PRIORITY AGREEMENT Dated 31st January, 2005 BETWEEN JEFFERSON SMURFIT GROUP LIMITED as the Parent CERTAIN SUBSIDIARIES OF THE PARENT AS OBLIGORS THE SENIOR CREDITORS, HEDGING BANKS, BOND TRUSTEE, JUNIOR CREDITORS AND INVESTORS and DEUTSCHE BANK AG...
Exhibit 4.9
Dated 31st January, 2005
BETWEEN
JEFFERSON SMURFIT GROUP LIMITED
as the Parent
CERTAIN SUBSIDIARIES OF THE PARENT
AS OBLIGORS
THE SENIOR CREDITORS, HEDGING BANKS, BOND TRUSTEE, JUNIOR CREDITORS AND INVESTORS
and
DEUTSCHE BANK AG LONDON
as Senior Agent and Security Agent
relating, inter alia, to a Senior Facility Agreement
dated 12th September, 2002 (as subsequently amended)
XXXXX & XXXXX
XXXXX & XXXXX LLP
LONDON
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THIS PRIORITY AGREEMENT is dated 31st January, 2005 and is made BETWEEN:
(1) JEFFERSON SMURFIT GROUP LIMITED (formerly MDCP Acquisitions Limited) a company incorporated under the laws of Ireland (No. 357957) with its registered office at Xxxxx Xxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxx 0, Xxxxxxx (the Parent);
(2) THE COMPANIES named in Schedule 1 as Obligors;
(3) THE BANKS AND FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS who are the Senior Creditors at the date of this Agreement, represented by the Senior Agent;
(4) DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS as Bond Trustee;
(5) ADAVALE (NETHERLANDS) B.V. (formerly Madison Dearborn Partners (Netherlands) B.V.) as Junior Creditor;
(6) THE BANKS AND FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS who are the Hedging Banks at the date of this Agreement, represented by Deutsche Bank AG London;
(7) THE FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS AND FUNDS named in Schedule 2 as Investors; and
(8) DEUTSCHE BANK AG LONDON as Senior Agent and Security Agent.
WHEREAS:
(A) The Parties (other than the Bond Trustee) are parties to the First Priority Deed.
(B) Newco 1 is proposing to issue the Further Notes and to lend an amount equal to the gross principal amount thereof to the Company under the Third Newco 1 Loan Agreement.
(C) The Parties intend that (i) the Bond Trustee should have the same rights and obligations in respect of the Further Notes as the Bond Trustee (as defined in the First Priority Deed) has in respect of the Original Securities (other than the PIK Securities) and (ii) Newco 1 should have the same rights and obligations in respect of the Financial Indebtedness under the Third Newco 1 Loan Agreement as it has in respect of the Financial Indebtedness under the Newco 1 Loan Agreement.
(D) The Senior Agent has entered into letters dated 12th January, 2005 and on or about the date of this Agreement (the Waiver Letters) in relation to the Senior Facility Agreement to, subject to certain conditions, permit the issue of the Further Notes.
(E) The other Parties have requested the Senior Agent to enter into, and are entering into, this Agreement in part satisfaction of the conditions to the Waiver Letters.
IT IS AGREED AS FOLLOWS:
1. DEFINITIONS AND INTERPRETATION
1.1 Definitions
In this Agreement:
Bond Trustee means any entity acting as trustee in respect of the Further Notes.
Debt means any or all of the Senior Debt, the Hedging Debt, the Newco 1 Debt, the Junior Debt, the Investor Debt and the Intercompany Debt, as the context requires.
Deed of Accession means a deed of accession substantially in the form of Schedule 3.
Finance Documents means each or any of the Senior Finance Documents, the Hedging Documents, the Junior Finance Documents, the Intercompany Documents and the Investor Documents.
First Priority Deed means the priority agreement dated 16th September 2002 (and amended on 27th September 2002) between, among others, certain of the Parties and the Bridge Lenders.
Further Notes means (a) the current pay senior subordinated unsecured debt securities to be denominated in € in a maximum aggregate principal amount of €217,500,000 with a maximum coupon or equivalent yield of 7.75 per cent. and the current pay senior subordinated unsecured debt securities to be denominated in US$ in a maximum aggregate principal amount of $200,000,000 with a maximum coupon or equivalent yield of 7.75 per cent., each to be issued by Newco 1 at 100 per cent. of their principal amount at maturity, as provided for in the offering memorandum delivered to the Facility Agent on 24th January, 2005 and (b) any SEC registered debt securities issued by Newco 1 for which any of the debt securities referred to in (a) above are exchanged.
Intercompany Creditor means any Obligor to whom any Intercompany Debt may from time to time be payable or owing (whether or not matured).
Intercompany Debt means all present and future Financial Indebtedness owed by the Company under or in connection with the Third Newco 1 Loan Agreement.
Investor Debt means all present and future liabilities (actual or contingent) payable or owing by the Parent or any other Obligor to any of the Investors (a) by way of closing fee or initial investment fee, (b) under or in connection with the Investor Documents (including, without limitation, any dividends), (c) in respect of any advisory, monitoring or management fee, or (d) in respect of any claim for misrepresentation or breach of undertaking under or in connection with the Investor Documents (but excluding for the avoidance of doubt any present and future liabilities (actual or contingent) payable or owing under the PIK Securities), in each case whether or not matured and whether or not liquidated, and together with any Additional Debt.
Investor Documents means:
(a) the Shareholders Agreement;
(b) the articles of association of the Parent;
(c) the First Priority Deed;
(d) the Additional Notes Priority Deed; and
(e) this Agreement.
Investors means the persons named in Schedule 2 in their capacity as creditors from time to time in respect of any Investor Debt and any successor, transferee, replacement or assignee of any such person.
Newco 1 Debt Non-Payment Event means the non-payment of any amount when due under the Newco 1 Debt (but in the case of any amount not constituting principal, interest or fees, being an amount in excess of €500,000).
Newco 1 Debt means all present and future liabilities (actual or contingent) payable or owing by any Obligor under or in connection with the Further Notes, in each case whether or not liquidated and together with any Additional Debt.
Party means an Obligor, a Senior Creditor, the Security Agent, the Senior Agent, the Junior Creditor, a Hedging Bank, the Bond Trustee or an Investor, as the context requires.
Securities Creditors means the holders or owners of the Further Notes.
Senior Facility Agreement means the senior facility agreement dated 12th September, 2002 (as Amended) between the Parent, certain of the other Obligors, the Senior Creditors, the Security Agent and the Senior Agent providing for €2,100,000,000 term loan facilities and a €425,000,000 revolving loan facility.
Senior Finance Document has the meaning given to it in the Senior Facility Agreement, but excluding the Hedging Documents.
Third Newco 1 Loan Agreement means the loan agreement entered into, or to be entered into, between the Company and Newco 1 in relation to the on-loan to the Company of the gross proceeds of the issue of the Further Notes.
Turnover Receipt has the meaning given to it in Clause 8 (Turnover).
1.2 Interpretation
(a) Clauses 1.2(a), (b), (d) and (f) of the First Priority Deed shall apply to this Agreement, mutatis mutandis except that all references to Spanish Bond Debt shall be excluded.
(b) References to the Senior Facility Agreement, a Senior Finance Document, a Junior Finance Document, a Hedging Document, an Investor Document, the Third Newco 1 Loan Agreement, the Further Notes or any other document or agreement is to that document or agreement as novated, supplemented, amended, varied or restated from time to time.
(c) Terms defined in or whose interpretation is provided for in the Senior Facility Agreement or the First Priority Deed shall have the same meaning when used in this Agreement (whether before or after the Senior Discharge Date) unless separately defined or interpreted in this Agreement. If a term is defined in both the Senior Facility Agreement and the First Priority Deed the definition in the First Priority Deed shall apply in this Agreement.
(d) This Agreement shall take effect as a deed in respect of those Parties which execute it as such and as an agreement under hand in respect of the other Parties.
2. RANKING
Unless expressly provided to the contrary in this Agreement, the Debt shall rank in right and priority of payment in the following order:
First the Senior Debt and the Hedging Debt (as provided for in the First Priority Deed);
Second the Intercompany Debt;
Third the Junior Debt; and
Fourth the Investor Debt.
3. UNDERTAKINGS
3.1 General Undertakings
Except as an Instructing Group has previously agreed in writing, or to the extent permitted by Clauses 7 (Permitted Payments) or 9.2 (Procedure) or 10 (Enforcement):
(a) no Obligor will (and each Obligor will procure that none of its Subsidiaries will) pay, or make any distribution in respect of or on account of, or purchase, defease, redeem or acquire, any of the Intercompany Debt in cash or in kind;
(b) no Intercompany Creditor will demand or receive payment of, or any distribution in respect of or on account of any Intercompany Debt in cash or kind or apply any money or property in or towards the discharge of any Intercompany Debt;
(c) no Intercompany Creditor or Obligor will discharge any Intercompany Debt by set-off, any right of combination of accounts or otherwise (save to the extent such set-off occurs automatically by operation of law and not as a result of any action or election by such Intercompany Creditor or Obligor and any amount so set-off is subject to Clause 8 (Turnover));
(d) no Obligor will (and each Obligor will procure that none of its Subsidiaries will) create or permit to subsist any Security Interest over any of its assets for any of the Intercompany Debt, and no Intercompany Creditor will allow to exist or receive any Security Interest, for any of the Intercompany Debt;
(e) no Obligor will (and each Obligor will procure that none of its Subsidiaries will) give any financial support to any person for, in respect of or in connection with the Intercompany Debt;
(f) no Obligor or Intercompany Creditor will allow any of the Intercompany Debt to be evidenced by a negotiable instrument or subordinate any of the Intercompany Debt to any other indebtedness save as provided for in this Agreement;
(g) no Obligor will initiate or support or take any steps with a view to any insolvency, liquidation, reorganisation, administration, examination or dissolution proceedings involving an Obligor (whether by petition, convening a meeting, voting for a resolution or otherwise) otherwise than as part of a Permitted Reorganisation;
(h) no Obligor or Intercompany Creditor will take or omit to take any action whereby the ranking and/or subordination of the Intercompany Debt provided for in this Agreement may be impaired; and
(i) no Obligor (other than Newco 1) will (and each Obligor will procure that none of its Subsidiaries will) give any financial support to any person for, in respect of or in connection with the Newco 1 Debt.
3.2 Limitation on sale of the Third Newco 1 Loan Agreement
Newco 1 will not sell or otherwise dispose of or encumber the Third Newco 1 Loan Agreement or enter into any agreement that would have the same effect.
4. AMENDMENTS
4.1 Amendments to Securities Permitted Payments definition
The Obligors and the Lenders agree not to amend the definition of “Securities Permitted Payments” in the Senior Facility Agreement (save to correct ambiguity or manifest error) without the written consent of Newco 1 and the Bond Trustee if any amount is outstanding under the Further Notes.
4.2 Changes to Third Newco 1 Loan Agreement
(a) The written consent of the Bond Trustee, to the extent that any amount is outstanding under the Further Notes, is required if the Company or the relevant Intercompany Creditor wish to Amend the Third Newco 1 Loan Agreement, except to cure ambiguity or manifest error.
(b) In addition to the requirements in paragraph (a) above, unless an Instructing Group has agreed to the Amendment in writing, no Obligor will Amend the terms of the Third Newco 1 Loan Agreement (except for Amendments which do not or could not reasonably be expected to adversely affect the interests of the Senior Creditors or the Hedging Banks in any material respect).
5. ACCESSION OF HEDGING BANKS
No person providing interest or currency swap or hedging facilities to any Obligor will be entitled to benefit from the undertakings of the Parties to this Agreement unless and until:
(a) such person is a Hedging Bank at the date of this Agreement; or
(b) the Senior Agent has agreed in writing to the identity of such person (such agreement not to be unreasonably withheld where such person is a Senior Creditor (or its Affiliate)) and to the swap or hedging facilities being provided by such person and such person has agreed to become a Hedging Bank by executing and delivering to the Security Agent a duly completed Deed of Accession. Upon delivery of such a Deed of Accession to the Security Agent such person will acquire all its rights and assume
all its obligations as a Hedging Bank under this Agreement in relation to such swap or hedging facilities.
6. WARRANTIES OF JUNIOR CREDITOR AND INVESTORS
6.1 The Junior Creditor and each Investor warrants to each Secured Creditor that:
(a) it is duly incorporated (if a corporate person) or duly established (in any other case) and validly existing under the laws of the place of its incorporation or formation;
(b) this Agreement is within its powers and has been duly authorised and executed by it; and
(c) subject to the Reservations, this Agreement constitutes its legal, valid and binding obligations, enforceable against it in accordance with its terms and does not conflict with any law or regulation binding on it or with its constitutional documents.
6.2 The Company warrants to each Secured Creditor that it is duly authorised to execute this Agreement on behalf of each of the other Obligors (other than the Parent and Newco 1) and such execution will bind such other Obligors.
7. PERMITTED INTERCOMPANY DEBT PAYMENTS
Subject to Clause 8 (Turnover), the Company shall be entitled to pay in cash or by payment in kind any Intercompany Debt owed by it to the relevant Intercompany Creditors (including interest under the Third Newco 1 Loan Agreement by capitalising an amount of interest or issuing further debt instruments under and in the manner and at the times provided for in the Third Newco 1 Loan Agreement) PROVIDED THAT no payment of principal, interest, fees or other amounts constituting Intercompany Debt shall be made, except for the payment of (A) interest (whether in cash or kind); (B) amounts equal to any additional amounts payable under applicable gross-up provisions of the Further Notes; (C) amounts equal to default interest or liquidated damages payments under the Further Notes; (D) an amount equal to the amount of the US registration costs and legal fees incurred in connection with the issue of the Further Notes and an amount equal to the amount of payments due under any registration right agreement relating to the Further Notes; or (E) an amount equal to any other payments but not exceeding (when aggregated with the amounts paid in such period under clause 7.2(ii)(E) of the First Priority Deed and clause 7 of the Additional Notes Priority Deed) €500,000 in any twelve month period, in each case referred to in (A), (B), (C), (D) or (E) above under and to the extent provided for in the Third Newco 1 Loan Agreement to the extent necessary to enable Newco 1 to make Securities Permitted Payments in respect of the Further Notes; and (F) repayment of principal of the Further Notes on the Payment Date under (and as defined in) the Third Newco 1 Loan Agreement PROVIDED THAT, except with the prior consent in writing of the Senior Agent (acting on the instructions of an Instructing Group), the Company may not on any date make any such payments under (A), (B), (C), (D) or (E) above or any such repayment of principal under (F) above if:
(A) any of the Senior Debt (or in the case of non-payment of any amounts not constituting principal, interest or fees, Senior Debt in excess of €50,000 (when aggregated with all other amounts unpaid)) due on or prior to such date are unpaid on such date; or
(B) following the occurrence of an Event of Default (other than of the type specified in paragraph (A) above), the Senior Agent (acting on the instructions of the Instructing Group) serves a written notice (a Block Notice) on Newco 1 and the Company specifying such Event of Default, until the earliest date on which:
(I) paragraph (A) does not apply; and
(II) one of the following applies:
(w) 179 days have elapsed since the service of such Block Notice, or if earlier, where a Standstill Period (as defined in Clause 10 (Enforcement)) is in effect at any time during that 179 day period, the date on which that Standstill Period expires; or
(x) the Senior Agent (acting on the instructions of an Instructing Group) has confirmed in writing to Newco 1 and the Company that the relevant Event of Default has been cured or waived by the Instructing Group in writing or has ceased to exist; or
(y) the Senior Agent (acting on the instructions of the Instructing Group) by notice in writing to Newco 1 and the Company cancels the Block Notice; or
(z) the Senior Discharge Date occurs.
Unless otherwise agreed by the Bond Trustee:
(aa) no more than one Block Notice may be served with respect to the same particular event or circumstances whether in relation to the same Event of Default or not, but without prejudice to the ability of the Senior Agent to issue a Block Notice in respect of any other particular event or set of circumstances;
(bb) a Block Notice may not be issued less than 360 days after the service of a prior Block Notice and then only to the extent that all scheduled payments with respect to the Newco 1 Loan made under the Third Newco 1 Loan Agreement that have come due have been paid in full in accordance with the terms of the Third Newco 1 Loan Agreement;
(cc) no Event of Default that existed at the date a Block Notice was given may be the basis of a subsequent Block Notice, unless such Event of Default has been cured or complied with for at least 180 consecutive days since the date of issue of the prior Block Notice (it being acknowledged that any subsequent action or breach of any financial covenant for a period ending after the date of delivery of such initial Block Notice that would give rise to an Event of Default under any provision under which an Event of Default previously existed or was continuing shall constitute a new Event of Default for this purpose).
The Parties agree that payments of Intercompany Debt which are permitted to be made by this Agreement are not prohibited by the First Priority Deed.
8. TURNOVER
(a) If any Intercompany Creditor receives or recovers a payment or distribution in cash or in kind (including by way of set-off or combination of accounts):
(i) of, or on account of, any of the Intercompany Debt which is not permitted by Clause 7 (Permitted Payments); or
(ii) from (or on behalf of) any Obligor or any other member of the Group on account of the purchase, defeasance, redemption or acquisition of any Intercompany Debt otherwise than to the extent permitted by Clause 7 (Permitted Payments),
(each such payment or distribution being a Turnover Receipt) the receiving or recovering Intercompany Creditor will promptly notify the Security Agent, will pending payment to the Security Agent hold such Turnover Receipt on trust for the Security Agent and the Secured Creditors and will on demand pay to the Security Agent for application as provided in Clause 11 (Proceeds of Enforcement) of the First Priority Deed an amount determined by the Security Agent to be equal to the lesser of:
(A) the outstanding balance of the Senior Debt and the Hedging Debt; and
(B) the amount of such Turnover Receipt,
less the third party costs and expenses (if any) reasonably incurred by the Intercompany Creditor concerned in receiving or recovering such Turnover Receipt. For the avoidance of doubt, an amount may not be demanded under this Clause 8(a) if such amount has already been paid to the Security Agent under clause 8(a) of the First Priority Deed or clause 8(a) of the Additional Notes Priority Deed (and vice versa).
(b) The Parent, the Company and, except to the extent that to do so would constitute unlawful financial assistance under the law of its respective jurisdiction of incorporation, each other Obligor shall indemnify each Intercompany Creditor upon demand (to the extent of its liability for the Intercompany Debt) for the amount of any Turnover Receipt paid by it to the Security Agent and such third party costs and expenses incurred by it, and the Intercompany Debt will not be deemed to have been reduced or discharged in any way or to any extent by the receipt or recovery of the relevant Turnover Receipt. Any claim or right of indemnity under this paragraph shall constitute Intercompany Debt.
(c) If the Bond Trustee receives or recovers a payment or distribution in cash or in kind (including by way of set-off or combination of accounts) from (or on behalf of) any Obligor or other member of the Group (other than Newco 1 or the Parent) on account of the purchase, redemption or acquisition of any Newco 1 Debt (each such payment or distribution being a Purchase Turnover Receipt) the Bond Trustee will promptly notify the Security Agent, will pending payment to the Security Agent hold such Purchase Turnover Receipt on trust for the Security Agent and the Secured Creditors and will on demand pay to the Security Agent for application as provided in Clause 11 (Proceeds of Enforcement) of the First Priority Deed an amount equal to the lesser of:
(A) the outstanding balances of the Senior Debt and the Hedging Debt; and
(B) the amount of the Purchase Turnover Receipt,
less the third party costs and expenses (if any) reasonably incurred by the Bond Trustee in receiving or recovering the Purchase Turnover Receipt. For the avoidance of doubt, an amount may not be demanded under this Clause 8(c) if such amount has already been paid to the Security Agent under clause 8(c) of the First Priority Deed or clause 8(c) of the Additional Notes Priority Deed (and vice versa).
9. SUBORDINATION ON INSOLVENCY
9.1 Insolvency
If any of the following occur in respect of an Obligor (unless it is pursuant to a Permitted Reorganisation of such Obligor):
(i) any step is taken with a view to a composition, assignment or similar arrangement with any of its creditors;
(ii) a meeting is convened for the purpose of considering any resolution for (or to petition for) its winding-up, administration, examination or dissolution or any such resolution is passed;
(iii) any person presents a petition for its winding-up, administration, examination or dissolution, unless it is being contested in good faith and with due diligence and is discharged or struck out within twenty Business Days;
(iv) an order for its winding-up, administration, examination or dissolution is made;
(v) any liquidator, trustee in bankruptcy, judicial custodian, compulsory manager, receiver, administrative receiver, examiner, administrator or similar officer is appointed in respect of it;
(vi) its directors or other officers request the appointment of a liquidator, trustee in bankruptcy, judicial custodian, compulsory manager, examiner, receiver, administrative receiver, administrator or similar officer; or
(vii) any other analogous step or procedure is taken in any jurisdiction,
the Intercompany Debt will be subordinate in right of payment to the Senior Debt and the Hedging Debt and the Secured Creditors shall be entitled to receive payment in full of all of the Senior Debt and the Hedging Debt before the Intercompany Creditors shall be entitled to any payment of the Intercompany Debt.
9.2 Procedure
If any of the events referred to in Clause 9.1 above occurs and this Clause applies:
(a) the Security Agent may, and is irrevocably authorised on behalf of the Intercompany Creditors and the Bond Trustee (on behalf of the Securities Creditors), as the case may be to:
(i) demand, claim, enforce and prove for the Intercompany Debt;
(ii) file claims and proofs, give receipts and take any proceedings in respect of the Intercompany Debt which the Security Agent reasonably considers to be necessary or desirable to recover any Intercompany Debt;
(iii) do anything which the Security Agent reasonably considers to be necessary or desirable to recover the Intercompany Debt; and
(iv) receive all distributions on the Intercompany Debt for application against the Senior Debt and the Hedging Debt as provided for in the First Priority Deed;
(b) if and to the extent that the Security Agent is not entitled by applicable law or regulation to do anything mentioned in paragraph (a) above, each Intercompany Creditor or the Bond Trustee (for the avoidance of doubt, in its capacity as trustee for the Securities Creditors) must do so promptly as and when requested by the Security Agent from time to time;
(c) each Intercompany Creditor or the Bond Trustee must:
(i) hold all payments and distributions in cash or in kind subsequently received or receivable by such Intercompany Creditor or the Bond Trustee in respect of the Intercompany Debt from an Obligor or from any other source on trust for the Senior Creditors and the Hedging Banks; and
(ii) pay and transfer them to the Security Agent for application against the Senior Debt and the Hedging Debt;
(d) the trustee in bankruptcy, liquidator, assignee or other person distributing the assets of an Obligor or their proceeds is directed to pay all payments and distributions on the Intercompany Debt direct to the Security Agent; and
(e) the Intercompany Creditors or the Bond Trustee must give any notice and do anything which the Security Agent may reasonably require to give effect to this Subclause.
9.3 Distributions
(a) Each Intercompany Creditor or the Bond Trustee will, upon demand by the Security Agent, pay an amount equal to the amount of all payments or distributions of or in respect of any Intercompany Debt in cash or in kind received by or on behalf of it from any Obligor (or any liquidator, administrator, receiver or similar official of such Obligor or its assets) on or after the occurrence of any of the events or circumstances referred to in Clause 9.1 to the Security Agent for application in accordance with Clause 11 (Proceeds of Enforcement) of the First Priority Deed. Pending such application the Security Agent will hold such payment on trust for the beneficiaries entitled thereto (according to the ranking of entitlements set out in Clause 11 (Proceeds of Enforcement) of the First Priority Deed). For the avoidance of doubt, an amount may not be demanded under this Clause 9.3(a) if such amount has already been paid to the Security Agent under clause 9.3(a) of the First Priority Deed or clause 9.3(a) of the Additional Notes Priority Deed (and vice versa).
(b) The trustee in bankruptcy, liquidator, administrator, receiver or other person distributing the assets of an Obligor or their proceeds shall be directed to pay distributions on the Intercompany Debt direct to the Security Agent until the Senior Debt and the Hedging Debt have been paid in full.
(c) The Intercompany Creditors will give all such notices and do all such things as the Security Agent may reasonably request to give effect to this Clause 9.3.
10. ENFORCEMENT
(a) Except as an Instructing Group has previously agreed in writing, and subject to paragraph (b), the Intercompany Creditors must not:
(i) accelerate or make demand for any of the Intercompany Debt or declare any of the Intercompany Debt prematurely payable;
(ii) enforce the Intercompany Debt by attachment, set-off, execution or otherwise (save to the extent such set-off occurs automatically by operation of law and not as a result of any action or election by such Intercompany Creditor or Obligor and any amount so set-off is subject to Clause 8 (Turnover));
(iii) initiate or support or take any steps with a view to:
(A) any insolvency, liquidation, reorganisation, administration, examination or dissolution proceedings; or
(B) any voluntary arrangement or assignment for the benefit of creditors; or
(C) any similar proceedings,
involving an Obligor, whether by petition, convening a meeting, voting for a resolution or otherwise (provided that this shall not prevent an Obligor from taking any of these actions as part of a Permitted Reorganisation); or
(iv) xxx, or bring or support any legal proceedings, or otherwise exercise any remedy for the recovery of the Intercompany Debt.
(b) An Intercompany Creditor may take any of the actions (Enforcement Action) prohibited in paragraph (a) above in relation to Intercompany Debt under the Third Newco 1 Loan Agreement:
(i) if any Senior Debt has been declared to be due and payable or due and payable on demand (and demand has been made) under Clause 24.19 (Acceleration) or Clause 24.20 (Acceleration for Acquisition Credits) of the Senior Facility Agreement; or
(ii) if any of the events referred to in Clause 9.1(iv) or (v) (or any analogous steps or procedures in any applicable jurisdiction having valid jurisdiction over the Company) occur in relation to the Company; or
(iii) if it or the Bond Trustee has given notice in writing (an Enforcement Notice) to the Senior Agent specifying that a Newco 1 Debt Non-Payment Event has occurred and 179 days has elapsed from the date the Senior Agent received such Enforcement Notice (the Standstill Period) and at the end of the Standstill Period the Newco 1 Debt Non-Payment Event is continuing unremedied and unwaived (provided that Enforcement Action shall only be permitted under this subparagraph (iii) in an
amount up to the amount of Newco 1 Debt that is the subject of such Newco 1 Debt Non-Payment Event and only to the extent it remains unremedied or unwaived),
PROVIDED THAT in each case any amounts received as a result of action permitted to be taken under this Clause shall be subject to Clause 8 (Turnover).
(c) Without prejudice to paragraph (b) above, if payment of the principal amount of the Further Notes is accelerated, no payment of the principal amount outstanding under the Third Newco 1 Loan Agreement may be made until 5 Business Days after an Intercompany Creditor or the Bond Trustee has given notice to the Senior Agent. Thereafter the Company may if otherwise permitted by the terms of this Agreement (and subject to Clause 8 (Turnover)) make such principal payments at the times referred to in the Third Newco 1 Loan Agreement.
11. MANNER OF ENFORCEMENT
No Senior Creditor or Hedging Bank shall be responsible to any Intercompany Creditor, Securities Creditor or Obligor for any failure to enforce or to maximise the proceeds of any enforcement of the security (except to the extent arising from such person’s gross negligence or wilful default), and the Senior Creditors and Hedging Banks may cease any such enforcement at any time.
12. CONSENTS AND LIMITS
12.1 Waivers
If any waiver, release or consent is granted by the Majority Lenders under the Senior Finance Documents prior to the Senior Discharge Date, a corresponding waiver, release or consent will be deemed to have been given by the Intercompany Creditors (on the same terms and conditions, mutatis mutandis) under the Third Newco 1 Loan Agreement if the transaction or circumstance to which that waiver, release or consent relates would otherwise breach or be a default or event of default under such agreement, PROVIDED THAT no such waiver, release or consent may extend the due date for or reduce the amount of or change the currency of any payment due to any Intercompany Creditor or change the terms by reference to which any payment is to be calculated or made under the Third Newco 1 Loan Agreement.
12.2 Non-Objection
No Intercompany Creditor shall have any claim or remedy against any of the Senior Creditors by reason of any transaction entered into between any of the Senior Creditors and any member of the Group or any requirement or condition imposed by or on behalf of the Senior Creditors on any member of the Group, which breaches or is or causes a default or an event of default under the Third Newco 1 Loan Agreement.
13. SUBROGATION
The Junior Creditor, the Securities Creditors, the Investors and the Obligors will not under any circumstances be subrogated to or entitled to exercise any of the rights of the Senior Creditors or Hedging Banks or exercise or enforce any security arising under any of the Security Documents.
14. PROTECTION OF SUBORDINATION
14.1 Continuing Subordination
The subordination and priority provisions in this Agreement constitute a continuing subordination and priority and benefit to the ultimate balance of the Senior Debt and the Hedging Debt respectively regardless of any intermediate payment or discharge of the Senior Debt or the Hedging Debt in whole or in part.
14.2 Waiver of Defences
The subordination in this Agreement and the obligations of the Bond Trustee, each Intercompany Creditor and each Obligor under this Agreement will not be affected by any act, omission, matter or thing which, but for this provision, would reduce, release or prejudice the subordination or any of those obligations in whole or in part, including without limitation:
(a) any time, indulgence or waiver granted to, or composition with, any Obligor or any other person or the release of any other Obligor or any other person under the terms of any composition or arrangement with any creditor of any member of the Group;
(b) the taking, variation, compromise, exchange, renewal or release of, or refusal or neglect to perfect, take up or enforce, any rights or remedies against, or security over assets of, any Obligor or other person under the Senior Finance Documents, the Hedging Documents or otherwise or any non-presentment or non-observance of any formality or other requirement in respect of any instruments or any failure to realise the full value of any security;
(c) any variation (however fundamental) or replacement of any Senior Finance Document, Hedging Document or other document;
(d) any unenforceability, illegality, invalidity or frustration of any obligation of an Obligor or security under the Senior Finance Documents, the Hedging Documents or any other document or security or the failure by any member of the Group to enter into or be bound by any Senior Finance Document or Hedging Document; or
(e) any postponement, discharge, reduction, non-provability or other similar circumstance affecting any obligation of any Obligor under any Senior Finance Document or Hedging Document resulting from any insolvency, liquidation or dissolution proceedings or from any law, regulation or order.
14.3 Appropriations
Each Senior Creditor and Hedging Bank (or any trustee or agent on their behalf) may (subject to any provision of this Agreement or any applicable Senior Finance Documents or Hedging Documents to the contrary):
(a) apply any cash or property received under this Agreement or from an Obligor or any other person against the Debt owed to it, in such order as it sees fit;
(b) (if it so decides) apply any cash or property received from an Obligor or from any other person (other than money or property received under the Senior Finance
Documents or Hedging Documents or under this Agreement) against any liability other than the Debt owed to it; and
(c) (unless such cash or property in the aggregate is sufficient to bring about the Senior Discharge Date if otherwise applied in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement) hold in a suspense account (bearing interest at a market rate usual for accounts of that type) any cash or the net proceeds of any distribution received from the Intercompany Creditors or the Obligors or on account of the liability of any Intercompany Creditor or Obligor (as appropriate) under this Agreement.
15. PRESERVATION OF DEBT
In spite of any term of this Agreement postponing, subordinating or preventing the payment of any of the Intercompany Debt, as between the Obligors and the Intercompany Creditors, the Intercompany Debt shall remain owing or payable (and interest or default interest shall continue to accrue) in accordance with the terms of the Third Newco 1 Loan Agreement. No delay in exercising rights and remedies under the Third Newco 1 Loan Agreement by reason of any term of this Agreement postponing, restricting or preventing such exercise shall operate as a permanent waiver of any of those rights and remedies.
16. POWER OF ATTORNEY
By way of security for the obligations of each Intercompany Creditor under this Agreement, each Intercompany Creditor irrevocably appoints the Senior Agent as its attorney to do anything which the Intercompany Creditor (a) has authorised the Senior Agent to do under this Agreement and (b) is required and legally able to do by this Agreement but has failed to do for a period of 10 Business Days after receiving notice from the Senior Agent requiring it to do so unless such Intercompany Creditor is disputing in good faith and by appropriate proceedings that it is required to do the thing concerned.
17. EXPENSES
17.1 Enforcement Costs
Each Obligor and each Intercompany Creditor will within 5 Business Days of demand pay to each Senior Creditor or Hedging Bank the amount of all costs and expenses properly incurred by it in connection with the enforcement against that Obligor or Intercompany Creditor (as the case may be) of such person’s rights against it under this Agreement.
17.2 Legal Expenses and Taxes
The costs and expenses referred to above include, without limitation, the fees and expenses of legal advisers and any value added tax or similar tax, and are payable in the currency in which they are incurred.
18. CHANGES TO THE PARTIES
18.1 Successors and Assigns
This Agreement is binding on the successors and assigns of the parties hereto.
18.2 Obligors
No Obligor may assign or transfer any of its rights (if any) or obligations under this Agreement.
18.3 New Obligors
If any member of the Group (a New Obligor) borrows, guarantees or otherwise becomes liable for any Intercompany Debt or grants or incurs or otherwise becomes a creditor in respect of any Intercompany Debt, the Parent will procure that (unless such New Obligor has become party hereto by some other means to the satisfaction of the Senior Agent acting reasonably) such New Obligor becomes a party to this Agreement as an Obligor by the execution and delivery to the Security Agent of a duly completed Deed of Accession (together with such board resolutions and other corporate documentation as the Security Agent may reasonably require).
18.4 New Creditors
No Senior Creditor, Hedging Bank, Junior Creditor or Investor may:
(a) assign, transfer or dispose of any of the Debt owing to it or its proceeds or any interest in that Debt or its proceeds to or in favour of any person; or
(b) assign, transfer, novate or dispose of any of its rights or obligations under any of the Finance Documents to any person,
unless in each case that person agrees with the Parties that it is bound by all the terms of this Agreement as a Senior Creditor, Hedging Bank, Junior Creditor or Investor, as the case may be, by executing and delivering to the Security Agent a duly completed Deed of Accession or, in the case of a Senior Creditor, by the execution and delivery to the Security Agent of a Transfer Certificate.
18.5 Bond Trustee
The Bond Trustee (on behalf of the Securities Creditors) acknowledges and agrees as follows:
(i) that the Senior Debt and Hedging Debt each qualify as “Senior Debt” for the purposes of and as such term is defined in the indentures (as supplemented and amended from time to time) (the Indentures) under which the Further Notes are issued;
(ii) that the Senior Creditors and the Hedging Banks are entitled to rely on and enforce the subordination provisions contained in the Indentures; and
(iii) that it accepts any Transfer Certificate, Accession Deed or Deed of Accession and the accession by the relevant parties to such agreements to this Agreement in the capacity described therein. For the avoidance of doubt, the Bond Trustee hereby waives any right to approve, or of objection to, the accession or identity of such persons and confirms that it hereby waives any obligation on the part of a party to
procure the Bond Trustee’s counter-signature or acceptance of any such Transfer Certificate, Accession Deed or Deed of Accession.
18.6 Variation of Forms of Deed of Accession
Pursuant to clause 21.7 of the First Priority Deed (Variation of Forms of Deed of Accession), the Security Agent and the Parent agree that the form of Deed of Accession is hereby amended so that it shall be substantially as set out in Schedule 3 (Forms of Deed of Accession). The Security Agent and the Parent may agree further changes to the form of Deed of Accession.
18.7 Transfer Certificates, Accession Deeds and Deeds of Accession
Each of the other Parties appoints:
(a) the Senior Agent as its agent to sign on its behalf any Transfer Certificate or Accession Deed entered into under the Senior Facility Agreement; and
(b) the Security Agent as its agent to sign on its behalf any Deed of Accession,
in order that each such Transfer Certificate, Accession Deed or Deed of Accession may be supplemental to this Agreement and be binding on and enure to the benefit of all the Parties.
18.8 Validity
If any person intended to be bound by this Agreement does not become party to it or is not bound by it for any reason that shall not affect the rights and obligations of the other persons party to this Agreement.
19. STATUS OF OBLIGORS
None of the Obligors has any rights under this Agreement against any of the Senior Creditors or the Hedging Banks and none of the undertakings given by the Senior Creditors or the Hedging Banks are given (or shall be deemed to have been given) to, or for the benefit of, the Obligors.
20. NOTICES
Every Notice under this Agreement shall be in writing delivered personally, by first class prepaid post or facsimile and shall be sent to the address or facsimile number (if any is specified) of the Party, and for the attention of the individual:
(a) applying for the purposes of the Senior Facility Agreement in the case of Obligors or Senior Creditors; or
(b) (in the case of the Investors) set out in Schedule 2; or
(c) specified in the relevant Deed of Accession if not a Party at the date hereof,
or such other address or facsimile number as is notified in writing by it to the Security Agent.
Clause 37 (Notices) of the Senior Facility Agreement shall apply to all Notices given under this Agreement.
21. WAIVERS, REMEDIES CUMULATIVE
The rights of each Party under this Agreement:
(a) are cumulative and not exclusive of its rights under the general law;
(b) may be waived only in writing and specifically; and
(c) may be exercised as often as necessary.
Delay in exercising or non-exercise of any such right is not a waiver of that right.
22. THE SENIOR AGENT
To the extent that the Senior Agent acts under this Agreement on the instructions of an Instructing Group the Hedging Banks appoint the Senior Agent as its agent under this Agreement. Such appointment is on the terms set out in Clause 25 (The Administrative Parties) of the Senior Facility Agreement, mutatis mutandis.
23. TERMINATION
Save in respect of any right, claim or liability arising under this Agreement prior to the Senior Discharge Date (which right, claim or liability shall continue notwithstanding the Senior Discharge Date or the termination referred to in this Clause), this Agreement (other than Clause 22 (The Senior Agent)) shall terminate immediately after the Senior Discharge Date.
24. MISCELLANEOUS
24.1 Severability
If any provision of this Agreement is prohibited or unenforceable in any jurisdiction in relation to any Party, such prohibition or unenforceability shall not invalidate the remaining provisions hereof or affect the validity or enforceability of such provision in any other jurisdiction or in relation to any other Party.
24.2 First Priority Deed and Additional Notes Priority Deed
Save as agreed between the Parties in this Agreement, the First Priority Deed and Additional Notes Priority Deed remain in full force and effect.
24.3 No Third Party Rights
No person who is not a party to this Agreement shall have or may enforce any rights under it.
24.4 Senior Finance Document
The Company and the Senior Agent designate this Agreement as a Senior Finance Document.
25. GOVERNING LAW
This Agreement is governed by English law.
26. JURISDICTION
26.1 Submission
The courts of England have jurisdiction to settle any disputes in connection with this Agreement and accordingly submits to the jurisdiction of the English courts.
26.2 Service of Process
Without prejudice to any other mode of service, the Junior Creditor and each Investor:
(a) irrevocably appoints Law Debenture Corporate Services Limited (whose address is Fixxx Xxxxx, 000 Xxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxx XX0X 0XX) as its agent for service of process relating to any proceedings before the English courts in connection with this Agreement or any judgment in connection therewith;
(b) agrees that failure by a process agent to notify it of the process will not invalidate the proceedings concerned; and
(c) consents to the service of process relating to any such proceedings by prepaid posting of a copy of the process to its address for the time being applying for the purposes of Clause 20 (Notices).
26.3 Forum Convenience and Enforcement Abroad
Each party to this Agreement:
(a) waives objection to English courts on grounds of inconvenient forum or otherwise as regards proceedings in connection with this Agreement;
(b) agrees that a judgment or order of an English court in connection with this Agreement is conclusive and binding on it and may be enforced against it in the courts of any other jurisdiction; and
(c) to the fullest extent permitted by law, waives any right it may have in any jurisdiction to have any proceedings take the form of a trial by jury.
26.4 Non-exclusivity
Nothing in this Clause 26 limits the rights of a Senior Creditor or Hedging Bank to bring proceedings against a party to this Agreement in connection with this Agreement:
(a) in any other court of competent jurisdiction; or
(b) concurrently in more than one jurisdiction.
27. COUNTERPARTS
This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts and all of such counterparts taken together shall be deemed to constitute one and the same instrument.
This Agreement has been executed and delivered as a deed on the date stated at the beginning of this Agreement.
SCHEDULE 1
BERMUDA
Fibras Limited
ENGLAND & WALES
Badger Publishing Limited (co no 2450040)
Cundell Group Holdings Limited (co no 2340016)
Fishergate Properties Limited (co no 273294)
Norcor Holdings Limited (co no 2352247)
Norwich Corrugated Board Limited (co no 1021052)
Smurfit Communications UK Limited (co no 2322609)
Smurfit Communications (GB) Limited (co no 964972)
Smurfit Investments UK Limited (co no 2014441)
Smurfit UK Limited (co no 1017013)
Xxxx Packaging Limited (co no 2891814)
Smurfit Corrugated UK Limited (co no 700242)
Smurfit Corrugated Holdings (co no 1763645)
GERMANY
XX Xxxxx Papier und Papierfabrik GmbH & Co KG
Papierverwaltungsgesellschaft Wrexen GmbH
Smurfit Holdings GmbH
Wellit Wellenpappenfabrik Verwaltungs GmbH
Wellit Wellenpappenfabrik GmbH & Co
Schneverdinger Wellpappenwek GmbH
Smurfit Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG
Wellpappenwerk Waren GmbH
A.H. Xxxxxx Xxxxx Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung
Smurfit Europa Carton GmbH
Smurfit Schneverdinger Wellpappenwerk GmbH
GIBRALTAR
Wilshaw Investments Limited
IRELAND
Jefferson Smurfit Group Limited (formerly MDCP Acquisitions Limited) (co no 357957)
JSG Funding PLC (formerly MDP Acquisitions PLC) (co no 357958)
JSG Acquisitions (formerly MDCP Acquisitions I) (co no 358039)
Amisfield Limited (co no 145951)
Belgray Holdings (co no 55866)
Crayside Limited (co no 321264)
Damous Limited (co no 321264)
Gweebarra Limited (co 45075)
Xxxxxxx Holdings (co no 63551)
Iona Print Limited (co no 39529)
Smurfit Packaging Corporation Limited (co no 8610)
Jefferson Smurfit & Sons Limited (co no 7345)
Smurfit Capital (co no 177324)
Smurfit Capital Funding Limited (co no 239631)
Smurfit Capital Leasing (co no 224165)
Smurfit International Limited (co no 45909)
Smurfit Investments (Ireland) Limited (co no 32153)
Smurfit Ireland Limited (co no 2263)
Smurfit News Press Limited (co 319020)
Smurfit Services Limited (co no 88814)
The Kildare Hotel & Country Club Limited (co no 139531)
Smurfit Corrugated Ireland (co no 49977)
Central Waste Paper Company Limited (co no 66062)
Brenchly Limited (co no 8628)
Claystoke Limited (co no 325480)
Margrave Investments Limited (co no 363510)
MEXICO
Grupo Smurfit México S.A. de C.V.
Smurfit Carton y Papel de México S.A. de C.V.
NETHERLANDS
Packaging Investments Holdings (PIH) BV
Packaging Investments International (PII) BV
Packaging Investments Netherlands (PIN) BV
Smurfit Corrugated BV
Smurfit Holdings BV
Smurfit International BV
Smurfit Investments BV
SWEDEN
Smurfit Holdings AB
Smurfit Munksjö Aspa Xxxx XX
Smurfit Munksjö Paper AB
Smurfit Munksjö Packaging AB
Smurfit Munksjö Lagamill AB
Smurfit Munksjö Hygien AB
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SCHEDULE 3
THIS DEED dated [ ], [ ] is supplemental to (a) a priority agreement (the First Priority Agreement) dated 16 September 2002 between, inter alia, MDCP Acquisitions plc (now Jefferson Smurfit Group Limited) as the Parent and certain of its Subsidiaries as Obligors, the Investors, the Junior Creditor, the Spanish Bond Creditors, the Hedging Banks, the Senior Creditors, the Bond Trustee and Deutsche Bank AG London as Security Agent and Senior Agent, (b) a priority agreement (the Additional Notes Priority Agreement) dated 14th February 2003 between the same parties and (c) a priority agreement (together with the First Priority Agreement and the Additional Notes Priority Agreement, the Priority Agreements) dated 31st January 2005 between the same parties.
Words and expressions defined in the Priority Agreements have the same meaning when used in this Deed.
[Name of new Obligor/Senior Creditor/Hedging Bank/Junior Creditor/Investor/Senior Agent/ Security Agent/Bond Trustee] hereby agrees with each other person who is or who becomes a party to the Priority Agreements that with effect on and from the date hereof it will be bound by the Priority Agreements as [a[n]/the] *[Obligor/Senior Creditor/Hedging Bank /Junior Creditor/Senior Agent/Security Agent/Investor/Bond Trustee] as if it had been party originally to the Priority Agreements in that capacity and that it shall perform all of the undertakings and agreements set out in the Priority Agreements and given by [a[n]/the] *[Obligor/Senior Creditor/Hedging Bank /Junior Creditor/Senior Agent/Security Agent/Investor/Bond Trustee].
[The details of Hedging Documents and Hedging Debt covered by this Deed is as follows [ ]].
The address for notices of *[Obligor/Senior Creditor/Hedging Bank/Junior Creditor/Senior Agent/Security Agent/Investor/Bond Trustee] for the purposes of the Priority Agreements is:
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This document takes effect as a deed notwithstanding that the Security Agent only executes under hand.
This Deed is governed by English law.
[Insert appropriate execution language]
*[ ] Delete as applicable
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