AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT among PG&E CORPORATION, as Borrower, The Several Lenders from Time to Time Parties Hereto, BNP PARIBAS, as Administrative Agent, DEUTSCHE BANK SECURITIES INC., as Syndication Agent, and ABN AMRO BANK N.V., BANK OF...
Exhibit
10.1
Execution
Copy
$200,000,000
AMENDED
AND RESTATED
among
PG&E
CORPORATION,
as
Borrower,
The
Several Lenders from Time to Time Parties Hereto,
BNP
PARIBAS,
as
Administrative Agent,
DEUTSCHE
BANK SECURITIES INC.,
as
Syndication Agent,
and
ABN
AMRO BANK N.V., BANK OF AMERICA, N.A. and BARCLAYS BANK Plc,
as
Documentation Agents
Dated
as of February 26, 0000
XXXX
XX XXXXXXX SECURITIES LLC
and
BARCLAYS
CAPITAL,
as
Joint Lead Arrangers and
Joint
Bookrunners
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SECTION
1.
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DEFINITIONS
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1
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1.1
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Defined
Terms
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1
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1.2
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Other
Definitional Provisions
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16
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SECTION
2.
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AMOUNT
AND TERMS OF COMMITMENTS
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17
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2.1
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Commitments
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17
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2.2
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Procedure
for Revolving Loan Borrowing
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17
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2.3
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Commitment
Increases.
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18
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2.4
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Swingline
Commitment
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19
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2.5
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Procedure
for Swingline Borrowing; Refunding of Swingline Loans
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20
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2.6
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Facility
Fees, Utilization Fees, etc
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21
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2.7
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Termination
or Reduction of Commitments; Extension of Termination Date
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22
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2.8
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Optional
Prepayments
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24
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2.9
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Conversion
and Continuation Options
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24
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2.10
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Limitations
on Eurodollar Tranches
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25
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2.11
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Interest
Rates and Payment Dates
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25
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2.12
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Computation
of Interest and Fees
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25
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2.13
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Inability
to Determine Interest Rate
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26
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2.14
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Pro
Rata Treatment and Payments; Notes
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26
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2.15
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Requirements
of Law
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27
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2.16
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Taxes
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29
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2.17
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Indemnity
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31
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2.18
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Change
of Lending Office
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31
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2.19
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Replacement
of Lenders
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31
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SECTION
3.
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LETTERS
OF CREDIT
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32
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3.1
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L/C
Commitment
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32
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3.2
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Procedure
for Issuance of Letters of Credit
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32
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3.3
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Fees
and Other Charges.
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33
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3.4
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L/C
Participations.
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33
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3.5
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Reimbursement
Obligation of the Borrower
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34
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3.6
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Obligations
Absolute
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35
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3.7
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Letter
of Credit Payments
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36
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3.8
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Applications
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36
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3.9
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Actions
of Issuing Lenders
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36
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3.10
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Borrower’s
Indemnification
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36
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3.11
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Lenders’
Indemnification
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37
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SECTION
4.
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REPRESENTATIONS
AND WARRANTIES
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37
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4.1
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Financial
Condition
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37
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4.2
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No
Change
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37
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4.3
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Existence;
Compliance with Law
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38
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4.4
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Power;
Authorization; Enforceable Obligations
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38
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4.5
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No
Legal Bar
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38
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4.6
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Litigation
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38
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4.7
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No
Default
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39
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4.8
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Taxes
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39
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4.9
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Federal
Regulations
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39
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4.10
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ERISA
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39
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4.11
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Investment
Company Act; Other Regulations
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40
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4.12
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Use
of Proceeds
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40
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4.13
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Environmental
Matters
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40
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4.14
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Accuracy
of Information, etc
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41
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4.15
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Regulatory
Matters
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41
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SECTION
5.
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CONDITIONS
PRECEDENT
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42
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5.1
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Conditions
to the Effective Date
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42
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5.2
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Conditions
to Each Credit Event
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43
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SECTION
6.
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AFFIRMATIVE
COVENANTS
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43
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6.1
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Financial
Statements
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43
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6.2
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Certificates;
Other Information
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44
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6.3
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Payment
of Taxes
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45
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6.4
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Maintenance
of Existence; Compliance
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45
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6.5
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Maintenance
of Property; Insurance
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45
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6.6
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Inspection
of Property; Books and Records; Discussions
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45
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6.7
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Notices
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46
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6.8
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Maintenance
of Licenses, etc
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46
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SECTION
7.
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NEGATIVE
COVENANTS
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46
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7.1
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Consolidated
Capitalization Ratio
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46
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7.2
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Liens
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46
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7.3
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Fundamental
Changes
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48
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7.4
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Ownership
of PG&E Utility Common Stock
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48
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SECTION
8.
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EVENTS
OF DEFAULT
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48
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SECTION
9.
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THE
AGENTS
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51
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9.1
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Appointment
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51
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9.2
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Delegation
of Duties
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51
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9.3
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Exculpatory
Provisions
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51
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9.4
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Reliance
by Administrative Agent
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52
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9.5
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Notice
of Default
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52
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9.6
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Non-Reliance
on Agents and Other Lenders
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52
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9.7
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Indemnification
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53
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9.8
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Agent
in Its Individual Capacity
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53
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9.9
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Successor
Administrative Agent
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53
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9.10
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Documentation
Agents and Syndication Agent
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54
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SECTION
10.
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MISCELLANEOUS
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54
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10.1
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Amendments
and Waivers
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54
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10.2
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Notices
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55
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10.3
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No
Waiver; Cumulative Remedies
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56
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10.4
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Survival
of Representations and Warranties
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57
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10.5
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Payment
of Expenses and Taxes
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57
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10.6
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Successors
and Assigns; Participations and Assignments
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58
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10.7
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Adjustments;
Set off
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61
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10.8
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Counterparts
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61
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10.9
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Severability
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62
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10.10
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Integration
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62
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10.11
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GOVERNING
LAW
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62
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10.12
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Submission
To Jurisdiction; Waivers
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62
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10.13
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Acknowledgments
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63
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10.14
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Confidentiality
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63
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10.15
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WAIVERS
OF JURY TRIAL
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63
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10.16
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USA
Patriot Act
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64
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10.17
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Judicial
Reference
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64
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SCHEDULES:
1.1A Commitments
EXHIBITS:
A Form
of New Lender Supplement
B Form
of Commitment Increase Supplement
C Form
of Compliance Certificate
D Form
of Closing Certificate
E Form
of Assignment and Assumption
F Form
of Legal Opinion of Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx & Xxxxxxxxx LLP
G Form
of Exemption Certificate
H Form
of Revolving Note
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AMENDED
AND RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT (this “Agreement”), dated as of February
26, 2007, among PG&E CORPORATION, a California corporation (the
“Borrower”), the several banks and other financial institutions or
entities from time to time parties to this Agreement (the “Lenders”),
BANC OF AMERICA SECURITIES LLC and BARCLAYS CAPITAL, a division of BARCLAYS
BANK
plc, as joint lead arrangers and joint bookrunners (together and in such
capacities, the “Arrangers”), DEUTSCHE BANK SECURITIES INC., as
syndication agent (in such capacity, the “Syndication Agent”), ABN AMRO
BANK N.V., BANK OF AMERICA, N.A. and BARCLAYS BANK Plc, as documentation agents
(together and in such capacities, the “Documentation Agents”), and BNP
PARIBAS (“BNP”), as administrative agent (in such capacity, together with
any successor thereto, the “Administrative Agent”).
W
I T N E S S E T H:
WHEREAS,
the Borrower, the Administrative Agent, the Syndication Agent, BNP and Deutsche
Bank Securities Inc., as joint lead arrangers and joint bookrunners, and certain
of the Lenders have previously entered into a Credit Agreement, dated as of
December 4, 2004, as amended by the First Amendment, dated as of April 8, 2005
(collectively, the “Existing Credit Agreement”), pursuant to which such
Lenders made available to the Borrower a revolving credit facility, swingline
credit facility and letter of credit facility; and
WHEREAS,
the Borrower, the Administrative Agent, the Syndication Agent, the Arrangers
and
the Lenders wish to amend and restate the Existing Credit Agreement upon the
terms and conditions set forth herein;
NOW,
THEREFORE, IT IS AGREED THAT the Existing Credit Agreement shall be amended
and
restated in its entirety to read as follows:
SECTION
1. DEFINITIONS
1.1 Defined
Terms. As used in this Agreement, the terms listed in this
Section 1.1
shall have the respective meanings set forth in this Section 1.1.
“ABR”: for
any day, a rate per annum (rounded upwards, if necessary, to the next 1/16
of
1%) equal to the greater of (a) the Base Rate in effect on such day and (b)
the
Federal Funds Effective Rate in effect on such day plus½ of
1%. For purposes hereof, “Base Rate” shall mean the rate of
interest per annum publicly announced from time to time by the Administrative
Agent as its base rate in effect at its principal office in New York City (the
Base Rate not being intended to be the lowest rate of interest charged by the
Administrative Agent in connection with extensions of credit to
debtors). Any change in the ABR due to a change in the Base Rate or
the Federal Funds Effective Rate shall be effective as of the opening of
business on the effective day of such change in the Base Rate or the Federal
Funds Effective Rate, respectively.
“ABR
Loans”: Loans the rate of interest applicable to which is based
upon the ABR.
“Act”:
as defined in Xxxxxxx 00.00.
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“Administrative
Agent”: as defined in the preamble hereto.
“Agents”: the
collective reference to the Syndication Agent, the Documentation Agents and
the
Administrative Agent.
“Agreement”: as
defined in the preamble hereto.
“Applicable
Margin”: for any day, the applicable rate per annum set forth
below opposite the Applicable Rating Level for such day:
Applicable
Rating
Level
|
Applicable
Margin
for
ABR
Loans
|
Applicable
Margin
for
Eurodollar
Loans
|
1
|
0%
|
0.105%
|
2
|
0%
|
0.150%
|
3
|
0%
|
0.190%
|
4
|
0%
|
0.280%
|
5
|
0%
|
0.360%
|
6
|
0%
|
0.425%
|
7
|
0%
|
0.600%
|
“Applicable
Rating”: shall be the rating announced by S&P and/or Xxxxx’x, as the
case may be, in respect of the Senior Debt of the PG&E Utility unless
both S&P and Xxxxx’x provides a rating in respect of the Senior Debt
of the Borrower, in which case the Applicable Rating shall be the rating
announced by S&P and/or Xxxxx’x, as the case may be, in respect of the
Senior Debt of the Borrower.
“Applicable
Rating
Level”: (a) if an Applicable Rating of a rating agency is
determined by reference to the Senior Debt of the PG&E Utility, the
Applicable Rating Level shall be the numeric level immediately below the numeric
level opposite such Applicable Rating in the grid below (unless the numeric
level opposite the Applicable Rating of the Senior Debt of the PG&E Utility
is level 7, in which case the Applicable Rating Level shall be level 7) and
(b)
if an Applicable Rating of a rating agency is determined by reference to the
Senior Debt of the Borrower, the Applicable Rating Level shall be the numeric
level opposite such Applicable Rating in the grid below; provided,
however, in the event the Applicable Ratings of S&P and Xxxxx’x are
in different numeric levels set forth in the grid below, the higher of the
two
Applicable Ratings (i.e., the Applicable Rating set forth in the grid below
opposite the lower numerical level number) shall govern. In the event
that, at any time, an Applicable Rating is not available from one of such rating
agencies, the Applicable Rating Level shall be determined on the sole basis
of
the Applicable Rating from the other rating agency. In the event that, at any
time, ratings from each such rating agency are not available for companies
generally, the Applicable Rating Level shall be determined on the basis of
the
last Applicable Rating(s) made available. In the event that, at any
time, Applicable Ratings are not available for the Senior Debt of the PG&E
Utility and the Borrower but are generally available for other companies, then
the Applicable Rating Level shall be numeric level 7.
3
Applicable
Rating for
Senior
Debt of the Borrower
|
Applicable
Rating for
Senior
Debt of the PG&E Utility
|
|||
Applicable
Rating
Level
|
Xxxxx’x
|
S&P
|
Xxxxx’x
|
S&P
|
Level
1
|
A1
or higher
|
A+
or higher
|
A1
or higher
|
A+
or higher
|
Level
2
|
A2
|
A
|
A2
|
A
|
Xxxxx
0
|
X0
|
X-
|
X0
|
X-
|
Xxxxx
0
|
Xxx0
|
BBB+
|
Baa1
|
BBB+
|
Xxxxx
0
|
Xxx0
|
XXX
|
Xxx0
|
BBB
|
Xxxxx
0
|
Xxx0
|
XXX-
|
Xxx0
|
XXX-
|
Level
7
|
Ba1
or lower
|
BB+
or lower
|
Ba1
or lower
|
BB+
or lower
|
“Application”: an
application, in such form as the relevant Issuing Lender may reasonably specify
from time to time, requesting such Issuing Lender to issue a Letter of
Credit.
“Arrangers”: as
defined in the preamble hereto.
“Assignee”: as
defined in Section 10.6(b).
“Assignment
and Assumption”: an Assignment and Assumption, substantially in
the form of Exhibit E.
“Available
Commitment”: as to any Lender at any time, an amount equal to the
excess, if any, of (a) such Lender’s Commitment then in effect over (b)
such Lender’s Extensions of Credit then outstanding.
“Beneficial
Owner”: as defined in Rule 13d-3 and Rule 13d-5 under the
Exchange Act, except that in calculating the beneficial ownership of any
particular “person” (as that term is used in Sections 13(d) and 14(d) of the
Exchange Act), such “person” will be deemed to have beneficial ownership of all
securities that such “person” has the right to acquire by conversion or exercise
of other securities, whether such right is currently exercisable or is
exercisable only upon the occurrence of a subsequent condition. The terms
“Beneficially Owns” and “Beneficially Owned” have correlative
meanings.
“Benefitted
Lender”: as defined in Section 10.7(a).
“Board”: the
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System of the United States (or any
successor).
“Borrower”: as
defined in the preamble hereto.
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“Borrowing
Date”: any Business Day specified by the Borrower as a date on
which the Borrower requests the Lenders to make Loans hereunder.
“Business”: as
defined in Section 4.13(b).
“Business
Day”: a day other than a Saturday, Sunday or other day on which
commercial banks in New York City or San Francisco, California are authorized
or
required by law to close, provided, that with respect to notices and
determinations in connection with, and payments of principal and interest on,
Eurodollar Loans, such day is also a day for trading by and between banks in
Dollar deposits in the London interbank eurodollar market.
“Capital
Stock”: any and all shares, interests, participations or other
equivalents (however designated) of capital stock of a corporation, any and
all
equivalent ownership interests in a Person (other than a corporation) and any
and all warrants, rights or options to purchase any of the
foregoing.
“Change
of Control”: (a) any person or group (within the meaning of the Exchange Act
and the rules of the SEC thereunder as of the Effective Date) shall become
the
Beneficial Owner of shares representing more than 30% of the voting power of
the
Borrower’s Capital Stock, or (b) occupation of a majority of the seats (other
than vacant seats) on the Borrower’s board of directors (the “Board”) by
persons who were neither nominated by the Board nor appointed by directors
so
nominated by the Board, provided that no event described in clauses (a)
or (b) shall constitute a change of control if after giving effect to such
event
the ratings by Xxxxx’x and S&P of the Borrower’s senior, unsecured,
non-credit enhanced debt shall be at least the higher of (a) Baa3 from Xxxxx’x
and BBB- from S&P and (b) the ratings by such rating agencies of such
debt in effect before the earlier of the occurrence or the public announcement
of such event.
“Code”: the
Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended from time to time.
“Commitment”: as
to any Lender, the obligation of such Lender, if any, to make Revolving Loans
and participate in Swingline Loans and Letters of Credit in an aggregate
principal and/or face amount not to exceed the amount set forth under the
heading “Commitment” opposite such Lender’s name on Schedule 1.1A
or in the Assignment and Assumption pursuant to which such Lender became a
party
hereto, as the same may be changed from time to time pursuant to the terms
hereof. The original amount of the Total Commitments is
$200,000,000.
“Commitment
Increase Notice”: as defined in Section 2.3(a)
.
“Commitment
Period”: the period from and including the Effective Date to the
Termination Date.
“Commonly
Controlled Entity”: an entity, whether or not incorporated, that
is under common control with the Borrower within the meaning of
Section 4001 of ERISA or is part of a group that includes the Borrower and
that is treated as a single employer under Section 414 of the
Code.
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“Compliance
Certificate”: a certificate duly executed by a Responsible
Officer substantially in the form of Exhibit B.
“Conduit
Lender”: any special purpose corporation organized and
administered by any Lender for the purpose of making Loans otherwise required
to
be made by such Lender and designated by such Lender in a written instrument;
provided, that the designation by any Lender of a Conduit Lender shall
not relieve the designating Lender of any of its obligations to fund a Loan
under this Agreement if, for any reason, its Conduit Lender fails to fund any
such Loan, and the designating Lender (and not the Conduit Lender) shall have
the sole right and responsibility to deliver all consents and waivers required
or requested under this Agreement with respect to its Conduit Lender, and
provided, further, that no Conduit Lender shall (a) be entitled to
receive any greater amount pursuant to Section 2.15, 2.16, 2.17,
or 10.5
than the designating Lender would have been entitled to receive in respect
of
the extensions of credit made by such Conduit Lender or (b) be deemed to have
any Commitment.
“Confidential
Information Memorandum”: the information memorandum dated January
2007, and furnished to certain Lenders in connection with the syndication of
the
Commitments, as supplemented by each and all Specified Exchange Act Filings
filed by the Borrower during the period from September 30, 2006 through the
date
of this Agreement.
“Consolidated
Capitalization”: on any date of determination, the sum of (a) Consolidated
Total Debt on such date, plus without duplication, (b)(i) the amounts set
forth opposite the captions “common shareholders’ equity” (or any similar
caption) and “preferred stock” (or any similar caption) on the consolidated
balance sheet, prepared in accordance with GAAP, of the Borrower and its
Subsidiaries as of such date and (ii) the outstanding principal amount of any
junior subordinated deferrable interest debentures or other similar securities
issued by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries after the Effective
Date.
“Consolidated
Capitalization Ratio” means, on any date of determination, the ratio of (a)
Consolidated Total Debt to (b) Consolidated Capitalization.
“Consolidated
Total Debt”: at any date, the aggregate principal amount of all
obligations of the Borrower and its Significant Subsidiaries at such date that
in accordance with GAAP would be classified as debt on a consolidated balance
sheet of the Borrower, and without duplication all Guarantee Obligations of
the
Borrower and its Significant Subsidiaries at such date in respect of obligations
of any other Person that in accordance with GAAP would be classified as debt
on
a consolidated balance sheet of such Person; provided that, the
determination of “Consolidated Total Debt” shall exclude, without duplication,
(a) the Securitized Bonds, (b) Indebtedness of the Borrower and its Significant
Subsidiaries in an amount equal to the amount of cash held as cash collateral
for any fully cash collateralized letter of credit issued for the account of
the
Borrower or any Significant Subsidiary, (c) imputed Indebtedness of the Borrower
or any Significant Subsidiary incurred in connection with power purchase
agreements, (d) any junior subordinated deferrable interest debentures or other
similar securities issued by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries after
the
Effective Date and (e) as of a date of determination, the amount of any
securities included within the caption “preferred stock” (or any similar
caption) on the consolidated balance sheet, prepared in accordance with GAAP,
of
the Borrower and its Subsidiaries as of such date.
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“Continuing
Lender”: as defined in Section 2.7.
“Contractual
Obligation”: as to any Person, any provision of any security
issued by such Person or of any agreement, instrument or other undertaking
to
which such Person is a party or by which it or any of its property is
bound.
“Credit
Event”: as defined in Section 5.2.
“Default”: any
of the events specified in Section 8, whether or not any requirement for the
giving of notice, the lapse of time, or both, has been satisfied.
“Disposition”: with
respect to any property, any sale, lease, sale and leaseback, assignment,
conveyance, transfer or other disposition thereof. The terms
“Dispose” and “Disposed of” shall have correlative
meanings.
“Documentation
Agents”: as defined in the preamble hereto.
“Dollars”
and “$”: dollars in lawful currency of the United
States.
“Effective
Date”: the date on which the conditions precedent set forth in
Section 5.1
shall have been satisfied or waived.
“Eligible
Assignee”: (a) any commercial bank or other financial institution
having a senior unsecured debt rating by Xxxxx’x of A3 or better and by S&P
of A- or better, which is domiciled in a country which is a member of the OECD
or (b) with respect to any Person referred to in the preceding clause (a),
any
other Person that is engaged in making, purchasing, holding or investing in
bank
loans and similar extensions of credit in the ordinary course of business all
of
the Capital Stock of which is owned, directly or indirectly, by such Person;
provided, that, in the case of clause (b), the Issuing Lender and the
Borrower shall have consented to the designation of such Person as an Eligible
Assignee (such consent of the Borrower not to be unreasonably
withheld).
“Environmental
Laws”: any and all foreign, Federal, state, local or municipal
laws, rules, orders, regulations, statutes, ordinances, codes, decrees,
requirements of any Governmental Authority or other Requirements of Law
(including common law) regulating, relating to or imposing liability or
standards of conduct concerning protection of human health or the environment,
as now or may at any time hereafter be in effect.
“ERISA”: the
Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended from time to
time.
“Eurocurrency
Liabilities”: as defined in Regulation D of the
Board.
“Eurocurrency
Reserve Requirements”: of any Lender for any Interest Period as
applied to a Eurodollar Loan, the reserve percentage applicable during such
Interest Period (or if more than one such percentage shall be so applicable,
the
daily average of such percentages for those days in such Interest Period during
any such percentage shall be so applicable) under any regulations of the Board
or other Governmental Authority having jurisdiction with respect to
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determining
the maximum reserve requirement (including basic, supplemental and emergency
reserves) for such Lender with respect to liabilities or assets consisting
of or
including Eurocurrency Liabilities having a term equal to such Interest
Period.
“Eurodollar
Base Rate”: with respect to each day during each Interest Period
pertaining to a Eurodollar Loan, the rate per annum determined on the basis
of
the rate for deposits in Dollars for a period equal to such Interest Period
commencing on the first day of such Interest Period appearing on Page 3750
of
the Telerate screen as of 11:00 A.M., London time, two Business Days prior
to
the beginning of such Interest Period. In the event that such rate
does not appear on Page 3750 of the Telerate screen (or otherwise on such
screen), the “Eurodollar Base Rate” shall be determined by reference to
such other comparable publicly available service for displaying eurodollar
rates
as may be selected by the Administrative Agent or, in the absence of such
availability, by reference to the rate at which the Administrative Agent is
offered Dollar deposits at or about 11:00A.M., New York City time, two Business
Days prior to the beginning of such Interest Period in the interbank eurodollar
market where its eurodollar and foreign currency and exchange operations are
then being conducted for delivery on the first day of such Interest Period
for
the number of days comprised therein.
“Eurodollar
Loans”: Loans the rate of interest applicable to which is based
upon the Eurodollar Rate.
“Eurodollar
Rate”: with respect to each day during each Interest Period
pertaining to a Eurodollar Loan, a rate per annum determined for such day in
accordance with the following formula (rounded upward to the nearest 1/100th of
1%):
Eurodollar
Base Rate
|
1.00
- Eurocurrency Reserve Requirements
|
“Eurodollar
Tranche”: the collective reference to Eurodollar Loans the then
current Interest Periods with respect to all of which begin on the same date
and
end on the same later date (whether or not such Loans shall originally have
been
made on the same day).
“Event
of Default”: any of the events specified in Section 8,
provided that any requirement for the giving of notice, the lapse of
time, or both, has been satisfied.
“Exchange
Act”: Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
“Existing
Credit Agreement”: has the meaning set forth in the first recital
paragraph.
“Existing
Issuing Lender”: BNP Paribas.
“Existing
Letters of Credit”: each of the letters of credit issued by the
Existing Issuing Lender under the Existing Credit Agreement and outstanding
on
the Effective Date.
“Extension
Notice”: as defined in Section 2.7(b).
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“Extensions
of Credit”: as to any Lender at any time, an amount equal to the
sum of (a) the aggregate principal amount of all Revolving Loans held by such
Lender then outstanding, (b) such Lender’s Percentage of the L/C Obligations
then outstanding and (c) such Lender’s Percentage of the aggregate principal
amount of Swingline Loans then outstanding.
“Facility
Fee Rate”: for any day, the rate per annum determined pursuant to
the grid set forth below, based upon the Applicable Rating Level for such
day:
Applicable
Rating
Level
|
Facility
Fee
Rate
|
1
|
0.045%
|
2
|
0.050%
|
3
|
0.060%
|
4
|
0.070%
|
5
|
0.090%
|
6
|
0.125%
|
7
|
0.150%
|
“Federal
Funds Effective Rate”: for any day, the weighted average of the
rates on overnight federal funds transactions with members of the Federal
Reserve System arranged by federal funds brokers, as published on the next
succeeding Business Day by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, or, if such
rate is not so published for any day that is a Business Day, the average of
the
quotations for the day of such transactions received by the Administrative
Agent
from three federal funds brokers of recognized standing selected by
it.
“Fee
Payment Date”: (a) the fifth Business Day following the last day
of each March, June, September and December during the Commitment Period, (b)
the last day of the Commitment Period and (c) the last day of each March, June,
September and December after the last day of the Commitment Period, so long
as
any principal amount of the Loans or any Reimbursement Obligations remain
outstanding after the last day of the Commitment Period.
“FPA”: the
Federal Power Act, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated
thereunder.
“Funding
Office”: the office of the Administrative Agent specified in
Section 10.2
or such other office as may be specified from time to time by the Administrative
Agent as its funding office by written notice to the Borrower and the
Lenders.
“GAAP”: generally
accepted accounting principles in the United States as in effect from time
to
time, except as noted below. In the event that any “Change in
Accounting Principles” (as defined below) shall occur and such change results in
a change in the method of calculation of financial covenants, standards or
terms
in this Agreement, then, upon the request of the Borrower or the Required
Lenders, the Borrower and the Administrative Agent agree to enter into
negotiations in order to amend such provisions of this Agreement so as to
reflect equitably such Change in Accounting Principles with the desired result
that the criteria for evaluating the Borrower’s financial condition shall be the
same after such Change in Accounting
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Principles
as if such Change in Accounting Principles had not been made. Until
such time as such an amendment shall have been executed and delivered by the
Borrower, the Administrative Agent and the Required Lenders, all financial
covenants, standards and terms in this Agreement shall continue to be calculated
or construed as if such Change in Accounting Principles had not
occurred. “Change in Accounting Principles” refers to changes
in accounting principles required by the promulgation of any rule, regulation,
pronouncement or opinion by the Financial Accounting Standards Board of the
American Institute of Certified Public Accountants or any successor thereto,
the
SEC or, if applicable, the Public Company Accounting Oversight
Board.
“Governmental
Authority”: any nation or government, any state or other
political subdivision thereof, any agency, authority, instrumentality,
regulatory body, court, central bank or other entity exercising executive,
legislative, judicial, taxing, regulatory or administrative functions of or
pertaining to government, any securities exchange and any self-regulatory
organization (including the National Association of Insurance
Commissioners).
“Guarantee
Obligation”: as to any Person (the “guaranteeing person”),
any obligation, including a reimbursement, counterindemnity or similar
obligation, of the guaranteeing person that guarantees any Indebtedness, leases,
dividends or other obligations (the “primary obligations”) of any other
third Person (the “primary obligor”) in any manner, whether directly or
indirectly, including any obligation of the guaranteeing person, whether or
not
contingent, (i) to purchase any such primary obligation or any property
constituting direct or indirect security therefor, (ii) to advance or supply
funds (1) for the purchase or payment of any such primary obligation or (2)
to
maintain working capital or equity capital of the primary obligor or otherwise
to maintain the net worth or solvency of the primary obligor, (iii) to purchase
property, securities or services primarily for the purpose of assuring the
owner
of any such primary obligation of the ability of the primary obligor to make
payment of such primary obligation, (iv) otherwise to assure or hold harmless
the owner of any such primary obligation against loss in respect thereof or
(v)
to reimburse or indemnify an issuer of a letter of credit, surety bond or
guarantee issued by such issuer in respect of primary obligations of a primary
obligor other than the Borrower or any Significant Subsidiary; provided,
however, that the term Guarantee Obligation shall not include
endorsements of instruments for deposit or collection in the ordinary course
of
business. The amount of any Guarantee Obligation of any guaranteeing
person shall be deemed to be the lower of (a) an amount equal to the stated
or
determinable amount of the primary obligation in respect of which such Guarantee
Obligation is made and (b) the maximum amount for which such guaranteeing person
may be liable pursuant to the terms of the instrument embodying such Guarantee
Obligation, unless such primary obligation and the maximum amount for which
such
guaranteeing person may be liable are not stated or determinable, in which
case
the amount of such Guarantee Obligation shall be such guaranteeing person’s
reasonably anticipated liability in respect thereof as determined by the
Borrower in good faith.
“Indebtedness”: of
any Person at any date, without duplication, (a) all indebtedness of such Person
for borrowed money, (b) all obligations of such Person for the deferred purchase
price of property or services (other than trade payables, including under energy
procurement and transportation contracts, incurred in the ordinary course of
such Person’s business), (c) all obligations of such Person evidenced by notes,
bonds, debentures or other similar instruments, (d) all indebtedness created
or
arising under any conditional sale or
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other
title retention agreement with respect to property acquired by such Person
(even
though the rights and remedies of the seller or lender under such agreement
in
the event of default are limited to repossession or sale of such property),
(e)
all obligations of such Person as lessee which are capitalized in accordance
with GAAP, (f) all obligations of such Person, contingent or otherwise, as
an
account party or applicant under or in respect of acceptances, letters of
credit, surety bonds or similar arrangements (other than reimbursement
obligations, which are not due and payable on such date, in respect of
documentary letters of credit issued to provide for the payment of goods and
services in the ordinary course of business), (g) the liquidation value of
all
mandatorily redeemable preferred Capital Stock of such Person, (h) all Guarantee
Obligations of such Person in respect of obligations of the kind referred to
in
clauses (a) through (g) above, (i) all obligations of the kind referred to
in
clauses (a) through (h) above secured by (or for which the holder of such
obligation has an existing right, contingent or otherwise, to be secured by)
any
Lien on property (including accounts and contract rights) owned by such Person,
whether or not such Person has assumed or become liable for the payment of
such
obligation (provided, that if such Person is not liable for such
obligation, the amount of such Person’s Indebtedness with respect thereto shall
be deemed to be the lesser of the stated amount of such obligation and the
value
of the property subject to such Lien), and (j) for the purposes of Section
8(e)
only, all obligations of such Person in respect of Swap Agreements,
provided that Indebtedness as used in this Agreement shall exclude any
Non-Recourse Debt. The Indebtedness of any Person shall include the
Indebtedness of any other entity (including any partnership in which such Person
is a general partner) to the extent such Person is liable therefor as a result
of such Person’s ownership interest in or other relationship with such entity,
except to the extent the terms of such Indebtedness expressly provide that
such
Person is not liable therefor.
“Insolvency”: with
respect to any Multiemployer Plan, the condition that such Plan is insolvent
within the meaning of Section 4245 of ERISA.
“Insolvent”: pertaining
to a condition of Insolvency.
“Interest
Payment Date”: (a) as to any ABR Loan (other than any Swingline
Loan), the last day of each March, June, September and December to occur while
such Loan is outstanding and the final maturity date of such Loan, (b) as to
any
Eurodollar Loan having an Interest Period of three months or less, the last
day
of such Interest Period, (c) as to any Eurodollar Loan having an Interest Period
longer than three months, each day that is three months, or a whole multiple
thereof, after the first day of such Interest Period and the last day of such
Interest Period, (d) as to any Eurodollar Loan, the date of any repayment or
prepayment made in respect thereof and (e) as to any Swingline Loan, the day
that such Loan is required to be repaid.
“Interest
Period”: as to any Eurodollar Loan, (a) initially, the period
commencing on the borrowing or conversion date, as the case may be, with respect
to such Eurodollar Loan and ending one, two, three or six or (if available
to
all Lenders) nine or twelve months thereafter, as selected by the Borrower
in
its notice of borrowing or notice of conversion, as the case may be, given
with
respect thereto; and (b) thereafter, each period commencing on the last day
of
the next preceding Interest Period applicable to such Eurodollar Loan and ending
one, two, three or six or (if available to all Lenders) nine or twelve months
thereafter, as selected by the Borrower by irrevocable notice to the
Administrative Agent not later than 12:00 Noon, New York City
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time,
on the date that is three Business Days prior to the last day of the then
current Interest Period with respect thereto; provided that, all of the
foregoing provisions relating to Interest Periods are subject to the
following:
(i) if
any Interest Period would otherwise end on a day that is not a Business Day,
such Interest Period shall be extended to the next succeeding Business Day
unless the result of such extension would be to carry such Interest Period
into
another calendar month in which event such Interest Period shall end on the
immediately preceding Business Day;
(ii) the
Borrower may not select an Interest Period that would extend beyond the
Termination Date;
(iii) any
Interest Period that begins on the last Business Day of a calendar month (or
on
a day for which there is no numerically corresponding day in the calendar month
at the end of such Interest Period) shall end on the last Business Day of a
calendar month; and
(iv) the
Borrower shall select Interest Periods so as not to require a payment or
prepayment of any Eurodollar Loan during an Interest Period for such
Loan.
“Issuing
Lender”: (a) in respect of the Existing Letters of Credit, the
Existing Issuing Lender and (b) in respect of any Letters of Credit issued
hereunder on or after the Effective Date, (i) BNP or any affiliate thereof
selected by BNP with the consent of the Borrower (such consent not to be
unreasonably withheld) and (b) any other Lender selected by the Borrower as
an
Issuing Lender with the consent of such Lender and the Administrative
Agent.
“L/C
Commitment”: $100,000,000.
“L/C
Obligations”: at any time, an amount equal to the sum of (a) the
aggregate then undrawn and unexpired amount of the then outstanding Letters
of
Credit and (b) the aggregate amount of drawings under issued Letters of Credit
that have not then been reimbursed pursuant to Section 3.5.
“L/C
Participants”: in respect of any Letter of Credit, the collective
reference to all the Lenders other than the Issuing Lender that issued such
Letter of Credit.
“Lenders”: as
defined in the preamble hereto; provided, that unless the context
otherwise requires, each reference herein to the Lenders shall be deemed to
include any Conduit Lender.
“Letters
of Credit”: as defined in Section 3.1.
“Lien”: any
mortgage, pledge, hypothecation, assignment, deposit arrangement, encumbrance,
lien (statutory or other), charge or other security interest or any preference,
priority or other security agreement or preferential arrangement of any kind
or
nature whatsoever
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(including
any conditional sale or other title retention agreement and any capital lease
having substantially the same economic effect as any of the
foregoing).
“Loan”: any
loan made by any Lender pursuant to this Agreement, including Swingline Loans
and Revolving Loans.
“Loan
Documents”: this Agreement, the Notes and the Applications and,
in each case, any amendment, waiver, supplement or other modification to any
of
the foregoing.
“Material
Adverse Effect”: (a) a change in the business, property,
operations or financial condition of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries taken
as
a whole that could reasonably be expected to materially and adversely affect
the
Borrower’s ability to perform its obligations under the Loan Documents or (b) a
material adverse effect on the validity or enforceability of this Agreement
or
any of the other Loan Documents.
“Materials
of Environmental Concern”: any gasoline or petroleum (including
crude oil or any fraction thereof) or petroleum products or any hazardous or
toxic substances, materials or wastes, defined or regulated as such in or under
any Environmental Law, including asbestos, polychlorinated biphenyls and
urea-formaldehyde insulation.
“Moody’s”:
Xxxxx’x Investors Service, Inc.
“Multiemployer
Plan”: a Plan that is a multiemployer plan as defined in
Section 4001(a) (3) of ERISA.
“New
Revolving Credit Lender”: as defined in Section 2.3(b)
.
“Non-Excluded
Taxes”: as defined in Section 2.16(a).
“Non-Extending
Lender”: as defined in Section 2.7.
“Non-Recourse
Debt”: Indebtedness of the Borrower or any of its Significant
Subsidiaries that is incurred in connection with the acquisition, construction,
sale, transfer or other disposition of specific assets, to the extent recourse,
whether contractual or as a matter of law, for non-payment of such Indebtedness
is limited (a) to such assets, or (b) if such assets are (or are to be) held
by
a Subsidiary formed solely for such purpose, to such Subsidiary or the Capital
Stock of such Subsidiary.
“Non-U.S.
Lender”: as defined in Section 2.16(d).
“Notes”: as
defined in Section 2.14(g).
“Obligations”: the
unpaid principal of and interest on (including, without limitation, interest
accruing after the maturity of the Loans and Reimbursement Obligations and
interest accruing after the filing of any petition in bankruptcy, or the
commencement of any insolvency, reorganization or like proceeding, relating
to
the Borrower, whether or not a claim for post-filing or post-petition interest
is allowed in such proceeding) the Loans, the Reimbursement Obligations and
all
other obligations and liabilities of the Borrower to the
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Administrative
Agent or to the Issuing Lender or to any Lender, whether direct or indirect,
absolute or contingent, due or to become due, or now existing or hereafter
incurred, which may arise under, out of, or in connection with, this Agreement,
any other Loan Document or any other document made, delivered or given in
connection herewith or therewith, whether on account of principal, interest,
reimbursement obligations, fees, indemnities, costs, expenses (including,
without limitation, all fees, charges and disbursements of counsel to the
Administrative Agent or to any Lender that are required to be paid by the
Borrower pursuant hereto) or otherwise.
“OECD”:
the countries constituting the “Contracting Parties” to the Convention on the
Organisation For Economic Co-operation and Development, as such term is defined
in Article 4 of such Convention.
“Other
Taxes”: any and all present or future stamp or documentary taxes
or any other excise or property taxes, charges or similar levies arising from
any payment made hereunder or from the execution, delivery or enforcement of,
or
otherwise with respect to, this Agreement or any other Loan
Document.
“Participant”: as
defined in Section 10.6(c).
“PBGC”: the
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation established pursuant to Subtitle A of
Title
IV of ERISA (or any successor).
“Percentage”: as
to any Lender at any time, the percentage which such Lender’s Commitment then
constitutes of the Total Commitments or, at any time after the Commitments
shall
have expired or terminated, the percentage which the aggregate principal amount
of such Lender’s Revolving Loans then outstanding constitutes of the aggregate
principal amount of the Revolving Loans then outstanding, provided, that,
in the event that the Revolving Loans are paid in full prior to the reduction
to
zero of the Total Extensions of Credit, the Percentages shall be determined
in a
manner designed to ensure that the other outstanding Extensions of Credit shall
be held by the Lenders on a comparable basis.
“Person”: an
individual, partnership, corporation, limited liability company, business trust,
joint stock company, trust, unincorporated association, joint venture,
Governmental Authority or other entity of whatever nature.
“PG&E
Utility”: Pacific Gas and Electric Company, a California
corporation.
“PG&E
Utility Credit Agreement”: the $2,000,000,000 amended and
restated credit agreement, dated as of February 26, 2007, among PG&E
Utility, the lenders parties thereto, the syndication agent and the
documentation agents named therein and Citicorp North America, Inc., as
administrative agent (as amended, supplemented, restated or otherwise modified
from time to time).
“Plan”: at
a particular time, any employee benefit plan that is covered by ERISA and in
respect of which the Borrower or a Commonly Controlled Entity is (or, if such
plan were terminated at such time, would under Section 4069 of ERISA be
deemed to be) an “employer” as defined in Section 3(5) of
ERISA.
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“Properties”: as
defined in Section 4.13(a).
“Refunded
Swingline Loans”: as defined in Section 2.5.
“Register”: as
defined in Section 10.6(b).
“Regulation
U”: Regulation U of the Board as in effect from time to
time.
“Reimbursement
Obligation”: the obligation of the Borrower to reimburse each
Issuing Lender pursuant to Section 3.5
for amounts drawn under Letters of Credit issued by such Issuing
Lender.
“Reorganization”: with
respect to any Multiemployer Plan, the condition that such plan is in
reorganization within the meaning of Section 4241 of ERISA.
“Reportable
Event”: any of the events set forth in Section 4043(c) of
ERISA, other than those events as to which the thirty day notice period is
waived under subsections .27, .28, .29, .30, .31, .32, .34 or .35 of PBGC Reg.
§4043.
“Required
Lenders”: at any time, the holders of more than 50% of the Total
Commitments then in effect or, if the Commitments have been terminated, the
Total Extensions of Credit then outstanding.
“Requirement
of Law”: as to any Person, the Articles of Incorporation and
By-Laws or other organizational or governing documents of such Person, and
any
law, treaty, rule or regulation or determination of an arbitrator or a court
or
other Governmental Authority, in each case applicable to or binding upon such
Person or any of its property or to which such Person or any of its property
is
subject.
“Responsible
Officer”: the chief executive officer, president, chief financial
officer, treasurer or assistant treasurer of the Borrower, but in any event,
with respect to financial matters, the chief financial officer, treasurer or
assistant treasurer of the Borrower.
“Revolving
Credit Offered Increase Amount”: as defined in Section 2.3(a)
.
“Revolving
Credit Re-Allocation Date”: as defined in
Section 2.3(d).
“Revolving
Loans”: as defined in Section 2.1(a).
“S&P”: Standard
& Poor’s Ratings Services.
“SEC”: the
Securities and Exchange Commission, any successor thereto and any analogous
Governmental Authority.
“Securitized
Bonds”: any securitized bonds or similar asset-backed securities
that are non-recourse to PG&E Utility, are issued by a special purpose
subsidiary of PG&E Utility and are payable from a specific or dedicated rate
component, including the approximately $2,900,000,000 in rate reduction
certificates backed by transition property that were issued in
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and the approximately $2,700,000,000 in energy recovery bonds backed by energy
recovery property that PG&E Utility issued in 2005.
“Senior
Debt”: with respect to a Person means that Person’s senior
unsecured, non-credit enhanced debt.
“Significant
Subsidiary”: as defined in Article 1, Rule 1-02(w) of Regulation
S-X of the Exchange Act as of the Effective Date, provided that
notwithstanding the foregoing, none of PG&E Funding LLC, PG&E Accounts
Receivable LLC, PG&E Energy Recovery Funding LLC or any other special
purpose finance subsidiary shall constitute a Significant
Subsidiary. Unless otherwise qualified, all references to a
“Significant Subsidiary” or to “Significant Subsidiaries” in this Agreement
shall refer to a Significant Subsidiary or Significant Subsidiaries of the
Borrower.
“Single
Employer Plan”: any Plan that is covered by Title IV of ERISA,
but that is not a Multiemployer Plan.
“Specified
Exchange Act Filings”: the Borrower’s Form 10-K annual report for
the year ended December 31, 2005 and each and all of the Form 10-Ks, Form 10-Qs
and Form 8-Ks (and to the extent applicable proxy statements) filed by the
Borrower or the PG&E Utility with the SEC after December 31, 2005 and prior
to the date that is one Business Day before the date of this
Agreement.
“Subsidiary”: as
to any Person, a corporation, partnership, limited liability company or other
entity of which shares of stock or other ownership interests having ordinary
voting power (other than stock or such other ownership interests having such
power only by reason of the happening of a contingency) to elect a majority
of
the board of directors or other managers of such corporation, partnership or
other entity are at the time owned, or the management of which is otherwise
controlled, directly or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, or both,
by such Person. Unless otherwise qualified, all references to a
“Subsidiary” or to “Subsidiaries” in this Agreement shall refer to a Subsidiary
or Subsidiaries of the Borrower.
“Swap
Agreement”: any agreement with respect to any swap, forward,
future or derivative transaction or option or similar agreement involving,
or
settled by reference to, one or more rates, currencies, commodities, equity
or
debt instruments or securities, or economic, financial or pricing indices or
measures of economic, financial or pricing risk or value or any similar
transaction or any combination of these transactions; provided that no
phantom stock or similar plan providing for payments only on account of services
provided by current or former directors, officers, employees or consultants
of
the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries shall be a “Swap
Agreement”.
“Swingline
Commitment”: the obligation of the Swingline Lender to make
Swingline Loans pursuant to Section 2.4
in an aggregate principal amount at any one time outstanding not to exceed
$100,000,000.
“Swingline
Lender”: BNP, in its capacity as the lender of Swingline
Loans.
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“Swingline
Loans”: as defined in Section 2.4.
“Swingline
Participation Amount”: as defined in Section 2.5.
“Syndication
Agent”: as defined in the preamble hereto.
“Termination
Date”: the date that is the fifth anniversary of the Effective
Date or such later date as may be determined pursuant to Section 2.7(b)
or such earlier date as otherwise determined pursuant to Section 2.7.
“Total
Commitments”: at any time, the aggregate amount of the
Commitments of all Lenders at such time.
“Total
Extensions of Credit”: at any time, the aggregate amount of the
Extensions of Credit of all Lenders at such time.
“Transferee”: any
Assignee or Participant.
“Type”: as
to any Loan, its nature as an ABR Loan or a Eurodollar Loan.
“United
States”: the United States of America.
“Utilization
Fee Rate”: for any day, 0.050% per annum.
1.2 Other
Definitional Provisions and Interpretive Provisions. (a) Unless
otherwise specified therein, all terms defined in this Agreement shall have
the
defined meanings when used in the other Loan Documents or any certificate or
other document made or delivered pursuant hereto or thereto.
(b) As
used herein and, except as otherwise provided therein, in the other Loan
Documents, and any certificate or other document made or delivered pursuant
hereto or thereto, (i) accounting terms relating to the Borrower and its
Significant Subsidiaries defined in Section 1.1
and accounting terms partly defined in Section 1.1,
to the extent not defined, shall have the respective meanings given to them
under GAAP, (ii) the words “include”, “includes” and “including” shall be deemed
to be followed by the phrase “without limitation”, (iii) the word “incur” shall
be construed to mean incur, create, issue, assume or become liable in respect
of
(and the words “incurred” and “incurrence” shall have correlative meanings),
(iv) the words “asset” and “property” shall be construed to have the same
meaning and effect and to refer to any and all tangible and intangible assets
and properties, including cash, Capital Stock, securities, revenues, accounts,
leasehold interests and contract rights, and (v) references to agreements or
other Contractual Obligations shall, unless otherwise specified, be deemed
to
refer to such agreements or Contractual Obligations as amended, supplemented,
restated or otherwise modified from time to time.
(c) The
words “hereof”, “herein” and “hereunder” and words of similar import, when used
in this Agreement, shall refer to this Agreement as a whole and not to any
particular provision of this Agreement, and Section, Schedule and Exhibit
references are to this Agreement unless otherwise specified.
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(d) The
meanings given to terms defined herein shall be equally applicable to both
the
singular and plural forms of such terms.
(e) The
Borrower shall not be required to perform, nor shall it be required to guarantee
the performance of, any of the affirmative covenants set forth in Section 6
that apply to any of its Significant Subsidiaries nor shall any of the
Borrower’s Significant Subsidiaries be required to perform, nor shall any of
such Significant Subsidiaries be required to guarantee the performance of,
any
of the Borrower’s affirmative covenants set forth in Section 6 or any of
the affirmative covenants set forth in Section 6 that apply to any other
Significant Subsidiary; provided, that nothing in this
Section 1.2(e) shall prevent the occurrence of a Default or an Event of
Default arising out of the Borrower’s failure to cause any Significant
Subsidiary to comply with the provisions of this Agreement applicable to such
Significant Subsidiary.
SECTION
2. AMOUNT
AND TERMS OF COMMITMENTS
2.1 Commitments. (a)
Subject to the terms and conditions hereof, each Lender severally agrees to
make
revolving credit loans (“Revolving Loans”) to the Borrower from time to
time on or after the Effective Date and during the Commitment Period in an
aggregate principal amount at any one time outstanding which, when added to
such
Lender’s Percentage of the sum of (i) the L/C Obligations then outstanding and
(ii) the aggregate principal amount of the Swingline Loans then outstanding,
does not exceed the amount of such Lender’s Commitment. During the
Commitment Period, the Borrower may use the Commitments by borrowing, prepaying
the Revolving Loans in whole or in part, and reborrowing, all in accordance
with
the terms and conditions hereof. The Revolving Loans may from time to
time be Eurodollar Loans or ABR Loans, as determined by the Borrower and
notified to the Administrative Agent in accordance with Sections 2.2
and 2.9.
(b) The
Borrower shall repay all outstanding Revolving Loans on the Termination
Date.
2.2 Procedure
for Revolving Loan Borrowing. The Borrower may borrow under the
Commitments during the Commitment Period on any Business Day, provided
that the Borrower shall give the Administrative Agent irrevocable notice (which
notice must be received by the Administrative Agent prior to
12:00 Noon, New York City time, (a) three Business Days prior to the
requested Borrowing Date, in the case of Eurodollar Loans, or (b) one Business
Day prior to the requested Borrowing Date, in the case of ABR Loans) specifying
(i) the amount and Type of Revolving Loans to be borrowed, (ii) the requested
Borrowing Date and (iii) in the case of Eurodollar Loans, the respective amounts
of each such Type of Loan and the respective lengths of the initial Interest
Period therefor. Each borrowing under the Commitments shall be in an
amount equal to $1,000,000 or a whole multiple of $500,000 in excess thereof
(or, if the then aggregate Available Commitments are less than $1,000,000,
such
lesser amount); provided, that the Swingline Lender may request, on
behalf of the Borrower, borrowings under the Commitments that are ABR Loans
in
other amounts pursuant to Section 2.5. Upon
receipt of any such notice from the Borrower, the Administrative Agent shall
promptly notify each Lender thereof. Each Lender will make the amount
of its pro rata share of each borrowing available to the Administrative
Agent for the account of the Borrower at the Funding Office prior to 12:00
Noon,
New York City time, on the Borrowing Date requested by the Borrower in
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immediately
available to the Administrative Agent. Such borrowing will then be
made available to the Borrower by the Administrative Agent crediting the account
of the Borrower on the books of such office with the aggregate of the amounts
made available to the Administrative Agent by the Lenders and in like funds
as
received by the Administrative Agent.
2.3 Commitment
Increases.
(a) In
the event that the Borrower wishes to increase the Total Commitments at any
time
when no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing (or shall
result of such increase), it shall notify the Administrative Agent in writing
of
the amount (the “Revolving Credit Offered Increase Amount”) of such
proposed increase (such notice, a “Commitment Increase Notice”) which
shall be in a minimum amount equal to $5,000,000 and shall not exceed, in the
aggregate, $100,000,000. The Borrower shall offer each of the Lenders
the opportunity to provide such Lender’s Percentage of the Revolving Credit
Offered Increase Amount, and if any Lender declines such offer, in whole or
in
part, the Borrower may offer such declined amount to (i) other Lenders and/or
(ii) other banks, financial institutions or other entities with the consent
of
the Administrative Agent and, unless any such other bank, financial institution
or other entity would qualify as an Eligible Assignee, the Issuing Lender (which
consents of the Administrative Agent and the Issuing Lender shall not be
unreasonably withheld or delayed). The Commitment Increase Notice
shall specify the Lenders and/or banks, financial institutions or other entities
that will be requested to provide such Revolving Credit Offered Increase
Amount. The Borrower or, if requested by the Borrower, the
Administrative Agent will notify such Lenders, and/or banks, financial
institutions or other entities of such offer.
(b) Any
additional bank, financial institution or other entity which the Borrower
selects to offer a portion of the increased Total Commitments and which elects
to become a party to this Agreement and obtain a Commitment in an amount so
offered and accepted by it pursuant to Section 2.3(a) shall execute a new
lender supplement with the Borrower, the Issuing Lender and the Administrative
Agent, substantially in the form of Exhibit A, whereupon such bank, financial
institution or other entity (herein called a “New Revolving Credit
Lender”) shall become a Lender for all purposes and to the same extent as if
originally a party hereto and shall be bound by and entitled to the benefits
of
this Agreement, provided that the Commitment of any such New Revolving
Credit Lender shall be in an amount not less than $5,000,000.
(c) Any
Lender which accepts an offer to it by the Borrower to increase its Commitment
pursuant to Section 2.3(a) shall, in each case, execute a Commitment
Increase Supplement with the Borrower, the Issuing Lender and the Administrative
Agent, substantially in the form of Exhibit B, whereupon such Lender shall
be
bound by and entitled to the benefits of this Agreement with respect to the
full
amount of its Commitment as so increased.
(d) If
any bank, financial institution or other entity becomes a New Revolving Credit
Lender pursuant to Section 2.3(b) or any Lender’s Commitment is increased
pursuant to Section 2.3(c), additional Revolving Loans made on or after the
effectiveness thereof (the “Revolving Credit Re-Allocation Date”) shall
be made pro rata based on the Percentages in effect on and after such
Revolving Credit Re-Allocation Date (except to the extent that any such pro
rata borrowings would result in any Lender making an aggregate principal
amount of
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Revolving
Loans in excess of its Commitment, in which case such excess amount will be
allocated to, and made by, such New Revolving Credit Lenders and/or Lenders
with
such increased Commitments to the extent of, and pro rata based on,
their respective Commitments otherwise available for Revolving Loans), and
continuations of Eurodollar Loans outstanding on such Revolving Credit
Re-Allocation Date shall be effected by repayment of such Eurodollar Loans
on
the last day of the Interest Period applicable thereto and the making of new
Eurodollar Loans pro rata based on such new Percentages. In
the event that on any such Revolving Credit Re-Allocation Date there is an
unpaid principal amount of ABR Loans, the Borrower shall make prepayments
thereof and borrowings of ABR Loans so that, after giving effect thereto, the
ABR Loans outstanding are held pro rata based on such new
Percentages. In the event that on any such Revolving Credit
Re-Allocation Date there is an unpaid principal amount of Eurodollar Loans,
such
Eurodollar Loans shall remain outstanding with the respective holders thereof
until the expiration of their respective Interest Periods (unless the Borrower
elects to prepay any thereof in accordance with the applicable provisions of
this Agreement), and interest on and repayments of such Eurodollar Loans will
be
paid thereon to the respective Lenders holding such Eurodollar Loans pro
rata based on the respective principal amounts thereof
outstanding.
(e) Notwithstanding
anything to the contrary in this Section 2.3, (i) no Lender shall have any
obligation to increase its Commitment unless it agrees to do so in its sole
discretion and unless the Administrative Agent and the Issuing Lender consent
to
such increase (which consents of the Administrative Agent and the Issuing Lender
shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed) and (ii) in no event shall any
transaction effected pursuant to this Section 2.3 (A) cause the Total
Commitments to exceed $300,000,000 or (B) occur at a time at which a Default
or
an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing.
(f) The
Administrative Agent shall have received on or prior to the Revolving Credit
Re-Allocation Date, for the benefit of the Lenders, (i) a legal opinion of
counsel to the Borrower covering such matters as are customary for transactions
of this type as may be reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent, which
opinions shall be substantially the same, to the extent appropriate, as the
opinions rendered by counsel to the Borrower on the Effective Date and (ii)
certified copies of resolutions of the board of directors of the Borrower
authorizing the Borrower to borrow the Revolving Credit Offered Increase
Amount.
2.4 Swingline
Commitment.
(a) Subject
to the terms and conditions hereof, the Swingline Lender agrees to make a
portion of the credit otherwise available to the Borrower under the Commitments
from time to time on or after the Effective Date during the Commitment Period
by
making swingline loans (“Swingline Loans”) to the Borrower;
provided that (i) the aggregate principal amount of Swingline Loans
outstanding at any time shall not exceed the Swingline Commitment then in effect
(notwithstanding that the Swingline Loans outstanding at any time, when
aggregated with the Swingline Lender’s other outstanding Revolving Loans, may
exceed the Swingline Commitment or the Swingline Lender’s Commitment then in
effect) and (ii) the Borrower shall not request, and the Swingline Lender shall
not make, any Swingline Loan if, after giving effect to the making of such
Swingline Loan, the aggregate amount of the Available Commitments of all Lenders
would be less than zero. During the Commitment Period, the Borrower
may use the
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Commitment by borrowing, repaying and reborrowing, all in accordance with the
terms and conditions hereof. Swingline Loans shall be ABR Loans
only.
(b) The
Borrower shall repay to the Swingline Lender the then unpaid principal amount
of
each Swingline Loan on or prior to the date that is the earlier of (i) 30 days
after the date such Swingline Loan is made and (ii) the Termination Date;
provided that on each date on which a Revolving Loan is borrowed, the
Borrower shall repay all Swingline Loans then outstanding.
2.5 Procedure
for Swingline Borrowing; Refunding of Swingline Loans. (a)
Whenever the Borrower wishes to borrow Swingline Loans it shall give the
Swingline Lender irrevocable telephonic notice confirmed promptly in writing
(which telephonic notice must be received by the Swingline Lender not later
than
1:00 P.M., New York City time, on the proposed Borrowing Date), specifying
(i)
the amount to be borrowed and (ii) the requested Borrowing Date (which shall
be
a Business Day during the Commitment Period). Each borrowing under
the Swingline Commitment shall be in an amount equal to $100,000 or a whole
multiple in excess thereof. Not later than 2:00 P.M., New York City
time, on the Borrowing Date specified in a notice in respect of Swingline Loans,
the Swingline Lender shall make available to the Administrative Agent at the
Funding Office an amount in immediately available funds equal to the amount
of
the Swingline Loan to be made by the Swingline Lender. The
Administrative Agent shall make the proceeds of such Swingline Loan available
to
the Borrower on such Borrowing Date by depositing such proceeds in the account
of the Borrower with the Administrative Agent on such Borrowing Date in
immediately available funds.
(b) The
Swingline Lender, at any time and from time to time in its sole and absolute
discretion may, on behalf of the Borrower (which hereby irrevocably directs
the
Swingline Lender to act on its behalf), on one Business Day’s notice given by
the Swingline Lender no later than 12:00 Noon, New York City time, request
each
Lender to make, and each Lender hereby agrees to make, a Revolving Loan, in
an
amount equal to such Lender’s Percentage of the aggregate amount of the
Swingline Loans (the “Refunded Swingline Loans”) outstanding on the date
of such notice, to repay the Swingline Lender. Each Lender shall make
the amount of such Revolving Loan available to the Administrative Agent at
the
Funding Office in immediately available funds, not later than 10:00A.M., New
York City time, one Business Day after the date of such notice. The
proceeds of such Revolving Loans shall be immediately made available by the
Administrative Agent to the Swingline Lender for application by the Swingline
Lender to the repayment of the Refunded Swingline Loans. The Borrower
irrevocably authorizes the Swingline Lender to charge the Borrower’s accounts
with the Administrative Agent (up to the amount available in each such account)
in order to immediately pay the amount of such Refunded Swingline Loans to
the
extent amounts received from the Lenders are not sufficient to repay in full
such Refunded Swingline Loans.
(c) If
prior to the time a Revolving Loan would have otherwise been made pursuant
to
Section 2.5(b),
one of the events described in Section 8(f) shall have occurred and be
continuing with respect to the Borrower or if for any other reason, as
determined by the Swingline Lender in its sole discretion, Revolving Loans
may
not be made as contemplated by Section 2.5(b),
each Lender shall, on the date such Revolving Loan was to have been made
pursuant to the notice referred to in Section 2.5(b),
purchase for cash an undivided participating
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interest
in the then outstanding Swingline Loans by paying to the Swingline Lender an
amount (the “Swingline Participation Amount”) equal to (i) such Lender’s
Percentage times (ii) the sum of the aggregate principal amount of
Swingline Loans then outstanding that were to have been repaid with such
Revolving Loans.
(d) Whenever,
at any time after the Swingline Lender has received from any Lender such
Lender’s Swingline Participation Amount, the Swingline Lender receives any
payment on account of the Swingline Loans, the Swingline Lender will distribute
to such Lender its Swingline Participation Amount (appropriately adjusted,
in
the case of interest payments, to reflect the period of time during which such
Lender’s participating interest was outstanding and funded and, in the case of
principal and interest payments, to reflect such Lender’s pro rata
portion of such payment if such payment is not sufficient to pay the principal
of and interest on all Swingline Loans then due); provided,
however, that in the event that such payment received by the Swingline
Lender is required to be returned, such Lender will return to the Swingline
Lender any portion thereof previously distributed to it by the Swingline
Lender.
(e) Each
Lender’s obligation to make the Loans referred to in Section 2.5(b)
and to purchase participating interests pursuant to Section 2.5(c)
shall be absolute and unconditional and shall not be affected by any
circumstance, including (i) any setoff, counterclaim, recoupment, defense or
other right that such Lender or the Borrower may have against the Swingline
Lender, the Borrower or any other Person for any reason whatsoever, (ii) the
occurrence or continuance of a Default or an Event of Default or the failure
to
satisfy any of the other conditions specified in Section 5, (iii) any adverse
change in the condition (financial or otherwise) of the Borrower, (iv) any
breach of this Agreement or any other Loan Document by the Borrower or any
other
Lender or (v) any other circumstance, happening or event whatsoever, whether
or
not similar to any of the foregoing.
2.6 Facility
Fees, Utilization Fees, etc. (a) The Borrower agrees to pay to
the Administrative Agent for the account of each Lender a facility fee for
the
period from and including the date hereof to the last day of the Commitment
Period, computed at the Facility Fee Rate on the Commitment of such Lender
during the period for which payment is made, payable quarterly in arrears on
each Fee Payment Date, commencing on the first such date to occur after the
date
hereof. In addition, if the principal amount of any Loan, or any
Reimbursement Obligations, shall remain outstanding and unpaid after the last
day of the Commitment Period, the Borrower agrees to pay to the Administrative
Agent, for the account of each Lender, a facility fee for the period from the
last day of the Commitment Period until the date on which such amounts are
repaid in full, computed at the Facility Fee Rate on such amounts, payable
quarterly in arrears on each Fee Payment Date, commencing on the first such
date
after the last day of the Commitment Period.
(b) If
the average daily aggregate principal amount of the Loans and L/C Obligations
outstanding for the calendar quarter preceding a Fee Payment Date (or such
shorter period beginning with the date hereof or ending with the Termination
Date) is greater than 50% of the daily average Total Commitments for such
calendar quarter or period, the Borrower agrees to pay to the Administrative
Agent for the account of each Lender a utilization fee at the applicable
Utilization Fee Rate on such average daily aggregate principal amount of the
Loans
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the L/C Obligations outstanding during such calendar quarter (or shorter
period), payable in arrears on each Fee Payment Date.
(c) The
Borrower agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent the fees in the amounts
and
on the dates as set forth in any written, duly executed fee agreements with
the
Administrative Agent and to perform any other obligations contained
therein.
2.7 Termination
or Reduction of Commitments; Extension of Termination Date. (a)
The Borrower shall have the right, upon not less than three Business Days’
notice to the Administrative Agent, to terminate the Commitments or, from time
to time, to reduce the amount of the Commitments; provided that no such
termination or reduction of Commitments shall be permitted if, after giving
effect thereto and to any prepayments of the Revolving Loans and Swingline
Loans
made on the effective date thereof, the Total Extensions of Credit would exceed
the Total Commitments. Any such reduction shall be in an amount equal
to $1,000,000, or a whole multiple thereof, and shall reduce permanently the
Commitments then in effect.
(b) The
Borrower may, by written notice to the Administrative Agent (such notice being
an “Extension Notice”) given no more frequently than once in each
calendar year, request the Lenders to consider an extension of the then
applicable Termination Date to a later date. The Administrative Agent
shall promptly transmit any Extension Notice to each Lender. Each
Lender shall notify the Administrative Agent whether it wishes to extend the
then applicable Termination Date not later than thirty days after the date
of
such Extension Notice, and any such notice given by a Lender to the
Administrative Agent, once given, shall be irrevocable as to such
Lender. Any Lender which does not expressly notify the Administrative
Agent prior to the expiration of such thirty-day period that it wishes to so
extend the then applicable Termination Date shall be deemed to have rejected
the
Borrower’s request for extension of such Termination Date. Lenders
consenting to extend the then applicable Termination Date are hereinafter
referred to as “Continuing Lenders”, and Lenders declining to consent to
extend such Termination Date (or Lenders deemed to have so declined) are
hereinafter referred to as “Non-Extending Lenders”. If the
Required Lenders have elected (in their sole and absolute discretion) to so
extend the Termination Date, the Administrative Agent shall promptly notify
the
Borrower of such election by the Required Lenders, and effective on the date
which is thirty days after the date of such notice by the Administrative Agent
to the Borrower, the Termination Date shall be automatically and immediately
so
extended as to the Continuing Lenders. No extension will be permitted
hereunder without the consent of the Required Lenders. Upon the
delivery of an Extension Notice and upon the extension of the Termination Date
pursuant to this Section, the Borrower shall be deemed to have represented
and
warranted on and as of the date of such Extension Notice and the effective
date
of such extension, as the case may be, that no Default or Event of Default
has
occurred and is continuing. Notwithstanding anything contained in
this Agreement to the contrary, no Lender shall have any obligation to extend
the Termination Date, and each Lender may at its option, unconditionally and
without cause, decline to extend the Termination Date.
(c) If
the Termination Date shall have been extended in accordance with this Section,
all references herein to the “Termination Date” (except with respect to any
Non-Extending Lender) shall refer to the Termination Date as so
extended.
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(d) If
any Lender shall determine (or be deemed to have determined) not to extend
the
Termination Date as requested by any Extension Notice given by the Borrower
pursuant to this Section, the Commitment of such Non-Extending Lender (including
the obligations of such Lender under Section 2.5
and 3.4)
shall terminate on the Termination Date without giving any effect to such
proposed extension, and the Borrower shall on such date pay to the
Administrative Agent, for the account of such Non-Extending Lender, the
principal amount of, and accrued interest on, such Non-Extending Lender’s Loans
and outstanding Reimbursement Obligations, together with any amounts payable
to
such Lender pursuant to Section 2.17
and any and all fees or other amounts owing to such Non-Extending Lender under
this Agreement; provided that if the Borrower has replaced such
Non-Extending Lender pursuant to paragraph (e)
below then the provisions of such paragraph shall apply. The Total
Commitments (but not, for the avoidance of doubt, except as hereinafter
provided, the L/C Commitment) shall be reduced by the amount of the Commitment
of such Non-Extending Lender to the extent the Commitment of such Non-Extending
Lender has not been transferred to one or more Continuing Lenders
pursuant to paragraph (e)
below, provided that, if the Total Commitments, after giving effect to
the reduction in the Total Commitments due to Non-Extending Lenders which are
not replaced pursuant to paragraph (e)
below, is less than the L/C Commitment, the L/C Commitment shall be reduced
by
an amount equal to such excess.
(e) A
Non-Extending Lender shall be obligated, at the request of the Borrower and
subject to (i) payment by the successor Lender described below to the
Administrative Agent for the account of such Non-Extending Lender of the
principal amount of, and accrued interest on, such Non-Extending Lender’s Loans,
and (ii) payment by the Borrower to such Non-Extending Lender of any amounts
payable to such Non-Extending Lender pursuant to Section 2.17
(as if the purchase of such Non-Extending Lender’s Loans constituted a
prepayment thereof) and any and all fees or other amounts owing to such
Non-Extending Lender under this Agreement, to transfer without recourse,
representation, warranty (other than a representation that such Lender has
not
created an adverse claim on its Loans) or expense to such Non-Extending Lender,
at any time prior to the Termination Date applicable to such Non-Extending
Lender, all of such Non-Extending Lender’s rights and obligations hereunder to
another financial institution or group of financial institutions nominated
by
the Borrower and willing to participate as a successor Lender in the place
of
such Non-Extending Lender; provided that, if such transferee is not
already a Lender, (1) such transferee satisfies all the requirements of this
Agreement, and (2) the Administrative Agent and, with respect to any replacement
Lender that is not an Eligible Assignee, each Issuing Lender, shall have
consented to such transfer, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld
or
delayed. Each such transferee successor Lender shall be deemed to be
a Continuing Lender hereunder in replacement of the transferor Non-Extending
Lender and shall enjoy all rights and assume all obligations on the part of
such
Non-Extending Lender set forth in this Agreement. Each such transfer
shall be effected pursuant to an Assignment and Assumption.
(f) If
the Termination Date shall have been extended in respect of Continuing Lenders
in accordance with this Section, any notice of borrowing pursuant to
Section 2.2
or 2.5 specifying a Borrowing Date occurring after the Termination Date
applicable to a Non-Extending Lender or requesting an Interest Period extending
beyond such date shall (i) have no effect in respect of such Non-Extending
Lender and (ii) not specify a requested aggregate
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principal
amount exceeding the aggregate Available Commitments (calculated on the basis
of
the Commitments of the Continuing Lenders).
2.8 Optional
Prepayments. The Borrower may at any time and from time to time
prepay the Loans, in whole or in part, without premium or penalty, upon
irrevocable notice delivered to the Administrative Agent no later than 12:00
Noon, New York City time, three Business Days prior thereto, in the case of
Eurodollar Loans, and no later than 12:00 Noon, New York City time, one Business
Day prior thereto, in the case of ABR Loans, which notice shall specify the
date
and amount of prepayment and whether the prepayment is of Eurodollar Loans
or
ABR Loans; provided, that if a Eurodollar Loan is prepaid on any day
other than the last day of the Interest Period applicable thereto, the Borrower
shall also pay any amounts owing pursuant to Section 2.17. Upon
receipt of any such notice the Administrative Agent shall promptly notify each
relevant Lender thereof. If any such notice is given, the amount
specified in such notice shall be due and payable on the date specified therein,
together with (except in the case of Revolving Loans that are ABR Loans and
Swingline Loans) accrued interest to such date on the amount
prepaid. Partial prepayments of Revolving Loans which shall be in an
aggregate principal amount of $1,000,000 or a whole multiple of $500,000 in
excess thereof. Partial prepayments of Swingline Loans shall be in an
aggregate principal amount of $100,000 or a whole multiple thereof.
2.9 Conversion
and Continuation Options. (a) The Borrower may elect from time to
time to convert Eurodollar Loans to ABR Loans by giving the Administrative
Agent
prior irrevocable notice of such election no later than 12:00 Noon, New York
City time, on the Business Day preceding the proposed conversion date,
provided that any such conversion of Eurodollar Loans may only be made on
the last day of an Interest Period with respect thereto. The Borrower
may elect from time to time to convert ABR Loans to Eurodollar Loans by giving
the Administrative Agent prior irrevocable notice of such election no later
than
12:00 Noon, New York City time, on the third Business Day preceding the proposed
conversion date (which notice shall specify the length of the initial Interest
Period therefor), provided that no ABR Loan may be converted into a
Eurodollar Loan when any Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and
the
Required Lenders have determined in their sole discretion not to permit such
conversions. Upon receipt of any such notice the Administrative Agent
shall promptly notify each relevant Lender thereof.
(b) Any
Eurodollar Loan may be continued as such upon the expiration of the then current
Interest Period with respect thereto by the Borrower giving irrevocable notice
to the Administrative Agent, in accordance with the applicable provisions of
the
term “Interest Period” set forth in Section 1.1,
of the length of the next Interest Period to be applicable to such Loans,
provided that no Eurodollar Loan may be continued as such when any Event
of Default has occurred and is continuing and the Required Lenders have
determined in their sole discretion not to permit such continuations, and
provided, further, that if the Borrower shall fail to give any
required notice as described above in this paragraph or if such continuation
is
not permitted pursuant to the preceding proviso such Loans shall be
automatically converted to ABR Loans on the last day of such then expiring
Interest Period. Upon receipt of any such notice the Administrative
Agent shall promptly notify each relevant Lender thereof.
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2.10 Limitations
on Eurodollar Tranches. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary
in this Agreement, all borrowings, conversions and continuations of Eurodollar
Loans and all selections of Interest Periods shall be in such amounts and be
made pursuant to such elections so that, (a) after giving effect thereto, the
aggregate principal amount of the Eurodollar Loans comprising each Eurodollar
Tranche shall be equal to $1,000,000 or a whole multiple of $500,000 in excess
thereof and (b) no more than 15 Eurodollar Tranches shall be outstanding at
any
one time.
2.11 Interest
Rates and Payment Dates. (a) Each Eurodollar Loan shall bear
interest for each day during each Interest Period with respect thereto at a
rate
per annum equal to the Eurodollar Rate determined for such day plus the
Applicable Margin.
(b) Each
ABR Loan shall bear interest at a rate per annum equal to the ABR plus
the Applicable Margin.
(c) (i)
If all or a portion of the principal amount of any Loan or Reimbursement
Obligation shall not be paid when due (whether at the stated maturity, by
acceleration or otherwise), such overdue amount shall bear interest at a default
rate per annum equal to (x) in the case of the Loans, the rate that would
otherwise be applicable thereto pursuant to the foregoing provisions of this
Section plus 2% or (y) in the case of Reimbursement Obligations, the
rate applicable to ABR Loans plus 2%, and (ii) if all or a portion of any
interest payable on any Loan or Reimbursement Obligation or any facility fee,
utilization fee, letter of credit fee, or any other fee payable (excluding
any
expenses or other indemnity) hereunder shall not be paid when due (whether
at
the stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise), such overdue amount shall
bear interest at a default rate per annum equal to the rate then applicable
to
ABR Loans plus 2%, in each case, with respect to clauses (i) and (ii)
above, from the date of such non payment until such amount is paid in full
(as
well after as before judgment).
(d) Interest
shall be payable in arrears on each Interest Payment Date, provided that
interest accruing pursuant to paragraph (c)
of this Section shall be payable from time to time on demand.
2.12 Computation
of Interest and Fees. (a) Interest and fees payable pursuant
hereto shall be calculated on the basis of a 360-day year for the actual days
elapsed, except that, with respect to ABR Loans the rate of interest on which
is
calculated on the basis of the Base Rate, the interest thereon shall be
calculated on the basis of a 365- (or 366-, as the case may be) day year for
the
actual days elapsed. The Administrative Agent shall as soon as
practicable notify the Borrower and the relevant Lenders of each determination
of a Eurodollar Rate. Any change in the interest rate on a Loan
resulting from a change in the ABR or the Eurocurrency Reserve Requirements
shall become effective as of the opening of business on the day on which such
change becomes effective. The Administrative Agent shall as soon as
practicable notify the Borrower and the relevant Lenders of the effective date
and the amount of each such change in interest rate.
(b) Each
determination of an interest rate by the Administrative Agent pursuant to any
provision of this Agreement shall constitute prima facie evidence of such
amounts. The Administrative Agent shall, at the request of the
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the Borrower or such Lender a statement showing the quotations used by the
Administrative Agent in determining any interest rate pursuant to
Section 2.11(a).
2.13 Inability
to Determine Interest Rate. If prior to the first day of any
Interest Period:
(a) the
Administrative Agent shall have determined (which determination shall be
conclusive and binding upon the Borrower) that, by reason of circumstances
affecting the relevant market, adequate and reasonable means do not exist for
ascertaining the Eurodollar Rate for such Interest Period, or
(b) the
Administrative Agent shall have received notice from the Required Lenders that
the Eurodollar Rate determined or to be determined for such Interest Period
will
not adequately and fairly reflect the cost to such Lenders (as conclusively
certified by such Lenders) of making or maintaining their affected Loans during
such Interest Period,
the
Administrative Agent shall give telecopy or telephonic notice thereof to the
Borrower and the relevant Lenders as soon as practicable
thereafter. If such notice is given (x) any Eurodollar Loans
requested to be made on the first day of such Interest Period shall be made
as
ABR Loans, (y) any Loans that were to have been converted on the first day
of
such Interest Period to Eurodollar Loans shall be continued as ABR Loans and
(z)
any outstanding Eurodollar Loans shall be converted, on the last day of the
then-current Interest Period, to ABR Loans. Until such notice has
been withdrawn by the Administrative Agent, no further Eurodollar Loans shall
be
made or continued as such, nor shall the Borrower have the right to convert
Loans to Eurodollar Loans.
2.14 Pro
Rata Treatment and Payments; Notes. (a) Each borrowing by the
Borrower from the Lenders hereunder, each payment by the Borrower on account
of
any commitment fee and any reduction of the Commitments of the Lenders shall
be
made pro rata according to the respective Percentages of the
Lenders.
(b) Each
payment (including each prepayment) by the Borrower on account of principal
of
and interest on the Revolving Loans shall be made pro
rata according to the respective outstanding principal amounts
of the Revolving Loans then held by the Lenders. Each payment in
respect of Reimbursement Obligations in respect of any Letter of Credit shall
be
made to the Issuing Lender that issued such Letters of Credit.
(c) Notwithstanding
anything to the contrary herein, all payments (including prepayments) to be
made
by the Borrower hereunder, whether on account of principal, Reimbursement
Obligations, interest, fees or otherwise, shall be made without setoff or
counterclaim and shall be made prior to 4:00 P.M., New York City time, on the
due date thereof to the Administrative Agent, for the account of the Lenders
or
the Issuing Lenders, as applicable, at the Funding Office, in Dollars and in
immediately available funds. The Administrative Agent shall
distribute such payments to the Lenders promptly upon receipt in like funds
as
received. If any payment hereunder (other than payments on the
Eurodollar Loans) becomes due and payable on a day other than a Business Day,
such payment shall be extended to the next succeeding
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Business
Day. If any payment on a Eurodollar Loan becomes due and payable on a
day other than a Business Day, the maturity thereof shall be extended to the
next succeeding Business Day unless the result of such extension would be to
extend such payment into another calendar month, in which event such payment
shall be made on the immediately preceding Business Day. In the case
of any extension of any payment of principal pursuant to the preceding two
sentences, interest thereon shall be payable at the then applicable rate during
such extension.
(d) Unless
the Administrative Agent shall have been notified in writing by any Lender
prior
to a borrowing that such Lender will not make the amount that would constitute
its share of such borrowing available to the Administrative Agent, the
Administrative Agent may assume that such Lender is making such amount available
to the Administrative Agent, and the Administrative Agent may, in reliance
upon
such assumption, make available to the Borrower a corresponding
amount. If such amount is not made available to the Administrative
Agent by the required time on the Borrowing Date therefor, such Lender shall
pay
to the Administrative Agent, on demand, such amount with interest thereon,
at a
rate equal to the greater of (i) the Federal Funds Effective Rate and (ii)
a
rate determined by the Administrative Agent in accordance with banking industry
rules on interbank compensation, for the period until such Lender makes such
amount immediately available to the Administrative Agent. A
certificate of the Administrative Agent submitted to any Lender with respect
to
any amounts owing under this paragraph shall be conclusive in the absence of
manifest error. If such Lender’s share of such borrowing is not made
available to the Administrative Agent by such Lender within three Business
Days
after such Borrowing Date, the Administrative Agent shall also be entitled
to
recover such amount with interest thereon at the rate per annum applicable
to
ABR Loans from the Borrower within 30 days after written demand
therefor.
(e) Unless
the Administrative Agent shall have been notified in writing by the Borrower
prior to the date of any payment due to be made by the Borrower hereunder that
the Borrower will not make such payment to the Administrative Agent, the
Administrative Agent may assume that the Borrower is making such payment, and
the Administrative Agent may, but shall not be required to, in reliance upon
such assumption, make available to the Lenders their respective pro
rata shares of a corresponding amount. If such payment is not
made to the Administrative Agent by the Borrower within three Business Days
after such due date, the Administrative Agent shall be entitled to recover,
on
demand, from each Lender to which any amount which was made available pursuant
to the preceding sentence, such amount with interest thereon at the rate per
annum equal to the daily average Federal Funds Effective
Rate. Nothing herein shall be deemed to limit the rights of the
Administrative Agent or any Lender against the Borrower.
(f) The
Borrower agrees that, upon the request to the Administrative Agent by any
Lender, the Borrower will promptly execute and deliver to such Lender a
promissory note (a “Note”) of the Borrower evidencing any Revolving Loans
of such Lender, substantially in the form of Exhibit H, with appropriate
insertions as to date and principal amount; provided, that delivery of
Notes shall not be a condition precedent to the occurrence of the Effective
Date
or the making of Loans on the Effective Date.
2.15 Requirements
of Law. (a) If the adoption of or any change in any Requirement
of Law or in the interpretation or application thereof or compliance by any
Lender
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any request or directive (whether or not having the force of law) from any
central bank or other Governmental Authority made subsequent to the date
hereof:
(i) shall
subject any Lender to any tax of any kind whatsoever with respect to this
Agreement, any Letter of Credit, any Application or any Eurodollar Loan made
by
it, or change the basis of taxation of payments to such Lender in respect
thereof (except for Non-Excluded Taxes and Other Taxes covered by
Section 2.16
and net income taxes and franchise taxes imposed in lieu of net income
taxes);
(ii) shall
impose, modify or hold applicable any reserve, special deposit, compulsory
loan
or similar requirement against assets held by, deposits or other liabilities
in
or for the account of, advances, loans or other extensions of credit by, or
any
other acquisition of funds by, any office of such Lender that is not otherwise
included in the determination of the Eurodollar Rate, which requirements are
generally applicable to loans made by such Lender; or
(iii) shall
impose on such Lender any other condition that is generally applicable to loans
made by such Lender;
and
the result of any of the foregoing is to increase the cost to such Lender,
by an
amount that such Lender deems to be material, of making, converting into,
continuing or maintaining Eurodollar Loans or issuing or participating in
Letters of Credit, or to reduce any amount receivable hereunder in respect
thereof, then, in any such case, the Borrower shall promptly pay such Lender,
within ten Business Days after its demand, any additional amounts necessary
to
compensate such Lender for such increased cost or reduced amount
receivable. If any Lender becomes entitled to claim any additional
amounts pursuant to this paragraph, it shall promptly notify the Borrower (with
a copy to the Administrative Agent) of the event by reason of which it has
become so entitled; provided, however, that no Lender shall be
entitled to demand such compensation more than 90 days following (x) the last
day of the Interest Period in respect of which such demand is made or (y) the
repayment of the Loan or Swingline Loan in respect of which such demand is
made,
and no Issuing Lender shall be entitled to demand such compensation more than
90
days following the expiration or termination (by drawing or otherwise) of the
Letter of Credit issued by it in respect of which such demand is
made.
(b) If
any Lender shall have determined that the adoption of or any change in any
Requirement of Law regarding capital adequacy or in the interpretation or
application thereof or compliance by such Lender or any corporation controlling
such Lender with any request or directive regarding capital adequacy (whether
or
not having the force of law) from any Governmental Authority made subsequent
to
the date hereof shall have the effect of reducing the rate of return on such
Lender’s or such corporation’s capital as a consequence of its obligations
hereunder or under or in respect of any Letter of Credit to a level below that
which such Lender or such corporation could have achieved but for such adoption,
change or compliance (taking into consideration such Lender’s or such
corporation’s policies with respect to capital adequacy) by an amount deemed by
such Lender to be material, then from time to time, after submission by such
Lender to the Borrower (with a copy to the Administrative Agent) of a written
request
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the Borrower shall pay to such Lender such additional amount or amounts as
will
compensate such Lender or such corporation for such reduction.
(c) A
certificate as to any additional amounts payable pursuant to this
Section submitted by any Lender to the Borrower (with a copy to the
Administrative Agent) shall constitute prima facie evidence of such costs or
amounts. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section,
the Borrower shall not be required to compensate a Lender pursuant to this
Section for any amounts incurred more than six months prior to the date
that such Lender notifies the Borrower of such Lender’s intention to claim
compensation therefor; provided that, if the circumstances giving rise to
such claim have a retroactive effect, then such six-month period shall be
extended to include the period of such retroactive effect not to exceed twelve
months. The obligations of the Borrower pursuant to this
Section shall survive for 90 days after the termination of this Agreement
and the payment of the Loans and all other amounts then due and payable
hereunder.
2.16 Taxes. (a)
All payments made by the Borrower under this Agreement shall be made free and
clear of, and without deduction or withholding for or on account of, any present
or future income, stamp or other taxes, levies, imposts, duties, charges, fees,
deductions or withholdings, now or hereafter imposed, levied, collected,
withheld or assessed by any Governmental Authority, excluding (i) net income
taxes and franchise taxes (imposed in lieu of net income taxes) imposed on
the
Administrative Agent or any Lender as a result of a present or former connection
between the Administrative Agent or such Lender and the jurisdiction of the
Governmental Authority imposing such tax or any political subdivision or taxing
authority thereof or therein (other than any such connection arising solely
from
the Administrative Agent or such Lender having executed, delivered or performed
its obligations or received a payment under, or enforced, this Agreement or
any
other Loan Document) and (ii) any branch profits tax imposed by the United
States. If any such non-excluded taxes, levies, imposts, duties,
charges, fees, deductions or withholdings (“Non-Excluded Taxes”) or Other
Taxes are required to be withheld from any amounts payable to the Administrative
Agent or any Lender hereunder, the amounts so payable to the Administrative
Agent or such Lender shall be increased to the extent necessary to yield to
the
Administrative Agent or such Lender (after payment of all Non-Excluded Taxes)
interest or any such other amounts payable hereunder at the rates or in the
amounts specified in this Agreement, provided, however, that the
Borrower shall not be required to increase any such amounts payable to any
Lender with respect to any Non-Excluded Taxes (i) that are attributable to
such
Lender’s failure to comply with the requirements of paragraph (d)
or (e)
of this Section or (ii) that are United States withholding taxes imposed on
amounts payable to such Lender at the time such Lender becomes a party to this
Agreement, except to the extent that such Lender’s assignor (if any) was
entitled, at the time of assignment, to receive additional amounts from the
Borrower with respect to such Non-Excluded Taxes pursuant to this
paragraph.
(b) In
addition, the Borrower shall pay any Other Taxes to the relevant Governmental
Authority in accordance with applicable law.
(c) Whenever
any Non-Excluded Taxes or Other Taxes are payable by the Borrower, as promptly
as possible thereafter the Borrower shall send to the Administrative Agent
for
its own account or for the account of the relevant Lender, as the case may
be, a
certified copy of any original official receipt received by the Borrower showing
payment thereof. If the
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fails to pay any Non-Excluded Taxes or Other Taxes when due to the appropriate
taxing authority, the Borrower shall indemnify the Administrative Agent and
the
Lenders for any incremental taxes, interest or penalties that may become payable
by the Administrative Agent or any Lender as a result of any such
failure.
(d) Each
Lender (or Transferee) that is not a “U.S. Person” as defined in
Section 7701(a) (30) of the Code (a “Non–U.S. Lender”) shall deliver
to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent (or, in the case of a Participant,
to the Lender from which the related participation shall have been purchased)
two copies of either U.S. Internal Revenue Service Form W-8BEN or Form W-8ECI,
or, in the case of a Non–U.S. Lender claiming exemption from U.S. federal
withholding tax under Section 871(h) or 881(c) of the Code with respect to
payments of “portfolio interest”, a statement substantially in the form of
Exhibit G and a Form W-8 BEN, or any subsequent versions thereof or successors
thereto, properly completed and duly executed by such Non-U.S. Lender claiming
complete exemption from, or a reduced rate of, U.S. federal withholding tax
on
all payments by the Borrower under this Agreement and the other Loan
Documents. Such forms shall be delivered by each Non–U.S. Lender on
or before the date it becomes a party to this Agreement (or, in the case of
any
Participant, on or before the date such Participant purchases the related
participation). In addition, each Non–U.S. Lender shall deliver such
forms promptly upon the obsolescence or invalidity of any form previously
delivered by such Non–U.S. Lender. Each Non-U.S. Lender shall
promptly notify the Borrower at any time it determines that it is no longer
in a
position to provide any previously delivered certificate to the Borrower (or
any
other form of certification adopted by the U.S. taxing authorities for such
purpose). Notwithstanding any other provision of this paragraph, a
Non–U.S. Lender shall not be required to deliver any form pursuant to this
paragraph that such Non–U.S. Lender is not legally able to deliver;
provided, however, if any Non-U.S. Lender fails to file forms with
the Borrower and the Administrative Agent (or, in the case of a Participant,
with the Lender from which the related participation was purchased) on or before
the date the Non-U.S. Lender becomes a party to this Agreement (or, in the
case
of a Participant, on or before the date such Participant purchased the related
participation) entitling the Non-U.S. Lender to a complete exemption from United
States withholding taxes at such time, such Non-U.S. Lender shall not be
entitled to receive any increased payments from the Borrower with respect to
United States withholding taxes under paragraph (a)
of this Section, except to the extent that the Non-U.S. Lender’s assignor (if
any) was entitled, at the time of the assignment to the Non-U.S. Lender, to
receive additional amounts from the Borrower with respect to United States
withholding taxes.
(e) A
Lender that is entitled to an exemption from or reduction of non-U.S.
withholding tax under the law of the jurisdiction in which the Borrower is
located, or any treaty to which such jurisdiction is a party, with respect
to
payments under this Agreement shall deliver to the Borrower (with a copy to
the
Administrative Agent), at the time or times prescribed by applicable law or
reasonably requested by the Borrower, such properly completed and executed
documentation prescribed by applicable law as will permit such payments to
be
made without withholding or at a reduced rate, provided that such Lender
is legally entitled to complete, execute and deliver such documentation and
in
such Lender’s judgment such completion, execution or submission would not
materially prejudice the legal position of such Lender.
(f) If
the Administrative Agent or any Lender determines, in its sole discretion,
that
it has received a refund of any Non-Excluded Taxes or Other Taxes as to which
it
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been indemnified by the Borrower or with respect to which the Borrower has
paid
amounts pursuant to this Section 2.16,
it shall pay over such refund to the Borrower (but only to the extent of
indemnity payments made, or additional amounts paid, by the Borrower under
this
Section 2.16
with respect to the Non-Excluded Taxes or Other Taxes giving rise to such
refund), net of all out-of-pocket expenses of the Administrative Agent or such
Lender and without interest (other than any interest paid by the relevant
Governmental Authority with respect to such refund); provided, that the
Borrower, upon the request of the Administrative Agent or such Lender, agrees
to
repay the amount paid over to the Borrower (plus any penalties, interest
or other charges imposed by the relevant Governmental Authority) to the
Administrative Agent or such Lender in the event the Administrative Agent or
such Lender is required to repay such refund to such Governmental
Authority. This paragraph shall not be construed to require the
Administrative Agent or any Lender to make available its tax returns (or any
other information relating to its taxes which it deems confidential) to the
Borrower or any other Person.
(g) The
agreements in this Section shall survive for one year after the termination
of this Agreement and the payment of the Loans and all other amounts payable
hereunder.
2.17 Indemnity. The
Borrower agrees to indemnify each Lender for, and to hold each Lender harmless
from, any loss (other than the loss of Applicable Margin) or expense that such
Lender may sustain or incur as a consequence of (a) default by the Borrower
in
making a borrowing of, conversion into or continuation of Eurodollar Loans
after
the Borrower has given a notice requesting the same in accordance with the
provisions of this Agreement, (b) default by the Borrower in making any
prepayment of or conversion from Eurodollar Loans after the Borrower has given
a
notice thereof in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement or (c) the
making of a prepayment of Eurodollar Loans on a day that is not the last day
of
an Interest Period with respect thereto. A certificate as to any
amounts payable pursuant to this Section submitted to the Borrower by any
Lender shall be conclusive in the absence of manifest error. This
covenant shall survive for 90 days after the termination of this Agreement
and
the payment of the Loans and all other amounts payable hereunder.
2.18 Change
of Lending Office. Each Lender agrees that, upon the occurrence
of any event giving rise to the operation of Section 2.15
or 2.16(a) with
respect to such Lender, it will, if requested by the Borrower, use reasonable
efforts (subject to overall policy considerations of such Lender) to designate
another lending office for any Loans affected by such event with the object
of
avoiding the consequences of such event; provided, that such designation
is made on terms that, in the sole but reasonable judgment of such Lender,
cause
such Lender and its lending office(s) to suffer no unreimbursed economic
disadvantage, or any legal or regulatory disadvantage, and provided,
further, that nothing in this Section shall affect or postpone any
of the obligations of the Borrower or the rights of any Lender pursuant to
Section 2.15
or 2.16(a).
2.19 Replacement
of Lenders. The Borrower shall be permitted to replace any Lender
that (a) requests (on its behalf or any of its Participants) reimbursement
for
amounts owing pursuant to Section 2.15
or 2.16(a)
or (b) defaults in its obligation to make Loans hereunder, with a replacement
financial institution; provided that (i) such replacement does not
conflict with any Requirement of Law, (ii) no Event of Default shall have
occurred and be
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at the time of such replacement, (iii) prior to any such replacement, such
Lender shall have taken no action under Section 2.18
which eliminates the continued need for payment of amounts owing pursuant to
Section 2.15
or 2.16(a),
(iv) the replacement financial institution shall purchase, at par, all Loans
and
other amounts owing to such replaced Lender on or prior to the date of
replacement, (v) the Borrower shall be liable to such replaced Lender under
Section 2.17
if any Eurodollar Loan owing to such replaced Lender shall be purchased other
than on the last day of the Interest Period relating thereto, (vi) the
replacement financial institution, if not already a Lender, shall be reasonably
satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, (vii) the replaced Lender shall be
obligated to make such replacement in accordance with the provisions of
Section 10.6
(provided that the Borrower shall be obligated to pay the registration
and processing fee referred to therein), (viii) until such time as such
replacement shall be consummated, the Borrower shall pay all additional amounts
(if any) required pursuant to Section 2.15
or 2.16(a),
as the case may be, and (ix) any such replacement shall not be deemed to be
a
waiver of any rights that the Borrower, the Administrative Agent or any other
Lender shall have against the replaced Lender.
SECTION
3. LETTERS
OF CREDIT
3.1 L/C
Commitment.
(a) From
and after the Effective Date, each Existing Letter of Credit shall, subject
to
the terms and conditions hereof, constitute a Letter of Credit
hereunder. Subject to the terms and conditions hereof, each Issuing
Lender, in reliance on the agreements of the other Lenders set forth in
Section 3.4(a),
agrees to issue standby and commercial letters of credit (the letters of credit
issued on and after the Effective Date pursuant to this Section 3, together
with the Existing Letters of Credit, collectively, the “Letters of
Credit”) for the account of the Borrower on any Business Day on or after the
Effective Date and during the Commitment Period in such form as may be approved
from time to time by such Issuing Lender; provided, that no Issuing
Lender shall issue, amend, extend or renew any Letter of Credit (and no Existing
Letter of Credit may become a Letter of Credit hereunder) if, after giving
effect to such issuance, amendment, extension or renewal (i) the L/C Obligations
would exceed the L/C Commitment or (ii) the aggregate amount of the Available
Commitments would be less than zero. Each Letter of Credit shall (i)
be denominated in Dollars and (ii) expire no later than the earlier of (x)
the
first anniversary of its date of issuance and (y) the date which is five
Business Days prior to the Termination Date; provided that any Letter of
Credit with a one-year term may provide for the renewal thereof for additional
one-year periods (which shall in no event extend beyond the date referred to
in
clause (y) above).
(b) No
Issuing Lender shall at any time be obligated to issue, amend, extend or renew
any Letter of Credit hereunder if such issuance, amendment, extension or renewal
would conflict with, or cause such Issuing Lender or any L/C Participant to
exceed any limits imposed by, any applicable Requirement of Law.
3.2 Procedure
for Issuance of Letters of Credit. The Borrower may from time to
time request that an Issuing Lender issue a Letter of Credit by delivering
to
such Issuing Lender at its address for notices specified herein an Application
therefor, completed to the satisfaction of such Issuing Lender, and such other
certificates, documents and other papers and
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information
as such Issuing Lender may request. Concurrently with the delivery of
an Application to an Issuing Lender, the Borrower shall deliver a copy thereof
to the Administrative Agent and the Administrative Agent shall provide notice
of
such request to the Lenders. Upon receipt of any Application, an
Issuing Lender will process such Application and the certificates, documents
and
other papers and information delivered to it in connection therewith in
accordance with its customary procedures and shall promptly issue the Letter
of
Credit requested thereby by issuing the original of such Letter of Credit to
the
beneficiary thereof or as otherwise may be agreed to by such Issuing Lender
and
the Borrower (but in no event shall any Issuing Lender be required to issue
any
Letter of Credit earlier than three Business Days after its receipt of the
Application therefor and all such other certificates, documents and other papers
and information relating thereto). Promptly after issuance by an
Issuing Lender of a Letter of Credit, such Issuing Lender shall furnish a copy
of such Letter of Credit to the Borrower. Each Issuing Lender shall
promptly give notice to the Administrative Agent of the issuance of each Letter
of Credit issued by such Issuing Lender (including the amount thereof), and
shall provide a copy of such Letter of Credit to the Administrative Agent as
soon as possible after the date of issuance.
3.3 Fees
and Other Charges.
(a) The
Borrower will pay a fee on the aggregate drawable amount of all outstanding
Letters of Credit at a per annum rate equal to the Applicable Margin then in
effect with respect to Eurodollar Loans, shared ratably among the Lenders in
accordance with their respective Percentages and payable quarterly in arrears
on
each Fee Payment Date after the issuance date. In addition, the
Borrower shall pay to the relevant Issuing Lender for its own account a fronting
fee on the aggregate drawable amount of all outstanding Letters of Credit issued
in an amount to be agreed between the Borrower and such Issuing Lender, payable
quarterly in arrears on each Fee Payment Date after the issuance
date.
(b) In
addition to the foregoing fees, the Borrower shall pay or reimburse each Issuing
Lender for such normal and customary costs and expenses as are incurred or
charged by such Issuing Lender in issuing, negotiating, effecting payment under,
amending, renewing or otherwise administering any Letter of Credit.
3.4 L/C
Participations.
(a) Each
Issuing Lender irrevocably agrees to grant and hereby grants to each L/C
Participant, and, to induce each Issuing Lender to issue Letters of Credit
hereunder, each L/C Participant irrevocably agrees to accept and purchase and
hereby accepts and purchases from each Issuing Lender, on the terms and
conditions hereinafter stated, for such L/C Participant’s own account and risk,
an undivided interest equal to such L/C Participant’s Percentage in each Issuing
Lender’s obligations and rights under each Letter of Credit issued by such
Issuing Lender hereunder and the amount of each draft paid by such Issuing
Lender thereunder. Each L/C Participant unconditionally and
irrevocably agrees with each Issuing Lender that, if a draft is paid under
any
Letter of Credit issued by such Issuing Lender for which such Issuing Lender
is
not reimbursed in full by the Borrower in accordance with the terms of this
Agreement, such L/C Participant shall pay to the Administrative Agent for the
account of such Issuing Lender upon demand at such Issuing Lender’s address for
notices specified herein (and thereafter the Administrative Agent shall promptly
pay to such Issuing Lender) an amount
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equal
to such L/C Participant’s Percentage of the amount of such draft, or any part
thereof, that is not so reimbursed. Each L/C Participant’s obligation
to pay such amount shall be absolute and unconditional and shall not be affected
by any circumstance, including (i) any setoff, counterclaim, recoupment, defense
or other right that such L/C Participant may have against the Issuing Lender,
the Borrower or any other Person for any reason whatsoever, (ii) the occurrence
or continuance of a Default or an Event of Default or the failure to satisfy
any
of the other conditions specified in Section 5, (iii) any adverse change in
the
condition (financial or otherwise) of the Borrower, (iv) any breach of this
Agreement or any other Loan Document by the Borrower, any other Borrower or
any
other L/C Participant or (v) any other circumstance, happening or event
whatsoever, whether or not similar to any of the foregoing.
(b) If
any amount (a “Participation Amount”) required to be paid by any L/C
Participant to an Issuing Lender pursuant to Section 3.4(a)
in respect of any unreimbursed portion of any payment made by such Issuing
Lender under any Letter of Credit is paid to such Issuing Lender within three
Business Days after the date such payment is due, such Issuing Lender shall
so
notify the Administrative Agent, which shall promptly notify the L/C
Participants, and each L/C Participant shall pay to the Administrative Agent,
for the account of such Issuing Lender, on demand (and thereafter the
Administrative Agent shall promptly pay to such Issuing Lender) an amount equal
to the product of (i) such Participation Amount, times (ii) the daily
average Federal Funds Effective Rate during the period from and including the
date such payment is required to the date on which such payment is immediately
available to such Issuing Lender, times (iii) a fraction the numerator of
which is the number of days that elapse during such period and the denominator
of which is 360. If any Participation Amount required to be paid by
any L/C Participant pursuant to Section 3.4(a)
is not made available to the Administrative Agent for the account of the
relevant Issuing Lender by such L/C Participant within three Business Days
after
the date such payment is due, the Administrative Agent on behalf of such Issuing
Lender shall be entitled to recover from such L/C Participant, on demand, such
Participation Amount with interest thereon calculated from such due date at
the
rate per annum applicable to ABR Loans. A certificate of the
Administrative Agent submitted on behalf of an Issuing Lender to any L/C
Participant with respect to any amounts owing under this Section shall be
conclusive in the absence of manifest error.
(c) Whenever,
at any time after an Issuing Lender has made payment under any Letter of Credit
and has received from the Administrative Agent any L/C Participant’s pro
rata share of such payment in accordance with Section 3.4(a),
such Issuing Lender receives any payment related to such Letter of Credit
(whether directly from the Borrower or otherwise, including proceeds of
collateral applied thereto by such Issuing Lender), or any payment of interest
on account thereof, such Issuing Lender will distribute to the Administrative
Agent for the account of such L/C Participant (and thereafter the Administrative
Agent will promptly distribute to such L/C Participant) its pro
rata share thereof; provided, however, that in the event that
any such payment received by such Issuing Lender shall be required to be
returned by such Issuing Lender, such L/C Participant shall return to the
Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing Lender (and thereafter
the
Administrative Agent shall promptly return to such Issuing Lender) the portion
thereof previously distributed by such Issuing Lender.
3.5 Reimbursement
Obligation of the Borrower. The Borrower agrees to reimburse each
Issuing Lender on (i) the Business Day on which the Borrower receives
notice
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an Issuing Lender of a draft drawn on a Letter of Credit issued by such Issuing
Lender and paid by such Issuing Lender, if such notice is received on such
Business Day prior to 11:00 A.M., New York City time, or (ii) if clause (i)
above does not apply, the Business Day immediately following the day on which
the Borrower receives such notice, for the amount of (a) such draft so paid
and
(b) any taxes, fees, charges or other costs or expenses incurred by such Issuing
Lender in connection with such payment which are obligations of the Borrower
hereunder (the amounts described in the foregoing clauses (a) and (b) in respect
of any drawing, collectively, the “Payment Amount”). Each such
payment shall be made to such Issuing Lender at its address for notices
specified herein in lawful money of the United States of America and in
immediately available funds. Interest shall be payable on each
Payment Amount from the date of the applicable drawing until payment in full
at
the rate set forth in (i) until the second Business Day following the date
of
the applicable drawing, Section 2.11(b)
and (ii) thereafter, Section 2.11(c). Each
drawing under any Letter of Credit shall (unless an event of the type described
in clause (i) or (ii) of Section 8(f) shall have occurred and be continuing
with
respect to the Borrower, in which case the procedures specified in
Section 3.4
for funding by L/C Participants shall apply) constitute a request by the
Borrower to the Administrative Agent for a borrowing pursuant to
Section 2.1
of ABR Loans (or, at the option of the Administrative Agent and the Swingline
Lender in their sole discretion, a borrowing pursuant to Section 2.4
of Swingline Loans) in the amount of such drawing. The Borrowing Date
with respect to such borrowing shall be the first date on which a borrowing
of
Revolving Loans (or, if applicable, Swingline Loans) could be made, pursuant
to
Section 2.1
(or, if applicable, Section 2.4),
if the Administrative Agent had received a notice of such borrowing at the
time
the Administrative Agent receives notice from the relevant Issuing Lender of
such drawing under such Letter of Credit.
3.6 Obligations
Absolute. The Borrower’s obligations under this Section 3 shall
be absolute and unconditional under any and all circumstances and irrespective
of any setoff, counterclaim or defense to payment that the Borrower may have
or
have had against any Issuing Lender, any beneficiary of a Letter of Credit
or
any other Person; other than with respect to any action taken or omitted by
an
Issuing Lender under or in connection with any Letter of Credit issued by it
or
the related drafts or documents found to constitute gross negligence or willful
misconduct or not in accordance with the standards of care specified in the
Uniform Commercial Code of the State of New York. The Borrower also
agrees with each Issuing Lender that such Issuing Lender shall not be
responsible for, and the Borrower’s Reimbursement Obligations under
Section 3.5
shall not be affected by, among other things, the validity or genuineness of
documents or of any endorsements thereon, even though such documents shall
in
fact prove to be invalid, fraudulent or forged, or any dispute between or among
the Borrower and any beneficiary of any Letter of Credit or any other party
to
which such Letter of Credit may be transferred or any claims whatsoever of
the
Borrower against any beneficiary of such Letter of Credit or any such
transferee. No Issuing Lender shall be liable for any error,
omission, interruption or delay in transmission, dispatch or delivery of any
message or advice, however transmitted, in connection with any Letter of Credit,
except for errors or omissions which resulted from the gross negligence or
willful misconduct of such Issuing Lender. The Borrower agrees that
any action taken or omitted by an Issuing Lender under or in connection with
any
Letter of Credit issued by it or the related drafts or documents, if done in
the
absence of gross negligence or willful misconduct and in accordance with the
standards or care specified in the
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Commercial Code of the State of New York, shall be binding on the Borrower
and
shall not result in any liability of such Issuing Lender to the
Borrower.
3.7 Letter
of Credit Payments. If any draft shall be presented for payment
under any Letter of Credit, the relevant Issuing Lender shall promptly notify
the Borrower and the Administrative Agent of the date and amount
thereof. The responsibility of the relevant Issuing Lender to the
Borrower in connection with any draft presented for payment under any Letter
of
Credit, in addition to any payment obligation expressly provided for in such
Letter of Credit issued by such Issuing Lender, shall be limited, in the absence
of gross negligence or willful misconduct or failure to act in accordance with
the standards of care specified in the Uniform Commercial Code of the State
of
New York, to determining that the documents (including each draft) delivered
under such Letter of Credit in connection with such presentment appear on their
face to be in conformity with such Letter of Credit.
3.8 Applications. To
the extent that any provision of any Application related to any Letter of Credit
is inconsistent with the provisions of this Section 3, the provisions of this
Section 3 shall apply.
3.9 Actions
of Issuing Lenders. Each Issuing Lender shall be entitled to
rely, and shall be fully protected in relying, upon any draft, writing,
resolution, notice, consent, certificate, affidavit, letter, cablegram,
telegram, telecopy, telex or teletype message, statement, order or other
document believed by it in good faith to be genuine and correct and to have
been
signed, sent or made by the proper Person or Persons, and upon advice and
statements of legal counsel, independent accountants and other experts selected
by such Issuing Lender. Each Issuing Lender shall be fully justified
in failing or refusing to take any action under this Agreement unless it shall
first have received such advice or concurrence of the Required Lenders as it
reasonably deems appropriate or it shall first be indemnified to its reasonable
satisfaction by the Lenders against any and all liability and expense which
may
be incurred by it by reason of taking or continuing to take any such action.
Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section, as between the Issuing
Lenders and the Lenders, each Issuing Lender shall in all cases be fully
protected in acting, or in refraining from acting, under this Agreement in
accordance with a request of the Required Lenders, and such request and any
action taken or failure to act pursuant thereto shall be binding upon the
Lenders and any future holders of a participation in any Letter of
Credit.
3.10 Borrower’s
Indemnification. The Borrower hereby agrees to indemnify and hold
harmless each Lender, each Issuing Lender and the Administrative Agent, and
their respective directors, officers, agents and employees from and against
any
and all claims and damages, losses, liabilities, costs or expenses which such
Lender, such Issuing Lender or the Administrative Agent may incur (or which
may
be claimed against such Lender, such Issuing Lender or the Administrative Agent
by any Person whatsoever) by reason of or in connection with the issuance,
execution and delivery or transfer of or payment or failure to pay under any
Letter of Credit or any actual or proposed use of any Letter of Credit,
including, without limitation, any claims, damages, losses, liabilities, costs
or expenses which such Issuing Lender may incur by reason of or in connection
with (i) the failure of any other Lender to fulfill or comply with its
obligations to an Issuing Lender hereunder (but nothing herein contained shall
ffect any rights the Borrower may have against any defaulting Lender) or (ii)
by
reason of or on
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of an Issuing Lender issuing any Letter of Credit which specifies that the
term
“Beneficiary” included therein includes any successor by operation of law of the
named Beneficiary, but which Letter of Credit does not require that any drawing
by any such successor Beneficiary be accompanied by a copy of a legal document,
satisfactory to such Issuing Lender, evidencing the appointment of such
successor Beneficiary; provided that the Borrower shall not be required
to indemnify any Lender, any Issuing Lender or the Administrative Agent for
any
claims, damages, losses, liabilities, costs or expenses to the extent, but
only
to the extent, caused by (x) the willful misconduct or gross negligence of
such
Issuing Lender in determining whether a request presented under any Letter
of
Credit complied with the terms of such Letter of Credit and in accordance with
the standards of care specified in the Uniform Commercial Code of the State
of
New York or (y) such Issuing Lender’s failure to pay under any Letter of Credit
after the presentation to it of a request strictly complying with the terms
and
conditions of such Letter of Credit. Nothing in this Section is
intended to limit the obligations of the Borrower under any other provision
of
this Agreement.
3.11 Lenders’
Indemnification. Each Lender shall, ratably in accordance with
its Percentage, indemnify each Issuing Lender, its affiliates and their
respective directors, officers, agents and employees (to the extent not
reimbursed by the Borrower) against any cost, expense (including reasonable
counsel fees and disbursements), claim, demand, action, loss or liability
(except such as result from such indemnitees’ gross negligence or willful
misconduct or failure to comply with the standard of care specified in the
Uniform Commercial Code of the State of New York or such Issuing Lender’s
failure to pay under any Letter of Credit after the presentation to it of a
request strictly complying with the terms and conditions of the Letter of
Credit) that such indemnitees may suffer or incur in connection with this
Section or any action taken or omitted by such indemnitees
hereunder.
SECTION
4. REPRESENTATIONS
AND WARRANTIES
To
induce the Administrative Agent and the Lenders to enter into this Agreement,
to
amend and restate the Existing Credit Agreement and to make the Loans and issue
or participate in the Letters of Credit, the Borrower hereby represents and
warrants to the Administrative Agent and each Lender, on the Effective Date
and,
except as provided in Section 5.2(b), on the date of each Credit Event
hereunder after the Effective Date, that:
4.1 Financial
Condition. The audited consolidated balance sheet of the Borrower
and its consolidated Subsidiaries as of December 31, 2006, and the related
consolidated statement of operations and cash flows for the fiscal year ended
on
such date, reported on by Deloitte & Touche LLP, present fairly in all
material respects the consolidated financial condition of the Borrower and
its
consolidated Subsidiaries as of such date, and the consolidated results of
its
operations and its consolidated cash flows for the respective fiscal year then
ended. All such financial statements, including the related schedules
and notes thereto, have been prepared in accordance with GAAP applied
consistently throughout the periods involved.
4.2 No
Change. Since December 31, 2006, there has been no development or
event that has had or could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse
Effect, except as disclosed in the Specified Exchange Act Filings.
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4.3 Existence;
Compliance with Law. Each of the Borrower and its Significant
Subsidiaries (a) is duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under
the laws of its jurisdiction of organization, (b) has the corporate power and
corporate authority to own and operate its property, to lease the property
it
operates as lessee and to conduct the business in which it is currently engaged,
(c) is duly qualified as a foreign corporation or other organization and in
good
standing under the laws of each jurisdiction where its ownership, lease or
operation of property or the conduct of its business requires such qualification
except to the extent that the failure to so qualify could not reasonably be
expected to have a Material Adverse Effect and (d) is in compliance with all
Requirements of Law except to the extent that the failure to comply therewith
could not, in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse
Effect.
4.4 Power;
Authorization; Enforceable Obligations. The Borrower has the
corporate power and corporate authority to make, deliver and perform the Loan
Documents and to obtain extensions of credit hereunder. The Borrower
has taken all necessary corporate action to authorize the execution, delivery
and performance of the Loan Documents and to authorize the extensions of credit
on the terms and conditions of this Agreement. No consent or
authorization of, filing with, notice to or other act by or in respect of,
any
Governmental Authority or any other Person is required in connection with the
extensions of credit hereunder or with the execution, delivery, performance,
validity or enforceability of this Agreement or any of the Loan Documents,
except (i) consents, authorizations, filings and notices which have been
obtained or made and are in full force and effect and (ii) any consent,
authorization or filing that may be required in the future the failure of which
to make or obtain could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse
Effect. This Agreement has been, and each other Loan Document upon
execution and delivery will be, duly executed and delivered. This
Agreement constitutes, and each other Loan Document upon execution will
constitute, a legal, valid and binding obligation of the Borrower, enforceable
against the Borrower in accordance with its terms, except as enforceability
may
be limited by (x) applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium
or similar laws affecting the enforcement of creditors’ rights generally, laws
of general application related to the enforceability of securities secured
by
real estate and by general equitable principles (whether enforcement is sought
by proceedings in equity or at law) and (y) applicable regulatory
requirements.
4.5 No
Legal Bar. The execution, delivery and performance of this
Agreement and the other Loan Documents, the issuance of Letters of Credit,
the
borrowings hereunder and the use of the proceeds thereof will not violate in
any
material respect any Requirement of Law or any Contractual Obligation of the
Borrower or any of its Significant Subsidiaries and will not result in, or
require, the creation or imposition of any Lien on any of their respective
properties or revenues pursuant to any Requirement of Law or any such
Contractual Obligation.
4.6 Litigation. (a)
No litigation, investigation or proceeding of or before any arbitrator or
Governmental Authority is pending or, to the knowledge of the Borrower,
hreatened in writing by or against the Borrower or any of its Significant
Subsidiaries or against any of their material respective properties or revenues
with respect to any of the Loan Documents.
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(b) No
litigation, investigation or proceeding of or before any arbitrator or
Governmental Authority is pending or, to the knowledge of the Borrower,
threatened in writing by or against the Borrower or any of its Significant
Subsidiaries or against any of their material respective properties or revenues,
except as disclosed in the Specified Exchange Act Filings, that could reasonably
be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
4.7 No
Default. No Default or Event of Default has occurred and is
continuing.
4.8 Taxes. The
Borrower and each of its Significant Subsidiaries has filed or caused to be
filed all Federal and state returns of income and franchise taxes imposed in
lieu of net income taxes and all other material tax returns that are required
to
be filed and has paid all taxes shown to be due and payable on said returns
or
with respect to any claims or assessments for taxes made against it or any
of
its property by any Governmental Authority (other than (i) any amounts the
validity of which are currently being contested in good faith by appropriate
proceedings and with respect to which reserves in conformity with GAAP have
been
provided on the books of the Borrower or any of its Significant Subsidiaries,
as
applicable and (ii) claims which could not reasonably be expected to have a
Material Adverse Effect). No tax Liens have been filed against the
Borrower or any of its Significant Subsidiaries other than (A) Liens for taxes
which are not delinquent or (B) Liens for taxes which are being contested in
good faith by appropriate proceedings and with respect to which reserves in
conformity with GAAP have been provided on the books of the Borrower or any
of
its Significant Subsidiaries, as applicable.
4.9 Federal
Regulations. No part of the proceeds of any Loans, and no other
extensions of credit hereunder, will be used for “buying” or “carrying” any
“margin stock” within the respective meanings of each of the quoted terms under
Regulation U as now and from time to time hereafter in effect or for any purpose
that violates the provisions of the Regulations of the Board.
4.10 ERISA. Neither
a Reportable Event (other than the Post-event Notices of Reportable Events
filed
with the PBGC on May 2, 2001, in respect of the April 6, 2001, bankruptcy filing
of PG&E Utility, on July 16, 2003, in respect of the July 8, 2003,
bankruptcy filing of National Energy & Gas Transmission (“NEGT”), and
on November 4, 2004, in respect of the departure of NEGT from the PG&E
Utility controlled group of companies on October 29, 2004) nor an “accumulated
funding deficiency” (within the meaning of Section 412 of the Code or
Section 302 of ERISA) has occurred during the five-year period prior to the
date on which this representation is made or deemed made with respect to any
Plan, and each Plan has complied with the applicable provisions of ERISA and
the
Code, except, in each case, to the extent that any such Reportable Event,
“accumulated funding deficiency” or failure to comply with the applicable
provisions of ERISA or the Code could not reasonably be expected to result
in a
Material Adverse Effect. No termination of a Single Employer Plan has
occurred, and no Lien in favor of the PBGC or a Plan has arisen, during such
five-year period. The present value of all accrued benefits under
each Single Employer Plan (based on those assumptions used to fund such Plans)
did not, as of the last annual valuation date prior to the date on which this
representation is made or deemed made, exceed the value of the assets of such
Plan allocable to such accrued benefits by a material amount. Neither
the Borrower nor any Commonly Controlled Entity has had a complete or partial
withdrawal from any Multiemployer Plan that has
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or could reasonably be expected to result in a material liability under ERISA,
and neither the Borrower nor any Commonly Controlled Entity would become subject
to any material liability under ERISA if the Borrower or any such Commonly
Controlled Entity were to withdraw completely from all Multiemployer Plans
as of
the valuation date most closely preceding the date on which this representation
is made or deemed made. No such Multiemployer Plan is in
Reorganization or Insolvent.
4.11 Investment
Company Act; Other Regulations. The Borrower is not an
“investment company”, or a company “controlled” by an “investment company”,
within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as
amended. On the date hereof, the Borrower is not subject to
regulation under any Requirement of Law (other than Regulation X of the Board)
that limits its ability to incur Indebtedness under this Agreement.
4.12 Use
of Proceeds. The proceeds of the Revolving Loans and the
Swingline Loans and the Letters of Credit shall be used (i) to refinance any
debt outstanding under the Existing Credit Agreement, (ii) for working capital
purposes and (iii) for general corporate purposes, including commercial paper
back-up.
4.13 Environmental
Matters. Except as (i) disclosed in the Specified Exchange Act
Filings or (ii)in the aggregate, could not reasonably be expected to have a
Material Adverse Effect:
(a) the
facilities and properties owned, leased or operated by the Borrower and its
Significant Subsidiaries (the “Properties”) do not contain, and, to the
Borrower’s knowledge, have not previously contained, any Materials of
Environmental Concern in amounts or concentrations or under circumstances that
constitute or constituted a violation of, or, to the Borrower’s knowledge, would
give rise to liability under, any Environmental Law;
(b) neither
the Borrower nor any of its Significant Subsidiaries has received or is aware
of
any notice of violation, alleged violation, non-compliance, liability or
potential liability regarding environmental matters or compliance with
Environmental Laws with regard to any of the Properties or the business operated
by the Borrower and its Significant Subsidiaries (the “Business”), nor
does the Borrower have knowledge or reason to believe that any such notice
will
be received or is being threatened;
(c) Materials
of Environmental Concern have not been transported or disposed of from the
Properties in violation of, or in a manner or to a location that, to the
Borrower’s knowledge, would give rise to liability under, any Environmental Law,
nor have any Materials of Environmental Concern been generated, treated, stored
or disposed of at, on or under any of the Properties in violation of, or in
a
manner that, to the Borrower’s knowledge, would give rise to liability under,
any applicable Environmental Law;
(d) no
judicial proceeding or governmental or administrative action is pending or,
to
the knowledge of the Borrower, threatened, under any Environmental Law to which
the Borrower or any of its Significant Subsidiaries is or will be named as
a
party with
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respect
to the Properties or the Business, nor are there any consent decrees or other
decrees, consent orders, administrative orders or other orders, or other
administrative or judicial requirements outstanding under any Environmental
Law
with respect to the Properties or the Business;
(e) there
has been no release or threat of release of Materials of Environmental Concern
at or from the Properties, or arising from or related to the operations of
the
Borrower or any of its Significant Subsidiaries in connection with the
Properties or otherwise in connection with the Business, in violation of or
in
amounts or in a manner that, to the Borrower’s knowledge, would give rise to
liability under Environmental Laws;
(f) the
Properties and all operations at the Properties are in compliance, and have
in
the last five years been in compliance, with all applicable Environmental Laws,
and there is no contamination at, under or about the Properties or violation
of
any Environmental Law with respect to the Properties or the Business;
and
(g) neither
the Borrower nor any of its Significant Subsidiaries has assumed any liability
of any other Person under Environmental Laws.
4.14 Accuracy
of Information, etc. No statement or information (other than
projections, parent-only financial statements and pro forma information)
contained in this Agreement, any other Loan Document, the Confidential
Information Memorandum or any other document, certificate or statement furnished
by or on behalf of the Borrower to the Administrative Agent or the Lenders,
or
any of them, for use in connection with the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement or the other Loan Documents, contained as of the date such statement,
information, document or certificate was so furnished (or, in the case of the
Confidential Information Memorandum, as of the date of this Agreement), any
untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact
necessary to make the statements contained herein or therein not misleading
when
taken as a whole. The projections, parent-only financial statements
and pro forma financial information contained in the materials referenced
above are based upon good faith estimates and assumptions believed by management
of the Borrower to be reasonable at the time made, it being recognized by the
Lenders that such financial information as it relates to future events is not
to
be viewed as fact and that actual results during the period or periods covered
by such financial information may differ from the projected results set forth
therein by a material amount. As of February 26, 2007, there is no
fact known to the Borrower that could reasonably be expected to have a Material
Adverse Effect that has not been expressly disclosed herein, in the other Loan
Documents, in the Information Memorandum (including any attachments
thereto), the Specified Exchange Act Filings or in any other
documents, certificates and statements furnished to the Administrative Agent
and
the Lenders for use in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby
and
by the other Loan Documents.
4.15 Regulatory
Matters. Solely by virtue of the execution, delivery and
performance of, or the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement, noLender shall be or become subject to regulation (i) under the
FPA
or (ii) as a “public utility” or “public service corporation” or the equivalent
under any Requirement of Law.
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SECTION
5. CONDITIONS
PRECEDENT
5.1 Conditions
to the Effective Date. The occurrence of the Effective Date and
the amendment and restatement of the Existing Credit Agreement is subject to
the
satisfaction of the following conditions precedent on or before March 5,
2007:
(a) Credit
Agreement. The Administrative Agent shall have received this
Agreement, executed and delivered by the Administrative Agent, the Borrower
and
each Person listed on Schedule 1.1
A.
(b) Financial
Statements. The Lenders shall have received the financial
statements described in Section 4.1;
provided, however, that this condition shall be satisfied if the
financial statements described in Section 4.1 have been filed with the SEC
prior
to the Effective Date.
(c) Consents
and Approvals. All governmental and third party consents and
approvals necessary in connection with this Agreement and the other Loan
Documents and the transactions contemplated hereby shall have been obtained
and
be in full force and effect; and the Administrative Agent shall have received
a
certificate of a Responsible Officer to the foregoing effect.
(d) Fees. The
Lenders, the Arrangers and the Administrative Agent shall have received all
fees
required to be paid, and all expenses for which invoices have been presented
(including the reasonable fees and expenses of legal counsel), on or before
the
Effective Date.
(e) Closing
Certificate; Certified Articles of Incorporation; Good Standing
Certificates. The Administrative Agent shall have
received (i) a certificate of the Borrower, dated the Effective Date,
substantially in the form of Exhibit D, with appropriate insertions and
attachments, including the articles of incorporation of the Borrower certified
by the Secretary of State of the State of California, and (ii) a good standing
certificate for the Borrower from the Secretary of State of the State of
California; such closing certificate shall contain a confirmation by the
Borrower that the conditions precedent set forth in this Section 5.1
have been satisfied.
(f) Legal
Opinion. The Administrative Agent shall have received the legal
opinion of Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx & Xxxxxxxxx LLP, counsel to the Borrower,
substantially in the form of Exhibit F.
(g) Representations
and Warranties. Each of the representations and warranties made
by the Borrower in this Agreement that does not contain a materiality
qualification shall be true and correct in all material respects on and as
of
the Effective Date, and each of the representations and warranties made by
the
Borrower in this Agreement that contains a materiality qualification shall
be
true and correct on and as of such the Effective Date (or, to the extent such
representations and warranties specifically relate to an earlier date, that
such
representations and warranties were true and correct in all material respects,
or true and correct, as the case may be, as of such earlier date).
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(h) No
Default. No Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and
be continuing.
5.2 Conditions
to Each Credit Event. The agreement of each Lender to make any
Loan or to issue or extend the expiry date under, or participate in, a Letter
of
Credit (other than the extension of a Letter of Credit pursuant to the evergreen
provisions therein) (each a “Credit Event”), including each Issuing
Lender to issue a Letter of Credit, on any date (including any Credit Event
to
occur on the Effective Date) is subject to the satisfaction of the following
conditions precedent:
(a) Satisfaction
of Conditions Precedent in Section 5.1. The conditions
precedent set forth in Section 5.1 shall have been satisfied or waived in
accordance with this Agreement as of the Effective Date.
(b) Representations
and Warranties. Each of the representations and warranties made
by the Borrower in this Agreement that does not contain a materiality
qualification (other than, with respect to any Credit Event after the Effective
Date, the representations and warranties set forth in Sections 4.2, 4.6(b)
and
4.13) shall be true and correct in all material respects on and as of the date
of such Credit Event as if made on and as of such date, and each of the
representations and warranties made by the Borrower in this Agreement that
contains a materiality qualification (other than, with respect to any Credit
Event after the Effective Date, the representations and warranties set forth
in
Sections 4.2, 4.6(b) and 4.13) shall be true and correct on and as of such
date
(or, to the extent such representations and warranties specifically relate
to an
earlier date, that such representations were true and correct in all material
respects, or true and correct, as the case may be, as of such earlier
date).
(c) No
Default. No Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and
be continuing on the date of such Credit Event or after giving effect to the
Credit Event requested to be made on such date.
Each
borrowing of Loans hereunder, and each request by the Borrower for the issuance
of, or extension of an expiry date under, a Letter of Credit hereunder (other
than the extension of a Letter of Credit pursuant to the evergreen provisions
therein) shall constitute a representation and warranty by the Borrower as
of
the date of such Credit Event that the conditions contained in this
Section 5.2
have been satisfied.
SECTION
6. AFFIRMATIVE
COVENANTS
The
Borrower hereby agrees that, so long as the Commitments remain in effect, or
any
Letter of Credit, any Loan, any interest on any Loan or any fee payable to
any
Lender or the Administrative Agent hereunder remains outstanding, or any other
amount then due and payable is owing to any Lender or the Administrative Agent
hereunder, the Borrower shall and, with respect to Sections 6.3 and 6.6(b),
shall cause its Significant Subsidiaries to:
6.1 Financial
Statements. Furnish to the Administrative Agent with a copy for
each Lender, and the Administrative Agent shall deliver to each
Lender:
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(a) as
soon as available, but in any event within 120 days after the end of each fiscal
year of the Borrower, a copy of the audited consolidated balance sheet of the
Borrower and its consolidated Subsidiaries as at the end of such year and the
related audited consolidated statements of operations and cash flows for such
year, setting forth in each case in comparative form the figures for the
previous year, reported on without a “going concern” or like qualification or
exception, or qualification arising out of the scope of the audit, by Deloitte
& Touche LLP or other independent certified public accountants of nationally
recognized standing; and
(b) as
soon as available, but in any event not later than 60 days after the end of
each
of the first three quarterly periods of each fiscal year of the Borrower, the
unaudited consolidated balance sheet of the Borrower and its consolidated
Subsidiaries as at the end of such quarter and the related unaudited
consolidated statements of operations and cash flows for such quarter and the
portion of the fiscal year through the end of such quarter, setting forth in
each case in comparative form the figures for the previous year, certified
by a
Responsible Officer as being fairly stated in all material respects (subject
to
normal year-end audit adjustments).
All
such financial statements shall be complete and correct in all material respects
and shall be prepared in reasonable detail and in accordance with GAAP applied
(except as approved by such accountants or officer, as the case may be, and
disclosed in reasonable detail therein) consistently throughout the periods
reflected therein and with prior periods. The Borrower shall be
deemed to have delivered the financial statements required to be delivered
pursuant to this Section 6.1
upon the filing of such financial statements by the Borrower through the SEC’s
XXXXX system or the publication by the Borrower of such financial statements
on
its website.
6.2 Certificates;
Other Information. Furnish to the Administrative Agent with a
copy for each Lender (or, in the case of clause (c),
the relevant Lender), and the Administrative Agent shall deliver to each Lender
:
(a) within
two days after the delivery of any financial statements pursuant to
Section 6.1,
(i) a certificate of a Responsible Officer stating that such Responsible Officer
has obtained no knowledge of any Default or Event of Default except as specified
in such certificate and (ii) in the case of quarterly or annual financial
statements, a Compliance Certificate, substantially in the form of Exhibit
C,
containing all information and calculations reasonably necessary for determining
compliance by the Borrower with the provisions of this Agreement referred to
therein as of the last day of the fiscal quarter or fiscal year of the Borrower,
as the case may be;
(b) within
five days after the same are sent, copies of all financial statements and
reports that the Borrower sends to the holders of any class of its debt
securities or public equity securities, provided that, such financial
statements and reports shall be deemed to have delivered upon the filing of
such
financial statements and reports by the Borrower through the SEC’s XXXXX system
or publication by the Borrower of such financial statements and reports on
its
website; and
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(c) promptly,
such additional financial and other information as any Lender, through the
Administrative Agent, may from time to time reasonably request.
6.3 Payment
of Taxes. Pay all taxes due and payable or any other tax
assessments made against the Borrower or any of its Significant Subsidiaries
or
any of their respective property by any Governmental Authority (other than
(i)
any amounts the validity of which are currently being contested in good faith
by
appropriate proceedings and with respect to which reserves in conformity with
GAAP have been provided on the books of the Borrower or any of its Significant
Subsidiaries, as applicable or (ii) where the failure to effect such payment
could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse
Effect).
6.4 Maintenance
of Existence; Compliance. (a) (i) Preserve, renew and keep in
full force and effect its organizational existence, provided that the
foregoing shall not prohibit any merger, consolidation or amalgamation permitted
under Section 7.3 and (ii) take all reasonable action to maintain all
rights, privileges and franchises necessary or desirable in the normal conduct
of its business, except, in each case, as otherwise permitted by
Section 7.3
and except, in the case of clause (ii) above, to the extent that failure to
do
so could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect; (b)
comply with all Contractual Obligations except to the extent that failure to
comply therewith could not, in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have
a
Material Adverse Effect and (c) comply with all Requirements of Law except
for
any Requirements of Law being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings
and except to the extent that failure to comply therewith could not, in the
aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse
Effect.
6.5 Maintenance
of Property; Insurance. (a) Keep all property useful and
necessary in its business in good working order and condition, ordinary wear
and
tear excepted, except to the extent that failure to do so could not, in the
aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, and (b)
maintain with financially sound and reputable insurance companies insurance
on
all its material property in at least such amounts and against at least such
risks as are usually insured against in the same general area by companies
engaged in the same or a similar business of comparable size and financial
strength and owning similar properties in the same general areas in which the
Borrower operates, which may include self-insurance, if determined by the
Borrower to be reasonably prudent.
6.6 Inspection
of Property; Books and Records; Discussions. (a) Keep proper
books of records and account in which full, true and correct entries in
conformity with GAAP and all Requirements of Law shall be made of all dealings
and transactions in relation to its business and activities and (b) unless
a
Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, not more than once
a
year and after at least five Business Days’ notice, (i) permit representatives
of any Lender to visit and inspect any of its properties and examine and make
abstracts from any of its books and records at any reasonable time to discuss
the business, operations, properties and financial and other condition of the
Borrower and its Significant Subsidiaries with officers and employees of the
Borrower and its Significant Subsidiaries and (ii) use commercially reasonable
efforts to provide for the Lenders (in the presence of representatives of the
Borrower) to meet with the independent certified public accountants of the
Borrower and its Subsidiaries; provided, that any such visits or
inspections shall be subject to such conditions as the Borrower and each of
its
Significant Subsidiaries shall deem necessary
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based
on reasonable considerations of safety and security; and provided,
further, that neither the Borrower nor any Significant Subsidiary
shall
be required to disclose to any Lender or
its agents or representatives any information which is subject to the
attorney-client privilege or attorney work-product privilege properly asserted
by the applicable Person to prevent the loss of such privilege in connection
with such information or which is prevented from disclosure pursuant to a
confidentiality agreement with third parties.
6.7 Notices. Promptly
give notice to the Administrative Agent with a copy for each Lender of, and
the
Administrative Agent shall deliver such notice to each Lender:
(a) when
known to a Responsible Officer, the occurrence of any Default or Event of
Default;
(b) any
change in the Applicable Rating; and
(c) the
following events, as soon as possible and in any event within 30 days after
the
Borrower knows thereof: (i) the occurrence of any Reportable Event
with respect to any Plan, a failure to make any required contribution to a
Plan,
the creation of any Lien in favor of the PBGC or a Plan or any withdrawal from,
or the termination, Reorganization or Insolvency of, any Multiemployer Plan
or
(ii) the institution of proceedings or the taking of any other action by the
PBGC or the Borrower or any Commonly Controlled Entity or any Multiemployer
Plan
with respect to the withdrawal from, or the termination, Reorganization or
Insolvency of, any Plan.
6.8 Maintenance
of Licenses, etc. Maintain in full force and effect any
authorization, consent, license or approval of any Governmental Authority
necessary for the conduct of the Borrower’s business as now conducted by it or
necessary in connection with this Agreement, except to the extent the failure
to
do so could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse
Effect.
SECTION
7. NEGATIVE
COVENANTS
The
Borrower hereby agrees that, so long as the Commitments remain in effect, or
any
Letter of Credit, any Loan, or any interest on any Loan or any fee payable
to
any Lender or the Administrative Agent hereunder remains outstanding, or any
other amount then due and payable is owing to any Lender or the Administrative
Agent hereunder, the Borrower shall not:
7.1 Consolidated
Capitalization Ratio. Permit the Consolidated Capitalization
Ratio on the last day of any fiscal quarter, from and after the last day of
the
first fiscal quarter ending after the Effective Date, to exceed 0.65 to
1.0.
7.2 Liens. Create,
incur, assume or suffer to exist any Lien upon any assets of the Borrower,
whether now owned or hereafter acquired, except:
(a) Liens
for taxes, assessments or utility or governmental charges that are not yet
due
and payable or that are being contested in good faith by appropriate
proceedings, provided that adequate reserves with respect thereto are
maintained on the books of the Borrower in conformity with GAAP;
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(b) statutory
Liens of landlords or equipment lessors against any property of the Borrower,
carriers’, warehousemen’s, mechanics’, materialmen’s, repairmen’s or other like
Liens arising in the ordinary course of business that are not overdue for a
period of more than 30 days or that are being contested in good faith by
appropriate proceedings;
(c) pledges
or deposits in connection with workers’ compensation, unemployment insurance,
pension and other social security laws or regulations;
(d) deposits
to secure the performance of bids, trade contracts (other than for borrowed
money), leases, statutory obligations, surety and appeal bonds, performance
bonds and other obligations of a like nature incurred in the ordinary course
of
business;
(e) easements,
rights-of-way, restrictions (including zoning restrictions), minor defects
or
irregularities in title and other similar charges or encumbrances imposed by
law
or arising in the ordinary course of business that do not in any case materially
detract from the value of the property subject thereto or materially interfere
with the ordinary conduct of the business of the Borrower;
(f) Liens
in favor of collecting or payor banks having a right of setoff, revocation,
refund or chargeback with respect to money or instruments of the Borrower on
deposit with such bank;
(g) judgment
and attachment Liens not giving rise to an Event of Default under
Section 8(h) or Liens (not constituting a judgment or attachment Lien
giving rise to an Event of Default under Section 8(h)) created by or
existing from any litigation or legal proceeding that is being contested in
good
faith by appropriate proceedings;
(h) Liens
securing Indebtedness incurred to finance the purchase, lease, improvement
or
construction of capital assets, provided that (A) any such Lien shall
extend solely to the item or items of such property (or improvement thereon)
so
purchased, leased, improved or constructed, and (B) any such Lien shall be
created contemporaneously with, or within 90 days after, the purchase, lease,
improvement or construction of such property;
(i) Liens
existing on assets of a Person immediately prior to its being consolidated
with
or merged into the Borrower, or any Liens existing on any assets acquired by
the
Borrower at the time such assets are so acquired (whether or not the
Indebtedness or other obligations secured thereby shall have been assumed),
provided that (A) no such Lien shall have been created in contemplation of
such
consolidation or merger or such acquisition of assets, and (B) no such Lien
shall extend to any other assets of the Borrower; and
(j) Liens
on Capital Stock of PG&E Utility other than any Lien which secures equally
and ratably (A) the Obligations and (B) Indebtedness in an aggregate principal
amount not exceeding $2,000,000,000.
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7.3 Fundamental
Changes. Enter into any merger, consolidation or amalgamation, or
liquidate, wind up or dissolve itself (or suffer any liquidation or
dissolution), or Dispose of all or substantially all of its property or
business, except that the Borrower may be merged, consolidated or amalgamated
with another Person or Dispose of all or substantially all of its property
or
business so long as, after giving effect to such transaction, (a) no Default
or
Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, (b) either (i) the
Borrower is the continuing or surviving corporation of such merger,
consolidation or amalgamation or (ii) the continuing or surviving corporation
of
such merger, consolidation or amalgamation, if not the Borrower or the
purchaser, as the case may be, shall have assumed all obligations of the
Borrower under the Loan Documents pursuant to arrangements reasonably
satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and (c) the ratings by Xxxxx’x and
S&P of the continuing or surviving corporation’s or purchaser’s, as the case
may be, senior, unsecured, non credit-enhanced debt shall be at least the higher
of (1) Baa3 from Xxxxx’x and BBB- from S&P and (2) the ratings by
such rating agencies of the Borrower’s senior, unsecured, non credit-enhanced
debt in effect before the earlier of the occurrence or the public announcement
of such event.
7.4 Ownership
of PG&E Utility Common Stock. Permit ownership by the
Borrower, at any time, either directly, or indirectly through one or more
Subsidiaries, of less than 80% of the outstanding common stock of PG&E
Utility and less than 70% of the outstanding voting stock of PG&E
Utility.
SECTION
8. EVENTS
OF DEFAULT
If
any of the following events shall occur and be continuing on or after the
Effective Date:
(a) the
Borrower shall fail to pay any principal of any Loan or Reimbursement Obligation
when due in accordance with the terms hereof; or the Borrower shall fail to
pay
any interest on any Loan or Reimbursement Obligation, or any other amount
payable hereunder or under any other Loan Document, within
five Business Days after any such interest or other amount
becomes due in accordance with the terms hereof; or
(b) any
representation or warranty made or deemed made by the Borrower herein or in
any
other Loan Document or that is contained in any certificate, document or
financial or other statement furnished by it at any time under or in connection
with this Agreement or any such other Loan Document shall prove to have been
inaccurate in any material respect on or as of the date made or deemed made,
unless, as of any date of determination, the facts or circumstances to which
such representation or warranty relates have changed with the result that such
representation or warranty is true and correct in all material respects on
such
date; or
(c) the
Borrower shall default in the observance or performance of any agreement
contained in Sections 7.1, 7.3 or 7.4 of this Agreement; or
(d) the
Borrower shall default in the observance or performance of any other agreement
contained in this Agreement or any other Loan Document (other than as provided
in paragraphs (a)
through (c) of this Section ), and such default shall continue
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unremedied
for a period of 30 days after notice to the Borrower from
the Required Lenders; or
(e) the
Borrower or any of its Significant Subsidiaries shall (i) default in making
any
payment of any principal of any Indebtedness (including any Guarantee
Obligation, but excluding the Loans) on the due date with respect thereto (after
giving effect to any period of grace, if any, provided in the instrument or
agreement under which such Indebtedness was created); or (ii) default in making
any payment of any interest on any such Indebtedness beyond the period of grace,
if any, provided in the instrument or agreement under which such Indebtedness
was created; or (iii) default in the observance or performance of any other
agreement or condition relating to any such Indebtedness or contained in any
instrument or agreement evidencing, securing or relating thereto, or any other
event shall occur or condition exist, the effect of which default or other
event
or condition is to cause, or (in the case of all Indebtedness other than
Indebtedness under any Swap Agreement) to permit the holder or beneficiary
of
such Indebtedness (or a trustee or agent on behalf of such holder or
beneficiary) to cause, with the giving of notice if required, such Indebtedness
to become due prior to its stated maturity or (in the case of any such
Indebtedness constituting a Guarantee Obligation) to become payable;
provided, that a default, event or condition described in clause (i),
(ii) or (iii) of this paragraph (e)
shall not at any time constitute an Event of Default unless, at such time,
one
or more defaults, events or conditions of the type described in clauses (i),
(ii) and (iii) of this paragraph (e)
shall have occurred and be continuing with respect to Indebtedness the
outstanding principal amount of which exceeds in the aggregate $100,000,000;
provided further, that unless payment of the Loans hereunder has already
been accelerated, if such default shall be cured by the Borrower or such
Significant Subsidiary or waived by the holders of such Indebtedness and any
acceleration of maturity having resulted from such default shall be rescinded
or
annulled, in each case, in accordance with the terms of such agreement or
instrument, without any modification of the terms of such Indebtedness requiring
the Borrower or such Significant Subsidiary to furnish security or additional
security therefor, reducing the average life to maturity thereof or increasing
the principal amount thereof, or any agreement by the Borrower or such
Significant Subsidiary to furnish security or additional security therefor
or to
issue in lieu thereof Indebtedness secured by additional or other collateral
or
with a shorter average life to maturity or in a greater principal amount, then
any Default hereunder by reason thereof shall be deemed likewise to have been
thereupon cured or waived; or
(f) (i)
the Borrower or any of its Significant Subsidiaries shall commence any case,
proceeding or other action (A) under any existing or future law of any
jurisdiction, domestic or foreign, relating to bankruptcy, insolvency,
reorganization or relief of debtors, seeking to have an order for relief entered
with respect to it, or seeking to adjudicate it a bankrupt or insolvent, or
seeking reorganization, arrangement, adjustment, winding-up, liquidation,
dissolution, composition or other relief with respect to it or its debts, or
(B)
seeking appointment of a receiver, trustee, custodian, conservator or other
similar official for it or for all or any substantial part of its assets, or
the
Borrower or any of its Significant Subsidiaries shall make a general assignment
for the benefit of its creditors; or (ii) there shall be commenced against
the
Borrower or any of its Significant Subsidiaries any case, proceeding or other
action of a nature referred to in clause (i)
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above
that (A) results in the entry of an order for relief or any such adjudication
or
appointment or (B) remains undismissed, undischarged or unbonded for a period
of
60 days; or (iii) there shall be commenced against the Borrower or any of its
Significant Subsidiaries any case, proceeding or other action seeking issuance
of a warrant of attachment, execution, distraint or similar process against
all
or any substantial part of its assets that results in the entry of an order
for
any such relief that shall not have been vacated, discharged, or stayed or
bonded pending appeal within 60 days from the entry thereof; or (iv) the
Borrower or any of its Significant Subsidiaries shall generally not, or shall
be
unable to, or shall admit in writing its inability to, pay its debts as they
become due; or
(g) a
trustee shall be appointed to administer any Plan under Section 4042 of
ERISA, or the PBGC shall institute proceedings to terminate, or to have a
trustee appointed to administer any Plan and such proceedings shall continue
undismissed or unstayed and in effect for a period of 30 days, and any such
event could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect;
or
(h) one
or more judgments or decrees shall be entered against the Borrower or any of
its
Significant Subsidiaries involving in the aggregate a liability (not paid or,
subject to customary deductibles, fully covered by insurance as to which the
relevant insurance company has not denied coverage) of $100,000,000 or more,
and
all such judgments or decrees shall not have been vacated, discharged, stayed
or
bonded pending appeal within 30 days from the entry thereof; or
(i) there
shall have occurred a Change of Control.
then,
and in any such event, (A) if such event is an Event of Default specified in
clause (i) or (ii) of paragraph (f)
above with respect to the Borrower, automatically the Commitments shall
immediately terminate and the Loans (with accrued interest thereon) and all
other amounts owing under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents (including
all amounts of L/C Obligations, whether or not the beneficiaries of the then
outstanding Letters of Credit shall have presented the documents required
thereunder) shall immediately become due and payable, and (B) if such event
is
any other Event of Default, either or both of the following actions may be
taken: (i) with the consent of the Required Lenders, the
Administrative Agent may, or upon the request of the Required Lenders, the
Administrative Agent shall, by notice to the Borrower declare the Commitments
to
be terminated forthwith, whereupon the Commitments shall immediately terminate;
and (ii) with the consent of the Required Lenders, the Administrative Agent
may,
or upon the request of the Required Lenders, the Administrative Agent shall,
by
notice to the Borrower, declare the Loans (with accrued interest thereon) and
all other amounts owing under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents
(including all amounts of L/C Obligations, whether or not the beneficiaries
of
the then outstanding Letters of Credit shall have presented the documents
required thereunder) to be due and payable forthwith, whereupon the same shall
immediately become due and payable. With respect to all Letters of
Credit with respect to which presentment for honor shall not have occurred
at
the time of an acceleration pursuant to this paragraph, the Borrower shall
at
such time deposit in a cash collateral account opened by the Administrative
Agent an amount equal to the aggregate then undrawn and unexpired amount of
such
Letters of Credit. Amounts held in such cash collateral account shall
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be
applied by the Administrative Agent to the payment of drafts drawn under such
Letters of Credit, and the unused portion thereof after all such Letters of
Credit shall have expired or been fully drawn upon, if any, shall be applied
to
repay other obligations of the Borrower hereunder and under the other Loan
Documents. After all such Letters of Credit shall have expired or
been fully drawn upon, all Reimbursement Obligations shall have been satisfied
and all other obligations of the Borrower hereunder and under the other Loan
Documents shall have been paid in full, the balance, if any, in such cash
collateral account shall be returned to the Borrower (or such other Person
as
may be lawfully entitled thereto). Except as expressly provided above
in this Section, presentment, demand, protest and all other notices of any
kind
are hereby expressly waived by the Borrower.
SECTION
9. THE
AGENTS
9.1 Appointment. Each
Lender hereby irrevocably designates and appoints the Administrative Agent
as
the agent of such Lender under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents,
and
each such Lender irrevocably authorizes the Administrative Agent, in such
capacity, to take such action on its behalf under the provisions of this
Agreement and the other Loan Documents and to exercise such powers and perform
such duties as are expressly delegated to the Administrative Agent by the terms
of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, together with such other powers
as are reasonably incidental thereto. Notwithstanding any provision
to the contrary elsewhere in this Agreement, the Administrative Agent shall
not
have any duties or responsibilities, except those expressly set forth herein,
or
any fiduciary relationship with any Lender, and no implied covenants, functions,
responsibilities, duties, obligations or liabilities shall be read into this
Agreement or any other Loan Document or otherwise exist against the
Administrative Agent.
9.2 Delegation
of Duties. The Administrative Agent may execute any of its duties
under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents by or through agents or
attorneys-in-fact and shall be entitled to advice of counsel concerning all
matters pertaining to such duties. The Administrative Agent shall not
be responsible for the negligence or misconduct of any agents or
attorneys-in-fact selected by it with reasonable care.
9.3 Exculpatory
Provisions. Neither any Agent nor any of their respective
officers, directors, employees, agents, attorneys-in-fact or affiliates shall
be
(i) liable for any action lawfully taken or omitted to be taken by it or such
Person under or in connection with this Agreement or any other Loan Document
(except to the extent that any of the foregoing are found by a final and
nonappealable decision of a court of competent jurisdiction to have resulted
from its or such Person’s own gross negligence or willful misconduct) or (ii)
responsible in any manner to any of the Lenders for any recitals, statements,
representations or warranties made by the Borrower or any officer thereof
contained in this Agreement or any other Loan Document or in any certificate,
report, statement or other document referred to or provided for in, or received
by the Agents under or in connection with, this Agreement or any other Loan
Document or for the value, validity, effectiveness, genuineness, enforceability
or sufficiency of this Agreement or any other Loan Document or for any failure
of the Borrower to perform its obligations hereunder or
thereunder. The Agents shall not be under any obligation to any
Lender to ascertain or to inquire as to the observance or performance of any
of
the agreements contained in, or conditions
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of,
this Agreement or any other Loan Document, or to inspect the properties,
books
or records of the Borrower.
9.4 Reliance
by Administrative Agent. The Administrative Agent shall be
entitled to rely, and shall be fully protected in relying, upon any instrument,
writing, resolution, notice, consent, certificate, affidavit, letter, telecopy,
telex or teletype message, statement, order or other document or conversation
believed by it to be genuine and correct and to have been signed, sent or made
by the proper Person or Persons and upon advice and statements of legal counsel
(including counsel to the Borrower), independent accountants and other experts
selected by the Administrative Agent. The Administrative Agent may
deem and treat the payee of any Note as the owner thereof for all purposes
unless a written notice of assignment, negotiation or transfer thereof shall
have been filed with the Administrative Agent. The Administrative
Agent shall be fully justified in failing or refusing to take any action under
this Agreement or any other Loan Document unless it shall first receive such
advice or concurrence of the Required Lenders (or, if so specified by this
Agreement, all Lenders) as it deems appropriate or it shall first be indemnified
to its satisfaction by the Lenders against any and all liability and expense
that may be incurred by it by reason of taking or continuing to take any such
action. The Administrative Agent shall in all cases be fully
protected in acting, or in refraining from acting, under this Agreement and
the
other Loan Documents in accordance with a request of the Required Lenders (or,
if so specified by this Agreement, all Lenders), and such request and any action
taken or failure to act pursuant thereto shall be binding upon all the Lenders
and all future holders of the Loans.
9.5 Notice
of Default. The Administrative Agent shall not be deemed to have
knowledge or notice of the occurrence of any Default or Event of Default unless
the Administrative Agent has received notice from a Lender or the Borrower
referring to this Agreement, describing such Default or Event of Default and
stating that such notice is a “notice of default”. In the event that
the Administrative Agent receives such a notice, the Administrative Agent shall
give notice thereof to the Lenders. The Administrative Agent shall
take such action with respect to such Default or Event of Default as shall
be
reasonably directed by the Required Lenders (or, if so specified by this
Agreement, all Lenders); provided that unless and until the
Administrative Agent shall have received such directions, the Administrative
Agent may (but shall not be obligated to) take such action, or refrain from
taking such action, with respect to such Default or Event of Default as it
shall
deem advisable in the best interests of the Lenders.
9.6 Non-Reliance
on Agents and Other Lenders. Each Lender expressly acknowledges
that neither the Agents nor any of their respective officers, directors,
employees, agents, attorneys-in-fact or affiliates have made any representations
or warranties to it and that no act by any Agent hereafter taken, including
any
review of the affairs of the Borrower or any of its affiliates, shall be deemed
to constitute any representation or warranty by any Agent to any
Lender. Each Lender represents to the Agents that it has,
independently and without reliance upon any Agent or any other Lender, and
based
on such documents and information as it has deemed appropriate, made its own
appraisal of and investigation into the business, operations, property,
financial and other condition and creditworthiness of the Borrower and its
affiliates and made its own decision to make its Loans hereunder and enter
into
this Agreement. Each Lender also represents that it will,
independently and without reliance upon any Agent or any other Lender, and
based
on such documents and information as it shall deem appropriate at the time,
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continue
to make its own credit analysis, appraisals and decisions in taking or not
taking action under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, and to make
such investigation as it deems necessary to inform itself as to the business,
operations, property, financial and other condition and creditworthiness
of the
Borrower and its affiliates. Except for notices, reports and other
documents expressly required to be furnished to the Lenders by the
Administrative Agent hereunder, the Administrative Agent shall not have any
duty
or responsibility to provide any Lender with any credit or other information
concerning the business, operations, property, condition (financial or
otherwise), prospects or creditworthiness of the Borrower or any of its
affiliates that may come into the possession of the Administrative Agent
or any
of its officers, directors, employees, agents, attorneys-in-fact or
affiliates.
9.7 Indemnification. The
Lenders agree to indemnify each Agent in its capacity as such (to the extent
not
reimbursed by the Borrower and without limiting the obligation of the Borrower
to do so), ratably according to their respective Percentages in effect on the
date on which indemnification is sought under this Section (or, if
indemnification is sought after the date upon which the Commitments shall have
terminated and the Loans shall have been paid in full, ratably in accordance
with such Percentages immediately prior to such date), from and against any
and
all liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments,
suits, costs, expenses or disbursements of any kind whatsoever that may at
any
time (whether before or after the payment of the Loans) be imposed on, incurred
by or asserted against such Agent in any way relating to or arising out of,
the
Commitments, this Agreement, any of the other Loan Documents or any documents
contemplated by or referred to herein or therein or the transactions
contemplated hereby or thereby or any action taken or omitted by such Agent
under or in connection with any of the foregoing; provided that no Lender
shall be liable for the payment of any portion of such liabilities, obligations,
losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments, suits, costs, expenses or
disbursements that are found by a final and nonappealable decision of a court
of
competent jurisdiction to have resulted from such Agent’s gross negligence or
willful misconduct. The agreements in this Section shall survive
for two years after repayment of the Loans and all other amounts payable
hereunder.
9.8 Agent
in Its Individual Capacity. Each Agent and its affiliates may
make loans to, accept deposits from and generally engage in any kind of business
with the Borrower as though such Agent were not an Agent. With
respect to its Loans made or renewed by it and with respect to any Letter of
Credit issued or participated in by it, each Agent shall have the same rights
and powers under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents as any Lender
and
may exercise the same as though it were not an Agent, and the terms “Lender” and
“Lenders” shall include each Agent in its individual capacity.
9.9 Successor
Administrative Agent. The Administrative Agent may resign as
Administrative Agent upon 10 days’ notice to the Lenders and the
Borrower. If the Administrative Agent shall resign as Administrative
Agent under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, then the Required
Lenders shall appoint from among the Lenders a successor agent for the Lenders,
which successor agent shall (unless an Event of Default under Section 8(f)
with
respect to the Borrower shall have occurred and be continuing) be subject to
approval by the Borrower (which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld
or
delayed), whereupon such successor agent shall succeed to the rights, powers
and
duties of the Administrative Agent, and the term “Administrative Agent”
shall mean such successor agent effective upon such
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appointment
and approval, and the former Administrative Agent’s rights, powers and duties as
Administrative Agent shall be terminated, without any other or further act
or
deed on the part of such former Administrative Agent or any of the parties
to
this Agreement or any holders of the Loans. If no successor agent has
accepted appointment as Administrative Agent by the date that is 10 days
following a retiring Administrative Agent’s notice of resignation, the retiring
Administrative Agent’s resignation shall nevertheless thereupon become
effective, and the Lenders shall assume and perform all of the duties of
the
Administrative Agent hereunder until such time, if any, as the Required Lenders
appoint a successor agent as provided for above. After any retiring
Administrative Agent’s resignation as Administrative Agent, the provisions of
this Section 9 shall inure to its benefit as to any actions taken or omitted
to
be taken by it while it was Administrative Agent under this Agreement and
the
other Loan Documents.
9.10 Documentation
Agents and Syndication Agent. None of the Documentation Agents or
the Syndication Agent shall have any duties or responsibilities hereunder in
its
capacity as such.
SECTION
10. MISCELLANEOUS
10.1 Amendments
and Waivers. Neither this Agreement, any other Loan Document, nor
any terms hereof or thereof may be amended, supplemented or modified except
in
accordance with the provisions of this Section 10.1. The
Required Lenders and the Borrower may, or, with the written consent of the
Required Lenders, the Administrative Agent and the Borrower may, from time
to
time, (a) enter into written amendments, supplements or modifications hereto
and
to the other Loan Documents for the purpose of adding any provisions to this
Agreement or the other Loan Documents or changing in any manner the rights
of
the Lenders or of the Borrower hereunder or thereunder or (b) waive, on such
terms and conditions as the Required Lenders or the Administrative Agent, as
the
case may be, may specify in such instrument, any of the requirements of this
Agreement or the other Loan Documents or any Default or Event of Default and
its
consequences; provided, however, that no such waiver and no such
amendment, supplement or modification shall:
(i) forgive
the principal amount or extend the final scheduled date of maturity of any
Loan,
reduce the stated rate of any interest or fee payable hereunder (except in
connection with the waiver of applicability of any post-default increase in
interest rates (which waiver shall be effective with the consent of the Required
Lenders)) or extend the scheduled date of any payment thereof, or increase
the
amount or extend the expiration date of any Lender’s Commitment, in each case
without the written consent of each Lender directly affected thereby (except
that only the Lenders who are increasing their Commitments are required to
consent to a request by the Borrower under Section 2.3 to increase the
Total Commitments);
(ii) eliminate
or reduce the voting rights of any Lender under this Section 10.1
or Section 10.6(a)(i)
without the written consent of such Lender;
(iii) reduce
any percentage specified in the definition of Required Lenders, consent to
the
assignment or transfer by the Borrower of any of its rights
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and
obligations under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, in each case
without the written consent of all Lenders;
(iv) amend,
modify or waive any provision of Section 2.14
related to pro rata treatment without the consent of each Lender
directly affected thereby;
(v) amend,
modify or waive any provision of Section 9 without the written consent of the
Administrative Agent;
(vi) amend,
modify or waive any provision of Section 2.4 or 2.5
without the written consent of the Swingline Lender;
(vii) amend,
modify or waive any provision of Section 5.1 without the consent of all the
Lenders; or
(viii) amend,
modify or waive any provision of Section 3 or any other provision affecting
the
Issuing Lenders without the written consent of each Issuing Lender affected
thereby.
Any
such waiver and any such amendment, supplement or modification shall apply
equally to each of the Lenders and shall be binding upon the Borrower, the
Lenders, the Administrative Agent and all future holders of the
Loans. In the case of any waiver, the Borrower, the Lenders and the
Administrative Agent shall be restored to their former position and rights
hereunder and under the other Loan Documents, and any Default or Event of
Default waived shall be deemed to be cured and not continuing; but no such
waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other Default or Event of Default,
or
impair any right consequent thereon.
If
the Required Lenders shall have approved any amendment which requires the
consent of all of the Lenders, the Borrower shall be permitted to replace any
non-consenting Lender with another financial institution, provided that,
(i)the replacement financial institution shall purchase at par, all Loans and
other amounts owing to such replaced Lender on or prior to the date of
replacement, (ii) the Borrower shall be liable to such replaced Lender under
Section 2.17
if any Eurodollar Loan owing to such replaced Lender shall be purchased other
than on the last day of the Interest Period relating thereto (as if such
purchase constituted a prepayment of such Loans), (iii) such replacement
financial institution, if not already a Lender, shall be reasonably satisfactory
to the Administrative Agent and, with respect to any replacement financial
institution that is not an Eligible Assignee, each Issuing Lender, (iv) the
replaced Lender shall be obligated to make such replacement in accordance with
the provisions of Section 10.6
(provided that the Borrower shall be obligated to pay the registration
and processing fee referred to therein) and (v) any such replacement shall
not
be deemed to be a waiver of any rights the Borrower, the Administrative Agent
or
any other Lender shall have against the replaced Lender.
10.2 Notices. All
notices, requests and demands to or upon the respective parties hereto to be
effective shall be in writing (including by telecopy), and, unless otherwise
expressly provided herein, shall be deemed to have been duly given or made
when
delivered, or three Business Days after being deposited in the mail, postage
prepaid, or, in the case of telecopy notice, when received, addressed as follows
in the case of the Borrower and the Administrative
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Agent,
and as set forth in an administrative questionnaire delivered to the
Administrative Agent in the case of the Lenders, or to such other address
as may
be hereafter notified by the respective parties hereto:
Borrower:
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PG&E
Corporation
Xxx
Xxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxx
Xxxxx, Xxxxx 0000
Xxx
Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx 00000
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Attention: Assistant
Treasurer
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Telecopy: (000)
000-0000/7268
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Telephone: (000)
000-0000/(000) 000-0000
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with
a copy to:
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PG&E
Corporation
Xxx
Xxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxx
Xxxxx, Xxxxx 0000
Xxx
Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx 00000
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Attention:
Chief Counsel, Corporate
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Telecopy:
(000) 000-0000
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Telephone:
(000) 000-0000
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Administrative
Agent:
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BNP
Paribas
000
0xx Xxxxxx
Xxx
Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
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Attention: Xxxxxxxx
Xxxxx
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Telecopy: (000)
000-0000
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Telephone: (000)
000-0000
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Issuing
Lender:
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As
notified by the Issuing Lender to the Administrative Agent and the
Borrower.
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provided
that any notice, request or demand to or upon the Administrative Agent, the
Issuing Lenders or any Lender shall not be effective until
received.
Notices
and other communications to the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Lenders or
the
Lenders hereunder may be delivered or furnished by electronic communications
pursuant to procedures approved by the Administrative Agent; provided
that the foregoing shall not apply to notices pursuant to Section 2 unless
otherwise agreed by the Administrative Agent, the applicable Issuing Lender
and
each Lender. The Administrative Agent or the Borrower may, in its
discretion, agree to accept notices and other communications to it hereunder
by
electronic communications pursuant to procedures approved by it; provided
that approval of such procedures may be limited to particular notices or
communications.
10.3 No
Waiver; Cumulative Remedies. No failure to exercise and no delay
in exercising, on the part of the Administrative Agent or any Lender, any right,
remedy, power or privilege hereunder or under the other Loan Documents shall
operate as a waiver thereof; nor
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shall
any single or partial exercise of any right, remedy, power or privilege
hereunder preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise
of any
other right, remedy, power or privilege. The rights, remedies, powers
and privileges herein provided are cumulative and not exclusive of any rights,
remedies, powers and privileges provided by law.
10.4 Survival
of Representations and Warranties. All representations and
warranties made hereunder, in the other Loan Documents and in any document,
certificate or statement delivered pursuant hereto or in connection herewith
shall survive the execution and delivery of this Agreement and the making of
the
Loans and other extensions of credit hereunder.
10.5 Payment
of Expenses and Taxes. The Borrower agrees (a) to pay or
reimburse the Administrative Agent, each Issuing Lender and the Lenders for
all
their respective reasonable out-of-pocket costs and expenses incurred in
connection with the development, preparation and execution of, and any
amendment, supplement or modification to, this Agreement and the other Loan
Documents and any other documents prepared in connection herewith or therewith,
and the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby,
including the reasonable fees and disbursements of only one counsel to the
Administrative Agent and filing and recording fees and expenses, with statements
with respect to the foregoing to be submitted to the Borrower prior to the
Effective Date (in the case of amounts to be paid on the Effective Date) and
from time to time thereafter on a quarterly basis or such other periodic basis
as the Administrative Agent shall deem appropriate, (b) to pay or reimburse
each
Lender, each Issuing Lender and the Administrative Agent for all its costs
and
expenses incurred in connection with the enforcement or preservation of any
rights under this Agreement, the other Loan Documents and any such other
documents, including the fees and disbursements of only one counsel to the
Administrative Agent, the Lenders and the Issuing Lenders, (c) to pay,
indemnify, and hold each Lender, each Issuing Lender and the Administrative
Agent harmless from, any and all recording and filing fees and any and all
liabilities with respect to, or resulting from any delay in paying, stamp,
excise and Other Taxes, if any, that may be payable or determined to be payable
in connection with the execution and delivery of, or consummation of any of
the
transactions contemplated by, or any amendment, supplement or modification
of,
or any waiver or consent under or in respect of, this Agreement, the other
Loan
Documents and any such other documents, and (d) to pay, indemnify, and hold
each
Lender, each Issuing Lender and the Administrative Agent and their respective
officers, directors, employees, affiliates, agents and controlling persons
(each, an “Indemnitee”) harmless from and against any and all other
liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments, suits,
costs, expenses or disbursements of any kind or nature whatsoever with respect
to the execution, delivery, enforcement and performance of this Agreement,
the
other Loan Documents and any such other documents, including any of the
foregoing relating to the use of proceeds of the Loans or the violation of,
noncompliance with or liability under, any Environmental Law applicable to
the
operations of the Borrower and its Significant Subsidiaries or any of the
Properties and the reasonable fees and expenses of one legal counsel in
connection with claims, actions or proceedings by any Indemnitee against the
Borrower under any Loan Document (all the foregoing in this clause (d),
collectively, the “Indemnified Liabilities”), provided, that the
Borrower shall have no obligation hereunder to any Indemnitee with respect
to
Indemnified Liabilities to the extent such Indemnified Liabilities resulted
from
the gross negligence or willful misconduct of such
Indemnitee. Without limiting the foregoing, and to the extent
permitted by applicable law, the Borrower agrees not to assert and to cause
its
Significant Subsidiaries not to
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assert,
and hereby waives and agrees to cause its Significant Subsidiaries to waive,
all
rights for contribution or any other rights of recovery with respect to all
claims, demands, penalties, fines, liabilities, settlements, damages, costs
and
expenses of whatever kind or nature, under or related to Environmental Laws,
that any of them might have by statute or otherwise against any
Indemnitee. All amounts due under this Section 10.5
shall be payable not later than 30 days after written demand therefor, subject
to the Borrower’s receipt of reasonably detailed invoices. Statements
payable by the Borrower pursuant to this Section 10.5
shall be submitted to Assistant Treasurer (Telephone No.(000) 000-0000/(000)
000-0000) (Telecopy No.(000) 000-0000/7268), at the address of the Borrower
set
forth in Section 10.2 with a copy to Chief Counsel, Corporate (Telephone
No. (000) 000-0000) (Telecopy No. (000) 000-0000), at the address of the
Borrower set forth in Section 10.2,
or to such other Person or address as may be hereafter designated by the
Borrower in a written notice to the Administrative Agent. The
agreements in this Section 10.5
shall survive for two years after repayment of the Loans and all other amounts
payable hereunder.
10.6 Successors
and Assigns; Participations and Assignments. (a) The provisions
of this Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties
hereto and their respective successors and assigns permitted hereby (including
any affiliate of the Issuing Lender that issues any Letter of Credit), except
that (i) the Borrower may not assign or otherwise transfer any of its rights
or
obligations hereunder without the prior written consent of each Lender (and
any
attempted assignment or transfer by the Borrower without such consent shall
be
null and void) and (ii) no Lender may assign or otherwise transfer its rights
or
obligations hereunder except in accordance with this
Section 10.6.
(b) (i)
Subject to the conditions set forth in paragraph (b) (ii) below, any Lender
may
assign to one or more assignees (each, an “Assignee”) all or a portion of
its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including all or a portion
of
its Commitments and the Loans at the time owing to it) with the prior written
consent (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld) of:
(A) the
Borrower, provided that no consent of the Borrower shall be required for
an assignment to a Lender, an Eligible Assignee that is an affiliate of any
Lender party to this Agreement on the Effective Date or, if an Event of Default
has occurred and is continuing, any other Person;
(B) the
Administrative Agent, provided that no consent of the Administrative
Agent shall be required for an assignment of any Commitment to an assignee
that
is a Lender (or an affiliate of a Lender) with a Commitment immediately prior
to
giving effect to such assignment; and
(C)
each Issuing Lender, provided that no consent of any Issuing Lender shall
be required for any assignment to an Eligible Assignee.
(ii) Assignments
shall be subject to the following additional conditions:
(A) except
in the case of an assignment to a Lender, an Eligible Assignee that is an
affiliate of any Lender party to this Agreement on the
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Effective Date or an assignment of the entire remaining amount
of the assigning Lender’s Commitments or Loans, the amount of the Commitments or
Loans of the assigning Lender subject to each such assignment (determined
as of
the date the Assignment and Assumption with respect to such assignment is
delivered to the Administrative Agent) shall not be less than $5,000,000
unless
each of the Borrower and the Administrative Agent otherwise consent,
provided that (1)no such consent of the Borrower shall be required if an
Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and (2)with respect to any
Lender party to this Agreement on the Effective Date, such amounts shall
be
aggregated in respect of such Lender and any affiliate of such Lender that
is an
Eligible Assignee;
(B) the
parties to each assignment shall execute and deliver to the Administrative
Agent
an Assignment and Assumption, together with a processing and recordation fee
of
$3,500; and
(C) the
Assignee, if it shall not be a Lender, shall deliver to the Administrative
Agent
an administrative questionnaire.
(iii) Subject
to acceptance and recording thereof pursuant to paragraph(b) (iv) below, from
and after the effective date specified in each Assignment and Assumption the
Assignee thereunder shall be a party hereto and, to the extent of the interest
assigned by such Assignment and Assumption, have the rights and obligations
of a
Lender under this Agreement, and the assigning Lender thereunder shall, to
the
extent of the interest assigned by such Assignment and Assumption, be released
from its obligations under this Agreement (and, in the case of an Assignment
and
Assumption covering all of the assigning Lender’s rights and obligations under
this Agreement, such Lender shall cease to be a party hereto but shall continue
to be entitled to the benefits of Sections 2.15,
2.16,
2.17
and 10.5
but shall be subject to the limitations set forth therein). Any
assignment or transfer by a Lender of rights or obligations under this Agreement
that does not comply with this Section 10.6 shall be treated for purposes
of this Agreement as a sale by such Lender of a participation in such rights
and
obligations in accordance with paragraph (c)
of this Section .
(iv) The
Administrative Agent, acting for this purpose as an agent of the Borrower,
shall
maintain at one of its offices a copy of each Assignment and Assumption
delivered to it and a register for the recordation of the names and addresses
of
the Lenders, and the Commitments of, and principal amount of the Loans and
L/C
Obligations owing to, each Lender pursuant to the terms hereof from time to
time
(the “Register”). The entries in the Register shall be
conclusive, in the absence of manifest error, and the Borrower, the
Administrative Agent, the Issuing Lenders and the Lenders may treat each Person
whose name is recorded in the Register pursuant to the terms hereof as a Lender
hereunder for all purposes of this Agreement, notwithstanding notice to the
contrary. The Register shall be available for inspection by the
Borrower, each Issuing Lender and any Lender, at any reasonable time and from
time to time upon reasonable prior notice.
(v) Upon
its receipt of a duly completed Assignment and Assumption executed by an
assigning Lender and an Assignee, the Assignee’s completed administrative
questionnaire (unless the Assignee shall already be a Lender hereunder), the
processing and
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recordation
fee referred to in paragraph (b)
of this Section and any written consent to such assignment required by
paragraph (b)
of this Section, the Administrative Agent shall accept such Assignment and
Assumption and record the information contained therein in the
Register. No assignment shall be effective for purposes of this
Agreement unless it has been recorded in the Register as provided in this
paragraph.
(c) (i) Any
Lender may, without the consent of the Borrower or the Administrative Agent,
sell participations to one or more banks or other entities (a
“Participant”) in all or a portion of such Lender’s rights and
obligations under this Agreement (including all or a portion of its Commitments
and the Loans owing to it); provided that (A) such Lender’s obligations
under this Agreement shall remain unchanged, (B) such Lender shall remain solely
responsible to the other parties hereto for the performance of such obligations
and (C) the Borrower, the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Lender and the
other
Lenders shall continue to deal solely and directly with such Lender in
connection with such Lender’s rights and obligations under this
Agreement. Any agreement pursuant to which a Lender sells such a
participation shall provide that such Lender shall retain the sole right to
enforce this Agreement and to approve any amendment, modification or waiver
of
any provision of this Agreement; provided that such agreement may provide
that such Lender will not, without the consent of the Participant, agree to
any
amendment, modification or waiver that (1) requires the consent of each Lender
directly affected thereby pursuant to the proviso to the second sentence of
Section 10.1
and (2) directly affects such Participant. Subject to paragraph
(c)(ii) of this Section, the Borrower agrees that each Participant shall be
entitled to the benefits of Sections 2.15,
2.16
and 2.17
to the same extent as if it were a Lender and had acquired its interest by
assignment pursuant to paragraph (b)
of this Section .
(ii) Notwithstanding
anything to the contrary herein, a Participant shall not be entitled to receive
any greater payment under Section 2.15
or 2.16
than the applicable Lender would have been entitled to receive with respect
to
the participation sold to such Participant, unless the sale of the participation
to such Participant is made with the Borrower’s prior written consent to such
greater payments. Any Participant that is a Non-U.S. Lender shall not
be entitled to the benefits of Section 2.16
unless such Participant complies with Section 2.16(d).
(d) Any
Lender may at any time pledge or assign a security interest in all or any
portion of its rights under this Agreement to secure obligations of such Lender,
including any pledge or assignment to secure obligations to a Federal Reserve
Bank, and this Section shall not apply to any such pledge or assignment of
a security interest; provided that no such pledge or assignment of a
security interest shall release a Lender from any of its obligations hereunder
or substitute any such pledgee or Assignee for such Lender as a party
hereto.
(e) The
Borrower, upon receipt of written notice from the relevant Lender, agrees to
issue Notes to any Lender requiring Notes to facilitate transactions of the
type
described in paragraph (d)
above.
(f) Notwithstanding
the foregoing, any Conduit Lender may assign any or all of the Loans it may
have
funded hereunder to its designating Lender without the consent of the Borrower
or the Administrative Agent and without regard to the limitations set forth
in
Section 10.6(b). Each
of the Borrower, each Lender and the Administrative Agent hereby
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confirms
that it will not institute against a Conduit Lender or join any other Person
in
instituting against a Conduit Lender any bankruptcy, reorganization,
arrangement, insolvency or liquidation proceeding under any state bankruptcy
or
similar law, for one year and one day after the payment in full of the latest
maturing commercial paper note issued by such Conduit Lender; provided,
however, that each Lender designating any Conduit Lender hereby agrees to
indemnify, save and hold harmless each other party hereto for any loss, cost,
damage, expense, obligations, penalties, actions, judgments, suits or any
kind
whatsoever arising out of its inability to institute such a proceeding against
such Conduit Lender during such period of forbearance.
(g) Notwithstanding
anything to the contrary in this Section, none of the Agents, in their capacity
as Lenders, will assign without the consent of the Borrower, prior to the
Effective Date, any of the Commitments held by them on the date of this
Agreement.
10.7 Adjustments;
Set-off. (a) Except to the extent that this Agreement expressly
provides for payments to be allocated to a particular Lender, if any Lender
(a
“Benefitted Lender”) shall receive any payment of all or part of the
Obligations owing to it hereunder, or receive any collateral in respect thereof
(whether voluntarily or involuntarily, by set-off, pursuant to events or
proceedings of the nature referred to in Section 8(f), or otherwise), in a
greater proportion than any such payment to or collateral received by any other
Lender, if any, in respect of the Obligations owing to such other Lender
hereunder, such Benefitted Lender shall purchase for cash from the other Lenders
a participating interest in such portion of the Obligations owing to each such
other Lender hereunder, or shall provide such other Lenders with the benefits
of
any such collateral, as shall be necessary to cause such Benefitted Lender
to
share the excess payment or benefits of such collateral ratably with each of
the
Lenders; provided, however, that if all or any portion of such
excess payment or benefits is thereafter recovered from such Benefitted Lender,
such purchase shall be rescinded, and the purchase price and benefits returned,
to the extent of such recovery, but without interest.
(b) In
addition to any rights and remedies of the Lenders provided by law, including
other rights of set-off, each Lender shall have the right, without prior notice
to the Borrower, any such notice being expressly waived by the Borrower to
the
extent permitted by applicable law, upon any amount becoming due and payable
by
the Borrower hereunder (whether at the stated maturity, by acceleration or
otherwise), after any applicable grace period, to set off and appropriate and
apply against such amount any and all deposits (general or special, time or
demand, provisional or final), in any currency, and any other credits,
indebtedness or claims, in any currency, in each case whether direct or
indirect, absolute or contingent, matured or unmatured, at any time held or
owing by such Lender or any branch, affiliate or agency thereof to or for the
credit or the account of the Borrower. Each Lender agrees promptly to
notify the Borrower and the Administrative Agent after any such setoff and
application made by such Lender, provided that the failure to give such
notice shall not affect the validity of such setoff and
application.
10.8 Counterparts. This
Agreement may be executed by one or more of the parties to this Agreement on
any
number of separate counterparts, and all of said counterparts taken together
shall be deemed to constitute one and the same instrument. Delivery
of an executed signature page of this Agreement by facsimile transmission shall
be effective as
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delivery
of a manually executed counterpart hereof. A set of the copies of
this Agreement signed by all the parties shall be lodged with the Borrower
and
the Administrative Agent.
10.9 Severability. Any
provision of this Agreement that is prohibited or unenforceable in any
jurisdiction shall, as to such jurisdiction, be ineffective to the extent of
such prohibition or unenforceability without invalidating 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.
10.10 Integration. This
Agreement and the other Loan Documents represent the entire agreement of the
Borrower, the Administrative Agent and the Lenders with respect to the subject
matter hereof and thereof, and there are no promises, undertakings,
representations or warranties by the Administrative Agent or any Lender relative
to the subject matter hereof not expressly set forth or referred to herein
or in
the other Loan Documents.
10.11 GOVERNING
LAW. THIS AGREEMENT AND THE RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF THE PARTIES
UNDER THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED AND INTERPRETED IN
ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.
10.12 Submission
To Jurisdiction; Waivers. The Borrower hereby irrevocably and
unconditionally:
(a) submits
for itself and its property in any legal action or proceeding relating to this
Agreement and the other Loan Documents to which it is a party, or for
recognition and enforcement of any judgment in respect thereof, to the non
exclusive general jurisdiction of the courts of the State of New York, the
courts of the United States for the Southern District of New York, and appellate
courts from any thereof;
(b) consents
that any such action or proceeding may be brought in such courts and waives
any
objection that it may now or hereafter have to the venue of any such action
or
proceeding in any such court or that such action or proceeding was brought
in an
inconvenient court and agrees not to plead or claim the same;
(c) agrees
that service of process in any such action or proceeding may be effected by
mailing a copy thereof by registered or certified mail (or any substantially
similar form of mail), postage prepaid, to the Borrower at its address set
forth
in Section 10.2
or at such other address of which the Administrative Agent shall have been
notified pursuant thereto;
(d) agrees
that nothing herein shall affect the right to effect service of process in
any
other manner permitted by law or shall limit the right to xxx in any other
jurisdiction; and
(e) waives,
to the maximum extent not prohibited by law, any right it may have to claim
or
recover in any legal action or proceeding relating to this Agreement or any
other Loan Document any special, exemplary, punitive or consequential
damages.
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10.13 Acknowledgments. The
Borrower hereby acknowledges that:
(a) it
has been advised by counsel in the negotiation, execution and delivery of this
Agreement and the other Loan Documents;
(b) neither
the Administrative Agent nor any Lender has any fiduciary relationship with
or
duty to the Borrower arising out of or in connection with this Agreement or
any
of the other Loan Documents, and the relationship between Administrative Agent
and Lenders, on one hand, and the Borrower, on the other hand, in connection
herewith or therewith is solely that of debtor and creditor; and
(c) no
joint venture is created hereby or by the other Loan Documents or otherwise
exists by virtue of the transactions contemplated hereby among the Lenders
or
among the Borrower and the Lenders.
10.14 Confidentiality. Each
of the Administrative Agent and each Lender agrees to keep confidential in
accordance with such party’s customary practices (and in any event in compliance
with applicable law regarding material non-public information) all non-public
information provided to it by the Borrower, the Administrative Agent or any
Lender pursuant to or in connection with this Agreement that is designated
by
the provider thereof as confidential; provided that nothing herein shall
prevent the Administrative Agent or any Lender from disclosing any such
information (a) to the Administrative Agent, any other Lender or any affiliate
thereof, (b) subject to an agreement to comply with the provisions of this
Section or substantially equivalent provisions, to any actual or
prospective Transferee or any direct or indirect counterparty to any Swap
Agreement (or any professional advisor to such counterparty), (c) to its
employees, directors, agents, attorneys, accountants and other professional
advisors or those of any of its affiliates (as long as such attorneys,
accountants and other professional advisors are subject to confidentiality
requirements substantially equivalent to this Section), (d) upon the request
or
demand of any Governmental Authority, (e) in response to any order of any court
or other Governmental Authority or as may otherwise be required pursuant to
any
Requirement of Law, (f) if requested or required to do so in connection with
any
litigation or similar proceeding, (g) that has been publicly disclosed, (h)
to
the National Association of Insurance Commissioners or any similar organization
or any nationally recognized rating agency that requires access to information
about a Lender’s investment portfolio in connection with ratings issued with
respect to such Lender, or (i) in connection with the exercise of any remedy
hereunder or under any other Loan Document, provided that, in the case of
clauses (d), (e) and (f) of this Section 10.14,
with the exception of disclosure to bank regulatory authorities, the Borrower
(to the extent legally permissible) shall be given prompt prior notice so that
it may seek a protective order or other appropriate remedy.
10.15 WAIVERS
OF JURY TRIAL. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED
BY LAW, THE BORROWER, THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT AND THE LENDERS HEREBY
IRREVOCABLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY WAIVE TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY LEGAL ACTION OR
PROCEEDING RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT AND FOR ANY
COUNTERCLAIM THEREIN.
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10.16 USA
Patriot Act. Each Lender hereby notifies the Borrower that
pursuant to the requirements of the USA Patriot Act (Title III of Pub. L. 107-56
(signed into law October 26, 2001)) (the “Act”), it is required to
obtain, verify and record information that identifies the Borrower, which
information includes the name and address of the Borrower and other information
that will allow such Lender to identify the Borrower in accordance with the
Act.
10.17 Judicial
Reference. If any action or proceeding is filed in a court of the
State of California by or against any party hereto in connection with any of
the
transactions contemplated by this Agreement or any other Loan Document, (i)
the
court shall, and is hereby directed to, make a general reference pursuant to
California Code of Civil Procedure Section 638 to a referee (who shall be a
single active or retired judge) to hear and determine all of the issues in
such
action or proceeding (whether of fact or of law) and to report a statement
of
decision, provided that at the option of any party to such proceeding, any
such
issues pertaining to a “provisional remedy” as defined in California Code of
Civil Procedure Section 1281.8 shall be heard and determined by the court,
and
(ii) without limiting the generality of Section 10.5, the Borrower
shall be solely responsible to pay all fees and expenses of any referee
appointed in such action or proceeding.
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WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be duly
executed and delivered by their proper and duly authorized officers as of the
day and year first above written.
PG&E
CORPORATION
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Xxxxxxxxxxx X.
Xxxxx
Name: Xxxxxxxxxxx
X. Xxxxx
Title: Senior
Vice President,
Chief
Financial Officer and Treasurer
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Name:
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X. Xxxxxxx
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Director
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/s/
Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxx
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Name:
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Xxxxxxx
Xxxxxxx
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DEUTSCHE
BANK
SECURITIES INC.,
as
Syndication
Agent
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/s/
Xxxxxx Xxxxx
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Name:
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Xxxxxx
Xxxxx
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Title:
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Vice
President
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/s/
Xxxx X. Xxx
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Name:
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Xxxx
X. Xxx
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Title:
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Vice
President
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DEUTSCHE
BANK AG, New
York Branch,
as
Lender
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By:
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/s/
Xxxxxx Xxxxx
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Name:
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Xxxxxx
Xxxxx
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Title:
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Vice
President
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By:
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/s/
Xxxx X. Xxx
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Name:
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Xxxx
X. Xxx
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Vice
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By:
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/s/
Xxxx Xxxxxxxxx
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Name:
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Xxxx
Xxxxxxxxx
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Title:
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Managing
Director
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By:
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/s/
Ece Xxxxxxx
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Name:
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Ece
Xxxxxxx
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Title:
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Director
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OF AMERICA,
N.A., as Co-Documentation Agent and as a Lender
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By:
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/s/
Xxxxx Xxxxxxxxx
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Name:
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Xxxxx
Xxxxxxxxx
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Title:
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Senior
Vice President
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BANK Plc, as Co-Documentation
Agent and as a Lender
By:
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/s/
Xxxxxx Xxxxxx
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Name:
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Xxxxxx
Xxxxxx
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Title:
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Director
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NORTH
AMERICA, INC.,
as
a
Lender
By:
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Rodricks
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Vice
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JPMORGAN
CHASE BANK,
N.A.,
as
a
Lender
By:
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/s/ Xxxxxx Xxxxx |
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Name:
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Xxxxxx
Xxxxx
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Title:
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Vice
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BROTHERS BANK
FSB, as a Lender
By:
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Name:
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Xxxx
Xxxxxx
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Title:
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Senior
Vice President
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Name:
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Title:
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UBS
LOAN FINANCE LLC,
as a Lender
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By:
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/s/
Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxx
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Name:
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Xxxxxxx
X. Xxxxxx
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Title:
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Director
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By:
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/s/
Xxxx X. Xxxx
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Name:
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Xxxx
X. Xxxx
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Title:
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Associate
Director
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XXXXXXX BANK,
as a Lender
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By:
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/s/
Xxxxxx Xxxxxx
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Name:
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Xxxxxx
Xxxxxx
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Title:
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Authorized
Signatory
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Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxx Bank
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UNION
BANK OF
CALIFORNIA, N.A., as a Lender
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By:
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/s/
Xxxxxx X. Xxxxx
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Name:
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Xxxxxx
X. Xxxxx
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Title:
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Vice
President
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STREET
COMMITMENT CORPORATION
(Recourse
only
to the assets of Xxxxxxx Street Commitment Corporation), as a
Lender
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By:
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/s/
Xxxx Xxxxxx
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Name:
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Xxxx
Xxxxxx
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Title:
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Assistant
Vice-President
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BANK, LTD., as a Lender
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By:
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/s/
Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxx
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Name:
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Xxxxxxx
Xxxxxxx
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Title:
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Deputy
General Manager
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BANK, N.A., as
a Lender
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By:
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/s/
Xxxx X. Xxxxxx
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Name:
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Xxxx
X. Xxxxxx
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Title:
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Vice
President
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BANK OF NEW YORK,
as a Lender
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By:
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/s/
Xxxxx Xxxxxxxx
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Name:
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Xxxxx
Xxxxxxxx
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Title:
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Vice
President
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BANK NATIONAL
ASSOCIATION, as a Lender
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By:
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/s/
Xxxxx X. Xxxxxx
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Name:
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Xxxxx
X. Xxxxxx
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Title:
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Vice
President
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SCHEDULE
1.1A
COMMITMENTS
Lender
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Commitment
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Citicorp
North America, Inc.
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$21,274,529.87
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JPMorgan
Chase Bank, N.A.
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$21,274,529.87
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Bank
of America, N.A.
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$17,113,122.58
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Barclays
Bank PLC
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$17,113,122.58
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BNP
Paribas
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$17,113,122.58
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Deutsche
Bank AG, New York Branch
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$17,113,122.58
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Xxxxxx
Brothers Bank, FSB
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$12,764,717.92
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UBS
Loan Finance LLC
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$12,764,717.92
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ABN
AMRO Bank N.V.
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$9,573,538.44
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Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxx Bank
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$9,573,538.44
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Union
Bank of California, N.A.
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$9,573,538.44
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Xxxxxxx
Street Commitment Corporation
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$9,573,538.44
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Mizuho
Corporate Bank, Ltd.
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$8,864,387.44
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Mellon
Bank, N.A.
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$7,800,660.95
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The
Bank of New York
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$4,964,056.97
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US
Bank National Association
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$3,545,754.98
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TOTAL
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$200,000,000.00
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EXHIBIT
A
FORM
OF
NEW
LENDER SUPPLEMENT
Reference
is made to the $200,000,000 Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as
of
February 26, 2007 (as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time
to
time, the “Credit Agreement”), among PG&E Corporation, a California
corporation (the “Borrower”), the Lenders parties thereto, Banc of
America Securities LLC and Barclays Capital, a division of Barclays Bank Plc,
as
joint lead arrangers and joint bookrunners, Deutsche Bank Securities Inc.,
as
syndication agent, ABN AMRO Bank N.V., Bank of America, N.A. and Barclays Bank
Plc, as documentation agents, and BNP Paribas, as administrative agent (in
such
capacity, the “Administrative Agent”). Unless otherwise
defined herein, terms defined in the Credit Agreement and used herein shall
have
the meanings given to them in the Credit Agreement.
The
New Revolving Credit Lender identified on Schedule l hereto (the “New
Lender”), the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Lender and the Borrower
agree as follows:
The
New Lender hereby irrevocably makes a Commitment to the Borrower in the amount
set forth on Schedule 1 hereto (the “New Commitment”) pursuant to Section
2.3(b) of the Credit Agreement. From and after the Effective Date (as
defined below), the New Lender will be a Lender under the Credit Agreement
with
respect to the New Commitment.
The
Administrative Agent (a) makes no representation or warranty and assumes no
responsibility with respect to any statements, warranties or representations
made in or in connection with the Credit Agreement or with respect to the
execution, legality, validity, enforceability, genuineness, sufficiency or
value
of the Credit Agreement; and (b) makes no representation or warranty and assumes
no responsibility with respect to the financial condition of the Borrower,
any
of its Subsidiaries or any other obligor or the performance or observance by
the
Borrower, any of its Subsidiaries or any other obligor of any of their
respective obligations under the Credit Agreement or any other instrument or
document furnished pursuant hereto or thereto.
The
New Lender (a) represents and warrants that it is legally authorized to enter
into this New Lender Supplement; (b) confirms that it has received a copy of
the
Credit Agreement, together with copies of the most recent financial statements
delivered or deemed delivered pursuant to Section 6.1 of the Credit Agreement
and such other documents and information as it has deemed appropriate to make
its own credit analysis and decision to enter into this New Lender Supplement;
(c) agrees that it will, independently and without reliance upon the
Administrative Agent or any other Lender and based on such documents and
information as it shall deem appropriate at the time, continue to make its
own
credit decisions in taking or not taking action under the Credit Agreement
or
any other instrument or document furnished pursuant hereto or thereto; (d)
appoints and authorizes the Administrative Agent to
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take
such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers and discretion
under the Credit Agreement or any other instrument or document furnished
pursuant hereto or thereto as are delegated to the Administrative Agent by
the
terms thereof, together with such powers as are incidental thereto; and (e)
agrees that it will be bound by the provisions of the Credit Agreement and
will
perform in accordance with its terms all the obligations which by the terms
of
the Credit Agreement are required to be performed by it as a
Lender.
The
effective date of this New Lender Supplement shall be the Effective Date of
the
New Commitment described in Schedule 1 hereto (the “Effective
Date”). Following the execution of this New Lender Supplement by
each of the New Lender, the Borrower and the Issuing Lender, it will be
delivered to the Administrative Agent for acceptance and recording by it
pursuant to the Credit Agreement, effective as of the Effective Date (which
shall not, unless otherwise agreed to by the Administrative Agent, be earlier
than five Business Days after the date of such acceptance and recording by
the
Administrative Agent).
Upon
such acceptance and recording, from and after the Effective Date, the
Administrative Agent shall make all payments in respect of the New Commitment
(including payments of principal, interest, fees and other amounts) to the
New
Lender for amounts which have accrued on and subsequent to the Effective
Date.
From
and after the Effective Date, the New Lender shall be a party to the Credit
Agreement and, to the extent provided in this New Lender Supplement, shall
have
the rights and obligations of a Lender thereunder and shall be bound by the
provisions thereof.
This
New Lender Supplement shall be governed by, and construed and interpreted in
accordance with, the laws of the State of New York.
IN
WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this New Lender Supplement
to be
executed as of ________ ___, 200__ by their respective duly authorized officers
on Schedule 1 hereto.
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Schedule
1
to
New Lender Supplement
Name
of New
Lender:
_________________________________________
Effective
Date of New
Commitment: _________________________________________
Principal
Amount of New
Commitment: $ ____________________________________
[NAME
OF NEW LENDER]
By:
_______________________________
Name:
Title:
PG&E
CORPORATION
By: _______________________________
Name:
Title:
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PARIBAS,
as
Administrative Agent
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By:_________________________________
Name:
Title:
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BNP
PARIBAS,
as
Issuing Lender
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Name:
Title:
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EXHIBIT
B
FORM
OF
COMMITMENT
INCREASE SUPPLEMENT
Reference
is made to the $200,000,000 Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as
of
February 26, 2007 (as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time
to
time, the “Credit Agreement”), among PG&E Corporation, a California
corporation (the “Borrower”), the Lenders parties thereto, Banc of
America Securities LLC and Barclays Capital, a division of Barclays Bank Plc,
as
joint lead arrangers and joint bookrunners, Deutsche Bank Securities Inc.,
as
syndication agent, ABN AMRO Bank N.V., Bank of America, N.A. and Barclays Bank
Plc, as documentation agents, and BNP Paribas, as administrative agent (in
such
capacity, the “Administrative Agent”). Unless otherwise
defined herein, terms defined in the Credit Agreement and used herein shall
have
the meanings given to them in the Credit Agreement.
The
Lender identified on Schedule l hereto (the “Increasing Lender”), the
Administrative Agent, the Issuing Lender and the Borrower agree as
follows:
1. The
Increasing Lender hereby irrevocably increases its Commitment to the Borrower
by
the amount set forth on Schedule 1 hereto under the heading “Principal Amount of
Increased Commitment” (the “Increased Commitment”) pursuant to Section
2.3(c) of the Credit Agreement. From and after the Effective Date (as
defined below), the Increasing Lender will be a Lender under the Credit
Agreement with respect to the Increased Commitment as well as its existing
Commitment under the Credit Agreement.
The
Administrative Agent (a) makes no representation or warranty and assumes no
responsibility with respect to any statements, warranties or representations
made in or in connection with the Credit Agreement or with respect to the
execution, legality, validity, enforceability, genuineness, sufficiency or
value
of the Credit Agreement; and (b) makes no representation or warranty and assumes
no responsibility with respect to the financial condition of the Borrower,
any
of its Subsidiaries or any other obligor or the performance or observance by
the
Borrower, any of its Subsidiaries or any other obligor of any of their
respective obligations under the Credit Agreement or any other instrument or
document furnished pursuant hereto or thereto.
The
Increasing Lender (a) represents and warrants that it is legally authorized
to
enter into this Commitment Increase Supplement; (b) confirms that it has
received a copy of the Credit Agreement, together with copies of the most recent
financial statements delivered or deemed delivered pursuant to Section 6.1
of
the Credit Agreement and such other documents and information as it has deemed
appropriate to make its own credit analysis and decision to enter into this
Commitment Increase Supplement; (c) agrees that it will, independently and
without reliance upon the Administrative Agent or any other Lender and based
on
such documents and information as it shall deem appropriate at the time,
continue to make its own credit decisions in taking or not taking action under
the Credit Agreement or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant
hereto or thereto; (d) appoints and authorizes
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the
Administrative Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise
such powers and discretion under the Credit Agreement or any other instrument
or
document furnished pursuant hereto or thereto as are delegated to the
Administrative Agent by the terms thereof, together with such powers as are
incidental thereto; and (e) agrees that it will be bound by the provisions
of
the Credit Agreement and will perform in accordance with its terms all the
obligations which by the terms of the Credit Agreement are required to be
performed by it as a Lender.
The
effective date of this Commitment Increase Supplement shall be the Effective
Date of the Increased Commitment described in Schedule 1 hereto (the
“Effective Date”). Following the execution of this Commitment
Increase Supplement by each of the Increasing Lender, the Issuing Lender and
the
Borrower, it will be delivered to the Administrative Agent for acceptance and
recording by it pursuant to the Credit Agreement, effective as of the Effective
Date (which shall not, unless otherwise agreed to by the Administrative Agent,
be earlier than five Business Days after the date of such acceptance and
recording by the Administrative Agent).
Upon
such acceptance and recording, from and after the Effective Date, the
Administrative Agent shall make all payments in respect of the Increased
Commitment (including payments of principal, interest, fees and other amounts)
to the Increasing Lender for amounts which have accrued on and subsequent to
the
Effective Date.
This
Commitment Increase Supplement shall be governed by, and construed and
interpreted in accordance with, the laws of the State of New York.
IN
WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Commitment Increase
Supplement to be executed as of ________ ___, 200__ by their respective duly
authorized officers on Schedule 1 hereto.
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Schedule
1
to
Commitment Increase Supplement
Name
of Increasing
Lender: ___________________________________
Effective
Date of Increased
Commitment: ___________________________________
Principal
Amount
of
Increased
Commitment:
|
Total
Amount of Commitment
of
Increasing Lender
(including
Increased Commitment):
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$_____________________
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$_____________________
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[NAME
OF INCREASING LENDER]
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By:
Name:
Title:
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PG&E
CORPORATION
By:
Name:
Title:
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Accepted:
BNP
PARIBAS,
as
Administrative Agent
By:
Name:
Title:
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as
Issuing Lender
By:
Name:
Title:
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C
FORM
OF COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE
This
Compliance Certificate is delivered pursuant to Section 6.2 of the
$200,000,000 Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of February 26,
2007 (as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the
“Credit Agreement”), among PG&E Corporation, a California corporation
(the “Borrower”), the lenders parties thereto (the “Lenders”),
Banc of America Securities LLC and Barclays Capital, a division of Barclays
Bank
Plc, as joint lead arrangers and joint bookrunners, Deutsche Bank Securities
Inc., as syndication agent, ABN AMRO Bank N.V., Bank of America, N.A. and
Barclays Bank Plc, as documentation agents, and BNP Paribas, as administrative
agent (the “Administrative Agent”). Terms defined in the
Credit Agreement are used herein as therein defined.
The
undersigned hereby certifies to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders as
follows:
1. I
am the duly elected, qualified and acting [Chief Financial Officer] [Treasurer]
[Assistant Treasurer] of the Borrower.
2. I
have reviewed and am familiar with the contents of this
Certificate.
3. To
the knowledge of the undersigned, during the fiscal period covered by the
financial statements attached hereto as Attachment 1, no Default or
Event of Default has occurred and is continuing [, except as set forth
below].
4. Attached
hereto as Attachment 2 are the computations showing compliance with
the covenant set forth in Section 7.1 of the Credit Agreement.
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IN
WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has executed this Compliance Certificate as
of
the date set forth below.
PG&E
CORPORATION
By: ___________________________________
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Title:
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Date: ____________,
200_
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1
to
Exhibit C
Financial
Statements
Period
Ended ____________, 20__
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2
to
Exhibit C
The
information described herein is as of ________, 20__.
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D
FORM
OF CLOSING CERTIFICATE
This
Closing Certificate is delivered pursuant to Section 5.1(e) of the
$200,000,000 Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of February 26,
2007 (as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the
“Credit Agreement”), among PG&E Corporation, a California corporation
(the “Borrower”), the lenders parties thereto (the “Lenders”),
Banc of America Securities LLC and Barclays Capital, a division of Barclays
Bank
Plc, as joint lead arrangers and joint bookrunners, Deutsche Bank Securities
Inc., as syndication agent, ABN AMRO Bank N.V., Bank of America, N.A. and
Barclays Bank Plc, as documentation agents, and BNP Paribas, as administrative
agent (in such capacity, the “Administrative Agent”). Unless
otherwise defined herein, terms defined in the Credit Agreement and used herein
shall have the meanings given to them in the Credit Agreement.
The
undersigned Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of
the
Borrower hereby certifies to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders as
follows:
1. The
representations and warranties of the Borrower set forth in the Credit Agreement
that do not contain a materiality qualification are true and correct in all
material respects on and as of the date hereof with the same effect as if made
on the date hereof, and the representations and warranties of the Borrower
set
forth in the Credit Agreement that do contain a materiality qualification are
true and correct on and as of the date hereof with the same effect as if made
on
the date hereof, except for any representations and warranties that specifically
relate to an earlier date, in which case such representations and warranties
were true and correct in all material respects, or true and correct, as the
case
may be, as of such earlier date.
2. Xxxxx
Xxx is the duly elected and qualified Assistant Secretary of the Borrower and
the signature set forth for such officer below is such officer’s true and
genuine signature.
3. No
Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing as of the date
hereof.
4. The
conditions precedent set forth in Section 5.1 of the Credit Agreement were
satisfied as of the Effective Date.
5. All
governmental and third party consents and approvals necessary in connection
with
the Credit Agreement and the other Loan Documents and the transactions
contemplated thereby have been obtained and are now in full force and
effect.
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The
undersigned Assistant Secretary of the Borrower certifies as
follows:
1. There
are no liquidation or dissolution proceedings pending or to my knowledge
threatened against the Borrower.
2. The
Borrower is a corporation duly incorporated, validly existing and in good
standing under the laws of the State of California.
3. Attached
hereto as Annex 1 is a true and complete copy of resolutions duly
adopted by the Board of Directors of the Borrower on September 15, 2004; such
resolutions have not in any way been amended, modified, revoked or rescinded,
have been in full force and effect since their adoption to and including the
date hereof and are now in full force and effect and are the only corporate
proceedings of the Borrower now in force relating to or affecting the Credit
Agreement.
4. Attached
hereto as Annex 2 is a true and complete copy of the Bylaws of the
Borrower as in effect on the date hereof.
5. Attached
hereto as Annex 3 is a true and complete copy of the Articles of
Incorporation of the Borrower as in effect on the date hereof, and such Articles
of Incorporation have not been amended, repealed, modified or
restated.
6. The
following persons are now duly elected and qualified officers of the Borrower
holding the offices indicated next to their respective names below, and that
the
facsimile signatures affixed next to their respective names below are the
facsimile signatures of such officers, and each of such officers is duly
authorized to execute and deliver on behalf of the Borrower each of the Loan
Documents to which it is a party and any certificate or other document to be
delivered by the Borrower pursuant to the Loan Documents to which it is a
party:
Name
|
Office
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Signature
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Xxxxxxxxxxx
X. Xxxxx
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Senior
Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer
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G.
Xxxxxx Xxxxxx
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Vice
President and Controller
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Xxxxx
X.X. Xxxxx
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VP,
Corporate Governance and Corporate Secretary
|
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Xxxx
Xxxxxxxxxxxx
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Assistant
Corporate Secretary
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IN
WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have executed this Closing Certificate as
of
the date set forth below.
Xxxxxxxxxxx
X.
Xxxxx
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Xxxxx
Xxx
|
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Senior
Vice President, Chief
Financial Officer and Treasurer
|
Assistant
Secretary
|
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Date:
February 26, 2007
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2
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3
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FORM
OF
ASSIGNMENT
AND ASSUMPTION
Reference
is made to the $200,000,000
Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of February 26, 2007 (as
amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Credit
Agreement”), among PG&E Corporation, a California corporation (the
“Borrower”), the Lenders parties thereto, Banc of America Securities LLC
and Barclays Capital, a division of Barclays Bank Plc, as joint lead arrangers
and joint bookrunners, Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., as syndication agent,
ABN
AMRO Bank N.V., Bank of America, N.A. and Barclays Bank Plc, as documentation
agents, and BNP Paribas, as administrative agent (in such capacity, the
“Administrative Agent”). Unless otherwise defined herein,
terms defined in the Credit Agreement and used herein shall have the meanings
given to them in the Credit Agreement.
The
Assignor identified on Schedule l
hereto (the “Assignor”) and the Assignee identified on Schedule l
hereto (the “Assignee”) agree as follows:
1. The
Assignor hereby irrevocably sells and assigns to the Assignee without recourse
to the Assignor, and the Assignee hereby irrevocably purchases and assumes
from
the Assignor without recourse to the Assignor, as of the Effective Date (as
defined below), (i) the interest described in Schedule 1 hereto in and to
the Assignor’s rights and obligations under the Credit Agreement (the
“Assigned Facility”) in the principal amount set forth on Schedule 1
hereto and (ii) to the extent permitted to be assigned under applicable law,
all
claims, suits, causes of action and any other right of the Assignor (in its
capacity as a Lender) against any Person, whether known or unknown, arising
under or in connection with the Credit Agreement, any other documents or
instruments delivered pursuant thereto or the loan transactions governed thereby
or in any way based on or related to any of the foregoing, including, but not
limited to, contract claims, tort claims, malpractice claims, statutory claims
and all other claims at law or in equity related to the rights and obligations
sold and assigned pursuant to clause (i) above (the rights and obligations
sold
and assigned pursuant to clauses (i) and (ii) above being referred to herein
collectively as, the “Assigned Interest”).
2. The
Assignor (a) makes no representation or warranty and assumes no
responsibility with respect to any statements, warranties or representations
made in or in connection with the Credit Agreement or with respect to the
execution, legality, validity, enforceability, genuineness, sufficiency or
value
of the Credit Agreement, any other Loan Document or any other instrument or
document furnished pursuant thereto, other than that the Assignor has not
created any adverse claim upon the interest being assigned by it hereunder
and
that such interest is free and clear of any such adverse claim; (b) makes
no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to
the
financial condition of the Borrower, any of its Subsidiaries or any other
obligor or the performance or observance by the Borrower, any of its
Subsidiaries or any other obligor of any of their respective obligations under
the Credit Agreement or any other Loan Document or any other instrument or
document furnished pursuant hereto or thereto; and (c) attaches any Note
held by it evidencing the Assigned Facility and
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(i) requests
that the Administrative Agent, upon request by the Assignee, exchange the
attached Note for a new Note payable to the Assignee and (ii) if the
Assignor has retained any interest in the Assigned Facility, requests that
the
Administrative Agent exchange the attached Note for a new Note payable to the
Assignor, in each case in amounts which reflect the assignment being made hereby
(and after giving effect to any other assignments which have become effective
on
the Effective Date).
3. The
Assignee (a) represents and warrants that it is legally authorized to enter
into this Assignment and Assumption; (b) confirms that it has received a
copy of the Credit Agreement, together with copies of the financial statements
delivered or deemed delivered pursuant to Section 5.1(c) or Section 6.1
thereof, as applicable, and such other documents and information as it has
deemed appropriate to make its own credit analysis and decision to enter into
this Assignment and Assumption; (c) agrees that it will, independently and
without reliance upon the Assignor, the Agents or any other Lender and based
on
such documents and information as it shall deem appropriate at the time,
continue to make its own credit decisions in taking or not taking action under
the Credit Agreement, the other Loan Documents or any other instrument or
document furnished pursuant hereto or thereto; (d) appoints and authorizes
the Agents to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such
powers and discretion under the Credit Agreement, the other Loan Documents
or
any other instrument or document furnished pursuant hereto or thereto as are
delegated to the Agents by the terms thereof, together with such powers as
are
incidental thereto; and (e) agrees that it will be bound by the provisions
of the Credit Agreement and will perform in accordance with its terms all the
obligations which by the terms of the Credit Agreement are required to be
performed by it as a Lender including, if it is organized under the laws of
a
jurisdiction outside the United States, its obligation pursuant to
Section 2.16(d) of the Credit Agreement.
4. The
effective date of this Assignment and Assumption shall be the Effective Date
of
Assignment described in Schedule 1 hereto (the “Effective
Date”). Following the execution of this Assignment and
Assumption, it will be delivered to the Administrative Agent for acceptance
by
it and recording by the Administrative Agent pursuant to the Credit Agreement,
effective as of the Effective Date (which shall not, unless otherwise agreed
to
by the Administrative Agent, be earlier than five Business Days after the date
of such acceptance and recording by the Administrative Agent).
5. Upon
such acceptance and recording, from and after the Effective Date, the
Administrative Agent shall make all payments in respect of the Assigned Interest
(including payments of principal, interest, fees and other amounts) [to the
Assignor for amounts which have accrued to the Effective Date and to the
Assignee for amounts which have accrued subsequent to the Effective Date] [to
the Assignee whether such amounts have accrued prior to the Effective Date
or
accrue subsequent to the Effective Date. The Assignor and the
Assignee shall make all appropriate adjustments in payments by the Agent for
periods prior to the Effective Date or with respect to the making of this
assignment directly between themselves.]
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6. From
and after the Effective Date, (a) the Assignee shall be a party to the
Credit Agreement and, to the extent provided in this Assignment and Assumption,
have the rights and obligations of a Lender thereunder and under the other
Loan
Documents and shall be bound by the provisions thereof and (b) the Assignor
shall, to the extent provided in this Assignment and Assumption, relinquish
its
rights and be released from its obligations under the Credit
Agreement.
7. This
Assignment and Assumption shall be governed by, and construed and interpreted
in
accordance with, the laws of the State of New York.
IN
WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Assignment and Assumption
to be executed as of the date first above written by their respective duly
authorized officers on Schedule 1 hereto.
[ASSIGNOR]
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[ASSIGNEE]
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By: _________________________________________
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By:________________________________________
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Name:
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Name:
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Title:
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Title:
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1
to
Assignment and Assumption
Name
of Assignor: _______________________
Name
of Assignee: _______________________
Effective
Date of Assignment: _________________
Assigned
Facility
|
Principal
Amount
Assigned
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[Percentage
Assigned]*
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$_______
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___.___%
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of Assignor]
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Name:
Title:
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[Name
of Assignee]
By:
Name:
Title:
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*Calculate
the
Commitment Percentage that is assigned to at least 10 decimal places and
show as
a percentage of the aggregate commitments of all Lenders.
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to:
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PG&E
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By: _____________________________________
Name:
Title:
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Accepted
and Consented to:
[BNP
PARIBAS, as
Administrative
Agent]**
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By: _____________________________________
Name:
Title:
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Consented
to:
[BNP
PARIBAS, as Issuing Lender]**
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By: _____________________________________
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**
As applicable
pursuant to Section 10.6(b).
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FORM
OF LEGAL OPINION OF XXXXXX, XXXXXXXXXX & XXXXXXXXX LLP
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FORM
OF EXEMPTION CERTIFICATE
Reference
is made to the $200,000,000 Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as
of
February 26, 2007 (as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time
to
time, the “Credit Agreement”), among PG&E Corporation, a California
corporation (the “Borrower”), the Lenders parties thereto, Banc of
America Securities LLC and Barclays Capital, a division of Barclays Bank Plc,
as
joint lead arrangers and joint bookrunners, Deutsche Bank Securities Inc.,
as
syndication agent, ABN AMRO Bank N.V., Bank of America, N.A. and Barclays Bank
Plc, as documentation agents, and BNP Paribas, as administrative agent (in
such
capacity, the “Administrative Agent”). Unless otherwise
defined herein, terms defined in the Credit Agreement and used herein shall
have
the meanings given to them in the Credit Agreement.
[______________________]
(the “Non-U.S. Lender”) is providing this certificate pursuant to
Section 2.16(d) of the Credit Agreement. The Non-U.S. Lender
hereby represents and warrants that:
2. The
Non-U.S. Lender is not a “bank” for purposes of Section 881(c)(3)(A) of the
Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”). In
this regard, the Non-U.S. Lender further represents and warrants
that:
(a) the
Non-U.S. Lender is not subject to regulatory or other legal requirements as
a
bank in any jurisdiction; and
(b) the
Non-U.S. Lender has not been treated as a bank for purposes of any tax,
securities law or other filing or submission made to any Governmental Authority,
any application made to a rating agency or qualification for any exemption
from
tax, securities law or other legal requirements;
3. The
Non-U.S. Lender is not a ten percent (10%) shareholder of the Borrower within
the meaning of Section 881(c)(3)(B) of the Code; and
4. The
Non-U.S. Lender is not a controlled foreign corporation receiving interest
from
a related person within the meaning of Section 881(c)(3)(C) of the
Code.
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IN
WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has executed this certificate as of the date
set forth below.
[NAME
OF NON-U.S. LENDER]
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FORM
OF NOTE
THIS
NOTE AND THE OBLIGATIONS REPRESENTED HEREBY MAY NOT BE TRANSFERRED EXCEPT IN
COMPLIANCE WITH THE TERMS AND PROVISIONS OF THE CREDIT AGREEMENT REFERRED TO
BELOW. TRANSFERS OF THIS NOTE AND THE OBLIGATIONS REPRESENTED HEREBY
MUST BE RECORDED IN THE REGISTER MAINTAINED BY THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT PURSUANT
TO THE TERMS OF SUCH CREDIT AGREEMENT.
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New
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as
of [_________], 200[_]
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FOR
VALUE RECEIVED, PG&E CORPORATION, a California corporation (the
“Borrower”), DOES HEREBY PROMISE TO PAY to the order of [insert name of
Lender] (the “Lender”) at the office of BNP PARIBAS, at
[________________________], in lawful money of the United States of America
in
immediately available funds, the principal amount of ____________________
DOLLARS ($__________), or, if less, the aggregate unpaid principal amount of
all
Revolving Loans (as defined in the Credit Agreement referred to below) made
by
the Lender to the Borrower pursuant to the Credit Agreement referred to below,
whichever is less, on such date or dates as is required by said Credit
Agreement, and to pay interest on the unpaid principal amount from time to
time
outstanding hereunder, in like money, at such office, and at such times and
in
such amounts as set forth in Section 2.11 of said Credit Agreement.
The
holder of this Note is authorized to indorse on the schedules annexed hereto
and
made a part hereof or on a continuation thereof which shall be attached hereto
and made a part hereof the date, the Type and amount of each Revolving Loan
made
pursuant to the Credit Agreement and the date and amount of each payment or
prepayment of principal thereof, each continuation thereof, each conversion
of
all or a portion thereof to another Type and, in the case of Eurodollar Loans,
the length of each Interest Period with respect thereto. Each such
indorsement shall constitute primafacie evidence of the accuracy
of the information indorsed. The failure to make any such indorsement or any
error in any such indorsement shall not affect the obligations of the Borrower
in respect of any Revolving Loan.
The
Borrower hereby waives demand, presentment for payment, protest, notice of
any
kind (including, but not limited to, notice of dishonor, notice of protest,
notice of intention to accelerate or notice of acceleration), other than notice
required pursuant to the Credit Agreement and diligence in collecting and
bringing suit against any party hereto. The nonexercise by the holder
of this Note of any of its rights hereunder in any particular instance shall
not
constitute a waiver thereof in that or any subsequent instance.
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This
Note (a) is one of the promissory notes referred to in the $200,000,000 Amended
and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of February 26, 2007 (as amended,
supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time the “Credit
Agreement”), among the Borrower, the Lenders parties thereto, Banc of
America Securities LLC and Barclays Capital, a division of Barclays Bank Plc,
as
joint lead arrangers and joint bookrunners, Deutsche Bank Securities Inc.,
as
syndication agent, ABN AMRO Bank N.V., Bank of America, N.A. and Barclays Bank
Plc, as documentation agents, as documentation agents, and BNP Paribas, as
administrative agent (in such capacity, the “Administrative Agent”), (b)
is subject to the provisions of the Credit Agreement and (c) is subject to
optional prepayment in whole or in part and acceleration of the maturity hereof
upon the occurrence of certain events, all as provided in the Credit
Agreement. Terms defined in the Credit Agreement are used herein as
therein defined.
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NOTWITHSTANDING
ANYTHING TO THE CONTRARY CONTAINED HEREIN OR IN THE CREDIT AGREEMENT, THIS
NOTE
MAY NOT BE TRANSFERRED EXCEPT PURSUANT TO AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE
REGISTRATION AND OTHER PROVISIONS OF SECTION 10.6 OF THE CREDIT
AGREEMENT.
THIS
NOTE SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED AND INTERPRETED IN ACCORDANCE WITH,
THE
LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.
PG&E
CORPORATION
By:
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Name:
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Title:
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Exhibits
Amended
and Restated Credit
Agreement
PG&E
Corporation
LOSANGELES
618830 v1
(2K) |
Schedule
A
to
Note
LOANS,
CONVERSIONS AND REPAYMENTS OF ABR LOANS
Date
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Amount
of ABR Loans
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Amount
Converted
to
ABR
Loans
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Amount
of Principal of Base
Rate
Loans Repaid
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Amount
of ABR Loans
Converted
to
Eurodollar
Loans
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Unpaid
Principal Balance of
ABR
Loans
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Notation
Made By
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Exhibits
Amended
and Restated Credit
Agreement
PG&E
Corporation
LOSANGELES
618830 v1
(2K) |
Schedule
B
to
Note
LOANS,
CONTINUATIONS, CONVERSIONS AND REPAYMENTS OF EURODOLLAR LOANS
Date
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Amount
of Eurodollar
Loans
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Amount
Converted to
Eurodollar
Loans
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Interest
Period and
Eurodollar
Rate with
Respect
Thereto
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Amount
of Principal of
Eurodollar
Loans Repaid
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Amount
of Eurodollar
Loans
Converted to
ABR
Loans
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Unpaid
Principal
Balance
of Eurodollar
Loans
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Notation
Made
By
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Exhibits
Amended
and Restated Credit
Agreement
PG&E
Corporation
LOSANGELES
618830 v1
(2K) |