Exhibit-10.11
$975,000,000
Dated as of December 1, 2005
among
AVAGO TECHNOLOGIES FINANCE PTE. LTD.,
AVAGO TECHNOLOGIES FINANCE S.À.X.X.,
AVAGO TECHNOLOGIES (MALAYSIA) SDN. BHD. (f/k/a Jumbo Portfolio Sdn. Bhd.),
AVAGO TECHNOLOGIES WIRELESS (U.S.A.) MANUFACTURING INC.,
AVAGO TECHNOLOGIES U.S. INC.
as Borrowers
AVAGO TECHNOLOGIES HOLDING PTE. LTD.
as Holdings
and
The Several Lenders
from Time to Time Parties Hereto
CITICORP INTERNATIONAL LIMITED (HONG KONG),
as Asian Administrative Agent
CITICORP NORTH AMERICA, INC.,
as Tranche B-1 Term Loan Administrative Agent and as Collateral Agent
CITIGROUP GLOBAL MARKETS INC.,
as Joint Lead Arranger and Joint Lead Bookrunner
XXXXXX BROTHERS INC.,
as Joint Lead Arranger, Joint Lead Bookrunner and Syndication Agent
CREDIT SUISSE,
as Documentation Agent
Weil, Gotshal & Xxxxxx LLP
000 Xxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000-0000
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SECTION 1. |
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Definitions |
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1.1 |
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Defined Terms |
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3 |
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1.2 |
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Exchange Rates |
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1.3 |
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Business |
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60 |
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SECTION 2. |
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Amount and Terms of Credit |
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2.1 |
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Commitments |
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2.2 |
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Minimum Amount of Each Borrowing; Maximum Number of Borrowings |
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66 |
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2.3 |
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Notice of Borrowing |
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66 |
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2.4 |
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Disbursement of Funds |
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70 |
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2.5 |
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Repayment of Loans; Evidence of Debt |
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71 |
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2.6 |
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Conversions and Continuations |
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2.7 |
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Pro Rata Borrowings |
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75 |
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2.8 |
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Interest |
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76 |
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2.9 |
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Interest Periods |
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77 |
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2.10 |
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Increased Costs, Illegality, etc |
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78 |
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2.11 |
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Compensation |
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80 |
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2.12 |
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Change of Lending Office |
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81 |
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2.13 |
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Notice of Certain Costs |
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81 |
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2.14 |
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Incremental Facilities |
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2.15 |
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Conversion of Malaysian Revolving Credit Facility |
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SECTION 3. |
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Letters of Credit |
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3.1 |
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Letters of Credit |
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84 |
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3.2 |
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Letter of Credit Requests |
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85 |
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3.3 |
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Letter of Credit Participations |
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86 |
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3.4 |
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Agreement to Relay Letter of Credit Drawings |
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88 |
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3.5 |
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Increased Costs |
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3.6 |
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Successor Letter of Credit Issuer |
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90 |
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SECTION 4. |
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Fees; Commitments |
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90 |
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4.1 |
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Fees |
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90 |
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4.2 |
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Voluntary Reduction of Revolving Credit Commitments |
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92 |
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4.3 |
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Mandatory Termination of Commitments |
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93 |
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SECTION 5. |
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Payments |
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5.1 |
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Voluntary Prepayments |
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5.2 |
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Mandatory Prepayments |
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94 |
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5.3 |
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Method and Place of Payment |
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99 |
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5.4 |
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Net Payments |
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99 |
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5.5 |
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Computations of Interest and Fees |
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102 |
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5.6 |
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Limit on Rate of Interest |
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102 |
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SECTION 6. |
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Conditions Precedent to Initial Borrowing |
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6.1 |
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Credit Documents |
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6.2 |
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Collateral |
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103 |
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6.3 |
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Legal Opinions |
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104 |
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6.4 |
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No Default |
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104 |
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6.5 |
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Senior Notes |
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104 |
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6.6 |
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Equity Investments |
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104 |
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6.7 |
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Closing Certificates |
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104 |
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6.8 |
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Corporate Proceedings of Each Credit Party |
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104 |
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6.9 |
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Corporate Documents |
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105 |
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6.10 |
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Fees |
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105 |
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6.11 |
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Representations and Warranties |
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105 |
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6.12 |
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Related Agreements |
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105 |
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6.13 |
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Solvency Certificate |
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105 |
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6.14 |
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Financial Statements |
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105 |
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6.15 |
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Acquisition |
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105 |
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6.16 |
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Insurance |
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105 |
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6.17 |
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Consolidated Total Debt to Adjusted EBITDA |
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106 |
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6.18 |
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Pro Forma Financial Statements; Projections |
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106 |
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SECTION 7. |
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Conditions Precedent to All Credit Events and Tranche B-2 Term Loan Borrowing |
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7.1 |
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No Default; Representations and Warranties |
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106 |
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7.2 |
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Notice of Borrowing; Letter of Credit Request |
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106 |
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7.3 |
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Tranche B-2 Term Loan Borrowing |
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107 |
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7.4 |
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Malaysian U.S. Dollar Loans |
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107 |
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SECTION 8. |
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Representations, Warranties and Agreements |
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8.1 |
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Corporate Status |
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8.2 |
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Corporate Power and Authority |
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108 |
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8.3 |
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No Violation |
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108 |
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8.4 |
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Litigation |
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108 |
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8.5 |
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Margin Regulations |
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109 |
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8.6 |
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Governmental Approvals |
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109 |
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8.7 |
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Investment Company Act |
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109 |
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8.8 |
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True and Complete Disclosure |
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109 |
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8.9 |
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Financial Condition; Financial Statements |
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109 |
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8.10 |
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Tax Returns and Payments |
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110 |
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8.11 |
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Compliance with ERISA |
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110 |
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8.12 |
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Subsidiaries |
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111 |
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8.13 |
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Intellectual Property, etc |
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111 |
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8.14 |
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Environmental Laws |
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111 |
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8.15 |
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Properties |
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111 |
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8.16 |
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Solvency |
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112 |
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8.17 |
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Public Utility Holding Company Act |
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112 |
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SECTION 9. |
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Affirmative Covenants |
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9.1 |
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Information Covenants |
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9.2 |
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Books, Records and Inspections |
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115 |
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9.3 |
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Maintenance of Insurance |
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116 |
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9.4 |
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Payment of Taxes |
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116 |
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9.5 |
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Consolidated Corporate Franchises |
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116 |
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9.6 |
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Compliance with Statutes, Regulations, etc |
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116 |
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9.7 |
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ERISA |
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116 |
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9.8 |
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Maintenance of Properties |
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117 |
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9.9 |
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Transactions with Affiliates |
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117 |
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9.10 |
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End of Fiscal Years; Fiscal Quarters |
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118 |
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9.11 |
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Additional Guarantors and Grantors |
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118 |
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9.12 |
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Pledges of Additional Stock and Evidence of Indebtedness |
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118 |
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9.13 |
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Use of Proceeds |
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119 |
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9.14 |
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Further Assurances |
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119 |
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9.15 |
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Maintenance of Rating of Facilities |
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120 |
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SECTION 10. |
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Negative Covenants |
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120 |
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10.1 |
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Limitation on Indebtedness |
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10.2 |
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Limitation on Liens |
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123 |
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10.3 |
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Limitation on Fundamental Changes |
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124 |
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10.4 |
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Limitation on Sale of Assets |
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126 |
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10.5 |
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Limitation on Investments |
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128 |
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10.6 |
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Limitation on Dividends |
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130 |
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10.7 |
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Limitations on Debt Payments and Amendments |
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132 |
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10.8 |
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Limitations on Sale Leasebacks |
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10.9 |
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Consolidated Total Senior Secured Debt to Adjusted EBITDA Ratio |
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133 |
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10.10 |
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Capital Expenditures |
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134 |
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10.11 |
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Changes in Business |
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134 |
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10.12 |
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Limitation on Activities of Holdings |
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135 |
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10.13 |
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Limitation on Activities of the Lux Borrower |
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135 |
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SECTION 11. |
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Events of Default |
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11.1 |
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Payments |
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11.2 |
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Representations, etc |
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136 |
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11.3 |
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Covenants |
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136 |
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11.4 |
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Default Under Other Agreements |
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11.5 |
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Bankruptcy |
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136 |
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11.6 |
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ERISA |
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137 |
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11.7 |
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Guarantee |
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137 |
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11.8 |
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Pledge Agreements |
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138 |
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11.9 |
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Security Agreement |
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138 |
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11.10 |
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Mortgages |
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138 |
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11.11 |
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Judgments |
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138 |
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11.12 |
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Change of Control |
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139 |
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11.13 |
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Investors’ Right to Cure |
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139 |
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SECTION 12. |
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The Agents |
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12.1 |
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Appointment |
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140 |
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12.2 |
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Delegation of Duties |
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141 |
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12.3 |
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Exculpatory Provisions |
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141 |
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12.4 |
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Reliance by Agents |
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142 |
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12.5 |
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Notice of Default |
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142 |
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12.6 |
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Non-Reliance on Administrative Agents, Collateral Agent and Other Lenders |
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143 |
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12.7 |
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Indemnification |
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12.8 |
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Administrative Agent in its Individual Capacity |
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144 |
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12.9 |
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Successor Agents |
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144 |
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12.10 |
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Withholding Tax |
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145 |
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12.11 |
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Security Documents |
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145 |
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SECTION 13. |
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Miscellaneous |
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13.1 |
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Amendments and Waivers |
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146 |
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13.2 |
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Notices |
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147 |
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13.3 |
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No Waiver; Cumulative Remedies |
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148 |
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13.4 |
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Survival of Representations and Warranties |
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148 |
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13.5 |
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Payment of Expenses and Taxes |
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148 |
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13.6 |
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Successors and Assign; Participations and Assignments |
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149 |
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13.7 |
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Replacements of Lenders under Certain Circumstances |
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13.8 |
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Adjustments; Set-off |
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156 |
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13.9 |
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Counterparts |
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156 |
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13.10 |
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Severability |
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156 |
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13.11 |
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Integration |
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157 |
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13.12 |
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Waiver of Judicial Bond |
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157 |
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13.13 |
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Waiver of Immunity |
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157 |
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13.14 |
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Currency of Payment |
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157 |
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13.15 |
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GOVERNING LAW |
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158 |
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13.16 |
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Submission to Jurisdiction; Waivers; Service of Process |
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158 |
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13.17 |
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Acknowledgments |
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159 |
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WAIVERS OF JURY TRIAL |
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159 |
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13.19 |
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Confidentiality |
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13.20 |
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Citigroup Direct Website Communications |
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13.21 |
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USA PATRIOT Act |
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13.22 |
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Xxxxx Xxx, 0000 of Malaysia |
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SCHEDULES |
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Schedule 1.1(a)
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Applicable Lending Office and Addresses for Notice |
Schedule 1.1(b)
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Mortgaged Properties |
Schedule 1.1(c)
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Commitments of Lenders |
Schedule 1.1(d)
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Excluded Subsidiaries |
Schedule 6.1
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Closing Date Security Documents |
Schedule 8.12
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Subsidiaries |
Schedule 9.14(c)
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Post-Closing Security Documents and Other Actions |
Schedule 10.1
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Closing Date Indebtedness |
Schedule 10.2
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Closing Date Liens |
Schedule 10.5
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Closing Date Investments |
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EXHIBITS |
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Exhibit C
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Form of Guarantee |
Exhibit D
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Form of Mortgage (Real Property) |
Exhibit E
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Form of Perfection Certificate |
Exhibit F
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Form of Pledge Agreement |
Exhibit G
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Form of Security Agreement |
Exhibit H
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Form of Letter of Credit Request |
Exhibit I-1
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Form of Legal Opinion of Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Xxxxxxxx LLP |
Exhibit I-2
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Form of Legal Opinions of Singaporean and other Local Counsel |
Exhibit J
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Form of Closing Certificate |
Exhibit K-1
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Form of Assignment and Acceptance (Tranche B Term Loans) |
Exhibit K-2
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Form of Assignment and Acceptance (Revolving Credit Loans) |
Exhibit L-1
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Form of Promissory Note (Tranche B Term Loans and New Tranche B Term Loans) |
Exhibit L-2
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Form of Promissory Note (Revolving Credit Loans and Swingline Loans) |
Exhibit M
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Form of Joinder Agreement |
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CREDIT AGREEMENT dated as of December 1, 2005, among AVAGO TECHNOLOGIES FINANCE PTE. LTD., a
company incorporated under the Singapore Companies Act (the “
Company” or the
“
Singaporean Borrower”), a wholly-owned Subsidiary of AVAGO TECHNOLOGIES HOLDING PTE. LTD.,
a company incorporated under the Singapore Companies Act (“
Holdings”)
, a wholly-owned
Subsidiary of AVAGO TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED., a company incorporated under the Singapore Companies Act
(“
Parent”), AVAGO TECHNOLOGIES FINANCE S.À.X.X., a Grand Duchy of Luxembourg limited
liability company (the “
Lux Borrower”), AVAGO TECHNOLOGIES (MALAYSIA) SDN. BHD. (f/k/a
Jumbo Portfolio Sdn. Bhd.) (Company No. 704181-P), a company incorporated in Malaysia under the
Companies Xxx 0000 (the “
Malaysian Borrower”), AVAGO TECHNOLOGIES WIRELESS (U.S.A.)
MANUFACTURING INC., a Delaware corporation (“
U.S. Wireless”), and AVAGO TECHNOLOGIES U.S.
INC., a Delaware corporation (“
U.S. Opco” and together with U.S. Wireless, collectively,
the “
U.S. Borrowers” and each a “
U.S. Borrower”, and together with the Singaporean
Borrower, the Lux Borrower and the Malaysian Borrower, collectively, the “
Borrowers”), the
lending institutions listed on the signature pages hereto as a “Lender” or that from time to time
become parties hereto by execution of an Assignment and Acceptance (each a “
Lender” and,
collectively, the “
Lenders”), CITICORP INTERNATIONAL LIMITED (HONG KONG), as Asian
Administrative Agent, CITICORP NORTH AMERICA, INC., as Tranche B-1 Term Loan Administrative Agent
and as Collateral Agent, CITIGROUP GLOBAL MARKETS INC., as Joint Lead Arranger and Joint Lead
Bookrunner, XXXXXX BROTHERS INC., as Joint Lead Arranger, Joint Lead Bookrunner and Syndication
Agent, and CREDIT SUISSE, as Documentation Agent (such term and each other capitalized term used
but not defined in this introductory statement having the meaning provided in Section 1).
WHEREAS, pursuant to the Asset Purchase Agreement (as amended from time to time in accordance
therewith, the “Acquisition Agreement”), dated as of August 14, 2005, between Agilent
Technologies, Inc. (the “Seller”) and the Parent, pursuant to which the Parent and its
Subsidiaries will acquire (the “Acquisition”) certain assets (the “Acquired
Assets”) of the Seller;
WHEREAS, to fund, in part, the Acquisition, the Investors will contribute and loan an amount
in cash to Holdings and/or a direct or indirect parent thereof in exchange for Stock and Stock
Equivalents (which cash will be contributed to the Company in exchange for common and preferred
Stock), which together with any rollover equity issued to the Management Investors (such
contribution and loan from the Investors and the Management Investors, collectively, the
“Equity Investments”), shall equal not less than 30% of the aggregate consideration paid to
the Seller under the Acquisition Agreement;
WHEREAS, (a) to consummate the transactions contemplated by the Acquisition
, the Company, U.S.
Opco and U.S. Wireless will issue $500,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 10.125% senior fixed
rate notes due 2013, $250,000,000 aggregate principal amount of senior floating rate notes due 2013
and $ 250,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 11.875% senior subordinated notes due 2015
(collectively,
the “Senior Notes”), in a Rule 144A or other private placement (the “Senior Notes
Offering”) generating , collectively, aggregate gross proceeds of up to $1,000,000,000 (or such
lesser amount sufficient, together with the Equity Investments and the proceeds generated from the
Tranche B-1 Term Loans hereunder, to consummate the transactions contemplated by the Acquisition);
WHEREAS, in connection with the foregoing, Holdings and the Company requested the Lenders to
extend credit in the form of (i) Term Loans made available to the Singapore Borrower and the Lux
Borrower, in an aggregate principal amount of $725,000,000, (ii) U.S. Dollar Revolving Credit Loans
made available to the Singaporean Borrower and the U.S. Borrowers at any time and from time to time
prior to the Revolving Credit Maturity Date, in an aggregate principal amount at any time
outstanding not in excess of $140,000,000, (iii) Multi-Currency Revolving Credit Loans made
available to the Singaporean Borrower and the U.S. Borrowers at any time and from time to time
prior to the Revolving Credit Maturity Date, in an aggregate principal amount at any time
outstanding not in excess of U.S. Dollar Equivalent of $90,000,000 less the sum of (A) the
aggregate Letters of Credit Outstanding at such time and (B) the aggregate principal amount of all
Multi-Currency Swingline Loans outstanding at such time, and (iv) Malaysian Revolving Credit Loans
made available to (A) the Malaysian Borrower at any time and from time to time prior to the earlier
of the Malaysian Commitment Conversion Date and the Revolving Credit Maturity Date, in an aggregate
principal amount at any time outstanding not in excess of U.S. Dollar Equivalent of $20,000,000
less the aggregate principal amount of all Malaysian Swingline Loans outstanding at such time, or
(B) the Singaporean Borrower and the U.S. Borrowers at any time after the Malaysian Commitment
Conversion Date and prior to the Revolving Credit Maturity Date, in an aggregate principal amount
at any time outstanding not in excess of $20,000,000. The Company has requested the Letter of
Credit Issuer to issue Letters of Credit under the U.S. Dollar Revolving Credit Facility at any
time and from time to time prior to the L/C Maturity Date, in an aggregate face amount at any time
outstanding not in excess of $40,000,000. The Company has requested (a) the Multi-Currency
Swingline Lender to extend credit to the Singaporean Borrower and the U.S. Borrowers in the form of
Multi-Currency Swingline Loans at any time and from time to time prior to the Swingline Maturity
Date, in an aggregate principal amount at any time outstanding not in excess of U.S. Dollar
Equivalent of $50,000,000 and (b) the Malaysian Swingline Lender to extend credit to the Malaysian
Borrower in the form of Malaysian Swingline Loans at any time and from time to time prior to the
earlier of the Malaysian Commitment Conversion Date and the Swingline Maturity Date, in an
aggregate principal amount at any time outstanding not in excess of U.S. Dollar Equivalent of
$20,000,000;
WHEREAS, the proceeds of the Tranche B-1 Term Loans will be used by the Company, together with
(a) the net proceeds of the Senior Notes Offering and (b) the Equity Investments, on the Closing
Date solely to effect the Acquisition and to pay Transaction Expenses. Proceeds of the Tranche B-2
Term Loans, subject to the terms hereof, may be used by the Company to pay dividends as provided in
Section 10.6(c) and for other general corporate purposes. Proceeds of the Revolving Credit Loans
and the
2
Swingline Loans will be used by the Borrowers on or after the Closing Date for general
corporate purposes (including Permitted Acquisitions). The Letters of Credit will be used by the
Borrowers for general corporate purposes; and
WHEREAS, the Lenders and Letter of Credit Issuer are willing to make available to the
Borrowers such term loans, revolving credit and letter of credit facilities upon the terms and
subject to the conditions set forth herein.
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and the covenants and agreements contained
herein, the parties hereto hereby agree as follows:
SECTION 1. Definitions.
1.1 Defined Terms. (a) As used herein, the following terms shall have the meanings
specified in this Section 1.1 unless the context otherwise requires (it being understood that
defined terms in this Agreement shall include in the singular number the plural and in the plural
the singular):
“ABR” shall mean, for any day, a rate per annum (rounded upwards, if necessary, to the
next 1/16 of 1%) equal to (a) with respect to any Tranche B Term Loans, U.S. Dollar Revolving
Credit Loans, Multi-Currency U.S. Dollar Loans, Multi-Currency U.S. Dollar Swingline Loans or
Malaysian U.S. Dollar Swingline Loans, the greater of (i) the U.S. Prime Rate in effect on such day
or (ii) the Federal Funds Effective Rate in effect on such day plus 1/2 of 1%, (b) with respect to
any Multi-Currency Singapore Dollar Loans or Multi-Currency Singapore Dollar Swingline Loans, the
Singaporean Prime Rate, and (iii) with respect to any Malaysian Ringgit Swingline Loans, the
Malaysian Base Lending Rate. Any change in the ABR due to a change in the Prime Rate (or the
Federal Funds Effective Rate, if applicable), shall be effective as of the opening of business on
the effective day of such change in the Prime Rate (or the Federal Funds Effective Rate, if
applicable), respectively.
“ABR Loan” shall mean each Loan that bears interest at a rate based on the ABR.
“Acquired Assets” shall have the meaning provided in the preamble to this Agreement.
“Acquired EBITDA” shall mean, with respect to any Acquired Entity or Business or any
Converted Restricted Subsidiary (any of the foregoing, a “Pro Forma Entity”) for any
period, the amount for such period of Consolidated EBITDA of such Pro Forma Entity (determined
using such definitions as if references to the Company and its Subsidiaries therein were to such
Pro Forma Entity and its Subsidiaries), all as determined on a consolidated basis for such Pro
Forma Entity in accordance with GAAP.
“Acquired Entity or Business” shall have the meaning provided in the definition of the
term “Consolidated EBITDA”.
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“Acquisition” shall have the meaning provided in the preamble to this Agreement.
“Acquisition Agreement” shall have the meaning provided in the preamble to this
Agreement.
“Adjusted EBITDA” shall mean Consolidated EBITDA, plus the sum, without
duplication, and to the extent not added back in arriving at such Consolidated EBITDA, of (a) for
any period that includes a fiscal quarter occurring prior to the fifth fiscal quarter after the
Closing Date, the excess of (i) any expenses allocated by Seller to the historical financial
statements of its semiconductor products business segment for services and other times provided
previously by Seller, and any expenses of the type previously allocated by Seller that are incurred
by the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries on or after the Closing Date and prior to the fifth
fiscal quarter after the Closing Date, over (ii) the portion of the $157,000,000 of stand-alone
expenses projected by the Company in good faith to be incurred in lieu of the expenses described in
clause (i) above applicable to such period, (b) the elimination of all operating results relating
to the Company’s and its Subsidiaries’ camera module business (provided that the aggregate
amount of add-backs pursuant to this clause (b) shall not exceed $16,000,000 for the Test Period
ended July 31, 2005 and $8,000,000 for the Test Period ended October 31, 2005) and (c)
non-recurring charges related to the items described in clause (b).
“Adjusted Total Malaysian Revolving Credit Commitment” shall mean at anytime the Total
Malaysian Revolving Credit Commitment less the aggregate Revolving Credit Commitments of all
Defaulting Malaysian Lenders.
“Adjusted Total Multi-Currency Revolving Credit Commitment” shall mean at anytime the
Total Multi-Currency Revolving Credit Commitment less the aggregate Revolving Credit Commitments of
all Defaulting Multi-Currency Lenders.
“Adjusted Total Revolving Credit Commitment” shall mean, at any time, with respect to
(a) the U.S. Dollar Revolving Credit Commitments, the Adjusted Total U.S. Dollar Revolving Credit
Commitment, (b) the Multi-Currency Revolving Credit Commitments, the Adjusted Total Multi-Currency
Revolving Credit Commitment and (c) the Malaysian Revolving Credit Commitments, the Adjusted
Malaysian Revolving Credit Commitment.
“Adjusted Total Tranche B-1 Term Loan Commitment” shall mean at any time the Total
Tranche B-1 Term Loan Commitment less the Tranche B-1 Term Loan Commitments of all Defaulting
Lenders.
“Adjusted Total Tranche B-2 Term Loan Commitment” shall mean at any time the Total
Tranche B-2 Term Loan Commitment less the Tranche B-2 Term Loan Commitments of all Defaulting
Lenders.
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“Adjusted Total Term Loan Commitment” shall mean at any time the Total Term Loan
Commitment less the Term Loan Commitments of all Defaulting Lenders.
“Adjusted Total U.S. Dollar Revolving Credit Commitment” shall mean at anytime the
Total U.S. Dollars Revolving Credit Commitment less the aggregate Revolving Credit Commitments of
all U.S. Dollar Defaulting Lenders.
“Administrative Agents” shall mean, collectively, the Asian Administrative Agent and
the Tranche B-1 Term Loan Administrative Agent.
“Administrative Agent’s Office” shall mean (a) in the case of the Asian Administrative
Agent, its office located at 13/F, Two Harbourfront, 00 Xxx Xxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxx, Xxxx
Xxxx, (x) in the case of the Tranche B-1 Term Loan Administrative Agent, its office located at 0
Xxxxx Xxx, Xxxxx 000, Xxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000 and (c) in each case, such other office as the
applicable Administrative Agent may hereafter designate in writing as such to the other parties
hereto.
“Administrative Questionnaire” shall have the meaning provided in Section 13.6(b).
“Affiliate” shall mean, with respect to any Person, any other Person directly or
indirectly controlling, controlled by, or under direct or indirect common control with such Person.
A Person shall be deemed to control a corporation if such Person possesses, directly or
indirectly, the power (a) to vote 10% or more of the securities having ordinary voting power for
the election of directors of such corporation or (b) to direct or cause the direction of the
management and policies of such corporation, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by
contract or otherwise.
“Agent Parties” shall have the meaning provided in Section 13.20(c).
“Agents” shall mean each of the Joint Lead Arrangers, each of the Administrative
Agents, the Collateral Agent, the Syndication Agent and the Documentation Agent.
“Aggregate Malaysian Revolving Credit Outstanding” shall have the meaning provided in
Section 5.2(b)(iii).
“Aggregate Multi-Currency Revolving Credit Outstanding” shall have the meaning
provided in Section 5.2(b)(ii).
“Aggregate U.S. Dollar Revolving Credit Outstanding” shall have the meaning provided
in Section 5.2(b)(i).
“
Agreement” shall mean this
Credit Agreement, as the same may be amended, supplemented
or otherwise modified from time to time.
“Amortization Amount” shall have the meaning provided in Section 5.2(c).
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“Applicable ABR Margin” shall mean at any date, with respect to (a) each ABR Loan that
is a Tranche B Term Loan, the applicable percentage per annum set forth below based upon the Status
in effect on such date:
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Applicable ABR Margin for |
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Term Loans |
Level A Status |
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1.500 |
% |
Level B Status |
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1.250 |
% |
and (b) each ABR Loan that is a Revolving Credit Loan or a Swingline Loan, the applicable
percentage per annum set forth below based upon the Status in effect on such date:
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Applicable ABR Margin for |
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Revolving Credit Loans and |
Status |
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Swingline Loans |
Level I Status |
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1.500 |
% |
Level II Status |
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1.250 |
% |
Level III Status |
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1.000 |
% |
Level IV Status |
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0.750 |
% |
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the term “Applicable ABR Margin” shall mean 1.50% per annum,
during the period from and including the Closing Date to but excluding the Trigger Date.
“Applicable Amount” shall mean on any date (the “Reference Date”) (A) the sum
of, without duplication, (i) (x) for purposes of Section 10.5(g) and Section 10.5(i), $150,000,000
and (y) for purposes of Section 10.6(e) and Section 10.7(a)(i), $75,000,000 and (ii) an amount
equal to (x) the cumulative amount of Excess Cash Flow for all fiscal years completed after the
Closing Date (commencing with and including the fiscal year ending October 31, 2006) and prior to
the Reference Date minus (y) the portion of such Excess Cash Flow that has been (or will
be) applied after the Closing Date and on or prior to the Reference Date to the prepayment of Loans
in accordance with Section 5.2(a)(ii), provided that, in the case of Sections 10.6(e) and
10.7(a)(i) only, the amount in clause (ii) shall only be available if the Consolidated Total Debt
to Adjusted EBITDA Ratio of the Company for the Test Period last ended is less than 5.00:1.00,
determined on a pro forma basis after giving effect to any dividend or prepayment, repurchase or
redemption actually made pursuant to Sections 10.6(e) or 10.7(a)(i), plus (B) the amount of
any capital contributions (other than the Equity Investments and any Cure Amount) made in cash to
the Company from and including the Business Day immediately following the Closing Date through and
including the
Reference Date, including contributions with proceeds from the issuance of equity securities
of Holdings or the Company, minus (C) in each case, the portion of such amount used since
the Closing Date and prior to the Reference Date to make Investments pursuant to Section
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10.5(g) or
10.5(i), to pay dividends pursuant to Section 10.6(e) and/or to make prepayments, repurchases and
redemptions pursuant to Section 10.7(a)(i), as applicable.
“Applicable Lending Office” shall mean, with respect to each Lender, (a) its U.S.
Lending Office in the case of any ABR Loan, (b) its European Lending Office in the case of any
LIBOR Loan, (c) its Singaporean Lending Office in the case of any SOR Loan and (d) its Malaysian
Lending Office in the case of any RM Loan.
“Applicable LIBOR Margin” shall mean at any date, with respect to (a) each LIBOR Loan
that is a Tranche B Term Loan, the applicable percentage per annum set forth below based upon the
Status in effect on such date:
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Applicable LIBOR Margin for |
Status |
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Tranche B Term Loans |
Level A Status |
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2.500 |
% |
Level B Status |
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2.250 |
% |
and (b) each LIBOR Loan that is a Revolving Credit Loan or a Swingline Loan, the applicable
percentage per annum set forth below based upon the Status in effect on such date:
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Applicable LIBOR Margin for |
Status |
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Revolving Credit and Swingline Loans |
Level I Status |
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2.500 |
% |
Level II Status |
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2.250 |
% |
Level III Status |
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2.000 |
% |
Level IV Status |
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1.750 |
% |
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the term “Applicable LIBOR Margin” shall mean, with respect to
each LIBOR Loan that is a Tranche B Term Loan, Revolving Credit Loan or a Swingline Loan, 2.50% per
annum, during the period from and including the Closing Date to but excluding the Trigger Date.
“Applicable RM Margin” shall mean at any date, with respect to each RM Loan that is a
Revolving Credit Loan or a Swingline Loan, the applicable percentage per annum set forth below
based upon the Status in effect on such date:
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Applicable RM Margin for |
Status |
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Revolving Credit and Swingline Loans |
Level I Status |
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2.500 |
% |
Level II Status |
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2.250 |
% |
Level III Status |
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2.000 |
% |
Level IV Status |
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1.750 |
% |
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Notwithstanding the foregoing, the term “Applicable RM Margin” shall mean, with respect to
each RM Loan that is a Revolving Credit Loan or a Swingline Loan, 2.50% per annum, during the
period from and including the Closing Date to but excluding the Trigger Date.
“Applicable SOR Margin” shall mean at any date, with respect to each SOR Loan that is
a Revolving Credit Loan or a Swingline Loan, the applicable percentage per annum set forth below
based upon the Status in effect on such date:
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Applicable SOR Margin for |
Status |
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Revolving Credit and Swingline Loans |
Level I Status |
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2.500 |
% |
Level II Status |
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2.250 |
% |
Level III Status |
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2.000 |
% |
Level IV Status |
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1.750 |
% |
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the term “Applicable SOR Margin” shall mean, with respect to
each SOR Loan that is a Revolving Credit Loan or a Swingline Loan, 2.50% per annum, during the
period from and including the Closing Date to but excluding the Trigger Date.
“Approved Fund” shall have the meaning provided in Section 13.6.
“Asian Administrative Agent” shall mean Citicorp International Limited (Hong Kong) as
agent for the Revolving Lenders and the Tranche B-2 Term Loan Lenders.
“Asset Sale Prepayment Event” shall mean any Disposition of any business units, assets
or other property of Holdings, the Company or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries not in the
ordinary course of business, other than the Storage Sale (including any Disposition of any Stock or
Stock Equivalents of any Subsidiary of Holdings or the Company owned by Holdings, the Company or a
Restricted Subsidiary, including any sale of any Stock or Stock Equivalents of any Restricted
Subsidiary). Notwithstanding the foregoing, the term “Asset Sale Prepayment Event” shall not
include any transaction permitted by Section 10.4, other than transactions permitted by Sections
10.4(b) and (e).
“Assignment and Acceptance” shall mean an assignment and acceptance substantially in
the form of Exhibit K.
“Authorized Officer” shall mean the President, the Chief Financial Officer, the
Treasurer or any other senior officer of the applicable Borrower designated as such in writing to
the Administrative Agents by such Borrower.
“Bankruptcy Code” shall have the meaning provided in Section 11.5.
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“Board” shall mean the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System of the United
States (or any successor).
“Borrowers” shall have the meaning provided in the preamble to this Agreement.
“Borrowing” shall mean and include (a) the incurrence of Multi-Currency Swingline
Loans from the Multi-Currency Swingline Lender on a given date, (b) the incurrence of Malaysian
Swingline Loans from the Malaysian Swingline Lender on a given date, (c) the incurrence of one Type
of a Tranche B-1 Term Loan on the Closing Date (or resulting from conversions on a given date after
the Closing Date) or a Tranche B-2 Term Loan on a given date having, in the case of LIBOR Term
Loans, the same Interest Period (provided that ABR Loans incurred pursuant to Section
2.10(b) shall be considered part of any related Borrowing of LIBOR Term Loans), (d) the incurrence
of U.S. Dollar Revolving Credit Loan on a given date having the same Interest Period, (e) the
incurrence of Multi-Currency Revolving Credit Loan on a given date having the same Interest Period,
and (f) the incurrence of Malaysian Revolving Credit Loan on a given date having the same Interest
Period.
“
Business Day” shall mean any day excluding Saturday, Sunday and any day that shall be
in The City of
New York a legal holiday or a day on which banking institutions are authorized by
law or other governmental actions to close and if the applicable Business Day relates to notices,
determinations, fundings and payments in connection with (a) the LIBOR Rate or any LIBOR Loan, a
day on which deposits of U.S. Dollars are also carried on in the London interbank market, (b) in
the case of any Tranche B-2 Term Loan or any Revolving Credit Loans, a day of the year on which
banking institutions in Singapore or Hong Kong are not required or authorized by law or other
governmental actions to close, (c) in the case of SOR Loan, a day on which deposits of Singapore
Dollars are also carried on in the Singapore interbank market and (d) in the case of RM Loans, a
day on which deposits of Ringgit are also carried on in the Kuala Lumpur Interbank Money Market.
“Capital Expenditures” shall mean, for any period, the aggregate of all expenditures
(whether paid in cash or accrued as liabilities and including in all events all amounts expended or
capitalized under Capital Leases, but excluding any amount representing capitalized interest) by
the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries during such period that, in conformity with GAAP, are
or are required to be included as additions during such period to property, plant or equipment
reflected in the consolidated balance sheet of the Company and its Subsidiaries, provided
that the term “Capital Expenditures” shall not include (a) expenditures made in connection with the
replacement, substitution, restoration or repair of assets (i) to the extent financed from
insurance proceeds paid on account of the loss of or damage to the assets being replaced, restored
or repaired or (ii) with awards of compensation arising from the taking by eminent domain or
condemnation of the assets being replaced, (b) the purchase price of equipment that is purchased
simultaneously with the trade-in of existing equipment to the extent that the gross amount of such
purchase price is reduced by the credit granted by the seller of
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such equipment for the equipment
being traded in at such time, (c) the purchase of plant, property or equipment made within two
years of the sale of any asset to the extent purchased with the proceeds of such sale, (d)
expenditures that constitute any part of Consolidated Lease Expense, (e) expenditures that are
accounted for as capital expenditures by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary and that actually
are paid for by a Person other than the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary and for which neither
the Company nor any Restricted Subsidiary has provided or is required to provide or incur, directly
or indirectly, any consideration or obligation to such Person or any other Person (whether before,
during or after such period), (f) the book value of any asset owned by the Company or any
Restricted Subsidiary prior to or during such period to the extent that such book value is included
as a capital expenditure during such period as a result of such Person reusing or beginning to
reuse such asset during such period without a corresponding expenditure actually having been made
in such period, provided that (x) any expenditure necessary in order to permit such asset
to be reused shall be included as a Capital Expenditure during the period in which such expenditure
actually is made and (y) such book value shall have been included in Capital Expenditures when such
asset was originally acquired, (g) expenditures that constitute Permitted Acquisitions, (h)
Transaction Expenses, or (i) Transition Expenses.
“Capital Lease” shall mean, as applied to any Person, any lease of any property
(whether real, personal or mixed) by that Person as lessee that, in conformity with GAAP, is, or is
required to be, accounted for as a capital lease on the balance sheet of that Person.
“Capitalized Lease Obligations” shall mean, as applied to any Person, all obligations
under Capital Leases of such Person or any of its Subsidiaries, in each case taken at the amount
thereof accounted for as liabilities in accordance with GAAP.
“Casualty Event” shall mean, with respect to any property of any Person, any loss of
or damage to, or any condemnation or other taking by a Governmental Authority of, such property for
which such Person or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries receives insurance proceeds, or proceeds of
a condemnation award or other compensation.
“Change in Law” shall mean (a) the adoption of any law, treaty, order, policy, rule or
regulation after the date of this Agreement, (b) any change in any law, treaty, order, policy, rule
or regulation or in the interpretation or application thereof by any Governmental Authority after
the date of this Agreement or (c) compliance by the Lender with any guideline, request or directive
issued or made after the date hereof by
any central bank or other governmental or quasi-governmental authority (whether or not having
the force of law).
“Change of Control” shall mean and be deemed to have occurred if (a) the Sponsors and
the Management Investors shall at any time not own, in the aggregate, directly or indirectly,
beneficially and of record, at least 35% of the voting power of the outstanding Voting Stock of
Holdings (other than as the result of one or more widely
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distributed offerings of the common stock
of Holdings or any direct or indirect parent thereof, in each case whether by Holdings, such
parent, the Sponsors or the Management Investors); or (b) any person, entity or “group” (within the
meaning of Section 13(d) or 14(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended) shall at any
time have acquired direct or indirect beneficial ownership of a percentage of the voting power of
the outstanding Voting Stock of Holdings that exceeds the percentage of the voting power of such
Voting Stock then beneficially owned, in the aggregate, by the Sponsors and the Management
Investors, unless, in the case of either clause (a) or (b) above, the Sponsors and the Management
Investors have, at such time, the right or the ability by voting power, contract or otherwise to
elect or designate for election at least a majority of the board of directors of Holdings; or (c)
Holdings shall cease to own and control all of the economic and voting rights associated with all
of the outstanding Stock of the Company; or (d) Continuing Directors shall not constitute at least
a majority of the board of directors of Holdings; or (e) at any time, a Change of Control (as
defined in the Senior Notes Indenture) shall have occurred.
“Class”, when used in reference to any Loan or Borrowing, refers to whether such Loan,
or the Loans comprising such Borrowing, are Revolving Credit Loans, New Revolving Loans, Tranche B
Term Loans, New Tranche B Term Loans (of each Series) or Swingline Loans and, when used in
reference to any Commitment, refers to whether such Commitment is a Revolving Credit Commitment, a
New Revolving Credit Commitment, Tranche B Term Loan Commitment or a New Tranche B Term Loan
Commitment.
“Closing Date” shall mean the date of the initial Borrowing hereunder.
“Code” shall mean the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended from time to time, and
the regulations promulgated and rulings issued thereunder. Section references to the Code are to
the Code, as in effect at the date of this Agreement, and any subsequent provisions of the Code,
amendatory thereof, supplemental thereto or substituted therefor.
“Collateral” shall have the meaning provided in any Pledge Agreement, any Security
Agreement, any Mortgage or any other Security Document, as applicable.
“Collateral Agent” shall mean Citicorp North America, Inc., as collateral
agent for the Lenders and the other Secured Parties.
“Commitment Fee Rate” shall mean, with respect to any commitment fee payable pursuant
to Section 4 on any day, the rate per annum set forth below opposite the Status in effect on such
day:
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Commitment Fee Rate |
Level A Status |
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0.500 |
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Level B Status |
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0.375 |
% |
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the term “Commitment Fee Rate” shall mean 0.50%, during the
period from and including the Closing Date to but excluding the Trigger Date.
“Commitments” shall mean, with respect to each Lender, such Lender’s Term Loan
Commitment, if any, Malaysian Revolving Credit Commitment, if any, Multi-Currency Revolving Credit
Commitment, if any, U.S. Dollar Revolving Credit Commitment, if any, New Revolving Credit
Commitment or New Tranche B Term Loan Commitment, if any.
“Communications” shall have the meaning provided in Section 13.20(a).
“Company” shall have the meaning provided in the preamble to this Agreement.
“Confidential Information” shall have the meaning provided in Section 13.19.
“Confidential Information Memorandum” shall mean the Confidential Information
Memorandum of the Company dated November 2005, delivered to the Lenders in connection with this
Agreement.
“Consolidated EBITDA” shall mean, for any period, Consolidated Net Income for such
period, plus:
(a) without duplication and to the extent already deducted (and not added back) in arriving
at such Consolidated Net Income, the sum of the following amounts for such period:
(i) total interest expense and to the extent not reflected in such total interest
expense, any losses on hedging obligations or other derivative instruments entered into for
the purpose of hedging interest rate risk, net of interest income and gains on such hedging
obligations, and costs of surety bonds in connection with financing activities,
(ii) provision for taxes based on income, profits or capital of the Company and the
Restricted Subsidiaries, including state, franchise and similar taxes and foreign
withholding taxes paid or accrued during such period,
(iii) depreciation and amortization (including any amortization of prepaid software
licenses),
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(iv) Non-Cash Charges,
(v) extraordinary losses and unusual or non-recurring charges, severance, relocation
costs and curtailments or modifications to pension and post-retirement employee benefit
plans,
(vi) restructuring charges or reserves (including any one-time costs incurred in
connection with acquisitions after the date hereof and to closure and/or consolidation of
facilities),
(vii) any deductions attributable to minority interests,
(viii) the amount of management, monitoring, consulting and advisory fees and related
expenses paid to the Sponsors,
(ix) any costs or expenses incurred by the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary pursuant
to any management equity plan or stock option plan or any other management or employee
benefit plan or agreement or any stock subscription or shareholder agreement, to the extent
that such costs or expenses are funded with cash proceeds contributed to the capital of the
Company or net cash proceeds of an issuance of Stock or Stock Equivalents of the Company
(other than preferred Stock or preferred Stock Equivalents that are not Qualified PIK
Securities); and
(x) commencing with the fifth fiscal quarter following the Closing Date, the amount of
net cost savings projected by the Company in good faith to be realized as a result of
specified actions taken by the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries (calculated on a pro
forma basis as though such cost savings had been realized on the first day of such period),
net of the amount of actual benefits realized during such period from such actions,
provided that (A) such cost savings are reasonably identifiable and factually
supportable, (B) such actions are taken on or prior to the third anniversary of the Closing
Date, (C) no cost savings shall be added pursuant to this clause (x) to the extent
duplicative of any expenses or charges relating to such cost savings that are included in
clause (vi) above with respect to such period and (D) the aggregate amount of cost savings
added pursuant to this clause (x) shall not exceed $30,000,000 for any period consisting of
four consecutive quarters, less
(b) without duplication and to the extent included in arriving at such Consolidated Net
Income, the sum of the following amounts for such period:
(i) extraordinary gains and unusual or non-recurring gains,
(ii) non-cash gains (excluding any non-cash gain to the extent it represents the
reversal of an accrual or reserve for a potential cash item that reduced Consolidated
EBITDA in any prior period),
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(iii) gains on asset sales (other than asset sales in the ordinary course of
business),
(iv) any net after-tax income from the early extinguishment of Indebtedness or hedging
obligations or other derivative instruments, and
(v) all gains from investments recorded using the equity method,
in each case, as determined on a consolidated basis for the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries
in accordance with GAAP; provided that, to the extent included in Consolidated Net Income,
(i) there shall be excluded in determining Consolidated EBITDA currency translation
gains and losses related to currency remeasurements of Indebtedness (including the net loss
or gain resulting from Hedge Agreements for currency exchange risk),
(ii) there shall be excluded in determining Consolidated EBITDA for any period any
adjustments resulting from the application of Statement of Financial Accounting Standards
No. 133, and
(iii) there shall be included in determining Consolidated EBITDA for any period,
without duplication, (A) the Acquired EBITDA of any Person, property, business or asset
acquired by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary during such period (but not the
Acquired EBITDA of any related Person, property, business or assets to the extent not so
acquired) to the extent not subsequently sold, transferred, abandoned or otherwise disposed
by the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary (each such Person, property, business or asset
acquired and not subsequently so disposed of, an “Acquired Entity or Business”) and
the Acquired EBITDA of any Unrestricted Subsidiary that is converted into a Restricted
Subsidiary during such period (each, a “Converted Restricted Subsidiary”), based on
the actual Acquired EBITDA of such Acquired Entity or Business or Converted Restricted
Subsidiary for such period (including the portion thereof occurring prior to such
acquisition or conversion) and (B) an adjustment in respect of each Acquired Entity or
Business equal to the amount of the Pro Forma Adjustment with respect to such Acquired
Entity or Business for such period (including the portion thereof occurring prior to such
acquisition) as specified in a Pro Forma Adjustment Certificate and delivered to the
Lenders and the Administrative Agents and (C) there shall be excluded in determining
Consolidated EBITDA for any period the Disposed EBITDA of any Person, property, business or
asset (other than an Unrestricted Subsidiary) sold, transferred, abandoned or otherwise
disposed of, closed or classified as discontinued operations by the Company or any
Restricted Subsidiary during such
period (each such Person, property, business or asset so sold or disposed of, a
“Sold Entity or Business”), and the Acquired EBITDA of any Restricted Subsidiary
that is converted into an Unrestricted Subsidiary during such period (each, a
“Converted Unrestricted Subsidiary”) based on the actual Disposed EBITDA of
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such
Sold Entity or Business or Converted Restricted Subsidiary for such period (including the
portion thereof occurring prior to such sale, transfer or disposition or conversion).
For the purpose of the definition of Consolidated EBITDA, “Non-Cash Charges” means (a)
losses on asset sales, disposals or abandonments, (b) any impairment charge or asset write-off
related to intangible assets, long-lived assets, and investments in debt and equity securities
pursuant to GAAP, (c) all losses from investments recorded using the equity method, (d) stock-based
awards compensation expense, and (e) other non-cash charges (provided that if any non-cash
charges referred to in this clause (e) represent an accrual or reserve for potential cash items in
any future period, the cash payment in respect thereof in such future period shall be subtracted
from Consolidated EBITDA to such extent, and excluding amortization of a prepaid cash item that was
paid in a prior period).
“Consolidated Lease Expense” shall mean, for any period, all rental expenses of
Holdings, the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries during such period under operating leases for
real or personal property (including in connection with Permitted Sale Leasebacks), excluding real
estate taxes, insurance costs and common area maintenance charges and net of sublease income, other
than (a) obligations under vehicle leases entered into in the ordinary course of business, (b) all
such rental expenses associated with assets acquired pursuant to a Permitted Acquisition to the
extent that such rental expenses relate to operating leases in effect at the time of (and
immediately prior to) such acquisition and (c) Capitalized Lease Obligations, all as determined on
a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP, provided that there shall be excluded from
Consolidated Lease Expense for any period the rental expenses of all Unrestricted Subsidiaries for
such period to the extent otherwise included in Consolidated Lease Expense.
“Consolidated Net Income” shall mean, for any period, the net income (loss) of the
Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries for such period determined on a consolidated basis in
accordance with GAAP, excluding, without duplication, (a) extraordinary items for such period, (b)
the cumulative effect of a change in accounting principles during such period to the extent
included in Consolidated Net Income, (c) in the case of any period that includes a period ending
prior to or during the fiscal year ending April 30, 2007, Transaction Expenses, (d) Transition
Expenses incurred and expensed during such period to the extent deducted in calculating such
Consolidated Net Income, (e) any fees and expenses incurred during such period, or any amortization
thereof for such period, in connection with any acquisition, investment, recapitalization, asset
disposition, issuance or repayment of debt, issuance of equity securities, refinancing transaction
or amendment or other modification of any debt instrument (in each case, including any such
transaction consummated prior to the Closing Date and any such transaction undertaken but not
completed) and any charges or
non-recurring merger costs incurred during such period as a result of any such transaction,
(f) any income (loss) for such period attributable to the early extinguishment of Indebtedness and
(g) accruals and reserves that are established that are so required to be established or adjusted
as a result of the Transactions in accordance with GAAP or
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changes as a result of adoption of or
modification of accounting policies, in each case, within twelve months after the Closing Date.
There shall be excluded from Consolidated Net Income for any period the purchase accounting effects
of adjustments to inventory, property and equipment, software and other intangible assets and
deferred revenue in component amounts required or permitted by GAAP and related authoritative
pronouncements (including the effects of such adjustments pushed down to the Company and the
Restricted Subsidiaries), as a result of the Transactions, any consummated acquisition, or the
amortization or write-off of any amounts thereof (including any write-off of in process research
and development).
“Consolidated Total Debt” shall mean, as of any date of determination, (a) the sum of
(i) all Indebtedness of the types described in clause (a) and, other than for the purposes of
Section 6.17 and Section 7.3(d), clause (e) of the definition thereof actually owing by Holdings,
the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries on such date determined on a consolidated basis
(provided that the amount of any Capitalized Lease Obligations or any such Indebtedness
issued at a discount to its face value shall be determined in accordance with GAAP) minus
(b) the aggregate cash included in the cash accounts listed on the consolidated balance sheet of
Holdings and the Restricted Subsidiaries as at such date in excess of $15,000,000 to the extent the
use thereof for application to payment of Indebtedness is not prohibited by law or any contract to
which Holdings or any the Restricted Subsidiaries is a party.
“Consolidated Total Debt to Adjusted EBITDA Ratio” shall mean, as of any date of
determination, the ratio of (a) Consolidated Total Debt as of the last day of the relevant Test
Period to (b) Adjusted EBITDA for such Test Period.
“Consolidated Total Senior Secured Debt” shall mean, as of any date of determination,
(a) the sum of all Indebtedness outstanding under the Credit Facilities (other than any second lien
tranche of Credit Facilities extended subsequent to the Closing Date) on such date, but excluding
an amount equal to (i) the aggregate Stated Amount of all outstanding Letters of Credit,
minus (ii) the aggregate amount of all Unpaid Drawings, plus (b) the aggregate
outstanding principal amount of all Indebtedness incurred pursuant to Section 10.1(A)(j) or
10.1(A)(k) to the extent secured by a Lien permitted by Section 10.2, (unless the Secured Parties
shall have a first-priority perfected security interest, prior to any other secured party, in the
assets subject to such Lien), minus (c) the aggregate cash included in the cash accounts
listed on the consolidated balance sheet of the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries as at such
date in excess of $15,000,000 to the extent the use thereof for application to payment of
Indebtedness is not prohibited by law or any contract to which the Company or any the Restricted
Subsidiaries is a party.
“Consolidated Total Senior Secured Debt to Adjusted EBITDA Ratio” shall mean, as of
any date of determination, the ratio of (a) Consolidated Total Senior Secured Debt as of the last
day of the relevant Test Period to (b) Adjusted EBITDA for such Test Period.
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“Consolidated Working Capital” shall mean, at any date, the excess of (a) the sum of
all amounts (other than cash, cash equivalents and bank overdrafts) that would, in conformity with
GAAP, be set forth opposite the caption “total current assets” (or any like caption) on a
consolidated balance sheet of the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries at such date over (b) the
sum of all amounts that would, in conformity with GAAP, be set forth opposite the caption “total
current liabilities” (or any like caption) on a consolidated balance sheet of the Company and the
Restricted Subsidiaries on such date, but excluding (i) the current portion of any Funded Debt
(including the current portion of Capital Lease Obligations), (ii) without duplication of clause
(i) above, all Indebtedness consisting of Loans and Letter of Credit Exposure to the extent
otherwise included therein and (iii) the current portion of current and deferred income taxes.
“Continuing Director” shall mean, at any date, an individual (a) who is a member of
the board of directors of Holdings on the date hereof, (b) who, as at such date, has been a member
of such board of directors for at least the 12 preceding months, (c) who has been nominated to be a
member of such board of directors, directly or indirectly, by the Sponsors or Persons nominated by
the Sponsors or (d) who has been nominated to be a member of such board of directors by a majority
of the other Continuing Directors then in office.
“Contract Consideration” shall have the meaning provided in the definition of Excess
Cash Flow.
“Converted Restricted Subsidiary” shall have the meaning provided in the definition of
the term “Consolidated EBITDA.”
“Converted Unrestricted Subsidiary” shall have the meaning provided in the definition
of the term “Consolidated EBITDA.”
“Credit Documents” shall mean this Agreement, the Security Documents, each Letter of
Credit and any promissory notes issued by a Borrower hereunder.
“Credit Event” shall mean and include the making (but not the conversion or
continuation) of a Loan and the issuance of a Letter of Credit.
“Credit Facility” shall mean a category of Commitments and extensions of credit
thereunder.
“Credit Facilities” shall mean, collectively, each category of Commitments and each
extension of credit hereunder.
“Credit Party” shall mean each of Holdings, the Company, the Guarantors and each other
Subsidiary of Holdings or the Company that is a party to a Credit Document.
“Cure Amount” shall have the meaning provided in Section 11.13(a).
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“Cure Right” shall have the meaning provided in Section 11.13(a).
“Currency of Payment” shall have the meaning provided in Section 13.14.
“Debt Incurrence Prepayment Event” shall mean any issuance or incurrence by Holdings,
the Company or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries of any Indebtedness (including any issuance by
the Company of Permitted Additional Notes to the extent the Net Cash Proceeds are not used for a
Permitted Acquisition but excluding any other Indebtedness permitted to be issued or incurred under
Section 10.1 other than Section 10.1(A)(o)).
“Default” shall mean any event, act or condition that with notice or lapse of time, or
both, would constitute an Event of Default.
“Defaulting Lender” shall mean each Defaulting Term Lender, each Defaulting U.S.
Dollar Lender, each Defaulting Multi-Currency Lender and each Defaulting Malaysian Lender.
“Defaulting Malaysian Lender” shall mean any Malaysian Lender with respect to which a
Lender Default under the Malaysian Revolving Credit Facility is in effect.
“Defaulting Multi-Currency Lender” shall mean any Multi-Currency Lender with respect
to which a Lender Default under the Multi-Currency Revolving Credit Facility is in effect.
“Defaulting Term Lender” shall mean any Term Loan Lender with respect to which a
Lender Default under the Term Loan Credit Facility is in effect.
“Defaulting U.S. Dollar Lender” shall mean any U.S. Dollar Lender with respect to
which a Lender Default under the U.S. Dollar Revolving Credit Facility is in effect.
“Designated Asset Sale” shall mean any sale, transfer or other disposition of any
business units, product lines, assets or other property of the Company or any of the Restricted
Subsidiaries related thereto, other than the Electronic Components Business Unit.
“Designated Non-Cash Consideration” shall mean the fair market value of non-cash
consideration received by the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary in connection with a Disposition
pursuant to Section 10.4(b) and Section 10.4(c) that is
designated as Designated Non-Cash Consideration pursuant to a certificate of an Authorized
Officer of the Company, setting forth the basis of such valuation (which amount will be reduced by
the fair market value of the portion of the non-cash consideration converted to cash within 180
days following the consummation of the applicable Disposition).
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“Disposed EBITDA” shall mean, with respect to any Sold Entity or Business or any
Converted Unrestricted Subsidiary for any period, the amount for such period of Consolidated EBITDA
of such Sold Entity or Business or Converted Unrestricted Subsidiary (determined as if references
to the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries in the definition of Consolidated EBITDA were
references to such Sold Entity or Business or Converted Unrestricted Subsidiary and its
Subsidiaries), all as determined on a consolidated basis for such Sold Entity or Business.
“Disposition” shall have the meaning provided in Section 10.4(b).
“Dividends” or “dividends” shall have the meaning provided in Section 10.6.
“Documentation Agent” shall mean Credit Suisse, together with its affiliates, as the
documentation agent for the Lenders under this Agreement and the other Credit Documents.
“Drawing” shall have the meaning provided in Section 3.4(b).
“Electronic Components Business Unit” shall mean the Company’s optocoupler,
optoelectgronic/LED, optical mouse sensor, infrared transceiver and motion controller products
lines.
“Environmental Claims” shall mean any and all actions, suits, orders, decrees,
demands, demand letters, claims, liens, notices of noncompliance, violation or potential
responsibility or investigation (other than internal reports prepared by the Company or any of the
Subsidiaries (a) in the ordinary course of such Person’s business or (b) as required in connection
with a financing transaction or an acquisition or disposition of real estate) or proceedings
relating in any way to any Environmental Law or any permit issued, or any approval given, under any
such Environmental Law (hereinafter, “Claims”), including, without limitation, (i) any and
all Claims by governmental or regulatory authorities for enforcement, cleanup, removal, response,
remedial or other actions or damages pursuant to any applicable Environmental Law and (ii) any and
all Claims by any third party seeking damages, contribution, indemnification, cost recovery,
compensation or injunctive relief relating to the presence, release or threatened release of
Hazardous Materials or arising from alleged injury or threat of injury to health or safety (to the
extent relating to human exposure to Hazardous Materials), or the environment including, without
limitation, ambient air, surface water, groundwater, land surface and subsurface strata and natural
resources such as wetlands.
“Environmental Law” shall mean any applicable Federal, state, foreign or local
statute, law, rule, regulation, ordinance, code and rule of common law now or hereafter in effect
and in each case as amended, and any binding judicial or administrative interpretation thereof,
including any binding judicial or administrative order, consent decree or judgment, relating to the
protection of environment, including, without limitation, ambient air, surface water, groundwater,
land surface and subsurface
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strata and natural resources such as wetlands, or human health or
safety (to the extent relating to human exposure to Hazardous Materials), or Hazardous Materials.
“Equity Investments” shall have the meaning provided in the preamble to this
Agreement.
“Equity Investments Minimum Amount” shall mean an amount equal to 30% of the aggregate
consideration paid to the Seller under the Acquisition Agreement, including the proceeds of debt,
equity (including rollover equity) and cash used to consummate the Acquisition.
“ERISA” shall mean the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended
from time to time. Section references to ERISA are to ERISA as in effect at the date of this
Agreement and any subsequent provisions of ERISA amendatory thereof, supplemental thereto or
substituted therefor.
“ERISA Affiliate” shall mean each person (as defined in Section 3(9) of ERISA) that
together with any Borrower or a Subsidiary would be deemed to be a “single employer” within the
meaning of Section 414(b) or (c) of the Code or, solely for purposes of Section 302 of ERISA and
Section 412 of the Code, is treated as a single employer under Section 414 of the Code.
“European Lending Office” shall mean, with respect to any Lender, the office of such
Lender specified as its “European Lending Office” opposite its name on Schedule 1.1(a) or
on the Assignment and Acceptance by which it became a Lender or such other office of such Lender as
such Lender may from time to time specify to the Company and the applicable Administrative Agent.
“Event of Default” shall have the meaning provided in Section 11.
“Excess Cash Flow” shall mean, for any period, an amount equal to the excess of
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an amount equal to the provision for taxes
based on income, profits or capital of the Company and the Restricted
Subsidiaries, including state, franchise and similar taxes and
foreign withholding taxes paid or accrued during such period to the
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an amount equal to the aggregate net
non-cash loss on the sale, lease, transfer or other disposition of
assets by the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries during such
period (other than sales in the ordinary course of business) to the
extent deducted in arriving at such Consolidated Net Income, over |
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non-cash credits included in arriving at such Consolidated Net Income
and cash charges included in clauses (a) through (e) of the
definition of Consolidated Net Income (other than cash charges in
respect of Transaction Expenses paid on or about the Closing Date to
the extent financed with the proceeds of Indebtedness incurred on the
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the amount of all Transition Expenses paid
in cash during such period, other than any Transition Expenses
expensed during such period or financed with proceeds of Indebtedness
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the amount of Capital Expenditures made in
cash during such period, except to the extent that such Capital
Expenditures were financed with the proceeds of Indebtedness of the
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the aggregate amount of all prepayments of
Revolving Credit Loans and Swingline Loans made during such period to
the extent accompanying reductions of the Total Revolving Credit
Commitments, except to the extent financed with the proceeds of other
Indebtedness of the Company or the Restricted Subsidiaries, |
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payments of Indebtedness of the Company or the Restricted
Subsidiaries (including any Term Loans and the principal component of
payments in respect of Capitalized Lease Obligations but excluding
Revolving Credit Loans, Swingline Loans and voluntary prepayments of
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than in respect of any revolving credit facility to the extent there
is not an equivalent permanent reduction in commitments thereunder),
except to the extent financed with the proceeds of other Indebtedness
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an amount equal to the aggregate net
non-cash gain on the sale, lease, transfer or other disposition of
assets by the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries during such
period (other than sales in the ordinary course of business) to the
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payments by the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries during such
period in respect of long-term liabilities of the Company and the
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without duplication of amounts deducted
pursuant to clause (xi) below in prior fiscal years, the aggregate
amount of cash consideration paid by the Company and the Restricted
Subsidiaries in connection with Investments (including acquisitions)
made during such period pursuant to Section 10.5 to the extent that
such Investments were financed with internally generated cash flow of
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the amount of dividends paid during such
period pursuant to clause (b) or (e) of the proviso to Section 10.6
to the extent such dividends were paid with the proceeds of any
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the aggregate amount of expenditures
actually made by the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries in cash
during such period (including expenditures for the payment of
financing fees) to the extent that such expenditures are not expensed
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the aggregate amount of any premium,
make-whole or penalty payments actually paid in cash by the Company
and the Restricted Subsidiaries during such period that are required
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without duplication of amounts deducted from Excess Cash Flow in
prior periods, the aggregate consideration required to be paid in
cash by the Company or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries pursuant to
binding contracts (the “Contract Consideration”) entered into
prior to or during such period relating to Permitted Acquisitions to
be consummated or made during the period of four consecutive fiscal
quarters of the Company following the end of such period,
provided that to the extent the aggregate amount of
internally generated cash actually utilized to finance such Permitted
Acquisitions during such period of four consecutive fiscal quarters
is less than the Contract Consideration, the amount of such shortfall
shall be added to the calculation of Excess Cash Flow at the end of
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“
Exchange Rate” shall mean on any day with respect to any Foreign Currency, the rate
at which such Foreign Currency may be exchanged into U.S. Dollars, as set forth at approximately
11:00 a.m. (London time) on such day on the Reuters World Currency Page for such Foreign Currency,
provided that for the purpose of determining the Malaysian Available Commitments, the
Multi-Currency Available Commitments or the U.S. Dollar Available Commitments, Exchange Rate shall
mean such rate as of three Business Days prior to the date such determination is made; in the event
that such rate does not appear on any Reuters World Currency Page, the Exchange Rate shall be
determined by reference to such other publicly available service for displaying exchange rates as
may be agreed upon by the applicable Administrative Agent and the Company, or, in the absence of
such agreement, such Exchange Rate shall instead be the arithmetic average of the spot rates of
exchange of the applicable Administrative Agent in the market where its foreign currency exchange
operations in respect of such Foreign Currency are then being conducted, at or about 10:00 a.m.
(
New York City time) on such date for the purchase of U.S. Dollars for delivery two Business Days
later.
“Excluded Subsidiary” means (a) each Subsidiary listed on Schedule
1.1(d) hereto, (b) any Subsidiary that is prohibited by any applicable Requirement of Law
from guaranteeing the Obligations, (c) any Restricted Subsidiary acquired pursuant to a Permitted
Acquisition financed with secured Indebtedness incurred pursuant to Section 10.1(A)(j) or Section
10.1(A)(k) and each Restricted Subsidiary thereof that guarantees
such Indebtedness to the extent that and so long as the financing documentation relating to
such Permitted Acquisition to which such Restricted Subsidiary is party prohibits the ability of
such Restricted Subsidiary to guarantee or xxxxx x Xxxx on any of its assets to secure the
Obligations, and provided that each such Restricted Subsidiary shall cease to
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be an
Excluded Subsidiary under this clause (c) if such secured Indebtedness is repaid or becomes
unsecured or if such Restricted Subsidiary ceases to guarantee such secured Indebtedness, as
applicable or to the extent such prohibition no longer applies, (d) any other Subsidiary with
respect to which, in the reasonable judgment of the Administrative Agents (confirmed in writing by
notice to the Company), the cost or other consequences (including any adverse tax consequences) of
providing a Guarantee shall be excessive in view of the benefits to be obtained by the Lenders
therefrom, and (e) each Unrestricted Subsidiary.
“Excluded Taxes” shall mean, with respect to any Agent or any Lender, (a) (i) net
income taxes and franchise taxes (imposed in lieu of net income taxes) and capital taxes imposed on
any Agent or any Lender and (ii) any taxes imposed on any Agent or any Lender as a result of any
current of former connection between such Agent or such Lender and the jurisdiction of the
Governmental Authority imposing such tax or any political subdivision or taxing authority thereof
or therein (other than any such connection arising solely from such Agent or such Lender having
executed, delivered or performed its obligations or received a payment under, or having been a
party to or having enforced this Agreement or any other Credit Document) and (b) in the case of a
Non-U.S. Lender, (i) any U.S. federal withholding tax that is imposed on amounts payable to such
Non-U.S. Lender under the law in effect at the time such Non-U.S. Lender becomes a party to this
Agreement (or, in the case of a Non-U.S. Participant, on the date such Non-U.S. Participant became
a Participant hereunder); provided that this clause (b)(i) shall not apply to the extent
that (x) the indemnity payments or additional amounts any Lender (or Participant) would be entitled
to receive (without regard to this clause (b)(i)) do not exceed the indemnity payment or additional
amounts that the person making the assignment, participation or transfer to such Lender (or
Participant) would have been entitled to receive in the absence of such assignment, participation
or transfer or (y) any Tax is imposed on a Lender in connection with an interest or participation
in any Loan or other obligation that such Lender was required to acquire pursuant to Section
13.8(a) of this Agreement or that such Lender acquired pursuant to Section 13.7 of this Agreement
(it being understood and agreed, for the avoidance of doubt, that any withholding tax imposed on a
Non-U.S. Lender as a result of a Change in Law occurring after the time such Non-U.S. Lender became
a party to this Agreement (or designates a new lending office) shall not be an Excluded Tax) or
(ii) any Tax to the extent attributable to such Non-U.S. Lender’s failure to comply with Section
5.4(d).
“
Federal Funds Effective Rate” shall mean, for any day, the weighted average of the
per annum rates on overnight federal funds transactions with members of the Federal Reserve System
arranged by federal funds brokers, as published on the next succeeding Business Day by the Federal
Reserve Bank of
New York, or, if such rate is not so published for any day that is a Business Day,
the average of the quotations for the
day of such transactions received by the applicable Administrative Agent from three federal
funds brokers of recognized standing selected by it.
“Fees” shall mean all amounts payable pursuant to, or referred to in, Section 4.1.
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“Final Date” shall mean the date on which the Revolving Credit Commitments shall have
terminated, no Revolving Credit Loans shall be outstanding and the Letters of Credit Outstanding
shall have been reduced to zero.
“Foreign Asset Sale” shall have the meaning provided in Section 5.2(h).
“Foreign Currencies” shall mean any currency other than U.S. Dollars.
“Foreign Plan” shall mean any employee benefit plan, program, policy, arrangement or
agreement maintained or contributed to by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries with respect to
employees employed outside the United States.
“Fronting Fee” shall have the meaning provided in Section 4.1(c).
“Funded Debt” shall mean all indebtedness of the Company and the Restricted
Subsidiaries for borrowed money that matures more than one year from the date of its creation or
matures within one year from such date that is renewable or extendable, at the option of the
Company or any Restricted Subsidiary, to a date more than one year from such date or arises under a
revolving credit or similar agreement that obligates the lender or lenders to extend credit during
a period of more than one year from such date, including all amounts of Funded Debt required to be
paid or prepaid within one year from the date of its creation and, in the case of a Borrower,
Indebtedness in respect of the Loans.
“GAAP” shall mean generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of
America, as in effect from time to time; provided that if there occurs after the date
hereof any change in GAAP that affects in any respect the calculation of any covenant contained in
Section 10, the Lenders and the Company shall negotiate in good faith amendments to the provisions
of this Agreement that relate to the calculation of such covenant with the intent of having the
respective positions of the Lenders and the Company after such change in GAAP conform as nearly as
possible to their respective positions as of the date of this Agreement and, until any such
amendments have been agreed upon, the covenants in Section 10 shall be calculated as if no such
change in GAAP has occurred.
“Governmental Authority” shall mean any nation, sovereign or government, any state,
province, territory or other political subdivision thereof, and any entity or authority exercising
executive, legislative, judicial, regulatory or administrative functions of or pertaining to
government, including a central bank or stock exchange.
“Guarantee” shall mean (a) the Guarantee, made by each Guarantor in favor of the
Administrative Agents for the benefit of the Secured Parties, substantially in the form of
Exhibit C, and (b) any other guarantee of the Obligations made by a Restricted Subsidiary
in form and substance reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agents, in each case as the same
may be amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time.
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“Guarantee and Collateral Exception Amount” shall mean, at any time: (a)
$250,000,000, minus (b) the sum of (i) the aggregate amount of Indebtedness incurred or
assumed prior to such time pursuant to Sections 10.1(A)(j) or 10.1(A)(k) that is outstanding at
such time and that was used to acquire, or was assumed in connection with the acquisition of,
Stock, Stock Equivalents and/or assets in respect of which guarantees, pledges and security have
not been given pursuant to Sections 9.11 and 9.12, (ii) the aggregate New Loan Commitments at such
time and (iii) any Indebtedness incurred by any Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Guarantor,
provided that if such amount is a negative number, the Guarantee and Collateral Exception
Amount shall be zero.
“Guarantee Obligations” shall mean, as to any Person, any obligation of such Person
guaranteeing or intended to guarantee any Indebtedness of any other Person (the “primary
obligor”) in any manner, whether directly or indirectly, including any obligation of such
Person, whether or not contingent, (a) to purchase any such Indebtedness or any property
constituting direct or indirect security therefor, (b) to advance or supply funds (i) for the
purchase or payment of any such Indebtedness or (ii) to maintain working capital or equity capital
of the primary obligor or otherwise to maintain the net worth or solvency of the primary obligor,
(c) to purchase property, securities or services primarily for the purpose of assuring the owner of
any such Indebtedness of the ability of the primary obligor to make payment of such Indebtedness or
(d) otherwise to assure or hold harmless the owner of such Indebtedness against loss in respect
thereof; provided that the term “Guarantee Obligations” shall not include endorsements of
instruments for deposit or collection in the ordinary course of business. The amount of any
Guarantee Obligation shall be deemed to be an amount equal to the stated or determinable amount of
the Indebtedness in respect of which such Guarantee Obligation is made or, if not stated or
determinable, the maximum reasonably anticipated liability in respect thereof (assuming such Person
is required to perform thereunder) as determined by such Person in good faith.
“Guarantors” shall mean Holdings and the Subsidiary Guarantors.
“Hazardous Materials” shall mean (a) any petroleum or petroleum products, radioactive
materials, friable asbestos, urea formaldehyde foam insulation, transformers or other equipment
that contain dielectric fluid containing regulated levels of polychlorinated biphenyls, and radon
gas; (b) any chemicals, materials or substances defined as or included in the definition of
“hazardous substances”, “hazardous waste”, “hazardous materials”, “extremely hazardous waste”,
“restricted hazardous waste”, “toxic substances”, “toxic pollutants”, “contaminants”, or
“pollutants”, or words of similar
import, under any applicable Environmental Law; and (c) any other chemical, material or
substance, which is prohibited, limited or regulated by any Environmental Law.
“Hedge Agreements” shall mean interest rate swap, cap or collar agreements, interest
rate future or option contracts, currency swap agreements, currency future or option contracts,
commodity price protection agreements or other commodity price hedging agreements, and other
similar agreements entered into by the Company or any Guarantor in the ordinary course of business
(and not for speculative purposes) in
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order to protect the Company or any of the Restricted
Subsidiaries against fluctuations in interest rates, currency exchange rates or commodity prices.
“Historical Financial Statements” shall mean as of the Closing Date, the audited
financial statements of the Company and its Subsidiaries for the Company’s 2003 and 2004 fiscal
years, consisting of balance sheets and the related consolidated statements of income,
shareholders’ equity and cash flows for such fiscal years.
“Holdings” shall have the meaning provided in the preamble to this Agreement.
“Increased Amount Date” shall have the meaning provided in Section 2.14.
“Indebtedness” of any Person shall mean (a) all indebtedness of such Person for
borrowed money, (b) the deferred purchase price of assets or services that in accordance with GAAP
would be included as liabilities in the balance sheet of such Person, (c) the face amount of all
letters of credit issued for the account of such Person and, without duplication, all drafts drawn
thereunder, (d) all Indebtedness of a second Person secured by any Lien on any property owned by
such first Person, whether or not such Indebtedness has been assumed, (e) all Capitalized Lease
Obligations of such Person, (f) all obligations of such Person under interest rate swap, cap or
collar agreements, interest rate future or option contracts, currency swap agreements, currency
future or option contracts, commodity price protection agreements or other commodity price hedging
agreements and other similar agreements and (g) without duplication, all Guarantee Obligations of
such Person, provided that Indebtedness shall not include (i) trade payables and accrued
expenses, in each case payable directly or through a bank clearing arrangement and arising in the
ordinary course of business, (ii) deferred or prepaid revenue, (iii) purchase price holdbacks in
respect of a portion of the purchase price of an asset to satisfy warranty or other unperformed
obligations of the respective seller and (iv) liabilities in respect of netting services, overdraft
protection, employee credit card programs and similar treasury, depository or cash management
arrangements, in each case, (A) arising in the ordinary course of business and (B) to the extent
such liability is not included as debt on such Person’s balance sheet.
“Indemnified Taxes” shall mean all Taxes (other than Excluded Taxes) and Other Taxes.
“Intellectual Property License Agreement” shall mean the Intellectual Property License
Agreement, dated as of the date hereof, between the Seller and the Parent as the same may be
amended or otherwise modified from time to time.
“Interest Period” shall mean, with respect to any Term Loan or Revolving Credit Loan,
the interest period applicable thereto, as determined pursuant to Section 2.9.
“Investment” shall mean, for any Person: (a) the acquisition (whether for cash,
property, services or securities or otherwise) of Stock, Stock Equivalents, bonds,
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notes,
debentures, partnership or other ownership interests or other securities of any other Person
(including any “short sale” or any sale of any securities at a time when such securities are not
owned by the Person entering into such sale); (b) the making of any deposit with, or advance, loan
or other extension of credit to, any other Person (including the purchase of property from another
Person subject to an understanding or agreement, contingent or otherwise, to resell such property
to such Person), but excluding any such advance, loan or extension of credit having a term not
exceeding 364 days arising in the ordinary course of business and excluding also any Investment in
leases entered into in the ordinary course of business; or (c) the entering into of any guarantee
of, or other contingent obligation with respect to, Indebtedness or other monetary liability of any
other Person.
“Investors” shall mean the Sponsors, the Management Investors and each other investor
providing a portion of the Equity Investments on the Closing Date.
“Japanese Security Documents” shall mean any Security Documents governed by the laws
of Japan.
“Joinder Agreement” shall mean an agreement substantially in the form of Exhibit
M.
“Joint Lead Arrangers” shall mean Citigroup Global Markets Inc. and Xxxxxx Brothers
Inc.
“Joint Ventures” shall mean any Person in which the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary
maintains an equity investment, but which is not a Subsidiary of the Company or a Restricted
Subsidiary.
“KKR” shall mean each of Kohlberg Kravis Xxxxxxx & Co., L.P. and KKR Associates, L.P.
“L/C Maturity Date” shall mean the date that is five Business Days prior to the
Revolving Credit Maturity Date.
“L/C Participant” shall have the meaning provided in Section 3.3(a).
“L/C Participation” shall have the meaning provided in Section 3.3(a).
“Lender” shall have the meaning provided in the preamble to this Agreement.
“Lender Default” shall mean (a) the failure (which has not been cured) of a Lender to
make available its portion of any Borrowing or to fund its portion of any unreimbursed payment
under Section 3.3 or (b) a Lender having notified the applicable Administrative Agent and/or the
Company that it does not intend to comply with the obligations under Section 2.1(a), 2.1(b), 2.1(d)
or 3.3, in the case of either clause (a) or
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clause (b) above, as a result of the appointment of a
receiver or conservator with respect to such Lender at the direction or request of any regulatory
agency or authority.
“Letter of Credit” shall have the meaning provided in Section 3.1(a).
“Letter of Credit Exposure” shall mean, with respect to any U.S. Dollar Lender, at any
time, the sum of (a) the amount of any Unpaid Drawings in respect of which such U.S. Dollar Lender
has made (or is required to have made) payments to the Letter of Credit Issuer pursuant to Section
3.4(a) at such time and (b) such U.S. Dollar Lender’s U.S. Dollar Revolving Credit Commitment
Percentage of the Letters of Credit Outstanding at such time (excluding the portion thereof
consisting of Unpaid Drawings in respect of which the U.S. Dollar Lenders have made (or are
required to have made) payments to the Letter of Credit Issuer pursuant to Section 3.4(a)).
“Letter of Credit Fee” shall have the meaning provided in Section 4.1(b).
“Letter of Credit Issuer” shall mean Citibank N.A., Singapore Branch, any of its
Affiliates or any successor pursuant to Section 3.6. The Letter of Credit Issuer may, in its
discretion, arrange for one or more Letters of Credit to be issued by Affiliates of the Letter of
Credit Issuer, and in each such case the term “Letter of Credit Issuer” shall include any such
Affiliate with respect to Letters of Credit issued by such Affiliate. In the event that there is
more than one Letter of Credit Issuer at any time, references herein and in the other Credit
Documents to the Letter of Credit Issuer shall be deemed to refer to the Letter of Credit Issuer in
respect of the applicable Letter of Credit or to all Letter of Credit Issuers, as the context
requires.
“Letters of Credit Outstanding” shall mean at any time, the sum of, without
duplication, (a) the aggregate Stated Amount of all outstanding Letters of Credit and (b) the
aggregate amount of all Unpaid Drawings in respect of all Letters of Credit.
“Letter of Credit Request” shall have the meaning provided in Section 3.2(d).
“Level A Status” shall mean, on any date, the Consolidated Total Debt to Adjusted
EBITDA Ratio is greater than or equal to 3.50 to 1.00 as of such date.
“Level B Status” shall mean, on any date, the circumstance that Level A Status does
not exist and the Consolidated Total Debt to Adjusted EBITDA Ratio is less than 3.50 to 1.00 as of
such date.
“Level I Status” shall mean, on any date, the Consolidated Total Debt to Adjusted
EBITDA Ratio is greater than or equal to 3.75 to 1.00 as of such date.
“Level II Status” shall mean, on any date, the circumstance that Level I Status does
not exist and the Consolidated Total Debt to Adjusted EBITDA Ratio is greater than or equal to 3.25
to 1.00 as of such date.
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“Level III Status” shall mean, on any date, the circumstance that neither Level I
Status nor Level II Status exists and the Consolidated Total Debt to Adjusted EBITDA Ratio with
respect to the Applicable ABR Margin and Applicable LIBOR Margin, is greater than or equal to 2.75
to 1.00 as of such date.
“Level IV Status” shall mean, on any date, the circumstance that the Consolidated
Total Debt to Adjusted EBITDA Ratio is less than 2.75 to 1.00.
“LIBOR Loan” shall mean any LIBOR Term Loan, LIBOR Revolving Credit Loan or LIBOR
Swingline Loan.
“LIBOR Rate” shall mean, in the case of any LIBOR Term Loan or LIBOR Revolving Credit
Loan, with respect to each day during each Interest Period pertaining to such LIBOR Loan, (a) the
rate of interest determined on the basis of the rate for deposits in U.S. Dollars for a period
equal to such Interest Period commencing on the first day of such Interest Period appearing on Page
3750 of the Telerate screen as of 11:00 a.m. (London time) two Business Days prior to the beginning
of such Interest Period multiplied by (b) the Statutory Reserve Rate. In the event that any
such rate does not appear on the applicable Page of the Telerate Service (or otherwise on such
service), the “LIBOR Rate” for the purposes of this paragraph shall be determined by
reference to such other publicly available service for displaying LIBOR rates as may be agreed upon
by the Administrative Agents and the Borrowers or, in the absence of such agreement, the “LIBOR
Rate” for the purposes of this paragraph shall instead be the rate per annum notified to the
applicable Administrative Agent by the Reference Lender as the rate at which the Reference Lender
is offered U.S. Dollar deposits at or about 11:00 a.m. (London time) two Business Days prior to the
beginning of such Interest Period in the interbank LIBOR market where the LIBOR and foreign
currency and exchange operations in respect of its LIBOR Loans are then being conducted for
delivery on the first day of such Interest Period for the number of days comprised therein and in
an amount comparable to the amount of its LIBOR Term Loan or LIBOR Revolving Credit Loan, as the
case may be, to be outstanding during such Interest Period.
“LIBOR Revolving Credit Loan” shall mean any Revolving Credit Loan bearing interest at
a rate determined by reference to the LIBOR Rate.
“LIBOR Swingline Loan” shall mean any Swingline Loan bearing interest at a rate
determined by reference to the LIBOR Rate.
“LIBOR Term Loan” shall mean any Term Loan bearing interest at a rate determined by
reference to the LIBOR Rate.
“Lien” shall mean any mortgage, pledge, security interest, hypothecation, assignment,
lien (statutory or other) or similar encumbrance (including any agreement to give any of the
foregoing, any conditional sale or other title retention agreement or any lease in the nature
thereof).
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“Loan” shall mean any Revolving Credit Loan, Swingline Loan, Term Loan, New Revolving
Loan or New Tranche B Term Loan made by any Lender hereunder.
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Local Time” shall mean, with respect to (a) any Borrowing by or of the Lux Borrower,
New York City time and (b) any Borrowing by or of any other Borrower, Hong Kong time.
“Lux Borrower” shall have the meaning provided in the preamble to this Agreement.
“Lux Intercompany Loans” shall mean any intercompany loans made by the Lux Borrower
with the proceeds of the Tranche B-1 Term Loans to certain Restricted Subsidiaries on the Closing
Date for the purpose of financing a portion of the Acquisition.
“Management Investors” shall mean the directors, management officers and employees of
the Company and its Subsidiaries who are investors in Holdings and/or the Parent on the Closing
Date.
“Malaysia” shall mean the Federation of Malaysia.
“Malaysian Available Commitments” shall mean, at any time, an amount equal to the
excess, if any, of (a) the then effective Total Malaysian Revolving Credit Commitments over (b) the
sum of the aggregate principal amount of all Malaysian Revolving Credit Loans (but not Malaysian
Swingline Loans) or New Malaysian U.S. Dollar Revolving Credit Loans, as applicable, then
outstanding.
“Malaysian Base Lending Rate” shall mean the rate of interest per annum publicly
announced from time to time by the Citibank Berhad as its base lending rate in effect at its
principal office in Kuala Lumpur for extensions of credit (the Malaysian Base Lending Rate not
being intended to be the lowest rate of interest charged by Citibank Berhad in connection with
extensions of credit to debtors).
“Malaysian Borrower” shall have the meaning provided in the preamble to this
Agreement.
“Malaysian Borrowing” shall mean Malaysian Revolving Credit Loans, or New Malaysian
U.S. Dollar Revolving Credit Loans, as the case may be, made on the same day by the Malaysian
Lenders ratably according to their respective Malaysian Revolving Credit Commitments.
“Malaysian Commitment Conversion Date” shall have the meaning provided in Section
2.15(a).
“Malaysian Commitment Conversion Notice” shall have the meaning provided in Section
2.15(a).
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“Malaysian Lender” shall mean each Lender having a Malaysian Revolving Credit
Commitment.
“Malaysian Lending Office” shall mean, with respect to any Lender, the office of such
Lender specified as its “Malaysian Lending Office” opposite its name on Schedule 1.1(a) or
on the Assignment and Acceptance by which it became a Lender or such other office of such Lender as
such Lender may from time to time specify to the Company and the Asian Administrative Agent.
“Malaysian Mandatory Borrowing” shall have the meaning provided in Section 2.1(d)(ii).
“Malaysian Revolving Credit Commitment” shall mean, (a) with respect to each Malaysian
Lender that is a Malaysian Lender on the date hereof, the amount set forth opposite such Lender’s
name on Schedule 1.1(c) as such Lender’s “Malaysian Revolving Credit Commitment,” and (b)
in the case of any Lender that becomes a Lender after the date hereof, the amount specified as such
Lender’s “Malaysian Revolving Credit Commitment” in the Assignment and Acceptance pursuant to which
such Lender assumed a portion of the Total Malaysian Revolving Credit Commitment, in each case as
the same may be changed from time to time pursuant to the terms hereof. The aggregate amount of
the Malaysian Revolving Credit Commitments as of the Closing Date is U.S. Dollar Equivalent of
$20,000,000.
“Malaysian Revolving Credit Commitment Percentage” shall mean, at any time, for each
Malaysian Lender, the percentage obtained by dividing (a) such Lender’s Malaysian Revolving
Credit Commitment by (b) the aggregate amount of the Malaysian Revolving Credit Commitments,
provided that at any time when the Total Malaysian Revolving Credit Commitment shall have
been terminated, each Malaysian Lender’s Revolving Credit Commitment Percentage shall be its
Malaysian Revolving Credit Commitment Percentage as in effect immediately prior to such
termination.
“Malaysian Revolving Credit Exposure” shall mean, with respect to any Lender at any
time, the sum of the U.S. Dollar Equivalent of (a) the aggregate principal amount of the Malaysian
Revolving Credit Loans or New Malaysian U.S. Dollar Revolving Credit Loans, as applicable, of such
Lender then outstanding and (b) such
Lender’s Malaysian Revolving Credit Commitment Percentage of the aggregate principal amount of
all outstanding Malaysian Swingline Loans.
“Malaysian Revolving Credit Facility” shall mean the Malaysian Revolving Credit
Commitments and the provisions herein related to the Malaysian Revolving Credit Loans and New
Malaysian U.S. Dollar Revolving Credit Loans, as applicable.
“Malaysian Revolving Credit Loan” shall mean each Malaysian U.S. Dollar Loan and each
Malaysian Ringgit Loan, and, collectively, the “Malaysian Revolving Credit Loans”.
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“Malaysian Ringgit Loan” shall have the meaning provided in Section 2.1(b)(iii)(B).
“Malaysian Ringgit Swingline Loan” shall have the meaning provided in Section
2.1(c)(ii)(A).
“Malaysian Security Agency Agreement” shall bean the Security Agency Agreement
executed or to be executed by the Borrowers, Holdings, Avago Technologies Wireless Holding (Labuan)
Corporation (f/k/a Argos Wireless Holding (Labuan) Corporation), Avago Technologies Imaging Holding
(Labuan) Corporation (f/k/a Argos Imaging Holding (Labuan) Corporation), Avago Technologies
Enterprise Holding (Labuan) Corporation (f/k/a Argos Enterprise Holding (Labuan) Corporation),
Avago Technologies Storage Holding (Labuan) Corporation (f/k/a Argos Storage Holding (Labuan)
Corporation), Avago Technologies Fiber Holding (Labuan) Corporation (f/k/a Argos Fiber Holding
(Labuan) Corporation), Avago Technologies General IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd., the Administrative
Agents and the Collateral Agent.
“Malaysian Swingline Commitment” shall mean U.S. Dollar Equivalent of $20,000,000.
“Malaysian Swingline Lender” shall mean Citibank Berhad in its capacity as lender of
Malaysian U.S. Dollar Swingline Loans and Malaysian Ringgit Swingline Loans hereunder.
“Malaysian Swingline Loan” shall mean each Malaysian U.S. Dollar Swingline Loan and
each Malaysian Ringgit Swingline Loan.
“Malaysian U.S. Dollar Loan” shall have the meaning provided in Section
2.1(b)(iii)(A).
“Malaysian U.S. Dollar Swingline Loan” shall have the meaning provided in Section
2.1(c)(ii)(B).
“Mandatory Borrowing” shall mean each Multi-Currency Mandatory Borrowing and each
Malaysian Mandatory Borrowing.
“Master Separation Agreement” shall mean the Master Separation Agreement, dated as of
August 14, 2005, between the Seller and the Parent as the same may be amended or otherwise modified
from time to time.
“Material Adverse Change” shall mean any event or circumstance which has resulted or
is reasonably likely to result in a material adverse change in the business, assets, operations,
properties or financial condition of Holdings and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, or that would
materially adversely affect the ability of Holdings and the other Credit Parties, taken as a whole,
to perform their respective payment obligations under this Agreement or any of the other Credit
Documents.
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“Material Adverse Effect” shall mean a circumstance or condition affecting the
business, assets, operations, properties or financial condition of Holdings and the Subsidiaries,
taken as a whole, that would materially adversely affect (a) the ability of Holdings and the other
Credit Parties, taken as a whole, to perform their respective payment obligations under this
Agreement or any of the other Credit Documents or (b) the rights and remedies of the Agents and the
Lenders under this Agreement or any of the other Credit Documents.
“Material Subsidiary” shall mean, at any date of determination, each Restricted
Subsidiary of the Company (a) whose total assets at the last day of the Test Period ending on the
last day of the most recent fiscal period for which Section 9.1 Financials have been delivered were
equal to or greater than 5% of the consolidated total assets of the Company and the Restricted
Subsidiaries at such date or (b) whose gross revenues for such Test Period were equal to or greater
than 5% of the consolidated gross revenues of the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries for such
period, in each case determined in accordance with GAAP.
“Maturity Date” shall mean the Tranche B Term Loan Maturity Date or the Revolving
Credit Maturity Date.
“Minimum Borrowing Amount” shall mean with respect to a Borrowing of (a) Term Loans or
Revolving Credit Loans denominated in U.S. Dollars, $1,000,000, (b) Swingline Loans denominated in
U.S. Dollars, $100,000, (c) Revolving Credit Loans denominated in Singapore Dollars, S$1,000,000,
(d) Swingline Loans denominated in Singapore Dollars, S$100,000, (e) Revolving Credit Loans
denominated in Ringgit, RM4,000,000 and (f) Swingline Loans denominated in Ringgit, RM400,000.
“Minority Investment” shall mean any Person (other than a Subsidiary) in which the
Company or any Restricted Subsidiary owns Stock or Stock Equivalents.
“Moneylenders Act” shall mean the Money Lenders Act, Chapter 188 of Singapore.
“Moody’s” shall mean Xxxxx’x Investors Service, Inc. or any successor by merger or
consolidation to its business.
“Mortgage” shall mean a Mortgage, Assignment of Leases and Rents, Security Agreement
and Financing Statement or other security document entered into by the owner of a Mortgaged
Property and the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties in respect of that
Mortgaged Property, (a) substantially in the form of Exhibit D, (b) otherwise listed on
Schedule 6.1 or (c) entered into after the Closing Date pursuant to Section 9.14(b), in each case,
as the same may be amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time.
“Mortgaged Property” shall mean, initially, each parcel of real estate and the
improvements thereto owned by a Credit Party and identified on Schedule 1.1(b), and
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includes each other parcel of real property and improvements thereto with respect to which a
Mortgage is granted pursuant to Section 9.14.
“Multi-Currency Available Commitments” shall mean, at any time, an amount equal to the
excess, if any, of (a) the then effective Total Multi-Currency Revolving Credit Commitments over
(b) the aggregate principal amount of all Multi-Currency Revolving Credit Loans (but not
Multi-Currency Swingline Loans) then outstanding at such time.
“Multi-Currency Borrowers” shall mean the U.S. Borrowers and the Singaporean Borrower.
“Multi-Currency Borrowing” shall mean Multi-Currency Revolving Credit Loans made on
the same day by the Multi-Currency Lenders ratably according to their respective Multi-Currency
Revolving Credit Commitments.
“Multi-Currency Lender” shall mean each Lender having a Multi-Currency Revolving
Credit Commitment.
“Multi-Currency Mandatory Borrowing” shall have the meaning provided in Section
2.1(d)(i).
“Multi-Currency Revolving Credit Commitment” shall mean, (a) with respect to each
Multi-Currency Lender that is a Multi-Currency Lender on the date hereof, the amount set forth
opposite such Lender’s name on Schedule 1.1(c) as such Lender’s “Multi-Currency Revolving
Credit Commitment,” and (b) in the case of any Lender that becomes a Lender after the date hereof,
the amount specified as such Lender’s “Multi-Currency Revolving Credit Commitment” in the
Assignment and Acceptance pursuant to which such Lender assumed a portion of the Total
Multi-Currency Revolving Credit Commitment, in each case as the same may be changed from time to
time pursuant to the terms hereof. The aggregate amount of the Multi-Currency Revolving Credit
Commitments as of the Closing Date is U.S. Dollar Equivalent of $90,000,000.
“Multi-Currency Revolving Credit Commitment Percentage” shall mean, at any time, for
each Multi-Currency Lender, the percentage obtained by dividing (a)
such Lender’s Multi-Currency Revolving Credit Commitment by (b) the aggregate amount of the
Multi-Currency Revolving Credit Commitments, provided that at any time when the Total
Multi-Currency Revolving Credit Commitment shall have been terminated, each Multi-Currency Lender’s
Revolving Credit Commitment Percentage shall be its Multi-Currency Revolving Credit Commitment
Percentage as in effect immediately prior to such termination.
“Multi-Currency Revolving Credit Exposure” shall mean, with respect to any Lender at
any time, the sum of the U.S. Dollar Equivalent of (a) the aggregate principal amount of the
Multi-Currency Revolving Credit Loans of such Lender then outstanding, and (b) such Lender’s
Multi-Currency Revolving Credit Commitment
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Percentage of the aggregate principal amount of all
outstanding Multi-Currency Swingline Loans.
“Multi-Currency Revolving Credit Facility” shall mean the Multi-Currency Revolving
Credit Commitments and the provisions herein related to the Multi-Currency Revolving Credit Loans.
“Multi-Currency Revolving Credit Loan” shall mean each Multi-Currency U.S. Dollar Loan
and each Multi-Currency Singapore Dollar Loan and, collectively, the “Multi-Currency Revolving
Credit Loans”.
“Multi-Currency Singapore Dollar Loan” shall have the meaning provided in Section
2.1(b)(ii)(B).
“Multi-Currency Singapore Dollar Swingline Loan” shall have the meaning provided in
Section 2.1(c)(ii)(B).
“Multi-Currency Swingline Commitment” shall mean the U.S. Dollar Equivalent of
$50,000,000.
“Multi-Currency Swingline Lender” shall mean Citibank N.A., Singapore Branch, in its
capacity as lender of Multi-Currency Swingline Loans hereunder.
“Multi-Currency Swingline Loan” shall mean each Multi-Currency U.S. Dollar Swing Loan
and each Multi-Currency Singapore Dollar Swing Loan.
“Multi-Currency U.S. Dollar Loan” shall have the meaning provided in Section
2.1(b)(ii)(A).
“Multi-Currency U.S. Dollar Swingline Loan” shall have the meaning provided in Section
2.1(c)(ii)(A).
“Net Cash Proceeds” shall mean, with respect to any Prepayment Event or the issuance
after the Closing Date by any Borrower of any Stock, Stock Equivalents (a) the gross cash proceeds
(including payments from time to time in respect of installment obligations, if applicable)
received by or on behalf of the Company or any of the
Restricted Subsidiaries in respect of such Prepayment Event or issuance, as the case may be,
less (b) the sum of:
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in the case of any Prepayment Event, the
amount, if any, of all taxes paid or estimated to be payable by the
Company or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries in connection with such
Prepayment Event, |
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in the case of any Prepayment Event, the
amount of any reasonable reserve established in accordance with GAAP
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pursuant to
clause (i) above) (x) associated with the assets that are the subject
of such Prepayment Event and (y) retained by the Company or any of
the Restricted Subsidiaries, provided that the amount of any
subsequent reduction of such reserve (other than in connection with a
payment in respect of any such liability) shall be deemed to be Net
Cash Proceeds of such a Prepayment Event occurring on the date of
such reduction, |
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in the case of any Prepayment Event, the
amount of any Indebtedness secured by a Lien on the assets that are
the subject of such Prepayment Event to the extent that the
instrument creating or evidencing such Indebtedness requires that
such Indebtedness be repaid upon consummation of such Prepayment
Event, |
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in the case of any Asset Sale Prepayment
Event (other than a transaction permitted by Section 10.4(e)(ii)),
Casualty Event or Permitted Sale Leaseback, the amount of any
proceeds of such Prepayment Event that (A) the Company has paid as
dividends pursuant to Section 10.6(d) or has used to repay,
repurchase or redeem or otherwise defease any Subordinated
Indebtedness pursuant to Section 10.7(a)(ii) (or any other Senior
Notes or any Permitted Additional Notes that do not constitute
Subordinated Indebtedness to the extent the conditions set forth in
Section 10.7(a)(ii) would be satisfied with respect to such Asset
Sale Prepayment Event) and (B) the Company or any Subsidiary has
reinvested (or intends to reinvest within the Reinvestment Period or
has entered into a binding commitment prior to the last day of the
Reinvestment Period to reinvest) in the business of the Company or
any of the Restricted Subsidiaries (subject to Section 10.11),
provided that any portion of such proceeds that has not been
so used within such Reinvestment Period shall, unless
such Borrower or a Subsidiary has entered into a binding
commitment prior to the last day of such Reinvestment Period to
reinvest such proceeds, (x) be deemed to be Net Cash Proceeds of
an Asset Sale Prepayment Event, Casualty Event or Permitted Sale
Leaseback occurring on the last day of such Reinvestment Period or
180 days after the date such Borrower or such Subsidiary has
entered into such binding commitment, as applicable, and (y) be
applied to the repayment of Term Loans in accordance with Section
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in the case of any Prepayment Event or the
issuance by any Borrower of any Stock or Stock Equivalents,
reasonable and customary fees, commissions, expenses, issuance costs,
discounts and other costs paid by the Company or any of the
Restricted Subsidiaries, as applicable, in connection with such
Prepayment Event or issuance, as the case may be (other than those
payable to any Borrower or any Subsidiary of any Borrower), in each
case only to the extent not already deducted in arriving at the
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“New Loan Commitments” shall have the meaning provided in Section 2.14.
“New Malaysian U.S. Dollar Revolving Credit Commitment” shall have the meaning
provided in Section 2.15(a).
“New Malaysian U.S. Dollar Revolving Credit Loan” and “New Malaysian U.S. Dollar
Revolving Credit Loans” shall have the meaning provided in Section 2.15(b).
“New Revolving Credit Commitments” shall have the meaning provided in Section 2.14.
“New Revolving Loan Lender” shall have the meaning provided in Section 2.14.
“New Revolving Loans” shall have the meaning provided in Section 2.14.
“New Tranche B Repayment Amount” shall have the meaning provided in Section
2.5(b)(iii).
“New Tranche B Term Loan Commitments” shall have the meaning provided in Section 2.14.
“New Tranche B Term Loan Lender” shall have the meaning provided in Section 2.14.
“New Tranche B Term Loan Maturity Date” shall mean the date on which a New Tranche B
Term Loan matures.
“New Tranche B Term Loans” shall have the meaning provided in Section 2.14.
“Non-Cash Charges” shall have the meaning provided in the definition of Consolidated
EBITDA.
“Non-Consenting Lender” shall have the meaning provided in Section 13.7.
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“Non-Defaulting Lender” shall mean and include each Lender other than a Defaulting
Lender.
“Non-U.S. Lender” shall mean any Lender that is not, for United States federal income
tax purposes, (i) a citizen or resident of the United States, (ii) a corporation or partnership or
entity treated as a corporation or partnership created or organized in or under the laws of the
United States, or any political subdivision thereof, (iii) an estate whose income is subject to
U.S. federal income taxation regardless of its source or (iv) a trust if a court within the United
States is able to exercise primary supervision over the administration of such trust and one or
more United States persons have the authority to control all substantial decisions of such trust or
a trust that has a valid election in effect under applicable U.S. Treasury regulations to be
treated as a United States person.
“Non-U.S. Participant” shall mean any Participant that would qualify as a Non-U.S.
Lender if it were a Lender.
“Non-U.S. Subsidiary” shall mean each Subsidiary of Holdings or the Company that is
organized under the laws of any jurisdiction outside of the United States of America, any state or
territory thereof, or the District of Columbia.
“Note” shall have the meaning provided in Section 13.6(d).
“Notice of Borrowing” shall have the meaning provided in Section 2.3.
“Notice of Conversion or Continuation” shall have the meaning provided in Section 2.6.
“Obligations” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in the Security Documents.
“Other Taxes” shall mean any and all present or future stamp, documentary or any other
excise, property or similar taxes (including interest, fines, penalties, additions to tax and
related expenses with regard thereto) arising directly from any payment made or required to be made
under this Agreement or from the execution or delivery of, registration or enforcement of,
consummation or administration of, or otherwise with respect to, this Agreement or any other Credit
Document.
“Parent” shall have the meaning provided in the preamble to this Agreement.
“Participant” shall have the meaning provided in Section 13.6(c)(i).
“Patriot Act” shall have the meaning provided in Section 13.21.
“PBGC” shall mean the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation established pursuant to
Section 4002 of ERISA, or any successor thereto.
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“Perfection Certificate” shall mean a certificate of each Borrower in the form of
Exhibit E or any other form approved by the Collateral Agent.
“Permitted Acquisition” shall mean the acquisition, by merger or otherwise, by the
Company or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries of assets or Stock or Stock Equivalents, so long as
(a) such acquisition and all transactions related thereto shall be consummated in accordance with
applicable law; (b) such acquisition shall result in the issuer of such Stock or Stock Equivalents
becoming a Restricted Subsidiary and a Subsidiary Guarantor, to the extent required by Section
9.11; (c) such acquisition shall result in the Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the applicable
Lenders, being granted a security interest in any Stock, Stock Equivalents or any assets so
acquired, to the extent required by Sections 9.11, 9.12 and/or 9.14; (d) after giving effect to
such acquisition, no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing; and (e) the
Company shall be in compliance, on a pro forma basis after giving effect to such acquisition
(including any Indebtedness assumed or permitted to exist or incurred pursuant to Sections
10.1(A)(j) and 10.1(A)(k), respectively, and any related Pro Forma Adjustment), with the covenant
set forth in Section 10.9 as such covenant is recomputed as at the last day of the most recently
ended Test Period under such Section as if such acquisition had occurred on the first day of such
Test Period.
“Permitted Additional Notes” shall mean senior or senior subordinated notes, issued by
Holdings or any Borrower, (a) the terms of which (i) do not provide for any scheduled repayment,
mandatory redemption or sinking fund obligation prior to the date on which the final maturity of
the Senior Notes occurs (as in effect on the Closing Date) (other than customary offers to purchase
upon a change of control, asset sale or event of loss and customary acceleration rights after an
event of default) and (ii) to the extent senior subordinated notes, provide for customary
subordination to the Obligations under the Credit Documents, (b) the covenants, events of default,
guarantees and other terms of which (other than interest rate and redemption premiums), taken as a
whole, are not more restrictive to the Borrowers and the Subsidiaries than those in the Senior
Notes; provided that a certificate of an Authorized Officer of the Company is delivered to
the Administrative Agents at least ten Business Days (or such shorter period as the Administrative
Agents may reasonably agree) prior to the incurrence of such Indebtedness, together with a
reasonably detailed description of the material terms and conditions of such Indebtedness or drafts
of the documentation relating thereto, stating that the Company has determined in good faith that
such terms and conditions satisfy the foregoing requirement shall be conclusive evidence that such
terms and conditions satisfy the foregoing requirement unless the Administrative Agents notify the
Company within such period that it disagrees with such determination (including a reasonable
description of the basis upon which it disagrees), and (c) of which no Subsidiary of the Company
(other than a Guarantor) is an obligor under such notes that is not an obligor under the Senior
Notes.
“Permitted Capital Expenditure Amount” shall have the meaning provided in Section
10.10.
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“Permitted Investments” shall mean:
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securities issued or unconditionally guaranteed by the United
States government or any agency or instrumentality thereof, in each case
having maturities of not more than 24 months from the date of acquisition
thereof; |
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securities issued by any state of the United States of
America or any political subdivision of any such state or any public
instrumentality thereof or any political subdivision of any such state or any
public instrumentality thereof having maturities of not more than 24 months
from the date of acquisition thereof and, at the time of acquisition, having
an investment grade rating generally obtainable from either S&P or Moody’s
(or, if at any time neither S&P nor Moody’s shall be rating such obligations,
then from another nationally recognized rating service); |
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commercial paper issued by any Lender or any bank holding
company owning any Lender; |
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commercial paper maturing no more than 12 months after the
date of creation thereof and, at the time of acquisition, having a rating of
at least A-2 or P-2 from either S&P or Moody’s (or, if at any time neither S&P
nor Moody’s shall be rating such obligations, an equivalent rating from
another nationally recognized rating service); |
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certificates of deposit or bankers’ acceptances issued by, or
time deposits with, any Lender or any other bank having combined capital and
surplus of not less than $250,000,000 in the case of domestic banks and
$100,000,000 (or the U.S. Dollar Equivalent thereof) in the case of foreign
banks, in each case, having maturities of no more than two years; |
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repurchase agreements with a term of not more than 30 days
for underlying securities of the type described in clauses (a), (b) and (e)
above entered into with any bank meeting the qualifications specified in
clause (e) above or securities dealers of recognized national standing; |
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marketable short-term money market and similar funds (x)
either having assets in excess of $250,000,000 or (y) having a rating of at
least A-2 or P-2 from either S&P or Moody’s (or, if at any time neither S&P
nor Moody’s shall be rating such obligations, an equivalent rating from
another nationally recognized rating service); |
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shares of investment companies that are registered under the
Investment Company Act of 1940 and substantially all the investments of which
are one or more of the types of securities described in clauses (a) through
(g) above; and |
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in the case of Investments by any Restricted Subsidiary
organized under the law of a jurisdiction outside of the United States of
America or Investments made in a country outside the United States of America,
other customarily utilized high-quality Investments in the country where such
Restricted Subsidiary is located or in which such Investment is made. |
“Permitted Liens” shall mean:
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Liens for taxes, assessments or governmental charges or
claims not yet due or which are being contested in good faith and by
appropriate proceedings for which appropriate reserves have been established
in accordance with GAAP; |
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Liens in respect of property or assets of any of the
Borrowers or any of the Subsidiaries imposed by law, such as carriers’,
warehousemen’s and mechanics’ Liens and other similar Liens arising in the
ordinary course of business, in each case so long as such Liens arise in the
ordinary course of business and do not individually or in the aggregate have a
Material Adverse Effect; |
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Liens arising from judgments or decrees in circumstances not
constituting an Event of Default under Section 11.11; |
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Liens incurred or deposits made in connection with workers’
compensation, unemployment insurance and other types of social security, or to
secure the performance of tenders, statutory obligations, surety and appeal
bonds, bids, leases, government contracts, performance and return-of-money
bonds and other similar obligations incurred in the ordinary course of
business; |
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ground leases in respect of real property on which facilities
owned or leased by any Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries are located; |
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easements, rights-of-way, restrictions, minor defects or
irregularities in title and other similar charges or encumbrances not
interfering in any material respect with the business of any Borrower and its
Subsidiaries, taken as a whole; |
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any interest or title of a lessor or secured by a lessor’s
interest under any lease permitted by this Agreement; |
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Liens in favor of customs and revenue authorities arising as
a matter of law to secure payment of customs duties in connection with the
importation of goods; |
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Liens on goods the purchase price of which is financed by a
documentary letter of credit issued for the account of any Borrower or any of
its Subsidiaries, provided that such Lien secures only the obligations
of such Borrower or such Subsidiaries in respect of such letter of credit to
the extent permitted under Section 10.1; |
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leases or subleases granted to others not interfering in any
material respect with the business of any Borrower and its Subsidiaries, taken
as a whole; and |
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Liens created in the ordinary course of business in favor of
banks and other financial institutions over credit balances of any bank
accounts of the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries held at such banks or
financial institutions, as the case may be, to facilitate the operation of
cash pooling and/or interest set-off arrangements in respect of such bank
accounts in the ordinary course of business. |
“Permitted Sale Leaseback” shall mean any Sale Leaseback consummated by the Company or
any of the Restricted Subsidiaries after the Closing Date, provided that any such Sale
Leaseback not between a Borrower and any Guarantor or any Guarantor and another Guarantor is
consummated for fair value as determined at the time of consummation in good faith by the Company
or such Restricted Subsidiary and, in the case of any Sale Leaseback (or series of related Sale
Leasebacks) the aggregate proceeds of which exceed $20,000,000, the board of directors of the
Company or such Restricted Subsidiary (which such determination may take into account any retained
interest or other Investment of the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary in connection with, and
any other material economic terms of, such Sale Leaseback).
“Person” shall mean any individual, partnership, joint venture, firm, corporation,
limited liability company, association, trust or other enterprise or any Governmental Authority.
“Plan” shall mean any multiemployer or single-employer plan, as defined in Section
4001 of ERISA and subject to Title IV of ERISA, that is or was within any of the preceding six plan
years maintained or contributed to by (or to which there is or was an obligation to contribute or
to make payments to) Holdings, the Company, a Subsidiary or an ERISA Affiliate.
“Platform” shall have the meaning provided in Section 13.20(b).
“Pledge Agreements” shall mean (a) the Pledge Agreement, entered into by the relevant
pledgors party thereto and the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Lenders
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and other Secured Parties, substantially in the form of Exhibit F, on the
Closing Date, (b) each other pledge agreement listed on Schedule 6.1 delivered on Closing Date and
(c) any other pledge agreement delivered pursuant to Section 9.12, in each case, as the same may be
amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time.
“Post-Acquisition Period” means, with respect to any Permitted Acquisition, the period
beginning on the date such Permitted Acquisition is consummated and ending on the last day of the
sixth full consecutive fiscal quarter immediately following the date on which such Permitted
Acquisition is consummated.
“Prepayment Event” shall mean any Asset Sale Prepayment Event, Debt Incurrence
Prepayment Event, Casualty Event or any Permitted Sale Leaseback.
“Prime Rate” shall mean the U.S. Prime Rate, the Singaporean Prime Rate or the
Malaysian Base Lending Rate, as applicable.
“Process Agent” shall have the meaning provided in Section 13.16.
“Pro Forma Adjustment” shall mean, for any Test Period that includes all or any part
of a fiscal quarter included in any Post-Acquisition Period, with respect to the Acquired EBITDA of
the applicable Acquired Entity or Business or the Consolidated EBITDA of the Company, the pro forma
increase or decrease in such Acquired EBITDA or such Consolidated EBITDA, as the case may be,
projected by the Company in good faith as a result of (a) actions taken during such
Post-Acquisition Period for the purposes of realizing reasonably identifiable and factually
supportable cost savings or (b) any additional costs incurred during such Post-Acquisition Period,
in each case in connection with the combination of the operations of such Acquired Entity or
Business with the operations of the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries; provided that, so long
as such actions are taken during such Post-Acquisition Period or such costs are incurred during
such Post-Acquisition Period, as applicable, the cost savings related to such actions or such
additional costs, as applicable, it may be assumed, for purposes of projecting such pro forma
increase or decrease to such Acquired EBITDA or such Consolidated EBITDA, as the case may be, that
such cost savings will be realizable during the entirety of such Test Period, or such additional
costs, as applicable, will be incurred during the entirety of such Test Period; provided further
that any such pro forma increase or decrease to such Acquired EBITDA or such Consolidated EBITDA,
as the case may be, shall be without duplication for cost savings or additional costs already
included in such Acquired EBITDA or such Consolidated EBITDA, as the case may be, for such Test
Period.
“Pro Forma Adjustment Certificate” shall mean any certificate of an Authorized Officer
of the Company delivered pursuant to Section 9.1(h) or setting forth the information described in
clause (iv) to Section 9.1(d).
“Qualified PIK Securities” shall mean (1) any preferred Stock or preferred Stock
Equivalents of any Person (a) that does not provide for any cash dividend payments
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or other cash distributions in respect thereof on or prior to the Tranche B Term Loan Maturity
Date and (b) that by its terms (and by the terms of any security into which it is convertible or
for which it is exchangeable or exercisable) or upon the happening of any event does not (i)(x)
mature or become mandatorily redeemable pursuant to a sinking fund obligation or otherwise, (y)
become convertible or exchangeable at the option of the holder thereof for Indebtedness or
preferred stock that is not Qualified PIK Securities or (z) become redeemable at the option of the
holder thereof (other than as a result of a change of control or asset sale event), in whole or in
part, in each case on or prior to the first anniversary of the Tranche B Term Loan Maturity Date
and (ii) provide holders thereunder with any rights upon the occurrence of a “change of control”
event or asset sale event prior to the repayment of the Obligations under any Credit Document and
(2) any Indebtedness of such Person which has payments terms at least as favorable to the Company
and the Lenders as described in clauses (1)(a) and (b) above and is subordinated on customary terms
and conditions (including remedy standstills at all times prior to the Tranche B Term Loan Maturity
Date) and has other terms, other than with respect to interest rates, at least as favorable to the
Company and Lenders as the Senior Notes.
“Real Estate” shall have the meaning provided in Section 9.1(f).
“Reference Lender” shall mean Citibank, N.A.
“Register” shall have the meaning provided in Section 13.6(b)(iv).
“Regulation D” shall mean Regulation D of the Board as from time to time in effect and
any successor to all or a portion thereof establishing reserve requirements.
“Regulation T” shall mean Regulation T of the Board as from time to time in effect and
any successor to all or a portion thereof establishing margin requirements.
“Regulation U” shall mean Regulation U of the Board as from time to time in effect and
any successor to all or a portion thereof establishing margin requirements.
“Regulation X” shall mean Regulation X of the Board as from time to time in effect and
any successor to all or a portion thereof establishing margin requirements.
“Reinvestment Period” shall mean 15 months following the date of an Asset Sale
Prepayment Event (including a Designated Asset Sale) or Casualty Event.
“Related Parties” shall mean, with respect to any specified Person, such Person’s
Affiliates and the directors, officers, employees, agents, trustees, advisors of such Person and
any Person that possesses, directly or indirectly, the power to direct or
cause the direction of the management or policies of such Person, whether through the ability
to exercise voting power, by contract or otherwise.
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“Repayment Amount” shall mean the Tranche B-1 Repayment Amount, the Tranche B-2
Repayment Amount or a New Tranche B Repayment Amount, as applicable.
“Repayment Date” shall mean the Tranche B Repayment Date or a New Tranche B Repayment
Date, as applicable.
“Reportable Event” shall mean an event described in Section 4043 of ERISA and the
regulations thereunder.
“Required Lenders” shall mean, at any date, (a) Non-Defaulting Lenders having or
holding a majority of the sum of (i) the Adjusted Total Revolving Credit Commitment at such date,
(ii) the Adjusted Total Term Loan Commitment at such date and (iii) the outstanding principal
amount of the Term Loans (excluding Term Loans held by Defaulting Lenders) at such date or (b) if
the Total Revolving Credit Commitment and the Total Term Loan Commitment have been terminated or
for the purposes of acceleration pursuant to Section 11, the holders (excluding Defaulting Lenders)
of a majority of the outstanding principal amount of the Loans and Letter of Credit Exposures
(excluding the Loans and Letter of Credit Exposure of Defaulting Lenders) in the aggregate at such
date.
“Required Malaysian Lenders” shall mean, at any date, Non-Defaulting Malaysian Lenders
having or holding a majority of the sum of (a) the portion of the Adjusted Total Malaysian
Revolving Credit Commitment that relates to the Malaysian Revolving Credit Commitments at such date
and (b) the outstanding principal amount of the Malaysian Revolving Credit Loans or New Malaysian
U.S. Dollar Revolving Credit Loans, as applicable, (excluding Malaysian Revolving Credit Loans or
New Malaysian U.S. Dollar Revolving Credit Loans, as applicable, held by Defaulting Lenders) in the
aggregate at such date.
“Required Multi-Currency Lenders” shall mean, at any date, Non-Defaulting
Multi-Currency Lenders having or holding a majority of the sum of (a) the portion of the Adjusted
Total Multi-Currency Revolving Credit Commitment that relates to the Multi-Currency Revolving
Credit Commitments at such date and (b) the outstanding principal amount of the Multi-Currency
Revolving Credit Loans (excluding Multi-Currency Revolving Credit Loans held by Defaulting Lenders)
in the aggregate at such date.
“Required Tranche B Term Loan Lenders” shall mean, at any date, Non-Defaulting Lenders
having or holding a majority of the sum of (a) the portion of the
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Adjusted Total Term Loan
Commitment that relates to Tranche B Term Loan Commitments at such date and (b) the outstanding
principal amount of the Tranche B
Term Loans (excluding Tranche B Term Loans held by Defaulting Lenders) in the aggregate at
such date.
“Required Tranche B-1 Term Loan Lenders” shall mean, at any date, Non-Defaulting
Lenders having or holding a majority of the sum of (a) the portion of the Adjusted Total Tranche
B-1 Term Loan Commitment that relates to Tranche B-1 Term Loan Commitments at such date and (b) the
outstanding principal amount of the Tranche B-1 Term Loans (excluding Tranche B-1 Term Loans held
by Defaulting Lenders) in the aggregate at such date.
“Required Tranche B-2 Term Loan Lenders” shall mean, at any date, Non-Defaulting
Lenders having or holding a majority of the sum of (a) the portion of the Adjusted Total Term Loan
Commitment that relates to Tranche B-2 Term Loan Commitments at such date and (b) the outstanding
principal amount of the Tranche B-2 Term Loans (excluding Tranche B-2 Term Loans held by Defaulting
Lenders) in the aggregate at such date.
“Required U.S. Dollar Lenders” shall mean, at any date, Non-Defaulting U.S. Dollar
Lenders having or holding a majority of the sum of (a) the portion of the Adjusted Total U.S.
Dollar Revolving Credit Commitment that relates to the U.S. Dollar Revolving Credit Commitments at
such date and (b) the outstanding principal amount of the U.S. Dollar Revolving Credit Loans
(excluding U.S. Dollar Revolving Credit Loans held by Defaulting Lenders) in the aggregate at such
date.
“Requirement of Law” shall mean, as to any Person, the Certificate of Incorporation
and by-laws or other organizational or governing documents of such Person, and any law, treaty,
rule or regulation or determination of an arbitrator or a court or other Governmental Authority, in
each case applicable to or binding upon such Person or any of its property or assets or to which
such Person or any of its property or assets is subject.
“Restricted Subsidiary” shall mean any Subsidiary of Holdings other than an
Unrestricted Subsidiary.
“Revolving Credit Commitment Percentage” shall mean at any time, for each Lender, the
percentage obtained by dividing (a) such Lender’s Revolving Credit Commitments by (b) the
aggregate amount of the Revolving Credit Commitments, provided that at any time when the
Total Revolving Credit Commitment shall have been terminated, each Lender’s Revolving Credit
Commitment Percentage shall be its Revolving Credit Commitment Percentage as in effect immediately
prior to such termination.
“Revolving Credit Commitments” shall mean the U.S. Dollar Revolving Credit
Commitments, the Multi-Currency Revolving Credit Commitments and the Malaysian Revolving Credit
Commitments.
“Revolving Credit Exposure” shall mean the U.S. Dollar Revolving Credit Exposure, the
Multi-Currency Revolving Credit Exposure and the Malaysian Revolving Credit Exposure.
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“Revolving Credit Facilities” shall mean the U.S. Dollar Revolving Credit Facility,
the Multi-Currency Revolving Credit Facility and the Malaysian Revolving Credit Facility.
“Revolving Credit Lenders” shall mean the U.S. Dollar Lenders, the Multi-Currency
Lenders and the Malaysian Lenders.
“Revolving Credit Loans” shall mean the U.S. Dollar Revolving Credit Loans, the
Multi-Currency Revolving Credit Loans, the Malaysian Revolving Credit Loans and the New Malaysian
U.S. Dollar Revolving Credit Loans).
“Revolving Credit Maturity Date” shall mean the date that is six years after the
Closing Date, or, if such date is not a Business Day, the next preceding Business Day.
“Ringgit” or “RM” shall mean the lawful currency of Malaysia.
“RM Loan” shall mean a Loan that bears interest at a rate based on the RM Rate.
“RM Rate” shall mean the rate of interest at which Ringgit deposits in an amount
equivalent or comparable to the amount of the Malaysian Revolving Credit Loan to be made in Ringgit
under the Malaysian Revolving Credit Facility as are offered to the relevant Malaysian Lender in
the Kuala Lumpur Interbank Money Market for the same period as the relevant Interest Period (or, in
the case of an Interest Period of less than one month, for a one month period) on the first day of
the relevant Interest Period plus any additional cost to that Malaysian Lender of maintaining
statutory and liquidity reserves and/or complying with any other conditions now or hereafter
imposed by the Bank Negara Malaysia, any Governmental Authority or other authorities having
jurisdiction over such Malaysian Lender whether or not having the force of law.
“S&P” shall mean Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services or any successor by merger or
consolidation to its business.
“Sale Leaseback” shall mean any transaction or series of related transactions pursuant
to which the Company or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries (a) sells, transfers or otherwise
disposes of any property, real or personal, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, and (b) as
part of such transaction, thereafter rents or leases such property or other property that it
intends to use for substantially the same purpose or purposes as the property being sold,
transferred or disposed.
“SEC” shall mean the Securities and Exchange Commission or any successor thereto.
“Section 9.1 Financials” shall mean the financial statements delivered, or required to
be delivered, pursuant to Section 9.1(a) or (b) together with the accompanying officer’s
certificate delivered, or required to be delivered, pursuant to Section 9.1(d).
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“Secured Parties” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in the applicable
Security Documents.
“Security Agreements” shall mean (a) the Security Agreement entered into by the
relevant grantors party thereto and the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties,
substantially in the form of Exhibit G, on the Closing Date, (b) each other security
agreement or other instrument listed on Schedule 6.1 entered into on the Closing Date and (c) any
other security agreement or other similar instrument entered into pursuant to Section 9.11, in each
case, as the same may be amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time.
“Security Documents” shall mean, collectively, (a) the Guarantee, (b) the Pledge
Agreements, (c) the Security Agreements, (d) the Mortgages, and (e) each other security agreement
or other instrument or document executed and delivered pursuant to Section 9.11 or 9.12 or pursuant
to any of the Security Documents to secure any of the Obligations.
“Seller” shall have the meaning provided in the preamble to this Agreement.
“Senior Notes” shall mean (a) the Senior Notes defined in the preamble to this
Agreement and (b) any replacement or refinancing thereof that constitutes Permitted Additional
Notes, provided that any such amendment, replacement or refinancing shall bear a rate of interest
determined by the board of directors of the Company to be a market rate of interest at the date of
such amendment, replacement or refinancing and have other terms customary for similar issuances
under similar market conditions or otherwise be on terms reasonably acceptable to the
Administrative Agents.
“
Senior Notes Indenture” shall mean the Indenture dated as of the Closing Date, among
the Company
, U.S. Opco, U.S. Wireless, the guarantors party thereto and The Bank of
New York, as
trustee, pursuant to which the Senior Notes are issued, as the same may be amended, supplemented or
otherwise modified from time to time in accordance therewith.
“Senior Notes Offering” shall have the meaning provided in the preamble to this
Agreement.
“Series” shall have the meaning as provided in Section 2.14.
“Silver Lake” shall mean Silver Lake Partners and its Affiliates, collectively.
“Singapore” shall mean the Republic of Singapore.
“Singapore Business Day” shall mean any day excluding Saturday, Sunday and any day
that shall be in Singapore a legal holiday or a day on which banking institutions are authorized by
law or other governmental actions to close and if the applicable Singapore Business Day relates to
notices, determinations, fundings and
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payments in connection with the SOR Rate or any SOR Loan, a
day on which deposits of Singapore Dollars are also carried on in the Singapore interbank market
“Singapore COF Loan” shall mean a Loan that bears interest at a rate based on the
Singapore COF Rate.
“Singapore COF Rate” shall mean the rate of interest at which Singapore Dollar
deposits in an amount equivalent or comparable to the amount of the Multi-Currency Singapore Dollar
Swingline Loan are offered to the Multi-Currency Swingline Lender in the Singapore interbank market
for a daily interest period plus any additional cost to the Multi-Currency Swingline Lender of
maintaining statutory and liquidity reserves and/or complying with any other conditions now or
hereafter imposed by the any Governmental Authority or other authorities having jurisdiction over
the Multi-Currency Swingline Lender whether or not having the force of law.
“Singapore Companies Act” shall mean the Companies Act, Chapter 50 of Singapore.
“Singapore Dollars” or “S$” shall mean dollars in lawful currency of Singapore.
“Singapore Dollar Available Credit” shall mean, at any time, (a) the lesser of (i) the
then effective Multi-Currency Revolving Credit Commitments and (ii) S$100,000,000 minus (b)
the aggregate Singapore Dollar Outstandings at such time.
“Singapore Dollar Outstandings” shall mean, at any particular time, the sum of (a) the
principal amount of the Multi-Currency Singapore Dollar Loans outstanding at such time and (b) the
principal amount of the Multi-Currency Singapore Dollar Swingline Loans outstanding at such time.
“Singaporean Lending Office” shall mean, with respect to any Lender, the office of
such Lender specified as its “Singaporean Lending Office” opposite its name on Schedule
1.1(a) or on the Assignment and Acceptance by which it became a Lender or such other office of
such Lender as such Lender may from time to time specify to the Company and the Administrative
Agents.
“Singaporean Prime Rate” shall mean the rate of interest per annum publicly announced
from time to time by Citibank, N.A. as its reference rate in effect at its principal office in
Singapore (the Singaporean Prime Rate not being intended to be the lowest rate of interest charged
by Citibank, N.A. in connection with extensions of credit to debtors).
“Sold Entity or Business” shall have the meaning provided in the definition of the
term “Consolidated EBITDA”.
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“Solvent” shall mean, with respect to the Company , that as of the Closing Date, both
(i) (a) the sum of the Company’s debt (including contingent liabilities) does not exceed the
present fair saleable value of the Company’s present assets; (b) the Company’s capital is not
unreasonably small in relation to its business as contemplated on the Closing Date; and (c) the
Company has not incurred and does not intend to incur, or believe that it will incur, debts
including current obligations beyond its ability to pay such debts as they become due (whether at
maturity or otherwise); and (ii) the Company is “solvent” within the meaning given that term and
similar terms under applicable laws relating to fraudulent transfers and conveyances. For purposes
of this definition, the amount of any contingent liability at any time shall be computed as the
amount that, in light of all of the facts and circumstances existing at such time, represents the
amount that can reasonably be expected to become an actual or matured liability (irrespective of
whether such contingent liabilities meet the criteria for accrual under Statement of Financial
Accounting Standard No. 5).
“SOR Loan” shall mean a Loan that bears interest at a rate based on the SOR Rate.
“SOR Rate” shall mean, in the case of any SOR Loan, with respect to each day during
each Interest Period pertaining to such SOR Loan, the rate of interest determined on the basis of
the rate for deposits in Singapore Dollars for a period equal to such Interest Period commencing on
the first day of such Interest Period appearing on Page 50157 of the Telerate screen as of 11:00
a.m. (Singapore time) two Singapore Business Days prior to the beginning of such Interest Period.
In the event that any such rate does not appear on the applicable Page of the Telerate Service (or
otherwise on such service), the “SOR Rate” for the purposes of this paragraph shall be determined
by reference to Page “ABSIRFIX01” of the Reuters screen. In the event that any such rate also does
not appear on both such Pages, the “SOR Rate” for the purposes of this paragraph shall be the rate
per annum notified to the Administrative Agents by the Reference Lender as the rate at which the
Reference Lender is offered Singapore Dollar deposits at or about 11:00 a.m. (Singapore time) two
Singapore Business Days prior to the beginning of such Interest Period in the Singapore interbank
market for delivery on the first day of such Interest Period for the number of days comprised
therein and in an amount comparable to the amount of its S$ Revolving Credit Loan outstanding or,
as the case may be, to be outstanding during such Interest Period.
“Specified Subsidiary” shall mean, at any date of determination (a) any Material
Subsidiary or (b) any Unrestricted Subsidiary (i) whose total assets at the last day of the Test
Period ending on the last day of the most recent fiscal period for which Section 9.1 Financials
have been delivered were equal to or greater than 10% of the consolidated total assets of the
Company and the Subsidiaries at such date, (ii) whose gross revenues for such Test Period were
equal to or greater than 10% of the consolidated gross revenues of the Company and the Subsidiaries
for such period, in each case determined in accordance with GAAP and (c) each other Subsidiary
that, when such Subsidiary’s total assets and gross revenues are aggregated with each other
Subsidiary that
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is the subject of an Event of Default described in Section 11.5 would constitute a
Specified Subsidiary under clause (a) or (b) above.
“Sponsors” shall mean KKR, Silver Lake, and their respective Affiliates, collectively.
“Stated Amount” of any Letter of Credit shall mean the U.S. Dollar Equivalent of the
maximum amount from time to time available to be drawn thereunder, determined without regard to
whether any conditions to drawing could then be met.
“Status” shall mean, as to the Company as of any date, the existence of Level A
Status, Level B Status, Level I Status, Level II Status, Level III Status or Level IV Status, as
the case may be on such date. Changes in Status resulting from changes in the Consolidated Total
Debt to Adjusted EBITDA Ratio shall become effective (the date of such effectiveness, the
“Effective Date”) as of the first day following the last day of the most recent fiscal year
or period for which (a) Section 9.1 Financials are delivered to the Lenders under Section 9.1 and
(b) an officer’s certificate is delivered by the Company to the Lenders setting forth, with respect
to such Section 9.1 Financials, the then-applicable Status, and shall remain in effect until the
next change to be effected pursuant to this definition, provided that (i) if the Borrowers
shall have made any payments in respect of interest or commitment fees during the period (the
“Interim Period”) from and including the Effective Date to but excluding the day any change
in Status is determined as provided above, then the amount of the next such payment due on or after
such day shall be increased or decreased by an amount equal to any underpayment or overpayment so
made by the Borrowers during such Interim Period and (ii) each determination of the Consolidated
Total Debt to Adjusted EBITDA Ratio pursuant to this definition shall be made with respect to the
Test Period ending at the end of the fiscal period covered by the relevant financial statements.
“Statutory Reserve Rate” shall mean for any day as applied to any LIBOR Loan, a
fraction (expressed as a decimal), the numerator of which is the number one and the denominator of
which is the number one minus the aggregate of the maximum reserve percentages that are in effect
on that day (including any marginal, special, emergency or supplemental reserves), expressed as a
decimal, as prescribed by the Board and to which the Administrative Agents are subject, for
eurocurrency funding (currently referred to as “Eurocurrency Liabilities” in Regulation D of the
Board). Such reserve percentages shall include those imposed pursuant to such Regulation D. LIBOR
Loans shall be deemed to
constitute eurocurrency funding and to be subject to such reserve requirements without benefit
of or credit for proration, exemptions or offsets that may be available from time to time to any
Lender under such Regulation D or any comparable regulation. The Statutory Reserve Rate shall be
adjusted automatically on and as of the effective date of any change in any reserve percentage.
“Stock” shall mean shares of capital stock or shares in the capital, as the case my be
(whether denominated as common stock or preferred stock or ordinary shares or preferred shares, as
the case may be), beneficial, partnership or membership interests,
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participations or other
equivalents (regardless of how designated) of or in a corporation, partnership, limited liability
company or equivalent entity, whether voting or non-voting.
“Stock Equivalents” shall mean all securities convertible into or exchangeable for
Stock and all warrants, options or other rights to purchase or subscribe for any Stock, whether or
not presently convertible, exchangeable or exercisable.
“Storage Sale” shall mean the sale by the Company of its storage products business
pursuant to the Asset Purchase Agreement dated as of October 29, 2005, between the Company and
PMC-Sierra, Inc. (as amended from time to time in accordance therewith).
“Storage Sale Net Cash Proceeds” shall mean the Net Cash Proceeds of the Storage Sale
(without giving effect to clause (b)(iv) of the definition of Net Cash Proceeds).
“Subordinated Indebtedness” shall mean Indebtedness of any Borrower or any Guarantor
that is by its terms subordinated in right of payment to the obligations of such Borrower and such
Guarantor, as applicable, under this Agreement.
“Subsidiary” of any Person shall mean and include (a) any corporation more than 50% of
whose Stock of any class or classes having by the terms thereof ordinary voting power to elect a
majority of the directors of such corporation (irrespective of whether or not at the time Stock of
any class or classes of such corporation shall have or might have voting power by reason of the
happening of any contingency) is at the time owned by such Person directly or indirectly through
Subsidiaries and (b) any partnership, association, joint venture or other entity in which such
Person directly or indirectly through Subsidiaries has more than a 50% equity interest at the time.
Unless otherwise expressly provided, all references herein to a “Subsidiary” or “Subsidiaries”
shall mean a Subsidiary or Subsidiaries of Holdings.
“Subsidiary Guarantors” shall mean each Subsidiary (other than an Excluded Subsidiary)
(a) existing on the Closing Date that is a party to the Guarantee and a Security Agreement or (b)
that becomes a party to the Guarantee and a Security Agreement after the Closing Date pursuant to
Section 9.11.
“Successor Borrower” shall have the meaning provided in Section 10.3(a).
“Swingline Commitment” shall mean the Multi-Currency Swingline Commitment and the
Malaysian Swingline Commitment.
“Swingline Lender” shall mean the Multi-Currency Swingline Lender or the Malaysian
Swingline Lender.
“Swingline Loans” shall mean the Multi-Currency Swingline Loans and the Malaysian
Swingline Loans.
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“Swingline Maturity Date” shall mean, with respect to any Swingline Loan, the date
that is five Business Days prior to the Revolving Credit Maturity Date.
“Syndication Agent” shall mean Xxxxxx Brothers Inc., together with its affiliates, as
the syndication agent for the Lenders under this Agreement and the other Credit Documents.
“Taxes” shall mean any and all present or future taxes, duties, levies, imposts,
assessments, deductions, withholdings or other similar charges imposed by any Governmental
Authority whether computed on a separate, consolidated, unitary, combined or other basis and any
and all liabilities (including interest, fines, penalties or additions to tax) with respect to the
foregoing.
“Term Loans” shall mean the Tranche B Term Loans, collectively.
“Term Loan Commitment” shall mean, with respect to each Lender, such Lender’s Tranche
B Term Loan Commitment.
“Term Loan Facility” shall mean the Term Loan Commitments and the provisions herein
related to the Term Loans.
“Term Loan Lender” shall mean each Tranche B-1 Lender and each Tranche B-2 Lender.
“Test Period” shall mean, for any determination under this Agreement, the four
consecutive fiscal quarters of the Company then last ended.
“Total Commitment” shall mean the sum of the Total Term Loan Commitment and the Total
Revolving Credit Commitment.
“Total Credit Exposure” shall mean, at any date, the sum of (a) the Total Revolving
Credit Commitment at such date, (b) the Total Term Loan Commitment at such date and (c) the
outstanding principal amount of all Term Loans at such date.
“Total Malaysian Revolving Credit Commitments” shall mean the sum of the Malaysian
Revolving Credit Commitments of all Malaysian Lenders.
“Total Multi-Currency Revolving Credit Commitments” shall mean the sum of the
Multi-Currency Revolving Credit Commitments of all Multi-Currency Lenders.
“Total Revolving Credit Commitment” shall mean the sum of the Total U.S. Dollar
Revolving Credit Commitments, the Total Malaysian Revolving Credit Commitments and the Total
Multi-Currency Revolving Credit Commitments.
“Total Term Loan Commitment” shall mean the sum of the Tranche B Term Loan Commitments
and the New Tranche B Term Loan Commitments, if applicable, of all the Lenders.
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“Total U.S. Dollar Revolving Credit Commitments” shall mean the sum of the U.S. Dollar
Revolving Credit Commitments of all U.S. Dollar Lenders.
“Tranche B-1 Term Loan Administrative Agent” shall mean Citicorp North America, Inc.,
as the administrative agent for the Tranche B-1 Term Loan Lenders.
“Tranche B-2 Funding Notice Date” shall have the meaning provided in Section 13.6(vi).
“Tranche B-2 Funding Obligations” shall have the meaning provided in Section 13.6(vi).
“Tranche B-1 Repayment Amount” shall have the meaning provided in Section 2.5(b)(i).
“Tranche B-2 Repayment Amount” shall have the meaning provided in Section 2.5(b)(ii).
“Tranche B Term Loans” shall mean the Tranche B-1 Term Loans and the Tranche B-2 Term
Loans.
“Tranche B Term Loan Commitments” shall mean the Tranche B-1 Term Loan Commitments and
the Tranche B-2 Term Loan Commitments.
“Tranche B Term Loan Lender” shall mean a Lender with a Tranche B Term Loan Commitment
or an outstanding Tranche B Term Loan.
“Tranche B-1 Term Loan” shall have the meaning provided in Section 2.1.
“Tranche B-1 Term Loan Commitment” shall mean, with respect to each Lender, the amount
set forth opposite such Lender’s name on Schedule 1.1(c) as such Lender’s “Tranche B-1 Term
Loan Commitment”, as the same may be changed from time to time pursuant to the terms hereof. The
aggregate amount of the Tranche B-1 Term Loan Commitments as of the Closing Date is $475,000,000.
“Tranche B-2 Term Loan” shall have the meaning provided in Section 2.1.
“Tranche B-2 Term Loan Commitment” shall mean, with respect to each Lender, the amount
set forth opposite such Lender’s name on Schedule 1.1(c) as such Lender’s “Tranche B-2 Term
Loan Commitment”, as the same may be changed from time to time pursuant to the terms hereof. The
aggregate amount of the Tranche B-2 Term Loan Commitments as of the Closing Date is $250,000,000.
“Tranche B-2 Term Loan Commitment Termination Date” shall mean the earlier of (a)
April 30, 2006, if the Tranche B-2 Term Loan(s) have not been made on or prior to such date, or if
such date is not a Business Day, the immediately preceding Business Day and (b) the date the
Tranche B-2 Term Loan Commitment is reduced to $0.
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“Tranche B-1 Term Loan Lender” shall mean any Lender having a Tranche B-1 Term Loan
Commitment.
“Tranche B-2 Term Loan Lender” shall mean any Lender having a Tranche B-2 Term Loan
Commitment.
“Tranche B Term Loan Maturity Date” shall mean the date which is seven years after the
Closing Date or, if such date is not a Business Day, the first Business Day thereafter.
“Transactions” shall mean, collectively, the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement, the Senior Notes Indenture, the Acquisition Agreement and the Equity Investments.
“Transaction Expenses” shall mean any fees or expenses incurred or paid by the Company
or any of its Subsidiaries in connection with the Transactions, this Agreement and the other Credit
Documents and the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby.
“Transition Expenses” shall mean up to an aggregate amount of $100,000,000 of start-up
and transition costs incurred or paid, whether expensed or capitalized, by the Company or any of
its Restricted Subsidiaries on or prior to April 30, 2007.
“Transferee” shall have the meaning provided in Section 13.6(e).
“Trigger Date” shall mean the date on which Section 9.1 Financials are delivered to
the Lenders under Section 9.1 for the fiscal quarter ending on January 31, 2007.
“Type” shall mean (a) as to any Term Loan, its nature as an ABR Loan or a LIBOR Term
Loan and (b) as to any Revolving Credit Loan, its nature as an ABR Loan, LIBOR Revolving Credit
Loan, SOR Loan, Singapore COF Loan or RM Loan.
“Unfunded Current Liability” of any Plan shall mean the amount, if any, by which the
present value of the accrued benefits under the Plan as of the close of its most recent plan year,
determined in accordance with Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 87 as in effect on
the date hereof, based upon the actuarial assumptions that would be used by the Plan’s actuary in a
termination of the Plan, exceeds the fair market value of the assets allocable thereto.
“Unpaid Drawing” shall have the meaning provided in Section 3.4(a).
“Unrestricted Subsidiary” shall mean (a) any Subsidiary of the Company that is formed
or acquired after the Closing Date, provided that at such time (or promptly thereafter) the
Company designates such Subsidiary an Unrestricted Subsidiary in a written notice to the
Administrative Agents, (b) any Restricted Subsidiary subsequently
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re-designated as an Unrestricted
Subsidiary by the Company in a written notice to the Administrative Agents, provided that
in the case of (a) and (b), (x) such designation or re-designation shall be deemed to be an
Investment on the date of such re-designation in an Unrestricted Subsidiary in an amount equal to
the sum of (i) the Company’s direct or indirect equity ownership percentage of the net worth of
such designated or re-designated Restricted Subsidiary immediately prior to such designation or
re-designation (such net worth to be calculated without regard to any guarantee provided by such
designated or re-designated Restricted Subsidiary) and (ii) the aggregate principal amount of any
Indebtedness owed by such designated or re-designated Restricted Subsidiary to the Company or any
other Restricted Subsidiary immediately prior to such designation or re-designation, all
calculated, except as set forth in the parenthetical to clause (i), on a consolidated basis in
accordance with GAAP and (y) no Default or Event of Default would result from such designation or
re-designation and (c) each Subsidiary of an Unrestricted Subsidiary; provided that at the
time of any written designation or re-designation by the Company to the Administrative Agents that
any Unrestricted Subsidiary shall no longer constitute an Unrestricted Subsidiary, such
Unrestricted Subsidiary shall cease to be an Unrestricted Subsidiary to the extent no Default or
Event of Default would result from such designation or re-designation. On or promptly after the
date of its formation, acquisition, designation or re-designation, as applicable, each Unrestricted
Subsidiary shall have entered into a tax sharing agreement containing terms that, in the reasonable
judgment of the Administrative Agents, provide for an appropriate allocation of tax liabilities and
benefits.
“U.S. Borrower” shall have the meaning provided in the preamble to this Agreement.
“U.S. Dollar Available Commitments” shall mean, at any time, an amount equal to the
excess, if any, of (a) the then effective Total U.S. Dollar Revolving Credit Commitments over (b)
the sum of (i) the aggregate principal amount of all U.S. Dollar Revolving Credit Loans then
outstanding and (ii) the aggregate Letters of Credit Outstanding at such time.
“U.S. Dollar Borrowers” shall mean the Singaporean Borrower and each of the U.S.
Borrowers.
“U.S. Dollar Borrowing” shall mean U.S. Dollar Revolving Credit Loans made on the same
day by the U.S. Dollar Lenders ratably according to their respective U.S. Dollar Revolving Credit
Commitments.
“U.S. Dollar Equivalent” shall mean on any date of determination, (a) with respect to
any amount denominated in U.S. Dollars, such amount, and (b) with respect to any amount denominated
in any Foreign Currency, the equivalent in U.S. Dollars of such amount, determined by the
applicable Administrative Agent pursuant using the applicable Exchange Rate.
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“U.S. Dollar Lender” shall mean each Lender having a U.S. Dollar Revolving Credit
Commitment.
“U.S. Dollar Letter of Credit Commitment” shall mean $40,000,000, as the same may be
reduced from time to time pursuant to Section 3.1(c).
“U.S. Dollar Revolving Credit Commitment” shall mean, (a) with respect to each U.S.
Dollar Lender that is a U.S. Dollar Lender on the date hereof, the amount set forth opposite such
Lender’s name on Schedule 1.1(c) as such Lender’s “U.S. Dollar Revolving Credit
Commitment”, and (b) in the case of any Lender that becomes a Lender after the date hereof, the
amount specified as such Lender’s “U.S. Dollar Revolving Credit Commitment” in the Assignment and
Acceptance pursuant to which such Lender assumed a portion of the Total U.S. Dollar Revolving
Credit Commitment, in each case as the same may be changed from time to time pursuant to the terms
hereof. The aggregate amount of the U.S. Dollar Revolving Credit Commitments as of the Closing
Date is $140,000,000.
“U.S. Dollar Revolving Credit Commitment Percentage” shall mean, at any time, for each
U.S. Dollar Lender, the percentage obtained by dividing (a) such Lender’s U.S. Dollar
Revolving Credit Commitment by (b) the aggregate amount of the Total U.S. Dollar Revolving Credit
Commitments, provided that at any time when the Total U.S. Dollar Revolving Credit
Commitment shall have been terminated, each U.S. Dollar Lender’s Revolving Credit Commitment
Percentage shall be its U.S. Dollar Revolving Credit Commitment Percentage as in effect immediately
prior to such termination.
“U.S. Dollar Revolving Credit Exposure” shall mean, with respect to any Lender at any
time, the sum of (a) the aggregate principal amount of the U.S. Dollar Revolving Credit Loans of
such Lender then outstanding and (b) such U.S. Dollar Lender’s Letter of Credit Exposure at such
time.
“U.S. Dollar Revolving Credit Facility” shall mean (a) the U.S. Dollar Revolving
Credit Commitments and the provisions herein related to the U.S. Dollar Revolving Credit Loans and
(b) the U.S. Dollar Letter of Credit Commitment.
“U.S. Dollar Revolving Credit Loan” has the meaning specified in Section 2.1(b)(i).
“U.S. Dollars” and “$” shall mean dollars in lawful currency of the United
States of America.
“U.S. Lending Office” shall mean, with respect to any Lender, the office of such
Lender specified as its “U.S. Lending Office” opposite its name on Schedule 1.1(a) or on
the Assignment and Acceptance by which it became a Lender or such other office of such Lender as
such Lender may from time to time specify to the Company and the Administrative Agents.
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“
U.S. Prime Rate” shall mean the rate of interest per annum publicly announced from
time to time by the Tranche B-1 Term Loan Administrative Agent as its reference rate in effect at
its principal office in
New York City (the U.S. Prime Rate not being intended to be the lowest rate
of interest charged by Citibank, N.A. in connection with extensions of credit to debtors).
“Voting Stock” shall mean, with respect to any Person, such Person’s Stock or Stock
Equivalents having the right to vote for the election of directors of such Person under ordinary
circumstances.
The words “hereof,” “herein” and “hereunder” and words of similar import when used in this
Agreement shall refer to this Agreement as a whole and not to any particular provision of this
Agreement, and Section references are to Sections of this Agreement unless otherwise specified.
The words “include”, “includes” and “including” shall be deemed to be followed by the phrase
“without limitation”.
1.2 Exchange Rates. For purposes of determining compliance under Sections 10.4, 10.5,
10.6, 10.9 and 10.10 with respect to any amount in a Foreign Currency, such amount shall be deemed
to equal the U.S. Dollar Equivalent thereof based on the average Exchange Rate for a Foreign
Currency for the most recent twelve-month period immediately prior to the date of determination
determined in a manner consistent with that used in calculating Consolidated EBITDA for the related
period. For purposes of determining compliance with Sections 10.1 and 10.2, with respect to any
amount of Indebtedness in a Foreign Currency, compliance will be determined at the time of
incurrence thereof using the U.S. Dollar Equivalent thereof at the Exchange Rate in effect at the
time of such incurrence.
1.3 Business. For purposes of this Agreement, all references to the Company and its
Subsidiaries relating to any period prior to the consummation of the Acquisition shall be to the
Acquired Assets.
SECTION 2. Amount and Terms of Credit.
2.1 Commitments.
(a) Tranche B Term Loan Commitments. Subject to and upon the terms and conditions
herein set forth,
(i) each Lender having a Tranche B-1 Term Loan Commitment severally agrees to
make a loan or loans in U.S. Dollars to the Lux Borrower (each a “Tranche B-1
Term Loan”) on the Closing Date, which U.S. Dollar Equivalent of such Tranche
B-1 Term Loans in the aggregate shall not exceed for any such Lender the Tranche
B-1 Term Loan Commitment of such Lender and the U.S. Dollar Equivalent of all such
Tranche B-1 Term Loans in the aggregate shall not exceed $475,000,000. Such
Tranche B-1 Term Loans (A) shall be made on the
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Closing Date and (B) may at the
option of the Lux Borrower be incurred and maintained as, and/or converted into,
ABR Loans or LIBOR Term Loans, provided that all such Tranche B-1 Term
Loans made by each of the Lenders pursuant to the same Borrowing shall, unless
otherwise specifically provided herein, consist entirely of Tranche B-1 Term Loans
of the same Type.
(ii) each Lender having a Tranche B-2 Term Loan Commitment severally agrees to
make a loan or loans to the Singaporean Borrower in U.S. Dollars (each a
“Tranche B-2 Term Loan”) on a single day on or after the Closing Date and
on or prior to the Tranche B-2 Term Loan Commitment Termination Date, in an amount
equal to the portion of such Lender’s Tranche B-2 Term Loan Commitment as requested
by the Singaporean Borrower to be made on such date, which Tranche B-2 Term Loans
shall not exceed for any such Lender the Tranche B-2 Term Loan Commitment of such
Lender and in the aggregate shall not exceed $250,000,000. Such Tranche B-2 Term
Loans may at the option of the Singaporean Borrower be incurred and maintained as,
and/or converted into, ABR Loans or LIBOR Term Loans, provided that all
such Tranche B-2 Term Loans made by each of the Lenders pursuant to the same
Borrowing shall, unless otherwise specifically provided herein, consist entirely of
Tranche B-2 Term Loans of the same Type.
All such Term Loans (i) may be repaid or prepaid in accordance with the provisions
hereof, but once repaid or prepaid, may not be reborrowed, (ii) shall not exceed
for any such Lender the Tranche B-1 Term Loan Commitment or the Tranche B-2 Term
Loan Commitment, as applicable, of such Lender and (iii) shall not exceed in the
aggregate the total of all Tranche B Term Loan Commitments. On the Tranche B Term
Loan Maturity Date, all then unpaid Tranche B Term Loans shall be repaid in full.
(b) Revolving Credit Commitments.
(i) U.S. Dollar Revolving Credit Commitment. Subject to and upon the
terms and conditions herein set forth, each U.S. Dollar Lender severally agrees to
make a loan or loans to the Singaporean Borrower or each U.S. Borrower in U.S.
Dollars (each a “U.S. Dollar Revolving Credit Loan” and, collectively, the
“U.S. Dollar Revolving Credit Loans”), which U.S. Dollar Revolving Credit
Loans (A) shall be made at any time and from time to time on and after the Closing
Date and prior to the Revolving Credit Maturity Date, (B) may, at the option of the
Borrower thereof be incurred and maintained as, and/or converted into, ABR Loans or
LIBOR Revolving Credit Loans, provided that all U.S. Dollar Revolving
Credit Loans made by each of the U.S. Dollar Lenders pursuant to the same U.S.
Dollar Borrowing shall, unless otherwise specifically provided herein,
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consist entirely of U.S. Dollar Revolving Credit Loans of the same Type, (C) may be repaid
and reborrowed in accordance with the provisions hereof, (D) shall not, for any
such U.S. Dollar Lender at any time, after giving effect thereto and to the
application of the proceeds thereof, result in such Lender’s U.S. Dollar Revolving
Credit Exposure at such time exceeding such Lender’s U.S. Dollar Revolving Credit
Commitment at such time and (E) shall not, after giving effect thereto and to the
application of the proceeds thereof, result at any time in the aggregate amount of
the U.S. Dollar Lenders’ U.S. Dollar Revolving Credit Exposures at such time
exceeding the Total U.S. Dollar Revolving Credit Commitment then in effect.
(ii) Multi-Currency Revolving Credit Commitment. Subject to and upon
the terms and conditions herein set forth, each Multi-Currency Lender severally
agrees to make a loan or loans in (A) U.S. Dollars to the Singaporean Borrower or
each U.S. Borrower (each a “Multi-Currency U.S. Dollar Loan”) or (B) in
Singapore Dollars to the Singaporean Borrower (each a “Multi-Currency Singapore
Dollar Loan”), provided that at no time shall any Multi-Currency Lender
be obligated to make a Multi-Currency Singapore Dollar Loan in excess of such
Multi-Currency Lender’s Multi-Currency Revolving Credit Percentage of the Singapore
Dollar Available Credit, which Multi-Currency Revolving Credit Loans (1) shall be
made at any time and from time to time on and after the Closing Date and prior to
the Revolving Credit Maturity Date, (2) if such Multi-Currency Revolving Credit
Loans are Multi-Currency U.S. Dollar Loans, may, at the option of the Borrower
thereof be incurred and maintained as, and/or converted into, ABR Loans or LIBOR
Revolving Credit Loans, provided that all Multi-Currency U.S. Dollar Loans
made by each of the Multi-Currency Lenders pursuant to the same Multi-Currency
Borrowing shall, unless otherwise specifically provided herein, consist entirely of
Multi-Currency U.S. Dollar Loans of the same Type, (3) if such
Multi-Currency Revolving Credit Loans are Multi-Currency Singapore Dollar
Loans, may, at the option of the Borrower thereof be incurred and maintained as,
and/or converted into, ABR Loans or SOR Loans, provided that all
Multi-Currency Singapore Dollar Loans made by each of the Multi-Currency Lenders
pursuant to the same Multi-Currency Borrowing shall, unless otherwise specifically
provided herein, consist entirely of Multi-Currency Singapore Dollar Loans of the
same Type, (4) may be repaid and reborrowed in accordance with the provisions
hereof, (5) shall not, for any such Multi-Currency Lender at any time, after giving
effect thereto and to the application of the proceeds thereof, result in such
Lender’s Multi-Currency Revolving Credit Exposure at such time exceeding such
Lender’s Multi-Currency Revolving Credit Commitment at such time, and (6) shall
not, after giving effect thereto and to the application of the proceeds thereof,
result at any time in the aggregate
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amount of the Multi-Currency Lenders’
Multi-Currency Revolving Credit Exposures at such time exceeding the Total
Multi-Currency Revolving Credit Commitment then in effect.
(iii) Malaysian Revolving Credit Commitment. Subject to and upon the
terms and conditions herein set forth, each Malaysian Lender severally agrees to
make a loan or loans in (A) U.S. Dollars to the Malaysian Borrower (each a
“Malaysian U.S. Dollar Loan”) or (B) in Ringgit to the Malaysian Borrower
(each a “Malaysian Ringgit Loan”), which Malaysian Revolving Credit Loans
(1) shall be made at any time and from time to time on and after the Closing Date
and prior to the Revolving Credit Maturity Date, (2) shall, (a) if such Malaysian
Revolving Credit Loans are Malaysian U.S. Dollar Loans, be incurred and maintained
as LIBOR Loans, or (b) if such Malaysian Revolving Credit Loans are Malaysian
Ringgit Loans, be incurred and maintained as RM Loans, (3) may be repaid and
reborrowed in accordance with the provisions hereof, (4) shall not, for any such
Malaysian Lender at any time, after giving effect thereto and to the application of
the proceeds thereof, result in such Lender’s Malaysian Revolving Credit Exposure
at such time exceeding such Lender’s Malaysian Revolving Credit Commitment at such
time, and (5) shall not, after giving effect thereto and to the application of the
proceeds thereof, result at any time in the aggregate amount of the Malaysian
Lenders’ Malaysian Revolving Credit Exposures at such time exceeding the Total
Malaysian Revolving Credit Commitment then in effect.
(iv) Each Lender may at its option make any LIBOR Loan, SOR Loan or RM Loan by
causing any domestic or foreign branch or Affiliate of such Lender to make such
Loan, provided that (A) any exercise of such option shall not affect the
obligation of the Borrowers to repay such Loan and (B) in exercising such option,
such Lender shall use
its reasonable efforts to minimize any increased costs to the Borrowers
resulting therefrom (which obligation of the Lender shall not require it to take,
or refrain from taking, actions that it determines would result in increased costs
for which it will not be compensated hereunder or that it determines would be
otherwise disadvantageous to it and in the event of such request for costs for
which compensation is provided under this Agreement, the provisions of Section 3.5
shall apply). On the Revolving Credit Maturity Date, all Revolving Credit Loans
shall be repaid in full.
(c) Swingline Commitments.
(i) Multi-Currency Swingline Commitment. Subject to and upon the
terms and conditions herein set forth, the Multi-Currency Swingline Lender in its
individual capacity agrees, at any time and from time to time on and after the
Closing Date and prior to the Swingline
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Maturity Date, to make a loan or loans (A)
in Dollars to the Singaporean Borrower and each U.S. Borrower (each a
“Multi-Currency U.S. Dollar Swingline Loan” and, collectively, the
“Multi-Currency U.S. Dollar Swingline Loans”) or (B) in Singapore Dollars
to the Singaporean Borrower (each a “Multi-Currency Singapore Dollar Swingline
Loan” and, collectively, the “Multi-Currency Singapore Dollar Swingline
Loans”), which Multi-Currency Swingline Loans (1) (a) if Multi-Currency U.S.
Dollar Loans, shall be ABR Loans, or (b) if Multi-Currency Singapore Dollar Loans,
shall be Singapore COF Loans, provided that at no time shall the
Multi-Currency Swingline Lender be obligated to make Multi-Currency Singapore
Dollar Swingline Loans in excess of S$50,000,000 on the same Business Day, (2)
shall have the benefit of the provisions of Section 2.1(d), (3) shall not exceed at
any time outstanding the Multi-Currency Swingline Commitment, (4) shall not, after
giving effect thereto and to the application of the proceeds thereof, result at any
time in the aggregate amount of the Multi-Currency Lenders’ Multi-Currency
Revolving Credit Exposures at such time exceeding the Total Multi-Currency
Revolving Credit Commitment then in effect, (5) in the case of a Multi-Currency
Singapore Dollar Swingline Loan shall not, after giving effect thereto and to the
application of the proceeds thereof, result at any time in the aggregate amount of
all Multi Currency Singapore Dollar Loans and all Multi Currency Singapore Dollar
Swingline Loans at such time exceeding the Singapore Dollar Available Credit, and
(6) may be repaid and, within the limits set forth in Section 2.1(b)(i), reborrowed
in accordance with the provisions hereof.
(ii) Malaysian Swingline Commitment. Subject to and upon the terms
and conditions herein set forth, the Malaysian Swingline Lender in its individual
capacity agrees, at any time and from time to time on and after the Closing Date
and prior to the Swingline Maturity Date, to make a loan or loans to the Malaysian
Borrower (A) in Ringgit (each a
“Malaysian Ringgit Swingline Loan” and, collectively, the “Malaysian
Ringgit Swingline Loans”) or (B) in U.S. Dollars (each a “Malaysian U.S. Dollar
Swingline Loan” and, collectively, the “Malaysian U.S. Dollar Swingline
Loans”), which Malaysian Swingline Loans shall (1) be ABR Loans, (2) shall have
the benefit of the provisions of Section 2.1(d), (3) shall not exceed at any time
outstanding the Malaysian Swingline Commitment, (4) shall not, after giving effect
thereto and to the application of the proceeds thereof, result at any time in the
aggregate amount of the Malaysian Lenders’ Malaysian Revolving Credit Exposures at
such time exceeding the Total Malaysian Revolving Credit Commitment then in effect
and (5) may be repaid and, within the limits set forth in Section 2.1(b)(iii),
reborrowed in accordance with the provisions hereof.
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(iii) On the Swingline Maturity Date, each outstanding Swingline Loan shall be
repaid in full. No Swingline Lender shall make any Swingline Loan after receiving
a written notice from any Credit Party or any Lender stating that a Default or
Event of Default exists and is continuing until such time as such Swingline Lender
shall have received written notice of (A) rescission of all such notices from the
party or parties originally delivering such notice or (B) the waiver of such
Default or Event of Default in accordance with the provisions of Section 13.1.
(d) Mandatory Borrowing.
(i) On any Business Day, the Multi-Currency Swingline Lender may, in its sole
discretion, give notice to the Multi-Currency Lenders that all then-outstanding
Multi-Currency Swingline Loans shall be funded with a Borrowing of Multi-Currency
Revolving Credit Loans constituting ABR Loans, in which case Multi-Currency
Revolving Credit Loans (each such Borrowing, a “Multi-Currency Mandatory
Borrowing”) shall be made on the immediately succeeding Business Day by all
Multi-Currency Lenders pro rata based on each Multi-Currency Lender’s
Multi-Currency Revolving Credit Commitment Percentage, and the proceeds thereof
shall be applied directly to the Multi-Currency Swingline Lender to repay the
Multi-Currency Swingline Lender for such outstanding Multi-Currency Swingline
Loans. Each Multi-Currency Lender hereby irrevocably agrees to make such
Multi-Currency Revolving Credit Loans upon one Business Day’s notice pursuant to
each Multi-Currency Mandatory Borrowing in the amount, in either U.S. Dollars or
Singapore Dollars, as applicable, and in the manner specified in the preceding
sentence and on the date specified to it in writing by the Multi-Currency Swingline
Lender notwithstanding (A) that the amount of the Multi-Currency Mandatory
Borrowing may not comply with the minimum amount for each Borrowing specified in
Section 2.2, (B) whether any conditions specified in Section 7 are then satisfied,
(C) whether a Default
or an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, (D) the date of such
Multi-Currency Mandatory Borrowing or (E) any reduction in the Total Commitment
after any such Multi-Currency Swingline Loans were made. In the event that, in the
sole judgment of the Multi-Currency Swingline Lender, any Multi-Currency Mandatory
Borrowing cannot for any reason be made on the date otherwise required above
(including as a result of the commencement of a proceeding under the Bankruptcy
Code in respect of any Borrower), each Multi-Currency Lender hereby agrees that it
shall forthwith purchase from the Multi-Currency Swingline Lender (without recourse
or warranty) such participation of the outstanding Multi-Currency Swingline Loans
as shall be necessary to cause the Multi-Currency Lenders to share in such
Multi-Currency Swingline Loans ratably based upon their respective Multi-Currency
Revolving Credit Commitment
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Percentages, provided that all principal and
interest payable on such Multi-Currency Swingline Loans shall be for the account of
the Multi-Currency Swingline Lender until the date the respective participation is
purchased and, to the extent attributable to the purchased participation, shall be
payable to the Multi-Currency Lender purchasing same from and after such date of
purchase.
(ii) On any Business Day, the Malaysian Swingline Lender may, in its sole
discretion, give notice to the Malaysian Lenders that all then-outstanding
Malaysian Swingline Loans shall be funded with a Borrowing of Malaysian Revolving
Credit Loans consisting of (A), if requested to be made in U.S. Dollars, LIBOR
Loans, and (B) if requested to be made in Ringgit, RM Loans, in each case having an
initial Interest Period of one week, in which case Malaysian Revolving Credit Loans
(each such Borrowing, a “Malaysian Mandatory Borrowing”) shall be made on
the immediately succeeding Business Day by all Malaysian Lenders pro rata based on
each Malaysian Lender’s Malaysian Revolving Credit Commitment Percentage, and the
proceeds thereof shall be applied directly to the Malaysian Swingline Lender to
repay the Malaysian Swingline Lender for such outstanding Malaysian Swingline
Loans. Each Malaysian Lender hereby irrevocably agrees to make such Malaysian
Revolving Credit Loans upon one Business Day’s notice pursuant to each Malaysian
Mandatory Borrowing in the amount, in either U.S. Dollars or Ringgit, as
applicable, and in the manner specified in the preceding sentence and on the date
specified to it in writing by the Malaysian Swingline Lender notwithstanding (1)
that the amount of the Malaysian Mandatory Borrowing may not comply with the
minimum amount for each Borrowing specified in Section 2.2, (2) whether any
conditions specified in Section 7 are then satisfied, (3) whether a Default or an
Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, (4) the date of such Malaysian
Mandatory Borrowing or (5) any reduction in the Total Commitment after any such
Malaysian Swingline Loans were made. In the event that, in the
sole judgment of the Malaysian Swingline Lender, any Malaysian Mandatory
Borrowing cannot for any reason be made on the date otherwise required above
(including as a result of the commencement of a proceeding under the Bankruptcy
Code in respect of any Borrower), each Malaysian Lender hereby agrees that it shall
forthwith purchase from the Malaysian Swingline Lender (without recourse or
warranty) such participation of the outstanding Malaysian Swingline Loans as shall
be necessary to cause the Malaysian Lenders to share in such Malaysian Swingline
Loans ratably based upon their respective Malaysian Revolving Credit Commitment
Percentages, provided that all principal and interest payable on such
Malaysian Swingline Loans shall be for the account of the Malaysian Swingline
Lender until the date the respective participation is purchased and, to the extent
attributable to the purchased participation,
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shall be payable to the Malaysian
Lender purchasing same from and after such date of purchase.
2.2 Minimum Amount of Each Borrowing; Maximum Number of Borrowings. The aggregate
principal amount of each Borrowing of (a) Term Loans or Revolving Credit Loans denominated in U.S.
Dollars, shall be in a multiples of $1,000,000, (b) Swingline Loans denominated in U.S. Dollars
shall be in a multiples of $10,000, (c) Revolving Credit Loans denominated in Singapore Dollars,
shall be in multiples of S$1,000,000, (d) Swingline Loans denominated in Singapore Dollars shall be
in multiples of S$10,000, Revolving Credit Loans Denominated in Ringgit, RM4,000,000 and (e)
Swingline Loans denominated in Ringgit shall be in multiples of RM40,000 and, in each case, shall
not be less than the Minimum Borrowing Amount with respect thereto (except that Mandatory
Borrowings shall be made in the amounts required by Section 2.1(d)). More than one Borrowing may
be incurred on any date, provided that at no time shall there be outstanding more than (A) 20
Borrowings of LIBOR Loans, (B) 5 Borrowings of SOR Loans and (C) 5 Borrowings of RM Loans under
this Agreement.
2.3 Notice of Borrowing.
(a) Term Loan Borrowings.
(i)
Tranche B-1 Term Loan Borrowings. The Lux Borrower shall give the
Tranche B-1 Term Loan Administrative Agent at such Administrative Agent’s Office
(A) prior to 12:00 Noon (
New York City time) at least three Business Days’ prior
written notice (or telephonic notice promptly confirmed in writing) of the
Borrowing of Tranche B-1 Term Loans if all or any of such Tranche B-1 Term Loans
are to be initially LIBOR Loans, and (B) prior to 10:00 a.m. (
New York City time)
at least one Business Day’s prior written notice (or telephonic notice promptly
confirmed in writing) of the Borrowing of Tranche B-1 Term Loans if all such
Tranche B-1 Term Loans are to be ABR Loans.
(ii) Tranche B-2 Term Loan Borrowings. The Company shall give the
Asian Administrative Agent at such Administrative Agent’s Office prior to 12:00
Noon (Hong Kong time) at least five Business Days’ prior written notice (or
telephonic notice promptly confirmed in writing) of the Borrowing of Tranche B-2
Term Loans.
(iii) Notice of Borrowing. Each notice under clauses (i) or (ii)
above (together with each notice of a Borrowing of Revolving Credit Loans pursuant
to Section 2.3(b) and each notice of a Borrowing of Swingline Loans pursuant to
Section 2.3(c), a “Notice of Borrowing”) shall be irrevocable and shall
specify (A) the aggregate principal amount of the Term Loans to be made, (B) the
date of the Borrowing (which (x) in the case of the Tranche B-1 Term Loan shall be
the Closing Date and (y) in
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the case of Tranche B-2 Term Loan shall not be less
than five Business Days after the date on which the Asian Administrative Agent has
been provided with a certificate of an Authorized Officer of the Company as
provided in Section 7.3(d)(ii)), (C) whether the Term Loans shall consist of ABR
Loans and/or LIBOR Term Loans, and (D) if the Term Loans are to include LIBOR Term
Loans, the Interest Period to be initially applicable thereto. The applicable
Administrative Agent shall promptly give each Tranche B-1 Term Loan Lender or each
Tranche B-2 Term Loan Lender, as applicable, written notice (or telephonic notice
promptly confirmed in writing) of the proposed Borrowing of Term Loans, of such
Term Loan Lender’s proportionate share thereof and of the other matters covered by
the related Notice of Borrowing.
(b) Revolving Credit Borrowings.
(i) U.S. Dollar Borrowings. Whenever the Singaporean Borrower or any
U.S. Borrower desires to incur U.S. Dollar Revolving Credit Loans it shall give the
Asian Administrative Agent at such Administrative Agent’s Office, (A) prior to
12:00 Noon (Hong Kong time) at least three Business Days’ prior written notice (or
telephonic notice promptly confirmed in writing) of the proposed Borrowing of LIBOR
Loans, and (B) prior to 12:00 Noon (Hong Kong time) at least two Business Days’
prior written notice (or telephonic notice promptly confirmed in writing) of the
proposed Borrowing of ABR Loans. Each such Notice of Borrowing, except as
otherwise expressly provided in Section 2.10, shall be irrevocable and shall
specify (1) the aggregate principal amount of the U.S. Dollar Revolving Credit
Loans to be made pursuant to such Borrowing, (2) the date of the proposed Borrowing
(which shall be a Business Day), (3) whether the respective Borrowing shall consist
of ABR Loans or LIBOR Revolving Credit Loans and, if LIBOR Revolving Credit Loans,
the Interest Period to be initially applicable thereto. Such Administrative Agent
shall promptly give each U.S. Dollar Lender written notice (or telephonic notice
promptly
confirmed in writing) of each proposed U.S. Dollar Borrowing, of such U.S.
Dollar Lender’s proportionate share thereof and of the other matters covered by the
related Notice of Borrowing.
(ii) Multi-Currency Borrowing. Whenever the Singaporean Borrower or
any U.S. Borrower desires to incur Multi-Currency Revolving Credit Loan (other than
Multi-Currency Mandatory Borrowings or borrowings to repay Unpaid Drawings), it
shall give the Asian Administrative Agent at such Administrative Agent’s Office,
(A) if such Borrowing is with respect to a Multi-Currency U.S. Dollar Loan (1)
prior to 12:00 Noon (Hong Kong time) at least three Business Days’ prior written
notice (or telephonic notice promptly confirmed in writing) of the proposed
Borrowing of LIBOR Loans, and (2) prior to 12:00 Noon (Hong
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Kong time) at least two
Business Days’ prior written notice (or telephonic notice promptly confirmed in
writing) of the proposed Borrowing of ABR Loans, and (B) if such Borrowing is with
respect to a Multi-Currency Singapore Dollar Loan (1) prior to 12:00 Noon (Hong
Kong time) at least three Business Days’ prior written notice (or telephonic notice
promptly confirmed in writing) of the proposed Borrowing of SOR Loans, and (2)
prior to 12:00 Noon (Hong Kong time) at least one Business Day’s prior written
notice (or telephonic notice promptly confirmed in writing) of the proposed
Borrowing of ABR Loans. Each such Notice of Borrowing, except as otherwise
expressly provided in Section 2.10, shall be irrevocable and shall specify (A)
whether such Multi-Currency Revolving Credit Borrowing consists of Multi-Currency
U.S. Dollar Loans or Multi-Currency Singapore Dollar Loans, (B) the aggregate
principal amount of the Multi-Currency Revolving Credit Loans to be made pursuant
to such Borrowing, (C) the date of the proposed Borrowing (which shall be a
Business Day) and (D) the Interest Period to be initially applicable thereto. Such
Administrative Agent shall promptly give each Multi-Currency Lender written notice
(or telephonic notice promptly confirmed in writing) of each proposed
Multi-Currency Borrowing, of such Multi-Currency Lender’s proportionate share
thereof and of the other matters covered by the related Notice of Borrowing.
(iii) Malaysian Borrowing. Whenever the Malaysian Borrower desires to
incur Malaysian Revolving Credit Loan (other than Malaysian Mandatory Borrowing),
it shall give the Asian Administrative Agent at such Administrative Agent’s Office,
(A) if such Borrowing is with respect to Malaysian U.S. Dollar Loans, prior to
12:00 Noon (Hong Kong time) at least three Business Days’ prior written notice (or
telephonic notice promptly confirmed in writing) of the proposed Borrowing of
Malaysian U.S. Dollar Loans or (B) if such Borrowing is with respect to Malaysian
Ringgit Loans, (1) prior to 12:00 Noon (Hong Kong time) at least three Business
Days’ prior written notice (or telephonic notice promptly
confirmed in writing) of the proposed Borrowing of RM Loans having an Interest
Period of one month or greater, and (2) prior to 12:00 Noon (Hong Kong time) at
least one Business Day’s prior written notice (or telephonic notice promptly
confirmed in writing) of the proposed Borrowing of any RM Loans having an Interest
Period of less than one month. Each such Notice of Borrowing, except as otherwise
expressly provided in Section 2.10, shall be irrevocable and shall specify (a)
whether such Malaysian Revolving Credit Borrowing consists of a Malaysian U.S.
Dollar Loans or Malaysian Ringgit Loans, (b) the aggregate principal amount of the
Malaysian Revolving Credit Loans to be made pursuant to such Borrowing, (c) the
date of the proposed Borrowing (which shall be a Business Day) and (d) if such
Borrowing is with respect of a LIBOR Revolving Credit Loans or RM Loans, the
Interest Period to be initially
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applicable thereto. Such Administrative Agent
shall promptly give each Malaysian Lender written notice (or telephonic notice
promptly confirmed in writing) of each proposed Malaysian Borrowing, of such
Malaysian Lender’s proportionate share thereof and of the other matters covered by
the related Notice of Borrowing.
(iv) Swingline Borrowings. Whenever any U.S. Borrower or the
Singaporean Borrower desires to incur Multi-Currency Swingline Loans hereunder and
whenever the Malaysian Borrower desires to incur Malaysian Swingline Loans
hereunder, such Borrower shall give the Asian Administrative Agent in the case of
(A) Malaysian U.S. Dollar Swingline Loans, prior to 2:30 p.m. Hong Kong time at
least one Business Days’ prior written notice (or telephonic notice promptly
confirmed in writing) of such proposed Borrowing or (B) Multi-Currency Swingline
Loans or Malaysian Ringgit Swingline Loans, as applicable, prior to 2:30 p.m. Hong
Kong time on the date of such proposed Borrowing prior written notice (or
telephonic notice promptly confirmed in writing) of such proposed Borrowing,
provided, that the aggregate principal amount of all Multi-Currency U.S.
Dollar Swingline Loans requested to be made on any single date pursuant to this
clause (B) shall not exceed $20,000,000. Each such notice shall be irrevocable and
shall specify (1) the aggregate principal amount of the proposed Swingline Loans to
be made pursuant to such Borrowing which, in the case of (a) Multi-Currency
Swingline Loans, are to be denominated in either U.S. Dollars or Singapore Dollars
and (b) Malaysian Swingline Loans, are to be denominated in either U.S. Dollars or
Ringgit and (2) the date of the proposed Borrowing (which shall be a Business Day).
The Asian Administrative Agent shall promptly give the Multi-Currency Swingline
Lender or the Malaysian Swingline Lender, as applicable, written notice (or
telephonic notice promptly confirmed in writing) of each proposed Borrowing of
Multi-Currency Swingline Loans or Malaysian Swingline Loans, as applicable, and of
the other matters covered by the related Notice of Borrowing.
(c) Mandatory Borrowings shall be made upon the notice specified in Section 2.1(d), with the
applicable Borrower irrevocably agreeing, by its incurrence of any Swingline Loan, to the making of
Mandatory Borrowings as set forth in such Section.
(d) Borrowings to reimburse Unpaid Drawings shall be made upon the notice specified in Section
3.4(a).
(e) Without in any way limiting the obligation of any Borrower to confirm in writing any
notice it may give hereunder by telephone, the applicable Administrative Agent may act prior to
receipt of written confirmation without liability upon the basis of such telephonic notice believed
by such Administrative Agent in good faith to be from an Authorized Officer of the Company or such
Borrower. In each such
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case, each Borrower hereby waives the right to dispute such Administrative
Agent’s record of the terms of any such telephonic notice.
2.4 Disbursement of Funds. (a) No later than 12:00 Noon Local Time on the date
specified in each Notice of Borrowing (including Mandatory Borrowings), each Lender will make
available its pro rata portion, if any, of each Borrowing requested to be made on such date in the
manner provided below, provided that all Multi-Currency Singapore Dollar Swingline
Loans and Malaysian Ringgit Swingline Loans shall be made available in the full amount thereof by
the applicable Swingline Lender no later than 3:00 p.m. (Hong Kong time) on the date requested.
(b) Each Lender shall make available all amounts it is to fund to the applicable Borrower
under any Borrowing for its applicable Commitments, and in immediately available funds to the
applicable Administrative Agent at such Administrative Agent’s Office and such Administrative Agent
will (except in the case of Mandatory Borrowings and Borrowings to repay Unpaid Drawings) make
available to the applicable Borrower, by depositing to such Borrower’s account at such
Administrative Agent’s Office the aggregate of the amounts so made available in U.S. Dollars.
Unless the applicable Administrative Agent shall have been notified by any Lender prior to the date
of any such Borrowing that such Lender does not intend to make available to such Administrative
Agent its portion of the Borrowing or Borrowings to be made on such date, such Administrative Agent
may assume that such Lender has made such amount available to such Administrative Agent on such
date of Borrowing, and such Administrative Agent, in reliance upon such assumption, may (in its
sole discretion and without any obligation to do so) make available to the applicable Borrower a
corresponding amount. If such corresponding amount is not in fact made available to such
Administrative Agent by such Lender and such Administrative Agent has made available same to the
applicable Borrower, such Administrative Agent shall be entitled to recover such corresponding
amount from such Lender. If such Lender does not pay such corresponding amount forthwith upon such
Administrative Agent’s demand therefor such Administrative Agent shall promptly notify the
applicable Borrower and such Borrower shall immediately pay such corresponding amount to such
Administrative Agent. Such Administrative Agent shall also be entitled to recover from such Lender
or such Borrower interest on such corresponding amount in respect of each day from the date
such corresponding amount was made available by such Administrative Agent to such Borrower to
the date such corresponding amount is recovered by such Administrative Agent, at a rate per annum
equal to (i) if paid by such Lender, the Federal Funds Effective Rate or (ii) if paid by such
Borrower, the then-applicable rate of interest or fees, calculated in accordance with Section 2.8,
for the respective Loans.
(c) Nothing in this Section 2.4 shall be deemed to relieve any Lender from its obligation to
fulfill its commitments hereunder or to prejudice any rights that the Borrowers may have against
any Lender as a result of any default by such Lender hereunder (it being understood, however, that
no Lender shall be responsible for the failure of any other Lender to fulfill its commitments
hereunder).
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2.5 Repayment of Loans; Evidence of Debt. (a) The Lux Borrower shall repay to the
Tranche B-1 Term Loan Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Tranche B-1 Term Loan Lenders,
on the Tranche B Term Loan Maturity Date, the then-unpaid Tranche B-1 Term Loans, in U.S. Dollars.
The Company shall repay to the Asian Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Tranche B-2 Term
Loan Lenders, on the Tranche B Term Loan Maturity Date, the then-unpaid Tranche B-2 Term Loans, in
U.S. Dollars. Each Borrower shall repay to the Asian Administrative Agent (i) for the benefit of
the applicable Lenders, on the Revolving Credit Maturity Date, the then-unpaid Revolving Credit
Loans made to such Borrower in the currency such Revolving Credit Loans have been made and (ii) for
the account of the applicable Swingline Lender, on the Swingline Maturity Date, the then-unpaid
Swingline Loans made to such Borrower in the Currency such Swingline Loans have been made.
(b) (i) The Lux Borrower shall repay to the Tranche B-1 Term Loan Administrative Agent, in
U.S. Dollars, for the benefit of the Tranche B-1 Term Loan Lenders, on each date set forth below
(each, a “Tranche B Repayment Date”), the principal amount of the Tranche B-1 Term Loans
equal to (x) the outstanding principal amount of Tranche B-1 Term Loans immediately after closing
on the Closing Date, multiplied by (y) the percentage set forth below opposite such Tranche B
Repayment Date (each, a “Tranche B-1 Repayment Amount”):
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Tranche B-1 |
Date |
|
Repayment Amount |
January 31, 2006 |
|
|
0.25 |
% |
April 30, 2006 |
|
|
0.25 |
% |
July 31, 2006 |
|
|
0.25 |
% |
October 31, 2006 |
|
|
0.25 |
% |
January 31, 2007 |
|
|
0.25 |
% |
April 30, 2007 |
|
|
0.25 |
% |
July 31, 2007 |
|
|
0.25 |
% |
October 31, 2007 |
|
|
0.25 |
% |
January 31, 2008 |
|
|
0.25 |
% |
April 30, 2008 |
|
|
0.25 |
% |
July 31, 2008 |
|
|
0.25 |
% |
October 31, 2008 |
|
|
0.25 |
% |
January 31, 2009 |
|
|
0.25 |
% |
April 30, 2009 |
|
|
0.25 |
% |
July 31, 2009 |
|
|
0.25 |
% |
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|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Tranche B-1 |
Date |
|
Repayment Amount |
October 31, 2009 |
|
|
0.25 |
% |
January 31, 2010 |
|
|
0.25 |
% |
April 30, 2010 |
|
|
0.25 |
% |
July 31, 2010 |
|
|
0.25 |
% |
October 31, 2010 |
|
|
0.25 |
% |
January 31, 2011 |
|
|
0.25 |
% |
April 30, 2011 |
|
|
0.25 |
% |
July 31, 2011 |
|
|
0.25 |
% |
October 31, 2011 |
|
|
0.25 |
% |
January 31, 2012 |
|
|
0.25 |
% |
April 30, 2012 |
|
|
0.25 |
% |
July 31, 2012 |
|
|
0.25 |
% |
Tranche B Term Loan Maturity Date |
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93.25 |
% |
(ii) In the event that Tranche B-2 Term Loans are made, the Company shall
repay to the Asian Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Tranche B-2 Term
Loan Lenders, the Tranche B-2 Term Loans on each Tranche B Repayment Date occurring
on or after the date the Tranche B-2 Term Loans are made in an amount equal to (i)
the aggregate principal amount of Tranche B-2 Term Loans, times (ii) the ratio
(expressed as a percentage) of (y) the amount of all Tranche B-1 Term Loans
required to be repaid on such Tranche B Repayment Date and (z) the total aggregate
principal amount of all Tranche B-1 Term Loans
outstanding on the date the Tranche B-2 Term Loans were made (each, a
“Tranche B-2 Repayment Amount”).
(iii) In the event that any New Tranche B Term Loans are made, such New
Tranche B Term Loans shall, subject to Section 2.14(d), be repaid by the Borrowers
thereof in the amounts (each, a “New Tranche B Repayment Amount”) and on
the dates (each a “New Tranche B Repayment Date”) set forth in the
applicable Joinder Agreement.
(c) Each Lender shall maintain in accordance with its usual practice an account or accounts
evidencing the indebtedness of each Borrower to the appropriate lending office of such Lender
resulting from each Loan made by such lending office of
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such Lender from time to time, including
the amounts of principal and interest payable and paid to such lending office of such Lender from
time to time under this Agreement.
(d) Each Administrative Agent shall maintain the Register pursuant to Section 13.6(b), and a
subaccount for each Lender, in which Register and subaccounts (taken together) shall be recorded
(i) the amount of each Loan made hereunder, whether such Loan is a Term Loan, a Revolving Credit
Loan or a Swingline Loan, as applicable, the Type of each Loan made and the Interest Period
applicable thereto, (ii) the amount of any principal or interest due and payable or to become due
and payable from each Borrower to each Lender or the Swingline Lenders hereunder and (iii) the
amount of any sum received by the applicable Administrative Agent hereunder from each Borrower and
each Lender’s share thereof.
(e) The entries made in the Register and accounts and subaccounts maintained pursuant to
paragraphs (c) and (d) of this Section 2.5 shall, to the extent permitted by applicable law, be
prima facie evidence of the existence and amounts of the obligations of each Borrower therein
recorded; provided that the failure of any Lender or any Administrative Agent to maintain
such account, such Register or such subaccount, as applicable, or any error therein, shall not in
any manner affect the obligation of the Borrowers to repay (with applicable interest) the Loans
made to any Borrower by such Lender in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.
2.6 Conversions and Continuations. (a) The applicable Borrower shall have the option
on any Business Day to convert all or a portion equal to at least the Minimum Borrowing Amount of
the outstanding principal amount of Term Loans or Revolving Credit Loans (other than Malaysian U.S.
Dollar Loans) made to such Borrower, as applicable, of one Type into a Borrowing or Borrowings of
another Type and each Borrower shall have the option on any Business Day to continue the
outstanding principal amount of any LIBOR Term Loans as LIBOR Term Loans, any LIBOR Revolving
Credit Loans as LIBOR Revolving Credit Loans, any SOR Loans as SOR Loans and any RM Loans as RM
Loans, as the case may be, for an additional Interest Period, provided that (i) no partial
conversion of such Loans shall reduce the outstanding principal amount of such LIBOR Term Loans,
LIBOR Revolving Credit Loans, SOR Loans or RM Loan, as applicable, made pursuant to a single
Borrowing to less than the
Minimum Borrowing Amount, (ii) (A) ABR Loans may not be converted into LIBOR Loans or SOR
Loans, as applicable, and (B) LIBOR Term Loans which are Tranche B-1 Term Loans may not be
continued as LIBOR Loans, LIBOR Term Loans which are Tranche B-2 Term Loans may not be continued as
LIBOR Loans, LIBOR Revolving Credit Loans that are U.S. Dollar Revolving Credit Loans may not be
continued as LIBOR Loans, LIBOR Revolving Credit Loans that are Multi-Currency U.S. Dollar
Revolving Credit Loans may not be continued as LIBOR Loans, SOR Loans may not be continued as SOR
Loans and RM Loans may not continue as RM Loans, as applicable, for an additional Interest Period,
in the case of (ii)(A) and (B) above if a Default or Event of Default is in existence on the date
of the proposed continuation or conversion, as the case may be, and the applicable Administrative
Agent has or (1) in the case of Tranche B-1 Term Loans, the Required Tranche B-1 Term Loan Lenders,
(2) in the case of
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Tranche B-2 Term Loans, the Required Tranche B-2 Term Loan Lenders, (3) in the
case of U.S. Dollar Revolving Credit Loans, the Required U.S. Dollar Lenders, (4) in the case of
Multi-Currency Revolving Credit Loans, the Required Multi-Currency Lenders or (5) in the case of
Malaysian Revolving Credit Loans or New Malaysian U.S. Dollar Revolving Credit Loans, the Required
Malaysian Lenders, as applicable, have determined in its or their sole discretion not to permit
such conversion or continuation, as the case may be, and (iii) Borrowings resulting from
conversions of Loans pursuant to this Section 2.6 shall be limited in number as provided in Section
2.2. Each such conversion or continuation shall be effected by the applicable Borrower by giving
the applicable Administrative Agent at such Administrative Agent’s Office prior to 12:00 Noon
(Local Time) at least three Business Days’ (or one Business Day’s notice in the case of a
conversion into ABR Loans, other than U.S. Dollars Revolving Credit Loans or Multi-Currency U.S.
Dollar Loans, which require two Business Days’ notice) prior written notice (or telephonic notice
promptly confirmed in writing) (each, a “Notice of Conversion or Continuation”) specifying
(A) in the case of a conversion or continuation, the Loans to be so converted or continued, the
Type of Loans to be converted or continued into and, if such Loans are to be converted into or
continued as LIBOR Loans, SOR Loans or continued as RM Loans, as the case may be, the Interest
Period to be initially applicable thereto. The applicable Administrative Agent shall give each
Tranche B-1 Term Loan Lender, each Tranche B-2 Term Loan Lender, each U.S. Dollar Lender, each
Multi-Currency Lender or each Malaysian Lender, as applicable, notice as promptly as practicable of
any such proposed conversion or continuation affecting any of its Loans.
(b) If any Default or Event of Default is in existence at the time of any proposed
continuation of any LIBOR Term Loans which are Tranche B-1 Term Loans, LIBOR Term Loans which are
Tranche B-2 Term Loans, LIBOR Revolving Credit Loans that are U.S. Dollar Revolving Credit Loans,
LIBOR Revolving Credit Loans that are Multi-Currency Revolving Credit Loans, SOR Loans, or RM
Loans, as the case may be, and the applicable Administrative Agent has or (i) in the case of
Tranche B-1 Term Loans, the Required Tranche B-1 Term Loan Lenders, (ii) in the case of Tranche B-2
Term Loans, the Required Tranche B-2 Term Loan Lenders, (iii) in the case of U.S. Dollar Revolving
Credit Loans, the Required U.S. Dollar Lenders, (iv) in the case of Multi-Currency Revolving Credit
Loans, the Required Multi-Currency Lenders or (v) in
the case of Malaysian Revolving Credit Loans or New Malaysian U.S. Dollar Revolving Credit
Loans, the Required Malaysian Lenders, as applicable, have determined in his or their sole
discretion not to permit such continuation, such LIBOR Loans, SOR Loans or RM Loans, as the case
may be, shall be automatically converted on the last day of the current Interest Period into ABR
Loans. If upon the expiration of any Interest Period in respect of any LIBOR Loans, SOR Loans or
RM Loans, as the case may be, the applicable Borrower has failed to elect a new Interest Period to
be applicable thereto as provided in clause (a) above, such Borrower shall be deemed to have
elected to (A) convert such Borrowing of LIBOR Loans or SOR Loans into a Borrowing of ABR Loans or
(B) continue such RM Loans as RM Loans and such Malaysian U.S. Dollar Loans as LIBOR Loans, in each
case with an Interest Period of one month, effective as of the expiration date of such current
Interest Period.
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2.7 Pro Rata Borrowings. Each Borrowing of (i) Tranche B-1 Term Loans under this
Agreement shall be granted by the Tranche B-1 Term Loan Lenders pro rata on the basis of their
then-applicable Tranche B-1 Term Loan Commitments and (ii) Tranche B-2 Term Loans under this
Agreement shall be granted by the Tranche B-2 Term Loan Lenders pro rata on the basis of their
then-applicable Tranche B-2 Term Loan Commitments. Each Borrowing of U.S. Dollar Revolving Credit
Loans under this Agreement shall be granted by the U.S. Dollar Lenders pro rata on the basis of
their then-applicable U.S. Dollar Revolving Credit Commitments. Each Borrowing of Multi-Currency
Revolving Credit Loans under this Agreement shall be granted by the Multi-Currency Lenders pro rata
on the basis of their then-applicable Multi-Currency Revolving Credit Commitments. Each Borrowing
of Malaysian Revolving Credit Loans or New Malaysian U.S. Dollar Revolving Credit Loans, as
applicable, under this Agreement shall be granted by the Malaysian Lenders pro rata on the basis of
their then-applicable Malaysian Revolving Credit Commitments. Each Borrowing of New Tranche B Term
Loans under this Agreement shall be granted by the Lenders pro rata on the basis of their
then-applicable New Tranche B Term Loan Commitments. It is understood that (a) no Lender shall be
responsible for any default by any other Lender in its obligation to make Loans hereunder and that
each Lender shall be severally obligated to make the Loans provided to be made by it hereunder,
regardless of the failure of any other Lender to fulfill its commitments hereunder, (b) other than
as expressly provided herein with respect to a Defaulting Lender, failure by a Lender to perform
any of its obligations under any of the Credit Documents shall not release any Person from
performance of its obligation under any Credit Document and (c) the rights of each Lender under
each Credit Document are separate and independent rights and any Indebtedness owed to such Lender
under any Credit Document shall be a separate and independent Indebtedness.
2.8 Interest. (a) The unpaid principal amount of each ABR Loan shall bear interest
from the date of the Borrowing thereof until maturity (whether by acceleration or otherwise) at a
rate per annum that shall at all times be the Applicable ABR Margin plus the applicable ABR in
effect from time to time.
(b) The unpaid principal amount of each LIBOR Loan shall bear interest from the date of the
Borrowing thereof until maturity thereof (whether by
acceleration or otherwise) at a rate per annum that shall at all times be the Applicable LIBOR
Margin in effect from time to time plus the relevant LIBOR Rate.
(c) The unpaid principal amount of each SOR Loan shall bear interest from the date of the
Borrowing thereof until maturity thereof (whether by acceleration or otherwise) at a rate per annum
that shall at all times be the Applicable SOR Margin in effect from time to time plus the relevant
SOR Rate.
(d) The unpaid principal amount of each Singapore COF Loan shall bear interest from the date
of the Borrowing thereof until maturity thereof (whether by acceleration or otherwise) at a rate
per annum that shall at all times be the Applicable SOR Margin in effect from time to time plus the
relevant Singapore COF Rate.
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(e) The unpaid principal amount of each RM Loan shall bear interest from the date of the
Borrowing thereof until maturity thereof (whether by acceleration or otherwise) at a rate per annum
that shall at all times be the Applicable RM Margin in effect from time to time plus the relevant
RM Rate.
(f) If all or a portion of (i) the principal amount of any Loan or (ii) any interest payable
thereon shall not be paid when due (whether at the stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise),
such overdue amount shall bear interest at a rate per annum that is (x) in the case of overdue
principal, the rate that would otherwise be applicable thereto plus 2% or (y) in the case
of any overdue interest, to the extent permitted by applicable law, the rate described in Section
2.8(a) plus 2% from and including the date of such non-payment to but excluding the date on
which such amount is paid in full (after as well as before judgment).
(g) Interest on each Loan shall accrue from and including the date of any Borrowing to but
excluding the date of any repayment thereof and shall be payable (i) in respect of each ABR Loan
and each Singapore COF Loan, quarterly in arrears on the last day of each March, June, September
and December, (ii) in respect of each LIBOR Loan, SOR Loan and RM Loan on the last day of each
Interest Period applicable thereto and, in the case of an Interest Period in excess of three
months, on each date occurring at three-month intervals after the first day of such Interest
Period, (iii) in respect of each Loan (except, other than in the case of prepayments, any ABR
Loan), on any prepayment (on the amount prepaid), at maturity (whether by acceleration or
otherwise) and, after such maturity, on demand.
(h) All computations of interest hereunder shall be made in accordance with Section 5.5.
(i) The applicable Administrative Agent, upon determining the interest rate for any Borrowing
of LIBOR Loans, SOR Loan, Singapore COF Loan or RM Loan shall promptly notify the relevant Borrower
and the relevant Lenders thereof. Each such determination shall, absent clearly demonstrable
error, be final and conclusive and binding on all parties hereto.
2.9 Interest Periods. At the time any Borrower gives a Notice of Borrowing or Notice
of Conversion or Continuation in respect of the making of, or conversion into or continuation as, a
Borrowing of LIBOR Loans, SOR Loans or RM Loans (in the case of the initial Interest Period
applicable thereto) or prior to 10:00 a.m. (Local Time) on the third Business Day prior to the
expiration of an Interest Period applicable to a Borrowing of LIBOR Loans, SOR Loans or RM Loans,
such Borrower shall have the right to elect by giving the applicable Administrative Agent written
notice (or telephonic notice promptly confirmed in writing) the Interest Period applicable to such
Borrowing, which Interest Period shall, at the option of such Borrower be in the case of (a) any
LIBOR Loans, one, two, three, six or (in the case of Revolving Credit Loans, if available to all
the Lenders making such loans as determined by such Lenders in good faith based on prevailing
market conditions) a nine or twelve month period or a
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shorter period, provided that the
initial Interest Period may be for a period less than one month if agreed upon by such Borrower and
the applicable Administrative Agent, (b) any SOR Loans, one week, one month, three month period or
(in the case of Revolving Credit Loans, if available to all the Lenders making such loans as
determined by such Lenders in good faith based on prevailing market conditions) a six month period,
provided that the initial Interest Period may be for a period less than one week if agreed
upon by such Borrower and the Asian Administrative Agent, or (c) any RM Loans, one week, one month,
three month or six-month period or (in the case of Revolving Credit Loans, if available to all the
Lenders making such loans as determined by such Lenders in good faith based on prevailing market
conditions) a nine month period, provided that the initial Interest Period may be for a
period less than one week if agreed upon by such Borrower and the Asian Administrative Agent.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained above:
(a) the initial Interest Period for any Borrowing of LIBOR Loans, SOR Loans and RM Loans shall
commence on the date of such Borrowing (including in the case of LIBOR Loans and SOR Loans the date
of any conversion from a Borrowing of ABR Loans) and each Interest Period occurring thereafter in
respect of such Borrowing shall commence on the day on which the next preceding Interest Period
expires;
(b) if any Interest Period relating to a Borrowing of LIBOR Revolving Credit Loans, SOR Loans
or RM Loans begins on the last Business Day of a calendar month or begins on a day for which there
is no numerically corresponding day in the calendar month at the end of such Interest Period, such
Interest Period shall end on the last Business Day of the calendar month at the end of such
Interest Period;
(c) if any Interest Period would otherwise expire on a day that is not a Business Day, such
Interest Period shall expire on the next succeeding Business Day, provided that if any
Interest Period in respect of a LIBOR Loan, a SOR Loan or a RM Loan would otherwise expire on a day
that is not a Business Day but is a day of the month after which no further Business Day occurs in
such month, such Interest Period shall expire on the next preceding Business Day; and
(d) no Borrower shall be entitled to elect any Interest Period in respect of any LIBOR Loan,
SOR Loan or RM Loan if such Interest Period would extend beyond the applicable Maturity Date of
such Loan.
2.10 Increased Costs, Illegality, etc. (a) In the event that (x) in the case of
clause (i) below, the applicable Administrative Agent or (y) in the case of clauses (ii) and (iii)
below, any Lender shall have reasonably determined (which determination shall, absent clearly
demonstrable error, be final and conclusive and binding upon all parties hereto):
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(i) on any date for determining the LIBOR Rate, SOR Rate, Singapore COF Rate
or RM Rate for any Interest Period that (x) deposits in the principal amounts of
the Loans comprising such Borrowing are not generally available in the relevant
market or (y) by reason of any changes arising on or after the Closing Date
affecting the interbank LIBOR market, the interbank SOR market or the Kuala Lumpur
Interbank Money Market, adequate and fair means do not exist for ascertaining the
applicable interest rate on the basis provided for in the definition of LIBOR Rate,
SOR Rate, Singapore COF Rate or RM Rate, respectively; or
(ii) at any time, that such Lender shall incur increased costs or reductions
in the amounts received or receivable hereunder with respect to any LIBOR Loans,
SOR Loans, Singapore COF Loans or RM Loans (other than any such increase or
reduction attributable to Taxes) because of (x) any change since the date hereof in
any applicable law, governmental rule, regulation, guideline or order (or in the
interpretation or administration thereof and including the introduction of any new
law or governmental rule, regulation, guideline or order), such as, for example,
without limitation, a change in official reserve requirements, and/or (y) other
circumstances affecting the interbank LIBOR market, the interbank SOR market or the
Kuala Lumpur Interbank Money Market, as applicable, or the position of such Lender
in such market; or
(iii) at any time, that the making or continuance of any LIBOR Loan, SOR Loan,
Singapore COF Loan or RM Loan has become unlawful by compliance by such Lender (or
its Applicable Lending Office) in good faith with any law, governmental rule,
regulation, guideline or order (or would conflict with any such governmental rule,
regulation, guideline or order not having the force of law even though the failure
to comply therewith would not be unlawful), or has become impracticable as a result
of a contingency occurring after the date hereof that materially and adversely
affects the interbank LIBOR market, the interbank SOR market or the Kuala Lumpur
Interbank Money Market, as applicable;
then, and in any such event, such Lender (or the applicable Administrative Agent, in the case of
clause (i) above) shall within a reasonable time thereafter give notice (if by
telephone, confirmed in writing) to the applicable Borrowers and to the applicable Administrative
Agent of such determination (which notice such Administrative Agent shall promptly transmit to each
of the other Lenders). Thereafter (x) in the case of clause (i) above, LIBOR Term Loans, LIBOR
Revolving Credit Loans, SOR Loans, Singapore COF Loans or RM Loans, as applicable, shall no longer
be available until such time as the applicable Administrative Agent notifies the applicable
Borrower and the Lenders that the circumstances giving rise to such notice by such Administrative
Agent no longer exist (which notice such Administrative Agent agrees to give at such time when such
circumstances no longer exist), and any Notice of Borrowing or Notice of Conversion given by a
Borrower with respect to LIBOR Term Loans, LIBOR Revolving Credit
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Loans, SOR Loans, Singapore COF
Loans or RM Loans, as applicable, that have not yet been incurred shall be deemed rescinded by such
Borrower (y) in the case of clause (ii) above, the applicable Borrower shall pay to such Lender,
promptly after receipt of written demand therefor such additional amounts (in the form of an
increased rate of, or a different method of calculating, interest or otherwise as such Lender in
its reasonable discretion shall determine) as shall be required to compensate such Lender for such
increased costs or reductions in amounts receivable hereunder (it being agreed that a written
notice as to the additional amounts owed to such Lender, showing in reasonable detail the basis for
the calculation thereof, submitted to such Borrower by such Lender shall, absent clearly
demonstrable error, be final and conclusive and binding upon all parties hereto) and (z) in the
case of clause (iii) above, the applicable Borrower shall take one of the actions specified in
Section 2.10(b) as promptly as possible and, in any event, within the time period required bylaw.
(b) At any time that any LIBOR Loan, SOR Loan, Singapore COF Loan or RM Loan is affected by
the circumstances described in Section 2.10(a)(ii) or (iii), the applicable Borrower may (and in
the case of a LIBOR Loan, SOR Loan, Singapore COF Loan or RM Loan affected pursuant to Section
2.10(a)(iii) shall) either (x) if the affected LIBOR Loan, SOR Loan, Singapore COF Loan or RM Loan
is then being made pursuant to a Borrowing, cancel said Borrowing by giving the applicable
Administrative Agent telephonic notice (confirmed promptly in writing) thereof on the same date
that such Borrower was notified by a Lender pursuant to Section 2.10(a)(ii) or (iii) or (y) if the
affected Loan is a LIBOR Loan, SOR Loan or RM Loan then outstanding, upon at least three Business
Days’ notice to the applicable Administrative Agent, require the affected Lender to convert each
such Loan into an ABR Loan, provided that if more than one Lender is affected at any time,
then all affected Lenders must be treated in the same manner pursuant to this Section 2.10(b).
(c) If, after the date hereof, the adoption of any applicable law, rule or regulation
regarding capital adequacy, or any change therein, or any change in the interpretation or
administration thereof by any governmental authority, the National Association of Insurance
Commissioners, central bank or comparable agency charged with the interpretation or administration
thereof, or compliance by a Lender or its parent with any request or directive made or adopted
after the date hereof regarding capital adequacy (whether or not having the force of law) of any
such authority, association,
central bank or comparable agency, has or would have the effect of reducing the rate of return
on such Lender’s or its parent’s or its Affiliate’s capital or assets as a consequence of such
Lender’s commitments or obligations hereunder to a level below that which such Lender or its parent
or its Affiliate could have achieved but for such adoption, effectiveness, change or compliance
(taking into consideration such Lender’s or its parent’s policies with respect to capital
adequacy), then from time to time, promptly after demand by such Lender (with a copy to the
applicable Administrative Agent), each applicable Borrower shall pay to such Lender such additional
amount or amounts as will compensate such Lender or its parent for such reduction, it being
understood and agreed, however, that a Lender shall not be entitled to such compensation as a
result of such
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Lender’s compliance with, or pursuant to any request or directive to comply with,
any such law, rule or regulation as in effect on the date hereof. Each Lender, upon determining in
good faith that any additional amounts will be payable pursuant to this Section 2.10(c), will give
prompt written notice thereof to the applicable Borrower which notice shall set forth in reasonable
detail the basis of the calculation of such additional amounts, although the failure to give any
such notice shall not, subject to Section 2.13, release or diminish such Borrower’s obligations to
pay additional amounts pursuant to this Section 2.10(c) upon receipt of such notice.
(d) It is understood that to the extent duplicative of Section 5.4, this Section 2.10 shall
not apply to Taxes.
2.11 Compensation. If (a) any payment of principal of any LIBOR Loan, SOR Loan or RM
Loan is made by any Borrower to or for the account of a Lender other than on the last day of the
Interest Period for such LIBOR Loan, SOR Loan or RM Loan as a result of a payment or conversion
pursuant to Section 2.5, 2.6, 2.10, 5.1, 5.2 or 13.7, as a result of acceleration of the maturity
of the Loans pursuant to Section 11 or for any other reason, (b) any Borrowing of LIBOR Loans, SOR
Loans or RM Loans is not made as a result of a withdrawn Notice of Borrowing, (c) any ABR Loan is
not converted into a LIBOR Loan as a result of a withdrawn Notice of Conversion or Continuation,
(d) any LIBOR Loan, SOR Loan or RM Loan is not continued as an LIBOR Loan, SOR Loan or RM Loan, as
the case may be, as a result of a withdrawn Notice of Conversion or Continuation or (e) any
prepayment of principal of any LIBOR Loan, SOR Loan or RM Loan is not made as a result of a
withdrawn notice of prepayment pursuant to Section 5.1 or 5.2, such Borrower shall, after receipt
of a written request by such Lender (which request shall set forth in reasonable detail the basis
for requesting such amount), pay to the applicable Administrative Agent for the account of such
Lender any amounts required to compensate such Lender for any additional losses, costs or expenses
that such Lender may reasonably incur as a result of such payment, failure to convert, failure to
continue or failure to prepay, including any loss, cost or expense (excluding loss of anticipated
profits) actually incurred by reason of the liquidation or reemployment of deposits or other funds
acquired by any Lender to fund or maintain such LIBOR Loan, SOR Loan or RM Loan.
2.12 Change of Lending Office. Each Lender agrees that, upon the occurrence of any
event giving rise to the operation of Section 2.10(a)(ii), 2.10(a)(iii),
2.10(b), 3.5 or 5.4 with respect to such Lender, it will, if requested by the Company use
reasonable efforts (subject to overall policy considerations of such Lender) to change its
Applicable Lending Office for any Loans affected by such event, provided that such change
is made on such terms that such Lender and its lending office suffer no economic, legal or
regulatory disadvantage, with the object of avoiding the consequence of the event giving rise to
the operation of any such Section. Nothing in this Section 2.12 shall affect or postpone any of
the obligations of any Borrower or the right of any Lender provided in Section 2.10, 3.5 or 5.4.
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2.13 Notice of Certain Costs. Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the
contrary, to the extent any notice required by Section 2.10, 2.11, 3.5 or 5.4 is given by any
Lender more than 180 days after such Lender has knowledge (or should have had knowledge) of the
occurrence of the event giving rise to the additional cost, reduction in amounts, loss, tax or
other additional amounts described in such Sections, such Lender shall not be entitled to
compensation under Section 2.10, 2.11, 3.5 or 5.4, as the case may be, for any such amounts
incurred or accruing prior to the 181st day prior to the giving of such notice to the Company.
2.14 Incremental Facilities. (a) The Company may by written notice to the applicable
Administrative Agent elect to request the establishment of one or more (x) New Tranche B Term Loan
commitments (the “New Tranche B Term Loan Commitments”) and/or (y) Additional Revolving
Credit commitments (the “New Revolving Credit Commitment” and, together with the New
Tranche B Term Loan Commitments, the “New Loan Commitments”), by an aggregate amount not in
excess of $200,000,000 in the aggregate and not less than $50,000,000 individually (or such lesser
amount which shall be approved by the applicable Administrative Agent or such lesser amount that
shall constitute the difference between $200,000,000 and all such New Loan Commitments obtained
prior to such date), and integral multiples of $5,000,000 in excess of that amount. Each such
notice shall specify the date (each, an “Increased Amount Date”) on which the Company
proposes that the New Loan Commitments shall be effective, which shall be a date not less than 10
Business Days after the date on which such notice is delivered to the applicable Administrative
Agent; provided that any Lender offered or approached to provide all or a portion of the
New Loan Commitments may elect or decline, in its sole discretion, to provide a New Loan
Commitment. Such New Loan Commitments shall become effective, as of such Increased Amount Date;
provided that (i) no Default or Event of Default shall exist on such Increased Amount Date
before or after giving effect to such New Loan Commitments, as applicable; (ii) both before and
after giving effect to the making of any Series of New Tranche B Term Loans or New Revolving Loans,
each of the conditions set forth in Section 7 shall be satisfied; (iii) the Company and its
Subsidiaries shall be in pro forma compliance with the covenant set forth in Section 10.9 as of the
last day of the most recently ended fiscal quarter after giving effect to such New Loan Commitments
and any Investment to be consummated in connection therewith; (iv) the New Loan Commitments shall
be effected pursuant to one or more Joinder Agreements executed and delivered by the Company and
the applicable Administrative Agent, and each of which shall be recorded in the Register and shall
be
subject to the requirements set forth in Section 5.4(d); (v) the Company shall make any
payments required pursuant to Section 2.11 in connection with the New Loan Commitments, as
applicable; and (vi) the Company shall deliver or cause to be delivered any legal opinions or other
documents reasonably requested by the applicable Administrative Agent in connection with any such
transaction. Any New Tranche B Term Loans made on an Increased Amount Date shall be designated, a
separate series (a “Series”) of New Tranche B Term Loans for all purposes of this
Agreement.
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(b) On any Increased Amount Date on which New Revolving Loan Commitments are effected, subject
to the satisfaction of the foregoing terms and conditions and obtaining any required approval from
any Governmental Authority, including the consent of Bank Negara Malaysia, (a) each of the Lenders
with Revolving Credit Commitments shall assign to each Lender with a New Revolving Credit
Commitment (each, a “New Revolving Loan Lender”) and each of the New Revolving Loan Lenders
shall purchase from each of the Lenders with Revolving Credit Commitments, at the principal amount
thereof (together with accrued interest), such interests in the Revolving Credit Loans outstanding
on such Increased Amount Date as shall be necessary in order that, after giving effect to all such
assignments and purchases, such Revolving Credit Loans will be held by existing Lenders with
Revolving Credit Loans and New Revolving Loan Lenders ratably in accordance with their Revolving
Credit Commitments after giving effect to the addition of such New Revolving Credit Commitments to
the Revolving Credit Commitments, (b) each New Revolving Credit Commitment shall be deemed for all
purposes a Revolving Credit Commitment and each Loan made thereunder (a “New Revolving
Loan”) shall be deemed, for all purposes, a Revolving Credit Loan and (c) each New Revolving
Loan Lender shall become a Lender with respect to the New Revolving Loan Commitment and all matters
relating thereto.
(c) On any Increased Amount Date on which any New Tranche B Term Loan Commitments of any
Series are effective, subject to the satisfaction of the foregoing terms and conditions, (i) each
Lender with a New Tranche B Term Loan Commitment (each, a “New Tranche B Loan Lender”) of
any Series shall make a Loan to the Company (a “New Tranche B Term Loan”) in an amount
equal to its New Tranche B Term Loan Commitment of such Series, and (ii) each New Tranche B Term
Loan Lender of any Series shall become a Lender hereunder with respect to the New Tranche B Term
Loan Commitment of such Series and the New Tranche B Term Loans of such Series made pursuant
thereto.
(d) The terms and provisions of the New Tranche B Term Loans and New Tranche B Term Loan
Commitments of any Series shall be, except as otherwise set forth herein or in the Joinder
Agreement, identical to the Tranche B Term Loans; provided that (i) the applicable New
Tranche B Term Loan Maturity Date of each Series shall be no earlier than the final maturity of the
Tranche B Term Loans and the mandatory prepayment and other payment rights (other than scheduled
amortization) of the New Tranche B Term Loans and the Tranche B Term Loans shall be identical and
(ii) the Borrower, the rate of interest and the amortization schedule applicable to the New Tranche
B Term Loans of each Series shall be determined by the Company and the
applicable new Lenders and shall be set forth in each applicable Joinder Agreement;
provided that such Borrower shall be the Company or a Subsidiary Guarantor. The terms and
provisions of the New Revolving Loans and New Revolving Credit Commitments shall be identical to
the Revolving Credit Loans and the Revolving Credit Commitments.
(e) Each Joinder Agreement may, without the consent of any other Lenders, effect such
amendments to this Agreement and the other Credit Documents as
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may be necessary or appropriate, in
the opinion of the Administrative Agents, to effect the provision of this Section 2.14.
2.15 Conversion of Malaysian Revolving Credit Facility. (a) Prior to any reduction
or termination of any Malaysian Revolving Credit Commitments pursuant to Section 4.2, the Company
may, upon at least ten Business Days’ (or such lesser number of Business Days as each Malaysian
Lender shall agree) written notice (the “Malaysian Commitment Conversion Notice”) to the
Asian Administrative Agent (which notice the Asian Administrative Agent shall promptly transmit to
each Malaysian Lender and the Malaysian Swingline Lender) elect to convert each Malaysian Lender’s
Malaysian Revolving Credit Commitment in whole into a new Malaysian U.S. Dollar Revolving Credit
Commitment (the “New Malaysian U.S. Dollar Revolving Credit Commitment”) of each Malaysian
Lender equal to such Malaysian Lender’s Malaysian Revolving Credit Commitment as of the Malaysian
Commitment Conversion Date (as defined below). The Malaysian Commitment Conversion Notice shall
specify the date on which the Company proposes that the Malaysian Revolving Credit Commitments
shall be converted and the New Malaysian U.S. Dollar Revolving Credit Commitments shall be
effective (the “Malaysian Commitment Conversion Date”); provided that (i) any
Malaysian Revolving Credit Loans and any Malaysian Swingline Loans, any interest thereon and any
other Obligation with respect thereto shall have been paid in full prior to the Malaysian
Commitment Conversion Date and no Obligations with respect thereto shall be outstanding on the
Malaysian Commitment Conversion Date, (ii) both before and after giving effect to such New
Malaysian U.S. Dollar Revolving Credit Commitments, each of the conditions set forth in Section 7
shall be satisfied; and (iii) the Company and its Subsidiaries shall be in pro forma compliance
with the covenant set forth in Section 10.9 as of the last day of the most recently ended fiscal
quarter after giving effect to such New Malaysian U.S. Dollar Revolving Credit Commitments. From
and after the Malaysian Commitment Conversion Date, (A) the rights of the Malaysian Lender to
request Borrowings of Malaysian Revolving Credit Loans and the obligations of the Malaysian Lenders
to make Malaysian Revolving Credit Loans pursuant to Section 2.1(b)(iii), and (B) the rights of the
Malaysian Lender to request Borrowings of Malaysian Swingline Loans and the obligations of the
Malaysian Swingline Lender to make Malaysian Swingline Loans pursuant to Section 2.1(c)(ii), shall
terminate and shall be of no further force and effect.
(b) Commencing on the Malaysian Commitment Conversion Date, subject to and upon the terms and
conditions herein and obtaining any required approval of any Governmental Authority, including the
qualification of such Lender under the Moneylenders Act if applicable, each Malaysian Lender
severally agrees to make a loan
or loans to the Singaporean Borrower or each U.S. Borrower in U.S. Dollars (each a “New
Malaysian U.S. Dollar Revolving Credit Loan” and, collectively, the “New Malaysian U.S.
Dollar Revolving Credit Loans”), which New Malaysian U.S. Dollar Revolving Credit Loans, (i)
shall be made at any time and from time to time on and after the Malaysian Commitment Conversion
Date and prior to the Revolving Credit Maturity Date and (ii) shall be made and maintained on the
same terms and subject to the same conditions,
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including with respect to Notice of Borrowing, Type,
interest rate and prepayment of New Malaysian U.S. Dollar Revolving Credit Loans, as the U.S.
Dollar Revolving Credit Loans, provided that any such New Malaysian U.S. Dollar Revolving
Credit Loans (A) shall not, for any such Malaysian Lender at any time, after giving effect thereto
and to the application of the proceeds thereof, result in such Lender’s Malaysian Revolving Credit
Exposure at such time exceeding such Lender’s Malaysian Credit Commitment at such time and (B)
shall not, after giving effect thereto and to the application of the proceeds thereof, result at
any time in the aggregate amount of the Malaysian Lenders’ Malaysian Credit Exposures at such time
exceeding the Total Malaysian Revolving Credit Commitment then in effect.
(c) Each Malaysian Lender, upon receipt of a copy of the Malaysian Commitment Conversion
Notice, will use its commercially reasonable efforts to obtain any approval of a Governmental
Authority, including under the Moneylenders Act, as shall be required to permit such Malaysian
Lender to make New Malaysian U.S. Dollar Revolving Credit Loans (such efforts to include the
assignment of such Malaysian Lender’s Malaysian Revolving Credit Commitment to any of its
Affiliates if such Affiliate may, under any applicable law make New Malaysian U.S. Dollar Revolving
Credit Loans).
SECTION 3. Letters of Credit.
3.1 Letters of Credit.
(a) Subject to and upon the terms and conditions herein set forth, at any time and from time
to time after the Closing Date and prior to the L/C Maturity Date, each U.S. Dollar Borrower may
request that the Letter of Credit Issuer issue for the account of such U.S. Dollar Borrower a
standby letter of credit or letters of credit in U.S. Dollars (the “Letters of Credit” and
each, a “Letter of Credit”) in such form as may be approved by the Letter of Credit Issuer
in its reasonable discretion.
(b) Notwithstanding the foregoing, (i) no Letter of Credit shall be issued the Stated Amount
of which, when added to the Letters of Credit Outstanding at such time, would exceed the U.S.
Dollar Letter of Credit Commitment then in effect; (ii) no Letter of Credit shall be issued the
Stated Amount of which would cause the aggregate amount of the U.S. Dollar Lenders’ U.S. Dollar
Revolving Credit Exposures at such time to exceed the U.S. Dollar Revolving Credit Commitment then
in effect; (iii) each Letter of Credit shall have an expiration date occurring no later than one
year after the date of issuance thereof, unless otherwise agreed upon by the Asian Administrative
Agent and the Letter of Credit Issuer, provided that in no event shall such expiration date
occur later
than the L/C Maturity Date; (iv) no Letter of Credit shall be issued if it is requested to be
denominated in any currency other than U.S. Dollars; (v) no Letter of Credit shall be issued if it
would be illegal under any applicable law for the beneficiary of the Letter of Credit to have a
Letter of Credit issued in its favor; and (vi) no Letter of Credit shall be issued by the Letter of
Credit Issuer after it has received a written notice from any Credit Party or any Lender stating
that a Default or Event of Default has occurred and is
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continuing until such time as the Letter of
Credit Issuer shall have received a written notice of (vii) rescission of such notice from the
party or parties originally delivering such notice or (y) the waiver of such Default or Event of
Default in accordance with the provisions of Section 13.1. Notwithstanding anything herein to the
contrary, the issuance of Letters of Credit for the account of any Borrower shall be deemed a
utilization of the Revolving Credit Commitments allocated to such Borrower.
(c) Upon at least one Business Day’s prior written notice (or telephonic notice promptly
confirmed in writing) to the Asian Administrative Agent and the Letter of Credit Issuer (which
notice such Administrative Agent shall promptly transmit to each of the applicable Lenders), the
Company shall have the right, on any day, permanently to terminate or reduce the U.S. Dollar Letter
of Credit Commitment in whole or in part, provided that, after giving effect to such
termination or reduction, the Letters of Credit Outstanding shall not exceed the U.S. Dollar Letter
of Credit Commitment.
3.2 Letter of Credit Requests.
(a) Whenever any U.S. Dollar Borrower desires that a Letter of Credit be issued for its
account, it shall give the Asian Administrative Agent and the Letter of Credit Issuer at least five
(or such lesser number as may be agreed upon by such Administrative Agent and the Letter of Credit
Issuer) Business Days’ written notice thereof. Each notice shall be executed by such Borrower and
shall be in the form of Exhibit H (each a “Letter of Credit Request”). The Asian
Administrative Agent shall promptly transmit copies of each Letter of Credit Request to each U.S.
Dollar Lender.
(b) The making of each Letter of Credit Request shall be deemed to be a representation and
warranty by the applicable Borrowers that the Letter of Credit may be issued in accordance with,
and will not violate the requirements of, Section 3.1(b).
3.3 Letter of Credit Participations.
(a) Immediately upon the issuance by the Letter of Credit Issuer of any Letter of Credit, the
Letter of Credit Issuer shall be deemed to have sold and transferred to each U.S. Dollar Lender
(each such other U.S. Dollar Lender, in its capacity under this Section 3.3, an “L/C
Participant”), and each such L/C Participant shall be deemed irrevocably and unconditionally to
have purchased and received from the Letter of Credit Issuer, without recourse or warranty, an
undivided interest and participation (each an “L/C Participation”), to the extent of such
L/C Participant’s U.S. Dollar Revolving Credit Commitment Percentage in such Letter of Credit, each
substitute
letter of credit, each drawing made thereunder and the obligations of the Borrowers under this
Agreement with respect thereto, and any security therefor or guaranty pertaining thereto;
provided that the Letter of Credit Fees will be paid directly to the Asian Administrative
Agent for the ratable account of the L/C Participants as provided in Section 4.1(b) and the L/C
Participants shall have no right to receive any portion of any Fronting Fees).
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(b) In determining whether to pay under any Letter of Credit, the Letter of Credit Issuer
shall have no obligation relative to any L/C Participants other than to confirm that any documents
required to be delivered under such Letter of Credit have been delivered and that they appear to
comply on their face with the requirements of such Letter of Credit. Any action taken or omitted
to be taken by the Letter of Credit Issuer under or in connection with any Letter of Credit issued
by it, if taken or omitted in the absence of gross negligence or willful misconduct, shall not
create for the Letter of Credit Issuer any resulting liability.
(c) In the event that the Letter of Credit Issuer makes any payment under any Letter of Credit
issued by it and the applicable Borrower shall not have repaid such amount in full to the Letter of
Credit Issuer pursuant to Section 3.4(a), the Letter of Credit Issuer shall promptly notify the
Asian Administrative Agent and each L/C Participant of such failure, and each such L/C Participant
shall promptly and unconditionally pay to the Asian Administrative Agent for the account of the
Letter of Credit Issuer, the amount of such L/C Participant’s U.S. Dollar Revolving Credit
Commitment Percentage of such unreimbursed payment in U.S. Dollars and in immediately available
funds; provided that no L/C Participant shall be obligated to pay to the Asian
Administrative Agent for the account of the Letter of Credit Issuer its U.S. Dollar Revolving
Credit Commitment Percentage of such unreimbursed amount arising from any wrongful payment made by
the Letter of Credit Issuer under a Letter of Credit as a result of acts or omissions constituting
willful misconduct or gross negligence on the part of the Letter of Credit Issuer. If the Letter
of Credit Issuer so notifies, prior to 11:00 a.m. (Hong Kong time) on any Business Day, any L/C
Participant required to fund a payment under a Letter of Credit, such L/C Participant shall make
available to the Asian Administrative Agent for the account of the Letter of Credit Issuer such L/C
Participant’s U.S. Dollar Revolving Credit Commitment Percentage, as applicable, of the amount of
such payment on such Business Day in immediately available funds. If and to the extent such L/C
Participant shall not have so made its U.S. Dollar Revolving Credit Commitment Percentage of the
amount of such payment available to the Asian Administrative Agent for the account of the Letter of
Credit Issuer, such L/C Participant agrees to pay to the Asian Administrative Agent for the account
of the Letter of Credit Issuer, forthwith on demand, such amount, together with interest thereon
for each day from such date until the date such amount is paid to the Asian Administrative Agent
for the account of the Letter of Credit Issuer at the Singapore COF Rate. The failure of any L/C
Participant to make available to the Asian Administrative Agent for the account of the Letter of
Credit Issuer its U.S. Dollar Revolving Credit Commitment Percentage of any payment under any
Letter of Credit shall not relieve any other L/C Participant of its
obligation hereunder to make available to the Asian Administrative Agent for the account of
the Letter of Credit Issuer its U.S. Dollar Revolving Credit Commitment Percentage, of any payment
under such Letter of Credit on the date required, as specified above, but no L/C Participant shall
be responsible for the failure of any other L/C Participant to make available to the Asian
Administrative Agent such other L/C Participant’s U.S. Dollar Revolving Credit Commitment
Percentage of any such payment.
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(d) Whenever the Letter of Credit Issuer receives a payment in respect of an unpaid
reimbursement obligation as to which the Asian Administrative Agent has received for the account of
the Letter of Credit Issuer any payments from the L/C Participants pursuant to clause (c) above,
the Letter of Credit Issuer shall pay to the Asian Administrative Agent and such Administrative
Agent shall promptly pay to each L/C Participant that has paid its U.S. Dollar Revolving Credit
Commitment Percentage of such reimbursement obligation, in U.S. Dollars and in immediately
available funds, an amount equal to such L/C Participant’s share (based upon the proportionate
aggregate amount originally funded by such L/C Participant to the aggregate amount funded by all
L/C Participants) of the principal amount of such reimbursement obligation and interest thereon
accruing after the purchase of the respective L/C Participations.
(e) The obligations of the L/C Participants to make payments to the Asian Administrative Agent
for the account of the Letter of Credit Issuer with respect to Letters of Credit shall be
irrevocable and not subject to counterclaim, set-off or other defense or any other qualification or
exception whatsoever and shall be made in accordance with the terms and conditions of this
Agreement under all circumstances, including under any of the following circumstances:
(i) any lack of validity or enforceability of this Agreement or any of the
other Credit Documents;
(ii) the existence of any claim, set-off, defense or other right that the
Borrowers may have at any time against a beneficiary named in a Letter of Credit,
any transferee of any Letter of Credit (or any Person for whom any such transferee
may be acting), any Administrative Agent, the Letter of Credit Issuer, any Lender
or other Person, whether in connection with this Agreement, any Letter of Credit,
the transactions contemplated herein or any unrelated transactions (including any
underlying transaction between any Borrower and the beneficiary named in any such
Letter of Credit);
(iii) any draft, certificate or any 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;
(iv) the surrender or impairment of any security for the performance or
observance of any of the terms of any of the Credit Documents; or
(v) the occurrence of any Default or Event of Default;
provided that no L/C Participant shall be obligated to pay to the Asian Administrative
Agent for the account of the Letter of Credit Issuer its U.S. Dollar Revolving Credit Commitment
Percentage of any unreimbursed amount arising from any wrongful
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payment made by the Letter of
Credit Issuer under a Letter of Credit as a result of acts or omissions constituting willful
misconduct or gross negligence on the part of the Letter of Credit Issuer.
3.4 Agreement to Repay Letter of Credit Drawings.
3.5 Each U.S. Dollar Borrower hereby agrees to reimburse the Letter of Credit Issuer by making
payment in U.S. Dollars to the Asian Administrative Agent (in the case of reimbursement made by
such Borrower) in immediately available funds for any payment or disbursement made by the Letter of
Credit Issuer under any Letter of Credit (each such amount so paid until reimbursed, an “Unpaid
Drawing”) immediately after, and in any event on the date of, such payment, with interest on
the amount so paid or disbursed by the Letter of Credit Issuer, to the extent not reimbursed prior
to 5:00 p.m. (Hong Kong time) on the date of such payment or disbursement, from and including the
date paid or disbursed to but excluding the date the Letter of Credit Issuer is reimbursed therefor
at a rate per annum that shall at all times be the Applicable LIBOR Margin plus the LIBOR Rate as
in effect from time to time, provided that, notwithstanding anything contained in this
Agreement to the contrary, (i) unless the applicable Borrower shall have notified the Asian
Administrative Agent and the Letter of Credit Issuer prior to 10:00 a.m. (Hong Kong time) on the
date of such drawing that such Borrower intends to reimburse the Letter of Credit Issuer for the
amount of such drawing with funds other than the proceeds of Loans, such Borrower shall be deemed
to have given a Notice of Borrowing requesting that, with respect to Letters of Credit, that the
Lenders with U.S. Dollar Revolving Credit Commitments or make U.S. Dollar Revolving Credit Loans
(which shall be LIBOR Loans), and (ii) the Asian Administrative Agent shall promptly notify each
L/C Participant of such drawing and the amount of its Revolving Credit Loan to be made in respect
thereof, and each such L/C Participant shall be irrevocably obligated to make a U.S. Dollar
Revolving Credit Loan to the applicable Borrower in the manner deemed to have been requested in the
amount of its U.S. Dollar Revolving Credit Commitment Percentage of the applicable Unpaid Drawing
by 12:00 noon (Hong Kong) on such Business Day by making the amount of such U.S. Dollar Revolving
Credit Loan available to the Asian Administrative Agent. Such U.S. Dollar Revolving Credit Loans
shall be made without regard to the Minimum Borrowing Amount. The Asian Administrative Agent shall
use the proceeds of such Revolving Credit Loans solely for purpose of reimbursing the Letter of
Credit Issuer for the related Unpaid Drawing.
(a) The obligations of the Borrowers under this Section 3.4 to reimburse the Letter of Credit
Issuer with respect to Unpaid Drawings (including, in each case, interest thereon) shall be
absolute and unconditional under any and all circumstances and irrespective of any set-off,
counterclaim or defense to payment that any Borrower or any other Person may have or have had
against the Letter of Credit Issuer, any Administrative Agent or any Lender (including in its
capacity as an L/C Participant), including any defense based upon the failure of any drawing under
a Letter of Credit (each a “Drawing”) to conform to the terms of the Letter of Credit or
any non-application or misapplication by the beneficiary of the proceeds of such Drawing,
provided that no Borrower shall be obligated to reimburse the Letter of Credit Issuer for
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any wrongful payment made by the Letter of Credit Issuer under the Letter of Credit issued by it as
a result of acts or omissions constituting willful misconduct or gross negligence on the part of
such Letter of Credit Issuer.
3.6 Increased Costs. If after the date hereof, the adoption of any applicable law,
rule or regulation, or any change therein, or any change in the interpretation or administration
thereof by any Governmental Authority, central bank or comparable agency charged with the
interpretation or administration thereof, or actual compliance by the Letter of Credit Issuer or
any L/C Participant with any request or directive made or adopted after the date hereof (whether or
not having the force of law), by any such authority, central bank or comparable agency shall either
(a) impose, modify or make applicable any reserve, deposit, capital adequacy or similar requirement
against letters of credit issued by the Letter of Credit Issuer, or any L/C Participant’s L/C
Participation therein, or (b) impose on the Letter of Credit Issuer or any L/C Participant any
other conditions affecting its obligations under this Agreement in respect of Letters of Credit or
L/C Participations therein or the Letter of Credit or such L/C Participant’s L/C Participation
therein, and the result of any of the foregoing is to increase the cost to any Letter of Credit
Issuer or such L/C Participant of issuing, maintaining or participating in any Letter of Credit, or
to reduce the amount of any sum received or receivable by the Letter of Credit Issuer or such L/C
Participant hereunder (other than any such increase or reduction attributable to taxes) in respect
of Letters of Credit or L/C Participations therein, then, promptly after receipt of written demand
to the Company by the Letter of Credit Issuer or such L/C Participant, as the case may be, (a copy
of which notice shall be sent by such Letter of Credit Issuer or such L/C Participant to the Asian
Administrative Agent (with respect to Letter of Credit issued on account of any Borrower)) the
applicable Borrowers shall pay to the Letter of Credit Issuer or such L/C Participant such
additional amount or amounts as will compensate the Letter of Credit Issuer or such L/C Participant
for such increased cost or reduction, it being understood and agreed, however, that the Letter of
Credit Issuer or a L/C Participant shall not be entitled to such compensation as a result of such
Person’s compliance with, or pursuant to any request or directive to comply with, any such law,
rule or regulation as in effect on the date hereof. A certificate submitted to the Company by the
Letter of Credit Issuer or a L/C Participant, as the case may be (a copy of which certificate shall
be sent by the Letter of Credit Issuer or such L/C Participant to the Asian Administrative Agent
(with respect to Letters of Credit issued on account of any Borrower)), setting forth in reasonable
detail
the basis for the determination of such additional amount or amounts necessary to compensate
the Letter of Credit Issuer or such L/C Participant as aforesaid shall be conclusive and binding on
the Borrowers absent clearly demonstrable error.
3.7 Successor Letter of Credit Issuer. The Letter of Credit Issuer may resign as
Letter of Credit Issuer upon 60 days’ prior written notice to the Asian Administrative Agent or the
U.S. Dollar Lenders and the Company. If the Letter of Credit Issuer shall resign as Letter of
Credit Issuer under this Agreement, then the Company shall appoint from among the U.S. Dollar
Lenders, a successor issuer of Letters of Credit whereupon such successor issuer shall succeed to
the rights, powers and duties
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of such resigning Letter of Credit Issuer, and the term “Letter
of Credit Issuer” as used in relation to such resigning Letter of Credit Issuer shall mean such
successor issuer effective upon such appointment. At the time such resignation shall become
effective, the applicable Borrowers shall pay to the resigning Letter of Credit Issuer all accrued
and unpaid fees pursuant to Sections 4.1(d) and (e). The acceptance of any appointment as the
Letter of Credit Issuer hereunder by a successor Lender shall be evidenced by an agreement entered
into by such successor, in a form satisfactory to the Company and the Asian Administrative Agent
and, from and after the effective date of such agreement, such successor Lender shall have all the
rights and obligations of the resigning Letter of Credit Issuer under this Agreement and the other
Credit Documents. At the time such resignation shall become effective, the Borrower shall pay to
the resigning Letter of Credit Issuer all accrued and unpaid fees pursuant to Sections 4.1(c) and
(d). After the resignation of the Letter of Credit Issuer hereunder, such resigning Letter of
Credit Issuer shall remain a party hereto and shall continue to have all the rights and obligations
of the Letter of Credit Issuer under this Agreement and the other Credit Documents with respect to
Letters of Credit issued by it prior to such resignation, but shall not be required to issue
additional Letters of Credit. After any resigning Letter of Credit Issuer’s resignation as Letter
of Credit Issuer, the provisions of this Agreement relating to the Letter of Credit Issuer shall
inure to its benefit as to any actions taken or omitted to be taken by it (a) while it was the
Letter of Credit Issuer under this Agreement or (b) at any time with respect to Letters of Credit
issued by such Letter of Credit Issuer.
SECTION 4. Fees; Commitments.
4.1 Fees. (a) (i) The Singaporean Borrower and the U.S. Borrowers jointly and
severally agree to pay to the Asian Administrative Agent in U.S. Dollars, for the account of each
Multi-Currency Lender (in each case pro rata according to the respective Multi-Currency Revolving
Credit Commitments of all such Multi-Currency Lenders), a commitment fee for each day from and
including the Closing Date to but excluding the Final Date. Such commitment fee shall be payable
in arrears (x) on the last day of each March, June, September and December (for the three-month
period (or portion thereof) ended on such day for which no payment has been received) and (y) on
the Final Date (for the period ended on such date for which no payment has been received pursuant
to clause (x) above), and shall be computed for each day during such period at a rate per annum
equal to the Commitment Fee Rate in effect on such day on the Multi-Currency Available Commitments
in effect on such day.
(ii) The Singaporean Borrower and the U.S. Borrowers jointly and severally
agree to pay to the Asian Administrative Agent in U.S. Dollars, for the account of
each U.S. Dollar Lender (in each case pro rata according to the respective U.S.
Dollar Revolving Credit Commitments of all such U.S. Dollar Lenders), a commitment
fee for each day from and including the Closing Date to but excluding the Final
Date. Such commitment fee shall be payable in arrears (x) on the last day of each
March, June, September and December (for the three-month period (or portion
thereof) ended on such day for which no payment has been
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received) and (y) on the
Final Date (for the period ended on such date for which no payment has been
received pursuant to clause (x) above), and shall be computed for each day during
such period at a rate per annum equal to the Commitment Fee Rate in effect on such
day on the U.S. Dollar Available Commitments in effect on such day.
(iii) The Malaysian Borrower agrees to pay to the Asian Administrative Agent
in U.S. Dollars, for the account of each Malaysian Lender (in each case pro rata
according to the respective Malaysian Revolving Credit Commitments of all such
Malaysian Lenders), a commitment fee for each day from and including the Closing
Date to but excluding the Final Date. Such commitment fee shall be payable in
arrears (x) on the last day of each March, June, September and December (for the
three-month period (or portion thereof) ended on such day for which no payment has
been received) and (y) on the Final Date (for the period ended on such date for
which no payment has been received pursuant to clause (x) above), and shall be
computed for each day during such period at a rate per annum equal to the
Commitment Fee Rate in effect on such day on the Malaysian Available Commitments in
effect on such day; provided that, at any time, when the Malaysian Borrower
is prohibited by applicable law or regulations from making such payments in U.S.
Dollars, the other Borrowers jointly and severally agree to pay amounts owing under
this clause (iii).
(iv) The Company agrees to pay to the Asian Administrative Agent in U.S.
Dollars, for the account of each Lender having a Tranche B-2 Term Loan Commitment
(in each case pro rata according to the respective Tranche B-2 Term Loan
Commitments of all such Lenders), a commitment fee for each day from and including
the Closing Date to but excluding the Tranche B-2 Term Loan Commitment Termination
Date) at a rate of 1% per annum on the aggregate amount of the Tranche B-2 Term
Loan Commitment. Such commitment fee shall be payable in arrears (x) on the last
day of each March, June, September and December (for the three-month period (or
portion thereof) ended on such day for which no payment has been received) and (y)
on the Tranche B-2 Term Loan
Commitment Termination Date (for the period ended on such date for which no
payment has been received pursuant to clause (x) above).
(v) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Borrowers shall not be obligated to pay
any amounts to any Defaulting Lender pursuant to this Section 4.1.
(b) The Company agrees to pay to the Asian Administrative Agent in U.S. Dollars for the
account of the U.S. Dollar Lenders pro rata on the basis of their respective Letter of Credit
Exposure, a fee in respect of each Letter of Credit (the “Letter of Credit Fee”), for the
period from and including the date of issuance of such Letter of
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Credit to but excluding the
termination date of such Letter of Credit computed at the per annum rate for each day equal to the
Applicable LIBOR Margin for Revolving Credit Loans on the average daily Stated Amount of such
Letter of Credit. Such Letter of Credit Fees shall be due and payable quarterly in arrears on the
last day of each March, June, September and December and on the date upon which the Total Revolving
Credit Commitment terminates and the Letters of Credit Outstanding shall have been reduced to zero.
(c) The Borrowers agree to pay to the Asian Administrative Agent in U.S. Dollars for the
account of the Letter of Credit Issuer a fee in respect of each Letter of Credit issued by it (the
“Fronting Fee”), for the period from and including the date of issuance of such Letter of
Credit to but excluding the termination date of such Letter of Credit, computed at the rate for
each day equal to 0.250% per annum on the average daily Stated Amount of such Letter of Credit.
Such Fronting Fees shall be due and payable quarterly in arrears on the last day of each March,
June, September and December and on the date upon which the Total Revolving Credit Commitment
terminates and the Letters of Credit Outstanding shall have been reduced to zero.
(d) The Borrowers agree to pay directly to the Letter of Credit Issuer in U.S. Dollars upon
each issuance of, drawing under, and/or amendment of, a Letter of Credit issued by it such amount
as the Letter of Credit Issuer and the Borrowers shall have agreed upon for issuances of, drawings
under or amendments of, letters of credit issued by it.
4.2 Voluntary Reduction of Revolving Credit Commitments. Upon at least one Business
Day’s prior written notice (or telephonic notice promptly confirmed in writing) to the Asian
Administrative Agent at its Administrative Agent’s Office (which notice the Asian Administrative
Agent shall promptly transmit to each of the applicable Lenders), the Company shall have the right,
without premium or penalty, on any day, permanently to terminate or reduce any of the U.S. Dollar
Revolving Credit Commitments, the Multi-Currency Revolving Credit Commitments or the Malaysian
Revolving Credit Commitments in whole or in part, provided that (i) any such reduction
shall apply proportionately and permanently to reduce such Revolving Credit Commitment of each of
the Lenders under such Commitment, (ii) any partial reduction pursuant to this Section 4.2 shall be
in the amount of at least $5,000,000 and (iii) after
giving effect to such termination or reduction and to any prepayments of the Loans made on the
date thereof in accordance with this Agreement, the aggregate amount of the U.S. Dollar Lenders’
U.S. Dollar Revolving Credit Exposures at such time shall not exceed the Total U.S. Dollar
Revolving Credit Commitment then in effect, the Multi-Currency Lenders’ Multi-Currency Revolving
Credit Exposures at such time shall not exceed the Multi-Currency Revolving Credit Commitment then
in effect and the Malaysian Lenders’ Malaysian Revolving Credit Exposures at such time shall not
exceed the Total Malaysian Revolving Credit Commitment then in effect.
4.3
Mandatory Termination of Commitments. (a) (x) The Tranche B-1 Term Loan
Commitments shall terminate at 5:00 p.m. (
New York City time) on the
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Closing Date and (y) the
Tranche B-2 Term Loan Commitments shall terminate at 5:00 p.m. (Hong Kong time) on the Tranche B-2
Term Loan Commitment Termination Date.
(b) The Total Revolving Credit Commitment shall terminate at 5:00 p.m. (Hong Kong time) on the
Revolving Credit Maturity Date.
(c) The Swingline Commitments shall terminate at 5:00 p.m. (Hong Kong time) on the Swingline
Maturity Date.
(d) The New Tranche B Term Loan Commitment for any Series shall terminate at 5:00 p.m. (Hong
Kong time) on the Increased Amount Date for such Series.
(e) If any prepayment of Term Loans would otherwise be required pursuant to Section 5.2(a) but
cannot be made because there are no Term Loans outstanding, or because the amount of the required
prepayment exceeds the outstanding amount of Term Loans, then, on the date that such prepayment is
required, the Revolving Credit Commitments shall be permanently reduced pro rata by an aggregate
amount equal to the amount of the required prepayment, or the excess of such amount over the
outstanding amount of Tranche B Term Loans, as the case may be, and the Borrowers shall comply with
Section 5.2(b) after giving effect to such reduction.
SECTION 5. Payments.
5.1 Voluntary Prepayments. The Borrowers shall have the right to prepay Term Loans,
Revolving Credit Loans and Swingline Loans, in each case, without premium or penalty, in whole or
in part from time to time on the following terms and conditions: (a) the applicable Borrower shall
give the applicable Administrative Agent and at such Administrative Agent’s Office written notice
(or telephonic notice promptly confirmed in writing) of its intent to make such prepayment, the
amount of such prepayment and the specific Borrowing(s) pursuant to which made, which notice shall
be given by such Borrower no later than (i) in the case of Term Loans or Revolving Credit Loans,
10:00 a.m. (Local Time) one Business Day prior to, or (ii) in the case of Swingline Loans, 10:00
a.m. (Hong Kong time) on, the date of such prepayment and shall promptly be transmitted by such
applicable Administrative Agent to each of the applicable Lenders or the applicable Swingline
Lender, as the case may be; (b) each
partial prepayment of any Borrowing of Term Loans or Revolving Credit Loans shall be in a
multiple of the U.S. Dollar Equivalent of $100,000 and in an aggregate principal amount of at least
the U.S. Dollar Equivalent of $1,000,000 and each partial prepayment of Swingline Loans shall be in
a multiple of the U.S. Dollar Equivalent of $10,000 and in an aggregate principal amount of at
least the U.S. Dollar Equivalent of $100,000, provided that no partial prepayment of LIBOR
Term Loans, LIBOR Revolving Credit Loans, SOR Loans or RM Loans made pursuant to a single Borrowing
shall reduce the outstanding LIBOR Term Loans, LIBOR Revolving Credit Loans, SOR Loans or RM Loans
made pursuant to such Borrowing to an amount less than the Minimum Borrowing Amount for LIBOR Term
Loans or LIBOR Revolving Credit Loans and (c) any prepayment of LIBOR Term Loans or LIBOR Revolving
Credit Loans pursuant to this
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Section 5.1 on any day other than the last day of an Interest Period
applicable thereto shall be subject to compliance by the applicable Borrower with the applicable
provisions of Section 2.11. Each prepayment in respect of any tranche of Term Loans pursuant to
this Section 5.1 shall be (a) applied to Term Loans in such manner as the Company may determine and
(b) applied to reduce Tranche B-1 Repayment Amount, the Tranche B-2 Repayment Amount and/or any New
Tranche B Repayment Amount, as the case may be, in such order as the Company may determine. At the
applicable Borrower’s election in connection with any prepayment pursuant to this Section 5.1, such
prepayment shall not be applied to any Term Loan or Revolving Credit Loan of a Defaulting Lender.
5.2 Mandatory Prepayments.
(a) Term Loan Prepayments.
(i) On each occasion that a Prepayment Event occurs, the Company shall, within
one Business Day after the occurrence of a Debt Incurrence Prepayment Event and
within five Business Days after the occurrence of any other Prepayment Event,
prepay, in accordance with paragraph (c) below, the principal amount of Term Loans
in an amount equal to 100% of the Net Cash Proceeds from such Prepayment Event,
provided that, at the option of the Company, the Net Cash Proceeds from any
transaction permitted by Section 10.4(e) may be applied to repay Revolving Credit
Loans, which repayment shall automatically result in the reduction of the Revolving
Credit Commitment of each Lender by an amount equal to the amount of the Revolving
Credit Loans prepaid to such Lender.
(ii) Not later than the date that is ninety days after the last day of any
fiscal year (commencing with and including the fiscal year ending October 31,
2006), the Company shall prepay, in accordance with clause (c) below, the principal
of Term Loans in an amount equal to (x) 50% of Excess Cash Flow for such fiscal
year (provided such percentage shall be reduced to 25% if the Consolidated
Total Senior Secured Debt to Adjusted EBITDA Ratio as of the end of such fiscal
year is less than 1.50 to 1.00, and, provided further, that such
percentage shall be reduced to 0% if the
Consolidated Total Senior Secured Debt to Adjusted EBITDA Ratio as of the end
of such fiscal year is less than 1.00 to 1.00), minus (y) the principal amount of
Term Loans voluntarily prepaid pursuant to Section 5.1 during such fiscal year.
(iii) Within five Business Day after the consummation of the Storage Sale,
prepay pro rata the principal amount of the Tranche B-1 Term Loans in an amount
equal to 100% of the Storage Sale Net Cash Proceeds.
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(b) Repayment of Revolving Credit Loans.
(i) If on any date the aggregate amount of the U.S. Dollar Lenders’ U.S.
Dollar Revolving Credit Exposures (all the foregoing, collectively, the
“Aggregate U.S. Dollar Revolving Credit Outstanding”) exceeds 100% of the
Total U.S. Dollar Revolving Credit Commitment as then in effect, the U.S. Dollar
Borrowers shall forthwith repay on such date the principal amount of U.S. Dollar
Revolving Credit Loans in an amount equal to such excess. If, after giving effect
to the prepayment of all outstanding U.S. Dollar Revolving Credit Loans, the
Aggregate U.S. Dollar Revolving Credit Outstanding exceeds the Total U.S. Dollar
Revolving Credit Commitment then in effect, the U.S. Dollar Borrowers shall pay to
the Asian Administrative Agent an amount in cash equal to such excess and such
Administrative Agent shall instruct the Collateral Agent to hold such payment for
the benefit of the U.S. Dollar Lenders as security for the obligations of the U.S.
Dollar Borrowers hereunder (including obligations in respect of Letters of Credit
Outstanding) pursuant to a cash collateral agreement to be entered into in form and
substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agents (which shall permit certain
Investments in Permitted Investments satisfactory to the Administrative Agents,
until the proceeds are applied to the secured obligations);
(ii) If on any date the aggregate amount of the Multi-Currency Lenders’
Multi-Currency Revolving Credit Exposures (all the foregoing, collectively, the
“Aggregate Multi-Currency Revolving Credit Outstanding”) exceeds 100% of
the Total Multi-Currency Revolving Credit Commitment as then in effect, the
Multi-Currency Borrowers shall forthwith repay on such date the principal amount of
Multi-Currency Swingline Loans and, after all Multi-Currency Swingline Loans have
been paid in full, Multi-Currency Revolving Credit Loans in an amount equal to such
excess. If, after giving effect to the prepayment of all outstanding
Multi-Currency Swingline Loans and Multi-Currency Revolving Credit Loans, the
Aggregate Multi-Currency Revolving Credit Outstanding exceeds the Total
Multi-Currency Revolving Credit Commitment then in effect, the Multi-Currency
Borrowers shall pay to the Asian
Administrative Agent an amount in cash equal to such excess and such
Administrative Agent shall instruct the Collateral Agent to hold such payment for
the benefit of the Multi-Currency Lenders as security for the obligations of the
Multi-Currency Borrowers hereunder pursuant to a cash collateral agreement to be
entered into in form and substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agents (which
shall permit certain Investments in Permitted Investments satisfactory to the
Administrative Agents, until the proceeds are applied to the secured obligations);
and
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(iii) If on any date the aggregate amount of the Malaysian Lenders’ Malaysian
Revolving Credit Exposures (all the foregoing, collectively, the “Aggregate
Malaysian Revolving Credit Outstanding”) exceeds 100% of the Total Malaysian
Revolving Credit Commitment as then in effect, the Malaysian Borrower shall
forthwith repay on such date the principal amount of Malaysian Swingline Loans and,
after all Malaysian Swingline Loans have been paid in full, Malaysian Revolving
Credit Loans or New Malaysian U.S. Dollar Revolving Credit Loans, as applicable, in
an amount equal to such excess. If, after giving effect to the prepayment of all
outstanding Malaysian Swingline Loans and Malaysian Revolving Credit Loans or New
Malaysian U.S. Dollar Revolving Credit Loans, as applicable, the Aggregate
Malaysian Revolving Credit Outstanding exceeds the Total Malaysian Revolving Credit
Commitment then in effect, the Malaysian Borrower shall pay to the Asian
Administrative Agent an amount in cash equal to such excess and the such
Administrative Agent shall instruct the Collateral Agent to hold such payment for
the benefit of the Malaysian Lenders as security for the obligations of the
Malaysian Borrower hereunder pursuant to a cash collateral agreement to be entered
into in form and substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agents (which shall
permit certain Investments in Permitted Investments satisfactory to the
Administrative Agents, until the proceeds are applied to the secured obligations);
provided that, (A) in each of clauses (i), (ii) and (iii) above to the extent such excess
results solely by reason of a change in exchange rates, the applicable Borrowers shall only be
required to make such prepayment on the last day of the then current fiscal quarter, unless the
amount of such excess causes the Aggregate U.S. Dollar Revolving Credit Outstanding, Aggregate
Multi-Currency Revolving Credit Outstanding or Aggregate Malaysian Revolving Credit Outstanding to
exceed the U.S. Dollar Revolving Credit Exposures, Multi-Currency Revolving Credit Exposures or
Malaysian Revolving Credit Exposures, as applicable, by more than 110% and (B) no prepayment of
Revolving Credit Loans pursuant to this Section 5.2(b) shall be applied to the Revolving Credit
Loans of any Defaulting Lender.
(c) Application to Repayment Amounts. Each prepayment of Term Loans required by
Section 5.2(a)(i) or (ii) shall be initially allocated pro rata among the Tranche B Term Loans and
shall be applied to reduce the applicable Repayment
Amounts in such order as the Company may determine up to an amount equal to the aggregate
amount of the applicable Repayment Amounts required to be made by the Company pursuant to Section
2.5(b) during the two year period immediately following the date of the prepayment (such amount
being, the “Amortization Amount”), provided that to the extent that the amount of
the prepayment exceeds the Amortization Amount, such excess shall be applied ratably to reduce the
then remaining Repayment Amounts under such Credit Facility. With respect to each such prepayment,
the Company will, not later than the date specified in Section 5.2(a) for making such prepayment,
give the applicable
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Administrative Agent telephonic notice (promptly confirmed in writing)
requesting such Administrative Agent to provide notice of such prepayment to each Tranche B-1 Term
Loan Lender or Tranche B-2 Term Loan Lender, as applicable.
(d) Application to Term Loans. With respect to each prepayment of Tranche B-1 Term
Loans required by Section 5.2(a), the Company may designate the Types of Loans that are to be
prepaid and the specific Borrowing(s) pursuant to which made, provided that if LIBOR Term
Loans made pursuant to a single Borrowing shall be reduced to an amount less than the Minimum
Borrowing Amount for LIBOR Loans, the outstanding Tranche B-1 Term Loans made pursuant to such
Borrowing shall immediately be converted into ABR Loans. In the absence of a designation by the
Company as described in the preceding sentence, the Tranche B-1 Term Loan Administrative Agent
shall, subject to the above, make such designation in its reasonable discretion with a view, but no
obligation, to minimize breakage costs owing under Section 2.11.
(e) Application to Revolving Credit Loans. Each prepayment of Revolving Credit Loans
elected by the Company pursuant to Section 5.2(a) or if required pursuant to Section 5.2(b) shall
be applied as follows: first, at the option of the Asian Administrative Agent in its
reasonable discretion, to repay the outstanding principal balance of the Swingline Loans, on a pro
rata basis between the Multi-Currency Swingline Loans and the Malaysian Swingline Loans, until all
Swingline Loan shall have been repaid in full; second, to repay the outstanding principal
balance of the Revolving Credit Loans, on a pro rata basis between the U.S. Dollar Revolving Credit
Loans, the Multi-Currency Revolving Credit Loans and the Malaysian Revolving Credit Loans or New
Malaysian U.S. Dollar Revolving Credit Loans, as applicable, until all Revolving Credit Loans shall
have been paid in full; and third, to provide cash collateral for the Letter of Credit
Exposure, in an amount equal to 105% of the Letter of Credit Exposure at such time, pursuant to a
cash collateral agreement to be entered into in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the
Administrative Agents (which shall permit certain Investments in Permitted Investments satisfactory
to the Administrative Agents, until the proceeds are applied to the Obligations), until all such
Letter of Credit Obligations have been fully cash collateralized in the manner set forth therein;
provided that no prepayment of Revolving Credit Loans pursuant to Section 5.2(a) shall be
applied to the Revolving Credit Loans of any Defaulting Lender.
(f) Interest Periods. In lieu of making any payment pursuant to this Section 5.2 in
respect of any LIBOR Loan, any SOR Loan or any RM Loan other than on
the last day of the Interest Period therefor so long as no Default or Event of Default shall
have occurred and be continuing, any Borrower at its option may deposit with the Asian
Administrative Agent an amount equal to the amount of the LIBOR Loan SOR Loan or RM Loan to be
prepaid and such LIBOR Loan, SOR Loan or RM Loan shall be repaid on the last day of the Interest
Period therefor in the required amount. Such deposit shall be held by the Asian Administrative
Agent in a corporate time deposit account established on terms reasonably satisfactory to such
Administrative Agent, earning interest at the then-customary rate for accounts of such type. Such
deposit shall constitute cash
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collateral for the Obligations, provided that such Borrower
may at any time direct that such deposit be applied to make the applicable payment required
pursuant to this Section 5.2.
(g) Minimum Amount. No prepayment shall be required pursuant to Section 5.2(a)(i)
unless and until the amount at any time of Net Cash Proceeds from Prepayment Events required to be
applied at or prior to such time pursuant to such Section and not yet applied at or prior to such
time to prepay Term Loans pursuant to such Section exceeds (i) $10,000,000 for a single Prepayment
Event or (ii) $25,000,000 in the aggregate for all such Prepayment Events.
(h) Foreign Asset Sales. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Section 5.2,
(i) to the extent that any of or all the Net Cash Proceeds of any asset sale by Holdings, the
Company or a Restricted Subsidiary giving rise to an Asset Sale Prepayment Event (a “Foreign
Asset Sale”) or Excess Cash Flow are prohibited or delayed by applicable local law from being
repatriated to the United States, Singapore, Malaysia or Luxembourg, the portion of such Net Cash
Proceeds or Excess Cash Flow so affected will not be required to be applied to repay Term Loans at
the times provided in this Section 5.2 but may be retained by Holdings, the Company or the
applicable Restricted Subsidiary so long, but only so long, as the applicable local law will not
permit repatriation to the United States or Singapore (the Company hereby agreeing to cause the
applicable Restricted Subsidiary to promptly take all actions required by the applicable local law
to permit such repatriation), and once such repatriation of any of such affected Net Cash Proceeds
or Excess Cash Flow is permitted under the applicable local law, such repatriation will be
immediately effected and such repatriated Net Cash Proceeds or Excess Cash Flow will be promptly
(and in any event not later than two Business Days after such repatriation) applied (net of
additional taxes payable or reserved against as a result thereof) to the repayment of the Term
Loans pursuant to this Section 5.2 and (ii) to the extent that the Company has determined in good
faith that repatriation of any of or all the Net Cash Proceeds of any Foreign Asset Sale or Excess
Cash Flow would have a material adverse tax cost consequence with respect to such Net Cash Proceeds
or Excess Cash Flow, the Net Cash Proceeds or Excess Cash Flow so affected may be retained by
Holdings, the Company or the applicable Restricted Subsidiary, provided that, in the case
of this clause (ii), on or before the date on which any Net Cash Proceeds so retained would
otherwise have been required to be applied to reinvestments or prepayments pursuant to Section
5.2(a) (or such Excess Cash Flow would have been so required if it were Net Cash Proceeds), (x) the
Borrowers apply an amount equal to such Net Cash
Proceeds or Excess Cash Flow to such reinvestments or prepayments as if such Net Cash Proceeds
or Excess Cash Flow had been received by the Borrowers rather than Holdings, the Company or such
Restricted Subsidiary, less the amount of additional taxes that would have been payable or reserved
against if such Net Cash Proceeds or Excess Cash Flow had been repatriated (or, if less, the Net
Cash Proceeds or Excess Cash Flow that would be calculated if received by such Restricted
Subsidiary) or (y) such Net Cash Proceeds or Excess Cash Flow are applied to the repayment of
Indebtedness of a Restricted Subsidiary.
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5.3 Method and Place of Payment. (a) Except as otherwise specifically provided
herein, all payments under this Agreement shall be made by the Borrowers, without set-off,
counterclaim or deduction of any kind, to the applicable Administrative Agent for the ratable
account of the Lenders entitled thereto, the Letter of Credit Issuer or the Swingline Lender
entitled thereto, as the case may be, not later than 12:00 Noon (Local Time) on the date when due
and shall be made in immediately available funds at the applicable Administrative Agent’s Office or
at such other office as the applicable Administrative Agent shall specify for such purpose by
notice to the Company, it being understood that written or facsimile notice by the Borrowers to the
such Administrative Agent to make a payment from the funds in any Borrower’s account at such
Administrative Agent’s Office shall constitute the making of such payment to the extent of such
funds held in such account. All repayments or prepayments of Loans (whether of principal, interest
or otherwise) hereunder shall be made in the currency such Loans are denominated and all other
payments under each Credit Document shall be made in U.S. Dollars. The applicable Administrative
Agent will thereafter cause to be distributed on the same day (if payment was actually received by
such Administrative Agent prior to 2:00 p.m. (Local Time) on such day) like funds relating to the
payment of principal or interest or Fees ratably to the Lenders entitled thereto.
(b) Any payments under this Agreement that are made later than 2:00 p.m. (Local Time) shall be
deemed to have been made on the next succeeding Business Day. Whenever any payment to be made
hereunder shall be stated to be due on a day that is not a Business Day, the due date thereof shall
be extended to the next succeeding Business Day and, with respect to payments of principal,
interest shall be payable during such extension at the applicable rate in effect immediately prior
to such extension.
5.4 Net Payments. (a) Any and all payments made by or on behalf of any Borrower or
any Guarantor under this Agreement or any other Credit Document shall be made free and clear of,
and without deduction or withholding for or on account of, any Indemnified Taxes; provided
that if any Borrower or any Guarantor shall be required by law to deduct or withhold any
Indemnified Taxes from such payments, then (i) the sum payable shall be increased as necessary so
that after making all required deductions and withholdings (including deductions or withholdings
applicable to additional sums payable under this Section 5.4) any Administrative Agent, the
Collateral Agent or any Lender, as the case may be, receives an amount equal to the sum it would
have received had no such deductions or withholdings been made, (ii) the Borrowers or any Guarantor
shall make such deductions or withholdings and (iii) any Borrower or any Guarantor shall
pay the full amount deducted or withheld to the relevant Governmental Authority in accordance
with applicable law. Whenever any Indemnified Taxes are payable by any Borrower, as promptly as
possible thereafter, such Borrower shall send to the applicable Administrative Agent for its own
account or for the account of such Lender, as the case may be, a certified copy of an original
official receipt (or other evidence acceptable to such Lender, acting reasonably) received by such
Borrower showing payment thereof.
(b) The Borrowers shall pay and shall indemnify and hold harmless each Administrative Agent,
the Collateral Agent and each Lender (whether or not such
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Other Taxes were correctly or legally
imposed or asserted by the relevant Governmental Authority) with regard to any Other Taxes.
(c) The Borrowers shall indemnify and hold harmless each Administrative Agent, the Collateral
Agent and each Lender within 15 Business Days after written demand therefor, for the full amount of
any Indemnified Taxes imposed on such Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent or such Lender as
the case may be, on or with respect to any payment by or on account of any obligation of any
Borrower or any Guarantor hereunder or under any other Credit Document (including Indemnified Taxes
imposed or asserted on or attributable to amounts payable under this Section 5.4) and any
reasonable expenses arising therefrom or with respect thereto, whether or not such Indemnified
Taxes were correctly or legally imposed or asserted by the relevant Governmental Authority. A
certificate as to the amount of such payment or liability delivered to the Company by a Lender or
by an Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent on its own behalf or on behalf of a Lender shall
be conclusive absent manifest error.
(d) Each Non-U.S. Lender shall to the extent it is legally entitled to do so:
(i) deliver to the Company and the applicable Administrative Agent two copies
of either (x) in the case of a Non-U.S. Lender claiming exemption from U.S. federal
withholding tax under Section 871(h) or 881(c) of the Code with respect to payments
of “portfolio interest”, United States Internal Revenue Service Form W-8BEN
(together with a certificate representing that such Non-U.S. Lender is not a bank
for purposes of Section 881(c) of the Code, is not a 10-percent shareholder (within
the meaning of Section 871(h)(3)(B) of the Code) of any Borrower and is not a
controlled foreign corporation related to any Borrower (within the meaning of
Section 864(d)(4) of the Code)), or (y) Internal Revenue Service Form W-8BEN or
Form W-8ECI, in each case properly completed and duly executed by such Non-U.S.
Lender claiming complete exemption from, or reduced rate of, U.S. Federal
withholding tax on payments by any Borrower under this Agreement; and
(ii) deliver to the Company and the applicable Administrative Agent two
further copies of any such form or certification (or any
applicable successor form) on or before the date that any such form or
certification expires or becomes obsolete and after the occurrence of any event
requiring a change in the most recent form previously delivered by it to the
Company;
unless in any such case any Change in Law has occurred prior to the date on which any such delivery
would otherwise be required that renders any such form inapplicable or would prevent such Lender
from duly completing and delivering any such form with respect to it and such Lender so advises the
Company and the applicable Administrative
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Agent. Each Person that shall become a Participant
pursuant to Section 13.6 or a Lender pursuant to Section 13.6 shall, upon the effectiveness of the
related transfer, be required to provide all the forms and statements required pursuant to this
Section 5.4(d), provided that in the case of a Participant such Participant shall furnish
all such required forms and statements to the Lender from which the related participation shall
have been purchased.
(e) If any Borrower determines in good faith that a reasonable basis exists for contesting any
taxes for which indemnification has been demanded hereunder, the relevant Lender, the applicable
Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent, as applicable, shall cooperate with such Borrower in
challenging such taxes at such Borrower’s expense if so requested by such Borrower. If any Lender,
any Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent, as applicable, receives a refund of a tax for
which a payment has been made by any Borrower pursuant to this Agreement, which refund in the good
faith judgment of such Lender, such Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent, as the case may
be, is attributable to such payment made by such Borrower, then the Lender, the Administrative
Agent or the Collateral Agent, as the case may be, shall reimburse such Borrower for such amount
(together with any interest received thereon) as the Lender or the Administrative Agent, as the
case may be, determines to be the proportion of the refund as will leave it, after such
reimbursement, in no better or worse position (taking into account expenses or any taxes imposed on
the refund) than it would have been in if the payment had not been required. A Lender, an
Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent shall claim any refund that it determines is available
to it, unless it concludes in its reasonable discretion that it would be adversely affected by
making such a claim. Neither such Lender nor such Administrative Agent nor the Collateral Agent
shall be obliged to disclose any information regarding its tax affairs or computations to any
Credit Party in connection with this clause (e) or any other provision of this Section 5.4.
(f) The agreements in this Section 5.4 shall survive the termination of this Agreement and the
payment of the Loans and all other amounts payable hereunder.
5.5 Computations of Interest and Fees. (a) Interest on LIBOR Loans, SOR Loans, RM
Loans and, except as provided in the next succeeding sentence, ABR Loans shall be calculated on the
basis of a 360-day year for the actual days elapsed. Interest on ABR Loans in respect of which the
rate of interest is calculated on the basis of the Prime Rate and interest on overdue interest
shall be calculated on the basis of a 365- (or 366-, as the case may be) day year for the actual
days elapsed.
(b) Fees and Letters of Credit Outstanding shall be calculated on the basis of a 365- (or
366-, as the case may be) day year for the actual days elapsed.
5.6 Limit on Rate of Interest.
(a) No Payment shall exceed Lawful Rate. Notwithstanding any other term of this
Agreement, no Borrower shall be obliged to pay any interest or other
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amounts under or in connection
with this Agreement in excess of the amount or rate permitted under or consistent with any
applicable law, rule or regulation.
(b) Payment at Highest Lawful Rate. If any Borrower is not obliged to make a payment
which it would otherwise be required to make, as a result of Section 5.6(a), such Borrower shall
make such payment to the maximum extent permitted by or consistent with applicable laws, rules and
regulations.
(c) Adjustment if any Payment exceeds Lawful Rate. If any provision of this Agreement
or any of the other Credit Documents would obligate any Borrower to make any payment of interest or
other amount payable to any Lender in an amount or calculated at a rate which would be prohibited
by any applicable law, rule or regulation, then notwithstanding such provision, such amount or rate
shall be deemed to have been adjusted with retroactive effect to the maximum amount or rate of
interest, as the case may be, as would not be so prohibited by law, such adjustment to be effected,
to the extent necessary, by reducing the amount or rate of interest required to be paid by such
Borrower to the affected Lender under Section 2.8.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, and after giving effect to all adjustments contemplated thereby, if
any Lender shall have received from any Borrower an amount in excess of the maximum permitted by
any applicable law, rule or regulation, then such Borrower shall be entitled, by notice in writing
to the applicable Administrative Agent to obtain reimbursement from that Lender in an amount equal
to such excess, and pending such reimbursement, such amount shall be deemed to be an amount payable
by that Lender to such Borrower.
SECTION 6. Conditions Precedent to Initial Borrowing.
The initial Borrowing under this Agreement is subject to the satisfaction of the following
conditions precedent, except as otherwise agreed between the Company and the Agents.
6.1
Credit Documents. The Administrative Agents shall have received:
(a) this Agreement, executed and delivered by a duly authorized officer of Holdings, each
Borrower and each Lender;
(b) the Guarantee, executed and delivered by a duly authorized officer of each Guarantor;
(c) the Pledge Agreements listed on Schedule 6.1, executed and delivered by a duly authorized
officer of each pledgor party thereto;
(d) the Security Agreements listed on Schedule 6.1, executed and delivered by a duly
authorized officer of each grantor party thereto; and
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(e) a Mortgage in respect of each Mortgaged Property to be Mortgaged on the Closing Date,
executed and delivered by a duly authorized officer of each mortgagor party thereto.
6.2 Collateral. (a) All outstanding equity interests in whatever form of the Company
and each Restricted Subsidiary (except those to be pledged pursuant to Section 9.14(c)) directly
owned by or on behalf of any Credit Party shall have been pledged pursuant to a Pledge Agreement
and the Collateral Agent shall have received all certificates representing securities pledged under
a Pledge Agreement to the extent certificated, accompanied by instruments of transfer and undated
stock powers endorsed in blank (except those to be delivered pursuant to Section 9.14(c)).
(b) All Indebtedness for borrowed money in excess of $5,000,000 of Holdings, the Company and
each Subsidiary that is owing to any Credit Party shall be evidenced by one or more global
promissory notes and shall have been pledged pursuant to a Pledge Agreement, and the Collateral
Agent shall have received all such promissory notes, together with instruments of transfer with
respect thereto endorsed in blank.
(c) All documents and instruments, including Uniform Commercial Code or other applicable
personal property and fixture security financing statements, required by law or reasonably
requested by the Collateral Agent to be filed, registered or recorded to create the Liens intended
to be created by the Security Agreement and perfect such Liens to the extent required by, and with
the priority required by, the Security Agreement and each Mortgage, as applicable, shall have been
filed, registered or recorded or delivered to the Collateral Agent for filing, registration or
recording.
(d) The Collateral Agent shall have received, in respect of each Mortgaged Property owned by
Holdings, the Company or a Subsidiary Guarantor: a policy or policies of title insurance issued by
a nationally recognized title insurance company insuring the Lien of each Mortgage as a valid first
Lien on the Mortgaged Property described therein, free of any Liens except as expressly permitted
by Section 10.2, together with such endorsements, coinsurance and reinsurance as the Collateral
Agent may reasonably request.
(e) The Company shall deliver to the Collateral Agent a completed Perfection Certificate,
executed and delivered by an Authorized Officer of the Company, together with all attachments
contemplated thereby.
6.3
Legal Opinions. The Administrative Agents shall have received the executed legal
opinions of (a) Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Xxxxxxxx LLP, special
New York counsel to the Borrowers,
substantially in the form of
Exhibit I-1, and (b) Singaporean and other local counsel to
the Borrowers in certain jurisdictions as may be reasonably requested by the Administrative Agents,
substantially in the form of
Exhibit I-2. The Borrowers, the other Credit Parties and the
Administrative Agents hereby instruct such counsel to deliver such legal opinions.
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6.4 No Default. After giving effect to the Borrowings on the Closing Date and the
other transactions contemplated hereby, no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is
continuing.
6.5 Senior Notes. The Borrowers shall have received gross proceeds of up to
$1,000,000,000 (or such lesser amount sufficient, together with the Equity Investments and the
proceeds generated hereunder, to consummate the Transactions) from the issuance of Senior Notes
under the Senior Notes Indenture in a Rule 144A or other private placement (the terms and
conditions of the Senior Notes (including, but not limited to, subordination, maturity, covenants,
events of default, remedies, redemption and prepayment events) shall be reasonably satisfactory to
the Agents).
6.6 Equity Investments. Equity Investments in an amount equal to not less than the
Equity Investments Minimum Amount shall have been made.
6.7 Closing Certificates. The Administrative Agents shall have received a certificate
of each Credit Party, dated the Closing Date, substantially in the form of Exhibit J, with
appropriate insertions, executed by the President or any Vice President and the Secretary or any
Assistant Secretary of such Credit Party, and attaching the documents referred to in Sections 6.8
and 6.9.
6.8 Corporate Proceedings of Each Credit Party. The Administrative Agents shall have
received a copy of the resolutions, in form and substance satisfactory to the Administrative
Agents, of the board of directors of each Credit Party (or a duly authorized committee thereof)
authorizing (a) the execution, delivery and performance of the Credit Documents (and any agreements
relating thereto) to which it is a party and (b) in the case of each Borrower, the extensions of
credit contemplated hereunder.
6.9 Corporate Documents. The Administrative Agents shall have received true and
complete copies of the certificate of incorporation and by-laws (or equivalent organizational
documents) of each Credit Party.
6.10 Fees. The Lenders shall have received the fees in the amounts previously agreed
in writing by the Agents and such Lenders to be received on the Closing Date and all expenses
(including the reasonable fees, disbursements and other charges of counsel) for which invoices have
been presented on or prior to the Closing Date shall have been paid.
6.11 Representations and Warranties. On the Closing Date, the representations and
warranties made by the Credit Parties in Section 8.1, Section 8.2, Section 8.3, Section 8.5 and
Section 8.7, as they relate to the Credit Parties at such time, shall be true and correct in all
material respects.
6.12 Related Agreements. The Administrative Agents shall have received a fully
executed or conformed copy of the Acquisition Agreement which shall be in full force and effect.
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6.13 Solvency Certificate. On the Closing Date, the Administrative Agents shall have
received a certificate from Authorized Officer of the Company in form, scope and substance
satisfactory to the Administrative Agents, with appropriate attachments and demonstrating that
after giving effect to the consummation of the Transactions, the Company on a consolidated basis
with its Subsidiaries is Solvent.
6.14 Financial Statements. Lenders shall have received not later than 20 days prior
to the Closing Date from the Company the Historical Financial Statements.
6.15 Acquisition. Concurrently with the initial Credit Event made hereunder, the
Acquisition shall have been consummated in accordance with the Acquisition Agreement and all other
material documentation related thereto, including the Master Separation Agreement and the
Intellectual Property License Agreement.
6.16 Insurance. Certificates of insurance evidencing the existence of all insurance
required to be maintained by Holdings and the Borrowers pursuant to Section 9.3 and, if applicable,
the designation of the Collateral Agent as an additional insured and loss payee as its interest may
appear thereunder, or solely as the additional insured, as the case may be, thereunder, such
certificates to be in such form and contain such information as is specified in Section 9.3
(provided that if such endorsement as additional insured cannot be delivered by the Closing
Date, the Collateral Agent may consent to such endorsement being delivered at such later date as it
deems appropriate in the circumstances).
6.17 Consolidated Total Debt to Adjusted EBITDA. (a) The Consolidated Total Debt to
Adjusted EBITDA Ratio for the Test Period ending on July 31, 2005, determined on a pro forma basis
after giving effect to the Transactions, is not greater than 5.50:1.00 and (b) the Lead Arrangers
shall have received a certificate of an Authorized Officer of the Company, which certificate shall
set forth the calculations required to establish such Consolidated Total Debt to Adjusted EBITDA
Ratio and supporting schedules and other data used in such calculations, each in form and substance
reasonably satisfactory to the Agents.
6.18 Pro Forma Financial Statements; Projections. The Agents shall have received (a)
a pro forma consolidated balance sheet of the Company as of the Closing Date, after giving effect
to the Transactions, together with a certificate of an Authorized Officer of the Company to the
effect that such statements accurately present
the pro forma financial position of the Company and its subsidiaries in accordance with GAAP
and (b) detailed projections for the Company and its Subsidiaries for (i) the period ending on
October 31, 2006, prepared on a quarterly basis and (ii) the period ending on October 31, 2012,
prepared on an annual basis.
SECTION 7. Conditions Precedent to All Credit Events and Tranche B-2 Term Loan
Borrowing.
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The agreement of each Lender to make any Loan requested to be made by it on any date
(excluding Mandatory Borrowings) and the obligation of the Letter of Credit Issuer to issue Letters
of Credit on any date is subject to the satisfaction of the following conditions precedent:
7.1 No Default; Representations and Warranties. At the time of each Credit Event and
also after giving effect thereto (other than any Credit Event on the Closing Date) (a) no Default
or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing and (b) all representations and
warranties made by any Credit Party contained herein or in the other Credit Documents shall be true
and correct in all material respects with the same effect as though such representations and
warranties had been made on and as of the date of such Credit Event (except where such
representations and warranties expressly relate to an earlier date, in which case such
representations and warranties shall have been true and correct in all material respects as of such
earlier date).
7.2 Notice of Borrowing; Letter of Credit Request.
(a) Prior to the making of each Term Loan, the applicable Administrative Agent shall have
received a Notice of Borrowing (whether in writing or by telephone) meeting the requirements of
Section 2.3.
(b) Prior to the making of each Revolving Credit Loan (other than any Revolving Credit Loan
made pursuant to Section 3.4(a)) and each Swingline Loan, the Asian Administrative Agent shall have
received a Notice of Borrowing (whether in writing or by telephone) meeting the requirements of
Section 2.3.
(c) Prior to the issuance of each Letter of Credit, the Asian Administrative Agent and the
Letter of Credit Issuer shall have received a Letter of Credit Request meeting the requirements of
Section 3.2(a).
(d) The acceptance of the benefits of each Credit Event shall constitute a representation and
warranty by each Credit Party to each of the Lenders that all the applicable conditions specified
above exist as of that time.
7.3 Tranche B-2 Term Loan Borrowing. In additions to the conditions precedent set
forth in Sections 7.1 and 7.2, the agreement of each Lender to make the Tranche B-2 Term Loan
requested to be made by it is subject to the satisfaction of the following conditions precedent:
(a) the Notice of Borrowing delivered to the Asian Administrative Agent with respect to the
Borrowing of the Tranche B-2 Term Loans shall specify that the date of the Borrowing shall be a
date after the Closing Date and not later than Tranche B-2 Term Loan Commitment Termination Date.
(b) the Equity Investments minus the sum of (i) the aggregate principal amount of the
Tranche B-2 Term Loans specified in the Notice of Borrowing delivered to the Asian Administrative
Agent with respect to the Borrowing of the Tranche B-2 Term Loans, plus (ii) the aggregate
amount of dividends or prepayments, repurchase or redemption actually made pursuant to Sections
10.6(e) and 10.7(a)(i) shall not be less than the Equity Investments Minimum Amount.
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(c) the Borrowers shall have delivered the audited Section 9.1 Financials for the fiscal year
ended October 31, 2005 pursuant to Section 9.1(a).
(d) (i) the Consolidated Total Debt to Adjusted EBITDA Ratio for the Test Period ending on
October 31, 2005, determined after giving pro forma effect to the Transactions and the Borrowing of
the Tranche B-2 Term Loans, is less than or equal to 5.50:1.00 and (ii) the Asian Administrative
Agent shall have received a certificate of an Authorized Officer of the Company, which certificate
shall set forth the calculations supporting schedules and other data used in calculations required
to establish such Total Debt to Adjusted EBITDA Ratio, each in form and substance reasonably
satisfactory to the Asian Administrative Agent.
7.4 Malaysian U.S. Dollar Loans. In addition to the conditions precedent set forth in
Sections 7.1 and 7.2, the agreement of each Malaysian Lender to make any Malaysian U.S. Dollar
Loans requested to be made by it is subject to the receipt by the Asian Administrative Agent of a
copy, and the continuing effectiveness, of the consent of Bank Negara Malaysia to the making of
Malaysian U.S. Dollar Loans pursuant to the Malaysian Revolving Credit Facility.
SECTION 8. Representations, Warranties and Agreements.
In order to induce the Lenders to enter into this Agreement, to make the Loans and issue or
participate in Letters of Credit as provided for herein, each of Holdings and each Borrower makes
the following representations and warranties to, and agreements with, the Lenders, all of which
shall survive the execution and delivery of this Agreement and the making of the Loans and the
issuance of the Letters of Credit:
8.1 Corporate Status. Each of Holdings, each Borrower and each Material Subsidiary
(a) is a duly organized and validly existing corporation or other entity in good standing under the
laws of the jurisdiction of its organization and has the corporate or other organizational power
and authority to own its property and assets and to transact the business in which it is engaged
and (b) has duly qualified and is authorized to do business and is in good standing in all
jurisdictions where it is required to be so qualified, except where the failure to be so qualified
could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.
8.2 Corporate Power and Authority. Each Credit Party has the corporate or other
organizational power and authority to execute, deliver and carry out the terms and provisions of
the Credit Documents to which it is a party and has taken all necessary corporate or other
organizational action to authorize the execution, delivery and performance of the Credit Documents
to which it is a party. Each Credit Party has
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duly executed and delivered each Credit Document to
which it is a party and each such Credit Document constitutes the legal, valid and binding
obligation of such Credit Party enforceable in accordance with its terms, except as the
enforceability thereof may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency or similar laws affecting
creditors’ rights generally and subject to general principles of equity.
8.3 No Violation. Neither the execution, delivery or performance by any Credit Party
of the Credit Documents to which it is a party nor compliance with the terms and provisions thereof
nor the consummation of the Acquisition and the other transactions contemplated hereby or thereby
will (a) contravene any applicable provision of any material law, statute, rule, regulation, order,
writ, injunction or decree of any court or governmental instrumentality, (b) result in any breach
of any of the terms, covenants, conditions or provisions of, or constitute a default under, or
result in the creation or imposition of (or the obligation to create or impose) any Lien upon any
of the property or assets of such Credit Party or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries (other than
Liens created under the Credit Documents) pursuant to, the terms of any material indenture
(including the Senior Notes Indenture), loan agreement, lease agreement, mortgage, deed of trust,
agreement or other material instrument to which such Credit Party or any of the Restricted
Subsidiaries is a party or by which it or any of its property or assets is bound or (c) violate any
provision of the certificate of incorporation, bylaws or other constitutional documents of such
Credit Party or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries.
8.4 Litigation. There are no actions, suits or proceedings (including Environmental
Claims) pending or, to the knowledge of Holdings, or any Borrower,
threatened with respect to Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries that could reasonably be
expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect or a Material Adverse Change.
8.5 Margin Regulations. Neither the making of any Loan hereunder nor the use of the
proceeds thereof will violate the provisions of Regulation T, U or X of the Board.
8.6 Governmental Approvals. The execution, delivery and performance of the
Acquisition Agreement or any Credit Document does not require any consent or approval of,
registration or filing with, or any other action by, any Governmental Authority, except for (i)
such as have been obtained or made and are in full force and effect, (ii) filings and recordings in
respect of the Liens created pursuant to the Security Documents, (iii) such licenses, approvals,
authorizations or consents the failure to obtain or make could not reasonably be expected to have a
Material Adverse Effect and (iv) the consent described in Section 7.4.
8.7 Investment Company Act. None of Holdings or any Borrower is an “investment
company” within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.
8.8
True and Complete Disclosure. (a) None of the factual information and data (taken
as a whole) heretofore or contemporaneously furnished by or
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on behalf of Holdings or any Borrower,
any of the Subsidiaries or any of their respective authorized representatives in writing to any
Administrative Agent and/or any Lender on or before the Closing Date (including (i) the
Confidential Information Memorandum and (ii) all information contained in the Credit Documents) for
purposes of or in connection with this Agreement or any transaction contemplated herein contained
any untrue statement or omitted to state any material fact necessary to make such information and
data (taken as a whole) not misleading at such time in light of the circumstances under which such
information or data was furnished, it being understood and agreed that for purposes of this Section
8.8(a), such factual information and data shall not include projections and pro forma financial
information.
(b) The projections and pro forma financial information contained in the information and data
referred to in clause (a) above were based on good faith estimates and assumptions believed by such
Persons to be reasonable at the time made, it being recognized by the Lenders that such projections
as to future events are not to be viewed as facts and that actual results during the period or
periods covered by any such projections may differ from the projected results.
8.9 Financial Condition; Financial Statements. The (a) unaudited historical
consolidated financial information of the Company as set forth in the Confidential Information
Memorandum, and (b) Historical Financial Statements, in each case present or will, when provided,
present fairly in all material respects the combined financial position of the Company and its
Subsidiaries at the respective dates of said information, statements and results of operations for
the respective periods covered
thereby. The financial statements referred to in clause (b) of this Section 8.9 have been
prepared in accordance with GAAP consistently applied except to the extent provided in the notes to
said financial statements. After the Closing Date, there has been no Material Adverse Change since
October 31, 2004.
8.10 Tax Returns and Payments. Each Borrower and each of the Subsidiaries has filed
all federal income tax returns and all other material tax returns, domestic and foreign, required
to be filed by it and has paid all material Taxes payable by it that have become due, other than
those (a) not yet delinquent or (b) contested in good faith as to which adequate reserves have been
provided in accordance with GAAP and which could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material
Adverse Effect. Each Borrower and each of the Subsidiaries have paid, or have provided adequate
reserves (in the good faith judgment of the management of such Borrower) in accordance with GAAP
for the payment of, all material federal, state, provincial and foreign income taxes applicable for
all prior fiscal years and for the current fiscal year to the Closing Date.
8.11
Compliance with ERISA. (a) Each Plan is in compliance with ERISA, the Code and
any applicable Requirement of Law; no Reportable Event has occurred (or is reasonably likely to
occur) with respect to any Plan; no Plan is insolvent or in reorganization (or is reasonably likely
to be insolvent or in reorganization), and no written notice of any such insolvency or
reorganization has been given to Holdings, any Borrower, any Subsidiary or any ERISA Affiliate; no
Plan (other than a multiemployer
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plan) has an accumulated or waived funding deficiency (or is
reasonably likely to have such a deficiency); none of Holdings, any Borrower, any Subsidiary or any
ERISA Affiliate has incurred (or is reasonably likely expected to incur) any liability to or on
account of a Plan pursuant to Section 409, 502(i), 502(1), 515, 4062, 4063, 4064, 4069, 4201 or
4204 of ERISA or Section 4971 or 4975 of the Code or has been notified in writing that it will
incur any liability under any of the foregoing Sections with respect to any Plan; no proceedings
have been instituted (or are reasonably likely to be instituted) to terminate or to reorganize any
Plan or to appoint a trustee to administer any Plan, and no written notice of any such proceedings
has been given to Holdings, any Borrower, any Subsidiary or any ERISA Affiliate; and no lien
imposed under the Code or ERISA on the assets of Holdings, any Borrower or any Subsidiary or any
ERISA Affiliate exists (or is reasonably likely to exist) nor has Holdings, any Borrower, any
Subsidiary or any ERISA Affiliate been notified in writing that such a lien will be imposed on the
assets of Holdings, any Borrower, any Subsidiary or any ERISA Affiliate on account of any Plan,
except to the extent that a breach of any of the representations, warranties or agreements in this
Section 8.11 would not result, individually or in the aggregate, in an amount of liability that
would be reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect or relates to any matter disclosed in
the financial statements of the Borrowers contained in the Confidential Information Memorandum. No
Plan (other than a multiemployer plan) has an Unfunded Current Liability that would, individually
or when taken together with any other liabilities referenced in this Section 8.11, be reasonably
likely to have a Material Adverse Effect. With respect to Plans that are multiemployer plans (as
defined in Section 3(37) of ERISA), the representations and warranties in this Section 8.11(a),
other than
any made with respect to (i) liability under Section 4201 or 4204 of ERISA or (ii) liability
for termination or reorganization of such Plans under ERISA, are made to the best knowledge of the
Borrowers.
(b) All Foreign Plans are in compliance with, and have been established, administered and
operated in accordance with, the terms of such Foreign Plans and applicable law, except for any
failure to so comply, establish, administer or operate the Foreign Plans as would not reasonably be
expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. All contributions or other payments which are due with
respect to each Foreign Plan have been made in full and there are no funding deficiencies
thereunder, except to the extent any such events would not, individually or in the aggregate,
reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
8.12 Subsidiaries. Schedule 8.12 lists each Subsidiary of Holdings (and the
direct and indirect ownership interest of Holdings therein), in each case existing on the Closing
Date. To the knowledge of the Company, after due inquiry, each Material Subsidiary as of the
Closing Date has been so designated on Schedule 8.12.
8.13 Intellectual Property, etc. The Company and each of the Restricted Subsidiaries
have obtained all intellectual property free from burdensome restrictions, that are necessary for
the operation of their respective businesses as currently conducted and as proposed to be
conducted, except where the failure to obtain any such rights could not reasonably be expected to
have a Material Adverse Effect.
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8.14 Environmental Laws. (a) Except as could not reasonably be expected to have a
Material Adverse Effect: (i) the Borrowers and each of the Subsidiaries and all Real Estate are in
compliance with all Environmental Laws; (ii) neither the Borrowers, nor any of the Subsidiaries are
subject to any Environmental Claim or any other liability under any Environmental Law; (iii) each
Borrower and its Subsidiaries is not conducting any investigation, removal, remedial or other
corrective action pursuant to any Environmental Law at any location; and (iv) no underground
storage tank or related piping, or any impoundment or other disposal area containing Hazardous
Materials is located at, on or under any Real Estate currently owned or leased by any Borrower or
any of its Subsidiaries.
(b) Neither the Borrowers, nor any of the Subsidiaries has treated, stored, transported,
released or disposed or arranged for disposal or transport for disposal of Hazardous Materials at,
on, under or from any currently or formerly owned or leased Real Estate or facility in a manner
that could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
8.15 Properties. (a) The Borrowers and each of the Subsidiaries have good and
marketable title to or leasehold interest in all properties that are necessary for the operation of
their respective businesses as currently conducted and as proposed to be conducted, free and clear
of all Liens (other than any Liens permitted by this Agreement) and except where the failure to
have such good title could not reasonably be expected to
have a Material Adverse Effect and (b) no Mortgage encumbers improved Real Estate that is
located in an area that has been identified by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development as an
area having special flood hazards within the meaning of the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968
unless flood insurance available under such Act has been obtained in accordance with Section 9.3.
8.16 Solvency. On the Closing Date (after giving effect to the Transactions),
immediately following the making of each Loan and after giving effect to the application of the
proceeds of such Loans, the Company on a consolidated basis with its Subsidiaries will be Solvent.
8.17 Public Utility Holding Company Act. None of Holdings, the Company or any
Subsidiary is a “holding company”, or a “subsidiary company” of a “holding company”, or an
“affiliate” of a “holding company” or of a “subsidiary company” of a “holding company”, within the
meaning of the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935, as amended.
SECTION 9. Affirmative Covenants.
Each of Holdings and each Borrower hereby covenants and agrees that on the Closing Date and
thereafter, until the Commitments, the Swingline Commitment and each Letter of Credit have
terminated and the Loans and Unpaid Drawings, together with interest, Fees and all other
Obligations incurred hereunder, are paid in full:
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9.1 Information Covenants. The Company will furnish to each Lender and the
Administrative Agents:
(a) Annual Financial Statements. As soon as available and in any event on or before
the date on which such financial statements are required to be filed with the SEC or delivered to
the holders of the Senior Notes (or, if such financial statements are not required to be filed with
the SEC or delivered to the holders of the Senior Notes, on or before the date that is 120 days
after the end of each such fiscal year), the consolidated balance sheet of the Company and its
Subsidiaries as at the end of such fiscal year, and the related consolidated statement of
operations and cash flows for such fiscal year, setting forth comparative consolidated figures for
the preceding fiscal year, and certified by independent certified public accountants of recognized
national standing whose opinion shall not be qualified as to the scope of audit or as to the status
of the Company or any of the Material Subsidiaries (or group of Subsidiaries that together would
constitute a Material Subsidiary) as a going concern, together in any event with a certificate of
such accounting firm stating that in the course of its regular audit of the business of the Company
and the Material Subsidiaries, which audit was conducted in accordance with generally accepted
auditing standards, such accounting firm has obtained no knowledge of any Default or Event of
Default relating to Section 10.9 that has occurred and is continuing or, if in the opinion of such
accounting firm such a Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, a statement as
to the nature thereof.
(b) Quarterly Financial Statements. As soon as available and in any event on or
before the date on which such financial statements are required to be filed with the SEC or
delivered to the holders of the Senior Notes with respect to each of the first three quarterly
accounting periods in each fiscal year of the Company (or, if such financial statements are not
required to be filed with the SEC or delivered to the holders of the Senior Notes, on or before the
date that is 60 days after the end of each such quarterly accounting period), the consolidated
balance sheet of (i) the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries and (ii) the Company and its
Subsidiaries, in each case as at the end of such quarterly period and the related consolidated
statement of operations for such quarterly accounting period and for the elapsed portion of the
fiscal year ended with the last day of such quarterly period, and the related consolidated
statement of cash flows for the elapsed portion of the fiscal year ended with the last day of such
quarterly period, and setting forth comparative consolidated figures for the related periods in the
prior fiscal year or, in the case of such consolidated balance sheet, for the last day of the prior
fiscal year, all of which shall be certified by an Authorized Officer of the Company, subject to
changes resulting from audit and normal year-end audit adjustments.
(c) Budgets. Within 90 days after the commencement of each fiscal year of the
Company, a budget of the Company in reasonable detail for such fiscal year as customarily prepared
by management of the Company for their internal use consistent in scope with the financial
statements provided pursuant to Section 9.l(a), setting forth the principal assumptions upon which
such budgets are based.
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(d) Officer’s Certificates. At the time of the delivery of the financial statements
provided for in Sections 9.1(a) and (b), a certificate of an Authorized Officer of the Company to
the effect that no Default or Event of Default exists or, if any Default or Event of Default does
exist, specifying the nature and extent thereof, which certificate shall set forth (i) the
calculations required to establish whether the Company and the Subsidiaries were in compliance with
the provisions of Section 10.9 as at the end of such fiscal year or period, as the case may be,
(ii) a specification of any change in the identity of the Restricted Subsidiaries and Unrestricted
Subsidiaries as at the end of such fiscal year or period, as the case may be, from the Restricted
Subsidiaries and Unrestricted Subsidiaries, respectively, provided to the Lenders on the Closing
Date or the most recent fiscal year or period, as the case may be, (iii) the then applicable Status
and (iv) the amount of any Pro Forma Adjustment not previously set forth in a Pro Forma Adjustment
Certificate or any change in the amount of a Pro Forma Adjustment set forth in any Pro Forma
Adjustment Certificate previously provided and, in either case, in reasonable detail, the
calculations and basis therefor. At the time of the delivery of the financial statements provided
for in Section 9.1(a), (i) a certificate of an Authorized Officer of the Company setting forth in
reasonable detail the Applicable Amount as at the end of the fiscal year to which such financial
statements relate and (ii) a certificate of an Authorized Officer and the chief legal officer of
the Company (x) setting forth the information required pursuant to Section 1(a) of the Perfection
Certificate or confirming that there has been no change in such information since the Closing Date
or the date of the most recent certificate delivered pursuant to this subsection (d)(ii), as the
case may be, and (y)
certifying that all Uniform Commercial Code financing statements (including fixture filings,
as applicable) or other appropriate filings, recordings or registrations, including all refilings,
rerecordings and reregistrations, containing a description of the Collateral have been filed of
record in each governmental, municipal or other appropriate office in each jurisdiction identified
pursuant to clause (x) above to the extent necessary to protect and perfect the security interests
under the Security Documents.
(e) Notice of Default or Litigation. Promptly after an Authorized Officer of any
Credit Party or any of the Subsidiaries obtains knowledge thereof, notice of (i) the occurrence of
any event that constitutes a Default or Event of Default, which notice shall specify the nature
thereof, the period of existence thereof and what action the Company proposes to take with respect
thereto and (ii) any litigation or governmental proceeding pending against any Credit Party or any
of the Subsidiaries that could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect or a
Material Adverse Change.
(f) Environmental Matters. The Company will promptly advise the Lenders and the
Administrative Agents in writing after Holdings, the Company or any Subsidiary obtaining knowledge
of any one or more of the following environmental matters, unless such environmental matters would
not, individually or when aggregated with all other such matters, be reasonably expected to result
in a Material Adverse Effect:
(i) Any pending or threatened Environmental Claim against any Credit Party or
any Real Estate;
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(ii) Any condition or occurrence on any Real Estate that (x) could reasonably
be expected to result in noncompliance by any Credit Party with any applicable
Environmental Law or (y) could reasonably be anticipated to form the basis of an
Environmental Claim against any Credit Party or any Real Estate;
(iii) Any condition or occurrence on any Real Estate that could reasonably be
anticipated to cause such Real Estate to be subject to any restrictions on the
ownership, occupancy, use or transferability of such Real Estate under any
Environmental Law; and
(iv) The conduct of any investigation, or any removal, remedial or other
corrective action in response to the actual or alleged presence, release or
threatened release of any Hazardous Material on, at, under or from any Real Estate.
All such notices shall describe in reasonable detail the nature of the claim, investigation,
condition, occurrence or removal or remedial action and the response thereto. The term “Real
Estate” shall mean land, buildings and improvements owned or leased by any Credit Party, but
excluding all operating fixtures and equipment, whether or not incorporated into improvements.
(g) Other Information. Promptly upon filing thereof, copies of any filings (including
on Form 10-K, 10-Q or 8-K) or registration statements with, and reports to, the SEC or any
analogous Government Authority in any relevant jurisdiction by Holdings, the Company or any of the
Subsidiaries (other than amendments to any registration statement (to the extent such registration
statement, in the form it becomes effective, is delivered to the Lenders and the Administrative
Agents), exhibits to any registration statement and, if applicable, any registration statements on
Form S-8) and copies of all financial statements, proxy statements, notices and reports that
Holdings, the Company or any of the Subsidiaries shall send to the holders of any publicly issued
debt of Holdings, the Company or any of the Subsidiaries (including any Senior Notes (whether
publicly issued or not)) in their capacity as such holders (in each case to the extent not
theretofore delivered to the Lenders and the Administrative Agents pursuant to this Agreement) and,
with reasonable promptness, such other information (financial or otherwise) as an Administrative
Agent on its own behalf or on behalf of any Lender may reasonably request in writing from time to
time.
(h) Pro Forma Adjustment Certificate. Not later than the consummation of the
acquisition of any Acquired Entity or Business by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary for
which there shall be a Pro Forma Adjustment or not later than any date on which financial
statements are delivered with respect to any four-quarter period in which a Pro Forma Adjustment is
made as a result of the consummation of the acquisition of any Acquired Entity or Business by the
Company or any Restricted Subsidiary for which there shall be a Pro Forma Adjustment, a certificate
of an
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Authorized Officer of the Company setting forth the amount of such Pro Forma Adjustment and,
in reasonable detail, the calculations and basis therefor.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the obligations in paragraphs (a) and (b) of this Section 9.1 may be
satisfied with respect to financial information of the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries by
furnishing (A) the applicable financial statements of Holdings (or any direct or indirect parent of
Holdings) or (B) the Company’s or Holdings’ (or any direct or indirect parent thereof), as
applicable, Form 10-K or 10-Q, as applicable, filed with the SEC; provided that, with
respect to each of clauses (A) and (B) above, to the extent such information relates to Holdings
(or a parent thereof), such information is accompanied by consolidating information that explains
in reasonable detail the differences between the information relating to Holdings (or such parent),
on the one hand, and the information relating to the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries on a
standalone basis, on the other hand.
9.2 Books, Records and Inspections. Each of Holdings and the Company will, and will
cause each of the Subsidiaries to, permit officers and designated representatives of the
Administrative Agents or the Required Lenders to visit and inspect any of the properties or assets
of Holdings, the Company and any such Subsidiary in whomsoever’s possession to the extent that it
is within such party’s control to permit such inspection, and to examine the books and records of
Holdings, the Company and any such Subsidiary and discuss the affairs, finances and accounts of
Holdings, the Company and of any such Subsidiary with, and be advised as to the same by, its and
their officers
and independent accountants, all at such reasonable times and intervals and to such reasonable
extent as the Administrative Agents or the Required Lenders may desire.
9.3 Maintenance of Insurance. Each of Holdings and the Company will, and will cause
each of the Material Subsidiaries to, at all times maintain in full force and effect, with
insurance companies that the Company believes (in the good faith judgment of the management of the
Company) are financially sound and responsible at the time the relevant coverage is placed or
renewed, insurance in at least such amounts and against at least such risks (and with such risk
retentions) as are usually insured against in the same general area by companies engaged in the
same or a similar business; and will furnish to the Lenders, upon written request from an
Administrative Agent, information presented in reasonable detail as to the insurance so carried.
9.4
Payment of Taxes. Each of Holdings and the Company will pay and discharge, and
will cause each of the Subsidiaries to pay and discharge, all material taxes, assessments and
governmental charges or levies imposed upon it or upon its income or profits, or upon any
properties belonging to it, prior to the date on which material penalties attach thereto, and all
lawful material claims that, if unpaid, could reasonably be expected to become a material Lien upon
any properties of Holdings, the Company or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries,
provided
that none of Holdings, the Company, or any of the Subsidiaries shall be required to pay any such
tax, assessment, charge, levy or claim that is being contested in good faith and by proper
proceedings if it has maintained adequate reserves (in the good faith judgment of the management of
the
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Company) with respect thereto in accordance with GAAP and the failure to pay could not
reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.
9.5 Consolidated Corporate Franchises. Each of Holdings and the Company will do, and
will cause each Material Subsidiary to do, or cause to be done, all things necessary to preserve
and keep in full force and effect its existence, corporate rights and authority, except to the
extent that the failure to do so could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse
Effect; provided that Holdings, the Company and their Subsidiaries may consummate any
transaction permitted under Section 10.3, 10.4 or 10.5.
9.6 Compliance with Statutes, Regulations, etc. Each of Holdings and the Company
will, and will cause each Subsidiary to, comply with all applicable laws, rules, regulations and
orders applicable to it or its property, including all governmental approvals or authorizations
required to conduct its business, and to maintain all such governmental approvals or authorizations
in full force and effect, in each case except where the failure to do so could not reasonably be
expected to have a Material Averse Effect.
9.7 ERISA. Promptly after Holdings, the Company or any Subsidiary or any ERISA
Affiliate knows or has reason to know of the occurrence of any of the following events that,
individually or in the aggregate (including in the aggregate such events previously disclosed or
exempt from disclosure hereunder, to the extent the
liability therefor remains outstanding), would be reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse
Effect, the Company will deliver to each of the Lenders a certificate of an Authorized Officer or
any other senior officer of the Company setting forth details as to such occurrence and the action,
if any, that Holdings, the Company, such Subsidiary or such ERISA Affiliate is required or proposes
to take, together with any notices (required, proposed or otherwise) given to or filed with or by
Holdings, the Company, such Subsidiary, such ERISA Affiliate, the PBGC, a Plan participant (other
than notices relating to an individual participant’s benefits) or the Plan administrator with
respect thereto: that a Reportable Event has occurred; that an accumulated funding deficiency has
been incurred or an application is to be made to the Secretary of the Treasury for a waiver or
modification of the minimum funding standard (including any required installment payments) or an
extension of any amortization period under Section 412 of the Code with respect to a Plan; that a
Plan having an Unfunded Current Liability has been or is to be terminated, reorganized, partitioned
or declared insolvent under Title IV of ERISA (including the giving of written notice thereof);
that a Plan has an Unfunded Current Liability that has or will result in a lien under ERISA or the
Code; that proceedings will be or have been instituted to terminate a Plan having an Unfunded
Current Liability (including the giving of written notice thereof); that a proceeding has been
instituted against Holdings, the Company, a Subsidiary or an ERISA Affiliate pursuant to Section
515 of ERISA to collect a delinquent contribution to a Plan; that the PBGC has notified Holdings,
the Company, any Subsidiary or any ERISA Affiliate of its intention to appoint a trustee to
administer any Plan; that Holdings, the Company, any Subsidiary or any ERISA Affiliate has failed
to make a required installment or other
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payment pursuant to Section 412 of the Code with respect to
a Plan; or that Holdings, the Company, any Subsidiary or any ERISA Affiliate has incurred or will
incur (or has been notified in writing that it will incur) any liability (including any contingent
or secondary liability) to or on account of a Plan pursuant to Section 409, 502(i), 502(l), 515,
4062, 4063, 4064, 4069, 4201 or 4204 of ERISA or Section 4971 or 4975 of the Code.
9.8 Maintenance of Properties. Each of Holdings and the Company will, and will cause
each of the Restricted Subsidiaries to, keep and maintain all property material to the conduct of
its business in good working order and condition, ordinary wear and tear excepted, except to the
extent that the failure to do so could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
9.9 Transactions with Affiliates. Each of Holdings and the Company will conduct, and
cause each of the Restricted Subsidiaries to conduct, all transactions with any of its Affiliates
(other than the Company or the Restricted Subsidiaries) on terms that are substantially as
favorable to the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary as it would obtain in a comparable
arm’s-length transaction with a Person that is not an Affiliate, provided that the
foregoing restrictions shall not apply to (a) the payment of customary fees to the Sponsors for
management, consulting and financial services rendered to Holdings, the Company and the
Subsidiaries and customary investment banking fees paid to the Sponsors for services rendered to
Holdings, the Company and the Subsidiaries in connection with divestitures, acquisitions,
financings and other
transactions, (b) customary fees paid to members of the board of directors of the Company and
the Subsidiaries and (c) transactions permitted by Section 10.6.
9.10 End of Fiscal Years; Fiscal Quarters. Each of Holdings and the Company will, for
financial reporting purposes, cause (a) each of its, and each of its Subsidiaries’, fiscal years to
end on October 31 of each year and (b) each of its, and each of its Subsidiaries’, fiscal quarters
to end on dates consistent with such fiscal year-end and Holdings or the Company’s past practice;
provided that the Company may, upon written notice to the Administrative Agents, change the
financial reporting convention specified above to any other financial reporting convention
reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agents, in which case the Company and the
Administrative Agents will, and are hereby authorized by the Lenders to, make any adjustments to
this Agreement that are necessary in order to reflect such change in financial reporting.
9.11 Additional Guarantors and Grantors. Except as set forth in Sections 10.1(A)(j)
or 10.1(A)(k), each of Holdings and the Company will cause each direct or indirect Subsidiary
(other than any Excluded Subsidiary) formed or otherwise purchased or acquired after the date
hereof (including pursuant to a Permitted Acquisition) to execute a supplement to each of the
Guarantee and the relevant Security Agreement, substantially in the form of Annex B or
Annex 1, as applicable, to the respective agreement in order to become a Guarantor under
the Guarantee and a grantor under relevant Security Agreement or, to the extent reasonably
requested by the Collateral Agent, enter into a new Security Agreement in form and substance
reasonable satisfactory to the Collateral Agent.
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9.12 Pledges of Additional Stock and Evidence of Indebtedness. (a) Except as set
forth in Section 10.1(A)(j) or (A)(k) or with respect to which, in the reasonable judgment of the
Administrative Agents and the Collateral Agent (confirmed in writing by notice to the Company), the
cost or other consequences (including any adverse tax consequences) of doing so shall be excessive
in view of the benefits to be obtained by the Lenders therefrom, each of Holdings and the Company
will pledge, and, if applicable, will cause each Subsidiary to pledge, to the Collateral Agent for
the benefit of the Secured Parties, (i) all the Stock and Stock Equivalents of each Subsidiary
(other than any Unrestricted Subsidiary), Minority Investment held by Holdings, the Company or a
Subsidiary, in each case, formed or otherwise purchased or acquired after the date hereof, in each
case pursuant to a Pledge Agreement (or supplement thereto) in form and substance reasonably
satisfactory to Administrative Agents and the Collateral Agent, (ii) all evidences of Indebtedness
in excess of $5,000,000 received by Holdings, the Company or any of the Subsidiaries (other than
any Unrestricted Subsidiary) in connection with any disposition of assets pursuant to Section
10.4(b), in each case pursuant to a Pledge Agreement (or supplement thereto) in form and substance
reasonably satisfactory to Administrative Agents and the Collateral Agent and (iii) any global
promissory notes executed after the date hereof evidencing Indebtedness of Holdings, the Company,
each Subsidiary and each Minority Investment that is owing to Holdings, the Company or any
Subsidiary (other than any Unrestricted Subsidiary), in
each case pursuant a Pledge Agreement (or supplement thereto) in form and substance reasonably
satisfactory to the Administrative Agents and the Collateral Agent.
(b) Each of Holdings and the Company agrees that all Indebtedness in excess of $5,000,000 of
Holdings, the Company and each Subsidiary that is owing to any Credit Party pledged pursuant to a
Pledge Agreement shall be evidenced by one or more global promissory notes.
9.13 Use of Proceeds. (a) The Borrowers will use the proceeds of all Tranche B-1 Term
Loans solely to effect the Acquisition and to pay Transaction Expenses;
(b) The Borrowers will use the proceeds of all Tranche B-2 Term Loans to pay dividends
permitted under Section 10.6(c) or for other general corporate purposes; and
(c) The Borrowers will use the Letters of Credit and the proceeds of all Revolving Credit
Loans and Swingline Loans solely for general corporate purposes.
9.14
Further Assurances. (a) Each of Holdings and each Borrower will, and will cause
each other Credit Party to execute any and all further documents, financing statements, agreements
and instruments, and take all such further actions (including the filing and recording of financing
statements, fixture filings, mortgages, deeds of trust and other documents), which may be required
under any applicable law, or which the Collateral Agent or the Required Lenders may reasonably
request, in order to grant, preserve, protect and perfect the validity and priority of the security
interests
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created or intended to be created by any Security Agreement, any Pledge Agreement or any
Mortgage, all at the expense of Holdings, the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries.
(b) If any assets (including any real estate or improvements thereto or any interest therein)
with a book value or fair market value in excess of $5,000,000 are acquired by the Company or any
other Credit Party from the Company, any of its Subsidiaries or any other Person after the Closing
Date (other than assets constituting Collateral under the Security Agreement that become subject to
the Lien of the Security Agreement upon acquisition thereof) that are of the nature secured by the
Security Agreement or any Mortgage, as the case may be, the Company will notify the Collateral
Agent and the Lenders thereof, and, if requested by the Collateral Agent or the Required Lenders,
the Company will cause such assets to be subjected to a Lien securing the applicable Obligations
and will take, and cause the other Credit Parties to take, such actions as shall be necessary or
reasonably requested by the Collateral Agent to grant and perfect such Liens consistent with the
applicable requirements of the Security Documents, including actions described in clause (a) of
this Section 9.14, all at the expense of the Company. Any Mortgage delivered to the Collateral
Agent in accordance with the preceding sentence shall be accompanied by (x) a policy or policies of
title insurance issued by a nationally recognized title insurance company insuring the Lien of
each Mortgage as a valid first Lien on the Mortgaged Property described therein, free of any
other Liens except as expressly permitted by Section 10.2, together with such endorsements,
coinsurance and reinsurance as the Administrative Agents and the Collateral Agent may reasonably
request and (y) an opinion of local counsel to the Company (or in the event a Subsidiary of the
Company is the mortgagor, to such Subsidiary) substantially in the form of Exhibit I-2.
(c) The Company agrees that it will, or will cause its relevant Subsidiaries to, complete each
of the actions described on Schedule 9.14(c) by no later than the date that is 90 days after the
Closing Date or such later date as the Administrative Agents may reasonable agree.
9.15 Maintenance of Rating of Facilities. The Company will cause a senior secured
credit rating with respect to the Credit Facilities from each of S&P and Xxxxx’x to be available at
all times thereafter until the last Maturity Date under this Agreement.
SECTION 10. Negative Covenants.
Each of Holdings and each Borrower hereby covenants and agrees that on the Closing Date and
thereafter, until the Commitments, the Swingline Commitments and each Letter of Credit have
terminated and the Loans and Unpaid Drawings, together with interest, Fees and all other
Obligations incurred hereunder, are paid in full:
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10.1 Limitation on Indebtedness. (A) Neither Holdings, nor the Company will, nor
will they permit any of the Restricted Subsidiaries to, create, incur, assume or suffer to exist
any Indebtedness, except:
(a) Indebtedness arising under the Credit Documents;
(b) Indebtedness of (i) Holdings or any Borrower to any Subsidiary of such Person, (ii)
subject to compliance with Section 10.5(g), any Subsidiary to the Company or any other Restricted
Subsidiary of the Company, and (iii) subject to Section 10.5(m), Holdings to the Company or any
other Restricted Subsidiary;
(c) Indebtedness in respect of any bankers’ acceptance, letter of credit, warehouse receipt or
similar facilities entered into in the ordinary course of business;
(d) except as provided in clauses (j) and (k) below, subject to compliance with Section
10.5(g), Guarantee Obligations incurred by (i) Restricted Subsidiaries in respect of Indebtedness
of the Company or other Restricted Subsidiaries that is permitted to be incurred under this
Agreement and (ii) Holdings and/or the Company in respect of Indebtedness of the Restricted
Subsidiaries that is permitted to be incurred under this Agreement, provided that there
shall be no Guarantee (a) by a Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Guarantor of any Indebtedness of
any of the Borrowers and (b) in respect of the Senior Notes or Permitted Additional Notes, unless
such
Guarantee is made by a Guarantor and such Guarantee is unsecured (and subordinated in the case
of Permitted Additional Notes or New Notes that are subordinated);
(e) Guarantee Obligations incurred in the ordinary course of business in respect of
obligations of suppliers, customers, franchisees, lessors and licensees;
(f) (i) Indebtedness (including Indebtedness arising under Capital Leases) incurred within 270
days of the acquisition, construction or improvement of fixed or capital assets to finance the
acquisition, construction or improvement of such fixed or capital assets or otherwise incurred in
respect of Capital Expenditures permitted by Section 10.10, (ii) Indebtedness arising under Capital
Leases entered into in connection with Permitted Sale Leasebacks and (iii) Indebtedness arising
under Capital Leases, other than Capital Leases in effect on the date hereof and Capital Leases
entered into pursuant to subclauses (i) and (ii) above, provided that the aggregate amount
of Indebtedness incurred pursuant to this subclause (iii) shall not exceed $50,000,000 at any time
outstanding, and (iv) any refinancing, refunding, renewal or extension of any Indebtedness
specified in subclause (i), (ii) or (iii) above, provided that the principal amount thereof
is not increased above the principal amount thereof outstanding immediately prior to such
refinancing, refunding, renewal or extension;
(g) Indebtedness outstanding on the date hereof and listed on
Schedule 10.1 and any
refinancing, refunding, renewal or extension thereof,
provided that (i) the principal
amount thereof is not increased above the principal amount thereof outstanding immediately prior to
such refinancing, refunding, renewal or extension, except to the
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extent otherwise permitted
hereunder and (ii) the direct and contingent obligors with respect to such Indebtedness are not
changed;
(h) Indebtedness in respect of Hedge Agreements;
(i) Indebtedness in respect of the Senior Notes in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed
$1,000,000,000 (or such lesser aggregate principal amount as may be incurred on the Closing Date);
(j) (i) Indebtedness of a Person or Indebtedness attaching to assets of a Person that, in
either case, becomes a Restricted Subsidiary (or is a Restricted Subsidiary that survives a merger
with such person) or Indebtedness attaching to assets that are acquired by Holdings, the Company or
any Restricted Subsidiary, in each case after the Closing Date as the result of a Permitted
Acquisition, provided that (v) the Consolidated Total Debt to Adjusted EBITDA Ratio for the
Test Period last ended, determined on a pro forma basis after giving effect to such Permitted
Acquisition and the incurrence of such Indebtedness, shall be less than or equal to 4.75 to 1.00,
(w) such Indebtedness existed at the time such Person became a Restricted Subsidiary or at the time
such assets were acquired and, in each case, was not created in anticipation thereof, (x) such
Indebtedness is not guaranteed in any respect by Holdings, the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary
(other than by any such person that so becomes a Restricted Subsidiary or is the survivor of a
merger with such person) and (y)(A) the Stock and
Stock Equivalents of such Person is pledged to the Collateral Agent to the extent required
under Section 9.12 and (B) such Person executes a supplement to each of the Guarantee, the relevant
Security Agreement and the relevant Pledge Agreement (or alternative guarantee and security
arrangements in relation to the Obligations reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agents) to
the extent required under Section 9.11 or 9.12, as applicable, provided that the
requirements of this subclause (y) shall not apply to an aggregate amount at any time outstanding
of up to (and including) the Guarantee and Collateral Exception Amount at such time of the
aggregate of (1) such Indebtedness and (2) all Indebtedness as to which the proviso to clause
(k)(i)(y) below then applies, and (ii) any refinancing, refunding, renewal or extension of any
Indebtedness specified in subclause (i) above, provided that, except to the extent
otherwise permitted hereunder, (x) the principal amount of any such Indebtedness is not increased
above the principal amount thereof outstanding immediately prior to such refinancing, refunding,
renewal or extension and (y) the direct and contingent obligors with respect to such Indebtedness
are not changed;
(k) (i) Indebtedness of Holdings, the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary (including any
Permitted Additional Notes) incurred to finance a Permitted Acquisition, provided that (w)
the Consolidated Total Debt to Adjusted EBITDA Ratio for the Test Period last ended, determined on
a pro forma basis after giving effect to such Permitted Acquisition and the incurrence of such
Indebtedness, shall be less than or equal to 4.75 to 1.00, (x) except in the case of Permitted
Additional Notes, such Indebtedness is not guaranteed in any respect by any Restricted Subsidiary
(other than any Person acquired (the “acquired Person”) as a result of such Permitted
Acquisition or the Restricted
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Subsidiary so incurring such Indebtedness) or, in the case of
Indebtedness of any Restricted Subsidiary, subject to compliance with Section 10.5(g), by a
Borrower and (y)(A) such Borrower pledges the Stock and Stock Equivalents of such acquired Person
to the Collateral Agent to the extent required under Section 9.12 and (B) such acquired Person
executes a supplement to the Guarantee, the relevant Security Agreement and the relevant Pledge
Agreement (or alternative guarantee and security arrangements in relation to the Obligations
reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agents) to the extent required under Section 9.11 or
9.12, as applicable, provided that the requirements of this subclause (y) shall not apply
to an aggregate amount at any time outstanding of up to (and including) the amount of the Guarantee
and Collateral Exception Amount at such time of the aggregate of (1) such Indebtedness and (2) all
Indebtedness as to which the proviso to clause (j)(i)(y) above then applies, and (ii) any
refinancing, refunding, renewal or extension of any such Indebtedness, provided that (x)
the principal amount of any such Indebtedness is not increased above the principal amount thereof
outstanding immediately prior to such refinancing, refunding, renewal or extension and (y) the
direct and contingent obligors with respect to such Indebtedness are not changed, except to the
extent otherwise permitted hereunder;
(l) Indebtedness in respect of performance bonds, bid bonds, appeal bonds, surety bonds and
completion guarantees and similar obligations not in connection with money borrowed, in each case
provided in the ordinary course of business, including
those incurred to secure health, safety and environmental obligations in the ordinary course
of business;
(m) (i) Indebtedness incurred in connection with any Permitted Sale Leaseback
(provided that the Net Cash Proceeds thereof are promptly applied to the extent required by
Section 5.2) and (ii) any refinancing, refunding, renewal or extension of any Indebtedness
specified in subclause (i) above, provided that, except to the extent otherwise permitted
hereunder, (x) the principal amount of any such Indebtedness is not increased above the principal
amount thereof outstanding immediately prior to such refinancing, refunding, renewal or extension
and (y) the direct and contingent obligors with respect to such Indebtedness are not changed;
(n) (i) additional Indebtedness and (ii) any refinancing, refunding, renewal or extension of
any Indebtedness specified in subclause (i) above; provided that the aggregate amount of
Indebtedness incurred and remaining outstanding pursuant to this clause (n) shall not at any time
exceed $200,000,000; provided that not more than $50,000,000 in aggregate principal amount
of Indebtedness of Holdings, the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary (other than a Restricted
Subsidiary that is not a Guarantor) incurred under this clause (n) shall be secured;
(o) Indebtedness in respect of Permitted Additional Notes to the extent that the Net Cash
Proceeds therefrom are, immediately after the receipt thereof, applied to the prepayment of Term
Loans in accordance with Section 5.2; and
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(p) Indebtedness in respect of overdraft facilities, employee credit card programs and other
cash management arrangements in an aggregate amount not to exceed $25,000,000, at any time
outstanding.
(B) Holdings will not issue any preferred Stock or other preferred Stock Equivalents other
than Qualified PIK Securities.
10.2 Limitation on Liens. Neither Holdings, nor the Company will, nor will they
permit any of the Restricted Subsidiaries to, create, incur, assume or suffer to exist any Lien
upon any property or assets of any kind (real or personal, tangible or intangible) of Holdings, the
Company or any Restricted Subsidiary, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, except:
(a) Liens arising under the Credit Documents;
(b) Permitted Liens;
(c) (i) Liens securing Indebtedness permitted pursuant to Section 10.1(A)(f), provided
that such Liens attach at all times only to the assets so financed, and (ii) Liens on the assets of
Restricted Subsidiaries that are not Guarantors securing Indebtedness permitted pursuant to Section
10.1(A)(n);
(d) Liens existing on the date hereof and listed on Schedule 10.2;
(e) the replacement, extension or renewal of any Lien permitted by clauses (a) through (d)
above and clause (f) of this Section 10.2 upon or in the same assets theretofore subject to such
Lien or the replacement, extension or renewal (without increase in the amount or change in any
direct or contingent obligor except to the extent otherwise permitted hereunder) of the
Indebtedness secured thereby;
(f) Liens existing on the assets of any Person that becomes a Restricted Subsidiary (or is a
Restricted Subsidiary that survives a merger with such person), or existing on assets acquired,
pursuant to a Permitted Acquisition to the extent the Liens on such assets secure Indebtedness
permitted by Section 10.1(A)(j), provided that such Liens attach at all times only to the
same assets that such Liens attached to, and secure only the same Indebtedness that such Liens
secured, immediately prior to such Permitted Acquisition;
(g) (i) Liens placed upon the Stock and Stock Equivalents of any Restricted Subsidiary
acquired pursuant to a Permitted Acquisition to secure Indebtedness of Holdings, the Company or any
other Restricted Subsidiary in an aggregate amount at any time outstanding not to exceed the
Guarantee and Collateral Exception Amount incurred pursuant to Section 10.1(A)(k) in connection
with such Permitted Acquisition and (ii) Liens placed upon the assets of such Restricted Subsidiary
to secure a guarantee by such Restricted Subsidiary of any such Indebtedness of the
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Company or any
other Restricted Subsidiary in an aggregate amount at any time outstanding not to exceed the
Guarantee and Collateral Exception Amount; and
(h) additional Liens so long as the aggregate principal amount of the obligations so secured
does not exceed $50,000,000 at any time outstanding.
10.3 Limitation on Fundamental Changes. Except as expressly permitted by Section 10.4
or 10.5, neither Holdings, nor the Company will, nor will they permit any of the Restricted
Subsidiaries to, enter into any merger, consolidation or amalgamation, or liquidate, wind up or
dissolve itself (or suffer any liquidation or dissolution), or convey, sell, lease, assign,
transfer or otherwise dispose of, all or substantially all its business units, assets or other
properties, except that:
(a) any Subsidiary of a Borrower or any other Person may be merged or consolidated with or
into such Borrower, provided that (i) such Borrower shall be the continuing or surviving
corporation or the Person formed by or surviving any such merger or consolidation (if other than a
Borrower) shall be an entity organized or existing under the laws of (x) the United States, any
state thereof, the District of Columbia or any territory thereof or (y) the jurisdiction of
organization of such Borrower prior to any such merger or consolidation (such Borrower or such
Person, as the case may be, being herein referred to as the “Successor Borrower”), (ii) the
Successor Borrower (if other than a Borrower) shall expressly assume all the obligations of a
Borrower under this Agreement and the other Credit Documents pursuant to a supplement hereto or
thereto in form
reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agents, (iii) no Default or Event of Default
would result from the consummation of such merger or consolidation, (iv) the Company shall be in
compliance, on a pro forma basis after giving effect to such merger or consolidation, with the
covenant set forth in Section 10.9, as such covenant is recomputed as at the last day of the most
recently ended Test Period under such Section as if such merger or consolidation had occurred on
the first day of such Test Period, (v) each Guarantor, unless it is the other party to such merger
or consolidation, shall have by a supplement to the Guarantee confirmed that its Guarantee shall
apply to the Successor Borrower’s obligations under this Agreement, (vi) each Subsidiary grantor
and each Subsidiary pledgor, unless it is the other party to such merger or consolidation, shall
have by a supplement to the relevant Security Agreement or the relevant Pledge Agreement, as
applicable, confirmed that its obligations thereunder shall apply to the Successor Borrower’s
obligations under this Agreement, (vii) each mortgagor of a Mortgaged Property, unless it is the
other party to such merger or consolidation, shall have by an amendment to or restatement of the
applicable Mortgage confirmed that its obligations thereunder shall apply to the Successor
Borrower’s obligations under this Agreement, and (viii) the Borrowers shall have delivered to the
Administrative Agents an officer’s certificate and an opinion of counsel, each stating that such
merger or consolidation and such supplement to this Agreement or any Security Document comply with
this Agreement; provided, further, that if the foregoing are satisfied, the
Successor Borrower (if other than a Borrower) will succeed to, and be substituted for, the
applicable Borrower under this Agreement;
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(b) any Subsidiary of the Company or any other Person may be merged, amalgamated or
consolidated with or into any one or more Subsidiaries of the Company, provided that (i) in
the case of any merger, amalgamation or consolidation involving one or more Restricted
Subsidiaries, (A) a Restricted Subsidiary shall be the continuing or surviving corporation or (B)
the Company shall take all steps necessary to cause the Person formed by or surviving any such
merger, amalgamation or consolidation (if other than a Restricted Subsidiary) to become a
Restricted Subsidiary, (ii) in the case of any merger, amalgamation or consolidation involving one
or more Guarantors, a Guarantor shall be the continuing or surviving corporation or the Person
formed by or surviving any such merger, amalgamation or consolidation (if other than a Guarantor)
shall execute a supplement to the Guarantee Agreement, the relevant Pledge Agreement and the
relevant Security Agreement and any applicable Mortgage in form and substance reasonably
satisfactory to the Administrative Agents in order to become a Guarantor and pledgor, mortgagor and
grantor of Collateral for the benefit of the Secured Parties, (iii) no Default or Event of Default
would result from the consummation of such merger, amalgamation or consolidation, (iv) the Company
shall be in compliance, on a pro forma basis after giving effect to such merger, amalgamation or
consolidation, with the covenant set forth in Section 10.9, as such covenant is recomputed as at
the last day of the most recently ended Test Period under such Section as if such merger or
consolidation had occurred on the first day of such Test Period, and (v) such Borrower shall have
delivered to the Administrative Agents an officers’ certificate stating that such
merger, amalgamation or consolidation and such supplements to any Security Document comply
with this Agreement;
(c) any Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Guarantor may sell, lease, transfer or otherwise
dispose of any or all of its assets (upon voluntary liquidation or otherwise) to a Borrower, a
Guarantor or any other Restricted Subsidiary;
(d) any Guarantor may sell, lease, transfer or otherwise dispose of any or all of its assets
(upon voluntary liquidation or otherwise) to a Borrower or any other Guarantor; and
(e) any Restricted Subsidiary may liquidate or dissolve if (i) the Company determines in good
faith that such liquidation or dissolution is in the best interests of the Company and is not
materially disadvantageous to the Lenders and (ii) to the extent such Restricted Subsidiary is a
Credit Party, any assets or business not otherwise disposed of or transferred in accordance with
Section 10.4 or 10.5, or, in the case of any such business, discontinued, shall be transferred to,
or otherwise owned or conducted by, another Credit Party after giving effect to such liquidation or
dissolution.
10.4 Limitation on Sale of Assets. Neither Holdings, nor the Company will, nor will
they permit any of the Restricted Subsidiaries to: (i) convey, sell, lease, assign, transfer or
otherwise dispose of any of its property, business or assets (including receivables and leasehold
interests), whether now owned or hereafter acquired (other than any such sale, transfer, assignment
or other disposition resulting from any casualty or condemnation, of any assets of the Company or
the Restricted Subsidiaries) or (ii) sell to
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any Person (other than the Company or a Guarantor) any
shares owned by it of any Restricted Subsidiary’s Stock and Stock Equivalents, except that:
(a) the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries may sell, transfer or otherwise dispose of
used or surplus equipment, vehicles, inventory and other assets in the ordinary course of business;
(b) the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries may sell, transfer or otherwise dispose of
other assets (other than accounts receivable) (each a “
Disposition”) for fair value,
provided that (i) with respect to any Disposition pursuant to this clause (b) for a
purchase price in excess of $10,000,000, the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary shall receive not
less than 75% of such consideration in the form of cash or Permitted Investments;
provided
that for the purposes of this clause (i), (A) any liabilities (as shown on the Company’s or such
Restricted Subsidiary’s most recent balance sheet provided hereunder or in the footnotes thereto)
of the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary, other than liabilities that are by their terms
subordinated to the payment in cash of the Obligations, that are assumed by the transferee with
respect to the applicable Disposition and for which the Company and all of the Restricted
Subsidiaries shall have been validly released by all applicable creditors in writing, (B) any
securities received by the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary from such transferee that are
converted by the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary into cash (to the extent of the cash
received)
within 180 days following the closing of the applicable Disposition and (C) any Designated
Non-Cash Consideration received by the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary in respect of such
Disposition having an aggregate fair market value, taken together with all other Designated
Non-Cash Consideration received pursuant to this clause (C) and clause (C)(i) of Section 10.4(c)(i)
that is at that time outstanding, not in excess of the greater of $150,000,000 and 6% of Total
Assets (as such term is defined in the Senior Notes Indenture as of the Closing Date) at the time
of the receipt of such Designated Non-Cash Consideration, with the fair market value of each item
of Designated Non-Cash Consideration being measured at the time received and without giving effect
to subsequent changes in value, and (D) any Designated Non-Cash Consideration received by the
Company or such Restricted Subsidiary in respect of a Designated Assets Sale, to the extent the
Company intends in good faith at the time of such Designated Asset Sale is consummated, as
evidenced in a certificate executed by an Authorized Officer of the Company and delivered to the
Lenders and the Administrative Agents, to use such Designated Non-Cash Consideration to either pay
dividends pursuant to Section 10.6(d), or to use the Net Cash Proceeds of a Disposition of any such
Designated Non-Cash Consideration to repay, repurchase or otherwise redeem any Subordinated
Indebtedness pursuant to
Section 10.7(a)(ii) (or any other Senior Notes or any Permitted
Additional Notes that do not constitute Subordinated Indebtedness in compliance with the conditions
set forth in
Section 10.7(a)(ii)), shall be deemed to be cash, (ii) any non-cash proceeds
received are pledged to the Collateral Agent to the extent required under Section 9.12, (iii) with
respect to any such sale, transfer or disposition (or series of related sales, transfers or
dispositions), the Company shall be in compliance, on a pro forma basis after giving effect to such
sale, transfer or disposition, with the
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covenant set forth in Section 10.9, as such covenant is
recomputed as at the last day of the most recently ended Test Period under such Section as if such
sale, transfer or disposition had occurred on the first day of such Test Period, (iv) to the extent
applicable, the Net Cash Proceeds thereof to the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries are
promptly applied to the prepayment and/or commitment reductions as provided for in Section 5.2 and
(v) after giving effect to any such sale, transfer or disposition, no Default or Event of Default
shall have occurred and be continuing;
(c) the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries may make sales of assets to the Company or to
any Restricted Subsidiary, provided that with respect to any such sales to Restricted
Subsidiaries that are not Guarantors (i) such sale, transfer or disposition shall be for fair
value, (ii) with respect to any Disposition pursuant to this clause (c) for a purchase price in
excess of $10,000,000, the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary shall receive not less than 75% of
such consideration in the form of cash or Permitted Investments; provided that for the
purposes of this clause (i), (A) any liabilities (as shown on the Company’s or such Restricted
Subsidiary’s most recent balance sheet provided hereunder or in the footnotes thereto) of the
Company or such Restricted Subsidiary, other than liabilities that are by their terms subordinated
to the payment in cash of the Obligations, that are assumed by the transferee with respect to the
applicable Disposition and for which the Company and all of the Restricted Subsidiaries shall have
been validly released by all applicable creditors in writing, (B) any securities received by
the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary from such transferee that are converted by the
Company or such Restricted Subsidiary into cash (to the extent of the cash received) within 180
days following the closing of the applicable Disposition, (C) any Designated Non-Cash Consideration
received by the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary in respect of such Disposition having an
aggregate fair market value, taken together with all other Designated Non-Cash Consideration
received pursuant to this clause (C) and clause (C) of Section 10.4(b)(i) that is at that time
outstanding, not in excess of the sum of (i) the greater of $150,000,000 or 6% of Total Assets (as
such term is defined in the Senior Notes Indenture as of the Closing Date), plus (ii)
$25,000,000 at the time of the receipt of such Designated Non-Cash Consideration, with the fair
market value of each item of Designated Non-Cash Consideration being measured at the time received
and without giving effect to subsequent changes in value, and (D) any Designated Non-Cash
Consideration received by the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary in respect of a Designated
Assets Sale, to the extent the Company intends in good faith at the time of such Designated Asset
Sale is consummated, as evidenced in a certificate executed by an Authorized Officer of the Company
and delivered to the Lenders and the Administrative Agent, to use such Designated Non-Cash
Consideration to either pay dividends pursuant to Section 10.6(d), or to use the Net Cash Proceeds
of a Disposition of any such Designated Non-Cash Consideration to repay, repurchase or otherwise
redeem any Subordinated Indebtedness pursuant to Section 10.7(a)(ii) (or any other Senior
Notes or any Permitted Additional Notes that do not constitute Subordinated Indebtedness in
compliance with the conditions set forth in Section 10.7(a)(ii)), shall be deemed to be
cash, and (iii) any non-cash proceeds received are pledged to the Collateral Agent to the extent
required under Section 9.12;
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(d) Holdings, the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary may effect any transaction permitted by
Section 10.3;
(e) in addition to selling or transferring accounts receivable pursuant to the other
provisions hereof, Holdings, the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries may (i) sell or discount
without recourse accounts receivable arising in the ordinary course of business in connection with
the compromise or collection thereof and (ii) sell or transfer accounts receivable and related
rights pursuant to customary receivables financing facilities so long as, in the case of clauses
(i) and (ii) the Net Cash Proceeds thereof to the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries (except
in the case of transactions permitted by Section 10.4(e)(i), to the extent the Net Cash Proceeds of
any such transaction do not exceed $10,000) are promptly applied to the prepayment and/or
commitment reductions as provided for in Section 5.2; and
(f) Holdings, the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries may lease, or sub-lease, any real
property or personal property in the ordinary course of business.
10.5 Limitation on Investments. Neither Holdings, nor the Company will, nor will they
permit any of the Restricted Subsidiaries to, make any advance, loan, extensions of credit or
capital contribution to, or purchase any stock, bonds, notes,
debentures or other securities of or any assets of, or make any other Investment in, any
Person, except:
(a) extensions of trade credit and asset purchases in the ordinary course of business;
(b) Permitted Investments;
(c) loans and advances to officers, directors and employees of Holdings, a Borrower or any of
its Subsidiaries (i) for reasonable and customary business-related travel, entertainment,
relocation and analogous ordinary business purposes (including employee payroll advances), (ii) in
connection with such Person’s purchase of Stock or Stock Equivalents of Holdings (or any direct or
indirect parent thereof) to the extent that the amount of such loans and advances are contributed
to the Company in cash and (iii) for purposes not described in the foregoing clauses (i) and (ii),
in an aggregate principal amount outstanding not to exceed $10,000,000;
(d) Investments existing on, or contemplated as of, the date hereof and listed on Schedule
10.5 and any extensions, renewals or reinvestments thereof, so long as the aggregate amount of
all Investments pursuant to this clause (d) is not increased at any time above the amount of such
Investments existing on the date hereof;
(e) Investments received in connection with the bankruptcy or reorganization of suppliers or
customers and in settlement of delinquent obligations of, and other disputes with, customers
arising in the ordinary course of business;
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(f) Investments to the extent that payment for such Investments is made solely with Stock or
Stock Equivalents of Holdings or the Company;
(g) Investments (i) in any Guarantor or the Company, (ii) in Restricted Subsidiaries that are
not Guarantors, in an aggregate amount pursuant to this clause (ii) not to exceed $25,000,000
plus the Applicable Amount at such time, (iii) in Restricted Subsidiaries that are not
Guarantors so long as such Investment is part of a series of simultaneous Investments by Restricted
Subsidiaries in other Restricted Subsidiaries that result in the proceeds of the initial Investment
being invested in one or more Guarantors, (iv) constituting Lux Intercompany Loans, (v) in the Lux
Borrower so long as the proceeds of Investments pursuant to this clause (v) are used to pay (x)
interest on, or principal of, the Tranche B-1 Term Loans made to the Lux Borrower, (y) operating
expenses of the Lux Borrower incurred in the ordinary course of business (including taxes) or (z)
other customary corporate overhead costs and expenses of the Lux Borrower and (vi) in Restricted
Subsidiaries that have provided a Guarantee (but are not Guarantors) in an aggregate amount not to
exceed $10,000,000;
(h) Investments constituting Permitted Acquisitions;
(i) (i) Investments (including Investments in Minority Investments and Unrestricted
Subsidiaries) and (ii) Investments in joint ventures or similar entities that do not constitute
Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case, as valued at the fair market value of such Investment at the
time each such Investment is made, (A) in an amount that, at the time such Investment is made,
would not exceed the sum of (x) the Applicable Amount at such time plus (y) an amount equal
to any repayments, interest, returns, profits, distributions, income and similar amounts actually
received in cash in respect of any such Investment (which amount shall not exceed the amount of
such Investment valued at the fair market value of such Investment at the time such Investment was
made) and/or (B) in the case of clause (ii) only, in any amount that, at the time such Investment
is made, would be permitted to be expended as a Capital Expenditure under Section 10.10, to the
extent that (x) such joint venture owns an interest in assets the addition of which would have been
a Capital Expenditure if acquired or constructed, and owned, directly by the Company or a
Restricted Subsidiary, and (y) the ability of the Company and/or one or more Restricted
Subsidiaries to receive cash flows attributable to its interest therein substantially as they would
if they directly owned such asset or portion thereof is not prohibited by contract, applicable law
or otherwise;
(j) Investments constituting non-cash proceeds of sales, transfers and other dispositions of
assets to the extent permitted by Section 10.4(b) or (c);
(k) Investments made to repurchase or retire Stock of Holdings or the Company owned by any
employee stock ownership plan or key employee stock ownership plan of Holdings or the Company;
(l) Investments permitted under Section 10.6; and
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(m) loans and advance to Holdings (or any direct or indirect parent thereof) in lieu of, and
not in excess of the amount of, dividends to the extent permitted to be made to Holdings (or such
parent) in accordance with Section 10.6.
10.6 Limitation on Dividends. Neither Holdings, nor the Company will declare or pay
any dividends (other than dividends payable solely in its Stock) or return any capital to its
stockholders or make any other distribution, payment or delivery of property or cash to its
stockholders as such, or redeem, retire, purchase or otherwise acquire, directly or indirectly, for
consideration, any shares of any class of its Stock or Stock Equivalents or the Stock or Stock
Equivalents of any direct or indirect parent now or hereafter outstanding, or set aside any funds
for any of the foregoing purposes, or permit any of the Restricted Subsidiaries to purchase or
otherwise acquire for consideration (other than in connection with an Investment permitted by
Section 10.5) any Stock or Stock Equivalents of any Borrower, now or hereafter outstanding (all of
the foregoing “dividends”), provided that, so long as no Default or Event of
Default exists or would exist after giving effect thereto:
(a) Holdings or the Company may redeem in whole or in part any of its Stock or Stock
Equivalents for another class of its Stock or Stock Equivalents or with
proceeds from substantially concurrent equity contributions or issuances of new Stock or Stock
Equivalents, provided that such new Stock or Stock Equivalents contain terms and provisions
at least as advantageous to the Lenders in all respects material to their interests as those
contained in the Stock or Stock Equivalents redeemed thereby;
(b) Holdings or the Company may (or may make dividends to permit any direct or indirect parent
thereof to) repurchase shares of its (or such parent’s) Stock or Stock Equivalents held by
officers, directors and employees of Holdings and its Subsidiaries, so long as such repurchase is
pursuant to, and in accordance with the terms of, management and/or employee stock plans, stock
subscription agreements or shareholder agreements;
(c) (i) the Company may pay dividends to Holdings and (ii) Holdings may pay dividends, up to
an amount equal to the proceeds of the Tranche B-2 Term Loans, provided that all of the
conditions set forth in Section 7.3 are satisfied;
(d) (i) the Company may pay dividends on the Stock or Stock Equivalents of the Company to
Holdings and (ii) Holdings may pay cash dividends up to an amount equal to the Net Cash Proceeds of
any Designated Assets Sale and non-cash dividends with any non-cash proceeds of any Designated
Assets Sale in the same form received, in each case, if (x) the Consolidated Total Senior Secured
Debt to Adjusted EBITDA Ratio for the Test Period last ended, determined on a pro forma basis after
giving effect to such Designated Asset Sale and the payment of such dividends, is less than or
equal to the Consolidated Total Senior Secured Debt to Adjusted EBITDA Ratio for the Test Period
last ended prior to the consummation of such Designated Asset Sale, (y) the Consolidated Total
Senior Secured Debt to Adjusted EBITDA Ratio for the Test Period last ended, determined on a pro
forma basis after giving effect to such Designated
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Asset Sale and payment of such dividends, is
less than or equal to 1.50 to 1.00 and (z) prior to the payment of such dividends, at least
$250,000,000 of the principal amount of the Term Loans shall have been repaid in cash pursuant to
the terms hereof;
(e) (i) the Company may pay dividends on the Stock or Stock Equivalents of the Company to
Holdings and (ii) Holdings may pay dividends, provided that the amount of any such
dividends pursuant to this clause (e) shall not exceed an amount equal to the Applicable Amount at
such time;
(f) the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries may pay dividends to Holdings:
(i) the proceeds of which will be used to pay (or to make dividends to allow
any direct or indirect parent of Holdings to pay) the tax liability to each
relevant jurisdiction in respect of consolidated, combined, unitary or affiliated
returns for the relevant jurisdiction of Holdings (or such parent) attributable to
Holdings, the Company or its Subsidiaries determined as if the Company and its
Subsidiaries filed separately;
(ii) the proceeds of which shall be used by Holdings to pay (or to make
dividends to allow any direct or indirect parent of Holdings to pay) (A) its
operating expenses incurred in the ordinary course of business and other corporate
overhead costs and expenses (including administrative, legal, accounting and
similar expenses provided by third parties), which are reasonable and customary and
incurred in the ordinary course of business, in an aggregate amount not to exceed
$3,000,000 in any fiscal year of the Company plus any reasonable and
customary indemnification claims made by directors or officers of Holdings (or any
parent thereof) attributable to the ownership or operations of the Company and its
Subsidiaries or (B) fees and expenses otherwise (x) due and payable by the Company
or any of its Subsidiaries and (y) permitted to be paid by the Company or such
Subsidiary under this Agreement;
(iii) the proceeds of which shall be used by Holdings to pay franchise taxes
and other fees, taxes and expenses required to maintain its (or any of its direct
or indirect parents’) corporate existence; and
(iv) to finance any Investment permitted to be made pursuant to Section 10.5;
provided that (A) such dividend shall be made substantially concurrently
with the closing of such Investment and (B) Holdings shall, immediately following
the closing thereof, cause (1) all property acquired (whether assets, Stock or
Stock Equivalents) to be contributed to the Company or its Restricted Subsidiaries
or (2) the merger (to the extent permitted in Section 10.5) of the Person formed or
acquired into the Company or its Restricted Subsidiaries in order to consummate
such Permitted Acquisition;
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and
(g) (i) the Company may pay to Holdings and (ii) Holdings may pay cash dividends, after the
fifth anniversary of the Closing Date solely for the purpose of paying scheduled interest payments
with respect to Indebtedness of Holdings, so long as the Company shall be in compliance, on a pro
forma basis after giving effect to the payment of such dividends, with the covenant set forth in
Section 10.9, as such covenant is recomputed as at the last day of the most recently ended Test
Period under such Section as if the payment of such cash dividends had occurred on the first day of
such Test Period.
10.7 Limitations on Debt Payments and Amendments. (a) Neither Holdings, nor the
Company will, nor will they permit any Restricted Subsidiary to, prepay, repurchase or redeem or
otherwise defease any Subordinated Indebtedness; provided that so long as no Default or
Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing at the date of such prepayment, repurchase,
redemption or other defeasance or would result therefrom, Holdings, the Company or any Restricted
Subsidiary may prepay, repurchase or redeem Subordinated Indebtedness (i) for an aggregate price
not in excess
of the Applicable Amount at such time of such prepayment, repurchase or redemption, (ii) in an
amount equal to the Net Cash Proceeds of any Designated Assets Sale or the Net Cash Proceeds of the
Disposition of any non-cash proceeds of any Designated Asset Sale received by the Company or a
Restricted Subsidiary within 15 months of such Designated Asset Sale if (A) the Consolidated Total
Senior Secured Debt to Adjusted EBITDA Ratio for the Test Period last ended, determined on a pro
forma basis after giving effect to such Designated Asset Sale and such prepayment, repurchase,
redemption or other defeasance, is less than or equal to the Consolidated Total Senior Secured Debt
to Adjusted EBITDA Ratio for the Test Period last ended prior to the consummation of such
Designated Asset Sale, (B) the Consolidated Total Senior Secured Debt to Adjusted EBITDA Ratio for
the Test Period last ended, determined on a pro forma basis after giving effect to such Designated
Asset Sale and such prepayment, repurchase, redemption or other defeasance, is less than or equal
to 1.50 to 1.00 and (C) prior to such prepayment, repurchase, redemption or other defeasance, at
least $250,000,000 of the principal amount of the Term Loans shall have been repaid, or (iii) with
the proceeds of Subordinated Indebtedness that (A) is permitted by Section 10.1 (other than Section
10.1(A)(o)) and (B) has terms material to the interests of the Lenders not materially less
advantageous to the Lenders than those of such Subordinated Indebtedness being refinanced.
(b) Neither Holdings, nor any Borrower will waive, amend, modify, terminate or release any
Subordinated Indebtedness to the extent that any such waiver, amendment, modification, termination
or release would be adverse to the Lenders in any material respect.
10.8 Limitations on Sale Leasebacks. Neither Holdings, nor the Company will, nor will
they permit any of the Restricted Subsidiaries to, enter into or effect any Sale Leasebacks, other
than Permitted Sale Leasebacks.
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10.9 Consolidated Total Senior Secured Debt to Adjusted EBITDA Ratio. Neither
Holdings, nor the Company will permit the Consolidated Total Senior Secured Debt to Adjusted EBITDA
Ratio for any Test Period ending during any period set forth below to be greater than the ratio set
forth below opposite such period:
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Period |
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Ratio |
November 1, 2006 to January 31, 2007
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4.00 to 1.00 |
February 1, 2007 to April 30, 2007
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4.00 to 1.00 |
May 1, 2007 to July 31, 2007
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4.00 to 1.00 |
August 1, 2007 to October 31, 2007
|
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4.00 to 1.00 |
November 1, 2007 to January 31, 2008
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4.00 to 1.00 |
February 1, 2008 to April 30, 2008
|
|
4.00 to 1.00 |
May 1, 2008 to July 31, 2008
|
|
4.00 to 1.00 |
August 1, 2008 to October 31, 2008
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4.00 to 1.00 |
November 1, 2008 to January 31, 2009
|
|
4.00 to 1.00 |
February 1, 2009 to April 30, 2009
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|
4.00 to 1.00 |
May 1, 2009 to July 31, 2009
|
|
4.00 to 1.00 |
August 1, 2009 to October 31, 2009
|
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4.00 to 1.00 |
November 1, 2009 to January 31, 2010
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4.00 to 1.00 |
February 1, 2010 to April 30, 2010
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3.75 to 1.00 |
May 1, 2010 to July 31, 2010
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3.75 to 1.00 |
August 1, 2010 to October 31, 2010
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3.75 to 1.00 |
November 1, 2010 to January 31, 2011
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3.75 to 1.00 |
February 1, 2011 to April 30, 2011
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3.50 to 1.00 |
May 1, 2011 to July 31, 2011
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3.50 to 1.00 |
August 1, 2011 to October 31, 2011
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|
3.50 to 1.00 |
November 1, 2011 to January 31, 2012
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3.50 to 1.00 |
February 1, 2012 to April 30, 2012
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3.25 to 1.00 |
May 1, 2012 and thereafter
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3.25 to 1.00 |
10.10 Capital Expenditures.
(a) Neither Holdings, nor the Company will, nor will they permit any of the Restricted
Subsidiaries to, make any Capital Expenditures (other than Permitted Acquisitions that constitute
Capital Expenditures), that would cause the aggregate amount of such Capital Expenditures made by
the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries in any fiscal year of the Company to exceed $75,000,000
(such amount, together with the carry-forward amount (as defined clause (b) below) for such fiscal
year, the “Permitted Capital Expenditure Amount”).
(b) To the extent that Capital Expenditures (other than Permitted Acquisitions that constitute
Capital Expenditures) made by the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries during any fiscal year
are less than the Permitted Capital Expenditure Amount for such fiscal year, 100% of such unused
amount (each such amount, a “carry-forward amount”) may be carried forward to the
immediately succeeding
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fiscal year and utilized to make such Capital Expenditures in such
immediately succeeding fiscal year; provided that no carry-forward amount may be carried
forward beyond the first fiscal year immediately succeeding the fiscal year in which it arose.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Permitted Capital Expenditure Amount for any fiscal year
shall be reduced at the time of and in the amount of any Investment made pursuant to clause (B) of
Section 10.5(i) during such fiscal year.
10.11 Changes in Business. (a) The Company and the Subsidiaries, taken as a whole,
will not fundamentally and substantively alter the character of their business, taken as a whole,
from the business conducted by the Company and the Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, on the Closing
Date and other business activities incidental or related to any of the foregoing.
10.12 Limitation on Activities of Holdings. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary
in this Agreement or any other Credit Document, Holdings shall not (a) conduct, transact or
otherwise engage in, or commit to conduct, transact or otherwise engage in, any business or
operations other than those incidental to its ownership of the Stock and Stock Equivalents of the
Company, the performance of the Acquisition Agreement and the other agreements contemplated by the
Acquisition Agreement, any public offering of its Stock and any transaction that Holdings is
permitted to enter into or consummate under this Section 10, (b) incur, create, assume or suffer to
exist any Lien or Indebtedness or other liabilities or financial obligations (other than those
described in clause (a) above), except (i) nonconsensual obligations imposed by operation of law,
(ii) pursuant to the Credit Documents to which it is a party and the Senior Notes Indenture (iii)
obligations with respect to its Stock and Stock Equivalents, (iv) any Qualified PIK Securities or
(v) any Indebtedness permitted to be incurred by Holdings pursuant to Xxxxxxxx 00.0(X) (x), (x),
(x), (x), (x), (x), (x), (x), (x), (x) (on an unsecured basis) and (o), or (c) own, lease manage or
otherwise operate any properties or assets (including cash (other than cash received in connection
with dividends made by the Company in accordance with Section 10.6 pending application in the
manner contemplated by said Section) and cash equivalents) other than the ownership of Stock or
Stock Equivalents of the Company
10.13 Limitation on Activities of the Lux Borrower. Notwithstanding anything to the
contrary in this Agreement or any other Credit Document, the Lux Borrower shall not (a) conduct,
transact or otherwise engage in, or commit to conduct, transact or otherwise engage in, any
business or operations other than those incidental to the performance of its obligations under this
Agreement or any other Credit Document, the making of the Lux Intercompany Loans and the
maintenance of its corporate existence, (b) incur, create, assume or suffer to exist any Lien or
Indebtedness or other liabilities or financial obligations (other than those described in clause
(a) above), except (i) nonconsensual obligations imposed by operation of law and (ii) operating
expenses incurred in the ordinary course of business and other customary corporate overhead costs
and expenses, or (c) own, lease manage or otherwise operate any properties or assets (including
cash (other than cash received in connection with Investments made to it in
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accordance with Section
10.5(g) pending application in the manner contemplated by said Section or cash received by it under
the Lux Intercompany Loans pending application in the manner provided in Section 10.5(g)) and cash
equivalents) other than the Lux Intercompany Loans.
SECTION 11. Events of Default.
Upon the occurrence of any of the following specified events (each an “Event of
Default”):
11.1 Payments. Any Borrower shall (a) default in the payment when due of any
principal of the Loans or (b) default, and such default shall continue for five or more days, in
the payment when due of any interest or stamping fees on the Loans or any
Fees or any Unpaid Drawings or of any other amounts owing hereunder or under any other Credit
Document; or
11.2 Representations, etc. Any representation, warranty or statement made or deemed
made by any Credit Party herein or in any Security Document or any certificate delivered or
required to be delivered pursuant hereto or thereto shall prove to be untrue in any material
respect on the date as of which made or deemed made; or
11.3 Covenants. Any Credit Party shall:
(a) default in the due performance or observance by it of any term, covenant or agreement
contained in Section 9.1(e) or Section 10; or
(b) default in the due performance or observance by it of any term, covenant or agreement
(other than those referred to in Section 11.1 or 11.2 or clause (a) of this Section 11.3) contained
in this Agreement, any Security Document or the Fee Letter dated August 14, 2005 between the Parent
and the Agents and such default shall continue unremedied for a period of at least 30 days after
receipt of written notice by the Company from the Administrative Agents or the Required Lenders; or
11.4
Default Under Other Agreements. (a) Any of Holdings, the Company or any of the
Restricted Subsidiaries shall (i) default in any payment with respect to any Indebtedness (other
than the Obligations) in excess of $35,000,000 in the aggregate, for Holdings, the Company and such
Restricted Subsidiaries, beyond the period of grace, if any, provided in the instrument or
agreement under which such Indebtedness was created or (ii) default in the observance or
performance of any agreement or condition relating to any such Indebtedness or contained in any
instrument or agreement evidencing, securing or relating thereto, or any other event shall occur or
condition exist (other than, with respect to Indebtedness consisting of any Hedge Agreements,
termination events or equivalent events pursuant to the terms of such Hedge Agreements), the effect
of which default or other event or condition is to cause, or to permit the holder or holders of
such Indebtedness (or a trustee or agent on behalf of such holder or holders) to cause, any such
Indebtedness to become due prior to its stated
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maturity; or (b) without limiting the provisions of
clause (a) above, any such Indebtedness shall be declared to be due and payable, or required to be
prepaid other than by a regularly scheduled required prepayment or as a mandatory prepayment (and,
with respect to Indebtedness consisting of any Hedge Agreements, other than due to a termination
event or equivalent event pursuant to the terms of such Hedge Agreements), prior to the stated
maturity thereof; or
11.5 Bankruptcy. Any of Holdings, any Borrower or any Specified Subsidiary shall
commence a voluntary case, proceeding or action concerning itself under (a) Title 11 of the United
States Code entitled “Bankruptcy,” or (b) in the case of any Non-U.S. Subsidiary that is a
Specified Subsidiary, any domestic or foreign law relating to bankruptcy, judicial management,
insolvency reorganization or relief of debtors legislation of its jurisdiction of incorporation, in
each case as now or hereafter in effect,
or any successor thereto (collectively, the “Bankruptcy Code”); or an involuntary
case, proceeding or action is commenced against any of Holdings, any Borrower or any Specified
Subsidiary and the petition is not controverted within 10 days after commencement of the case,
proceeding or action; or an involuntary case, proceeding or action is commenced against any of
Holdings, any Borrower or any Specified Subsidiary and the petition is not dismissed within 60 days
after commencement of the case, proceeding or action; or a custodian (as defined in the Bankruptcy
Code) judicial manager, receiver, receiver manager, trustee or similar person is appointed for, or
takes charge of, all or substantially all of the property of any of Holdings, any Borrower or any
Specified Subsidiary; or any of Holdings, any Borrower or any Specified Subsidiary commences any
other proceeding or action under any reorganization, arrangement, judicial management, adjustment
of debt, relief of debtors, dissolution, insolvency or liquidation or similar law of any
jurisdiction whether now or hereafter in effect relating to any of Holdings, any Borrower or any
Specified Subsidiary; or there is commenced against any of Holdings, any Borrower or any Specified
Subsidiary any such proceeding or action that remains undismissed for a period of 60 days; or any
of Holdings, any Borrower or any Specified Subsidiary is adjudicated insolvent or bankrupt; or any
order of relief or other order approving any such case or proceeding or action is entered; or any
of Holdings, any Borrower or any Specified Subsidiary suffers any appointment of any custodian,
judicial manager, receiver, receiver manager, trustee or the like for it or any substantial part of
its property to continue undischarged or unstayed for a period of 60 days; or any of Holdings, any
Borrower or any Specified Subsidiary makes a general assignment for the benefit of creditors; or
any corporate action is taken by any of Holdings, any Borrower or any Specified Subsidiary for the
purpose of effecting any of the foregoing; or
11.6
ERISA. (a) Any Plan shall fail to satisfy the minimum funding standard required
for any plan year or part thereof or a waiver of such standard or extension of any amortization
period is sought or granted under Section 412 of the Code; any Plan is or shall have been
terminated or is the subject of termination proceedings under ERISA (including the giving of
written notice thereof); an event shall have occurred or a condition shall exist in either case
entitling the PBGC to terminate any Plan
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or to appoint a trustee to administer any Plan (including
the giving of written notice thereof); any Plan shall have an accumulated funding deficiency
(whether or not waived); any of Holdings, any Borrower or any Subsidiary or any ERISA Affiliate has
incurred or is likely to incur a liability to or on account of a Plan under Section 409, 502(i),
502(l), 515, 4062, 4063, 4064, 4069, 4201 or 4204 of ERISA or Section 4971 or 4975 of the Code
(including the giving of written notice thereof); (b) there could result from any event or events
set forth in clause (a) of this Section 11.6 the imposition of a lien, the granting of a security
interest, or a liability, or the reasonable likelihood of incurring a lien, security interest or
liability; and (c) such lien, security interest or liability will or would be reasonably likely to
have a Material Adverse Effect; or
11.7 Guarantee. Any Guarantee provided by Holdings, the Company or any Material
Subsidiary or any material provision thereof shall cease to be in full force or
effect or any such Guarantor thereunder or any Credit Party shall deny or disaffirm in writing
any such Guarantor’s obligations under any such Guarantee (or any of the foregoing shall occur with
respect to a Guarantee provided by a Subsidiary that is not a Material Subsidiary and shall
continue unremedied for a period of at least 30 days after receipt of written notice by the Company
from any Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent or the Required Lenders); or
11.8 Pledge Agreements. Any Pledge Agreement pursuant to which the Stock or Stock
Equivalents of the Company or any Material Subsidiary is pledged or any material provision thereof
shall cease to be in full force or effect (other than pursuant to the terms hereof or thereof or as
a result of acts or omissions of the Collateral Agent or any Lender) or any pledgor thereunder or
any Credit Party shall deny or disaffirm in writing any pledgor’s obligations under any such Pledge
Agreement(or any of the foregoing shall occur with respect to a pledge of the Stock or Stock
Equivalents of a Subsidiary that is not a Material Subsidiary and shall continue unremedied for a
period of at least 30 days after receipt of written notice by the Company from any Administrative
Agent, the Collateral Agent or the Required Lenders); or
11.9 Security Agreement. Any Security Agreement pursuant to which the assets of
Holdings, the Company or any Material Subsidiary are pledged as Collateral or any material
provision thereof shall cease to be in full force or effect (other than pursuant to the terms
hereof or thereof or as a result of acts or omissions of the Collateral Agent or any Lender) or any
grantor thereunder or any Credit Party shall deny or disaffirm in writing any grantor’s obligations
under any such Security Agreement(or any of the foregoing shall occur with respect to Collateral
provided by a Subsidiary that is not a Material Subsidiary and shall continue unremedied for a
period of at least 30 days after receipt of written notice by the Company from any Administrative
Agent, the Collateral Agent or the Required Lenders); or
11.10
Mortgages. Any Mortgage or any material provision of any Mortgage relating to
any material portion of the Collateral shall cease to be in full force or effect (other than
pursuant to the terms hereof or thereof or as a result of acts or omissions of the Collateral Agent
or any Lender) or any mortgagor thereunder or any
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Credit Party shall deny or disaffirm in writing
any mortgagor’s obligations under any Mortgage; or
11.11 Judgments. One or more judgments or decrees shall be entered against Holdings,
the Company or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries involving a liability of $35,000,000 or more in
the aggregate for all such judgments and decrees for Holdings, the Company and the Restricted
Subsidiaries (to the extent not paid or fully covered by insurance provided by a carrier not
disputing coverage) and any such judgments or decrees shall not have been satisfied, vacated,
discharged or stayed or bonded pending appeal within 60 days from the entry thereof; or
11.12 Change of Control. A Change of Control shall occur;
then, and in any such event, and at any time thereafter, if any Event of Default shall then be
continuing, the Administrative Agents shall, upon the written request of the Required Lenders, by
written notice to the Company, take any or all of the following actions, without prejudice to the
rights of any Administrative Agent or any Lender to enforce its claims against any Borrower, except
as otherwise specifically provided for in this Agreement (provided that, if an Event of
Default specified in Section 11.5 shall occur with respect to any of Holdings, any Borrower or any
Specified Subsidiary, the result that would occur upon the giving of written notice by any
Administrative Agent as specified in clauses (i), (ii) and (iv) below shall occur automatically
without the giving of any such notice): (i) declare the Total Revolving Credit Commitment
terminated, whereupon the Commitments and Swingline Commitment, if any, of each Lender or the
Swingline Lender, as the case may be, shall forthwith terminate immediately and any Fees
theretofore accrued shall forthwith become due and payable without any other notice of any kind;
(ii) declare the principal of and any accrued interest and fees in respect of all Loans and all
Obligations owing hereunder and thereunder to be, whereupon the same shall become, forthwith due
and payable without presentment, demand, protest or other notice of any kind, all of which are
hereby waived by Holdings and each Borrower; (iii) terminate any Letter of Credit that may be
terminated in accordance with its terms; and/or (iv) direct any Borrower to pay (and each Borrower
agrees that upon receipt of such notice, or upon the occurrence of an Event of Default specified in
Section 11.5 with respect to any of Holdings, any Borrower or any Specified Subsidiary, it will
pay) to the Asian Administrative Agent at its Administrative Agent’s Office such additional amounts
of cash, to be held as security for the Borrowers’ respective reimbursement obligations for
Drawings that may subsequently occur thereunder, equal to the aggregate Stated Amount of all
Letters of Credit issued and then outstanding.
11.13 Investors’ Right to Cure. (a) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary
contained in Section 11.3(a), in the event that the Company fails to comply with the requirement of
the covenant set forth in Section 10.9, until the expiration of the tenth day after the date on
which Section 9.1 Financials with respect to the Test Period in which the covenant set forth in
Section 10.9 is being measured are required to be delivered pursuant to Section 9.1, any of the
Investors shall have the right to make a direct or indirect equity investment in the Company or any
Restricted Subsidiary in cash
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(the “Cure Right”), and upon the receipt by such Person of
Net Cash Proceeds pursuant to the exercise of the Cure Right (including through the capital
contribution of any such Net Cash Proceeds to such person, the “Cure Amount”), the covenant
set forth in Section 10.9 shall be recalculated, giving effect to a pro forma increase to
Consolidated EBITDA for such Test Period in an amount equal to such Net Cash Proceeds;
provided that such pro forma adjustment to Consolidated EBITDA shall be given solely for
the purpose of determining the existence of a Default or an Event of Default under the covenant set
forth in Section 10.9 with respect to any Test Period that includes the fiscal quarter for which
such Cure Right was exercised and not for any other purpose under any Credit Document.
(b) If, after the exercise of the Cure Right and the recalculations pursuant to clause (a)
above, the Company shall then be in compliance with the requirements of the covenant set forth in
Section 10.9 during such Test Period (including for purposes of Section 7.1), the Company shall be
deemed to have satisfied the requirements the covenant set forth in Section 10.9 as of the relevant
date of determination with the same effect as though there had been no failure to comply therewith
at such date, and the applicable Default or Event of Default under Section 11.3 that had occurred
shall be deemed cured; provided that (i) in each Test Period there shall be at least one
fiscal quarter in which no Cure Right is exercised and (ii) with respect to any exercise of the
Cure Right, the Cure Amount shall be no greater than the amount required to cause the Company to be
in compliance with the covenant set forth in Section 10.9.
SECTION 12. The Agents.
12.1 Appointment. (a) Each Tranche B-1 Term Loan Lender hereby irrevocably
designates and appoints the Tranche B-1 Term Loan Administrative Agent as the agent of such Tranche
B-1 Term Loan Lender under this Agreement and the other Credit Documents, and each such Tranche B-1
Term Loan Lender irrevocably authorizes the Tranche B-1 Term Loan Administrative Agent, in such
capacity, to take such action on its behalf under the provisions of this Agreement and the other
Credit Documents and to exercise such powers and perform such duties as are expressly delegated to
the Tranche B-1 Term Loan Administrative Agent by the terms of this Agreement and the other Credit
Documents, together with such other powers as are reasonably incidental thereto. Notwithstanding
any provision to the contrary elsewhere in this Agreement, the Tranche B-1 Term Loan Administrative
Agent shall not have any duties or responsibilities, except those expressly set forth herein, or
any fiduciary relationship with any Lender, and no implied covenants, functions, responsibilities,
duties, obligations or liabilities shall be read into this Agreement or any other Credit Document
or otherwise exist against the Tranche B-1 Term Loan Administrative Agent.
(b) Each Revolving Credit Lender and each Tranche B-2 Term Loan Lender hereby irrevocably
designates and appoints the Asian Administrative Agent as the agent of such Lender under this
Agreement and the other Credit Documents, and each such Revolving Credit Lender and each Tranche
B-2 Term Loan Lender irrevocably
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authorizes the Asian Administrative Agent, in such capacity, to
take such action on its behalf under the provisions of this Agreement and the other Credit
Documents and to exercise such powers and perform such duties as are expressly delegated to the
Asian Administrative Agent by the terms of this Agreement and the other Credit Documents, together
with such other powers as are reasonably incidental thereto. Notwithstanding any provision to the
contrary elsewhere in this Agreement, the Asian Administrative Agent shall not have any duties or
responsibilities, except those expressly set forth herein, or any fiduciary relationship with any
Lender, and no implied covenants, functions, responsibilities, duties, obligations or liabilities
shall be read into this Agreement or any other Credit Document or otherwise exist against the Asian
Administrative Agent.
(c) Each Administrative Agent, each Lender, each Swingline Lender and the Letter of Credit
Issuer hereby irrevocably designates and appoints the Collateral Agent as the agent of such
Administrative Agent, Lender, Swingline Lender and Letter of Credit Issuer under this Agreement and
the other Credit Documents, and each such Administrative Agent, Lender, Swingline Lender and Letter
of Credit Issuer irrevocably authorizes the Collateral Agent, in such capacity, to take such action
on its behalf under the provisions of this Agreement and the other Credit Documents and to exercise
such powers and perform such duties as are expressly delegated to the Collateral Agent by the terms
of this Agreement and the other Credit Documents, together with such other powers as are reasonably
incidental thereto. Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary elsewhere in this Agreement, the
Collateral Agent shall not have any duties or responsibilities, except those expressly set forth
herein, or any fiduciary relationship with any Administrative Agent, Lender, Swingline Lender or
Letter of Credit Issuer, and no implied covenants, functions, responsibilities, duties, obligations
or liabilities shall be read into this Agreement or any other Credit Document or otherwise exist
against the Collateral Agent. Each of the Syndication Agent and the Documentation Agent, each in
its capacity as such, shall not have any obligations, duties or responsibilities under this
Agreement but shall be entitled to all benefits of this Section 12.
(d) Each of the Syndication Agent and the Documentation Agent, each in its capacity as such,
shall not have any obligations, duties or responsibilities under this Agreement but shall be
entitled to all benefits of this Section 12.
12.2 Delegation of Duties. Each Agent may execute any of its duties under this
Agreement and the other Credit Documents by or through agents or attorneys-in-fact and shall be
entitled to advice of counsel concerning all matters pertaining to such duties. No Agent shall be
responsible for the negligence or misconduct of any agents or attorneys-in-fact selected by it with
reasonable care.
12.3
Exculpatory Provisions. Neither any Administrative Agent nor the Collateral
Agent nor any of their respective officers, directors, employees, agents, attorneys-in-fact or
Affiliates shall be (a) liable for any action lawfully taken or omitted to be taken by it or such
Person under or in connection with this Agreement or any other Credit Document (except for its or
such Person’s own gross negligence or willful
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misconduct) or (b) responsible in any manner to any
of the Lenders for any recitals, statements, representations or warranties made by any of Holdings,
any Borrower, any Guarantor, any other Credit Party or any officer thereof contained in this
Agreement or any other Credit Document or in any certificate, report, statement or other document
referred to or provided for in, or received by such Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent
under or in connection with, this Agreement or any other Credit Document or for the value,
validity, effectiveness, genuineness, enforceability or sufficiency of this Agreement or any other
Credit Document or for any failure of any of Holdings, any Borrower, any Guarantor or any other
Credit Party to perform its obligations hereunder or thereunder. No Administrative Agent shall be
under any obligation to any Lender to ascertain or to inquire as to the observance or performance
of any of the agreements contained in, or conditions of, this Agreement or any other Credit
Document, or to
inspect the properties, books or records of any Credit Party. The Collateral Agent shall not
be under any obligation to any Administrative Agent, any Lender, any Swingline Lender or the Letter
of Credit Issuer to ascertain or to inquire as to the observance or performance of any of the
agreements contained in, or conditions of, this Agreement or any other Credit Document, or to
inspect the properties, books or records of any Credit Party.
12.4 Reliance by Agents. Each Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent shall be
entitled to rely, and shall be fully protected in relying, upon any writing, resolution, notice,
consent, certificate, affidavit, letter, telecopy, telex or teletype message, statement, order or
other document or conversation believed by it to be genuine and correct and to have been signed,
sent or made by the proper Person or Persons and upon advice and statements of legal counsel
(including counsel to the Borrowers), independent accountants and other experts selected by such
Administrative Agent or Collateral Agent. Each Administrative Agent may deem and treat the Lender
specified in the Register with respect to any amount owing hereunder as the owner thereof for all
purposes unless a written notice of assignment, negotiation or transfer thereof shall have been
filed with such Administrative Agent. Each Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent shall be
fully justified in failing or refusing to take any action under this Agreement or any other Credit
Document unless it shall first receive such advice or concurrence of the Required Lenders as it
deems appropriate or it shall first be indemnified to its satisfaction by the Lenders against any
and all liability and expense that may be incurred by it by reason of taking or continuing to take
any such action. Each Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent shall in all cases be fully
protected in acting, or in refraining from acting, under this Agreement and the other Credit
Documents in accordance with a request of the Required Lenders, and such request and any action
taken or failure to act pursuant thereto shall be binding upon all the Lenders and all future
holders of the Loans.
12.5 Notice of Default. No Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent shall be
deemed to have knowledge or notice of the occurrence of any Default or Event of Default hereunder
unless such Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent has received notice from a Lender or a
Borrower referring to this Agreement, describing such
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Default or Event of Default and stating that
such notice is a “notice of default”. In the event that the Tranche B-1 Term Loan Administrative
Agent receives such a notice, it shall give notice thereof to the Tranche B-1 Term Loan Lenders,
the Asian Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent. In the event that the Asian
Administrative Agent receives such a notice, it shall give notice thereof to the Revolving Lenders,
the Tranche B-2 Term Loan Lenders, the Tranche B-1 Term Loan Administrative Agent and the
Collateral Agent. Each Administrative Agent shall take such action with respect to such Default or
Event of Default as shall be reasonably directed by the Required Lenders, provided that
unless and until such Administrative Agent shall have received such directions, the Tranche B-1
Term Loan Administrative Agent may (but shall not be obligated to) take such action, or refrain
from taking such action, with respect to such Default or Event of Default as it shall deem
advisable in the
best interests of the Tranche B-1 Term Loan Lenders and the Asian Administrative Agent may
(but shall not be obligated to) take such action, or refrain from taking such action, with respect
to such Default or Event of Default as it shall deem advisable in the best interests of the
Revolving Lenders and the Tranche B-2 Term Loan Lenders (in each case, except to the extent that
this Agreement requires that such action be taken only with the approval of the Required Lenders or
each of the Lenders, as applicable).
12.6
Non-Reliance on Administrative Agents, Collateral Agent and Other Lenders. Each
Lender expressly acknowledges that neither any Administrative Agent nor the Collateral Agent nor
any of their respective officers, directors, employees, agents, attorneys-in-fact or Affiliates has
made any representations or warranties to it and that no act by any Administrative Agent or the
Collateral Agent hereinafter taken, including any review of the affairs of Holdings, any Borrower,
any Guarantor or any other Credit Party, shall be deemed to constitute any representation or
warranty by such Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent to any Lender Swingline Lender or the
Letter of Credit Issuer. Each Lender Swingline Lender and Letter of Credit Issuer represents to
each Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent that it has, independently and without reliance
upon any Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent or any other Lender, and based on such
documents and information as it has deemed appropriate, made its own appraisal of and investigation
into the business, operations, property, financial and other condition and creditworthiness of
Holdings, any Borrower, any Guarantor and any other Credit Party and made its own decision to make
its Loans hereunder and enter into this Agreement. Each Lender also represents that it will,
independently and without reliance upon the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent or any other
Lender, and based on such documents and information as it shall deem appropriate at the time,
continue to make its own credit analysis, appraisals and decisions in taking or not taking action
under this Agreement and the other Credit Documents, and to make such investigation as it deems
necessary to inform itself as to the business, operations, property, financial and other condition
and creditworthiness of Holdings, any Borrower, any Guarantor and any other Credit Party. Except
for notices, reports and other documents expressly required to be furnished to the Lenders by the
Administrative Agents hereunder, neither any Administrative Agent nor the Collateral Agent shall
have any duty or responsibility to provide any Lender with any credit or other information
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concerning the business, assets, operations, properties, financial condition, prospects or
creditworthiness of Holdings, any Borrower, any Guarantor or any other Credit Party that may come
into the possession of such Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent any of their respective
officers, directors, employees, agents, attorneys-in-fact or Affiliates.
12.7 Indemnification. The Lenders agree to indemnify each Administrative Agent and
the Collateral Agent, each in its capacity as such (to the extent not reimbursed by the Borrowers
and without limiting the obligation of the Borrowers to do so), ratably according to their
respective portions of the Total Credit Exposure in effect on the date on which indemnification is
sought (or, if indemnification is sought after the date upon which the Commitments shall have
terminated and the Loans shall have been paid in full, ratably in accordance with their respective
portions of the Total
Credit Exposure in effect immediately prior to such date), from and against any and all
liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments, suits, costs, expenses or
disbursements of any kind whatsoever that may at any time (including at any time following the
payment of the Loans) be imposed on, incurred by or asserted against any Administrative Agent or
the Collateral Agent in any way relating to or arising out of, the Commitments, this Agreement, any
of the other Credit Documents or any documents contemplated by or referred to herein or therein or
the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby or any action taken or omitted by such
Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent under or in connection with any of the foregoing,
provided that no Lender shall be liable for the payment of any portion of such liabilities,
obligations, losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments, suits, costs, expenses or
disbursements resulting from such Administrative Agent’s or the Collateral Agent’s gross negligence
or willful misconduct. The agreements in this Section 12.7 shall survive the payment of the Loans
and all other amounts payable hereunder.
12.8 Administrative Agent in its Individual Capacity. Each Administrative Agent and
its Affiliates may make loans to, accept deposits from and generally engage in any kind of business
with Holdings, any Borrower, any Guarantor, and any other Credit Party as though such
Administrative Agent were not the Administrative Agent hereunder and under the other Credit
Documents. With respect to the Loans made by it, each Administrative Agent shall have the same
rights and powers under this Agreement and the other Credit Documents as any Lender and may
exercise the same as though it were not the Administrative Agent, and the terms “Lender” and
“Lenders” shall include each Administrative Agent in its individual capacity.
12.9
Successor Agents. Each Administrative Agent may resign as Administrative Agent
and the Collateral Agent may resign as Collateral Agent upon 20 days’ prior written notice to the
Lenders and the Company. If any Administrative Agent shall resign as Administrative Agent or the
Collateral Agent shall resign as Collateral Agent under this Agreement and the other Credit
Documents, then the Required Lenders shall (a) if such resigning Administrative Agent is the
Tranche B-1 Term Loan Administrative Agent, appoint from among the Tranche B-1 Term Loan Lenders a
successor agent for the Tranche B-1 Term Loan Lenders, (b) if such resigning Administrative Agent
is the Asian Administrative Agent, appoint from among the
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Revolving Lenders and the Tranche A-2
Term Loan Lenders a successor agent for the Revolving Lenders and Tranche B-2 Term Loan Lenders or
(c) if the Collateral Agent shall resign, appoint from among the Lenders a successor Collateral
Agent, which successor agent in each case, shall be approved by the Company (which approval shall
not be unreasonably withheld) so long as no Default or Event of Default is continuing, whereupon
such successor agent shall succeed to the rights, powers and duties of the Tranche B-1 Term Loan
Administrative Agent, Asian Agent or the Collateral Agent, as the case may be, and the term
“Tranche B-1 Term Loan Administrative Agent”, “Asian Administrative Agent” or “Collateral Agent”,
as the case may be, shall mean such successor agent effective upon such appointment and approval,
and the former Administrative Agent’s or Collateral Agent’s rights, powers and duties as
Administrative
Agent or Collateral Agent, as the case may be, shall be terminated, without any other or
further act or deed on the part of such former Administrative Agent or Collateral Agent, as the
case may be, or any of the parties to this Agreement or any holders of the Loans. After any
retiring Administrative Agent’s or Collateral Agent’s resignation as Administrative Agent or
Collateral Agent, as the case may be, the provisions of this Section 12 shall inure to its benefit
as to any actions taken or omitted to be taken by it while it was Administrative Agent or
Collateral Agent under this Agreement and the other Credit Documents.
12.10 Withholding Tax. To the extent required by any applicable law, any
Administrative Agent may withhold from any interest payment to any Lender an amount equivalent to
any applicable withholding tax. If the Internal Revenue Service or any authority of the United
States or other jurisdiction asserts a claim that such Administrative Agent did not properly
withhold tax from amounts paid to or for the account of any Lender (because the appropriate form
was not delivered, was not properly executed, or because such Lender failed to notify such
Administrative Agent of a change in circumstances which rendered the exemption from, or reduction
of, withholding tax ineffective, or for any other reason), such Lender shall indemnify such
Administrative Agent (to the extent that such Administrative Agent has not already been reimbursed
by the Borrowers and without limiting the obligation of the Borrowers to do so) fully for all
amounts paid, directly or indirectly, by such Administrative Agent as tax or otherwise, including
penalties and interest, together with all expenses incurred, including legal expenses, allocated
staff costs and any out of pocket expenses.
12.11 Security Documents.
(a) Japanese Security Documents. (i) each Administrative Agent, each Lender, each
Swingline Lender and the Letter of Credit Issuer irrevocably appoints the Collateral Agent to be
its attorney and in its name, on its behalf to execute, deliver and perfect all documents and do
all things which the Collateral Agent may, in its absolute discretion, consider necessary or
desirable in connection with any Japanese Security Documents; (ii) at the Collateral Agent’s
request, each Administrative Agent, each Lender, each Swingline Lender and the Letter of Credit
Issuer shall ratify and confirm all things done and all Japanese Security Documents executed by the
Collateral Agent and further confirm that it accepts the terms of such Japanese Security Document;
(iii) the Secured Parties will procure the enforcement of the Japanese Security Documents only at
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the request of the Collateral Agent; (iv) in relation to the manner of enforcement (apart from the
decision or right to commence an enforcement, which shall be in accordance with the other
provisions hereof) of the Japanese Security Documents, the Secured Parties will always act on the
directions of the Collateral Agent; and (v) all amounts received by a Secured Party pursuant to any
enforcement of the Japanese Security Documents shall be immediately paid to the Collateral Agent
for application in accordance with the terms of the relevant Japanese Security Document save that
any Secured Party instructed by the Collateral Agent to enforce any Japanese Security Document in
accordance with this clause (v) shall be entitled to deduct from the proceeds of each enforcement
its costs, charges and expenses incurred in connection with such
enforcement prior to paying the proceeds of such enforcement to the Collateral Agent in
accordance with the terms of the relevant Japanese Security Document.
(b) Malaysian Security Agency Agreement. Each Lender hereby agrees with each other
Person who is or who becomes a party to the Malaysian Security Agency Agreement that it will be
bound by the Malaysian Security Agreement as a Secured Party.
SECTION 13. Miscellaneous.
13.1
Amendments and Waivers. Neither this Agreement nor any other Credit Document,
nor any terms hereof or thereof may be amended, supplemented or modified except in accordance with
the provisions of this Section 13.1. The Required Lenders may, or, with the written consent of the
Required Lenders, the Administrative Agents may, from time to time, (a) enter into with the
relevant Credit Party or Credit Parties written amendments, supplements or modifications hereto and
to the other Credit Documents for the purpose of adding any provisions to this Agreement or the
other Credit Documents or changing in any manner the rights of the Lenders or of the Credit Parties
hereunder or thereunder or (b) waive, on such terms and conditions as the Required Lenders or the
Administrative Agents, as the case may be, may specify in such instrument, any of the requirements
of this Agreement or the other Credit Documents or any Default or Event of Default and its
consequences;
provided that no such waiver and no such amendment, supplement or
modification shall directly (i) forgive or reduce any portion of any Loan or extend the final
scheduled maturity date of any Loan or reduce the stated rate, or forgive any portion, or extend
the date for the payment, of any interest or fee payable hereunder (other than as a result of
waiving the applicability of any post-default increase in interest rates), or extend the final
expiration date of any Lender’s Commitment or extend the final expiration date of any Letter of
Credit beyond the L/C Maturity Date, or increase the aggregate amount of the Commitments of any
Lender, or amend or modify any provisions of Section 5.3(a) (with respect to the ratable allocation
of any payments only) and 13.8(a), in each case without the written consent of each Lender directly
and adversely affected thereby, or (ii) amend, modify or waive any provision of this Section 13.1
or reduce the percentages specified in the definitions of the terms “Required Lenders”, “Required
Tranche B Term Loan Lenders” or consent to the assignment or transfer by any Borrower of its rights
and obligations under any Credit Document to which it is a party (except as permitted pursuant to
Section 10.3), in each
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case without the written consent of each Lender directly and adversely
affected thereby, or (iii) amend, modify or waive any provision of Section 12 without the written
consent of the then-current Administrative Agent, or (iv) amend, modify or waive any provision of
Section 3 with respect to any Letter of Credit without the written consent of the Letter of Credit
Issuer, or (v) amend, modify or waive any provisions hereof relating to Multi-Currency Swingline
Loans without the written consent of the Multi-Currency Swingline Lender, or (vi) amend, modify or
waive any provisions hereof relating to Malaysian Swingline Loans without the written consent of
the Malaysian Swingline Lender, or (vii) change any Revolving Credit Commitment to a Term Loan
Commitment, or change any Term Loan Commitment to a Revolving Credit Commitment, in each case
without the
prior written consent of each Lender directly and adversely affected thereby, or (viii)
release all or substantially all of the Guarantors under the Guarantee (except as expressly
permitted by the Guarantee) or release all or substantially all of the Collateral under the Pledge
Agreements, the Security Agreements and the Mortgages, in each case without the prior written
consent of each Lender, or (ix) amend Section 2.9 so as to permit Interest Period intervals greater
than six months without regard to availability to Lenders, without the written consent of each
Lender directly and adversely affected thereby, or (x) decrease any Tranche B Repayment Amount,
extend any scheduled Repayment Date or decrease the amount or allocation of any mandatory
prepayment to be received by any Lender holding any Tranche B Term Loans, in each case without the
written consent of the Required Tranche B Term Loan Lenders. Any such waiver and any such
amendment, supplement or modification shall apply equally to each of the affected Lenders and shall
be binding upon the Borrowers, such Lenders, the Administrative Agents and all future holders of
the affected Loans. In the case of any waiver, the Borrowers, the Lenders and the Administrative
Agents shall be restored to their former positions and rights hereunder and under the other Credit
Documents, and any Default or Event of Default waived shall be deemed to be cured and not
continuing, it being understood that no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other Default
or Event of Default or impair any right consequent thereon.
13.2 Notices. Except as set forth in Section 13.20, all notices, requests and demands
to or upon the respective parties hereto to be effective shall be in writing (including by
facsimile or electronic mail), and, unless otherwise expressly provided herein, shall be deemed to
have been duly given or made when delivered, or three days after being deposited in the mail,
postage prepaid, or, in the case of telecopy or electronic mail notice, when received, addressed as
follows in the case of the Borrowers and the Administrative Agent, and as set forth on Schedule
1.1(c) in the case of the other parties hereto, or to such other address as may be hereafter
notified by the respective parties hereto:
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Attention: Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx, Chief Financial Officer |
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Kohlberg Kravis Xxxxxxx & Co., L.P. |
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Citicorp North America, Inc. |
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Global Loans Support Services |
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provided that any notice, request or demand to or upon any Administrative Agent or the
Lenders pursuant to Sections 2.3, 2.6, 2.9, 4.2 and 5.1 shall not be effective until received.
13.3 No Waiver; Cumulative Remedies. No failure to exercise and no delay in
exercising, on the part of any Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent or any Lender, any right,
remedy, power or privilege hereunder or under the other Credit Documents shall operate as a waiver
thereof, nor shall any single or partial exercise of any right, remedy, power or privilege
hereunder preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right,
remedy, power or privilege. The rights, remedies, powers and privileges herein provided are
cumulative and not exclusive of any rights, remedies, powers and privileges provided by law.
13.4 Survival of Representations and Warranties. All representations and warranties
made hereunder, in the other Credit Documents and in any document, certificate or statement
delivered pursuant hereto or in connection herewith shall survive the execution and delivery of
this Agreement and the making of the Loans hereunder.
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13.5 Payment of Expenses and Taxes. The Company agrees (a) to pay or reimburse the
Agents for all their reasonable out-of-pocket costs and expenses incurred in connection with the
development, preparation and execution of, and any amendment, supplement or modification to, this
Agreement and the other Credit Documents and any other documents prepared in connection herewith or
therewith, and the consummation and administration of the transactions contemplated hereby and
thereby, including the reasonable fees, disbursements and other charges of counsel to the Agents,
(b) to pay or reimburse each Lender and Agent for all its reasonable and documented costs and
expenses incurred in connection with the enforcement or preservation of any rights under this
Agreement, the other Credit Documents and any such other documents, including the
reasonable fees, disbursements and other charges of counsel to each Lender and of counsel to
the Agents, (c) to pay, indemnify, and hold harmless each Lender and Agent from, any and all
recording and filing fees and (d) to pay, indemnify, and hold harmless each Lender and Agent and
their respective directors, officers, employees, trustees, investment advisors and agents from and
against any and all other liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments,
suits, costs, expenses or disbursements of any kind or nature whatsoever, including reasonable and
documented fees, disbursements and other charges of counsel, with respect to the execution,
delivery, enforcement, performance and administration of this Agreement, the other Credit Documents
and any such other documents, including, without limitation, any of the foregoing relating to the
violation of, noncompliance with or liability under, any Environmental Law or to any actual or
alleged presence, release or threatened release of Hazardous Materials involving or attributable to
the operations of the Company, any of its Subsidiaries or any of the Real Estate (all the foregoing
in this clause (d), collectively, the “indemnified liabilities”), provided that the
Company shall have no obligation hereunder to the Administrative Agents or any Lender nor any of
their respective directors, officers, employees and agents with respect to indemnified liabilities
to the extent attributable to (i) the gross negligence or willful misconduct of the party to be
indemnified as determined in a final and non-appealable judgment by a court of competent
jurisdiction or (ii) disputes among the Administrative Agents, the Lenders and/or their
transferees. The agreements in this Section 13.5 shall survive repayment of the Loans and all
other amounts payable hereunder.
13.6
Successors and Assign; Participations and Assignments. (a) The provisions of
this Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their
respective successors and assigns permitted hereby (including any Affiliate of the Letter of Credit
Issuer that issues any Letter of Credit), except that (i) no Borrower may assign or otherwise
transfer any of its rights or obligations hereunder without the prior written consent of each
Lender (and any attempted assignment or transfer by any Borrower without such consent shall be null
and void) and (ii) no Lender may assign or otherwise transfer its rights or obligations hereunder
except in accordance with this Section 13.6. Nothing in this Agreement, expressed or implied,
shall be construed to confer upon any Person (other than the parties hereto, their respective
successors and assigns permitted hereby (including any Affiliate of the Letter of Credit Issuer
that issues any Letter of Credit), Participants (to the extent provided in clause (c)
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of this
Section 13.6) and, to the extent expressly contemplated hereby, the Related Parties of each of the
Administrative Agents, the Letter of Credit Issuer and the Lenders) any legal or equitable right,
remedy or claim under or by reason of this Agreement.
(b) (i) Subject to the conditions set forth in clause (b)(ii) below, any Lender may assign to
one or more assignees all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement
(including all or a portion of its Commitments and the Loans at the time owing to it) with the
prior written consent (such consent not be unreasonably withheld or delayed; it being understood
that, without limitation, the Company shall have the right to withhold its consent to any
assignment if, in order for such assignment to
comply with applicable law, any Borrower would be required to obtain the consent of, or make
any filing or registration with, any Governmental Authority) of:
(A) the Company (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld or
delayed), provided that no consent of the Company shall be
required for an assignment to a Lender, an Affiliate of a Lender (unless
increased costs would result therefrom except if an Event of Default under
Section 11.1 or Section 11.5 has occurred and is continuing), an Approved
Fund or, if an Event of Default under Section 11.1 or Section 11.5 has
occurred and is continuing, any other assignee; and
(B) in the case of Tranche B-1 Term Loan, the Tranche B-1 Term Loan
Agent, in the case of any other Loan, the Asian Administrative Agent (in
each case which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed), in
the case of U.S. Dollar Revolving Credit Commitments or U.S. Revolving
Credit Loans only, the Letter of Credit Issuer, in the case of
Multi-Currency Revolving Credit Commitments or Multi-Currency Revolving
Credit Loans only, the Multi-Currency Swingline Lender, and in the case of
Malaysian Revolving Credit Commitments or Malaysian Revolving Credit Loans
only, the Malaysian Swingline Lender, provided that no consent of
any Administrative Agent, any Swingline Lender or the Letter of Credit
Issuer, as applicable, shall be required for an assignment of (1) any
Commitment to an assignee that is a Lender with a Commitment of the same
Class immediately prior to giving effect to such assignment or (2) any
Term Loan to a Lender, an Affiliate of a Lender or an Approved Fund.
(ii) Assignments shall be subject to the following additional conditions:
(A) except in the case of an assignment to a Lender, an Affiliate of
a Lender or an Approved Fund or an assignment of the entire remaining
amount of the assigning Lender’s Commitment or
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Loans of any Class, the
amount of the Commitment or Loans of the assigning Lender subject to each
such assignment (determined as of the date the Assignment and Acceptance
with respect to such assignment is delivered to the applicable
Administrative Agent) shall not be less than $5,000,000 (or, in the case
of a Tranche B Term Loan Commitment or Tranche B Term Loan, $1,000,000),
and increments of $1,000,000 in excess thereof, unless each of the Company
and the applicable Administrative Agent otherwise consents (which consents
shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed), provided that no
such consent of the Company shall be
required if an Event of Default under Section 11.1 or Section 11.5
has occurred and is continuing; provided that contemporaneous
assignments to a single assignee made by Affiliates of Lenders and related
Approved Funds shall be aggregated for purposes of meeting the minimum
assignment amount requirements stated above;
(B) each partial assignment shall be made as an assignment of a
proportionate part of all the assigning Lender’s rights and obligations
under this Agreement, provided that this clause shall not be
construed to prohibit the assignment of a proportionate part of all the
assigning Lender’s rights and obligations in respect of one Class of
Commitments or Loans;
(C) the parties to each assignment shall execute and deliver to, in
the case of Tranche B-1 Term Loan, the Tranche B-1 Administrative Agent,
and in the case of any other Loan, the Asian Administrative Agent an
Assignment and Acceptance, together with a processing and recordation fee
of $3,500, provided that only one such fee shall be payable in the event
of simultaneous assignments to or from two or more Approved Funds; and
(D) the assignee, if it shall not be a Lender, shall deliver to the
applicable Administrative Agent an administrative questionnaire in a form
approved by such Administrative Agent (the “Administrative
Questionnaire”).
For the purpose of this Section 13.6(b), the term “Approved
Fund” shall mean any Person (other than a natural person) that is
engaged in making, purchasing, holding or investing in bank loans and
similar extensions of credit in the ordinary course and that is
administered, advised or managed by (a) a Lender, (b) an Affiliate of a
Lender or (c) an entity or an Affiliate of an entity that administers,
advises or manages a Lender.
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(iii) Subject to acceptance and recording thereof pursuant to clause (b)(v) of
this Section 13.6, from and after the effective date specified in each Assignment
and Acceptance, the assignee thereunder shall be a party hereto and, to the extent
of the interest assigned by such Assignment and Acceptance, have the rights and
obligations of a Lender under this Agreement, and the assigning Lender thereunder
shall, to the extent of the interest assigned by such Assignment and Acceptance, be
released from its obligations under this Agreement (and, in the case of an
Assignment and Acceptance covering all of the assigning Lender’s rights and
obligations under this Agreement, such Lender shall cease to be a party hereto but
shall continue to be entitled to the benefits of Sections
2.10, 2.11, 3.5, 5.4 and 13.5). Any assignment or transfer by a Lender of
rights or obligations under this Agreement that does not comply with this Section
13.6 shall be treated for purposes of this Agreement as a sale by such Lender of a
participation in such rights and obligations in accordance with clause (c) of this
Section 13.6.
(iv) Each Administrative Agent, acting for this purpose as an agent of the
Borrowers shall maintain at such Administrative Agent’s Office a copy of each
Assignment and Acceptance delivered to it and a register for the recordation of the
names and addresses of the Lenders, and the Commitments of, and principal amount of
the Loans and any payment made by the Letter of Credit Issuer under any Letter of
Credit owing to, each Lender pursuant to the terms hereof from time to time (the
“Register”). Further, each Register shall contain the name and address of
such Administrative Agent and the lending office through which each such Person
acts under this Agreement. The entries in the Register shall be conclusive, and
the Borrowers, the Administrative Agents, the Letter of Credit Issuer and the
Lenders may treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Register pursuant to
the terms hereof as a Lender hereunder for all purposes of this Agreement,
notwithstanding notice to the contrary. The Register shall be available for
inspection by the Borrowers, the Letter of Credit Issuer and any Lender, at any
reasonable time and from time to time upon reasonable prior notice.
(v) Upon its receipt of a duly completed Assignment and Acceptance executed by
an assigning Lender and an assignee and, if applicable, the Tranche B-2 Term Loan
Lender, together with any Note (if the assigning Lender’s Loans are evidenced by a
Note), the assignee’s completed Administrative Questionnaire (unless the assignee
shall already be a Lender hereunder), the processing and recordation fee referred
to in clause (b) of this Section 13.6 and any written consent to such assignment
required by clause (b) of this Section 13.6, the applicable Administrative Agent
shall accept such Assignment and Acceptance and record the information contained
therein in the Register.
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(vi) Tranche B-2 Funding Obligations.
(A) Unless such assignee is at such time party to this agreement as a
Tranche B-2 Lender, on the same Business Day on which an assignee of a
Tranche B Term Loan receives written notice from the Asian Administrative
Agent that Tranche B-2 Term Loans have been made under this Agreement (the
“Tranche B-2 Funding Notice Date”), such assignee shall pay to the
Asian Administrative Agent for the account of the assigning Term Loan
Lender an amount equal to the Tranche B-2 Term Loan made by the Tranche
B-2 Term Loan Lenders multiplied by the Tranche B-
2 Term Loan Percentage assigned to assignee pursuant to the
Assignment and Acceptance in immediately available funds (the “Tranche
B-2 Funding Obligations”); provided that if the Asian
Administrative Agent so notifies such assignee after 11:00 a.m. (Hong Kong
time), such assignee shall pay its Tranche B-2 Funding Obligations to the
Asian Administrative Agent for the account of the assigning Term Loan
Lender on the next succeeding Business Day in immediately available funds.
Upon such payment by such assignee to the Asian Administrative Agent for
the account of the assigning Term Loan Lender, such assignee will be
deemed to have made a Tranche B-2 Term Loan to the Singaporean Borrower in
the principal amount of such payment and shall have all rights and
obligations of a Lender with respect to Tranche B-2 Term Loans under this
Agreement.
(B) If and to the extent that an assignee of a Tranche B Term Loan
shall not have so paid its Tranche B-2 Funding Obligations as required by
clause (A) above to the Asian Administrative Agent for the account of the
assigning Term Loan Lender, such assignee agrees to pay to the Asian
Administrative Agent for the account of the assigning Term Loan Lender
forthwith on demand any such unpaid amount together with interest thereon,
for the first Business Day after the Tranche B-2 Funding Notice Date at
the Federal Funds Rate and, thereafter, until such amount is made
available to the Asian Administrative Agent for the account of the
assigning Term Loan Lender, at a rate per annum equal to the rate
applicable to ABR Loans under this Agreement.
(C) The assignee’s obligation to pay its Tranche B-2 Funding
Obligations to the Asian Administrative Agent for the account of an
assigning Term Loan Lender shall be absolute, unconditional and
irrevocable and shall be performed strictly in accordance with the terms
of this Agreement and the applicable Assignment and Acceptance, under any
and all circumstances
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whatsoever, including the occurrence of any Default
or Event of Default, and irrespective of any of the following: (1) any
lack of validity or enforceability of any Credit Document or any term or
provision therein; (2) any amendment or waiver of or any consent to
departure from all or any of the provisions of any Credit Document; (3)
the existence of any claim, set-off, defense or other right that such
assignee or any Subsidiary or Affiliate thereof or any other Person may at
any time have against the assigning Term Loan Lender, any Administrative
Agent, any other Lender, any Credit Party or any other Person, whether in
connection with this
Agreement, any other Credit Document, the applicable Assignment and
Acceptance or any other related or unrelated agreement or transaction; and
(4) any other act or omission to act or delay of any kind of any
Administrative Agent, the Lenders or any other Person or any other event
or circumstance whatsoever, whether or not similar to any of the
foregoing, that might, but for the provisions of this Section 13.6(b)(vi),
constitute a legal or equitable discharge of an assignee’s obligations
hereunder.
(c) (i) Any Lender may, without the consent of the Company, any Administrative Agent, the
Letter of Credit Issuer or any Swingline Lender, sell participations to one or more banks or other
entities (each, a “Participant”) in all or a portion of such Lender’s rights and
obligations under this Agreement (including all or a portion of its Commitments and the Loans owing
to it), provided that (A) such Lender’s obligations under this Agreement shall remain
unchanged, (B) such Lender shall remain solely responsible to the other parties hereto for the
performance of such obligations and (C) the Borrowers, the Administrative Agents, the Letter of
Credit Issuer and the other Lenders shall continue to deal solely and directly with such Lender in
connection with such Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement. Any agreement or
instrument pursuant to which a Lender sells such a participation shall provide that such Lender
shall retain the sole right to enforce this Agreement and to approve any amendment, modification or
waiver of any provision of this Agreement or any other Credit Document, provided that such
agreement or instrument may provide that such Lender will not, without the consent of the
Participant, agree to any amendment, modification or waiver described in the first proviso to
Section 13.1 that affects such Participant. Subject to clause (c)(ii) of this Section 13.6, the
Borrowers agree that each Participant shall be entitled to the benefits of Sections 2.10, 2.11 and
5.4 to the same extent as if it were a Lender (subject to the requirements of those Sections) and
had acquired its interest by assignment pursuant to clause (b) of this Section 13.6. To the extent
permitted by law, each Participant also shall be entitled to the benefits of Section 13.8(b) as
though it were a Lender, provided such Participant agrees to be subject to Section 13.8(a)
as though it were a Lender.
(ii) A Participant shall not be entitled to receive any greater payment under
Section 2.10 or 5.4 than the applicable Lender would have
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been entitled to receive
with respect to the participation sold to such Participant, unless the sale of the
participation to such Participant is made with the Borrowers’ prior written consent
(which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld).
(d) Any Lender may, without the consent of the Borrowers or any Administrative Agent, at any
time pledge or assign a security interest in all or any portion of its rights under this Agreement
to secure obligations of such Lender, including any pledge or assignment to secure obligations to a
Federal Reserve Bank, and this Section 13.6 shall not apply to any such pledge or assignment of a
security interest, provided that no such pledge or assignment of a security interest shall
release a Lender from any of its
obligations hereunder or substitute any such pledgee or assignee for such Lender as a party
hereto. In order to facilitate such pledge or assignment, the Borrowers hereby agree that, upon
request of any Lender at any time and from time to time after any Borrower has made its initial
borrowing hereunder, each Borrower shall provide to such Lender, at such Borrowers’ own expense, a
promissory note, substantially in the form of Exhibit L-1 or L-2, as the case may
be, evidencing the Xxxxxxx X Xxxx Xxxxx xxx Xxx Xxxxxxx X Term Loans, and Revolving Credit Loans
and Swingline Loans, respectively, owing by such Borrower to such Lender (each a “Note”).
(e) Subject to Section 13.19, the Borrowers authorize each Lender to disclose to any
Participant, secured creditor of such Lender or assignee (each a “Transferee”) and any
prospective Transferee any and all financial information in such Lender’s possession concerning a
Borrower and its Affiliates that has been delivered to such Lender by or on behalf of such Borrower
and its Affiliates pursuant to this Agreement or which has been delivered to such Lender by or on
behalf of such Borrower and its Affiliates in connection with such Lender’s credit evaluation of
such Borrower and its Affiliates prior to becoming a party to this Agreement.
13.7
Replacements of Lenders under Certain Circumstances. (a) The Company shall be
permitted to replace any Lender that (a) requests reimbursement for amounts owing pursuant to
Section 2.10, 2.12, 3.5 or 5.4, (b) is affected in the manner described in Section 2.10(a)(iii) and
as a result thereof any of the actions described in such Section is required to be taken or (c)
becomes a Defaulting Lender, with a replacement bank or other financial institution,
provided that (i) such replacement does not conflict with any Requirement of Law, (ii) no
Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing at the time of such replacement, (iii) the
Borrowers shall repay (or the replacement bank or institution shall purchase, at par) all Loans and
other amounts (other than any disputed amounts), pursuant to Section 2.10, 2.11, 2.12, 3.5 or 5.4,
as the case may be) owing to such replaced Lender prior to the date of replacement, (iv) the
replacement bank or institution, if not already a Lender, and the terms and conditions of such
replacement, shall be reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, (v) the replaced Lender
shall be obligated to make such replacement in accordance with the provisions of Section 13.6
(
provided that the Borrowers shall be obligated to pay the registration and processing fee
referred to therein) and (vi) any such replacement shall
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not be deemed to be a waiver of any rights
that the Borrowers, the Administrative Agents or any other Lender shall have against the replaced
Lender.
(b) If any Lender (such Lender, a “Non-Consenting Lender”) has failed to consent to a
proposed amendment, waiver, discharge or termination which pursuant to the terms of Section 13.1
requires the consent of all of the Lenders affected and with respect to which the Required Lenders
shall have granted their consent, then provided that no Event of Default then exists, the
Company shall have the right (unless such Non-Consenting Lender grants such consent) to replace
such Non-Consenting Lender by requiring such Non-Consenting Lender to assign its Loans, and its
Commitments hereunder to one or more assignees reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agents,
provided that: (a) all Obligations of the Borrowers owing to such
Non-Consenting Lender being replaced shall be paid in full to such Non-Consenting Lender
concurrently with such assignment, and (b) the replacement Lender shall purchase the foregoing by
paying to such Non-Consenting Lender a price equal to the principal amount thereof plus accrued and
unpaid interest thereon. In connection with any such assignment, the Borrowers, the Administrative
Agents, such Non-Consenting Lender and the replacement Lender shall otherwise comply with Section
13.6.
13.8 Adjustments; Set-off. (a) If any Lender (a “benefited Lender”) shall at
any time receive any payment of all or part of its Loans, or interest thereon, or receive any
collateral in respect thereof (whether voluntarily or involuntarily, by set-off, pursuant to events
or proceedings of the nature referred to in Section 11.5, or otherwise), in a greater proportion
than any such payment to or collateral received by any other Lender, if any, in respect of such
other Lender’s Loans, or interest thereon, such benefited Lender shall purchase for cash from the
other Lenders a participating interest in such portion of each such other Lender’s Loan, or shall
provide such other Lenders with the benefits of any such collateral, or the proceeds thereof, as
shall be necessary to cause such benefited Lender to share the excess payment or benefits of such
collateral or proceeds ratably with each of the Lenders; provided that if all or any
portion of such excess payment or benefits is thereafter recovered from such benefited Lender, such
purchase shall be rescinded, and the purchase price and benefits returned, to the extent of such
recovery, but without interest.
(b) After the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, in addition to any
rights and remedies of the Lenders provided by law, each Lender shall have the right, without prior
notice to Holdings or any Borrower, any such notice being expressly waived by Holdings and the
Borrowers to the extent permitted by applicable law, upon any amount becoming due and payable by
the Borrowers hereunder (whether at the stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise) to set-off
and appropriate and apply against such amount any and all deposits (general or special, time or
demand, provisional or final), in any currency, and any other credits, indebtedness or claims, in
any currency, in each case whether direct or indirect, absolute or contingent, matured or
unmatured, at any time held or owing by such Lender or any branch or agency thereof to or for the
credit or the account of the Borrowers. Each Lender agrees promptly to notify the Company and the
Administrative Agents after any such set-off and application made
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by such Lender, provided
that the failure to give such notice shall not affect the validity of such set-off and application.
13.9 Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed by one or more of the parties to
this Agreement on any number of separate counterparts (including by facsimile or other electronic
transmission), and all of said counterparts taken together shall be deemed to constitute one and
the same instrument. A set of the copies of this Agreement signed by all the parties shall be
lodged with the Borrowers and the Administrative Agents.
13.10 Severability. Any provision of this Agreement that is prohibited or
unenforceable in any jurisdiction shall, as to such jurisdiction, be ineffective to the extent
of such prohibition or unenforceability without invalidating the remaining provisions hereof,
and any such prohibition or unenforceability in any jurisdiction shall not invalidate or render
unenforceable such provision in any other jurisdiction.
13.11 Integration. This Agreement and the other Credit Documents represent the
agreement of the Borrowers, the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agents and the Lenders with
respect to the subject matter hereof, and there are no promises, undertakings, representations or
warranties by any Administrative Agent, Collateral Agent or any Lender relative to subject matter
hereof not expressly set forth or referred to herein or in the other Credit Documents.
13.12 Waiver of Judicial Bond. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law,
each Credit Party waives the requirement to post any bond or furnish any security for costs that
otherwise may be required of any Secured Party in connection with any judicial proceeding to
enforce such Secured Party’s rights to payment hereunder, security interest in or other rights to
the Collateral or in connection with any other legal or equitable action or proceeding arising out
of, in connection with, or related to this Agreement and the other Credit Documents to which it is
a party.
13.13 Waiver of Immunity. To the extent that any Borrower has, or hereafter may be
entitled to claim or may acquire, for itself, any Collateral or other assets of the Credit Parties,
any immunity (whether sovereign or otherwise) from suit, jurisdiction of any court or from any
legal process (whether through service of notice, attachment prior to judgment, attachment in aid
of execution or otherwise) with respect to itself, any Collateral or any other assets of the Credit
Parties, such Borrower hereby waives such immunity in respect of its obligations hereunder and any
other Credit Document to the fullest extent permitted by applicable Requirements of Law and,
without limiting the generality of the foregoing, agrees that the waivers set forth in this Section
13.13 shall be effective to the fullest extent now or hereafter permitted under the Foreign
Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976 (as amended, and together with any successor legislation) and are,
and are intended to be, irrevocable for purposes thereof.
13.14
Currency of Payment. (a) Each payment owing by any Borrower hereunder shall be
made in the relevant currency specified herein or, if not specified
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herein, specified in any other
Credit Document executed by the applicable Administrative Agent (the “Currency of Payment”)
at the place specified herein (such requirement are of the essence of this Agreement). If, for the
purpose of obtaining judgment in any court, it is necessary to convert a sum due hereunder in a
Currency of Payment into another currency, the parties hereto agree that the rate of exchange used
shall be the Exchange Rate on the Business Day preceding that on which final judgment is given, for
delivery two Business Days thereafter. The obligations in respect of any sum due hereunder to any
Secured Party shall, notwithstanding any adjudication expressed in a currency other than the
Currency of Payment, be discharged only to the extent that, on the Business Day following receipt
by such Secured Party of any sum adjudged to be so due in such other currency, such Secured Party
may, in accordance with normal banking procedures, purchase the Currency of Payment with such other
currency. Each Borrower agrees that
(a) if the amount of the Currency of Payment so purchased is less than the sum originally due
to such Secured Party in the Currency of Payment, as a separate obligation and notwithstanding the
result of any such adjudication, such Borrower shall immediately pay the shortfall (in the Currency
of Payment) to such Secured Party and (b) if the amount of the Currency of Payment so purchased
exceeds the sum originally due to such Secured Party, such Secured Party shall promptly pay the
excess over to such Borrower in the currency and to the extent actually received.
(b) The Obligations owing to any Secured Party hereunder shall, notwithstanding any payment in
a currency other than the Currency of Payment and notwithstanding any deemed conversion or
replacement hereunder, be discharged only to the extent that, on the Business Day following receipt
by such Secured Party of any amount in such other currency, such Secured Party may, in accordance
with normal banking procedures, purchase the Currency of Payment with such other currency. Each
Borrower agrees that (i) if the amount of the Currency of Payment so purchased is less than the sum
originally due to such Secured Party in the Currency of Payment, as a separate obligation and
notwithstanding the result of any such adjudication, such Borrower shall immediately pay the
shortfall (in the Currency of Payment) to such Secured Party and (ii) if the amount of the Currency
of Payment so purchased exceeds the sum originally due to such Secured Party, such Secured Party
shall promptly pay the excess over to such Borrower in the currency and to the extent actually
received.
13.15 GOVERNING LAW. THIS AGREEMENT AND THE RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF THE PARTIES
HEREUNDER SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED AND INTERPRETED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAW OF THE
STATE OF NEW YORK.
13.16 Submission to Jurisdiction; Waivers; Service of Process. Each of Holdings, the
Company and each Borrower hereby irrevocably and unconditionally:
(a) Submits for itself and its property in any legal action or proceeding relating to this
Agreement and the other Credit Documents to which it is a party, or for recognition and enforcement
of any judgment in respect thereof, to the non-exclusive
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general jurisdiction of the courts of the
State of New York, the courts of the United States of America for the Southern District of New York
and appellate courts from any thereof.
(b) Consents that any such action or proceeding may be brought in such courts and waives any
objection that it may now or hereafter have to the venue of any such action or proceeding in any
such court or that such action or proceeding was brought in an inconvenient court and agrees not to
plead or claim the same.
(c) Other than the U.S. Borrowers, hereby irrevocably designates, appoints and empowers CT
Corporation System (telephone number: 000-000-0000) (telecopy number: 212-894-8690) (address: 000
Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, X.X. 10011) (the “Process Agent”), in the case of any suit,
action or proceeding brought in the United States as its designee, appointee and agent to receive,
accept and acknowledge for and on
its behalf, and in respect of its property, service of any and all legal process, summons,
notices and documents that may be served in any action or proceeding arising out of or in
connection with this Agreement or any other Credit Document. Such service may be made by mailing
(by registered or certified mail, postage prepaid) or delivering a copy of such process to such
Person in care of the Process Agent at the Process Agent’s above address, and such Person hereby
irrevocably authorizes and directs the Process Agent to accept such service on its behalf. As an
alternative method of service, each of Holdings, the Company and each Borrower irrevocably consents
to the service of any and all process in any such action or proceeding by the mailing (by
registered or certified mail, postage prepaid) of copies of such process to the Process Agent or
such Person at its address specified in Section 13.2. Each of Holdings, Intermediate Holdings, the
Company and each Borrower agrees that a final judgment in any such action or proceeding shall be
conclusive and may be enforced in other jurisdictions by suit on the judgment or in any other
manner provided by law.
(d) Agrees that service of process in any such action or proceeding may be effected by mailing
a copy thereof by registered or certified mail (or any substantially similar form of mail), postage
prepaid, to such Person at its address set forth in Section 13.2 or at such other address of which
the Administrative Agents shall have been notified pursuant thereto.
(e) Agrees that nothing herein shall affect the right to effect service of process in any
other manner permitted by law or shall limit the right to xxx in any other jurisdiction; and
(f) Waives, to the maximum extent not prohibited by law, any right it may have to claim or
recover in any legal action or proceeding referred to in this Section 13.16 any special, exemplary,
punitive or consequential damages.
13.17 Acknowledgments. Each Borrower hereby acknowledges that:
(a) it has been advised by counsel in the negotiation, execution and delivery of this
Agreement and the other Credit Documents;
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(b) neither any Administrative Agent nor the Collateral Agent nor any Lender has any fiduciary
relationship with or duty to any Borrower arising out of or in connection with this Agreement or
any of the other Credit Documents, and the relationship between each Administrative Agent the
Collateral Agent and Lenders, on one hand, and the Borrowers, on the other hand, in connection
herewith or therewith is solely that of debtor and creditor; and
(c) no joint venture is created hereby or by the other Credit Documents or otherwise exists by
virtue of the transactions contemplated hereby among the Lenders or among the Borrowers and the
Lenders.
13.18 WAIVERS OF JURY TRIAL. EACH BORROWER, EACH AGENT AND EACH LENDER HEREBY
IRREVOCABLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY WAIVE TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY LEGAL ACTION OR PROCEEDING RELATING TO
THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OTHER CREDIT DOCUMENT AND FOR ANY COUNTERCLAIM THEREIN.
13.19 Confidentiality. Each Administrative Agent and each Lender shall hold all
non-public information furnished by or on behalf of any Borrower in connection with such Lender’s
evaluation of whether to become a Lender hereunder or obtained by such Lender or such
Administrative Agent pursuant to the requirements of this Agreement (“Confidential
Information”), confidential in accordance with its customary procedure for handling
confidential information of this nature and (in the case of a Lender that is a bank) in accordance
with safe and sound banking practices and in any event may make disclosure as required or requested
by any governmental agency or representative thereof or pursuant to legal process or to such
Lender’s or such Administrative Agent’s attorneys, professional advisors or independent auditors or
Affiliates, provided that unless specifically prohibited by applicable law or court order,
each Lender and each Administrative Agent shall notify the Company of any request by any
governmental agency or representative thereof (other than any such request in connection with an
examination of the financial condition of such Lender by such governmental agency) for disclosure
of any such nonpublic information prior to disclosure of such information, and provided
that in no event shall any Lender or any Administrative Agent be obligated or required to return
any materials furnished by any Borrower or any Subsidiary of a Borrower. Each Lender and each
Administrative Agent agrees that it will not provide to prospective Transferees or to prospective
direct or indirect contractual counterparties in swap agreements to be entered into in connection
with Loans made hereunder any of the Confidential Information unless such Person is advised of and
agrees to be bound by the provisions of this Section 13.19.
13.20 Citigroup Direct Website Communications.
(a)
Delivery. (i) Any Borrower may, at its option, provide to any Administrative
Agent any information, documents and other materials that it is obligated to furnish to such
Administrative Agent pursuant to the Credit Documents, including, without limitation, all notices,
requests, financial statements, financial and other reports,
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certificates and other information
materials, but excluding any such communication that (A) relates to a request for a new, or a
conversion of an existing, borrowing or other extension of credit (including any election of an
interest rate or interest period relating thereto), (B) relates to the payment of any principal or
other amount due under the
Credit Agreement prior to the scheduled date therefor, (C) provides
notice of any default or event of default under the
Credit Agreement or (D) is required to be
delivered to satisfy any condition precedent to the effectiveness of the
Credit Agreement and/or
any borrowing or other extension of credit thereunder (all such non-excluded communications being
referred to herein collectively as “
Communications”), by transmitting the Communications in
an electronic/soft medium in a format reasonably acceptable to such Administrative Agent to
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxx.xxx. Nothing in this Section
13.20 shall prejudice the right of any Borrower, the Administrative Agents or any Lender to
give any notice or other communication pursuant to any Credit Document in any other manner
specified in such Credit Document.
(ii) Each Administrative Agent agrees that the receipt of the Communications by
the such Administrative Agent at its e-mail address set forth above shall
constitute effective delivery of the Communications to such Administrative Agent
for purposes of the Credit Documents. Each Lender agrees that notice to it (as
provided in the next sentence) specifying that the Communications have been posted
to the Platform shall constitute effective delivery of the Communications to such
Lender for purposes of the Credit Documents. Each Lender agrees (A) to notify the
applicable Administrative Agent in writing (including by electronic communication)
from time to time of such Lender’s e-mail address to which the foregoing notice may
be sent by electronic transmission and (B) that the foregoing notice may be sent to
such e-mail address.
(b) Posting. The Borrowers further agree that the Administrative Agents may make the
Communications available to the Lenders by posting the Communications on Intralinks or a
substantially similar electronic transmission system (the “Platform”), so long as the
access to such Platform is limited (i) to the Agents and the Lenders and (ii) remains subject the
confidentiality requirements set forth in Section 13.19.
(c) The Platform is provided “as is” and “as available.” The Agent Parties do not warrant the
accuracy or completeness of the Communications, or the adequacy of the platform and expressly
disclaim liability for errors or omissions in the Communications. No warranty of any kind, express,
implied or statutory, including, without limitation, any warranty of merchantability, fitness for a
particular purpose, non-infringement of third party rights or freedom from viruses or other code
defects, is made by the Agent Parties in connection with the Communications or the platform. In no
event shall any Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent or any of their respective affiliates or
any of their respective officers, directors, employees, agents, advisors or representatives
(collectively, “
Agent Parties”) have any liability to any Borrower, any Lender or any other
person or entity for damages of any kind, including, without
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limitation, direct or indirect,
special, incidental or consequential damages, losses or expenses (whether in tort, contract or
otherwise) arising out of any Borrower’s or any Administrative Agent’s transmission of
Communications through the internet, except to the extent the liability of any Agent Party is found
in a final non-appealable judgment by a court of competent jurisdiction to have resulted primarily
from such Agent Party’s gross negligence or willful misconduct.
13.21 USA PATRIOT Act. Each Lender hereby notifies each Borrower that pursuant to the
requirements of the USA Patriot Act (Title III of Pub. L. 107-56 (signed into law October 26,
2001)) (the “Patriot Act”), it is required to obtain, verify and record information that
identifies each Borrower, which information includes the name
and address of such Borrower and other information that will allow such Lender to identify
such Borrower in accordance with the Patriot Act.
13.22 Xxxxx Xxx, 0000 of Malaysia. For the purposes of Section 4(3) and Item 27 of
the First Schedule to the Xxxxx Xxx, 0000 of Malaysia, this Agreement shall be deemed to be the
principal instrument and security to secure the payment of a foreign currency loan of the aggregate
principal amount of up to U.S. Dollars Nine Hundred and Seventy-Five Million ($975,000,000/-), of
which a Ringgit tranche of the aggregate principal amount of up to Ringgit Seventy-Six Million
Three Hundred and Sixty Thousand (RM76,360,000/-) forms part, and the Security Documents are deemed
to be secondary instruments.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each of the parties hereto has caused a counterpart of this Agreement to
be duly executed and delivered as of the date first above written.
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AVAGO TECHNOLOGIES HOLDING PTE. LTD.
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AVAGO TECHNOLOGIES FINANCE S.À.X.X.
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AVAGO TECHNOLOGIES WIRELESS (U.S.A.) MANUFACTURING INC.
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AVAGO TECHNOLOGIES (MALAYSIA) SDN. BHD.
(f/k/a Jumbo Portfolio Sdn. Bhd.)
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CITICORP NORTH AMERICA, INC.,
as Tranche B-1 Term Loan Administrative
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/s/ Xxxxx X. Windnam |
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Xxxxx X. Windnam |
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CITICORP INTERNATIONAL LIMITED (HONG KONG),
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Syndication Agent
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as Lender
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