THIRD AMENDED AND RESTATED REVOLVING CREDIT AGREEMENT among FRONTIER OIL AND REFINING COMPANY, as Borrower and FRONTIER OIL CORPORATION and THE LENDERS NAMED HEREIN and
Exhibit 10.01
THIRD
AMENDED AND RESTATED REVOLVING CREDIT AGREEMENT
among
FRONTIER
OIL AND REFINING COMPANY,
as
Borrower
and
FRONTIER
OIL CORPORATION
and
THE
LENDERS NAMED HEREIN
and
UNION
BANK OF CALIFORNIA, N.A.,
as
Administrative Agent and Lead Arranger
and
BNP
PARIBAS,
as
Syndication Agent
and
TORONTO
DOMINION (TEXAS) LLC and XXXXX FARGO BANK, N.A.,
as
Co-Documentation Agents
October
1, 2007
Table
of Contents
ARTICLE
1. INTERPRETATION
AND DEFINITIONS
|
-
1
-
|
|
Section
1.1
|
Definitions
|
-
1
-
|
Section
1.2
|
Accounting
Terms
|
-
24 -
|
Section
1.3
|
Interpretation
|
-
24 -
|
ARTICLE
2. COMMITMENTS
|
-
24 -
|
|
Section
2.1
|
Commitments.
|
-
25 -
|
Section
2.2
|
Fees.
|
-
26 -
|
Section
2.3
|
Mandatory
Prepayment of Advances and Pledge of Cash Collateral
|
-
26 -
|
Section
2.4
|
Making
Advances.
|
-
27 -
|
Section
2.5
|
Repayment
|
-
28 -
|
Section
2.6
|
Interest.
|
-
28 -
|
Section
2.7
|
Optional
Prepayments
|
-
29 -
|
Section
2.8
|
Conversion
of Advances.
|
-
29 -
|
Section
2.9
|
Issuance
of Letters of Credit.
|
-
30 -
|
Section
2.10
|
Drawing
and Reimbursement.
|
-
31 -
|
Section
2.11
|
Obligations
Absolute
|
-
31 -
|
Section
2.12
|
Letter
of Credit Fees and Charges.
|
-
32 -
|
Section
2.13
|
Limits
of Liability of Agent and Lenders.
|
-
33 -
|
Section
2.14
|
Payments.
|
-
33 -
|
Section
2.15
|
Computation
of Interest and Fees
|
-
34 -
|
Section
2.16
|
Payments
on Non-Business Days
|
-
34 -
|
Section
2.17
|
Sharing
of Payments, Etc.
|
-
34 -
|
Section
2.18
|
Evidence
of Debt.
|
-
35 -
|
Section
2.19
|
Continuation
of Outstanding Credit
|
-
35 -
|
ARTICLE
3. YIELD
PROTECTION
|
-
35 -
|
|
Section
3.1
|
Increased
LIBOR Advance Costs
|
-
35 -
|
Section
3.2
|
Illegality
|
-
36 -
|
Section
3.3
|
Inadequacy
of LIBOR
|
-
36 -
|
Section
3.4
|
Increased
Letter of Credit Costs
|
-
36 -
|
Section
3.5
|
Capital
Adequacy
|
-
36 -
|
Section
3.6
|
Funding
Losses
|
-
37 -
|
Section
3.7
|
Taxes.
|
-
37 -
|
Section
3.8
|
Substitution
of Lender
|
-
39 -
|
ARTICLE
4. CONDITIONS
OF
EXTENDING CREDIT
|
-
39 -
|
|
Section
4.1
|
Closing
Date
|
-
39 -
|
Section
4.2
|
Advances
|
-
41 -
|
Section
4.3
|
Letters
of Credit
|
-
42 -
|
Section
4.4
|
Increases
in Maximum Aggregate Commitment
|
-
42 -
|
Section
4.5
|
Determinations
under Section 4.1
|
-
43 -
|
ARTICLE
5. REPRESENTATIONS
AND WARRANTIES
|
-
43 -
|
|
Section
5.1
|
Corporate
Existence and Power
|
-
43 -
|
Section
5.2
|
Authorization
|
-
43 -
|
Section
5.3
|
Governmental
Action, Etc
|
-
44 -
|
Section
5.4
|
Binding
Effect
|
-
44 -
|
Section
5.5
|
Financial
Statements
|
-
44 -
|
Section
5.6
|
Other
Information
|
-
45 -
|
Section
5.7
|
Litigation
|
-
45 -
|
Section
5.8
|
Trademarks,
Etc.
|
-
45 -
|
Section
5.9
|
Fire,
Etc.
|
-
45 -
|
Section
5.10
|
Burdensome
Agreements
|
-
45 -
|
Section
5.11
|
Taxes,
Etc
|
-
45 -
|
Section
5.12
|
Investment
Company
|
-
45 -
|
Section
5.13
|
Solvency
|
-
46 -
|
Section
5.14
|
Title
to Properties
|
-
46 -
|
Section
5.15
|
Ownership
|
-
46 -
|
Section
5.16
|
ERISA
|
-
46 -
|
Section
5.17
|
Environmental
Compliance.
|
-
46 -
|
Section
5.18
|
Regulation
U
|
-
47 -
|
Section
5.19
|
Material
Contracts
|
-
47 -
|
ARTICLE
6. AFFIRMATIVE
COVENANTS
|
-
47 -
|
|
Section
6.1
|
Borrower
Information Requirements
|
-
47 -
|
Section
6.2
|
Audits
|
-
48 -
|
Section
6.3
|
Returns
and Allowances
|
-
48 -
|
Section
6.4
|
FOC
Information Requirements
|
-
48 -
|
Section
6.5
|
Compliance
with Governmental Rules
|
-
51 -
|
Section
6.6
|
Payment
of Taxes, Etc.
|
-
51 -
|
Section
6.7
|
Maintenance
of Insurance
|
-
51 -
|
Section
6.8
|
Preservation
of Legal Existence, Etc.
|
-
51 -
|
Section
6.9
|
Visitation
Rights
|
-
51 -
|
Section
6.10
|
Keeping
of Books
|
-
51 -
|
Section
6.11
|
Maintenance
of Properties, Etc.
|
-
52 -
|
Section
6.12
|
Transactions
with Affiliates
|
-
52 -
|
Section
6.13
|
Performance
of Material Contracts
|
-
52 -
|
Section
6.14
|
Compliance
with Environmental Laws.
|
-
52 -
|
Section
6.15
|
Additional
Guarantors
|
-
53 -
|
ARTICLE
7. NEGATIVE
COVENANTS
|
-
53 -
|
|
Section
7.1
|
Cleanup
Period
|
-
53 -
|
Section
7.2
|
Use
of Advances and Letters of Credit
|
-
53 -
|
Section
7.3
|
Liens,
Etc.
|
-
53 -
|
Section
7.4
|
Debt
|
-
54 -
|
Section
7.5
|
Lease
Obligations
|
-
56 -
|
Section
7.6
|
Mergers,
Etc.
|
-
56 -
|
Section
7.7
|
Sales,
Etc. of Assets
|
-
56 -
|
Section
7.8
|
Investments
in Other Persons
|
-
57 -
|
Section
7.9
|
Dividends,
Etc.
|
-
57 -
|
Section
7.10
|
Leverage
Ratio
|
-
58 -
|
Section
7.11
|
Ratio
of Debt to Capitalization
|
-
58 -
|
Section
7.12
|
Holding
of Cash and Cash Equivalents
|
-
58 -
|
Section
7.13
|
Change
in Nature of Business
|
-
58 -
|
Section
7.14
|
Compliance
with ERISA
|
-
59 -
|
Section
7.15
|
Amendment,
Etc. of Material Contracts
|
-
59 -
|
Section
7.16
|
Change
of Fiscal Periods
|
-
59 -
|
ARTICLE
8. EVENTS OF
DEFAULT
|
-
59 -
|
|
Section
8.1
|
Events
of Default
|
-
59 -
|
ARTICLE
9. THE
ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT
|
-
61 -
|
|
Section
9.1
|
Authorization
and Action
|
-
61 -
|
Section
9.2
|
Administrative
Agent’s Reliance, Etc.
|
-
62 -
|
Section
9.3
|
UBOC
and Affiliates
|
-
62 -
|
Section
9.4
|
Lender
Credit Decision
|
-
62 -
|
Section
9.5
|
Indemnification
|
-
62 -
|
Section
9.6
|
Successor
Administrative Agent
|
-
63 -
|
Section
9.7
|
Administrative
Agent as Collateral Holder.
|
-
63 -
|
Section
9.8
|
No
Other Duties, Etc
|
-
64 -
|
ARTICLE
10. MISCELLANEOUS
|
-
64 -
|
|
Section
10.1
|
Amendments,
Etc
|
-
64 -
|
Section
10.2
|
Notices,
Etc.
|
-
65 -
|
Section
10.3
|
No
Waiver; Remedies
|
-
66 -
|
Section
10.4
|
Costs
and Expenses
|
-
66 -
|
Section
10.5
|
Indemnification
|
-
66 -
|
Section
10.6
|
Right
of Setoff
|
-
67 -
|
Section
10.7
|
Binding
Effect
|
-
67 -
|
Section
10.8
|
Assignments,
Joinders and Participations.
|
-
67 -
|
Section
10.9
|
Disclosure
|
-
70 -
|
Section
10.10
|
GOVERNING
LAW
|
-
70 -
|
Section
10.11
|
Limitation
on Interest
|
-
70 -
|
Section
10.12
|
Headings
|
-
71 -
|
Section
10.13
|
Execution
in Counterparts
|
-
71 -
|
Section
10.14
|
USA
PATRIOT Act Notice
|
-
71 -
|
Section
10.15
|
Amendment
and Restatement
|
-
71 -
|
Section
10.16
|
WAIVER
OF JURY TRIAL
|
-
71 -
|
Section
10.17
|
Judicial
Reference
|
-
72 -
|
Schedule 1: | Commitments | |
Schedule 2: | Letter of Credit Banks for Eligible Accounts | |
Schedule 3: | Approved Account Debtors | |
Schedule 4: | Methods of Calculation of Fair-Market Value of Inventory | |
Schedule 5: | Subsidiaries | |
Schedule 6: | Acceptable Commodities Brokers | |
Schedule 7: | Lenders’ Addresses for Notice | |
Exhibit A: | Revolving Note | |
Exhibit B: | Application and Agreement for Irrevocable Standby Letter of Credit | |
Exhibit C: | Borrowing Base Certificate | |
Exhibit D: | Assignment and Assumption | |
Exhibit E: | Notice of Borrowing | |
Exhibit F: | Notice of Conversion/Continuation | |
Exhibit G: | Joinder Agreement |
THIRD
AMENDED AND RESTATED REVOLVING CREDIT AGREEMENT
This
Agreement, dated as of October 1, 2007, is entered into by (1) FRONTIER OIL
AND
REFINING COMPANY, a Delaware corporation (the
“Borrower”), (2) FRONTIER OIL CORPORATION, a Wyoming
corporation (“FOC”), (3) the financial institutions
listed on the signature pages hereof and each other financial institution that
becomes a party hereto pursuant to Section 10.8 (the
“Lenders”), (4) UNION BANK OF CALIFORNIA, N.A., a
national banking association, as administrative agent (in such capacity, the
“Administrative Agent”), and (5) BNP PARIBAS, a French
banking corporation, as syndication agent (in such capacity, the
“Syndication Agent”).
ARTICLE
1.
INTERPRETATION
AND DEFINITIONS
Section
1.1 Definitions
.
The
terms set forth below, as used herein, shall have the respective meanings set
forth below.
“Accepting
Lender” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.1(b).
“Accounts”
means the unpaid portion of the obligations to the Borrower of customers of
the
Borrower to pay for goods sold and shipped (net of commissions to agents).
Such
obligations shall be deemed to have been paid when the payment therefor clears
the Lockbox Account or, in the case of certain wire transfers, the Concentration
Account (as defined in the Security Agreement).
“Administrative
Agent” has the meaning set forth in the recital of parties to this
Agreement.
“Advances”
has the meaning set forth in Section 2.1(a).
“Affiliate”
means, as to any Person, any other Person that, directly or indirectly,
controls, is controlled by or is under common control with such Person or is
a
director or officer of such Person. For purposes of this definition, the term
“control” (including the terms “controlling,” “controlled by” and “under common
control with”) of a Person means the possession, direct or indirect, of the
power to vote 10% or more of the Capital Stock having ordinary voting power
for
the election of directors of such Person or to direct or cause the direction
of
the management and policies of such Person, whether through the ownership of
Capital Stock, by contract or otherwise.
“Applicable
Base Rate Margin” means the applicable interest-rate margin
determined pursuant to the table set forth below, in accordance with the Pricing
Level in effect from time to time.
-1-
Pricing
Level Margin
Pricing
Level
1 1.00%
per annum
Pricing
Xxxxx
0 1.25%
per annum
Pricing
Xxxxx
0 1.50%
per annum
Pricing
Xxxxx
0 1.75%
per annum
“Applicable
Commitment Fee Rate” means the applicable rate determined pursuant
to the table set forth below, in accordance with the Pricing Level in effect
from time to time.
Pricing
Level Rate
Pricing
Level
1 0.25%
per annum
Pricing
Xxxxx
0 0.25%
per annum
Pricing
Xxxxx
0 0.30%
per annum
Pricing
Xxxxx
0 0.35%
per annum
“Applicable
LIBOR Margin” means the applicable interest-rate margin determined
pursuant to the table set forth below, in accordance with the Pricing Level
in
effect from time to time.
Pricing
Level Margin
Pricing
Level
1 1.00%
per annum
Pricing
Xxxxx
0 1.25%
per annum
Pricing
Xxxxx
0 1.50%
per annum
Pricing
Xxxxx
0 1.75%
per annum
“Applicable
LOC Fee Rate” means the applicable rate determined pursuant to the
table set forth below, in accordance with the Pricing Level in effect from
time
to time.
Pricing
Level Rate
Pricing
Level
1 0.875%
per annum
Pricing
Xxxxx
0 1.125%
per annum
Pricing
Xxxxx
0 1.375%
per annum
Pricing
Xxxxx
0 1.625%
per annum
“Assignment
and Assumption” means an Assignment and Assumption substantially
in the form of Exhibit D.
“Assignment
of Claims Act” means the Assignment of Claims Act of 1940 (31 U.S.C.
§3727).
-2-
“Authorized
Officer” means, with respect to any action, an officer of the
Borrower authorized to take such action pursuant to resolutions of the Borrower
delivered to the Administrative Agent from time to time.
“Base
Rate” means, for any Interest Period for each Base Rate Advance
that is part of the same Borrowing, the rate of interest per annum
equal to the sum of (a) the Term Federal Funds Rate for such Interest Period
plus (b) 0.5% per annum.
“Base
Rate Advance” means, at any time, any Advance that bears interest
by reference to the Base Rate.
“Baytex
Crude Supply Agreement” means the Crude Oil Supply Agreement dated
October 15, 2002 between Baytex Energy Ltd., a body corporate having offices
in
Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxx, and FOC, which was assigned by Baytex Energy Ltd.
to
Baytex Marketing Ltd. on November 28, 2002, as amended to the date
hereof.
“BNP
Paribas” means BNP Paribas, a French banking corporation, in its
individual capacity.
“Borrower”
has the meaning set forth in the recital of parties to this
Agreement.
“Borrower
Guaranty” means the Borrower Guaranty executed by the Borrower in
favor of the Lenders and the Administrative Agent and delivered thereto pursuant
to this Agreement.
“Borrowing”
means a borrowing by the Borrower consisting of Advances of the same Type made
by the Lenders on the same day.
“Borrowing
Base” means, at any time of determination, the difference between
(a) the sum of the following, without duplication:
(i) 95%
of the amount of Eligible Accounts backed by letters of credit issued by banks
listed or described on Schedule 2 (together with such additional banks as the
Administrative Agent may agree to add to Schedule 2 in its sole discretion
by
notification of the same to the Borrower in writing), but only to the extent,
with respect to any such bank, that the aggregate face amount of all letters
of
credit backing Eligible Accounts issued by such bank that are outstanding at
any
time does not exceed the applicable amount set forth for such bank on Schedule
2
(provided, however, that the Administrative Agent reserves the
right in its sole discretion to make exceptions to the foregoing by notification
of the same to the Borrower in writing);
(ii) 90%
of the amount of Eligible Accounts receivable from (A) approved account debtors
listed from time to time on Schedule 3 or as to which the Majority Lenders
through the Administrative Agent have otherwise given their prior written
approval, which listing or approval may be withdrawn at any time by the Majority
Lenders through the Administrative Agent by written notification to the
Borrower, or (B) account debtors that are
-3-
Governmental
Persons that have complied with the granting and perfection provisions of the
Assignment of Claims Act with respect to such Eligible Accounts;
(iii) 30%
of the amount of Accounts (A) that are receivable from account debtors that
are
Governmental Persons covered by the Assignment of Claims Act, (B) as to which
the Borrower has notified the Administrative Agent in writing (which notice,
with respect to each such account debtor, shall be sufficient if given once
with
respect thereto) and has provided the Administrative Agent such information
as
reasonably requested thereby, (C) that would otherwise be Eligible Accounts
but
for the fact that they are 30 days or more past-due and/or such Governmental
Persons have not complied with the granting and perfection provisions of the
Assignment of Claims Act with respect to such Accounts and (D) that are not
more
than 120 days past-due (provided, however, that the aggregate
amount of such Accounts, before making the calculation set forth in this clause
(iii) for the purpose of determining the aggregate amount of such Accounts
to be
included in the Borrowing Base, shall not exceed $10,000,000);
(iv) 85%
of Eligible Accounts that do not fall within clause (i), (ii) or (iii)
above;
(v) 80%
of Eligible Exchange Balances (provided, however, that the
aggregate amount of Eligible Exchange Balances, before making the calculation
set forth in this clause (v) for the purpose of determining the aggregate amount
of Eligible Exchange Balances to be included in the Borrowing Base, shall not
exceed $8,500,000);
(vi) 80%
of Eligible Inventory (subject to the proviso in clause (vii) below);
and
(vii) 70%
of Eligible Prepaid Crude Purchases (provided, however, that (A)
the aggregate amount of Eligible Prepaid Crude Purchases, before making the
calculation described in this clause (vii) for the purpose of determining the
aggregate amount of Eligible Prepaid Crude Purchases to be included in the
Borrowing Base, shall not exceed $30,000,000 and (B) the aggregate amount of
Eligible Inventory and Eligible Prepaid Crude Purchases, before making the
calculations described in clause (vi) above and in this clause (vii) for the
purpose of determining the aggregate amount of Eligible Inventory and Eligible
Prepaid Crude Purchases to be included in the Borrowing Base, shall not exceed
$175,000,000);
minus
(b)
the amount, if any, by which the aggregate amount charged for federal excise
taxes on motor fuels that is included in the sum of the amounts determined
pursuant to clauses (a)(i), (ii), (iii) and (iv) above exceeds
$3,000,000.
“Borrowing
Base Certificate” means a certificate of the Borrower, together
with attached schedules, substantially in the form of Exhibit C.
“Business
Day” means a day of the year on which banks are not required or
authorized to close in Los Angeles and, if the applicable Business Day relates
to any LIBOR Advances, on which dealings are carried on in the London interbank
market.
-4-
“Calculation
Period” means, for purposes of calculating any financial measure
with respect to FOC and its Subsidiaries, any period of four successive fiscal
quarters of FOC ending on the last day of a fiscal quarter of FOC.
“Capitalized
Leases” has the meaning set forth in clause (e) of the definition
of “Debt” in this Section 1.1.
“Capital
Stock” means (a) any and all shares, interests, participations or
other equity interests in any Person and (b) any and all warrants, rights or
options to acquire any of the foregoing.
“Cash
Equivalents” means: (a) United States dollars or up to $2,000,000
of Canadian dollars; (b) securities issued or directly and fully guaranteed
or
insured by the United States government or any agency or instrumentality thereof
and having maturities of not more than six months from the date of acquisition;
(c) certificates of deposit and Eurodollar time deposits with maturities of
one
year or less from the date of acquisition, bankers’ acceptances with maturities
not exceeding one year and overnight bank deposits, in each case with any
commercial bank organized under the laws of any country that is a member of
the
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and having capital and
surplus in excess of $500,000,000; (d) repurchase obligations with a term of
not
more than seven days for underlying securities of the types described in clauses
(b) and (c) above that are entered into with any financial institution meeting
the qualifications specified in clause (c) above; (e) commercial paper having
the highest rating obtainable from Xxxxx’x or S&P and in each case maturing
within 180 days after the date of acquisition; (f) commercial paper, maturing
not more than 180 days after the date of acquisition, issued by a corporation
organized and existing under the laws of the United States of America or any
foreign country recognized by the United States of America, with a rating at
the
time as of which any investment therein is made of P-1 (or higher) according
to
Xxxxx’x or A-1 (or higher) according to S&P; (g) deposits available for
withdrawal on demand with any commercial bank not meeting the qualifications
specified in clause (c) above, provided that all such deposits do not exceed
$2,000,000 in the aggregate at any one time; and (h) money market mutual funds
substantially all of the assets of which are of the types described in the
preceding clauses (a) through (f).
“Cheyenne
Refinery” means FRI’s crude-oil refinery in Cheyenne,
Wyoming.
“Closing
Date” has the meaning set forth in Section 4.1.
“Cogen
Lease” means the Sub-Sublease Agreement (Cogeneration Facility)
dated as of October 19, 1999 between FERC and Shell Oil Products US, as amended
to the date hereof.
“Collateral”
means, collectively, (a) the “Collateral” as defined in the Security Agreement
and (b) the “Collateral” as defined in the Stock Pledge
Agreement.
-5-
“Commercial
Finance Audit” means an audit of the Borrower’s books, records and
accounting procedures conducted by the Administrative Agent or an independent
consulting firm selected by the Administrative Agent.
“Commitment”
means, for each Lender, the amount set forth opposite such Lender’s name on
Schedule 1 under the heading “Commitment” or, if such Lender has entered into
one or more Assignments and Assumptions and/or Joinder Agreements, set forth
for
such Lender in the Register maintained by the Administrative Agent pursuant
to
Section 10.8(d), as such amount may be reduced from time to time pursuant to
Section 2.1(c).
“Commitment
Increase Date” has the meaning set forth in Section
2.1(b).
“Commitment
Increase Request” has the meaning set forth in Section
2.1(b).
“Commitment
Termination Date” means October 3, 2011 or any earlier date on
which the Commitments are terminated pursuant to the terms of this Agreement;
provided, however, that, upon (a) written request by the Borrower
not later than the date that is 1 year before the Commitment Termination Date
in
effect from time to time and (b) written notice of extension of the Commitment
Termination Date by the Administrative Agent to the Borrower, the Commitment
Termination Date may be extended from time to time by the Administrative Agent
and the Lenders, in their sole and absolute discretion, for up to an additional
year.
“Conoco
Operating Agreement” means the Operating Agreement (Conoco Pipe
Line Company and Frontier Pipeline Inc. Joint Interest Pipeline System) dated
September 13, 1989 between Conoco Pipe Line Company and FPI, as amended to
the
date hereof.
“ConocoPhillips”
means ConocoPhillips Company, a Delaware corporation.
“Consolidated
EBITDA” means, for FOC and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated
basis for any period, Consolidated Net Income plus (a) without duplication
and
to the extent reflected as a charge in the statement of Consolidated Net Income,
the sum of (i) income-tax expense, (ii) Consolidated Interest Expense, (iii)
depletion, depreciation and amortization expense, (iv) extraordinary charges
or
losses and (v) other noncash charges, expenses or losses (excluding any such
charge, expense or loss incurred in the ordinary course of business that
constitutes an accrual of or reserve for cash charges for any future period),
provided that cash payments made during such period or in any future period
in
respect of such noncash charges, expenses or losses (other than any such
excluded charge, expense or loss) shall be subtracted from Consolidated Net
Income in calculating Consolidated EBITDA for the period in which such payments
are made, minus (b) without duplication and to the extent included in the
statement of such Consolidated Net Income for such period, the sum of (i)
interest income, (ii) extraordinary income or gains and (iii) other noncash
income (excluding any items that represent the reversal of any accrual of,
or
cash reserve for, anticipated cash charges in any prior period that are
described in the parenthetical in clause (a)(v) above).
“Consolidated
Funded Debt” means, for FOC and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated
basis, all Debt, other than Debt of the Borrower under this Agreement, that
matures
-6-
more
than
one year from the date of its creation or that matures within one year from
such
date but is renewable or extendible, at the option of the debtor, to a date
more
than one year from such date, but excluding all amounts of Consolidated Funded
Debt required to be paid or prepaid within one year from the date of
determination.
“Consolidated
Interest Expense” means, for FOC and its Subsidiaries on a
consolidated basis for any period, the sum of (a) all interest, commitment
fees
and loan fees in respect of Debt that are deducted in determining Consolidated
Net Income for such period, together with all interest that is capitalized
or
deferred during such period and not deducted in determining Consolidated Net
Income for such period, plus (b) all fees, expenses and charges in respect
of
letters of credit that are deducted in determining Consolidated Net Income
for
such period, together with all such fees, expenses and charges in respect of
letters of credit that are capitalized or deferred during such period and not
deducted in determining Consolidated Net Income for such period. Revenues and
expenses derived from Hedge Agreements related to interest rates or dividend
rates will be treated as adjustments to interest expense for purposes of this
definition.
“Consolidated
Net Income” means, for FOC and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated
basis for any period, net income (or loss), but excluding (a) the income (or
deficit) of any Person accrued before the date it becomes a Subsidiary or is
merged into or consolidated with FOC or any Subsidiary, (b) the income (or
deficit) of any Person (other than a Subsidiary) in which FOC or any Subsidiary
has an ownership interest, except to the extent that any such income is actually
received by FOC or such Subsidiary in the form of dividends or similar
distributions, and (c) the undistributed earnings of any Subsidiary to the
extent that the declaration or payment of dividends or similar distributions
by
such Subsidiary is not at the time permitted by the terms of any Governmental
Rule, contractual obligation (other than any Credit Document) or charter,
corporate or similar legal restriction applicable to such
Subsidiary.
“Continuing
Directors” means (a) the directors of FOC on June 30, 2007 and (b)
each other director whose nomination for election to the Board of Directors
of
FOC is recommended by at least a majority of the then Continuing
Directors.
“Conversion,”
“Convert” and “Converted”
each refer to a conversion
of Advances of one Type into Advances of another Type
pursuant to the terms of this Agreement.
“Credit
Documents” means this Agreement, the Notes, the Security
Agreement, the Guaranty, the Stock Pledge Agreement, the Securities Account
Control Agreements, any Letter of Credit Requests that are executed by the
Borrower from time to time, any Assignments and Assumptions that are executed
from time to time, any Joinder Agreements that are executed from time to time,
any Hedge Agreements that are executed from time to time only by a Credit Party
and one or more Lenders, the Borrower Guaranty, the FRMI Guaranty, the Fee
Letter and the Four Party Lockbox Agreement dated as of December 22, 1999 among
the Borrower, the Administrative Agent, Regulus West LLC, a Delaware limited
liability company, and Xxxxx Fargo Bank, N.A., a national banking
association.
“Credit
Parties” means the Borrower and each Guarantor.
-7-
“Debt”
of any Person means, at any date without duplication, (a) all obligations of
such Person for borrowed money; (b) all obligations of such Person evidenced
by
bonds, debentures, notes or other similar instruments; (c) all obligations
of
such Person to pay the deferred purchase price of property or services
(excluding normal trade payables not overdue that are incurred in the ordinary
course of such Person’s business); (d) all indebtedness created or arising under
any conditional-sale or 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 a default are limited to
repossession or sale of such property); (e) all obligations of such Person
as
lessee under leases that have been or should be, in accordance with GAAP,
recorded as capitalized leases; (f) all obligations, contingent or otherwise
of
such Person under acceptance, letter-of-credit or similar facilities; (g) all
obligations of such Person to purchase, redeem, retire, defease or otherwise
acquire for value any Capital Stock of such Person, valued, in the case of
redeemable preferred stock, at the greater of its voluntary and involuntary
liquidation preference plus accrued and unpaid dividends; (h) for purposes
of
Sections 7.4 and 8.1(d) only, all obligations of such Person under Hedge
Agreements; (i) all obligations of such Person as lessee under leases (commonly
known as “synthetic” leases) under which such Person is treated as owner of the
leased asset for tax purposes but, in accordance with GAAP, not for accounting
purposes; (j) all Debt referred to in any of clauses (a) through (i) above
that
is guaranteed directly or indirectly by such Person, or in effect guaranteed
directly or indirectly by such Person through an agreement (i) to pay or
purchase such Debt or to advance or supply funds for the payment or purchase
of
such Debt, (ii) to purchase, sell or lease (as lessee or lessor) property,
or to
purchase or sell services, primarily for the purpose of enabling the debtor
to
make payment of such Debt or to assure the holder of such Debt against loss,
(iii) to advance or supply funds to maintain working capital or equity capital
of another Person or otherwise to maintain the net worth or solvency of such
Person (including any agreement in the nature of a support arrangement to pay
for property or services irrespective of whether such property is received
or
such services are rendered) or (iv) otherwise to assure a creditor against
loss;
(k) all Debt referred to in any of clauses (a) through (i) above secured by
(or
for which the holder of such Debt has an existing right, contingent or
otherwise, to be secured by) any Lien on property (including accounts receivable
and contract rights) owned by such Person, even though such Person has not
assumed or become liable for the payment of such Debt; and (l) any accumulated
funding deficiency (as defined in Section 412(a) of the Tax Code) for a Plan
of
such Person.
“Default”
means any Event of Default or any event or condition that, with the giving
of
notice or the lapse of time, or both, would become an Event of
Default.
“Default
Rate” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.6(b).
“El
Dorado Refinery” means FERC’s crude-oil refinery in El Dorado,
Kansas.
“Eligible
Accounts” means those Accounts of the Borrower that (a) are within
60 days of the date of the related invoice, (b) are less than 30 days past-due,
(c) are (together with the relevant “Related Contracts,” as defined in the
Security Agreement) covered by a perfected first-priority security interest
in
favor of the Administrative Agent and (d) comply with all of
the
-8-
representations,
warranties and covenants of the Borrower in the Credit Documents;
provided, however, that Eligible Accounts shall not include the
following:
(i) Accounts
with respect to which the account debtor is an officer, employee or agent of
the
Borrower;
(ii) Accounts
with respect to which goods have been placed on consignment, guaranteed sale
or
other terms by reason of which the payment by the account debtor may be
conditional;
(iii) Accounts
with respect to which the account debtor is not a Person resident in the United
States;
(iv) Accounts
with respect to which the account debtor is the United States of America or
any
department, agency or instrumentality of the United States of America;
provided, however, that an Account shall not be deemed ineligible
by reason of this clause (iv) if the Borrower has taken the necessary steps,
to
the satisfaction of the Administrative Agent evidenced in writing, to perfect
a
first-priority security interest in such Account in favor of the Administrative
Agent in compliance with the Assignment of Claims Act;
(v) Accounts
with respect to which the account debtor is a state of the United States of
America or a county, city, town, municipality or other division of any such
state; provided, however, that an Account shall not be deemed
ineligible by reason of this clause (v) if the Borrower has taken the necessary
steps, to the satisfaction of the Administrative Agent evidenced in writing,
to
perfect a first-priority security interest in such Account in favor of the
Administrative Agent in compliance with all applicable Governmental
Rules;
(vi) Accounts
with respect to which the account debtor is an Affiliate of the
Borrower;
(vii) Accounts
to whose account debtor the Borrower is or is to become liable, but only if
such
liability does not relate to any such Account and only to the extent of such
liability;
(viii) that
portion of the aggregate Accounts owed to the Borrower by any single account
debtor that exceeds 15% (or, in the case of Shell Oil Products US, 40%, provided
that (A) if at any time Shell Oil Company, a Delaware corporation, no longer
maintains a long-term corporate debt rating of at least Aa2 from Moody’s and at
least AA+ from S&P, then said percentage for Shell Oil Products US shall
automatically be reduced to 25%, and (B) said percentages may be reduced by
the
Administrative Agent, after consultation with the Syndication Agent, at any
time
by written notice of the same to the Borrower) of the amount of all of the
Accounts of the Borrower, except as approved by the Administrative Agent in
writing from time to time;
(ix) Accounts
not denominated in United States dollars;
-9-
(x) Accounts
with respect to which an invoice has not been sent within 2 Business Days after
the effective date of any Borrowing Base Certificate in which such Accounts
would otherwise be included for purposes of calculation of the Borrowing
Base;
(xi) Accounts
due from a particular account debtor if any Account due from such account debtor
does not comply with the Borrower’s representations and warranties in Section 8
of the Security Agreement and if the Administrative Agent notifies the Borrower
that such Accounts are ineligible;
(xii) Accounts
with respect to which the account debtor disputes liability or makes any claim,
in whole or in part, but only (A) to the extent that the aggregate amount in
dispute and/or as to which claim is made for all such Accounts exceeds $250,000,
(B) to the extent that the aggregate amount of all such Accounts exceeds
$500,000 or (C) if the amount in dispute or claimed cannot be quantified
reasonably accurately;
(xiii) Accounts
due from a particular account debtor if any event of the types described in
Section 8.1(e) occurs with respect to such account debtor;
(xiv) Accounts
due from a particular account debtor if such account debtor suspends normal
business operations; and
(xv) Accounts
that are not satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, in its sole discretion,
using reasonable business judgment.
Notwithstanding
clauses (vi) and (vii) above, if (A) the obligations of an account debtor under
an Account that would otherwise be excluded from Eligible Accounts under either
such clause are supported by a letter of credit in form and substance
satisfactory (including with respect to all documentary and other requirements
of such letter of credit) to the Majority Lenders in their sole discretion,
issued by a bank satisfactory to the Majority Lenders in their sole discretion,
(B) the proceeds of such letter of credit have been assigned to the
Administrative Agent as collateral for the Obligations, pursuant to
documentation in form and substance satisfactory to the Majority Lenders in
their sole discretion, and (C) the issuer of such letter of credit and any
nominated person thereunder have consented to such assignment in writing,
pursuant to documentation in form and substance satisfactory to the Majority
Lenders in their sole discretion, and have delivered such writing to the
Administrative Agent, then such Account shall not be excluded from Eligible
Accounts pursuant to such clause (vi) or (vii).
“Eligible
Exchange Balances” means all of the Borrower’s Exchange Balances
with other Persons (other than Affiliates of the Borrower) that are positive
(i.e., in favor of the Borrower) after (a) deducting from such Exchange
Balances in each instance the amount equal to the sum of the values of all
obligations of the Borrower to deliver petroleum products or to pay money that
the Borrower owes or incurs whenever it trades, lends, borrows or exchanges
petroleum products in the ordinary course of business with such Persons, the
value of such obligations to deliver petroleum products being the lesser of
(i)
the cost to the Borrower, as set forth in the books and records of the Borrower
(valued on a first-in, first-out basis in accordance with GAAP), of like
petroleum products for the previous month and (ii) the fair-market value of
-10-
like
petroleum products as determined in accordance with the methods prescribed
in
Schedule 4, (b) adjusting such Exchange Balances upward or downward, as
applicable, to account for all discounts, allowances, rebates, credits and
other
adjustments in respect of such Exchange Balances and (c) deducting from such
Exchange Balances the amount billed for or representing retainage, if any,
by
such Persons with respect to such Exchange Balances, until all prerequisites
to
the immediate payment of such retainage have been satisfied; provided,
however, that Eligible Exchange Balances shall not include any Exchange
Balance with respect to which: (i) the Administrative Agent does not have a
perfected first-priority security interest; (ii) any representation, warranty
or
covenant contained in this Agreement or any other Credit Document has been
breached; (iii) the customer or trading partner has disputed liability, or
made
any claim to the Borrower with respect to such Exchange Balance or with respect
to any other Exchange Balance due from such customer or trading partner, other
than for a minimal adjustment in the ordinary course of business and in
accordance with regular commercial practice; or (iv) any event of a type
described in Section 8.1(e) has occurred with respect to the customer or trading
partner, or the customer or trading partner has suspended normal business
operations.
“Eligible
Inventory” means all of the Borrower’s Inventory that (a) is
covered by a perfected first-priority security interest in favor of the
Administrative Agent (subject only to storage, transportation and other
nonconsensual Liens created by operation of law or tariff in favor of carriers,
transporters and warehousemen, securing only amounts due to such carriers,
transporters and warehousemen in respect of carriage, transportation and storage
services with respect to such Inventory, in each case securing obligations
not
then in default), (b) complies with all of the Borrower’s representations,
warranties and covenants in the Credit Documents, (c) is not obsolete,
unsalable, damaged or otherwise unfit for sale or further processing in the
ordinary course of business, (d) is currently salable in compliance with all
applicable Governmental Rules and without the need for any Governmental Action,
(e) is held at locations set forth on Schedule 1 to the Security Agreement,
(f)
is listed on Schedule 4 attached to the most recent Borrowing Base Certificate
delivered to the Lenders and (g) is otherwise satisfactory to the Administrative
Agent, in its sole discretion, using reasonable business judgment, all such
Inventory to be valued, at any time of determination, at the lower of (i)
fair-market value as determined in accordance with the methods prescribed in
Schedule 4 and (ii) cost, as set forth in the books and records of the Borrower
(valued on a first-in, first-out basis, in accordance with GAAP).
“Eligible
Prepaid Crude Purchases” means all of the Borrower’s Prepaid Crude
Purchases, after deducting therefrom any amounts payable by the Borrower to
the
seller in respect of such Prepaid Crude Purchases or otherwise; provided,
however, that Eligible Prepaid Crude Purchases shall not include any
Prepaid Crude Purchase with respect to which: (a) the Administrative Agent
does
not have a perfected first-priority security interest; (b) any representation,
warranty or covenant contained in this Agreement or any other Credit Document
has been breached; (c) the seller disputes liability or has made any claim
to
the Borrower, other than for a minimal adjustment in the ordinary course of
business and in accordance with regular commercial practice; (d) during the
period of existence of such Prepaid Crude Purchase, any event of a type
described in Section 8.1(e) has occurred with respect to the seller, or the
seller has suspended normal business operations; or (e) any direct or indirect
owner of the seller that is reasonably required by the Administrative Agent
to
be jointly and severally liable for such Prepaid Crude Purchase (i) is not
jointly and severally liable for such
-11-
Prepaid
Crude Purchase, pursuant to documentation in form and substance acceptable
to
the Administrative Agent, or (ii) does not maintain a commercial paper rating
of
at least P-1 from Moody’s and at least A-1 from S&P.
“EMC”
means Ethanol Management Company, a Colorado corporation that is wholly owned
by
the Borrower.
“Environmental
Law” means any Governmental Rule relating to pollution or
protection of the environment or any natural resource, to any Hazardous Material
or to health or safety, including any Governmental Rule relating to the use,
handling, transportation, treatment, storage, disposal, release or discharge
of
any Hazardous Material.
“Environmental
Permit” means any Governmental Action required under any
Environmental Law.
“Environmental
Proceeding” means any action, suit, written demand, demand letter,
claim, notice of noncompliance or violation, notice of liability or potential
liability, investigation, proceeding, consent order or consent agreement
relating in any way to any Environmental Law, any Environmental Permit or any
Hazardous Material or arising from alleged injury or threat to health, safety
or
the environment, including (a) by any Governmental Person for enforcement,
cleanup, removal, response, remedial or other actions or damages and (b) by
any
Person for damages, contribution, indemnification, cost recovery, compensation
or injunctive relief.
“Equiva
Trading” means Equiva Trading Company, a Delaware general
partnership.
“ERISA”
means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974.
“ERISA
Affiliate” means, with respect to any Person, any trade or
business (whether or not incorporated) that is a “commonly controlled entity”
within the meaning of the regulations under Section 414 of the Tax
Code.
“Eurocurrency
Liabilities” has the meaning set forth in Regulation D of the
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
“Event
of Default” has the meaning set forth in Section 8.1.
“Exchange
Balances” means, with respect to any Person, all rights to receive
petroleum products or to receive payment of money that the Borrower generates,
acquires, possesses or owns whenever the Borrower trades, lends, borrows or
exchanges petroleum products in the ordinary course of business with such Person
(other than an Affiliate of the Borrower), the value of such rights to receive
petroleum products being the lesser of (a) the cost to the Borrower, as set
forth in the books and records of the Borrower (valued on a first-in, first-out
basis in accordance with GAAP), of like petroleum products for the previous
month and (b)
-12-
the
fair-market value of like petroleum products as determined in accordance with
the methods prescribed in Schedule 4.
“Excluded
Taxes” means, with respect to the Administrative Agent, any Lender
or any other recipient of a payment to be made by or on account of any
obligation of the Borrower under this Agreement, (a) taxes imposed on or
measured by its overall net income (however denominated), and franchise taxes
imposed on it (in lieu of net income taxes), by the jurisdiction (or any
political subdivision thereof) under the laws of which such recipient is
organized or in which its principal office is located or, in the case of any
Lender, in which its applicable lending office is located, (b) any
branch-profits taxes imposed by the United States of America or any similar
tax
imposed by any other jurisdiction in which the Borrower is located and (c)
in
the case of a Foreign Lender (other than an assignee pursuant to Section 3.8),
any withholding tax that is imposed on amounts payable to such Foreign Lender
at
the time such Foreign Lender becomes a party hereto (or designates a new lending
office) or is attributable to such Foreign Lender’s failure or inability (other
than as a result of an event described in Section 3.1 or 3.4) to comply with
Section 3.7(e), except to the extent that such Foreign Lender (or its assignor,
if any) was entitled, at the time of designation of a new lending office (or
assignment), to receive additional amounts from the Borrower with respect to
such withholding tax pursuant to Section 3.7(a).
“Federal
Funds Rate” means, for any period, a fluctuating interest rate
per annum equal for each day during such period to 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 for such day
(or,
if such day is not a Business Day, for the next preceding 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 such day on such
transactions received by the Administrative Agent from three federal funds
brokers of recognized standing selected by it.
“Fee
Letter” means the letter agreement executed and delivered by the
Borrower and UBOC pursuant to this Agreement, concerning fees payable by the
Borrower to UBOC for its own account with respect to this
Agreement.
“FERC”
means Frontier El Dorado Refining Company, a Delaware corporation that is wholly
owned by FRMI.
“FHI”
means Frontier Holdings Inc., a Delaware corporation that is wholly owned by
FOC.
“FOC”
has the meaning set forth in the recital of parties to this
Agreement.
“Foreign
Lender” means any Lender organized under the laws of a
jurisdiction other than that in which the Borrower is resident for tax purposes.
For purposes of this definition, the
United States of America, each state thereof and the District of Columbia are
deemed to constitute a single jurisdiction.
-13-
“FPI”
means Frontier Pipeline Inc., a Delaware corporation that is wholly owned by
FRMI.
“FRI”
means Frontier Refining Inc., a Delaware corporation that is wholly owned by
FRMI.
“FRMI”
means
Frontier Refining & Marketing Inc., a Delaware corporation that is wholly
owned by FHI.
“FRMI
Guaranty” means the FRMI Guaranty executed by FRMI in favor of the
Lenders and the Administrative Agent and delivered thereto pursuant to this
Agreement.
“Frontier
Processing
Agreements” means (a) the Amended and Restated Processing
Agreement dated as of June 30, 1998 between the Borrower and FRI, as amended
to
the date hereof, and (b) the Processing Agreement dated as of November 16,
1999
between the Borrower and FERC, as amended to the date hereof.
“GAAP”
means generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America
as in effect from time to time; provided, however, that, if any
Accounting Change (as defined below) occurs and results in a change in the
method of calculation of financial covenants, requirements or terms in this
Agreement, then FOC and the Administrative Agent will enter into negotiations
in
order to amend such provisions of this Agreement so as to equitably reflect
such
Accounting Change, with the desired result that the criteria for evaluating
FOC’s financial condition shall be the same after such Accounting Change as if
such Accounting Change had not occurred. Until such time as such an amendment
has been executed and delivered by FOC, the Borrower, the Administrative Agent
and the Majority Lenders, however, all financial covenants, requirements and
terms in this Agreement shall continue to be calculated or construed as if
such
Accounting Change had not occurred. As used herein, “Accounting Change” means a
change 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, if applicable,
the
Securities and Exchange Commission.
“Governmental
Action” means any authorization, approval, consent, waiver,
exception, license, filing, registration, permit, notarization, special lease
or
other requirement of any Governmental Person.
“Governmental
Person” means, whether domestic or foreign, any national, federal,
state or local government, any political subdivision thereof, or any
governmental, quasi-governmental, judicial, public or statutory instrumentality,
authority, body or entity, including any central bank and any comparable
authority.
“Governmental
Rule” means any treaty, law, rule, regulation, ordinance, order,
code, interpretation, judgment, writ, injunction, decree, determination,
directive, award, guideline,
request, policy or similar form of decision of any Governmental Person, referee
or arbitrator.
-14-
“Guarantors”
means FOC, FHI, FRMI, FRI, FERC, FPI, EMC and each other Person that becomes
a
party to the Guaranty by executing a Guaranty Supplement.
“Guaranty”
means the Guaranty executed by the Guarantors in favor of the Lenders and the
Administrative Agent and delivered thereto pursuant to this
Agreement.
“Guaranty
Supplement” has the meaning set forth in the
Guaranty.
“Hazardous
Material” means any substance or material that is described as a
toxic or hazardous substance, waste or material or as a pollutant, contaminant
or infectious waste, or words of similar import, in any Environmental Law,
including asbestos, petroleum (including crude oil or any fraction thereof,
natural gas, natural-gas liquid, liquefied natural gas or synthetic gas usable
for fuel, or any mixture of any of the foregoing), polychlorinated biphenyls,
urea formaldehyde, radon gas, radioactive matter, and any chemical that may
cause cancer or reproductive toxicity.
“Hedge
Agreement” means (a) any agreement providing for an option, swap,
floor, cap, collar, forward sale or forward purchase involving interest rates,
commodities, commodity prices, equities, currencies, bonds or any indexes based
on any of the foregoing, (b) any option contract, futures contract or forward
contract traded on an exchange or (c) any other derivative agreement or other
similar agreement or arrangement.
“Indemnified
Taxes” means Taxes other than Excluded Taxes.
“Interest
Period” means, with respect to each LIBOR Advance or Base Rate
Advance making up part of the same Borrowing, the period commencing on the
date
of such Advance or the date of the Conversion of any Advance into such an
Advance and ending on the last day of the period selected by the Borrower
pursuant to the provisions below and, thereafter, each subsequent period
commencing on the last day of the immediately preceding Interest Period and
ending on the last day of the period selected by the Borrower pursuant to the
provisions below. The duration of each Interest Period for LIBOR Advances shall
be any number of days between 7 days and 1 month, or 2, 3 or 6 whole months,
as
the Borrower may select upon notice (by means of a Notice of Borrowing or a
Notice of Conversion/Continuation) received by the Administrative Agent not
later than 9:30 a.m., Los Angeles time, on the third Business Day before the
first day of such Interest Period, and the duration of each Interest Period
for
Base Rate Advances shall be any number of days between 1 day and 7 days, as
the
Borrower may select upon notice (by means of a Notice of Borrowing or a Notice
of Conversion/Continuation) received by the Administrative Agent not later
than
9:30 a.m., Los Angeles time, on the Business Day immediately preceding the
first
day of such Interest Period; provided, however, that
(a) Interest
Periods commencing on the same date for Advances making up part of the same
Borrowing shall be of the same duration;
(b) whenever
the last day of an Interest Period would otherwise occur on a day other than
a
Business Day, the last day of such Interest Period shall be extended to occur
on
the next succeeding Business Day, unless, if such Interest Period relates to
LIBOR
-15-
Advances,
such extension would cause the last day of such Interest Period to occur in
the
next succeeding calendar month, in which case the last day of such Interest
Period shall occur on the next preceding Business Day;
(c) not
more than 5 different Interest Periods may be outstanding at any one time;
and
(d) no
Interest Period may end after the Commitment Termination Date.
“Inventory”
has the meaning set forth in Section 1(a) of the Security
Agreement.
“Inventory
Audit” means an audit of the physical properties and volumes,
using standard practices and standard tank-gauging wire-line devices or another
method acceptable to the Administrative Agent, of all or a portion, as
determined by the Administrative Agent from time to time, of the Borrower’s
Inventory, conducted by an independent consulting firm selected by the
Administrative Agent.
“Issuing
Bank” means UBOC in its capacity as issuer of Letters of Credit
hereunder.
“Joinder
Agreement” means a Joinder Agreement substantially in the form of
Exhibit G.
“Lenders”
has the meaning set forth in the recital of parties to this Agreement. Each
reference in this Agreement or any other Credit Document to a Lender or the
Lenders shall be deemed to include the Issuing Bank.
“Letter
of Credit Amount” means the stated maximum amount available to be
drawn under a particular Letter of Credit, as such amount may be reduced or
reinstated from time to time in accordance with the terms of such Letter of
Credit.
“Letter
of Credit Request” means a request by the Borrower for the
issuance of a Letter of Credit, on the Issuing Bank’s standard form of
Application and Agreement for Irrevocable Standby Letter of Credit, the current
form of which is attached hereto as Exhibit B, and containing terms and
conditions satisfactory to the Administrative Agent in its sole
discretion.
“Letter
of Credit Usage” means, at any time of determination, the sum
of:
(a) 100%
of the Letter of Credit Amount of all outstanding Letters of Credit other than
those issued to support the purchase of Ratable Crude;
-16-
(b) with
respect to the period from and including the date of issuance of any outstanding
Letter of Credit issued to support the purchase of Ratable Crude by the Borrower
to and including the last day of the month preceding the month in which such
Ratable Crude is to be delivered, 0% of the Letter of Credit Amount of such
Letter of Credit;
(c) with
respect to the first through the tenth day, inclusive, of the month of delivery
of any Ratable Crude to the Borrower, 35% of the Letter of Credit Amount of
any
outstanding Letter of Credit issued to support the purchase of such Ratable
Crude by the Borrower;
(d) with
respect to the eleventh through the twentieth day, inclusive, of the month
of
delivery of any Ratable Crude to the Borrower, 70% of the Letter of Credit
Amount of any outstanding Letter of Credit issued to support the purchase of
such Ratable Crude by the Borrower;
(e) with
respect to the period from the twenty-first day of the month of delivery of
any
Ratable Crude to the Borrower through the date of payment for such Ratable
Crude, inclusive, 100% of the Letter of Credit Amount of any outstanding Letter
of Credit issued to support the purchase of such Ratable Crude by the Borrower;
and
(f) with
respect to the period from the date of payment for any Ratable Crude through
the
date of expiration or cancellation (as determined by the Administrative Agent)
of any outstanding Letter of Credit issued to support the purchase of such
Ratable Crude by the Borrower, inclusive, 20% of the Letter of Credit Amount
of
such Letter of Credit.
Upon
not
less than 3 days’ prior written notice from the Administrative Agent to the
Borrower, the percentages set forth above may be adjusted by the Administrative
Agent from time to time at the Administrative Agent’s discretion if at any time
any Commercial Finance Audit reveals that Ratable Crude delivery patterns are
materially different from those determined pursuant to the most recent
Commercial Finance Audit performed from time to time.
“Letters
of Credit” has the meaning set forth in Section
2.1(a).
“LIBOR”
means, for any Interest Period for each LIBOR Advance that is part of the same
Borrowing, the rate per annum obtained by dividing (a) the rate of
interest per annum (rounded upward, if necessary, to the nearest
1/100th of 1%) at which U.S.-dollar deposits would be offered to UBOC outside
the United States of America 2 Business Days before the first day of such
Interest Period, in an amount comparable to the amount of UBOC’s LIBOR Advance
for such Interest Period and for a term coinciding with such Interest Period,
by
(b) a percentage equal to 100% minus the LIBOR Reserve Percentage for such
Interest Period.
“LIBOR
Advance” means, at any time, any Advance that bears interest by
reference to LIBOR.
“LIBOR
Reserve Percentage” means, for any Interest Period for each LIBOR
Advance that is part of the same Borrowing, the reserve percentage applicable
on
any day not
-17-
more
than
2 Business Days before the first day of such Interest Period under regulations
issued from time to time by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
for determining the maximum reserve requirement (including any emergency,
supplemental or other marginal reserve requirement) for UBOC with respect to
liabilities or assets consisting of or including Eurocurrency Liabilities (or
with respect to any other category of liabilities that includes deposits by
reference to which the interest rate on LIBOR Advances is determined) having
a
term equal to such Interest Period.
“Lien”
means, with respect to any asset, (a) any lien, charge, option, claim, mortgage,
security interest, pledge or other encumbrance or any other type of preferential
arrangement of any kind in respect of such asset or (b) the interest of a vendor
or lessor under any conditional-sale agreement, capital lease or other
title-retention agreement relating to such asset.
“Lockbox
Account” has the meaning set forth in the Security
Agreement.
“Majority
Lenders” means, at any time, Lenders owed at least 51% of the
Obligations then outstanding or, if no Obligations are then outstanding, Lenders
having at least 51% of the Commitments.
“Material
Adverse Effect” means a material and adverse effect on (a) the
business, condition (financial or otherwise), operations, performance,
properties or prospects of FOC and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, (b)
the
ability of any Credit Party to perform any material obligation under any of
the
Credit Documents to which it is a party or (c) the legality, validity or
enforceability of any Credit Document or the rights or remedies of the
Administrative Agent and the Lenders thereunder.
“Material
Contracts” means (a) the Frontier Processing Agreements, the
Baytex Crude Supply Agreement, the Offtake Agreement, the Conoco Operating
Agreement and the Cogen Lease and (b) as to FOC or any Subsidiary, each contract
to which such Person is a party that, if lost, could reasonably be expected
to
have a Material Adverse Effect.
“Maximum
Aggregate Commitment” means, at any time, the total of the
Commitments, as they may be increased from time to time pursuant to Section
2.1(b) or reduced from time to time pursuant to Section 2.1(c).
“Moody’s”
means Xxxxx’x Investors Service, Inc., a Delaware corporation.
“Multiemployer
Plan” means, with respect to any Person, a multiemployer plan, as
defined in Section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA and subject to Title IV thereof, to
which
such Person or any of its ERISA Affiliates is making or accruing an obligation
to make contributions, or has within any of the preceding 5 plan years made
or
accrued an obligation to make contributions, such plan being maintained pursuant
to one or more collective-bargaining agreements.
“New
Lender” has the meaning set forth in Section
2.1(b).
-18-
“Note”
means a Revolving Note of the Borrower payable to the order of a Lender,
substantially in the form of Exhibit A, evidencing the indebtedness of the
Borrower to such Lender resulting from the Advances made by such Lender from
time to time.
“Notice
of Borrowing” has the meaning set forth in Section
2.4(a).
“Notice
of Conversion/Continuation” has the meaning set forth in Section
2.8(a).
“Obligations”
means all payment obligations of the Borrower outstanding from time to time
under this Agreement and the other Credit Documents, whether for principal,
reimbursement of drawings under Letters of Credit (including contingent
reimbursement obligations under outstanding Letters of Credit), interest, fees,
expenses, indemnification or otherwise.
“Offtake
Agreement” means the Frontier Products Offtake Agreement, El
Dorado Refinery, dated as of October 19, 1999 between the Borrower and Equiva
Trading, which was assigned by Equiva Trading to Shell Oil Products US on
September 1, 2002, as amended to the date hereof.
“Old
Credit Agreement” means the Second Amended and Restated Revolving
Credit Agreement dated as of November 22, 2004 among the Borrower, FOC, the
financial institutions party thereto, UBOC, as administrative agent, and BNP
Paribas, as syndication agent.
“Other
Taxes” means all current or future stamp or documentary taxes, and
all other excise or property taxes, charges and similar levies, arising from
any
payment made under this Agreement or under any other Credit Document or from
the
execution, delivery or enforcement of, or otherwise with respect to, this
Agreement or any other Credit Document.
“PBGC”
means the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation established under
ERISA.
“Permitted
Liens” means such of the following as to which no enforcement,
collection, execution, levy or foreclosure proceeding has been commenced: (a)
Liens for taxes, assessments and governmental charges or levies to the extent
not required to be paid under Section 6.6; (b) Liens imposed by law, such as
materialmen’s, mechanics’, carriers’, workmen’s and repairmen’s Liens and other
similar Liens arising in the ordinary course of business securing obligations
that are not overdue for a period of more than 30 days; (c) pledges or deposits
to secure obligations under workers’ compensation laws or similar legislation or
to secure public or statutory obligations; (d) easements, rights of way and
other encumbrances on title to real property that do not render title to the
property encumbered thereby unmarketable or materially and adversely affect
the
use of such property for its present purposes; and (e) 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 like nature incurred in the ordinary course of
business.
-19-
“Person”
means an individual, a corporation, a limited liability company, a partnership,
an association, a business trust or any other entity or organization, including
any Governmental Person.
“Plan”
means, with respect to any Person, an employee benefit plan (other than a
Multiemployer Plan) maintained for employees of such Person or any ERISA
Affiliate and covered by Title IV of ERISA.
“Plan
Termination Event” means, with respect to any Person, (a) a
Reportable Event described in Section 4043 of ERISA and the regulations issued
thereunder (other than a Reportable Event not subject to the provision for
30-day notice to the PBGC under such regulations), or (b) the withdrawal of
such
Person or any of its ERISA Affiliates from a Plan during a plan year in which
it
was a “substantial employer” as defined in Section 4001(a)(2) of ERISA, or (c)
the filing of a notice of intent to terminate a Plan or the treatment of a
Plan
under Section 4041 of ERISA, or (d) the institution of proceedings to terminate
a Plan by the PBGC, or (e) any other event or condition that could reasonably
be
expected to constitute grounds under Section 4042 of ERISA for the termination
of, or the appointment of a trustee to administer, a Plan.
“Prepaid
Crude Purchases” means all rights to receive crude oil that the
Borrower acquires, possesses or owns whenever the Borrower prepays for purchases
of crude oil in the ordinary course of business from Shell Trading (US) Company,
a Delaware corporation, BP Oil Supply Company, a Delaware corporation, Bayoil
(USA), Inc., a Delaware corporation, Xxxx Supply & Trading, L.P., a Delaware
limited partnership, or any other Person as to which the Majority Lenders
through the Administrative Agent otherwise give their prior written approval
(which approval may be withdrawn at any time by the Majority Lenders through
the
Administrative Agent by written notification to the Borrower), the value of
such
rights being the lesser of (a) the cost to the Borrower for such crude oil,
as
set forth in the books and records of the Borrower, and (b) the fair-market
value of such crude oil, as determined in accordance with the methods prescribed
in Schedule 4.
“Pricing
Level” means Pricing Xxxxx 0, Xxxxxxx Xxxxx 0, Xxxxxxx Xxxxx 3 or
Pricing Level 4.
“Pricing
Level 1” means the Pricing Level that applies to each Advance
(whether then outstanding or thereafter made) on and after, to each Letter
of
Credit (whether then outstanding or thereafter issued) on and after, and to
each
Commitment on and after, the date of receipt by the Administrative Agent of
a
schedule of computations referred to in Section 6.4(a) or (b) if the ratio
of
(a) the difference between Consolidated Funded Debt and the aggregate amount,
if
any, of cash and Cash Equivalents held by FOC and its Subsidiaries in excess
of
the sum of the smallest aggregate amounts of cash and Cash Equivalents needed
to
be held by FOC in order for FOC to comply with the covenant contained in Section
7.10, all as determined on the last day of the fiscal quarter of FOC ended
immediately before that date, to (b) Consolidated EBITDA for the Calculation
Period ended on the last day of that fiscal quarter was less than 2.0:1.0,
as
demonstrated by that schedule; provided, however, that (i) if the
information in any such schedule is incorrect and results in the payment of
lower interest or fees than should have
-20-
been
paid
based on the correct information, then the Borrower shall nevertheless be liable
to the Lenders and the Administrative Agent for the correct amounts of interest
and fees and will pay any unpaid portion of the same to the Administrative
Agent
for the benefit of the Person(s) entitled thereto, promptly upon demand
therefor, and (ii) if FOC fails to deliver any such schedule by the required
day, then Pricing Level 4 shall apply until FOC delivers such schedule and
the
appropriate Pricing Level can be determined.
“Pricing
Level 2” means the Pricing Level that applies to each Advance
(whether then outstanding or thereafter made) on and after, to each Letter
of
Credit (whether then outstanding or thereafter issued) on and after, and to
each
Commitment on and after, the date of receipt by the Administrative Agent of
a
schedule of computations referred to in Section 6.4(a) or (b) if the ratio
of
(a) the difference between Consolidated Funded Debt and the aggregate amount,
if
any, of cash and Cash Equivalents held by FOC and its Subsidiaries in excess
of
the sum of the smallest aggregate amounts of cash and Cash Equivalents needed
to
be held by FOC in order for FOC to comply with the covenant contained in Section
7.10, all as determined on the last day of the fiscal quarter of FOC ended
immediately before that date, to (b) Consolidated EBITDA for the Calculation
Period ended on the last day of that fiscal quarter was equal to or greater
than
2.0:1.0 but less than 2.5:1.0, as demonstrated by that schedule;
provided, however, that (i) if the information in any such
schedule is incorrect and results in the payment of lower interest or fees
than
should have been paid based on the correct information, then the Borrower shall
nevertheless be liable to the Lenders and the Administrative Agent for the
correct amounts of interest and fees and will pay any unpaid portion of the
same
to the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Person(s) entitled thereto,
promptly upon demand therefor, and (ii) if FOC fails to deliver any such
schedule by the required day, then Pricing Level 4 shall apply until FOC
delivers such schedule and the appropriate Pricing Level can be
determined.
“Pricing
Level 3” means the Pricing Level that applies to each Advance
(whether then outstanding or thereafter made) on and after, to each Letter
of
Credit (whether then outstanding or thereafter issued) on and after, and to
each
Commitment on and after, the date of receipt by the Administrative Agent of
a
schedule of computations referred to in Section 6.4(a) or (b) if the ratio
of
(a) the difference between Consolidated Funded Debt and the aggregate amount,
if
any, of cash and Cash Equivalents held by FOC and its Subsidiaries in excess
of
the sum of the smallest aggregate amounts of cash and Cash Equivalents needed
to
be held by FOC in order for FOC to comply with the covenant contained in Section
7.10, all as determined on the last day of the fiscal quarter of FOC ended
immediately before that date, to (b) Consolidated EBITDA for the Calculation
Period ended on the last day of that fiscal quarter was equal to or greater
than
2.5:1.0 but less than 3.0:1.0, as demonstrated by that schedule;
provided, however, that (i) if the information in any such
schedule is incorrect and results in the payment of lower interest or fees
than
should have been paid based on the correct information, then the Borrower shall
nevertheless be liable to the Lenders and the Administrative Agent for the
correct amounts of interest and fees and will pay any unpaid portion of the
same
to the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Person(s) entitled thereto,
promptly upon demand therefor, and (ii) if FOC fails to deliver any such
schedule by the required day, then Pricing Level 4 shall apply until FOC
delivers such schedule and the appropriate Pricing Level can be
determined.
-21-
“Pricing
Level 4” means the Pricing Level that applies to each Advance
(whether then outstanding or thereafter made) on and after, to each Letter
of
Credit (whether then outstanding or thereafter issued) on and after, and to
each
Commitment on and after, the date of receipt by the Administrative Agent of
a
schedule of computations referred to in Section 6.4(a) or (b) if the ratio
of
(a) the difference between Consolidated Funded Debt and the aggregate amount,
if
any, of cash and Cash Equivalents held by FOC and its Subsidiaries in excess
of
the sum of the smallest aggregate amounts of cash and Cash Equivalents needed
to
be held by FOC in order for FOC to comply with the covenant contained in Section
7.10, all as determined on the last day of the fiscal quarter of FOC ended
immediately before that date, to (b) Consolidated EBITDA for the Calculation
Period ended on the last day of that fiscal quarter was equal to or greater
than
3.0:1.0, as demonstrated by that schedule; provided, however, that
(i) if the information in any such schedule is incorrect and results in the
payment of lower interest or fees than should have been paid based on the
correct information, then the Borrower shall nevertheless be liable to the
Lenders and the Administrative Agent for the correct amounts of interest and
fees and will pay any unpaid portion of the same to the Administrative Agent
for
the benefit of the Person(s) entitled thereto, promptly upon demand therefor,
and (ii) if FOC fails to deliver any such schedule by the required day, then
Pricing Level 4 shall apply until FOC delivers such schedule and the appropriate
Pricing Level can be determined.
“Ratable
Crude” means crude oil (a) delivered to the Borrower at any
Refinery by common-carrier pipeline or by truck or (b) delivered to the Borrower
through common-carrier pipeline, and sold by the Borrower, at Cushing, Oklahoma,
in each case referred to in clauses (a) and (b) above on a predetermined,
prorated basis over the course of a delivery month; provided,
however, that each delivery of crude oil as described in clause (b)
above
shall be treated as Ratable Crude only if in each instance the Administrative
Agent has received evidence reasonably satisfactory thereto that such crude
oil
will be delivered on a ratable basis substantially similar to that for Ratable
Crude previously delivered to the Borrower at one of the
Refineries.
“Reference
Rate” means the variable rate of interest per annum
established by UBOC from time to time as its “reference rate.” Such “reference
rate” is set by UBOC as a general reference rate of interest, taking into
account such factors as UBOC may deem appropriate, it being understood that
many
of UBOC’s commercial or other loans are priced in relation to such rate, that it
is not necessarily the lowest or best rate actually charged to any customer
and
that UBOC may make various commercial or other loans at rates of interest having
no relationship to such rate. For purposes of this Agreement, each change in
the
Reference Rate shall be effective as of the opening of business on the date
announced as the effective date of any change in such “reference
rate.”
“Reference
Rate Advance” means, at any time, any Advance that bears interest
by reference to the Reference Rate.
“Refineries”
means the Cheyenne Refinery and the El Dorado Refinery.
“Register”
has the meaning set forth in Section 10.8(d).
-22-
“S&P”
means Standard & Poor’s Ratings Group, a division of The XxXxxx-Xxxx
Companies, Inc., a New York corporation.
“Securities
Account Control Agreements” means the two Securities Account
Control Agreements executed by the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and Bear,
Xxxxxxx Securities Corp. for the purpose of perfecting the Administrative
Agent’s security interest in the two “Securities Accounts” referred to by number
in the Security Agreement.
“Security
Agreement” means the Security Agreement executed by the Borrower
in favor of the Administrative Agent and delivered thereto pursuant to this
Agreement.
“Shell
Oil Products US” means Equilon Enterprises LLC, a Delaware limited
liability company doing business as “Shell Oil Products US.”
“Solvent”
means, with respect to any Person on a particular date, that on such date (a)
the fair value of the property of such Person is greater than the total amount
of liabilities, including contingent liabilities, of such Person, (b) the
present fair salable value of the assets of such Person is not less than the
amount that will be required to pay the probable liability of such Person on
its
debts as they become absolute and matured, (c) such Person does not intend
to,
and does not believe that it will, incur debts or liabilities beyond such
Person’s ability to pay as such debts and liabilities mature and (d) such Person
is not engaged in business or a transaction, and is not about to engage in
business or a transaction, for which such Person’s property would constitute
unreasonably small capital.
“Specified
Change of Control” means a “Change of Control” (or any other
defined term having a similar meaning or purpose) as defined in any instrument
governing any Debt of FOC or any Subsidiary, including the indentures (or
similar instruments) for the notes referred to in Section 7.4(b).
“Stock
Pledge Agreement” means the Stock Pledge Agreement executed by
FRMI in favor of the Administrative Agent and delivered thereto pursuant to
this
Agreement.
“Subsidiary”
means, as to any Person, any corporation, limited liability company,
partnership, joint venture or other entity of which (a) a majority of the
outstanding Capital Stock having ordinary voting power to elect a majority
of
the board of directors or Persons performing similar functions (irrespective
of
whether at the time other such Capital Stock has or might have voting power
upon
the occurrence of a contingency) or (b) a majority of the interests in the
capital or profits is at the time directly or indirectly owned by such Person,
by such Person and one or more of its other Subsidiaries or by one or more
of
such Person’s other Subsidiaries. Unless otherwise specified herein,
“Subsidiary” means a Subsidiary of FOC.
“Super-Majority
Lenders” means, at any time, Lenders owed at least 75% of the
Obligations then outstanding or, if no Obligations are then outstanding, Lenders
having at least 75% of the Commitments.
-23-
“Syndication
Agent” has the meaning set forth in the recital of parties to this
Agreement.
“Tax
Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986.
“Taxes”
means all current or future taxes, levies, imposts, duties, deductions,
withholdings, assessments, fees and other charges imposed by any Governmental
Person, including any interest, additions to tax or penalties applicable
thereto.
“Term
Federal Funds Rate” means, for any Interest Period for each Base
Rate Advance that is part of the same Borrowing, the rate per annum at
which UBOC is offered federal funds in the term federal funds market as of
10:00
a.m., Los Angeles time, on the first day of such Interest Period, in an amount
comparable to the amount of UBOC’s Base Rate Advance for such Interest Period
and for a term coinciding with such Interest Period.
“Type”
refers to the distinction among Reference Rate Advances, LIBOR Advances and
Base
Rate Advances.”
“UBOC”
means Union Bank of California, N.A., a national banking association, in its
individual capacity.
“Utexam
Transactions” means the crude oil purchases and related
transactions contemplated by the Master Crude Oil Purchase and Sale Contract
dated March 10, 2006 by and among Utexam Ltd., a corporation organized under
the
laws of the Republic of Ireland, as seller, the Borrower, as purchaser, and
FOC,
as guarantor.
Section
1.2 Accounting
Terms
.
Unless
otherwise specified herein, all accounting terms used herein shall be
interpreted, all accounting determinations hereunder shall be made, and all
financial statements required to be delivered hereunder shall be prepared,
in
accordance with GAAP.
Section
1.3 Interpretation
.
In this
Agreement: the singular includes the plural and the plural the singular; words
importing any gender include the other genders; references to statutes are
to be
construed as including all statutory provisions consolidating, amending or
replacing the statute referred to; references to “writing” include printing,
typing, lithography and other means of reproducing words in a tangible, visible
form; the words “including,” “includes” and “include” are deemed to be followed
by the words “without limitation”; references to sections (or subdivisions of
sections), recitals, exhibits, annexes or schedules are to those of this
Agreement unless otherwise provided; references to agreements and other
contractual instruments are deemed to include all subsequent amendments,
restatements, supplements and other modifications to such instruments, but
only
to the extent such amendments and other modifications are not prohibited by
the
terms of this Agreement; and references to Persons include their respective
permitted successors and assigns.
ARTICLE
2.
COMMITMENTS
-24-
Section
2.1 Commitments.
(a) Each
Lender agrees severally, on the terms and conditions contained in this
Agreement, to extend credit to the Borrower from time to time from the Closing
Date to the Commitment Termination Date by making funded advances to the
Borrower (the “Advances”) pursuant to Section 2.4 and
participating in letters of credit issued for the account of the Borrower (the
“Letters of Credit”) pursuant to Section 2.9, in an
aggregate amount not to exceed at any time outstanding such Lender’s Commitment;
provided, however, that the sum of (i) the aggregate principal
amount of all Advances outstanding, (ii) the aggregate Letter of Credit Amount
of all Letters of Credit outstanding and (iii) the aggregate amount of
unreimbursed drawings under all Letters of Credit shall not exceed the Maximum
Aggregate Commitment at any time; and furtherprovided,
however, that the sum of (i) the aggregate principal amount
of all
Advances outstanding, (ii) the Letter of Credit Usage and (iii) the aggregate
amount of unreimbursed drawings under all Letters of Credit shall not exceed
the
Borrowing Base at any time. Within the limits of each Lender’s Commitment, the
Borrower may borrow under Section 2.4, have Letters of Credit issued for the
Borrower’s account under Section 2.9, prepay Advances under Section 2.7,
reborrow under Section 2.4, and have additional Letters of Credit issued for
the
Borrower’s account under Section 2.9 after the expiration of previously issued
Letters of Credit.
(b) The
Borrower may request from time to time that the Maximum Aggregate Commitment
be
increased on any Business Day occurring after the Closing Date (each a
“Commitment Increase Date”), by one or more of the
Lenders increasing their Commitments and/or by one or more new lenders
establishing commitments under this Agreement. The Borrower shall make each
such
request in writing, not later than 10 Business Days before the proposed
Commitment Increase Date, by delivering to the Administrative Agent a request
(a
“Commitment Increase Request”) signed by an Authorized
Officer and specifying the requested Commitment Increase Date and the aggregate
amount of the requested increase, which shall be in an amount that would not
cause the Maximum Aggregate Commitment to exceed $350,000,000. Promptly after
receipt of each Commitment Increase Request, and provided that the
Administrative Agent approves the requested increase in the Maximum Aggregate
Commitment (which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed),
the
Administrative Agent will notify each Lender of the contents thereof, and each
Lender will thereafter (within 10 Business Days after receipt of such notice
from the Administrative Agent) notify the Administrative Agent in writing of
such Lender’s willingness, if any, to accept all or a portion of the requested
increase (any such willing Lender herein called an “Accepting
Lender”). Upon receipt of responses from the Lenders (with any
Lender failing to respond within the specified time period being deemed to
have
declined to accept any of the requested increase), the Administrative Agent
will
notify the Borrower thereof, and the increase in the Maximum Aggregate
Commitment shall be allocated, at the discretion of the Administrative Agent
after consultation with the Borrower, to each Accepting Lender and to one or
more new lenders (each a “New Lender”) designated by
the Borrower with the consent of the Administrative Agent. Upon fulfillment
of
the applicable conditions set forth in Article 4, on the specified Commitment
Increase Date (i) the Maximum Aggregate Commitment shall be increased by the
aggregate amount agreed to by any Accepting Lenders and/or New Lenders with
respect to the Borrower’s
-25-
request
for such an increase on that date, (ii) each such Accepting Lender’s Commitment
shall be increased in accordance with the foregoing, (iii) each such New Lender
shall become a party to this Agreement with a Commitment established in
accordance with the foregoing, (iv) the interests of the Lenders (including
any
New Lenders) in all outstanding Advances and Letters of Credit shall be pro
rata in accordance with their Commitments hereunder as of such Commitment
Increase Date, and (v) the Lenders shall make all appropriate adjustments
directly between themselves with respect to any Advances outstanding under,
and
any payments under, this Agreement for periods before such Commitment Increase
Date.
(c) The
Borrower shall have the right, upon at least 7 Business Days’ notice to the
Administrative Agent, to terminate in whole or reduce ratably in part the unused
portions of the respective Commitments of the Lenders; provided,
however, that each partial reduction shall be in the aggregate amount
of
$5,000,000 or an integral multiple of $5,000,000 in excess thereof.
Section
2.2 Fees.
(a) From
the date hereof until the Commitment Termination Date, the Borrower will pay
to
the Administrative Agent, for the account of the Lenders, a commitment fee
at
the Applicable Commitment Fee Rate in effect from time to time on the actual
daily amount by which the Maximum Aggregate Commitment exceeds the sum of (i)
the aggregate face amount of all Letters of Credit outstanding plus (ii) the
aggregate amount of all Advances outstanding. The commitment fee payable
hereunder shall be payable quarterly in arrears on the first Business Day of
each January, April, July and October, commencing on January 2, 2008, and on
the
Commitment Termination Date; provided, however, that the Borrower
will pay a commitment fee in accordance with Section 2.2(a) of the Old Credit
Agreement with respect to periods before the date hereof.
(b) The
Borrower will pay to the Administrative Agent, for its own account, the fees
payable by the Borrower pursuant to the Fee Letter.
(c) All
fees payable by the Borrower under the Credit Documents shall be deemed to
be
fully earned when paid and shall be nonrefundable.
Section
2.3 Mandatory
Prepayment of Advances and Pledge of Cash Collateral
.
If at
any time (a) the sum of (i) the aggregate principal amount of all Advances
outstanding, (ii) the aggregate Letter of Credit Amount of all Letters of Credit
outstanding and (iii) the aggregate amount of unreimbursed drawings under all
Letters of Credit exceeds the Maximum Aggregate Commitment, or if at any time
(b) the sum of (i) the aggregate principal amount of all Advances outstanding,
(ii) the Letter of Credit Usage and (iii) the aggregate amount of unreimbursed
drawings under all Letters of Credit exceeds the Borrowing Base, then, in either
case, the Borrower will immediately, without notice or request by the
Administrative Agent or the Lenders, prepay the Advances (together with accrued
and unpaid interest to the date of prepayment on the principal amount prepaid)
and/or pledge additional cash collateral to the Administrative Agent to secure
reimbursement of amounts available to be drawn under outstanding Letters of
Credit, in an aggregate amount equal to such excess.
-26-
A. ADVANCES
Section
2.4 Making
Advances.
(a) Each
Borrowing shall be made on notice, given (i) with respect to any Borrowing
consisting of Reference Rate Advances, not later than 1:30 p.m., Los Angeles
time, on the Business Day before the date of the proposed Borrowing, (ii) with
respect to any Borrowing consisting of Base Rate Advances, not later than 9:30
a.m., Los Angeles time, on the Business Day before the date of the proposed
Borrowing and (iii) with respect to any Borrowing consisting of LIBOR Advances,
not later than 9:30 a.m., Los Angeles time, on the third Business Day before
the
date of the proposed Borrowing, each such notice to be given by the Borrower
to
the Administrative Agent, which shall give each Lender prompt notice thereof
by
telecopier. Each such notice of a Borrowing shall be in writing in the form
of
Exhibit E (a “Notice of Borrowing”), or by telephone
confirmed promptly in writing, by an Authorized Officer, specifying (A) the
requested date of such Borrowing (which shall be a Business Day), (B) the
requested Type of Advances making up such Borrowing, (C) the requested aggregate
amount of such Borrowing, which shall be $500,000 (or, in the case of a
Borrowing consisting of LIBOR Advances, $2,000,000) or an integral multiple
of
$250,000 in excess thereof, (D) in the case of a Borrowing consisting of LIBOR
Advances or Base Rate Advances, the requested initial Interest Period for such
Advances and (E) the fact that the statements set forth in Section 4.2(b) are
true as of the date of such Borrowing. Each Lender shall, before 11:00 a.m.,
Los
Angeles time, on the day of such Borrowing, make available to the Administrative
Agent at its address in Los Angeles referred to in Section 10.2, in immediately
available funds, such Lender’s ratable portion of such Borrowing. After the
Administrative Agent’s receipt of such funds and upon fulfillment of the
applicable conditions set forth in Article 4, the Administrative Agent will
make
such funds available to the Borrower by crediting the Borrower’s concentration
account number 0880412175 at the Administrative Agent’s aforesaid address.
Notwithstanding the provisions of the first sentence of this Section 2.4(a),
if
the Borrower gives the Administrative Agent notice, by telephone confirmed
promptly by telecopier, of a Borrowing consisting of Reference Rate Advances
by
9:30 a.m., Los Angeles time, on the day of the proposed Borrowing, the
Administrative Agent and the Lenders will use commercially reasonable efforts
(but shall not be obligated) to make such Advances available on the day on
which
such notice is given; provided, however, that the Administrative
Agent and the Lenders shall no longer be required to use commercially reasonable
efforts as described in this sentence if the Administrative Agent, at its sole
option exercisable at any time, gives the Borrower notice of the
same.
(b) Notwithstanding
anything in Section 2.4(a) to the contrary, the Borrower may not select LIBOR
Advances for any Borrowing if (i) the obligation of the Lenders to make LIBOR
Advances is then suspended pursuant to Article 3 or (ii) after giving effect
to
such Borrowing, the aggregate number of different Interest Periods for
outstanding LIBOR Advances would be greater than 5 (provided that Interest
Periods of the same duration, but commencing on different dates, shall be
treated as different Interest Periods).
(c) Each
Notice of Borrowing shall be irrevocable and binding on the Borrower. The
Borrower will indemnify each Lender against any loss, cost or expense incurred
by such Lender as a result of any failure to fulfill, on or before the date
specified for such
-27-
Borrowing
in the related Notice of Borrowing, the applicable conditions set forth in
Article 4, including any loss (including loss of anticipated profits), cost
or
expense incurred by reason of the liquidation or reemployment of deposits or
other funds acquired by such Lender to fund the Advance to be made by such
Lender as part of such Borrowing when such Advance, as a result of such failure,
is not made on such date.
(d) Unless
the Administrative Agent receives notice from a Lender before the date of any
Borrowing that such Lender will not make available to the Administrative Agent
such Lender’s ratable portion of such Borrowing, the Administrative Agent may
assume that such Lender has made such portion available to the Administrative
Agent on the date of such Borrowing in accordance with Section 2.4(a), and
the
Administrative Agent may, in reliance upon such assumption, make available
to
the Borrower on such date a corresponding amount. If and to the extent that
such
Lender has not made such ratable portion available to the Administrative Agent,
such Lender and the Borrower severally agree to repay to the Administrative
Agent forthwith on demand such corresponding amount, together with interest
thereon, for each day from the date on which such amount is made available
to
the Borrower until the date on which such amount is repaid to the Administrative
Agent, at (i) in the case of the Borrower, the interest rate applicable at
the
time to the Advances making up such Borrowing and (ii) in the case of such
Lender, the Federal Funds Rate. If such Lender repays to the Administrative
Agent such corresponding amount, such amount so repaid shall constitute such
Lender’s Advance as part of such Borrowing for purposes of this
Agreement.
(e) The
failure of any Lender to make the Advance to be made by it as part of any
Borrowing shall not relieve any other Lender of its obligation, if any,
hereunder to make its Advance on the date of such Borrowing, but no Lender
shall
be responsible for the failure of any other Lender to make the Advance to be
made by such other Lender on the date of any Borrowing.
Section
2.5 Repayment
.
On the
Commitment Termination Date, the Borrower will repay to the Administrative
Agent, for the account of the Lenders, the outstanding principal amount of
the
Advances.
Section
2.6 Interest.
(a) The
Borrower will pay interest on the unpaid principal amount of each Advance,
from
the date of such Advance (or, if later, the date hereof) until such principal
amount has been paid in full, (i) during such periods as such Advance is a
Reference Rate Advance, at a rate per annum equal at all times to the
sum of the Reference Rate in effect from time to time, payable monthly in
arrears on the first Business Day of each calendar month during such periods
and
on the Commitment Termination Date, (ii) during such periods as such Advance
is
a LIBOR Advance, at a rate per annum equal at all times during each
Interest Period for such Advance to the sum of LIBOR for such Interest Period
for such Advance plus the Applicable LIBOR Margin, payable on the last day
of
such Interest Period and, in the case of any 6-month Interest Period, on the
day
that is 3 months from the first day of such Interest Period, and (iii) during
such periods as such Advance is a Base Rate Advance, at a rate per
annum equal at all times during each Interest Period for such Advance to
the sum of the Base Rate for such Interest Period
-28-
for
such
Advance plus the Applicable Base Rate Margin, payable on the last day of such
Interest Period; provided, however, that the Borrower will pay
interest in accordance with Section 2.6(a) of the Old Credit Agreement with
respect to periods before the date hereof.
(b) Any
amount of principal of any Advance that is not paid when due (whether at stated
maturity, by required prepayment, by acceleration or otherwise) shall bear
interest, from the date on which such amount is due until such amount is paid
in
full, payable on demand, at a rate per annum (the “Default
Rate”) equal at all times to the sum of the otherwise applicable
interest rate plus 3.00% per annum.
(c) The
Administrative Agent will give prompt notice to the Borrower and the Lenders
of
each applicable interest rate determined by the Administrative Agent for
purposes of Section 2.6(a).
(d) If
the Borrower fails to select the duration of any Interest Period for any LIBOR
Advances or Base Rate Advances in accordance with the provisions contained
in
the definition of “Interest Period” in Section 1.1, the Administrative Agent
will forthwith so notify the Borrower and the Lenders, and such Advances shall
automatically, on the last day of the then existing Interest Period therefor,
Convert into Reference Rate Advances.
Section
2.7 Optional
Prepayments
.
The
Borrower may on any Business Day, in the case of Reference Rate Advances or
Base
Rate Advances upon prior written notice not later than 9:30 a.m., Los Angeles
time, on the day of any prepayment of such Advances, and in the case of LIBOR
Advances upon at least 3 Business Days’ prior written notice, to the
Administrative Agent stating the proposed date and aggregate principal amount
of
the prepayment, and if such notice is given the Borrower will, prepay the
outstanding principal amounts of the Advances making up a Borrowing in whole
or
ratably in part, together, in the case of LIBOR Advances or Base Rate Advances,
with accrued and unpaid interest to the date of such prepayment on the principal
amount prepaid; provided, however, that any prepayment of LIBOR Advances or
Base
Rate Advances shall be made on, and only on, the last day of an Interest Period
for such Advances; and further provided, however, that each partial prepayment
shall be in the aggregate principal amount of $500,000 or an integral multiple
of $250,000 in excess thereof.
Section
2.8 Conversion
of Advances.
(a) The
Borrower may on any Business Day, upon prior written notice in the form of
Exhibit F (a “Notice of Conversion/Continuation”)
signed by an Authorized Officer and given to the Administrative Agent (i) with
respect to any Conversion from Base Rate Advances to Reference Rate Advances
or
from Reference Rate Advances to Base Rate Advances, not later than 9:30 a.m.,
Los Angeles time, on the Business Day immediately preceding the date of the
proposed Conversion and (ii) with respect to any Conversion from or to LIBOR
Advances, not later than 9:30 a.m., Los Angeles time, on the third Business
Day
before the date of the proposed Conversion, subject to the provisions of
Sections 2.4(b), 3.2 and 3.3, Convert all the Advances of one Type making up
the
same Borrowing into Advances of another Type; provided, however,
that any Conversion of LIBOR Advances or Base Rate Advances into Advances of
another Type
-29-
shall
be
made on, and only on, the last day of an Interest Period for such LIBOR Advances
or Base Rate Advances. Each Notice of Conversion shall, within the restrictions
specified above, specify (A) the date of such Conversion, (B) the Advances
to be
Converted and (C) if such Conversion is into LIBOR Advances or Base Rate
Advances, the duration of the initial Interest Period for such Advances. Each
Notice of Conversion shall be irrevocable and binding on the Borrower. The
Administrative Agent shall give each Lender prompt notice by telecopier of
each
Notice of Conversion.
(b) On
any date on which the aggregate unpaid principal amount of LIBOR Advances
composing any Borrowing is reduced, by payment or prepayment or otherwise,
to
less than $2,000,000, such Advances shall automatically Convert into Reference
Rate Advances. Upon the occurrence and during the continuation of any Default,
(i) each LIBOR Advance and Base Rate Advance shall automatically, on the last
day of the then existing Interest Period therefor, Convert into a Reference
Rate
Advance, and (ii) the obligation of the Lenders to make, or to Convert Advances
into, LIBOR Advances or Base Rate Advances shall be suspended.
B. LETTERS
OF CREDIT
Section
2.9 Issuance
of Letters of Credit.
(a) Subject
to the limitations set forth in Section 2.1(a), the Borrower shall be entitled
to request the issuance of Letters of Credit, from time to time from the Closing
Date to the Commitment Termination Date, by giving the Issuing Bank a Letter
of
Credit Request at least 1 Business Day before the requested date of issuance
of
such Letter of Credit (which shall be a Business Day). Any Letter of Credit
Request received by the Issuing Bank later than 3:00 p.m., Los Angeles time,
shall be deemed to have been received on the next Business Day. Each Letter
of
Credit Request shall be delivered by telecopier (but shall be deemed to be
an
original for all purposes), shall be signed by an Authorized Officer, shall
be
irrevocable and shall be effective upon receipt by the Issuing Bank. Provided
that a valid Letter of Credit Request has been received by the Issuing Bank
and
upon fulfillment of the other applicable conditions set forth in Article 4,
the
Issuing Bank will issue the requested Letter of Credit. No Letter of Credit
may
have an expiration date later than 60 days after the Commitment Termination
Date. Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Section 2.9(a), if the
Borrower gives the Issuing Bank notice, by telephone confirmed promptly by
telecopier, of a request for a Letter of Credit by noon, Los Angeles time,
on
the proposed day of issuance of such Letter of Credit, the Issuing Bank will
use
commercially reasonable efforts (but shall not be obligated) to issue such
Letter of Credit on the day on which such notice is given; provided,
however, that the Issuing Bank shall no longer be required to use
commercially reasonable efforts as described in this sentence if the Issuing
Bank, at its sole option exercisable at any time, gives the Borrower notice
of
the same.
(b) Immediately
upon the issuance of each Letter of Credit, the Issuing Bank shall be deemed
to
have sold and transferred to each other Lender, and each other Lender shall
be
deemed to have purchased and received from the Issuing Bank, in each case
irrevocably and without any further action by any party, an undivided interest
and participation in such Letter of Credit, each drawing thereunder and the
obligations of the Borrower under this Agreement in respect thereof in an amount
equal to the product of (i) a fraction the numerator of which is
the
-30-
amount
of
the Commitment of such Lender and the denominator of which is the Maximum
Aggregate Commitment and (ii) the maximum amount available to be drawn under
such Letter of Credit (assuming compliance with all conditions to drawing).
The
Issuing Bank will promptly advise each other Lender of the issuance of each
Letter of Credit, the Letter of Credit Amount of such Letter of Credit, any
change in the face amount or expiration date of such Letter of Credit, the
cancellation or other termination of such Letter of Credit and any drawing
under
such Letter of Credit.
Section
2.10 Drawing
and Reimbursement.
(a) The
Borrower will reimburse the Issuing Bank for the amount of each draft presented
under a Letter of Credit and paid by the Issuing Bank and any taxes, fees,
charges or other costs or expenses reasonably incurred by the Issuing Bank
in
connection with such payment. Each such reimbursement shall be effected by
a
Reference Rate Advance from the Issuing Bank in accordance with Section 2.10(b).
The Issuing Bank will notify the Borrower promptly of each payment by the
Issuing Bank of a draft presented under a Letter of Credit.
(b) The
payment by the Issuing Bank of a draft presented under a Letter of Credit shall
constitute for all purposes of this Agreement the making by the Issuing Bank
of
a Reference Rate Advance in the amount of such payment, without any requirement
of compliance with the provisions of Section 2.1(a), Section 2.4(a) or Article
4
and without regard to whether the Commitment Termination Date has occurred,
but
subject to the provisions of Section 2.3. In the event that any such Reference
Rate Advance by the Issuing Bank is not repaid by the Borrower by 11:00 a.m.,
Los Angeles time, on the first Business Day after the day on which such
Reference Rate Advance was made, the Issuing Bank will promptly so notify the
Administrative Agent and each other Lender. On the first Business Day after
such
notification, each such Lender will make a Reference Rate Advance, which shall
be used to repay the applicable portion of the Issuing Bank’s Reference Rate
Advance with respect to such drawing, in an amount equal to the amount of such
Lender’s participation in such drawing and will make available to the
Administrative Agent for the Issuing Bank’s account, in immediately available
funds, the amount of such Reference Rate Advance. Each such Lender’s obligation
to make such a Reference Rate Advance shall be absolute and unconditional in
all
circumstances, without any requirement of compliance with the provisions of
Section 2.1(a), Section 2.4(a) or Article 4 and without regard to whether the
Commitment Termination Date has occurred, but subject to the provisions of
Section 2.3. In the event that any such Lender fails to make the amount of
such
Reference Rate Advance available to the Administrative Agent, for the account
of
the Issuing Bank, on the specified day, the Issuing Bank shall be entitled
to
recover such amount on demand from such Lender, together with interest thereon
at the Federal Funds Rate.
Section
2.11 Obligations
Absolute
.
The
obligations of the Borrower under this Agreement, any Letter of Credit Request
and any other agreement or instrument relating to any Letter of Credit shall
be
absolute, unconditional and irrevocable and shall be paid strictly in accordance
with the terms of the aforementioned documents under all circumstances,
including the following:
(a) any
lack of validity or enforceability of any Letter of Credit, this Agreement
or
any other Credit Document;
-31-
(b) the
existence of any claim, setoff, defense or other right that the Borrower may
have at any time against any beneficiary or transferee of any Letter of Credit
(or any Person for whom any such beneficiary or transferee may be acting),
the
Issuing Bank, any other Lender (other than the defense of payment in accordance
with the terms of this Agreement) or any other Person, whether in connection
with this Agreement, any other Credit Document, the transactions contemplated
hereby or thereby or any unrelated transaction;
(c) any
statement or other document presented under any Letter of Credit proving to
be
forged, fraudulent, invalid or insufficient in any respect, or any statement
therein being untrue or inaccurate in any respect whatsoever;
(d) payment
by the Issuing Bank under any Letter of Credit against presentation of a draft
or certificate that does not comply with the terms of such Letter of
Credit;
(e) any
exchange, release or nonperfection of any Collateral or other collateral, or
any
release, amendment or waiver of or consent to departure from the Guaranty or
any
other guaranty, for any of the Obligations of the Borrower in respect of the
Letters of Credit; and
(f) any
other circumstance or happening whatsoever, whether or not similar to any of
the
foregoing.
Section
2.12 Letter
of Credit Fees and Charges.
(a) The
Borrower will pay to the Administrative Agent, for the account of the Lenders,
from and including the date hereof to the date on which all Letters of Credit
have expired or been terminated, a letter of credit fee at the Applicable LOC
Fee Rate in effect from time to time on the aggregate of the actual daily Letter
of Credit Amounts of all Letters of Credit outstanding from time to time;
provided, however, that, to the extent and so long as the Borrower
pledges cash to the Administrative Agent pursuant to the Security Agreement
by
depositing such cash into account number 4560001520 of the Administrative Agent
at UBOC, Los Angeles, California, as collateral for the Borrower’s contingent
reimbursement obligations in respect of all or a portion of the aggregate Letter
of Credit Amount of the Letters of Credit outstanding from time to time, then
the letter of credit fee payable on all or such portion, as applicable, of
the
aggregate of the actual daily Letter of Credit Amounts of such Letters of Credit
shall be payable at the rate of 0.40% per annum. The letter of credit
fee payable under this Agreement shall be payable monthly in arrears on the
first Business Day of each calendar month, commencing on November 1, 2007,
to
the extent accrued during the immediately preceding calendar month;
provided, however, that the Borrower will pay a letter of credit
fee in accordance with Section 2.12(a) of the Old Credit Agreement with respect
to periods before the date hereof.
(b) The
Borrower will pay to the Issuing Bank for its own account such additional fees
and charges (including cable charges) as are generally associated with letters
of credit,
in accordance with the Administrative Agent’s standard internal charge
guidelines in effect from time to time.
-32-
Section
2.13 Limits
of Liability of Agent and Lenders.
(a) The
Borrower agrees to the provisions in the Letter of Credit Request form;
provided, however, that the terms of this Agreement shall take
precedence if there is any inconsistency between the terms of this Agreement
and
the terms of said form.
(b) The
Borrower assumes all risks of the acts or omissions of any beneficiary or
transferee of any Letter of Credit with respect to its use of such Letter of
Credit. Neither the Issuing Bank nor any other Lender nor any of their
respective officers or directors shall be liable or responsible for (i) the
use
that may be made of any Letter of Credit or any acts or omissions of any
beneficiary or transferee in connection therewith, (ii) the validity,
sufficiency or genuineness of documents, or of any endorsement thereof, even
if
such documents should prove to be in any or all respects invalid, insufficient,
fraudulent or forged, (iii) payment by the Issuing Bank against presentation
of
documents that do not comply with the terms of any Letter of Credit, including
failure of any documents to bear any reference or adequate reference to any
Letter of Credit, or (iv) any other circumstance whatsoever in making or failing
to make payment under any Letter of Credit; provided, however,
that (A) the Borrower shall have a claim against the Issuing Bank, and the
Issuing Bank shall be liable to the Borrower, to the extent of any direct,
but
not consequential, damages suffered by the Borrower that the Borrower proves
were caused by (1) the Issuing Bank’s willful misconduct or gross negligence in
determining whether documents presented under any Letter of Credit comply with
the terms of such Letter of Credit or (2) the Issuing Bank’s willful failure to
make lawful payment under any Letter of Credit after the presentation to the
Issuing Bank by the beneficiary or transferee of such Letter of Credit of a
draft and certificates strictly complying with the terms and conditions of
such
Letter of Credit, and (B) EXCEPT AS EXPRESSLY PROVIDED IN CLAUSE (A)
ABOVE, THE BORROWER SHALL HAVE NO CLAIM AGAINST THE ISSUING BANK, AND THE
ISSUING BANK SHALL NOT BE LIABLE TO THE BORROWER, FOR ANY DAMAGES SUFFERED
BY
THE BORROWER THAT ARE IN ANY WAY OR TO ANY EXTENT CAUSED, IN WHOLE OR IN PART,
BY ANY NEGLIGENT ACT OR OMISSION OF ANY KIND BY THE ISSUING BANK. In
furtherance and not in limitation of the foregoing, the Issuing Bank may accept
any document that appears on its face to be in order, without responsibility
for
further investigation, regardless of any notice or information to the
contrary.
C. PAYMENT
PROVISIONS
Section
2.14 Payments.
(a) The
Borrower will make each payment hereunder and under the Notes not later than
11:00 a.m., Los Angeles time, on the day when due, in U.S. dollars and
immediately available funds, to the Administrative Agent at its address in
Los
Angeles set forth in Section 10.2. The Administrative Agent will promptly
thereafter cause to be distributed like funds relating to the payment of
principal, interest or fees ratably (other than amounts payable
pursuant
-33-
to
Section 2.2(b) or Article 3) to the Lenders and like funds relating to the
payment of any other amount payable to any Lender to such Lender, in each case
to be applied in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. Upon its
acceptance of an Assignment and Assumption and recording of the information
contained therein in the Register pursuant to Section 10.8(d), from and after
the effective date of such Assignment and Assumption the Administrative Agent
will make all payments hereunder in respect of the interest assigned thereby
to
the Lender assignee thereunder, and the parties to such Assignment and
Assumption will make all appropriate adjustments in such payments for periods
before such effective date directly between themselves.
(b) The
Borrower hereby authorizes each Lender, if and to the extent that any payment
owed to such Lender is not made when due hereunder or under any other Credit
Document, to charge from time to time against any or all of the Borrower’s
accounts with such Lender any amount so due.
(c) Unless
the Administrative Agent receives notice from the Borrower before the date
on
which any payment is due to the Lenders hereunder that the Borrower will not
make such payment in full, the Administrative Agent may assume that the Borrower
has made such payment in full to the Administrative Agent on such date, and
the
Administrative Agent may, in reliance upon such assumption, cause to be
distributed to each Lender on such due date an amount equal to the amount then
due to such Lender. If and to the extent that the Borrower has not so made
such
payment in full to the Administrative Agent, each Lender will repay to the
Administrative Agent forthwith upon demand such amount distributed to such
Lender, together with interest thereon, for each day from the date on which
such
amount was distributed to such Lender until the date on which such Lender repays
such amount to the Administrative Agent, at the Federal Funds Rate.
Section
2.15 Computation
of Interest and Fees
.
All
computations of interest and fees hereunder shall be made on the basis of a
year
of 360 days for the actual number of days (including the first day but excluding
the last day) occurring in the period for which such interest or fees are
payable. Each determination by the Administrative Agent of an interest rate
hereunder shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest
error.
Section
2.16 Payments
on Non-Business Days
.
Whenever any payment hereunder or under any other Credit Document is stated
to
be due on a day other than a Business Day, such payment shall be made on the
next succeeding Business Day, and such extension of time shall in such case
be
included in the computation of payment of interest or fee, as the case may
be;
provided, however, that, if such extension would cause payment of
interest on or principal of LIBOR Advances to be made in the next succeeding
calendar month, such payment shall be made on the next preceding Business
Day.
Section
2.17 Sharing
of Payments, Etc.
If
any Lender obtains any payment (whether voluntary, involuntary, through the
exercise of any right of setoff, or otherwise) on account of the Advances made
by it or the Letters of Credit participated in by it (other than pursuant to
Section 2.2(b) or Article 3) in excess
-34-
of
its
ratable share of payments on account of the Advances and Letters of Credit
obtained by all of the Lenders, then such Lender will forthwith purchase from
the other Lenders such participations in the Advances made by them and the
Letters of Credit participated in by them as necessary to cause such purchasing
Lender to share the excess payment ratably with each of them; provided,
however, that, if all or any portion of such excess payment is thereafter
recovered from such purchasing Lender, such purchase from each other Lender
shall be rescinded, and each such other Lender shall repay to the purchasing
Lender the purchase price to the extent of such recovery, together with an
amount equal to such Lender’s ratable share (according to the proportion of (a)
the amount of such Lender’s required repayment to (b) the total amount so
recovered from the purchasing Lender) of any interest or other amount paid
or
payable by the purchasing Lender in respect of the total amount so recovered.
The Borrower agrees that any Lender so purchasing a participation from another
Lender pursuant to this section may, to the fullest extent permitted by law,
exercise all of its rights of payment (including the right of setoff) with
respect to such participation as fully as if such Lender were the direct
creditor of the Borrower in the amount of such participation.
Section
2.18 Evidence
of Debt.
(a) The
indebtedness of the Borrower resulting from all Advances made by each Lender
from time to time shall be evidenced by the Notes.
(b) The
books and accounts of the Administrative Agent shall be conclusive evidence,
absent manifest error, of all Letter of Credit Amounts and of the amounts of
all
Advances, drawings under Letters of Credit, reimbursements under Letters of
Credit, repayments of Advances, fees, interest and other charges advanced,
due,
outstanding or paid pursuant to this Agreement or any other Credit
Document.
Section
2.19 Continuation
of Outstanding Credit
.
On the
Closing Date, any “Advances” and “Letters of Credit” outstanding under the Old
Credit Agreement shall be deemed to be Advances and Letters of Credit,
respectively, outstanding under this Agreement; provided, however,
that (a) the interests of the Lenders in such Advances and Letters of Credit
shall be pro rata in accordance with their Commitments hereunder as of
the Closing Date and (b) the Lenders shall make all appropriate adjustments
directly between themselves with respect to any “Advances” outstanding under,
and any payments under, the Old Credit Agreement for periods before the Closing
Date.
ARTICLE
3.
YIELD
PROTECTION
Section
3.1 Increased
LIBOR Advance Costs
.
If, due
to either (a) the introduction of or any change (other than any change by way
of
imposition or increase of reserve requirements, in the case of LIBOR Advances,
included in the LIBOR Reserve Percentage) in or in the interpretation of any
Governmental Rule or (b) compliance with any Governmental Rule (whether or
not
having the force of law), there is an increase in the cost to any Lender of
agreeing to make, making, funding or maintaining any LIBOR Advance, then the
Borrower will from time to time, upon demand by such Lender (with a
copy of
such demand to the Administrative Agent), pay to the Administrative Agent,
for
the account of such Lender, additional amounts sufficient to compensate such
Lender for such increased cost. A certificate as to the amount of such increased
cost, submitted to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent by such Lender,
shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest
error.
-35-
Section
3.2 Illegality
.
Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, if the introduction
of,
or any change in or in the interpretation of, any Governmental Rule makes it
unlawful, or any Governmental Person asserts that it is unlawful, for any Lender
to perform its obligations hereunder to make LIBOR Advances or to continue
to
fund or maintain LIBOR Advances hereunder, then, on notice thereof and demand
therefor by such Lender to the Borrower through the Administrative Agent, (a)
the obligation of such Lender to make LIBOR Advances and to Convert Advances
into LIBOR Advances shall be suspended until the Administrative Agent notifies
the Borrower that such Lender has determined that the circumstances causing
such
suspension no longer exist, and (b) the Borrower will forthwith prepay in full
all LIBOR Advances of such Lender then outstanding, together with accrued and
unpaid interest thereon, unless the Borrower, within 5 Business Days of such
notice and demand, Converts all LIBOR Advances of all Lenders then outstanding
into Reference Rate Advances in accordance with Section 2.8(a).
Section
3.3 Inadequacy
of LIBOR
.
If,
with respect to any LIBOR Advances, the Majority Lenders notify the
Administrative Agent that LIBOR determined pursuant to Section 2.6(a)(ii) for
any Interest Period for such Advances will not adequately reflect the cost
to
the Majority Lenders of making, funding or maintaining their respective LIBOR
Advances for such Interest Period, then the Administrative Agent will forthwith
so notify the Borrower and the Lenders, whereupon (a) all such LIBOR Advances
shall automatically, on the last day of the then existing respective Interest
Periods therefor, Convert into Reference Rate Advances, and (b) the obligations
of the Lenders to make, or to Convert Advances into, LIBOR Advances shall be
suspended until the Administrative Agent notifies the Borrower and the Lenders
that the circumstances causing such suspension no longer exist.
Section
3.4 Increased
Letter of Credit Costs
.
If,
after the date hereof, any change in any Governmental Rule or in the
interpretation thereof by any Governmental Person charged with the
administration thereof either (a) imposes, modifies or deems applicable any
reserve, special deposit or similar requirement against letters of credit or
guaranties issued by or participated in, or assets held by, or deposits in
or
for the account of, the Issuing Bank or any other Lender or (b) imposes on
the
Issuing Bank or any other Lender any other condition regarding this Agreement,
the Issuing Bank, such Lender or any Letter of Credit, and the result of any
event referred to in the preceding clause (a) or (b) is to increase the cost
to
the Issuing Bank of issuing or maintaining any Letter of Credit or to any Lender
of purchasing or maintaining any participation therein, then, upon demand by
the
Issuing Bank or such Lender through the Administrative Agent, the Borrower
will
pay to the Issuing Bank or such Lender through the Administrative Agent, from
time to time as specified by the Issuing Bank or such Lender through the
Administrative Agent, additional amounts sufficient to compensate
the Issuing Bank or such Lender for such increased cost. A certificate as to
the
amount of such increased cost, submitted to the Borrower by the Issuing Bank
or
such Lender, shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest
error.
Section
3.5 Capital
Adequacy
.
If any
Lender determines that compliance with any Governmental Rule (whether or
not
having the force of law) affects or would affect the amount of capital required
or expected to be maintained by such Lender or any corporation controlling
such
Lender and that the amount of such capital is increased by or based upon
the
existence of
-36-
such
Lender’s commitment to lend hereunder and other commitments of this type or the
commitment to issue or participate in, or the issuance of or participation
in,
the Letters of Credit (or similar contingent obligations), then, upon demand
by
such Lender (with a copy of such demand to the Administrative Agent), the
Borrower will pay to the Administrative Agent, for the account of such Lender,
from time to time as specified by such Lender, additional amounts sufficient
to
compensate such Lender in the light of such circumstances, to the extent that
such Lender reasonably determines such increase in capital to be allocable
to
the existence of such Lender’s commitment to lend hereunder or commitment to
issue or participate in, or the issuance of or participation in, Letters of
Credit. A certificate as to such amounts submitted to the Borrower by such
Lender shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest
error.
Section
3.6 Funding
Losses
.
If any
payment of principal of, or any Conversion of, any LIBOR Advance or Base Rate
Advance is made other than on the last day of an Interest Period for such
Advance, as a result of a payment or Conversion pursuant to Section 3.2 or
3.3
or acceleration of the maturity of the Obligations pursuant to Section 8.1
or
for any other reason, the Borrower will, upon demand by any Lender (with a
copy
of such demand to the Administrative Agent), pay to the Administrative Agent,
for the account of such Lender, any amounts required to compensate such Lender
for any additional losses, costs or expenses that it may reasonably incur as
a
result of such payment or Conversion, including any loss (including loss of
anticipated profits), cost or expense incurred by reason of the liquidation
or
reemployment of deposits or other funds acquired by such Lender to fund or
maintain such Advance.
Section
3.7 Taxes.
(a) Any
and all payments by or on account of any obligation of the Borrower under this
Agreement or under any other Credit Document shall be made free and clear of
and
without deduction or withholding for any Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes;
provided, however, that, if the Borrower is required by applicable
Governmental Rules to deduct any Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes from such
payments, then (i) the amount payable shall be increased as necessary so that,
after making all required deductions (including deductions applicable to
additional amounts payable under this section), the Administrative Agent or
Lender, as the case may be, receives an amount equal to the amount it would
have
received had no such deductions been made, (ii) the Borrower will make such
deductions and (iii) the Borrower will timely pay the full amount deducted
to
the relevant Governmental Person in accordance with applicable Governmental
Rules.
(b) Without
limiting the provisions of Section 3.7(a), the Borrower will timely pay all
Other Taxes to the relevant Governmental Persons in accordance with applicable
Governmental Rules.
(c) The Borrower will indemnify the Administrative Agent and each Lender, within 10 days after demand therefor, for the full amount of any Indemnified Taxes and Other Taxes (including Indemnified Taxes and Other Taxes imposed or asserted on or attributable to amounts payable under this section) paid by the Administrative Agent or such Lender, as the case may be, and any penalties, interest and reasonable expenses arising therefrom or with respect thereto, whether or not such Indemnified Taxes and Other Taxes were correctly or legally
-37-
imposed
or asserted by the relevant Governmental Person. A certificate as to the amount
of such payment or liability delivered to the Borrower by a Lender (with a
copy
to the Administrative Agent), or by the Administrative Agent on its own behalf
or on behalf of a Lender, shall be conclusive absent manifest
error.
(d) As
soon as practicable after any payment of Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes by
the
Borrower to a Governmental Person, the Borrower will deliver to the
Administrative Agent the original or a certified copy of a receipt issued by
such Governmental Person evidencing such payment, a copy of the return reporting
such payment or other evidence of such payment reasonably satisfactory to the
Administrative Agent.
(e) Any
Foreign Lender that is entitled to an exemption from or reduction of withholding
tax under the law of the jurisdiction in which the Borrower is resident for
tax
purposes or under any treaty to which such jurisdiction is a party, with respect
to payments hereunder or under any other Credit Document, will deliver to the
Borrower (with a copy to the Administrative Agent), at the time or times
prescribed by applicable Governmental Rules or reasonably requested by the
Borrower or the Administrative Agent, such properly completed and executed
documentation prescribed by applicable Governmental Rules as will permit such
payments to be made without withholding or at a reduced rate of withholding.
In
addition, any Lender, if requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent,
will deliver such other documentation prescribed by applicable Governmental
Rules or reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent as
will enable the Borrower or the Administrative Agent to determine whether or
not
such Lender is subject to backup withholding or information reporting
requirements. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Foreign
Lender will deliver to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent (in such number
of copies as requested by the recipient), on or before the date on which such
Foreign Lender becomes a Lender under this Agreement (and from time to time
thereafter upon the request of the Borrower or the Administrative Agent, but
only if such Foreign Lender is legally entitled to do so), whichever of the
following is applicable:
(i) duly
completed copies of Internal Revenue Service Form W-8BEN claiming eligibility
for benefits of an income-tax treaty to which the United States of America
is a
party;
(ii) duly
completed copies of Internal Revenue Service Form W-8ECI;
(iii) in
the case of a Foreign Lender claiming the benefits of the exemption for
portfolio interest under section 881(c) of the Tax Code, (A) a certificate
to
the effect that such Foreign Lender is not (1) a “bank” within the meaning of
section 881(c)(3)(A) of the Tax Code, (2) a “10 percent shareholder” of the
Borrower within the meaning of section 881(c)(3)(B) of the Tax Code or (3)
a
“controlled foreign corporation” described in section 881(c)(3)(C) of the Tax
Code and (B) duly completed copies of Internal Revenue Service Form
W-8BEN; or
(iv) any
other form prescribed by applicable Governmental Rules as a basis for claiming
exemption from or a reduction of United States federal withholding tax,
duly
completed, together with such supplementary documentation as may be prescribed
by applicable Governmental Rules to permit the Borrower to determine the
withholding or deduction required to be made.
-38-
(f) If
the Administrative Agent or a Lender determines, in its sole discretion, that
it
has received a refund of any Taxes or Other Taxes as to which it has been
indemnified by the Borrower or with respect to which the Borrower has paid
additional amounts pursuant to this section, it will pay to the Borrower an
amount equal to such refund (but only to the extent of indemnity payments made,
or additional amounts paid, by the Borrower under this section with respect
to
the Taxes or Other Taxes giving rise to such refund), net of all out-of-pocket
expenses of the Administrative Agent or such Lender, as the case may be, and
without interest (other than any interest paid by the relevant Governmental
Person with respect to such refund); provided, however, that, upon
the request of the Administrative Agent or such Lender, the Borrower will repay
the amount paid over to the Borrower (plus any penalties, interest or other
charges imposed by the relevant Governmental Person) to the Administrative
Agent
or such Lender in the event that the Administrative Agent or such Lender is
required to repay such refund to such Governmental Person. This section 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 that
it deems confidential) to the Borrower or any other Person.
Section
3.8 Substitution
of Lender
.
If (a)
any Lender demands payment from the Borrower in any material amount pursuant
to
Section 3.1, 3.4, 3.5 or 3.7 or (b) any Lender gives notice of illegality
pursuant to Section 3.2, and in either case the event or circumstance causing
such Lender to make such demand or give such notice is not applicable to the
Majority Lenders, then the Borrower shall have the right, with the assistance
of
the Administrative Agent, to seek a mutually satisfactory lender or lenders
(which may be one or more of the other Lenders) to substitute for such Lender
by
purchasing the Obligations and assuming the Commitment of such Lender;
provided, however, that in any event the Borrower shall be
obligated to compensate such Lender pursuant to Section 3.1, 3.4, 3.5 or 3.7
or
to prepay such Lender’s LIBOR Advances pursuant to Section 3.2, as
applicable.
ARTICLE
4.
CONDITIONS
OF EXTENDING CREDIT
Section
4.1 Closing
Date
.
This
Agreement shall become effective on the date (the “Closing
Date”), not later than October 5, 2007, on which the conditions
precedent set forth below have been fulfilled.
(a) No
material and adverse change in the business, condition (financial or otherwise),
operations, performance, properties or prospects of FOC or any Subsidiary
has
occurred since June 30, 2007 and is continuing.
(b) No
action, suit, investigation, litigation or proceeding affecting FOC or any
Affiliate is pending or threatened before any Governmental Person, referee
or
arbitrator (i) that could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse
Effect or (ii) that purports to affect the legality, validity or enforceability
of, or the consummation of any of the transactions contemplated by, this
Agreement or any other Credit Document.
-39-
(c) The
Lenders are satisfied with the terms of the Frontier Processing Agreements
between the Borrower and FRI and between the Borrower and FERC.
(d) The
Borrower has paid the following fees to the Administrative Agent: (i) for the
account of each Lender, an amendment fee equal to the product of (A) the
Commitment of such Lender and (B) 0.20%; and (ii) for the account of the
Administrative Agent, all accrued and unpaid fees and expenses of the
Administrative Agent (as provided in Section 10.4 and in the Fee Letter),
including the accrued and unpaid fees and disbursements of legal counsel to
the
Administrative Agent, to the extent one or more statements for such fees and
expenses have been presented for payment.
(e) The
Administrative Agent has received the following, each dated the Closing Date
unless otherwise specified below, in form and substance satisfactory to the
Lenders and in the number of originals required by the Administrative
Agent:
(i) this
Agreement, duly executed by the Borrower and the Lenders;
(ii) the
Notes in favor of the respective Lenders, the Security Agreement (together
with
the Securities Account Control Agreements, duly executed by the parties thereto
and dated on or before the Closing Date), the Borrower Guaranty and the Fee
Letter, duly executed by the Borrower;
(iii) the
Guaranty, duly executed by the Guarantors;
(iv) the
FRMI Guaranty and the Stock Pledge Agreement, duly executed by
FRMI;
(v) copies
of the resolutions of the Board of Directors of (A) the Borrower approving
this
Agreement, the Notes, the Borrower Guaranty and the Fee Letter, (B) FOC
approving this Agreement and the Guaranty, (C) FRMI approving the Guaranty,
the
FRMI Guaranty and the Stock Pledge Agreement and (D) each other Guarantor
approving the Guaranty, in each case certified by the Secretary or an Assistant
Secretary of such Credit Party to be correct and complete and in full force
and
effect as of the date of execution of each such document and as of the Closing
Date;
(vi) a
certificate of the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of each Credit Party
as
to the incumbency, and setting forth a specimen signature, of each of the
persons (A) who has signed or will sign any Credit Document on behalf of
such
Credit Party and (B) who will, until replaced by other persons duly authorized
for that purpose, act as the representatives of such Credit Party for the
purpose of signing documents in connection with this Agreement and the
transactions contemplated hereby;
-40-
(vii) a
certificate of each Credit Party, signed on behalf of such Credit Party by
its
President or a Vice President and its Secretary or any Assistant Secretary,
certifying as to the following: (A) the absence of any amendments to the charter
of such Credit Party since the date of the certification with respect thereto
referred to in Section 4.1(e)(viii); (B) the correctness and completeness of
the
copies of the bylaws of such Credit Party attached to such certificate and
that
such bylaws are in full force and effect; (C) the due incorporation and good
standing of such Credit Party as a corporation organized under the laws of
its
state of incorporation and the absence of any proceeding for the dissolution
or
liquidation of such Credit Party; (D) the truthfulness in all material respects
of the representations and warranties of such Credit Party contained in the
Credit Documents, as though made on and as of the Closing Date; and (E) the
absence of any event occurring and continuing, or resulting from the
effectiveness of the Credit Documents, that constitutes a Default with respect
to such Credit Party;
(viii) certificates
of the appropriate Governmental Persons, dated reasonably near the Closing
Date,
attaching the charter (or the most recent amendment and restatement thereof)
of
each Credit Party and all amendments thereto and certifying that (A) such
amendments are the only amendments to such charter on file in such Governmental
Person’s office, (B) such Credit Party has paid all franchise taxes to the date
of such certificate and (C) such Credit Party is duly organized and in good
standing under the laws of such state;
(ix) certificates
of the appropriate Governmental Persons, dated reasonably near the Closing
Date,
with respect to the good standing of the Credit Parties to do business in such
jurisdictions as the Administrative Agent may reasonably request;
and
(x) one
or more favorable opinions of legal counsel for the Credit Parties, as to such
matters as any Lender through the Administrative Agent may reasonably
request.
Section
4.2 Advances
.
The
obligation of each Lender to make an Advance on the occasion of each Borrowing
is subject to the limitations of the Commitments, to the performance by the
Borrower of all of its obligations under this Agreement and to the satisfaction
of the following further conditions:
(a) the
Administrative Agent has received a Notice of Borrowing, duly executed by the
Borrower, with respect to such Advance;
(b) the
following statements are true (and the acceptance by the Borrower of the
proceeds of such Borrowing shall constitute a representation and warranty by
the
Borrower that on the date of such Borrowing such statements are
true):
(i) the
representations and warranties contained in each Credit Document are correct
in
all material respects on and as of the date of such Borrowing, before and
after
giving effect to such Borrowing and to the application of the proceeds thereof,
as though made on and as of such date; and
-41-
(ii) no
event has occurred and is continuing, or would result from such Borrowing or
from the application of the proceeds thereof, that constitutes a Default;
and
(c) the
Administrative Agent has received such other approvals, opinions, evidence
and
documents as any Lender through the Administrative Agent may reasonably
request.
Section
4.3 Letters
of Credit
.
The
obligation of the Issuing Bank to issue, and of each other Lender to participate
in, each Letter of Credit is subject to the limitations of the Commitments,
to
the performance by the Borrower of all of its obligations under this Agreement
and to the satisfaction of the following further conditions:
(a) the
Administrative Agent has received a Letter of Credit Request, duly executed
by
the Borrower, with respect to such Letter of Credit;
(b) the
following statements are true (and each delivery of a Letter of Credit Request
shall constitute a representation and warranty by the Borrower that on the
date
of issuance of the applicable Letter of Credit such statements are
true):
(i) the
representations and warranties contained in each Credit Document are correct
in
all material respects on and as of the date of issuance of such Letter of
Credit, before and after giving effect to the issuance of such Letter of Credit,
as though made on and as of such date; and
(ii) no
event has occurred and is continuing, or would result from the issuance of
such
Letter of Credit, that constitutes a Default; and
(c) the
Administrative Agent has received such other approvals, opinions, evidence
and
documents as any Lender through the Administrative Agent may reasonably
request.
Section
4.4 Increases
in Maximum Aggregate Commitment
.
In each
case in which the Borrower requests an increase in the Maximum Aggregate
Commitment in accordance with Section 2.1(b), the obligation of the
Administrative Agent to increase the Maximum Aggregate Commitment on the
applicable Commitment Increase Date is subject to the performance by the
Borrower of all of its obligations under this Agreement and to the satisfaction
of the following further conditions:
(a) the
Administrative Agent has received (i) a Commitment Increase Request, duly
executed by the Borrower, with respect to such increase, (ii) a notice from
each
applicable Accepting Lender, duly executed thereby, in respect of its portion
of
such increase, (iii) a Joinder Agreement from each applicable New Lender,
duly
executed thereby, in respect of its portion of such increase and (iv) a consent
of the Guarantors, duly executed thereby, with respect to such
increase;
-42-
(b) the
following statements are true (and each delivery of a Commitment Increase
Request by the Borrower shall constitute a representation and warranty thereby
that on the applicable Commitment Increase Date such statements are
true):
(i) the
representations and warranties contained in each Credit Document are correct
in
all material respects on and as of such Commitment Increase Date, before and
after giving effect to the increase of the Maximum Aggregate Commitment on
such
date, as though made on and as of such date; and
(ii) no
event has occurred and is continuing, or would result from such increase, that
constitutes a Default; and
(c) the
Administrative Agent has received such other approvals, evidence and documents
as it, or any such Accepting Lender or New Lender through the Administrative
Agent, may reasonably request.
Section
4.5 Determinations
under Section 4.1
.
For
purposes of determining compliance with the conditions specified in
Section 4.1, each Lender shall be deemed to have consented to, approved or
accepted, or to be satisfied with, each document or other matter required under
Section 4.1 to be consented to, approved by, accepted or satisfactory to the
Lenders unless an officer of the Administrative Agent responsible for the
transactions contemplated by the Credit Documents and holding the position
of
Vice President or a more senior position receives notice from such Lender before
the Closing Date specifying such Lender’s objection thereto, and such objection
is not withdrawn by notice to the Administrative Agent to that
effect.
ARTICLE
5.
REPRESENTATIONS
AND WARRANTIES
Each
of
the Borrower and FOC represents and warrants to the Lenders and the
Administrative Agent as set forth below.
Section
5.1 Corporate
Existence and Power
.
Each of
the Borrower and FOC (a) is a corporation duly organized, validly existing
and in good standing under the laws of the state of its incorporation as
specified in the recital of parties to this Agreement, (b) is duly
qualified or licensed as a foreign corporation, and is in good standing, in
each
jurisdiction in which it owns or leases property or in which the conduct of
its
business requires it to so qualify or be licensed (except for jurisdictions
in
which the failure to so qualify or be licensed could not reasonably be expected
to have a Material Adverse Effect and (c) has
all requisite corporate power and authority to own or lease and operate its
properties and to carry on its business as now conducted and as proposed to
be
conducted.
Section
5.2 Authorization
.
The
execution, delivery and performance by each of the Borrower and FOC of this
Agreement and each other Credit Document to which such Credit Party is or
is to
be a party, and the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby
and
thereby, are within such Credit Party’s legal powers, have been duly authorized
by all necessary
-43-
legal
action and do not (a) contravene such Credit Party’s charter, bylaws,
partnership agreement, operating agreement or other constituent documents,
(b) violate any Governmental Rule, (c) conflict with or result in the
breach of, or constitute a default under, any Material Contract, loan agreement,
indenture, mortgage, deed of trust or lease, or any other contract or
instrument, binding on or affecting such Credit Party, any of its Subsidiaries
or any of their respective properties, the conflict, breach or default of which
could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, or
(d) result in or require the creation or imposition of any Lien upon or
with respect to any of the properties of such Credit Party or any of its
Subsidiaries, except for Liens created under the Credit Documents. Neither
such
Credit Party nor any of its Subsidiaries is in violation of any such
Governmental Rule or in breach of any such contract, loan agreement, indenture,
mortgage, deed of trust, lease or other contract or instrument, the violation
or
breach of which could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse
Effect.
Section
5.3 Governmental
Action, Etc
.
No
Governmental Action, and no authorization, approval or other action by, or
notice to, any third party, is required for the due execution, delivery or
performance by the Borrower or FOC of this Agreement or any other Credit
Document to which such Credit Party is a party, or for the consummation of
the
transactions contemplated hereby or thereby, except for (a) authorizations,
approvals and other actions by, and notices to, third parties, the failure
to
obtain which could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect,
and (b) Governmental Action that has been duly obtained, taken, given or made
and is in full force and effect.
Section
5.4 Binding
Effect
.
This
Agreement and each other Credit Document to which the Borrower or FOC is a
party
have been duly executed and delivered by such Credit Party. This Agreement
and
each other Credit Document to which the Borrower or FOC is a party are the
legal, valid and binding obligations of such Credit Party, enforceable against
such Credit Party in accordance with their respective terms, except as the
enforceability hereof or thereof may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency,
moratorium, reorganization or other similar laws affecting creditors’ rights
generally or by equitable principles relating to enforceability.
Section
5.5 Financial
Statements
.
The
consolidated balance sheet of FOC and its Subsidiaries as of December 31, 2006,
and the related consolidated statements of operations, changes in shareholders’
equity and cash flows of FOC and its Subsidiaries for the fiscal year then
ended, certified by Deloitte & Touche LLP, independent public accountants,
fairly present the consolidated financial condition of FOC and its Subsidiaries
as of such date and the consolidated results of the operations of FOC and its
Subsidiaries for the fiscal year ended on such date, all in accordance with
GAAP. The unaudited consolidating balance sheets of FOC and its Subsidiaries
as
of December 31, 2006, and the related unaudited consolidating statements of
operations, changes in shareholders’ equity and cash flows of FOC and its
Subsidiaries for the fiscal year then ended, certified by the chief financial
officer of FOC as having been prepared in accordance with GAAP, fairly present
the consolidating financial condition of FOC and its Subsidiaries as of such
date and the consolidating results of the operations of FOC and its Subsidiaries
for the fiscal year ended on such date. The unaudited consolidated balance
sheet
of FOC and its Subsidiaries as of June 30, 2007, and the unaudited consolidated
statements of operations, changes in shareholders’ equity and cash flows of FOC
and its Subsidiaries for the three-month fiscal period then ended, delivered
to
the Lenders by FOC and certified (subject to
-44-
normal
year-end audit adjustments) by the chief financial officer of FOC as having
been
prepared in accordance with GAAP, fairly present the consolidated financial
condition of FOC and its Subsidiaries as of such date and the consolidated
results of the operations of FOC and its Subsidiaries for the three-month fiscal
period ended on such date, all in accordance with GAAP. Since June 30, 2007
there has been no material and adverse change in the business, condition
(financial or otherwise), operations, performance, properties or prospects
of
FOC or any Subsidiary. FOC and its Subsidiaries have no material contingent
liabilities or long-term commitments except as disclosed in such consolidated
balance sheet or the notes thereto.
Section
5.6 Other
Information
.
No
information, exhibit or report furnished by FOC or any Subsidiary to the
Administrative Agent or any Lender in connection with the negotiation of the
Credit Documents or pursuant to the terms of any of the Credit Documents
contains any material misstatement of fact or omits to state a material fact
or
any fact necessary to make the statements contained therein, in light of the
circumstances in which made, not misleading.
Section
5.7 Litigation
.
There
is no action, suit, investigation, litigation or proceeding affecting FOC or
any
Subsidiary pending or, to the best knowledge of each of the Borrower and FOC,
threatened before any Governmental Person, referee or arbitrator that could
reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
Section
5.8 Trademarks,
Etc.
FOC
and its Subsidiaries possess all trademarks, trade names, copyrights and
licenses necessary to conduct their respective businesses as now operated,
without any known conflict with the valid trademarks, trade names, copyrights
and licenses of others.
Section
5.9 Fire,
Etc.
Neither
the business nor the properties of FOC or any Subsidiary are affected by any
fire, explosion, accident, strike, lockout or other labor dispute, or other
casualty (whether or not covered by insurance) that could reasonably be expected
to have a Material Adverse Effect.
Section
5.10 Burdensome
Agreements
.
Neither
FOC nor any Subsidiary is a party to any indenture, loan agreement, credit
agreement, lease or other agreement or instrument, or subject to any charter
or
other such legal restriction,
that could reasonably be expected, in light of the circumstances prevailing
on
the date of this Agreement, to have a Material Adverse Effect.
Section
5.11 Taxes,
Etc
.
FOC and
its Subsidiaries have filed, or there has been filed on their behalf, all
tax
returns (federal, state, local and foreign) required to be filed before the
date
of the making of this representation and warranty, and FOC and its Subsidiaries
have paid all taxes shown thereon to be due, including interest, additions
to
taxes and penalties, or have provided adequate reserves for the payment
thereof.
Section
5.12 Investment
Company
.
Neither
FOC nor any Subsidiary is an “investment company” or an “affiliated person” of,
or “promoter” or “principal underwriter” for, an “investment company,” as such
terms are defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940. Neither the making
of
any Advance, nor the issuance of any Letter of Credit, nor the application
of
the proceeds or repayment thereof by the Borrower, nor the consummation of
the
other transactions contemplated hereby and thereby will violate any provision
of
such Act or any Governmental Rule of the Securities and Exchange Commission
thereunder.
-45-
Section
5.13 Solvency
.
Each
Credit Party is Solvent. FOC and its Subsidiaries, taken together, are
Solvent.
Section
5.14 Title
to Properties
.
FOC and
its Subsidiaries have good and marketable title to all properties, real or
personal, purported to be owned thereby, except in the case of FPI’s ownership
interest in the Centennial Pipeline, as to which FPI has title sufficient to
conduct its business as it is currently being conducted. FPI has an undivided
34.72% ownership interest in the Centennial Pipeline (commencing at Guernsey,
Wyoming and terminating at Cheyenne, Wyoming), and, in accordance with the
Conoco Operating Agreement, FPI’s ownership interest entitles it to capacity
ownership of up to 25,000 barrels per day based on a 100% crude-oil line fill
of
Wyoming Sweet Crude and Wyoming General Sour Crude mix.
Section
5.15 Ownership
.
FOC has
no Subsidiaries except as described in Schedule 5. Each Subsidiary is owned
by
the Person(s) and in the percentage(s) specified in Schedule 5. None of the
Capital Stock of any Subsidiary is subject to any Lien (other than, in the
case
of the stock of the Borrower, in favor of the Administrative
Agent).
Section
5.16 ERISA
.
No Plan
Termination Event has occurred or could reasonably be expected to occur with
respect to any Plan of FOC or any of its ERISA Affiliates that could reasonably
be expected to result in a material liability to FOC or any of its ERISA
Affiliates. Since the date of the most recent Schedule B (Actuarial
Information) to the annual report of each of FOC and its ERISA Affiliates
(Internal Revenue Service Form 5500 Series), if any, there has been no material
and adverse change in the funding status of the Plans referred to therein,
and
no “prohibited transaction” (as such term is defined in Section 406 of ERISA)
has occurred with respect theretothat
could reasonably be expected to result in a material liability to FOC or any
of
its ERISA Affiliates. Neither FOC nor any of its ERISA Affiliates has incurred
or could reasonably be expected to incur any material withdrawal liability
under
ERISA to any Multiemployer Plan.
Section
5.17 Environmental
Compliance.
(a) The
operations and properties of FOC and its Subsidiaries comply in all material
respects with all applicable Environmental Laws and Environmental Permits,
all
past noncompliance with such Environmental Laws and Environmental Permits
has
been resolved without material ongoing obligations or costs, and no
circumstances exist that could reasonably be expected to (i) form the basis
of an Environmental Proceeding against FOC or any Subsidiary, or any property
thereof, that could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect
or
(ii) cause any such property to be subject to any restriction on ownership,
occupancy, use or transferability under any Environmental Law.
(b) None
of the properties currently or formerly owned or operated by FOC or any
Subsidiary is listed or proposed for listing on the National Priorities List
under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability
Act
of 1980, on the
-46-
Comprehensive
Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Information System
(“CERCLIS”) maintained by the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency or on any analogous foreign, state or local list or is
adjacent to any such property, except that the Cheyenne Refinery and the El
Dorado Refinery are listed on CERCLIS. There are not now, and to the best
knowledge of each of the Borrower and FOC never have been, any underground
or
aboveground storage tanks, or any surface impoundments, septic tanks, pits,
sumps or lagoons, in which any Hazardous Material is being or has been treated,
stored or disposed of on any property owned or operated by FOC or any
Subsidiary, in each case in any manner not in material compliance with all
applicable Environmental Laws. There is no asbestos or asbestos-containing
material on any property owned or operated by FOC or any Subsidiary, except
in
material compliance with all applicable Environmental Laws. No Hazardous
Material has been released, discharged or disposed of on any property owned
or
operated by FOC or any Subsidiary, except in material compliance with all
applicable Environmental Laws.
(c) Neither
FOC nor any Subsidiary is engaged in or has completed, either individually
or
together with any other potentially responsible party, any investigation,
assessment or remedial or response action relating to any actual or threatened
release, discharge or disposal of any Hazardous Material at any site, location
or operation, either voluntarily or pursuant to the order of any Governmental
Person or the requirements of any Environmental Law, in any case that could
reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect; and all Hazardous
Materials generated, used, treated, handled or stored at, or transported to
or
from, any property owned or operated by FOC or any Subsidiary have been disposed
of in a manner that could not reasonably be expected to result in material
liability to FOC or any Subsidiary.
Section
5.18 Regulation
U
.
The
Borrower is not engaged in the business of extending credit for the purpose
of
purchasing or carrying margin stock (within the meaning of Regulation U issued
by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), and no Letter of
Credit or proceeds of any Advance will
be
used to purchase or carry any margin stock or to extend credit to others for
the
purpose of purchasing or carrying any margin stock.
Section
5.19 Material
Contracts
.
Each of
the Baytex Crude Supply Agreement, the Cogen Lease, the Frontier Processing
Agreements and the Offtake Agreement is in full force and effect and has
not
been modified from the form thereof delivered to the Lenders on November
22,
2004 pursuant to the Old Credit Agreement.
ARTICLE
6.
AFFIRMATIVE
COVENANTS
So
long
as (1) any Commitment is in effect, (2) any Letter of Credit is outstanding
or
(3) any Obligation remains unpaid, unless compliance has been waived in writing
by the Majority Lenders, the Borrower and/or FOC, as specified below, will
observe the covenants set forth below.
Section
6.1 Borrower
Information Requirements
.
The
Borrower will deliver the following to the Administrative Agent for distribution
to the Lenders:
-47-
(a) by
2:00 p.m., Los Angeles time, on the sixth day after (but excluding any weekday
that is a federal holiday observed in the State of Colorado) each biweekly
date
of calculation referred to below, an Accounts aging schedule in form
satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and a Borrowing Base Certificate,
both
as of Wednesday of every other week, commencing with October 10, 2007), or,
if
an Inventory Audit is conducted during such week, as of the date of such
Inventory Audit, together with, in the case of each Borrowing Base Certificate
that is the first Borrowing Base Certificate with an effective date in a
calendar month following a calendar month in which an Inventory Audit was not
performed, a certification by the Borrower’s Controller, Treasurer, Chief
Financial Officer or President to the effect that the volume of Inventory
contained in each tank located at any of the Refineries, as determined by the
reading of tank sight gauges as of the last day of the preceding calendar month
and after any necessary recalibration of such sight gauges, equals the volume
of
Inventory (plus or minus 2%) contained in such tank that was simultaneously
determined by the Borrower’s physical measurement of such Inventory, using
standard industry practices and standard tank-gauging wire-line devices;
and
(b) forthwith
upon any return, recovery, dispute or claim concerning Accounts or sales of
Inventory and exceeding $1,000,000 in any instance, a certificate of the chief
financial officer or chief accounting officer of the Borrower setting forth
the
details thereof.
Section
6.2 Audits
.
At any
reasonable time and from time to time, upon reasonable prior notice to the
Borrower, the Borrower will permit the Administrative Agent and the Syndication
Agent and their respective consultants, agents and representatives to examine
and make copies of and abstracts from the records and books of account of,
and
visit the properties and have access to the assets
of, the Borrower and to discuss the affairs, finances and accounts of the
Borrower with any of its officers, directors and employees and with its
independent certified public accountants, including for the purpose of
conducting Inventory Audits and Commercial Finance Audits, which in each case
shall be conducted at least annually.
Section
6.3 Returns
and Allowances
.
The
Borrower will treat returns and allowances, if any, between the Borrower
and its
customers on the same basis and in accordance with the usual and customary
practices of the Borrower as they existed before the date hereof, but such
returns and allowances for any fiscal year shall in no event exceed 2% of
total
sales for the previous fiscal year.
Section
6.4 FOC
Information Requirements
.
FOC
will deliver the following to the Administrative Agent for distribution to
the
Lenders:
(a) as
soon as available and in any event within 45 days after the end of each of
the
first three quarters of each fiscal year of FOC, (i) an unaudited consolidated
balance sheet of FOC and its Subsidiaries as of the end of such quarter and
unaudited consolidated statements of operations, changes in shareholders’ equity
and cash flows of FOC and its Subsidiaries for the period commencing at the
end
of the previous fiscal year and ending with the end of such quarter, setting
forth in each case in comparative form the corresponding figures for the
corresponding period of the preceding fiscal year, all in reasonable detail
and
duly certified (subject to normal year-end audit adjustments) by the chief
financial officer or chief accounting
-48-
officer
of FOC as having been prepared in accordance with GAAP, and (ii) a report
concerning the financial condition and operations of FOC and its Subsidiaries
for such quarter on a consolidated basis (substantially in the form of the
Operational and Financial Presentation dated as of September 30, 1999 and
delivered to the Administrative Agent), duly certified by the chief financial
officer or chief accounting officer of FOC as being true and correct, together
with (A) a certificate of said officer stating that no Default has occurred
and
is continuing or, if a Default has occurred and is continuing, a statement
as to
the nature thereof and the action that FOC proposes to take with respect thereto
and (B) a schedule in reasonable detail and otherwise in form satisfactory
to
the Administrative Agent of the computations used by FOC in determining, as
of
the end of such fiscal quarter, compliance with the covenants contained in
Sections 7.10 through 7.12;
(b) as
soon as available and in any event within 90 days after the end of each fiscal
year of FOC, (i) a copy of the annual audit report for such year for FOC and
its
Subsidiaries, including therein a consolidated balance sheet of FOC and its
Subsidiaries as of the end of such fiscal year and consolidated statements
of
operations, changes in shareholders’ equity and cash flows of FOC and its
Subsidiaries for such fiscal year, in each case certified in a manner acceptable
to the Majority Lenders by Deloitte & Touche LLP or other independent public
accountants of recognized standing acceptable to the Majority Lenders, and
(ii)
a report concerning the financial condition and operations of FOC and its
Subsidiaries for such fiscal year on a consolidated basis (substantially in
the
form of the Operational and Financial Presentation dated as of September 30,
1999 and delivered to the Administrative Agent), duly certified by the chief
financial officer or chief accounting officer of FOC as being true and correct,
together with (A)
a
certificate of such accounting firm stating that in the course of the regular
audit of the business of FOC and its Subsidiaries, which audit was conducted
by
such accounting firm in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards,
such accounting firm has obtained no knowledge that a Default has occurred
and
is continuing or, if in the opinion of such accounting firm a Default has
occurred and is continuing, a statement as to the nature thereof, (B) a schedule
in reasonable detail and otherwise in form satisfactory to the Administrative
Agent of the computations used by such accounting firm in determining, as of
the
end of such fiscal year, compliance with the covenants contained in Sections
7.10 through 7.12 and (C) any management letter delivered to FOC by such
accounting firm in connection with its audit of FOC and its Subsidiaries for
such fiscal year;
(c) as
soon as available and in any event within 120 days after the end of each
fiscal
year of FOC, unaudited consolidating balance sheets of FOC and its Subsidiaries
(other than EMC, Wainoco Resources, Inc., a Delaware corporation, and Wainoco
Oil & Gas Company, a Delaware corporation) as of the end of such fiscal year
and unaudited consolidating statements of operations, changes in shareholders’
equity and cash flows of FOC and such Subsidiaries for such fiscal year,
all in
form and scope reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and duly
certified by the chief financial officer or chief accounting officer of FOC
as
having been prepared in accordance with GAAP;
(d) as
soon as available and in any event not later than 90 days after the beginning
of
each fiscal year of FOC, a summary budget for such year for FOC and its
Subsidiaries (including, at a minimum, operating projections and a
capital-expenditure budget), prepared by management of FOC and in form, scope
and detail reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent;
-49-
(e) within
90 days after any request therefor by the Majority Lenders (but not more often
than annually), an environmental report with respect to any one or more of
the
Refineries and/or a refinery review and engineering report with respect to
any
one or more of the Refineries, each such report to be (i) prepared by RMT,
Inc.,
Xxxxxxx & Co. or another independent company or companies acceptable to the
Administrative Agent, (ii) addressed to the Administrative Agent and (iii)
in
form and scope reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent;
(f) as
soon as possible and in any event within 10 days after FOC or any Subsidiary
knows or has reason to know that any Plan Termination Event has occurred, a
statement of the chief financial officer or chief accounting officer of FOC
describing such Plan Termination Event and the action, if any, that FOC proposes
to take with respect thereto;
(g) promptly
and in any event within 5 Business Days after receipt thereof by FOC or any
of
its ERISA Affiliates from the PBGC, copies of each notice received by FOC or
any
such ERISA Affiliate of the PBGC’s intention to terminate any Plan or to have a
trustee appointed to administer any Plan;
(h) promptly
and in any event within 30 days after the filing thereof with the Internal
Revenue Service, copies of each Schedule B (Actuarial Information) to the annual
report
(Internal
Revenue Service Form 5500 Series) with respect to each Plan to which FOC
or any
of its ERISA Affiliates is a contributing employer;
(i) promptly
and in any event within 5 Business Days after receipt by FOC or any of its
ERISA
Affiliates from a Multiemployer Plan sponsor, a copy of each notice received
by
FOC or any such ERISA Affiliate concerning the imposition or amount of
withdrawal liability pursuant to Section 4202 of ERISA;
(j) promptly
after the commencement thereof, notice of all actions, suits and proceedings
before any Governmental Person, referee or arbitrator, affecting FOC or any
Subsidiary, of the type described in Section 5.7;
(k) promptly
after the occurrence thereof, notice of any event or condition that constitutes
or causes a Default, together with a certificate of the chief financial officer
or chief accounting officer of FOC setting forth the details thereof and
the
action that FOC is taking or proposes to take with respect thereto;
(l) promptly
after the assertion or occurrence thereof or FOC’s or any Subsidiary’s becoming
aware of the reasonable likelihood thereof, notice of any Environmental
Proceeding against FOC or any Subsidiary or of any noncompliance by FOC or
any
Subsidiary with any Environmental Law or Environmental Permit, in any case
that
could reasonably be expected to (i) have a Material Adverse Effect or (ii)
cause
any property that is material to FOC and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole,
to
be subject to any restriction on ownership, occupancy, use or transferability
under any Environmental Law; and
-50-
(m) promptly
upon request, such other information respecting the business, condition
(financial or otherwise), operations, performance, properties or prospects
of
FOC or any Subsidiary as any Lender may from time to time reasonably
request.
Section
6.5 Compliance
with Governmental Rules
.
FOC
will comply, and cause each Subsidiary to comply, with the requirements of
all
applicable Governmental Rules except to the extent that the failure to comply
therewith, in the aggregate, could not reasonably be expected to have a Material
Adverse Effect.
Section
6.6 Payment
of Taxes, Etc.
FOC
will pay and discharge, and cause each Subsidiary to pay and discharge, before
the same become delinquent, (i) all material taxes, assessments and governmental
charges or levies imposed upon it or upon its property and (ii) all lawful
claims that, if unpaid, might by law become a Lien upon any material property
thereof; provided, however, that neither FOC nor any Subsidiary
shall be required to pay or discharge any such tax, assessment, charge or claim
that is being contested in good faith and by proper proceedings and as to which
appropriate reserves are being maintained.
Section
6.7 Maintenance
of Insurance
.
FOC
will maintain, and cause each Subsidiary to maintain, insurance with responsible
and reputable insurance companies or associations that have an A.M. Best Co.
rating of at least A-
or a
Solvency International Rating or equivalent rating at least as high as in effect
on the Closing Date for such insurance company or association, in such amounts
and covering such risks as is usually carried by companies engaged in similar
businesses and owning similar properties in the same general areas in which
FOC
or such Subsidiary operates.
Section
6.8 Preservation
of Legal Existence, Etc.
FOC
will preserve and maintain, and cause each Subsidiary to preserve and maintain
(except as permitted by the provisions of Section 7.6), its legal existence
(in
the jurisdiction of its organization) and rights (charter and statutory)
and all
franchises, approvals, permits and licenses that are material to its
business.
Section
6.9 Visitation
Rights
.
FOC
will, at any reasonable time and from time to time upon reasonable prior
notice,
permit the Administrative Agent or any of the Lenders, or any agents or
representatives thereof, to examine and make copies of and abstracts from
the
records and books of account of, and visit the properties of, FOC and any
Subsidiary and to discuss the affairs, finances and accounts of FOC and any
Subsidiary with any of their respective officers, directors and employees
and
with their independent public accountants.
Section
6.10 Keeping
of Books
.
FOC
will keep, and cause each Subsidiary to keep, proper books of record and
account
in which full and correct entries shall be made of all financial transactions
and of the assets and business of FOC and each Subsidiary to the extent
necessary to permit the preparation of the financial statements required
to be
delivered hereunder and under the other Credit Documents.
-51-
Section
6.11 Maintenance
of Properties, Etc.
FOC
will maintain and preserve, and cause each Subsidiary to maintain and preserve,
all of its properties that are material to the conduct of its business in good
working order and condition, ordinary wear and tear excepted.
Section
6.12 Transactions
with Affiliates
.
FOC
will conduct, and cause each Subsidiary to conduct, all transactions otherwise
permitted under the Credit Documents with any Affiliate thereof on terms that
are fair and reasonable and not materially less favorable than it would obtain
in a comparable arm’s-length transaction with a Person not an Affiliate thereof,
except that (a) transactions between or among any of the Credit Parties other
than the Borrower and (b) transactions permitted by Section 7.8(e) shall not
be
restricted by this section.
Section
6.13 Performance
of Material Contracts
.
FOC
will, and will cause each Subsidiary to, (a) perform and observe all of the
terms and provisions of each Material Contract to which FOC or such Subsidiary,
as applicable, is a party, to the extent such terms and provisions are to be
performed or observed thereby, maintain each such Material Contract in full
force and effect and enforce each such Material Contract in accordance with
its
terms, except in each case to the extent that the failure to do so could not
reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, and (b) upon
reasonable request by the Administrative Agent, make to each other party to
each
such Material Contract such demands and
requests for information, reports or action as FOC or such Subsidiary, as
applicable, is entitled to make under such Material Contract.
Section
6.14 Compliance
with Environmental Laws.
(a) FOC
will (i) comply, and cause each Subsidiary and each lessee or other Person
operating or occupying any property of FOC or any Subsidiary to comply, in
all
material respects with all applicable Environmental Laws and Environmental
Permits, (ii) obtain and renew, and cause each Subsidiary to obtain and renew,
all Environmental Permits necessary for its operations and properties, (iii)
conduct, and cause each Subsidiary to conduct, any investigation, study,
sampling and testing in material compliance with the requirements of all
applicable Environmental Laws and (iv) undertake, and cause each Subsidiary
to
undertake, any cleanup, removal, remedial and other actions necessary to
remove
and clean up all Hazardous Materials from any of its properties, in material
compliance with the requirements of all applicable Environmental Laws;
provided, however, that neither FOC nor any Subsidiary shall be
required to undertake any such cleanup, removal, remedial or other action
to the
extent that its obligation to do so is being contested or negotiated in good
faith and by proper proceedings and that appropriate reserves are being
maintained with respect to such circumstances.
(b) FOC
will, and will cause each Subsidiary to, indemnify and hold harmless the
Administrative Agent, each Lender, each Affiliate of the Administrative Agent
or
any Lender, and all officers, directors, employees, agents and advisors of
each
of the foregoing (each an “Indemnified Party”), from
and against any and all claims, demands, actions, damages (including all
foreseeable and unforeseeable consequential damages), losses, assessments,
liabilities and expenses (including reasonable fees and expenses of counsel)
that may be incurred by or awarded against any Indemnified Party, in each
case
arising out of or in connection with or by reason of, or in connection with
the
preparation for a defense of, any investigation, litigation
-52-
or
proceeding arising out of, related to or in connection with (i) the actual
or
alleged presence of any Hazardous Material in, on or under (A) any property
owned or operated by FOC or any Subsidiary, (B) any property to which any
Hazardous Material has migrated from any property owned or operated by FOC
or
any Subsidiary or (C) any property at which FOC or any Subsidiary has disposed
of any Hazardous Material (whether or not legal at the time of such disposal)
or
(ii) any Environmental Proceeding relating in any way to FOC or any Subsidiary,
in any case whether or not such investigation, litigation or proceeding is
brought by FOC, any Subsidiary, any of their respective directors, shareholders
or creditors or an Indemnified Party, whether or not any Indemnified Party
is
otherwise a party thereto and whether or not the transactions contemplated
hereby are consummated.
Section
6.15 Additional
Guarantors
.
FOC
will cause each Person that becomes a Subsidiary after the date hereof to
deliver to the Administrative Agent, in form and substance reasonably
satisfactory thereto and in the number of originals requested thereby, (a)
within 10 days after such Person becomes a Subsidiary, a Guaranty Supplement,
duly executed by such Person, and (b) within 30 days after such Person becomes
a
Subsidiary, certificates and other documents for such Person equivalent to
those
specified for Guarantors in Section 4.1(e).
ARTICLE
7.
NEGATIVE
COVENANTS
So
long
as (1) any Commitment is in effect, (2) any Letter of Credit is outstanding
or
(3) any Obligation remains unpaid, unless compliance has been waived in writing
by the Majority Lenders, the Borrower and/or FOC, as specified below, will
observe the covenants set forth below.
Section
7.1 Cleanup
Period
.
The
Borrower will not permit any calendar year to pass without there being a
period
of at least 5 consecutive Business Days in such calendar year during which
the
Borrower has no Advances outstanding.
Section
7.2 Use
of Advances and Letters of Credit
.
The
Borrower will not use the proceeds of any Advance other than for its short-term
working capital purposes. The Borrower will not request the issuance of any
Letter of Credit other than to support (a) its purchases of crude oil or
petroleum products or (b) other obligations of the Borrower incurred in the
ordinary course of business and as to which the Administrative Agent and
the
Majority Lenders have agreed, in their sole and absolute discretion, to support
the same by issuance of and participation in a Letter of Credit.
Section
7.3 Liens,
Etc.
FOC
will not create, incur, assume or suffer to exist, or permit any Subsidiary
to
create, incur, assume or suffer to exist, any Lien upon or with respect to
any
of its property of any character (including Capital Stock, other securities
and
accounts receivable), whether now owned or hereafter acquired, or authorize,
or
permit any Subsidiary to authorize, any Person to file, under the Uniform
Commercial Code of any jurisdiction, a financing statement that names FOC
or any
Subsidiary as debtor (except in connection with true leases), or assign,
or
permit any Subsidiary to assign, any accounts receivable; provided,
however, that the foregoing restrictions shall not apply to the
following:
-53-
(a) Liens
created by any of the Credit Documents;
(b) Liens
securing any Debt permitted under Section 7.4(c) or (d), provided that any
such
Lien is limited to the fixed asset or assets acquired or financed and any
subsequent improvements thereto;
(c) Permitted
Liens;
(d) the
right of first refusal reserved by Shell Oil Products US, as seller, under
Section 11.05 of the Asset Purchase and Sale Agreement dated as of October
19,
1999 among Shell Oil Products US, FERC and FOC; and
(e) a
Lien in favor of BNP Paribas on cash of the Borrower not exceeding $10,000,000
in the aggregate to secure the Borrower’s obligations to BNP Paribas described
in Section 7.4(k).
Section
7.4 Debt
.
FOC
will not create, incur, assume or suffer to exist, or permit any Subsidiary
to
create, incur, assume or suffer to exist, any Debt other than the
following:
(a) Debt
of the Credit Parties under the Credit Documents;
(b) Debt
of FOC in respect of $150,000,000 in principal amount of its 6-5/8% Senior
Notes
due 2011;
(c) Debt
(commonly known as purchase-money debt) of FOC and its Subsidiaries incurred
after December 31, 2006 to purchase, or to finance the purchase of, fixed
assets
and/or Debt incurred by FOC and its Subsidiaries after December 31, 2006
with
respect to which the creditor has no recourse to the debtor, but only to
the
property securing such Debt; provided, however, that the aggregate
cumulative principal amount of all such Debt referred to above shall not
exceed
$30,000,000;
(d) Capitalized
Leases permitted under Section 7.5;
(e) Debt
of FPI to ConocoPhillips pursuant to the Conoco Operating Agreement, not
to
exceed $500,000 in the aggregate at any time outstanding;
(f) Debt
of FOC and the Borrower to brokerage firms listed on Schedule 6, and Debt
of
Subsidiaries to FOC in respect of such Debt of FOC (incurred on behalf of
such
Subsidiaries in the purchase or sale of commodity futures contracts or related
options) to such brokerage firms; provided, however, that such
Debt shall not exceed $25,000,000 in the aggregate at any time outstanding,
without duplication, and shall relate only to commodity hedging activity
in
margin accounts that is permitted pursuant to Section 7.4(m);
-54-
(g) the
obligation of FERC to make “Contingency Earn-Up Payments” to Shell Oil Products
US pursuant to the Asset Purchase and Sale Agreement dated as of October 19,
1999 among Shell Oil Products US, FERC and FOC;
(h) Debt
permitted by Section 7.8(c), (d) or (e);
(i) the
guaranty by FOC and its Subsidiaries of the obligations of FOC in respect of
the
Debt described in Section 7.4(b);
(j) Debt
of FOC or the Borrower under any Hedge Agreement entered into with the purpose
and effect of hedging interest rates on a principal amount of Debt of such
Credit Party that is accruing interest at a fixed or variable rate, provided
that (i) the aggregate notional amount of such Hedge Agreement does not exceed
75% of the anticipated outstanding principal balance of the Debt to be hedged
by
such Hedge Agreement or 75% of an average of such principal balances calculated
using a generally accepted method of matching interest-rate swap contracts
to
declining principal balances, (ii) the floating-rate index of each such Hedge
Agreement hedging variable-rate Debt generally matches the index used to
determine the floating
rates of interest on the corresponding Debt to be hedged by such Hedge
Agreement, (iii) the fixed-rate index of each such Hedge Agreement hedging
fixed-rate Debt generally matches the fixed rate(s) of interest on the
corresponding Debt to be hedged by such Hedge Agreement and (iv) each such
Hedge
Agreement is with a counterparty, or has a guarantor of the obligation of the
counterparty, that is a Lender or another well capitalized and nationally
recognized hedging counterparty;
(k) the
Debt of the Borrower, as purchaser, and FOC, as guarantor, in respect of
the
Utexam Transactions, provided that such Debt does not exceed, at any time
outstanding, the sum of $200,000,000 plus the amount of any related
transportation costs and expenses; and the Debt of the Borrower, as account
party, to BNP Paribas in respect of up to $10,000,000 in the aggregate, at
any
time outstanding, for one or more letters of credit (including any unreimbursed
drawings thereunder) issued by BNP Paribas to provide credit support for
certain
obligations of the Borrower to CCPS Transportation, LLC, a Delaware limited
liability company, for transport of crude oil purchased by the Borrower in
the
Utexam Transactions;
(l) Debt
of FOC, provided that (i) such Debt is unsecured, (ii) the earliest maturity
date of any portion of such Debt is at least 2 years after the Commitment
Termination Date, (iii) the covenants in any agreement or instrument evidencing
or otherwise relating to such Debt are no more restrictive or burdensome
than
those in this Agreement and the other Credit Documents, (iv) the interest
payable on such Debt is at a commercially reasonable rate and (v) at the
time of
issuance of such Debt, FOC’s senior unsecured debt ratings from Xxxxx’x and
S&P (A) are at least B1 and B+, respectively, and (B) have not declined
during the 6-month period ending on the date of issuance of such Debt;
provided, however, that, if at the time of issuance of such Debt
FOC’s senior unsecured debt is rated by only one of Xxxxx’x and S&P, then
the conditions set forth in clause (v) above shall apply only to the rating
by
that rating agency;
(m) Debt
of FOC or any Subsidiary under any Hedge Agreement entered into for the purpose
and with the effect of hedging price risk on (i) oil or gas purchased or
to be
-55-
purchased
by FOC or any Subsidiary for processing or consumption by any Subsidiary or
(ii)
petroleum products produced or to be produced by any Subsidiary, provided that
each such Hedge Agreement at all times (A) xxxxxx or mitigates risk to which
FOC
or a Subsidiary has actual or projected exposure, (B) is permitted under the
risk-management policy approved by FOC’s Board of Directors at the time such
Hedge Agreement is entered into and (C) does not subject FOC or any Subsidiary
to any speculative risk; and
(n) other
Debt of FOC and its Subsidiaries, in addition to any permitted above in this
section, not exceeding $20,000,000 in the aggregate at any time
outstanding.
Section
7.5 Lease
Obligations
.
FOC
will not create, incur, assume or suffer to exist, or permit any Subsidiary
to
create, incur, assume or suffer to exist, any obligations as lessee (a) for
the
rental or hire of real or personal property in connection with any
sale-and-leaseback transaction or (b) for the rental or hire of other real
or
personal property of any kind under leases or agreements to lease (including
Capitalized Leases but excluding the Cogen Lease) having an original term
of one
year or more that would cause the direct or contingent liabilities of FOC
and
its Subsidiaries, on a consolidated basis, in respect of all of such obligations
to exceed $25,000,000 payable in any calendar year; provided,
however, that the foregoing restrictions shall not apply to any
lease
between Credit Parties other than any such lease to which the Borrower is
a
party.
Section
7.6 Mergers,
Etc.
(a) FOC
will not, and will not permit any Subsidiary to, merge or consolidate with
or
into any Person, or sell, assign, convey, transfer, lease or otherwise dispose
of (whether in one transaction or in a series of transactions) all or
substantially all of its assets (whether now owned or hereafter acquired)
to any
Person, or acquire all or substantially all of the assets of any Person,
except
that any Credit Party other than the Borrower may merge or consolidate with,
or
sell, assign, convey, transfer, lease or otherwise dispose of (whether in
one
transaction or in a series of transactions) all or substantially all of its
assets (whether now owned or hereafter acquired) to, or acquire all or
substantially all of the assets of, any other Credit Party other than the
Borrower.
Section
7.7 Sales,
Etc. of Assets
.
FOC
will not sell, assign, convey, transfer, lease or otherwise dispose of, or
permit any Subsidiary to sell, assign, convey, transfer, lease or otherwise
dispose of, any substantial part of its assets, including any Refinery, FPI’s
current ownership interest in the Centennial Pipeline operated by Conoco
Pipeline Inc. (originating at Guernsey, Wyoming and terminating at Cheyenne,
Wyoming) and substantially all assets constituting the business of a division,
branch or other unit of operation, except for the following:
(a) any
sale, assignment, conveyance, transfer, lease or other disposition of assets,
including inventory, in the ordinary course of business;
(b) sales
of Capital Stock of any Subsidiary that are permitted by Section 7.8(c) or
(d);
-56-
(c) sales,
assignments, conveyances, transfers, leases and other dispositions of assets
by
any Credit Party other than the Borrower to any other Credit Party other than
the Borrower; and
(d) in
addition to the foregoing, sales of other assets for consideration not exceeding
$20,000,000 in the aggregate in any calendar year.
Section
7.8 Investments
in Other Persons
.
FOC
will not, and will not permit any Subsidiary to, make any loan or advance to
any
Person, purchase or otherwise acquire any Capital Stock of any Person, make
any
capital
contribution
to any Person, or otherwise invest in any Person; provided,
however, that nothing in this section shall prevent any of the
following:
(a) FOC
or any Subsidiary from acquiring or holding Cash Equivalents;
(b) FOC
or any Subsidiary from generating and holding accounts receivable in the
ordinary course of business;
(c) any
Credit Party other than the Borrower from making any loan, advance or capital
contribution to, or other investment in, any other Credit Party;
(d) so
long as no Default has occurred and is continuing or would be caused thereby,
the Borrower from making any loan, advance or capital contribution to, or
other
investment in, any other Credit Party;
(e) the
Borrower from making any loan or advance to or on behalf of FOC for selling,
general and administrative expenses properly incurred by FOC, including for
(i)
salaries and benefits, (ii) office space, (iii) travel and entertainment,
(iv)
payments to directors and (v) audit and other professional services;
provided, however, that the aggregate amount of such loans and
advances outstanding at any time may not exceed $10,000,000 and that FOC
must
repay each such loan or advance in cash by the end of the second calendar
month
after the calendar month in which such loan or advance was made;
(f) any
Subsidiary from making any payment to FOC from time to time equal to such
Subsidiary’s liability to FOC pursuant to such Subsidiary’s tax-sharing
arrangement with FOC; provided, however, that no such payment
shall exceed any Subsidiary’s current tax liability that would otherwise be
payable to the United States Internal Revenue Service or another appropriate
Governmental Person if such Subsidiary were required to pay taxes on an
unconsolidated, stand-alone basis; or
(g) in
addition to the foregoing, FOC or any Subsidiary from making other investments
after June 30, 2007 in activities or businesses relating to the current
activities and businesses of FOC and its Subsidiaries, up to a cumulative
aggregate amount of $10,000,000 on a consolidated basis.
Section
7.9 Dividends,
Etc.
FOC
will not, and will not permit any Subsidiary to, declare, pay or make any
dividend or other distribution, purchase, redeem, retire, defease
or
-57-
otherwise
acquire for value any of its Capital Stock, return any capital to its
equityholders as such, or make any distribution of assets, Capital Stock,
warrants, rights, options, obligations or securities to its equityholders as
such, or permit any Subsidiary to purchase, redeem, retire, defease or otherwise
acquire for value any Capital Stock in FOC, except that:
(a) any
Subsidiary other than the Borrower may declare and pay cash dividends to, and
make cash distributions to, any Credit Party;
(b) so
long as no Default has occurred and is continuing or would be caused thereby,
the Borrower may declare and pay cash dividends to, and make cash distributions
to, any Credit Party that is a shareholder thereof;
(c) so
long as no Default has occurred and is continuing or would be caused thereby,
FOC may declare and pay dividends payable only in its common stock;
and
(d) so
long as no Default has occurred and is continuing or would be caused thereby,
FOC may declare and pay cash dividends to its shareholders, and may purchase,
redeem, retire, defease or otherwise acquire shares of its outstanding Capital
Stock for cash.
Section
7.10 Leverage
Ratio
.
FOC
will not permit the ratio of (a) the difference between Consolidated Funded
Debt
as of the last day of any fiscal quarter of FOC and the aggregate amount
of cash
and Cash Equivalents held by FOC as of the last day of such fiscal quarter
to
(b) Consolidated EBITDA for the Calculation Period ended on the last day
of such
fiscal quarter to be greater than 4.00 to 1.00, as measured by the financial
information to be delivered pursuant to Section 6.4(a) or (b).
Section
7.11 Ratio
of Debt to Capitalization
.
FOC
will not permit the ratio of (a) Consolidated Funded Debt as of the last
day of
any fiscal quarter of FOC to (b) the sum of Consolidated Funded Debt and
consolidated stockholders’ equity of FOC and its Subsidiaries as of the last day
of such fiscal quarter to be greater than 0.55 to 1.00, as measured by the
financial information to be delivered pursuant to Section 6.4(a) or
(b).
Section
7.12 Holding
of Cash and Cash Equivalents
.
FOC
will not permit the aggregate amount of cash and Cash Equivalents held by
it and
its Subsidiaries at any and all times during any fiscal quarter of FOC to
be
less than the sum of (a) the smallest aggregate amount of cash and Cash
Equivalents needed to be held by FOC as of the end of the immediately preceding
fiscal quarter of FOC in order for FOC to comply with the covenant contained
in
Section 7.10 and (b) the smallest additional aggregate amount of cash and
Cash
Equivalents needed to be held by FOC and its Subsidiaries (but not in excess
of
the additional aggregate amount of cash and Cash Equivalents actually held
by
FOC and its Subsidiaries) as of the end of such fiscal quarter in order for
the
Borrower to qualify for the most favorable (to it) Pricing Level.
Section
7.13 Change
in Nature of Business
.
FOC
will not make, or permit any Subsidiary to make, any material change in the
nature of its business as carried on as of the date hereof. The closure or
shutdown of any Refinery shall in all cases be deemed to be such a material
change (other than a temporary closure or shutdown, not to exceed 6 weeks,
for
major maintenance or capital improvements or because of force
majeure).
-58-
Section
7.14 Compliance
with ERISA
.
FOC
will not (a) terminate, or permit any Subsidiary to terminate, any Plan so
as to
result in any material (in the reasonable judgment of the Majority Lenders)
liability of FOC or any
of
its ERISA Affiliates to the PBGC or (b) permit to exist any occurrence of any
Reportable Event (as defined in Title IV of ERISA), or any other event or
condition, that presents a material (in the reasonable judgment of the Majority
Lenders) risk of such termination by the PBGC of any Plan.
Section
7.15 Amendment,
Etc. of Material Contracts
.
FOC
will not, and will not permit any Subsidiary to, cancel or terminate any
Material Contract to which it is a party or consent to or accept any
cancellation or termination thereof. FOC will not, and will not permit any
Subsidiary to, (a) amend or otherwise modify any Material Contract to which
it
is a party or give any consent, waiver or approval thereunder, (b) waive
any
default under, or breach of, any such Material Contract, (c) agree in any
manner
to any other amendment, modification or change of any term or condition of
any
such Material Contract or (d) take any other action in connection with any
such
Material Contract, except in each case described in clause (a), (b), (c)
or (d)
above to the extent that doing so could not reasonably be expected to have
a
Material Adverse Effect.
Section
7.16 Change
of Fiscal Periods
.
FOC
will not, and will not permit any Subsidiary to, have a fiscal year other
than
one coinciding with the calendar year or have any fiscal quarter other than
once
coinciding with a calendar quarter.
ARTICLE
8.
EVENTS
OF DEFAULT
Section
8.1 Events
of Default
.
If any
one or more of the following events (each an “Event of
Default”) occurs and is continuing:
(a) the
Borrower fails to pay any Obligation when due;
(b) any
representation or warranty made by any Credit Party or any Subsidiary (or
any of
their respective officers) in or in connection with any Credit Document proves
to have been incorrect in any material respect when made;
(c) any
Credit Party fails to perform or observe any term, covenant or agreement
in
Section 6.4(k), Section 6.8 (with respect to the Borrower or FOC only) or
Article 7 on its part to be performed or observed; the Borrower fails to
perform
or observe any term, covenant or agreement in Section 6.1(a), and the same
is
not remedied within 3 Business Days thereafter; or any Credit Party fails
to
perform or observe any other term, covenant or agreement of any Credit Document
on its part to be performed or observed, and the same is not remedied within
15
days after written notice thereof has been given to the Borrower by the
Administrative Agent;
-59-
(d) any
Credit Party or any Subsidiary fails to pay any principal of any Debt thereof
outstanding in a principal amount of at least $10,000,000 in the aggregate
(excluding the Obligations), or any interest or premium thereon, when due
(whether by scheduled maturity, required
prepayment, acceleration, demand or otherwise), and such failure continues
after
the applicable grace period, if any, specified in the agreement or instrument
relating to such Debt; any other event occurs or condition exists under any
agreement or instrument relating to any such Debt and continues after the
applicable grace period, if any, specified in such agreement or instrument,
if
the effect of such event or condition is to accelerate, or to permit the
acceleration of, the maturity of such Debt; or any such Debt is declared to
be
due and payable, or is required to be prepaid, redeemed, purchased or defeased
(other than by a regularly scheduled required prepayment, redemption, purchase
or defeasance), or an offer to prepay, redeem, purchase or defease such Debt
is
required to be made, in each case before the stated maturity
thereof;
(e) any
Credit Party or any Subsidiary generally does not pay its debts as such debts
become due, admits in writing its inability to pay its debts generally or
makes
a general assignment for the benefit of creditors; any proceeding is instituted
by or against any Credit Party or any Subsidiary seeking to adjudicate it
a
bankrupt or insolvent, seeking liquidation, winding up, reorganization,
arrangement, adjustment, protection, relief, or composition of it or its
debts
under any law relating to bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization or relief
of
debtors or seeking the entry of an order for relief or the appointment of
a
receiver, trustee or other similar official for it or for any substantial
part
of its property; or any Credit Party or any Subsidiary takes any legal action
to
authorize any of the actions set forth above in this Section
8.1(e);
(f) any
judgment or order for the payment of money in excess of $10,000,000 is rendered
against any Credit Party or any Subsidiary, and either (i) enforcement
proceedings are commenced by any creditor upon such judgment or order or
(ii)
there is any period of 10 consecutive days (or, if the entire amount is covered
by insurance (subject to applicable deductibles), 30 consecutive days) during
which a stay of enforcement of such judgment or order, by reason of a pending
appeal or otherwise, is not in effect, unless such judgment or order has
been
vacated, satisfied, dismissed, or bonded pending appeal or, in the case of
a
judgment or order the entire amount of which is covered by insurance (subject
to
applicable deductibles), is the subject of a binding agreement with the
plaintiff and the insurer covering payment therefor;
(g) there
occurs, in the reasonable judgment of the Majority Lenders, any material
and
adverse change in the business, condition (financial or otherwise), operations,
performance, properties or prospects of the Credit Parties, taken as a
whole;
(h) any
provision of any Credit Document for any reason ceases to be valid and binding
on or enforceable against, in any material respect, any Credit Party that
is a
party thereto, or such Credit Party so states in writing;
(i) for
any reason except to the extent permitted by the terms of the Security Agreement
or the Stock Pledge Agreement, there ceases to be a valid and perfected
first-priority security interest in favor of the Administrative Agent in
any of
the Collateral purported to be covered by either of such agreements;
or
-60-
(j) any
“person” or “group” (as such terms are used in Sections 13(d) and 14(d) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the “Exchange Act”))
becomes, or obtains rights (whether
by means of warrants, options or otherwise) to become, the “beneficial owner”
(as defined in Rules 13d-3 and 13d-5 under the Exchange Act), directly or
indirectly, of more than 35% of the outstanding common stock of FOC; the Board
of Directors of FOC ceases to consist of a majority of Continuing Directors;
FOC
ceases to own and control, of record and beneficially, directly or indirectly,
100% of each class of outstanding Capital Stock of the Borrower and each
Guarantor, free and clear of all Liens; or a Specified Change of Control
occurs;
then,
and
in any such event, the Administrative Agent (i) shall at the request, or
may
with the consent, of the Majority Lenders, by notice to the Borrower, declare
the obligation of each Lender to make Advances, and the obligation of the
Administrative Agent to issue Letters of Credit, to be terminated, whereupon
the
same shall forthwith terminate, and (ii) shall at the request, or may with
the
consent, of the Majority Lenders, by notice to the Borrower, declare the
Obligations, all interest thereon and all other amounts payable under this
Agreement and the other Credit Documents to be forthwith due and payable,
whereupon (A) the Obligations, all such interest and all such amounts shall
become and be forthwith due and payable, without presentment, demand, protest
or
further notice of any kind, all of which are hereby expressly waived by the
Borrower, and (B) to the extent any Letters of Credit are then outstanding,
the
Borrower will deposit with and pledge to the Administrative Agent cash
collateral in the aggregate Letter of Credit Amount of such Letters of Credit;
provided, however, that, in the event of an actual or deemed entry
of an order for relief with respect to any Credit Party or any Subsidiary
under
the United States Bankruptcy Code, (1) the obligation of each Lender to make
Advances and of the Administrative Agent to issue Letters of Credit shall
be
terminated automatically, and (2) the Advances, all such interest and all
such
amounts (including such cash collateral) shall automatically become and be
due
and payable, without presentment, demand, protest or any notice of any kind,
all
of which are hereby expressly waived by the Borrower.
ARTICLE
9.
THE
ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT
Section
9.1 Authorization
and Action
.
Each
Lender hereby appoints and authorizes the Administrative Agent to take such
action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers under this Agreement
as are delegated to the Administrative Agent by the terms hereof, together
with
such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto. As to any matters not
expressly provided for by the Credit Documents (including enforcement of
and
collection under the Credit Documents), the Administrative Agent shall not
be
required to exercise any discretion or take any action, but shall be required
to
act or refrain from acting (and shall be fully protected in so acting or
refraining from acting) upon the instructions of the Majority Lenders, and
such
instructions shall be binding upon all Lenders and all holders of Notes;
provided, however, that the Administrative Agent shall not be
required to take any action that exposes the Administrative Agent to personal
liability or that is contrary to the Credit Documents or applicable Governmental
Rules. The Administrative Agent agrees to give each Lender prompt notice
of each
notice given to it by the Borrower pursuant to the terms of this
Agreement.
-61-
Section
9.2 Administrative
Agent’s Reliance, Etc.
Neither
the Administrative Agent nor any of its
directors, officers, agents or employees shall be liable for any action taken
or
omitted to be taken by it or them under or in connection with the Credit
Documents, except for its or their own gross negligence or willful misconduct.
Without limitation of the generality of the foregoing, the Administrative Agent
(a) may treat any Lender that has signed this Agreement, an Assignment and
Assumption or a Joinder Agreement as the holder of the applicable portion of
the
Obligations; (b) may consult with legal counsel (including legal counsel for
any
Credit Party), independent public accountants and other experts selected by
it
and shall not be liable for any action taken or omitted to be taken in good
faith by it in accordance with the advice of such legal counsel, accountants
or
experts; (c) makes no warranty or representation to any Lender and shall not
be
responsible to any Lender for any statements, warranties or representations
made
in or in connection with the Credit Documents; (d) shall not have any duty
to
ascertain or to inquire as to the performance or observance of any of the terms,
covenants or conditions of any Credit Document on the part of any Credit Party
or to inspect the property (including the books and records) of any Credit
Party; (e) shall not be responsible to any Lender for the due execution,
legality, validity, enforceability, genuineness, sufficiency or value of any
Credit Document or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant thereto;
and (f) shall incur no liability under or in respect of any Credit Document
by
acting upon any notice, consent, certificate or other instrument or writing
(which may be by telecopier or otherwise) believed by it to be genuine and
signed or sent by the proper party or parties.
Section
9.3 UBOC
and Affiliates
.
With
respect to its Commitment, the Advances made by it, the Note issued to it
and
the Letters of Credit participated in by it, UBOC shall have the same rights
and
powers under this Agreement as any other Lender and may exercise the same
as
though it were not the Administrative Agent; and the term “Lender” or “Lenders”
shall, unless otherwise expressly indicated, include UBOC in its individual
capacity (including in its capacity as Issuing Bank). UBOC and its Affiliates
may accept deposits from, lend money to, act as trustee under indentures
of, and
generally engage in any kind of business with, any Credit Party, any Subsidiary
and any Person that may do business with or own securities of any Credit
Party
or any Subsidiary, all as if UBOC were not the Administrative Agent and without
any duty to account therefor to the Lenders.
Section
9.4 Lender
Credit Decision
.
Each
Lender acknowledges that it has, independently and without reliance on the
Administrative Agent or any other Lender and based on the financial statements
referred to in Sections 5.5 and 6.4 and such other documents and information
as
it has deemed appropriate, made its own credit analysis and decision to enter
into this Agreement. Each Lender also acknowledges that it will, independently
and without reliance on the Administrative Agent or any other Lender and
based
on such documents and information as it deems appropriate at the time, continue
to make its own credit decisions in taking or not taking action under this
Agreement.
Section
9.5 Indemnification
.
The
Lenders agree to indemnify the Administrative Agent (to the extent not promptly
reimbursed by the Borrower), ratably according to the respective principal
amounts of the Obligations then held by each of them (or, if no Obligations
are
at the time outstanding or if any Obligations are then held by Persons that
are
not Lenders, ratably according to the respective amounts of their Commitments),
from and against all
-62-
liabilities,
obligations, losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments, suits, costs,
expenses and disbursements of any kind or nature whatsoever that may be imposed
on, incurred by or asserted against the Administrative Agent in any way relating
to or arising out of any of the Credit Documents or any action taken or omitted
by the Administrative Agent under any of the Credit Documents; provided,
however, that (a) no Lender shall be liable for any portion of such
liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments, suits,
costs, expenses or disbursements resulting from the Administrative Agent’s gross
negligence or willful misconduct and (b) SUCH INDEMNITY SHALL APPLY
WHETHER OR NOT ANY SUCH LIABILITY, OBLIGATION, LOSS, DAMAGE, PENALTY, ACTION,
JUDGMENT, SUIT, COST, EXPENSE OR DISBURSEMENT IS IN ANY WAY OR TO ANY EXTENT
CAUSED, IN WHOLE OR IN PART, BY ANY NEGLIGENT ACT OR OMISSION (OTHER THAN ANY
CONSTITUTING GROSS NEGLIGENCE OR WILLFUL MISCONDUCT) OF ANY KIND BY THE
ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT. Without limitation of the foregoing, each Lender
agrees to reimburse the Administrative Agent promptly upon demand for its
ratable share of any costs and expenses payable by the Borrower under Section
10.4, to the extent that the Administrative Agent is not promptly reimbursed
for
such costs and expenses by the Borrower.
Section
9.6 Successor
Administrative Agent
.
The
Administrative Agent may resign at any time by giving written notice thereof
to
the Lenders, FOC and the Borrower and may be removed at any time with or without
cause with the written approval of the Majority Lenders. Upon any such
resignation or removal, the Majority Lenders shall have the right to appoint
a
successor Administrative Agent. If no successor Administrative Agent has been
so
appointed by the Majority Lenders, and has accepted such appointment, within
30
days after the retiring Administrative Agent’s giving of notice of resignation
or the Majority Lenders’ removal of the retiring Administrative Agent, then the
retiring Administrative Agent may, on behalf of the Lenders, appoint a successor
Administrative Agent, which shall be a commercial bank organized under the
laws
of the United States of America or of any state thereof and having a combined
capital and surplus of at least $500,000,000. Upon the acceptance of any
appointment as Administrative Agent hereunder by a successor Administrative
Agent, such successor Administrative Agent shall thereupon succeed to and become
vested with all of the rights, powers, privileges and duties of the retiring
Administrative Agent, and the retiring Administrative Agent shall be discharged
from its duties and obligations under the Credit Documents. After any retiring
Administrative Agent’s resignation or removal hereunder as Administrative Agent,
the provisions of this Article 9 shall inure to its benefit as to any actions
taken or omitted to be taken by it while it was agent under this
Agreement.
Section
9.7 Administrative
Agent as Collateral Holder.
(a) Except
for action expressly required of the Administrative Agent hereunder or under
any
other Credit Document as holder of any Collateral, the Administrative Agent
shall in all cases be fully justified in refusing to act hereunder and
thereunder unless it is further indemnified to its satisfaction by the Lenders,
proportionately in accordance with the Obligations
then due and payable to each of them, against all liability and expense that
may
be incurred by the Administrative Agent by reason of taking or continuing to
take any such action.
-63-
(b) Except
as expressly provided herein or in any other Credit Document, the Administrative
Agent shall have no duty to take any affirmative steps with respect to the
collection of amounts payable in respect of the Collateral. The Administrative
Agent shall incur no liability as a result of any private sale of the
Collateral.
(c) The
Lenders hereby consent, and agree upon written request by the Administrative
Agent to execute and deliver such instruments and other documents as the
Administrative Agent may deem desirable to confirm such consent, to the release
of the Liens on the Collateral, including any release in connection with
any
sale, transfer or other disposition of the Collateral or any part thereof,
in
accordance with the Credit Documents.
(d) The
Administrative Agent shall be deemed to have exercised reasonable care in
the
custody and preservation of the Collateral in its possession if the Collateral
is accorded treatment substantially equal to that the Administrative Agent
accords its own property, it being understood that neither the Administrative
Agent nor any Lender shall have responsibility for (i) ascertaining or taking
action with respect to calls, conversions, exchanges, maturities, tenders
or
other matters relative to any Collateral, whether or not the Administrative
Agent or any Lender is deemed to have knowledge of such matters, or (ii)
taking
any necessary steps to preserve rights against any parties with respect to
any
Collateral.
Section
9.8 No
Other Duties, Etc
.
Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, no lead arranger,
syndication agent or co-documentation agent listed on the cover page of this
Agreement or in the recital of parties to this Agreement shall have any powers,
duties, liabilities or responsibilities under this Agreement or any of the
other
Credit Documents, except in its capacity, as applicable, as the Administrative
Agent, a Lender or the Issuing Bank hereunder and except that BNP Paribas,
in
its capacity as Syndication Agent, shall have the rights described in Section
6.2 and in clause (viii) of the proviso contained in the definition of “Eligible
Accounts” in Section 1.1.
ARTICLE
10.
MISCELLANEOUS
Section
10.1 Amendments,
Etc
.
No
amendment or waiver of any provision of this Agreement, or consent to any
departure by the Borrower therefrom, shall be effective unless in writing
and
signed or consented to (in writing) by the Majority Lenders and, in the case
of
amendments, the Borrower, and then such waiver or consent shall be effective
only in the specific instance and for the specific purpose for which given;
provided, however, that no amendment, waiver or consent shall,
unless in writing and signed or consented to (in writing) by all of the Lenders,
do any of the following: (a) waive any of the conditions specified in Article
4;
(b) increase the Commitments of the Lenders or subject the Lenders to any
additional obligations; (c) release any Collateral, except in accordance
with
the terms of the Credit Documents; (d) reduce the principal of, or interest
on,
the Advances or any fees or other amounts payable hereunder; (e) postpone
any
date fixed for (i) payment of principal of, or interest on, the Advances,
(ii)
reimbursement of drawings under Letters of Credit or (iii) payment of fees
or
other amounts payable hereunder; (f) change the percentage of the Commitments
or
of the Obligations outstanding, or the number of Lenders, required for the
Lenders or any of them to
-64-
take
any
action hereunder; or (g) amend this Section 10.1; furtherprovided,
however, that no amendment, waiver or consent shall, unless
in writing
and signed or consented to (in writing) by the Super-Majority Lenders, change
the definition of “Borrowing Base” in Section 1.1; and
furtherprovided, however, that no amendment, waiver or
consent shall, unless in writing and signed or consented to (in writing)
by the
Administrative Agent in addition to the Lenders required above to take such
action, affect the rights or duties of the Administrative Agent under this
Agreement or any other Credit Document. Delivery by telecopier or e-mail
of an
executed counterpart of a signature page to any amendment or waiver of, or
consent to departure from, any provision of this Agreement shall be effective
as
delivery of an originally executed counterpart thereof.
Section
10.2 Notices,
Etc.
(a) All
notices and other communications provided for hereunder shall be in writing
(including by telecopier) and shall be mailed, telecopied or delivered (i)
if to
FOC, to it at 00000 Xxxxxxxx Xxxxx, Xxxxx 000, Xxxxxxx, Xxxxx 00000-0000,
telecopier number 000-000-0000, Attention: Xx. Xxxx X. Xxxx, Vice President
–
Corporate Finance; (ii) if to the Borrower, to it at 0000 Xxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxx,
Xxxxx 000, Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000, telecopier number 000-000-0000, Attention:
Xx. Xxx X. Xxxxxxxxx, Vice President and Treasurer; (iii) if to any Lender,
to
it at the address or telecopier number set forth in Schedule 7 or in the
Assignment and Assumption or Joinder Agreement by which it became a party
hereto; (iv) if to the Administrative Agent, to it at 000 Xxxxx Xxxxx, Xxxxx
0000, Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 00000, telecopier number 000-000-0000, Attention: Xx.
Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxx, Senior Vice President (with a copy to 0000 Xxxxxx Xxxxxx,
Mail Code 0-000-000, Xxxxxxxx Xxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx 00000, telecopier number
000-000-0000, Attention: Commercial Loan and Agency Services); or (v) as
to each
party, to it at such other address or telecopier number as designated by
such
party in a written notice to the other parties. All such notices and
communications shall be deemed received, (A) if personally delivered, upon
delivery, (B) if sent by first-class mail, on the third Business Day following
deposit into the mails and (C) if sent by telecopier, on the Business Day
following such sending, except that notices and communications to the
Administrative Agent pursuant to Article 2 or 9 shall not be effective until
received by the Administrative Agent.
(b) Notices
and other communications to the Issuing Bank and the other Lenders hereunder
may
be delivered or furnished by electronic communication (including e-mail and
Internet or intranet websites) pursuant to procedures approved by the
Administrative Agent; provided, however, that the foregoing shall
not apply to notices to the Issuing Bank or any other Lender pursuant to
Article
2 if the Issuing Bank or such Lender, as applicable, has notified the
Administrative Agent that it is incapable of receiving notices under Article
2
by electronic communication. 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, however, that approval of such procedures may be limited
to particular notices or communications. Unless the Administrative Agent
otherwise prescribes, (i) notices and other communications sent to an e-mail
address shall be deemed received upon the sender’s receipt of an acknowledgement
from the intended recipient (such as by the “return receipt requested” function,
as available, return e-mail or other written acknowledgement) (provided,
however, that, if such notice or other communication is not sent
during
the normal
-65-
business
hours of the
recipient, then such notice or communication shall be deemed to have been sent
at the opening of business on the next business day for the recipient), and
(ii)
notices or communications posted to an Internet or intranet website shall be
deemed received upon the deemed receipt by the intended recipient at its e-mail
address as described in the foregoing clause (i) of notification that such
notice or communication is available and identifying the website address
therefor.
Section
10.3 No
Waiver; Remedies
.
No
failure on the part of any Lender or the Administrative Agent to exercise,
and
no delay in exercising, any right hereunder shall operate as a waiver thereof,
and no single or partial exercise of any such right shall preclude any other
or
further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right. The remedies
provided herein are cumulative and not exclusive of any remedies provided
by
law.
Section
10.4 Costs
and Expenses
.
The
Borrower agrees to pay on demand (a) all costs and expenses of the
Administrative Agent in connection with the preparation, execution, delivery,
administration, modification and amendment of this Agreement, the other Credit
Documents and the other documents to be delivered hereunder, including (i)
the
reasonable fees and out-of-pocket expenses of legal counsel for the
Administrative Agent with respect thereto and with respect to advising the
Administrative Agent as to its rights and responsibilities, or the perfection,
protection or reservation of its rights or interests, under this Agreement,
the
other Credit Documents and such other documents to be delivered hereunder,
and
(ii) the fees and expenses of any consultants, auditors or accountants engaged
by the Administrative Agent pursuant hereto (including for Commercial Finance
Audits (provided that the Borrower shall not be required to pay for more
than
three Commercial Finance Audits conducted during any single calendar year),
Inventory Audits (provided that the Borrower shall not be required to pay
for
more than three Inventory Audits conducted during any single calendar year)
and
the reports referred in Section 6.4(e)), and (b) all costs and expenses of
the
Administrative Agent and the Lenders (including reasonable attorneys’ fees and
expenses of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders) in connection with
the
enforcement (whether through negotiations, legal proceedings or otherwise)
of
this Agreement, the other Credit Documents and the other documents to be
delivered hereunder, whether in any action, suit or litigation, any bankruptcy,
insolvency or similar proceeding or otherwise.
Section
10.5 Indemnification
.
The
Borrower hereby agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the Administrative
Agent,
the Syndication Agent and each Lender and each of their respective officers,
directors, employees, agents, advisors and Affiliates (each an
“Indemnified Person”) from and against all claims,
damages, losses, liabilities, costs and expenses (including reasonable
attorneys’ fees and expenses, whether or not such Indemnified Person is named as
a party to any proceeding or is otherwise subjected to judicial or legal
process
arising from any such proceeding) that any of them may incur, or that may
be
claimed, asserted or awarded against any of them by any Person, in each case
arising out of, related to or in connection with, or in connection with the
preparation for a defense of any investigation, litigation or proceeding
arising
out of, related to or in connection with, any Credit Document, any Advance,
any
Letter of Credit, the consummation of any transaction contemplated by any
of the
foregoing, the transfer of or payment or failure to pay under any Letter
of
Credit or the use by the Borrower or the beneficiary of any Letter of Credit
of
the proceeds of any Advance or of any drawing under any
-66-
Letter
of Credit, except to the extent that any such claim, damage, loss, liability,
cost or expense is found in a final, nonappealable judgment by a court of
competent jurisdiction to have resulted from such Indemnified Person’s gross
negligence or willful misconduct. SUCH INDEMNITY SHALL APPLY WHETHER OR
NOT ANY SUCH CLAIM, DAMAGE, LOSS, LIABILITY, COST OR EXPENSE IS IN ANY WAY
OR TO
ANY EXTENT CAUSED, IN WHOLE OR IN PART, BY ANY NEGLIGENT ACT OR OMISSION (OTHER
THAN ANY CONSTITUTING GROSS NEGLIGENCE OR WILLFUL MISCONDUCT) OF ANY KIND BY
ANY
INDEMNIFIED PERSON.
Section
10.6 Right
of Setoff
.
Upon
(a) the occurrence and during the continuation of any Event of Default and
(b)
the making of the request or the granting of the consent specified by Section
8.1 to authorize the Administrative Agent to declare the Obligations due and
payable pursuant to the provisions of Section 8.1, each Lender is hereby
authorized at any time and from time to time, to the fullest extent permitted
by
law, to set off and apply any or all deposits (general or special, time or
demand, provisional or final) at any time held and other indebtedness at any
time owing by such Lender to or for the credit or the account of the Borrower
against any or all of the obligations of the Borrower now or hereafter existing
under this Agreement and the other Credit Documents, irrespective of whether
such Lender has made any demand under this Agreement or any such other Credit
Document and although such obligations may be unmatured. Each Lender agrees
to
notify the Borrower promptly after any such setoff and application made by
such
Lender; provided, however, that the failure to give such notice
shall not affect the validity of such setoff and application. The rights of
each
Lender under this section are in addition to other rights and remedies
(including other rights of setoff) that such Lender may have.
Section
10.7 Binding
Effect
.
This
Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the Borrower, the
Administrative Agent and the Lenders and their respective successors and
assigns, except that (a) the Borrower shall not have the right to assign any
of
its rights and obligations hereunder without the prior written consent of the
Majority Lenders and (b) the Lenders shall have the right to assign their
respective rights and obligations hereunder only in accordance with Section
10.8.
Section
10.8 Assignments,
Joinders and Participations.
(a) Each
Lender may assign to one or more banks or other entities acceptable to the
Administrative Agent, in the exercise of its reasonable discretion, all or
a
portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including all or
a
portion of its Commitment, the Advances owing to it and its participations
in
outstanding Letters of Credit); provided, however, that (i) except
in the case of an assignment to a Person that, immediately before such
assignment, was a Lender, the amount of the Commitment of the assigning Lender
being assigned pursuant to each such assignment (determined as of the date
of
the Assignment and Assumption with respect to such assignment) shall in no
event
be less than the lesser of (A) the entire Commitment of such Lender at such
time
and (B) $10,000,000 and (ii) the parties to each such assignment shall execute
and deliver to the Administrative Agent, for its acceptance and recording in
the
Register, an Assignment and Assumption, together with a processing and recording
fee of $3,500. Upon such execution, delivery, acceptance and recording, from
and
after the effective date specified in
-67-
the
applicable Assignment and Assumption, which effective date shall be at least
5
Business Days after the date of delivery thereof to the Administrative Agent
or,
if so specified in such Assignment and Assumption, the date of acceptance
thereof by the Administrative Agent, (i) the assignee thereunder shall be a
party hereto and, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have
been
assigned to it pursuant to such Assignment and Assumption, shall have the rights
and obligations of a Lender hereunder and (ii) the Lender assignor thereunder
shall, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned
by
it pursuant to such Assignment and Assumption, relinquish its rights and be
released from its obligations under this Agreement (and, in the case of an
Assignment and Assumption covering all or the remaining portion of an assigning
Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement, such Lender shall cease to
be a party hereto, except that such Lender shall continue to be an “Indemnified
Party” under Section 6.14(b) and an “Indemnified Person” under Section
10.5).
(b) By
executing and delivering an Assignment and Assumption, the Lender assignor
thereunder and the assignee thereunder confirm to and agree with each other
and
the other parties hereto as follows: (i) other than as provided in such
Assignment and Assumption, such assigning Lender makes no representation or
warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to any statement, warranty
or representation made in or in connection with this Agreement or the execution,
legality, validity, enforceability, genuineness, sufficiency or value of this
Agreement or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant hereto; (ii)
such assigning Lender makes no representation or warranty and assumes no
responsibility with respect to the financial condition of any Credit Party
or
any Subsidiary or the performance or observance by any Credit Party of any
of
its obligations under any Credit Document or any other instrument or document
furnished pursuant hereto; (iii) such assignee confirms that it has received
a
copy of this Agreement, together with copies of the financial statements
referred to in Sections 5.5 and 6.4 and such other documents and information
as
it has deemed appropriate to make its own credit analysis and decision to enter
into such Assignment and Assumption; (iv) such assignee will, independently
and
without reliance upon the Administrative Agent, such assigning Lender or any
other Lender and based on such documents and information as it may deem
appropriate at the time, continue to make its own credit decisions in taking
or
not taking action under this Agreement; (v) such assignee appoints and
authorizes the Administrative Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf
and to exercise such powers under the Credit Documents as are delegated to
the
Administrative Agent by the terms thereof, together with such powers as are
reasonably incidental thereto; and (vi) such assignee agrees that it will
perform in accordance with their terms all of the obligations that by the terms
of the Credit Documents are required to be performed by it as a
Lender.
(c) Any
financial institution that is to become a party to this Agreement as a New
Lender pursuant to Section 2.1(b) must be consented to by the Borrower and
the
Administrative Agent, in the exercise of its reasonable discretion, and must
execute a Joinder Agreement, consented to by the Borrower and the Administrative
Agent and delivered to the Administrative Agent for its recording in the
Register, together with a processing and recording fee of $3,500;
provided, however, that (i) each New Lender must have a Commitment
of at least $10,000,000 and (ii) no joinder of a New Lender to this Agreement
may cause the maximum amount of the Maximum Aggregate Commitment to exceed
$350,000,000. Upon such execution, consent, delivery and recording, from and
after the effective date specified in the applicable
-68-
Joinder
Agreement, the New Lender thereunder shall be a party hereto and, to the
extent
provided in such Joinder Agreement, shall have the rights and obligations
of a
Lender hereunder. By executing and delivering a Joinder Agreement, the New
Lender thereunder confirms to and agrees with the other parties hereto as
specified in Sections 10.8(b)(iii) through (vi), as if it were an assignee
(but
without reference to an assignor). Upon the joinder of any New Lender to
this
Agreement pursuant to this Section 10.8(c), the Administrative Agent shall
forward to the Borrower and each Lender an updated Schedule 1.
(d) The
Administrative Agent shall maintain at its address set forth in Section 10.2
a
copy of each Assignment and Assumption and Joinder Agreement delivered to
and
accepted or consented to by it and a register for the recordation of the
names
and addresses of the Lenders and the Commitment of, and the principal amount
of
Obligations owing to, each Lender from time to time (the
“Register”). The entries in the Register shall be
conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error, and the
Borrower, the Administrative Agent and the Lenders may treat each Person
whose
name is recorded in the Register as a Lender hereunder for all purposes of
this
Agreement. The Register shall be available for inspection by the Borrower
or any
Lender at any reasonable time and from time to time upon reasonable prior
notice.
(e) Upon
its receipt of an Assignment and Assumption or a Joinder Agreement that has
been
properly executed and accepted or consented to, as applicable, as specified
above, the Administrative Agent shall, if such Assignment and Assumption
or
Joinder Agreement has been properly completed and is in proper form, (i)
accept
such Assignment and Assumption or Joinder Agreement, (ii) record the information
contained therein in the Register and (iii) give prompt notice thereof to
the
Borrower.
(f) Each
Lender may sell participations to one or more banks or other entities in
or to
all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including
all or a portion of its Commitments, the Advances owing to it and its
participations in outstanding Letters of Credit); provided,
however, that (i) such Lender’s obligations under this Agreement
(including its Commitment) shall remain unchanged, (ii) such Lender shall
remain
solely responsible to the other parties hereto for the performance of such
obligations, (iii) the Borrower, the Administrative Agent 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 and (iv) no
participant under any such participation shall have any right to approve
any
amendment or waiver of any provision of any Credit Document, or any consent
to
any departure by any Credit Party therefrom, except to the extent that such
amendment, waiver or consent would reduce the principal of, or interest on,
the
Advances, the amount to be reimbursed in respect of any
drawing under a Letter of Credit or any fees or other amounts payable hereunder,
in each case to the extent subject to such participation, postpone any date
fixed for any payment of principal of, or interest on, the Advances, the
amount
to be reimbursed in respect of any drawing under a Letter of Credit or any
fees
or other amounts payable hereunder, in each case to the extent subject to
such
participation, or release all or substantially all of the Collateral, except
as
provided in the Credit Documents.
(g) Any
Lender or the Administrative Agent may, in connection with any assignment,
joinder or participation or proposed assignment, joinder or participation
pursuant to this Section 10.8, disclose to the assignee, New Lender or
participant or proposed assignee, New Lender or participant any information
relating to the Borrower that was furnished to such Lender or the Administrative
Agent by or on behalf of the Borrower.
-69-
(h) Nothing
herein shall prohibit any Lender from pledging or assigning any Advance or
any
Note to any Federal Reserve Bank in accordance with applicable Governmental
Rules.
Section
10.9 Disclosure
.
In
addition to disclosure permitted pursuant to Section 10.8(g), the Administrative
Agent and each Lender may disclose to any Person if, with or through such
Person, the Administrative Agent or such Lender enters into (or proposes to
enter into) any securitization, hedge or other such transaction relating to,
or
under which payments are to be made by reference to, this Agreement or any
Credit Party, such information about any Credit Party or any of the Credit
Documents as the Administrative Agent or such Lender reasonably deems to be
necessary in connection with such transaction.
Section
10.10 GOVERNING
LAW
.
THIS AGREEMENT AND THE NOTES SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED AND ENFORCED
IN
ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA APPLICABLE TO CONTRACTS
MADE AND PERFORMED IN THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA.
Section
10.11 Limitation
on Interest
.
The
Lenders, the Administrative Agent and the Credit Parties intend to contract
in
strict compliance with applicable usury law from time to time in effect, and
in
furtherance thereof they stipulate and agree that none of the terms and
provisions contained in the Credit Documents shall ever be construed to create
a
contract to pay, for the use, forbearance or detention of money, interest in
excess of the maximum amount of interest permitted to be charged by applicable
Governmental Rules in effect from time to time. No Credit Party or other Person
hereafter becoming liable for payment of any Obligation shall ever be liable
for
unearned interest thereon or shall ever be required to pay interest thereon
in
excess of the maximum amount that may be lawfully charged under applicable
Governmental Rules in effect from time to time, and the provisions of this
section shall control over all other provisions of the Credit Documents that
may
be in conflict or apparent conflict herewith. The Lenders and the Administrative
Agent expressly disavow any intention to charge or collect excessive unearned
interest or finance charges in the event the maturity of any Obligation is
accelerated. If (a) the maturity of any Obligation is accelerated for any
reason, (b) any Obligation is prepaid and, as a result, any amounts held to
constitute interest are determined to be in excess of the legal maximum or
(c)
any Lender or other holder of any or all of the Obligations otherwise collects
moneys that are determined to constitute interest that would otherwise increase
the interest on any or all of the Obligations to an amount in excess of that
permitted to be charged by applicable Governmental Rules then in effect, then
all sums determined to constitute interest in excess of such legal limit shall,
without penalty, be promptly applied to reduce the then outstanding principal
of
the related Obligations or, at the affected Lender’s or holder’s option,
promptly returned to the Borrower or the other payor thereof upon such
determination. In determining whether or not the interest paid or payable under
any specific circumstances exceeds the maximum amount permitted under applicable
Governmental Rules, the Lenders, the Administrative Agent and the Credit Parties
(and any other payors of such interest) shall, to the
-70-
greatest extent permitted under applicable Governmental
Rules,
(i) characterize any payment of an amount other than principal as an expense,
fee or premium rather than as interest, (ii) exclude voluntary prepayments
and
the effects thereof and (iii) amortize, prorate, allocate and spread the total
amount of interest throughout the entire contemplated term of the instruments
evidencing the Obligations in accordance with the amounts outstanding from
time
to time thereunder and the maximum legal rate of interest from time to time
in
effect under applicable Governmental Rules in order to lawfully charge the
maximum amount of interest permitted under applicable Governmental Rules.
Section
10.12 Headings
.
The
section and subsection headings used herein have been inserted for convenience
of reference only and do not constitute matters to be considered in interpreting
this Agreement.
Section
10.13 Execution
in Counterparts
.
This
Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts and by different
parties
hereto in separate counterparts, each of which when so executed shall be
deemed
to be an original and all of which taken together shall constitute one and
the
same agreement. Delivery by telecopier or e-mail of an executed counterpart
of a
signature page to this Agreement shall be effective as delivery of an originally
executed counterpart of this Agreement.
Section
10.14 USA
PATRIOT Act Notice
.
Each
Lender subject to Title III of the Uniting and Strengthening America by
Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism
Act of
2001 (Public Law 107-56) (the “Patriot Act”) hereby
notifies the Borrower that, pursuant to the requirements of the Patriot Act,
such Lender 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 Patriot Act.
Section
10.15 Amendment
and Restatement
.
(a) This
Agreement is an amendment and restatement of the Old Credit Agreement. On
and
after the Closing Date, any reference in any other Credit Document to “the Credit
Agreement,” “thereunder,” “thereof,” “therein” or words of like import referring
to the Old Credit Agreement shall mean and be a reference to this
Agreement.
(b) The
Four Party Lockbox Agreement referred to in the definition of “Credit Documents”
shall remain in full force and effect and is hereby ratified and
confirmed.
(c) The
execution, delivery and effectiveness of this Agreement shall not operate
as a
waiver of any right, power or remedy of the Administrative Agent or any
Lender
under any of the Credit Documents or constitute a waiver of any provision
of any
of the Credit Documents.
Section
10.16 WAIVER
OF JURY TRIAL
.
TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, EACH OF THE BORROWER, THE LENDERS AND THE
ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES ALL RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY
IN ANY
ACTION, PROCEEDING OR COUNTERCLAIM, WHETHER SOUNDING IN CONTRACT, TORT
OR
OTHERWISE, RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OF THE OTHER CREDIT DOCUMENTS,
ANY
NEGOTIATIONS OR COMMUNICATIONS RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OF THE
OTHER
CREDIT DOCUMENTS OR ANY TRANSACTION CONTEMPLATED HEREBY OR
THEREBY.
-71-
Section
10.17 Judicial
Reference
.
(a) If
the waiver of jury trial set forth in Section 10.16 is not enforceable under
Applicable State Law or otherwise, then the Borrower, the Lenders and the
Administrative Agent (the “Parties”) hereby agree that
all Claims, including any and all questions of law or fact relating thereto,
shall, at the written request of any Party, be determined by Reference as
provided below.
(i) The
opposing Parties shall select a single neutral referee, who shall be a retired
state or federal judge. In the event that the opposing Parties cannot agree
upon
a referee, the referee shall be appointed by a court of competent
jurisdiction.
(ii) Except
as otherwise provided in this Section 10.17, the Reference shall be conducted
pursuant to Applicable State Law. The referee shall determine all issues
relating to the applicability, interpretation, legality and enforceability
of
this Section 10.17. The referee shall report a statement of decision to the
appropriate court.
(iii) No
provision of this Section 10.17 shall limit the right of any Party to (i)
exercise self-help remedies, including setoff, (ii) foreclose against or
sell
any Collateral, by power of sale or otherwise, or (iii) obtain or oppose
provisional or ancillary remedies from a court of competent jurisdiction
before,
after or during the pendency of the Reference. The exercise of, or opposition
to, any such remedy does not waive the right of any Party to a Reference
pursuant to this Section 10.17.
(iv) The
Parties hereby acknowledge that, if a referee is selected or appointed
to
determine any Claims, then such Claims will not be decided by a
jury.
(b) In
the event that punitive damages are permitted under Applicable State Law,
the
amount thereof shall not exceed three times the amount of actual
damages.
(c) In
the event that any provision of this Section 10.17 is found to be illegal
or
unenforceable, the remainder of this Section 10.17 shall remain in full
force
and effect.
-72-
(d) In
the event that multiple Claims are asserted, some of which are not subject
to
this Section 10.17, the Parties agree to stay the proceedings of the Claims
not
subject to this Section 10.17 until all other Claims are resolved in accordance
with this Section 10.17. In the event that Claims are asserted against multiple
parties, some of which are not subject to this Section 10.17, the Parties
agree
to sever the Claims subject to this Section 10.17 and to resolve them in
accordance with this Section 10.17. In the event of any challenge to the
legality or enforceability of this Section 10.17, the prevailing Party or
Parties shall be entitled to recover the costs and expenses, including
reasonable attorneys’ fees, incurred thereby in connection therewith. Applicable
State Law shall govern the interpretation of this Section 10.17. This Section
10.17 fully states the terms and conditions of the Parties’ agreement regarding
the matters mentioned in, or incidental to, this Section 10.17. This Section
10.17 supersedes all oral negotiations and prior writings concerning the
subject
matter hereof.
(e) As
used in this Section 10.17, the terms set forth below shall have the respective
meanings specified below.
(i) “Applicable
State Law” means the law of the State of California;
provided, however, that, if any Party seeks to (A) exercise
self-help remedies, including setoff, (B) foreclose against or sell any
Collateral, by power of sale or otherwise, or (C) obtain or oppose provisional
or ancillary remedies from a court of competent jurisdiction before, after
or
during the pendency of a Reference, then the law of the appropriate state
for
exercise of or opposition to the foregoing remedies shall govern the
same.
(ii) “Claim”
shall mean any claim, cause of action, action, dispute or controversy between
or
among the Parties, whether sounding in contract, tort or otherwise, that
arises
out of or relates to (A) any of the Credit Documents, (B) any negotiations
or
communications relating to any of the Credit Documents, whether or not
incorporated into the Credit Documents or any indebtedness evidenced thereby,
or
(C) any alleged agreements, promises, representations or transactions in
connection with any of the foregoing.
(iii) “Reference”
shall mean a judicial reference conducted pursuant to this Section 10.17
and in
accordance with Applicable State Law, as in effect at the time the referee
is
selected or appointed pursuant to Section 10.17(a).
[The
remainder of this page has been left blank intentionally.]
-73-
The
parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be executed by their respective
duly authorized representatives as of the date first written above.
FRONTIER
OIL AND REFINING COMPANY
By: /s/ Xxx
X.
Xxxxxxxxx
Xxx
X.
Xxxxxxxxx
Vice
President and Treasurer
FRONTIER
OIL CORPORATION
By: /s/ Xxxxxxx
X.
Xxxxxxxx
Xxxxxxx
X. Xxxxxxxx
Executive
Vice President –
Chief
Financial
Officer
UNION
BANK OF CALIFORNIA, N.A., as
Administrative
Agent and Lender
By: /s/ Xxxxxxx
X.
Xxxxxxxxx
Xxxxxxx
X. Xxxxxxxxx
Senior
Vice President
BNP
PARIBAS, as Syndication Agent
and
Lender
By: /s/
Xxxxxxx X.
Xxxxxxx
Name: Xxxxxxx
X.
Xxxxxxx
Title: Managing
Director
By: /s/
Xxxxx
Xxxxxx
Name: Xxxxx
Xxxxxx
Title: Vice
President
X-0
XXXXXXX
XXXXXXXX (XXXXX) LLC
By: /s/
Xxxxxx
Xxxxxx
Name: Xxxxxx
Xxxxxx
Title: Authorized
Signatory
XXXXX
FARGO BANK, N.A.
By: /s/
Xxx
Xxxxx
Name: Xxx
Xxxxx
Title: Assistant
Vice
President
BANK
OF
SCOTLAND
By: /s/
Xxxxxx
Xxxxxx
Name: Xxxxxx
Xxxxxx
Title: First
Vice
President
U.S.
BANK
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
By: /s/
Xxxxx X.
Xxxxxxx
Name: Xxxxx
X.
Xxxxxxx
Title: Vice
President
THE
FROST
NATIONAL BANK
By: /s/
Xxxxxx X
Xxxxxx
Name: Xxxxxx
X
Xxxxxx
Title: Sr.
Vice
President
S-2
CAPITAL
ONE, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
By: /s/
Xxxx X. Xxxxxx
Xx.
Name:
Xxxx X. Xxxxxx
Xx.
Title: Vice
President
S-3
SCHEDULE
1
COMMITMENTS
Lender
|
Commitment
|
Union
Bank of California, N.A.
|
$37,000,000
|
BNP
Paribas
|
$36,000,000
|
Toronto
Dominion (Texas) LLC
|
$30,000,000
|
Xxxxx
Fargo Bank, N.A.
|
$30,000,000
|
Bank
of Scotland
|
$30,000,000
|
U.S.
Bank National Association
|
$27,000,000
|
The
Frost National Bank
|
$20,000,000
|
Capital
One, National Association
|
$15,000,000
|
Total
|
$225,000,000
|
SCHEDULE
2
LETTER
OF CREDIT BANKS FOR ELIGIBLE ACCOUNTS
Maximum
Ag-
gregate
Face
Amount
of
Bank
Letters of Credit
Union
Bank of California,
N.A.
unlimited
The
Bank
of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ,
Ltd.
unlimited
BNP
Paribas
unlimited
any
bank
domiciled in the United
States
with a credit rating of at least:
1. AA-
or
Aa3
$10,000,000
2. A
$5,000,000
3. BBB
or
Baa
$5,000,000
SCHEDULE
3
APPROVED
ACCOUNT DEBTORS
Amerada
Xxxx Corporation
Ashland
Oil Inc.*
Ashland
Petroleum Company*
Bear
Xxxxxxx & Co., Inc.
Burlington
Northern Railroad Company*
Chevron
USA, Inc.*
Citgo
Petroleum Corporation*
Diamond
Shamrock, Inc.*
Equilon
Enterprises LLC
Equiva
Trading Company
Exxon
Supply Company*
Xxxx
Oil
Company*
Marathon
Petroleum Co., Inc.*
Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxx Group, Inc.*
Xxxxxx
Oil USA Inc.*
Shell
Oil
Company*
Union
Pacific Railroad*
Unocal
Corporation
Unless
marked by an asterisk, each entity listed above shall be an approved account
debtor only (1) if such entity is not a subsidiary of any other entity or (2)
in
any case in which such entity is a subsidiary of some other entity, if such
subsidiary’s obligations to Frontier Oil and Refining Company are fully
guaranteed by such subsidiary’s ultimate parent company.
SCHEDULE
4
METHODS
OF CALCULATION OF FAIR-MARKET VALUE OF INVENTORY
In
determining market value of Inventory, the actual Eligible Inventory volumes
shall be multiplied by the prices determined below for each category of
Inventory of the Borrower that is to be, is being or has been processed through
the Cheyenne Refinery and the El Dorado Refinery, respectively. Each price
derived from the independent sources described below shall be the price for
the
relevant Inventory type published on the effective date, or published most
recently before the effective date, of the Borrowing Base Certificate
concerned.
A.
Cheyenne Refinery
Inventory
Type
|
Method of Determining Price |
Sweet
Wyoming Crude
|
Average
of posted prices of Shell Oil Products US and ConocoPhillips, less
gravity
adjustment (“ATCPPLGA”), for 40-degree Sweet
Wyoming Crude, plus $2.20/ barrel
|
General
Wyoming Sour Crude
|
ATCPPLGA
for 24-degree General Wyoming Sour Crude, plus $3.30/
barrel
|
Wyoming
Asphaltic Sour Crude
|
ATCPPLGA
for 21-degree Wyoming Asphaltic Sour Crude, plus $2.00/
barrel.
|
Canadian
Sour Crude
|
New
York Mercantile Exchange near month contract closing price for West
Texas
Intermediate Crude, less gravity adjustment if provided for in crude
purchase contract terms (“NYMEXWTILGA”), minus
$1.20/ barrel
|
Bow
River Sour Crude
|
NYMEXWTILGA,
minus $1.60/barrel
|
Mixed
Xxxxx Sour
|
ATCPPLGA
for Sweet Wyoming Crude
|
Finished
Gasoline
|
70%
times Denver OPIS Low*,
less
$.014/gal.
+30%
times Cheyenne OPIS Low*,
less
$.01/gal.
|
* As
the price
applies to each grade of gasoline (Unleaded Regular, Unleaded Mid-Grade,
Unleaded Premium and Leaded Regular) or diesel (#1 Diesel (0.05% sulfur),
#1
Diesel (0.5% sulfur), #2 Diesel (0.05% sulfur) and #2 Diesel (0.5%
sulfur)).
Diesel
|
60%
times Denver OPIS Low*,
less
$.015/gal.
+40%
times Cheyenne OPIS Low*,
less
$.01/gal.
|
Asphalt
|
For
volumes of Asphalt that have been committed for sale under a binding
sales
contract, the contract price (converted to a price per barrel by
dividing
the contract short-ton price by 5.6); for all other Asphalt volumes,
the
average of the high and low Asphalt Cement dollars/ton price (divided
by
5.6 to convert the short-ton price to a price per barrel), as established
in the category ASPHALT SELLING PRICES Area Barge for
MID-CONTINENT/MIDWEST in Asphalt Weekly Monitor, published by Poten
&
Partners (or, in the absence of this source of pricing information,
such
price as determined by the Administrative Agent).
|
Gas
Oil
|
70%
times the Unleaded Regular Gasoline Net Price
+30%
times the #2 Diesel net price,
less
$.10/gal.
|
Sulfur
|
Borrower’s
net-back price, based on Borrower’s most recent sale to an independent
third party.
|
Coke
|
$0.00/ton
|
Propane
|
Conway,
Kansas OPIS wholesale Propane price, plus $.05/gal.
|
Normal
Butane
|
Same
methodology as Propane, except use Butane price
|
Field
Butane
|
Same
as Normal Butane price
|
Isobutane
|
Same
methodology as Propane, except use Isobutane price
|
Olefins
|
Same
net price as used for Premium Unleaded Gasoline, less
$.156/gal.
|
Light
Straight Run
|
Same
as net price used for Unleaded Regular Gasoline
|
Reformate
|
Same
as net price used for Unleaded Regular Gasoline
|
Cat
Gas
|
Same
as net price used for Unleaded Regular Gasoline
|
Alkylate
|
Same
as net price used for Premium Unleaded Gasoline
|
Naphtha
and Raffinate
|
Same
as net price used for Unleaded Regular Gasoline, less
$.04/gal.
|
Ethanol
|
Most
recent price the Borrower paid to an independent third party for
Ethanol
|
Natural
Gasoline
|
Conway,
Kansas OPIS wholesale price of Natural Gasoline, plus
$.05/gal.
|
Raw
Distillate Oil
|
If
the Borrower is selling #2 Diesel (0.5% sulfur), then the net price
for #2
Diesel (0.5% sulfur), less $.02/gal.; if the Borrower is selling
#2 Diesel
(0.05% sulfur), then the net price for #2 Diesel (0.05% sulfur),
less
$.02/gal.
|
Xxxxx
Distillate Oil
|
Same
as Raw Distillate Oil net price
|
Heavy
Fuel
|
Same
as Wyoming Sour Crude Oil net price times 60%
|
Slurry
|
Xxxxx’x
Gulf Coast Resid, less $6.00/barrel
|
Vac
Bottoms
|
Same
average net price as used for Asphalt
|
HP
Vac Bottoms
|
Same
average net price as used for Asphalt
|
Unfinished
Gasoline
|
Same
price as Unleaded Regular Gasoline, less
$.025/gal.
|
B.
El
Dorado Refinery
Kansas
Sweet
|
Xxxx
West Texas Intermediate (“WTI”) Xxxxxxx posting
for calendar month, plus Xxxxx’x P+ quote for trade month, less
$0.30/barrel
|
WTI
|
Xxxx
WTI Xxxxxxx posting for calendar month, plus Xxxxx’x P+ quote for trade
month, plus Xxxxx’x WTI Xxxxxxx/WTI Midland differential for trade month,
plus $0.78/barrel pumpover/transportation
|
Xxxxxx
WTI
|
Xxxx
WTI Xxxxxxx posting for calendar month, plus Xxxxx’x P+ quote for trade
month, plus Xxxxx’x WTI Xxxxxxx/WTI Midland differential for trade month,
plus $0.51/barrel quality premium, plus $0.73/barrel pumpover/transporta-
tion
|
West
TX-NM Sour (“WTS”)
|
Xxxx
WTI Xxxxxxx posting for calendar month, plus Xxxxx’x P+ quote for trade
month, plus Xxxxx’x WTI/WTS differential for trade month, plus
$0.78/barrel pumpover/transportation
|
Foreign
Crudes
|
Actual
acquisition cost plus transportation and other direct costs, but
not more
than WTI
|
Natural
Gasoline
|
Xxxxxx
Spot Natural Gasoline (mean) + $0.36/barrel
(transportation)
|
Natural
Gasoline at Xxxxxx
|
Xxxxxx
Spot Natural Gasoline (mean)
|
Butanes
|
Xxxxxx
Spot Normal Butane (mean) + $0.36/barrel
(transportation)
|
Butanes
at Xxxxxx
|
Xxxxxx
Spot Normal Butane (mean)
|
Isobutane
|
Xxxxxx
Spot Isobutane (mean) + $0.36/barrel (transportation)
|
Isobutane
at Xxxxxx
|
Xxxxxx
Spot Isobutane (mean)
|
Aviation
Gasoline (unleaded)
|
Group
III Unleaded Regular Gasoline (“ULR”) (mean) +
$0.32/gal. – $0.05/gal. (cost of lead)
|
Aviation
Gasoline
|
Group
III ULR (mean) + $0.32/gal.
|
Unleaded
Regular Gasoline
|
Group
III ULR (mean) + $0.0032/gal.
|
Unleaded
Regular Gasoline
|
|
(7.2/8.5
RVP)
|
Group
III ULR (mean) + $0.0193/gal.
|
Unleaded
Premium Gasoline
|
|
(“ULP”)
|
Group
III ULP (mean) + $0.0032/gal.
|
Unleaded
Premium Gasoline
|
|
(7.2/8.5
RVP)
|
Group
III ULP (mean) + $0.0193/gal.
|
Unleaded
Regular Gasoline 85
|
|
(R+M)/2
|
Group
III ULR (mean) + $0.0032/gal. – 0.25 x [(Group III ULP (low) – Group III
ULR (low)]
|
Unleaded
Regular Gasoline 83
|
|
(R+M)/2
|
Group
III ULR (mean) + $0.0032/gal. – 0.45 x [(Group III ULP (low) – Group III
ULR (low)]
|
Finished
Gasoline Blendstocks
|
|
(Excluding
Alkylate)
|
Group
III ULR (mean) + $0.0032/gal.
|
Alkylate
|
Group
III ULP (mean) + $0.0032/gal.
|
High
Sulfur Diesel
|
Group
III High Sulfur Diesel (mean) + $0.0015/gal.
|
Aviation
Jet Fuel
|
Group
III Aviation Jet Fuel (low) + $0.0035/gal.
|
Low
Sulfur Diesel 1
|
Group
III Aviation Jet Fuel (low) +$0.04/gal.
|
Low
Sulfur Diesel 2
|
Group
III Low Sulfur Diesel (mean) + $0.0015/gal.
|
Finished
Diesel Blendstocks
|
Group
III Low Sulfur Diesel (mean) + $0.0015/gal.
|
DC
Charge
|
|
-
Sales Tank
|
Average
netback during 30-day period prior to sale
|
-
Charge Tank
|
[0.70
x Group III ULR (mean) + 0.30 x Group III LSDSL (mean)] x
0.75
|
Slurry
|
Xxxxx’x
Gulf Coast Resid, less $6.00/barrel
|
Petroleum
Coke
|
$5.00/ton
|
Butylenes
|
Group
III ULR (mean) x 0.925
|
Propylenes
|
Group
III ULR (mean) x 0.35
|
Propane
|
Xxxxxx
Spot Propane (mean)
|
FC
Gas Oil
|
70%
Group III ULR (mean) + 30% Group III HSDSL (mean) –
$0.07/gal.
|
Recovered
Oil
|
Determine
H/C & water volume. Value H/C @ WTI & water volume @
zero.
|
ARU
Charge
|
Group
III ULR (mean) x 0.97
|
Raw
Distillate Oil
|
Group
III Low Sulfur Diesel (mean), less $0.01/gal.
|
Sulfur
|
Average
netback during 30-day period prior to sale
|
Toluene
|
Actual
netback during 30-day period prior to sale normalized for the Plaza
Group
adjustments
|
Benzene
|
Group
III ULR (mean) x 1.27
|
Cumene
|
Group
III ULR (mean) x 1.41
|
Acetone
|
Actual
netback for month prior to sale normalized for the Plaza Group
adjustments
|
AMS
|
Actual
netback for month prior to sale normalized for the Plaza Group
adjustments
|
Acetone/Phenol
Residue
|
Group
III ULR (mean)
|
As
used
in this Schedule, “net price” means the reference price less the specified
adjustment amount.
The
Administrative Agent reserves the right to adjust any of the above methodologies
for determining market value if any of the sources of price information is
no
longer available or if the price derived from any of the above methodologies
is
no longer representative of market prices.
SCHEDULE
5
SUBSIDIARIES
Subsidiary
|
Owner
|
Ownership
Percentage
|
Frontier
Holdings Inc., a Delaware
corporation
(“FHI”)
|
Frontier
Oil Corporation, a
Wyoming
corporation (“FOC”)
|
100%
|
Frontier
Refining & Marketing Inc., a
Delaware
corporation (“FRMI”)
|
FHI
|
100%
|
Frontier
Oil and Refining Company, a
Delaware
corporation (“FORC”)
|
FRMI
|
100%
|
Frontier
Refining Inc., a Delaware
corporation
|
FRMI
|
100%
|
Frontier
El Dorado Refining Company, a
Delaware
corporation
|
FRMI
|
100%
|
Frontier
Pipeline Inc., a Delaware
corporation
|
FRMI
|
100%
|
Ethanol
Management Company, a
Colorado
corporation
|
FORC
|
100%
|
Wainoco
Resources, Inc., a Delaware
corporation
(“WRI”)
|
FOC
|
100%
|
Wainoco
Oil & Gas Company, a
Delaware
corporation
|
WRI
|
100%
|
SCHEDULE
6
ACCEPTABLE
COMMODITIES BROKERS
1. Xxxxxxx
Xxxxx Barney Inc.
Galleria
Financial Center
0000
Xxxxxxxxxx, Xxxxx 0000
Xxxxxxx,
Xxxxx 00000
2. Citibank,
N.A.
000
Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, 0xx Xxxxx
Xxx
Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
3. Shell
Oil Products XX
X.X.
Xxx
000000
Xxxxxxx,
Xxxxx 00000-0000
4. Xxxxxxx
& Company, Inc.
0000
Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxxx 000
Xxxxxxx,
Xxxxx 00000
5. UBS
AG
000
Xxxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx
Xxxxxxxx,
XX 00000
6. any
Lender party to the Third Amended and Restated Revolving Credit
Agreement
SCHEDULE
7
LENDERS’
ADDRESSES FOR NOTICE
Lender
|
Address
|
Union
Bank of California, N.A.
|
Credit
000
Xxxxx Xxxxx, Xxxxx 0000
Xxxxxx,
XX 00000
Attention: Xxxxxxx
X. Xxxxxxxxx
Telephone: 000-000-0000
Telecopier: 000-000-0000
E-mail:
xxxxxxx.xxxxxxxxx@xxxx.xxx
Operations
0000
Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, Mail Code 0-000-000
Xxxxxxxx
Xxxx, XX 00000
Attention: Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxx, Commercial
Loan & Agency Services
Telephone: 000-000-0000
Telecopier: 000-000-0000
E-mail:
xxxxxx.xxxxxxx@xxxx.xxx
|
BNP
Paribas
|
Credit
0000
Xxxxx, Xxxxx 0000
Xxxxxxx,
XX 00000
Attention: Xxxx
Xxxxxxx
Telephone: 713-982-1100
Telecopier: 000-000-0000
E-mail:
xxxx.liftman
@xxxxxxxx.xxxxxxxxxx.xxx
Operations
000
0xx
Xxxxxx, 0xx
Xxxxx
Xxx
Xxxx, XX 00000
Attention: Xxxx
Xxxxxx / Xxxxxx Xxxxxx
(letters of credit)
Xxxxx Xxxxxx / Xxxxx Xxxxxx
(loans)
Telephone: 000-000-0000
(BG) / 6965 (CF)
000-000-0000 (PM / NL)
Telecopier: 000-000-0000
(BG / CF)
|
Toronto
Dominion (Texas) LLC
|
Credit
000
Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 0000
Xxxxxxx,
XX 00000
Attention: Xxxxxx
Xxxxxx
Telephone: 000-000-0000
Telecopier: 000-000-0000
E-mail:
xxxxxx.xxxxxx
@xxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx
Operations
Royal
Trust Tower, 18th
Floor
00
Xxxx Xxxxxx Xxxx
Xxxxxxx,
Xxxxxxx X0X 0X0
Attention: Xxxxx
Unvalla
Telephone: 000-000-0000
Telecopier: 000-000-0000
E-mail:
xxxxx.xxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx
|
Xxxxx
Fargo Bank, N.A.
|
Credit
0000
Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx, 0xx
Floor
MAC
C7300-061
Xxxxxx,
XX 00000
Attention: Art
Xxxxxx / Xxx Xxxxx
Telephone: 000-000-0000
/ 000-000-0000
Telecopier: 000-000-0000
E-mail:
xxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx
/xxx.xxxxx@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx
Operations
0000
Xxxxxxxx, X/X X0000-000
Xxxxxx,
XX 00000
Attention: Xxxxx
Xxxxxxxx / Xxxxx Xxxxxx
Telephone: 000-000-0000
/ 5941
Telecopier: 000-000-0000
|
Bank
of Scotland
|
Credit
One
City Centre
0000
Xxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 0000
Xxxxxxx,
XX 00000
Attention: Xxxxx
Xxxxxx / Xxxxxx Xxxxxx
Telephone: 000-000-0000
/ 000-000-0000
Telecopier: 000-000-0000
/ 000- 000-0000
E-mail:
xxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx
xxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx
Operations
000
Xxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx
Xxxx, XX 00000
Attention: Xxxxxxx
Xxxxxx
Telephone: 212-450-0875
Telecopier: 000-000-0000
|
U.S.
Bank National Association
|
Credit
000
00xx
Xxxxxx, XXXX0000
Xxxxxx,
XX 00000
Attention: Xxxxx
Xxxxxxx /
Xxxxxxx Xxx
Telephone: 000-000-0000
Telecopier: 000-000-0000
E-mail:
xxxxx.xxxxxxx@xxxxxx.xxx
xxxxxxx.xxx@xxxxxx.xxx
Operations
000
XX Xxx Xxxxxx, X/X XX-XX-X0XX
Xxxxxxxx,
XX 00000
Attention: Xxxxx
Xxxxxxx / Xxx Xxxx
Telephone: 000-000-0000
/ 4624
Telecopier: 000-000-0000
/ 5915
|
The
Frost National Bank
|
Credit
X.X.
Xxx 0000
Xxxxxxx,
XX 00000
Attention: Xxxxxx
X. Xxxxxx
Telephone:
000-000-0000
Telecopier:
000-000-0000
E-mail:
xxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxx.xxx
Operations
X.X.
Xxx 0000
Xxx
Xxxxxxx, XX 00000
Attention: Xxxxxx
Xxxx / Xxxxx Xxxxxxx
Telephone: 000-000-0000
/ 4024
Telecopier: 000-000-0000
|
Capital
One, National Association
|
Credit
000
Xxxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx
Xxxxxxx, XX 00000
Attention: Xxxxx
Xxxxxxx
Telephone: 000-000-0000
Telecopier: 000-000-0000
E-mail:
xxxxx.xxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx
Operations
0000
Xxxxxxxxxx Xxxx, 0xx
Xxxxx
Xxxxxxx,
XX 00000
Attention: Xxxxx
Xxxxx
Telephone: 000-000-0000
Telecopier: 000-000-0000
E-mail:
xxxxx.xxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx
|