THE MARCUS CORPORATION $15,000,000 5.89% Series A Senior Notes, Tranche A, due April 17, 2018 and $45,000,000 6.55% Series A Senior Notes, Tranche B, due April 17, 2020 NOTE PURCHASE AGREEMENT Dated as of April 17, 2008
THE MARCUS CORPORATION
$15,000,000 5.89% Series A Senior Notes, Tranche A, due April 17, 2018
and
$45,000,000 6.55% Series A Senior Notes, Tranche B, due April 17, 2020
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Dated as of April 17, 2008
TABLE OF CONTENTS
(Not a part of the Agreement)
SECTION | HEADING | PAGE |
SECTION 1. |
AUTHORIZATION OF NOTES | 1 |
SECTION 2. |
SALE AND PURCHASE OF NOTES | 1 |
Section 2.1. |
Series A Notes | 1 |
Section 2.2. | Additional Series of Notes | 2 |
SECTION 3. |
CLOSING | 3 |
SECTION 4. |
CONDITIONS TO CLOSING | 3 |
Section 4.1. |
Representations and Warranties | 3 |
Section 4.2. | Performance; No Default | 3 |
Section 4.3. | Compliance Certificates | 4 |
Section 4.4. | Opinions of Counsel | 4 |
Section 4.5. | Purchase Permitted By Applicable Law, etc | 4 |
Section 4.6. | Sale of Other Notes | 4 |
Section 4.7. | Payment of Special Counsel Fees | 4 |
Section 4.8. | Private Placement Number | 5 |
Section 4.9. | Changes in Corporate Structure | 5 |
Section 4.10. | Funding Instructions | 5 |
Section 4.11. | Proceedings and Documents | 5 |
Section 4.12. | Conditions to Issuance of Additional Notes | 5 |
SECTION 5. |
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE COMPANY | 6 |
Section 5.1. |
Organization; Power and Authority | 6 |
Section 5.2. | Authorization, etc | 6 |
Section 5.3. | Disclosure | 6 |
Section 5.4. | Organization and Ownership of Shares of Subsidiaries; Affiliates and Investments | 7 |
Section 5.5. | Financial Statements; Material Liabilities | 7 |
Section 5.6. | Compliance with Laws, Other Instruments, etc. | 8 |
Section 5.7. | Governmental Authorizations, etc. | 8 |
Section 5.8. | Litigation; Observance of Agreements, Statutes and Orders | 8 |
Section 5.9. | Taxes | 8 |
Section 5.10. | Title to Property; Leases | 9 |
Section 5.11. | Licenses, Permits, etc | 9 |
Section 5.12. | Compliance with ERISA | 9 |
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Section 5.13. | Private Offering by the Company | 10 |
Section 5.14. | Use of Proceeds; Margin Regulations | 10 |
Section 5.15. | Existing Debt; Future Liens | 11 |
Section 5.16. | Foreign Assets Control Regulations, etc | 11 |
Section 5.17. | Status under Certain Statutes | 12 |
Section 5.18. | Environmental Matters | 12 |
Section 5.19. | Notes Rank Pari Passu | 12 |
SECTION 6. |
REPRESENTATIONS OF THE PURCHASER | 12 |
Section 6.1. |
Purchase for Investment | 12 |
Section 6.2. | Accredited Investor | 13 |
Section 6.3. | Source of Funds | 13 |
SECTION 7. |
INFORMATION AS TO COMPANY | 15 |
Section 7.1. |
Financial and Business Information | 15 |
Section 7.2. | Officer’s Certificate | 17 |
Section 7.3. | Inspection | 18 |
SECTION 8. |
PREPAYMENT OF THE SERIES A NOTES | 18 |
Section 8.1. |
Required Prepayments | 18 |
Section 8.2. | Optional Prepayments with Make-Whole Amount | 19 |
Section 8.3. | Allocation of Partial Prepayments | 20 |
Section 8.4. | Maturity; Surrender, etc | 20 |
Section 8.5. | Purchase of Notes | 20 |
Section 8.6. | Make-Whole Amount for Series A Notes | 20 |
Section 8.7. | Change in Control | 22 |
SECTION 9. |
AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS | 24 |
Section 9.1. |
Compliance with Law | 24 |
Section 9.2. | Insurance | 24 |
Section 9.3. | Maintenance of Properties | 25 |
Section 9.4. | Payment of Taxes and Claims | 25 |
Section 9.5. | Existence, etc | 25 |
Section 9.6. | Notes to Rank Pari Passu | 25 |
Section 9.7. | Books and Records | 25 |
SECTION 10. |
NEGATIVE COVENANTS | 26 |
Section 10.1. |
Transactions with Affiliates | 26 |
Section 10.2. | Consolidated Operating Cash Flow | 26 |
Section 10.3. | Limitations on Debt | 26 |
Section 10.4. | Limitations on Priority Debt | 26 |
Section 10.5. | Limitation on Liens | 26 |
Section 10.6. | Sales of Assets | 28 |
Section 10.7. | Merger and Consolidation | 29 |
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Section 10.8. | Designation of Restricted and Unrestricted Subsidiaries | 30 |
Section 10.9. | Nature of Business | 30 |
Section 10.10. | Terrorism Sanctions Regulations | 30 |
SECTION 11. |
EVENTS OF DEFAULT | 31 |
SECTION 12. |
REMEDIES ON DEFAULT, ETC | 33 |
Section 12.1. |
Acceleration | 33 |
Section 12.2. | Other Remedies | 33 |
Section 12.3. | Rescission | 34 |
Section 12.4. | No Waivers or Election of Remedies, Expenses, etc | 34 |
SECTION 13. |
REGISTRATION; EXCHANGE; SUBSTITUTION OF NOTES | 34 |
Section 13.1. |
Registration of Notes | 34 |
Section 13.2. | Transfer and Exchange of Notes | 35 |
Section 13.3. | Replacement of Notes | 35 |
SECTION 14. |
PAYMENTS ON NOTES | 36 |
Section 14.1. |
Place of Payment | 36 |
Section 14.2. | Home Office Payment | 36 |
SECTION 15. |
EXPENSES, ETC | 36 |
Section 15.1. |
Transaction Expenses | 36 |
Section 15.2. | Survival | 37 |
SECTION 16. |
SURVIVAL OF REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES; ENTIRE AGREEMENT | 37 |
SECTION 17. |
AMENDMENT AND WAIVER | 38 |
Section 17.1. |
Requirements | 38 |
Section 17.2. | Solicitation of Holders of Notes | 38 |
Section 17.3. | Binding Effect, etc | 39 |
Section 17.4. | Notes Held by Company, etc | 39 |
SECTION 18. |
NOTICES | 40 |
SECTION 19. |
REPRODUCTION OF DOCUMENTS | 40 |
SECTION 20. |
CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION | 41 |
SECTION 21. |
SUBSTITUTION OF PURCHASER | 42 |
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SECTION 22. | MISCELLANEOUS | 42 |
Section 22.1. |
Successors and Assigns | 42 |
Section 22.2. | Payments Due on Non-Business Days | 42 |
Section 22.3. | Accounting Term | 43 |
Section 22.4. | Severability | 43 |
Section 22.5. | Construction | 43 |
Section 22.6. | Counterparts | 43 |
Section 22.7. | Governing Law | 43 |
Section 22.8. | Jurisdiction and Process; Waiver of Jury Trial | 43 |
Signature |
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SCHEDULE A | — | INFORMATION RELATING TO PURCHASERS |
SCHEDULE B |
— | DEFINED TERMS |
SCHEDULE 5.4 |
— | Subsidiaries, Affiliates and Directors and Senior Officers of the Company and Investments |
SCHEDULE 5.5 |
— | Financial Statements |
SCHEDULE 5.11 |
— | Licenses, Permits, Etc. |
SCHEDULE 5.15 |
— | Existing Debt |
SCHEDULE 10.5 |
— | Existing Liens |
EXHIBIT 1 |
— | Form of 5.89% Series A Senior Note, Tranche A, due April 17, 2018 |
EXHIBIT 2 |
— | Form of 6.55% Series A Senior Note, Tranche B, due April 17, 2020 |
EXHIBIT 4.4(a) |
— | Form of Opinion of Special Counsel for the Company |
EXHIBIT 4.4(b) |
— | Form of Opinion of Special Counsel for the Purchasers |
EXHIBIT S |
— | Form of Supplement to Note Purchase Agreement |
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THE MARCUS
CORPORATION
000 Xxxx Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 0000
Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxx 00000
5.89% Series A
Senior Notes, Tranche A, due April 17, 2018
and
6.55% Series A Senior Notes,
Tranche B, due April 17, 2020
April 17, 2008
TO EACH OF THE PURCHASERS LISTED IN
THE ATTACHED SCHEDULE A:
Ladies and Gentlemen:
THE MARCUS CORPORATION, a Wisconsin corporation (the “Company”), agrees with you as follows:
SECTION 1. AUTHORIZATION OF NOTES.
The Company will authorize the issue and sale of (i) $15,000,000 aggregate principal amount of its 5.89% Series A Senior Notes, Tranche A, due April 17, 2018 (the “Tranche A Notes”) and (ii) $45,000,000 aggregate principal amount of its 6.55% Series A Senior Notes, Tranche B, due April 17, 2020 (the “Tranche B Notes”, and together with the Tranche A Notes, the “Series A Notes”). The Series A Notes together with each Series of Additional Notes which may from time to time be issued pursuant to the provisions of Section 2.2 are collectively referred to as the “Notes” (such term shall also include any such notes issued in substitution therefor pursuant to Section 13 of this Agreement or the Other Agreements (as hereinafter defined)). The Tranche A Notes and the Tranche B Notes shall be substantially in the forms set out in Exhibits 1 and 2, respectively, with such changes therefrom, if any, as may be approved by you and the Company. Certain capitalized terms used in this Agreement are defined in Schedule B; references to a “Schedule” or an “Exhibit” are, unless otherwise specified, to a Schedule or an Exhibit attached to this Agreement.
SECTION 2. SALE AND PURCHASE OF NOTES.
Section 2.1. Series A Notes. Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, the Company will issue and sell to you and you will purchase from the Company, at the Closing provided for in Section 3, Series A Notes of the Tranche and in the principal amount specified opposite your name in Schedule A at the purchase price of 100% of the principal amount thereof. Contemporaneously with entering into this Agreement, the Company is entering into separate Note Purchase Agreements (the “Other Agreements,” and together with this Agreement, the “Agreements”) identical with this Agreement with each of the other purchasers named in Schedule A (the “Other Purchasers”), providing for the sale at such Closing to each of the Other Purchasers of Series A Notes of the Tranche and in the principal amount specified opposite its name in Schedule A. Your obligation hereunder, and the obligations of the Other Purchasers under the Other Agreements and the obligations of the Additional Purchasers under the Supplements, are several and not joint obligations, and you shall have no obligation under any Other Agreement or any Supplement and no liability to any Person for the performance or nonperformance by any Other Purchaser or Additional Purchaser thereunder.
Section 2.2. Additional Series of Notes. The Company may, from time to time, in its sole discretion but subject to the terms hereof, issue and sell one or more additional Series of its unsecured promissory notes under the provisions of the Agreements pursuant to a supplement (a “Supplement”) substantially in the form of Exhibit S, provided that the aggregate principal amount of Notes of all Series issued pursuant to all Supplements in accordance with the terms of this Section 2.2 shall not exceed $250,000,000. Each additional Series of Notes (the “Additional Notes”) issued pursuant to a Supplement shall be subject to the following terms and conditions:
(i) each Series of Additional Notes, when so issued, shall be differentiated from all previous series by sequential alphabetical designation inscribed thereon; |
(ii) Additional Notes of the same Series may consist of more than one different and separate tranches and may differ with respect to outstanding principal amounts, maturity dates, interest rates and premiums, if any, and price and terms of redemption or payment prior to maturity, but all such different and separate tranches of the same Series shall vote as a single class and constitute one Series; |
(iii) each Series of Additional Notes shall be dated the date of issue, bear interest at such rate or rates, mature on such date or dates, be subject to such mandatory and optional prepayment on the dates and at the premiums, if any, have such additional or different conditions precedent to closing, such representations and warranties and such additional covenants as shall be specified in the Supplement under which such Additional Notes are issued and upon execution of any such Supplement, this Agreement shall be amended (a) to reflect such additional covenants without further action on the part of the holders of the Notes outstanding under the Agreements, provided, that any such additional covenants shall inure to the benefit of all holders of Notes so long as any Additional Notes issued pursuant to such Supplement remain outstanding, and (b) to reflect such representations and warranties as are contained in such Supplement for the benefit of the holders of such Additional Notes in accordance with the provisions of Section 16; |
(iv) each Series of Additional Notes issued under the Agreements shall be in substantially the form of Exhibit 1 to Exhibit S hereto with such variations, omissions and insertions as are necessary or permitted hereunder; |
(v) the minimum principal amount of any Note issued under a Supplement shall be $500,000, except as may be necessary to evidence the outstanding amount of any Note originally issued in a denomination of $500,000 or more; |
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(vi) all Additional Notes shall constitute Senior Debt of the Company and shall rank pari passu with all other outstanding Notes; and |
(vii) no Additional Notes shall be issued hereunder if at the time of issuance thereof and after giving effect to the application of the proceeds thereof, any Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing. |
SECTION 3. CLOSING.
The sale and purchase of the Series A Notes to be purchased by you and the Other Purchasers shall occur at the offices of Xxxxxxx and Xxxxxx LLP, 000 Xxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000, at 11:00 A.M. Chicago time, at a closing (the “Closing”) on April 17, 2008 or on such other Business Day thereafter on or prior to April 30, 2008 as may be agreed upon by the Company and you and the Other Purchasers. At the Closing the Company will deliver to you the Series A Notes to be purchased by you in the form of a single Series A Note (or such greater number of Series A Notes in denominations of at least $500,000 as you may request) dated the date of the Closing and registered in your name (or in the name of your nominee), against delivery by you to the Company or its order of immediately available funds in the amount of the purchase price therefor by wire transfer of immediately available funds for the benefit of the Company to the account of its Wholly-Owned Subsidiary, First American Finance Corporation, Account No. 55025-1015 at XX Xxxxxx Xxxxx Bank, N.A., Milwaukee, Wisconsin (ABA #021-000021). If at the Closing the Company shall fail to tender such Series A Notes to you as provided above in this Section 3, or any of the conditions specified in Section 4 shall not have been fulfilled to your satisfaction, you shall, at your election, be relieved of all further obligations under this Agreement, without thereby waiving any rights you may have by reason of such failure or such nonfulfillment.
SECTION 4. CONDITIONS TO CLOSING.
Your obligation to purchase and pay for the Series A Notes to be sold to you at the Closing is subject to the fulfillment to your satisfaction, prior to or at the Closing, of the following conditions:
Section 4.1. Representations and Warranties. The representations and warranties of the Company in this Agreement shall be correct when made and at the time of the Closing.
Section 4.2. Performance; No Default. The Company shall have performed and complied with all agreements and conditions contained in this Agreement required to be performed or complied with by it prior to or at the Closing, and after giving effect to the issue and sale of the Series A Notes (and the application of the proceeds thereof as contemplated by Schedule 5.14), no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing. Neither the Company nor any Restricted Subsidiary shall have entered into any transaction since the date of the Memorandum that would have been prohibited by the covenants contained in Section 10 hereof had such covenants applied since such date.
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Section 4.3. Compliance Certificates.
(a) Officer’s Certificate. The Company shall have delivered to you an Officer’s Certificate, dated the date of the Closing, certifying that the conditions specified in Sections 4.1, 4.2 and 4.9 have been fulfilled.
(b) Secretary’s Certificate. The Company shall have delivered to you a certificate certifying as to the resolutions attached thereto and other corporate proceedings relating to the authorization, execution and delivery of the Series A Notes and the Agreements.
Section 4.4. Opinions of Counsel. You shall have received opinions in form and substance satisfactory to you, dated the date of the Closing (a) from Xxxxx X. Xxxxx, Esq., counsel for the Company, covering the matters set forth in Exhibit 4.4(a) and covering such other matters incident to the transactions contemplated hereby as you or your counsel may reasonably request (and the Company hereby instructs its counsel to deliver such opinion to you) and (b) from Xxxxxxx and Xxxxxx LLP, your special counsel in connection with such transactions, substantially in the form set forth in Exhibit 4.4(b) and covering such other matters incident to such transactions as you may reasonably request.
Section 4.5. Purchase Permitted By Applicable Law, etc. On the date of the Closing your purchase of Series A Notes shall (a) be permitted by the laws and regulations of each jurisdiction to which you are subject, without recourse to provisions (such as Section 1405(a)(8) of the New York Insurance Law) permitting limited investments by insurance companies without restriction as to the character of the particular investment, (b) not violate any applicable law or regulation (including, without limitation, Regulation T, U or X of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) and (c) not subject you to any tax, penalty or liability under or pursuant to any applicable law or regulation, which law or regulation was not in effect on the date hereof. If requested by you, you shall have received an Officer’s Certificate certifying as to such matters of fact as you may reasonably specify to enable you to determine whether such purchase is so permitted.
Section 4.6. Sale of Other Notes. Contemporaneously with the Closing, the Company shall sell to the Other Purchasers, and the Other Purchasers shall purchase, the Series A Notes to be purchased by them at the Closing as specified in Schedule A.
Section 4.7. Payment of Special Counsel Fees. Without limiting the provisions of Section 15.1, the Company shall have paid on or before the Closing the fees, charges and disbursements of your special counsel referred to in Section 4.4 to the extent reflected in a statement of such counsel rendered to the Company at least one Business Day prior to the Closing.
Section 4.8. Private Placement Number. A Private Placement Number issued by Standard & Poor’s CUSIP Service Bureau (in cooperation with the Securities Valuation Office of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners) shall have been obtained for the Tranche A Notes and the Tranche B Notes.
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Section 4.9. Changes in Corporate Structure. The Company shall not have changed its jurisdiction of incorporation or been a party to any merger or consolidation and shall not have succeeded to all or any substantial part of the liabilities of any other entity, at any time following the date of the most recent financial statements referred to in Schedule 5.5.
Section 4.10. Funding Instructions. At least three Business Days prior to the date of the Closing, you shall have received written instructions signed by a Responsible Officer on letterhead of the Company confirming the information specified in Section 3 including (i) the name and address of the transferee bank, (ii) such transferee bank’s ABA number and (iii) the account name and number into which the purchase price for the Series A Notes is to be deposited.
Section 4.11. Proceedings and Documents. All corporate and other proceedings in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and all documents and instruments incident to such transactions shall be satisfactory to you and your special counsel, and you and your special counsel shall have received all such counterpart originals or certified or other copies of such documents as you or they may reasonably request.
Section 4.12. Conditions to Issuance of Additional Notes. The obligations of the Additional Purchasers to purchase such Additional Notes shall be subject to the following conditions precedent, in addition to the conditions specified in the Supplement pursuant to which such Additional Notes may be issued:
(a) Compliance Certificate. A duly authorized Senior Financial Officer shall execute and deliver to each Additional Purchaser an Officer’s Certificate dated the date of issue of such Series of Additional Notes stating that such officer has reviewed the provisions of the Agreements (including any Supplements thereto) and setting forth the information and computations (in sufficient detail) required in order to establish whether the Company is in compliance with the requirements of Section 10.3 on such date.
(b) Execution and Delivery of Supplement. The Company and each such Additional Purchaser shall execute and deliver a Supplement substantially in the form of Exhibit S hereto.
(c) Representations of Additional Purchasers. Each Additional Purchaser shall have confirmed in the Supplement that the representations set forth in Section 6 are true with respect to such Additional Purchaser on and as of the date of issue of the Additional Notes.
SECTION 5. REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE COMPANY.
The Company represents and warrants to you that:
Section 5.1. Organization; Power and Authority. The Company is a corporation duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of its jurisdiction of incorporation, and is duly qualified as a foreign corporation and is in good standing in each jurisdiction in which such qualification is required by law, other than those jurisdictions as to which the failure to be so qualified or in good standing could not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. The Company has the corporate power and authority to own or hold under lease the properties it purports to own or hold under lease, to transact the business it transacts and proposes to transact, to execute and deliver this Agreement and the Other Agreements and the Series A Notes and to perform the provisions hereof and thereof.
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Section 5.2. Authorization, etc. This Agreement, the Other Agreements and the Series A Notes have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate action on the part of the Company, and this Agreement constitutes, and upon execution and delivery thereof each Note will constitute, a legal, valid and binding obligation of the Company enforceable against the Company in accordance with its terms, except as such enforceability may be limited by (i) applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or other similar laws affecting the enforcement of creditors’ rights generally and (ii) general principles of equity (regardless of whether such enforceability is considered in a proceeding in equity or at law).
Section 5.3. Disclosure. The Company, through its agent, Banc of America Securities LLC, has delivered to you and each Other Purchaser a copy of a Private Placement Memorandum, dated March, 2008 (the “Memorandum”), relating to the transactions contemplated hereby. The Memorandum fairly describes, in all material respects, the general nature of the business and principal properties of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries. This Agreement, the Memorandum, the documents, certificates or other writings delivered to you by or on behalf of the Company in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby and the financial statements listed in Schedule 5.5, in each case, delivered to you prior to March 17, 2008 (this Agreement, the Memorandum and such documents, certificates or other writings and such financial statements being referred to, collectively, as the “Disclosure Documents”), taken as a whole, do not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary to make the statements therein not misleading in light of the circumstances under which they were made. Since May 31, 2007, there has been no change in the financial condition, operations, business, properties or prospects of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary except changes that individually or in the aggregate could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. There is no fact known to the Company that could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect that has not been set forth herein or in the Disclosure Documents.
Section 5.4. Organization and Ownership of Shares of Subsidiaries; Affiliates and Investments. (a) Schedule 5.4 contains (except as noted therein) complete and correct lists (i) of the Company’s Restricted and Unrestricted Subsidiaries, and showing, as to each Subsidiary, the correct name thereof, the jurisdiction of its organization, and the percentage of shares of each class of its capital stock or similar equity interests outstanding owned by the Company and each other Subsidiary, (ii) of the Company’s Affiliates, other than Unrestricted Subsidiaries, (iii) of the Company’s directors and senior officers and (iv) the Investments existing at the Closing, other than Investments in Subsidiaries and Affiliates.
(b) All of the outstanding shares of capital stock or similar equity interests of each Subsidiary shown in Schedule 5.4 as being owned by the Company and its Subsidiaries have been validly issued, are fully paid and nonassessable and are owned by the Company or another Subsidiary free and clear of any Lien (except as otherwise disclosed in Schedule 5.4).
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(c) Each Subsidiary identified in Schedule 5.4 is a corporation or other legal entity duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of its jurisdiction of organization, and is duly qualified as a foreign corporation or other legal entity and is in good standing in each jurisdiction in which such qualification is required by law, other than those jurisdictions as to which the failure to be so qualified or in good standing could not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. Each such Subsidiary has the corporate or other power and authority to own or hold under lease the properties it purports to own or hold under lease and to transact the business it transacts and proposes to transact.
(d) No Subsidiary is a party to, or otherwise subject to, any legal restriction or any agreement (other than customary limitations imposed by corporate law statutes) restricting the ability of such Subsidiary to pay dividends out of profits or make any other similar distributions of profits to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries that owns outstanding shares of capital stock or similar equity interests of such Subsidiary.
Section 5.5. Financial Statements; Material Liabilities. The Company has delivered to each Purchaser copies of the financial statements of the Company and its Subsidiaries listed on Schedule 5.5. All of said financial statements (including in each case the related schedules and notes) fairly present in all material respects the consolidated financial position of the Company and its Subsidiaries as of the respective dates specified in such financial statements and the consolidated results of their operations and cash flows for the respective periods so specified and have been prepared in accordance with GAAP consistently applied throughout the periods involved except as set forth in the notes thereto (subject, in the case of any interim financial statements, to normal year-end adjustments). The Company and its Subsidiaries do not have any Material liabilities that are not disclosed on such financial statements or otherwise disclosed in the Disclosure Documents.
Section 5.6. Compliance with Laws, Other Instruments, etc. The execution, delivery and performance by the Company of this Agreement and the Series A Notes will not (a) contravene, result in any breach of, or constitute a default under, or result in the creation of any Lien in respect of any property of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary under, any indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan, purchase or credit agreement, lease, corporate charter or by-laws, or any other agreement or instrument to which the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary is bound or by which the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary or any of their respective properties may be bound or affected, (b) conflict with or result in a breach of any of the terms, conditions or provisions of any order, judgment, decree, or ruling of any court, arbitrator or Governmental Authority applicable to the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary or (c) violate any provision of any statute or other rule or regulation of any Governmental Authority applicable to the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary.
Section 5.7. Governmental Authorizations, etc. No consent, approval or authorization of, or registration, filing or declaration with, any Governmental Authority is required in connection with the execution, delivery or performance by the Company of this Agreement or the Series A Notes.
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Section 5.8. Litigation; Observance of Agreements, Statutes and Orders. (a) There are no actions, suits, investigations or proceedings pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened against or affecting the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary or any property of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary in any court or before any arbitrator of any kind or before or by any Governmental Authority that, individually or in the aggregate, could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
(b) Neither the Company nor any Restricted Subsidiary is in default under any term of any agreement or instrument to which it is a party or by which it is bound, or any order, judgment, decree or ruling of any court, arbitrator or Governmental Authority or is in violation of any applicable law, ordinance, rule or regulation (including without limitation Environmental Laws or the USA Patriot Act) of any Governmental Authority, which default or violation, individually or in the aggregate, could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
Section 5.9. Taxes. The Company and its Subsidiaries have filed all tax returns that are required to have been filed in any jurisdiction, and have paid all taxes shown to be due and payable on such returns and all other taxes and assessments levied upon them or their properties, assets, income or franchises, to the extent such taxes and assessments have become due and payable and before they have become delinquent, except for any taxes and assessments (a) the amount of which is not individually or in the aggregate Material or (b) the amount, applicability or validity of which is currently being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings and with respect to which the Company or a Subsidiary, as the case may be, has established adequate reserves in accordance with GAAP. The Company knows of no basis for any other tax or assessment that could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. The charges, accruals and reserves on the books of the Company and its Subsidiaries in respect of Federal, state or other taxes for all fiscal periods are adequate. The Federal income tax liabilities of the Company and its Subsidiaries have been determined by the Internal Revenue Service and paid for all fiscal years up to and including the fiscal year ended May 27, 2004.
Section 5.10. Title to Property; Leases. The Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries have good and sufficient title to their respective properties which the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries own or purport to own that individually or in the aggregate are Material, including all such properties reflected in the most recent audited balance sheet referred to in Section 5.5 or purported to have been acquired by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary after said date (except as sold or otherwise disposed of in the ordinary course of business), in each case free and clear of Liens prohibited by this Agreement. All leases that individually or in the aggregate are Material are valid and subsisting and are in full force and effect in all material respects.
Section 5.11. Licenses, Permits, etc. Except as disclosed in Schedule 5.11,
(a) the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries own or possess all licenses, permits, franchises, authorizations, patents, copyrights, proprietary software, service marks, trademarks and trade names, or rights thereto, that individually or in the aggregate are Material, without known conflict with the rights of others;
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(b) to the best knowledge of the Company, no product of the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries infringes in any Material respect any license, permit, franchise, authorization, patent, copyright, proprietary software, service mark, trademark, trade name or other right owned by any other Person; and
(c) to the best knowledge of the Company, there is no Material violation by any Person of any right of the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries with respect to any patent, copyright, proprietary software, service mark, trademark, trade name or other right owned or used by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries.
Section 5.12. Compliance with ERISA. (a) The Company and each ERISA Affiliate have operated and administered each Plan in compliance with all applicable laws except for such instances of noncompliance as have not resulted in and could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. Neither the Company nor any ERISA Affiliate has incurred any liability pursuant to Title I or IV of ERISA or the penalty or excise tax provisions of the Code relating to employee benefit plans (as defined in Section 3 of ERISA), and no event, transaction or condition has occurred or exists that could reasonably be expected to result in the incurrence of any such liability by the Company or any ERISA Affiliate, or in the imposition of any Lien on any of the rights, properties or assets of the Company or any ERISA Affiliate, in either case pursuant to Title I or IV of ERISA or to such penalty or excise tax provisions or to Section 401(a)(29) or 412 of the Code or Section 4068 of ERISA, other than such liabilities or Liens as would not be individually or in the aggregate Material.
(b) The present value of the aggregate benefit liabilities under each of the Plans (other than Multiemployer Plans), determined as of the end of such Plan’s most recently ended plan year on the basis of the actuarial assumptions specified for funding purposes in such Plan’s most recent actuarial valuation report, did not exceed the aggregate current value of the assets of such Plan allocable to such benefit liabilities. The terms “benefit liabilities” has the meaning specified in section 4001 of ERISA and the terms “current value” and “present value” have the meaning specified in section 3 of ERISA.
(c) The Company and its ERISA Affiliates have not incurred withdrawal liabilities (and are not subject to contingent withdrawal liabilities) under section 4201 or 4204 of ERISA in respect of Multiemployer Plans that individually or in the aggregate are Material.
(d) The expected post-retirement benefit obligation (determined as of the last day of the Company’s most recently ended fiscal year in accordance with Financial Accounting Standards Board Statement No. 106, without regard to liabilities attributable to continuation coverage mandated by section 4980B of the Code) of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries is not Material.
(e) The execution and delivery of this Agreement and the issuance and sale of the Series A Notes hereunder will not involve any transaction that is subject to the prohibitions of section 406 of ERISA or in connection with which a tax could be imposed pursuant to section 4975(c)(1)(A)-(D) of the Code. The representation by the Company in the first sentence of this Section 5.12(e) is made in reliance upon and subject to the accuracy of your representation in Section 6.3 as to the sources of the funds used to pay the purchase price of the Series A Notes to be purchased by you.
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Section 5.13. Private Offering by the Company. Neither the Company nor anyone acting on its behalf has offered the Series A Notes or any similar securities for sale to, or solicited any offer to buy any of the same from, or otherwise approached or negotiated in respect thereof with, any Person other than you, the Other Purchasers and not more than 30 other Institutional Investors, each of which has been offered the Series A Notes at a private sale for investment. Neither the Company nor anyone acting on its behalf has taken, or will take, any action that would subject the issuance or sale of the Series A Notes to the registration requirements of Section 5 of the Securities Act or to the registration requirements of any securities or blue sky laws of any applicable jurisdiction.
Section 5.14. Use of Proceeds; Margin Regulations. The Company will apply the proceeds of the sale of the Series A Notes to repay outstanding indebtedness and for general corporate purposes. No part of the proceeds from the sale of the Series A Notes hereunder will be used, directly or indirectly, for the purpose of buying or carrying any margin stock within the meaning of Regulation U of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (12 CFR 221), or for the purpose of buying or carrying or trading in any securities under such circumstances as to involve the Company in a violation of Regulation X of said Board (12 CFR 224) or to involve any broker or dealer in a violation of Regulation T of said Board (12 CFR 220). Margin stock does not constitute more than 5% of the value of the consolidated assets of the Company and its Subsidiaries and the Company does not have any present intention that margin stock will constitute more than 5% of the value of such assets. As used in this Section, the terms “margin stock” and “purpose of buying or carrying” shall have the meanings assigned to them in said Regulation U.
Section 5.15. Existing Debt; Future Liens. (a) Except as described therein, Schedule 5.15 sets forth a complete and correct list of all outstanding Debt of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries as of February 28, 2008 (including a description of the obligors and obligees, principal amount outstanding and collateral therefor, if any, and Guaranty thereof, if any), since which date there has been no Material change in the amounts, interest rates, sinking funds, installment payments or maturities of the Debt of the Company or its Restricted Subsidiaries. Neither the Company nor any Restricted Subsidiary is in default and no waiver of default is currently in effect, in the payment of any principal or interest on any Debt of the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary and no event or condition exists with respect to any Debt of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary that would permit (or that with notice or the lapse of time, or both, would permit) one or more Persons to cause such Debt to become due and payable before its stated maturity or before its regularly scheduled dates of payment.
(b) Except as disclosed in Schedule 5.15, neither the Company nor any Restricted Subsidiary has agreed or consented to cause or permit in the future (upon the happening of a contingency or otherwise) any of its property, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, to be subject to a Lien not permitted by Section 10.5.
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(c) Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary is a party to, or otherwise subject to any provision contained in, any instrument evidencing Debt of the Company or such Subsidiary, any agreement relating thereto or any other agreement (including, but not limited to, its charter or other organizational document) which limits the amount of, or otherwise imposes restrictions on the incurring of, Debt of the Company, except as specifically indicated in Schedule 5.15.
Section 5.16. Foreign Assets Control Regulations, etc. (a) Neither the sale of the Series A Notes by the Company hereunder nor its use of the proceeds thereof will violate the Trading with the Enemy Act, as amended, or any of the foreign assets control regulations of the United States Treasury Department (31 CFR, Subtitle B, Chapter V, as amended) or any enabling legislation or executive order relating thereto.
(b) Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary is a Person described or designated in the Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List of the Office of Foreign Assets Control or in Section 1 of the Anti-Terrorism Order or, to the knowledge of the Company, engages in any dealings or transactions with any such Person. The Company and its Subsidiaries are in compliance, in all material respects, with the USA Patriot Act.
(c) No part of the proceeds from the sale of the Series A Notes hereunder 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, assuming in all cases that such Act applies to the Company.
Section 5.17. Status under Certain Statutes. Neither the Company nor any Restricted Subsidiary is an “investment company” registered or required to be registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, or is subject to regulation under the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 2005, as amended, the ICC Termination Act of 1995, as amended, or the Federal Power Act, as amended.
Section 5.18. Environmental Matters. (a) Neither the Company nor any Restricted Subsidiary has knowledge of any claim or has received any notice of any claim, and no proceeding has been instituted raising any claim against the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries or any of their respective real properties now or formerly owned, leased or operated by any of them or other assets, alleging any damage to the environment or violation of any Environmental Laws, except, in each case, such as could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.
(b) Neither the Company nor any Restricted Subsidiary has knowledge of any facts which would give rise to any claim, public or private, of violation of Environmental Laws or damage to the environment emanating from, occurring on or in any way related to real properties now or formerly owned, leased or operated by any of them or to other assets or their use, except, in each case, such as could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.
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(c) Neither the Company nor any of its Restricted Subsidiaries has (i) stored any Hazardous Materials on real properties now or formerly owned, leased or operated by any of them or (ii) disposed of any Hazardous Materials in a manner contrary to any Environmental Laws in each case in any manner that could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.
(d) All buildings on all real properties now owned, leased or operated by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries are in compliance with applicable Environmental Laws, except where failure to comply could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.
Section 5.19. Notes Rank Pari Passu. The obligations of the Company under the Agreements and the Notes rank pari passu in right of payment with all other senior unsecured Debt (actual or contingent) of the Company, including, without limitation, all senior unsecured Debt of the Company described in Schedule 5.15 hereto.
SECTION 6. REPRESENTATIONS OF THE PURCHASER.
Section 6.1. Purchase for Investment. You represent that you are purchasing the Series A Notes for your own account or for one or more separate accounts maintained by you or for the account of one or more pension or trust funds and not with a view to the distribution thereof (other than any Notes purchased by Banc of America Securities LLC on the Closing Date which are intended to be resold to a “qualified institutional buyer” pursuant to Rule 144A of the Securities Act), provided that the disposition of your or their property shall at all times be within your or their control. You understand that the Series A Notes have not been registered under the Securities Act and may be resold only if registered pursuant to the provisions of the Securities Act or if an exemption from registration is available, except under circumstances where neither such registration nor such an exemption is required by law, and that the Company is not required to register the Series A Notes.
Section 6.2. Accredited Investor. You represent that you are an “accredited investor” (as defined in Rule 501(a)(1), (2), (3) or (7) of Regulation D under the Securities Act acting for your own account (and not for the account of others) or as a fiduciary or agent for others (which others are also “accredited investors”). You further represent that you have had the opportunity to ask questions of the Company and received answers concerning the terms and conditions of the sale of the Series A Notes.
Section 6.3. Source of Funds. You represent that at least one of the following statements is an accurate representation as to each source of funds (a “Source”) to be used by you to pay the purchase price of the Series A Notes to be purchased by you hereunder:
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(a) the Source is an “insurance company general account” (as the term is defined in the United States Department of Labor’s Prohibited Transaction Exemption (“PTE”) 95-60) in respect of which the reserves and liabilities (as defined by the annual statement for life insurance companies approved by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (the “NAIC Annual Statement”)) for the general account contract(s) held by or on behalf of any employee benefit plan together with the amount of the reserves and liabilities for the general account contract(s) held by or on behalf of any other employee benefit plans maintained by the same employer (or affiliate thereof as defined in PTE 95-60) or by the same employee organization in the general account do not exceed 10% of the total reserves and liabilities of the general account (exclusive of separate account liabilities) plus surplus as set forth in the NAIC Annual Statement filed with your state of domicile; or |
(b) the Source is a separate account that is maintained solely in connection with your fixed contractual obligations under which the amounts payable, or credited, to any employee benefit plan (or its related trust) that has any interest in such separate account (or to any participant or beneficiary of such plan (including any annuitant)) are not affected in any manner by the investment performance of the separate account; or |
(c) the Source is either (i) an insurance company pooled separate account, within the meaning of PTE 90-1 or (ii) a bank collective investment fund, within the meaning of the PTE 91-38 and, except as disclosed by you to the Company in writing pursuant to this clause (c), no employee benefit plan or group of plans maintained by the same employer or employee organization beneficially owns more than 10% of all assets allocated to such pooled separate account or collective investment fund; or |
(d) the Source constitutes assets of an “investment fund” (within the meaning of Part V of PTE 84-14 (the “QPAM Exemption”)) managed by a “qualified professional asset manager” or “QPAM” (within the meaning of Part V of the QPAM Exemption), no employee benefit plan’s assets that are included in such investment fund, when combined with the assets of all other employee benefit plans established or maintained by the same employer or by an affiliate (within the meaning of Section V(c)(1) of the QPAM Exemption) of such employer or by the same employee organization and managed by such QPAM, exceed 20% of the total client assets managed by such QPAM, the conditions of Part I(c) and (g) of the QPAM Exemption are satisfied, as of the last day of its most recent calendar quarter, the QPAM does not own a 10% or more interest in the Company and no person controlling or controlled by the QPAM (applying the definition of “control” in Section V(e) of the QPAM Exemption) owns a 20% or more interest in the Company (or less than 20% but greater than 10%, if such person exercises control over the management or policies of the Company by reason of its ownership interest) and (i) the identity of such QPAM and (ii) the names of all employee benefit plans whose assets are included in such investment fund have been disclosed to the Company in writing pursuant to this clause (d); or |
(e) the Source constitutes assets of a “plan(s)” (within the meaning of Section IV of PTE 96-23 (the “INHAM Exemption”)) managed by an “in-house asset manager” or “INHAM” (within the meaning of Part IV of the INHAM exemption), the conditions of Part I(a), (g) and (h) of the INHAM Exemption are satisfied, neither the INHAM nor a person controlling or controlled by the INHAM (applying the definition of “control” in Section IV(d) of the INHAM Exemption) owns a 5% or more interest in the Company and (i) the identity of such INHAM and (ii) the name(s) of the employee benefit plan(s) whose assets constitute the Source have been disclosed to the Company in writing pursuant to this clause (e); or |
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(f) the Source is a governmental plan; or |
(g) the Source is one or more employee benefit plans, or a separate account or trust fund comprised of one or more employee benefit plans, each of which has been identified to the Company in writing pursuant to this clause (g); or |
(h) the Source does not include assets of any employee benefit plan, other than a plan exempt from the coverage of ERISA. |
As used in this Section 6.3, the terms “employee benefit plan,” “governmental plan,” and “separate account” shall have the respective meanings assigned to such terms in section 3 of ERISA.
SECTION 7. INFORMATION AS TO COMPANY.
Section 7.1. Financial and Business Information. The Company shall deliver to each holder of Notes that is an Institutional Investor:
(a) Quarterly Statements — within 60 days after the end of each quarterly fiscal period in each fiscal year of the Company (other than the last quarterly fiscal period of each such fiscal year), duplicate copies of: |
(i) a consolidated balance sheet of the Company and its Subsidiaries as at the end of such quarter, and |
(ii) consolidated statements of income, changes in shareholders’ equity and cash flows of the Company and its Subsidiaries for such quarter and (in the case of the second and third quarters) for the portion of the fiscal year ending with such quarter, |
setting forth in each case in comparative form the figures for the corresponding periods in the previous fiscal year, all in reasonable detail, prepared in accordance with GAAP applicable to quarterly financial statements generally, and certified by a Senior Financial Officer as fairly presenting, in all material respects, the financial position of the companies being reported on and their results of operations and cash flows, subject to changes resulting from year-end adjustments, provided that delivery within the time period specified above of copies of the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q prepared in compliance with the requirements therefor and filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission shall be deemed to satisfy the requirements of this Section 7.1 (a);
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(b) Annual Statements — within 105 days after the end of each fiscal year of the Company, duplicate copies of,
(i) a consolidated balance sheet of the Company and its Subsidiaries, as at the end of such year, and |
(ii) consolidated statements of income, changes in shareholders’ equity and cash flows of the Company and its Subsidiaries, for such year, |
setting forth in each case in comparative form the figures for the previous fiscal year, all in reasonable detail, prepared in accordance with GAAP, and accompanied by an opinion thereon of independent certified public accountants of recognized national standing, which opinion shall state that such financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the companies being reported upon and their results of operations and cash flows and have been prepared in conformity with GAAP, and that the examination of such accountants in connection with such financial statements has been made in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards, and that such audit provides a reasonable basis for such opinion in the circumstances, provided that the delivery within the time period specified above of the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for such fiscal year (together with the Company’s annual report to shareholders, if any, prepared pursuant to Rule 14a-3 under the Exchange Act) prepared in accordance with the requirements therefor and filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission shall be deemed to satisfy the requirements of this Section 7.1(b);
(c) SEC and Other Reports — promptly upon their becoming available, one copy of (i) each financial statement, report, notice or proxy statement sent by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary to public securities holders generally, and (ii) each regular or periodic report, each registration statement (without exhibits except as expressly requested by such holder), and each prospectus and all amendments thereto filed by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary with the Securities and Exchange Commission and of all press releases and other statements made available generally by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary to the public concerning developments that are Material; |
(d) Notice of Default or Event of Default — promptly, and in any event within five Business Days after a Responsible Officer becomes aware of the existence of any Default or Event of Default or that any Person has given any notice or taken any action with respect to a claimed default hereunder or that any Person has given any notice or taken any action with respect to a claimed default of the type referred to in Section 11(f), a written notice specifying the nature and period of existence thereof and what action the Company is taking or proposes to take with respect thereto; |
(e) ERISA Matters — promptly, and in any event within five Business Days after a Responsible Officer becoming aware of any of the following, a written notice setting forth the nature thereof and the action, if any, that the Company or an XXXXX Xxxxxxxxx proposes to take with respect thereto: |
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(i) with respect to any Plan, any reportable event, as defined in section 4043(b) of ERISA and the regulations thereunder, for which notice thereof has not been waived pursuant to such regulations as in effect on the date hereof; or |
(ii) the taking by the PBGC of steps to institute, or the threatening by the PBGC of the institution of, proceedings under section 4042 of ERISA for the termination of, or the appointment of a trustee to administer, any Plan, or the receipt by the Company or any ERISA Affiliate of a notice from a Multiemployer Plan that such action has been taken by the PBGC with respect to such Multiemployer Plan; or |
(iii) any event, transaction or condition that could result in the incurrence of any liability by the Company or any ERISA Affiliate pursuant to Title I or IV of ERISA or the imposition of a penalty or excise tax under the provisions of the Code relating to employee benefit plans, or in the imposition of any Lien on any of the rights, properties or assets of the Company or any ERISA Affiliate pursuant to Title I or IV of ERISA or such penalty or excise tax provisions, if such liability or Lien, taken together with any other such liabilities or Liens then existing, could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect; |
(f) Notices from Governmental Authority — promptly, and in any event within 30 days of receipt thereof, copies of any notice to the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary from any Federal or state Governmental Authority relating to any order, ruling, statute or other law or regulation that could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect; |
(g) Supplements — promptly and in any event within 10 Business Days after the execution and delivery of any Supplement, a copy thereof; and |
(h) Requested Information — with reasonable promptness, such other data and information relating to the business, operations, affairs, financial condition, assets or properties of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or relating to the ability of the Company to perform its obligations hereunder and under the Notes as from time to time may be reasonably requested by any such holder of Notes or such information regarding the Company required to satisfy the requirements of 17 C.F.R. §230.144A, as amended from time to time, in connection with any contemplated transfer of the Notes. |
Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that one or more Unrestricted Subsidiaries shall either (i) own more than 10% of the total consolidated assets of the Company and its Subsidiaries, or (ii) account for more than 10% of the consolidated gross revenues of the Company and its Subsidiaries, determined in each case in accordance with GAAP, then, within the respective periods provided in Sections 7.1(a) and (b), above, the Company shall deliver to each holder of Notes that is an Institutional Investor, financial statements of the character and for the dates and periods as in said Sections 7.1(a) and (b) covering the group of Unrestricted Subsidiaries (on a consolidated basis), together with a consolidating statement reflecting eliminations or adjustments required to reconcile the financial statements of such group of Unrestricted Subsidiaries to the financial statements delivered pursuant to Sections 7.1(a) and (b).
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Section 7.2. Officer’s Certificate. Each set of financial statements delivered to a holder of Notes pursuant to Section 7.1(a) or Section 7.1(b) hereof shall be accompanied by a certificate of a Senior Financial Officer setting forth:
(a) Covenant Compliance — the information (including detailed calculations) required in order to establish whether the Company was in compliance with the requirements of Section 10.2 through Section 10.8 hereof, inclusive, during the quarterly or annual period covered by the statements then being furnished (including with respect to each such Section, where applicable, the calculations of the maximum or minimum amount, ratio or percentage, as the case may be, permissible under the terms of such Sections, and the calculation of the amount, ratio or percentage then in existence); and |
(b) Event of Default — a statement that such officer has reviewed the relevant terms hereof and has made, or caused to be made, under his or her supervision, a review of the transactions and conditions of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries from the beginning of the quarterly or annual period covered by the statements then being furnished to the date of the certificate and that such review shall not have disclosed the existence during such period of any condition or event that constitutes a Default or an Event of Default or, if any such condition or event existed or exists (including, without limitation, any such event or condition resulting from the failure of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary to comply with any Environmental Law), specifying the nature and period of existence thereof and what action the Company shall have taken or proposes to take with respect thereto. |
Section 7.3. Inspection. The Company shall permit the representatives of each holder of Notes that is an Institutional Investor:
(a) No Default — if no Default or Event of Default then exists, at the expense of such holder and upon reasonable prior notice to the Company, to visit the principal executive office of the Company, to discuss the affairs, finances and accounts of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries with the Company’s officers, and (with the consent of the Company, which consent will not be unreasonably withheld) its independent public accountants, and (with the consent of the Company, which consent will not be unreasonably withheld) to visit the other offices and properties of the Company and each Restricted Subsidiary, all at such reasonable times and as often as may be reasonably requested in writing; and |
(b) Default — if a Default or Event of Default then exists, at the expense of the Company, to visit and inspect any of the offices or properties of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary, to examine all their respective books of account, records, reports and other papers, to make copies and extracts therefrom, and to discuss their respective affairs, finances and accounts with their respective officers and independent public accountants (and by this provision the Company authorizes said accountants to discuss the affairs, finances and accounts of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries), all at such times and as often as may be requested. |
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SECTION 8. PREPAYMENT OF THE SERIES A NOTES.
Section 8.1. Required Prepayments. (a) Tranche A Notes. On April 17, 2012 and on each April 17 thereafter to and including April 17, 2017, the Company will prepay $2,142,860 principal amount (or such lesser principal amount as shall then be outstanding) of the Tranche A Notes at par and without payment of the Make-Whole Amount or any premium. The entire remaining principal amount of the Tranche A Notes shall become due and payable on April 17, 2018. For purposes of this Section 8.1(a), any prepayment of less than all of the outstanding Tranche A Notes pursuant to Section 8.2 shall be deemed to be applied first to the amount of principal scheduled to be repaid on April 17, 2018, and then to the remaining scheduled principal payments, if any, in inverse chronological order.
(b) Tranche B Notes. On April 17, 2016 and on each April 17 thereafter to and including April 17, 2019, the Company will prepay $9,000,000 principal amount (or such lesser principal amount as shall then be outstanding) of the Tranche B Notes at par and without payment of the Make-Whole Amount or any premium. The entire remaining principal amount of the Tranche B Notes shall become due and payable on April 17, 2020. For purposes of this Section 8.1(b), any prepayment of less than all of the outstanding Tranche B Notes pursuant to Section 8.2 shall be deemed to be applied first to the amount of principal scheduled to be repaid on April 17, 2020, and then to the remaining scheduled principal payments, if any, in inverse chronological order.
(c) Application of Partial Redemption. In the event of any purchase or other acquisition permitted by Section 8.5 of less than all of the Notes of any Series, or any tranche of Notes within a Series (a “Partial Redemption”), the amount of the payment required at maturity for such Series of Notes, or the applicable tranche of Notes within such Series, as the case may be, and each regularly scheduled prepayment required to be made pursuant to this Section 8.1 or any Supplement for such Series of Notes, or the applicable tranche of Notes within such Series, as the case may be, shall be reduced in the proportion that the principal amount of such Partial Redemption bears to the unpaid principal amount of the Notes of such Series, or the applicable tranche of Notes within such Series, as the case may be, immediately prior to such Partial Redemption (after giving effect to any regularly scheduled prepayment made on such Series of Notes, or the applicable tranche of Notes within such Series, as the case may be, pursuant to this Section 8.1 or any Supplement on the date of such Partial Redemption).
Section 8.2. Optional Prepayments with Make-Whole Amount. Except as otherwise set forth in this Section 8.2, the Company may, at its option, upon notice as provided below, prepay at any time all, or from time to time any part of (but if in part then in a minimum principal amount of $500,000), the outstanding Notes of any Series on any interest payment date for the Notes of such Series at 100% of the principal amount so prepaid, and accrued interest thereon to the date of prepayment, plus the Make-Whole Amount determined for the prepayment date with respect to such principal amount of each Note of the applicable Series then outstanding. If at the time of any proposed prepayment, any Default or Event of Default shall exist then such prepayment shall be made pro rata among all Series of Notes (and pro rata among each tranche of each Series of Notes) then outstanding. The Company will give each holder of Notes of the Series to be prepaid written notice of each optional prepayment under this Section 8.2 not less than 30 days and not more than 60 days prior to the date fixed for such prepayment. Each such notice shall specify such date (which shall be a Business Day), the aggregate principal amount of the Notes and each Series of Notes to be prepaid on such date, the principal amount of each Note held by such holder to be prepaid (determined in accordance with Section 8.3), and the interest to be paid on the prepayment date with respect to such principal amount being prepaid, and shall be accompanied by a certificate of a Senior Financial Officer as to the estimated Make-Whole Amount due in connection with such prepayment (calculated as if the date of such notice were the date of the prepayment), setting forth the details of such computation. Two Business Days prior to such prepayment, the Company shall deliver to each holder of Notes of the Series to be prepaid a certificate of a Senior Financial Officer specifying the calculation of such Make-Whole Amount as of the specified prepayment date.
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Section 8.3. Allocation of Partial Prepayments. In the case of each partial prepayment of the Notes pursuant to the provisions of Section 8.2, the principal amount of the Notes of the Series to be prepaid shall be allocated among all of the Notes of such Series at the time outstanding in proportion, as nearly as practicable, to the respective unpaid principal amounts thereof. In the case of each required prepayment of the Series A Notes pursuant to Section 8.1, the principal amount of the Tranche to be prepaid shall be allocated among all of the Notes of such Tranche at the time outstanding in proportion, as nearly as practicable, to the respective unpaid principal amounts thereof. All regularly scheduled partial prepayments made with respect to any Additional Series of Notes pursuant to any Supplement shall be allocated as therein provided.
Section 8.4. Maturity; Surrender, etc. In the case of each prepayment of Notes pursuant to this Section 8, the principal amount of each Note to be prepaid shall mature and become due and payable on the date fixed for such prepayment (which shall be a Business Day), together with interest on such principal amount accrued to such date and the applicable Make-Whole Amount, if any. From and after such date, unless the Company shall fail to pay such principal amount when so due and payable, together with the interest and Make-Whole Amount, if any, as aforesaid, interest on such principal amount shall cease to accrue. Any Note paid or prepaid in full shall be surrendered to the Company and cancelled and shall not be reissued, and no Note shall be issued in lieu of any prepaid principal amount of any Note.
Section 8.5. Purchase of Notes. The Company will not and will not permit any Restricted Subsidiary or any Affiliate to purchase, redeem, prepay or otherwise acquire, directly or indirectly, any of the outstanding Notes except (a) upon the payment or prepayment of the Notes in accordance with the terms of the Agreements (including any Supplement thereto) and the Notes or (b) pursuant to a written offer to purchase any outstanding Notes of any Series made by the Company or an Affiliate pro rata to the holders of the Notes of such Series upon the same terms and conditions (except that if such Series has more than one separate tranche, such written offer shall be allocated among all of the separate tranches of such Series at the time outstanding in proportion, as nearly as practicable, to the respective unpaid principal amounts thereof but such written offer may otherwise differ among such separate tranches (but only to the extent appropriate due to different interest rates and/or maturities) and such written offer shall be made pro rata to the holders of the same tranches of such Series upon the same terms and conditions); provided that if at the time of such offer any Default or Event of Default shall exist then any such written offer to purchase Notes shall be made pro rata to all Series of Notes (and pro rata among each tranche of each Series of Notes) then outstanding. The Company will promptly cancel all Notes acquired by it or any Restricted Subsidiary or any Affiliate pursuant to any payment, prepayment or purchase of Notes pursuant to any provision of the Agreements and no Notes may be issued in substitution or exchange for any such Notes.
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Section 8.6. Make-Whole Amount for Series A Notes. The term “Make-Whole Amount” means, with respect to any Series A Note of any Tranche, an amount equal to the excess, if any, of the Discounted Value of the Remaining Scheduled Payments with respect to the Called Principal of such Series A Note of such Tranche over the amount of such Called Principal, provided that the Make-Whole Amount may in no event be less than zero. For the purposes of determining the Make-Whole Amount, the following terms have the following meanings:
“Called Principal” means, with respect to any Series A Note of any Tranche, the principal of such Series A Note of such Tranche that is to be prepaid pursuant to Section 8.2 or has become or is declared to be immediately due and payable pursuant to Section 12.1, as the context requires. |
“Discounted Value” means, with respect to the Called Principal of any Series A Note of any Tranche, the amount obtained by discounting all Remaining Scheduled Payments with respect to such Called Principal from their respective scheduled due dates to the Settlement Date with respect to such Called Principal, in accordance with accepted financial practice and at a discount factor (applied on the same periodic basis as that on which interest on the Series A Note of such Tranche is payable) equal to the Reinvestment Yield with respect to such Called Principal. |
“Reinvestment Yield” means, 0.50% plus the yield to maturity calculated by using (i) the yields reported, as of 10:00 A.M. (New York City time) on the second Business Day preceding the Settlement Date on screen “PX-1” on the Bloomberg Financial Market Service (or such other display as may replace Page PX1) on Bloomberg for the most recently issued actively traded on the run U.S. Treasury securities having a maturity equal to the Remaining Average Life of such Called Principal as of such Settlement Date, or (ii) if such yields are not reported as of such time or the yields reported as of such time are not ascertainable (including by way of interpolation), the Treasury Constant Maturity Series Yields reported, for the latest day for which such yields have been so reported as of the second Business Day preceding the Settlement Date, in Federal Reserve Statistical Release H.15 (519) (or any comparable successor publication) for actively traded U.S. Treasury securities having a constant maturity equal to the Remaining Average Life of such Called Principal as of such Settlement Date. |
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In the case of each determination under clause (i) or clause (ii), as the case may be, of the preceding paragraph, such implied yield will be determined, if necessary, by (a) converting U.S. Treasury bill quotations to bond-equivalent yields in accordance with accepted financial practice and (b) interpolating linearly between (1) the applicable U.S. Treasury security with the maturity closest to and greater than such Remaining Average Life and (2) the applicable U.S. Treasury security with the maturity closest to and less than such Remaining Average Life. The Reinvestment Yield shall be rounded to the number of decimal places as appears in the interest rate of the applicable Note. |
“Remaining Average Life” means, with respect to any Called Principal, the number of years (calculated to the nearest one-twelfth year) obtained by dividing (i) such Called Principal into (ii) the sum of the products obtained by multiplying (a) the principal component of each Remaining Scheduled Payment with respect to such Called Principal by (b) the number of years (calculated to the nearest one-twelfth year) that will elapse between the Settlement Date with respect to such Called Principal and the scheduled due date of such Remaining Scheduled Payment. |
“Remaining Scheduled Payments” means, with respect to the Called Principal of any Series A Note of any Tranche, all payments of such Called Principal and interest thereon that would be due after the Settlement Date with respect to such Called Principal if no payment of such Called Principal were made prior to its scheduled due date, provided that if such Settlement Date is not a date on which interest payments are due to be made under the terms of the Series A Note of such Tranche, then the amount of the next succeeding scheduled interest payment will be reduced by the amount of interest accrued to such Settlement Date and required to be paid on such Settlement Date pursuant to Section 8.2 or 12.1. |
“Settlement Date” means, with respect to the Called Principal of any Series A Note of any Tranche, the date on which such Called Principal is to be prepaid pursuant to Section 8.2 or has become or is declared to be immediately due and payable pursuant to Section 12.1, as the context requires. |
Section 8.7. Change in Control. (a) Notice of Change in Control or Control Event. The Company will, within 15 Business Days after any Responsible Officer has knowledge of the occurrence of any Change in Control or Control Event, give written notice of such Change in Control or Control Event to each holder of Notes unless notice in respect of such Change in Control (or the Change in Control contemplated by such Control Event) shall have been given pursuant to subparagraph (b) of this Section 8.7. If a Change in Control has occurred, such notice shall contain and constitute an offer to prepay Notes of each Series as described in subparagraph (c) of this Section 8.7 and shall be accompanied by the certificate described in subparagraph (g) of this Section 8.7.
(b) Condition to Company Action. The Company will not take any action that consummates or finalizes a Change in Control unless (i) at least 15 Business Days prior to such action it shall have given to each holder of Notes written notice containing and constituting an offer to prepay Notes as described in subparagraph (c) of this Section 8.7, accompanied by the certificate described in subparagraph (g) of this Section 8.7, and (ii) contemporaneously with such action, it prepays all Notes required to be prepaid in accordance with this Section 8.7.
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(c) Offer to Prepay Notes. The offer to prepay Notes contemplated by subparagraphs (a) and (b) of this Section 8.7 shall be an offer to prepay, in accordance with and subject to this Section 8.7, all, but not less than all, the Notes held by each holder (in this case only, “holder” in respect of any Note registered in the name of a nominee for a disclosed beneficial owner shall mean such beneficial owner) on a date specified in such offer (the “Proposed Prepayment Date”). If such Proposed Prepayment Date is in connection with an offer contemplated by subparagraph (a) of this Section 8.7, such date shall be not less than 20 days and not more than 30 days after the date of such offer (if the Proposed Prepayment Date shall not be specified in such offer, the Proposed Prepayment Date shall be the 20th day after the date of such offer).
(d) Acceptance. A holder of Notes may accept the offer to prepay made pursuant to this Section 8.7 by causing a notice of such acceptance to be delivered to the Company at least 5 Business Days prior to the Proposed Prepayment Date.A failure by a holder of Notes to respond to an offer to prepay made pursuant to this Section 8.7 shall be deemed to constitute a rejection of such offer by such holder.
(e) Prepayment. Prepayment of the Notes to be prepaid pursuant to this Section 8.7 shall be at 100% of the principal amount of such Notes, together with interest on such Notes accrued to the date of prepayment. The prepayment shall be made on the Proposed Prepayment Date except as provided in subparagraph (f) of this Section 8.7.
(f) Deferral Pending Change in Control. The obligation of the Company to prepay Notes pursuant to the offers required by subparagraph (b) and accepted in accordance with subparagraph (d) of this Section 8.7 is subject to the occurrence of the Change in Control in respect of which such offers and acceptances shall have been made. In the event that such Change in Control does not occur on the Proposed Prepayment Date in respect thereof, the prepayment shall be deferred until and shall be made on the date on which such Change in Control occurs. The Company shall keep each holder of Notes reasonably and timely informed of (i) any such deferral of the date of prepayment, (ii) the date on which such Change in Control and the prepayment are expected to occur, and (iii) any determination by the Company that efforts to effect such Change in Control have ceased or been abandoned (in which case the offers and acceptances made pursuant to this Section 8.7 in respect of such Change in Control shall be deemed rescinded).
(g) Officer’s Certificate. Each offer to prepay the Notes pursuant to this Section 8.7 shall be accompanied by a certificate, executed by a Senior Financial Officer of the Company and dated the date of such offer, specifying: (i) the Proposed Prepayment Date; (ii) that such offer is made pursuant to this Section 8.7; (iii) the principal amount of each Note offered to be prepaid; (iv) the interest that would be due on each Note offered to be prepaid, accrued to the Proposed Prepayment Date; (v) that the conditions of this Section 8.7 have been fulfilled; and (vi) in reasonable detail, the nature and date or proposed date of the Change in Control.
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(h) Effect on Required Payments. The amount of each payment of the principal of the Notes made pursuant to this Section 8.7 shall be applied against and reduce each of the then remaining principal payments due pursuant to Section 8.1 by a percentage equal to the aggregate principal amount of the Notes so paid divided by the aggregate principal amount of the Notes outstanding immediately prior to such payment.
(i) “Change in Control” Defined.“Change in Control” means any of the following events or circumstances:
(a) if any Person or Persons acting in concert (other than Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxx, Xxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxxxx and their respective heirs (together with trusts controlled by any such Person)), together with Affiliates thereof, shall in the aggregate, directly or indirectly, control or own (beneficially or otherwise) more than 50% (by number of shares) of the issued and outstanding voting stock of the Company; or |
(b) any sale of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company otherwise permitted by Section 10.7. |
(j) “Control Event” Defined.“Control Event” means:
(i) the execution by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or Affiliates of any agreement or letter of intent with respect to any proposed transaction or event or series of transactions or events which, individually or in the aggregate, may reasonably be expected to result in a Change in Control, |
(ii) the execution of any written agreement which, when fully performed by the parties thereto, would result in a Change in Control, or |
(iii) the making of any written offer by any person (as such term is used in section 13(d) and section 14(d)(2) of the Exchange Act as in effect on the date of the Closing) or related persons constituting a group (as such term is used in Rule 13d-5 under the Exchange Act as in effect on the date of the Closing) to the holders of the common stock of the Company, which offer, if accepted by the requisite number of holders, would result in a Change in Control. |
SECTION 9. AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS.
The Company covenants that so long as any of the Notes are outstanding:
Section 9.1. Compliance with Law. The Company will, and will cause each of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, comply with all laws, ordinances or governmental rules or regulations to which each of them is subject, including, without limitation, ERISA, the USA Patriot Act and Environmental Laws, and will obtain and maintain in effect all licenses, certificates, permits, franchises and other governmental authorizations necessary to the ownership of their respective properties or to the conduct of their respective businesses, in each case to the extent necessary to ensure that non-compliance with such laws, ordinances or governmental rules or regulations or failures to obtain or maintain in effect such licenses, certificates, permits, franchises and other governmental authorizations could not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
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Section 9.2. Insurance. The Company will, and will cause each of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, maintain, with financially sound and reputable insurers, insurance with respect to their respective properties and businesses against such casualties and contingencies, of such types, on such terms and in such amounts (including deductibles, co-insurance and self-insurance, if adequate reserves are maintained with respect thereto) as is customary in the case of entities of established reputations engaged in the same or a similar business and similarly situated.
Section 9.3. Maintenance of Properties. The Company will, and will cause each of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, maintain and keep, or cause to be maintained and kept, their respective properties in good repair, working order and condition (other than ordinary wear and tear), so that the business carried on in connection therewith may be properly conducted at all times, provided that this Section shall not prevent the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary from discontinuing the operation and the maintenance of any of its properties if such discontinuance is desirable in the conduct of its business and the Company has concluded that such discontinuance could not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
Section 9.4. Payment of Taxes and Claims. The Company will, and will cause each of its Subsidiaries to, file all tax returns required to be filed in any jurisdiction and to pay and discharge all taxes shown to be due and payable on such returns and all other taxes, assessments, governmental charges, or levies imposed on them or any of their properties, assets, income or franchises, to the extent such taxes and assessments have become due and payable and before they have become delinquent and all claims for which sums have become due and payable that have or might become a Lien on properties or assets of the Company or any Subsidiary, provided that neither the Company nor any Subsidiary need pay any such tax or assessment or claims if (i) the amount, applicability or validity thereof is contested by the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary on a timely basis in good faith and in appropriate proceedings, and the Company or a Subsidiary has established adequate reserves therefor in accordance with GAAP on the books of the Company or such Subsidiary or (ii) the non-filing or nonpayment, as the case may be, of all such taxes and assessments in the aggregate could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
Section 9.5. Existence, etc. The Company will at all times preserve and keep in full force and effect its existence. Subject to Section 10.7, the Company will at all times preserve and keep in full force and effect the existence of each of its Restricted Subsidiaries (unless merged into the Company or a Wholly-Owned Restricted Subsidiary) and all rights and franchises of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries unless, in the good faith judgment of the Company, the termination of or failure to preserve and keep in full force and effect such existence, right or franchise could not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect.
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Section 9.6. Notes to Rank Pari Passu. The Notes and all other obligations under the Agreements of the Company are and at all times shall remain direct and unsecured obligations of the Company ranking pari passu as against the assets of the Company with all other Notes from time to time issued and outstanding hereunder without any preference among themselves and pari passu with all other present and future unsecured Debt (actual or contingent) of the Company which is not expressed to be subordinate or junior in rank to any other unsecured Debt of the Company.
Section 9.7. Books and Records. The Company will, and will cause each of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, maintain proper books of record and account in conformity with GAAP and all applicable requirements of any Governmental Authority having legal or regulatory jurisdiction over the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be.
SECTION 10. NEGATIVE COVENANTS.
The Company covenants that so long as any of the Notes are outstanding:
Section 10.1. Transactions with Affiliates. The Company will not and will not permit any Restricted Subsidiary to enter into directly or indirectly any transaction or Material group of related transactions (including without limitation the purchase, lease, sale or exchange of properties of any kind or the rendering of any service) with any Affiliate, except in the ordinary course and pursuant to the reasonable requirements of the Company’s or such Restricted Subsidiary’s business and upon fair and reasonable terms no less favorable to the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary than would be obtainable in a comparable arm’s-length transaction with a Person not an Affiliate.
Section 10.2. Consolidated Operating Cash Flow. The Company will not permit the Consolidated Operating Cash Flow Ratio for each period of four consecutive fiscal quarters (determined as of the last day of each fiscal quarter) to be less than 2.50 to 1.00.
Section 10.3. Limitations on Debt. The Company will not at any time permit Consolidated Debt to exceed 65% of Consolidated Total Capitalization.
Section 10.4. Limitations on Priority Debt. The Company will not, and will not permit any Restricted Subsidiary to, create, assume or incur or in any manner be or become liable in respect of any Priority Debt, unless at the time of issuance thereof and after giving effect thereto and to the application of the proceeds thereof, Priority Debt shall not exceed 20% of Consolidated Total Capitalization.
Any corporation which becomes a Restricted Subsidiary after the date of this Agreement shall, for all purposes of this Section 10.4, be deemed to have created, assumed or incurred, at the time it becomes a Restricted Subsidiary, all Priority Debt of such corporation existing immediately after it becomes a Restricted Subsidiary.
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Section 10.5. Limitation on Liens.The Company will not, and will not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly create, incur, assume or permit to exist (upon the happening of a contingency or otherwise) any Lien on or with respect to any property or asset (including, without limitation, any document or instrument in respect of goods or accounts receivable) of the Company or any such Restricted Subsidiary, whether now owned or held or hereafter acquired, or any income or profits therefrom, or assign or otherwise convey any right to receive income or profits, except:
(a) Liens for property taxes and assessments or governmental charges or levies and Xxxxx securing claims or demands of mechanics and materialmen, provided payment thereof is not at the time required by Section 9.4; |
(b) Liens incidental to the normal conduct of business of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary or to secure claims for labor, materials or supplies in respect of obligations not overdue or in connection with the ownership of its property (including Liens in connection with worker’s compensation, unemployment insurance and other like laws, warehousemen’s and attorney’s liens and statutory landlords’ liens) which are not incurred in connection with the incurrence of Debt or the borrowing of money and which do not in the aggregate Materially impair the use of such property in the operation of the business of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, or the value of such property for the purpose of such business; |
(c) Liens created by or resulting from any litigation or legal proceeding which is currently being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings or which result from a final, nonappealable judgment which is satisfied, or whose satisfaction is assured by the posting of a bond or other collateral, within 60 days after such judgment becomes final and nonappealable; |
(d) Liens of carriers, warehousemen, mechanics and materialmen, and other like Liens, in existence less than 60 days (or in the case of any Lien with respect to which the underlying claim shall currently be contested by the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary in good faith by appropriate proceedings, the period of time during which such Lien is being contested) from the date of creation thereof in respect of obligations not overdue or deposits to obtain the release of such Liens; |
(e) Liens securing Debt of a Restricted Subsidiary to the Company or to another Restricted Subsidiary; |
(f) Liens existing as of the date of Closing and reflected in Schedule 10.5; |
(g) minor survey exceptions or minor encumbrances, easements or reservations, or rights of others for rights-of-way, utilities and other similar purposes, or zoning or other restrictions as to the use of real properties, which are necessary for the conduct of the activities of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries or which customarily exist on real properties of corporations engaged in similar activities and similarly situated and which do not in any event Materially detract from the value of such real property; |
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(h) leases or subleases granted to any Person by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary, as lessor or sublessor, on any property owned or leased by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary, provided that in each case such lease or sublease shall not Materially detract from the value of the property leased or subleased; |
(i) Liens incurred after the date of Closing and existing on property of any business entity at the time of acquisition of such business entity by the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary, so long as such Liens were not incurred, extended or renewed in contemplation of the acquisition of such business entity, provided that (i) the Lien shall attach solely to the property of the business entity so acquired, (ii) at the time of acquisition of such business entity, the aggregate amount remaining unpaid on all Debt secured by Liens on the property of such business entity, whether or not assumed by the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary, shall not exceed an amount equal to the lesser of the total purchase price or fair market value at the time of acquisition of such business entity (as determined in good faith by the Board of Directors of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be), and (iii) the aggregate principal amount of all Debt secured by such Liens shall be permitted by the limitations set forthin Section 10.3; |
(j) Liens incurred after the date of Closing given to secure the payment of the purchase price incurred in connection with the acquisition or construction of property (other than accounts receivable or inventory) useful and intended to be used in carrying on the business of the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary, including Liens existing on such property at the time of acquisition or construction thereof, or Liens incurred within 180 days of such acquisition or the completion of such construction, provided that (i) the Lien shall attach solely to the property acquired, purchased or constructed, (ii) at the time of acquisition or construction of such property, the aggregate amount remaining unpaid on all Debt secured by Liens on such property, whether or not assumed by the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary, shall not exceed an amount equal to the lesser of the total purchase price or fair market value at the time of acquisition or construction of such property (as determined in good faith by the Board of Directors of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be), and (iii) the aggregate principal amount of all Debt secured by such Liens shall be permitted by the limitations set forthin Section 10.3; |
(k) any extensions, renewals or replacements of any Lien permitted by the preceding subparagraphs (a) through (j) inclusive, of this Section 10.5, provided that (i) no additional property shall be encumbered by such Liens, (ii) the unpaid principal amount of the Debt secured thereby shall not be increased on or after the date of any extension, renewal or replacement, (iii) the weighted average life to maturity of the Debt secured by such Liens shall not be reduced, and (iv) at such time and immediately after giving effect thereto, no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing; and |
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(l) Liens securing Priority Debt of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary, provided that such Priority Debt shall be permitted by the applicable limitations set forth in Sections 10.3 and 10.4. |
Section 10.6. Sales of Assets. The Company will not, and will not permit any Restricted Subsidiary to, sell, lease or otherwise dispose of any substantial part (as defined below) of the assets of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries; provided, however, that the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary may sell, lease or otherwise dispose of assets constituting a substantial part of the assets of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries if, at such time and after giving effect thereto, no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing and an amount equal to the net proceeds received from such sale, lease or other disposition shall be used:
(1) within 180 days after such sale, lease or disposition, to acquire property, plant and equipment used or useful in carrying on the business of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries (or the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary shall be unconditionally committed to acquire such property) and having a value at least equal to the value of such assets sold, leased or otherwise disposed of; or |
(2) to prepay or retire Senior Debt of the Company and/or its Restricted Subsidiaries, provided that(i) the Company shall offer to prepay each outstanding Note in a principal amount which equals the Ratable Portion for such Note, and (ii) any such prepayment of the Notes shall be made at par, together with accrued interest thereon to the date of such prepayment, but without the payment of the Make-Whole Amount. Any offer of prepayment of the Notes pursuant to this Section 10.6 shall be given to each holder of the Notes by written notice that shall be delivered not less than 15 days and not more than 60 days prior to the proposed prepayment date. Each such notice shall state that it is given pursuant to this Section and that the offer set forth in such notice must be accepted by such holder in writing and shall also set forth (i) the prepayment date, (ii) a description of the circumstances which give rise to the proposed prepayment and (iii) a calculation of the Ratable Portion for such holder’s Notes. Each holder of the Notes which desires to have its Notes prepaid shall notify the Company in writing delivered not less than five Business Days prior to the proposed prepayment date of its acceptance of such offer of prepayment and any offer not so accepted in writing will be deemed to have been rejected. Prepayment of Notes pursuant to this Section 10.6 shall be made in accordance with Section 8.2 (but without payment of the Make-Whole Amount). |
As used in this Section 10.6, a sale, lease or other disposition of assets shall be deemed to be a “substantial part” of the assets of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries if the book value of such assets, when added to the book value of all other assets sold, leased or otherwise disposed of by the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries (other than in transactions in the ordinary course of business and Excluded Sale and Leaseback Transaction) during any fiscal year of the Company, exceeds 10% of the book value of Consolidated Total Assets, determined as of the end of the fiscal year immediately preceding such sale, lease or other disposition.
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Section 10.7. Merger and Consolidation. The Company will not, and will not permit any Restricted Subsidiary to, consolidate with or be a party to a merger with any other Person or convey, transfer or lease all or substantially all of its assets in a single transaction or series of transactions to any Person; provided, however, that:
(1) any Restricted Subsidiary may merge or consolidate with or into the Company or any Wholly-Owned Restricted Subsidiary, so long as in any merger or consolidation involving the Company, the Company shall be the surviving or continuing Person; and |
(2) the Company may consolidate or merge with any other Person or convey, transfer or lease all or substantially all of its assets to another Person if (i) either (x) the Company shall be the surviving or continuing Person, or (y) if the surviving or continuing entity or the Person that acquires by conveyance, transfer or lease is other than the Company, (A) such entity is organized under the laws of the United States or any jurisdiction thereof, (B) such entity expressly assumes, by written agreement satisfactory in scope and form to the Required Holders, all obligations of the Company under the Notes and this Agreement and the Other Agreements, and (C) such entity shall cause to be delivered to each holder of Notes an opinion of independent counsel to the effect that all agreements or instruments effecting such assumption are enforceable in accordance with their terms and comply with the provisions of this Section 10.7 and otherwise satisfactory in scope and form to the Required Holders, and (ii) at the time of such transaction and after giving effect thereto, no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing. |
Section 10.8. Designation of Restricted and Unrestricted Subsidiaries. (a) The Board of Directors of the Company may designate any Unrestricted Subsidiary as a Restricted Subsidiary and may designate any Restricted Subsidiary as an Unrestricted Subsidiary, provided that (i) at such time and immediately after giving effect thereto (x) the Company would be permitted to incur at least $1.00 of additional Priority Debt under the limitations of Section 10.4, and (y) no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, and (ii) the designation of such Subsidiary as Restricted or Unrestricted shall not be changed pursuant to this Section 10.8 on more than two occasions. The Company shall, within 10 days after the designation of any Subsidiary as Restricted or Unrestricted, give written notice of such action to each holder of a Note.
(b) The Company acknowledges and agrees that if, after the date hereof, any Person becomes a Restricted Subsidiary, all Debt, leases and other obligations and all Liens and Investments of such Person existing as of the date such Person becomes a Restricted Subsidiary shall be deemed, for all purposes of this Agreement, to have been incurred, entered into, made or created at the same time such Person so becomes a Restricted Subsidiary.
Section 10.9. Nature of Business. Neither the Company nor any Restricted Subsidiary will engage in any business if, as a result, the general nature of the business, taken on a consolidated basis, which would then be engaged in by the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries would be substantially changed from the general nature of the business engaged in by the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries on the date of this Agreement.
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Section 10.10. Terrorism Sanctions Regulations. The Company will not and will not permit any Subsidiary to (a) become a Person described or designated in the Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List of the Office of Foreign Assets Control or in Section 1 of the Anti-Terrorism Order or (b) engage in any dealings or transactions with any such Person.
SECTION 11. EVENTS OF DEFAULT.
An “Event of Default” shall exist if any of the following conditions or events shall occur and be continuing:
(a) the Company defaults in the payment of any principal, Make-Whole Amount, if any, or other premium, if any, on any Note for more than one Business Day after the same becomes due and payable, whether at maturity or at a date fixed for prepayment or by declaration or otherwise, or the Company makes the payment of any principal or Make-Whole Amount, if any, or other premium, if any, on the Notes on the Business Day immediately following the Business Day in which such payment is due and payable on more than five occasions; or |
(b) the Company defaults in the payment of any interest on any Note for more than five Business Days after the same becomes due and payable; or |
(c) the Company defaults in the performance of or compliance with any term contained in Section 10 or any covenant in a Supplement which specifically provides that it shall have the benefit of this paragraph (c);or |
(d) the Company defaults in the performance of or compliance with any term contained herein or in any Supplement (other than those referred to in paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) of this Section 11) and such default is not remedied within 30 days after the earlier of (i) a Responsible Officer obtaining actual knowledge of such default and (ii) the Company receiving written notice of such default from any holder of a Note (any such written notice to be identified as a “notice of default” and to refer specifically to this paragraph (d) of Section 11); or |
(e) any representation or warranty made in writing by or on behalf of the Company or by any officer of the Company in this Agreement or any Supplement or in any writing furnished in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby proves to have been false or incorrect in any material respect on the date as of which made; or |
(f) (i) the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary is in default (as principal or as guarantor or other surety) in the performance of or compliance with any term of any evidence of any Debt in an aggregate outstanding principal amount of at least $10,000,000 or of any mortgage, indenture or other agreement relating thereto or any other condition exists, and as a consequence of such default or condition such Debt has become, or has been declared, due and payable before its stated maturity or before its regularly scheduled dates of payment, or (ii) as a consequence of the occurrence or continuation of any event or condition (other than the passage of time or the right of the holder of Debt to convert such Debt into equity interests), (x) the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary has become obligated to purchase or repay Debt before its regular maturity or before its regularly scheduled dates of payment in an aggregate outstanding principal amount of at least $10,000,000, or (y) one or more Persons have the right to require the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary so to purchase or repay such Debt; or |
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(g) the Company or any of its Material Subsidiaries (i) is generally not paying, or admits in writing its inability to pay, its debts as they become due, (ii) files, or consents by answer or otherwise to the filing against it of, a petition for relief or reorganization or arrangement or any other petition in bankruptcy, for liquidation or to take advantage of any bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or other similar law of any jurisdiction, (iii) makes an assignment for the benefit of its creditors, (iv) consents to the appointment of a custodian, receiver, trustee or other officer with similar powers with respect to it or with respect to any substantial part of its property, (v) is adjudicated as insolvent or to be liquidated, or (vi) takes corporate action for the purpose of any of the foregoing; or |
(h) a court or governmental authority of competent jurisdiction enters an order appointing, without consent by the Company or any of its Material Subsidiaries, a custodian, receiver, trustee or other officer with similar powers with respect to it or with respect to any substantial part of its property, or constituting an order for relief or approving a petition for relief or reorganization or any other petition in bankruptcy or for liquidation or to take advantage of any bankruptcy or insolvency law of any jurisdiction, or ordering the dissolution, winding-up or liquidation of the Company or any of its Material Subsidiaries, or any such petition shall be filed against the Company or any of its Material Subsidiaries and such petition shall not be dismissed within 60 days; or |
(i) a final judgment or judgments for the payment of money aggregating in excess of $10,000,000 are rendered against one or more of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries and which judgments are not, within 60 days after entry thereof, bonded, discharged or stayed pending appeal, or are not discharged within 60 days after the expiration of such stay; or |
(j) if (i) any Plan shall fail to satisfy the minimum funding standards of ERISA or the Code for any plan year or part thereof or a waiver of such standards or extension of any amortization period is sought or granted under section 412 of the Code, (ii) a notice of intent to terminate any Plan shall have been or is reasonably expected to be filed with the PBGC or the PBGC shall have instituted proceedings under ERISA section 4042 to terminate or appoint a trustee to administer any Plan or the PBGC shall have notified the Company or any ERISA Affiliate that a Plan may become a subject of any such proceedings, (iii) the aggregate “amount of unfunded benefit liabilities” (within the meaning of section 4001(a)(18) of ERISA) under all Plans, determined in accordance with Title IV of ERISA, shall exceed $10,000,000, (iv) the Company or any ERISA Affiliate shall have incurred or is reasonably expected to incur any liability pursuant to Title I or IV of ERISA or the penalty or excise tax provisions of the Code relating to employee benefit plans, (v) the Company or any ERISA Affiliate withdraws from any Multiemployer Plan, or (vi) the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary establishes or amends any employee welfare benefit plan that provides post-employment welfare benefits in a manner that would increase the liability of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary thereunder; and any such event or events described in clauses (i) through (vi) above, either individually or together with any other such event or events, could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. |
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As used in Section 11(j), the terms “employee benefit plan” and “employee welfare benefit plan” shall have the respective meanings assigned to such terms in Section 3 of ERISA.
SECTION 12. REMEDIES ON DEFAULT, ETC.
Section 12.1. Acceleration. (a) If an Event of Default with respect to the Company described in paragraph (g) or (h) of Section 11 (other than an Event of Default described in clause (i) of paragraph (g) or described in clause (vi) of paragraph (g) by virtue of the fact that such clause encompasses clause (i) of paragraph (g)) has occurred, all the Notes of every Series then outstanding shall automatically become immediately due and payable.
(b) If any other Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, any holder or holders of more than 50% in aggregate principal amount of the Notes may at any time at its or their option, by notice or notices to the Company, declare all the Notes then outstanding to be immediately due and payable.
(c) If any Event of Default described in paragraph (a) or (b) of Section 11 has occurred and is continuing with respect to any Notes, any holder or holders of Notes at the time outstanding affected by such Event of Default may at any time, at its or their option, by notice or notices to the Company, declare all the Notes held by such holder or holders to be immediately due and payable.
Upon any Note becoming due and payable under this Section 12.1, whether automatically or by declaration, such Note will forthwith mature and the entire unpaid principal amount of such Note, plus (x) all accrued and unpaid interest thereon and (y) the Make-Whole Amount, if any, and any other premium, if any, determined in respect of such principal amount (to the full extent permitted by applicable law), shall all be immediately due and payable, in each and every case without presentment, demand, protest or further notice, all of which are hereby waived. The Company acknowledges, and the parties hereto agree, that each holder of a Note has the right to maintain its investment in the Notes free from repayment by the Company (except as herein specifically provided for), and that the provision for payment of a Make-Whole Amount or other premium by the Company in the event that the Notes are prepaid or are accelerated as a result of an Event of Default, is intended to provide compensation for the deprivation of such right under such circumstances.
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Section 12.2. Other Remedies. If any Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, and irrespective of whether any Notes have become or have been declared immediately due and payable under Section 12.1, the holder of any Note at the time outstanding may proceed to protect and enforce the rights of such holder by an action at law, suit in equity or other appropriate proceeding, whether for the specific performance of any agreement contained herein or in any Note, or for an injunction against a violation of any of the terms hereof or thereof, or in aid of the exercise of any power granted hereby or thereby or by law or otherwise.
Section 12.3. Rescission. At any time after any Notes have been declared due and payable pursuant to clause (b) or (c) of Section 12.1, the holders of not less than 51% in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding, by written notice to the Company, may rescind and annul any such declaration and its consequences if (a) the Company has paid all overdue interest on the Notes, all principal of and Make-Whole Amount, if any, or other premium, if any, on any Notes that are due and payable and are unpaid other than by reason of such declaration, and all interest on such overdue principal and Make-Whole Amount, if any, or other premium, if any, and (to the extent permitted by applicable law) any overdue interest in respect of the Notes, at the Default Rate, (b) all Events of Default and Defaults, other than non-payment of amounts that have become due solely by reason of such declaration, have been cured or have been waived pursuant to Section 17, and (c) no judgment or decree has been entered for the payment of any monies due pursuant hereto or to any Note. No rescission and annulment under this Section 12.3 will extend to or affect any subsequent Event of Default or Default or impair any right consequent thereon.
Section 12.4. No Waivers or Election of Remedies, Expenses, etc. No course of dealing and no delay on the part of any holder of any Note in exercising any right, power or remedy shall operate as a waiver thereof or otherwise prejudice such holder’s rights, powers or remedies. No right, power or remedy conferred by this Agreement or by any Note upon any holder thereof shall be exclusive of any other right, power or remedy referred to herein or therein or now or hereafter available at law, in equity, by statute or otherwise. Without limiting the obligations of the Company under Section 15, the Company will pay to the holder of each Note on demand such further amount as shall be sufficient to cover all costs and expenses of such holder incurred in any enforcement or collection under this Section 12, including, without limitation, reasonable attorneys’ fees, expenses and disbursements.
SECTION 13. REGISTRATION; EXCHANGE; SUBSTITUTION OF NOTES.
Section 13.1. Registration of Notes. The Company shall keep at its principal executive office a register for the registration and registration of transfers of Notes. The name and address of each holder of one or more Notes, each transfer thereof and the name and address of each transferee of one or more Notes shall be registered in such register. Prior to due presentment for registration of transfer, the Person in whose name any Note shall be registered shall be deemed and treated as the owner and holder thereof for all purposes hereof, and the Company shall not be affected by any notice or knowledge to the contrary. The Company shall give to any holder of a Note that is an Institutional Investor promptly upon request therefor, a complete and correct copy of the names and addresses of all registered holders of Notes.
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Section 13.2. Transfer and Exchange of Notes. Upon surrender of any Note to the Company at the address and to the attention of the designated officer (all as specified in Section 18(iv)) for registration of transfer or exchange (and in the case of a surrender for registration of transfer, duly endorsed or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer duly executed by the registered holder of such Note or its attorney duly authorized in writing and accompanied by the relevant name, address and other information for notices of each transferee of such Note or part thereof), within ten Business Days thereafter, the Company shall execute and deliver, at the Company’s expense (except as provided below), one or more new Notes (as requested by the holder thereof) of the same Series (and of the same tranche if such Series has separate tranches) in exchange therefor, in an aggregate principal amount equal to the unpaid principal amount of the surrendered Note. Each such new Note shall be payable to such Person as such holder may request and shall be substantially in the form of the Note of such Series originally issued hereunder or pursuant to any Supplement. Each such new Note shall be dated and bear interest from the date to which interest shall have been paid on the surrendered Note or dated the date of the surrendered Note if no interest shall have been paid thereon. The Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any stamp tax or governmental charge imposed in respect of any such transfer of Notes. Notes shall not be transferred in denominations of less than $500,000, provided that if necessary to enable the registration of transfer by a holder of its entire holding of Notes, one Note may be in a denomination of less than $500,000. Any transferee, by its acceptance of a Note registered in its name (or the name of its nominee), shall be deemed to have made the representation set forth in Section 6.3, provided that such holder may (in reliance upon information provided by the Company, which shall not be unreasonably withheld) make a representation to the effect that the purchase by such holder of any Note will not constitute a non-exempt prohibited transaction under Section 406(a) of ERISA.
The Notes have not been registered under the Securities Act or under the securities laws of any state and may not be transferred or resold unless registered under the Securities Act and all applicable state securities laws or unless an exemption from the requirement for such registration is available.
Section 13.3. Replacement of Notes. Upon receipt by the Company at the address and to the attention of the designated officer (all as specified in Section 18(iv)) of evidence reasonably satisfactory to it of the ownership of and the loss, theft, destruction or mutilation of any Note (which evidence shall be, in the case of an Institutional Investor, notice from such Institutional Investor of such ownership and such loss, theft, destruction or mutilation), and
(a) in the case of loss, theft or destruction, of indemnity reasonably satisfactory to it (provided that if the holder of such Note is, or is a nominee for, an original Purchaser or another holder of a Note with a minimum net worth of at least $50,000,000 or a Qualified Institutional Buyer, such Person’s own unsecured agreement of indemnity shall be deemed to be satisfactory), or |
(b) in the case of mutilation, upon surrender and cancellation thereof, |
the Company at its own expense shall execute and deliver not more than five Business Days following satisfaction of such conditions, in lieu thereof, a new Note of the same Series (and of the same tranche if such Series has separate tranches), dated and bearing interest from the date to which interest shall have been paid on such lost, stolen, destroyed or mutilated Note or dated the date of such lost, stolen, destroyed or mutilated Note if no interest shall have been paid thereon.
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SECTION 14. PAYMENTS ON NOTES.
Section 14.1. Place of Payment. Subject to Section 14.2, payments of principal, Make-Whole Amount, if any, other premium, if any, and interest becoming due and payable on the Notes shall be made in New York, New York at the principal office of Bank of America N.A. in such jurisdiction. The Company may at any time, by notice to each holder of a Note, change the place of payment of the Notes so long as such place of payment shall be either the principal office of the Company in such jurisdiction or the principal office of a bank or trust company in such jurisdiction.
Section 14.2. Home Office Payment. So long as you or your nominee or any Additional Purchaser or such Additional Purchaser’s nominee shall be the holder of any Note, and notwithstanding anything contained in Section 14.1 or in such Note to the contrary, the Company will pay all sums becoming due on such Note for principal, Make-Whole Amount, if any, and interest by the method and at the address specified for such purpose below your name in Schedule A hereto or, in the case of any Additional Purchaser, Schedule A attached to any Supplement pursuant to which such Additional Purchaser is a party, or by such other method or at such other address as you or such Additional Purchaser shall have from time to time specified to the Company in writing for such purpose, without the presentation or surrender of such Note or the making of any notation thereon, except that upon written request of the Company made concurrently with or reasonably promptly after payment or prepayment in full of any Note, you or such Additional Purchaser shall surrender such Note for cancellation, reasonably promptly after any such request, to the Company at its principal executive office or at the place of payment most recently designated by the Company pursuant to Section 14.1. Prior to any sale or other disposition of any Note held by you or any Additional Purchaser or by your nominee or such Additional Purchaser’s nominee, such Person will, at its election, either endorse thereon the amount of principal paid thereon and the last date to which interest has been paid thereon or surrender such Note to the Company in exchange for a new Note or Notes pursuant to Section 13.2. The Company will afford the benefits of this Section 14.2 to any Institutional Investor that is the direct or indirect transferee of any Note.
SECTION 15. EXPENSES, ETC.
Section 15.1. Transaction Expenses. Whether or not the transactions contemplated hereby are consummated, the Company will pay all costs and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees of a special counsel for the Purchasers or any Additional Purchasers and, if reasonably required by the Required Holders, local or other counsel) incurred by you, each Other Purchaser and each Additional Purchaser and each other holder of a Note in connection with such transactions and in connection with any amendments, waivers or consents under or in respect of this Agreement (including any Supplement) or the Notes (whether or not such amendment, waiver or consent becomes effective), including, without limitation: (a) the costs and expenses incurred in enforcing or defending (or determining whether or how to enforce or defend) any rights under this Agreement (including any Supplement) or the Notes or in responding to any subpoena or other legal process or informal investigative demand issued in connection with this Agreement (including any Supplement) or the Notes, or by reason of being a holder of any Note, and (b) the costs and expenses, including financial advisors’ fees, incurred in connection with the insolvency or bankruptcy of the Company or any Material Subsidiary or in connection with any work-out or restructuring of the transactions contemplated hereby and by the Notes. In addition, the Company will pay the reasonable fees and expenses of special counsel for the investors and, if reasonably required by the Required Holders, local or other counsel, in connection with a transaction requiring an opinion of counsel pursuant to Section 10.7(2). The Company will pay, and will save you, each Other Purchaser, each Additional Purchaser and each other holder of a Note harmless from, all claims in respect of any fees, costs or expenses if any, of brokers and finders (other than those, if any, retained by a Purchaser or other holder in connection with its purchase of the Notes).
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Section 15.2. Survival. The obligations of the Company under this Section 15 will survive the payment or transfer of any Note, the enforcement, amendment or waiver of any provision of this Agreement, any Supplement or the Notes, and the termination of this Agreement or any Supplement.
SECTION 16. SURVIVAL OF REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES; ENTIRE AGREEMENT.
All representations and warranties contained herein or in any Supplement shall survive the execution and delivery of this Agreement, such Supplement and the Notes, the purchase or transfer by you or any Additional Purchaser of any Note or portion thereof or interest therein and the payment of any Note, and may be relied upon by any subsequent holder of a Note, regardless of any investigation made at any time by or on behalf of you or any Additional Purchaser or any other holder of a Note. All statements contained in any certificate or other instrument delivered by or on behalf of the Company pursuant to this Agreement or any Supplement shall be deemed representations and warranties of the Company under this Agreement; provided, that the representations and warranties contained in any Supplement shall only be made for the benefit of the Additional Purchasers which are party to such Supplement and the holders of the Notes issued pursuant to such Supplement, including subsequent holders of any Note issued pursuant to such Supplement, and shall not require the consent of the holders of existing Notes. Subject to the preceding sentence, this Agreement (including every Supplement) and the Notes embody the entire agreement and understanding between you, the Other Purchasers and the Additional Purchasers and the Company and supersede all prior agreements and understandings relating to the subject matter hereof.
SECTION 17. AMENDMENT AND WAIVER.
Section 17.1. (a) Requirements. This Agreement (including any Supplement hereto) and the Notes may be amended, and the observance of any term hereof or of the Notes may be waived (either retroactively or prospectively), with (and only with) the written consent of the Company and the Required Holders, except that (a) no amendment or waiver of any of the provisions of Section 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 or 21 hereof or the corresponding provision of any Supplement, or any defined term (as it is used in any such section or such corresponding provision of any Supplement), will be effective as to you unless consented to by you in writing, and (b) no such amendment or waiver may, without the written consent of the holder of each Note of any Series at the time outstanding affected thereby, (i) change the percentage of the principal amount of the Notes the holders of which are required to consent to any such amendment or waiver, or (ii) amend any of Sections 8 (except as permitted by Section 17.1(b)), 11(a), 11(b), 12, 17 or 20.
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(b) Change to Interest Rates, Payments or Make-Whole. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in Section 17.1(a), with the prior written consent of (i) the Company and all of the holders of a Series of Notes (A) the interest rate on the Notes of such Series may be reduced, (B) the time of payment of interest on such Series which results in an effective reduction in the interest rate may be changed, (C) the Make-Whole Amount (or other prepayment premium, if applicable) (or method of computation thereof) associated with such Series of Notes may be changed, and (D) subject to the provisions of Section 12 relating to acceleration or rescission, the time of or amount of any prepayment or payment of principal may be changed, and (ii) the Company and the holders of more than 50% in aggregate principal amount of a Series of Notes, the interest rate on the Notes of such Series may be increased, including any increase in the frequency of payment of such interest which results in an effective increase in the interest rate, in each case, without any requirements to obtain the prior written consent of the holders of any other Series of Notes.
(c) Supplements. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the Company may enter into any Supplement providing for the issuance of one or more Series of Additional Notes consistent with Sections 2.2 and 4.12 hereof without obtaining the consent of any holder of any other Series of Notes.
Section 17.2. Solicitation of Holders of Notes.
(a) Solicitation. The Company will provide each holder of the Notes (irrespective of the amount of Notes then owned by it) with sufficient information, sufficiently far in advance of the date a decision is required, to enable such holder to make an informed and considered decision with respect to any proposed amendment, waiver or consent in respect of any of the provisions hereof, any Supplement or of the Notes. The Company will deliver executed or true and correct copies of each amendment, waiver or consent effected pursuant to the provisions of this Section 17 to each holder of outstanding Notes promptly following the date on which it is executed and delivered by, or receives the consent or approval of, the requisite holders of Notes.
(b) Payment. The Company will not directly or indirectly pay or cause to be paid any remuneration, whether by way of supplemental or additional interest, fee or otherwise, or grant any security or provide other credit support, to any holder of Notes as consideration for or as an inducement to the entering into by any holder of Notes of any waiver or amendment of any of the terms and provisions hereof or any Supplement unless such remuneration is concurrently paid, or security is concurrently granted or other credit support is concurrently provided, on the same terms, ratably to each holder of Notes then outstanding even if such holder did not consent to such waiver or amendment.
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(c) Consent in Contemplation of Transfer. Any consent made pursuant to this Section 17 by a holder of Notes that has transferred or has agreed to transfer its Notes to, or has accepted an offer to prepay its Notes from, the Company, any Subsidiary or any Affiliate of the Company and has provided or has agreed to provide such written consent as a condition to such transfer or prepayment shall be void and of no force or effect except solely as to such holder, and any amendments effected or waivers granted or to be effected or granted that would not have been or would not be so effected or granted but for such consent (and the consents of all other holders of Notes that were acquired or prepaid under the same or similar conditions) shall be void and of no force or effect except solely as to such holder.
Section 17.3. Binding Effect, etc. Any amendment or waiver consented to as provided in this Section 17 applies equally to all holders of Notes and is binding upon them and upon each future holder of any Note and upon the Company without regard to whether such Note has been marked to indicate such amendment or waiver. No such amendment or waiver will extend to or affect any obligation, covenant, agreement, Default or Event of Default not expressly amended or waived or impair any right consequent thereon. No course of dealing between the Company and the holder of any Note nor any delay in exercising any rights hereunder or under any Note shall operate as a waiver of any rights of any holder of such Note. As used herein, the term “this Agreement” and references thereto shall mean this Agreement as it may from time to time be amended or supplemented.
Section 17.4. Notes Held by Company, etc. Solely for the purpose of determining whether the holders of the requisite percentage of the aggregate principal amount of Notes then outstanding approved or consented to any amendment, waiver or consent to be given under this Agreement or the Notes, or have directed the taking of any action provided herein or in the Notes to be taken upon the direction of the holders of a specified percentage of the aggregate principal amount of Notes then outstanding, Notes directly or indirectly owned by the Company, any Restricted Subsidiary or any of their respective Affiliates shall be deemed not to be outstanding.
SECTION 18. NOTICES.
All notices and communications provided for hereunder shall be in writing and sent (a) by telecopy or email if the sender on the same day sends a confirming copy of such notice by a recognized overnight delivery service (charges prepaid), (b) by a recognized overnight delivery service (charges prepaid) or (c) by posting to IntraLinks®, or a similar service reasonably acceptable to the Required Holders, if the sender on the same day sends or causes to be sent notice of such posting by electronic mail and sends a confirming copy of such notice by a recognized overnight courier service (charges prepaid). Any such notice must be sent:
(i) if to you or your nominee, to you or it at the address or, in the case of clause (c) above, the e-mail address specified for such communications in Schedule A to this Agreement, or at such other address or e-mail address as you or your nominee shall have specified to the Company in writing pursuant to this Section 18; |
(ii) if to an Additional Purchaser or such Additional Purchaser’s nominee, to such Additional Purchaser or such Additional Purchaser’s nominee at the address or, in the case of clause (c) above, the e-mail address specified for such communications in Schedule A to any Supplement, or at such other address or email address as such Additional Purchaser or such Additional Purchaser’s nominee shall have specified to the Company in writing; |
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(iii) if to any other holder of any Note, to such holder at such address or, in the case of clause (a) or (c) above, such e-mail address as such other holder shall have specified to the Company in writing pursuant to this Section 18; or |
(iv) if to the Company, to the Company at its address set forth at the beginning hereof to the attention of Chief Financial Officer, with a copy to the General Counsel, or at such other address as the Company shall have specified to the holder of each Note in writing. |
Notices under subparts (a) and (c) of this Section 18 will be deemed given when sent and notices under subpart (b) hereof will be deemed given on the Business Day subsequent to the day sent.
SECTION 19. REPRODUCTION OF DOCUMENTS.
This Agreement and all documents relating thereto, including, without limitation, (a) consents, waivers and modifications that may hereafter be executed, (b) documents received by any holder of Notes at the time such Notes were issued (except the Notes themselves), and (c) financial statements, certificates and other information previously or hereafter furnished to any holder of Notes, may be reproduced by such holder by any photographic, photostatic, electronic, digital, or other similar process and such holder may destroy any original document so reproduced. The Company agrees and stipulates that, to the extent permitted by applicable law, any such reproduction shall be admissible in evidence as the original itself in any judicial or administrative proceeding (whether or not the original is in existence and whether or not such reproduction was made by you in the regular course of business) and any enlargement, facsimile or further reproduction of such reproduction shall likewise be admissible in evidence. This Section 19 shall not prohibit the Company or any other holder of Notes from contesting any such reproduction to the same extent that it could contest the original, or from introducing evidence to demonstrate the inaccuracy of any such reproduction.
SECTION 20. CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION.
For the purposes of this Section 20, “Confidential Information” means information delivered to you or any Additional Purchaser by or on behalf of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary in connection with the transactions contemplated by or otherwise pursuant to this Agreement that is proprietary in nature and that was clearly marked or labeled or otherwise adequately identified when received by you as being confidential information of the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary, provided that such term does not include information that (a) was publicly known or otherwise known to you or such Additional Purchaser prior to the time of such disclosure, (b) subsequently becomes publicly known through no act or omission by you or such Additional Purchaser, or any Person acting on behalf of you or such Additional Purchaser, (c) otherwise becomes known to you or such Additional Purchaser other than through disclosure by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary or (d) constitutes financial statements delivered to you or such Additional Purchaser under Section 7.1 that are otherwise publicly available. You and each Additional Purchaser will maintain the confidentiality of such Confidential Information in accordance with procedures adopted by you or such Additional Purchaser in good faith to protect confidential information of third parties delivered to you or such Additional Purchaser, provided that you or such Additional Purchaser may deliver or disclose Confidential Information to (i) your or such Additional Purchaser’s directors, trustees, officers, employees, agents, attorneys and affiliates (to the extent such disclosure reasonably relates to the administration of the investment represented by your Notes), (ii) your or such Additional Purchaser’s financial advisors and other professional advisors who agree to hold confidential the Confidential Information substantially in accordance with the terms of this Section 20, (iii) any other holder of any Note, (iv) any Institutional Investor to which you sell or offer to sell such Note or any part thereof or any participation therein (if such Person has agreed in writing prior to its receipt of such Confidential Information to be bound by the provisions of this Section 20), (v) any Person from which you or such Additional Purchaser offer to purchase any security of the Company (if such Person has agreed in writing prior to its receipt of such Confidential Information to be bound by the provisions of this Section 20), (vi) any Federal or state regulatory authority having jurisdiction over you or such Additional Purchaser, (vii) the National Association of Insurance Commissioners or any similar organization, or any nationally recognized rating agency that requires access to information about your or such Additional Purchaser’s investment portfolio or (viii) any other Person to which such delivery or disclosure may be necessary or appropriate (w) to effect compliance with any law, rule, regulation or order applicable to you or such Additional Purchaser, (x) in response to any subpoena or other legal process, (y) in connection with any litigation to which you or such Additional Purchaser are a party or (z) if an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, to the extent you or such Additional Purchaser may reasonably determine such delivery and disclosure to be necessary or appropriate in the enforcement or for the protection of the rights and remedies under your or such Additional Purchaser’s Notes and this Agreement. Each holder of a Note, by its acceptance of a Note, will be deemed to have agreed to be bound by and to be entitled to the benefits of this Section 20 as though it were a party to this Agreement. On reasonable request by the Company in connection with the delivery to any holder of a Note of information required to be delivered to such holder under this Agreement or requested by such holder (other than a holder that is a party to this Agreement or its nominee), such holder will enter into an agreement with the Company embodying the provisions of this Section 20.
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SECTION 21. SUBSTITUTION OF PURCHASER.
You and each Additional Purchaser shall have the right to substitute any one of your respective Affiliates as the purchaser of the Notes that you or such Additional Purchaser have agreed to purchase hereunder, by written notice to the Company, which notice shall be signed by both you or such Additional Purchaser, as applicable, and such Affiliate, shall contain such Affiliate’s agreement to be bound by this Agreement and shall contain a confirmation by such Affiliate of the accuracy with respect to it of the representations set forth in Section 6. Upon receipt of such notice, (i) wherever the word “you” is used in this Agreement (other than in this Section 21), such word shall be deemed to refer to such Affiliate in lieu of you, and (ii) any reference to such Additional Purchaser in this Agreement (other than in this Section 21) shall be deemed to refer to such Affiliate in lieu of such Additional Purchaser. In the event that such Affiliate is so substituted as a purchaser hereunder and such Affiliate thereafter transfers to you or to such Additional Purchaser, as applicable, all of the Notes then held by such Affiliate, upon receipt by the Company of notice of such transfer, (i) wherever the word “you” is used in this Agreement (other than in this Section 21), such word shall no longer be deemed to refer to such Affiliate, but shall refer to you, and you shall have all the rights of an original holder of the Notes under this Agreement and (ii) any reference to such Affiliate as an “Additional Purchaser” in this Agreement (other than in this Section 21), shall no longer be deemed to refer to such Affiliate, but shall refer to such original Additional Purchaser, and such original Additional Purchaser shall again have all the rights of an original holder of the Notes under this Agreement.
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SECTION 22. MISCELLANEOUS.
Section 22.1. Successors and Assigns. All covenants and other agreements contained in this Agreement (including all covenants and other agreements contained in any Supplement) by or on behalf of any of the parties hereto bind and inure to the benefit of their respective successors and assigns (including, without limitation, any subsequent holder of a Note) whether so expressed or not.
Section 22.2. Payments Due on Non-Business Days. Anything in this Agreement or the Notes to the contrary notwithstanding (but without limiting the requirement in Section 8.4 that the notice of any optional prepayment specify a Business Day as the date fixed for such prepayment), any payment of principal of or Make-Whole Amount or interest on any Note that is due on a date other than a Business Day shall be made on the next succeeding Business Day without including the additional days elapsed in the computation of the interest payable on such next succeeding Business Day; provided that if the maturity date of any Note is a date other than a Business Day, the payment otherwise due on such maturity date shall be made on the next succeeding Business Day and shall include the additional days elapsed in the computation of interest payable on such next succeeding Business Day.
Section 22.3. Accounting Term. All accounting terms used herein which are not expressly defined in this Agreement have the meanings respectively given to them in accordance with GAAP. Except as otherwise specifically provided herein, (i) all computations made pursuant to this Agreement shall be made in accordance with GAAP, and (ii) all financial statements shall be prepared in accordance with GAAP.
Section 22.4. Severability. Any provision of this Agreement that is prohibited or unenforceable in any jurisdiction shall, as to such jurisdiction, be ineffective to the extent of such prohibition or unenforceability without invalidating the remaining provisions hereof, and any such prohibition or unenforceability in any jurisdiction shall (to the full extent permitted by law) not invalidate or render unenforceable such provision in any other jurisdiction.
Section 22.5. Construction. Each covenant contained herein shall be construed (absent express provision to the contrary) as being independent of each other covenant contained herein, so that compliance with any one covenant shall not (absent such an express contrary provision) be deemed to excuse compliance with any other covenant. Where any provision herein refers to action to be taken by any Person, or which such Person is prohibited from taking, such provision shall be applicable whether such action is taken directly or indirectly by such Person.
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For the avoidance of doubt, all Schedules and Exhibits attached to this Agreement shall be deemed to be a part hereof.
Section 22.6. Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which shall be an original but all of which together shall constitute one instrument. Each counterpart may consist of a number of copies hereof, each signed by less than all, but together signed by all, of the parties hereto.
Section 22.7. Governing Law. This Agreement shall be construed and enforced in accordance with, and the rights of the parties shall be governed by, the law of the State of New York excluding choice-of-law principles of the law of such State that would permit the application of the laws of a jurisdiction other than such State.
Section 22.8. Jurisdiction and Process; Waiver of Jury Trial. (a) The Company irrevocably submits to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of any New York State or Federal court sitting in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, over any suit, action or proceeding arising out of or relating to this Agreement or the Notes. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, the Company irrevocably waives and agrees not to assert, by way of motion, as a defense or otherwise, any claim that it is not subject to the jurisdiction of any such court, any objection that it may now or hereafter have to the laying of the venue of any such suit, action or proceeding brought in any such court and any claim that any such suit, action or proceeding brought in any such court has been brought in an inconvenient forum.
(b) The Company consents to process being served by or on behalf of any holder of Notes in any suit, action or proceeding of the nature referred to in Section 22.8(a) by mailing a copy thereof by registered or certified mail (or any substantially similar form of mail), postage prepaid, return receipt requested, to it at its address specified in Section 18 or at such other address of which such holder shall then have been notified pursuant to said Section. The Company agrees that such service upon receipt (i) shall be deemed in every respect effective service of process upon it in any such suit, action or proceeding and (ii) shall, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, be taken and held to be valid personal service upon and personal delivery to it. Notices hereunder shall be conclusively presumed received as evidenced by a delivery receipt furnished by the United States Postal Service or any reputable commercial delivery service.
(c) Nothing in this Section 22.8 shall affect the right of any holder of a Note to serve process in any manner permitted by law, or limit any right that the holders of any of the Notes may have to bring proceedings against the Company in the courts of any appropriate jurisdiction or to enforce in any lawful manner a judgment obtained in one jurisdiction in any other jurisdiction.
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(d) THE PARTIES HERETO HEREBY WAIVE TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY ACTION BROUGHT ON OR WITH RESPECT TO THIS AGREEMENT, THE NOTES OR ANY OTHER DOCUMENT EXECUTED IN CONNECTION HEREWITH OR THEREWITH.
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If you are in agreement with the foregoing, please sign the form of agreement on the accompanying counterpart of this Agreement and return it to the Company, whereupon the foregoing shall become a binding agreement between you and the Company.
Very truly yours, | |
THE MARCUS CORPORATION | |
By /s/ Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxx | |
Its President |
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Accepted as of the date first written above.
STATE OF WISCONSIN INVESTMENT BOARD | |
By /s/ Xxxxxxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxxxxxx | |
Name: Xxxxxxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxxxxxx | |
Title: Portfolio Manager |
The Marcus Corporation
Note
Purchase Agreement
Accepted as of the date first written above.
THE GUARDIAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY OF AMERICA | |
By /s/ Xxxxx Xxxxxxx | |
Name: Xxxxx Xxxxxxx | |
Title: Managing Director |
The Marcus Corporation
Note
Purchase Agreement
Accepted as of the date first written above.
UNITED OF OMAHA LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY | |
By /s/ Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxx | |
Name: Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxx | |
Title: Vice President |
The Marcus Corporation
Note
Purchase Agreement
Accepted as of the date first written above.
AMERICAN FAMILY LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY | |
By /s/ Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx | |
Name: Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx | |
Title: Investment Director |
The Marcus Corporation
Note
Purchase Agreement
INFORMATION RELATING TO PURCHASERS
NAMES AND ADDRESS OF PURCHASER |
TRANCHE | PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF THE SERIES A NOTES TO BE PURCHASED |
STATE OF WISCONSIN INVESTMENT BOARD |
A | $15,000,000 |
$15,000,000 | ||
000 Xxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxx | ||
Madison, Wisconsin | 53703 | |
Attention: Portfolio Manager, Private Markets Group | ||
Wisconsin Private Debt Portfolio |
Payments
All payments on or in respect of the Notes to be made on or before 11:00 a.m. local time by bank wire transfer of Federal or other immediately available funds (identifying each payment as “The Marcus Corporation, 5.89% Series A Senior Notes, Tranche A, due April 17, 2018, PPN 56633# AJ2, principal, premium or interest”) to:
ABA
#011-00-1234 (Mellon) For credit to the State of Wisconsin Investment Board DDA #064300 Attn: MBS Income CC: 1195 For: SWIB Wis. Private Debt, SWBF0335002, The Marcus Corporation Series A Senior Notes, PPN 56633# AJ2 |
With notice of payment, including a message as to the source (identifying the security by name and CUSIP number) and application of funds, copy of notice of payment to: |
Xx.
Xxxxx Xxxxxxx Accounting Supervisor State of Wisconsin Investment Board 000 Xxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxx P. O. Box 7842 Madison, Wisconsin 00000-0000 Phone: (000) 000-0000 Fax: (000) 000-0000 |
SCHEDULE A
(to Note
Purchase Agreement)
Address for notices other than confirmation of payment is:
Postal
Address State of Wisconsin Investment Board 000 Xxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxx P. O. Box 7842 Madison, Wisconsin 53707-7842 Attention: Portfolio Manager, Private Markets Group-Wisconsin Private Debt Portfolio |
Street
Address State of Wisconsin Investment Board 000 Xxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxx 00000 Attention: Portfolio Manager, Private Markets Group-Wisconsin Private Debt Portfolio |
Name of Nominee in which Notes are to be issued: None
Taxpayer I.D. Number: 00-0000000
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NAMES AND ADDRESS OF PURCHASER |
TRANCHE | PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF THE SERIES A NOTES TO BE PURCHASED |
THE GUARDIAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY |
B | $20,000,000 |
OF AMERICA | ||
0 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx | ||
New York, New York 10004-2616 | ||
Attention: Xxxxx Xxxxxxx, Investment Dept. 20-D | ||
Fax Number: (000) 000-0000/2656 | ||
Email: xxxxx_xxxxxxx@xxxx.xxx |
Payments
All payments on or in respect of the Notes to be by bank wire transfer of Federal or other immediately available funds (identifying each payment as “The Marcus Corporation, 6.55% Series A Senior Notes, Tranche B, due April 17, 2020, PPN 56633# AK9, principal, premium or interest”) to:
JPMorgan
Chase Bank FED ABA #000000000 CHASE/NYC/CTR/BNF A/C 000-0-000000 Reference A/C #G05978, Guardian Life, PPN 56633# AK9, The Marcus Corporation |
Notices
All notices and communications, including notices with respect to payments and written confirmation of each such payment, to be addressed as first provided above.
Name of Nominee in which Notes are to be issued: None
Taxpayer I.D. Number: 00-0000000
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NAMES AND ADDRESS OF PURCHASER |
TRANCHE | PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF THE SERIES A NOTES TO BE PURCHASED |
UNITED OF OMAHA LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY |
B | $15,000,000 |
Mutual of Omaha Plaza | ||
Omaha, Nebraska 68175-1011 | ||
Attention: 4 - Investment Accounting |
Payments
All payments on or in respect of the Notes to be by bank wire transfer of Federal or other immediately available funds (identifying each payment as “The Marcus Corporation, 6.55% Series A Senior Notes, Tranche B, due April 17, 2020, PPN 56633# AK9, principal, premium or interest”) to:
JPMorgan
Chase Bank ABA #000000000 Private Income Processing |
For
credit to: United of Omaha Life Insurance Company Account Number 900-9000200 a/c G07097 PPN: 56633# AK9 Interest Amount: Principal Amount: |
Notices
All notices of payments of principal and interest, on or in respect of the Notes and written confirmation of each such payment, corporate actions and reorganization notifications to:
JPMorgan
Chase Bank 00000 Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx, 00xx Xxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 00000-0000 Attention: Income Processing - X. Xxxx a/c: G07097 |
All other notices and communications (i.e., quarterly/annual reports, tax filings, modifications, waivers regarding the indenture) to be addressed as first provided above.
Name of Nominee in which Notes are to be issued: None
Taxpayer I.D. Number: 00-0000000
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NAMES AND ADDRESS OF PURCHASER |
TRANCHE | PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF THE SERIES A NOTES TO BE PURCHASED |
AMERICAN FAMILY LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY |
B | $8,000,000 |
0000 Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx | ||
Madison, Wisconsin 53783-0001 | ||
Attention: Investment Division - Private Placements |
Payments
All payments on or in respect of the Notes to be by bank wire transfer of Federal or other immediately available funds (identifying each payment as “The Marcus Corporation, 6.55% Series A Senior Notes, Tranche B, due April 17, 2020, PPN 56633# AK9, principal, premium or interest”) to:
US
Bank, N.A. Trust Services 00 Xxxxxxxxxx Xxx., Xx. Xxxx, XX 00000-2292 ABA #000000000 Beneficial Account #180183083765 FFC to American Family Trust Account #000018012500 for AFLIC-Traditional Credit for PPN 56633# AK9 |
Notices
All notices and communications, including notices with respect to payments and written confirmation of each such payment as well as quarterly and annual financial statements, to be addressed as first provided above. Audit confirmations should be sent to: “Attention: Treasury Department” at the same address.
Name of Nominee in which Notes are to be issued: BAND & Co.
Taxpayer I.D. Number: 00-0000000
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NAMES AND ADDRESS OF PURCHASER |
TRANCHE | PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF THE SERIES A NOTES TO BE PURCHASED |
AMERICAN FAMILY LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY |
B | $2,000,000 |
0000 Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx | ||
Madison, Wisconsin 53783-0001 | ||
Attention: Investment Division - Private Placements |
Payments
All payments on or in respect of the Notes to be by bank wire transfer of Federal or other immediately available funds (identifying each payment as “The Marcus Corporation, 6.55% Series A Senior Notes, Tranche B, due April 17, 2020, PPN 56633# AK9, principal, premium or interest”) to:
US
Bank, N.A. Trust Services 00 Xxxxxxxxxx Xxx., Xx. Xxxx, XX 00000-2292 ABA #000000000 Beneficial Account #180183083765 FFC to American Family Trust Account #000018012510 for AFLIC-Universal Life Portfolio Credit for PPN 56633# AK9 |
Notices
All notices and communications, including notices with respect to payments and written confirmation of each such payment as well as quarterly and annual financial statements, to be addressed as first provided above. Audit confirmations should be sent to: “Attention: Treasury Department” at the same address.
Name of Nominee in which Notes are to be issued: BAND & Co.
Taxpayer I.D. Number: 00-0000000
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DEFINED TERMS
As used herein, the following terms have the respective meanings set forth below or set forth in the Section hereof following such term:
“Additional Notes” is defined in Section 2.2.
“Additional Purchasers” means purchasers of Additional Notes.
“Affiliate” means, at any time, and with respect to any Person, (a) any other Person that at such time directly or indirectly through one or more intermediaries Controls, or is Controlled by, or is under common Control with, such first Person, and (b) any other Person beneficially owning or holding, directly or indirectly, 10% or more of any class of voting or equity interests of such first Person or any other Person of which such first Person beneficially own or hold, in the aggregate, directly or indirectly, 10% or more of any class of voting or equity interests. As used in this definition, “Control” means the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of a Person, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise. Unless the context otherwise clearly requires, any reference to an “Affiliate” is a reference to an Affiliate of the Company. For all purposes of this Agreement, Restricted Subsidiaries shall not be deemed to be Affiliates of the Company or any other Restricted Subsidiary.
“Anti-Terrorism Order” means Executive Order No. 13,224 of September 24, 2001, Blocking Property and Prohibiting Transactions with Persons Who Commit, Threaten to Commit or Support Terrorism, 66 U.S. Fed. Reg. 49, 079 (2001), as amended.
“Business Day” means any day other than a Saturday, a Sunday or a day on which commercial banks in New York, New York are required or authorized to be closed.
“Capital Lease” means, at any time, a lease with respect to which the lessee is required concurrently to recognize the acquisition of an asset and the incurrence of a liability in accordance with GAAP.
“Capital Lease Obligation” means, with respect to any Person and a Capital Lease, the amount of the obligation of such Person, as the lessee under the Capital Lease, which would appear as a liability on a balance sheet of such Person in accordance with GAAP.
“Closing” is defined in Section 3.
“Closing Date” means the date of the Closing.
“Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended from time to time, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder from time to time.
“Company” means The Marcus Corporation, a Wisconsin corporation.
SCHEDULE B
(to Note
Purchase Agreement)
“Confidential Information” is defined in Section 20.
“Consolidated Debt” means, as of the date of any determination thereof, all Debt of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries, determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP.
“Consolidated Net Worth” means, as of the date of any determination thereof, Stockholders’ Equity less the total amount of all Restricted Investments in excess of 20% of Stockholders’ Equity as of such date of determination.
“Consolidated Net Income” means, with reference to any period, the net income (or loss) of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries for such period (taken as a cumulative whole), as determined in accordance with GAAP, after eliminating all offsetting debits and credits between the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries and all other items required to be eliminated in the course of the preparation of consolidated financial statements of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries in accordance with GAAP.
“Consolidated Operating Cash Flow” means, in respect of any period, the sum of (a) Consolidated Net Income for such period, and (b) the amount of all Net Interest Charges, Operating Lease Rentals, depreciation, amortization, income taxes, deferred items and other non-cash expenses of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries for such period, but only to the extent deducted in the determination of Consolidated Net Income for such period.
“Consolidated Operating Cash Flow Ratio” means, with respect to any period, the ratio of Consolidated Operating Cash Flow to Fixed Charges for such period.
“Consolidated Total Assets” means, as of the date of any determination thereof, the total amount of all assets of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries, determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP.
“Consolidated Total Capitalization” means, as of the date of any determination thereof, the sum of (i) Consolidated Debt, plus (ii) Consolidated Net Worth.
“Debt” means, with respect to any Person, without duplication,
(a) its liabilities for borrowed money; |
(b) its liabilities for the deferred purchase price of property acquired by such Person (excluding accounts payable arising in the ordinary course of business but including, without limitation, all liabilities created or arising under any conditional sale or other title retention agreement with respect to any such property); |
(c) its Capital Lease Obligations; |
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(d) all liabilities for borrowed money secured by any Lien with respect to any property owned by such Person (whether or not it has assumed or otherwise become liable for such liabilities); and |
(e) any Guaranty of such Person with respect to liabilities of a type described in any of clause (a) through (d) hereof. |
Debt of any Person shall include all obligations of such Person of the character described in clauses (a) through (e) to the extent such Person remains legally liable in respect thereof notwithstanding that any such obligation is deemed to be extinguished under GAAP.
“Default” means an event or condition the occurrence or existence of which would, with the lapse of time or the giving of notice or both, become an Event of Default.
“Default Rate” means with respect to the Notes of any Series that rate of interest that is the greater of (i) 2% per annum above the rate of interest stated in clause (a) of the first paragraph of the Notes or (ii) 2% over the rate of interest publicly announced by Bank of America, N.A. in New York, New York as its “base” or “prime” rate.
“Environmental Laws” means any and all Federal, state, local, and foreign statutes, laws, regulations, ordinances, rules, judgments, orders, decrees, permits, concessions, grants, franchises, licenses, agreements or governmental restrictions relating to pollution and the protection of the environment or the release of any materials into the environment, including but not limited to those related to hazardous substances or wastes, air emissions and discharges to waste or public systems.
“ERISA” means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended from time to time, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder from time to time in effect.
“ERISA Affiliate” means any trade or business (whether or not incorporated) that is treated as a single employer together with the Company under section 414 of the Code.
“Event of Default” is defined in Section 11.
“Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
“Excluded Sale and Leaseback Transaction” shall mean any sale or transfer of property owned by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary to any Person within 180 days following the acquisition or construction of such property by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary if the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary shall concurrently with such sale or transfer lease such property, as lessee.
“Fixed Charges” means, with respect to any period, the sum of (i) all Operating Lease Rentals payable during such period by the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries, plus (ii) Net Interest Charges during such period of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries.
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“GAAP” means generally accepted accounting principles as in effect from time to time in the United States of America.
“Governmental Authority” means
(a) the government of |
(i) the United States of America or any State or other political subdivision thereof, or |
(ii) any jurisdiction in which the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary conducts all or any part of its business, or which asserts jurisdiction over any properties of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary, or |
(b) any entity exercising executive, legislative, judicial, regulatory or administrative functions of, or pertaining to, any such government. |
“Guaranty” means, with respect to any Person, any obligation (except the endorsement in the ordinary course of business of negotiable instruments for deposit or collection) of such Person guaranteeing or in effect guaranteeing any indebtedness, dividend or other obligation of any other Person in any manner, whether directly or indirectly, including (without limitation) obligations incurred through an agreement, contingent or otherwise, by such Person:
(a) to purchase such indebtedness or obligation or any property constituting security therefor; |
(b) to advance or supply funds (i) for the purchase or payment of such indebtedness or obligation, or (ii) to maintain any working capital or other balance sheet condition or any income statement condition of any other Person or otherwise to advance or make available funds for the purchase or payment of such indebtedness or obligation; |
(c) to lease properties or to purchase properties or services primarily for the purpose of assuring the owner of such indebtedness or obligation of the ability of any other Person to make payment of the indebtedness or obligation; or |
(d) otherwise to assure the owner of such indebtedness or obligation against loss in respect thereof. |
In any computation of the indebtedness or other liabilities of the obligor under any Guaranty, the indebtedness or other obligations that are the subject of such Guaranty shall be assumed to be direct obligations of such obligor.
“Hazardous Material” means any and all pollutants, toxic or hazardous wastes or other substances that might pose a hazard to health or safety, the removal of which may be required or the generation, manufacture, refining, production, processing, treatment, storage, handling, transportation, transfer, use, disposal, release, discharge, spillage, seepage or filtration of which is or shall be restricted, prohibited or penalized by any applicable law including, but not limited to, asbestos, urea formaldehyde foam insulation, polychlorinated biphenyls, petroleum, petroleum products, lead based paint, radon gas or similar restricted, prohibited or penalized substances.
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“holder” means, with respect to any Note, the Person in whose name such Note is registered in the register maintained by the Company pursuant to Section 13.1.
“Institutional Investor” means (a) any original purchaser of a Note, (b) any holder of a Note or Notes holding more than $2,000,000 of the aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding, and (c) any bank, trust company, savings and loan association or other financial institution, any pension plan, any investment company, any insurance company, any broker or dealer, or any other similar financial institution or entity, regardless of legal form.
“Interest Charges” means, with respect to any period, the sum (without duplication) of (a) all interest in respect of all Debt of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries (including the interest component of rentals on Capital Leases) deducted in determining Consolidated Net Income for such period, together with all interest capitalized or deferred during such period and not deducted in determining Consolidated Net Income for such period, plus (b) all debt discount and expense amortized or required to be amortized in the determination of Consolidated Net Income for such period.
“Investments” shall mean all investments, in cash or by delivery of property made, directly or indirectly in any Person, whether by acquisition of shares of capital stock, indebtedness or other obligations or securities or by loan, advance, capital contribution or otherwise; provided, however, that “Investments” shall not mean or include routine investments in property or assets to be used or consumed in the ordinary course of business.
“Lien” means, with respect to any Person, any mortgage, lien, pledge, charge, security interest or other encumbrance, or any interest or title of any vendor, lessor, lender or other secured party to or of such Person under any conditional sale or other title retention agreement or Capital Lease, upon or with respect to any property or asset of such Person (including in the case of stock, stockholder agreements, voting trust agreements and all similar arrangements).
“Make-Whole Amount” shall have the meaning (i) set forth in Section 8.6 with respect to the Series A Notes, and (ii) set forth in the applicable Supplement with respect to any other Series of Notes.
“Material” means material in relation to the business, operations, affairs, financial condition, assets, properties, or prospects of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries taken as a whole.
“Material Adverse Effect” means a material adverse effect on (a) the business, operations, affairs, financial condition, assets or properties of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, or (b) the ability of the Company to perform its obligations under this Agreement (including any Supplement) and the Notes, or (c) the validity or enforceability of this Agreement (including any Supplement) or the Notes.
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“Material Subsidiary” means any Restricted Subsidiary which, either individually or together with one or more Restricted Subsidiaries, (i) accounts for more than 5% of Consolidated Total Assets, or (ii) accounts for more than 5% of Consolidated gross revenues of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries.
“Memorandum” is defined in Section 5.3.
“Multiemployer Plan” means any Plan that is a “multiemployer plan” (as such term is defined in section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA).
“Net Interest Charges” means, with respect to any period, the difference between (but not below zero) (i) all Interest Charges during such period of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries, minus (ii) all interest income during such period of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries.
“Notes” is defined in Section 1.
“Officer’s Certificate” means a certificate of a Senior Financial Officer or of any other officer of the Company whose responsibilities extend to the subject matter of such certificate.
“Operating Lease Rentals” means, with respect to any period, the sum of the minimum amount of rental and other obligations required to be paid during such period by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary as lessee under all leases of real or personal property (other than Capital Leases), excluding any amounts required to be paid by the lessee (whether or not therein designated as rental or additional rental) (a) which are on account of maintenance and repairs, insurance, taxes, assessments, water rates and similar charges, or (b) which are based on profits, revenues or sales realized by the lessee from the leased property or otherwise based on the performance of the lessee.
“Other Agreements” is defined in Section 2.
“Other Purchasers”is defined in Section 2.
“PBGC” means the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation referred to and defined in ERISA or any successor thereto.
“Person” means an individual, partnership, corporation, limited liability company, association, trust, unincorporated organization, or a government or agency or political subdivision thereof.
“Plan” means an “employee benefit plan” (as defined in section 3(3) of ERISA) that is or, within the preceding five years, has been established or maintained, or to which contributions are or, within the preceding five years, have been made or required to be made, by the Company or any ERISA Affiliate or with respect to which the Company or any ERISA Affiliate may have any liability.
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“Priority Debt” means (without duplication), as of the date of any determination thereof, the sum of (a) all unsecured Debt of Restricted Subsidiaries other than (i) Debt owed to the Company or any other Restricted Subsidiary, and (ii) Debt outstanding at the time any Person becomes a Restricted Subsidiary (other than an Unrestricted Subsidiary which is designated as a Restricted Subsidiary pursuant to Section 10.8 hereof) provided that such Debt shall not have been incurred in contemplation of such Person becoming a Restricted Subsidiary, and (b) Debt of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries secured by Liens other than Debt secured by Liens permitted by subparagraphs (a) (b), (c),(d), (e), (g), (h), (i), (j) and (k), of Section 10.5.
“property” or “properties” means, unless otherwise specifically limited, real or personal property of any kind, tangible or intangible, xxxxxx or inchoate.
“Purchasers” means the purchasers of the Series A Notes named in Schedule A hereto.
“QPAM Exemption” means Prohibited Transaction Class Exemption 84-14 issued by the United States Department of Labor.
“Qualified Institutional Buyer” means any Person who is a qualified institutional buyer within the meaning of such term as set forth in Rule 144(a)(1) under the Securities Act.
“Ratable Portion” means, with respect to any Note, an amount equal to the product of (x) the amount equal to the net proceeds being so applied to the prepayment of Senior Debt in accordance with Section 10.6(2), multiplied by (y) a fraction the numerator of which is the outstanding principal amount of such Note and the denominator of which is the aggregate principal amount of Senior Debt of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries being prepaid pursuant to Section 10.6(2).
“Required Holders” means, at any time, the holders of more than 50% in aggregate principal amount of the Notes at the time outstanding (exclusive of Notes then owned by the Company, or any of its Affiliates or any Restricted Subsidiary and any Notes held by parties who are contractually required to abstain from voting with respect to matters affecting the holders of the Notes).
“Responsible Officer” means any Senior Financial Officer and any other officer of the Company with responsibility for the administration of the relevant portion of this Agreement.
“Restricted Investments” means all Investments, other than the following:
(a) Investments by the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries in and to Restricted Subsidiaries, including any Investment in a corporation which, after giving effect to such Investment, will become a Restricted Subsidiary; |
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(b) Investments in commercial paper maturing in 270 days or less from the date of issuance which, at the time of acquisition by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary, are accorded one of the highest two ratings by Standard & Poor’s Rating Group, a division of XxXxxx-Xxxx, Inc. or by Xxxxx’x Investors Services, Inc. or other nationally recognized credit rating agency of similar standing; |
(c) Investments in direct obligations of the United States of America or any agency or instrumentality of the United States of America, the payment or guarantee of which constitutes a full faith and credit obligation of the United States of America, in either case, maturing within one year from the date of acquisition thereof; |
(d) Investments in certificates of deposit or bankers acceptances maturing within one year from the date of issuance thereof, issued by Bank of America or any other bank or trust company organized under the laws of the United States or any state thereof, whose long-term certificates of deposit are, at the time of acquisition thereof by the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary, accorded one of the highest two ratings by Standard & Poor’s Rating Group, a division of XxXxxx-Xxxx, Inc. or by Xxxxx’x Investors Services, Inc. or other nationally recognized credit rating agency of similar standing; |
(e) Investments in tax-exempt obligations maturing within one year from the date of issuance which, at the time of acquisition by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary, are accorded one of the highest two ratings by Standard & Poor’s Rating Group, a division of XxXxxx-Xxxx, Inc. or by Xxxxx’x Investors Services, Inc. or other nationally recognized credit rating agency of similar standing; |
(f) Investments resulting from receivables arising from the sale of goods and services in the ordinary course of business of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries; |
(g) Investments by the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries in property, plant and equipment of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries to be used in the ordinary course of business; |
(h) Investments in money market instrument programs which are classified as current assets of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary in accordance with GAAP; |
(i) Investments in repurchase agreements; and |
(j) Investments of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries existing as of the date of Closing and described on Schedule 5.4. |
In valuing any Investments for the purpose of applying the limitations set forth in this Agreement, such Investments shall be taken at the original cost thereof, without allowance for any subsequent write-offs or appreciation or depreciation therein, but less any amount repaid or recovered on account of capital or principal.
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“Restricted Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary which (i) at least a majority of the voting securities of such Subsidiary are owned by the Company and/or one or more Wholly-Owned Restricted Subsidiaries, (ii) is organized under the laws of the United States or any State thereof, (iii) conducts substantially all of its business and has substantially all of its assets within the United States, Canada or Mexico, and (iv) the Company has designated as a Restricted Subsidiary on Schedule 5.4 or by written notice given to the holders of all Notes in accordance with Section 10.8.
“Securities Act” means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended from time to time.
“Senior Debt” means, as of the date of any determination thereof, all Consolidated Debt, other than Subordinated Debt.
“Senior Financial Officer” means the chief financial officer, principal accounting officer, treasurer or comptroller of the Company.
“Series” means any series of Notes issued pursuant to this Agreement or any Supplement hereto.
“Series A Notes” is defined in Section 1.
“Stockholders’ Equity” means, as of the date of any determination thereof, the total amount of shareholders’ equity of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries (after eliminating all minority interests, if any), determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP.
“Subordinated Debt” means, as of the date of any determination thereof, all unsecured Debt of the Company which shall contain or have applicable thereto subordination provisions providing for the subordination thereof to other Debt of the Company (including, without limitation, the obligations of the Company under this Agreement, any Supplement or the Notes).
“Subsidiary” means, as to any Person, any corporation, association or other business entity in which such Person or one or more of its Subsidiaries or such Person and one or more of its Subsidiaries owns sufficient equity or voting interests to enable it or them (as a group) ordinarily, in the absence of contingencies, to elect a majority of the directors (or Persons performing similar functions) of such entity, and any partnership or joint venture if more than a 50% interest in the profits or capital thereof is owned by such Person or one or more of its Subsidiaries or such Person and one or more of its Subsidiaries (unless such partnership can and does ordinarily take major business actions without the prior approval of such Person or one or more of its Subsidiaries). Unless the context otherwise clearly requires, any reference to a “Subsidiary” is a reference to a Subsidiary of the Company.
“Supplement” is defined in Section 2.2.
“tranche” means all Notes of a Series having the same maturity, interest rate and schedule for mandatory prepayments.
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“Tranche A Notes” is defined in Section 1.
“Tranche B Notes” is defined in Section 1.
“USA Patriot Act” means United States Public Law 107-56, Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (USA PATRIOT ACT) Act of 2001, as amended from time to time, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder from time to time in effect.
“Unrestricted Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary which is not a Restricted Subsidiary.
“Wholly-Owned Restricted Subsidiary” means, at any time, any Restricted Subsidiary one hundred percent (100%) of all of the equity interests (except directors’ qualifying shares) and voting interests of which are owned by any one or more of the Company and the Company’s other Wholly-Owned Restricted Subsidiaries at such time.
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