FIFTH AMENDMENT AGREEMENT
Exhibit 99.1
THIS FIFTH AMENDMENT AGREEMENT (this
“Agreement”) is
made as of February 25, 2021, among ELDORADO GOLD CORPORATION (the
“Borrower”),
HSBC BANK CANADA (“HSBC”), as Administrative Agent,
and the Lenders.
RECITALS:
A.
Reference is made to the third amended and restated credit
agreement dated as of May 13, 2019 among the Borrower, the
financial institutions from time to time parties thereto, as
lenders (the “Lenders”), and HSBC, as
administrative agent (in such capacity, the “Administrative Agent”) (as amended
by First Amendment Agreement dated June 28, 2019, the Second
Amendment and Waiver Agreement dated September 24, 2019, the Third
Amendment and Waiver Agreement dated November 28, 2019, and the
Fourth Amendment and Waiver Agreement dated December 23, 2019, and
as further amended, supplemented or otherwise modified, the
“Credit
Agreement”).
B.
Subject to the terms, conditions and
agreements herein set forth, the parties hereto have agreed to
amend the Credit Agreement as herein provided.
NOW
THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises contained herein, and
for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and
sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto
agree as follows:
ARTICLE ONE
INTERPRETATION
Section
1.01
Incorporation of
Credit Agreement: This Agreement is supplemental to the
Credit Agreement and shall henceforth be read in conjunction with
the Credit Agreement, and the Credit Agreement and this Agreement
shall henceforth be read, interpreted, construed and have effect
as, and shall constitute, one agreement with the same effect as if
the amendments made by this Agreement had been contained in the
Credit Agreement as of the Fifth Amendment Effective
Date.
Section
1.02 Defined
Terms: Capitalized terms used herein (including in the
preamble and recitals hereto) and not otherwise defined herein
shall have the meanings assigned to such terms in the Credit
Agreement, as amended hereby.
Section
1.03 Headings:
The headings of the Articles and Sections of this Agreement are
inserted for convenience of reference only and shall not affect the
construction or interpretation of this Agreement.
Section
1.04 References to and
Effect on the Credit Agreement: From and after the Fifth
Amendment Effective Date hereof, each reference in the Credit
Agreement to “this Agreement”, “hereunder”,
“hereof”, “herein” or words of like import,
and each reference in each other Loan Document to the “Credit
Agreement”, shall mean and refer to the Credit Agreement as
amended hereby. Except as specifically amended hereby, the Credit
Agreement shall remain in full force and effect and is hereby
ratified and confirmed.
ARTICLE TWO
AMENDMENTS
Section
2.01 Amendments:
As of the Fifth Amendment Effective Date, the Credit Agreement is
amended as set out in the blacklined document attached hereto as
Schedule A.
ARTICLE THREE
CONDITIONS TO EFFECTIVENESS
Section
3.01 Conditions to
Effectiveness: This Agreement shall become effective on the
date (the “Fifth Amendment
Effective Date”) upon which each of the following
conditions is satisfied or waived in accordance with Section 9.2 of
the Credit Agreement:
(1)
Execution of
Documents. The Administrative Agent shall have received from each
party hereto either (i) a counterpart of this Agreement signed on
behalf of each party hereto, or (ii) written evidence satisfactory
to the Administrative Agent (which may include a facsimile or
“pdf” transmission of a signed signature page of this
Agreement) that such party has signed a counterpart of this
Agreement.
(2)
Confirmations of
Security Interests. The Credit Parties shall have executed and
delivered such amendments, confirmations and other documents, and
taken such other actions, as may be required by the Administrative
Agent, acting reasonably, in connection with this Agreement and the
transactions contemplated hereby and thereby, in order to further
evidence, preserve or protect the guarantees and security under the
Initial Credit Party Guarantees, the BVCo Guarantee, the BVCo
(Greece) Guarantee, the Canadian Subsidiary Guarantees, the Initial
Security Documents, the BVCo Security Documents, the BVCo (Greece)
Security Documents, the Canadian Security Agreements and the other
Security Documents to which the Credit Parties are a party, and the
Liens of the Administrative Agent on the Collateral. The relevant
confirmation from Tüprag Metal shall take the form of a
certified copy of a resolution of the board of the directors of
Tüprag Metal, in form and substance satisfactory to the
Administrative Agent.
(3)
Legal Opinions. The
Administrative Agent shall have received a favourable written
opinion of Fasken Xxxxxxxxx XxXxxxxx LLP, Canadian counsel to the
Borrower, covering such matters relating to the Credit Parties,
this Agreement, the other Loan Documents, the Transactions or the
transactions contemplated hereby as the Lenders shall reasonably
request (together with copies of all factual certificates and legal
opinions delivered to such counsel in connection with such opinion
upon which counsel has relied). The Borrower and the Administrative
Agent hereby request each such counsel to deliver such opinions and
supporting materials. All such opinions and certificates shall be
addressed to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders and dated as
of the Fifth Amendment Effective Date.
(4)
Corporate
Certificates. The Administrative Agent shall have
received:
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(a)
certified copies of
the resolutions of the board of directors, general partner, or
shareholders, as applicable, of each Credit Party approving this
agreement and the transactions contemplated herein, and all other
documents, if any, to which such Credit Party is a party and
evidencing authorization with respect to such documents;
and
(b)
a certificate of an
officer or director of each Credit Party dated as of the Fifth
Amendment Effective Date and certifying (i) the name, title and
true signature of each officer of such Person authorized to execute
this Agreement (in the case of the Borrower) and the other Loan
Documents to which it is a party, (ii) the name, title and true
signature of each officer of such Person authorized to provide the
certifications required pursuant to this Agreement, and (iii) that
attached thereto is a true and complete copy of the articles of
incorporation and bylaws of such Credit Party (or analogous
documentation), as amended to date, and a recent certificate of
status, certificate of compliance, good standing certificate or
analogous certificate (to the extent available in the applicable
jurisdiction); and
(c)
a Compliance
Certificate confirming compliance with the financial covenants set
forth in Section 5.1(11) of the Credit Agreement.
(5)
Fees. The
Administrative Agent, and the Lenders shall have received all fees
and other amounts due and payable on or prior to the Fifth
Amendment Effective Date including (i) the fees payable under the
separate fee letter dated as of the date hereof between the
Borrower and HSBC Bank Canada and (ii) to the extent invoiced,
reimbursement or payment of all legal fees and other out-of-pocket
expenses required to be reimbursed or paid by the Borrower
hereunder or under any other Loan Document.
(6)
No Cessation of
Financing Market. There shall not have occurred and be continuing
on the Fifth Amendment Effective Date any general banking
moratorium or any practical cessation in the bank or private debt
financing markets, and there shall not have been introduced any
material governmental restrictions imposed on lending institutions,
which materially affect the type of lending transactions
contemplated by this Agreement. No litigation, order, judgment,
injunction or other action or proceeding shall be threatened or
pending by any Person or Governmental Authority to enjoin,
restrict, or prohibit the completion of the transactions
contemplated hereby or which may impose any material condition on
the completion thereof, or which could reasonably be expected to
have a Material Adverse Effect, and the Administrative Agent shall
have received an officer’s certificate confirming
same.
(7)
Regulatory
Approval; Consents; Waivers. The Administrative Agent and the
Lenders shall be satisfied that:
(a)
all material
Authorizations (including all approvals listed in Schedule
3.1(3);
(b)
all corporate,
partnership, shareholder and court approvals; and
(c)
all consents and
waivers,
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required to
consummate the transactions contemplated hereby have been obtained
and are in full force and effect, in each case without the
imposition of any burdensome provision, and that all applicable
waiting periods shall have expired without any action being taken
or threatened by any Governmental Authority that would materially
restrain, prevent or otherwise impose material adverse conditions
on the transactions contemplated hereby. The Borrower shall have
complied in all material respects with all applicable securities
laws, regulations and policies, all requirements of all applicable
securities regulators and all other Applicable Laws in connection
with the transactions contemplated hereby.
(8)
Delivery of
Financial Statements. The Administrative Agent and the Lenders
shall have received the audited Consolidated financial statements
of the Borrower for the Fiscal Year ended December 31, 2019 and the
unaudited Consolidated financial statements of the Borrower for the
Fiscal Quarter ended September 30, 2020.
(9)
Accuracy of
Representations; No Default; No Material Adverse Change. The
representations and warranties of the Borrower set out in this
Agreement shall be true and correct on and as of the Fifth
Amendment Effective Date. No Default shall have occurred and be
continuing. The Administrative Agent and the Lenders shall be
satisfied that, since December 31, 2019, there has not been a
Material Adverse Change.
(10)
Indebtedness. The
transactions contemplated in this Agreement shall not have caused
any event or condition to occur which has resulted, or which will
result, in any Material Indebtedness (other than Indebtedness being
repaid in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby)
becoming due prior to its scheduled maturity or that permits (with
or without the giving of notice, the lapse of time, or both) the
holder or holders of any such Material Indebtedness or any trustee
or agent on its or their behalf to cause any Material Indebtedness
to become due, or to require the prepayment, repurchase, redemption
or defeasance thereof, prior to its scheduled maturity, or which
will result in the creation of any Liens under any
Indebtedness.
(11)
Prepayment of Term
Loans. The Borrower shall have voluntarily prepaid the Term Loans
to the extent necessary to result in the amounts outstanding under
the revised Schedule 1.1(a) in the attached Schedule
A.
(12)
Other
Documentation. The Administrative Agent and the Lenders shall have
received such other documents and instruments as are customary for
transactions of this type or as they may reasonably
request.
This
Agreement shall not become effective unless each of the conditions
set forth in this Section 3.01 is satisfied (or waived pursuant to
Section 9.2 of the Credit Agreement) at or prior to 3:00 p.m. on
February 25, 2021 (and, in the event such conditions are not so
satisfied or waived by such time, this Agreement shall terminate at
such time).
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ARTICLE
FOUR
REPRESENTATIONS,
WARRANTIES, AND COVENANTS
Section
4.01
Confirmation of
Representations, etc.: The Borrower represents
and warrants that, as at the date of this Agreement, (i) each of
the representations and warranties set forth in the Loan Documents
is true and correct as if made on the date hereof (except for any
representation or warranty that by its terms is made as of a
specified date, which shall be true and correct only as of such
specified date), and (ii) no Default has occurred and is
continuing.
Section
4.02
Representations,
Warranties, and Covenants: The Borrower
represents, warrants, and covenants to the Administrative Agent and
the Lenders that:
(i) this
Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by it
and that this Agreement constitutes a legal, valid and binding
obligation of the Borrower, enforceable in accordance with its
terms, subject to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency,
reorganization, moratorium or other laws affecting creditor’s
rights generally and subject to general principles of equity,
regardless of whether considered in a proceeding in equity or at
law;
(ii) the
Credit Agreement, as amended hereby, constitutes a legal, valid and
binding obligation of the Borrower, enforceable in accordance with
its terms, subject to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency,
reorganization, moratorium or other laws affecting creditor’s
rights generally and subject to general principles of equity,
regardless of whether considered in a proceeding in equity or at
law; and
(iii) the
execution and delivery of this Agreement and the extensions of
credit under the Additional LC Credit do not constitute a breach or
default under the Refinancing Indenture and do not require any
waiver or consent thereunder.
Section
4.03
Ratification of
Credit Agreement. The Credit Agreement, as
amended by this Agreement, shall remain in full force and effect
and is hereby ratified and confirmed. As of the Fifth
Amendment Effective Date, the Credit Agreement, as amended by this
Agreement, shall be read, taken and construed as one and the same
document.
Section
4.04
Confirmation of
Guarantees and Security. The Borrower
acknowledges, represents and confirms that (i) all security granted
by the Borrower and each Subsidiary Guarantor to and in favour of
the Administrative Agent on behalf of the Secured Parties as
security for its obligations under the Credit Agreement and the
other Loan Documents to which it is a party (collectively, the
“Security”)
remains in full force and effect, unamended, and the security
interests, mortgages, charges, liens, assignments, transfers and
pledges granted by the Borrower and each Subsidiary Guarantor in
favour of the Administrative Agent on behalf of the Secured Parties
pursuant to the Security continue to secure and extend to all
debts, liabilities and obligations of the Borrower or such
Subsidiary Guarantor to the Administrative Agent and the Secured
Parties whether direct or indirect, absolute or contingent, present
or future, pursuant to, arising out of, or in connection with, the
Credit Agreement (as amended hereby) and each other Loan Document
to which it is a party. The Borrower acknowledges, represents and
confirms that the guarantees of the obligations of the Borrower
under the Credit Agreement by each Subsidiary Guarantor and by the
Borrower of the obligations of each Subsidiary Guarantor remain in
full force and effect, notwithstanding the amendments set forth
herein, and continue to guarantee and extend to all
debts, liabilities and obligations of the Borrower or such
Subsidiary Guarantor to the Administrative Agent and the Secured
Parties pursuant to, arising out of, or in connection with, the
Credit Agreement (as amended hereby) and each other Loan Document
to which it is a party.
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ARTICLE FIVE
GENERAL
Section
5.01
Binding
Nature: This Agreement shall enure to the benefit
of and be binding upon the Borrower, each Subsidiary Guarantor, the
Administrative Agent, the Lenders and their respective successors
and permitted assigns.
Section 5.02
Law of
Contract: This Agreement shall be governed by and
construed in accordance with the laws of the Province of Ontario
and the laws of Canada applicable therein.
Section
5.03
Limited
Amendment; Loan Document: This Agreement is
limited as specified and, except as expressly set forth herein,
shall not constitute a modification, acceptance or waiver of any
other provision of the Credit Agreement or any other Loan
Document. This Agreement shall constitute a Loan
Document for all purposes under the Credit Agreement and the other
Loan Documents.
Section
5.04
Counterpart and
Facsimile: This Agreement may be executed in any
number of counterparts and by different parties hereto in separate
counterparts, each of which when so executed shall be deemed to be
an original and all of which taken together shall constitute one
and the same instrument. Delivery of an executed
signature page to this Agreement by any party by facsimile
transmission, or by electronic transmission in “PDF” or
other similar form, shall be as effective as delivery of a manually
executed copy of this Agreement by such party.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto
have caused this Agreement to be duly executed by their respective
authorized signatories as of the date first above
written.
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ELDORADO GOLD CORPORATION, as
Borrower
By:
Name:
(Signed) Xxxxxx Xxxxx
Title:
President and Chief Executive Officer
By:
Name:
(Signed) Xxxxxx Xxx
Title:
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
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Signature Page to Fifth Amendment Agreement
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HSBC BANK CANADA, as Administrative Agent
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By:__________________________________
Name:
(Signed) Alyssa Senwasane
Title:
Authorized Signatory
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By:__________________________________
Name: (Signed) Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx
Title: Authorized Signatory
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HSBC BANK CANADA, as Lender and Issuing Bank
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By:__________________________________
Name:
(Signed) Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx
Title:
Director Global Banking
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By:__________________________________
Name: (Signed) Xxxxxx XxxXxxx
Title: Associate, Global Banking
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BANK OF MONTREAL., as Lender and Issuing
Bank
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By:__________________________________
Name:
(Signed) Ben Rough
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Title:
Director
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By:__________________________________
Name:
Title:
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NATIONAL BANK OF CANADA., as Lender
and
Issuing Bank
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By:__________________________________
Name:
(Signed) Xxxxx Xxxxxxx
Title:
Managing Director
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By:__________________________________
Name:
(Signed) Xxxxx Xxxxxx
Title:
Managing Director
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BANK OF AMERICA, N.A. CANADA
BRANCH,
as
Lender
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By:__________________________________
Name:
(Signed) Xxxx Xxxxxx
Title:
Director
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By:__________________________________
Name:
Title:
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BNP PARIBAS, as Lender
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By:__________________________________
Name:
(Signed) Xxxxxx Xxxxxx
Title:
Managing Director, Metals & Mining
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By:__________________________________
Name:
(Signed) Xxxxxxx Xxxxx
Title:
Head of Metals & Mining EMEA
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XXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXX (SUCCESSOR
TO RESSOURCES QUÉBEC INC.), as Lender
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By:__________________________________
Name:
(Signed) Xxxxxx Xxxxxx
Title:
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By:__________________________________
Name:
Title:
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EXPORT DEVELOPMENT CANADA, as Lender
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By:__________________________________
Name:
(Signed) Xxxx Xxxxx
Title:
Senior Financing Manager
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By:__________________________________
Name:
(Signed) Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx
Title:
Senior Associate
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CONFIRMATION
Each
undersigned PD Subsidiary Guarantor acknowledges and irrevocably
consents to the terms of the foregoing Agreement for the express
purposes of acknowledging and agreeing to the provisions set forth
in Section 8.3 of the Credit Agreement, as amended by the foregoing
Agreement.
Dated:
February 25, 2021
PD SUBSIDIARY GUARANTORS:
ELDORADO GOLD (NETHERLANDS) B.V., as PD
Subsidiary
Guarantor
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By:
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Name:
(Signed) Xxxxxx xxx Xxxxxxx
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Title:
Director
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By:
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Name:
(Signed) Xxxxxx Xxxxx
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Title:
Director
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ELDORADO GOLD (GREECE) B.V., as PD
Subsidiary
Guarantor
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By:
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Name:
(Signed) Xxxxxx xxx Xxxxxxx
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Title:
Director
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By:
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Name:
(Signed) Xxxxxx Xxxxx
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Title:
Director
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SG RESOURCES B.V., as PD Subsidiary Guarantor
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By:
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Name:
(Signed) Xxxxxx xxx Xxxxxxx
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Title:
Director
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By:
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Name:
(Signed) Xxxxxx Xxxxx
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Title:
Director
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ELDORADO GOLD (QUEBEC) INC., as PD Subsidiary
Guarantor
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By:
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Name:
(Signed) Xxxxxx Xxx
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Title:
Director
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By:
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Name:
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Director
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SCHEDULE A TO FIFTH AMENDMENT AGREEMENT
THIRD AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT
dated
as of
May 13,
2019
among
ELDORADO GOLD CORPORATION
as
Borrower
and
THE LENDERS FROM TIME TO TIME PARTIES HERETO
as
Lenders
and
HSBC BANK CANADA
as
Administrative Agent
and
HSBC SECURITIES (USA) INC., BMO CAPITAL MARKETS
and NATIONAL BANK FINANCIAL MARKETS
as
Joint Lead Arrangers and Joint Bookrunners
and
BMO CAPITAL MARKETS
and NATIONAL BANK FINANCIAL MARKETS
as Co-Syndication Agents
and
HSBC BANK CANADA,
BANK OF MONTREAL and NATIONAL BANK OF CANADA
as
Issuing Banks
Table of Contents
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Article 1 DEFINITIONS
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1
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1.1
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Definitions
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1
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1.2
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Classification
of Loans and Borrowings
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1.3
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Terms
Generally
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34
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1.4
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Accounting
Terms; GAAP
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34
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1.5
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Time
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35
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1.6
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Permitted
Liens
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35
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1.7
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Amendment
and Restatement of 2016 Credit Agreement
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1.8
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Québec
Matters
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35
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Article 2 THE CREDITS
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36
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2.1
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Commitments
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2.2
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Loans
and Borrowings
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2.3
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Requests
for Borrowings
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38
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2.4
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Funding
of Borrowings
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40
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2.5
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Interest
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40
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2.6
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Termination
and Reduction of Commitments
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42
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2.7
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Repayment
of Borrowings
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42
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2.8
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Evidence
of Debt
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42
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2.9
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Prepayments;
Currency Fluctuations
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2.10
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Fees
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2.11
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Alternate
Rate of Interest
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2.12
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Increased
Costs; Illegality
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2.13
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Break
Funding Payments
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2.14
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Taxes
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48
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2.15
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Payments
Generally; Pro Rata Treatment; Sharing of Set-offs
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2.16
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Currency
Indemnity
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2.17
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Mitigation
Obligations; Replacement of Lenders
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2.18
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Letters
of Credit
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2.19
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Defaulting
Lenders
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Article 3 REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
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3.1
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Representations
and Warranties of the Borrower
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Article 4 CONDITIONS
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4.1
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Conditions
to Effectiveness
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4.2
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Each
Credit Event
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4.3
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Special
Condition Precedent to Borrowings under Term Credit
Commitments
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Table of Contents (continued)
Article 5 AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS
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5.1
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Covenants
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Article 6 NEGATIVE COVENANTS
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6.1
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Negative
Covenants
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Article 7 EVENTS OF DEFAULT
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7.1
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Events
of Default
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Article 8 THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT
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8.1
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Appointment
of Agents
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8.2
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Secured
Parties
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8.3
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Parallel
Debt
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8.4
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Limitation
of Duties of Agents
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8.5
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Lack
of Reliance on the Agents
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8.6
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Certain
Rights of the Administrative Agent
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8.7
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Reliance
by Administrative Agent
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8.8
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Indemnification
of Administrative Agent
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8.9
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Other
Business of Administrative Agent
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8.10
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May
Treat Lender as Owner
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8.11
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Successor
Administrative Agent
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8.12
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No
Independent Legal Action
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8.13
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No
Duties
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Article 9 MISCELLANEOUS
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9.1
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Notices
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9.2
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Waivers;
Amendments
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9.3
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Expenses;
Indemnity; Damage Waiver
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9.4
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Successors
and Assigns
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9.5
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Anti-Money
Laundering Legislation
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9.6
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Survival
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9.7
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[Reserved]
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9.8
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Counterparts
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9.9
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Entire
Agreement
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9.10
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Severability
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9.11
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Right
of Set Off
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9.12
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Governing
Law
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9.13
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Attornment
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9.14
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Service
of Process
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9.15
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WAIVER
OF JURY TRIAL
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9.16
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Confidentiality
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9.17
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Acknowledgement
and Consent to Bail-In of EEA Financial Institutions
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9.18
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Keepwell
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9.19
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Acknowledgement
Regarding Any Supported QFCs
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9.20
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Paramountcy
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9.21
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No
Advisory or Fiduciary Responsibility
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Table of Contents (continued)
Exhibits:
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Exhibit A
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Form of Borrowing Request
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Exhibit B
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Form of Assignment and Assumption
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Exhibit C
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Form of Compliance Certificate
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Exhibit D
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Form of Revolving Note
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Exhibit E
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Form of Intercompany Subordination Agreement
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Exhibit F
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Form of Repayment Notice
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Exhibit G
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Form of Intercreditor Agreement
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Schedules:
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Schedule 1.1(a)
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Lenders and Commitments
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Schedule 1.1(b)
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Initial Security Documents
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Schedule 1.1(c)
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BVCo Security Documents
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Schedule 1.1(d)
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Existing Permitted Liens
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Schedule 1.1(e)
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Transferred Letters of Credit
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Schedule 3.1(3)
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Exceptions to Representation 3.1(3) - Governmental Approvals; No
Conflicts
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Schedule 3.1(5)
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Exceptions to Representation 3.1(5) - Litigation
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Schedule 3.1(13)
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Subsidiaries
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Schedule 3.1(17)
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Environmental Matters
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Schedule 3.1(22)
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Limited Subsidiaries
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Schedule 3.1(27)
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Security
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Schedule 6.1(1)
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Existing Indebtedness
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Schedule 9.1
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Lender and Issuing Bank Contact Information
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THIRD AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT
THIS THIRD AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT
AGREEMENT dated as of May 13, 2019 is made among
ELDORADO GOLD CORPORATION,
as Borrower, the Lenders from time to time parties hereto, as
Lenders, HSBC BANK CANADA,
as Administrative Agent and HSBC
BANK CANADA, BANK OF
MONTREAL and NATIONAL BANK
OF CANADA as Issuing Banks.
RECITALS
A. The
Borrower, certain lenders, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, as
administrative agent and HSBC Bank USA, N.A., as issuing bank,
entered into a Credit Agreement dated as of October 12, 2011 (as
amended by an amending agreement dated as of May 10, 2012, the
“Original Credit
Agreement”), pursuant to which the lenders thereunder
established a revolving credit facility in favour of the
Borrower.
B. Pursuant
to the Resignation and Assignment Agreement dated as of November
23, 2012, among Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, HSBC Bank
Canada, the Borrower and the lenders under the Original Credit
Agreement (the “Resignation
and Assignment Agreement”), Canadian Imperial Bank of
Commerce resigned as administrative agent under the Original Credit
Agreement and was replaced by HSBC Bank Canada in that
capacity.
C. The
Borrower, certain lenders, HSBC Bank Canada, as administrative
agent and HSBC Bank USA, N.A., as issuing bank, entered into an
Amended and Restated Credit Agreement dated as of November 23, 2012
(as amended by amending agreements dated as of April 30, 2013 and
August 25, 2015, the “2012
Credit Agreement”), pursuant to which the Original
Credit Agreement was amended and restated and the lenders
thereunder continued to provide a revolving credit facility in
favour of the Borrower on the terms and conditions set forth
therein.
D. The
Borrower, certain lenders, HSBC Bank Canada, as administrative
agent, and HSBC Bank USA, N.A., as issuing bank, entered into a
Second Amended and Restated Credit Agreement dated as of June 10,
2016 (as amended by an amending agreement dated as of March 14,
2017, the “2016 Credit
Agreement”), pursuant to which the 2012 Credit
Agreement was amended and restated and the lenders thereunder
continued to provide a revolving credit facility in favour of the
Borrower on the terms and conditions set forth
therein.
E. The
parties hereto have agreed to amend and restate the 2016 Credit
Agreement in order to extend the maturity of, and otherwise amend
certain terms of, the credit facility established under the 2016
Credit Agreement, all on the terms and conditions set forth in this
Agreement.
NOW THEREFORE, for
good and valuable consideration, the parties hereto agree that the
2012 Credit Agreement is hereby amended and restated in its
entirety as follows:
ARTICLE 1
“2012 Credit Agreement” has the
meaning set forth in the recitals hereto.
“2012 Indenture” means the indenture
dated as of December 13, 2012 governing the Borrower’s senior
unsecured notes issued on or about that date, as such Indenture may
be amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time
not in contravention of the terms hereof.
“2012 Notes” means the senior
unsecured notes issued by the Borrower pursuant to the 2012
Indenture.
“2016 Credit Agreement” has the
meaning set forth in the recitals hereto.
“Acquisition” means any
transaction, or any series of related transactions, consummated
after the Effective Date, by which the Borrower or any Material
Subsidiary, directly or indirectly, by means of a takeover bid,
tender offer, amalgamation, merger, purchase of assets or
otherwise:
(a)
acquires any
business or all or substantially all of the assets of any Person
engaged in any business;
(b)
acquires control of
securities of a Person engaged in a business representing more than
50% of the ordinary voting power for the election of directors or
other governing position if the business affairs of such Person are
managed by a board of directors or other governing
body;
(c)
acquires control of
more than 50% of the ownership interest in any Person engaged in
any business that is not managed by a board of directors or other
governing body; or
(d)
otherwise acquires
Control of a Person engaged in a business.
“Additional LC Credit” means the
additional letter of credit facility established by the Additional
LC Lenders pursuant to Section 2.1(3).
“Additional LC Credit Exposure”
means, with respect to any Additional LC Lender at any time, such
Additional LC Lender’s LC Exposure at such time.
“Additional LC Lender” means any
Lender which has agreed to provide Additional LCs
hereunder.
“Additional LCs” has the meaning
set out in Section 2.1(3).
“Administrative Agent”
means HSBC Bank Canada,
in its capacity as administrative agent for the Lenders hereunder,
or any successor Administrative Agent appointed pursuant to Section
8.11.
“Administrative Questionnaire”
means an administrative questionnaire in a form supplied by the
Administrative Agent.
“Affiliate” means,
with respect to any Person, another Person that directly, or
indirectly through one or more intermediaries, Controls or is
Controlled by or is under common Control with, such
Person.
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“Agency Fee Letter” means the
letter dated May 13, 2019 between the Administrative Agent and the
Borrower relating to the payment of certain agency
fees.
“Agreement” means this credit
agreement and all the Exhibits and the Schedules attached
hereto.
“AML Legislation” has the meaning
set out in Section 9.5.
“Anti-Corruption Laws” means all
laws, rules, and regulations of any jurisdiction applicable to the
Credit Parties and their Affiliates from time to time concerning or
relating to bribery or corruption, including without limitation the
Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Acts (Canada) the U.S.
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, and the U.K. Xxxxxxx Xxx
0000.
“Applicable Margin” means, with
respect to the Revolving Credit Commitments and the Term Credit
Commitments, the applicable rate per annum, expressed as a
percentage, set out in the relevant column and row of the table
below, based on the Net Total Leverage Ratio as at the last day of
the most recently completed Fiscal Quarter with respect to which
the Borrower has delivered financial information to the
Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 5.1(1).
Level
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Net Leverage Ratio
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LIBO Rate Loan or LC Fee1
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Base Rate Loan or Canadian Prime Loan
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Standby Fee
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I
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Less
than 1.00:1.00
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2.25%
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1.25%
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0.5625%
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II
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Greater
than or equal to 1.00:1.00 but less than 2.00:1.00
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2.50%
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1.50%
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0.625%
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III
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Greater
than or equal to 2.00:1.00 but less than 3.00:1.00
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2.75%
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1.75%
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0.6875%
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IV
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Greater
than or equal to 3.00:1.00
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3.25%
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2.25%
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0.8125%
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With
respect to Additional LCs, “Applicable Margin” means the
applicable rate per annum, expressed as a percentage, set out in
the relevant column and row of the table below, based on the Net
Total Leverage Ratio as at the last day of the most recently
completed Fiscal Quarter with respect to which the Borrower has
delivered financial information to the Administrative Agent
pursuant to Section 5.1(1).
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Level
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Net Leverage Ratio
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LC Fee
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I
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Less
than 1.00:1.00
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0.90%
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II
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Greater
than or equal to 1.00:1.00 but less than 2.00:1.00
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1.01%
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III
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Greater
than or equal to 2.00:1.00 but less than 3.00:1.00
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1.12%
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IV
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Greater
than or equal to 3.00:1.00
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1.33%
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The
Applicable Margin shall change (to the extent necessary, if any) on
the second day after each date on which the financial
statements and certificate of the Borrower are delivered to the
Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 5.1(1) to reflect any
change in the Net Leverage Ratio effective as of the date of such
financial statements, based upon the financial statements for the
immediately preceding Rolling Period, or if such day is not a
Business Day, then the first Business Day thereafter.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, if at any time the Borrower fails to
deliver the financial statements and the certificate of the
Borrower as required by Section 5.1(1) on or before the date
required pursuant to Section 5.1(1) (without regard to grace
periods), the Applicable Margin shall be the highest margins
provided for in the above grid from the date such financial
statements are due pursuant to Section 5.1(1) (without regard
to grace periods) through the second day after the date the
Administrative Agent receives all financial statements and
certificates that are then due pursuant to Section 5.1(1) (or
if such day is not a Business Day, then the first Business Day
thereafter).
“Applicable Percentage” means, in
respect of any Lender at any time, with respect to a Credit or all
Credits, the percentage of such Credit or of all Credits, as the
case may be, which such Lender has agreed to make available to the
Borrower at such time, determined by dividing such Lender’s
Commitment in respect of such Credit or of all Credits, as the case
may be, by the aggregate of all of the Lenders’ Commitments
with respect to such Credit or all Credits, as the case may be;
provided that, in the case of Section 2.19 when a Defaulting Lender shall
exist, “Applicable Percentage” shall mean the
percentage of the total Commitments (disregarding any Defaulting
Lender’s Commitment) represented by such Lender’s
Commitments at such time. If any Commitments have terminated or
expired, the Applicable Percentages in respect of the terminated or
expired Commitments shall be determined based upon the relevant
Commitments most recently in effect (prior to their termination or
expiry), giving effect to any assignments and to any Lender’s
status as a Defaulting Lender at the time of
determination.
“Asset Disposition” means, with
respect to any Person, the sale, lease, license, transfer,
assignment or other disposition of, or the expropriation,
condemnation, destruction or other loss of, all or any portion of
its business, assets, rights, revenues or property, real, personal
or mixed, tangible or intangible, whether in one transaction or a
series of transactions, other than (a) inventory sold in the
ordinary course of business upon customary credit terms,
(b) sales of scrap or obsolete material or equipment in the
ordinary course of business, (c) leases of real property or
personal property (under which such Person is lessor) which are no
longer used or useful in the business, and (d) licenses
granted to third parties in the ordinary course of
business.
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“Assignment and Assumption” means
an assignment and assumption entered into by a Lender and an
assignee (with the consent of any party whose consent is required
by Section 9.4), and accepted by the Administrative Agent, in the
form of Exhibit B or any other form approved by the Administrative
Agent.
“Authorization” means, with respect
to any Person, any authorization, order, permit, approval, grant,
licence, consent, right, franchise, privilege, certificate,
judgment, writ, injunction, award, determination, direction,
decree, by-law, rule or regulation of any Governmental Authority
having jurisdiction over such Person, whether or not having the
force of Law.
“Bail-In Action” means the exercise
of any Write-Down and Conversion Powers by the applicable EEA
Resolution Authority in respect of any liability of an EEA
Financial Institution.
“Bail-In Legislation” means, with
respect to any EEA Member Country implementing Article 55 of
Directive 2014/59/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council
of the European Union, the implementing law for such EEA Member
Country from time to time which is described in the EU Bail-In
Legislation Schedule and any comparable Canadian
legislation.
“Base Rate” means, on any day, the
annual rate of interest equal to the greater of (a) the annual
rate of interest announced by the Administrative Agent and in
effect as its base rate at its principal office in Toronto, Ontario
on such day for determining interest rates on U.S.
Dollar-denominated commercial loans made in Canada, and
(b) the Federal Funds Effective Rate plus 0.50%; provided
that, if, at any time, the Federal Funds Effective Rate shall ever
be less than zero, such rate shall be deemed to be zero at such
time for purposes of this Agreement.
“Base Rate Borrowing” means a
Borrowing comprised of one or more Base Rate Loans.
“Base Rate Loan” means a Loan
denominated in U.S. Dollars which bears interest at a rate based
upon the Base Rate.
“Benefit Plans” means any pension,
retirement, savings, profit sharing, health, medical, dental,
disability, life insurance, welfare or other employee benefit plan,
program, policy or practice, whether written or oral, funded or
unfunded, registered or unregistered, which is sponsored,
maintained or contributed to or required to be contributed to by
the Borrower or any Material Subsidiary or under which Borrower or
any Material Subsidiary has any actual or potential liability,
other than a Pension Plan.
“BIA” means the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act
(Canada).
“Borrower” means Eldorado Gold
Corporation, a corporation governed by the Canada Business Corporations
Act.
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“Borrowing” means any availment of
any Credit, and includes any Loan, the issuance of a Letter of
Credit (or any amendment thereto or renewal or extension thereof)
and a rollover or conversion of any outstanding Loan.
“Borrowing Request” means a request
by the Borrower for a Borrowing pursuant to Section 2.3(1) or
2.3(3) substantially in the form of Exhibit A.
“Business Day” means any day that
is not (a) a Saturday, Sunday or other day on which commercial
banks in Toronto, Ontario and Vancouver, British Columbia, in New
York, New York or in Paris, France are authorized or required by
applicable Law to remain closed or (b) in the case of any LIBO Rate
Loan, any other day on which commercial banks in London, England
are authorized or required by applicable Law to remain
closed.
“BCCo” means Eldorado Gold (BC)
Corp.
“BVCo” means Eldorado Gold
(Netherlands) BV, a private limited liability company besloten vennootschap met beperkte
aansprakelijkheid) under the laws of the Netherlands, having
its official seat in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, registered in the
trade register under number 34148763.
“BVCo (Greece)” means Eldorado Gold
(Greece) B.V., a private company with limited liability
(besloten vennootschap met
beperkte aansprakelijkheid) incorporated under the laws of
The Netherlands, having its corporate seat (statutaire zetel) in
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, registered with the trade register of
the Dutch Chamber of Commerce (Xxxxx van Koophandel) under number
34148763.
“BVCo (Greece) Guarantee” means the
guarantee of BVCo (Greece) dated on or about the date hereof in
favour of the Administrative Agent.
“BVCo (Greece) Security Documents”
means the agreements, instruments and other documents described in
Schedule 1.1(c) to be executed and delivered by BVCo
(Greece).
“BVCo Guarantee” means the
guarantee of BVCo dated as of June 14, 2013 in favour of the
Administrative Agent.
“BVCo Security Documents” means the
agreements, instruments and other documents described in Schedule
1.1(c) to be executed and delivered by BVCo.
“Canadian Dollars” and
“Cdn.$” refer to
lawful money of Canada.
“Canadian Prime Borrowing” means a
Borrowing comprised of one or more Canadian Prime
Loans.
“Canadian Prime Loan” means a Loan
denominated in Canadian Dollars which bears interest at a rate
based upon the Canadian Prime Rate.
“Canadian Prime Rate” means, on any
day, the annual rate of interest (rounded upwards, if not in an
increment of 1/16th of 1%, to the next 1/16 of 1%) equal to the
greater of (a) the annual rate of interest announced by the
Administrative Agent and in effect as its prime rate at its
principal office in Toronto, Ontario on such day for determining
interest rates on Canadian Dollar-denominated commercial loans in
Canada, and (b) the annual rate of interest equal to the sum
of (i) the one-month CDOR Rate in effect on such day, plus
(ii) 1.00; provided that if, at any time, the rate determined
above shall ever be less than zero, such rate shall be deemed to be
zero at such time for purposes of this Agreement.
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“Canadian Security Agreements”
means the collective reference to the Ontario law general security
agreements and/or hypothecs in respect of any personal property
owned by such Canadian Subsidiary to be executed and delivered by
each Canadian Subsidiary and the debentures, mortgages or hypothecs
to be executed and delivered by each Canadian Subsidiary in respect
of any real property owned by such Canadian
Subsidiary.
“Canadian Subsidiary” means each of
Eldorado Gold (Québec) Inc. and any other Subsidiary
incorporated or organized under the laws of Canada or any province
or territory thereof after May 13, 2019.
“Canadian Subsidiary Guarantees” means the collective
reference to the Ontario law guarantees of each Canadian
Subsidiary, as such guarantees may be amended, restated,
supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time.
“Capital Lease Obligations” of any
Person means the obligations of such Person to pay rent or other
amounts under any lease of (or other arrangement conveying the
right to use) real or personal property, or a combination thereof,
which obligations are required to be classified and accounted for
as capital leases on a balance sheet of such Person under GAAP, and
the amount of such obligations shall be the capitalized amount
thereof determined in accordance with GAAP.
“Cash Management Services” means
any one or more of the following types of services or facilities
provided to any Credit Party by a Lender or any of its Affiliates:
(a) ACH transactions, (b) cash management services, including
controlled disbursement services, treasury, depository, overdraft,
and electronic funds transfer services, (c) foreign exchange
facilities, (d) credit card processing services, (e) credit or
debit cards, and (f) purchase cards (but only to the extent that,
prior to the occurrence and continuance of any Default or Event of
Default, the Borrower and the Credit Party issuing such purchase
cards notify the Administrative Agent in writing that such purchase
cards are to be deemed Cash Management Services
hereunder).
“CDOR Rate” means, on any day and
for any period, an annual rate of interest equal to the average
rate applicable to Canadian Dollar bankers’ acceptances for
the applicable period appearing on the “Reuters Screen CDOR Page”
(as defined in the International Swaps and Derivatives Association,
Inc. 2000 definitions, as modified and amended from time to time),
rounded to the nearest 1/100th of 1% (with .005%
being rounded up), at approximately 10:00 a.m., on such day,
or if such day is not a Business Day, then on the immediately
preceding Business Day, provided that if such rate does not appear
on the Reuters Screen CDOR Page on such day as contemplated, then
the CDOR Rate on such day shall be calculated as the average of the
rates for such period applicable to Canadian Dollar bankers’
acceptances quoted by the banks listed in Schedule I of the
Bank Act (Canada) which are
also Lenders under this Agreement as of
10:00 a.m., on
such day or, if such day is not a Business Day, then on the
immediately preceding Business Day; provided that if, at any time,
the rate determined above shall ever be less than zero, such rate
shall be deemed to be zero at such time for purposes of this
Agreement.
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“Change in Control”
means:
(a)
an acquisition of
35% or more of the voting rights attached to all outstanding voting
shares of the Borrower by a Person (or combination of Persons
acting in concert by virtue of an agreement, arrangement,
commitment or understanding), or by virtue of a related series of
such events, and whether by transfer of existing shares or by
issuance of shares from treasury or both; or
(b)
the amalgamation,
consolidation or combination of the Borrower with, or merger of the
Borrower into, any other Person, whether by way of amalgamation,
arrangement or otherwise, unless (1) the Borrower is the surviving
Person or the Person formed by such amalgamation, consolidation or
combination, or into which the Borrower has merged, is a
corporation and (2) immediately after giving effect to such
transaction at least 60% of the voting rights attached to all
outstanding voting shares of the Borrower or the corporation
resulting from such amalgamation, consolidation or combination, or
into which the Borrower is merged, as the case may be are owned by
Persons who held at least 60% of the voting rights attached to all
outstanding voting shares of the Borrower immediately before giving
effect to such transaction; or
(c)
the direct or
indirect transfer, conveyance, sale, lease or other disposition, by
virtue of a single event or a related series of such events, of 90%
or more of the assets of the Borrower based on gross fair market
value to any Person unless (1) such disposition is to a
corporation and (2) immediately after giving effect of such
disposition, at least 60% of the voting rights attached to all
outstanding voting shares of such corporation are owned by the
Borrower or its related entities or by Persons who held at least
60% of the voting rights attached to all outstanding voting shares
of the Borrower immediately before giving effect to such
disposition; or
(d)
individuals who are
elected by the shareholders to the board of directors of the
Borrower at the beginning of any one year term to constitute the
directors of the Borrower cease for any reason in such year to
constitute at least 50% of the board of directors of the
Borrower.
“Change in Law” means (a) the
adoption of any new Law after the Effective Date, (b) any
change in any existing Law or in the interpretation or application
thereof by any Governmental Authority after the Effective Date, or
(c) compliance by any Lender (or, for purposes of
Section 2.12(2), by any lending office of such Lender or by
such Lender’s holding company, if any) with any request,
guideline or directive (whether or not having the force of law) of
any Governmental Authority made or issued after the Effective
Date.
“Code” means the Internal Revenue
Code of 1986 (United States of America), as amended.
“Collateral” means the property
described in and subject to the Liens, privileges, priorities and
security interests purported to be created by any Security
Document.
“Commitment” means, with respect to
each Lender, the commitment of such Lender to make Revolving Loans
or Term Loans hereunder as such commitment may be reduced from time
to time pursuant to Section 2.6 and as such commitment may be
reduced or increased from time to time pursuant to assignments by
or to such Lender pursuant to Section 9.4. The initial amounts of
each Lender’s Commitments are set out in Schedule 1.1(a), or
in the Assignment and Assumption pursuant to which such Lender
shall have assumed its Commitment(s), as applicable. As at the
Fifth Amendment Effective Date, the aggregate amount of the
Revolving Credit Commitments is U.S.$250,000,000.
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“Commitment Fee Letter” means the
fee letter dated April 18, 2019 among the Borrower and the Joint
Lead Arrangers.
“Commitment Letter” means the
commitment letter dated April 18, 2019 among HSBC Securities (USA)
Inc., HSBC Bank USA, N.A., HSBC Bank Canada, Bank of Montreal, BMO
Capital Markets, National Bank of Canada, National Bank Financial
Markets and the Borrower.
“Commodity Exchange Act” means the
Commodity Exchange Act (7 U.S.C. § 1 et seq.), as amended from
time to time, and any successor statute.
“Compliance Certificate” means a
certificate of the Borrower, signed by a Responsible Officer of the
Borrower substantially in the form of Exhibit C and containing
or accompanied by such financial or other details, information and
material as the Administrative Agent may reasonably request to
evidence such compliance.
“Consolidated” means, when used
with respect to any financial term, financial covenant, financial
ratio or financial statement, such financial term, financial
covenant, financial ratio or financial statement calculated,
prepared or determined, as applicable, for the Borrower on a
consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP consistently applied.
(For greater certainty, when Net Income on a Consolidated basis is
used in calculating any financial term, financial covenant or
financial ratio, Net Income shall exclude the items excluded
pursuant to the proviso in the definition thereof.)
“Control” means, in respect of a
particular Person, the possession, directly or indirectly, of the
power to direct or cause the direction of the management or
policies of such Person, whether through the ability to exercise
voting power, by contract or otherwise. “Controlling” and
“Controlled”
have meanings correlative thereto.
“Co-Syndication Agent” means BMO
Capital Markets and National Bank Financial Markets in their
capacities as co-syndication agents in respect of the
Credits.
“Cover”, when required by this
Agreement for LC Exposure shall be effected by paying to the
Administrative Agent in immediately available funds, to be held by
the Administrative Agent in a collateral account maintained by the
Administrative Agent at its Payment Office and collaterally
assigned as security, an amount equal to 105% of the maximum amount
of LC Exposure available for drawing at such time. Such amount
shall be retained by the Administrative Agent in such collateral
account until such time as the applicable Letters of Credit shall
have expired and reimbursement obligations, if any, with respect
thereto shall have been fully satisfied; provided that if any such
reimbursement obligations are not satisfied when due hereunder, the
Administrative Agent may apply any amounts in such collateral
account against such Reimbursement Obligations.
“Credits” means, collectively, the
Revolving Credit, the Term
Credit and the Additional LC Credit, and “Credit” means any of
them.
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“Credit Parties” means
the collective reference to the Borrower and the Subsidiary
Guarantors.
“Credit Party Guarantees” means the
collective reference to the Initial Credit Party Guarantees, the
Canadian Subsidiary Guarantees, the BVCo Guarantee and the BVCo
(Greece) Guarantee.
“Currency Excess Amount” has the
meaning set out in Section 2.9.
“DBRS” shall mean Dominion Bond
Rating Service Limited, or its successor.
“Default” means any event or
condition that constitutes an Event of Default or that, upon
notice, lapse of time or both, would, unless cured or waived,
become an Event of Default.
“Defaulting Lender” means any
Lender that has:
(a)
failed to fund any
portion of its Loans or participations in Letters of Credit within
one Business Day of the date required to be funded by it hereunder
in accordance with the terms hereof;
(b)
notified the
Borrower in writing that it does not intend to comply with any of
its funding obligations under this Agreement or has made a public
statement to the effect that it does not intend to comply with its
funding obligations under this Agreement or under other agreements
in which it commits to extend credit;
(c)
failed, within one
Business Day after request by the Administrative Agent, acting in
good faith, to confirm that it will comply with the terms of this
Agreement relating to its obligations to fund prospective Loans and
participations in then outstanding Letters of Credit;
(d)
otherwise failed to
pay over to the Administrative Agent or any other Lender any other
amount required to be paid by it hereunder within one Business Day
of the date when due unless the subject of a good faith dispute;
or
(e)
become the subject
of a Bail-In Action.
provided that a
Lender shall cease to be a Defaulting Lender when the
aforementioned criteria no longer apply to it.
“EBITDA” ” means, as at the
last day of any period, Net Income for such period excluding,
without duplication, (a) federal, provincial, state, local and
foreign income tax expense or benefit, (b) non-cash compensation
expenses related to common stock and other Equity Securities issued
to employees, (c) extraordinary or non-recurring gains and losses
in accordance with GAAP and (d) income or losses from discontinued
operations plus, without duplication, (i) interest expense,
determined in accordance with GAAP, (ii) to the extent deducted in
computing such Net Income, the sum of all depreciation, depletion
and amortization of property, plant, equipment and intangibles,
(iii) any other non-cash charges, including non-cash charges
related to asset impairment (for greater certainty, including
goodwill) or due to cumulative effects of changes in accounting
principles, all determined on a Consolidated basis. For greater
certainty, it is understood and agreed that, to the extent any
amounts are excluded from Net Income by virtue of the proviso to
the definition thereof, any add-backs to Net Income in determining
EBITDA as provided above shall be limited (or denied) in a fashion
consistent with the proviso to the definition of Net Income.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, solely for the purpose of
determining compliance with the Net Leverage Ratio covenant in
Section 5.11(b) of the Credit Agreement for each Rolling Period
which includes EBITDA for the Fiscal Quarter ending June 30, 2019
(and not for any other Rolling Period), EBITDA may include
approximately $7,600,000 generated in the Fiscal Quarter ending
June 30, 2019 which was adjusted to capital expenditures and not
included in revenues because such amount was classified under
International Financial Reporting Standards as pre-commercial
production of approximately 11,705 ounces of gold produced at the
Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxx mine during such Fiscal Quarter.
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“EEA Financial Institution” means
(a) any institution established in any EEA Member Country which is
subject to the supervision of an EEA Resolution Authority, (b) any
entity established in an EEA Member Country which is a parent of an
institution described in clause (a) of this definition, or (c) any
institution established in an EEA Member Country which is a
subsidiary of an institution described in clauses (a) or (b) of
this definition and is subject to consolidated supervision with its
parent.
“EEA Member Country” means any of
the member states of the European Union, Iceland, Liechtenstein,
and Norway.
“EEA Resolution Authority” means
any public administrative authority or any Person entrusted with
public administrative authority of any EEA Member Country
(including any delegee) having responsibility for the resolution of
any EEA Financial Institution.
“Efemçukuru Gold Project”
means the Tüprag Metal gold mine located in Izmir Province,
Turkey (for greater certainty, including all mineral and other
mining rights related thereto).
“Effective Date” has the meaning
set out in Section 4.1.
“EMU Legislation” means the
legislative measures of the European Council for the introduction
of, changeover to or operation of a single or unified European
currency.
“Environmental Laws” means all Laws
relating in any way to the environment, preservation or reclamation
of natural resources, the generation, use, management, handling,
collection, treatment, storage, transportation, recovery,
recycling, release, threatened release or disposal of any Hazardous
Material, or to health and safety matters.
“Environmental Liability” means any
liability, contingent or otherwise (including any liability for
damages, costs of environmental remediation, fines, penalties or
indemnities) of the Borrower or any Subsidiary directly or
indirectly resulting from or based upon (a) the violation of
any Environmental Laws, (b) the generation, use, handling,
collection, treatment, storage, transportation, recovery, recycling
or disposal of any Hazardous Materials, (c) exposure to any
Hazardous Materials, (d) the Release or threatened Release of
any Hazardous Materials into the environment, or (e) any
contract, agreement or other consensual arrangement pursuant to
which liability is assumed or imposed with respect to any of the
foregoing.
“Equity Securities” means, with
respect to any Person, any and all shares, interests,
participations, rights in, or other equivalents (however designated
and whether voting and non-voting) of, such Person’s capital,
whether outstanding on the date hereof or issued after the date
hereof, including any interest in a partnership, limited
partnership or other similar Person and any beneficial interest in
a trust, and any and all rights, warrants, debt securities, options
or other rights exchangeable for or convertible into any of the
foregoing.
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“Equivalent Amount” means, on any
date, the amount in U.S. Dollars that would be obtained on the
conversion of an amount in any other currency into U.S. Dollars
based on the rate of exchange quoted by the Bloomberg Foreign
Exchange Rates & World Currencies Page (or any successor page
thereto, or in the event such rate does not appear on any Bloomberg
Page, by reference to such other publicly available service for
displaying exchange rates as may be determined by the
Administrative Agent), as in effect at 11:00 a.m. (New York City
time) on the date of determination or, in the absence of the rate
set out above on such date, using such other rate as the
Administrative Agent may reasonably select.
“EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule”
means the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule published by the Loan
Market Association (or any successor Person), as in effect from
time to time.
“Euros” and “€” means the lawful currency
of the Participating Member States (as described in EMU
Legislation) introduced in accordance with EMU
Legislation.
“Event of Loss” has the meaning set
out in Section 7.1(l).
“Events of Default” has the meaning
set out in Section 7.1.
“Excluded Swap Obligation” means,
with respect to any Subsidiary Guarantor, any Swap Obligation if,
and solely to the extent that, all or a portion of the Credit Party
Guarantee of such Subsidiary Guarantor of, or the grant by such
Subsidiary Guarantor of a security interest to secure, such Swap
Obligation (or any Credit Party Guarantee thereof) is or becomes
illegal under the Commodity Exchange Act or any rule, regulation or
order of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (or the
application or official interpretation of any thereof) by virtue of
such Subsidiary Guarantor’s failure for any reason to
constitute an “eligible contract participant” as
defined in the Commodity Exchange Act and the regulations
thereunder at the time the Credit Party Guarantee of such
Subsidiary Guarantor or the grant of such security interest becomes
effective with respect to such Swap Obligation. If a Swap
Obligation arises under a master agreement governing more than one
swap, such exclusion shall apply only to the portion of such Swap
Obligation that is attributable to swaps for which such Credit
Party Guarantee or security interest is or becomes
illegal.
“Excluded Taxes” means, with
respect to the Administrative Agent, any Lender or any other
recipient of any payment to be made by or on account of any
obligation of the Borrower hereunder, income or franchise Taxes
imposed on (or measured by) its taxable income or capital Taxes
imposed on (or measured by) its taxable capital, in each case by
Canada, or by the jurisdiction under the Laws of which such
recipient is organized or in which its principal office is
located.
“Exposure” means, collectively, the
Revolving Credit Exposure, the Term Credit Exposure and the
Additional LC Credit Exposure.
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“Fair Market Value” means
(a) with respect to any asset or group of assets (other than a
marketable security) at any date, the value of the consideration
obtainable in a sale of such asset at such date assuming a sale by
a willing seller to a willing purchaser dealing at arm’s
length and arranged in an orderly manner over a reasonable period
of time having regard to the nature and characteristics of such
asset, or, if such asset shall have been the subject of a
relatively contemporaneous appraisal by an independent third party
appraiser, the basic assumptions underlying which have not
materially changed since its date, the value set out in such
appraisal, and (b) with respect to any marketable security at
any date, the closing sale price of such marketable security on the
Business Day next preceding such date, as appearing in any
published list of any applicable Canadian or United States national
securities exchange or, if there is no such closing sale price of
such marketable security, the final price for the purchase of such
marketable security at face value quoted on such Business Day by a
financial institution of recognized standing selected by the
Administrative Agent which regularly deals in securities of such
type.
“FATCA” means Section 1471 through
1474 of the Code, as of the date of this Agreement (or any amended
or successor version that is substantially comparable and not
materially more onerous to comply with), any current or future
regulations or official interpretations thereof, and any agreement
entered into pursuant to Section 1471(b)(1) of the
Code.
“Federal Funds Effective Rate”
means, for any day, the rate calculated by the NYFRB based on such
day’s federal funds transactions by depositary institutions
(as determined in such manner as the NYFRB shall set forth on its
public website from time to time) and published on the next
succeeding Business Day by the NYFRB as the effective federal funds
rate; provided that if the Federal Funds Effective Rate as so
determined would be less than zero, such rate shall be deemed to be
zero for the purposes of this Agreement.
“Fee Letters” means the collective
reference to the Commitment Fee Letter and the Agency Fee
Letter.
“Fifth Amendment Agreement” means
the fifth amendment agreement dated as of February [ ],
2021 among the Borrower, the Lenders and the Administrative
Agent.
“Fifth Amendment Effective Date”
means the date upon which the Fifth Amendment Agreement became
effective in accordance with the terms thereof.
“Final Term Credit Availability
Date” means the date which is twelve (12) months after
the Effective Date; provided that, if the 2012
Notes are repaid in full solely with Permitted Note Refinancing
Amounts, the Final Term Credit Availability Date shall be extended
automatically to June 30, 2020.
“Financial Letter of Credit” means
a Letter of Credit that serves as a payment guarantee of the
Borrower’s financial obligations and is treated as a direct
credit substitute for the purposes of applicable capital adequacy
guidelines. For the avoidance of doubt, any Letter of Credit which
serves as a guarantee of the Borrower’s performance
obligations (other than financial obligations) and is treated as a
transaction-related contingency for purposes of applicable capital
adequacy guidelines shall not be a Financial Letter of
Credit.
“Fiscal Quarter” means any fiscal
quarter of the Borrower.
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“Fiscal Year” means any fiscal year
of the Borrower.
“GAAP” means, with respect to any
Person, generally accepted accounting principles in Canada as in
effect from time to time with respect to such Person.
“Governmental Authority” means the
Government of Canada, any other nation or any political subdivision
thereof, whether provincial, state, territorial or local, and any
agency, authority, instrumentality, regulatory body, court, central
bank, fiscal or monetary authority or other authority regulating
financial institutions, and any other entity exercising executive,
legislative, judicial, taxing, regulatory or administrative powers
or functions of or pertaining to government, including the Bank
Committee on Banking Regulation and Supervisory Practices of the
Bank of International Settlements.
“Guarantee” of or by any Person (in
this definition, the “guarantor”) means any obligation,
contingent or otherwise, of the guarantor guaranteeing or having
the economic effect of guaranteeing any Indebtedness or other
obligation of any other Person (in this definition, the
“primary credit
party”) in any manner, whether directly or indirectly,
and including any obligation of the guarantor, direct or
indirect,
(a)
to purchase or pay
(or advance or supply funds for the purchase or payment of) such
Indebtedness or other obligation or to purchase (or to advance or
supply funds for the purchase of) any security for the payment
thereof (whether in the form of a loan, advance, stock purchase,
capital contribution or otherwise);
(b)
to purchase or
lease property, securities or services for the purpose of assuring
the owner of such Indebtedness or other obligation of the payment
thereof;
(c)
to maintain working
capital, equity capital solvency, or any other balance sheet,
income statement or other financial statement condition or
liquidity of the primary credit party so as to enable the primary
credit party to pay such Indebtedness or other
obligation;
(d)
as an account party
in respect of any letter of credit or letter of guarantee issued to
support such Indebtedness or other obligation;
(e)
to make take-or-pay
or similar payments, if required, regardless of non-performance by
any other party or parties to an agreement; or
(f)
to purchase, sell
or lease (as lessor or lessee) property, or to purchase or sell
services, primarily for the purpose of enabling the debtor to make
payment of such Indebtedness or to assure the holder of such
Indebtedness against loss.
The
term Guarantee shall not include endorsements of instruments for
deposit or collection in the ordinary course of business. The
amount of any Guarantee in respect of Indebtedness shall be deemed
to be an amount equal to the stated or determinable amount of the
related Indebtedness (unless the Guarantee is limited by its terms
to a lesser amount, in which case to the extent of such amount) or,
if not stated or determinable, the maximum reasonably anticipated
liability in respect thereof as determined by the guarantor in
good faith. The amount of any other Guarantee shall be deemed to be
zero unless and until the amount thereof has been (or in accordance
with GAAP should be) quantified and reflected or disclosed in
the Consolidated
financial statements (or notes thereto) of the
guarantor.
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“Hazardous Materials” means any
substance, product, liquid, waste, pollutant, chemical,
contaminant, insecticide, pesticide, gaseous or solid matter,
organic or inorganic matter, fuel, micro-organism, ray, odour,
radiation, energy, vector, plasma, constituent or material which
(a) is or becomes listed, regulated or addressed under any
Environmental Laws, or (b) is, or is deemed to be, alone or in
any combination, hazardous, hazardous waste, toxic, a pollutant, a
deleterious substance, a contaminant or a source of pollution or
contamination under any Environmental Laws, including asbestos,
petroleum and polychlorinated biphenyls, including petroleum or
petroleum distillates, asbestos or asbestos containing materials,
polychlorinated biphenyls, radon gas, infectious or medical wastes
and all other substances or wastes of any nature regulated pursuant
to any Environmental Laws.
“Hedge Arrangement” means any
arrangement which is a swap transaction, basis swap, forward rate
transaction, interest rate option, forward foreign exchange
transaction, cap transaction, floor transaction, collar
transaction, currency swap transaction, cross-currency rate swap
transaction, currency option, commodity agreement or any similar
transaction (including any option with respect to any of such
transactions or arrangements) designed and entered into to protect
or mitigate against risks in interest, currency exchange or
commodity price fluctuations (for greater certainty, including any
commitment to deliver gold produced by the Borrower and its
Subsidiaries).
“ICE Benchmark Administration Interest
Settlement Rate” or “IBAISR” means, with respect to any
period, the London interbank offered rate for U.S. Dollar deposits
with maturities comparable to such period administered by ICE
Benchmark Administration Limited (or any other person which takes
over the administration of that rate).
“Income Tax Act” means the
Income Tax Act (Canada), as
amended from time to time.
“Indebtedness” of any Person
includes, without duplication:
(a)
all obligations of
such Person for borrowed money or with respect to deposits or
advances of any kind;
(b)
all obligations of
such Person evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes or similar
instruments;
(c)
all obligations of
such Person upon which interest charges are customarily
paid;
(d)
all obligations of
such Person under conditional sale or other title retention
agreements relating to property acquired by such
Person;
(e)
all obligations of
such Person in respect of the deferred purchase price of property
or services (excluding current accounts payable incurred in the
ordinary course of business);
(f)
all Indebtedness of
others secured by (or for which the holder of such Indebtedness has
an existing right, contingent or otherwise, to be secured by) any
Lien on property owned or acquired by such Person, whether or not
the Indebtedness secured thereby has been assumed;
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(g)
all Guarantees by
such Person of Indebtedness of others;
(h)
all Capital Lease
Obligations of such Person;
(i)
all obligations,
contingent or otherwise, of such Person as an account party in
respect of letters of credit and letters of guarantee (other than
letters of credit and letters of guarantee issued in support of
current accounts payable, bids, tenders, trade contracts, surety
and appeal bonds, performance bonds and other obligations of a like
nature incurred in the ordinary course of business);
(j)
all obligations,
contingent or otherwise, of such Person in respect of
bankers’ acceptances;
(k)
the net amount of
obligations of such Person under Hedge Arrangements (determined on
a xxxx-to-market basis after taking into account the effect of any
legally enforceable netting agreement relating to such Hedge
Arrangements);
(l)
all Secured Cash
Management Obligations;
(m)
all obligations of
such Person in respect of streaming or royalty agreements;
and
(n)
all obligations of
such Person to purchase, redeem, retire, defease or otherwise
acquire for value (other than for other Equity Securities) any
Equity Securities of such Person, valued, in the case of redeemable
Equity Securities, at the greater of voluntary or involuntary
redemption price, plus accrued and unpaid dividends.
The
Indebtedness of any Person shall include the Indebtedness of any
other entity (including any partnership in which such Person is a
general or limited partner) to the extent such Person is liable
therefor as a result of such Person’s ownership interest in
or other relationship with such entity, except to the extent the
terms of such Indebtedness provide that such Person is not liable
therefor.
“Indemnified Taxes” means all Taxes
other than Excluded Taxes.
“Indemnitee” has the meaning set
out in Section 9.3(2).
“Indenture” means (i) at any time
prior to the issuance of any Refinancing Notes, the 2012 Indenture,
and (ii) at any time after the issuance of any Refinancing Notes,
the Refinancing Indenture.
“Indenture Indebtedness” means (i)
at any time prior to the issuance of any Refinancing Notes, the
2012 Notes, and (ii) at any time after the issuance of any
Refinancing Notes, the Refinancing Notes (and, for the period of 35
days after such issuance, the 2012 Notes).
“Information” has the meaning set
out in Section 9.16.
“Initial Credit Party Guarantees”
means the collective reference to (i) the Ontario law guarantee of
the Borrower dated as of October 12, 2011 in favour of Canadian
Imperial Bank of Commerce, as administrative agent, (ii) the
Ontario law guarantee of SG Resources dated as of October 12, 2011
in favour of Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, as administrative
agent, and (iii) the Turkish law guarantee of Tüprag Metal
dated as of October 12, 2011 in favour of Canadian Imperial Bank of
Commerce, as administrative agent, as such guarantees may be
amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to
time. Pursuant to the Resignation and Assignment Agreement, the
Initial Credit Party Guarantees were assigned by Canadian Imperial
Bank of Commerce to HSBC Bank Canada immediately prior to the
effectiveness of the 2012 Credit Agreement.
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“Initial Security Documents” means
the agreements, instruments and other documents described in
Schedule 1.1(b).
“Insolvent Defaulting Lender” means
any Defaulting Lender that (a) has been adjudicated as, or
determined by an Governmental Authority having regulatory authority
over such Person or its assets to be, insolvent, (b) becomes the
subject of an insolvency, bankruptcy, dissolution, liquidation or
reorganization proceeding, or (c) becomes the subject of an
appointment of a receiver, receiver and manager, monitor, trustee
or liquidator under the Bank
Act (Canada) or any applicable bankruptcy, insolvency or
similar law of any jurisdiction now existing or hereafter enacted;
provided that a Lender shall not be an Insolvent Defaulting Lender
solely by virtue of the ownership or acquisition by a Governmental
Authority of an instrumentality thereof of any Equity Securities in
such Lender or a parent company thereof.
“Intercompany Subordination
Agreement” means an intercompany subordination
agreement substantially in the form of Exhibit E
hereto.
“Intercreditor Agreement” means an
intercreditor agreement to be entered into between the
Administrative Agent and the trustee or other representative under
Refinancing Notes, or between the Administrative Agent and the
trustee or other representative under any Permitted Refinancing
Indebtedness which refinances any Refinancing Notes, in either case
substantially in the form of Exhibit G hereto.
“Interest Coverage Ratio” means,
with respect to any Rolling Period, the ratio of (a) EBITDA
for such Rolling Period, to (b) Interest Expense for such
Rolling Period.
“Interest Expense” means, with
respect to any period, the interest expense of the
Borrower for such
period, determined on a Consolidated basis.
“Interest Payment Date” means,
(a) in the case of any Loan other than LIBO Rate Loan, the
first Business Day of each month, and (b) in the case of a
LIBO Rate Loan, the last day of each Interest Period relating to
such LIBO Rate Loan, provided that if an Interest Period for any
LIBO Rate Loan is of a duration exceeding 90 days, then
“Interest Payment
Date” shall also include each date which occurs at
each 90-day interval during such Interest Period.
“Interest Period” means, with
respect to a LIBO Rate Borrowing, the period commencing on the date
of such Borrowing and ending on the numerically corresponding day
in the calendar month that is 30, 60 or 90 days (or, with the
consent of each Lender, 180, 270 or 365 days) thereafter, as the
Borrower may elect; provided that (a) if any Interest Period
would end on a day other than a Business Day, such Interest Period
shall be extended to the immediately succeeding Business Day unless
such next succeeding Business Day would fall in the next calendar
month, in which case such Interest Period shall end on the next
preceding Business Day, (b) any Interest Period that commences
on the last Business Day of a calendar month (or on a day for which
there is no numerically corresponding day in the last calendar
month of such Interest Period) shall end on the last Business Day
of the last calendar month of such Interest Period and (c) no
Interest Period shall extend beyond the Maturity Date. For purposes
hereof, the date of a Borrowing initially shall be the date on
which such Borrowing is made and, in the case of a converted or
continued Borrowing, thereafter shall be the effective date of the
most recent conversion or rollover of such Borrowing.
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“Investment” means, as applied to
any Person (the “investor”), any direct or
indirect:
(a)
purchase or other
acquisition by the investor of Equity Securities of any other
Person or any beneficial interest therein;
(b)
purchase or other
acquisition by the investor of bonds, notes, debentures or other
debt securities of any other Person or any beneficial interest
therein;
(c)
loan or advance to
any other Person or any Guarantee of any loan or advance of another
Person, other than (i) advances to employees for expenses incurred
in the ordinary course of business, and (ii) accounts receivable
arising from sales or services rendered to such other Person in the
ordinary course of the investor’s business; and
(d)
capital
contribution by the investor to any other Person;
provided that none
of (x) any Acquisition, (y) any acquisition of tangible assets or
(z) any capital expenditures or exploration expenditures shall
constitute an Investment.
The
amount of any Investment shall be the original cost of such
Investment plus the cost of all additions thereto, without any
adjustments for increases or decreases in value, or write-ups,
write-downs or write-offs with respect to such Investment minus any
amounts (i) realized upon the disposition of assets comprising
an Investment (including the value of any liabilities assumed by
any Person other than the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries in
connection with such disposition), (ii) constituting
repayments of Investments that are loans or advances or
(iii) constituting cash returns of principal or capital
thereon (including any dividend, redemption or repurchase of equity
that is accounted for, in accordance with GAAP, as a return of
principal or capital).
“Issuing Bank” means (a) with
respect to the Revolving Credit Commitments, each of HSBC Bank
Canada, Bank of Montreal and National Bank of Canada in its
capacity as an issuer of Letters of Credit under the Revolving
Credit Commitments, and any other Lender that becomes an Issuing
Bank for Letters of Credit under the Revolving Credit Commitments
in accordance with Section 2.18(9) or 2.18(10), and (b) with
respect to the Additional LC Credit, HSBC Bank Canada and any other
Lender that becomes an Issuing Bank for Additional LCs in
accordance with Section 2.18(9) or 2.18(10). An Issuing Bank may,
in its discretion, arrange for one or more Letters of Credit to be
issued by Affiliates of such Issuing Bank, in which case the term
“Issuing Bank”
shall include any such Affiliate with respect to Letters of Credit
issued by such Affiliate.
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“Joint Lead Arrangers”
means HSBC Securities
(USA) Inc., BMO Capital Markets and National Bank Financial Markets
in their capacity as joint lead arrangers and joint bookrunners in
respect of the Credits.
“Kisladag Mine” means the
Tüprag Metal gold mine located in Usak Province, Turkey (for
greater certainty, including all mineral and other mining rights
related thereto).
“Laws” means all federal,
provincial, municipal, foreign and international statutes, acts,
codes, ordinances, decrees, treaties, rules, regulations, municipal
by-laws, judicial or arbitral or administrative or ministerial or
departmental or regulatory judgments, orders, decisions, rulings or
awards or any provisions of the foregoing, including general
principles of common and civil law and equity, and all policies,
practices and guidelines of any Governmental Authority binding on
or affecting the Person referred to in the context in which such
word is used (including, in the case of tax matters, any accepted
practice or application or official interpretation of any relevant
taxation authority); and “Law” means any one or more of the
foregoing.
“LC Disbursement” means a payment
made by the applicable Issuing Bank pursuant to a Letter of
Credit.
“LC Exposure” means, at any time,
the sum of (a) the U.S.$ Amount of the aggregate undrawn
amount of all outstanding Letters of Credit at such time, plus
(b) the U.S.$ Amount of the aggregate amount of all LC
Disbursements that have not yet been reimbursed by or on behalf of
the Borrower at such time. The LC Exposure of any Lender under any
Credit at any time shall be its Applicable Percentage of the total
LC Exposure under such Credit at such time.
“Lender Affiliate” means,
(a) with respect to any Lender, (i) an Affiliate of such
Lender, or (ii) any Person that is engaged in making,
purchasing, holding or otherwise investing in bank loans and
similar extensions of credit in the ordinary course of its business
and is administered or managed by a Lender or an Affiliate of such
Lender, and (b) with respect to any Lender that is a fund
which invests in bank loans and similar extensions of credit, any
other fund that invests in bank loans and similar extensions of
credit and is managed by the same investment advisor as such Lender
or by an Affiliate of such investment advisor.
“Lenders” means (i) the Persons
listed as lenders on Schedule 1.1(a), and (ii) any other Person
that shall have become a party hereto pursuant to an Assignment and
Assumption, other than any such Person that ceases to be a party
hereto pursuant to an Assignment and Assumption. Unless the context
otherwise requires, the term “Lenders” includes each Issuing
Bank.
“Letter of Credit” means any
standby or documentary letter of credit or guarantee issued by an
Issuing Bank pursuant to this Agreement, and includes an Additional
LC.
“LIBO Rate Borrowing” means a
Borrowing comprised of one or more LIBO Rate Loans.
“LIBO Rate Loan” means a Loan
denominated in U.S. Dollars which bears interest at a rate based
upon the LIBO Rate.
“LIBO Rate” means, with respect to
any LIBO Rate Loan for any Interest Period, either
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(a)
the applicable ICE
Benchmark Administration Interest Settlement Rate (rounded upwards,
if not in an increment of 1/16th of 1%, to the next 1/16 of 1%) as
at 11:00 a.m. London, England time (subject to any intra-day
refixing and republication) two Business Days prior to the first
day of such Interest Period ; or
(b)
if the rate in
paragraph (a) of this definition is not available for any
particular day, the interest rate per annum offered to the
Administrative Agent for London interbank deposits of U.S. Dollars
(rounded upwards, if not in an increment of 1/16th of 1%, to the
next 1/16 of 1%), for delivery in immediately available funds on
the first day of such Interest Period, of amounts comparable to the
principal amount of the LIBOR Loan to which such LIBO Rate is to
apply with maturities comparable to the Interest Period for which
such LIBO Rate will apply as of approximately 11:00 a.m. (London,
England time) two Business Days prior to the first day of such
Interest Period,
and if,
in either case, that rate is less than zero, the LIBO Rate shall be
deemed to be zero.
“Lien” means, (a) with respect
to any asset, any mortgage, deed of trust, lien (statutory or
otherwise), deemed trust, pledge, hypothec, hypothecation,
encumbrance, charge, security interest, royalty interest, adverse
claim, defect of title or right of set off in, on or of such asset,
(b) the interest of a vendor or a lessor under any conditional
sale agreement, capital lease, title retention agreement or
consignment agreement (or any financing lease having substantially
the same economic effect as any of the foregoing) relating to any
asset, (c) any purchase option, call or similar right of a
third party with respect to such assets, (d) any netting
arrangement, defeasance arrangement or reciprocal fee arrangement,
and (e) any other arrangement having the effect of providing
security.
“Limited Subsidiary” means each
Subsidiary which is subject to a restriction of the type referred
to in clause (a) of the proviso to the definition of Net
Income.
“Loans” means the Revolving Loans,
the Term Loans and the Additional LCs.
“Loan Documents” means this
Agreement, the Credit Party Guarantees, the Security Documents, the
Borrowing Requests and the Fee Letters, together with any other
document, instrument or agreement (other than participation, agency
or similar agreements among the Lenders or between any Lender and
any other bank or creditor with respect to any indebtedness or
obligations of any Credit Party (as applicable) hereunder or
thereunder) now or hereafter entered into in connection with this
Agreement by any Credit Party (including any document, instrument
or agreement with respect to any Secured Hedge Arrangement and
Secured Cash Management Services), as such documents, instruments
or agreements may be amended, modified or supplemented from time to
time.
“Material Adverse Change” means any
event, development or circumstance that has had or could reasonably
be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
“Material Adverse Effect” means a
material adverse effect on (a) the business, assets,
liabilities (actual or contingent), operations or financial
condition of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole,
(b) the validity, effect or enforceability of any of the Loan
Documents, the perfection or priority (or the equivalent in the
applicable jurisdiction) of the Liens created thereby or the rights
and remedies of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders
thereunder, or (c) the overall ability of the Credit Parties to
perform their obligations hereunder or under the any other Loan
Document.
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“Material Contract” means any
contract or agreement (i) to which the Borrower or any
Material Subsidiary is a party or bound, (ii) which is
material to, or necessary in, the operation of the business of the
Borrower or any Material Subsidiary, (iii) which the Borrower
or any Material Subsidiary cannot promptly replace by an
alternative and comparable contract with comparable commercial
terms, and (iv) the absence of which would have a Material Adverse
Effect.
“Material Indebtedness” means any
Indebtedness (other than the Loans) of the Borrower and/or any one
of more of its Material Subsidiaries in an aggregate principal
amount exceeding U.S.$25,000,000. For greater certainty,
“Material
Indebtedness” includes any Indenture Indebtedness and
any Permitted Unsecured Indebtedness.
“Material Subsidiary” means, at any
given time:
(a)
each of the
Subsidiary Guarantors;
(b)
each other present
and future Subsidiary that, as at the last day of the last Fiscal
Quarter with respect to which the Borrower has delivered (or was
required to deliver) financial information to the Administrative
Agent pursuant to Section 5.1:
(i)
has Consolidated
revenues for the most recent Rolling Period in excess of an amount
equal to 5% of the Consolidated revenues of the Borrower for such
Rolling Period, regardless of whether or not such Person was a
Subsidiary for the entire such Rolling Period; and
(ii)
has Consolidated
assets having a book value in excess of an amount equal to 5% of
the Total Assets of the Borrower determined on a Consolidated
basis; and
(c)
each Person (other
than the Borrower) that has a subsidiary that is a Material
Subsidiary.
“Maturity Date” means June 10,
2020; provided that
upon the repayment in full of the 2012 Notes solely with Permitted
Note Refinancing Amounts, the Maturity Date will be automatically
extended to the date which is the fourth anniversary of the
Effective Date (or, if either of such dates is not a Business Day,
the next Business Day thereafter).
“Moody’s” means Xxxxx’x
Investors Service, Inc.
“Net Cash Proceeds” means, (a) with
respect to any issuance of common stock of the Borrower, the excess
(if any) of (i) the gross cash proceeds received in connection with
such issuance over (ii) investment banking fees,
underwriting discounts, commissions, costs and other out-of-pocket
expenses and other customary expenses incurred by the Borrower in
connection with such issuance; and (b) with respect to any
Permitted Disposition, the excess (if any) of (i) the gross cash
proceeds received in connection with such Permitted Disposition
over (ii) investment banking fees, underwriting discounts,
commissions, costs and other out-of-pocket expenses and other
customary expenses paid by the Borrower to any Person which is not
an Affiliate of the Borrower in connection with such Permitted
Disposition.
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“Net Income” means, with respect to any period,
the net income of the Borrower for such period, determined on a
Consolidated basis;
provided, however, that Net Income shall not include or take into
account:
(a)
any income of any
Subsidiary which, due to legal, regulatory or contractual
restrictions, cannot be distributed, directly or indirectly, to the
Borrower; or
(b)
the income (or
loss) of any Person accrued prior to the date (i) such Person
becomes a Subsidiary or is amalgamated with a Subsidiary, or (ii)
such Person’s property is acquired by a
Subsidiary.
“Net Indebtedness” means, at any
time, (a) the aggregate amount of Indebtedness of the Borrower at
such time, determined on a Consolidated basis, minus (b) the aggregate amount
of unencumbered cash and unencumbered Permitted Cash Investments,
determined on a Consolidated basis, net of the aggregate amount of
Taxes which would be payable in connection with any transfer to the
Borrower of any such amount described in this paragraph
(b).
“Net Leverage Ratio” means, at any
time, the ratio of (a) Net Indebtedness at such time, to
(b) EBITDA for the most recently completed Rolling Period;
provided that, for
the purpose of calculating the Net Leverage Ratio, Net Indebtedness
shall not include obligations in respect of streaming or royalty
agreements and EBITDA shall not include any Net Income generated
under streaming or royalty agreements.
“Net Tangible Assets” means, with
respect to any Person at any time (x) the amount representing the
assets of such Person appearing on the balance sheet of such Person
as at the last day of the most recently completed Fiscal Quarter or
Fiscal Year (as applicable) for which financial statements have
been delivered pursuant to Section 5.1(1)(a)or (b), less (y)
the sum of (i) all current liabilities and non-controlling
interests and (ii) goodwill and other intangibles; provided that
any Acquisitions, Asset Dispositions, Investments and Events
of Loss of such Person and any dividends, distributions and
incurrences or repayments of Indebtedness by or to such Person, in
each case following the last day of such Fiscal Quarter or Fiscal
Year (as applicable), will be given pro forma effect as if they had
occurred on the last day of such Fiscal Quarter or Fiscal Year (as
applicable).
“Non-Consenting Lender” means a
Lender that has not provided its consent to a waiver of, or
amendment to, any provision of the Loan Documents where requested
to do so by Borrower or the Administrative Agent if (i) such waiver
or amendment requires the consent of all the Lenders, and (ii) the
Required Lenders have consented to such waiver or
amendment.
“Non-Financial Letter of Credit”
means any Letter of Credit other than a Financial Letter of
Credit.
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“Non-Recourse Indebtedness” of any
Person means any Indebtedness of such Person which is not
guaranteed by any other Person and with respect to which recourse
for payment is limited to specific assets encumbered by a Lien
securing such Indebtedness; provided that (a) personal
recourse of a holder of Indebtedness against any obligor with
respect thereto for fraud, misrepresentation, misapplication of
cash, waste and other circumstances customarily excluded from
non-recourse provisions in non-recourse financing shall not, by
itself, prevent any Indebtedness from being characterized as
Non-Recourse Indebtedness, and (b) if a recourse claim is made in
connection therewith, such claim shall no longer constitute
Non-Recourse Indebtedness for the purposes of this
Agreement.
“NYFRB” means the Federal Reserve
Bank of New York.
“Original Credit Agreement” has the
meaning set forth in the recitals hereto.
“Original Effective Date” means the
“Effective Date” as defined in the Original Credit
Agreement.
“Participant” has the meaning set
out in Section 9.4(5).
“Payment Office” means such office
as the Administrative Agent may from time to time designate in
writing to the other parties hereto.
“PD Subsidiary Guarantors” means
the collective reference to the Subsidiary Guarantors (other than
Tüprag Metal).
“Pension Plan” means a pension plan
which is or was sponsored, administered or contributed to, or
required to be contributed to by, the Borrower or any Material
Subsidiary or under which the Borrower or any Material Subsidiary
has any actual or potential liability.
“Permitted Acquisition” means any
Acquisition by the Borrower or any Material
Subsidiary:
(a)
which is of a
Person carrying on a Permitted Business (or if an asset
Acquisition, of assets used or useful in a Permitted Business);
and
(b)
in respect of which
the Borrower has provided a certificate of a Responsible Officer of
the Borrower:
(i)
demonstrating to
the Lenders’ satisfaction, acting reasonably, that after
giving pro forma effect to such Acquisition, the Borrower will be
in compliance with the financial covenants in Section 5.1(11)
as at the date of such Acquisition; and
(ii)
certifying that no
Default or Event of Default exists at the time of such Acquisition
or would exist immediately after the consummation of such
Acquisition;
provided that in
the case of any Acquisition by or involving a Credit Party the
security interests in the Collateral created pursuant to the
Security Documents shall remain in full force and effect and
perfected (or the equivalent in the applicable jurisdiction)
following such Acquisition to at least to the same extent as
immediately prior to such Acquisition (and subject, in the case of
any Acquisition by means of merger, amalgamation or similar
transaction, to compliance with Section 6.1(3)).
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“Permitted Business” means
(a) the exploration,
development, construction and operation of mining properties and
sale of products produced from such mining properties, and (b) any
business that is the same, similar or otherwise reasonably related
or complementary thereto.
“Permitted Cash Investment” means
an Investment by the Borrower or any Material Subsidiary in any of
the following:
(a)
direct obligations
of, or obligations the principal of and interest on which are
unconditionally guaranteed by, the Government of Canada or of any
Canadian province (or by any agency thereof to the extent such
obligations are backed by the full faith and credit of the
Government of Canada or of such Canadian province), in each case
maturing within one year from the date of acquisition
thereof;
(b)
investments in
certificates of deposit, bankers’ acceptances and time
deposits maturing within one year from the date of acquisition
thereof issued or guaranteed by or placed with, and money market
deposit accounts issued or offered by, any domestic office of any
commercial bank organized under the laws of Canada or of any
Canadian province which has a combined capital surplus and
undivided profits of not less than U.S.$500,000,000;
(c)
direct obligations
of, or obligations the principal of and interest on which are
unconditionally guaranteed by, the Government of the United States
of America (or by any agency thereof to the extent such obligations
are backed by the full faith and credit of the Government of the
United States of America), in each case maturing within one year
from the date of acquisition thereof;
(d)
in the case of any
Subsidiary not organized under the laws of Canada or any province
or territory thereof or under the laws of United States, any state
or territory thereof or the District of Columbia, direct
obligations of, or obligations the principal of and interest on
which are unconditionally guaranteed by, the sovereign nation (or
any agency thereof) in which such Subsidiary is organized and is
conducting business;
(e)
marketable and
freely-tradeable securities evidencing direct obligations of
corporations, hospitals, municipal boards or school boards having,
at the date of acquisition, a rating of at least A-2 by S&P,
P-2 by Moodys or an equivalent rating by a nationally recognized
rating agency, in each case maturing within one year from the date
of acquisition thereof; or
(f)
deposits with banks
made in the ordinary course of business.
“Permitted Disposition” means,
collectively, the sale or other disposition of the assets and
operations of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries located in
Brazil or Romania.
“Permitted Liens”
means:
(a)
Liens in favour of
the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties for
the obligations of any Credit Party under or pursuant to the Loan
Documents;
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(b)
Purchase Money
Liens securing Indebtedness to the extent permitted by
Section 6.1(1)(f), Liens to secure Capital Lease Obligations
to the extent permitted by Section 6.1(1)(f) and Liens
securing Permitted Secured Indebtedness to the extent permitted by
Section 6.1(1)(o);
(c)
Liens imposed by
any Governmental Authority for Taxes not yet due and delinquent or
which are being contested in good faith and by appropriate
proceedings in compliance with Section 5.1(3), and, during
such period during which such Liens are being so contested, such
Liens shall not be executed on or enforced against any of the
assets of the Borrower or any Material Subsidiary, provided that
the Borrower or such Material Subsidiary shall have set aside on
its books reserves deemed adequate therefor and not resulting in
qualification by auditors;
(d)
carrier’s,
warehousemen’s, mechanics’, materialmen’s,
repairmen’s, construction and other like Liens arising by
operation of applicable Law, arising in the ordinary course of
business and securing amounts (i) which are not overdue for a
period of more than 30 days, or (ii) which are being contested in
good faith and by appropriate proceedings and, during such period
during which amounts are being so contested, such Liens shall not
be executed on or enforced against any of the assets of the
Borrower or any Material Subsidiary, provided that the Borrower or
such Material Subsidiary shall have set aside on its books reserves
deemed adequate therefor and not resulting in qualification by
auditors;
(e)
statutory Liens
incurred, or pledges or deposits made, under worker’s
compensation, employment insurance and other social security
legislation;
(f)
undetermined or
inchoate Liens and charges arising or potentially arising under
statutory provisions which have not at the time been filed or
registered in accordance with applicable Law or of which written
notice has not been duly given in accordance with applicable Law or
which although filed or registered, relate to obligations not due
or delinquent;
(g)
Liens or deposits
to secure the performance of bids, tenders, trade contracts,
leases, surety and appeal bonds, performance bonds and other
obligations of a like nature (other than for borrowed money)
incurred in the ordinary course of business (or to secure letters
of credit or letters of guarantee issued in support of any of the
foregoing);
(h)
servitudes,
easements, rights-of-way, restrictions and other similar
encumbrances on real property imposed by applicable Law or incurred
in the ordinary course of business and encumbrances consisting of
zoning or building restrictions, easements, licenses, restrictions
on the use of property or minor imperfections in title thereto
which, in the aggregate, are not material, and which do not in any
case materially detract from the value of the property subject
thereto or interfere with the ordinary conduct of the business of
the Borrower or any Material Subsidiary;
(i)
Liens of or
resulting from any judgment or award, the time for the appeal or
petition for rehearing of which shall not have expired, or in
respect of which the Borrower or any Material Subsidiary be
prosecuting an appeal or proceeding for review in good faith and by
appropriate proceedings and in respect of which a stay of execution
pending such appeal or proceeding for review shall have been
secured;
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(j)
the rights reserved
to or vested in Governmental Authorities by statutory provisions or
by the terms of leases, licenses, franchises, grants or permits,
which affect any land, to terminate the leases, licenses,
franchises, grants or permits or to require annual or other
periodic payments as a condition of the continuance
thereof;
(k)
securities to
public utilities or to any municipalities or Governmental
Authorities or other public authority when required by the utility,
municipality or Governmental Authorities or other public authority
in connection with the supply of services or utilities to the
Borrower or any Material Subsidiary;
(l)
Liens or covenants
restricting or prohibiting access to or from lands abutting on
controlled access highways or covenants affecting the use to which
lands may be put; provided that such Liens or covenants do not
materially and adversely affect the use of the lands by the
Borrower or any Material Subsidiary;
(m)
Liens listed on
Schedule 1.1(d);
(n)
statutory Liens
incurred or pledges or deposits made in favour of a Governmental
Authority to secure the performance of obligations of the Borrower
or any Material Subsidiary under Environmental Laws to which any
assets of the Borrower or such Material Subsidiary are
subject;
(o)
customary rights of
set-off or combination of accounts in favour of a financial
institution with respect to deposits maintained by it;
(p)
Liens granted by
the Borrower or any Material Subsidiary to a landlord to secure the
payment of arrears of rent in respect of leased properties in the
Province of Quebec leased from such landlord, provided that such
Lien is limited to the assets located at or about such leased
properties;
(q)
any Lien on any
property or asset of the Borrower or any Material Subsidiary
existing on the Original Effective Date and set out in
Schedule 1.1(d), provided that (i) such Lien shall not
apply to any other property or asset of the Borrower or any
Material Subsidiary, and (ii) such Lien shall secure only
those obligations which it secures on the Original Effective
Date;
(r)
Liens existing on
any property or asset prior to the acquisition thereof by the
Borrower or any Material Subsidiary or existing on any property or
asset of any Person that becomes Material Subsidiary after the
Original Effective Date prior to the time such Person becomes
Material Subsidiary, provided that (i) such Lien is not
created in contemplation of or in connection with such acquisition
or such Person becoming a Material Subsidiary, as the case may be,
(ii) such Lien shall not apply to any other property or assets
of the Borrower or any of its Material Subsidiaries, and
(iii) such Lien shall secure only those obligations which it
secures on the date of such acquisition or the date such Person
becomes a Material Subsidiary, as the case may be;
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(s)
Liens securing
Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness permitted pursuant to Section
6.1(1)(m) to the extent such Liens comply with clause (c) of
the definition of Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness and are
subject to the Intercreditor Agreement;
(t)
Liens securing any
Refinancing Notes, provided that the Intercreditor
Agreement is in full force and effect;
(u)
Liens securing any
Indebtedness incurred pursuant to Section 6.1(1)(o);
(v)
Liens granted by
the Borrower in favour of any Lender (or an Affiliate of any
Lender) solely for the purposes of securing the obligations of the
Borrower to such Lender (or Affiliate of such Lender) pursuant to a
Prepaid Metals Transaction to the extent permitted by Section
6.1(p); and
(w)
Liens granted by
Hellas Gold SA in connection with any streaming agreement or
royalty agreement with respect to any of the Skouries or Perama
Hill projects and Liens granted by Tüprag Metal in connection
with any streaming agreement or royalty agreement, to the extent
permitted by Section 6.1(q).
“Permitted Note Refinancing
Amounts” means available balance sheet cash (but, for
greater certainty, not available balance sheet cash resulting from
a Borrowing under the Revolving Credit Commitments), the proceeds
of the issuance of new Equity Securities of the Borrower, the
proceeds of the Term Loans and the proceeds of the Refinancing
Notes (or a combination thereof).
“Permitted Refinancing
Indebtedness” shall mean any Indebtedness incurred to
Refinance any other Indebtedness (or any Indebtedness previously
issued to Refinance any such Indebtedness), so long as (a) such
refinancing Indebtedness has a weighted average life to maturity
greater than or equal to the weighted average life to maturity of
the Indebtedness being Refinanced, (b) such refinancing
Indebtedness is the obligation of the same Person as that of the
Indebtedness being Refinanced and is not guaranteed by any Person
except to the extent the Indebtedness being Refinanced was
guaranteed by such Person or such Person is otherwise a Subsidiary
Guarantor, (c) such refinancing Indebtedness is secured only to the
extent (if at all), and by the assets, that the Indebtedness being
refinanced was so secured, (d) the incurrence or existence of such
refinancing Indebtedness shall not result in a failure to comply
with Section 6.1(n), (e) such refinancing Indebtedness has the same
(or, from the perspective of the Lenders, more favourable)
subordination provisions, if any, as the Indebtedness being
Refinanced, and (f) all other terms of such refinancing
Indebtedness (including, without limitation, with respect to the
amortization schedules, redemption provisions, maturities,
covenants, defaults and remedies), are not, taken as a whole,
materially less favourable to the respective borrower than those
previously existing with respect to the Indebtedness being
Refinanced.
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“Permitted Unsecured Indebtedness”
means Indebtedness of the Borrower, so long as (i) such
Indebtedness is unsecured, (ii) such Indebtedness does not provide
for guarantees by any Person (other than the Borrower and the
Guarantors), (iii) such Indebtedness is not subject to amortization
and does not mature, in any case at any time prior to the first
anniversary of the Maturity Date, and (iv) the definitive agreement
or indenture governing such Indebtedness shall (A) not include any
financial maintenance covenants, (B) not contain negative covenant
or default provisions which are more restrictive or onerous than
those applicable to the Borrower and its Subsidiaries hereunder,
(C) only include a “change of control” offer to
repurchase covenant if such covenant does not require a repurchase
sooner than the date occurring 60 days after the applicable
triggering event, and (D) only include an “asset sale”
offer to purchase covenant if such covenant permits the Borrower or
a Subsidiary of the Borrower to repay obligations under the Loan
Documents, and terminate the Commitments, before offering to
purchase such Indebtedness. The “default to other
indebtedness” event of default contained in the definitive
agreement or indenture governing such Indebtedness shall provide
for “cross-acceleration” rather than a
“cross-default”, and all other terms of such
Indebtedness (including subordination, if such Indebtedness is
subordinated) shall be (1) customary for a public offering or
private placement of the applicable type of high-yield debt
securities under Rule 144A of the US Securities Act or analogous
Canadian securities legislation, and (2) together with any
documentation relating thereto, reasonably satisfactory to the
Required Lenders.
“Person” includes any natural
person, corporation, company, limited liability company, trust,
joint venture, association, incorporated organization, partnership,
Governmental Authority or other entity.
“Platform” has the meaning set out
in Section 8.1.
“Prepaid Metals Transaction” refers
to any transaction for the sale and purchase of precious metals
entered into between the Borrower and any Lender (or Affiliate of
such Lender) pursuant to which such Lender (or Affiliate of such
Lender) makes an upfront payment to the Borrower as consideration
for the delivery by the Borrower of a fixed quantity of precious
metals.
“Projections” means the financial
projections delivered to HSBC Bank USA, N.A., in connection with
the arrangement and syndication of the Commitments.
“Purchase Money Lien” means a Lien
taken or reserved in property to secure payment of all or part of
its purchase price, provided that such Lien (a) secures an
amount not exceeding the purchase price of such property, (b)
extends only to such property and its proceeds and (c) is
granted prior to or within 90 days after the purchase of such
property.
“Qualified ECP Guarantor” means, in
respect of any Swap Obligation, each Credit Party that has total
assets exceeding $10,000,000 at the time the relevant Credit Party
Guarantee or grant of the relevant security interest becomes
effective with respect to such Swap Obligation or such other Person
as constitutes an “eligible contract participant” under
the Commodity Exchange Act or any regulations promulgated
thereunder and can cause another Person to qualify as an
“eligible contract participant” at such time by
entering into a keepwell under Section 1a(18)(A)(v)(II) of the
Commodity Exchange Act.
“Quarterly Date” means each of the
last day of each of March, June, September and December in each
calendar year.
“Refinance” means to extend,
refinance, renew, replace, substitute or refund.
“Refinanced” shall have a
correlative meaning.
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“Refinancing Indenture” means any
indenture to be entered into between the Borrower and the trustee
thereunder governing any Refinancing Notes, as such Indenture may
be amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time
not in contravention of the terms hereof or the Intercreditor
Agreement.
“Refinancing Notes” means a new series of
senior unsecured notes or second lien notes issued by the Borrower
which matures at least six (6) months after the Maturity Date
(after giving effect to the automatic extension thereof
contemplated by the definition of “Maturity Date”) and
which is used to refinance the 2012 Notes; provided that if the
Refinancing Notes are second lien notes, the Intercreditor
Agreement will be in full force and effect.
“Register” has the meaning set out
in Section 9.4(3).
“Reimbursement Obligations” means,
at any date, the obligations of the Borrower then outstanding in
respect of the Letters of Credit to reimburse the Administrative
Agent for the account of the applicable Issuing Bank for the amount
paid by the applicable Issuing Bank in respect of any drawings
under the Letters of Credit.
“Related Parties” means, with
respect to any Person, such Person’s Affiliates and the
respective directors, officers, employees, agents and advisors of
such Person and of such Person’s Affiliates.
“Release” is to be broadly
interpreted and shall include an actual or potential discharge,
deposit, spill, leak, pumping, pouring, emission, emptying,
injection, escape, leaching, seepage or disposal of a Hazardous
Materials which is or may be in breach of any Environmental
Laws.
“Required Lenders” means, at any
time, Lenders having Exposures and unused Commitments representing
more than 66⅔% of the sum of the total Exposures and unused
Commitments at such time.
“Responsible Officer” means, with
respect to the Borrower, any of the president and chief executive
officer, chief financial officer, chief operating officer or the
vice-president administration and corporate secretary.
“Restricted Intermediary
Shareholder” means each of BCCo, Frontier Pacific
Mining Corporation and Eldorado Gold Coöperatief UA except to
the extent any such Person becomes a Credit Party.
“Restricted Payment” means, with
respect to any Person, any payment by such Person (whether in cash
or in kind, and whether by way of actual payment, set-off,
counterclaim or otherwise):
(a)
of any dividend,
distribution or return of capital with respect to its Equity
Securities;
(b)
on account of the
purchase, redemption, retirement or other acquisition of any of its
Equity Securities or any warrants, options or similar rights with
respect to its Equity Securities;
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(c)
of any principal of
or interest or premium on any Indebtedness of such Person which by
its terms ranks subordinate in right of payment to any liability of
such Person under the Loan Documents;
(d)
of any principal of
or interest or premium on any Indebtedness of such Person to a
holder of Equity Securities of such Person or to an Affiliate of a
holder of Equity Securities of such Person;
(e)
of any management,
consulting or similar fee or any bonus payment or comparable
payment, or by way of gift or other gratuity, to any Affiliate of
such Person or to any director or officer of such Person or any
Affiliate of such Person; and
(f)
for the purpose of
setting apart any property for a sinking, defeasance or other
analogous fund for any of the payments referenced
above.
“Revolving Credit” means the
revolving credit facility established pursuant to the Revolving
Credit Commitments of the Revolving Credit Lenders.
“Revolving Credit Borrowing” means
a Borrowing under the Revolving Credit Commitments.
“Revolving Credit Commitment” has
the meaning set out in Section 2.1(1).
“Revolving Credit Exposure” means,
with respect to any Revolving Lender at any time, the sum of (a)
the U.S.$ Amount of the outstanding principal amount of such
Revolving Lender’s Loans at such time, and (b) such Revolving
Lender’s LC Exposure at such time.
“Revolving Credit Lender” means any
Lender having a Revolving Credit Commitment hereunder or a
Revolving Loan outstanding hereunder.
“Revolving Loans” has the meaning
set out in Section 2.1(1).
“Rolling Period” means each Fiscal
Quarter taken together with the three immediately preceding Fiscal
Quarters.
“Sanctions” means any economic or
financial sanctions or trade embargoes or restrictive measures
enacted, imposed, administered or enforced from time to time by (a)
the U.S. government, including those administered by the Office of
Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Department of the Treasury or
the U.S. Department of State, (b) the Canadian government,
including pursuant to the United Nations Act, Special Economic
Measures Act, Export and Import Permits Act, Freezing Assets of
Foreign Corrupt Officials Act, Criminal Code, Defense Production
Act, Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing
Act, Anti-Terrorism Act or any other applicable Canadian statute or
regulation, (c) the United Nations Security Council, the European
Union, the French Republic, Her Majesty’s Treasury, or the
United Kingdom, or (d) any other applicable Governmental Authority
having jurisdiction over any of the parties hereto.
“S&P” means Standard &
Poor’s Ratings Services.
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“Secured Cash Management Service”
means any Cash Management Services provided by a Secured Cash
Management Provider to a Credit Party from and after the Original
Effective Date.
“Secured Cash Management
Obligations” means all indebtedness arising under or
in connection with any Secured Cash Management
Services.
“Secured Cash Management Provider”
means any Lender or Lender Affiliate in its capacity as a provider
of Cash Management Services. For the avoidance of doubt, a
Person that ceases to be a Lender or Lender Affiliate shall cease
to be a Secured Cash Management Provider.
“Secured Hedge Arrangement” means
any Hedge Arrangement between a Credit Party and Secured Hedge
Counterparty entered into from and after the Original Effective
Date.
“Secured Hedge Counterparty” means
any Person that, at the time of its entry into a Hedge Arrangement
with a Credit Party, is a Lender or a Lender Affiliate. For the
avoidance of doubt, a Person shall remain a Secured Hedge
Counterparty if it ceases to be a Lender or a Lender
Affiliate.
“Secured Hedge Obligations” means
all indebtedness arising under or in connection with any Secured
Hedge Arrangement. The Secured Hedge Obligations owing to a Secured
Hedge Counterparty shall be calculated on an aggregate net basis
after taking into account all amounts owed by such Secured Hedge
Counterparty to the Credit Parties under its Secured Hedge
Arrangements.
“Secured Liabilities” means all
present and future indebtedness, liabilities and obligations of any
and every kind, nature and description (whether direct or indirect,
joint or several, absolute or contingent, mature or unmatured) of
the Credit Parties to the Secured Parties under, in connection with
or with respect to the Loan Documents (including Secured Cash
Management Obligations and Secured Hedge Obligations), and any
unpaid balance thereof.
“Secured Parties” means the
Administrative Agent, the Lenders, the Secured Hedge Counterparties
and the Secured Cash Management Providers.
“Security Documents” means the
Initial Credit Party Guarantees, Initial Security Documents, the
BVCo Guarantee, the BVCo (Greece) Guarantee, the BVCo Security
Documents, the BVCo (Greece) Security Documents, the Canadian
Subsidiary Guarantees, the Canadian Security Agreements, and any
and all other agreements, instruments, confirmations and other
documents now or hereafter executed and delivered by any Credit
Party as security (including by way of guarantee) for the payment
or performance of all or part of Secured Liabilities, as any of the
foregoing may have been, or may hereafter be, amended, modified or
supplemented.
“SG Resources” means SG Resources
B.V., a private limited liability company (besloten vennootschap met beperkte
aansprakelijkheid) under the laws of The Netherlands, having
its official seat in Amsterdam, The Netherlands and its office
address at Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxxxx 000, 0000 XX, Xxxxxxxxx, Xxx
Xxxxxxxxxxx, registered in the trade register under number
33213149.
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“subsidiary” means, with respect to
any Person (the “parent”) at any date, any other
Person (a) of
which securities or other ownership interests representing more
than 50% of the equity or more than 50% of the ordinary voting
power or, in the case of a partnership, more than 50% of the
general partnership interests are, as of such date, owned,
controlled or held, or (b) that is, as of such date, otherwise
Controlled, by the parent or one or more subsidiaries of the
parent.
“Subsidiary” means any subsidiary
of the Borrower.
“Subsidiary Guarantors” means the
collective reference to (i) SG Resources (ii) Tüprag Metal,
(iii) BVCo, (iv) BVCo (Greece), (v) Integra Gold Corp., (vi)
Integra Gold (Québec) Inc., and (vii) any other Canadian
Subsidiary which executes and delivers the Canadian Subsidiary
Guarantee.
“Successor Credit Party” has the
meaning set out in Section 6.1(3).
“Swap Obligation” means, with
respect to any Subsidiary Guarantor, any obligation to pay or
perform under any agreement, contract or transaction that
constitutes a “swap” within the meaning of section
1a(47) of the Commodity Exchange Act.
“Taxes” means all taxes, charges,
fees, levies, imposts and other assessments, including all income,
sales, use, goods and services, value added, capital, capital
gains, alternative, net worth, transfer, profits, withholding,
payroll, employer health, excise, real property and personal
property taxes, and any other taxes, customs duties, fees,
assessments, or similar charges in the nature of a tax, including
Canada Pension Plan and provincial pension plan contributions,
unemployment insurance payments and workers’ compensation
premiums, together with any instalments with respect thereto, and
any interest, fines and penalties with respect thereto, imposed by
any Governmental Authority (including federal, state, provincial,
municipal and foreign Governmental Authorities), and whether
disputed or not.
“Term Credit” means the term credit
established pursuant to the Term Credit Commitments of the Term
Credit Lenders.
“Term Credit Borrowing” means a
Borrowing under the Term Credit Commitments.
“Term Credit Commitments” has the
meaning set out in Section 2.1(2).
“Term Credit Exposure” means, with
respect to any Lender at any time, the U.S. $ Amount of the
outstanding principal amount of such Lender’s Term Loans at
such time.
“Term Credit Lenders” means any
Lender having a Term Credit Commitment hereunder or a Term Loan
outstanding hereunder.
“Termination Date” means the first
date on which (a) all Commitments have expired or been terminated,
(b) the principal of and interest on each Loan and all fees,
indemnities and other amounts payable hereunder shall have been
paid in full, and (c) all Letters of Credit shall have expired or
terminated and all LC Disbursements shall have been
reimbursed.
“Term Loan” has the meaning set out
in Section 2.1(2).
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“Total Assets” means, with respect
to any Person at any time, the amount representing the total assets
of such Person appearing on the balance sheet of such Person as at
the last day of the most recently completed Fiscal Quarter or
Fiscal Year (as applicable) for which financial statements have
been delivered pursuant to Section 5.1(1)(a)or
(b).
“Transactions” means the execution,
delivery and performance by the Credit Parties of the Loan
Documents, the borrowing of Loans and the use of the proceeds
thereof and the issuance of Letters of Credit.
“Transferred Letters of Credit”
means the Letters of Credit listed on Schedule 1.1(e).
“Tüprag Metal” means
Tüprag Metal Madencilik San ve Tic A.Ş., a
company organized under
the laws of the Republic of Turkey.
“Turkish Mines” means the
collective reference to the Kisladag Mine and the Efemçukuru
Gold Project.
“Turkish Share Pledge Agreement”
means the share pledge agreement dated as of October 12, 2011 and
amended as of December 4, 2012, between SG Resources and the
Administrative Agent, as the same may be further amended, restated,
supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time.
“Type”, when used in reference to
any Loan or Borrowing, refers to whether the rate of interest on
such Loan, or on the Loans comprising such Borrowing, is determined
by reference to the Canadian Prime Rate, the Base Rate or the LIBO
Rate or whether such
Borrowing takes the form of a Letter of Credit.
“U.S. Dollars” and
“U.S.$” refer to
lawful money of the United States of America.
“U.S.$ Amount” means, on any day,
in relation to any Loans or Letters of Credit, the sum of (i) the
amount of all such Loans and Letters of Credit that are denominated
in U.S. Dollars, and (ii) the Equivalent Amount of all such Loans
and Letters of Credit that are expressed in any currency other than
U.S. Dollars.
“Wholly-Owned Subsidiary” of a
Person means any subsidiary of such Person of which securities
(except for directors’ qualifying shares) or other ownership
interests representing 100% of the equity or 100% of the ordinary
voting power or 100% of the general partnership or membership
interests are, at the time any determination is being made, owned,
controlled or held by such Person or one or more subsidiaries of
such Person or by such Person and one or more subsidiaries of such
Person. For certainty, Tüprag Metal is a Wholly-Owned
Subsidiary of the Borrower.
“Write-Down and Conversion Powers”
means, with respect to any EEA Resolution Authority, the write-down
and conversion powers of such EEA Resolution Authority from time to
time under the Bail-In Legislation for the applicable EEA Member
Country, which write-down and conversion powers are described in
the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule.
1.2 Classification
of Loans and Borrowings. For purposes of this
Agreement, Borrowings may be classified and referred to by Type
(e.g., a
“LIBO Rate
Borrowing”).
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1.3 Terms
Generally. The definitions of terms herein shall
apply equally to the singular and plural forms of the terms
defined. Whenever the context may require, any pronoun
shall include the corresponding masculine, feminine and neuter
forms. The words “include”,
“includes” and “including” shall be deemed
to be followed by the phrase “without
limitation”. The word “or” is
disjunctive; the word “and” is
conjunctive. The words “to the knowledge of”
means, when modifying a representation, warranty or other statement
of any Person, that the fact or situation described therein is
known by the Person (or, in the case or a Person other than a
natural Person, known by the Responsible Officer of that Person)
making the representation, warranty or other statement, or with the
exercise of reasonable due diligence under the circumstances (in
accordance with the standard of what a reasonable Person in similar
circumstances would have done) would have been known by the Person
(or, in the case of a Person other than a natural Person, would
have been known by such Responsible Officer of that
Person). For the purposes of determining compliance with
or measuring status under any cap, threshold or basket hereunder
denominated in U.S. Dollars, reference shall be had to the
Equivalent Amount of any portion of the underlying component that
is not denominated in U.S. Dollars. Unless the context requires
otherwise (a) any definition of or reference to any agreement,
instrument or other document herein shall be construed as referring
to such agreement, instrument or other document as from time to
time amended, supplemented or otherwise modified (subject to any
restrictions on such amendments, supplements or modifications set
out herein), (b) any reference herein to any statute or any
section thereof shall, unless otherwise expressly stated, be deemed
to be a reference to such statute or section as amended, restated
or re-enacted from time to time, (c) any reference herein to
any Person shall be construed to include such Person’s
successors and permitted assigns, (d) the words
“herein”, “hereof” and
“hereunder”, and words of similar import, shall be
construed to refer to this Agreement in its entirety and not to any
particular provision hereof, (e) all references herein to
Articles, Sections, Exhibits and Schedules shall be construed to
refer to Articles and Sections of, and Exhibits and Schedules to,
this Agreement, and (f) the words “asset” and
“property” shall be construed to have the same meaning
and effect and to refer to any and all tangible and intangible
assets and properties, including cash, securities, accounts and
contract rights. Article and Section headings and the
Table of Contents used herein are for convenience of reference
only, are not part of this Agreement and shall not affect the
construction of, or be taken into consideration in interpreting,
this Agreement. Any reference herein to an action,
document or other matter or thing being “satisfactory to the
Lenders”, “to the Lenders’ satisfaction” or
similar phrases, shall mean that such action, document, matter or
thing must be satisfactory to Lenders constituting the Required
Lenders, unless it is described in Section 9.2(2) (a) - (h),
hereof, in which case it must be satisfactory to each Lender whose
consent is required under the applicable clause.
1.4 Accounting
Terms; GAAP. Except as otherwise expressly
provided herein, all terms of an accounting or financial nature
shall be construed in accordance with GAAP. Except as
otherwise expressly provided herein, all calculations of the
components of the financial information for the purposes of
determining compliance with the financial ratios and financial
covenants contained herein shall be made on a basis consistent with
GAAP in existence from time to time consistently
applied. In the event of a change in GAAP, the Borrower
and the Administrative Agent shall negotiate in good faith to
revise (if appropriate) such ratios and covenants to give effect to
the intention of the parties under this Agreement as at the
Effective Date, and any new financial ratio or financial covenant
shall be subject to approval by the Required
Lenders. Until the successful conclusion of any such
negotiation and approval by the Required Lenders, (a) all
calculations made for the purpose of determining compliance with
the financial ratios and financial covenants contained herein shall
be made on a basis consistent with GAAP in existence immediately
prior to such adoption or change, and (b) financial statements
delivered pursuant to Section 5.1(1) shall be accompanied by a
reconciliation showing the adjustments made to calculate such
financial ratios and financial covenants. Any financial
ratios required to be maintained by the Borrower pursuant to this
Agreement shall be calculated by dividing the appropriate component
by the other component, carrying the result to one place more than
the number of places by which such ratio is expressed in this
Agreement and rounding the result up or down to the nearest number
(with a round-up if there is no nearest number) to the number of
places by which such ratio is expressed in this
Agreement. For greater certainty, notwithstanding the
foregoing, no change shall be made to the financial ratios or the
financial covenants herein as a result of the proposed change to
the accounting treatment for operating leases under GAAP, which is
scheduled to take effect on January 1, 2019.
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1.5 Time. All
time references herein shall, unless otherwise specified, be
references to local time in Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxx. Time is of
the essence of this Agreement and the other Loan
Documents.
1.6 Permitted
Liens. Any reference in any of the Loan Documents
to a Permitted Lien is not intended to subordinate or postpone, and
shall not be interpreted as subordinating or postponing, or as any
agreement to subordinate or postpone, any Lien created by any of
the Loan Documents to any Permitted Lien.
1.7 Amendment
and Restatement of 2016 Credit Agreement. The
parties to this Agreement agree that, upon (i) the execution and
delivery by each of the parties hereto of this Agreement and (ii)
satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 4.1, the terms
and provisions of the 2016 Credit Agreement shall be and hereby are
amended, superseded and restated in their entirety by the terms and
provisions of this Agreement. This Agreement is not
intended to and shall not constitute a novation, payment and
reborrowing or termination of any obligations under the 2016 Credit
Agreement or any other Loan Document. All
“Borrowings” made and “Secured Liabilities”
incurred under the 2016 Credit Agreement which are outstanding on
the Effective Date shall continue as Borrowings and Secured
Liabilities under (and shall be governed by the terms of) this
Agreement and the other Loan Documents. Without limiting
the foregoing, upon the effectiveness hereof: (a) all references in
the “Loan Documents” (as defined in the 2016 Credit
Agreement) to the “Administrative Agent”, the
“Credit Agreement” and the “Loan Documents”
shall be deemed to refer to the Administrative Agent, this
Agreement and the Loan Documents, (b) all obligations constituting
“Secured Liabilities “ owed to any Lender or any
Affiliate of any Lender which are outstanding on the Effective Date
shall continue as Secured Liabilities under this Agreement and the
other Loan Documents, (c) the Administrative Agent shall make such
reallocations, sales, assignments or other relevant actions in
respect of each Lender’s Commitments and Borrowings (if any)
under the 2016 Credit Agreement as are necessary in order that each
such Lender’s Commitments and outstanding Borrowings (if any)
hereunder reflects such Lender’s Applicable Percentage of the
outstanding aggregate Commitments and outstanding Borrowings (if
any) on the Effective Date, and (d) the Liens granted
under the existing Security Documents are in all respects
continuing and in full force and effect and secure, directly or
indirectly, the payment of obligations under this Agreement or
under the guarantees granted by the Subsidiary Guarantors which
executed the applicable Security Document.
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1.8 Québec
Matters. For purposes of any assets, liabilities
or entities located in the Province of Québec and for all
other purposes pursuant to which the interpretation or construction
of this Agreement may be subject to the laws of the Province of
Québec or a court or tribunal exercising jurisdiction in the
Province of Québec, (a) “personal property” shall
include “movable property”, (b) “real
property” or “real estate” shall include
“immovable property”, (c) “tangible
property” shall include “corporeal property”, (d)
“intangible property” shall include “incorporeal
property”, (e) “security interest”,
“mortgage” and “lien” shall include a
“hypothec”, “right of retention”,
“prior claim” , “reservation of ownership”
and a resolutory clause, (f) all references to filing, perfection,
priority, remedies, registering or recording under the Uniform
Commercial Code or a Personal Property Security Act shall include
publication under the Civil Code of Québec, (g) all references
to “perfection” of or “perfected” liens or
security interest shall include a reference to an
“opposable” or “set up” hypothec or other
lien as against third parties, (h) any “right of
offset”, “right of setoff” or similar expression
shall include a “right of compensation”, (i)
“goods” shall include “corporeal movable
property” other than chattel paper, documents of title,
instruments, money and securities, (j) an “agent” shall
include a “mandatary”, (k) “construction
liens” or “mechanics, materialmen, repairmen,
construction contractors or other like Liens” shall include
“legal hypothecs” and “legal hypothecs in favour
of Persons having taken part in the construction or renovation of
an immovable”, (l) “joint and several” shall
include “solidary”, (m) “gross negligence or
wilful misconduct” shall be deemed to be “intentional
or gross fault”, (n) “beneficial ownership” shall
include “ownership on behalf of another as mandatary”,
(o) “easement” shall include “servitude”,
(p) “priority” shall include “rank” or
“prior claim”, as applicable (q) “survey”
shall include “certificate of location and plan”, (r)
“state” shall include “province”, (s)
“fee simple title” shall include “absolute
ownership” and “ownership” (including ownership
under a right of superficies), (t) “accounts” shall
include “claims”, (u) “legal title” shall
include “holding title on behalf of an owner as mandatory or
xxxxx-nom”, (v) “ground lease” shall include
“emphyteusis” or a “lease with a right of
superficies”, as applicable, (w) “leasehold
interest” shall include a “valid lease”, (x)
“lease” shall include a “leasing contract”
and (y) “guarantee” and “guarantor” shall
include “suretyship” and “surety”,
respectively. The parties hereto confirm that it is
their wish that this Agreement and any other document executed in
connection with the transactions contemplated herein be drawn up in
the English language only and that all other documents contemplated
thereunder or relating thereto, including notices, may also be
drawn up in the English language only. Les parties aux présentes confirment que
c’est leur volonté que cette convention et les autres
documents de crédit soient rédigés en langue
anglaise seulement et que tous les documents, y compris tous avis,
envisagés par cette convention et les autres documents peuvent
être rédigés en langue anglaise
seulement.
ARTICLE
2
THE
CREDITS
2.1 Commitments.
(1) Revolving
Credit. Subject
to the terms and conditions set forth herein, each Revolving Credit
Lender commits to make Loans (each such Loan made under this
Section 2.1(1), a “Revolving Loan”) to the Borrower
from time to time during the period commencing on the Effective
Date and ending on the Maturity Date (each such commitment, a
“Revolving Credit
Commitment”), in an aggregate principal amount up to
the amount set forth beside such Lender’s name in
Schedule 1.1(a) under the heading “Revolving Credit
Commitment”; provided that a Revolving
Credit Lender shall not be required to make a Revolving Loan or
otherwise extend credit under its Revolving Credit Commitment if
the making of such Revolving Loan or such extension of credit would
result in (a) such Revolving Lender’s Exposure exceeding such
Revolving Lender’s Commitment, or (b) the aggregate
Revolving Credit Exposures exceeding the aggregate Revolving Credit
Commitments. The Revolving Credit Commitments shall be
reduced by an amount equal to the principal amount of any Prepaid
Metals Transaction. Within the foregoing limits and
subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, the Borrower
may borrow, repay and reborrow Revolving Loans.
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(2) Term
Credit. Subject to the terms and conditions set
forth herein, each Term Credit Lender commits to make Loans (each
such Loan made under this Section 2.1(2), a
“Term Loan”) to
the Borrower from time to time during the period commencing on the
Effective Date and ending on the Final Term Credit Availability
Date (each such commitment, a “Term Credit Commitment”) in an
aggregate principal amount up to the amount set forth beside such
Lender’s name in Schedule 1.1(a) under the heading
“Term Credit Commitment” (as such Schedule read on the
Effective Date); provided
that a Term Credit Lender shall not be required to make a
Term Loan under its Term Credit Commitment if the making of such
Term Loan would result in (a) such Term Lender’s
Exposure exceeding such Term Lender’s Commitment, or
(b) the aggregate Term Credit Exposures exceeding the
aggregate Term Credit Commitments. Any undrawn portion
of any Term Credit Commitment shall be cancelled at the close of
business in Toronto, Ontario on the Final Term Credit Availability
Date. Any amount repaid on account of the Term Loans shall be
permanent and may not be reborrowed. As of the Fifth Amendment
Effective Date, the outstanding principal amounts under the Term
Loans are as set forth under the heading “Term Loans”
in Schedule 1.1(a).
(3) Additional
LC Credit. Subject to the terms and
conditions set forth herein, effective as of the Fifth
Amendment Effective Date, the Additional LC Lenders will assume the
Transferred Letters of Credit and may extend additional credit to
the Borrower by the issuance of additional Letters of Credit (each
such letter of credit made available under this
Section 2.1(1), an “Additional LC”) for the account of
the Borrower or any Subsidiary (as directed by the Borrower), in an
aggregate principal amount up to the amount set forth beside such
Lender’s name in Schedule 1.1(a) under the heading
“Additional LC Credit”. As part of such additional
credit, effective as of the Fifth Amendment Effective Date, the
Transferred Letters of Credit shall be deemed to be outstanding
under the Additional LC Credit and shall be deemed no longer to be
outstanding under the Revolving Credit Commitment, without any
further action on the part of any of the parties
hereto. Thereafter, the Transferred Letters of Credit
may be extended, and other Additional LCs may be issued, at the
request of the Borrower and in the sole discretion on the
Additional LC Lenders, within the limit of the Additional LC
Credit. For greater certainty, except for the assumption of the
Transferred Letters of Credit, the extension of any
Transferred Letter of Credit, and the issuance or extension of any
other Additional LC, shall be within the sole discretion of the
Additional LC Lenders, and may be declined by the Additional LC
Lenders, and any undrawn portion of the Additional LC Credit may be
cancelled by the Additional LC Lenders at any time, for any reason
or for no reason, even if the Borrower is in full compliance with
its obligations under this Agreement.
(4) Purpose. The
proceeds of the Loans and Letters of Credit under the Revolving
Credit Commitment shall be used for working capital and other
general corporate purposes of the Borrower, including capital
expenditures and Permitted Acquisitions. The Term Credit
Commitments will be available for use from the Effective Date until
the Final Term Credit Availability Date to assist in refinancing
the 2012 Notes. If the 2012 Notes have been repaid in
full solely with Permitted Note Refinancing Amounts, (i) the Term
Credit Commitments will be available until the Final Term Credit
Availability Date to fund planned capital expenditures in
accordance with the Borrower’s consolidated “life of
mine” plan, and (ii) any unutilized portion of the Term
Credit Commitments as at the Final Term Credit Availability Date
may be borrowed by the Borrower on that date; provided that (i) the Borrower
satisfies the conditions precedent to additional Borrowings in
Sections 4.2 and 4.3, and (ii) the Borrower uses all
such Borrowings towards such purposes during the following twelve
(12) months. No proceeds of any Loans or Letters of Credit shall be
used to refinance any Indebtedness incurred to finance the
acquisition of any Equity Securities of SG Resources. The
Additional LCs will be used to support the obligations of the
Borrower or any other Subsidiary in respect of its environmental
reclamation obligations in Greece and other purposes which may be
mutually agreed by the Borrower and the Additional LC Lenders from
time to time.
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2.2 Loans
and Borrowings.
(1) Each
Revolving Loan shall be made as part of a Borrowing consisting of
Revolving Loans made by the Revolving Credit Lenders rateably in
accordance with their respective Revolving Credit
Commitments. Each Term Loan shall be made as part of a
Borrowing consisting of Term Loans made by the Term Credit Lenders
rateably in accordance with their respective Term Credit
Commitments. Each Additional LC shall be issued as part
of a Borrowing under the Additional LC Credit and the LC Exposure
thereunder shall be borne by the Additional LC Lenders rateably in
accordance with their respective shares of the Additional LC
Credit. The failure of any Lender to make any Borrowing
required to be made available by it hereunder shall not relieve any
other Lender of its obligations hereunder; provided that the
Commitments of the Lenders are several (and not joint or joint and
several) and no Lender shall be responsible for any other
Lender’s failure to make Loans as required.
(2) Subject
to Sections 2.11 and 2.12, each Revolving Credit Borrowing
shall be comprised entirely of Canadian Prime Loans, Base Rate
Loans, LIBO Rate Loans or Letters of Credit as the Borrower may
request in accordance herewith, and each Term Credit Borrowing
shall be comprised entirely of Canadian Prime Loans, Base Rate
Loans or LIBO Rate Loans as the Borrower may request in accordance
herewith. The Additional LC Credit shall be available only by way
of Additional LCs. Each Lender may at its option make any LIBO Rate
Loan by causing any domestic or foreign branch or Affiliate of such
Lender to make such Loan; provided that any exercise of such option
shall not result in any increased costs for the Borrower or affect
the obligation of the Borrower to repay such Loan in accordance
with the terms of this Agreement.
(3) At
the commencement of each Interest Period for any LIBO Rate
Borrowing, such Borrowing shall be in an aggregate amount that is
an integral multiple of U.S.$1,000,000 and not less than
U.S.$5,000,000. At the time that each Canadian Prime
Borrowing or Base Rate Borrowing is made, such Borrowing shall be
in an aggregate amount that is an integral multiple of
U.S.$1,000,000 or Cdn.$1,000,000, as applicable, and not less than
U.S.$5,000,000 or Cdn.$5,000,000, as applicable; provided that a
Canadian Prime Borrowing or a Base Rate Borrowing may be in an
aggregate amount that is equal to the entire unused balance of the
total applicable Commitments or that is required to finance the
reimbursement of an LC Disbursement. Borrowings of more
than one Type may be outstanding at the same time; provided that
there shall not at any time be more than a total of ten (10) LIBO Rate Borrowings
outstanding.
2.3 Requests
for Borrowings.
(1) Requesting
a Borrowing. To request a Borrowing, the Borrower
shall notify the Administrative Agent of such request in writing
substantially in the form of Exhibit A (each,
a ”Borrowing
Request”) (a) in the case of a LIBO Rate
Borrowing, not later than 2:00 p.m. three (3) Business Days before
the date of the proposed Borrowing, or (b) in the case of a
Canadian Prime Borrowing or a Base Rate Borrowing, not later than
2:00 p.m. two (2) Business Days before the date of the proposed
Borrowing; provided that any such notice of a Canadian Prime
Borrowing or a Base Rate Borrowing to finance the reimbursement of
an LC Disbursement shall not be given later than 1:00 p.m. on the
date of the proposed Borrowing. Letters of Credit shall
be requested in accordance with Section 2.18. Each Borrowing
Request shall be irrevocable. The Administrative Agent
and each Lender are entitled to rely and act upon any Borrowing
Request given or purportedly given by the Borrower, and the
Borrower hereby waives the right to dispute the authenticity and
validity of any such request or resulting transaction once the
Administrative Agent or any Lender has advanced funds or otherwise
extended credit based on such Borrowing Request. Each
Borrowing Request shall specify the following
information:
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(i)
the aggregate
amount of each requested Borrowing, and whether such Borrowing is
to be made under the Revolving Credit Commitments, the Term Credit
Commitments or the Additional LC Credit;
(ii)
the date of such
Borrowing, which shall be a Business Day;
(iii)
whether such
Borrowing is to be a Canadian Prime Borrowing, a Base Rate
Borrowing, a LIBO Rate Borrowing or a Letter of
Credit;
(iv)
in the case of a
LIBO Rate Borrowing, the initial Interest Period to be applicable
thereto, which shall be a period contemplated by the definition of
the term “Interest
Period”; and
(v)
the location and
number of the Borrower’s account to which funds are to be
disbursed, which shall comply herewith.
(2) If
no election as to the Type of Borrowing is specified, then the
requested Borrowing shall be a Canadian Prime Borrowing (if
denominated in Canadian Dollars) or a Base Rate Borrowing (if
denominated in U.S. Dollars). If no election is made as
to the Commitments of the requested Borrowing, the Borrowing shall
be deemed to have been requested under the Revolving Credit
Commitments. If no currency is specified, the Borrowing
shall be denominated in U.S. Dollars. If no Interest
Period is specified with respect to any requested LIBO Rate
Borrowing, then the Borrower shall be deemed to have selected an
Interest Period of 30 days. Promptly following receipt
of a Borrowing Request in accordance with this Section 2.3
(and in any event on the same day), the Administrative Agent shall
advise each Lender of the details thereof and of the amount of such
Lender’s Loan to be made as part of the requested
Borrowing.
(3) Each
Borrowing initially shall be of the Type specified in the
applicable Borrowing Request. Thereafter, the Borrower
may elect to convert a Borrowing to a different Type or to rollover
such Borrowing and, in the case of a LIBO Rate Borrowing, may elect
a new Interest Period therefor, as provided in this
Section 2.3(3). The Borrower may elect different
options with respect to different portions of the affected
Borrowing, in which case each such portion shall be allocated
rateably among the Lenders holding the Loans comprising such
Borrowing, and the Loans comprising each such portion shall be
considered a separate Borrowing. To make an election
pursuant to this Section 2.3(3), the Borrower shall submit to
the Administrative Agent a Borrowing Request specifying such
election by the time that a Borrowing Request would be required
under Section 2.3(1) if the Borrower were requesting a new
Borrowing of the Type resulting from such election to be made on
the effective date of such election. Each such Borrowing
Request shall be irrevocable. In addition to the
information specified in Section 2.3(1), each such Borrowing
Request shall specify the Borrowing to which such request applies
and, if different options are being elected with respect to
different portions thereof, the portions thereof to be allocated to
each resulting Borrowing. For greater certainty, if a
Borrowing is being converted from a Borrowing in one currency to a
Borrowing in another currency, the conversion shall be effected by
way of repayment of the original Borrowing in the currency
originally advanced and re-advance of the new Borrowing in the
currency requested, and not merely by way of book
entry.
(4) In
the absence of a timely and proper election with regard to LIBO
Rate Borrowings, the Borrower shall be deemed to have elected to
convert such LIBO Rate Borrowings to Base Rate Borrowings on the
last day of the Interest Period of the relevant LIBO Rate
Borrowings.
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2.4 Funding
of Borrowings.
(1) Each
Lender shall make each Loan to be made by it hereunder on the
proposed date thereof by wire transfer of immediately available
funds by 12:00 noon, to the account of the Administrative Agent
most recently designated by it for such purpose by notice to the
Lenders. The Administrative Agent shall make such Loans
available to the Borrower by promptly crediting the amounts so
received, in like funds, to an account of the Borrower designated
by the Borrower in the applicable Borrowing Request; provided that Loans made to finance
the reimbursement of an LC Disbursement as provided in
Section 2.18 shall be remitted by the Administrative Agent to
the applicable Issuing Bank.
(2) Unless
the Administrative Agent has received written notice from a Lender
prior to the proposed date of any Borrowing that such Lender will
not make available to the Administrative Agent such Lender’s
share of such Borrowing, the Administrative Agent may assume that
such Lender has made such share available on such date in
accordance with Section 2.4(1) and may, in reliance upon such
assumption, make available to the Borrower a corresponding
amount. In such event, if a Lender has not in fact made
its share of the applicable Borrowing available to the
Administrative Agent, then the Administrative Agent shall seek
repayment of such corresponding amount, firstly, from the
applicable Lender and, secondly, from the Borrower, if the
applicable Lender does not immediately repay such corresponding
amount. The applicable Lender and the Borrower severally
agree to pay to the Administrative Agent forthwith on demand such
corresponding amount with interest thereon, for each day from and
including the date such amount is made available to the Borrower to
but excluding the date of payment to the Administrative Agent, at
the default interest rate applicable to Canadian Prime Loans (if
the unpaid amount is denominated in Canadian Dollars) or to Base
Rate Loans (if the unpaid amount is denominated in U.S.
Dollars). If such Lender pays such amount to the
Administrative Agent, then such amount shall constitute such
Lender’s Loan included in such Borrowing. Any
payment by the Borrower shall be made without prejudice to any
claim the Borrower may have against a Defaulting
Lender.
2.5 Interest.
(1) The
Loans comprising each Canadian Prime Borrowing shall bear interest
(computed on the basis of the actual number of days elapsed over a
year of 365 days or 366 days, as the case may be) at a rate per
annum equal to the Canadian Prime Rate plus the Applicable Margin
from time to time in effect. The Loans comprising each
Base Rate Borrowing shall bear interest (computed on the basis of
the actual number of days elapsed over a year of 365 days or 366
days, as the case may be) at a rate per annum equal to the Base
Rate plus the Applicable Margin from time to time in
effect. The Loans comprising each LIBO Rate Borrowing
shall bear interest (computed on the basis of the actual number of
days in the relevant Interest Period over a year of 360 days) at
the LIBO Rate for the Interest Period in effect for such LIBO Rate
Borrowing plus the Applicable Margin.
(2) Notwithstanding
the foregoing, if an Event of Default has occurred and is
continuing, the Loans shall bear interest, after as well as before
judgment, at a rate per annum equal to 2% plus the rate otherwise
applicable to such Loan or, in the case of any amount not
constituting principal or interest on a Loan, at a rate equal to 2%
plus the rate otherwise applicable to, in the case of Canadian
Dollar amounts, Canadian Prime Loans, or in the case of U.S. Dollar
amounts, Base Rate Loans.
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(3) Accrued
interest on each Loan shall be payable in arrears on (a) each
applicable Interest Payment Date and (b) upon termination of
the applicable Commitments. In addition, in the event of
any repayment or prepayment of any Loan, accrued interest on the
principal amount repaid or prepaid shall be payable on the date of
such repayment or prepayment. Interest on overdue
amounts shall be payable upon demand.
(4) All
interest hereunder shall be payable for the actual number of days
elapsed (including the first day but excluding the last
day). Any Loan that is repaid on the same day on which
it is made shall bear interest for one day. The
applicable Canadian Prime Rate, Base Rate or LIBO Rate shall be
determined by the Administrative Agent, and such determination
shall be conclusive absent manifest error.
(5) For
the purposes of the Interest Act (Canada) and disclosure
thereunder, whenever any interest or any fee to be paid hereunder
or in connection herewith is to be calculated on the basis of a
360-day or 365-day year, the yearly rate of interest to which the
rate used in such calculation is equivalent is the rate so used
multiplied by the actual number of days in the calendar year in
which the same is to be ascertained and divided by 360 or 365, as
applicable. The rates of interest under this Agreement
are nominal rates, and not effective rates or
yields. The principle of deemed reinvestment of interest
does not apply to any interest calculation under this
Agreement. The Borrower acknowledges and confirms that
Section 2.5(1) satisfies the requirements of Section 4 of the
Interest Act (Canada) to the extent it applies to the expression or
statement of any interest payable under any Loan Document, and that
each Credit Party is able to calculate the yearly rate or
percentage of interest payable under any Loan Document based upon
the methodology set out in Section 2.5(1).
(6) If
any provision of this Agreement would oblige the Borrower to make
any payment of interest or other amount payable to any Lender in an
amount or calculated at a rate which would be prohibited by
applicable Law or would result in a receipt by that Lender of
“interest” at a “criminal rate” (as such
terms are construed under the Criminal Code (Canada)), then,
notwithstanding such provision, such amount or rate shall be deemed
to have been adjusted with retroactive effect to the maximum amount
or rate of interest, as the case may be, as would not be so
prohibited by Law or so result in a receipt by that Lender of
“interest” at a “criminal rate”, such
adjustment to be effected, to the extent necessary (but only to the
extent necessary), as follows:
(a)
first, by reducing
the amount or rate of interest required to be paid to the affected
Lender under Section 2.5; and
(b)
thereafter, by
reducing any fees, commissions, costs, expenses, premiums and other
amounts required to be paid to the affected Lender which would
constitute interest for purposes of section 347 of the Criminal Code
(Canada).
(7) Notwithstanding
anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, if, as a
result of any restatement or other adjustment to the financial
statements delivered under this Agreement (including any adjustment
to unaudited financial statements as a result of subsequent audited
financial statements) or for any other reason, the Borrower or the
Lenders determine that the Net Leverage Ratio as of any applicable
date was inaccurate and, as a result of such occurrence the
Applicable Margins applicable to any Loans or any fees for any
period were lower than would otherwise be the case, then the
Borrower shall immediately and retroactively be obligated to pay to
the Administrative Agent for the account of the applicable Lenders,
promptly on demand by the Administrative Agent (or, if an Event of
Default pursuant to Sections 7.1(g), (h) or (i) shall have occurred
and be continuing, automatically and without further action by the
Administrative Agent), an amount equal to the excess of the amount
of interest and fees that should have been paid by the Borrower for
such period over the amount of interest and fees actually paid by
the Borrower for such period, plus interest on such amount at the
rate otherwise applicable herein. The Borrower’s obligations
under this Section 2.5(7) shall survive the termination of the
Commitments and the repayment of all Indebtedness
hereunder.
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(8) If,
as a result of any restatement or other adjustment to the financial
statements delivered under this Agreement (including any adjustment
to unaudited financial statements as a result of subsequent audited
financial statements) or for any other reason, the Borrower or the
Administrative Agent determines that the Net Leverage Ratio as of
any applicable date was inaccurate and, as a result of such
occurrence the Applicable Margins applicable to any Loans or any
fees for any period were higher than would otherwise be the case,
then the Borrower shall be entitled to recover an amount equal to
the excess of the amount of interest and fees that have been paid
by the Borrower for such period over the amount of interest and
fees which should have been paid by the Borrower for such period,
without interest, by means of a reduction of future interest or
standby fee payments to be made by the Borrower under this
Agreement. This Section 2.5(8) shall survive the termination
of the Commitments and the repayment of all Indebtedness
hereunder.
2.6 Termination
and Reduction of Commitments.
(1) Unless
previously terminated, the availability of additional Borrowings
under (i) the Revolving Credit Commitments and the Additional LC
Credit shall terminate on the Maturity Date, and (ii) the Term
Credit Commitments shall terminate on the Final Term Credit
Availability Date.
(2) The
Borrower may, upon five Business Days prior written notice to the
Administrative Agent, permanently cancel any unused portion of
either Credit, without penalty. The Administrative Agent
shall promptly notify each applicable Lender of the receipt by the
Administrative Agent of any such notice. Any such
cancellation shall be applied rateably in respect of the applicable
Commitments of each Lender. Each notice delivered by the
Borrower pursuant to this Section 2.6(2) shall be
irrevocable.
2.7 Repayment
of Borrowings. The Borrower
hereby unconditionally promises to pay to the Administrative Agent
for the account of the Revolving Credit Lenders and the Additional
LC Lenders, as applicable, the outstanding principal amount of all
Revolving Credit Borrowings under the Revolving Credit and all
Borrowings under the Additional LC Credit (including, in each
case, Cover for any outstanding Letters of Credit) on
the Maturity Date. The Borrower hereby unconditionally
promises to pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of the
Term Credit Lenders the outstanding principal amount of the Term
Loans in six equal semi-annual installments, commencing on the date
which is the earlier of September 30, 2020 and the first Quarterly
Date following the first anniversary of the Effective Date and on
every second Quarterly Date thereafter; provided that if the first
such installment is not payable until September 30, 2020, the sixth
such installment shall instead be due and payable on the Maturity
Date. Any amount remaining unpaid in respect of any
Credit on the Maturity Date shall be due and payable on the
Maturity Date.
2.8 Evidence
of Debt.
(1) 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 Borrowing made by such Lender
hereunder, including the amounts of principal and interest payable
and paid to such Lender from time to time hereunder.
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(2) The
Administrative Agent shall maintain accounts in which it shall
record (a) the amount of each Borrowing made hereunder, the
applicable Commitments under which each Borrowing is made, the
class and Type thereof and, in the case of LIBO Rate Loans, the
relevant Interest Period, applicable thereto, (b) the amount
of any principal or interest due and payable or to become due and
payable from the Borrower to each Lender hereunder, and
(c) the amount of any sum received by the Administrative Agent
hereunder for the account of the Lenders and each Lender’s
share thereof. The Administrative Agent and the Lenders
shall, upon the request of the Borrower, provide to the Borrower
copies of all relevant entries made in the accounts maintained
pursuant to Sections 2.8(1) and (2).
(3) The
entries made in the accounts maintained pursuant to
Sections 2.8(1) and (2) shall be conclusive evidence
(absent manifest error) of the existence and amounts of the
obligations recorded therein; provided that the failure of any
Lender or the Administrative Agent to maintain such accounts or any
error therein shall not in any manner affect the obligation of the
Borrower to repay the Borrowings in accordance with the terms of
this Agreement. In the event of a conflict between the
records maintained by the Administrative Agent and any Lender, the
records maintained by the Administrative Agent shall
govern.
(4) Any
Lender may request that Loans made by it be evidenced by a
promissory note. In such event, the Borrower shall
prepare, execute and deliver to such Lender a promissory note
payable to the order of such Lender (or, if requested by such
Lender, to such Lender and its registered assigns) substantially in
the form of Exhibit D hereto. Thereafter, the Loans
evidenced by such promissory note and interest thereon shall at all
times (including after assignment pursuant to Section 9.4) be
represented by one or more promissory notes in such form payable to
the order of the payee named therein (or, if such promissory note
is a registered note, to such payee and its registered
assigns).
2.9 Prepayments;
Currency Fluctuations.
(1) The
Borrower may, at its option, at any time and from time to time,
prepay the Loans, in whole or in part, upon giving notice to the
Administrative Agent three Business Days’ prior written for
any prepayment of LIBO Rate Loans and one Business
Day’s prior written for any prepayment of Canadian Prime
Loans or Base Rate Loans. Any such notice shall specify
the date and amount of prepayment and whether the prepayment is of
(i) Revolving Loans or Term Loans (or a combination thereof), and
(ii) Canadian Prime Loans, Base Rate Loans, LIBO Rate Loans or any
combination thereof, and, in each case if a combination thereof,
the principal amount allocable to each. If any such
notice is given, the amount specified in such notice shall be due
and payable on the date specified therein. Each
voluntary prepayment of any Canadian Dollar-denominated Loan shall
be in a minimum principal amount of Cdn.$2,000,000 and in an
integral multiple of Canadian $100,000, and each voluntary
prepayment of any U.S. Dollar-denominated Loan shall be in a
minimum principal amount of U.S.$2,000,000 and in an integral
multiple of U.S.$100,000. Any prepayment of the Term
Loans shall be applied against the remaining unpaid
semi-annual instalments in direct order of maturity. No
prepayment of a Term Loan may be reborrowed.
(2) If
at any time the Revolving Credit Exposure of any Revolving Lender
exceeds its Revolving Credit Commitment, the Term Credit Exposure
of any Term Lender exceeds its Term Credit Commitment or the
Additional LC Credit Exposure of any Additional LC Lender exceeds
its portion of the Additional LC Credit (any such excess being
referred to in this Section 2.9 as a “Currency Excess Amount”), then the
Borrower shall immediately pay
to the Administrative Agent, for the account of such Lender, an
amount equal to the Currency Excess Amount with respect to such
Lender to be applied as a prepayment of the Loans and, in the case
of Revolving Lenders or the Additional LC Lenders, as applicable,
(a) the Reimbursement Obligations outstanding to such Lender, and
(b) thereafter as Cover to such Revolving Lender or the
Additional LC Lenders, as applicable, for its LC Exposure in an
amount of such remaining Currency Excess Amount.
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2.10 Fees.
(1) The
Borrower shall pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of
and distribution to each Revolving Lender in accordance with its
Applicable Percentage a standby fee for the period commencing on
the Effective Date to and including the Maturity Date (or such
earlier date as the Revolving Credit Commitments shall have been
terminated entirely) computed at a rate per annum equal to the
Applicable Margin on the average daily excess amount of the
Revolving Commitments over the Revolving Credit
Exposure. The Borrower shall pay to the Administrative
Agent for the account of and distribution to each Term Lender in
accordance with its Applicable Percentage a standby fee for the
period commencing on the Effective Date to and including the Final
Term Credit Availability Date (or such earlier date as the Term
Credit Commitments shall have been terminated entirely) computed at
a rate per annum equal to the Applicable Margin on the average
daily excess amount of the Term Commitments over the Term Credit
Exposure. No standby fees shall be payable in respect of the
Additional LC Credit. The standby fees on the Commitments shall be
payable quarterly in arrears on the first Business Day following
each Quarterly Date, commencing with the first Business Day
following the first Quarterly Date to occur after the Effective
Date and on the date on which the applicable Commitments
terminate. All standby fees shall be computed on the
basis of a year of 365 or 366 days, as the case may be, and shall
be payable for the actual number of days elapsed (including the
first day but excluding the last day).
(2) The
Borrower agrees to pay:
(a)
to the
Administrative Agent (i) for the account of each
Revolving Credit Lender a participation fee with respect to its
participations in Letters of Credit under the Revolving Credit
Commitments, which shall accrue at the Applicable Margin on the
average daily amount of such Revolving Credit Lender’s LC
Exposure (excluding any portion thereof attributable to
unreimbursed LC Disbursements) during the period from and including
the Effective Date to but excluding the later of the date on which
such Revolving Credit Lender’s Commitment terminates and the
date on which such Revolving Credit Lender ceases to have any LC
Exposure under the Revolving Credit Commitments, and (ii) for the
account of each Additional LC Lender a
participation fee with respect to its participations in Letters of
Credit under the Additional LC Credit, which shall accrue at the
Applicable Margin on the average daily amount of such Additional
LC Lender’s LC Exposure (excluding any portion
thereof attributable to unreimbursed LC Disbursements) during the
period from and including the Fifth Amendment Effective Date to but
excluding the date on which such Additional
LC Lender ceases to have any LC Exposure under any
Additional LC; provided, however, that for the purpose of any
Transferred Letter of Credit after it has been transferred to the
Additional LC Credit and assumed by the Additional LC Lenders, the
participation fee shall be payable on the average daily face amount
of the underlying Greek letters of credit supported by such
Transferred Letter of Credit, and not on the average daily amount
of such Additional LC Lender’s LC Exposure in
respect of such Transferred Letter of Credit ;
and
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(b)
to each Issuing
Bank a fronting fee, which shall accrue at 0.25% per annum on the average daily
amount of the LC Exposure of such Issuing Bank (excluding any
portion thereof attributable to unreimbursed LC Disbursements and
without duplication of such Issuing Bank’s Applicable
Percentage of the total LC Exposure in its capacity as a Lender)
during the period from and including the Effective Date to but
excluding the later of the date of termination of the Commitments
and the date on which there ceases to be any LC Exposure; provided
that no fronting fees shall be payable to any Issuing Bank under
the Additional LC Credit while there is only one (1) Lender
thereunder.
The fees payable
pursuant to this Section 2.10(2) shall be payable on the first
Business Day following each Quarterly Date, commencing on the first
such date to occur after the Effective Date; provided that all such
fees shall be payable on the date on which the Revolving
Commitments terminate and any such fees accruing after the date on
which the Revolving Commitments terminate shall be payable on
demand. Any other fees payable to any Issuing Bank
pursuant to this Section 2.10(2) shall be payable within 10
days after demand. All such fees shall be computed on
the basis of a year of 365 days or 366 days, as the case may be,
and shall be payable for the actual number of days elapsed
(including the first day but excluding the last day).
(3) The
Borrower agrees to pay to each of the Administrative Agent and each
Joint Lead Arranger, for its own account, fees payable in the
amounts and at the times separately agreed upon in the Agency Fee
Letter and the Engagement Letter, respectively.
(4) All
fees payable hereunder shall be paid on the dates due, in
immediately available funds, to the Administrative Agent (or to the
applicable Issuing Bank, in the case of fees payable to it) for
distribution, in the case of standby and participation fees, to the
Lenders. Fees paid shall not be refundable except in the
case of manifest error in the calculation of any fee
payment.
(5) The
Equivalent Amount in respect of any Letter of Credit outstanding
for the purposes of calculating such fees shall be determined by
the Administrative Agent on the last Business Day of March, June,
September and December.
2.11 Alternate
Rate of Interest. If prior to the commencement of
any Interest Period for a LIBO Rate Borrowing:
(a)
the Administrative
Agent determines (which determination shall be conclusive absent
manifest error) that adequate and reasonable means do not exist for
ascertaining the LIBO Rate for such Interest Period;
or
(b)
the Administrative
Agent is advised by a Lender that the LIBO Rate for such Interest
Period will not adequately and fairly reflect the cost to such
Lender of making or maintaining its LIBO Rate Loans included in
such Borrowing for such Interest Period; or
(c)
the Administrative
Agent reasonably determines (which determination shall be
conclusive absent manifest error) that quotations of interest rates
for the relevant deposits referred to in the definition of LIBO
Rate are not being provided in the relevant amounts or for the
relevant maturities for purposes of determining rates of interest
for LIBOR Loans as provided herein;
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then
the Administrative Agent shall give notice thereof to the Borrower
and the Lenders by telephone, telecopy or electronic mail as
promptly as practicable thereafter and, until the Administrative
Agent notifies the Borrower and the Lenders that the circumstances
giving rise to such notice no longer exist, (A) any Borrowing
Request that requests the conversion of any Borrowing to, or
continuation of any Borrowing as, a LIBO Rate Borrowing shall be
ineffective, and (B) if any Borrowing Request requests a LIBO Rate
Borrowing, such Borrowing shall be made as a Base Rate Borrowing;
provided that if the circumstances giving rise to such notice do
not affect all the Lenders, then requests by the Borrower for LIBO
Rate Borrowings may be made to Lenders that are not affected
thereby. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if at any time the
Administrative Agent determines (which determination shall be
conclusive absent manifest error) that (i) the circumstances set
forth in Section 2.11(a) have arisen and such circumstances are
unlikely to be temporary, or (ii) the circumstances set forth in
Section 2.11(a) have not arisen but either (w) the supervisor for
the administrator of the IBAISR has made a public statement that
the administrator of the IBAISR is insolvent (and there is no
successor administrator that will continue publication of the
IBAISR), (x) the administrator of the IBAISR has made a public
statement identifying a specific date after which the IBAISR will
permanently or indefinitely cease to be published by it (and there
is no successor administrator that will continue publication of the
IBAISR), (y) the supervisor for the administrator of the IBAISR has
made a public statement identifying a specific date after which the
IBAISR will permanently or indefinitely cease to be published or
(z) the supervisor for the administrator of the IBAISR or a
Governmental Authority having jurisdiction over the Administrative
Agent has made a public statement identifying a specific date after
which the IBAISR shall no longer be used for determining interest
rates for loans, or (iii) syndicated loans currently being
executed, or that include language similar to that contained in
this Section 2.11, are being executed or amended (as applicable) to
incorporate or adopt a new benchmark interest rate to replace the
LIBO Rate, then the Administrative Agent and the Borrower shall
endeavor to establish an alternate rate of interest to the LIBO
Rate (including any mathematical or other adjustments to the
benchmark (if any) incorporated therein) that gives due
consideration to any evolving or then prevailing market convention
for determining a rate of interest for syndicated loans in Canada
or the United States at such time (or, if the Administrative Agent
determines that adoption of any portion of such market practice is
not administratively feasible or that no market practice for the
administration of such alternate rate of interest exists, in such
other manner of administration as the Administrative Agent
determines is reasonably necessary in connection with the
administration of this Agreement), (any such proposed rate, a
“LIBOR Successor
Rate”), together with any proposed LIBOR Successor
Rate Conforming Changes, and shall enter into an amendment to this
Agreement to reflect such alternate rate of interest and such other
related changes to this Agreement, including an adjustment to the
applicable rate (if any), as may be applicable (but for the
avoidance of doubt, such related changes or adjustment shall not
include a reduction of the applicable rate). Notwithstanding
anything to the contrary in Section 9.2, such amendment shall
become effective without any further action or consent of any other
party to this Agreement so long as the Administrative Agent shall
not have received, within five (5) Business Days of the date notice
of such alternate rate of interest is provided to the Lenders, a
written notice from the Required Lenders stating that such Required
Lenders object to such amendment. Until an alternate rate of
interest shall be determined in accordance (but, in the case of the
circumstances described in clause (ii) above, only to the extent
IBAISR for the applicable currency and such Interest Period is not
available or published at such time on a current basis), (x) any
Borrowing that requests the conversion of any Borrowing to, or
continuation of any Borrowing as, a LIBO Rate Borrowing in the
applicable currency or for the applicable Interest Period, as the
case may be, shall be ineffective, and (y) any conversion to or
continuation of a LIBO Rate Borrowing shall be ineffective and such
affected LIBO Rate Borrowing shall be continued as a Base Rate
Borrowing; provided that, if such alternate rate of interest shall
be less than zero, such rate shall be deemed to be zero for the
purposes of this Agreement. Notwithstanding anything else herein,
any definition of LIBOR Successor Rate shall provide that in no
event shall such LIBOR Successor Rate be less than zero for
purposes of this Agreement. For purposes hereof,
“LIBOR Successor Rate
Conforming Changes” means, with respect to any
proposed LIBOR Successor Rate, any conforming changes to the
definition of Base Rate, Interest Period, timing and frequency of
determining rates and making payments of interest and other
administrative matters as may be appropriate, in the discretion of
the Administrative Agent in consultation with the Borrower, to
reflect the adoption of such LIBOR Successor Rate and to permit the
administration thereof by the Administrative Agent in a manner
substantially consistent with market practice (or, if the
Administrative Agent determines that adoption of any portion of
such market practice is not administratively feasible or that no
market practice for the administration of such LIBOR Successor Rate
exists, in such other manner of administration as the
Administrative Agent determines is reasonably necessary in
connection with the administration of this Agreement).
(a)
impose, modify or
deem applicable any reserve, special deposit or similar requirement
against assets of, deposits with or for the account of, or credit
extended by, any Lender; or
(b)
impose on any
Lender or Issuing Bank or the London interbank market any other
condition affecting this Agreement (including the imposition on any
Lender of, or any change to, any Tax or other charge with respect
to its Loans or any Letter of Credit or participation therein, or
its obligation to make Loans or issue or participate in any Letter
of Credit),
and the
result of any of the foregoing shall be to increase the cost to
such Lender of making or maintaining any Loan (or of maintaining
its obligation to make any such Loan) or to increase the cost to
such Lender or such Issuing Bank of participating in, issuing or
maintaining any Letter of Credit or any Loan or to reduce the
amount of any sum received or receivable by such Lender or such
Issuing Bank hereunder (whether of principal, interest or
otherwise), then the Borrower shall pay to such Lender or such
Issuing Bank, as the case may be, such additional amount or amounts
as will compensate such Lender or such Issuing Bank, as the case
may be, for such additional costs incurred or reduction
suffered.
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(2) If
any Lender or Issuing Bank determines that any Change in Law
regarding capital or liquidity requirements has or would have the
effect of reducing the rate of return on such Lender’s or
such Issuing Bank’s capital or liquidity or on the capital or
liquidity of such Lender’s holding company or such Issuing
Bank’s holding company, if any, as a consequence of this
Agreement or the Loans made by, or participations in Letters of
Credit held by such Lender, or the Letters of Credit issued by such
Issuing Bank, to a level below that which such Lender or such
Issuing Bank or such Lender’s or such Issuing Bank’s
holding company could have achieved but for such Change in Law
(taking into consideration such Lender’s or such Issuing
Bank’s policies and the policies of such Lender’s or
such Issuing Bank’s holding company with respect to capital
adequacy and liquidity and such Lender’s desired return on
capital), then from time to time the Borrower shall pay to such
Lender or such Issuing Bank, as the case may be, such additional
amount or amounts as will compensate such Lender or such Issuing
Bank or such Lender’s or such Issuing Bank’s holding
company for any such reduction suffered. Notwithstanding
anything herein to the contrary, (a) all requests, rules,
guidelines, requirements and directives promulgated by the Bank for
International Settlements, and Basel Committee on Banking
Supervision (or any successor or similar authority) or by United
States, Canadian or foreign regulatory authorities, in each case
pursuant to Basel III, and (b) the Xxxx-Xxxxx Xxxx Street Reform and Consumer
Protection Act (United States) and all requests, rules,
guidelines, requirements and directives thereunder or issued in
connection therewith or in implementation thereof, shall in each
case be deemed to be a Change in Law for purposes of this
Section 2.12(2) regardless of the date enacted, adopted,
issued or implemented.
(3) A
certificate of a Lender setting forth the amount or amounts
necessary to compensate such Lender as specified in
Sections 2.12(1) or 2.12(2), together with a brief description
of the Change in Law, shall be delivered to the Borrower by such
Lender, and shall be conclusive absent manifest
error. In preparing any such certificate, a Lender shall
be entitled to use averages and to make reasonable estimates, and
shall not be required to “match contracts” or to
isolate particular transactions. The Borrower shall pay such Lender
the amount shown as due on any such certificate within 10 days
after receipt thereof.
(4) If
any Lender determines that it is unlawful, or that any Governmental
Authority has asserted that it is unlawful, for any Lender or its
applicable lending office to make or maintain any Loan (or to
maintain its obligation to make any Loan), or to participate in,
issue or maintain any Letter of Credit (or to maintain its
obligation to participate in or to issue any Letter of Credit), or
to determine or charge interest rates based upon any particular
rate, then, on notice thereof by such Lender to the Borrower
through the Administrative Agent, any obligation of such Lender
with respect to the activity that is unlawful shall be suspended
until such Lender notifies the Administrative Agent and the
Borrower that the circumstances giving rise to such determination
no longer exist. For the avoidance of doubt, such
suspension shall occur notwithstanding that the activity in
question was unlawful on the Effective Date. Upon
receipt of such notice, the Borrower shall, as soon as reasonably
practicable and in any event within 10 Business Days following a
demand from such Lender (with a copy to the Administrative Agent),
prepay (or, if conversion would avoid the activity that is
unlawful, convert) any Loans, or take any necessary steps with
respect to any Letter of Credit in order to avoid the activity that
is unlawful. Upon any such prepayment or conversion, the
Borrower shall also pay accrued interest on the amount so prepaid
or converted. Each Lender agrees to designate a
different lending office if such designation will avoid the need
for such notice and will not, in the good faith judgment of such
Lender, otherwise be materially disadvantageous to such
Lender.
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2.13 Break
Funding Payments. In the event of (a) the
failure by the Borrower to borrow, convert, continue or prepay any
Loan on the date specified in any notice delivered by the Borrower
pursuant hereto, (b) the payment or conversion of any LIBO
Rate Loan other than on the last day of an Interest Period
(including as a result of an Event of Default), or (c) the
assignment of any Loan (including the assignment of any LIBO Rate
Loan) other than on the last day of the Interest Period applicable
thereto as a result of a request by the Borrower pursuant to
Section 2.17, then, in any such event, the Borrower shall
compensate each Lender for the loss, cost and expense attributable
to such event. In the case of a LIBO Rate Loan, such
loss, cost or expense to any Lender shall be deemed to include an
amount determined by such Lender to be the excess, if any, of
(i) the amount of interest which would have accrued on the
principal amount of such Loan had such event not occurred, at the
LIBO Rate that would have been applicable to such Loan, for the
period from the date of such event to the last day of the then
current Interest Period therefor (or, in the case of a failure to
borrow, convert or continue, for the period that would have been
the Interest Period for such Loan), over (ii) the amount of
interest which would accrue on such principal amount for such
period and the interest rate which such Lender would bid were it to
bid, at the commencement of such period, for U.S. Dollar deposits
of a comparable amount and period from other banks in the
eurodollar market. A certificate of any Lender setting
forth any amount or amounts that such Lender is entitled to receive
pursuant to this Section 2.13 shall be delivered to the
Borrower by such Lender and shall be conclusive absent manifest
error. The Borrower shall pay such Lender the amount
shown as due on any such certificate within 10 days after receipt
thereof.
2.14 Taxes.
(1) Any
and all payments by or on account of any obligation of the Borrower
hereunder shall be made free and clear of and without deduction or
withholding for any Indemnified Taxes; provided that if the
Borrower shall be required to deduct or withhold any Indemnified
Taxes from such payments, then (a) the sum payable shall be
increased as necessary so that, after making all required
deductions or withholdings (including deductions or withholdings
applicable to additional sums payable under this
Section 2.14), the Administrative Agent, Lender or Issuing
Bank (as the case may be) receives an amount equal to the sum it
would have received had no such deduction or withholding been made,
(b) the Borrower shall make such deduction or withholding, and
(c) the Borrower shall pay to the relevant Governmental
Authority in accordance with applicable Law the full amount
deducted or withheld.
(2) In
addition to the payments by the Borrower required by
Section 2.14(1), the Borrower shall pay any and all present or
future stamp or documentary Taxes or any other excise or property
Taxes, charges or similar levies arising from any payment made
hereunder or from the execution, delivery or enforcement of, or
otherwise with respect to, this Agreement and the other Loan
Documents to the relevant Governmental Authority in accordance with
applicable Law.
(3) The
Borrower shall indemnify the Administrative Agent, each Lender and
each Issuing Bank, within 10 days after written demand therefor,
for the full amount of any Indemnified Taxes paid by the
Administrative Agent, such Lender or such Issuing Bank, as the case
may be, on or with respect to any payment by or on account of any
obligation of the Borrower hereunder (including Indemnified Taxes
imposed or asserted on or attributable to amounts payable under
this Section 2.14) and any penalties, interest and reasonable
expenses arising therefrom or with respect thereto, whether or not
such Indemnified Taxes were correctly or legally imposed or
asserted by the relevant Governmental Authority. A
certificate as to the amount of such payment or liability delivered
to the Borrower by a Lender or an Issuing Bank, or by the
Administrative Agent on its own behalf or on behalf of a Lender or
an Issuing Bank, shall be conclusive absent manifest
error.
(4) As
soon as practicable after any payment of Indemnified Taxes by the
Borrower to a Governmental Authority, the Borrower shall deliver to
the Administrative Agent the original or a certified copy of a
receipt issued by such Governmental Authority evidencing such
payment, a copy of the return reporting such payment or other
evidence of such payment reasonably satisfactory to the
Administrative Agent.
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(5) If
a payment made to a Lender under any Loan Document would be subject
to withholding taxes imposed by FATCA or any Canadian equivalent
legislation, regulation or other guidance if such Lender were to
fail to comply with the applicable reporting requirements of FATCA
or any Canadian equivalent legislation, regulation or other
guidance (including those contained in Section 1471(b) or 1472(b)
of the Code), as applicable, or the Income Tax Act, such Lender
shall deliver to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent at the
time or times prescribed by applicable laws and at such time or
times reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative
Agent such documentation prescribed by applicable laws (including
as prescribed by Section 1471(b)(3)(C)(i) of the Code) and such
additional documentation reasonably requested by the Borrower or
the Administrative Agent as may be necessary for such Borrower and
the Administrative Agent to comply with their obligations under
FATCA or any Canadian equivalent legislation, regulation or other
guidance and to determine that such Lender has complied with such
Lender’s obligations under FATCA or any Canadian equivalent
legislation, regulation or other guidance or to determine the
amount to deduct and withhold from such payment. Solely
for purposes of this Section 2.14(5), “FATCA” shall
include any amendments made to FATCA after the date of this
Agreement.
2.15 Payments
Generally; Pro Rata Treatment; Sharing of
Set-offs.
(1) The
Borrower shall make each payment required to be made by it
hereunder (whether of principal, interest, fees or reimbursement of
LC Disbursements, amounts payable under any indemnity contained
herein, or otherwise hereunder) prior to 2:00 p.m., on the date
when due, in immediately available funds, without set-off or
counterclaim. Any amounts received after such time on
any date may, in the discretion of the Administrative Agent, be
deemed to have been received on the next succeeding Business Day
for purposes of calculating interest thereon. All such
payments shall be made to the Administrative Agent at the Payment
Office, except that payments pursuant to Sections 2.10(2)(b),
2.12, 2.13, 2.14 and 9.3 shall be made directly to the Persons
entitled thereto. The Administrative Agent shall
distribute any such payments received by it for the account of any
other Person to the appropriate recipient promptly following
receipt thereof. If any payment hereunder shall be due
on a day that is not a Business Day, the date for payment shall be
extended to the next succeeding Business Day, and, in the case of
any payment accruing interest, interest thereon shall be payable
for the period of such extension, provided that, in the case of any
payment with respect to a LIBO Rate Loan, the date for payment
shall be advanced to the next preceding Business Day if the next
succeeding Business Day is in a subsequent calendar
month. All payments under this Section 2.15 in
respect of Canadian Prime Loans and in respect of Canadian Dollar
denominated Letters of Credit shall be made in Canadian
Dollars. All other payments under this Section 2.15
shall be made in U.S. Dollars.
(2) Repayments
of Loans prior to the Maturity Date may be made so long as the
Borrower has delivered a Repayment Notice in the form of Exhibit F
hereto (i) in the case of a repayment of LIBO Rate Loans, not
later than 2:00 p.m. three Business Days before the date of the
proposed repayment, or (b) in the case of a repayment of
Canadian Prime Loans or Base Rate Loans, not later than 2:00 p.m.
one Business Day before the date of the proposed
repayment.
(3) If
at any time insufficient funds are received by and available to the
Administrative Agent to pay fully all amounts of principal,
unreimbursed LC Disbursements, interest and fees then due
hereunder, such funds shall be applied (a) first, towards
payment of interest and fees then due hereunder, rateably among the
parties entitled thereto in accordance with the amounts of interest
and fees then due to such parties, and (b) second, towards
payment of principal and unreimbursed LC Disbursements then due
hereunder, rateably among the parties entitled thereto in
accordance with the amounts of principal and unreimbursed LC
Disbursements then due to such parties.
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(4) If
an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, and the
maturity of the Loans shall have been accelerated pursuant to
Section 7.1, all payments or proceeds received by the
Administrative Agent hereunder or under any other Loan Document in
respect of any of the Secured Liabilities (including, but not
limited to, Secured Cash Management Obligations and Secured Hedge
Obligations that are owing to any Secured Cash Management Provider
or Secured Hedge Counterparty, as applicable), including, but not
limited to all proceeds received by the Administrative Agent in
respect of any sale, any collection from, or other realization upon
all or any part of the Collateral, shall be applied as
follows:
(a)
first, to the
payment of all reasonable and documented costs and expenses of such
sale, collection or other realization, including reasonable and
documented compensation to the Administrative Agent and its agents
and outside counsel, and all other reasonable and documented
expenses, liabilities and advances made or incurred by the
Administrative Agent in connection therewith, and all amounts for
which the Administrative Agent is entitled to indemnification
hereunder or under any other Loan Document (in its capacity as
Administrative Agent and not as a Lender), and to the payment of
all reasonable and documented costs and expenses paid or incurred
by the Administrative Agent in connection with the exercise of any
right or remedy hereunder or under any other Loan Document, all in
accordance with the terms hereof or thereof;
(b)
second, to the
extent of any excess of such payments or proceeds, to the rateable
payment of any accrued interest, fee or commission due but unpaid
under this Agreement;
(c)
third, to the
extent of any excess of such payments or proceeds, to the rateable
payment of (i) Loans, reimbursement obligations and Cover in
respect of Letters of Credit and other Secured Liabilities
(excluding Secured Hedge Obligations and Secured Cash Management
Obligations), (ii) Secured Hedge Obligations, and (iii) Secured
Cash Management Obligations; and
(d)
fourth, to the
extent of any excess of such payments or proceeds, to the payment
to or upon the order of the Borrower or to whosoever may be
lawfully entitled to receive the same or as a court of competent
jurisdiction may direct.
(5) If
any Secured Party shall, by exercising any right of set-off or
counterclaim or otherwise, obtain payment in respect of any of its
Secured Liabilities resulting in such Secured Party receiving
payment of a greater proportion of the aggregate amount of its
Secured Liabilities than the proportion received by any other
Secured Party on its Secured Liabilities, then the Secured Party
receiving such greater proportion shall purchase (for cash at face
value) participations in the Secured Liabilities owed to other
Secured Parties (as applicable) to the extent necessary so that the
benefit of all such payments shall be shared by the Secured Parties
rateably in accordance with the aggregate amount of their
respective Secured Liabilities; provided that (a) if any such
participations are purchased and all or any portion of the payment
giving rise thereto is recovered, such participations shall be
rescinded and the purchase price restored to the extent of such
recovery, without interest, and (b) this Section 2.15(5)
shall not apply to (i) any payment made by the Borrower pursuant to
and in accordance with the express terms of this Agreement or any
payment obtained by a Lender as consideration for the assignment of
or sale of a participation in any of its Loans or participations in
LC Disbursements to any assignee or participant, other than to the
Borrower or any Subsidiary or Affiliate thereof (as to which the
provisions of this Section 2.15(5) shall apply), or (ii) any
payment made under or in connection with any Secured Hedge
Arrangement or Secured Cash Management Services when no Event of
Default has occurred and is continuing. The Borrower
hereby consents to the foregoing and agrees, to the extent it may
effectively do so under applicable Law, that any Lender acquiring a
participation pursuant to the foregoing arrangements may exercise
against the Borrower rights of set-off and counterclaim with
respect to such participation as fully as if such Lender were a
direct creditor of the Borrower in the amount of such
participation.
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(6) Unless
the Administrative Agent shall have received written notice from
the Borrower prior to the date on which any payment is due to the
Administrative Agent for the account of the Lenders or an Issuing
Bank hereunder that the Borrower will not make such payment, the
Administrative Agent may assume that the Borrower has made such
payment on such date in accordance herewith and may, in reliance
upon such assumption, distribute to the Lenders or the applicable
Issuing Bank, as the case may be, the amount due. In
such event, if the Borrower has not in fact made such payment, then
each of the Lenders or the applicable Issuing Bank, as the case may
be, severally agrees to repay to the Administrative Agent forthwith
on demand the amount so distributed to such Lender or Issuing Bank
with interest thereon, for each day from and including the date
such amount is distributed to it to but excluding the date of
payment to the Administrative Agent, at the applicable rate for
Canadian Prime Loans (if such amount is denominated in Canadian
Dollars) or the applicable rate for Base Rate Loans (if such amount
is denominated in U.S. Dollars).
(7) If
any Lender shall fail to make any payment required to be made by it
pursuant to Section 2.15(6), then the Administrative Agent
may, in its discretion (notwithstanding any contrary provision
hereof), apply any amounts thereafter received by the
Administrative Agent for the account of such Lender to satisfy such
Lender’s obligations under such Section 2.15(6) until
all such unsatisfied obligations are fully paid.
(8) Nothing
in this Agreement shall be deemed to obligate any Lender to obtain
the funds for any Loan in any particular place or manner or to
constitute a representation by any Lender that it has obtained or
will obtain the funds for any Loan in any particular place or
manner.
2.16 Currency
Indemnity. If, for the purposes of obtaining
judgment in any court in any jurisdiction with respect to this
Agreement or any other Loan Document, it becomes necessary to
convert into a particular currency (the “Judgment Currency”) any
amount due under this Agreement or under any other Loan
Document in any currency other than the Judgment Currency (the
“Currency Due”),
then conversion shall be made at the rate of exchange prevailing on
the Business Day before the day on which judgment is
given. For this purpose “rate of exchange” means the rate
at which the Administrative Agent is able, on the relevant date, to
purchase the Currency Due with the Judgment Currency in accordance
with its normal practice at its head office in Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxx. In
the event that there is a change in the rate of exchange prevailing
between the Business Day immediately preceding the day on which the
judgment is given and the date of receipt by the Administrative
Agent of the amount due, the Borrower shall, on the date of receipt
by the Administrative Agent, pay such additional amounts, if any,
or be entitled to receive reimbursement of such amount, if any, as
may be necessary to ensure that the amount received by the
Administrative Agent on such date is the amount in the Judgment
Currency which when converted at the rate of exchange prevailing on
the date of receipt by the Administrative Agent is the amount then
due under this Agreement or such other Loan Document in the
Currency Due. If the amount of the Currency Due which
the Administrative Agent is so able to purchase is less than the
amount of the Currency Due originally due to it, the Borrower shall
indemnify and save the Administrative Agent and the Lenders
harmless from and against all loss or damage arising as a result of
such deficiency. This indemnity shall constitute an
obligation separate and independent from the other obligations
contained in this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, shall
give rise to a separate and independent cause of action, shall
apply irrespective of any indulgence granted by the Administrative
Agent from time to time and shall continue in full force and effect
notwithstanding any judgment or order for a liquidated sum in
respect of an amount due under this Agreement or any other Loan
Document or under any judgment or order.
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2.17 Mitigation
Obligations; Replacement of Lenders.
(1) If
any Lender requests compensation under Section 2.12 or the
Administrative Agent provides written notice in respect of a Lender
pursuant to Section 2.11(b), or if the Borrower is required to
pay any additional amount to any Lender or any Governmental
Authority for the account of any Lender pursuant to
Section 2.14, then such Lender shall use reasonable efforts to
designate a different lending office for funding or booking its
Loans hereunder or to assign its rights and obligations hereunder
to another of its offices, branches or affiliates, if, in the
judgment of such Lender, such designation or assignment
(a) would eliminate or reduce amounts payable pursuant to
Section 2.12 or 2.14 or mitigate the circumstances referred to
in Section 2.11(b), as the case may be, in the future, and
(b) would not subject such Lender to any unreimbursed cost or
expense and would not otherwise be disadvantageous to such
Lender. The Borrower shall pay all reasonable costs and
expenses incurred by any Lender in connection with any such
designation or assignment.
(2) If
any Lender requests compensation under Section 2.12 or the
Administrative Agent provides written notice in respect of a Lender
pursuant to Section 2.11(b), or if the Borrower is required to
pay any additional amount to any Lender or any Governmental
Authority for the account of any Lender pursuant to
Section 2.14, or if any Lender is a Defaulting
Lender, or if any Lender is
a Non-Consenting Lender, then the Borrower may, at its sole expense
(including the processing and recording fee contemplated by
Section 9.4(2)) and effort, upon notice to such Lender and the
Administrative Agent, require such Lender to assign and delegate,
without recourse (in accordance with and subject to the
restrictions contained in Section 9.4), all its interests,
rights and obligations under this Agreement to an assignee that
shall assume such obligations (which assignee may be, another
Lender, if a Lender accepts such assignment); provided that
(a) if such assignee is not otherwise a Lender, the Borrower
shall have received the prior written consent of the Administrative
Agent and the Issuing Banks, which consent shall not unreasonably
be withheld, (b) such Lender shall have received payment of an
amount equal to the outstanding principal of its
Loans and participations in LC Disbursements, accrued
interest thereon, accrued fees and all other amounts payable to it
hereunder from the assignee (to the extent of such outstanding
principal and accrued interest and fees) or the Borrower (in the
case of all other amounts), and (c) in the case of any such
assignment resulting from a claim for compensation under
Section 2.12 or payments required to be made pursuant to
Section 2.14 or the existence of the circumstances referred to
in Section 2.11(b), such assignment will result in a reduction
in such compensation or payments or mitigate such circumstances, as
the case may be. A Lender shall not be required to make
any such assignment and delegation if, prior thereto, as a result
of a waiver by such Lender or otherwise, the circumstances
entitling the Borrower to require such assignment and delegation
cease to apply.
2.18 Letters
of Credit.
(1) General. Subject
to the terms and conditions set out herein, the Borrower may
request the issuance of (i) Letters of Credit denominated in
Canadian Dollars or in U.S. Dollars as an availment of the
Revolving Credit Commitment, and (ii) Letters of Credit denominated
in Euros, Canadian Dollars, U.S. Dollars or such other currency as
the Borrower and the Additional LC Lenders may agree, as an
availment of the Additional LC Credit, in each case in a form
reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent and the
applicable Issuing Bank, at any time and from time to time from and
after the Effective Date (or, in the case of the Additional LC
Credit, from and after the Fifth Amendment Effective Date), in each
case until the Maturity Date. In the event of any
inconsistency between the terms and conditions of this Agreement
and the terms and conditions of any form of letter of credit
application or other agreement submitted by the Borrower to, or
entered into by the Borrower with, the applicable Issuing Bank
relating to any Letter of Credit, the terms and conditions of this
Agreement shall govern. No Issuing Bank is under any
obligation to issue any particular Letter of Credit requested by
the Borrower. For greater certainty, the Additional LC Credit is an
uncommitted credit facility, and therefore no Additional LC Lender
is under any obligation to issue any Additional LC (other than the
Transferred Letters of Credit, the liability for which is being
assumed by the Additional LC Lenders on the Fifth Amendment
Effective Date).
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(2) Notice
of Issuance, Amendment, Renewal, Extension, Certain
Conditions. To request the issuance of a Letter
of Credit (or the amendment, renewal or extension of an outstanding
Letter of Credit), the Borrower shall hand deliver or telecopy (or
transmit by electronic communication, if arrangements for doing so
have been approved by the applicable Issuing Bank) to the
applicable Issuing Bank and the Administrative Agent (at least five
Business Days in advance of the requested date of issuance,
amendment, renewal or extension) a notice requesting the issuance
of a Letter of Credit, or identifying the Letter of Credit to be
amended, renewed or extended, and specifying the date of issuance,
amendment, renewal or extension, the date on which such Letter of
Credit is to expire (which shall comply with Section 2.18(3)),
the amount and currency (Canadian Dollars or U.S. Dollars only in
the case of Letters of Credit under the Revolving Credit, and
Canadian Dollars, U.S. Dollars, Euros or such other currency as the
Borrower and the Additional LC Lenders may agree in the case of
Letters of Credit under the Additional LC Credit) of such Letter of
Credit, the name and address of the beneficiary thereof and such
other information as shall be necessary to prepare, amend, renew or
extend such Letter of Credit. If requested by the
applicable Issuing Bank, the Borrower also shall submit a letter of
credit application on the applicable Issuing Bank’s standard
form in connection with any request for a Letter of
Credit. A Letter of Credit shall be issued, amended,
renewed or extended only if (and upon issuance, amendment, renewal
or extension of each Letter of Credit, the Borrower shall be deemed
to represent and warrant that), after giving effect to such
issuance, amendment, renewal or extension (a) in the case of a
Letter of Credit under the Revolving Credit (i) the aggregate
LC Exposure shall not exceed U.S.$100,000,000, and (ii) the
aggregate Revolving Credit Exposure shall not exceed the total
Revolving Credit Commitments, and (b) ) in the case of Letters of
Credit under the Additional LC Credit, the aggregate
Additional LC Credit Exposure shall not exceed the total Additional
LC Credit.
(3) Expiration
Date. Each Letter of Credit shall expire at or
prior to the close of business on the earlier of (a) the date
that is one year after the date of the issuance of such Letter of
Credit (or, in the case of any renewal or extension thereof, one
year after such renewal or extension) and (b) the date that is
five Business Days prior to the Maturity Date; provided that a
Letter of Credit for which Cover has been provided may expire at
any time within one year after the Maturity Date (and may not be
renewed).
(4) Participations. By
the issuance of a Letter of Credit under the Revolving Credit (or
an amendment to a Letter of Credit under the Revolving Credit
increasing the amount thereof) and without any further action on
the part of the applicable Issuing Bank or the Lenders, such
Issuing Bank hereby grants to each Revolving Credit Lender, and
each Revolving Credit Lender hereby acquires from such Issuing
Bank, a participation in such Letter of Credit equal to such
Revolving Credit Lender’s Applicable Percentage of the
aggregate amount available to be drawn under such Letter of
Credit. In consideration and in furtherance of the
foregoing, each Revolving Credit Lender hereby absolutely and
unconditionally agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent, for the
account of the applicable Issuing Bank, such Revolving Credit
Lender’s Applicable Percentage of each LC Disbursement made
by the applicable Issuing Bank and not reimbursed by the Borrower
on the date due as provided in Section 2.18(5), or of any
reimbursement payment required to be refunded to the Borrower for
any reason. Each Revolving Credit Lender acknowledges
and agrees that its obligation to acquire participations pursuant
to this Section 2.18(4) in respect of Letters of Credit is
absolute and unconditional and shall not be affected by any
circumstance whatsoever, including any amendment, renewal or
extension of any Letter of Credit or the occurrence and continuance
of a Default or reduction or termination of the Revolving Credit
Commitments, and that each such payment shall be made without any
offset, abatement, withholding or reduction whatsoever. By the
issuance of a Letter of Credit under the Additional LC Credit (or
an amendment to a Letter of Credit under the Additional LC Credit
increasing the amount thereof) and without any further action on
the part of the applicable Issuing Bank or the Lenders, such
Issuing Bank hereby grants to each Additional LC Lender, and each Additional
LC Lender hereby acquires
from such Issuing Bank, a participation in such Letter of Credit
equal to such Additional LC Lender’s Applicable Percentage of
the aggregate amount available to be drawn under such Letter of
Credit. In consideration and in furtherance of the
foregoing, each Additional LC Lender hereby absolutely and
unconditionally agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent, for the
account of the applicable Issuing Bank, such Additional
LC Lender’s
Applicable Percentage of each LC Disbursement made by the
applicable Issuing Bank and not reimbursed by the Borrower on the
date due as provided in Section 2.18(5), or of any
reimbursement payment required to be refunded to the Borrower for
any reason. Each Additional LC Lender acknowledges and agrees that
its obligation to acquire participations pursuant to this
Section 2.18(4) in respect of Letters of Credit is absolute
and unconditional and shall not be affected by any circumstance
whatsoever, including any amendment, renewal or extension of any
Letter of Credit or the occurrence and continuance of a Default or
reduction or termination of the Additional LC Commitments, and that each such
payment shall be made without any offset, abatement, withholding or
reduction whatsoever.
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(5) Reimbursement. If
any Issuing Bank shall make any LC Disbursement in respect of a
Letter of Credit, the Borrower shall reimburse such LC Disbursement
by paying to the Administrative Agent an amount equal to such LC
Disbursement (in the currency of the LC Disbursement) not later
than 2:00 p.m. on the date that such LC Disbursement is made, if
the Borrower shall have received notice of such LC Disbursement
prior to 12:00 noon on such date, or, if such notice has not been
received by the Borrower prior to 12:00 noon on such date, then not
later than 2:00 p.m. on (a) the Business Day that the Borrower
receives such notice, if such notice is received prior to 12:00
noon on the day of receipt, or (b) the Business Day
immediately following the day that the Borrower receives such
notice, if such notice is not received prior to 12:00 noon. on the
day of receipt; provided that, in the case of a Letter of Credit
outstanding under the Revolving Credit, the Borrower may, subject
to the conditions to borrowing set out herein, request in
accordance with Section 2.3 that such payment be financed with
a Canadian Prime Borrowing (in the case of Letters of Credit
denominated in Canadian Dollars) or a Base Rate Borrowing (in the
case of Letters of Credit denominated in U.S. Dollars) in an
equivalent amount and, to the extent so financed, the
Borrower’s obligation to make such payment shall be
discharged and replaced by the resulting Canadian Prime Borrowing
or Base Rate Borrowing, as applicable. For greater
certainty, the foregoing proviso does not apply to Additional LCs.
If the Borrower fails to make such payment when due, the
Administrative Agent shall notify each Revolving Credit Lender or
each Additional LC Lender (as applicable) of the applicable LC
Disbursement, the payment then due from the Borrower in respect
thereof and such Revolving Credit Lender’s or Additional LC
Lender’s Applicable Percentage thereof. Promptly
following receipt of such notice, each Revolving Credit Lender or
Additional LC Lender, as applicable, shall pay to the
Administrative Agent its Applicable Percentage of the payment then
due from the Borrower, and the Administrative Agent shall promptly
pay to the applicable Issuing Bank the amounts so received by it
from the Revolving Credit Lenders or the Additional LC Lenders, as
applicable. Promptly following receipt by the
Administrative Agent of any payment from the Borrower pursuant to
this Section 2.18(5), the Administrative Agent shall
distribute such payment to the applicable Issuing Bank or, to the
extent that Revolving Credit Lenders or the Additional LC Lenders,
as applicable, have made payments pursuant to this
Section 2.18(5) to reimburse the applicable Issuing Bank, then
to such Revolving Credit Lenders or the Additional LC Lenders, as
applicable, and the applicable Issuing Bank as their interests may
appear. Any payment made by a Revolving Credit Lender or
an Additional LC Lender, as applicable, pursuant to this
Section 2.18(5) to reimburse any Issuing Bank for any LC
Disbursement (other than the funding of Canadian Prime Borrowings
or Base Rate Borrowings as contemplated above) shall not constitute
a Loan and shall not relieve the Borrower of its obligation to
reimburse such LC Disbursement.
(6) Obligations
Absolute. The Borrower’s obligation to
reimburse LC Disbursements as provided in Section 2.18(5)
shall be absolute, unconditional and irrevocable, and shall be
performed strictly in accordance with the terms of this Agreement
under any and all circumstances whatsoever and irrespective of
(a) any lack of validity or enforceability of any Letter of
Credit or this Agreement, or any term or provision therein or
herein, (b) any draft or other document presented under a
Letter of Credit proving to be forged, fraudulent or invalid in any
respect or any statement therein being untrue or inaccurate in any
respect, (c) payment by the applicable Issuing Bank under a
Letter of Credit against presentation of a draft or other document
that does not comply with the terms of such Letter of Credit, or
(d) any other event or circumstance whatsoever, whether or not
similar to any of the foregoing, that might, but for the provisions
of this Section 2.18, constitute a legal or equitable
discharge of, or provide a right of set-off against, the
Borrower’s obligations hereunder. Neither the
Administrative Agent, the Revolving Credit Lenders, the Additional
LC Lenders nor any Issuing Bank, nor any of their Related Parties,
shall have any liability or responsibility by reason of or in
connection with the issuance or transfer of any Letter of Credit or
any payment or failure to make any payment thereunder (irrespective
of any of the circumstances referred to in the preceding sentence),
or any error, omission, interruption, loss or delay in transmission
or delivery of any draft, notice or other communication under or
relating to any Letter of Credit (including any document required
to make a drawing thereunder), any error in interpretation of
technical terms or any consequence arising from causes beyond the
control of the applicable Issuing Bank; provided that the foregoing
shall not be construed to excuse the applicable Issuing Bank from
liability to the Borrower to the extent of any direct damages (as
opposed to indirect, special, punitive or consequential damages,
claims in respect of which are hereby waived by the Borrower to the
extent permitted by applicable Law) suffered by the Borrower that
are caused by the applicable Issuing Bank’s failure to
exercise care when determining whether drafts and other documents
presented under a Letter of Credit comply with the terms
thereof. In furtherance of the foregoing and without
limiting the generality thereof, the Borrower and the Lenders agree
that, with respect to documents presented which appear on their
face to be in substantial compliance with the terms of a Letter of
Credit, the applicable Issuing Bank may, in its sole discretion,
either accept and make payment upon such documents without
responsibility for further investigation, regardless of any notice
or information to the contrary, or refuse to accept and make
payment upon such documents if such documents are not in strict
compliance with the terms of such Letter of Credit.
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(7) Disbursement
Procedures. The applicable Issuing Bank shall,
promptly following its receipt thereof, examine all documents
purporting to represent a demand for payment under a Letter of
Credit. The applicable Issuing Bank shall promptly
notify the Administrative Agent and the Borrower by telephone
(confirmed in writing) of such demand for payment and whether such
Issuing Bank has made or will make an LC Disbursement thereunder;
provided that any failure to give or delay in giving such notice
shall not relieve the Borrower of its obligation to reimburse the
applicable Issuing Bank and the Revolving Credit Lenders or the
Additional LC Lenders, as applicable, with respect to any such LC
Disbursement.
(8) Interim
Interest. If an Issuing Bank shall make any LC
Disbursement, then, unless the Borrower shall reimburse such LC
Disbursement in full on the date such LC Disbursement is made, the
unpaid amount thereof shall bear interest, for each day from and
including the date such LC Disbursement is made to but excluding
the date that the Borrower reimburses such LC Disbursement, at the
rate then applicable to Canadian Prime Loans (if in Canadian
Dollars) or Base Rate Loans (if in U.S. Dollars, Euros or any other
currency other than Canadian Dollars). Interest accrued pursuant to
this Section 2.18(8) shall be for the account of the
applicable Issuing Bank, except that interest accrued on and after
the date of payment by any Lender pursuant to Section 2.18(5)
to reimburse the applicable Issuing Bank shall be for the account
of such Lender to the extent of such payment.
(9) Addition
of an Issuing Bank. A Lender may become an
additional Issuing Bank hereunder at any time by written agreement
among the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and such
Lender. The Administrative Agent shall notify the
Revolving Credit Lenders or the Additional LC Lenders, as
applicable, of any such additional Issuing Bank.
(10) Replacement
of Issuing Banks. An Issuing Bank may be replaced
at any time by written agreement among the Borrower, the
Administrative Agent, the replaced Issuing Bank and the successor
Issuing Bank (which shall be a Lender). The
Administrative Agent shall notify the Revolving Credit Lenders or
the Additional LC Lenders, as applicable, of any such replacement
of such Issuing Bank. At the time any such replacement
shall become effective, the Borrower shall pay all unpaid fees
accrued for the account of the replaced Issuing
Bank. From and after the effective date of any such
replacement, (a) the successor Issuing Bank shall have all the
rights and obligations of the retiring Issuing Bank under this
Agreement with respect to Letters of Credit to be issued
thereafter, and (b) references herein to the term
“Issuing Bank”
shall be deemed to refer to such successor or to any previous
Issuing Bank, or to such successor and all previous Issuing Banks,
as the context shall require. After the replacement of
an Issuing Bank hereunder, the replaced Issuing Bank shall remain a
party hereto and shall continue to have all the rights and
obligations of an Issuing Bank under this Agreement with respect to
Letters of Credit issued by it prior to such replacement, but shall
not be required to issue additional Letters of Credit.
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(11) Cash
Collateralization. If any Event of Default shall
occur and be continuing, then on the Business Day that the Borrower
receives notice from the Administrative Agent or the Required
Lenders (or, if the maturity of the Loans has been accelerated,
Lenders with LC Exposure representing greater than 66-⅔% of
the total LC Exposure under the Revolving Credit or the Additional
LC Credit, as applicable) demanding the deposit of cash collateral
pursuant to this Section 2.18(11), the Borrower shall deposit
in an account with the Administrative Agent, in the name of the
Administrative Agent and for the benefit of the Revolving Credit
Lenders or the Additional LC Lenders, as applicable, an amount in
cash equal to the applicable LC Exposure as of such date plus any
accrued and unpaid interest thereon; provided that the obligation
to deposit such amount as cash collateral shall become effective
immediately, and such amount to be so deposited shall become
immediately due and payable, without demand or other notice of any
kind, upon the occurrence of any Event of Default with respect to
the Borrower described in Section 7.1(g), 7.1(h) or 7.1(i) and
upon the Maturity Date. Such deposit shall be held by
the Administrative Agent as collateral for the payment and
performance of the obligations of the Borrower under this
Agreement. The Administrative Agent shall have exclusive
dominion and control, including the exclusive right of withdrawal,
over such account. Other than any interest earned on the
investment of such deposits, which investments shall be made at the
option and sole discretion of the Administrative Agent and at the
Borrower’s risk and expense, such deposits shall not bear
interest. Interest or profits, if any, on such
investments shall accumulate in such account. Moneys in
such account shall be applied by the Administrative Agent to
reimburse the Issuing Banks for LC Disbursements for which it has
not been reimbursed and, to the extent not so applied, shall be
held for the satisfaction of the reimbursement obligations of the
Borrower for the applicable LC Exposure at such time or, if the
maturity of the Loans has been accelerated (but subject to the
consent of Lenders with applicable LC Exposure representing greater
than 66-⅔% of the total applicable LC Exposure), be applied
to satisfy other obligations of the Borrower under this
Agreement. If the Borrower is required to provide an
amount of cash collateral hereunder as a result of the occurrence
of an Event of Default, such amount (to the extent not applied as
aforesaid) shall be returned to the Borrower within three Business
Days after all Events of Default have been cured or waived or the
total LC Exposure is reduced to nil.
(12) Transferred
Letters of Credit. The Transferred Letters of Credit shall
be deemed, on the Effective Date, to have been issued hereunder,
such that they constitute Letters of Credit in all respects and,
from and after the Effective Date, shall be subject to the fees set
in Section 2.10(2) which are payable to the Revolving Credit
Lenders. Any fees earned with respect to the Transferred
Letters of Credit for any period prior to the Effective Date shall
be for the exclusive account of the applicable Issuing Bank and the
“Lenders” under the 2016 Credit
Agreement. Any fees received by an Issuing Bank prior to
the Effective Date with respect to the Transferred Letters of
Credit for any period from and after the Effective Date shall be
applied against the fees set out in Section 2.10(2) which are
payable to the Revolving Credit Lenders and shared among the
Revolving Credit Lenders in accordance therewith. The Transferred
Letters of Credit in effect on the Fifth Amendment Effective Date
shall be deemed, on the Fifth Amendment Effective Date, to have
been issued under the Additional LC Credit, such that they
constitute Additional LCs in all respects and, from and after the
Fifth Amendment Effective Date, shall be subject to the fees set in
Section 2.10(2) which are payable to the Additional LC
Lenders. Any fees earned with respect to the Transferred
Letters of Credit for any period prior to the Fifth Amendment
Effective Date shall be for the exclusive account of the applicable
Issuing Bank under the Revolving Credit and the Revolving Credit
Lenders. Any fees received by an Issuing Bank prior to
the Fifth Amendment Effective Date with respect to the Transferred
Letters of Credit for any period from and after the Fifth Amendment
Effective Date shall be applied against the fees set out in Section
2.10(2) which are payable to the Additional LC Lenders and shared
among the Additional LC Lenders in accordance
therewith.
2.19 Defaulting
Lenders. Notwithstanding any provision of this
Agreement to the contrary, if any Lender is a Defaulting Lender,
then the following provisions shall apply to such Lender for so
long as it remains a Defaulting Lender:
(a)
fees shall cease to
accrue pursuant to Section 2.10(1) on the unfunded portion of
the Commitment of such Defaulting Lender;
(b)
the unfunded
portion of the Commitments of such Defaulting Lender shall not be
included in determining whether all Lenders or the Required Lenders
have taken or may take any action hereunder (including any consent
to any amendment or waiver pursuant to Section 9.2); provided
that any waiver or amendment which affects such Defaulting Lender
differently than other Lenders generally shall require the consent
of such Defaulting Lender;
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(c)
any amount owing by
a Defaulting Lender to the Administrative Agent or another Lender
that is not paid when due shall bear interest at the interest rate
applicable to Loans denominated in the applicable currency during
such period;
any amount payable
to such Defaulting Lender hereunder (whether on account of
principal, interest, fees or otherwise and including any amount
that would otherwise be payable to such Defaulting Lender other
than in respect of the assignment of such Defaulting Lender’s
Loans and Commitments) shall, in lieu of being distributed to such
Defaulting Lender, be retained by the Administrative Agent in a
segregated account and, subject to any applicable requirements of
Law, be applied at such time or times as may be determined by the
Administrative Agent (i) first, to the payment of any amounts owing
by such Defaulting Lender to the Administrative Agent hereunder,
(ii) second, pro rata, to the payment of any amounts owing by such
Defaulting Lender to the Issuing Banks hereunder, (iii) third,
to the funding of any Loan in respect of which such Defaulting
Lender has failed to fund its portion thereof as required by this
Agreement, (iv) fourth, held in such account as cash collateral for
future funding obligations of the Defaulting Lender under this
Agreement (the amount of such cash collateral not to exceed the
Commitments of such Defaulting Lender less the outstanding
principal amount of such Defaulting Lender’s Loans),
(v) fifth, to the payment of any other amounts owing to the
Lenders or the Issuing Banks hereunder, (vi) sixth, to the payment
of any amounts owing to the Borrower as a result of any judgment of
a court of competent jurisdiction obtained by the Borrower against
such Defaulting Lender as a result of such Defaulting
Lender’s breach of its obligations under this Agreement, and
(vii) seventh, to such Defaulting Lender or as otherwise
directed by a court of competent jurisdiction; provided that if
such payment is a prepayment of the principal amount of any Loans
or reimbursement obligations in respect of Letters of Credit with
respect to which a Defaulting Lender has funded its participation
obligations, such payment shall be applied solely to prepay the
Loans of, and reimbursement obligations owed to, all Lenders other
than Defaulting Lenders pro rata prior to being applied to the
prepayment of any Loans, or reimbursement obligations owed to, any
Defaulting Lender; and
(e)
if a Defaulting
Lender is an Insolvent Defaulting Lender, any amount payable to
such Defaulting Lender hereunder may (subject to applicable Laws),
in lieu of being distributed pursuant to Section 2.19(d), be
retained by the Administrative Agent to collateralize
indemnification and reimbursement obligations of such Defaulting
Lender hereunder in an amount determined by the Administrative
Agent, acting reasonably.
(i)
all or any part of
the pro rata share of such Defaulting Lender in respect of the
outstanding Letters of Credit shall be reallocated among the
Revolving Credit Lenders which are not Defaulting Lenders (in this
Section 2.19, “Non-Defaulting
Lenders”) in accordance with their respective
Revolving Credit Commitments, provided that any such reallocation
shall not cause any Non-Defaulting Lender to exceed its Revolving
Credit Commitment;
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if the reallocation
described in clause (i) above cannot, or can only partially, be
effected, the Borrower shall within five (5) Business Days
following notice by the Administrative Agent, cash collateralize
for the benefit of the applicable Issuing Bank the Borrower’s
obligations corresponding to such Defaulting Lender’s pro
rata share of the outstanding Letters of Credit (after giving
effect to any partial reallocation pursuant to clause (i) above) in
accordance with the procedures set forth in Section 2.19(h), for so
long as such Letters of Credit are outstanding;
(iii)
upon any
reallocation pursuant to clause (i) above, the fees payable to the
Lenders pursuant to Section 2.10(2) shall be adjusted in accordance
with such Non-Defaulting Lenders’ Revolving Credit
Commitment; and
(iv)
if all or any
portion of such Defaulting Lender’s pro rata share of the
outstanding Letters of Credit is cash collateralized pursuant to
clause (ii) above, then, without prejudice to any rights or
remedies of the applicable Issuing Bank or any other Lender
hereunder, all fees payable under Section 2.10(2) with respect to
such Defaulting Lender’s pro rata share of the outstanding
Letters of Credit shall be payable to such Issuing
Bank.
(g)
so long as any
Lender is a Defaulting Lender, the Issuing Bank shall not be
required to issue, amend or increase any Letter of Credit, unless
it is satisfied that the related exposure and the Defaulting
Lender’s then outstanding pro rata share of the outstanding
Letters of Credit will be 100% covered by the Revolving Credit
Commitments of the Non-Defaulting Lenders and/or cash collateral
will be provided by the Borrower in accordance with Sections
2.19(f)(ii) and (h), and participating interests in any such newly
issued or increased Letter of Credit shall be allocated among
Non-Defaulting Lenders in a manner consistent with
Section 2.19(f) (and such Defaulting Lender shall not
participate therein);
if required by
Section 2.19(f)(ii), the Borrower shall deposit in an account with
the Administrative Agent, in the name of the Administrative Agent
and for the benefit of the Revolving Credit Lenders (the
“LC Collateral
Account”), an amount in cash equal to 105% of the
aggregate amount of the Letters of Credit which has not been
reallocated in accordance with Section 2.19(f)(ii) as of such date
(as may be reduced from time to time) plus accrued and unpaid
interest thereon. Alternatively, the Borrower may, at its option,
provide to the Administrative Agent and for the benefit of the
Lenders a letter of credit in the required amount in form and
substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and issued by a
financial institution acceptable to the Administrative Agent,
acting reasonably (it being understood that any such letter of
credit shall not be a Letter of Credit issued hereunder). Any such
deposit or letter of credit shall be held by the Administrative
Agent as collateral for the payment and performance of the Secured
Liabilities of the Borrower under the Loan Documents. The
Administrative Agent shall have exclusive dominion and control,
including the exclusive right of withdrawal, over such account or
letter of credit. Other than any interest earned on the investment
of such deposits, which investments shall be made at the option and
sole discretion of the Administrative Agent and at the
Borrower’s risk and expense, such deposits shall not bear
interest. Interest or profits, if any, on such investments shall
accumulate in such account. Moneys in such account (or any such
letter of credit provided in lieu of cash collateral) shall be
applied by the Administrative Agent to reimburse the applicable
Issuing Bank for outstanding Letters of Credit for which it has not
been reimbursed and, to the extent not so applied, shall be held
for the satisfaction of the reimbursement obligations of the
Borrower for the outstanding Letters of Credit at such time, until
the expiry date of such Letters of Credit (in which case, to the
extent such Letters of Credit are undrawn when they expire, the
funds shall be returned to the Borrower); and
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(i)
if the
Administrative Agent, the Borrower, and the applicable Issuing Bank
each agrees that a Defaulting Lender has adequately remedied all
matters that caused such Lender to be a Defaulting Lender, then the
LC Exposure of the Revolving Credit Lenders shall be readjusted to
reflect the inclusion of such Revolving Credit Lender’s
Commitment and on such date such Revolving Credit Lender shall
purchase at par such of the Loans of the other Revolving Credit
Lenders as the Administrative Agent shall determine may be
necessary in order for such Revolving Credit Lender to hold such
Loans in accordance with its Commitment. provided that (i) no
adjustments will be made retroactively with respect to fees accrued
or payments made by or on behalf of the Borrower while that Lender
was a Defaulting Lender; and (ii) except to the extent otherwise
expressly agreed by the affected parties, no change hereunder from
Defaulting Lender to Lender will constitute a waiver or release of
any claim of any party hereunder arising from that Lender’s
having been a Defaulting Lender; and
(j)
no reallocation
hereunder shall constitute a waiver or release of any claim of any
party hereunder against a Defaulting Lender arising from that
Lender having become a Defaulting Lender, including any claim of a
Non-Defaulting Lender as a result of such Non-Defaulting
Lender’s increased exposure following such
reallocation.
Sections
2.19(f), (g), (h), (i) and (j) apply, mutatis mutandis, to the extent there
is any Defaulting Lender under the Additional LC Credit. No
Commitment of any other Revolving Credit Lender or Additional LC
Lender, as applicable, in this Section 2.19 shall be increased or
otherwise affected, and, except as otherwise expressly provided in
this Section 2.19, performance by the Borrower of its obligations
hereunder and the other Loan Documents shall not be excused or
otherwise modified as a result of any Lender becoming a Defaulting
Lender. The rights and remedies against a Defaulting Lender under
this Section 2.19 are in addition to other rights and remedies
which the Borrower may have against such Defaulting Lender as a
result of it becoming a Defaulting Lender and which the
Administrative Agent or any other Lender may have against such
Defaulting Lender with respect thereto.
3.1 Representations
and Warranties of the Borrower. In order to
induce the Administrative Agent and the Lenders to enter into this
Agreement, to make any Loans hereunder and to issue any Letters of
Credit hereunder, the Borrower represents and warrants to the
Administrative Agent and each Lender that each statement set forth
in this Article 3 is true and correct:
(1) Organization;
Powers. The Borrower and each of its Material
Subsidiaries is duly organized, validly existing and in good
standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its organization,
has all requisite power and authority to carry on its business as
now and formerly conducted and, except where the failure to do so,
individually or in the aggregate, could not reasonably be expected
to result in a Material Adverse Effect, is qualified to do business
in, and is in good standing in, every jurisdiction where such
qualification is required.
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(2)
Authorization;
Enforceability. The Transactions are within the
Credit Parties’ corporate powers and have been duly
authorized by all necessary corporate and shareholder action, as
applicable. This Agreement and the other Loan Documents
have been duly executed and delivered by each Credit Party (as
applicable) and constitute legal, valid and binding obligations of
each Credit Party (as applicable), enforceable in accordance with
their terms, subject to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency,
reorganization, moratorium or other Laws affecting creditors’
rights generally and subject to general principles of equity,
regardless of whether considered in a proceeding in equity or at
law.
(3) Governmental
Approvals; No Conflicts. The Transactions
(a) do not require any consent or approval of, registration or
filing with, or any other action by, any Governmental Authority,
except as disclosed in Schedule 3.1(3), (b) will not
violate any applicable Law or the charter, by-laws or other
equivalent organizational documents of the Borrower or any Material
Subsidiary or any order of any Governmental Authority,
(c) will not violate or result in a default under any
indenture, agreement or other instrument binding upon the Borrower
or any of its Material Subsidiaries or their respective assets, or
give rise to a right thereunder to require any payment to be made
by the Borrower or any Material Subsidiary, and (d) will not
result in the creation or imposition of any Lien on any asset of
the Borrower or any Material Subsidiary, except for any Lien
arising in favour of the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of
the Lenders, under the Loan Documents.
(4) Financial
Condition; No Material Adverse Effect.
The Borrower has
furnished to the Lenders the consolidated financial statements of
the Borrower as of and for the Fiscal Years ended December 31,
2016 and December 31,
2017, reported on by its auditors. Such financial statements
present fairly, in all material respects, the consolidated
financial position and results of operations and cash flows of the
Borrower as of such dates and for such periods in accordance with
GAAP.
(b)
Since the date of
the most recent audited financial statements referenced in
Section 3.1(4)(a), there has been no event, development or
circumstance that has had or could reasonably be expected to have a
Material Adverse Effect.
(c)
All information
(including that disclosed in all financial statements) pertaining
to the Borrower and its Material Subsidiaries (other than
projections) that has been or will be made available to the
Lenders, the Administrative Agent or the Joint Lead Arrangers by
the Borrower or any representative of the Borrower, taken as a
whole, is or will be, when furnished, complete and correct in all
material respects and does not or will not, when furnished, contain
any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material
fact necessary in order to make the statements contained therein
not materially misleading in light of the circumstances under which
such statements are made.
(d)
The Projections (i)
have been prepared by the Borrower in good faith, (ii) are based on
assumptions believed by the Borrower to be reasonable, (iii) to the
Borrower’s knowledge, are based on the best information
available to the Borrower as of the date of delivery thereof, (iv)
accurately reflect all adjustments required to be made to give
effect to the Transactions, and (v) present fairly on a pro
forma basis the estimated consolidated financial position of the
Borrower, assuming that the Transactions had actually occurred on
the Effective Date. It is agreed that projections are not to be
viewed as facts, that actual results may differ from projections
and such differences may be material.
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(5) Litigation.
(a)
Except as disclosed
in Schedule 3.1(5), and except for environmental-related matters
(which are dealt with in Section 3.1(17), there are no
actions, suits or proceedings (including any Tax-related matter) by
or before any arbitrator or Governmental Authority pending against
or, to the knowledge of the Borrower, threatened against or
affecting the Borrower or any of its Material Subsidiaries
(i) as to which there is a reasonable possibility of an
adverse determination and that, if adversely determined, could
reasonably be expected, individually or in the aggregate, to result
in a Material Adverse Effect, or (ii) that involve this
Agreement, any other Loan Document or the
Transactions.
(b)
Since the date of
this Agreement, there has been no change in the status of the
matters described in Schedule 3.1(5) that, individually or in the
aggregate, has resulted in, or materially increased the likelihood
of, a Material Adverse Effect.
(6) Compliance
with Laws. The Borrower and each of its Material
Subsidiaries is in compliance with all Laws applicable to it or its
property, except where the failure to do so, individually or in the
aggregate, could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material
Adverse Effect. Neither the Borrower nor any Material
Subsidiary has violated or failed to obtain any Authorization
necessary to the ownership of any of its property or assets or the
conduct of its business, which violation or failure could
reasonably be expected to have (in the event that such a violation
or failure were asserted by any Person through appropriate action)
a Material Adverse Effect.
(7) Compliance
with Agreements. Neither the Borrower nor any
Material Subsidiary is in default, nor has any event or
circumstance occurred which, but for the passage of time or the
giving of notice, or both, would constitute a default (in any
respect that would have a Material Adverse Effect), under (a) any
loan or credit agreement, indenture, mortgage, deed of trust,
security agreement or other instrument or agreement evidencing or
pertaining to any Indebtedness of the Borrower or such Material
Subsidiary, or (b) under any other agreement or instrument to which
the Borrower or such Material Subsidiary is a party or by which the
Borrower or any Material Subsidiary is bound. No Default
has occurred and is continuing.
(8) Taxes. The
Borrower and each of its Material Subsidiaries have filed or caused
to be filed all Tax returns and reports required to have been filed
and have paid or caused to be paid all Taxes required to have been
paid by it (including all instalments with respect to the current
period) and has made adequate provision for Taxes for the current
period, except Taxes that are being contested in good faith by
appropriate proceedings and for which such the Borrower or such
Material Subsidiary, as applicable, has set aside on its books
adequate reserves.
(9) Titles
to Real Property. The Borrower and each of its
Material Subsidiaries have indefeasible fee simple title to their
respective owned real properties, and with respect to leased real
properties, indefeasible title to the leasehold estate with respect
thereto, pursuant to valid and enforceable leases, in each case
free and clear of all Liens except Permitted Liens.
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(10) Titles
to Personal Property. The Borrower and each of
its Material Subsidiaries have title to their respective owned
personal properties, and with respect to leased personal
properties, title to the leasehold estate with respect thereto,
pursuant to valid and enforceable leases, free and clear of all
Liens except Permitted Liens.
(11) Pension
Plans and Benefit Plans. The Pension Plans and
the Benefit Plans have each been administered, funded and invested
in accordance with the terms of particular plan, all applicable
Laws including, where applicable, the Income Tax Act and pension
standards legislation, and the terms of all applicable collective
bargaining agreements and employment contracts, except where the
failure to do so could not reasonably be expected to have a
Material Adverse Effect.
(12) Casualties;
Taking of Properties. Since December 31, 2017, neither the
business nor the properties of the Borrower or any of its Material
Subsidiaries has been affected in a manner that has had, or could
reasonably be expected to have, a Material Adverse Effect as a
result of any fire, explosion, earthquake, flood, drought,
windstorm, accident, strike or other labour disturbance, embargo,
requisition or taking of property or cancellation of contracts,
permits or concessions by any domestic or foreign Governmental
Authority, riot, activities of armed forces, or acts of God or of
any public enemy.
(13) Subsidiaries. As
of the Effective Date, Schedule 3.1(13) correctly sets
forth:
(a)
with respect to
each Material Subsidiary (i) its legal name, (ii) its jurisdiction
of organization and (iii) the percentage of its issued and
outstanding Equity Securities of which the Borrower or any other
Subsidiary is the registered and beneficial owner and the name of
each such owner;
(b)
with respect to
each Subsidiary Guarantor (i) its legal name, (ii) its form of
legal entity and jurisdiction of organization, (iii) the issued and
outstanding Equity Securities of each class of such Subsidiary
Guarantor, the registered and beneficial owners thereof and the
percentage of such issued and outstanding Equity Securities owned
by each such owner; and
(c)
a corporate
organizational chart of the Borrower and its
Subsidiaries.
Unless otherwise
indicated in Schedule 3.1(13), as of the Effective Date, there are
no outstanding options, warrants or other rights to purchase Equity
Securities of any Material Subsidiary, and all such Equity
Securities so owned are duly authorized, validly issued, fully paid
and non-assessable, and were issued in compliance with all
applicable federal, provincial or foreign securities and other
Laws, and are free and clear of all Liens, except for Permitted
Liens.
(14) Insurance. The
Borrower and each of its Material Subsidiaries maintain insurance
policies and coverage in compliance with
Section 5.1(9).
(15) Solvency. Neither
the Borrower nor any Material Subsidiary is an “insolvent
person” within the meaning of the BIA (or any similar law of
any applicable jurisdiction).
(16) Material
Contracts. Neither the Borrower nor any Material
Subsidiary is in default under or in breach of any term or
condition of any Material Contract that would have, either
individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse
Effect.
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(17) Environmental
Matters. Except as disclosed to the Lenders in
Schedule 3.1(17):
(a)
Environmental Laws,
Etc. Neither any property of the Borrower or any
Material Subsidiary nor the operations conducted thereon violate
any applicable order of any court or Governmental Authority or any
Environmental Laws, which violation could reasonably be expected to
result in remedial obligations having a Material Adverse Effect,
assuming disclosure to the applicable Governmental Authority of all
relevant facts, conditions and circumstances, if any, pertaining to
the relevant property.
(b)
Hazardous Substances
Carriers. All Hazardous Materials generated at
any and all property of the Borrower or any Material Subsidiary
have been treated, transported, stored and disposed of only in
accordance with all Environmental Laws applicable to them, except
to the extent the failure to have such Hazardous Materials
transported, treated or disposed by such carriers could not
reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, and only
at treatment, storage and disposal facilities maintaining valid
permits under applicable Environmental Laws, which carriers and
facilities have been and are operating in compliance with such
permits, except to the extent the failure to have such Hazardous
Materials treated, transported, stored or disposed at such
facilities, or the failure of such carriers or facilities to so
operate, could not reasonably be expected to have a Material
Adverse Effect or which could not reasonably be expected to result
in remedial obligations having a Material Adverse Effect, assuming
disclosure to the applicable Governmental Authority of all relevant
facts, conditions and circumstances, if any, pertaining to the
relevant property.
(c)
Hazardous Materials
Disposal. The Borrower and each of its Material
Subsidiaries have taken all reasonable steps necessary to determine
that no Hazardous Materials have been disposed of or otherwise
released and there has been no threatened Release of any Hazardous
Materials on or to any property of the Borrower or any Material
Subsidiary other than in compliance with Environmental Laws, except
to the extent the failure to do so could not reasonably be expected
to have a Material Adverse Effect or which could not reasonably be
expected to result in remedial obligations having a Material
Adverse Effect, assuming disclosure to the applicable Governmental
Authority of all relevant facts, conditions and circumstances, if
any, pertaining to the relevant property.
(18) Employee
Matters. There are no strikes, slowdowns, work stoppages or
controversies pending or, to the best knowledge of the Borrower,
threatened against the Borrower or any Material Subsidiary, or
their respective employees, which could reasonably be expected to
have, either individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse
Effect.
(19) Fiscal
Year. The Fiscal Year ends on December 31st of
each calendar year, and the Fiscal Quarters end on the last day of
each of March, June, September and December of each calendar
year.
(20) Intellectual
Property Rights. The Borrower and each of its
Material Subsidiaries is the registered and beneficial owner of,
with good and marketable title, free of all licenses, franchises
and Liens other than Permitted Liens, to all patents, patent
applications, trade marks, trade xxxx applications, trade names,
service marks, copyrights, industrial designs, integrated circuit
topographies, or other rights with respect to the foregoing and
other similar property, used in or necessary for the present and
planned future conduct of its business, without any conflict with
the rights of any other Person, other than for such conflicts as
could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse
Effect.
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(21) Residency
of Borrower for Tax Purposes. The Borrower is a
resident of Canada for tax purposes.
(22) Limited
Subsidiaries. Except as set forth on Schedule
3.1(22), there are no Limited Subsidiaries.
(23) “Know
Your Customer” Information. All materials
and information provided to each of the Lenders in connection with
applicable “know your customer” and AML Legislation are
true and correct.
(24) Notices,
Permits, Etc. All notices, permits, licenses or
similar authorizations, if any, required to be obtained or filed by
the Borrower and its Material Subsidiaries in connection with the
operation or use of any and all property of the Borrower and its
Material Subsidiaries, including but not limited to past or present
treatment, transportation, storage, disposal or Release of
Hazardous Materials into the environment, have been duly obtained
or filed, except to the extent the failure to obtain or file such
notices, permits, licenses or similar authorizations could not
reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, or which
could not reasonably be expected to result in remedial obligations
having a Material Adverse Effect, assuming disclosure to the
applicable Governmental Authority of all relevant facts, conditions
and circumstances, if any, pertaining to the relevant
property.
(25) Anti-Corruption
Laws and Sanctions. None of the Borrower, any of
its Subsidiaries, any director, officer, employee, agent or
Affiliate, of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries is, or is
owned or controlled by Persons that are, (i) the subject of any
Sanctions, or (ii) located, organised or resident in a country or
territory that is, or whose government is, the subject of
Sanctions, which currently includes Cuba, Iran, North
Korea, Crimea, Sudan and Syria. None of the Borrower, nor to the
knowledge of the Borrower, any director, officer, agent, employee,
Affiliate or other person acting on behalf of the Borrower or any
of its Subsidiaries, is aware of or has taken any action, directly
or indirectly, that would result in a violation by such persons of
any applicable anti-bribery, anti-corruption, or anti-money
laundering laws, or regulations in any applicable jurisdiction,
including but not limited to, the United Kingdom Xxxxxxx Xxx 0000
(the “UK Bribery
Act”) and the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of
1977 (the “FCPA”). Furthermore,
the Borrower and, to the knowledge of the Borrower, its Affiliates
have conducted their businesses in compliance with the UK Bribery
Act, the FCPA and similar laws, rules or regulations and have
instituted and maintain policies and procedures designed to ensure,
and which are reasonably expected to continue to ensure, continued
compliance therewith.
(26) EEA
Financial Institutions. No Credit Party is an EEA
Financial Institution.
(27) Security. The
Security Documents are effective to create in favour of the
Administrative Agent for its own benefit and the benefit of the
other Secured Parties, legal, valid and enforceable Liens on, and
security interests in, the Collateral, and (i) when financing
statements and filings in applicable land registry offices or other
public offices in appropriate form are filed in the jurisdictions
specified on Schedule 3.1(27) and (ii) upon the taking of
possession or control by the Lender of the Collateral with respect
to which a security interest may be perfected only by possession or
control (which possession or control shall be given to the
Administrative Agent to the extent possession or control by the
Administrative Agent is required by the Security Documents), the
Liens created by the Security Documents shall constitute valid
perfected first ranking Liens, subject only to Permitted Liens, on,
and security interests in, all right, title and interest of the
grantors thereunder.
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ARTICLE 4
4.1 Conditions
to Effectiveness. The effectiveness of this
Agreement and the obligations of the Lenders to make Loans and of
the Issuing Banks to issue Letters of Credit hereunder are subject
to the satisfaction (or waiver in accordance with Section 9.2)
of the following conditions (the date on which such conditions are
so satisfied or waived being the “Effective Date”):
(1) Execution
of Documents. The Administrative Agent shall have
received from each party hereto either (i) a counterpart of this
Agreement signed on behalf of each party hereto, or (ii) written
evidence satisfactory to the Administrative Agent (which may
include a facsimile or “pdf” transmission of a signed
signature page of this Agreement) that such party has signed a
counterpart of this Agreement.
(2) Credit
Party Guarantees and Security Documents. The
Administrative Agent shall have received the Initial Credit Party
Guarantees, the Initial Security Documents, the BVCo Guarantee, the
BVCo Security Documents, the BVCo (Greece) Guarantee, the BVCo
(Greece) Security Documents, the Canadian Subsidiary Guarantees and
the Canadian Security Agreements, each duly executed and delivered
by the parties thereto.
(3) Confirmations
of Security Interests. The Credit Parties shall
have executed and delivered such amendments, confirmations and
other documents, and taken such other actions, as may be required
by the Administrative Agent, acting reasonably, in connection with
this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby and
thereby, in order to further evidence, preserve or protect the
guarantees under the Initial Credit Party Guarantees, the BVCo
Guarantee, the BVCo (Greece) Guarantee, the Canadian Subsidiary
Guarantees and the Canadian Security Agreements, and the Liens of
the Administrative Agent on the Collateral.
(4) Perfection
of Liens; Stamp Taxes. The Security Documents
shall have been registered (or arrangements for registration
satisfactory to the Administrative Agent shall have been made) in
all offices in which, in the opinion of the Administrative Agent or
its counsel, registration is necessary or of advantage for the
perfection (or the equivalent in the relevant jurisdiction) of the
Liens intended to be created thereby. The Administrative
Agent shall have received and be satisfied with the results of all
lien and other searches conducted by the Administrative Agent and
its counsel with respect to the Credit Parties in all jurisdictions
selected by the Administrative Agent and its
counsel. The Administrative Agent shall have also
received and be satisfied with evidence of the payment of all Taxes
(including stamp taxes) exigible as a result of the execution,
delivery and registration of the Security Documents (and any
confirmation thereof).
(5) Legal
Opinions. The Administrative Agent shall have
received a favourable written opinion of Fasken Xxxxxxxxx DuMoulin LLP,
Ontario counsel to the Borrower covering such matters relating to
the Credit Parties, this Agreement, the other Loan Documents, or
the Transactions as the Lenders shall reasonably request (together
with copies of all factual certificates and legal opinions
delivered to such counsel in connection with such opinion upon
which counsel has relied). The Administrative Agent
shall also have received favourable written opinions of (i)
Çakmak-Gökçe Avukatlık Bürosu, special Turkish
counsel the
Administrative Agent, (ii) Cerrahoğlu Law Firm, special
Turkish counsel to the Borrower and (iii) Xxxxxxxx Chance LLP, special Dutch
counsel the
Administrative Agent, covering such Turkish and Dutch
law matters, as applicable, relating to the Credit Parties, the
Loan Documents or the Transactions as the Lenders shall reasonably
request (together with copies of all factual certificates and legal
opinions delivered to such counsel in connection with such opinion
upon which such counsel has relied). For greater certainty, the
opinions of Cerrahoğlu Law Firm shall include an opinion
confirming that the Initial Credit Party Guarantee provided by
Tüprag Metal remains enforceable against Tüprag Metal
following the execution and delivery of this
Agreement. The Borrower and the Administrative Agent
hereby request each such counsel to deliver such opinions and
supporting materials. All opinions and certificates
referred to in this Section 4.1(5) shall be addressed to the
Administrative Agent and the Lenders and dated the Effective
Date.
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(6) Corporate
Certificates. The Administrative Agent shall have
received:
(a)
certified copies of
the resolutions of the board of directors, general partner, or
shareholders, as applicable, of each Credit Party approving the
Loans, this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, and all other
documents, if any, to which such Credit Party is a party and
evidencing authorization with respect to such documents;
and
(b)
a certificate of an
officer or director of each Credit Party dated as of the Effective
Date and certifying (i) the name, title and true signature of
each officer of such Person authorized to execute this Agreement
(in the case of the Borrower) and the other Loan Documents to which
it is a party, (ii) the name, title and true signature of each
officer of such Person authorized to provide the certifications
required pursuant to this Agreement, including certifications
required pursuant to Section 5.1(1) and Borrowing Requests,
and (iii) that attached thereto is a true and complete copy of
the articles of incorporation and bylaws of such Credit Party (or
analogous documentation), as amended to date, and a recent
certificate of status, certificate of compliance, good standing
certificate or analogous certificate (to the extent available in
the applicable jurisdiction); and
(c)
a Compliance
Certificate confirming compliance with the financial covenants set
forth in Section 5.1(11).
(7) Fees. The
Administrative Agent, the Lenders, and the Joint Lead Arrangers
shall have received all fees and other amounts due and payable on
or prior to the Effective Date, including, to the extent invoiced,
reimbursement or payment of all legal fees and other out-of-pocket
expenses required to be reimbursed or paid by the Borrower
hereunder or under any other Loan Document.
(8) Insurance. The
Administrative Agent shall have received a certificate of insurance
coverage, dated not more than 30 days prior to the Effective Date,
evidencing that the Borrower and its Subsidiaries are carrying
insurance in accordance with Section 5.1(9)
hereof.
(9) No
Cessation of Financing Market. There shall not
have occurred and be continuing on the Effective Date any general
banking moratorium or any practical cessation in the bank or
private debt financing markets, and there shall not have been
introduced any material governmental restrictions imposed on
lending institutions, which materially affect the type of lending
transactions contemplated by this Agreement. No
litigation, order, judgment, injunction or other action or
proceeding shall be threatened or pending by any Person or
Governmental Authority to enjoin, restrict, or prohibit the
completion of the transactions contemplated hereby and by the other
Loan Documents (including the delivery of the Security Documents
and the granting of the Liens in favour of the Administrative Agent
contemplated hereunder) or which may impose any material condition
on the completion thereof, or which could reasonably be expected to
have a Material Adverse Effect, and the Administrative Agent shall
have received an officer’s certificate confirming
same.
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(10) Regulatory
Approval; Consents; Waivers. The Administrative
Agent and the Lenders shall be satisfied that:
(a)
all material
Authorizations (including all approvals listed in Schedule
3.1(3);
(b)
all corporate,
partnership, shareholder and court approvals;
and
(c)
all consents and
waivers,
required to
consummate the Transactions have been obtained and are in full
force and effect, in each case without the imposition of any
burdensome provision, and that all applicable waiting periods shall
have expired without any action being taken or threatened by any
Governmental Authority that would materially restrain, prevent or
otherwise impose material adverse conditions on the Transactions.
The Borrower shall have complied in all material respects with all
applicable securities laws, regulations and policies, all
requirements of all applicable securities regulators and all other
Applicable Laws in connection with the Transactions.
(11) Delivery
of Financial Statements. The Administrative Agent
and the Lenders shall have received (a) the audited
Consolidated financial statements of the Borrower for the Fiscal
Year ended December 31,
2017 and (b) a reconciliation with respect to such Consolidated
financial statements setting forth the EBITDA of any Subsidiary
subject to restrictions of the type referred to in clause (a) of
the definition of Net Income).
(12) Accuracy
of Representations; No Default; No Material Adverse Change.
The representations and warranties of the Borrower set out in this
Agreement shall be true and correct on and as of the Effective
Date. No Default shall have occurred and be continuing. The
Administrative Agent and the Lenders shall be satisfied that,
since the date of the
most recent audited financial statements referenced in
Section 3.1(4)(a), there has not been a Material Adverse
Change.
(13) Indebtedness. The
Transactions contemplated in this Agreement and the other Loan
Documents shall not have caused any event or condition to occur
which has resulted, or which will result, in any Material
Indebtedness (other than Indebtedness being repaid in connection
with the Transactions) becoming due prior to its scheduled maturity
or that permits (with or without the giving of notice, the lapse of
time, or both) the holder or holders of any such Material
Indebtedness or any trustee or agent on its or their behalf to
cause any Material Indebtedness to become due, or to require the
prepayment, repurchase, redemption or defeasance thereof, prior to
its scheduled maturity, or which will result in the creation of any
Liens under any Indebtedness.
(14) Capitalization
Arrangement. The Lenders shall be satisfied with
the capital and corporate structure of the Borrower.
(15) “Know
Your Customer” Information. The
Administrative Agent and the Lenders shall have received all
documentation and other information reasonably requested by the
Administrative Agent or any Lender required under applicable
“know your customer” and anti-money laundering rules
and regulations, including AML Legislation, the USA Patriot Act (Title III of Pub.
L. 107-56 (signed into law October 26, 2001)) and OFAC, all at
least three (3) Business Days prior to the Effective Date provided
such documentation and other information has been requested at
least ten (10) Business Days prior to the Effective
Date.
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(16) Execution
and Delivery of Documents. Each Credit Party
shall have duly authorized, executed and delivered all documents
required hereunder, all in form and substance satisfactory to the
Administrative Agent. Such documents may be delivered to
the Administrative Agent (or its counsel) by way of facsimile or
other means of electronic transmission (i.e., “pdf”),
provided that such number of original copies as may be reasonably
requested shall be delivered by or on behalf of the Borrower to the
Administrative Agent (or its counsel) within 7 days of the
Effective Date.
(17) Availability
Under Revolving Credit Commitments. After giving
effect to any Borrowing under the Revolving Credit Commitments on
the Effective Date, there shall be at least U.S.$100,000,000
remaining unborrowed under the Revolving Credit
Commitments.
(18) Other
Documentation. The Administrative Agent and the
Lenders shall have received such other documents and instruments as
are customary for transactions of this type or as they may
reasonably request.
The obligations of
the Lenders to make Loans and of the Issuing Banks to issue Letters
of Credit hereunder shall not become effective unless each of the
conditions set forth in this Section 4.1 is satisfied (or waived
pursuant to Section 9.2) at or prior to 3:00 p.m. on June 28, 2019
(and, in the event such conditions are not so satisfied or waived
by such time, the Commitments shall terminate at such
time).
4.2 Each
Credit Event. The obligation of each Lender to
make a Loan on the occasion of any Borrowing, and of the Issuing
Banks to issue, amend, renew or extend any Letter of Credit
(including, in each case, on the occasion of the initial Borrowings
hereunder), is subject to the satisfaction of the following
conditions:
(a)
the representations
and warranties of the Borrower set out in this Agreement shall be
true and correct on and as of the date of each such Borrowing as if
made on such date (except where such representation or warranty is
stated to be made as of a particular date);
(b)
at the time of and
immediately after giving effect to such Borrowing, no Default shall
have occurred and be continuing; and
(c)
the Administrative
Agent shall have received a Borrowing Request in the manner and
within the time period required by
Section 2.3.
Each Borrowing
shall be deemed to constitute a representation and warranty by the
Borrower on the date thereof as to the accuracy of the matters
specified in Section 4.2(a) and (b). This
requirement does not apply on the conversion or rollover of an
existing Borrowing provided that the aggregate outstanding
Borrowings will not be increased as a consequence
thereof.
4.3 Special
Condition Precedent to Borrowings under Term Credit
Commitments. The
obligation of each Lender to make any Borrowing available under the
Term Credit Commitments is subject to the repayment in full of the
2012 Notes solely with Permitted Note Refinancing Amounts prior to
or concurrently with such Borrowing.
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ARTICLE 5
as soon as
available and in any event within 90 days after the end of each
Fiscal Year (or, if such date is not a Business Day, the next
Business Day thereafter), (i) the audited Consolidated financial
statements of the Borrower as of the end of and for such Fiscal
Year, setting forth in each case in comparative form the figures
for the previous Fiscal Year, all reported on by independent
auditors of recognized national standing (without a “going
concern” or like qualification or exception and without any
qualification or exception as to the scope of such audit) to the
effect that such Consolidated financial statements present fairly
in all material respects the financial condition and results of
operations of the Borrower on a Consolidated basis and (ii) a
reconciliation with respect to such financial statements setting
forth the EBITDA of any Subsidiary subject to restrictions of the
type referred to in clause (a) of the definition of Net
Income);
as soon as
available and in any event within 45 days after the end of each of
the first three Fiscal Quarters of each Fiscal Year (or, if such
date if not a Business Day, the next Business Day thereafter), the
unaudited Consolidated financial statements of the Borrower as of
the end of and for such Fiscal Quarter and the then elapsed portion
of the Fiscal Year which includes such Fiscal Quarter, setting
forth in each case in comparative form the figures for the
corresponding period or periods of (or, in the case of the balance
sheet, as of the end of) the previous Fiscal Year, all certified by
a Responsible Officer of the Borrower as presenting fairly in all
material respects the financial condition and results of operations
of the Borrower on a Consolidated basis, subject to normal year-end
audit and a reconciliation with respect to such financial
statements setting forth the EBITDA of any Subsidiary subject to
restrictions of the type referred to in clause (a) of the
definition of Net Income);
(c)
concurrently with
the financial statements required pursuant to
Sections 5.1(1)(a) and (b) above, a Compliance
Certificate;
(d)
concurrently with
any delivery of financial statements under Section 5.1(1)(a)
or (b) above, a management discussion and analysis of performance
for that Fiscal Quarter to the corresponding period in the prior
year;
(e)
copies of each
management letter issued to the Borrower by such accountants
promptly following consideration or review thereof by the board of
directors of the Borrower, or any committee thereof (together with
any response thereto prepared by the Borrower);
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copies of all
periodic and other reports, proxy statements and other materials
filed by the Borrower or any Material Subsidiary with any
securities commission, stock exchange or similar entity, and all
materials distributed out of the ordinary course by the Borrower to
its shareholders and which relate to matters in which any Lender or
the Administrative Agent, in such capacities, can reasonably be
expected to have an interest (in each case, promptly after the same
becomes publicly available, it being agreed that the posting by the
Borrower of the foregoing on SEDAR shall satisfy the requirements
of this Section 5.1(1)(f) so long as the Borrower provides the
Administrative Agent with prompt written notice of such
posting);
(g)
promptly after the
Borrower learns of the receipt or occurrence of any of the
following, a certificate of the Borrower, signed by a Responsible
Officer of the Borrower, specifying (i) any event which
constitutes a Default or Event of Default, together with a detailed
statement specifying the nature thereof and the steps being taken
to cure such Default or Event of Default, (ii) the receipt of
any notice from, or the taking of any other action by, the holder
of any promissory note, debenture or other evidence of Indebtedness
of the Borrower or any of its Material Subsidiaries in an amount in
excess of U.S.$10,000,000 with respect to an actual or alleged
default, together with a detailed statement specifying the notice
given or other action taken by such holder and the nature of the
claimed default and what action the Borrower or such Material
Subsidiary is taking or proposes to take with respect thereto,
(iii) any notice of termination or other proceedings or
actions which could reasonably be expected to adversely affect any
of the Loan Documents, (iv) the creation, dissolution, merger
or amalgamation of the Borrower or any Subsidiary that will
constitute a Material Subsidiary, (v) any event or condition
not previously disclosed to the Administrative Agent, which
violates any Environmental Laws and which could potentially, in the
Borrower’s reasonable judgment, have a Material Adverse
Effect and (vi) any other event, development or condition
which may reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse
Effect;
(h)
promptly after the
occurrence thereof, notice of the institution of or any material
adverse development in any action, suit or proceeding or any
governmental investigation or any arbitration before any court or
arbitrator or any Governmental Authority or official against the
Borrower or any Material Subsidiary or any of their respective
material properties which could reasonably be expected to have a
Material Adverse Effect;
(i)
upon request by the
Administrative Agent, a summary of the insurance coverages of the
Borrower and its Material Subsidiaries, in form and substance
reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, and upon
renewal of any insurance policy, a copy of an insurance certificate
summarizing the terms of such policy;
(j)
on or before the
earlier of (x) the 60th day after each
Fiscal Year end, and (y) the 30th day following
approval thereof by the board of directors of the Borrower (i) an
annual consolidated budget approved by the Board of Directors of
the Borrower and an updated financial model with respect to the
Borrower and its Subsidiaries consistent with prior financial
models provided to the Lenders for the following four Fiscal Years,
it being recognized by the Lenders that projections as to future
results are not to be viewed as fact and that the actual results
for the period or periods covered by such projections may differ
from the projected results, and (ii) if available, an updated
“life of mine” plan for the mines of the Borrower and
its Subsidiaries (it being understood that the Borrower generally
updates the “life of mine” plan for all of its mines on
a 12-18 month cycle);
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concurrently with
the delivery of the financial statements under
Section 5.1(1)(a) or (b) above, a supplement to each Schedule
hereto, or any representation herein or in any other Loan Document,
with respect to any matter hereafter arising that, if existing or
occurring at the date of this Agreement, would have been required
to be set forth or described in such Schedule or as an exception to
such representation or that is necessary to correct any information
in such Schedule or representation which has been rendered
inaccurate thereby (and, in the case of any supplements to any
Schedule, such Schedule shall be appropriately marked to show the
changes made therein); provided that (i) no such supplement to any
such Schedule or representation shall amend, supplement or
otherwise modify any Schedule or representation, or be or be deemed
a waiver of any Default or Event of Default resulting from the
matters disclosed therein, except as consented to by the
Administrative Agent and the Required Lenders in writing, and (ii)
no supplement shall be required or permitted as to representations
and warranties that relate solely to the Effective
Date;
(l)
promptly following
receipt thereof, a copy of any independent tailings review report
and any annual audit and safety inspection report; and
(m)
concurrently with
any delivery of financial statements required pursuant to
Section 5.1(1)(a), a summary report of estimated resources and
reserves as at the end of the applicable Fiscal Year, covering each
of the Borrower’s operating properties.
(2) Existence;
Conduct of Business. The Borrower shall, and
shall cause each of its Material Subsidiaries to, do or cause to be
done all things necessary to preserve, renew and keep in full force
and effect its legal existence (subject only to
Section 6.1(3)), and except to the extent that the failure to
do so could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material
Adverse Effect, obtain, preserve, renew and keep in full force and
effect any and all rights, licenses, permits, privileges and
franchises material to the conduct of its business.
(3) Payment
of Obligations. The Borrower shall, and shall
cause each of its Material Subsidiaries to, pay its obligations,
including Tax liabilities, except where (a) the validity or
amount thereof is being contested in good faith by appropriate
proceedings, and (b) the Borrower or the applicable Material
Subsidiary has set aside on its books adequate reserves with
respect thereto in accordance with GAAP.
(4) Maintenance
of Properties. The Borrower shall, and shall
cause each of its Material Subsidiaries to, keep and maintain all
property material to the conduct of its business in good working
order and condition, ordinary wear and tear excepted, except to the
extent that the failure to do so could not reasonably be expected
to have a Material Adverse Effect.
(5) Books
and Records; Inspection Rights. The Borrower
shall, and shall cause each of its Material Subsidiaries to, keep
proper books of record and account in which full, true and correct
entries are made of all dealings and transactions in relation to
its business and activities. The Borrower shall, and
shall cause each of its Material Subsidiaries to, permit any
representatives designated by the Administrative Agent, upon
reasonable prior notice by the Administrative Agent to the
Borrower, to visit and inspect its properties, to examine and make
extracts from its books and records, and to discuss its affairs,
finances and condition with its officers and independent
accountants, all at such reasonable times and as often as
reasonably requested.
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(6) Compliance
with Laws and Material Contracts. The Borrower
shall, and shall cause each of its Material Subsidiaries to, comply
with all Laws and orders of any Governmental Authority applicable
to it or its property and with all of its material contractual
obligations, except where the failure to do so, individually or in
the aggregate, could not reasonably be expected to result in a
Material Adverse Effect. The Borrower shall, and shall
cause each Subsidiary and its and their respective directors,
officers, and employees to, comply with all Anti-Corruption Laws
and Sanctions.
(7) Use
of Proceeds and Letters of Credit. The Commitments and all
Borrowings shall be used for the purposes set forth in Section
2.1(3).
(8)
Further
Assurances. The Borrower shall, and shall cause
each other Credit Party to, cure promptly any defects in the
execution and delivery of the Loan Documents, including this
Agreement. Upon request, the Borrower shall, at its
expense, as promptly as practical, execute and deliver to the
Administrative Agent, all such other and further documents,
agreements and instruments (and any Material Subsidiary or
Subsidiary, as applicable, to take such action) in compliance with
or performance of the covenants and agreements of the Borrower or
any other Credit Party in any of the Loan Documents, including this
Agreement, or to further evidence and more fully describe the
Collateral, or to correct any omissions in any of the Loan
Documents, or more fully to state the security obligations set out
herein or in any of the Loan Documents, or to perfect, protect or
preserve any Liens created pursuant to any of the Loan Documents,
or to make any recordings, to file any notices, or obtain any
consents, all as may be necessary or appropriate in connection
therewith, in the judgment of the Administrative Agent, acting
reasonably.
(9) Insurance. The
Borrower shall, and shall cause each of its Material Subsidiaries
to, maintain or cause to be maintained, with financially sound and
reputable insurers, insurance with respect to their respective
properties and business against such liabilities, casualties, risks
and contingencies and in such types (including business
interruption insurance and flood insurance) and amounts and with
deductibles as are customary in the case of Persons engaged in the
same or similar businesses and similarly situated and in accordance
with any requirement of any Governmental Authority.
(10) Operation
and Maintenance of Property. The Borrower shall,
and shall cause each of its Material Subsidiaries to, manage and
operate its business or cause its business to be managed and
operated (a) in accordance with prudent industry practice in
all material respects and in compliance in all material respects
with the terms and provisions of all applicable licenses, leases,
contracts and agreements, and (b) in compliance with all
applicable Laws of the jurisdiction in which such businesses are
carried on, and all applicable Laws of every other Governmental
Authority from time to time constituted to regulate the ownership,
management and operation of such businesses, except where a failure
to so manage and operate would not have a Material Adverse
Effect.
(11) Financial
Covenants. The Borrower shall:
(a)
Interest Coverage
Ratio. Maintain an Interest Coverage Ratio with
respect to each Rolling Period of not less than
3.00:1.00.
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(b)
Net Leverage Ratio. Maintain
a Net Leverage Ratio with respect to each Rolling Period of not
more than (i) 5.00:1.00 for each Rolling Period up to and including
the Rolling Period ending June 30, 2019; (ii) 4.50:1.00 for the
Rolling Period ending September 30, 2019; (iii) 4.00:1.00 for the
Rolling Period ending December 31, 2019 and (iv) 3.50:1.00 for each
Rolling Period ending after December 31, 2019.
During the period
from the date on which any Refinancing Notes are issued and ending
on the date on which the 2012 Notes are repaid (which period shall
not exceed 35 days), to the extent that any amounts on account of
Indenture Indebtedness are included in the calculation of either
the Interest Coverage Ratio or the Net Leverage Ratio during such
period or compliance with Section 6.1(n) during such period,
Indenture Indebtedness shall only include amounts outstanding under
the Refinancing Notes.
(12) Turkish
Mines. The Borrower shall at all times own,
directly or indirectly, all of the issued and outstanding Equity
Securities of Tüprag Metal (other than the Individual
Shareholders’ Shares (as defined in the Turkish Share Pledge
Agreement). Subject to Sections 6.1(5)(a) through (c), inclusive,
Tüprag Metal shall at all times own each Turkish
Mine.
(13) Repayment
of 2012 Notes. The Borrower shall (i) use all or
part of the proceeds from the Refinancing Notes to repay in full
the Indenture Indebtedness under the 2012 Notes within 35 days
after the date that the Refinancing Notes are issued, and (ii)
provide to the Administrative Agent evidence, in a form
satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, acting reasonably, of
such repayment.
(14) Canadian
Security.
(a)
Canadian Subsidiary
Guarantee. The Borrower shall cause each present
and future Canadian Subsidiary to enter into, or accede to, the
Canadian Subsidiary Guarantee, such that such Person guarantees in
favour of the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Secured
Parties, all Secured Liabilities of the
Borrower.
(b)
Liens. In addition, the
Borrower shall, and shall cause each present and future Canadian
Subsidiary to provide at all times in favour of the Administrative
Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, a first-priority
Lien (subject only to Permitted Liens) over all present and future
personal property and real property of the Borrower or such
Canadian Subsidiary as security for its Secured
Liabilities, together with such supporting materials as may be
required to ensure the perfection or priority of such
Lien.
(c)
Supporting Materials. In
connection with the execution and delivery of any Canadian
Subsidiary Guarantee or Canadian Security Document pursuant to this
Section 5.1(14), the Borrower shall, or shall cause the relevant
Canadian Subsidiary to, deliver to the Administrative Agent such
corporate resolutions, certificates, legal opinions and such other
related documents as shall be reasonably requested by the
Administrative Agent.
(15) Refinancing
Notes Guarantees and Collateral. The Borrower
shall ensure that the Administrative Agent always has the benefit
of a full liability guarantee from any Subsidiary which guarantees
any Refinancing Notes and a prior-ranking Lien in respect of any
collateral which secures the obligations of the Borrower or any
Subsidiary in respect of any Refinancing Notes.
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(a)
any Indebtedness
created hereunder;
(b)
any unsecured
Indebtedness of the Borrower or any Subsidiary, provided that the
aggregate principal amount of Indebtedness permitted by this
Section 6.1(1)(b) shall not exceed U.S.$150,000,000 or the
Equivalent Amount thereof at any time;
(c)
any Indebtedness
described in Schedule 6.1(1);
(d)
any Indebtedness
(i) of the Borrower to any Subsidiary or (ii) of any Material
Subsidiary to the Borrower or to any other Subsidiary, provided
that in the case of any Indebtedness of a Credit Party to a
Subsidiary that is not a Credit Party, such non-Credit Party
Subsidiary shall have become a party to the Intercompany
Subordination Agreement;
any Guarantee (i)
by the Borrower of Indebtedness of any Subsidiary or (ii) by any
Material Subsidiary of Indebtedness of the Borrower or any other
Subsidiary; provided
that (A) such Indebtedness is permitted under this
Agreement, and (B) this Section 6.1(1)(e) does not apply to any
Indebtedness contemplated by 6.1(1)(o);
(g)
any
Indebtedness
(i)
of any Person that
becomes a Material Subsidiary after the date hereof;
or
(ii)
assumed by a
Material Subsidiary after the date hereof,
provided that such
Indebtedness exists at the time such Person becomes a Material
Subsidiary and is not created in contemplation of or in connection
with such Person becoming a Material Subsidiary;
(h)
any Indebtedness in
respect of Hedge Arrangements entered into in accordance with
Section 6.1(8);
(i)
Secured Cash
Management Obligations;
(j)
any Indebtedness in
respect of performance bonds, surety bonds, appeal bonds,
completion guarantees or like instruments incurred in the ordinary
course of business;
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(l)
trade payables and
other accrued liabilities incurred in the ordinary course of
business;
(n)
Permitted Unsecured
Indebtedness in an aggregate principal amount at any time
outstanding not to exceed U.S.$100,000,000; provided that (i) no Default or Event of
Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom,
and (ii) after giving pro forma effect to the incurrence of such
Indebtedness, the Borrower is in compliance with the financial
covenants in Section 5.1(11);
(p)
Indebtedness of the
Borrower in favour of any Lender (or any Affiliate of any Lender)
in the aggregate principal amount not exceeding U.S.$100,000,000
incurred pursuant to Prepaid Metals Transactions; and
(q)
Indebtedness
arising under any streaming agreement or royalty agreement relating
to either of the Skouries or Perama Hills projects or either
Turkish Mine; provided that no such
Indebtedness is guaranteed by any other Credit Party, and any such
Indebtedness relating to either Turkish Mine shall be subject to a
maximum of 10% of projected gold production of such Turkish Mine,
as specified in the most recent consolidated “life of
mine” plan of the Borrower.
For greater
certainty, although the Intercreditor Agreement contemplates the
possibility of “Other First Priority Lien Obligations”
and “Future Second Lien Indebtedness” (each as defined
in the Intercreditor Agreement), nothing in this Agreement permits
the incurrence of any “Other First Priority Lien
Obligations” or “Future Second Lien
Indebtedness”.
(2) Liens. The
Borrower shall not, and shall not permit any Material Subsidiary
to, create, incur, assume or permit to exist any Lien on any
property or asset now owned or hereafter acquired by the Borrower
or any Material Subsidiary except Permitted
Liens. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary
contained herein, the Borrower shall not, and shall not permit any
Subsidiary Guarantor to, create, incur, assume or permit to exist
any Lien on any Collateral except for non-consensual Permitted
Liens arising by operation of law.
(3) Corporate
Changes. The Borrower shall not, and shall not
permit any of its Material Subsidiaries to, merge into or
amalgamate or consolidate with any other Person, or permit any
other Person to merge into or amalgamate or consolidate with it, or
liquidate or dissolve, except that, if at the time thereof and
immediately after giving effect thereto no Default shall have
occurred and be continuing:
(a)
the Borrower may
amalgamate with any Subsidiary;
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provided that any merger, amalgamation or consolidation
pursuant to Section 6.1(3)(a) or (b) involving a Credit Party
shall not be permitted unless (i) the Liens in the Collateral
created pursuant to the Security Documents remain in full force and
effect and perfected (or the equivalent in the applicable
jurisdiction) following such merger, amalgamation or consolidation
to at least the same extent as immediately prior thereto, (ii) the
merged, amalgamated or continuing company (the “Successor Credit Party”) shall
have confirmed in writing that it is liable for the obligations of
such Credit Party under the Loan Documents, (iii) the obligations
of the Successor Credit Party under the Loan Documents continue to
be guaranteed by the other Credit Parties pursuant the Credit Party
Guarantees to the same extent as immediately prior to such merger,
amalgamation or consolidation, (iv) the Successor Credit Party is
organized (x) in the case of any such transaction involving the
Borrower, under the laws of Canada or a province thereof or (y) in
the case of any such transaction involving a Subsidiary Guarantor
(but not the Borrower), under the laws of the jurisdiction where
such Subsidiary Guarantor (or one such Subsidiary Guarantor, if
such transaction involves multiple Subsidiary Guarantors) was
organized or of another jurisdiction reasonably acceptable to the
Lenders, (v) the Credit Parties have provided the Administrative
Agent with such other confirmations, supplements, assumptions,
amendments, opinions and other documents as it may reasonably
request in order to demonstrate compliance with the requirements of
the preceding clauses (i) through (iv), inclusive, and (vi) the
Lenders shall be satisfied, acting reasonably, that their interests
will not be adversely affected as a result of such merger,
amalgamation or consolidation.
(4) Permitted
Business. The Borrower shall not, and shall not
permit any Material Subsidiary to, engage to any material extent in
any material business other than a Permitted Business.
(5) Asset
Dispositions. The Borrower shall not, and shall
not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, make any Asset Disposition,
except that:
(a)
the Borrower may
sell assets to any Subsidiary;
(b)
any Subsidiary may
sell assets to the Borrower or any other Subsidiary;
and
(c)
the Borrower may
complete any Permitted Disposition; provided that the Net Cash
Proceeds of any Permitted Disposition are committed to be used
within the next 6 months (and actually used within the next 12
months) to fund planned capital expenditures for the
Kisladag, Lamaque or Olympias projects in accordance with the
Borrower’s consolidated “life of mine” plan,
failing which such proceeds shall be used to prepay any outstanding
Term Loans; and
(d)
the Borrower and
its Subsidiaries may, so long as no Default or Event of Default is
continuing or would result therefrom, in addition to the other
transactions permitted by this Section 6.1(5), convey, sell,
transfer or otherwise dispose of in any Fiscal Year, for Fair
Market Value, property the aggregate net book value of which does
not exceed 10% of the Net Tangible Assets of the Borrower on a
Consolidated basis; provided that the sum of the percentages
(calculated as aforesaid) of all property so conveyed, sold,
transferred or disposed of during all Fiscal Years of the Borrower
ending subsequent to the date of this Agreement does not exceed 30%
of the Net Tangible Assets of the Borrower on a Consolidated
basis;
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provided
that (A) in the case of any sale of assets relating to a Turkish
Mine, (x) the operation of such Turkish Mine by Tüprag Metal
is not adversely affected as a result thereof and (y) following
such sale, Tüprag Metal retains ownership of the material
mineral and other mining rights relating to such Turkish Mine, and
(B) in the case of any sale of assets relating to a mine owned by
Hellas Gold SA, (x) the operation of such mine by Hellas Gold SA is
not adversely affected as a result thereof and (y) following such
sale, Hellas Gold SA retains ownership of the material mineral and
other mining rights relating to such mine. Notwithstanding the
foregoing, but subject to Section 6.1(3), neither the Borrower
nor any of its Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of any of
its Equity Securities in any Material Subsidiary.
(6) Investments. The
Borrower shall not, and shall not permit any of its Material
Subsidiaries to, make or permit to exist any Investment other
than:
(a)
Permitted Cash
Investments;
(b)
Investments (i) by
the Borrower in any Subsidiary or (ii) by any Material Subsidiary
in any other Subsidiary or the Borrower, provided that no Default
or Event of Default exists at the time of such Investment or would
exist immediately after the making of such
Investment;
(c)
Investments held by
them on the Effective Date, provided that any additional
Investments made with respect thereto shall be permitted only if
permitted under the other provisions of this
Section 6.1(6);
(d)
Investments
financed (x) directly through the issuance of common stock of the
Borrower or (y) from the Net Cash Proceeds of the issuance of
common stock of the Borrower; and
(e)
Investments
(i) in the mining industry or (ii) in any other asset or
infrastructure used in or ancillary to the mining industry and in
connection with the Borrower’s and its Subsidiaries’
operations, provided that (x) no Default or Event of Default exists
at the time of such Investment or would exist immediately after the
making of such Investment and (y) after giving pro forma effect to
such Investment, the Borrower will be in compliance with the
financial covenants in Section 5.1(11) as at the date of such
Investment.
(7) Acquisitions. The
Borrower shall not, and shall not permit any Material Subsidiary
to, make or enter into any Acquisition, other than Permitted
Acquisitions, provided, in connection with any Permitted
Acquisition for which there is any cash consideration, the Net
Leverage Ratio is less than 3.50:1.00 on a pro forma basis immediately after
giving effect to such Acquisition.
(8) Hedge
Arrangements. The Borrower shall not, and shall
not permit any Material Subsidiary to, enter into any Hedge
Arrangement, except:
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(a)
Hedge Arrangements
entered into in order to hedge or mitigate risks to which the
Borrower or such Material Subsidiary has actual exposure (other
than those in respect of Equity Securities);
and
(b)
Hedge Arrangements
entered into in order to effectively cap, collar or exchange
interest rates (from fixed to floating rates, from one floating
rate to another floating rate or otherwise) with respect to any
interest-bearing liability or investment of the Borrower or such
Material Subsidiary;
provided that (i)
no Hedge Arrangement may be entered into on a cash-collateralized
or margin basis and (ii) the aggregate outstanding notional
amount (net of offsetting contracts) of all Hedge Arrangements
providing for delivery by the Borrower and its Subsidiaries of any
commodity in any Fiscal Quarter or entered into to hedge risks
relating to the delivery of any commodity by the Borrower and its
Subsidiaries in any Fiscal Quarter shall not exceed 70% of the
Borrower’s and its Subsidiaries aggregate projected
production of such commodity for such Fiscal Quarter (determined at
the time any such Hedge Arrangement is entered into).
(9) Restricted
Payments. The Borrower shall not, and shall not
permit any of its Material Subsidiaries to, declare, pay or make,
or agree to pay or make, directly or indirectly, any Restricted
Payment, except that:
(a)
so long as no
Default or Event of Default is continuing or would be caused
thereby and the Net Leverage Ratio as at the most recently
completed Rolling Period was equal to or less than 3.50:1.00, the
Borrower may pay dividends in respect of its Equity Securities and
may purchase its Equity Securities pursuant to any normal course
issuer bid or restricted share unit plan effected in accordance
with applicable Laws;
(b)
a Subsidiary
Guarantor may declare and pay dividends or make a return of capital
with respect to its Equity Securities, in each case to any other
Credit Party or a Restricted Intermediary Shareholder, provided
that (except in the case of any payment of cash dividends by a
Subsidiary Guarantor to another Credit Party or a Restricted
Intermediary Shareholder) the Administrative Agent shall have
received such confirmations, supplements, amendments and other
documents, instruments or opinions, and the Credit Parties shall
have taken such other actions, as may be required under the
Security Documents or as may be requested by the Administrative
Agent, acting reasonably, in order to confirm the continued
validity and perfection of the Liens of the Administrative Agent in
the Collateral pursuant to the Security Documents following the
payment of such dividend or such return of
capital;
(c)
any Wholly-Owned
Subsidiary that is not a Subsidiary Guarantor may make a return of
capital with respect to its Equity Securities to the Borrower or
any other Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of the
Borrower;
(d)
any Wholly-Owned
Subsidiary that is not a Subsidiary Guarantor may pay dividends
with respect to its Equity Securities to the Borrower or any other
Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of the Borrower;
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(e)
any Material
Subsidiary that is not a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary may make a return
of capital to its shareholders, members or partners generally, so
long as the Borrower or its respective Subsidiary which owns the
Equity Securities in the Subsidiary making such return of capital
receives, or is entitled to receive, at least its proportionate
share thereof (based upon its relative holding of the Equity
Securities in the Subsidiary in respect of which such return of
capital is being made and taking into account the relative
preferences, if any, of the various classes of Equity Securities of
such Subsidiary);
(f)
any Material
Subsidiary that is not a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary may pay dividends
to its shareholders, members or partners generally, so long as the
Borrower or its respective Subsidiary which owns the Equity
Securities in the Subsidiary paying such dividends receives, or is
entitled to receive, at least its proportionate share thereof
(based upon its relative holding of the Equity Securities in the
Subsidiary paying such dividends and taking into account the
relative preferences, if any, of the various classes of Equity
Securities of such Subsidiary);
(g)
the Borrower and
its Material Subsidiaries may make payments pursuant to and in
accordance with stock option plans, profit sharing plans or other
benefit plans for its management or employees;
(h)
the Borrower may
pay reasonable and customary fees and expenses to independent
directors;
(i)
a Subsidiary
Guarantor may redeem any of its Equity Securities held by
any other Credit Party or a Restricted Intermediary Shareholder
provided that after giving effect to such redemption, the Borrower
continues to own, directly or indirectly, all of the remaining
Equity Securities of such Subsidiary Guarantor and that the
Administrative Agent shall have received such confirmations,
supplements, amendments and other documents, instruments or
opinions, and the Credit Parties shall have taken such other
actions, as may be required under the Security Documents or as may
be requested by the Administrative Agent, acting reasonably, in
order to confirm the continued validity and perfection of the Liens
of the Administrative Agent in the Collateral pursuant to the
Security Documents following such redemption; and
(j)
the Borrower or any
Material Subsidiary may make payments of principal of and interest
on Indebtedness permitted pursuant to Section
6.1(1)(d).
(10) Transactions
with Affiliates. The Borrower shall not, and
shall not permit any of its Material Subsidiaries to, sell, lease
or otherwise transfer any property or assets to, or purchase, lease
or otherwise acquire any property or assets from, or otherwise
engage in any other transactions with, any of their Affiliates,
except:
(a)
in the ordinary
course of business at prices and on terms and conditions not less
favourable to the Borrower or such Subsidiary than could be
obtained on an arm’s-length basis from unrelated third
parties;
(b)
transactions
between (i) the Borrower and any of its Subsidiaries or (ii) any
Material Subsidiary and any other Subsidiary, in each case not
involving any of their other Affiliates (subject to compliance with
the other provisions of this Agreement);
(c)
any Restricted
Payment permitted by Section 6.1(9)); and
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(d)
other transactions
may be entered into by the Borrower and its Material Subsidiaries
to the extent permitted by Sections 6.1(1), 6.1(3), 6.1(5) and
6.1(6).
(11) Restrictive
Agreements. The Borrower shall not, and shall not
permit any of its Material Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly,
enter into, incur or permit to exist any agreement or other
arrangement that prohibits, restricts or imposes any condition
upon:
(a)
the ability of the
Borrower or any Material Subsidiary to create, incur or permit to
exist any Lien upon any of its property or
assets;
(b)
the ability of any
Subsidiary to pay dividends or other distributions with respect to
any Equity Securities or with respect to, or measured by, its
profits or to repay loans or advances to the Borrower or any other
Subsidiary or to provide a Guarantee of any Indebtedness of the
Borrower or any other Subsidiary;
(c)
the ability of (i)
the Borrower to make any loan or advance to any Subsidiary or
(ii) any Subsidiary to make a loan or advance to the Borrower
or any other Subsidiary; or
(d)
the ability of (i)
the Borrower to sell, lease or transfer any of its property to any
Subsidiary or (ii) any Subsidiary to sell, lease or transfer any of
its property to the Borrower or any other
Subsidiary;
provided that (i)
the foregoing shall not apply to restrictions and conditions
imposed by any Loan Document or by any ordinary course joint
venture arrangements and shall not prohibit negative pledges with
respect to property subject to earn-in or farm-out arrangements
entered into in the ordinary course of business, (ii) the
foregoing shall not apply to restrictions and conditions existing
on the date hereof (but shall apply to any extension or renewal of,
or any amendment or modification expanding the scope of, any such
restriction or condition), (iii) the foregoing shall not apply to
customary restrictions and conditions contained in agreements
relating to the sale of a Subsidiary pending such sale, provided
such restrictions and condition apply only to the Subsidiary that is to be sold and
such sale is permitted hereunder, (iv) Section 6.1(11)(a)
shall not apply to restrictions or conditions imposed under any
Permitted Unsecured Indebtedness or the Indenture or by any
agreement relating to secured Indebtedness permitted by this
Agreement if such restrictions or conditions apply only to the
property or assets securing such Indebtedness, and (v)
Section 6.1(11)(a) of the foregoing shall not apply to
customary provisions in leases and other ordinary course contracts
restricting the assignment thereof.
(12) Sales
and Leasebacks. The Borrower shall not, and shall
not enter into, or permit any of its Material Subsidiaries to,
enter into any arrangement, directly or indirectly, with any Person
whereby the Borrower or any such Material Subsidiary shall sell or
transfer any property, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, and
whereby the Borrower or any such Material Subsidiary shall then or
thereafter rent or lease as lessee such property or any part
thereof or other property which the Borrower or any such Material
Subsidiary intends to use for substantially the same purpose or
purposes as the property sold or transferred.
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(13) Pension
Plan Compliance. The Borrower shall not, and
shall not permit any of its Material Subsidiaries to:
(a)
establish or
terminate, or permit any Material Subsidiary to establish or
terminate, any Pension Plan or Benefit Plan or take any other
action with respect to any Pension Plan or Benefit Plan, in each
case unless such establishment, termination or other action could
not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect;
or
(b)
fail to withhold,
make, remit or pay when due or permit any Material Subsidiary to
fail to withhold, make, remit or pay when due any employee or
employer payments, contributions (including “normal
cost”, “special payments” and any other payments
in respect of any funding deficiencies or shortfalls) or premiums
to or in respect of any Pension Plan or Benefit Plan pursuant to
the terms of the particular plan, any applicable collective
bargaining agreement or applicable Law, unless such failure could
not reasonably be expected to resulting in a Material Adverse
Effect.
(14) Sale
or Discount of Accounts Receivable. The Borrower
shall not, and shall not permit any of its Material Subsidiaries
to, discount or sell (with or without recourse), any of its income
or revenues, including any accounts receivable, or rights in
respect thereof.
(15) Unconditional
Purchase Obligations. The Borrower shall not, and
shall not permit any of its Material Subsidiaries to, enter into or
be a party to, any material contract for the purchase of materials,
supplies or other property or services if such contract requires
that payment be made by the Borrower or such Material Subsidiary
regardless of whether or not delivery of such materials, supplies
or other property or services is ever made, except any such
contract for the purchase of electrical power entered into by the
Borrower or such Material Subsidiary in the ordinary course of its
business.
(16) Issuance
of Shares. The Borrower shall not permit any of
its Material Subsidiaries to authorize or issue any Equity
Securities where the economic effect of such issuance and of any
related transactions, if instead effected by way of a sale of such
Equity Securities, would constitute of breach of
Section 6.1(5). Notwithstanding anything to the
contrary contained in this Agreement, the Borrower shall not permit
any Person other than (i) the Borrower, (ii) a Subsidiary
Guarantor, (iii) holders of Individual Shareholders’ Shares,
as defined in the Turkish Share Pledge Agreement, in respect of
Equity Securities in Tüprag Metal and (iv) a Restricted
Intermediary Shareholder, to own, hold or control any Equity
Securities of any Subsidiary Guarantor.
(17) No
Amendments to Constating Documents, etc. The
Borrower shall not, and shall not permit any of its Material
Subsidiaries to, amend, its constating documents, by-laws,
partnership agreement, operating agreement or other equivalent
governing documents in a manner that would adversely affect the
Administrative Agent or the Lenders.
(18) Amendments
to Documentation Governing Other
Indebtedness. The Borrower shall not, and shall
not permit any of its Material Subsidiaries to, amend the terms of
any Permitted Unsecured Indebtedness or the Indenture if any such
amendment would (i) increase the principal amounts of Indebtedness
thereunder, (ii) increase the rates of interest or fees payable
thereunder, (iii) shorten the term to maturity thereunder, or (iv)
otherwise be adverse to the interests of the Lenders.
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(19) Voluntary
Prepayments of Other Indebtedness. The Borrower
shall not, and shall not permit any of its Material Subsidiaries
to, make any voluntary prepayment, redemption, repurchase or other
acquisition for value or retirement of any Indenture Indebtedness
or Permitted Unsecured Indebtedness, except that, so long as no
Default has occurred and is continuing or would be caused thereby,
(a) the Borrower may prepay, redeem, repurchase or otherwise
acquire for value or retire Indenture Indebtedness or Permitted
Unsecured Indebtedness with the proceeds of additional common
Equity Securities issued after the Effective Date, (b) the Borrower
may prepay, redeem, repurchase or otherwise acquire for value or
retire Indenture Indebtedness or Permitted Unsecured Indebtedness
with the proceeds of additional Permitted Unsecured Indebtedness
issued after the Effective Date, and (c) during the period after
the Effective Date until the Final Term Credit Availability Date,
the Borrower may use the Term Credit Commitments to assist in
refinancing the 2012 Notes. For greater certainty, any
regularly scheduled payment required under any Indenture
Indebtedness or Permitted Unsecured Indebtedness is not restricted
by this Section 6.1(19).
(20) Business
of Restricted Intermediary Shareholder. Each
Restricted Intermediary Shareholder shall not, at any time at which
it is not a Material Subsidiary, engage in any business, own any
significant assets or have any material liabilities other than (i)
as currently reflected in its balance sheet as of December 31,
2017, (ii) its ownership of the Equity Securities of Credit Parties
and other Subsidiaries, (iii) assets of a Permitted Business; and
(iv) Indebtedness owed to the Borrower or any other Subsidiary, so
long as in the case of any such Indebtedness owed to a Subsidiary
that is not a Credit Party, such non-Credit Party Subsidiary shall
have become a party to the Intercompany Subordination Agreement;
provided, however, that a Restricted Intermediary Shareholder may
engage in those activities that are incidental to (A) the
maintenance of its existence,(B) legal, tax and accounting matters
in connection with any of the foregoing and (C) any corporate
reorganizations permitted under Section 6.1.
(21) No
Use of Proceeds for Prohibited Purposes. The
Borrower will not, directly or indirectly, use the proceeds of the
Borrowings, or lend, contribute or otherwise make available such
proceeds to any Subsidiary, joint venture partner or other Person,
(i) to fund any activities or business of or with any Person, or in
any country or territory, that, at the time of such funding, is, or
whose government is, the subject of Sanctions, or (ii) in any other
manner that would result in a violation of Sanctions by any Person
(including any Person participating in the Borrowings, whether as
underwriter, advisor, investor or otherwise). No part of
the proceeds of the Borrowing will be used, directly or indirectly,
for any payments that could constitute a violation of any
applicable anti-bribery law.
(22) Registration
of Supplemental Assignment of Rank. It shall
provide, by January 31, 2020, evidence satisfactory to the
Administrative Agent that the Supplemental Assignment of Rank has
been registered at the applicable registers.2
(23) Second
Priority Collateral Agent’s Additional
Hypothec. It shall provide, by January 31, 2020,
evidence satisfactory to Chicago Title Insurance Company that the
Second Priority Collateral Agent Additional Hypothec has been
executed and registered at the Land Register against the relevant
land files, so that Chicago Title Insurance Company may issue the
amendments to the title insurance policies issued for the benefit
of the Administrative Agent and the Second Priority Collateral
Agent, respectively, on the closing date of the Credit
Agreement.3
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ARTICLE 7
the Borrower shall
fail to pay any interest on any Loan or any fee or any other amount
(other than an amount referred to in Section 7.1(a)) payable
under this Agreement, when and as the same shall become due and
payable and such failure shall continue unremedied for a period of
three (3) Business Days after the earlier of (i) knowledge thereof
by the Borrower or (ii) notice thereof from the Administrative
Agent to the Borrower (which notice shall be given at the request
of the Required Lenders);
(c)
any representation
or warranty made or deemed made by or on behalf of the Borrower or
any Subsidiary in or in connection with any Loan Document or any
amendment or modification thereof or waiver thereunder, or in any
report, certificate, financial statement or other document
furnished pursuant to or in connection with any Loan Document or
any amendment or modification thereof or waiver thereunder, shall
prove to have been incorrect in any material respect when made or
deemed to be made;
the Borrower shall
fail to observe or perform any covenant, condition or agreement
contained in Section 5.1(1)(g)(i) (notice of Default or Event of
Default), Section 5.1(2) (Existence; Conduct of Business), Section
5.1(7) (Use of Proceeds and Letters of Credit), Section 5.1(11)
(Financial Covenants), Section 5.1(13) (Repayment of 2012 Notes) or
in Article 6 (or in any comparable provision of any other Loan
Document);
(e)
any Credit Party
shall fail to observe or perform any covenant, condition or
agreement contained in this Agreement (other than those specified
in Section 7.1(a), (b) or (d)) or any other Loan Document, and
such failure shall continue unremedied for a period of 15 days
after the earlier of (i) knowledge thereof by any Credit Party, or
(ii) notice thereof from the Administrative Agent to the Borrower
(which notice shall be given at the request of the Required
Lenders);
any event or
condition occurs that results in any Material Indebtedness becoming
due prior to its scheduled maturity or that enables or permits
(with or without the giving of notice, the lapse of time or both)
the holder or holders of any Material Indebtedness or any trustee
or agent on its or their behalf to cause any Material Indebtedness
to become due, or to require the prepayment, repurchase, redemption
or defeasance thereof, prior to its scheduled maturity or to
require the early termination of any Hedge Arrangement; provided
that this Section 7.1(f) shall not apply to secured
Indebtedness that becomes due as a result of the voluntary sale or
transfer of the property or assets securing such Indebtedness so
long as the proceeds of such sale or transfer are sufficient to,
and are applied to, reduce such secured Indebtedness to
nil;
(i)
becomes insolvent,
or generally does not or becomes unable to pay its debts or meet
its liabilities as the same become due, or admits in writing its
inability to pay its debts generally, or declares any general
moratorium on its indebtedness, or proposes a compromise or
arrangement between it and any class of its creditors;
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(ii)
commits an act of
bankruptcy under the BIA, or makes an assignment of its property
for the general benefit of its creditors under the BIA, or makes a
proposal (or files a notice of its intention to do so) under the
BIA;
(iii)
institutes any
proceeding seeking to adjudicate it an insolvent, or seeking
liquidation (except as permitted pursuant to Section 6.1(3)(c)
dissolution (except as permitted pursuant to Section 6.1(3)(c)),
winding-up, reorganization, compromise, arrangement, adjustment,
protection, moratorium, relief, stay of proceedings of creditors
generally (or any class of creditors), or composition of it or its
debts or any other relief, under any federal, provincial or foreign
Law now or hereafter in effect relating to bankruptcy, winding-up,
insolvency, reorganization, receivership, plans of arrangement or
relief or protection of debtors (including the BIA, the
Companies’ Creditors
Arrangement Act (Canada) and any applicable corporations
legislation) or at common law or in equity, or files an answer
admitting the material allegations of a petition filed against it
in any such proceeding;
(iv)
applies for the
appointment of, or the taking of possession by, a receiver, interim
receiver, receiver/manager, sequestrator, conservator, custodian,
administrator, trustee, liquidator or other similar official for it
or any substantial part of its property; or
(v)
threatens to do any
of the foregoing, or takes any action, corporate or otherwise, to
approve, effect, consent to or authorize any of the actions
described in Section 7.1(g) or in Section 7.1(h), or otherwise
acts in furtherance thereof or fails to act in a timely and
appropriate manner in defense thereof;
(i)
seeking to
adjudicate it an insolvent;
(ii)
seeking a receiving
order against it under the BIA;
(iii)
seeking liquidation
(except as permitted pursuant to Section 6.1(3)(c)),
dissolution (except as permitted pursuant to
Section 6.1(3)(c)), winding-up, reorganization, compromise,
arrangement, adjustment, protection, moratorium, relief, stay of
proceedings of creditors generally (or any class of creditors), or
composition of the Borrower or such Material Subsidiary or its
debts or any other relief under any federal, provincial or foreign
Law now or hereafter in effect relating to bankruptcy, winding-up,
insolvency, reorganization, receivership, plans of arrangement or
relief or protection of debtors (including the BIA, the
Companies’ Creditors
Arrangement Act (Canada) and any applicable corporations
legislation) or at common law or in equity; or
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(iv)
seeking the entry
of an order for relief or the appointment of, or the taking of
possession by, a receiver, interim receiver, receiver/manager,
sequestrator, conservator, custodian, administrator, trustee,
liquidator or other similar official for the Borrower or such
Material Subsidiary or any substantial part of its
property,
and
such petition, application or proceeding continues undismissed, or
unstayed and in effect, for a period of 30 days after the
institution thereof, provided that if an order, decree or judgment
is granted or entered (whether or not entered or subject to appeal)
against the Borrower or such Material Subsidiary thereunder in the
interim, such grace period shall cease to apply, and provided
further that if the Borrower or such Material Subsidiary files an
answer admitting the material allegations of a petition filed
against it in any such proceeding, such grace period shall cease to
apply;
(j)
one or more
judgments for the payment of money in a cumulative amount in excess
of U.S.$25,000,000 (or its then equivalent in any other currency)
in the aggregate is rendered against the Borrower and/or any one or
more of its Material Subsidiaries and they have not
(i) provided for its discharge in accordance with its terms
within 30 days from the date of entry thereof, or
(ii) procured a stay of execution thereof within
30 days from the date
of entry thereof and within such period, or such longer period
during which execution of such judgment has not been stayed,
appealed such judgment and caused the execution thereof to be
stayed during such appeal, provided that if enforcement or
realization proceedings are lawfully commenced in respect thereof
in the interim, such grace period shall cease to
apply;
(k)
any property of the
Borrower and/or any one or more of its Subsidiaries having a value
in excess of U.S.$10,000,000 (or its then equivalent in any other
currency) is seized (including by way of execution, attachment,
garnishment, levy or distraint), or any Lien thereon securing
Indebtedness in excess of U.S.$10,000,000 (or its then equivalent
in any other currency) is enforced, or such property has become
subject to any charging order or equitable execution of a
Governmental Authority, or any writ of execution or distress
warrant exists in respect of the Borrower and/or any one or more of
its Subsidiaries with respect to such property, or any sheriff or
other Person becomes lawfully entitled by operation of law or
otherwise to seize or distrain upon such property and in any case
such seizure, enforcement, execution, attachment, garnishment,
distraint, charging order or equitable execution, or other seizure
or right, continues in effect and is not released or discharged for
more than 30 days or such longer period during which entitlement to
the use of such property continues with the Borrower or the
applicable Subsidiary (or Subsidiaries), and the Borrower is
contesting the same in good faith and by appropriate proceedings,
provided that if the property is removed from the use of the
Borrower or such Subsidiary (or Subsidiaries), or is sold, in the
interim, such grace period shall cease to apply;
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any property of the
Borrower and/or any one or more of its Subsidiaries having a book
value of 5% or more of the Consolidated Total Assets of the
Borrower and its Subsidiaries or accounting for 5% or more of the
Consolidated total revenue of the Borrower (as most recently
reported or required to be reported by the Borrower pursuant to
Section 5.1(1)(a) or (b)) is abandoned or is the subject of
any condemnation, seizure, nationalization, expropriation or taking
by exercise of the power of eminent domain or otherwise of such
asset, or is confiscated or the use of such asset is requisitioned
by any Governmental Authority (an “Event of Loss”);
(m)
one or more final
judgments, orders, decrees, directives or requests (whether or not
having the force of law), not involving the payment of money and
not otherwise specified in this Section 7.1 (including,
without limitation, requiring the shutdown of any producing mine),
has been rendered against or made of the Borrower or any Material
Subsidiary, the result of which could reasonably be expected to
result in a Material Adverse Effect, so long as the Borrower or
such Material Subsidiary has not (i) provided for its
discharge in accordance with its terms within 30 days from the date
of entry thereof, or (ii) procured a stay of execution or
effectiveness thereof within 30 days from the date of entry or
making thereof and within such period, or such longer period during
which execution or effectiveness of such judgment, order, decree,
directives or request has been stayed, appealed the same and caused
the execution or effectiveness thereof to be stayed during such
appeal, provided that if enforcement or realization proceedings are
lawfully commenced in respect thereof in the interim, such grace
period shall cease to apply;
(n)
this Agreement, any
other Loan Document or any material obligation or other provision
hereof or thereof at any time for any reason terminates or ceases
to be in full force and effect and a legally valid, binding and
enforceable obligation of any Credit Party, is declared to be void
or voidable or is repudiated, or the validity, binding effect,
legality or enforceability hereof or thereof is at any time
contested by any Credit Party, or any Credit Party denies that it
has any or any further liability or obligation hereunder or
thereunder or any action or proceeding is commenced to enjoin or
restrain the performance or observance by any Credit Party of any
material terms hereof or thereof or to question the validity or
enforceability hereof or thereof, or at any time it is unlawful or
impossible for any Credit Party to perform any of its material
obligations hereunder or thereunder;
(o)
any Lien purported
to be created by any Security Document shall cease to be, or shall
be asserted by any Credit Party not to be, a valid, perfected,
first priority (except as otherwise expressly provided in this
Agreement or such Security Document) Lien, except to the extent
that any such loss of perfection or priority results from the
failure of the Administrative Agent to maintain possession of
certificates representing securities pledged under the Loan
Documents or otherwise take any action within its control
(including the filing of supplementary filings or the making of
supplementary registrations require under applicable Laws relating
to notice of security interests);
(p)
a Material Adverse
Change shall occur; or
(q)
a Change in Control
shall occur;
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then,
and in every such event, and at any time thereafter during the
continuance of such event or any other such event, the
Administrative Agent may, and at the request of the Required
Lenders shall, by notice to the Borrower, take any or all of the
following actions, at the same or different
times:(i) terminate the Commitments, and thereupon the
Commitments shall terminate immediately, (ii) declare the Loans
then outstanding to be due and payable in whole (or in part, in
which case any principal not so declared to be due and payable may
thereafter be declared to be due and payable), and thereupon the
principal of the Loans so declared to be due and payable, together
with accrued interest thereon, Cover for all outstanding Letters of
Credit and all fees and other obligations of the Borrower accrued
hereunder, shall become due and payable immediately, without
presentment, demand, protest or other notice of any kind except as
set out earlier in this paragraph, all of which are hereby waived
by the Borrower, and (iii) enforce any or all of its rights and
remedies under the Security Documents.
8.1 Appointment
of Agents. Each Lender hereby designates HSBC
Bank Canada as Administrative Agent to act as herein specified and
as specified in the other Loan Documents. Each Lender
hereby irrevocably authorizes the Administrative Agent to take such
action on its behalf under the provisions of the Loan Documents and
to exercise such powers and to perform such duties thereunder as
are specifically delegated to or required of the Administrative
Agent by the terms thereof and such other powers as are reasonably
incidental thereto. The Administrative Agent may perform
any of its duties hereunder by or through its agents or
employees. The Administrative Agent agrees to promptly
provide the Lenders with notice of the occurrence of the Effective
Date and to provide the Lenders with copies of each notice or other
document required to be provided by the Borrower to the Lenders
hereunder and provided by the Borrower to the Administrative Agent
in accordance with the terms hereof. The Borrower and
the Lenders hereby acknowledge that the Administrative Agent may
make any such notices or information available to the Lenders on
Debtdomain or another similar electronic system (the
“Platform”). The
Administrative Agent shall have no obligation to request the
delivery of or to maintain or deliver to Lenders paper copies of
any such notices or information, and in any event shall have no
responsibility to monitor compliance by the Borrower with any such
request for delivery, and each Lender shall be solely responsible
for timely accessing the notices and information posted to the
Platform.
8.2 Secured
Parties. The Security Documents shall be in
favour of the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured
Parties. The Secured Hedge Obligations and the Secured
Cash Management Obligations shall be secured by the Liens granted
under the Security Documents and rank pari passu with the obligations of the
Borrower under this Agreement. Notwithstanding such
common security (i) all decisions regarding the administration and
enforcement of the Security Documents shall be made by the Lenders
alone, and no Secured Hedge Counterparty or Secured Cash Management Provider
shall have any voting rights under this Agreement or any other
right whatsoever to participate in the administration or
enforcement of the Security Documents, and (ii) in any bankruptcy,
insolvency, reorganization or similar proceeding under the laws of
any applicable jurisdiction, each Secured Hedge Counterparty and
each Secured Cash Management Provider shall vote with respect to
any plan of reorganization, compromise or arrangement, or proposal,
in a manner consistent with the vote of the Required Lenders with
respect to such plan or proposal. For the avoidance of
doubt but without limitation, any or all of the Credit Party
Guarantees and Security Documents and any rights contained therein
may be amended or released by the Administrative Agent without the
consent of any Secured Hedge Counterparty or Secured Cash
Management Provider in accordance with
Section 9.2. Each Lender that is or becomes a
Secured Hedge Counterparty or Secured Cash Management Provider
shall be bound as such by virtue of its execution and delivery of
this Credit Agreement or an Assignment and Assumption, as
applicable, notwithstanding that such capacity as Secured Hedge
Counterparty or Secured Cash Management Provider may not be
identified on its signature line.
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8.3 Parallel
Debt.
(1) In
this Section 8.3:
(a)
“Secured Party Claim” means,
with respect to the Borrower or a PD Subsidiary Guarantor, any
amount which the Borrower or such PD Subsidiary Guarantor
respectively, owes to a Secured Party under or in connection with
the Loan Documents; and
(b)
“Parallel Debt Claim” has,
with respect to the Borrower or a PD Subsidiary Guarantor, the
meaning given to it in paragraph (2) below.
(2) The
Borrower and each PD Subsidiary Guarantor, respectively, must pay
the Administrative Agent, as an independent and separate creditor,
an amount equal to each Secured Party Claim owed by it on its due
date (the “Parallel Debt
Claims”).
(3) Each
Parallel Debt Claim is created on the understanding that the
Administrative Agent must:
(a)
share the proceeds
of each Parallel Debt Claim with the other Secured Parties;
and
(b)
pay those proceeds
to the Secured Parties in accordance with their respective
interests in the amounts outstanding under the Loan
Documents.
(4) The
Administrative Agent may enforce performance of any Parallel Debt
Claim in its own name as an independent and separate
right. This includes any suit, execution, enforcement of
security, recovery of guarantees and applications for and voting in
respect of any kind of insolvency proceeding.
(5) Each
Secured Party must, at the request of the Administrative Agent,
perform any act required in connection with the enforcement of any
Parallel Debt Claim. This includes joining in any
proceedings as co-claimant with the Administrative
Agent.
(6) Unless
the Administrative Agent fails to enforce a Parallel Debt Claim
within a reasonable time after its due date, a Secured Party may
not take any action to enforce the corresponding Secured Party
Claim unless it is requested to do so by the Administrative
Agent.
(7) The
Borrower and each PD Subsidiary Guarantor, respectively,
irrevocably and unconditionally waives any right it may have to
require a Secured Party to join in any proceedings as co-claimant
with the Administrative Agent in respect of any Parallel Debt
Claim.
(8) Discharge
by the Borrower or by a PD Subsidiary Guarantor, respectively, of a
Secured Party Claim will discharge the corresponding Parallel Debt
Claim in the same amount.
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(9) Discharge
by the Borrower or by a PD Subsidiary Guarantor, respectively, of a
Parallel Debt Claim will discharge the corresponding Secured Party
Claim in the same amount.
(10) The
aggregate amount of the Parallel Debt Claims will never exceed the
aggregate amount of Secured Party Claims.
(11) A
defect affecting a Parallel Debt Claim against the Borrower or a PD
Subsidiary Guarantor, respectively, will not affect any Secured
Party Claim.
(12) A
defect affecting a Secured Party Claim against the Borrower or a PD
Subsidiary Guarantor, respectively, will not affect any Parallel
Debt Claim.
(13) If
the Administrative Agent returns to the Borrower or a PD Subsidiary
Guarantor, respectively, whether in any kind of insolvency
proceedings or otherwise, any recovery in respect of which it has
made a payment to a Secured Party, that Secured Party must repay an
amount equal to that recovery to the Administrative
Agent.
8.4 Limitation
of Duties of Agents. The Administrative Agent
shall have no duties or responsibilities except those expressly set
out with respect to the Administrative Agent in this Agreement and
as specified in the other Loan Documents. None of the
Administrative Agent, nor any of its Related Parties shall be
liable for any action taken or omitted by it as such hereunder or
in connection herewith, unless caused by its or their gross
negligence or willful misconduct. The duties of the
Administrative Agent shall be mechanical and administrative in
nature; the Administrative Agent shall not have, by reason of this
Agreement or the other Loan Documents, a fiduciary relationship in
respect of any Secured Party. Nothing in this Agreement
or the other Loan Documents, expressed or implied, is intended to
or shall be so construed as to impose upon the Administrative Agent
any obligations in respect of this Agreement except as expressly
set out herein. The Administrative Agent shall be under
no duty to take any discretionary action permitted to be taken by
it pursuant to this Agreement or the other Loan Documents unless it
is requested in writing to do so by the Required
Lenders. It is understood and agreed that the use of the
term “agent” as used herein or in any other Loan
Document (or any similar term) with reference to the Administrative
Agent is not intended to connote any fiduciary or other implied (or
express) obligations arising under agency doctrine of any
applicable law. Instead, such term is used as a matter
of market custom, and is intended to create or reflect only an
administrative relationship between independent contracting
parties.
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8.5 Lack
of Reliance on the Agents.
(1) Independent
Investigation. Independently, and without
reliance upon the Administrative Agent, each Lender, to the extent
it deems appropriate, has made and shall continue to make
(a) its own independent investigation of the financial
condition and affairs of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries in
connection with the taking or not taking of any action in
connection herewith, and (b) its own appraisal of the
creditworthiness of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, and, except
as expressly provided in this Agreement and the other Loan
Documents, the Administrative Agent shall have no duty or
responsibility, either initially or on a continuing basis, to
provide any Lender with any credit or other information with
respect thereto, whether coming into its possession before the
consummation of the Transactions or at any time or times
thereafter.
(2) Agents
Not Responsible. The Administrative Agent shall
not be responsible to any Lender for any recitals, statements,
information, representations or warranties herein or in any
document, certificate or other writing delivered in connection
herewith or for the execution, effectiveness, genuineness,
validity, enforceability, collectibility, priority or sufficiency
of this Agreement or the other Loan Documents or the financial
condition of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries or be required to
make any inquiry concerning either the performance or observance of
any of the terms, provisions or conditions of this Agreement or the
other Loan Documents, or the financial condition of the Borrower
and its Subsidiaries, or the existence or possible existence of any
Default or Event of Default.
8.6 Certain
Rights of the Administrative Agent. If the
Administrative Agent shall request instructions from the Lenders or
the Required Lenders (as the case may be) with respect to any act
or action (including the failure to act) in connection with this
Agreement or the other Loan Documents, the Administrative Agent
shall be entitled to refrain from such act or taking such action
unless and until the Administrative Agent shall have received
written instructions from the Lenders or the Required Lenders, as
applicable, and the Administrative Agent shall not incur liability
to any Person by reason of so refraining. Without
limiting the foregoing, no Lender shall have any right of action
whatsoever against the Administrative Agent as a result of the
Administrative Agent acting or refraining from acting under this
Agreement and the other Loan Documents in accordance with the
instructions of the Required Lenders, or, to the extent required by
Section 9.2, all of the Lenders.
8.7 Reliance
by Administrative Agent. The Administrative Agent
shall be entitled to rely, and shall be fully protected in relying,
upon any note, writing, resolution, notice, statement, certificate,
telex, teletype or facsimile message, electronic mail, cablegram,
radiogram, order or other documentary teletransmission or telephone
message believed by it to be genuine and correct and to have been
signed, sent or made by the proper Person. The
Administrative Agent may consult with legal counsel (including
counsel for the Borrower), independent public accountants and other
experts selected by it and shall not be liable for any action taken
or omitted to be taken by it in good faith in accordance with the
advice of such counsel, accountants or experts.
8.8 Indemnification
of Administrative Agent. To the extent the
Administrative Agent is not reimbursed and indemnified by the
Borrower, each Lender shall reimburse and indemnify the
Administrative Agent, in proportion to its aggregate Applicable
Percentage, for and against any and all liabilities, obligations,
losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments, suits, costs,
expenses (including reasonable counsel fees and disbursements) or
disbursements of any kind or nature whatsoever which may be imposed
on, incurred by or asserted against the Administrative Agent in
performing its duties hereunder, in any way relating to or arising
out of this Agreement or any other Loan Document; provided that no
Lender shall be liable to the Administrative Agent for any portion
of such liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties,
actions, judgments, suits, costs, expenses or disbursements
resulting from the Administrative Agent’s gross negligence
(it being acknowledged that ordinary negligence does not
necessarily constitute gross negligence) or willful
misconduct.
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8.9 Other
Business of Administrative Agent. The
Administrative Agent may accept deposits from, lend money to, and
generally engage in any kind of banking, trust, financial advisory
or other business with the Borrower or any Affiliate of the
Borrower as if it were not performing the duties, if any, specified
herein, and may accept fees and other consideration from the
Borrower for services in connection with this Agreement and
otherwise without having to account for the same to the
Lenders.
8.10 May
Treat Lender as Owner. The Borrower, the
Administrative Agent and the Issuing Banks may deem and treat each
Lender as the owner of the Loans recorded on the Register
maintained pursuant to Section 9.4(3) for all purposes hereof
until a written notice of the assignment or transfer thereof shall
have been filed with the Administrative Agent. 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 a Loan shall be conclusive and binding on any subsequent
owner, transferee or assignee of such Loan.
8.11 Successor
Administrative Agent.
(1) Replacement
of Administrative Agent. The Administrative Agent
may resign at any time by giving written notice thereof to the
Lenders, the Issuing Banks and the Borrower. Upon any
such resignation, the Required Lenders shall have the right, upon
five Business Days’ notice to the Borrower, to appoint a
successor Administrative Agent (who shall not be a non-resident of
Canada within the meaning of the Income Tax Act), subject to the
approval of the Borrower, such approval not to be unreasonably
withheld. If no successor Administrative Agent shall
have been so appointed by the Required Lenders, and shall have
accepted such appointment, within 30 days after the retiring
Administrative Agent’s giving of notice of resignation of the
retiring Administrative Agent, then, upon five Business Days’
notice to the Borrower, the retiring Administrative Agent may, on
behalf of the Lenders, appoint a successor Administrative Agent
(subject to approval of the Borrower, such approval not to be
unreasonably withheld), which shall be a financial institution
organized under the laws of Canada having a combined capital and
surplus of at least U.S.$1,000,000,000 or having a parent company
with combined capital and surplus of at least
U.S.$1,000,000,000.
(2) Rights,
Powers, etc. 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 retiring Administrative Agent, and the
retiring Administrative Agent shall be discharged from its duties
and obligations under this Agreement. After any retiring
Administrative Agent’s resignation hereunder as
Administrative Agent, the provisions of this Article 8 shall inure
to its benefit as to any actions taken or omitted to be taken by it
while it was Administrative Agent under this
Agreement.
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8.12 No
Independent Legal Action. No Lender may take any
independent legal action to enforce any obligation of the Borrower
hereunder. Each Lender hereby acknowledges that, to the
extent permitted by applicable Law, the Security Documents and the
remedies provided thereunder to the Secured Parties are for the
benefit of the Secured Parties collectively and acting together and
not severally, and further acknowledges that each Lender’s
rights hereunder and under the Security Documents are to be
exercised collectively, not severally, by the Administrative Agent
upon the decision of the Required Lenders. Accordingly,
notwithstanding any of the provisions contained herein or in the
Security Documents, each of the Lenders hereby covenants and agrees
that it shall not be entitled to take any action hereunder or
thereunder, including any declaration of default hereunder or
thereunder, but that any such action shall be taken only by the
Administrative Agent with the prior written agreement of the
Required Lenders, provided that, notwithstanding the foregoing, in
the absence of instructions from the Lenders (or the Required
Lenders) and where in the sole opinion of the Administrative Agent
the exigencies of the situation so warrant such action, the
Administrative Agent may without notice to or consent of the
Lenders (or the Required Lenders) take such action on behalf of the
Lenders as it deems appropriate or desirable in the interests of
the Lenders. Each Lender hereby further covenants and
agrees that upon any such written consent being given by the
Required Lenders (or, to the extent required by Section 9.2,
the Lenders), it shall co-operate fully with the Administrative
Agent to the extent requested by the Administrative Agent, and each
Lender further covenants and agrees that all proceeds from the
realization of the Security Documents, to the extent permitted by
applicable Law, are held for the benefit of all of the Lenders and
shall be shared among the Lenders rateably in accordance with this
Agreement, and each Lender acknowledges that all costs of any such
realization (including all amounts for which the Administrative
Agent is required to be indemnified under the provisions hereof)
shall be shared among the Lenders rateably in accordance with this
Agreement. Each Lender covenants and agrees to do all
acts and things and to make, execute and deliver all agreements and
other instruments, so as to fully carry out the intent and purpose
of this Section 8.12 and each Lender hereby covenants and
agrees that it shall not seek, take, accept or receive any security
for any of the obligations and liabilities of the Borrower
hereunder or under the other Loan Documents, or any other document,
instrument, writing or agreement ancillary hereto or thereto, other
than such security as is provided hereunder or thereunder, and that
it shall not enter into any agreement with any of the parties
hereto or thereto relating in any manner whatsoever to the Credit,
unless all of the Secured Parties shall at the same time obtain the
benefit of any such security or agreement, as the case may
be.
8.13 No
Duties. The Joint Lead Arrangers, and
Co-Syndication Agents (in such capacities) are listed on the cover
page of this Agreement for league table purposes, but are not
parties to this Agreement and have no duties, liabilities or
obligations (in such capacities) hereunder.
ARTICLE
9
MISCELLANEOUS
9.1 Notices.
(1) Except
in the case of notices and other communications expressly permitted
to be given by telephone (and subject to Section 9.1(2)), all
notices and other communications provided for herein shall be in
writing and shall be delivered by hand or overnight courier
service, mailed by certified or registered mail or sent by
facsimile or e-mail in each case to the addressee, as
follows:
(i)
if to the Borrower
or any other Credit Party:
Eldorado Gold
Corporation
Suite 1188 Bentall
5 Tower
000 Xxxxxxx
Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxx
Xxxxxxxx X0X 0X0
Xxxxxx
Attention:
Chief Financial Officer
E-mail: xxxxxx.xxx@xxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx
Facsimile:
000-000-0000
(ii)
if to the
Administrative Agent:
HSBC Bank
Canada
0xx Xxxxx, 00 Xxxx
Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxx
X0X 0X0
Attention:
Agency Services
E-mail:
xxxxxxxxxxx@xxxx.xx
Facsimile:
000-000-0000
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(iii)
if to any Lender or
Issuing Bank, to it at its address, facsimile number or e-mail
address set out opposite its name on Schedule 9.1(2) or in the
Assignment and Assumption by which it becomes a
Lender.
(2) Notices
and other communications to the Lenders hereunder may be delivered
or furnished by electronic communications pursuant to procedures
approved by the Administrative Agent (including by posting to the
Platform, except in the case of notices pursuant to Section 2
unless agreed by the Administrative Agent and the applicable
Lender). The Administrative Agent or the Borrower may, in its
discretion, agree to accept notices and other communication to it
hereunder by electronic communications pursuant to procedures
approved by it; provided that approval of such procedures may be
limited to particular notices or communications.
(3) Any
party hereto may change its address, facsimile or e-mail address
number for notices and other communications hereunder by notice to
the other parties hereto in the manner provided in
Section 9.1. All notices and other communications
given to any party hereto in accordance with the provisions of this
Agreement shall be deemed to have been given on the date of
receipt.
9.2 Waivers;
Amendments.
(1) Waiver. No
failure or delay by the Administrative Agent or any Lender in
exercising any right or power hereunder shall operate as a waiver
thereof, nor shall any single or partial exercise of any such right
or power, or any abandonment or discontinuance of steps to enforce
such a right or power, preclude any other or further exercise
thereof or the exercise of any other right or power. The
rights and remedies of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders
hereunder are cumulative and are not exclusive of any rights or
remedies that they would otherwise have. No waiver of
any provision of this Agreement or consent to any departure by the
Borrower therefrom shall in any event be effective unless the same
shall be permitted by Section 9.2(2), and then such waiver or
consent shall be effective only in the specific instance and for
the purpose for which given. Without limiting the
generality of the foregoing, the making of a Loan or issuance of a
Letter of Credit shall not be construed as a waiver of any Default,
regardless of whether the Administrative Agent or any Lender may
have had notice or knowledge of such Default at the
time.
(2) Amendments. Neither
this Agreement nor any other Loan Document (or any provision hereof
or thereof) may be waived, amended or modified except pursuant to
an agreement or agreements in writing entered into by the Borrower
and the Required Lenders or by the Borrower and the Administrative
Agent with the consent of the Required Lenders (and for greater
certainty, any such waiver, amendment or modification shall not
require any consent or other agreement of any Credit Party other
than the Borrower, notwithstanding that any such Credit Party may
be a party to this Agreement or any other Loan Document); provided
that no such agreement shall:
(a)
increase the
Additional LC Credit or increase the amount of any Commitment of
any Lender;
(b)
extend the expiry
date of any Commitment of any Lender;
(c)
reduce the
principal amount of any Borrowing or Cover, or reduce the rate of
interest or any fee applicable to any
Borrowing;
(d)
postpone the
scheduled date of payment of the principal amoun-t of any Borrowing
or Cover, or any interest thereon, or any fees payable in respect
thereof, or reduce the amount of, waive or excuse any payment of
any Borrowing or Cover, or postpone the scheduled date of
expiration of any Commitment;
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(e)
change
Section 2.15 in a manner that would alter the sharing of
payments required thereby;
(f)
change any of the
provisions of this Section 9.2 or the definition of
“Required
Lenders” or any other provision hereof specifying the
number or percentage of Lenders required to waive, amend or modify
any rights hereunder or make any determination or grant any consent
hereunder;
(g)
waive any Event of
Default under Section 7.1(g), (h), or (i);
or
(h)
release any Credit
Party from any material obligations under the Security Documents
and other instruments contemplated by this Agreement, release or
discharge any of the Liens arising under the Security Documents,
permit the creation of any Liens, other than Permitted Liens, on
any of the assets subject to the Liens arising under the Security
Documents, lower the priority of any Lien arising under any of the
Security Documents, or lower the priority of any payment obligation
of any Credit Party under any of the Loan
Documents,
in each case
without the prior written consent of each Lender, or in the case of
the matters referred to in Section 9.2(2)(b), (c), (d) and
(e), without the prior written consent of each Lender directly
affected thereby and provided further that no such agreement shall
amend, modify or otherwise affect the rights or duties of the
Administrative Agent or the Issuing Banks hereunder, as the case
may be, without the prior written consent of the Administrative
Agent or Issuing Banks (as applicable). For greater
certainty, the Administrative Agent may release and discharge the
Liens constituted by the Security Documents or a Credit Party from
the Credit Party Guarantees (i) to the extent necessary to enable a
Credit Party to complete any Asset Disposition which is not
prohibited by this Agreement or the other Loan Documents, (ii) upon
the termination of the Commitments and payment and satisfaction of
all of the Secured Liabilities (other than (x) contingent
indemnification obligations to the extent no claim giving rise
thereto has been asserted, (y) Secured Hedge Obligations and (z)
Secured Cash Management Obligations) or (iii) if approved,
authorized or ratified in writing by the Required Lenders (or all
of the Lenders, to the extent required by this
Section 9.2). The Administrative Agent may (but
need not) also subordinate the Liens constituted by the Security
Documents to any Lien permitted by
Section 6.1(2).
(3) Notwithstanding
Section 9.2(1), if the Administrative Agent and the Borrower,
acting together, identify any ambiguity, omission, mistake,
typographical error or other defect in any provision of this
Agreement or any other Loan Document, then the Administrative Agent
and the Borrower shall be permitted to amend, modify or supplement
such provision to cure such ambiguity, omission, mistake,
typographical error or other defect, and such amendment shall
become effective without any further action or consent of any other
party to this Agreement, provided that (a) the
Administrative Agent has determined in good faith that such action
will not be materially prejudicial to the interest of the Lenders,
(b) the Administrative Agent has notified the Lenders of
such proposed action, and (c) the Administrative Agent shall not
have received, within five (5) Business Days of the date notice of
such proposed action is provided to the Lenders, a written notice
from the Required Lenders stating that such Required Lenders object
to such proposed action. In addition, if the Administrative Agent
and the Borrower, acting together, identify any administrative
issue relating to the Additional LC Credit which arises from the
fact that HSBC Bank Canada has assigned a portion of the Additional
LC Credit to another Person, then the Administrative Agent and the
Borrower shall be permitted to amend, modify or supplement this
Agreement to resolve such administrative issue without
any further action or consent of any other party to this Agreement,
provided that (a)
the Administrative Agent has determined in good faith that such
action will not be materially prejudicial to the interest of the
Lenders, (b) the Administrative Agent has notified the Lenders of
such proposed action, and (c) the Administrative Agent shall not
have received, within five (5) Business Days of the date notice of
such proposed action is provided to the Lenders, a written notice
from the Required Lenders stating that such Required Lenders object
to such proposed action.
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9.3 Expenses;
Indemnity; Damage Waiver.
(1) Expenses. The
Borrower shall pay (a) all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses
incurred by the Joint Lead Arrangers, the Administrative Agent and
their respective Affiliates, including the reasonable fees, charges
and disbursements of counsel for the Administrative Agent and all
applicable Taxes, in connection with the syndication of the credit
facility provided for herein and the preparation and administration
of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, (b) all
reasonable out-of-pocket expenses incurred by the Administrative
Agent and its Affiliates, including the reasonable fees, charges
and disbursements of counsel for the Administrative Agent and
applicable Taxes, in connection with any amendments, modifications
or waivers of the provisions hereof or of any of the other Loan
Documents, (whether or not the transactions contemplated hereby or
thereby shall be consummated), and (c) all out-of-pocket
expenses incurred by the Administrative Agent or any Joint Lead
Arranger or Lender, including the fees, charges and disbursements
of any counsel for the Administrative Agent or any Joint Lead
Arranger or Lender and all applicable Taxes, in connection with the
assessment, enforcement or protection of their rights in connection
with this Agreement, including its rights under this
Section 9.3, or in connection with the Loans made hereunder,
including all such out-of-pocket expenses incurred during any
workout, restructuring or negotiations in respect of such
Loans.
(2) Indemnity. The
Borrower shall indemnify the Administrative Agent, each Joint Lead
Arranger, each Issuing Bank and each Lender, as well as each
Related Party and each assignee of any of the foregoing Persons
(each such Person and each such assignee being called an
“Indemnitee”)
against, and hold each Indemnitee harmless from, any and all
losses, claims, cost recovery actions, damages, expenses and
liabilities of whatsoever nature or kind and all reasonable
out-of-pocket expenses (including due diligence expenses,
syndication expenses, travel expenses and reasonable fees, charges
and disbursements of counsel) and all applicable Taxes (other than
Excluded Taxes) to which any Indemnitee may become subject arising
out of or in connection with (a) the execution or delivery of
the Loan Documents or any agreement or instrument contemplated
thereby, the performance by the parties thereto of their respective
obligations thereunder, and the consummation of the Transactions or
any other transactions thereunder, (b) any Loan or Letter of
Credit or any actual or proposed use of the proceeds therefrom,
including any refusal by any Issuing Bank to honour a demand for
payment under a Letter of Credit if the documents presented in
connection with such demand do not strictly comply with the terms
of such Letter of Credit, (c) any actual or alleged presence
or release of Hazardous Materials on or from any property owned or
operated by the Borrower or any Subsidiary, or any Environmental
Liability related in any way to the Borrower or any Subsidiary,
(d) any actual or prospective claim, litigation, investigation
or proceeding relating to any of the foregoing, whether based on
contract, tort or any other theory and regardless of whether any
Indemnitee is a party thereto, (e) any other aspect of this
Agreement and the other Loan Documents, or (f) the enforcement
of any Indemnitee’s rights hereunder and any related
assessment, investigation, defence, preparation of defence,
litigation and enquiries, in each case regardless of whether or not
the Transactions are consummated; provided that such indemnity
shall not, as to any Indemnitee, be available to the extent that
such losses, claims, damages, liabilities or related expenses are
determined by a court of competent jurisdiction by final and
nonappealable judgment to have resulted from the gross negligence
(it being acknowledged that ordinary negligence does not
necessarily constitute gross negligence) or wilful misconduct of or
material breach of this Agreement by such Indemnitee.
(3) To
the extent that the Borrower fails to pay any amount required to be
paid under Sections 9.3(1) or (2), each Lender severally
agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent or the Issuing Banks (as
applicable) such Lender’s Applicable Percentage (determined
as of the time that the applicable unreimbursed expense or
indemnity payment is sought) of such unpaid amount; provided that
the unreimbursed expense or indemnified loss, claim, damage,
liability or related expense, as the case may be, was incurred by
or asserted against the Administrative Agent or any Issuing Bank,
in its capacity as such.
(4) The
Borrower shall not assert, and hereby waives to the fullest extent
permitted by applicable Law, any claim against any Indemnitee, on
any theory of liability, for special, indirect, consequential or
punitive damages (as opposed to direct or actual damages) arising
out of, in connection with, or as a result of, any Loan Document,
or any agreement or instrument contemplated thereby, the
Transactions, any Loan or Letter of Credit or the use of the
proceeds thereof.
(5) Any
inspection of any property of the Borrower or any Subsidiary made
by or through the Administrative Agent or any Lender shall be for
purposes of administration of the Credit only, and neither the
Borrower nor any of its Subsidiaries shall be entitled to rely upon
the same (whether or not such inspections are at the expense of the
Borrower).
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(6) By
accepting or approving anything required to be observed, performed,
fulfilled or given to the Administrative Agent or the Lenders
pursuant to the Loan Documents, neither the Administrative Agent
nor the Lenders shall be deemed to have warranted or represented
the sufficiency, legality, effectiveness or legal effect of the
same, or of any term, provision or condition thereof, and such
acceptance or approval thereof shall not constitute a warranty or
representation to anyone with respect thereto by the Administrative
Agent or the Lenders.
(7) The
relationship between the Borrower and the Administrative Agent and
the Lenders is, and shall at all times remain, solely that of
borrower, lenders and administrative agent. Neither the
Administrative Agent nor the Lenders shall under any circumstance
be construed to be partners or joint venturers of the Borrower or
its Affiliates. Neither the Administrative Agent nor the
Lenders shall under any circumstance be deemed to be in a
relationship of confidence or trust or a fiduciary relationship
with the Borrower or its Affiliates, or to owe any fiduciary duty
to the Borrower or its Affiliates. Neither the
Administrative Agent nor the Lenders undertake or assume any
responsibility or duty to the Borrower or its Affiliates to select,
review, inspect, supervise, pass judgment upon or inform the
Borrower or its Affiliates of any matter in connection with their
property or the operations of the Borrower or its
Affiliates. The Borrower and its Affiliates shall rely
entirely upon their own judgment with respect to such matters, and
any review, inspection, supervision, exercise of judgment or supply
of information undertaken or assumed by the Administrative Agent or
the Lenders in connection with such matters shall be solely for the
protection of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders, and neither
the Borrower nor any other Person shall be entitled to rely
thereon.
(8) The
Administrative Agent and the Lenders shall not be responsible or
liable to any Person for any loss, damage, liability or claim of
any kind relating to injury or death to Persons or damage to
property caused by the actions, inaction or negligence of the
Borrower or any Subsidiary or their respective Affiliates, and the
Borrower hereby indemnifies and holds the Administrative Agent and
the Lenders harmless on the terms set out in Section 9.3(2)
from any such loss, damage, liability or claim.
(9) The
parties agree that this Agreement is made for the purpose of
defining and setting forth certain obligations, rights and duties
of the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and the Lenders in
connection with the Loans, and is made for the sole benefit of the
Borrower, the Administrative Agent and the Lenders, and the
Administrative Agent’s and each Lender’s successors and
assigns. Except as provided in Sections 9.3(2) and
9.4, no other Person shall have any rights of any nature hereunder
or by reason hereof.
(10) All
amounts due under Section 9.3 shall be payable not later than
three (3) Business Days after written demand therefor.
9.4 Successors
and Assigns.
(1) Successors
and Assigns. The provisions of this Agreement
shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties
hereto and their respective successors and assigns permitted hereby
(including any Affiliate of any Issuing Bank that issues any Letter
of Credit), except that (a) the Borrower shall not assign or
otherwise transfer any of its rights or obligations hereunder
without the prior written consent of each Lender (and any attempted
assignment or transfer by the Borrower without such consent shall
be null and void), and (b) no Lender may assign or otherwise
transfer its rights or obligations hereunder except in accordance
with this Section 9.4. Nothing in this Agreement,
expressed or implied, shall be construed to confer upon any Person
(other than the parties hereto, their respective successors and
assigns permitted hereby (including any Affiliate of any Issuing
Bank that issues any Letter of Credit) and, to the extent expressly
contemplated hereby, the Related Parties of each of the
Administrative Agent and the Lenders) any legal or equitable right,
remedy or claim under or by reason of this Agreement.
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(2) Assignment
by Lenders. Any Lender may assign to one or more
assignees (treating any fund that invests in bank loans and any
other fund that invests in bank loans and is managed by the same
investment advisor of such fund or by an Affiliate of such
investment advisor as a single assignee) all or a portion of its
rights and obligations under this Agreement and the other Loan
Documents (including all or a portion of its Commitments and the
Loans at the time owing to it); provided that (a) except in
the case of an assignment to a Lender or a Lender Affiliate, the
Borrower and each Issuing Bank must give its prior written consent
to such assignment (which consent shall not be unreasonably
withheld or delayed), and (b) except in the case of an
assignment of any Commitment to an assignee that is a Lender with a
Commitment immediately prior to giving effect to such assignment,
the Administrative Agent must give its prior written consent to
such assignment (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld
or delayed); (c) the Borrower’s consent shall not be required
with respect to any assignment made at any time after the
occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default,
(d) except in the case of an assignment to a Lender or a
Lender Affiliate or an assignment of the entire remaining amount of
the assigning Lender’s Commitment, the amount of the
Commitment of the assigning Lender subject to each such assignment
(determined as of the date on which the Assignment and Assumption
relating to such assignment is delivered to the Administrative
Agent) shall not be less than U.S.$10,000,000, unless each of the
Borrower and the Administrative Agent otherwise consent in writing
and the amount held by each Lender after each such assignment shall
not be less than U.S.$10,000,000, unless each of the Borrower and
the Administrative Agent otherwise consent in writing,
(e) each partial assignment in respect of a Commitment and the
related Loans shall be made as an assignment of a proportionate
part of all the assigning Lender’s rights and obligations
under this Agreement in respect of such Commitment and the related
Loans, (f) the parties to each assignment shall execute and
deliver to the Administrative Agent an Assignment and Assumption,
together with (except in the case of an assignment to a Lender or a
Lender Affiliate) a processing and recordation fee of U.S.$3,500,
payable by the assigning Lender, (g) the assignee, if it shall
not be a Lender, shall deliver to the Administrative Agent an
Administrative Questionnaire, and (h) no assignment may be made to
the Borrower or any Subsidiary or to a Defaulting
Lender. The Administrative Agent shall provide the
Borrower and each Lender with written notice of any change in (or
new) address of a Lender disclosed in an Administrative
Questionnaire. Subject to acceptance and recording
thereof pursuant to Section 9.4(4), from and after the
effective date specified in each Assignment and Assumption, the
assignee thereunder shall be a party hereto and, to the extent of
the interest assigned by such Assignment and Assumption, shall have
all of the rights and obligations of a Lender under this Agreement,
and the assigning Lender thereunder shall, to the extent of the
interest assigned by such Assignment and Assumption, be released
from its obligations under this Agreement (and, in the case of an
Assignment and Assumption covering all of the assigning
Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement, such
Lender shall cease to be a party hereto but shall continue to be
entitled to the benefits of Sections 2.12, 2.13, 2.14 and
9.3). Any assignment or transfer by a Lender of rights
or obligations under this Agreement that does not comply with
Section 9.4 shall be treated for purposes of this Agreement as
a sale by such Lender of a participation in such rights and
obligations in accordance with Section 9.4(5).
(3) The
Administrative Agent shall maintain at one of its offices in
Toronto, Ontario a copy of each Assignment and Assumption delivered
to it and a register for the recordation of the names and addresses
of the Lenders, and the Commitment of, and principal amount of the
Loans and LC Disbursements owing to, each Lender pursuant to the
terms hereof from time to time (the “Register”). The entries
in the Register shall be conclusive, and the Borrower, the
Administrative Agent, the Issuing Banks, and the Lenders may treat
each Person whose name is recorded in the Register pursuant to the
terms hereof as a Lender hereunder for all purposes of this
Agreement. The Register shall be available for
inspection by the Borrower, the Issuing Banks and any Lender at any
reasonable time and from time to time upon reasonable prior
notice.
(4) Upon
its receipt of a duly completed Assignment and Assumption executed
by an assigning Lender and an assignee, the assignee’s
completed Administrative Questionnaire (unless the assignee shall
already be a Lender hereunder), the processing and recordation fee
referred to in Section 9.4(2) and any written consent to such
assignment required by Section 9.4(2), the Administrative
Agent shall accept such Assignment and Assumption and record the
information contained therein in the Register. No
assignment shall be effective for purposes of this Agreement unless
it has been recorded in the Register as provided in this
Section 9.4(4).
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(5) Any
Lender may, without notice to the Borrower or the consent of the
Borrower, the Administrative Agent or the Issuing Banks, sell
participations to one or more Persons (a ”Participant”) in all or a portion
of such Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement
and the other Loan Documents (including all or a portion of its
Commitment and the Loans owing to it); provided that (a) such
Lender’s obligations under this Agreement shall remain
unchanged, (b) such Lender shall remain solely responsible to
the other parties hereto for the performance of such obligations,
and (c) the Borrower, the Administrative Agent, the Issuing
Banks and the other Lenders shall continue to deal solely and
directly with such Lender in connection with such Lender’s
rights and obligations under this Agreement. Any
agreement or instrument pursuant to which a Lender sells such a
participation shall provide that such Lender shall retain the sole
right to enforce this Agreement and to approve any amendment,
modification or waiver of any provision of this Agreement; provided
that such agreement or instrument may provide that such Lender
shall not, without the consent of the Participant, agree to any
amendment, modification or waiver described in the first proviso to
Section 9.2(2) that affects such Participant; and the
Participant shall agree to maintain the confidentiality of
Information on terms and conditions substantively similar to those
contained in Section 9.16. Subject to
Section 9.4(6), the Borrower agrees that each Participant
shall be entitled to the benefits of Sections 2.12, 2.13, 2.14
and 9.3 to the same extent as if it were a Lender and had acquired
its interest by assignment pursuant to
Section 9.4(2). To the extent permitted by Law,
each Participant also shall be entitled to the benefits of
Section 9.11 as though it were a Lender, provided that such
Participant agrees to be subject to Section 2.15(5) as though
it were a Lender.
(6) A
Participant shall not be entitled to receive any greater payment
under Sections 2.12, 2.13, 2.14 and 9.3 than the applicable
Lender would have been entitled to receive with respect to the
participation sold to such Participant, unless the sale of the
participation to such Participant is made with the Borrower’s
prior written consent.
(7) Any
Lender may at any time pledge or assign a security interest in all
or any portion of its rights under this Agreement to secure
obligations of such Lender, including any pledge or assignment to
secure obligations to a Federal Reserve Bank, and this
Section 9.4 shall not apply to any such pledge or assignment
of a security interest; provided that no such pledge or assignment
of a security interest shall release a Lender from any of its
obligations hereunder or substitute any such pledgee or assignee
for such Lender as a party hereto.
(8) Any
assignment or grant of a participation pursuant to this
Section 9.4 shall constitute neither a repayment by the
Borrower to the assigning or granting Lender of any Loan included
therein, nor a new advance of any such Loan to the Borrower by such
Lender or by the assignee or Participant, as the case may
be. The parties acknowledge that the Borrower’s
obligations hereunder with respect to any such Loans shall continue
and shall not constitute new obligations as a result of such
assignment or participation.
9.5 Anti-Money
Laundering Legislation.
(1) The
Borrower acknowledges that, pursuant to the Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and
Terrorist Financing Act (Canada) and other applicable
anti-money laundering, anti-terrorist financing, government
sanction and “know your client” Laws, whether within
Canada or elsewhere (collectively, including any guidelines or
orders thereunder, “AML
Legislation”), the Lenders and the Administrative
Agent may be required to obtain, verify and record information
regarding the Borrower, its directors, authorized signing officers,
direct or indirect shareholders or other Persons in control of the
Borrower, and the transactions contemplated hereby. The
Borrower shall promptly provide all such information, including
supporting documentation and other evidence, as may be reasonably
requested by any Lender or the Administrative Agent, or any
prospective assignee or participant of a Lender or the
Administrative Agent, in order to comply with any applicable AML
Legislation, whether now or hereafter in existence.
(2) If
the Administrative Agent has ascertained the identity of the
Borrower or any authorized signatories of the Borrower for the
purposes of applicable AML Legislation, then the Administrative
Agent:
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shall be deemed to
have done so as an agent for each Lender, and this Agreement shall
constitute a “written agreement” in such regard between
each Lender and the Administrative Agent within the meaning of
applicable AML Legislation; and
(b)
shall provide to
each Lender copies of all information obtained in such regard
without any representation or warranty as to its accuracy or
completeness.
Notwithstanding the
preceding sentence and except as may otherwise be agreed in
writing, each of the Lenders agrees that the Administrative Agent
has no obligation to ascertain the identity of the Borrower or
any authorized signatories of the Borrower on behalf of any Lender,
or to confirm the completeness or accuracy of any information it
obtains from the Borrower or any such authorized signatory in doing
so.
9.6 Survival. All
covenants, agreements, representations and warranties made by the
Borrower herein and in the certificates or other instruments
delivered in connection with or pursuant to this Agreement shall be
considered to have been relied upon by the other parties hereto and
shall survive the execution and delivery of this Agreement and the
making of any Loans and issuance of any Letters of Credit,
regardless of any investigation made by any such other party or on
its behalf and notwithstanding that the Administrative Agent, any
Issuing Bank or any Lender may have had notice or knowledge of any
Default or incorrect representation or warranty at the time any
credit is extended hereunder, and shall continue in full force and
effect as long as the principal of or any accrued interest on any
Loan or any fee or any other amount payable under this Agreement is
outstanding and unpaid or any Letter of Credit is outstanding and
so long as the Commitments have not expired or
terminated. All indemnities contained herein and Article
8 shall survive and remain in full force and effect, regardless of
the consummation of the Transactions, the repayment of the Loans,
the expiration or termination of the Letters of Credit and the
Commitments or the termination of this Agreement or any provision
hereof.
9.7 [Reserved].
9.8 Counterparts.
This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts, each
of which will be deemed to be an original and all of which taken
together will be deemed to constitute one and the same
instrument. Counterparts may be executed either in
original or faxed or other electronic form and the parties adopt
any signatures received by a receiving fax machine or via e-mail as
original signatures of the parties; provided, however, that any
party providing its signature in such manner will promptly forward
to the other parties an original of the signed copy of this
Agreement which was so faxed or e-mailed.
9.9 Entire
Agreement. This Agreement (together with the
other Loan Documents and any separate letter agreements with
respect to fees payable to the Administrative Agent), constitutes
the entire agreement between the parties pertaining to the subject
matter of this Agreement and supersedes all prior agreements,
understandings, negotiations and discussions, whether oral or
written. There are no conditions, warranties,
representations or other agreements between the parties in
connection with the subject matter of this Agreement (whether oral
or written, express or implied, statutory or otherwise) except as
specifically set out in this Agreement or in such other applicable
agreements.
9.10 Severability. Any
provision of this Agreement which is prohibited or unenforceable in
any jurisdiction will, as to that jurisdiction, be ineffective to
the extent of such prohibition or unenforceability and will be
severed from the balance of this Agreement, all without affecting
the remaining provisions of this Agreement or affecting the
validity or enforceability of such provision in any other
jurisdiction.
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9.11 Right
of Set Off. If an Event of Default shall have
occurred and be continuing and the amounts then outstanding
hereunder have become due and payable in accordance with the
concluding paragraph of Section 7.1, each Secured Party is
hereby authorized at any time and from time to time, to the fullest
extent permitted by Law, to set off and apply any and all deposits
(general or special, time or demand, provisional or final) at any
time held and other obligations at any time owing by such Secured
Party to or for the credit or the account of any Credit Party
against any of and all of the obligations of the Credit Parties now
or hereafter existing under the Loan Documents held by such Secured
Party, irrespective of whether or not such Secured Party shall have
made any demand under any Loan Document and although such
obligations may be unmatured. The rights of each Secured
Party under this Section 9.11 are in addition to other rights
and remedies (including other rights of set off) which such Secured
Party may have.
9.12 Governing
Law. This
Agreement will be governed by and construed in accordance with the
laws of the Province of Ontario and the laws of Canada applicable
in that Province and will be treated, in all respects, as an
Ontario contract.
9.13 Attornment. The
Borrower hereto agrees (i) that any action or proceeding relating
to this Agreement may (but need not) be brought in any court of
competent jurisdiction in the Province of Ontario, and for that
purpose now irrevocably and unconditionally attorns and submits to
the jurisdiction of such Ontario court; (ii) that it irrevocably
waives any right to, and will not, oppose any such Ontario action
or proceeding on any jurisdictional basis, including forum non conveniens; and (iii) not to
oppose the enforcement against it in any other jurisdiction of any
judgment or order duly obtained from an Ontario court as
contemplated by this Section 9.13.
9.14 Service
of Process. Each party hereto (other than Export
Development Canada) irrevocably consents to service of process in
the manner provided for notices in
Section 9.1. Nothing in this Agreement shall affect
the right of any party to this Agreement to serve process in any
other manner permitted by Law.
9.15 WAIVER
OF JURY TRIAL. EACH PARTY HERETO HEREBY WAIVES,
TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY RIGHT IT MAY
HAVE TO A TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY LEGAL PROCEEDING DIRECTLY OR
INDIRECTLY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT, ANY OTHER
LOAN DOCUMENT, OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY OR THEREBY
(WHETHER BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT OR ANY OTHER
THEORY). EACH PARTY HERETO (a) CERTIFIES THAT NO
REPRESENTATIVE, AGENT OR ATTORNEY OF ANY OTHER PARTY HAS
REPRESENTED, EXPRESSLY OR OTHERWISE, THAT SUCH OTHER PARTY WOULD
NOT, IN THE EVENT OF LITIGATION, SEEK TO ENFORCE THE FOREGOING
WAIVER AND (b) ACKNOWLEDGES THAT IT AND THE OTHER PARTIES
HERETO HAVE BEEN INDUCED TO ENTER INTO THIS AGREEMENT BY, AMONG
OTHER THINGS, THE MUTUAL WAIVERS AND CERTIFICATIONS IN THIS
SECTION 9.15.
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9.16 Confidentiality. The
Administrative Agent and each Lender agrees to maintain the
confidentiality of Information (as defined below), except that
Information may be disclosed: (a) to each of their Affiliates,
directors, officers, employees, agents and advisors, including
accountants, legal counsel and other advisors (“Representatives”), it being
understood that the Persons to whom such disclosure is made will be
informed of the confidential nature of such Information and
instructed to keep such Information confidential and that the
Administrative Agent and the Lender, as the case may be, will be
liable to the Borrower for any breach of confidentiality by its
Representative; (b) to ratings agencies, insurers, and reinsurers;
(c) to the extent requested by any regulatory authority or other
Governmental Authority; (d) to the extent required by applicable
laws or regulations or by any subpoena or similar legal process;
(e) to any other party to this Agreement; (f) in connection with
the exercise of any remedies under any Loan Document or any suit,
action or proceeding relating to any Loan Document or the
enforcement of rights thereunder; (g) subject to an agreement
containing provisions substantially the same as those of this
Section (it being understood that the provider of such Information
will use its commercially reasonable efforts to ensure that the
recipient of such Information agrees that the Borrower may rely
upon such agreement), to (i) any actual or prospective assignee of
or Participant in any of its rights or obligations under this
Agreement, or (ii) any actual or prospective counterparty (or its
advisors) to any swap or derivative transaction relating to the
Borrower and its obligations; or (h) with the consent of the
Borrower. For the purposes of this Section, “Information” means all information
pertaining to the business, operations, plans, financial condition
and assets of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries (the
“Borrower’s
Business”) that has been, or will be, furnished to the
Lender or a director, officer, employee, financial advisor, agent,
legal counsel, accountant or other advisor or representative of a
Lender or any of its Affiliates and any material prepared by the
Lender or its Representatives based upon such furnished
information, but does not include information concerning the
Borrower’s Business that: (a) is or becomes generally
available to the public (other than as a result of a disclosure by
the Lender or its Representatives in violation of this clause); (b)
is or becomes available to the Lender or its Representatives from a
source other than the Borrower or any of its Representatives,
provided that such source is not, to the Lender’s knowledge,
prohibited from disclosing such information by a contractual, legal
or fiduciary obligation to the Borrower; (c) was in the possession
of, or known to, the Lender or its Representatives on a
non-confidential basis prior to its disclosure to the Lender by the
Borrower or its Representatives; or (d) was independently developed
by the Lender or its Representatives. Any Person required to
maintain the confidentiality of the Information as provided in this
Section shall be considered to have complied with its obligation to
do so if such Person has exercised the same degree of care to
maintain the confidentiality of such Information as such Person
would accord to its own confidential information.
9.17 Acknowledgement
and Consent to Bail-In of EEA Financial
Institutions. Notwithstanding anything to the
contrary in any Loan Document or in any other agreement,
arrangement or understanding among any such parties, each party
hereto acknowledges that any liability of any EEA Financial
Institution arising under any Loan Document, may be subject to the
write-down and conversion powers of an EEA Resolution Authority and
agrees and consents to, and acknowledges and agrees to be bound
by:
(a)
the application of
any Write-Down and Conversion Powers by an EEA Resolution Authority
to any such liabilities arising hereunder which may be payable to
it by any party hereto that is an EEA Financial Institution;
and
(b)
the effects of any
Bail-In Action on any such liability, including, if
applicable:
(i)
a reduction in full
or in part or cancellation of any such
liability;
(ii)
a conversion of
all, or a portion of, such liability into shares or other
instruments of ownership in such EEA Financial Institution, its
parent entity, or a bridge institution that may be issued to it or
otherwise conferred on it, and that such shares or other
instruments of ownership will be accepted by it in lieu of any
rights with respect to any such liability under this Agreement or
any other Loan Document; or
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the variation of
the terms of such liability in connection with the exercise of the
write-down and conversion powers of any EEA Resolution
Authority.
9.18 Keepwell. Each
Qualified ECP Guarantor hereby jointly and severally absolutely,
unconditionally and irrevocably undertakes to provide such funds or
other support as may be needed from time to time by each other
Credit Party to honour all of its obligations under this Credit
Agreement and each other Loan Document to which it is a party in
respect of Swap Obligations (provided, however, that each Qualified
ECP Guarantor shall only be liable under this Section 9.16 for the
maximum amount of such liability that can be hereby incurred
without rendering its obligations under this Section 9.18, or
otherwise under this Credit Agreement or any other Loan Document,
voidable under applicable law relating to fraudulent conveyance or
fraudulent transfer, and not for any greater amount). The
obligations of each Qualified ECP Guarantor under this Section
shall remain in full force and effect until the payout of such
Qualified ECP Guarantor’s obligations. Each Qualified ECP
Guarantor intends that this Section 9.18 constitute, and this
Section 9.18 shall be deemed to constitute, a “keepwell,
support, or other agreement” for the benefit of each other
Credit Party for all purposes of Section 1a(18)(A)(v)(II) of the
Commodity Exchange Act.
9.19 Acknowledgement
Regarding Any Supported QFCs. To the extent that
the Loan Documents provide support, through a guarantee or
otherwise, for Hedge Arrangements or any other agreement
or instrument that is a QFC (such support, “QFC Credit Support” and each such
QFC a “Supported
QFC”), the parties acknowledge and agree as follows
with respect to the resolution power of the Federal Deposit
Insurance Corporation under the Federal Deposit Insurance Act and
Title II of the Xxxx-Xxxxx Xxxx Street Reform and Consumer
Protection Act (together with the regulations promulgated
thereunder, the “U.S. Special
Resolution Regimes”) in respect of such Supported QFC
and QFC Credit Support (with the provisions below applicable
notwithstanding the governing law of any of the Loan Documents or
any Supported QFC):
(a)
If a Covered Entity
that is party to a Supported QFC (each, a “Covered Party”) becomes subject to
a proceeding under a U.S. Special Resolution Regime, the transfer
of such Supported QFC and the benefit of such QFC Credit Support
(and any interest and obligation in or under such Supported QFC and
such QFC Credit Support, and any rights in property securing such
Supported QFC) from such Covered Party will be effective to the
same extent as the transfer would be effective under the U.S.
Special Resolution Regime if the Supported QFC and such QFC Credit
Support (and any such interest, obligation and rights in property)
were governed by the laws of the United States or a state of the
United States. In the event a Covered Party or a BHC Act Affiliate
of a Covered Party becomes subject to a proceeding under a U.S.
Special Resolution Regime, Default Rights under the Loan Documents
that might otherwise apply to such Supported QFC or any QFC Credit
Support that may be exercised against such Covered Party are
permitted to be exercised to no greater extent than such Default
Rights could be exercised under the U.S. Special Resolution Regime
if the Supported QFC and the Loan Documents were governed by the
laws of the United States or a state of the United States. Without
limitation of the foregoing, it is understood and agreed that
rights and remedies of the parties with respect to a Defaulting
Lender shall in no event affect the rights of any Covered Party
with respect to a Supported QFC or any QFC Credit
Support.
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As used in this
Section 9.19, the following terms have the following
meanings:
“BHC Act Affiliate” of a party
means an “affiliate” (as such term is defined under,
and interpreted in accordance with, 12 U.S.C. 1841(k)) of such
party.
“Covered Entity” means any of the
following:
(i)
a “covered
entity” as that term is defined in, and interpreted in
accordance with, 12 C.F.R. § 252.82(b);
(ii)
a “covered
bank” as that term is defined in, and interpreted in
accordance with, 12 C.F.R. § 47.3(b); or
(iii)
a “covered
FSI” as that term is defined in, and interpreted in
accordance with, 12 C.F.R. § 382.2(b).
“Default Right” has the meaning
assigned to that term in, and shall be interpreted in accordance
with, 12 C.F.R. §§ 252.81, 47.2 or 382.1, as
applicable.
“QFC” has the meaning assigned to
the term “qualified financial contract” in, and shall
be interpreted in accordance with, 12 U.S.C.
5390(c)(8)(D).
9.20 Paramountcy. In
the event of any conflict or inconsistency between the provisions
of this Agreement and the provisions of any other Loan Document
then, notwithstanding anything contained in such other Loan
Document, the provisions contained in this Agreement shall prevail
to the extent of such conflict or inconsistency and the provisions
of such other Loan Document shall be deemed to be amended to the
extent necessary to eliminate such conflict or inconsistency, it
being understood that the purpose of the other Loan Documents is to
add to, and not detract from, the rights granted to the
Administrative Agent (for its own benefit and the benefit of the
other Secured Parties) under this Agreement. If any act
or omission of any or all Credit Parties is expressly permitted
under this Agreement but is expressly prohibited under any other
Loan Document, such act or omission shall be
permitted. If any act or omission is expressly
prohibited under any other Loan Document, but this Agreement does
not expressly permit such act or omission, or if any act is
expressly required to be performed under any other Loan Document
but this Agreement does not expressly relieve any or all Credit
Parties from such performance, such circumstance shall not
constitute a conflict or inconsistency between the applicable
provisions of such other Loan Document and the provisions of the
Credit Agreement.
9.21 No
Advisory or Fiduciary Responsibility.
(1) The
Borrower acknowledges and agrees, and acknowledges its
Subsidiaries’ understanding, that neither the Administrative
Agent nor any Lender will have any obligations hereunder except
those obligations expressly set forth herein and in the other Loan
Documents, and the Administrative Agent and each Lender is acting
solely in the capacity of an arm’s length contractual
counterparty to the Borrower with respect to the Loan Documents and
the transaction contemplated therein and not as a financial advisor
or a fiduciary to, or an agent of, the Borrower or any other
person. The Borrower agrees that it will not assert any
claim against the Administrative Agent or any Lender based on an
alleged breach of fiduciary duty by such Administrative Agent or
Lender in connection with this Agreement and the transactions
contemplated hereby. Additionally, the Borrower
acknowledges and agrees that neither the Administrative Agent nor
any Lender is advising the Borrower as to any legal, tax,
investment, accounting, regulatory or any other matters in any
jurisdiction. The Borrower shall consult with its own
advisors concerning such matters and shall be responsible for
making its own independent investigation and appraisal of the
transactions contemplated hereby, and neither the Administrative
Agent nor any Lender shall have any responsibility or liability to
the Borrower with respect thereto.
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(2) The
Borrower further acknowledges and agrees, and acknowledges its
Subsidiaries’ understanding, that each Lender is a full
service securities or banking firm engaged in securities trading
and brokerage activities as well as providing investment banking
and other financial services. In the ordinary course of
business, any Lender may provide investment banking and other
financial services to, and/or acquire, hold or sell, for its own
accounts and the accounts of customers, equity, debt and other
securities and financial instruments (including bank loans and
other obligations) of, the Borrower, its Subsidiaries and other
companies with which the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries may
have commercial or other relationships. With respect to
any securities and/or financial instruments so held by any Lender
or any of its customers, all rights in respect of such securities
and financial instruments, including any voting rights, will be
exercised by the holder of the rights, in its sole
discretion.
(3) In
addition, the Borrower acknowledges and agrees, and acknowledges
its Subsidiaries’ understanding, that each Lender and its
affiliates may be providing debt financing, equity capital or other
services (including financial advisory services) to other companies
in respect of which the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries may
have conflicting interests regarding the transactions described
herein and otherwise. No Lender will use confidential
information obtained from the Borrower by virtue of the
transactions contemplated by the Loan Documents or its other
relationships with the Borrower in connection with the performance
by such Lender of services for other companies, and no Lender will
furnish any such information to other companies. The
Borrower also acknowledges that no Lender has any obligation to use
in connection with the transactions contemplated by the Loan
Documents, or to furnish to the Borrower or any of its
Subsidiaries, confidential information obtained from other
companies.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have executed this
Agreement as of the date first above written.
[signatures
on the next following pages]
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT AND AGREEMENT REGARDING PARALLEL DEBT
CLAIMS
Each PD
Subsidiary below hereby executes this Acknowledgement and Agreement
Regarding Parallel Debt Claims for the express purpose of
acknowledging and agreeing to the provisions set forth in Section
8.3 of the foregoing Agreement.
For
greater certainty, the Credit Agreement may be amended,
supplemented or otherwise modified, restated or replaced from time
to time without any further consent or acknowledgement by any of
the undersigned.
DATED:
May _____, 0000
XXXXXXXX XXXX (XXXXXXXXXXX) B.V., as PD
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Acknowledgement and Agreement re Parallel Debt
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Debt Claims
EXHIBIT A
FORM OF BORROWING REQUEST
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Bank Canada, as Administrative Agent under the Credit Agreement
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Third
Amended and Restated Credit Agreement dated as of May 13,
2019, made among the
undersigned, as borrower (the “Borrower”), HSBC Bank
Canada, as administrative agent (in such capacity, the
“Administrative
Agent”), HSBC Bank Canada, Bank of Montreal and
National Bank of Canada as issuing banks, and the lenders from time
to time party thereto (as amended, restated,
supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the
“Credit
Agreement”)
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We
refer to the Credit constituted by the Credit Agreement and we
hereby give you notice that on [DATE] we wish to obtain a Borrowing in
the aggregate amount of [Canadian /
U.S.] $ [AMOUNT].
Such Borrowing is made under the [Revolving Credit Commitments/Term Credit
Commitments/ Additional LC Credit].4 All capitalized
terms used and not otherwise defined herein have the meanings given
to them in the Credit Agreement.
The
Borrowing requested hereby is to take the form of:
[ ]
a Canadian Prime
Borrowing
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a Base Rate
Borrowing
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a LIBO Rate
Borrowing
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the issuance of a
Letter of Credit by the Issuing Bank5
[to
be disbursed to the following U.S. Dollar or Canadian Dollar
account of the Borrower, as applicable:
Canadian
Dollar Borrowings:
HSBC
Bank Canada
Bank
address: 000 Xxxx Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxx, XX X0X0X0
Xxxxxx
Swift
Code: XXXXXXXX
Institution
number: Note: Redacted
sensitive banking information
Transit
number:
Note: Redacted sensitive banking
information
Beneficiary
account number:
Note:
Redacted sensitive banking
information
Account
name: Eldorado Gold Corporation
U.S.
Dollar Borrowings:
HSBC
Bank Canada
Bank
address: 000 Xxxx Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxx, XX X0X0X0
Xxxxxx
Swift
Code: XXXXXXXX
Institution
number:
Note:
Redacted sensitive banking
information
Transit
number:
Note:
Redacted sensitive banking
information
Beneficiary
account number:
Note:
Redacted sensitive banking
information
Account
name: Eldorado Gold Corporation
HSBC
Bank Canada’s Correspondent Bank:
Citibank,
New York
Swift Code:
XXXXXX00]6
[Such Borrowing is a [rollover/conversion] of
outstanding [LIBO Rate Loans having an Interest Period ending
[DATE]/Canadian Prime Loans/Base Rate Loans] in an aggregate
principal amount of [AMOUNT].] 7
[The Interest Period in respect of the LIBO
Rate Borrowing requested hereby is [NUMBER] days.]8
[The requested Letter of Credit is a [trade]
[standby] Letter of Credit for the account of the undersigned on
[DATE] in the aggregate face amount of [Canadian / U.S.] $[AMOUNT].
The beneficiary of the requested Letter of Credit will be
[BENEFICIARY], and such Letter of Credit will have a stated
expiration date of [DATE].]9
We
hereby certify, after due and careful investigation,
that10:
(a)
each of the
representations and warranties made by the Borrower in the Credit
Agreement are true and correct on and as of the date hereof except
to the extent that (i) any change to the representations and
warranties has been disclosed to the Administrative Agent and
accepted by the Required Lenders, or (ii) any representation
and warranty is stated to be made as of a particular time;
and
(b)
on and as of the
date hereof, no Default has occurred and is
continuing.
DATED:
[DATE]
ELDORADO GOLD CORPORATION
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Use for Borrowings
of Loans.
This sentence is
only required in the context of a Borrowing Request for rollovers
or conversions of Loans.
This sentence is
only required in the context of a Borrowing Request for a LIBO Rate
Borrowing.
Use for Letters of
Credit.
This certification
need not be made on conversions or rollovers.
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EXHIBIT B
FORM OF
ASSIGNMENT AND ASSUMPTION AGREEMENT
This
assignment and assumption agreement (the “Assignment and Assumption”) is
dated as of the Effective Date set out below and is entered into by
and between [NAME OF
ASSIGNOR] (the “Assignor”) and [NAME OF ASSIGNEE] (the
“Assignee”).
Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the
meanings given to them in the Credit Agreement identified below (as
amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to
time, the “Credit
Agreement”), receipt of a copy of which is hereby
acknowledged by the Assignee. The Standard Terms and Conditions set
out in Annex 1 attached hereto are hereby agreed to and
incorporated herein by reference and made a part of this Assignment
and Assumption as if set out herein in full.
For
good and valuable consideration, the Assignor hereby irrevocably
sells and assigns to the Assignee, and the Assignee hereby
irrevocably purchases and assumes from the Assignor, subject to and
in accordance with the Standard Terms and Conditions and the Credit
Agreement, as of the Effective Date inserted by the Administrative
Agent as contemplated below (a) all of the Assignor’s rights
and obligations in its capacity as a [Term Credit/Revolving Credit/Additional LC
Credit] Lender under the Credit Agreement and any other
documents or instruments delivered pursuant thereto to the extent
related to the amount and percentage interest identified below of
all of such outstanding rights and obligations of the Assignor
(including any Letters of Credit) and (b) to the extent permitted
to be assigned under applicable law, all claims, suits, causes of
action and any other right of the Assignor (in its capacity as a
Lender) against any Person, whether known or unknown, arising under
or in connection with the Credit Agreement, any other documents or
instruments delivered pursuant thereto or the loan transactions
governed thereby or in any way based on or related to any of the
foregoing, including contract claims, tort claims, malpractice
claims, statutory claims and all other claims at law or in equity
related to the rights and obligations sold and assigned pursuant to
clause (a) above (the rights and obligations sold and assigned
pursuant to clauses (a) and (b) above being referred to herein
collectively as the “Assigned
Interest”). Such sale and assignment is without
recourse to the Assignor and, except as expressly provided in this
Assignment and Assumption, without representation or warranty by
the Assignor.
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Assignor:
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2.
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Assignee:
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[and is a Lender Affiliate of [NAME OF LENDER]]
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3.
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Borrower:
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Eldorado
Gold Corporation
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Administrative
Agent:
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HSBC
Bank Canada, as the administrative agent under the Credit
Agreement
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5.
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Credit
Agreement:
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Third
Amended and Restated Credit Agreement dated as of May 13,
2019, made among the
undersigned, as borrower (the “Borrower”), HSBC Bank
Canada, as administrative agent (in such capacity, the
“Administrative
Agent”), HSBC Bank Canada, Bank of Montreal and
National Bank of Canada as issuing banks, and the lenders from time
to time party thereto (as amended, restated,
supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the
“Credit
Agreement”)
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6.
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Assigned
Interest:
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Aggregate
Amount of Commitment/Loans for all Lenders
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Amount
of Commitment/Loans Assigned
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Percentage
Assigned of Commitment/Loans1
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$
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Effective
Date: , 20 [To
be inserted by Administrative Agent and which shall be the
effective date of recordation of transfer in the register
therefor.]
The
terms set out in this Assignment and Assumption are hereby agreed
to:
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Set forth, to at least 9 decimals, as
a percentage of the Commitment/Loans of all Lenders
thereunder.
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[Consented to and]2
Accepted:
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HSBC BANK CANADA, as Administrative Agent
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[Consented to and]3
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HSBC BANK CANADA, as Issuing Bank
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By:
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BANK OF MONTREAL, as Issuing Bank
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NATIONAL BANK OF CANADA, as Issuing Bank
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3 To
be added only if the consent of the Issuing Bank is required by the
terms of section 9.4 of the Credit Agreement.
4 To
be added only if the consent of the Borrower is required by the
terms of section 9.4 of the Credit Agreement.
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ANNEX 1
STANDARD TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR
ASSIGNMENT AND ASSUMPTION
1.
Assignor. The Assignor (a)
represents and warrants that (i) it is the legal and beneficial
owner of the Assigned Interest, (ii) the Assigned Interest is free
and clear of any lien, encumbrance or other adverse claim and (iii)
it has full power and authority, and has taken all action
necessary, to execute and deliver this Assignment and Assumption
and to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby; and (b)
assumes no responsibility with respect to (i) any statements,
warranties or representations made in or in connection with the
Credit Agreement or any other Loan Document, (ii) the execution,
legality, validity, enforceability, genuineness, sufficiency or
value of the Loan Documents or any collateral thereunder, (iii) the
financial condition of the Borrower, any of its Subsidiaries or
Affiliates or any other Person obligated in respect of any Loan
Document or (iv) the performance or observance by the Borrower, any
of its Subsidiaries or Affiliates or any other Person of any of
their respective obligations under any Loan Document
2.
Assignee. The Assignee (a)
represents and warrants that (i) it has full power and authority,
and has taken all action necessary, to execute and deliver this
Assignment and Assumption and to consummate the transactions
contemplated hereby and to become a Lender under the Credit
Agreement, (ii) it satisfies the requirements, if any, specified in
the Credit Agreement that are required to be satisfied by it in
order to acquire the Assigned Interest and become a Lender, (iii)
from and after the Effective Date, it shall be bound by the
provisions of the Credit Agreement as a Lender thereunder and, to
the extent of the Assigned Interest, shall have the obligations of
a Lender thereunder, and (iv) it has received a copy of the Credit
Agreement, together with copies of the most recent financial
statements delivered pursuant to Section 5.1(1) thereof, as
applicable, and such other documents and information as it has
deemed appropriate to make its own credit analysis and decision to
enter into this Assignment and Assumption and to purchase the
Assigned Interest on the basis of which it has made such analysis
and decision independently and without reliance on the
Administrative Agent or any other Lender; and (b) agrees that (i)
it shall, independently and without reliance on the Administrative
Agent, the Assignor or any other Lender, and based on such
documents and information as it shall deem appropriate at the time,
continue to make its own credit decisions in taking or not taking
action under the Loan Documents, and (ii) it shall 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.
3.
Payments. From and after the
Effective Date, the Administrative Agent shall make all payments in
respect of the Assigned Interest (including payments of principal,
interest, fees and other amounts) to the Assignee whether such
amounts have accrued prior to the Effective Date or accrued
subsequent to the Effective Date. The Assignor and the Assignee
shall make all appropriate adjustments in payments by the
Administrative Agent for the periods prior to the Effective Date or
with respect to the making of this assignment directly between
themselves.
4.
General Provisions. This
Assignment and Assumption shall be binding upon, and inure to the
benefit of, the parties hereto and their respective successors and
assigns. This Assignment and Assumption may be executed in any
number of counterparts, which together shall constitute one
instrument. Delivery of an executed
counterpart of a signature page of this Assignment and Assumption
by telecopy shall be effective as delivery of a manually executed
counterpart of this Assignment and Assumption. This
Assignment and Assumption shall be governed by, and construed in
accordance with, the laws of the Province of Ontario and the
federal laws of Canada applicable therein
EXHIBIT C
FORM OF
COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE
TO:
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HSBC
Bank Canada, as administrative agent under the Credit Agreement
(the “Administrative
Agent”)
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AND TO:
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The
lenders from time to time parties to the Credit Agreement (the
“Lenders”)
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Reference is made
to the Third Amended and Restated Credit Agreement dated as of May
13, 2019, made among the
undersigned, as borrower (the “Borrower”), HSBC Bank
Canada, as administrative agent (in such capacity, the
“Administrative
Agent”), HSBC Bank Canada, Bank of Montreal and
National Bank of Canada as issuing banks, and the lenders from time
to time party thereto (as amended, restated,
supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the
“Credit
Agreement”). Unless otherwise defined herein, terms
defined in the Credit Agreement and used herein shall have the
meanings given to them in the Credit Agreement.
The
undersigned, the [Officer]
of the Borrower, in that capacity and not personally, hereby
certifies that, as of the date hereof: (i) a review of the
consolidated financial statements of the Borrower for the
[Fiscal Quarter] [Fiscal
Year] ended [Specify last
day of Fiscal Quarter/Fiscal Year], and of the activities of
the Credit Parties during such [Fiscal Quarter] [Fiscal Year] has been
made under the supervision of the undersigned with a view to
determining whether the Credit Parties have fulfilled their
obligations under the Credit Agreement and the other Loan
Documents, (ii) all representations and warranties made in the
Credit Agreement continue to be true and correct in all material
respects as if made on the date hereof1, except where such
representation or warranty refers to a different date, (iii) no
Default or Event of Default has occurred2, and (iv) as at the
end of the [Fiscal Quarter] [Fiscal
Year] ended [Specify last
day of Fiscal Quarter/Fiscal Year], the Borrower was in
compliance with each of covenants set forth in Section 5.1(11) of
the Credit Agreement.3 The Borrower’s
compliance with each of such covenants as at the end of such
[Fiscal Quarter] [Fiscal
Year] is demonstrated by the figures set out on the
financial covenant compliance worksheet attached hereto as
Schedule A. Attached hereto as Schedule B is the management
discussion and analysis required by Section 5.1(1)(d) of the Credit
Agreement. Attached hereto as Schedule C is a list of the Material
Subsidiaries as of the last day of the most recently completed
Fiscal Quarter.
DATED:
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If this is not the
case, specify the nature of any change.
Or, if there is an
outstanding Default or Event of Default, specify the nature and
status thereof and the Borrower’s proposed response
thereto.
Or, if there is
non-compliance, specify same.
SCHEDULE A TO COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE
FINANCIAL COVENANT COMPLIANCE WORKSHEET
RE:
Rolling Period
ended [DATE].
INTEREST COVERAGE RATIO
Requirement: Maintain an Interest Coverage Ratio (EBITDA / Interest
Expense) with respect to each Rolling Period of not less than 3.00
to 1.00 (Section 5.1(11)(a)).
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EBITDA
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(a) Net
Income18
of the Borrower (excluding, without duplication (i) federal,
provincial, state, local and foreign income tax expense or benefit,
(ii) non-cash compensation expenses related to common stock and
other Equity Securities issued to employees, (iii) extraordinary or
non-recurring gains and losses and (iv) income or losses from
discontinued operations)
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(b) plus,
to the extent deducted in computing such Net Income (but without
duplication):
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1. interest
expense
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2. depreciation,
depletion and amortization of property, plant equipment and
intangibles
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3. other
non-cash charges (including non-cash charges due to asset
impairment or due to cumulative effects of changes in accounting
principles)
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EBITDA:
(a) + (b)
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2. Interest
Expense
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Interest Coverage Ratio: Ratio of (a) / (b)
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18 I.e., net income of the Borrower on a
Consolidated basis, excluding (i) income of Subsidiaries which, due
to legal, regulatory or contractual restrictions, cannot be
distributed, directly or indirectly, to the Borrower and (ii)
income (or loss) of Persons prior to the date (x) such Persons
became (or were amalgamated with) Subsidiaries or (y) such
Persons’ property was acquired by
Subsidiaries.
NET LEVERAGE RATIO
Requirement: Maintain a Net Leverage Ratio (Net Indebtedness /
EBITDA) with respect to each Rolling Period of not more than (i)
5.00:1.00 for each Rolling Period up to and including the Rolling
Period ending June 30, 2019; (ii) 4.50:1.00 for the Rolling Period
ending September 30, 2019; (iii) 4.00:1.00 for the Rolling Period
ending December 31, 2019 and (iv) 3.50:1.00 for each Rolling Period
ending after December 31, 2019.
(Section 5.1(11)(b)):
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(c) Net Indebtedness ((a) the aggregate amount of Indebtedness of
the Borrower, determined on a Consolidated basis, minus (b) the
aggregate amount of unencumbered cash and unencumbered Permitted
Cash Investments, determined on a Consolidated basis, net of the
aggregate amount of Taxes which would be payable in connection with
any transfer to the Borrower of such amount
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(d) EBITDA (amount from (a))
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Net Leverage Ratio: Ratio of (c) / (d)
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SCHEDULE B TO COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE
MANAGEMENT DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS
SCHEDULE C TO COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE
MATERIAL SUBSIDIARIES
EXHIBIT D
Form of Promissory Note
Date:
[●], 2019
THIS NOTE is made in connection with
that certain third amended and restated credit agreement dated as
of May 13, 2019, made among
the undersigned, as borrower (the “Borrower”), HSBC Bank
Canada, as administrative agent (in such capacity, the
“Administrative
Agent”), HSBC Bank Canada, Bank of Montreal and
National Bank of Canada as issuing banks, and the lenders from time
to time party thereto (as amended, restated,
supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the
“Credit
Agreement”). Capitalized terms used but not defined
herein shall have the meanings given thereto in the Credit
Agreement.
FOR VALUE RECEIVED the undersigned
unconditionally promises to pay on the Maturity Date to [NAME OF LENDER] (the
“Lender”) at the
Payment Office in accordance with the provisions of the Credit
Agreement, the aggregate unpaid principal balance from time to time
of all Loans made by
the Lender to the undersigned, with interest thereon at the rates
and on the dates specified in the Credit Agreement both before and
after maturity, default and judgment, until paid.
The
holder of this Note is entitled to endorse on the attached
schedules or a continuation of any thereof (which schedules and any
such continuations thereof are made a part hereof) the date, Type
and amount of each Loan, the date and amount of each payment or
rollover thereof and, if applicable, the Interest Period with
respect thereto and each conversion thereof. Each such endorsement
shall constitute prima facie evidence of the accuracy of the
information endorsed, provided that the failure to make any such
endorsement or any error in any such endorsement shall not affect
the obligations of the undersigned in respect of any
Loan.
The
unpaid principal amount due hereunder may be reduced to zero from
time to time without affecting the validity of this
note.
This
note evidences indebtedness incurred under, and is subject to the
terms and provisions of, the Credit Agreement, pursuant to which
the indebtedness evidenced hereby may be required to be repaid in
whole or in part or may become immediately due and payable, all as
provided in the Credit Agreement.
This
Note may not be transferred except in accordance with Section 9.4
of the Credit Agreement
This
promissory note shall be governed by, and construed in accordance
with, the laws of the Province of Ontario and the laws of Canada
applicable in that Province. This promissory note shall become
effective when it has been executed and delivered. Time shall be of
the essence of this promissory note in all respects.
ELDORADO GOLD CORPORATION
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SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE
I: CANADIAN PRIME LOANS AND REPAYMENTS
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of
Canadian
Prime Loans
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Amount
Canadian Prime Loans Repaid
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Aggregate
Unpaid
Principal
Balance of Canadian Prime Loans
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SCHEDULE
II: LIBO RATE LOANS/ROLLOVERS, CONVERSIONS AND
REPAYMENTS
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of
LIBO
Rate Loans/ Rollover
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Amount
Converted to LIBO Rate Loans
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Interest
Period
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Amount
of LIBO Rate Loans Repaid
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Amount
of LIBO Rate Loans Converted to Base Rate Loans
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Aggregate
Unpaid Principal Balance of LIBO Rate Loans
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SCHEDULE
III: BASE RATE LOANS/ROLLOVERS, CONVERSIONS AND
REPAYMENTS
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of
Base
Rate Loans/ Rollover
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Amount
Converted to Base Rate Loans
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Amount
of Base Rate Loans
Repaid
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Amount
of Base Rate Loans Converted to LIBO Rate Loans
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Aggregate
Unpaid
Principal
Balance of Base Rate Loans
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Notation
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EXHIBIT E
FORM OF INTERCOMPANY SUBORDINATION AGREEMENT
THIS INTERCOMPANY
SUBORDINATION AGREEMENT (“this
Agreement”) dated as of [●], 2019 is made by
each of the undersigned (together with each Person that becomes a
party hereto after the date hereof pursuant to Section 7 hereof,
the “Junior
Creditors” and
each, a “Junior
Creditor”) in favour of HSBC Bank Canada
(“HSBC”),
as administrative agent (together with its successors and
assigns in such capacity, the “Senior
Agent”) for the Secured Parties referred to in that
certain third amended and restated credit agreement dated as of May
13, 2019 (as amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified
from time to time, the “Senior Credit
Agreement”), among Eldorado Gold Corporation, as
borrower (the “Borrower”), HSBC, as Senior Agent,
the lenders from time to time parties thereto and HSBC Bank Canada,
Bank of Montreal and National Bank of Canada, as issuing banks, and
HSBC Securities (USA) Inc., as lead arranger and sole
bookrunner.
For
good and valuable consideration, each Junior Creditor agrees in
favour of the Senior Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties,
as follows:
1.
Definitions.
Capitalized terms used but not otherwise defined herein (including
the preamble hereto) shall have the meanings given to them in the
Senior Credit Agreement, and the following terms have the following
meanings:
“Bankruptcy Action” means (a) the appointment of
a receiver, receiver and manager or interim receiver of any Credit
Party or any of its assets, or (b) the commencement of any
bankruptcy, insolvency or similar proceeding with respect to any
Credit Party.
“Junior Debt” means, collectively, all present
and future indebtedness, liabilities and obligations of any and
every kind, nature and description whatsoever and howsoever
incurred (whether direct or indirect, absolute or contingent,
matured or unmatured, whether as principal debtor, guarantor,
surety or otherwise) of any Credit Party to the Junior
Creditors.
“Junior Payment” means, with respect to any
Junior Debt, (a) any payment or distribution by any party of cash,
securities, or other form of property, including by the exercise of
a right of set-off or in any other manner, on account of such
Junior Debt, or (b) any redemption, purchase or other acquisition
of such Junior Debt by any party.
“Senior Debt” means the Secured Liabilities as
defined in the Senior Credit Agreement.
2.
Postponement.
Each Junior Creditor hereby agrees that upon the occurrence and
during the continuance of an Event of Default, the Junior Debt is
postponed and subordinated to, and made subject in right of payment
to the prior payment in cash of, all Senior Debt.
3.
Payment
Restriction. Notwithstanding the terms of the Junior Debt,
upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of
Default, (i) no Credit Party (or any party on its behalf) shall
make or shall be entitled to make, and the Junior Creditors shall
not accept and shall not be entitled to accept, any Junior Payment,
(ii) the Junior Creditors shall not set-off or apply any amount
that may be owed or become owing by any Junior Creditor to any
Credit Party against the Junior Debt, and (c) the Junior Creditors
shall not make demand for payment of the Junior Debt.
4.
Security. The
Junior Creditors confirm that the Junior Debt is
unsecured.
5.
Bankruptcy
Action. The Junior Creditors shall not, at any time, take
any Bankruptcy Action in respect of the Junior Debt.
6.
Proceeds Held in
Trust. If, after the occurrence and during the continuance
of an Event of Default, any payment is made to or received by any
Junior Creditor in respect of any Junior Debt, such Junior Creditor
shall hold such payment in trust for the Senior Agent and shall pay
such payment to the Senior Agent, within 3 Business Days of its
receipt thereof, for application against the Senior
Debt.
7.
New
Subsidiaries. Any Subsidiary of the Borrower may become a
party to this Agreement by executing and delivering to the Senior
Agent a counterpart hereof. Upon the execution and delivery of such
counterpart by such Subsidiary, such Subsidiary shall become a
Junior Creditor hereunder with the same force and effect as if
originally named as a Junior Creditor hereunder.
8.
Governing
Law. This Agreement shall be governed by, and construed in
accordance with, the laws of the Province of Ontario and the
federal laws of Canada applicable therein.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF each Junior Creditor
has executed this Subordination and Postponement Agreement as of
the date first above written.
Address:
Attention:
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EXHIBIT F
FORM OF PREPAYMENT NOTICE
TO:
HSBC Bank Canada,
as Administrative Agent under the Credit Agreement referred to
below
We
refer to the Third Amended and Restated Credit Agreement dated as
of May 13, 2019, made
among the undersigned, as borrower (the “Borrower”), HSBC Bank
Canada, as administrative agent (in such capacity, the
“Administrative
Agent”), HSBC Bank Canada, Bank of Montreal and
National Bank of Canada as issuing banks, and the lenders from time
to time party thereto (as amended, restated,
supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the
“Credit
Agreement”). All capitalized terms used and not
otherwise defined herein have the meanings given to them in the
Credit Agreement.
The
Borrower hereby gives you notice irrevocably that it elects to
repay a [Canadian Prime Loan] [Base
Rate Loan] [LIBO Rate Loan] or a portion thereof under the
[Revolving Credit Commitments/Term
Credit Commitments], as set forth below:
1.
The proposed
repayment date is ______________________
2.
The amount of the
Loan to be repaid is _________________________
ELDORADO GOLD CORPORATION
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EXHIBIT G
FORM OF INTERCREDITOR AGREEMENT
THIS
INTERCREDITOR AGREEMENT is dated as of [ ],
2019, among HSBC BANK CANADA, as First Lien Agent, and [ ],
as Credit Agreement Agent, each Other First Priority Lien
Obligations Agent from time to time party hereto, each in its
capacity as First Lien Agent and [ ], as Trustee and Second
Priority Collateral Agent and each collateral agent for any Future
Second Lien Indebtedness from time to time party hereto, each in
its capacity as Second Priority Agent.
A. ELDORADO
GOLD CORPORATION, a corporation incorporated and existing under the
Canada Business Corporations
Act (the “Borrower”) (i) is a party to the
Third Amended and Restated Credit Agreement dated as of
[ ],
2019 (as the same may be amended, amended and restated, replaced,
Refinanced, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time,
the “Credit
Agreement”) with the
lenders party thereto from time to time, HSBC Bank Canada, as
administrative agent, and the other parties thereto and (ii) may
become a party to Other First Priority Lien Obligations Credit
Documents;
B. The
Borrower (i) is a party to the Indenture dated as of [ ],
2019, (as the same may be amended, amended and restated, replaced,
Refinanced, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time,
the “Second Priority Senior
Secured Notes Indenture”) with [the guarantors party
thereto and] [ ],
as Trustee and Second Priority Collateral Agent and (ii) may become
a party to Second Priority Documents governing Future Second Lien
Indebtedness;
Accordingly, in
consideration of the foregoing, the mutual covenants and
obligations herein set forth and for other good and valuable
consideration, the sufficiency and receipt of which are hereby
acknowledged, the parties hereto, intending to be legally bound,
hereby agree as follows:
SECTION 1
DEFINITIONS.
1.1
Defined Terms. As used in this
Agreement, the following terms have the meanings specified
below:
“Affiliate” shall mean, when used
with respect to a specified Person, another Person that directly,
or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, Controls or is
Controlled by or is under common Control with the Person
specified.
“Agreement” shall mean this
Agreement, as amended, restated, renewed, extended, supplemented or
otherwise modified from time to time in accordance with the terms
hereof.
“Bankruptcy Laws” shall mean the
Bankruptcy and Insolvency
Act (Canada), the Companies
Creditors Arrangement Act (Canada), the Winding-Up Act (Canada), each as
amended, and any other applicable domestic Canadian or foreign law
for the relief of debtors.
“Closing Date” shall mean
[ ],
2019.
“Common Collateral” shall mean all
of the assets of any Grantor, whether real, personal or mixed,
constituting both Senior Lender Collateral and Second Priority
Collateral, including without limitation any assets in which the
First Lien Agents are automatically deemed to have a Lien pursuant
to the provisions of Section 2.3.
“Comparable Second Priority Collateral
Document” shall mean in relation to any Common
Collateral subject to any Lien created under any Senior Collateral
Document, those Second Priority Collateral Documents that create a
Lien on the same Common Collateral, granted by the same
Grantor.
“Conforming Plan of Reorganization”
means any Plan of Reorganization whose provisions are consistent
with the provisions of this Agreement, including one that (i) does
not grant the Second Priority Agent or any Second Priority Secured
Party any right or benefit, directly or indirectly, which right or
benefit is expressly prohibited at such time by the provisions of
this Agreement and (ii) unless accepted by the Required Lenders in
accordance with applicable Bankruptcy Laws, provides for the
Discharge of Senior Lender Claims upon the effective date
thereof.
“Control” shall mean the
possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause
the direction of the management or policies of a Person, whether
through the ability to exercise voting power, by contract or
otherwise, and “Controlling” and
“Controlled” shall have meanings correlative
thereto.
“Credit Agreement” shall have the
meaning set forth in the recitals and, unless the context clearly
otherwise requires, shall include any Replacement Credit
Agreement.
“Credit Agreement Agent” shall mean
HSBC Bank Canada, in its capacity as administrative agent for the
Senior Lenders under the Credit Agreement and the other Senior
Lender Documents entered into pursuant to the Credit Agreement,
together with its successors in such capacity; provided, however, that if the Credit Agreement
is Refinanced by a Replacement Credit Agreement, then all
references herein to the Credit Agreement Agent shall refer to the
administrative agent (or trustee) under the Replacement Credit
Agreement.
“Credit Agreement Lender” shall
mean a “Lender” as defined in the Credit
Agreement.
“DIP Financing” shall have the
meaning set forth in Section 6.1.
“Discharge of Credit Agreement
Obligations” shall mean, except to the extent
otherwise provided in Section 5.6, a Discharge of Senior Lender
Claims solely with respect to outstanding Obligations under the
Credit Agreement or any other Loan Document (as defined in the
Credit Agreement) and all outstanding Senior Lender Cash Management
Obligations and Senior Lender Hedging Obligations.
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“Discharge of Senior Lender Claims”
shall mean, except to the extent otherwise provided in Section 5.6,
the termination of all commitments of the Senior Lenders under
their respective Senior Lender Documents and the payment in full in
cash (except for contingent indemnities and cost and reimbursement
obligations to the extent no claim has been made) of (a) all
Obligations in respect of all outstanding Senior Lender Claims and,
with respect to letters of credit or letter of credit guaranties
outstanding thereunder, the expiration or termination thereof or
delivery of cash collateral or backstop letters of credit in
respect thereof in compliance with the Credit Agreement or such
Other First Priority Lien Obligations Credit Documents, as
applicable, in each case concurrently with the termination of all
commitments to extend credit thereunder and (b) any other Senior
Lender Claims that are due and payable or otherwise accrued and
owing at or prior to the time such principal and interest are paid;
provided that the Discharge
of Senior Lender Claims shall not be deemed to have occurred if
such payments are made with the proceeds of other Senior Lender
Claims that constitute an exchange or replacement for or a
Refinancing of such Senior Lender Claims which exchange,
replacement or Refinancing has been designated in writing by the
First Lien Agent (under the Senior Lender Claims so exchanged,
replaced or refinanced) to the First Priority Designated Agent and
the Second Priority Designated Agent as “Senior Lender
Claims” for purposes of this Agreement.
“Enforcement Action” shall mean any
action under applicable law:
(1)
to foreclose, execute or levy on, collect on, take possession of or
control of, or sell or otherwise realize upon (judicially or
non-judicially) or to lease, license or otherwise dispose of
(whether publicly or privately), any Common Collateral or otherwise
to exercise or enforce remedial rights with respect to Common
Collateral under the Senior Lender Documents or any other
applicable agreement, document or instrument pertaining thereto
(including, without limitation, by way of setoff, noticing of any
public or private sale or other disposition pursuant to the PPSA or
other applicable law, notification of account debtors, notification
of depositary banks under deposit account control agreements or
exercise of rights under landlord consents, if
applicable),
(2)
to solicit bids from third parties to conduct the liquidation or
disposition of any Common Collateral or to engage or retain sales
brokers, marketing agents, investment bankers, accountants,
appraisers, auctioneers or other third parties for the purposes of
valuing, marketing, promoting and selling any Common
Collateral,
(3)
to receive a transfer of Common Collateral in satisfaction of any
indebtedness or other obligation secured thereby,
(4)
to otherwise enforce any security interest or exercise any other
right or remedy, as a secured creditor or otherwise, pertaining to
the Common Collateral at law, in equity or pursuant to the Senior
Lender Documents or any other applicable agreement, document or
instrument pertaining thereto (including, without limitation, the
commencement of any applicable legal proceedings or other actions
against or with respect to all or any portion of the Common
Collateral to facilitate the actions described in the immediately
preceding clauses (1), (2) and (3), and exercising voting rights in
respect of any equity interests comprising Common Collateral),
or
(5)
to effect the disposition of any Common Collateral by any Grantor
after the occurrence and during the continuation of an event of
default under the Senior Lender Documents without the consent of
the First Lien Agents.
“First Lien Agent” shall mean each
of (a) HSBC Bank Canada, in its capacity as the Credit Agreement,
Agent and (b) any Other First Priority Lien Obligations
Agent.
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“First Lien Parity Intercreditor
Agreement” shall mean an agreement among each First
Lien Agent allocating rights among the various Senior Lenders with
respect to the Senior Lender Collateral.
“First Priority Designated Agent”
shall mean (i) the Credit Agreement Agent, until such time as the
Discharge of Credit Agreement Obligations has occurred, and (ii)
thereafter, the First Lien Agent serving as the “Applicable
Authorized Representative” (as such term or similar term is
defined in the First Lien Parity Intercreditor Agreement). When any
First Lien Agent other than the Credit Agreement Agent becomes the
Applicable Authorized Representative under such First Lien Parity
Intercreditor Agreement it shall send a written notice thereof to
the Second Priority Designated Agent and the Grantors.
“Future Second Lien Indebtedness”
shall mean Indebtedness or Obligations (other than Noteholder
Claims with respect to the Second Lien Notes) of the Borrower or
any of the other Grantors, to the extent applicable, that are to be
secured by the Second Priority Collateral on a junior basis to the
Senior Lender Claims and are so designated as Future Second Lien
Indebtedness in accordance with, and satisfying the conditions set
forth in, Section 8.22 hereof; provided, however, that such Future Second Lien
Indebtedness is permitted to be so incurred and secured in
accordance with each Senior Lender Document and each Second
Priority Document in effect at the time of such
incurrence.
“Governmental Authority” shall mean
any nation or government, any state, provincial, territorial or
other political subdivision thereof, any agency, authority,
instrumentality, regulatory body, court, administrative tribunal,
central bank or other entity exercising executive, legislative,
judicial, taxing, regulatory or administrative powers or functions
of or pertaining to government.
“Grantors” shall mean the Borrower,
each other Credit Party that has executed and delivered a Senior
Collateral Document and each of the Subsidiaries that has executed
and delivered a Senior Collateral Document.
“Hedge Agreement” shall have the
meaning set forth in the Credit Agreement.
“Indebtedness” shall mean and
include all obligations that constitute “Indebtedness”
within the meaning of the Credit Agreement and the Second Priority
Senior Secured Notes Indenture, the Other First Priority Lien
Obligations Credit Documents or any other document or instrument
evidencing or governing any Future Second Lien
Indebtedness.
“Indenture Secured Parties” shall
mean the Persons holding Noteholder Claims, including the Trustee
and the Second Priority Collateral Agent.
“Insolvency or Liquidation
Proceeding” shall mean (a) any voluntary or
involuntary case or proceeding under any Bankruptcy Law with
respect to any Grantor, (b) any other voluntary or involuntary
insolvency, reorganization or bankruptcy case or proceeding, or any
receivership, interim receivership, liquidation, reorganization or
other similar case or proceeding with respect to any Grantor or
with respect to any of its assets, (c) any liquidation,
dissolution, reorganization or winding up of any Grantor, whether
voluntary or involuntary and whether or not involving insolvency or
bankruptcy or (d) any assignment for the benefit of creditors or
any other marshalling of assets and liabilities of any
Grantor.
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“Lien” shall mean any mortgage,
pledge, hypothecation, assignment, deposit arrangement,
encumbrance, lien (statutory or other), charge, deemed trust, or
preference, priority or other security interest or preferential
arrangement of any kind or nature whatsoever (including any
agreement to give any of the foregoing and any conditional sale or
other title retention agreement, any easement, right of way or
other encumbrance on title to real property, and any other
arrangement having the effect of providing security.
“Loan Documents” shall mean the
Credit Agreement and the other “Loan Documents” as
defined in the Credit Agreement.
“Non-Conforming Plan of
Reorganization” shall mean any Plan of Reorganization
which either (i) grants any Second Priority Agent or any Second
Priority Secured Party any right or benefit, directly or
indirectly, which right or benefit is expressly prohibited at such
time by the provisions of this Agreement or (ii) unless accepted by
the Required Lenders in accordance with any provision of any
applicable Bankruptcy Law, fails to provide for the Discharge of
Senior Lender Claims upon the effective date thereof.
“Noteholder Claims” shall mean all
Obligations in respect of the Notes or arising under the Noteholder
Documents or any of them, including all fees, expenses, indemnities
or other amounts due or that may be due to the Trustee or the
Second Priority Collateral Agent thereunder.
“Noteholder Collateral” shall mean
all of the assets of the Grantors, whether real, personal or mixed,
with respect to which a Lien is granted as security for any
Noteholder Claim.
“Noteholder Collateral Agreement”
shall mean the Second Lien Security Agreement dated as of [ ],
2019, among the Borrower, certain other Grantors, the Trustee, the
Second Priority Collateral Agent and the other parties thereto from
time to time, in respect of the Second Priority Senior Secured
Notes Indenture, as may be amended, restated, supplemented or
otherwise modified from time to time.
“Noteholder Collateral Documents”
shall mean the Noteholder Collateral Agreement and any other
document or instrument pursuant to which a Lien is granted by any
Grantor to secure any Noteholder Claims or under which rights or
remedies with respect to any such Lien are governed.
“Noteholder Documents” shall mean
(a) the Second Priority Senior Secured Notes Indenture, the Notes,
the Noteholder Collateral Documents and (b) any other related
document or instrument executed and delivered pursuant to any
Noteholder Document described in clause (a) above evidencing or
governing any Obligations thereunder.
“Notes” shall mean (a) the Second
Lien Notes and (b) any additional notes issued under the Second
Priority Senior Secured Notes Indenture to the extent permitted by
the Senior Lender Documents and the Second Priority Documents in
effect at the time of such incurrence.
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“Obligations” shall mean, with
respect to any Person, any payment, performance or other
obligations of such Person of any kind including, without
limitation, any liability of such Person on any claim, whether or
not the right of any creditor to payment in respect of such claim
is reduced to judgment, liquidated, unliquidated, fixed,
contingent, matured, disputed, undisputed, legal, equitable,
secured or unsecured, and whether or not such claim is discharged,
stayed or otherwise affected by any Insolvency or Liquidation
Proceeding. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the
Obligations of any Grantor under any Senior Lender Document or
Second Priority Document include the obligations to pay principal,
interest (including interest, fees, or expenses accrued on or
accruing after the commencement of any Insolvency or Liquidation
Proceeding, whether or not a claim for post-filing interest, fees,
or expenses is allowed or allowable in such proceeding) or premium
on any Indebtedness, letter of credit commissions (if applicable),
charges, expenses, fees, attorneys’ fees and disbursements,
indemnities and other amounts payable by such Grantor to reimburse
any amount in respect of any of the foregoing that any Senior
Lender or Second Priority Secured Party, in its sole discretion,
may elect to pay or advance on behalf of such Grantor.
“Other First Priority Lien
Obligations” shall mean all Obligations owing under
any Other First Priority Lien Obligations Document; provided, however, for the avoidance of doubt,
none of the Obligations under the Credit Agreement or any other
Loan Document, or any Senior Lender Cash Management Obligations or
Senior Lender Hedging Obligations shall constitute Other First
Priority Lien Obligations.
“Other First Priority Lien Obligations
Agent” shall mean, with respect to any Other First
Priority Lien Obligations Credit Document, the Person elected,
designated or appointed as the administrative agent, trustee,
collateral agent or similar representative with respect to such
Other First Priority Lien Obligations Credit Document by or on
behalf of the holders of such Other First Priority Lien
Obligations, and its respective successors in such capacity, in
accordance with Section 8.22.
“Other First Priority Lien Obligations Credit
Document” shall mean any (a) instruments, agreements
or documents evidencing debt facilities or commercial paper
facilities, providing for revolving credit loans, term loans,
receivables financing (including through the sale of receivables to
lenders or to special purpose entities formed to borrow from
lenders against such receivables) or letters of credit, (b) debt
securities, indentures and/or other forms of debt financing
(including convertible or exchangeable debt instruments or bank
guarantees or bankers’ acceptances), or (c) instruments or
agreements evidencing any other indebtedness, in each case incurred
by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, to the extent
applicable, and that are to be secured by the Senior Lender
Collateral on a senior basis to the Second Priority Claims and are
so designated as an Other First Priority Lien Obligations Credit
Document in accordance with, and satisfying the conditions set
forth in, Section 8.22 hereof; provided, however, that such Other First Priority
Lien Obligations are permitted to be so incurred and secured in
accordance with this Agreement and each Senior Lender Document and
each Second Priority Document in effect at the time of such
incurrence; provided,
further, that, if such
instrument, agreement or other document will be the initial Other
First Priority Lien Obligations Credit Document entered into after
the date hereof, then the Grantors, the Credit Agreement Agent and
the Other First Priority Lien Obligations Agent for such
Obligations shall have executed and delivered the First Lien Parity
Intercreditor Agreement.
“Other First Priority Lien Obligations
Documents” shall mean each Other First Priority Lien
Obligations Credit Document and each Other First Priority Lien
Obligations Security Document related thereto.
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“Other First Priority Lien Obligations Security
Documents” shall mean any security agreement or any
other document now existing or entered into after the date hereof
that create Liens on any assets or properties of any Grantor to
secure any Other First Priority Lien Obligations.
“Person” shall mean any natural
person, corporation, limited liability company, unlimited liability
company, trust, joint venture, association, company, partnership,
limited partnership, Governmental Authority or other
entity.
“Plan of Reorganization” shall mean
any plan of reorganization, plan of liquidation, agreement for
composition, or other type of plan of arrangement proposed in or in
connection with any Insolvency or Liquidation
Proceeding.
“Pledged Collateral” shall mean the
Common Collateral in the possession of any First Lien Agent (or its
agents or bailees), to the extent that possession thereof perfects
a Lien thereon under the PPSA or any other applicable
law.
“PPSA” shall mean the Personal
Property Security Act from time to time in effect in the Province
of Ontario.
“Recovery” shall have the meaning
set forth in Section 6.4.
“Refinance” means, in respect of
any Indebtedness, to refinance, replace or repay, or to issue other
Indebtedness, in exchange or replacement for, such indebtedness.
“Refinanced” and
“Refinancing”
shall have correlative meanings.
“Replacement Credit Agreement”
means any loan agreement, indenture or other agreement that (i)
Refinances the Credit Agreement so long as, after giving effect to
such Refinancing, the agreement that was the Credit Agreement
immediately prior to such Refinancing is no longer secured, or
required to be secured, by any of the Common Collateral and (ii)
becomes the Credit Agreement hereunder by designation as such
pursuant to Section 5.6.
“Required Lenders” shall mean, with
respect to any Senior Lender Document, those Senior Lenders the
approval of which is required to approve an amendment or
modification of, termination or waiver of any provision of or
consent to any departure from such Senior Lender Document (or would
be required to effect such consent under this Agreement if such
consent were treated as an amendment of such Senior Lender
Document).
“Second Lien Notes” shall mean
$300,00,000 aggregate principal amount of the Borrower’s
Second Lien Senior Secured Notes due 2024, issued pursuant to the
Second Priority Senior Secured Notes Indenture and any notes issued
by the Borrower in exchange for, and as contemplated by, the Second
Lien Notes.
“Second Priority Agents” shall mean
(a) the Second Priority Collateral Agent as collateral agent for
the Indenture Secured Parties and (b) the collateral agent for any
Future Second Lien Indebtedness that is named as the Second
Priority Agent in respect of such Future Second Lien Indebtedness
in accordance with Section 8.22.
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“Second Priority Claims” shall mean
the Noteholder Claims and all other Obligations in respect of, or
arising under, the Second Priority Documents, including all fees,
expenses, indemnities or other amounts due or that may be due to
the Trustee and the Second Priority Agents for any Future Second
Lien Indebtedness.
“Second Priority Collateral” shall
mean the Noteholder Collateral and all of the assets of the
Grantors, whether real, personal or mixed, with respect to which a
Lien is granted, or purported to be granted, as security for any
Second Priority Claim.
“Second Priority Collateral Agent”
shall mean Computershare Trust Company of Canada, in its capacity
as collateral agent under the Second Priority Senior Secured Notes
Indenture and the Second Priority Collateral Documents, and its
successors in such capacity.
“Second Priority Collateral
Agreements” shall mean the Noteholder Collateral
Agreement and any comparable agreement(s) with respect to any
Future Second Lien Indebtedness.
“Second Priority Collateral
Documents” shall mean the Noteholder Collateral
Documents, the Second Priority Collateral Agreements and any other
agreement, document or instrument pursuant to which a Lien is now
or hereafter granted securing any Second Priority Claims or under
which rights or remedies with respect to such Liens are at any time
governed.
“Second Priority Designated Agent”
shall mean such agent or trustee as is designated “Second
Priority Designated Agent” by Second Priority Secured Parties
holding a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Second
Priority Claims then outstanding; it being understood that as of
the date of this Agreement, the Second Priority Collateral Agent
shall be so designated as the Second Priority Designated Agent.
When any Second Priority Agent other than the Second Priority
Collateral Agent becomes the Second Priority Designated Agent it
shall send a written notice thereof to the First Priority
Designated Agent and the Grantors.
“Second Priority Documents” shall
mean the Noteholder Documents and any other document or instrument
evidencing or governing any Future Second Lien
Indebtedness.
“Second
Priority Lien” shall mean any Lien on any assets of
any Grantor securing any Second Priority Claims.
“Second Priority Secured Parties”
shall mean the Indenture Secured Parties and all other Persons
holding any Second Priority Claims, including any Second Priority
Agent for any Future Second Lien Indebtedness.
“Second
Priority Senior Secured Notes Indenture” shall have
the meaning set forth in the recitals.
“Secured Hedge Agreements” shall
mean each Hedge Agreement entered into by a Grantor or any other
Subsidiary that (i) is in effect on the Closing Date with a
counterparty that is a Credit Agreement Lender or any Affiliate of
a Credit Agreement Lender as of the Closing Date or (ii) is entered
into after the Closing Date with any counterparty that is a Credit
Agreement Lender or any Affiliate of a Credit Agreement Lender at
the time such Hedge Agreement is entered into.
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“Senior Collateral Agreement” shall
mean the First Lien Security Agreement, dated as of [ ],
2019, among the Borrower, certain other Grantors, and HSBC Bank
Canada, as administrative agent for the secured parties referred to
therein, as the same may be amended, restated, supplemented or
otherwise modified from time to time.
“Senior Collateral Documents” shall
mean the Senior Collateral Agreement, the Other First Priority Lien
Obligations Security Documents and any security agreement,
mortgage, deed of trust, pledge agreement or other agreement,
document or instrument pursuant to which a Lien is now or hereafter
granted securing any Senior Lender Claims or under which rights or
remedies with respect to such Lien are at any time
governed.
“Senior Lender Cash Management
Obligations” shall mean, with respect to any Grantor
or any Subsidiary, all Obligations of such Grantor or such
Subsidiary in respect of any overdraft and related liabilities
arising from treasury, depository, credit or debit card or cash
management services or any automated clearing house transfers of
funds owed to a Person that is a Credit Agreement Lender or any
Affiliate of a Credit Agreement Lender as of or following the
Closing Date or at the time such overdraft and related liabilities
arising from treasury, depository, credit or debit card, purchasing
card or cash management services or any automated clearing house
transfers of funds is entered into.
“Senior Lender Claims” shall mean
all Obligations arising under the Credit Agreement, the Other First
Priority Lien Obligations Credit Documents and any other Senior
Lender Documents, whether or not such Obligations constitute
Indebtedness, including, without limitation, (a) Senior Lender
Hedging Obligations, (b) Senior Lender Cash Management Obligations
and (c) Obligations under any agreement that is an exchange or
replacement for or an extension, increase or refinancing of any
other Senior Lender Claims. Senior Lender Claims shall include all
interest, fees, and expenses accrued or accruing after the
commencement of an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding in
accordance with and at the rate specified in the relevant Senior
Lender Documents whether or not the claim for such interest, fees,
or expenses is allowed or allowable as a claim in such Insolvency
or Liquidation Proceeding.
“Senior Lender Collateral” shall
mean all of the assets of any Grantor, whether real, personal or
mixed, with respect to which a Lien is granted, or purported to be
granted, as security for any Senior Lender Claim.
“Senior Lender Documents” shall
mean (a) the Loan Documents and (b) the Other First Priority Lien
Obligations Credit Documents, the Senior Collateral Documents and
each of the other agreements, documents and instruments (including
each agreement, document or instrument providing for or evidencing
a Senior Lender Hedging Obligation or Senior Lender Cash Management
Obligation) providing for, evidencing or securing any Senior Lender
Claim, including, without limitation, any Obligation under the
Credit Agreement and any other related document or instrument
executed or delivered pursuant to any such document at any time or
otherwise evidencing or securing any Obligation arising under any
such document.
“Senior Lender Hedging Obligations”
shall mean any Obligations under Secured Hedge
Agreements.
“Senior Lenders” shall mean the
Persons holding Senior Lender Claims, including the First Lien
Agents.
“Subsidiary” shall mean any
“Subsidiary” of the Borrower as defined in the Credit
Agreement as in effect as of the date hereof.
“Trustee” shall mean Computershare
Trust Company of Canada, in its capacity as trustee under the
Second Priority Senior Secured Notes Indenture and its successors
in such capacity.
1.2
Terms Generally. The
definitions of terms herein shall apply equally to the singular and
plural forms of the terms defined. Whenever the context may
require, any pronoun shall include the corresponding masculine,
feminine and neuter forms. The words “include,”
“includes” and “including” shall be deemed
to be followed by the phrase “without limitation.” The
word “will” shall be construed to have the same meaning
and effect as the word “shall.” Unless the context
requires otherwise (a) any definition of or reference to any
agreement, instrument or other document herein shall be construed
as referring to such agreement, instrument or other document as
from time to time amended, supplemented or otherwise modified in
accordance with this Agreement, (b) any reference herein to any
Person shall be construed to include such Person’s successors
and assigns, (c) the words “herein,”
“hereof” and “hereunder,” and words of
similar import, shall be construed to refer to this Agreement in
its entirety and not to any particular provision hereof, (d) all
references herein to Sections shall be construed to refer to
Sections of this Agreement and (e) the words “asset”
and “property” shall be construed to have the same
meaning and effect and to refer to any and all tangible and
intangible assets and properties, including cash, securities,
accounts and contract rights.
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SECTION 2
LIEN PRIORITIES.
2.1
Subordination of Liens.
Notwithstanding (i) the date, time, method, manner or order of
filing or recordation of any document or instrument or grant,
attachment or perfection (including any defect or deficiency or
alleged defect or deficiency in any of the foregoing) of any Liens
granted to the Second Priority Secured Parties on the Common
Collateral or of any Liens granted to any First Lien Agent or
Senior Lenders on the Common Collateral, (ii) any provision of the
PPSA of any applicable jurisdiction, any Bankruptcy Law, or any
other applicable law or the Second Priority Documents or the Senior
Lender Documents, (iii) whether any First Lien Agent, either
directly or through agents, holds possession of, or has control
over, all or any part of the Common Collateral, (iv) the fact that
any such Liens may be subordinated, voided, avoided, invalidated or
lapsed or (v) any other circumstance of any kind or nature
whatsoever, each Second Priority Agent, on behalf of itself and
each applicable Second Priority Secured Party, hereby agrees that:
(a) any Lien on the Common Collateral securing any Senior Lender
Claims now or hereafter held by or on behalf of any First Lien
Agent or any Senior Lenders or any agent or trustee therefor
regardless of how acquired, whether by grant, statute, operation of
law, subrogation or otherwise, shall have priority over and be
senior in all respects and prior to any Lien on the Common
Collateral securing any Second Priority Claims and (b) any Lien on
the Common Collateral securing any Second Priority Claims now or
hereafter held by or on behalf of the Second Priority Agent or any
Second Priority Secured Parties or any agent or trustee therefor
regardless of how acquired, whether by grant, statute, operation of
law, subrogation or otherwise, shall be junior and subordinate in
all respects to all Liens on the Common Collateral securing any
Senior Lender Claims. All Liens on the Common Collateral securing
any Senior Lender Claims shall be and remain senior in all respects
and prior to all Liens on the Common Collateral securing any Second
Priority Claims for all purposes, whether or not such Liens
securing any Senior Lender Claims are adequately perfected or are
subordinated to any Lien securing any other obligation of the
Borrower, any other Grantor or any other Person.
2.2
Prohibition on Contesting
Liens. Each Second Priority Agent, for itself and on behalf
of each applicable Second Priority Secured Party for which it
serves as Second Priority Agent, and each First Lien Agent, for
itself and on behalf of each Senior Lender in respect of which it
serves as First Lien Agent, agrees that it shall not (and hereby
waives any right to) take any action to challenge, contest or
support any other Person in contesting or challenging, directly or
indirectly, in any proceeding (including any Insolvency or
Liquidation Proceeding), the validity, perfection, priority or
enforceability of (a) a Lien securing any Senior Lender Claims held
(or purported to be held) by or on behalf of any First Lien Agent
or any of the Senior Lenders or any agent or trustee therefor in
any Senior Lender Collateral or (b) a Lien securing any Second
Priority Claims held (or purported to be held) by or on behalf of
any Second Priority Secured Party in any Second Priority
Collateral, as the case may be; provided, however, that nothing in this Agreement
shall be construed to prevent or impair the rights of (i) any First
Lien Agent or any Senior Lender to enforce this Agreement
(including the priority of the Liens securing the Senior Lender
Claims as provided in Section 2.1) or any of the Senior Lender
Documents or (ii) any Second Priority Agent to enforce this
Agreement.
2.3
No New Liens or
Guarantees.
(a)
So long as the
Discharge of Senior Lender Claims has not occurred and, subject to
Section 6 , the Second Priority Agent agrees, for itself and on
behalf of each applicable Second Priority Secured Party, whether or
not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by
or against the Borrower or any other Grantor, that it shall not
acquire or hold (i) any Lien on any assets of the Borrower or any
other Grantor securing any Second Priority Claims that are not also
subject to the first-priority Lien in respect of the Senior Lender
Claims under the Senior Lender Documents, or (ii) any guarantee or
other credit support from any Subsidiary which has not also
provided a substantially equivalent guarantee or other credit
support to any First Lien Agent. If any Second Priority Agent or
any Second Priority Secured Party shall (nonetheless and in breach
hereof) acquire or hold any Lien on any asset of the Borrower or
any other Grantor that is not also subject to the first-priority
Lien in respect of the Senior Lender Claims under the Senior Lender
Documents or the guarantee or other credit support from any
Subsidiary that has not also been granted to any First Lien Agent,
then such Second Priority Agent or Second Priority Secured Party
shall, without the need for any further consent of any party and
notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any other document, be
deemed to also hold and have held such Lien, guarantee or other
credit support for the benefit of each First Lien Agent and each
other Senior Lender as security for the Senior Lender Claims
(subject to the lien priority and other terms hereof).
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(b)
So long as the
Second Priority Claims remain outstanding and, subject to Section
6, each First Lien Agent agrees, for itself and on behalf of each
applicable Senior Lender, whether or not any Insolvency or
Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the
Borrower or any other Grantor, that it shall not acquire or hold
(i) any Lien on any assets of the Borrower or any other Grantor
constituting (or that is intended to constitute) Common Collateral
securing any Senior Lender Claims that are not also subject to the
second-priority Lien in respect of the Second Priority Claims under
the Second Priority Documents or (ii) any guarantee or other credit
support from any Subsidiary which has not also provided a
substantially equivalent guarantee or other credit support to any
Second Priority Agent. If any First Lien Agent or any Senior Lender
shall (nonetheless and in breach hereof) acquire or hold any Lien
on any Common Collateral that is not also subject to the
second-priority Lien in respect of the Second Priority Claims under
the Second Priority Documents or any guarantee or other credit
support from any Subsidiary that has not also been granted to any
Second Priority Agent, then such First Lien Agent or Senior Lender
shall, without the need for any further consent of any party and
notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any other document, be
deemed to also hold and have held such Lien, guarantee or other
credit support for the benefit of the Second Priority Agents and
each other Second Priority Secured Party as security for the Second
Priority Claims (subject to the lien priority and other terms
hereof).
(c)
Notwithstanding
anything in this Agreement or any other Senior Lender Documents or
Second Priority Documents to the contrary, collateral consisting of
cash and deposit account balances pledged to secure Obligations
under any Senior Lender Document consisting of reimbursement
obligations in respect of letters of credit held by the Credit
Agreement Agent, including pursuant to Section 2.19 of the Credit
Agreement (or any equivalent successor provision) shall be applied
as specified in the Credit Agreement and will not be subject to
provisions of this Section 2.3.
2.4
Nature of First Lien
Obligations. Each Second Priority Agent, for itself and on
behalf of the other Second Priority Secured Parties, acknowledges
that (a) a portion of the Obligations included among the
Senior Lender Claims are revolving in nature, (b) the amount
thereof that may be outstanding at any time or from time to time
may be increased or reduced and subsequently reborrowed,
(c) the terms of the Senior Lender Claims may be modified,
extended, renewed or amended from time to time, and (d) the
aggregate amount of the Senior Lender Claims may be increased or
Refinanced, in either event, without notice to or consent by the
Second Priority Secured Parties and without affecting the
provisions hereof. The lien priorities provided in
Sections 2.1 and 2.2 shall not be altered or otherwise
affected by any such amendment, modification, supplement,
extension, repayment, reborrowing, increase, replacement, renewal,
restatement or Refinancing of either the Senior Lender Claims or
the Second Priority Claims, or any portion thereof.
2.5
Perfection of Liens. Neither
the First Lien Agents nor the Senior Lenders shall be responsible
for perfecting and maintaining the perfection of Liens with respect
to the Common Collateral for the benefit of the Second Priority
Agents and the Second Priority Secured Parties. The provisions of
this Agreement are intended solely to govern the respective Lien
priorities as between the Senior Lenders and the Second Priority
Secured Parties and shall not impose on the First Lien Agents, the
Second Priority Agents, the Second Priority Secured Parties or the
Senior Lenders or any agent or trustee therefor any obligations in
respect of the disposition of proceeds of any Common Collateral
which would conflict with prior perfected claims therein in favor
of any other Person or any order or decree of any court or
governmental authority or any applicable law.
2.6
Waiver of Marshalling. Until
the Discharge of Senior Lender Claims, each Second Priority Agent,
on behalf of itself and the applicable Second Priority Secured
Parties, agrees not to assert and hereby waives, to the fullest
extent permitted by law, any right to demand, request, plead or
otherwise assert or otherwise claim the benefit of, any
marshalling, appraisal, valuation or other similar right that may
otherwise be available under applicable law with respect to the
Common Collateral or any other similar rights a junior secured
creditor may have under applicable law.
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SECTION 3
ENFORCEMENT.
3.1
Exercise of
Remedies.
(a)
So long as the
Discharge of Senior Lender Claims has not occurred, whether or not
any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or
against the Borrower or any other Grantor, (i) no Second Priority
Agent or any Second Priority Secured Party will (x) exercise
or seek to exercise any rights or remedies (including setoff or
recoupment) with respect to any Common Collateral or any other
security in respect of any applicable Second Priority Claims, or
exercise any right under any lockbox agreement, control agreement,
landlord waiver or bailee’s letter or similar agreement or
arrangement, or institute any action or proceeding with respect to
such rights or remedies (including any action of enforcement,
collection, execution, levy or foreclosure), (y) contest,
protest or object to any foreclosure, power of sale or other
similar proceeding or action brought with respect to the Common
Collateral or any other collateral by any First Lien Agent or any
Senior Lender in respect of the Senior Lender Claims, the exercise
of any right by any First Lien Agent or any Senior Lender (or any
agent or sub-agent on their behalf) in respect of the Senior Lender
Claims under any lockbox agreement, control agreement, landlord
waiver or bailee’s letter or similar agreement or arrangement
to which any Second Priority Agent or any Second Priority Secured
Party either is a party or may have rights as a third party
beneficiary, or any other exercise by any such party, of any rights
and remedies relating to the Common Collateral or any other
collateral under the Senior Lender Documents or otherwise in
respect of Senior Lender Claims, provided that the respective interests
of the Second Priority Secured Parties attach to the proceeds
thereof, subject to the relative priorities described in this
Agreement, or (z) object to the forbearance by the Senior
Lenders from bringing or pursuing any foreclosure, power of sale or
other similar proceeding or action or any other exercise of any
rights or remedies relating to the Common Collateral or any other
collateral in respect of Senior Lender Claims and (ii) except as
otherwise provided herein (including Section 5.1), each First Lien
Agent and the Senior Lenders shall have the exclusive right to
enforce rights, exercise remedies (including setoff and the right
to credit bid their debt) and make determinations regarding the
release, disposition or restrictions with respect to the Common
Collateral without any consultation with, or the consent, of any
Second Priority Agent or any Second Priority Secured Party;
provided, however, that (A) in any Insolvency or
Liquidation Proceeding commenced by or against the Borrower or any
other Grantor, each Second Priority Agent may file a proof of claim
with respect to the applicable Second Priority Claims, (B) each
Second Priority Agent may take any action (not adverse to the prior
Liens on the Common Collateral securing the Senior Lender Claims,
or the rights of either First Lien Agent or the Senior Lenders to
exercise remedies in respect thereof) in order to create, prove,
perfect, preserve or protect (but not enforce) its rights in, and
perfection and priority of its Lien on, the Common Collateral
(including, without limitation, sending such notices of the
existence of, or any evidence or confirmation of, the Second
Priority Claims or the Liens of the Second Priority Agent in the
Common Collateral to any court or governmental agency, or filing or
recording any such notice or evidence to the extent necessary or
appropriate to prove or preserve the Liens of the Second Priority
Agent in the Common Collateral), (C) in any Insolvency or
Liquidation Proceeding commenced by or against any Borrower or any
other Grantor, the Second Priority Agent may file any necessary or
appropriate responsive pleadings in opposition to any motion,
proceeding or other pleading filed by any Person objecting to or
otherwise seeking disallowance of the claim or Lien of such Second
Priority Agent or Second Priority Secured Party, (D) each Second
Priority Agent may file any pleadings, objections, motions, or
agreements which assert rights available to unsecured creditors of
the Borrower or any Grantor arising under any applicable Bankruptcy
Law or applicable non-bankruptcy law and (E) each Second Priority
Agent (pursuant to the instructions of the requisite amount of
Second Priority Secured Parties) and each Second Priority Secured
Party may vote on any Plan of Reorganization in any Insolvency or
Liquidation Proceeding of any Borrower or any other Grantor, in
each case (A) through (E) above to the extent such action is not
inconsistent with, or could not result in a resolution inconsistent
with, the terms of this Agreement. In exercising rights and
remedies with respect to the Senior Lender Collateral, each First
Lien Agent and the Senior Lenders may enforce the provisions of the
Senior Lender Documents and exercise remedies thereunder, all in
such order and in such manner as they may determine in the exercise
of their sole discretion. Such exercise and enforcement shall
include the rights of an agent appointed by them to sell or
otherwise dispose of Common Collateral or other collateral upon
foreclosure, power of sale or other enforcement action, to incur
expenses in connection with such sale or disposition, and to
exercise all the rights and remedies of a secured lender under the
personal property security laws of any applicable jurisdiction and
of a secured creditor under Bankruptcy Laws of any applicable
jurisdiction.
(b)
So long as the
Discharge of Senior Lender Claims has not occurred, each Second
Priority Agent, on behalf of itself and each applicable Second
Priority Secured Party, agrees that it will not take or receive any
Common Collateral or other collateral or any proceeds of Common
Collateral or other collateral in connection with the exercise of
any right or remedy (including setoff or recoupment) with respect
to any Common Collateral or other collateral in respect of the
applicable Second Priority Claims. Without limiting the generality
of the foregoing, unless and until the Discharge of Senior Lender
Claims has occurred, except as expressly provided in the proviso in
clause (ii) of Section 3.1(a), the sole right of each Second
Priority Agent and the Second Priority Secured Parties with respect
to the Common Collateral or any other collateral is to hold a Lien
on the Common Collateral or such other collateral in respect of the
applicable Second Priority Claims pursuant to the Second Priority
Documents, as applicable, for the period and to the extent granted
therein and to receive a share of the proceeds thereof, if any,
after the Discharge of Senior Lender Claims has
occurred.
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(c)
So long as the
Discharge of Senior Lender Claims has not occurred and subject to
the proviso in clause (ii) of Section 3.1(a) above, (i) each Second
Priority Agent, for itself and on behalf of each applicable Second
Priority Secured Party, agrees that no Second Priority Agent or any
Second Priority Secured Party will take any action that would
hinder any exercise of remedies undertaken by any First Lien Agent
or Senior Lenders with respect to the Common Collateral or any
other collateral under the Senior Lender Documents, including any
sale, lease, exchange, transfer or other disposition of the Common
Collateral or such other collateral, whether by foreclosure, power
of sale or otherwise, and (ii) each Second Priority Agent, for
itself and on behalf of each applicable Second Priority Secured
Party, hereby waives any and all rights it or any other Second
Priority Secured Party may have as a junior lien creditor or
otherwise to object to the manner in which any First Lien Agent or
Senior Lenders seek to enforce or collect the Senior Lender Claims
or the Liens granted in any of the Senior Lender Collateral,
regardless of whether any action or failure to act by or on behalf
of any First Lien Agent or Senior Lenders is adverse to the
interests of the Second Priority Secured Parties.
(d)
The Second Priority
Agent hereby acknowledges and agrees that no covenant, agreement or
restriction contained in any applicable Second Priority Document
shall be deemed to restrict in any way the rights and remedies of
the First Lien Agents or Senior Lenders with respect to the Senior
Lender Collateral as set forth in this Agreement and the Senior
Lender Documents; provided
that nothing in this clause shall prevent any Second Priority
Secured Party from asserting or seeking to enforce any provision of
any Second Priority Document (to the extent not prohibited by this
Agreement).
3.2
Cooperation. Subject to the
proviso in clause (ii) of Section 3.1(a), each Second Priority
Agent, on behalf of itself and each applicable Second Priority
Secured Party, agrees that, unless and until the Discharge of
Senior Lender Claims has occurred, it will not commence, or join
with any Person (other than the Senior Lenders and the First Lien
Agents upon the request thereof) in commencing, any enforcement,
collection, execution, levy or foreclosure action or proceeding
with respect to any Lien held by it in the Common Collateral or any
other collateral under any of the applicable Second Priority
Documents or otherwise in respect of the applicable Second Priority
Claims relating to the Common Collateral.
SECTION 4
PAYMENTS.
4.1
Application of Proceeds. So
long as the Discharge of Senior Lender Claims has not occurred, the
Common Collateral and any other collateral in respect of the Second
Priority Claims or proceeds thereof received in connection with the
sale or other disposition of, or collection on, such Common
Collateral upon the exercise of remedies as a secured party, shall
be applied by the First Lien Agents to the Senior Lender Claims in
such order as specified in the relevant Senior Lender Documents
until the Discharge of Senior Lender Claims has occurred. Upon the
Discharge of Senior Lender Claims, subject to Section 5.6 hereof,
each of the First Lien Agents shall deliver promptly to the Second
Priority Designated Agent any Common Collateral or proceeds thereof
held by it in the same form as received, with any necessary
endorsements or as a court of competent jurisdiction may otherwise
direct to be applied by the Second Priority Designated Agent in
such order as specified in the Second Priority
Documents.
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4.2
Payments Over. Any Common
Collateral or other collateral in respect of the Second Priority
Claims or proceeds thereof received by the Second Priority Agent or
any Second Priority Secured Party in connection with the exercise
of any right or remedy (including setoff or recoupment) relating to
the Common Collateral or such other collateral prior to the
Discharge of Senior Lender Claims shall be segregated and held in
trust for the benefit of and forthwith paid over to the Priority
Designated Agent (and/or its designees) for the benefit of the
Senior Lenders in the same form as received, with any necessary
endorsements or as a court of competent jurisdiction may otherwise
direct. The First Lien Agents are each hereby individually
authorized to make any such endorsements as agent for any Second
Priority Agent or any such Second Priority Secured Party. This
authorization is coupled with an interest and is
irrevocable.
SECTION 5
OTHER AGREEMENTS.
5.1
Releases.
(a)
If, at any time any
Grantor or the holder of any Senior Lender Claim delivers notice to
the Second Priority Agent that any specified Common Collateral
(including all or substantially all of the equity interests of a
Grantor or any of its Subsidiaries) (including for such purpose, in
the case of the sale of equity interests in any Subsidiary, any
Common Collateral held by such Subsidiary or any direct or indirect
Subsidiary thereof) is:
(A)
sold, transferred
or otherwise disposed of:
(i)
by the owner of
such Common Collateral in a transaction permitted or consented to
under the Credit Agreement and the Other First Priority Lien
Obligations Credit Documents (if any) then in effect (including
pursuant to any waiver or consent under the Credit Agreement or
Other First Priority Lien Obligations Credit Document);
or
(ii)
in connection with
the taking of an Enforcement Action; or
(B)
being released from
all Senior Lender Claims in connection with a Subsidiary being
released from its guarantee under the Credit Agreement and the
Other First Priority Lien Obligations Credit Documents (if any)
then in effect, or
(C)
otherwise released
as permitted by the Credit Agreement and the Other First Priority
Lien Obligations Credit Document (if any) then in effect (including
pursuant to any waiver or consent under the Credit Agreement or
Other First Priority Lien Obligations Credit
Document),
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then
(whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding is pending
at the time), the Liens in favor of the Second Priority Secured
Parties upon such Common Collateral (but not the proceeds thereof)
will automatically, simultaneously, and unconditionally be released
and discharged as and when, but only to the extent, such Liens on
such Common Collateral securing Senior Lender Claims are released
and discharged. Upon delivery to each Second Priority Agent of a
notice from any First Lien Agent stating that any release of Liens
securing or supporting the Senior Lender Claims has become
effective (or shall become effective upon each Second Priority
Agent’s release) (whether in connection with a sale of such
assets by the relevant Grantor pursuant to the preceding sentence
or otherwise), each Second Priority Agent, on behalf of each
applicable Second Priority Secured Party, will promptly, at the
Borrower’s expense, execute and deliver such instruments,
releases, termination statements or other documents confirming such
release on customary terms.
(b)
So long as the
Discharge of Senior Lender Claims has not occurred, each Second
Priority Agent, for itself and on behalf of each applicable Second
Priority Secured Party, hereby irrevocably constitutes and appoints
the First Priority Designated Agent and any officer or agent of the
First Priority Designated Agent, with full power of substitution,
as its true and lawful attorney-in-fact with full irrevocable power
and authority in the place and stead of each Second Priority Agent
or such holder or in such First Priority Designated Agent’s
own name, from time to time in such First Priority Designated
Agent’s discretion, for the purpose of carrying out the terms
of this Section 5.1, to take any and all appropriate action and to
execute any and all documents and instruments that may be necessary
or desirable to accomplish the purposes of this Section 5.1,
including any financing change statements, termination statements,
endorsements or other instruments of transfer or
release.
(c)
Unless and until
the Discharge of Senior Lender Claims has occurred, each Second
Priority Agent, for itself and on behalf of each applicable Second
Priority Secured Party, hereby consents to the application, whether
prior to or after a default, of proceeds of Common Collateral or
other collateral to the repayment of Senior Lender Claims pursuant
to the Senior Lender Documents and this Agreement; provided that nothing in this Section
5.1(c) shall be construed to prevent or impair the rights of the
Second Priority Agents or the Second Priority Secured Parties to
receive proceeds in connection with the Second Priority Claims not
otherwise in contravention of this Agreement.
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5.2
Insurance. Unless and until the
Discharge of Senior Lender Claims has occurred, each First Lien
Agent and the Senior Lenders shall have the sole and exclusive
right, subject to the rights of the Grantors under the Senior
Lender Documents, to adjust settlement for any insurance policy
covering the Common Collateral or any other collateral in respect
of the Second Priority Claims in the event of any loss thereunder
and to approve any award granted in any expropriation, condemnation
or similar proceeding affecting the Common Collateral or such other
collateral. Unless and until the Discharge of Senior Lender Claims
has occurred, all proceeds of any such policy and any such award if
in respect of the Common Collateral or such other collateral shall
be paid (a) first, prior to the occurrence of the Discharge of
Senior Lender Claims, to the First Lien Agents for the benefit of
Senior Lenders pursuant to the terms of the Senior Lender
Documents, (b) second, after the occurrence of the Discharge of
Senior Lender Claims, to the Second Priority Agents for the benefit
of the Second Priority Secured Parties pursuant to the terms of the
applicable Second Priority Documents and (c) third, if no Second
Priority Claims are outstanding, to the owner of the subject
property, such other Person as may be entitled thereto or as a
court of competent jurisdiction may otherwise direct. If any Second
Priority Agent or any Second Priority Secured Party shall, at any
time, receive any proceeds of any such insurance policy or any such
award in contravention of this Agreement, it shall pay such
proceeds over to any First Lien Agent in accordance with the terms
of Section 4.2.
5.3
Amendments to Second Priority
Collateral Documents.
(a)
So long as the
Discharge of Senior Lender Claims has not occurred, without the
prior written consent of the First Lien Agents, no Second Priority
Collateral Document may be amended, supplemented or otherwise
modified or entered into to the extent such amendment, supplement
or modification, or the terms of any new Second Priority Collateral
Document, would be prohibited by or inconsistent with any of the
terms of this Agreement. Each Second Priority Agent agrees that
each applicable Second Priority Collateral Document executed as of
the date hereof or hereafter shall include the following language
(or language to similar effect approved by the First Lien
Agents):
“Notwithstanding
anything herein to the contrary, (i) the liens and security
interests granted to the [applicable Second Priority Agent for the
benefit of the [Secured Parties]] pursuant to this agreement are
expressly subject and subordinate to the liens and security
interests granted to HSBC Bank Canada, as administrative agent (and
its permitted successors), for the benefit of the secured parties,
pursuant to certain security agreements and other collateral
security documents (as amended, amended and restated, supplemented
or otherwise modified from time to time), from Eldorado Gold
Corporation and the other “Grantors” referred to
therein, in favor of HSBC Bank Canada, as administrative agent for
the benefit of the secured parties referred to therein [and to the
liens and security interests granted to [Other First Priority Lien
Obligations Agent] pursuant to [Other First Priority Lien
Obligations Security Document (as amended, supplemented or
otherwise modified from time to time)]], and (ii) the exercise of
any right or remedy by the [the Second Priority Agent] hereunder is
subject to the limitations and provisions of the Intercreditor
Agreement dated as of [ ],
2019 (as amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from
time to time, the “Intercreditor Agreement”), by and
among HSBC Bank Canada, in its capacity as First Lien Agent, and
[ ],
as Trustee and Second Priority Agent. In the event of any conflict
between the terms of the Intercreditor Agreement and the terms of
this agreement, the terms of the Intercreditor Agreement shall
govern.”
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(b)
In the event that
the First Lien Agents or the Senior Lenders enter into any
amendment, waiver or consent in respect of or replace any Senior
Collateral Document for the purpose of adding to, or deleting from,
or waiving or consenting to any departure from any provisions of,
any Senior Collateral Document or changing in any manner the rights
of the First Lien Agents, the Senior Lenders, the Borrower or any
other Grantor thereunder (including the release of any Liens in
Senior Lender Collateral), then such amendment, waiver or consent
shall apply automatically to any comparable provision of each
Comparable Second Priority Collateral Document without the consent
of any Second Priority Agent or any Second Priority Secured Party
and without any action by any Second Priority Agent or any Second
Priority Secured Party; provided, that such amendment, waiver or
consent does not materially adversely affect the rights of the
Second Priority Secured Parties or the interests of the Second
Priority Secured Parties in the Second Priority Collateral and not
the other creditors of the Borrower or such Grantor, as the case
may be, that have a security interest in the affected collateral in
a like or similar manner (without regard to the fact that the Lien
of such Senior Collateral Document is senior to the Lien of the
Comparable Second Priority Collateral Document). The relevant First
Lien Agent shall give written notice of such amendment, waiver or
consent to each Second Priority Agent; provided that the failure to give such
notice shall not affect the effectiveness of such amendment, waiver
or consent with respect to the provisions of any Second Priority
Collateral Document as set forth in this Section
5.3(b).
(c)
Anything contained
herein to the contrary notwithstanding, until the Discharge of
Senior Lender Claims has occurred, no Second Priority Collateral
Document shall be entered into unless the collateral covered
thereby is also subject to a perfected first-priority interest in
favor of the First Lien Agents for the benefit of the Senior
Lenders pursuant to the Senior Collateral Documents.
5.4
Judgment Liens. The Second
Priority Agents and the Second Priority Secured Parties may
exercise rights and remedies as unsecured creditors against any
Grantor in accordance with the terms of the Second Priority
Documents and applicable law so long as such rights and remedies do
not violate any express provision of this Agreement. In the event
any Second Priority Agent or any Second Priority Secured Party
becomes a judgment lien creditor or other secured creditor in
respect of Common Collateral or other collateral as a result of its
exercise of rights as an unsecured creditor in respect of Second
Priority Claims, such judgment or other lien shall be subordinated
to the Liens securing Senior Lender Claims on the same basis as the
other Liens securing the Second Priority Claims are so subordinated
to such Liens securing Senior Lender Claims under this Agreement
and shall otherwise be subject to the terms of this Agreement for
all purposes to the same extent as all other Liens securing the
Second Priority Claims subject hereto. Nothing in this Agreement
impairs or otherwise adversely affects any rights or remedies the
First Lien Agents or the Senior Lenders may have with respect to
the Senior Lender Collateral. Nothing in this Agreement shall
prohibit the receipt by any Second Priority Agent or any Second
Priority Secured Party of the required payments of principal,
premium, interest, fees, expenses and other amounts due under the
Second Priority Documents so long as such receipt is not the direct
or indirect result of the exercise by
any Second Priority Agent or any Second Priority Secured Party of
rights or remedies as a secured creditor in respect of Common
Collateral in contravention of this Agreement.
5.5
First Lien Agent as Bailees for
Perfection.
(a)
All possessory
collateral shall be delivered to the First Priority Designated
Agent. Each First Lien Agent agrees to hold the Pledged Collateral
that is part of the Common Collateral that is in its possession or
control (or in the possession or control of its agents or bailees)
as bailee for the Second Priority Agents and any assignees solely
for the purpose of perfecting the security interest granted in such
Pledged Collateral pursuant to the Second Priority Collateral
Agreements, subject to the terms and conditions of this Section
5.5.
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(b)
In the event that
any First Lien Agent (or its agent or bailees) has Lien filings
against Intellectual Property (as defined in the Senior Collateral
Agreement) that is part of the Common Collateral that are necessary
for the perfection of Liens in such Common Collateral, such First
Lien Agent agrees to hold such Liens as bailee for each Second
Priority Agent and any assignee solely for the purpose of
perfecting the security interest granted in such Liens pursuant to
the Second Priority Collateral Agreements, subject to the terms and
conditions of this Section 5.5.
(c)
Except as otherwise
specifically provided herein (including Section 3.1), until the
Discharge of Senior Lender Claims has occurred, any First Lien
Agent shall be entitled to deal with the Pledged Collateral in
accordance with the terms of the Senior Lender Documents as if the
Liens under the Second Priority Collateral Documents did not exist.
The rights of the Second Priority Agents and the Second Priority
Secured Parties with respect to such Pledged Collateral shall at
all times be subject to the terms of this Agreement.
(d)
The First Lien
Agents shall have no obligation whatsoever to any Second Priority
Agent or any Second Priority Secured Party to assure that the
Pledged Collateral is genuine or owned by the Grantors or to
protect or preserve rights or benefits of any Person or any rights
pertaining to the Common Collateral except as expressly set forth
in this Section 5.5. The duties or responsibilities of the First
Lien Agents under this Section 5.5 shall be limited solely to
holding the Pledged Collateral as bailee for each Second Priority
Agent for purposes of perfecting the Lien held by the Second
Priority Secured Parties.
(e)
The First Lien
Agents shall not have by reason of the Second Priority Collateral
Documents or this Agreement or any other document a fiduciary
relationship in respect of any Second Priority Agent or any Second
Priority Secured Party and the Second Priority Agents and the
Second Priority Secured Parties hereby waive and release the First
Lien Agents from all claims and liabilities arising pursuant to the
First Lien Agents’ role under this Section 5.5, as agent and
bailee with respect to the Common Collateral.
(f)
Upon the Discharge
of Senior Lender Claims, the relevant First Lien Agent shall
deliver to the Second Priority Designated Agent, to the extent that
it is legally permitted to do so, the remaining Pledged Collateral
(if any) and to the extent such Pledged Collateral is in the
possession or control of such First Lien Agent (or its agents or
bailees) together with any necessary endorsements (or otherwise
allow the Second Priority Designated Agent to obtain control of
such Pledged Collateral) or as a court of competent jurisdiction
may otherwise direct.
(g)
Neither the First
Lien Agents nor the Senior Lenders shall be required to marshal any
present or future collateral security for the Borrower’s or
the Subsidiaries’ obligations to the First Lien Agents or the
Senior Lenders under the Credit Agreement or the Senior Collateral
Documents or any assurance of payment in respect thereof or to
resort to such collateral security or other assurances of payment
in any particular order, and all of their rights in respect of such
collateral security or any assurance of payment in respect thereof
shall be cumulative and in addition to all other rights, however
existing or arising.
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5.6
Second Priority Designated Agent as
Gratuitous Bailee for Perfection.
(a)
Upon the Discharge
of Senior Lender Claims, the Second Priority Designated Agent
agrees to hold the Pledged Collateral that is part of the Common
Collateral in its possession or control (or in the possession or
control of its agents or bailees) as gratuitous bailee for the
other Second Priority Agents and any assignee solely for the
purpose of perfecting the security interest granted in such Pledged
Collateral pursuant to the applicable Second Priority Collateral
Agreement, subject to the terms and conditions of this Section
5.6.
(b)
In the event that
the Second Priority Designated Agent (or its agent or bailees) has
Lien filings against Intellectual Property (as defined in the
Senior Collateral Agreement, whether or not then in effect) that is
part of the Common Collateral that are necessary for the perfection
of Liens in such Common Collateral, upon the Discharge of Senior
Lender Claims, the Second Priority Designated Agent agrees to hold
such Liens as gratuitous bailee for the other Second Priority
Agents and any assignee solely for the purpose of perfecting the
security interest granted in such Liens pursuant to the applicable
Second Priority Collateral Agreement, subject to the terms and
conditions of this Section 5.6.
(c)
The Second Priority
Designated Agent, in its capacity as gratuitous bailee, shall have
no obligation whatsoever to the other Second Priority Agents to
assure that the Pledged Collateral is genuine or owned by the
Grantors or to protect or preserve rights or benefits of any Person
or any rights pertaining to the Common Collateral except as
expressly set forth in this Section 5.6. The duties or
responsibilities of the Second Priority Designated Agent under this
Section 5.6 upon the Discharge of Senior Lender Claims shall be
limited solely to holding the Pledged Collateral as gratuitous
bailee for the other Second Priority Agents for purposes of
perfecting the Lien held by the applicable Second Priority Secured
Parties.
(d)
The Second Priority
Designated Agent shall not have by reason of the Second Priority
Collateral Documents or this Agreement or any other document a
fiduciary relationship in respect of the other Second Priority
Agents (or the Second Priority Secured Parties for which such other
Second Priority Agents are agents) and the other Second Priority
Agents hereby waive and release the Second Priority Designated
Agent from all claims and liabilities arising pursuant to the
Second Priority Designated Agent’s role under this Section
5.6, as agent and gratuitous bailee with respect to the Common
Collateral.
(e)
In the event that
the Second Priority Designated Agent shall cease to be so
designated the Second Priority Designated Agent pursuant to the
definition of such term, the then Second Priority Designated Agent
shall deliver to the successor Second Priority Designated Agent, to
the extent that it is legally permitted to do so, the remaining
Pledged Collateral (if any), together with any necessary
endorsements (or otherwise allow the successor Second Priority
Designated Agent to obtain control of such Pledged Collateral) or
as a court of competent jurisdiction may otherwise direct, and such
successor Second Priority Designated Agent shall perform all duties
of the Second Priority Designated Agent as set forth
herein.
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5.7
No Release Upon Discharge of Senior
Lender Claims; Reinstatement.
(a)
Notwithstanding any
other provisions contained in this Agreement, on the date of
Discharge of Senior Lender Claims, the Second Priority Liens on the
Second Priority Collateral securing the Second Priority Claims will
not be released except to the extent such Second Priority
Collateral or any portion thereof was disposed of in compliance
with the terms of this Agreement in order to repay Senior Lender
Claims secured by such Second Priority Collateral.
(b)
If, at any time on
or after the Discharge of Senior Lender Claims has occurred, the
Borrower incurs and designates any new Senior Lender Claims as
being in respect of a Replacement Credit Agreement, then such
Discharge of Senior Lender Claims shall automatically be deemed not
to have occurred for all purposes of this Agreement (other than
with respect to any actions taken prior to the date of such
designation as a result of the occurrence of such first Discharge
of Senior Lender Claims), and the applicable Replacement Credit
Agreement governing such Senior Lender Claims shall automatically
be treated as the Credit Agreement for all purposes of this
Agreement, including for purposes of the Lien priorities and rights
in respect of Common Collateral set forth herein and the granting
by the First Lien Agents of amendments, waivers and consents
hereunder. Upon receipt by each Second Priority Agent of notice of
such designation (including the identity of any new First Lien
Agent) from the Borrower and the First Lien Agent in respect of
such Replacement Credit Agreement, each Second Priority Agent shall
promptly (i) enter into such documents and agreements, including
amendments or supplements to this Agreement, as such new First Lien
Agent shall reasonably request in writing in order to provide the
new First Lien Agent the rights of the First Lien Agents
contemplated hereby and (ii) to the extent then held by the Second
Priority Designated Agent, deliver to such First Lien Agent the
Pledged Collateral that is Common Collateral together with any
necessary endorsements (or otherwise allow such First Lien Agent to
obtain possession or control of such Pledged
Collateral).
SECTION 6
INSOLVENCY OR LIQUIDATION PROCEEDINGS.
6.1
Financing Issues. Until the
Discharge of Senior Lender Claims has occurred, if the Borrower or
any other Grantor shall be subject to any Insolvency or Liquidation
Proceeding and any First Lien Agent shall desire to permit the
Borrower or any other Grantor to obtain interim financing under
Section 50.6 of the Bankruptcy and
Insolvency Act (Canada), Section 11.2 of the Companies Creditors’ Arrangement
Act or any other applicable provision in any Bankruptcy Law
(“DIP
Financing”), then the Second Priority Agent, on behalf
of itself and each applicable Second Priority Secured Party, agrees
that it will raise no objection to, and will not support any
objection to, and will not otherwise contest (a) such DIP Financing
and will not request any relief in connection therewith and, to the
extent the Liens securing the Senior Lender Claims under the Senior
Lender Documents are subordinated or pari passu with the Liens
securing such DIP Financing, will subordinate its Liens in the
Common Collateral and any other collateral to (x) the Liens
securing such DIP Financing (and all Obligations relating thereto)
on the same basis as the other Liens securing the Second Priority
Claims are so subordinated to Liens securing Senior Lender Claims
under this Agreement, (b) any motion for relief from any stay of
proceedings or from any injunction against foreclosure or
enforcement in respect of Senior Lender Claims made by the First
Lien Agent or any holder of Senior Lender Claims, (c) any lawful
exercise by any holder of Senior Lender Claims of the right to
credit bid Senior Lender Claims at any sale in foreclosure of
Senior Lender Collateral under applicable Bankruptcy Laws, (d) any
other request for judicial relief made in any court by any holder
of Senior Lender Claims relating to the lawful enforcement of any
Lien on Senior Lender Collateral, or (e) any order relating to a
sale of assets of any Grantor for which the First Lien Agent has
consented that provides, to the extent the sale is to be free and
clear of Liens, that the Liens securing the Senior Lender Claims
and the Second Priority Claims will attach to the proceeds of the
sale on the same basis of priority as the Liens securing the Senior
Lender Collateral do to the Liens securing the Second Priority
Collateral in accordance with this Agreement. Further, if any First
Lien Agent consents to any court-ordered administration charge
securing the payment of professional fees, any court-ordered
directors and officers charge securing the indemnity of a Grantor
to such officers and directors or to any analogous or similar
court-ordered charges, each Second Priority Agent agrees that it
will raise no objection to such court-ordered priority charges, and
to the extent that the Liens securing the DIP Financing and/or the
First Lien Obligations are subordinated to or pari passu with such
court-ordered charges, the Second Priority Agent will not object to
its Liens in the Collateral being subordinate to the Liens securing
such court-ordered charges.
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6.2
No Relief from Stay. Until the
Discharge of Senior Lender Claims has occurred, the Second Priority
Agent, on behalf of itself and each applicable Second Priority
Secured Party, agrees that none of them shall seek relief from the
any stay of proceedings in any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding
in respect of the Common Collateral, without the prior written
consent of all First Lien Agents and Required Lenders.
6.3
Fees and Expenses. Each First
Lien Agent, on behalf of itself and each applicable Senior Lenders,
agrees that none of them shall contest (or support any other Person
contesting) the payment of interest, fees, expenses or other
amounts to any Second Priority Agent or any other Second Priority
Secured Party. Each Second Priority Agent, on behalf of itself and
each applicable Second Priority Secured Party, agrees that none of
them shall contest (or support any other Person contesting) the
payment of interest, fees, expenses or other amounts to any First
Lien Agent or any other Senior Lender.
6.4
Avoidance Issues;
Reinstatement. If any Senior Lender is required in any
Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding or otherwise to turn over or
otherwise pay to the bankruptcy estate of the Borrower or any other
Grantor (or any trustee, receiver or similar person therefor),
because the payment of such amount was declared to be fraudulent or
preferential in any respect or for any other reason, any amount (a
“Recovery”),
whether received as proceeds of security, enforcement of any right
of setoff or otherwise, then as among the parties hereto the Senior
Lender Claims shall be deemed to be reinstated to the extent of
such Recovery and to be outstanding as if such payment had not
occurred and the Senior Lenders shall be entitled to a Discharge of
Senior Lender Claims with respect to all such recovered amounts and
shall have all rights hereunder until such time. If this Agreement
shall have been terminated prior to such Recovery, this Agreement
shall be reinstated in full force and effect, and such prior
termination shall not diminish, release, discharge, impair or
otherwise affect the obligations of the parties hereto. Any Common
Collateral or proceeds thereof received by any Second Priority
Secured Party prior to the time of such Recovery shall be deemed to
have been received prior to the Discharge of Senior Lender Claims
and subject to the provisions of Section 4.2.
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6.5
Application. This Agreement
shall be applicable prior to and after the commencement of any
Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding.
6.6
Nature of Obligations; Post-Petition
Interest. Each Second Priority Agent, on behalf of the
Second Priority Secured Parties, hereby acknowledges and agrees
that (i) the Second Priority Secured Parties’ claims
against the Grantors in respect of the Common Collateral constitute
junior secured claims separate and apart (and of a different class)
from the Senior Lender Claims of the Senior Lenders against the
Grantors in respect of the Common Collateral, (ii) the Senior
Lender Claims include all interest, fees, and expenses that accrue
after the commencement of any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding
of any Grantor at the rate provided for in the applicable Senior
Lender Documents governing the same, whether or not a claim for
post-petition interest, fees and expenses is allowed or allowable
in any such Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding, (iii) the grants
of Liens pursuant to the Credit Agreement and the Second Priority
Collateral Documents constitute two separate and distinct grants of
Liens, and (iv) because of, among other things, their differing
rights in the Common Collateral, the Senior Lender Claims are
fundamentally different from the Second Priority Claims and the
Second Priority Claims are fundamentally different from the Senior
Lender Claims and, in each case, must be separately classified in
any Plan of Reorganization proposed or confirmed (or approved) in
an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding. To further effectuate the
intent of the parties as provided in the immediately preceding
sentence, if it is held that the claims against the Grantors in
respect of the Common Collateral constitute only one secured claim
(rather than separate classes of senior and junior secured claims),
then each Second Priority Agent, on behalf of the Second Priority
Secured Parties, hereby acknowledges and agrees that all
distributions pursuant to Section 4.1 or otherwise from the
Common Collateral shall be made as if there were separate classes
of senior and junior secured claims against the Grantors in respect
of the Common Collateral (with the effect being that, to the extent
that the aggregate value of the Common Collateral is sufficient
(for this purpose ignoring all claims held by each Second Priority
Agent on behalf of the Second Priority Secured Parties), the Senior
Lenders shall be entitled to receive, in addition to amounts
distributed to them in respect of principal, pre-petition interest
and other claims, all amounts owing in respect of post-petition
interest at the relevant contract rate, fees and expenses (even
though such claims may or may not be allowed or allowable in whole
or in part in the respective Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding)
before any distribution from the Common Collateral is made in
respect of the claims held by each Second Priority Agent, on behalf
of the Second Priority Secured Parties, with each Second Priority
Agent, on behalf of the Second Priority Secured Parties, hereby
acknowledging and agreeing to turn over to the holders of the
Senior Lender Claims all amounts otherwise received or receivable
by them from the Common Collateral to the extent needed to
effectuate the intent of this sentence even if such turnover of
amounts has the effect of reducing the amount of the claim of the
Second Priority Secured Parties). Neither any Second Priority Agent
nor any Second Priority Secured Party shall oppose or seek to
challenge any claim by a First Lien Agent or any Senior Lender for
allowance in any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding of Senior
Lender Claims consisting of post-petition interest, fees or
expenses to the extent of the value of the Senior Lender’s
Lien, without regard to the existence of the Lien of any Second
Priority Agent on behalf of the Second Priority Secured Parties on
the Common Collateral or the Second Priority Claims. Neither the
First Lien Agents nor any other Senior Lender shall oppose or seek
to challenge any claim by the Second Priority Agent or any Second
Priority Secured Party for allowance in any Insolvency or
Liquidation Proceeding of Second Lien Claims consisting of
post-petition interest, fees or expenses to the extent of the value
of the Second Priority Agent’s Lien, after taking into
account the existence of the Senior Lender’s Lien on behalf
of the Senior Lenders on the Common Collateral and the Senior
Lender Claims.
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6.7
No Waiver. Nothing contained
herein shall prohibit or in any way limit the First Lien Agent or
any Senior Lender from objecting in any Insolvency or Liquidation
Proceeding or otherwise to any action taken by any Second Priority
Agent or any of the Second Priority Secured Parties, including
asserting by any Second Priority Agent or any Second Priority
Secured Parties of any of its rights and remedies under the Second
Priority Documents or otherwise.
6.8
Plan of Reorganization. Without
limiting the generality of any provisions of this Agreement, each
Second Priority Agent or Second Priority Secured Party shall be
entitled to vote to accept any Plan of Reorganization in connection
with any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding of the Borrower or
any other Grantor so long as such Plan of Reorganization is a
Conforming Plan of Reorganization, and shall be entitled to vote to
reject any such Plan of Reorganization that is a Non-Conforming
Plan of Reorganization; provided that each Second Priority Agent or
Second Priority Secured Party agrees that it shall not be entitled
to take any action or vote in any way that supports any
Non-Conforming Plan of Reorganization, or (b) to fail to take any
action or fail to vote in favour of any Conforming Plan of
Reorganization. Any vote to accept, and any other act to support
the confirmation or approval of, any Non-Conforming Plan of
Reorganization by any Second Priority Agent or Second Priority
Secured Party shall be inconsistent with and accordingly, a
violation of the terms of this Agreement, and the First Lien Agent
shall be entitled to have any such vote to accept a Non-Conforming
Plan of Reorganization dismissed and any such support of any
Non-Conforming Plan of Reorganization withdrawn. Each Second
Priority Secured Party hereby irrevocably appoints and constitutes
the First Lien Agent and any officer or agent of the First Lien
Agent, with full power of substitution, as such Second Lien Secured
Party’s true and lawful attorney-in-fact with full power and
authority in the place of such Second Lien Secured Party and in the
name of such Second Lien Secured Party or in its own name, from
time to time in the First Lien Agent’s discretion, to take
any and all appropriate action, to execute any and all documents
and instruments and to exercise all voting rights as, in the
opinion of such attorney, may be necessary or desirable to
accomplish the purposes of this Section.
6.9
Reorganization Securities. If,
in any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding, debt obligations of
the reorganized debtor secured by Liens upon any property of the
reorganized debtor are distributed pursuant to a Plan of
Reorganization or similar dispositive restructuring plan, both on
account of Senior Lender Claims and on account of Second Priority
Claims, then, to the extent the debt obligations distributed on
account of the Senior Lender Claims and on account of the Second
Priority Claims are secured by Liens upon the same property, the
provisions of this Agreement will survive the distribution of such
debt obligations pursuant to such plan and will apply with like
effect to the Liens securing such debt obligations.
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SECTION 7
RELIANCE; WAIVERS; ETC.
7.1
Reliance. The consent by the
Senior Lenders to the execution and delivery of the Second Priority
Documents to which the Senior Lenders have consented and all loans
and other extensions of credit made or deemed made on and after
Closing Date by the Senior Lenders to the Borrower or any
Subsidiary shall be deemed to have been given and made in reliance
upon this Agreement. Each Second Priority Agent, on behalf of
itself and each applicable Second Priority Secured Party,
acknowledges that it and the applicable Second Priority Secured
Parties is not entitled to rely on any credit decision or other
decisions made by any First Lien Agent or any Senior Lender in
taking or not taking any action under the applicable Second
Priority Document or this Agreement. Each First Lien Agent, on
behalf of itself and each applicable Senior Lender, acknowledges
that it and the applicable Senior Lenders are not entitled to rely
on any credit decision or other decisions made by any Second
Priority Secured Party in taking or not taking any action under the
applicable Senior Lender Document or this Agreement.
7.2
No Warranties or Liability.
Neither any First Lien Agent nor any Senior Lender shall have been
deemed to have made any express or implied representation or
warranty upon which the Second Priority Agent or the Second
Priority Secured Parties may rely, including with respect to the
execution, validity, legality, completeness, collectibility or
enforceability of any of the Senior Lender Documents, the ownership
of any Common Collateral or the perfection or priority of any Liens
thereon. The Senior Lenders will be entitled to manage and
supervise their respective loans and extensions of credit under the
Senior Lender Documents in accordance with law and as they may
otherwise, in their sole discretion, deem appropriate, and the
Senior Lenders may manage their loans and extensions of credit
without regard to any rights or interests that any Second Priority
Agent or any of the Second Priority Secured Parties have in the
Common Collateral or otherwise, except as otherwise provided in
this Agreement. Neither any Second Priority Agent nor any Second
Priority Secured Party shall have been deemed to have made any
express or implied representation or warranty upon which the First
Lien Agent or the Senior Lenders may rely, including with respect
to the execution, validity, legality, completeness, collectibility
or enforceability of any of the Second Priority Documents, the
ownership of any Common Collateral or the perfection or priority of
any Liens thereon. The Second Priority Secured Parties will be
entitled to manage and supervise their respective loans and
extensions of credit under the Second Priority Documents in
accordance with law and as they may otherwise, in their sole
discretion, deem appropriate, and the Second Priority Secured
Parties may manage their loans and extensions of credit without
regard to any rights or interests that any First Lien Agent or any
of the Senior Lenders have in the Common Collateral or otherwise,
except as otherwise provided in this Agreement. Neither any First
Lien Agent nor any Senior Lender shall have any duty to any Second
Priority Agent or any Second Priority Secured Party to act or
refrain from acting in a manner that allows, or results in, the
occurrence or continuance of an event of default or default under
any agreements with the Borrower or any Subsidiary thereof
(including the Second Priority Documents), regardless of any
knowledge thereof that they may have or be charged with. Except as
expressly set forth in this Agreement, the First Lien Agents, the
Senior Lenders, the Second Priority Agents and the Second Priority
Secured Parties have not otherwise made to each other, nor do they
hereby make to each other, any warranties, express or implied, nor
do they assume any liability to each other with respect to (a) the
enforceability, validity, value or collectibility of any of the
Second Priority Claims, the Senior Lender Claims or any guarantee
or security which may have been granted to any of them in
connection therewith, (b) the Borrower’s or any other
Grantor’s title to or right to transfer any of the Common
Collateral or (c) any other matter except as expressly set forth in
this Agreement.
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7.3
Obligations Unconditional. All
rights, interests, agreements and obligations of the First Lien
Agents and the Senior Lenders, and the Second Priority Agents and
the Second Priority Secured Parties, respectively, hereunder shall
remain in full force and effect irrespective of:
(a)
any lack of
validity or enforceability of any Senior Lender Documents or any
Second Priority Documents;
(b)
any change in the
time, manner or place of payment of, or in any other terms of, all
or any of the Senior Lender Claims or Second Priority Claims, or
any amendment or waiver or other modification, including any
increase in the amount thereof, whether by course of conduct or
otherwise, of the terms of the Credit Agreement or any other Senior
Lender Document or of the terms of the Second Priority Senior
Secured Notes Indenture or any other Second Priority
Document;
(c)
any exchange of any
security interest in any Common Collateral or any other collateral,
or any amendment, waiver or other modification, whether in writing
or by course of conduct or otherwise, of all or any of the Senior
Lender Claims or Second Priority Claims or any guarantee
thereof;
(d)
the commencement of
any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding in respect of any Borrower
or any other Grantor; or
(e)
any other
circumstances that otherwise might constitute a defense available
to, or a discharge of, the Borrower or any other Grantor in respect
of the Senior Lender Claims, or of any Second Priority Agent or any
Second Priority Secured Party in respect of this
Agreement.
SECTION 8
MISCELLANEOUS.
8.1
Conflicts. Subject to Section
8.18, in the event of any conflict between the provisions of this
Agreement and the provisions of any Senior Lender Document or any
Second Priority Document, the provisions of this Agreement shall
govern.
8.2
Continuing Nature of this Agreement;
Severability. Subject to Section 6.4, this Agreement shall
continue to be effective until the Discharge of Senior Lender
Claims shall have occurred or such later time as all the
Obligations in respect of the Second Priority Claims shall have
been paid in full. This is a continuing agreement of lien
subordination and the Senior Lenders may continue, at any time and
without notice to each Second Priority Agent or any Second Priority
Secured Party, to extend credit and other financial accommodations
and lend monies to or for the benefit of the Borrower or any other
Grantor constituting Senior Lender Claims in reliance hereon. The
terms of this Agreement shall survive, and shall continue in full
force and effect, in any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding. Any
provision of this Agreement that is prohibited or unenforceable in
any jurisdiction shall not invalidate the remaining provisions
hereof, and any such prohibition or unenforceability in any
jurisdiction shall not invalidate or render unenforceable such
provision in any other jurisdiction.
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8.3
Amendments; Waivers. Subject to
Section 8.22 hereof, no amendment, modification or waiver of any of
the provisions of this Agreement by any Second Priority Agent or
any First Lien Agent shall be deemed to be made unless the same
shall be in writing signed on behalf of the party making the same
or its authorized agent and each waiver, if any, shall be a waiver
only with respect to the specific instance involved and shall in no
way impair the rights of the parties making such waiver or the
obligations of the other parties to such party in any other respect
or at any other time. The Borrower and the other Grantors shall not
have any right to consent to or approve any amendment, modification
or waiver of any provision of this Agreement except to the extent
their rights or obligations are adversely affected (in which case
the Borrower shall have the right to consent to or approve any such
amendment, modification or waiver).
8.4
Information Concerning Financial
Condition of the Borrower and the Subsidiaries. Neither any
First Lien Agent nor any Senior Lender shall have any
obligation to any Second Priority Agent or any Second Priority
Secured Party to keep the Second Priority Agent or any Second
Priority Secured Party informed of, and the Second Priority Agents
and the Second Priority Secured Parties shall not be entitled to
rely on the First Lien Agents or the Senior Lenders with respect
to, (a) the financial condition of the Borrowers and the
Subsidiaries and all endorsers, pledgors and/or guarantors of the
Second Priority Claims or the Senior Lender Claims and (b) all
other circumstances bearing upon the risk of nonpayment of the
Second Priority Claims or the Senior Lender Claims. Neither any
Second Priority Agent nor any Second Priority Secured Party
shall have any obligation to any First Lien Agent or any Senior
Lender to keep the First Lien Agent or any Senior Lender
informed of, and the First Lien Agents and the Senior Lenders shall
not be entitled to rely on the Second Priority Agents or the Second
Priority Secured Parties with respect to, (a) the financial
condition of the Borrower and the Subsidiaries and all endorsers,
pledgors and/or guarantors of the Second Priority Claims or the
Senior Lender Claims and (b) all other circumstances bearing upon
the risk of nonpayment of the Second Priority Claims or the Senior
Lender Claims. The First Lien Agents, the Senior Lenders, each
Second Priority Agent and the Second Priority Secured Parties shall
have no duty to advise any other party hereunder of information
known to it or them regarding such condition or any such
circumstances or otherwise. In the event that any First Lien Agent,
any Senior Lender, any Second Priority Agent or any Second Priority
Secured Party, in its or their sole discretion, undertakes at any
time or from time to time to provide any such information to any
other party, it or they shall be under no obligation (w) to make,
and the First Lien Agents, the Senior Lenders, the Second Priority
Agents and the Second Priority Secured Parties shall not make, any
express or implied representation or warranty, including with
respect to the accuracy, completeness, truthfulness or validity of
any such information so provided, (x) to provide any additional
information or to provide any such information on any subsequent
occasion, (y) to undertake any investigation or (z) to disclose any
information that, pursuant to accepted or reasonable commercial
finance practices, such party wishes to maintain confidential or is
otherwise required to maintain confidential.
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8.5
Subrogation. Each Second
Priority Agent, on behalf of itself and each applicable Second
Priority Secured Party, hereby agrees not to assert any rights of
subrogation it may acquire as a result of any payment hereunder
until the Discharge of Senior Lender Claims has
occurred.
8.6
Application of Payments. Except
as otherwise provided herein, all payments received by the Senior
Lenders may be applied, reversed and reapplied, in whole or in
part, to such part of the Senior Lender Claims as the Senior
Lenders, in their sole discretion, deem appropriate, consistent
with the terms of the Senior Lender Documents. Except as otherwise
provided herein, each Second Priority Agent, on behalf of itself
and each applicable Second Priority Secured Party, assents to any
such extension or postponement of the time of payment of the Senior
Lender Claims or any part thereof and to any other indulgence with
respect thereto, to any substitution, exchange or release of any
security that may at any time secure any part of the Senior Lender
Claims and to the addition or release of any other Person primarily
or secondarily liable therefor.
8.7
Consent to Jurisdiction;
Waivers. The parties hereto consent to the exclusive
jurisdiction of the courts of the Province of Ontario and consent
that all service of process may be made by registered mail directed
to such party as provided in Section 8.8 for such party. Service so
made shall be deemed to be completed upon receipt. The parties
hereto waive any objection to any action instituted hereunder in
any such court based on forum non conveniens, and any objection to
the venue of any action instituted hereunder in any such court.
Each of the parties hereto waives any right it may have to trial by
jury in respect of any litigation based on, or arising out of,
under or in connection with this Agreement, or any course of
conduct, course of dealing, verbal or written statement or action
of any party hereto in connection with the subject matter
hereof.
8.8
Notices. All notices to the
Second Priority Secured Parties and the Senior Lenders permitted or
required under this Agreement may be sent to the Trustee, the First
Lien Agents or any Second Priority Agent as provided in the Second
Priority Senior Secured Notes Indenture, the Credit Agreement, the
Other First Priority Lien Obligations Credit Documents, the other
relevant Senior Lender Documents or the other relevant Second
Priority Documents, as applicable. Unless otherwise specifically
provided herein, any notice or other communication herein required
or permitted to be given shall be in writing and may be personally
served, telecopied, electronically mailed or sent by courier
service and shall be deemed to have been given upon receipt of a
telecopy or electronic mail or upon receipt via personal or courier
delivery. For the purposes hereof, the addresses of the parties
hereto shall be as set forth below each party’s name on the
signature pages hereto, or, as to each party, at such other address
as may be designated by such party in a written notice to all of
the other parties. The First Lien Agents hereby agree to promptly
notify each Second Priority Agent upon payment in full in cash of
all Obligations under the applicable Senior Lender Documents
(except for contingent indemnities and cost and reimbursement
obligations to the extent no claim therefor has been
made).
8.9
Further Assurances. Each of the
Second Priority Agents, on behalf of itself and each applicable
Second Priority Secured Party, and each applicable First Lien
Agent, on behalf of itself and each Senior Lender, agrees that each
of them shall take such further action and shall execute and
deliver to each other such additional documents and instruments (in
registerable or recordable form, if requested) as each other may
reasonably request, to effectuate the terms of and the lien
priorities contemplated by this Agreement.
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8.10
Governing Law. This Agreement
has been delivered and accepted in and shall be deemed to have been
made in the Province of Ontario and shall be interpreted, and the
rights and liabilities of the parties bound hereby determined, in
accordance with the laws of the Province of Ontario, without regard
to conflicts of law principles thereof.
8.11
Binding on Successors and
Assigns. This Agreement shall be binding upon the First Lien
Agents, the Senior Lenders, the Second Priority Agents, the Second
Priority Secured Parties and their respective permitted successors
and assigns.
8.12
Specific Performance. Each
First Lien Agent may demand specific performance of this Agreement.
The Second Priority Agent, on behalf of itself and each applicable
Second Priority Secured Party, hereby irrevocably waives any
defense based on the adequacy of a remedy at law and any other
defense that might be asserted to bar the remedy of specific
performance in any action that may be brought by any First Lien
Agent.
8.13
Section Titles. The section
titles contained in this Agreement are and shall be without
substantive meaning or content of any kind whatsoever and are not a
part of this Agreement.
8.14
Counterparts. This Agreement
may be executed in one or more counterparts, including by means of
facsimile, each of which shall be an original and all of which
shall together constitute one and the same document.
8.15
Authorization. By its
signature, each Person executing this Agreement on behalf of a
party hereto represents and warrants to the other parties hereto
that it is duly authorized to execute this Agreement. The First
Lien Agents represent and warrant that this Agreement is binding
upon the Senior Lenders. The Trustee represents and warrants that
this Agreement is binding upon the Second Priority Secured
Parties.
8.16
No Third Party Beneficiaries;
Successors and Assigns. This Agreement and the rights and
benefits hereof shall inure to the benefit of, and be binding upon,
each of the parties hereto and their respective successors and
assigns and shall inure to the benefit of each of, and be binding
upon, the holders of Senior Lender Claims and Second Priority
Claims. No other Person shall have or be entitled to assert rights
or benefits hereunder.
8.17
Effectiveness. This Agreement
shall become effective when executed and delivered by the parties
hereto. This Agreement shall be effective both before and after the
commencement of any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding. All
references to the Borrower or any other Grantor shall include the
Borrower or any other Grantor as debtor and debtor-in-possession
and any receiver or trustee for the Borrower or any other Grantor
(as the case may be) in any Insolvency or Liquidation
Proceeding.
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8.18
Relative Rights.
Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary (except
to the extent contemplated by Section 5.3(b)), nothing in this
Agreement is intended to or will (a) amend, waive or otherwise
modify the provisions of the Credit Agreement, the Other First
Priority Lien Obligations Credit Documents, the Second Priority
Senior Secured Notes Indenture or any other Senior Lender Documents
or Second Priority Documents entered into in connection with the
Credit Agreement, the Other First Priority Lien Obligations Credit
Documents, the Second Priority Senior Secured Notes Indenture or
any other Senior Lender Document or Second Priority Document or
permit the Borrower or any Subsidiary to take any action, or fail
to take any action, to the extent such action or failure would
otherwise constitute a breach of, or default under, the Credit
Agreement or any other Senior Lender Documents entered into in
connection with the Credit Agreement, the Other First Priority Lien
Obligations Credit Documents, the Second Priority Senior Secured
Notes Indenture or any other Second Priority Documents, (b) change
the relative priorities of the Senior Lender Claims or the Liens
granted under the Senior Lender Documents on the Common Collateral
(or any other assets) as among the Senior Lenders, (c) otherwise
change the relative rights of the Senior Lenders in respect of the
Common Collateral as among such Senior Lenders or (d) obligate the
Borrower or any Subsidiary to take any action, or fail to take any
action, that would otherwise constitute a breach of, or default
under, the Credit Agreement, the Other First Priority Lien
Obligations Credit Documents or any other Senior Lender Document
entered into in connection with the Credit Agreement, the Other
First Priority Lien Obligations Credit Documents, the Second
Priority Senior Secured Notes Indenture or any other Second
Priority Documents.
8.19
References. Notwithstanding
anything to the contrary in this Agreement, any references
contained herein to any Section, clause, paragraph, definition or
other provision of the Second Priority Senior Secured Notes
Indenture (including any definition contained therein) shall be
deemed to be a reference to such Section, clause, paragraph,
definition or other provision as in effect on the date of this
Agreement; provided that
any reference to any such Section, clause, paragraph or other
provision shall refer to such Section, clause, paragraph or other
provision of the Second Priority Senior Secured Notes Indenture, as
applicable (including any definition contained therein), as amended
or modified from time to time if such amendment or modification has
been (1) made in accordance with the Second Priority Senior Secured
Notes Indenture, and (2) approved in writing by, or on behalf of,
the Required Lenders.
8.20
Entire Agreement. THIS
AGREEMENT REPRESENTS THE FINAL AGREEMENT AMONG THE PARTIES AND MAY
NOT BE CONTRADICTED BY EVIDENCE OF PRIOR, CONTEMPORANEOUS, OR
SUBSEQUENT ORAL AGREEMENTS OF THE PARTIES. THERE ARE NO UNWRITTEN
ORAL AGREEMENTS AMONG THE PARTIES.
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8.21
Intercreditor Agreements. Each
party hereto agrees that the Senior Lenders (as among themselves)
and the Second Priority Secured Parties (as among themselves) may
each enter into intercreditor agreements (or similar arrangements,
including, in the case of the Senior Lenders, the First Lien Parity
Intercreditor Agreement) with the applicable First Lien Agent or
Second Priority Agent governing the rights, benefits and privileges
as among the Senior Lenders or the Second Priority Secured Parties,
as the case may be, in respect of the Common Collateral, this
Agreement and the other Senior Collateral Documents or Second
Priority Collateral Documents, as the case may be, including as to
application of proceeds of the Common Collateral, voting rights,
control of the Common Collateral and waivers with respect to the
Common Collateral, in each case so long as (A) the terms thereof do
not violate or conflict with the provisions of this Agreement or
the other Senior Collateral Documents or Second Priority Collateral
Documents, as the case may be, (B) in the case of any such
intercreditor agreement (or similar arrangement) affecting any
Senior Lenders, the First Lien Agent acting on behalf of such
Senior Lenders agrees in its sole discretion to enter into any such
intercreditor agreement (or similar arrangement) and (C) in the
case of any such intercreditor agreement (or similar arrangement)
affecting the Senior Lenders holding Senior Lender Claims under the
Credit Agreement, such intercreditor agreement (or similar
arrangement) is permitted under the Credit Agreement or the
Required Lenders otherwise authorize the applicable First Lien
Agent to enter into any such intercreditor agreement (or similar
arrangement). Notwithstanding the preceding clauses (B) and (C), to
the extent that the applicable First Lien Agent is not authorized
by the Required Lenders to enter into any such intercreditor
agreement (or similar arrangement ) or does not agree to enter into
such intercreditor agreement (or similar arrangement), such
intercreditor agreement (or similar arrangement ) shall not be
binding upon the applicable First Lien Agent but, subject to the
immediately succeeding sentence, may still bind the other parties
party thereto. In any event, if a respective intercreditor
agreement (or similar arrangement) exists, the provisions thereof
shall not be (or be construed to be) an amendment, modification or
other change to this Agreement or any other Senior Collateral
Document or Second Priority Collateral Document, and the provisions
of this Agreement and the other Senior Collateral Documents and
Second Priority Collateral Documents shall remain in full force and
effect in accordance with the terms hereof and thereof (as such
provisions may be amended, modified or otherwise supplemented from
time to time in accordance with the terms thereof, including to
give effect to any intercreditor agreement (or similar
arrangement)).
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8.22
Joinder Requirements. The
Borrowers and/or any First Lien Agent and/or any Second Priority
Agent, without the consent of any other First Lien Agent or Second
Priority Agent, any Senior Lender or any Second Priority Secured
Party, may designate additional obligations as Other First Priority
Lien Obligations or Future Second Lien Indebtedness if the
incurrence of such Obligations is permitted under each of the
Credit Agreement, each Other First Priority Lien Obligations Credit
Document, the Second Priority Senior Secured Notes Indenture, all
other applicable Senior Lender Documents and Second Priority
Documents then in effect and this Agreement. If so permitted, as a
condition precedent to the effectiveness of such designation, the
applicable Other First Priority Lien Obligations Agent or the
applicable administrative agent or trustee and collateral agent for
such Future Second Lien Indebtedness shall execute and deliver to
each First Lien Agent and Second Priority Agent, a joinder
agreement to this Agreement substantially in the form annexed
hereto as Exhibit I or Exhibit II, as the case may be, or otherwise
in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the First Priority
Designated Agent and the Second Priority Designated Agent.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth in this Section
8.22 or in Section 8.3 hereof, any First Lien Agent and/or any
Second Priority Agent may, and, at the request of the Borrower,
shall, in each case, without the consent of any other First Lien
Agent or Second Priority Agent, any Senior Lender or any Second
Priority Secured Party, enter into a supplemental agreement (which
may take the form of an amendment, an amendment and restatement or
a supplement of this Agreement) to facilitate the designation of
such additional Obligations as Other First Priority Lien
Obligations or Future Second Lien Indebtedness. Any such amendment
may, among other things, (i) add other parties holding Future
Second Lien Indebtedness (or any agent or trustee therefor) to the
extent such Indebtedness is not prohibited by the Credit Agreement,
the Other First Priority Lien Obligations Credit Documents, the
Second Priority Senior Secured Notes Indenture and all other Second
Priority Documents governing Future Second Lien Indebtedness, (ii)
add other parties holding Obligations arising under the Other First
Priority Lien Obligations Credit Documents (or any agent or trustee
thereof) to the extent such Obligations are not prohibited by the
Credit Agreement, the Other First Priority Lien Obligations Credit
Documents, the Second Priority Senior Secured Notes Indenture and
all other Second Priority Documents governing Future Second Lien
Indebtedness, (iii) in the case of Future Second Lien Indebtedness,
(a) establish that the Lien on the Common Collateral securing such
Future Second Lien Indebtedness shall be junior and subordinate in
all respects to all Liens on the Common Collateral securing any
Senior Lender Claims and shall share in the benefits of the Common
Collateral equally and ratably with all Liens on the Common
Collateral securing any Second Priority Claims, except to the
extent otherwise agreed to by the holders of such Future Second
Lien Indebtedness, and (b) provide to the holders of such Future
Second Lien Indebtedness (or any agent or trustee thereof) the
comparable rights and benefits (including any improved rights and
benefits that have been consented to by the First Lien Agents) as
are provided to the holders of Second Priority Claims under this
Agreement prior to the incurrence of such Future Second Lien
Indebtedness, and (iv) in the case of Obligations arising under
Other First Priority Lien Obligations Credit Documents, (a)
establish that the Lien on the Common Collateral securing such
Obligations shall be superior in all respects to all Liens on the
Common Collateral securing any Second Priority Claims and any
Future Second Lien Indebtedness and shall share in the benefits of
the Common Collateral equally and ratably with all Liens on the
Common Collateral securing any other Senior Lender Claims, except
to the extent otherwise agreed to by the holders of such
Obligations arising under Other First Priority Lien Obligations
Credit Documents, and (b) provide to the holders of such
Obligations arising under the Other First Priority Lien Obligations
Credit Documents (or any agent or trustee thereof) the comparable
rights and benefits as are provided to the holders of Senior Lender
Claims under this Agreement prior to the incurrence of such
Obligations. Any such additional party, each First Lien Agent and
each Second Priority Agent shall be entitled to rely on the
determination of officers of the Borrower that such joinders and/or
modifications do not violate the Credit Agreement, the Other First
Priority Lien Obligations Credit Documents, the Second Priority
Senior Secured Notes Indenture and each other Second Priority
Document governing Future Second Lien Indebtedness, if such
determination is set forth in an officer’s certificate
delivered to such party, the First Lien Agents and each Second
Priority Agent. For the avoidance of doubt, the Second Priority
Collateral Agent shall have no obligation to monitor or ensure
compliance with this Section 8.22.
8.23
Additional Guarantors. The
Borrower agrees that if any Subsidiary shall become a Grantor after
the date hereof, it will promptly cause such Subsidiary to execute
and deliver an Acknowledgement of the Intercreditor Agreement
substantially in the form attached hereto. The execution and
delivery of such acknowledgement shall not require the consent of
any other party hereunder.
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IN
WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have executed this Agreement as
of the date first written above.
HSBC BANK CANADA,
as First Lien Agent
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Acknowledgement of Intercreditor Agreement
The
Borrower and each other Grantor have read the foregoing Agreement
and consent thereto. The Borrower and each other Grantor agree not
to take any action that would be contrary to the provisions of the
foregoing Agreement and agree that, except as otherwise provided
therein, including with respect to those provisions of which the
Borrower and each Grantor are intended third party beneficiaries,
no Second Priority Agent, First Lien Agent, Senior Lender or Second
Priority Secured Party shall have any liability to the Borrower or
any Grantor for acting in accordance with the provisions of the
foregoing Agreement. The Borrower and each Grantor understand that
they are not intended beneficiaries or third party beneficiaries of
the foregoing Agreement.
Notwithstanding
anything to the contrary in the foregoing Agreement or provided
herein, each of the undersigned and each party to the foregoing
Agreement agree, on behalf of itself and in its capacity as agent
under the foregoing Agreement, that the (i) Borrower and the other
Grantors shall not have any right to consent to or approve any
amendment, modification or waiver of any provision of the foregoing
Agreement except to the extent their rights or obligations are
adversely affected (in which case the Borrower shall have the right
to consent to or approve any such amendment, modification or
waiver) and (ii) upon the Borrower’s request in connection
with a designation of additional obligations as Other First
Priority Lien Obligations or Future Second Lien Indebtedness, any
First Lien Agent and/or any Second Priority Agent shall enter into
such supplemental agreements (which may each take the form of an
amendment, an amendment and restatement or a supplement of the
foregoing Agreement) to facilitate the designation of such
additional obligations as contemplated by Section 8.21 of the
foregoing Agreement as the Borrower may request.
Without
limitation of the foregoing, the undersigned agree, at the
Borrower’s expense, to take such further action and to
execute and deliver such additional documents and instruments (in
recordable form, if requested) as any of the Borrower, the Trustee
or any other First Lien Agent or Second Priority Agent may
reasonably request to effectuate the terms of the foregoing
Agreement.
For the
purposes hereof, the address of the Borrower and each other Grantor
shall be as set forth in the schedules to the Credit
Agreement.
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ELDORADO GOLD CORPORATION
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as Credit Agreement Agent
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EXHIBIT I
[FORM
OF] JOINDER NO. [ ] dated
as of [ ],
20[ ] to the INTERCREDITOR AGREEMENT dated as of [
], 2019 (the “Intercreditor
Agreement”), among HSBC BANK, CANADA, as Credit
Agreement Agent, in its capacity as First Lien Agent, (in such
capacity the “Credit
Agreement Agent”), each Other First Priority Lien
Obligations Agent from time to time party hereto, each in its
capacity as First Lien Agent, COMPUTERSHARE TRUST COMPANY OF
CANADA, in its capacity as Trustee and Second Priority Collateral
Agent and each collateral agent for any Future Second Lien
Indebtedness from time to time party hereto, each in its capacity
as Second Priority Agent.
A.
Capitalized terms used herein but not otherwise defined herein
shall have the meanings assigned to such terms in the Intercreditor
Agreement.
B.
As a condition to the ability of the Borrower to incur Other First
Priority Lien Obligations and to secure such Other First Priority
Lien Obligations with the liens and security interests created by
the Other First Priority Lien Obligations Security Documents, the
Other First Priority Lien Obligations Agent with respect of such
Other First Priority Lien Obligations are required to become a
First Lien Agent, and such Other First Priority Lien Obligations is
required to become subject to and bound by the Intercreditor
Agreement. Section 8.21 of the Intercreditor Agreement provides
that such Other First Priority Lien Obligations Agent may become a
First Lien Agent, and such Other First Priority Lien Obligations
may become subject to and bound by the Intercreditor Agreement,
upon the execution and delivery of an instrument in the form of
this Joinder Agreement and the satisfaction of the other conditions
set forth in Section 8.21 of the Intercreditor Agreement. The
undersigned additional Other First Priority Lien Obligations Agent
(the “New
Representative”) is executing this Joinder Agreement
in accordance with the requirements of the Intercreditor Agreement
and the Senior Lender Documents.
Accordingly,
the undersigned agree as follows:
SECTION
1. In accordance with
Sections 8.3 and 8.21 of the Intercreditor Agreement, the New
Representative by its signature below becomes a First Lien Agent
under, and the related Other First Priority Lien Obligations
becomes subject to and bound by, the Intercreditor Agreement with
the same force and effect as if the New Representative had
originally been named therein as a First Lien Agent and the New
Representative, on its behalf and on behalf of holders of such
Other First Priority Lien Obligations, hereby agrees to all the
applicable terms and provisions of the Intercreditor Agreement.
Each reference to a “First Lien Agent” in the
Intercreditor Agreement shall be deemed to include the New
Representative. The Intercreditor Agreement is hereby incorporated
herein by reference.
SECTION
2. The New Representative
represents and warrants to the First Priority Designated Agent,
each First Lien Agent, the Second Priority Designated Agent and
each Second Priority Agent, individually, that (i) it has full
power and authority to enter into this Joinder Agreement, in its
capacity as [agent] [trustee] under [describe new facility], (ii)
this Joinder Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and
delivered by it and constitutes its legal, valid and binding
obligation, enforceable against it in accordance with its terms,
and (iii) the Other First Priority Lien Obligations Security
Documents relating to such Other First Priority Lien Obligations
provide that, upon the New Representative’s entry into this
Joinder Agreement, holders of such Other First Priority Lien
Obligations will be subject to and bound by the provisions of the
Intercreditor Agreement.
SECTION
3. This Joinder may be
executed in counterparts, each of which shall constitute an
original, but all of which when taken together shall constitute a
single contract. Delivery of an executed signature page to this
Joinder by facsimile or other electronic transmission shall be as
effective as delivery of a manually signed counterpart of this
Joinder.
SECTION
4. Except as
expressly supplemented hereby, the Intercreditor Agreement shall
remain in full force and effect.
SECTION
5. THIS JOINDER
SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF
THE PROVINCE OF ONTARIO.
SECTION
6. In case any one
or more of the provisions contained in this Joinder should be held
invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any respect, no party hereto
shall be required to comply with such provision for so long as such
provision is held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, but the
validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions
contained herein and in the Intercreditor Agreement shall not in
any way be affected or impaired. The parties hereto shall endeavor
in good-faith negotiations to replace the invalid, illegal or
unenforceable provisions with valid provisions the economic effect
of which comes as close as possible to that of the invalid, illegal
or unenforceable provisions.
SECTION
7. All communications and
notices hereunder shall be in writing and given as provided in
Section 8.8 of the Intercreditor Agreement. All communications and
notices hereunder to the New Representative shall be given to it at
its address set forth below its signature hereto.
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IN
WITNESS WHEREOF, the New Representative has duly executed this
Joinder to the Intercreditor Agreement as of the day and year first
above written.
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OF NEW REPRESENTATIVE], as
[ ]
for the holders of
[ ],
By:
_________________________
Name:
Title:
Address
for notices:
_________________________
_________________________
attention of:
_________________________
Telecopy:
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Acknowledged
by:
[ ],
as
First
Priority Designated Agent
By:_________________________
Name:
Title:
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EXHIBIT II19
[FORM
OF] JOINDER NO. [ ] dated
as of [ ],
20[ ] to the INTERCREDITOR AGREEMENT dated as of [
], 2019 (the “Intercreditor
Agreement”), among HSBC BANK CANADA, as Credit
Agreement Agent, in its capacity as First Lien Agent, (in such
capacity the “Credit
Agreement Agent”), each Other First Priority Lien
Obligations Agent from time to time party hereto, each in its
capacity as First Lien Agent, COMPUTERSHARE TRUST COMPANY OF
CANADA, in its capacity as Trustee and Second Priority Collateral
Agent and each collateral agent for any Future Second Lien
Indebtedness from time to time party hereto, each in its capacity
as Second Priority Agent.
A.
Capitalized terms used herein but not otherwise defined herein
shall have the meanings assigned to such terms in the Intercreditor
Agreement.
B.
As a condition to the ability of the Borrower to incur Future
Second Lien Indebtedness and to secure such Future Second Lien
Indebtedness with the liens and security interests created by the
related Second Priority Documents, the collateral agent with
respect of such Future Second Lien Indebtedness is required to
become a Second Priority Agent, and such Future Second Lien
Indebtedness is required to become subject to and bound by the
Intercreditor Agreement. Section 8.21 of the Intercreditor
Agreement provides that such collateral agent may become a Second
Priority Agent, and such Future Second Lien Indebtedness may become
subject to and bound by the Intercreditor Agreement, upon the
execution and delivery of an instrument in the form of this Joinder
Agreement and the satisfaction of the other conditions set forth in
Section 8.21 of the Intercreditor Agreement. The undersigned
collateral agent (the “New Representative”) is
executing this Joinder Agreement in accordance with the
requirements of the Intercreditor Agreement and the Second Priority
Documents.
Accordingly,
the undersigned agree as follows:
SECTION
1. In accordance with
Sections 8.3 and 8.21 of the Intercreditor Agreement, the New
Representative by its signature below becomes a Second Priority
Agent under, and the related Future Second Lien Indebtedness
becomes subject to and bound by, the Intercreditor Agreement with
the same force and effect as if the New Representative had
originally been named therein as a Second Priority Agent and the
New Representative, on its behalf and on behalf of holders of such
Future Second Lien Indebtedness, hereby agrees to all the
applicable terms and provisions of the Intercreditor Agreement.
Each reference to a “Second Priority Agent” in
the Intercreditor Agreement shall be deemed to include the New
Representative. The Intercreditor Agreement is hereby incorporated
herein by reference.
SECTION
2. The New Representative
represents and warrants to the First Priority Designated Agent,
each First Lien Agent, the Second Priority Designated Agent and
each Second Priority Agent, individually, that (i) it has full
power and authority to enter into this Joinder Agreement, in its
capacity as [agent] [trustee] under [describe new facility], (ii)
this Joinder Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and
delivered by it and constitutes its legal, valid and binding
obligation, enforceable against it in accordance with its terms,
and (iii) the Second Priority Documents relating to such Future
Second Lien Indebtedness provide that, upon the New
Representative’s entry into this Joinder Agreement, holders
of such Future Second Lien Indebtedness will be subject to and
bound by the provisions of the Intercreditor
Agreement.
19 To be updated in connection with an issuance of
additional notes under the Second Priority Senior Secured Notes
Indenture
SECTION
3. This Joinder may
be executed in counterparts, each of which shall constitute an
original, but all of which when taken together shall constitute a
single contract. Delivery of an executed signature page to this
Joinder by facsimile or other electronic transmission shall be as
effective as delivery of a manually signed counterpart of this
Joinder.
SECTION
4.
Except as expressly supplemented hereby, the Intercreditor
Agreement shall remain in full force and effect.
SECTION
5.
THIS JOINDER SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE
WITH, THE LAWS OF THE PROVINCE OF ONTARIO.
SECTION
6. In
case any one or more of the provisions contained in this Joinder
should be held invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any respect, no
party hereto shall be required to comply with such provision for so
long as such provision is held to be invalid, illegal or
unenforceable, but the validity, legality and enforceability of the
remaining provisions contained herein and in the Intercreditor
Agreement shall not in any way be affected or impaired. The parties
hereto shall endeavor in good-faith negotiations to replace the
invalid, illegal or unenforceable provisions with valid provisions
the economic effect of which comes as close as possible to that of
the invalid, illegal or unenforceable provisions.
SECTION
7. All
communications and notices hereunder shall be in writing and given
as provided in Section 8.8 of the Intercreditor Agreement. All
communications and notices hereunder to the New Representative
shall be given to it at its address set forth below its signature
hereto.
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IN
WITNESS WHEREOF, the New Representative has duly executed this
Joinder to the Intercreditor Agreement as of the day and year first
above written.
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[NAME
OF NEW REPRESENTATIVE], as
[ ]
for the holders of
[ ],
By:
_________________________
Name:
Title:
Address
for notices:
_________________________
_________________________
attention of:
_________________________
Telecopy:
_________________________
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Acknowledged
by:
[ ],
as
First
Priority Designated Agent
By:_________________________
Name:
Title:
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SCHEDULE 1.1(a)
REVOLVING CREDIT
COMMITMENTS / TERM LOANS20 / ADDITIONAL LC
CREDIT
Lender
|
Revolving
Credit Commitments
|
Term
Loans
|
Additional
LC Credit
|
|
|
|
|
HSBC
Bank Canada
|
$64,250,000
|
$23,071,541.66
|
€64,000,000
|
Bank of
Montreal
|
$51,250,000
|
$18,487,791.66
|
Nil
|
National
Bank of Canada
|
$51,250,000
|
$18,487,791.66
|
Nil
|
BNP
Paribas
|
$27,750,000
|
$13,598,458.34
|
Nil
|
Export
Development Canada
|
$27,750,000
|
$13,598,458.34
|
Nil
|
Bank of
America, N.A., Canada Branch
|
$27,750,000
|
$13,598,458.34
|
Nil
|
Investissement
Québec
|
Nil
|
$21,390,833.34
|
Nil
|
Total
|
$250,000,000
|
$122,233,333.34
|
€64,000,000
|
SCHEDULE 1.1(b)
INITIAL SECURITY DOCUMENTS
1.
The Dutch law deed
of pledge of shares dated October 12, 2011 among the Borrower, SG
Resources, and Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce
(“CIBC”, the
predecessor to the Administrative Agent).
2.
The Dutch law
second ranking deed of pledge of shares dated November 26, 2012
among Borrower, SG Resources, and the Administrative
Agent.
3.
The Dutch law deed
of transfer and pledge agreement dated November 26, 2012 among the
Borrower, CIBC (the predecessor to the Administrative Agent), the
Administrative Agent and SG Resources.
4.
The Turkish Share
Pledge Agreement.
SCHEDULE 1.1(c)
BVCO SECURITY DOCUMENTS
1.
The Dutch law deed
of transfer of contract and pledge of future shares dated June 26,
2013 among the Borrower, BVCo, SG Resources, and the Administrative
Agent.
BVCO (GREECE) SECURITY DOCUMENTS
2.
A deed of pledge of
registered shares Eldorado Gold (Greece) B.V. to be entered into
between Eldorado Gold (Netherlands) B.V. as Security Provider, HSBC
Bank Canada as Security Agent and Eldorado Gold (Greece) B.V. as
the Company, expressed to be governed by the laws of The
Netherlands.
SCHEDULE 1.1(d)
EXISTING PERMITTED LIENS
1.
Liens securing the
following royalties:
A.
Pursuant to the
Lamaque Option Agreement, the Lamaque South Property is subject to
a 1% NSR (Net Smelter Royalty) in favor of Osisko Gold
Royalties;
B.
Pursuant to Roc
d’Or East Extension Option Agreement, the Roc d’Or East
Extension Property is subject to a 2% NSR (Net Smelter Royalty) for
the benefit of Sandstorm Gold, one-half of which (1%) may be
purchased by Eldorado Gold (Quebec) Inc. for
$1,000,000;
C.
Pursuant to the
Xxxxxx Property Option Agreement, the Xxxxxx Property is subject to
a 3% GMR (Gross Metal Royalty) in favor of Globex Mining
Enterprises INC. of which one third (1%) can be purchased by
Eldorado Gold (Quebec) Inc. for $750,000 at any time on or before
the date that is five years after the option exercise;
and
D.
Pursuant to the
MacGregor Option Agreement, the MacGregor Property is subject to a
2% NSR (Net Smelter Royalty), 0.6% of which is payable to Xxxx
Xxxxxx, 0.6% of which is payable to Les Explorations Carat, and the
remaining 0.8% to Xxxxxx Xxxxx. One-half (1%) of this NSR may be
purchased for $500,000.
2.
Cash collateral
pledged to the Fédération des caisses Xxxxxxxxxx du
Québec in the aggregate amount of $1,841,327 to secure
obligations of Eldorado Gold (Quebec) Inc. in respect of the
Lamaque reclamation bonds.
SCHEDULE 1.1(e)
TRANSFERRED LETTERS OF CREDIT
1.
The letter of
guarantee dated May 8, 2012, number PEBHCV213194 in the amount of
€55,000,000 issued by HSBC Bank Canada;
2.
The letter of
guarantee dated June 13, 2017, number PEBHTI712017 in the amount of
€8,250,000 issued by HSBC Bank Canada.
3.
The letter of
guarantee dated October 21, 2014, number PEBHTI325138 in the amount
of €162,277.32 issued by HSBC Bank Canada.
SCHEDULE 3.1(3)
EXCEPTION TO REPRESENTATION 3.1(3) –
GOVERNMENTAL APPROVALS; NO CONFLICTS
Nil.
SCHEDULE 3.1(5)
EXCEPTION TO REPRESENTATION 3.1(3) - LITIGATION
Efemcukuru
On
April 24, 2013, certain parties filed litigation against the
Environmental Certificate for Efemçukuru issued in December
2012 by the Ministry of Environment and Urban Planning for the
expansion of the mine from 250 ktpa to 600 ktpa. The case was heard
by the 1st Administrative Court in Izmir. A request for an
immediate injunction was rejected by the court and the appeal of
this decision was rejected by the Izmir District Appeals Court.
Tüprag was accepted as a co-defendant next to the Ministry of
Environment and Urban Planning. The court formed an expert
committee to review the 600 ktpa Environmental Certificate. On
April 16, 2015, the court made a negative decision in the case
based on comments in the expert report.
The
Ministry of Environment and Urban Planning together with
Tüprag as co-defendant appealed the decision to the 14th
Department of the Council of State in Ankara with a petition for an
immediate injunction of the Izmir Administrative Court decision and
a cancellation of the decision. In addition, Tüprag applied to
and received on November 17, 2015 from the Ministry of Environment
and Urban Planning a revised 600 ktpa EIA taking into consideration
comments in the decision of the 1st Administrative
Court.
On
February 25, 2016 the Council of State overturned the April 16,
2015 decision of the Izmir Administrative Court and sent the file
back to the Izmir Court for reconsideration. The cancellation
decision of the Council of State re-instated the first 600 ktpa EIA
and Efemçukuru continues to operate under these conditions.
The Izmir Administrative Court accepted the decision of the Council
of State and formed a new expert committee. The new expert
committee gave an expert report which was positive to the
Environmental Certificate for the expansion of the mine and on
October 25, 2017 the Izmir Administrative Court made a positive
decision in the case affirming such Environmental Certificate. The
plaintiffs appealed this decision to the Council of State, which on
May 24, 2018 cancelled the decision 1st Administrative court
because of an incomplete expert report. The case has returned to
the 1st Administrative court of Izmir, which has instructed the
experts to prepare a supplementary report to form the basis of a
new decision. On March 8, 2019, the experts visited the site and
collected samples of soil, water, tailings, and waste rock. The
experts will submit a supplementary report based on the results of
the samples to the court to form the basis of a new
decision.
On
December 15, 2015, certain third parties filed litigation against
the revised 600 ktpa EIA issued on November 17, 2015, seeking to
cancel the EIA. The cases were heard at the 6th Administrative
Court of Izmir and Tüprag was accepted as a co-defendant next
to the Ministry of Environment and Urban Planning.
In May
2016, the 6th Administrative Court of Izmir canceled the revised
EIA on the basis of the February 25, 2016 decision of the Council
of State to overturn the April 16, 2015 Izmir First Administrative
Court decision. The court reasoned that two EIAs cannot be in place
at the same time and that the conditions for the revision no longer
existed following the overturn of the Izmir’s First
Administrative Court decision by the Council of State. These
decisions were appealed to the Council of State. The Council of
State ruled in favour of the defendants cancelling the 6th
Administrative Court Decisions on the basis that the 6th
Administrative Court could not make a decision on the essence of
the case until the original EIA case (being heard at the Izmir 1st
Department) was finalized, and referred the matter back to the 6th
Administrative Court for reconsideration. On November 15, 2017, the
6th Administrative Court reversed its original decisions, thereby
upholding the Revised EIA. The plaintiffs appealed this
Administrative Court decisions to the Council of State, which on
May 24, 2018 cancelled the decisions of the 6th Administrative
court in coordination with the decision taken on the Expansion EIA
case at the 1st Administrative court of Izmir. The cases have
returned to the 6th Administrative court of Izmir, and both the
6th
Administrative Court of Izmir and 1st Administrative
Court of Izmir rejected the cases upon the site and expert
examination conducted in the Expansion EIA case. The plaintiffs
appealed the decisions of the Administrative Courts to the Council
of State. The Council of State ruled that there is no need for
rendering a decision in Expansion EIA case by declaring the
non-effectiveness of the Expansion EIA since it cannot coexist with
the Revised EIA Approval Decision. Therefore, the Expansion EIA
litigation has concluded.
There
are currently two active cases related to the Revised EIA, both of
which are with the Izmir Administrative Court. In both cases, the
plaintiffs seek the cancellation of the Revised EIA. While the
cases are proceeding, the Council of State has ruled that the
Revised EIA is in force. The court appointed a team of experts to
submit a report in the case. On 16 October 2020, the team of
experts and presiding judge visited the site, both underground and
surface. The expert team submitted its report in January 2020,
which is in favour of Tüprag. We anticipate a decision within
Q1 2021; however, there is no time limit within which the court
must provide its decision.
ll Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxx
The
litigation below affects all of the Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxx.
Litigation regarding the technical authorization of the Madem
Lakkos metallurgical plant and the Madem Lakkos flotation
plant
In
April 2015, the MOE returned the technical files submitted by
Hellas Gold for the metallurgy plant at Madem Lakkos and the new
flotation plant at Madem Lakkos and did not to grant approval.
Hellas Gold immediately filed lawsuits against the MOE decision,
and the Council of State (“COS” or “Court”)
issued decisions 3191/2015 and 221/2016 which held illegal
MOE’s return of the technical files. The COS has remanded
both cases back to MOE to comply with the judgments and issue the
permits. On November 9, 2017 Hellas Gold applied to the COS seeking
an order that the MOE comply Judgment No. 221/2016 regarding the
new flotation plant at Madem Lakkos. Upon this request, the COS
issued ruling 11/2018, obliging the MOE to comply and the technical
permit for the new flotation plant was finally granted in August
2018.
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Following
COS decision 3191/2015, Hellas Gold requested the MOE comply and
issue the technical permit for the planned metallurgical plant at
Madem Lakkos in the Stratoni Valley. However, on July 5, 2016, the
MOE returned for correction and resubmission the technical study to
Hellas Gold. On September 9, 2016 a repeal of the July 5, 2016
return was requested from MOE. On November 2, 2016 the MOE affirmed
the earlier return of the related permit. On December 28, 2016
Hellas Gold filed petition before the COS for the annulment of both
decisions of the MOE refusing to approve the technical study for
the metallurgy plant at Madem Lakkos. A hearing date had been
initially scheduled for March 21, 2018 and was subsequently
rescheduled by the Court for December 5, 2018, and then rescheduled
for February 6, 2019 and May 15, 2019. The case was finally heard
by the Court on May 15, 2019. On February 12, 2020 the Court issued
its decision 223/2020, which partially accepted Hellas Gold’s
petition on most of the grounds of its appeal. However, on two
grounds: (1) recovery rate of copper, gold and silver, and (2) the
handling of off-gases, the Court considered the data inadequate and
it ruled that Hellas Gold should update the Technical Study on
those two points in cooperation with the MOE, and re- submit it to
the MOE for approval. However, given that the metallurgy process
has been excluded from the new Investment Plan, and the commitment
to the Greek Government is to re-examine it along with other
alternatives in the next two years, Eldorado decided to postpone
the update of the initial technical study for the flash smelting
until the final decision is made on the metallurgical method to be
applied.
Installation permit
On
November 10, 2017 third parties initiated an Application for
Annulment before the COS to cancel an amended installation permit
pertaining to the Kokkinolakkas Disposal Facility and an operating
permit pertaining to the flotation plant, both in respect of the
Olympias project, granted by the MOE to Hellas Gold. The oral
hearing of the case before the COS has been scheduled for November
3, 2021.
Skouries
On
March 20, 2017, Hellas Gold applied to the MOE for a one year
extension to a permit for the installation of E/M equipment at the
Skouries Auxiliary Facilities and Support Infrastructure project,
however, the MOE failed to issue a decision on or grant such
extension within the required 3-month period from the time the
application was made, which failure constituted a deemed denial of
the application. Accordingly, on November 3, 2017, Hellas Gold
appealed to the COS seeking a decision that the deemed denial by
MOE be annulled. The oral hearing of the case before the COS was
scheduled initially for March 21, 2018 and then rescheduled by the
Court for December 5, 2018. The case was consequently rescheduled
and heard by the court on February 6, 2019. Relevant pleadings were
submitted on February 13, 2019 and Court decision 1531/2019 was
issued which accepted Hellas Gold’s appeal. The MOE issued
the relevant approvals and the case was concluded.
On
April 12, 2017 Hellas Gold applied to the MOE for a supplementary
amending permit for the installation of E/M equipment at the
Skouries Flotation Plant project, however the MOE failed to issue a
decision on or grant such extension within the required 3-month
period from the time the application was made, which failure
constituted a deemed denial of the application. Accordingly, on
November 9, 2017, Hellas Gold appealed to the COS seeking a
decision that the deemed denial by MOE be annulled. The oral
hearing of the case before the COS was scheduled initially for
March 21, 2018 and then rescheduled by the Court for December 5,
2018. The case was consequently rescheduled and heard by the court
on February 6, 2019 and Court decision 1532/2019 was issued on the
case, which accepted Hellas Gold’s appeal. The MOE issued the
relevant approvals and the case was concluded
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On
April 19, 2017 Hellas Gold applied to the MOE for a two-year
extension to a permit for the installation of E/M equipment at the
Skouries Flotation Plant project, however the MOE failed to issue a
decision on or grant such extension within the required 3-month
period from the time the application was made, which failure
constituted a deemed denial of the application. Accordingly, on
November 9, 2017, Hellas Gold appealed to the COS seeking a
decision that the deemed denial by MOE be annulled. The oral
hearing of the case before the COS has been scheduled initially for
March 21, 2018 and then rescheduled by the Court for December 5,
2018. The case was consequently rescheduled and heard by the court
on February 6, 2019. Court decision 1533/2019 was issued on the
case which accepted Hellas Gold appeal. Given the abovementioned
decision of the MOE, which approved the supplementary amending
permit for the installation of electromechanical equipment at the
Skouries Flotation Plant project, the MOE did not issue a decision
on this case as the respective application of Hellas Gold became
redundant. Eldorado considers this case completed.
In the
third quarter of 2018, Hellas Gold filed an application for payment
with the Greek State requesting payment of approximately €750
million for damages suffered arising from delays in the issuance of
permits for the Skouries project. In the fourth quarter of 2018,
Hellas Gold then filed a Supplemental Application for Payment with
the Greek State, to provide the Greek State with further detail on
each delay that the Company incurred and to supplement its claims
amounts to approximately €850 million. The Supplemental
Application for Payment is a non-judicial request for payment and
does not initiate legal proceedings. The recently-signed Amended
Investment Agreement includes a provision settling all previous
claims. Once the Agreement comes into force, which is expected in
Q1 2021, this claim will be concluded.
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SCHEDULE 3.1(13)
SUBSIDIARIES
(a) Material
Subsidiaries
Tüprag
Metal Madencilik Sanayi ve Ticaret AS
(“Tüprag”)
SG
Resources B.V. (“SG Resources”)
Eldorado
Gold (Netherlands) B.V. (“BV Co”)
Eldorado
Gold Greece B.V. (“Greece BV”)
Eldorado
Gold (BC) Corp. (“Eldorado BC”)
Frontier
Pacific Mining Corporation (“Frontier”)
Eldorado
Gold Cooperatief U.A. (“Eldorado Coop”)
Hellas
Gold Single-Member S.A. (“Hellas”)
Eldorado
Gold (Quebec) Inc. (British Columbia) (“Eldorado
Quebec”)
Tüprag Metal
(i)
Legal name – Tüprag Metal
Madencilik Sanayi ve Ticaret A.Ş.
(ii)
Form of legal entity and jurisdiction of
formation – Company / Turkey
(iii)
Issued
and outstanding Equity Securities of each class of such Subsidiary
Guarantor, the registered and beneficial owners thereof and the
percentage thereto owned by each such owner.
-
Issued shares:
10,423,257 shares
-
Authorised shares:
10,423,257 shares
-
SG Resources B.V.
is the registered and beneficial owner of 100% of the issued
shares.
SG Resources
(i)
Legal name – SG Resources
B.V.
(ii)
Form of legal entity and jurisdiction of
formation – Private limited liability company /
Netherlands
(iii)
Issued
and outstanding Equity Securities of each class of such Subsidiary
Guarantor, the registered and beneficial owners thereof and the
percentage thereto owned by each such owner.
-
Issued shares:
1,417,133 shares (par value of 1 USD per share)
-
Authorised shares:
not applicable
-
Eldorado Gold
(Netherlands) B.V. is the registered and beneficial owner of 100%
of the issued shares.
BVCo
(i)
Legal name – Eldorado Gold
(Netherlands) B.V.
(ii)
Form of legal entity and jurisdiction of
formation – Private limited liability company /
Netherlands
(iii)
Issued
and outstanding Equity Securities of each class of such Subsidiary
Guarantor, the registered and beneficial owners thereof and the
percentage thereto owned by each such owner.
-
Issued shares:
449,925,908 shares (par value of USD 0.22 per share)
-
Authorised shares:
not applicable
-
Eldorado Gold
Cooperatief U.A. is the registered and beneficial owner of 100% of
the issued shares.
Greece BV
(i)
Legal name – Eldorado Gold Greece
B.V.
(ii)
Form of legal entity and jurisdiction of
formation – Private limited liability company /
Netherlands
(iii)
Issued
and outstanding Equity Securities of each class of such Subsidiary
Guarantor, the registered and beneficial owners thereof and the
percentage thereto owned by each such owner.
-
Issued shares:
18,100 (par value of USD 1.00 per share)
-
Authorised shares:
not applicable
-
Eldorado Gold
Netherlands B.V. is the registered and beneficial owner of 100% of
the issued shares.
Eldorado BC
(i)
Legal name – Eldorado Gold (BC)
Corp.
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(ii)
Form of legal entity and jurisdiction of
formation – Private company / British
Columbia
(iii)
Issued
and outstanding Equity Securities of each class of such Subsidiary
Guarantor, the registered and beneficial owners thereof and the
percentage thereto owned by each such owner.
-
Issued shares:
100,211 common shares (without par value)
-
Authorised shares:
Unlimited number of common shares
-
Eldorado Gold
Corporation is the registered and beneficial owner of 100% of the
issued common shares.
Frontier
(i)
Legal name – Frontier Pacific
Mining Corporation
(ii)
Form of legal entity and jurisdiction of
formation – Private company / British
Columbia
(iii)
Issued
and outstanding Equity Securities of each class of such Subsidiary
Guarantor, the registered and beneficial owners thereof and the
percentage thereto owned by each such owner.
-
Issued shares: 600
common shares (without par value)
-
Authorised shares:
Unlimited number of common shares
-
Eldorado Gold (BC)
Corp. is the registered and beneficial owner of 100% of the issued
common shares.
Eldorado Coop
Legal name – Eldorado Gold Cooperatief
U.A.
(ii)
Form of legal entity and jurisdiction of
formation – Cooperatief / Netherlands
(iii)
Issued
and outstanding Equity Securities of each class of such Subsidiary
Guarantor, the registered and beneficial owners thereof and the
percentage thereto owned by each such owner.
-
Issued shares: not
applicable
-
Authorised shares:
not applicable
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-
Frontier Pacific
Mining Corporation holds voting rights relative to its
members’ account of USD$146,063,732.00. Eldorado Gold
Holdings (BC) Ltd. holds voting rights relative to its
members’ account of USD$1.00 as a nominee
member.
Hellas
Legal name – Hellas Gold Single-Member
S.A.
(ii)
Form of legal entity and jurisdiction of
formation – Private limited liability company /
Greece
(iii)
Issued
and outstanding Equity Securities of each class of such Subsidiary
Guarantor, the registered and beneficial owners thereof and the
percentage thereto owned by each such owner.
-
Issued shares:
€ 27,747,340 divided into 2,774,734 ordinary registered
shares with nominal value of 10 Euros each
-
Authorised shares:
not applicable
-
Eldorado Gold
(Greece) B.V. is the registered and beneficial owner of all
outstanding ordinary registered shares
Eldorado Quebec
(i)
Legal name – Eldorado Gold
(Quebec) Inc.
(ii)
Form of legal entity and jurisdiction of
formation – Private corporation / British
Columbia
(iii)
Issued
and outstanding Equity Securities of each class of such Subsidiary
Guarantor, the registered and beneficial owners thereof and the
percentage thereto owned by each such owner.
-
Issued shares:
15,000,125 common shares (without par value)
-
Authorised shares:
Unlimited number of common shares
-
Eldorado Gold
Corporation is the registered and beneficial owner of 100% of the
issued common shares.
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(b)
Subsidiary Guarantors
See
above information under (a) for each of the following:
Tüprag
Metal Madencilik Sanayi ve Ticaret AS
SG
Resources B.V.
Eldorado
Gold (Netherlands) B.V.
Eldorado
Gold Greece B.V.
Eldorado
Gold (Quebec) Inc.
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(c)
Eldorado Gold Corporation Corporate Organization Chart
.
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SCHEDULE 3.1(17)
ENVIRONMENTAL MATTERS
Please
see Schedule 3.1(5).
SCHEDULE 3.1(22)
LIMITED SUBSIDIARIES
Nil.
SCHEDULE 3.1(27)
SECURITY
Description of Security Document
|
|
Filing Jurisdiction
|
Canada
|
||
General
Security Agreement by Eldorado Gold Corporation, Integra Gold
Corp., and Integra Gold (Québec) Inc. (now Eldorado Gold
(Quebec) Inc.) in favour of the Administrative Agent
|
|
British
Columbia
|
Deed of
Hypothec by Integra Gold Corp. and Integra Gold (Québec) Inc.
(now Eldorado Gold (Quebec) Inc. in favour of the Administrative
Agent
|
|
Québec
|
Netherlands
|
|
|
Dutch
law Security Confirmation Agreement between Eldorado Gold
(Netherlands) B.V. as Security Provider and the Administrative
Agent
|
|
No
filings required
|
Dutch
law Deed of Pledge of Shares of Eldorado Gold (Greece) B.V. by
Eldorado Gold (Netherlands) B.V. in favour of the Administrative
Agent
|
|
No
filings required
|
Turkey
|
|
|
Turkish
law Confirmation with respect to the existing guarantee by
Tüprag Metal which is acknowledged by the Administrative
Agent
|
|
The
Ministry of Treasury and Finance of the Republic of
Turkey
|
Turkish
law Confirmation with respect to the existing pledge by SG
Resources B.V. which is acknowledged by the Administrative
Agent
|
|
No
filings required
|
SCHEDULE 6.1(1)
EXISTING INDEBTEDNESS
Nil.
SCHEDULE 9.1
LENDER AND ISSUING BANK CONTACT INFORMATION
Lender
|
Contact
Information
|
HSBC
Bank Canada
|
HSBC
Bank Canada
000
Xxxx Xxxxxxx Xx., 0xx Xxxxx
Xxxxxxxxx,
XX
X0X
0X0
Xxxxxx
Attention: Xxxx
Xxxxxxx
Email:
xxxxxxx.x.xxxxxx@xxxx.xx
|
HSBC
Bank USA, N.A.
|
HSBC
Bank USA, National Association
000
Xxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx
Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx
00000
Attention:
Xxxx Xxxxxxx
Fax:
(000) 000-0000
Email:
xxxx.xxxxxxx@xx.xxxx.xxx
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Bank of
America, N.A, Canada Branch
|
Bank of
America, N.A., Canada Branch
000 Xxx
Xxxxxx, 0xx Xxxxx
Xxxxxxx,
Xxxxxxx
X0X
0X0
Xxxxxx
Attention:
Xxxx Xxxxxx
Fax:
(000) 000 0000
Email:
xxxx.xxxxxx@xxxx.xxx
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BNP
Paribas
|
BNP
Paribas
00,
Xxxxx xx Xxxxxx Xxxxx Xxxxxx
00000
Xxxxx
Xxxxxx
Attention: Xxxxxx
Xxxxxx & Xxxxxxx Xxxxx
Email:
xxxxxx.xxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx
xxxxxxx.xxxxx@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx
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Lender
|
Contact
Information
|
National Bank of Canada |
National
Bank of Canada
000
Xxxx Xxxxxx Xxxx, Xxxxx 0000
Xxxxxxx,
Xxxxxxx
X0X
0X0
Attention:
Xxxxx Xxxxxxx
Email:
xxxxx.xxxxxxx@xxx.xx
Fax: (000) 000 0000
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Bank of
Montreal
|
Bank of
Montreal
BMO
Capital Markets
000
Xxxx Xx. Xxxx, 0xx Xxxxx
Xxxxxxx,
XX X0X 0X0
Attention:
Xxxxx Xxxxxxxx
Email:
xxxxx.xxxxxxxx@xxx.xxx
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Investissement
Québec
|
Investissement
Québec
000 xx
xx Xxxxxxxxxxx Xxxx, Xxxxx 0000
Xxxxxxxx,
Xxxxxx,
X0X
0X0
Attention :
Corporate Secretary
Fax :
000 000-0000
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Export
Development Canada
|
Export
Development Canada
000
Xxxxxx
Xxxxxx,
Xxxxxxx
Xxxxxx
X0X 0X0
Attention:
Xxxx Xxxxx
Email:
xxxxxxx@xxx.xx
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