AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT
by and among
FIRST HUNTINGDON FINANCE CORP.
TOLL BROTHERS, INC.
and
THE LENDERS PARTY HERETO
and
BANK ONE, NA,
as Administrative Agent
and
BANK OF AMERICA, N.A.,
as Syndication Agent
and
COMERICA BANK,
as Documentation Agent
CREDIT LYONNAIS NEW YORK BRANCH,
as Documentation Agent
FIRST UNION NATIONAL BANK,
as Documentation Agent
and
SUNTRUST BANK,
as Co-Agent
Dated as of May 18, 2001
BANC ONE CAPITAL MARKETS, INC.,
Lead Arranger and Sole Bookrunner
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Page
ARTICLE I DEFINITIONS 1
ARTICLE II THE CREDITS 30
2.1. The Loan Facility. 30
2.1.1 Description of Loan Facility 30
2.1.2.Amount of Loan Facility 30
2.1.3.Availability of Loan Facility 30
2.1.4.Required Payments 31
2.2. Ratable Advances. 31
2.2.1.Ratable Advances 31
2.2.2.Ratable Advance Rate Options 31
2.2.3.Method of Selecting Rate Options and Interest
Periods for Ratable Advances 31
2.2.4.Conversion and Continuation of Outstanding
Ratable Advances 32
2.2.5.Limitations 33
2.2.6.Interest Period 33
2.3. Competitive Bid Advances. 33
2.3.1.Competitive Bid Option 33
2.3.2.Competitive Bid Quote Request 33
2.3.3.Invitation for Competitive Bid Quotes 34
2.3.4.Submission and Contents of Competitive Bid
Quotes 34
2.3.5.Notice to Borrower 36
2.3.6.Acceptance and Notice by Borrower 36
2.3.7.Allocation by Competitive Bid Agent 37
2.3.8.Limitations 37
2.3.9.Administration Fee 37
2.3.10Declining Lender 37
2.4. Facility Fee; Reductions in Aggregate Commitment;
Usage Fee 37
2.5. Minimum Amount of Each Advance; Maximum Number of
Advances 38
2.6. Optional Principal Payments 38
2.7. Funding. 39
2.8. Changes in Interest Rate, etc 39
2.9. Rates Applicable After Default 39
2.10 Method and Allocation of Payments 40
2.11 Noteless Agreement; Evidence of Indebtedness 41
2.12 Telephonic Notices 42
2.13 Interest Payment Dates; Interest and Fee Basis 42
2.14 Notification of Advances, Interest Rates,
Prepayments and Commitment Reductions 42
2.15 Lending Installations 43
2.16 Non-Receipt of Funds by the Administrative Agent 43
2.17 Extension of Facility Termination Date 43
2.18 Increase in Aggregate Commitment 44
2.19 Swing Line 46
2.20 Replacement of a Lender 47
2.21 Termination of Commitment of Declining Lender 48
2.22 Participation in Outstanding Advances and
Facility Letters of Credit on the Closing Date 48
2.23 Amounts Payable under Original Agreement 43
ARTICLE III YIELD PROTECTION; TAXES 49
3.1. Yield Protection 49
3.2. Changes in Capital Adequacy Regulations 50
3.3. Availability of Certain Advances 50
3.4. Funding Indemnification 51
3.5. Taxes 51
3.6. Lender Statements; Survival of Indemnity 52
ARTICLE IV THE LETTER OF CREDIT FACILITY 53
4.1. Facility Letters of Credit 53
4.2. Limitations 53
4.3. Conditions 54
4.4. Procedure for Issuance of Facility Letters of
Credit 54
4.5. Duties of Issuing Bank 56
4.6. Participation 56
4.7. Compensation for Facility Letters of Credit 58
4.8. Issuing Bank Reporting Requirements 59
4.9. Indemnification; Nature of Issuing Bank's Duties 59
4.10 Cash Collateralization 60
4.11 No Obligation 61
ARTICLE V CONDITIONS PRECEDENT 61
5.1. Closing Conditions 61
5.2. Each Advance 63
ARTICLE VI REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES 64
6.1. Existence and Standing 64
6.2. Authorization and Validity 64
6.3. No Conflict; Consent 64
6.4. Financial Statements 65
6.5. Material Adverse Change 65
6.6. Taxes 65
6.7. Litigation and Contingent Obligations 65
6.8. Subsidiaries 66
6.9. Accuracy of Information 66
6.10 Regulation U 66
6.11 Material Agreements 66
6.12 Compliance With Laws 66
6.13 Ownership of Properties 66
6.14 ERISA. 66
6.14 Plan Assets; Prohibited Transactions 67
6.14.2 Liabilities 67
6.14 3 Plans and Benefit Arrangements 67
6.15 Investment Company Act 68
6.16 Public Utility Holding Company Act 68
6.17 Employment Matters 68
6.18 Environmental Matters 69
6.19 Senior Debt Status 70
6.20 Designated Guarantors 70
ARTICLE VII COVENANTS 71
7.1. Financial Reporting 71
7.2. Use of Proceeds 74
7.3. Notice of Default 75
7.4. Conduct of Business 75
7.5. Taxes 75
7.6. Insurance 75
7.7. Compliance with Laws 75
7.8. Maintenance of Properties 75
7.9. Inspection 75
7.10 Mergers; Consolidations; Dissolutions 76
7.11 Distributions of Securities 76
7.12 Disposition of Assets 76
7.13 Borrower a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary 77
7.14 Investments and Acquisitions 77
7.15 Liens 77
7.16 Additional Designated Guarantors 77
7.17 Subordinated Indebtedness 78
7.18 Intercompany Loans, Loans from Non-Loan Parties 78
7.19 Appraisals. 78
7.19.1 Procedures 78
7.19.2 Costs 79
7.19.3 Appraisers 79
7.20 Mortgage Subsidiaries 79
7.21 Qualified Ratings 79
7.22 Updates to Schedules 80
7.23 Plans and Benefit Arrangements 80
7.24 Employment Matters 81
7.25 Environmental Matters 81
7.26 Environmental Certificates 83
7.27 Senior Debt Status 84
7.28 Financial Covenants. 84
7.28.1 Leverage Ratio 84
7.28.2 Borrowing Base 84
7.28.3 Tangible Net Worth 84
7.28.4 Mortgage Subsidiaries 84
7.29 Financial Contracts 85
ARTICLE VIII DEFAULTS 85
8.1. 85
8.2. . 85
8.3. 85
8.4. 85
8.5. . 86
8.6. 86
8.7. 86
8.8. 86
8.9. 86
8.10 86
8.11 87
8.12 87
8.13 87
8.14 87
8.15 87
8.16 . 87
ARTICLE IX ACCELERATION, WAIVERS, AMENDMENTS AND
REMEDIES 87
9.1. Acceleration 87
9.2. Amendments 88
9.3. Preservation of Rights 89
ARTICLE X GENERAL PROVISIONS 89
10.1 Survival of Representations 89
10.2 Governmental Regulation 89
10.3 Headings 89
10.4 Entire Agreement 89
10.5 Several Obligations; Benefits of this Agreement 90
10.6 Expenses; Indemnification 90
10.7 Numbers of Documents 90
10.8 Accounting 91
10.9 Severability of Provisions 91
10.10 Nonliability of Lenders 91
10.11 Confidentiality 91
10.12 Nonreliance 92
10.13 Conversion and Non-Designation of Designated
Guarantors 92
10.14 Non-Funding Lender 93
ARTICLE XI THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT 93
11.1 Appointment; Nature of Relationship 93
11.2 Powers 93
11.3 General Immunity 93
11.4 No Responsibility for Loans, Recitals, etc 93
11.5 Action on Instructions of Lenders 93
11.6 Employment of Agents and Counsel 93
11.7 Reliance on Documents; Counsel 93
11.8 Administrative Agent's Reimbursement and
Indemnification 93
11.9 Notice of Default 93
11.10 Rights as a Lender 93
11.11 Lender Credit Decision 93
11.12 Successor Administrative Agent 93
11.13 Administrative Agent's Fee 93
11.14 Delegation to Affiliates 93
11.15 Agents' Responsibilities and Duties 88
ARTICLE XII SETOFF; RATABLE PAYMENTS 93
12.1 Setoff 93
12.2 Ratable Payments 93
ARTICLE XIII BENEFIT OF AGREEMENT; ASSIGNMENTS;
PARTICIPATIONS 93
13.1 Successors and Assigns 93
13.2 Participations. 93
13.2.1 Permitted Participants; Effect 93
13.2.2 Voting Rights 93
13.2.3 Benefit of Setoff 93
13.3 Assignments. 93
13.3.1.Permitted Assignments 93
13.3.2.Effect; Effective Date 93
13.3.3.Swing Line Commitment 93
13.4.Dissemination of Information 93
00.0.Xxx Treatment 93
ARTICLE XIV NOTICES 93
14.1.Notices 93
14.2.Change of Address 93
ARTICLE XV COUNTERPARTS 93
ARTICLE XVI CHOICE OF LAW; CONSENT TO JURISDICTION;
WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL 93
16.1.CHOICE OF LAW 93
16.2.CONSENT TO JURISDICTION 93
16.3.WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL 93
EXHIBITS AND SCHEDULES
PRICING SCHEDULE
Exhibit A-1 Form of Competitive Bid Note
Exhibit A-2 Form of Amended and Restated Competitive Bid Note
Exhibit B Form of Competitive Bid Quote
Exhibit C Form of Competitive Bid Quote Request
Exhibit D Form of Invitation for Competitive Bid Quote
Exhibit E-1 Form of Ratable Note
Exhibit E-2 Form of Amended and Ratable Note
Exhibit F Form of Commitment and Acceptance
Exhibit G Opinion of Company's General Counsel
Exhibit H Opinion of Xxxxxxx Xxxxx Xxxxxxx & Xxxxxxxxx
Exhibit I Form of Guaranty
Exhibit J Form of Compliance Certificate
Exhibit K Form of Environmental Certificate
Exhibit L Form of Assignment Agreement
Schedule 1 Existing Letters of Credit
Schedule 2 Issuing Banks' L/C Limits
Schedule 3 Permitted Liens
Schedule 4 Existing Subordinated Indebtedness
Schedule 5 Intentionally Omitted
Schedule 6 Litigation and Contingent Obligations
Schedule 7 Subsidiaries
Schedule 8 Other Liens
Schedule 9 ERISA Matters
Schedule 10 Environmental Matters
AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT
This Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of May
18, 2001, is among First Huntingdon Finance Corp. (the
"Borrower"), Toll Brothers, Inc. (the "Company"), the Lenders
party hereto and Bank One, NA, as Administrative Agent (the
"Administrative Agent").
WHEREAS, the Borrower, the Company, the Administrative
Agent and certain of the Lenders are party to that certain
Credit Agreement dated as of February 25, 1998 (as heretofore
amended, the "Original Agreement"); and
WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 2.17 of the Original
Agreement, the Borrower requested on March 19, 2001, and the
Required Lenders thereunder have approved, an Extension Request
extending the Facility Termination Date to March 19, 2006 on the
terms and conditions herein provided; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 2.18 of the Original
Agreement, the Borrower has also requested an increase in the
Aggregate Commitment and certain Lenders party to the Original
Agreement have elected to increase or to decrease their
Commitments and certain Lenders that are party hereto but not
party to the Original Agreement have elected to issue new
Commitments; and
WHEREAS, the Borrower and the Required Lenders under the
Original Agreement, as well as the Lenders not party to the
Original Agreement, have further agreed to amend and restate the
Original Agreement as set forth in this Amended and Restated
Credit Agreement; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to the terms of the Original Agreement,
the Lenders that did not approve the extension of the Facility
Termination Date nevertheless remain party to the Original
Agreement as amended hereby, except that the Facility
Termination Date is not extended with respect to such Lenders or
their Commitments;
NOW THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises, the mutual
covenants contained herein and for other good and valuable
consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby
acknowledged, the parties hereto agree that, subject to the
satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 5.1 hereof,
the Original Agreement is hereby amended and restated in its
entirety as follows:
ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS
As used in this Agreement:
"ABR Advance" means an Advance that bears interest at the
Alternate Base Rate.
"ABR Loan" means a Loan that bears interest at the
Alternate Base Rate.
"Absolute Rate" means, with respect to an Absolute Rate
Loan made by a Lender for the relevant Competitive Bid Interest
Period, the rate of interest per annum (rounded to the nearest
1/100 of 1%) offered by such Lender and accepted by the
Borrower.
"Absolute Rate Advance" means a borrowing hereunder
consisting of the aggregate amount of the several Absolute Rate
Loans made by some or all of the Lenders to the Borrower at the
same time and for the same Competitive Bid Interest Period.
"Absolute Rate Auction" means a solicitation of Competitive
Bid Quotes setting forth Absolute Rates pursuant to Section 2.3.
"Absolute Rate Loan" means a Loan that bears interest at
the Absolute Rate.
"Additional Lender" means a Qualified Bank (approved by the
Administrative Agent, which approval shall not be unreasonably
withheld) or an existing Lender that elects, upon request by the
Borrower, to purchase the Commitment of another Lender pursuant
to Section 2.20 or to issue a Commitment, or to increase its
existing Commitment, pursuant to Section 2.18.
"Administrative Agent" means Bank One, NA, in its capacity
as contractual representative of the Lenders pursuant to Article
XI, and not in its individual capacity as a Lender, and any
successor Administrative Agent appointed pursuant to Article XI.
"Administrative Agent's Fee Letter" means that certain fee
letter agreement dated March 1, 2001, among the Borrower, the
Administrative Agent and the Arranger, as the same may be
modified or amended from time to time.
"Advance" means a borrowing hereunder (or conversion or
continuation thereof) consisting of the aggregate amount of the
several Loans made on the same Borrowing Date (or date of
conversion or continuation) by some or all of the Lenders to the
Borrower of the same Type (or on the same interest basis in the
case of Competitive Bid Advances) and, in the case of Fixed Rate
Advances, for the same Interest Period. For the avoidance of
doubt, the term "Advance" includes each Competitive Bid Advance
and Swing Line Advance.
"Affiliate" of any Person means any other Person directly
or indirectly controlling, controlled by or under common control
with such Person. A Person shall be deemed to control another
Person if the controlling Person owns 10% or more of any class
of voting securities (or other ownership interests) of the
controlled Person or possesses, directly or indirectly, the
power to direct or cause the direction of the management or
policies of the controlled Person, whether through ownership of
stock, by contract or otherwise.
"Agents" means the Co-Agent, the Documentation Agents and
the Syndication Agent, and "Agent" means any one of the Agents.
"Aggregate Available Credit" means at any time the amount
by which (a) the Aggregate Commitment exceeds (b) the sum of (i)
the principal amount of all outstanding Advances, plus (ii) the
Facility Letter of Credit Obligations.
"Aggregate Commitment" means the aggregate of the
Commitments of all the Lenders, as increased or reduced from
time to time pursuant to the terms hereof.
"Aggregate Commitment Limit" means at any time the sum of
(a) $650,000,000 plus (b) the lesser of (i) the amount (if any)
by which Consolidated Net Worth as of the end of the immediately
preceding fiscal quarter for which financial statements have
most recently been delivered, or were required to be delivered,
to the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 6.4 or Section
7.1 exceeds $745,145,000 and (ii) $100,000,000.
"Agreement" means this amended and restated credit
agreement, as it may be amended or modified and in effect from
time to time.
"Agreement Accounting Principles" means generally accepted
accounting principles as in effect from time to time, applied in
a manner consistent with that used in preparing the financial
statements filed by the Company with the SEC from time to time.
"Agreement of Sale" means a fully-executed written
agreement (substantially in a form approved by the
Administrative Agent, which approval shall not be unreasonably
withheld) between a Loan Party and a purchaser that is not an
Affiliate of the Company or any other member of Toll Group,
providing for the sale of a residential unit to such purchaser,
which agreement (i) shall include no contingency for the
purchaser selling another residence, (ii) be accompanied by a
non-refundable (except on terms set forth in such agreement or
as may be prevented by applicable law) deposit equal to the
lesser of (x) ten percent (10%) of the purchase price of the
unit sold (at least one-half of which deposit shall have been
paid in cash), (y) the difference between the purchase price set
forth in such agreement and the amount of the mortgage
contingency set forth in such agreement (at least one-half of
which deposit shall have been paid in cash) and (z) the maximum
amount of deposit which applicable Law permits the seller of
such unit to retain as liquidated damages if the closing of the
sale of such unit does not occur, and (iii) shall provide that
the purchase price shall be paid in cash or by title company
check or by attorney check or by certified or bank check at or
before the closing of the sale (such cash or check may be
obtained by the purchaser from a loan provided by the seller or
an Affiliate of the seller). For the purpose of clause (z)
above, applicable law shall be deemed to prohibit the seller
from retaining a deposit if it creates a presumption that the
amount of such deposit is unreasonable and as such may not be
retained by the seller.
"Alternate Base Rate" means, for any day, a rate of
interest per annum equal to the higher of (i) the Prime Rate for
such day and (ii) the sum of the Federal Funds Effective Rate
for such day plus 1/2% per annum.
"Applicable CD Rate Margin" means, with respect to a Fixed
CD Rate Advance, the percentage rate per annum applicable to
such Advance, as determined pursuant to the Pricing Schedule.
"Applicable Eurodollar Rate Margin" means, with respect to
a Eurodollar Ratable Advance at any time, the percentage rate
per annum applicable to such Advance, as determined pursuant to
the Pricing Schedule.
"Applicable Fee Rate" means at any time the percentage rate
per annum at which Facility Fees are accruing on the Aggregate
Commitment (without regard to usage) at such time as determined
pursuant to the Pricing Schedule.
"Applicable Letter of Credit Rate" means, at any time, the
percentage rate per annum at which Facility Letter of Credit
Fees are accruing on outstanding Facility Letters of Credit,
which percentage rate shall be a rate per annum equal to (i) the
Applicable Eurodollar Rate Margin at such time as determined
pursuant to the Pricing Schedule, minus (ii) 0.125% per annum.
"Application" means, with respect to a Facility Letter of
Credit, such form of application therefor and other documents
related thereto (whether in a single or several documents, taken
together) as an Issuing Bank may employ in the ordinary course
of business for its own account, with such modifications thereto
as may be agreed upon by such Issuing Bank and the Borrower and
as are not materially adverse (in the reasonable judgment of
such Issuing Bank and the Administrative Agent) to the interests
of the Lenders; provided, however, in the event of any conflict
between the terms of any Application and this Agreement, the
terms of this Agreement shall control.
"Arranger" means Banc One Capital Markets, Inc., a Delaware
corporation, and its successors.
"Article" means an article of this Agreement unless another
document is specifically referenced.
"Assessment Rate" means, for any CD Interest Period, the
assessment rate per annum (rounded upwards to the next higher
multiple of 1/100 of 1% if the rate is not such a multiple)
payable to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (or any
successor) by a member of the Bank Insurance Fund which is
classified as adequately capitalized and within supervisory
subgroup "A" (or a comparable successor assessment risk
classification) within the meaning of 12 C.F.R. section 327.3(e)
(or any successor provision) for the insurance of time deposits
at the offices of such institution in the United States, as
estimated by Bank One in good faith on the first day of such
Interest Period.
"Assumed Purchase Money Loans" means at any time the
outstanding amount of all loans secured by assets purchased by
the Designated Guarantors and assumed or entered into by the
applicable Designated Guarantor on the date of purchase,
provided that (i) the amount of any such loan does not exceed
the purchase price of the applicable asset and (ii) recourse for
each such loan is limited to the applicable Designated
Guarantor; and any amendment, modification, extension or
refinancing of such loans, provided that with respect to the
loans, as amended, modified, extended, or refinanced (A) the
aggregate amount thereof shall not exceed the amount of the
loans which existed at the time the applicable Designated
Guarantor purchased such asset, (B) such loans and refinancings
shall not be secured by any assets of any Loan Party other than
those initially purchased by the applicable Designated Guarantor
and improvements constructed thereon in the normal course of the
Loan Parties' homebuilding business, and (C) at least 80% of the
amount thereof shall be provided by the same lenders which
provided the loans which existed at the time the applicable
Designated Guarantor purchased such assets.
"Authorized Officers" means those Persons designated by
written notice to the Administrative Agent from the applicable
Loan Party, authorized to execute notices, reports and other
documents required hereunder. The Loan Parties may amend such
list of Persons from time to time by giving written notice of
such amendment to the Administrative Agent.
"Bank One" means Bank One, NA, having its principal office
in Chicago, Illinois, in its individual capacity, and its
successors.
"Benefit Arrangement" means at any time an "employee
benefit plan," within the meaning of Section 3(3) of ERISA,
which is neither a Plan nor a Multiemployer Plan and which is
maintained, sponsored or otherwise contributed to by any member
of the Controlled Group.
"Borrower" means First Huntingdon Finance Corp., a Delaware
corporation, and its successors and assigns.
"Borrowing Base" means at any time the sum of (i) 100% of
Category 1 Borrowing Base Assets (except as otherwise
hereinafter provided); (ii) 75% of Category 2 Borrowing Base
Assets (except as otherwise hereinafter provided); (iii) 60% of
Category 3 Borrowing Base Assets; and (iv) 50% of Category 4
Borrowing Base Assets. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the
Borrower may elect to combine the Category 1 Borrowing Base
Assets and Category 2 Borrowing Base Assets into one category,
in which event, in place of items (i) and (ii) above, 85% of the
sum of the Category 1 Borrowing Base Assets and Category 2
Borrowing Base Assets shall be included in the Borrowing Base,
provided that the Borrower shall represent and warrant in the
applicable Borrowing Base Certificate that (A) 85% of the sum of
the Category 1 Borrowing Base Assets and Category 2 Borrowing
Base Assets is less than (B) the sum of items (i) and (ii)
above. All Borrowing Base Assets must be assets owned by the
Loan Parties subject only to Permitted Liens and (except as
otherwise provided in Section 7.19) shall be valued at book
value, reduced (without duplication) by the Remediation
Adjustment (if any) applicable to such Borrowing Base Assets.
"Borrowing Base Assets" means the Category 1 Borrowing Base
Assets, Category 2 Borrowing Base Assets, Category 3 Borrowing
Base Assets and Category 4 Borrowing Base Assets.
"Borrowing Base Certificate" means a certificate, in a form
satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, calculating the
Borrowing Base as of the last day of a fiscal quarter, and
delivered pursuant to Section 7.1(viii).
"Borrowing Date" means a date on which an Advance is made
hereunder.
"Business Day" means (i) with respect to any borrowing,
payment or rate selection of Eurodollar Advances, a day (other
than a Saturday or Sunday) on which banks generally are open in
Chicago and New York for the conduct of substantially all of
their commercial lending activities and on which dealings in
United States dollars are carried on in the London interbank
market and (ii) for all other purposes, a day (other than a
Saturday or Sunday) on which banks generally are open in Chicago
and New York for the conduct of substantially all of their
commercial lending activities.
"Capitalized Lease" of a Person means any lease of Property
by such Person as lessee which would be capitalized on a balance
sheet of such Person prepared in accordance with Agreement
Accounting Principles.
"Capitalized Lease Obligations" of a Person means the
amount of the obligations of such Person under Capitalized
Leases which would be shown as a liability on a balance sheet of
such Person prepared in accordance with Agreement Accounting
Principles.
"Category 1 Borrowing Base Assets" means at any time the
following assets owned by the Loan Parties (except any such
assets that are Excluded Assets): (1) residential units and
buildings under construction subject to an Agreement of Sale;
(2) completed residential units and buildings subject to an
Agreement of Sale; (3) land (and related site improvements and
development costs) related to the assets described in items (1)
and (2); and (4) interest, overhead, taxes and other costs (to
the extent capitalized under Agreement Accounting Principles)
related to the assets described in items (1), (2) and (3).
"Category 2 Borrowing Base Assets" means at any time the
following assets owned by the Loan Parties (except any such
assets that are Excluded Assets): (1) residential units and
buildings under construction not under Agreement of Sale; (2)
completed residential units and buildings not under Agreement of
Sale; (3) land (and related site improvements and development
costs) related to the assets described in items (1) and (2); and
(4) interest, overhead, taxes and other costs (to the extent
capitalized under Agreement Accounting Principles) related to
the assets described in items (1), (2) and (3).
"Category 3 Borrowing Base Assets" means at any time the
following assets owned by the Loan Parties (except any such
assets that are Excluded Assets): (1) site improvements on land
owned by a Loan Party that is not subject to an Agreement of
Sale; and (2) interest, overhead, taxes and other costs (to the
extent capitalized under Agreement Accounting Principles)
related to the assets described in item (1).
"Category 4 Borrowing Base Assets" means at any time the
following assets owned by the Loan Parties (except any such
assets that are Excluded Assets): (1) acquisition and
development costs (excluding site improvement costs) of land
owned by a Loan Party that is not subject to an Agreement of
Sale; and (2) interest, overhead, taxes and other costs (to the
extent capitalized under Agreement Accounting Principles)
related to the assets described in item (1).
"CD Interest Period" means, with respect to a Fixed CD Rate
Advance, a period of 30, 60, 90 or 180 days (or, subject to
approval by all Lenders, 270 or 360 days) commencing on a
Business Day selected by the Borrower pursuant to this
Agreement. If such CD Interest Period would end on a day which
is not a Business Day, such CD Interest Period shall end on the
next succeeding Business Day.
"Change" is defined in Section 3.2.
"Change of Control" means the occurrence of any one or more
of the following events:
(A) The acquisition by any Person, or two or more
Persons acting in concert, of beneficial
ownership (within the meaning of Rule 13d-3 of
the Securities and Exchange Commission under the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934) of 50% or more
of the outstanding shares of voting stock of a
Loan Party; or
(B) There shall be consummated any consolidation or
merger to which the Company is a party except a
merger or consolidation where the holders of
voting stock of the Company prior to such merger
or consolidation own more than 50% of the voting
stock of the continuing or surviving corporation
outstanding after such merger or consolidation
(whether or not the Company is such continuing or
surviving corporation).
"Closing Date" means the Business Day on which (a) this
Agreement has been executed and delivered by the Borrower, the
Administrative Agent, the "Required Lenders" under the Original
Agreement and all Lenders that are not party to the Original
Agreement and (b) the conditions set forth in Section 5.1 are
satisfied.
"Co-Agent" means SunTrust Bank, in its capacity as co-
agent, and not in its individual capacity as a Lender.
"Code" means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended,
reformed or otherwise modified from time to time.
"Commitment" means, for each Lender, the obligation of such
Lender to make Ratable Loans and to participate in Facility
Letters of Credit not exceeding the amount set forth opposite
its signature below or as set forth in any Notice of Assignment
relating to any assignment that has become effective pursuant to
Section 13.3.2 or in any Commitment and Acceptance that has
become effective pursuant to Section 2.18, as such amount may be
modified from time to time pursuant to the terms hereof.
"Commitment and Acceptance" is defined in Section 2.18.
"Company" means Toll Brothers, Inc., a Delaware
corporation.
"Competitive Bid Advance" means a borrowing hereunder
consisting of the aggregate amount of the several Competitive
Bid Loans made by one or more of the Lenders to the Borrower at
the same time and for the same Interest Period.
"Competitive Bid Agent" means, with respect to a
Competitive Bid Quote Request, either the Administrative Agent
or the Borrower, as specified in such Competitive Bid Quote
Request as provided in Section 2.3.2.
"Competitive Bid Borrowing Notice" is defined in Section
2.3.6.
"Competitive Bid Interest Period" means, in the case of a
Eurodollar Bid Rate Advance, a Eurodollar Interest Period and,
in the case of an Absolute Bid Advance, a period of not less
than 14 nor more than 360 days, in each case as selected by the
Borrower pursuant to this Agreement. If such Competitive Bid
Interest Period would end on a day which is not a Business Day,
such Competitive Bid Interest Period shall end on the next
succeeding Business Day (except as otherwise provided in the
definition of "Eurodollar Interest Period").
"Competitive Bid Loan" means a Eurodollar Bid Rate Loan or
an Absolute Rate Loan, or both, as the case may be.
"Competitive Bid Margin" means the margin above or below
the applicable Eurodollar Base Rate offered for a Eurodollar Bid
Rate Loan, expressed as a percentage (rounded to the nearest
1/100 of 1%) to be added or subtracted from such Eurodollar Base
Rate.
"Competitive Bid Note" means a promissory note in
substantially the form of Exhibit A-1 hereto or Exhibit A-2
hereto (as applicable), with appropriate insertions, duly
executed and delivered to the Administrative Agent by the
Borrower for the account of a Lender and payable to the order of
such Lender, including any amendment, modification, renewal or
replacement of such promissory note.
"Competitive Bid Quote" means a Competitive Bid Quote
substantially in the form of Exhibit B hereto completed and
delivered by a Lender to the Competitive Bid Agent in accordance
with Section 2.3.4.
"Competitive Bid Quote Request" means a Competitive Bid
Quote Request substantially in the form of Exhibit C hereto
completed and delivered by the Borrower to the Administrative
Agent in accordance with Section 2.3.2.
"Competitive Bid Sublimit" means, at any time, an amount
equal to fifty percent (50%) of the Aggregate Commitment, as
such Aggregate Commitment may increase or decrease from time to
time hereunder.
"Consolidated Net Income" means, with reference to any
period, the net income (or loss) of the Company and its
Subsidiaries calculated on a consolidated basis for such period
in accordance with Agreement Accounting Principles.
"Consolidated Net Worth" means at any time the consolidated
stockholders' equity of the Company and its Subsidiaries
calculated on a consolidated basis as of such time in accordance
with Agreement Accounting Principles.
"Contingent Obligation" of a Person means any agreement,
undertaking or arrangement by which such Person guarantees or in
effect guarantees any Indebtedness of any other Person in any
manner, whether directly or indirectly.
"Controlled Group" means all members of a controlled group
of corporations or other business entities and all trades or
businesses (whether or not incorporated) under common control
which, together with the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, are
treated as a single employer under Section 414 of the Code.
"Conversion" is defined in Section 10.13.
"Declining Lender" is defined in Section 2.17 and also
includes each Non-Extending Lender.
"Declining Lender's Termination Date" is defined in Section
2.17, and in case of each Non-Extending Lender, is February 24,
2003.
"Default" means an event described in Article VIII.
"Designated Guarantors" means any Subsidiary of the Company
that at any time has executed and delivered a Guaranty Agreement
and that has not been released from its Guaranty Agreement in
accordance with the provisions of Section 10.13.
"Documentation Agent" means each of Comerica Bank, Credit
Lyonnais New York Branch and First Union National Bank in their
respective capacities as documentation agents, and not in their
individual capacities as Lenders.
"Environmental Certificate" is defined in Section 7.26.
"Environmental Complaint" means any written complaint
setting forth a cause of action for personal or property damage
or equitable relief, order, notice of violation, citation,
request for information issued pursuant to any Environmental
Laws by an Official Body, subpoena or other written notice of
any type relating to, arising out of, or issued pursuant to any
of the Environmental Laws or any Environmental Conditions, as
the case may be.
"Environmental Conditions" means any conditions of the
environment, including, without limitation, the work place, the
ocean, natural resources (including flora or fauna), soil,
surface water, ground water, any actual or potential drinking
water supply sources, substrata or the ambient air, relating to
or arising out of, or caused by the use, handling, storage,
treatment, recycling, generation, transportation, release,
spilling, leaking, pumping, emptying, discharging, injecting,
escaping, leaching, disposal, dumping, threatened release or
other management or mismanagement of Regulated Substances
resulting from the use of, or operations on, the Property.
"Environmental Laws" means any Laws relating to (i) the
protection of the environment, (ii) the effect of the
environment on human health, (iii) emissions, discharges or
releases of pollutants, contaminants, hazardous substances or
wastes into surface water, ground water or land, or (iv) the
manufacture, processing, distribution, use, treatment, storage,
disposal, transport or handling of pollutants, contaminants,
hazardous substances or wastes or the clean-up or other
remediation thereof.
"Environmentally Approved Land" shall mean land owned by a
Loan Party as to which there has been delivered to such Loan
Party and, to the extent required under Section 7.26, the
Administrative Agent an Environmental Certificate that either
(a) contains no exceptions on Exhibit A thereto except for
Permitted Environmental Exceptions, or (b) if it contains any
exceptions other than Permitted Environmental Exceptions, such
exceptions shall have been (i) approved by the Administrative
Agent, which approval has not been reversed by the Majority
Banks under Section 7.26 or (ii) approved by the Majority
Lenders if the Administrative Agent initially does not approve
such exceptions.
"ERISA" means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act
of 1974, as amended from time to time, and any rule or
regulation issued thereunder.
"Escrow Agreement" means an agreement or other similar
arrangement with a municipality or any other Official Body,
including without limitation any utility, water or sewer
authority, or other similar entity, for the purpose of assuring
such municipality or other Official Body that the Company or an
Affiliate of the Company will properly and timely complete work
it has agreed to perform for the benefit of such municipality or
other Official Body, under the terms of which a bank (including
a Lender hereunder) or other Person agrees to set aside or
otherwise make available a specified amount of funds which will
be paid to such municipality or other Official Body upon request
by such municipality or other Official Body in accordance with
the terms of such agreement in the event the Company or such
Affiliate fails to perform such work.
"Eurodollar Auction" means a solicitation of Competitive
Bid Quotes setting forth Competitive Bid Margins pursuant to
Section 2.3.
"Eurodollar Base Rate" means, with respect to a Eurodollar
Ratable Advance or a Eurodollar Bid Rate Advance for the
relevant Eurodollar Interest Period, the applicable London
interbank offered rate for deposits in U.S. dollars appearing on
Dow Xxxxx Markets (Telerate) Page 3750 as of 11:00 a.m. (London
time) two Business Days prior to the first day of such
Eurodollar Interest Period, and having a maturity approximately
equal to such Eurodollar Interest Period. If no London
interbank offered rate of such maturity then appears on Dow
Xxxxx Markets (Telerate) Page 3750, then the Eurodollar Base
Rate shall be equal to the London Interbank offered rate for
deposits in U.S. dollars maturing immediately before or
immediately after such maturity, whichever is higher, as
determined by the Administrative Agent from Dow Xxxxx Markets
(Telerate) Page 3750. If Dow Xxxxx Markets (Telerate) Page 3750
is not available, the applicable Eurodollar Base Rate for the
relevant Eurodollar Interest Period shall be the rate determined
by the Administrative Agent to be the rate at which Bank One
offers to place deposits in U.S. dollars with first-class banks
in the London interbank market at approximately 11:00 a.m.
(London time) two Business Days prior to the first day of such
Eurodollar Interest Period, in the approximate amount of Bank
One's relevant Eurodollar Ratable Loan, or, in the case of a
Eurodollar Bid Rate Advance, the amount of the Eurodollar Bid
Rate Advance requested by the Borrower, and having a maturity
approximately equal to such Interest Period.
"Eurodollar Bid Rate" means, with respect to a Eurodollar
Bid Rate Loan made by a given Lender for the relevant Eurodollar
Interest Period, the sum of (a) the Eurodollar Base Rate
applicable to such Eurodollar Interest Period, plus or minus (b)
the Competitive Bid Margin offered by such Lender and accepted
by the Borrower. The Eurodollar Bid Rate shall be rounded to
the next higher multiple of 1/100 of 1% if the rate is not such
a multiple.
"Eurodollar Bid Rate Advance" means a Competitive Bid
Advance which bears interest at a Eurodollar Bid Rate.
"Eurodollar Bid Rate Loan" means a Competitive Bid Loan
which bears interest at the Eurodollar Bid Rate.
"Eurodollar Interest Period" means, with respect to a
Eurodollar Ratable Advance, a period of one, two, three or six
months (or, subject to approval by all Lenders, nine or twelve
months) or, with respect to a Eurodollar Bid Rate Advance, a
period of one, two, three, six, nine or twelve months, in each
case commencing on a Business Day selected by the Borrower
pursuant to this Agreement. Such Eurodollar Interest Period
shall end on the day which corresponds numerically to such date
one, two, three, six, nine or twelve months thereafter,
provided, however, that if there is no such numerically
corresponding day in such next, second, third, sixth, ninth or
twelfth succeeding month, such Eurodollar Interest Period shall
end on the last Business Day of such next, second, third, sixth,
ninth or twelfth succeeding month. If a Eurodollar Interest
Period would otherwise end on a day which is not a Business Day,
such Eurodollar Interest Period shall end on the next succeeding
Business Day, provided, however, that if said next succeeding
Business Day falls in a new calendar month, such Eurodollar
Interest Period shall end on the immediately preceding Business
Day.
"Eurodollar Loan" means a Eurodollar Bid Rate Loan or a
Eurodollar Ratable Loan.
"Eurodollar Ratable Advance" means an Advance which bears
interest at a Eurodollar Rate requested by the Borrower pursuant
to Section 2.2.
"Eurodollar Ratable Loan" means a Loan which bears interest
at a Eurodollar Rate requested by the Borrower pursuant to
Section 2.2.
"Eurodollar Rate" means, with respect to a Eurodollar
Ratable Advance for the relevant Eurodollar Interest Period, the
sum of (i) the quotient of (a) the Eurodollar Base Rate
applicable to such Eurodollar Interest Period, divided by (b)
one minus the Reserve Requirement (expressed as a decimal)
applicable to such Eurodollar Interest Period, plus (ii) the
Applicable Eurodollar Margin in effect two Business Days prior
to such Advance. The Eurodollar Rate shall be rounded to the
next higher multiple of 1/100 of 1% if the rate is not such a
multiple.
"Excess Investments" means at any time the amount (if any)
by which Special Investments exceeds 15% of Consolidated Net
Worth.
"Excluded Assets" means at any time any of the following
assets of the Loan Parties: (1) assets subject to any Lien
securing Indebtedness (except for Permitted Purchase Money Loans
in which the applicable Loan Party and its successors shall have
full rights to prepay without premium or penalty, or if a
premium or penalty may be imposed, the total potential premium
or penalty is added to the principal amount of such Indebtedness
for computation purposes, provided, that the Borrower may elect
in its sole discretion to designate any asset subject to a
Permitted Purchase Money Loan as an Excluded Asset (thereby
excluding such asset from the calculation of the Borrowing
Base), in which event any potential prepayment penalties and
premiums on such Permitted Purchase Money Loan shall not be
included in computing Indebtedness); (2) land, site
improvements, development costs and units or buildings
constructed or under construction on such land if the applicable
Loan Party has not received Preliminary Approval with respect to
such land or if such Land is not Environmentally Approved Land;
and (3) payments for options.
"Excluded Taxes" means, in the case of each Lender or
applicable Lending Installation and the Administrative Agent,
taxes imposed on its overall net income, and franchise taxes
imposed on it (including in either case withholding taxes
related thereto) by (i) the jurisdiction under the laws of which
such Lender or the Administrative Agent is incorporated or
organized or (ii) the jurisdiction in which the Administrative
Agent's or such Lender's principal executive office or such
Lender's applicable Lending Installation is located.
"Exhibit" refers to an exhibit to this Agreement, unless
another document is specifically referenced.
"Existing Letters of Credit" means those Letters of Credit
identified in Schedule 1 hereto heretofore issued, pursuant to
the Original Agreement, by the Lenders identified in Schedule 1
and outstanding as of the date hereof.
"Extension Date" is defined in Section 2.17.
"Extension Request" is defined in Section 2.17.
"Facility Fee" is defined in Section 2.4.
"Facility Letter of Credit" means (i) any Existing Letter
of Credit and (ii) any Letter of Credit (which, in the case of a
Performance Letter of Credit, may be an Escrow Agreement)
hereafter issued by an Issuing Bank for the account of the
Borrower or another Loan Party in accordance with Article IV.
"Facility Letter of Credit Fee" means, for any period, a
fee, payable with respect to each Facility Letter of Credit
issued by an Issuing Bank outstanding in such period, in an
amount per annum equal to the product of (i) the daily average
Applicable Letter of Credit Rate during such period and (ii) the
daily average undrawn face amount of such Facility Letter of
Credit, computed on the basis of the actual number of days such
Facility Letter of Credit is outstanding in such period.
"Facility Letter of Credit Notice" is defined in Section
4.4(c).
"Facility Letter of Credit Obligations" means at any time
the sum of (i) the aggregate undrawn face amount of all
outstanding Facility Letters of Credit, and (ii) the aggregate
amount paid by an Issuing Bank on any Facility Letters of Credit
to the extent (if any) not reimbursed by the Borrower or by the
Lenders under Section 4.4.
"Facility Termination Date" means March 19, 2006 or any
later date as may be specified as the Facility Termination Date
in accordance with Section 2.17 or any earlier date on which the
Aggregate Commitment is reduced to zero or otherwise terminated
pursuant to the terms hereof.
"Federal Funds Effective Rate" means, for any day, (i) the
"Federal Funds Rate" as published in The Wall Street Journal for
such day (or, if such day is not a Business Day, for the
immediately preceding Business Day) or (ii) if such rate is not
so published in The Wall Street Journal or if either the
Borrower or the Administrative Agent elects for any day not to
use the rate so published in The Wall Street Journal and so
notifies the other on such day, an interest rate per annum equal
to the weighted average of the rates on overnight Federal funds
transactions with members of the Federal Reserve System arranged
by Federal funds brokers on such day, as published for such day
(or, if such day is not a Business Day, for the immediately
preceding Business Day) by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York,
or, if such rate is not so published for any day which is a
Business Day, the average of the quotations at approximately
10:00 a.m. (Chicago time) on such day on such transactions
received by the Administrative Agent from three Federal funds
brokers of recognized standing selected by the Administrative
Agent in its sole discretion.
"Federal Funds/Euro-Rate" means, for any day, an interest
rate per annum equal to the greater of (a) the sum of (i) the
Federal Funds Effective Rate for the Business Day immediately
preceding such day, plus (ii) the Applicable Eurodollar Margin,
plus (iii) 0.25% per annum, and (b) a rate equal to the
Eurodollar Rate for a Eurodollar Interest Period of 30 days
commencing on the second Business Day after such day. The
Federal Funds/Euro-Rate shall be recomputed each day.
"Federal Funds/Euro-Rate Advance" means an Advance that
bears interest at the Federal Funds/Euro-Rate.
"Federal Funds/Euro-Rate Loan" means a Loan that bears
interest at the Federal Funds/Euro-Rate.
"Fee Letter" means that certain letter agreement dated
March 1, 2001 among the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and
the Arranger with respect to fees payable to the Lenders
hereunder.
"Financial Contract" of a Person means (i) any exchange-
traded or over-the-counter futures, forward, swap or option
contract or other financial instrument with similar
characteristics, and (ii) any agreements, devices or
arrangements providing for payments related to fluctuations of
interest rates, exchange rates or forward rates, including, but
not limited to, interest rate exchange agreements, forward
currency exchange agreements, interest rate cap or collar
protection agreements, forward rate currency or interest rate
options.
"Financial Letter of Credit" means any Letter of Credit
issued on behalf of a Loan Party that is not a Performance
Letter of Credit and that is issued to a Person to ensure
payment by a Loan Party or other Affiliate of the Company of a
financial obligation or satisfaction by a Loan Party or other
Affiliate of any other obligation of a Loan Party or other
Affiliate.
"Fixed CD Base Rate" means, with respect to a Fixed CD Rate
Advance for the relevant CD Interest Period, the rate determined
by the Administrative Agent to be the arithmetic average of the
prevailing bid rates quoted to the Administrative Agent at or
before 10 a.m. (Chicago time) on the first day of such CD
Interest Period by three New York or Chicago certificate of
deposit dealers of recognized standing selected by the
Administrative Agent in its sole discretion for the purchase at
face value of certificates of deposit of Bank One in the
approximate amount of Bank One's relevant Fixed CD Rate Loan and
having a maturity approximately equal to such CD Interest
Period.
"Fixed CD Rate" means, with respect to a Fixed CD Rate
Advance for the relevant CD Interest Period, a rate per annum
equal to the sum of (i) the quotient of (a) the Fixed CD Base
Rate applicable to such CD Interest Period, divided by (b) one
minus the Reserve Requirement (expressed as a decimal)
applicable to such CD Interest Period, plus (ii) the Assessment
Rate applicable to such CD Interest Period, plus (iii) the
Applicable CD Rate Margin as of the date of such Advance. The
Fixed CD Rate shall be rounded to the next higher multiple of
1/100 of 1% if the rate is not such a multiple.
"Fixed CD Rate Advance" means an Advance that bears
interest at a Fixed CD Rate.
"Fixed CD Rate Loan" means a Loan that bears interest at a
Fixed CD Rate.
"Fixed Ratable Advance" means a Eurodollar Ratable Advance
or a Fixed CD Rate Advance.
"Fixed Ratable Loan" means a Ratable Loan that bears
interest at a Fixed Rate.
"Fixed Rate" means the Fixed CD Rate, the Eurodollar Rate,
the Eurodollar Bid Rate or the Absolute Rate.
"Fixed Rate Advance" means an Advance that bears interest
at a Fixed Rate.
"Fixed Rate Loan" means a Loan that bears interest at a
Fixed Rate.
"Floating Rate" means the Alternative Base Rate or the
Federal Funds/Euro-Rate.
"Floating Rate Advance" means an Advance that bears
interest at a Floating Rate.
"Floating Rate Borrowing" means a Loan that bears interest
at a Floating Rate.
"Funding Lender" is defined in Section 2.22(a).
"Guarantors" means the Company and the Designated
Guarantors.
"Guaranty Agreement" means the amended and restated
guaranty agreement of even date herewith executed and delivered
by the Company and the Designated Guarantors to the
Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Lenders and any
guaranty agreement in substantially the same form hereafter
executed and delivered by one or more Designated Guarantors
pursuant to the provisions of Section 7.16, as any such amended
and restated guaranty agreement or other guaranty agreement may
be amended or modified and in effect from time to time.
"Increase Date" is defined in Section 2.18(c).
"Indebtedness" of a Person means, without duplication, such
Person's (i) obligations for borrowed money, (ii) obligations
representing the deferred purchase price of Property or services
(other than accounts payable arising in the ordinary course of
such Person's business payable on terms customary in the trade),
(iii) obligations, whether or not assumed, secured by Liens,
(iv) obligations which are evidenced by notes, acceptances, or
other instruments, (v) obligations of such Person to purchase
securities or other property arising out of or in connection
with the sale of the same or substantially similar securities or
property, (vi) Capitalized Lease Obligations, (vii) Contingent
Obligations, (viii) reimbursement obligations under Financial
Letters of Credit, and (ix) any other obligation for borrowed
money which in accordance with Agreement Accounting Principles
would be shown as a liability on the consolidated balance sheet
of such Person. The amount of Indebtedness shall include
potential prepayment penalties and premiums on such Indebtedness
to the extent provided in the definition of "Excluded Assets."
In no event shall Indebtedness include (a) Indebtedness owed by
one Loan Party to another Loan Party or (b) any obligation of a
Loan Party to reimburse the issuer of a performance bond issued
in the ordinary course of business.
"Intercompany Agreement" is defined in Section 7.18.
"Intercompany Loans" means the loans from the Borrower to
the applicable Loan Party using the proceeds of Loans hereunder.
"Intercompany Notes" is defined in Section 7.18.
"Interest Period" means a CD Interest Period or a
Eurodollar Interest Period or a Competitive Bid Interest Period
(as applicable).
"Investment" of a Person means any loan, advance (other
than commission, travel and similar advances to officers and
employees made in the ordinary course of business), extension of
credit (other than accounts receivable arising in the ordinary
course of business on terms customary in the trade) or
contribution of capital by such Person; stocks, bonds, mutual
funds, partnership interests, notes, debentures or other
securities owned by such Person; any deposit accounts and
certificate of deposit owned by such Person; and structured
notes, derivative financial instruments and other similar
instruments or contracts owned by such Person.
"Investment Grade Rating" means a Qualified Rating of (i)
BBB- or higher by S&P, or (ii) Baa3 or higher by Xxxxx'x.
"Investments in Mortgage Subsidiaries" means, without
duplication, at any time the sum of the following: (i) all
Investments by any Loan Party directly or indirectly in the
capital stock of or other payments (except in connection with
the transactions for fair value in the ordinary course of
business) to any of the Mortgage Subsidiaries, (ii) all loans by
any Loan Party directly or indirectly to any of the Mortgage
Subsidiaries, (iii) all Contingent Obligations of any Loan Party
directly or indirectly in respect of the obligations of any of
the Mortgage Subsidiaries, and (iv) all other obligations,
contingent or otherwise, of the Loan Parties to or for the
benefit of any of the Mortgage Subsidiaries; provided that,
Investments in Mortgage Subsidiaries shall not include any
amounts that a Mortgage Subsidiary owes to a Loan Party to
reimburse such Loan Party for any taxes paid or payable by such
Loan Party on account of such Mortgage Subsidiary.
"Invitation for Competitive Bid Quotes" means an Invitation
for Competitive Bid Quotes substantially in the form of Exhibit
D hereto, completed and delivered by the Competitive Bid Agent
to the Lenders in accordance with Section 2.3.3.
"Issuance Date" means the date on which a Facility Letter
of Credit is issued, amended or extended (as applicable).
"Issuing Bank" means any Lender that has issued an Existing
Letter of Credit or may from time to time issue a Facility
Letter of Credit in accordance with the provisions of Article
IV.
"Issuing Bank's L/C Limit" means, with respect to a Lender,
the amount so designated on Schedule 2 or, with respect to a
Lender that becomes a party to this Agreement after the date
hereof, an amount agreed to by such Lender, the Borrower and the
Administrative Agent, as such amount may in any case be
increased or decreased from time to time with the approval of
the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and such Lender.
"Labor Contracts" means all employee benefit plans,
employment agreements, collective bargaining agreements and
labor contracts to which any Loan Party is a party.
"Land and Land Development Costs" means at any time the
book value of all land owned by the Loan Parties and all land
development and carrying costs related thereto, excluding all
land which has been substantially improved and the land
development and carrying costs related thereto.
"Law" means any and all applicable federal, state, local
and foreign statutes, laws, judicial decisions, regulations,
ordinances, rules, judgments, orders, decrees, plans,
injunctions, permits, concessions, grants, franchises, licenses
and other governmental restrictions.
"L/C Sublimit" means at any time an amount equal to fifty
percent (50%) of the Aggregate Commitment, as such Aggregate
Commitment may increase or decrease from time to time hereunder.
"Lenders" means the lending institutions listed on the
signature pages of this Agreement and, from and after the
effective date of their respective Commitments and Acceptances,
any New Lenders, and the respective successors and assigns of
any of the foregoing.
"Lending Installation" means, with respect to a Lender or
the Administrative Agent, the office, branch, subsidiary or
affiliate of such Lender or the Administrative Agent listed on
the signature pages hereof or on a Schedule or otherwise
selected by such Lender or the Administrative Agent pursuant to
Section 2.15.
"Letter of Credit" of a Person means a letter of credit or
similar instrument (such as an Escrow Agreement) which is issued
upon the application of such Person or upon which such Person is
an account party or for which such Person is in any way liable.
"Leverage Ratio" means at any time the ratio of (a) the
amount by which (i) Total Indebtedness, less Permitted
Nonrecourse Indebtedness, exceeds (ii) the cash in excess of
$10,000,000 held by the Toll Group, to (b) the sum of (i)
Tangible Net Worth and (ii) fifty percent (50%) of Qualified
Subordinated Indebtedness (provided that the amount in this
clause (ii) shall not exceed 66-2/3% of Consolidated Net Worth).
"Lien" means any lien (statutory or other), mortgage,
pledge, hypothecation, assignment, deposit arrangement,
encumbrance or preference, priority or other security agreement
or preferential arrangement of any kind or nature whatsoever
(including, without limitation, the interest of a vendor or
lessor under any conditional sale, Capitalized Lease or other
title retention agreement).
"Loan" means, with respect to a Lender, such Lender's loan
made pursuant to Article II (or any conversion or continuation
thereof). For avoidance of doubt, the term "Loan" includes each
Competitive Bid Loan and Swing Line Advance.
"Loan Documents" means this Agreement, the Guaranty
Agreements and any Notes issued pursuant to Section 2.11.
"Loan Facility" is defined in Section 2.1.1, as the same
may be modified or amended and in effect from time to time.
"Loan Parties" means the Company, the Borrower and (subject
to the provisions of Section 10.13) the Designated Guarantors.
"Majority Lenders" means (i) subject to the provisions of
Section 2.18(e), if there exists no Default or if a Default
exists but there are no Loans or Facility Letters of Credit
outstanding, Lenders (excluding Non-Funding Lenders) whose
Commitments aggregate 51% or more of the Commitments of all of
the Lenders (excluding Non-Funding Lenders), or (ii) if a
Default exists and is continuing and there are Loans or Facility
Letters of Credit outstanding, Lenders (excluding Non-Funding
Lenders) whose Total Exposure aggregates 51% or more of the
Total Exposure of all of the Lenders (excluding Non-Funding
Lenders).
"Material Adverse Effect" means a material adverse effect
on (i) the business, Property, condition (financial or
otherwise) or results of operations of the Loan Parties taken as
a whole, (ii) the ability of the Loan Parties taken as a whole
to perform their obligations under the Loan Documents, or (iii)
the validity or enforceability of any of the Loan Documents or
the rights or remedies of the Administrative Agent or the
Lenders thereunder.
"Material Indebtedness" is defined in Section 8.4.
"Maximum Deductible Amount" is defined in Section 7.28.3.
"Moody's" means Xxxxx'x Investors Service, Inc. or any
successor thereto.
"Mortgage Banking Business" means the business of issuing
mortgage loans on residential properties (whether for purchase
of homes or refinancing of existing mortgages), purchasing and
selling mortgage loans, issuing securities backed by mortgage
loans, acting as a broker of mortgage loans and other activities
customarily associated with mortgage banking and related
businesses.
"Mortgage Subsidiaries' Adjusted Shareholders' Equity"
means at any time the stockholders' equity (less goodwill) of
the Mortgage Subsidiaries determined on a consolidated basis in
accordance with Agreement Accounting Principles, plus the
outstanding amount of any loans made by the Loan Parties to the
Mortgage Subsidiaries (except for intercompany payables to one
or more of the Loan Parties in respect of the Mortgage
Subsidiaries' share of accrued consolidated income tax
liabilities which have not yet been paid by the Loan Parties) or
other Investments in Mortgage Subsidiaries that are not included
in the stockholders' equity of the Mortgage Subsidiaries.
"Mortgage Subsidiaries' Liabilities" means at any time all
Indebtedness of any of the Mortgage Subsidiaries at such date
determined on a combined basis as a group in accordance with
Agreement Accounting Principles, plus accrued income taxes
payable by any of the Mortgage Subsidiaries within one year of
such date.
"Mortgage Subsidiary" means any corporation, limited
partnership, limited liability company or business trust that is
(a) organized after the Closing Date or designated by the
Company as a Mortgage Subsidiary after the Closing Date, (b) a
Subsidiary of the Company and (c) engaged in the Mortgage
Banking Business.
"Multiemployer Plan" means a Plan maintained pursuant to a
collective bargaining agreement or any other arrangement to
which the Borrower or any member of the Controlled Group is a
party and to which more than one employer is obligated to make
contributions.
"Multiple Employer Plan" means a Plan which has two or more
contributing sponsors (including the Company or any member of
the Controlled Group) at least two of whom are not under common
control, as such a plan is described in Sections 4063 and 4064
of ERISA.
"New Lender" means an Additional Lender that, immediately
prior to its purchase of the Commitment of a Lender pursuant to
Section 2.20 or its issuance of a Commitment pursuant to Section
2.18, was not a Lender hereunder.
"Non-Designation" is defined in Section 10.13.
"Non-Extending Lenders" means Bank Hapoalim B.M.,
Bayerische-Hypo-Und Vereinsbank AG, Fleet National Bank and
Guaranty Bank, formerly known as Guaranty Federal Bank, F.S.B.
"Non-Funding Lender" means any Lender that has (a) failed
to make a Loan required to be made by it hereunder or (b) given
notice to the Borrower or the Administrative Agent that it will
not make, or that it has disaffirmed or repudiated any
obligation to make, Loans required to be made hereunder.
"Non-Loan Parties" means members of the Toll Group or any
Affiliate thereof, excluding the Company, the Borrower and the
Designated Guarantors.
"Non-U.S. Lender" is defined in Section 3.5(c).
"Notes" means, collectively, the Competitive Bid Notes and
the Ratable Notes; and "Note" means any one of the Notes.
"Notice of Assignment" is defined in Section 13.3.2.
"Obligations" means all unpaid principal of and accrued and
unpaid interest on the Loans, the Facility Letter of Credit
Obligations, all accrued and unpaid fees and all expenses,
reimbursements, indemnities and other obligations of the Loan
Parties to the Lenders or to any Lender, the Administrative
Agent or any indemnified party arising under the Loan Documents.
"Official Body" means any national, federal, state, local
or other government or political subdivision or any agency,
authority, bureau, central bank, commission, department or
instrumentality of any of the foregoing, or any court, tribunal,
grand jury or arbitrator, in each case whether foreign or
domestic.
"Original Agreement" is defined in the recitals to this
Agreement.
"Other Taxes" is defined in Section 3.5(b).
"Participant" is defined in Section 13.2.1.
"PBGC" means the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, or
any successor thereto.
"Performance Letter of Credit" means (a) any Letter of
Credit issued on behalf of a Loan Party in favor of a
municipality or any other Official Body, including without
limitation, any utility, water or sewer authority, or other
similar entity for the purpose of assuring such municipality,
other Official Body, utility, water or sewer authority or
similar entity that an Affiliate of the Company will properly
and timely complete work it has agreed to perform for the
benefit of such municipality, other Official Body, utility,
water or sewer authority or similar entity or (b) an Escrow
Agreement.
"Permitted Environmental Exception" means an exception set
forth on an Environmental Certificate that an independent
environmental engineer certifies can, in the judgment of such
engineer, be cured by remediation that shall cost less than
$100,000 to complete and that the Borrower certifies to the
Lenders that it or another Loan Party shall timely cure in
accordance with applicable Environmental Laws. If the engineer
cannot or does not determine and certify as to the cost of such
remediation, the exception shall not be a Permitted
Environmental Exception.
"Permitted Investments" means Investments that are (i) cash
or cash equivalents including corporate bonds, stocks and
similar Investments; (ii) accounts receivable and trade credit
created, acquired or made in the ordinary course of business and
payable or dischargeable in accordance with customary trade
terms; (iii) Investments in a Guarantor; (iv) loans to
directors, officers, employees, agents, customers or suppliers
in the ordinary course, including the financing to purchasers of
homes and other residential properties from a Loan Party; (v)
Investments in Mortgage Subsidiaries; (vi) Investments in joint
ventures (whether in partnership, corporate or other form);
(vii) Investments in real estate and/or mortgages and/or
receivables secured by real estate including stock or
partnership interests in real estate related companies; (viii)
Investments in Non-Loan Parties or entities which will become
Non-Loan Parties by reason of such Investment; (ix) loans to
employees for the purpose of acquiring the Company's stock; (x)
Financial Contracts permitted hereunder; and (xi) other items in
the ordinary course of business.
"Permitted Liens" means
(i) Liens for taxes, assessments, or similar charges,
incurred in the ordinary course of business and
which are not yet due and payable and pledges or
deposits made in the ordinary course of business
to secure payment of workmen's compensation, or
to participate in any fund in connection with
workmen's compensation, unemployment insurance,
old-age pensions or other social security
programs;
(ii) Statutory Liens and other Liens of mechanics,
workmen and contractors, provided that the Liens
permitted by this subsection (ii) have not been
filed or, if such Liens have been filed, either
(i) a stay of enforcement thereof has been
obtained within 60 days, or (ii) such Liens have
been satisfied of record within 60 days after the
date of filing thereof;
(iii) Good faith escrows, pledges or deposits of
cash or cash equivalents made (A) by the Loan
Parties in the ordinary course of business to
secure performance of bids, tenders, contracts
(other than for the repayment of borrowed money)
or leases, or to secure statutory obligations, or
surety, appeal, indemnity, performance or other
similar bonds required in the ordinary course of
business, or (B) by third parties in favor of the
Loan Parties pursuant to Agreements of Sale;
(iv) Encumbrances consisting of zoning restrictions,
easements or other restrictions on the use of
real property, none of which materially impairs
the use of such property or the value thereof,
and none of which is violated in any material
respect by existing or proposed structures or
land use;
(v) Liens, security interests and mortgages, if any,
in favor of the Administrative Agent for the
benefit of the Lenders and cash collateral
granted to a Lender as security for the
obligations of the Loan Parties under Facility
Letters of Credit;
(vi) Any Lien existing on the date of this Agreement
and described on Schedule 3 hereto and any Lien
securing a refinancing of the Indebtedness
secured by a Lien described on Schedule 3,
provided that the principal amount secured
thereby is not hereafter increased and no
additional assets (except for improvements
constructed on such assets in the normal course
of the Company's business) become subject to such
Lien unless such change would be permitted under
other provisions hereof;
(vii) The following, (A) if the validity or amount
thereof is being contested in good faith by
appropriate and lawful proceedings diligently
conducted so long as levy and execution thereon
have been stayed and continue to be stayed or (B)
if a final judgment is entered and such judgment
is discharged, stayed or bonded within thirty
(30) days of entry:
(1) Claims or Liens for taxes, assessments or
charges due and payable and subject to
interest or penalty, provided that the Loan
Parties maintain such reserves and other
appropriate provisions as shall be required
by Agreement Accounting Principles and pay
all such taxes, assessments or charges
forthwith upon the commencement of
proceedings to foreclose any such Lien; or
(2) Claims, Liens or encumbrances upon, and
defects of title to, real or personal
property, including any attachment of
personal or real property or other legal
process prior to adjudication of a dispute
on the merits; orhe merits; or
(3) Other judgment Liens not in excess of
$10,000,000 individually or $30,000,000 in
the aggregate;
(viii) Purchase money security interests in
equipment acquired or deemed to be acquired;
(ix) Liens securing Permitted Purchase Money
Loans and Permitted Non-Recourse Indebtedness
described in the definitions of such terms;
(x) Liens securing additional Senior
Indebtedness, provided such liens are either pari
passu or subordinated to Liens in favor of the
Administrative Agent for the benefit of the
Lenders;
(xi) Liens on assets of Non-Loan Parties;
(xii) Liens on Investments in Non-Loan Parties;
(xiii) Liens on Investments in Mortgage
Subsidiaries;
(xiv) Liens of a Loan Party which existed prior to
such entity becoming a Loan Party (and were not
incurred in anticipation of becoming a Loan
Party); and
(xv) Liens to which assets were subject prior to
the acquisition of such assets by a Loan Party
(and were not incurred in anticipation of
becoming a Loan Party).
"Permitted Nonrecourse Indebtedness" means Indebtedness for
money borrowed that is incurred by a Loan Party in a transaction
for purposes of acquiring real estate and that is secured by
such real estate and improvements thereon, provided (a) the
amount of the Investment of the Loan Parties in the assets that
secure such Indebtedness (in excess of the amount of the loan
secured thereby) does not exceed $2,000,000 for such acquisition
as of the time of its acquisition or (for purposes of the
Leverage Ratio) $10,000,000 in the aggregate at any time for all
such Investments and (b) either (x) the liability of the Loan
Parties for such Indebtedness is limited solely to the assets of
the Loan Parties that secure such Indebtedness or (y) only a
Loan Party other than the Company and the Borrower is liable for
the Indebtedness and the sum (without duplication) of the
shareholders' equity (including amounts owed by such Loan Party
to another Loan Party or other Affiliate of the Company that is
either subordinate in right of payment to, or collection of
which is postponed in favor of, such Indebtedness) of,
Investments in, and loans to (i) such Loan Party does not exceed
$2,000,000 and (ii) all such Loan Parties does not exceed (for
purposes of the Leverage Ratio) $10,000,000 in the aggregate.
"Permitted Purchase Money Loans" means, collectively,
Seller Purchase Money Loans and Assumed Purchase Money Loans.
"Person" means any natural person, corporation, firm, joint
venture, partnership, limited liability company, association,
enterprise, trust or other entity or organization, or any
government or political subdivision or any agency, department or
instrumentality thereof.
"Plan" means an employee pension benefit plan which is
covered by Title IV of ERISA or subject to the minimum funding
standards under Section 412 of the Code as to which the Borrower
or any member of the Controlled Group may have any liability.
"Preliminary Approval" means preliminary approval from
required state and local governmental authorities and agencies
of a Loan Party's preliminary development plan in accordance
with provisions of the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code
or its equivalent in any other applicable jurisdiction in which
such Loan Party is doing business such that in each instance
there is vested in such Loan Party the right to develop such
real estate for residential purposes substantially in accordance
with the intentions of such Loan Party, subject only to
obtaining such additional approvals which do not impose on such
Loan Party any material burdens that are not usual and customary
for a development of such type and with respect to which there
is no reasonable expectation that final approval shall not be
obtained.
"Pricing Schedule" means the Schedule attached hereto
identified as such.
"Prime Rate" means a rate per annum equal to the prime rate
of interest announced from time to time by Bank One or its
parent (which is not necessarily the lowest rate charged to any
customer), changing when and as said prime rate changes.
"Prohibited Transaction" means a "prohibited transaction"
within the meaning of Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of
the Code for which neither a statutory exemption, an individual
exemption nor a class exemption has been issued by the United
States Department of Labor.
"Property" means any and all property, whether real,
personal, tangible, intangible, or mixed, of a Loan Party, or
other assets owned, leased or operated by a Loan Party.
"Purchaser" is defined in Section 13.3.1.
"Qualified Bank" means (a) any Lender, (b) a bank that has,
or is a wholly-owned subsidiary of a corporation that has, (i)
an unsecured long-term debt rating of not less than BBB- from
S&P or Baa3 from Xxxxx'x (or BBB- from S&P and Baa3 from Xxxxx'x
if both agencies issue ratings of its unsecured long-term debt)
and (ii) if its unsecured short-term debt is rated, an unsecured
short-tem debt rating of A3 from S&P or P3 from Xxxxx'x (or A3
from S&P and P3 from Xxxxx'x if both agencies issue ratings of
its unsecured short-term debt), (c) any Person (other than the
Borrower or an Affiliate of the Borrower) approved by the
Borrower and the Administrative Agent in their sole discretion
or (d) any other bank approved by all Lenders.
"Qualified Rating" means a public or private rating of the
Senior Indebtedness of the Company or the Indebtedness under
this Agreement or an implied rating of any Indebtedness of the
Company senior to the Subordinated Indebtedness of the Company
obtained from a Qualified Rating Agency. A Qualified Rating
must be one of the following:
1. An actual rating of the Indebtedness under this
Agreement exclusive of any other Senior Indebtedness
of the Company;
2. An actual rating of the Senior Indebtedness of the
Company;
3. An implied rating of the Indebtedness under this
Agreement exclusive of any other Senior Indebtedness
of the Company;
4. An implied rating of the Senior Indebtedness of the
Company; or
5. An implied rating of Indebtedness senior to current
outstanding Subordinated Indebtedness of the Company.
If the Company receives more than one rating from a Qualified
Rating Agency, the rating which falls in the lowest number
category above shall be the Qualified Rating. An implied rating
of any Indebtedness shall not be a Qualified Rating if it
assumes that such Indebtedness is secured.
"Qualified Rating Agency" means Xxxxx'x or S&P.
"Qualified Subordinated Indebtedness" means at any time, on
a consolidated basis, any Subordinated Indebtedness of the Loan
Parties having a maturity date later than the Facility
Termination Date.
"Quarterly Payment Date" means the first day of each
calendar quarter.
"Ratable Advance" means a borrowing hereunder consisting of
the aggregate amount of the several Ratable Loans made by the
Lenders to the Borrower at the same time, and (except as
otherwise provided Section 3.3) at the same Rate Option, and (in
the case of Fixed Ratable Loans) for the same Interest Period.
"Ratable Borrowing Notice" is defined in Section 2.2.3.
"Ratable Loan" means a Loan made by a Lender pursuant to
Section 2.2 hereof.
"Ratable Note" means a promissory note, in substantially
the form of Exhibit E-1 or Exhibit E-2 hereto (as applicable),
duly executed by the Borrower and payable to the order of a
Lender in the amount of its Commitment, including any amendment,
modification, renewal or replacement of such promissory note.
"Ratable Share" means, with respect to any Lender on any
date, the ratio of (a) the amount of such Lender's Commitment to
(b) the amount of the Aggregate Commitment.
"Rate Option" means the Alternate Base Rate, the Eurodollar
Rate, the Fixed CD Rate or the Federal Funds/Euro-Rate.
"Rate Option Notice" is defined in Section 2.2.4.
"Rating" means at any time (a) the higher of the Qualified
Rating of Xxxxx'x or the Qualified Rating of S&P or (b) if
either, but not both, of Xxxxx'x and S&P has issued a Qualified
Rating, such Qualified Rating.
"Regulated Substances" means any substance, including
without limitation, Solid Waste, the generation, manufacture,
processing, distribution, treatment, storage, disposal,
transport, recycling, reclamation, use, reuse or other
management or mismanagement of which is regulated by the
Environmental Laws.
"Regulation D" means Regulation D of the Board of Governors
of the Federal Reserve System as from time to time in effect and
any successor thereto or other regulation or official
interpretation of said Board of Governors relating to reserve
requirements applicable to member banks of the Federal Reserve
System.
"Regulation U" means Regulation U of the Board of Governors
of the Federal Reserve System as from time to time in effect and
any successor or other regulation or official interpretation of
said Board of Governors relating to the extension of credit by
banks for the purpose of purchasing or carrying margin stocks
applicable to member banks of the Federal Reserve System.
"Remediation Adjustment" means, with respect to any
Environmentally Approved Land that is subject to a Permitted
Environmental Exception, an amount equal to 150% of the
estimated remaining costs to complete remediation necessary to
cure such exception.
"Reportable Event" means a reportable event as defined in
Section 4043 of ERISA and the regulations issued under such
section, with respect to a Plan, excluding, however, such events
as to which the PBGC has by regulation waived the requirement of
Section 4043(a) of ERISA that it be notified within 30 days of
the occurrence of such event.
"Required Lenders" means (i) subject to the provisions of
Section 2.18(e), if there exists no Default or if a Default
exists and is continuing but there are no Loans or Facility
Letters of Credit outstanding, Lenders (excluding Non-Funding
Lenders) whose Commitments aggregate at least 66-2/3% of the
Commitments of all of the Lenders (excluding Non-Funding
Lenders), or (ii) if a Default exists and is continuing and
there are Loans or Facility Letters of Credit outstanding,
Lenders (excluding Non-Funding Lenders) whose Total Exposure
aggregates at least 66-2/3% of the Total Exposure of all of the
Lenders (excluding Non-Funding Lenders).
"Reserve Requirement" means, with respect to a CD Interest
Period or a Eurodollar Interest Period, the maximum aggregate
reserve requirement (including all basic, supplemental, marginal
and other reserves) which is imposed under Regulation D on new
non-personal time deposits of $100,000 or more with a maturity
equal to that of such CD Interest Period (in the case of Fixed
CD Rate Advances) or on Eurocurrency liabilities (in the case of
Eurodollar Ratable Advances).
"Risk-Based Capital Guidelines" is defined in Section 3.2.
"S&P" means Standard and Poor's Ratings Services, a
division of The McGraw Hill Companies, Inc.
"Sale and Leaseback Transaction" means any sale or other
transfer of property by any Person with the intent to lease such
property as lessee.
"Schedule" refers to a specific schedule to this Agreement,
unless another document is specifically referenced.
"SEC" means the Securities and Exchange Commission.
"Section" means a numbered section of this Agreement,
unless another document is specifically referenced.
"Seller Purchase Money Loans" means at any time outstanding
purchase money loans made to a Loan Party by the seller of
improved or unimproved real estate in a single or separate
transactions for the exclusive purpose of acquiring such real
estate for development and secured by a mortgage Lien on such
real estate.
"Senior Executive" means the Chairman of the Board,
President, Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer,
Chief Accounting Officer or General Counsel of any Loan Party.
"Senior Indebtedness" means at any time, on a consolidated
basis for the Loan Parties, Total Indebtedness, less
Subordinated Indebtedness, provided that, for purposes of the
definition of "Qualified Rating," Senior Indebtedness shall not
include Indebtedness of any Person other than the Company or the
Borrower.
"Single Employer Plan" means a Plan maintained by the
Company or any member of the Controlled Group for employees of
the Company or any member of the Controlled Group and no other
employer.
"Solid Waste" means any garbage, refuse or sludge from any
waste treatment plant, water supply plant or air pollution
control facility generated by activities on the Property, and
any unpermitted release into the environment or the work place
of any material as a result of activities on the Property,
including without limitation, scrap and used Regulated
Substances.
"Special Investments" means, at any time (but without
duplication) all Investments by Loan Parties in Non-Loan Parties
(other than Mortgage Subsidiaries), including, after its
Conversion, any Non-Loan Party that was a Designated Guarantor
prior to its Conversion. The amount of such Investments shall
include, without limitation, the book value of stocks,
partnership interests, notes or other securities, and the amount
of loans, guaranties and recourse contingent obligations, and
contributions of capital.
"Subordinated Indebtedness" means, with respect to the Loan
Parties, the existing subordinated Indebtedness described on
Schedule 4 and any other unsecured Indebtedness subordinated
under terms as favorable to the Lenders as the terms of the
subordination governing the Indebtedness described on Schedule 4
as determined by the Administrative Agent in its sole
discretion.
"Subordinated Loan Documents" means at any time the
agreements and other documents then governing the Subordinated
Indebtedness.
"Subsidiary" of a Person means (i) any corporation more
than 50% of the outstanding securities having ordinary voting
power of which shall at the time be owned or controlled,
directly or indirectly, by such Person or by one or more of its
Subsidiaries or by such Person and one or more of its
Subsidiaries, or (ii) any partnership, limited liability
company, association, joint venture or similar business
organization more than 50% of the ownership interests having
ordinary voting power of which shall at the time be so owned or
controlled. Unless otherwise expressly provided, all references
herein to a "Subsidiary" shall mean a Subsidiary of the Company.
"Substantial Portion" means, with respect to the Property
of the Company and its Subsidiaries, Property which represents
more than 10% of the consolidated assets of the Company and its
Subsidiaries as would be shown in the consolidated financial
statements of the Company and its Subsidiaries as at the
beginning of the period of four consecutive fiscal quarters
ending with the fiscal quarter in which such determination is
made.
"Swing Line Advance" is defined in Section 2.19(a).
"Swing Line Borrowing Notice" is defined in Section
2.19(c).
"Swing Line Commitment" means the commitment of the Swing
Line Lender to make Swing Line Advances pursuant to Section
2.19(a). As of the date of this Agreement, the Swing Line
Commitment is in the amount of $50,000,000.
"Swing Line Lender" means Bank One or any Purchaser to
which Bank One assigns the Swing Line Commitment in accordance
with Sections 13.3.1 and 13.3.3.
"Syndication Agent" means Bank of America, N.A., in its
capacity as syndication agent, and not in its capacity as a
Lender.
"Tangible Net Worth" means at any time Consolidated Net
Worth less the sum of (a) intangible assets (as determined in
accordance with Agreement Accounting Principles), (b) Excess
Investments and (c) Investments in Mortgage Subsidiaries. The
amount of Investments in Mortgage Subsidiaries shall include,
without limitation, the book value of stocks, partnership
interests, notes or other securities and the amount of loans,
guaranties and recourse contingent obligations, and
contributions of capital.
"Taxes" means any and all present or future taxes, duties,
levies, imposts, deductions, charges or withholdings, and any
and all liabilities with respect to the foregoing, but excluding
Excluded Taxes.
"Term Loan Agreement" means that certain Term Loan
Agreement dated July 25, 2000, among the Borrower, the Company,
Bank One as lender and Administrative Agent and the other
lenders party thereto, as amended or modified and in effect from
time to time.
"Toll Group" means the Company, the Borrower and all other
Subsidiaries of the Company.
"Total Exposure" means, at any time with respect to any
Lender, the sum of (a) such Lender's outstanding Loans and (b)
such Lender's Ratable Share of the outstanding Facility Letter
of Credit Obligations.
"Total Indebtedness" means at any time all Indebtedness of
the Loan Parties on a consolidated basis (including, without
limitation, the Obligations).
"Transferee" is defined in Section 13.4.
"Type" means, with respect to any Ratable Advance, its
nature as an ABR Advance, Eurodollar Ratable Advance, Federal
Funds/Euro-Rate Advance or Fixed CD Rate Advance and (b) with
respect to any Competitive Bid Advance, its nature as an
Absolute Rate Advance or Eurodollar Bid Rate Advance.
"Unfunded Liabilities" means the amount (if any) by which
the present value of all vested and unvested accrued benefits
under all Single Employer Plans exceeds the fair market value of
all such Plan assets allocable to such benefits, all determined
as of the then most recent valuation date for such Plans using
PBGC actuarial assumptions for single employer plan
terminations.
"Unmatured Default" means an event that but for the lapse
of time or the giving of notice, or both, would constitute a
Default.
"Usage Fee" is defined in Section 2.4(c).
"Wholly-Owned Subsidiary" of a Person means (i) any
Subsidiary all of the outstanding voting securities of which
shall at the time be owned or controlled, directly or
indirectly, by such Person or one or more Wholly-Owned
Subsidiaries of such Person, or by such Person and one or more
Wholly-Owned Subsidiaries of such Person, or (ii) any
partnership, limited liability company, association, joint
venture or similar business organization 100% of the ownership
interests having ordinary voting power of which shall at the
time be so owned or controlled.
The foregoing definitions shall be equally applicable to
both the singular and plural forms of the defined terms.
ARTICLE II
THE CREDITS
2.1. The Loan Facility.
2.1.1. Description of Loan Facility. The Lenders grant
to the Borrower a revolving credit facility (the "Loan
Facility") pursuant to which, and upon the terms and subject to
the conditions herein set forth:
(a) each Lender severally agrees to make Ratable
Loans to the Borrower in accordance with Section 2.2;
(b) each Lender may, in its sole discretion, make
bids to make Competitive Bid Loans to the Borrower in accordance
with Section 2.3; and
(c) the Swing Line Lender agrees to make Swing Line
Advances to the Borrower in accordance with Section 2.19.
2.1.2. Amount of Loan Facility. The Loan Facility shall
be subject to the following limitations:
(a) In no event shall the sum of (i) the aggregate
principal amount of all outstanding Advances (including Ratable
Advances, Competitive Bid Advances and Swing Line Advances) plus
(ii) the Facility Letter of Credit Obligations exceed the
Aggregate Commitment.
(b) In no event shall the outstanding principal
amount of all outstanding Competitive Bid Advances exceed the
Competitive Bid Sublimit.
(c) In no event shall the outstanding principal
amount of all outstanding Swing Line Advances exceed the Swing
Line Commitment.
2.1.3. Availability of Loan Facility. Subject to the
terms hereof, the Loan Facility is available from the date
hereof to the Facility Termination Date and, upon the Facility
Termination Date, the Commitments to lend hereunder shall
expire. The Commitment of a Declining Lender shall expire on
its Declining Lender's Termination Date unless prior thereto
such Declining Lender elects, with the approval of the Borrower
and the Administrative Agent, to extend its Commitment to the
Facility Termination Date, which election and approval shall be
evidenced by a written instrument in a form reasonably
acceptable to and executed by such Declining Lender, the
Borrower, the Company and the Administrative Agent. Upon the
execution and delivery of such written instrument, such Lender
shall cease to be a Declining Lender.
2.1.4. Required Payments. Any outstanding Advances and
all other unpaid Obligations shall be paid in full by the
Borrower on the Facility Termination Date (except to the extent
that, pursuant to Article IV, Facility Letters of Credit are
permitted to have an expiration date later than the Facility
Termination Date). All outstanding Loans held by, and all other
unpaid Obligations payable to, a Declining Lender shall be paid
in full by the Borrower on such Declining Lender's Termination
Date. At any time that there exists a breach of the covenant
set forth in Section 7.28.2, the Borrower shall immediately pay
to the Administrative Agent, as a payment of the Advances, such
amount (not to exceed the sum of the outstanding Advances)
necessary to cure such breach.
2.2. Ratable Advances.
2.2.1. Ratable Advances. Each Ratable Advance hereunder
shall consist of borrowings made from the several Lenders in
their respective Ratable Shares thereof. The aggregate
outstanding amount of Competitive Bid Advances shall reduce the
availability of Advances as provided in Section 2.1.2(a) but
shall not otherwise affect the obligations of the Lenders to
make Ratable Advances, and (without limitation of the foregoing)
no Competitive Bid Loan shall reduce the obligation of the
Lender making such Competitive Bid Loan to lend its Ratable
Share of any future Ratable Advances.
2.2.2. Ratable Advance Rate Options. The Ratable
Advances may be ABR Advances, Federal Funds/Euro-Rate Advances,
Fixed CD Rate Advances or Eurodollar Ratable Advances, or a
combination thereof, selected by the Borrower in accordance with
Section 2.2.3. No Ratable Advance may mature after the Facility
Termination Date.
2.2.3. Method of Selecting Rate Options and Interest
Periods for Ratable Advances. The Borrower shall select the
Rate Option and, in the case of each Fixed Rate Advance, the
Interest Period applicable thereto, from time to time. The
Borrower shall give the Administrative Agent irrevocable notice
(a "Ratable Borrowing Notice') not later than 10:00 a.m.
(Chicago time) (or 10:15 a.m. (Chicago time) if applicable under
the next succeeding sentence), (x) on the Borrowing Date of each
Floating Rate Advance, (y) at least one Business Day prior to
the Borrowing Date of each Fixed CD Rate Advance and (z) at
least three Business Days prior to the Borrowing Date of each
Eurodollar Ratable Advance. The time for delivery of a Ratable
Borrowing Notice for a Floating Rate Advance shall be extended
by 15 minutes if the day on which such Ratable Borrowing Notice
is given is also a day on which the Borrower is required to
reject one or more bids offered in connection with an Absolute
Rate Auction pursuant to Section 2.3.6, and the time for
delivery of a Ratable Borrowing Notice for a Eurodollar Ratable
Advance shall be extended by 15 minutes if the day on which such
Ratable Borrowing Notice is given is also a day on which the
Borrower is required to reject one or more bids offered in
connection with a Eurodollar Auction pursuant to Section 2.3.6.
A Ratable Borrowing Notice shall specify:
(i) the Borrowing Date, which shall be a Business
Day, of such Ratable Advance;
(ii) the aggregate amount of such Ratable Advance;
(iii) the Rate Option selected for such Ratable
Advance; and
(iv) in the case of each Fixed Ratable Advance, the
Interest Period applicable thereto (which shall
be subject to the limitations set forth in
Section 2.2.6).
2.2.4. Conversion and Continuation of Outstanding
Ratable Advances. Each Floating Rate Advance shall continue as
a Floating Rate Advance of that Type unless and until such
Floating Rate Advance is either converted into the other Type of
Floating Rate Advance or a Fixed Ratable Advance in accordance
with this Section 2.2.4 or is prepaid in accordance with Section
2.6. Each Fixed Ratable Advance shall continue as a Fixed
Ratable Advance of such Type until the end of the then
applicable Interest Period therefor, at which time such Fixed
Ratable Advance shall be automatically converted into a Federal
Funds/Euro-Rate Advance unless such Fixed Ratable Advance shall
have been either (a) prepaid in accordance with Section 2.6, (b)
continued as a Fixed Ratable Advance of the same or a different
Type for the same or another Interest Period in accordance with
this Section 2.2.4 or (c) converted into an ABR Advance in
accordance with this Section 2.2.4. Subject to the terms of
Section 2.5, the Borrower may elect from time to time to convert
and/or continue the Rate Option applicable to all or any part of
a Ratable Advance into another Rate Option; provided, that any
conversion or continuation of any Fixed Ratable Advance shall be
made on, and only on, the last day of the Interest Period
applicable thereto. The Borrower shall give the Administrative
Agent irrevocable notice (a "Rate Option Notice") of each
conversion of a Floating Rate Advance into the other Type of
Floating Rate Advance or into a Fixed Ratable Advance, or
continuation of a Fixed Ratable Advance or the conversion of a
Fixed Ratable Advance, not later than 10:00 a.m. (Chicago time)
(x) on the Business Day of the conversion of a Floating Rate
Advance into the other Type of Floating Rate Advance or the
conversion of a Fixed Ratable Advance into an ABR Advance, (y)
at least one Business Day prior to the requested conversion of a
Floating Rate Advance into, or the requested conversion or
continuation of a Fixed Ratable Advance into, a Fixed CD Rate
Option or (z) at least three Business Days prior to the date of
the requested conversion or continuation of a Ratable Advance
into a Eurodollar Ratable Advance, specifying:
(i) the requested date, which shall be a Business
Day, of such conversion or continuation;
(ii) the aggregate amount and Rate Option applicable
to the Ratable Advance which is to be converted
or continued; and
(iii) the amount and Rate Option(s) of Ratable
Advance(s) into which such Ratable Advance is to
be converted or continued and, in the case of a
conversion into or continuation of a Fixed
Ratable Advance, the duration of the Interest
Period applicable thereto (which shall be subject
to the limitations set forth in Section 2.2.6).
2.2.5. Limitations. Ratable Advances shall be subject
to the applicable limitations set forth in Section 2.5.
2.2.6. Interest Period. The Interest Period of a Fixed
Ratable Advance may not end later than the Facility Termination
Date nor later than the Declining Lender's Termination Date of
any Declining Lender.
2.3. Competitive Bid Advances.
2.3.1. Competitive Bid Option. In addition to Ratable
Advances pursuant to Section 2.2, but subject to the terms and
conditions of this Agreement (including, without limitation, the
limitation set forth in Section 2.1.2(a) as to the maximum
aggregate principal amount of all outstanding Advances and
Facility Letter of Credit Obligations hereunder and the
limitation in Section 2.1.2(b) as to the maximum aggregate
amount of all outstanding Competitive Bid Advances), the
Borrower may, as set forth in this Section 2.3, request the
Lenders, prior to the Facility Termination Date, to make offers
to make Competitive Bid Advances to the Borrower. Each Lender
may, but shall have no obligation to, make any such offer in the
manner set forth in this Section 2.3.
2.3.2. Competitive Bid Quote Request. When the Borrower
wishes to request offers to make Competitive Bid Loans under
this Section 2.3, it shall transmit to the Administrative Agent
(whether or not it is the Competitive Bid Agent) by telex or
telecopy a Competitive Bid Quote Request substantially in the
form of Exhibit C so as to be received no later than (i) at
least five (5) Business Days prior to the Borrowing Date
proposed therein, in the case of a Eurodollar Auction or (ii) at
least two (2) Business Days (or, if so agreed by the Borrower
and the Administrative Agent, one (1) (but not less than one (1)
Business Day) prior to the Borrowing Date proposed therein, in
the case of an Absolute Rate Auction. The Competitive Bid Quote
Request shall specify whether the Borrower or the Administrative
Agent shall be the Competitive Bid Agent with respect thereto,
and, if the Administrative Agent is the Competitive Bid Agent,
the Borrower shall deliver the Competitive Bid Quote Request to
the Administrative Agent not later than 9:00 a.m. (Chicago time)
on the day on which it is required to be delivered. Each
Competitive Bid Quote Request shall specify:
(i) the proposed Borrowing Date, which shall be a
Business Day, for the proposed Competitive Bid
Advance;
(ii) the aggregate principal amount of such proposed
Competitive Bid Advance, which shall be not less
than $10,000,000 and in an integral multiple of
$1,000,000 if in excess thereof;
(iii) whether the Competitive Bid Quotes requested
are to set forth a Competitive Bid Margin or an
Absolute Rate; and
(iv) the Competitive Bid Interest Period applicable
thereto (which may not end after the Facility
Termination Date).
The Borrower may request offers to make Competitive Bid Loans
for more than one Competitive Bid Interest Period, but not more
than five Competitive Bid Interest Periods, in a single
Competitive Bid Quote Request. No Competitive Bid Quote Request
shall be given within five (5) Business Days (or such other
number of days as the Borrower and the Administrative Agent may
agree) of any Competitive Bid Quote Request that did not result
in a Competitive Bid Advance being made. If the Administrative
Agent is the Competitive Bid Agent, it may reject a Competitive
Bid Quote Request that does not conform substantially to the
form of Exhibit C, and shall promptly notify the Borrower of
such rejection by telex or telecopy.
2.3.3. Invitation for Competitive Bid Quotes. Promptly
and in any event before the close of business on the same
Business Day of delivery of a Competitive Bid Quote Request that
is not rejected pursuant to Section 2.3.2, the Competitive Bid
Agent shall send to each of the Lenders (except as otherwise
provided in Section 2.3.10) by telex or telecopy an Invitation
for Competitive Bid Quotes substantially in the form of Exhibit
D hereto, which shall constitute an invitation by the Borrower
to each such Lender to submit Competitive Bid Quotes offering to
make the Competitive Bid Loans to which such Competitive Bid
Quote Request relates in accordance with this Section 2.3.
2.3.4. Submission and Contents of Competitive Bid
Quotes. Except as otherwise provided in Section 2.3.10,
each Lender may, in its sole discretion, submit a Competitive
Bid Quote containing an offer or offers to make Competitive Bid
Loans in response to any Invitation for Competitive Bid Quotes.
Each Competitive Bid Quote must comply with the requirements of
this Section 2.3.4 and must be submitted to the Competitive Bid
Agent by telex or telecopy at its offices specified in or
pursuant to Article XIV not later than (i) 9:00 a.m. (Chicago
time) at least three Business Days prior to the proposed
Borrowing Date, in the case of a Eurodollar Auction or (ii) 9:00
a.m. (Chicago time) on the proposed Borrowing Date, in the case
of an Absolute Rate Auction (or, in either case upon reasonable
prior notice to the Lenders, such other time and date as the
Borrower and the Administrative Agent may agree); provided that,
if the Administrative Agent is the Competitive Bid Agent,
Competitive Bid Quotes submitted by the Administrative Agent as
a Lender may only be submitted if the Administrative Agent
notifies the Borrower of the terms of the offer or offers
contained therein not later than 30 minutes prior to the latest
time at which the relevant Competitive Bid Quotes must be
submitted by the other Lenders. Subject to Articles V and IX,
any Competitive Bid Quote so made shall be irrevocable except
with the written consent of the Competitive Bid Agent given on
the instructions of the Borrower (if the Borrower is not the
Competitive Bid Agent).
(b) Each Competitive Bid Quote shall be in
substantially the form of Exhibit B and shall in any case
specify:
(i) the proposed Borrowing Date, which shall be the
same as that set forth in the applicable
Invitation for Competitive Bid Quotes;
(ii) the principal amount of the Competitive Bid Loan
for which each such offer is being made, which
principal amount (A) may be greater than, less
than or equal to the Commitment of the quoting
Lender, (B) must be in an integral multiple of
$1,000,000 and (C) may not exceed the principal
amount of Competitive Bid Loans for which offers
were requested;
(iii) in the case of a Eurodollar Auction, the
Competitive Bid Margin offered for each such
Competitive Bid Loan;
(iv) the minimum amount, if any, of the Competitive
Bid Loan which may be accepted by the Borrower,
which amount shall not be less than $1,000,000;
(v) in the case of an Absolute Rate Auction, the
Absolute Rate offered for each such Competitive
Bid Loan;
(vi) the maximum aggregate amount, if any, of
Competitive Bid Loans offered by the quoting
Lender which may be accepted by the Borrower; and
(vii) the identity of the quoting Lender.
(c) The Competitive Bid Agent shall reject any
Competitive Bid Quote that:
(i) is not substantially in the form of Exhibit B or
does not specify all of the information required
by Section 2.3.4(b);
(ii) contains qualifying, conditional or similar
language, other than any such language contained
in Exhibit B;
(iii) proposes terms other than or in addition to
those set forth in the applicable Invitation for
Competitive Bid Quotes; or
(iv) arrives after the time set forth in Section
2.3.4(a).
If any Competitive Bid Quote shall be rejected pursuant to this
Section 2.3.4(c), then the Competitive Bid Agent shall notify
the relevant Lender of such rejection as soon as practical and
(if the Administrative Agent is the Competitive Bid Agent) shall
promptly send a copy of the rejected Competitive Bid Quote to
the Borrower.
2.3.5. Notice to Borrower. If the Administrative Agent
is the Competitive Bid Agent, it shall promptly notify the
Borrower of the terms (i) of any Competitive Bid Quote submitted
by a Lender that is in accordance with Section 2.3.4 and (ii) of
any Competitive Bid Quote that amends, modifies or is otherwise
inconsistent with a previous Competitive Bid Quote submitted by
such Lender with respect to the same Competitive Bid Quote
Request. Any such subsequent Competitive Bid Quote shall be
disregarded by the Competitive Bid Agent unless such subsequent
Competitive Bid Quote specifically states that it is submitted
solely to correct a manifest error in such former Competitive
Bid Quote. If the Administrative Agent is the Competitive Bid
Agent, its notice to the Borrower shall specify the aggregate
principal amount of Competitive Bid Loans for which offers have
been received for each Interest Period specified in the related
Competitive Bid Quote Request and the respective principal
amounts and Eurodollar Bid Rates or Absolute Rates, as the case
may be, so offered. In addition, if the Administrative Agent is
the Competitive Bid Agent, it shall send copies of each
Competitive Bid Quote to the Borrower.
2.3.6. Acceptance and Notice by Borrower. Not later
than (i) 10:00 a.m. (Chicago time) at least three Business Days
prior to the proposed Borrowing Date, in the case of a
Eurodollar Auction or (ii) 10:00 a.m. (Chicago time) on the
proposed Borrowing Date, in the case of an Absolute Rate Auction
(or, in either case upon reasonable prior notice to the Lenders,
such other time and date as the Borrower and the Administrative
Agent may agree), the Borrower shall notify the Administrative
Agent of its acceptance or rejection of the offers received by
it pursuant to Section 2.3.4 or so notified to it pursuant to
Section 2.3.5; provided, however, that the failure by the
Borrower to give such notice to the Administrative Agent shall
be deemed to be a rejection of all such offers. In the case of
acceptance, such notice (a "Competitive Bid Borrowing Notice")
shall specify the aggregate principal amount of offers for each
Interest Period that are accepted and (if the Administrative
Agent is not the Competitive Bid Agent) shall include copies of
each Competitive Bid Quote that is accepted. The Borrower may
accept any Competitive Bid Quote in whole or in part (subject to
the terms of Section 2.3.4(b)(iv) and (vi)); provided that:
(i) the aggregate principal amount of each
Competitive Bid Advance may not exceed (but,
within the limitations set forth in Section
2.3.2(ii), may be less than) the applicable
amount set forth in the related Competitive Bid
Quote Request;
(ii) acceptance of offers may only be made on the
basis of ascending Eurodollar Bid Rates or
Absolute Rates, as the case may be; and
(iii) the Borrower may not accept any offer that
is described in Section 2.3.4(c) or that
otherwise fails to comply with the requirements
of this Agreement.
2.3.7. Allocation by Competitive Bid Agent. If offers
are made by two or more Lenders with the same Eurodollar Bid
Rates or Absolute Rates, as the case may be, for a greater
aggregate principal amount than the amount in respect of which
offers are accepted for the related Interest Period, the
principal amount of Competitive Bid Loans in respect of which
such offers are accepted shall be allocated by the Competitive
Bid Agent among such Lenders as nearly as possible (in such
multiples, not greater than $1,000,000, as the Competitive Bid
Agent may deem appropriate) in proportion to the aggregate
principal amount of such offers; provided, however, that no
Lender shall be allocated a portion of any Competitive Bid
Advance which is less than the minimum amount which such Lender
has stated in its applicable Competitive Bid Quote that it is
willing to accept. Allocations by the Competitive Bid Agent of
the amounts of Competitive Bid Loans shall be conclusive in the
absence of manifest error. The Administrative Agent shall
promptly, but in any event on the same Business Day, notify each
Lender of its receipt of a Competitive Bid Borrowing Notice and
the aggregate principal amount of such Competitive Bid Advance
allocated to each participating Lender.
2.3.8. Limitations. Competitive Bid Advances shall be
subject to the applicable limitations contained in the last
sentence of Section 2.5.
2.3.9. Administration Fee. The Borrower hereby agrees
to pay to the Administrative Agent an administration fee, in the
amount set forth in the Administrative Agent's Fee Letter, for
each Competitive Bid Quote Request transmitted by the Borrower
to the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 2.3.2. Such
administration fee shall be payable in arrears on each Payment
Date hereafter and on the Facility Termination Date (or such
earlier date on which the Aggregate Commitment shall terminate
or be canceled) for any period then ending for which such fee,
if any, shall not have been theretofore paid.
2.3.10. Declining Lender. Notwithstanding anything to
the contrary contained herein, (a) a Declining Lender shall not
be entitled to receive an Invitation for Competitive Bid Quotes
inviting an offer for, and shall not offer to make and shall not
make, a Competitive Bid Loan for a Competitive Bid Interest
Period that expires later than its Declining Lender's
Termination Date and (b) the Borrower may not request a
Competitive Bid Advance for a Competitive Bid Interest Period
expiring later than any Declining Lender's Termination Date if,
following the making of such Competitive Bid Advance, the
aggregate amount of all Competitive Bid Advances for Competitive
Bid Interest Periods expiring later than such Declining Lender's
Termination Date would exceed the amount to which the
Competitive Bid Sublimit will be reduced upon such Declining
Lender's Termination Date.
2.4. Facility Fee; Reductions in Aggregate Commitment;
Usage Fee. The Borrower agrees to pay to the
Administrative Agent for the account of each Lender a facility
fee ("Facility Fee") at a per annum rate equal to the Applicable
Fee Rate on such Lender's Commitment (whether used or unused)
from the date hereof to and including the Facility Termination
Date, payable in advance on each Quarterly Payment Date
hereafter and on the Facility Termination Date (or such earlier
date as the Obligations may be accelerated or become due).
(b) The Borrower may permanently reduce the Aggregate
Commitment in whole, or in part ratably among the Lenders (in
their respective Ratable Shares) in integral multiples of
$10,000,000, upon at least five Business Days' written notice to
the Administrative Agent, which notice shall specify the amount
of any such reduction, provided, however, that (i) the amount of
the Aggregate Commitment may not be reduced below the sum of (A)
aggregate principal amount of the outstanding Advances and (B)
the Facility Letter of Credit Obligations, (ii) the amount of
the Aggregate Commitment may not be reduced to an amount that is
less than twice the outstanding amount of all outstanding
Competitive Bid Advances and (iii) the amount of the Aggregate
Commitment may not be reduced to an amount that is less than
twice the outstanding amount of all outstanding Facility Letter
of Credit Obligations.
(c) The Borrower agrees to pay to the Administrative
Agent for the account of each Lender a fee ("Usage Fee") in an
amount equal to (i) 0.05% per annum multiplied by (ii) the
amount (if any) by which (A) one-half (1/2) of such Lender's
Commitment exceeds (B) the average daily outstanding principal
balance of such Lender's Loans and its Ratable Share of
outstanding Facility Letters of Credit hereunder. The Usage Fee
shall be payable from the date hereof to and including the
Facility Termination Date and shall be payable quarterly in
arrears on each Quarterly Payment Date hereafter and on the
Facility Termination Date (or such earlier date on which the
Obligations may be accelerated or become due).
(d) All accrued Facility Fees and Usage Fees shall be
payable on the effective date of any termination of the
obligations of the Lenders to make Loans hereunder.
2.5. Minimum Amount of Each Advance; Maximum Number of
Advances. Each Fixed Ratable Advance shall be in the minimum
amount of $5,000,000 (and in multiples of $1,000,000 if in
excess thereof), and each Floating Rate Advance shall be in the
minimum amount of $1,000,000 (and in multiples of $1,000,000 if
in excess thereof), provided, however, that any Floating Rate
Advance may be in the amount of the unused Aggregate Commitment
or in the amount necessary to repay a Swing Line Advance. Each
Competitive Bid Advance shall be in the minimum amount provided
for in Section 2.3. There shall be no more than ten (10) Fixed
Rate Advances outstanding at any time.
2.6. Optional Principal Payments. The Borrower may from
time to time pay, without penalty or premium, all outstanding
Floating Rate Advances, or, in a minimum aggregate amount of
$1,000,000 or any integral multiple of $1,000,000 in excess
thereof, any portion of the outstanding Floating Rate Advances
upon two Business Days' prior notice to the Administrative
Agent. The Borrower may from time to time pay, upon three
Business Days' prior notice to the Administrative Agent, subject
to the payment of any funding indemnification amounts required
by Section 3.4 but without penalty or premium, (i) all of a
Fixed Ratable Advance, or (ii) in a minimum aggregate amount of
$5,000,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000,000 in excess
thereof (and provided such payment would not reduce the
outstanding principal amount of such Fixed Ratable Advance to
less than $5,000,000) any portion of a Fixed Ratable Advance.
The Borrower may from time to time pay, prior to the last day of
the applicable Competitive Bid Interest Period, upon three
Business Days' prior notice to the Administrative Agent, all
(but not less than all) of any Competitive Bid Loan having an
initial Competitive Bid Interest Period of 90 days or longer
and, with the approval of the Lender holding such Competitive
Bid Loan, any other Competitive Bid Loan, subject, in any case,
to payment of any funding indemnification amounts required by
Section 3.4 but without penalty or premium.
2.7. Funding. Not later than noon (Chicago time) on each
Borrowing Date, each Lender (other than the Swing Line Lender
which shall make Swing Line Advances as provided in Section
2.19(c)) shall make available its Loan or Loans in funds
immediately available in Chicago to the Administrative Agent at
its address specified pursuant to Article XIV. The
Administrative Agent will make the funds so received from the
Lenders available to the Borrower at the Administrative Agent's
aforesaid address.
2.8. Changes in Interest Rate, etc. Each Floating Rate
Advance shall bear interest on the outstanding principal amount
thereof, for each day from and including the date such Advance
is made or is automatically converted from a Fixed Rate Advance
into a Floating Rate Advance pursuant to Section 2.2.4, to but
excluding the date it is paid or is converted into a Fixed Rate
Advance pursuant to Section 2.2.4 or to a Floating Rate Advance
of the other Type, at a rate per annum equal to (i) the
Alternate Base Rate for such day (in the case of ABR Advances)
or (ii) the Federal Funds/Euro-Rate for such day (in the case of
Federal Funds/Euro-Rate Advances). Changes in the rate of
interest on that portion of any Advance maintained as a Floating
Rate Advance will take effect simultaneously with each change in
the applicable Floating Rate. Each Fixed Rate Advance shall
bear interest on the outstanding principal amount thereof from
and including the first day of the Interest Period applicable
thereto to (but not including) the last day of such Interest
Period at the interest rate applicable to such Fixed Rate
Advance. No Interest Period may end after the Facility
Termination Date.
2.9. Rates Applicable After Default. Notwithstanding
anything to the contrary contained in Section 2.2 or 2.3, during
the continuance of a Default or Unmatured Default (except for
(a) Unmatured Defaults that will be cured, and that the Borrower
certifies will be cured, by the use of the proceeds of an
Advance that the Borrower has requested hereunder or by the
issuance, amendment or extension of a Facility Letter of Credit
that the Borrower has requested hereunder or (b) Unmatured
Defaults (other than the failure to pay any Obligation
hereunder) that are not reasonably likely to have a Material
Adverse Effect and that the Borrower certifies that it
reasonably expects to cure before the date on which the same
becomes a Default) the Required Lenders may, at their option, by
notice to the Borrower (which notice may be revoked at the
option of the Required Lenders notwithstanding any provision of
Section 9.2 requiring unanimous consent of the Lenders to
changes in interest rates), declare that no Advance may be made
as, converted into or continued (after the then applicable
Interest Period therefor) as a Fixed Rate Advance. During the
continuance of a Default the Required Lenders may, at their
option, by notice to the Borrower (which notice may be revoked
at the option of the Required Lenders notwithstanding any
provision of Section 9.2 requiring unanimous consent of the
Lenders to changes in interest rates), declare that (i) each
Fixed Rate Advance shall bear interest for the remainder of the
applicable Interest Period at the rate otherwise applicable to
such Interest Period plus 2% per annum and (ii) each Floating
Rate Advance shall bear interest at a rate per annum equal to
the applicable Floating Rate in effect from time to time plus 2%
per annum, provided that, during the continuance of a Default
under Section 8.5 or 8.6, the interest rates set forth in
clauses (i) and (ii) above shall be applicable to all Advances
without any election or action on the part of the Administrative
Agent or any Lender.
2.10. Method and Allocation of Payments. All
payments of the Obligations hereunder shall be made, without
setoff, deduction, or counterclaim, in immediately available
funds to the Administrative Agent at the Administrative Agent's
address specified pursuant to Article XIV, or at any other
Lending Installation of the Administrative Agent specified in
writing by the Administrative Agent to the Borrower, by noon
(Chicago time) on the date when due. Each payment delivered to
the Administrative Agent for the account of any Lender shall be
delivered promptly by the Administrative Agent to such Lender in
the same type of funds that the Administrative Agent received at
its address specified pursuant to Article XIV or at any Lending
Installation specified in a notice received by the
Administrative Agent from such Lender. The Administrative Agent
is hereby authorized to charge the account of the Borrower
maintained with Bank One for each payment of principal, interest
and fees as it becomes due hereunder.
(b) Except as otherwise provided in Section 2.10(d),
payments of principal and interest on Ratable Advances received
by Administrative Agent shall be allocated among the Lenders
based on their pro rata shares of such Ratable Advances.
Payments of principal and interest on Swing Line Advances
received by the Administrative Agent shall be paid solely to the
Swing Line Lender. Except as otherwise provided in Section
2.10(d), payments of principal on any Competitive Bid Advance
received by the Administrative Agent shall be paid, on a pro
rata basis, to the Lender or Lenders holding the Competitive Bid
Loan or Loans comprising such Advance and payments of interest
on such Competitive Bid Advance received by the Administrative
Agent shall be allocated to the Lender or Lenders that funded
such Advance, pro rata based on the amount of interest due each
such Lender on its outstanding principal (it being acknowledged
that the rate of interest payable to Lenders on the Competitive
Bid Loans may differ). Except as provided in Section 2.10(c) or
Section 2.10(d), payments made by the Borrower shall be applied
to the Advances or interest thereon (or both, as applicable)
designated by the Borrower.
(c) Notwithstanding the provisions of Section
2.10(b), if each of the conditions listed in Clauses (A) through
(C) below exists on the date on which a payment on any Loan is
made, then such payment shall be allocated on a pro-rata basis
between the holders of the Competitive Bid Loans and holders of
the Ratable Loans based upon the respective amounts of such
Competitive Bid Loans and Ratable Loans outstanding if it is a
payment of principal and shall be allocated on a pro rata basis
between holders of the Competitive Bid Loans and holders of the
Ratable Loans based on the amount of interest due to such
holders if it is a payment of interest: (A) a Default exists
and is continuing and has not been waived, (B) the Loans have
been accelerated or otherwise shall have become due, and (C) the
fractional share of one or more of the Lenders in the total
amount of all outstanding Competitive Bid Loans does not equal
its Ratable Share.
(d) Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this
Section 2.10, a Non-Funding Lender shall not be entitled to
receive any payments of principal, interest, fees or other
Obligations hereunder unless and until (i) such Non-Funding
Lender shall have cured the default or other circumstances that
resulted in its being a Non-Funding Lender or (ii) the Lenders
shall have received payments of their Ratable Loans hereunder
that reduce the principal amount of all Ratable Loans such that
all Lenders (including such Non-Funding Lender but excluding any
other Non-Funding Lender) hold Ratable Loans in their respective
Ratable Shares.
(e) If the Administrative Agent receives payments on
any Business Day of any amounts payable to any Lender hereunder
and fails to pay such amount to such Lender on or before the
next succeeding Business Day, the Administrative Agent shall pay
to such Lender interest on such unpaid amount at the Federal
Funds Effective Rate until such amount is so paid to such
Lender.
2.11. Noteless Agreement; Evidence of Indebtedness.
Each Lender shall maintain in accordance with its usual
practice an account or accounts evidencing the indebtedness of
the Borrower to such Lender resulting from each Loan made by
such Lender from time to time, including the amounts of
principal and interest payable and paid to such Lender from time
to time hereunder.
(b) The Administrative Agent shall also maintain
accounts in which it will record (i) the amount of each Loan
made hereunder and the Rate Option and Interest Period with
respect thereto, (ii) the amount of any principal or interest
due and payable or to become due and payable from the Borrower
to each Lender hereunder and (iii) the amount of any sum
received by the Administrative Agent hereunder from the Borrower
and each Lender's share thereof.
(c) The entries maintained in the accounts maintained
pursuant to Sections 2.11(a) and (b) above shall be prima facie
evidence of the existence and amounts of the Obligations therein
recorded; provided, however, that the failure of the
Administrative Agent or any Lender to maintain such accounts or
any error therein shall not in any manner affect the obligation
of the Borrower to repay the Obligations in accordance with
their terms.
(d) Any Lender may request that its Ratable Loans be
evidenced by a Ratable Note and that its Competitive Bid Loans
be evidenced by a Competitive Bid Note. In such event, the
Borrower shall prepare, execute and deliver to such Lender the
applicable Note or Notes payable to the order of such Lender in
a form supplied by the Administrative Agent. Thereafter, the
Loans evidenced by such Note and interest thereon shall at all
times (including after any assignment pursuant to Section 13.3)
be represented by one or more Notes payable to the order of the
payee named therein or any assignee pursuant to Section 13.3,
except to the extent that any such Lender or assignee
subsequently returns any such Note for cancellation and requests
that such Loans once again be evidenced as described in Sections
2.11(a) and (b) above. Any Ratable Note held by any Lender
pursuant to the Original Agreement that is in an amount equal to
its Commitment hereunder need not, but may at the election of
such Lender, be replaced by a Ratable Note in the form of
Exhibit E-2 hereto and, unless and until so replaced, shall
continue to evidence such Lender's Ratable Loans hereunder.
2.12. Telephonic Notices. The Borrower hereby
authorizes the Lenders and the Administrative Agent to extend,
convert or continue Advances, effect selections of Rate Options
and to transfer funds based on telephonic notices made by any
person or persons the Administrative Agent or any Lender in good
faith believes to be an Authorized Officer acting on behalf of
the Borrower. The Borrower agrees to deliver promptly to the
Administrative Agent a written confirmation, if such
confirmation is requested by the Administrative Agent or any
Lender, of each telephonic notice signed by an Authorized
Officer. If the written confirmation differs in any material
respect from the action taken by the Administrative Agent and
the Lenders, the records of the Administrative Agent and the
Lenders shall govern absent manifest error.
2.13. Interest Payment Dates; Interest and Fee Basis.
Interest accrued on each Floating Rate Advance shall be payable
on the first date of each calendar month, commencing with the
first such date to occur after the date hereof. Interest
accrued on each Fixed Rate Advance shall be payable on the last
day of its applicable Interest Period, on any date on which the
Fixed Rate Advance is prepaid, whether due to acceleration or
otherwise, and at maturity. Interest accrued on each Fixed Rate
Advance having an Interest Period longer than three months shall
also be payable on each Quarterly Payment Date during such
Interest Period. Interest and fees under this Agreement shall
be calculated for actual days elapsed on the basis of a 360-day
year except that interest on Floating Rate Advances and Absolute
Rate Advances shall be calculated for actual days elapsed on the
basis of a 365-day (or, if applicable, 366-day) year. Interest
shall be payable for the day an Advance is made but not for the
day of any payment on the amount paid if payment is received
prior to noon (Chicago time) at the place of payment. If any
payment of principal of or interest on an Advance shall become
due on a day which is not a Business Day, such payment shall be
made on the next succeeding Business Day and, in the case of a
principal payment, such extension of time shall be included in
computing interest in connection with such payment.
2.14. Notification of Advances, Interest Rates,
Prepayments and Commitment Reductions. Promptly after receipt
thereof, the Administrative Agent will notify each Lender of the
contents of each Aggregate Commitment reduction notice, Ratable
Borrowing Notice, Rate Option Notice, Competitive Bid Borrowing
Notice (except as otherwise provided in Section 2.3.10), and
repayment notice received by it hereunder. The Administrative
Agent will notify each Lender of the interest rate applicable to
each Fixed Ratable Advance promptly upon determination of such
interest rate and will give each Lender prompt notice of each
change in the Alternate Base Rate.
2.15. Lending Installations. Each Lender may book its
Loans at any Lending Installation selected by such Lender and
may change its Lending Installation from time to time. All
terms of this Agreement shall apply to any such Lending
Installation and the Loans and any Notes issued hereunder shall
be deemed held by each Lender for the benefit of such Lending
Installation. Each Lender may, by written notice to the
Administrative Agent and the Borrower in accordance with Article
XIV, designate replacement or additional Lending Installations
through which Loans will be made by it and for whose account
Loan payments are to be made.
2.16. Non-Receipt of Funds by the Administrative Agent.
Unless the Borrower or a Lender, as the case may be, notifies
the Administrative Agent prior to the date on which it is
scheduled to make payment to the Administrative Agent of (i) in
the case of a Lender, the proceeds of a Loan or (ii) in the case
of the Borrower, a payment of principal, interest or fees to the
Administrative Agent for the account of any of the Lenders, that
it does not intend to make such payment, the Administrative
Agent may assume that such payment has been made. The
Administrative Agent may, but shall not be obligated to, make
the amount of such payment available to the intended recipient
in reliance upon such assumption. If such Lender or the
Borrower, as the case may be, has not in fact made such payment
to the Administrative Agent, the recipient of such payment
shall, on demand by the Administrative Agent, repay to the
Administrative Agent the amount so made available together with
interest thereon in respect of each day during the period
commencing on the date such amount was so made available by the
Administrative Agent until the date the Administrative Agent
recovers such amount at a rate per annum equal to (x) in the
case of payment by a Lender, the Federal Funds Effective Rate
for such day or (y) in the case of payment by the Borrower, the
interest rate applicable to the relevant Loan.
2.17. Extension of Facility Termination Date. The
Borrower may request, but not more than once in each fiscal year
of the Borrower, an extension of the Facility Termination Date
by submitting a request for an extension to the Administrative
Agent (an "Extension Request"). The Extension Request must
specify the new Facility Termination Date requested by the
Borrower ("Extension Date"), which shall be not more than five
years after the date of the Extension Request. Promptly upon
receipt of an Extension Request, the Administrative Agent shall
notify each Lender of the contents thereof and shall request
each Lender to approve the Extension Request (which approval may
be given or withheld by each Lender in its sole discretion).
Each Lender approving the Extension Request shall deliver its
written approval no later than 75 days following the Extension
Request. If such written approval of the Required Lenders is
not received by the Administrative Agent within such 75-day
period, the Extension Request shall be denied. If such written
approval of the Required Lenders is received by the
Administrative Agent within such 75-day period, the Facility
Termination Date shall be extended to the Extension Date
specified in the Extension Request but only with respect to the
Lenders that have given such written approval. Except to the
extent that a Lender that did not give its written approval to
such Extension Request ("Declining Lender") is replaced prior to
its Declining Lender's Termination Date as provided in Section
2.20, the Aggregate Commitment shall be decreased by the
Commitment of each such Declining Lender, which Declining
Lenders' Commitments shall terminate on such Facility
Termination Date, as determined prior to such Extension Request
(the "Declining Lender's Termination Date), and the Loans and
all interest, fees and other amounts owed to such Declining
Lender shall be paid in full on each such Declining Lender's
Termination Date.
2.18. Increase in Aggregate Commitment. The
Borrower may, at any time and from time to time, by notice to
the Administrative Agent, request an increase in the Aggregate
Commitment within the limitations hereafter described, which
notice shall set forth the amount of such increase. The
Aggregate Commitment may be so increased either by having one or
more New Lenders become Lenders and/or by having any one or more
of the then existing Lenders (at their respective election in
their sole discretion) that have been approved by the Borrower,
increase the amount of their Commitments, provided that (i) the
Commitment of any New Lender shall be in an amount not less than
$10,000,000 (and, if in excess thereof, in an integral multiple
of $1,000,000); (ii) the sum of the Commitments of the New
Lenders and the increases in the Commitments of the Additional
Lenders that are not New Lenders shall be in an aggregate amount
of not less than $5,000,000 (and, if in excess thereof, in an
integral multiple of $1,000,000); and (iii) the Aggregate
Commitment shall not exceed the Aggregate Commitment Limit.
(b) As a condition to any increase in the Aggregate
Commitment, (i) the Borrower and each Additional Lender shall
have executed and delivered a commitment and acceptance (the
"Commitment and Acceptance") substantially in the form of
Exhibit F hereto, and the Administrative Agent shall have
accepted and executed the same; (ii) if requested by an
Additional Lender, the Borrower shall have executed and
delivered to the Administrative Agent a Ratable Note and/or
Competitive Bid Note payable to the order of such Additional
Lender; (iii) the Guarantors shall have consented in writing to
the new Commitments or increases in Commitments (as applicable)
and shall have agreed that their Guaranty Agreements continue in
full force and effect; (iv) the Borrower and each Additional
Lender shall otherwise have executed and delivered such other
instruments and documents as the Administrative Agent shall have
reasonably requested in connection with such new Commitment or
increase in the Commitment (as applicable); and (v) the Borrower
shall have delivered to the Administrative Agent opinions of
counsel (substantially similar to the forms of opinions provided
for in Section 5.1(viii), modified to apply to the increase in
the Aggregate Commitment and to each Note, Commitment and
Acceptance, consent of Guarantors, and other documents executed
and delivered in connection with such increase in the Aggregate
Commitment). The form and substance of the documents required
under clauses (i) through (v) above shall be fully acceptable to
the Administrative Agent. The Administrative Agent shall
provide written notice to all of the Lenders hereunder of the
Commitment of any New Lender or the increase in the Commitment
of any other Additional Lender hereunder and shall furnish to
each of the Lenders copies of the documents required under
clauses (i) through (v) above.
(c) Upon the effective date of any increase in the
Aggregate Commitment pursuant to the provisions hereof (the
"Increase Date"), which Increase Date shall be mutually agreed
upon by the Borrower, each Additional Lender and the
Administrative Agent, (i) unless such Increase Date is a
Quarterly Payment Date, such Additional Lender shall not have
any interest in any Facility Letter of Credit outstanding on or
issued after such Increase Date (except with respect to any
Commitment held by such Additional Lender prior to such Increase
Date) until the first Quarterly Payment Date after such Issuance
Date and shall not be entitled to issue Facility Letters of
Credit until the first Quarterly Payment Date after such
Increase Date; (ii) on such Increase Date, the Borrower shall
repay all outstanding Floating Rate Advances and reborrow a
Floating Rate Advance in a like amount from the Lenders
(including the Additional Lender); (iii) such Additional Lender
shall not participate in any then outstanding Fixed Ratable
Advances; (iv) if the Borrower shall at any time on or after
such Increase Date convert or continue any Fixed Ratable Advance
outstanding on such Increase Date, the Borrower shall be deemed
to repay such Fixed Ratable Advance on the date of the
conversion or continuation thereof and then to reborrow as a
Ratable Advance a like amount on such date so that the
Additional Lender shall make a Ratable Loan on such date; and
(v) such Additional Lender shall make its Ratable Share of all
Ratable Advances made on or after such Increase Date (including
those referred to in clauses (iii) and (iv) above) and shall
otherwise have all of the rights and obligations of a Lender
hereunder on and after such Increase Date. On the first
Quarterly Payment Date following such Increase Date (or on such
Increase Date if it is a Quarterly Payment Date), such
Additional Lender shall be deemed to have irrevocably and
unconditionally purchased and received, without recourse or
warranty, from the Lenders party to this Agreement immediately
prior to the effective date of such increase, an undivided
interest and participation in any Facility Letter of Credit then
outstanding, ratably, such that each Lender (including each
Additional Lender) holds a participation interest in each such
Facility Letter of Credit in the amount of its then Ratable
Share thereof. Notwithstanding the foregoing, upon the
occurrence of a Default prior to the date on which such
Additional Lender is holding Fixed Ratable Loans equal to its
Ratable Share of all Fixed Ratable Advances hereunder, such
Additional Lender shall, upon notice from the Administrative
Agent, on or after the date on which the Obligations are
accelerated or become due following such Default, pay to the
Administrative Agent (for the account of the other Lenders, to
which the Administrative Agent shall pay their Ratable Shares
thereof upon receipt) a sum equal to such Additional Lender's
Ratable Share of each Fixed Ratable Advance then outstanding
with respect to which such Additional Lender does not then hold
a Fixed Ratable Loan equal to its Ratable Share thereof; such
payment by such Additional Lender shall constitute an ABR Loan
hereunder.
(d) On the Increase Date, the Additional Lender shall
pay to the Administrative Agent, as an additional administrative
fee, an amount equal to the product of (i) the number of Fixed
Ratable Advances outstanding on such Increase Date and (ii)
$250.00.
(e) Solely for purposes of clause (i) of the
definitions of "Majority Lenders" and "Required Lenders," until
such time as an Additional Lender holds Ratable Loans equaling
its Ratable Share of all outstanding Ratable Advances (if any)
and participation interests equaling its Ratable Share of all
outstanding Facility Letters of Credit (if any), the amount of
such Additional Lender's new Commitment or the increased amount
of its Commitment shall be excluded from the amount of the
Commitments and there shall be included in lieu thereof at any
time an amount equal to the sum of the outstanding Ratable Loans
and the participation interests in Facility Letters of Credit
held by such Additional Lender with respect to its new
Commitment or the increased amount of its Commitment.
(f) Nothing contained herein shall constitute, or
otherwise be deemed to be, a commitment or agreement on the part
of any Lender to increase its Commitment hereunder at any time
or a commitment or agreement on the part of the Borrower or the
Administrative Agent to give or grant any Lender the right to
increase its Commitment hereunder at any time.
2.19. Swing Line. The Swing Line Lender agrees,
on the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth, to make
Advances ("Swing Line Advances") to the Borrower from time to
time during the period from the date of this Agreement, up to
but not including the fifth (5th) day prior to the Facility
Termination Date, in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed
at any time outstanding the lesser of (i) the Swing Line
Commitment or (ii) the Aggregate Available Credit.
(b) Each Swing Line Advance shall be in an amount not
less than One Million Dollars ($1,000,000) and, if in excess
thereof, in integral multiples of One Million Dollars
($1,000,000). Within the limits set forth in Section 2.19(a),
the Borrower may borrow, repay and reborrow under this Section
2.19.
(c) The Borrower shall give the Swing Line Lender
(and, if the Swing Line Lender is not also the Administrative
Agent, the Administrative Agent) notice requesting a Swing Line
Advance ("Swing Line Borrowing Notice") not later than 1:00 p.m.
(Chicago time) on the Business Day of such Swing Line Advance,
specifying the amount of such requested Swing Line Advance.
Each such Swing Line Borrowing Notice shall be accompanied by
the Ratable Borrowing Notice provided for in Section 2.19(d).
All Swing Line Borrowing Notices and Ratable Borrowing Notices
given by the Borrower under this Section 2.19(c) shall be
irrevocable. Upon satisfaction of the applicable conditions set
forth in Section 5.2, the Swing Line Lender will make the Swing
Line Advance available to the Borrower in immediately available
funds by crediting the amount thereof to the Borrower's account
with the Swing Line Lender. If the Swing Line Lender is not
also the Administrative Agent, the Swing Line Lender shall not
advance the Swing Line Advance unless and until the
Administrative Agent shall have confirmed (by telephonic notice)
that such applicable conditions have been satisfied.
(d) Each Swing Line Advance shall bear interest at
the Alternate Base Rate and shall be paid in full on or before
the third Business Day following the making of such Swing Line
Loan and, if not so paid by the Borrower, shall be paid in full
from the proceeds of a Ratable Advance made pursuant to Section
2.2 on the third Business Day following the making of such Swing
Line Advance. Each Swing Line Borrowing Notice given by the
Borrower under Section 2.19(c) shall include, or if it does not
include shall be deemed to include, an irrevocable Ratable
Borrowing Notice under Section 2.2 requesting the Lenders to
make a Ratable Advance, on or before the third Business Day
following the making of such Swing Line Advance, of the full
amount of such Swing Line Advance, unless such Swing Line
Advance is sooner paid in full by the Borrower.
(e) Provided that the applicable conditions set forth
in Section 5.2 shall have been satisfied at the time of the
making of such Swing Line Advance, the Lenders irrevocably agree
to make the Ratable Advance provided for in Section 2.19(d),
notwithstanding any subsequent failure to satisfy such
conditions or any other facts or circumstances including
(without limitation) the existence of a Default. If and to the
extent that any Lender shall fail to make a Ratable Loan in the
amount of its Ratable Share of such Ratable Advance, such Lender
shall be irrevocably deemed to have purchased from the Swing
Line Lender a participation interest in such Swing Line Advance
in an amount equal to the amount of such Lender's Ratable Share
of such Ratable Advance.
2.20. Replacement of a Lender. If (a) a Lender
sustains or incurs a loss or expense or reduction of income and
requests reimbursement therefor from the Borrower pursuant to
Section 3.1, 3.2 or 3.5, (b) a Lender determines that
maintenance of any of its Fixed Rate Loans at a suitable Lending
Installation would violate any applicable Law and so notifies
the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 3.3, or (c) a
Lender is a Declining Lender (including a Non-Extending Lender),
the Borrower may within ninety (90) days after the date on which
the Borrower receives such request (in the case of clause (a)
above) or after the date on which the Administrative Agent gives
the Borrower notice of the Administrative Agent's receipt of the
notice from such Lender under Section 3.3 (in the case of clause
(b) above) or at any time prior to such Declining Lender's
Termination Date (in the case of clause (c) above) notify the
Administrative Agent and such Lender that an Additional Lender
designated by the Borrower in the notice has agreed to replace
such Lender, provided that (i) any New Lender shall be subject
to the approval of the Administrative Agent (which approval
shall not be unreasonably withheld) and (ii) the Borrower shall
have paid any amounts due pursuant to Section 3.1, 3.2 or 3.5 to
the Lender to be replaced on or before such replacement. The
Lender to be replaced shall assign all of its Commitments and
Loans and interests in outstanding Facility Letters of Credit
hereunder to the Additional Lender pursuant to the procedures
for assignments contained in Section 13.3 and shall receive,
concurrently with such assignments, payment of an amount equal
to all outstanding amounts payable to such assigning Lender
hereunder, including without limitation the aggregate
outstanding principal amount of the Loans held by such Lender,
all interest thereon to the date of the assignment, all accrued
fees to the date of such assignment and any amounts payable
under Section 3.4 with respect to any payment of any Fixed Rate
Loan resulting from such assignment. Such assigning Lender
shall not be responsible for the payment to the Administrative
Agent of the fee provided for in Section 13.3.2, which fee shall
be paid by such Additional Lender. In the case of an assignment
by a Declining Lender under this Section 2.20, the Additional
Lender that is the assignee of the Declining Lender shall agree
at the time of such assignment to the extension to the
applicable Extension Date of the Commitment assigned to it,
which agreement shall be set forth in a written instrument
delivered and satisfactory to the Borrower and the
Administrative Agent.
2.21. Termination of Commitment of Declining Lender.
At any time prior to the replacement of a Declining Lender
pursuant to Section 2.20, the Borrower may, upon not less than
15 days' prior notice to the Administrative Agent and such
Declining Lender, terminate the Commitment of such Declining
Lender as of a Business Day (prior to the expiration of such
Commitment) set forth in such notice, provided, however, that if
such Declining Lender is an Issuing Bank, such termination shall
be permitted only upon satisfaction of the requirements set
forth in Section 4.10. In the event of such termination, the
Borrower shall pay to the Administrative Agent on the date of
termination of such Commitment, for the account of such
Declining Lender, all Loans and other sums payable to such
Declining Lender hereunder and all amounts (if any) payable to
such Declining Lender under Section 3.4 by reason of such
payment.
2.22. Participation in Outstanding Advances and
Facility Letters of Credit on the Closing Date. Each Lender
that is party to this Agreement on the Closing Date but that was
not party to the Original Agreement shall be deemed an
Additional Lender hereunder, and each Lender party to the
Original Agreement whose Commitment hereunder on the Closing
Date exceeds its Commitment under the Original Agreement shall,
to the extent of the increase of its Commitment, also be deemed
an Additional Lender hereunder. The provisions of Section
2.18(c) and 2.18(e) shall apply to such Additional Lenders and
to their Commitments (or increased Commitments), and the Closing
Date shall constitute the "Increase Date" under Section 2.18 for
purposes hereof.
2.23. Amounts Payable under Original Agreement. The
Borrower hereby agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent on the
dates on which the same would have been payable under the
Original Agreement, for the benefit of the Lenders that were
party to the Original Agreement, the amount of all interest (if
any) that has accrued to the Closing Date but not been paid
under the Original Agreement, all "Facility Fees" that have
accrued to the Closing Date but not been paid under the Original
Agreement, all "Facility Letter of Credit Fees" that have
accrued to the Closing Date but not been paid under the Original
Agreement and all issuance fees that have accrued to the Closing
Date under Section 4.7(b) of the Original Agreement but not been
paid under the Original Agreement.
ARTICLE III
YIELD PROTECTION; TAXES
3.1. Yield Protection. If, on or after the date of this
Agreement, the adoption of any law or any governmental or
quasi-governmental rule, regulation, policy, guideline or
directive (whether or not having the force of law), or any
change in the interpretation or administration thereof by any
governmental or quasi-governmental authority, central bank or
comparable agency charged with the interpretation or
administration thereof, or compliance by any Lender or
applicable Lending Installation with any request or directive
(whether or not having the force of law) of any such authority,
central bank or comparable agency:
(i) subjects at least two Lenders or applicable
Lending Installations to any Taxes, or changes
the basis of taxation of payments (other than
with respect to Excluded Taxes) to such Lenders
in respect of their Fixed Rate Loans, or
(ii) imposes or increases or deems applicable any
reserve, assessment, insurance charge, special
deposit or similar requirement against assets of,
deposits with or for the account of, or credit
extended by, at least two Lenders or applicable
Lending Installations (other than reserves and
assessments taken into account in determining the
interest rate applicable to Fixed Rate Advances),
or
(iii) imposes any other condition the result of
which is to increase the cost to at least two
Lenders or applicable Lending Installations of
making, funding or maintaining Fixed Rate Loans
or reduces any amount receivable by at least
two Lenders or applicable Lending Installations
in connection with their Eurodollar Loans, or
requires at least two Lenders or applicable
Lending Installations to make any payment
calculated by reference to the amount of Fixed
Rate Loans held or interest received by them, by
an amount deemed material by such Lenders,
and the result of any of the foregoing is to increase the cost
to such Lenders or applicable Lending Installations of making or
maintaining their Fixed Rate Loans or Commitments or to reduce
the return received by such Lenders or applicable Lending
Installations in connection with such Fixed Rate Loans or
Commitments, then, within 30 days of demand by such Lenders, the
Borrower shall pay such Lenders such additional amount or
amounts as will compensate such Lenders for such increased cost
or reduction in amount received.
3.2. Changes in Capital Adequacy Regulations. If at least
two Lenders determine the amount of capital required or expected
to be maintained by such Lenders, any Lending Installation of
such Lenders or any corporation controlling such Lenders is
increased as a result of a Change (as hereinafter defined),
then, within 30 days of demand by such Lenders, the Borrower
shall pay such Lenders the amount necessary to compensate for
any shortfall in the rate of return on the portion of such
increased capital which such Lenders determine is attributable
to this Agreement, their Loans or their Commitments to make
Loans or to issue or participate in Facility Letters of Credit
hereunder (after taking into account such Lenders' policies as
to capital adequacy). "Change" means (i) any change after the
date of this Agreement in the Risk-Based Capital Guidelines or
(ii) any adoption of or change in any other Law, governmental or
quasi-governmental rule, regulation, policy, guideline,
interpretation, or directive (whether or not having the force of
Law) after the date of this Agreement which affects the amount
of capital required or expected to be maintained by any Lender
or any Lending Installation or any corporation controlling any
Lender. "Risk-Based Capital Guidelines" means (i) the
risk-based capital guidelines in effect in the United States on
the date of this Agreement, including transition rules, and (ii)
the corresponding capital regulations promulgated by regulatory
authorities outside the United States implementing the July 1988
report of the Basle Committee on Banking Regulation and
Supervisory Practices Entitled "International Convergence of
Capital Measurements and Capital Standards," including
transition rules, and any amendments to such regulations adopted
prior to the date of this Agreement.
3.3. Availability of Certain Advances. If any Lender
determines that maintenance of any of its Fixed Rate Loans at a
suitable Lending Installation would violate any applicable Law
and so notifies the Administrative Agent, the Borrower shall
repay any Fixed Rate Loans held by such Lender that violate any
Law and (if such Loan is a Ratable Loan) immediately reborrow
the amount thereof as a Floating Rate Loan from such Lender. In
the event that Lenders whose Commitments aggregate not more than
one-third of the Aggregate Commitment have determined that
maintenance of a Type of Fixed Rate Loan at a suitable Lending
Institution would violate any applicable Law, the Borrower may,
but only for a period of 90 days, request Ratable Advances of,
or conversions into or continuations of Advances of, such Type,
in which event the Lenders that have determined that maintenance
of such Type of Fixed Rate Loans would violate applicable Law
shall make their Ratable Shares of such Advances (or
continuations or conversions) as Floating Rate Loans, and all
other Lenders shall make their Ratable Shares of such Advances
(or continuations or conversions) as Fixed Rate Loans of such
Type. Except as provided in the preceding sentence, if any
Lender determines that maintenance of any of its Fixed Rate
Loans at a suitable Lending Installation would violate any
applicable Law, Fixed Rate Advances of such Type shall be
suspended with respect to all Lenders. If the Required Lenders
determine that (i) deposits of a type and maturity appropriate
to match fund Eurodollar Ratable Advances are not available or
(ii) the interest rate applicable to a Rate Option does not
accurately reflect the cost of making or maintaining the
applicable Ratable Advance, then the Administrative Agent shall
suspend the availability of the affected Rate Option.
3.4. Funding Indemnification. If any payment of a Fixed
Rate Advance occurs on a date which is not the last day of the
applicable Interest Period, whether because of acceleration,
prepayment or otherwise, or a Fixed Rate Advance is not made, or
any Advance is not continued or converted into a Fixed Rate
Advance, on the date specified by the Borrower for any reason
other than default by the Lenders, the Borrower will indemnify
each Lender for any loss or cost (including any internal
administrative costs not to exceed $250.00) incurred by it
resulting therefrom, including, without limitation, any loss or
cost in liquidating or employing deposits acquired to fund or
maintain such Fixed Rate Advance. Notwithstanding the
foregoing, if such loss or cost results from an occurrence other
than (i) a prepayment by the Borrower (except a prepayment
required to be made under Section 3.3 by reason of a change in
any Law or interpretation of Law occurring after the making of,
or conversion into or continuation of, a Type of Fixed Rate Loan
and resulting in the determination that maintenance by a Lender
of such Type of Fixed Rate Loan violates applicable Law pursuant
to Section 3.3), or (ii) a default by the Borrower or by the
Lenders, the Borrower's obligation to indemnify the Lenders
shall be limited to one-half (1/2) of the losses or costs
incurred by each Lender.
3.5. Taxes. The Borrower hereby agrees to pay any
present or future stamp or documentary taxes and any other
excise or property taxes, charges or similar levies which arise
from any payment made hereunder or under any Note or from the
execution or delivery of, or otherwise with respect to, this
Agreement or any Note ("Other Taxes").
(b) The Borrower agrees unconditionally to indemnify
and save the Administrative Agent and the Lenders harmless from
and against any or all present or future claims, liabilities or
losses with respect to or resulting from any omission by the
Borrower to pay, or any delay in paying, any Other Taxes. Such
indemnification payments by the Borrower shall be made within 30
days of the date the Administrative Agent or such Lender makes
demand therefor pursuant to Section 3.6.
(c) Each Lender that is not incorporated under the
laws of the United States of America or a state thereof (each a
"Non-U.S. Lender") agrees that it will, not less than ten
Business Days after the date of this Agreement, (i) deliver to
each of the Borrower and the Administrative Agent two duly
completed copies of United States Internal Revenue Service Form
W-8BEN or W-8ECI, certifying in either case that such Lender is
entitled to receive payments under this Agreement without
deduction or withholding of any United States federal income
taxes, and (ii) deliver to each of the Borrower and the
Administrative Agent a United States Internal Revenue Form W-8
or W-9, as the case may be, and certify that it is entitled to
an exemption from United States backup withholding tax. Each
Non-U.S. Lender further undertakes to deliver to each of the
Borrower and the Administrative Agent (x) renewals or additional
copies of such form (or any successor form) on or before the
date that such form expires or becomes obsolete, and (y) after
the occurrence of any event requiring a change in the most
recent forms so delivered by it, such additional forms or
amendments thereto as may be reasonably requested by the
Borrower or the Administrative Agent. All forms or amendments
described in the preceding sentence shall certify that such
Lender is entitled to receive payments under this Agreement
without deduction or withholding of any United States federal
income taxes, unless an event (including without limitation any
change in treaty, law or regulation) has occurred after the date
such Lender becomes a Lender hereunder and prior to the date on
which any such delivery would otherwise be required which
renders all such forms inapplicable or which would prevent such
Lender from duly completing and delivering any such form or
amendment with respect to it and such Lender advises the
Borrower and the Administrative Agent that it is not capable of
receiving payments without any deduction or withholding of
United States federal income tax.
(d) For any period during which a Non-U.S. Lender has
failed to provide the Borrower with an appropriate form pursuant
to Section 3.5(c) (unless such failure is due to a change in
treaty, law or regulation, or any change in the interpretation
or administration thereof by any governmental authority,
occurring subsequent to the date on which a form originally was
required to be provided), such Non-U.S. Lender shall not be
entitled to indemnification under this Section 3.5 with respect
to Taxes imposed by the United States; provided that, should a
Non-U.S. Lender which is otherwise exempt from or subject to a
reduced rate of withholding tax become subject to Taxes because
of its failure to deliver a form required under Section 3.5(c),
the Borrower shall take such steps as such Non-U.S. Lender shall
reasonably request to assist such Non-U.S. Lender to recover
such Taxes, at no cost to the Borrower.
(e) Any Lender that is entitled to an exemption from
or reduction of withholding tax with respect to payments under
this Agreement or any Note pursuant to the law of any relevant
jurisdiction or any treaty shall deliver to the Borrower (with a
copy to the Administrative Agent), at the time or times
prescribed by applicable law, such properly completed and
executed documentation prescribed by applicable law as will
permit such payments to be made without withholding or at a
reduced rate.
3.6. Lender Statements; Survival of Indemnity. To the
extent reasonably possible, each Lender shall designate an
alternate Lending Installation with respect to its applicable
Fixed Rate Loans to reduce any liability of the Borrower to such
Lender under Sections 3.1, 3.2 and 3.5 or to avoid the
unavailability of the applicable Fixed Rate Advances under
Section 3.3, so long as such designation is not, in the judgment
of such Lender, materially disadvantageous to such Lender. Each
Lender shall deliver a written statement of such Lender to the
Borrower (with a copy to the Administrative Agent) as to the
amount due, if any, under Section 3.1, 3.2, 3.4 or 3.5. Such
written statement shall set forth in reasonable detail the
calculations upon which such Lender determined such amount
(which calculations shall be made in good faith), shall be
delivered within 90 days after the date on which such Lender
becomes aware of such amounts being due and ascertains the
amount so due, and shall be final, conclusive and binding on the
Borrower in the absence of manifest error. Determination of
amounts payable under such Sections in connection with a Fixed
Rate Loan shall be calculated as though each Lender funded its
Fixed Rate Loan through the purchase of a deposit of the type
and maturity corresponding to the deposit used as a reference in
determining the interest rate applicable to such Loan, whether
in fact that is the case or not. Unless otherwise provided
herein, the amount specified in the written statement of any
Lender shall be payable within 30 days after receipt by the
Borrower of such written statement. The obligations of the
Borrower under Sections 3.1, 3.2, 3.4 and 3.5 shall survive
payment of the Obligations and termination of this Agreement.
ARTICLE IV
THE LETTER OF CREDIT FACILITY
4.1. Facility Letters of Credit. At the request of the
Borrower, each Lender shall, within the limitations of its
Issuing Bank L/C Limit and on the terms and conditions set forth
in this Agreement, issue from time to time for the account of
the Borrower, through such offices or branches as it and the
Borrower may jointly agree, one or more Facility Letters of
Credit (which, in the case of a Performance Letter of Credit,
may be an Escrow Agreement) in accordance with this Article IV,
during the period commencing on the Closing Date and ending on
the Business Day prior to the Facility Termination Date.
4.2. Limitations. No Issuing Bank shall issue, amend or
extend, at any time, any Facility Letter of Credit:
(i) if, after giving effect to the Facility Letter of
Credit or amendment or extension thereof
requested hereunder, (A) the aggregate maximum
amount then available for drawing under Letters
of Credit issued by such Issuing Bank shall
exceed any limit imposed by Law upon such Issuing
Bank or (B) the outstanding undrawn face amount
of all Facility Letters of Credit issued by such
Issuing Bank shall exceed such Issuing Bank's L/C
Limit;
(ii) if, after giving effect to the Facility Letter of
Credit or amendment or extension thereof
requested hereunder, the aggregate principal
amount of the Facility Letter of Credit
Obligations would exceed the L/C Sublimit or the
limitations set forth in Section 4.4(f);
(iii) that is in (or in the case of an amendment
of a Facility Letter of Credit, increases the
face amount thereof by) an amount in excess of
the then Aggregate Available Credit;
(iv) if such Issuing Bank receives written notice from
the Administrative Agent on the proposed Issuance
Date of such Facility Letter of Credit that the
conditions precedent contained in Sections 5.1 or
5.2, as applicable, would not on such Issuance
Date be satisfied unless such conditions are
thereafter satisfied and written notice of such
satisfaction is given to such Issuing Bank by the
Administrative Agent;
(v) that is in a currency other than U.S. Dollars; or
(vi) that has a stated maturity date later than the
earlier of (A) four years after the Issuance Date
and (B) one year after the Facility Termination
Date, provided, however, that, no Declining
Lender that is an Issuing Bank shall issue or
extend a Facility Letter of Credit that has a
stated maturity date that is later than its
Declining Lender's Termination Date. For
purposes of this clause (vi) and Section 4.4(f),
the "stated maturity date" is the expiration date
of the Facility Letter of Credit, giving effect
to any future extension thereof under an
automatic renewal provision, unless such
automatic renewal provision permits the Issuing
Bank to elect not to extend by giving written
notice of cancellation to the beneficiary of such
Facility Letter of Credit.
4.3. Conditions. In addition to being subject to the
satisfaction of the conditions contained in Sections 5.1 and
5.2, as applicable, the issuance of any Facility Letter of
Credit is subject to the satisfaction in full of the following
conditions:
(i) the Borrower shall have delivered to such Issuing
Bank at such times and in such manner as the
Issuing Bank may reasonably prescribe such
documents (including, if requested, an
Application) and materials as may be reasonably
required pursuant to the terms thereof, and the
proposed Facility Letter of Credit shall be
reasonably satisfactory to such Issuing Bank in
form and content; and
(ii) as of the Issuance Date no order, judgment or
decree of any court, arbitrator or governmental
authority shall enjoin or restrain such Issuing
Bank from issuing the Facility Letter of Credit
and no Law applicable to such Issuing Bank and no
directive from any Official Body with
jurisdiction over such Issuing Bank shall
prohibit such Issuing Bank from issuing Letters
of Credit generally or from issuing that Facility
Letter or Credit.
4.4. Procedure for Issuance of Facility Letters of Credit.
The Borrower shall give such Issuing Bank and the
Administrative Agent not less than five (5) Business Days' (or
such shorter period as such Issuing Bank, the Borrower and the
Administrative Agent shall agree) prior notice (in writing or by
telephonic notice confirmed promptly in writing) of any
requested issuance of a Facility Letter of Credit under this
Agreement. Such notice shall specify (i) the stated amount of
the Facility Letter of Credit requested, (ii) the requested
Issuance Date, which shall be a Business Day, (iii) the date on
which such requested Facility Letter of Credit is to expire,
which date shall be in compliance with the requirements of
Section 4.2(vi), (iv) the purpose for which such Facility Letter
of Credit is to be issued, (v) the Person for whose benefit the
requested Facility Letter of Credit is to be issued, and (vi)
whether such Facility Letter of Credit is a Performance Letter
of Credit (and, if so, whether it is an Escrow Agreement) or a
Financial Letter of Credit. At the time such request is made,
the Borrower shall also provide such Issuing Bank with a copy of
the form of the Facility Letter of Credit it is requesting be
issued.
(b) As soon as practicable and in no event later than
one Business Day prior to the requested date of issuance of such
Facility Letter of Credit, such Issuing Bank shall approve or
disapprove, in its reasonable discretion, the issuance of such
requested Facility Letter of Credit and shall notify the
Borrower and the Administrative Agent of such approval or
disapproval, but the issuance of such approved Facility Letter
of Credit shall continue to be subject to the provisions of this
Article IV.
(c) As soon as practicable and in no event later than
one Business Day prior to the issuance of a Facility Letter of
Credit approved by an Issuing Bank as provided in Section
4.4(b), the Borrower shall confirm by notice ("Facility Letter
of Credit Notice") in writing to the Administrative Agent and to
such Issuing Bank the intended Issuance Date and amount of such
Facility Letter of Credit. Not later than 10:00 a.m. (Chicago
time) on the Business Day following its receipt of a Facility
Letter of Credit Notice, the Administrative Agent shall
determine and shall notify the Issuing Bank and the Borrower (in
writing or by telephonic notice confirmed promptly thereafter in
writing) whether issuance of the requested Facility Letter of
Credit would be permitted under the provisions of Sections
4.2(ii) and (iii). If the Administrative Agent notifies such
Issuing Bank and the Borrower that such issuance would be so
permitted, then, subject to the terms and conditions of this
Article IV and provided that the applicable conditions set forth
in Sections 5.1 and 5.2 have been satisfied, such Issuing Bank
shall, on the requested Issuance Date, issue the requested
Facility Letter of Credit in accordance with such Issuing Bank's
usual and customary business practices. Such Issuing Bank shall
give the Administrative Agent written notice, or telephonic
notice confirmed promptly thereafter in writing, of the issuance
of a Facility Letter of Credit.
(d) An Issuing Bank shall not extend (other than by
operation of an automatic renewal provision) or amend any
Facility Letter of Credit unless the requirements of this
Section 4.4 are met as though a new Facility Letter of Credit
were being requested and issued.
(e) Any Lender may, but shall not be obligated to,
issue to the Company or any Subsidiary Letters of Credit (that
are not Facility Letters of Credit) for its own account, and at
its own risk. None of the provisions of this Article IV shall
apply to any Letter of Credit that is not a Facility Letter of
Credit.
(f) The Borrower may not request the issuance,
amendment or extension of any Facility Letter of Credit for or
to a stated maturity date later than the termination of the
Commitments of any Declining Lenders if, following the issuance,
amendment or extension of such Facility Letter of Credit, the
outstanding amount of all Facility Letters of Credit having a
stated maturity date later than the termination of such
Declining Lender's Commitments would exceed the amount to which
the L/C Sublimit will be reduced following the termination of
such Declining Lenders' Commitments.
4.5. Duties of Issuing Bank. Any action taken or omitted
to be taken by an Issuing Bank under or in connection with any
Facility Letter of Credit, if taken or omitted in the absence of
willful misconduct or gross negligence, shall not put such
Issuing Bank under any resulting liability to any Lender or,
provided that such Issuing Bank has complied with the procedures
specified in Section 4.4 in all material respects, relieve any
Lender of its obligations hereunder to such Issuing Bank. In
determining whether to pay under any Facility Letter of Credit,
an Issuing Bank shall have no obligation to the Lenders other
than to confirm that any documents required to be delivered
under such Facility Letter of Credit appear to have been
delivered in compliance with the requirements of such Facility
Letter of Credit.
4.6. Participation. Immediately upon issuance by an
Issuing Bank of any Facility Letter of Credit in accordance with
Section 4.4, each Lender shall be deemed to have irrevocably and
unconditionally purchased and received from such Issuing Bank,
without recourse or warranty, an undivided interest and
participation, in the amount of its Ratable Share of, such
Facility Letter of Credit (including, without limitation, all
obligations of the Borrower with respect thereto other than
amounts owing to such Issuing Bank under Section 3.2 or 4.7(b)).
Immediately upon a Declining Lender's Termination Date, each
other Lender shall be deemed to have irrevocably and
unconditionally purchased and received from such Declining
Lender, without recourse or warranty, a portion of each such
Declining Lender's undivided interest and participation in all
outstanding Facility Letters of Credit (in the proportion of the
Ratable Shares of such purchasing Lenders determined immediately
following the termination of the Declining Lenders' Commitments)
such that, upon such purchase, each Lender holds an undivided
interest and participation in all outstanding Facility Letters
of Credit in the amount of its then Ratable Share thereof.
(b) In the event that an Issuing Bank makes any
payment under any Facility Letter of Credit, the Borrower shall
immediately and unconditionally reimburse the Issuing Bank
therefor, whether through an Advance hereunder or otherwise. If
the Borrower shall not have repaid such amount to such Issuing
Bank on or before the date of such payment by such Issuing Bank,
such Issuing Bank shall promptly so notify the Administrative
Agent, which shall promptly so notify each Lender. Upon receipt
of such notice, each Lender shall promptly and unconditionally
pay to the Administrative Agent (in same day funds) for the
account of such Issuing Bank the amount of such Lender's Ratable
Share of the payments so made by such Issuing Bank, and the
Administrative Agent shall promptly pay such amount, and any
other amounts received by the Administrative Agent for such
Issuing Bank's account pursuant to this Section 4.6(b), to such
Issuing Bank. If the Administrative Agent so notifies such
Lender prior to 10:00 a.m. (Chicago time) on any Business Day,
such Lender shall make available to the Administrative Agent for
the account of such Issuing Bank such Lender's Ratable Share of
the amount of such payment on such Business Day in same day
funds. If and to the extent such Lender shall not have so made
its Ratable Share of the amount of such payment available to the
Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing Bank, such
Lender agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent for the account
of such Issuing Bank forthwith on demand such amount, together
with interest thereon, for each day from the date such payment
was first due until the date such amount is paid to the
Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing Bank, at
the Federal Funds Effective Rate. The failure of any Lender to
make available to the Administrative Agent for the account of
such Issuing Bank such Lender's Ratable Share of any such
payment shall not relieve any other Lender of its obligation
hereunder to make available to the Administrative Agent for the
account of such Issuing Bank its Ratable Share of any payment on
the date such payment is to be made.
(c) The payments made by the Lenders to an Issuing
Bank in reimbursement of amounts paid by it under a Facility
Letter of Credit shall constitute, and the Borrower hereby
expressly acknowledges and agrees that such payments shall
constitute, Advances hereunder and such payments shall for all
purposes be treated as Advances (notwithstanding that the
amounts thereof may not comply with the provisions of Section
2.5). Such Advances shall be ABR Advances, subject to the
Borrower's rights under Article II hereof.
(d) Upon the request of the Administrative Agent or
any Lender, an Issuing Bank shall furnish to the requesting
Administrative Agent or Lender copies of any Facility Letter of
Credit or Application to which such Issuing Bank is party.
(e) The obligations of the Lenders to make payments
to the Administrative Agent for the account of an Issuing Bank
with respect to a Facility Letter of Credit shall be
irrevocable, not subject to any qualification or exception
whatsoever and shall be made in accordance with, but not subject
to, the terms and conditions of this Agreement under all
circumstances, including without limitation the following:
(i) any lack of validity or enforceability of this
Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents;
(ii) the existence of any claim, setoff, defense or
other right which the Borrower may have at any
time against a beneficiary named in a Facility
Letter of Credit or any transferee of any
Facility Letter of Credit (or any Person for whom
any such transferee may be acting), such Issuing
Bank, the Administrative Agent, any Lender, or
any other Person, whether in connection with this
Agreement, any Facility Letter of Credit, the
transactions contemplated herein or any unrelated
transactions (including any underlying
transactions between the Borrower or any other
Loan Party and the beneficiary named in any
Facility Letter of Credit);
(iii) any draft, certificate or any other document
presented under the Facility 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 Loan Documents;
(v) any failure by the Administrative Agent or an
Issuing Bank to make any reports required
pursuant to Section 4.8; or
(vi) the occurrence of any Default or Unmatured
Default.
4.7. Compensation for Facility Letters of Credit. The
Borrower agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent (except to
the extent that the Borrower shall be required to pay directly
to the Lenders as provided in Section 4.7(c)), in the case of
each outstanding Facility Letter of Credit, the Facility Letter
of Credit Fee therefor, payable quarterly in arrears on each
Quarterly Payment Date (including, if any Facility Letter of
Credit remains outstanding after the Facility Termination Date,
each Quarterly Payment Date thereafter until the first Quarterly
Payment Date after the date on which the last outstanding
Facility Letter of Credit ceases to be outstanding) on the daily
average face amount (net of permanent reductions) of each
Facility Letter of Credit outstanding at any time during the
preceding calendar quarter (but excluding any period prior to
the Closing Date during which an Existing Letter of Credit was
outstanding, with respect to which period fees shall be payable
as provided in Section 2.23). The Administrative Agent shall
promptly remit such Facility Letter of Credit Fees, when paid,
to the Lenders in their pro rata shares thereof.
(b) The Borrower agrees to pay to the Administrative
Agent for the account of each Issuing Bank (except to the extent
that the Borrower shall be required to pay directly to the
Issuing Bank as provided in Section 4.7(c)) an issuance fee of
0.125% per annum payable quarterly in arrears on each Quarterly
Payment Date (including, if any Facility Letter of Credit
remains outstanding after the Facility Termination Date, each
Quarterly Payment Date thereafter until the first Quarterly
Payment Date after the date on which the last outstanding
Facility Letter of Credit ceases to be outstanding) on the daily
average face amount (net of permanent reductions) of each
Facility Letter of Credit issued by such Issuing Bank and that
was outstanding at any time during the preceding calendar
quarter (but excluding any period prior to the Closing Date
during which an Existing Letter of Credit was outstanding, with
respect to which period fees shall be payable as provided in
Section 2.23). The Administrative Agent shall promptly remit to
such Issuing Bank such issuance fee, when paid.
(c) After the Facility Termination Date and the
payment in full of all other Obligations, the Borrower shall
make (i) payments of Facility Letter of Credit Fees under
Section 4.7(a) directly to the Lenders in the amounts of their
respective Ratable Shares thereof and (ii) payments of issuance
fees under Section 4.7(b) directly to each Issuing Bank that
issued a Facility Letter of Credit that was outstanding at any
time during the prior calendar quarter.
(d) Facility Letter of Credit Fees and issuance fees
payable to the Issuing Bank shall be calculated, on a pro rata
basis for the period to which such payment applies, for actual
days elapsed during such period, on the basis of a 360-day year.
4.8. Issuing Bank Reporting Requirements. Each Issuing
Bank shall, no later than the tenth day following the last day
of each month, provide to the Administrative Agent a schedule of
the Facility Letters of Credit issued by it, in form and
substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent,
showing the Issuance Date, account party, original face amount,
amount (if any) paid thereunder, expiration date and the
reference number of each Facility Letter of Credit outstanding
at any time during such month and the aggregate amount (if any)
payable by the Borrower to such Issuing Bank during the month
pursuant to Section 3.2. Copies of such reports shall be
provided promptly to each Lender and the Borrower by the
Administrative Agent.
4.9. Indemnification; Nature of Issuing Bank's Duties.
In addition to amounts payable as elsewhere provided in this
Article IV, the Borrower hereby agrees to protect, indemnify,
pay and save the Administrative Agent and each Lender and
Issuing Bank harmless from and against any and all claims,
demands, liabilities, damages, losses, costs, charges and
expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising from the
claims of third parties against the Administrative Agent, any
Issuing Bank or any Lender as a consequence, direct or indirect,
of (i) the issuance of any Facility Letter of Credit other than,
in the case of an Issuing Bank, as a result of its willful
misconduct or gross negligence, or (ii) the failure of an
Issuing Bank to honor a drawing under a Facility Letter of
Credit issued by it as a result of any act or omission, whether
rightful or wrongful, of any present or future de jure or de
facto government or governmental authority.
(b) As among the Borrower, the Lenders, the
Administrative Agent and any Issuing Bank, the Borrower assumes
all risks of the acts and omissions of, or misuse of Facility
Letters of Credit by, the respective beneficiaries of such
Facility Letters of Credit. In furtherance and not in
limitation of the foregoing, neither the Administrative Agent
nor any Lender nor (subject to the provisions of Section 4.9(d))
an Issuing Bank shall be responsible: (i) for the form,
validity, sufficiency, accuracy, genuineness or legal effect of
any document submitted by any party in connection with the
application for and issuance of the Facility Letters of Credit,
even if it should in fact prove to be in any or all respects
invalid, insufficient, inaccurate, fraudulent or forged; (ii)
for the validity or sufficiency of any instrument transferring
or assigning or purporting to transfer or assign a Facility
Letter of Credit or the rights or benefits thereunder or
proceeds thereof, in whole or in part, which may prove to be
invalid or ineffective for any reason; (iii) for failure of the
beneficiary of a Facility Letter of Credit to comply fully with
conditions required in order to draw upon such Facility Letter
of Credit; (iv) for errors, omissions, interruptions or delays
in transmission or delivery of any messages, by mail, cable,
telegraph, telex or otherwise, whether or not they be in cipher;
(v) for errors in interpretation of technical terms; (vi) for
any loss or delay in the transmission or otherwise of any
document required in order to make a drawing under any Facility
Letter of Credit or of the proceeds thereof; (vii) for the
misapplication by the beneficiary of a Facility Letter of Credit
of the proceeds of any drawing under such Facility Letter of
Credit; and (viii) for any consequences arising from causes
beyond the control of the Administrative Agent, such Issuing
Bank and the Lenders including, without limitation, any act or
omission, whether rightful or wrongful, of any present or future
de jure or de facto government or governmental authority. None
of the above shall affect, impair, or prevent the vesting of any
of an Issuing Bank's rights or powers under this Section 4.9.
(c) In furtherance and extension and not in
limitation of the specific provisions hereinabove set forth, any
action taken or omitted by an Issuing Bank under or in
connection with the Facility Letters of Credit or any related
certificates, if taken or omitted in good faith, shall not put
such Issuing Bank, the Administrative Agent or any Lender under
any resulting liability to the Borrower or relieve the Borrower
of any of its obligations hereunder to any such Person.
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary
contained in this Section 4.9, the Borrower shall have no
obligation to indemnify an Issuing Bank under this Section 4.9
in respect of any liability incurred by such Issuing Bank
arising primarily out of the willful misconduct or gross
negligence of such Issuing Bank, as determined by a court of
competent jurisdiction, or out of the wrongful dishonor by such
Issuing Bank of a proper demand for payment made under the
Facility Letters of Credit issued by such Issuing Bank, unless
such dishonor was made at the request of the Borrower.
4.10. Cash Collateralization. (a) If the expiration
date of any Facility Letter of Credit is later than the Facility
Termination Date or later than a Declining Lender's Termination
Date or such date on which a Declining Lender's Commitment is
terminated pursuant to Section 2.21, the Borrower shall, or
shall cause one or more of the other Loan Parties to, (i) cash
collateralize such Facility Letter of Credit not (x) less than
thirty (30) days prior to the Facility Termination Date or such
Declining Lender's Termination Date or (y) on or before such
date on which such Declining Lender's Commitment is terminated
pursuant to Section 2.21 (as applicable) or (ii) in the case of
a Facility Letter of Credit issued by a Declining Lender, enter
in such other arrangements as may be satisfactory to such
Declining Lender for the purpose of terminating the
participation interests of all other Lenders in such Facility
Letter of Credit. For purposes hereof, "cash collateralize"
means, with respect to any Facility Letter of Credit, that the
Borrower or another Loan Party shall provide cash or other
collateral satisfactory to the applicable Issuing Bank and the
Required Lenders in an amount equal to such Facility Letter of
Credit and shall enter into such other indemnification agreement
as the Issuing Bank and the Required Lenders may require.
(b) Any Declining Lender that is an Issuing Bank shall,
upon satisfaction by the Borrower of the provisions of paragraph
(a) above with respect to all outstanding Facility Letters of
Credit issued by such Declining Lender, execute and deliver to
the Administrative Agent, on or before the date of termination
of such Declining Lender's Commitment, a written instrument
satisfactory to Administrative Agent confirming that, upon the
termination of such Declining Lender's Commitment, all
outstanding Facility Letters of Credit issued by such Declining
Lender shall cease to be Facility Letters of Credit hereunder
and that all participation interests of the other Lenders
therein shall terminate. Upon the termination of such Declining
Lender's Commitment in accordance with the provisions of Section
2.21, all outstanding Facility Letters of Credit issued by such
Declining Lender shall cease to be Facility Letters of Credit
hereunder, and the participation interests of the other Lenders
therein shall cease and terminate.
4.11. No Obligation. No Lender shall have any
obligation hereunder to accept or approve any request for, or to
issue, amend or extend, any Letter of Credit hereunder except
Facility Letters of Credit in accordance with this Article IV.
ARTICLE V
CONDITIONS PRECEDENT
5.1. Closing Conditions. This Agreement shall not be
effective unless (a) it has been executed and delivered by the
Borrower, the Company, the Administrative Agent, the "Required
Lenders" under the Original Agreement and all Lenders that are
not party to the Original Agreement, and (b) at the time of the
execution and delivery hereof, the Borrower has paid to the
Administrative Agent the fees provided for in the Fee Letter and
has furnished to the Administrative Agent:
(i) Copies of the articles or certificate of
incorporation of each of the Borrower and the
Company, together with all amendments, and a
certificate of good standing, each certified by
the appropriate governmental officer in its
jurisdiction of incorporation.
(ii) Copies, certified by the Secretary or Assistant
Secretary of each of the Borrower and the
Company, of the by-laws and Board of Directors'
resolutions and resolutions or actions of any
other body authorizing the execution, delivery
and performance of the Loan Documents to which
the Borrower or the Company (as applicable) is a
party.
(iii) An incumbency certificate, executed by the
Secretary or Assistant Secretary of each of the
Borrower and the Company, which shall identify by
name and title and bear the signatures of the
Authorized Officers and any other officers of the
Borrower or the Company (as applicable)
authorized to sign the Loan Documents to which
the Borrower or the Company (as applicable) is a
party, upon which certificate the Administrative
Agent and the Lenders shall be entitled to rely
until informed of any change in writing by the
Borrower or the Company (as applicable).
(iv) To the extent requested by the Administrative
Agent, copies of the articles or certificate of
incorporation, partnership agreement or limited
liability company operating agreement of each
other Loan Party, together with all amendments,
and a certificate of good standing, each
certified by the appropriate governmental officer
in its jurisdiction of incorporation.
(v) To the extent requested by the Administrative
Agent, copies, certified by the Secretary or
Assistant Secretary of each other Loan Party, of
its by-laws and of its Board of Directors'
resolutions and of resolutions or actions of any
other body authorizing the execution, delivery
and performance of the Loan Documents to which
such Loan Party is a party.
(vi) An incumbency certificate, executed by the
Secretary or Assistant Secretary of each other
Loan Party, which shall identify by name and
title and bear the signatures of the Authorized
Officers and any other officers of such Loan
Party authorized to sign the Loan Documents to
which such Loan Party is a party.
(vii) A certificate, signed by the chief financial
officer, controller or chief accounting officer
of the Borrower, stating that on the initial
Borrowing Date no Default or Unmatured Default
has occurred and is continuing.
(viii) Written opinions of the Company's and
Borrower's counsel, addressed to the Lenders in
substantially the forms of Exhibit G and Exhibit
H.
(ix) Any Notes requested by a Lender pursuant to
Section 2.11 payable to the order of each such
requesting Lender.
(x) The Guaranty Agreement duly executed by each of
the Guarantors in substantially the form of
Exhibit I hereto.
(xi) Such other documents as any Lender or its counsel
may have reasonably requested.
5.2. Each Advance. The Lenders shall not be required to
make any Advance (other than an Advance that, after giving
effect thereto and to the application of the proceeds thereof,
does not increase the aggregate amount of outstanding Advances),
and the Issuing Bank shall not be required to issue, amend or
extend a Facility Letter of Credit unless on the applicable
Borrowing Date or Issuance Date:
(i) There exists no Default or Unmatured Default,
except for (A) Unmatured Defaults that will be
cured, and that the Borrower certifies will be
cured, by the use of the proceeds of such Advance
or the issuance, amendment or extension of such
Facility Letter of Credit or (B) Unmatured
Defaults (other than the failure to pay any
Obligation hereunder) that are not reasonably
likely to have a Material Adverse Effect and that
the Borrower certifies that it reasonably expects
to cure before the date on which the same becomes
a Default.
(ii) The representations and warranties contained in
Article VI are true and correct in all material
respects as of such Borrowing Date or Issuance
Date except to the extent any such representation
or warranty is stated to relate solely to an
earlier date, in which case such representation
or warranty shall have been true and correct in
all material respects on and as of such earlier
date.
(iii) All legal matters incident to the making of
such Advance or issuance, amendment or extension
of such Facility Letter of Credit shall be
satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and its
counsel and, in the case of a Facility Letter of
Credit, the Issuing Bank and its counsel.
Each Ratable Borrowing Notice, Competitive Bid Borrowing
Notice and Swing Line Borrowing Notice with respect to each such
Advance, and each Facility Letter of Credit Notice with respect
to the issuance, amendment or extension of each such Facility
Letter of Credit, shall constitute a representation and warranty
by the Borrower that the conditions contained in Sections 5.2(i)
and (ii) have been satisfied. The Administrative Agent or the
Issuing Bank may require a duly completed compliance certificate
in substantially the form of Exhibit J (but without any
requirement for updating the calculations of compliance with
financial covenants) as a condition to making an Advance or the
issuance, amendment or extension of a Facility Letter of Credit.
ARTICLE VI
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
The Borrower and the Company each represent and warrant to
the Lenders that:
6.1. Existence and Standing. Each of the Borrower and the
Company is a corporation, duly and properly incorporated,
validly existing and in good standing under the laws of its
jurisdiction of incorporation and has all requisite authority to
conduct its business in each jurisdiction in which its business
is conducted. Each of the other Loan Parties is a corporation,
partnership or limited liability company duly and properly
incorporated or organized, as the case may be, validly existing
and (to the extent such concept applies to such entity) in good
standing under the laws of its jurisdiction of incorporation or
organization and has all requisite authority to conduct its
business in each jurisdiction in which its business is conducted
to the extent in each case it is material to the operation of
the businesses of the Loan Parties taken as a whole.
6.2. Authorization and Validity. Each Loan Party has the
power and authority and legal right to execute and deliver the
Loan Documents to which it is a party and to perform its
obligations thereunder. The execution and delivery by each Loan
Party of the Loan Documents to which it is a party and the
performance of its obligations thereunder have been duly
authorized by proper corporate (or, in the case of Loan Parties
that are not corporations, other) proceedings, and the Loan
Documents constitute legal, valid and binding obligations of the
applicable Loan Parties enforceable against them in accordance
with their terms, except as enforceability may be limited by
bankruptcy, insolvency or similar Laws affecting the enforcement
of creditors' rights generally and except, in the case of any
Designated Guarantor that, upon request by the Borrower in
accordance with Section 10.13 would be converted to a Non-Loan
Party, any violation of the foregoing that does not have a
material adverse effect on the ability of the Lenders or the
Administrative Agent to substantially realize the benefits
afforded under the Loan Documents (it being agreed that the
parties will work together diligently to remedy promptly any
such violation).
6.3. No Conflict; Consent. Neither the execution and
delivery by the Loan Parties of the Loan Documents, nor the
consummation of the transactions therein contemplated, nor
compliance with the provisions thereof will violate (i) any Law
binding on any of the Loan Parties or their respective Property
or (ii) the articles or certificate of incorporation,
partnership agreement, certificate of partnership, articles or
certificate of organization, by-laws, or operating or other
management agreement, as the case may be, of the Loan Parties,
or (iii) the provisions of any material indenture, instrument or
agreement to which any Loan Party is a party or is subject, or
by which it, or its Property, is bound, or conflict with or
constitute a default thereunder, or result in, or require, the
creation or imposition of any Lien in, of or on the Property of
any Loan Party pursuant to the terms of any such indenture,
instrument or agreement. As of the Closing Date, no order,
consent, adjudication, approval, license, authorization, or
validation of, or filing, recording or registration with, or
exemption by, or other action in respect of any Official Body or
any other Person that has not been obtained by any Loan Party,
is required to be obtained by any Loan Party in connection with
the execution and delivery of the Loan Documents, the borrowings
and the issuance of Facility Letters of Credit under this
Agreement, the payment and performance by the Loan Parties of
the Obligations or the legality, validity, binding effect or
enforceability of any of the Loan Documents.
6.4. Financial Statements. The October 31, 2000 and
January 31, 2001 consolidated financial statements of the
Company and its Subsidiaries heretofore delivered to the Lenders
were prepared in accordance with Agreement Accounting Principles
in effect on the date such statements were prepared and fairly
present the consolidated financial condition and operations of
the Company and its Subsidiaries at such respective dates and
the consolidated results of their operations for the respective
periods then ended (subject, in the case of the January 31, 2001
financial statements, to the absence of footnotes and to year-
end adjustments).
6.5. Material Adverse Change. As of the Closing Date,
since October 31, 2000 there has been no change in the business,
Property, condition (financial or otherwise) or results of
operations of the Loan Parties that could reasonably be expected
to have a Material Adverse Effect.
6.6. Taxes. Except for violations or failures that
individually or in the aggregate are not reasonably likely to
have a Material Adverse Effect, the Loan Parties have filed all
United States federal tax returns and all other tax returns
which are required to be filed and have paid all taxes due
pursuant to said returns or pursuant to any assessment received
by any of the Loan Parties, except such taxes, if any, as are
being contested in good faith and as to which adequate reserves
have been provided in accordance with Agreement Accounting
Principles. The United States income tax returns of the Company
and its Subsidiaries have been audited by the Internal Revenue
Service through the fiscal year ended October 31, 1993. Except
for violations or failures that individually or in the aggregate
are not reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect, (i)
no tax Liens have been filed and no claims are being asserted
with respect to any such taxes, (ii) the charges, accruals and
reserves on the books of the Loan Parties in respect of any
taxes or other governmental charges are adequate in all material
respects and (iii) if any Loan Party is a limited liability
company, each such limited liability company qualifies for
partnership tax treatment under United States federal tax law.
6.7. Litigation and Contingent Obligations. Except as set
forth on Schedule 6, there is no litigation, arbitration,
governmental investigation, proceeding or inquiry pending or, to
the knowledge of any of their officers, threatened against or
affecting any of the Loan Parties that (a) could reasonably be
expected to have a Material Adverse Effect or (b) seeks to
prevent, enjoin or delay the making of any Loans except (but
only in the case of any litigation, arbitration, governmental
investigation, proceeding or inquiry described in this clause
(b) arising after the Closing Date) to the extent that the
Borrower has disclosed the same to the Administrative Agent and
has concluded, on the basis of advice of independent counsel and
to the satisfaction of the Administrative Agent, that the same
is not reasonably likely to result in the prevention, injunction
or delay in the making of the Loans and that the pendency of
such litigation, arbitration, governmental investigation,
proceeding or inquiry does not have a Material Adverse Effect.
Other than any liability incident to any litigation, arbitration
or proceeding that (i) could not reasonably be expected to have
a Material Adverse Effect or (ii) is set forth on Schedule 6, as
of the Closing Date, the Loan Parties have no material
Contingent Obligations not provided for or disclosed in the
financial statements referred to in Section 6.4.
6.8. Subsidiaries. Schedule 7 contains an accurate list of
all Subsidiaries of the Company as of the date of this
Agreement, setting forth their respective jurisdictions of
organization and the percentage of their respective capital
stock or other ownership interests owned by the Company, the
Borrower or other Subsidiaries. All of the issued and
outstanding shares of capital stock or other ownership interests
of such Subsidiaries have been (to the extent such concepts are
relevant with respect to such ownership interests) duly
authorized and issued and are fully paid and non-assessable.
6.9. Accuracy of Information. No information, exhibit or
report furnished by any of the Loan Parties to the
Administrative Agent or to any Lender on or before the Closing
Date in connection with the negotiation of, or compliance with,
the Loan Documents contained any material misstatement of fact
or omitted to state a material fact or any fact necessary to
make the statements contained therein not misleading.
6.10. Regulation U. None of the Loan Parties holds or
intends to hold margin stock (as defined in Regulation U) in
amounts such that more than 25% of the value of the assets of
any Loan Party are represented by margin stock.
6.11. Material Agreements. None of the Loan Parties is
a party to any agreement or instrument or subject to any charter
or other corporate restriction which could reasonably be
expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. None of the Loan
Parties is in default in the performance, observance or
fulfillment of any of the obligations, covenants or conditions
contained in any agreement to which it is a party, which default
could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
6.12. Compliance With Laws. The Loan Parties have
complied with all Laws applicable to the conduct of their
respective businesses or the ownership of their respective
Property, except for any failure to comply that could not
reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
6.13. Ownership of Properties. Except as set forth on
Schedule 8, on the Closing Date, the Loan Parties will have good
title, free of all Liens other than Permitted Liens, to all of
the Property and assets reflected in the Company's most recent
consolidated financial statements provided to the Administrative
Agent as owned by the Loan Parties.
6.14. ERISA.
6.14.1. Plan Assets; Prohibited Transactions. None of
the Loan Parties is an entity deemed to hold "plan assets"
within the meaning of 29 C.F.R. section 2510.3-101 of an
employee benefit plan (as defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA)
which is subject to Title I of ERISA or any plan (within the
meaning of Section 4975 of the Code), and neither the
execution of this Agreement nor the making of Loans nor
the issuance of Facility Letters of Credit hereunder gives
rise to a Prohibited Transaction.
6.14.2. Liabilities. The Unfunded Liabilities of all
Single Employer Plans do not in the aggregate exceed
$10,000,000. Neither the Company nor any other member of the
Controlled Group has incurred, or is reasonably expected to
incur, any withdrawal liability to Multiemployer Plans or
Multiple Employer Plans that individually or in the aggregate
with all such withdrawal liabilities exceeds $10,000,000.
6.14.3. Plans and Benefit Arrangements. Except as set
forth in Schedule 9 or to the extent a violation of the
foregoing would not reasonably be expected to have a Material
Adverse Effect:
(i) The Company and each member of the Controlled
Group is in compliance with any applicable
provisions of ERISA with respect to all Benefit
Arrangements, Plans and Multiemployer Plans.
There has not been any Prohibited Transaction
with respect to any Benefit Arrangement or any
Plan or, to the best knowledge of the Company,
with respect to any Multiemployer Plan or
Multiple Employer Plan. The Company and all
members of the Controlled Group have made any and
all payments required to be made under any
agreement relating to a Multiemployer Plan or a
Multiple Employer Plan or any Law pertaining
thereto. With respect to each Plan and
Multiemployer Plan, the Company and each member
of the Controlled Group (i) have fulfilled their
obligations under the minimum funding standards
of ERISA, (ii) have not incurred any liability to
the PBGC and (iii) have not had asserted against
them any penalty for failure to fulfill the
minimum funding requirements of ERISA.
(ii) To the best of the Company's knowledge, each
Multiemployer Plan and Multiple Employer Plan is
able to pay benefits thereunder when due.
(iii) Neither the Company nor any other member of
the Controlled Group has instituted proceedings
to terminate any Plan.
(iv) No event requiring notice to the PBGC under
Section 302(f)(4)(A) of ERISA has occurred or is
reasonably expected to occur with respect to any
Plan, and no amendment with respect to which
security is required under Section 307 of ERISA
has been made or is reasonably expected to be
made to any Plan.
(v) The aggregate actuarial present value of all
benefit liabilities (whether or not vested) under
each Plan, determined on a plan termination
basis, as disclosed from time to time in and as
of the date of the actuarial reports for such
Plan does not exceed the aggregate fair market
value of the assets of such Plan.
(vi) Neither the Company nor any other member of the
Controlled Group has been notified by any
Multiemployer Plan or Multiple Employer Plan that
such Multiemployer Plan or Multiple Employer Plan
has been terminated within the meaning of Title
IV of ERISA and, to the best knowledge of the
Company, no Multiemployer Plan or Multiple
Employer Plan is or shall be reasonably expected
to be reorganized or terminated, within the
meaning of Title IV of ERISA.
(vii) To the extent that any Benefit Arrangement
is insured, the Company and all members of the
Controlled Group have paid when due all premiums
required to be paid. To the extent that any
Benefit Arrangement is funded other than with
insurance, the Company and all members of the
Controlled Group have made all contributions
required to be paid for all prior periods.
6.15. Investment Company Act. None of the Loan Parties
is an "investment company" or a company "controlled" by an
"investment company", within the meaning of the Investment
Company Act of 1940, as amended.
6.16. Public Utility Holding Company Act. None of the
Loan Parties 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.
6.17. Employment Matters. The Loan Parties are in
compliance with the Labor Contracts and all applicable federal,
state and local labor and employment Laws including, but not
limited to, those related to equal employment opportunity and
affirmative action, labor relations, minimum wage, overtime,
child labor, medical insurance continuation, worker adjustment
and relocation notices, immigration controls and worker and
unemployment compensation, except for failures to comply that
would not individually or in the aggregate have a Material
Adverse Effect. There are no outstanding grievances,
arbitration awards or appeals therefrom arising out of the Labor
Contracts or current or threatened strikes, picketing,
handbilling or other work stoppages or slowdowns at facilities
of the Company or any Loan Party that in any case or in the
aggregate would have a Material Adverse Effect.
6.18. Environmental Matters. Except as disclosed on
Schedule 10:
(i) In the ordinary course of its business, the
officers of the Company consider the effect of
Environmental Laws on the business of the Company
and its Subsidiaries, in the course of which they
identify and evaluate potential risks and
liabilities accruing to the Company due to
Environmental Laws, and, on the basis of this
consideration, the Company has concluded that
compliance with Environmental Laws cannot
reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse
Effect.
(ii) Except for violations or failures that
individually and in the aggregate are not
reasonably likely to result in a Material Adverse
Effect, (A) none of the Loan Parties has received
any Environmental Complaint from any Official
Body or other Person alleging that any Loan Party
or any prior or subsequent owner of the Property
is a potentially responsible party under the
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Cleanup and
Liability Act, 42 U.S.C. section 9601, et seq., and
none of the Loan Parties has any reason to
believe that such an Environmental Complaint
might be received and (B) there are no pending
or, to the Company's knowledge, threatened
Environmental Complaints relating to any Loan
Party or, to the Company's knowledge, any prior
or subsequent owner of the Property pertaining
to, or arising out of, any Environmental
Conditions.
(iii) Except for conditions, violations or
failures which individually and in the aggregate
are not reasonably likely to have a Material
Adverse Effect, (A) there are no circumstances
at, on or under the Property that constitute a
breach of or non-compliance with any of the
Environmental Laws, and (B) there are no past or
present Environmental Conditions at, on or under
the Property or, to the Company's knowledge, at,
on or under adjacent property, that prevent
compliance with Environmental Laws at the
Property.
(iv) Except for conditions, violations or failures
which individually and in the aggregate are not
reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse
Effect, neither the Property nor any structures,
improvements, equipment, fixtures, activities or
facilities thereon or thereunder contain or use
Regulated Substances except in compliance with
Environmental Laws. There are no processes,
facilities, operations, equipment or other
activities at, on or under the Property, or, to
the Company's knowledge, at, on or under adjacent
property, that result in the release or
threatened release of Regulated Substances onto
the Property, except to the extent that such
releases or threatened releases are not a breach
of or otherwise a violation of any Environmental
Laws, or are not likely to have a Material
Adverse Effect.
(v) Except for violations or failures which
individually and in the aggregate are not likely
to have a Material Adverse Effect, (A) there are
no underground storage tanks, or underground
piping associated with such tanks, used for the
management of Regulated Substances at, on or
under the Property that do not have a full
operational secondary containment system in place
and are not in compliance with all Environmental
Laws, and (B) there are no abandoned underground
storage tanks or underground piping associated
with such tanks, previously used for the
management of Regulated Substances at, on or
under the Property that have not been either
abandoned in place, or removed, in accordance
with the Environmental Laws.
(vi) Except for violations or failures which
individually and in the aggregate are not likely
to have a Material Adverse Effect, (A) each Loan
Party has all material permits, licenses,
authorizations and approvals necessary under the
Environmental Laws for the conduct of the
business of such Loan Party as conducted by such
Loan Party and (B) the Loan Parties have
submitted all material notices, reports and other
filings required by the Environmental Laws to be
submitted to an Official Body which pertain to
past and current operations on the Property.
(vii) Except for violations which individually and
in the aggregate are not likely to have a
Material Adverse Effect, all past and present on-
site generation, storage, processing, treatment,
recycling, reclamation of disposal of Solid Waste
at, on, or under the Property and all off-site
transportation, storage, processing, treatment,
recycling, reclamation and disposal of Solid
Waste have been done in accordance with the
Environmental Laws.
6.19. Senior Debt Status. The Obligations rank (a) at
least pari passu in priority of payment with all other Senior
Indebtedness of the Loan Parties except Indebtedness secured by
Permitted Liens and (b) prior in right of payment over the
Subordinated Indebtedness.
6.20. Designated Guarantors. All Subsidiaries of the
Company that are integral to the homebuilding business of the
Toll Group are Designated Guarantors.
ARTICLE VII
COVENANTS
During the term of this Agreement, unless the Required
Lenders shall otherwise consent in writing, the Borrower and the
Company will perform and observe, and (as and where applicable)
will cause the other Loan Parties to perform and observe, the
following covenants:
7.1. Financial Reporting. The Company will maintain, for
itself and each Subsidiary, a system of accounting established
and administered in accordance with generally accepted
accounting principles, and furnish to the Lenders:
(i) Audited Financial Statements. Within 95 days
after the close of each of its fiscal years, an
unqualified (except for qualifications (a)
relating to changes in accounting principles or
practices reflecting changes in generally
accepted accounting principles and required or
approved by the Company's independent certified
public accountants or (b) which are not adverse
in the judgment of the Majority Lenders) audit
report certified by independent certified public
accountants acceptable to the Lenders, prepared
in accordance with Agreement Accounting
Principles on a consolidated basis for the
Company and its Subsidiaries, including balance
sheets as of the end of such period, a related
consolidated profit and loss statement, and a
consolidated statement of cash flows, accompanied
by any management letter prepared by said
accountants.
(ii) Quarterly Financial Statements. Within 50 days
after the close of the first three quarterly
periods of each fiscal year of the Company, for
the Company and its Subsidiaries, consolidated
unaudited balance sheets as at the close of each
such period and a related consolidated profit and
loss statement and a consolidated statement of
cash flows for the period from the beginning of
such fiscal year to the end of such quarter,
which statements shall be either a complete and
accurate copy of such signed statements as filed
with the SEC or certified by the Company's chief
financial officer, chief accounting officer or
controller (which certificate shall be
satisfactory in form to the Administrative
Agent).
(iii) Annual Plan and Forecast. As soon as
available, but in any event within 120 days after
the beginning of each fiscal year of the Company,
a copy of the plan and forecast (including a
projected consolidated balance sheet, income
statement and funds flow statement) of the
Company for such fiscal year.
(iv) Compliance Certificate. Within five (5) days
after each of the dates on which financial
statements are required to be delivered under
Sections 7.1(i) and (ii), a compliance
certificate in substantially the form of Exhibit
J signed by the chief financial officer, chief
accounting officer or controller of the Company
showing the calculations necessary to determine
compliance with this Agreement and stating that
no Default or Unmatured Default exists, or if any
Default or Unmatured Default exists, stating the
nature and status thereof.
(v) Annual ERISA Statement. If applicable, within
270 days after the close of each fiscal year, a
statement of the Unfunded Liabilities of each
Single Employer Plan, certified as correct by an
actuary enrolled under ERISA.
(vi) Reportable Event. As soon as possible and in any
event within 10 days after any Loan Party knows
that any Reportable Event has occurred with
respect to any Plan, a statement, signed by the
chief financial officer, chief accounting office
or controller of the Company, describing said
Reportable Event and the action which the Company
proposes to take with respect thereto.
(vii) Environmental Notices. As soon as possible
and in any event within 10 days after a Senior
Executive of a Loan Party receives the same, a
copy of (a) any notice or claim to the effect
that any Loan Party is or may be liable to any
Person as a result of the release by any Loan
Party or any other Person of any toxic or
hazardous waste or substance into the
environment, and (b) any notice alleging any
violation of any federal, state or local
environmental, health or safety law or regulation
by any Loan Party, that, in either case, could
reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse
Effect.
(viii) Borrowing Base Certificate. At any time
that the Leverage Ratio equals or exceeds 1.75 to
1.00 as of the last day of a fiscal quarter,
simultaneous with the delivery of the Compliance
Certificate required to be delivered with respect
to such fiscal quarter pursuant to Section
7.1(iv), a Borrowing Base Certificate.
(ix) Notices Regarding Plans and Benefit Arrangements.
Promptly upon becoming aware of the
occurrence thereof, notice (including the nature
of the event and, when known, any action taken or
threatened by the Internal Revenue Service or the
PBGC with respect thereto) of: (1) any
Prohibited Transaction that could subject the
Company or any member of the Controlled Group to
a civil penalty assessed pursuant to Section
502(i) of ERISA or a tax imposed by Section 4975
of the Internal Revenue Code in connection with
any Plan, Benefit Arrangement or any trust
created thereunder that in either case would
reasonably be expected to result in a liability
in excess of $1,000,000; (2) any assertion of
material withdrawal liability with respect to any
Multiemployer Plan or Multiple Employer Plan; (3)
any partial or complete withdrawal from a
Multiemployer Plan, by the Company or any member
of the Controlled Group under Title IV of ERISA
(or assertion thereof), which such withdrawal is
likely to result in a material liability; (4) any
withdrawal by the Company or any member of the
Controlled Group from a Multiple Employer Plan;
(5) any failure by the Company or any member of
the Controlled Group to make a payment to a Plan
required to avoid imposition of a lien under
Section 302(f) of ERISA; (6) the adoption of any
amendment to a Plan requiring the provision of
security to such Plan pursuant to Section 307 of
ERISA; or (7) any change in the actuarial
assumptions or funding methods used for any Plan,
where the effect of such change is to materially
increase the unfunded benefit liability or to
materially reduce the liability to make periodic
contributions.
(B) Promptly after receipt thereof, copies of
(a) all notices received by the Company or any
member of the Controlled Group of the PBGC's
intent to terminate any Plan administered or
maintained by the Company or any member of the
Controlled Group, or to have a trustee appointed
to administer any such Plan; and (b) at the
request of the Administrative Agent or any Lender
each annual report (IRS Form 5500 series) and all
accompanying schedules, the most recent actuarial
reports, the most recent financial information
concerning the financial status of each Plan
administered or maintained by the Company or any
member of the Controlled Group, and schedules
showing the amounts contributed to each such Plan
by or on behalf of the Company or any member of
the Controlled Group in which any of their
personnel participate or from which such
personnel may derive a benefit, and each Schedule
B (Actuarial Information) to the annual report
filed by the Company or any member of the
Controlled Group with the Internal Revenue
Service with respect to each such Plan.
(C) Promptly upon the filing thereof, copies of
any Form 5310, or any successor or equivalent
form to Form 5310, filed with the IRS in
connection with the termination of any Plan.
(x) Project Reports. Within thirty (30) days after
the end of each fiscal quarter of the Borrower
and, from and after delivery of a Compliance
Certificate evidencing that the Leverage Ratio
exceeds 1.75 to 1.00 as of the last day of a
fiscal quarter and until the delivery of a
Compliance Certificate for a subsequent fiscal
quarter evidencing that the Leverage Ratio does
not exceed 1.75 to 1.00 as of the last day of
such fiscal quarter, each calendar month,
statements accompanied by a certificate of the
chief financial officer, chief accounting officer
or controller of Company, actually setting forth
for the last week of the prior calendar quarter
or month (as applicable) sales reports showing
unit sales and unsold inventory completed or
under construction by the Loan Parties in
connection with each of their projects.
(xi) Subordinated Loan Documents. Prior to any Loan
Party's entering into or amending any
Subordinated Loan Documents, copies thereof and a
description of any material differences between
the subordination provisions of such Subordinated
Loan Documents and the subordination provisions
of the Subordinated Loan Documents identified in
Schedule 4 or most recently approved hereunder.
(xii) Notice of Litigation. Promptly after the
commencement thereof, notice of all actions,
suits, proceedings or investigations before or by
any Official Body or any other Person against any
Loan Party which would be required to be reported
by the Company on Forms 10-Q, 10-K or 8-K filed
with the SEC.
(xiii) Shareholder Reports. Promptly upon the
furnishing thereof to the shareholders of the
Company, complete and accurate copies of all
financial statements, reports and proxy
statements so furnished.
(xiv) SEC Filings. Promptly upon the filing
thereof, copies of all registration statements
and annual, quarterly, monthly or other regular
reports that any of the Loan Parties files with
the SEC.
(xv) Other Information. Such other information
(including non-financial information) as the
Administrative Agent may from time to time
reasonably request.
7.2. Use of Proceeds. The Borrower and each other Loan
Party will use the proceeds of the Advances for lawful, general
business purposes. Neither the Borrower nor any other Loan
Party will use any of the proceeds of the Advances to purchase
or carry any "margin stock" (as defined in Regulation U).
7.3. Notice of Default. The Borrower will give prompt
notice in writing to the Lenders of the occurrence of any
Default or Unmatured Default (excepting any Unmatured Default
that has not had and could not reasonably be expected to have a
Material Adverse Effect and that the Borrower reasonably expects
to cure prior to the date on which such Unmatured Default would
become a Default) and of any other development, financial or
otherwise, that could reasonably be expected to have a Material
Adverse Effect.
7.4. Conduct of Business. The Loan Parties will carry on
and conduct their businesses in substantially the same manner
and in substantially the same fields of enterprise as presently
conducted (and fields reasonably related thereto) and, in the
case of the Borrower and the Company, will do (and in the case
of any other Loan Party, to the extent that its failure to do so
could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect,
will do) all things necessary to remain duly incorporated or
organized, validly existing and (to the extent such concept
applies to such entity) in good standing as a domestic
corporation, partnership or limited liability company in its
jurisdiction of incorporation or organization, as the case may
be, and maintain all requisite authority to conduct its business
in each jurisdiction in which its business is conducted.
7.5. Taxes. Except for violations or failures that
individually and in the aggregate are not reasonably likely to
have a Material Adverse Effect, each Loan Party will file in a
timely manner complete and correct United States federal and
applicable foreign, state and local tax returns required by law
and pay when due all taxes, assessments and governmental charges
and levies upon it or its income, profits or Property, except
those which are being contested in good faith by appropriate
proceedings and with respect to which adequate reserves have
been set aside in accordance with Agreement Accounting
Principles.
7.6. Insurance. Each Loan Party will maintain with
financially sound and reputable insurance companies insurance on
all its Property in such amounts and covering such risks as is
consistent with sound business practice, and the Borrower will
furnish to any Lender upon request full information as to the
insurance carried.
7.7. Compliance with Laws. Each Loan Party will comply in
all material respects with all Laws to which it may be subject
(excluding Environmental Laws compliance with which is governed
by Section 7.25).
7.8. Maintenance of Properties. Each Loan Party will
maintain, preserve, protect and keep its Property in good
repair, working order and condition (ordinary wear and tear and
casualty excepted) in accordance with the general practice of
other businesses of similar character and size, and make all
necessary and proper repairs, renewals and replacements so that
its business carried on in connection therewith may be properly
conducted at all times.
7.9. Inspection. Each Loan Party will permit the
Administrative Agent and the Lenders, by their respective
representatives and agents, to inspect any of the Property,
books and financial records of the Loan Parties, examine and
make excerpts of the books of accounts and other financial
records of the Loan Parties, and to discuss the affairs,
finances and accounts of the Loan Parties with, and to be
advised as to the same by, their respective officers at such
reasonable times and intervals as the Administrative Agent or
any Lender may designate.
7.10. Mergers; Consolidations; Dissolutions. No Loan
Party shall merge into or consolidate with any other Person or
permit any other Person to merge into or consolidate with it
unless (i) there is no Change of Control of the Loan Party; (ii)
the character of the business of the Toll Group on a
consolidated basis will not be materially changed by such
occurrence; (iii) such occurrence shall not constitute or give
rise to a Default or Unmatured Default; and (iv) if, in the case
of the Borrower or the Company, it is not the surviving entity
of such merger or consolidation, such surviving entity shall
promptly execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent (A) an
assumption of the Borrower's or the Company's (as applicable)
obligations under the Loan Documents to which the Borrower or
the Company (as applicable) is party and (B) such certified
resolutions, opinions of counsel and other supporting
documentation as the Administrative Agent may reasonably
request, all of which shall be reasonably satisfactory to the
Administrative Agent. Neither the Toll Group nor any portion
thereof the dissolution, liquidation or winding up of which
could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect
shall dissolve, liquidate, or wind up its business by operation
of law or otherwise.
7.11. Distributions of Securities. The Company shall
not distribute to its shareholders any securities of any
Subsidiary unless (a) such Subsidiary is a Non-Loan Party; (b)
such distribution does not constitute or give rise to a Default
or Unmatured Default; (c) such distribution does not result in a
Change in Control of a Loan Party; and (d) such distribution
does not materially change the operations of the Toll Group.
7.12. Disposition of Assets. None of the Loan Parties
will sell, convey, assign, lease, abandon or otherwise transfer
or dispose of, voluntarily or involuntarily, any of its Property
(including but not limited to sale, assignment, discount or
other disposition of accounts, contract rights, chattel paper,
equipment or general intangibles with or without recourse or of
capital stock (other than capital stock of the Company), shares
of beneficial interest or partnership interests of another Loan
Party or an Affiliate of a Loan Party), except:
(i) transactions involving the sale of inventory in
the ordinary course of business;
(ii) any sale, transfer or lease of assets which are
no longer necessary or required in the conduct of
such Loan Party's business;
(iii) any sale, transfer or lease of assets to any
other Loan Party;
(iv) any sale, transfer or lease of assets which are
replaced by substitute assets acquired or leased;
(v) any sale, transfer or lease of assets of, or
interests in, a Non-Loan Party or any other
Affiliate of the Company that is not a Loan
Party; and
(vi) mergers or consolidations permitted in this
Agreement.
7.13. Borrower a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary. The Borrower
will at all times be a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of the Company or
of a successor to the Company (but only if the ownership by such
successor does not constitute or result in a Change of Control).
7.14. Investments and Acquisitions. None of the Loan
Parties will make or suffer to exist any Investments (including
without limitation, loans and advances to, and other Investments
in, Subsidiaries), or commitments therefor, or will create any
Subsidiary or will become or remain a partner in any partnership
or joint venture, except Permitted Investments.
7.15. Liens. None of the Loan Parties will create,
incur, or suffer to exist any Lien in, of or on any Property,
except Permitted Liens.
7.16. Additional Designated Guarantors. The Borrower
may at any time designate (in the manner hereinafter provided)
any Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of the Company as a Designated
Guarantor, and shall designate (in the manner hereinafter
provided) each newly-formed or newly-acquired Wholly-Owned
Subsidiary of the Company (other than a Mortgage Subsidiary) as
a Designated Guarantor on a quarterly basis simultaneously with
its delivery of the next Compliance Certificate pursuant to
Section 7.1(iv) (unless, prior to the time of such delivery, the
Borrower satisfies the requirements of Non-Designation of such
Wholly-Owned Subsidiary in accordance with Section 10.13) in
accordance with the provisions of this Section 7.16. Such
designation of a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of the Company as a
Designated Guarantor shall be effected by the delivery by the
Borrower to the Administrative Agent of each of the following:
(i) Notice by the Borrower and the Company
identifying such Designated Guarantor, the state
of its incorporation, and the ownership of the
capital stock or other ownership interests in
such Designated Guarantor;
(ii) A Guaranty Agreement duly executed and delivered
by such Designated Guarantor;
(iii) Documents with respect to such Designated
Guarantor addressing the requirements set forth
in clauses (iv), (v) and (vi) of Section 5.1; and
(iv) Such information relating to the organization,
operations and finances of such Designated
Guarantor as the Administrative Agent shall
reasonably request.
Upon the Administrative Agent's receipt of the foregoing,
all of which shall be reasonably satisfactory to the
Administrative Agent in form and substance, such Wholly-Owned
Subsidiary of the Company shall be a Designated Guarantor and a
Loan Party hereunder.
7.17. Subordinated Indebtedness. Except as otherwise
permitted in the last sentence of this Section 7.17, no Loan
Party will make any amendment or modification to any
Subordinated Loan Document, without providing at least thirty
(30) days' prior written notice thereof to the Administrative
Agent and the Lenders, and obtaining the prior written consent
of the Required Lenders thereto. The Loan Parties may amend or
modify any Subordinated Loan Document without obtaining the
consent of the Required Lenders if after giving effect to such
amendment or modification (a) the subordination provisions
therein would be permitted under this Agreement, and (b) the
Administrative Agent in its sole discretion determines that the
covenants governing such Subordinated Indebtedness affected by
the amendment are no more onerous to the borrower of such
Subordinated Indebtedness than those contained under this
Agreement.
7.18. Intercompany Loans, Loans from Non-Loan Parties.
The Borrower shall make Intercompany Loans available to the
Guarantors using proceeds of the Loans. Each Intercompany Loan
shall be evidenced either by a promissory note of the obligor
under such Intercompany Loan (individually, an "Intercompany
Note" and collectively, the "Intercompany Notes") or an
intercompany account agreement between Borrower and the obligor
under such Intercompany Loan (individually, an "Intercompany
Agreement" and collectively, the "Intercompany Agreements")
which shall provide for repayment of such Intercompany Loans on
such terms as the Borrower and the Guarantors agree. Each
Intercompany Loan shall be subordinated to the Guarantors'
obligations under the Guaranty Agreements pursuant to the terms
of the Guaranty Agreement and shall become due and payable upon
the acceleration of the Loans pursuant to Section 9.1 after the
occurrence of a Default hereunder. Any Intercompany Note or
Intercompany Agreement may in turn be assigned by the Borrower
to another Guarantor as a capital contribution to such
Guarantor. The Company shall establish and maintain such books
and records relating to Intercompany Loans and other Investments
in the Designated Guarantors as are required to enable it and
the Administrative Agent to trace advances and repayments of
principal of Intercompany Loans and other investments in the
Guarantors.
7.19. Appraisals.
7.19.1. Procedures. The Loan Parties shall cooperate
with the Lenders and the appraisers in making appraisals of the
Borrowing Base Assets which the Administrative Agent, at the
direction of the Majority Lenders, may from time to time
request. The Borrower may, within ten (10) days following any
such request by the Administrative Agent, specify which other of
the Borrowing Base Assets it requests to have similarly
appraised. Following the first to occur of (A) completion of
all appraisals requested at any one time by the Administrative
Agent and the Borrower under this Section 7.19, and (B) a date
specified by the Administrative Agent no earlier than 45 days
after the last request for an appraisal has (or could have) been
made by the Borrower in accordance with the immediately
preceding sentence, the appraised values of all Borrowing Base
Assets which have been appraised (rather than their book value)
shall be used for purposes of applying the covenant contained in
Section 7.28.2. The Majority Lenders shall have the right to
request appraisals pursuant to this Section 7.19 not more than
two times in any period of twelve consecutive months, and shall
specify in such request all of the Borrowing Base Assets for
which the Lenders desire appraisals.
7.19.2. Costs. Any appraisals by the Administrative
Agent shall be at the Lenders' expense (in the proportion of
their respective Ratable Shares), unless using such appraised
values would result in the covenant contained in Section 7.28.2
being violated, in which event all such appraisals shall be at
the Borrower's expense.
7.19.3. Appraisers. Any appraisals requested at any one
time pursuant to this Section 7.19 shall be made by one or more
appraisers for all properties (there shall be no more than one
appraiser for each property) located in each state selected by
the Borrower from a list of at least three appraisers submitted
by the Administrative Agent with respect to such state at the
time it makes its request. All appraisers submitted by the
Administrative Agent pursuant to this Section 7.19 shall be
appraisers who have been approved by the Majority Lenders and
the Borrower (such approval not to be unreasonably withheld) and
in either event have committed to prepare appraisals within 45
days following the date such appraisals are requested.
7.20. Mortgage Subsidiaries. The Company shall notify
the Administrative Agent of the creation of any Mortgage
Subsidiary within seven (7) Business Days after such creation.
Such notice shall include the name, state of incorporation and
ownership of the capital stock or other ownership interests
thereof. The Company shall cause the Mortgage Subsidiaries to
engage exclusively in the Mortgage Banking Business. The
Company shall deliver information relating to the organization,
operations and finances of the Mortgage Subsidiaries as the
Administrative Agent may reasonably request from time to time.
7.21. Qualified Ratings. The Company shall at all
times have received at least one Qualified Rating of the
Company's Senior Indebtedness or the Indebtedness under the
Agreement or any Indebtedness senior to the Subordinated
Indebtedness from at least one Qualified Rating Agency, and the
Company shall have contracted with at least one such Qualified
Rating Agency for the periodic modification and updating of such
Qualified Ratings. The Company shall notify the Administrative
Agent of any new rating of the Company's Senior Indebtedness or
its Indebtedness under this Agreement which the Company or any
of its Subsidiaries receives or any modification of an existing
rating of any such Indebtedness which the Company or any
Subsidiary receives, in each instance within three (3) Business
Days following the date of such receipt by a Senior Executive of
the Company. The Company shall deliver to the Administrative
Agent copies of any documents which the Company receives
evidencing, describing or explaining or relating to such new or
modified rating within such three- (3-) Business Day Period. If
the Company shall at any time fail to have at least one
Qualified Rating from either S&P or Xxxxx'x pursuant to the
first sentence above, the Company shall immediately notify the
Administrative Agent of such failure.
7.22. Updates to Schedules. Should any of the
information or disclosures provided on Schedules 6, 9 and 10
become outdated or incorrect in any material respect, the
Borrower and the Company shall promptly provide the
Administrative Agent in writing with such revisions or updates
to such Schedules as may be necessary or appropriate to update
or correct the applicable schedules hereto (i) simultaneously
with or promptly following the notice by any of the Loan Parties
of a breach of covenant which renders one or more of such
schedules misleading or (ii) within five (5) Business Days
following the Administrative Agent's request that the Borrower
provide updates to either of those Schedules; provided, however
that neither Schedule 6 nor Schedule 9 nor Schedule 10 shall be
deemed to have been amended, modified or superseded by any such
correction or update, nor shall any breach of any covenant,
warranty or representation resulting from the inaccuracy or
incompleteness of either Schedule be deemed to have been cured
thereby, unless and until the Required Lenders, in their sole
and absolute discretion, shall have accepted in writing such
revisions or updates to such Schedules. The Borrower shall
deliver to the Administrative Agent an updated Schedule 7,
together with the delivery of the Borrower's quarterly
Compliance Certificate pursuant to Section 7.1(iv), if the
information contained on the Schedule 7 then in effect shall
have changed.
7.23. Plans and Benefit Arrangements. Except as set
forth in Schedule 9 or to the extent a violation of the
foregoing would not reasonably be expected to have a Material
Adverse Effect either individually or in the aggregate with all
other violations:
(i) The Company and each member of the Controlled
Group shall comply with any applicable provisions
of ERISA with respect to all Benefit
Arrangements, Plans and Multiemployer Plans. The
Company shall not permit to occur any Prohibited
Transaction with respect to any Benefit
Arrangement or any Plan or with respect to any
Multiemployer Plan or Multiple Employer Plan.
The Company and all members of the Controlled
Group shall make all payments required to be made
under any agreement relating to a Multiemployer
Plan or a Multiple Employer Plan or any Law
pertaining thereto. With respect to each Plan
and Multiemployer Plan, the Company and each
member of the Controlled Group (i) shall fulfill
their obligations under the minimum funding
standards of ERISA, (ii) shall not incur any
liability to the PBGC and (iii) shall not have
asserted against them any penalty for failure to
fulfill the minimum funding requirements of
ERISA.
(ii) Each Multiemployer Plan and Multiple Employer
Plan shall be able to pay benefits thereunder
when due.
(iii) Neither the Company nor any other member of
the Controlled Group shall institute proceedings
to terminate any Plan.
(iv) The Company shall not permit to occur any event
requiring notice to the PBGC under Section
302(f)(4)(A) of ERISA with respect to any Plan,
and no amendment with respect to which security
is required under Section 307 of ERISA shall be
made to any Plan.
(v) The aggregate actuarial present value of all
benefit liabilities (whether or not vested) under
each Plan, determined on a plan termination
basis, as disclosed from time to time in and as
of the date of the actuarial reports for such
Plan shall not exceed the aggregate fair market
value of the assets of such Plan.
(vi) Neither the Company nor any other member of the
Controlled Group shall incur any withdrawal
liability under ERISA to any Multiemployer Plan
or Multiple Employer Plan. Neither the Company
nor any other member of the Controlled Group
shall be notified by any Multiemployer Plan or
Multiple Employer Plan that such Multiemployer
Plan or Multiple Employer Plan has been
terminated within the meaning of Title IV of
ERISA and no Multiemployer Plan or Multiple
Employer Plan shall be reorganized or terminated,
within the meaning of Title IV of ERISA.
(vii) To the extent that any Benefit Arrangement
is insured, the Company and all members of the
Controlled Group shall pay when due all premiums
required to be paid. To the extent that any
Benefit Arrangement is funded other than with
insurance, the Company and all members of the
Controlled Group shall make all contributions
required to be paid for all prior periods.
7.24. Employment Matters. The Loan Parties shall
comply with the Labor Contracts and all applicable labor and
employment Laws including, but not limited to, those related to
equal employment opportunity and affirmative action, labor
relations, minimum wage, overtime, child labor, medical
insurance continuation, worker adjustment and relocation
notices, immigration controls and worker and unemployment
compensation, where the failure to comply would have a Material
Adverse Effect either individually or in the aggregate with all
other such failures. The Company and the Borrower shall not
permit any grievances, arbitration awards or appeals therefrom
arising out of the Labor Contracts or strikes or threatened
strikes, picketing, handbilling or other work stoppages or
slowdowns at facilities of any Loan Party that in any case or in
the aggregate would have a Material Adverse Effect.
7.25. Environmental Matters. Except as disclosed on
Schedule 10 hereto:
(i) Except for violations or failures which
individually and in the aggregate are not
reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse
Effect, (A) no Environmental Complaint shall be
issued by any Official Body or other Person
alleging that any Loan Party or any prior or
subsequent owner of the Property is a potentially
responsible party under the Comprehensive
Environmental Response, Cleanup and Liability
Act, 42 U.S.C. section 9601, et seq. and (B) the
Company and the Borrower shall not permit to
occur any Environmental Complaint relating to any
Loan Party or any prior or subsequent owner of
the Property pertaining to, or arising out of,
any Environmental Conditions.
(ii) Except for conditions, violations or failures
which individually and in the aggregate are not
reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse
Effect, (A) the Company and the Borrower shall
not permit to occur any circumstances at, on or
under the Property that constitute a breach of or
non-compliance with any of the Environmental Laws
or (B) any past or present Environmental
Conditions at, on or under the Property or at, on
or under adjacent property, that prevent
compliance with Environmental Laws at the
Property.
(iii) Except for conditions, violations or
failures which individually and in the aggregate
are not reasonably likely to have a Material
Adverse Effect, neither the Property nor any
structures, improvements, equipment, fixtures,
activities or facilities thereon or thereunder
shall contain or use Regulated Substances except
in compliance with Environmental Laws. The
Company and the Borrower shall not permit to
occur any processes, facilities, operations,
equipment or other activities at, on or under the
Property, or at, on or under adjacent property
that result in the release or threatened release
of Regulated Substances onto the Property, except
to the extent that such releases or threatened
releases are not a breach of or otherwise a
violation of any Environmental Laws, or are not
likely to have a Material Adverse Effect either
individually or in the aggregate.
(iv) Except for violations or failures which
individually and in the aggregate are not likely
to have a Material Adverse Effect, (A) the
Company and the Borrower shall not permit any
underground storage tanks, or underground piping
associated with such tanks, to be used for the
management of Regulated Substances at, on or
under the Property that do not have a full
operational secondary containment system in place
or are not in compliance with all Environmental
Laws, and (B) the Company and the Borrower shall
not permit the abandonment of any underground
storage tanks or underground piping associated
with such tanks, previously used for the
management of Regulated Substances at, on or
under the Property, except those abandoned in
place, or removed, in accordance with the
Environmental Laws.
(v) Except for violations or failures which
individually and in the aggregate are not likely
to have a Material Adverse Effect, (A)each Loan
Party shall have all material permits, licenses,
authorizations and approvals necessary under the
Environmental Laws for the conduct of the
business of such Loan Party as conducted by such
Loan Party and (B) the Loan Parties shall submit
all material notices, reports and other filings
required by the Environmental Laws to be
submitted to an Official Body which pertain to
operations on the Property.
(vi) Except for violations which individually and in
the aggregate are not likely to have a Material
Adverse Effect, all on-site generation, storage,
processing, treatment, recycling, reclamation of
disposal of Solid waste at, on, or under the
Property and all off-site transportation,
storage, processing, treatment, recycling,
reclamation and disposal of Solid Waste shall be
done in accordance with the Environmental Laws.
7.26. Environmental Certificates. The Borrowing Base
Assets shall not include any Property for which a Loan Party has
not obtained a completed certificate (including an accompanying
Phase I environmental report which report shall be in conformity
with industry standards) in respect of such Property in
substantially the form of Exhibit K (an "Environmental
Certificate") from a qualified independent environmental
engineer. The Borrower shall, at the request of the
Administrative Agent, furnish to the Administrative Agent
Environmental Certificates with respect to any Property
requested by the Administrative Agent that the Borrower has
included in the Borrowing Base, and may, in order to request
approval of any exception on Exhibit A of an Environmental
Certificate that is not a Permitted Environmental Exception so
that the underlying assets may be included in the Borrowing
Base, furnish an Environmental Certificate to the Administrative
Agent. The Administrative Agent shall with reasonable
promptness notify the Borrower and the Lenders of the
Administrative Agent's approval or disapproval of any exception
on Exhibit A of any such Environmental Certificate that is not a
Permitted Environmental Exception. The other Lenders shall have
ten (10) Business Days to reverse such approval or disapproval
by the vote of the Majority Lenders, in the absence of which
vote the Administrative Agent's decision shall stand. The
Borrower shall have the right from time to time to submit
another Environmental Certificate in respect of Property that
was not initially Environmentally Approved Land following the
cleanup of any hazardous materials which constituted exceptions
to a prior Environmental Certificate in respect of such
Property. Neither the Administrative Agent nor any other Lender
shall be liable to any Lender or to any Loan Party for any
approval or disapproval of any exceptions in any Environmental
Certificate made by it in good faith.
7.27. Senior Debt Status. The Obligations will at all
times rank (a) at least pari passu in priority of payment with
all other Senior Indebtedness of the Loan Parties except
Indebtedness secured by Permitted Liens and (b) prior in right
of payment to all Subordinated Indebtedness.
7.28. Financial Covenants.
7.28.1. Leverage Ratio. The Company and the Borrower
will not permit the Leverage Ratio at any time to be greater
than 2.00 to 1.00.
7.28.2. Borrowing Base. At any time that the Leverage
Ratio as of the end of a fiscal quarter equals or exceeds 1.75
to 1.00, the Company and the Borrower will not permit the
Borrowing Base (determined as of the end of such fiscal quarter
and set forth on the Borrowing Base Certificate required to be
delivered for such fiscal quarter pursuant to Section 7.1(viii))
to be less than the sum of (a) Senior Indebtedness (other than
Permitted Purchase Money Loans), plus (b) an amount equal to
125% of all Permitted Purchase Money Loans secured by any of the
Borrowing Base Assets, it being understood that a Permitted
Purchase Money Loan shall not be included in the foregoing
calculation unless Borrower has included in the Borrowing Base
the assets securing such Permitted Purchase Money Loan.
7.28.3. Tangible Net Worth. The Company will maintain at
the end of each fiscal quarter a Tangible Net Worth of not less
than the amount by which (i) the sum of (a) $600,000,000, (b)
50% of Consolidated Net Income after October 31, 2000, and (c)
50% of the proceeds of capital stock of the Company sold by the
Company after October 31, 2000 exceeds (ii) the aggregate amount
paid by the Company for repurchase of its capital stock at any
time after April 30, 2001 (but only to the extent such
repurchases do not exceed the Maximum Deductible Amount (as
defined below)). As used herein, the term "Maximum Deductible
Amount" shall mean an amount equal to (A) the cost of purchases
and repurchases by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries of
capital stock of the Company made after April 30, 2001 not to
exceed, in the aggregate during any one-year period (as measured
from May 1 to April 30 of each year) ten percent (10%) of the
Tangible Net Worth as of the end of the fiscal year of the
Company preceding such one-year period, plus (B) in addition to
the purchases and repurchases of capital stock under clause (A),
the cost of other purchases or repurchases by the Company or any
of its Subsidiaries of capital stock of the Company at any time,
not to exceed $35,000,000 in the aggregate after October 31,
2000.
7.28.4. Mortgage Subsidiaries. The Company and the
Borrower shall not permit the ratio of Mortgage Subsidiaries'
Liabilities to Mortgage Subsidiaries' Adjusted Shareholders
Equity to exceed at the end of any fiscal quarter 15.0 to 1.0.
7.29. Financial Contracts. No Loan Party will enter
into or remain liable upon any Financial Contract, except for
Financial Contracts entered into for the purpose of managing
interest rate risks associated with other Indebtedness of the
Loan Parties and other risks associated with the business of the
Loan Parties and not for speculative purposes.
ARTICLE VIII
DEFAULTS
The occurrence of any one or more of the following events
shall constitute a Default:
8.1. Any representation or warranty made or deemed made by
or on behalf of any Loan Party to the Lenders or the
Administrative Agent under or in connection with this Agreement,
any Loan, or any certificate or information delivered in
connection with this Agreement or any other Loan Document shall
be false in any material respect on the date as of which made or
deemed made.
8.2. (i) Nonpayment of principal of any Loan when due, or
(ii) nonpayment of interest upon any Loan or of any fee or other
Obligations under any of the Loan Documents within five days
after notice (which notice may include a billing statement
therefor) that the same is due.
8.3. The breach by any Loan Party (other than a breach
which constitutes a Default under another Section of this
Article VIII) of any of the terms or provisions of this
Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents which is not cured
within thirty days after notice thereof given in accordance with
Section 14.1 or after the date on which any Senior Executive
becomes aware of the occurrence thereof, whichever first occurs
(such grace period to be applicable only in the event such
breach can be cured by corrective action of the Loan Parties as
determined by the Administrative Agent in its sole discretion).
8.4. Failure of any Loan Party to pay when due any
Indebtedness (other than Permitted Nonrecourse Indebtedness)
aggregating in excess of $10,000,000 ("Material Indebtedness"),
including without limitation Indebtedness under the Term Loan
Agreement; or the default by any Loan Party in the performance
(beyond the applicable grace period with respect thereto, if
any) of any term, provision or condition contained in any
agreement or agreements under which any such Material
Indebtedness was created or is governed, or any other event
shall occur or condition exist, the effect of which default or
event is to cause, or to permit the holder or holders of such
Material Indebtedness to cause, such Material Indebtedness to
become due prior to its stated maturity; or any Material
Indebtedness of any Loan Party shall be declared to be due and
payable or required to be prepaid or repurchased (other than by
a regularly scheduled payment) prior to the stated maturity
thereof; or any Loan Party shall not pay, or shall admit in
writing its inability to pay, its debts generally as they become
due.
8.5. Any Loan Party shall (i) have an order for relief
entered with respect to it under the Federal bankruptcy laws as
now or hereafter in effect, (ii) make an assignment for the
benefit of creditors, (iii) apply for, seek, consent to, or
acquiesce in, the appointment of a receiver, custodian, trustee,
examiner, liquidator or similar official for it or any
Substantial Portion of its Property, (iv) institute any
proceeding seeking an order for relief under the Federal
bankruptcy laws as now or hereafter in effect or seeking to
adjudicate it a bankrupt or insolvent, or seeking dissolution,
winding up, liquidation, reorganization, arrangement, adjustment
or composition of it or its debts under any law relating to
bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization or relief of debtors or
fail to file an answer or other pleading denying the material
allegations of any such proceeding filed against it, (v) take
any corporate, partnership or limited liability company action
to authorize or effect any of the foregoing actions set forth in
this Section 8.5 or (vi) fail to contest in good faith any
appointment or proceeding described in Section 8.6.
8.6. Without the application, approval or consent of a Loan
Party, a receiver, trustee, examiner, liquidator or similar
official shall be appointed for such Loan Party or any
Substantial Portion of the Property of the Loan Parties, or a
proceeding described in Section 8.5(iv) shall be instituted
against any Loan Party and such appointment continues
undischarged or such proceeding continues undismissed or
unstayed for a period of 60 consecutive days.
8.7. Any court, government or governmental agency shall
condemn, seize or otherwise appropriate, or take custody or
control of, all or any portion of the Property of any Loan Party
which, when taken together with all other Property of the Loan
Parties so condemned, seized, appropriated, or taken custody or
control of, during the period of four consecutive fiscal
quarters ending with the quarter in which any such action
occurs, constitutes a Substantial Portion.
8.8. The Loan Parties shall fail within 30 days to pay,
bond or otherwise discharge any one or more judgments or orders
for the payment of money (other than in respect of Permitted
Nonrecourse Indebtedness) in excess of $10,000,000 in the
aggregate, which are not stayed on appeal or otherwise being
appropriately contested in good faith.
8.9. The Unfunded Liabilities of all Single Employer Plans
shall exceed in the aggregate $10,000,000 or any Reportable
Event shall occur in connection with any Plan.
8.10. The Company or any other member of the Controlled
Group shall have been notified by the sponsor of a Multiemployer
Plan or Multiple Employer Plan that it has incurred withdrawal
liability to such Multiemployer Plan or Multiple Employer Plan
in an amount which, when aggregated with all other amounts
required to be paid to Multiemployer Plans or Multiple Employer
Plan by the Company or any other member of the Controlled Group
as withdrawal liability (determined as of the date of such
notification), exceeds $10,000,000 or requires payments
exceeding $5,000,000 per annum.
8.11. The Company or any other member of the Controlled
Group shall have been notified by the sponsor of a Multiemployer
Plan or Multiple Employer Plan that such Multiemployer Plan or
Multiple Employer Plan is in reorganization or is being
terminated, within the meaning of Title IV of ERISA, if as a
result of such reorganization or termination the aggregate
annual contributions of the Borrower and the other members of
the Controlled Group (taken as a whole) to all Multiemployer
Plans and Multiple Employer Plans which are then in
reorganization or being terminated have been or will be
increased over the amounts contributed to such Multiemployer
Plans and Multiple Employer Plans for the respective plan years
of each such Multiemployer Plan and Multiple Employer Plans
immediately preceding the plan year in which the reorganization
or termination occurs by an amount exceeding $10,000,000.
8.12. Any Loan Party shall (i) be the subject of any
proceeding or investigation pertaining to the release of any
Regulated Substance into the environment, or (ii) violate any
Environmental Law, which, in the case of an event described in
clause (i) or clause (ii) or all such events in the aggregate,
could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
8.13. Any Change in Control shall occur.
8.14. Any action shall be taken by a Loan Party to
discontinue or to assert the invalidity or unenforceability of
any Guaranty Agreement, or any Guarantor shall deny that it has
any further liability under any Guaranty Agreement to which it
is a party, or shall give notice to such effect.
8.15. Any Loan Document shall fail to remain in full
force and effect unless released by the Lenders.
8.16. The representations and warranties set forth in
Section 6.14.1 ("Plan Assets; Prohibited Transactions") shall at
any time not be true and correct.
The Borrower may cure any Default (other than any failure
to pay the Obligations) that relates exclusively to a Designated
Guarantor by Conversion of such Designated Guarantor to a Non-
Loan Party, to the extent permitted by and subject to and in
accordance with the provisions of Section 10.13, provided that
such Conversion is completed (except as otherwise provided in
Section 10.13(b)) not later than thirty (30) days after the
first to occur of (a) such Default or (b) the day that a Senior
Executive of the Company first learned of the Unmatured Default
that, with the lapse of time or giving of notice, or both, has
ripened or may ripen into such Default.
ARTICLE IX
ACCELERATION, WAIVERS, AMENDMENTS AND REMEDIES
9.1. Acceleration. If any Default described in Section 8.5
or 8.6 occurs with respect to the Borrower or the Company, the
obligations of the Lenders to make Loans hereunder and the
obligations of the Lenders to issue, amend or extend any
Facility Letter of Credit hereunder shall automatically
terminate and the Obligations shall immediately become due and
payable without any election or action on the part of the
Administrative Agent or any Lender. If any other Default
occurs, the Required Lenders (or the Administrative Agent with
the consent of the Required Lenders) may terminate or suspend
the obligations of the Lenders to make Loans hereunder and the
obligation of any Lender to issue, amend or extend any Facility
Letter of Credit hereunder, or declare the Obligations to be due
and payable, or both, whereupon the Obligations shall become
immediately due and payable, without presentment, demand,
protest or notice of any kind, all of which the Borrower hereby
expressly waives.
If, within 30 days after acceleration of the maturity of
the Obligations or termination of the obligations of the Lenders
to make Loans and of the Issuing Bank to issue, amend or extend
Facility Letters of Credit hereunder as a result of any Default
(other than any Default as described in Section 8.5 or 8.6 with
respect to the Borrower or the Company) and before any judgment
or decree for the payment of the Obligations due shall have been
obtained or entered, the Required Lenders (in their sole
discretion) shall so direct, the Administrative Agent shall, by
notice to the Borrower, rescind and annul such acceleration
and/or termination.
9.2. Amendments. Subject to the provisions of this Article
IX, the Required Lenders (or the Administrative Agent with the
consent in writing of the Required Lenders), the Borrower and
the Company may enter into agreements for the purpose of adding
or modifying any provisions to the Loan Documents or changing in
any manner the rights of the Lenders or the Borrower hereunder
or waiving any Default hereunder; provided, however, that no
such agreement or any waiver shall, without the consent of all
of the Lenders:
(i) Extend the final maturity of any Loan or forgive
all or any portion of the principal amount
thereof, or reduce the rate (whether by
modification of the Pricing Schedule or
otherwise) or extend the time for payment of or
forgive interest or fees thereon.
(ii) Reduce, directly or indirectly, the percentage
specified in the definition of "Majority Lenders"
or "Required Lenders," or change any provision
that calls for consent, approval or other action
by the Required Lenders, Majority Lenders, all
Lenders or any particular affected Lender.
(iii) Extend the Facility Termination Date (except
as provided in Section 2.17), or increase the
amount of the Commitment of any Lender hereunder
(except as agreed to by such Lender pursuant to
the provisions of Section 2.18), or permit the
Borrower to assign its rights under this
Agreement.
(iv) Amend this Section 9.2.
(v) Release any Guarantor (except for the release of
a Designated Guarantor as provided in Section
10.13).
No amendment of any provision of this Agreement relating to the
Administrative Agent or the Swing Line Lender shall be effective
without its written consent, and no amendment of any provision
of this Agreement relating to any outstanding Facility Letter of
Credit issued by any Issuing Bank shall be effective without its
written consent. The Administrative Agent may waive payment of
the fee required under Section 13.3.2 without obtaining the
consent of any other party to this Agreement.
9.3. Preservation of Rights. No delay or omission of the
Lenders or the Administrative Agent to exercise any right under
the Loan Documents shall impair such right or be construed to be
a waiver of any Default or an acquiescence therein, and the
making of a Loan or the issuance, amendment or extension of a
Facility Letter of Credit notwithstanding the existence of a
Default or the inability of the Borrower to satisfy the
conditions precedent to such Loan or the issuance, amendment or
extension of such Facility Letter of Credit shall not constitute
any waiver or acquiescence. Any single or partial exercise of
any such right shall not preclude other or further exercise
thereof or the exercise of any other right, and no waiver,
amendment or other variation of the terms, conditions or
provisions of the Loan Documents whatsoever shall be valid
unless in writing signed by the Lenders required pursuant to
Section 9.2, and then only to the extent in such writing
specifically set forth. All remedies contained in the Loan
Documents or by law afforded shall be cumulative and all shall
be available to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders until
the Obligations have been paid in full.
ARTICLE X
GENERAL PROVISIONS
10.1. Survival of Representations. All representations
and warranties of the Borrower contained in this Agreement shall
survive the making of the Loans and the issuance of the Facility
Letters of Credit herein contemplated.
10.2. Governmental Regulation. Anything contained in
this Agreement to the contrary notwithstanding, no Lender shall
be obligated to extend credit to the Borrower in violation of
any limitation or prohibition provided by any applicable statute
or regulation.
10.3. Headings. Section headings in the Loan Documents
are for convenience of reference only, and shall not govern the
interpretation of any of the provisions of the Loan Documents.
10.4. Entire Agreement. The Loan Documents embody the
entire agreement and understanding among the Borrower, the
Company, Administrative Agent and the Lenders and supersede all
prior agreements and understandings among the Borrower, the
Company, the Administrative Agent and the Lenders relating to
the subject matter thereof (other than the Administrative
Agent's Fee Letter).
10.5. Several Obligations; Benefits of this Agreement.
The respective obligations of the Lenders hereunder are several
and not joint or joint and several and no Lender shall be the
partner or agent of any other (except to the extent to which the
Administrative Agent is authorized to act as such). The failure
of any Lender to perform any of its obligations hereunder shall
not relieve any other Lender from any of its obligations
hereunder. This Agreement shall not be construed so as to
confer any right or benefit upon any Person other than the
parties to this Agreement and their respective successors and
assigns, provided, however, that the parties hereto expressly
agree that the Arranger (and, in the case of the provisions of
Section 10.6(b), any other Person indemnified by the Borrower
thereunder) shall enjoy the benefits of the provisions of
Sections 10.6, 10.10 and 11.11 to the extent specifically set
forth therein and shall have the right to enforce such
provisions on its, his or her own behalf and in its, his or her
own name to the same extent as if it, he or she were a party to
this Agreement.
10.6. Expenses; Indemnification. The Borrower
shall reimburse the Administrative Agent and the Arranger for
any costs, internal charges and out-of-pocket expenses
(including attorneys' fees and expenses of attorneys for the
Administrative Agent and the Arranger and (but only (1) after
the occurrence of any Default or (2) with the Borrower's prior
approval, which shall not be unreasonably withheld) other
advisors and professionals engaged by the Administrative Agent
or the Arranger) paid or incurred by the Administrative Agent or
the Arranger in connection with the preparation, negotiation,
execution, delivery, syndication, amendment, modification, and
administration of the Loan Documents. The Borrower also agrees
to reimburse the Administrative Agent, the Arranger and the
Lenders for any costs, internal charges and out-of-pocket
expenses (including fees and expenses of attorneys for the
Administrative Agent, the Arranger and the Lenders), paid or
incurred by the Administrative Agent, the Arranger or any Lender
in connection with the collection and enforcement of the Loan
Documents.
(b) The Borrower hereby further agrees to indemnify
the Administrative Agent, the Arranger and each Lender, its
directors, officers and employees against all losses, claims,
damages, penalties, judgments, liabilities and expenses
(including, without limitation, all reasonable fees and expenses
of attorneys and other expenses of litigation or preparation
therefor whether or not the Administrative Agent, the Arranger
or any Lender is a party thereto) which any of them may pay or
incur arising out of or relating to this Agreement, the other
Loan Documents, the transactions contemplated hereby or the
direct or indirect application or proposed application of the
proceeds of any Loan hereunder except to the extent that they
are determined in a final non-appealable judgment by a court of
competent jurisdiction to have resulted from the gross
negligence or willful misconduct of the party seeking
indemnification. The obligations of the Borrower under this
Section 10.6 shall survive the termination of this Agreement.
10.7. Numbers of Documents. All statements, notices,
closing documents, and requests hereunder shall (if the
Administrative Agent so requests) be furnished to the
Administrative Agent with sufficient counterparts so that the
Administrative Agent may furnish one to each of the Lenders.
10.8. Accounting. Except as provided to the contrary
herein, all accounting terms used herein shall be interpreted
and all accounting determinations hereunder shall be made in
accordance with Agreement Accounting Principles.
10.9. Severability of Provisions. Any provision in any
Loan Document that is held to be inoperative, unenforceable, or
invalid in any jurisdiction shall, as to that jurisdiction, be
inoperative, unenforceable, or invalid without affecting the
remaining provisions in that jurisdiction or the operation,
enforceability, or validity of that provision in any other
jurisdiction, and to this end the provisions of all Loan
Documents are declared to be severable.
10.10. Nonliability of Lenders. The relationship
between the Borrower on the one hand and the Lenders and the
Administrative Agent on the other hand shall be solely that of
borrower and lender. Neither the Administrative Agent, the
Arranger nor any Lender shall have any fiduciary
responsibilities to the Borrower, the Company or any other Loan
Party. Neither the Administrative Agent, the Arranger nor any
Lender undertakes any responsibility to the Borrower, the
Company or any other Loan Party to review or inform the
Borrower, the Company or any other Loan Party of any matter in
connection with any phase of the Borrower's, the Company's or
any other Loan Party's business or operations. The Borrower and
the Company agree that neither the Administrative Agent, the
Arranger nor any Lender shall have liability to the Borrower,
the Company or any other Loan Party (whether sounding in tort,
contract or otherwise) for losses suffered by the Borrower, the
Company or any other Loan Party in connection with, arising out
of, or in any way related to, the transactions contemplated and
the relationship established by the Loan Documents, or any act,
omission or event occurring in connection therewith, unless it
is determined in a final non-appealable judgment by a court of
competent jurisdiction that such losses resulted from the gross
negligence or willful misconduct of the party from which
recovery is sought. Neither the Administrative Agent, the
Arranger nor any Lender shall have any liability with respect
to, and the Borrower, the Company and each other Loan Party
hereby waives, releases and agrees not to xxx for, any special,
indirect or consequential damages suffered by the Borrower, the
Company or any other Loan Party in connection with, arising out
of, or in any way related to the Loan Documents or the
transactions contemplated thereby.
10.11. Confidentiality. Each Lender agrees to hold any
confidential information which it may receive from the Borrower
pursuant to this Agreement in confidence, except for disclosure
(i) to its Affiliates and to other Lenders and their respective
Affiliates, (ii) to legal counsel, accountants, and other
professional advisors to that Lender or to a Transferee, (iii)
to regulatory officials, (iv) to any Person as requested
pursuant to or as required by law, regulation, or legal process,
(v) to any Person in connection with any legal proceeding to
which that Lender is a party, and (vi) permitted by Section
13.4.
10.12. Nonreliance. Each Lender hereby represents that
it is not relying on or looking to any margin stock (as defined
in Regulation U of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
System) for the repayment of the Loans provided for herein.
10.13. Conversion and Non-Designation of Designated
Guarantors. The Borrower may, by written notice to the
Administrative Agent, request that a Designated Guarantor be
released from its Guaranty Agreement and thereby be converted to
a Non-Loan Party (a "Conversion") or that a Wholly-Owned
Subsidiary of the Company not be required to be designated as a
Designated Guarantor (a "Non-Designation"), on and subject to
the following conditions:
(i) No Default or Unmatured Default shall exist
(except any Default or Unmatured Default that
will be cured as a result of such Conversion or
Non-Designation) and no other Default or
Unmatured Default will exist as a result of such
Conversion or Non-Designation.
(ii) In the case of a Conversion, the stockholders'
equity in such Designated Guarantor and in the
case of a Non-Designation, the stockholders'
equity in such Wholly-Owned Subsidiary, shall not
exceed five percent (5%) of the total
consolidated stockholders' equity in all Loan
Parties. Determination of such percentages of
stockholders' equity shall be made as of the end
of the most recent fiscal quarter of the Company
for which the financial statements required under
Sections 7.1(i) or (ii) (as applicable) are
available at the time of such request for
Conversion or Non-Designation.
(iii) The stockholders' equity in all Designated
Guarantors that the Borrower requests to be
converted into Non-Loan Parties in any period of
four consecutive fiscal quarters and in all
Wholly-Owned Subsidiaries of the Company that the
Borrower requests not to be designated as
Designated Guarantors during such four-quarter
period shall not in the aggregate exceed ten
percent (10%) (or fifteen percent (15%) if and to
the extent necessary to permit the Borrower to
cure a Default by Conversion of a Designated
Guarantor) of the lowest total consolidated
stockholders' equity in all Loan Parties at the
end of any fiscal quarter during such four-
quarter period. Determination of such aggregate
amounts of stockholders' equity of such
applicable Designated Guarantors or Wholly-Owned
Subsidiaries shall be made by adding the amounts
of stockholders' equity of each such applicable
Designated Guarantor and Wholly-Owned Subsidiary
(as determined at the time of request for
Conversion of such Designated Guarantor or Non-
Designation of such Wholly-Owned Subsidiary in
accordance with clause (ii) above).
(iv) The disposition by the Company of such Designated
Guarantor (in the case of a Conversion) or
Wholly-Owned Subsidiary (in the case of a Non-
Designation) would not have a material effect on
the homebuilding business of the other Loan
Parties, operationally or otherwise.
(v) The Borrower shall deliver to the Administrative
Agent, together with the Borrower's notice
requesting the Conversion of a Designated
Guarantor or Non-Designation of a Wholly-Owned
Subsidiary, a certificate of the Borrower and the
Company, certifying that the conditions set forth
in clauses (i) through (iv) above are satisfied
with respect to such Conversion or Non-
Designation, together with (A) in the case of a
Conversion, a Compliance Certificate, as of the
end of the most recent fiscal quarter for which
financial statements are available, prepared
taking into account such Conversion and a
projection of the calculations for the Compliance
Certificate for the next succeeding fiscal
quarter and (B) in any case, such other evidence
in support of the satisfaction of such conditions
as the Administrative Agent shall request.
(vi) Such Conversion or Non-Designation shall comply
with the provisions of Section 10.13(d).
Upon the Administrative Agent's determination that the
foregoing conditions with respect to the Conversion of a
Designated Guarantor have been satisfied, the Administrative
Agent shall (except as otherwise provided in Section 10.13(b))
promptly (1) execute and deliver, for and on behalf of itself
and the Lenders, a release of such Designated Guarantor from its
Guaranty Agreement, whereupon such Designated Guarantor shall
cease to be a Designated Guarantor and Loan Party and shall be a
Non-Loan Party, and (2) give notice to the Lenders of the
Conversion of such Designated Guarantor. Upon the
Administrative Agent's determination that the foregoing
conditions with respect to the Non-Designation of a Wholly-Owned
Subsidiary of the Company have been satisfied, the
Administrative Agent shall promptly give notice of such Non-
Designation to the Borrower and the Lenders.
(b) Notwithstanding the satisfaction of the
conditions for Conversion of a Designated Guarantor pursuant to
Section 10.13(a), if requested by the Borrower, the
Administrative Agent may elect, in its sole discretion, not to
release such Designated Guarantor from its Guaranty, in which
event such Designated Guarantor shall remain a Guarantor but
shall not constitute a Loan Party hereunder for purposes of
compliance with the representations, warranties and covenants
contained in this Agreement (including without limitation the
covenants contained in Section 7.28) and the provisions of
Article VIII. If the Administrative Agent so elects not to
release such Designated Guarantor, it shall so notify the
Borrower and the Lenders, and the Majority Lenders may at any
time direct the Administrative Agent to release such Designated
Guarantor from its Guaranty.
(c) If prior to the release of a Designated Guarantor
from its Guaranty, the Borrower determines and certifies to the
Administrative Agent that the inclusion of such Designated
Guarantor as a Loan Party hereunder for all purposes (including
without limitation compliance with the covenants contained in
Section 7.28) would not result in a Default or Unmatured
Default, the Borrower may request the Administrative Agent to
reinstate such Designated Guarantor as a Loan Party hereunder
for all purposes. As a condition of any such reinstatement, the
Administrative Agent may request the Borrower to deliver to the
Administrative Agent evidence in support of the Borrower's
certification, including without limitation (i) a Compliance
Certificate with respect to the most recent fiscal quarter for
which financial statements of the Company are available,
reflecting the inclusion of such Designated Guarantor as a Loan
Party and evidencing compliance with the covenants hereunder and
(ii) a projection of the Compliance Certificate for the next
fiscal quarter, also reflecting the inclusion of such Designated
Guarantor as a Loan Party and projecting compliance with the
covenants hereunder. Upon the Administrative Agent's approval of
the Borrower's certification and supporting evidence, the
Administrative Agent shall notify the Borrower and the Lenders
that such Designated Guarantor has been so reinstated, and from
and after the delivery of such notice, such Designated Guarantor
shall again be a Loan Party hereunder for all purposes.
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary
contained herein, (i) the Conversion of a Guarantor to a Non-
Loan Party hereunder shall not be permitted unless at the same
time the same "Conversion" occurs under the Term Loan Agreement;
(ii) the Non-Designation of a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary hereunder
shall not be permitted unless at the same time the same "Non-
Designation" occurs under the Term Loan Agreement; (iii) the
Administrative Agent shall not make an election under Section
10.13(b) hereof unless such election is made at the same time
with respect to the same Designated Guarantor under Section
10.13(b) of the Term Loan Agreement; and (iv) the reinstatement
of a Designated Guarantor as a Loan Party under Section 10.13(c)
above shall not be permitted unless at the same time the same
Designated Guarantor is reinstated under Section 10.13(c) of the
Term Loan Agreement.
(e) At all times after the Borrower has satisfied the
conditions of Conversion of a Designated Guarantor as provided
in Section 10.13(a) but prior to the release of such Designated
Guarantor from its Guaranty, all reports required to be
furnished under Section 7.1 hereof or any other provisions of
this Agreement shall exclude such Designated Guarantor as a Loan
Party hereunder unless and until such Designated Guarantor is
reinstated as a Loan Party as provided in Section 10.13(c).
10.14. Non-Funding Lender. Except for matters described
in Section 9.2, a Non-Funding Lender shall not have any voting
rights under this Agreement.
ARTICLE XI
THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT
11.1. Appointment; Nature of Relationship. Bank One is
hereby appointed by each of the Lenders as its contractual
representative (herein referred to as the "Administrative
Agent") hereunder and under each other Loan Document, and each
of the Lenders irrevocably authorizes the Administrative Agent
to act as the contractual representative of such Lender with the
rights and duties expressly set forth herein and in the other
Loan Documents. The Administrative Agent agrees to act as such
contractual representative upon the express conditions contained
in this Article XI. Notwithstanding the use of the defined term
"Administrative Agent," it is expressly understood and agreed
that the Administrative Agent shall not have any fiduciary
responsibilities to any Lender by reason of this Agreement or
any other Loan Document and that the Administrative Agent is
merely acting as the contractual representative of the Lenders
with only those duties as are expressly set forth in this
Agreement and the other Loan Documents. In its capacity as the
Lenders' contractual representative, the Administrative Agent
(a) does not hereby assume any fiduciary duties to any of the
Lenders, (b) is a "representative" of the Lenders within the
meaning of Section 9-105 of the Uniform Commercial Code and (c)
is acting as an independent contractor, the rights and duties of
which are limited to those expressly set forth in this Agreement
and the other Loan Documents. Each of the Lenders hereby agrees
to assert no claim against the Administrative Agent on any
agency theory or any other theory of liability for breach of
fiduciary duty, all of which claims each Lender hereby waives.
11.2. Powers. The Administrative Agent shall have and
may exercise such powers under the Loan Documents as are
specifically delegated to the Administrative Agent by the terms
of each thereof, together with such powers as are reasonably
incidental thereto. The Administrative Agent shall have no
implied duties (other than those of good faith and fair dealing)
to the Lenders, or any obligation to the Lenders to take any
action thereunder except any action specifically provided by the
Loan Documents to be taken by the Administrative Agent. The
Administrative Agent shall exercise the same care in its
administration of the Loan Facility as it would exercise in the
administration of a loan facility entirely for its own account.
11.3. General Immunity. Neither the Administrative
Agent nor any Agent nor any of the directors, officers, agents
or employees of the Administrative Agent or any Agent shall be
liable to the Borrower or other Loan Party, the Lenders or any
Lender for any action taken or omitted to be taken by it or them
hereunder or under any other Loan Document or in connection
herewith or therewith except to the extent such action or
inaction is determined in a final non-appealable judgment by a
court of competent jurisdiction to have arisen from the gross
negligence or willful misconduct of such Person.
11.4. No Responsibility for Loans, Recitals, etc.
Neither the Administrative Agent nor any Agent nor any of the
directors, officers, agents or employees of the Administrative
Agent or any Agent shall be responsible for or have any duty to
ascertain, inquire into, or verify (a) any statement, warranty
or representation made in connection with any Loan Document or
any borrowing hereunder or any issuance, amendment or extension
of a Facility Letter of Credit hereunder; (b) the performance or
observance of any of the covenants or agreements of any obligor
under any Loan Document, including, without limitation, any
agreement by an obligor to furnish information directly to each
Lender; (c) the satisfaction of any condition specified in
Article V, except receipt of items required to be delivered to
the Administrative Agent; (d) the existence or possible
existence of any Default or Unmatured Default; (e) the validity,
enforceability, effectiveness, sufficiency or genuineness of any
Loan Document or any other instrument or writing furnished in
connection therewith; (f) the value, sufficiency, creation,
perfection or priority of any Lien in any collateral security;
or (g) the financial condition of the Borrower, the Company or
any other Loan Party or their respective Subsidiaries. The
Administrative Agent shall promptly disclose to the Lenders all
information furnished by the Borrower or the Company pursuant to
the requirements of this Agreement but shall have no duty to
disclose to the Lenders information that is not required to be
furnished by the Borrower or the Company to the Administrative
Agent at such time, but that is voluntarily furnished by the
Borrower or the Company to the Administrative Agent (either in
its capacity as Administrative Agent or in its individual
capacity).
11.5. Action on Instructions of Lenders. Except with
respect to matters requiring consent or approval of all Lenders
or of particular affected Lenders, the Administrative Agent
shall in all cases be fully protected in acting, or in
refraining from acting, hereunder and under any other Loan
Document in accordance with written instructions signed by the
Required Lenders (or the Majority Lenders to the extent that
this Agreement or any other Loan Document provides therefor),
and such instructions and any action taken or failure to act
pursuant thereto shall be binding on all of the Lenders. The
Lenders hereby acknowledge that the Administrative Agent shall
be under no duty to take any discretionary action permitted to
be taken by it pursuant to the provisions of this Agreement or
any other Loan Document unless it shall be requested in writing
to do so by the Required Lenders (or the Majority Lenders to the
extent that this Agreement or any other Loan Document provides
therefor). The Administrative Agent shall be fully justified in
failing or refusing to take any action hereunder and under any
other Loan Document unless it shall first be indemnified to its
satisfaction by the Lenders pro rata (in their respective
Ratable Shares) against any and all liability, cost and expense
that it may incur by reason of taking or continuing to take any
such action.
11.6. Employment of Agents and Counsel. The
Administrative Agent may execute any of its duties as
Administrative Agent hereunder and under any other Loan Document
by or through employees, agents, and attorneys-in-fact and shall
not be answerable to the Lenders, except as to money or
securities received by it or its authorized agents, for the
default or misconduct of any such agents or attorneys-in-fact
selected by it with reasonable care. The Administrative Agent
shall be entitled to advice of counsel concerning the
contractual arrangement between the Administrative Agent and the
Lenders and all matters pertaining to the Administrative Agent's
duties hereunder and under any other Loan Document.
11.7. Reliance on Documents; Counsel. The
Administrative Agent shall be entitled to rely upon any Note,
notice, consent, certificate, affidavit, letter, telegram,
statement, paper or document believed by it to be genuine and
correct and to have been signed or sent by the proper person or
persons, and, in respect to legal matters, upon the opinion of
counsel selected by the Administrative Agent, which counsel may
be employees of the Administrative Agent.
11.8. Administrative Agent's Reimbursement and
Indemnification. The Lenders agree to reimburse and indemnify
the Administrative Agent, solely in its capacity as such,
ratably, in their respective Ratable Shares, (a) for any amounts
not reimbursed by the Borrower for which the Administrative
Agent is entitled to reimbursement by the Borrower under the
Loan Documents, (b) for any other expenses incurred by the
Administrative Agent on behalf of the Lenders, in connection
with the preparation, execution, delivery, administration and
enforcement of the Loan Documents (including, without
limitation, for any expenses incurred by the Administrative
Agent in connection with any dispute between the Administrative
Agent and any Lender or between two or more of the Lenders) and
(c) for any liabilities, obligations, losses, damages,
penalties, actions, judgments, suits, costs, expenses or
disbursements of any kind and nature whatsoever which may be
imposed on, incurred by or asserted against the Administrative
Agent in any way relating to or arising out of the Loan
Documents or any other document delivered in connection
therewith or the transactions contemplated thereby (including,
without limitation, for any such amounts incurred by or asserted
against the Administrative Agent in connection with any dispute
between the Administrative Agent and any Lender or between two
or more of the Lenders), or the enforcement of any of the terms
of the Loan Documents or of any such other documents, provided,
however, that no Lender shall be liable for any of the foregoing
to the extent any of the foregoing is found in a final non-
appealable judgment by a court of competent jurisdiction to have
resulted from the gross negligence or willful misconduct of the
Administrative Agent. The obligations of the Lenders under this
Section 11.8 shall survive payment of the Obligations and
termination of this Agreement.
11.9. Notice of Default. The Administrative Agent
shall not be deemed to have knowledge or notice of the
occurrence of any Default or Unmatured Default hereunder unless
the Administrative Agent has received written notice from a
Lender or the Borrower referring to this Agreement describing
such Default or Unmatured Default and stating that such notice
is a "notice of default" or that such notice is delivered
pursuant to Section 7.3 hereof. In the event that the
Administrative Agent receives such a notice, the Administrative
Agent shall give prompt notice thereof to the Lenders.
11.10. Rights as a Lender. In the event the
Administrative Agent or any Agent is a Lender, the
Administrative Agent or such Agent shall have the same rights
and powers hereunder and under any other Loan Document with
respect to its Commitment and its Loans as any Lender and may
exercise the same as though it were not the Administrative Agent
or such Agent, and the term "Lender" or "Lenders" shall, at any
time when the Administrative Agent or such Agent is a Lender,
unless the context otherwise indicates, include the
Administrative Agent or such Agent in its individual capacity.
The Administrative Agent, any Agent and their respective
Affiliates, and each of the other Lenders, may accept deposits
from, lend money to, and generally engage in any kind of trust,
debt, equity or other transaction, in addition to those
contemplated by this Agreement or any other Loan Document, with
the Borrower, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries in which
the Borrower, the Company or such Subsidiary is not restricted
hereby from engaging with any other Person.
11.11. Lender Credit Decision. Each Lender acknowledges
that it has, independently and without reliance upon the
Administrative Agent, any Agent, the Arranger or any other
Lender and based on the financial statements prepared by the
Borrower or the Company and such other documents and information
as it has deemed appropriate, made its own credit analysis and
decision to enter into this Agreement and the other Loan
Documents. Each Lender also acknowledges that it will,
independently and without reliance upon the Administrative
Agent, any Agent, the Arranger or any other Lender and based on
such documents and information as it shall deem appropriate at
the time, continue to make its own credit decisions in taking or
not taking action under this Agreement and the other Loan
Documents.
11.12. Successor Administrative Agent. The
Administrative Agent may resign at any time, and shall resign
immediately if its Commitment shall at any time be less than the
lesser of (a) ten percent (10%) of the Aggregate Commitment or
(b) $20,000,000, by giving written notice thereof to the Lenders
and the Borrower, such resignation to be effective upon the
appointment of a successor Administrative Agent or, if no
successor Administrative Agent has been appointed, sixty days
after the retiring Administrative Agent gives notice of its
intention to resign. The Administrative Agent may be removed at
any time with or without cause by written notice received by the
Administrative Agent from the Required Lenders, such removal to
be effective on the date specified by the Required Lenders.
Upon any such resignation or removal, the Required Lenders shall
have the right to appoint, on behalf of the Borrower, the
Company and the Lenders, a successor Administrative Agent
subject to the consent of the Borrower, which consent shall not
be unreasonably withheld or delayed; provided, however, that if
a Default has occurred and is continuing, the consent of the
Borrower shall not be required. If no successor Administrative
Agent shall have been so appointed by the Required Lenders
within thirty days after the resigning Administrative Agent's
giving notice of its intention to resign, then the resigning
Administrative Agent may appoint, on behalf of the Borrower, the
Company and the Lenders, a successor Administrative Agent
subject to the consent of the Borrower, which consent shall not
be unreasonably withheld or delayed. Notwithstanding the
previous sentence, the Administrative Agent may at any time
without the consent of the Borrower or any Lender, appoint any
of its Affiliates which is a commercial bank as a successor
Administrative Agent hereunder. If the Administrative Agent has
resigned or been removed and no successor Administrative Agent
has been appointed, the Lenders may perform all the duties of
the Administrative Agent hereunder and the Borrower shall make
all payments in respect of the Obligations to the applicable
Lender and for all other purposes shall deal directly with the
Lenders. No successor Administrative Agent shall be deemed to
be appointed hereunder until such successor Administrative Agent
has accepted (i) the appointment and (ii) unless the successor
Administrative Agent is an Affiliate of the prior Administrative
Agent, an assignment of the Swing Line Commitment. Any such
successor Administrative Agent shall be a commercial bank having
capital and retained earnings of at least $100,000,000. Upon
the acceptance of any appointment as Administrative Agent
hereunder by a successor Administrative Agent, such successor
Administrative Agent shall thereupon succeed to and become
vested with all the rights, powers, privileges and duties of the
resigning or removed Administrative Agent. Upon the
effectiveness of the resignation or removal of the
Administrative Agent, the resigning or removed Administrative
Agent shall be discharged from its duties and obligations
hereunder and under the Loan Documents, except for liabilities
accrued, or arising from its acts or omissions prior to, such
resignation or removal. After the effectiveness of the
resignation or removal of an Administrative Agent, the
provisions of this Article XI shall continue in effect for the
benefit of such Administrative Agent in respect of any actions
taken or omitted to be taken by it while it was acting as the
Administrative Agent hereunder and under the other Loan
Documents. In the event that there is a successor to the
Administrative Agent by merger, or the Administrative Agent
assigns its duties and obligations to an Affiliate pursuant to
this Section 11.12, then the term "Prime Rate" as used in this
Agreement shall mean the prime rate, base rate or other
analogous rate of the new Administrative Agent.
11.13. Administrative Agent's Fee. The Borrower agrees
to pay to the Administrative Agent, for its own account, the
fees agreed to by the Borrower and the Administrative Agent
pursuant to the Administrative Agent's Fee Letter or as
otherwise agreed by them from time to time.
11.14. Delegation to Affiliates. The Borrower, the
Company and the Lenders agree that the Administrative Agent may
delegate any of its duties under this Agreement to any of its
Affiliates. Any such Affiliate (and such Affiliate's directors,
officers, agents and employees) which performs duties in
connection with this Agreement shall be entitled to the same
benefits of the indemnification, waiver and other protective
provisions to which the Administrative Agent is entitled under
Articles X and XI.
11.15. Agents' Responsibilities and Duties. None of the
Co-Agent, Documentation Agents or Syndication Agent shall have
any responsibilities hereunder in its capacity as such Co-Agent,
Documentation Agent or Syndication Agent, as applicable.
ARTICLE XII
SETOFF; RATABLE PAYMENTS
12.1. Setoff. In addition to, and without limitation
of, any rights of the Lenders under applicable law, if the
Borrower or the Company becomes insolvent, however evidenced, or
any Default occurs, any and all deposits (including all account
balances, whether provisional or final and whether or not
collected or available) and any other Indebtedness at any time
held or owing by any Lender or any Affiliate of any Lender to or
for the credit or account of the Borrower or the Company may be
offset and applied toward the payment of the Obligations owing
to such Lender, whether or not the Obligations, or any part
hereof, shall then be due.
12.2. Ratable Payments. If any Lender, whether by
setoff or otherwise, has payment made to it upon its Loans
(other than payments received pursuant to Section 3.1, 3.2, 3.4
or 3.5 or payments made in respect of Competitive Bid Loans or
Swing Line Advances in accordance with Section 2.10(b)) in a
greater proportion than that received by any other Lender, such
Lender agrees, promptly upon demand, to purchase a portion of
the Ratable Loans held by the other Lenders so that after such
purchase each Lender will hold its ratable proportion of Ratable
Loans. If any Lender, whether in connection with setoff or
amounts which might be subject to setoff or otherwise, receives
collateral or other protection for its Obligations or such
amounts which may be subject to setoff, such Lender agrees,
promptly upon demand, to take such action necessary such that
all Lenders share in the benefits of such collateral ratably in
proportion to their Loans. In case any such payment is
disturbed by legal process, or otherwise, appropriate further
adjustments shall be made.
ARTICLE XIII
BENEFIT OF AGREEMENT; ASSIGNMENTS; PARTICIPATIONS
13.1. Successors and Assigns. The terms and provisions
of the Loan Documents shall be binding upon and inure to the
benefit of the Borrower, the Company and the Lenders and their
respective successors and assigns, except that (a) neither the
Borrower nor the Company shall have the right to assign its
rights or obligations under the Loan Documents and (b) any
assignment by any Lender must be made in compliance with Section
13.3. Notwithstanding clause (b) of this Section, any Lender
may at any time, without the consent of the Borrower, the
Company or the Administrative Agent, assign all or any portion
of its rights under this Agreement and any Note to a Federal
Reserve Bank; provided, however, that no such assignment to a
Federal Reserve Bank shall release the transferor Lender from
its obligations hereunder. The Administrative Agent may treat
the Person which made any Loan or which holds any Note as the
owner thereof for all purposes hereof unless and until such
Person complies with Section 13.3 in the case of an assignment
thereof or, in the case of any other transfer, a written notice
of the transfer is filed with the Administrative Agent. Any
assignee or transferee of the rights to any Loan or any Note
agrees by acceptance of such transfer or assignment to be bound
by all the terms and provisions of the Loan Documents. Any
request, authority or consent of any Person, who at the time of
making such request or giving such authority or consent is the
owner of the rights to any Loan (whether or not a Note has been
issued in evidence thereof), shall be conclusive and binding on
any subsequent holder, transferee or assignee of the rights to
such Loan.
13.2. Participations.
13.2.1. Permitted Participants; Effect. Any Lender may,
in the ordinary course of its business and in accordance with
applicable law, at any time sell (i) to any Person participating
interests in any Competitive Bid Loan held by such Lender, and
(ii) to a Qualified Bank ("Participant") participating interests
in any Ratable Loan owing to such Lender, any Ratable Note held
by such Lender, any Commitment of such Lender or any other
interest of such Lender under the Loan Documents. The consent
of the Borrower and the Administrative Agent shall be required
prior to a sale of a participating interest described in clause
(ii) above becoming effective with respect to a Participant
which is not a Lender or an Affiliate thereof; provided,
however, that if a Default has occurred and is continuing, the
consent of the Borrower shall not be required. Such consents
shall not be unreasonably withheld. In the event of any such
sale by a Lender of participating interests to a Participant,
such Lender's obligations under the Loan Documents shall remain
unchanged, such Lender shall remain solely responsible to the
other parties hereto for the performance of such obligations,
such Lender shall remain the owner of its Loans and the holder
of any Note issued to it in evidence thereof for all purposes
under the Loan Documents, all amounts payable by the Borrower
under this Agreement shall be determined as if such Lender had
not sold such participating interests, and the Borrower, the
Company and the Administrative Agent shall continue to deal
solely and directly with such Lender in connection with such
Lender's rights and obligations under the Loan Documents.
13.2.2. Voting Rights. Each Lender shall retain the sole
right to approve, without the consent of any Participant, any
amendment, modification or waiver of any provision of the Loan
Documents other than any amendment, modification or waiver with
respect to any Loan or Commitment in which such Participant has
an interest which forgives principal, interest or fees or
reduces the interest rate or fees payable with respect to any
such Loan or Commitment, extends the Facility Termination Date
(except as provided in Section 2.17), postpones any date fixed
for any regularly-scheduled payment of principal of, or interest
or fees on, any such Loan or Commitment, releases any Guarantor
(except for a release of a Designated Guarantor as provided in
Section 10.13) of any such Loan or releases all or substantially
all of the collateral, if any, securing any such Loan.
13.2.3. Benefit of Setoff. The Borrower agrees that each
Participant shall be deemed to have the right of setoff provided
in Section 12.1 in respect of its participating interest in
amounts owing under the Loan Documents to the same extent as if
the amount of its participating interest were owing directly to
it as a Lender under the Loan Documents, provided that each
Lender shall retain the right of setoff provided in Section 12.1
with respect to the amount of participating interests sold to
each Participant. The Lenders agree to share with each
Participant, and each Participant, by exercising the right of
setoff provided in Section 12.1, agrees to share with each
Lender, any amount received pursuant to the exercise of its
right of setoff, such amounts to be shared in accordance with
Section 12.2 as if each Participant were a Lender.
13.3. Assignments.
13.3.1. Permitted Assignments. Any Lender may, in the
ordinary course of its business and in accordance with
applicable law (and, in the case of any assignment of the Swing
Line Commitment, in compliance with Section 13.3.3), at any time
assign to a Qualified Bank ("Purchaser") all or any part of its
rights and obligations under the Loan Documents. Such
assignment shall be substantially in the form of Exhibit L or in
such other form as may be agreed to by the parties thereto.
Except as otherwise hereinafter provided, the consent of the
Borrower and the Administrative Agent shall be required prior to
an assignment becoming effective with respect to a Purchaser
which is not a Lender or an Affiliate thereof; provided,
however, that if a Default has occurred and is continuing, the
consent of the Borrower shall not be required. Unless each of
the Administrative Agent and the Borrower otherwise consents
(except that, if a Default has occurred and is continuing, the
consent of the Borrower shall not be required), (a) each such
assignment (other than an assignment of a Competitive Bid Loan)
shall be in an amount not less than $5,000,000 and in integral
multiples of $1,000,000, and (b), except as otherwise
hereinafter provided, no assignment shall be made that would
reduce the Commitment of a Lender and its Affiliates (in the
aggregate) to an amount less than the greater of (i) $10,000,000
or (ii) fifty percent (50%) of such Lender's Commitment as of
the date of this Agreement or as of any later date on which it
first became a Lender hereunder. Notwithstanding the foregoing,
if the Obligations shall become due and payable, whether at
maturity or by acceleration or otherwise, or any payment of
principal or interest hereunder shall not be paid within 45 days
after such payment shall be due, any Lender may assign all or
(subject to the Administrative Agent's consent to any assignment
that does not comply with the limitations contained in clause
(a) above) any part of its rights and obligations under the Loan
Documents to any Person (other than the Borrower, the Company or
any Affiliate of the Borrower or of the Company) without consent
by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent. Any consents of
the Borrower or the Administrative Agent under this Section
13.3.1 shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed.
13.3.2. Effect; Effective Date. Upon (i) delivery to the
Administrative Agent of a notice of assignment, substantially in
the form attached as Exhibit I to Exhibit L (a "Notice of
Assignment"), together with any consents required by Section
13.3.1, and (ii) payment of a $3,500 fee to the Administrative
Agent for processing such assignment, such assignment shall
become effective on the effective date specified in such Notice
of Assignment. The Notice of Assignment shall contain a
representation by the Purchaser to the effect that none of the
consideration used to make the purchase of the Commitment and
Loans under the applicable assignment agreement are "plan
assets" as defined under ERISA and that the rights and interests
of the Purchaser in and under the Loan Documents will not be
"plan assets" under ERISA. On and after the effective date of
such assignment, such Purchaser shall for all purposes be a
Lender party to this Agreement and any other Loan Document
executed by or on behalf of the Lenders and shall have all the
rights and obligations of a Lender under the Loan Documents, to
the same extent as if it were an original party hereto, and no
further consent or action by any Loan Party, the Lenders or the
Administrative Agent shall be required to release the transferor
Lender with respect to the percentage of the Aggregate
Commitment and Loans assigned to such Purchaser. Upon the
consummation of any assignment to a Purchaser pursuant to this
Section 13.3.2, the transferor Lender, the Administrative Agent
and the Borrower shall, if the transferor Lender or the
Purchaser desires that its Loans be evidenced by Notes, make
appropriate arrangements so that new Notes or, as appropriate,
replacement Notes are issued to such transferor Lender and new
Notes or, as appropriate, replacement Notes, are issued to such
Purchaser, in each case in principal amounts reflecting their
respective Commitments, as adjusted pursuant to such assignment.
13.3.3. Swing Line Commitment. The Swing Line Commitment
may be assigned only to an Affiliate of the Administrative Agent
or to a successor Administrative Agent.
13.4. Dissemination of Information. The Borrower and
the Company authorize each Lender to disclose to any Participant
or Purchaser or any other Person acquiring an interest in the
Loan Documents by operation of law (each a "Transferee") and any
prospective Transferee any and all information in such Lender's
possession concerning the creditworthiness of the Borrower, the
Company and its Subsidiaries; provided that each Transferee and
prospective Transferee agrees in writing to be bound by Section
10.11 of this Agreement.
13.5. Tax Treatment. If any interest in any Loan
Document is transferred to any Transferee which is organized
under the laws of any jurisdiction other than the United States
or any State thereof, the transferor Lender shall cause such
Transferee, concurrently with the effectiveness of such
transfer, to comply with the provisions of Section 3.5(d).
ARTICLE XIV
NOTICES
14.1. Notices. Except as otherwise permitted by
Section 2.12, all notices, requests and other communications to
any party hereunder shall be in writing (including electronic
transmission, facsimile transmission or similar writing) and
shall be given to such party: (x) in the case of the Borrower,
the Company or the Administrative Agent, at the address(es) or
facsimile number(s) set forth on the signature pages hereof, (y)
in the case of any Lender, at its address or facsimile number
set forth in its administrative questionnaire delivered to the
Administrative Agent or (z) in the case of any party, at such
other address or facsimile number as such party may hereafter
specify for the purpose by notice to the Administrative Agent
and the Borrower in accordance with the provisions of this
Section 14.1. Each such notice, request or other communication
shall be effective (i) if given by facsimile transmission, when
transmitted to the facsimile number specified in this Section
and confirmation of receipt is received, (ii) if given by mail,
72 hours after such communication is deposited in the mails with
first class postage prepaid, addressed as aforesaid, or (iii) if
given by any other means, when delivered (or, in the case of
electronic transmission, received) at the address specified in
this Section; provided that notices to the Administrative Agent
or Swing Line Lender under Article II or an Issuing Bank or the
Administrative Agent under Article IV shall not be effective
until received.
14.2. Change of Address. The Borrower, the Company,
the Administrative Agent and any Lender may each change the
address for service of notice upon it by a notice in writing to
the other parties hereto.
ARTICLE XV
COUNTERPARTS
This Agreement may be executed in any number of
counterparts, all of which taken together shall constitute one
agreement, and any of the parties hereto may execute this
Agreement by signing any such counterpart. This Agreement shall
be effective when it has been executed by the Borrower, the
Administrative Agent and the Lenders and each party has notified
the Administrative Agent by facsimile transmission or telephone
that it has taken such action.
ARTICLE XVI
CHOICE OF LAW; CONSENT TO JURISDICTION; WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL
16.1. CHOICE OF LAW. THE LOAN DOCUMENTS (OTHER THAN
THOSE CONTAINING A CONTRARY EXPRESS CHOICE OF LAW PROVISION)
SHALL BE CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE INTERNAL LAWS (AND NOT
THE LAW OF CONFLICTS) OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, BUT GIVING
EFFECT TO FEDERAL LAWS APPLICABLE TO NATIONAL BANKS.
16.2. CONSENT TO JURISDICTION. THE BORROWER AND THE
COMPANY HEREBY IRREVOCABLY SUBMIT TO THE NON-EXCLUSIVE
JURISDICTION OF ANY UNITED STATES FEDERAL OR ILLINOIS STATE
COURT SITTING IN CHICAGO, ILLINOIS IN ANY ACTION OR PROCEEDING
ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO ANY LOAN DOCUMENTS, AND THE
BORROWER AND THE COMPANY HEREBY IRREVOCABLY AGREE THAT ALL
CLAIMS IN RESPECT OF SUCH ACTION OR PROCEEDING MAY BE HEARD AND
DETERMINED IN ANY SUCH COURT AND IRREVOCABLY WAIVE ANY OBJECTION
THEY MAY NOW OR HEREAFTER HAVE AS TO THE VENUE OF ANY SUCH SUIT,
ACTION OR PROCEEDING BROUGHT IN SUCH A COURT OR THAT SUCH COURT
IS AN INCONVENIENT FORUM. NOTHING HEREIN SHALL LIMIT THE RIGHT
OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT OR ANY LENDER TO BRING PROCEEDINGS
AGAINST THE BORROWER, THE COMPANY OR ANY OTHER LOAN PARTY IN THE
COURTS OF ANY OTHER JURISDICTION.
16.3. WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL. THE BORROWER, THE COMPANY
AND THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT AND EACH LENDER HEREBY WAIVE TRIAL
BY JURY IN ANY JUDICIAL PROCEEDING INVOLVING, DIRECTLY OR
INDIRECTLY, ANY MATTER (WHETHER SOUNDING IN TORT, CONTRACT OR
OTHERWISE) IN ANY WAY ARISING OUT OF, RELATED TO, OR CONNECTED
WITH ANY LOAN DOCUMENT OR THE RELATIONSHIP ESTABLISHED
THEREUNDER.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have executed this
Agreement as of the date first above written.
BORROWER:
FIRST HUNTINGDON FINANCE CORP.
By: _____________________________________
Xxxx X. Xxxxxxx, Senior Vice President
COMPANY:
TOLL BROTHERS, INC.
By:
Xxxx X. Xxxxxxx, Senior Vice President
Addresses for the Borrower and the
Company:
Toll Brothers, Inc.
0000 Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, XX 00000
Attention: Xxxx Xxxxxxx
Telecopy: 215/938-8010
with copies to:
Toll Brothers, Inc.
0000 Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, XX 00000
Attention: Xxxxxx Xxxx
Telecopy: 215/938-8010
and
Toll Brothers, Inc.
0000 Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, XX 00000
Attention: Xxx Xxxx
Telecopy: 215/938-8255
and
Xxxxxxx Xxxxx Xxxxxxx & Ingersoll, LLP
0000 Xxxxxx Xxxxxx
00xx Xxxxx
Xxxxxxxxxxxx, XX 00000-0000
Attention: Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxx
Telecopy: 215/864-8999
C
Commitments
$65,000,000 BANK ONE, NA
Individually and as Administrative Agent
By: ___________________________________
Name: _________________________________
Title: __________________________________
1 Bank Xxx Xxxxx
Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000
Attention: Xxxx Xxxxxxxxx
Telephone: (000) 000-0000
Telecopy: (000) 000-0000
$65,000,000 BANK OF AMERICA, N.A.,
Individually and as Syndication Agent
By: _____________________________________
Name: __________________________________
Title:
____________________________________
000 X. XxXxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxx, XX 00000
Attention: Xxxxx Xxxxx
Telephone: (000) 000-0000
Telecopy: (000) 000-0000
$50,000,000 COMERICA BANK,
Individually and as Documentation Agent
By: _____________________________________
Name: ___________________________________
Title: ____________________________________
Xxx Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx
000 Xxxxxxxx Xxx., Mail Code 3256
Xxxxxxx, XX 00000
Attention: Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxx
Telephone: (000) 000-0000
Telecopy: (000) 000-0000
$50,000,000 CREDIT LYONNAIS NEW YORK BRANCH,
Individually and as Documentation Agent
By: _____________________________________
Name: ___________________________________
Title: ____________________________________
0000 Xxxxxx xx xxx Xxxxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, XX 00000
Attention: Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx
Telephone: (000) 000-0000
Telecopy: (000) 000-0000
$50,000,000 FIRST UNION NATIONAL BANK,
Individually and as Documentation Agent
By: _____________________________________
Name: ___________________________________
Title: ____________________________________
000 X. Xxxxx Xx., 00xx Xx.
Xxxxxxxxxxxx, XX 00000
Attention: Xxxxx Xxxxxxxxx
Telephone: (000) 000-0000
Telecopy: (000) 000-0000
$35,000,000 SUNTRUST BANK,
Individually and as Co-Agent
By: _____________________________________
Name: ___________________________________
Title: ____________________________________
000 Xxxxxxxxx Xx., XX, 0xx Xx.
Xxxxxxx, XX 00000
Attention: Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx
Telephone: (000) 000-0000
Telecopy: (000) 000-0000
$25,000,000 XXXXX FARGO BANK ARIZONA, National
Association,a national banking association
By: _____________________________________
Name: ___________________________________
Title: ____________________________________
000 X. Xxxxxxxxxx, 00xx Xx.
Xxxxxxx, XX 00000
Attention: Xxxxx Xxxxx MAC S4101-110
Telephone: (000) 000-0000
Telecopy: (000) 000-0000
$25,000,000 CITIBANK, N.A.
By: _____________________________________
Name: ___________________________________
Title: ____________________________________
000 Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, XX 00000
Attention: Xxx Xxxxxxxx
Telephone: (000) 000-0000
Telecopy: (000) 000-0000
$20,000,000 BNP PARIBAS
By: _____________________________________
Name: ___________________________________
Title: ____________________________________
000 Xxxxxxx Xxx.
Xxx Xxxx, XX 00000
Attention: Xxxxx Xxxxxxxxx
Telephone: (000) 000-0000
Telecopy: (000) 000-0000
$20,000,000 MELLON BANK, N.A.
By: _____________________________________
Name: ___________________________________
Title: ____________________________________
0000 Xxxxxx Xx.
Xxxx Xxxxxx Finance Dept., 4th Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19103
Attention: Xxxxx Xxxxx
Telephone: (000) 000-0000
Telecopy: (000) 000-0000
$15,000,000 WACHOVIA BANK, N.A.
By: _____________________________________
Name: ___________________________________
Title: ____________________________________
0000 Xxxxxx Xxxxx Xxxx., Xxxxx 000
Xxxxxxx, XX 00000
Attention: Xxxxx Xxxxxxx
Telephone: (000) 000-0000
Telecopy: (000) 000-0000
$15,000,000 KBC BANK
By: _____________________________________
Name: ___________________________________
Title: ____________________________________
000 X. 00xx Xxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, XX 00000
Attention: Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Telephone: (000) 000-0000
Telecopy: (000) 000-0000
$10,000,000 THE FUJI BANK LIMITED
By: _____________________________________
Name: ___________________________________
Title: ____________________________________
Two World Trade Center, 79th Fl.
Xxx Xxxx, XX 00000
Attention: Xxxxx Xxx
Telephone: (000) 000-0000
Telecopy: (000) 000-0000
$40,000,000 GUARANTY BANK, formerly known as
Guaranty Federal Bank, F.S.B.
By: _____________________________________
Name: ___________________________________
Title: ____________________________________
0000 Xxxxxxx Xxx.
Xxxxxx, XX 00000
Attention: Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx
Telephone: (000) 000-0000
Telecopy: (000) 000-0000
$25,000,000 FLEET NATIONAL BANK
By: _____________________________________
Name: ___________________________________
Title: ____________________________________
000 Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxx, XX, Xxxxx
000
Xxxxxxx, XX 00000
Attention: Xxxxxx Xxxxx
Telephone: (000) 000-0000
Telecopy: (000) 000-0000
$15,000,000 BAYERISCHE-HYPO-UND VEREINSBANK AG
By: _____________________________________
Name: __________________________________
Title: ____________________________________
000 X. 00xx Xx.
Xxx Xxxx, XX 00000
Attention: Xxxx Xxxxxxx-Xxxx
Telephone: (000) 000-0000
Telecopy: (000) 000-0000
$10,000,000 BANK HAPOALIM B.M.
By: _____________________________________
Name: ___________________________________
Title: ____________________________________
0000 Xxxxxx xx xxx Xxxxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, XX 00000-0000
Attention: Xxxxx Xxxxx
Telephone: (000) 000-0000
Telecopy: (000) 000-0000
PRICING SCHEDULE
Leve
l
Rating
Leverage
Ratio
Applicable
Eurodollar
Rate
Margin
Applicabl
e CD Rate
Margin
Applicabl
e Fee
Rate
I
BBB+/Ba
a1
or
higher
0.35 or
lower
0.55%
0.75%
0.15%
II
BBB/Baa
2
Higher than
0.35
and not
higher
than 0.65
0.75%
0.875%
0.175%
III
BBB-
/Baa3
Higher than
0.65
and not
higher
than 1.35
0.90%
1.025%
0.20%
IV
BB+/Ba1
Higher than
1.35
and not
higher
than 1.75
1.10%
1.225%
0.25%
V
BB/Ba2
Higher than
1.75
and not
higher
than 2.00
1.325%
1.45%
0.30%
VI
BB-/Ba3
or
lower
Higher than
2.00
1.625%
1.75%
0.35%
For the purposes of this Schedule, the following terms have
the following meanings, subject to the final paragraph of this
Schedule:
"Financials" means the annual or quarterly financial
statements of the Company delivered pursuant to Section 6.4 or
Section 7.1(i) or (ii).
"Level" means the level (whether I, II, III, IV, V or VI)
in the foregoing table that corresponds to an applicable item in
any other column in the foregoing table. By way of
illustration, the Rating Level of Level V is BB/Ba2. For
purposes of comparing Levels, Level I is referred to as the
lowest Level and Level VI as the highest Level.
"Pricing Level" means, with respect to the Applicable
Eurodollar Rate Margin, Applicable CD Rate Margin and Applicable
Fee Rate at any date, the Level in the foregoing table that
corresponds to the lower of (a) the then current Level of the
Rating and (b) the then current Level of the Leverage Ratio,
unless (i) the Level of the Leverage Ratio is two or more levels
lower than the Level of the Rating or (ii) the Company has no
Qualified Rating from a Qualified Rating Agency, in either of
which events the Pricing Level shall be one Level higher than
the Level of the Leverage Ratio.
The Applicable Eurodollar Rate Margin, Applicable CD Rate
Margin and Applicable Fee Rate shall be determined in accordance
with the foregoing table based on the then current Pricing
Level. Adjustments, if any, to the Applicable Eurodollar Rate
Margin, Applicable Fixed CD Rate Margin and Applicable Fee Rate
resulting from a change in the Leverage Ratio shall be effective
five Business Days after the Administrative Agent has received
the applicable Financials. If the Borrower fails to deliver the
Financials to the Administrative Agent at the time required
pursuant to Section 7.1, then, until five days after such
Financials are so delivered, the Applicable Eurodollar Rate
Margin, Applicable CD Rate Margin and Applicable Fee Rate shall
be at the Level of the Rating or, if the Company has no
Qualified Rating from a Qualified Rating Agency, at the highest
Pricing Level set forth in the foregoing table. If the annual
Financial Statements at any time delivered pursuant to Section
7.1(i) result in a Pricing Level that is higher than the Pricing
Level that was in effect at any time on or after the first day
of the third calendar month (the "Adjustment Date") following
the fiscal year to which such Financial Statements apply, there
shall be a retroactive adjustment of the Pricing Level to the
Adjustment Date such that all interest and fees determined
hereunder from and after the Adjustment Date shall be determined
as if such higher Pricing Level were in effect on the Adjustment
Date. To the extent that the Borrower has theretofore made any
payments of interest or fees with respect to the period from and
after such Adjustment Date, the Borrower will pay to the
Administrative Agent for the account of the Lenders, within ten
(10) days of request therefor, an amount equal to the amount by
which (A) the amount of interest and fees that would have been
payable hereunder, on any date on which payments were made
hereunder on or after the Adjustment Date and on or before the
date of such request, had such payments been based upon the
higher Pricing Level exceed (B) the interest and fees actually
paid on any such date. Interest and fees payable hereunder
after such request shall be based upon the adjusted Pricing
Level. The Rating in effect on any date for the purposes of
this Pricing Schedule is that in effect at the close of business
on such date.
EXHIBIT A-1
FORM OF NOTE
(Competitive Bid Loans)
$375,000,000 _____________, 2001
First Huntingdon Finance Corp., a Delaware corporation (the
"Borrower"), promises to pay, on or before the Facility
Termination Date, to the order of _________________________ (the
"Lender") the lesser of the principal sum of Three Hundred
Seventy-Five Million Dollars ($375,000,000) or the aggregate
unpaid principal amount of all Competitive Bid Loans made by the
Lender to the Borrower pursuant to Article II of the Credit
Agreement hereinafter referred to (as the same may be amended or
modified, the "Agreement"), in lawful money of the United States
in immediately available funds at the main office of Bank One,
NA, as Administrative Agent, in Chicago, Illinois, together with
interest, in like money and funds, on the unpaid principal
amount hereof at the rates and on the dates determined in
accordance with the Agreement.
The Lender shall, and is hereby authorized to, record on
the schedule attached hereto, or otherwise record in accordance
with its usual practice, the date and amount of each Competitive
Bid Loan and the date and amount of each principal payment
hereunder.
This Note (Competitive Bid Loans) is one of the Notes
issued pursuant to, and is entitled to the benefits of, the
Amended and Restated Credit Agreement dated as of ____________,
2001, among the Borrower, Toll Brothers, Inc., Bank One, NA,
individually and as Administrative Agent, and the lenders named
therein, including the Lender, to which Agreement, as it may be
amended from time to time, reference is hereby made for a
statement of the terms and conditions under which this Note may
be prepaid or its maturity date accelerated. Capitalized terms
used herein and not otherwise defined herein are used with the
meanings attributed to them in the Agreement.
Each Note (Competitive Bid Loans) and Amended and Restated
Note (Competitive Bid Loans) issued pursuant to the Agreement is
in the amount of $375,000,000, provided, however, that the
aggregate outstanding principal amount of Loans from all Lenders
under the Agreement shall not exceed the Aggregate Commitment
and the aggregate outstanding amount of all Competitive Bid
Loans from all Lenders under the Agreement shall not exceed the
Competitive Bid Sublimit.
FIRST HUNTINGDON FINANCE CORP.
By: _____________________________________
Title:
____________________________________
SCHEDULE OF LOANS AND PAYMENTS OR PRINCIPAL
TO
NOTE (COMPETITIVE BID LOANS)
OF FIRST HUNTINGTON FINANCE CORP.
DATED ______________, 2001
Date
Principal
Amount of
Loan
Maturity
of
Interest
Period
Principal
Amount
Paid
Unpaid
Balance
EXHIBIT A-2
AMENDED AND RESTATED NOTE
(Competitive Bid Loans)
$375,000,000 _____________, 2001
First Huntingdon Finance Corp., a Delaware corporation (the
"Borrower"), promises to pay, on or before the Facility
Termination Date, to the order of _________________________ (the
"Lender") the lesser of the principal sum of Three Hundred
Seventy-Five Million Dollars ($375,000,000) or the aggregate
unpaid principal amount of all Competitive Bid Loans made by the
Lender to the Borrower pursuant to Article II of the Credit
Agreement hereinafter referred to (as the same may be amended or
modified, the "Agreement"), in lawful money of the United States
in immediately available funds at the main office of Bank One,
NA, as Administrative Agent, in Chicago, Illinois, together with
interest, in like money and funds, on the unpaid principal
amount hereof at the rates and on the dates determined in
accordance with the Agreement.
The Lender shall, and is hereby authorized to, record on
the schedule attached hereto, or otherwise record in accordance
with its usual practice, the date and amount of each Competitive
Bid Loan and the date and amount of each principal payment
hereunder.
This Amended and Restated Note (Competitive Bid Loans)
amends and restates a Note (Competitive Bid Loan) in the
principal amount of $__________ held by the Lender under the
Original Agreement and is one of the Notes issued pursuant to,
and is entitled to the benefits of, the Amended and Restated
Credit Agreement dated as of ____________, 2001, among the
Borrower, Toll Brothers, Inc., Bank One, NA, individually and as
Administrative Agent, and the lenders named therein, including
the Lender, to which Agreement, as it may be amended from time
to time, reference is hereby made for a statement of the terms
and conditions under which this Note may be prepaid or its
maturity date accelerated. Capitalized terms used herein and
not otherwise defined herein are used with the meanings
attributed to them in the Agreement.
Each Amended and Restated Note (Competitive Bid Loans) and
Note (Competitive Bid Loans) issued pursuant to the Agreement is
in the amount of $375,000,000, provided, however, that the
aggregate outstanding principal amount of Loans from all Lenders
under the Agreement shall not exceed the Aggregate Commitment
and the aggregate outstanding amount of all Competitive Bid
Loans from all Lenders under the Agreement shall not exceed the
Competitive Bid Sublimit.
FIRST HUNTINGDON FINANCE CORP.
By: _____________________________________
Name: ___________________________________
Title:
____________________________________
SCHEDULE OF LOANS AND PAYMENTS OR PRINCIPAL
TO
AMENDED AND RESTATED NOTE (COMPETITIVE BID LOANS)
OF FIRST HUNTINGTON FINANCE CORP.
DATED _________________, 200_
Date
Principal
Amount of
Loan
Maturity
of
Interest
Period
Principal
Amount
Paid
Unpaid
Balance
EXHIBIT B
COMPETITIVE BID QUOTE
(Section 2.3.4)
_____________, 200_
To:
Bank One, NA, as Administrative Agent (1)
Attn: ________________________________
Re:
Competitive Bid Quote to First Huntingdon Finance Corp.
(the "Borrower")
In response to your Invitation for Competitive Bid Quotes dated
__________, 200_, the undersigned hereby makes the following
Competitive Bid Quote pursuant to Section 2.3.4 of the Amended
and Restated Credit Agreement dated as of ________________, 2001
(the "Agreement") among the Borrower, Toll Brothers, Inc., the
Lenders (including the undersigned) party thereto and Bank One,
NA, as Administrative Agent, on the following terms:
1. Quoting Lender: __________________________________________
2. Person to contact at Quoting Lender:
_________________________
3. Borrowing Date: ____________, 19__ (2)
4. The undersigned hereby offers to make Competitive Bid
Loan(s) in the following principal amounts, for the
following Interest Periods and at the following rates:
Principal
Amount(3)
Interest
Period(4)
[Competitive
Bid Margin(5)]
[Absolute
Rate(6)]
Minimum
Amount(7)
$________
_______%
________%
$_________
5. The maximum aggregate amount of the Competitive Bid Loans
offered above which may be accepted by the Borrower is
$______________.(8)
The undersigned understands and agrees that, subject to the
satisfaction of the applicable conditions set forth in the
Agreement, the undersigned is irrevocably obligated to make to
the Borrower any Competitive Bid Loans(s) for which any of the
foregoing offers is accepted, in whole or (subject to the
limitations, if any, set forth above and the terms of the
Agreement) in part. Capitalized terms used herein have the
meaning assigned to them in the Agreement.
Very truly yours,
[NAME OF LENDER]
By: _____________________________________
Authorized Officer
_________________________
1. Change to First Huntingdon Finance Corp. if it is the
Competitive Bid Agent
2. As specified in the related Invitation.
3. Principal amount bid for each Interest Period may not
exceed principal amount requested. Bids must be made in an
integral multiple of $1,000,000.
4. As specified in the related Invitation.
5. Competitive Bid Margin over or under the Eurodollar Base
Rate determined for the applicable Interest Period. Specify
percentage (rounded to the nearest 1/100 of 1%) and specify
whether "PLUS" or "MINUS."
6. Specify rate of interest per annum (rounded to the nearest
1/100 of 1%).
7. Specify minimum amount which the Borrower may accept (see
Section 2.3.4(b)(iv)).
8. When more than one Competitive Bid Loan is offered, specify
the maximum aggregate amount which may be accepted (see
Section 2.3.4(b)(vi)).
EXHIBIT C
COMPETITIVE BID QUOTE REQUEST
(Section 2.3.2)
_______________,
200_
To:
Bank One, NA,
as Administrative Agent (the "Administrative Agent")
From
:
First Huntingdon Finance Corp. (the "Borrower")
Re:
Amended and Restated Credit Agreement (the "Agreement")
dated as of ____________, 2001, among the Borrower, Toll
Brothers, Inc., Bank One, NA, individually and as
Administrative Agent, and the Lenders party thereto.
The undersigned hereby gives notice pursuant to Section
2.3.2 of the Agreement that the Borrower requests Competitive
Bid Quotes for the following proposed Competitive Bid
Advance(s):
Borrowing Date: __________________, 200_
Principal Amount(1)
Interest Period (2)
$
Such Competitive Bid Quotes should offer a [Competitive Bid
Margin][Absolute Rate]
The Competitive Bid Agent with respect to this request
shall be the [Administrative Agent/Borrower]
Upon acceptance by the undersigned of any or all of the
Competitive Bid Advances offered by Lenders in response to this
request, the Borrower shall be deemed to affirm as of such date
the representations and warranties made in the Agreement to the
extent specified in Article V thereof. Capitalized terms used
herein have the meanings assigned to them in the Agreement.
FIRST HUNTINGDON FINANCE CORP.
By: _____________________________________
Title:
____________________________________
_________________________
1. Amount must be at least $10,000,000 and an integral
multiple of $1,000,000.
2. One, two, three, six, nine or twelve months (Eurodollar
Auction) or at least 30 and up to 360 days (Absolute Rate
Auction), subject to the provisions of the definitions of
Eurodollar Interest Period and Competitive Bid Interest
Period.
EXHIBIT D
INVITATION FOR COMPETITIVE BID QUOTES
(Section 2.3.3)
________________,
200_
To:
[Name of Lender]
Re:
Invitation for Competitive Bid Quotes to First Huntingdon
Finance Corp. (the "Borrower")
Pursuant to Section 2.3.3 of the Amended and Restated
Credit Agreement dated as of ____________, 2001 (the
"Agreement") among the Borrower, Toll Brothers, Inc., the
Lenders party thereto and Bank One, NA, as Administrative Agent,
the undersigned is pleased [on behalf of the Borrower] to invite
you to submit Competitive Bid Quotes to the Borrower for the
following proposed Competitive Bid Advance(s):
Borrowing Date: __________________, ____
Principal Amount
Interest Period
$
Such Competitive Bid Quotes should offer a [Competitive Bid
Margin][Absolute Rate]. Your Competitive Bid Quote must comply
with Section 2.3.4 of the Agreement and the foregoing terms on
which the Competitive Bid Quote Request was made. Capitalized
terms used herein have the meanings assigned to them in the
Agreement.
Please respond to this invitation by no later than 9:00
a.m. Chicago time on _________, 200_.
BANK ONE, NA,
as Administrative Agent (1)
By: _____________________________________
Authorized Officer
_________________________
1. Change to First Huntingdon Finance Corp. if it is the
Competitive Bid Agent
EXHIBIT E-1
NOTE
(Ratable Loans)
$______________ ___________, 200_
First Huntingdon Finance Corp., a Delaware corporation (the
"Borrower"), promises to pay to the order of
____________________________________ (the "Lender") the lesser
of the principal sum of ______________________________ Dollars
or the aggregate unpaid principal amount of all Ratable Loans
made by the Lender to the Borrower pursuant to Article II of the
Agreement (as hereinafter defined), in immediately available
funds at the main office of Bank One, NA in Chicago, Illinois,
as Administrative Agent, together with interest on the unpaid
principal amount hereof at the rates and on the dates set forth
in the Agreement. The Borrower shall pay the principal of and
accrued and unpaid interest on the Loans in full on the Facility
Termination Date.
The Lender shall, and is hereby authorized to, record on
the schedule attached hereto, or to otherwise record in
accordance with its usual practice, the date and amount of each
Ratable Loan and the date and amount of each principal payment
hereunder.
This Note (Ratable Loans) is one of the Notes issued
pursuant to, and is entitled to the benefits of, the Amended and
Restated Credit Agreement dated as of ____________, 2001 (which,
as it may be amended or modified and in effect from time to
time, is herein called the "Agreement"), among the Borrower,
Toll Brothers, Inc., the lenders party thereto, including the
Lender, and Bank One, NA, as Administrative Agent, to which
Agreement reference is hereby made for a statement of the terms
and conditions governing this Note, including the terms and
conditions under which this Note may be prepaid or its maturity
date accelerated. Capitalized terms used herein and not
otherwise defined herein have the meanings attributed to them in
the Agreement.
FIRST HUNTINGDON FINANCE CORP.
By: _____________________________________
Print Name: ______________________________
Title:
____________________________________
SCHEDULE OF LOANS AND PAYMENTS OF PRINCIPAL
TO
NOTE OF FIRST HUNTINGDON FINANCE CORP.
DATED _______________, ____
Date
Principal
Amount of
Loan
Maturity
of
Interest
Period
Principal
Amount
Paid
Unpaid
Balance
EXHIBIT E-2
AMENDED AND RESTATED NOTE
(Ratable Loans)
$______________ ___________, 200_
First Huntingdon Finance Corp., a Delaware corporation (the
"Borrower"), promises to pay to the order of
____________________________________ (the "Lender") the lesser
of the principal sum of ______________________________ Dollars
or the aggregate unpaid principal amount of all Ratable Loans
made by the Lender to the Borrower pursuant to Article II of the
Agreement (as hereinafter defined), in immediately available
funds at the main office of Bank One, NA in Chicago, Illinois,
as Administrative Agent, together with interest on the unpaid
principal amount hereof at the rates and on the dates set forth
in the Agreement. The Borrower shall pay the principal of and
accrued and unpaid interest on the Loans in full on the Facility
Termination Date.
The Lender shall, and is hereby authorized to, record on
the schedule attached hereto, or to otherwise record in
accordance with its usual practice, the date and amount of each
Ratable Loan and the date and amount of each principal payment
hereunder.
This Amended and Restated Note (Ratable Loans) amends and
restates a Note (Ratable Loans) in the amount of $__________
held by the Lender under the Original Agreement and is one of
the Notes issued pursuant to, and is entitled to the benefits
of, the Amended and Restated Credit Agreement dated as of
____________, 2001 (which, as it may be amended or modified and
in effect from time to time, is herein called the "Agreement"),
among the Borrower, Toll Brothers, Inc., the lenders party
thereto, including the Lender, and Bank One, NA, as
Administrative Agent, to which Agreement reference is hereby
made for a statement of the terms and conditions governing this
Note, including the terms and conditions under which this Note
may be prepaid or its maturity date accelerated. Capitalized
terms used herein and not otherwise defined herein have the
meanings attributed to them in the Agreement.
FIRST HUNTINGDON FINANCE CORP.
By: _____________________________________
Print Name: ______________________________
Title:
____________________________________
SCHEDULE OF LOANS AND PAYMENTS OF PRINCIPAL
TO
AMENDED AND RESTATED NOTE OF FIRST HUNTINGDON FINANCE CORP.
DATED _______________, ____
Date
Principal
Amount of
Loan
Maturity
of
Interest
Period
Principal
Amount
Paid
Unpaid
Balance
EXHIBIT F
COMMITMENT AND ACCEPTANCE
This Commitment and Acceptance (this "Commitment and
Acceptance") dated as of , __ , is entered
into among the parties listed on the signature pages hereof.
Capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise defined herein
shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Credit Agreement
(as defined below).
PRELIMINARY STATEMENTS
Reference is made to that certain Amended and Restated
Credit Agreement dated __________, 2001 by and among First
Huntingdon Finance Corp., Toll Brothers, Inc., Bank One, NA, as
Administrative Agent, and the Lenders that are parties thereto
(as amended, modified, supplemented or restated from time to
time, the "Credit Agreement").
Pursuant to Section 2.18 of the Credit Agreement, the
Borrower has requested an increase in the Aggregate Commitment
from $_______________ to $__________________. Such increase in
the Aggregate Commitment is to become effective on
_______________ __, ____ (the "Increase Date").? In connection
with such requested increase in the Aggregate Commitment, the
Borrower, the Agent and _________________ (the "Accepting
Lender") hereby agree as follows:
1. ACCEPTING LENDER'S COMMITMENT. Effective as of the
Increase Date, [the Accepting Lender shall become a party to the
Credit Agreement as a Lender, shall have (subject to the
provisions of Section 2.18 of the Credit Agreement) all of the
rights and obligations of a Lender thereunder, shall agree to be
bound by the terms and provisions thereof and [shall thereupon
have a Commitment under and for purposes of the Credit Agreement
in an amount equal to the] [the Commitment of the Accepting
Lender under the Credit Agreement shall be increased from
$___________________ to the] amount set forth opposite the
Accepting Lender's name on the signature pages hereof.
2. [REPRESENTATIONS AND AGREEMENTS OF ACCEPTING LENDER.
The Accepting Lender (i) confirms that it has received a copy of
the Credit Agreement, together with copies of the financial
statements requested by the Accepting Lender and such other
documents and information as it has deemed appropriate to make
its own credit analysis and decision to enter into this
Commitment and Acceptance, (ii) agrees that it will,
independently and without reliance upon the Administrative Agent
or any Lender and based on such documents and information as it
shall deem appropriate at the time, continue to make its own
credit decisions in taking or not taking action under the Loan
Documents, (iii) appoints and authorizes the Administrative
Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise
such powers under the Loan Documents as are delegated to the
Administrative Agent by the terms thereof, together with such
powers as are reasonably incidental thereto, (iv) agrees that it
will perform in accordance with their terms all of the
obligations which by the terms of the Loan Documents are
required to be performed by it as a Lender, (v) agrees that its
payment instructions and notice instructions are as set forth in
the attachment to Schedule 1, (vi) confirms that none of the
funds, monies, assets or other consideration being used to make
the commitment and acceptance hereunder are "plan assets" as
defined under ERISA and that its rights, benefits and interests
in and under the Loan Documents will not be "plan assets" under
ERISA, (vii) confirms that it is a Qualified Bank and (viii)
attaches the forms prescribed by the Internal Revenue Service of
the United States certifying that the Accepting Lender is
entitled to receive payments under the Loan Documents without
deduction or withholding of any United States federal income
taxes].??
3. REPRESENTATIONS OF BORROWER. The Borrower hereby
represents and warrants that, as of the date hereof and as of
the Increase Date, (a) no event or condition shall have occurred
and then be continuing which constitutes a Default or Unmatured
Default (except for (a) Unmatured Defaults that will be cured,
and that the Borrower hereby certifies will be cured, by the use
of the proceeds of an Advance that the Borrower has requested
under the Credit Agreement or by the issuance, amendment or
extension of a Facility Letter of Credit that the Borrower has
requested hereunder or (b) Unmatured Defaults (other than the
failure to pay any Obligation) that are not reasonably likely to
have a Material Adverse Effect and that the Borrower hereby
certifies that it reasonably expects to cure before the date on
which the same becomes a Default) and (b) the representations
and warranties contained in Article VI of the Credit Agreement
are true and correct in all material respects (except to the
extent any such representation or warranty is stated to relate
solely to an earlier date).
4. AGENT'S FEE. On or before the Increase Date, the
Accepting Lender shall pay to the Administrative Agent an
administrative fee in the amount of $3,500.00.
5. GOVERNING LAW. This Commitment and Acceptance shall
be governed by the internal law, and not the law of conflicts,
of the State of Illinois.
6. [NOTICES. For the purpose of notices to be given
under the Credit Agreement, the address of the Accepting Lender
(until notice of a change is delivered) shall be the address set
forth in Schedule 1.]***
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have executed this
Commitment and Acceptance by their duly authorized officers as
of the date first above written.
FIRST HUNTINGDON FINANCE CORP.
By: _____________________________________
Name: ___________________________________
Title:
____________________________________
TOLL BROTHERS, INC.
By: _____________________________________
Name: ___________________________________
Title:
____________________________________
BANK ONE, NA,
as Administrative Agent
By: _____________________________________
Name: ___________________________________
Title:
____________________________________
$____________________
[NAME OF ACCEPTING LENDER]
By: _____________________________________
Name: ___________________________________
Title:
____________________________________
SCHEDULE 1
TO COMMITMENT AND ACCEPTANCE
ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION SHEET
Attach Accepting Lender's Administrative Information Sheet,
which must
include notice addresses for the Accepting Lender
BANK ONE, NA INFORMATION
[To be completed with then current information]
EXHIBIT G
TOLL BROTHERS, INC.
Quality Homes by Design
Xxxxxxx X. Xxxx, Esquire Direct Dial: (000) 000-0000
Vice President & General Counsel Facsimile: (215) 938-8255
May __, 2001
To: The Administrative Agent and each Lender Party
to the Credit Agreement Referred to Below
c/o Bank One, NA, as Administrative Agent
0 Xxxx Xxx Xxxxx
Xxxxxxx, XX 00000
Re: Amended and Restated Credit Agreement (the "Credit
Agreement"),dated as of the date hereof, among First
Huntingdon Finance Corp.,(the "Borrower"), Toll
Brothers, Inc. (the "Company"), the lenders party
thereto (collectively, the "Lenders"), Bank One, NA,
as Administrative Agent and the other agent(s) party
thereto
Gentlemen:
I am the General Counsel of the Borrower, the Company and
the affiliates of the Company identified on the signature pages
to the Guaranty referred to herein (such other entities, the
"Designated Guarantors"; together with the Borrower and the
Company, the "Loan Parties"), and have acted in that capacity in
connection with the execution and delivery of the Term Loan
Agreement and the transactions contemplated thereby. This
opinion is furnished to you pursuant to Section 5.1(viii) of the
Credit Agreement. Unless otherwise defined in this opinion,
capitalized terms are used herein as defined in the Credit
Agreement.
In so acting, I, or people under my supervision, have
examined executed originals or counterparts of the following
documents, each dated the date hereof (the "Loan Documents"):
(a) the Credit Agreement;
(b) the Notes; and
(c) the Guaranty made by the Company and the Designated
Guarantors.
I have also examined originals or copies, certified or
otherwise identified to our satisfaction, of such corporate
records, agreements and other documents, and of certificates or
comparable documents of public officials and of officers and
representatives of the Loan Parties and have made such
examinations of law as I have deemed necessary in connection
with the opinions set forth below.
I have assumed the legal capacity and competence of natural
persons, the genuineness of all signatures, the authenticity of
all documents submitted to me as originals and the conformity to
original documents of documents submitted to me as certified,
conformed, photostatic or facsimile copies.
I have also assumed, without verification that each of the
Designated Guarantors is validly subsisting and in good standing
under the laws of the state of its incorporation or formation.
Based upon the foregoing and subject to the assumptions,
exceptions, limitations and qualifications set forth herein, I
am of the opinion that:
1. Each of the Designated Guarantors is an entity validly
formed under the laws of the state of its formation.
2. Each of the Designated Guarantors has the corporate
power and authority to enter into and perform its obligations
under the Loan Documents to which it is a party and to incur the
obligations provided therein, and has taken all action necessary
(including shareholder approvals to the extent necessary) to
authorize the execution, delivery and performance of the Loan
Documents to which it is a party.
3. Each Loan Document has been duly executed and
delivered on behalf of each Designated Guarantor which is a
party to such Loan Document.
I express no opinion as to the law of any jurisdiction
other than the federal law of the United States, the law of the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the General Corporation Law of
the State of Delaware.
This opinion may be relied upon by you and any financial
institution which becomes a Lender or Participant only in
connection with the consummation of the transactions described
herein and may not be used or relied upon by you or any other
person for any other purpose, without in each instance my prior
written consent.
This opinion is limited to the matters expressly stated
herein. No implied opinion may be inferred to extend this
opinion beyond the matters expressly stated herein. I do not
undertake to advise you or anyone else of any changes in the
opinions expressed herein resulting from changes in law, changes
in facts or any other matters that hereafter might occur or be
brought to my attention.
Sincerely,
Xxxxxxx X. Xxxx
Vice President and
General Counsel
EXHIBIT H
May __, 2001
The Administrative Agent and each Lender Party
to the Credit Agreement Referred to Below
c/o Bank One, NA, as Administrative Agent
0 Xxxx Xxx Xxxxx
Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000
Re: Amended and Restated Credit Agreement (the "Credit
Agreement"), dated as of the date hereof, among First
Huntingdon Finance Corp. (the "Borrower"), Toll
Brothers, Inc. (the "Company"), the lenders party
thereto (collectively, the "Lenders"), Bank One, NA,
as Administrative Agent and the other agents party
thereto
Gentlemen:
We have acted as counsel to the Borrower, the Company and
the affiliates of the Company identified on the signature pages
to the Guaranty referred to herein (such other entities, the
"Designated Guarantors"; together with the Borrower and the
Company, the "Loan Parties"), in connection with the execution
and delivery of the Credit Agreement and the transactions
contemplated thereby. This opinion is furnished to you pursuant
to Section 5.1(viii) of the Credit Agreement. Unless otherwise
defined in this opinion, capitalized terms are used herein as
defined in the Credit Agreement.
In so acting, we have examined executed originals or
counterparts of the following documents, each dated the date
hereof (the "Loan Documents"):
(a) the Credit Agreement;
(b) the Notes; and
(c) the Guaranty made by the Company and the Designated
Guarantors.
We have also examined originals or copies, certified or
otherwise identified to our satisfaction, of such corporate
records, agreements and other documents, and of certificates or
comparable documents of public officials and of officers and
representatives of the Loan Parties and have made such
examinations of law as we have deemed necessary in connection
with the opinions set forth below.
We have assumed the legal capacity and competence of
natural persons, the genuineness of all signatures, the
authenticity of all documents submitted to us as originals and
the conformity to original documents of documents submitted to
us as certified, conformed, photostatic or facsimile copies. We
have made no independent factual investigations and as to
factual matters, we have relied exclusively on the facts stated
in the representations and warranties contained in the Loan
Documents and the Exhibits and Schedules to the Loan Documents
(other than representations and warranties constituting
conclusions of law with respect to matters on which we opine).
When an opinion or confirmation is given to our knowledge
or to the best of our knowledge or with reference to matters of
which we are aware or which are known to us, or with another
similar qualification, the relevant knowledge or awareness is
limited to the actual knowledge or awareness of the lawyer who
is the current primary contact for the Borrower and the
individual lawyers in this firm who have participated in the
specific transaction to which this opinion relates and without
any special or additional investigation undertaken for the
purposes of this opinion, except as otherwise noted herein.
We have also assumed, without verification, that (i) each
of the Designated Guarantors is validly existing and in good
standing under the laws of the state of its incorporation or
formation, (ii) the parties to the Loan Documents and the other
agreements, instruments and documents executed in connection
therewith, other than the Borrower and the Company, have the
power (including, without limitation, corporate power where
applicable) and authority to enter into and perform the Loan
Documents and such other agreements, instruments and documents,
(iii) the due authorization, execution and delivery by such
parties, other than the Borrower and the Company, of each Loan
Document and such other agreements, instruments and documents,
and (iv) the Loan Documents and such other agreements,
instruments and documents constitute legal, valid and binding
obligations of each such party, other than the Loan Parties,
enforceable against each such party in accordance with their
respective terms.
Based upon the foregoing and subject to the assumptions,
exceptions, limitations and qualifications set forth herein, we
are of the opinion that:
1. The Borrower is a corporation validly existing and in
good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware and has
the corporate power to carry on its business as such business is
known to us. The Company is a corporation validly existing and
in good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware and has
the corporate power to carry on its business as such business is
known to us. The Company is qualified as a foreign corporation
in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
2. Each of the Borrower and the Company has the corporate
power and authority to enter into and perform its obligations
under the Loan Documents to which it is a party and to incur the
obligations provided therein, and has taken all corporate action
necessary (including shareholder approvals to the extent
necessary) to authorize the execution, delivery and performance
of the Loan Documents to which it is a party.
3. The execution, delivery and performance on the date
hereof by each of the Borrower and the Company of the Loan
Documents to which it is a party do not (a) violate its
Certificate of Incorporation or Bylaws, (b) violate (x) any
present statute, rule or regulation promulgated by the United
States or the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania or (y) the General
Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, which in either case
in our experience is normally applicable both to general
business corporations which are not engaged in regulated
business activities and to transactions of the type contemplated
by the Loan Documents, or (c) breach or result in a default
under those agreements appearing on Schedule I to this Opinion
(collectively, the "Reviewed Documents"), or result in the
creation or imposition of any security interest in or lien or
encumbrance upon any of the assets of the Borrower or the
Company pursuant to the Reviewed Documents. In rendering the
opinion in clause (c), we also have assumed without
investigation that the transactions contemplated by the Loan
Documents will not result in a violation of covenants containing
financial ratios or any other provisions to which the Borrower
or the Company is a party that are based upon the financial
statements or the financial condition of any of the Loan
Parties.
4. The execution, delivery and performance at the date
hereof by each of the Designated Guarantors of the Loan
Documents to which it is a party do not (a) violate (x) any
present statute, rule or regulation promulgated by the United
States or the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania or (y) with respect
to those Designated Guarantors formed under the corporate laws
of the State of Delaware, the General Corporation Law of the
State of Delaware, which in either case in our experience is
normally applicable both to general business corporations which
are not engaged in regulated business activities and to
transactions of the type contemplated by the Loan Documents or
(b) breach or result in a default under the Reviewed Documents,
or result in the creation or imposition of any security interest
in or lien or encumbrance upon, any of the assets of such
Designated Guarantor pursuant to the Reviewed Documents. In
rendering the opinion in clause (b), we also have assumed
without investigation that the transactions contemplated by the
Loan Documents will not result in a violation of covenants
containing financial ratios or any other provisions to which a
Designated Guarantor is a party that are based upon the
financial statements or the financial condition of any of the
Loan Parties.
5. Each Loan Document to which it is a party has been
duly executed and delivered on behalf of the Borrower and the
Company. Each Loan Document constitutes the legal, valid and
binding obligation of each of the Loan Parties which is party
thereto, enforceable in accordance with its respective terms.
6. No consent or approval of, or notice to or filing
with, any federal or state regulatory authority of the United
States or the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania or under the General
Corporation Law of the State of Delaware is required by any Loan
Party in connection with the execution or delivery by any Loan
Party of any of the Loan Documents or the consummation today of
the transactions contemplated thereby.
7. The principal of the Loans (and any guarantee thereof
pursuant to the Guaranty) constitute "Senior Indebtedness" under
the Subordinated Indebtedness described on Schedule II.
We confirm to you that to our knowledge, no litigation or
governmental proceeding is pending or threatened in writing
against any Loan Party (i) with respect to the Loan Documents or
(ii) which individually seeks in excess of $10,000,000.
We draw to your attention the existence of the following
two Pennsylvania statutes in connection with the fact that the
Loans bear floating rates of interest:
(i) Section 911 of the Pennsylvania "Crime Code," 18 Pa.
C.S.A. section 911, enacted by the Act of December 6, 1972,
P.L. 1482. Section 911 of the Crime Code bears a close
resemblance to certain of the provisions of the Federal
Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act of 1970,
18 U.S.C. section section 1961-1968, commonly known as
RICO, and is referred to hereinafter as the
"Pennsylvania RICO Act." The Pennsylvania RICO Act provides,
among other things, that it is a criminal offense, punishable as
a felony, to "use or invest, directly or indirectly...in the
acquisition of any interest in, or the establishment or
operation of, any enterprise..." any income collected in full or
partial satisfaction of a loan made "at a rate of interest
exceeding 25% per annum...."
(ii) The Act of December 29, 1982, P.L. 1671, 18 Pa. C.S.A.
section 4806.1 et seq. (superseded volume) (the "Criminal
Usury Statute"). The Criminal Usury Statute provides, among
other things, that it is a criminal offense, punishable as a felony,
to engage in, "charging, taking or receiving any money...on the
loan...of any money...at a rate exceeding thirty-six percent
per annum...."
The Criminal Usury Statute may have been repealed, but the
manner in which the repeal was enacted leaves the matter subject
to uncertainty.
Both the Pennsylvania RICO Act and the Criminal Usury
Statute appear to be intended by the legislature to apply only
to racketeering and loan sharking type activities, and not to
the type of commercial loan transaction evidenced by the Loan
Documents. Nevertheless, in view of the plain language of the
statutes, and the fact that the matter has not been considered
by the Pennsylvania courts, we cannot say that the ultimate
resolution of this issue is free from doubt.
The foregoing opinions are subject to the following
exceptions, limitations and qualifications:
(a) Our opinion is subject to the effect of applicable
bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent
conveyance, fraudulent transfer, marshalling or similar laws
affecting creditors' rights and remedies generally; general
principles of equity, including without limitation, concepts of
materiality, reasonableness, good faith and fair dealing
(regardless of whether such enforceability is considered in a
proceeding in equity or at law); and limitations on
enforceability of rights to indemnification by federal or state
securities laws or regulations or by public policy.
(b) We express no opinion as to the application or
requirements of the Pennsylvania Securities Act, federal
securities laws or federal or state patent, trademark,
copyright, antitrust and unfair competition, pension or employee
benefit, labor, environmental, health and safety or tax laws in
respect of the transactions contemplated by or referred to in
the Loan Documents.
(c) We express no opinion as to the validity or
enforceability of any provision of the Loan Documents which (i)
permits a Lender or the Administrative Agent to increase the
rate of interest or to collect a late charge in the event of
delinquency or default to the extent they are deemed to be
penalties or forfeitures; (ii) purports to grant a Lender or the
Administrative Agent a power-of-attorney; (iii) purports to
require that waivers must be in writing to the extent that an
oral agreement or implied agreement by trade practice or course
of conduct modifying provisions of the Loan Documents has been
made; (iv) purports to be a waiver of the right to a jury trial,
a waiver of any right to object to jurisdiction or venue, a
waiver of any right to claim damages or to service of process or
a waiver of any other rights or benefits bestowed by operation
of law or the waiver of which is limited by applicable law; (v)
purports to be a waiver of the obligations of good faith, fair
dealing, diligence, mitigation of damages or commercial
reasonableness; (vi) purports to exculpate any party from its
own negligent acts or limit any party from certain liabilities;
(vii) chooses the governing law of the State of Illinois where
such choice of law would conflict with or violate a fundamental
public policy of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania or of any
other state whose laws would apply absent such choice of
Illinois law; (viii) purports to require the payment of
attorneys' fees to the extent such fees exceed reasonable
attorneys' fees; or (ix) purports to authorize a Lender or the
Administrative Agent to set off and apply any deposits at any
time held, and any other indebtedness at any time owing, by such
Lender or the Administrative Agent to or for the account of a
Loan Party or which purports to provide that any purchaser of a
participation from a Lender may exercise setoff or similar
rights with respect to such participation.
(d) We express no opinion as to the enforceability of
forum selection clauses upon the courts in the forum selected.
We express no opinion as to the law of any jurisdiction
other than the federal law of the United States, the law of the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the General Corporation Law of
the State of Delaware. Our opinion is given as if the laws of
the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania without regard to its conflict
of laws provisions governed the Loan Documents.
This opinion may be relied upon by you and any financial
institution which becomes a Lender or Participant only in
connection with the consummation of the transactions described
herein and may not be used or relied upon by you or any other
person for any other purpose, without in each instance our prior
written consent.
This opinion is limited to the matters expressly stated
herein. No implied opinion may be inferred to extend this
opinion beyond the matters expressly stated herein. We do not
undertake to advise you or anyone else of any changes in the
opinions expressed herein resulting from changes in law, changes
in facts or any other matters that hereafter might occur or be
brought to our attention.
Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx, a partner of this firm, is a director
of and shareholder of the Company.
Very truly yours,
SCHEDULE I
List of Examined Documents
Term Loan Agreement dated as of August 23, 1996, by and among
First Huntingdon Finance Corp., Toll Brothers, Inc., the several
lenders parties thereto, The Fuji Bank Limited, as
Administrative Agent, and The Industrial Bank of Japan Trust
Company, as Documentation Agent, as amended by the Waiver and
Consent dated February 25, 1998 and the Second Amendment to Term
Loan Agreement, dated as of March 31, 1998.
The Amended and Restated Credit Agreement dated as of May 28,
1998, by and among First Huntingdon Finance Corp., Toll
Brothers, Inc. and the other Guarantors which are parties
thereto, the banks party thereto, First Union National Bank, as
Administrative Agent, and Bank of America, N.A., as
Documentation Agent.
The Term Loan Agreement dated as of July 25, 2000 by and among
First Huntingdon Finance Corp., Toll Brothers, Inc., the lenders
party thereto, Bank One, N.A., as Administrative Agent, Bank of
America, N.A., as Syndication Agent, Guaranty Bank, formerly
known as Guaranty Federal Bank, F.S.B., as Documentation Agent,
Wachovia Bank, N.A., as Co-Agent and First Union National Bank
as Co-Agent.
Indenture dated as of November 12, 1996 among Toll Corp., Toll
Brothers, Inc. and Bank One Trust Company, NA (formerly NBD
Bank).
Indenture dated as of January 26, 1999 among Toll Corp., Toll
Brothers, Inc. and Bank One Trust Company, NA (formerly NBD
Bank).
Indenture dated as of January 25, 2001 among Toll Corp., Toll
Brothers, Inc. and Bank One Trust Company, NA (formerly NBD
Bank).
SCHEDULE II
List of Subordinated Documents
Indenture dated as of November 12, 1996 among Toll Corp., Toll
Brothers, Inc. and Bank One Trust Company, NA (formerly NBD
Bank) and the authorizing resolutions related thereto dated
November 6, 1996 and September 16, 1997.
Indenture dated as of January 26, 1999 among Toll Corp., Toll
Brothers, Inc. and Bank One Trust Company, NA (formerly NBD
Bank), and the authorizing resolutions related thereto dated
January 22, 1999 and April 13, 1999.
Indenture dated as of January 25, 2001 among Toll Corp., Toll
Brothers, Inc. and Bank One Trust Company, NA (formerly NBD
Bank), and the authorizing resolutions related thereto dated
January 19, 2001.
EXHIBIT I
AMENDED AND RESTATED GUARANTY
This AMENDED AND RESTATED GUARANTY ("Guaranty") is made as
of the ____ day of ____________, 2001, by the undersigned (the
"Guarantors"), in favor of the "Lenders" under that certain
Amended and Restated Credit Agreement dated ________________,
2001, among First Huntingdon Finance Corp., Toll Brothers, Inc.,
the Lenders from time to time parties thereto and Bank One, NA,
in its capacity as Administrative Agent. Such Amended and
Restated Credit Agreement, as it may be amended, modified or
supplemented from time to time, is hereinafter referred to as
the "Credit Agreement." Unless otherwise defined herein,
capitalized terms used herein shall have the meanings ascribed
to them in the Credit Agreement.
The Guarantors have heretofore executed certain Guaranties
(the "Original Guaranties") pursuant to the Original Agreement
and hereby deliver this Amended and Restated Guaranty to amend
and restate in their entirety the Original Guaranties.
1. Guaranty. For value received and in
consideration of any loan, advance or financial accommodation of
any kind whatsoever heretofore, now or hereafter made, given or
granted to the Borrower by the Lenders, the Guarantors
unconditionally, jointly and severally guarantee for the benefit
of each of the Lenders the full and prompt payment when due,
whether at maturity or earlier, by reason of acceleration or
otherwise, and at all times thereafter, of all of the
Obligations (including, without limitation, interest accruing
following the filing of a bankruptcy petition by or against the
Borrower, at the applicable rate specified in the Credit
Agreement, whether or not such interest is allowed as a claim in
bankruptcy).
(ii) At any time after the occurrence and during the
continuance of a Default, the Guarantors shall pay to the
Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Lenders, on written
demand and in immediately available funds, the full amount of
the Obligations then due. The Guarantors further agree to pay
to the Administrative Agent and reimburse the Administrative
Agent for, on demand and in immediately available funds, (a) all
fees, costs and expenses (including, without limitation, all
court costs and attorneys' and paralegals' fees, costs and
expenses) paid or incurred by the Administrative Agent or any of
the Lenders in: (1) endeavoring to collect all or any part of
the Obligations from, or in prosecuting any action against, any
one or more of the Guarantors relating to this Guaranty; (2)
taking any action with respect to any security or collateral
securing any of the Guarantors' obligations hereunder; and (3)
preserving, protecting or defending the enforceability of, or
enforcing, this Guaranty or their respective rights hereunder
(all such costs and expenses are hereinafter referred to as the
"Expenses"). The Guarantors hereby agree that this Guaranty is
an absolute guaranty of payment and is not a guaranty of
collection.
2. Obligations Unconditional. Subject to Sections 11 and
12, the Guarantors hereby agree that their obligations under
this Guaranty shall be unconditional, irrespective of: (i) the
validity, enforceability, avoidance, novation or subordination
of any of the Obligations or any of the Loan Documents; (ii) the
absence of any attempt by, or on behalf of, any Lender or the
Administrative Agent to collect, or to take any other action to
enforce, all or any part of the Obligations whether from or
against the Borrower, any other guarantor of the Obligations or
any other Person; (iii) the election of any remedy by, or on
behalf of, any Lender or the Administrative Agent with respect
to all or any part of the Obligations; (iv) the waiver, consent,
extension, forbearance or granting of any indulgence by, or on
behalf of, any Lender or the Administrative Agent with respect
to any provision of any of the Loan Documents; (v) the election
by, or on behalf of, any one or more of the Lenders, in any
proceeding instituted under Chapter 11 of Title 11 of the United
States Code (11 U.S.C. 101 et seq.) (the "Bankruptcy Code"), of
the application of Section 1111(b)(2) of the Bankruptcy Code;
(vi) any borrowing or grant of a security interest by the
Borrower, as debtor-in-possession, under Section 364 of the
Bankruptcy Code; (vii) the disallowance, under Section 502 of
the Bankruptcy Code, of all or any portion of the claims of any
of the Lenders or the Administrative Agent for repayment of all
or any part of the Obligations or any Expenses; or (viii) any
other circumstance which might otherwise constitute a legal or
equitable discharge or defense of the Borrower or any one or
more of the Guarantors.
3. Enforcement; Application of Payments. Upon the
occurrence and during the continuance of a Default, the
Administrative Agent may proceed directly and at once, without
notice, against any one or more of the Guarantors to obtain
performance of and to collect and recover the full amount, or
any portion, of the Obligations then due, without first
proceeding against the Borrower, any other Guarantor or any
other Person, or against any security or collateral for the
Obligations. Subject only to the terms and provisions of the
Credit Agreement, the Administrative Agent shall have the
exclusive right to determine the application of payments and
credits, if any, from the Guarantors, the Borrower or from any
other Person on account of the Obligations or any other
liability of the Guarantors to any Lender.
4. Waivers. The Guarantors hereby waive diligence,
presentment, demand of payment, filing of claims with a court in
the event of receivership or bankruptcy of the Borrower, protest
or notice with respect to the Obligations, all setoffs and
counterclaims and all presentments, demands for performance,
notices of nonperformance, protests, notices of protest, notices
of dishonor and notices of acceptance of this Guaranty, and all
other demands whatsoever (and shall not require that the same be
made on the Borrower as a condition precedent to the Guarantors'
obligations hereunder), and covenants that this Guaranty will
not be discharged, except by complete payment (in cash) and
performance of the Obligations and any other obligations
contained herein. The Guarantors further waive all notices of
the existence, creation or incurring of new or additional
indebtedness, arising either from additional loans extended to
the Borrower or otherwise, and also waive all notices that the
principal amount, or any portion thereof, and/or any interest on
any instrument or document evidencing all or any part of the
Obligations is due, notices of any and all proceedings to
collect from the maker, any endorser or any other guarantor of
all or any part of the Obligations, or from any other Person,
and, to the extent permitted by law, notices of exchange, sale,
surrender or other handling of any security or collateral given
to the Agent to secure payment of all or any part of the
Obligations.
(b) The Guarantors understand that they shall be liable
for the full amount of their liability under this Guaranty,
notwithstanding the occurrence of any event impairing the rights
of the Guarantors, the Administrative Agent or any of the
Lenders to proceed against the Borrower, any other guarantor
(including without limitation any Guarantor hereunder) or the
Borrower's or such guarantor's property. The Guarantors agree
that all of their obligations under this Guaranty (including
their obligation to pay in full all indebtedness evidenced by or
arising under the Credit Agreement) shall remain in full force
and effect without defense, offset or counterclaim of any kind,
notwithstanding that the Guarantors' rights against the Borrower
may be impaired, destroyed or otherwise affected by reason of
any action or inaction on the part of the Administrative Agent
or any Lender.
(c) The Lenders, either themselves or acting through the
Administrative Agent, are hereby authorized, without notice or
demand and without affecting the liability of the Guarantors
hereunder, from time to time, (i) to renew, extend, accelerate
or otherwise change the time for payment of, or other terms
relating to, all or any part of the Obligations, or to otherwise
modify, amend or change the terms of any of the Loan Documents;
(ii) to accept partial payments on all or any part of the
Obligations; (iii) to take and hold security or collateral for
the payment of all or any part of the Obligations, this
Guaranty, or any other guaranties of all or any part of the
Obligations or other liabilities of the Borrower, (iv) to
exchange, enforce, waive and release any such security or
collateral; (v) to apply such security or collateral and direct
the order or manner of sale thereof as in their discretion they
may determine; and (vi) to settle, release, exchange, enforce,
waive, compromise or collect or otherwise liquidate all or any
part of the Obligations, this Guaranty, any other guaranty of
all or any part of the Obligations, and any security or
collateral for the Obligations or for any such guaranty. Any of
the foregoing may be done in any manner, without affecting or
impairing the obligations of the Guarantors hereunder.
5. Setoff. At any time when all or any part of the
Obligations have become due and payable (by acceleration or
otherwise) following the occurrence of a Default, each Lender
and the Administrative Agent may, without notice to the
Guarantors and regardless of the acceptance of any security or
collateral for the payment hereof, appropriate and apply toward
the payment of all or any part of the Obligations (i) any
indebtedness due or to become due from such Lender or the
Administrative Agent to any one or more of the Guarantors, and
(ii) any moneys, credits or other property belonging to any one
or more of the Guarantors, at any time held by or coming into
the possession of such Lender or the Administrative Agent or any
of their respective Affiliates.
6. Financial Information. The Guarantors hereby assume
responsibility for keeping themselves informed of the financial
condition of the Borrower and any and all endorsers and/or other
guarantors of all or any part of the Obligations, and of all
other circumstances bearing upon the risk of nonpayment of the
Obligations, or any part thereof, that diligent inquiry would
reveal, and the Guarantors hereby agree that none of the Lenders
nor the Administrative Agent shall have any duty to advise the
Guarantors of information known to any of them regarding such
condition or any such circumstances. In the event any Lender,
in its sole discretion, undertakes at any time or from time to
time to provide any such information to any one or more of the
Guarantors, such Lender shall be under no obligation (i) to
undertake any investigation not a part of its regular business
routine, (ii) to disclose any information which such Lender,
pursuant to accepted or reasonable commercial finance or banking
practices, wishes to maintain confidential or (iii) to make any
other or future disclosures of such information or any other
information to any one or more of the Guarantors.
7. No Marshalling; Reinstatement. The Guarantors consent
and agree that none of the Lenders nor the Administrative Agent
nor any Person acting for or on behalf of the Lenders or the
Administrative Agent shall be under any obligation to xxxxxxxx
any assets in favor of the Guarantors or against or in payment
of any or all of the Obligations. The Guarantors further agree
that, to the extent that the Borrower, any one or more of the
Guarantors or any other guarantor of all or any part of the
Obligations makes a payment or payments to any Lender or the
Administrative Agent, which payment or payments or any part
thereof are subsequently invalidated, declared to be fraudulent
or preferential, set aside and/or required to be repaid to the
Borrower, any one or more of the Guarantors, such other
guarantor or any other Person, or their respective estates,
trustees, receivers or any other party, including, without
limitation, the Guarantors, under any bankruptcy law, state or
federal law, common law or equitable cause, then, to the extent
of such payment or repayment, the part of the Obligations which
has been paid, reduced or satisfied by such amount shall be
reinstated and continued in full force and effect as of the time
immediately preceding such initial payment, reduction or
satisfaction.
8. Subrogation. Until the Obligations have been paid in
full and the Aggregate Commitment has been terminated, the
Guarantors (i) shall have no right of subrogation with respect
to such Obligations and (ii) waive any right to enforce any
remedy which the Lenders or the Administrative Agent (or any of
them) now have or may hereafter have against the Borrower, any
endorser or any guarantor of all or any part of the Obligations
or any other Person, and the Guarantors waive any benefit of,
and any right to participate in, any security or collateral
given to the Lenders and the Administrative Agent (or any of
them) to secure the payment or performance of all or any part of
the Obligations or any other liability of the Borrower to the
Lenders.
9. Subordination. Subordinated Debt. The payment
and performance of all indebtedness, fees, expenses, obligations
and liabilities of the Borrower (or any other Person for the
benefit of Borrower) to the Guarantors whether now existing or
hereafter incurred or created, in each case, whether such
amounts are due or not due, direct or indirect, absolute or
contingent (the "Subordinated Debt") are hereby subordinated to
the Obligations and, except as set forth in subparagraphs (b)
and (c) of this Section 9 the Guarantors will not accelerate,
ask, demand, xxx for, take or receive from the Borrower, by
setoff or in any other manner, the whole or any part of the
Subordinated Debt, including, without limitation, the taking of
any negotiable instruments evidencing such amounts, nor any
security for any of the Subordinated Debt, unless and until all
of the Obligations shall have been fully and indefeasibly paid
and satisfied in cash and all financing arrangements among the
Borrower, the Administrative Agent and the Lenders shall have
been terminated.
(b) Permitted Payments. Notwithstanding the provisions of
subparagraph (a) of this Section 9, in the absence of a
"Default" and provided that the payment described below, if
made, would not otherwise give rise to the occurrence of a
Default, the Borrower may pay to the Guarantors, and the
Guarantors may accept from the Borrower, any and all payments of
the Subordinated Debt ("Permitted Payments").
(c) Enforcement Rights. The Guarantors, prior to the
indefeasible payment in full of the Obligations and the
termination of all financing arrangements among the Borrower and
the Lenders, shall have no right to enforce any claim with
respect to the Subordinated Debt, including, without limitation,
any Permitted Payment, or otherwise to take any action against
the Borrower or the Borrower's Property without the
Administrative Agent's prior written approval.
10. Enforcement; Amendments; Waivers. No delay on the
part of any of the Lenders or the Administrative Agent in the
exercise of any right or remedy arising under this Guaranty, the
Credit Agreement, any of the other Loan Documents or otherwise
with respect to all or any part of the Obligations or any other
guaranty of or security for all or any part of the Obligations
shall operate as a waiver thereof, and no single or partial
exercise by any such Person of any such right or remedy shall
preclude any further exercise thereof. No modification or
waiver of any of the provisions of this Guaranty shall be
binding upon the Lenders or the Administrative Agent, except as
expressly set forth in a writing duly signed and delivered by
the party making such modification or waiver. Failure by any of
the Lenders or the Administrative Agent at any time or times
hereafter to require strict performance by the Borrower, the
Guarantors, any other guarantor of all or any part of the
Obligations or any other Person of any of the provisions,
warranties, terms and conditions contained in any of the Loan
Documents now or at any time or times hereafter executed by such
Persons and delivered to the Administrative Agent or any Lender
shall not waive, affect or diminish any right of the
Administrative Agent or such Lender at any time or times
hereafter to demand strict performance thereof and such right
shall not be deemed to have been waived by any act or knowledge
of the Administrative Agent or any Lender, or their respective
agents, officers or employees, unless such waiver is contained
in an instrument in writing, directed and delivered to the
Borrower or the Guarantors, as applicable, specifying such
waiver, and is signed by the party or parties necessary to give
such waiver under the Credit Agreement. No waiver of any
Default by the Administrative Agent or any Lender shall operate
as a waiver of any other Default or the same Default on a future
occasion, and no action by the Administrative Agent or any
Lender permitted hereunder shall in any way affect or impair the
Administrative Agent's or any Lender's rights and remedies or
the obligations of the Guarantors under this Guaranty. Any
determination by a court of competent jurisdiction of the amount
of any principal and/or interest owing by the Borrower to any of
the Lenders shall be conclusive and binding on the Guarantors
irrespective of whether any of the Guarantors was party to the
suit or action in which such determination was made.
11. Limitation on Obligations. The provisions of
this Guaranty are severable, and in any action or proceeding
involving any state corporate law, or any state, federal or
foreign bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other law
affecting the rights of creditors generally, if the obligations
of any Guarantor under this Guaranty would otherwise be held or
determined to be avoidable, invalid or unenforceable on account
of the amount of such Guarantor's liability under this Guaranty,
then, notwithstanding any other provision of this Guaranty to
the contrary, the amount of such liability shall, without any
further action by the Guarantors, the Administrative Agent or
any Lender, be automatically limited and reduced to the highest
amount that is valid and enforceable as determined in such
action or proceeding (such highest amount determined hereunder
being the relevant Guarantor's "Maximum Liability"). This
Section 11(a) with respect to the Maximum Liability of the
Guarantors is intended solely to preserve the rights of the
Administrative Agent hereunder to the maximum extent not subject
to avoidance under applicable law, and neither the Guarantor nor
any other person or entity shall have any right or claim under
this Section 11(a) with respect to the Maximum Liability, except
to the extent necessary so that the obligations of the
Guarantors hereunder shall not be rendered voidable under
applicable law.
(b) Each of the Guarantors agrees that the Guaranteed
Obligations may at any time and from time to time exceed the
Maximum Liability of each Guarantor, and may exceed the
aggregate Maximum Liability of all other Guarantors, without
impairing this Guaranty or affecting the rights and remedies of
the Administrative Agent hereunder. Nothing in this Section 9(b)
shall be construed to increase any Guarantor's obligations
hereunder beyond its Maximum Liability.
(c) In the event any Guarantor (a "Paying Guarantor")
shall make any payment or payments under this Guaranty or shall
suffer any loss as a result of any realization upon any
collateral granted by it to secure its obligations under this
Guaranty, each other Guarantor (each a "Non-Paying Guarantor")
shall contribute to such Paying Guarantor an amount equal to
such Non-Paying Guarantor's "Pro Rata Share" of such payment or
payments made, or losses suffered, by such Paying Guarantor.
For the purposes hereof, each Non-Paying Guarantor's "Pro Rata
Share" with respect to any such payment or loss by a Paying
Guarantor shall be determined as of the date on which such
payment or loss was made by reference to the ratio of (i) such
Non-Paying Guarantor's Maximum Liability as of such date
(without giving effect to any right to receive, or obligation to
make, any contribution hereunder) or, if such Non-Paying
Guarantor's Maximum Liability has not been determined, the
aggregate amount of all monies received by such Non-Paying
Guarantor from the Borrower after the date hereof (whether by
loan, capital infusion or by other means) to (ii) the aggregate
Maximum Liability of all Guarantors hereunder (including such
Paying Guarantor) as of such date (without giving effect to any
right to receive, or obligation to make, any contribution
hereunder), or to the extent that a Maximum Liability has not
been determined for any Guarantors, the aggregate amount of all
monies received by such Guarantors from the Borrower after the
date hereof (whether by loan, capital infusion or by other
means). Nothing in this Section 11(c) shall affect any
Guarantor's several liability for the entire amount of the
Guaranteed Obligations (up to such Guarantor's Maximum
Liability). Each of the Guarantors covenants and agrees that
its right to receive any contribution under this Guaranty from a
Non-Paying Guarantor shall be subordinate and junior in right of
payment to all the Guaranteed Obligations. The provisions of
this Section 11(c) are for the benefit of both the
Administrative Agent and the Guarantors and may be enforced by
any one, or more, or all of them in accordance with the terms
hereof.
12. Effectiveness; Termination. This Guaranty shall
become effective upon its execution by the Guarantors and shall
continue in full force and effect and may not be terminated or
otherwise revoked until the Obligations shall have been fully
paid (in cash) and discharged and the Credit Agreement and all
financing arrangements between the Borrower and the Lenders
under the Loan Documents shall have been terminated. If,
notwithstanding the foregoing, the Guarantors shall have any
right under applicable law to terminate or revoke this Guaranty,
the Guarantors agree that such termination or revocation shall
not be effective until a written notice of such revocation or
termination, specifically referring hereto, signed by the
Guarantors, is actually received by the Administrative Agent.
Such notice shall not affect the right and power of any of the
Lenders or the Administrative Agent to enforce rights arising
prior to receipt thereof by the Administrative Agent. If any
Lender grants loans or takes other action after any of the
Guarantors terminates or revokes its obligations under this
Guaranty but before the Administrative Agent receives such
written notice, the rights of such Lender with respect thereto
shall be the same as if such termination or revocation had not
occurred.
13. Successors and Assigns. This Guaranty shall be
binding upon the Guarantors and upon their successors and
assigns and shall inure to the benefit of the Lender and the
Administrative Agent and their respective successors and
assigns; all references herein to the Borrower and to the
Guarantors shall be deemed to include their respective
successors and assigns. The successors and assigns of the
Guarantors and the Borrower shall include, without limitation,
their respective receivers, trustees or debtors-in-possession.
All references to the singular shall be deemed to include the
plural where the context so requires.
14. CHOICE OF LAW. THIS GUARANTY SHALL BE CONSTRUED IN
ACCORDANCE WITH THE INTERNAL LAWS (AND NOT THE LAW OF CONFLICTS)
OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, BUT GIVING EFFECT TO FEDERAL LAWS
APPLICABLE TO NATIONAL BANKS.
15. CONSENT TO JURISDICTION. THE GUARANTORS HEREBY
IRREVOCABLY SUBMIT TO THE NON-EXCLUSIVE JURISDICTION OF ANY
UNITED STATES FEDERAL OR ILLINOIS STATE COURT SITTING IN
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS IN ANY ACTION OR PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF OR
RELATING TO ANY LOAN DOCUMENTS AND THE GUARANTORS HEREBY
IRREVOCABLY AGREE THAT ALL CLAIMS IN RESPECT OF SUCH ACTION OR
PROCEEDING MAY BE HEARD AND DETERMINED IN ANY SUCH COURT AND
IRREVOCABLY WAIVE ANY OBJECTION IT MAY NOW OR HEREAFTER HAVE AS
TO THE VENUE OF ANY SUCH SUIT, ACTION OR PROCEEDING BROUGHT IN
SUCH A COURT OR THAT SUCH COURT IS AN INCONVENIENT FORUM.
NOTHING HEREIN SHALL LIMIT THE RIGHT OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT
OR ANY LENDER TO BRING PROCEEDINGS AGAINST THE GUARANTORS OR ANY
OTHER LOAN PARTY IN THE COURTS OF ANY OTHER JURISDICTION.
16. WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL. EACH OF THE GUARANTORS AND THE
ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT WAIVES ANY RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY
DISPUTE, WHETHER SOUNDING IN CONTRACT, TORT, OR OTHERWISE,
BETWEEN THE GUARANTORS AND THE LENDERS OR THE ADMINISTRATIVE
AGENT ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED
BY THIS GUARANTY OR ANY OTHER INSTRUMENT, DOCUMENT OR AGREEMENT
EXECUTED OR DELIVERED IN CONNECTION HEREWITH. EITHER THE
GUARANTORS OR THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT MAY FILE AN ORIGINAL
COUNTERPART OR A COPY OF THIS GUARANTY WITH ANY COURT AS WRITTEN
EVIDENCE OF THE CONSENT OF THE PARTIES HERETO TO THE WAIVER OF
THEIR RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY.
17. Advice of Counsel. The Guarantors represent and
warrant that they have consulted with their legal counsel
regarding all waivers under this Guaranty, including without
limitation those under Section 4 and Sections 14 through 16
hereof, that they believe that they fully understand all rights
that they are waiving and the effect of such waivers, that they
assume the risk of any misunderstanding that they may have
regarding any of the foregoing, and that they intend that such
waivers shall be a material inducement to the Administrative
Agent and the Lenders to extend the indebtedness guaranteed
hereby.
18. Notices. All notices and other communications
provided to any party hereto shall be in writing or by facsimile
and addressed to such party at its address set forth below or at
such other address as may be designated by such party in a
notice to the other party. Any notice, if mailed and properly
addressed with postage prepaid, shall be deemed given when
received; any notice, if transmitted by facsimile, shall be
deemed given when transmitted. The addresses for notices are as
follows:
if to the Guarantors, at:
Toll Brothers, Inc.
0000 Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, XX 00000
Attention: Xxxx Xxxxxxx
Telecopy: 215/938-8010
with copies to:
Toll Brothers, Inc.
0000 Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, XX 00000
Attention: Xxxxxx Xxxx
Telecopy: 215/938-8010
and
Toll Brothers Inc.
0000 Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, XX 00000
Attention: Xxx Xxxx
Telecopy: 215/938-8255
and
Xxxxxxx Xxxxx Xxxxxxx & Ingersoll, LLP
0000 Xxxxxx Xxxxxx
00xx Xxxxx
Xxxxxxxxxxxx, XX 00000-0000
Attention: Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxx
Telecopy: 215/864-8999
if to the Administrative Agent, at
Bank One, NA
0 Xxxx Xxx Xxxxx
Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000
Attention: Xxxx Xxxxxxxxx
Telecopy: 312/732-5939
19. Severability. Wherever possible, each provision of
this Guaranty shall be interpreted in such manner as to be
effective and valid under applicable law, but if any provision
of this Guaranty shall be prohibited by or invalid under such
law, such provision shall be ineffective to the extent of such
prohibition or invalidity without invalidating the remainder of
such provision or the remaining provisions of this Guaranty.
20. Merger. This Guaranty represents the final agreement
of the Guarantors with respect to the matters contained herein
and may not be contradicted by evidence of prior or
contemporaneous agreements, or subsequent oral agreements,
between the Guarantors and the Administrative Agent or any
Lender.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, this Guaranty has been duly executed by
the Guarantors as of the day and year first set forth above.
TOLL BROTHERS, INC., a Delaware
corporation and each of the other
Guarantors listed below.
By: _____________________________________
Xxxx X. Xxxxxxx, Vice President of (i)
each of the Guarantors which is a
corporation or limited liability company;
(ii) each corporate general partner of
each of the Guarantors which is a general
or limited partnership; and (iii) each
corporate trustee of each of the
Guarantors which is a trust.
[ATTACH LIST OF GUARANTORS]
EXHIBIT J
COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE
To:
The Lenders party to the Amended and Restated
Credit Agreement Described Below
This Compliance Certificate is furnished pursuant to that
certain Amended and Restated Credit Agreement dated as of
____________, 2001 (as amended, modified, renewed or extended
from time to time, the "Agreement") among the First Huntingdon
Finance Corp. Toll Brothers, Inc., the Lenders party thereto and
Bank One, NA, as Administrative Agent for the Lenders. Unless
otherwise defined herein, capitalized terms used in this
Compliance Certificate have the meanings ascribed thereto in the
Agreement.
THE UNDERSIGNED HEREBY CERTIFIES THAT:
1. I am the duly elected of the
Company.
2. I have reviewed the terms of the Agreement and I have
made, or have caused to be made under my supervision, a detailed
review of the transactions and conditions of the Company and its
Subsidiaries during the accounting period covered by the
attached financial statements.
3. The examinations described in paragraph 2 did not
disclose, and I have no knowledge of, the existence of, any
condition or event which constitutes a Default or Unmatured
Default during or at the end of the accounting period covered by
the attached financial statements or as of the date of this
Certificate, except as set forth below.
4. Schedule I attached hereto sets forth financial data
and computations evidencing the Borrower's and the Company's
compliance with certain covenants of the Agreement, all of which
data and computations are, to the best of my knowledge, true,
complete and correct.
5. Schedule II hereto sets forth the determination of the
applicable Pricing Level in the Pricing Schedule on the basis of
which certain rates and percentage fees under the Agreement
shall be determined commencing on the fifth day following the
delivery hereof (subject to any change in the Pricing Level
resulting from a change in the Rating).
6. All of the Subsidiaries of the Company that are
integral to the homebuilding business of the Toll Group are
Designated Guarantors.
Described below are the exceptions, if any, to paragraph 3,
listing, in detail, the nature of the condition or event, the
period during which it has existed and the action which the
Company and the Borrower have taken, are taking, or propose to
take with respect to each such condition or event:
The foregoing certifications, together with the
computations set forth in Schedule I and Schedule II hereto and
the financial statements delivered with this Certificate in
support hereof, are made and delivered this day of
, .
TOLL BROTHERS, INC.
By: _____________________________________
SCHEDULE I TO COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE
Compliance as of _________, ____ with
Provisions of Section 7.28 of
the Agreement
SCHEDULE II TO COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE
Borrower's Calculation of Applicable Pricing Level in Pricing
Schedule
EXHIBIT L
ASSIGNMENT AGREEMENT
This Assignment Agreement (this "Assignment Agreement")
between (the "Assignor") and
(the "Assignee") is dated as of
, __ . The parties hereto agree as follows:
1. PRELIMINARY STATEMENT. The Assignor is a party to an
Amended and Restated Credit Agreement (which, as it may be
amended, modified, renewed or extended from time to time is
herein called the "Credit Agreement") described in Item 1 of
Schedule 1 attached hereto ("Schedule 1"). Capitalized terms
used herein and not otherwise defined herein shall have the
meanings attributed to them in the Credit Agreement.
2. ASSIGNMENT AND ASSUMPTION. The Assignor hereby sells
and assigns to the Assignee, and the Assignee hereby purchases
and assumes from the Assignor, the following?:
(a) An undivided interest in and to the Assignor's rights
and obligations under the Credit Agreement (except any interest
in any outstanding Competitive Bid Loans), such that after
giving effect to such assignment the Assignee shall have
purchased pursuant to this Assignment Agreement the percentage
interest specified in Item 3 of Schedule 1 of all outstanding
rights and obligations under the Credit Agreement relating to
the Loan Facility and the other Loan Documents (except
Competitive Bid Loans). The aggregate Commitment (or Ratable
Loans, if the applicable Commitment has been terminated)
purchased by the Assignee hereunder is set forth in Item 4 of
Schedule 1.
(b) An undivided interest in and to the Assignor's rights
and obligations with respect to each outstanding Competitive Bid
Loans held by Assignor under the Credit Agreement and identified
in Item 5 in Schedule 1, such that after giving effect to such
assignment the Assignee shall have purchased pursuant to this
Assignment Agreement the respective percentage interests
specified in Item 5 in Schedule 1 in the Competitive Bid Loans
identified therein. ??Except as provided in this Section 2(b)
and identified in Item 5 in Schedule 1, the Assignor is not
hereby selling and assigning any interests in any outstanding
Competitive Bid Loans.
3. EFFECTIVE DATE. The effective date of this Assignment
Agreement (the "Effective Date") shall be the later of the date
specified in Item 7 of Schedule 1 or two Business Days (or such
shorter period agreed to by the Administrative Agent) after a
Notice of Assignment substantially in the form of Exhibit "I"
attached hereto has been delivered to the Administrative Agent.
Such Notice of Assignment must include any consents required to
be delivered to the Administrative Agent by Section 13.3.1 of
the Credit Agreement. In no event will the Effective Date occur
if the payments required to be made by the Assignee to the
Assignor on the Effective Date under Sections 4 and 5 hereof are
not made on the proposed Effective Date. The Assignor will
notify the Assignee of the proposed Effective Date no later than
the Business Day prior to the proposed Effective Date. As of
the Effective Date, (i) the Assignee shall have the rights and
obligations of a Lender under the Loan Documents with respect to
the rights and obligations assigned to the Assignee hereunder
and (ii) the Assignor shall relinquish its rights and be
released from its corresponding obligations under the Loan
Documents with respect to the rights and obligations assigned to
the Assignee hereunder.
4. PAYMENT OBLIGATIONS. On and after the Effective Date,
the Assignee shall be entitled to receive from the
Administrative Agent all payments of principal, interest and
fees with respect to the interest assigned hereby. The Assignee
shall advance funds directly to the Administrative Agent with
respect to all Loans and reimbursement payments made on or after
the Effective Date with respect to the interest assigned hereby.
[In consideration for the sale and assignment of Loans
hereunder, (i) the Assignee shall pay the Assignor, on the
Effective Date, an amount equal to the principal amount of the
portion of all Floating Rate Loans assigned to the Assignee
hereunder and (ii) with respect to each Fixed Ratable Loan (and
Competitive Bid Loan, if applicable) made by the Assignor and
assigned to the Assignee hereunder which is outstanding on the
Effective Date, (a) on the last day of the Interest Period
therefor or (b) on such earlier date agreed to by the Assignor
and the Assignee or (c) on the date on which any such Fixed
Ratable Loan (and Competitive Bid Loan, if applicable) becomes
due (by acceleration or otherwise) (the date as described in the
foregoing clauses (a), (b) or (c) being hereinafter referred to
as the "Payment Date"), the Assignee shall pay the Assignor an
amount equal to the principal amount of the portion of such
Fixed Ratable Loan (and Competitive Bid Loan, if applicable)
assigned to the Assignee which is outstanding on the Payment
Date. If the Assignor and the Assignee agree that the Payment
Date for any Fixed Rate Loan shall be the Effective Date, they
shall agree to the interest rate applicable to the portion of
such Loan assigned hereunder for the period from the Effective
Date to the end of the existing Interest Period applicable to
such Fixed Rate Loan (the "Agreed Interest Rate") and any
interest received by the Assignee in excess of the Agreed
Interest Rate shall be remitted to the Assignor. In the event
interest for the period from the Effective Date to but not
including the Payment Date is not paid by the Borrower with
respect to any Fixed Rate Loan sold by the Assignor to the
Assignee hereunder, the Assignee shall pay to the Assignor
interest for such period on the portion of such Fixed Rate Loan
sold by the Assignor to the Assignee hereunder at the applicable
rate provided by the Credit Agreement. In the event a
prepayment of any Fixed Rate Loan which is existing on the
Payment Date and assigned by the Assignor to the Assignee
hereunder occurs after the Payment Date but before the end of
the Interest Period applicable to such Fixed Rate Loan, the
Assignee shall remit to the Assignor the excess of the
prepayment penalty paid with respect to the portion of such
Fixed Rate Loan assigned to the Assignee hereunder over the
amount which would have been paid if such prepayment penalty was
calculated based on the Agreed Interest Rate. The Assignee will
also promptly remit to the Assignor (i) any principal payments
received from the Administrative Agent with respect to Fixed
Rate Loans prior to the Payment Date and (ii) any amounts of
interest on Loans and fees received from the Administrative
Agent which relate to the portion of the Loans assigned to the
Assignee hereunder for periods prior to the Effective Date, in
the case of Floating Rate Loans or fees, or the Payment Date, in
the case of Fixed Rate Loans, and not previously paid by the
Assignee to the Assignor.] ***In the event that either party
hereto receives any payment to which the other party hereto is
entitled under this Assignment Agreement, then the party
receiving such amount shall promptly remit it to the other party
hereto.
5. FEES PAYABLE BY THE ASSIGNEE. The Assignee shall pay
to the Assignor a fee on each day on which a payment of
interest, Facility Fees or Usage Fees is made under the Credit
Agreement with respect to the amounts assigned to the Assignee
hereunder (other than a payment of interest, Facility Fees or
Usage Fees for the period prior to the Effective Date or, in the
case of Fixed Rate Loans, the Payment Date, which the Assignee
is obligated to deliver to the Assignor pursuant to Section 4
hereof). The amount of such fee shall be the difference between
(i) the interest or fee, as applicable, paid with respect to the
amounts assigned to the Assignee hereunder and (ii) the interest
or fee, as applicable, which would have been paid with respect
to the amounts assigned to the Assignee hereunder if each
interest rate was of 1% less than the interest rate paid by
the Borrower or if the commitment fee was of 1% less than
the commitment fee paid by the Borrower, as applicable. In
addition, the Assignee agrees to pay % of the recordation fee
required to be paid to the Administrative Agent in connection
with this Assignment Agreement.
6. REPRESENTATIONS OF THE ASSIGNOR; LIMITATIONS ON THE
ASSIGNOR'S LIABILITY. The Assignor represents and warrants that
it is the legal and beneficial owner of the interest being
assigned by it hereunder and that such interest is free and
clear of any adverse claim created by the Assignor. It is
understood and agreed that the assignment and assumption
hereunder are made without recourse to the Assignor and that the
Assignor makes no other representation or warranty of any kind
to the Assignee. Neither the Assignor nor any of its officers,
directors, employees, agents or attorneys shall be responsible
for (i) the due execution, legality, validity, enforceability,
genuineness, sufficiency or collectability of any Loan Document,
(ii) any representation, warranty or statement made in or in
connection with any of the Loan Documents, (iii) the financial
condition or creditworthiness of the Company, Borrower or any
other Loan Party, (iv) the performance of or compliance with any
of the terms or provisions of any of the Loan Documents, (v)
inspecting any of the Property, books or records of the Company,
the Borrower or any other Loan Party, (vi) the validity,
enforceability, perfection, priority, condition, value or
sufficiency of any collateral securing or purporting to secure
the Loans or (vii) any mistake, error of judgment, or action
taken or omitted to be taken in connection with the Loans or the
Loan Documents.
________________________________________________________________
_____________
*** Each Assignor may insert its standard payment provisions in
lieu of the payment terms included in this Exhibit.
7. [REPRESENTATIONS OF THE ASSIGNEE. The Assignee (i)
confirms that it has received a copy of the Credit Agreement,
together with copies of the financial statements requested by
the Assignee and such other documents and information as it has
deemed appropriate to make its own credit analysis and decision
to enter into this Assignment Agreement, (ii) agrees that it
will, independently and without reliance upon the Administrative
Agent, the Assignor or any other Lender and based on such
documents and information at it shall deem appropriate at the
time, continue to make its own credit decisions in taking or not
taking action under the Loan Documents, (iii) appoints and
authorizes the Administrative Agent to take such action as
Administrative Agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers
under the Loan Documents as are delegated to the Administrative
Agent by the terms thereof, together with such powers as are
reasonably incidental thereto, (iv) agrees that it will perform
in accordance with their terms all of the obligations which by
the terms of the Loan Documents are required to be performed by
it as a Lender, (v) agrees that its payment instructions and
notice instructions are as set forth in the attachment to
Schedule 1, (vi) confirms that none of the funds, monies, assets
or other consideration being used to make the purchase and
assumption hereunder are "plan assets" as defined under ERISA
and that its rights, benefits and interests in and under the
Loan Documents will not be "plan assets" under ERISA, (vii)
confirms that it is a Qualified Bank [and (viii) attaches the
forms prescribed by the Internal Revenue Service of the United
States certifying that the Assignee is entitled to receive
payments under the Loan Documents without deduction or
withholding of any United States federal income taxes]. ****
8. INDEMNITY. The Assignee agrees to indemnify and hold
the Assignor harmless against any and all losses, costs and
expenses (including, without limitation, reasonable attorneys'
fees) and liabilities incurred by the Assignor in connection
with or arising in any manner from the Assignee's
non-performance of the obligations assumed under this Assignment
Agreement.
9. SUBSEQUENT ASSIGNMENTS. After the Effective Date, the
Assignee shall have the right pursuant to Section 13.3.1 of the
Credit Agreement to assign the rights which are assigned to the
Assignee hereunder to any entity or person, provided that (i)
any such subsequent assignment does not violate any of the terms
and conditions of the Loan Documents or any law, rule,
regulation, order, writ, judgment, injunction or decree and that
any consent required under the terms of the Loan Documents has
been obtained and (ii) unless the prior written consent of the
Assignor is obtained, the Assignee is not thereby released from
its obligations to the Assignor hereunder, if any remain
unsatisfied, including, without limitation, its obligations
under Sections 4, 5 and 8 hereof.
________________________________________________________________
______________
****Paragraph 7 is to be included only if the Assignee is not a
Lender prior to the Assignment, and paragraph 7(viii) is to be
included if such Assignee is not incorporated under the laws of
the United States, or a state thereof.
10. REDUCTIONS OF AGGREGATE COMMITMENT. If any reduction
in the Aggregate Commitment occurs between the date of this
Assignment Agreement and the Effective Date pursuant to the
provisions of Section 2.4 of the Agreement, the percentage
interest specified in Item 3 of Schedule 1 shall remain the
same, but the dollar amount purchased shall be recalculated
based on the reduced Aggregate Commitment.
11. ENTIRE AGREEMENT. This Assignment Agreement and the
attached Notice of Assignment embody the entire agreement and
understanding between the parties hereto and supersede all prior
agreements and understandings between the parties hereto
relating to the subject matter hereof.
12. GOVERNING LAW. This Assignment Agreement shall be
governed by the internal law, and not the law of conflicts, of
the State of Illinois.
13. NOTICES. Notices shall be given under this Assignment
Agreement in the manner set forth in the Credit Agreement. For
the purpose hereof, the addresses of the parties hereto (until
notice of a change is delivered) shall be the address set forth
in the attachment to Schedule 1.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have executed this
Assignment Agreement by their duly authorized officers as of the
date first above written.
[NAME OF ASSIGNOR]
By: _____________________________________
Title:
____________________________________
[NAME OF ASSIGNEE]
By: _____________________________________
Title:
____________________________________
SCHEDULE 1
to Assignment Agreement
1. Amended and Restated Credit Agreement dated _____________,
2001 for First Huntingdon Finance Corp.
2. Date of Assignment Agreement: , 19
3. Amounts (As of Date of Item 2 above):
a.
Total of Assignor's
Commitment
(Ratable Loans)? under
Credit Agreement
$
b.
Assignee's Percentage
of Commitment (Ratable
Loans)*purchased under the
Assignment Agreement??
_________%
c.
Amount of Assigned Share in
each Ratable Loan purchased
under the Assignment
Agreement(specify, with
respect to each Ratable
Loan held by Assignor, the
dollar amount thereof
(equal to Assignee's
Percentage thereof)
purchased under the
Assignment Agreement
$_________
4.
Total Amount of Commitment
(Ratable Loans)
Purchased Hereunder:
$_________
5.
Competitive Bid Loans(Describe
only those Competitive
Bid Loans being assigned and the
percentage assigned)
(i
)
Loan:
$___________
Percentage Interest Assigned
___________%
Amount of Loan Assigned
$___________
(i
i)
Loan:
$___________
Percentage Interest Assigned
___________%
Amount of Loan Assigned
$___________
6.
Total of Competitive Bid Loans
Purchased Hereunder
$___________
7.
Proposed Closing Date:
_____________
Accepted and Agreed:
[NAME OF ASSIGNOR]
[NAME OF ASSIGNEE]
By:
_______________________________
By:
_______________________________
Title:
_______________________________
Title:
_______________________________
Attachment to SCHEDULE 1 to ASSIGNMENT AGREEMENT
ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION SHEET
Attach Assignor's Administrative Information Sheet, which must
include notice addresses for the Assignor and the Assignee
BANK ONE, NA INFORMATION
[TO BE COMPLETED WITH THEN CURRENT INFORMATION]
EXHIBIT "I"
to Assignment Agreement
NOTICE
OF ASSIGNMENT
, 200_
To:
[NAME OF BORROWER]
[NAME OF ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT]
From
:
[NAME OF ASSIGNOR] (the "Assignor")
[NAME OF ASSIGNEE] (the "Assignee")
1. We refer to that Amended and Restated Credit Agreement
(the "Credit Agreement") described in Item 1 of Schedule 1
attached hereto ("Schedule 1"). Capitalized terms used herein
and not otherwise defined herein have the meanings attributed to
them in the Credit Agreement.
2. This Notice of Assignment (this "Notice") is given and
delivered to [the Borrower and] the Administrative Agent
pursuant to Section 13.3.2 of the Credit Agreement.
3. The Assignor and the Assignee have entered into an
Assignment Agreement, dated as of , 200 (the
"Assignment"), pursuant to which, among other things, the
Assignor has sold, assigned, delegated and transferred to the
Assignee, and the Assignee has purchased, accepted and assumed
from the Assignor (a) the percentage interest specified in Item
3 of Schedule 1 of all rights and obligations under the Credit
Agreement relating to the Loan Facility (other than Competitive
Bid Loans) and (b) the percentage interests in the respective
Competitive Bid Loans specified in Item 5 of Schedule 1.? The
Effective Date of the Assignment shall be the later of the date
specified in Item 7 of Schedule 1 or two Business Days (or such
shorter period as agreed to by the Administrative Agent) after
this Notice of Assignment and any consents and fees required by
Sections 13.3.1 and 13.3.2 of the Credit Agreement have been
delivered to the Administrative Agent, provided that the
Effective Date shall not occur if any condition precedent agreed
to by the Assignor and the Assignee has not been satisfied.
4. The Assignor and the Assignee hereby give to the
Borrower and the Administrative Agent notice of the assignment
and delegation referred to herein. The Assignor will confer
with the Administrative Agent before the date specified in Item
5 of Schedule 1 to determine if the Assignment Agreement will
become effective on such date pursuant to Section 3 hereof, and
will confer with the Administrative Agent to determine the
Effective Date pursuant to Section 3 hereof if it occurs
thereafter. The Assignor shall notify the Administrative Agent
if the Assignment Agreement does not become effective on any
proposed Effective Date as a result of the failure to satisfy
the conditions precedent agreed to by the Assignor and the
Assignee. At the request of the Administrative Agent, the
Assignor will give the Administrative Agent written confirmation
of the satisfaction of the conditions precedent.
5. The Assignor or the Assignee shall pay to the
Administrative Agent on or before the Effective Date the
processing fee of $3,500 required by Section 13.3.2 of the
Credit Agreement.
6. If Notes are outstanding on the Effective Date, the
Assignor and the Assignee request and direct that the
Administrative Agent prepare and cause the Borrower to execute
and deliver new Notes or, as appropriate, replacement notes, to
the Assignor and the Assignee. The Assignor and, if applicable,
the Assignee each agree to deliver to the Administrative Agent
the original Notes received by them from the Borrower upon
receipt of a new Note in the appropriate amount.
7. The Assignee advises the Administrative Agent that
notice and payment instructions are set forth in the attachment
to Schedule 1.
8. The Assignee hereby represents and warrants that none
of the funds, monies, assets or other consideration being used
to make the purchase pursuant to the Assignment are "plan
assets" as defined under ERISA and that its rights, benefits,
and interests in and under the Loan Documents will not be "plan
assets" under ERISA.
9. The Assignee authorizes the Administrative Agent to
act as its Administrative Agent under the Loan Documents in
accordance with the terms thereof. The Assignee acknowledges
that the Administrative Agent has no duty to supply information
with respect to the Borrower or the Loan Documents to the
Assignee until the Assignee becomes a party to the Credit
Agreement.??
[NAME OF ASSIGNOR]
[NAME OF ASSIGNEE]
By:
_______________________________
By:
_______________________________
Title:
_______________________________
_
Title:
_______________________________
ACKNOWLEDGED [AND CONSENTED TO]
ACKNOWLEDGED [AND CONSENTED TO]
BY [NAME OF ADMINISTRATIVE
AGENT]
BY [NAME OF BORROWER]
By:____________________________
_
By:____________________________
_
Title:
___________________________
Title:
____________________________
[Attach photocopy of Schedule 1 to Assignment]
SCHEDULE 2
ISSUING BANKS' L/C LIMITS
Lender Issuing Banks' L/C Limit
Bank One, NA $32,500,000
Bank of America, N.A. $32,500,000
Comerica Bank $25,000,000
Credit Lyonnais New York Branch $25,000,000
First Union National Bank $25,000,000
SunTrust Bank $17,500,000
Xxxxx Fargo Bank, N.A. $12,500,000
Citibank, N.A. $12,500,000
BNP Paribas $20,000,000
Mellon Bank, N.A. $10,000,000
Wachovia Bank, N.A. $ 7,500,000
KBC Bank $15,000,000
The Fuji Bank Limited $ 5,000,000
Guaranty Bank $12,500,000
Fleet National Bank $12,500,000
Bayerische-Hypo-Und Vereinsbank AG $ 7,500,000
Bank Hapoalim B.M. $10,000,000
This date is to be agreed upon by the Borrower, the Administrative
Agent and the Accepting Lender. See Section 2.18(c) of the Credit
Agreement. Paragraph 2 is to be included only if the Accepting
Lender is not already a Lender prior to the Increase Date, and
subparagraph 2(viii) is to be included only if such Accepting
Lender is not incorporated under the laws of the United States,
or a state thereof.?If the assignment covers only interests in
Ratable Loans, subparagraph (b) should be deleted. If the
assignment covers only interests in Competitive Bid Loans,
subparagraph (a) should be deleted, and the following
sentence should be added at the end of this Section: "The
Assignor is not hereby selling or assigning any interest in its
Commitment or its Ratable Loans." The percentage interests of the
Competitive Bid Loans, if any, that are transferred need not be
identical to each other and need not be identical to the
percentage of the Commitment (and Ratable Loans), if any, transferred.
If a Commitment has been terminated, insert outstanding Ratable Loans in
place of Commitment Percentage taken to 10 decimal places
This sentence should be modified if the Assignment covers only Competitive
Bid Loans or does not cover any Competitive Bid Loans.
May be eliminated if Assignee is a party to the Credit Agreement prior to the
Effective Date.
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