confirmed to the Agent in writing
that such Letter of Credit is in form and substance satisfactory
to the Presenting and Guaranteeing Bank and that it will accept
such Letter of Credit;
(m) 137,382,635 Euros (or the Equivalent Amount in
US Dollars) shall have been deposited by the Borrower to an
cash collateral account maintained with the Agent, such cash to
be utilized for the purposes of (i) securing the
obligations of the Issuing Bank under the Lazard Letter of
Credit and (ii) to complete the purchase by French Bidco of
Wavecom Shares pursuant to the Wavecom Offer and to pay for the
Wavecom Debenture Premium all in accordance with the Wavecom
Offer Documents;
(n) A pro forma statement as of the Closing Date
demonstrating evidence that the Borrower has Liquidity equal to
no less than $97,000,000 and that Wavecom has a minimum cash
balance of 30,000,000 Euros, in each
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case, after giving effect to the Wavecom Offer and the
redemption of the Wavecom Debentures and assuming that the terms
in the Support Agreement have been honoured, shall have been
delivered to the Agent;
(o) the Lenders shall be satisfied that the Wavecom
Debentures are redeemable in accordance with their terms
pursuant to the change of control provisions contained therein
and a currently dated opinion from French counsel confirming
such facts shall have been delivered to the Agent;
(p) evidence of repayment in full of all Debt that is not
Permitted Debt owing by any Obligor to the existing lenders to
such Obligor concurrent with the initial Drawdown under the
Credit Facilities shall have been delivered to the Agent;
(q) evidence that the Borrower has obtained all necessary
or required consents or approvals of any Governmental Authority
(other than the approval from the AMF and certain anti-trust
approvals), or other Person in connection with the completion of
the Wavecom Offer and the delivery of the Loan Documents;
(r) releases, discharges and postponements with respect to
all Encumbrances which are not Permitted Encumbrances, if any,
shall have been delivered to the Agent;
(s) payment of all amounts and fees (including reasonable
fees of Lenders’ Counsel and agent counsel) payable to the
Lenders and the Agent;
(t) duly executed copies of the Security shall have been
delivered to the Agent (along with certificates, if any,
representing all shares or other securities pledged, together
with related stock powers duly executed in blank) and such
financing statements or other registrations of such Security, or
notice thereof, shall have been filed, registered, entered or
recorded in all offices of public record necessary or desirable
in the opinion of the Agent to preserve or protect the charges
and security interests created thereby;
(u) certified copies of the French Bidco Loan Agreements
shall have been delivered to the Agent, and the Lenders shall be
satisfied with its form and substance;
(v) a currently dated letter of opinion of Borrower’s
Counsel along with the opinions of local counsel (including,
without limitation, French counsel and Luxembourg counsel to the
Borrower) shall have been delivered to the Agent;
(w) the Borrower shall have delivered to the Agent
certificates of insurance acceptable to the Agent showing,
inter alia, the Agent as additional insured, loss payee
and mortgagee as its interest may appear on all insurance
policies that insure the assets to be secured by the Security;
(x) a Borrowing Base Certificate for the Borrower
calculating the Borrowing Base as at December 1, 2008 shall
have been delivered to the Agent;
(y) a Compliance Certificate calculated as at
October 31, 2008 confirming on a pro forma basis
compliance with all financial covenants shall have been
delivered to the Agent after giving effect to the Wavecom Offer;
(z) no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is
continuing on the Drawdown Date or would result from making the
Advance and a senior officer of the Borrower shall have
certified the same to the Lenders;
(aa) all representations and warranties made by the
Borrower are true and correct;
(bb) no Material Adverse Effect has occurred since
December 31, 2007;
(cc) an outline of the flow of funds from the Credit
Facilities shall have been delivered to the Agent; and
(dd) the Agent shall have received such additional
evidence, documents or undertakings as the Lenders shall
reasonably request to establish the consummation of the
transactions contemplated hereby and be satisfied, acting
reasonably, as to the taking of all proceedings in connection
herewith in compliance with the conditions set forth in this
Agreement;
provided that all documents delivered pursuant to this
Section 3.01 shall be in full force and effect, and in form
and substance satisfactory to the Lenders acting reasonably.
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3.02 Conditions Precedent to Subsequent
Advances under the Revolving Facility
The obligation of the Lenders to make any Advance to the
Borrower under the Revolving Facility on or after the Closing
Date is subject to and conditional upon the following conditions
precedent being satisfied by the Borrower:
(a) the Agent shall have received timely notice as required
under Section 2.05(2);
(b) the representations and warranties pursuant to
Section 9.01 are deemed to be repeated and continue to be
true and correct as if made on and as of the Drawdown Date
except to the extent that such representations and warranties
relate specifically to an earlier date;
(c) no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is
continuing on the Drawdown Date, or would result from making the
Advance;
(d) there shall not exist or have occurred a Material
Adverse Effect; and
(e) all other terms and conditions of this Agreement that
have not been waived upon which the Borrower may obtain an
Advance have been fulfilled.
3.03 Conditions Precedent to Subsequent
Advances under the Term Facility
The obligation of the Term Lenders to make any LIBOR Advance to
the Borrower under the Term Facility on any Term Facility
Advance Date is subject to and conditional upon the following
conditions precedent being satisfied by the Borrower:
(a) receipt by the Agent of a Drawdown Notice together with
an irrevocable direction to credit a bank account for the
settlement delivery of the purchased Wavecom Shares or Wavecom
Debentures opened in the books of Euronext Paris;
(b) receipt by the Agent of evidence that the Wavecom Offer
has been accepted by the AMF;
(c) evidence that the payment obligations of the Issuing
Bank under the Lazard Letter of Credit will be reduced in an
amount equal to the amount requested under the applicable LIBOR
Advance, shall have been delivered to the Agent;
(d) relevant details of the number of Wavecom Debentures
and Wavecom Shares to be purchased on the applicable Term
Facility Advance Date shall have been delivered to the Agent;
(e) a copy of the irrevocable instructions from French
Bidco to the Presenting and Guaranteeing Bank to transfer the
Wavecom Shares and the Wavecom Debentures to be purchased on the
applicable Term Facility Advance Date on the relevant financial
instruments account opened in the name of French Bidco and
pledged in favour of the Agent, shall have been delivered to the
Agent;
(f) the Agent shall have received a copy of the AMF notice
that the Initial Period or the Mandatory Re-Opening Period, as
applicable, has ended and that the necessary amount of Wavecom
Shares and Wavecom Debentures have been tendered to French
Bidco; and
(g) for the purposes of the Squeeze-Out only, receipt by
the Agent of the AMF notice setting forth the timetable for the
Squeeze-Out.
3.04 Waiver
The conditions set forth in Sections 3.01, 3.02 and 3.03
are inserted for the sole benefit of the Lenders and may be
waived by the Lenders in accordance with the terms of
Section 13.03, in whole or in part (with or without terms
or conditions), in respect of any Drawdown without prejudicing
the right of the Lenders at any time to assert such conditions
in respect of any subsequent Drawdown.
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4.01 Account of Record
The Agent shall open and maintain books of account evidencing
all Advances and all other amounts owing by the Borrower to the
Lenders hereunder. The Agent shall enter in the foregoing
accounts details of all amounts from time to time owing, paid or
repaid by the Borrower hereunder. The information entered in the
foregoing accounts shall constitute prima facie evidence
of the obligations of the Borrower to the Lenders hereunder with
respect to all Advances and all other amounts owing by the
Borrower to the Lenders hereunder. After a request by the
Borrower, the Agent shall promptly advise the Borrower of such
entries made in the Agent’s books of account.
5.01 Interest on Prime Rate Advances
The Borrower shall pay interest on each Prime Rate Advance
during each Interest Period applicable thereto in Canadian
Dollars at a rate per annum equal to the sum of (i) the
Prime Rate in effect from time to time during such Interest
Period plus (ii) the Prime Rate Margin. Each determination
by the Agent of the Prime Rate and the Prime Rate Margin
applicable from time to time shall, in the absence of manifest
error, be binding upon the Borrower. Subject to
Section 5.08, such interest shall be payable in arrears on
each Interest Payment Date for such Advance for the period from
and including the Drawdown Date or the preceding Conversion Date
or Interest Payment Date, as the case may be, for such Advance
to and including the day preceding such Interest Payment Date
and shall be calculated on the principal amount of the Prime
Rate Advance outstanding during such period and on the basis of
the actual number of days elapsed in a year of 365 days or
366 days, as the case may be. Changes in the Prime Rate
shall cause an immediate adjustment of the interest rate
applicable to such Advance without the necessity of any notice
to the Borrower.
5.02 Interest on US Base Rate Advances
The Borrower shall pay interest on each US Base Rate Advance
during each Interest Period applicable thereto in United States
Dollars at a rate per annum equal to the sum of (i) the US
Base Rate in effect from time to time during such Interest
Period plus (ii) the US Base Rate Margin. Each
determination by the Agent of the US Base Rate and the US Base
Rate Margin applicable from time to time shall, in the absence
of manifest error, be binding upon the Borrower. Subject to
Section 5.08, such interest shall be payable in arrears on
each Interest Payment Date for such Advance for the period from
and including the Drawdown Date or the preceding Conversion Date
or Interest Payment Date, as the case may be, for such Advance
to and including the day preceding such Interest Payment Date
and shall be calculated on the principal amount of the US Base
Rate Advance outstanding during such period and on the basis of
the actual number of days elapsed divided by 365 or 366, as
applicable. Changes in the US Base Rate shall cause an immediate
adjustment of the interest rate applicable to such Advance
without the necessity of any notice to the Borrower.
5.03 Interest on LIBOR Advances
The Borrower shall pay interest on each LIBOR Advance during
each Interest Period applicable thereto in (i) United
States Dollars for LIBOR Advances made under the Revolving
Facility and (ii) Euros for LIBOR Advances made under the
Term Facility, in each case, at a rate per annum equal to the
sum of (A) the LIBO Rate in effect for such Interest Period
plus (B) the LIBO Rate Margin. Each determination by the
Agent of the LIBO Rate and the LIBO Rate Margin applicable from
time to time for an Interest Period shall, in the absence of
manifest error, be binding upon the Borrower. Subject to
Section 5.08, such interest shall be payable in arrears on
each Interest Payment Date for such Advance for the period from
and including the Drawdown Date or the preceding Conversion
Date, Rollover Date or Interest Payment Date, as the case may
be, for such Advance to and including the day preceding such
Interest Payment Date and shall be calculated on the principal
amount of the LIBOR Advance outstanding during such period and
on the basis of the actual number of days elapsed divided by 360.
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5.04 No Set-Off, Deduction etc.
All payments (whether interest or otherwise) to be made by the
Borrower or any other party pursuant to this Agreement are to be
made in freely transferable, immediately available funds and
without set-off or deduction of any kind whatsoever (whether for
deemed re-investment or otherwise) except to the extent required
by Applicable Law, and if any such set-off or deduction is so
required and is made, the Borrower or any other party will, as a
separate and independent obligation to each Lender, be obligated
to immediately pay to each Lender all such additional amounts as
may be required to fully indemnify and save harmless such Lender
from such set-off or deduction and will result in the effective
receipt by such Lender of all the amounts otherwise payable to
it in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. For greater
certainty, the Borrower shall not be required to make any
payment under this Section 5.04 in respect of amounts which
are expressly not required to be made as provided for under
Section 3.2 of Schedule AA.
5.05 Standby Fees
The Borrower shall pay to the Agent for the account of the
Revolving Lenders in accordance with their Proportionate Share a
standby fee in Canadian Dollars calculated at the rate per annum
equal to 25% of the then applicable LIBOR Rate Margin on the
amount by which the daily average of the aggregate of all
Advances outstanding under the Revolving Facility during such
Fiscal Quarter is less than the maximum amount available under
the Revolving Facility (which, for greater certainty, is
$55,000,000). The standby fee shall be determined daily
beginning on the date hereof and shall be calculated on the
basis of a calendar year of 365 or 366 days, as the case
may be, and shall be payable by the Borrower quarterly in
arrears on the first Business Day of each Fiscal Quarter.
5.06 Fees
In consideration of the Lenders establishing the Credit
Facilities, the Borrower shall pay to the Agent and the Lenders
such fees in such amounts set out in any fee letter between the
Borrower and the Lenders.
5.07 Overdue Principal and Interest
(1) If all or part of any Prime Rate Advance or US Base
Rate Advance shall not be paid when due (whether at its stated
maturity, by acceleration or otherwise), such overdue amount
shall bear interest (as well after as before judgment), payable
on demand at a rate per annum equal to the rate of interest
applicable under this Agreement from time to time to such type
of Advance from the date of such non-payment until paid in full.
If any LIBOR Advance shall not be paid when due (whether at its
stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise), such overdue
amount shall bear interest (as well after as before judgment),
payable on demand at a rate per annum equal to the rate of
interest applicable under this Agreement from time to time to US
Base Rate Advances from the date of such non-payment until paid
in full.
(2) If all or part of any interest in respect of any Prime
Rate Advance or US Base Rate Advance shall not be paid when due
(whether at its stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise),
such overdue interest shall, to the extent permitted by law,
bear interest (as well after as before judgment), payable on
demand at a rate per annum equal to the rate of interest
applicable under this Agreement from time to time to the type of
Advance in respect of which such interest was not paid from the
date of such non-payment until paid in full. If all or part of
any interest in respect of any LIBOR Advance shall not be paid
when due (whether at its stated maturity, by acceleration or
otherwise), such overdue interest shall, to the extent permitted
by law, bear interest (as well after as before judgment),
payable on demand at a rate per annum equal to the rate of
interest applicable under this Agreement from time to time to US
Base Rate Advances from the date of such non-payment until paid
in full.
5.08 Interest on Other Amounts
If any amount owed by the Borrower to the Agent or any Lender
under any of the Loan Documents is not paid when due and
payable, and there is no other provision in any Loan Document
specifying the interest payable on such overdue amount, such
overdue amount shall bear interest (as well after as before
judgment), payable (a) on demand at a rate per annum equal
at all times to the Prime Rate plus 2% (in the case of any such
amount payable in any currency other than US Dollars), or
(b) on demand at a rate per annum equal at all times to the
US Base Rate plus 2% (in the case of any such amount payable in
US Dollars), in each such case from the date of non-payment
until paid in full.
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6.01 Bankers’ Acceptances
(1) To facilitate the procedures contemplated in this
Agreement, the Borrower irrevocably appoints each Lender from
time to time as the attorney-in-fact of the Borrower to execute,
endorse and deliver on behalf of the Borrower drafts (including
book based forms and electronic paper) in the forms prescribed
by such Lender (if such Lender is a BA Lender) for bankers’
acceptances denominated in Cdn. Dollars (each such executed
draft which has not yet been accepted by a Lender being referred
to as a “Draft”) or non interest-bearing
promissory notes of the Borrower in favour of such Lender (if
such Lender is a Non BA Lender) (each such promissory note being
referred to as a “BA Equivalent Note”). Each
Bankers’ Acceptance and BA Equivalent Note executed and
delivered by a Lender on behalf of the Borrower as provided for
in this Section shall be as binding upon the Borrower as if it
had been executed and delivered by a duly authorized officer of
the Borrower.
(2) Notwithstanding Section 6.01(1), the Borrower will
from time to time as required by the applicable Lender provide
to the Lenders an appropriate number of Drafts drawn by the
Borrower upon each BA Lender and either payable to a clearing
service (if such BA Lender is a member thereof) or payable to
the Borrower and endorsed in blank by the Borrower (if such BA
Lender is not a member of such clearing service) and an
appropriate number of BA Equivalent Notes in favour of each Non
BA Lender. The dates, the maturity dates and the principal
amounts of all Drafts and BA Equivalent Notes delivered by the
Borrower shall be left blank, to be completed by the Lenders as
required by this Agreement. All such Drafts or BA Equivalent
Notes shall be held by each Lender subject to the same degree of
care as if they were such Lender’s own property kept at the
place at which the Drafts or BA Equivalent Notes are ordinarily
kept by such Lender. Each Lender, upon written request of the
Borrower, will promptly advise the Borrower of the number and
designation, if any, of the Drafts and BA Equivalent Notes then
held by it. No Lender shall be liable for its failure to accept
a Draft or purchase a BA Equivalent Note as required by this
Agreement if the cause of such failure is, in whole or in part,
due to the failure of the Borrower to provide on a timely basis
appropriate Drafts or BA Equivalent Notes to the applicable
Lender as may be requested by such Lender on a timely basis from
time to time.
(3) The Agent, promptly following receipt of a Drawdown
Notice requesting Bankers’ Acceptances, shall
(i) advise each BA Lender of the face amount and the term
of the Draft to be accepted by it and (ii) advise each
applicable Non BA Lender of the face amount and term of the BA
Equivalent Note to be purchased by it. All Drafts to be accepted
from time to time by each BA Lender that is a member of a
clearing service shall be payable to such clearing service. The
term of all Bankers’ Acceptances and BA Equivalent Notes
issued pursuant to any Drawdown Notice, Conversion Notice or
Rollover Notice shall be identical. Each Bankers’
Acceptance and BA Equivalent Note shall be dated the Drawdown
Date on which it is issued and shall be for a term of 1, 2, 3 or
6 months, subject to availability, provided that in no
event shall the term of a Bankers’ Acceptance or a BA
Equivalent Note extend beyond the Maturity Date. The face amount
of the Draft (or the aggregate face amount of the Drafts) to be
accepted at any time by each Lender which is a BA Lender, and
the face amount of the BA Equivalent Notes to be purchased at
any time by each Lender which is a Non BA Lender, shall be
determined by the Agent based upon the amounts of their
respective Commitments under the applicable Credit Facility. In
determining a Lender’s Proportionate Share of a request for
Bankers’ Acceptances, the Agent, in its sole discretion,
shall be entitled to increase or decrease the face amount of any
Draft, or BA Equivalent Note to the nearest $1,000.
(4) Each BA Lender shall complete and accept on the
applicable Drawdown Date, Conversion Date or Rollover Date, a
Draft having a face amount (or Drafts having the face amounts)
and term advised by the Agent pursuant to subsection 6.01(3).
Each applicable BA Lender shall purchase on the applicable
Drawdown Date, Conversion Date or Rollover Date, the
Bankers’ Acceptance accepted by it, for an aggregate price
equal to the BA Discount Proceeds of such Bankers’
Acceptance. The Borrower shall ensure that there is delivered to
each applicable BA Lender that is a member of a clearing service
the completed Bankers’ Acceptances, and such BA Lender is
hereby authorized to release the Bankers’ Acceptance
accepted by it to such clearing house upon receipt of
confirmation that such clearing house holds such Bankers’
Acceptance for the account of such BA Lender.
(5) Each Non BA Lender, in lieu of accepting Drafts or
purchasing Bankers’ Acceptances on any Drawdown Date,
Conversion Date or Rollover Date, will complete and purchase
from the Borrower on such Drawdown Date, Conversion Date or
Rollover Date, a BA Equivalent Note in a face amount and for a
term identical to the face
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amount and term of the Draft which such Non BA Lender would have
been required to accept on such Drawdown Date, Conversion Date
or Rollover Date, if it were a BA Lender, for a price equal to
the BA Discount Proceeds of such BA Equivalent Note. Each Non BA
Lender shall be entitled without charge to exchange any BA
Equivalent Note held by it for two or more BA Equivalent Notes
of identical date and aggregate face amount, and the Borrower
will execute and deliver to such Non BA Lender such replacement
BA Equivalent Notes and such Non BA Lender shall return the
original BA Equivalent Note to the Borrower for cancellation.
(6) The Borrower shall pay to each BA Lender in respect of
each Draft tendered by the Borrower to and accepted by such BA
Lender, and to each Non BA Lender in respect of each BA
Equivalent Note tendered to and purchased by such Non BA Lender,
as a condition of such acceptance or purchase, the BA Stamping
Fee.
(7) Upon acceptance of each Draft or purchase of each BA
Equivalent Note, the Borrower shall pay to the applicable Lender
the related fee specified in Section 6.01(6), and to
facilitate payment such Lender shall be entitled to deduct and
retain for its own account the amount of such fee from the
amount to be transferred by such Lender to the Agent for the
account of the Borrower pursuant to this Agreement in respect of
the sale of the related Bankers’ Acceptance or of such BA
Equivalent Note.
(8) If the Agent determines in good faith, which
determination shall be final, conclusive and binding upon the
Borrower, and so notifies the Borrower, that there does not
exist at the applicable time a normal market in Canada for the
purchase and sale of bankers’ acceptances, any right of the
Borrower to require the Lenders to purchase Bankers’
Acceptances and BA Equivalent Notes under this Agreement shall
be suspended until the Agent determines that such market does
exist and gives notice thereof to the Borrower and any Drawdown
Notice, Conversion Notice or Rollover Notice requesting
Bankers’ Acceptances shall be deemed to be a Drawdown
Notice or Conversion Notice requesting a Prime Rate Advance in a
similar aggregate principal amount.
(9) On the date of maturity of each Bankers’
Acceptance or BA Equivalent Note, the Borrower shall pay to the
Agent, for the account of the holder of such Bankers’
Acceptance or BA Equivalent Note, in Canadian Dollars an amount
equal to the face amount of such Bankers’ Acceptance or BA
Equivalent Note, as the case may be. The obligation of the
Borrower to make such payment shall not be prejudiced by the
fact that the holder of such Bankers’ Acceptance is the
Lender that accepted such Bankers’ Acceptances. No days of
grace shall be claimed by the Borrower for the payment at
maturity of any Bankers’ Acceptance or BA Equivalent Note.
If the Borrower does not make such payment, from the proceeds of
an Advance obtained under this Agreement or otherwise, the
amount of such required payment shall be deemed to be a Prime
Rate Advance to the Borrower from the Lender that accepted such
Banker’s Acceptance or purchased such BA Equivalent Note.
(10) The signature of any duly authorized officer of the
Borrower on a Draft or a BA Equivalent Note may be mechanically
reproduced in facsimile, and all Drafts and BA Equivalent Notes
bearing such facsimile signature shall be as binding upon the
Borrower as if they had been manually signed by such officer,
notwithstanding that such Person whose manual or facsimile
signature appears on such Draft or BA Equivalent Note may no
longer hold office at the date of such Draft or BA Equivalent
Note or at the date of acceptance of such Draft by a BA Lender
or at any time thereafter.
6.02 Letters of Credit
(1) If the Borrower wishes to request an Advance by way of
issuance of Letters of Credit, the Borrower shall, at the time
it delivers the notice required pursuant to Section 2.05,
execute and deliver the Issuing Bank’s usual documentation
relating to the issuance and administration of Letters of Credit
(including, without limitation, all reimbursement and indemnity
agreements). In the event of any inconsistency between the terms
of such documentation and this Agreement, the terms of this
Agreement shall prevail.
(2) Each request for a Letter of Credit shall be made
available by the Issuing Bank under the Revolving Facility or
the Term Facility, as applicable.
(3) No Letter of Credit may be issued for a period in
excess of one year. Letters of Credit which are issued under the
Revolving Facility may be used by the Borrower for working
capital requirements, and may not, for greater certainty, be
used to guarantee obligations of Persons who are not Obligors.
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(4) If, at any time, a demand for payment (the amount so
demanded being herein referred to as a “relevant
amount”) is made under a Letter of Credit and
notification thereof is given by the Issuing Bank to the Agent,
then:
(a) the Agent shall:
(i) promptly notify the applicable Borrower and each of the
applicable Lenders of such demand; and
(ii) make demand on each of the applicable Lenders for an
amount equal to its Proportionate Share of such relevant amount;
(b) pay such relevant amount on the date upon which such
relevant amount becomes payable under the Letter of Credit;
(c) on the second Business Day following the date of the
demand made by the Agent under paragraph (a) above, each
applicable Lender shall pay to the Agent the amount demanded of
it pursuant to paragraph (a)(ii) above; and
(d) the Agent shall pay such relevant amount to the Issuing
Bank.
(5) Where a demand for payment is made under a Letter of
Credit issued in Canadian Dollars or US Dollars, the
Borrower shall be deemed to have requested a Prime Rate Advance
or US Base Rate Advance, respectively, of the amount demanded
from the Issuing Bank. Where a demand for payment is made under
the Lazard Letter of Credit, the Borrower shall be deemed to
have requested a LIBOR Advance (for a one month period) of the
amount demanded from the Issuing Bank. Where a demand for
payment is made under a Letter of Credit issued in any other
currency, the Borrower shall be deemed to have requested a US
Base Rate Advance (i) in the Equivalent Amount of
US Dollars in respect of Letters of Credit issued under the
Revolving Facility or (ii) in the Equivalent Amount of
Euros in respect of the Lazard Letter of Credit, to the amount
demanded from the Issuing Bank. In each case payment will be
made by the Borrower of all charges and expenses payable to or
incurred by the Issuing Bank and the Lenders in connection with
payment being made under such Letter of Credit.
(6) The Borrower hereby undertakes to indemnify and hold
harmless the Agent, the Issuing Bank and each of the Lenders
from time to time on demand by the Agent from and against all
liabilities and costs (including, without limitation, any costs
incurred in funding any amount which falls due from the Issuing
Bank and any Lender under any Letter of Credit hereunder) to the
extent that such liabilities or costs are not satisfied or
compensated by the payment of interest on sums due pursuant to
this Agreement in connection with any Letter of Credit except
where such liabilities or costs result from the gross negligence
or wilful misconduct of the person claiming indemnification.
(7) The Issuing Bank shall at all times be entitled, and is
irrevocably authorized by the Borrower, to make any payment
under the Letters of Credit for which a request or demand has
been made in the required form without any further reference to
the Borrower and any investigation or enquiry, need not concern
themselves or itself with the propriety or validity of any claim
made or purported to be made under the terms of such Letter of
Credit (except as to compliance with the payment conditions of
such Letters of Credit) and shall be entitled to assume that any
Person expressed in such Letter of Credit as being entitled to
make demand or receive payments thereunder is so entitled.
Accordingly, so long as a request or demand has been made as
aforementioned it shall not be a defence to any demand made of
the Borrower hereunder, nor shall the Borrower or its
obligations hereunder be impaired by the fact (if it be the
case) that the Issuing Bank or the Lenders were or might have
been justified in refusing payment, in whole or in part, of the
amounts so claimed.
(8) A certificate of the Agent
and/or the
Issuing Bank as to the amounts paid by any Lender pursuant to
this Section 6.02 or the amount paid out under any Letter
of Credit shall, in the absence of manifest error, be prima
facie evidence of the existence and amount of such payment
in any legal action or proceeding arising out of or in
connection herewith.
(9) For so long as any Letter of Credit is outstanding, the
Borrower shall pay to the Agent for the benefit of the Lenders
(i) a fee equal to the Letter of Credit Fee Rate on the
amount of each Letter of Credit (A) in the Equivalent
Amount of US Dollars in respect of Letters of Credit,
issued under the Revolving Facility (B) in Euros in respect
of the portion of the Lazard Letter of Credit equal to
80,617,365 Euros and in each case, in advance beginning on the
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date of issuance of each such Letter of Credit, and (ii) a
fee equal to $30,000 in respect of the portion of the Lazard
Letter of Credit equal to 137,382,635 Euros, on the Closing
Date. In addition, concurrently with the payment of such fee to
the Agent, the Borrower shall also pay to the Agent for the
benefit of the Issuing Bank (x) a fronting fee equal to
0.10% per annum on the face amount of each Letter of Credit in
the currency of such Letter of Credit (other than the 80,617,365
portion of the Lazard Letter of Credit) and (y) a fronting
fee of $103,593 on the 137,382,635 portion of the Lazard Letter
of Credit, in each case, in advance beginning on the date of
issuance of such Letter of Credit. Such fees (other than the
$30,000 and $103,593 fees) shall each be calculated on the basis
of a calendar year and the number of days the Letter of Credit
will be outstanding during such period.
The Borrower shall also pay the standard fees and charges of the
Issuing Bank in effect from time to time for issuing, renewing
and amending Letters of Credit.
(10) The full amount available to be drawn (whether or not
the beneficiary can satisfy the conditions to draw) of each
Letter of Credit issued by the Issuing Bank on behalf of the
Borrower shall be deemed to be an Advance under the Revolving
Facility or the Term Facility, as applicable, which Advance
shall be retired upon the earlier of:
(i) the return of the Letter of Credit to the Issuing Bank
for cancellation;
(ii) the expiration date of the Letter of Credit; or
(iii) the deeming of the undrawn amount of the Letter of
Credit (i) to be a Prime Rate Advance or a US Base Rate
Advance, as applicable, under the Revolving Facility or
(ii) to be a LIBOR Advance under the Term Facility.
(11) If any Letter of Credit is outstanding upon the
occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default or
on the Maturity Date, the Borrower shall if required by the
Agent forthwith pay to the Agent an amount (the “deposit
amount”) equal to the undrawn principal amount of the
outstanding Letter of Credit, which deposit amount shall be held
by the Agent for application against the indebtedness owing by
the Borrower to the Issuing Bank in respect of any draw on the
outstanding Letter of Credit. In the event that the Issuing Bank
is not called upon to make full payment on the outstanding
Letter of Credit prior to its expiry date, the deposit amount,
or any part thereof as has not been paid out, shall, so long as
no Event of Default then exists, be returned to the Borrower.
(12) The obligations of the Borrower with respect to
Letters of Credit shall be unconditional and irrevocable, and
shall be paid strictly in accordance with the terms of this
Agreement under all circumstances, including, without
limitation, the following circumstances:
(i) any lack of validity or enforceability of any Loan
Document or the Letters of Credit;
(ii) any amendment or waiver of or any consent to or actual
departure from this Agreement;
(iii) the existence of any claim, set-off, defence or other
right which the Borrower may have at any time against any
beneficiary or any transferee of a Letter of Credit (or any
Persons for which any such beneficiary or any such transferee
may be acting), the Issuing Bank or any other Person or entity,
whether in connection with this Agreement, the transactions
contemplated herein or in any other agreements or any unrelated
transactions;
(iv) any statement or any other document presented under a
Letter of Credit proving to be forged, fraudulent, invalid or
insufficient in any respect or any statement therein being
untrue or inaccurate in any respect except for non-compliance
with the payment conditions of such Letter of Credit; or
(v) any other circumstance or happening whatsoever, whether
or not similar to any of the foregoing.
(13) The Borrower hereby indemnifies and agrees to hold the
Issuing Bank harmless from all losses, damages, costs, demands,
claims, expenses (including out-of-pocket expenses) and other
consequences which the Issuing Bank may incur, sustain or
suffer, other than as a result of its own gross negligence or
wilful misconduct, as a result of issuing or amending a Letter
of Credit, including legal and other expenses incurred by the
Issuing Bank in any action to compel payment by the Issuing Bank
under a Letter of Credit or to restrain the Issuing Bank from
making payment under a Letter of Credit. Any amounts due under
this indemnity shall form part of the Obligations.
It is understood and agreed that the Issuing Bank shall not have
any liability for, and that the Borrower assumes all
responsibility for: (i) the genuineness of any signature;
(ii) the form, validity, genuineness, falsification and
legal
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effect of any draft, certification or other document required by
a Letter of Credit or the authority of the Person signing the
same; (iii) the failure of any instrument to bear any
reference or adequate reference to a Letter of Credit or the
failure of any Persons to note the amount of any instrument on
the reverse of a Letter of Credit or to surrender a Letter of
Credit; (iv) the good faith or acts of any Person other
than the Issuing Bank and its agents and employees; (v) the
existence, form or sufficiency or breach or default under any
agreement or instruments of any nature whatsoever; (vi) any
delay in giving or failure to give any notice, demand or
protest; and (vii) any error, omission, delay in or
non-delivery of any notice or other communication, however sent.
The determination as to whether the required documents are
presented prior to the expiration of a Letter of Credit and
whether such other documents are in proper and sufficient form
for compliance with a Letter of Credit shall be made by the
Issuing Bank in its sole discretion, which determination shall
be conclusive and binding upon the Borrower absent manifest
error. It is agreed that the Issuing Bank may honour, as
complying with the terms of a Letter of Credit and this
Agreement, any documents otherwise in order and signed or issued
by the beneficiary thereof. Any action, inaction or omission on
the part of the Issuing Bank under or in connection with the
Letters of Credit or any related instruments or documents, if in
good faith and in conformity with such laws, regulations or
commercial or banking customs as the Issuing Bank may reasonably
deem to be applicable, shall be binding upon the Borrower, and
shall not affect, impair or prevent the vesting of the Issuing
Bank’s rights or powers hereunder or the Borrower’s
obligation to make full reimbursement of amounts drawn under the
Letters of Credit. Notwithstanding the provision of this
Section 6.02(12), the Borrower shall not be responsible for
and no Person shall be relieved of responsibility for any gross
negligence or wilful misconduct of such Person.
7.01 Mandatory Repayment of
Principal — Revolving Facility
Subject to the terms hereof, the Borrower shall repay all
Obligations in connection with the Revolving Facility, including
the outstanding principal amount of all Advances thereunder
together with all accrued interest, fees and other amounts then
unpaid by it with respect to such Advances, the Commitments
under the Revolving Facility (which, for greater certainty,
shall include all amounts payable by the Borrower to the Agent
under Section 6.01(9) with respect to any Bankers’
Acceptances and BA Equivalent Notes outstanding on the Maturity
Date and all amounts payable by the Borrower to the Agent under
Section 6.02(11) with respect to Letters of Credit
outstanding on the Maturity Date) in full on the Maturity Date
and the Revolving Facility and the Commitments thereunder shall
be automatically terminated on the Maturity Date.
7.02 Mandatory Repayment of
Principal — Term Facility
(1) Subject to the terms hereof, all outstanding LIBOR
Advances under the Term Facility in an amount equal to or less
than 80,617,365 shall be repaid by the Borrower in the following
instalments (each such instalment to be in an amount equal to
the applicable percentage of such 80,617,365 portion of the
principal amount of the Term Facility):
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September 1, 2009
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(2) Subject to the terms hereof, the Borrower shall repay
all Obligations in connection with the Term Facility, including
the outstanding principal amount of all Advances thereunder
together with all accrued interest, fees and other amounts then
unpaid by it with respect to such Advances and the Commitments
under the Term Facility (which, for greater certainty, shall
include all amounts payable by the Borrower to the Agent under
Section 6.02(11) with respect to Letters of Credit
outstanding on the Maturity Date) in full on the Maturity Date
and the Term Facility and the Commitments thereunder shall be
automatically terminated on the Maturity Date.
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7.03 Voluntary Repayments and Reductions
(1) Subject to the Agent receiving a Repayment Notice which
shall be given not less than three (3) Business Days prior
to the proposed repayment date and which shall be irrevocable,
the Borrower may from time to time repay Advances outstanding
under any of the Credit Facilities without premium, penalty or
bonus provided that each such repayment shall be in a minimum
aggregate amount of Cdn.$1,000,000 and in whole multiples of
Cdn.$100,000 for Advances denominated in Canadian Dollars and in
a minimum aggregate amount of $1,000,000 and in whole multiples
of $100,000 for Advances denominated in United States Dollars.
Notwithstanding the foregoing (i) LIBOR Advances may not be
repaid prior to the end of the applicable LIBOR Interest Period
unless the Borrower pays to the Agent (for the account of each
Lender) an amount equal to all Breakage Costs; and
(ii) Bankers’ Acceptances, BA Equivalent Notes and
Letters of Credit may not be repaid prior to their respective
maturity or expiry dates but may be cash collateralized along
with delivery of such documentation as may be required by the
Agent as specified in Section 7.11. The determination of
the amount of any Breakage Costs resulting from, arising out of,
or imposed upon or incurred by any Lender as a result of the
repayment of any LIBOR Advance prior to the end of the
applicable LIBOR Interest Period, when evidenced by a
certificate from that Lender giving a reasonably detailed
calculation of the amount of such loss, cost or expense, shall
be prima facie evidence of the same.
(2) Each such voluntary repayment by the Borrower of the
Term Facility shall permanently reduce the Commitment of each
Lender in respect of the Term Facility by the amounts of the
Term Lender’s Proportionate Share of such repayments, and
may not be reborrowed. For greater certainty, the Borrower shall
not have the right thereafter to increase the committed amount
of the Term Facility so reduced.
7.04 Mandatory Repayments from Proceeds of Debt
Issues
If any Obligor incurs any Debt (or any other Debt consented to
by the Lenders), an amount equal to the entire proceeds of such
Debt (net of reasonable, bona fide direct transaction
costs and expenses incurred in connection with incurring such
Debt, including reasonable fees, legal and other professional
fees and disbursements in connection with such Debt) shall be
paid by the Borrower (irrespective as to which Obligor incurred
the Debt) to the Agent, immediately upon the closing of the
transaction under which such Debt is incurred and shall be
applied in permanent repayment of outstanding Obligations under
the Term Facility and, upon payment in full of the Term
Facility, against outstanding obligations under the Revolving
Facility.
7.05 Mandatory Repayments on Additional
Financings
If any Additional Financing occurs at any time, an amount equal
to the entire proceeds of such Additional Financing at any time
(net of reasonable, bona fide direct transaction fees,
costs and expenses incurred in connection with effecting such
Additional Financing, including reasonable fees, legal and other
professional fees and disbursements in connection with such
Additional Financing) shall be paid by the Borrower
(irrespective as to which Obligor has completed the Additional
Financing) to the Agent no later than two (2) Business Days
following the closing of the transaction under which such
Additional Financing occurs and shall be applied in permanent
repayment of outstanding Obligations under the Term Facility,
and upon repayment of all Obligations owing under the Term
Facility and, upon payment in full of the Term Facility, against
outstanding obligations under the Revolving Facility. If no
Default or Event of Default has occurred or is continuing, the
repayment obligation under this Section 7.05 shall not
apply to Additional Financings made in connection with an
Acquisition made by the Borrower which is permitted under this
Agreement.
7.06 Mandatory Repayment on Dispositions
Except for Permitted Dispositions, the Net Proceeds of which
shall not be required to be paid to the Agent in accordance with
this Section 7.06, two (2) Business Days after any
Disposition by any Obligor that has been consented to by the
Lenders, an amount equal to the Net Proceeds of such Disposition
shall be paid by the Borrower (irrespective as to which Obligor
made the Disposition) to the Agent and shall be applied in
permanent repayment of outstanding Obligations under the Term
Facility and, upon payment in full of the Term Facility, against
outstanding obligations under the Revolving Facility.
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7.07 Mandatory Repayments from Proceeds of
Insurance
(1) If an Obligor receives proceeds of insurance in an
amount up to $250,000, such Obligor may retain such proceeds.
(2) If an Obligor receives proceeds of insurance in an
amount greater than $250,000 for any individual incident and, at
that time, the aggregate of all proceeds of insurance received
by Obligors during the current Fiscal Year does not exceed
$500,000, such Obligor may retain such proceeds.
(3) If the Obligors receive proceeds of insurance in an
amount greater than $250,000 for any individual incident and in
excess of $500,000 in the aggregate in any Fiscal Year, but less
than $1,000,000 in the aggregate in such Fiscal Year, the
Obligors may, if no Default or Event of Default exists, request
that all such insurance proceeds be ultimately released to the
Borrower provided that an Obligor enters into a bona fide
Arm’s Length contract to replace, repair or rebuild the
asset to which such proceeds relate within ninety (90) days
and such replacement, repair or rebuilding has been completed
within such ninety (90) days (or such longer period as
specified by such contract or as agreed by the Majority Lenders,
acting reasonably) following the entering of such contract. If
following the ninety (90) day period no Obligor has entered
into any such contract or following the ninety (90) day
period (or such longer period, if applicable), such assets have
not been replaced, repaired or rebuilt, such proceeds shall
immediately be applied by the Agent against the Obligations
under the Term Facility and, upon payment in full of the Term
Facility, against outstanding obligations under the Revolving
Facility.
(4) If the Obligors cumulatively receive proceeds of
insurance at any one time or in the aggregate in a Fiscal Year
in excess of $1,000,000, the Majority Lenders shall, acting
reasonably, determine whether to apply such one time proceeds or
such excess proceeds for application against outstanding
Obligations under the Term Facility or to allow such Obligor to
use such proceeds to replace, repair or rebuild assets within
the time period prescribed by the Lenders.
(5) Notwithstanding anything contained herein, an Obligor
shall be entitled to retain all proceeds of business
interruption insurance and director’s and officer’s
insurance and shall not be required to apply such proceeds in
accordance with the foregoing provisions, provided that no
Obligor shall be entitled to any proceeds of insurance
(including business interruption insurance) if there exists a
Default or an Event of Default and forthwith upon the occurrence
of a Default or an Event of Default all proceeds of insurance
shall be remitted to the Agent for application against amounts
outstanding hereunder.
7.08 Mandatory Repayments from Excess Cash
following Completion of the Wavecom Offer
(1) Upon completion of the acquisition by French Bidco of
Wavecom pursuant to the Wavecom Offer in accordance with the
terms of the Wavecom Offer Documents, all cash remaining in the
Cash Collateral Accounts shall be applied by the Agent in
permanent repayment of outstanding Obligations under the Term
Facility.
(2) Upon completion of the acquisition by French Bidco of
all of the Equity Interests of Wavecom, all cash of the
Borrower, Wavecom, French Bidco and Luxco, on a consolidated
basis, in an amount in excess of 50,000,000 Euros, in the
aggregate, shall be paid by the Borrower to the Agent following
written request of the Agent, acting reasonably, upon completion
of such acquisition and shall be applied in permanent repayment
of outstanding Obligations under the Term Facility. The Agent
acknowledges that it will not request such payment so long as
the Borrower is complying with its covenant contained in
Section 10.01(23) hereof and there exists no Default or
Event of Default.
7.09 Mandatory Repayment from Redemption of the
Wavecom Debentures
Upon any redemption of any or all of the W Debentures by French
Bidco, the Borrower shall take all steps that are necessary to
ensure that it immediately receives 100% of the redemption
proceeds and the Borrower shall deliver such redemption proceeds
to the Agent within one (1) Business Day following receipt
by the Borrower of such redemption proceeds from French Bidco
and such amount shall be applied in permanent repayment of
outstanding Obligations of the Borrower under the Term Facility.
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7.10 Excess Over the Maximum Amounts
(1) If the Agent determines that on any day as a result of
currency fluctuations the aggregate of (a) Advances in
US Dollars then outstanding under the Revolving Facility,
and (b) the Equivalent Amount in US Dollars of
Advances in Canadian Dollars then outstanding under the
Revolving Facility on such day exceeds the Commitments in
respect of the Revolving Facility, the Agent shall notify the
Borrower that such an event has occurred, and the Borrower shall
immediately upon receipt of such notice repay Advances under the
Revolving Facility in an amount equal to such excess.
(2) If the Agent determines that on any day the aggregate
of (a) Advances in US Dollars then outstanding under
the Revolving Facility, and (b) the Equivalent Amount in
US Dollars of Advances in Canadian Dollars then outstanding
under the Revolving Facility on such day, exceeds the Borrowing
Base, the Borrower shall immediately repay Advances under the
Revolving Facility in an amount equal to such excess.
7.11 Payment of Breakage Costs etc.
In connection with each voluntary or mandatory repayment
hereunder (i) in connection with LIBOR Advances which are
repaid prior to the end of the applicable LIBOR Interest Period
the Borrower shall pay to the Agent (for the account of each
applicable Lender) all Breakage Costs; and (ii) in
connection with Bankers’ Acceptances, BA Equivalent Notes
and Letters of Credit which are to be repaid prior to their
respective maturity or expiry dates, the Borrower shall deposit
cash with the Agent (for the benefit of the applicable Lenders)
equal to the full face amount at maturity of such Bankers’
Acceptance or BA Equivalent Note or the face amount of such
Letters of Credit, as applicable, and shall concurrently deliver
to the Agent a cash collateral agreement, supporting
resolutions, certificates and opinions in form and substance
satisfactory to the Lenders.
8.01 Place of Payment of Principal, Interest
and Fees
(1) The Borrower undertakes at all times when any Advance
is outstanding or any other amount is owed by it under any Loan
Document to maintain at the Agent’s Payment Branch an
account in Cdn. Dollars, an account in US Dollars and an
account in Euros, which the Agent shall be entitled to debit
with such amounts as are from time to time required to be paid
by the Borrower under the Loan Documents, as and when such
amounts are due. Without in any way limiting the rights of the
Agent pursuant to the foregoing, unless otherwise specifically
agreed between the Borrower and the Agent, the Borrower hereby
directs the Agent to debit the aforesaid accounts with such
amounts as are from time to time required to be paid by the
Borrower pursuant to this Agreement.
(2) All payments by the Borrower under any Loan Document,
unless otherwise expressly provided in such Loan Document, shall
be made to the Agent at the Agent’s Payment Branch, or at
such other location as may be agreed upon by the Agent and the
Borrower, for the account of the Lenders entitled to such
payment, not later than 12:00 noon (Toronto time) for value on
the date when due, and shall be made in immediately available
funds without set-off or counterclaim.
(3) Unless the Agent shall have been notified by the
Borrower not later than 12:00 noon (Toronto time) of the
Business Day prior to the date on which any payment to be made
by the Borrower under a Loan Document is due that the Borrower
does not intend to remit such payment, the Agent shall be
entitled to assume that the Borrower has remitted or will remit
such payment when so due and the Agent may (but shall not be
obliged to), in reliance upon such assumption, make available to
each applicable Lender on such payment date such Lender’s
share of such assumed payment. If the Borrower does not in fact
remit such payment to the Agent as required by such Loan
Document, each applicable Lender shall immediately repay to the
Agent on demand the amount so made available to such Lender,
together with interest on such amount at the Interbank Reference
Rate, in respect of each day from and including the date such
amount was made available by the Agent to such Lender to the
date such amount is repaid in immediately available funds to the
Agent, and the Borrower shall immediately pay to the Agent on
demand such amounts as are sufficient to compensate the Agent
and the Lenders for all costs and expenses (including, without
limitation, any interest paid to lenders of funds without
duplication of interest otherwise paid hereunder) which the
Agent may sustain in making any such amounts available to the
Lenders or which any Lender may sustain
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in receiving any such amount from, and in repaying any such
amount to, the Agent or in compensating the Agent as aforesaid.
A certificate of the Agent as to any amounts payable by the
Borrower pursuant to the preceding sentence and containing
reasonable details of the calculation of such amounts shall be
prima facie evidence of the amounts so payable.
(4) If any amount which has been received by the Agent not
later than 12:00 noon (Toronto time) on any Business Day as
provided above is not paid by the Agent to a Lender on such
Business Day as required under this Agreement, the Agent shall
immediately pay to such Lender on demand interest on such amount
at the Interbank Reference Rate in respect of each day from and
including the day such amount was required to be paid by the
Agent to such Lender to the day such amount is so paid.
8.02 Netting of Payments
If, on any date, amounts would be due and payable under this
Agreement in the same currency by the Borrower to the Lenders,
or any one of them, and by the Lenders, or such Lender, to the
Borrower, then, on such date, upon notice from the Agent or such
Lender stating that netting is to apply to such payments, the
obligations of each such party to make payment of any such
amount will be automatically satisfied and discharged and, if
the aggregate amount that would otherwise have been payable by
the Borrower to the Lenders, or such Lender, exceeds the
aggregate amount that would otherwise have been payable by the
Lenders, or such Lender, to the Borrower or vice versa,
such obligations shall be replaced by an obligation upon
whichever of the Borrower or the Lenders, or such Lender, would
have had to pay the larger aggregate amount to pay to the other
the excess of the larger aggregate amount over the smaller
aggregate amount. For greater certainty, prior to acceleration
of repayment pursuant to Section 12.02, this
Section 8.02 shall not permit any Lender to exercise a
right of set-off, combination or similar right against any
amount which the Borrower may have on deposit with such Lender
in respect of any amount to which netting is to apply pursuant
to this Section 8.02, but shall apply only to determine the
net amount to be payable by the Lenders or one of them to the
Borrower, or by the Borrower to the Lenders or one of them
pursuant to the Loan Documents.
9.01 Representations and Warranties
The Borrower represents and warrants to the Agent and to each of
the Lenders and acknowledges and confirms that the Agent and
each of the Lenders is relying upon such representations and
warranties:
(1) Existence and
Qualification Each Obligor (a) has been
duly incorporated, amalgamated, merged or continued, as the case
may be, and is validly subsisting and in good standing as a
corporation, company or partnership, under the laws of its
jurisdiction of formation, amalgamation, merger or continuance,
as the case may be (or in the case of Obligors which are not
corporations, has been duly created or established as a
partnership or other applicable entity and validly exists under
and is governed by the laws of the jurisdiction in which it has
been created or established), (b) is duly qualified to
carry on its business in each jurisdiction in which it carries
on business except where the failure to be so qualified would
not result in a Material Adverse Effect and (c) has all
required Material Licences.
(2) Power and Authority Each
Obligor has the corporate, company or partnership power and
authority, as the case may be, (a) to enter into, and to
exercise its rights and perform its obligations under, the Loan
Documents to which it is a party and all other instruments and
agreements delivered by it pursuant to any of the Loan
Documents, (b) to have implemented and completed the
Wavecom Offer and to enter into, and to exercise, its rights and
perform its obligations under all instruments and agreements
delivered by it in connection with the Wavecom Offer and
(c) to own its Property and carry on its business as
currently conducted and as currently proposed to be conducted
by it.
(3) Execution, Delivery, Performance and
Enforceability of Documents The execution,
delivery and performance of each of the Loan Documents to which
any Obligor is a party, and every other instrument or agreement
delivered by an Obligor pursuant to any Loan Document or in
connection with the Wavecom Offer has been duly authorized by
all corporate actions required, and each of such documents has
been duly executed
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and delivered by it. Each Loan Document to which any Obligor is
a party constitutes the legal, valid and binding obligation of
such Obligor, enforceable against such Obligor in accordance
with their respective terms (except, in any case, as such
enforceability may be limited by applicable bankruptcy,
insolvency, reorganization or similar laws affecting
creditors’ rights generally and by principles of equity).
(4) Loan Documents Comply with Applicable Laws,
Organizational Documents and Contractual
Obligations None of the execution or delivery
of, the consummation of the transactions contemplated in, or the
compliance with the terms, conditions and provisions of any of,
the Loan Documents or any of the agreements or documents
delivered in connection with the Wavecom Offer by any Obligor
conflicts with or will conflict with, or results or will result
in any breach of, or constitutes a default under or
contravention of, any Requirement of Law, any Obligor’s
Organizational Document or any Material Contract or Material
Licence, or results or will result in the creation or imposition
of any Encumbrance upon any of its Property except for Permitted
Encumbrances.
(5) Consent Respecting Loan
Documents Each Obligor has obtained, made or
taken all consents, approvals, authorizations, declarations,
registrations, filings, notices and other actions whatsoever
required (except for registrations or filings which may be
required in respect of the Security Documents) to enable it to
execute and deliver each of the Loan Documents to which it is a
party and to consummate the transactions contemplated in the
Loan Documents, to complete and implement the Wavecom Offer
(except for AMF or certain anti-trust approvals) and to execute
and deliver each of the instruments and agreements delivered by
it in connection with the Wavecom Offer and to consummate the
transactions contemplated in such instruments and agreements.
(6) Taxes Except as set out in
Schedule 9.01(6), each Obligor has duly and timely filed
all Tax returns required to be filed by it and has paid or made
adequate provision for the payment of all Taxes levied on its
Property or income which are showing therein as due and payable,
including interest and penalties, or has accrued such amounts in
its financial statements for the payment of such Taxes except
for Taxes which are not material in amount or which are not
delinquent or if delinquent are being contested and for which
reasonable reserves under GAAP are maintained, and there is no
material action (except, after the date of this Agreement, as is
disclosed to the Agent in writing), suit, proceeding,
investigation, audit or claim now pending, or to its knowledge,
threatened by any Governmental Authority regarding any Taxes nor
has it or any other Obligor agreed to waive or extend any
statute of limitations with respect to the payment or collection
of Taxes. There is no material Tax liability to any of the
Obligors that will arise as a result of the completion of the
Wavecom Offer.
(7) Judgments, Etc. No Obligor is
subject to any material judgment, order, writ, injunction,
decree or award, or to any restriction, rule or regulation
(other than customary or ordinary course restrictions, rules and
regulations consistent or similar with those imposed on other
Persons engaged in similar businesses) which has not been stayed
or of which enforcement has not been suspended which restrains,
prohibits or delays the Wavecom Offer.
(8) Accounts Receivable Each
Obligor’s Accounts Receivable are based on an actual
bona fide provision of goods or services to customers
made by such Obligor, the goods and services being sold and the
Accounts Receivable created are such Obligor’s exclusive
property and are not subject to any Encumbrance or consignment
or similar arrangement other than Permitted Encumbrances, and
except as otherwise reported or reserved against on such
Obligor’s books and records such Obligor’s customers
have not rejected the goods or services, and owe and are obliged
to pay the full amount stated in the applicable invoice
according to their terms without any dispute, offset, defence or
counterclaim.
(9) Absence of Litigation Except
as set out in Schedule 9.01(9), there are no actions, suits
or proceedings pending or judgments existing or, to the best of
its knowledge and belief, after due inquiry and all reasonable
investigation, threatened against or affecting any Obligor or
its properties which could reasonably be expected to be
determined adversely to any Obligor. All actions, suits or
proceeds pending or judgements existing at the date hereof with
a potential liability in excess of $100,000 are set forth in
Schedule 9.01(9) attached hereto.
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(10) Title to Assets Each Obligor
has good title to its assets, free and clear of all Encumbrances
except Permitted Encumbrances and no Person has any agreement or
right to acquire an interest in such assets other than in the
ordinary course of its business.
(11) Use of Real Property All real
property owned or leased by each Obligor may be used in all
material respects by such Obligor pursuant to Applicable Law for
the present use and operation of the business conducted, or
intended to be conducted, on such real property by such Obligor.
All leased real property where the lessor is Non-Arm’s
Length are on market terms and conditions and, in such case, is
on terms which are commercially reasonable.
(12) Description of Real
Property Schedule 9.01(12) contains a
description as of the Closing Date of (a) all real property
owned by each Obligor (including municipal addresses, legal
description, the name of the Person that owns such property and
a brief description of such property and its use), (b) all
real property leased by each Obligor (including municipal
addresses, legal description (to the extent available), the name
of the Person that leases such property, the name of the
landlord, the term and any renewal rights under the applicable
lease and a brief description of such property and its use), and
(c) all real property not owned or leased by an Obligor at
which any of its inventory may from time to time be stored or
located (including municipal addresses, the name of the Person
which keeps inventory at such property and the name of the
bailee or third party holding such inventory at such property).
(13) Insurance Each Obligor or the
Borrower on behalf of itself and all other Obligors has
maintained and maintains insurance which is in full force and
effect that complies with all of the requirements of this
Agreement. Schedule 9.01(13) lists all existing insurance
policies maintained by the Obligors as of the date hereof.
(14) Licensors, Suppliers, Distributors and
Customers The relationship with each
Obligor’s material licensors and customers are satisfactory
commercial working relationships and, during the
12-month
period ended on the Closing Date, no such licensor or customer
has modified, cancelled or otherwise terminated its relationship
with or decreased its usage or purchase of the services or
products of it in a manner which has had, or could reasonably be
expected to be material to the Business.
(15) Labour Relations At the date
hereof: (i) no Obligor is aware that it is engaged in any
unfair labour practice; and there is no unfair labour practice
complaint or complaint of employment discrimination pending
against any Obligor, or, to the knowledge of the Obligors,
threatened against any Obligor, before any Governmental
Authority; (ii) no material grievance or arbitration
arising out of or under any collective bargaining agreement is
pending against any Obligor or, to the best of its knowledge,
threatened against any Obligor; and (iii) no strike, labour
dispute, slowdown or stoppage is pending against any Obligor or,
to the best of its knowledge, threatened against any Obligor.
The Borrower shall advise the Agent in writing of it becoming
aware of the occurrence of any of the foregoing events arising
subsequent to the Closing Date.
(16) Compliance with Laws Each
Obligor is in compliance in all material respects under all
Applicable Laws or Applicable Orders, including any enacted or
adopted for the regulation, protection and conservation of the
natural environment.
(17) No Default or Event of
Default No Default or Event of Default has
occurred which is continuing. No Obligor is in default under any
agreement, guarantee, indenture or instrument to which it is a
party or by which it is bound.
(18) Corporate Structure The
corporate structure of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries is, as
at the Closing Date, as set out in Schedule 9.01(18), which
Schedule contains:
(a) Shareholdings of the Obligors on the Closing
Date. On the Closing Date, all of the
Subsidiaries of the Borrower are as provided for in
Schedule 9.01(18) and such Obligors do not own or hold any
shares in the capital of, or any other ownership interest in,
any other Person.
(b) Share Capital of Obligors on the Closing
Date. On the Closing Date, the authorized capital
of each of the Subsidiaries of the Borrower is as provided for
in Schedule 9.01(18), of which the number of
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issued and outstanding shares and the beneficial owners thereof
at such time is provided for in Schedule 9.01(18).
(19) Relevant
Jurisdictions Schedule 9.01(19)
identifies in respect of each Obligor as of the date hereof, the
Relevant Jurisdictions including the full address (including
postal code or zip code) of such Obligor’s jurisdiction of
formation, chief executive office and all places of business
and, if different, the address at which the books and records of
such Obligor are located, the address at which senior management
of such Obligor are located and conduct their deliberations and
make their decisions with respect to the business of such
Obligor and the address from which the invoices and accounts of
such Obligor are issued.
(20) Computer Software Each
Obligor owns or has licensed for use or otherwise has the right
to use all of the Software necessary to conduct its businesses.
All computer equipment owned or used by an Obligor and necessary
for the conduct of business has been properly maintained and is
in good working order for the purposes of on-going operation,
subject to ordinary wear and tear for computer equipment of
comparable age.
(21) Intellectual Property Each
Obligor has rights sufficient for it to use all the Intellectual
Property reasonably necessary for the conduct of its business;
all patents, trade-marks or industrial designs which have been
either registered or in respect of which a registration
application has been filed by it, as at the Closing Date, are
listed on Schedule 9.01(21). To its knowledge at the date
hereof, no Obligor is infringing or misappropriating or is
alleged in writing to be infringing or misappropriating the
intellectual property rights of any other Person. The Borrower
shall provide written notice to the Agent should it become aware
of any Obligor infringing or misappropriating or having been
alleged in writing to be infringing or misappropriating in any
material respect the intellectual property rights of any other
Person. Each Obligor has made all necessary and material filings
and recordings in Canada or the United States, as applicable, to
protect its interest in all material Intellectual Property.
(22) Material Contracts:
(a) Schedule 9.01(22) (as amended from time to time
and updated in accordance with Section 10.01(11)),
accurately sets out all Material Contracts and Material Licences;
(b) a true and complete certified copy of each Material
Contract and Material Licence existing at the date hereof has
been delivered to the Agent and each Material Contract and
Material Licence is in full force and effect;
(c) no event has occurred and is continuing which would
constitute a breach of or a default under any Material Contract
or Material Licence;
(d) each Material Contract to which an Obligor is a party
is binding upon such Obligor and, to its knowledge, is a binding
agreement of each other Person who is a party to the Material
Contract; and
(e) it has obtained, as of the Closing Date, all necessary
consents, including consents of landlords to the granting of a
security interest in each Material Contract and Material Licence.
(23) Financial Year End Its
financial year end is December 31.
(24) Financial Information All of
the monthly, quarterly and annual financial statements which
have been furnished to the Agent and the Lenders, or any of
them, in connection with this Agreement or the Wavecom Offer are
complete in all material respects and such financial statements
fairly present the results of operations and financial position
of the Borrower as of the dates referred to therein and have
been prepared in accordance with GAAP. All other financial
information (including, without limitation, budgets and
projections) provided to the Agent and the Lenders are complete
in all material respects and are based on reasonable assumptions
and expectations. All financial statements provided to the
Agent, prior to or following the date of this Agreement, shall
be prepared in accordance with GAAP.
(25) No Material Adverse
Effect Since December 31, 2007, there
has been no condition (financial or otherwise), event or change
in its business, liabilities, operations, results of operations,
prospects, assets which constitutes or has, or could reasonably
be expected to constitute, or cause, a Material Adverse Effect.
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Following the date of this Agreement, all financial statements
provided to the Agent will be prepared in accordance with GAAP.
(26) Environmental No Obligor is
subject to any civil or criminal proceeding or investigation
relating to Requirements of Environmental Laws and no Obligor is
aware of any threatened proceeding or investigation relating to
Requirements of Environmental Laws. Each Obligor has all
material permits, licences, registrations and other
authorizations required by the Requirements of Environmental
Laws for the operation of its business and the properties which
it owns, leases or otherwise occupies. Each Obligor currently
operates its business and its properties (whether owned, leased
or otherwise occupied) in compliance in all material respects
with all applicable Requirements of Environmental Laws. No
Hazardous Materials are or have been stored or disposed of by
any Obligor or otherwise used by any Obligor in violation of any
applicable Requirements of Environmental Laws (including,
without limitation, any release of Hazardous Materials by any
Obligor at, on or under any property now or previously owned or
leased by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries). All
underground storage tanks of which an Obligor is aware now or
previously located on any real property owned or leased by it
have been operated, maintained and decommissioned or closed, as
applicable, in compliance in all material respects with
applicable Requirements of Environmental Law. No real property
or groundwater in, on or under any property now or previously
owned or leased by any Obligor is or has been during such
Obligor’s ownership or occupation of such property (or, to
its knowledge, prior to its ownership or occupation)
contaminated by any Hazardous Material except for any
contamination that would not reasonably be expected to give rise
to liability under Requirements of Environmental Laws nor, to
the knowledge of the Borrower after due enquiry, is any such
property named in any list of hazardous waste or contaminated
sites maintained under any Requirements of Environmental Law.
(27) CERCLA No portion of any
Obligor’s Property has been listed, designated or
identified in the National Priorities List or the CERCLA
Information System both as published by the United States
Environmental Protection Agency, or any similar list of sites
published by any federal, state or local authority proposed for
requiring clean up or remedial or corrective action under any
Requirements of Environmental Laws.
(28) Pension Plans With respect to
Pension Plans, (a) no steps have been taken to terminate
any Pension Plan (wholly or in part) that could result in any
Obligor being required to make an additional contribution to the
Pension Plan in excess of $500,000, (b) no contribution
failure has occurred with respect to any Pension Plan (for this
purpose as provided in clause (b) of the definition of
“Pension Plan”) sufficient to give rise to a lien or
charge under Section 303(k) of ERISA or any applicable
pension benefits laws of any other jurisdiction, (c) no
condition exists and no event or transaction has occurred with
respect to any Pension Plan that is reasonably likely to result
in any Obligor incurring any material liability, fine or
penalty; and (d) no Obligor has any contingent liability
with respect to any post-retirement benefit under a Welfare Plan
that is material to the Borrower on a consolidated basis. The
Borrower represents that (i) each Pension Plan is in
compliance in all material respects with all Applicable Laws,
(ii) all contributions (including employee contributions
made by authorized payroll deductions or other withholdings)
required to be made to the appropriate funding agency or vehicle
in accordance with all Applicable Laws and the terms of each
Pension Plan have been made in accordance with all Applicable
Laws and the terms of each such Pension Plan, (iii) all
liabilities under each Pension Plan are funded, on a going
concern and solvency basis, in accordance with the terms of the
respective Pension Plan, the requirements of applicable pension
benefits laws and of applicable regulatory authorities and the
most recent actuarial report prepared with respect to the
Pension Plan, and (iv) no event has occurred and no
conditions exist with respect to any Pension Plan that have
resulted or could reasonably be expected to result in any
Pension Plan having its registration revoked or refused or its
qualified status adversely affected, as applicable, for the
purposes of any administration of any relevant pension benefits
regulatory authority or being required to pay any Taxes under
any Applicable Laws. Without limiting any of the foregoing, no
ERISA Event has occurred or is reasonably expected to occur
that, when taken together with all other such ERISA Events for
which liability is reasonably expected to occur, would
reasonably be expected to cause or result in a Material Adverse
Effect.
(29) Not an Investment Company No
Obligor is an “investment company” or a company
“controlled” by an “investment company”
within the meaning of the United States Investment Company
Act of 1940, as
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amended or a “holding company”, or a “subsidiary
company” of a “holding company”, or an
“affiliate” of a holding company, or of a
“subsidiary company” of a “holding company”,
within the meaning of the United States Public Utility
Holding Company Act of 1935, as amended.
(30) No Margin Stock No Obligor is
engaged in the business of extending credit for the purpose of
purchasing or carrying margin stock. None of the proceeds of any
Advance shall be used to purchase or carry, or to reduce or
retire or refinance any credit incurred to purchase or carry,
any margin stock (within the meaning of Regulations U and X of
the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System of the
United States) or to extend credit to others for the
purpose of purchasing or carrying any margin stock.
(31) Full Disclosure All
information provided or to be provided to the Agent or the
Lenders by or on behalf of an Obligor in connection with the
Credit Facilities and the Wavecom Offer is, to its knowledge,
true and correct in all material respects and none of the
documentation furnished to the Agent and the Lenders by or on
behalf of it, to its knowledge, omits or will omit as of such
time, a material fact necessary to make the statements contained
therein not misleading in any material way, and all expressions
of expectation, intention, belief and opinion contained therein
were honestly made on reasonable grounds after due and careful
inquiry by it (and any other Person who furnished such material
on behalf of it).
(32) Insolvency No Obligor nor any
of their predecessors where applicable (a) has committed
any act of bankruptcy, (b) is insolvent, or has proposed,
or given notice of its intention to propose, a compromise or
arrangement to its creditors generally, (c) has any
petition for a receiving order in bankruptcy filed against it,
made a voluntary assignment in bankruptcy, taken any proceeding
with respect to any compromise or arrangement, taken any
proceeding to have itself declared bankrupt or
wound-up,
taken any proceeding to have a receiver appointed of any part of
its assets, has had any Encumbrancer take possession of any of
its Property. In respect of any Obligor incorporated in France,
no corporate action, legal proceedings or other procedure or
step has been taken in relation to: (i) the suspension of
payments, a moratorium of any indebtedness,
winding-up,
dissolution, administration or reorganisation (by way of
voluntary arrangement, scheme of arrangement or otherwise) of
such Obligor; (ii) a composition, compromise, assignment or
arrangement with any creditor of such Obligor; (iii) the
appointment of a liquidator, receiver, administrator,
administrative receiver, compulsory manager or other similar
officers in respect of such Obligor or any of its Property;
(iv) the opening of proceedings for conciliation in
accordance with
articles L.611-4
to L.611-15 of the French Code de Commerce; or (v) a
judgement for sauvegarde, redressement judiciaire, cession
totale de l’entreprise or liquidation judiciaire is
entered in relation to that Obligor under
articles L.620-1
to L.670-8 of the French Code de Commerce. No Obligor
incorporated in Luxembourg (i) a concordat
préventif de faillite, a gestion contrôlee, a sursis
de paiement, a liquidation judicaire, a bankruptcy, a
general agreement with any of its creditors, or any other
similar legal procedure, liquidation, bankruptcy or insolvency
proceedings occurs; (ii) a commissaire à la gestion
contrôlée, a liquidateur judiciaire, a curateur, a
commissaire or any similar officer is appointed.
(33) Non-Arm’s Length
Transactions All agreements, arrangement or
transactions between any Obligor, on the one hand, and any
Associate of, Affiliate of or other Person not dealing at
Arm’s Length with such Obligor, on the other hand, in
existence at the date hereof are set forth on
Schedule 9.01(33).
(34) Debt There exists no Debt
that is not Permitted Debt.
The representations and warranties set out in Section 9.01
will be deemed to be repeated by the Borrower as of the date of
each request for new Advance by the Borrower except to the
extent that on or prior to such date (a) the Borrower has
advised the Agent in writing of a variation in any such
representation or warranty as required by the terms hereof, and
(b) if such variation in the opinion of the Lenders, acting
reasonably, is material to the Property, liabilities, affairs,
business, operations, prospects or condition (financial or
otherwise) of the Obligors considered as a whole or could have,
or be reasonably likely to result in, a Material Adverse Effect,
the Lenders have approved such variation.
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10.01 Positive Covenants
So long as this Agreement is in force, the Borrower shall and
shall cause each other Obligor to:
(1) Timely Payment Make due and
timely payment of the Obligations required to be paid by it
hereunder.
(2) Conduct of Business, Maintenance of Existence,
Compliance with Laws Carry on and conduct its
business and operations in a proper, efficient and businesslike
manner, in accordance with good business practice; preserve,
renew and keep in full force and effect its existence; and take
all reasonable action to maintain all rights, privileges and
franchises necessary or desirable in the normal conduct of its
business and to comply in all material respects with all
Material Contracts, Material Licences and Requirements of Law.
(3) Further Assurances Provide the
Agent and the Lenders with such other documents, opinions,
consents, acknowledgements and agreements as are reasonably
necessary to implement this Agreement or the other Loan
Documents from time to time.
(4) Access to Information Promptly
provide the Agent with all information reasonably requested by
the Agent for and on behalf of the Lenders from time to time
concerning its financial condition and Property, and during
normal business hours and from time to time upon reasonable
notice, permit representatives of the Agent and the Lenders to
inspect any of its Property and to examine and take extracts
from its financial books, accounts and records including but not
limited to accounts and records stored in computer data banks
and computer software systems, and to discuss its financial
affairs, its business or any part of its Property with its
senior officers and (in the presence of such of its
representatives as it may designate) its auditors. Prior to the
occurrence of a Default or Event of Default, the Borrower will
pay all reasonable expenses incurred by such representatives in
order to visit the Borrower’s premises, for such purposes.
Following the occurrence of a Default or an Event of Default,
the Borrower shall also pay all reasonable expenses incurred by
such representatives in order to visit the premises of any other
Obligor.
(5) Obligations and Taxes Pay or
discharge or cause to be paid or discharged, before the same
shall become delinquent (a) all Taxes imposed upon it or
upon its income or profits or in respect of its business or
Property and file all tax returns in respect thereof;
(b) all lawful claims for labour, materials and supplies;
(c) all required payments under any of its Debt, and
(d) all other obligations; provided, however that it shall
not be required to pay or discharge or to cause to be paid or
discharged any such amount so long as the validity or amount
thereof shall be contested in good faith by appropriate
proceedings and an adequate reserve in accordance with GAAP and
satisfactory to the Agent, acting reasonably, has been
established in its books and records.
(6) Use of Credit Facilities Use
the proceeds of the Credit Facilities as contemplated by
Section 2.02.
(7) Insurance Maintain or cause to
be maintained with reputable insurers, coverage against risk of
loss or damage to its Property (including public liability and
damage to property of third parties), business interruption
insurance, fire and extended peril insurance and boiler and
machinery insurance of such types as is customary for and would
be maintained by a corporation with an established reputation
engaged in the same or similar business in similar locations and
provide to the Agent, on an annual basis, evidence of such
coverage. The Borrower shall, on an annual basis prior to the
expiry or replacement of any insurance policy, notify the Agent
of the renewal or replacement and at the Agent’s request
send copies of all renewed or replacement policies to the Agent
and, if requested by the Agent shall permit a reputable
insurance consultant to complete a review of and comment on the
adequacy of such coverage, and the Borrower shall thereafter
remedy any inadequacies such other consultant may raise. Without
limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Borrower shall
maintain in effect all insurance coverage reasonable and prudent
for a business similar to its business conducted in similar
locations. The Agent on behalf of the Lenders shall be indicated
in all insurance policies, as applicable, as first loss payee
and additional insured, and all policies shall contain such
standard mortgage clauses as the Agent shall reasonably require
for the Lenders’ protection.
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(8) Notice of Default or Event of
Default Promptly notify the Agent of any
Default or Event of Default that would apply to it or to any
Obligor of which it becomes aware along with the action to be
taken by the Obligors to remedy any such Default or Event of
Default.
(9) Notice of Material Adverse
Effect Promptly notify the Agent of any
Material Adverse Effect of which it becomes aware.
(10) Notice of Litigation Promptly
notify the Agent on becoming aware of the occurrence of any
litigation, dispute, arbitration, proceeding or other
circumstance the result of which could reasonably be expected to
result in (a) a judgment or award against it in excess of
$250,000 or (b) a Material Adverse Effect, and from time to
time provide the Agent with all reasonable information requested
by the Agent concerning the status of any such proceeding.
(11) Other Notices Promptly, upon
having knowledge, give notice to the Agent on behalf of the
Lenders of:
(a) any notice of expropriation affecting any Obligor;
(b) any violation of any Applicable Law which does or may
have a Material Adverse Effect on any Obligor;
(c) any default under any Debt of an Obligor in an amount
in excess of $250,000;
(d) any termination prior to maturity of or default under a
Material Contract or any termination, lapse, rescission or
default under a Material Licence;
(e) any damage to or destruction of any property, real or
personal, of any Obligor having a replacement cost in excess of
$250,000;
(f) the acquisition of any real property by an Obligor with
a fair market value in excess of $100,000;
(g) the receipt of insurance proceeds by any Obligor in
excess of $250,000.
(h) any Encumbrance registered against any property or
assets of any Obligor, other than a Permitted Encumbrance.
In each Compliance Certificate delivered to the Agent, provide
notice of:
(i) any entering into of a Material Contract; and
(ii) any material change in, or material amendment to, any
Material Contract or termination of a Material Licence.
(12) Environmental
Compliance Operate its business in compliance
with Requirements of Environmental Laws and operate all Property
owned, leased or otherwise used by it such that no obligation,
including a
clean-up or
remedial obligation, will arise under any Requirements of
Environmental Law; provided, however, that if any such claim is
made or any such obligation arises, the applicable Obligor shall
promptly satisfy, address or contest such claim or obligation at
its own cost and expense. The Borrower shall promptly notify the
Agent upon: (a) learning of the existence of any Hazardous
Material located on, above or below the surface of any land
which it owns, leases, operates, occupies or controls (except
those being stored, used or otherwise handled in compliance with
Requirements of Environmental Law), or contained in the soil or
water constituting such land; and (b) the occurrence of any
reportable release, spill, leak, emission, discharge, leaching,
dumping or disposal of Hazardous Materials that has occurred on
or from such land, which, in either the case of (a) or (b),
is likely to result in liability under Requirements of
Environmental Law in excess of $250,000.
(13) Security With respect to the
Security:
(a) provide to the Agent the Security required from time to
time pursuant to Article 11 in accordance with the
provisions of such Article, accompanied by supporting
resolutions, certificates and opinions in form and substance
satisfactory to the Agent; and
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(b) do, execute and deliver all such things, documents,
security, agreements and assurances as may from time to time be
requested by the Agent to ensure that the Agent holds at all
times valid, enforceable, perfected first priority Encumbrances
(subject only to Permitted Encumbrances) from the Obligors
meeting the requirements of Article 11.
(14) Maintenance of Property Keep
all Property useful and necessary in its business in good
working order and condition, normal wear and tear excepted, and
maintain all Intellectual Property necessary to carry on its
business.
(15) Landlord Consents Except in
respect of such premises as the Agent shall agree in writing:
use commercially reasonable efforts to obtain a consent
agreement from each landlord of premises that are leased at any
time and from time to time by any Obligor (a) regarding the
grant of an Encumbrance against the Obligor’s interest in
such lease pursuant to the Security, in form and content
satisfactory to the Agent on behalf of the Lenders; and
(b) to register notice of each lease of premises against
title to the applicable property.
(16) Material Contracts and Material
Licences Execute and deliver, in a form
satisfactory to the Agent, acting reasonably, a specific
assignment by way of security in favour of the Agent of each
Material Contract and Material Licence which the Agent, acting
reasonably, requires be specifically assigned to the Agent by
the applicable Obligor and further, if the Agent, acting
reasonably, so requires, shall, use commercially reasonable
efforts to obtain the acknowledgement of each Person or
Governmental Authority other than the Borrower or any other
Obligor which is party to a Material Contract or that has issued
a Material Licence to the assignment, such acknowledgement to be
in a form satisfactory in content to the Agent, acting
reasonably.
(17) Expenses Pay promptly all
reasonable fees and disbursements (including sales tax, goods
and services tax and harmonised sales and goods and services
tax) incurred or paid by the Agent or the Lenders in connection
with the preparation, negotiation, execution, delivery,
maintenance, amendment, interpretation and enforcement
(including any workouts in connection with or in lieu of any
enforcement) of the Loan Documents and in connection with the
consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Loan
Documents and in connection with the initial syndication of the
Credit Facilities and, including without limitation, all court
costs and all reasonable fees and disbursements of lawyers,
auditors, consultants and accountants.
(18) Employee Benefit and Welfare
Plans Maintain all employee benefit and
Canadian Welfare Plans relating to its business in compliance
with all Applicable Laws.
(19) Pension and ERISA
Matters Promptly notify the Agent on becoming
aware of (a) the institution of any steps by any Person to
terminate or effect a partial
wind-up of
any Pension Plan, (b) the failure to make a required
contribution to any Pension Plan if such failure is sufficient
to give rise to a lien under Section 303(k) of ERISA or
under any other Applicable Law, (c) the taking of any
action with respect to a Pension Plan that is reasonably likely
to result in the requirement that any Obligor furnish a bond or
other security to such Pension Plan or the PBGC under ERISA or
any other applicable Governmental Authority, or (d) the
occurrence of any event with respect to any Pension Plan that is
reasonably likely to result in the incurrence by any Obligor of
any material liability, fine or penalty, and in the notice to
the Agent thereof, provide copies of all documentation relating
thereto.
(20) Additional
Information Promptly provide the Agent, after
the sending or filing thereof, with copies of all reports,
notices, prospectuses and registration statements which any
Obligor files with any Canadian securities commission.
(21) Material Contracts and Material
Licences At the request of the Agent from
time to time, provide to the Lenders certified copies of all
Material Contracts and Material Licences.
(22) Cash Management and Bank
Accounts Apply all cash balances in excess of
$1,000,000 from all bank accounts on an aggregate basis
maintained by the Borrower with any financial institution (other
than the Cash Collateral Accounts) to an account maintained by
the Borrower with the Agent on a regular basis, and in any event
no less frequently than on a bi-monthly basis. The Borrower
shall deliver or cause to be delivered a deposit account control
agreement, blocked account agreement or similar agreement, in
each case, in form and
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substance satisfactory to the Agent, in respect of each bank
account maintained an Obligor in the United States or in any
other jurisdiction in which any Obligor maintains a bank account.
(23) Wavecom
Debentures Immediately upon the opening of
the period pursuant to which the Wavecom Debentures may be
redeemed by Wavecom as a result of the change of control of
Wavecom, cause Wavecom to offer the redemption of the Wavecom
Debentures and exercise such redemption as expeditiously as
contractually and legally possible.
(24) Wavecom Offer
Documents Unless prohibited by French Law,
apply to the AMF to withdraw or terminate its offer to acquire
the Wavecom Shares and the Wavecom Debentures pursuant to the
Wavecom Offer Documents if (a) the Presenting and
Guaranteeing Bank files for or is petitioned into bankruptcy or
judicial rehabilitation or sauvegarde or is otherwise
deemed insolvent, (b) a Person, other than the Borrower,
initiates a public tender offer for the Wavecom Shares and the
Wavecom Debentures at any time after the Closing Date or
(c) Wavecom undertakes measures resulting in the
modification of its substance (as such term is understood under
the laws of France pursuant to
Article 232-112§ 2
of the AMF general regulation).
(25) Additional Wavecom
Security At any time following completion of
the Wavecom Offer, upon the request of the Agent, cause Wavecom
or any of it Subsidiaries to deliver to the Agent a guarantee of
the Obligations of the Borrower and Security Documents
constituting a first-priority Encumbrance (subject to Permitted
Encumbrances) on all of its Property, together with opinions and
other documentation requested by the Agent; provided that no
such Person shall be required to deliver a guarantee or Security
Documents if it is prohibited to do so by Applicable Law.
(26) Minimum Cash Balance
(a) At all times and subject to clause (b), (c) and
(d) of this Section 10.01(26), ensure that the
aggregate amount of cash held by the Borrower in a cash
collateral account maintained with the Agent, and the amount of
cash held by Wavecom, shall be at no time no less than
100,000,000 Euros in the aggregate.
(b) To the extent that no LIBOR Advances have been advanced
under the Term Facility as of September 1, 2009, the
Borrower shall ensure that cash collateral has been deposited
with the Agent in an amount equal to the greater of (i) the
amount calculated in clause (a) above, and (ii) an
amount equal to 20% of the portion of the Term Facility equal to
80,617,365.
(c) To the extent that no LIBOR Advances have been advanced
under the Term Facility as of October 1, 2009, the Borrower
shall ensure that cash collateral has been deposited with the
Agent in an amount equal to the greater of (i) the amount
calculated in clause (a) above, and (ii) an amount
equal to 35% of the portion of the Term Facility equal to
80,617,365.
(d) To the extent that no LIBOR Advances have been advanced
under the Term Facility as of November 1, 2009, the
Borrower shall ensure that cash collateral has been deposited
with the Agent in an amount equal to the greater of (i) the
amount calculated in clause (a) above, and (ii) an
amount equal to equal to 50% of the portion of the Term Facility
equal to 80,617,365.
(27) Shareholdings of Obligors Following Wavecom
Offer Within ten (10) days following
completion of the acquisition of the Wavecom Shares by French
Bidco pursuant to the Wavecom Offer, deliver to the Agent an
updated Schedule 9.01(18), which Schedule shall contain all
of the Subsidiaries of the Borrower and the number of issued and
outstanding shares and beneficial owners of such shares of each
such Subsidiary.
(28) Luxco and French Bidco Ensure
that Luxco and French Bidco do not incur any Debt (other than
Debt incurred by French Bidco under the French Bidco Loan
Agreements, or Debt incurred by French Bidco and Luxco pursuant
to its execution of a declaration agreement or guarantee in
favour of the Agent for and on behalf of the Lenders), own any
assets (except, in the case of French Bidco, Equity Interests in
Wavecom, or in the case of Luxco, Equity Interests in French
Bidco) or carry on any business.
(29) Squeeze-Out Following the
Mandatory Re-Opening Period, arrange for French Bidco to apply
to the AMF for the Wavecom Squeeze-Out within five
(5) trading days of the publication by the AMF of the
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notice (avis) evidencing that the requirements for the
Wavecom Squeeze-Out are met and cause the settlement of the
Wavecom Squeeze-Out to occur as expeditiously as possible after
such application.
(30) AMF Notice Deliver to the
Agent a copy of the AMF approval notice immediately following
receipt thereof by the Borrower.
10.02 Financial Covenants
So long as this Agreement is in force:
(1) Total Debt to EBITDA Ratio The
Borrower, on a consolidated basis, will ensure that at all times
its Total Debt to EBITDA Ratio is not at any time, in respect to
the immediately preceding Four Quarter Period, greater than the
following amounts during the periods provided for below:
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(2) Interest Expense Coverage
Ratio The Borrower, on a consolidated basis,
will ensure that at all times its Interest Expense Coverage
Ratio is at any time, in respect to the immediately preceding
Four Quarter Period, not less than 4.00:1; provided, however in
calculating its Interest Expense Coverage Ratio for the first
three Fiscal Quarters following the Closing Date, Interest
Expense shall be determined in accordance with Section
(4)10.02(4).
(3) Shareholders Equity The
Borrower will ensure that its Shareholders Equity is not at any
time less than $255,000,000.
(4) Interest Expense For purposes
of calculating the Interest Expense Coverage Ratio under
Section 10.02(2), Interest Expense of the Borrower will be
annualized each Fiscal Quarter until the completion of one
complete Four Quarter Period.
(5) Calculation of EBITDA
(a) For the purposes of calculating the Total Debt to
EBITDA Ratio under Section 10.02(1) and the Interest
Expense Coverage Ratio under Section 10.02(2), the
Borrower’s EBITDA shall (i) include the EBITDA of each
wholly-owned Subsidiary of the Borrower, including Wavecom and
each of its wholly-owned Subsidiaries once the Borrower has
acquired all of the Equity Interests of Wavecom and
(ii) include only Distributions made to the Borrower by any
non-wholly owned Subsidiary of the Borrower, including Wavecom
and each of its Subsidiaries.
(b) For the purposes of calculating the Total Debt to
EBITDA Ratio under Section 10.02(1) during the period that
the Term Facility is outstanding, Total Debt shall be reduced by
the Borrower’s cash on hand in an amount not to exceed
$50,000,000 (excluding cash held by the Agent in the Cash
Collateral Accounts.
10.03 Reporting Requirements
So long as this Agreement is in force, the Borrower shall and
shall cause each other Obligor to:
(1) Annual Reports As soon as
available and in any event within 120 days after the end of
each of the Borrower’s Fiscal Years, cause to be prepared
and delivered to the Agent, (i) the annual audited
consolidated financial statements of the Borrower including, in
each case and without limitation, balance sheet, statement of
income and retained earnings and statement of cash flows for
such Fiscal Year accompanied by the Borrower’s comparison
to the budget set forth in the Annual Business Plan and the
previous year and management discussion and analysis
(“MD&A”), which, other than MD&A,
shall be prepared in accordance with GAAP consistently applied
and certified by an officer of the Borrower and (ii) annual
management prepared modified financial statements of the
Borrower, such financial statements to exclude any non-wholly
owned Subsidiaries of the Borrower, and otherwise in form and
substance satisfactory to the Agent.
(2) Quarterly Reports As soon as
available and in any event within 45 days of the end of
each Fiscal Quarter, cause to be prepared and delivered to the
Agent as at the end of such Fiscal Quarter (i) unaudited
financial statements of the Borrower prepared on a consolidated
basis, including, in each case and without
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limitation, balance sheet, statement of income and retained
earnings, statement of cash flows, comparison to the budget set
forth in the Annual Business Plan and the previous year and
MD&A, and a list of all outstanding Hedge Arrangements,
which, other than MD&A, shall be prepared in accordance
with GAAP consistently applied and (ii) quarterly
management prepared modified financial statements of the
Borrower, such financial statements to exclude any non-wholly
owned Subsidiaries of the Borrower, and otherwise in form and
substance satisfactory to the Agent.
(3) Compliance
Certificate Concurrent with the delivery of
the financial statements referred to in Section 10.03(1)
and 10.03(2) above, provide the Agent with a Compliance
Certificate.
(4) Borrowing Base
Certificate Within 20 days of the end of
each month, furnish to the Agent a Borrowing Base Certificate
setting out the calculation of the Borrowing Base as at the last
day of the month previously ended.
(5) Other Information Following
the request of a Lender, furnish such other reports or
information reasonably requested by a Lender from time to time,
including, without limitation, unconsolidated financial
statements of any Subsidiary of the Borrower.
(6) Sufficient Copies to
Agent Ensure that in complying with this
Section 10.03, the Agent is supplied with sufficient
quantities of all materials for each of the Lenders and the
Agent and wherever possible, that electronic copies are sent
which the Agent is then authorized to send electronically to the
Lenders.
10.04 Negative Covenants
So long as this Agreement is in force, the Borrower shall not
and shall ensure that each Obligor shall not:
(1) Disposition of Property Except
for Permitted Dispositions, Dispose of, in one transaction or a
series of transactions, all or any part of its Property, whether
now owned or hereafter acquired.
(2) No Consolidation, Amalgamation,
etc. Consolidate, amalgamate or merge with
any other Person, export a corporation into a jurisdiction
outside of Canada, enter into any corporate reorganization or
other transaction intended to effect or otherwise permit a
change in its existing corporate or capital structure,
liquidate,
wind-up or
dissolve itself, or permit any liquidation,
winding-up
or dissolution unless prior written approval has been received
by the Lenders and such documentation as is required by
Lenders’ Counsel is delivered concurrently with such
transaction. Notwithstanding the foregoing, an Obligor may
consolidate, amalgamate or merge with another Obligor or
liquidate,
wind-up or
dissolve itself into another Obligor subject to (i) there
existing no Default or Event of Default, (ii) the Agent
being provided with no less than thirty (30) days prior
written notice of the occurrence of such event,
(iii) concurrent with such event, the Agent being provided
with such additional Loan Documents that it requires, acting
reasonably, in connection with such event including any Equity
Interests arising therefrom, (iv) the Agent being provided
with such legal opinions as it requires, acting reasonably, and
(v) the impact of such event not having any, in the
reasonable opinion of the Agent, negative impairment on the
Security granted in favour of the Lenders and the obligations of
the Obligors pursuant to the Loan Documents in effect at such
time.
(3) No Change of Name Change its
name, adopt a French form of name or change its jurisdiction of
incorporation or formation in each case without providing the
Agent with fifteen (15) days’ prior written notice
thereof.
(4) No Debt Create, incur, assume
or permit any Debt to remain outstanding, other than Permitted
Debt.
(5) No Investments Except as
provided in Sections 10.04(15) make, directly or
indirectly, any Investment other than the purchase of marketable
securities having a nominal cost.
(6) No Financial Assistance Give
any Financial Assistance to any Person.
(7) No Distributions Make any
Distribution except Permitted Distributions.
(8) No Encumbrances Create, incur,
assume or permit to exist any Encumbrance upon any of its
Property except Permitted Encumbrances.
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(9) Acquisitions Make any
Acquisitions except the Wavecom Offer.
(10) Capital Expenditures Make or
enter into any agreement which would require in any year to make
any Capital Expenditures in excess of that amount provided for
in the Annual Business Plan plus fifteen percent (15%).
(11) No Change to Year End Make
any change to its Fiscal Year.
(12) No Change to Business Carry
on any business other than the Business.
(13) Hedge Arrangements Enter into
or permit to be outstanding at any time Hedge Arrangement unless:
(a) the counterparty under such Hedge Arrangement is a
Lender;
(b) such Hedge Arrangement is designed to protect the
Borrower against fluctuations in currency exchange rates or
interest rates and such Hedge Arrangement has been entered into
by the Borrower bona fide and in good faith in the
ordinary course of its business for the purpose of carrying on
the same and not for speculative purposes;
(c) the negative Market Value of the Borrower’s Hedge
Arrangements on a consolidated basis does not exceed $10,000,000
at any time.
(14) Location of Assets in Other
Jurisdictions Except for any Property in
transit in the ordinary course of business, acquire any Property
outside of the jurisdictions identified in
Schedule 9.01(19) or move any Property from one
jurisdiction to another jurisdiction where the movement of such
Property would cause the Encumbrance of the Security over such
Property to cease to be perfected under Applicable Law, or
suffer or permit in any other manner any of its Property to not
be subject to the Encumbrance of the Security or to be or become
located in a jurisdiction as a result of which the Encumbrance
of Security over such Property is not perfected, unless
(a) the Obligor has first given thirty (30) days prior
written notice thereof to the Agent, and (b) the applicable
Obligor has first executed and delivered to the Agent all
Security and all financing or registration statements in form
and substance satisfactory to the Agent which the Agent or its
counsel, acting reasonably, from time to time deem necessary or
advisable to ensure that the Security at all times constitutes a
perfected first priority Encumbrance (subject only to Permitted
Encumbrances) over such Property notwithstanding the movement or
location of such Property as aforesaid together with such
supporting certificates, resolutions, opinions and other
documents as the Agent may deem necessary or desirable in
connection with such security and registrations.
(15) No Share Issuance Issue any
Equity Interests unless the Person to whom such Equity Interests
are issued is an Obligor and then only if the additional Equity
Interests so issued are concurrently and validly pledged to the
Agent under the Security and all resolutions (corporate,
shareholder or otherwise) required by the Agent are delivered to
the Agent.
(16) Amendments to Organizational
Documents Amend any of its Organizational
Documents in a manner that would be prejudicial to the interests
of any of the Lenders under the Loan Documents.
(17) Amendments to other
Documents Amend, vary or alter in any
materially adverse way any Material Contract or Material Licence.
(18) No New Subsidiaries Create or
acquire any Subsidiary after the date of this Agreement other
Wavecom pursuant to the Wavecom Offer Documents unless:
(i) all of the issued and outstanding capital of such
Subsidiary is owned by an Obligor; (ii) such new Subsidiary
provides a legal, valid and enforceable unlimited guarantee of
all of the Borrowers’ Obligations in favour of the Agent
for and on behalf of the Lenders and Security in form and
substance satisfactory to the Lenders; (iii) all of the
issued and outstanding shares of such new Subsidiary are pledged
to the Agent; and (iv) all resolutions (corporate,
shareholder or otherwise) required by the Agent are delivered to
the Agent, and in each case appropriate legal opinions are
delivered by Borrowers’ Counsel to the Lenders.
(19) Hostile Take-Over Bid Make or
complete a Hostile Take-Over Bid.
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(20) Non-Arm’s Length
Transactions Except as contemplated by
Sections 10.04 (7) and (15), effect any transactions
with any Person (other than an Obligor) not dealing at
Arm’s Length with the transacting Obligor unless such
transaction is on market terms and consistent with transactions
with Persons at Arm’s Length.
(21) Sale and Leaseback Enter into
any arrangement with any Person providing for the leasing by any
Obligor, as lessee, of Property which has been or is to be sold
or transferred by such Obligor to such Person or to any other
Person to whom funds have been or are to be advanced by such
Person on the security of such Property or the lease obligation
of any Obligor.
(22) Auditor Change its Auditor
without first providing the Agent with 30 days prior
written notice and so long as any replacement is a nationally
recognized accounting firm.
(23) Availability of Revolving
Facility Make any Drawdowns, Rollovers or
Conversions under the Revolving Facility (excluding Letters of
Credit) unless the Borrower has less than $5,000,000 in cash
available to it at the time of any such Drawdown, Rollover or
Conversion.
(24) Wavecom Offer
Documents Waive, amend, vary or alter any of
the terms or conditions contained in any of the Wavecom Offer
Documents including, without limitation, the consideration being
offered by the Borrower for the Wavecom Shares or the Wavecom
Debentures except for amendments unilaterally imposed by the AMF
on the Wavecom Draft Offer Prospectus. The Borrower agrees that
it will not permit French Bidco to complete the Wavecom Offer
pursuant to the Wavecom Offer Documents unless at least 50% plus
one of the voting rights attached to Wavecom Shares are tendered
during the Initial Period. The Lenders will act reasonably in
considering any proposed amendments to any of the Wavecom Offer
Documents after the Closing Date.
(25) French Bidco Loan
Agreements Waive, amend, vary or alter any of
the terms or conditions contained in either of the French Bidco
Loan Agreements. For greater certainty, the Borrower may assign
its rights under the French Bidco Loan Agreement relating to the
purchase of Wavecom Shares to Luxco in accordance with the terms
thereof; provided that any additional shares issued as a
consequence thereof are immediately pledged to the Agent by way
of security.
(26) Wireless Acquisition Sub, Inc. and 000000 Xxxxxx
Inc. Allow Wireless Acquisition Sub, Inc. or
415103 Canada Inc. to carry on any business, to own assets or to
incur any Debt of any kind.
11.01 Form of Security
On the Closing Date, as continuing collateral security for the
payment and satisfaction of all Obligations of the Borrower to
the Agent and the Lenders, the Borrower shall deliver or cause
to be delivered to the Agent for itself and on behalf of the
Lenders the following Security, all of which shall be in form
and substance satisfactory to the Agent:
(a) a general security agreement from the Borrower in
favour of the Agent constituting a first-priority Encumbrance
(subject only to Permitted Encumbrances) on all of the present
and future Property of the Borrower;
(b) a securities pledge agreement from the Borrower in
favour of the Agent constituting a first-priority Encumbrance
(subject to Permitted Encumbrances) on all Equity Interests,
that it owns from time to time;
(c) a pledge over shares agreement from the Borrower in
favour of the Agent constituting a first-priority Encumbrance
(subject to Permitted Encumbrances) on all Equity Interests of
Luxco that it owns from time to time;
(d) an assignment of cash collateral accounts from the
Borrower in favour of the Agent constituting a first-priority
Encumbrance on all cash held by the Borrower in bank accounts
maintained by the Borrower with the Agent;
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(e) a collateral assignment of material agreements by way
of security from the Borrower in favour of the Agent assigning
all of the Borrower’s rights under the French Bidco Loan
Agreement identified in (i) in the definition of
“French Bidco Loan Agreements”;
(f) a delegation agreement between French Bidco, the
Borrower and the Agent, pursuant to which French Bidco agrees to
direct its payments under the French Bidco Loan Agreement
identified in (i) in the definition of “French Bidco
Loan Agreements to the Agent;
(g) a pledge of financial instruments accounts agreement
(including cash accounts) from French Bidco in favour of the
Agent and the Lenders constituting a first-priority Encumbrance
under the laws of France on all of the Wavecom Shares and
Wavecom Debentures that it owns from time to time together with
the statement of pledge and the pledge certificate;
(h) a pledge of the operating account opened in the books
of the Presenting and Guaranteeing Bank in the name of French
Bidco in favour of the Agent and the Lenders constituting a
first-priority Encumbrance under the laws of France;
(i) a pledge of financial instruments accounts (including
cash account) from Luxco in favour of the Agent and the Lenders
constituting a First-priority Encumbrance under the laws of
France on all of the shares of French Bidco that it owns from
time to time together with the statement of pledge and the
pledge certificate;
(j) a guarantee from each Guarantor guaranteeing the due
payment and performance to the Agent and the Lenders of all
present and future Obligations of the Borrower to the Agent and
the Lenders or any one or more of them under the Loan Documents;
(k) a general security agreement or debenture, as
applicable, from each Guarantor in favour of the Agent
constituting a first-priority Encumbrance (subject only to
Permitted Encumbrances) on all of the present and future
Property of such Guarantor;
(l) a securities pledge agreement from each Guarantor that
has a Subsidiary or Subsidiaries in favour of the Agent
constituting a first-priority Encumbrance (subject to Permitted
Encumbrances) on all Equity Interests that it owns from time to
time; and
(m) a Cdn.$250,000,000 fixed and floating charge debenture,
in registrable form, where applicable, from the Borrower and
each Guarantor charging all personal property and all of the
freehold and leasehold interests in its lands and premises, the
said mortgages and encumbrances to be subject to no prior
Encumbrances other than Permitted Encumbrances, and in respect
of which each Borrower or such Guarantor shall obtain a consent
from each landlord of any leased property.
11.02 Insurance
The Borrower and each Guarantor or the appropriate Person if
blanket insurance polices are held, will cause the Agent to be
shown as a loss payee and additional insured with respect to all
insurance on the Property of the Borrower and each Guarantor.
11.03 After Acquired Property and Further
Assurances
Each Obligor shall from time to time and, at the request of the
Agent, execute and deliver all such further deeds or other
instruments of conveyance, assignment, transfer, mortgage,
pledge or charge in connection with any of its Property, whether
now existing or acquired by any Obligor after the date hereof
and intended to be subject to the security interests created
hereby including any insurance thereon.
11.04 Application of Proceeds of
Security
Each of the Lenders acknowledges that the Agent holds the
Security to secure the Obligations and upon the occurrence of an
acceleration of Obligations under Section 12.02, shall
distribute the proceeds of realisation in accordance with
Section 12.11.
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11.05 Security Charging Real Property
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in any Loan
Document, to the extent that the charges and security interests
created by the Security charge real property or any interest
therein such charges and security interests shall secure
interest after the occurrence of an Event of Default at the same
rates as those in effect prior to such occurrence.
12.01 Events of Default
The occurrence of any one or more of the following events (each
such event being herein referred to as an “Event of
Default”) shall constitute a default under this
Agreement:
(a) if the Borrower fails to pay any amount of principal of
any Advance when due; or
(b) if the Borrower fails to pay any interest, fees or
other Obligations when due and payable and such non-payment
continues for a period of two (2) Business Days; or
(c) if the Borrower fails to observe or perform any of the
financial covenants in Section 10.02; or
(d) there shall have occurred a Material Adverse
Effect; or
(e) if the Borrower fails to observe or perform any of the
covenants contained in Section 10.01(23), 10.01(24),
10.01(26) or Section 10.04; or
(f) if any Obligor neglects to observe or perform any
covenant or obligation contained in this Agreement or any other
Loan Document (other than a covenant or condition whose breach
or default in performance is specifically dealt with elsewhere
in this Section 12.01) and the Borrower shall fail to remedy
such default within fifteen (15) days from the date of
non-compliance; or
(g) if any representation or warranty made by any Obligor
in this Agreement, any Loan Document or in any certificate or
other document at any time delivered hereunder to the Agent or
the Lenders shall prove to have been incorrect and the Borrower
shall have failed to remedy such default within the fifteen
(15) days from the date of the occurrence of such
event; or
(h) if any Obligor ceases or threatens to cease to carry on
business generally or admits its inability or fails to pay its
debts generally; or
(i) if any Obligor (i) fails to make any payment when
such payment is due and payable to any Person in relation to any
Debt which in the aggregate principal amount then outstanding is
in excess of $250,000 and such payment is not made within any
applicable cure or grace period; (ii) defaults in the
observance or performance of any other agreement or condition in
relation to any such indebtedness to any Person which in the
aggregate principal amount then outstanding is in excess of
$250,000 or contained in any instrument or agreement evidencing,
securing or relating thereto and such default is not waived or
cured within any applicable cure or grace period; or
(iii) or any other event shall occur or condition exist,
the effect of which default or other condition is to cause, or
to permit the holder of such Debt to cause, such Debt to become
due prior to its stated maturity date; or
(j) if any Obligor denies its obligations under any Loan
Document or claims any of the Loan Documents to be invalid or
withdrawn in whole or in part; or
(k) any of the Loan Documents or any material provision of
any of them becomes unenforceable, unlawful or is changed by
virtue of legislation or by a court, statutory board or
commission, if any Obligor does not, within five
(5) Business Days of receipt of notice of such Loan
Document or material provision becoming unenforceable, unlawful
or being changed and being provided with any required new
agreement or amendment for execution, replace such Loan Document
with a new agreement that is in form and substance satisfactory
to the Majority Lenders or amend such Loan Document to the
satisfaction of the Majority Lenders; or
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(l) if a decree or order of a court of competent
jurisdiction is entered adjudging an Obligor a bankrupt or
insolvent or approving a petition seeking the
winding-up
of an Obligor under the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement
Act (Canada), the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act
(Canada), the United States Bankruptcy Code or the
Winding-Up
and Restructuring Act (Canada) or any other bankruptcy,
insolvency or analogous laws or issuing sequestration or process
of execution against any substantial part of the assets of an
Obligor or ordering the winding up or liquidation of its
affairs; or
(m) if any Obligor becomes insolvent, makes any assignment
in bankruptcy or makes any other similar assignment for the
benefit of creditors, makes any proposal under the Bankruptcy
and Insolvency Act (Canada) or any comparable law, seeks
relief under the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act
(Canada), the
Winding-Up
and Restructuring Act (Canada) or any other bankruptcy,
insolvency or analogous law, is adjudged bankrupt, files a
petition or proposal to take advantage of any act of insolvency,
consents to or acquiesces in the appointment of a trustee,
receiver, receiver and manager, interim receiver, custodian,
sequestrator or other Person with similar powers of itself or of
all or any substantial portion of its assets, or files a
petition or otherwise commences any proceeding seeking any
reorganization, arrangement, composition or readjustment under
any applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium,
reorganization or other similar law affecting creditors’
rights or consents to, or acquiesces in, the filing of such a
petition; or
(n) if any proceeding or filing shall be instituted or made
against any Obligor seeking to have an order for relief entered
against such Obligor as debtor or to adjudicate it bankrupt or
insolvent, or seeking liquidation,
winding-up,
reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition under any
law relating to bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or relief
or debtors (including, without limitation, the Bankruptcy and
Insolvency Act (Canada), the Companies Creditors
Arrangement Act (Canada) and the
Winding-Up
and Restructuring Act (Canada)), or seeking appointment of a
receiver, trustee, custodian or other similar official for such
Obligor or for any substantial part of its properties or assets
unless the same is being contested actively and diligently in
good faith by appropriate and timely proceedings and is
dismissed, vacated or permanently stayed within thirty
(30) days of institution; or
(o) if an Encumbrancer takes possession by appointment of a
receiver, receiver and manager, or otherwise of any material
portion of the Property of any Obligor; or
(p) if a final judgment, execution, writ of seizure and
sale, sequestration or decree for the payment of money due shall
have been obtained or entered against an Obligor in an amount in
excess of $250,000 (individually or in the aggregate for all
Obligors) and such judgment, execution, writ of seizure and
sale, sequestration or decree shall not have been and remain
vacated, satisfied, discharged or stayed pending appeal within
the applicable appeal period; or
(q) if any of the Security shall cease to be a valid and
perfected first priority security interest subject only to
Permitted Encumbrances and the Borrower shall have failed to
remedy such default within five (5) Business Days; or
(r) if a Material Contract is terminated prior to its
stated maturity date or if a Material Licence is revoked,
expired or rescinded and such Material Contract or Material
Licence is not reinstated on comparable terms or replaced within
fifteen (15) days after its termination, revocation,
expiration or rescission, as the case may be; or
(s) the institution of any steps by any Obligor or any
applicable regulatory authority to terminate a Pension Plan
(wholly or in part) if, as a result of such termination, any
Obligor is required to make an additional contribution to such
Pension Plan, or to incur an additional liability or obligation
to such Pension Plan, equal to or in excess of $100,000 or the
equivalent thereof in another currency; or
(t) if any report of the Auditor with respect to the
Borrower’s audited financial statement contains any
qualification which is unacceptable to the Lenders acting
reasonably; or
(u) if the Borrower fails to purchase at least 50% plus one
share of the voting shares of Wavecom pursuant to the Wavecom
Offer in accordance with the terms of the Wavecom Offer
Documents; or
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(v) if (i) all of the Wavecom Debentures purchased by
French Bidco are not redeemed by Wavecom within forty-five
(45) days following the applicable settlement date upon
which such Wavecom Debentures are purchased, or (ii) the
Agent believes, in its reasonable judgement, that Wavecom will
not have the cash necessary to redeem all of the Wavecom
Debentures purchased by the Borrower within such forty-five
(45) day period; or
(w) if either the Borrower, the Presenting and Guaranteeing
Bank or Wavecom fails to observe or perform any of the covenants
in the Support Agreement, the Mandate Letter or any of the other
Wavecom Offer Documents; or
(x) if the Lazard Letter of Credit issued by the Issuing
Bank under the Term Facility is not delivered for cancellation
to the Issuing Bank within five (5) Business Days following
confirmation from the Borrower that the Wavecom Offer has lapsed
or is terminated for any reason; or
(y) if any shareholder party to a
Lock-Up
Agreement renounces its obligations to tender its shares
thereunder except as otherwise permitted in accordance with the
terms provided for in the applicable
Lock-Up
Agreement; or
(z) for any Obligor incorporated in France, any corporation
action, legal proceedings or other procedure or step is taken in
relation to: (i) the suspension of payments, a moratorium
of any indebtedness,
winding-up,
dissolution, administration or reorganisation (by way of
voluntary arrangement, scheme of arrangement or otherwise) of
such Obligor; (ii) a composition, compromise,
assignment or arrangement with any creditor of such
Obligor; (iii) the appointment of a liquidator, receiver,
administrator, administrative receiver, compulsory manager or
other similar officer in respect of such Obligor or any of its
assets; (iv) such Obligor commences proceedings for
conciliation in accordance with
articles L.611-4
to L.611-15 of the French Code de Commerce; or (v) a
judgement for sauvegarde, redressement judiciaire, cession
totale de l’entreprise or liquidation judiciaire is
entered in relation to such Obligor under
articles L.620-1
to L.670-8 of the French Code de Commerce; or
(aa) in relation to any Obligor incorporated in Luxembourg
(i) a concordat préventif de faillite, a gestion
controlée, a sursis de paiement, a liquidation judiciaire,
a bankruptcy, a general agreement with any of its creditors,
or any other similar legal procedure, liquidation, bankruptcy or
insolvency proceedings occurs; or (ii) a commissaire
à la gestion controlee, a liquidateur judiciaire, a
curateur, a commissaire, or any similar officer is
appointed; or
(bb) if any proceeding or filing shall be instituted or
made against Wavecom or any of it Subsidiaries seeking to have
an order for relief entered against any such Person as debtor or
to adjudicate it bankrupt or insolvent, or seeking liquidation,
winding-up,
reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition under any
law relating to bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or relief
or debtors, or seeking appointment of a receiver, trustee,
custodian or other similar official for any such Person or for
any substantial part of its properties or assets unless the same
is being contested actively and diligently in good faith by
appropriate and timely proceedings and is dismissed, vacated or
permanently stayed within thirty (30) days of
institution; or
(cc) if a Change of Control of the Borrower occurs; or
(dd) if either of the French Bidco Loan Agreements is
amended, modified or terminated or if any of the terms or
conditions of either of the French Bidco Loan Agreements are
waived for any reason.
12.02 Acceleration and Termination of
Rights
If any Event of Default shall occur and be continuing, all
Obligations owing by the Borrower under the Loan Documents
shall, at the option of the Agent upon receipt of instructions
from the Majority Lenders and upon written notice to the
Borrower, become immediately due and payable at the rate or
rates determined as herein provided, to the date of actual
payment thereof, all without notice, presentment, protest,
demand, notice of dishonour or any other demand or notice
whatsoever, all of which are hereby expressly waived by each
Obligor; provided, if any Event of Default described in
Section 12.01(h) or 12.01(l) through (n) with respect
to the Borrower shall occur, the Commitments (if not theretofore
terminated) shall automatically terminate without the
requirement for notice to the Borrower, and the outstanding
principal amount of all Advances and all other Obligations shall
automatically be and
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become immediately due and payable. In such event either the
Lenders or the Agent on their behalf may, in their discretion,
exercise any right or recourse
and/or
proceed by any action, suit, remedy or proceeding against any
Obligor authorized or permitted by law for the recovery of all
the Obligations of the Borrower to the Lenders and proceed to
exercise any and all rights hereunder and under the Security and
no such remedy for the enforcement of the rights of the Lenders
shall be exclusive of or dependent on any other remedy but any
one or more of such remedies may from time to time be exercised
independently or in combination.
12.03 Payment of Bankers’ Acceptances and
Letters of Credit
If the Borrower does not pay to the Agent for the account of the
Lenders the principal amount of any unmatured Bankers’
Acceptance or BA Equivalent Note or the face amount of any
unexpired Letter of Credit required to be paid pursuant to
Section 12.02, the Agent on behalf of the Lenders shall
have the option at any time without notice to the Borrower to
give notice to the Lenders to make an Advance to the Borrower
equal to the principal amount of all unmatured Bankers’
Acceptances or BA Equivalent Notes and the face amount of all
unexpired Letters of Credit. The proceeds of such Advance shall
be held by the Agent in a non-interest bearing cash collateral
account for the benefit of the Borrower and shall be applied in
payment of such Bankers’ Acceptances or BA Equivalent Notes
as they mature and such Letters of Credit if payment is required
thereunder or otherwise as the Agent may require. The Borrower
shall execute and deliver as security for such Advance all such
security as the Lenders may deem necessary or advisable
including, without limitation, an assignment of credit balance
in respect of such cash collateral account.
12.04 Remedies Cumulative and Waivers
(1) For greater certainty, it is expressly understood and
agreed that the respective rights and remedies of the Lenders
and the Agent hereunder or under any other Loan Document or
instrument executed pursuant to this Agreement are cumulative
and are in addition to and not in substitution for any rights or
remedies provided by law or by equity; and any single or partial
exercise by the Lenders or by the Agent of any right or remedy
for a default or breach of any term, covenant, condition or
agreement contained in this Agreement or other document or
instrument executed pursuant to this Agreement shall not be
deemed to be a waiver of or to alter, affect or prejudice any
other right or remedy or other rights or remedies to which any
one or more of the Lenders and the Agent may be lawfully
entitled for such default or breach. Any waiver by the Lenders
or the Agent of the strict observance, performance or compliance
with any term, covenant, condition or other matter contained
herein and any indulgence granted, either expressly or by course
of conduct, by the Lenders or the Agent shall be effective only
in the specific instance and for the purpose for which it was
given and shall be deemed not to be a waiver of any rights and
remedies of the Lenders or the Agent under this Agreement or any
other Loan Document or instrument executed pursuant to this
Agreement as a result of any other default or breach hereunder
or thereunder.
(2) The Agent and the Lenders are not under any obligation
to the Obligors or any other Person to realize upon any
collateral or enforce the Security or any part thereof or to
allow any of the collateral to be sold, dealt with or otherwise
disposed of. Neither the Agent nor the Lenders are responsible
or liable to the Obligors or any other Person for any loss or
damage arising from such realization or enforcement or the
failure to do so or for any act or omission on their respective
parts or on the part of any director, officer, employee, agent
or adviser of any of them in connection with any of the
foregoing.
12.05 Termination of Lenders’
Obligations
The occurrence of an Event of Default shall relieve the Lenders
of all obligations to provide any further Advances hereunder
whether by rollover, conversion or otherwise, by way of
Bankers’ Acceptances (and BA Equivalent Notes), LIBOR
Advances or Letters of Credit; provided that the foregoing shall
not prevent the Lenders from disbursing money hereunder in
reduction of then outstanding Bankers’ Acceptances and
Letters of Credit. For greater certainty any such Advances shall
be at the sole discretion of the Lenders. The Agent may
reallocate all Advances pro rata among the Lenders in such
manner as the Agent determines is equitable.
12.06 Saving
The Lenders shall not be under any obligation to the Borrower or
any other Person to realize any collateral or enforce the
Security or any part thereof or to allow any of the collateral
to be sold, dealt with or otherwise disposed of. The Lenders
shall not be responsible or liable to the Obligors or any other
Person for any loss or damage upon the
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realization or enforcement of, the failure to realize or enforce
the collateral or any part thereof or the failure to allow any
of the collateral to be sold, dealt with or otherwise disposed
of or for any act or omission on their respective parts or on
the part of any director, officer, agent, servant or adviser in
connection with any of the foregoing, except that a Lender may
be responsible or liable for any loss or damage arising from the
wilful misconduct or gross negligence of that Lender.
12.07 Perform Obligations
If an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and if the
Borrower has failed to perform any of its covenants or
agreements in the Loan Documents, the Majority Lenders, may, but
shall be under no obligation to, instruct the Agent on behalf of
the Lenders to perform any such covenants or agreements in any
manner deemed fit by the Majority Lenders without thereby
waiving any rights to enforce the Loan Documents. The reasonable
expenses (including any legal costs) paid by the Agent and the
Lenders in respect of the foregoing shall be an Obligation and
shall be secured by the Security.
12.08 Third Parties
No Person dealing with the Lenders or any agent of the Lenders
shall be required to inquire whether the Security has become
enforceable, or whether the powers which the Lenders or the
Agent are purporting to exercise have been exercisable, or
whether any Obligations remain outstanding upon the security
thereof, or as to the necessity or expediency of the
stipulations and conditions subject to which any sale shall be
made, or otherwise as to the propriety or regularity of any sale
or other disposition or any other dealing with the collateral
charged by such Security or any part thereof.
12.09 Set-Off or Compensation
In addition to and not in limitation of any rights now or
hereafter granted under applicable law, if repayment is
accelerated pursuant to Section 12.02, the Lenders, or any
of them, may at any time and from time to time without notice to
the Borrower or any other Person, any notice being expressly
waived by the Borrower, set-off and compensate and apply any and
all deposits, general or special, time or demand, provisional or
final, matured or unmatured, and any other indebtedness at any
time owing by the Lenders, or any of them, to or for the credit
of or the account of the Borrower, against and on account of the
Obligations notwithstanding that any of them are contingent or
unmatured.
12.10 Realization of Security
(1) Each of the Lenders acknowledges that the Agent holds
the Security to secure the Obligations and upon the event of the
occurrence of an Event of Default, the Agent shall act on the
written instructions of the Majority Lenders as provided in this
Agreement and shall distribute the net sale proceeds of
realization of the Security to the Lenders in accordance with
their Proportionate Share of the Obligations and in accordance
with Section 12.11.
(2) For the purpose of the Security governed by French law
(the “French Security”), and in addition to
Section 12.10(1), each of the Lenders hereby appoints the
Agent as its agent (mandataire) and the Agent hereby
accepts such appointment in accordance with Article 1984
and seq. of the French Code Civil in order to
execute on their behalf and for their account any French
Security document, to take all steps, perform and enforce their
respective rights under each French Security, to execute any
documents necessary to release the French Security, create any
new security, carry out all formalities relating to any French
Security and to receive any proceeds in connection thereto, on
behalf of the Lenders as set out in Section 12.11.
12.11 Application of Payments
Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, the
proceeds of realization of the Security or any portion thereof
shall be distributed in the following order:
(i) first, in payment of all costs and expenses incurred by
the Agent in connection with such realization, including legal,
accounting and receivers’ fees and disbursements;
(ii) second, in payment of all costs and expenses incurred
by the Lenders in connection with such realization, including
legal, accounting and receivers’ fees and disbursements
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(iii) third, against the Obligations to each Lender (but
with respect to Hedge Arrangements, limited to Qualifying Hedge
Arrangements) in accordance with its Proportionate Share;
(iv) fourth, against all other Obligations owing to the
Lenders pursuant to Hedge Arrangements that were not paid in
Section (iii) above to each Lender based on the amount
owing to such Lender divided by the aggregate amount owing to
all Lenders; and
(v) fifth, if all Obligations of the Borrowers listed above
have been paid and satisfied in full, any surplus proceeds of
realization shall be paid to the applicable Borrower unless
otherwise required in accordance with Applicable Law.
12.12 Consultant
The Borrower agrees that, at any time after the occurrence of
and during the continuance of an Event of Default and upon
written request delivered by the Agent, it shall appoint a
financial consultant (hereinafter referred to as the
“Consultant”) for the purposes of reviewing the
operations of the Obligors from time to time thereafter. The
terms of the Consultant’s scope of duties, shall be settled
by the Borrower with the consent of the Agent, provided that
such terms may be settled by the Agent and the Lenders if
agreement with the Borrower is not reached within five
(5) days of the date of the Agent’s request on behalf
of the Lenders. The Borrower consents, and shall cause each
Obligor to consent, at all times to a free exchange of
information or the particulars of any such information exchanged
at any time.
13.01 Knowledge and Required Action
The Agent shall not be deemed to have knowledge or notice of the
occurrence of any Default or Event of Default (other than the
non-payment of any principal, interest or other amount to the
extent the same is required to be paid to the Agent for the
account of the Lenders) unless the Agent has received notice
from a Lender or the Borrower specifying such Default or Event
of Default and stating that such notice is given pursuant to
this Section. In the event that the Agent receives such a
notice, it shall give prompt notice thereof to the Lenders, and
shall also give prompt notice to the Lenders of each non-payment
of any amount required to be paid to the Agent for the account
of the Lenders. The Agent shall, subject to Section 13.02
take such action with respect to such Default or Event of
Default as shall be directed by the Lenders in accordance with
this Article 13 provided that, unless and until the Agent
shall have received such direction the Agent may, but shall not
be obliged 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 interest of the Lenders; and
provided further that the Agent in any case shall not be
required to take any such action which it determines to be
contrary to the Loan Documents or to any Applicable Law.
13.02 Request for Instructions
The Agent may at any time request instructions from the Lenders
with respect to any actions or approvals which, by the terms of
any of the Loan Documents, the Agent is permitted or required to
take or to grant, and the Agent shall be absolutely entitled to
refrain from taking any such action or to withhold any such
approval and shall not be under any liability whatsoever as a
result thereof until it shall have received such instructions
from the Lenders. No Lender shall have any right of action
whatsoever against the Agent as a result of the Agent acting or
refraining from acting under the Loan Documents in accordance
with instructions from the Lenders. The Agent shall in all cases
be fully justified in failing or refusing to take or continue
any action under the Loan Documents unless it shall have
received further assurances to its satisfaction from the Lenders
of their indemnification obligations under Section 7.5 of
Schedule AA against any and all liability and expense which
may be incurred by it by reason of taking or continuing to take
such action, and unless it shall be secured in respect thereof
as it may deem appropriate.
13.03 Actions by Lenders
(1) Any consent, approval (including without limitation any
approval of or authorization for any amendment to any of the
Loan Documents), instruction or other expression of the Lenders
under any of the Loan Documents
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may be obtained by an instrument in writing signed in one or
more counterparts by the Majority Lenders, or where required by
Section 13.03(3) all of the Lenders or affected Lenders, as
the case may be, (which instrument in writing, for greater
certainty, may be delivered by facsimile).
(2) Any consent, approval (including without limitation any
approval of or authorization for any amendment to any of the
Loan Documents), instruction or other expression of the Lenders
hereunder may also be included in a resolution that is submitted
to a meeting or adjourned meeting of the Lenders duly called and
held for the purpose of considering the same as hereinafter
provided and shall be deemed to have been obtained if such
resolution is passed by the affirmative vote of not less than
662/3%
(or 100% in the event that there are fewer than five
(5) Lenders) of the votes given on a poll of the Lenders
with respect to such resolution. A meeting of Lenders may be
called by the Agent and shall be called by the Agent upon the
request of any two Lenders. Every such meeting shall be held in
the City of Toronto or at such other reasonable place as the
Agent may approve. At least seven days notice of the time and
place of any such meeting shall be given to the Lenders and
shall include or be accompanied by a draft of the resolutions to
be submitted to such meeting, but the notice may state that such
draft is subject to amendment at the meeting or any adjournment
thereof. The Lenders who are present in person or by proxy at
the time and place specified in the notice shall constitute a
quorum. A person nominated in writing by the Agent shall be
chairman of the meeting. Lenders representing no less than 60%
of the outstanding Advances must be present at a meeting or
adjourned meeting. Upon every poll taken at any such meeting
every Lender who is present in person or represented by a proxy
duly appointed in writing (who need not be a Lender) shall be
entitled to one vote in respect of each $1 of its Commitment. In
respect of all matters concerning the convening, holding and
adjourning of Lenders’ meetings, the form, execution and
deposit of instruments appointing proxies and all other relevant
matters, the Agent may from time to time make such reasonable
regulations not inconsistent with this subsection 13.03(2) as it
shall deem expedient and any regulations so made by the Agent
shall be binding upon the Borrower, the Agent and the Lenders.
(3) Notwithstanding subsection 13.03(1), without the
consent of all the Lenders the Agent may not take the following
actions:
(a) amend, modify, discharge, terminate or waive any of the
terms of this Agreement if such amendment, modification,
discharge, termination or waiver would increase the amount of
the Credit Facilities, reduce the fees payable, reduce interest
rates or other amounts payable with respect to the Credit
Facilities, extend any date fixed for payment of principal,
interest or other amounts payable relating to the Credit
Facilities, extend the repayment dates of the Credit Facilities,
change the definition of Majority Lenders or Applicable Margin;
(b) amend Section 3.03;
(c) amend, modify, discharge, terminate or waive any of the
Security (which, for certainty, includes guarantees) if the
effect is to release a material part of the Property subject
thereto otherwise than pursuant to the terms hereof or
thereof; or
(d) amend this Section 13.03(3).
(4) An instrument in writing from the Majority Lenders (any
such instrument in writing being an “Approval
Instrument”) shall (subject to the terms of
Section 13.03(3)) be binding upon all of the Lenders, and
the Agent (subject to the provisions for its indemnity contained
in this Agreement) shall be bound to give effect thereto
accordingly. For greater certainty, to the extent so authorized
in the Approval Instrument, the Agent shall be entitled (but not
obligated) to execute and deliver on behalf of the Agent and all
of the Lenders, without the requirement for the execution by any
other Lender or Lenders, any consents, waivers, documents or
instruments (including without limitation any amendment to any
of the Loan Documents) necessary or advisable in the opinion of
the Agent to give effect to the matters approved by the Majority
Lenders or all of the Lenders, as the case may be, in any
Approval Instrument.
13.04 Provisions for Benefit of Lenders
Only
The provisions of this Article 13, other than this
Section 13.04 and the rights of the Borrower to receive
notice as specified in this Article 13 relating to the
rights and obligations of the Lenders and the Agent inter
se shall be operative as between the Lenders and the Agent
only, and the Obligors shall not have any rights under or be
entitled to rely for any purposes upon such provisions.
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13.05 Payments by Agent
(1) For greater certainty, the following provisions shall
apply to any and all payments made by the Agent to the Lenders
hereunder:
(a) the Agent shall be under no obligation to make any
payment (whether in respect of principal, interest, fees or
otherwise) to any Lender until an amount in respect of such
payment has been received by the Agent from the Borrower;
(b) if the Agent receives less than the full amount of any
payment of principal, interest, fees or other amount owing by
the Borrower under this Agreement, then subject to
Section 8.02 the Agent shall have no obligation to remit to
each Lender any amount other than such Lender’s
Proportionate Share of that amount which is the amount actually
received by the Agent;
(c) if any Lender advances more or less than its
Proportionate Share of Credit Facilities, such Lender’s
entitlement to such payment shall be increased or reduced, as
the case may be, in proportion to the amount actually advanced
by such Lender;
(d) the Agent acting reasonably and in good faith shall,
after consultation with the Lenders in the case of any dispute,
determine in all cases the amount of all payments to which each
Lender is entitled and such determination shall, in the absence
of manifest error, be binding and conclusive;
(e) upon request, the Agent shall deliver a statement
detailing any of the payments to the Lenders referred to
herein; and
(f) all payments by the Agent to a Lender hereunder shall
be made to such Lender at its address set forth in the signature
pages on this Agreement or on the applicable Assignment and
Assumption unless notice to the contrary is received by the
Agent from such Lender.
(2) Unless the Agent has actual knowledge that the Borrower
has not made or will not make a payment to the Agent for value
on the date in respect of which the Borrower has notified the
Agent that the payment will be made and except to the extent
that the Agent has received notice under Section 8.02, the
Agent shall be entitled to assume that such payment has been or
will be received from the Borrower when due and the Agent may
(but shall not be obliged to), in reliance upon such assumption,
pay the Lenders corresponding amounts. If the payment by the
Borrower is in fact not received by the Agent on the required
date and the Agent has made available corresponding amounts to
the Lenders, the Borrower shall, without limiting its other
obligations under this Agreement, indemnify the Agent against
any and all liabilities, obligations, losses (other than loss of
profit), damages, penalties, costs, expenses or disbursements of
any kind or nature whatsoever that may be imposed on or incurred
by the Agent as a result. A certificate of the Agent with
respect to any amount owing by the Borrower under this Section
shall be prima facie evidence of the amount owing in the
absence of manifest error.
13.06 Acknowledgements, Representations and
Covenants of Lenders
(1) Each Lender represents and warrants that it has the
legal capacity to enter into this Agreement pursuant to its
charter and any applicable legislation and has not violated its
charter, constating documents or any applicable legislation by
so doing.
(2) Each of the Lenders acknowledges and confirms that in
the event that the Agent does not receive payment in accordance
with this Agreement, it shall not be the obligation of the Agent
to maintain the Credit Facilities in good standing nor shall any
Lender have recourse to the Agent in respect of any amounts
owing to such Lender under this Agreement.
(3) Each Lender acknowledges and agrees that its obligation
to advance its Proportionate Share of Advances in accordance
with the terms of this Agreement is independent and in no way
related to the obligation of any other Lender hereunder.
(4) Each Lender hereby acknowledges receipt of a copy of
this Agreement and acknowledges that it is satisfied with the
form and content of such documents.
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(5) Except to the extent recovered by the Agent from the
Borrower, promptly following demand therefor, each Lender shall
pay to the Agent an amount equal to such Lender’s
Proportionate Share of any and all reasonable costs, expenses,
claims, losses and liabilities incurred by the Agent in
connection with this Agreement except for those incurred by
reason of the Agent’s negligence or wilful misconduct.
(6) Each Lender shall respond promptly to each request by
the Agent for the consent of such Lender required hereunder.
(7) Each Lender that assigns all or a portion of its rights
and obligations under this Agreement shall pay to the Agent a
processing and recordation fee of $3,500 with respect to each
such assignment in accordance with Section 10(b)(vi) of
Schedule AA.
13.07 Rights of Agent
(1) In administering the Credit Facilities, the Agent may
retain, at the expense of the Lenders if such expenses are not
recoverable from the Borrower, such solicitors, counsel,
auditors and other experts and agents as the Agent may select,
in its sole discretion, acting reasonably and in good faith
after consultation with the Lenders.
(2) The Agent shall be entitled to rely on any
communication, instrument or document believed by it to be
genuine and correct and to have been signed by the proper
individual or individuals, and shall be entitled to rely and
shall be protected in relying as to legal matters upon opinions
of independent legal advisors selected by it. The Agent may also
assume that any representation made by the Borrower is true and
that no Default or Event of Default has occurred unless the
officers or employees of the Lender acting as Agent, active in
their capacity as officers or employees responsible for the
Borrower’s account, have received notice to the contrary
from any other party to this Agreement.
(3) Except in its own right as a Lender, the Agent shall
not be required to advance its own funds for any purpose, and in
particular, shall not be required to pay with its own funds
insurance premiums, taxes or public utility charges or the cost
of repairs or maintenance with respect to the assets which are
the subject matter of the Security, nor shall it be required to
pay with its own funds the fees of solicitors, counsel,
auditors, experts or agents engaged by it as permitted hereby.
(4) The Agent may round an individual Lender’s
Proportionate Share of any Advance to the nearest $1,000 in
Canadian Dollars or United States Dollars, as the case may be.
(5) The Agent shall be entitled to scan and provide by
email to the Lenders all financial information it receives from
the Borrower pursuant to Section 10.03.
14.01 Exchange and Confidentiality of
Information
The Borrower authorizes and consents to the reproduction,
disclosure and use by the Agent and Lenders of information about
the Borrower (including, without limitation, the Borrower’s
name and any identifying logos) and the transactions herein
contemplated to enable the Agent
and/or the
Lenders to publish promotional “tombstones” and other
forms of notices of the transactions contemplated herein in any
manner and in any media (including, without limitation,
brochures) although such disclosure shall not reference the
purchase price and the use of such information shall be subject
to the prior approval of the Borrower acting reasonably. The
Borrower acknowledges and agrees that the Agent or any Lender
shall be entitled to determine, in its discretion, whether to
use such information, that no compensation will be payable by
the Agent or any Lender resulting therefrom, and that the Agent
and the Lender shall have no liability whatsoever to the
Borrower or any of its employees, officers, directors,
affiliates or shareholders in obtaining and using such
information in accordance with the terms hereof.
14.02 Nature of Obligations under this
Agreement
(1) The obligations of each Lender and of the Agent under
this Agreement are several and not joint and several. The
failure of any Lender to carry out its obligations hereunder
shall not relieve the other Lenders, the Agent or the Borrower
of any of their respective obligations hereunder.
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(2) Neither the Agent nor any Lender shall be responsible
for the obligations of any other Lender hereunder.
14.03 Addresses, Etc. for Notices
Any demand, notice or communication to be made or given
hereunder shall be in writing and may be made or given by
personal delivery or by transmittal by facsimile or other
electronic means of communication addressed to the respective
parties as follows:
To the Borrower:
Sierra Wireless, Inc.
00000 Xxxxxxxx Xxx
Xxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx
X0X 0X0
Attention: Chief Financial Officer
Facsimile
No. (000) 000-0000
with a copy to:
Blake, Xxxxxxx & Xxxxxxx LLP
000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx, X.X. Xxx 00000
Suite 0000, Xxxxx Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx
X0X 0X0
Attention: Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxx
Facsimile
No. 000-000-0000
To the Agent:
The Toronto-Dominion Bank, as Agent
Royal Trust Tower
00 Xxxx Xxxxxx Xxxx,
00xx
Xxxxx
Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxx,
X0X 0X0
Attention: Vice President, Loan Syndications —
Agency
Facsimile
No. 000-000-0000
in the case of any Lender or the Agent, with a copy to:
XxXxxxxx Xxxxxxxx XXX
Xxxxx 0000
Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx Xxxx Xxxxx
Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxx
X0X 0X0
Attention: Xxxx Xxxxxx
Facsimile:
(000) 000-0000
or to such other address or facsimile number as any party may
from time to time notify the others in accordance with this
Section 14.03. Any demand, notice or communication made or
given by personal delivery shall be conclusively deemed to have
been given on the day of actual delivery thereof, or, if made or
given by telex or other electronic means of communication, on
the first Business Day following the transmittal thereof.
14.04 Governing Law and Submission to
Jurisdiction
British Columbia is the Province for the purpose of
Sections 11(a) and (b) of Schedule AA.
14.05 Judgement Currency
(1) If for the purpose of obtaining or enforcing judgment
against the Borrower or any Obligor in any court in any
jurisdiction, it becomes necessary to convert into any other
currency (such other currency being hereinafter in
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this Section 14.05 referred to as the “Judgement
Currency”) an amount due in Canadian Dollars, United
States Dollars or Euros under this Agreement, the conversion
shall be made at the rate of exchange prevailing on the Business
Day immediately preceding:
(a) the date of actual payment of the amount due, in the
case of any proceeding in the courts of the Province of British
Columbia or in the courts of any other jurisdiction that will
give effect to such conversion being made on such date; or
(b) the date on which the judgment is given, in the case of
any proceeding in the courts of any other jurisdiction (the date
as of which such conversion is made pursuant to this
Section 14.05(1)(b) being hereinafter in this
Section 14.05 referred to as the “Judgement
Conversion Date”).
(2) If, in the case of any proceeding in the court of any
jurisdiction referred to in Section 14.05(1)(b), there is a
change in the rate of exchange prevailing between the Judgement
Conversion Date and the date of actual payment of the amount
due, the Borrower shall pay such additional amount (if any, but
in any event not a lesser amount) as may be necessary to ensure
that the amount paid in the Judgement Currency, when converted
at the rate of exchange prevailing on the date of payment, will
produce the amount of Canadian Dollars, United States Dollars or
Euros, as the case may be, which could have been purchased with
the amount of Judgement Currency stipulated in the judgment or
judicial order at the rate of exchange prevailing on the
Judgement Conversion Date.
(3) Any amount due from the Borrower under the provisions
of Section 14.05(2) shall be due as a separate debt and
shall not be affected by judgment being obtained for any other
amounts due under or in respect of this Agreement.
(4) The term “rate of exchange” in this
Section 14.05 means the noon rate of exchange based on
Canadian interbank transactions in Canadian Dollars, United
States Dollars or Euros, as the case may be, in the Judgement
Currency published or quoted by the Bank of Canada for the day
in question, or if such rate is not so published or quoted by
the Bank of Canada, such term shall mean the Equivalent Amount
of the Judgement Currency.
14.06 Benefit of the Agreement
This Agreement shall enure to the benefit of and be binding upon
the Borrower, the Lenders, the Agent and their respective
permitted successors and permitted assigns.
14.07 Survival
The provisions of Section 9 of Schedule AA shall
survive the repayment of all Advances, whether on account of
principal, interest or fees, and the termination of this
Agreement, unless a specific release of such provisions by the
Agent, on behalf of the Lenders, is delivered to the Borrower.
14.08 Severability
Any provision of this Agreement which is prohibited or
unenforceable in any jurisdiction shall not invalidate the
remaining provisions hereof and any such prohibition or
unenforceability in any jurisdiction shall not invalidate or
render unenforceable such provision in any other jurisdiction.
14.09 Whole Agreement
This Agreement (along with the other Loan Documents) constitutes
the whole and entire agreement between the parties hereto and
cancels and supersedes any prior agreements, undertakings,
declarations, commitments, representations, written or oral, in
respect thereof.
14.10 Further Assurances
The Borrower shall provide and shall cause the Obligors to
provide the Agent and the Lenders with such other documents,
opinions, consents, acknowledgements and agreements as are
within their control and reasonably necessary to implement this
Agreement or the other Loan Documents from time to time.
14.11 Time of the Essence
Time shall be of the essence of this Agreement.
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14.12 Delivery by Facsimile Transmission
This Agreement may be executed and delivered by facsimile
transmission and each of the parties hereto may rely on such
facsimile signature as though such facsimile signature were an
original signature.
14.13 Anti-Money Laundering Legislation
(1) The Borrower acknowledges that, pursuant to the
Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing
Act (Canada) and other applicable anti-money laundering,
anti-terrorist financing, government sanction and “know
your client” laws (collectively, including any guidelines
or orders thereunder, “AML Legislation”), the
Lenders and the Agent may be required to obtain, verify and
record information regarding the Borrower, its directors,
authorized signing officers, direct or indirect shareholders or
other Persons in control of the Borrower, and the transactions
contemplated hereby. The Borrower shall promptly provide all
such information, including supporting documentation and other
evidence, as may be reasonably requested by any Lender or the
Agent, or any prospective assignee or participant of a Lender or
the Agent, in order to comply with any applicable AML
Legislation, whether now or hereafter in existence.
(2) If the Agent have ascertained the identity of the
Borrower or any authorized signatories of the Borrower for the
purposes of applicable AML Legislation, then the Agent:
(a) shall be deemed to have done so as an agent for each
Lender, and this Agreement shall constitute a “written
agreement” in such regard between each Lender and the Agent
within the meaning of applicable AML Legislation; and
(b) shall provide to each Lender copies of all information
obtained in such regard without any representation or warranty
as to its accuracy or completeness.
Notwithstanding the preceding sentence and except as may
otherwise be agreed in writing, each of the Lenders agrees that
the Agents have no obligation to ascertain the identity of the
Borrower or any authorized signatories of the Borrower on behalf
of any Lender, or to confirm the completeness or accuracy of any
information it obtains from the Borrower or any such authorized
signatory in doing so.
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