280,000,000 CREDIT FACILITY CREDIT AGREEMENT Dated as of October 4, 2011 by and among METROPOLITAN HEALTH NETWORKS, INC., as the Borrower, THE OTHER PERSONS PARTY HERETO THAT ARE DESIGNATED AS CREDIT PARTIES, GENERAL ELECTRIC CAPITAL CORPORATION for...
Exhibit 10.1
Execution Version
$280,000,000 CREDIT FACILITY
Dated as of October 4, 2011
by and among
METROPOLITAN HEALTH NETWORKS, INC.,
as the Borrower,
THE OTHER PERSONS PARTY HERETO THAT ARE
DESIGNATED AS CREDIT PARTIES,
GENERAL ELECTRIC CAPITAL CORPORATION
for itself, as a Lender and Swingline Lender and as Agent for all Lenders,
THE OTHER FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS PARTY HERETO
as Lenders,
and
GE CAPITAL MARKETS, INC.,
as Joint Lead Arranger and Joint Bookrunner
and
SUNTRUST XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX, INC.,
as Joint Lead Arranger and Joint Bookrunner
and
SUNTRUST BANK,
as Syndication Agent
and
Fifth Third Bank,
as Documentation Agent
TABLE OF CONTENTS
ARTICLE I - THE CREDITS |
2 | |||||
1.1 |
Amounts and Terms of Commitments | 2 | ||||
1.2 |
Notes | 7 | ||||
1.3 |
Interest | 7 | ||||
1.4 |
Loan Accounts | 8 | ||||
1.5 |
Procedure for Borrowing | 9 | ||||
1.6 |
Conversion and Continuation Elections | 10 | ||||
1.7 |
Optional Prepayments | 11 | ||||
1.8 |
Mandatory Prepayments of Loans and Commitment Reductions | 12 | ||||
1.9 |
Fees | 15 | ||||
1.10 |
Payments by the Borrower | 16 | ||||
1.11 |
Payments by the Lenders to Agent; Settlement | 17 | ||||
1.12 |
Incremental Commitments | 21 | ||||
ARTICLE II - CONDITIONS PRECEDENT |
24 | |||||
2.1 |
Conditions of Initial Loans | 24 | ||||
2.2 |
Conditions to All Borrowings | 26 | ||||
ARTICLE III - REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES |
27 | |||||
3.1 |
Corporate Existence and Power | 27 | ||||
3.2 |
Corporate Authorization; No Contravention | 28 | ||||
3.3 |
Governmental Authorization | 28 | ||||
3.4 |
Binding Effect | 28 | ||||
3.5 |
Litigation | 28 | ||||
3.6 |
No Default | 29 | ||||
3.7 |
ERISA Compliance | 29 | ||||
3.8 |
Use of Proceeds; Margin Regulations | 29 | ||||
3.9 |
Title to Properties | 29 | ||||
3.10 |
Taxes | 30 | ||||
3.11 |
Financial Condition | 30 | ||||
3.12 |
Environmental Matters | 32 | ||||
3.13 |
Regulated Entities | 32 | ||||
3.14 |
Solvency | 32 | ||||
3.15 |
Labor Relations | 33 | ||||
3.16 |
Intellectual Property | 33 | ||||
3.17 |
Brokers’ Fees; Transaction Fees | 33 | ||||
3.18 |
Insurance | 33 | ||||
3.19 |
Ventures, Subsidiaries and Affiliates; Outstanding Stock | 33 | ||||
3.20 |
Jurisdiction of Organization; Chief Executive Office | 34 | ||||
3.21 |
Deposit Accounts and Other Accounts | 34 | ||||
3.22 |
Merger Agreement | 34 | ||||
3.23 |
Second Lien Term Loan Documents | 34 | ||||
3.24 |
Full Disclosure | 35 |
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3.25 |
Foreign Assets Control Regulations and Anti-Money Laundering. | 35 | ||||
3.26 |
Patriot Act. | 35 | ||||
3.27 |
Health Care Matters | 35 | ||||
3.28 |
Senior Debt | 38 | ||||
ARTICLE IV - AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS |
39 | |||||
4.1 |
Financial Statements | 39 | ||||
4.2 |
Certificates; Other Information | 39 | ||||
4.3 |
Notices | 41 | ||||
4.4 |
Preservation of Corporate Existence, Etc. | 44 | ||||
4.5 |
Maintenance of Property | 45 | ||||
4.6 |
Insurance | 45 | ||||
4.7 |
Payment of Obligations | 46 | ||||
4.8 |
Compliance with Laws | 46 | ||||
4.9 |
Inspection of Property and Books and Records | 46 | ||||
4.10 |
Use of Proceeds | 47 | ||||
4.11 |
Cash Management Systems | 47 | ||||
4.12 |
Landlord Agreements | 48 | ||||
4.13 |
Further Assurances | 48 | ||||
4.14 |
Environmental Matters | 50 | ||||
4.15 |
Interest Rate Protection | 50 | ||||
4.16 |
Credit Rating | 51 | ||||
4.17 |
Compliance with Health Care Laws | 51 | ||||
4.18 |
Post-Closing Deliveries and Requirements | 52 | ||||
ARTICLE V - NEGATIVE COVENANTS |
52 | |||||
5.1 |
Limitation on Liens | 52 | ||||
5.2 |
Disposition of Assets | 54 | ||||
5.3 |
Consolidations and Mergers | 55 | ||||
5.4 |
Loans and Investments | 55 | ||||
5.5 |
Limitation on Indebtedness | 57 | ||||
5.6 |
Transactions with Affiliates | 58 | ||||
5.7 |
Management Fees and Compensation | 58 | ||||
5.8 |
Use of Proceeds | 58 | ||||
5.9 |
Contingent Obligations | 58 | ||||
5.10 |
Compliance with ERISA | 59 | ||||
5.11 |
Restricted Payments | 59 | ||||
5.12 |
Change in Business | 60 | ||||
5.13 |
Change in Structure | 61 | ||||
5.14 |
Changes in Accounting, Name and Jurisdiction of Organization | 61 | ||||
5.15 |
Amendments to Related Agreements and Subordinated Indebtedness | 61 | ||||
5.16 |
No Negative Pledges | 61 | ||||
5.17 |
OFAC; Patriot Act | 62 | ||||
5.18 |
Sale-Leasebacks | 62 | ||||
5.19 |
Hazardous Materials | 62 |
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ARTICLE VI - FINANCIAL COVENANTS |
63 | |||||
6.1 |
Capital Expenditures | 63 | ||||
6.2 |
Leverage Ratios | 63 | ||||
6.3 |
Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio | 64 | ||||
ARTICLE VII - EVENTS OF DEFAULT |
65 | |||||
7.1 |
Event of Default | 65 | ||||
7.2 |
Remedies | 67 | ||||
7.3 |
Rights Not Exclusive | 68 | ||||
7.4 |
Cash Collateral for Letters of Credit | 68 | ||||
ARTICLE VIII - AGENT |
68 | |||||
8.1 |
Appointment and Duties | 68 | ||||
8.2 |
Binding Effect | 69 | ||||
8.3 |
Use of Discretion | 70 | ||||
8.4 |
Delegation of Rights and Duties | 70 | ||||
8.5 |
Reliance and Liability | 70 | ||||
8.6 |
Agent Individually | 72 | ||||
8.7 |
Lender Credit Decision | 72 | ||||
8.8 |
Expenses; Indemnities | 73 | ||||
8.9 |
Resignation of Agent or L/C Issuer | 74 | ||||
8.10 |
Release of Collateral or Guarantors | 75 | ||||
8.11 |
Additional Secured Parties | 76 | ||||
ARTICLE IX - MISCELLANEOUS |
76 | |||||
9.1 |
Amendments and Waivers | 76 | ||||
9.2 |
Notices | 78 | ||||
9.3 |
Electronic Transmissions | 79 | ||||
9.4 |
No Waiver; Cumulative Remedies | 80 | ||||
9.5 |
Costs and Expenses | 80 | ||||
9.6 |
Indemnity | 81 | ||||
9.7 |
Marshaling; Payments Set Aside | 82 | ||||
9.8 |
Successors and Assigns | 82 | ||||
9.9 |
Assignments and Participations; Binding Effect | 83 | ||||
9.10 |
Non-Public Information; Confidentiality | 86 | ||||
9.11 |
Set-off; Sharing of Payments | 87 | ||||
9.12 |
Counterparts; Facsimile Signature | 88 | ||||
9.13 |
Severability | 89 | ||||
9.14 |
Captions | 89 | ||||
9.15 |
Independence of Provisions | 89 | ||||
9.16 |
Interpretation | 89 | ||||
9.17 |
No Third Parties Benefited | 89 | ||||
9.18 |
Governing Law and Jurisdiction | 89 | ||||
9.19 |
Waiver of Jury Trial | 90 | ||||
9.20 |
Entire Agreement; Release; Survival | 90 | ||||
9.21 |
Patriot Act | 91 | ||||
9.22 |
Replacement of Lender | 91 |
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9.23 |
Joint and Several | 92 | ||||
9.24 |
Creditor-Debtor Relationship | 92 | ||||
9.25 |
Disclosures, Consents, Etc. | 92 | ||||
ARTICLE X - TAXES, YIELD PROTECTION AND ILLEGALITY |
92 | |||||
10.1 |
Taxes | 92 | ||||
10.2 |
Illegality | 95 | ||||
10.3 |
Increased Costs and Reduction of Return | 95 | ||||
10.4 |
Funding Losses | 97 | ||||
10.5 |
Inability to Determine Rates | 97 | ||||
10.6 |
Reserves on LIBOR Rate Loans | 98 | ||||
10.7 |
Certificates of Lenders | 98 | ||||
ARTICLE XI - DEFINITIONS |
98 | |||||
11.1 |
Defined Terms | 98 | ||||
11.2 |
Other Interpretive Provisions | 127 | ||||
11.3 |
Accounting Terms and Principles | 128 | ||||
11.4 |
Payments | 128 |
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SCHEDULES
Schedule 2.1(c) |
Estimated Cost Savings | |
Schedule 3.5 |
Litigation | |
Schedule 3.7 |
ERISA | |
Schedule 3.8 |
Margin Stock | |
Schedule 3.9 |
Real Estate | |
Schedule 3.10 |
Taxes | |
Schedule 3.12 |
Environmental | |
Schedule 3.15 |
Labor Relations | |
Schedule 3.17 |
Brokers’ and Transaction Fees | |
Schedule 3.19 |
Ventures, Subsidiaries and Affiliates; Outstanding Stock | |
Schedule 3.20 |
Jurisdiction of Organization; Chief Executive Office | |
Schedule 3.21 |
Deposit Accounts and Other Accounts | |
Schedule 3.27 |
Health Care Matters | |
Schedule 4.12 |
Landlord Agreements | |
Schedule 4.18 |
Post-Closing Deliveries and Requirements | |
Schedule 5.1 |
Liens | |
Schedule 5.1(t) |
Joint Ventures | |
Schedule 5.4 |
Investments | |
Schedule 5.5 |
Indebtedness | |
Schedule 5.9 |
Contingent Obligations | |
Schedule 5.11 |
Restricted Payments | |
Schedule 5.16 |
Negative Pledges | |
Schedule 11.1 |
Prior Indebtedness |
EXHIBITS
Exhibit 1.1(c) |
Form of L/C Request | |
Exhibit 1.1(d) |
Form of Swing Loan Request | |
Exhibit 1.6 |
Form of Notice of Conversion/Continuation | |
Exhibit 1.8(e) |
Form of Excess Cash Flow Certificate | |
Exhibit 2.1 |
Closing Checklist | |
Exhibit 4.2(b) |
Form of Compliance Certificate | |
Exhibit 11.1(a) |
Form of Assignment | |
Exhibit 11.1(c) |
Form of Notice of Borrowing | |
Exhibit 11.1(d) |
Form of Revolving Note | |
Exhibit 11.1(e) |
Form of Swingline Note | |
Exhibit 11.1(f) |
Form of Term Note | |
Exhibit 11.1(g) |
Investment Policy |
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This CREDIT AGREEMENT (including all exhibits and schedules hereto, as the same may be amended, modified and/or restated from time to time, this “Agreement”) is entered into as of October 4, 2011, by and among Metropolitan Health Networks, Inc., a Florida corporation (the “Borrower”), the other Persons party hereto that are designated as a “Credit Party”, General Electric Capital Corporation, a Delaware corporation (in its individual capacity, “GE Capital”), as Agent for the several financial institutions from time to time party to this Agreement (collectively, the “Lenders” and individually each a “Lender”) and for itself as a Lender (including as Swingline Lender) and such Lenders.
W I T N E S S E T H:
WHEREAS, Borrower, CAB Merger Sub, Inc., a Florida corporation (“MergerCo”), and Continucare Corporation, a Florida Corporation (the “Seller”), have entered into that certain Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of June 26, 2011 (as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time in accordance with the provisions hereof and thereof, the “Merger Agreement”), pursuant to which MergerCo will be merged with and into the Seller, with the Seller being the surviving corporation and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Borrower (the “Closing Date Merger”);
WHEREAS, the Borrower has requested, and the Lenders have agreed to make available to the Borrower, a revolving credit facility (including a letter of credit subfacility) and a term loan upon and subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement to (a) fund a portion of the Closing Date Merger consideration pursuant to the terms of the Merger Agreement, (b) refinance Prior Indebtedness, (c) fund certain fees and expenses associated with the funding of the Loans and consummation of the Closing Date Merger and (d) in the case of the revolving credit facility, provide for working capital, capital expenditures and other general corporate purposes of the Borrower;
WHEREAS, the Borrower desires to secure all of its Obligations under the Loan Documents by granting to Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, a security interest in and lien upon substantially all of its Property;
WHEREAS, subject to the terms hereof, certain Subsidiaries of the Borrower are willing to guarantee all of the Obligations of the Borrower and to grant to Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, a security interest in and lien upon substantially all of its Property;
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NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual agreements, provisions and covenants contained herein, the parties hereto agree as follows:
ARTICLE I -
THE CREDITS
1.1 Amounts and Terms of Commitments.
(a) The Term Loan. Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement and in reliance upon the representations and warranties of the Credit Parties contained herein, each Lender with a Term Loan Commitment severally and not jointly agrees to lend to the Borrower on the Closing Date, the amount of such Lender’s Term Loan Commitment. Amounts borrowed under this subsection 1.1(a) are sometimes referred to individually as a “Term Loan” and together as the “Term Loans”. Unless the context shall otherwise require, the term “Term Loans” shall include any Incremental Term Loan. Amounts borrowed as a Term Loan which are repaid or prepaid may not be reborrowed.
(b) The Revolving Credit. Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement and in reliance upon the representations and warranties of the Credit Parties contained herein, each Revolving Lender severally and not jointly agrees to make Loans to the Borrower (each such Loan, a “Revolving Loan”) from time to time on any Business Day during the period from the Closing Date through the Final Availability Date, in an aggregate amount not to exceed at any time outstanding the amount of such Lender’s Revolving Loan Commitment; provided, however, that, after giving effect to any Borrowing of Revolving Loans, the aggregate principal amount of all outstanding Revolving Loans shall not exceed the Maximum Revolving Loan Balance. Subject to the other terms and conditions hereof, amounts borrowed under this subsection 1.1(b) may be repaid and reborrowed from time to time. The “Maximum Revolving Loan Balance” from time to time will be the Aggregate Revolving Loan Commitment then in effect less the sum of (i) the aggregate amount of Letter of Credit Obligations plus (ii) the aggregate principal amount of outstanding Swing Loans. If at any time the then outstanding principal balance of Revolving Loans exceeds the Maximum Revolving Loan Balance, then the Borrower shall immediately prepay outstanding Revolving Loans in an amount sufficient to eliminate such excess.
(c) Letters of Credit. i) Conditions. On the terms and subject to the conditions contained herein, the Borrower may request that one or more L/C Issuers Issue, in accordance with such L/C Issuers’ usual and customary business practices, and for the account of the Credit Parties, Letters of Credit (denominated in Dollars) from time to time on any Business Day during the period from the Closing Date through the earlier of (x) the Final Availability Date and (y) seven (7) days prior to the date specified in clause (a) of the definition of Revolving Termination Date; provided, however, that no L/C Issuer shall Issue any Letter of Credit upon the occurrence of any of the following or, if after giving effect to such Issuance:
(A) (i) Availability would be less than zero, or (ii) the Letter of Credit Obligations for all Letters of Credit would exceed $15,000,000 (the “L/C Sublimit”);
(B) the expiration date of such Letter of Credit (i) is not a Business Day, (ii) is more than one year after the date of issuance thereof or (iii) is later than seven (7) days prior to the date specified in clause (a) of the definition of Revolving Termination Date; provided, however, that any Letter of Credit with a term not exceeding one year may provide for its renewal for additional periods not exceeding one year as long as (x) each of the Borrower and such L/C Issuer have the option to prevent such renewal before the expiration of such term or any such period and (y) neither such L/C Issuer nor the Borrower shall permit any such renewal to extend such expiration date beyond the date set forth in clause (iii) above; or
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(C) (i) any fee due in connection with, and on or prior to, such Issuance has not been paid, (ii) such Letter of Credit is requested to be issued in a form that is not acceptable to such L/C Issuer or (iii) such L/C Issuer shall not have received, each in form and substance reasonably acceptable to it and duly executed by the Borrower, the documents that such L/C Issuer generally uses in the Ordinary Course of Business for the Issuance of letters of credit of the type of such Letter of Credit (collectively, the “L/C Reimbursement Agreement”).
Furthermore, GE Capital as an L/C Issuer may elect only to issue Letters of Credit in its own name and may only issue Letters of Credit to the extent permitted by Requirements of Law, and such Letters of Credit may not be accepted by certain beneficiaries such as insurance companies.
For each Issuance, the applicable L/C Issuer may, but shall not be required to, determine that, or take notice whether, the conditions precedent set forth in Section 2.2 have been satisfied or waived in connection with the Issuance of any Letter of Credit; provided, however, that no Letters of Credit shall be Issued during the period starting on the first Business Day after the receipt by such L/C Issuer of notice from Agent or the Required Revolving Lenders that any condition precedent contained in Section 2.2 is not satisfied and ending on the date all such conditions are satisfied or duly waived.
Notwithstanding anything else to the contrary herein, if any Lender is a Non-Funding Lender or Impacted Lender, no L/C Issuer shall be obligated to Issue any Letter of Credit unless (w) the Non-Funding Lender or Impacted Lender has been replaced in accordance with Section 9.9 or 9.22, (x) the Letter of Credit Obligations of such Non-Funding Lender or Impacted Lender have been cash collateralized, (y) the Revolving Loan Commitments of the other Lenders have been increased by an amount sufficient to satisfy Agent that all future Letter of Credit Obligations will be covered by all Revolving Lenders that are not Non-Funding Lenders or Impacted Lenders, or (z) the Letter of Credit Obligations of such Non-Funding Lender or Impacted Lender have been reallocated to other Revolving Lenders in a manner consistent with subsection 1.11(e)(ii).
(ii) Notice of Issuance. The Borrower shall give the relevant L/C Issuer and Agent a notice of any requested Issuance of any Letter of Credit, which shall be effective only if received by such L/C Issuer and Agent not later than 2:00 p.m. (New York time) on the third Business Day prior to the date of such requested Issuance. Such notice shall be made in a writing or Electronic Transmission substantially in the form of Exhibit 1.1(c) duly completed or in a writing in any other form acceptable to such L/C Issuer (an “L/C Request”).
(iii) Reporting Obligations of L/C Issuers. Each L/C Issuer agrees to provide Agent, in form and substance satisfactory to Agent, each of the following on the following dates: (A) (i) on or prior to any Issuance of any Letter of Credit by such L/C Issuer, (ii) immediately after any drawing under any such Letter of Credit or (iii) immediately after any payment (or failure to pay when due) by the Borrower of any related L/C Reimbursement Obligation, notice thereof, which shall contain a reasonably detailed description of such Issuance, drawing or payment and Agent shall provide copies of such notices to each Revolving Lender reasonably promptly after receipt thereof; (B) upon the request of Agent (or any Revolving Lender through Agent), copies of any Letter
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of Credit Issued by such L/C Issuer and any related L/C Reimbursement Agreement and such other documents and information as may reasonably be requested by Agent; and (C) on the first Business Day of each calendar week, a schedule of the Letters of Credit Issued by such L/C Issuer, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Agent, setting forth the Letter of Credit Obligations for such Letters of Credit outstanding on the last Business Day of the previous calendar week.
(iv) Acquisition of Participations. Upon any Issuance of a Letter of Credit in accordance with the terms of this Agreement resulting in any increase in the Letter of Credit Obligations, each Revolving Lender shall be deemed to have acquired, without recourse or warranty, an undivided interest and participation in such Letter of Credit and the related Letter of Credit Obligations in an amount equal to its Commitment Percentage of such Letter of Credit Obligations.
(v) Reimbursement Obligations of the Borrower. The Borrower agrees to pay to the L/C Issuer of any Letter of Credit, or to Agent for the benefit of such L/C Issuer, each L/C Reimbursement Obligation owing with respect to such Letter of Credit no later than the first Business Day after the Borrower receives notice from such L/C Issuer or from Agent that payment has been made under such Letter of Credit or that such L/C Reimbursement Obligation is otherwise due (the “L/C Reimbursement Date”) with interest thereon computed as set forth in clause (A) below. In the event that any L/C Reimbursement Obligation is not repaid by the Borrower as provided in this clause (v) (or any such payment by the Borrower is rescinded or set aside for any reason), such L/C Issuer shall promptly notify Agent of such failure (and, upon receipt of such notice, Agent shall notify each Revolving Lender) and, irrespective of whether such notice is given, such L/C Reimbursement Obligation shall be payable on demand by the Borrower with interest thereon computed (A) from the date on which such L/C Reimbursement Obligation arose to the L/C Reimbursement Date, at the interest rate applicable during such period to Revolving Loans that are Base Rate Loans and (B) thereafter until payment in full, at the interest rate specified in subsection 1.3(c) to past due Revolving Loans that are Base Rate Loans (regardless of whether or not an election is made under such subsection).
(vi) Reimbursement Obligations of the Revolving Lenders.
(1) Upon receipt of the notice described in clause (v) above from Agent, each Revolving Lender shall pay to Agent for the account of such L/C Issuer its Commitment Percentage of such Letter of Credit Obligations (as such amount may be increased pursuant to subsection 1.11(e)(ii)).
(2) By making any payment described in clause (1) above (other than during the continuation of an Event of Default under subsection 7.1(f) or 7.1(g)), such Lender shall be deemed to have made a Revolving Loan to the Borrower, which, upon receipt thereof by the Agent for the benefit of such L/C Issuer, the Borrower shall be deemed to have used in whole to repay such L/C Reimbursement Obligation. Any such payment that is not deemed a Revolving Loan shall be deemed a funding by such Lender of its participation in the applicable Letter of Credit and the Letter of Credit Obligation in
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respect of the related L/C Reimbursement Obligations. Such participation shall not otherwise be required to be funded. Following receipt by any L/C Issuer of any payment from any Lender pursuant to this clause (vi) with respect to any portion of any L/C Reimbursement Obligation, such L/C Issuer shall promptly pay to the Agent, for the benefit of such Lender, all amounts received by such L/C Issuer (or to the extent such amounts shall have been received by the Agent for the benefit of such L/C Issuer, the Agent shall promptly pay to such Lender all amounts received by the Agent for the benefit of such L/C Issuer) with respect to such portion.
(vii) Obligations Absolute. The obligations of the Borrower and the Revolving Lenders pursuant to clauses (iv), (v) and (vi) above shall be absolute, unconditional and irrevocable and performed strictly in accordance with the terms of this Agreement irrespective of (A) (i) the invalidity or unenforceability of any term or provision in any Letter of Credit, any document transferring or purporting to transfer a Letter of Credit, any Loan Document (including the sufficiency of any such instrument), or any modification to any provision of any of the foregoing, (ii) any document presented under a Letter of Credit being forged, fraudulent, invalid, insufficient or inaccurate in any respect or failing to comply with the terms of such Letter of Credit or (iii) any loss or delay, including in the transmission of any document, (B) the existence of any setoff, claim, abatement, recoupment, defense or other right that any Person (including any Credit Party) may have against the beneficiary of any Letter of Credit or any other Person, whether in connection with any Loan Document or any other Contractual Obligation or transaction, or the existence of any other withholding, abatement or reduction, (C) in the case of the obligations of any Revolving Lender, (i) the failure of any condition precedent set forth in Section 2.2 to be satisfied (each of which conditions precedent the Revolving Lenders hereby irrevocably waive) or (ii) any adverse change in the condition (financial or otherwise) of any Credit Party and (D) any other act or omission to act or delay of any kind of Agent, any Lender or any other Person or any other event or circumstance whatsoever, whether or not similar to any of the foregoing, that might, but for the provisions of this clause (vii), constitute a legal or equitable discharge of any obligation of the Borrower or any Revolving Lender hereunder. No provision hereof shall be deemed to waive or limit the Borrower’s right to seek repayment of any payment of any L/C Reimbursement Obligations from the L/C Issuer under the terms of the applicable L/C Reimbursement Agreement or applicable law.
(d) Swing Loans. (i) Availability. Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement and in reliance upon the representations and warranties of the Credit Parties contained herein, the Swingline Lender may, in its sole discretion, make Loans (each a “Swing Loan”) available to the Borrower under the Revolving Loan Commitments from time to time on any Business Day during the period from the Closing Date through the Final Availability Date in an aggregate principal amount at any time outstanding not to exceed its Swingline Commitment; provided, however, that the Swingline Lender may not make any Swing Loan (x) to the extent that after giving effect to such Swing Loan, the aggregate principal amount of all Revolving Loans would exceed the Maximum Revolving Loan Balance and (y) during the period commencing on the first Business Day after it receives notice from Agent or the Required Revolving Lenders that one or more of the conditions precedent contained in Section 2.2 are not satisfied and ending when such conditions are satisfied or duly waived. In connection with the
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making of any Swing Loan, the Swingline Lender may but shall not be required to determine that, or take notice whether, the conditions precedent set forth in Section 2.2 have been satisfied or waived. Each Swing Loan shall be a Base Rate Loan and must be repaid as provided herein, but in any event must be repaid in full on the Revolving Termination Date. Within the limits set forth in the first sentence of this clause (i), amounts of Swing Loans repaid may be reborrowed under this clause (i).
(ii) Borrowing Procedures. In order to request a Swing Loan, the Borrower shall give to Agent a notice to be received not later than 2:00 p.m. (New York time) on the day of the proposed Borrowing, which shall be made in a writing or in an Electronic Transmission substantially in the form of Exhibit 1.1(d) or in a writing in any other form acceptable to Agent duly completed (a “Swingline Request”). In addition, if any Notice of Borrowing of Revolving Loans requests a Borrowing of Base Rate Loans, the Swingline Lender may, notwithstanding anything else to the contrary herein, make a Swing Loan to the Borrower in an aggregate amount not to exceed such proposed Borrowing, and the aggregate amount of the corresponding proposed Borrowing shall be reduced accordingly by the principal amount of such Swing Loan. Agent shall promptly notify the Swingline Lender of the details of the requested Swing Loan. Upon receipt of such notice and subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Swingline Lender may make a Swing Loan available to the Borrower by making the proceeds thereof available to Agent and, in turn, Agent shall make such proceeds available to the Borrower on the date set forth in the relevant Swingline Request or Notice of Borrowing.
(iii) Refinancing Swing Loans.
(1) The Swingline Lender may at any time (and shall no less frequently than once each week) forward a demand to Agent (which Agent shall, upon receipt, forward to each Revolving Lender) that each Revolving Lender pay to Agent, for the account of the Swingline Lender, such Revolving Lender’s Commitment Percentage of the outstanding Swing Loans (as such amount may be increased pursuant to subsection 1.11(e)(ii)).
(2) Each Revolving Lender shall pay the amount owing by it to Agent for the account of the Swingline Lender on the Business Day following receipt of the notice or demand therefor. Payments received by Agent after 1:00 p.m. (New York time) may, in Agent’s discretion, be deemed to be received on the next Business Day. Upon receipt by Agent of such payment (other than during the continuation of any Event of Default under subsection 7.1(f) or 7.1(g)), such Revolving Lender shall be deemed to have made a Revolving Loan to the Borrower, which, upon receipt of such payment by the Swingline Lender from Agent, the Borrower shall be deemed to have used in whole to refinance such Swing Loan. In addition, regardless of whether any such demand is made, upon the occurrence of any Event of Default under subsection 7.1(f) or 7.1(g), each Revolving Lender shall be deemed to have acquired, without recourse or warranty, an undivided interest and participation in each Swing Loan in an amount equal to such Lender’s Commitment Percentage of such Swing Loan. If any payment made by any Revolving Lender as a result of any such demand is not deemed a Revolving Loan, such payment shall be deemed a funding by such Lender of such participation. Such
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participation shall not be otherwise required to be funded. Upon receipt by the Swingline Lender of any payment from any Revolving Lender pursuant to this clause (iii) with respect to any portion of any Swing Loan, the Swingline Lender shall promptly pay over to such Revolving Lender all payments of principal (to the extent received after such payment by such Lender) and interest (to the extent accrued with respect to periods after such payment) on account of such Swing Loan received by the Swingline Lender with respect to such portion.
(iv) Obligation to Fund Absolute. Each Revolving Lender’s obligations pursuant to clause (iii) above 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, including (A) the existence of any setoff, claim, abatement, recoupment, defense or other right that such Lender, any Affiliate thereof or any other Person may have against the Swingline Lender, Agent, any other Lender or L/C Issuer or any other Person, (B) the failure of any condition precedent set forth in Section 2.2 to be satisfied or the failure of the Borrower to deliver a Notice of Borrowing (each of which requirements the Revolving Lenders hereby irrevocably waive) and (C) any adverse change in the condition (financial or otherwise) of any Credit Party.
(e) Incremental Term Loan Commitments. On the terms and subject to the conditions contained in this Agreement and in the applicable Incremental Term Loan Assumption Agreement, each Lender having an Incremental Term Loan Commitment severally, but not jointly, agrees to make Incremental Term Loans to the Borrower, in an amount not to exceed such Lender’s Incremental Term Loan Commitment. Amounts of Incremental Term Loans repaid may not be reborrowed.
1.2 Notes.
(a) The Term Loan made by each Lender with a Term Loan Commitment shall be evidenced by this Agreement and, if requested by such Lender, a Term Note payable to such Lender in an amount equal to the unpaid balance of the Term Loan held by such Lender.
(b) The Revolving Loans made by each Revolving Lender shall be evidenced by this Agreement and, if requested by such Lender, a Revolving Note payable to such Lender in an amount equal to such Lender’s Revolving Loan Commitment.
(c) Swing Loans made by the Swingline Lender shall be evidenced by this Agreement and, if requested by such Lender, a Swingline Note in an amount equal to the Swingline Commitment.
1.3 Interest.
(a) Subject to subsections 1.3(c) and 1.3(d), each Loan (which for purposes of this Section shall not include Letter of Credit Obligations which are subject to Section 1.9(c)) shall bear interest on the outstanding principal amount thereof from the date when made at a rate per annum equal to the LIBOR or the Base Rate, as the case may be, plus the Applicable Margin; provided Swing Loans may not be LIBOR Rate Loans. Each determination of an interest rate by
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Agent shall be conclusive and binding on Borrower and the Lenders in the absence of manifest error. All computations of fees and interest payable under this Agreement shall be made on the basis of a 360-day year and actual days elapsed; provided, however, that, in the case of Base Rate Loans, computations of interest shall be made on the basis of a 365/366-day year. Interest and fees shall accrue during each period during which interest or such fees are computed from the first day thereof to the last day thereof.
(b) Interest on each Loan shall be paid in arrears on each Interest Payment Date. Interest shall also be paid on the date of any payment or prepayment of Term Loans in full and Revolving Loans on the Revolving Termination Date.
(c) At the election of the Required Lenders while any Event of Default exists (or, unless waived by Required Lenders, automatically while any Event of Default under subsections 7.1(a), 7.1(f) or 7.1(g) exists), the Borrower shall pay interest (after as well as before entry of judgment thereon to the extent permitted by law) on the Loans from and after the date of occurrence of such Event of Default, at a rate per annum which is determined by adding two percent (2.0%) per annum to the Applicable Margin then in effect for such Loans (plus the LIBOR or Base Rate, as the case may be). All such interest shall be payable on demand of Agent or the Required Lenders.
(d) Anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding, the obligations of the Borrower hereunder shall be subject to the limitation that payments of interest shall not be required, for any period for which interest is computed hereunder, to the extent (but only to the extent) that contracting for or receiving such payment by the respective Lender would be contrary to the provisions of any law applicable to such Lender limiting the highest rate of interest which may be lawfully contracted for, charged or received by such Lender, and in such event the Borrower shall pay such Lender interest at the highest rate permitted by applicable law (“Maximum Lawful Rate”); provided, however, that if at any time thereafter the rate of interest payable hereunder is less than the Maximum Lawful Rate, the Borrower shall continue to pay interest hereunder at the Maximum Lawful Rate until such time as the total interest received by Agent, on behalf of Lenders, is equal to the total interest that would have been received had the interest payable hereunder been (but for the operation of this paragraph) the interest rate payable since the Closing Date as otherwise provided in this Agreement.
1.4 Loan Accounts.
(a) Agent, on behalf of the Lenders, shall record on its books and records the amount of each Loan made, the interest rate applicable, all payments of principal and interest thereon and the principal balance thereof from time to time outstanding. Agent shall deliver to the Borrower on a monthly basis a loan statement setting forth such record for the immediately preceding calendar month. Such record shall, absent manifest error, be conclusive evidence of the amount of the Loans made by the Lenders to the Borrower and the interest and payments thereon. Any failure to so record or any error in doing so, or any failure to deliver such loan statement shall not, however, limit or otherwise affect the obligation of the Borrower hereunder (and under any Note) to pay any amount owing with respect to the Loans or provide the basis for any claim against Agent.
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(b) Agent, acting as a non-fiduciary agent of the Borrower solely for tax purposes and solely with respect to the actions described in this subsection 1.4(b), shall establish and maintain at its address referred to in Section 9.2 (or at such other address as Agent may notify the Borrower) (A) a record of ownership (the “Register”) in which Agent agrees to register by book entry the interests (including any rights to receive payment hereunder) of Agent, each Lender and each L/C Issuer in the Term Loans, Revolving Loans, Swing Loans, L/C Reimbursement Obligations and Letter of Credit Obligations, each of their obligations under this Agreement to participate in each Loan, Letter of Credit, Letter of Credit Obligations and L/C Reimbursement Obligations, and any assignment of any such interest, obligation or right and (B) accounts in the Register in accordance with its usual practice in which it shall record (1) the names and addresses of the Lenders and the L/C Issuers (and each change thereto pursuant to Sections 9.9 and 9.22), (2) the Commitments of each Lender, (3) the amount of each Loan and each funding of any participation described in clause (A) above, and for LIBOR Rate Loans, the Interest Period applicable thereto, (4) the amount of any principal or interest due and payable or paid, (5) the amount of the L/C Reimbursement Obligations due and payable or paid in respect of Letters of Credit and (6) any other payment received by Agent from Borrower and its application to the Obligations.
(c) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, the Loans (including any Notes evidencing such Loans and, in the case of Revolving Loans, the corresponding obligations to participate in Letter of Credit Obligations and Swing Loans) and the L/C Reimbursement Obligations are registered obligations, and the right, title and interest of the Lenders and the L/C Issuers and their assignees in and to such Loans or L/C Reimbursement Obligations, as the case may be, shall be transferable only upon notation of such transfer in the Register and no assignment thereof shall be effective until recorded therein. This Section 1.4 and Section 9.9 shall be construed so that the Loans and L/C Reimbursement Obligations are at all times maintained in “registered form” within the meaning of Sections 163(f), 871(h)(2) and 881(c)(2) of the Code.
(d) The Credit Parties, Agent, the Lenders and the L/C Issuers shall treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Register as a Lender or L/C Issuer, as applicable, for all purposes of this Agreement. Information contained in the Register with respect to any Lender or any L/C Issuer shall be available for access by the Borrower, Agent, such Lender or such L/C Issuer during normal business hours and from time to time upon at least one Business Day’s prior notice. No Lender or L/C Issuer shall, in such capacity, have access to or be otherwise permitted to review any information in the Register other than information with respect to such Lender or L/C Issuer unless otherwise agreed by the Agent.
1.5 Procedure for Borrowing.
(a) The Borrowing of the Term Loan on the Closing Date and each Borrowing of a Revolving Loan shall be made upon the Borrower’s irrevocable (subject to Section 10.5) written notice delivered to Agent substantially in the form of a Notice of Borrowing or in a writing in any other form acceptable to Agent, which notice must be received by Agent prior to 2:00 p.m. (New York time) (i) on the date which is one (1) Business Day prior to the requested Borrowing date of each Base Rate Loan and (ii) on the date which is three (3) Business Days prior to the requested Borrowing date in the case of each LIBOR Rate Loan. Such Notice of Borrowing shall specify:
(i) the amount of the Borrowing (which shall be in integral multiples of $100,000);
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(ii) the requested Borrowing date, which shall be a Business Day;
(iii) whether the Borrowing is to be comprised of LIBOR Rate Loans or Base Rate Loans; and
(iv) if the Borrowing is to be LIBOR Rate Loans, the Interest Period applicable to such Loans.
(b) Upon receipt of a Notice of Borrowing, Agent will promptly notify each Lender of such Notice of Borrowing and of the amount of such Lender’s Commitment Percentage of the Borrowing.
(c) Unless Agent is otherwise directed in writing by the Borrower, the proceeds of each requested Borrowing after the Closing Date will be made available to the Borrower by Agent by wire transfer of such amount to the Borrower pursuant to the wire transfer instructions specified on the signature page hereto.
1.6 Conversion and Continuation Elections.
(a) The Borrower shall have the option to (i) request that any Revolving Loan be made as a LIBOR Rate Loan, (ii) convert at any time all or any part of outstanding Loans (other than Swing Loans) from Base Rate Loans to LIBOR Rate Loans, (iii) convert any LIBOR Rate Loan to a Base Rate Loan, subject to Section 10.4 if such conversion is made prior to the expiration of the Interest Period applicable thereto, or (iv) continue all or any portion of any Loan as a LIBOR Rate Loan upon the expiration of the applicable Interest Period. Any Loan or group of Loans having the same proposed Interest Period to be made or continued as, or converted into, a LIBOR Rate Loan must be in a minimum amount of $1,000,000. Any such election must be made by the Borrower by 2:00 p.m. (New York time) on the 3rd Business Day prior to (1) the date of any proposed Revolving Loan which is to bear interest at LIBOR, (2) the end of each Interest Period with respect to any LIBOR Rate Loans to be continued as such, or (3) the date on which the Borrower wishes to convert any Base Rate Loan to a LIBOR Rate Loan for an Interest Period designated by the Borrower in such election. If no election is received with respect to a LIBOR Rate Loan by 2:00 p.m. (New York time) on the 3rd Business Day prior to the end of the Interest Period with respect thereto, that LIBOR Rate Loan shall be converted to a Base Rate Loan at the end of its Interest Period. The Borrower must make such election by notice to Agent in writing, including by Electronic Transmission. In the case of any conversion or continuation, such election must be made pursuant to a written notice (a “Notice of Conversion/Continuation”) substantially in the form of Exhibit 1.6 or in a writing in any other form acceptable to Agent. No Loan shall be made, converted into or continued as a LIBOR Rate Loan, if an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and Agent or Required Lenders have determined not to make or continue any Loan as a LIBOR Rate Loan as a result thereof.
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(b) Upon receipt of a Notice of Conversion/Continuation, Agent will promptly notify each Lender thereof. In addition, Agent will, with reasonable promptness, notify the Borrower and the Lenders of each determination of LIBOR; provided that any failure to do so shall not relieve the Borrower of any liability hereunder or provide the basis for any claim against Agent. All conversions and continuations shall be made pro rata according to the respective outstanding principal amounts of the Loans held by each Lender with respect to which the notice was given.
(c) Notwithstanding any other provision contained in this Agreement, after giving effect to any Borrowing, or to any continuation or conversion of any Loans, there shall not be more than seven (7) different Interest Periods in effect.
1.7 Optional Prepayments.
(a) The Borrower may at any time upon at least two (2) Business Days’ (or such shorter period as is acceptable to Agent) prior written notice by the Borrower to Agent, prepay the Loans in whole or in part in an amount greater than or equal to $500,000 (other than Revolving Loans and Swing Loans for which prior written notice is not required and for which no minimum shall apply), in each instance, without penalty or premium except as provided in Section 10.4. Optional partial prepayments of Loans shall be applied as directed by Borrower. Optional partial prepayments of Term Loans in amounts less than $500,000 shall not be permitted.
(b) The notice of any prepayment shall not thereafter be revocable by the Borrower and Agent will promptly notify each Lender thereof and of such Lender’s Commitment Percentage of such prepayment. The payment amount specified in such notice shall be due and payable on the date specified therein. Together with each prepayment under this Section 1.7, the Borrower shall pay any amounts required pursuant to Section 10.4. Optional prepayments under this Section 1.7 shall be accompanied by accrued and unpaid interest on the principal amount of the Loans being prepaid.
(c) The Borrower may at any time upon at least two (2) Business Days’ (or such shorter period as is acceptable to Agent) prior notice by the Borrower to Agent permanently reduce the Aggregate Revolving Loan Commitment; provided that (A) such reductions shall be in an amount greater than or equal to $1,000,000, and (B) after giving effect to such reduction, Availability shall be not less than $5,000,000. All reductions of the Aggregate Revolving Loan Commitment shall be allocated pro rata among all Lenders with a Revolving Loan Commitment. A permanent reduction of the Aggregate Revolving Loan Commitment shall require a corresponding pro rata reduction in the L/C Sublimit.
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1.8 Mandatory Prepayments of Loans and Commitment Reductions.
(a) Scheduled Term Loan Payments. The principal amount of the Term Loans (other than any Other Term Loans) shall be paid in installments on the dates and in the respective amounts shown below (as adjusted from time to time pursuant to Section 1.12(d)):
Date of Payment |
Amount of Term |
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January 1, 2012 |
$ | 2,400,000 | ||
April 1, 2012 |
$ | 2,400,000 | ||
July 1, 2012 |
$ | 3,600,000 | ||
October 1, 2012 |
$ | 3,600,000 | ||
January 1, 2013 |
$ | 3,600,000 | ||
April 1, 2013 |
$ | 3,600,000 | ||
July 1, 2013 |
$ | 5,400,000 | ||
October 1, 2013 |
$ | 5,400,000 | ||
January 1, 2014 |
$ | 4,800,000 | ||
April 1, 2014 |
$ | 4,800,000 | ||
July 1, 2014 |
$ | 7,200,000 | ||
October 1, 2014 |
$ | 7,200,000 | ||
January 1, 2015 |
$ | 6,000,000 | ||
April 1, 2015 |
$ | 6,000,000 | ||
July 1, 2015 |
$ | 9,000,000 | ||
October 1, 2015 |
$ | 9,000,000 | ||
January 1, 2016 |
$ | 6,000,000 | ||
April 1, 2016 |
$ | 6,000,000 | ||
July 1, 2016 |
$ | 9,000,000 | ||
Term Loan Maturity Date |
$ | 135,000,000 |
The final scheduled installment of the Term Loan on the Term Loan Maturity Date shall, in any event, be in an amount equal to the entire remaining principal balance of the Term Loan. The Borrower promises to repay any Other Term Loans on the applicable Incremental Term Loan Maturity Date and on the applicable Incremental Term Loan Repayment Dates and in the amounts set forth in the applicable Incremental Term Loan Assumption Agreement.
(b) Revolving Loan. The Borrower shall repay to the Lenders in full on the date specified in clause (a) of the definition of “Revolving Termination Date” the aggregate principal amount of the Revolving Loans and Swing Loans outstanding on the Revolving Termination Date.
(c) Asset Dispositions. If a Credit Party or any Subsidiary of a Credit Party shall at any time or from time to time:
(i) make or agree to make a Disposition; or
(ii) suffer an Event of Loss;
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and the aggregate amount of the Net Proceeds received by the Credit Parties and their Subsidiaries in connection with such Disposition or Event of Loss and all other Dispositions and Events of Loss occurring during the Fiscal Year exceeds $2,000,000, then (A) the Borrower shall promptly notify Agent of such proposed Disposition or Event of Loss (including the amount of the estimated Net Proceeds to be received by a Credit Party and/or such Subsidiary in respect thereof) and (B) promptly upon receipt by a Credit Party and/or such Subsidiary of the Net Proceeds of such Disposition or Event of Loss, the Borrower shall deliver, or cause to be delivered, such excess Net Proceeds to Agent for distribution to the Lenders as a prepayment of the Loans, which prepayment shall be applied in accordance with subsection 1.8(h) hereof. Notwithstanding the foregoing and provided no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, such prepayment shall not be required to the extent a Credit Party or such Subsidiary reinvests the Net Proceeds of such Disposition or Event of Loss in productive assets (other than Inventory) of a kind then used or usable in the business of the Borrower or such Subsidiary, within one hundred eighty (180) days after the date of such Disposition or Event of Loss or enters into a binding commitment thereof within said one hundred eighty (180) day period and subsequently makes such reinvestment; provided that the Borrower notifies Agent of the Borrower’s or such Subsidiary’s intent to reinvest and of the completion of such reinvestment at the time such proceeds are received and when such reinvestment occurs, respectively. Pending such reinvestment, the Net Proceeds shall, to the extent of any Swing Loans or Revolving Loans outstanding at any time prior to such reinvestment, be delivered to Agent, for distribution first, to the Swingline Lender as a prepayment of Swing Loans (to the extent of Swing Loans outstanding), but not as a permanent reduction of the Swingline Commitment and thereafter to the Revolving Lenders, as a prepayment of the Revolving Loans (to the extent of Revolving Loans then outstanding), but not as a permanent reduction of the Aggregate Revolving Loan Commitment.
(d) Issuance of Securities. Immediately upon the receipt by any Credit Party or any Subsidiary of any Credit Party of the Net Issuance Proceeds of the public issuance of Stock or Stock Equivalents (including any capital contribution)(other than Net Issuance Proceeds from the issuance of Excluded Equity Issuances), the Borrower shall deliver, or cause to be delivered, to Agent an amount equal to (i) 50% of such Net Issuance Proceeds if the Senior Leverage Ratio (as calculated in the manner set forth on Exhibit 4.2(b)) as of the last day of the last Fiscal Quarter for which financial statements are required to be delivered hereunder is greater than 1.25:1.00 or (ii) 25% of such Net Issuance Proceeds, if the Senior Leverage Ratio (as calculated in the manner set forth on Exhibit 4.2(b)) as of the last day of the last Fiscal Quarter for which financial statements are required to be delivered hereunder is less than or equal to 1.25:1.00, for application to the Loans in accordance with the provisions of subsection 1.8(h) hereof.
(e) Excess Cash Flow. Within ten (10) days after the annual financial statements are required to be delivered pursuant to subsection 4.1(a) hereof, commencing with such annual financial statements for the Fiscal Year ending December 31, 2012, the Borrower shall deliver to Agent a written calculation of Excess Cash Flow of the Credit Parties and their Subsidiaries for such Fiscal Year in the form of Exhibit 1.8(e) and certified as correct on behalf of the Credit Parties by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower and concurrently therewith shall deliver to Agent, for application to the Loans in accordance with the provisions of subsection 1.8(h) hereof and distribution to the Lenders, an amount equal to (i) 75% of such Excess Cash
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Flow if the Total Leverage Ratio (as calculated in the manner set forth on Exhibit 4.2(b)) as of the last day of such Fiscal Year is greater than 2.00:1.00 or (ii) 50% of such Excess Cash Flow if the Total Leverage Ratio as of the last day of such Fiscal Year is less than or equal to 2.00:1.00, minus, in each case, voluntary prepayments of Term Loans and Revolving Loans (to the extent accompanied by a permanent reduction of the Revolving Loan Commitment) made during such Fiscal Year. Excess Cash Flow and the related prepayment amount shall be calculated in the manner set forth in Exhibit 1.8(e).
(f) Issuance of Debt. Immediately upon the receipt by any Credit Party or any Subsidiary of any Credit Party of the Net Issuance Proceeds arising from the issuance or incurrence by any Credit Party or any Subsidiary of any Credit Party of Indebtedness (other than Net Issuance Proceeds arising from the issuance or incurrence of Indebtedness permitted hereunder), the Borrower shall deliver, or cause to be delivered, to Agent an amount equal to 100% of such Net Issuance Proceeds for application to the Loans in accordance with the provisions of subsection 1.8(h) hereof.
(g) Extraordinary Receipts. Immediately upon the receipt by any Credit Party of any Extraordinary Receipts, the Borrower shall deliver, or cause to be delivered, to Agent an amount equal to 100% of such Extraordinary Receipts, net of any reasonable expenses incurred in collecting such Extraordinary Receipts, for application to the Loans in accordance with the provisions of subsection 1.8(h) hereof.
(h) Application of Prepayments. Subject to subsection 1.10(c), any prepayments pursuant to subsections 1.8(c) (other than prepayments of Swing Loans and Revolving Loans as set forth therein), 1.8(d), 1.8(e), 1.8(f) or 1.8(g) shall be applied first to prepay the next four installments of the Term Loans in direct order of maturity and thereafter to prepay all remaining installments of the Term Loans pro rata against all such scheduled installments based upon the respective amounts thereof, second to prepay outstanding Swing Loans, third to prepay outstanding Revolving Loans, fourth to cash collateralize unmatured L/C Reimbursement Obligations to the extent not then due and payable and fifth to prepay the outstanding principal balance of the Second Lien Term Loan Facility to the extent required by the Second Lien Term Loan Credit Agreement. To the extent permitted by the foregoing sentence, amounts prepaid shall be applied first to any Base Rate Loans then outstanding and then to outstanding LIBOR Rate Loans with the shortest Interest Periods remaining. All mandatory prepayments under this Section 1.8 shall be accompanied by accrued and unpaid interest on the principal amount of the Loans being prepaid. Together with each prepayment under this Section 1.8, the Borrower shall pay any amounts required pursuant to Section 10.4 hereof.
(i) No Implied Consent. Provisions contained in this Section 1.8 for the application of proceeds of certain transactions shall not be deemed to constitute consent of the Lenders to transactions that are not otherwise permitted by the terms hereof or the other Loan Documents.
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1.9 Fees.
(a) Fees. The Borrower shall pay to Agent, for Agent’s own account, fees in the amounts and at the times set forth in any Fee Letters.
(b) Unused Commitment Fee. The Borrower shall pay to Agent a fee (the “Unused Commitment Fee”) for the account of each Revolving Lender in an amount equal to
(i) the average daily balance of the Revolving Loan Commitment of such Revolving Lender during the preceding calendar quarter, less
(ii) the sum of (x) the average daily balance of all Revolving Loans held by such Revolving Lender plus (y) the average daily amount of Letter of Credit Obligations held by such Revolving Lender, plus (z) in the case of the Swingline Lender, the average daily balance of all outstanding Swing Loans held by such Swingline Lender, in each case, during the preceding calendar quarter; provided, in no event shall the amount computed pursuant to clauses (i) and (ii) with respect to the Swingline Lender be less than zero,
(iii) multiplied by one half of one percent (0.50%) per annum.
The total Unused Commitment Fee paid by the Borrower will be equal to the sum of all of the Unused Commitment Fees due to the Lenders, subject to subsection 1.11(e)(vi). Such fee shall be payable quarterly in arrears on the first day of the calendar quarter following the date hereof and the first day of each calendar quarter thereafter. The Unused Commitment Fee provided in this subsection 1.9(b) shall accrue at all times from and after the execution and delivery of this Agreement.
(c) Letter of Credit Fee. The Borrower agrees to pay to Agent for the ratable benefit of the Revolving Lenders, as compensation to such Lenders for Letter of Credit Obligations incurred hereunder, (i) without duplication of costs and expenses otherwise payable to Agent or Lenders hereunder or fees otherwise paid by the Borrower, all reasonable costs and expenses incurred by Agent or any Lender on account of such Letter of Credit Obligations, and (ii) for each calendar quarter during which any Letter of Credit Obligation shall remain outstanding, a fee (the “Letter of Credit Fee”) in an amount equal to the product of the average daily undrawn face amount of all Letters of Credit issued, guaranteed or supported by risk participation agreements multiplied by a per annum rate equal to the Applicable Margin with respect to Revolving Loans which are LIBOR Rate Loans; provided, however, at Required Revolving Lenders’ option, while an Event of Default exists (or, unless waived by Required Lenders, automatically while any Event of Default under subsections 7.1(a), 7.1(f) or 7.1(g) exists), such rate shall be increased by two percent (2.00%) per annum. Such fee shall be paid to Agent for the benefit of the Revolving Lenders in arrears, on the first day of each calendar quarter and on the date on which all L/C Reimbursement Obligations have been discharged. In addition, the Borrower shall pay to Agent, any L/C Issuer or any prospective L/C Issuer, as appropriate, on demand, such L/C Issuer’s or prospective L/C Issuer’s customary fees at then prevailing rates, without duplication of fees otherwise payable hereunder (including all per annum fees), charges and expenses of such L/C Issuer or prospective L/C Issuer in respect of the application for, and the issuance, negotiation, acceptance, amendment, transfer and payment of, each Letter of Credit or otherwise payable pursuant to the application and related documentation under which such Letter of Credit is issued.
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1.10 Payments by the Borrower.
(a) All payments (including prepayments) to be made by each Credit Party on account of principal, interest, fees and other amounts required hereunder shall be made without set-off, recoupment, counterclaim or deduction of any kind, shall, except as otherwise expressly provided herein, be made to Agent (for the ratable account of the Persons entitled thereto) at the address for payment specified in the signature page hereof in relation to Agent (or such other address as Agent may from time to time specify in accordance with Section 9.2), including payments utilizing the ACH system, and shall be made in Dollars and by wire transfer or ACH transfer in immediately available funds (which shall be the exclusive means of payment hereunder), no later than 1:00 p.m. (New York time) on the date due. Any payment which is received by Agent later than 1:00 p.m. (New York time) may in Agent’s discretion be deemed to have been received on the immediately succeeding Business Day and any applicable interest or fee shall continue to accrue. Borrower and each other Credit Party hereby irrevocably waives the right to direct the application during the continuance of a Default of any and all payments in respect of any Obligation and any proceeds of Collateral. Borrower hereby authorizes Agent and each Lender to make a Revolving Loan (which shall be a Base Rate Loan and which may be a Swing Loan) to pay (i) interest, principal (including Swing Loans), L/C Reimbursement Obligations, agent fees, Unused Commitment Fees and Letter of Credit Fees, in each instance, on the date due, or (ii) after five (5) days’ prior notice to the Borrower, other fees, costs or expenses payable by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries hereunder or under the other Loan Documents.
(b) Subject to the provisions set forth in the definition of “Interest Period” herein, if any payment hereunder shall be stated to be due on a day other than a Business Day, such payment shall be made on the next succeeding Business Day, and such extension of time shall in such case be included in the computation of interest or fees, as the case may be.
(c) During the continuance of an Event of Default, Agent may, and shall upon the direction of Required Lenders apply any and all payments received by Agent in respect of any Obligation in accordance with clauses first through seventh below. Notwithstanding any provision herein to the contrary, all payments made by Credit Parties to Agent after any or all of the Obligations have been accelerated (so long as such acceleration has not been rescinded), including proceeds of Collateral, shall be applied as follows:
first, to payment of costs and expenses, including Attorney Costs, of Agent payable or reimbursable by the Credit Parties under the Loan Documents;
second, to payment of Attorney Costs of Lenders payable or reimbursable by the Borrower under this Agreement;
third, to payment of all accrued unpaid interest on the Obligations and fees owed to Agent, Lenders and L/C Issuers;
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fourth, to payment of principal of the Obligations (including, without limitation, L/C Reimbursement Obligations then due and payable, any Obligations under any Secured Rate Contract and cash collateralization of unmatured L/C Reimbursement Obligations to the extent not then due and payable), other than Obligations under Bank Products;
fifth, to payment of any Obligations under Bank Products;
sixth, to payment of any other amounts owing constituting Obligations; and
seventh, any remainder shall be for the account of and paid to whoever may be lawfully entitled thereto.
In carrying out the foregoing, (i) amounts received shall be applied in the numerical order provided until exhausted prior to the application to the next succeeding category and (ii) each of the Lenders or other Persons entitled to payment shall receive an amount equal to its pro rata share of amounts available to be applied pursuant to clauses third, fourth, fifth and sixth above.
1.11 Payments by the Lenders to Agent; Settlement.
(a) Agent may, on behalf of Lenders, disburse funds to the Borrower for Loans requested. Each Lender shall reimburse Agent on demand for all funds disbursed on its behalf by Agent, or if Agent so requests, each Lender will remit to Agent its Commitment Percentage of any Loan before Agent disburses same to the Borrower. If Agent elects to require that each Lender make funds available to Agent prior to disbursement by Agent to the Borrower, Agent shall advise each Lender by telephone or fax of the amount of such Lender’s Commitment Percentage of the Loan requested by the Borrower no later than the Business Day prior to the scheduled Borrowing date applicable thereto, and each such Lender shall pay Agent such Lender’s Commitment Percentage of such requested Loan, in same day funds, by wire transfer to Agent’s account, as set forth on Agent’s signature page hereto, no later than 1:00 p.m. (New York time) on such scheduled Borrowing date. Nothing in this subsection 1.11(a) or elsewhere in this Agreement or the other Loan Documents, including the remaining provisions of Section 1.11, shall be deemed to require Agent to advance funds on behalf of any Lender or to relieve any Lender from its obligation to fulfill its Commitments hereunder or to prejudice any rights that Agent any Lender or the Borrower may have against any Lender as a result of any default by such Lender hereunder.
(b) At least once each calendar week or more frequently at Agent’s election (each, a “Settlement Date”), Agent shall advise each Lender by telephone or fax of the amount of such Lender’s Commitment Percentage of principal, interest and fees paid for the benefit of Lenders with respect to each applicable Loan. Agent shall pay to each Lender such Lender’s Commitment Percentage (except as otherwise provided in subsection 1.1(c)(vi) and subsection 1.11(e)(iv)) of principal, interest and fees paid by the Borrower since the previous Settlement Date for the benefit of such Lender on the Loans held by it; provided, however, that in the case of any payment of principal received by Agent from the Borrower in respect of any Term Loan prior to 1:00 p.m. (New York time) on any Business Day, Agent shall pay to each applicable
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Lender such Lender’s Commitment Percentage of such payment on such Business Day, and, in the case of any payment of principal received by Agent from Borrower in respect of any Term Loan later than 1:00 p.m. (New York time) on any Business Day, Agent shall pay to each applicable Lender such Lender’s Commitment Percentage of such payment on the next Business Day. Except as provided in the preceding proviso with respect to Term Loan payments, such payments shall be made by wire transfer to such Lender not later than 2:00 p.m. (New York time) on the next Business Day following each Settlement Date.
(c) Availability of Lender’s Commitment Percentage. Agent may assume that each Revolving Lender will make its Commitment Percentage of each Revolving Loan available to Agent on each Borrowing date. If such Commitment Percentage is not, in fact, paid to Agent by such Revolving Lender when due, Agent will be entitled to recover such amount on demand from such Revolving Lender without setoff, counterclaim or deduction of any kind. If any Revolving Lender fails to pay the amount of its Commitment Percentage forthwith upon Agent’s demand, Agent shall promptly notify the Borrower and the Borrower shall immediately repay such amount to Agent. Nothing in this subsection 1.11(c) or elsewhere in this Agreement or the other Loan Documents shall be deemed to require Agent to advance funds on behalf of any Revolving Lender or to relieve any Revolving Lender from its obligation to fulfill its Commitments hereunder or to prejudice any rights that the Borrower may have against any Revolving Lender as a result of any default by such Revolving Lender hereunder. Without limiting the provisions of subsection 1.11(b), to the extent that Agent advances funds to the Borrower on behalf of any Revolving Lender and is not reimbursed therefor on the same Business Day as such advance is made, Agent shall be entitled to retain for its account all interest accrued on such advance from the date such advance was made until reimbursed by the applicable Revolving Lender.
(d) Return of Payments.
(i) If Agent pays an amount to a Lender under this Agreement in the belief or expectation that a related payment has been or will be received by Agent from the Borrower and such related payment is not received by Agent, then Agent will be entitled to recover such amount from such Lender on demand without setoff, counterclaim or deduction of any kind.
(ii) If Agent determines at any time that any amount received by Agent under this Agreement or any other Loan Document must be returned to any Credit Party or paid to any other Person pursuant to any insolvency law or otherwise, then, notwithstanding any other term or condition of this Agreement or any other Loan Document, Agent will not be required to distribute any portion thereof to any Lender. In addition, each Lender will repay to Agent on demand any portion of such amount that Agent has distributed to such Lender, together with interest at such rate, if any, as Agent is required to pay to the Borrower or such other Person, without setoff, counterclaim or deduction of any kind, and Agent will be entitled to set-off against future distributions to such Lender any such amounts (with interest) that are not repaid on demand.
(e) Non-Funding Lenders.
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(i) Responsibility. The failure of any Non-Funding Lender to make any Revolving Loan, to fund any purchase of any participation to be made or funded by it, or to make any payment required by it hereunder on the date specified therefor shall not relieve any other Lender of its obligations to make such loan, fund the purchase of any such participation, or make any other payment required hereunder on such date, and neither Agent nor, other than as expressly set forth herein, any other Lender shall be responsible for the failure of any Non-Funding Lender to make a loan, fund the purchase of a participation or make any other payment required hereunder.
(ii) Reallocation. If any Revolving Lender is a Non-Funding Lender, all or a portion of such Non-Funding Lender’s Letter of Credit Obligations (unless such Lender is the L/C Issuer that issued such Letter of Credit) and reimbursement obligations with respect to Swing Loans shall, at Agent’s election at any time or upon any L/C Issuer’s or Swingline Lender’s, as applicable, written request delivered to Agent (whether before or after the occurrence of any Default or Event of Default), be reallocated to and assumed by the Revolving Lenders that are not Non-Funding Lenders or Impacted Lenders pro rata in accordance with their Commitment Percentages of the Aggregate Revolving Loan Commitment (calculated as if the Non-Funding Lender’s Commitment Percentage was reduced to zero and each other Revolving Lender’s (other than an Impacted Lender’s) Commitment Percentage had been increased proportionately), provided that no Revolving Lender shall be reallocated any such amounts or be required to fund any amounts that would cause the sum of its outstanding Revolving Loans, outstanding Letter of Credit Obligations, amounts of its participations in Swing Loans and its pro rata share of unparticipated amounts in Swing Loans to exceed its Revolving Loan Commitment.
(iii) Voting Rights. Notwithstanding anything set forth herein to the contrary, including Section 9.1, a Non-Funding Lender shall not have any voting or consent rights under or with respect to any Loan Document or constitute a “Lender” or a “Revolving Lender” (or be, or have its Loans and Commitments, included in the determination of “Required Lenders”, “Required Revolving Lenders” or “Lenders directly affected” pursuant to Section 9.1) for any voting or consent rights under or with respect to any Loan Document, provided that (A) the Commitment of a Non-Funding Lender may not be increased, extended or reinstated, (B) the principal of a Non-Funding Lender’s Loans may not be reduced or forgiven, and (C) the interest rate applicable to Obligations owing to a Non-Funding Lender may not be reduced in such a manner that by its terms affects such Non-Funding Lender more adversely than other Lenders, in each case, without the consent of such Non-Funding Lender. Moreover, for the purposes of determining Required Lenders and Required Revolving Lenders, the Loans, Letter of Credit Obligations, and Commitments held by Non-Funding Lenders shall be excluded from the total Loans and Commitments outstanding.
(iv) Borrower Payments to a Non-Funding Lender. Agent shall be authorized to use all portions of any payments received by Agent for the benefit of any Non-Funding Lender pursuant to this Agreement to pay in full the Aggregate Excess Funding Amount to the appropriate Secured Parties thereof. Agent shall be entitled to hold as cash collateral in a non-interest bearing account up to an amount equal to such
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Non-Funding Lender’s pro rata share, without giving effect to any reallocation pursuant to subsection 1.11(e)(ii), of all Letter of Credit Obligations until the Obligations are paid in full in cash, all Letter of Credit Obligations have been discharged or cash collateralized and all Commitments have been terminated. Upon any such unfunded obligations owing by a Non-Funding Lender becoming due and payable, Agent shall be authorized to use such cash collateral to make such payment on behalf of such Non-Funding Lender. With respect to such Non-Funding Lender’s failure to fund Revolving Loans or purchase participations in Letters of Credit or Letter of Credit Obligations, any amounts applied by Agent to satisfy such funding shortfalls shall be deemed to constitute a Revolving Loan or amount of the participation required to be funded and, if necessary to effectuate the foregoing, the other Revolving Lenders shall be deemed to have sold, and such Non-Funding Lender shall be deemed to have purchased, Revolving Loans or Letter of Credit participation interests from the other Revolving Lenders until such time as the aggregate amount of the Revolving Loans and participations in Letters of Credit and Letter of Credit Obligations are held by the Revolving Lenders in accordance with their Commitment Percentages of the Aggregate Revolving Loan Commitment. Any amounts owing by a Non-Funding Lender to Agent which are not paid when due shall accrue interest at the interest rate applicable during such period to Revolving Loans that are Base Rate Loans. In the event that Agent is holding cash collateral of a Non-Funding Lender that cures pursuant to clause (v) below or ceases to be a Non-Funding Lender pursuant to the definition of Non-Funding Lender, Agent shall return the unused portion of such cash collateral to such Lender. The “Aggregate Excess Funding Amount” of a Non-Funding Lender shall be the aggregate amount of (A) all unpaid obligations owing by such Lender to the Agent, L/C Issuers, Swing Line Lender, and other Lenders under the Loan Documents, including such Lender’s pro rata share of all Revolving Loans, Letter of Credit Obligations, Swing Loans, plus, without duplication, (B) all amounts of such Non-Funding Lender reallocated to other Lenders pursuant to subsection 1.11(e)(ii).
(v) Cure. A Lender may cure its status as a Non-Funding Lender under clause (a) of the definition of Non-Funding Lender if such (A) Lender fully pays to Agent, on behalf of the applicable Secured Parties, the Aggregate Excess Funding Amount, plus all interest due thereon and (B) timely funds the next Revolving Loan required to be funded by such Lender or makes the next reimbursement required to be made by such Lender. Any such cure shall not relieve any Lender from liability for breaching its contractual obligations hereunder.
(vi) Fees. A Lender that is a Non-Funding Lender pursuant to clause (a) of the definition of Non-Funding Lender shall not earn and shall not be entitled to receive, and Borrowers shall not be required to pay, such Lender’s portion of the Unused Commitment Fee during the time such Lender is a Non-Funding Lender pursuant to clause (a) thereof. In the event that any reallocation of Letter of Credit Obligations occurs pursuant to subsection 1.11(e)(ii), during the period of time that such reallocation remains in effect, the Letter of Credit Fee payable with respect to such reallocated portion shall be payable to (A) all Revolving Lenders based on their pro rata share of such reallocation or (B) to the L/C Issuer for any remaining portion not reallocated to any other Revolving Lenders.
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(f) Procedures. Agent is hereby authorized by each Credit Party and each other Secured Party to establish customary procedures (and to amend such procedures from time to time) to facilitate administration and servicing of the Loans and other matters incidental thereto. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, Agent is hereby authorized to establish customary procedures to make available or deliver, or to accept, notices, documents and similar items on, by posting to or submitting and/or completion, on E-Systems.
1.12 Incremental Commitments. (a) The Borrower may, by written notice to the Agent from time to time, request Incremental Term Loan Commitments in an amount not to exceed the Incremental Term Loan Amount from one or more Incremental Term Loan Lenders, each of which must be (i) an existing Lender, (ii) any Affiliate or Approved Fund of any existing Lender or (iii) any other Person acceptable (which acceptance shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed) to the Agent. Such notice shall set forth (i) the amount of the Incremental Term Loan Commitments being requested (which shall be in minimum increments of $1,000,000 and a minimum amount of $5,000,000 or such lesser amount equal to the remaining Incremental Term Loan Amount), (ii) the date on which such Incremental Term Loan Commitments are requested to become effective (which shall not be less than 10 Business Days nor more than 60 days after the date of such notice), and (iii) whether such Incremental Term Loan Commitments are commitments to make additional Term Loans or commitments to make term loans with terms different from the Term Loans (“Other Term Loans”). The Borrower may, by written notice to the Agent from time to time, request additional Revolving Loan Commitments in an amount not to exceed the Additional Revolving Loan Commitment Amount from one or more Persons, each of which must be (i) an existing Lender, (ii) any Affiliate or Approved Fund of any existing Lender or (iii) any other Person acceptable (which acceptance shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed) to the Agent and each L/C Issuer. Such notice shall set forth (i) the amount of the additional Revolving Loan Commitments being requested (which shall be in minimum increments of $1,000,000 and a minimum amount of $5,000,000 or such lesser amount equal to the remaining Additional Revolving Loan Commitment Amount) and (ii) the date on which such additional Revolving Loan Commitments are requested to become effective (which shall not be less than 10 Business Days nor more than 60 days after the date of such notice). The Borrower will first seek additional Revolving Loan Commitments from existing Lenders (each of which shall be entitled to agree or decline to participate in its sole discretion) and, if additional commitments are needed, from additional banks, financial institutions and other institutional lenders who will become Revolving Lenders in connection therewith. The Borrower and each Person providing an additional Revolving Loan Commitment shall execute and deliver to the Agent an Additional Revolving Loan Commitment Assumption Agreement and such other documentation as the Agent shall reasonably specify to evidence the additional Revolving Loan Commitment of each such Person. The terms and provisions (including pricing and maturity date) of such additional Revolving Loan Commitments and Revolving Loans made under such additional Revolving Loan Commitments shall be substantially similar to those of the existing Revolving Loan Commitments and Revolving Loans, respectively.
(b) The Borrower will first seek Incremental Term Loan Commitments from existing Lenders (each of which shall be entitled to agree or decline to participate in its sole discretion) and, if additional commitments are needed, from additional banks, financial institutions and other institutional lenders who will become Incremental Term Loan Lenders in connection therewith. The Borrower and each Incremental Term Loan Lender shall execute and
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deliver to the Agent an Incremental Term Loan Assumption Agreement and such other documentation as the Agent shall reasonably specify to evidence the Incremental Term Loan Commitment of each Incremental Term Loan Lender. The terms and provisions of the Incremental Term Loans shall be substantially consistent to those of the Term Loans except as otherwise set forth herein. Without the prior written consent of the Required Lenders, (i) the final maturity date of any Other Term Loans shall be no earlier than the Term Loan Maturity Date, (ii) the average life to maturity of the Other Term Loans shall be no shorter than the average life to maturity of the Term Loans and (iii) if the initial yield on such Other Term Loans (as determined by the Agent to be equal to the sum of (x) the margin above the LIBOR based interest rate on such Other Term Loans and (y) if such Other Term Loans are initially made at a discount or the Lenders making the same receive a fee (excluding any arrangement, structuring and underwriting fees paid or payable to any arranger or its Affiliates) directly or indirectly from the Borrower or any Subsidiary for doing so (the amount of such discount or fee, expressed as a percentage of the Other Term Loans, being referred to herein as “OID”), the amount of such OID divided by the lesser of (A) the average life to maturity of such Other Term Loans and (B) four) exceeds the Applicable Margin then in effect for LIBOR Rate Loans that are Term Loans, Revolving Loans or prior Other Term Loans by more than 50 basis points (the amount of such excess above 50 basis points being referred to herein as the “Yield Differential”), then the Applicable Margin then in effect for such Term Loans, Revolving Loans and prior Other Term Loans shall automatically be increased by the Yield Differential, effective upon the making of the Other Term Loans. The Agent shall promptly notify each Lender as to the effectiveness of each Incremental Term Loan Assumption Agreement and each Additional Revolving Loan Commitment Assumption Agreement. Each of the parties hereto hereby agrees that, upon the effectiveness of any Incremental Term Loan Assumption Agreement or Additional Revolving Loan Commitment Assumption Agreement, this Agreement shall be deemed amended to the extent (but only to the extent) necessary to reflect the existence and terms of the Incremental Term Loan Commitment and the Incremental Term Loans evidenced thereby or the additional Revolving Loan Commitment and additional Revolving Loans evidenced thereby, as applicable, and the Agent and the Borrower may revise this Agreement to evidence such amendments.
(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, no Incremental Term Loan Commitment or additional Revolving Loan Commitment shall become effective under this Section 1.12 unless (i) on the date of such effectiveness, the conditions set forth in paragraph (b) of Section 2.2 shall be satisfied and the Agent shall have received a certificate to that effect dated such date and executed by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower, (ii) except as otherwise specified in the applicable Incremental Term Loan Assumption Agreement or Additional Revolving Loan Commitment Assumption Agreement, the Agent shall have received legal opinions, board resolutions and other closing certificates reasonably requested by the Agent and consistent with those delivered on the Closing Date under Section 2.1, (iii) after giving effect, as applicable, to such Incremental Term Loan Commitment and the Incremental Term Loans to be made thereunder or such additional Revolving Loan Commitment and the Revolving Loans to be made thereunder (assuming the entire amount of such additional Revolving Loan Commitment is funded), and in each case, the application of the proceeds therefrom, (x) the Senior Leverage Ratio shall, on a pro forma basis as of the last day of the last Fiscal Quarter for which financial statements are required to be delivered hereunder, not exceed the maximum Senior Leverage Ratio then permitted under Section 6.2 less 0.25:1.00 and (iv) to the extent reasonably necessary to maintain the continuing priority of the Lien of the Mortgages as security for the Obligations,
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as determined by the Agent in its reasonable discretion (x) the applicable Credit Party to any Mortgages shall have entered into, and delivered to the Agent, at the direction and in the sole discretion of the Agent a mortgage modification or new Mortgage in proper form for recording in the relevant jurisdiction and in a form reasonably satisfactory to the Agent, (y) the Borrower shall have caused to be delivered to the Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties an endorsement to the title insurance policy, date down(s) or other evidence reasonably satisfactory to the Agent insuring that the priority of the Lien of the Mortgages as security for the Obligations has not changed and confirming and/or insuring that since the issuance of the title insurance policy there has been no change in the condition of title and there are no intervening liens or encumbrances which may then or thereafter take priority over the Lien of the Mortgages (other than those expressly permitted by Section 5.1) and (z) the Borrower shall have delivered, at the request of the Agent, to the Agent and/or all other relevant third parties all other items reasonably necessary to maintain the continuing priority of the Lien of the Mortgages as security for the Obligations.
(d) Each of the parties hereto hereby agrees that the Agent may, in consultation with the Borrower, take any and all action as may be reasonably necessary to ensure that all Incremental Term Loans (other than Other Term Loans), when originally made, are included in each Borrowing of outstanding Term Loans on a pro rata basis. This may be accomplished by requiring each outstanding Borrowing of LIBOR Rate Loans that are Term Loans to be converted into a Borrowing of Base Rate Loans that are Term Loans on the date of each Incremental Term Loan, or by allocating a portion of each Incremental Term Loan to each outstanding Borrowing of LIBOR Rate Loans that are Term Loans on a pro rata basis. Any conversion of LIBOR Rate Loans that are Term Loans to Base Rate Loans that are Term Loans required by the preceding sentence shall be subject to Section 10.4. If any Incremental Term Loan is to be allocated to an existing Interest Period for a Borrowing of LIBOR Rate Loans that are Term Loans, then the interest rate thereon for such Interest Period and the other economic consequences thereof shall be as set forth in the applicable Incremental Term Loan Assumption Agreement. In addition, to the extent any Incremental Term Loans are not Other Term Loans, the scheduled amortization payments under Section 1.8(a) required to be made after the making of such Incremental Term Loans shall be ratably increased by the aggregate principal amount of such Incremental Term Loans and shall be further increased for all Lenders on a pro rata basis to the extent necessary to avoid any reduction in the amortization payments to which the Term Loan Lenders were entitled before such recalculation. Each of the parties hereto hereby agrees that the Agent may, in consultation with the Borrower, take any and all action as may be reasonably necessary to ensure that, upon the effectiveness of each additional Revolving Loan Commitment, (i) Revolving Loans made under such additional Revolving Loan Commitment are included in each Borrowing of outstanding Revolving Loans on a pro rata basis and (ii) the Lender providing each additional Revolving Loan Commitment shares ratably in the aggregate Revolving Pro Rata Outstandings.
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ARTICLE II -
CONDITIONS PRECEDENT
2.1 Conditions of Initial Loans. The obligation of each Lender to make its initial Loans and of each L/C Issuer to Issue, or cause to be Issued, the initial Letters of Credit hereunder is subject to satisfaction of the following conditions:
(a) Subject to Section 4.18, Agent shall have received on or before the Closing Date all of the agreements, documents, instruments and other items set forth on the closing checklist attached hereto as Exhibit 2.1 (other than Collateral Access Agreements in respect of any location listed on Schedule 4.12(ii) for which the Credit Parties have exerted or are exerting commercially reasonable efforts in order to obtain same), each in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Agent.
(b) No Governmental Authority shall have obtained, enacted, issued, promulgated, enforced or entered any Applicable Law (as defined in the Merger Agreement), arbitration award, finding or Order (as defined in the Merger Agreement) (whether temporary, preliminary or permanent), in any case that is in effect and prevents or prohibits consummation of the transactions contemplated herein or any Related Transaction (the “Transactions”).
(c) The consolidated Total Leverage Ratio, which solely for the purpose of this condition, shall exclude the Closing Date Letters of Credit, of Borrower and its Subsidiaries as of August 31, 2011 but on a pro forma basis to give effect to the initial funding of the Loans on the Closing Date and the Related Transactions shall not exceed 3.60:1.00 assuming average working capital levels. Solely for the purposes of the foregoing calculation at closing, EBITDA will be defined generally as (i) operating income from continuing operations, plus (ii) non-cash expenses, plus (iii) one-time expenses incurred as a result of the Transactions, plus (iv) estimated cost savings to be achieved during the 12 month period following the Closing Date, as set forth on Schedule 2.1(c) attached hereto, in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $5,000,000.
(d) The Closing Date Merger shall have been consummated in accordance with the terms of the Merger Agreement substantially concurrent with the initial funding of the Loans on the Closing Date, without any amendment, modification or waiver of any of the provisions thereof that would be materially adverse to the Lenders without the consent of Agent (it being understood that any amendment or waiver to the definition of Material Adverse Effect (as defined in the Acquisition Agreement), or that results in a reduction of the cash portion of the purchase price, will be deemed to be materially adverse to the Lenders) and all requirements of law.
(e) Except as disclosed in the Company SEC Reports (as defined in the Merger Agreement) or in the schedules to the Merger Agreement, from March 31, 2011, to the date of the Merger Agreement there shall not have occurred a Combined Material Adverse Effect and since the date of the Merger Agreement, there shall not have occurred and be continuing, a Combined Material Adverse Effect.
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(f) Agent shall have received (i) customary opinions of counsel to the Credit Parties and of appropriate local counsel, (ii) a solvency certificate from Borrower’s chief financial officer, (iii) subject to Section 4.18, customary insurance policy endorsements naming the Agent as an additional insured or loss payee, as applicable, and (d) reliance letters with respect to any legal opinions given by counsel to Borrower or Seller in connection with the Closing Date Merger.
(g) Subject in all respects to the Funds Certain Provisions (as defined in the Commitment Letter), all documents and instruments required to create and perfect Agent’s security interest in the Collateral shall have been executed and delivered and, if applicable, be in proper form for filing.
(h) Agent shall have received all documentation and other information about Borrower and the Guarantors as has been reasonably requested in writing by Agent or Lead Arranger at least 10 days prior to the Closing Date and that they reasonably determine is required by regulatory authorities under applicable “know your customer” and anti-money laundering rules and regulations, including without limitation the PATRIOT Act.
(i) Agent shall have received (a) unaudited consolidated balance sheets and related statements of income, changes in equity and cash flows of Borrower for each subsequent fiscal quarter after December 31, 2010 ended at least 45 days before the Closing Date and (b) unaudited consolidated balance sheets and related statements of income, changes in equity and cash flows of Borrower and the Acquired Business (as defined in the Commitment Letter; hereinafter, the “Acquired Business”), respectively, for each subsequent month after April 30, 2011 ended at least 30 days before the Closing Date.
(j) Agent shall have received (a) a pro forma consolidated balance sheet and related pro forma consolidated statement of income of Borrower and its subsidiaries as of and for the twelve-month period ending on the last day of the most recently completed four-fiscal quarter period ended at least 45 days prior to the Closing Date; (b) the combined estimated pro forma financial statements for Borrower and the Acquired Business for the year 2011, including revenue and EBITDA for Borrower and the Acquired Business by quarter for 2011; and (c) the Borrower’s consolidated financial projections for the six year period commencing for the calendar year following the Closing Date, in each case prepared after giving effect to the Transaction as if the Transaction had occurred as of such date (in the case of such balance sheet) or at the beginning of such period (in the case of such other financial statements); provided that such pro forma financial statements shall meet the requirements of Regulation S-X under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and all other accounting rules and regulations of the SEC promulgated thereunder applicable to a registration statement under such Act on Form S-1; provided, further, that the pro forma financial statements delivered pursuant to clauses (a) and (b) above were prepared in good faith on the basis of the assumptions stated therein, which assumptions are reasonable in light of the then existing conditions, and, in the case of each of this and the immediately preceding provisos, the chief financial officer of Borrower shall have provided to Agent a written certification to that effect.
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(k) All fees required to be paid pursuant to the Fee Letters and reasonable out-of-pocket expenses required to be paid on the Closing Date pursuant to the Commitment Letter and the Fee Letters shall, upon the initial Borrowing hereunder, have been paid on the Closing Date (which amounts may be offset against the proceeds of the Loans made on the Closing Date).
(l) After giving effect to the consummation of the Transactions, Borrower and its subsidiaries shall have no outstanding preferred equity, debt for borrowed money or capitalized lease obligations, except for (a) 5,000 shares of Series A preferred stock, par value $.001 per share; stated value $100 per share of Borrower, (b) debt for borrowed money incurred pursuant to the Loan Documents and the Second Lien Term Loan Documents, (c) outstanding letters of credit with an aggregate face amount of not more than $4,660,000 (the “Closing Date Letters of Credit”) and (d) such other existing debt for borrowed money and capitalized lease obligations in an aggregate amount not to exceed $1,500,000. Agent shall have received fully executed pay-off letters reasonably satisfactory to Agent confirming that all obligations owing by any Credit Party to Prior Lender will be repaid in full from the proceeds of the initial Loans and all Liens upon any of the Property of the Credit Parties or any of their Subsidiaries in favor of Prior Lender shall be terminated by Prior Lender immediately upon such payment; and all letters of credit issued or guaranteed by Prior Lender shall have been terminated, cash collateralized, or supported by a Letter of Credit issued pursuant hereto, as mutually agreed upon by Agent, Prior Lender, the Borrower and the Seller, as applicable.
(m) (i) The representations and warranties regarding the Seller and its Subsidiaries in the Merger Agreement as are material to the interests of Agent and the Lenders, but only to the extent that the Borrower or its Affiliates have the right to terminate its or its Affiliates’ obligations under the Merger Agreement (or the right not to consummate the Closing Date Merger pursuant to the Merger Agreement) as a result of a failure of such representations and warranties to be true and correct and (ii) the Specified Representations shall be accurate in all material respects.
2.2 Conditions to All Borrowings. Except as otherwise expressly provided herein, no Lender or L/C Issuer shall be obligated to fund any Loan or incur any Letter of Credit Obligation after the Closing Date, if, as of the date thereof:
(a) any representation or warranty by any Credit Party contained herein or in any other Loan Document is untrue or incorrect in any material respect (without duplication of any materiality qualifier contained therein) as of such date, except to the extent that such representation or warranty expressly relates to an earlier date (in which event such representations and warranties were untrue or incorrect in any material respect (without duplication of any materiality qualifier contained therein) as of such earlier date), and Agent or Required Revolving Lenders have determined not to make such Loan or incur such Letter of Credit Obligation as a result of the fact that such warranty or representation is untrue or incorrect;
(b) any Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would reasonably be expected to result after giving effect to any Loan (or the incurrence of any Letter of Credit Obligation), and Agent or Required Revolving Lenders shall have determined not to make any Loan or incur any Letter of Credit Obligation as a result of that Default or Event of Default;
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(c) after giving effect to any Loan (or the incurrence of any Letter of Credit Obligations), the aggregate outstanding amount of the Revolving Loans would exceed the Maximum Revolving Loan Balance; and
(d) The Agent and, if applicable, the relevant L/C Issuer shall not have received any relevant Notices of Borrowing, Swingline Requests and L/C Requests.
The request by the Borrower and acceptance by the Borrower of the proceeds of any Loan or the incurrence of any Letter of Credit Obligations shall be deemed to constitute, as of the date thereof, (i) a representation and warranty by the Borrower that the conditions in this Section 2.2 have been satisfied and (ii) a reaffirmation by each Credit Party of the granting and continuance of Agent’s Liens, on behalf of itself and the Secured Parties, pursuant to the Collateral Documents.
ARTICLE III -
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
The Credit Parties, jointly and severally, represent and warrant to Agent and each Lender that the following are, and after giving effect to the Related Transactions will be, true, correct and complete:
3.1 Corporate Existence and Power. Each Credit Party and each of their respective Subsidiaries:
(a) is a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership, as applicable, duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation, organization or formation, as applicable;
(b) has the power and authority and all governmental licenses, authorizations, Permits, consents and approvals to own its assets, carry on its business and execute, deliver, and perform its obligations under, the Loan Documents and the Related Agreements to which it is a party and, as applicable, to consummate the Related Transactions and other transactions related thereto;
(c) is duly qualified as a foreign corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership, as applicable, and licensed and in good standing, under the laws of each jurisdiction where its ownership, lease or operation of Property or the conduct of its business requires such qualification or license; and
(d) is in compliance with all Requirements of Law;
except, in each case referred to in clause (c) or clause (d), to the extent that the failure to do so would not reasonably be expected to have, either individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect.
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3.2 Corporate Authorization; No Contravention. The execution, delivery and performance by each of the Credit Parties of this Agreement and by each Credit Party and each of their respective Subsidiaries of any other Loan Document and Related Agreements to which such Person is party, and, as applicable, the consummation of the Related Transactions and other transactions contemplated therein, have been duly authorized by all necessary action, and do not and will not:
(a) contravene the terms of any of that Person’s Organization Documents;
(b) conflict with or result in any material breach, default or contravention of, or result in the creation of any Lien (other than a Permitted Lien) under, or permit the termination or acceleration of, any document evidencing any material Contractual Obligation to which such Person is a party or any order, injunction, writ or decree of any Governmental Authority to which such Person or its Property is subject;
(c) violate any material Requirement of Law; or
(d) negatively affect any Group Member’s right to receive, or reduce the amount of, payments and reimbursements from Third Party Payors, or materially affect any Health Care Permit.
3.3 Governmental Authorization. No approval, consent, exemption, authorization, or other action by, or notice to, or Permit of, or filing with, any Governmental Authority or consent of, or notice to, any Person, is necessary or required in connection with the execution, delivery or performance by, or enforcement against, any Credit Party or any Subsidiary of any Credit Party of this Agreement, any other Loan Document or Related Agreement, or, as applicable, the consummation of the Related Transactions and other transactions related thereto, except (a) for recordings and filings in connection with the Liens granted to Agent under the Collateral Documents, (b) those obtained or made on or prior to the Closing Date and (c) in the case of any Related Agreement, those which, if not obtained or made, would not reasonably be expected to have, either individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect.
3.4 Binding Effect. This Agreement and each other Loan Document and Related Agreement to which any Credit Party or any Subsidiary of any Credit Party is a party constitute the legal, valid and binding obligations of each such Person which is a party thereto, enforceable against such Person in accordance with their respective terms, except as enforceability may be limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, or similar laws affecting the enforcement of creditors’ rights generally or by equitable principles relating to enforceability.
3.5 Litigation. Except as specifically disclosed in Schedule 3.5, there are no actions, suits, proceedings, claims or disputes pending, or to the best knowledge of each Credit Party, threatened or contemplated, at law, in equity, in arbitration or before any Governmental Authority, against any Credit Party, any Subsidiary of any Credit Party or any of their respective Properties which:
(a) purport to affect or pertain to this Agreement, any other Loan Document or Related Agreement, or any of the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby; or
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(b) would reasonably be expected to result in equitable relief or monetary judgment(s), individually or in the aggregate, that could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
No injunction, writ, temporary restraining order or any order of any nature has been issued by any court or other Governmental Authority purporting to enjoin or restrain the execution, delivery or performance of this Agreement, any other Loan Document or any Related Agreement, or directing that the transactions provided for herein or therein not be consummated as herein or therein provided. As of the Closing Date, no Credit Party or any Subsidiary of any Credit Party is the subject of an audit or, to each Credit Party’s knowledge, any review or investigation by any Governmental Authority (excluding the IRS and other taxing authorities) concerning the violation or possible violation of any Requirement of Law.
3.6 No Default. No Default or Event of Default exists or would result from the incurring of any Obligations by any Credit Party or the grant or perfection of Agent’s Liens on the Collateral or the consummation of the Related Transactions. No Credit Party and no Subsidiary of any Credit Party is in default under or with respect to any Contractual Obligation in any respect which, individually or together with all such defaults, would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
3.7 ERISA Compliance. Schedule 3.7 sets forth, as of the Closing Date, a complete and correct list of, and that separately identifies, (a) all Title IV Plans, (b) all Multiemployer Plans and (c) all material Benefit Plans. Each Benefit Plan, and each trust thereunder, intended to qualify for tax exempt status under Section 401 or 501 of the Code or other Requirements of Law so qualifies. Except for those that would not, in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, (x) each Benefit Plan is in compliance with applicable provisions of ERISA, the Code and other Requirements of Law, (y) there are no existing or pending (or to the knowledge of any Credit Party, threatened) claims (other than routine claims for benefits in the normal course), sanctions, actions, lawsuits or other proceedings or investigation involving any Benefit Plan to which any Credit Party incurs or otherwise has or could have an obligation or any Liability and (z) no ERISA Event is reasonably expected to occur. On the Closing Date, no ERISA Event has occurred in connection with which obligations and liabilities (contingent or otherwise) remain outstanding.
3.8 Use of Proceeds; Margin Regulations. The proceeds of the Loans are intended to be and shall be used solely for the purposes set forth in and permitted by Section 4.10, and are intended to be and shall be used in compliance with Section 5.8. No Credit Party and no Subsidiary of any Credit Party is engaged in the business of purchasing or selling Margin Stock or extending credit for the purpose of purchasing or carrying Margin Stock. Proceeds of the Loans shall not be used for the purpose of purchasing or carrying Margin Stock. As of the Closing Date, except as set forth on Schedule 3.8, no Credit Party and no Subsidiary of any Credit Party owns any Margin Stock.
3.9 Title to Properties. As of the Closing Date, the Real Estate listed in Schedule 3.9 constitutes all of the Real Estate of each Credit Party and each of their respective Subsidiaries. Each of the Credit Parties and each of their respective Subsidiaries has good record and marketable title in fee simple to, or valid leasehold interests in, all Real Estate, and good and
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valid title to all owned personal property and valid leasehold interests in all leased personal property, in each instance, necessary or used in the ordinary conduct of their respective businesses. None of the Property of any Credit Party or any Subsidiary of any Credit Party is subject to any Liens other than Permitted Liens. As of the Closing Date, Schedule 3.9 also describes any purchase options, rights of first refusal or other similar contractual rights pertaining to any Real Estate. All material permits required to have been issued to enable the Real Estate to be lawfully occupied and used for all of the purposes for which it is currently occupied and used have been lawfully issued and are in full force and effect.
3.10 Taxes. All federal, state, local and foreign income and franchise and other material tax returns, reports and statements (collectively, the “Tax Returns”) required to be filed by any Tax Affiliate have been filed with the appropriate Governmental Authorities, all such Tax Returns are true and correct in all material respects, and all taxes, assessments and other governmental charges and impositions reflected therein or otherwise due and payable have been paid prior to the date on which any Liability may be added thereto for non-payment thereof except for those contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings diligently conducted and for which adequate reserves are maintained on the books of the appropriate Tax Affiliate in accordance with GAAP. Except as set forth on Schedule 3.10, as of the Closing Date, no Tax Return is under audit or examination by any Governmental Authority and no notice of any audit or examination or any assertion of any claim for Taxes has been given or made by any Governmental Authority. Proper and accurate amounts have been withheld by each Tax Affiliate from their respective employees for all periods in compliance with the tax, social security and unemployment withholding provisions of applicable Requirements of Law and such withholdings have been timely paid to the respective Governmental Authorities. No Tax Affiliate has participated in a “reportable transaction” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.6011-4(b) or has been a member of an affiliated, combined or unitary group other than the group of which a Tax Affiliate is the common parent.
3.11 Financial Condition.
(a) Each of (i) the audited consolidated balance sheets of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries dated December 31, 2010, and the related audited consolidated statements of income or operations, shareholders’ equity and cash flows for the Fiscal Year ended on that date, (ii) the unaudited interim consolidated balance sheets of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries dated March, 31, 2011 and June 30, 2011 and the related unaudited consolidated statements of income and cash flows for the Fiscal Quarter then ended, (iii) the unaudited interim consolidated balance sheets of the Seller and its Subsidiaries dated March, 31, 2011 and June 30, 2011 and the related unaudited consolidated statements of income and cash flows for the Fiscal Quarter then ended, (iv) the unaudited interim consolidated balance sheets of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries dated May, 31, 2011, June 30, 2011, July 31, 2011 and August 31, 2011 and the related unaudited consolidated statements of income and cash flows for the calendar month then ended and (v) the unaudited interim consolidated balance sheets of the Seller and its Subsidiaries dated May, 31, 2011, June 30, 2011, July 31, 2011 and August 31, 2011 and the related unaudited consolidated statements of income and cash flows for the calendar month then ended, delivered on the Closing Date:
(x) were prepared in accordance with GAAP consistently applied throughout the respective periods covered thereby, except as otherwise expressly noted therein, subject to, in the case of the unaudited interim financial statements, normal year-end adjustments and the lack of footnote disclosures; and
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(y) present fairly in all material respects the consolidated financial condition of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, and the Seller and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, as applicable and in each case, for the avoidance of doubt, without giving pro forma effect to the consummation of the Closing Date Merger, as of the dates thereof and results of operations for the periods covered thereby.
(b) (i)(A) The pro forma unaudited consolidated balance sheet of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries dated June 30, 2011 and the related pro forma consolidated statement of income of Borrower and its Subsidiaries as of and for the twelve-month period then ended and (B) the combined estimated pro forma financial statements for the Borrower and its Subsidiaries for Fiscal Year 2011, including revenue and EBITDA for the Borrower and its Subsidiaries by Fiscal Quarter, in the case of each of clauses (A) and (B), delivered on the Closing Date, were (1) prepared by the Borrower giving pro forma effect to the funding of the Loans and Related Transactions, (2) based on the unaudited consolidated and consolidating balance sheets of the Borrower, the Seller and their respective Subsidiaries dated June 30, 2011, (3) prepared in good faith on the basis of assumptions stated therein, which assumptions were reasonable in light of existing conditions and (4) prepared in accordance with GAAP, with only such adjustments thereto as would be required in a manner consistent with GAAP, and (ii) the consolidated financial projections for the Borrower and its Subsidiaries for the six year period commencing with the 2012 calendar year delivered on the Closing Date, in each case, (A) were prepared by the Borrower giving pro forma effect to the funding of the Loans and Related Transactions as if the same had occurred as of such date (in the case of such balance sheet) or at the beginning of such period (in the case of such other financial statements) and (B) meet the requirements of Regulation S-X under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and all other accounting rules and regulations of the SEC promulgated thereunder applicable to a registration statement under such Act on Form S-1.
(c) Since March 31, 2011, there has been no Material Adverse Effect.
(d) The Credit Parties and their Subsidiaries have no Indebtedness other than Indebtedness permitted pursuant to Section 5.5 and have no Contingent Obligations other than Contingent Obligations permitted pursuant to Section 5.9.
(e) All financial performance projections delivered to Agent, including the financial performance projections delivered on or prior to the Closing Date, represent the Borrower’s good faith estimate of future financial performance and are based on assumptions believed by the Borrower to be fair and reasonable in light of current market conditions, it being acknowledged and agreed by Agent and Lenders that projections as to future events are not to be viewed as facts and that the actual results during the period or periods covered by such projections may differ materially from the projected results.
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3.12 Environmental Matters. Except as set forth in Schedule 3.12 and except where any failures to comply would not reasonably be expected to result in, either individually or in the aggregate, Material Environmental Liabilities to the Credit Parties and their Subsidiaries, (a) the operations of each Credit Party and each Subsidiary of each Credit Party are and have been in compliance with all applicable Environmental Laws, including obtaining, maintaining and complying with all Permits required by any applicable Environmental Law, (b) no Credit Party and no Subsidiary of any Credit Party is party to, and no Credit Party and no Subsidiary of any Credit Party and no Real Estate currently (or to the knowledge of any Credit Party previously) owned, leased, subleased, operated or otherwise occupied by or for any such Person is subject to or the subject of, (i) any Contractual Obligation dealing with settlement or remedial obligations of any Credit Party or any Subsidiary of any Credit Party or (ii) any pending (or, to the knowledge of any Credit Party, threatened) order, action, investigation, suit, proceeding, audit, claim, demand, dispute or notice of violation or of potential liability or similar notice relating in any manner to any Environmental Law (and, in the case of any such previously owned, leased, subleased, operated or otherwise occupied Real Estate, any such pending or threatened order, action, investigation, suit, proceeding, audit, claim, demand, dispute or notice concerns a period when a Credit Party or Subsidiary of a Credit Party had an interest in such Real Property), (c) no Lien in favor of any Governmental Authority securing, in whole or in part, Environmental Liabilities has attached to any property of any Credit Party or any Subsidiary of any Credit Party and, to the knowledge of any Credit Party, no facts, circumstances or conditions exist that could reasonably be expected to result in any such Lien attaching to any such property, (d) no Credit Party and no Subsidiary of any Credit Party has caused or suffered to occur a Release in violation of Environmental Law of Hazardous Materials at, to or from any Real Estate, (e) all Real Estate currently (or to the knowledge of any Credit Party previously) owned, leased, subleased, operated or otherwise occupied by or for any such Credit Party and each Subsidiary of each Credit Party is (or, in the case of any such previously owned, leased, subleased, operated or otherwise occupied Real Estate, was at all such previous times) free of contamination by any Hazardous Materials present in violation of Environmental Law and (f) no Credit Party and no Subsidiary of any Credit Party (i) is or has been engaged in, or has permitted any current or former tenant to engage in, operations in violation of any Environmental Law or (ii) knows of any facts, circumstances or conditions reasonably constituting notice of a violation of any Environmental Law, including receipt of any information request or notice of potential responsibility under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (42 U.S.C. §§ 9601 et seq.) or similar Environmental Laws.
3.13 Regulated Entities. None of any Credit Party, any Person controlling any Credit Party, or any Subsidiary of any Credit Party, is (a) an “investment company” within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940 or (b) subject to regulation under the Federal Power Act, the Interstate Commerce Act, any state public utilities code, or any other Federal or state statute, rule or regulation limiting its ability to incur Indebtedness, pledge its assets or perform its Obligations under the Loan Documents.
3.14 Solvency. Both before and after giving effect to (a) the Loans made and Letters of Credit Issued on or prior to the date this representation and warranty is made or remade, (b) the disbursement of the proceeds of such Loans to or as directed by the Borrower, (c) the consummation of the Related Transactions and (d) the payment and accrual of all transaction costs in connection with the foregoing, both the Credit Parties taken as a whole and the Borrower individually are Solvent.
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3.15 Labor Relations. There are no strikes, work stoppages, slowdowns or lockouts existing, pending (or, to the knowledge of any Credit Party, threatened) against or involving any Credit Party or any Subsidiary of any Credit Party, except for those that would not, in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. Except as set forth on Schedule 3.15, as of the Closing Date, (a) there is no collective bargaining or similar agreement with any union, labor organization, works council or similar representative covering any employee of any Credit Party or any Subsidiary of any Credit Party, (b) no petition for certification or election of any such representative is existing or pending with respect to any employee of any Credit Party or any Subsidiary of any Credit Party and (c) no such representative has sought certification or recognition with respect to any employee of any Credit Party or any Subsidiary of any Credit Party.
3.16 Intellectual Property. Each Credit Party and each Subsidiary of each Credit Party owns, or is licensed to use, all Intellectual Property necessary to conduct its business as currently conducted except for such Intellectual Property the failure of which to own or license would not reasonably be expected to have, either individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect. To the knowledge of each Credit Party, (a) the conduct and operations of the businesses of each Credit Party and each Subsidiary of each Credit Party does not infringe, misappropriate, dilute, violate or otherwise impair any Intellectual Property owned by any other Person and (b) no other Person has contested any right, title or interest of any Credit Party or any Subsidiary of any Credit Party in, or relating to, any Intellectual Property, other than, in each case, as cannot reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
3.17 Brokers’ Fees; Transaction Fees. Except as disclosed on Schedule 3.17 and except for fees payable to Agent and Lenders, none of the Credit Parties or any of their respective Subsidiaries has any obligation to any Person in respect of any finder’s, broker’s or investment banker’s fee in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby.
3.18 Insurance. Each of the Credit Parties and each of their respective Subsidiaries and their respective Properties are insured with financially sound and reputable insurance companies which are not Affiliates of the Borrower, in such amounts, with such deductibles and covering such risks as are customarily carried by companies engaged in similar businesses and owning similar Properties in localities where such Person operates. A true and complete listing of such insurance, including issuers, coverages and deductibles, has been provided to Agent.
3.19 Ventures, Subsidiaries and Affiliates; Outstanding Stock. Except as set forth in Schedule 3.19, as of the Closing Date, no Credit Party and no Subsidiary of any Credit Party has any Subsidiaries, is engaged in any joint venture or partnership with any other Person. All issued and outstanding Stock and Stock Equivalents of each of the Credit Parties and each of their respective Subsidiaries are duly authorized and validly issued, fully paid, non-assessable, and free and clear of all Liens other than, with respect to the Stock and Stock Equivalents of the Borrower and Subsidiaries of the Borrower, those in favor of Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties. All such securities were issued in compliance with all applicable state and
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federal laws concerning the issuance of securities. All of the issued and outstanding Stock of each Credit Party (other than Borrower) and each Subsidiary of each Credit Party is owned by each of the Persons and in the amounts set forth in Schedule 3.19. Except as set forth in Schedule 3.19, there are no pre-emptive or other outstanding rights to purchase, options, warrants or similar rights or agreements pursuant to which any Credit Party may be required to issue, sell, repurchase or redeem any of its Stock or Stock Equivalents or any Stock or Stock Equivalents of its Subsidiaries. Set forth in Schedule 3.19 is a true and complete organizational chart of Borrower and all of its Subsidiaries, which the Credit Parties shall update upon notice to Agent promptly following the completion of any Permitted Acquisition and promptly following the incorporation, organization or formation of any Subsidiary.
3.20 Jurisdiction of Organization; Chief Executive Office. Schedule 3.20 lists each Credit Party’s jurisdiction of organization, legal name and organizational identification number, if any, and the location of such Credit Party’s chief executive office or sole place of business, in each case as of the date hereof, and such Schedule 3.20 also lists all jurisdictions of organization and legal names of such Credit Party for the five years preceding the Closing Date.
3.21 Deposit Accounts and Other Accounts. Schedule 3.21 lists all banks and other financial institutions at which any Credit Party maintains deposit or other accounts as of the Closing Date, and such Schedule correctly identifies the name, address and telephone number of each depository, the name in which the account is held, a brief description of the purpose of the account, and the complete account number therefor.
3.22 Merger Agreement. As of the Closing Date, the Borrower has delivered to Agent (or made available to Agent in an electronic data room) a complete and correct copy of the Merger Agreement (including all schedules, exhibits, amendments, supplements, modifications, assignments and all other material documents delivered pursuant thereto or in connection therewith). No Credit Party and, to each Credit Party’s knowledge, no other Person party thereto is in default in the performance or compliance with any material provisions thereof. The Merger Agreement complies in all material respects with, and the Closing Date Merger has been consummated in all material respects in accordance with, all applicable Requirements of Law. The Merger Agreement is in full force and effect as of the Closing Date and has not been terminated, rescinded or withdrawn. All material requisite approvals by Governmental Authorities having jurisdiction over the Seller, any Credit Party or the other Persons referenced therein with respect to the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement have been obtained, and no such approvals impose any conditions to the consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement or to the conduct by any Credit Party of its business thereafter. To each Credit Party’s knowledge, the Seller’s representations or warranties in the Merger Agreement are true and correct in all material respects. Each of the representations and warranties given by each applicable Credit Party (other than the Seller) in the Merger Agreement is true and correct in all material respects (without duplication of any materiality qualifier contained therein).
3.23 Second Lien Term Loan Documents. As of the Closing Date, the Borrower has delivered to Agent a complete and correct copy of the Second Lien Term Loan Documents (including all schedules, exhibits, amendments, supplements, modifications, assignments and all other documents delivered pursuant thereto or in connection therewith).
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3.24 Full Disclosure. None of the representations or warranties made by any Credit Party or any of their Subsidiaries in the Loan Documents as of the date such representations and warranties are made or deemed made, and none of the statements contained in each exhibit, report, financial statement or certificate furnished in writing by or on behalf of any Credit Party or any of their Subsidiaries in connection with the Loan Documents (including the offering and disclosure materials, if any, delivered by or on behalf of any Credit Party to Agent or the Lenders prior to the Closing Date), contains any untrue statement of a material fact or omits any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements made therein, in light of the circumstances under which they are made, not misleading as of the time when made or delivered; provided, however, that with respect to financial projections, Borrower represents in this Section 3.24 only that such information was prepared in good faith based upon assumptions believed to be reasonable at the time.
3.25 Foreign Assets Control Regulations and Anti-Money Laundering. Each Credit Party and each Subsidiary of each Credit Party is and will remain in compliance in all material respects with all U.S. economic sanctions laws, Executive Orders and implementing regulations as promulgated by the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”), and all applicable anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing provisions of the Bank Secrecy Act and all regulations issued pursuant to it. No Credit Party and no Subsidiary or Affiliate of a Credit Party (i) is a Person designated by the U.S. government on the list of the Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons (the “SDN List”) with which a U.S. Person cannot deal with or otherwise engage in business transactions, (ii) is a Person who is otherwise the target of U.S. economic sanctions laws such that a U.S. Person cannot deal or otherwise engage in business transactions with such Person or (iii) is controlled by (including without limitation by virtue of such person being a director or owning voting shares or interests), or acts, directly or indirectly, for or on behalf of, any person or entity on the SDN List or a foreign government that is the target of U.S. economic sanctions prohibitions such that the entry into, or performance under, this Agreement or any other Loan Document would be prohibited under U.S. law.
3.26 Patriot Act. The Credit Parties, each of their Subsidiaries and each of their Affiliates are in compliance with (a) the Trading with the Enemy Act, and each of the foreign assets control regulations of the United States Treasury Department (31 CFR, Subtitle B Chapter V, as amended) and any other enabling legislation or executive order relating thereto, (b) the Patriot Act and (c) to the extent applicable to the Credit Parties and their Subsidiaries and Affiliates, other federal or state laws relating to “know your customer” and anti-money laundering rules and regulations. No part of the proceeds of any Loan will be used directly or indirectly for any payments to any government official or employee, political party, official of a political party, candidate for political office, or anyone else acting in an official capacity, in order to obtain, retain or direct business or obtain any improper advantage, in violation of the United States Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977.
3.27 Health Care Matters.
(a) Compliance with Health Care Laws. Each Group Member is, and at all times during the six calendar years immediately preceding the Closing Date has been, in material compliance with all Health Care Laws and requirements of Third Party Payor Programs applicable to it, its assets, business or operations. No circumstance exists or event has occurred which could reasonably be expected to result in a material violation of any Health Care Law or any requirement of any Third Party Payor Program.
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(b) Health Care Permits. Each Group Member holds, and at all times during the six calendar years immediately preceding the Closing Date has held, all Health Care Permits necessary for it to own, lease, sublease or operate its assets or to conduct its business or operations as presently conducted (including without limitation, to provide primary medical care services, to subcontract for other provider services, to operate sleep diagnostic centers and to participate in and obtain reimbursement under all Third Party Payor Programs in which the Group Members participate). All such Health Care Permits are, and at all times during the six calendar years immediately preceding the Closing Date have been, in full force and effect and there is and has been no material default under, violation of, or other noncompliance with the terms and conditions of any such Health Care Permit. No condition exists or event has occurred which, in itself or with the giving of notice or lapse of time or both, has resulted or would result in the suspension, revocation, termination, restriction, limitation, modification or non-renewal of any material Health Care Permit. No Governmental Authority has taken, or to the knowledge of any Group Member intends to take, action to suspend, revoke, terminate, place on probation, restrict, limit, modify or not renew any Health Care Permit of any Group Member. As of the Closing Date, Schedule 3.27 sets forth an accurate, complete and current list of all material Health Care Permits, and all Third Party Payor Authorizations for Third Party Payor Programs in which any Group Member participates.
(c) Third Party Payor Authorizations. Each Group Member holds, and at all times during the six calendar years immediately preceding the Closing Date has held, in full force and effect, all material Third Party Payor Authorizations necessary to participate in and be reimbursed by all material Third Party Payor Programs in which any Group Member participates. There is no investigation, audit, claim review, or other action pending, or to the knowledge of any Group Member, threatened, which could result in a suspension, revocation, termination, restriction, limitation, modification or non-renewal of any Third Party Payor Authorization or result in any Group Member’s exclusion from any Third Party Payor Program
(d) Licensed Personnel. To the knowledge of each Group Member, the Licensed Personnel have complied and currently are in compliance in all material respects with all applicable Health Care Laws, and hold and, at all times that such Persons have been Licensed Personnel of any Group Member, have held, all professional licenses and other Health Care Permits and, to the knowledge of each Group Member, all Third Party Payor Authorizations required in the performance of such Licensed Personnel’s duties for such Group Member, and, each such Health Care Permit and Third Party Payor Authorization is in full force and effect and, to the knowledge of each Group Member, no suspension, revocation, termination, impairment, modification or non-renewal of any such Permit or Third Party Payor Authorization is pending or threatened.
(e) Accreditation. Each Group Member has obtained and maintains accreditation in good standing and without limitation or impairment by all required accrediting organizations, except where the failure to have or maintain such accreditation in good standing or imposition of limitation or impairment would not have, in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect.
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(f) Proceedings; Audits. There are no pending (or, to the knowledge of any Group Member, threatened) Proceedings against or affecting any Group Member relating to any actual or alleged material non-compliance with any Health Care Law or requirement of any Third Party Payor Program. There are no facts, circumstances or conditions that would reasonably be expected to form the basis for any such Proceeding against or affecting any Group Member. There currently exist no restrictions, deficiencies, required plans of correction or other such remedial measures with respect to any Health Care Permit of a Group Member, or a Group Member’s participation in any Third Party Payor Program. Without limiting the foregoing, no validation review, program integrity review, audit or other investigation related to any Group Member or its operations, or the consummation of the transactions contemplated in the Loan Documents or related to the Collateral (i) has been conducted by or on behalf of any Governmental Authority, or (ii) is scheduled, pending or, to the knowledge of any Group Member, threatened.
(g) Overpayments. No Group Member (i) has retained an overpayment received from, or failed to refund any amount due to, any Third Party Payor in violation of any Health Care Law or contract; and (ii) except as set forth on Schedule 3.27, has received written notice of, or has knowledge of, any overpayment or refunds due to any Third Party Payor.
(h) Material Statements. No Group Member, nor any officer, affiliate, employee or agent of any Group Member, has made an untrue statement of a material fact or fraudulent statement to any Governmental Authority, failed to disclose a material fact that must be disclosed to any Governmental Authority, or committed an act, made a statement or failed to make a statement that, at the time such statement, disclosure or failure to disclose occurred, would reasonably be expected to constitute a violation of any Health Care Law.
(i) Prohibited Transactions. No Group Member, nor, to the knowledge of any Group Member, any officer, affiliate, employee or agent of any Group Member, directly or indirectly, has (i) offered or paid or solicited or received any remuneration, in cash or in kind, or made any financial arrangements, in violation of any Health Care Law; (ii) given or agreed to give, or is aware that there has been made or that there is any agreement to make, any gift or gratuitous payment of any kind, nature or description (whether in money, property or services) in violation of any Health Care Law; (iii) made or agreed to make, or is aware that there has been made or that there is any agreement to make, any contribution, payment or gift of funds or property to, or for the private use of, any governmental official, employee or agent where either the contribution, payment or gift or the purpose of such contribution, payment or gift is or was illegal under the laws of any Governmental Authority having jurisdiction over such payment, contribution or gift; (iv) established or maintained any unrecorded fund or asset for any purpose or made any misleading, false or artificial entries on any of its books or records for any reason; or (v) made, or agreed to make, or is aware that there has been made or that there is any agreement to make, any payment to any person with the intention or understanding that any part of such payment would be in violation of any Health Care Law or used or was given for any purpose other than that described in the documents supporting such payment. To the knowledge of each Group Member, no person has filed or has threatened to file against any Group Member or their Affiliates an action under any federal or state whistleblower statute, including without limitation, under the False Claims Act of 1863 (31 U.S.C. § 3729 et seq.).
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(j) Exclusion. None of the Group Members, nor, to the knowledge of any Group Member, any owner, officer, director, partner, agent, managing employee or Person with a “direct or indirect ownership interest” (as that phrase is defined in 42 C.F.R. § 420.201) in any Group Member, nor any Licensed Personnel of any Group Member, has been (or, has been threatened to be) (i) excluded from any Third Party Payor Program pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1320a-7 and related regulations, (ii) “suspended” or “debarred” from selling products to the U.S. government or its agencies pursuant to the Federal Acquisition Regulation, relating to debarment and suspension applicable to federal government agencies generally (42 C.F.R. Subpart 9.4), or other applicable laws or regulations, (iii) debarred, disqualified, suspended or excluded from participation in any Third Party Payor Program or is listed on the General Services Administration list of excluded parties, nor is any such debarment, disqualification, suspension or exclusion threatened or pending, or (iv) made a party to any other action by any Governmental Authority that may prohibit it from selling products or providing services to any governmental or other purchaser pursuant to any federal, state or local laws or regulations.
(k) Corporate Integrity Agreement. None of the Group Members, nor any owner, officer, director, partner, agent, managing employee or Person with a “direct or indirect ownership interest” (as that phrase is defined in 42 C.F.R. §1001.1001) in any Group Member is a party to, or bound by, any order, individual integrity agreement, corporate integrity agreement, corporate compliance agreement, deferred prosecution agreement, or other formal or informal agreement with any Governmental Authority concerning compliance with Health Care Laws.
(l) Reimbursement Coding. To the extent any Group Member provides to its customers or any other Persons reimbursement coding or billing advice, all such advice is and, as applicable, has been, in all material respects, complete and accurate, and conforms and, as applicable, has materially conformed, to the applicable American Medical Association’s Current Procedural Terminology (CPT), the International Classification of Disease, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD 9 CM), and other applicable coding systems, and the advice can be relied upon to create accurate claims for reimbursement by Third Party Payors.
3.28 Senior Debt. This Agreement and the other Loan Documents and the Obligations are and will at all times be direct and unconditional general obligations of the Credit Parties, and rank and will at all times rank in right of payment and otherwise at least pari passu with all other unsecured Indebtedness of the Credit Parties, whether now existing or hereafter outstanding.
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ARTICLE IV -
AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS
Each Credit Party covenants and agrees that, so long as any Lender shall have any Commitment hereunder, or any Loan or other Obligation (other than contingent indemnification Obligations to the extent no claim giving rise thereto has been asserted) shall remain unpaid or unsatisfied:
4.1 Financial Statements. Each Credit Party shall maintain, and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to maintain, a system of accounting established and administered in accordance with sound business practices to permit the preparation of financial statements in conformity with GAAP (provided that quarterly financial statements shall not be required to have footnote disclosures and are subject to normal year-end adjustments). The Borrower shall deliver to Agent and each Lender by Electronic Transmission and (other than for documents filed with the SEC which shall be delivered in the same form as filed with the SEC) in detail reasonably satisfactory to Agent and the Required Lenders:
(a) as soon as available, but not later than ninety (90) days after the end of each Fiscal Year, a copy of the audited consolidated and consolidating balance sheets of the Borrower and each of its Subsidiaries as at the end of such Fiscal Year and the related consolidated and consolidating statements of income or operations, shareholders’ equity and cash flows for such Fiscal Year, setting forth in each case in comparative form the figures for the previous Fiscal Year, and accompanied by the report of any “Big Four” or other nationally-recognized independent public accounting firm reasonably acceptable to Agent which report shall (i) contain an unqualified opinion, stating that such consolidated financial statements present fairly in all material respects the financial position for the periods indicated in conformity with GAAP applied on a basis consistent with prior years and (ii) not include any explanatory paragraph expressing substantial doubt as to going concern status; and
(b) as soon as available, but not later than forty-five (45) days after the end of each Fiscal Quarter of each year, a copy of the unaudited consolidated and consolidating balance sheets of the Borrower and each of its Subsidiaries, and the related consolidated and consolidating statements of income and cash flows as of the end of such Fiscal Quarter and for the portion of the Fiscal Year then ended, all certified on behalf of the Borrower by an appropriate Responsible Officer of the Borrower as being complete and correct and fairly presenting, in all material respects, in accordance with GAAP, the financial position and the results of operations of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, subject to normal year-end adjustments and absence of footnote disclosures.
4.2 Certificates; Other Information. The Borrower shall furnish to Agent and each Lender by Electronic Transmission:
(a) together with each delivery of financial statements pursuant to subsections 4.1(a) and 4.1(b), (i) a management discussion and analysis report, in reasonable detail, signed by the chief financial officer of the Borrower, describing the operations and financial condition of the Credit Parties and their Subsidiaries for the Fiscal Quarter and the portion of the Fiscal Year then ended (or for the Fiscal Year then ended in the case of annual financial statements), and (ii) a report setting forth in comparative form the corresponding figures for the corresponding periods of the previous Fiscal Year and the corresponding figures from the most recent projections for the current Fiscal Year delivered pursuant to subsection 4.2(d) and discussing the reasons for any significant variations;
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(b) concurrently with the delivery of the financial statements referred to in subsections 4.1(a) and 4.1(b) above, a fully and properly completed Compliance Certificate in the form of Exhibit 4.2(b), certified on behalf of the Borrower by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower;
(c) promptly after the same are sent, copies of all financial statements and reports which any Credit Party sends to its shareholders or other equity holders, as applicable, generally and promptly after the same are filed, copies of all financial statements and regular, periodic or special reports which such Person may make to, or file with, the SEC or any similar Governmental Authority;
(d) as soon as available and, in any event, no later than the earlier of (i) fifteen (15) days after the approval of the Borrower’s board of directors and (ii) seventy (70) days after the last day of each Fiscal Year of the Borrower, projections and budget for the Credit Parties (and their Subsidiaries’) consolidated and consolidating financial performance for the forthcoming Fiscal Year on a quarter by quarter basis, including assumptions made in the build-up of such budget;
(e) promptly upon receipt thereof, copies of any reports submitted by the Borrower’s certified public accountants in connection with each annual, interim or special audit or review of any type of the financial statements or internal control systems of any Credit Party made by such accountants, including any management or comment letters submitted by such accountants to management of any Credit Party in connection with their services;
(f) from time to time, if Agent determines that obtaining appraisals is necessary in order for Agent or any Lender to comply with applicable laws or regulations (including any appraisals required to comply with FIRREA), and at any time if a Default or an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, Agent may, or may require the Borrower to, in either case at the Borrower’s expense, obtain appraisals in form and substance and from appraisers reasonably satisfactory to Agent stating the then current fair market value of all or any portion of the personal property of any Credit Party or any Subsidiary of any Credit Party and the fair market value or such other value as determined by Agent (for example, replacement cost for purposes of Flood Insurance) of any Real Estate of any Credit Party or any Subsidiary of any Credit Party;
(g) no later than thirty (30) days after the end of each Fiscal Quarter, a certificate of a Responsible Officer of Borrower setting forth in reasonable detail any Margin Stock owned by each Credit Party and each Subsidiary of each Credit Party as of the last day of such Fiscal Quarter;
(h) together with the delivery of the financial statements referred to in subsection 4.1(b) above, a summary of the outstanding balances of all intercompany Indebtedness as of the last day of the Fiscal Quarter covered by such financial statements, certified as complete and correct in all material respects by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower as part of the Compliance Certificate delivered in connection with such financial statements;
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(i) together with the delivery of the financial statements referred to in subsection 4.1(a) above, each in form and substance satisfactory to the Agent and certified as complete and correct in all material respects by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower as part of the Compliance Certificate delivered in connection with such financial statements, a list of all material insurance coverage maintained as of the date thereof by any Group Member, together with such other related documents and information as the Agent may reasonably require; and
(j) promptly, such additional business, financial, corporate affairs, perfection certificates and other information as Agent may from time to time reasonably request.
4.3 Notices. The Borrower shall notify promptly Agent and each Lender of each of the following (and in no event later than four (4) Business Days after a Responsible Officer of any Group Member has knowledge of):
(a) the occurrence or existence of any Default or Event of Default, or any event or circumstance that will become a Default or Event of Default;
(b) any breach or non-performance of, or any default under, any Contractual Obligation of any Credit Party or any Subsidiary of any Credit Party, or any violation of, or non-compliance with, any Requirement of Law, which with respect to either of the foregoing would reasonably be expected to result, either individually or in the aggregate, in a Material Adverse Effect, including a description of such breach, non-performance, default, violation or non-compliance and the steps, if any, such Person has taken, is taking or proposes to take in respect thereof;
(c) any dispute, litigation, investigation, proceeding or suspension which may exist at any time between any Credit Party or any Subsidiary of any Credit Party and any Governmental Authority which would reasonably be expected to result, either individually or in the aggregate, in a Material Adverse Effect;
(d) the commencement of, or any material development in, any litigation or proceeding affecting any Group Member or any action, investigation, suit, proceeding, audit, claim, demand, order or dispute with, by or before any Governmental Authority affecting any Group Member or any property of any Group Member, in each case, that (i) seeks injunctive or similar relief of a material nature or that seeks an injunction or other stay of the performance of any Loan Document or Related Agreement, (ii) claims an amount of damages or, in the reasonable judgment of the Borrower, exposes any Group Member to liability, in either case, in excess of $5,000,000 (or its equivalent in another currency or currencies) in the aggregate (excluding amounts covered by insurance to the extent the relevant independent third-party insurer (which for the purposes hereof includes Healthcare Underwriters Group of Florida and its successors and assigns) has not denied coverage therefor), (iii) alleges potential or actual material violations of any Health Care Law by any Group Member or any of its Licensed Personnel or (iv) if adversely determined would have a Material Adverse Effect;
(e)(i) the receipt by any Credit Party of any written notice of violation of or potential liability or similar notice under Environmental Law, (ii)(A) unpermitted Releases, (B) the existence of any condition that could reasonably be expected to result in violations of or
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Liabilities under, any Environmental Law or (C) the commencement of, or any material change to, any action, investigation, suit, proceeding, audit, claim, demand, dispute alleging a violation of or Liability under any Environmental Law which in the case of clauses (A), (B) and (C) above, in the aggregate for all such clauses, would reasonably be expected to result in Material Environmental Liabilities, (iii) the receipt by any Credit Party of notification that any property of any Credit Party is subject to any Lien in favor of any Governmental Authority securing, in whole or in part, Environmental Liabilities and (iv) any proposed acquisition or lease of Real Estate, if such acquisition or lease would have a reasonable likelihood of resulting in Material Environmental Liabilities;
(f) (i) on or prior to any filing by any ERISA Affiliate of any notice of any reportable event under Section 4043 of ERISA or intent to terminate any Title IV Plan, a copy of such notice, (ii) promptly, and in any event within ten (10) days, after any officer of any ERISA Affiliate knows or has reason to know that a request for a minimum funding waiver under Section 412 of the Code has been filed with respect to any Title IV Plan or Multiemployer Plan, a notice describing such waiver request and any action that any ERISA Affiliate proposes to take with respect thereto, together with a copy of any notice filed with the PBGC or the IRS pertaining thereto, and (iii) promptly, and in any event within ten (10) days after any officer of any ERISA Affiliate knows or has reason to know that an ERISA Event will or has occurred, a notice describing such ERISA Event, and any action that any ERISA Affiliate proposes to take with respect thereto, together with a copy of any notices received from or filed with the PBGC, IRS, Multiemployer Plan or other Benefit Plan pertaining thereto;
(g) any Material Adverse Effect subsequent to the date of the most recent audited financial statements delivered to Agent and Lenders pursuant to this Agreement;
(h) any material change in accounting policies or financial reporting practices by any Credit Party or any Subsidiary of any Credit Party;
(i) any labor controversy resulting in or threatening to result in any strike, work stoppage, boycott, shutdown or other labor disruption against or involving any Credit Party or any Subsidiary of any Credit Party if the same would reasonably be expected to have, either individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect;
(j) the creation, establishment or acquisition of any Subsidiary or the issuance by or to any Credit Party of any Stock or Stock Equivalent (other than issuances by Borrower of Stock or Stock Equivalents not requiring a mandatory prepayment hereunder);
(k) (i) the creation, or filing with the IRS or any other Governmental Authority, of any Contractual Obligation or other document extending, or having the effect of extending, the period for assessment or collection of any income, franchise or other material taxes with respect to any Tax Affiliate and (ii) the creation of any Contractual Obligation of any Tax Affiliate, or the receipt of any request directed to any Tax Affiliate, to make any adjustment under Section 481(a) of the Code, by reason of a change in accounting method or otherwise, which would reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect;
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(l) the voluntary disclosure by any Group Member to the Office of the Inspector General of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, or any Third Party Payor Program (including to any intermediary, carrier or contractor of such program), of an actual or potential overpayment matter involving the submission of claims to a Third Party Payor in an amount greater than $250,000;
(m) that any Group Member, or to the knowledge of any Group Member, an owner, officer, manager, employee or Person with a “direct or indirect ownership interest” (as that phrase is defined in 42 C.F.R. §420.201) in any Group Member: (i) has had a civil monetary penalty assessed against him or her pursuant to 42 U.S.C. §1320a-7a or is the subject of a proceeding seeking to assess such penalty; (ii) has been excluded from participation in a Federal Health Care Program (as that term is defined in 42 U.S.C. §1320a-7b) or is the subject of a proceeding seeking to assess such penalty; (iii) has been convicted (as that term is defined in 42 C.F.R. §1001.2) of any of those offenses described in 42 U.S.C. §1320a-7b or 18 U.S.C. §§669, 1035, 1347, 1518 or is the subject of a proceeding seeking to assess such penalty; or (iv) has been involved or named in a U.S. Attorney complaint made or any other action taken pursuant to the False Claims Act under 31 U.S.C. §§3729-3731 or in any qui tam action brought pursuant to 31 U.S.C. §3729 et seq.;
(n) receipt by any Group Member of any notice or communication from an accrediting organization that such Person is (i) subject to or is required to file a plan of correction with respect to any accreditation survey, or (ii) in danger of losing its accreditation due to a failure to comply with a plan of correction;
(o) any material health care survey, report or other communication related to licensure, accreditation, or participation in any Third Party Payor Program that includes any statement of deficiencies pertaining to any Group Member;
(p) any material validation review, program integrity review or material reimbursement audits related to any Group Member in connection with any Third Party Payor Program;
(q) any claim to recover any alleged overpayments with respect to any receivables in excess of $250,000;
(r) notice of any material reduction in the level of reimbursement expected to be received with respect to receivables;
(s) any allegations of licensure violations or fraudulent acts or omissions involving any Group Member, or, to the knowledge of any Group Member, any Licensed Personnel;
(t) the pending or, to the knowledge of any Group Member, threatened imposition of any material fine or penalty by any Governmental Authority under any Health Care Law against any Group Member, or, to the knowledge of any Group Member, any Licensed Personnel;
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(u) any changes in any Health Care Law (including the adoption of a new Health Care Law) known to a Group Member that would, in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect;
(v) notice of any Group Member’s fees in excess of $250,000 being contested or disputed;
(w) any pending or threatened revocation, suspension, termination, probation, restriction, limitation, denial, or non-renewal with respect to any Health Care Permit or Third Party Payor Authorization;
(x) any non-routine and material inspection of any facility of a Group member by any Governmental Authority;
(y) notice of the occurrence of any reportable event as defined in any corporate integrity agreement, corporate compliance agreement or deferred prosecution agreement pursuant to which any Group Member has to make a submission to any Governmental Authority or other Person under the terms of such agreement, if any; and
(z) without duplication, any failure of any Group Member to comply with the covenants and conditions of Section 4.17 hereof.
Each notice pursuant to this Section shall be in electronic form accompanied by a statement by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower, setting forth details of the occurrence referred to therein, and stating what action the Borrower or other Person proposes to take with respect thereto and at what time. Each notice under subsection 4.3(a) shall describe with particularity any and all clauses or provisions of this Agreement or other Loan Document that have been breached or violated.
4.4 Preservation of Corporate Existence, Etc. Each Credit Party shall, and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to:
(a) preserve and maintain in full force and effect its organizational existence and good standing under the laws of its jurisdiction of incorporation, organization or formation, as applicable, except, with respect to the Borrower’s Subsidiaries, in connection with transactions permitted by Section 5.3;
(b) preserve and maintain in full force and effect all rights, privileges, qualifications, permits, licenses and franchises necessary in the normal conduct of its business except in connection with transactions permitted by Section 5.3 and sales of assets permitted by Section 5.2 and except as would not reasonably be expected to have, either individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect;
(c) use its commercially reasonable efforts, in the Ordinary Course of Business, to preserve its business organization and preserve the goodwill and business of the customers, suppliers and others having material business relations with it;
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(d) preserve or renew all of its registered trademarks, trade names and service marks, the non-preservation or non-renewal of which would reasonably be expected to have, either individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect; and
(e) conduct its business and affairs without infringement of or interference with any Intellectual Property of any other Person in any material respect and shall comply in all material respects with the terms of its IP Licenses.
4.5 Maintenance of Property. Each Credit Party shall maintain, and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to maintain, and preserve all its Property which is used in its business in good working order and condition, ordinary wear and tear excepted and shall make all necessary repairs thereto and renewals and replacements thereof except where the failure to do so would not reasonably be expected to have, either individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect.
4.6 Insurance.
(a) Each Credit Party shall, and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to, (i) maintain or cause to be maintained in full force and effect all policies of insurance of any kind with respect to the property and businesses of the Credit Parties and such Subsidiaries (including policies of life, fire, theft, product liability, public liability, Flood Insurance, property damage, other casualty, employee fidelity, workers’ compensation, business interruption and employee health and welfare insurance) with financially sound and reputable insurance companies or associations (in each case that are not Affiliates of the Borrower) of a nature and providing such coverage as is sufficient and as is customarily carried by businesses of the size and character of the business of the Credit Parties and (ii) cause all such insurance relating to any property or business of any Credit Party to name Agent as additional insured or loss payee, as appropriate. All policies of insurance on real and personal property of the Credit Parties will contain an endorsement, in form and substance acceptable to Agent, showing loss payable to Agent (Form CP 1218 or equivalent) and extra expense and business interruption endorsements. Such endorsement, or an independent instrument furnished to Agent, will provide that the insurance companies will give Agent at least thirty (30) days’ prior written notice before any such policy or policies of insurance shall be altered or canceled and that no act or default of the Credit Parties or any other Person shall affect the right of Agent to recover under such policy or policies of insurance in case of loss or damage. Each Credit Party shall direct all present and future insurers under its “All Risk” policies of property insurance to pay all proceeds payable thereunder directly to Agent, subject to the Borrower’s rights under Section 1.8(c) hereof. If any insurance proceeds are paid by check, draft or other instrument payable to any Credit Party and Agent jointly, Agent may endorse such Credit Party’s name thereon and do such other things as Agent may deem advisable to reduce the same to cash. Agent reserves the right at any time, upon review of each Credit Party’s risk profile, to require additional forms and limits of insurance. Notwithstanding the requirement in subsection (i) above, Federal Flood Insurance shall not be required for Real Estate not located in a Special Flood Hazard Area.
(b) Unless the Credit Parties provide Agent with evidence of the insurance coverage required by this Agreement, Agent may purchase insurance at the Credit Parties’ expense to protect Agent’s and Lenders’ interests, including interests in the Credit Parties’ and
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their Subsidiaries’ properties. This insurance may, but need not, protect the Credit Parties’ and their Subsidiaries’ interests. The coverage that Agent purchases may not pay any claim that any Credit Party or any Subsidiary of any Credit Party makes or any claim that is made against such Credit Party or any Subsidiary in connection with said Property. The Borrower may later cancel any insurance purchased by Agent, but only after providing Agent with evidence that there has been obtained insurance as required by this Agreement. If Agent purchases insurance, the Credit Parties will be responsible for the costs of that insurance, including interest and any other charges Agent may impose in connection with the placement of insurance, until the effective date of the cancellation or expiration of the insurance. The costs of the insurance shall be added to the Obligations. The costs of the insurance may be more than the cost of insurance the Borrower may be able to obtain on its own.
4.7 Payment of Obligations. Such Credit Party shall, and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to, pay, discharge and perform as the same shall become due and payable or required to be performed, all their respective obligations and liabilities, including:
(a) all tax liabilities, assessments and governmental charges or levies upon it or its Property, unless the same are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings diligently prosecuted which stay the enforcement of any Lien and for which adequate reserves in accordance with GAAP are being maintained by such Person;
(b) all lawful claims which, if unpaid, would by law become a Lien upon its Property unless the same are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings diligently prosecuted which stay the imposition or enforcement of any Lien and for which adequate reserves in accordance with GAAP are being maintained by such Person;
(c) all Indebtedness greater than $1,000,000 individually, as and when due and payable (after giving effect to applicable grace periods), but subject to any subordination provisions contained herein, in any other Loan Documents and/or in any instrument or agreement evidencing such Indebtedness;
(d) the performance of all obligations under any Contractual Obligation to which such Credit Party or any of its Subsidiaries is bound, or to which it or any of its Property is subject, including the Related Agreements, except where the failure to perform would not reasonably be expected to have, either individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect; and
(e) payments to the extent necessary to avoid the imposition of a Lien with respect to, or the involuntary termination of any underfunded Benefit Plan.
4.8 Compliance with Laws. Each Credit Party shall, and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to, comply with all Requirements of Law of any Governmental Authority having jurisdiction over it or its business, except where the failure to comply would not reasonably be expected to have, either individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect.
4.9 Inspection of Property and Books and Records. Each Credit Party shall maintain and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to maintain proper books of record and account, in which full, true and correct entries in conformity with GAAP in all material respects
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consistently applied shall be made of all financial transactions and matters involving the assets and business of such Person. Each Credit Party shall, and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to, with respect to each owned, leased, or controlled property, during normal business hours and upon reasonable advance notice up to two times per Fiscal Year (unless an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, in which event no notice shall be required and Agent shall have access at any and all times during the continuance thereof): (a) provide access to such property to Agent and any of its Related Persons; and (b) subject to applicable privacy laws regarding patient or other records, permit Agent and any of its Related Persons to conduct field examinations, audit, inspect, and make extracts and copies (or take originals if reasonably necessary for the purpose of preserving, perfecting or realizing upon Collateral) from all of such Credit Party’s books and records, and evaluate and make physical verifications and appraisals of the Inventory and other Collateral in any manner and through any medium that Agent considers advisable, in each instance, at the Credit Parties’ expense; provided the Credit Parties shall only be obligated to reimburse Agent for the expenses of one such field examination, audit and inspection per calendar year or more frequently if an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing. Any Lender may accompany Agent or its Related Persons in connection with any inspection at such Lender’s expense.
4.10 Use of Proceeds. The Borrower shall use the proceeds of the Loans solely as follows: (a) first to refinance Prior Indebtedness on the Closing Date and then to pay on the Closing Date a portion of the consideration under the Merger Agreement, (b) to pay costs and expenses of the Related Transactions and costs and expenses required to be paid pursuant to Section 2.1, and (c) in the case of Revolving Loans, for working capital, capital expenditures and other general corporate purposes not in contravention of any Requirement of Law and not in violation of this Agreement; provided, however, in no event may proceeds of Revolving Loans be used, directly or indirectly, to make an optional prepayment of Term Loan. The proceeds of the Incremental Term Loans shall be used by the Borrower solely for the purposes specified in the applicable Incremental Term Loan Assumption Agreement.
4.11 Cash Management Systems.
(a) Each Credit Party shall enter into, and cause each depository, securities intermediary or commodities intermediary to enter into, Control Agreements with respect to each of its deposit, securities, commodity or similar accounts maintained by such Person (other than (i) any payroll accounts into which there is deposited no funds other than those intended solely to cover wages for employees of the Credit Parties so long as such payroll account is a zero balance account, (ii) any accounts constituting employee withholding and trust accounts and containing only funds deducted from pay otherwise due to employees for services rendered to be applied toward the tax obligations of such employees, (iii) to the extent not maintained at Bank of America, xxxxx cash accounts with a balance of less than $50,000 individually and $500,000 in the aggregate for all such accounts and (iv) any Segregated Governmental Account) as of or after the Closing Date.
(b) In addition, in order to segregate and to facilitate perfection of the Agent’s security interest in funds received from Governmental Payors making payments under Medicare or Medicaid, if any, the Credit Parties agree that the Credit Parties shall (a) segregate collections made from Governmental Payors making payments under Medicare or Medicaid, from
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collections made from all other Account Debtors and customers of the applicable Credit Parties, including, without limitation, by (i) notifying all payors (other than Governmental Payors making payments under Medicare or Medicaid) then instructed to make payments to such Credit Parties’ deposit accounts to make payments to a deposit account subject to a Control Agreement, and (ii) notifying all Governmental Payors making payments under Medicare or Medicaid to make payments to a Segregated Governmental Account, and (b) enter into, and cause each applicable depository to enter into, a “sweep” agreement (a “Sweep Agreement”) with respect to each Segregated Governmental Account (and, prior to such segregation of collections from Governmental Payors, with respect to each deposit account receiving payments from Governmental Payors made under Medicare or Medicaid) pursuant to which such depository will agree to sweep amounts deposited therein on daily basis to a deposit account of the Credit Parties subject to a Control Agreement in favor of the Agent as and when funds clear and become available in accordance with such depository’s customary procedures, each with such financial institution and each in form and substance reasonably acceptable to the Agent. No Credit Party may change any sweep instruction set forth in such Sweep Agreement without the prior written consent of the Agent; provided that so long as prior written notice is provided to the Agent, each Credit Party shall be entitled as necessary to be in compliance with Health Care Laws to unilaterally waive, revoke, terminate or amend any sweep instructions or Sweep Agreement; provided, further, that upon any such waiver, revocation, termination or amendment, the Credit Parties shall cooperate with Agent to promptly reinstate, in accordance with Health Care Laws, such sweep instructions or Sweep Agreements, as applicable, and shall take all actions reasonably required for such reinstatement. To the extent any Person, whether a Governmental Payor or otherwise, remits payments to an incorrect deposit account or otherwise makes payments not in accordance with the provisions of this Section 4.11 or an applicable Credit Party’s payment direction, such Credit Party shall contact such Person and use its commercially reasonable efforts to redirect payment from such Person in accordance with the terms hereof. The Agent agrees and confirms that Credit Parties will have sole dominion and “control” (within the meaning of Section 9-104 of the UCC and the common law) over each Segregated Governmental Account and all funds therein and the Agent disclaims any right of any nature whatsoever to control or otherwise direct or make any claim against the funds held in any Segregated Governmental Account from time to time.
4.12 Landlord Agreements. Each Credit Party shall (i) obtain a landlord agreement or bailee or mortgagee waivers, as applicable and in each case, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Agent, from the lessor of each leased property, bailee in possession of any Collateral or mortgagee of any owned property (a “Collateral Access Agreement”) with respect to each location set forth on Schedule 4.12(i), (ii) use commercially reasonable efforts to obtain a Collateral Access Agreement with respect to each other location where Collateral with a fair market value in excess of $500,000 is stored or located, including, as of the Closing Date, the locations listed on Schedule 4.12(ii) and (iii) obtain a Collateral Access Agreement with respect to Xxxx Xx. 000 and Unit No. 210, 208 NE 19th Drive, Okeechobee Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, XX 00000 if at any time the fair market value of Collateral stored or located at such location exceeds $500,000.
4.13 Further Assurances.
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(a) Each Credit Party shall ensure that all written information, exhibits and reports furnished to Agent or the Lenders do not and will not contain any untrue statement of a material fact and do not and will not omit to state any material fact or any fact necessary to make the statements contained therein taken as a whole not misleading in light of the circumstances in which made, and will promptly disclose to Agent and the Lenders and correct any material defect or error that may be discovered therein or in any Loan Document or in the execution, acknowledgement or recordation thereof.
(b) Promptly upon request by Agent, the Credit Parties shall (and, subject to the limitations hereinafter set forth, shall cause each of their Subsidiaries to) take such additional actions and execute such documents as Agent may reasonably require from time to time in order (i) to carry out more effectively the purposes of this Agreement or any other Loan Document, (ii) to subject to the Liens created by any of the Collateral Documents any of the Properties, rights or interests covered by any of the Collateral Documents, (iii) to perfect and maintain the validity, effectiveness and priority of any of the Collateral Documents and the Liens intended to be created thereby, and (iv) to better assure, convey, grant, assign, transfer, preserve, protect and confirm to the Secured Parties the rights granted or now or hereafter intended to be granted to the Secured Parties under any Loan Document. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing and except as otherwise approved in writing by Required Lenders, the Credit Parties shall cause each of their Domestic Subsidiaries (other than Domestic Subsidiaries owned indirectly through a Foreign Subsidiary) and, to the extent no 956 Impact exists, Domestic Subsidiaries owned indirectly through a Foreign Subsidiary and Foreign Subsidiaries to guaranty the Obligations and to cause each such Subsidiary to grant to Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, a security interest in, subject to the limitations hereinafter set forth, all of such Subsidiary’s Property to secure such guaranty. Furthermore and except as otherwise approved in writing by Required Lenders, each Credit Party shall, and shall cause (x) each of its Domestic Subsidiaries (other than Domestic Subsidiaries owned indirectly through a Foreign Subsidiary) to, pledge all of the Stock and Stock Equivalents of each of its Domestic Subsidiaries (other than Domestic Subsidiaries owned indirectly through a Foreign Subsidiary) and First Tier Foreign Subsidiaries (provided that with respect to any First Tier Foreign Subsidiary, if a 956 Impact exists such pledge shall be limited to sixty-five percent (65%) of such Foreign Subsidiary’s outstanding voting Stock and Stock Equivalents and one hundred percent (100%) of such Foreign Subsidiary’s outstanding non-voting Stock and Stock Equivalents) and (y) to the extent no 956 Impact exists, each of its Foreign Subsidiaries to, pledge all of the Stock and Stock Equivalent of each of its Subsidiaries, in each instance, to Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, to secure the Obligations. In connection with each pledge of Stock and Stock Equivalents, the Credit Parties shall deliver, or cause to be delivered, to Agent, irrevocable proxies and stock powers and/or assignments, as applicable, duly executed in blank. In the event any Credit Party or any Domestic Subsidiary (other than Domestic Subsidiaries owned indirectly through a Foreign Subsidiary) or, to the extent no 956 Impact exists, any Foreign Subsidiary or any Domestic Subsidiary owned indirectly through a Foreign Subsidiary, of any Credit Party acquires any Real Estate with a fair market value in excess of $1,000,000 or, when aggregated with the fair market values of all Real Estate owned by a Credit Party or any Domestic Subsidiary (other than Domestic Subsidiaries owned indirectly through a Foreign Subsidiary) or, to the extent no 956 Impact exists, any Foreign Subsidiary or any Domestic Subsidiary owned indirectly through a Foreign Subsidiary, of any Credit Party that is not subject to a Mortgage in favor of Agent, $3,000,000, simultaneously with such acquisition, such Person shall execute and/or deliver, or cause to be
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executed and/or delivered, to Agent, (v) an appraisal complying with FIRREA, (w) within forty-five (45) days of receipt of notice from Agent that Real Estate is located in a Special Flood Hazard Area, Federal Flood Insurance as required by subsection 4.6(a), (x) a fully executed Mortgage, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Agent together with an A.L.T.A. lender’s title insurance policy issued by a title insurer reasonably satisfactory to Agent, in form and substance and in an amount reasonably satisfactory to Agent insuring that the Mortgage is a valid and enforceable first priority Lien on the respective property, free and clear of all defects, encumbrances and Liens, other than Permitted Liens, (y) then current A.L.T.A. surveys, certified to Agent by a licensed surveyor sufficient to allow the issuer of the lender’s title insurance policy to issue such policy without a survey exception and (z) an environmental site assessment prepared by a qualified firm reasonably acceptable to Agent, in form and substance satisfactory to Agent. A “956 Impact” will be deemed to exist to the extent the issuance of a guaranty by, grant of a Lien by, or pledge of greater than two-thirds of the voting Stock and Stock Equivalents of, a Foreign Subsidiary, would result in material incremental income tax liability as a result of the application of Section 956 of the Code, taking into account actual anticipated repatriation of funds, foreign tax credits and other relevant factors. In addition to the obligations set forth in subsections 4.6(a) and 4.13(b)(w), within forty-five (45) days after written notice from Agent to the Credit Parties that any Real Estate is located in a Special Flood Hazard Area, the Credit Parties shall satisfy the Federal Flood Insurance requirements of subsection 4.6(a). Notwithstanding the anything to the contrary contained herein, the Credit Parties will not be required to take any action to perfect a security interest in any asset where Agent and Borrower agree the cost of perfection is excessive in relation to the benefit afforded thereby.
4.14 Environmental Matters. Each Credit Party shall, and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to, comply with, and maintain its Real Estate, whether owned, leased, subleased or otherwise operated or occupied, in compliance with, all applicable Environmental Laws (including by implementing any Remedial Action necessary to achieve such compliance) or that is required by orders and directives of any Governmental Authority except where the failure to comply would not reasonably be expected to, individually or in the aggregate, result in a Material Environmental Liability. Without limiting the foregoing, if an Event of Default is continuing or if Agent at any time has a reasonable basis to believe that there exist violations of Environmental Laws by any Credit Party or any Subsidiary of any Credit Party or that there exist any Environmental Liabilities, then each Credit Party shall, promptly upon receipt of request from Agent, cause the performance of, and, if any such Credit Party fails to promptly cause such performance, allow Agent and its Related Persons access to such Real Estate for the purpose of conducting, such environmental audits and assessments, including subsurface sampling of soil and groundwater, and cause the preparation of such reports, in each case as Agent may from time to time reasonably request. Such audits, assessments and reports, to the extent not conducted by Agent or any of its Related Persons, shall be conducted and prepared by reputable environmental consulting firms reasonably acceptable to Agent and shall be in form and substance reasonably acceptable to Agent.
4.15 Interest Rate Protection. Within ninety (90) days of the Closing Date, the Borrower shall enter into, and thereafter maintain, Rate Contracts providing protection against fluctuations in interest rates with one or more financial institutions with respect to at least 50% of the aggregate principal amount of the Borrower’s consolidated Indebtedness subject to floating interest rates (other than Indebtedness incurred by the Borrower hereunder in connection with the Revolving Loan Commitments) on the date hereof, which agreements shall provide for not less than a three (3) year term and containing such other terms as are customary and are satisfactory to Agent.
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4.16 Credit Rating. The Borrower shall at all times use its commercially reasonable efforts to obtain and to cause a credit rating by S&P and by Xxxxx’x to be maintained with respect to the Loans and the Borrower hereunder.
4.17 Compliance with Health Care Laws.
(a) Without limiting or qualifying Section 4.8 hereof, or any other provision of this Agreement, each Group Member will comply in all material respects with all applicable Health Care Laws relating to the operation of such Person’s business.
(b) Each Group Member shall:
(i) obtain, maintain and preserve, and cause each of its Subsidiaries to obtain, maintain and preserve, and take all necessary action to timely renew, all material Health Care Permits (including, as applicable, Health Care Permits necessary for it to be eligible to receive payment and compensation from and to participate in Medicare, Medicaid or any other Third Party Payor programs) which are necessary in the proper conduct of its business;
(ii) be and remain in material compliance with all requirements for participation in, and for licensure required to provide the goods or services that are reimbursable under, Medicare, Medicaid and other Third Party Payor Programs;
(iii) use commercially reasonable efforts to cause all Licensed Personnel to comply in all material respects with all applicable Health Care Laws in the performance of their duties to or for any Group Member, and to maintain in full force and effect all professional licenses and other Health Care Permits required to perform such duties; and
(iv) keep and maintain all records required to be maintained by any Governmental Authority or otherwise under any Health Care Law.
(c) Each Group Member shall maintain a corporate and health care regulatory compliance program (“CCP”) which addresses the requirements of Health Care Laws, including without limitation HIPAA and includes at least the following components and allows the Agent and/or any consultants from time to time to review such CCP: (i) standards of conduct and procedures that describe compliance policies regarding laws with an emphasis on prevention of fraud and abuse; (ii) a specific officer within high-level personnel identified as having overall responsibility for compliance with such standards and procedures; (iii) training and education programs which effectively communicate the compliance standards and procedures to employees and agents, including, without limitation, fraud and abuse laws and illegal billing practices; (iv) auditing and monitoring systems and reasonable steps for achieving compliance with such standards and procedures including, without limitation, publicizing a report system to allow employees and other agents to anonymously report criminal or suspect conduct and potential
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compliance problems; (v) disciplinary guidelines and consistent enforcement of compliance policies including, without limitation, discipline of individuals responsible for the failure to detect violations of the CCP; and (vi) mechanisms to immediately respond to detected violations of the CCP. The Group Members shall modify such CCPs from time to time, as may be necessary to ensure continuing compliance with all applicable Health Care Laws. Upon request, the Agent (and/or its consultants) shall be permitted to review such CCPs.
4.18 Post-Closing Deliveries and Requirements. The Borrower shall deliver, or shall cause to be delivered, to the Agent the items described on Schedule 4.18 and shall comply with all requirements set forth on Schedule 4.18, in each case, (i) notwithstanding any requirement to the contrary contained herein, on or before the date specified on such Schedule for the delivery thereof, or such later date as the Agent may agree to in its sole discretion, and (ii) in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Agent.
ARTICLE V -
NEGATIVE COVENANTS
Each Credit Party covenants and agrees that, so long as any Lender shall have any Commitment hereunder, or any Loan or other Obligation (other than contingent indemnification Obligations to the extent no claim giving rise thereto has been asserted) shall remain unpaid or unsatisfied:
5.1 Limitation on Liens. No Credit Party shall, and no Credit Party shall suffer or permit any of its Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, make, create, incur, assume or suffer to exist any Lien upon or with respect to any part of its Property, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, other than the following (“Permitted Liens”):
(a) any Lien existing on the Property of a Credit Party or a Subsidiary of a Credit Party on the Closing Date and set forth in Schedule 5.1 securing Indebtedness outstanding on such date and permitted by subsection 5.5(c), including replacement or renewal Liens on the Property currently subject to such Liens securing Indebtedness permitted by subsection 5.5(c);
(b) any Lien created under any Loan Document;
(c) Liens for taxes, fees, assessments or other governmental charges (i) which are not past due or remain payable without penalty, or (ii) the non-payment of which is permitted by Section 4.7;
(d) carriers’, warehousemen’s, mechanics’, landlords’, materialmen’s, repairmen’s or other similar Liens arising in the Ordinary Course of Business which are not delinquent for more than ninety (90) days or remain payable without penalty or which are being contested in good faith and by appropriate proceedings diligently prosecuted, which proceedings have the effect of preventing the forfeiture or sale of the Property subject thereto and for which adequate reserves in accordance with GAAP are being maintained;
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(e) Liens (other than any Lien imposed by ERISA) consisting of pledges or deposits required in the Ordinary Course of Business in connection with workers’ compensation, unemployment insurance and other social security legislation or to secure the performance of tenders, statutory obligations, surety, stay, customs and appeals bonds, bids, leases, governmental contract, trade contracts, performance and return of money bonds and other similar obligations (exclusive of obligations for the payment of borrowed money) or to secure liability to insurance carriers;
(f) Liens consisting of judgment or judicial attachment liens (other than for payment of taxes, assessments or other governmental charges), provided that the enforcement of such Liens is effectively stayed and all such Liens secure claims in the aggregate at any time outstanding for the Credit Parties and their Subsidiaries not exceeding $5,000,000;
(g) easements, rights-of-way, zoning and other restrictions, minor defects or other irregularities in title, and other similar encumbrances incurred in the Ordinary Course of Business which, either individually or in the aggregate, do not in any case materially detract from the value of the Property subject thereto or interfere in any material respect with the ordinary conduct of the businesses of any Credit Party or any Subsidiary of any Credit Party;
(h) Liens on any Property acquired or held by any Credit Party or any Subsidiary of any Credit Party securing Indebtedness incurred or assumed for the purpose of financing (or refinancing) all or any part of the cost of acquiring such Property and not in excess of $5,000,000 in the aggregate at any time outstanding; provided that (i) any such Lien attaches to such Property concurrently with or within twenty (20) days after the acquisition thereof, (ii) such Lien attaches solely to the Property so acquired in such transaction and the proceeds thereof, and (iii) the principal amount of the debt secured thereby does not exceed 100% of the cost of such Property;
(i) Liens securing Capital Lease Obligations permitted under subsection 5.5(d);
(j) any interest or title of a lessor, sublessor or licensor under any lease or license permitted by this Agreement;
(k) Liens arising from precautionary uniform commercial code financing statements filed under any lease permitted by this Agreement;
(l) non-exclusive licenses and sublicenses granted by a Credit Party or any Subsidiary of a Credit Party and leases and subleases (by a Credit Party or any Subsidiary of a Credit Party as lessor or sublessor) to third parties in the Ordinary Course of Business not interfering with the business of the Credit Parties or any of their Subsidiaries;
(m) Liens in favor of collecting banks arising under Section 4-210 of the Uniform Commercial Code or, with respect to collecting banks located in the State of New York, under Section 4-208 of the Uniform Commercial Code;
(n) Liens (including the right of set-off) in favor of a bank or other depository institution arising as a matter of law encumbering deposits;
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(o) Liens arising out of consignment or similar arrangements for the sale of goods entered into by the Borrower or any Subsidiary of the Borrower in the Ordinary Course of Business;
(p) Liens in favor of customs and revenue authorities arising as a matter of law which secure payment of customs duties in connection with the importation of goods in the Ordinary Course of Business;
(q) Liens in and to the Collateral to secure the Second Lien Term Loan Facility, in each case, subject to the terms of the Intercreditor Agreement;
(r) Liens on xxxx xxxxxxx money deposits in connection with Permitted Acquisitions;
(s) Liens securing reimbursement obligations with respect to commercial letters of credit which encumber documents and other assets relating to such letters of credits and products and proceeds thereof;
(t) options, put and calls, rights of first refusal and any other customary transfer restrictions relating to Investments in joint ventures, partnerships and the like permitted hereunder and any transfer restrictions existing on the Closing Date regarding Investments in joint ventures listed on Schedule 5.1(t);
(u) Liens securing Indebtedness not to exceed $5,000,000 in the aggregate payable to sellers in connection with Permitted Acquisitions; provided, that (i) such Liens attach solely to the Property so acquired in such transaction and the proceeds thereof and (ii) to the extent requested by Agent, such Indebtedness is subordinated to the Obligations pursuant to documentation reasonably satisfactory to the Agent; and
(v) other liens outstanding in an aggregate amount not to exceed $2,000,000;
provided, however, that Indebtedness owed by any Credit Party or any Subsidiary of any Credit Party to Oncology Supply that is secured by Liens permitted pursuant to any exception provided in this Section 5.1 shall not exceed $500,000 in the aggregate at any time outstanding.
5.2 Disposition of Assets. No Credit Party shall, and no Credit Party shall suffer or permit any of its Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, sell, assign, lease, convey, transfer or otherwise dispose of (whether in one or a series of transactions) any Property (including the Stock of any Subsidiary of any Credit Party, whether in a public or private offering or otherwise, and accounts and notes receivable, with or without recourse) or enter into any agreement to do any of the foregoing, except:
(a) dispositions of Inventory, or worn-out or surplus equipment, all in the Ordinary Course of Business;
(b) dispositions not otherwise permitted hereunder which are made for fair market value and the mandatory prepayment in the amount of the Net Proceeds of such disposition is made if and to the extent required by Section 1.8; provided, that (i) at the time of
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any disposition, no Event of Default shall exist or shall result from such disposition, (ii) not less than 75% of the aggregate sales price from such disposition shall be paid in cash, (iii) the aggregate fair market value of all assets so sold by the Credit Parties and their Subsidiaries, together, shall not exceed in any Fiscal Year $2,000,000 and (iv) after giving effect to such disposition, the Credit Parties are in compliance on a pro forma basis with the covenants set forth in Article VI, recomputed for the most recent Fiscal Quarter for which financial statements have been delivered;
(c) dispositions of Cash Equivalents;
(d) transactions permitted under subsection 5.1(l);
(e) dispositions by a Subsidiary to Borrower or to any other wholly-owned Subsidiary that is a Credit Party;
(f) unwinding of any Secured Rate Contracts;
(g) disposition of receivables in connection with the compromise, settlement or collection thereof in the ordinary course of business or in a bankruptcy or similar proceeding and exclusive of factoring or similar arrangements;
(h) disposition of equipment or real property to the extent exchanged for credit against the purchase price of similar replacement property; and
(i) disposition of any or all Sleep Assets on or before the second anniversary of the Closing Date (or such later date as the Agent shall agree to in its sole discretion).
5.3 Consolidations and Mergers. No Credit Party shall, and no Credit Party shall suffer or permit any of its Subsidiaries to, merge, consolidate with or into, or convey, transfer, lease or otherwise dispose of (whether in one transaction or in a series of transactions) all or substantially all of its assets (whether now owned or hereafter acquired) to or in favor of any Person, except Permitted Acquisitions and except upon not less than five (5) Business Days prior written notice to Agent, (a) any Subsidiary of the Borrower may merge with, or dissolve or liquidate into, the Borrower or a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of the Borrower which is a Domestic Subsidiary, provided, that, as applicable, the Borrower or such Wholly-Owned Subsidiary which is a Domestic Subsidiary shall be the continuing or surviving entity and all actions reasonably required by Agent, including actions required to maintain perfected Liens on the Stock of the surviving entity and other Collateral in favor of Agent, shall have been completed, and (b) any Foreign Subsidiary may merge with or dissolve or liquidate into another Foreign Subsidiary provided if a First Tier Foreign Subsidiary is a constituent entity in such merger, dissolution or liquidation, such First Tier Foreign Subsidiary shall be the continuing or surviving entity.
5.4 Loans and Investments. No Credit Party shall and no Credit Party shall suffer or permit any of its Subsidiaries to (i) purchase or acquire, or make any commitment to purchase or acquire any Stock or Stock Equivalents, or any obligations or other securities of, or any interest in, any Person, including the establishment or creation of a Subsidiary, or (ii) make or commit to make any Acquisitions, or any other acquisition of all or substantially all of the assets of another Person, or of any business or division of any Person, including without
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limitation, by way of merger, consolidation or other combination or (iii) make or purchase or commit to make or purchase, any advance, loan, extension of credit or capital contribution to or any other investment in, any Person including the Borrower, any Affiliate of the Borrower or any Subsidiary of the Borrower (the items described in clauses (i), (ii) and (iii) are referred to as “Investments”), except for:
(a) Investments in cash, Cash Equivalents and Cash Equivalent Alternatives; provided, however, that the aggregate amount of Investments in Cash Equivalent Alternatives may not be increased through additional fundings or purchases by any Credit Party or any of its Subsidiaries (i) at any time when the aggregate amount of Investments in cash and Cash Equivalents is less than $10,000,000, (ii) at any time prior to the second anniversary of the Closing Date when the aggregate amount of Revolving Loans outstanding exceeds $15,000,000 or (iii) at any time on or after the second anniversary of the Closing Date when any Revolving Loan is outstanding;
(b) extensions of credit and other Investments by (i) any Credit Party to any other Credit Party, (ii) the Borrower or any Domestic Subsidiary of the Borrower to Foreign Subsidiaries of the Borrower not to exceed $500,000 in the aggregate at any time outstanding for all such extensions of credit; provided, that if any extensions of credit described in foregoing clauses (i) and (ii) are evidenced by notes, such notes shall be pledged to Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, and have such terms as Agent may reasonably require and (iii) a Foreign Subsidiary of the Borrower to another Foreign Subsidiary of the Borrower;
(c) loans and advances to officers, directors and employees in the Ordinary Course of Business not to exceed $2,000,000 in the aggregate at any time outstanding;
(d) Investments received as the non-cash portion of consideration received in connection with transactions permitted pursuant to subsection 5.2(b);
(e) Investments acquired in connection with the settlement of delinquent Accounts in the Ordinary Course of Business or in connection with the bankruptcy or reorganization of suppliers or customers;
(f) Investments consisting of non-cash loans made by the Borrower to officers, directors and employees of a Credit Party which are used by such Persons to purchase simultaneously Stock or Stock Equivalents of the Borrower;
(g) Investments existing on the Closing Date and set forth on Schedule 5.4 and any extension or renewal thereof, provided that the amount of the original Investment is not increased;
(h) Investments comprised of Contingent Obligations permitted by Section 5.9;
(i) Permitted Acquisitions;
(j) Investments in Secured Rate Contracts;
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(k) Investments in Capital Expenditures permitted hereby;
(l) any Investment made as a result of the receipt of non-cash consideration from the sale of assets permitted hereunder;
(m) Investments, in the ordinary course of business and in an aggregate amount not in excess of the reserves as shall be required by GAAP after taking into account any advice of the Borrower’s actuarial consultants and auditors, in Healthcare Underwriters Group of Florida, to the extent not an Affiliate of any Credit Party, for the sole purpose of acquiring and maintaining insurance coverage for one or more of the Credit Parties; and
(n) other Investments in an aggregate amount not to exceed $5,000,000.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement or in any other Loan Document, the aggregate amount of Investments (including Acquisitions) (i) after the Closing Date in assets to be utilized solely in connection with, or in a Target or a division of a Target primarily engaged in, the operation of sleep diagnostic centers shall not exceed $10,000,000 in the aggregate (or such greater amount as Required Lenders may agree) and (ii) in Premier Sleep Services, LLC and Sleep Therapy, LLC shall not exceed $500,000 in the aggregate.
5.5 Limitation on Indebtedness. No Credit Party shall, and no Credit Party shall suffer or permit any of its Subsidiaries to, create, incur, assume, permit to exist, or otherwise become or remain directly or indirectly liable with respect to, any Indebtedness, except:
(a) the Obligations;
(b) Indebtedness consisting of Contingent Obligations described in clause (i) of the definition thereof and permitted pursuant to Section 5.9;
(c) Indebtedness existing on the Closing Date and set forth in Schedule 5.5 including Permitted Refinancings thereof;
(d) Indebtedness not to exceed $5,000,000 in the aggregate at any time outstanding, consisting of Capital Lease Obligations or secured by Liens permitted by subsection 5.1(h) and Permitted Refinancings thereof;
(e) unsecured intercompany Indebtedness permitted pursuant to subsection 5.4(b);
(f) other unsecured Indebtedness not exceeding in the aggregate at any time outstanding $20,000,000;
(g) Indebtedness of the Borrower under the Second Lien Term Loan Facility in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $75,000,000, less the aggregate amount of all mandatory prepayments and payments of scheduled amortization (if any) of such Indebtedness, and any Permitted Refinancings thereof, subject to the terms of the Intercreditor Agreement; and
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(h) Indebtedness of a Person acquired in a Permitted Acquisition; provided that such Indebtedness shall not to exceed $20,000,000 in the aggregate at any time outstanding and shall not have been incurred in contemplation of or in conjunction with such Permitted Acquisition.
5.6 Transactions with Affiliates. No Credit Party shall, and no Credit Party shall suffer or permit any of its Subsidiaries to, enter into any transaction with any Affiliate of Borrower or of any such Subsidiary, except:
(a) as expressly permitted by this Agreement; or
(b) in the Ordinary Course of Business and pursuant to the reasonable requirements of the business of such Credit Party or such Subsidiary upon fair and reasonable terms no less favorable to such Credit Party or such Subsidiary than would be obtained in a comparable arm’s length transaction with a Person not an Affiliate of the Borrower or such Subsidiary and which are disclosed in writing to Agent; provided that the foregoing restriction shall not apply to transactions between the Borrower and any Wholly-Owned Subsidiary that is a Credit Party.
5.7 Management Fees and Compensation. No Credit Party shall, and no Credit Party shall permit any of its Subsidiaries to, pay any management, consulting or similar fees to any Affiliate of any Credit Party or to any officer, director or employee of any Credit Party or any Affiliate of any Credit Party except:
(a) payment of reasonable compensation to officers and employees for actual services rendered to the Credit Parties and their Subsidiaries in the Ordinary Course of Business;
(b) payment in cash of directors’ fees and reimbursement of actual out-of-pocket expenses incurred in connection with attending board of director meetings not to exceed in the aggregate, with respect to all such items, $1,500,000 in any Fiscal Year of the Borrower; and
(c) the issuance of Stock or Stock Equivalents under any employee stock option or other employee benefits plan.
5.8 Use of Proceeds. No Credit Party shall, and no Credit Party shall suffer or permit any of its Subsidiaries to, use any portion of the Loan proceeds, directly or indirectly, to purchase or carry Margin Stock or repay or otherwise refinance Indebtedness of any Credit Party or others incurred to purchase or carry Margin Stock, or otherwise in any manner which is in contravention of any Requirement of Law or in violation of this Agreement.
5.9 Contingent Obligations. No Credit Party shall, and no Credit Party shall suffer or permit any of its Subsidiaries to, create, incur, assume or suffer to exist any Contingent Obligations except in respect of the Obligations and except:
(a) endorsements for collection or deposit in the Ordinary Course of Business;
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(b) Rate Contracts entered into in the Ordinary Course of Business for bona fide hedging purposes and not for speculation with Agent’s prior written consent or pursuant to Section 4.15;
(c) Contingent Obligations of the Credit Parties and their Subsidiaries existing as of the Closing Date and listed in Schedule 5.9, including extension and renewals thereof which do not increase the amount of such Contingent Obligations or impose materially more restrictive or adverse terms on the Credit Parties or their Subsidiaries as compared to the terms of the Contingent Obligation being renewed or extended;
(d) Contingent Obligations arising under indemnity agreements to title insurers to cause such title insurers to issue to Agent title insurance policies;
(e) Contingent Obligations arising with respect to customary indemnification obligations in favor of (i) sellers in connection with Acquisitions permitted hereunder and (ii) purchasers in connection with dispositions permitted under subsection 5.2(b);
(f) Contingent Obligations arising under Letters of Credit;
(g) Contingent Obligations arising under guarantees made in the Ordinary Course of Business of obligations of any Credit Party, which obligations are otherwise permitted hereunder; provided that if such obligation is subordinated to the Obligations, such guarantee shall be subordinated to the same extent;
(h) Contingent Obligations incurred in the Ordinary Course of Business with respect to surety and appeals bonds, performance bonds and other similar obligations; and
(i) other Contingent Obligations not exceeding $5,000,000 in the aggregate at any time outstanding.
5.10 Compliance with ERISA. No ERISA Affiliate shall cause or suffer to exist (a) any event that could result in the imposition of a Lien on any asset of a Credit Party or a Subsidiary of a Credit Party with respect to any Title IV Plan or Multiemployer Plan or (b) any other ERISA Event, that would, in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect. No Credit Party shall cause or suffer to exist any event that could result in the imposition of a Lien on any asset of a Credit Party having a value in excess of $2,000,000 with respect to any Benefit Plan.
5.11 Restricted Payments. No Credit Party shall, and no Credit Party shall suffer or permit any of its Subsidiaries to, (i) declare or make any dividend payment or other distribution of assets, properties, cash, rights, obligations or securities on account of any Stock or Stock Equivalent, (ii) purchase, redeem or otherwise acquire for value any Stock or Stock Equivalent now or hereafter outstanding or (iii) make any payment or prepayment of principal of, premium, if any, interest, fees, redemption, exchange, purchase, retirement, defeasance, sinking fund or similar payment with respect to, Subordinated Indebtedness (the items described in clauses (i), (ii) and (iii) above are referred to as “Restricted Payments”); except that:
(a) any Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Borrower may declare and pay dividends to Borrower or any other Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Borrower that is a Credit Party;
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(b) Borrower may make the Restricted Payments described on Schedule 5.11;
(c) Borrower may declare and make dividend payments or other distributions payable solely in its Stock or Stock Equivalents;
(d) Borrower may purchase up to $5,000,000 of its common stock each Fiscal Year pursuant to a stock buy-back or repurchase plan adopted by its board of directors; provided that (i) in the event the Borrower does not expend the entire $5,000,000 in any Fiscal Year, the Borrower may carry forward to the immediately succeeding Fiscal Year 100% of the unutilized portion, (ii) the aggregate Restricted Payments permitted under this clause (d) during the term of this Agreement shall not exceed $15,000,000, (iii) no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would arise as a result of such Restricted Payment and (iv) after giving effect to such Restricted Payment, (A) the Credit Parties are in compliance on a pro forma basis with the covenants set forth in Article VI, recomputed for the most recent Fiscal Quarter for which financial statements have been delivered, and (B) Availability is not less than $5,000,000; and
(e) Borrower may redeem from officers, directors and employees Stock and Stock Equivalents (and pay any related withholding or similar taxes) provided all of the following conditions are satisfied:
(i) no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would arise as a result of such Restricted Payment;
(ii) after giving effect to such Restricted Payment, the Credit Parties are in compliance on a pro forma basis with the covenants set forth in Article VI, recomputed for the most recent Fiscal Quarter for which financial statements have been delivered;
(iii) the aggregate Restricted Payments permitted under this clause (e) shall not exceed (A) $1,000,000 in any Fiscal Year of the Borrower or (B) $3,000,000 during the term of this Agreement; and
(iv) after giving effect to such Restricted Payment, Availability is not less than $5,000,000; and
provided further that permitting the holder of a any Stock Equivalent to purchase Stock or Stock Equivalents through “cashless” exercise shall not be deemed to be a Restricted Payment.
5.12 Change in Business. No Credit Party shall, and no Credit Party shall permit any of its Subsidiaries to, engage in any line of business substantially different from those lines of business carried on by it on the date hereof. From and after the Closing Date, the Borrower shall not (i) enter into any contracts that generate revenue or (ii) except to the extent that it is reasonably commercially necessary that the Borrower, as opposed to another Credit Party, be a party thereto, enter into any employment agreements, leases or contracts that are material to the operations of the Credit Parties and their Subsidiaries.
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5.13 Change in Structure. Except as expressly permitted under Section 5.3, no Credit Party shall, and no Credit Party shall permit any of its Subsidiaries to amend any of its Organization Documents in any respect adverse to Agent or Lenders.
5.14 Changes in Accounting, Name and Jurisdiction of Organization. No Credit Party shall, and no Credit Party shall suffer or permit any of its Subsidiaries to, (i) make any significant change in accounting treatment or reporting practices, except as required by GAAP, (ii) change the Fiscal Year or method for determining Fiscal Quarters of any Credit Party or of any consolidated Subsidiary of any Credit Party except for changes to the Fiscal Year of Seller or its Subsidiaries to be the same Fiscal Year as the Borrower, (iii) change its name as it appears in official filings in its jurisdiction of organization or (iv) change its jurisdiction of organization, in the case of clauses (iii) and (iv), without at least twenty (20) days’ prior written notice to Agent and the acknowledgement of Agent that all actions required by Agent, including those to continue the perfection of its Liens, have been completed.
5.15 Amendments to Related Agreements and Subordinated Indebtedness.
(a) No Credit Party shall and no Credit Party shall permit any of its Subsidiaries, to (i) amend, supplement, waive or otherwise modify any provision of any Related Agreement (other than the Second Lien Term Loan Documents) in a manner adverse to Agent or Lenders or which would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, (ii) take or fail to take any action under any Related Agreement that would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect or (iii) amend the Second Lien Term Loan Documents unless permitted by the Intercreditor Agreement.
(b) No Credit Party shall, and no Credit Party shall permit any of its Subsidiaries directly or indirectly to, change or amend the terms of any Subordinated Indebtedness if the effect of such change or amendment is to: (i) increase the interest rate on such Indebtedness by more than 0.25%; (ii) shorten the dates upon which payments of principal or interest are due on such Indebtedness; (iii) add or change in a manner adverse to the Credit Parties any event of default or add or make more restrictive any covenant with respect to such Indebtedness; (iv) change in a manner adverse to the Credit Parties the prepayment provisions of such Indebtedness; (v) change the subordination provisions thereof (or the subordination terms of any guaranty thereof); or (vi) change or amend any other term if such change or amendment would materially increase the obligations of the Credit Parties or confer additional material rights on the holder of such Indebtedness in a manner adverse to the Credit Parties, Agent or Lenders.
5.16 No Negative Pledges.
(a) No Credit Party shall, and no Credit Party shall permit any of its Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, create or otherwise cause or suffer to exist or become effective any consensual restriction or encumbrance of any kind on the ability of any Credit Party or Subsidiary to pay dividends or make any other distribution on any of such Credit Party’s or Subsidiary’s Stock or Stock Equivalents or to pay fees, including management fees, or make other payments and distributions to the Borrower or any other Credit Party, in each case, other than as provided in this Agreement, any other Loan Document or any Second Lien Term Loan Document. No Credit Party shall, and no Credit Party shall permit any of its Subsidiaries to,
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directly or indirectly, enter into, assume or become subject to any Contractual Obligation prohibiting or otherwise restricting the existence of any Lien upon any of its assets in favor of Agent, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, except in connection with (i) any document or instrument governing Liens permitted pursuant to subsections 5.1(h), 5.1(i) and 5.1(q) or otherwise permitted hereunder and set forth on Schedule 5.16, provided, in each case, that any such restriction contained therein relates only to the asset or assets subject to such permitted Liens, (ii) customary provisions in joint venture agreements and other similar agreements applicable to joint ventures permitted under Section 5.4 and applicable solely to such joint ventures entered into in the ordinary course of business, (iii) customary restrictions in leases, subleases, licenses or asset sale agreements otherwise permitted hereby provided that any such restriction contained therein relates only to the asset or assets subject thereto and (iv) this Agreement, any other Loan Document or any Second Lien Term Loan Document.
(b) No Credit Party shall issue any Stock or Stock Equivalents (i) if such issuance would result in an Event of Default under subsection 7.1(k) and (ii) unless, in the case of any issuance by a Credit Party other than the Borrower, such Stock and Stock Equivalents are pledged to Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, as security for the Obligations, on substantially the same terms and conditions as the Stock and Stock Equivalents of the Credit Parties owned by the Borrower are pledged to Agent as of the Closing Date.
5.17 OFAC; Patriot Act. No Credit Party shall, and no Credit Party shall permit any of its Subsidiaries to fail to comply with the laws, regulations and executive orders referred to in Section 3.25 and Section 3.26.
5.18 Sale-Leasebacks. No Credit Party shall, and no Credit Party shall permit any of its Subsidiaries to, engage in a sale leaseback, synthetic lease or similar transaction involving any of its assets.
5.19 Hazardous Materials. No Credit Party shall, and no Credit Party shall permit any of its Subsidiaries to, cause or suffer to exist any Release of any Hazardous Material at, to or from any Real Estate that would violate any Environmental Law, form the basis for any Environmental Liabilities or otherwise adversely affect the value or marketability of any Real Estate (whether or not owned by any Credit Party or any Subsidiary of any Credit Party), other than such violations, Environmental Liabilities and effects that would not, in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
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ARTICLE VI -
FINANCIAL COVENANTS
Each Credit Party covenants and agrees that, so long as any Lender shall have any Commitment hereunder, or any Loan or other Obligation (other than contingent indemnification Obligations to the extent no claim giving rise thereto has been asserted) shall remain unpaid or unsatisfied:
6.1 Capital Expenditures. The Credit Parties and their Subsidiaries shall not make or commit to make Capital Expenditures for any Fiscal Year (or shorter period) set forth below in excess of the amount set forth in the table below (the “Capital Expenditure Limitation”) with respect to such Fiscal Year (or shorter period):
Fiscal Period |
Capital Expenditure Limitation | |||
October 1, 2011 through December 31, 2011 |
$ | 2,500,000 | ||
Fiscal Year 2012 |
$ | 5,600,000 | ||
Fiscal Year 2013 |
$ | 6,000,000 | ||
Fiscal Year 2014 |
$ | 6,000,000 | ||
Fiscal Year 2015 and each Fiscal Year thereafter |
$ | 6,500,000 |
; provided, however, in the event the Credit Parties and their Subsidiaries do not expend the entire Capital Expenditure Limitation in any Fiscal Year, the Credit Parties and their Subsidiaries may carry forward to the immediately succeeding Fiscal Year 100% of the unutilized portion; and provided, further, that if consolidated revenues for the Credit Parties for a Fiscal Year exceed $800,000,000, the foregoing amounts shall be increased by 10% for such Fiscal Year. All Capital Expenditures shall first be applied to reduce the carry-forward from the previous Fiscal Year, if any, and then, the applicable Capital Expenditure Limitation. “Capital Expenditures” shall be calculated in the manner set forth in Exhibit 4.2(b).
6.2 Leverage Ratios. (a) The Credit Parties shall not permit the Total Leverage Ratio as of the last day of any Fiscal Quarter set forth below to be greater than the maximum ratio set forth in the table below opposite such Fiscal Quarter:
Fiscal Quarter |
Maximum Total Leverage Ratio | |||
Q4 2011 |
4.20:1.00 | |||
Q1 2012 |
4.00:1.00 | |||
Q2 2012 |
3.90:1.00 | |||
Q3 2012 |
3.70:1.00 | |||
Q4 2012 |
3.55:1.00 | |||
Q1 2013 |
3.50:1.00 | |||
Q2 2013 |
3.05:1.00 | |||
Q3 2013 |
2.95:1.00 | |||
Q4 2013 |
2.90:1.00 | |||
Q1 2014 |
2.80:1.00 | |||
Q2 2014 and each Fiscal Quarter thereafter |
2.75:1.00 |
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“Total Leverage Ratio” shall be calculated in the manner set forth in Exhibit 4.2(b).
(b) The Credit Parties shall not permit the Senior Leverage Ratio as of the last day of any Fiscal Quarter set forth below to be greater than the maximum ratio set forth in the table below opposite such Fiscal Quarter:
Fiscal Quarter |
Maximum Senior Leverage Ratio | |||
Q4 2011 |
3.30:1.00 | |||
Q1 2012 |
3.10:1.00 | |||
Q2 2012 |
3.00:1.00 | |||
Q3 2012 |
2.85:1.00 | |||
Q4 2012 |
2.75:1.00 | |||
Q1 2013 |
2.65:1.00 | |||
Q2 2013 |
2.25:1.00 | |||
Q3 2013 |
2.15:1.00 | |||
Q4 2013 |
2.10:1.00 | |||
Q1 2014 |
2.00:1.00 | |||
Q2 2014 and each Fiscal Quarter thereafter |
1.75:1.00 |
“Senior Leverage Ratio” shall be calculated in the manner set forth in Exhibit 4.2(b).
6.3 Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio. The Credit Parties shall not permit the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio for the twelve fiscal month period ending on the last day of any Fiscal Quarter set forth below to be less than the minimum ratio set forth in the table below opposite such Fiscal Quarter:
Fiscal Quarter |
Minimum Fixed Charge Ratio | |||
Q4 2011 |
1.15:1.00 | |||
Q1 2012 |
1.20:1.00 | |||
Q2 2012 |
1.25:1.00 | |||
Q3 2012 and each Fiscal Quarter thereafter |
1.30:1.00 |
“Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio” shall be calculated in the manner set forth in Exhibit 4.2(b).
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ARTICLE VII -
EVENTS OF DEFAULT
7.1 Event of Default. Any of the following shall constitute an “Event of Default”:
(a) Non-Payment. Any Credit Party fails (i) to pay when and as required to be paid herein, any amount of principal of any Loan, including after maturity of the Loans, or to pay any L/C Reimbursement Obligation or (ii) to pay within three (3) Business Days after the same shall become due, interest on any Loan, any fee or any other amount payable hereunder or pursuant to any other Loan Document; or
(b) Representation or Warranty. Any representation, warranty or certification by or on behalf of any Credit Party or any of its Subsidiaries made or deemed made herein, in any other Loan Document, or which is contained in any certificate, document or financial or other statement by any such Person, or their respective Responsible Officers, furnished at any time under this Agreement, or in or under any other Loan Document, shall prove to have been incorrect in any material respect (without duplication of other materiality qualifiers contained therein) on or as of the date made or deemed made; or
(c) Specific Defaults. Any Credit Party fails to perform or observe any term, covenant or agreement contained in any of subsection 1.8(e), 4.2(a), 4.2(b), 4.3(a), 4.11(b) or 9.10(d), Sections 4.1, 4.6, 4.9, 4.10, Article V or Article VI hereof or the Fee Letters; or
(d) Other Defaults. Any Credit Party or Subsidiary of any Credit Party fails to perform or observe any other term, covenant or agreement contained in this Agreement or any other Loan Document, and such default shall continue unremedied for a period of thirty (30) days after the earlier to occur of (i) the date upon which a Responsible Officer of any Credit Party becomes aware of such default and (ii) the date upon which written notice thereof is given to the Borrower by Agent or Required Lenders; or
(e) Cross-Default. Any Credit Party or any Subsidiary of any Credit Party (i) fails to make any payment in respect of any Indebtedness (other than the Obligations) or Contingent Obligation (other than the Obligations) having an aggregate principal amount (including undrawn committed or available amounts and including amounts owing to all creditors under any combined or syndicated credit arrangement) of more than $5,000,000 when due (whether by scheduled maturity, required prepayment, acceleration, demand, or otherwise) and such failure continues after the applicable grace or notice period, if any, specified in the document relating thereto on the date of such failure; or (ii) fails to perform or observe any other condition or covenant, or any other event shall occur or condition exist, under any agreement or instrument relating to any such Indebtedness or Contingent Obligation (other than Contingent Obligations owing by one Credit Party with respect to the obligations of another Credit Party permitted hereunder or earnouts permitted hereunder), if the effect of such failure, event or condition is to cause, or to permit the holder or holders of such Indebtedness or beneficiary or beneficiaries of such Indebtedness (or a trustee or agent on behalf of such holder or holders or beneficiary or beneficiaries) to cause such Indebtedness to be declared to be due and payable prior to its stated maturity (without regard to any subordination terms with respect thereto), or such Contingent Obligation to become payable or cash collateral in respect thereof to be demanded; or
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(f) Insolvency; Voluntary Proceedings. The Borrower, individually, ceases or fails, or the Credit Parties and their Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis, cease or fail, to be Solvent, or any Credit Party or any Subsidiary of any Credit Party: (i) generally fails to pay, or admits in writing its inability to pay, its debts as they become due, subject to applicable grace periods, if any, whether at stated maturity or otherwise; (ii) voluntarily ceases to conduct its business in the ordinary course (other than as a direct result of a Disposition of Sleep Assets permitted hereunder); (iii) commences any Insolvency Proceeding with respect to itself; or (iv) takes any action to effectuate or authorize any of the foregoing; or
(g) Involuntary Proceedings. (i) Any involuntary Insolvency Proceeding is commenced or filed against any Credit Party or any Subsidiary of any Credit Party, or any writ, judgment, warrant of attachment, execution or similar process, is issued or levied against a substantial part of any such Person’s Properties, and any such proceeding or petition shall not be dismissed, or such writ, judgment, warrant of attachment, execution or similar process shall not be released, vacated or fully bonded within sixty (60) days after commencement, filing or levy; (ii) any Credit Party or any Subsidiary of any Credit Party admits the material allegations of a petition against it in any Insolvency Proceeding, or an order for relief (or similar order under non-U.S. law) is ordered in any Insolvency Proceeding; or (iii) any Credit Party or any Subsidiary of any Credit Party acquiesces in the appointment of a receiver, trustee, custodian, conservator, liquidator, mortgagee in possession (or agent therefor), or other similar Person for itself or a substantial portion of its Property or business; or
(h) Monetary Judgments. One or more judgments, non-interlocutory orders, decrees or arbitration awards shall be entered against any one or more of the Credit Parties or any of their respective Subsidiaries involving in the aggregate a liability of $5,000,000 or more (excluding amounts covered by insurance to the extent the relevant independent third-party insurer has not denied coverage therefor), and the same shall remain unsatisfied, unvacated and unstayed pending appeal for a period of sixty (60) days after the entry thereof; or
(i) Non-Monetary Judgments. One or more non-monetary judgments, orders or decrees shall be rendered against any one or more of the Credit Parties or any of their respective Subsidiaries which has or would reasonably be expected to have, either individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect, and there shall be any period of thirty (30) consecutive days during which a stay of enforcement of such judgment or order, by reason of a pending appeal or otherwise, shall not be in effect; or
(j) Collateral. Any material provision of any Loan Document shall for any reason cease to be, or be asserted to have ceased to be, valid and binding on or enforceable against any Credit Party or any Subsidiary of any Credit Party party thereto or any Credit Party or any Subsidiary of any Credit Party shall so state in writing or bring an action to limit its obligations or liabilities thereunder; or any Collateral Document shall for any reason (other than pursuant to the terms thereof) cease to, or be asserted to have ceased to, create a valid security interest in Collateral having a value in excess of $3,000,000 purported to be covered thereby or such security interest shall for any reason (other than the failure of Agent to take any action within its control) cease to be, or be asserted to have ceased to be, a perfected and first priority security interest subject only to Permitted Liens; or
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(k) Ownership. (i) Any person shall become the legal or beneficial owner of, or shall have acquired, pursuant to any Contractual Obligation or otherwise, control over the voting rights of, 35% or more of the issued and outstanding Stock of the Borrower; (ii) at any time, directors as of the date of determination or directors nominated by the Board a majority of which were directors as of the date of determination shall cease for any reason other than death or disability to constitute a majority of the members of the board of directors of the Borrower then in office; or (iii) a “change of control” or any term of similar effect, as defined in the Second Lien Term Loan Credit Agreement; or
(l) Invalidity of Subordination Provisions. Any agreements or instruments governing Subordinated Indebtedness in excess of $1,000,000 individually or in the aggregate, or any subordination provisions thereof, shall for any reason be revoked or invalidated, or otherwise cease to be in full force and effect, or any Person shall contest in any manner the validity or enforceability thereof or deny that it has any further liability or obligation thereunder, or the Obligations, for any reason shall not have the priority contemplated by this Agreement or such subordination provisions; or
(m) Material Agreements. Any agreement that generates greater than 20% of consolidated annual gross profit shall be terminated for any reason without being replaced within 30 days by a substantially comparable agreement; or
(n) Health Care Matters. There shall occur any revocation, suspension, termination, recession, non-renewal or forfeiture or any similar final administrative action with respect to one or more Health Care Permits, Third Party Payor Programs or Third Party Payor Authorizations, the effect of which could reasonably be expected, either individually or in the aggregate, to result in a Material Adverse Effect.
7.2 Remedies. Upon the occurrence and during the continuance of any Event of Default, Agent may, and shall at the request of the Required Lenders:
(a) declare all or any portion of the Commitment of each Lender to make Loans or of the L/C Issuer to issue Letters of Credit to be suspended or terminated, whereupon such Commitments shall forthwith be suspended or terminated;
(b) declare all or any portion of the unpaid principal amount of all outstanding Loans, all interest accrued and unpaid thereon, and all other amounts owing or payable hereunder or under any other Loan Document to be immediately due and payable; without presentment, demand, protest or other notice of any kind, all of which are hereby expressly waived by each Credit Party; provided that prior to any judgment or decree being entered, any acceleration pursuant to this clause (b) may be rescinded by the Required Lenders; and/or
(c) exercise on behalf of itself and the Lenders all rights and remedies available to it and the Lenders under the Loan Documents or applicable law;
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provided, however, that upon the occurrence of any event specified in subsection 7.1(f) or 7.1(g) above (in the case of clause (i) of subsection 7.1(g) upon the expiration of the sixty (60) day period mentioned therein), the obligation of each Lender to make Loans and the obligation of the L/C Issuer to issue Letters of Credit shall automatically terminate and the unpaid principal amount of all outstanding Loans and all interest and other amounts as aforesaid shall automatically become due and payable without further act of Agent, any Lender or the L/C Issuer.
7.3 Rights Not Exclusive. The rights provided for in this Agreement and the other Loan Documents are cumulative and are not exclusive of any other rights, powers, privileges or remedies provided by law or in equity, or under any other instrument, document or agreement now existing or hereafter arising.
7.4 Cash Collateral for Letters of Credit. If an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, this Agreement (or the Revolving Loan Commitment) shall be terminated for any reason or if otherwise required by the terms hereof, Agent may, and upon request of Required Revolving Lenders, shall, demand (which demand shall be deemed to have been delivered automatically upon any acceleration of the Loans and other obligations hereunder pursuant to Section 7.2), and the Borrower shall thereupon deliver to Agent, to be held for the benefit of the L/C Issuer, Agent and the Lenders entitled thereto, an amount of cash equal to 105% of the amount of Letter of Credit Obligations as additional collateral security for Obligations in respect of any outstanding Letter of Credit. Agent may at any time apply any or all of such cash and cash collateral to the payment of any or all of the Credit Parties’ Obligations in respect of any Letters of Credit. Pending such application, Agent may (but shall not be obligated to) invest the same in an interest bearing account in Agent’s name, for the benefit of the L/C Issuer, Agent and the Lenders entitled thereto, under which deposits are available for immediate withdrawal, at such bank or financial institution as the L/C Issuer and Agent may, in their discretion, select.
ARTICLE VIII -
AGENT
8.1 Appointment and Duties.
(a) Appointment of Agent. Each Lender and each L/C Issuer hereby appoints GE Capital (together with any successor Agent pursuant to Section 8.9) as Agent hereunder and authorizes Agent to (i) execute and deliver the Loan Documents and accept delivery thereof on its behalf from any Credit Party, (ii) take such action on its behalf and to exercise all rights, powers and remedies and perform the duties as are expressly delegated to Agent under such Loan Documents and (iii) exercise such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto.
(b) Duties as Collateral and Disbursing Agent. Without limiting the generality of clause (a) above, Agent shall have the sole and exclusive right and authority (to the exclusion of the Lenders and L/C Issuers), and is hereby authorized, to (i) act as the disbursing and collecting agent for the Lenders and the L/C Issuers with respect to all payments and
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collections arising in connection with the Loan Documents (including in any proceeding described in subsection 7.1(g) or any other bankruptcy, insolvency or similar proceeding), and each Person making any payment in connection with any Loan Document to any Secured Party is hereby authorized to make such payment to Agent, (ii) file and prove claims and file other documents necessary or desirable to allow the claims of the Secured Parties with respect to any Obligation in any proceeding described in subsection 7.1(f) or (g) or any other bankruptcy, insolvency or similar proceeding (but not to vote, consent or otherwise act on behalf of such Person), (iii) act as collateral agent for each Secured Party for purposes of the perfection of all Liens created by such agreements and all other purposes stated therein, (iv) manage, supervise and otherwise deal with the Collateral, (v) take such other action as is necessary or desirable to maintain the perfection and priority of the Liens created or purported to be created by the Loan Documents, (vi) except as may be otherwise specified in any Loan Document, exercise all remedies given to Agent and the other Secured Parties with respect to the Credit Parties and/or the Collateral, whether under the Loan Documents, applicable Requirements of Law or otherwise and (vii) execute any amendment, consent or waiver under the Loan Documents on behalf of any Lender that has consented in writing to such amendment, consent or waiver; provided, however, that Agent hereby appoints, authorizes and directs each Lender and L/C Issuer to act as collateral sub-agent for Agent, the Lenders and the L/C Issuers for purposes of the perfection of all Liens with respect to the Collateral, including any deposit account maintained by a Credit Party with, and cash and Cash Equivalents held by, such Lender or L/C Issuer, and may further authorize and direct the Lenders and the L/C Issuers to take further actions as collateral sub-agents for purposes of enforcing such Liens or otherwise to transfer the Collateral subject thereto to Agent, and each Lender and L/C Issuer hereby agrees to take such further actions to the extent, and only to the extent, so authorized and directed.
(c) Limited Duties. Under the Loan Documents, Agent (i) is acting solely on behalf of the Lenders and the L/C Issuers (except to the limited extent provided in subsection 1.4(b) with respect to the Register), with duties that are entirely administrative in nature, notwithstanding the use of the defined term “Agent”, the terms “agent”, “Agent” and “collateral agent” and similar terms in any Loan Document to refer to Agent, which terms are used for title purposes only, (ii) is not assuming any obligation under any Loan Document other than as expressly set forth therein or any role as agent, fiduciary or trustee of or for any Lender, L/C Issuer or any other Person and (iii) shall have no implied functions, responsibilities, duties, obligations or other liabilities under any Loan Document, and each Secured Party, by accepting the benefits of the Loan Documents, hereby waives and agrees not to assert any claim against Agent based on the roles, duties and legal relationships expressly disclaimed in clauses (i) through (iii) above.
8.2 Binding Effect. Each Secured Party, by accepting the benefits of the Loan Documents, agrees that (i) any action taken by Agent or the Required Lenders (or, if expressly required hereby, a greater proportion of the Lenders) in accordance with the provisions of the Loan Documents, (ii) any action taken by Agent in reliance upon the instructions of Required Lenders (or, where so required, such greater proportion) and (iii) the exercise by Agent or the Required Lenders (or, where so required, such greater proportion) of the powers set forth herein or therein, together with such other powers as are reasonably incidental thereto, shall be authorized and binding upon all of the Secured Parties.
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8.3 Use of Discretion.
(a) No Action without Instructions. Agent shall not be required to exercise any discretion or take, or to omit to take, any action, including with respect to enforcement or collection, except any action it is required to take or omit to take (i) under any Loan Document or (ii) pursuant to instructions from the Required Lenders (or, where expressly required by the terms of this Agreement, a greater proportion of the Lenders).
(b) Right Not to Follow Certain Instructions. Notwithstanding clause (a) above, Agent shall not be required to take, or to omit to take, any action (i) unless, upon demand, Agent receives an indemnification satisfactory to it from the Lenders (or, to the extent applicable and acceptable to Agent, any other Person) against all Liabilities that, by reason of such action or omission, may be imposed on, incurred by or asserted against Agent or any Related Person thereof or (ii) that is, in the opinion of Agent or its counsel, contrary to any Loan Document or applicable Requirement of Law.
(c) Exclusive Right to Enforce Rights and Remedies. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein or in any other Loan Document, the authority to enforce rights and remedies hereunder and under the other Loan Documents against the Credit Parties or any of them shall be vested exclusively in, and all actions and proceedings at law in connection with such enforcement shall be instituted and maintained exclusively by, the Agent in accordance with the Loan Documents for the benefit of all the Lenders and the L/C Issuer; provided that the foregoing shall not prohibit (a) the Agent from exercising on its own behalf the rights and remedies that inure to its benefit (solely in its capacity as Agent) hereunder and under the other Loan Documents, (b) each of the L/C Issuer and the Swingline Lender from exercising the rights and remedies that inure to its benefit (solely in its capacity as L/C Issuer or Swingline Lender, as the case may be) hereunder and under the other Loan Documents, (c) any Lender from exercising setoff rights in accordance with Section 9.11 or (d) any Lender from filing proofs of claim or appearing and filing pleadings on its own behalf during the pendency of a proceeding relative to any Credit Party under any bankruptcy or other debtor relief law; and provided further that if at any time there is no Person acting as Agent hereunder and under the other Loan Documents, then (i) the Required Lenders shall have the rights otherwise ascribed to the Agent pursuant to Section 7.2 and (ii) in addition to the matters set forth in clauses (b), (c) and (d) of the preceding proviso and subject to Section 9.11, any Lender may, with the consent of the Required Lenders, enforce any rights and remedies available to it and as authorized by the Required Lenders.
8.4 Delegation of Rights and Duties. Agent may, upon any term or condition it specifies, delegate or exercise any of its rights, powers and remedies under, and delegate or perform any of its duties or any other action with respect to, any Loan Document by or through any trustee, co-agent, employee, attorney-in-fact and any other Person (including any Secured Party), subject to such Person agreeing to the confidentiality provisions hereof. Any such Person shall benefit from this Article VIII to the extent provided by Agent.
8.5 Reliance and Liability.
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(a) Agent may, without incurring any liability hereunder (absent gross negligence or willful misconduct as determined in a final, non-appealable judgment by a court of competent jurisdiction), (i) treat the payee of any Note as its holder until such Note has been assigned in accordance with Section 9.9, (ii) rely on the Register to the extent set forth in Section 1.4, (iii) consult with any of its Related Persons and, whether or not selected by it, any other advisors, accountants and other experts (including advisors to, and accountants and experts engaged by, any Credit Party) and (iv) rely and act upon any document and information (including those transmitted by Electronic Transmission) and any telephone message or conversation, in each case believed by it to be genuine and transmitted, signed or otherwise authenticated by the appropriate parties.
(b) None of Agent and its Related Persons shall be liable for any action taken or omitted to be taken by any of them under or in connection with any Loan Document, and each Secured Party, the Borrower and each other Credit Party hereby waive and shall not assert (and the Borrower shall cause each other Credit Party to waive and agree not to assert) any right, claim or cause of action based thereon, except to the extent of liabilities resulting from the gross negligence or willful misconduct of Agent or, as the case may be, such Related Person (each as determined in a final, non-appealable judgment by a court of competent jurisdiction) in connection with the duties expressly set forth herein. Without limiting the foregoing, Agent:
(i) shall not be responsible or otherwise incur liability for any action or omission taken in reliance upon the instructions of the Required Lenders or for the actions or omissions of any of its Related Persons selected with reasonable care (other than employees, officers and directors of Agent, when acting on behalf of Agent);
(ii) shall not be responsible to any Lender, L/C Issuer or other Person for the due execution, legality, validity, enforceability, effectiveness, genuineness, sufficiency or value of, or the attachment, perfection or priority of any Lien created or purported to be created under or in connection with, any Loan Document;
(iii) makes no warranty or representation, and shall not be responsible, to any Lender, L/C Issuer or other Person for any statement, document, information, representation or warranty made or furnished by or on behalf of any Credit Party or any Related Person of any Credit Party in connection with any Loan Document or any transaction contemplated therein or any other document or information with respect to any Credit Party, whether or not transmitted or (except for documents expressly required under any Loan Document to be transmitted to the Lenders) omitted to be transmitted by Agent, including as to completeness, accuracy, scope or adequacy thereof, or for the scope, nature or results of any due diligence performed by Agent in connection with the Loan Documents; and
(iv) shall not have any duty to ascertain or to inquire as to the performance or observance of any provision of any Loan Document, whether any condition set forth in any Loan Document is satisfied or waived, as to the financial condition of any Credit Party or as to the existence or continuation or possible occurrence or continuation of any Default or Event of Default and shall not be deemed to have notice or knowledge of such occurrence or continuation unless it has received a notice from the Borrower, any Lender or L/C Issuer describing such Default or Event of Default clearly labeled “notice of default” (in which case Agent shall promptly give notice of such receipt to all Lenders);
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and, for each of the items set forth in clauses (i) through (iv) above, each Lender, L/C Issuer and the Borrower hereby waives and agrees not to assert (and the Borrower shall cause each other Credit Party to waive and agree not to assert) any right, claim or cause of action it might have against Agent based thereon other than resulting from the gross negligence or willful misconduct of Agent (as determined in a final, non-appealable judgment by a court of competent jurisdiction) in connection with the duties expressly set forth herein.
(c) Each of the Joint Lead Arrangers, the Joint Book Runners, the Documentation Agent and the Syndication Agent, in such capacities, shall not have any right, power, obligation, liability, responsibility, or duty under this Agreement other than those applicable to it in its capacity as a Lender, as Agent, as Swingline Lender or as an L/C Issuer. Without limiting the foregoing, each of the Joint Lead Arrangers, the Joint Book Runners, the Documentation Agent and the Syndication Agent, in such capacities, shall not have or be deemed to have any fiduciary relationship with any Lender or any Credit Party. Each Lender, Agent, Swingline Lender, L/C Issuer and each Credit Party acknowledges that it has not relied, and will not rely, on the Joint Lead Arrangers, the Joint Book Runners, the Documentation Agent and the Syndication Agents in deciding to enter into this Agreement or in taking or not taking action hereunder. Each of the Joint Lead Arrangers, the Joint Book Runners, the Documentation Agent and the Syndication Agent, in such capacities, shall be entitled to resign at any time by giving notice to Agent and Borrower.
8.6 Agent Individually. Agent and its Affiliates may make loans and other extensions of credit to, acquire Stock and Stock Equivalents of, engage in any kind of business with, any Credit Party or Affiliate thereof as though it were not acting as Agent and may receive separate fees and other payments therefor. To the extent Agent or any of its Affiliates makes any Loan or otherwise becomes a Lender hereunder, it shall have and may exercise the same rights and powers hereunder and shall be subject to the same obligations and liabilities as any other Lender and the terms “Lender”, “Revolving Lender”, “Required Lender”, “Required Revolving Lender” and any similar terms shall, except where otherwise expressly provided in any Loan Document, include, without limitation, Agent or such Affiliate, as the case may be, in its individual capacity as Lender, Revolving Lender or as one of the Required Lenders or Required Revolving Lenders, respectively.
8.7 Lender Credit Decision.
(a) Each Lender and each L/C Issuer acknowledges that it shall, independently and without reliance upon Agent, any Lender or L/C Issuer or any of their Related Persons or upon any document (including any offering and disclosure materials in connection with the syndication of the Loans) solely or in part because such document was transmitted by Agent or any of its Related Persons, conduct its own independent investigation of the financial condition and affairs of each Credit Party and make and continue to make its own credit decisions in connection with entering into, and taking or not taking any action under, any Loan Document or with respect to any transaction contemplated in any Loan Document, in each case
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based on such documents and information as it shall deem appropriate. Except for documents expressly required by any Loan Document to be transmitted by Agent to the Lenders or L/C Issuers, Agent shall not have any duty or responsibility to provide any Lender or L/C Issuer with any credit or other information concerning the business, prospects, operations, property, financial and other condition or creditworthiness of any Credit Party or any Affiliate of any Credit Party that may come in to the possession of Agent or any of its Related Persons.
(b) If any Lender or L/C Issuer has elected to abstain from receiving MNPI concerning the Credit Parties or their Affiliates, such Lender or L/C Issuer acknowledges that, notwithstanding such election, Agent and/or the Credit Parties will, from time to time, make available syndicate-information (which may contain MNPI) as required by the terms of, or in the course of administering the Loans to the credit contact(s) identified for receipt of such information on the Lender’s administrative questionnaire who are able to receive and use all syndicate-level information (which may contain MNPI) in accordance with such Lender’s compliance policies and contractual obligations and applicable law, including federal and state securities laws; provided, that if such contact is not so identified in such questionnaire, the relevant Lender or L/C Issuer hereby agrees to promptly (and in any event within one (1) Business Day) provide such a contact to Agent and the Credit Parties upon request therefor by Agent or the Credit Parties. Notwithstanding such Lender’s or L/C Issuer’s election to abstain from receiving MNPI, such Lender or L/C Issuer acknowledges that if such Lender or L/C Issuer chooses to communicate with Agent, it assumes the risk of receiving MNPI concerning the Credit Parties or their Affiliates.
8.8 Expenses; Indemnities.
(a) Each Lender agrees to reimburse Agent and each of its Related Persons (to the extent not reimbursed by any Credit Party and without limitation of the Credit Parties’ obligations to do so) promptly upon demand, severally and ratably, for any reasonable and documented costs and expenses (including reasonable fees, charges and disbursements of legal advisors and fees, charges and disbursements of financial and other advisors and Other Taxes paid in the name of, or on behalf of, any Credit Party) that may be incurred by Agent or any of its Related Persons in connection with the preparation, syndication, execution, delivery, administration, modification, consent, waiver or enforcement (whether through negotiations, through any work-out, bankruptcy, restructuring or other legal or other proceeding or otherwise) of, or legal advice in respect of its rights or responsibilities under, any Loan Document.
(b) Each Lender further agrees to indemnify Agent and each of its Related Persons (to the extent not reimbursed by any Credit Party and without limitation of the Credit Parties’ obligations to do so), severally and ratably, from and against Liabilities (including taxes, interests and penalties imposed for not properly withholding or backup withholding on payments made to or for the account of any Lender) that may be imposed on, incurred by or asserted against Agent or any of its Related Persons in any matter relating to or arising out of, in connection with or as a result of any Loan Document, any Related Document or any other act, event or transaction related, contemplated in or attendant to any such document, or, in each case, any action taken or omitted to be taken by Agent or any of its Related Persons under or with respect to any of the foregoing; provided, however, that no Lender shall be liable to Agent or any of its Related Persons to the extent such liability has resulted from the gross negligence or willful misconduct of Agent or, as the case may be, such Related Person, as determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in a final non-appealable judgment or order.
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(c) To the extent required by any applicable law, Agent may withhold from any payment to any Lender under a Loan Document an amount equal to any applicable withholding tax. If the Internal Revenue Service or any other Governmental Authority asserts a claim that Agent did not properly withhold tax from amounts paid to or for the account of any Lender (because the appropriate certification form was not delivered, was not properly executed, or fails to establish an exemption from, or reduction of, withholding tax with respect to a particular type of payment, or because such Lender failed to notify Agent or any other Person of a change in circumstances which rendered the exemption from, or reduction of, withholding tax ineffective, or for any other reason), or Agent reasonably determines that it was required to withhold taxes from a prior payment but failed to do so, such Lender shall promptly indemnify Agent fully for all amounts paid, directly or indirectly, by Agent as tax or otherwise, including penalties and interest, and together with all expenses incurred by Agent, including legal expenses, allocated internal costs and out-of-pocket expenses. Agent may offset against any payment to any Lender under a Loan Document, any applicable withholding tax that was required to be withheld from any prior payment to such Lender but which was not so withheld, as well as any other amounts for which Agent is entitled to indemnification from such Lender under this Section 8.8(c).
8.9 Resignation of Agent or L/C Issuer.
(a) Agent may resign at any time by delivering notice of such resignation to the Lenders and the Borrower, effective on the date set forth in such notice (which date shall be no less than thirty (30) days after the date of such notice) or, if no such date is set forth therein, upon the date that is thirty (30) days after such notice is delivered. If Agent delivers any such notice, the Required Lenders shall have the right to appoint a successor Agent. If, within thirty (30) days after the retiring Agent having given notice of resignation, no successor Agent has been appointed by the Required Lenders that has accepted such appointment, then the retiring Agent may, on behalf of the Lenders, appoint a successor Agent from among the Lenders. Each appointment under this clause (a) shall be subject to the prior consent of the Borrower, which may not be unreasonably withheld but shall not be required during the continuance of an Event of Default.
(b) Effective immediately upon its resignation, (i) the retiring Agent shall be discharged from its duties and obligations as Agent (but not as a Lender or L/C Issuer, if applicable) under the Loan Documents except as set forth in clause (iv) below, (ii) the Lenders shall assume and perform all of the duties of Agent until a successor Agent shall have accepted a valid appointment hereunder, (iii) the retiring Agent and its Related Persons shall no longer have the benefit of any provision of any Loan Document in its capacity as Agent other than with respect to any actions taken or omitted to be taken while such retiring Agent was, or because such Agent had been, validly acting as Agent under the Loan Documents and (iv) subject to its rights under Section 8.3, the retiring Agent shall take such action as may be reasonably necessary to assign to the successor Agent its rights as Agent under the Loan Documents. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the retiring Agent shall remain Agent for purposes of holding Collateral until a successor Agent is appointed in accordance with the terms hereof. Effective immediately upon its acceptance of a valid appointment as Agent, a successor Agent shall succeed to, and become vested with, all the rights, powers, privileges and duties of the retiring Agent under the Loan Documents.
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(c) Any L/C Issuer may resign at any time by delivering notice of such resignation to Agent, effective on the date set forth in such notice or, if no such date is set forth therein, on the date such notice shall be effective. Upon such resignation, the L/C Issuer shall remain an L/C Issuer and shall retain its rights and obligations in its capacity as such (other than any obligation to Issue Letters of Credit but including the right to receive fees or to have Lenders participate in any L/C Reimbursement Obligation thereof) with respect to Letters of Credit issued by such L/C Issuer prior to the date of such resignation and shall otherwise be discharged from all other duties and obligations under the Loan Documents.
8.10 Release of Collateral or Guarantors. Each Lender and L/C Issuer hereby consents to the release and hereby directs Agent to release (or, in the case of clause (b)(ii) below, release or subordinate) the following:
(a) any Subsidiary of the Borrower from its guaranty of any Obligation if all of the Stock and Stock Equivalents of such Subsidiary owned by any Credit Party are sold or transferred in a transaction permitted under the Loan Documents (including pursuant to a waiver or consent), to the extent that, after giving effect to such transaction, such Subsidiary would not be required to guaranty any Obligations pursuant to Section 4.13; and
(b) any Lien held by Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties against (i) any Collateral that is sold, transferred, conveyed or otherwise disposed of by a Credit Party in a transaction permitted by the Loan Documents (including pursuant to a valid waiver or consent), to the extent all Liens required to be granted in such Collateral pursuant to Section 4.13 after giving effect to such transaction have been granted, (ii) any property subject to a Lien permitted hereunder in reliance upon subsection 5.1(h) or (i) and (iii) all of the Collateral and all Credit Parties, upon (A) termination of the Revolving Loan Commitments, (B) payment and satisfaction in full of all Loans, all L/C Reimbursement Obligations and all other Obligations under the Loan Documents and all Obligations arising under Secured Rate Contracts, that Agent has theretofore been notified in writing by the holder of such Obligation are then due and payable, (C) deposit of cash collateral with respect to all contingent Obligations (or, as an alternative to cash collateral, in the case of any Letter of Credit Obligation, receipt by Agent of a back-up letter of credit) in amounts and on terms and conditions and with parties satisfactory to Agent and each Indemnitee that is, or may be, owed such Obligations (excluding contingent Obligations (other than L/C Reimbursement Obligations) as to which no claim has been asserted) and (D) to the extent requested by Agent, receipt by Agent and the Secured Parties of liability releases from the Credit Parties each in form and substance acceptable to Agent.
Each Lender and L/C Issuer hereby directs Agent, and Agent hereby agrees, upon receipt of reasonable advance notice from the Borrower, to execute and deliver or file such documents and to perform other actions reasonably necessary to release the guaranties and Liens when and as directed in this Section 8.10.
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8.11 Additional Secured Parties. The benefit of the provisions of the Loan Documents directly relating to the Collateral or any Lien granted thereunder shall extend to and be available to any Secured Party that is not a Lender or L/C Issuer party hereto as long as, by accepting such benefits, such Secured Party agrees, as among Agent and all other Secured Parties, that such Secured Party is bound by (and, if requested by Agent, shall confirm such agreement in a writing in form and substance acceptable to Agent) this Article VIII, Section 9.3, Section 9.9, Section 9.10, Section 9.11, Section 9.17, Section 9.24 and Section 10.1 (and, solely with respect to L/C Issuers, subsection 1.1(c)) and the decisions and actions of Agent and the Required Lenders (or, where expressly required by the terms of this Agreement, a greater proportion of the Lenders or other parties hereto as required herein) to the same extent a Lender is bound; provided, however, that, notwithstanding the foregoing, (a) such Secured Party shall be bound by Section 8.8 only to the extent of Liabilities, costs and expenses with respect to or otherwise relating to the Collateral held for the benefit of such Secured Party, in which case the obligations of such Secured Party thereunder shall not be limited by any concept of pro rata share or similar concept, (b) each of Agent, the Lenders and the L/C Issuers party hereto shall be entitled to act at its sole discretion, without regard to the interest of such Secured Party, regardless of whether any Obligation to such Secured Party thereafter remains outstanding, is deprived of the benefit of the Collateral, becomes unsecured or is otherwise affected or put in jeopardy thereby, and without any duty or liability to such Secured Party or any such Obligation and (c) except as otherwise set forth herein, such Secured Party shall not have any right to be notified of, consent to, direct, require or be heard with respect to, any action taken or omitted in respect of the Collateral or under any Loan Document.
ARTICLE IX -
MISCELLANEOUS
9.1 Amendments and Waivers.
(a) No amendment or waiver of any provision of this Agreement or any other Loan Document, and no consent with respect to any departure by any Credit Party therefrom, shall be effective unless the same shall be in writing and signed by the Required Lenders (or by Agent with the consent of the Required Lenders) and the Borrower and then such waiver shall be effective only in the specific instance and for the specific purpose for which given; provided, however, that no such waiver, amendment, or consent shall, unless in writing and signed by all the Lenders directly affected thereby (or by Agent with the consent of all the Lenders directly affected thereby), in addition to the Required Lenders (which may include the Lenders directly affected thereby) (or by Agent with the consent of the Required Lenders, which may include the Lenders directly affected thereby) and the Borrower, do any of the following:
(i) increase or extend the Commitment of any Lender (or reinstate any Commitment terminated pursuant to subsection 7.2(a));
(ii) postpone or delay any date fixed for, or reduce or waive, any scheduled installment of principal or any payment of interest, fees or other amounts (other than principal) due to the Lenders (or any of them) or L/C Issuer hereunder or under any other Loan Document (for the avoidance of doubt, mandatory prepayments pursuant to Section 1.8 may be postponed, delayed, reduced, waived or modified with the consent of Required Lenders);
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(iii) reduce the principal of, or the rate of interest specified herein (it being agreed that waiver or decrease of the default interest margin shall only require the consent of Required Lenders) or the amount of interest payable in cash specified herein on any Loan, or of any fees or other amounts payable hereunder or under any other Loan Document, including L/C Reimbursement Obligations;
(iv) amend or modify subsection 1.10(c);
(v) change the percentage of the Commitments or of the aggregate unpaid principal amount of the Loans which shall be required for the Lenders or any of them to take any action hereunder;
(vi) amend this Section 9.1 or the definition of Required Lenders or any provision providing for consent or other action by all Lenders; or
(vii) discharge any Credit Party from its respective payment Obligations under the Loan Documents, or release all or substantially all of the Collateral, except as otherwise may be provided in this Agreement or the other Loan Documents;
it being agreed that all Lenders shall be deemed to be directly affected by an amendment or waiver of the type described in the preceding clauses (v), (vi) and (vii).
(b) No amendment, waiver or consent shall, unless in writing and signed by Agent, the Swingline Lender or the L/C Issuer, as the case may be, in addition to the Required Lenders or all Lenders directly affected thereby, as the case may be (or by Agent with the consent of the Required Lenders or all the Lenders directly affected thereby, as the case may be), affect the rights or duties of Agent, the Swingline Lender or the L/C Issuer, as applicable, under this Agreement or any other Loan Document. No amendment, modification or waiver of this Agreement or any Loan Document altering the ratable treatment of Obligations arising under Secured Rate Contracts resulting in such Obligations being junior in right of payment to principal on the Loans or resulting in Obligations owing to any Secured Swap Provider becoming unsecured (other than releases of Liens permitted in accordance with the terms hereof), in each case in a manner adverse to any Secured Swap Provider, shall be effective without the written consent of such Secured Swap Provider or, in the case of a Secured Rate Contract provided or arranged by GE Capital or an Affiliate of GE Capital, GE Capital.
(c) No amendment or waiver shall, unless signed by Agent and Required Revolving Lenders (or by Agent with the consent of Required Revolving Lenders) in addition to the Required Lenders (or by Agent with the consent of the Required Lenders): (i) amend or waive compliance with the conditions precedent to the obligations of Lenders to make any Revolving Loan (or of any L/C Issuer to issue any Letter of Credit) in Section 2.2; (ii) waive any Default or Event of Default for the purpose of satisfying the conditions precedent to the obligations of Lenders to make any Revolving Loan (or of any L/C Issuer to issue any Letter of Credit) in Section 2.2; (iii) amend or waive this subsection 9.1(c) or the definitions of the terms
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used in this subsection 9.1(c) insofar as the definitions affect the substance of this subsection 9.1(c); and (iv) change the definition of the term Required Revolving Lenders or the percentage of Lenders which shall be required for Revolving Lenders to take any action hereunder.
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Section 9.1, (w) any Lender may agree to extend the Term Loan Maturity Date with respect to its Term Loans without the consent of Agent or any other Lender, (x) the Borrower may amend Schedules 3.5, 3.7, 3.19 and 3.21 upon notice to Agent, (y) Agent may amend any schedule of Revolving Loan Commitments on file with Agent to reflect Sales entered into pursuant to Section 9.9, and (z) Agent and the Borrower may amend or modify this Agreement and any other Loan Document (1) following notice from the Agent to the Lenders and consent from Required Lenders (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld and shall be deemed to have been given by any Lender not delivering an objection to the Agent within five (5) days after delivery of such notice by the Agent to such Lender), to cure any ambiguity, omission, defect or inconsistency therein, in each case, to the extent occurring as a result of obvious errors, (2) as is necessary to comply with any applicable law or government regulations or (3) to grant a new Lien for the benefit of the Secured Parties, extend an existing Lien over additional property for the benefit of the Secured Parties or join additional Persons as Credit Parties.
9.2 Notices.
(a) Addresses. All notices and other communications required or expressly authorized to be made by this Agreement shall be given in writing, unless otherwise expressly specified herein, and (i) addressed to the address set forth on the applicable signature page hereto, (ii) posted to Intralinks® (to the extent such system is available and set up by or at the direction of Agent prior to posting) in an appropriate location by uploading such notice, demand, request, direction or other communication to xxx.xxxxxxxxxx.xxx, faxing it to 000-000-0000 with an appropriate bar-code fax coversheet or using such other means of posting to Intralinks® as may be available and reasonably acceptable to Agent prior to such posting, (iii) posted to any other E-System approved by or set up by or at the direction of Agent or (iv) addressed to such other address as shall be notified in writing (A) in the case of the Borrower, Agent and the Swingline Lender, to the other parties hereto and (B) in the case of all other parties, to the Borrower and Agent. Transmissions made by electronic mail or E-Fax to Agent shall be effective only (x) for notices where such transmission is specifically authorized by this Agreement, (y) if such transmission is delivered in compliance with procedures of Agent applicable at the time and previously communicated to Borrower, and (z) if receipt of such transmission is acknowledged by Agent.
(b) Effectiveness. (i) All communications described in clause (a) above and all other notices, demands, requests and other communications made in connection with this Agreement shall be effective and be deemed to have been received (i) if delivered by hand, upon personal delivery, (ii) if delivered by overnight courier service, one (1) Business Day after delivery to such courier service, (iii) if delivered by mail, three (3) Business Days after deposit in the mail, (iv) if delivered by facsimile (other than to post to an E-System pursuant to clause (a)(ii) or (a)(iii) above), upon sender’s receipt of confirmation of proper transmission, and (v) if delivered by posting to any E-System, on the later of the Business Day of such posting and the Business Day access to such posting is given to the recipient thereof in accordance with the standard procedures applicable to such E-System; provided, however, that no communications to Agent pursuant to Article I shall be effective until received by Agent.
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(ii) The posting, completion and/or submission by any Credit Party of any communication pursuant to an E-System shall constitute a representation and warranty by the Credit Parties that any representation, warranty, certification or other similar statement required by the Loan Documents to be provided, given or made by a Credit Party in connection with any such communication is true, correct and complete except as expressly noted in such communication or E-System.
(c) Each Lender shall notify Agent in writing of any changes in the address to which notices to such Lender should be directed, of addresses of its Lending Office, of payment instructions in respect of all payments to be made to it hereunder and of such other administrative information as Agent shall reasonably request.
9.3 Electronic Transmissions.
(a) Authorization. Subject to the provisions of subsection 9.2(a), each of Agent, Lenders, each Credit Party and each of their Related Persons, is authorized (but not required) to transmit, post or otherwise make or communicate, in its sole discretion, Electronic Transmissions in connection with any Loan Document and the transactions contemplated therein. Each Credit Party and each Secured Party hereto acknowledges and agrees that the use of Electronic Transmissions is not necessarily secure and that there are risks associated with such use, including risks of interception, disclosure and abuse and each indicates it assumes and accepts such risks by hereby authorizing the transmission of Electronic Transmissions.
(b) Signatures. Subject to the provisions of subsection 9.2(a), (i)(A) no posting to any E-System shall be denied legal effect merely because it is made electronically, (B) each E-Signature on any such posting shall be deemed sufficient to satisfy any requirement for a “signature” and (C) each such posting shall be deemed sufficient to satisfy any requirement for a “writing”, in each case including pursuant to any Loan Document, any applicable provision of any UCC, the federal Uniform Electronic Transactions Act, the Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act and any substantive or procedural Requirement of Law governing such subject matter, (ii) each such posting that is not readily capable of bearing either a signature or a reproduction of a signature may be signed, and shall be deemed signed, by attaching to, or logically associating with such posting, an E-Signature, upon which Agent, each other Secured Party and each Credit Party may rely and assume the authenticity thereof, (iii) each such posting containing a signature, a reproduction of a signature or an E-Signature shall, for all intents and purposes, have the same effect and weight as a signed paper original and (iv) each party hereto or beneficiary hereto agrees not to contest the validity or enforceability of any posting on any E-System or E-Signature on any such posting under the provisions of any applicable Requirement of Law requiring certain documents to be in writing or signed; provided, however, that nothing herein shall limit such party’s or beneficiary’s right to contest whether any posting to any E-System or E-Signature has been altered after transmission.
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(c) Separate Agreements. All uses of an E-System shall be governed by and subject to, in addition to Section 9.2 and this Section 9.3, the separate terms, conditions and privacy policy posted or referenced in such E-System (or such terms, conditions and privacy policy as may be updated from time to time, including on such E-System) and related Contractual Obligations executed by Agent and Credit Parties in connection with the use of such E-System.
(d) LIMITATION OF LIABILITY. ALL E-SYSTEMS AND ELECTRONIC TRANSMISSIONS SHALL BE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE”. NONE OF AGENT, ANY LENDER OR ANY OF THEIR RELATED PERSONS OR ANY CREDIT PARTY WARRANTS THE ACCURACY, ADEQUACY OR COMPLETENESS OF ANY E-SYSTEMS OR ELECTRONIC TRANSMISSION AND DISCLAIMS ALL LIABILITY FOR ERRORS OR OMISSIONS THEREIN. NO WARRANTY OF ANY KIND IS MADE BY AGENT, ANY LENDER OR ANY OF THEIR RELATED PERSONS IN CONNECTION WITH ANY E-SYSTEMS OR ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION, INCLUDING ANY WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT OF THIRD-PARTY RIGHTS OR FREEDOM FROM VIRUSES OR OTHER CODE DEFECTS. Each of the Borrower, each other Credit Party executing this Agreement and each Secured Party agrees that Agent has no responsibility for maintaining or providing any equipment, software, services or any testing required in connection with any Electronic Transmission or otherwise required for any E-System.
(e) Documents Filed with the SEC. To the extent documents required to be delivered pursuant to Section 4.1 or Section 4.2 are otherwise filed with the SEC shall be deemed delivered hereunder upon Borrower filing such documents on the SEC’s Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval system (XXXXX).
9.4 No Waiver; Cumulative Remedies. No failure to exercise and no delay in exercising, on the part of Agent or any Lender, any right, remedy, power or privilege hereunder, shall operate as a waiver thereof; nor shall any single or partial exercise of any right, remedy, power or privilege hereunder preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right, remedy, power or privilege. No course of dealing between any Credit Party, any Affiliate of any Credit Party, Agent or any Lender shall be effective to amend, modify or discharge any provision of this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents.
9.5 Costs and Expenses. Any action taken by any Credit Party under or with respect to any Loan Document, even if required under any Loan Document or at the request of Agent or Required Lenders in accordance with this Agreement, shall be at the expense of such Credit Party, and neither Agent nor any other Secured Party shall be required under any Loan Document to reimburse any Credit Party or any Subsidiary of any Credit Party therefor except as expressly provided therein. In addition, the Borrower agrees to pay or reimburse upon demand (a) Agent for all reasonable out-of-pocket costs and expenses incurred by it or any of its Related Persons, in connection with the investigation, development, preparation, negotiation, syndication, execution, interpretation or administration of, any modification of any term of or termination of, any Loan Document, any commitment or proposal letter therefor, any other document prepared in connection therewith or the consummation and administration of any transaction contemplated therein, in each case including Attorney Costs of Agent, the cost of environmental audits, Collateral audits and appraisals, background checks and similar expenses, to the extent permitted hereunder, (b) Agent for all reasonable costs and expenses incurred by it
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or any of its Related Persons in connection with internal audit reviews, field examinations (not to exceed one per calendar year at Borrower’s expense, unless an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing) and Collateral examinations (which shall be reimbursed, in addition to the out-of-pocket costs and expenses of such examiners, at the per diem rate per individual charged by Agent for its examiners), (c) each of Agent, its Related Persons, and L/C Issuer for all costs and expenses incurred in connection with (i) any refinancing or restructuring of the credit arrangements provided hereunder in the nature of a “work-out”, (ii) the enforcement or preservation of any right or remedy under any Loan Document, any Obligation, with respect to the Collateral or any other related right or remedy or (iii) the commencement, defense, conduct of, intervention in, or the taking of any other action with respect to, any proceeding (including any bankruptcy or insolvency proceeding) related to any Credit Party, any Subsidiary of any Credit Party, Loan Document, Obligation or Related Transaction (or the response to and preparation for any subpoena or request for document production relating thereto), including Attorney Costs and (d) fees and disbursements of Attorney Costs of one law firm on behalf of all Lenders (other than Agent) and, to the extent, in the reasonable determination of the Required Lenders, a conflict of interest exists or arises, one law firm on behalf of each Lender affected by such conflict of interest, incurred in connection with any of the matters referred to in clause (c) above.
9.6 Indemnity.
(a) Each Credit Party agrees to indemnify, hold harmless and defend Agent, each Lender, each L/C Issuer and each of their respective Related Persons (each such Person being an “Indemnitee”) from and against all Liabilities (including brokerage commissions, fees and other compensation) that may be imposed on, incurred by or asserted against any such Indemnitee in any matter relating to or arising out of, in connection with or as a result of (i) any Loan Document, any Related Agreement, any Obligation (or the repayment thereof), any Letter of Credit, the use or intended use of the proceeds of any Loan or the use of any Letter of Credit or any securities filing of, or with respect to, any Credit Party, (ii) any commitment letter, proposal letter or term sheet with any Person or any Contractual Obligation, arrangement or understanding with any broker, finder or consultant, in each case entered into by or on behalf of the Seller, any Credit Party or any Affiliate of any of them in connection with any of the foregoing and any Contractual Obligation entered into in connection with any E-Systems or other Electronic Transmissions, (iii) any actual or prospective investigation, litigation or other proceeding, whether or not brought by any such Indemnitee or any of its Related Persons, any holders of securities or creditors (and including attorneys’ fees in any case), whether or not any such Indemnitee, Related Person, holder or creditor is a party thereto, and whether or not based on any securities or commercial law or regulation or any other Requirement of Law or theory thereof, including common law, equity, contract, tort or otherwise or (iv) any other act, event or transaction related, contemplated in or attendant to any of the foregoing (collectively, the “Indemnified Matters”); provided, however, that no Credit Party shall have any liability under this Section 9.6 to any Indemnitee with respect to any Indemnified Matter, and no Indemnitee shall have any liability with respect to any Indemnified Matter other than (to the extent otherwise liable), to the extent such liability has resulted from the gross negligence or willful misconduct of such Indemnitee, as determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in a final non-appealable judgment or order. Furthermore, each of the Borrower and each other Credit Party executing this Agreement waives and agrees not to assert against any Indemnitee, and shall cause each other Credit Party to waive and not assert against any Indemnitee, any right of contribution with respect to any Liabilities that may be imposed on, incurred by or asserted against any Related Person.
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(b) Without limiting the foregoing, “Indemnified Matters” includes all Environmental Liabilities imposed on, incurred by or asserted against any Indemnitee, including those arising from, or otherwise involving, any property of any Credit Party or any Related Person of any Credit Party or any actual, alleged or prospective damage to property or natural resources or harm or injury alleged to have resulted from any Release of Hazardous Materials on, upon or into such property or natural resource or any property on or contiguous to any Real Estate of any Credit Party or any Related Person of any Credit Party, whether or not, with respect to any such Environmental Liabilities, any Indemnitee is a mortgagee pursuant to any leasehold mortgage, a mortgagee in possession, the successor-in-interest to any Credit Party or any Related Person of any Credit Party or the owner, lessee or operator of any property of any Related Person through any foreclosure action, in each case except to the extent such Environmental Liabilities (i) are incurred solely following foreclosure by Agent or following Agent or any Lender having become the successor-in-interest to any Credit Party or any Related Person of any Credit Party and (ii) are attributable to acts of such Indemnitee.
(c) To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, the Borrower shall not assert, and hereby waives, 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, this Agreement, any other Loan Document or any agreement or instrument contemplated hereby, the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby, any Loan or the use of the proceeds thereof. No Indemnitee referred to in subsection 9.6(a) above shall be liable for any damages arising from the use by unintended recipients of any information or other materials distributed by it through telecommunications, electronic or other information transmission systems in connection with this Agreement or the other Loan Documents or the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby.
9.7 Marshaling; Payments Set Aside. No Secured Party shall be under any obligation to marshal any property in favor of any Credit Party or any other Person or against or in payment of any Obligation. To the extent that any Secured Party receives a payment from Borrower, from any other Credit Party, from the proceeds of the Collateral, from the exercise of its rights of setoff, any enforcement action or otherwise, and such payment is subsequently, in whole or in part, invalidated, declared to be fraudulent or preferential, set aside or required to be repaid to a trustee, receiver or any other party, then to the extent of such recovery, the obligation or part thereof originally intended to be satisfied, and all Liens, rights and remedies therefor, shall be revived and continued in full force and effect as if such payment had not occurred.
9.8 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; provided that any assignment by any Lender shall be subject to the provisions of Section 9.9, and provided further that the Borrower may not assign or transfer any of its rights or obligations under this Agreement without the prior written consent of Agent and each Lender.
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9.9 Assignments and Participations; Binding Effect.
(a) Binding Effect. This Agreement shall become effective when it shall have been executed by the Borrower, the other Credit Parties signatory hereto and Agent and when Agent shall have been notified by each Lender that such Lender has executed it. Thereafter, it shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of, but only to the benefit of, the Borrower, the other Credit Parties hereto (in each case except for Article VIII), Agent, each Lender and each L/C Issuer receiving the benefits of the Loan Documents and, to the extent provided in Section 8.11, each other Secured Party and, in each case, their respective successors and permitted assigns. Except as expressly provided in any Loan Document (including in Section 8.9), none of the Borrower, any other Credit Party, any L/C Issuer or Agent shall have the right to assign any rights or obligations hereunder or any interest herein.
(b) Right to Assign. Each Lender may sell, transfer, negotiate or assign (a “Sale”) all or a portion of its rights and obligations hereunder (including all or a portion of its Commitments and its rights and obligations with respect to Obligations, Loans and Letters of Credit) to (i) any existing Lender (other than a Non-Funding Lender or Impacted Lender), (ii) any Affiliate or Approved Fund of any existing Lender (other than a Non-Funding Lender or Impacted Lender) or (iii) any other Person acceptable (which acceptance shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed) to Agent and, as long as no Event of Default is continuing, the Borrower, and, in the case of any Sale of a Revolving Loan, Letter of Credit or Revolving Loan Commitment, the Agent and each L/C Issuer that is a Lender, (which acceptances of L/C Issuer and the Borrower shall be deemed to have been given unless an objection is delivered to Agent within five (5) Business Days after notice of a proposed Sale is delivered to the Borrower); provided, however, that (v) a Sale to a Second Lien Term Loan Lender or holder of any Subordinated Indebtedness or other Indebtedness junior to the obligations shall not be permitted except (1) as provided in the Intercreditor Agreement in respect of the Second Lien Term Loans, (2) with the consent of Agent (which consent shall not unreasonably withheld or delayed), Sales effected on or prior to October 20th, 2011 to Second Lien Term Loan Lenders party to the Second Lien Term Loan Credit Agreement on the Closing Date or any Affiliate or Approved Fund of any such Second Lien Term Loan Lender or (3) with the consent of Agent, in its sole discretion, (w) such Sales do not have to be ratable between the Revolving Loan and Term Loans or between each Term Loan but must be ratable among the obligations owing to and owed by such Lender with respect to the Revolving Loans or a Term Loan, (x) for each Loan, the aggregate outstanding principal amount (determined as of the effective date of the applicable Assignment) of the Loans, Commitments and Letter of Credit Obligations subject to any such Sale shall be in a minimum amount of $1,000,000, unless such Sale is made to an existing Lender or an Affiliate or Approved Fund of any existing Lender, is of the assignor’s (together with its Affiliates and Approved Funds) entire interest in such facility or is made with the prior consent of the Borrower (to the extent Borrower’s consent is otherwise required) and Agent, (y) interest accrued prior to and through the date of any such Sale may not be assigned, and (z) such Sales by Lenders who are Non-Funding Lenders due to clause (a) of the definition of Non-Funding Lender shall be subject to Agent’s prior written consent in all instances, unless in connection with such sale, such Non-Funding Lender cures, or causes the cure of, its Non-Funding Lender status as contemplated in subsection 1.11(e)(v). Agent’s refusal to accept a Sale to a Credit Party, an Affiliate of a Credit Party, a holder of Subordinated Indebtedness or an Affiliate of such a holder, or to a Person that would be a Non-Funding Lender or an Impacted
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Lender, or the imposition of conditions or limitations (including limitations on voting) upon Sales to such Persons, shall not be deemed to be unreasonable. Notwithstanding anything contained in this Agreement (including Section 9.1) or in any other Loan Document to the contrary, (i) upon any Sale of a Loan to a Credit Party, such Loan shall be retired and (ii) no Affiliate of a Credit Party shall, as a result of a Sale or otherwise, (A) have any voting rights under this Agreement or any other Loan Document or (B) hold more than twenty percent (20%) of (1) the aggregate unpaid principal balance of the Term Loans outstanding at any time, (2) the Aggregate Revolving Loan Commitments in effect at any time (or if the Aggregate Revolving Loan Commitments have terminated, the aggregate unpaid principal balance of Revolving Loans outstanding at any time) or (3) the aggregate unpaid principal balance of all Loans outstanding at any time.
(c) Procedure. The parties to each Sale made in reliance on clause (b) above (other than those described in clause (e) or (f) below) shall execute and deliver to Agent an Assignment via an electronic settlement system designated by Agent (or, if previously agreed with Agent, via a manual execution and delivery of the Assignment) evidencing such Sale, together with any existing Note subject to such Sale (or any affidavit of loss therefor acceptable to Agent), any tax forms required to be delivered pursuant to Section 10.1 and payment of an assignment fee in the amount of $3,500 to Agent by the parties to the Sale, unless waived or reduced by Agent; provided that (i) if a Sale by a Lender is made to an Affiliate or an Approved Fund of such assigning Lender, then no assignment fee shall be due in connection with such Sale, and (ii) if a Sale by a Lender is made to an assignee that is not an Affiliate or Approved Fund of such assignor Lender, and concurrently to one or more Affiliates or Approved Funds of such Assignee, then only one assignment fee of $3,500 shall be due in connection with such Sale (unless waived or reduced by Agent). Upon receipt of all the foregoing, and conditioned upon such receipt and, if such Assignment is made in accordance with clause (iii) of subsection 9.9(b), upon Agent (and the Borrower, if applicable) consenting to such Assignment, from and after the effective date specified in such Assignment, Agent shall record or cause to be recorded in the Register the information contained in such Assignment.
(d) Effectiveness. Subject to the recording of an Assignment by Agent in the Register pursuant to subsection 1.4(b), (i) the assignee thereunder shall become a party hereto and, to the extent that rights and obligations under the Loan Documents have been assigned to such assignee pursuant to such Assignment, shall have the rights and obligations of a Lender, (ii) any applicable Note shall be transferred to such assignee through such entry and (iii) the assignor thereunder shall, to the extent that rights and obligations under this Agreement have been assigned by it pursuant to such Assignment, relinquish its rights (except for those surviving the termination of the Commitments and the payment in full of the Obligations) and be released from its obligations under the Loan Documents, other than those relating to events or circumstances occurring prior to such assignment (and, in the case of an Assignment covering all or the remaining portion of an assigning Lender’s rights and obligations under the Loan Documents, such Lender shall cease to be a party hereto).
(e) Grant of Security Interests. In addition to the other rights provided in this Section 9.9, each Lender may grant a security interest in, or otherwise assign as collateral, any of its rights under this Agreement, whether now owned or hereafter acquired (including rights to payments of principal or interest on the Loans), to (A) any federal reserve bank (pursuant to
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Regulation A of the Federal Reserve Board), without notice to Agent or (B) any holder of, or trustee for the benefit of the holders of, such Lender’s Indebtedness or equity securities, by notice to Agent; provided, however, that no such holder or trustee, whether because of such grant or assignment or any foreclosure thereon (unless such foreclosure is made through an assignment in accordance with clause (b) above), shall be entitled to any rights of such Lender hereunder and no such Lender shall be relieved of any of its obligations hereunder.
(f) Participants and SPVs. In addition to the other rights provided in this Section 9.9, each Lender may, (x) with notice to Agent, grant to an SPV the option to make all or any part of any Loan that such Lender would otherwise be required to make hereunder (and the exercise of such option by such SPV and the making of Loans pursuant thereto shall satisfy the obligation of such Lender to make such Loans hereunder) and such SPV may assign to such Lender the right to receive payment with respect to any Obligation and (y) without notice to or consent from Agent or the Borrower, sell participations to one or more Persons in or to all or a portion of its rights and obligations under the Loan Documents (including all its rights and obligations with respect to the Term Loans, Revolving Loans and Letters of Credit); provided, however, that, whether as a result of any term of any Loan Document or of such grant or participation, (i) no such SPV or participant shall have a commitment, or be deemed to have made an offer to commit, to make Loans hereunder, and, except as provided in the applicable option agreement, none shall be liable for any obligation of such Lender hereunder, (ii) such Lender’s rights and obligations, and the rights and obligations of the Credit Parties and the Secured Parties towards such Lender, under any Loan Document shall remain unchanged and each other party hereto shall continue to deal solely with such Lender, which shall remain the holder of the Obligations in the Register, except that (A) each such participant and SPV shall be entitled to the benefit of Article X, but, with respect to Section 10.1, only to the extent such participant or SPV delivers the tax forms such Lender is required to collect pursuant to subsection 10.1(f) and then only to the extent of any amount to which such Lender would be entitled in the absence of any such grant or participation and (B) each such SPV may receive other payments that would otherwise be made to such Lender with respect to Loans funded by such SPV to the extent provided in the applicable option agreement and set forth in a notice provided to Agent by such SPV and such Lender, provided, however, that in no case (including pursuant to clause (A) or (B) above) shall an SPV or participant have the right to enforce any of the terms of any Loan Document, and (iii) the consent of such SPV or participant shall not be required (either directly, as a restraint on such Lender’s ability to consent hereunder or otherwise) for any amendments, waivers or consents with respect to any Loan Document or to exercise or refrain from exercising any powers or rights such Lender may have under or in respect of the Loan Documents (including the right to enforce or direct enforcement of the Obligations), except for those described in clauses (ii) and (iii) of subsection 9.1(a) with respect to amounts, or dates fixed for payment of amounts, to which such participant or SPV would otherwise be entitled and, in the case of participants, except for those described in clause (vi) of subsection 9.1(a). No party hereto shall institute (and the Borrower shall cause each other Credit Party not to institute) against any SPV grantee of an option pursuant to this clause (f) any bankruptcy, reorganization, insolvency, liquidation or similar proceeding, prior to the date that is one year and one day after the payment in full of all outstanding commercial paper of such SPV; provided, however, that each Lender having designated an SPV as such agrees to indemnify each Indemnitee against any Liability that may be incurred by, or asserted against, such Indemnitee as a result of failing to institute such proceeding (including a failure to get reimbursed by such SPV for any such Liability). The agreement in the preceding sentence shall survive the termination of the Commitments and the payment in full of the Obligations.
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9.10 Non-Public Information; Confidentiality.
(a) Non-Public Information. Agent, each Lender and each L/C Issuer acknowledges and agrees that it may receive material non-public information (“MNPI”) hereunder concerning the Credit Parties and their Affiliates and agrees to use such information in compliance with all relevant policies, procedures and applicable Requirements of Laws (including United States federal and state securities laws and regulations).
(b) Confidential Information. Each Lender, each L/C Issuer and Agent agrees to use all reasonable efforts to maintain, in accordance with its customary practices, the confidentiality of information obtained by it pursuant to any Loan Document, except that such information may be disclosed (i) with the Borrower’s consent, (ii) to Related Persons of such Lender, L/C Issuer or Agent, as the case may be, or to any Person that any L/C Issuer causes to issue Letters of Credit hereunder, that are advised of the confidential nature of such information and are instructed to keep such information confidential in accordance with the terms hereof, (iii) to the extent such information presently is or hereafter becomes (A) publicly available other than as a result of a breach of this Section 9.10 or (B) available to such Lender, L/C Issuer or Agent or any of their Related Persons, as the case may be, from a source (other than any Credit Party) not known by them to be subject to disclosure restrictions, (iv) to the extent disclosure is required by applicable Requirements of Law or other legal process or requested or demanded by any Governmental Authority, (v) to the extent necessary or customary for inclusion in league table measurements, (vi) (A) to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners or any similar organization, any examiner or any nationally recognized rating agency or (B) otherwise to the extent consisting of general portfolio information that does not identify Credit Parties, (vii) to current or prospective assignees, SPVs (including the investors or prospective investors therein) or participants, direct or contractual counterparties to any Secured Rate Contracts and to their respective Related Persons, in each case to the extent such assignees, investors, participants, counterparties or Related Persons agree to be bound by provisions substantially similar to the provisions of this Section 9.10 (and such Person may disclose information to their respective Related Persons in accordance with clause (ii) above), (viii) to any other party hereto, and (ix) in connection with the exercise or enforcement of any right or remedy under any Loan Document, in connection with any litigation or other proceeding to which such Lender, L/C Issuer or Agent or any of their Related Persons is a party or bound, or to the extent necessary to respond to public statements or disclosures by Credit Parties or their Related Persons referring to a Lender, L/C Issuer or Agent or any of their Related Persons. In the event of any conflict between the terms of this Section 9.10 and those of any other Contractual Obligation entered into with any Credit Party (whether or not a Loan Document), the terms of this Section 9.10 shall govern.
(c) Tombstones. Each Credit Party consents to the publication by Agent or any Lender of advertising material relating to the financing transactions contemplated by this Agreement using Borrower’s or any other Credit Party’s name, product photographs, logo or trademark and hereby grants a non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, limited and revocable license to use each Credit Party’s name, product photographs, logo or trademark solely for such purpose. Agent or such Lender shall provide a draft of any advertising material to Borrower for review and comment prior to the publication thereof.
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(d) Press Release and Related Matters. No Credit Party shall, and no Credit Party shall permit any of its Affiliates to, issue any press release or other public disclosure (other than any document filed with any Governmental Authority relating to a public offering of securities of any Credit Party and routine public filings with the SEC) using the name, logo or otherwise referring to GE Capital or of any of its Affiliates, the Loan Documents or any transaction contemplated therein to which Agent is party without the prior consent of GE Capital except to the extent required to do so under applicable Requirements of Law and then, only after consulting with GE Capital to the extent such consultation is lawful.
(e) Distribution of Materials to Lenders and L/C Issuers. The Credit Parties acknowledge and agree that the Loan Documents and all reports, notices, communications and other information or materials provided or delivered by, or on behalf of, the Credit Parties hereunder (collectively, the “Borrower Materials”) may be disseminated by, or on behalf of, Agent, and made available, to the Lenders and the L/C Issuers by posting such Borrower Materials on an E-System. The Credit Parties authorize Agent to download copies of their logos from its website and post copies thereof on an E-System and hereby grant Agent a non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, limited and revocable license to use each Credit Party’s logos solely for such purpose.
(f) Material Non-Public Information. The Credit Parties hereby agree that if either they, any parent company or any Subsidiary of the Credit Parties has publicly traded equity or debt securities in the United States, they shall (and shall cause such parent company or Subsidiary, as the case may be, to) (i) identify in writing, and (ii) to the extent reasonably practicable, clearly and conspicuously xxxx such Borrower Materials that contain only information that is publicly available or that is not material for purposes of United States federal and state securities laws as “PUBLIC.” The Credit Parties agree that by identifying such Borrower Materials as “PUBLIC” or publicly filing such Borrower Materials with the SEC, then Agent, the Lenders and the L/C Issuers shall be entitled to treat such Borrower Materials as not containing any MNPI for purposes of United States federal and state securities laws. The Credit Parties further represent, warrant, acknowledge and agree that the following documents and materials shall be deemed to be PUBLIC, whether or not so marked, and do not contain any MNPI: (A) the Loan Documents, and the exhibits, but not the schedules, attached thereto, and (B) administrative materials of a customary nature prepared by the Credit Parties or Agent (including, Notices of Borrowing, Notices of Conversion/Continuation, L/C Requests, Swing Loan requests and any similar requests or notices posted on or through an E-System but not Default notices or requests for consents or waivers). Before distribution of any Borrower Materials, the Credit Parties agree to execute and deliver to Agent a letter authorizing distribution of the evaluation materials to prospective Lenders and their employees willing to receive MNPI, and a separate letter authorizing distribution of evaluation materials that do not contain MNPI and represent that no MNPI is contained therein.
9.11 Set-off; Sharing of Payments.
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(a) Right of Setoff. Each of Agent, each Lender, each L/C Issuer and each Affiliate (including each branch office thereof) of any of them is hereby authorized, without notice or demand (each of which is hereby waived by each Credit Party), at any time and from time to time during the continuance of any Event of Default and to the fullest extent permitted by applicable Requirements of Law, to set off and apply any and all deposits (whether general or special, time or demand, provisional or final) at any time held and other Indebtedness, claims or other obligations at any time owing by Agent, such Lender, such L/C Issuer or any of their respective Affiliates to or for the credit or the account of the Borrower or any other Credit Party against any Obligation of any Credit Party now or hereafter existing, whether or not any demand was made under any Loan Document with respect to such Obligation and even though such Obligation may be unmatured. No Lender or L/C Issuer shall exercise any such right of setoff without the prior consent of Agent or Required Lenders. Each of Agent, each Lender and each L/C Issuer agrees promptly to notify the Borrower and Agent after any such setoff and application made by such Lender or its Affiliates; provided, however, that the failure to give such notice shall not affect the validity of such setoff and application. The rights under this Section 9.11 are in addition to any other rights and remedies (including other rights of setoff) that Agent, the Lenders, the L/C Issuer, their Affiliates and the other Secured Parties, may have.
(b) Sharing of Payments, Etc. If any Lender, directly or through an Affiliate or branch office thereof, obtains any payment of any Obligation of any Credit Party (whether voluntary, involuntary or through the exercise of any right of setoff or the receipt of any Collateral or “proceeds” (as defined under the applicable UCC) of Collateral) other than pursuant to Section 9.9 or Article X and such payment exceeds the amount such Lender would have been entitled to receive if all payments had gone to, and been distributed by, Agent in accordance with the provisions of the Loan Documents, such Lender shall purchase for cash from other Lenders such participations in their Obligations as necessary for such Lender to share such excess payment with such Lenders to ensure such payment is applied as though it had been received by Agent and applied in accordance with this Agreement (or, if such application would then be at the discretion of the Borrower, applied to repay the Obligations in accordance herewith); provided, however, that (a) if such payment is rescinded or otherwise recovered from such Lender or L/C Issuer in whole or in part, such purchase shall be rescinded and the purchase price therefor shall be returned to such Lender or L/C Issuer without interest and (b) such Lender shall, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable Requirements of Law, be able to exercise all its rights of payment (including the right of setoff) with respect to such participation as fully as if such Lender were the direct creditor of the applicable Credit Party in the amount of such participation. If a Non-Funding Lender receives any such payment as described in the previous sentence, such Lender shall turn over such payments to Agent in an amount that would satisfy the cash collateral requirements set forth in subsection 1.11(e).
9.12 Counterparts; Facsimile Signature. This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts and by different parties in separate counterparts, each of which when so executed shall be deemed to be an original and all of which taken together shall constitute one and the same agreement. Signature pages may be detached from multiple separate counterparts and attached to a single counterpart. Delivery of an executed signature page of this Agreement by facsimile transmission or Electronic Transmission shall be as effective as delivery of a manually executed counterpart hereof.
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9.13 Severability. The illegality or unenforceability of any provision of this Agreement or any instrument or agreement required hereunder shall not in any way affect or impair the legality or enforceability of the remaining provisions of this Agreement or any instrument or agreement required hereunder.
9.14 Captions. The captions and headings of this Agreement are for convenience of reference only and shall not affect the interpretation of this Agreement.
9.15 Independence of Provisions. The parties hereto acknowledge that this Agreement and the other Loan Documents may use several different limitations, tests or measurements to regulate the same or similar matters, and that such limitations, tests and measurements are cumulative and must each be performed, except as expressly stated to the contrary in this Agreement.
9.16 Interpretation. This Agreement is the result of negotiations among and has been reviewed by counsel to Credit Parties, Agent, each Lender and other parties hereto, and is the product of all parties hereto. Accordingly, this Agreement and the other Loan Documents shall not be construed against the Lenders or Agent merely because of Agent’s or Lenders’ involvement in the preparation of such documents and agreements. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each of the parties hereto has had the advice of counsel with respect to Sections 9.18 and 9.19.
9.17 No Third Parties Benefited. This Agreement is made and entered into for the sole protection and legal benefit of the Borrower, the Lenders, the L/C Issuers party hereto, Agent and, subject to the provisions of Section 8.11, each other Secured Party, and their permitted successors and assigns, and no other Person shall be a direct or indirect legal beneficiary of, or have any direct or indirect cause of action or claim in connection with, this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents. Neither Agent nor any Lender shall have any obligation to any Person not a party to this Agreement or the other Loan Documents.
9.18 Governing Law and Jurisdiction.
(a) Governing Law. The laws of the State of New York shall govern all matters arising out of, in connection with or relating to this Agreement, including, without limitation, its validity, interpretation, construction, performance and enforcement (including, without limitation, any claims sounding in contract or tort law arising out of the subject matter hereof and any determinations with respect to post-judgment interest).
(b) Submission to Jurisdiction. Any legal action or proceeding with respect to any Loan Document shall be brought exclusively in the courts of the State of New York located in the City of New York, Borough of Manhattan, or of the United States of America for the Southern District of New York and, by execution and delivery of this Agreement, the Borrower and each other Credit Party executing this Agreement hereby accepts for itself and in respect of its property, generally and unconditionally, the jurisdiction of the aforesaid courts; provided that nothing in this Agreement shall limit the right of Agent to commence any proceeding in the federal or state courts of any other jurisdiction to the extent Agent determines that such action is necessary or appropriate to exercise its rights or remedies under the Loan Documents. The
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parties hereto (and, to the extent set forth in any other Loan Document, each other Credit Party) hereby irrevocably waive any objection, including any objection to the laying of venue or based on the grounds of forum non conveniens, that any of them may now or hereafter have to the bringing of any such action or proceeding in such jurisdictions.
(c) Service of Process. Each Credit Party hereby irrevocably waives personal service of any and all legal process, summons, notices and other documents and other service of process of any kind and consents to such service in any suit, action or proceeding brought in the United States of America with respect to or otherwise arising out of or in connection with any Loan Document by any means permitted by applicable Requirements of Law, including by the mailing thereof (by registered or certified mail, postage prepaid) to the address of the Borrower specified herein (and shall be effective when such mailing shall be effective, as provided therein). Each Credit Party agrees that a final judgment in any such action or proceeding shall be conclusive and may be enforced in other jurisdictions by suit on the judgment or in any other manner provided by law.
(d) Non-Exclusive Jurisdiction. Nothing contained in this Section 9.18 shall affect the right of Agent or any Lender to serve process in any other manner permitted by applicable Requirements of Law or commence legal proceedings or otherwise proceed against any Credit Party in any other jurisdiction.
9.19 Waiver of Jury Trial. THE PARTIES HERETO, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, WAIVE ALL RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY ACTION, SUIT, OR PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF, IN CONNECTION WITH OR RELATING TO, THIS AGREEMENT, THE OTHER LOAN DOCUMENTS AND ANY OTHER TRANSACTION CONTEMPLATED HEREBY AND THEREBY. THIS WAIVER APPLIES TO ANY ACTION, SUIT OR PROCEEDING WHETHER SOUNDING IN TORT, CONTRACT OR OTHERWISE.
9.20 Entire Agreement; Release; Survival.
(a) THE LOAN DOCUMENTS EMBODY THE ENTIRE AGREEMENT OF THE PARTIES AND SUPERSEDE ALL PRIOR AGREEMENTS AND UNDERSTANDINGS RELATING TO THE SUBJECT MATTER THEREOF AND ANY PRIOR LETTER OF INTEREST, COMMITMENT LETTER, CONFIDENTIALITY AND SIMILAR AGREEMENTS INVOLVING ANY CREDIT PARTY AND ANY LENDER OR ANY L/C ISSUER OR ANY OF THEIR RESPECTIVE AFFILIATES RELATING TO A FINANCING OF SUBSTANTIALLY SIMILAR FORM, PURPOSE OR EFFECT OTHER THAN THE FEE LETTERS. IN THE EVENT OF ANY CONFLICT BETWEEN THE TERMS OF THIS AGREEMENT AND ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT, THE TERMS OF THIS AGREEMENT SHALL GOVERN (UNLESS OTHERWISE EXPRESSLY STATED IN SUCH OTHER LOAN DOCUMENTS OR SUCH TERMS OF SUCH OTHER LOAN DOCUMENTS ARE NECESSARY TO COMPLY WITH APPLICABLE REQUIREMENTS OF LAW, IN WHICH CASE SUCH TERMS SHALL GOVERN TO THE EXTENT NECESSARY TO COMPLY THEREWITH).
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(b) Execution of this Agreement by the Credit Parties constitutes a full, complete and irrevocable release of any and all claims which each Credit Party may have at law or in equity in respect of all prior discussions and understandings, oral or written, relating to the subject matter of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents. In no event shall any Indemnitee be liable on any theory of liability for any special, indirect, consequential or punitive damages (including any loss of profits, business or anticipated savings). Each of Borrower and each other Credit Party signatory hereto hereby waives, releases and agrees (and shall cause each other Credit Party to waive, release and agree) not to xxx upon any such claim for any special, indirect, consequential or punitive damages, whether or not accrued and whether or not known or suspected to exist in its favor.
(c) (i) Any indemnification or other protection provided to any Indemnitee pursuant to this Section 9.20, Sections 9.5 (Costs and Expenses), and 9.6 (Indemnity), and Articles (VIII) Agent and X (Taxes, Yield Protection and Illegality), and (ii) the provisions of Section 8.1 of the Guaranty and Security Agreement, in each case, shall (x) survive the termination of the Commitments and the payment in full of all other Obligations and (y) with respect to clause (i) above, inure to the benefit of any Person that at any time held a right thereunder (as an Indemnitee or otherwise) and, thereafter, its successors and permitted assigns.
9.21 Patriot Act. Each Lender that is subject to the Patriot Act hereby notifies the Credit Parties that pursuant to the requirements of the Patriot Act, it is required to obtain, verify and record information that identifies each Credit Party, which information includes the name and address of each Credit Party and other information that will allow such Lender to identify each Credit Party in accordance with the Patriot Act.
9.22 Replacement of Lender. Within forty-five days after: (i) receipt by the Borrower of written notice and demand from any Lender (an “Affected Lender”) for payment of additional costs as provided in Sections 10.1, 10.3 and/or 10.6; or (ii) any failure by any Lender (other than Agent or an Affiliate of Agent) to consent to a requested amendment, waiver or modification to any Loan Document in which Required Lenders have already consented to such amendment, waiver or modification but the consent of each Lender (or each Lender directly affected thereby, as applicable) is required with respect thereto, the Borrower may, at its option, notify Agent and such Affected Lender (or such non-consenting Lender) of the Borrower’s intention to obtain, at the Borrower’s expense, a replacement Lender (“Replacement Lender”) for such Affected Lender (or such non-consenting Lender), which Replacement Lender shall be reasonably satisfactory to Agent. In the event the Borrower obtains a Replacement Lender within forty-five (45) days following notice of its intention to do so, the Affected Lender (or such non-consenting Lender) shall sell and assign its Loans and Commitments to such Replacement Lender, at par, provided that the Borrower has reimbursed such Affected Lender for its increased costs for which it is entitled to reimbursement under this Agreement through the date of such sale and assignment. In the event that a replaced Lender does not execute an Assignment pursuant to Section 9.9 within five (5) Business Days after receipt by such replaced Lender of notice of replacement pursuant to this Section 9.22 and presentation to such replaced Lender of an Assignment evidencing an assignment pursuant to this Section 9.22, the Borrower shall be entitled (but not obligated) to execute such an Assignment on behalf of such replaced Lender, and any such Assignment so executed by the Borrower, the Replacement Lender and Agent, shall be effective for purposes of this Section 9.22 and Section 9.9. Notwithstanding the
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foregoing, with respect to a Lender that is a Non-Funding Lender or an Impacted Lender, the Agent may, but shall not be obligated to, obtain a Replacement Lender and execute an Assignment on behalf of such Non-Funding Lender or Impacted Lender at any time with three (3) Business’ Days prior notice to such Lender (unless notice is not practicable under the circumstances) and cause such Lender’s Loans and Commitments to be sold and assigned, in whole or in part, at par. Upon any such assignment and payment and compliance with the other provisions of Section 9.9, such replaced Lender shall no longer constitute a “Lender” for purposes hereof; provided, any rights of such replaced Lender to indemnification hereunder shall survive.
9.23 Joint and Several. The obligations of the Credit Parties hereunder and under the other Loan Documents are joint and several. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, reference is hereby made to Article II of the Guaranty and Security Agreement, to which the obligations of Borrower and the other Credit Parties are subject.
9.24 Creditor-Debtor Relationship. The relationship between Agent, each Lender and the L/C Issuer, on the one hand, and the Credit Parties, on the other hand, is solely that of creditor and debtor. No Secured Party has any fiduciary relationship or duty to any Credit Party arising out of or in connection with, and there is no agency, tenancy or joint venture relationship between the Secured Parties and the Credit Parties by virtue of, any Loan Document or any transaction contemplated therein.
9.25 Disclosures, Consents, Etc. Notwithstanding anything contained herein or in any other Loan Document to the contrary, unless otherwise agreed by Agent in its sole discretion, any receipt by, disclosure or notice to, or consent, approval or acknowledgement of the Agent pursuant to or in connection with any requirement in this Agreement or any other Loan Document shall, to the extent a corresponding requirement exists in any Second Lien Term Loan Document, be deemed to be contingent upon receipt by, disclosure or notice to, or consent, approval or acknowledgement of, as applicable, the Second Lien Agent pursuant to or in connection with any such corresponding Second Lien Term Loan Document requirement.
ARTICLE X -
TAXES, YIELD PROTECTION AND ILLEGALITY
10.1 Taxes.
(a) Except as otherwise provided in this Section 10.1, each payment by any Credit Party under any Loan Document shall be made free and clear of all present or future taxes, levies, imposts, deductions, charges or withholdings and all liabilities with respect thereto (and without deduction for any of them) (collectively, but excluding Excluded Taxes, the “Taxes”).
(b) If any Taxes shall be required by law to be deducted from or in respect of any amount payable under any Loan Document to any Secured Party (i) such amount shall be increased as necessary to ensure that, after all required deductions for Taxes are made (including deductions applicable to any increases to any amount under this Section 10.1), such Secured Party receives the amount it would have received had no such deductions been made, (ii) the
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relevant Credit Party shall make such deductions, (iii) the relevant Credit Party shall timely pay the full amount deducted to the relevant taxing authority or other authority in accordance with applicable Requirements of Law and (iv) within 30 days after such payment is made, the relevant Credit Party shall deliver to Agent an original or certified copy of a receipt evidencing such payment or other evidence of payment reasonably satisfactory to Agent.
(c) In addition, the Borrower agrees to pay, and authorize Agent to pay in their name, any stamp, documentary, excise or property tax, charges or similar levies imposed by any applicable Requirement of Law or Governmental Authority and all Liabilities with respect thereto (including by reason of any delay in payment thereof), in each case arising from the execution, delivery or registration of, or otherwise with respect to, any Loan Document or any transaction contemplated therein (collectively, “Other Taxes”). The Swingline Lender may, without any need for notice, demand or consent from the Borrower, by making funds available to Agent in the amount equal to any such payment, make a Swing Loan to the Borrower in such amount, the proceeds of which shall be used by Agent in whole to make such payment. Within 30 days after the date of any payment of Taxes or Other Taxes by any Credit Party, the Borrower shall furnish to Agent, at its address referred to in Section 9.2, the original or a certified copy of a receipt evidencing payment thereof.
(d) The Borrower shall reimburse and indemnify, within 30 days after receipt of demand therefor (with copy to Agent), each Secured Party for all Taxes and Other Taxes (including any Taxes and Other Taxes imposed by any jurisdiction on amounts payable under this Section 10.1) paid by such Secured Party and any Liabilities arising therefrom or with respect thereto, whether or not such Taxes or Other Taxes were correctly or legally asserted (provided that any refund shall be promptly delivered to Borrower). A certificate of the Secured Party (or of Agent on behalf of such Secured Party) claiming any compensation under this clause (d), setting forth the amounts to be paid thereunder and delivered to the Borrower with copy to Agent, shall be conclusive, binding and final for all purposes, absent manifest error. In determining such amount, Agent and such Secured Party may use any reasonable averaging and attribution methods.
(e) Any Lender claiming any additional amounts payable pursuant to this Section 10.1 shall use its reasonable efforts (consistent with its internal policies and Requirements of Law) to change the jurisdiction of its lending office or take such other measures as such Lender may deem reasonable if such a change would reduce any such additional amounts (or any similar amount that may thereafter accrue) and would not, in the sole determination of such Lender, be otherwise disadvantageous to such Lender.
(f) (i) Each Non-U.S. Lender Party that, at any of the following times, is entitled to an exemption from United States withholding tax or, after a change in any Requirement of Law, is subject to such withholding tax at a reduced rate under an applicable tax treaty, shall (w) on or prior to the date such Non-U.S. Lender Party becomes a “Non-U.S. Lender Party” hereunder, (x) on or prior to the date on which any such form or certification expires or becomes obsolete, (y) after the occurrence of any event requiring a change in the most recent form or certification previously delivered by it pursuant to this clause (i) and (z) from time to time if requested by the Borrower or Agent (or, in the case of a participant or SPV, the relevant Lender), provide Agent and the Borrower (or, in the case of a participant or SPV, the relevant
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Lender) with two completed originals of each of the following, as applicable: (A) Forms W-8ECI (claiming exemption from U.S. withholding tax because the income is effectively connected with a U.S. trade or business), W-8BEN (claiming exemption from, or a reduction of, U.S. withholding tax under an income tax treaty) and/or W-8IMY or any successor forms, (B) in the case of a Non-U.S. Lender Party claiming exemption under Sections 871(h) or 881(c) of the Code, Form W-8BEN (claiming exemption from U.S. withholding tax under the portfolio interest exemption) or any successor form and a certificate in form and substance acceptable to Agent that such Non-U.S. Lender Party is not (1) a “bank” within the meaning of Section 881(c)(3)(A) of the Code, (2) a “10 percent shareholder” of the Borrower within the meaning of Section 881(c)(3)(B) of the Code or (3) a “controlled foreign corporation” described in Section 881(c)(3)(C) of the Code or (C) any other applicable document prescribed by the IRS certifying as to the entitlement of such Non-U.S. Lender Party to such exemption from United States withholding tax or reduced rate with respect to all payments to be made to such Non-U.S. Lender Party under the Loan Documents. Unless the Borrower and Agent have received forms or other documents satisfactory to them indicating that payments under any Loan Document to or for a Non-U.S. Lender Party are not subject to United States withholding tax or are subject to such tax at a rate reduced by an applicable tax treaty, the Credit Parties and Agent shall withhold amounts required to be withheld by applicable Requirements of Law from such payments at the applicable statutory rate.
(ii) Each U.S. Lender Party shall (A) on or prior to the date such U.S. Lender Party becomes a “U.S. Lender Party” hereunder, (B) on or prior to the date on which any such form or certification expires or becomes obsolete, (C) after the occurrence of any event requiring a change in the most recent form or certification previously delivered by it pursuant to this clause (f) and (D) from time to time if requested by the Borrower or Agent (or, in the case of a participant or SPV, the relevant Lender), provide Agent and the Borrower (or, in the case of a participant or SPV, the relevant Lender) with two completed originals of Form W-9 (certifying that such U.S. Lender Party is entitled to an exemption from U.S. backup withholding tax) or any successor form.
(iii) Each Lender having sold a participation in any of its Obligations or identified an SPV as such to Agent shall collect from such participant or SPV the documents described in this clause (f) and provide them to Agent.
(iv) If a payment made to a Non-U.S. Lender Party would be subject to United States federal withholding tax imposed by FATCA if such Non-U.S. Lender Party fails to comply with the applicable reporting requirements of FATCA, such Non-U.S. Lender Party shall deliver to Agent and Borrower any documentation under any Requirement of Law or reasonably requested by the Agent or Borrower sufficient for Agent or Borrower to comply with their obligations under FATCA and to determine that such Non-U.S. Lender has complied with such applicable reporting requirements.
(g) If any Secured Party or Agent receives a refund in respect of any Taxes or Other Taxes as to which indemnification or additional amounts have been paid to it by the Borrower pursuant to this Section 10.1, it shall promptly remit such refund (without interest other than interest included in such refund paid by the relevant taxation authority), provided, however, that the Borrower, upon the request of the Secured Party or Agent, as the case may be,
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agrees promptly to return such refund to such party in the event such party is required to repay such refund to the relevant taxing authority. Such Secured Party or Agent, as the case may be, shall, at the Borrower’s request, provide the Borrower with a copy of any notice of assessment or other evidence of the requirement to repay such refund received from the relevant taxing authority (provided, that such Secured Party or Agent may delete any information therein that such Secured Party or Agent deems confidential). Nothing herein contained shall interfere with the right of a Secured Party or Agent to arrange its tax affairs in whatever manner it thinks fit nor oblige any Secured Party or Agent to claim any tax refund or to disclose any information relating to its tax affairs or any computations in respect thereof or require any Secured Party or Agent to do anything that would prejudice its ability to benefit from any other refunds, credits, reliefs, remissions or repayments to which it may be entitled.
10.2 Illegality. If after the date hereof any Lender shall determine that the introduction of any Requirement of Law, or any change in any Requirement of Law or in the interpretation or administration thereof, has made it unlawful, or that any central bank or other Governmental Authority has asserted that it is unlawful, for any Lender or its Lending Office to make LIBOR Rate Loans, then, on notice thereof by such Lender to the Borrower through Agent, the obligation of that Lender to make LIBOR Rate Loans shall be suspended until such Lender shall have notified Agent and the Borrower that the circumstances giving rise to such determination no longer exists.
(a) Subject to clause (c) below, if any Lender shall determine that it is unlawful to maintain any LIBOR Rate Loan, the Borrower shall prepay in full all LIBOR Rate Loans of such Lender then outstanding, together with interest accrued thereon, either on the last day of the Interest Period thereof if such Lender may lawfully continue to maintain such LIBOR Rate Loans to such day, or immediately, if such Lender may not lawfully continue to maintain such LIBOR Rate Loans, together with any amounts required to be paid in connection therewith pursuant to Section 10.4.
(b) If the obligation of any Lender to make or maintain LIBOR Rate Loans has been terminated, the Borrower may elect, by giving notice to such Lender through Agent that all Loans which would otherwise be made by any such Lender as LIBOR Rate Loans shall be instead Base Rate Loans.
(c) Before giving any notice to Agent pursuant to this Section 10.2, the affected Lender shall designate a different Lending Office with respect to its LIBOR Rate Loans if such designation will avoid the need for giving such notice or making such demand and will not, in the judgment of the Lender, be illegal or otherwise disadvantageous to the Lender.
10.3 Increased Costs and Reduction of Return.
(a) If any Lender or L/C Issuer shall determine that, due to either (i) the introduction of, or any change in, or in the interpretation of, any Requirement of Law or (ii) the compliance with any guideline or request from any central bank or other Governmental Authority (whether or not having the force of law), in the case of either clause (i) or (ii) subsequent to the date hereof, there shall be any increase in the cost to such Lender or L/C Issuer of agreeing to make or making, funding or maintaining any LIBOR Rate Loans or of issuing or
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maintaining any Letter of Credit, then the Borrower shall be liable for, and shall from time to time, within thirty (30) days of demand therefor by such Lender or L/C Issuer (with a copy of such demand to Agent), pay to Agent for the account of such Lender or L/C Issuer, additional amounts as are sufficient to compensate such Lender or L/C Issuer for such increased costs; provided, that the Borrower shall not be required to compensate any Lender or L/C Issuer pursuant to this subsection 10.3(a) for any increased costs incurred more than 180 days prior to the date that such Lender or L/C Issuer notifies the Borrower, in writing of the increased costs and of such Lender’s or L/C Issuer’s intention to claim compensation thereof; provided, further, that if the circumstance giving rise to such increased costs is retroactive, then the 180-day period referred to above shall be extended to include the period of retroactive effect thereof.
(b) If any Lender or L/C Issuer shall have determined that:
(i) the introduction of any Capital Adequacy Regulation;
(ii) any change in any Capital Adequacy Regulation;
(iii) any change in the interpretation or administration of any Capital Adequacy Regulation by any central bank or other Governmental Authority charged with the interpretation or administration thereof; or
(iv) compliance by such Lender or L/C Issuer (or its Lending Office) or any entity controlling the Lender or L/C Issuer, with any Capital Adequacy Regulation;
affects the amount of capital required or expected to be maintained by such Lender or L/C Issuer or any entity controlling such Lender or L/C Issuer and (taking into consideration such Lender’s or such entities’ policies with respect to capital adequacy and such Lender’s or L/C Issuer’s desired return on capital) determines that the amount of such capital is increased as a consequence of its Commitment(s), loans, credits or obligations under this Agreement, then, within thirty (30) days of demand of such Lender or L/C Issuer (with a copy to Agent), the Borrower shall pay to such Lender or L/C Issuer, from time to time as specified by such Lender or L/C Issuer, additional amounts sufficient to compensate such Lender or L/C Issuer (or the entity controlling the Lender or L/C Issuer) for such increase; provided, that the Borrower shall not be required to compensate any Lender or L/C Issuer pursuant to this subsection 10.3(b) for any amounts incurred more than 180 days prior to the date that such Lender or L/C Issuer notifies the Borrower, in writing of the amounts and of such Lender’s or L/C Issuer’s intention to claim compensation thereof; provided, further, that if the event giving rise to such increase is retroactive, then the 180-day period referred to above shall be extended to include the period of retroactive effect thereof.
(c) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, (i) the Xxxx-Xxxxx Xxxx Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and all requests, rules, guidelines or directives thereunder or issued in connection therewith and (ii) all requests, rules, guidelines or directives promulgated by the Bank for International Settlements, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (or any successor or similar authority) or the United States or foreign regulatory authorities, in each case pursuant to Basel III, shall be deemed to be a change in a Requirement of Law under subsection (a) above and/or a change in a Capital Adequacy Regulation under subsection (b) above, as applicable, regardless of the date enacted, adopted or issued.
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10.4 Funding Losses. The Borrower agrees to reimburse each Lender and to hold each Lender harmless from any loss or expense which such Lender may sustain or incur as a consequence of:
(a) the failure of the Borrower to make any payment or mandatory prepayment of principal of any LIBOR Rate Loan (including payments made after any acceleration thereof);
(b) the failure of the Borrower to borrow, continue or convert a Loan after the Borrower has given (or is deemed to have given) a Notice of Borrowing or a Notice of Conversion/Continuation;
(c) the failure of the Borrower to make any prepayment after the Borrower has given a notice in accordance with Section 1.7;
(d) the prepayment (including pursuant to Section 1.8) of a LIBOR Rate Loan on a day which is not the last day of the Interest Period with respect thereto; or
(e) the conversion pursuant to Section 1.6 of any LIBOR Rate Loan to a Base Rate Loan on a day that is not the last day of the applicable Interest Period;
including any such loss or expense arising from the liquidation or reemployment of funds obtained by it to maintain its LIBOR Rate Loans hereunder or from fees payable to terminate the deposits from which such funds were obtained; provided that, with respect to the expenses described in clauses (d) and (e) above, such Lender shall have notified Agent of any such expense within ten (10) days of the date on which such expense was incurred. Solely for purposes of calculating amounts payable by the Borrower to the Lenders under this Section 10.4 and under subsection 10.3(a): each LIBOR Rate Loan made by a Lender (and each related reserve, special deposit or similar requirement) shall be conclusively deemed to have been funded at the LIBOR used in determining the interest rate for such LIBOR Rate Loan by a matching deposit or other borrowing in the interbank Eurodollar market for a comparable amount and for a comparable period, whether or not such LIBOR Rate Loan is in fact so funded.
10.5 Inability to Determine Rates. If Agent shall have determined in good faith that for any reason adequate and reasonable means do not exist for ascertaining the LIBOR for any requested Interest Period with respect to a proposed LIBOR Rate Loan or that the LIBOR applicable pursuant to subsection 1.3(a) for any requested Interest Period with respect to a proposed LIBOR Rate Loan does not adequately and fairly reflect the cost to the Lenders of funding or maintaining such Loan, Agent will forthwith give notice of such determination to the Borrower and each Lender. Thereafter, the obligation of the Lenders to make or maintain LIBOR Rate Loans hereunder shall be suspended until Agent revokes such notice in writing. Upon receipt of such notice, the Borrower may revoke any Notice of Borrowing or Notice of Conversion/Continuation then submitted by it. If the Borrower does not revoke such notice, the Lenders shall make, convert or continue the Loans, as proposed by the Borrower, in the amount specified in the applicable notice submitted by the Borrower, but such Loans shall be made, converted or continued as Base Rate Loans.
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10.6 Reserves on LIBOR Rate Loans. The Borrower shall pay to each Lender, as long as such Lender shall be required under regulations of the Federal Reserve Board to maintain reserves with respect to liabilities or assets consisting of or including Eurocurrency funds or deposits (currently known as “Eurocurrency liabilities”), additional costs on the unpaid principal amount of each LIBOR Rate Loan equal to actual costs of such reserves allocated to such Loan by such Lender (as determined by such Lender in good faith, which determination shall be conclusive absent manifest error), payable on each date on which interest is payable on such Loan provided the Borrower shall have received at least fifteen (15) days’ prior written notice (with a copy to Agent) of such additional interest from the Lender. If a Lender fails to give notice fifteen (15) days prior to the relevant Interest Payment Date, such additional interest shall be payable fifteen (15) days from receipt of such notice.
10.7 Certificates of Lenders. Any Lender claiming reimbursement or compensation pursuant to this Article X shall deliver to the Borrower (with a copy to Agent) a certificate setting forth in reasonable detail the amount payable to such Lender hereunder and such certificate shall be conclusive and binding on the Borrower in the absence of manifest error.
ARTICLE XI -
DEFINITIONS
11.1 Defined Terms. The following terms are defined in the Sections or subsections referenced opposite such terms:
“Acquired Business” | 2.1(i) | |
“Adjusted EBITDA” | Exhibit 4.2(b) | |
“Affected Lender” | 9.22 | |
“Aggregate Excess Funding Amount” | 1.11(e)(iv) | |
“Borrower” | Preamble | |
“Borrower Materials” | 9.10(d) | |
“Capital Expenditures | Exhibit 4.2(b) | |
“CCP” | 4.17(c) | |
“Closing Date Letters of Credit” | 2.1(l) | |
“Closing Date Merger” | Recitals | |
“Collateral Access Agreement” | 4.12 | |
“Combined Material Adverse Effect” | 2.1(d) | |
“EBITDA” | Exhibit 4.2(b) | |
“Event of Default” | 7.1 | |
“Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio” | Exhibit 4.2(b) | |
“Free Cash Flow” | Exhibit 4.2(b) | |
“GE Capital” | Preamble | |
“Indemnified Matters” | 9.6 |
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“Indemnitee” | 9.6 | |
“Interest Coverage Ratio” | Exhibit 4.2(b) | |
“Investments” | 5.4 | |
“L/C Reimbursement Agreement” | 1.1(c) | |
“L/C Reimbursement Date” | 1.1(c) | |
“L/C Request” | 1.1(c) | |
“L/C Sublimit” | 1.1(c) | |
“Lender” | Preamble | |
“Letter of Credit Fee” | 1.9(c) | |
“Maximum Lawful Rate” | 1.3(d) | |
“Maximum Revolving Loan Balance” | 1.1(b) | |
“Merger Agreement” | Recitals | |
“MergerCo” | Recitals | |
“MNPI” | 9.10(a) | |
“Net Interest Expense” | Exhibit 4.2(b) | |
“Notice of Conversion/Continuation” | 1.6(a) | |
“OID” | 1.12(b) | |
“Other Taxes” | 10.1(b) | |
“Other Term Loans” | 1.12(a) | |
“Permitted Liens” | 5.1 | |
“Pro Forma EBITDA” | Exhibit 4.2(b) | |
“Register” | 1.4(b) | |
“Restricted Payments” | 5.11 | |
“Replacement Lender” | 9.22 | |
“Revolving Loan” | 1.1(b) | |
“Sale” | 9.9(a) | |
“Seller” | Recitals | |
“Senior Leverage Ratio” | Exhibit 4.2(b) | |
“Settlement Date” | 1.11(b) | |
“Sweep Agreement” | 4.11(b) | |
“Swingline Request” | 1.1(d)(ii) | |
“Taxes” | 10.1(a) | |
“Term Loan” | 1.1(a) | |
“Total Leverage Ratio” | Exhibit 4.2(b) | |
“Transactions” | 2.1(b) | |
“Unused Commitment Fee” | 1.9(b) | |
“Yield Differential” | 1.12(b) |
In addition to the terms defined elsewhere in this Agreement, the following terms have the following meanings:
“Account” means, as at any date of determination, all “accounts” (as such term is defined in the UCC) of the Credit Parties, including, without limitation, the unpaid portion of the obligation of a customer of the Credit Parties in respect of Inventory purchased by and shipped to such customer and/or the rendition of services by the Credit Parties, as stated on the respective invoice of the Borrower or such other Credit Party, net of any credits, rebates or offsets owed to such customer.
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“Account Debtor” means the customer of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries who is obligated on or under an Account.
“Acquisition” means any transaction or series of related transactions for the purpose of or resulting, directly or indirectly, in (a) the acquisition of all or substantially all of the assets of a Person, or of any business or division of a Person, (b) the acquisition of in excess of fifty percent (50%) of the Stock and Stock Equivalents of any Person or otherwise causing any Person to become a Subsidiary of the Borrower, or (c) a merger or consolidation or any other combination with another Person.
“Additional Revolving Loan Commitment Amount” shall mean, at any time, the excess, if any, of (a) $50,000,000 over the sum of (b)(i) the aggregate amount of all Incremental Term Loan Commitments established prior to such time pursuant to Section 1.12 plus (ii) the aggregate amount of all additional Revolving Loan Commitments established prior to such time pursuant to Section 1.12.
“Additional Revolving Loan Commitment Assumption Agreement” shall mean an Additional Revolving Loan Commitment Assumption Agreement among, and in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to, the Borrower, the Agent and one or more Lenders providing additional Revolving Loan Commitments pursuant to Section 1.12.
“Affiliate” means, as to any Person, any other Person which, directly or indirectly, is in control of, is controlled by, or is under common control with, such Person. A Person shall be deemed to control another Person if the controlling Person possesses, directly or indirectly, the power to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of the other Person, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise. Without limitation, any director, executive officer or beneficial owner of ten percent (10%) or more of the Stock (either directly or through ownership of Stock Equivalents) of a Person shall for the purposes of this Agreement, be deemed to be an Affiliate of such Person. Notwithstanding the foregoing, neither Agent nor any Lender shall be deemed an “Affiliate” of any Credit Party or of any Subsidiary of any Credit Party solely by reason of the provisions of the Loan Documents.
“Agent” means GE Capital in its capacity as administrative agent for the Lenders hereunder, and any successor administrative agent.
“Aggregate Revolving Loan Commitment” means the combined Revolving Loan Commitments of the Lenders, which shall initially be in the amount of $40,000,000, as such amount may be reduced from time to time pursuant to this Agreement.
“Aggregate Term Loan Commitment” means the combined Term Loan Commitments of the Lenders, which shall initially be in the amount of $240,000,000, as such amount may be increased or reduced from time to time pursuant to this Agreement.
“Applicable Margin” means:
(a) with respect to Revolving Loans and Swing Loans, (i) if a Base Rate Loan, four percent (4.00%) per annum and (ii) if a LIBOR Rate Loan, five percent (5.00%) per annum; and
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(b) with respect to Term Loans, (i) if a Base Rate Loan, four and one-half percent (4.50%) per annum and (ii) if a LIBOR Rate Loan, five and one-half percent (5.50%) per annum.
Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, Swing Loans may not be LIBOR Rate Loans.
“Approved Fund” means, with respect to any Lender, any Person (other than a natural Person) that (a) (i) is or will be engaged in making, purchasing, holding or otherwise investing in commercial loans and similar extensions of credit in the Ordinary Course of Business or (ii) temporarily warehouses loans for any Lender or any Person described in clause (i) above and (b) is advised or managed by (i) such Lender, (ii) any Affiliate of such Lender or (iii) any Person (other than an individual) or any Affiliate of any Person (other than an individual) that administers or manages such Lender.
“Assignment” means an assignment agreement entered into by a Lender, as assignor, and any Person, as assignee, pursuant to the terms and provisions of Section 9.9 (with the consent of any party whose consent is required by Section 9.9), accepted by Agent, substantially in the form of Exhibit 11.1(a) or any other form approved by Agent.
“Attorney Costs” means and includes all reasonable fees and disbursements of any law firm or other external counsel.
“Availability” means, as of any date of determination, the amount by which (a) the Maximum Revolving Loan Balance, exceeds (b) the aggregate outstanding principal balance of Revolving Loans.
“Bank Products” shall mean any one or more of the following types of services or facilities extended to the Credit Parties by any Lender or the Agent: (i) Automated Clearing House (ACH) transactions, (ii) purchasing cards and credit cards, (iii) cash management, including controlled disbursement services and (iv) establishing and maintaining deposit accounts.
“Bankruptcy Code” means the Federal Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978 (11 U.S.C. §101, et seq.).
“Base Rate” means, for any day, a rate per annum (calculated in each case on the basis of a 365/366-day year) equal to the highest of (a) the rate last quoted by The Wall Street Journal as the “Prime Rate” in the United States or, if The Wall Street Journal ceases to quote such rate, the highest per annum interest rate published by the Federal Reserve Board in Federal Reserve Statistical Release H.15 (519) (Selected Interest Rates) as the “bank prime loan” rate or, if such rate is no longer quoted therein, any similar rate quoted therein (as determined by Agent) or any similar release by the Federal Reserve Board (as determined by Agent), (b) the sum of 0.50% per annum and the Federal Funds Rate, and (c) the sum of (x) LIBOR calculated for each such day based on an Interest Period of one month determined two (2) Business Days prior to such day (but for the avoidance of doubt, not less than one and a half percent (1.5%) per annum), plus (y) the excess of the Applicable Margin for LIBOR Rate Loans over the Applicable Margin for Base Rate Loans, in each instance, as of such day. Any change in the Base Rate due to a change in any of the foregoing shall be effective on the effective date of such change in the “bank prime loan” rate, the Federal Funds Rate or LIBOR for an Interest Period of one month.
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“Base Rate Loan” means a Loan that bears interest based on the Base Rate.
“Benefit Plan” means any employee benefit plan as defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA (whether governed by the laws of the United States or otherwise) to which any Credit Party incurs or otherwise has any obligation or liability, contingent or otherwise.
“Borrowing” means a borrowing hereunder consisting of Loans made to or for the benefit of the Borrower on the same day by the Lenders pursuant to Article I.
“Business Day” means any day other than a Saturday, Sunday or other day on which federal reserve banks are authorized or required by law to close and, if the applicable Business Day relates to any LIBOR Rate Loan, a day on which dealings are carried on in the London interbank market.
“Capital Adequacy Regulation” means any guideline, request or directive of any central bank or other Governmental Authority, or any other law, rule or regulation, whether or not having the force of law, in each case, regarding capital adequacy of any Lender or of any corporation controlling a Lender.
“Capital Lease” means any leasing or similar arrangement which, in accordance with GAAP, is classified as a capital lease.
“Capital Lease Obligations” means all monetary obligations of any Credit Party or any Subsidiary of any Credit Party under any Capital Leases.
“Cash Equivalents” means (a) any readily-marketable securities (i) issued by, or directly, unconditionally and fully guaranteed or insured by the United States federal government or (ii) issued by any agency of the United States federal government the obligations of which are fully backed by the full faith and credit of the United States federal government, (b) any readily-marketable direct obligations issued by any other agency of the United States federal government, any state of the United States or any political subdivision of any such state or any public instrumentality thereof, in each case having a rating of at least “A-1” from S&P or at least “P-1” from Xxxxx’x, (c) any commercial paper rated at least “A-1” by S&P or “P-1” by Xxxxx’x and issued by any Person organized under the laws of any state of the United States, (d) any Dollar-denominated time deposit, insured certificate of deposit, overnight bank deposit or bankers’ acceptance issued or accepted by (i) any Lender or (ii) any commercial bank that is (A) organized under the laws of the United States, any state thereof or the District of Columbia, (B) “adequately capitalized” (as defined in the regulations of its primary federal banking regulators) and (C) has Tier 1 capital (as defined in such regulations) in excess of $250,000,000 and (e) shares of any United States money market fund that (i) has substantially all of its assets invested continuously in the types of investments referred to in clause (a), (b), (c) or (d) above with maturities as set forth in the proviso below, (ii) has net assets in excess of $500,000,000 and (iii) has obtained from either S&P or Moody’s the highest rating obtainable for money market funds in the United States; provided, however, that the maturities of all obligations specified in any of clauses (a), (b), (c) or (d) above shall not exceed 365 days.
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“Cash Equivalent Alternatives” means, to the extent not constituting Cash Equivalents, any securities, governmental obligations, commercial paper or other Investments which the Borrower is permitted to purchase or acquire pursuant to its “Investment Policy” as in effect on the Closing Date and attached hereto as Exhibit 11.1(g); provided, however, that exceptions to such Investment Policy and the procedures therein which are approved in accordance with Section V thereof shall not constitute “Cash Equivalent Alternatives” unless approved by Agent in its sole discretion.
“CHAMPVA” means, collectively, the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Department of Veterans Affairs, a program of medical benefits covering retirees and dependents of former members of the armed services administered by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, and all laws, rules, regulations, manuals, orders, or requirements pertaining to such program.
“Closing Date” means October 4, 2011.
“CMS” means The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which administers the Medicare and Medicaid programs under the Department of Health and Human Services, and any successor thereto
“Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986.
“Collateral” means all Property and interests in Property and proceeds thereof now owned or hereafter acquired by any Credit Party, any of their respective Subsidiaries and any other Person who has granted a Lien to Agent, in or upon which a Lien is granted or purported to be granted now or hereafter exists in favor of any Lender or Agent for the benefit of Agent, Lenders and other Secured Parties, whether under this Agreement or under any other documents executed by any such Persons and delivered to Agent.
“Collateral Documents” means, collectively, the Guaranty and Security Agreement, the Mortgages, each Control Agreement and all other security agreements, pledge agreements, patent and trademark security agreements, lease assignments, guarantees and other similar agreements, and all amendments, restatements, modifications or supplements thereof or thereto, by or between any one or more of any Credit Party, any of their respective Subsidiaries or any other Person pledging or granting a lien on Collateral or guaranteeing the payment and performance of the Obligations, and any Lender or Agent for the benefit of Agent, the Lenders and other Secured Parties now or hereafter delivered to the Lenders or Agent pursuant to or in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby, and all financing statements (or comparable documents now or hereafter filed in accordance with the UCC or comparable law) against any such Person as debtor in favor of any Lender or Agent for the benefit of Agent, the Lenders and the other Secured Parties, as secured party, as any of the foregoing may be amended, restated and/or modified from time to time.
“Combined Material Adverse Effect” means any event, development, change or effect, that, individually or in the aggregate, has had, or would reasonably be likely to have (i) a material adverse effect on the financial condition, business, assets, liabilities, or results of operations of Borrower, Seller and their respective subsidiaries, taken as a whole, or (ii) would prevent or materially impair the ability of Borrower and Seller to consummate the Transaction; provided, however, that no event, development, change or effect (by itself or when aggregated or
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taken together with any and all other events, developments, changes or effects) to the extent resulting from, arising out of, or attributable to, any of the following shall be deemed to constitute or be taken into account when determining whether a “Combined Material Adverse Effect” has occurred or may, would or could occur: (A) any changes, effects, developments or events in the economy or the financial, credit or securities markets in general (including changes in interest or exchange rates), (B) any changes, effects, developments or events in the industries in which Borrower and Seller operate, (C) any changes, effects, developments or events resulting from the announcement or pendency of the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement, the identity of Borrower or Seller or the performance or compliance with the terms of the Merger Agreement (including in each case (i) any actions, challenges or investigations relating to the Merger Agreement or the Transaction made or brought by any current or former stockholders of Borrower or Seller and (ii) any loss of customers, suppliers or employees or any disruption in business relationships resulting therefrom), (D) any changes, effects, developments or events resulting from the failure of Borrower or Seller to meet internal or published forecasts, budgets, earnings or financial projections for any period or fluctuations in the trading price or volume of Borrower’s or Seller’s common stock (but not, in each case, the underlying cause of such failure or fluctuations, unless such underlying cause would otherwise be excepted from this definition), (E) acts of God, natural disasters, calamities, national or international political or social conditions, including the engagement by any country in hostility (whether commenced before, on or after the date hereof, and whether or not pursuant to the declaration of a national emergency or war), or the occurrence of a military or terrorist attack, or (F) any adoption, implementation, promulgation, repeal, modification, reinterpretation or proposal of any Applicable Law or GAAP (as defined in the Acquisition Agreement) (or any interpretation thereof), except to the extent such changes, effects, developments or events resulting from or arising out of the matters described in clauses (A), (B) and (F) disproportionately affect Borrower and Seller taken as a whole as compared to other for profit companies operating in the industries in which Borrower and Seller operate (after taking into account the size of the Borrower and Seller taken as a whole, relative to such other for profit companies).
“Commitment” means, for each Lender, the sum of its Revolving Loan Commitment, Term Loan Commitment and Incremental Term Loan Commitment.
“Commitment Letter” means the letter agreement, dated as of June 26, 2011, addressed to the Borrower from GE Capital and Lead Arranger and accepted by the Borrower, with respect to GE Capital’s commitment (directly and/or through an Affiliate) to provide a senior secured first lien credit facility and a senior secured second lien term loan facility, together with all exhibits, schedules and annexes thereto, and the joinder agreement, dated as of August 2, 2011, from SunTrust Bank and SunTrust Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx, Inc. and accepted by GE Capital, Lead Arranger and the Borrower.
“Commitment Percentage” means, as to any Lender, the percentage equivalent of such Lender’s Revolving Loan Commitment, or Term Loan Commitment divided by the Aggregate Revolving Loan Commitment or Aggregate Term Loan Commitment, as applicable; provided that after the Term Loan has been funded, Commitment Percentages shall be determined for the Term Loan by reference to the outstanding principal balance thereof as of any date of determination rather than the Commitments therefor; provided, further, that following acceleration of the Loans, such term means, as to any Lender, the percentage equivalent of the principal amount of the Loans held by such Lender, divided by the aggregate principal amount of the Loans held by all Lenders.
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“Contingent Obligation” means, as to any Person, any direct or indirect liability, contingent or otherwise, of that Person: (a) with respect to any Indebtedness, lease, dividend or other obligation of another Person if the primary purpose or intent of the Person incurring such liability, or the primary effect thereof, is to provide assurance to the obligee of such liability that such liability will be paid or discharged, or that any agreements relating thereto will be complied with, or that the holders of such liability will be protected (in whole or in part) against loss with respect thereto; (b) with respect to any letter of credit issued for the account of that Person or as to which that Person is otherwise liable for reimbursement of drawings; (c) under any Rate Contracts; (d) to make take-or-pay or similar payments if required regardless of nonperformance by any other party or parties to an agreement; or (e) for the obligations of another Person through any agreement to purchase, repurchase or otherwise acquire such obligation or any Property constituting security therefor, to provide funds for the payment or discharge of such obligation or to maintain the solvency, financial condition or any balance sheet item or level of income of another Person. The amount of any Contingent Obligation shall be equal to the amount of the obligation so guaranteed or otherwise supported or, if not a fixed and determined amount, the maximum amount so guaranteed or supported.
“Contractual Obligations” means, as to any Person, any provision of any security issued by such Person or of any agreement, undertaking, contract, indenture, mortgage, deed of trust or other instrument, document or agreement to which such Person is a party or by which it or any of its Property is bound.
“Control Agreement” means a deposit account, securities account or commodities account control agreement by and among the applicable Credit Party, Agent, Second Lien Term Loan Agent (as applicable) and the depository, securities intermediary or commodities intermediary, and each in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Agent and in any event providing to Agent “control” of such deposit account, securities or commodities account within the meaning of Articles 8 and 9 of the UCC.
“Conversion Date” means any date on which the Borrower converts a Base Rate Loan to a LIBOR Rate Loan or a LIBOR Rate Loan to a Base Rate Loan.
“Copyrights” means all rights, title and interests (and all related IP Ancillary Rights) arising under any Requirement of Law in or relating to copyrights and all mask work, database and design rights, whether or not registered or published, all registrations and recordations thereof and all applications in connection therewith.
“Credit Facilities Documentation” means, collectively, the Loan Documents and the Second Lien Term Loan Documents.
“Credit Parties” means the Borrower, each Guarantor and each other Person (i) which executes a guaranty of the Obligations, (ii) which grants a Lien on all or substantially all of its assets to secure payment of the Obligations and (iii) all of the Stock of which is pledged to Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties.
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“Default” means any event or circumstance which, with the giving of notice, the lapse of time, or both, would (if not cured or otherwise remedied during such time) constitute an Event of Default.
“Disposition” means (a) the sale, lease, conveyance or other disposition of Property, other than sales or other dispositions expressly permitted under subsections 5.2(a), 5.2(c) and 5.2(d), and (b) the sale or transfer by the Borrower or any Subsidiary of the Borrower of any Stock or Stock Equivalent issued by any Subsidiary of the Borrower and held by such transferor Person.
“Dollars”, “dollars” and “$” each mean lawful money of the United States of America.
“Domestic Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary incorporated, organized or otherwise formed under the laws of the United States, any state thereof or the District of Columbia.
“Electronic Transmission” means each document, instruction, authorization, file, information and any other communication transmitted, posted or otherwise made or communicated by e-mail or E-Fax, or otherwise to or from an E-System or other equivalent service.
“Environmental Laws” means all present and future Requirements of Law and Permits imposing liability or standards of conduct for or relating to the regulation and protection of human health, safety, the workplace, the environment and natural resources, and including public notification requirements and environmental transfer of ownership, notification or approval statutes.
“Environmental Liabilities” means all Liabilities (including costs of Remedial Actions, natural resource damages and costs and expenses of investigation and feasibility studies, including the cost of environmental consultants and Attorneys’ Costs) that may be imposed on, incurred by or asserted against any Credit Party or any Subsidiary of any Credit Party as a result of, or related to, any claim, suit, action, investigation, proceeding or demand by any Person, whether based in contract, tort, implied or express warranty, strict liability, criminal or civil statute or common law or otherwise, arising under any Environmental Law or in connection with any environmental, health or safety condition or with any Release and resulting from the ownership, lease, sublease or other operation or occupation of property by any Credit Party or any Subsidiary of any Credit Party, whether on, prior or after the date hereof.
“ERISA” means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974.
“ERISA Affiliate” means, collectively, any Credit Party and any Person under common control or treated as a single employer with, any Credit Party, within the meaning of Section 414(b), (c), (m) or (o) of the Code.
“ERISA Event” means any of the following: (a) a reportable event described in Section 4043(b) of ERISA (or, unless the 30-day notice requirement has been duly waived under the applicable regulations, Section 4043(c) of ERISA) with respect to a Title IV Plan; (b) the withdrawal of any ERISA Affiliate from a Title IV Plan subject to Section 4063 of ERISA during a plan year in which it was a substantial employer, as defined in Section 4001(a)(2) of
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ERISA; (c) the complete or partial withdrawal of any ERISA Affiliate from any Multiemployer Plan; (d) with respect to any Multiemployer Plan, the filing of a notice of reorganization, insolvency or termination (or treatment of a plan amendment as termination) under Section 4041A of ERISA; (e) the filing of a notice of intent to terminate a Title IV Plan (or treatment of a plan amendment as termination) under Section 4041 of ERISA; (f) the institution of proceedings to terminate a Title IV Plan or Multiemployer Plan by the PBGC; (g) the failure to make any required contribution to any Title IV Plan or Multiemployer Plan when due; (h) the imposition of a lien under Section 412 or 430(k) of the Code or Section 303 or 4068 of ERISA on any property (or rights to property, whether real or personal) of any ERISA Affiliate; (i) the failure of a Benefit Plan or any trust thereunder intended to qualify for tax exempt status under Section 401 or 501 of the Code or other Requirements of Law to qualify thereunder; (j) a Title IV plan is in “at risk” status within the meaning of Code Section 430(i); (k) a Multiemployer Plan is in “endangered status” or “critical status” within the meaning of Section 432(b) of the Code; and (l) any other event or condition that might reasonably be expected to constitute grounds under Section 4042 of ERISA for the termination of, or the appointment of a trustee to administer, any Title IV Plan or Multiemployer Plan or for the imposition of any material liability upon any ERISA Affiliate under Title IV of ERISA other than for PBGC premiums due but not delinquent.
“Event of Loss” means, with respect to any Property, any of the following: (a) any loss, destruction or damage of such Property; (b) any pending or threatened institution of any proceedings for the condemnation or seizure of such Property or for the exercise of any right of eminent domain; or (c) any actual condemnation, seizure or taking, by exercise of the power of eminent domain or otherwise, of such Property, or confiscation of such Property or the requisition of the use of such Property.
“Excluded Equity Issuance” means Net Issuance Proceeds resulting from the issuance of (a) Stock or Stock Equivalents by Borrower to management or employees of a Credit Party under any employee stock option or stock purchase plan or other employee benefits plan in existence from time to time or, to the extent permitted hereunder, issuance of Stock by Borrower to a Person upon the conversion of preferred stock or the exercise of warrants, options or other rights to purchase capital stock, (b) Stock or Stock Equivalents by a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of the Borrower to the Borrower or another Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of the Borrower constituting an Investment permitted hereunder, and (c) Stock or Stock Equivalents by a Foreign Subsidiary of such Foreign Subsidiary to qualify directors where required pursuant to a Requirement of Law or to satisfy other requirements of applicable law, in each instance, with respect to the ownership of Stock of Foreign Subsidiaries.
“Excluded Tax” means with respect to any Secured Party (a) taxes measured by net income (including branch profit taxes) and franchise taxes imposed in lieu of net income taxes (and all interest, penalties or similar liabilities with respect thereto), in each case imposed on any Secured Party as a result of a present or former connection between such Secured Party and the jurisdiction of the Governmental Authority imposing such tax or any political subdivision or taxing authority thereof or therein including, without limitation, maintaining a Lending Office (other than such connection arising solely from any Secured Party having executed, delivered or performed its obligations or received a payment under, or enforced, any Loan Document); (b) withholding taxes to the extent that the obligation to withhold amounts existed on the date that such Person became a “Secured Party” under this Agreement in the capacity under which such
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Person makes a claim under Section 10.1(b) or designates a new Lending Office, except in each case to the extent such Person is a direct or indirect assignee (other than pursuant to Section 9.22) of any other Secured Party that was entitled, at the time the assignment to such Person became effective, to receive additional amounts under Section 10.1(b); (c) taxes that are directly attributable to the failure (other than as a result of a change in any Requirement of Law) by any Secured Party to deliver the documentation required to be delivered pursuant to Section 10.01(f), and (d) in the case of a Non-U.S. Lender Party, any United States federal withholding taxes imposed on amounts payable to such Non-U.S. Lender Party as a result of such Non-U.S. Lender Party’s failure to comply with FATCA to establish a complete exemption from withholding thereunder.
“Extraordinary Receipts” means any cash payments received by Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries not in the ordinary course of business (and not consisting of proceeds described in Section 1.8(c)) consisting of (a) proceeds of judgments, proceeds of settlements or other consideration of any kind in connection with any cause of action, (b) indemnity payments (other than to the extent such indemnity payments are (i) immediately payable to a Person that is not an Affiliate of Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, or (ii) received by Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries as reimbursement for any payment previously made to such Person), and (c) any purchase price adjustment (other than a working capital adjustment) received in connection with any purchase agreement.
“E-Fax” means any system used to receive or transmit faxes electronically.
“E-Signature” means the process of attaching to or logically associating with an Electronic Transmission an electronic symbol, encryption, digital signature or process (including the name or an abbreviation of the name of the party transmitting the Electronic Transmission) with the intent to sign, authenticate or accept such Electronic Transmission.
“E-System” means any electronic system approved by Agent, including Intralinks® and ClearPar® and any other Internet or extranet-based site, whether such electronic system is owned, operated or hosted by Agent, any of its Related Persons or any other Person, providing for access to data protected by passcodes or other security system.
“FATCA” means sections 1471, 1472, 1473 and 1474 of the Code, the United States Treasury Regulations promulgated thereunder and published guidance with respect thereto.
“Federal Flood Insurance” means Federally backed Flood Insurance available under the National Flood Insurance Program to owners of real property improvements located in Special Flood Hazard Areas in a community participating in the National Flood Insurance Program.
“Federal Funds Rate” means, for any day, the rate per annum equal to the weighted average of the rates on overnight Federal Funds transactions with members of the Federal Reserve System arranged by Federal Funds brokers on such day, as published by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York on the Business Day next succeeding such day, provided that if no such rate is so published on such next succeeding Business Day, the Federal Funds Rate for such day shall be the average rate quoted to Agent on such day on such transactions as determined by Agent in a commercially reasonable manner.
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“Federal Reserve Board” means the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, or any entity succeeding to any of its principal functions.
“Fee Letters” means the letter agreements, dated as of June 26, 2011, addressed to the Borrower from the Agent and Lead Arranger and accepted by the Borrower, with respect to certain fees to be paid from time to time to the Agent and Lead Arranger, and the joinder agreement, dated as of August 2, 2011, from SunTrust Bank and SunTrust Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx, Inc. and accepted by GE Capital, Lead Arranger and the Borrower.
“FEMA” means the Federal Emergency Management Agency, a component of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security that administers the National Flood Insurance Program.
“Final Availability Date” means the earlier of the Revolving Termination Date and one (1) Business Day prior to the date specified in clause (a) of the definition of Revolving Termination Date.
“FIRREA” means the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery and Enforcement Act of 1989, as amended.
“First Tier Foreign Subsidiary” means a Foreign Subsidiary held directly by a Credit Party or indirectly by a Credit Party.
“Fiscal Quarter” means any of the quarterly accounting periods of the Credit Parties ending on March 31st, June 30th, September 30th and December 31st of each year.
“Fiscal Year” means any of the annual accounting periods of the Credit Parties ending on December 31st of each year.
“Flood Insurance” means, for any Real Estate located in a Special Flood Hazard Area, Federal Flood Insurance or private insurance that meets the requirements set forth by FEMA in its Mandatory Purchase of Flood Insurance Guidelines. Flood Insurance shall be in an amount equal to the full, unpaid balance of the Loans and any prior liens on the Real Estate up to the maximum policy limits set under the National Flood Insurance Program, or as otherwise required by Agent, with deductibles not to exceed $50,000.
“Foreign Subsidiary” means, with respect to any Person, a Subsidiary of such Person, which Subsidiary is not a Domestic Subsidiary.
“Funded Indebtedness” means, as of any date of measurement, all Indebtedness of Borrower and its Subsidiaries as of the date of measurement (other than Indebtedness of the type described in clauses (e), (g), (h), (i) and (j) (other than with respect to clause (j), guarantees of Indebtedness of others of the type not described in clauses (e), (g), (h) and (i) of the definition of Indebtedness) of the definition of Indebtedness).
“GAAP” means generally accepted accounting principles in the United States set forth from time to time in the opinions and pronouncements of the Accounting Principles Board and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and statements and pronouncements of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (or agencies with similar functions of comparable
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stature and authority within the accounting profession), including, without limitation, the FASB Accounting Standards Codification™, which are applicable to the circumstances as of the date of determination, subject to Section 11.3 hereof, consistently applied.
“Governmental Authority” means any nation, sovereign or government, any state or other political subdivision thereof, any branch of government, agency, department, authority or instrumentality thereof and any Person or authority exercising executive, legislative, taxing, judicial, regulatory or administrative functions of or pertaining to government, including any central bank, stock exchange, regulatory body, arbitrator, public sector entity, supra-national entity (including the European Union and the European Central Bank) and any self-regulatory organization (including the National Association of Insurance Commissioners). Governmental Authority shall include any agency, branch or other governmental body charged with the responsibility and/or vested with the authority to administer and/or enforce any Health Care Laws, including any Medicare or Medicaid contractors, intermediaries or carriers.
“Governmental Payor” means Medicare, Medicaid, TRICARE, CHAMPVA, any state health plan adopted pursuant to Title XIX of the Social Security Act, any other state or federal health care program and any other Governmental Authority which presently or in the future maintains a Third Party Payor Program.
“Group Members” means, collectively, the Borrower and its Subsidiaries.
“Guarantor” means each “Grantor” (as defined in the Guaranty and Security Agreement) other than the Borrower.
“Guaranty and Security Agreement” means that certain Guaranty and Security Agreement, dated as of even date herewith, in form and substance reasonably acceptable to Agent and the Borrower, made by the Credit Parties in favor of Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, as the same may be amended, restated and/or modified from time to time.
“Hazardous Materials” means any substance, material or waste that is regulated as hazardous or otherwise gives rise to liability under any Environmental Law, including but not limited to any “Hazardous Waste” as defined by the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) (42 U.S.C. § 6901 et seq. (1976)), any “Hazardous Substance” as defined under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) (42 U.S.C. §9601 et seq. (1980)), any contaminant, pollutant, petroleum or any fraction thereof, asbestos, asbestos containing material, polychlorinated biphenyls, mold, and radioactive substances or any other substance that is toxic.
“Health Care Laws” means all Requirements of Law relating to (a) fraud and abuse (including without limitation the following statutes, as amended, modified or supplemented from time to time and any successor statutes thereto and regulations promulgated from time to time thereunder: the federal Anti-Kickback Statute (42 U.S.C. § 1320a-7b(b)); the Xxxxx Law (42 U.S.C. § 1395nn and §1395(q)); the civil False Claims Act (31 U.S.C. § 3729 et seq.); Sections 1320a-7 and 1320a-7a and 1320a-7b of Title 42 of the United States Code; the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 (Pub. L. No. 108-173)); (b) Medicare, Medicaid, CHAMPVA, TRICARE or other Third Party Payor Programs; (c) the
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licensure or regulation of healthcare providers, suppliers, professionals, facilities or payors; (d) the provision of, or payment for, health care services, items or supplies; (e) patient health care; (f) quality, safety certification and accreditation standards and requirements; (g) the billing, coding or submission of claims or collection of accounts receivable or refund of overpayments; (h) HIPAA; (i) the practice of medicine and other health care professions or the organization of medical or professional entities; (j) fee-splitting prohibitions; (k) requirements for maintaining federal, state and local tax-exempt status of any Group Member; (l) charitable trusts or charitable solicitation laws; (m) health planning or rate-setting laws, including laws regarding certificates of need and certificates of exemption; (n) certificates of operations and authority; (o) laws regulating the provision of free or discounted care or services; and (p) any and all other applicable federal, state or local health care laws, rules, codes, statutes, regulations, enforceable and valid manuals, orders, ordinances, statutes, enforceable policies, professional or ethical rules, enforceable administrative guidance and requirements, as the same may be amended, modified or supplemented from time to time, and any successor statute thereto.
“Health Care Permits” means any and all Permits issued or required under applicable Health Care Laws.
“HIPAA” means the (a) Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996; (b) the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (Title XIII of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009); and (c) any state and local laws regulating the privacy and/or security of individually identifiable information, including state laws providing for notification of breach of privacy or security of individually identifiable information, in each case with respect to the laws described in clauses (a), (b) and (c) of this definition, as the same may be amended, modified or supplemented from time to time, any successor statutes thereto, any and all rules or regulations promulgated from time to time thereunder.
“Impacted Lender” means any Lender that fails to provide Agent, within three (3) Business Days following Agent’s written request, satisfactory assurance that such Lender will not become a Non-Funding Lender, or any Lender that has a Person that directly or indirectly controls such Lender and such Person (a) becomes subject to a voluntary or involuntary case under the Bankruptcy Code or any similar bankruptcy laws, (b) has appointed a custodian, conservator, receiver or similar official for such Person or any substantial part of such Person’s assets, or (c) makes a general assignment for the benefit of creditors, is liquidated, or is otherwise adjudicated as, or determined by any Governmental Authority having regulatory authority over such Person or its assets to be, insolvent or bankrupt, and for each of clauses (a) through (c), Agent has determined that such Lender is reasonably likely to become a Non-Funding Lender. For purposes of this definition, control of a Person shall have the same meaning as in the second sentence of the definition of Affiliate.
“Incremental Term Borrowing” shall mean a Borrowing comprised of Incremental Term Loans.
“Incremental Term Loan Lender” shall mean a Lender with an Incremental Term Loan Commitment or an outstanding Incremental Term Loan.
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“Incremental Term Loan Amount” shall mean, at any time, the excess, if any, of (a) $50,000,000 over the sum of (b)(i) the aggregate amount of all Incremental Term Loan Commitments established prior to such time pursuant to Section 1.12 plus (ii) the aggregate amount of all additional Revolving Loan Commitments established prior to such time pursuant to Section 1.12.
“Incremental Term Loan Assumption Agreement” shall mean an Incremental Term Loan Assumption Agreement among, and in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to, the Borrower, the Agent and one or more Incremental Term Loan Lenders.
“Incremental Term Loan Commitment” shall mean the commitment of any Lender, established pursuant to Section 1.12, to make Incremental Term Loans to the Borrower.
“Incremental Term Loan Maturity Date” shall mean the final maturity date of any Incremental Term Loan, as set forth in the applicable Incremental Term Loan Assumption Agreement.
“Incremental Term Loan Repayment Dates” shall mean the dates scheduled for the repayment of principal of any Incremental Term Loan, as set forth in the applicable Incremental Term Loan Assumption Agreement.
“Incremental Term Loans” shall mean Term Loans made by one or more Lenders to the Borrower pursuant to Section 1.1(e). Incremental Term Loans may be made in the form of additional Term Loans or, to the extent permitted by Section 1.12 and provided for in the relevant Incremental Term Loan Assumption Agreement, Other Term Loans.
“Indebtedness” of any Person means, without duplication: (a) all indebtedness for borrowed money; (b) all obligations issued, undertaken or assumed as the deferred purchase price of Property or services, including earnouts to the extent accrued in accordance with GAAP (other than trade payables entered into in the Ordinary Course of Business), which purchase price is due more than six months from the date of issuance; (c) the face amount of all letters of credit (including all Letters of Credit) issued for the account of such Person (other than any letters of credit existing on the Closing Date, to the extent (i) not constituting Letters of Credit and (ii) reimbursement and payment obligations with respect thereto are backstopped by Letters of Credit) and without duplication, all drafts drawn thereunder and all reimbursement or payment obligations with respect to letters of credit, surety bonds and other similar instruments issued by such Person; (d) all obligations evidenced by notes, bonds, debentures or similar instruments, including obligations so evidenced incurred in connection with the acquisition of Property, assets or businesses; (e) all indebtedness created or arising under any conditional sale or other title retention agreement, or incurred as financing, in either case with respect to Property acquired by the Person (even though the rights and remedies of the seller or bank under such agreement in the event of default are limited to repossession or sale of such Property); (f) all Capital Lease Obligations; (g) the principal balance outstanding under any synthetic lease, off-balance sheet loan or similar off balance sheet financing product; (h) all obligations, whether or not contingent, to purchase, redeem, retire, defease or otherwise acquire for value any of its own Stock or Stock Equivalents (or any Stock or Stock Equivalent of a direct or indirect parent entity thereof) prior to the date that is 180 days after the final scheduled installment payment date for the Term Loan,
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valued at, in the case of redeemable preferred Stock, the greater of the voluntary liquidation preference and the involuntary liquidation preference of such Stock plus accrued and unpaid dividends, which for purposes of this Agreement shall not include any such obligations of the Borrower under its preferred stock to the extent such preferred stock is outstanding on the Closing Date and listed on Schedule 5.11; (i) all indebtedness referred to in clauses (a) through (h) above secured by (or for which the holder of such Indebtedness has an existing right, contingent or otherwise, to be secured by) any Lien upon or in Property (including accounts and contracts rights) owned by such Person, even though such Person has not assumed or become liable for the payment of such indebtedness; and (j) all Contingent Obligations described in clause (a) of the definition thereof in respect of indebtedness or obligations of others of the kinds referred to in clauses (a) through (i) above.
“Insolvency Proceeding” means (a) any case, action or proceeding before any court or other Governmental Authority relating to bankruptcy, reorganization, insolvency, liquidation, receivership, dissolution, winding-up or relief of debtors, or (b) any general assignment for the benefit of creditors, composition, marshaling of assets for creditors, or other, similar arrangement in respect of its creditors generally or any substantial portion of its creditors; in each case in (a) and (b) above, undertaken under U.S. Federal, state or foreign law, including the Bankruptcy Code.
“Intellectual Property” means all rights, title and interests in or relating to intellectual property and industrial property arising under any Requirement of Law and all IP Ancillary Rights relating thereto, including all Copyrights, Patents, Trademarks, Internet Domain Names, Trade Secrets and IP Licenses.
“Intercreditor Agreement” means that certain Intercreditor Agreement, dated as of even date with the Agreement, executed and delivered by the Agent and Second Lien Term Loan Agent and acknowledged by each Credit Party, the form and substance of which is reasonably satisfactory to the Agent.
“Interest Payment Date” means, (a) with respect to any LIBOR Rate Loan (other than a LIBOR Rate Loan having an Interest Period of six (6) months or more) the last day of each Interest Period applicable to such Loan, (b) with respect to any LIBOR Rate Loan having an Interest Period of six (6) months or more, the last day of each three (3) month interval and, without duplication, the last day of such Interest Period, and (c) with respect to Base Rate Loans (including Swing Loans) the first day of each calendar quarter.
“Interest Period” means, with respect to any LIBOR Rate Loan, the period commencing on the Business Day such Loan is disbursed or continued or on the Conversion Date on which a Base Rate Loan is converted to the LIBOR Rate Loan and ending on the date one, two, three, six, or, if available to all relevant Lenders, nine or twelve months thereafter, as selected by the Borrower in its Notice of Borrowing or Notice of Conversion/Continuation; provided that:
(a) if any Interest Period pertaining to a LIBOR Rate Loan would otherwise end on a day which is not a Business Day, that Interest Period shall be extended to the next succeeding Business Day unless the result of such extension would be to carry such Interest Period into another calendar month, in which event such Interest Period shall end on the immediately preceding Business Day;
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(b) any Interest Period pertaining to a LIBOR Rate Loan that begins on the last Business Day of a calendar month (or on a day for which there is no numerically corresponding day in the calendar month at the end of such Interest Period) shall end on the last Business Day of the calendar month at the end of such Interest Period;
(c) no Interest Period for the Term Loan shall extend beyond the last scheduled payment date therefor and no Interest Period for any Revolving Loan shall extend beyond the Revolving Termination Date;
(d) no Interest Period applicable to the Term Loan or portion thereof shall extend beyond any date upon which is due any scheduled principal payment in respect of the Term Loan unless the aggregate principal amount of Term Loan represented by Base Rate Loans or by LIBOR Rate Loans having Interest Periods that will expire on or before such date is equal to or in excess of the amount of such principal payment; and
(e) the Borrower may not select an Interest Period of more than one (1) month until the earlier of (i) the date which is 90 days after the Closing Date and (ii) the completion of primary syndication as determined by Agent.
“Internet Domain Name” means all right, title and interest (and all related IP Ancillary Rights) arising under any Requirement of Law in or relating to internet domain names.
“Inventory” means all of the “inventory” (as such term is defined in the UCC) of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, including, but not limited to, all merchandise, raw materials, parts, supplies, work-in-process and finished goods intended for sale, together with all the containers, packing, packaging, shipping and similar materials related thereto, and including such inventory as is temporarily out of the Borrower’s or such Subsidiary’s custody or possession, including inventory on the premises of others and items in transit.
“IP Ancillary Rights” means, with respect to any other Intellectual Property, as applicable, all foreign counterparts to, and all divisionals, reversions, continuations, continuations-in-part, reissues, reexaminations, renewals and extensions of, such Intellectual Property and all income, royalties, proceeds and Liabilities at any time due or payable or asserted under or with respect to any of the foregoing or otherwise with respect to such Intellectual Property, including all rights to xxx or recover at law or in equity for any past, present or future infringement, misappropriation, dilution, violation or other impairment thereof, and, in each case, all rights to obtain any other IP Ancillary Right.
“IP License” means all Contractual Obligations (and all related IP Ancillary Rights), whether written or oral, granting any right, title and interest in or relating to any Intellectual Property.
“IRS” means the Internal Revenue Service of the United States and any successor thereto.
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“Issue” means, with respect to any Letter of Credit, to issue, extend the expiration date of, renew (including by failure to object to any automatic renewal on the last day such objection is permitted), increase the face amount of, or reduce or eliminate any scheduled decrease in the face amount of, such Letter of Credit, or to cause any Person to do any of the foregoing. The terms “Issued” and “Issuance” have correlative meanings.
“L/C Issuer” means any Lender or an Affiliate thereof or a bank or other legally authorized Person, in each case, reasonably acceptable to Agent, in such Person’s capacity as an issuer of Letters of Credit hereunder.
“L/C Reimbursement Obligation” means, for any Letter of Credit, the obligation of the Borrower to the L/C Issuer thereof or to Agent, as and when matured, to pay all amounts drawn under such Letter of Credit.
“Lead Arranger” means GE Capital Markets, Inc.
“Lending Office” means, with respect to any Lender, the office or offices of such Lender specified as its “Lending Office” beneath its name on the applicable signature page hereto, or such other office or offices of such Lender as it may from time to time notify the Borrower and Agent.
“Letter of Credit” means standby letters of credit issued for the account of the Borrower by L/C Issuers, and bankers’ acceptances issued by Borrower, for which Agent and Lenders have incurred Letter of Credit Obligations.
“Letter of Credit Obligations” means all outstanding obligations incurred by Agent and Lenders at the request of the Borrower, whether direct or indirect, contingent or otherwise, due or not due, in connection with the issuance of Letters of Credit by L/C Issuers or the purchase of a participation as set forth in subsection 1.1(c) with respect to any Letter of Credit. The amount of such Letter of Credit Obligations shall equal the maximum amount that may be payable by Agent and Lenders thereupon or pursuant thereto.
“Liabilities” means all claims, actions, suits, judgments, damages, losses, liability, obligations, responsibilities, fines, penalties, sanctions, costs, fees, taxes, commissions, charges, disbursements and expenses, in each case of any kind or nature (including interest accrued thereon or as a result thereto and fees, charges and disbursements of financial, legal and other advisors and consultants), whether joint or several, whether or not indirect, contingent, consequential, actual, punitive, treble or otherwise.
“LIBOR” means, for each Interest Period, the highest of (a) 1.5% per annum and (b) the offered rate per annum for deposits of Dollars for the applicable Interest Period that appears on Reuters Screen LIBOR01 Page as of 11:00 A.M. (London, England time) two (2) Business Days prior to the first day in such Interest Period adjusted for reserve requirements. If no such offered rate exists, such rate will be the rate of interest per annum, as determined by Agent at which deposits of Dollars in immediately available funds are offered at 11:00 A.M. (London, England time) two (2) Business Days prior to the first day in such Interest Period by major financial institutions reasonably satisfactory to Agent in the London interbank market for such Interest Period for the applicable principal amount on such date of determination.
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“LIBOR Rate Loan” means a Loan that bears interest based on LIBOR.
“Licensed Personnel” means any Person (including any physician) involved in the delivery of health care or medical items, services or supplies, employed or retained by any Group Member.
“Lien” means any mortgage, deed of trust, pledge, hypothecation, assignment, charge or deposit arrangement, encumbrance, lien (statutory or otherwise) or preference, priority or other security interest or preferential arrangement of any kind or nature whatsoever (including those created by, arising under or evidenced by any conditional sale or other title retention agreement, the interest of a lessor under a Capital Lease, any financing lease having substantially the same economic effect as any of the foregoing, or the filing of any financing statement naming the owner of the asset to which such lien relates as debtor, under the UCC or any comparable law) and any contingent or other agreement to provide any of the foregoing, but not including the interest of a lessor under a lease which is not a Capital Lease.
“Loan” means an extension of credit by a Lender to the Borrower pursuant to Article I, and may be a Base Rate Loan or a LIBOR Rate Loan.
“Loan Documents” means this Agreement, the Notes, the Fee Letters, the Collateral Documents, the Intercreditor Agreement, the Master Intercompany Subordination Agreement, the Master Agreement for Standby Letters of Credit, each Incremental Term Loan Assumption Agreement, each Additional Revolving Loan Commitment Assumption Agreement and all documents delivered to Agent and/or any Lender in connection with any of the foregoing.
“Margin Stock” means “margin stock” as such term is defined in Regulation T, U or X of the Federal Reserve Board.
“Master Agreement for Standby Letters of Credit” means that certain Master Agreement for Standby Letters of Credit, dated as of even date herewith, between the Borrower and GE Capital, as amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time.
“Master Intercompany Subordination Agreement” means that certain Master Intercompany Subordination Agreement, dated as of even date herewith, by and among Agent, the Borrower and each other Credit Party.
“Material Adverse Effect” means: (a) a material adverse change in, or a material adverse effect upon, the operations, business, Properties, liabilities or financial condition of the Credit Parties and their Subsidiaries taken as a whole; (b) a material impairment of the ability of any Credit Party, any Subsidiary of any Credit Party or any other Person (other than Agent or Lenders) to perform any of its material obligations under any Loan Document; or (c) a material adverse effect upon (i) the legality, validity, binding effect or enforceability of any Loan Document, or (ii) the perfection or priority of any Lien granted to the Lenders or to Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties under any of the Collateral Documents in any material asset.
“Material Environmental Liabilities” means Environmental Liabilities exceeding $2,000,000 in the aggregate.
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“Medicaid” means, collectively, the health care assistance program established by Title XIX of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1396 et seq.) and any statutes succeeding thereto, and all laws, rules, regulations, manuals, orders or requirements pertaining to such program, including (a) all federal statutes affecting such program; (b) all state statutes and plans for medical assistance enacted in connection with such program and federal rules and regulations promulgated in connection with such program; and (c) all applicable provisions of all rules, regulations, manuals, orders and administrative, reimbursement, and requirements of all Government Authorities promulgated in connection with such program (whether or not having the force of law), in each case as the same may be amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time.
“Medicare” means, collectively, the health insurance program for the aged and disabled established by Title XVIII of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395 et seq.) and any statutes succeeding thereto, and all laws, rules, regulations, manuals, orders or requirements pertaining to such program including (a) all federal statutes (whether set forth in Title XVIII of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395 et seq.) or elsewhere) affecting such program; and (b) all applicable provisions of all rules, regulations, manuals, orders and administrative, reimbursement and requirements of all Governmental Authorities promulgated in connection with such program (whether or not having the force of law), in each case as the same may be amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time.
“Mortgage” means any deed of trust, leasehold deed of trust, mortgage, leasehold mortgage, deed to secure debt, leasehold deed to secure debt or other document creating a Lien on Real Estate or any interest in Real Estate.
“Multiemployer Plan” means any multiemployer plan, as defined in Section 3(37) or 4001(a)(3) of ERISA, as to which any ERISA Affiliate incurs or otherwise has any obligation or liability, contingent or otherwise.
“National Flood Insurance Program” means the program created by the U.S. Congress pursuant to the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 and the Flood Disaster Protection Act of 1973, as revised by the National Flood Insurance Reform Act of 1994, that mandates the purchase of flood insurance to cover real property improvements located in Special Flood Hazard Areas in participating communities and provides protection to property owners through a Federal insurance program.
“Net Issuance Proceeds” means, in respect of any issuance of debt or equity, cash proceeds (including cash proceeds as and when received in respect of non-cash proceeds received or receivable in connection with such issuance), net of underwriting discounts and reasonable out-of-pocket costs and expenses paid or incurred in connection therewith in favor of any Person not an Affiliate of Borrower.
“Net Proceeds” means proceeds in cash, checks or other cash equivalent financial instruments (including Cash Equivalents) as and when received by the Person making a Disposition and insurance proceeds and condemnation and similar awards received on account of an Event of Loss, net of: (a) in the event of a Disposition (i) the direct costs relating to such Disposition excluding amounts payable to Borrower or any Affiliate of Borrower including
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income taxes payable as a result of any gain, (ii) sale, use or other transaction taxes paid or payable as a result thereof, and (iii) amounts required to be applied to repay principal, interest and prepayment premiums and penalties on Indebtedness secured by a Lien on the asset which is the subject of such Disposition and (b) in the event of an Event of Loss, (i) all money actually applied to repair or reconstruct the damaged Property or Property affected by the condemnation or taking including business interruption proceeds, (ii) all of the costs and expenses reasonably incurred in connection with the collection of such proceeds, award or other payments including income tax payable as a result of any gain recognized in connection therewith, and (iii) any amounts retained by or paid to parties having superior rights to such proceeds, awards or other payments.
“Non-Funding Lender” means any Lender that has (a) failed to fund any payments required to be made by it under the Loan Documents within two (2) Business Days after any such payment is due (excluding expense and similar reimbursements that are subject to good faith disputes), (b) given written notice (and Agent has not received a revocation in writing), to Borrower, Agent, any Lender, or the L/C Issuer or has otherwise publicly announced (and Agent has not received notice of a public retraction) that such Lender believes it will fail to fund payments or purchases of participations required to be funded by it under the Loan Documents or one or more other syndicated credit facilities, (c) failed to fund, and not cured, loans, participations, advances, or reimbursement obligations under one or more other syndicated credit facilities, unless subject to a good faith dispute, or (d) any Lender that has, or any Person that directly or indirectly controls such Lender has, (i) become subject to a voluntary or involuntary case under the Bankruptcy Code or any similar bankruptcy laws, (ii) a custodian, conservator, receiver or similar official appointed for it or any substantial part of such Person’s assets, or (iii) made a general assignment for the benefit of creditors, been liquidated, or otherwise been adjudicated as, or determined by any Governmental Authority having regulatory authority over such Person or its assets to be, insolvent or bankrupt, and for clause (d), and Agent has determined that such Lender is reasonably likely to fail to fund any payments required to be made by it under the Loan Documents. For purposes of this definition, control of a Person shall have the same meaning as in the second sentence of the definition of Affiliate.
“Non-U.S. Lender Party” means each of Agent, each Lender, each L/C Issuer, each SPV and each participant, in each case that is not a United States person as defined in Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code.
“Note” means any Revolving Note, Swingline Note or Term Note and “Notes” means all such Notes.
“Notice of Borrowing” means a notice given by the Borrower to Agent pursuant to Section 1.5, in substantially the form of Exhibit 11.1(c) hereto.
“Obligations” means all Loans, and other Indebtedness, advances, debts, liabilities, obligations, covenants and duties owing by any Credit Party to any Lender, Agent, any L/C Issuer, any Secured Swap Provider or any other Person required to be indemnified, that arises under any Loan Document, any Secured Rate Contract or any Bank Product, whether or not for the payment of money, whether arising by reason of an extension of credit, loan, guaranty, indemnification or in any other manner, whether direct or indirect (including those acquired by assignment), absolute or contingent, due or to become due, now existing or hereafter arising and however acquired.
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“Ordinary Course of Business” means, in respect of any transaction involving any Person, the ordinary course of such Person’s business, as conducted by any such Person in accordance with past practice and undertaken by such Person in good faith and not for purposes of evading any covenant or restriction in any Loan Document.
“Organization Documents” means, (a) for any corporation, the certificate or articles of incorporation, the bylaws, any certificate of determination or instrument relating to the rights of preferred shareholders of such corporation, and any shareholder rights agreement, (b) for any partnership, the partnership agreement and, if applicable, certificate of limited partnership, (c) for any limited liability company, the operating agreement and articles or certificate of formation or (d) any other document setting forth the manner of election or duties of the officers, directors, managers or other similar persons, or the designation, amount or relative rights, limitations and preference of the Stock of a Person.
“Patents” means all rights, title and interests (and all related IP Ancillary Rights) arising under any Requirement of Law in or relating to letters patent and applications therefor.
“Patriot Act” means the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001, P.L. 107-56, as amended.
“PBGC” means the United States Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation any successor thereto.
“Permits” means, with respect to any Person, any permit, approval, consent, authorization, license, provisional license, registration, accreditation, certificate, certification, certificate of need, qualification, operating authority, concession, grant, franchise, variance or permission from, and any other Contractual Obligations with, any Governmental Authority, in each case whether or not having the force of law and applicable to or binding upon such Person or any of its property or to which such Person or any of its property is subject, including without limitation all Health Care Permits.
“Permitted Acquisition” means any Acquisition by (i) a Credit Party of substantially all of the assets or a division of a Target, which assets are located in the United States or (ii) a Credit Party of 100% of the Stock and Stock Equivalents of a Target organized under the laws of any State in the United States or the District of Columbia, in each case, to the extent that each of the following conditions shall have been satisfied:
(a) to the extent the Acquisition will be financed in whole or in part with the proceeds of any Loan, the conditions set forth in Section 2.2 shall have been satisfied;
(b) with respect to any Acquisition for which the total consideration paid or payable (including without limitation, all assumed Indebtedness and Liabilities incurred, assumed or reflected on a consolidated balance sheet of the Credit Parties and their Subsidiaries after giving effect to such Acquisition and the maximum amount of all deferred payments, including earnouts to the extent actually paid) exceeds $1,000,000 individually or, when aggregated with all other
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Permitted Acquisitions consummated in the same Fiscal Year, $5,000,000, the Borrower shall have notified Agent and Lenders of such proposed Acquisition at least thirty (30) days prior to the consummation thereof and furnished to Agent and Lenders at least fifteen (15) days prior to the consummation thereof (1) an executed term sheet and/or letter of intent (setting forth in reasonable detail the terms and conditions of such Acquisition) and, at the request of Agent, such other information and documents that Agent may request, including, without limitation, executed counterparts of the respective agreements, documents or instruments pursuant to which such Acquisition is to be consummated (including, without limitation, any related management, non-compete, employment, option or other material agreements), any schedules to such agreements, documents or instruments and all other material ancillary agreements, instruments and documents to be executed or delivered in connection therewith, (2) pro forma financial statements of Borrower and its Subsidiaries after giving effect to the consummation of such Acquisition, (3) a certificate of a Responsible Officer of the Borrower demonstrating on a pro forma basis compliance with the covenants set forth in Section 6.2 (less, in each case, 0.25:1.00) after giving effect to the consummation of such Acquisition and (4) copies of such other agreements, instruments and other documents as Agent reasonably shall request;
(c) the Borrower and its Subsidiaries (including any new Subsidiary) shall execute and deliver the agreements, instruments and other documents required by Section 4.13 and Agent shall have received, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, a collateral assignment of the seller’s representations, warranties and indemnities to the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries under the acquisition documents;
(d) such Acquisition shall not be hostile and shall have been approved by the board of directors (or other similar body) and/or the stockholders or other equityholders of the Target;
(e) no Default or Event of Default shall then exist or would exist after giving effect thereto;
(f) after giving effect to such Acquisition, Availability shall be not less than $7,000,000;
(g) the total consideration paid or payable (including without limitation, all assumed Indebtedness and Liabilities incurred, assumed or reflected on a consolidated balance sheet of the Credit Parties and their Subsidiaries after giving effect to such Acquisition and the maximum amount of all deferred payments, including earnouts to the extent actually paid) for all Acquisitions consummated during (i) any Fiscal Year shall not exceed $50,000,000 in the aggregate for all such Acquisitions and (ii) the term of this Agreement shall not exceed $100,000,000 in the aggregate for all such Acquisitions; and
(h) with respect to any Acquisition for which the total consideration paid or payable (including without limitation, all assumed Indebtedness and Liabilities incurred, assumed or reflected on a consolidated balance sheet of the Credit Parties and their Subsidiaries after giving effect to such Acquisition and the maximum amount of all deferred payments, including earnouts to the extent actually paid) (i) exceeds $10,000,000, the Target has EBITDA greater than zero and (ii) is equal to or less than $10,000,000, the Target has EBITDA greater than negative $2,000,000 (or such lower EBITDA amount as the Agent may agree in its sole discretion),
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subject, in each case, to pro forma adjustments substantially consistent with those taken in connection with the Closing Date Merger or otherwise reasonably acceptable to Agent, for the most recent four quarters prior to the acquisition date for which financial statements are available.
“Permitted Refinancing” means Indebtedness constituting a refinancing, modification or extension of Indebtedness permitted under subsection 5.5(c), 5.5(d) or 5.5(g) that (a) has an aggregate outstanding principal amount not greater than the aggregate principal amount of the Indebtedness being refinanced or extended (not including unpaid accrued interest and premiums), (b) has a weighted average maturity (measured as of the date of such refinancing or extension) and maturity no shorter than that of the Indebtedness being refinanced or extended, (c) is not entered into as part of a sale leaseback transaction, (d) is not secured by a Lien on any assets other than the collateral securing the Indebtedness being refinanced or extended, (e) the obligors of which are the same as the obligors of the Indebtedness being refinanced or extended and (f) is otherwise on terms materially no less favorable to the Credit Parties, taken as a whole, than those of the Indebtedness being refinanced or extended.
“Person” means an individual, partnership, corporation, limited liability company, business trust, joint stock company, trust, unincorporated association, joint venture or Governmental Authority.
“Pledged Collateral” has the meaning specified in the Guaranty and Security Agreement and shall include any other Collateral required to be delivered to Agent pursuant to the terms of any Collateral Document.
“Prior Indebtedness” means the Indebtedness and obligations specified on Schedule 11.1 hereto.
“Prior Lender” means Bank of America, N.A..
“Proceeding” means any investigation, inquiry, litigation, review, hearing, suit, claim, audit, arbitration, proceeding or action (in each case, whether civil, criminal, administrative, investigative or informal) commenced, brought, conducted or heard by or before, or otherwise involving, any Governmental Authority or arbitrator.
“Property” means any interest in any kind of property or asset, whether real, personal or mixed, and whether tangible or intangible.
“Rate Contracts” means swap agreements (as such term is defined in Section 101 of the Bankruptcy Code) and any other agreements or arrangements designed to provide protection against fluctuations in interest or currency exchange rates.
“Real Estate” means any real property owned, leased, subleased or otherwise operated or occupied by any Credit Party or any Subsidiary of any Credit Party.
“Related Agreements” means, collectively, the Merger Agreement, the Second Lien Term Loan Documents and each other material document executed by Borrower or Seller with respect to any of the foregoing or any Related Transaction.
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“Related Persons” means, with respect to any Person, each Affiliate of such Person and each director, officer, employee, agent, trustee, representative, attorney, accountant and each insurance, environmental, legal, financial and other advisor (including those retained in connection with the satisfaction or attempted satisfaction of any condition set forth in Article II) and other consultants and agents of or to such Person or any of its Affiliates.
“Related Transactions” means the transactions contemplated by the Related Agreements and includes, without limitation, the consummation of the Closing Date Merger, the entering into of the Second Lien Term Loan Documents, the borrowing of the term loan under the Second Lien Term Loan Credit Agreement, the payment of all fees, costs and expenses associated with all of the foregoing and the execution and delivery of all of the Related Agreements.
“Releases” means any release, threatened release, spill, emission, leaking, pumping, pouring, emitting, emptying, escape, injection, deposit, disposal, discharge, dispersal, dumping, leaching or migration of Hazardous Material into or through the environment.
“Remedial Action” means all actions required to (a) clean up, remove, treat or in any other way address any Hazardous Material in the indoor or outdoor environment, (b) prevent or minimize any Release so that a Hazardous Material does not migrate or endanger or threaten to endanger public health or welfare or the indoor or outdoor environment or (c) perform pre remedial studies and investigations and post-remedial monitoring and care with respect to any Hazardous Material.
“Required Lenders” means at any time (a) Lenders then holding more than fifty percent (50%) of the sum of the Aggregate Revolving Loan Commitment then in effect plus the aggregate unpaid principal balance of the Term Loans then outstanding, or (b) if the Aggregate Revolving Loan Commitments have terminated, Lenders then holding more than fifty percent (50%) of the sum of the aggregate unpaid principal amount of Loans (other than Swing Loans) then outstanding, outstanding Letter of Credit Obligations, amounts of participations in Swing Loans and the principal amount of unparticipated portions of Swing Loans.
“Required Revolving Lenders” means at any time (a) Lenders then holding more than fifty percent (50%) of the sum of the Aggregate Revolving Loan Commitments then in effect, or (b) if the Aggregate Revolving Loan Commitments have terminated, Lenders then more than fifty percent (50%) of the sum of the aggregate outstanding amount of Revolving Loans, outstanding Letter of Credit Obligations, amounts of participations in Swing Loans and the principal amount of unparticipated portions of Swing Loans.
“Requirements of Law” means, with respect to any Person, collectively, the common law and all federal, state, local, foreign, multinational or international laws, statutes, codes, treaties, standards, rules and regulations, guidelines, ordinances, orders, judgments, writs, injunctions, decrees (including administrative or judicial precedents or authorities) and the interpretation or administration thereof by, and other determinations, directives, requirements or requests of, any Governmental Authority, in each case whether or not having the force of law and that are applicable to or binding upon such Person or any of its property or to which such Person or any of its property, products, business or operations are subject, including without limitation all Health Care Laws.
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“Responsible Officer” means the chief executive officer or the president or any other officer having substantially the same authority and responsibility; or, with respect to compliance with financial covenants or delivery of financial information, the chief financial officer or the treasurer or any other officer having substantially the same authority and responsibility.
“Revolving Lender” means each Lender with a Revolving Loan Commitment (or if the Revolving Loan Commitments have terminated, who hold Revolving Loans or participations in Swing Loans).
“Revolving Loan Commitment” means, as to any Lender, the revolving loan commitment amount for such Lender on file with Agent, as the same may be reduced or increased from time to time in accordance with this Agreement.
“Revolving Note” means a promissory note of the Borrower payable to a Lender in substantially the form of Exhibit 11.1(d) hereto, evidencing Indebtedness of the Borrower under the Revolving Loan Commitment of such Lender.
“Revolving Pro Rata Outstandings”, of any Lender at any time, means the sum of (i) the outstanding principal amount of Revolving Loans owing to such Lender and (ii) the amount of the participation of such Lender in the Letter of Credit Obligations outstanding with respect to all Letters of Credit.
“Revolving Termination Date” means the earlier to occur of: (a) October 4, 2016; and (b) the date on which the Aggregate Revolving Loan Commitment shall terminate in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement.
“SEC” means the United States Securities and Exchange Commission or any successor to its principal functions.
“Second Lien Term Loan Agent” means GE Capital, in its capacity as administrative agent for the Second Lien Term Loan Lenders under the Second Lien Term Loan Credit Agreement, and any successor administrative agent.
“Second Lien Term Loan Credit Agreement” means that certain Second Lien Credit Agreement, dated as of the Closing Date, by and among the Borrower, Second Lien Term Loan Lenders, and Second Lien Term Loan Agent, as amended, modified, supplemented or restated from time to time in accordance with the terms thereof and the Intercreditor Agreement.
“Second Lien Term Loan Documents” means the Second Lien Term Loan Credit Agreement and the other “Loan Documents” as such term is defined in the Second Lien Term Loan Credit Agreement and any documents, instruments and agreements entered into in connection with any amendment, supplement, restatement, replacement or refinancing thereof, as amended, modified, supplemented or restated from time to time in accordance with the terms of the Second Lien Term Loan Credit Agreement and the Intercreditor Agreement.
“Second Lien Term Loan Facility” means the Indebtedness incurred by Borrower under the Second Lien Term Loan Documents in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $75,000,000.
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“Second Lien Term Loan Lenders” means the “Lenders” as such term is defined in the Second Lien Term Loan Credit Agreement.
“Secured Party” means Agent, each Lender, each L/C Issuer, each other Indemnitee and each other holder of any Obligation of a Credit Party including each Secured Swap Provider.
“Secured Rate Contract” means any Rate Contract between Borrower and the counterparty thereto, which (i) has been provided or arranged by GE Capital or an Affiliate of GE Capital, or (ii) Agent has acknowledged in writing constitutes a “Secured Rate Contract” hereunder.
“Secured Swap Provider” means (i) a Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender (or a Person who was a Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender at the time of execution and delivery of a Rate Contract) who has entered into a Secured Rate Contract with Borrower, or (ii) a Person with whom Borrower has entered into a Secured Rate Contract provided or arranged by GE Capital or an Affiliate of GE Capital, and any assignee thereof.
“Segregated Governmental Account” means a deposit account of a Group Member maintained in accordance with the requirements of Section 4.11 hereof, the only funds on deposit in which constitute the direct proceeds of Medicare and Medicaid payments made by Governmental Payors.
“Sleep Assets” means the Stock and assets of Seredor Corporation, a Florida Corporation and any Subsidiary of Seredor Corporation.
“Solvent” means, with respect to any Person as of any date of determination, that, as of such date, (a) the value of the assets of such Person (both at fair value and present fair saleable value) is greater than the total amount of liabilities (including contingent and unliquidated liabilities) of such Person, (b) such Person is able to pay all liabilities of such Person as such liabilities mature and (c) such Person does not have unreasonably small capital. In computing the amount of contingent or unliquidated liabilities at any time, such liabilities shall be computed at the amount that, in light of all the facts and circumstances existing at such time, represents the amount that can reasonably be expected to become an actual or matured liability.
“Special Flood Hazard Area” means an area that FEMA’s current flood maps indicate has at least a one percent (1%) chance of a flood equal to or exceeding the base flood elevation (a 100-year flood) in any given year.
“Specified Representations” means the representations and warranties set forth in (i) clauses (a) and (b) of Section 3.1, Section 3.2 (but, with respect to clauses (b), (c) and (d) thereof, only in a manner which could reasonably be expected to give rise to a Combined Material Adverse Effect), Section 3.3 (other than those the failure of which to obtain would not reasonably be expected to give rise to a Combined Material Adverse Effect), Section 3.4, Section 3.8, clause (a) of Section 3.13, Section 3.14 (but only with respect to the Credit Parties on a consolidated basis), Section 3.25 and Section 3.26 and (ii) Section 4.2 of the Guaranty and Security Agreement.
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“SPV” means any special purpose funding vehicle identified as such in a writing by any Lender to Agent.
“Stock” means all shares of capital stock (whether denominated as common stock or preferred stock), equity interests, beneficial, partnership or membership interests, joint venture interests, participations or other ownership or profit interests in or equivalents (regardless of how designated) of or in a Person (other than an individual), whether voting or non-voting.
“Stock Equivalents” means all securities convertible into or exchangeable for Stock or any other Stock Equivalent and all warrants, options or other rights to purchase, subscribe for or otherwise acquire any Stock or any other Stock Equivalent, whether or not presently convertible, exchangeable or exercisable.
“Subordinated Indebtedness” means Indebtedness of any Credit Party or any Subsidiary of any Credit Party which is subordinated to the Obligations as to right and time of payment and as to other rights and remedies thereunder and having such other terms as are, in each case, reasonably satisfactory to Agent; provided, that, for purposes of this Agreement, “Subordinated Indebtedness, shall not include the loans made under the Second Lien Term Loan Credit Agreement.
“Subsidiary” of a Person means any corporation, association, limited liability company, partnership, joint venture or other business entity of which more than fifty percent (50%) of the voting Stock, is owned or controlled directly or indirectly by the Person, or one or more of the Subsidiaries of the Person, or a combination thereof.
“Swing Loan” has the meaning specified in clause (i) of subsection 1.1(d).
“Swingline Commitment” means $5,000,000.
“Swingline Lender” means, each in its capacity as Swingline Lender hereunder, GE Capital or, upon the resignation of GE Capital as Agent hereunder, any Lender (or Affiliate or Approved Fund of any Lender) that agrees, with the approval of Agent (or, if there is no such successor Agent, the Required Lenders) and the Borrower, to act as the Swingline Lender hereunder.
“Swingline Note” means a promissory note of the Borrower payable to the Swingline Lender, in substantially the form of Exhibit 11.1(e) hereto, evidencing the Indebtedness of the Borrower to the Swingline Lender resulting from the Swing Loans made to the Borrower by the Swingline Lender.
“Swingline Request” has the meaning specified in clause (ii) of subsection 1.1(d).
“Target” means any other Person or business unit or asset group of any other Person acquired or proposed to be acquired in an Acquisition.
“Tax Affiliate” means, (a) the Borrower and its Subsidiaries and (b) any Affiliate of the Borrower with which the Borrower files or is required to file tax returns on a consolidated, combined, unitary or similar group basis.
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“Term Loan Commitment” means, as to any Lender, the term loan commitment amount for such Lender on file with Agent. Unless the context shall otherwise require, the term “Term Loan Commitments” shall include the Incremental Term Loan Commitments.
“Term Loan Maturity Date” means October 4, 2016.
“Term Note” means a promissory note of the Borrower payable to a Lender, in substantially the form of Exhibit 11.1(f) hereto, evidencing the Indebtedness of the Borrower to such Lender resulting from the Term Loan made to the Borrower by such Lender or its predecessor(s).
“Third Party Payor” means any Governmental Payor, Blue Cross and/or Blue Shield, private insurers, managed care plans, and any other person or entity which presently or in the future maintains Third Party Payor Programs.
“Third Party Payor Programs” means all payment or reimbursement programs, sponsored or maintained by any Third Party Payor, in which any Group Member participates.
“Third Party Payor Authorizations” means all participation agreements, provider or supplier agreements, enrollments, accreditations and billing numbers necessary to participate in and receive reimbursement from a Third Party Payor Program, including all Medicare and Medicaid participation agreements.
“Title IV Plan” means a pension plan subject to Title IV of ERISA, other than a Multiemployer Plan, to which any ERISA Affiliate incurs or otherwise has any obligation or liability, contingent or otherwise.
“Trade Secrets” means all right, title and interest (and all related IP Ancillary Rights) arising under any Requirement of Law in or relating to trade secrets.
“Trademark” means all rights, title and interests (and all related IP Ancillary Rights) arising under any Requirement of Law in or relating to trademarks, trade names, corporate names, company names, business names, fictitious business names, trade styles, service marks, logos and other source or business identifiers and, in each case, all goodwill associated therewith, all registrations and recordations thereof and all applications in connection therewith.
“TRICARE” means, collectively, a program of medical benefits covering former and active members of the uniformed services and certain of their dependents, financed and administered by the United States Departments of Defense, Health and Human Services and Transportation, and all laws applicable to such programs.
“UCC” means the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect from time to time in the State of New York.
“United States” and “U.S.” each mean the United States of America.
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“U.S. Lender Party” means each of Agent, each Lender, each L/C Issuer, each SPV and each participant, in each case that is a United States person as defined in Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code.
“Wholly-Owned Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary in which (other than directors’ qualifying shares required by law) one hundred percent (100%) of the Stock and Stock Equivalents, at the time as of which any determination is being made, is owned, beneficially and of record, by any Credit Party, or by one or more of the other Wholly-Owned Subsidiaries, or both.
11.2 Other Interpretive Provisions.
(a) Defined Terms. Unless otherwise specified herein or therein, all terms defined in this Agreement or in any other Loan Document shall have the defined meanings when used in any certificate or other document made or delivered pursuant hereto. The meanings of defined terms shall be equally applicable to the singular and plural forms of the defined terms. Terms (including uncapitalized terms) not otherwise defined herein and that are defined in the UCC shall have the meanings therein described.
(b) The Agreement. The words “hereof”, “herein”, “hereunder” and words of similar import when used in this Agreement or any other Loan Document shall refer to this Agreement or such other Loan Document as a whole and not to any particular provision of this Agreement or such other Loan Document; and subsection, section, schedule and exhibit references are to this Agreement or such other Loan Documents unless otherwise specified.
(c) Certain Common Terms. The term “documents” includes any and all instruments, documents, agreements, certificates, indentures, notices and other writings, however evidenced. The term “including” is not limiting and means “including without limitation.”
(d) Performance; Time. Whenever any performance obligation hereunder or under any other Loan Document (other than a payment obligation) shall be stated to be due or required to be satisfied on a day other than a Business Day, such performance shall be made or satisfied on the next succeeding Business Day. In the computation of periods of time from a specified date to a later specified date, the word “from” means “from and including”; the words “to” and “until” each mean “to but excluding”, and the word “through” means “to and including.” If any provision of this Agreement or any other Loan Document refers to any action taken or to be taken by any Person, or which such Person is prohibited from taking, such provision shall be interpreted to encompass any and all means, direct or indirect, of taking, or not taking, such action.
(e) Contracts. Unless otherwise expressly provided herein or in any other Loan Document, references to agreements and other contractual instruments, including this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, shall be deemed to include all subsequent amendments, thereto, restatements and substitutions thereof and other modifications and supplements thereto which are in effect from time to time, but only to the extent such amendments and other modifications are not prohibited by the terms of any Loan Document.
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(f) Laws. References to any statute or regulation are to be construed as including all statutory and regulatory provisions related thereto or consolidating, amending, replacing, supplementing or interpreting the statute or regulation.
(g) Knowledge. When used herein, the phrase “to the knowledge of”, when applied to the Borrower or any other Credit Party or Group Member shall mean the actual knowledge of any Responsible Officer thereof or knowledge that such officer should have in the carrying out of his or her duties with ordinary care.
11.3 Accounting Terms and Principles. All accounting determinations required to be made pursuant hereto shall, unless expressly otherwise provided herein, be made in accordance with GAAP. If at any time, any change in GAAP would affect the computation of any financial ratio, covenant or other requirement in any Loan Documents, and either the Borrower or the Required Lenders so shall request, the Agent, the Lenders and the Borrower shall negotiate in good faith to amend such ratio or requirement to preserve the original intent thereof in light of such change in GAAP provided that, until so amended, such ratio, covenant or other requirement shall continue to be computed in accordance with GAAP prior to such change therein and Compliance Certificates and similar documents provided hereunder shall be provided together with a reconciliation between the calculations and amounts set forth therein before and after giving effect to such change in GAAP. Notwithstanding any other provision contained herein, all terms of an accounting or financial nature used herein shall be construed, and all computations of amounts and ratios referred to in Article V and Article VI shall be made, without giving effect to any election under Accounting Standards Codification 825-10 (or any other Financial Accounting Standard having a similar result or effect) to value any Indebtedness or other liabilities of any Credit Party or any Subsidiary of any Credit Party at “fair value.” A breach of a financial covenant contained in Article VI shall be deemed to have occurred as of any date of determination by Agent or as of the last day of any specified measurement period, regardless of when the financial statements reflecting such breach are delivered to Agent.
11.4 Payments. Agent may set up standards and procedures to determine or redetermine the equivalent in Dollars of any amount expressed in any currency other than Dollars and otherwise may, but shall not be obligated to, rely on any determination made by any Credit Party or any L/C Issuer. Any such determination or redetermination by Agent shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error. No determination or redetermination by any Secured Party or any Credit Party and no other currency conversion shall change or release any obligation of any Credit Party or of any Secured Party (other than Agent and its Related Persons) under any Loan Document, each of which agrees to pay separately for any shortfall remaining after any conversion and payment of the amount as converted. Agent may round up or down, and may set up appropriate mechanisms to round up or down, any amount hereunder to nearest higher or lower amounts and may determine reasonable de minimis payment thresholds.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be duly executed and delivered by their duly authorized officers as of the day and year first above written.
BORROWER:
METROPOLITAN HEALTH NETWORKS, INC. | ||
By: | /S/ XXXXXXX X. XXXXXXXXXX | |
Name: Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxxx | ||
Title: Secretary |
FEIN: | 00-0000000 |
Address for notices:
000 Xxxxxx Xxxx, Xxxxx 000 Xxxx Xxxxx, XX 00000 | ||
Attn: | CFO |
Facsimile: | (000) 000-0000 | |
Address for wire transfers: | ||
CREDIT AGREEMENT
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be duly executed and delivered by their duly authorized officers as of the day and year first above written.
CAB MERGER SUB, INC., as a Credit Party | ||
By: | /S/ XXXXXXX X. XXXXXXXXXX | |
Name: Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxxx | ||
Title: Secretary |
FEIN: | N/A |
METCARE OF FLORIDA, INC., as a Credit Party | ||
By: | /S/ XXXXXXX X. XXXXXXXXXX | |
Name: Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxxx | ||
Title: Secretary |
FEIN: | 00-0000000 |
CONTINUCARE CORPORATION, as a Credit Party | ||
By: | /S/ XXXXXXX X. XXXXXXXXXX | |
Name: Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxxx | ||
Title: Secretary |
FEIN: | 00-0000000 |
CONTINUCARE MSO, INC., as a Credit Party | ||
By: | /S/ XXXXXXX X. XXXXXXXXXX | |
Name: Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxxx | ||
Title: Secretary |
FEIN: | 00-0000000 |
CREDIT AGREEMENT
CONTINUCARE MDHC, LLC, as a Credit Party | ||
By: | /S/ XXXXXXX X. XXXXXXXXXX | |
Name: Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxxx | ||
Title: Secretary |
FEIN: | 00-0000000 |
CONTINUCARE MEDICAL MANAGEMENT, INC., as a Credit Party | ||
By: | /S/ XXXXXXX X. XXXXXXXXXX | |
Name: Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxxx | ||
Title: Secretary |
FEIN: | 00-0000000 |
SUNSET HARBOR HOME HEALTH, INC., as a Credit Party | ||
By: | /S/ XXXXXXX X. XXXXXXXXXX | |
Name: Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxxx | ||
Title: Secretary |
FEIN: | 00-0000000 |
CONTINUCARE PAYMENT CORP., as a Credit Party | ||
By: | /S/ XXXXXXX X. XXXXXXXXXX | |
Name: Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxxx | ||
Title: Secretary |
FEIN: | 00-0000000 |
CREDIT AGREEMENT
CONTINUCARE MANAGED CARE, INC., as a Credit Party | ||
By: | /S/ XXXXXXX X. XXXXXXXXXX | |
Name: Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxxx | ||
Title: Secretary |
FEIN: | 00-0000000 |
CONTINUCARE PHYSICIAN PRACTICE MANAGEMENT, INC., as a Credit Party | ||
By: | /S/ XXXXXXX X. XXXXXXXXXX | |
Name: Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxxx | ||
Title: Secretary |
FEIN: | 00-0000000 |
CNU BLUE 2, LLC, as a Credit Party | ||
By: | /S/ XXXXXXX X. XXXXXXXXXX | |
Name: Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxxx | ||
Title: Secretary |
CONTINUCARE CLINICS, INC., as a Credit Party | ||
By: | /S/ XXXXXXX X. XXXXXXXXXX | |
Name: Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxxx | ||
Title: Secretary |
FEIN: | 00-0000000 |
CREDIT AGREEMENT
SEREDOR CORPORATION, as a Credit Party | ||
By: | /S/ XXXXXXX X. XXXXXXXXXX | |
Name: Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxxx | ||
Title: Secretary |
FEIN: | 00-0000000 |
SEREDOR CENTERS, INC., as a Credit Party | ||
By: | /S/ XXXXXXX X. XXXXXXXXXX | |
Name: Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxxx | ||
Title: Secretary |
FEIN: | 00-0000000 |
DIGITAL COURIER, LLC, as a Credit Party | ||
By: | /S/ XXXXXXX X. XXXXXXXXXX | |
Name: Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxxx | ||
Title: Secretary |
FEIN: | 00-0000000 |
PRECISION DIAGNOSTIC SERVICES, INC., as a Credit Party | ||
By: | /S/ XXXXXXX X. XXXXXXXXXX | |
Name: Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxxx | ||
Title: Secretary |
FEIN: | 00-0000000 |
CREDIT AGREEMENT
SLEEPEASY THERAPEUTICS, INC., as a Credit Party | ||
By: | /S/ XXXXXXX X. XXXXXXXXXX | |
Name: Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxxx | ||
Title: Secretary |
FEIN: | 00-0000000 |
PROFESSIONAL SLEEP DIAGNOSTICS, INC., as a Credit Party | ||
By: | /S/ XXXXXXX X. XXXXXXXXXX | |
Name: Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxxx | ||
Title: Secretary |
FEIN: | 00-0000000 |
UNITED SLEEP DIAGNOSTICS, INC., as a Credit Party | ||
By: | /S/ XXXXXXX X. XXXXXXXXXX | |
Name: Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxxx | ||
Title: Secretary |
FEIN: | 00-0000000 |
AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR SLEEP PERFORMANCE, INC., as a Credit Party | ||
By: | /S/ XXXXXXX X. XXXXXXXXXX | |
Name: Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxxx | ||
Title: Secretary |
FEIN: | 00-0000000 |
CREDIT AGREEMENT
BRIGHTON CENTER FOR SLEEP DISORDERS, LLC, as a Credit Party | ||
By: | /S/ XXXXXXX X. XXXXXXXXXX | |
Name: Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxxx | ||
Title: Secretary |
FEIN: | 00-0000000 |
ROCK HILL SLEEP CENTER, LLC, as a Credit Party | ||
By: | /S/ XXXXXXX X. XXXXXXXXXX | |
Name: Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxxx | ||
Title: Secretary |
FEIN: | 00-0000000 | |
Address for notices for each Credit Party listed above:
c/o Metropolitan Health Networks, Inc. 000 Xxxxxx Xxxx, Xxxxx 000 Xxxx Xxxxx, XX 00000 | ||
Attn: | CFO |
Facsimile: | (000) 000-0000 |
CREDIT AGREEMENT
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be duly executed and delivered by their duly authorized officers as of the day and year first above written.
GENERAL ELECTRIC CAPITAL CORPORATION, as Agent, Swingline Lender and as a Lender | ||||
By: | /S/ XXXXX XXXXXXXX | |||
Name: | Xxxxx Xxxxxxxx | |||
Title: | Its Duly Authorized Signatory | |||
Address for Notices:
General Electric Capital Corporation 000 Xxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx, XX 00000 Attn: Metropolitan Health Networks Account Officer Facsimile: (000) 000-0000
With a copy to:
General Electric Capital Corporation 0 Xxxxxxxx Xxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 000 Xxxxxxxx, XX 00000 Attn: Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx Facsimile: (000) 000-0000 |
Address for payments: |
CREDIT AGREEMENT
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be duly executed and delivered by their duly authorized officers as of the day and year first above written.
GE CAPITAL FINANCIAL INC., as a Lender | ||
By: | /S/ XXXXXXX XXXXXX | |
Name: Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx | ||
Title: Its Duly Authorized Signatory | ||
Address for notices: GE Capital Financial Inc. c/o General Electric Capital Corporation 000 Xxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx, XX 00000 Attn: Metropolitan Health Networks Account Officer Facsimile: (000) 000-0000
With a copy to: GE Capital Financial Inc. 0000 Xxxxxxxx Xxxxx Xxxxx 000 Xxxx Xxxx Xxxx, Xxxx 00000 Attn: Chief Financial Officer
Lending office: GE Capital Financial Inc. c/o General Electric Capital Corporation 000 Xxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx, XX 00000 Attn: Metropolitan Health Networks Account Officer Facsimile: (000) 000-0000
With a copy to: GE Capital Financial Inc. 0000 Xxxxxxxx Xxxxx Xxxxx 000 Xxxx Xxxx Xxxx, Xxxx 00000 Attn: Chief Financial Officer |
CREDIT AGREEMENT
SunTrust Bank, as Syndication Agent and as a Lender | ||
By: | /S/ XXXXX XXXXX | |
Name: Xxxxx Xxxxx | ||
Title: Managing Director | ||
Address for notices:
SunTrust Bank 000 Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx XX Xxxxxxx, XX 00000
Lending office:
SunTrust Bank 000 Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx XX Xxxxxxx, XX 00000 |
CREDIT AGREEMENT
RBS Citizens, N.A. as a Lender | ||
By: | /S/ XXXXXX XXXXXXXXX | |
Name: Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx | ||
Title: Senior Vice President | ||
Address for notices:
00 Xxxxx Xxxxxx, 00xx Xxxxx Xxxxxx, XX 00000
Lending office:
00 Xxxxx Xxxxxx, 00xx Xxxxx Xxxxxx, XX 00000 |
CREDIT AGREEMENT
FIFTH THIRD BANK, as a Lender | ||
By: | /S/ XXXXXXXX X. XXXXXX | |
Name: Xxxxxxxx X. Xxxxxx | ||
Title: Vice President | ||
Address for notices:
0000 Xxxxxxxx Xxxxx Xxxxxxxxxx, XX 00000 Attn: Xxxxxxxx Xxxx
Lending office:
000 Xxxxxx Xxxxxx — 0xx Xxxxx Xxxxxxxxx, XX 00000 Attn: Xxxxxxxx X. Xxxxxx |
CREDIT AGREEMENT
Citizens Bank as a Lender | ||
By: | /S/ XXXXXXX X. XXXXXXXX | |
Name: Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxx | ||
Title: Senior Vice President | ||
Address for notices:
00000 Xxxxx Xxxxx Xxxxx 000 Xxxx, XX 00000
Lending office:
Same |
CREDIT AGREEMENT
Union Bank, N.A., as a Lender | ||
By: | /S/ XXXX X. XXXXXX | |
Name: Xxxx X. Xxxxxx | ||
Title: Senior Vice President | ||
Address for notices:
Union Bank, NA 000 X. Xxxxxxxx Xx. Mailcode X00-000 Xxx Xxxxxxx, XX 00000
Lending office:
Union Bank, NA 000 X. Xxxxxxxx Xx. Mailcode X00-000 Xxx Xxxxxxx, XX 00000 |
CREDIT AGREEMENT
XXXXXXX BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as a Lender | ||
By: | /S/ XXXX XXXX | |
Name: Xxxx Xxxx | ||
Title: Vice President | ||
Address for notices:
0000 0xx Xxxxxx Xxxxx Xx. Xxxxx XX 00000
Lending office:
Xxxxxxx Bank National Association 0000 0xx Xxxxxx Xxxxx Xx. Xxxxx XX 00000 |
CREDIT AGREEMENT
MERCANTIL COMMERCEBANK, N.A., as a Lender | ||
By: | /S/ XXXX HILLS | |
Name: Xxxx Hills | ||
Title: Senior Vice President | ||
Address for notices:
Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx 000 Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, 0xx Xxxxx Xxxxx Xxxxxx, XX 00000
Lending office:
SAME AS ABOVE |
CREDIT AGREEMENT