DEBTOR-IN-POSSESSION CREDIT AGREEMENT
DEBTOR-IN-POSSESSION
CREDIT AGREEMENT
dated as
of December 30, 2008
by and
among
ETOYS
DIRECT 1, LLC,
THE
PARENT COMPANY,
BABYUNIVERSE,
INC.,
ETOYS
DIRECT, INC.,
POSHTOTS,
INC.,
DREAMTIME
BABY, INC.,
MYTWINN,
INC.,
ETOYS
DIRECT 2, LLC,
ETOYS
DIRECT 3, LLC,
GIFT
ACQUISITION, L.L.C.,
as
Borrowers,
D.
E. SHAW LAMINAR LENDING 3 (C), L.L.C.,
as
Agent,
D.
E. SHAW LAMINAR PORTFOLIOS, L.L.C.,
as a
Lender,
and
THE
OTHER LENDERS PARTY HERETO
$10,900,000
Senior Secured Revolving Credit Facility
TABLE
OF CONTENTS
Section
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Page
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ARTICLE
I. DEFINITIONS AND ACCOUNTING TERMS
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3
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1.01
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Defined
Terms
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3
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1.02
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Other
Interpretive Provisions
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19
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1.03
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Accounting
Terms
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20
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1.04
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References
to Agreements and Laws
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20
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1.05
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Times
of Day
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20
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ARTICLE
II. SECURITY AND ADMINISTRATIVE PRIORITY
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21
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2.01
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Collateral;
Grant of Lien and Security Interest
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21
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2.02
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Administrative
Priority
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22
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2.03
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Grants,
Rights and Remedies
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22
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2.04
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No
Filings Required
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22
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2.05
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Survival
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22
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2.06
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Further
Assurances
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23
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ARTICLE
III. CLOSING
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23
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3.01
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Closing
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23
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ARTICLE
IV. TERMS OF LOANS
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23
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4.01
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Loans
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23
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4.02
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Borrowings
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24
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4.03
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Repayment
of Principal
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24
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4.04
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Payments
of Interest
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25
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4.05
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Mandatory
Prepayments
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26
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4.06
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[Reserved]
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26
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4.07
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Application
of Payments
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26
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4.08
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Direct
Payment
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27
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4.09
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Taxes
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27
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4.10
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Fees
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28
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4.11
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Termination
or Reduction of Aggregate Revolving Commitments
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28
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ARTICLE
V. CONDITIONS PRECEDENT TO CLOSING
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28
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5.01
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Conditions
To Closing
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28
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5.02
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Conditions
To All Loans
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32
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ARTICLE
VI. REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
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34
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6.01
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Organization;
Powers
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34
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6.02
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Authorization;
Enforceability
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34
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6.03
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Governmental
Approvals; No Conflicts
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34
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6.04
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Financial
Condition
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34
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6.05
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Intellectual
Property; Websites
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35
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6.06
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Litigation
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35
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6.07
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Compliance
with Laws
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36
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6.08
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Investment
and Holding Company Status
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36
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6.09
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Taxes
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36
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6.10
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ERISA
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36
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6.11
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Disclosure
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37
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6.12
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Material
Agreements
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37
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6.13
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Capitalization
and Subsidiaries
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37
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6.14
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Mutual
Benefit
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38
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6.15
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Security
Interest in Collateral
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38
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6.16
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Labor
Matters
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38
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6.17
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Affiliate
Transactions
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38
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6.18
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Title;
Real Property
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39
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6.19
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Environment
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39
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6.20
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Insurance
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40
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6.21
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Deposit
Accounts
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40
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6.22
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[Reserved]
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40
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6.23
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Processors
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40
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6.24
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Patriot
Act
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40
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6.25
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Use
of Proceeds
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41
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6.26
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Nature
of Business
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41
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6.27
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Internal
Accounting Controls.
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41
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6.28
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[Reserved]
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42
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6.29
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Agreed
Budget
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42
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6.30
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Financing
Orders
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42
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ARTICLE
VII. AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS
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42
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7.01
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Financial
Statements and Other Information
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42
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7.02
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Notices
of Material Events
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44
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7.03
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Existence;
Conduct of Business
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45
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7.04
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Payment
of Obligations
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45
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7.05
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Maintenance
of Properties and Intellectual Property Rights
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46
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7.06
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Books
and Records; Inspection Rights
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46
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7.07
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Compliance
with Laws
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46
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7.08
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Use
of Proceeds
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46
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7.09
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Insurance
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47
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7.10
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Appraisals
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47
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7.11
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Additional
Collateral; Further Assurances
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47
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7.12
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Cash
Management; Deposit Accounts
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48
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7.13
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Processors
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49
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7.14
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Environmental
Matters
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49
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7.15
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Maintenance
of Websites and Domain Names
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50
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7.16
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Compliance
with Interim Order and Final Order
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50
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7.17
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Professional
Advisors
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51
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7.18
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Sale
Milestones
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51
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7.19
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Funding
of Professional Expenses Reserve
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51
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ARTICLE
VIII. NEGATIVE AND FINANCIAL COVENANTS
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51
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8.01
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Indebtedness
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51
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8.02
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Liens
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51
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8.03
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Fundamental
Changes; Asset Sales
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51
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8.04
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Investments,
Loans, Advances, Guarantees and Acquisitions
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52
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8.05
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Swap
Agreements
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52
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8.06
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Restricted
Payments
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52
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8.07
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Transactions
with Affiliates
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53
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8.08
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Restrictive
Agreements
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53
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8.09
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Amendment
of Material Documents
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53
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8.10
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Prepayment
of Indebtedness
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53
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8.11
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Capital
Expenditures
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53
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8.12
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Sale
Leasebacks
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54
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8.13
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Change
of Corporate Name or Location; Change of Fiscal Year
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54
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8.14
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Billing,
Credit and Collection Policies; Change in Nature of
Business
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54
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8.15
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Equity
Issuances
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54
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8.16
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Hazardous
Materials
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54
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8.17
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[Reserved]
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54
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8.18
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Compliance
with Agreed Budget; Variances; Receipts
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55
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8.19
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Chapter
11 Claims
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55
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8.20
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Revision
of Orders; Applications to Bankruptcy Court
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55
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8.21
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Use
of Proceeds
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55
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8.22
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Use
of Cash Collateral
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55
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ARTICLE
IX. EVENTS OF DEFAULT AND REMEDIES
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56
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9.01
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Events
of Default
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56
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9.02
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Remedies
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60
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9.03
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Rescission
of Acceleration
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61
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ARTICLE
X. MISCELLANEOUS
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61
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10.01
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Entire
Agreement
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61
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10.02
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Reimbursement
of Expenses
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62
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10.03
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Survival
of Agreements and Representations and Warranties
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62
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10.04
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No
Waiver
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62
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10.05
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Binding
Effect; Participations
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63
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10.06
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[Reserved]
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63
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10.07
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Cumulative
Powers
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63
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10.08
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[Reserved]
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63
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10.09
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Communications
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63
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10.10
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Notices,
Etc
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63
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10.11
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Transfer
of Revolving Commitment and Loans
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64
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10.12
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Confidentiality;
Public Announcements
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66
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10.13
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Governing
Law
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66
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10.14
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Headings
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67
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10.15
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Multiple
Originals
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67
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10.16
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Amendment
or Waiver
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67
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10.17
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Waiver
of Jury Trial
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67
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10.18
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Consent
to Jurisdiction
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68
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10.19
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Indemnification;
Damage Waiver
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68
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10.20
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Regulatory
Requirements
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69
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10.21
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Patriot
Act Notice
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70
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10.22
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Intercompany
Indebtedness
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70
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ARTICLE
XI. AGENCY PROVISIONS
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71
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11.01
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Appointment
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71
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11.02
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Delegation
of Duties
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71
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11.03
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Exculpatory
Provisions
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71
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11.04
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Reliance
by Agent
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71
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11.05
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Notices
of Default
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72
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11.06
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Non-Reliance
on the Agent and Other Lenders
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72
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11.07
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Indemnification
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72
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11.08
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The
Agent in Its Individual Capacity
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73
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11.09
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Resignation
of the Agent; Successor Agent
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73
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11.10
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Reimbursement
by Lenders
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73
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11.11
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Agent
May File Proofs of Claim
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74
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11.12
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Collateral
and Guaranty Matters
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74
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EXHIBITS
AND SCHEDULES
SCHEDULES
3.01
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Revolving
Commitments
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5.01
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Capital
and Ownership Structure; Equity Holder Arrangements
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6.05(a)
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Intellectual
Property
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6.05(b)
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Websites
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6.09
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Taxes
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6.12
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Material
Agreements
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6.16
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Labor
Matters
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6.18
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Real
Property
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6.19
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Environmental
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6.21
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Deposit
Accounts
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6.23
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Processors
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8.01
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Indebtedness
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8.02
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Liens
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8.04
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Investments
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8.08
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Restrictive
Agreements
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EXHIBITS
A
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Form
of Assignment and Acceptance
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B
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Form
of Agreed Budget Compliance Certificate
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C
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Form
of Loan Notice
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D
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Form
of Secretary’s Certificate
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E
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Form
of Officer’s Closing Certificate
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F
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Form
of Agreed Budget
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G
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Form
of Interim DIP Financing Order
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H
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Form
of Final DIP Financing Order
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DEBTOR-IN-POSSESSION CREDIT
AGREEMENT
THIS
DEBTOR-IN-POSSESSION CREDIT AGREEMENT (as amended, restated, supplemented or
otherwise modified from time to time, this “Agreement”) is made
and entered into as of December 30, 2008, among ETOYS DIRECT 1, LLC, a
Delaware limited liability company (“eToys 1”), THE PARENT
COMPANY, a Colorado corporation (“Parent”), ETOYS
DIRECT, INC., a Colorado corporation (“eToys Direct”),
BABYUNIVERSE, INC., a Colorado corporation (“BabyUniverse”),
POSHTOTS, INC., a Colorado corporation (“PoshTots”), DREAMTIME
BABY, INC., a Colorado corporation (“Dreamtime”), MY
TWINN, INC., a Colorado corporation (“My Twinn”), ETOYS
DIRECT 2, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“eToys 2”), ETOYS
DIRECT 3, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“eToys 3”), GIFT
ACQUISITION, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company (“Gift”, and
collectively with Parent, eToys 1, eToys Direct, BabyUniverse, PoshTots,
Dreamtime, My Twinn, eToys 2, and eToys 3, the “Borrowers”), D. E.
SHAW LAMINAR LENDING 3 (C), L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company (“D. E. Shaw”), in its
capacity as administrative agent and as collateral agent in the manner and to
the extent described in Article XI hereof (in
such capacities, the “Agent”), D. E. SHAW
LAMINAR PORTFOLIOS, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company, together with
the financial institutions identified as Lenders on the signature pages hereto,
and the other lenders from time to time party hereto (collectively, the “Lenders” and each
individually, a “Lender”).
PRELIMINARY
STATEMENTS
1. Borrowers
are parties to that certain Amended and Restated Credit Agreement dated as of
October 12, 2007 (as modified by that certain letter agreement dated as of
December 14, 2007, as amended by that certain First Amendment to Amended and
Restated Credit Agreement and Waiver dated as of January 8, 2008, as amended by
that certain Second Amendment to Amended and Restated Credit Agreement dated as
of February 1, 2008, as amended by that certain Third Amendment to Amended and
Restated Credit Agreement dated as of March 10, 2008, as amended by that certain
Fourth Amendment to Amended and Restated Credit Agreement dated as of July 10,
2008, as amended by that certain Fifth Amendment to Credit Agreement dated as of
October 31, 2008, as modified by that certain Assignment and Acceptance
Agreement referenced below and as further amended and modified from time to
time, the “Pre-Petition Senior Credit
Agreement”) among the Borrowers, The CIT Group/Business Credit, Inc., as
administrative agent and collateral agent (in such capacity, the “Pre-Petition Senior
Agent”) and the lenders from time to time party thereto (collectively,
the “Pre-Petition
Senior Lenders”). Pursuant to the Pre-Petition Senior Credit
Agreement, the Pre-Petition Senior Lenders originally agreed, upon certain terms
and conditions, to make revolving loans to Borrowers in a total amount, subject
to a borrowing base, of up to $25,000,000. The outstanding balance
under the Pre-Petition Senior Credit Agreement plus all related indebtedness and
obligations arising thereunder shall be referred to as the “Pre-Petition Senior
Obligations.” Pursuant to that certain Assignment and
Acceptance Agreement dated as of December 12, 2008, D. E. Shaw assumed the roles
of “Administrative Agent” and “Collateral Agent” under the Pre-Petition Senior
Credit Agreement and D.E. Shaw Laminar Portfolios, L.L.C. purchased the
outstanding Indebtedness owed to the Pre-Petition Senior Lenders under the
Pre-Petition Senior Credit Agreement.
2. The
Borrowers are parties to that certain Investment Agreement dated as of July 10,
2008 (as amended or modified from time to time, the “Pre-Petition Investment
Agreement”; together with the Pre-Petition Senior Credit Agreement, the
“Pre-Petition Loan
Agreements”) among the Borrowers, Laminar Direct Capital, L.L.C., a
Delaware limited liability company, as lender and collateral agent (in such
capacity, the “Pre-Petition Second Lien
Agent”; together with the Pre-Petition Senior Agent, the “Pre-Petition Agents”)
and the other lenders from time to time party thereto (collectively, the “Pre-Petition Second Lien
Lenders”; together with the Pre-Petition Senior Lenders, the “Pre-Petition
Lenders”). Pursuant to the Pre-Petition Investment Agreement,
the Pre-Petition Second Lien Lenders made term loans to the Borrowers in an
initial principal amount of $10,000,000. The outstanding balance
under the Pre-Petition Investment Agreement plus all related indebtedness and
obligations arising thereunder shall be referred to as the “Pre-Petition Second Lien
Obligations.”
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3. Pursuant
to the terms of the Pre-Petition Senior Credit Agreement, the Borrowers executed
and delivered certain collateral documents, including without limitation a
security agreement, control agreements, website consent agreements, processor
control agreements and related instruments, granting to the Pre-Petition Senior
Agent, for the ratable benefit of the Pre-Petition Senior Lenders, first
priority liens on and security interests in certain of the Borrowers’ real and
personal property as collateral security for the Pre-Petition Senior
Obligations.
4. Pursuant
to the terms of the Pre-Petition Investment Agreement, the Borrowers executed
and delivered certain collateral documents, including without limitation a
pledge and security agreement, intellectual property security agreements,
processor control agreements and related instruments, granting to the
Pre-Petition Second Lien Agent, for the ratable benefit of the Pre-Petition
Second Lien Lenders, second priority liens on and security interests in certain
of the Borrowers’ real and personal property as collateral security for the
Pre-Petition Second Lien Obligations.
5. Pursuant
to the terms of each Pre-Petition Loan Agreement, each Pre-Petition Agent, on
behalf of their respective Pre-Petition Lenders, and the Borrowers entered into
that certain Subordination and Intercreditor Agreement dated as of July 10, 2008
(the “Intercreditor
Agreement”).
6. On
December 28, 2008 (the “Filing Date”), the
Borrowers filed petitions under chapter 11 (the “Reorganization
Cases”) of the Bankruptcy Code in the United States Bankruptcy Court for
the District of Delaware (the “Bankruptcy
Court”).
7. The
Borrowers continue to operate their businesses pursuant to Sections 1107 and
1108 of the Bankruptcy Code. The Borrowers have an immediate need for
funds to continue to operate their businesses. The Borrowers have
been unable to obtain sufficient unsecured credit or to incur sufficient
unsecured debt from any other source sufficient to continue their business
operations.
8. The
Borrowers have requested that the Lenders extend credit to the Borrowers through
a post-petition revolving credit facility in an aggregate principal amount of up
to $10,900,000 subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein for the
purposes of (i) refinancing the Pre-Petition Senior Obligations in full, (ii)
paying fees and expenses related to this transaction, and (iii) providing funds
necessary for the Borrowers to continue to operate their businesses in
accordance with the Agreed Budget.
9. The
Borrowers have agreed to secure their obligations hereunder with first priority
liens on and security interests in all of their respective real, personal and
intangible property as set forth in this Agreement, the Interim DIP Financing
Order and the Final DIP Financing Order and in accordance with sections
364(c)(2), 364(c)(3) and 364(d)(1) of the Bankruptcy Code, subject, as to
priority, only to the Carve-Out Expenses and the Agreed Senior
Liens. Pursuant to section 364(c)(1) of the Bankruptcy Code, the
Borrowers agree and acknowledge that their joint and several obligations arising
hereunder shall constitute allowed administrative expense claims in the
Reorganization Cases, having priority over all expenses of the kind specified in
sections 105, 326, 328, 330, 331, 364(c), 503(b), 506(c), 507(a), 507(b),
546(c), 726, 1113 and 1114 of the Bankruptcy Code, except the Carve-Out
Expenses and the Super-Priority Claim of the Pre-Petition Senior
Agent.
10. The
Lenders severally, and not jointly, have indicated their willingness to agree to
lend such amounts pursuant to sections 364(c) and 364(d)(1) of the Bankruptcy
Code on the terms and conditions of this Agreement.
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AGREEMENT
In
consideration of the mutual covenants and agreements herein contained, the
parties hereto covenant and agree as follows:
ARTICLE I.
DEFINITIONS
AND ACCOUNTING TERMS
1.01 Defined
Terms.
As used
in this Agreement, the following terms shall have the meanings set forth
below:
“Account” means, with
respect to any Person, any and all rights of such Person to payment for goods
sold and/or services rendered, including accounts, general intangibles and any
and all such rights evidenced by chattel paper, instruments or documents,
whether due or to become due and whether or not earned by performance, and
whether now or hereafter acquired or arising in the future, and any proceeds
arising therefrom or relating thereto.
“Account Debtor” means
any Person obligated on an Account.
“Administrative
Borrower” means the Parent.
“Affiliate” means,
with respect to any Person, another Person that directly or indirectly through
one or more intermediaries, Controls or is Controlled by or is under common
Control with the Person specified. “Control” means the
possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the
direction of the management or policies of a Person, whether through the ability
to exercise voting power, by contract or otherwise. “Controlling” and
“Controlled”
have meanings correlative thereto. Without limiting the generality of
the foregoing, a Person shall be deemed to be Controlled by another Person if
such other Person possesses, directly or indirectly, power to vote ten percent
(10%) or more of the securities having ordinary voting power for the election of
directors, managing general partners or the
equivalent. Notwithstanding the foregoing, neither X. X. Xxxx &
Co. nor its Affiliates (other than the Borrowers themselves) shall be deemed to
be an “Affiliate” of the Borrowers for purposes of this Agreement and the other
Loan Documents.
“Agent” has the
meaning set forth in the first paragraph of this Agreement.
“Agent’s Liens” means
the Liens in the Collateral granted to the Agent, for the benefit of the
Lenders, pursuant to this Agreement, the Loan Documents, the Interim DIP
Financing Order and the Final DIP Financing Order.
“Aggregate Revolving
Commitments” means (a) during the Interim Period, Three Million Five
Hundred Thousand Dollars ($3,500,000) and (b) after the Interim Period, Ten
Million Nine Hundred Thousand Dollars ($10,900,000), in each case as such amount
may be reduced from time to time pursuant to the terms hereof.
“Agreed Budget” means
that certain 6-week budget delivered to the Lenders on or before the Closing
Date showing detailed cash sources and uses of the Parent on a weekly basis for
such 6-week period in form and substance satisfactory to the
Lenders.
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“Agreed Budget Compliance
Certificate” means a certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit B.
“Agreed Senior Liens”
means, collectively, (a) the First Lien Replacement Liens, (b) the
Pre-Petition Senior Liens and (c) Permitted Senior Liens.
“Agreement” has the
meaning set forth in the first paragraph of this Agreement.
“Applicable Partners”
means Xxxxxx.xxx, Xxx.xxx, Xxxxx.xxx, Federated Macy’s, QVC, HSN LP and any
other recognized internet retailer approved by the Agent from time to time in
its Permitted Discretion.
“Assignment and
Acceptance” means an assignment and acceptance entered into by a Lender
and a Transferee, and accepted by the Agent, substantially in the form of Exhibit
A.
“Attorney Costs” means
and includes all reasonable fees, out of pocket expenses and disbursements of
any law firm or other external counsel.
“Audited Financial
Statements” means the audited consolidated balance sheet of the Borrowers
and their Subsidiaries for the Fiscal Year ended February 2, 2008, and the
related consolidated statements of income or operations, shareholders’ equity
and cash flows for such Fiscal Year of the Borrowers and their Subsidiaries,
including the notes thereto.
“Availability Period”
means, with respect to the Revolving Commitments, the period from the Closing
Date to the earliest of (a) the Maturity Date, (b) the date of termination of
the Revolving Commitment of each Lender to make Loans pursuant to Section 4.11, and (c)
the date of termination of the Revolving Commitment of each Lender to make Loans
pursuant to Section
9.02.
“Avoidance Actions”
means all causes of action arising under Sections 542, 544, 545, 447, 548,
549, 550, 551, 553(b) or 724(a) of the Bankruptcy Code.
“Bankruptcy Code”
means Title 11 of the United States Code (11 U.S.C. § 101 et seq.).
“Bankruptcy Court” has
the meaning set forth in the Preliminary Statements to this
Agreement.
“Blocked Account
Agreement” means an agreement among one or more of the Borrowers, the
Agent, and a Clearing Bank, in form and substance satisfactory to the Agent,
with respect to any Payment Account of any Borrower.
“Borrowers” has the
meaning set forth in the first paragraph of this Agreement.
“Borrowers’ Sale” has
the meaning set forth in Section
4.03.
“Borrowing” means any
borrowing of Loans hereunder.
“Business Day” means
any day other than a Saturday, Sunday or other day on which commercial banks are
authorized to close under the Laws of, or are in fact closed in, Denver, CO,
Houston, TX or New York, NY.
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“Capital Expenditures”
means, without duplication, any expenditure or commitment to expend money for
any purchase or other acquisition of any asset which would be classified as a
fixed or capital asset on a consolidated balance sheet of Parent and its
Subsidiaries prepared in accordance with GAAP.
“Capitalized Lease”
means, with respect to any Person, any lease of real or personal property by
such Person as lessee which is required under GAAP to be capitalized on the
balance sheet of such Person.
“Capital Stock” shall
mean (a) in the case of a corporation, capital stock, (b) in the case of an
association or business entity, any and all shares, interests, participations,
rights or other equivalents (however designated) of capital stock, (c) in the
case of a partnership, partnership interests (whether general or limited), (d)
in the case of a limited liability company, membership interests and (e) any
other equity interest or participation that confers on a Person the right to
receive a share of the profits and losses of, or distributions of assets of, the
issuing Person.
“Capitalized Lease
Obligations” means, with respect to any Person, obligations of such
Person and its Subsidiaries under Capitalized Leases, and, for purposes hereof,
the amount of such obligations shall be the capitalized amount thereof
determined in accordance with GAAP.
“Carry-Forward
Amounts” has the meaning set forth in Section
8.18(a).
“Carve-Out Expenses”
means (a) amounts payable pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1930(a)(6);
(b) Professional Expenses incurred after receipt of a Carve-Out Triggering
Notice in an aggregate amount not to exceed $25,000, and (c) in the event
of the conversion of any of the Reorganization Cases to a case under chapter 7,
any amounts permitted to be paid by the Bankruptcy Court in respect of fees and
expenses of the chapter 7 trustee and any attorneys, accountants and other
professionals retained by the chapter 7 trustee pursuant to sections 327, 328,
330 and 331 of the Bankruptcy Code in an amount not to exceed, in the aggregate,
$25,000.
“Carve-Out Triggering
Notice” means a notice delivered to counsel for the Borrowers and counsel
to any statutory committee of unsecured creditors indicating that an Event of
Default has occurred and that the Lenders have ceased or will (and do
immediately) cease making any Loans or other advances under this
Agreement.
“CERCLA” means the
United States Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability
Act (42 U.S.C. §§ 9601 et seq.).
“Chief Restructuring
Officer” means a chief restructuring officer retained by the Borrowers
who is reasonably satisfactory to the Agent and who will provide daily
leadership to the Borrowers on operational, financial and restructuring related
business matters during the pendency of the Reorganization Cases and will report
directly to the boards of directors or similar governing bodies of the
Borrowers.
“Clearing Bank” means
any banking institution with whom a Payment Account has been established and
which Payment Account is subject to a Blocked Account Agreement.
“Closing Date” has the
meaning set forth in Section 3.01.
“Code” means the
Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and any successor statute of similar
import, together with the regulations thereunder, in each case as in effect from
time to time. References to Sections of the Code shall be
construed to also refer to any successor sections.
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“Collateral” has the
meaning set forth in Section 5.01(a).
“Collateral Documents”
means the collective reference to each Deposit Account Control Agreement, each
Blocked Account Agreement, each Processor Control Agreement and each other
document and/or agreement securing the repayment of all or any portion of the
Obligations.
“Collection Account”
has the meaning set forth in Section
7.12.
“Contractual
Obligations” shall mean, with respect to any Person, any term or
provision of any securities issued by such Person, or any indenture, mortgage,
deed of trust, contract, undertaking, document, instrument or other agreement to
which such Person is a party or by which it or any of its properties is bound or
to which it or any of its properties is subject.
“Debtor Relief Laws”
means the Bankruptcy Code, and all other liquidation, conservatorship,
bankruptcy, assignment for the benefit of creditors, moratorium, rearrangement,
receivership, insolvency, reorganization, or similar debtor relief Laws of the
United States or other applicable jurisdictions from time to time in effect and
affecting the rights of creditors generally.
“Default” means any
event or condition that constitutes an Event of Default or that, with the giving
of any notice, the passage of time, or both, would be an Event of
Default.
“Default Rate” has the
meaning set forth in Section 4.04(c).
“Deposit Account”
shall have the meaning set forth in Article 9 of the UCC.
“Deposit Account Control
Agreement” means an agreement, in form and substance satisfactory to the
Agent, among any Borrower, a banking institution holding such Borrower’s funds,
and the Agent with respect to collection and control of all deposits and
balances held in a deposit account maintained by any Borrower with such
banking institution.
“Disposition” or
“Dispose” means
the sale, transfer, license, lease or other disposition (including any sale and
leaseback transaction) of any property by any Borrower, including any sale,
assignment, transfer or other disposal, with or without recourse, of any notes
or accounts receivable or any rights and claims associated
therewith.
“Dollar” and “$” mean lawful money
of the United States.
“Domain Names” means
all domain names owned by or assigned to the Borrowers and all exclusive and
nonexclusive licenses to the Borrowers from third parties or rights to use
domain names owned by such third parties, including, without limitation, the
registrations, applications and licenses listed on Schedule 6.05(b)
hereto, along with any and all (a) renewals and extensions thereof, (b) income,
royalties, damages, claims and payments now and hereafter due and/or payable
under and with respect thereto, including, without limitation, damages and
payments for past or future infringements thereof, (c) rights to xxx for past,
present and future infringements thereof, and (d) any other rights corresponding
thereto throughout the world.
“Domestic Subsidiary”
means any Subsidiary that is organized under the laws of any political
subdivision of the United States.
“Eligible Assignee”
has the meaning set forth in Section 10.10.
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“Environmental Laws”
means all laws, rules, regulations, codes, ordinances, orders, decrees,
judgments, injunctions, or binding agreements issued, promulgated or entered
into by any Governmental Authority, relating in any way to the pollution or
protection of the environment or the preservation or reclamation of natural
resources, including those relating to the management, release or threatened
release of any Hazardous Material, or to employee health and safety
matters.
“Environmental
Liabilities” means all liabilities (including costs of Remedial Actions,
natural resource damages and costs and expenses of investigation and feasibility
studies) that may be imposed on, incurred by or asserted against any Borrower 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 or resulting from
the ownership, lease, sublease or other operation or occupation of property by
any Borrower, whether on, prior to or after the date hereof.
“Equipment” has the
meaning set forth in Article 9 of the UCC.
“ERISA” means the
Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended from time to
time.
“ERISA Affiliate”
means any Person that is treated as a member of a “common control group” (as
defined in Section 412 of the Code or Section 302 of ERISA) with a
Borrower.
“ERISA Event” means
(a) any “reportable event”, as defined in Section 4043 of ERISA or the
regulations issued thereunder with respect to a Plan (other than an event for
which the 30 day notice period is waived); (b) the existence with respect to any
Plan of an “accumulated funding deficiency” (as defined in Section 412 of the
Code or Section 302 of ERISA), whether or not waived; (c) the filing pursuant to
Section 412(d) of the Code or Section 303(d) of ERISA of an application for a
waiver of the minimum funding standard with respect to any Plan; (d) the
incurrence by any Borrower or any of its ERISA Affiliates of any liability under
Title IV of ERISA with respect to the termination of any Plan; (e) the receipt
by any Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate from the PBGC or a plan administrator of
any notice relating to an intention to terminate any Plan or Plans or to appoint
a trustee to administer any Plan; (f) the incurrence by any Borrower or any of
its ERISA Affiliates of any liability with respect to the withdrawal or partial
withdrawal from any Plan or Multiemployer Plan; or (g) the receipt by any
Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate of any notice, or the receipt by any
Multiemployer Plan from any Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate of any notice,
concerning the imposition of Withdrawal Liability or a determination that a
Multiemployer Plan is, or is expected to be, insolvent or in reorganization,
within the meaning of Title IV of ERISA.
“Event of Default” has
the meaning set forth in Section 9.01.
“Exchange Act” means
the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations
of the SEC thereunder.
“Extraordinary
Receipt” means any cash received by or paid to or for the account of any
Borrower not in the ordinary course of business, including tax refunds, pension
plan reversions, proceeds of insurance (other than proceeds of business
interruption insurance to the extent such proceeds constitute compensation for
lost earnings), condemnation awards (and payments in lieu thereof), indemnity
payments and any purchase price adjustments.
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“Filing Date” has the
meaning set forth in the Preliminary Statements to this Agreement.
“Final DIP Financing
Order” means the final order entered by the Bankruptcy Court authorizing
and approving the Loan Documents and the transactions contemplated thereby,
substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit G, which
shall include, without limitation, the provisions required to be included in the
Final DIP Financing Order pursuant to Section 5.02(g)
hereof and otherwise be in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the
Lenders.
“Final Sale Order” has
the meaning ascribed thereto in the definition of “Sale
Milestones.”
“Financial Advisor”
has the meaning set forth in Section 5.01(j).
“Financing Orders”
means, collectively, the Interim DIP Financing Order and the Final DIP Financing
Order.
“First Lien Replacement
Liens” means those certain Liens granted pursuant to the Interim DIP
Financing Order and the Final DIP Financing Order as adequate protection to the
Pre-Petition Senior Agent for the benefit of the Pre-Petition Senior
Lenders.
“Fiscal Year” means
the fiscal year of the Borrowers and their Subsidiaries ending on the first
Saturday on or after January 31st of each
year.
“Forbearance Period”
means the term of that certain Forbearance Agreement, dated as of
December 16, 2008, by and among the Borrowers and the Pre-Petition Senior
Agent.
“Foreign Subsidiary”
shall mean, with respect to any Person, any Subsidiary of such Person that is
not organized under the laws of any political subdivision of the United
States.
“FRB” means the Board
of Governors of the Federal Reserve System of the United States.
“Fully Satisfied”
means, with respect to the Obligations as of any date, that, as of such date,
(a) all principal of and interest accrued to such date which constitute
Obligations shall have been paid in full in cash, and (b) all fees,
expenses and other amounts then due and payable which constitute Obligations
shall have been paid in full in cash.
“Fund” means any
person (other than a natural person) that is (or will be) engaged in making,
purchasing, holding or otherwise investing in commercial real estate loans and
similar extensions of credit in the ordinary course of its
business.
“GAAP” means generally
accepted accounting principles in the United States set forth 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 such other principles as may be approved
by a significant segment of the accounting profession in the United States, that
are applicable to the circumstances as of the date of determination,
consistently applied.
“Government Acts”
shall mean any act or omission, whether rightful or wrongful, of any present or
future de jure or de facto government or Governmental Authority.
“Governmental
Authority” shall mean any federal, state, local or foreign court or
governmental agency, authority, instrumentality or regulatory
body.
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“Guarantee” means, as
to any Person, without duplication (a) any obligation, contingent or
otherwise, of such Person guaranteeing or having the economic effect of
guaranteeing any Indebtedness or other obligation payable or performable by
another Person (the “primary obligor”) in any manner, whether directly or
indirectly, and including any obligation of such Person, direct or indirect,
(i) to purchase or pay (or advance or supply funds for the purchase or
payment of) such Indebtedness or other obligation, (ii) to purchase or
lease Property, securities or services for the purpose of assuring the obligee
in respect of such Indebtedness or other obligation of the payment or
performance of such Indebtedness or other obligation, (iii) to maintain
working capital, equity capital or any other financial statement condition or
liquidity or level of income or cash flow of the primary obligor so as to enable
the primary obligor to pay such Indebtedness or other obligation, or
(iv) entered into for the purpose of assuring in any other manner the
obligee in respect of such Indebtedness or other obligation of the payment or
performance thereof or to protect such obligee against loss in respect thereof
(in whole or in part), or (b) any Lien on any assets of such Person
securing any Indebtedness or other obligation of any other Person, whether or
not such Indebtedness or other obligation is assumed by such Person (or any
right, contingent or otherwise, of any holder of such Indebtedness to obtain any
such Lien). The amount of any Guarantee shall be deemed to be an
amount equal to the stated or determinable amount of the related primary
obligation, or portion thereof, in respect of which such Guarantee is made or,
if not stated or determinable, the maximum reasonably anticipated liability in
respect thereof as determined by the guaranteeing Person in good faith; provided
that with respect to any Guarantee under clause (b) above where the Indebtedness
is not assumed the amount of such Guarantee shall be deemed to be the lesser of
the amount of the Indebtedness secured by such Lien and the fair market value of
the assets securing such Indebtedness. The term “Guarantee” as a verb
has a corresponding meaning.
“Hazardous Material”
means any substance, material or waste that is classified, regulated or
otherwise characterized under any Environmental Law as hazardous, toxic, a
contaminant or a pollutant or by other words of similar meaning or regulatory
effect, including petroleum or any fraction thereof, asbestos, polychlorinated
biphenyls and radioactive substances.
“ICANN” means Internet
Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers.
“Indebtedness” of any
Person means, without duplication, (a) all obligations of such Person for
borrowed money or with respect to deposits or advances of any kind, (b) all
obligations of such Person evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes or similar
instruments, (c) all obligations of such Person under conditional sale or other
title retention agreements relating to property acquired by such Person, (d) all
obligations of such Person in respect of the deferred purchase price of property
or services (excluding accounts payable incurred in the ordinary course of
business and not overdue by more than 60 days), (e) all Indebtedness of others
secured by (or for which the holder of such Indebtedness has an existing right,
contingent or otherwise, to be secured by) any Lien on property owned or
acquired by such Person, whether or not the Indebtedness secured thereby has
been assumed, (f) all Guarantees by such Person of Indebtedness of others, (g)
all Capital Lease Obligations of such Person, (h) all obligations, contingent or
otherwise, of such Person as an account party in respect of letters of credit
and letters of guaranty, (i) all obligations, contingent or otherwise, of such
Person in respect of bankers’ acceptances, (j) obligations under any liquidated
earn-out, (k) all Swap Obligations (and the amount of Indebtedness under any
Swap Obligation shall be deemed the Net Xxxx-to-Market Exposure thereunder) and
(l) obligations of such Person to purchase securities or other property arising
out of or in connection with the sale of the same or substantially similar
securities or property or any other Off-Balance Sheet Liability. The
Indebtedness of any Person shall include the Indebtedness of any other entity
(including any partnership in which such Person is a general partner) to the
extent such Person is liable therefor as a result of such Person’s ownership
interest in or other relationship with such entity, except to the extent the
terms of such Indebtedness provide that such Person is not liable
therefor.
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“Indemnified Party”
has the meaning set forth in Section 10.18.
“Insolvency
Proceeding” means any proceeding commenced by or against any Person under
any Debtor Relief Law.
“Interest Payment
Date” has the meaning set forth in Section 4.04(b).
“Interest Period”
means each period commencing on the first day of a calendar month (or in the
case of the first Interest Period, the date hereof) and ending on the first day
of the next such month.
“Interim DIP Financing
Order” means the interim order entered by the Bankruptcy Court
authorizing and approving, subject to the approval of the Final DIP Financing
Order, the Loan Documents and the transactions contemplated hereby,
substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit F, which
order shall include, without limitation, the provisions required to be included
therein pursuant to Section 5.01(g)
hereof and otherwise be in form and substance satisfactory to the
Lenders.
“Interim Facility Maturity
Date” means the date that is the earlier of (a) 30 days following
the date of entry of the Interim DIP Financing Order and (b) the date the
Final DIP Financing Order is entered, or such later date as may be agreed to by
the Agent and the Lenders in their sole and absolute discretion.
“Interim Period” means
the period commencing on the date of entry of the Interim DIP Financing Order
and ending on the earlier of (a) the Interim Facility Maturity Date and (b) the
date of entry of the Final DIP Financing Order by the Bankruptcy
Court.
“Inventory” has the
meaning set forth in Article 9 of the UCC.
“Investment Banker”
means any investment banking firm acceptable to the Agent that may be engaged or
employed by the Borrowers with respect to the Borrowers’ Sale.
“Involuntary
Disposition” means any loss of, damage to or destruction of, or any
condemnation or other taking for public use of, any Property of a Borrower or
any of its Subsidiaries.
“IRS” means the United
States Internal Revenue Service.
“Landlord Consent and
Waiver” means, collectively, the landlord consents and waivers (as
amended, restated or otherwise modified from time to time) entered into from
time to time by the Agent, the applicable Borrowers and the owners of the leased
properties of the Borrowers.
“Laws” means,
collectively, all international, foreign, Federal, state and local statutes,
treaties, rules, guidelines, regulations, ordinances, codes and administrative
or judicial precedents or authorities, including the interpretation or
administration thereof by any Governmental Authority charged with the
enforcement, interpretation or administration thereof, and all applicable
administrative orders, directed duties, requests, licenses, authorizations and
permits of, and agreements with, any Governmental Authority, in each case having
the force of law.
“Lender” or “Lenders” has the
meaning set forth in the introductory paragraph hereto and their respective
successors and assigns.
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“LIBOR” shall mean,
for any Interest Period, a rate per annum (rounded upwards, if necessary, to the
nearest 1/16 of 1%) equal to (a) the rate of interest which is identified and
normally published by Bloomberg Professional Service Page BBAM 1 as the
offered rate for loans for the applicable Interest Period under the caption
British Bankers Association LIBOR Rates as of 11:00 a.m. (London time), on
the second full Business Day next preceding the first day of such Interest
Period; divided by (b) the sum of one minus the daily average during such
Interest Period of the aggregate maximum reserve requirement (expressed as a
decimal) then imposed under Regulation D of the FRB (or any successor
thereto) for “Eurocurrency Liabilities” (as defined therein). If (i)
Bloomberg Professional Service no longer reports the LIBOR, (ii) such index no
longer exists, (iii) Page BBAM 1 no longer exists or (iv) it shall become
illegal for Lenders to provide loans with an interest rate based upon “LIBOR”,
the Required Lenders may select a replacement index or replacement page, as the
case may be, satisfactory to the Required Lenders.
“Lien” means any
mortgage, pledge, hypothecation, assignment, deposit arrangement, encumbrance,
lien (statutory or other), charge, or preference, priority or other security
interest or preferential arrangement in the nature of a security interest of any
kind or nature whatsoever (including any conditional sale or other title
retention agreement, any easement, right of way or other encumbrance on title to
real property, and any financing lease having substantially the same economic
effect as any of the foregoing).
“Loan” means any
revolving Loan or any portion thereof made pursuant to the terms
hereof.
“Loan Documents” means
this Agreement, the Collateral Documents, any guaranty or similar document
executed by any Person or Persons and the Agent in connection with this
Agreement, the exhibits and schedules attached to any of the aforementioned
documents and any other documents entered into in connection therewith, as each
may be amended, modified or supplemented from time to time.
“Loan Notice” means a
notice of Borrowing of Loans pursuant to Section 4.02(a),
which, shall be substantially in the form of Exhibit
C.
“Losses” has the
meaning set forth in Section 10.18.
“Material Adverse
Effect” means a material adverse effect on (a) the business, assets,
liabilities (actual or contingent), operations, condition (financial or
otherwise) or prospects of the Borrowers and their Subsidiaries taken as a
whole, (b) the ability of any Borrower to fully and timely perform any of its
obligations under the Loan Documents to which it is a party, (c) the Collateral,
or the Agent’s Liens (on behalf of itself and the Lenders) on the Collateral or
the priority of such Liens, or (d) the rights of or benefits available to the
Agent or the Lenders under any Loan Document.
“Material Agreement”
has the meaning set forth in Section
6.12.
“Material
Indebtedness” means Indebtedness (other than (a) the Pre-Petition Senior
Obligations and the Pre-Petition Second Lien Obligations under the Pre-Petition
Senior Credit Agreement and the Pre-Petition Investment Agreement, respectively,
and (b) the Loans hereunder) of any one or more of the Borrowers and their
Subsidiaries in an aggregate principal amount exceeding $100,000. For
purposes of determining Material Indebtedness, the “obligations” of Parent or
any of its Subsidiaries in respect of any Swap Agreement at any time shall be
the Net Xxxx-to-Market Exposure that Parent or such Subsidiary would be required
to pay if such Swap Agreement were terminated at such time.
“Maturity Date” has
the meaning set forth in Section 4.03.
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“Moody’s” means
Xxxxx’x Investors Service, Inc. and any successor thereto.
“Multiemployer Plan”
shall mean a “multiemployer plan” as defined in Section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA and
(a) which is, or within the immediately preceding six (6) years was, contributed
to by any Borrowers or any of their Subsidiaries or ERISA Affiliates or (b) with
respect to which any Borrowers or any of their Subsidiaries may incur any
liability.
“Net Cash Proceeds”
means the aggregate cash proceeds received by any Borrower or any Subsidiary
thereof in respect of any mandatory prepayment event set forth in Section 4.05(a) or
(b), net of
(a) reasonable and customary direct costs (including, without limitation,
legal, accounting and investment banking fees, and sales commissions) associated
therewith and paid to Persons who are not Borrowers or their Affiliates,
(b) amounts held in escrow to be applied as part of the purchase price in
connection with any such event and (c) taxes paid or payable as a result
thereof; it being understood that “Net Cash Proceeds” shall include, without
limitation, any cash received upon the sale or other disposition of any non-cash
consideration received by any Borrower or any Subsidiary from such event and any
cash released from escrow as part of the purchase price in connection with such
event.
“Net Xxxx-to-Market
Exposure” shall mean, with respect to any Person, as of any date of
determination, the excess (if any) of all unrealized losses over all unrealized
profits of such Person arising from Swap Agreement transactions. As
used in this definition, “unrealized losses” means the fair market value of the
cost to such Person of replacing such Swap Agreement transactions as of the date
of determination (assuming the Swap Agreement transactions were to be terminated
as of that date), and “unrealized profits” means the fair market value of the
gain to such Person of replacing such Swap Agreement transactions as of the date
of determination (assuming such Swap Agreement transactions were to be
terminated as of that date).
“Non-U.S. Plan” means
any pension, retirement, superannuation or similar policy or arrangement
sponsored, maintained or contributed to by any Borrower in a jurisdiction other
than the United States of America.
“Obligations” means
all advances to, and debts, liabilities, fees, commissions, obligations,
covenants and duties of, any Borrower arising under any Loan Document or
otherwise with respect to any Loan, whether direct or indirect (including those
acquired by assumption), absolute or contingent, due or to become due, now
existing or hereafter arising and whether arising before or after the Filing
Date (including interest and fees that accrue after the commencement of the
Reorganization Cases or any other proceeding under any Debtor Relief Laws,
regardless of whether such interest and fees are allowed claims in such
Reorganization Cases or other proceeding).
“Off-Balance Sheet
Liability” of a Person means (a) any repurchase obligation or liability
of such Person with respect to accounts or notes receivable sold by such Person,
(b) any indebtedness, liability or obligation under any sale and leaseback
transaction which is not a Capital Lease Obligation, (c) any indebtedness,
liability or obligation under any so-called “synthetic lease” transaction
entered into by such Person, or (d) any indebtedness, liability or obligation
arising with respect to any other transaction which is the functional equivalent
of or takes the place of borrowing but which does not constitute a liability on
the balance sheets of such Person, but excluding from this clause (d) operating
leases.
“Organizational
Documents” means: (a) with respect to any corporation,
the certificate or articles of incorporation and the bylaws (or equivalent or
comparable constitutive documents with respect to any non-U.S. jurisdiction);
(b) with respect to any limited liability company, the certificate or
articles of formation or organization and operating agreement; and (c) with
respect to any partnership, joint venture, trust or other form of business
entity, the partnership, joint venture or other applicable agreement of
formation or organization and any agreement, instrument, filing or notice with
respect thereto filed in connection with its formation or organization with the
applicable Governmental Authority in the jurisdiction of its formation or
organization and, if applicable, any certificate or articles of formation or
organization of such entity.
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“Other Taxes” has the
meaning set forth in Section 4.07(b).
“Parent” has the
meaning set forth in the introductory paragraph hereto.
“Participant” has the
meaning set forth in Section 10.10.
“Patriot Act” has the
meaning set forth in Section 6.27.
“Payment Account”
means the Borrowers’ bank account # 6971475767 maintained at UMB Bank, N.A., or
any other account of the Borrowers acceptable to the Agent, into which funds of
the Borrowers (including proceeds of Accounts and other Collateral) are
deposited or credited, and which is or will become subject to a Blocked Account
Agreement in favor of the Agent, on terms acceptable to the Agent.
“PBGC” means the
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation.
“Permitted Discretion”
means a determination made by the Agent (from the perspective of a secured
lender), exercised in good faith.
“Permitted
Encumbrances” means:
(a) Liens
imposed by law for taxes that are not yet due or are being contested in
compliance with Section 7.04 other
than those arising pursuant to ERISA;
(b) carriers’,
warehousemen’s, mechanics’, materialmen’s, repairmen’s and other like Liens
imposed by law, arising in the ordinary course of business and securing
obligations that are not overdue by more than 60 days or are being contested in
compliance with Section
7.04;
(c) pledges
and deposits made in the ordinary course of business in compliance with workers’
compensation, unemployment insurance and other social security laws or
regulations;
(d) deposits
to secure the performance of bids, trade contracts, leases, statutory
obligations, surety and appeal bonds, performance bonds and other obligations of
a like nature, in each case in the ordinary course of business;
(e) [reserved]
(f) easements,
zoning restrictions, rights-of-way and encumbrances on real or immovable
property that do not secure any obligations for borrowed money and do not
materially detract from the value of the affected property or materially
interfere with the ordinary conduct of business of a Borrower or any
Subsidiary;
(g) Liens
in favor of the Agent granted pursuant to this Agreement, any Loan Document or
the Financing Order;
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(h) the
filing of financing statements or the equivalent thereof in any applicable
jurisdiction solely as a precautionary measure in connection with operating
leases or consignment of goods;
(i) leases
or subleases of assets or properties of a Borrower, in each case entered into in
the ordinary course of such Borrower’s business and not prohibited by this
Agreement or any other Loan Document so long as such leases do not, individually
or in the aggregate (i) interfere in any material respect with the ordinary
conduct or business of such Borrower and (ii) materially impair the use or the
value of the property or assets subject thereto;
(j) any
Lien on any property or asset of any Borrower or its Subsidiaries existing on
the Filing Date and set forth in Schedule
8.02;
provided that,
notwithstanding the foregoing, if any such Lien is created, incurred, assumed or
suffered to exist by a Borrower (i) on or after the Filing Date, such Lien must
have been approved by the Bankruptcy Court with the prior written consent of the
Agent and (ii) before the Filing Date, such Lien must have been valid, perfected
and non-avoidable in accordance with applicable law.
“Permitted
Indebtedness” means:
(a) the
Obligations;
(b) Indebtedness
existing on the Filing Date and set forth on Schedule 8.01;
and
(c) Indebtedness
arising from the honoring by a bank or other financial institution of a check,
draft or similar instrument drawn against insufficient funds or other cash
management services in the ordinary course of business; provided, that such
Indebtedness is extinguished within five (5) Business Days of its
incurrence.
“Permitted Senior
Liens” means (a) valid, perfected, enforceable and non-avoidable
Liens securing purchase money financing and any other valid, perfected,
enforceable and non-avoidable Liens existing on the Filing Date that are senior
to the Liens securing the Pre-Petition Senior Obligations and the Pre-Petition
Second Lien Obligations, and (b) valid, enforceable and non-avoidable Liens
existing on the Filing Date that are perfected (but not granted) after the
Filing Date, to the extent such post-petition perfection is permitted under the
Bankruptcy Code, and that are senior under applicable law to the Liens securing
the Pre-Petition Senior Obligations and the Pre-Petition Second Lien
Obligations.
“Person” means any
individual, sole proprietorship, partnership, joint venture, limited liability
company, trust, unincorporated organization, association, corporation,
institution, entity or government (whether national, federal, state, county,
city, municipal or otherwise, including, without limitation, any
instrumentality, division, agency, body or department thereof).
“Plan” means any
employee pension benefit plan (other than a Multiemployer Plan) subject to the
provisions of Title IV of ERISA or Section 412 of the Code or Section 302 of
ERISA, and in respect of which any Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate is (or, if
such plan were terminated, would under Section 4069 of ERISA be deemed to be) an
“employer” as defined in Section 3(5) of ERISA.
“Plan of
Reorganization” has the meaning set forth in Section
4.03.
“Pre-Petition Agents”
has the meaning set forth in the Preliminary Statements hereto.
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“Pre-Petition Investment
Agreement” has the meaning set forth in the Preliminary Statements
hereto.
“Pre-Petition Lenders”
has the meaning set forth in the Preliminary Statements hereto.
“Pre-Petition Loan
Agreements” has the meaning set forth in the Preliminary Statements
hereto.
“Pre-Petition Second Lien
Agent” has the meaning set forth in the Preliminary Statements
hereto.
“Pre-Petition Second Lien
Lenders” has the meaning set forth in the Preliminary Statements
hereto.
“Pre-Petition Second Lien
Obligations” has the meaning set forth in the Preliminary Statements
hereto.
“Pre-Petition Senior
Agent” has the meaning set forth in the Preliminary Statements
hereto.
“Pre-Petition Senior Credit
Agreement” has the meaning set forth in the Preliminary Statements
hereto.
“Pre-Petition Senior
Lenders” has the meaning set forth in the Preliminary Statements
hereto.
“Pre-Petition Senior
Liens” means those certain Liens securing the Pre-Petition Senior
Obligations.
“Pre-Petition Senior
Obligations” has the meaning set forth in the Preliminary Statements
hereto.
“Principal” has the
meaning set forth in Section 4.03.
“Principal Market”
initially means the NASDAQ Global Market and shall also include the American
Stock Exchange, NASDAQ Small-Cap Market, the New York Stock Exchange or the
NASDAQ National Market, whichever is at the time the principal trading exchange
or market for the Common Stock, based upon share volume.
“Processor” means a
Person that provides credit card or debit card processing services for any
merchant, including without limitation, the establishment of one or more credit
card or debit card merchant accounts on behalf of such merchant to accept
payments for retail transactions.
“Processor Control
Agreement” means, with respect to any Processor providing credit or debit
card processing services for or on behalf of any Borrower, an agreement in form
and substance satisfactory to the Agent, executed and delivered by the
applicable Borrower, such Processor and the Agent, pursuant to which such
Processor shall agree, among other things, to follow instructions originated by
the Agent, as applicable, regarding amounts payable by such Processor to such
Borrower pursuant to the applicable credit card processing agreement without the
further consent of such Borrower, as such agreement may be amended, supplemented
or otherwise modified from time to time.
“Professional
Expenses” means any amounts permitted to be paid by the Bankruptcy Court
in respect of fees and expenses of attorneys, accountants and other
professionals retained in the Reorganization Cases pursuant to Sections 327,
328, 330, 331 and 1103 of the Bankruptcy Code.
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“Property” means any
interest in any kind of property or asset, whether real, personal or mixed, or
tangible or intangible. Properties shall mean the plural of
Property. For purposes of this Agreement, any Borrower shall be
deemed to be the owner of any Property which it has acquired or holds subject to
a conditional sale agreement, financing lease or other arrangement pursuant to
which title to the Property has been retained by or vested in some other Person
for security purposes.
“Qualified Equity
Interests” means any Capital Stock of an issuer other than Capital Stock
that (a) is mandatorily redeemable or purchasable, in whole or in part, at the
option of the holder, pursuant to a sinking fund obligation or otherwise, or (b)
is exchangeable or convertible into debt securities of the issuer thereof or (c)
which entitles the holder thereof to dividend, interest or other payments, in
each case, prior to the payment in full of all Obligations of the Borrowers
under the Loan Documents.
“Register” has the
meaning set forth in Section 10.11.
“Regulatory
Requirement” has the meaning set forth in Section 10.19.
“Related Parties”
means, with respect to any Person, such Person’s Affiliates and the partners,
directors, officers, employees, agents and advisors of such Person and of such
Person’s Affiliates.
“Release” 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.
“Reorganization Cases”
has the meaning specified in the Preliminary Statements to this
Agreement.
“Report” means reports
prepared in good faith by an Agent or another Person showing the results of
appraisals, field examinations or audits pertaining to the Borrowers’ assets
from information furnished by or on behalf of the Borrowers, after the Agent has
exercised its rights of inspection pursuant to this Agreement, which Reports may
be distributed to the Lenders by the a Agent.
“Required Lenders”
means, as of the date of any determination, Lenders holding more than 50.0% of
the outstanding Principal of the Loans.
“Resale Materials” has
the meaning set forth in Section 7.03
“Response Action”
means any required or voluntary actions taken to (a) clean up, remove,
remediate, correct, contain, manage, treat or otherwise address Hazardous
Materials in the environment or (b) investigate, assess, evaluate, or monitor
Hazardous Materials in the environment (including without limitation
pre-remedial studies and investigations).
“Responsible Officer”
means the chief executive officer, president, vice president, chief financial
officer, treasurer, corporate controller or Chief Restructuring Officer of a
Borrower. Any document delivered hereunder that is signed by a
Responsible Officer of a Borrower shall be conclusively presumed to have been
authorized by all necessary corporate, partnership and/or other action on the
part of such Borrower and such Responsible Officer shall be conclusively
presumed to have acted on behalf of such Borrower.
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“Restricted Payment”
means any dividend or other distribution (whether in cash, securities or other
property) with respect to any Capital Stock of any Borrower or any Subsidiary,
or any payment (whether in cash, securities or other property), including any
sinking fund or similar deposit, on account of the purchase, redemption,
retirement, acquisition, cancellation or termination of any such Capital Stock
of any Borrower or any Subsidiary or any option, warrant or other right to
acquire any such Capital Stock in any Borrower or any Subsidiary.
“Revolving Commitment”
means, as to each Lender, its obligation to make Loans to the Borrowers pursuant
to Section 4.01
in an aggregate principal amount at any one time outstanding not to exceed the
amount set forth opposite such Lender’s name on Schedule 3.01 or in
the Assignment and Acceptance pursuant to which such Lender becomes a party
hereto, as applicable, as such amount may be adjusted from time to time in
accordance with this Agreement.
“Sale Milestones”
means those certain milestones with respect to the Borrowers’ Sale including,
but not limited to, the following:
(a) on
or before January 9, 2009, the Borrowers shall distribute a confidential
information memorandum acceptable to the Agent and the Lenders;
(b) on
or before January 15, 2009, the Borrowers shall have received a bona fide bid or
bids for all or substantially all of the capital stock and/or assets of the
Borrowers, such bid or bids to be on terms acceptable to the Agent and the
Lenders;
(c) on
or before January 16, 2009, the Bankruptcy Court shall approve a bid/sale
procedure order with respect to the Borrowers’ Sale in form and substance
satisfactory to the Agent and the Lenders;
(d) on
or before January 30, 2009, the Bankruptcy Court shall conduct a final sale
hearing and an order in form and substance acceptable to the Agent and the
Lenders shall have been entered by the Bankruptcy Court approving the Borrowers’
Sale (the “Final Sale
Order”); and
(e) on
or before February 6, 2009, the Borrowers’ Sale shall be consummated in
accordance with the terms of the Final Sale Order.
“S&P” means
Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services, a division of The XxXxxx-Xxxx Companies,
Inc. and any successor thereto.
“Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx” means
the Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act of 2002.
“SEC” means the
Securities and Exchange Commission, or any Governmental Authority succeeding to
any of its principal functions.
“SEC Reports” means
all reports required to be filed by the Parent under the Securities Act and the
Exchange Act, including pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) thereof, for the two
years preceding the date hereof.
“Securities Act” means
the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the rules and regulations of the SEC
thereunder.
“Securities Laws”
means the Securities Act, the Exchange Act, Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx and the applicable
accounting and auditing principles, rules, standards and practices promulgated,
approved or incorporated by the SEC or the Public Company Accounting Oversight
Board, as each of the foregoing may be amended and in effect on any applicable
date hereunder.
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“Subsidiary” means, as
to any Person, (a) any corporation more than 50% of whose Capital Stock of any
class or classes having by the terms thereof ordinary voting power to elect a
majority of the directors of such corporation (irrespective of whether or not,
at the time, any class or classes of such corporation shall have or might have
voting power by reason of the happening of any contingency) is at the time owned
by such Person directly or indirectly through Subsidiaries, (b) any partnership,
association, joint venture or other entity in which such Person directly or
indirectly through Subsidiaries has more than a fifty percent (50%) interest in
the total capital, total income and/or total ownership interests of such entity
at any time and (c) any partnership in which such Person is a general
partner. Unless otherwise qualified, all references to a “Subsidiary”
or to “Subsidiaries” in this Agreement shall refer to a Subsidiary or
Subsidiaries of the Borrowers.
“Super-Priority Claim”
shall mean, in relation to any Borrower, a claim against such Borrower in the
Reorganization Case which is an administrative expense claim authorized and
established by the Bankruptcy Court pursuant to Sections 364(c)(1), 364(d)(1)
and 507(b) of the Bankruptcy Code and having priority over any or all
administrative expenses in the Reorganization Cases of the kind specified in
Sections 105, 326, 328, 330, 331, 364(c), 503(b), 506(c), 507(a), 507(b),
546(c), 726, 1113 and 1114 of the Bankruptcy Code.
“Swap Agreement” means
any agreement with respect to any swap, forward, future or derivative
transaction or option or similar agreement involving, or settled by reference
to, one or more rates, currencies, commodities, equity or debt instruments or
securities, or economic, financial or pricing indices or measures of economic,
financial or pricing risk or value or any similar transaction or any combination
of these transactions; provided that no
phantom stock or similar plan providing for payments only on account of services
provided by current or former directors, officers, employees or consultants of
any Borrower or any Subsidiary shall be a Swap Agreement.
“Swap Obligations” of
a Person means any and all obligations of such Person, whether absolute or
contingent and howsoever and whensoever created, arising, evidenced or acquired
(including all renewals, extensions and modifications thereof and substitutions
therefor), under (a) any and all Swap Agreements, and (b) any and all
cancellations, buy backs, reversals, terminations or assignments of any Swap
Agreement transaction.
“Taxes” has the
meaning set forth in Section 4.09(a).
“Testing Period” has
the meaning set forth in Section 8.18(b).
“Transfer” means the
sale, pledge, assignment, or other transfer of the Loans, in whole or in part,
and of the rights of the holder thereof with respect thereto and under this
Agreement.
“Transferee” means any
direct or indirect transferee of all or any part of any Revolving Commitment
and/or Loans permitted under Section 10.10.
“UCC” means the
Uniform Commercial Code, as in effect from time to time, of the State of New
York or of any
other state the laws of which are required as a result thereof to be applied in
connection with the attachment, perfection or priority of, or remedies with
respect to, Agent’s Lien on any Collateral.
“United States” and
“U.S.” mean the
United States of America.
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“Variance” has the
meaning set forth in Section 8.18(a).
“Voting Stock” shall
mean, with respect to any Person, Capital Stock issued by such Person the
holders of which are ordinarily, in the absence of contingencies, entitled to
vote for the election of directors (or persons performing similar functions) of
such Person, even though the right so to vote has been suspended by the
happening of such a contingency.
“Website Agreements”
means all agreements between any Borrower and any other Person pursuant to which
such Person provides any services relating to the operation, management or
maintenance of any Website, including without limitation, all agreements with
any Person providing web hosting, database management or maintenance or disaster
recovery services to any Borrower and all agreements with any domain name
registrar, as all such agreements may be amended, supplemented or otherwise
modified from time to time in accordance with this Agreement.
“Website Consent
Agreement” means, with respect to each entity providing web hosting,
database management, disaster recovery or related services to any Borrower, an
agreement in form and substance satisfactory to the Agent, executed and
delivered by the applicable Borrower, such entity providing such services and
the Agent pursuant to which such entity shall, among other things, consent to
the grant by such Borrower to the Agent of a Lien in such Borrower’s rights
under the related Website Agreements and agree that the Agent may transfer such
rights to itself or any third party in the exercise of its remedies under the
Loan Documents following the occurrence of any Event of Default, as such
agreement may be amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to
time.
“Websites” means all
websites (including without limitation, all content (including without
limitation, all elements of each website and all materials published on each
website), HTML documents, audiovisual material, software, data, copyrights,
trademarks, patents and trade secrets relating to such websites) owned by or
assigned to the Borrowers and all exclusive and nonexclusive licenses to the
Borrowers from third parties or rights to use websites owned by such third
parties, including, without limitation, the registrations, applications and
licenses listed on Schedule 6.05(b)
hereto, along with any and all (a) renewals and extensions thereof, (b) income,
royalties, damages, claims and payments now and hereafter due and/or payable
under and with respect thereto, including, without limitation, damages and
payments for past or future infringements thereof, (c) rights to xxx for past,
present and future infringements thereof, and (d) any other rights corresponding
thereto throughout the world.
“Withdrawal Liability”
means liability to a Multiemployer Plan as a result of a complete or partial
withdrawal from such Multiemployer Plan, as such terms are defined in Part I of
Subtitle E of Title IV of ERISA.
1.02 Other
Interpretive Provisions.
With
reference to this Agreement and each other Loan Document, unless otherwise
specified herein or in such other Loan Document:
(a) The
meanings of defined terms are equally applicable to the singular and plural
forms of the defined terms.
(b) (i) The
words “herein,”
“hereto,”
“hereof” and
“hereunder” and
words of similar import when used in any Loan Document shall refer to such Loan
Document as a whole and not to any particular provision thereof.
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(ii) Article,
Section, Exhibit and Schedule references are to the Loan Document in
which such reference appears.
(iii) The
term “including” is by way
of example and not limitation.
(iv) The
term “documents” includes
any and all instruments, documents, agreements, certificates, notices, reports,
financial statements and other writings, however evidenced, whether in physical
or electronic form.
(v) The
terms “knowledge” or “known” when used with
respect to any Borrower shall be deemed to be a reference to the knowledge of
any Responsible Officer.
(c) 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.”
(d) Section headings
herein and in the other Loan Documents are included for convenience of reference
only and shall not affect the interpretation of this Agreement or any other Loan
Document.
1.03 Accounting
Terms.
(a) All
accounting terms not specifically or completely defined herein shall be
construed in conformity with, and all financial data required to be submitted
pursuant to this Agreement shall be prepared in conformity with, GAAP applied on
a consistent basis with the Borrowers’ past practices, as in effect from time to
time, other than the revenue recognition convention used in the development of
interim financial statements.
(b) Projections
and forecasts as to future events are not to be viewed as facts and the actual
results during the period or periods covered by the financial projections or
forecasts referred to herein may differ from the projected results and the
differences may be material.
1.04 References
to Agreements and Laws.
Unless
otherwise expressly provided herein, (a) references to documents,
agreements (including the Loan Documents) and other contractual instruments
shall be deemed to include all subsequent amendments, restatements, extensions,
supplements and other modifications thereto, but only to the extent that such
amendments, restatements, extensions, supplements and other modifications are
not prohibited by any Loan Document; and (b) references to any Law shall
include all statutory and regulatory provisions consolidating, amending,
replacing, supplementing or interpreting such Law.
1.05 Times
of Day.
Unless
otherwise specified, all references herein to times of day shall be references
to Eastern time (daylight or standard, as applicable).
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ARTICLE
II.
SECURITY
AND ADMINISTRATIVE PRIORITY
2.01 Collateral;
Grant of Lien and Security Interest.
(a) As
security for the full and timely payment and performance of all of the
Obligations, each of the Borrowers hereby, as of the date of entry of the
Interim DIP Financing Order, assigns, pledges and grants to the Agent, for the
benefit of the Agent and the Lenders, a perfected security interest in and to,
and a Lien on, all of the property, assets or interests in property or assets of
each Borrower of any kind or nature whatsoever, real or personal, now existing
or hereafter acquired or created, including, without limitation, all property of
each Borrower’s “estate” (within the meaning of the Bankruptcy Code), and all
Accounts, Inventory, goods, contract rights, instruments, documents, chattel
paper, general intangibles, payment intangibles, letters of credit,
letter-of-credit rights, supporting obligations, machinery and Equipment, real
property, fixtures, leases, all of the Capital Stock (whether such stock is
voting or non-voting stock) in any of its Subsidiaries, money, investment
property, deposit accounts, all commercial tort claims, and all cash collateral
and all cash and non-cash proceeds, rents, products and profits of any of the
foregoing but excluding (i) Avoidance Actions and (ii) any agreements,
permits, licenses, or the like solely in the event and to the extent that a
grant of a lien on such license, contract, or agreement results in a termination
of any such license, contract, or agreement or would render such license,
contract or agreement non-assumable or non-assignable under the Bankruptcy Code
(other than to the extent that any such term would be rendered ineffective
pursuant to Sections 9-406, 9-407, or 9-408 of the UCC (or any successor
provision or provisions)) and, in any event, immediately upon the
ineffectiveness, lapse or termination of any such terms or default under such
license, contract or agreement, the Collateral shall include, and the applicable
Borrower shall be deemed to have granted a security interest in, all such
licenses, contracts, or agreements as if such terms had never been in effect;
provided, however, that
Collateral shall include any and all proceeds of any of such assets described in
this clause (ii); provided, further, that, any
agreement, permit, license, or the like not constituting Collateral under this
clause (ii) shall constitute Collateral from and after such time as the
lessor, licensor, or other party to such agreement, permit, license, or the like
consents to the grant of a lien in favor of the Agent in such agreement, permit,
license, or the like or the prohibition against granting a lien therein in favor
of the Agent shall cease to be effective (all property of the Borrowers subject
to the security interest referred to in this Section 2.01(a)
being hereafter collectively referred to as the “Collateral”).
(b) Upon
entry of the Interim DIP Financing Order or Final DIP Financing Order, as the
case may be, the Liens and security interests in favor of the Agent referred to
in Section 2.01(a)
hereof shall be valid and perfected Liens and security interests in the
Collateral, prior to all other Liens and security interests in the Collateral
pursuant to Sections 364(c)(2), 364(c)(3) and 364(d)(1) of the Bankruptcy
Code, other than and subject to the Agreed Senior Liens. Such Liens
and security interests and their priority shall remain in effect until the
Aggregate Revolving Commitments shall have been terminated and all Obligations
shall have been Fully Satisfied.
(c) Notwithstanding
anything herein to the contrary (i) all proceeds received by the Agent and the
Lenders from the Collateral subject to the Liens granted in this Section 2.01 and
in each other Loan Document and by the Financing Orders shall be subject to the
prior payment of the Carve-Out Expenses and (ii) no Person entitled to Carve-Out
Expenses shall be entitled to sell or otherwise dispose, or seek or object to
the sale or other disposition, of any Collateral.
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2.02 Administrative
Priority.
Each of
the Borrowers agrees for itself that the Obligations of such Borrower shall
constitute allowed administrative expenses in the Reorganization Cases pursuant
to Section 364(c)(1) of the Bankruptcy Code, having priority over all
administrative expenses of and unsecured claims against such Person now existing
or hereafter arising, of any kind or nature whatsoever, including, without
limitation, all administrative expenses of the kind specified in, or arising or
ordered under, Sections 105, 326, 328, 330, 331, 364(c), 503(b), 506(c), 507,
546(c), 726, 1113 and 1114 of the Bankruptcy Code, whether arising in the
Reorganization Cases or any subsequent case under chapter 7 of the Bankruptcy
Code, subject, as to priority, only to Carve-Out Expenses and the Super-Priority
Claim of the Pre-Petition Senior Agent.
2.03 Grants,
Rights and Remedies.
The Liens
and security interests granted pursuant to Section 2.01(a)
hereof and the administrative priority granted pursuant to Section 2.02 hereof
may be independently granted by the Loan Documents and by other Loan Documents
hereafter entered into. This Agreement, the Financing Orders and such
other Loan Documents supplement each other, and the grants, priorities, rights
and remedies of the Agent and the Lenders hereunder and thereunder are
cumulative. Upon the disposition of any Collateral permitted pursuant
to this Agreement, the Liens and security interests on such Collateral granted
to the Agent and the Lenders hereunder shall automatically be
released.
2.04 No
Filings Required.
The Liens
and security interests referred to herein shall be deemed valid and perfected by
entry of the Interim DIP Financing Order and the Final DIP Financing Order, and
entry of the Interim DIP Financing Order shall have occurred on or before the
date of any Loan. The Agent shall not be required to file any
financing statements, mortgages, notices of Lien or similar instruments in any
jurisdiction or filing office or to take any other action in order to validate
or perfect the Liens and security interest granted by or pursuant to this
Agreement, the Interim DIP Financing Order and the Final DIP Financing Order, as
the case may be, or any other Loan Document.
2.05 Survival.
The
Liens, lien priority, administrative priorities and other rights and remedies
granted to the Agent and the Lenders pursuant to this Agreement, the Financing
Orders and the other Loan Documents (specifically including, but not limited to,
the existence, perfection and priority of the Liens and security interests
provided herein and therein, and the administrative priority provided herein and
therein) shall not be modified, altered or impaired in any manner by any other
financing or extension of credit or incurrence of indebtedness by any Borrower
(pursuant to Section 364 of the Bankruptcy Code or otherwise), or by any
dismissal or conversion of any of the Reorganization Cases, or by any other act
or omission whatsoever. Without limitation, notwithstanding any such
order, financing, extension, incurrence, dismissal, conversion, act or
omission:
(a) except
for the Carve-Out Expenses and the Super-Priority Claim of the Pre-Petition
Senior Agent, no costs or expenses of administration which have been or may be
incurred in the Reorganization Cases or any conversion of the same or in any
other proceedings related thereto, and no priority claims, are or will be prior
to or on a parity with any claim of the Agent and the Lenders against any
Borrower in respect of any Obligation;
(b) the
Liens in favor of the Agent and the Lenders set forth in Section 2.01(a)
hereof shall constitute valid and perfected first priority Liens and security
interests, subject only to Agreed Senior Liens, and shall be prior to all other
Liens and security interests, now existing or hereafter arising, in favor of any
other creditor or any other Person whatsoever; and
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(c) the
Liens in favor of the Agent and the Lenders set forth herein and in the other
Loan Documents shall continue to be valid and perfected without the necessity
that the Agent file financing statements, mortgages or otherwise perfect its
Lien under applicable non-bankruptcy law.
2.06 Further
Assurances.
The
Borrowers shall take any other actions requested by the Agent and the Lenders in
their sole and absolute discretion from time to time to cause the attachment,
perfection and priority of, and the ability of the Agent and the Lenders to
enforce, the security interest of the Agent and the Lenders in any and all of
the Collateral, including, without limitation, (a) executing and delivering any
requested security agreement, pledge agreement or mortgage, (b) executing,
delivering and, where appropriate, filing financing statements and amendments
relating thereto under the UCC or other applicable law, to the extent, if any,
that any Borrower’s signature thereon is required therefor, (c) causing the
Agent’s name to be noted as secured party on any certificate of title for a
titled good if such notation is a condition to attachment, perfection or
priority of, or ability of the Agent to enforce, the security interest of the
Agent in such Collateral, (d) complying with any provision of any statute,
regulation or treaty of the United States as to any Collateral if compliance
with such provision is a condition to attachment, perfection or priority of, or
ability of the Agent to enforce, the security interest of the Agent in such
Collateral, and (e) using commercially reasonably efforts to obtain the
consents and approvals of any Governmental Authority or third party, including,
without limitation, any consent of any licensor, lessor or other person
obligated on Collateral, and taking all actions required by any earlier versions
of the UCC or by other law, as applicable in any relevant
jurisdiction.
ARTICLE
III.
CLOSING
3.01 Closing.
Subject
to the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 5.01 and to
entry of the Interim DIP Financing Order, the effectiveness of this Agreement
and the closing of the transactions set forth herein shall take place on
December 30, 2008, unless another time is mutually agreed to in writing by
the Borrowers and the Agent (the “Closing
Date”).
ARTICLE
IV.
TERMS
OF LOANS
4.01 Loans.
Subject
to the terms and conditions set forth herein, each Lender severally, and not
jointly, agrees to make revolving loans (each such loan, a “Loan”) to the
Borrowers in Dollars from time to time on any Business Day during the
Availability Period in an aggregate amount not to exceed at any time outstanding
the amount of such Lender’s Revolving Commitment; provided, however, that no
Loans shall be made except to (a) following the entry of the Final DIP Financing
Order, repay in full the Pre-Petition Senior Obligations, (b) provide for
working capital uses in accordance with the Agreed Budget and (c) pay fees and
expenses related to this transaction; provided, further, however, that after
giving effect to any Borrowing of Loans, (i) the total aggregate outstanding
amount of Loans shall not exceed the Aggregate Revolving Commitments and (ii)
the aggregate outstanding amount of the Loans of any Lender shall not exceed
such Lender’s Revolving Commitment. Within the limits of each
Lender’s Revolving Commitment, and subject to the other terms and conditions
hereof, the Borrowers may borrow under this Section 4.01, prepay
at any time without premium or penalty, and reborrow under this Section
4.01.
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4.02 Borrowings.
(a) Each
Borrowing shall be made upon the Administrative Borrower’s irrevocable notice to
the Agent, which must be given in writing. Each such notice must be
received by the Agent not later than 1:00 p.m. on the requested date of any
Borrowing. Each notice by the Administrative Borrower pursuant to
this Section
4.02(a) must be by delivery to the Agent of a written Loan Notice,
appropriately completed and signed by a Responsible Officer of the
Administrative Borrower. Each Borrowing shall be in a principal
amount of $100,000 or whole multiples of $50,000 in excess
thereof. Each Loan Notice shall specify (i) the requested date of the
Borrowing (which shall be a Business Day), (ii) the principal amount of Loans to
be borrowed and (iii) the item(s) in the Agreed Budget then due and payable to
be funded by such Loan.
(b) Following
receipt of a Loan Notice, the Agent shall promptly notify each Lender of the
amount of its percentage of the applicable Loans. Each Lender shall
make the amount of its Loan available to the Agent in immediately available
funds at the Agent’s office not later than 3:00 p.m. on the Business Day
specified in the applicable Loan Notice. Upon satisfaction of the
applicable conditions set forth in Section 5.02, the
Agent shall make all funds so received available to the Borrowers in like funds
as received by the Agent by wire transfer of such funds, in each case in
accordance with instructions provided to (and reasonably acceptable to) the
Agent by the Administrative Borrower.
4.03 Repayment
of Principal.
(a) Unless
otherwise required or permitted to be sooner paid pursuant to the provisions
hereof, the Borrowers shall repay the unpaid outstanding principal amount of
Loans (including capitalized and accrued interest to the extent such interest is
not paid in cash and is added to the principal balance thereon) (the “Principal”) in full
at the earliest of (i) the Interim Facility Maturity Date, if the Final DIP
Financing Order has not been entered by the Bankruptcy Court on or prior to such
date, (ii) the date a sale is consummated of all or substantially all of the
capital stock and/or assets and business of the Borrowers (the “Borrowers’ Sale”),
(iii) February 6, 2009, (iv) the earlier of the effective date and the date
of the substantial consummation (as defined in Section 1101(2) of the
Bankruptcy Code), in each case, of a plan of reorganization satisfactory to the
Agent and the Lenders (a “Plan of
Reorganization”) in the Reorganization Cases that has been confirmed by
an order of the Bankruptcy Court and (v) the date on which all of the Loans
shall become due and payable in accordance with the terms of the Loan Documents,
including upon acceleration under Section 9.02(a) (such
earliest date, the “Maturity Date”);
provided, that
the Maturity Date may be extended by the Agent and the Lenders in their sole and
absolute discretion. Whenever any payment to be made hereunder shall
be stated to be due on a day which is not a Business Day, the due date thereof
shall be extended to the next succeeding Business Day.
(b) It
is understood and agreed that any confirmation order entered in the
Reorganization Cases shall not discharge or otherwise affect in any way any of
the Obligations of the Borrowers to the Lenders and the Agent under this
Agreement, other than after the payment-in-full in cash to the Lenders and the
Agent of all Obligations on or before the effective date of the Plan of
Reorganization.
(c) Each
Business Day, at or before 12:00 noon, the Agent shall apply all immediately
available funds received from the Collection Account in accordance with the
provisions of Section 4.07.
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(d) Each
Lender shall maintain in accordance with its usual practice an account or
accounts evidencing the indebtedness of the Borrowers to such Lender resulting
from each Loan made by such Lender, including the amounts of principal and
interest payable and paid to such Lender from time to time
hereunder.
(e) The
Agent shall maintain accounts in which it shall record (i) the amount of each
Loan made hereunder, (ii) the amount of any principal or interest due and
payable or to become due and payable from the Borrowers to each Lender
hereunder, and (iii) the amount of any sum received by the Agent hereunder for
the account of the Lenders and each Lender’s share thereof.
(f) The
entries made in the accounts maintained pursuant to Section 4.03(e))
shall be prima
facie evidence
of the existence and amounts of the obligations recorded therein; provided that the
failure of any Lender or the Agent to maintain such accounts or any error
therein shall not in any manner affect the obligation of the Borrowers to repay
the Loans in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.
4.04 Payments
of Interest.
(a) Interest. So long as
no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Principal shall bear
interest from the date hereof until paid, computed on the basis of actual days
elapsed over a 360-day year, at a rate of one-month LIBOR plus 14.00%; provided, however, that in no
event shall LIBOR be less than 4.00% for purposes of these interest
calculations.
(b) Periodic Interest
Payments. Accrued interest shall be due and payable in cash
monthly in arrears on the first day of each month, commencing on January 1,
2009, and on the Maturity Date (each an “Interest Payment
Date”). The Borrowers shall make the interest payments on each
such Interest Payment Date for the period from the previous Interest Payment
Date (or, with respect to the first Interest Payment Date, from the Closing
Date) to such Interest Payment Date by making a cash payment to the Lenders in
an amount as set forth in Section
4.04(a). Whenever any payment to be made hereunder shall be
stated to be due on a day which is not a Business Day, the due date thereof
shall be extended to the next succeeding Business Day. In addition,
(A) all accrued and unpaid interest on the Loans shall be paid upon the payment
in full of the Principal and, if payment of Principal in full is not paid when
due, thereafter on demand and (B) accrued and unpaid interest shall be paid in
connection with a prepayment of the Principal as specified in Section 4.05 or Section 4.06, as
applicable.
(c) Default Interest
Rate. After the occurrence and during the continuance of an
Event of Default, the Obligations shall bear interest from the date of the
occurrence of such Event of Default (it being understood that with respect to an
Event of Default related to non-compliance with any financial covenant or other
financial measurement, the date of occurrence shall be the applicable test
date), payable monthly as stated in Section 4.02(b), at
the rate of 2.00% per annum in excess of the otherwise applicable interest rate
(the “Default
Rate”).
(d) Savings
Clause. In no contingency or event shall the interest rate
charged pursuant to the terms of this Agreement exceed the highest rate
permissible under any law which a court of competent jurisdiction shall, in a
final determination, deem applicable hereto. In the event that such a
court determines that the Lenders have received interest hereunder in excess of
the highest applicable rate, the amount of such excess interest shall be applied
against the Principal then outstanding, and any excess interest remaining after
such application shall be refunded to the Borrowers.
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4.05 Mandatory
Prepayments.
(a) Extraordinary
Receipts/Dispositions/Involuntary Dispositions. The Borrowers
shall make mandatory prepayments first, to the Pre-Petition Senior
Obligations until paid in full, and thereafter to the Obligations in the manner
set forth in Section
4.05(c) below in an amount equal to one hundred percent (100%) of the Net
Cash Proceeds of Extraordinary Receipts, Dispositions or Involuntary
Dispositions, each mandatory prepayment required hereunder to be made within two
(2) Business Days after the date of receipt of such Net Cash Proceeds by a
Borrower or a Subsidiary thereof.
(b) Debt and Equity
Proceeds. The Borrowers shall make mandatory prepayments
first, to the Pre-Petition Senior Obligations until paid in full, and
thereafter to the Obligations in the manner set forth in Section 4.05(c)
below in amounts equal to one hundred percent (100%) of the aggregate Net Cash
Proceeds from (i) any incurrence of Indebtedness (other than Permitted
Indebtedness) by any Borrower or a Subsidiary thereof and (ii) any issuance of
Equity Interests by any Borrower or a Subsidiary thereof (other than from any
issuance to another Borrower, X. X. Xxxx Laminar Acquisition Holdings 3,
L.L.C. and its Affiliates or members of management, key employees or directors
pursuant to stock option, stock grant or similar plans for the benefit of
management, key employees or directors generally). Such prepayments
are to be made within two (2) Business Days after the date of receipt of
Net Cash Proceeds of any such transaction.
(c) Prepayment. Upon
the occurrence of any event triggering the prepayment requirement under Section 4.05(a)
or (b), the
Administrative Borrower shall promptly give written notice to the
Lenders. All prepayments hereunder shall be applied in accordance
with the provisions of Section
4.07.
4.06 [Reserved].
4.07 Application
of Payments.
All
payments be made hereunder shall be applied as follows:
(a) first,
to costs, expenses, indemnities and other amounts (other than principal and
interest) due and payable with respect to the Pre-Petition Senior
Obligations;
(b) second,
to default interest, if any, due and payable with respect to the
Pre-Petition Senior Obligations;
(c) third,
to accrued and unpaid interest due and payable with respect
to the Pre-Petition Senior Obligations;
(d) fourth,
to principal due and payable with respect to the Pre-Petition
Senior Obligations;
(e) fifth,
to costs, expenses, indemnities and other amounts (other than principal and
interest) due and payable with respect to the
Obligations;
(f) sixth,
to default interest, if any, due and payable with respect to the
Obligations;
(g) seventh,
to accrued and unpaid interest due and payable with respect
to the Obligations; and
(h) eighth,
to principal due and payable with respect to the
Obligations.
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4.08 Direct
Payment.
All
payments made with respect to the Pre-Petition Senior Obligations shall be made
to the Agent for the benefit of the Pre-Petition Senior Agent on behalf of the
Pre-Petition Senior Lenders and, in each case, all payments made with respect to
the Obligations shall be made to the Agent for the benefit of the Lenders
at such address as the Agent may from time to time designate in writing to the
Borrowers or, if a bank account(s) with a United States bank is designated for
the Agent on Schedule 3.01 or
in any written notice to the Borrowers from the Agent, the Borrowers will make
such payments in immediately available funds to such bank account, no later than
12:00 p.m. (noon) Eastern time on the date due, marked for attention as
indicated, or in such other manner or to such other account in any United States
bank as the Agent may from time to time direct in writing.
4.09 Taxes.
(a) Any
and all payments by or on behalf of the Borrowers hereunder and under any Loan
Document shall be made, free and clear of and without deduction for any and all
current or future taxes, levies, imposts, deductions, charges or withholdings
that are or would be applicable to the Lenders, and all liabilities with respect
thereto, excluding (x) income taxes imposed on the net income of a Lender
and (y) franchise taxes imposed on the net income of a Lender, in each case
by the jurisdiction under the laws of which such Lender is organized or
qualified to do business or a jurisdiction or any political subdivision thereof
in which the Lender engages in business activity other than activity arising
solely from the Lender having executed this Agreement and having enjoyed its
rights and performed its obligations under this Agreement or any Loan Document
or any political subdivision thereof (all such nonexcluded taxes, levies,
imposts, deductions, charges, withholdings and liabilities, collectively or
individually, being called “Taxes”). If
a Borrower must deduct any Taxes from or in respect of any sum payable hereunder
or under any other Loan Document to a Lender, (x) the sum payable shall be
increased by the amount (an “additional amount”)
necessary so that after making all required deductions (including deductions
applicable to additional sums payable under this Section 4.09)
such Lender shall receive an amount equal to the sum it would have received had
no such deductions been made, (y) such Borrower shall make such deductions
and (z) such Borrower shall pay the full amount deducted to the relevant
Governmental Authority in accordance with applicable law.
(b) The
Borrowers will pay to the relevant Governmental Authority in accordance with
applicable law any current or future stamp or documentary taxes or any other
excise or property taxes, charges or similar levies that arise from any payment
made hereunder or under any Loan Document, or from the execution, delivery or
registration of, or otherwise with respect to, this Agreement or any Loan
Document that are or would be applicable to the Lenders (“Other
Taxes”).
(c) The
Borrowers jointly and severally agree to indemnify each Lender for the full
amount of Taxes and Other Taxes paid by such Lender and any liability (including
penalties, interest and expenses (including reasonable attorney’s fees and
expenses)) arising therefrom or with respect thereto, whether or not such Taxes
or Other Taxes were correctly or legally asserted by the relevant Governmental
Authority. A certificate as to the amount of such payment or
liability prepared by such Lender absent manifest error, shall be final
conclusive and binding for all purposes. Such indemnification shall
be made within thirty (30) days after the date such Lender makes written
demand therefor. The Borrowers shall have the right to receive that
portion of any refund of any Taxes and Other Taxes received by a Lender for
which any Borrower has previously paid any additional amount or indemnified such
Lender and which leaves the Lender, after such Borrower’s receipt thereof, in no
better or worse financial position than if no such Taxes or Other Taxes had been
imposed or additional amounts or indemnification paid to the
Lender. The Lender shall have sole discretion as to whether (and
shall in no event be obligated) to make any such claim for any refund of any
Taxes or Other Taxes.
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4.10 Fees.
(a) Unused Line
Fee. The Borrowers shall pay to the Agent, for the account of
each Lender in accordance with its Revolving Commitment, an unused line fee
equal to 0.375% per annum times the actual
daily amount by which the Aggregate Revolving Commitment exceeds the sum of the
total aggregate outstanding amount of Loans. The unused line fee shall accrue at
all times during the Availability Period, including at any time during which one
or more of the conditions in Article V is not met,
and shall be due and payable monthly in arrears on the first Business Day of
each month, commencing with the first such date to occur after the Closing Date,
and on the last day of the Availability Period. The unused line fee shall be
calculated monthly in arrears.
(b) Commitment
Fee. The Borrowers shall pay to the Agent on the Closing Date,
for the account of each Lender on a pro rata basis, a commitment fee equal to
$100,000.
(c) Administration Fee.
With respect to the administration of the Loans, the Borrowers shall pay to the
Agent, for its own account, a monthly administration fee of $10,000 on the
Closing Date and in arrears with every interest payment thereafter.
4.11 Termination
or Reduction of Aggregate Revolving Commitments.
(a) Optional. The
Borrowers may, upon notice to the Agent, from time to time permanently terminate
or reduce the Aggregate Revolving Commitments; provided that
(i) any such notice shall be received by the Agent not later than 1:00 p.m.
one (1) Business Day prior to the date of termination or reduction,
(ii) any such partial reduction shall be in an aggregate amount of $50,000
or any whole multiple of $10,000 in excess thereof and (iii) the Borrowers
shall not terminate or reduce the Aggregate Revolving Commitments if, after
giving effect thereto and to any concurrent prepayments hereunder, the total
outstanding amount of Loans would exceed the Aggregate Revolving
Commitments.
(b) Application of Aggregate
Revolving Commitment Reductions; Payment of Fees. The Agent
will promptly notify the Lenders of any termination or reduction of the
Aggregate Revolving Commitments under this Section
4.11. Upon any reduction of the Aggregate Revolving
Commitments, the Revolving Commitment of each Lender shall be reduced by such
Lender’s applicable percentage of such reduction amount. All fees in
respect of the Loans accrued until the effective date of any termination of the
Aggregate Revolving Commitments shall be paid on the effective date of such
termination.
ARTICLE
V.
CONDITIONS
PRECEDENT TO CLOSING
5.01 Conditions
To Closing.
The
Lenders’ obligations to enter into this Agreement and to make the initial Loans
at Closing are subject to each Lender determining, in its sole discretion, that
the following conditions precedent have been satisfied (or each Lender waiving
in writing (or through funding) the conditions that it has determined have not
been satisfied), on or before the Closing Date:
(a) Loan Documents and
Certificates. The Agent’s receipt of the following, each of
which shall be originals, facsimiles or in .PDF format (followed promptly by
originals) unless otherwise specified, each properly executed by a Responsible
Officer of the signing Borrower, each dated the Closing Date (or, in the case of
certificates of governmental officials, a recent date before the Closing Date)
and each in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Agent and its
legal counsel:
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(i) Loan
Documents. Executed counterparts of this Agreement, each
of the Collateral
Documents and any other applicable Loan Documents.
(ii) [Reserved].
(iii) Secretary’s
Certificates. A certificate of a Responsible Officer of each
Borrower, in substantially the form of Exhibit D attached
hereto, certifying that attached thereto is a true, correct and complete copy of
(A) the resolutions duly adopted by the board of directors or other
governing body of each Borrower, as applicable, authorizing the borrowings
contemplated hereunder and the execution, delivery and performance of the Loan
Documents to which it is a party, (B) the articles or certificate of
incorporation or formation or other charter documents of each Borrower, as
applicable, and all amendments thereto, certified as of a recent date by the
appropriate Governmental Authority in its jurisdiction of incorporation or
formation, (C) the bylaws, operating agreement or other governing document
of each Borrower, as applicable, as in effect on the date of such
certifications, (D) the names of each person of each Borrower, as
applicable, executing any Loan Document to which such Borrower is a party,
together with the attestation that such person has been duly elected or
appointed and is qualified as a Responsible Officer of the applicable Borrower
on the date hereof, holding the office or offices set forth opposite his or her
name, and the signature set forth opposite his or her name is a specimen of his
or her signature, (E) certificates as of a recent date of the good standing
of each Borrower under the laws of its jurisdiction of organization and, to the
extent requested by the Lenders, each other jurisdiction where each Borrower is
qualified to do business, and (F) all material consents, licenses and approvals
required in connection with the execution, delivery and performance by such
Borrower and the validity against such Borrower of the Loan Documents to which
it is a party, and such consents, licenses and approvals shall be in full force
and effect, or stating that no such consents, licenses or approvals are so
required.
(iv) Officer’s Closing
Certificate. A certificate of a Responsible Officer of the
Administrative Borrower, on behalf of the Borrowers, in substantially the form
of Exhibit E
attached hereto, certifying (A) that all of the conditions specified in
this Section 5.01
have been satisfied, (B) that, other than with respect to the
Reorganization Cases and as disclosed in the Parent’s filings with the SEC,
since November 29, 2008 there has been no change, occurrence or
development that has had or could be reasonably expected to have a
Material Adverse Effect, and (C) that, other than with respect to the
Reorganization Cases, no actions, suits, investigations or proceedings are
pending or threatened in any court or before any arbitrator or Governmental
Authority that purport (1) to materially and adversely affect the Borrowers
or (2) to affect any transaction contemplated by this Agreement or the
ability of the Borrowers or any other obligor under the Loan Documents to
perform their respective obligations under the Loan Documents.
(v) Other
Documentation. Such other assurances, certificates, documents,
consents or opinions as the Lenders reasonably may require.
(b) Financial
Matters.
(i) Financial
Statements. The Lenders shall have received (A) the
unaudited combined balance sheets and statements of income for the ten months
ended November 29, 2008 for the Parent and its Subsidiaries prepared by the
chief financial officer (or other Responsible Officer agreed to by the Lenders)
of the Parent; and (B) a balance sheet of the Parent as of November 29,
2008 and on a pro forma basis, all in form and substance reasonably satisfactory
to the Lenders and prepared in accordance with GAAP, subject, in the case of
clause (A), to the absence of footnotes and to normal year-end audit
adjustments.
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(ii) [Reserved].
(iii) Agreed
Budget. The Lenders shall have received the Agreed Budget,
together with an Agreed Budget Compliance Certificate, in each case in form and
substance satisfactory to the Lender.
(iv) [Reserved].
(v) Fees and
Expenses. Borrowers shall have paid (i) the fees in
accordance with the terms of Section 4.10, and
(ii) all other fees and expenses required to be paid on or before the
Closing Date.
(vi) Indebtedness. The
Lenders shall be satisfied with the amount and terms of any inter-company
Indebtedness and all Indebtedness and material liabilities of the Borrowers to
any third parties existing on the Closing Date.
(vii) Other Financial Information
and Other Documents. The Lenders shall have received any
updates or modifications to the financial information previously provided
thereto by the Borrowers, as reasonably requested by the Lenders. The Lenders
shall have received any other documents reasonably requested thereby in
connection with this Agreement, and each such document shall be in form and
substance reasonably satisfactory to the Lenders.
(c) Collateral
Matters.
(i) The
Agent shall have
received:
(A) searches
of relevant real property records and of UCC filings in the jurisdiction of the
chief executive office of each Borrower and each jurisdiction where any
Collateral is located or where a filing would need to be made in order to
perfect the Agent’s security interest in the Collateral, copies of the financing
statements or security agreements on file in such jurisdictions and payoff
letters in connection with existing Indebtedness, all of which shall evidence
that no Liens exist other than Permitted Liens;
(B) UCC
financing statements for each appropriate jurisdiction as are necessary, in the
Agent’s sole discretion, to perfect the Agent’s security interest in the
Collateral;
(C) searches
of ownership of intellectual property in the appropriate governmental offices
and such patent/trademark/copyright filings as requested by the Agent in order
to perfect the Agent’s security interest in the Collateral;
(D) all
instruments and chattel paper in the possession of any of the Borrowers,
together with allonges or assignments as may be necessary or appropriate to
perfect the Agent’s security interest in the Collateral;
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(E) duly
executed consents as are necessary, in the Agent’s sole discretion, to perfect
the Lenders’ security interest in the Collateral, including, without limitation,
such agreements from lessors of real property as the Agent may require;
and
(F) a
copy of insurance certificates evidencing the policies required pursuant to
Section 7.09,
naming the Agent as additional insured and loss payee.
(ii) Priority of
Liens. The Agent shall have received satisfactory evidence
that (A) the Agent, on behalf of the Lenders, holds a perfected first-priority
Lien on all Collateral subject only to the Agreed Senior Liens and (B) none of
the Collateral is subject to any other Liens other than Permitted Encumbrances
and the Agreed Senior Liens.
(d) Miscellaneous.
(i) Governmental and Third Party
Approvals. The Borrowers shall have received all material
governmental, shareholder and third party consents and approvals necessary (as
determined in the discretion of the Lenders) in connection with the transactions
contemplated by this Agreement and the other Loan Documents and the other
transactions contemplated hereby and all applicable waiting periods shall have
expired without any action being taken by any Person that could reasonably be
expected to restrain, prevent or impose any material adverse conditions on any
of the Borrowers or such other transactions or that could seek or threaten any
of the foregoing, and no law or regulation shall be applicable which in the
judgment of the Lenders could reasonably be expected to have such
effect.
(ii) Corporate Structure and
Capitalization of Parent. The capital and ownership structure
and the equity holder arrangements of the Parent and its Subsidiaries, on the
Closing Date and on a pro forma basis after giving effect to the transactions
contemplated by the Loan Documents, shall be reasonably satisfactory to the
Lenders (and the Lenders shall have received satisfactory evidence that (A) the
capital and ownership structure and equity holder arrangements of the Parent are
as set forth in Schedule 5.01,
and (B) all Equity Interests of the Parent’s Subsidiaries shall be owned
by the Parent and/or one or more Subsidiaries thereof).
(iii) Other
Documents. All certificates and other instruments, and all
proceedings in connection with the transactions contemplated by the Loan
Documents, shall be reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the
Lenders. The Lenders shall have received copies of all other
documents, certificates and instruments reasonably requested thereby, with
respect to the transactions contemplated by the Loan Documents.
(iv) Approval of Lenders’
Investment Committees. Each Lender’s credit committee and
investment committee shall have reviewed and approved the terms of the Loan
Documents.
(v) Due
Diligence. The Lenders and Agent shall have completed all due
diligence with respect to the Borrowers in scope and determination satisfactory
to the Lenders and the Agent in their discretion.
(e) Representations and
Warranties. The representations and warranties of the
Borrowers contained in Article VI
hereof and each other Loan Document shall be true and correct in all respects,
except to the extent that such representations and warranties specifically refer
to an earlier date, in which case they shall be true and correct as of such
earlier date.
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(f) Defaults or Events of
Default. No Default or Event of Default shall exist, or would
result from entering into the Loan Documents.
(g) Interim DIP Financing
Order. Receipt by the Agent of evidence satisfactory to the
Agent, in its sole discretion, that the Interim DIP Financing Order has been
entered by the Bankruptcy Court and docketed by the Clerk of the Bankruptcy
Court with prior notice to such parties (including, without limitation, the
Pre-Petition Lenders) as is required under Rule 4001 of the Federal Rules of
Bankruptcy Procedure, and that such order shall be in full force and effect and
shall not have been stayed, vacated, reversed, modified, amended, or
appealed.
(h) Lenders
and the Agent shall have reviewed and find satisfactory (i) all motions, orders
and other pleadings or related documents to be filed or submitted to the
Bankruptcy Court in connection with this Agreement, and (ii) all first-day and
related orders entered by the Bankruptcy Court in the Reorganization Cases,
including, without limitation, any and all cash collateral and related orders;
provided, that
cash collateral may not be used other than as set forth herein without the
consent of the Agent and the Lenders in their sole and absolute
discretion.
(i) Lenders
shall be satisfied that the Aggregate Revolving Commitments contemplated by this
Agreement shall be sufficient to meet the ongoing financial needs of the
Borrowers.
(j) The
Borrowers shall have engaged, and an application shall have been filed with the
Bankruptcy Court seeking to employ, (A) Clear Thinking Group, LLC (or an
alternative firm acceptable to the Agent) as financial advisor (the “Financial Advisor”)
and (B) Xxxxx Xxxxxx (or an alternative Person acceptable to the Agent) as
Chief Restructuring Officer, and, in each case, (x) the Agent and
the Lenders shall be satisfied with the terms and scope of their
engagement and employment, including provisions for the sharing of information
with the Lenders and (y) the Bankruptcy Court shall have approved such
arrangements.
5.02 Conditions
To All Loans.
The
obligation of each Lender to make any Loan hereunder is subject to,
in addition to the appropriate conditions set forth elsewhere in this Article V, the
satisfaction, on the date of such Loan, of the following conditions
precedent:
(a) Representations and
Warranties. The representations and warranties of the
Borrowers contained in Article VI and
each other Loan Document that are subject to materiality or Material Adverse
Effect qualifications shall be true and correct in all respects and the
representations and warranties of the Borrowers contained in Article VI and
each other Loan Document that are not subject to materiality or Material Adverse
Effect qualifications shall be true and correct in all material respects, except
to the extent that such representations and warranties specifically refer to an
earlier date, in which case they shall be true and correct as of such earlier
date.
(b) Defaults or Events of
Default. No Default or Event of Default shall exist, or would
result from the entering into the Loan Documents.
(c) Loan
Notice. The Agent shall have received a Loan Notice in
accordance with the requirements hereof, which Loan Notice shall include, among
other things, certifications as to compliance with the Agreed Budget in
accordance with the terms hereof and substantially similar to those set forth in
the Agreed Budget Compliance Certificate delivered on the Closing Date pursuant
to Section
5.01(b)(iii).
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(d) Financing
Orders. Either the Interim DIP Financing Order or Final DIP
Financing Order shall be in full force and effect and shall not have been
vacated, reversed, modified, amended or stayed (except to the extent that the
Interim DIP Financing Order is replaced and superseded by the Final DIP
Financing Order) and shall be in form and substance satisfactory to the Agent
and the Lenders.
(e) No Other
Financing. No order of the Bankruptcy Court shall have been
entered (i) authorizing the Borrowers to borrow money pursuant to section 364 of
the Bankruptcy Code from any Person (other than the Lenders pursuant to this
Agreement or otherwise) or to obtain any other credit from any Person secured by
a Lien on any of the assets of the Borrowers pursuant to sections 364(c) and (d)
of the Bankruptcy Code, (ii) affording any creditor adequate protection under
sections 361 through 364 of the Bankruptcy Code by granting a Lien in any
Collateral, other than the Pre-Petition Senior Agent and the Pre-Petition Senior
Lenders, unless the Lenders consent to such a Lien or such Lien is junior and
expressly subordinated in all respects to the Liens of the Agent in the
Collateral held for and on behalf of the Lenders, or (iii) which in the sole
discretion of the Lenders adversely affects the creditworthiness of the
Borrowers with respect to the Loans, the Borrowers’ ability to perform their
obligations hereunder, or the benefits to the Lenders contemplated
hereunder.
(f) Final DIP Financing
Order. The obligation of the Lenders to extend credit under
this Agreement after the Interim Facility Maturity Date shall be subject to the
further condition precedent that, in addition to the conditions set forth in
Section 5.01
hereof and in the other provisions of this Section 5.02, the
Agent shall have received evidence, satisfactory to the Agent in its sole
discretion that the Final DIP Financing Order has been entered by the Bankruptcy
Court and docketed by the Clerk of the Bankruptcy Court, and that such order (i)
shall be in full force and effect, (ii) shall be in a form and substance
satisfactory to the Lenders and the Agent, (iii) shall contain the provisions
required to be contained in the Interim DIP Financing Order pursuant to Section 5.01(g)
hereof, (iv) shall specifically authorize and require the Borrowers to satisfy
the Pre-Petition Senior Obligations with the proceeds of Loans under this credit
facility, (v) shall provide that the Borrowers and all other Persons are
prohibited from asserting any claims against the Collateral pursuant to 11
U.S.C. §506(c) and (vi) shall not have been stayed, vacated, reversed, modified,
amended or appealed.
(g) [Reserved].
(h) Material Adverse
Effect. Except as occasioned by the commencement of the
Reorganization Cases and the actions and proceedings related thereto, no event
having a Material Adverse Effect shall have occurred since the Closing
Date.
(i) Certificates,
Etc. The Lenders shall have received, in form and substance
reasonably satisfactory to the Lenders, all certificates, orders,
authorizations, consents, affidavits, schedules, instruments, security
agreements, financing statements, mortgages and other documents which are
provided for hereunder or under the Interim DIP Financing Order or (if
applicable) the Final DIP Financing Order, or which the Lenders may at any time
request, and all legal matters incident to making of the Loans shall be
satisfactory to the Lenders.
(j) Fees. The
Borrowers shall have paid all fees and expenses then due and payable as provided
for in the Interim DIP Financing Order and the Final DIP Financing Order or in
any of the other Loan Documents.
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ARTICLE
VI.
REPRESENTATIONS
AND WARRANTIES
Each of
the Borrowers jointly and severally represents and warrants to the Lenders that,
immediately at the giving effect to the transactions contemplated herein and the
other Loan Documents:
6.01 Organization;
Powers.
Each of
the Borrowers and each of its Subsidiaries is duly organized, validly existing
and in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its organization, has
all requisite power and authority to own its properties and to carry on its
business as now conducted and, except where the failure to so qualify could not
reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, is qualified to do
business in, and is in good standing in, every jurisdiction where such
qualification is required.
6.02 Authorization;
Enforceability.
The
execution, delivery and performance by each Borrower of each Loan Document to
which such Borrower is party are within such Borrower’s corporate powers and
have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate and, if required,
shareholder action. The Loan Documents to which each Borrower is a
party have been duly executed and delivered by such Borrower and, subject to the
entry and effectiveness of the Financing Orders, constitute a legal, valid and
binding obligation of such Borrower, enforceable in accordance with its terms,
subject to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or
other laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and subject to general
principles of equity, regardless of whether considered in a proceeding in equity
or at law.
6.03 Governmental
Approvals; No Conflicts.
The
execution, delivery and performance by each Borrower of each Loan Document (a)
does not require any consent or approval of, registration or filing with, or any
other action by, any Governmental Authority, except the approval of the
Bankruptcy Court with respect to the Interim DIP Financing Order or the Final
DIP Financing Order, as applicable, and such as have been obtained or made and
are in full force and effect and except any of the foregoing which are
immaterial in nature, (b) will not violate any applicable law or regulation or
the charter, by-laws or other Organizational Documents of any Borrower or its
Subsidiaries or any order of any Governmental Authority, (c) will not violate or
result in a default under any material indenture, agreement or other instrument
binding upon any Borrower or its Subsidiaries or its assets, or give rise to a
right thereunder to require any payment to be made by any Borrower or its
Subsidiaries and (d) will not result in the creation or imposition of any Lien
on any asset of any Borrower or its Subsidiaries except Liens created under the
Loan Documents.
6.04 Financial
Condition.
(a) The
Borrowers have heretofore previously delivered to the Lenders (i) audited
consolidated balance sheets of Parent and its Subsidiaries as of each of the
Fiscal Years ended January 28, 2006, February 3, 2007 and February 2, 2008 and
the notes thereto and the related consolidated statements of operations,
shareholders’ equity and cash flows of Parent and its Subsidiaries for the
Fiscal Years then ended, (ii) unaudited consolidated balance sheets of Parent
and its Subsidiaries as of the Fiscal Quarter ending November 1, 2008 and the
related consolidated statements of operations, shareholders’ equity and cash
flows of Parent and its Subsidiaries for the Fiscal Quarter then ended and (iii)
unaudited consolidated balance sheets of Parent and its Subsidiaries as of each
of the Fiscal Months ending after the most recent Fiscal Quarter referred to in
clause (ii) above for which financial statements have been delivered in
connection with the Pre-Petition Loan Agreements and more than thirty (30) days
prior to the Closing Date and the related consolidated statements of operations,
shareholders’ equity and cash flows of Parent and its Subsidiaries for the
Fiscal Months then ended. Such financial statements present fairly,
in all material respects, the financial position and results of operations and
cash flows of Parent and its Subsidiaries as of such dates and for such periods
in accordance with GAAP, subject to year end audit adjustments and the absence
of footnotes in the case of the statements referred to in clauses (ii) and (iii)
above.
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(b) Parent
has heretofore caused to be timely filed with the SEC (i) audited consolidated
balance sheets of Parent and its Subsidiaries as of the Fiscal Year ended
February 2, 2008 and the notes thereto and the related consolidated statements
of operations, shareholders’ equity and cash flows of Parent and its
Subsidiaries for the Fiscal Year then ended and (ii) unaudited consolidated
balance sheets of Parent and its Subsidiaries as of the Fiscal Quarter ended
November 1, 2008 and the related consolidated statements of operations,
shareholders’ equity and cash flows of Parent and its Subsidiaries for the
Fiscal Quarter then ended. Such financial statements present fairly,
in all material respects, the financial position and results of operations and
cash flows of Parent and its Subsidiaries as of such dates and for such periods
in accordance with GAAP, subject to year end audit adjustments and the absence
of footnotes in the case of the statements referred to in clause (ii)
above.
6.05 Intellectual
Property; Websites.
(a) Each
Borrower and its Subsidiaries owns, or is licensed to use, all trademarks,
tradenames, copyrights, patents and other intellectual property necessary to the
current and future anticipated conduct of the Borrowers’ and their Subsidiaries’
business, a correct and complete list of which, as of the Closing Date, is set
forth on Schedule
6.05(a), the Borrowers either (i) own the entire right, title and
interest thereto or (ii) hold such interest pursuant to a valid, subsisting and
enforceable license and, to the Borrowers’ knowledge, the use thereof by the
Borrowers and their Subsidiaries does not infringe in any material respect upon
the rights of any other Person.
(b) Set
forth on Schedule
6.05(b) hereto is (i) a complete list of all Websites and Domain Names
owned by the Borrowers, including the domain name registrar with respect to each
such Domain Name and the date on which the Borrowers’ registration of each such
Domain Name with each such domain name registrar is scheduled to expire and (ii)
a complete list of all Websites and Domains Names as to which a Borrower is the
licensee and the name of the licensor with respect thereto. Each
Domain Name set forth on Schedule 6.05(b) and
owned by the Borrowers is duly registered with the domain name registrar set
forth on Schedule
6.05(b) opposite such Domain Name and has not been registered with any
other domain name registrar. Each domain name registrar set forth on
Schedule
6.05(b) with respect to each Domain Name owned by the Borrowers is duly
accredited by ICANN. The Borrowers own and have good and marketable
title to, or are licensed to use, all Websites and Domain Names set forth on
Schedule
6.05(b) and, to the knowledge of the Borrowers, the use thereof by the
Borrowers does not infringe upon the rights of any other Person in any material
respect. The Websites and Domain Names owned by the Borrowers have
been maintained and renewed in accordance with all applicable laws, rules and
regulations and all applicable rules and procedures of each domain name
registrar and ICANN. The Borrowers have taken commercially reasonable
steps to protect their rights and interests in and to their Websites and Domain
Names.
6.06 Litigation.
Other
than as may occur directly in connection with the entry of the Interim DIP
Financing Order and the Final DIP Financing Order, there are no actions, suits,
proceedings or investigations by or before any arbitrator or Governmental
Authority pending against or, to the knowledge of any Borrower, threatened
against or affecting any Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries (i) as to which
there is a reasonable possibility of an adverse determination and that, if
adversely determined, could reasonably be expected, individually or in the
aggregate, to result in a Material Adverse Effect or (ii) that involve this
Agreement or any other Loan Document or any of the Agent’s or the Lenders’
remedies hereunder or thereunder.
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6.07 Compliance
with Laws.
Each
Borrower is in compliance with all laws, regulations and orders of any
Governmental Authority applicable to it or its Property, except where the
failure to do so, individually or in the aggregate, could not reasonably be
expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.
6.08 Investment
and Holding Company Status.
No
Borrower nor any of its Subsidiaries is, nor is controlled by a company other
than the Lenders and their Affiliates that is, an “investment company” as
defined in, or subject to regulation under, the Investment Company Act of 1940,
as amended.
6.09 Taxes.
Except as
disclosed on Schedule
6.09, each Borrower and its Subsidiaries has timely filed or caused to be
filed all federal and other material Tax returns and reports required to have
been filed by it and has paid or caused to be paid all Taxes required to have
been paid by it, except (x) when a non-payment is permitted by the Bankruptcy
Code, (y) Taxes that are being contested in good faith by appropriate
proceedings and for which the applicable Borrower or Subsidiary has set aside on
its books adequate reserves and (z) Taxes the non-payment of which, in the
aggregate, is not reasonably expected to have a Material Adverse
Effect. Except as disclosed on Schedule 6.09, no tax
Liens have been filed and no material claims have been asserted in writing with
respect to any such Taxes.
6.10 ERISA.
(a) No
ERISA Event has occurred or is reasonably expected to occur that, when taken
together with all other such ERISA Events for which liability is reasonably
expected to occur, could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse
Effect. The present value of all accumulated benefit obligations
under each Plan (based on the assumptions used for purposes of Statement of
Financial Accounting Standards No. 87) did not, as of the date of the most
recent financial statements reflecting such amounts, exceed by an amount that
could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect the fair
market value of the assets of such Plan, and the present value of all
accumulated benefit obligations of all underfunded Plans (based on the
assumptions used for purposes of Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No.
87) did not, as of the date of the most recent financial statements reflecting
such amounts, exceed by more than $250,000 the fair market value of the assets
of all such underfunded Plans.
(b) No
Non-U.S. Plan has incurred any unfunded liability which could reasonably be
expected to give rise to a Material Adverse Effect.
(c) Except
as required by applicable law, or which could not reasonably be expected to give
rise to a Material Adverse Effect, neither the Borrowers nor any Subsidiary
thereof maintains, sponsors or contributes to any plan, policy or arrangement
that provides medical benefits to retirees or their beneficiaries.
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6.11 Disclosure.
Each
Borrower and each of its Subsidiaries has disclosed to the Agent and the Lenders
all agreements, instruments and corporate or other restrictions to which it is
subject that, individually or in the aggregate, could reasonably be expected to
result in a Material Adverse Effect. None of the reports, financial
statements, certificates or other written information furnished by or on behalf
of the Borrowers to the Bankruptcy Court, the Agent or any Lender in connection
with the negotiation of this Agreement or delivered hereunder (as modified or
supplemented by other information so furnished) contains any material
misstatement of fact or omits to state any material fact necessary to make the
statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were
made, not misleading; provided that, with respect to
projected financial information, the Borrowers represent only that such
projected statements are based on good faith estimates and assumptions believed
to be reasonable at the time made.
6.12 Material
Agreements.
Schedule 6.12 accurately
and completely lists all material agreements to which each of the Borrowers is a
party, including, without limitation, all material purchase agreements, material
customer agreements, material right of way or occupancy agreements, material
lease agreements, material consulting agreements, material management agreements
and material employment agreements. All of such agreements are valid,
subsisting and in full force and effect and none of the Borrowers, as
applicable, or, to the knowledge of the Borrowers, any other parties, are in
material default thereunder. The Borrowers have provided true and
complete copies of all such agreements to the Lenders. Set forth on
Schedule 6.12
hereto is a complete and correct list of all material credit agreements,
indentures, purchase agreements, obligations in respect of letters of credit,
guarantees, joint venture agreements, and other instruments in effect or to be
in effect as of the Closing Date providing for, evidencing, securing or
otherwise relating to any Indebtedness of the Borrowers or any of their
Subsidiaries, and all material obligations of the Borrowers or any of their
Subsidiaries to issuers of material surety or appeal bonds issued for account of
the Borrowers or any such Subsidiary as of the Closing Date, and correctly sets
forth the names of the debtor and creditor with respect to the Indebtedness
obligations outstanding or to be outstanding and the property subject to any
Lien securing such Indebtedness obligation as of the Closing
Date. The Borrowers have heretofore delivered to the Lenders a
complete and correct copy of all such material credit agreements, indentures,
purchase agreements, contracts, letters of credit, guarantees, joint venture
agreements, or other instruments, including any modifications or supplements
thereto, as in effect on the Closing Date.
6.13 Capitalization and
Subsidiaries.
Except as
set forth in Parent’s SEC filings, Parent has not issued any of its Capital
Stock and there are no further subscriptions, contracts or agreements for the
issuance or purchase of any other or additional equity interests in the
Borrowers, either in the form of options, agreements, warrants, calls,
convertible securities or other similar rights. All the outstanding
Capital Stock of Parent will have been duly and validly authorized and issued
and will be fully paid and nonassessable and will have been offered, issued,
sold and delivered in compliance with applicable federal and state securities
laws. Except as set forth in Parent’s SEC filings, none of the
Borrowers is a party to any “phantom stock”, employee stock option plan, other
equity-based incentive plan or similar agreement. Except as set forth
on Parent’s SEC filings, (i) there are no preemptive or similar rights to
purchase or otherwise acquire equity securities of, or interests in, the
Borrowers pursuant to any requirement of Law or Contractual Obligation
applicable to the Borrowers and (ii) no registration rights under the
Securities Act have been granted by the Borrowers with respect to its equity
securities or interests. The Parent owns 100% of the ownership
interests in the Borrowers and all common stock or other ownership interests in
the Borrowers’ Subsidiaries are owned by the Borrowers or one or more
Subsidiaries thereof.
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6.14 Mutual Benefit.
Each
Borrower expects to derive substantial benefit (and its board of directors or
other governing body has determined that it may reasonably be expected to derive
substantial benefit), directly or indirectly, from the credit extended by the
Lenders to the Borrowers hereunder, both in their separate capacities and as
members of a combined group of companies. Each Borrower has
determined that (i) such Borrower derives substantial benefit from the
successful operations of each other Borrower, (ii) that such Borrower could not
separately obtain credit on terms as favorable to such Borrower as the terms of
the credit being extended by the Lenders to the Borrowers hereunder, and (iii)
the execution, delivery, and performance of this Agreement and any other Loan
Documents to be executed by such Borrower is within its corporate or limited
liability company purpose, will be of substantial direct and indirect benefit to
such Borrower, and is in such Borrower’s best interest.
6.15 Security
Interest in Collateral.
The
provisions of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, together with the
Financing Orders, are effective to create legal and valid first priority
(subject only to the Agreed Senior Liens) Liens on all the Collateral in favor
of the Agent, for the benefit of the Agent and the Lenders. Pursuant
to the terms of the Interim DIP Financing Order and the Final DIP Financing
Order, no filing or other action will be necessary to perfect or protect such
Liens. Pursuant to and to the extent provided in the Interim DIP
Financing Order and the Final DIP Financing Order, the Obligations of the
Borrowers will constitute allowed administrative expense claims in the
Reorganization Cases under Section 364(c) of
the Bankruptcy Code,
having priority over all administrative expense claims and unsecured claims
against such Borrowers now existing or hereafter arising, of any kind
whatsoever, including, without limitation, all administrative expense claims of
the kind specified in Sections 105, 326, 328, 330, 331, 364(c), 503(b), 506(c),
507(a), 507(b), 546(c), 726, 1113 and 1114 of the Bankruptcy Code and all
superpriority administrative expense claims granted to any other Person,
subject, as to priority, only to the Carve-Out Expenses and the Super-Priority
Claim of the Pre-Petition Senior Agent.
6.16 Labor
Matters.
As of the
Closing Date, (a) except as set forth on Schedule 6.16, there
is no collective bargaining agreement or other material labor contract covering
employees of any Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, (b) no union or other
labor organization is seeking to organize, or to be recognized as, a collective
bargaining unit of employees of any Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries or for
any similar purpose, and (c) there is no pending or (to the best of the
Borrowers’ knowledge) threatened, strike, work stoppage, material unfair labor
practice claim, or other material labor dispute against or affecting any
Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries or employees.
6.17 Affiliate
Transactions.
Except as
set forth in Parent’s SEC filings, there are no Contractual Obligations of a
Borrower to any of the officers, directors, shareholders, Affiliates or their
respective Affiliates, or Related Parties, of a Borrower other than (i) for
payment for services rendered, (ii) reimbursement for reasonable expenses
incurred on behalf of a Borrower, (iii) for standard employee benefits made
generally available to all employees of the Borrowers, (iv) pursuant to any
of the transaction documents associated herewith, (v) for sales of products in
the ordinary course of business and (vi) Contractual Obligations entered into on
an arms’ length basis on terms that such Borrower would receive if the
counterparty were not an officer, director, shareholder, Affiliate or Related
Party. Except as set forth in Parent’s SEC filings, none of the
officers, directors, shareholders, employees, Affiliates, or their respective
Affiliates or Related Parties, of any Borrower has incurred Indebtedness to a
Borrower or has any direct or indirect material ownership interest in any Person
with which a Borrower is affiliated or, to the Borrowers’ best knowledge, with
which a Borrower has a business relationship except that such Person may own
stock in publicly traded companies. Other than as set forth in
Parent’s SEC filings, no officer, director, shareholder, Affiliate, or any of
their respective Affiliates or Related Parties, of a Borrower, is, directly or
indirectly, a party to or otherwise interested in any material Contractual
Obligation with a Borrower. Except as may be expressly disclosed in
notes to the Audited Financial Statements, no Borrower is a guarantor or
indemnitor of any Indebtedness of any other Person.
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6.18 Title;
Real Property.
(a) Each
Borrower has good and marketable title to, or valid leasehold interests in, all
real or immovable property and good title to all personal or movable property,
in each case that is purported to be owned or leased by it, including those
reflected on the most recent financial statements delivered by the Borrowers or
purported to have been acquired by any Borrower after the date of such financial
statements (except as sold or otherwise disposed of since such date as permitted
by this Agreement), and none of such properties and assets is subject to any
Lien, except Permitted Encumbrances and the Agreed Senior Liens.
(b) Set
forth on Schedule
6.18 is a complete and accurate list of all real or immovable property
owned, leased, licensed or otherwise used in the operations of the business of
each Borrower and showing the current street address (including, where
applicable, county, state and other relevant jurisdictions), record owner (if
owned) or leasehold interest holder and, (if leased) lessee or other user
thereof. Each of such leases and subleases is valid and enforceable
in accordance with its terms (except as such enforceability may be subject to or
limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar laws) and is
in full force and effect, and to each Borrower’s knowledge, no default by any
party to any material lease or material sublease exists.
6.19 Environment.
Except as
set forth on Schedule
6.19:
(a) The
operations of each Borrower are and since its formation have been in compliance
with all applicable Environmental Laws, other than (i) any past non-compliance
for which there are no remaining obligations or liabilities, and (ii)
non-compliances that, in the aggregate, would not have a reasonable likelihood
of resulting in a Material Adverse Effect.
(b) No
Lien in favor of any Governmental Authority securing, in whole or in part,
Environmental Liabilities is attached to any property of any Borrower and, to
the knowledge of any Borrower, no facts, circumstances or conditions exist that
could reasonably be expected to result in any such Lien attaching to any such
property.
(c) No
Borrower has caused or suffered to occur a Release of Hazardous Materials on,
at, in, under, above, to, or from any real or immovable property of any Borrower
and each such real or immovable property is free of contamination by any
Hazardous Materials except for such Release or contamination that could not
reasonably be expected to result, in the aggregate, in a Material Adverse
Effect.
(d) No
Borrower, or to its knowledge, any corporate predecessor, (i) is or has been
engaged in operations, or (ii) knows of any facts, circumstances or conditions,
including receipt of any information request or notice of potential
responsibility under CERCLA or similar Environmental Laws, that, in the
aggregate, would have a reasonable likelihood of resulting in Environmental
Liabilities, except as could not reasonably be expected to result, in the
aggregate, in a Material Adverse Effect.
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(e) To
the extent requested by the Agent, each Borrower has made available to the Agent
copies of the environmental reports, reviews and audits and other documents
pertaining to actual or potential Environmental Liabilities set forth on Schedule
6.19.
6.20 Insurance.
Each
insurance policy maintained by or on behalf of the Borrowers as of the Closing
Date is in full force and effect as of the Closing Date and all premiums in
respect thereof that are due and payable as of the Closing Date have been
paid.
6.21 Deposit
Accounts.
Schedule 6.21 lists
all banks and other financial institutions at which any Borrower or any of its
Subsidiaries maintains Deposit Accounts as of the Closing Date and such Schedule
correctly identifies the name of each depository, the name in which the account
is held, a description of the purpose of the account and the complete account
number therefor. The Borrowers have not established, and shall not
establish, any additional accounts, other than the Deposit Accounts existing on
the Closing Date and identified on Schedule 6.21 hereto,
without the prior written consent of the Agent.
6.22 [Reserved].
6.23 Processors.
As of the
Closing Date, Schedule
6.23 lists all Processors that provide any Borrower with credit card or
debit card processing services, and such Schedule correctly identifies the name
and address of each Processor, and the name in which such services are
provided. True and complete copies of each agreement listed on Schedule 6.23 have
been delivered to the Agent, together with all amendments, waivers and other
modifications thereto. All such agreements are valid, subsisting, in
full force and effect, are currently binding and will continue to be binding
upon each Borrower that is a party thereto and, to the best knowledge of the
Borrowers, binding upon the other parties thereto in accordance with their
terms. The Borrowers are not in default under any such agreements,
which default could have a Material Adverse Effect.
6.24 Patriot
Act.
Each
Borrower is in compliance, in all material respects, with the (i) the
Trading with the Enemy Act, as amended, 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, and (ii) the Uniting And Strengthening America By Providing
Appropriate Tools Required To Intercept And Obstruct Terrorism (USA Patriot Act
of 2001) (the “Patriot
Act”). No part of the proceeds of the Loans will be used,
directly or indirectly, for any payments to any governmental 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, as
amended.
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6.25 Use
of Proceeds.
(a) General. The
proceeds of the Loans shall be used solely for the purposes set forth in Section
7.08.
(b) Regulations U and
X. No portion of the proceeds of any such advances shall be
used by the Borrowers for the purpose of purchasing or carrying any “margin
stock” (as defined in Regulation U of the Board of Governors of the Federal
Reserve System) or for any other purpose which violates the provisions or
Regulation U or X of said Board of Governors or for any other purpose in
violation of any applicable statute or regulation, or of the terms and
conditions of this Agreement, in each case, to the extent authorized by orders
of the Bankruptcy Court reasonably acceptable to the Agent.
(c) Collateral Proceeds and
Loans. No proceeds of the Collateral or the Loans will be used
by any Borrower or any other Person (including, without limitation, any
statutory committee appointed in the Reorganization Cases) to object to or
contest in any manner, or raise any defenses to, the validity, extent,
perfection, priority or enforceability of the Obligations, the Pre-Petition
Senior Obligations or the Pre-Petition Second Lien Obligations or any Liens with
respect thereto or any of the rights or interests of the Agent, the Lenders, the
Pre-Petition Senior Agent, the Pre-Petition Senior Lenders, the Pre-Petition
Second Lien Agent or the Pre-Petition Second Lien Lenders (whether granted
pursuant to the Pre-Petition Loan Agreements or this Agreement), or to assert
any claims or causes of action, including, without limitation, any actions under
Chapter 5 of the Bankruptcy Code, against the Agent, the Lenders, the
Pre-Petition Senior Agent, the Pre-Petition Senior Lenders, the Pre-Petition
Second Lien Agent or the Pre-Petition Second Lien Lenders (whether such claims
relate to the Pre-Petition Loan Agreements or this Agreement).
6.26 Nature
of Business.
Parent is
not engaged in any business other than ownership, directly or indirectly, of all
of the outstanding Capital Stock of the Borrowers. No Subsidiary of
the Borrowers is engaged in any business other than the businesses described in
Parent’s SEC filings.
6.27 Internal
Accounting Controls.
To the
extent required under the Securities Act or the Exchange Act, and except as set
forth in the Parent’s filings with the SEC, Parent and its Subsidiaries maintain
a system of internal control over financial reporting sufficient to provide
reasonable assurance that (i) transactions are executed in accordance with
management’s general or specific authorizations, (ii) transactions are recorded
as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in conformity with
GAAP and to maintain asset accountability, (iii) access to assets is permitted
only in accordance with management’s general or specific authorization, and (iv)
the recorded accountability for assets is compared with the existing assets at
reasonable intervals and appropriate action is taken with respect to any
differences. There are no disagreements of any kind presently
existing, or reasonably anticipated by Parent to arise, between the accountants
and lawyers formerly or presently employed by Parent with respect to any fees
owed to its accountants and lawyers. To the extent required under the
Securities Act or the Exchange Act, and except as set forth in the SEC Reports,
Parent maintains disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act
Rules 13a-14 and 15d-14) for Parent and designed such disclosures controls and
procedures to ensure that material information relating to Parent, including its
Subsidiaries, is made known to the certifying officers by others within those
entities, particularly during the period in which the Company’s Form 10-K
or 10-Q, as the case may be, is being prepared. To the extent
required under the Securities Act or the Exchange Act, (a) Parent’s certifying
officers have evaluated the effectiveness of Parent’s controls and procedures as
of the end of the period covered by the Company’s Form 10-K for the fiscal
year ended February 2, 2008, the “Evaluation Date”),
(b) Parent presented the conclusions of the certifying officers about the
effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures based on their
evaluations as of each Evaluation Date and (c) since the Evaluation Date, there
have been no significant changes in Parent’s internal controls (as such term is
defined in Item 307(b) of Regulation S-K under the Exchange Act) or, to
Parent’s knowledge, in other factors that could significantly affect Parent’s
internal controls.
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6.28 [Reserved].
6.29 Agreed
Budget.
A true
and complete copy of the initial Agreed Budget is attached as Exhibit F
hereto.
6.30 Financing
Orders.
(a) The
Borrowers are in compliance in all material respects with the terms and
conditions of the Interim DIP Financing Order or the Final DIP Financing Order,
as applicable.
(b) Each
of the Interim DIP Financing Order (with respect to the period prior to the
entry of the Final DIP Financing Order) or the Final DIP Financing Order (from
after the date the Final DIP Financing Order is entered) is in full force and
effect and has not been vacated, reversed or rescinded or, without the prior
written consent of the Agent, in its sole discretion, amended or modified and no appeal of such
order has been timely filed or, if timely filed, no stay pending such appeal is
currently effective.
ARTICLE
VII.
AFFIRMATIVE
COVENANTS
So long
as any Obligations (other than contingent indemnity obligations) hereunder shall
remain unpaid or unsatisfied, each Borrower shall, and shall cause each of its
Subsidiaries to:
7.01 Financial
Statements and Other Information.
The
Borrowers will furnish to the Agent (all in format, and with detail, acceptable
to the Agent), to the extent applicable:
(a) [reserved];
(b) within
forty-five (45) days after the end of each of the first three Fiscal Quarters,
the consolidated and consolidating balance sheet of Parent and its Subsidiaries
and related statements of operations, shareholders’ equity and cash flows as of
the end of and for such Fiscal Quarter and the then elapsed portion of the
Fiscal Year, together with unaudited business segment reporting to the extent
required by GAAP and the SEC, setting forth in each case in comparative form the
figures for the corresponding period or periods of (or, in the case of the
balance sheet, as of the end of) the previous Fiscal Year, all certified by a
Responsible Officer as presenting fairly in all material respects the financial
condition and results of operations of Parent and its consolidated Subsidiaries
on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP consistently applied, subject to
normal year-end audit adjustments and the absence of footnotes;
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(c) within
thirty (30) days after the end of each Fiscal Month of the Borrowers, the
unaudited consolidated and consolidating balance sheet of Parent and its
Subsidiaries and related statements of operations, shareholders’ equity and cash
flows as of the end of and for such Fiscal Month and the then elapsed portion of
the Fiscal Year, setting forth in each case in comparative form the figures for
the corresponding period or periods of (or, in the case of the balance sheet, as
of the end of) the previous Fiscal Year, all certified by a Responsible Officer
as presenting fairly in all material respects the financial condition and
results of operations of Parent and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis in
accordance with GAAP consistently applied, subject to normal year-end audit
adjustments and the absence of footnotes;
(d) not
less than thirty (30) days prior to the end of each Fiscal Year, a copy of the
financial plan and forecast (including a projected consolidated and
consolidating balance sheet, income statement and cash flow statement) of the
Borrowers for each month of the immediately succeeding Fiscal Year detailing
such items as profit and loss, cash flow figures, leverage levels and fixed
charge coverage levels, in each case in form reasonably satisfactory to the
Agent;
(e) promptly
upon the request of the Agent, such other financial or operation information as
the Agent may request;
(f)
as soon as possible and in any event within twenty (20) days of filing thereof,
copies of all Tax returns filed by any Borrower with the IRS;
(g) as
soon as possible and in any event within two-hundred and seventy days after the
close of the Fiscal Year, a statement of the unfunded liabilities of each Plan,
certified as correct by an actuary enrolled under ERISA;
(h)
[reserved];
(i)
[reserved];
(j)
promptly after the same become publicly available, copies of all periodic
and other reports, proxy statements and other materials filed by any Borrower or
any Subsidiary with the SEC, or with any national securities exchange, or
distributed by any Borrower to its shareholders generally, as the case may
be;
(k) promptly
following any request therefor, such other information regarding the operations,
business affairs and financial condition of any Borrower or any Subsidiary, or
compliance with the terms of this Agreement as the Agent or any Lender may
reasonably request;
(l)
promptly, all pleadings, motions, applications, financial information and other
papers and documents filed by any of the Borrowers in the Reorganization
Cases;
(m) promptly,
all written reports given by any Borrower to any official or unofficial
creditors’ committee in the Reorganization Cases;
(n) promptly
after the same are available, copies of all consultants’ reports, investment
banker reports, business plans and similar documents produced after the Filing
Date in any of the Borrowers’ possession;
(o) by
no later than Tuesday at 9:00 a.m. of each week (commencing with the first
Tuesday following the Closing Date), and to the extent Tuesday is not a Business
Day, the first succeeding Business Day thereafter, deliver to
Agent:
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(i) weekly
updates to the Agreed Budget through the Maturity Date that includes reporting
of actual receipts and disbursements for all Loan proceeds, in form and
substance satisfactory to the Agent; and
(ii) a
variance analysis as to line items from the most recently delivered Agreed
Budget. The Borrowers shall be available to discuss the Agreed Budget
with the Agent and/or any of the Lenders upon the Agent’s request;
and
(p) each
Business Day, a spreadsheet showing receipts and disbursements for the preceding
Business Day in the form provided to the Pre-Petition Senior Agent during the
Forbearance Period.
7.02 Notices
of Material Events.
The
Borrowers will furnish to the Agent prompt written notice of the
following:
(a) the
occurrence of any Default or Event of Default;
(b) [reserved];
(c) receipt
of any notice of any governmental investigation or any litigation commenced or
threatened against any Borrower that: (i) seeks damages in excess of
$100,000; (ii) seeks injunctive relief, alleges criminal misconduct or the
violation of any law by any Borrower or involves any product recall, in each
case which, if adversely determined, could reasonably be expected to have a
Material Adverse Effect; or (iii) alleges that the use by any Borrower of any
patent, trademark, Domain Name or Website infringes upon the rights of any
Person or otherwise challenges any Borrower’s claim of ownership in or right to
use any Website or Domain Name, any Borrower’s right to register any Website or
Domain Name owned by the Borrowers, or its right to keep and maintain such
registration in full force and effect;
(d) any
Lien (other than the Agreed Senior Liens) securing a claim or claims made or
asserted against any of the Collateral;
(e) commencement
of any proceedings contesting any Tax, fee, assessment, or other governmental
charge in excess of $100,000;
(f) the
opening of any new Deposit Account by any Borrower with any bank or other
financial institution;
(g) any
loss, damage, or destruction to the Collateral in the amount of $100,000 or
more, whether or not covered by insurance;
(h) the
discharge by any Borrower of its present independent accountants or any
withdrawal or resignation by such accountants;
(i) any
and all default notices sent or received under or with respect to (i) any leased
location or (ii) public warehouse where Collateral is located (which shall be
delivered within two Business Days after receipt thereof);
(j) all
material amendments to any lease with respect to real property leased by any
Borrower, together with a copy of each such amendment;
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(k) promptly
after becoming aware of any pending or threatened strike, work stoppage, unfair
labor practice claim, or other labor dispute affecting any Borrower or any of
their Subsidiaries in a manner which could reasonably be expected to have a
Material Adverse Effect;
(l) the
occurrence of any ERISA Event or underfunding of any Non-U.S. Plan that, alone
or together with any other ERISA Events that have occurred, could reasonably be
expected to result in a liability for the Borrowers and their Subsidiaries
greater than $100,000;
(m) (i)
the occurrence of unpermitted Releases of Hazardous Material of which any
Borrower is aware, (ii) the receipt by any Borrower of any notice of violation
of or potential liability or similar notice under, or the existence of any
condition that could reasonably be expected to result in violations of or
liabilities under, any Environmental Law or (iii) the commencement of, or any
material change to, any action, investigation, suit, proceeding, claim, demand,
dispute alleging a violation of or liability under any Environmental Law, that,
for each of clauses
(i), (ii) and (iii) (and, in the
case of clause (iii), if
adversely determined), in the aggregate for each such clause, could reasonably
be expected to result in Environmental Liabilities in excess of
$100,000;
(n) any
change in any of the Borrowers’ Domain Names which would be reasonably expected
to result in a Material Adverse Effect or any cancellation, lapse, termination
or transfer of any Domain Name of any Borrower; and
(o) any
other development arising after the Filing Date that results in, or could
reasonably be expected to result in, a Material Adverse Effect, including, but
not limited to, any breach or non-performance by any of the Borrowers under the
Interim DIP Financing Order, the Final DIP Financing Order or any other order of
the Bankruptcy Court.
Each
notice delivered under this Section 7.02 shall be
accompanied by a statement of a Responsible Officer of the Administrative
Borrower setting forth the details of the event or development requiring such
notice and any action taken or proposed to be taken with respect
thereto.
7.03 Existence;
Conduct of Business.
Each
Borrower will, and will cause its Subsidiaries to, (a) do or cause to be done
all things necessary to preserve, renew and keep in full force and effect its
legal existence and the rights, licenses, permits, privileges and franchises
material to the conduct of its business, and maintain all requisite authority to
conduct its business in each jurisdiction in which its business is conducted,
provided that
the foregoing shall not prohibit any merger, consolidation, liquidation or
dissolution permitted under Section 8.03 and (b)
carry on and conduct its business in substantially the same manner and in
substantially the same fields of enterprise as it is presently
conducted.
7.04 Payment
of Obligations.
Each
Borrower will, and will cause its Subsidiaries to, pay or discharge when due all
Material Indebtedness and all other material liabilities and obligations (other
than with respect to the Pre-Petition Senior Obligations and Pre-Petition Second
Lien Obligations), including Taxes, in each case arising after the Filing Date,
except where (a) non-payment is permitted by the Bankruptcy Code, (b) the
validity or amount thereof is being contested in good faith by appropriate
proceedings, (c) such Borrower and its Subsidiaries have set aside on their
books adequate reserves with respect thereto in accordance with GAAP, (d) such
liabilities would not result in aggregate liabilities in excess of $50,000 and
(e) none of the Collateral becomes subject to forfeiture or loss as a result of
the contest.
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7.05 Maintenance
of Properties and Intellectual Property Rights.
Each
Borrower will, and will cause its Subsidiaries to, (a) keep and maintain all
property material to the conduct of its business in good working order and
condition sufficient and advisable for the ordinary operations of such Borrower,
and (b) obtain and maintain in effect at all times all material franchises,
governmental authorizations, intellectual property rights, licenses and permits,
which are necessary for it to own its property or conduct its business as
conducted on the date of this Agreement.
7.06 Books
and Records; Inspection Rights.
Each
Borrower will, and will cause its Subsidiaries to, keep proper books of record
and account in which full, true and correct entries are made of all dealings and
transactions in relation to its business and activities in conformity with GAAP
and all requirements of law. The Borrowers shall at all times
maintain an automated account receivable reporting system satisfactory to the
Agent. Each Borrower will, and will cause its Subsidiaries to, permit any
representatives or independent contractors designated by the Agent (including,
without limitation, financial advisors retained by or for the benefit of the
Agent or the Lenders), upon reasonable prior notice, at the expense of the
Borrowers, to visit and inspect during normal business hours its properties, to
inspect and verify the Collateral, to examine and make extracts from its books
and records, and to discuss its affairs, finances and condition with its
officers and independent accountants, all at such reasonable times and as often
as reasonably requested. Upon the request of the Agent, each Borrower
will use commercially reasonable efforts to provide the Agent and each Lender
with access to its suppliers. In addition to and not in limitation of
any other inspection rights set forth above in this Section 7.06, each
Borrower will, and will cause its Subsidiaries to, permit the Agent or any
representatives designated by the Agent (including any third party consultants,
accountants, lawyers and appraisers) to conduct, at the Borrowers’ sole cost and
expense, commercial field examinations of the business, operations and assets of
the Borrowers at such time or times as the Agents may determine. The
Borrowers acknowledge that the Agent, after exercising its right of inspection
and right to conduct or cause to be conducted commercial field examinations, may
prepare and distribute to the Lenders certain Reports pertaining to the
Borrowers’ assets for internal use by the Agents and the Lenders.
7.07 Compliance
with Laws.
Each
Borrower will, and will cause its Subsidiaries to, comply with all laws, rules,
regulations and orders of any Governmental Authority applicable to it or its
property, except where the failure to do so, individually or in the aggregate,
could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse
Effect.
7.08 Use
of Proceeds.
Subject
to the requirements of Section 8.21,
the proceeds of the Loans will be used only (a) to refinance the
Pre-Petition Senior Obligations, (b) to fund ongoing working capital
requirements of the Borrowers and (c) to pay fees and expenses related to the
Loan Documents, the Interim DIP Financing Order and the Final DIP Financing
Order (including with respect to the Carve-Out Expenses). No part of
the proceeds of the Loans will be used, whether directly or indirectly, for any
purpose that entails a violation of any of the Regulations of the Board,
including Regulations T, U and X or any other regulations of the Board or a
violation of the Exchange Act.
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7.09 Insurance.
Each
Borrower will, and will cause its Subsidiaries to, maintain with financially
sound and reputable carriers insurance with respect to: (i) loss or
damage by fire and loss in transit; (ii) theft, burglary, pilferage, larceny,
embezzlement, and other criminal activities; (iii) business interruption; (iv)
general liability; and (v) and such other hazards, as is customary in the
business of such Person. All such insurance shall be in amounts,
cover such assets and be under policies reasonably acceptable to the
Agent. All policies covering the casualty of the Collateral are to be
made payable to the Agent for the benefit of the Lenders, as its interests may
appear, in case of loss, under a standard non-contributory “lender” or “secured
party” clause and are to contain such other provisions as the Agent may
reasonably require to fully protect the Lenders’ interest in the Collateral and
to any payments to be made under such policies. All certificates of
insurance are to be delivered to the Agent, with the loss payable and additional
insured endorsement in favor of the Agent, and shall provide for not less than
30 days’ prior written notice to the Agent of the exercise of any right of
cancellation and that any loss payable thereunder shall be payable
notwithstanding any act or negligence of any Borrower which might, absent such
agreement, result in a forfeiture of all or a part of such insurance
payment. The Borrowers will not, and will not permit their
Subsidiaries to, use or permit any property to be used in any manner which would
be reasonably likely to render inapplicable any insurance
coverage. The Borrowers will cause any insurance or condemnation
proceeds received by any Borrower to be immediately forwarded to the Agent. Original policies or
certificates thereof reasonably satisfactory to the Agent evidencing such
insurance shall be delivered to the Agent at least 30 days prior to the
expiration of the existing or preceding policies.
7.10 Appraisals.
At any
time that the Agent requests, each Borrower will, and will cause its
Subsidiaries to, at the sole expense of the Borrowers, provide the Agent with
copies of appraisals or updates thereof of their Inventory as previously
prepared for and delivered to the Pre-Petition Senior Agent. In
addition, if a Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be
continuing, then at any time that the Agent requests, each Borrower will, and
will cause its Subsidiaries to, at the sole expense of the Borrowers, provide
the Agent with appraisals or updates thereof of their Inventory from an
appraiser selected and engaged by the Agent, and prepared on a basis
satisfactory to the Agent, such appraisals and updates to include, without
limitation, information required by applicable law and regulations.
7.11 Additional
Collateral; Further Assurances.
(a) The
Borrowers will, unless the Required Lenders otherwise consent, cause each of
their Subsidiaries (excluding any Foreign Subsidiary) formed or acquired after
the date of this Agreement in accordance with the terms of this Agreement to
become a Borrower by executing this Agreement through a joinder agreement in
form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Agent. Upon
execution and delivery thereof, each such Person (i) shall automatically become
a Borrower hereunder and thereupon shall have all of the rights, benefits,
duties, and obligations in such capacity under the Loan Documents, the Interim
DIP Financing Order and the Final DIP Financing Order, and (ii) will grant Liens
to the Agent, for the benefit of the Agent and the Lenders, in any property of
such Borrower which constitutes Collateral.
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(b) Each
Borrower will cause (i) 100% of the issued and outstanding Capital Stock of each
of its Domestic Subsidiaries to be subject at all times to a first priority
perfected Lien (subject only to the Agreed Senior Liens) in favor of the Agent
pursuant to the terms and conditions of the Interim DIP Financing Order, the
Final DIP Financing Order and the Collateral Documents or other security
documents as the Agent shall reasonably request, and (ii) 65% of the issued and
outstanding Capital Stock entitled to vote (within the meaning of Treas. Reg.
Section 1.956-2(c)(2)) and 100% of the issued and outstanding Capital Stock not
entitled to vote (within the meaning of Treas. Reg. Section 1.956-2(c)(2)) in
each Foreign Subsidiary directly owned by any Borrower or any Subsidiary to be
subject at all times to a Lien (subject only to the Agreed Senior Liens) in
favor of the Agent pursuant to the terms and conditions of the Interim DIP
Financing Order, the Final DIP Financing Order and the Collateral Documents or
other security documents as the Agent shall reasonably request; provided that if, as
a result of a change in applicable law after the date hereof, a pledge of a
greater percentage than 65% of the issued and outstanding Capital Stock entitled
to vote (within the meaning of Treas. Reg. Section 1.956-2(c)(2)) could not
reasonably be expected to cause (1) undistributed earnings of such Foreign
Subsidiary (as determined for federal income Tax purposes) to be treated as a
deemed dividend to such Foreign Subsidiary’s domestic parent or (2) other
material adverse Tax consequences, then the Borrowers will take steps to cause
such greater percentage to be subject to a Lien (subject only to the Agreed
Senior Liens) in favor of the Agent.
(c) Without
limiting the foregoing, each Borrower will, and will cause each subsidiary of a
Borrower which is required to become a Borrower pursuant to the terms of this
Agreement to, execute and deliver, or cause to be executed and delivered, to the
Agent such documents and agreements, and will take or cause to be taken such
actions as any Agent may, from time to time, reasonably request to carry out the
terms and conditions of this Agreement, the other Loan Documents, the Interim
DIP Financing Order and the Final DIP Financing Order, including but not limited
to all items of the type required by Section 5.01 (as
applicable).
7.12 Cash
Management; Deposit Accounts.
(a) To
the extent required by the Agent, each Borrower shall execute and deliver and
cause each Clearing Bank to execute and deliver to the Agent a Blocked Account
Agreement for each Payment Account of each such Borrower. Each
Borrower shall instruct each Account Debtor of each such Borrower to remit by
wire transfer of immediately available funds all payments in respect of all
Accounts of such Account Debtor to a Payment Account. Each Borrower
agrees that it will not alter or revoke such instructions to Account Debtors or
otherwise cause such payments to be redirected without the prior written consent
of the Agent. If notwithstanding the foregoing instructions, any
Borrower receives any Payments, such Borrower shall receive such Payments as the
Agent’s trustee, and shall immediately deposit all such Payments received by it
to a Payment Account.
(b) To
the extent required by the Agent, each Payment Account shall at all times be
under the sole dominion and control of the Agent and shall be subject to a
Blocked Account Agreement in favor of the Agent. Each Borrower hereby
acknowledges and agrees that (i) such Borrower has no right of withdrawal from
any Payment Account and (ii) the funds on deposit in all Payment Accounts shall
at all times continue to be collateral security for all of the obligations of
the Borrowers hereunder and under the other Loan Documents. Each
Blocked Account Agreement shall require wire transfer no less frequently than
once per Business Day (unless the Commitments have been terminated and the
Obligations hereunder and under the other Loan Documents have been paid in
full), of all available cash balances and cash receipts, including the then
contents or then available balance of each Payment Account net of such minimum
balance (not to exceed an aggregate of $50,000 in all such accounts), if any,
required by the banking institution at which such Payment Account is maintained
to an account maintained by the Agent with a bank specified by the Agent (the
“Collection
Account”). Each Borrower agrees that it will not cause
proceeds of any Payment Account to be otherwise redirected. Before
opening or replacing any Payment Account, each Borrower shall obtain the Agent’s
consent in writing and, in the case of the opening of any such Payment Account,
execute and deliver and cause the banking institution at which any such Payment
Account is to be opened to execute and deliver to the Agent a Blocked Account
Agreement with respect to such Payment Account.
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(c) All
collected amounts remitted to the Collection Account shall be distributed and
applied on a daily basis in accordance with Section
4.03(c). The Collection Account shall at all times be under
the sole dominion and control of the Agent. Each Borrower hereby
acknowledges and agrees that (i) such Borrower has no right of withdrawal from
the Collection Account, (ii) the funds on deposit in the Collection Account
shall at all times continue to be collateral security for all of the obligations
of the Borrowers hereunder and under the other Loan Documents, and (iii) the
funds on deposit in the Collection Account shall be applied as provided in this
Agreement. In the event that, notwithstanding the provisions of this
Section 7.12,
any Borrower receives or otherwise has dominion and control of any proceeds or
collections required to be transferred to the Collection Account, such proceeds
and collections shall be held in trust by such Borrower for the Agent, shall not
be commingled with any of such Borrower’s other funds or deposited in any
Deposit Account of such Borrower and shall promptly be deposited into the
Collection Account or dealt with in such other fashion as such Borrower may be
instructed by the Agent.
(d) To
the extent required by the Agent, each Borrower shall execute and deliver and
cause each banking institution at which such Borrower maintains any Deposit
Account (other than a Payment Account and subject to the proviso below) to
execute and deliver to the Agent a Deposit Account Control Agreement for each
Deposit Account of each such Borrower, which Deposit Account Control Agreement
shall provide the Agent with the right, at any time following the occurrence and
during the continuance of an Event of Default, in addition to all other rights
provided herein and in the other Loan Documents, to direct the banking
institution at which such Deposit Account is maintained to follow all
instructions given to such banking institution by the Agent, including without
limitation, instructions regarding the transfer of funds held in such Deposit
Account. Before opening or replacing any Deposit Account (other than
a Payment Account (which shall not be opened or replaced unless the Borrowers
comply with Section
7.12(b) above)), each Borrower shall obtain the Agent’s consent in
writing and, in the case of the opening of any Deposit Account (other than a
Deposit Account for which the aggregate amount on deposit shall at all times
satisfy the requirements set forth in the proviso to the foregoing sentence),
execute and deliver and cause the banking institution at which any such Deposit
Account is to be opened to execute and deliver to the Agent a Deposit Account
Control Agreement with respect to such Deposit Account.
7.13 Processors.
The
Borrowers shall comply in all material respects with all obligations of the
Borrowers under each credit or debit card processing agreement to which any
Borrower is a party.
7.14 Environmental
Matters.
In the
event of any Release that triggers reporting obligations under any applicable
Environmental Laws and that could reasonably be expected to result in
Environmental Liabilities in excess of $100,000, at the request of the Agent,
the Borrowers, at their own expense, shall provide to the Lenders within ninety
(90) days after the Release an environmental site assessment report of the
property(ies) where such a Release has taken place or that has otherwise been
impacted by the Release, by an environmental consulting firm chosen by the
Borrowers and reasonably acceptable to the Agent, addressing the Release, the
proposed cleanup, response or remedy and the associated cost. Not
limiting the generality of the immediately preceding two sentences, if the Agent
determines that a material environmental risk exists, the Agent may
independently retain an environmental consulting firm to conduct an
environmental site assessment of the property(ies) and the Borrowers hereby
grant, and agree to cause any Subsidiary that owns such property(ies) to grant,
access to the property(ties) upon reasonable notice to the Administrative
Borrower, subject to the rights of tenants, during normal business hours,
provided, however, that no testing, sampling or other invasive investigation
shall be performed as part of such environmental site assessment.
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7.15 Maintenance
of Websites and Domain Names.
The
Borrowers (a) shall take all actions customarily taken by companies engaged in
the same or similar business to maintain, preserve and protect their rights and
interests and the rights and interests of the Agent with respect to all Websites
and Domain Names of the Borrowers, including without limitation, making all
necessary filings, registrations and applications with the appropriate domain
name registrars and paying all fees, costs and expenses associated therewith,
(b) shall maintain the effectiveness of all owned Domain Name registrations with
an ICANN-accredited domain name registrar and shall not permit any such
registrations to lapse or to be cancelled, abandoned or terminated, (c) shall
provide written notice to the Agent of the Borrowers’ registration of any
additional Domain Name (other than the Domain Names set forth on Schedule 6.05(b))
within 30 days after such registration and, upon the request of the Agent,
execute and deliver or cause to be executed and delivered to the Agent
documentation with respect to such Domain Name comparable to that provided
pursuant to Pre-Petition Senior Credit Agreement, (d) shall not transfer the
registration of any Domain Name from any domain name registrar to any other
domain name registrar, (e) shall comply in all material respects with all of the
Borrowers’ obligations under all Website Agreements, shall maintain the
effectiveness of all Website Agreements material to the business or operations
of the Borrowers and shall not consent to any modification, supplement or waiver
of any term or provision of any (A) Website Agreement with respect to which the
Agent has received a Website Consent Agreement or (B) any Website Agreement
(other than any Website Agreement referred to in the foregoing clause (A))
material to the business or operations of the Borrowers, unless such
modification, supplement or waiver is not adverse to the rights or interests of
Agent and the Lenders and the Borrowers have reasonably determined that such
modification, supplement or waiver is in the best interests of the business of
the Borrowers, (f) shall at all times maintain in full force and effect Website
Agreements material to the business or operations of the Borrowers, in form and
substance reasonably satisfactory to the Agent, with a web hosting company and
with other internet service providers reasonably acceptable to the Agent
pursuant to which such Persons shall provide web hosting, database management
and maintenance and disaster recovery services to the Borrowers on terms
reasonably acceptable to the Agent, (g) shall not enter into any new Website
Agreement material to the business or operations of the Borrowers without giving
the Agent at least 30 days’ prior written notice and, to the extent requested by
the Agent, executing and delivering and causing each other party to such Website
Agreement to execute and deliver to the Agent a Website Consent Agreement in
form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Agent with respect thereto,
(h) shall maintain or cause to be kept and maintained all Websites and all
equipment used in connection therewith in good working order and condition, (i)
shall at all times maintain in full force and effect disaster recovery and
database backup plans and procedures of a type customarily maintained by
companies engaged in the same or similar business and (j) to the extent
requested by the Agent at any time when a Default has occurred and is
continuing, shall (A) maintain backup copies of the Borrowers’ database and
passwords, security codes and other means necessary to access the Borrowers’
Websites and computer systems with a third party escrow agent reasonably
satisfactory to the Agent and (B) cause such escrow agent to enter into, and at
all times thereafter maintain in full force and effect, a Website Agreement and
a Website Consent Agreement in favor of the Agent, each in form and substance
reasonably satisfactory to the Agent, with respect to the services contemplated
by the foregoing clause (A); provided, however, that, in the
case of a Default under Section 9.01(c) by
reason of the Borrowers’ failure to comply with Section 7.01, the
Agent shall not request that any of the actions set forth in the foregoing
clauses (A) and (B) be taken unless (1) such Default continues unremedied for a
period of 60 days or (2) the Obligations, or any portion thereof, shall have
been accelerated by the Agent pursuant to Section
9.01.
7.16 Compliance
with Interim Order and Final Order.
The
Borrowers will comply with the Interim DIP Financing Order and the Final DIP
Financing Order, as applicable, and each of the other orders entered by the
Bankruptcy Court.
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7.17 Professional
Advisors.
The
Borrowers will, at all times, retain (a) Clear Thinking Group, LLC (or an
alternative firm acceptable to the Agent) as Financial Advisor and
(b) Xxxxx Xxxxxx (or an alternative Person acceptable to the Agent) as
Chief Restructuring Officer, in each case as contemplated on the Closing
Date. Each of the Financial Advisor, Chief Restructuring Officer and
Investment Banker shall participate in weekly conference calls with the Agent
and the Lenders to review and discuss variances from the Agreed Budget,
operational issues, financial information and Borrowers’ Sale. In
addition, the Borrowers shall provide the Agent and the Lenders, and their
consultants and advisors, with reasonable access to each of the Financial
Advisor, Chief Restructuring Officer and Investment Banker.
7.18 Sale
Milestones.
The
Borrowers will meet the Sale Milestones.
7.19 Funding
of Professional Expenses Reserve.
On a
weekly basis, from the Filing Date until the earlier of (a) the Maturity
Date and (b) delivery of the Carve-Out Triggering Notice, the Borrowers
shall: (i) include as part of their Loan Notice a request for a
Borrowing in the amount of the Professional Expenses set forth for such week in
the Agreed Budget and (ii) transfer such amounts to the Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxx
Xxxxx & Xxxxx LLP Client Trust Account to be applied to Professional
Expenses pursuant to one or more orders of the Bankruptcy
Court.
ARTICLE
VIII.
NEGATIVE
AND FINANCIAL COVENANTS
So long
as any Obligations (other than contingent indemnity obligations) hereunder shall
remain unpaid or unsatisfied, each Borrower shall not, and shall not permit any
of its Subsidiaries to directly or indirectly, without the consent of the
Lenders:
8.01 Indebtedness.
The
Borrowers will not, and will not permit any Subsidiary of any Borrower to,
create, incur or suffer to exist any Indebtedness, except Permitted
Indebtedness.
8.02 Liens.
The
Borrowers will not, and will not permit any Subsidiary of any Borrower to,
create, incur, assume or permit to exist any Lien on any property or asset now
owned or hereafter acquired by it, except Permitted Encumbrances and the Agreed
Senior Liens.
8.03 Fundamental
Changes; Asset Sales.
(a) Except
as contemplated by any Plan of Reorganization, the Borrowers will not, and will
not permit any Subsidiary of any Borrower to, merge into or consolidate with any
other Person, or permit any other Person to merge into or consolidate with it or
liquidate or dissolve.
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(b) Except
as contemplated by any Plan of Reorganization, the Borrowers will not, and will
not permit any Subsidiary of any Borrower to, sell, transfer, lease or otherwise
dispose of (in one transaction or in a series of transactions) any of its
assets, or all or substantially all of the stock of any of its Subsidiaries (in
each case, whether now owned or hereafter acquired), other than sales of
Inventory in the ordinary course of business.
(c) Except
as contemplated by any Plan of Reorganization, the Parent will not at any time
cease to own, directly or indirectly, free and clear of all Liens or other
encumbrances, 100% of the outstanding Capital Stock of each other Borrower on a
fully diluted basis.
(d) Except
as contemplated by any Plan of Reorganization, the Borrowers will not, and will
not permit any Subsidiary of any Borrower to, engage in any business other than
businesses of the type conducted by the Borrowers and their Subsidiaries on the
date of execution of this Agreement and businesses reasonably related
thereto.
8.04 Investments,
Loans, Advances, Guarantees and Acquisitions.
The
Borrowers will not, and will not permit any Subsidiary of any Borrower to,
purchase, hold or acquire (including pursuant to any merger or amalgamation with
any Person that was not a Borrower and a wholly owned Subsidiary prior to such
merger or amalgamation) any capital stock, evidences of indebtedness or other
securities (including any option, warrant or other right to acquire any of the
foregoing) of, make or permit to exist any loans or advances to, Guarantee any
obligations of, or make or permit to exist any investment or any other interest
in, any other Person, or purchase or otherwise acquire (in one transaction or a
series of transactions) any assets of any other Person constituting a business
unit (whether through purchase of assets, merger, amalgamation or otherwise),
except:
(a) investments
in existence on the Filing Date and described in Schedule
8.04;
(b) (i)
investments made by any Borrower in the Capital Stock of any wholly-owned
Subsidiary which is a Borrower, and (ii) investments made by any Subsidiary
which is not a Borrower in the Capital Stock of any Subsidiary which is a
Borrower;
(c) loans
or advances made by a Borrower to any other Borrower permitted by Section
8.01;
(d) notes
payable, or stock or other securities issued by Account Debtors to a Borrower in
connection with the bankruptcy or reorganization of Account Debtors or in
settlement or delinquent obligations of Account Debtors; and
(e) Investments
otherwise expressly permitted pursuant to the terms of this Agreement and
provided for and disclosed in the Agreed Budget, provided that no such
Investments shall be made if immediately prior to making such Investment, or
after giving effect thereto, there shall exist an Event of Default which is
continuing.
8.05 Swap
Agreements.
The
Borrowers will not, and will not permit any Subsidiary of any Borrower to, enter
into any Swap Agreement.
8.06 Restricted
Payments.
The
Borrowers will not, and will not permit any Subsidiary of any Borrower to,
declare or make, or agree to pay or make, directly or indirectly, any Restricted
Payment.
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8.07 Transactions
with Affiliates.
The
Borrowers will not, and will not permit any Subsidiary of any Borrower to, sell,
lease or otherwise transfer any property or assets to, or purchase, lease or
otherwise acquire any property or assets from, or otherwise engage in any other
transactions with, any of its Affiliates, except (a) in the ordinary course of
business at prices and on terms and conditions not less favorable to such
Borrower or Subsidiary than could be obtained on an arm’s-length basis from
unrelated third parties and (b) transactions between or among Borrowers that do
not involve any Affiliate that is not a Borrower, in each case as disclosed to
the Agent.
8.08 Restrictive
Agreements.
Except in
accordance with a Plan of Reorganization or as otherwise approved by the Agent
and the Bankruptcy Court, the Borrowers will not, and will not permit any
Subsidiary of any Borrower to, directly or indirectly, enter into, incur or
permit to exist any agreement or other arrangement that prohibits, restricts or
imposes any condition upon (a) the ability of such Borrower or any of its
Subsidiaries to create, incur or permit to exist any Lien upon any of its
property or assets, or (b) the ability of any Subsidiary of a Borrower to pay
dividends or other distributions with respect to any shares of its capital stock
or to make or repay loans or advances to the Borrowers or any other Subsidiary
of any Borrower or to Guarantee Indebtedness of the Borrowers or any other
Subsidiary of any Borrower; provided that (i) the
foregoing shall not apply to restrictions and conditions imposed by law or by
this Agreement, and (ii) the foregoing shall not apply to restrictions and
conditions existing on the date hereof identified on Schedule 8.08 (but
shall apply to any extension or renewal of, or any amendment or modification
expanding the scope of, any such restriction or condition).
8.09 Amendment
of Material Documents.
The
Borrowers will not, and will not permit any Subsidiary of any Borrower to, agree
to any amendment, modification or waiver of any term or provision of (a) its
Organizational Documents (except as otherwise expressly provided in Section 8.03(a)) or
any Material Agreement, (b) any agreement or instrument evidencing or governing
any Pre-Petition Second Lien Obligations or (c) the Agreed
Budget. The Borrowers will not, and will not permit any Subsidiary
to, agree to any amendment, modification or waiver of any term or provision of
any web partner agreement with any Applicable Partner without the prior written
consent of the Agent, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or
delayed.
8.10 Prepayment
of Indebtedness.
Except
with respect to the Pre-Petition Senior Obligations, the Borrowers will not, and
will not permit any Subsidiary of any Borrower to, directly or indirectly,
purchase, redeem, defease or prepay any principal of, premium, if any, interest
or other amount payable in respect of any Indebtedness prior to its scheduled
maturity, other than the Obligations.
8.11 Capital
Expenditures.
The
Borrowers will not, and will not permit any Subsidiary of any Borrower to, make,
or be committed to make, Capital Expenditures.
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8.12 Sale
Leasebacks.
The
Borrowers will not, and will not permit any of their Subsidiaries to, engage in
any sale leaseback, synthetic lease or similar transaction involving any of its
assets.
8.13 Change
of Corporate Name or Location; Change of Fiscal Year.
Except as
otherwise expressly provided in Section 8.03(a), no
Borrower shall (a) change its name as it appears in official filings in the
state of its incorporation or other organization, (b) change its chief executive
office, principal place of business, corporate offices or warehouses or
locations at which Collateral is held or stored, or the location of its records
concerning the Collateral, (c) change the type of entity that it is, (d) change
its organization identification number, if any, issued by its state of
incorporation or other organization, or (e) change its state of incorporation or
organization, in each case without at least thirty (30) days prior written
notice to the Agent and after Agent’s written acknowledgment (which shall not be
unreasonably withheld or delayed) that any action requested by Agent in
connection therewith, including to continue the perfection of any Liens in favor
of Agent, on behalf of Lenders, in any Collateral, has been completed or taken,
and provided, that any such new location shall be in the continental United
States. No Borrower shall change its Fiscal Year.
8.14 Billing,
Credit and Collection Policies; Change in Nature of Business.
The
Borrowers will not, and will not permit any of their Subsidiaries to, (a) make
any change in their respective billing, credit and collection policies, which
change would, based upon the facts and circumstances in existence at such time,
reasonably be expected to materially adversely affect the collectibility, credit
quality or characteristics of the Accounts, or the ability of the Borrowers to
perform their obligations, or the ability of the Agent to exercise any of its
rights and remedies, hereunder or under any other Loan Document or (b) modify or
alter in any material manner the nature and type of business of such Person on
the Filing Date or the manner in which such business is conducted, except as
required by the Interim DIP Financing Order, the Final DIP Financing Order or
any other order of the Bankruptcy Court in connection with the Reorganization
Cases that the Agent has consented to.
8.15 Equity
Issuances.
No
Borrower will, or will permit any Subsidiary to, issue any additional shares of
its Capital Stock or other equity interests.
8.16 Hazardous
Materials.
No
Borrower or its Subsidiaries shall cause or suffer to exist any release of any
Hazardous Material on, at, in, under, above, to or from any real or immovable
property owned, leased, subleased or otherwise operated or occupied by any
Borrower or its Subsidiaries that would violate any Environmental Law, form the
basis for any Environmental Liabilities or otherwise adversely affect the value
or marketability of any real or immovable property owned, leased, subleased or
otherwise operated or occupied by any Borrower or any other property, other than
such violations, Environmental Liabilities and effects that would not, in the
aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect.
8.17 [Reserved].
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8.18 Compliance
with Agreed Budget; Variances; Receipts.
(a) The
Borrowers will not, and will not permit any Subsidiary of any Borrower to,
(i) make any payment or incur any obligation that is not provided for in
the Agreed Budget (within the Variances and Carry-Forward Amounts permitted by
this Agreement) or (ii) permit disbursements made in any week with respect
to any line item in the Agreed Budget to exceed (A) the total amount of
disbursements budgeted for such line item for such week by more than ten percent
(10%) (any such excess amount being referred to herein as a “Variance”) plus
(B) any Carry-Forward Amounts; provided, however, that in no
event shall any Variance be carried forward to a subsequent one-week budget
period. Unused amounts set forth in the Agreed Budget for any line
item may be carried forward and used to fund such line item during subsequent
one-week Agreed Budget periods (such unused amounts, the “Carry-Forward
Amounts”).
(b) As
of the end of the second week following the Closing Date and each week
thereafter, the Borrowers shall not permit cash receipts for the period from the
Filing Date through the end of such week (the “Testing Period”) to
be less than ninety percent (90%) of the cash receipts set forth in the Agreed
Budget for such Testing Period.
8.19 Chapter
11 Claims.
No
Borrower shall incur, create, assume, suffer to exist or permit any
administrative expense, unsecured claim, or other Super-Priority Claim or Lien
which is pari passu
with or senior to the claims or Liens, as the case may be, of the Agent and the
Lenders against any Borrower hereunder, or apply to the Bankruptcy Court for
authority so to do, except for Agreed Senior Liens, the Carve-Out Expenses and
the Super-Priority Claim of the Pre-Petition Senior Agent.
8.20 Revision
of Orders; Applications to Bankruptcy Court.
(a) No
Borrower shall at any time seek, consent to or suffer to exist any modification,
stay, vacation or amendment of the Interim DIP Financing Order or the Final DIP
Financing Order except for any modifications and amendments agreed to in writing
by Agent.
(b) No
Borrower shall at any time apply to the Bankruptcy Court for authority to take
any action prohibited by Article VIII (except
to the extent such application and the taking of such action is conditioned upon
the receiving the written consent of the Agent and the Lenders).
8.21 Use
of Proceeds.
No
proceeds of the Collateral or the Loans will be used by any Borrower or any
other Person (including, without limitation, any statutory committee appointed
in the Reorganization Cases) to object to or contest in any manner, or raise any
defenses to, the validity, extent, perfection, priority or enforceability of the
Obligations, the Pre-Petition Senior Obligations or the Pre-Petition Second Lien
Obligations or any Liens with respect thereto or any of the rights or interests
of the Agent, the Lenders, the Pre-Petition Senior Agent, the Pre-Petition
Senior Lenders, the Pre-Petition Second Lien Agent or the Pre-Petition Second
Lien Lenders (whether granted pursuant to the Pre-Petition Loan Agreements or
this Agreement), or to assert any claims or causes of action, including, without
limitation, any actions under Chapter 5 of the Bankruptcy Code, against the
Agent, the Lenders, the Pre-Petition Senior Agent, the Pre-Petition Senior
Lenders, the Pre-Petition Second Lien Agent or the Pre-Petition Second Lien
Lenders (whether such claims relate to the Pre-Petition Loan Agreements or this
Agreement).
8.22 Use
of Cash Collateral.
No
Borrower shall at any time use or seek to use the cash collateral of Agent, any
Lender, Pre-Petition Senior Agent, any Pre-Petition Senior Lender, Pre-Petition
Second Lien Agent or any Pre-Petition Second Lien Lender without the consent of
the party whose cash collateral is used or sought to be used, which consent may
be withheld in the sole and absolute discretion of such party.
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ARTICLE
IX.
EVENTS
OF DEFAULT AND REMEDIES
9.01 Events
of Default.
If any of
the following Events of Default shall occur and be continuing:
(a) the
Borrowers shall fail to pay any Principal, interest, fee, indemnity or other
amount payable under this Agreement or any other Loan Document with respect to
any Note when due (whether by scheduled maturity, required repayment,
acceleration or otherwise);
(b) any
representation or warranty made or deemed made by or on behalf of any Borrower
or by any officer of the foregoing under or in connection with any Loan Document
or under or in connection with any report, certificate, or other document
delivered to Agent or any Lender pursuant to any Loan Document shall have been
incorrect in any material respect when made or deemed made;
(c) any
Borrower shall fail to perform or comply with any covenant or agreement
contained in Sections
7.01, 7.02(a), 7.03 (with respect to
a Borrower’s existence), 7.06, 7.08, 7.09, 7.16, 7.17, 7.18, 7.19 or Article
VIII;
(d) any
Borrower shall fail to perform or comply with any other term, covenant or
agreement contained in any Loan Document to be performed or observed by it and,
except as set forth in subsections (a), (b) and (c) of this Section 9.01,
such failure, if capable of being remedied, shall remain unremedied for (i) five
(5) days if such breach relates to terms or provisions set forth in Sections 7.02 (other
than clause (a) thereof), 7.05, 7.10, 7.12, 7.13 or 7.15 or (ii) three
(3) days after the earlier of the date a senior officer of any Borrower becomes
aware of such failure and the date written notice of such default shall have
been given by Agent to Borrowers;
(e) (i) Other
than as a result of, or in connection with, the Reorganization Cases, any
Borrower or any other Borrower fails to observe or perform any other
agreement or condition relating to any Indebtedness 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 $100,000 or contained in any instrument or agreement
evidencing, securing or relating thereto, or any other event occurs, the effect
of which default or other event is to cause, or to permit the holder or holders
of such Indebtedness (or a trustee or agent on behalf of such holder or holders
or beneficiary or beneficiaries) to cause, with the giving of notice if
required, such Indebtedness to be demanded or to become due or to be
repurchased, prepaid, defeased or redeemed (automatically or otherwise), or an
offer to repurchase, prepay, defease or redeem such Indebtedness to be made,
prior to its stated maturity, or such guarantee to become payable or cash
collateral in respect thereof to be demanded;
(ii) The
Borrowers or any other Borrower shall default in the payment when due, or in the
performance or observance, of any material obligation or material condition of
any Contractual Obligation arising after the Filing Date, the result of which
could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, unless, but only
as long as, the existence of any such default is being contested by the
Borrowers or any such Borrower in good faith by appropriate proceedings and
adequate reserves in respect thereof have been established on the books of such
Borrowers or any such Borrower to the extent required by GAAP; or
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(f) any
provision of any Loan Document shall at any time for any reason (other than
pursuant to the express terms thereof) cease to be valid and binding on or
enforceable against any Borrower intended to be a party thereto, or the validity
or enforceability thereof shall be contested by any party thereto (other than
Agent or any Lender), or a proceeding shall be commenced by any Borrower or any
Governmental Authority having jurisdiction over any of them, seeking to
establish the invalidity or unenforceability thereof, or any Borrower shall deny
in writing that it has any liability or obligation purported to be created under
any Loan Document;
(g) one
or more judgments or orders for the payment of money exceeding $100,000 in the
aggregate shall be rendered as to any obligation arising after the Filing Date
against any Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries and remain unsatisfied and
either (i) enforcement proceedings shall have been commenced by any
creditor upon any such judgment or order, or (ii) there shall be a period
of ten (10) consecutive days after entry thereof during which a stay of
enforcement of any such judgment or order, by reason of a pending appeal or
otherwise, shall not be in effect; provided, however, that any
such judgment or order shall not give rise to an Event of Default under this
subsection (j) if and for so long as (A) the amount of such judgment or order is
covered by a valid and binding policy of insurance between the defendant and the
insurer covering full payment thereof subject to standard and customary
deductibles and (B) such insurer has been notified, and has not disputed
the claim made for payment, of the amount of such judgment or
order;
(h) (i)
a Lien shall have arisen under the terms of ERISA or the Code with respect to
any Plan, or (ii) an ERISA Event or unfunded liability arising under a Non-U.S.
Plan in an amount exceeding $100,000 shall have occurred;
(i) any
Collateral Document shall for any reason fail to create a valid and perfected
security interest in any Collateral purported to be covered thereby, except as
permitted by the terms of any Collateral Document or this Agreement, or any
Collateral Document shall fail to remain in full force or effect or any action
shall be taken to discontinue or to assert the invalidity or unenforceability of
any Collateral Document, or any Borrower shall fail to comply with any of the
terms or provisions of any Collateral Document;
(j) Any
material provision of the Interim DIP Financing Order, the Final DIP Financing
Order, this Agreement or any other Loan Document shall for any reason cease to
be valid or binding or enforceable against any of the Borrowers, or any of the
Borrowers shall so state in writing; or any of the Borrowers shall commence or
join in any legal proceeding to contest in any manner that the Interim DIP
Financing Order, the Final DIP Financing Order, this Agreement or any other Loan
Document constitutes a valid and enforceable agreement or any of the Borrowers
shall commence or join in any legal proceeding to assert that it has no further
obligation or liability under the Interim DIP Financing Order, the Final DIP
Financing Order, this Agreement or any other Loan Document;
(k) any
Borrower or any director or senior officer of any Borrower is (A) criminally
indicted or convicted of a felony for fraud or dishonesty in connection with the
Borrowers’ business, or (B) charged by a Governmental Authority under any law
that would reasonably be expected to lead to forfeiture of any material portion
of Collateral;
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(l) an
uninsured loss occurs with respect to any portion of the Collateral, which loss
would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect or (ii) any other
event or change shall occur after the Filing Date that has caused or evidences,
either in any case or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect;
(m) the
subordination provisions of any agreement or instrument governing any
Indebtedness that is subordinated to the Obligations or the Pre-Petition Senior
Obligations are for any reason revoked or invalidated, or otherwise cease to be
in full force and effect, any Person contests in any manner the validity or
enforceability thereof, of the Indebtedness hereunder is for any reason
subordinated or does not have the priority contemplated by the Loan Documents or
such subordination provisions;
(n) the
Chief Restructuring Officer or the Financial Advisor cease to be retained or
employed by the Borrowers or the Chief Restructuring Officer ceases to have the
authority described in the definition of Chief Restructuring
Officer;
(o) (i)
An order shall be entered by the Bankruptcy Court confirming a Plan of
Reorganization in the Reorganization Cases which does not (x) contain a
provision for termination of all of the Lenders’ Revolving Commitments and
payment in full of all Obligations on the date of effectiveness of such plan and
in each case in a manner satisfactory to the Agent and the Lenders on or before
the effective date of such plan and (y) provide for the continuation of the
Liens and priorities in favor of the Agent and the Lenders until such effective
date or (ii) any Borrower (or by any party with the support of any of the
Borrowers) shall have filed such a Plan of Reorganization in the Reorganization
Cases; or
(p) An
order with respect to any of the Reorganization Cases shall be entered by the
Bankruptcy Court (i) to revoke, reverse, stay, vacate or rescind any provision
of any Financing Order, (ii) to modify, supplement or amend any provision of any
Financing Order without the consent of the Agent and the Lenders or (iii) to
permit any administrative expense or any claim (now existing or hereafter
arising, of any kind or nature whatsoever) to have administrative priority as to
any of the Borrowers, equal or superior to the priority of the Lenders in
respect of the Obligations, except for the Carve-Out Expenses and the
Super-Priority Claim of the Pre-Petition Senior Agent, or (iv) to grant or
permit the grant of a Lien on the Collateral (other than the Agreed Senior
Liens) or (v) dismissing any of the Reorganization Cases which order does not
contain a provision for termination of all of the Lenders’ Revolving Commitments
and payment in full in cash of all Obligations in a manner satisfactory to the
Agent upon such dismissal; or
(q) any
of the Borrowers shall make any payment (as adequate protection or otherwise),
or application for authority to pay, on account of any claim or Indebtedness
arising prior to the Filing Date other than those payments in respect of
“adequate protection obligations” permitted pursuant to the terms of the
Financing Orders and payments authorized by the Bankruptcy Court in respect of
(x) any such payments required or permitted in the “First Day Orders” reasonably
satisfactory to the Agent and (y) accrued payroll and related expenses as of the
Filing Date as described in and provided for in the Agreed Budget;
(r) any
of the Reorganization Cases shall be dismissed or converted to a case under
Chapter 7 of the Bankruptcy Code; or any Borrower shall file or support any
application for the approval of, or there shall arise, any other claim which is
an administrative expense claim having priority over any or all administrative
expenses of the kind specified in sections 503(b) or 507(b) of the Bankruptcy
Code;
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(s) the
Bankruptcy Court shall enter an order granting relief from the automatic stay
applicable under section 362 of the Bankruptcy Code to the holder of any
security interest in, or judgment creditor against, any assets of any Borrower
(other than the Agent for and on behalf of the Lenders) which allows such holder
or judgment creditor to execute upon or enforce a lien on the Collateral or
enforce a judgment against any Borrower or approving any settlement or other
stipulation with any creditor of any Borrower (other than the Agent or the
Lenders), providing payments to such holder or creditor, upon the payment of
such judgment or the sale of such Collateral, aggregating in excess of $50,000
prior to the effectiveness of a Plan of Reorganization for such
Borrower;
(t) an
order of the Bankruptcy Court shall be entered in any of the Reorganization
Cases appointing, or any Borrower shall file an application for an order with
respect to any Reorganization Case seeking the appointment of, (i) a
trustee under section 1104 of the Bankruptcy Code or (ii) an examiner
with enlarged powers (powers beyond those set forth in section 1106(a)(3) and
(4) of the Bankruptcy Code) under section 1106(b) of the Bankruptcy
Code;
(u) any
default of a Borrower shall occur under any cash collateral order;
(v) the
Final DIP Financing Order, in a form reasonably satisfactory to the Agent and
the Lenders and containing the provisions outlined in Section 5.02(g) and
the form of order attached as Exhibit G, shall not
have been entered by the Bankruptcy Court on or prior to the Interim Facility
Maturity Date;
(w) this
Agreement, the Financing Orders or any security agreement, any pledge agreement,
any mortgage or any other security document related to this Agreement or the
Financing Orders after delivery thereof pursuant hereto, shall for any reason
fail or cease to create a valid and perfected and, except to the extent
permitted by the terms hereof or thereof, first priority Lien in favor of the
Agent for the benefit of the Agent and the Lenders on any Collateral purported
to be covered thereby;
(x) an
order shall be entered by the Bankruptcy Court, without the consent of the Agent
and the Lenders, extending the exclusive period provided by Section 1121(b) of
the Bankruptcy Code for the Borrowers to file a Plan of
Reorganization;
(y) any
Borrower voluntarily or involuntarily dissolves or is dissolved, liquidates or
is liquidated, or, except in connection with the Plan of Reorganization, files a
motion with the Bankruptcy Court seeking authorization to dissolve or
liquidate;
(z) any
Borrower fails or neglects to comply with any provision of the Final DIP
Financing Order or the Interim DIP Financing Order, as applicable;
(aa) any
of the Borrowers shall seek to, or shall support (whether by way of motion or
other pleadings filed with the Bankruptcy Court or any other writing executed by
any Borrower or by oral argument) any other Person’s motion to, (1) disallow in
whole or in part any of the Obligations arising under this Agreement or any
other Loan Document, (2) disallow in whole or in part any of the Indebtedness
owed by the Borrowers under the Pre-Petition Loan Agreements or any other “Loan
Document” (as defined in the Pre-Petition Loan Agreements), (3) challenge the
validity and enforceability of the Liens or security interests granted or
confirmed herein or in the Interim DIP Financing Order or the Final DIP
Financing Order in favor of the Agent and the Lenders or (5) challenge the
validity and enforceability of the Liens or security interests in favor of the
Pre-Petition Agents and the Pre-Petition Lenders; or
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(bb) (i) any
of the Borrowers shall cease to have the exclusive right pursuant to Section
1121 of the Bankruptcy Code to file a Plan of Reorganization, (ii) an order
shall have been entered modifying the adequate protection obligations granted in
any Financing Order with the prior written consent of the Agent, or (iii) an
order shall have been entered by the Bankruptcy Court avoiding or requiring
disgorgement by the Agent or any of the Lenders of any amounts received in
respect of the Obligations.
9.02 Remedies.
(a) Notwithstanding
the provisions of Section 362 of the Bankruptcy Code, but subject to the
Financing Orders, if any Event of Default occurs and is continuing, the Agent
shall, at the request of, or may, with the consent of, the Required Lenders,
take any or all of the following actions without further order of or application
to the Bankruptcy Court:
(i) declare
the commitment of each Lender to make Loans to be terminated, whereupon such
commitments and obligation shall be terminated;
(ii) declare
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 the Borrowers;
(iii) set-off
against any outstanding Obligations amounts held for the account of the
Borrowers as cash collateral or in the accounts of any Borrower maintained by or
with the Agent, any Lender or their respective Affiliates;
(iv) take
any other action or exercise on behalf of itself and the Lenders any other right
and remedy available to it and the Lenders under the Loan Documents or otherwise
available at law or in equity;
provided, that with
respect to items (iii) and (iv) above, the Agent shall provide the Borrowers
(with a copy to counsel for any official unsecured creditors’ committee
appointed in the Reorganization Cases (or to the Borrowers’ twenty
(20) largest creditors in the event no such committee has been appointed or is
in existence) and the United States Trustee for the District of Delaware with
five (5) Business Days’ prior written notice; and provided, further, that upon
receipt of the notice referred to in the immediately preceding clause, the
Borrowers may continue to make ordinary course disbursements from such accounts
referred to in (iii) above to the extent and at the times set forth in the
Agreed Budget, but may not withdraw or disburse any other amounts from such
account (in any hearing after the giving effect of the aforementioned notice,
the only issue that may be raised by any party in opposition thereto being
whether, in fact, an Event of Default has occurred and is
continuing).
(b) Upon
the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, the automatic
stay arising pursuant to Bankruptcy Code Section 362 shall be vacated and
terminated in accordance with the Interim DIP Financing Order or the Final DIP
Financing Order, as applicable, so as to permit the Agent and the Lenders full
exercise of all of their rights and remedies based on the occurrence of an Event
of Default, including, without limitation, all of their rights and remedies with
respect to the Collateral. With respect to the Agent’s and Lenders’
exercise of their rights and remedies, the Borrowers agree and warrant as
follows:
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(i) the
Borrowers waive and, release, and shall be enjoined from attempting to contest,
delay, or otherwise dispute the exercise by the Agent and the Lenders of their
rights and remedies before the Bankruptcy Court or otherwise; except only as
expressly stated in clause (ii) of this subsection; and
(ii) when
the Agent or the Lenders seek to enforce their rights and remedies based on an
Event of Default, and if any Borrower disputes that an Event of Default has
occurred, the Borrowers or any official unsecured creditors’ committee appointed
in the Reorganization Cases will be entitled to file an emergency
motion with the Bankruptcy Court disputing whether an Event of Default has
occurred. Unless otherwise agreed in writing by Agent, any such
motion shall be heard within five (5) Business Days after it is filed, subject
to the availability of the Bankruptcy Court. At the hearing on the
emergency motion, the only issue that will be heard by the Bankruptcy Court will
be whether an Event of Default has occurred and has not been cured, and, if an
Event of Default has occurred and has not been cured, the Agent and the Lenders
will be entitled to continue to exercise all of their rights and remedies
without the necessity of any further notice or order. Furthermore,
nothing herein shall be construed to impose or reimpose any stay or injunction
of any kind against the Agent or the Lenders.
9.03 Rescission
of Acceleration.
The
provisions of Section 9.01 are
subject to the condition that if the Principal of and accrued interest on the
Loans have been declared immediately due and payable by reason of the occurrence
of any Event of Default described in Section 9.01(e)(ii),
the Required Lenders may, by written instrument filed with the Borrowers,
rescind and annul such declaration and the consequences thereof, provided that
at the time such declaration is annulled and rescinded:
(a) no
judgment or decree has been entered for the payment of any monies due pursuant
to this Agreement;
(b) all
arrears of interest and Principal upon all the Loans and all other sums payable
under this Agreement shall have been duly paid, unless the same specifically has
been waived in writing by the Required Lenders; and
(c) each
and every other Event of Default shall have been cured or waived;
and provided further that
no such rescission and annulment shall extend to or affect any subsequent Event
of Default or impair any right consequent thereto.
ARTICLE
X.
MISCELLANEOUS
As
further and special provisions set forth under this Agreement, the parties
hereto further warrant, covenant, contract and agree each with the other as
follows:
10.01
Entire Agreement.
This
Agreement, the Loan Documents and other documents referred to herein and therein
constitute the entire understanding among the parties as to the subject matter
specifically referred to herein or therein and supersede all previous agreements
and understandings among them concerning such matters.
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10.02
Reimbursement of Expenses.
The
Borrowers will pay no later than five (5) Business Days after receipt of an
invoice therefor, all costs and expenses incurred by or on behalf of the Agent,
including, without limitation, reasonable fees, costs, client charges and
expenses of counsel for the Agent, accounting, due diligence, periodic field
audits, physical counts, valuations, investigations, searches and filings,
monitoring of assets, appraisals of Collateral, title searches and reviewing
environmental assessments, miscellaneous disbursements, examination, travel,
lodging and meals, arising from or relating to: (a) the negotiation,
preparation, execution, delivery, performance and administration of this
Agreement and the other Loan Documents (including, without limitation, the
preparation of any additional Loan Documents pursuant to Section 7.11), (b)
any requested amendments, waivers or consents to this Agreement or the other
Loan Documents whether or not such documents become effective or are given, (c)
the preservation and protection of the Agent’s or any of the Lenders’ rights
under this Agreement or the other Loan Documents or the Pre-Petition Senior
Credit Agreement, (d) the defense of any claim or action asserted or brought
against the Agent or any Lender by any Person that arises from or relates to
this Agreement, any other Loan Document, the Agent’s or the Lenders’ claims
against any Borrower, or any and all matters in connection therewith, (e) the
commencement or defense of, or intervention in, any court proceeding arising
from or related to this Agreement or any other Loan Document or the Pre-Petition
Senior Credit Agreement, (f) the filing of any petition, complaint, answer,
motion or other pleading by the Agent or any Lender, or the taking of any action
in respect of the Collateral or other security, in connection with this
Agreement or any other Loan Document or the Pre-Petition Senior Credit
Agreement, (g) the protection, collection, lease, sale, taking possession of or
liquidation of, any Collateral or other security in connection with this
Agreement or any other Loan Document or the Pre-Petition Senior Credit
Agreement, (h) any attempt to enforce any Lien or security interest in any
Collateral or other security in connection with this Agreement or any other Loan
Document or the Pre-Petition Senior Credit Agreement, (i) any attempt to collect
from any Borrower, (j) all liabilities and costs arising from or in connection
with the past, present or future operations of any Borrower involving any damage
to real or personal property or natural resources or harm or injury alleged to
have resulted from any Release of Hazardous Materials on, upon or into such
property, (k) any Environmental Liabilities incurred in connection with the
investigation, removal, cleanup and/or remediation of any Hazardous Materials
present or arising out of the operations of any facility of any Borrower, or (l)
the receipt by the Agent or any Lender of any advice from professionals with
respect to any of the foregoing. The Borrowers agrees that the fees
and costs of counsel, consultants and advisors to the Agent and Lenders may be
paid directly by the Agent on behalf of the Borrowers, with any such payments to
be deemed to be Loans under this Agreement.
10.03 Survival
of Agreements and Representations and Warranties.
All
agreements, representations and warranties contained herein or made in writing
by the Borrowers (x) shall be considered to have been relied upon by the
Lenders, (y) shall survive the execution and delivery of this Agreement and
payment of the Loans or termination of this Agreement and may be relied upon by
any subsequent Lenders, regardless of any investigation made at any time by or
on behalf of the Lenders and (z) shall continue in full force and effect until
the repayment in full of the Obligations (it being understood and agreed that
indemnification obligations shall specifically survive the repayment of the
Obligations).
10.04 No
Waiver.
No delay
by or on behalf of the Lenders in exercising any rights conferred hereunder, and
no course of dealing between the Lenders and the Borrowers shall operate as a
waiver of any right granted hereunder, unless expressly waived in writing by the
party whose waiver is alleged.
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10.05 Binding
Effect; Participations.
All
covenants, representations, warranties and other stipulations in this Agreement
and other documents referred to herein, given by or on behalf of any of the
parties hereto, shall bind and inure to the benefit of the respective
successors, heirs, personal representatives and assigns of the parties hereto,
except that each of the Borrowers may not assign or transfer any of its
respective rights or obligations under this Agreement or any of the other Loan
Documents without the prior written consent of the Lenders.
10.06 [Reserved].
10.07 Cumulative
Powers.
No remedy
herein conferred upon the Lenders is intended to be exclusive of any other
remedy, and each such remedy shall be cumulative and in addition to every other
remedy given hereunder or now or hereafter existing at law, or in equity or by
statute or otherwise.
10.08 [Reserved].
10.09 Communications.
All
communications and notices provided for hereunder shall be sent by personal
delivery, nationally recognized overnight courier, facsimile, electronic mail or
registered or certified mail, to the Lenders and the Borrowers at their
addresses set forth in Schedule 10.10,
respectively, or to such other address with respect to any party as such party
shall notify the other parties hereto in writing. Any notice required
to be given hereunder by one party to another shall be deemed to have been
received (i) when delivered, if personally delivered or sent via facsimile
or (ii) one day following delivery to a nationally recognized overnight
courier or (iii) on the third business day following the date on which the
piece of mail containing such communication is posted, if sent by certified or
registered mail except that notices to the
Agent shall not be effective until received by the Agent. Except as
otherwise provided for herein, all requests for disclosure or other provision of
information to be made or otherwise given by the Borrowers shall be completed no
later than ten (10) days following the receipt by the Borrowers of a
written request therefor in the manner described in this Section 10.09.
10.10 Notices,
Etc.
All
notices and other communications provided for hereunder shall be in writing and
shall be mailed, telecopied or delivered at the following address:
THE
PARENT COMPANY
000 00xx
Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 0000
Xxxxxx,
XX 00000
Attention: Chief
Restructuring Officer
Telecopier: (000)
000-0000
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with a
copy to:
XXXXXXXXX
XXXXX XXXXX & XXXXX
00000
Xxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx, 00xx Xxxxx
Xxx Xxxxxxx,
XX 00000-0000
Attention: Xxxxxxx
X. Xxxxxxx
Telecopier: (000)
000-0000
if to the
Agent, to such Agent at the following address:
D.E
SHAW LAMINAR LENDING 3 (C), L.L.C.
c/o X.X. Xxxx & Co.,
L.P.
000 Xxxx
00xx Xxxxxx, 00xx Xxxxx
Xxx Xxxx,
Xxx Xxxx 00000
Attention: Xxxxx
Xxxxxxx
Telecopier: (000)
000-0000
Attention: Xxxxxx
Xxxxx
Telecopier: (000)
000-0000
with a
copy to:
KLEE,
TUCHIN, XXXXXXXXX & XXXXX LLP
0000
Xxxxxx xx xxx Xxxxx, 00xx Xxxxx
Xxx
Xxxxxxx, XX 00000
Attention: Xxxxxxx
X. Xxxxxx
Telecopier: (000)
000-0000
10.11 Transfer
of Revolving Commitment and Loans.
(a) Each
Lender may assign to one or more Lenders or Transferees all or a portion of its
interests, rights and obligations under this Agreement (including, without
limitation, all or a portion of its Revolving Commitment and the same portion of
the related Loans at the time owing to it); provided, however, that (i) other
than in the case of an assignment to an Affiliate of assignor Lender or to
another Lender, the Agent must give its prior written consent to such
assignment, which consent will not be unreasonably withheld, (ii) the aggregate
amount of the Revolving Commitment and/or Loans of the assigning Lender subject
to each such assignment (determined as of the date the Assignment and Acceptance
with respect to such assignment is delivered to the Agent) shall, unless
otherwise agreed to in writing by the Administrative Borrower and the Agent, in
no event be less than $200,000 or the remaining portion of such Lender’s
Revolving Commitment and/or Loans, if less (or $100,000 in the case of an
assignment between Lenders) and (iii) the parties to each such assignment shall
execute and deliver to the Agent, for its acceptance and recording in the
Register (as defined below), an Assignment and Acceptance with blanks
appropriately completed, together with a processing and recordation fee of
$1,000 (for which the Borrowers shall have no liability). Upon such
execution, delivery, acceptance and recording, from and after the effective date
specified in each Assignment and Acceptance, which effective date shall be
within 10 Business Days after the execution thereof (unless otherwise agreed to
in writing by the Agent), (A) the assignee thereunder shall be a party hereto
and, to the extent provided in such Assignment and Acceptance, have the rights
and obligations of a Lender hereunder and (B) the Lender thereunder shall, to
the extent provided in such Assignment and Acceptance, be released from its
obligations under this Agreement (and, in the case of an Assignment and
Acceptance covering all or the remaining portion of an assigning Lender’s rights
and obligations under this Agreement, such Lender shall cease to be a party
hereto).
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(b) By
executing and delivering an Assignment and Acceptance, the Lender assignor
thereunder and the assignee thereunder confirm to and agree with each other and
the other parties hereto as follows: (i) other than the
representation and warranty that it is the legal and beneficial owner of the
interest being assigned thereby free and clear of any adverse claim, such Lender
assignor makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with
respect to any statements, warranties or representations made in or in
connection with this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents or the
execution, legality, validity, enforceability, genuineness, sufficiency or value
of this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents; (ii) such Lender assignor
makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect
to the financial condition of the Borrowers or the performance or observance by
the Borrowers of any of its obligations under this Agreement or any of the other
Loan Documents or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant hereto;
(iii) such assignee confirms that it has received a copy of this Agreement and
the other Loan Documents and such other documents and information as it has
deemed appropriate to make its own credit analysis and decision to enter into
such Assignment and Acceptance; (iv) such assignee will, independently and
without reliance upon the Agent, such Lender assignor or any other Lender and
based on such documents and information as it shall deem appropriate at the
time, continue to make its own credit decisions in taking or not taking action
under this Agreement; (v) such assignee appoints and authorizes the Agent to
take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers under this
Agreement as are delegated to the Agent by the terms thereto, together with such
powers as are reasonably incidental hereof; and (vi) such assignee agrees that
it will perform in accordance with their terms all obligations that by the terms
of this Agreement are required to be performed by it as a Lender.
(c) The
Agent shall maintain at its office a copy of each Assignment and Acceptance
delivered to it and a register for the recordation of the names and addresses of
the Lenders and the Revolving Commitments of, and principal amount of the Loans
owing to, each Lender from time to time (the “Register”). The
entries in the Register shall be conclusive, in the absence of manifest error,
and the Borrowers, the Agent and the Lenders shall treat each Person the name of
which is recorded in the Register as a Lender hereunder for all purposes of this
Agreement. The Register shall be available for inspection by the
Administrative Borrower or any Lender at any time and from time to time upon
reasonable prior notice.
(d) Upon
its receipt of an Assignment and Acceptance executed by an assigning Lender and
the assignee thereunder together with the fee payable in respect thereto, the
Agent shall, if such Assignment and Acceptance has been completed with blanks
appropriately filled and consented to by the Agent (to the extent such consent
is required hereunder), (i) accept such Assignment and Acceptance, (ii) record
the information contained therein in the Register and (iii) give prompt written
notice thereof to the Administrative Borrower (together with a copy
thereof). No assignment shall be effective for purposes of this
Agreement unless it has been recorded in the Register as provided in this
paragraph.
(e) Any
Lender may, in connection with any assignment or participation or proposed
assignment or participation pursuant to this Section 10.11,
disclose to the assignee or participant or proposed assignee or participant, any
information relating to the Borrowers furnished to such Lender by or on behalf
of the Borrowers; provided that prior to any such disclosure, each such assignee
or participant or proposed assignee or participant shall agree in writing to be
bound by the provisions of Section
10.12.
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10.12 Confidentiality;
Public Announcements.
(a) Each
Lender shall not make public disclosure of any information designated by the
Borrowers in writing as confidential, including financial terms and financial
and organizational information contained in any documents, statements,
certificates, materials or information furnished, or to be furnished, by the
Borrowers in connection with the Loans contemplated by this Agreement; provided, however, that the
foregoing shall not be construed, now or in the future, to apply to any
information reflected in any recorded document, information which is
independently developed by such Lender, information obtained from sources other
than the Borrowers or information that is or becomes in the public domain other
than through the fault of such Lender, nor shall it be construed to prevent such
Lender from (i) making any disclosure of any information (A) if required to do
so by any requirement of Law, (B) to any Governmental Authority having or
claiming authority to regulate or oversee any aspect of the Lender’s business or
that of the Borrowers or their affiliates of such Lender in connection with the
exercise of such authority or claimed authority, or (C) pursuant to subpoena; or
(ii) to the extent such Lender or its counsel deems necessary or appropriate to
do so to effect or preserve its security for any applicable investment or
financing or to enforce any remedy provided herein or in any applicable
investment or financing documents or otherwise available by law; or (iii)
making, on a confidential basis, such disclosures as such Lender deems necessary
or appropriate to such Lender’s Affiliates, legal counsel, accountants
(including outside auditors), advisors or other representatives; or (iv) making
such disclosures as such Lender reasonably deems necessary or appropriate to any
bank or financial institution or other entity, and/or counsel to or other
representatives of such bank or financial institution or other entity, to which
such Lender in good faith desires to sell an interest in any applicable
investment or financing; provided, however, that such bank, financial
institution or other entity or counsel to or representative thereof, agrees to
maintain the confidentiality of such disclosures (subject to customary
exceptions); or (v) making such disclosures to (x) any bank, financial
institution or other funding source and (y) S&P, Xxxxx’x, Fitch and/or other
ratings agency, as such Lender reasonably deems necessary or appropriate in
connection with such Lender’s obtaining financing; provided, however, that such
funding source or ratings agency shall be informed of the confidentiality of
such information; or (vi) making such disclosures to its investors or potential
investors as such Lender reasonably deems necessary or appropriate; provided,
however, that such investors or potential investors shall be informed of the
confidentiality of such information. The obligations of the Agent and
the Lenders under this Section 10.12(a)
shall supersede and replace the obligations of the Agent and the Lender under
any confidentiality agreement executed and delivered by the Agent or any Lender
prior to the date hereof in respect of this financing.
(b) The
Required Lenders shall have the right to review and approve, such approval not
to be unreasonably withheld, any public announcement or public filing made after
the Closing Date relating to the Loans, or to the Lenders in any way before any
such announcement or filing is announced or filed, provided, however, no review
or approval shall be required for any such announcement or filing required to be
announced or filed by law. In addition, the Lenders shall provide the
Borrowers an opportunity to review and approve any public announcement issued by
the Lenders specifically relating to the Loans, such approval not to be
unreasonably withheld or delayed; provided, however, no review or
approval shall be required for any such announcement required to be announced by
law; provided
further, the
Lenders shall provide the Borrowers with an advance copy of any regulatory
filings or tombstone ads prepared by or on behalf of the Lenders, but shall not
be required to obtain approval by the Company.
10.13 Governing
Law.
THIS
AGREEMENT AND THE OTHER LOAN DOCUMENTS (UNLESS EXPRESSLY PROVIDED TO THE
CONTRARY IN ANOTHER LOAN DOCUMENT IN RESPECT OF SUCH OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT) SHALL
BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW
YORK APPLICABLE TO CONTRACTS MADE AND TO BE PERFORMED IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK,
EXCEPT AS GOVERNED BY THE BANKRUPTCY CODE AND EXCEPT AS EXPRESSLY PROVIDED TO
THE CONTRARY IN ANOTHER LOAN DOCUMENT IN RESPECT OF SUCH OTHER LOAN
DOCUMENT.
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10.14 Headings.
The
descriptive Section headings herein have been inserted for convenience only and
shall not be deemed to limit or otherwise affect the construction of any
provisions hereof.
10.15 Multiple
Originals.
This
Agreement may be executed simultaneously in two or more counterparts, each of
which shall be deemed an original, and it shall not be necessary in making proof
of this Agreement to produce or account for more than one such
counterpart.
10.16 Amendment
or Waiver.
This
Agreement may be amended, and the Borrowers may take any action herein
prohibited, or omit to perform any act herein required to be performed by them,
if the Borrowers shall obtain the prior written consent of the Required Lenders
to such amendment, action or omission to act; provided, however, that,
without the prior written consent of all of the Lenders, no such agreement shall
(i) decrease or forgive the Principal amount of any Loan, or extend the
Maturity Date of any Loan, or decrease the rate of interest or premium on any
Loan, or any fees or other amounts payable hereunder, (ii) effect any
waiver, amendment or modification that by its terms changes the amount,
allocation, payment or pro rata sharing of payment on or among the Loans, or
postpones any date fixed by this Agreement or any other Loan Document for any
payment of Principal, interest or premium, (iii) amend the provisions of
this Section 10.16,
the definition of the term “Required Lenders”, (iv) release any of the
Borrowers from their obligations under the Loan Documents or (v) release all of
substantially all of the Collateral, except to the extent such Collateral is
sold or to be sold as part of or in connection with any sale permitted hereunder
or under any other Loan Document, in which case such release may be made by the
Agent acting alone as provided in Article
XI.
10.17 Waiver
of Jury Trial.
THE
LENDERS AND THE BORROWERS EACH HEREBY KNOWINGLY, VOLUNTARILY AND INTENTIONALLY
WAIVE (TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW) ANY RIGHT TO A TRIAL BY JURY
OF ANY DISPUTE ARISING UNDER, RELATING TO, OR CONNECTED WITH THIS AGREEMENT, OR
ANY OTHER AGREEMENT, INSTRUMENT OR DOCUMENT CONTEMPLATED HEREBY OR DELIVERED IN
CONNECTION HEREWITH AND AGREE THAT ANY SUCH DISPUTE SHALL BE TRIED BEFORE A
JUDGE SITTING WITHOUT A JURY. THIS PROVISION IS A MATERIAL INDUCEMENT
FOR THE PARTIES TO ENTER INTO THIS AGREEMENT.
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10.18 Consent
to Jurisdiction.
EACH OF
THE PARTIES HERETO AGREES THAT ANY LEGAL ACTION OR PROCEEDING WITH RESPECT TO
THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT SHALL BE BROUGHT IN THE BANKRUPTCY
COURT OR, IF THE BANKRUPTCY COURT DOES NOT HAVE OR REFUSES TO EXERCISE
JURISDICTION WITH RESPECT THERETO, XXX XXXXXX XX XXX XXXXX XX XXX XXXX IN THE
COUNTY OF NEW YORK OR OF THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN
DISTRICT OF NEW YORK, AND, BY EXECUTION AND DELIVERY OF THIS AGREEMENT, EACH
PARTY HERETO HEREBY IRREVOCABLY ACCEPTS IN RESPECT OF ITS PROPERTY, GENERALLY
AND UNCONDITIONALLY, THE JURISDICTION OF THE AFORESAID COURTS; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT ANY
SUIT SEEKING ENFORCEMENT AGAINST ANY COLLATERAL OR OTHER PROPERTY MAY BE
BROUGHT, AT THE AGENT’S OPTION, IN THE COURTS OF ANY JURISDICTION WHERE THE
AGENT ELECTS TO BRING SUCH ACTION OR WHERE SUCH COLLATERAL OR OTHER PROPERTY MAY
BE FOUND. EACH BORROWER HEREBY IRREVOCABLY CONSENTS TO THE
SERVICE OF ANY AND ALL LEGAL PROCESS, SUMMONS, NOTICES, AND DOCUMENTS IN ANY
SUIT, ACTION, OR PROCEEDING BROUGHT IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ARISING OUT
OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OF THE OTHER LOAN DOCUMENTS BY
THE MAILING (BY REGISTERED MAIL OR CERTIFIED MAIL, POSTAGE PREPAID) OR
DELIVERING OF A COPY OF SUCH PROCESS TO SUCH LOAN PARTY, C/O THE BORROWERS, AT
THE BORROWERS’ ADDRESS FOR NOTICES AS SET FORTH IN SECTION 10.10. THE
BORROWERS AGREE 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. NOTHING HEREIN SHALL AFFECT THE
RIGHT OF THE AGENT AND THE LENDERS TO SERVE PROCESS IN ANY OTHER MANNER
PERMITTED BY LAW OR TO COMMENCE LEGAL PROCEEDINGS OR OTHERWISE PROCEED AGAINST
ANY BORROWER IN ANY OTHER JURISDICTION. EACH BORROWER HEREBY
EXPRESSLY AND IRREVOCABLY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, ANY
OBJECTION WHICH IT MAY NOW OR HEREAFTER HAVE TO THE JURISDICTION OR LAYING OF
VENUE OF ANY SUCH LITIGATION BROUGHT IN ANY SUCH COURT REFERRED TO ABOVE AND ANY
CLAIM THAT ANY SUCH LITIGATION HAS BEEN BROUGHT IN AN INCONVENIENT
FORUM. TO THE EXTENT THAT ANY BORROWER HAS OR HEREAFTER MAY
ACQUIRE ANY IMMUNITY FROM JURISDICTION OF ANY COURT OR FROM ANY LEGAL PROCESS
(WHETHER THROUGH SERVICE OR NOTICE, ATTACHMENT PRIOR TO JUDGMENT, ATTACHMENT IN
AID OF EXECUTION OR OTHERWISE) WITH RESPECT TO ITSELF OR ITS PROPERTY,
EACH BORROWER HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES SUCH IMMUNITY IN RESPECT OF ITS
OBLIGATIONS UNDER THIS AGREEMENT AND THE OTHER LOAN DOCUMENTS.
10.19 Indemnification;
Damage Waiver.
(a) The
Borrowers, jointly and severally, and without limitation as to time, will defend
and indemnify the Agent, the Lenders, their Affiliates and each of their
respective officers, directors, managers, employees, attorneys and agents (each,
an “Indemnified
Party”) against, and hold each Indemnified Party harmless from, all
losses, claims, damages, liabilities, costs (including the costs of preparation
and attorneys’ fees and expenses) (collectively, the “Losses”) incurred by
any Indemnified Party as a result of, or arising out of, or relating to
(i) any misrepresentation or breach of any representation or warranty made
by any Borrower herein, (ii) any breach of any covenant, agreement or
obligation of any Borrower contained in any of the Loan Documents,
(iii) any investigation, litigation or proceeding against a Borrower or any
Indemnified Party and arising out of or in connection with this Agreement, any
of the Loan Documents, the Interim DIP Financing Order, the Final DIP Financing
Order, the Pre-Petition Loan Agreements, any other loan or extension of credit
made to a Borrower by an Indemnified Party, any equity ownership in a Borrower
held by an Indemnified Party, or otherwise, whether or not the transactions
contemplated by this Agreement are consummated, other than any Losses resulting
from action on the part of such Indemnified Party which is finally determined in
such proceeding to be primarily and directly a result of such Indemnified
Party’s gross negligence or willful misconduct. Each Borrower agrees
to reimburse each Indemnified Party promptly for all such Losses as they are
incurred by such Indemnified Party in connection with the investigation of,
preparation for or defense of any pending or threatened claim or any action or
proceeding arising therefrom. Each Indemnified Party agrees to
reimburse the Borrowers for any payments made by the Borrowers to such
Indemnified Party pursuant to this paragraph for Losses which are finally
determined in such proceeding to primarily and directly result from the gross
negligence or willful misconduct of such Indemnified Party. The
obligations of the Borrowers under this paragraph will survive any transfer of
the Loans by the Lenders and the termination of this Agreement, the Interim DIP
Financing Order, the Final DIP Financing Order, any Pre-Petition Loan Agreement
or any other agreement related to the indemnification provided
hereunder. In the event that the foregoing indemnity is unavailable
or insufficient to hold an Indemnified Party harmless, then the Borrowers will
contribute to amounts paid or payable by such Indemnified Party in respect of
such Indemnified Party’s Losses in such proportions as appropriately reflect the
relative benefits received by and fault of the Borrowers and such Indemnified
Party in connection with the matters as to which such Losses relate and other
equitable considerations.
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(b) If
any action, proceeding or investigation is commenced, as to which any
Indemnified Party proposes to demand such indemnification, it shall notify the
Borrowers with reasonable promptness; provided, however, that any
failure by such Indemnified Party to notify the Borrowers shall not relieve the
Borrowers from their obligations hereunder except to the extent the Borrowers
are prejudiced thereby. The Borrowers shall be entitled to assume the
defense of any such action, proceeding or investigation, including the
employment of counsel and the payment of all fees and expenses. The
Indemnified Party shall have the right to employ separate counsel in connection
with any such action, proceeding or investigation and to participate in the
defense thereof, but the fees and expenses of such counsel shall be paid by the
Indemnified Party, unless (i) the Borrowers have failed to assume the
defense and employ counsel as provided herein, (ii) the Borrowers have
agreed in writing to pay such fees and expenses of separate counsel or
(iii) an action, proceeding, or investigation has been commenced against
both the Indemnified Party and/or a Borrower and representation of both such
Borrowers and the Indemnified Party by the same counsel would be inappropriate
because of actual or potential conflicts of interest between the
parties. In the case of any circumstance described in
clauses (i), (ii) or (iii) of the immediately preceding sentence, the
Borrowers shall be responsible for the reasonable fees and expenses of such
separate counsel; provided, however, that the
Borrowers shall not in any event be required to pay the fees and expenses of
more than one separate counsel (and, if deemed necessary by such separate
counsel, appropriate local counsel who shall report to such separate counsel)
for all Indemnified Parties. The Borrowers shall be liable only for
settlement of any claim against an Indemnified Party made with the Borrowers’
written consent.
(c) To
the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, the Borrowers shall not assert,
and hereby waive, any claim or cause of action against any Indemnified Party, on
any theory of liability, arising out of, in connection with, or as a result of,
this Agreement, any other Loan Document, the Interim DIP Financing Order or the
Final DIP Financing Order, any agreement or instrument contemplated hereby, the
Pre-Petition Loan Agreements, any other loan or extension of credit made to a
Borrower by an Indemnified Party, any equity ownership in a Borrower held by an
Indemnified Party, the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby, the use of
the Loan proceeds, or otherwise, including all claims and causes of action (i)
for special, indirect, consequential or punitive damages (as opposed to direct
or actual damages), (ii) for preference, fraudulent conveyance or other claims
arising under the Bankruptcy Code, (iii) regarding the validity, priority,
perfection or avoidability of the secured claims of the Agent and the Lenders or
the Pre-Petition Agents and the Pre-Petition Lenders and (iv) under or with
respect to either Pre-Petition Loan Agreement (or related loan documents) or any
other financing arrangement entered into or contemplated prior to the Filing
Date. No Indemnified Party 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.
10.20 Regulatory
Requirements.
In the
event of any determination by any Lender that, by reason of any existing or
future federal or state law, statute, rule, regulation, guideline, order, court
or administrative ruling, request or directive (whether or not having the force
of law and whether or not failure to comply therewith would be unlawful)
(collectively, a “Regulatory
Requirement”), such Lender is effectively restricted or prohibited from
making or maintaining any Loans, or otherwise realizing upon or receiving the
benefits intended hereunder or under the other Loan Documents, the Borrowers
shall, and shall cause their Subsidiaries, to take such action as such Lenders
and the Borrowers shall jointly agree in good faith to be reasonably necessary
to permit such Lenders to comply with such Regulatory
Requirement. The reasonable costs of taking such action shall be
borne by the Borrowers.
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10.21 Patriot
Act Notice.
Each
Lender (for itself and not on behalf of any Lender) hereby notifies each of the
Borrowers that pursuant to the requirements of the Patriot Act, it is required
to obtain, verify and record information that identifies the Borrowers, which
information includes the name and address of each of the Borrowers and other
information that will allow such Lender, as applicable, to identify each
Borrower in accordance with the Patriot Act.
10.22 Intercompany
Indebtedness.
Each
Borrower hereby agrees that any Indebtedness of any other Borrower now or
hereafter owing to such Borrower, whether heretofore, now or hereafter created
(the “Borrower
Subordinated Debt”), is hereby subordinated to all of the Obligations and
that the Borrower Subordinated Debt shall not be paid in whole or in part until
the Obligations have been paid in full and this Agreement is terminated and of
no further force or effect, provided that, so
long as no Default shall have occurred and be continuing and no Default shall be
caused thereby and such Indebtedness is expressly permitted hereunder, the
Borrowers may make and receive such payments in respect of Borrower Subordinated
Debt as shall be customary in the ordinary course of the Borrowers’
business. No Borrower shall accept any payment of or on account of
any Borrower Subordinated Debt at any time in contravention of the
foregoing. Each payment on the Borrower Subordinated Debt received in
violation of any of the provisions hereof shall be deemed to have been received
by such Borrower as trustee for the Lenders and shall be paid over to the Agent
immediately on account of the Obligations, but without otherwise affecting in
any manner such Borrower’s liability hereunder. Each Borrower agrees
to file all claims against the Borrower from whom the Borrower Subordinated Debt
is owing in any bankruptcy or other proceeding in which the filing of claims is
required by law in respect of any Borrower Subordinated Debt, and the Agent
shall be entitled to all of such Borrower’s rights thereunder. If for
any reason a Borrower fails to file such claim at least ten (10) Business Days
prior to the last date on which such claim should be filed, such Borrower hereby
irrevocably appoints the Agent as its true and lawful attorney-in-fact, and the
Agent is hereby authorized to act as attorney-in-fact in such Borrower’s name to
file such claim or, in the Agent’s discretion, to assign such claim to and cause
proof of claim to be filed in the name of the Agent or its
nominee. In all such cases, whether in administration, bankruptcy or
otherwise, the Person or Persons authorized to pay such claim shall pay to the
Agent the full amount payable on the claim in the proceeding, and, to the full
extent necessary for that purpose, each Borrower hereby assigns to the Agent all
of such Borrower’s rights to any payments or distributions to which such
Borrower otherwise would be entitled. If the amount so paid is
greater than such Borrower’s liability hereunder, the Agent shall pay the excess
amount to the party entitled thereto. In addition, each Borrower
hereby irrevocably appoints the Agent as its attorney-in-fact to exercise all of
such Borrower’s voting rights in connection with any bankruptcy proceeding or
any plan for the reorganization of the Borrower from whom the Borrower
Subordinated Debt is owing.
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ARTICLE
XI.
AGENCY
PROVISIONS
11.01 Appointment.
Each of
the Lenders hereby irrevocably designates and appoints D.E. Shaw as the Agent of
such Lender (or the Lenders represented by it) under this Agreement and the
other Loan Documents for the term hereof (and D.E. Shaw hereby accepts such
appointment) and each such Lender irrevocably authorizes D.E. Shaw to take such
action on its behalf under the provisions of this Agreement and the other Loan
Documents and to exercise such powers and perform such duties as are expressly
delegated to the Agent by the terms of this Agreement and the other Loan
Documents, together with such other powers as are reasonably incidental
thereto. Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary elsewhere in
this Agreement or the other Loan Documents, the Agent shall not have any duties
or responsibilities, except those expressly set forth herein and therein, and no
implied covenants, functions, responsibilities, duties, obligations or
liabilities shall be read into this Agreement or the other Loan Documents or
otherwise exist against the Agent. Any reference to the Agent in this
Agreement or the other Loan Documents shall be deemed to refer to the Agent
solely in its capacity as Agent and not in its capacity, if any, as a
Lender.
11.02 Delegation
of Duties.
The Agent
may execute any of its respective duties under this Agreement or the other Loan
Documents by or through agents or attorneys-in-fact and shall be entitled to
advice of counsel concerning all matters pertaining to such
duties. The Agent shall not be responsible for the negligence or
misconduct of any agents or attorneys-in-fact selected by the Agent with
reasonable care.
11.03 Exculpatory
Provisions.
Neither
the Agent nor any of its officers, directors, employees, agents,
attorneys-in-fact, subsidiaries or Affiliates shall be (i) liable for any
action lawfully taken or omitted to be taken by it or such Person under or in
connection with this Agreement (except for actions occasioned by its or such
Person’s own gross negligence or willful misconduct), or (ii) responsible
in any manner to any of the Lenders for any recitals, statements,
representations or warranties made by the Borrowers or any of their Subsidiaries
or any officer thereof contained in this Agreement, the other Loan Documents or
in any certificate, report, statement or other document referred to or provided
for in, or received by the Agent under or in connection with, this Agreement or
the other Loan Documents or for the value, validity, effectiveness, genuineness,
enforceability or sufficiency of this Agreement or any other Loan Document or
for any failure of the Borrowers or any of their Subsidiaries to perform its
obligations hereunder or thereunder. The Agent shall not be under any
obligation to any Lender to ascertain or to inquire as to the observance or
performance of any of the agreements contained in, or conditions of, this
Agreement or of any other Loan Document, or to inspect the properties, books or
records of the Borrowers or any of their Subsidiaries.
11.04 Reliance
by Agent.
The Agent
shall be entitled to rely, and shall be fully protected in relying, upon any
note, writing, resolution, notice, consent, certificate, affidavit, letter,
cablegram, telegram, telecopy, telex or teletype message, statement, order or
other document or conversation believed by it to be genuine and correct and to
have been signed, sent or made by the proper Person or Persons and upon advice
and statements of legal counsel (including, without limitation, counsel to the
Borrowers), independent accountants and other experts selected by the
Agent. The Agent shall be entitled to treat and deal with the
Lenders, and shall not be required to recognize any other Person as the holder
of a Loan, unless and until the Agent has received an Assignment and Acceptance
executed by such Lender and the Transferee. The Agent shall be fully
justified in failing or refusing to take any action under this Agreement and the
other Loan Documents unless it shall first receive such advice or concurrence of
the Required Lenders (or, when expressly required hereby, all the Lenders) as it
deems appropriate or it shall first be indemnified to its satisfaction by the
Lenders against any and all liability and expense which may be incurred by it by
reason of taking or continuing to take any such action except for its own gross
negligence or willful misconduct. The Agent shall in all cases be
fully protected in acting, or in refraining from acting, under this Agreement
and the other Loan Documents in accordance with a request of the Required
Lenders (or, when expressly required hereby, all the Lenders), and such request
and any action taken or failure to act pursuant thereto shall be binding upon
all the Lenders and all future Lenders.
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11.05 Notices
of Default.
The Agent
shall not be deemed to have knowledge or notice of the occurrence of any Event
of Default hereunder or under any other Loan Document unless it has received
notice of such Event of Default in accordance with the terms of hereof or
thereof or notice from a Lender or the Borrowers referring to this Agreement or
the other Loan Documents, describing such Event of Default and stating that such
notice is a “notice of default.” In the event that the Agent receives
such a notice, it shall promptly give notice thereof to the
Lenders. The Agent shall take such action with respect to such Event
of Default as shall be reasonably directed by the Required Lenders; provided that unless
and until the Agent shall have received such directions, the Agent may (but
shall not be obligated to) take such action, or refrain from taking such action,
with respect to such Event of Default as it shall deem advisable in the best
interests of the Lenders, except to the extent
that other provisions of this Agreement or the other Loan Documents expressly
require that any such action be taken or not be taken only with the consent and
authorization or the request of the Lenders or Required Lenders, as
applicable.
11.06 Non-Reliance
on the Agent and Other Lenders.
Each of
the Lenders expressly acknowledges that neither the Agent nor any of its
respective officers, directors, employees, agents, attorneys-in-fact,
subsidiaries or Affiliates has made any representations or warranties to it and
that no act by the Agent hereinafter taken, including any review of the affairs
of the Borrowers or any of their Subsidiaries, shall be deemed to constitute any
representation or warranty by the Agent to any Lender. Each of the
Lenders, represents that it has made and will continue to make, independently
and without reliance upon the Agent or any other Lender, and based on such
documents and information as it shall deem appropriate at the time, its own
credit analysis, appraisals and decisions in taking or not taking action under
this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, and to make such investigation as
it deems necessary to inform itself as to the business, operations, property,
financial and other condition and creditworthiness of the Borrowers and their
Subsidiaries. Except for notices, reports and other documents
expressly required to be furnished to the Lenders by the Agent hereunder or
under the other Loan Documents, the Agent shall not have any duty or
responsibility to provide any Lender with any credit or other information
concerning the business, operations, property, financial and other condition or
creditworthiness of the Borrowers or any of their Subsidiaries which may come
into the possession of the Agent or any of its respective officers, directors,
employees, agents, attorneys-in-fact, subsidiaries or Affiliates.
11.07 Indemnification.
Each of
the Lenders hereby agrees to indemnify the Agent in its capacity as such (to the
extent not reimbursed by the Borrowers and without limiting the obligation of
the Borrowers to do so), ratably according to the respective amounts of their
Loans, from and against any and all liabilities, obligations, losses, damages,
penalties, actions, judgments, suits, costs, expenses or disbursements of any
kind whatsoever which may at any time (including, without limitation, at any
time following the payment of the Loans) be imposed on, incurred by or asserted
against the Agent in any way relating to or arising out of this Agreement, the
other Loan Documents, or any documents contemplated by or referred to herein or
therein or the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby or any action taken
or omitted by the Agent under or in connection with any of the foregoing; provided that no
Lender shall be liable for the payment of any portion of such liabilities,
obligations, losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments, suits, costs,
expenses or disbursements to the extent they result from the Agent’s gross
negligence or willful misconduct. The agreements in this Section 11.07 shall
survive the payment of the Obligations and the termination of this Agreement and
the other Loan Documents.
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11.08 The
Agent in Its Individual Capacity.
The Agent
and its respective subsidiaries and Affiliates may make loans to, accept
deposits from and generally engage in any kind of business with the Borrowers as
though the Agent were not a Agent hereunder. With respect to any Loan
made by it, the Agent shall have the same rights and powers under this Agreement
and the other Loan Documents as any Lender and may exercise the same as though
it were not a Agent, and the term “Lenders” shall include the Agent in its
individual capacity.
11.09 Resignation
of the Agent; Successor Agent.
The Agent
may resign as Agent at any time by giving thirty (30) days advance notice
thereof to the Lenders and the Borrowers and, thereafter, the retiring Agent
shall be discharged from its duties and obligations hereunder. Upon
any such resignation, the Required Lenders shall have the right, subject to the
approval of the Borrowers (so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is
continuing; such approval not to be unreasonably withheld), to appoint a
successor Agent. If no successor Agent shall have been so appointed
by the Required Lenders, been approved (so long as no Event of Default has
occurred and is continuing) by the Borrowers or have accepted such appointment
within thirty (30) days after the Agent’s giving of notice of resignation,
then the Agent may, on behalf of the Lenders, appoint a successor Agent
reasonably acceptable to the Borrowers (so long as no Default or Event of
Default has occurred and is continuing). Upon the acceptance of any
appointment as Agent hereunder by a successor Agent, such successor Agent shall
thereupon succeed to and become vested with all rights, powers, privileges and
duties of the retiring Agent. After any retiring Agent’s resignation
hereunder as Agent, the provisions of this Section 11.09 shall
continue in effect for its benefit in respect of any actions taken or omitted to
be taken by it while it was acting as Agent. If no successor has
accepted appointment as Agent by the date which is thirty (30) days
following a retiring Agent’s notice of resignation, the retiring Agent’s
resignation shall nevertheless thereupon become effective and the Required
Lenders shall perform all of the duties of the Agent hereunder until such time,
if any, as the Required Lenders appoint a successor agent as provided for
above.
11.10 Reimbursement
by Lenders.
To the
extent that the Borrowers for any reason fail to indefeasibly pay any amount
required under Section 10.02 or
Section 10.18 to
be paid by it to the Agent (or any sub-agent thereof), or any Related Party of
any of the foregoing, each Lender severally agrees to pay to the Agent (or any
such sub-agent) or such Related Party, as the case may be, such Lender’s
applicable percentage thereof (determined as of the time that the applicable
unreimbursed expense or indemnity payment is sought) of such unpaid amount,
provided that
the unreimbursed expense or indemnified loss, claim, damage, liability or
related expense, as the case may be, was incurred by or asserted against the
Agent (or any such sub-agent) in its capacity as such, or against any Related
Party of any of the foregoing acting for the Agent (or any such sub-agent) in
connection with such capacity. For the purposes of this Section 10.10, the
“applicable percentage” of a Lender shall be the percentage of the total
aggregate principal amount of the Loans made by such Lender at such
time.
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11.11 Agent
May File Proofs of Claim
The Agent
(irrespective of whether the principal of any Loan shall then be due and payable
as herein expressed or by declaration or otherwise and irrespective of whether
the Agent shall have made any demand on the Borrowers) shall be entitled and
empowered:
(i) to
file one or more proofs of claim (including, but not limited to, secured and
administrative claims) for the whole amount of the principal and interest owing
and unpaid in respect of the Loans and all other Obligations that are owing and
unpaid and to file such other documents as may be necessary or advisable in
order to have the claims of the Lenders and the Agent (including any claim for
the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Lenders
and the Agent and their respective agents and counsel and all other amounts due
the Lenders and the Agent under Sections 4.10 and
10.02) allowed
in the Reorganization Cases or other applicable proceedings; and
(ii) to
collect and receive any monies or other property payable or deliverable on any
such claims and to distribute the same, and any trustee, custodian, receiver,
assignee, liquidator, sequestrator or other similar official in the
Reorganization Cases or any other proceeding is hereby authorized by each Lender
to make such payments to the Agent and, in the event that the Agent shall
consent to the making of such payments directly to the Lenders, to pay to the
Agent any amount due for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements
and advances of the Agent and its agents and counsel, and any other amounts due
the Agent under Sections 4.10 and
10.02.
11.12 Collateral
and Guaranty Matters.
The
Lenders irrevocably authorize the Agent, at its option and in its
discretion,
(i) to
release any Lien on any Property granted to or held by the Agent under any Loan
Document (i) upon termination of the Aggregate Revolving Commitments and payment
in full of all Obligations outstanding under the Loan Documents (other than
contingent indemnification obligations), (ii) that is transferred or to be
transferred as part of or in connection with any Disposition permitted hereunder
or under any other Loan Document, or (iii) subject to Section 10.16, if
approved, authorized or ratified in writing by the Required Lenders;
and
(ii) to
subordinate any Lien on any Property granted to or held by the Agent under any
Loan Document to the holder of any Lien on such Property that is permitted by
clause (i) of the definition of Permitted Encumbrances.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the
parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be duly executed as of the date
first above written.
BORROWERS:
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eTOYS
DIRECT 1, LLC
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By:
eToys Direct, Inc.,
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its
Managing Member
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By:
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/s/ Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx | |
Name:
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Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx | |
Title:
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CEO | |
THE
PARENT COMPANY
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By:
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/s/ Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx | |
Name:
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Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx | |
Title:
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CEO | |
BABYUNIVERSE,
INC.
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By:
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/s/ Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx | |
Name:
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Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx | |
Title:
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CEO | |
eTOYS
DIRECT, INC.
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By:
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/s/ Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx | |
Name:
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Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx | |
Title:
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CEO | |
POSHTOTS,
INC.
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By:
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/s/ Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx | |
Name:
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Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx | |
Title:
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CEO |
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DREAMTIME
BABY, INC.
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By:
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/s/ Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx |
Name:
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Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx |
Title:
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CEO |
MY
TWINN, INC.
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By:
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/s/ Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx |
Name:
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Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx |
Title:
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CEO |
eTOYS
DIRECT 2, LLC
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By:
eToys Direct, Inc.,
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its
Managing Member
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By:
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/s/ Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx |
Name:
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Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx |
Title:
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CEO |
eTOYS
DIRECT 3, LLC
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By:
eToys Direct, Inc.,
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its
Managing Member
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By:
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/s/ Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx |
Name:
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Xxxxxxx
Xxxxxx
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Title:
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CEO |
GIFT
ACQUISITION, L.L.C.
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By:
eToys Direct, Inc.,
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its
Managing Member
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By:
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/s/ Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx |
Name:
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Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx |
Title:
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CEO |
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