Exhibit 99.1
EXECUTION COPY
FIFTH AMENDMENT
FIFTH AMENDMENT, dated as of June 3, 2010 (this “
Amendment”), under the Second Amended
and Restated
Credit Agreement, dated as of March 16, 2007 (amending and restating the Amended and
Restated
Credit Agreement dated as of December 12, 2003 (amending and restating the
Credit
Agreement dated as of September 30, 1999)) (as amended and waived by the Amendment and Waiver dated
as of July 23, 2007, the Second Amendment dated as of November 26, 2007, the Third Amendment dated
as of December 23, 2008 and the Fourth Amendment dated as of February 19, 2009, the “
Existing
Credit Agreement”; and as amended by this Amendment, the “
Credit Agreement”), among
TENNECO INC., a Delaware corporation (the “
Borrower”), the several lenders from time to
time parties thereto (the “
Lenders”), JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., a national banking
association, as administrative agent for the Lenders (in such capacity, the “
Administrative
Agent”), and the other financial institutions named therein as agents for the Lenders.
W I T N E S S E T H:
WHEREAS, the Borrower, the Lenders, the Administrative Agent and certain other financial
institutions are parties to the Existing
Credit Agreement;
WHEREAS, the Borrower has requested that the Existing
Credit Agreement be amended in order to
(i) extend the stated maturity date of the Revolving Facility thereunder, or a portion thereof, to
May 31, 2014, (ii) refinance its Tranche A Term Facility with a new tranche B term facility (the
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Tranche B Term Facility”) and (iii) make certain other changes, as more fully set forth
herein; and
WHEREAS, the Lenders party hereto and the Administrative Agent are willing to agree to such
amendment of the Existing
Credit Agreement, subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein;
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and mutual covenants contained herein, the
parties hereto agree as follows:
1.
Defined Terms. Unless otherwise defined herein or the context otherwise requires,
capitalized terms which are defined in the
Credit Agreement are used herein as therein defined.
2.
Amendments. Effective as of the date on which all the conditions precedent set
forth in Section 6 of this Amendment shall be satisfied, the Existing
Credit Agreement, including
all exhibits and schedules thereto, shall be amended to read in its entirety as set forth in
Exhibit A to this Amendment.
3. Tranche B Term Facility. By executing this Amendment, each Tranche B Lender agrees
to make a Tranche B Term Loan to the Borrower on the Fifth Amendment
Effective Date pursuant to, and in the amount set forth in, the Credit Agreement and will
become a Tranche B Lender under the Credit Agreement.
4. Additional Extended Revolving Commitments. By executing this Amendment, each
Extended Revolving Lender which is not a party to the Existing Credit Agreement will become an
Extended Revolving Lender with an Extended Revolving Commitment in the amount by set forth in the
Credit Agreement and will become an Extended Revolving Lender under the Credit Agreement.
5. Representations and Warranties. The Borrower hereby confirms that the
representations and warranties made by each Loan Party in or pursuant to the Loan Documents are
true and correct in all material respects as if made as of the Fifth Amendment Effective Date
(except to the extent any such representation and warranty relates to an earlier date, which such
representation and warranty shall be true and correct in all material respects as of such earlier
date). The Borrower represents and warrants that, after giving effect to this Amendment, no
Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing.
6. Effectiveness. This Amendment shall become effective on the date (the “Fifth
Amendment Effective Date”) on which:
(a) The Administrative Agent shall have received this Amendment executed and delivered by the
Required Lenders under the Existing Credit Agreement, the Majority Facility Lenders under the
Tranche B-1 Facility, each Lender holding a commitment under the Extended Revolving Facility and
each Lender holding a commitment to fund a loan under the Tranche B Term Facility on the Fifth
Amendment Effective Date. The aggregate amount of the commitments under the Extended Revolving
Facility shall not be less than $400,000,000, unless otherwise agreed by the Borrower and the
Administrative Agent. The amount of the Tranche B Term Facility shall be at least $150,000,000.
(b) The Administrative Agent shall have received this Amendment executed and delivered by the
Borrower, and an acknowledgment and consent, substantially in the form of Exhibit B hereto,
duly executed and delivered by the Loan Parties.
(c) The Lenders party hereto, the Administrative Agent and the institutions acting as
arrangers for this Amendment (the “Arrangers”) shall have received payment of all fees
required to be paid, and all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses of the Administrative Agent and the
Arrangers for which invoices have been presented, in connection with this Amendment and the Credit
Agreement on or prior to the Fifth Amendment Effective Date.
(d) The Lenders shall have received projections of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries for each
year through 2012.
(e) The Lenders shall have received legal opinions in form and substance reasonably
satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.
(f) The Administrative Agent shall have received resolutions of the board of directors or
other appropriate governing body (or of the appropriate committee thereof) of the Borrower and each
other Loan Party certified by its secretary or assistant secretary as of the Fifth
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Amendment Effective Date, approving this Amendment, adopting the Loan Documents to be executed
by such Person, and authorizing the execution and delivery thereof.
(g) The Administrative Agent shall have received specimen signatures of officers or other
appropriate representatives executing the Loan Documents on behalf of the Borrower and each other
Loan Party, certified by the secretary or assistant secretary of such Borrower or Guarantor.
(h) The Administrative Agent shall have received certificates issued as of a recent date by
the Secretary of State of the respective jurisdictions of formation of the Borrower and each other
Loan Party as to the due existence and good standing of such Person.
(i) The Administrative Agent shall have received a notice of borrowing in respect of the
Tranche B Term Loans requested to be made on the Fifth Amendment Effective Date in a form approved
by the Administrative Agent.
(j) The Tranche A Term Loans under the Existing Credit Agreement on the Fifth Amendment
Effective Date shall have been prepaid in full with the proceeds of the Tranche B Term Loans. All
Revolving Loans under the Existing Credit Agreement on the Fifth Amendment Effective Date and
unpaid interest thereon together with unpaid commitment fees and letter of credit fees under the
Revolving Facility, in each case accrued through the Fifth Amendment Effective Date, shall have
been paid.
7. Security Documents. (a) Within thirty days after the Fifth Amendment Effective
Date, which date may be extended by the Administrative Agent in its sole discretion, the Security
Documents shall be amended and confirmed on terms satisfactory to the Administrative Agent in order
to secure the Obligations and related obligations.
(b) The Lenders authorize the Loan Parties and the Administrative Agent to enter into
amendments to the Security Documents in forms agreed upon by the Borrower and the Administrative
Agent in order to clarify that (i) obligations of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries under Hedge
Agreements with Lenders and their affiliates and Cash Management Obligations owed to Lenders and
their affiliates will be guaranteed by the Borrower and the other Loan Parties pursuant to the
Guarantee and Collateral Agreement and (ii) obligations of the Loan Parties to Lenders and their
affiliates in respect of Hedge Agreements and Cash Management Obligations will be secured by the
Collateral on a pari passu basis with the other Obligations (as defined in the Guarantee and
Collateral Agreement).
8.
Amendment Fees. The Borrower hereby agrees to pay for the account of each Lender
which approves this Amendment by delivering an executed counterpart hereof to the Administrative
Agent at or prior to 5:00 P.M.,
New York City time, on the Fifth Amendment Effective Date, in an
amount equal to (a) a commitment fee of 0.75% of the amount of the commitment of each Lender which
has a commitment under the Extended Revolving Facility, (b) a syndication fee of 1.0% of the amount
of the commitment of each Lender which has a commitment under the Tranche B Term Facility, and (c)
a work fee of 0.10% of the amount of the Tranche B-1 Credit Linked Deposit Amount of each Lender,
all such fees to be payable on the Fifth Amendment Effective Date.
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9. Waivers. By executing this Amendment, each Lender party hereto agrees to waive any
notice requirement set forth in Section 2.12 of the Existing Credit Agreement in connection with
the repayment of the Tranche A Term Loans on the Fifth Amendment Effective Date.
10. Continuing Effect of the Credit Agreement. This Amendment shall not constitute an
amendment or waiver of any provision of the Existing Credit Agreement not expressly referred to
herein and shall not be construed as a waiver or consent to any further or future action on the
part of the Borrower that would require a waiver or consent of the Lenders and the Administrative
Agent. Except as expressly amended hereby, the provisions of the Existing Credit Agreement are and
shall remain in full force and effect.
11. Counterparts. This Amendment may be executed by the parties hereto in any number
of separate counterparts (including telecopied and electronic counterparts), each of which shall be
deemed to be an original, and all of which taken together shall be deemed to constitute one and the
same instrument. Each of this Amendment and the Credit Agreement is a Loan Document.
12. GOVERNING LAW; WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL; MISCELLANEOUS. (a)
THIS AMENDMENT SHALL BE
GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED AND INTERPRETED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.
(b) EACH PARTY HERETO HEREBY AGREES AS SET FORTH IN SECTION 10.16 OF THE CREDIT AGREEMENT AS
IF SUCH SECTION WERE SET FORTH IN FULL HEREIN.
(c) On and after the Fifth Amendment Effective Date, each reference in the Credit Agreement
to “this Agreement”, “hereunder”, “hereof”, “herein”, or words of like import referring to the
Existing Credit Agreement or the Credit Agreement, and each reference in the other Loan Documents
to the “Credit Agreement”, “thereunder”, “thereof”, or words of like import referring to the Credit
Agreement shall mean and be a reference to the Credit Agreement.
(d) This Amendment may be executed by one or more of the parties to this Agreement on any
number of separate counterparts, and all of said counterparts taken together shall be deemed to
constitute one and the same instrument. A set of the copies of this Amendment and the
Acknowledgement and Consent signed by all the parties shall be lodged with the Borrower and the
Administrative Agent. This Amendment may be delivered by facsimile or electronic transmission of
the relevant signature pages hereof.
(e) The execution and delivery of this Amendment by any Lender shall be binding upon each of
its successors and assigns (including assignees of its Loans in whole or in part prior to
effectiveness hereof).
13. Severability. If any provision of this Amendment shall be determined to be
illegal or invalid as to one or more of the parties hereto, then such provision shall remain in
effect with respect to all parties, if any, as to whom such provision is neither illegal nor
invalid,
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and in any event all other provisions hereof shall remain effective and binding on the parties
hereto.
14. Headings. Section headings used herein are for convenience of reference only, are
not part of this Amendment and shall not affect the construction of, or be taken into consideration
in interpreting, this Amendment.
[Signature Pages Follow]
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Amendment to be duly executed and
delivered by their respective proper and duly authorized officers as of the day and year first
above written.
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TENNECO INC.
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By: |
/s/ Xxxx X. Xxxx
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Name: |
Xxxx X. Xxxx |
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Title: |
Vice President, Treasurer & Tax |
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JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., as
Administrative Agent and as a Lender
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By: |
/s/ Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxx
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Name: |
Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxx |
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Title: |
Managing Director |
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[Tenneco — Fifth Amendment Signature Page]
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FIFTH AMENDMENT to the Tenneco Inc. Second Amended
and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of March 16,
2007
BANK OF AMERICA, N.A.,
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By: |
/s/ Xxxxxxx X. McDonoll
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Name: |
Xxxxxxx X. McDonoll |
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Title: |
Senior Vice President |
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[Tenneco — Fifth Amendment Signature Page]
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FIFTH AMENDMENT to the Tenneco Inc. Second Amended
and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of March 16,
2007
THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON
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By: |
/s/ Xxxxxx X. XxXxxxxx
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Name: |
Xxxxxx X. XxXxxxxx |
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Title: |
Senior Vice President |
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[Tenneco — Fifth Amendment Signature Page]
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FIFTH AMENDMENT to the Tenneco Inc. Second Amended
and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of March 16,
2007
Callidus Debt Partners CLO Fund VII, Ltd.
By: GSO / Blackstone Debt Funds Management
LLC as Collateral Manager
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By: |
/s/ Xxxxxx X. Xxxxx
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Name: |
Xxxxxx X. Xxxxx |
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Title: |
Authorized Signatory |
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[Tenneco — Fifth Amendment Signature Page]
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FIFTH AMENDMENT to the Tenneco Inc. Second Amended
and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of March 16,
2007
CAPITAL ONE LEVERAGE FINANCE
CORPORATION, as Lender
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By: |
/s/ Xxx Xxxxxx
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Name: |
Xxx Xxxxxx |
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Title: |
SVP |
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[Tenneco — Fifth Amendment Signature Page]
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FIFTH AMENDMENT to the Tenneco Inc. Second
Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as
of March 16, 0000
Xxxxxxxx Xxxxx Xxxxxxx, Inc.
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By: |
/s/ Xxxxx Xxxxxxxx
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Name: |
Xxxxx Xxxxxxxx |
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Title: |
Managing Director |
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[Tenneco — Fifth Amendment Signature Page]
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FIFTH AMENDMENT to the Tenneco Inc. Second
Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as
of March 16, 2007
COMMERZBANK AG, NEW YORK AND
GRAND CAYMAN BRANCHES
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By: |
/s/ Xxxxx Wesemeier
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Name: |
Xxxxx Wesemeier |
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Title: |
Assistant Vice President |
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By: |
/s/ Xxxxx Xxxx
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Name: |
Xxxxx Xxxx |
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Title: |
Senior Associate |
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[Tenneco — Fifth Amendment Signature Page]
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FIFTH AMENDMENT to the Tenneco Inc. Second
Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as
of March 16, 2007
Atrium VI
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Credit Suisse Alternative Capital, Inc., as collateral manager
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By: |
/s/ Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx
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Name: |
Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx |
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Title: |
Authorized Signatory |
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[Tenneco — Fifth Amendment Signature Page]
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FIFTH AMENDMENT to the Tenneco Inc. Second
Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as
of March 16, 2007
Madison Park Funding VI, Ltd.
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By: |
Credit Suisse Alternative Capital, Inc., as collateral manager
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By: |
/s/ Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx
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Name: |
Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx |
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Title: |
Authorized Signatory |
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[Tenneco — Fifth Amendment Signature Page]
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FIFTH AMENDMENT to the Tenneco Inc. Second
Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as
of March 16, 2007
ColumbusNova CLO, LTD. 2006-I
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ColumbusNova Credit Investment Management LLC as Collateral Manager
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By: |
/s/ Xxxxx X. Xxxxx
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Name: |
Xxxxx X. Xxxxx |
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Title: |
Principal |
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[Tenneco — Fifth Amendment Signature Page]
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FIFTH AMENDMENT to the Tenneco Inc. Second
Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as
of March 16, 2007
ColumbusNova CLO, LTD. 2006-II
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By: |
ColumbusNova Credit Investment Management LLC as Collateral Manager
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By: |
/s/ Xxxxx X. Xxxxx
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Name: |
Xxxxx X. Xxxxx |
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Title: |
Principal |
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[Tenneco — Fifth Amendment Signature Page]
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FIFTH AMENDMENT to the Tenneco Inc. Second
Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as
of Xxxxx 00, 0000
XXXXXXXX BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS
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By: |
/s/ Xxxx Xxxxxxxxx
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Name: |
Xxxx Xxxxxxxxx |
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Title: |
Vice President |
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By: |
/s/ Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxx
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Name: |
Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxx |
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Title: |
Director |
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[Tenneco — Fifth Amendment Signature Page]
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FIFTH AMENDMENT to the Tenneco Inc. Second
Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as
of March 16, 2007
FIFTH THIRD BANK
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By: |
/s/ Xxx Xxxxxxxxxxx
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Name: |
Xxx Xxxxxxxxxxx |
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Title: |
Vice President |
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[Tenneco — Fifth Amendment Signature Page]
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FIFTH AMENDMENT to the Tenneco Inc. Second
Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as
of March 16, 2007
Franklin CLO V, Limited
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By: |
/s/ Xxxxx Xxxxxx
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Name: |
Xxxxx Xxxxxx, Franklin Advisers, Inc. as Collateral Manager |
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Title: |
Vice President |
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FIFTH AMENDMENT to the Tenneco Inc. Second
Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as
of March 16, 2007
Franklin Floating Rate Daily Access Fund
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By: |
/s/ Xxxxxxx Xxx
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Name: |
Xxxxxxx Xxx |
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Title: |
Vice President |
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FIFTH AMENDMENT to the Tenneco Inc. Second
Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as
of March 16, 2007
Franklin Floating Rate Master Series
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By: |
/s/ Xxxxxxx Xxx
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Name: |
Xxxxxxx Xxx |
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Title: |
Vice President |
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FIFTH AMENDMENT to the Tenneco Inc. Second
Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as
of March 16, 2007
Franklin Xxxxxxxxx Series II Funds Franklin
Floating Rate II Fund
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By: |
/s/ Xxxxxxx Xxx
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Name: |
Xxxxxxx Xxx |
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Title: |
Vice President |
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FIFTH AMENDMENT to the Tenneco Inc. Second
Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as
of March 16, 2007
GENERAL ELECTRIC CAPITAL CORPORATION
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By: |
/s/ Xxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxxx
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Name: |
Xxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxxx |
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Title: |
Duly Authorized Signatory |
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[Tenneco — Fifth Amendment Signature Page]
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FIFTH AMENDMENT to the Tenneco Inc. Second
Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as
of March 16, 2007
AVALON CAPITAL LTD. 3
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INVESCO Senior Secured Management, Inc. As Asset Manager
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By: |
/s/ Xxxxxx Xxxxx
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Name: |
Xxxxxx Xxxxx |
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Title: |
Authorized Signatory |
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[Tenneco — Fifth Amendment Signature Page]
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FIFTH AMENDMENT to the Tenneco Inc. Second
Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as
of Xxxxx 00, 0000
XXXXXXXX CLO LTD.
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By: |
INVESCO Senior Secured Management, Inc. As Collateral Manager
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By: |
/s/ Xxxxxx Xxxxx
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Name: |
Xxxxxx Xxxxx |
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Title: |
Authorized Signatory |
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FIFTH AMENDMENT to the Tenneco Inc. Second
Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as
of March 16, 2007
KATONAH V, LTD.
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INVESCO Senior Secured Management, Inc. As Investment Manager
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By: |
/s/ Xxxxxx Xxxxx
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Name: |
Xxxxxx Xxxxx |
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Title: |
Authorized Signatory |
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FIFTH AMENDMENT to the Tenneco Inc. Second
Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as
of March 16, 2007
LOAN FUNDING IX LLC, for itself or as agent for
Corporate Loan Funding IX LLC
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By: |
INVESCO Senior Secured Management, Inc. As Portfolio Manager
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By: |
/s/ Xxxxxx Xxxxx
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Name: |
Xxxxxx Xxxxx |
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Title: |
Authorized Signatory |
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FIFTH AMENDMENT to the Tenneco Inc. Second
Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as
of March 16, 2007
NAUTIQUE FUNDING LTD.
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By: |
INVESCO Senior Secured Management, Inc. As Collateral Manager
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By: |
/s/ Xxxxxx Xxxxx
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Name: |
Xxxxxx Xxxxx |
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Title: |
Authorized Signatory |
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FIFTH AMENDMENT to the Tenneco Inc. Second
Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as
of March 16, 2007
SARATOGA CLO I, LIMITED
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By: |
INVESCO Senior Secured Management, Inc. As the Asset Manager
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By: |
/s/ Xxxxxx Xxxxx
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Name: |
Xxxxxx Xxxxx |
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Title: |
Authorized Signatory |
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FIFTH AMENDMENT to the Tenneco Inc. Second
Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as
of March 16, 2007
WASATCH CLO LTD
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By: |
INVESCO Senior Secured Management, Inc. As Portfolio Manager
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By: |
/s/ Xxxxxx Xxxxx
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Name: |
Xxxxxx Xxxxx |
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Title: |
Authorized Signatory |
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FIFTH AMENDMENT to the Tenneco Inc. Second
Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of
March 16, 2007
KATONAH 2007-I CLO LTD.
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By: |
/s/ Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx
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Name: |
Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx |
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Title: |
Authorized Officer
Katonah Debt Advisors, L.L.C.
As Manager |
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FIFTH AMENDMENT to the Tenneco Inc. Second
Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of
March 16, 2007
KATONAH VII CLO LTD.
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By: |
/s/ Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx
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Name: |
Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx |
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Title: |
Authorized Officer
Katonah Debt Advisors, L.L.C.
As Manager |
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FIFTH AMENDMENT to the Tenneco Inc. Second
Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as
of Xxxxx 00,
0000
XXXXXXX X CLO LTD.
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By: |
/s/ Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx
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Name: |
Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx |
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Title: |
Authorized Officer
Katonah Debt Advisors, L.L.C.
As Manager |
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FIFTH AMENDMENT to the Tenneco Inc. Second Amended
and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of March 16,
2007
Golden Knight II CLO, Ltd.
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By: |
/s/ Xxxxxxxxx X. XxxXxxx
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Name: |
Xxxxxxxxx X. XxxXxxx |
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Title: |
Portfolio Manager
LORD XXXXXX & CO. LLC
AS COLLATERAL MANAGER |
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FIFTH AMENDMENT to the Tenneco Inc. Second Amended
and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of March 16,
2007
Lord Xxxxxx Investment Trust – Lord Xxxxxx Floating
Rate Fund
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By: |
/s/ Xxxxxxxxx X. XxxXxxx
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Name: |
Xxxxxxxxx X. XxxXxxx |
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Title: |
Portfolio Manager |
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[Tenneco — Fifth Amendment Signature Page]
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FIFTH AMENDMENT to the Tenneco Inc. Second Amended
and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of March 16,
2007
XXXXXX XXXXXXX BANK, N.A.
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By: |
/s/ Xxxx Xxxxxx
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Name: |
Xxxx Xxxxxx |
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Authorized Signatory |
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[Tenneco — Fifth Amendment Signature Page]
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FIFTH AMENDMENT to the Tenneco Inc. Second Amended
and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of March 16,
2007
PNC Bank, National Association |
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By: |
/s/ X.X. Xxxxx
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Name: |
X.X. Xxxxx |
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Title: |
Senior Vice President |
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[Tenneco — Fifth Amendment Signature Page]
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FIFTH AMENDMENT to the Tenneco Inc. Second
Amended
and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as
of March 16,
2007
New York Life Insurance Company
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By: |
/s/ F. Xxxxx Xxxxx
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Name: |
F. Xxxxx Xxxxx |
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Title: |
Corporate Vice President |
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New York Life Insurance and Annuity Corporation
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By: |
New York Life Investment Management LLC,
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Its Investment Manager |
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By: |
/s/ F. Xxxxx Xxxxx
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Name: |
F. Xxxxx Xxxxx |
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Title: |
Director |
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MainStay Floating Rate Fund, a series of Eclipse
Funds Inc.
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By: |
New York Life Investment Management LLC,
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Its Investment Manager |
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By: |
/s/ F. Xxxxx Xxxxx
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Name: |
F. Xxxxx Xxxxx |
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Title: |
Director |
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MainStay VP Floating Rate Portfolio, a series of
MainStay VP Series Fund, Inc.
By: New York Life Investment Management LLC,
Its Investment Manager
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By: |
/s/ F. Xxxxx Xxxxx
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Name: |
F. Xxxxx Xxxxx |
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Title: |
Director |
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[Tenneco — Fifth Amendment Signature Page]
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FIFTH AMENDMENT to the Tenneco Inc. Second
Amended
and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as
of March 16,
2007
Cent CDO 15 Limited
Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC,
fka RiverSource Investments, LLC
As Collateral Managers
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By: |
/s/ Xxxxx X. Xxxxxxx
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Name: |
Xxxxx X. Xxxxxxx |
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Title: |
Assistant Vice President |
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[Tenneco — Fifth Amendment Signature Page]
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FIFTH AMENDMENT to the Tenneco Inc. Second Amended
and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of March 16,
2007
Cent CDO 12 Limited
Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC, fka
RiverSource Investments, LLC
As Collateral Managers
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By: |
/s/ Xxxxx X. Xxxxxxx
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Name: |
Xxxxx X. Xxxxxxx |
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Title: |
Director of Operations |
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[Tenneco — Fifth Amendment Signature Page]
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FIFTH AMENDMENT to the Tenneco Inc. Second Amended
and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of March 16,
2007
Cent CDO 14 Limited
Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC,
fka RiverSource Investments, LLC
As Collateral Managers
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By: |
/s/ Xxxxx X. Xxxxxxx
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Name: |
Xxxxx X. Xxxxxxx |
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Title: |
Director of Operations |
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[Tenneco — Fifth Amendment Signature Page]
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FIFTH AMENDMENT to the Tenneco Inc. Second
Amended
and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as
of March 16,
2007
The Royal Bank of Scotland plc
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By: |
/s/ Xxxxx Xxxxxx
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Name: |
Xxxxx Xxxxxx |
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Title: |
Managing Director |
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[Tenneco — Fifth Amendment Signature Page]
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FIFTH AMENDMENT to the Tenneco Inc. Second Amended
and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of March 16,
2007
Ballantyne Funding LLC
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By: |
/s/ Xxxxx Xxx
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Name: |
Xxxxx Xxx |
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Title: |
Assistant Vice President |
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[Tenneco — Fifth Amendment Signature Page]
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FIFTH AMENDMENT to the Tenneco Inc. Second Amended
and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of March 16,
0000
XXX XXXX XX XXXX XXXXXX
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By: |
/s/ X.X. Xxxx
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Name: |
X.X. Xxxx |
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Title: |
Managing Director |
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[Tenneco — Fifth Amendment Signature Page]
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FIFTH AMENDMENT to the Tenneco Inc. Second Amended
and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of March 16,
2007
Foothill CLO I, Ltd.
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By: |
The Foothill Group, Inc.,
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as attorney-in-fact |
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By: |
/s/ Xxxxx X. Xxxxxxx
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Name: |
Xxxxx X. Xxxxxxx |
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Title: |
Director |
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[Tenneco — Fifth Amendment Signature Page]
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FIFTH AMENDMENT to the Tenneco Inc. Second Amended
and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of March 16,
2007
The Foothill Group, Inc.
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By: |
/s/ Xxxxx X. Xxxxxxx
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Name: |
Xxxxx X. Xxxxxxx |
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Title: |
Director |
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[Tenneco — Fifth Amendment Signature Page]
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FIFTH AMENDMENT to the Tenneco Inc. Second Amended
and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of March 16,
2007
XXXXX FARGO CAPITAL FINANCE, LLC,
FORMERLY KNOWN AS WELL FARGO
FOOTHILL, LLC, as a Lender
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By: |
/s/ Xxxxxx Xxx
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Name: |
Xxxxxx Xxx |
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Title: |
Vice President |
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[Tenneco — Fifth Amendment Signature Page]
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FIFTH AMENDMENT to the Tenneco Inc. Second Amended
and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of March 16,
2007
U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
as Lender
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By: |
/s/ X. Xxxxxx
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Name: |
Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx |
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Title: |
Vice President |
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[Tenneco — Fifth Amendment Signature Page]
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FIFTH AMENDMENT to the Tenneco Inc. Second Amended
and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of March 16,
2007
The Sumitomo Trust and Banking Co., Ltd.,
New York Branch
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By: |
/s/ Xxxxxx X. Xxx XX
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Name: |
Xxxxxx X. Xxx XX |
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Title: |
Vice President |
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[Tenneco — Fifth Amendment Signature Page]
SECOND AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT
(amending and restating the Credit Agreement dated as of September 30, 1999,
as amended and restated on December 12, 2003, as further amended)
among
TENNECO INC.,
as Borrower,
The Several Lenders
from Time to Time Parties Hereto,
CITICORP NORTH AMERICA, INC.,
DEUTSCHE BANK SECURITIES INC.
and
THE ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND PLC,
as Documentation Agents,
BANK OF AMERICA, N.A.,
as Syndication Agent,
and
JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.,
as Administrative Agent
Dated as of March 16, 2007
As Amended through the Fifth Amendment, dated as of June 3, 2010
X.X. XXXXXX SECURITIES INC. and BANC OF AMERICA SECURITIES LLC,
as Joint Lead
Arrangers and Joint Bookrunners
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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SECTION 1. DEFINITIONS |
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1.1 Defined Terms |
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1.2 Other Definitional Provisions |
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SECTION 2. AMOUNT AND TERMS OF COMMITMENTS |
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2.1 Tranche B Term Commitments |
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2.2 Procedure for Tranche B Term Loan Borrowing |
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2.3 Repayment of Tranche B Term Loans |
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2.4 Tranche B-1 Credit Linked Accounts |
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2.5 Making of Tranche B-1 Loans |
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2.6 Revolving Commitments |
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2.7 Procedure for Revolving Loan Borrowing and Tranche B-1 Loan Borrowing |
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2.8 Swingline Commitment |
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2.9 Procedure for Swingline Borrowing; Refunding of Swingline Loans |
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2.10 Commitment Fees, etc. |
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2.11 Termination or Reduction of Revolving Commitments and Total Tranche B-1
Credit Linked Deposit Amount |
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2.12 Optional Prepayments |
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2.13 Mandatory Prepayments and Total Tranche B-1 Credit Linked Deposit
Amount Reductions |
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2.14 Conversion and Continuation Options |
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48 |
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2.15 Limitations on Eurodollar Tranches |
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2.16 Interest Rates and Payment Dates |
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2.17 Computation of Interest and Fees |
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2.18 Inability to Determine Interest Rate |
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2.19 Pro Rata Treatment and Payments |
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2.20 Requirements of Law |
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2.21 Taxes |
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2.22 Indemnity |
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2.23 Change of Lending Office |
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2.24 Replacement of Lenders |
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2.25 Intercreditor Agreement |
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2.26 [Intentionally Omitted] |
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2.27 Incremental Loan Extensions |
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2.28 Defaulting Revolving Lenders |
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SECTION 3. LETTERS OF CREDIT |
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3.1 L/C Commitments |
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3.2 Procedure for Issuance of Letter of Credit |
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3.3 Fees and Other Charges |
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3.4 L/C Participations |
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3.5 Reimbursement Obligation of the Borrower |
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3.6 Obligations Absolute |
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3.7 Letter of Credit Payments |
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3.8 Applications |
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SECTION 4. REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES |
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4.1 Financial Condition |
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4.2 No Change |
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4.3 Existence; Compliance with Law |
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4.4 Power; Authorization; Enforceable Obligations |
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4.5 No Legal Bar |
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4.6 Litigation |
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4.7 No Default |
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4.8 Ownership of Property; Liens |
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4.9 Intellectual Property |
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4.10 Taxes |
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4.11 Federal Regulations |
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4.12 Labor Matters |
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4.13 ERISA |
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4.14 Investment Company Act; Other Regulations |
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4.15 Subsidiaries |
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4.16 Use of Proceeds |
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68 |
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4.17 Environmental Matters |
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4.18 Accuracy of Information, etc. |
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4.19 Security Documents |
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4.20 Solvency |
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4.21 Senior Indebtedness |
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4.22 First Priority Claims |
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SECTION 5. CONDITIONS PRECEDENT |
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5.1 [Reserved] |
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5.2 Conditions to Each Extension of Credit |
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SECTION 6. AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS |
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6.1 Financial Statements |
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6.2 Certificates; Other Information |
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6.3 Payment of Taxes |
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6.4 Maintenance of Existence; Compliance |
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6.5 Maintenance of Property; Insurance |
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6.6 Inspection of Property; Books and Records; Discussions |
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6.7 Notices |
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6.8 Environmental Laws |
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6.9 Additional Collateral, etc. |
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SECTION 7. NEGATIVE COVENANTS |
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7.1 Financial Condition Covenants |
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7.2 Indebtedness |
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7.3 Liens |
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7.4 Fundamental Changes |
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7.5 Disposition of Property |
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7.6 Restricted Payments |
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7.7 [Intentionally Omitted] |
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7.8 Investments |
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7.9 Optional Payments and Modifications of Senior Subordinated Notes |
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7.10 Transactions with Affiliates |
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7.11 Sales and Leasebacks |
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7.12 Changes in Fiscal Periods |
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7.13 Negative Pledge Clauses |
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7.14 Lines of Business |
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7.15 Optional Payments and Modifications of Senior Unsecured Notes |
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SECTION 8. EVENTS OF DEFAULT |
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SECTION 9. THE AGENTS |
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9.1 Appointment |
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9.2 Delegation of Duties |
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9.3 Exculpatory Provisions |
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9.4 Reliance by Administrative Agent |
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9.5 Notice of Default |
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9.6 Non-Reliance on Agents and Other Lenders |
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9.7 Indemnification |
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9.8 Agent in Its Individual Capacity |
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9.9 Successor Administrative Agent |
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9.10 Documentation Agents and Syndication Agent |
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SECTION 10. MISCELLANEOUS |
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10.1 Amendments and Waivers |
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10.2 Notices |
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10.3 No Waiver; Cumulative Remedies |
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10.4 Survival of Representations and Warranties |
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10.5 Payment of Expenses and Taxes |
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10.6 Successors and Assigns; Participations and Assignments |
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10.7 Adjustments; Set-off |
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10.8 Counterparts |
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10.9 Severability |
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10.10 Integration |
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10.11 GOVERNING LAW |
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10.12 Submission To Jurisdiction; Waivers |
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10.13 Acknowledgments |
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10.14 Releases of Guarantees and Liens |
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106 |
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10.15 Confidentiality |
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10.16 WAIVERS OF JURY TRIAL |
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107 |
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10.17 Effect of Amendment and Restatement of the Existing Credit Agreement |
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10.18 Covenant of the Tranche B-1 Lenders |
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10.19 USA Patriot Act |
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4
SECOND AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT, dated as of March 16, 2007 (amending and
restating the Credit Agreement dated as of September 30, 1999, as amended and restated on December
12, 2003, as further amended) and as amended through the Fifth Amendment dated as of June 3, 2010,
among TENNECO INC., a Delaware corporation (the “Borrower”), the several banks and other
financial institutions or entities from time to time parties to this Agreement (the
“Lenders”), CITICORP NORTH AMERICA, INC., DEUTSCHE BANK SECURITIES INC. and THE ROYAL BANK
OF SCOTLAND PLC, as documentation agents (in such capacity, the “Documentation Agents”),
BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., as syndication agent (in such capacity, the “Syndication Agent”),
and JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., as administrative agent.
RECITALS
1. The Borrower, the lenders and agents parties thereto and JPMorgan Chase Bank are parties to
the Credit Agreement dated as of September 30, 1999, as amended and restated as of December 12,
2003, as further amended on April 30, 2004, November 17, 2004, February 17, 2005 and October 7,
2005, and as further amended and restated as of March 16, 2007 and as subsequently amended.
2. This Agreement is being amended pursuant to the Fifth Amendment in order to extend the
Revolving Termination Date of the Revolving Commitments of the Extended Revolving Lenders, provide
the Tranche B Term Facility, and effect certain other amendments to this Agreement. Capitalized
terms used in these Recitals shall have the meanings set forth in this Agreement unless the context
otherwise requires.
The parties hereto hereby agree to amend and restate this Agreement, as in effect prior to the
Fifth Amendment Effective Date, as follows in order to give effect to the Fifth Amendment:
SECTION 1.
DEFINITIONS
1.1 Defined Terms. As used in this Agreement, the terms listed in this Section 1.1 shall have
the respective meanings set forth in this Section 1.1.
“ABR”: for any day, a rate per annum (rounded upwards, if necessary, to the next 1/16
of 1%) equal to the greatest of (a) the Prime Rate in effect on such day, (b) the Federal Funds
Effective Rate in effect on such day plus 1/2 of 1% and (c) the Eurodollar Rate for a Eurodollar Loan
with a one-month interest period commencing on such day plus 1%. For purposes hereof “Prime
Rate” shall mean the rate of interest per annum publicly announced from time to time by JPMCB
as its prime rate in effect at its principal office in New York City (the Prime Rate not being
intended to be the lowest rate of interest charged by JPMCB in connection with extensions of credit
to debtors). Any change in the ABR due to a change in the Prime Rate, the Federal Funds Effective
Rate or such Eurodollar Rate shall be effective as of the opening of business on the day
of such change in the Prime Rate, the Federal Funds Effective Rate or such Eurodollar Rate,
respectively.
“ABR Loans”: Loans the rate of interest applicable to which is based upon the ABR.
“Adjustment Date”: as defined in the Pricing Grid.
“Administrative Agent”: JPMCB, together with its affiliates, as the arranger of the
Commitments and as the administrative agent for the Lenders under this Agreement and the other Loan
Documents, together with any of its successors.
“Affiliate”: as to any Person, any other Person that, directly or indirectly, is in
control of, is controlled by, or is under common control with, such Person. For purposes of this
definition, “control” of a Person means the power, directly or indirectly, either to (a) vote 10%
or more of the securities having ordinary voting power for the election of directors (or persons
performing similar functions) of such Person or (b) direct or cause the direction of the management
and policies of such Person, whether by contract or otherwise.
“Agents”: the collective reference to the Syndication Agent, the Documentation Agents
and the Administrative Agent.
“Aggregate Exposure”: with respect to any Lender at any time, an amount equal to the
sum of (i) the aggregate then unpaid principal amount of such Lender’s Term Loans, (ii) the amount
of such Lender’s Revolving Commitment then in effect or, if the Revolving Commitments have been
terminated, the amount of such Lender’s Revolving Extensions of Credit then outstanding and (iii)
such Lender’s Tranche B-1 Credit Linked Deposit Amount then in effect or, if the Tranche B-1
Settlement Date has occurred, the amount of such Lender’s Tranche B-1 Extensions of Credit then
outstanding.
“Aggregate Exposure Percentage”: with respect to any Lender at any time, the ratio
(expressed as a percentage) of such Lender’s Aggregate Exposure at such time to the Aggregate
Exposure of all Lenders at such time.
“Agreement”: this Second Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, as amended,
supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time.
“Applicable Margin”: for each Type of Loan, the rate per annum set forth under the
relevant column heading below:
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ABR Loans |
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Eurodollar Loans |
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Extended Revolving Loans and Swingline Loans |
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3.50 |
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4.50 |
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Non-Extended Revolving Loans |
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3.50 |
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4.50 |
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Tranche B Term Loans |
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3.75 |
% |
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4.75 |
% |
Tranche B-1 Loans |
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4.00 |
% |
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5.00 |
% |
provided that from and after the first Adjustment Date occurring after the Fifth Amendment
Effective Date, the Applicable Margin with respect to Extended Revolving Loans, Swingline
2
Loans, Non-Extended Revolving Loans, Tranche B Term Loans and Tranche B-1 Loans will be determined
pursuant to the Pricing Grid.
“Applicable Prepayment Percentage”: (a) with respect to any prepayment of the Term
Loans or reduction of the Total Tranche B-1 Credit Linked Deposit Amount required pursuant to
Section 2.13(a) in connection with the issuance or incurrence of Indebtedness (i) 100% if the
Consolidated Leverage Ratio is equal to or more than 3.0 to 1.0 as of the last day of the most
recently ended fiscal quarter, (ii) 75% if the Consolidated Leverage Ratio is less than 3.0 to 1.0
as of the last day of the most recently ended fiscal quarter or (iii) 50% if the Consolidated
Leverage Ratio is less than 2.5 to 1.0 as of the last day of the most recently ended fiscal
quarter; (b) with respect to any prepayment of the Term Loans or reduction of the Total Tranche B-1
Credit Linked Deposit Amount required pursuant to Section 2.13(b) in connection with any Asset Sale
or Recovery Event (i) if the Borrower’s corporate family rating is Baa3 or better from Moody’s or
BBB- or better from S&P, 50% or (ii) otherwise, 100%; and (c) with respect to any prepayment of the
Term Loans or reduction of the Total Tranche B-1 Credit Linked Deposit Amount required pursuant to
Section 2.13(c) for any fiscal year, (i) 50% if the Consolidated Net Leverage Ratio is greater than
or equal to 2.25 to 1.0 as of the last day of the most recently ended fiscal year or (ii) 0% if the
Consolidated Net Leverage Ratio is less than 2.25 to 1.0 as of the last day of the most recently
ended fiscal year.
“Application”: an application, in such form as the Issuing Lender may specify from
time to time, requesting the Issuing Lender to issue a Letter of Credit.
“Arrangers”: X.X. Xxxxxx Securities Inc. and Banc of America Securities LLC.
“Asset Sale”: any Disposition of property or series of related Dispositions of
property (excluding any such Disposition permitted by clause (a), (b), (c), (d), (e), (f), (g),
(i), (j) or (n) of Section 7.5) that yields Net Cash Proceeds to the Borrower or any of its
Subsidiaries in excess of $5,000,000.
“Assignee”: as defined in Section 10.6(c).
“Assignment and Acceptance”: an Assignment and Acceptance, substantially in the form
of Exhibit E.
“Assignor”: as defined in Section 10.6(c).
“Available Revolving Commitment”: as to any Revolving Lender at any time, an amount
equal to the excess, if any, of (a) such Lender’s Revolving Commitment then in effect over
(b) such Lender’s Revolving Extensions of Credit then outstanding; provided, that in
calculating any Lender’s Revolving Extensions of Credit for the purpose of determining such
Lender’s Available Revolving Commitment pursuant to Section 2.10(a), the aggregate principal amount
of Swingline Loans then outstanding shall be deemed to be zero.
“Benchmark LIBOR Rate”: as defined in Section 2.4(d).
“Benefitted Lender”: as defined in Section 10.7(a).
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“Board”: the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System of the United States
(or any successor).
“Borrower”: as defined in the preamble hereto.
“Borrowing Date”: any Business Day specified by the Borrower as a date on which the
Borrower requests the relevant Lenders to make Loans hereunder.
“Business”: as defined in Section 4.17(b).
“Business Day”: a day other than a Saturday, Sunday or other day on which commercial
banks in New York City are authorized or required by law to close, provided, that with
respect to (a) notices and determinations in connection with, and payments of principal and
interest on, Eurodollar Loans or Tranche B-1 Loans (except with respect to any Tranche B-1 Loans
which are deemed to be ABR Loans in accordance with Section 2.4(f)) or (b) determination of the
Benchmark LIBOR Rate, such day is also a day for trading by and between banks in Dollar deposits in
the interbank eurodollar market.
“Capital Expenditures”: for any period, with respect to any Person, the aggregate of
all expenditures by such Person and its Subsidiaries for the acquisition or leasing (pursuant to a
capital lease) of fixed or capital assets or additions to equipment (including replacements,
capitalized repairs and improvements during such period) that should be capitalized under GAAP on a
consolidated balance sheet of such Person and its Subsidiaries.
“Capital Lease Obligations”: as to any Person, the obligations of such Person to pay
rent or other amounts under any lease of (or other arrangement conveying the right to use) real or
personal property, or a combination thereof, which obligations are required to be classified and
accounted for as capital leases on a balance sheet of such Person under GAAP and, for the purposes
of this Agreement, the amount of such obligations at any time shall be the capitalized amount
thereof at such time determined in accordance with GAAP.
“Capital Stock”: any and all shares, interests, participations or other equivalents
(however designated) of capital stock of a corporation, any and all equivalent ownership interests
in a Person (other than a corporation) and any and all warrants, rights or options to purchase any
of the foregoing.
“Cash Equivalents”: (a) marketable direct obligations issued by, or unconditionally
guaranteed by, the United States Government or issued by any agency thereof and backed by the full
faith and credit of the United States, in each case maturing within one year from the date of
acquisition; (b) certificates of deposit, time deposits, eurodollar time deposits or overnight bank
deposits having maturities of six months or less from the date of acquisition issued by any Lender
or by any commercial bank organized under the laws of the United States or any state thereof or any
United States branch of a foreign bank, in each case having combined capital and surplus of not
less than $500,000,000; (c) commercial paper of an issuer rated at least A-2 by Standard & Poor’s
Ratings Services (together with any successor thereto, “S&P”) or P-2 by Xxxxx’x Investors
Service, Inc. (together with any successor thereto, “Moody’s”), or carrying an equivalent
rating by a nationally recognized rating agency, if both of the two named rating agencies cease
publishing ratings of commercial paper issuers generally, and maturing within six
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months from the date of acquisition; (d) repurchase obligations of any Lender or of any
commercial bank satisfying the requirements of clause (b) of this definition, having a term of not
more than 30 days, with respect to securities issued or fully guaranteed or insured by the United
States government; (e) securities with maturities of one year or less from the date of acquisition
issued or fully guaranteed by any state, commonwealth or territory of the United States, by any
political subdivision or taxing authority of any such state, commonwealth or territory or by any
foreign government, the securities of which state, commonwealth, territory, political subdivision,
taxing authority or foreign government (as the case may be) are rated at least A by S&P or A by
Moody’s; (f) securities with maturities of six months or less from the date of acquisition backed
by standby letters of credit issued by any Lender or any commercial bank satisfying the
requirements of clause (b) of this definition; (g) shares of money market mutual or similar funds
which invest exclusively in assets satisfying the requirements of clauses (a) through (f) of this
definition; or (h) solely in respect of the ordinary course cash management activities of the
Foreign Subsidiaries, equivalents of the investments described in clause (a) above to the extent
guaranteed by any member state of the European Union or the country in which the Foreign Subsidiary
operates and equivalents of the investments described in clause (b) above issued, accepted or
offered by any commercial bank organized under the laws of a member state of the European Union or
the jurisdiction of organization of the applicable Foreign Subsidiary having at the acquisition
thereof combined capital and surplus of not less than $250,000,000.
“Cash Management Obligations”: as defined in the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement.
The parties hereto acknowledge and agree that the term “Cash Management Obligations” for purposes
of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents includes, to the extent not expressly set forth in
the definition thereof or otherwise included as “Obligations” under the Guarantee and Collateral
Agreement, up to $30,000,000 at any time of obligations of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries in
respect of working capital and long term credit agreements, credit facilities supporting letters of
credit and/or bank issued guarantees and foreign exchange lines of credit provided by any Lender
(or any Affiliate of a Lender) with the result that such obligations will be secured on a
pari passu basis with the Facilities.
“Cash Pooling Agreement”: any agreement, substantially in the form of the Cash Pooling
Agreement dated August 4, 2006 among Tenneco Management (Europe) Limited, Tenneco Canada Inc. and
ABN AMRO Bank N.V. (the “Existing Pooling Agreement”), by and among Borrower and/or any of
its Subsidiaries, on the one hand, and one or more banks or similar financing institutions, on the
other hand, together with any documents evidencing or governing any obligations relating thereto
(including any guarantee agreements and security documents contemplated by or customary in
connection with the Existing Pooling Agreement), in each case as such agreements may be amended
(including any amendment and restatement thereof), supplemented or otherwise modified from time to
time, including any agreement extending the maturity of, refinancing, replacing or otherwise
restructuring, in whole or in part, obligations (or adding Foreign Subsidiaries as additional
parties or other Subsidiaries as guarantors thereunder) under any such agreement or any successor
or replacement agreement and whether by the same or any other lender or group of lenders,
provided that the terms of any such amendment, restatement, supplement or modification,
extension, refinancing, replacement or other agreement are similar in all material respects to
those in the Existing Pooling Agreement. The Cash Pooling Agreements provide a cash management
system for Foreign Subsidiaries of the Borrower, and obligations of Foreign Subsidiaries thereunder
may be guaranteed by the Borrower and its Domestic
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Subsidiaries, provided, however, that neither the Borrower nor any of its
Domestic Subsidiaries may grant a security interest in the Collateral or their other assets for the
purpose of such guarantee except to the extent the secured party is a Lender (or any Affiliate of a
Lender).
“Closing Date”: March 16, 2007.
“Code”: the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended from time to time.
“Collateral”: all property of the Loan Parties, now owned or hereafter acquired, upon
which a Lien is purported to be created by any Security Document.
“Commitment”: as to any Lender, the sum of the Tranche B-1 Credit Linked Deposit
Amount and the Revolving Commitment of such Lender.
“Commitment Fee Rate”: 0.75% per annum in the case of the Extended Revolving Facility
and 0.50% per annum in the case of the Non-Extended Revolving Facility; provided that on and after
the first Adjustment Date occurring after the Fifth Amendment Effective Date, the Commitment Fee
Rate will be determined pursuant to the Pricing Grid.
“Commonly Controlled Entity”: an entity, whether or not incorporated, that is under
common control with the Borrower within the meaning of Section 4001 of ERISA or is part of a group
that includes the Borrower and that is treated as a single employer under Section 414 of the Code.
“Compliance Certificate”: a certificate duly executed by a Responsible Officer
substantially in the form of Exhibit B.
“Consolidated Current Assets”: at any date, all amounts (other than cash and Cash
Equivalents) that would, in conformity with GAAP, be set forth opposite the caption “total current
assets” (or any like caption) on a consolidated balance sheet of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries
at such date.
“Consolidated Current Liabilities”: at any date, all amounts that would, in
conformity with GAAP, be set forth opposite the caption “total current liabilities” (or any like
caption) on a consolidated balance sheet of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries at such date, but
excluding (a) the current portion of any Funded Debt of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries and
(b) without duplication of clause (a) above, all Indebtedness consisting of Revolving Loans,
Swingline Loans or Tranche B-1 Loans to the extent otherwise included therein.
“Consolidated EBITDA”: for any period, Consolidated Net Income for such period
plus, without duplication and to the extent reflected as a charge in the statement of such
Consolidated Net Income for such period, the sum of (a) income tax expense, (b) Consolidated
Interest Expense, amortization or writeoff of debt discount and debt issuance costs and
commissions, discounts and other fees and charges associated with Indebtedness (including the
Loans), (c) depreciation and amortization expense, (d) amortization of intangibles (including, but
not limited to, goodwill) and organization costs, (e) any extraordinary, unusual or non-recurring
non-cash expenses or losses (including, whether or not otherwise includable as a separate item in
the statement of such Consolidated Net Income for such period, non-cash losses on sales of assets
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outside of the ordinary course of business), (f) all premiums and interest rate hedge
termination costs in connection with any purchase or redemption of the Senior Subordinated Notes,
the Senior Unsecured Notes and/or the Second Lien Notes and (g) any other non-cash charges
(excluding any such charge that constitutes an accrual of or a reserve for cash charges for any
future period), and minus, to the extent taken into account in calculating Consolidated Net
Income for such period, the sum of (a) interest income, (b) any extraordinary, unusual or
non-recurring non-cash income or gains (including, whether or not otherwise includable as a
separate item in the statement of such Consolidated Net Income for such period, gains on the sales
of assets outside of the ordinary course of business) and (c) any other non-cash income, all as
determined on a consolidated basis. For the purposes of calculating Consolidated EBITDA for any
period of four consecutive fiscal quarters (each, a “Reference Period”) pursuant to any
determination of a Financial Covenant, if during such Reference Period the Borrower or any
Subsidiary shall have made a Material Acquisition, Consolidated EBITDA for such Reference Period
shall be calculated after giving pro forma effect thereto as if such Material
Acquisition occurred on the first day of such Reference Period. As used in this definition,
“Material Acquisition” means any acquisition of property or series of related acquisitions of
property that (a) constitutes assets comprising all or substantially all of an operating unit of a
business or constitutes all or substantially all of the common stock of a Person and (b) involves
the payment of consideration by the Borrower and its Subsidiaries in excess of $5,000,000. In
addition, Consolidated EBITDA for each fiscal quarter of the Borrower shall be increased by the
amount of cash restructuring charges and related expenses associated with restructurings undertaken
by the Borrower and/or its Subsidiaries in the United States and/or internationally included in the
calculation of Consolidated Net Income for such fiscal quarter, provided that the aggregate
amount of such cash restructuring charges announced and taken, in each case, after the Fifth
Amendment Effective Date shall not exceed $60,000,000. For purposes of the foregoing sentence,
“cash” restructuring charges and related expenses shall be deemed to include any accrual of or
reserve for cash restructuring charges and related expenses for any future period. In addition,
for purposes of calculating any Financial Covenant, Consolidated EBITDA for each fiscal quarter of
the Borrower (beginning with the first fiscal quarter in fiscal year 2007) shall be increased (but
not by more than $4,000,000 in each of fiscal years 2007, 2008 and 2009, and $7,000,000 in each
fiscal year beginning in fiscal year 2010) by the amount of aftermarket acquisition costs of the
Borrower and its Subsidiaries to the extent such costs otherwise reduce Consolidated EBITDA for
such fiscal quarter. In addition, in the event that any Permitted Sale/Leaseback results in the
Borrower or a Subsidiary entering into an operating lease, then Consolidated EBITDA for any period
shall be deemed to be increased by the amount of lease payments under such operating lease made
during such period.
“Consolidated Interest Coverage Ratio”: for any period, the ratio of (a) Consolidated
EBITDA for such period to (b) Consolidated Interest Expense for such period.
“Consolidated Interest Expense”: for any period, total interest expense of the
Borrower and its Subsidiaries for such period determined in accordance with GAAP (excluding (i) all
premiums and interest rate hedge termination costs in connection with any purchase or redemption of
the Senior Subordinated Notes, the Senior Unsecured Notes and/or the Second Lien Notes, (ii)
upfront fees paid in connection with the Fifth Amendment, and (iii) any writeoff of amortized debt
issuance costs upon any prepayment of the Senior Subordinated Notes, the Second Lien Notes or the
Senior Unsecured Notes), net of interest income. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that
Borrower or a Subsidiary has entered into an operating lease in connection with a
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Permitted Sale/Leaseback, then Consolidated Interest Expense for any period shall be deemed to
be increased by the interest component of lease payments under such operating lease made during
such period (as determined based on the applicable schedule setting forth the components of lease
payments delivered pursuant to Section 7.11).
“Consolidated Leverage Ratio”: as at the last day of any period, the ratio of
(a) Consolidated Total Debt plus (to the extent not included in Consolidated Total Debt) the
Domestic Receivables Program Amount on such day to (b) Consolidated EBITDA for such period.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that the Borrower or a Subsidiary has entered into an
operating lease in connection with a Permitted Sale/Leaseback then for purposes of calculating the
Consolidated Leverage Ratio on any day, Consolidated Total Debt shall be deemed to be increased by
the remaining unamortized principal component of such operating lease (as determined based on the
applicable schedule setting forth the components of lease payments delivered pursuant to Section
7.11). For purposes of calculating the Consolidated Leverage Ratio, any Indebtedness (“New
Indebtedness”) incurred to refinance existing Indebtedness of the Borrower (“Existing
Indebtedness”) shall be excluded in calculating Consolidated Total Debt, as long as and to the
extent (i) such Existing Indebtedness shall still be outstanding as of the calculation date and
shall have been counted for purposes of calculating the Consolidated Leverage Ratio, (ii) the
Borrower shall have begun a tender offer or solicitation to purchase such Existing Indebtedness or
shall have irrevocably called such Existing Indebtedness for payment and (iii) proceeds of such New
Indebtedness are used to repay the Existing Indebtedness within sixty (60) days after the
incurrence thereof.
“Consolidated Net Income”: for any period, the consolidated net income (or loss) of
the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP;
provided that there shall be excluded (a) the income (or deficit) of any Person accrued
prior to the date it becomes a Subsidiary of the Borrower or is merged into or consolidated with
the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, (b) the income (or deficit) of any Person (other than a
Subsidiary of the Borrower) in which the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries has an ownership
interest, except to the extent that any such income is actually received by the Borrower or such
Subsidiary in the form of dividends or similar distributions and (c) the undistributed earnings of
any Subsidiary of the Borrower to the extent that the declaration or payment of dividends or
similar distributions by such Subsidiary is not at the time permitted by the terms of any
Contractual Obligation (other than under any Loan Document) or Requirement of Law applicable to
such Subsidiary. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any reduction to Consolidated Net Income otherwise
required by the Borrower’s adoption of FAS 123R shall be disregarded in calculating Consolidated
Net Income.
“Consolidated Net Leverage Ratio”: at the last day of any period, the ratio of (a)
Consolidated Total Debt plus (to the extent not included in Consolidated Total Debt) the Domestic
Receivables Program Amount on such day, less the aggregate amount of unrestricted cash and cash
equivalents of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries in excess of $50,000,000 (such excess amount not
to exceed $150,000,000) to (b) Consolidated EBITDA for such period. Notwithstanding the foregoing,
in the event that the Borrower or a Subsidiary has entered into an operating lease in connection
with a Permitted Sale/Leaseback then for purposes of calculating the Consolidated Net Leverage
Ratio on any day, Consolidated Total Debt shall be deemed to be increased by the remaining
unamortized principal component of such operating lease (as
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determined based on the applicable schedule setting forth the components of lease payments
delivered pursuant to Section 7.11). For purposes of calculating the Consolidated Net Leverage
Ratio, any New Indebtedness incurred to refinance Existing Indebtedness shall be excluded in
calculating Consolidated Total Debt, as long as and to the extent (i) such Existing Indebtedness
shall still be outstanding as of the calculation date and shall have been counted for purposes of
calculating the Consolidated Net Leverage Ratio, (ii) the Borrower shall have begun a tender offer
or solicitation to purchase such Existing Indebtedness or shall have irrevocably called such
Existing Indebtedness for payment and (iii) proceeds of such New Indebtedness are used to repay the
Existing Indebtedness within sixty (60) days after the incurrence thereof.
“Consolidated Total Assets”: at any date, all amounts that would, in conformity with
GAAP, be set forth opposite the caption “total assets” (or any like caption) on a consolidated
balance sheet of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries at such date.
“Consolidated Total Debt”: at any date, the aggregate principal amount of all
Indebtedness of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries at such date, determined on a consolidated basis
in accordance with GAAP.
“Consolidated Working Capital”: at any date, the excess of Consolidated Current
Assets on such date over Consolidated Current Liabilities on such date.
“Continuing Directors”: the directors of the Borrower on the Closing Date, and each
other director, if, in each case, such other director’s nomination for election to the board of
directors of the Borrower is recommended by at least a majority of the then Continuing Directors.
“Contractual Obligation”: as to any Person, any provision of any security issued by
such Person or of any agreement, instrument or other undertaking to which such Person is a party or
by which it or any of its property is bound.
“Default”: any of the events specified in Section 8, whether or not any requirement
for the giving of notice, the lapse of time, or both, has been satisfied.
“Defaulting Lender”: any Lender, as reasonably determined by the Administrative Agent,
that (a) in the case of any Revolving Lender, has (i) failed to fund any portion of its Revolving
Loans or participations in Revolving Letters of Credit or Swingline Loans within three Business
Days of the date required to be funded by it hereunder and such failure is continuing, unless such
Lender notifies the Administrative Agent in writing that such failure is the result of such
Lender’s good faith determination that a condition precedent to funding has not been satisfied,
(ii) notified the Borrower, the Administrative Agent, any Issuing Lender, the Swingline Lender or
any Lender in writing that it does not intend to comply with any of its funding obligations under
this Agreement or has made a public statement to the effect that it does not intend to comply with
its funding obligations under this Agreement or generally under other agreements in which it
commits to extend credit, (iii) failed, within five Business Days after receipt of request by the
Administrative Agent, to confirm that it will comply with the terms of this Agreement relating to
its obligations to fund prospective Revolving Loans and participations in then outstanding
Revolving Letters of Credit and Swingline Loans or (iv) otherwise failed to pay over to the
Administrative Agent or any other Lender any other amount required to be paid by it
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hereunder within three Business Days of the date when due, unless the subject of a good faith
dispute, or (b) in the case of any Lender, has become the subject of a bankruptcy or insolvency
proceeding, or has had a receiver, conservator, trustee or custodian appointed for it, or has taken
any action in furtherance of, or indicating its consent to, approval of or acquiescence in any such
proceeding or appointment, unless, in the case of any Lender referred to in this clause (b), the
Borrower and the Administrative Agent shall be satisfied that such Lender intends, and has all
approvals required to enable it, to continue to perform its obligations as a Lender hereunder;
provided, that a Lender will not qualify as a Defaulting Lender solely as the result of the
acquisition or maintenance of an ownership interest in a Defaulting Lender or any Person
controlling a Defaulting Lender, or the exercise of control over such Lender or any Person
controlling such Lender, by a governmental authority or an instrumentality thereof; provided,
further, that such ownership interest does not result in or provide such Person with immunity from
the jurisdiction of courts within the United States or from the enforcement of judgments or writs
of attachment on its assets or permit such Person (or such Governmental Authority or
instrumentality) to reject, repudiate, disavow or disaffirm any contracts or agreements made by
such Person.
“Disposition”: with respect to any property, any sale, lease, sale and leaseback,
assignment, conveyance, transfer or other disposition thereof (other than any transaction for
purposes of collateral or security to the extent permitted hereunder). The terms “Dispose”
and “Disposed of” shall have correlative meanings.
“Documentation Agents”: as defined in the preamble hereto.
“Dollars” and “$”: dollars in lawful currency of the United States.
“Domestic Receivables Program Amount”: at any time, the aggregate principal amount of
proceeds received by the Borrower and its domestic Subsidiaries from parties outside of the
Borrower’s consolidated group and which remain outstanding at such time in connection with a
Permitted Receivables Financing, together with the aggregate funded amount relating to all
factoring programs, in each case of the Borrower and its domestic Subsidiaries.
“Domestic Subsidiary”: any Subsidiary of the Borrower organized under the laws of any
jurisdiction within the United States.
“Early Maturity Date”: (a) with respect to the Tranche B-1 Facility, the earlier of
(i) in the event that all the Second Lien Notes have not been refinanced or the maturity thereof
has not been extended in a transaction permitted by this Agreement prior to December 15, 2012 to a
date not earlier than September 30, 2014, December 15, 2012 and (ii) in the event that all the
Second Lien Notes have been refinanced or the maturity thereof has been extended to a date prior to
September 30, 2014, the date which is six months prior to the date to which the Second Lien Notes
have been refinanced or for which the maturity has been extended; (b) with respect to the Tranche B
Term Facility, 91 days prior to the earliest scheduled maturity of (i) the Second Lien Notes and
any refinancing thereof permitted by this Agreement and (ii) the Senior Subordinated Notes and any
refinancing thereof permitted by this Agreement; and (c) with respect to the Extended Revolving
Facility, 91 days prior to the earliest of (i) the Tranche B-1 Final Maturity Date and the earliest
scheduled maturity of any refinancing of the Tranche B-1 Facility and (ii) the
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earliest scheduled maturity of the Second Lien Notes and any refinancing thereof. For the
purposes of this definition, Second Lien Notes shall not be deemed to include any Senior Unsecured
Notes.
“Environmental Laws”: as to any Person, any and all foreign, Federal, state, local or
municipal laws, rules, orders, regulations, statutes, ordinances, codes, decrees, requirements of
any Governmental Authority or other Requirements of Law (including common law) regulating, relating
to or imposing liability or standards of conduct concerning protection of human health or the
environment, as now or may at any time hereafter be in effect, in each case applicable to or
binding upon such Person or any of its property or to which such Person or any of its property is
subject.
“ERISA”: the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended from time to
time.
“Eurodollar Loans”: Loans the rate of interest applicable to which is based upon the
Eurodollar Rate. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Tranche B-1 Loans shall not be considered
Eurodollar Loans for purposes of the Loan Documents.
“Eurodollar Rate”: with respect to each day during (a) each Interest Period
pertaining to a Eurodollar Loan or a Tranche B-1 Loan (except with respect to any Tranche B-1 Loans
which are deemed to be ABR Loans in accordance with Section 2.4(f)), as the case may be, or (b)
each calendar month for which the Tranche B-1 Eurodollar Rate is being determined for purposes of
Section 2.4(e), the rate per annum determined on the basis of the rate for deposits in Dollars for
a period equal to such Interest Period commencing on the first day of such Interest Period
appearing on the Reuters Screen LIBOR01 Page as of 11:00 a.m., London time, two Business Days prior
to the beginning of such Interest Period. In the event that such rate does not appear on the
Reuters Screen LIBOR01 Page (or otherwise on such screen), the “Eurodollar Rate” shall be
determined by reference to such other comparable publicly available service for displaying
eurodollar rates as may be selected by the Administrative Agent or, in the absence of such
availability, by reference to the rate at which the Administrative Agent is offered Dollar deposits
at or about 11:00 a.m., New York City time, two Business Days prior to the beginning of such
Interest Period in the interbank eurodollar market where its eurodollar and foreign currency and
exchange operations are then being conducted for delivery on the first day of such Interest Period
for the number of days comprised therein.
“Eurodollar Tranche”: the collective reference to Eurodollar Loans under a particular
Facility the then current Interest Periods with respect to all of which begin on the same date and
end on the same later date (whether or not such Loans shall originally have been made on the same
day).
“Event of Default”: any of the events specified in Section 8, provided that
any requirement for the giving of notice, the lapse of time, or both, has been satisfied.
“Excess Cash Flow”: for any fiscal year of the Borrower, the excess, if any, of
(a) the sum, without duplication, of (i) Consolidated Net Income for such fiscal year, (ii) an
amount equal to the amount of all non-cash charges (including depreciation and amortization)
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deducted in arriving at such Consolidated Net Income, (iii) an amount equal to the aggregate
net decrease in Consolidated Working Capital for such fiscal year, (iv) an amount equal to the
aggregate net non-cash loss on the Disposition of property by the Borrower and its Subsidiaries
during such fiscal year (other than sales of inventory in the ordinary course of business), to the
extent deducted in arriving at such Consolidated Net Income, (v) an amount equal to the aggregate
net increase in Consolidated Working Capital attributable to foreign currency translation
adjustments of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries during such fiscal year, (vi) an amount equal to
the aggregate net non-cash increase in Consolidated Working Capital of the Borrower and its
Subsidiaries during such fiscal year, (vii) an amount equal to the non-cash, non-current deferred
income tax expense deducted in arriving at Consolidated Net Income, and (viii) pension expenses of
the Borrower and its Subsidiaries in such period, over (b) the sum, without duplication, of
(i) an amount equal to the amount of all non-cash credits included in arriving at such Consolidated
Net Income, (ii) the aggregate amount actually paid by the Borrower and its Subsidiaries in cash
during such fiscal year on account of Capital Expenditures (excluding the principal amount of
Indebtedness incurred in connection with such expenditures, any such expenditures financed with the
proceeds of any Reinvestment Deferred Amount and any Capital Expenditures with respect to which the
Borrower delivered a certificate pursuant to the immediately following clause (iii) in connection
with the calculation of Excess Cash Flow immediately prior fiscal year), (iii) the aggregate amount
of Capital Expenditures that the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries became obligated to make but
that are not made during such fiscal year, provided that the Borrower shall deliver a
certificate to the Administrative Agent not later than 90 days after the end of such fiscal year,
signed by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower and certifying that such Capital Expenditures will
be made in the following year, (iv) the net amount of all prepayments of Tranche B-1 Loans,
Revolving Loans and Swingline Loans and other revolving credit facilities during such fiscal year
and all optional prepayments of the Term Loans during such fiscal year, (v) the aggregate amount of
all regularly scheduled principal payments of Funded Debt (including the Term Loans) of the
Borrower and its Subsidiaries made during such fiscal year, (vi) an amount equal to the aggregate
net increase in Consolidated Working Capital for such fiscal year, (vii) an amount equal to the
aggregate net cash gains on the Disposition of property by the Borrower and its Subsidiaries during
such fiscal year (other than sales of inventory in the ordinary course of business) to the extent
included in arriving at such Consolidated Net Income, (viii) an amount equal to Investments
permitted by Section 7.8 made by the Borrower and its Subsidiaries during such fiscal year, (ix) an
amount equal to the aggregate net cash gains on the Disposition of property by the Borrower and its
Subsidiaries consisting of Asset Sales the Net Cash Proceeds of which are required to be applied
during such fiscal year to the prepayment of the Term Loans or the reduction of the Total Tranche
B-1 Credit Linked Deposit Amount pursuant to Section 2.13, (x) an
amount equal to the aggregate net decrease in Consolidated Working Capital attributable to foreign
currency translation adjustments of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries during such fiscal year, (xi)
an amount equal to the aggregate net non-cash decrease in Consolidated Working Capital of the
Borrower and its Subsidiaries during such fiscal year, (xii) an amount equal to non-cash,
non-current deferred income tax benefit included in arriving at Consolidated Net Income, (xiii)
pension contributions paid in cash by the Borrower and its Subsidiaries during such period, and
(xiv) amounts expended to purchase and cancel or redeem the Borrower’s Senior Unsecured Notes as
permitted by the last sentence of Section 7.15.
“Excess Cash Flow Application Date”: as defined in Section 2.13(c).
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“Exchange Act”: the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
“Excluded Subsidiary”: (i) any Foreign Subsidiary, (ii) any other Subsidiary if and at
such time as the Borrower and its Subsidiaries own Capital Stock representing less than 80% of the
ordinary voting power of such other Subsidiary, (iii) any Immaterial Domestic Subsidiary and (iv)
any Finance Subsidiary if the execution and delivery of any Loan Document by such Finance
Subsidiary would materially adversely affect the treatment of any Permitted Receivables Financing
as a true sale transaction.
“Existing Credit Agreement”: as defined in the recitals hereto.
“Existing Indebtedness”: as defined in the definition of “Consolidated Leverage
Ratio”.
“Extended Available Revolving Commitment”: as to any Extended Revolving Lender at any
time, an amount equal to the excess, if any, of (a) such Extended Revolving Lender’s Extended
Revolving Commitment then in effect over (b) such Extended Revolving Lender’s Revolving
Extensions of Credit with respect to the Extended Revolving Facility.
“Extended Revolving Commitment”: as to any Extended Revolving Lender, the obligation
of such Extended Revolving Lender, if any, to make Extended Revolving Loans and participate in
Swingline Loans and Letters of Credit in an aggregate principal and/or face amount not to exceed
the amount set forth under the heading “Extended Revolving Commitment” opposite such Lender’s name
on Schedule 1.1A or in the Assignment and Acceptance pursuant to which such Lender became a party
hereto, as the same may be changed from time to time pursuant to the terms hereof.
“Extended Revolving Facility”: the Extended Revolving Commitments and the extensions
of credit made thereunder.
“Extended Revolving Lender”: each Lender that has an Extended Revolving Commitment or
that holds Extended Revolving Loans, including each Lender that became a party hereto as of the
Fifth Amendment Effective Date.
“Extended Revolving Loan”: a Loan made pursuant to the Extended Revolving Facility.
“Extended Revolving Percentage”: as to any Extended Revolving Lender at any time, the
percentage which such Lender’s Extended Revolving Commitment then constitutes of the Total Extended
Revolving Commitments (or, at any time after the Extended Revolving Commitments shall have expired
or terminated, the percentage which the aggregate principal amount of such Lender’s Extended
Revolving Loans then outstanding constitutes of the aggregate principal amount of the Extended
Revolving Loans then outstanding).
“Extended Revolving Termination Date”: the date which is the earliest to occur of (a)
May 31, 2014, (b) the date on which the Extended Revolving Commitments are terminated, and (c) the
Early Maturity Date.
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“Facility”: each of (a) the Tranche B Term Loans (the “Tranche B Term
Facility”), (b) the Tranche B-1 Credit Linked Deposit Amounts and the Tranche B-1 Loans made
and the Tranche B-1 Letters of Credit issued thereunder (the “Tranche B-1 Facility”), (c)
the Revolving Commitments and the extensions of credit made thereunder (the “Revolving
Facility”, which shall be comprised of the Non-Extended Revolving Facility and the Extended
Revolving Facility), and (d) each other credit facility that may be added to this Agreement after
the date hereof.
“Federal Funds Effective Rate”: for any day, the weighted average of the rates on
overnight federal funds transactions with members of the Federal Reserve System arranged by federal
funds brokers, as published on the next succeeding Business Day by the Federal Reserve Bank of
New York, or, if such rate is not so published for any day that is a Business Day, the average of
the quotations for the day of such transactions received by the Administrative Agent from three
federal funds brokers of recognized standing selected by it.
“Fifth Amendment”: the Fifth Amendment dated as of June 3, 2010 to this Agreement.
“Fifth Amendment Effective Date”: June 3, 2010.
“Finance Subsidiary”: Tenneco Automotive RSA Company and any other Wholly Owned
Subsidiary of the Borrower that is formed for the sole purpose of engaging in Permitted Receivables
Financings.
“Financial Covenant”: any of the Consolidated Interest Coverage Ratio, the
Consolidated Leverage Ratio, the Consolidated Net Leverage Ratio and the Senior Secured Leverage
Ratio.
“First Priority Claims”: as defined in the Intercreditor Agreement.
“Foreign Subsidiary”: any Subsidiary of the Borrower that is not a Domestic
Subsidiary.
“Funded Debt”: as to any Person, all Indebtedness of such Person that matures more
than one year from the date of its creation or matures within one year from such date but is
renewable or extendible, at the option of such Person, to a date more than one year from such date
or arises under a revolving credit or similar agreement that obligates the lender or lenders to
extend credit during a period of more than one year from such date, including all current
maturities and current sinking fund payments in respect of such Indebtedness whether or not
required to be paid within one year from the date of its creation and, in the case of the Borrower,
Indebtedness in respect of the Loans.
“Funding Office”: the office of the Administrative Agent specified in Section 10.2 or
such other office as may be specified from time to time by the Administrative Agent as its funding
office by written notice to the Borrower and the Lenders.
“GAAP”: generally accepted accounting principles in the United States as in effect
from time to time, except that for purposes of the definition of “Applicable Prepayment Percentage”
or any Financial Covenant, GAAP shall be determined on the basis of such principles
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in effect on the date hereof and consistent with those used in the preparation of the most
recent audited financial statements delivered pursuant to Section 4.1, provided that, if
the Borrower notifies the Administrative Agent within one year after the effectiveness of any
applicable Accounting Change (as defined below) that the Borrower requests an amendment to any
provision hereof to eliminate the effect of such Accounting Change or in the application thereof on
the operation of such provision (or if the Administrative Agent notifies the Borrower within one
year after the effectiveness of any such Accounting Change that the Administrative Agent requests
an amendment to any provision hereof for such purpose), regardless of whether any such notice is
given before or after such Accounting Change or in the application thereof, then such provision
shall be interpreted on the basis of GAAP as in effect and applied immediately before such
Accounting Change shall have become effective until such notice shall have been withdrawn or such
provision amended in accordance herewith. “Accounting Change” refers to a change after the date
hereof in accounting principles required by the promulgation of any rule, regulation, pronouncement
or opinion by the Financial Accounting Standards Board of the American Institute of Certified
Public Accountants or, if applicable, the SEC.
“Governmental Authority”: any nation or government, any state or other political
subdivision thereof, any agency, authority, instrumentality, regulatory body, court, central bank
or other entity exercising executive, legislative, judicial, taxing, regulatory or administrative
functions of or pertaining to government, any securities exchange and any self-regulatory
organization (including the National Association of Insurance Commissioners).
“Granting Bank”: as defined in Section 10.6(d).
“Guarantee and Collateral Agreement”: the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement dated as
of March 16, 2007 executed and delivered by the Borrower and each Subsidiary Guarantor pursuant to
the Existing Credit Agreement, a copy of which as amended and supplemented to the date hereof is
attached hereto as Exhibit A, as the same may be amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from
time to time.
“Guarantee Obligation”: as to any Person (the “guaranteeing person”), any
obligation of (a) the guaranteeing person or (b) another Person (including any bank under any
letter of credit) to induce the creation of which obligation the guaranteeing person has issued a
reimbursement, counter indemnity or similar obligation, in either case guaranteeing or in effect
guaranteeing any Indebtedness, leases, dividends or other obligations (the “primary
obligations”) of any other third Person (the “primary obligor”) in any manner, whether
directly or indirectly, including any obligation of the guaranteeing person, whether or not
contingent, (i) to purchase any such primary obligation or any property constituting direct or
indirect security therefor, (ii) to advance or supply funds (1) for the purchase or payment of any
such primary obligation or (2) to maintain working capital or equity capital of the primary obligor
or otherwise to maintain the net worth or solvency of the primary obligor, (iii) to purchase
property, securities or services primarily for the purpose of assuring the owner of any such
primary obligation of the ability of the primary obligor to make payment of such primary obligation
or (iv) otherwise to assure or hold harmless the owner of any such primary obligation against loss
in respect thereof; provided, however, that the term Guarantee Obligation shall not
include endorsements of instruments for deposit or collection in the ordinary course of business.
The amount of any Guarantee Obligation of any guaranteeing person shall be deemed to be the lower
of (a) an amount equal to the stated or
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determinable amount of the primary obligation in respect of which such Guarantee Obligation is
made and (b) the maximum amount for which such guaranteeing person may be liable pursuant to the
terms of the instrument embodying such Guarantee Obligation, unless such primary obligation and the
maximum amount for which such guaranteeing person may be liable are not stated or determinable, in
which case the amount of such Guarantee Obligation shall be such guaranteeing person’s maximum
reasonably anticipated liability in respect thereof as determined by the Borrower in good faith.
“Guarantors”: the collective reference to the Subsidiary Guarantors and any other
Person that guarantees payment of all or a portion of the Obligations.
“Xxxx County Facility”: the facility owned on the Fifth Amendment Effective Date by
TAOC located in Xxxx County, Georgia.
“Xxxx County Facility IDB Transaction”: (i) the transfer by TAOC of the Xxxx County
Facility to the Xxxx County Industrial Building Authority in exchange for $42,000,000 of industrial
development bond financing, (ii) the lease back by TAOC of the Xxxx County Facility and (iii) all
related transactions.
“Hedge Agreements”: all interest rate swaps, caps or collar agreements or similar
arrangements dealing with interest rates or currency exchange rates or the exchange of nominal
interest obligations, either generally or under specific contingencies.
“Immaterial Domestic Subsidiary”: at any time, any Domestic Subsidiary of the
Borrower having total assets (as determined in accordance with GAAP) in an amount of less than 1%
of Consolidated Total Assets of the Borrower and its Domestic Subsidiaries; provided,
however, that the total assets (as so determined) of all Immaterial Domestic Subsidiaries
shall not exceed 5% of Consolidated Total Assets of the Borrower and its Domestic Subsidiaries. In
the event that total assets of all Immaterial Domestic Subsidiaries exceed 5% of Consolidated Total
Assets of the Borrower and its Domestic Subsidiaries, the Borrower will designate Domestic
Subsidiaries which would otherwise constitute Immaterial Domestic Subsidiaries to be excluded as
Immaterial Domestic Subsidiaries until such 5% threshold is met.
“Immaterial Subsidiary”: at any time, any Subsidiary of the Borrower (i) having total
assets (as determined in accordance with GAAP) in an amount of less than 1% of Consolidated Total
Assets of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries and (ii) contributing less than 1% to
Consolidated EBITDA for the period of twelve consecutive fiscal months most recently ended for
which financial statements are available; provided, however, that the total assets
(as so determined) and Consolidated EBITDA contribution (as so determined) of all Immaterial
Subsidiaries shall not exceed 5% of Consolidated Total Assets of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries
or 5% of Consolidated EBITDA for the relevant period, as the case may be. In the event that total
assets of all Immaterial Subsidiaries exceed 5% of Consolidated Total Assets of the Borrower and
its Subsidiaries or the total contribution to Consolidated EBITDA of all Immaterial Subsidiaries
exceeds 5% of Consolidated EBITDA for the relevant period, as the case may be, the Borrower will
designate Subsidiaries which would otherwise constitute Immaterial Subsidiaries to be excluded as
Immaterial Subsidiaries until such 5% thresholds are met.
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“Incremental Facility”: as defined in Section 2.27.
“Indebtedness”: of any Person at any date, without duplication, (a) all indebtedness
of such Person for borrowed money, (b) all obligations of such Person for the deferred purchase
price of property or services (other than any such obligations incurred in the ordinary course of
such Person’s business maturing less than one (1) year from the creation thereof), (c) all
obligations of such Person evidenced by notes, bonds, debentures or other similar instruments
(other than an operating lease, synthetic lease or similar arrangement), (d) for the purposes of
Sections 7.2 and 8(e) only, all indebtedness created or arising under any conditional sale or other
title retention agreement (other than an operating lease) with respect to property acquired by such
Person (even though the rights and remedies of the seller or lender under such agreement in the
event of default are limited to repossession or sale of such property), (e) for the purposes of
Sections 7.2 and 8(e) only, all Capital Lease Obligations of such Person, provided that
Capital Lease Obligations of such Person arising from Permitted Sale/Leasebacks shall be
Indebtedness for purposes of any Financial Covenant and related defined terms, (f) for the purposes
of Sections 7.2 and 8(e) only, all obligations of such Person, contingent or otherwise, as an
account party under acceptances, surety bonds or similar arrangements (other than obligations
arising out of endorsements of instruments for deposit or collection in the ordinary course of
business), (g) all unpaid reimbursement obligations of such Person in respect of drawings under
letters of credit and, for purposes of Sections 7.2 and 8(e) only, the face amount of all letters
of credit issued for the account of such Person, (h) for the purposes of Sections 7.2 and 8(e)
only, all Guarantee Obligations of such Person in respect of obligations of the kind referred to in
clauses (a) through (f) above, (i) without limitation of the foregoing, all obligations of the kind
referred to in clauses (a) through (h) above secured by (or for which the holder of such obligation
has an existing right, contingent or otherwise, to be secured by) any Lien on property (including
accounts and contract rights) owned by such Person, whether or not such Person has assumed or
become liable for the payment of such obligation, provided that the amount of any such
obligation shall be deemed to be the lesser of the face principal amount thereof and the fair
market value of the property subject to such Lien and (j) for the purposes of Sections 7.2 and 8(e)
only, all obligations of such Person in respect of Hedge Agreements. Notwithstanding the
foregoing, obligations of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries in respect of bankers’ acceptances
issued through joint ventures in the People’s Republic of China up to an aggregate amount at any
time outstanding of $20,000,000 shall not constitute Indebtedness.
“Insolvency”: with respect to any Multiemployer Plan, the condition that such Plan is
insolvent within the meaning of Section 4245 of ERISA.
“Insolvent”: pertaining to a condition of Insolvency.
“Intellectual Property”: the collective reference to all rights, priorities and
privileges relating to intellectual property, whether arising under United States, multinational or
foreign laws or otherwise, including copyrights, copyright licenses, patents, patent licenses,
trademarks, trademark licenses, technology, know-how and processes, and all rights to xxx at law or
in equity for any infringement or other impairment thereof, including the right to receive all
proceeds and damages therefrom.
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“Intercreditor Agreement”: the Intercreditor Agreement dated as of June 19, 2003
entered into among the collateral agent for the Second Lien Note Holders, the Administrative Agent
and the Borrower, a copy of which is attached hereto as Exhibit F, as the same may be amended,
supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time.
“Interest Payment Date”: (a) as to any ABR Loan (other than any Tranche B-1 Loans
which are deemed to be ABR Loans in accordance with Section 2.4(f)), the second Business Day of
each January, April, July and October to occur while such Loan is outstanding and the final
maturity date of such Loan, (b) as to any Eurodollar Loan having an Interest Period of three months
or less, the last day of such Interest Period, (c) as to any Eurodollar Loan having an Interest
Period longer than three months, each day that is three months, or a whole multiple thereof, after
the first day of such Interest Period and the last day of such Interest Period, (d) as to any Loan
(other than any Revolving Loan that is an ABR Loan, any Swingline Loan and any Tranche B-1 Loan),
the date of any repayment or prepayment made in respect thereof and (e) as to any Tranche B-1 Loan
(including any Tranche B-1 Loans which are deemed to be ABR Loans in accordance with Section
2.4(f)), the third Business Day of each calendar month to occur while such Tranche B-1 Loan is
outstanding.
“Interest Period”: (a) as to any Eurodollar Loan, (i) initially, the period
commencing on the borrowing or conversion date, as the case may be, with respect to such Eurodollar
Loan and ending one or two weeks, or one, two, three or six months thereafter, as selected by the
Borrower in its notice of borrowing or notice of conversion, as the case may be, given with respect
thereto, or any other period agreed upon between the Borrower and the Lenders; (ii) thereafter,
each period commencing on the last day of the next preceding Interest Period applicable to such
Eurodollar Loan and ending one or two weeks, or one, two, three or six months thereafter, as
selected by the Borrower by irrevocable notice to the Administrative Agent not less than three
Business Days prior to the last day of the then current Interest Period with respect thereto;
provided that, all of the foregoing provisions relating to Interest Periods are subject to
the following:
(A) if any Interest Period would otherwise end on a day that is not a Business Day,
such Interest Period shall be extended to the next succeeding Business Day unless the result
of such extension would be to carry such Interest Period into another calendar month in
which event such Interest Period shall end on the immediately preceding Business Day;
(B) the Borrower may not select an Interest Period under a particular Facility that
would extend beyond the Revolving Termination Date, in the case of the Revolving Facility,
beyond the Tranche B Final Maturity Date, in the case of the Tranche B Term Facility, or
beyond the Tranche B-1 Final Maturity Date or the Early Maturity Date, as applicable in the
case of the Tranche B-1 Facility;
(C) any Interest Period that begins on the last Business Day of a calendar month (or on
a day for which there is no numerically corresponding day in the calendar month at the end
of such Interest Period) shall end on the last Business Day of a calendar month unless such
Interest Period has a duration of less than one month; and
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(D) the Borrower shall select Interest Periods so as not to require a payment or
prepayment of any Eurodollar Loan during an Interest Period for such Loan.
(b) as to any Tranche B-1 Loan, each period commencing on the first day of the next succeeding
calendar month and ending on the last day of such next succeeding calendar month, except to the
extent otherwise provided in Section 2.4(f).
“Investments”: as defined in Section 7.8.
“Issuing Lender”: JPMCB or any other Lender requested by the Borrower and reasonably
acceptable to the Administrative Agent which agrees to act as an Issuing Lender hereunder, in its
capacity as issuer of any Letter of Credit.
“Joint Venture”: any Person in which the Borrower and/or its Subsidiaries hold less
than a majority of the Capital Stock, and which does not constitute a Subsidiary of the Borrower,
whether direct or indirect.
“JPMCB”: JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.
“L/C Fee Payment Date”: in the case of Revolving Letters of Credit, the second
Business Day of each January, April, July or October and the last day of the Revolving Commitment
Period; and, in the case of the Tranche B-1 Letters of Credit, the third Business Day of each
calendar month and the Early Maturity Date or the Tranche B-1 Final Maturity Date, as applicable.
“L/C Obligations”: at any time, an amount equal to the sum of (a) the aggregate then
undrawn and unexpired amount of the then outstanding Letters of Credit and (b) the aggregate amount
of drawings under Letters of Credit that have not then been reimbursed pursuant to Section 3.5.
“L/C Participants”: (a) in the case of Revolving Letters of Credit, the collective
reference to all the Extended Revolving Lenders other than the Issuing Lender; and (b) in the case
of Tranche B-1 Letters of Credit, the collective reference to all the Tranche B-1 Lenders.
“Lender Affiliate”: (a) with respect to any Lender (i) an Affiliate of such Lender or
(ii) any entity (whether a corporation, partnership, trust or otherwise) that is engaged in making,
purchasing, holding or otherwise investing in bank loans and similar extensions of credit in the
ordinary course of its business and is administered or managed by such Lender or an Affiliate of
such Lender and (b) with respect to any Lender that is a fund which invests in bank loans and
similar extensions of credit, any other fund that invests in bank loans and similar extensions of
credit and is managed by the same investment advisor as such Lender or by an Affiliate of such
investment advisor.
“Lenders”: as defined in the preamble hereto.
“Letters of Credit”: the collective reference to the Revolving Letters of Credit and
the Tranche B-1 Letters of Credit.
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“Lien”: any mortgage, pledge, hypothecation, assignment, deposit arrangement,
encumbrance, lien (statutory or other), charge or other security interest or any preference,
priority or other security agreement or preferential arrangement of any kind or nature whatsoever
(including any conditional sale or other title retention agreement and any capital lease having
substantially the same economic effect as any of the foregoing).
“Loan”: any loan made by any Lender pursuant to this Agreement.
“Loan Documents”: this Agreement, the Security Documents, the Intercreditor Agreement
and the Notes, as the same may be amended, modified or supplemented from time to time.
“Loan Parties”: the Borrower and each Subsidiary of the Borrower that is a party to a
Loan Document.
“Majority Facility Lenders”: with respect to any Facility, the holders of more than
50% of the aggregate unpaid principal amount of the Tranche B Term Loans, the Total Revolving
Extensions of Credit (excluding Revolving Extensions of Credit held by Defaulting Lenders) under
the Extended Revolving Facility, the Total Revolving Extensions of Credit (excluding Revolving
Extensions of Credit held by Defaulting Lenders) under the Non-Extended Revolving Facility, or the
Total Tranche B-1 Extensions of Credit, as the case may be, outstanding under such Facility or (i)
in the case of the Extended Revolving Facility, prior to any termination of the Extended Revolving
Commitments, the holders (other than Defaulting Lenders) of more than 50% of the Total Extended
Revolving Commitments (excluding Extended Revolving Commitments of Defaulting Lenders), and (ii) in
the case of the Non-Extended Revolving Facility, prior to any termination of the Non-Extended
Revolving Commitments, the holders (other than Defaulting Lenders) of more than 50% of the Total
Non-Extended Revolving Commitments (excluding Non-Extended Revolving Commitments of Defaulting
Lenders).
“Material Adverse Effect”: a material adverse effect on (a) the Transaction or
(b) the business, property, operations or condition (financial or otherwise) of the Borrower and
its Subsidiaries taken as a whole.
“Materials of Environmental Concern”: any gasoline or petroleum (including crude oil
or any fraction thereof) or petroleum products or any hazardous or toxic substances, materials or
wastes, defined or regulated as such in or under any Environmental Law, including asbestos,
polychlorinated biphenyls and urea-formaldehyde insulation.
“Xxxxx’x”: as defined in the definition of “Cash Equivalents”.
“Mortgaged Properties”: the real properties subject to the Mortgages designated in
Schedule 1.1B and any other real properties required to be mortgaged pursuant to Section 6.9.
“Mortgages”: each of the mortgages and deeds of trust described in Schedule 1.1B and
each other mortgage or deed of trust made on or after the Closing Date by any Loan Party in favor
of, or for the benefit of, the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Lenders, substantially
in the form of Exhibit D to the Existing Credit Agreement (with such changes thereto as shall be
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advisable under the law of the jurisdiction in which such mortgage or deed of trust is to be
recorded), as the same may be amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time.
“Multiemployer Plan”: a Plan that is a multiemployer plan as defined in Section
4001(a)(3) of ERISA.
“Net Cash Proceeds”: (a) in connection with any Asset Sale or any Recovery Event, the
proceeds thereof in the form of cash and Cash Equivalents (including any such proceeds received by
way of deferred payment of principal pursuant to a note or installment receivable or purchase price
adjustment receivable or otherwise, but only as and when received) of such Asset Sale or Recovery
Event, net of attorneys’ fees, accountants’ fees, investment banking fees, amounts required to be
applied to the repayment of Indebtedness secured by a Lien expressly permitted hereunder on any
asset that is the subject of such Asset Sale or Recovery Event (other than any Lien pursuant to a
Security Document) and other fees and expenses actually incurred in connection therewith and net of
taxes paid or reasonably estimated to be payable as a result thereof (after taking into account any
available tax credits or deductions and any tax sharing arrangements) and (b) in connection with
any issuance or sale of Capital Stock or any incurrence of Indebtedness, the cash proceeds received
from such issuance or incurrence, net of attorneys’ fees, investment banking fees, accountants’
fees, underwriting discounts and commissions and other fees and expenses actually incurred in
connection therewith.
“New Indebtedness”: as defined in the definition of “Consolidated Leverage Ratio”.
“New Unsecured Indebtedness”: unsecured Indebtedness of the Borrower referred to in
Section 7.2(p) or (q).
“New Unsecured Indebtedness Agreement”: any indenture, credit agreement or similar
document governing any New Unsecured Indebtedness, and all material related agreements.
“Non-Excluded Taxes”: as defined in Section 2.21(a).
“Non-Extended Revolving Commitment”: as to any Non-Extended Revolving Lender, the
obligation of such Non-Extended Revolving Lender, if any, to make Non-Extended Revolving Loans in
an aggregate principal and/or face amount not to exceed the amount set forth under the heading
“Non-Extended Revolving Commitment” opposite such Lender’s name on Schedule 1.1A or in the
Assignment and Acceptance pursuant to which such Lender became a party hereto, as the same may be
changed from time to time pursuant to the terms hereof.
“Non-Extended Revolving Facility”: the Non-Extended Revolving Commitments and the
extensions of credit made thereunder.
“Non-Extended Revolving Lender”: each Lender that has a Non-Extended Revolving
Commitment or that holds Non-Extended Revolving Loans.
“Non-Extended Revolving Loan”: a Loan made pursuant to the Non-Extended Revolving
Facility.
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“Non-Extended Revolving Percentage”: as to any Non-Extended Revolving Lender at
any time, the percentage which such Lender’s Non-Extended Revolving Commitment then constitutes of
the Total Non-Extended Revolving Commitments (or, at any time after the Non-Extended Revolving
Commitments shall have expired or terminated, the percentage which the aggregate principal amount
of such Lender’s Non-Extended Revolving Loans then outstanding constitutes of the aggregate
principal amount of the Non-Extended Revolving Loans then outstanding).
“Non-Extended Revolving Termination Date”: the date which is earlier to occur of (a)
the fifth anniversary of the Closing Date and (b) the date on which the Non-Extended Revolving
Commitments are terminated.
“Non-U.S. Lender”: as defined in Section 2.21(d).
“Notes”: the collective reference to any promissory note evidencing Loans.
“Obligations”: the unpaid principal of and interest on (including interest accruing
after the maturity of the Loans and Reimbursement Obligations and interest accruing after the
filing of any petition in bankruptcy, or the commencement of any insolvency, reorganization or like
proceeding, relating to the Borrower, whether or not a claim for post-filing or post-petition
interest is allowed in such proceeding) the Loans and all other obligations and liabilities of the
Borrower to the Administrative Agent or to any Lender (or, in the case of Hedge Agreements or Cash
Management Obligations, any affiliate of any Lender), whether direct or indirect, absolute or
contingent, due or to become due, or now existing or hereafter incurred, which may arise under, out
of, or in connection with, this Agreement, any other Loan Document, the Letters of Credit, Cash
Management Obligations, any Hedge Agreement entered into with any Lender or any affiliate of any
Lender or any other document made, delivered or given in connection herewith or therewith, whether
on account of principal, interest, reimbursement obligations, fees, indemnities, costs, expenses
(including all fees, charges and disbursements of counsel to the Administrative Agent or to any
Lender that are required to be paid by the Borrower pursuant hereto) or otherwise.
“Other Taxes”: any and all present or future stamp or documentary taxes or any other
excise or property taxes, charges or similar levies arising from any payment made hereunder
(exclusive of any franchise tax or any tax assessment on the overall net income of a recipient) or
from the execution, delivery or enforcement of, or otherwise with respect to, this Agreement or any
other Loan Document.
“Participant”: as defined in Section 10.6(b).
“Patriot Act”: the USA Patriot Act, Title III of Pub. L. 107-56, signed into law on
October 26, 2001 or any subsequent legislation that amends, supplements or supersedes such Act.
“PBGC”: the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation established pursuant to Subtitle A
of Title IV of ERISA (or any successor).
“Permitted Receivables Financing”: (a) any sale by the Borrower or a Domestic
Subsidiary of accounts receivable to a Finance Subsidiary intended to be (and which shall be
treated for the purposes hereof as) a true sale transaction with customary limited recourse based
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upon the collectibility of the receivables sold and the corresponding sale or pledge of such
accounts receivable (or an interest therein) by the Finance Subsidiary, in each case without any
guarantee by the Borrower or any other Subsidiary thereof, provided, however, that
(i) the terms, conditions and structure (including the legal and organizational structure of the
Finance Subsidiary and the restrictions imposed on its activities) of and the documentation
incident to any such transactions entered into after the date hereof must be reasonably acceptable
to the Administrative Agent and (b) any sale or financing by any Foreign Subsidiary to or with
local buyers or lenders of accounts receivable in the ordinary course of business, in each case
without any guarantee by the Borrower or any Domestic Subsidiary. The aggregate principal amount
of the proceeds received from parties outside of Borrower’s consolidated group and which remains
outstanding in all transactions described in the preceding clauses (a) and (b) will not exceed
$250,000,000 at any time and from time to time. In addition to receivables and their proceeds, the
assets transferred in a Permitted Receivables Financing may include (i) any collateral for
transferred receivables (other than any interest in goods the sale of which gave rise to such
receivables) and any agreements supporting or securing payment of transferred receivables, (ii) any
service contracts or other agreements associated with such receivables and records relating to such
receivables, (iii) any bank account or lock box maintained primarily for the purpose of receiving
collections of transferred receivables and (iv) proceeds of all of the foregoing.
“Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness”:
(a) with respect to the Senior Subordinated Notes, subordinated Indebtedness of the Borrower
which satisfies the following conditions: (i) such Indebtedness (including permitted guarantees
thereof described in clause (v) below) is at least as subordinated in right of payment and
otherwise to the Obligations and other senior Indebtedness as are the Senior Subordinated Notes,
(ii) the principal amount of such Indebtedness is no greater than the sum of the principal amount
of the Senior Subordinated Notes being refinanced plus any fees and premiums arising in connection
with such refinancing, (iii) such Indebtedness has no required (scheduled and mandatory) principal
payments prior to the date which is six months after the Tranche B Final Maturity Date (or, if
later, six months after the then scheduled final maturity date of any Incremental Facility) (other
than pursuant to change of control and asset sale covenants substantially similar to those in the
Senior Subordinated Note Indenture), (iv) the material terms of such Indebtedness in the aggregate
are at least as favorable to the Borrower and its Subsidiaries as are the Senior Subordinated Notes
and guarantees thereof by Subsidiaries (provided, however, that notwithstanding the
foregoing, the terms of the interest or dividend rate, yields and redemption prices in respect of
such refinancing subordinated Indebtedness need not be as favorable to the Borrower and its
Subsidiaries as are the corresponding terms in the Senior Subordinated Notes so long as such terms
in the aggregate are in the reasonable judgment of the Borrower at least as favorable to the
Borrower and its Subsidiaries as are the corresponding terms of similar securities issued by
similarly situated issuers after taking into account the then prevailing market conditions) and (v)
if required to be guaranteed, such Indebtedness is guaranteed only by Subsidiaries which have
guaranteed payment of the Obligations pursuant to subordination and guarantee provisions at least
as favorable to the holders of the Obligations as are those in the Senior Subordinated Note
Indenture;
(b) with respect to the Second Lien Notes, Indebtedness of the Borrower which satisfies the
following conditions: (i) such Indebtedness is unsecured or, if such Indebtedness is secured, the
intercreditor arrangements with respect to such Indebtedness (including subordination
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of liens) are at least as favorable to the holders of the Obligations as are set forth in the
Intercreditor Agreement with respect to the Second Lien Notes, (ii) the principal amount of such
Indebtedness is no greater than the sum of the principal amount of the Second Lien Notes being
refinanced plus any fees and premiums arising in connection with such refinancing, (iii) such
Indebtedness has no required (scheduled and mandatory) principal payments prior to the date which
is six months after the Tranche B Final Maturity Date (or, if later, six months after the then
scheduled final maturity date of any Incremental Facility) (other than pursuant to change of
control and asset sale covenants substantially similar to those in the Second Lien Note Indenture
or that, in the reasonable judgment of the Borrower, are at least as favorable to the Borrower and
its Subsidiaries as are the corresponding terms of similar Indebtedness issued by
similarly-situated issuers after taking into account the then-prevailing market conditions), (iv)
the material terms of such Indebtedness in the aggregate are at least as favorable to the Borrower
and its Subsidiaries as are the Second Lien Notes (provided, however, that
notwithstanding the foregoing, the terms of such Indebtedness need not be as favorable to the
Borrower and its Subsidiaries as are the corresponding terms in the Second Lien Notes so long as
such terms in the aggregate are in the reasonable judgment of the Borrower at least as favorable to
the Borrower and its Subsidiaries as are the corresponding terms of similar Indebtedness issued by
similarly situated issuers after taking into account the then prevailing market conditions) and (v)
if required to be guaranteed, such Indebtedness is guaranteed only by Subsidiaries which have
guaranteed payment of the Obligations pursuant to guarantee provisions at least as favorable to the
holders of the Obligations as are those in the Second Lien Note Indenture;
(c) with respect to the Senior Unsecured Notes, Indebtedness of the Borrower which satisfies
the following conditions: (i) such Indebtedness is unsecured, (ii) the principal amount of such
Indebtedness is no greater than the sum of the principal amount of the Senior Unsecured Notes being
refinanced plus any fees and premiums arising in connection with such refinancing, (iii) such
Indebtedness has no required (scheduled and mandatory) principal payments prior to the date which
is six months after the Tranche B Final Maturity Date (or, if later, six months after the then
scheduled final maturity date of any Incremental Facility) (other than pursuant to change of
control and asset sale covenants substantially similar to those in the Senior Unsecured Note
Indenture), (iv) the material terms of such Indebtedness in the aggregate are at least as favorable
to the Borrower and its Subsidiaries as are the Senior Unsecured Notes and guarantees thereof by
Subsidiaries (provided, however, that notwithstanding the foregoing, the terms of
the interest or dividend rate, yields and redemption prices in respect of such refinancing
Indebtedness need not be as favorable to the Borrower and its Subsidiaries as are the corresponding
terms in the Senior Unsecured Notes so long as such terms in the aggregate are in the reasonable
judgment of the Borrower at least as favorable to the Borrower and its Subsidiaries as are the
corresponding terms of similar securities issued by similarly situated issuers after taking into
account the then prevailing market conditions) and (v) if required to be guaranteed, such
Indebtedness is guaranteed only by Subsidiaries which have guaranteed payment of the Obligations
pursuant to guarantee provisions at least as favorable to the holders of the Obligations as are
those in the Senior Unsecured Note Indenture; and
(d) with respect to any other Indebtedness (the “Original Indebtedness”) of the
Borrower, Indebtedness (“Refinancing Indebtedness”) of the Borrower which satisfies the
following conditions: (i) if the Original Indebtedness is subordinated in right of payment, the
Refinancing Indebtedness (including permitted guarantees thereof described in clause (vi) below)
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is at least as subordinated in right of payment and otherwise to the Obligations and other
senior Indebtedness as is the Original Indebtedness, (ii) if the Original Indebtedness is secured,
the Refinancing Indebtedness is unsecured or, if the Refinancing Indebtedness is secured, the
intercreditor arrangements with respect to such Refinancing Indebtedness (including subordination
of liens) are at least as favorable to the holders of the Obligations as are those applicable to
the Original Indebtedness, (iii) the principal amount of the Refinancing Indebtedness is no greater
than the sum of the principal amount of the Original Indebtedness being refinanced plus any fees
and premiums arising in connection with such refinancing, (iv) the Refinancing Indebtedness has no
required (scheduled and mandatory) principal payments prior to the date which is six months after
the Tranche B Final Maturity Date (or, if later, six months after the then scheduled final maturity
date of any Incremental Facility) (other than pursuant to change of control and asset sale
covenants substantially similar to those in the Original Indebtedness or that, in the reasonable
judgment of the Borrower, are at least as favorable to the Borrower and its Subsidiaries as are the
corresponding terms of similar Indebtedness issued by similarly-situated issuers after taking into
account the then-prevailing market conditions), (v) the material terms of the Refinancing
Indebtedness in the aggregate are at least as favorable to the Borrower and its Subsidiaries as the
Original Indebtedness and guarantees thereof by Subsidiaries (provided, however,
that notwithstanding the foregoing, the terms of the interest or dividend rate, yields and
redemption prices in respect of the Refinancing Indebtedness need not be as favorable to the
Borrower and its Subsidiaries as are the corresponding terms in the Original Indebtedness so long
as such terms in the aggregate are in the reasonable judgment of the Borrower at least as favorable
to the Borrower and its Subsidiaries as are the corresponding terms of similar securities issued by
similarly situated issuers after taking into account the then prevailing market conditions) and
(vi) if required to be guaranteed, the Refinancing Indebtedness is guaranteed only by Subsidiaries
which have guaranteed payment of the Obligations pursuant to subordination (if applicable) and
guarantee provisions at least as favorable to the holders of the Obligations as are those in the
Original Indebtedness.
“Permitted Sale/Leasebacks”: as defined in Section 7.11.
“Person”: an individual, partnership, corporation, limited liability company,
business trust, joint stock company, trust, unincorporated association, joint venture, Governmental
Authority or other entity of whatever nature.
“Plan”: at a particular time, any employee benefit plan that is covered by ERISA and
in respect of which the Borrower or a Commonly Controlled Entity is (or, if such plan were
terminated at such time, would under Section 4069 of ERISA be deemed to be) an “employer” as
defined in Section 3(5) of ERISA.
“Pricing Grid”: the pricing grid attached hereto as Annex A.
“Properties”: as defined in Section 4.17(a).
“Qualified Capital Stock”: Capital Stock of the Borrower in respect of which no
scheduled, mandatory or required payments are due (other than payments in kind) prior to the date
which is six months after the Tranche B-1 Final Maturity Date (or, if later, six months after the
then scheduled final maturity date of any Incremental Facility).
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“Recovery Event”: any settlement of or payment in respect of any property or casualty
insurance claim or any condemnation proceeding relating to any asset of the Borrower or any of its
Subsidiaries.
“Refunded Swingline Loans”: as defined in Section 2.9.
“Register”: as defined in Section 10.6(e).
“Regulation U”: Regulation U of the Board as in effect from time to time.
“Reimbursement Obligation”: the obligation of the Borrower to reimburse the Issuing
Lender pursuant to Section 3.5 for amounts drawn under Letters of Credit.
“Reinvestment Deferred Amount”: with respect to any Reinvestment Event, the aggregate
Net Cash Proceeds received by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries in connection therewith that
are not applied to prepay the Term Loans or reduce the Total Tranche B-1 Credit Linked Deposit
Amount pursuant to Section 2.13(b) as a result of the delivery of a Reinvestment Notice.
“Reinvestment Event”: any Asset Sale or Recovery Event resulting in the receipt of
Net Cash Proceeds by the Borrower or a Subsidiary in respect of which the Borrower has delivered a
Reinvestment Notice.
“Reinvestment Notice”: a written notice executed by a Responsible Officer stating
that no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and that the Borrower (directly or
indirectly through a Subsidiary) intends and expects to use all or a specified portion of the Net
Cash Proceeds of an Asset Sale or Recovery Event to acquire assets useful in its business. The
Borrower may deliver a Reinvestment Notice quarterly after the end of each applicable fiscal
quarter with the compliance certificate delivered pursuant to Section 6.2(b) rather than at the
time of receipt of the related Net Cash Proceeds.
“Reinvestment Prepayment Amount”: with respect to any Reinvestment Event, the
Reinvestment Deferred Amount relating thereto less any amount expended prior to the relevant
Reinvestment Prepayment Date to acquire assets useful in the Borrower’s business.
“Reinvestment Prepayment Date”: with respect to any Reinvestment Event, the earlier
of (a) the date occurring 12 months after such Reinvestment Event and (b) the date on which the
Borrower shall have determined not to acquire assets useful in the Borrower’s business with all or
any portion of the relevant Reinvestment Deferred Amount.
“Reorganization”: with respect to any Multiemployer Plan, the condition that such
plan is in reorganization within the meaning of Section 4241 of ERISA.
“Reportable Event”: any of the events set forth in Section 4043(b) of ERISA, other
than those events as to which the thirty day notice period is waived under subsections .27, .28, .29, .30, .31, .32, .34 or .35 of PBGC Reg. § 4043.
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“Required Lenders”: at any time, the holders (other than Defaulting Lenders) of more
than 50% of (a) until the Fifth Amendment Effective Date, the Commitments (excluding Commitments of
Defaulting Lenders) then in effect and (b) thereafter, the sum of (i) the aggregate unpaid
principal amount of the Term Loans (excluding Term Loans held by Defaulting Lenders) then
outstanding, (ii) the Total Revolving Commitments (excluding Revolving Commitments of Defaulting
Lenders) then in effect or, if the Revolving Commitments have been terminated, the Total Revolving
Extensions of Credit (excluding Revolving Extensions of Credit held by Defaulting Lenders) then
outstanding and (iii) the Total Tranche B-1 Credit Linked Deposit Amount (excluding the Tranche B-1
Credit Linked Deposit Amounts of Defaulting Lenders) then in effect or, if the Total Tranche B-1
Credit Linked Deposit Amount has been terminated, the Total Tranche B-1 Extensions of Credit
(excluding Tranche B-1 Extensions of Credit held by Defaulting Lenders) then outstanding
thereunder.
“Requirement of Law”: as to any Person, the Certificate of Incorporation and By-Laws
or other organizational or governing documents of such Person, and any law, treaty, rule or
regulation or determination of an arbitrator or a court or other Governmental Authority, in each
case applicable to or binding upon such Person or any of its property or to which such Person or
any of its property is subject.
“Responsible Officer”: the chief executive officer, president or chief financial
officer of the Borrower or any other applicable Loan Party, but in any event, with respect to
financial matters, the chief financial officer, Treasurer and Controller of the Borrower or such
Loan Party, as the case may be.
“Restricted Payments”: as defined in Section 7.6.
“Revolving Commitment”: as to any Lender, its Extended Revolving Commitment or
Non-Extended Revolving Commitment, as the context may require. The amount of the Total Revolving
Commitments on the Fifth Amendment Effective Date is $622,071,714.45, which shall be comprised, on
the Fifth Amendment Effective Date, of $65,685,714.28 of Total Non-Extended Revolving Commitments
and $556,386,000.17 of Total Extended Revolving Commitments.
“Revolving Commitment Period”: as applicable, the period from and including (i) the
Closing Date to the Non-Extended Revolving Termination Date, with respect to the Non-Extended
Revolving Facility, and (ii) the Fifth Amendment Effective Date to the Extended Revolving
Termination Date, with respect to the Extended Revolving Facility.
“Revolving Extensions of Credit”: as to any Revolving Lender at any time, an amount
equal to the sum of (a) the aggregate principal amount of all Revolving Loans held by such Lender
then outstanding, (b) such Lender’s Revolving Percentage of the L/C Obligations then outstanding
under the Revolving Facility and (c) such Lender’s Revolving Percentage of the aggregate principal
amount of Swingline Loans then outstanding.
“Revolving Lender”: as the context may require, an Extended Revolving Lender, a
Non-Extended Revolving Lender, or all such Lenders.
“Revolving Letters of Credit”: Letters of Credit issued and deemed to be issued under
the Revolving Facility.
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“Revolving Loans”: as defined in Section 2.6(a).
“Revolving Percentage”: as to any Revolving Lender at any time, its Extended
Revolving Percentage or Non-Extended Revolving Percentage, as the context may require.
“Revolving Termination Date”: as applicable, (i) with respect to the Extended
Revolving Facility, the Extended Revolving Termination Date and (ii) with respect to the
Non-Extended Revolving Facility, the Non-Extended Revolving Termination Date. Each reference herein
to “Revolving Termination Date” shall be deemed to be a reference to the relevant Revolving
Termination Date with respect to the relevant Revolving Facility.
“S&P”: as defined in the definition of “Cash Equivalents”.
“SEC”: the Securities and Exchange Commission, any successor thereto and any
analogous Governmental Authority.
“Second Lien Note Holders”: holders of the Second Lien Notes from time to time.
“Second Lien Note Indenture”: the Indenture dated as of June 19, 2003, entered into
by the Borrower and certain of its Subsidiaries and the trustee named therein in connection with
the issuance of the Second Lien Notes, together with all instruments and other agreements entered
into by the Borrower or such Subsidiaries in connection therewith, as the same may be amended,
supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time in a manner that is not prohibited by Section
7.15. Upon the issuance of any Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness in respect of any Second Lien
Notes, the indenture or similar agreement pursuant to which such Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness
is issued shall be deemed to be a Second Lien Note Indenture (in addition to any other indenture or
similar agreement for Second Lien Notes then outstanding); provided, however, that (1) the
provisions of Section 4.22 shall apply to such indenture or similar agreement pursuant to which
such Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness is issued only if such indenture or agreement (or any
agreement ancillary thereto) is secured by any assets of the Borrower or its Subsidiaries, and (2)
the provisions of Section 7.9(c) shall not apply to such indenture or similar agreement pursuant to
which such Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness is issued.
“Second Lien Notes”: the Borrower’s 10¼% Senior Secured Notes due June 2013 issued in
one or more series pursuant to the Second Lien Note Indenture. Upon the issuance of any Permitted
Refinancing Indebtedness in respect of such Second Lien Notes, such Permitted Refinancing
Indebtedness shall be deemed to be Second Lien Notes (in addition to any other Second Lien Notes
that are then outstanding).
“Second Priority Claims”: as defined in the Intercreditor Agreement.
“Second Priority Collateral Documents”: as defined in the Intercreditor Agreement.
“Security Documents”: the collective reference to the Guarantee and Collateral
Agreement, the Mortgages and all other security documents hereafter delivered to the
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Administrative Agent granting a Lien on any property of any Person to secure the obligations
and liabilities of any Loan Party under any Loan Document.
“Senior Secured Leverage Ratio”: as of the last day of any period, the ratio of (x)
the sum of all outstanding Indebtedness under this Agreement, the Second Lien Notes (if secured)
and Capital Lease Obligations plus the Domestic Receivables Program Amount as of such day to (y)
Consolidated EBITDA for such period. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that the Borrower
or a Subsidiary has entered into an operating lease in connection with a Permitted Sale/Leaseback
then for purposes of calculating the Senior Secured Leverage Ratio on any day, the amount described
in clause (x) shall be deemed to be increased by the remaining unamortized principal component of
such operating lease (as determined based on the applicable schedule setting forth the components
of lease payments delivered pursuant to Section 7.11). For purposes of calculating the Senior
Secured Leverage Ratio, any New Indebtedness incurred to refinance Existing Indebtedness shall be
excluded, as long as and to the extent (i) such Existing Indebtedness shall still be outstanding as
of the calculation date and shall have been counted for purposes of calculating the Senior Secured
Leverage Ratio, (ii) the Borrower shall have begun a tender offer or solicitation to purchase such
Existing Indebtedness or shall have irrevocably called such Existing Indebtedness for payment and
(iii) proceeds of such New Indebtedness are used to repay the Existing Indebtedness within sixty
(60) days after the incurrence thereof.
“Senior Subordinated Note Indenture”: the Indenture dated as of November 19, 2004 by
the Borrower and certain of its Subsidiaries and the trustee named therein pursuant to which the
Senior Subordinated Notes were issued, together with all instruments and other agreements entered
into by the Borrower or such Subsidiaries in connection therewith, as the same may be amended,
supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time in a manner that is not prohibited by Section
7.9. Upon the issuance of any Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness in respect of any Senior
Subordinated Notes, the indenture or similar agreement pursuant to which such Permitted Refinancing
Indebtedness is issued shall be deemed to be a Senior Subordinated Note Indenture (in addition to
any other indenture or similar agreement for Senior Subordinated Notes then outstanding); provided,
however (1) the provisions of Section 7.9(c) shall apply to such indenture or similar agreement
pursuant to which such Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness is issued only if such indenture or
agreement includes a provision regarding “Designated Senior Debt” similar to that included in the
Indenture, dated as of October 14, 1999 between the Borrower and The Bank of New York, as trustee
(the “1999 Indenture”), and (2) the provisions of Section 4.21 shall apply to such
indenture or similar agreement pursuant to which such Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness is issued
only if such indenture or agreement includes a provision regarding the designation of “Senior Debt”
of the Borrower or “Guarantor Senior Debt” of any Subsidiary Guarantor, as applicable, similar to
those included in the 1999 Indenture.
“Senior Subordinated Notes”: the Borrower’s 8⅝% Senior Subordinated Notes due
November 2014 issued pursuant to the Senior Subordinated Note Indenture. Upon the issuance of any
Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness in respect of any Senior Subordinated Notes, such Permitted
Refinancing Indebtedness shall be deemed to be Senior Subordinated Notes (in addition to any other
Senior Subordinated Notes that are then outstanding).
“Senior Unsecured Notes”: the Borrower’s 8⅛% senior notes due November 15, 2015,
issued pursuant to the Senior Unsecured Note Indenture. Upon the issuance of any Permitted
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Refinancing Indebtedness in respect of such Senior Unsecured Notes, such Permitted Refinancing
Indebtedness shall be deemed to be Senior Unsecured Notes (in addition to any other Senior
Unsecured Notes that are then outstanding).
“Senior Unsecured Note Indenture”: the Indenture dated as of November 19, 2007 by the
Borrower and certain of its Subsidiaries and the trustee named therein pursuant to which the Senior
Unsecured Notes were issued, together with all instruments and other agreements entered into by the
Borrower or such Subsidiaries in connection therewith, as the same may be amended, supplemented or
otherwise modified from time to time in a manner that is not prohibited by Section 7.15. Upon the
issuance of any Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness in respect of any Senior Unsecured Notes, the
indenture or similar agreement pursuant to which such Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness is issued
shall be deemed to be a Senior Unsecured Note Indenture (in addition to any other indenture or
similar agreement for Senior Unsecured Notes then outstanding); provided, however, that the
provisions of Section 7.9(c) shall not apply to such indenture or similar agreement pursuant to
which such Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness is issued.
“Single Employer Plan”: any Plan that is covered by Title IV of ERISA, but that is
not a Multiemployer Plan.
“Solvent”: when used with respect to any Person, means that, as of any date of
determination, (a) the amount of the “present fair saleable value” of the assets of such Person
will, as of such date, exceed the amount of all “liabilities of such Person, contingent or
otherwise”, as of such date, as such quoted terms are determined in accordance with applicable
federal and state laws governing determinations of the insolvency of debtors, (b) the present fair
saleable value of the assets of such Person will, as of such date, be greater than the amount that
will be required to pay the liability of such Person on its debts as such debts become absolute and
matured, (c) such Person will not have, as of such date, an unreasonably small amount of capital
with which to conduct its business, and (d) such Person will be able to pay its debts as they
mature. For purposes of this definition, (i) “debt” means liability on a “claim,” and (ii) “claim”
means any (x) right to payment, whether or not such a right is reduced to judgment, liquidated,
unliquidated, fixed, contingent, matured, unmatured, disputed, undisputed, legal, equitable,
secured or unsecured or (y) right to an equitable remedy for breach of performance if such breach
gives rise to a right to payment, whether or not such right to an equitable remedy is reduced to
judgment, fixed, contingent, matured or unmatured, disputed, undisputed, secured or unsecured.
“SPC”: as defined in Section 10.6(d).
“Specified Change of Control”: a “Change of Control” (however denominated) as defined
in the Senior Subordinated Note Indenture, the Second Lien Note Indenture, the Senior Unsecured
Note Indenture or in any other instrument or agreement evidencing or creating Indebtedness with an
aggregate principal amount of $75,000,000 or more.
“Stub Debt”: debentures of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries issued and outstanding
on the date hereof and described in the financial statements of the Borrower referred to in Section
4.1.
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“Subsidiary”: as to any Person, a corporation, partnership, limited liability company
or other entity of which shares of stock or other ownership interests having ordinary voting power
(other than stock or such other ownership interests having such power only by reason of the
happening of a contingency) to elect a majority of the board of directors or other managers of such
corporation, partnership or other entity are at the time owned, or the management of which is
otherwise controlled, directly or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, or both, by such
Person. Unless otherwise qualified (i) all references to a “Subsidiary” or to “Subsidiaries” in
this Agreement shall refer to a Subsidiary or Subsidiaries of the Borrower and (ii) each Finance
Subsidiary shall be deemed not to be a Subsidiary of the Borrower.
“Subsidiary Guarantor”: each Subsidiary of the Borrower other than any Excluded
Subsidiary.
“Swingline Commitment”: the obligation of the Swingline Lender to make Swingline
Loans pursuant to Section 2.8 in an aggregate principal amount at any one time outstanding not to
exceed (i) $40,000,000, in the case of U.K. Swingline Loans, and (ii) $1,000,000, in the case of
U.S. Swingline Loans.
“Swingline Lender”: as the context may require, either (i) JPMCB, in its capacity as
the lender of U.S. Swingline Loans, or (ii) JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., London Branch, an affiliate
of JPMCB, in its capacity as the lender of U.K. Swingline Loans.
“Swingline Loans”: as defined in Section 2.8.
“Swingline Participation Amount”: as defined in Section 2.9.
“Syndication Agent”: as defined in the preamble hereto.
“TAOC”: Tenneco Automotive Operating Company Inc., a Delaware corporation and a
Subsidiary of the Borrower.
“Term Lenders”: the Tranche B Term Lenders.
“Term Loans”: the Tranche B Term Loans.
“Total Extended Revolving Commitments”: at any time, the aggregate amount of the
Extended Revolving Commitments then in effect.
“Total Non-Extended Revolving Commitments”: at any time, the aggregate amount of the
Non-Extended Revolving Commitments then in effect.
“Total Revolving Commitments”: the sum of the Total Extended Revolving Commitments
and the Total Non-Extended Revolving Commitments. The Total Revolving Commitments may be increased
or reduced from time to time pursuant to Sections 2.6(c) and 2.11(a), respectively.
“Total Revolving Extensions of Credit”: at any time, the aggregate amount of the
Revolving Extensions of Credit of the Revolving Lenders outstanding at such time.
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“Total Tranche B-1 Credit Linked Deposit Amount”: at any time, the sum of all the
Tranche B-1 Credit Linked Deposit Amounts at such time. The initial amount of the Total Tranche
B-1 Credit Linked Deposit Amount is $130,000,000.
“Total Tranche B-1 Extensions of Credit”: at any time, the aggregate amount of the
Tranche B-1 Extensions of Credit of the Tranche B-1 Lenders at such time.
“Tranche B Final Maturity Date”: the date which is the sixth anniversary of the Fifth
Amendment Effective Date or, if earlier, the Early Maturity Date.
“Tranche B Term Lender”: each Lender that holds a Tranche B Term Loan or that has a
commitment to make a Tranche B Term Loan hereunder.
“Tranche B Term Loan”: as defined in Section 2.1. The initial aggregate amount of
the Tranche B Term Loans is $150,000,000, and on the Fifth Amendment Effective Date, each Tranche B
Term Lender will hold a Tranche B Term Loan in an amount equal to the amount set forth opposite its
name on Schedule 1.1A, or as may subsequently be set forth in the Register from time to time, as
the same may be adjusted from time to time pursuant to this Agreement.
“Tranche B Term Percentage”: as to any Tranche B Term Lender at any time, the
percentage which the aggregate principal amount of such Lender’s Tranche B Term Loan then
outstanding constitutes of the aggregate principal amount of all of the Tranche B Term Loans then
outstanding.
“Tranche B-1 ABR Conversion Period”: any period beginning on the last day of the then
current Interest Period for Tranche B-1 Loans following any date on which a Tranche B-1 ABR
Conversion Notice is delivered to the Borrower and ending on first day of the calendar month
following the date that such notice is withdrawn or an Event of Default no longer exists.
“Tranche B-1 ABR Conversion Notice”: a notice delivered by the Administrative Agent,
acting at the request of the Majority Facility Lenders in respect of the Tranche B-1 Facility,
during the continuation of an Event of Default stating that the Tranche B-1 Loans shall become ABR
Loans on the last day of the then current Interest Period for Tranche B-1 Loans.
“Tranche B-1 Actual Return Rate”: as defined in Section 2.4(h).
“Tranche B-1 Borrowing”: the making of any Tranche B-1 Loan or the issuance of any
Tranche B-1 Letter of Credit.
“Tranche B-1 Credit Linked Account”: with respect to each Tranche B-1 Lender, the
account established by the Administrative Agent at JPMCB in the name of such Tranche B-1 Lender
pursuant to Section 2.4(a).
“Tranche B-1 Credit Linked Deposit”: with respect to each Tranche B-1 Lender at any
time, amounts actually on deposit in its Tranche B-1 Credit Linked Account at such time.
“Tranche B-1 Credit Linked Deposit Amount”: with respect to each Tranche B-1 Lender,
an amount equal to the amount set forth opposite its name on Schedule 1.1A, or as may
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subsequently be set forth in the Register from time to time, as the same may be adjusted from
time to time pursuant to this Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, the Tranche B-1 Credit Linked
Deposit Amount of each Tranche B-1 Lender shall not be adjusted by the making of any Tranche B-1
Loans or reimbursement of drawings under Tranche B-1 Letters of Credit as a result of the
withdrawal of any amounts then on deposit in such Tranche B-1 Lender’s Tranche B-1 Credit Linked
Account.
“Tranche B-1 Deposit Return Date”: the date that the Tranche B-1 Credit Linked
Accounts are closed pursuant to Section 2.4(c)(vi).
“Tranche B-1 Eurodollar Rate”: as defined in Section 2.4(h).
“Tranche B-1 Extensions of Credit”: as to any Tranche B-1 Lender at any time, an
amount equal to the sum of (a) the aggregate principal amount of all Tranche B-1 Loans held by such
Lender then outstanding and (b) such Lender’s Tranche B-1 Percentage of the L/C Obligations then
outstanding under the Tranche B-1 Facility.
“Tranche B-1 Final Maturity Date”: the date which is the seventh anniversary of the
Closing Date or, if applicable, the Early Maturity Date.
“Tranche B-1 Fixed Return Rate”: as defined as set forth in Section 2.4(h).
“Tranche B-1 Lender”: any financial institution or other investor that has a
corresponding Tranche B-1 Credit Linked Deposit Amount hereunder.
“Tranche B-1 Letter of Credit”: Letters of Credit issued and deemed to be issued
under the Tranche B-1 Facility.
“Tranche B-1 Letter of Credit Outstandings”: at any time, the sum of (i) the
aggregate undrawn stated amount of all Tranche B-1 Letters of Credit issued and then outstanding
plus (ii) all outstanding Reimbursement Obligations under Tranche B-1 Letters of Credit, in
each case at such time.
“Tranche B-1 Loan”: as defined as set forth in Section 2.5(a). Tranche B-1 Loans may
be ABR Loans to the extent provided in Section 2.4(f) and may bear interest at the Eurodollar Rate
as provided herein.
“Tranche B-1 Outstanding Exposure”: at any time, the then outstanding aggregate
principal amount of the Tranche B-1 Loans plus the then Tranche B-1 Letter of Credit
Outstandings.
“Tranche B-1 Percentage”: as to any Tranche B-1 Lender at any time that (a) any
Tranche B-1 Extensions of Credit are outstanding, the percentage which the aggregate principal
amount of such Lender’s Tranche B-1 Extensions of Credit then outstanding constitute of the
aggregate principal amount of all of the Tranche B-1 Extensions of Credit then outstanding or (b)
no Tranche B-1 Extensions of Credit are outstanding, the percentage which such Lender’s Tranche B-1
Credit Linked Deposit Amount constitutes of the Total Tranche B-1 Credit Linked Deposit Amount.
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“Tranche B-1 Settlement Date”: the earliest to occur of (i) the Tranche B-1 Final
Maturity Date, (ii) the Early Maturity Date and (iii) the date of an acceleration of payment of all
Obligations relating to the Tranche B-1 Facility pursuant to Section 8.
“Transaction”: the execution and delivery of the Fifth Amendment and the
transactions contemplated thereby.
“Transferee”: any Assignee or Participant.
“Type”: as to any Loan, its nature as an ABR Loan or a Eurodollar Loan.
“U.K. Swingline Loan”: as defined in Section 2.8.
“United States”: the United States of America.
“U.S. Swingline Loan”: as defined in Section 2.8.
“Wholly Owned Subsidiary”: as to any Person, any other Person all of the Capital
Stock of which (other than directors’ qualifying shares required by law) is owned by such Person
directly and/or through other Wholly Owned Subsidiaries.
“Wholly Owned Subsidiary Guarantor”: any Subsidiary Guarantor that is a Wholly Owned
Subsidiary of the Borrower.
1.2 Other Definitional Provisions. (a) Unless otherwise specified therein, all terms defined
in this Agreement shall have the defined meanings when used in the other Loan Documents or any
certificate or other document made or delivered pursuant hereto or thereto.
(b) As used herein and in the other Loan Documents, and any certificate or other document made
or delivered pursuant hereto or thereto, (i) accounting terms relating to the Borrower and its
Subsidiaries not defined in Section 1.1 and accounting terms partly defined in Section 1.1, to the
extent not defined, shall have the respective meanings given to them under GAAP, (ii) the words
“include,” “includes” and “including” shall be deemed to be followed by the phrase “without
limitation,” (iii) the word “incur” shall be construed to mean incur, create, issue, assume, become
liable in respect of or suffer to exist (and the words “incurred” and “incurrence” shall have
correlative meanings), and (iv) the words “asset” and “property” shall be construed to have the
same meaning and effect and to refer to any and all tangible and intangible assets and properties,
including cash, Capital Stock, securities, revenues, accounts, leasehold interests and contract
rights.
(c) The words “hereof,” “herein” and “hereunder” and words of similar import when used in this
Agreement shall refer to this Agreement as a whole and not to any particular provision of this
Agreement, and Section, Schedule and Exhibit references are to this Agreement unless otherwise
specified.
(d) The meanings given to terms defined herein shall be equally applicable to both the
singular and plural forms of such terms.
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SECTION 2. AMOUNT AND TERMS OF COMMITMENTS
2.1 Tranche B Term Commitments. Subject to the terms and conditions hereof, each Tranche B
Term Lender severally agrees to make a term loan (a “Tranche B Term Loan”) to the Borrower
on the Fifth Amendment Effective Date. The Tranche B Term Loans may from time to time be
Eurodollar Loans or ABR Loans, as determined by the Borrower and notified to the Administrative
Agent in accordance with Sections 2.2 and 2.14.
2.2 Procedure for Tranche B Term Loan Borrowing. The Borrower shall give the Administrative
Agent irrevocable notice (which notice must be received by the Administrative Agent prior to 12:00
Noon, New York City time, one Business Day prior to the anticipated Fifth Amendment Effective Date
in the case of ABR Loans or three Business Days prior to the anticipated Fifth Amendment Effective
Date in the case of Eurodollar Loans) requesting that the Tranche B Term Lenders make the Tranche B
Term Loans on the Fifth Amendment Effective Date.
2.3 Repayment of Tranche B Term Loans. The Tranche B Term Loan of each Tranche B Term
Lender shall be payable in 24 consecutive quarterly installments, commencing September 30, 2010,
each of which shall be in an amount equal to such Lender’s Tranche B Term Percentage multiplied by
the amount set forth below opposite each installment:
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September 30, 2010 |
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375,000 |
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December 31, 2010 |
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$ |
375,000 |
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March 31, 2011 |
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$ |
375,000 |
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June 30, 2011 |
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$ |
375,000 |
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September 30, 2011 |
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$ |
375,000 |
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December 31, 2011 |
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$ |
375,000 |
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March 31, 2012 |
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$ |
375,000 |
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June 30, 2012 |
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$ |
375,000 |
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September 30, 2012 |
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$ |
375,000 |
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December 31, 2012 |
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$ |
375,000 |
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March 31, 2013 |
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$ |
375,000 |
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June 30, 2013 |
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$ |
375,000 |
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September 30, 2013 |
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$ |
375,000 |
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Installment |
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Amount |
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December 31, 2013 |
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$ |
375,000 |
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March 31, 2014 |
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$ |
375,000 |
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June 30, 2014 |
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$ |
375,000 |
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September 30, 2014 |
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$ |
375,000 |
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December 31, 2014 |
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$ |
375,000 |
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March 31, 2015 |
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$ |
375,000 |
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June 30, 2015 |
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$ |
375,000 |
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September 30, 2015 |
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$ |
375,000 |
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December 31, 2015 |
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$ |
375,000 |
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March 31, 2016 |
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$ |
375,000 |
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Tranche B Final
Maturity Date |
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$ |
141,375,000 |
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Notwithstanding the foregoing, upon the occurrence of an Early Maturity Date with respect to
the Tranche B Term Facility, the balance of the Tranche B Term Loan of each Tranche B Term Lender
shall be payable on such Early Maturity Date.
2.4 Tranche B-1 Credit Linked Accounts. (a) Establishment of Tranche B-1 Credit Linked
Accounts. On or prior to the Closing Date, the Administrative Agent shall establish a Tranche B-1
Credit Linked Account at JPMCB in the name of each Tranche B-1 Lender. The Administrative Agent
shall establish additional Tranche B-1 Credit Linked Accounts at JPMCB (subject to Section 9.9) at
such times and in the names of such assignee Tranche B-1 Lenders as shall be required pursuant to
Section 10.6(c). Amounts on deposit in each Tranche B-1 Credit Linked Account shall be invested,
or caused to be invested, by the Administrative Agent as set forth in subsection (d) below, and no
Person (other than the Administrative Agent or any of its sub-agents) shall have the right to make
any withdrawals from any Tranche B-1 Credit Linked Account or exercise any other right or power
with respect thereto, except as expressly provided in subsection (c) below or Section 9.9 or
10.6(c). Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each party hereto acknowledges and
agrees that no amount on deposit at any time in any Tranche B-1 Credit Linked Account shall be the
property of any Loan Party, shall constitute “Collateral” under the Loan Documents, or shall
otherwise be available in any manner to satisfy any Obligation of any Loan Party under the Loan
Documents. The sole funding obligation of each Tranche B-1 Lender in respect of the Tranche B-1
Facility shall be satisfied upon the funding of its Tranche B-1 Credit Linked Deposit Amount.
(b) Deposits in Tranche B-1 Credit Linked Accounts. The following amounts will be deposited
in each Tranche B-1 Credit Linked Account at the following times:
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(i) on the Closing Date, each Tranche B-1 Lender shall deposit in its Tranche B-1
Credit Linked Account an amount in Dollars equal to such Tranche B-1 Lender’s Tranche B-1
Credit Linked Deposit Amount. All funding obligations with respect to any Tranche B-1 Loan
and all obligations to repay the Issuing Lender with respect to any draw paid by it under
any Tranche B-1 Letter of Credit and not reimbursed by the Borrower, in the case of each
Tranche B-1 Lender, shall be satisfied upon such Tranche B-1 Lender’s making such deposit in
its Tranche B-1 Credit Linked Account;
(ii) on any date on which the Administrative Agent receives any payment for the account
of any Tranche B-1 Lender with respect to the principal amount of any of its Tranche B-1
Loans (whether pursuant to Section 2.11, 2.12 or 2.13 or Section 8 or otherwise) prior to
the Tranche B-1 Deposit Return Date, the Administrative Agent shall deposit such amount in
the Tranche B-1 Credit Linked Account of such Tranche B-1 Lender;
(iii) on any date on which the Administrative Agent or the Issuing Lender receives any
reimbursement payment from the Borrower with respect to amounts withdrawn from any Tranche
B-1 Credit Linked Account to reimburse any Issuing Lender with respect to any payment made
by it under any Tranche B-1 Letter of Credit prior to the Tranche B-1 Deposit Return Date,
the Administrative Agent or the Issuing Lender shall deposit in each Tranche B-1 Credit
Linked Account the portion of such reimbursement payment to be deposited therein, in
accordance with Section 3.4(a); and
(iv) concurrently with the effectiveness of any assignment by any Tranche B-1 Lender of
all or any portion of its Tranche B-1 Credit Linked Deposit Amount, the Administrative Agent
shall transfer into the Tranche B-1 Credit Linked Account of the assignee Tranche B-1 Lender
the corresponding portion of the amount on deposit in the assignor’s Tranche B-1 Credit
Linked Account, in accordance with Section 10.6(c).
(c) Withdrawals from and Closing of Tranche B-1 Credit Linked Accounts. Amounts on deposit in
each Tranche B-1 Credit Linked Account shall be withdrawn and distributed (or transferred, in the
case of clause (iv) below) as follows:
(i) on the date of any Tranche B-1 Borrowing of Tranche B-1 Loans, subject to
satisfaction of the conditions applicable thereto set forth in Section 5, the Administrative
Agent shall withdraw from each Tranche B-1 Credit Linked Account an amount equal to the
relevant Tranche B-1 Lender’s Tranche B-1 Percentage of such Tranche B-1 Borrowing, and make
such amount available to the Borrower, as contemplated by Section 2.5(b) and in accordance
with Section 2.7;
(ii) on any date on which any Issuing Lender is to be reimbursed by the Tranche B-1
Lenders for any payment made by such Issuing Lender with respect to a Tranche B-1 Letter of
Credit, the Administrative Agent shall withdraw from each Tranche B-1 Credit Linked Account
an amount equal to the relevant Tranche B-1 Lender’s Tranche B-1 Percentage of such
unreimbursed payment, and make such amount available to the Issuing Lender, in accordance
with Section 3.4(a) and the amount so withdrawn shall be deemed to be a Tranche B-1 Loan
made on such date;
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(iii) concurrently with each optional or mandatory reduction or termination of the
Total Tranche B-1 Credit Linked Deposit Amount pursuant to Section 2.11, 2.12 or 2.13, as
the case may be, the Administrative Agent shall withdraw from each Tranche B-1 Credit Linked
Account, and pay to the relevant Tranche B-1 Lender, an amount equal to such Tranche B-1
Lender’s Tranche B-1 Percentage of the amount of the optional or mandatory reduction of the
Total Tranche B-1 Credit Linked Deposit Amount, in accordance with the applicable Section;
(iv) concurrently with the effectiveness of any assignment by any Tranche B-1 Lender of
all or any portion of its Tranche B-1 Credit Linked Deposit Amount, the corresponding
portion of the amount on deposit in the assignor’s Tranche B-1 Credit Linked Account shall
be transferred from the assignor’s Tranche B-1 Credit Linked Account to the assignee’s
Tranche B-1 Credit Linked Account, in accordance with Section 10.6(c) and, if required by
Section 10.6(c), the Administrative Agent shall close such assignor’s Tranche B-1 Credit
Linked Account;
(v) promptly following the occurrence of a Tranche B-1 Settlement Date, the
Administrative Agent shall withdraw from each Tranche B-1 Credit Linked Account an amount
equal to the applicable Tranche B-1 Lender’s Tranche B-1 Percentage of the amount by which
aggregate amounts then on deposit in the Tranche B-1 Credit Linked Accounts exceed the
Tranche B-1 Letter of Credit Outstandings and pay such amount to such Tranche B-1 Lender;
and
(vi) upon the reduction of the Total Tranche B-1 Credit Linked Deposit Amount to $0 and
the expiration or cancellation of all outstanding Tranche B-1 Letters of Credit, the
Administrative Agent shall withdraw from each Tranche B-1 Credit Linked Account, and pay to
the relevant Tranche B-1 Lender, the aggregate amount then on deposit therein, and shall
close each such Tranche B-1 Credit Linked Account.
(d) Investment of Amounts in Tranche B-1 Credit Linked Accounts. The Administrative
Agent shall invest, or cause to be invested, the amount on deposit in the Tranche B-1 Credit Linked
Account of each Tranche B-1 Lender so as to earn for the account of such Tranche B-1 Lender a
return thereon on each day at a rate per annum equal to (i) the one month LIBOR rate as determined
by the Administrative Agent on such day (or if such day was not a Business Day, the first Business
Day immediately preceding such day) based on rates for deposits in Dollars (as set forth by
Bloomberg L.P.-page BTMM or any other comparable publicly available service as may be selected by
the Administrative Agent) (the “Benchmark LIBOR Rate”) minus (ii) 0.25% (based on a 365 or
366 day year, as the case may be). The Benchmark LIBOR Rate will be reset on each Business Day.
Such return will be paid by the Administrative Agent to each Tranche B-1 Lender for any calendar
month (or portion thereof) monthly in arrears on the third Business Day of the following calendar
month and the Early Maturity Date or the Tranche B-1 Final Maturity Date, as applicable, as well as
the Tranche B-1 Deposit Return Date. No Loan Party shall have any obligation under or in respect
of the provisions of this Section 2.4(d).
(e) Tranche B-1 Fixed Return Rate Fee. The Borrower shall pay a fee to the Administrative
Agent, for the account of each Tranche B-1 Lender, monthly in arrears for each calendar month (or
portion thereof), an amount equal to the excess of (i) the Tranche B-1 Fixed
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Return Rate over (ii) the Tranche B-1 Actual Return Rate, in each case with respect to such
Tranche B-1 Lender for such calendar month (or portion thereof) (but only if such amount
constituting the difference between the amounts provided for in items (i) and (ii) above is greater
than $0). Each such amount for any calendar month (or portion thereof) will be paid by the
Borrower to the Administrative Agent, for the account of each Tranche B-1 Lender, on the third
Business Day of the following calendar month, on the Tranche B-1 Settlement Date and on the Tranche
B-1 Deposit Return Date. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement (except as set
forth below in the last sentence of this paragraph (e)), the sum (the “Accrued Interest and
Fees”) of (i) the aggregate amount of interest payments due to such Tranche B-1 Lender by the
Borrower pursuant to Section 2.16(b), (c) and (d) and (ii) the aggregate amount of letter of credit
fees due to such Tranche B-1 Lender by the Borrower pursuant to Section 3.3(a), in each case with
respect to such monthly period (or portion thereof), shall not exceed the excess (the “Actual
Fee Amount”) of (A) the Tranche B-1 Fixed Return Rate for such monthly period (or portion
thereof) with respect to such Tranche B-1 Lender over (B) the aggregate amount of return due to
such Tranche B-1 Lender from the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 2.4(d) for such monthly
period (or portion thereof), and to the extent the Accrued Interest and Fees exceeds the Actual Fee
Amount, the aggregate amount of such interest and letter of credit fees shall be deemed to have
been reduced ratably. The limitation and reduction set forth in the preceding sentence shall not
apply to the extent that the Accrued Interest and Fees with respect to such monthly period (or
portion thereof) that are due to any Tranche B-1 Lender exceeds the Actual Fee Amount of such
Tranche B-1 Lender as a result of interest accrued and due to such Tranche B-1 Lender pursuant to
Section 2.16(b) as a result of the conversion of Tranche B-1 Loans to ABR Loans during a Tranche
B-1 ABR Conversion Period and/or Section 2.16(d).
(f) Tranche B-1 Loans During Tranche B-1 ABR Conversion Period. Notwithstanding any other
provisions of this Agreement, Tranche B-1 Loans shall be deemed to be ABR Loans during any Tranche
B-1 ABR Conversion Period. Interest on such ABR Loans shall be payable on the Interest Payment
Dates described in clause (e) of the definition thereof.
(g) Sub-agents. The Administrative Agent may perform any and all its duties and exercise its
rights and powers contemplated by this Section 2.4 by or through one or more sub-agents appointed
by it (which may include any of its Affiliates), and any such sub-agent shall be entitled to the
benefit of all the provisions of Article 9 of this Agreement (including Section 9.7). The parties
hereto acknowledge that on or prior to the Closing Date the Administrative Agent has engaged
JPMorgan Chase Institutional Services to act as its sub-agent for purposes of this Section 2.4, and
that in such capacity JPMorgan Chase Institutional Services shall be entitled to the benefit of all
the provisions of Article 9 of this Agreement (including Section 9.7).
(h) Definitions. For purposes of this Section 2.4 (or in the case of any other provision of
this Agreement that refers to any of the following terms), the following defined terms shall have
the following meanings:
“Tranche B-1 Actual Return Rate”: for any calendar month (or portion thereof) referred
to in subsection (e) above with respect to which the Tranche B-1 Actual Return Rate is determined,
with respect to any Tranche B-1 Lender, an amount equal to (i) the aggregate amount of return due
to such Tranche B-1 Lender from the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 2.4(d) plus
(ii) the aggregate amount of interest payments received by such Tranche B-1 Lender
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from the Borrower pursuant to Section 2.16 plus (iii) the aggregate amount of letter of credit
fees received by such Tranche B-1 Lender from the Borrower pursuant to Section 3.3(a), in each case
with respect to such calendar month (or portion thereof).
“Tranche B-1 Eurodollar Rate”: for any calendar month (or portion thereof) referred to
in subsection (e) above with respect to which the Tranche B-1 Eurodollar Rate is determined, the
Eurodollar Rate for an Interest Period of one month commencing on the first day of such calendar
month, as determined by the Administrative Agent.
“Tranche B-1 Fixed Return Rate”: for any calendar month (or portion thereof) referred
to in subsection (e) above with respect to which the Tranche B-1 Fixed Return Rate is determined,
with respect to any Tranche B-1 Lender, an amount equal to the interest that would have accrued on
the Tranche B-1 Credit Linked Deposit Amount (irrespective of the amount then on deposit in such
Tranche B-1 Lender’s Tranche B-1 Credit Linked Account) of such Tranche B-1 Lender during such
monthly period (or portion thereof) if such interest were calculated at a rate per annum equal to
(i) the Tranche B-1 Eurodollar Rate plus (ii) a rate per annum equal to the Applicable
Margin for Tranche B-1 Loans (on the basis of the actual number of days elapsed over a year of 360
days).
(i) Losses. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, the Borrower shall
not be liable for any losses due to or misappropriation of any (i) return due to the Administrative
Agent’s failure to achieve the return thereon pursuant to Section 2.4(d) or to pay all or any
portion of such return to any Tranche B-1 Lender or (ii) Tranche B-1 Deposit (it being understood
and agreed for greater certainty that this provision shall not limit any obligation of the Borrower
hereunder to repay any Tranche B-1 Loan).
2.5 Making of Tranche B-1 Loans. (a) Upon the terms and subject to the conditions herein set
forth (including the provisions of Section 5), each Tranche B-1 Lender, severally and not jointly
with the other Tranche B-1 Lenders, agrees to make loans (each a “Tranche B-1 Loan” and
collectively, the “Tranche B-1 Loans”) to the Borrower at any time and from time to time during the
period commencing on the date hereof and ending on the Tranche B-1 Final Maturity Date; provided
that, after giving effect to any such Tranche B-1 Loan (i) the aggregate outstanding principal
amount of Tranche B-1 Loans of such Tranche B-1 Lender plus such Tranche B-1 Lender’s Tranche B-1
Percentage of the Tranche B-1 Letter of Credit Outstandings does not exceed such Tranche B-1
Lender’s Tranche B-1 Credit Linked Deposit Amount, and (ii) the Tranche B-1 Outstanding Exposure
does not exceed the Total Tranche B-1 Credit Linked Deposit Amount. Tranche B-1 Loans made
pursuant to this subsection (a) or deemed to have been made pursuant to Section 2.4(c)(ii) may be
repaid and reborrowed in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement.
(b) Each Tranche B-1 Loan shall be funded by the Tranche B-1 Lenders pro rata
in accordance with their respective Tranche B-1 Percentages, solely from amounts on deposit in
their respective Tranche B-1 Credit Linked Accounts.
(c) The Borrower shall repay all outstanding Tranche B-1 Loans on the Tranche B-1 Final
Maturity Date.
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2.6 Revolving Commitments. (a) Subject to the terms and conditions hereof, each Revolving
Lender severally agrees to make revolving credit loans (“Revolving Loans”, which shall be
comprised of Extended Revolving Loans and Non-Extended Revolving Loans) to the Borrower from time
to time at the Borrower’s request during the Revolving Commitment Period in an aggregate principal
amount at any one time outstanding which, when added to such Lender’s Revolving Percentage of the
sum of (i) the L/C Obligations with respect to Revolving Letters of Credit then outstanding and
(ii) the aggregate principal amount of the Swingline Loans then outstanding does not exceed the
amount of such Lender’s Revolving Commitment. During the Revolving Commitment Period the Borrower
may use the Revolving Commitments by borrowing, prepaying the Revolving Loans in whole or in part,
and reborrowing, all in accordance with the terms and conditions hereof. The Revolving Loans may
from time to time be Eurodollar Loans or ABR Loans, as determined by the Borrower and notified to
the Administrative Agent in accordance with Sections 2.7 and/or 2.14. On and after the Fifth
Amendment Effective Date (and without further action), all Revolving Loans shall first be made
under the Extended Revolving Facility, to the extent of availability thereunder, and then under the
Non-Extended Revolving Facility, to the extent of availability thereunder.
(b) The Borrower shall repay all outstanding Non-Extended Revolving Loans on the Non-Extended
Revolving Termination Date, and all Extended Revolving Loans on the Extended Revolving Termination
Date.
(c) The Borrower may, from time to time, elect to accept an increase in the Extended Revolving
Commitments after the Fifth Amendment Effective Date in an aggregate amount of up to $50,000,000;
the Extended Revolving Commitments shall be so increased and all terms and pricing conditions of
the Extended Revolving Facility shall be applicable to such increase. No increase in the Extended
Revolving Commitments shall become effective until (i) the existing or new Extended Revolving
Lender (which, if not an existing Extended Revolving Lender, shall be reasonably satisfactory to
the Administrative Agent and the Issuing Lender) extending such incremental commitment amount and
the Borrower shall have executed and delivered to the Administrative Agent an agreement in form and
substance reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent pursuant to which such Extended
Revolving Lender states its commitment amount in respect thereof and agrees to assume and accept
the obligations and rights of an Extended Revolving Lender hereunder and (ii) the Borrower has
provided the Administrative Agent with such related Notes and certificates as the Administrative
Agent may reasonably request. In conjunction with such increase, the Extended Revolving Lenders
(new or existing) shall accept and shall be deemed to have accepted (and the existing Extended
Revolving Lenders shall make and shall be deemed to have made) an assignment at par of an interest
in the Extended Revolving Loans and the Revolving Letters of Credit outstanding at the time of such
increase in Extended Revolving Commitments such that, after giving effect thereto, all Extended
Revolving Loans and Revolving Letters of Credit are held by the Extended Revolving Lenders on a
pro-rata basis. Appropriate adjustments shall be made in payments of interest, commitment fees,
letters of credit commissions and similar amounts to reflect the dates of any such increases in
Extended Revolving Commitments and extensions of credit thereunder and corresponding re-allocations
among the Extended Revolving Lenders. No Lender shall be required to provide any such increase in
the Extended Revolving Commitments unless it agrees to do so. Notwithstanding anything to the
contrary in Section 10.1, this Agreement and the other Loan Documents may be amended from time to
time with the written consent of only the Majority Facility Lenders (including the new
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Extended Revolving Lenders) in respect of the Extended Revolving Facility, the Issuing Lender,
the Administrative Agent and the Borrower to the extent necessary to implement the provisions of
this paragraph (including to reflect such increased Extended Revolving Commitments and the initial
funding thereof).
(d) The Revolving Extensions of Credit under the Extended Revolving Facility shall not
exceed the Total Extended Revolving Commitments at any time, and the Revolving Extensions of Credit
under the Non-Extended Revolving Facility shall not exceed the Total Non-Extended Revolving
Commitments at any time.
2.7 Procedure for Revolving Loan Borrowing and Tranche B-1 Loan Borrowing The Borrower may
borrow under the Revolving Commitments during the Revolving Commitment Period on any Business Day
prior to the Revolving Termination Date and may borrow Tranche B-1 Loans pursuant to Section 2.5 on
any Business Day prior to the earlier to occur of (i) the Tranche B-1 Settlement Date and (ii) the
Tranche B-1 Deposit Return Date, provided that the Borrower shall give the Administrative
Agent irrevocable notice (which notice must be received by the Administrative Agent (a) prior to
12:00 Noon, New York City time, three Business Days prior to the requested Borrowing Date, in the
case of Eurodollar Loans, or (b) prior to 12:00 Noon, New York City time, on the requested
Borrowing Date, in the case of ABR Loans and Tranche B-1 Loans), specifying (i) the amount and, in
the case of Revolving Loans, the Type of Loans to be borrowed and the applicable Revolving Facility
under which such borrowing is to be made (in accordance with Section 2.6(a)), (ii) whether such
Loans are to be Revolving Loans or Tranche B-1 Loans, (iii) the requested Borrowing Date and (iv)
in the case of Eurodollar Loans, the respective amounts of such Type of Loan and the respective
lengths of the initial Interest Period therefor. Each such borrowing shall be in an amount equal
to (x) in the case of ABR Loans and Tranche B-1 Loans, $1,000,000 or a whole multiple thereof in
the case of ABR Loans or a whole multiple of $100,000 in the case of Tranche B-1 Loans (or, if the
then aggregate Available Revolving Commitments under the applicable Revolving Facility or if the
aggregate amount on deposit in the Tranche B-1 Credit Linked Accounts, as the case may be, is less
than $1,000,000, such lesser amount) and (y) in the case of Eurodollar Loans, $5,000,000 or a whole
multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof; provided, that the Swingline Lender and the Issuing
Lender may request, on behalf of the Borrower, borrowings under the Revolving Commitments that are
ABR Loans in other amounts pursuant to Section 2.9 and clause (ii) of the proviso of Section 3.5,
respectively. Upon receipt of any such notice of borrowing under a Revolving Facility from the
Borrower, the Administrative Agent shall promptly notify each Lender under the applicable Revolving
Facility thereof. In the case of a borrowing under a Revolving Facility, each Revolving Lender
will make the amount of its Revolving Percentage of each borrowing available to the Administrative
Agent for the account of the Borrower at the Funding Office prior to 2:00 p.m., New York City time,
on the Borrowing Date requested by the Borrower or requested by the Swingline Lender or an Issuing
Lender on behalf of the Borrower as contemplated by the second preceding sentence in funds
immediately available to the Administrative Agent. In the case of a borrowing under the Tranche
B-1 Facility, each Tranche B-1 Lender hereby irrevocably authorizes the Administrative Agent to
make available to the Borrower an amount on deposit in such Tranche B-1 Lender’s Tranche B-1 Credit
Linked Account equal to such Tranche B-1 Lender’s Tranche B-1 Percentage of such Tranche B-1 Loan
borrowing (it being understood that the funding obligations of each Tranche B-1 Lender with respect
to such borrowing shall be required to be satisfied solely by making such amount available in its
Tranche B-1 Credit Linked Account, and
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the Borrower shall have no other recourse against such Tranche B-1 Lender with respect to the
satisfaction of such funding obligation). Such borrowing will then be made available to the
Borrower by the Administrative Agent crediting the account of the Borrower on the books of such
office with the aggregate of the amounts made available to the Administrative Agent by the
Revolving Lenders and in like funds as received by the Administrative Agent or, if applicable, made
available from the Tranche B-1 Credit Linked Accounts and in like funds as made available.
2.8 Swingline Commitment. (a) Subject to the terms and conditions hereof, the Swingline
Lender agrees to make a portion of the credit otherwise available to the Borrower under the
Extended Revolving Commitments from time to time during the Revolving Commitment Period by making
swing line loans to the Borrower in the United Kingdom (“U.K. Swingline Loans”) or in the United
States (“U.S. Swingline Loans” and, together with U.K. Swingline Loans, the “Swingline Loans”);
provided that (i) the aggregate principal amount of Swingline Loans outstanding at any time shall
not exceed the Swingline Commitment then in effect (notwithstanding that the Swingline Loans
outstanding at any time, when aggregated with the Swingline Lender’s other outstanding Revolving
Loans hereunder, may exceed the Swingline Commitment then in effect) and (ii) the Borrower shall
not request, and the Swingline Lender shall not make, any Swingline Loan if, after giving effect to
the making of such Swingline Loan, the aggregate amount of the Available Revolving Commitments
would be less than zero. During the Revolving Commitment Period, the Borrower may use the
Swingline Commitment by borrowing, repaying and reborrowing, all in accordance with the terms and
conditions hereof. Swingline Loans shall be ABR Loans only.
(b) The Borrower shall repay to the Swingline Lender the then unpaid principal amount of each
Swingline Loan on the earlier of the Extended Revolving Termination Date and the date that is five
Business Days after such Swingline Loan is made.
(c) On the Fifth Amendment Effective Date (and without further action), all Swingline Loans
and participations in respect of outstanding Swingline Loans shall be allocated to the Extended
Revolving Lenders in proportion to their Revolving Percentages as of such date, and the
Non-Extended Revolving Lenders shall be released from their participations in respect of such
outstanding Swingline Loans.
2.9 Procedure for Swingline Borrowing; Refunding of Swingline Loans. (a) Whenever the Borrower
desires that the Swingline Lender make Swingline Loans it shall give the Swingline Lender
irrevocable telephonic notice confirmed promptly in writing (which telephonic notice must be
received by the Swingline Lender not later than 1:00 p.m. New York City time (in the case of U.S.
Swingline Loans) or 1:00 p.m. London time (in the case of U.K. Swingline Loans), on the proposed
Borrowing Date), specifying (i) the amount to be borrowed and (ii) the requested Borrowing Date
(which shall be a Business Day during the Revolving Commitment Period). Each borrowing under the
Swingline Commitment shall be in an amount equal to $100,000 or a whole multiple of $100,000 in
excess thereof. Not later than 3:00 p.m. New York City time (in the case of U.S. Swingline Loans)
or 3:00 p.m. London time (in the case of U.K. Swingline Loans), on the Borrowing Date specified in
a notice in respect of Swingline Loans, the Swingline Lender shall make available to the
Administrative Agent at the Funding Office an amount in immediately available funds equal to the
amount of the Swingline Loan to be made by the Swingline Lender. The Administrative Agent
shall make the proceeds of such Swingline Loan available to the
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Borrower on such Borrowing Date by depositing such proceeds in the account of the Borrower with the
Administrative Agent on such Borrowing Date in immediately available funds.
(b) The Swingline Lender, at any time and from time to time in its sole and absolute
discretion may, on behalf of the Borrower (which hereby irrevocably directs the Swingline Lender to
act on its behalf), on one Business Day’s notice given by the Swingline Lender no later than 12:00
Noon, New York City time, request each Revolving Lender to make, and each Revolving Lender hereby
agrees to make, a Revolving Loan, in an amount equal to such Revolving Lender’s Revolving
Percentage of the aggregate amount of the Swingline Loans (the “Refunded Swingline Loans”)
outstanding on the date of such notice, to repay the Swingline Lender. Each Revolving Lender shall
make the amount of such Revolving Loan available to the Administrative Agent at the Funding Office
in immediately available funds, not later than 10:00 a.m., New York City time, one Business Day
after the date of such notice. The proceeds of such Revolving Loans shall be immediately made
available by the Administrative Agent to the Swingline Lender for application by the Swingline
Lender to the repayment of the Refunded Swingline Loans. The Borrower irrevocably authorizes the
Swingline Lender to charge the Borrower’s accounts with the Administrative Agent (up to the amount
available in each such account) in order to immediately pay the amount of such Refunded Swingline
Loans to the extent amounts received from the Revolving Lenders are not sufficient to repay in full
such Refunded Swingline Loans.
(c) If prior to the time a Revolving Loan would have otherwise been made pursuant to Section
2.9(b), one of the events described in Section 8(f) shall have occurred and be continuing with
respect to the Borrower or if for any other reason, as determined by the Swingline Lender in its
sole discretion, Revolving Loans may not be made as contemplated by Section 2.9(b), each Revolving
Lender shall, on the date such Revolving Loan was to have been made pursuant to the notice referred
to in Section 2.9(b), purchase for cash an undivided participating interest in the then outstanding
Swingline Loans by paying to the Swingline Lender an amount (the “Swingline Participation
Amount”) equal to (i) such Revolving Lender’s Revolving Percentage times (ii) the sum
of the aggregate principal amount of Swingline Loans then outstanding that were to have been repaid
with such Revolving Loans.
(d) Whenever, at any time after the Swingline Lender has received from any Revolving Lender
such Lender’s Swingline Participation Amount, the Swingline Lender receives any payment on account
of the Swingline Loans, the Swingline Lender will distribute to such Lender its Swingline
Participation Amount (appropriately adjusted, in the case of interest payments, to reflect the
period of time during which such Lender’s participating interest was outstanding and funded and, in
the case of principal and interest payments, to reflect such Lender’s pro rata
portion of such payment if such payment is not sufficient to pay the principal of and interest on
all Swingline Loans then due); provided, however, that in the event that such
payment received by the Swingline Lender is required to be returned, such Revolving Lender will
return to the Swingline Lender any portion thereof previously distributed to it by the Swingline
Lender.
(e) Each Revolving Lender’s obligation to make the Loans referred to in Section 2.9(b) and to
purchase participating interests pursuant to Section 2.9(c) shall be absolute and unconditional and
shall not be affected by any circumstance, including (i) any setoff, counterclaim, recoupment,
defense or other right that such Revolving Lender or the Borrower may
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have against the Swingline Lender, the Borrower or any other Person for any reason whatsoever;
(ii) the occurrence or continuance of a Default or an Event of Default or the failure to satisfy
any of the other conditions specified in Section 5; (iii) any adverse change in the condition
(financial or otherwise) of the Borrower; (iv) any breach of this Agreement or any other Loan
Document by the Borrower, any other Loan Party or any other Revolving Lender; or (v) any other
circumstance, happening or event whatsoever, whether or not similar to any of the foregoing.
2.10 Commitment Fees, etc. (a) The Borrower agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent for the
account of each Revolving Lender a commitment fee for the period from and including the Closing
Date to the last day of the Revolving Commitment Period, computed at the Commitment Fee Rate on the
average daily Available Revolving Commitment of such Lender during the period for which payment is
made, payable quarterly in arrears on the second Business Day of each January, April, July and
October and on the Revolving Termination Date, commencing on the first of such dates to occur after
the Closing Date.
(b) The Borrower agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent the fees in the amounts and on the
dates previously agreed to in writing by the Borrower and the Administrative Agent.
2.11 Termination or Reduction of Revolving Commitments and Total Tranche B-1 Credit Linked Deposit
Amount. (a) The Borrower shall have the right, upon not less than three Business Days’ notice
to the Administrative Agent, to terminate the Revolving Commitments or, from time to time, to
reduce the amount of the Revolving Commitments; provided that no such termination or reduction of
Revolving Commitments shall be permitted if, after giving effect thereto and to any prepayments of
the Revolving Loans and Swingline Loans made on the effective date thereof, the Total Revolving
Extensions of Credit would exceed the Total Revolving Commitments. Any such partial reduction
shall be in an amount equal to $1,000,000, or a whole multiple thereof, and shall reduce
permanently (subject to subsequent increase pursuant to Section 2.6(c)) the Revolving Commitments
then in effect. Such reduction shall be allocated ratably to the Extended Revolving Commitments
and the Non-Extended Revolving Commitments. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Borrower shall have
the right, after March 16, 2011 and until the Non-Extended Revolving Termination Date, to
permanently terminate the Non-Extended Revolving Commitments and pay all amounts owed thereunder as
long as no Non-Extended Revolving Loans shall be outstanding after giving effect to such
termination.
(b) The Borrower may at any time or from time to time direct the Administrative Agent to
reduce the Total Tranche B-1 Credit Linked Deposit Amount; provided that each partial
reduction of the Total Tranche B-1 Credit Linked Deposit Amount shall be in an amount that is an
integral multiple of $1,000,000 and not less than $5,000,000; provided, further,
that no such reduction shall be permitted if, after giving effect to such reduction, the aggregate
Tranche B-1 Extensions of Credit would exceed the Total Tranche B-1 Credit Linked Deposit Amount.
In the event the Total Tranche B-1 Credit Linked Deposit Amount shall be reduced as provided in the
preceding sentence, the Administrative Agent will return all amounts in the Tranche B-1 Credit
Linked Deposit Accounts in excess of the reduced Total Tranche B-1 Credit Linked Deposit Amount to
the Tranche B-1 Lenders, ratably in accordance with their Tranche B-1 Percentages.
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2.12 Optional Prepayments(a) The Borrower may at any time and from time to time prepay the
Loans, in whole or in part, without premium or penalty (except as set forth below), upon
irrevocable notice delivered to the Administrative Agent at least three Business Days prior thereto
in the case of Eurodollar Loans and on the same Business Day in the case of ABR Loans and Tranche
B-1 Loans, which notice shall specify the date and amount of prepayment and whether the prepayment
is of Eurodollar Loans, ABR Loans or Tranche B-1 Loans; provided, that if a Eurodollar Loan is
prepaid on any day other than the last day of the Interest Period applicable thereto, the Borrower
shall also pay any amounts owing pursuant to Section 2.22. Upon receipt of any such notice in
respect of Eurodollar Loans or ABR Loans the Administrative Agent shall promptly notify each
relevant Lender thereof. If any such notice is given, the amount specified in such notice shall be
due and payable on the date specified therein, together with (except in the case of Revolving
Loans, ABR Loans, Tranche B-1 Loans and Swingline Loans) accrued interest to such date on the
amount prepaid. Partial prepayments of Tranche B Term Loans and Revolving Loans shall be in an
aggregate principal amount of $1,000,000 or a whole multiple thereof, and partial prepayments of
Tranche B-1 Loans shall be in an aggregate amount of $100,000 or a whole multiple thereof. Partial
prepayments of Swingline Loans shall be in an aggregate principal amount of $100,000 or a whole
multiple thereof. Any optional prepayments of the Term Loans shall be applied to the remaining
installments thereof in the direct order of maturity. Any optional prepayments of the Revolving
Loans shall be allocated first to the outstanding Non-Extended Revolving Loans and then to the
outstanding Extended Revolving Loans.
(b) In the event of any prepayment of Tranche B Term Loans made with the proceeds of any
Indebtedness incurred under a credit agreement having a lower effective yield (whether by reason of
the interest rate applicable to such Indebtedness or by reason of the issuance of such Indebtedness
at a discount or otherwise) than the Tranche B Term Loans on or prior to the first anniversary of
the Fifth Amendment Effective Date (excluding a refinancing of the Tranche B Term Loans in a
transaction whose primary purpose is not to reduce the interest rate margin applicable to the
Tranche B Term Loans), the Company shall pay to the Lenders holding such Tranche B Term Loans a
prepayment premium price equal to 1% of the principal amount of the Tranche B Term Loans so
prepaid.
2.13 Mandatory Prepayments and Total Tranche B-1 Credit Linked Deposit Amount Reductions.
(a) If any Indebtedness shall be incurred by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries after the
Closing Date (excluding (i) the proceeds of a Permitted Receivables Financing, (ii) permitted
Indebtedness issued to refinance the Senior Subordinated Notes, the Second Lien Notes or the Senior
Unsecured Notes, to the extent permitted by Sections 7.9 and 7.15, and (iii) any other permitted
Indebtedness incurred in accordance with Section 7.2), an amount equal to the Applicable Prepayment
Percentage of the Net Cash Proceeds thereof shall be applied on the date of such issuance or
incurrence first, toward the prepayment of the Term Loans and second, to the permanent reduction of
the Total Tranche B-1 Credit Linked Deposit Amount as set forth in Section 2.13(d).
(b) If on any date the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries shall receive Net Cash
Proceeds from any Asset Sale or Recovery Event then, unless a Reinvestment Notice shall be
delivered in respect thereof (or will be delivered concurrently with the next compliance
certificate to be delivered pursuant to Section 6.2(b)), the Applicable Prepayment Percentage of
such Net Cash Proceeds shall be applied on such date toward first, the prepayment of the
Term Loans and
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second, the permanent reduction of the Total Tranche B-1 Credit Linked Deposit Amount as
set forth in Section 2.13(d); provided, that, notwithstanding the foregoing, on each
Reinvestment Prepayment Date, an amount equal to the Reinvestment Prepayment Amount with respect to
the relevant Reinvestment Event shall be applied toward first, the prepayment of the Term
Loans and second, the permanent reduction of the Total Tranche B-1 Credit Linked Deposit
Amount as set forth in Section 2.13(d).
(c) If, for any fiscal year of the Borrower commencing with the fiscal year ending December
31, 2010, there shall be Excess Cash Flow, the Borrower shall, on the relevant Excess Cash Flow
Application Date, apply the Applicable Prepayment Percentage of such Excess Cash Flow toward
first, the prepayment of the Term Loans and second, the permanent reduction of the
Total Tranche B-1 Credit Linked Deposit Amount as set forth in Section 2.13(d). Each such
prepayment shall be made on a date (an “Excess Cash Flow Application Date”) no later than
10 Business Days after the earlier of (i) the date on which the financial statements of the
Borrower referred to in Section 6.1(a), for the fiscal year with respect to which such prepayment
is made, are required to be delivered to the Lenders and (ii) the date such financial statements
are actually delivered.
(d) The application of any prepayment pursuant to Section 2.13 shall be made first to
the Term Loans until the Term Loans are paid in full and second to the permanent reduction
of the Total Tranche B-1 Credit Linked Deposit Amount. Partial prepayments of the Term Loans
pursuant to Section 2.13 shall be applied to the remaining installments thereof in the direct order
of maturity. Any such reduction of the Total Tranche B-1 Credit Linked Deposit Amount shall be
accompanied by first, the prepayment of the Tranche B-1 Loans to the extent, if any, that
the Total Tranche B-1 Extensions of Credit exceed the amount of the Total Tranche B-1 Credit Linked
Deposit Amount as so reduced, provided that if the aggregate principal amount of Tranche
B-1 Loans then outstanding (after giving effect to Section 3.1(d)) is less than the amount of such
excess (because L/C Obligations in respect of Tranche B-1 Letters of Credit constitute a portion
thereof), the Borrower shall, to the extent of the balance of such excess, replace outstanding
Tranche B-1 Letters of Credit and/or deposit an amount in cash in a cash collateral account
established with the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Tranche B-1 Lenders on terms and
conditions satisfactory to the Administrative Agent. The application of any prepayment of Term
Loans pursuant to Section 2.13 shall be made, first, to ABR Loans and second, to
Eurodollar Loans. Each prepayment of the Loans under Section 2.13, other than ABR Loans, shall be
accompanied by accrued interest to the date of such prepayment on the amount prepaid. In the event
the Total Tranche B-1 Credit Linked Deposit Amount shall be reduced as provided above, the
Administrative Agent will return to the Tranche B-1 Lenders funds on deposit in the Tranche B-1
Credit Linked Deposit Accounts in an aggregate amount equal to the sum of (w) the aggregate stated
amounts of all Tranche B-1 Letters of Credit replaced as provided above in connection with such
reduction, (x) the aggregate stated amount of all Tranche B-1 Letters of Credit cash collateralized
as provided above in connection with such reduction, (y) the aggregate amount of Tranche B-1 Loans
repaid by the Borrower in connection with such reduction and (z) the amount by which the Total
Tranche B-1 Credit Linked Amount exceeded the Tranche B-1 Extensions of Credit immediately before
such reduction, to be distributed to them ratably in accordance with their Tranche B-1 Percentages.
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(e) Upon the occurrence of the Early Maturity Date, the Tranche B-1 Loans hereunder (with
accrued interest thereon) and all other amounts arising under this Agreement and the other Loan
Documents in respect of the Tranche B-1 Facility (including all amounts of L/C Obligations in
respect of Tranche B-1 Letters of Credit, whether or not the beneficiary of the then outstanding
Tranche B-1 Letters of Credit shall have presented the documents required thereunder) shall
immediately become due and payable, the Tranche B-1 Lenders shall have no further obligation to
make Loans, issue Tranche B-1 Letters of Credit or otherwise extend credit hereunder and the
Borrower shall deposit cash collateral with the Administrative Agent with respect to the Tranche
B-1 Letters of Credit with respect to which presentation for drawing shall not have then occurred
in a cash collateral account established at the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Tranche
B-1 Lenders on terms and conditions satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.
2.14 Conversion and Continuation Options. (a) The Borrower may elect from time to time to
convert Eurodollar Loans to ABR Loans by giving the Administrative Agent at least two Business
Days’ prior irrevocable notice of such election, provided that any such conversion of Eurodollar
Loans may only be made on the last day of an Interest Period with respect thereto. The Borrower
may elect from time to time to convert ABR Loans to Eurodollar Loans by giving the Administrative
Agent at least three Business Days’ prior irrevocable notice of such election (which notice shall
specify the length of the initial Interest Period therefor), provided that no ABR Loan under a
particular Facility may be converted into a Eurodollar Loan when any Event of Default has occurred
and is continuing and the Administrative Agent or the Majority Facility Lenders in respect of such
Facility have determined in its or their sole discretion not to permit such conversions. Upon
receipt of any such notice the Administrative Agent shall promptly notify each relevant Lender
thereof.
(b) Any Eurodollar Loan which is a Term Loan shall be continued as such upon the expiration of
the then current Interest Period with respect thereto unless the Borrower gives irrevocable notice
to the Administrative Agent, in accordance with the applicable provisions of the term “Interest
Period” set forth in Section 1.1, of a different length of the next Interest Period to be
applicable to such Loans or elects to convert such Loan to an ABR Loan, provided that no
Eurodollar Loan under a particular Facility may be continued as such when any Event of Default has
occurred and is continuing and the Administrative Agent has or the Majority Facility Lenders in
respect of such Facility have determined in its or their sole discretion not to permit such
continuations, and provided, further, that if such continuation is not permitted
pursuant to the preceding proviso such Loans shall be automatically converted to ABR Loans on the
last day of such then expiring Interest Period. Any Eurodollar Loan which is a Revolving Loan may
be continued as such upon the expiration of the then current Interest Period with respect thereto
by the Borrower giving irrevocable notice to the Administrative Agent, in accordance with the
applicable provisions of the term “Interest Period” set forth in Section 1.1, of the length of the
next Interest Period to be applicable to such Loans, provided that no Eurodollar Loan under
a particular Facility may be continued as such when any Event of Default has occurred and is
continuing and the Administrative Agent has or the Majority Facility Lenders in respect of such
Facility have determined in its or their sole discretion not to permit such continuations, and
provided, further, that if the Borrower shall fail to give any required notice as
described above in this paragraph or if such continuation is not permitted pursuant to the
preceding proviso such Loans shall be automatically converted to ABR Loans on the last day of such
then expiring Interest Period. Upon
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receipt of any such notice the Administrative Agent shall promptly notify each relevant Lender
thereof.
2.15 Limitations on Eurodollar Tranches. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this
Agreement, all borrowings, conversions and continuations of Eurodollar Loans hereunder and all
selections of Interest Periods hereunder shall be in such amounts and be made pursuant to such
elections so that, (a) after giving effect thereto, the aggregate principal amount of the
Eurodollar Loans comprising each Eurodollar Tranche shall be equal to $5,000,000 or a whole
multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof and (b) no more than twenty (20) Eurodollar Tranches shall
be outstanding at any one time.
2.16 Interest Rates and Payment Dates. (a) Each Eurodollar Loan shall bear interest for each
day during each Interest Period with respect thereto at a rate per annum equal to the Eurodollar
Rate determined for such day plus the Applicable Margin.
(b) Each ABR Loan shall bear interest at a rate per annum equal to the ABR plus the Applicable
Margin.
(c) Each Tranche B-1 Loan shall bear interest for each day during any month in which such
Tranche B-1 Loan is outstanding at a rate per annum equal to the Tranche B-1 Eurodollar Rate in
effect for such month plus the Applicable Margin, subject to Section 2.4(f).
(d) (i) If all or a portion of the principal amount of any Loan or Reimbursement Obligation
shall not be paid when due (whether at the stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise), such
overdue amounts shall bear interest at a rate per annum equal to (x) in the case of overdue amounts
in respect of any Loan, the rate that would otherwise be applicable thereto pursuant to the
foregoing provisions of this Section plus 2% or (y) in the case of overdue amounts in
respect of any Reimbursement Obligation, the rate applicable to ABR Loans under the Revolving
Facility plus 2%, and (ii) if all or a portion of any interest payable on any Loan or
Reimbursement Obligation or any commitment fee or other amount payable hereunder shall not be paid
when due (whether at the stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise), such overdue amount shall
bear interest at a rate per annum equal to the rate then applicable to ABR Loans under the relevant
Facility plus 2% (or, in the case of any such other amounts that do not relate to a
particular Facility, the rate then applicable to ABR Loans under the Revolving Facility
plus 2%), in each case, with respect to clauses (i) and (ii) above, from the date of such
non-payment until such amount is paid in full (as well after as before judgment).
(e) Interest shall be payable in arrears on each Interest Payment Date, provided that
interest accruing pursuant to paragraph (d) of this Section shall be payable from time to time on
demand.
2.17 Computation of Interest and Fees. (a) Subject to Section 2.4, interest and fees payable
pursuant hereto shall be calculated on the basis of a 360-day year for the actual days elapsed,
except that, with respect to ABR Loans the rate of interest on which is calculated on the basis of
the Prime Rate, the interest thereon shall be calculated on the basis of a 365- (or 366-, as the
case may be) day year for the actual days elapsed. The Administrative Agent shall as soon as
practicable notify the Borrower and the relevant Lenders of each determination of a Eurodollar
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Rate. Any change in the interest rate on a Loan resulting from a change in the ABR shall become
effective as of the opening of business on the day on which such change becomes effective. The
Administrative Agent shall as soon as practicable notify the Borrower and the relevant Lenders of
the effective date and the amount of each such change in interest rate.
(b) Each determination of an interest rate by the Administrative Agent pursuant to any
provision of this Agreement shall be conclusive and binding on the Borrower and the Lenders in the
absence of manifest error. The Administrative Agent shall, at the request of the Borrower, deliver
to the Borrower a statement showing the quotations used by the Administrative Agent in determining
any interest rate pursuant to Section 2.16(a).
2.18 Inability to Determine Interest Rate If prior to (i) the first day of any Interest
Period or (ii) the determination of the Benchmark LIBOR Rate (as defined in Section 2.4(d)) on any
day:
(a) the Administrative Agent shall have determined (which determination shall be conclusive
and binding upon the Borrower) that, by reason of circumstances affecting the relevant market,
adequate and reasonable means do not exist for ascertaining the Eurodollar Rate for such Interest
Period, the Tranche B-1 Eurodollar Rate for such Interest Period or the Benchmark LIBOR Rate for
such day, or
(b) the Administrative Agent shall have received notice from the Majority Facility Lenders in
respect of the relevant Facility that the Eurodollar Rate or Tranche B-1 Eurodollar Rate determined
or to be determined for such Interest Period will not adequately and fairly reflect the cost to
such Lenders (as conclusively certified by such Lenders) of making or maintaining their affected
Loans during such Interest Period or their respective Tranche B-1 Credit Linked Deposits for such
day,
the Administrative Agent shall give telecopy or telephonic notice thereof to the Borrower and the
relevant Lenders as soon as practicable thereafter. If such notice is given (w) any Eurodollar
Loans under the relevant Facility requested to be made on the first day of such Interest Period
shall be made as ABR Loans, (x) any Loans under the relevant Facility that were to have been
converted on the first day of such Interest Period to Eurodollar Loans shall be continued as ABR
Loans, (y) any outstanding Eurodollar Loans under the relevant Facility shall be converted, on the
last day of the then-current Interest Period, to ABR Loans and (z) the Tranche B-1 Credit Linked
Deposits shall be invested so as to earn a return and the term “Eurodollar Rate” as used with
respect to any Tranche B-1 Loan or the determination of Tranche B-1 Eurodollar Rate shall, in each
case, be equal to the greater of the Federal Funds Effective Rate and a rate determined by the
Administrative Agent in accordance with banking industry rules on interbank compensation. Until
such notice has been withdrawn by the Administrative Agent (and the Administrative Agent agrees to
promptly withdraw such notice after it becomes aware (by receipt of notice or otherwise) that the
circumstances described in clause (a) or (b) above cease to exist), no further Eurodollar Loans
under the relevant Facility shall be made or continued as such, nor shall the Borrower have the
right to convert Loans under the relevant Facility to Eurodollar Loans.
2.19 Pro Rata Treatment and Payments. (a) Each borrowing by the Borrower from the Lenders
hereunder, each payment by the Borrower on account of any commitment fee
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and any reduction of the Revolving Commitments or the Total Tranche B-1 Credit Linked Deposit
Amount shall be made pro rata according to the respective applicable Revolving Percentages or
Tranche B-1 Percentages, as the case may be, of the relevant Lenders.
(b) Each payment (including each prepayment) by the Borrower on account of principal of and
interest and premium, if any, on the Tranche B Term Loans shall be made pro rata
according to the respective outstanding principal amounts of the Tranche B Term Loans then held by
the Tranche B Term Lenders. The amount of each principal prepayment of the Tranche B Term Loans
shall be applied to reduce the then remaining installments of the Tranche B Term Loans in the
direct order of maturity. Amounts prepaid on account of the Term Loans may not be reborrowed.
(c) Each payment (including each prepayment) by the Borrower on account of principal of and
interest on the Revolving Loans under a Revolving Facility shall be made pro rata
according to the respective outstanding principal amounts of the Revolving Loans then held by the
Revolving Lenders under such Revolving Facility. Each payment (including each prepayment) by the
Borrower on account of principal of and interest and premium, if any, on the Tranche B-1 Loans
shall be made pro rata according to the respective outstanding principal amounts of
the Tranche B-1 Loans then held by the Tranche B-1 Lenders.
(d) All payments (including prepayments) to be made by the Borrower hereunder, whether on
account of principal, interest, fees or otherwise, shall be made without setoff or counterclaim and
shall be made prior to 12:00 Noon, New York City time, on the due date thereof to the
Administrative Agent, for the account of the Lenders (or, in the case of payments in respect of
U.K. Swingline Loans, prior to 12:00 Noon, London time, on the due date thereof to the applicable
Swingline Lender), at the Funding Office, in Dollars and in immediately available funds. Subject
to Section 2.4, the Administrative Agent shall distribute such payments to the Lenders promptly
upon receipt in like funds as received. If any payment hereunder (other than payments on the
Eurodollar Loans) becomes due and payable on a day other than a Business Day, such payment shall be
extended to the next succeeding Business Day. If any payment on a Eurodollar Loan becomes due and
payable on a day other than a Business Day, the maturity thereof shall be extended to the next
succeeding Business Day unless the result of such extension would be to extend such payment into
another calendar month, in which event such payment shall be made on the immediately preceding
Business Day. In the case of any extension of any payment of principal pursuant to the preceding
two sentences, interest thereon shall be payable at the then applicable rate during such extension.
(e) Unless the Administrative Agent shall have been notified in writing by any Lender prior to
a borrowing that such Lender will not make the amount that would constitute its share of such
borrowing available to the Administrative Agent, the Administrative Agent may assume that such
Lender is making such amount available to the Administrative Agent, and the Administrative Agent
may, in reliance upon such assumption, make available to the Borrower a corresponding amount. If
such amount is not made available to the Administrative Agent by the required time on the Borrowing
Date therefor, such Lender shall pay to the Administrative Agent, on demand, such amount with
interest thereon at a rate equal to the daily average Federal Funds Effective Rate for the period
until such Lender makes such amount immediately available to the Administrative Agent. A
certificate of the Administrative Agent submitted to any Lender with
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respect to any amounts owing under this paragraph shall be conclusive in the absence of
manifest error. If such Lender’s share of such borrowing is not made available to the
Administrative Agent by such Lender within three Business Days of such Borrowing Date, the
Administrative Agent shall also be entitled to recover such amount with interest thereon at the
rate per annum applicable to ABR Loans under the relevant Facility, on demand, from the Borrower.
(f) Unless the Administrative Agent shall have been notified in writing by the Borrower prior
to the date of any payment being made hereunder that the Borrower will not make such payment to the
Administrative Agent, the Administrative Agent may assume that the Borrower is making such payment,
and the Administrative Agent may, but shall not be required to, in reliance upon such assumption,
make available to the Lenders their respective pro rata shares of a corresponding
amount. If such payment is not made to the Administrative Agent by the Borrower within three
Business Days of such required date, the Administrative Agent shall be entitled to recover, on
demand, from each Lender to which any amount which was made available pursuant to the preceding
sentence, such amount with interest thereon at the rate per annum equal to the daily average
Federal Funds Effective Rate. Nothing herein shall be deemed to limit the rights of the
Administrative Agent or any Lender against the Borrower.
2.20 Requirements of Law. (a) If the adoption of or any change in any Requirement of Law or in
the interpretation or application thereof or compliance by any Lender with any request or directive
(whether or not having the force of law) from any central bank or other Governmental Authority made
subsequent to the date hereof:
(i) shall subject any Lender to any tax of any kind whatsoever with respect to this
Agreement, any Letter of Credit, any Application or any Eurodollar Loan or Tranche B-1 Loan
made by it, or change the basis of taxation of payments to such Lender in respect thereof
(except for Non-Excluded Taxes covered by Section 2.21 and changes in the rate of tax on the
overall net income of such Lender);
(ii) shall impose, modify or hold applicable any reserve, special deposit, compulsory
loan or similar requirement against assets held by, deposits or other liabilities in or for
the account of, advances, loans or other extensions of credit by, or any other acquisition
of funds by, any office of such Lender; or
(iii) shall impose on such Lender any other condition;
and the result of any of the foregoing is to increase the cost to such Lender, by an amount that
such Lender deems to be material, of making, converting into, continuing or maintaining Eurodollar
Loans or issuing or participating in Letters of Credit, or issuing or maintaining any Tranche B-1
Credit Linked Deposit or to reduce any amount receivable hereunder in respect thereof, then, in any
such case, the Borrower shall promptly pay such Lender, upon its demand and delivery of the
calculation of such amount, any additional amounts necessary to compensate such Lender for such
increased cost or reduced amount receivable. If any Lender becomes entitled to claim any
additional amounts pursuant to this paragraph, it shall promptly notify the Borrower (with a copy
to the Administrative Agent) of the event by reason of which it has become so entitled together
with a calculation of such amount claimed.
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(b) If any Lender shall have determined that the adoption of or any change in any Requirement
of Law regarding capital adequacy or in the interpretation or application thereof or compliance by
such Lender or any corporation controlling such Lender with any request or directive regarding
capital adequacy (whether or not having the force of law) from any Governmental Authority made
subsequent to the date hereof shall have the effect of reducing the rate of return on such Lender’s
or such corporation’s capital as a consequence of its obligations hereunder or under or in respect
of any Letter of Credit to a level below that which such Lender or such corporation could have
achieved but for such adoption, change or compliance (taking into consideration such Lender’s or
such corporation’s policies with respect to capital adequacy) by an amount deemed by such Lender to
be material, then from time to time, after submission by such Lender to the Borrower (with a copy
to the Administrative Agent) of a written request therefor, the Borrower shall pay to such Lender
such additional amount or amounts as will compensate such Lender for such reduction;
provided that the Borrower shall not be required to compensate a Lender pursuant to this
paragraph for any amounts incurred more than three months prior to the date that such Lender
notifies the Borrower of such Lender’s intention to claim compensation therefor; and
provided further that, if the circumstances giving rise to such claim have a
retroactive effect, then such three-month period shall be extended to include the period of such
retroactive effect.
(c) A certificate as to any additional amounts payable pursuant to this Section submitted by
any Lender to the Borrower (with a copy to the Administrative Agent) shall be conclusive in the
absence of manifest error. The obligations of the Borrower pursuant to this Section shall survive
the termination of this Agreement and the payment of the Loans and all other amounts payable
hereunder.
2.21 Taxes. (a) All payments made by the Borrower under this Agreement shall be made free and
clear of, and without deduction or withholding for or on account of, any present or future income,
stamp or other taxes, levies, imposts, duties, charges, fees, deductions or withholdings, now or
hereafter imposed, levied, collected, withheld or assessed by any Governmental Authority, excluding
income taxes and franchise taxes (imposed on the overall net income of the recipient) imposed on
the Administrative Agent or any Lender as a result of a present or former connection between the
Administrative Agent or such Lender and the jurisdiction of the Governmental Authority imposing
such tax or any political subdivision or taxing authority thereof or therein (other than any such
connection arising solely from the Administrative Agent or such Lender having executed, delivered
or performed its obligations or received a payment under, or enforced, this Agreement or any other
Loan Document). If any such non-excluded taxes, levies, imposts, duties, charges, fees, deductions
or withholdings (“Non-Excluded Taxes”) or Other Taxes are required to be withheld from any
amounts payable to the Administrative Agent or any Lender hereunder, the amounts so payable to the
Administrative Agent or such Lender shall be increased to the extent necessary to yield to the
Administrative Agent or such Lender (after payment of all Non-Excluded Taxes and Other Taxes)
interest or any such other amounts payable hereunder at the rates or in the amounts specified in
this Agreement, provided, however, that the Borrower shall not be required to increase any such
amounts payable to any Lender with respect to any Non-Excluded Taxes (i) that are attributable to
such Lender’s failure to comply with the requirements of paragraph (d) or (e) of this Section or
(ii) that are United States withholding taxes imposed on amounts payable to such Lender at the time
the Lender becomes a party to this Agreement, except to the extent that such Lender’s assignor (if
any) was
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entitled, at the time of assignment, to receive additional amounts from the Borrower with respect
to such Non-Excluded Taxes pursuant to this paragraph.
(b) In addition, the Borrower shall pay any Other Taxes to the relevant Governmental Authority
in accordance with applicable law.
(c) Whenever any Non-Excluded Taxes or Other Taxes are payable by the Borrower, as promptly as
possible thereafter the Borrower shall send to the Administrative Agent for its own account or for
the account of the relevant Lender, as the case may be, a certified copy of an original official
receipt received by the Borrower showing payment thereof. If the Borrower fails to pay any
Non-Excluded Taxes or Other Taxes when due to the appropriate taxing authority or fails to remit to
the Administrative Agent the required receipts or other required documentary evidence, the Borrower
shall indemnify the Administrative Agent and the Lenders for any incremental taxes, interest or
penalties that may become payable by the Administrative Agent or any Lender as a result of any such
failure.
(d) Each Lender (or Transferee) that is not a citizen or resident of the United States of
America, a corporation, partnership or other entity created or organized in or under the laws of
the United States of America (or any jurisdiction thereof), or any estate or trust that is subject
to federal income taxation regardless of the source of its income (a “Non-U.S. Lender”)
shall deliver to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent (or, in the case of a Participant, to
the Lender from which the related participation shall have been purchased) two copies of either
U.S. Internal Revenue Service Form W-8BEN or W-8ECI, or, in the case of a Non-U.S. Lender claiming
exemption from U.S. federal withholding tax under Section 871(h) or 881(c) of the Code with respect
to payments of “portfolio interest,” a statement substantially in the form of Exhibit G and a Form
W-8BEN, or any subsequent versions thereof or successors thereto, properly completed and duly
executed by such Non-U.S. Lender claiming complete exemption from, or a reduced rate of, U.S.
federal withholding tax on all payments by the Borrower under this Agreement and the other Loan
Documents. Such forms shall be delivered by each Non-U.S. Lender on or before the date it becomes
a party to this Agreement (or, in the case of any Participant, on or before the date such
Participant purchases the related participation). In addition, each Non-U.S. Lender shall deliver
such forms promptly upon the obsolescence or invalidity of any form previously delivered by such
Non-U.S. Lender. Each Non-U.S. Lender shall promptly notify the Borrower at any time it determines
that it is no longer in a position to provide any previously delivered certificate to the Borrower
(or any other form of certification adopted by the U.S. taxing authorities for such purpose).
Notwithstanding any other provision of this paragraph, a Non-U.S. Lender shall not be required to
deliver any form pursuant to this paragraph that such Non-U.S. Lender is not legally able to
deliver.
(e) A Lender that is entitled to an exemption from or reduction of non-U.S. withholding tax
under the law of the jurisdiction in which the Borrower is located, or any treaty to which such
jurisdiction is a party, with respect to payments under this Agreement shall deliver to the
Borrower (with a copy to the Administrative Agent), at the time or times prescribed by applicable
law or reasonably requested by the Borrower, such properly completed and executed documentation
prescribed by applicable law as will permit such payments to be made without withholding or at a
reduced rate, provided that such Lender is legally entitled to complete, execute
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and deliver such documentation and in such Lender’s judgment such completion, execution or
submission would not materially prejudice the legal position of such Lender.
(f) The agreements in this Section shall survive the termination of this Agreement and the
payment of the Loans and all other amounts payable hereunder.
2.22 Indemnity The Borrower agrees to indemnify each Lender and to hold each Lender harmless from
any loss or expense that such Lender may sustain or incur as a consequence of (a) default by the
Borrower in making a borrowing of, conversion into or continuation of Eurodollar Loans after the
Borrower has given a notice requesting the same in accordance with the provisions of this
Agreement, (b) default by the Borrower in making any prepayment of or conversion from Eurodollar
Loans after the Borrower has given a notice thereof in accordance with the provisions of this
Agreement, (c) the making of a prepayment of Eurodollar Loans on a day that is not the last day of
an Interest Period with respect thereto, (d) the return of all or any portion of a Tranche B-1
Credit Linked Deposit to such Lender on a day other than the last day of an Interest Period for
which the applicable Tranche B-1 Eurodollar Rate has been established or (e) following the
occurrence of the Tranche B-1 Settlement Date or, if earlier, the Tranche B-1 Deposit Return Date,
the making of a repayment of any Tranche B-1 Loan on a day that is not the last day of an Interest
Period with respect to such Tranche B-1 Loan. Such indemnification may include an amount equal to
the excess, if any, of (i) the amount of interest that would have accrued on the amount so prepaid
or returned, or not so borrowed, converted or continued, for the period from the date of such
prepayment or return or of such failure to borrow, convert or continue to the last day of such
Interest Period (or, in the case of a failure to borrow, convert or continue, the Interest Period
that would have commenced on the date of such failure) in each case at the applicable rate of
interest for such Loans provided for herein (excluding, however, the Applicable Margin included
therein, if any) over (ii) the amount of interest (as reasonably determined by such Lender) that
would have accrued to such Lender on such amount by placing such amount on deposit for a comparable
period with leading banks in the interbank eurodollar market. A certificate as to any amounts
payable pursuant to this Section submitted to the Borrower by any Lender shall be conclusive in the
absence of manifest error. This covenant shall survive the termination of this Agreement and the
payment of the Loans and all other amounts payable hereunder.
2.23 Change of Lending Office Each Lender agrees that, upon the occurrence of any event
giving rise to the operation of Section 2.20 or 2.21(a) with respect to such Lender, it will, if
requested by the Borrower, use reasonable efforts (subject to overall policy considerations of such
Lender) to designate another lending office for any Loans affected by such event with the object of
avoiding the consequences of such event; provided, that such designation is made on terms that, in
the sole judgment of such Lender, cause such Lender and its lending office(s) to suffer no
economic, legal or regulatory disadvantage, and provided, further, that nothing in
this Section shall affect or postpone any of the obligations of any Borrower or the rights of any
Lender pursuant to Section 2.20 or 2.21(a).
2.24 Replacement of Lenders The Borrower shall be permitted to replace any Lender that (a)
requests reimbursement for amounts owing pursuant to Section 2.20 or 2.21(a) in amounts
disproportionate to the amounts requested by the other Lenders under such Sections or (b) has
become a Defaulting Lender hereunder, with a replacement financial institution; provided
that
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(i) such replacement does not conflict with any Requirement of Law, (ii) no Event of Default shall
have occurred and be continuing at the time of such replacement, (iii) prior to any such
replacement, such Lender shall have taken no action under Section 2.23 so as to eliminate the
continued need for payment of amounts owing pursuant to Section 2.20 or 2.21(a), (iv) the
replacement financial institution shall purchase, at par, all Loans and other amounts owing to such
replaced Lender on or prior to the date of replacement (and, if applicable, make its Tranche B-1
Credit Linked Deposit), (v) the Borrower shall be liable to such replaced Lender under Section 2.22
for any losses suffered or expenses incurred by such Lender if any Eurodollar Loan owing to such
replaced Lender shall be purchased other than on the last day of the Interest Period relating
thereto or if any Tranche B-1 Credit Linked Deposit is transferred by such Lender on a day other
than the last day of any Interest Period for which the applicable Tranche B-1 Eurodollar Rate has
been established, (vi) the replacement financial institution, if not already a Lender, shall be
reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, (vii) the replaced Lender shall be obligated
to make such replacement in accordance with the provisions of Section 10.6 (provided that
the Borrower shall be obligated to pay the registration and processing fee referred to therein),
(viii) until such time as such replacement shall be consummated, the Borrower shall pay all
additional amounts (if any) required pursuant to Section 2.20 or 2.21(a), as the case may be, and
(ix) any such replacement shall not be deemed to be a waiver of any rights that the Borrower, the
Administrative Agent or any other Lender shall have against the replaced Lender.
2.25 Intercreditor Agreement The Lenders (a) acknowledge and agree to the terms of the
Intercreditor Agreement, (b) authorize the Administrative Agent to perform the Intercreditor
Agreement on their behalf and to take any action thereunder as determined by it to be necessary or
advisable to protect the interest of the holders of First Priority Claims (as defined in the
Intercreditor Agreement) and (c) acknowledge that certain items of the Collateral will from time to
time be made subject to a Lien to secure the Second Lien Notes and certain related obligations,
subject to the terms of the Intercreditor Agreement.
2.26 [Intentionally Omitted]
2.27 Incremental Loan Extensions. The Borrower may at any time or from time to time after the
Fifth Amendment Effective Date, by notice to the Administrative Agent (whereupon the Administrative
Agent shall promptly deliver a copy to each of the Lenders), request an increase to the Tranche B-1
Facility or request the addition of one or more incremental term loan facilities (each, an
“Incremental Facility”) in an aggregate amount of up to $275,000,000; provided that (i) no Lender
will be required to participate in any such Incremental Facility, (ii) no Event of Default or
Default exists or would exist after giving effect thereto, (iii) on a pro forma basis for the most
recent determination period (as if such Incremental Facility became effective on the first day of
such determination period), after giving effect to such Incremental Facility and the use of
proceeds thereof, the Senior Secured Leverage Ratio is less than 2.5 to 1.0, (iv) the final
maturity date of any such Incremental Facility shall be no earlier than the Tranche B Final
Maturity Date, and the weighted average life of any such Incremental Facility shall not be less
than the remaining average life of the Tranche B Facility, (v) loans under an Incremental Facility
may be priced differently from the Tranche B-1 Facility, provided that if the applicable margin
(which, for such purposes only, shall be deemed to include all upfront or similar fees or
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original issue discount payable to all Lenders providing such Incremental Facility) exceeds the
Applicable Margin for the Tranche B-1 Facility immediately prior to the funding of such Incremental
Facility by more than 0.25%, the Applicable Margin for the Tranche B-1 Term Facility shall be
adjusted to equal the applicable margin for such Incremental Facility (which, for such purposes
only, shall be deemed to include all upfront or similar fees or original issue discount payable to
all Lenders providing such Incremental Facility) minus 0.25%, and (vi) any Incremental Facility
shall be on terms and pursuant to documentation to be agreed upon by the Borrower and the
Administrative Agent, provided that, any Financial Covenant or Default in any Incremental Facility
shall be consistent with that set forth in Section 7.1 and Section 8 of this Agreement, and
provided further that, to the extent such terms and documentation are not consistent in any
material respect with those applicable to the Tranche B Term Loans (except to the extent permitted
by clause (iv) or (v) above), they shall be reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.
In connection with any Incremental Facility, the Borrower shall provide the Administrative Agent
with such related Notes, certificates and opinions as the Administrative Agent may reasonably
request. Appropriate adjustments shall be made in the payments of interest to reflect the funding
date of such Incremental Facility. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in Section 10.1, this
Agreement and the other Loan Documents may be amended from time to time with the consent of only
the Administrative Agent and the Borrower to the extent necessary to implement the provisions of
this Section (including to reflect each Incremental Facility and the funding thereof). Each
Incremental Facility shall be entitled to share in the Collateral and guarantees on a pari passu
basis with the other Facilities and shall be entitled to share in mandatory prepayments on a basis
comparable with the Tranche B Term Facility or the Tranche B-1 Facility, as determined by the
Borrower and the Administrative Agent.
2.28 Defaulting Revolving Lenders. Notwithstanding any provision of this Agreement to the
contrary, if any Revolving Lender becomes a Defaulting Lender, then the following provisions shall
apply for so long as such Revolving Lender is a Defaulting Lender:
(a) commitment fees shall cease to accrue on the Extended Available Revolving Commitment (if
any) of such Defaulting Lender pursuant to Section 2.10(a);
(b) if there are any Swingline Loans outstanding or Revolving Letters of Credit outstanding at
the time such Revolving Lender becomes a Defaulting Lender then:
(i) all or any part of such outstanding Swingline Loans or outstanding Revolving
Letters of Credit shall be reallocated among the Extended Revolving Lenders that are not
Defaulting Lenders in accordance with their respective Revolving Percentages but only to the
extent (x) the sum of all outstanding Revolving Extensions of Credit of the Extended
Revolving Lenders that are not Defaulting Lenders under the Revolving Facility does not
exceed the total of all Revolving Commitments of the Extended Revolving Lenders that are not
Defaulting Lenders (for the avoidance of doubt, no Lender shall be required to make
Revolving Extensions of Credit in excess of its Revolving Commitment) and (y) the conditions
set forth in Section 5.2 are satisfied at such time; and
(ii) if the reallocation described in clause (i) above cannot, or can only partially,
be effected, the Borrower shall within one Business Day following notice by the
Administrative Agent (x) first, prepay such Defaulting Lender’s Revolving Percentage of
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the outstanding Swingline Loans (after giving effect to any partial reallocation
pursuant to clause (i) above) and (y) second, (1) if a drawing is made under any Revolving
Letter of Credit, the Borrower shall reimburse the Issuing Lender in accordance with Section
3.5 and (2) if a Revolving Letter of Credit is requested by the Borrower in accordance with
Section 3.2 during any period where there is a Defaulting Lender that is an Extended
Revolving Lender, the Borrower shall enter into an arrangement reasonably satisfactory to
the Issuing Lender to cover in whole or in part (which such arrangement may include cash
collateralization) the exposure of the Issuing Lender related to the participating interests
of such Defaulting Lender in such newly issued Revolving Letter of Credit (after giving
effect to any partial reallocation pursuant to clause (i) above) for so long as such Lender
is a Defaulting Lender or until such Lender is replaced pursuant to Section 2.24;
(iii) if and so long as the Borrower cash collateralizes any portion of such
Defaulting Lender’s Revolving Percentage of outstanding Revolving Letters of Credit pursuant
to clause (ii) above, then the Borrower shall not be required to pay any fees to such
Defaulting Lender pursuant to Section 3.3 with respect thereto;
(iv) upon any reallocation described in clause (i) above, the fees payable to the
Extended Revolving Lenders pursuant to Section 2.10(a) and 3.3 shall be adjusted
accordingly; and
(v) if any such Defaulting Lender’s Revolving Percentage of outstanding Revolving
Letters of Credit is neither cash collateralized nor reallocated pursuant to clause (i)
above, then, without prejudice to any rights or remedies of the Issuing Lender or any Lender
hereunder, all letter of credit fees payable under Section 3.3 with respect to such
Defaulting Lender’s Revolving Percentage of outstanding Revolving Letters of Credit shall be
payable to the relevant Issuing Lender until such cash collateralization and/or reallocation
occurs;
(c) the Swingline Lender shall not be required to fund any Swingline Loan and no Issuing
Lender shall be required to issue, amend or increase any Revolving Letter of Credit, unless it is
reasonably satisfied that the related exposure will be covered in whole or in part by the Revolving
Commitments of the Extended Revolving Lenders that are not Defaulting Lenders and/or cash
collateral or other arrangements will be provided by the Borrower in accordance with clause (b)(ii)
above, and participating interests in any such newly issued or increased Revolving Letter of Credit
or newly made Swingline Loan shall be (i) allocated among the Extended Revolving Lenders that are
not Defaulting Lenders and/or (ii) covered by arrangements made by the Borrower pursuant to clause
(b)(ii) above in a manner consistent with clauses (b)(i) and (ii) (and any such Defaulting Lenders
shall not participate therein);
(d) if the Defaulting Lender is an Extended Revolving Lender, the Revolving Commitment and
Revolving Extensions of Credit of such Defaulting Lender shall not be included in determining
whether all Lenders or the Required Lenders have taken or may take any action hereunder (including
any consent to any amendment, waiver or other modification pursuant to Section 10.1);
provided, that this clause (d) shall not apply in the case of an amendment, waiver or other
modification requiring the consent of all Lenders or each Lender affected thereby; and
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(e) in the case of any Defaulting Lender that is an Extended Revolving Lender, any amount
payable to such Defaulting Lender hereunder (whether on account of principal, interest, fees or
otherwise and including any amount that would otherwise be payable to such Defaulting Lender
pursuant to Section 10.7 but excluding Section 2.24) shall, in lieu of being distributed to such
Defaulting Lender and without duplication, be retained by the Administrative Agent in a segregated
interest-bearing account reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and the Borrower and,
subject to any applicable requirements of law, be applied at such time or times as may be
determined by the Administrative Agent (i) first, to the payment of any amounts owing by such
Defaulting Lender to the Administrative Agent hereunder, (ii) second, pro rata, to the payment of
any amounts owing by such Defaulting Lender to any Issuing Lender or Swingline Lender hereunder,
(iii) third, if so determined by the Administrative Agent or requested by an Issuing Lender or
Swingline Lender, held in such account as cash collateral for existing or (unless such Defaulting
Lender has no remaining unutilized Extended Revolving Commitment) future funding obligations of
such Defaulting Lender in respect of any existing or (unless such Defaulting Lender has no
remaining unutilized Extended Revolving Commitment) future participation in any Swingline Loan or
Revolving Letter of Credit, (iv) fourth, to the funding of any Revolving Loan in respect of which
such Defaulting Lender has failed to fund its portion thereof as required by this Agreement, as
determined by the Administrative Agent, (v) fifth, if so determined by the Administrative Agent and
the Borrower, unless such Defaulting Lender has no remaining unutilized Extended Revolving
Commitment, held in such account as cash collateral for future funding obligations of the
Defaulting Lender in respect of any Extended Revolving Loans under this Agreement, (vi) sixth, to
the payment of any amounts owing to any Issuing Lender or Swingline Lender as a result of any
judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction obtained by such Issuing Lender or Swingline Lender
against such Defaulting Lender as a result of such Defaulting Lender’s breach of its obligations
under this Agreement, (vii) seventh, to the payment of any amounts owing to the Borrower as a
result of any judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction obtained by the Borrower against such
Defaulting Lender as a result of such Defaulting Lender’s breach of its obligations under this
Agreement, and (viii) eighth, to such Defaulting Lender or as otherwise directed by a court of
competent jurisdiction, provided, that, with respect to this clause (viii), if such payment is (A)
a prepayment of the principal amount of any Revolving Loans or Reimbursement Obligations as to
which a Defaulting Lender has funded its participation and (B) made at a time when the conditions
set forth in Section 5.2 are satisfied, such payment shall be applied solely to prepay the
Revolving Loans of, and Reimbursement Obligations owed to, all Revolving Lenders that are not
Defaulting Lenders under the Extended Revolving Facility pro rata prior to being applied to the
prepayment of any Revolving Loans of, or Reimbursement Obligations owed to, any Defaulting Lender.
On the Extended Revolving Termination Date, any remaining amounts not previously applied (except
for amounts in connection with clause (vii) above) shall be returned to the applicable Defaulting
Lender.
In the event that the Administrative Agent, the Borrower, each Issuing Lender and the Swingline
Lender each reasonably determines that any such Defaulting Lender which is an Extended Revolving
Lender has adequately remedied all matters that caused such Lender to be a Defaulting Lender, then
(i) the outstanding Swingline Loans and outstanding Revolving Letters of Credit of the Extended
Revolving Lenders shall be readjusted to reflect the inclusion of such Lender’s Revolving
Commitment and on such date such Lender shall purchase at par such of the Extended Revolving Loans
of the other Lenders (other than Swingline Loans) as the Administrative Agent shall determine may
be necessary in order for such Lender to hold such Loans in accordance with
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its Revolving Percentage and (ii) any arrangements made by the Borrower pursuant to clause (b)(ii)
above shall be terminated and any cash collateral or arrangement provided by the Borrower in
accordance thereto will be terminated or promptly returned to the Borrower, as applicable.
The provisions of this Agreement relating to funding, payment and other matters with respect to the
Extended Revolving Facility may be adjusted by the Administrative Agent, with the consent of the
Borrower (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld), to the extent necessary to give effect to
the provisions of this Section 2.28. The provisions of this Section 2.28 may not be amended,
supplemented or modified without, in addition to consents required by Section 10.1, the prior
written consent of the Administrative Agent, the Swingline Lender, the Issuing Lenders, the
Borrower, and any Defaulting Lenders.
SECTION 3. LETTERS OF CREDIT
3.1 L/C Commitments. (a) Subject to the terms and conditions hereof, the Issuing Lender, in
reliance on the agreements of the Revolving Lenders and the Tranche B-1 Lenders set forth in this
Section 3, agrees to issue letters of credit (“Letters of Credit”) for the account of the
Borrower on any Business Day in such form as may be approved from time to time by the Issuing
Lender; provided that the Issuing Lender shall have no obligation to issue any (i) Revolving Letter
of Credit if, after giving effect to such issuance, (A) the aggregate amount of the available
Extended Revolving Commitments would be less than zero or (B) the aggregate undrawn amount of
outstanding Letters of Credit and unpaid Reimbursement Obligations under the Extended Revolving
Facility would exceed $100,000,000 or (ii) Tranche B-1 Letter of Credit if, after giving effect
thereto (A) the aggregate outstanding principal amount of Tranche B-1 Loans of such Tranche B-1
Lender plus such Tranche B-1 Lender’s Percentage of the Tranche B-1 Letter of Credit Outstandings
would exceed such Tranche B-1 Lender’s Tranche B-1 Credit Linked Deposit Amount, or (B) the Tranche
B-1 Outstanding Exposure would exceed the Total Tranche B-1 Credit Linked Deposit Amount. Each
Letter of Credit shall (i) be denominated in Dollars and (ii) expire no later than the earlier of
(x) the first anniversary of its date of issuance and (y) the date that is five Business Days prior
to (A) in the case of Revolving Letters of Credit, the Extended Revolving Termination Date and (B)
in the case of Tranche B-1 Letters of Credit, the Tranche B-1 Final Maturity Date, provided that
any Letter of Credit with a one-year term may provide for the renewal thereof for additional
one-year periods (which shall in no event extend beyond the applicable date referred to in clause
(y) above).
(b) The Issuing Lender shall not at any time be obligated to issue any Letter of Credit
hereunder if such issuance would conflict with, or cause the Issuing Lender or any L/C Participant
to exceed any limits imposed by, any applicable Requirement of Law.
(c) On the Fifth Amendment Effective Date (and without further action), all participations in
respect of outstanding Letters of Credit shall be allocated to the Extended Revolving Lenders in
proportion to their Revolving Percentages as of such date, and the Non-Extended Revolving Lenders
shall be released from their participations in respect of such outstanding Letters of Credit. All
Revolving Letters of Credit issued after the Fifth Amendment Effective Date shall be issued under
the Extended Revolving Facility.
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(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, unless the Administrative
Agent agrees to a different treatment, (i) Letters of Credit shall at all times and from time to
time be deemed to be first Tranche B-1 Letters of Credit in the amount permitted for Tranche B-1
Letters of Credit in Section 3.1(a) and thereafter be deemed to be Revolving Letters of Credit only
to the extent, and in an amount by which, the aggregate amount of outstanding Letters of Credit
exceeds such permitted amount of Tranche B-1 Letters of Credit, (ii) drawings under any Letter of
Credit shall be deemed to have been made first under Tranche B-1 Letters of Credit for so long as,
and to the extent that, there are any undrawn Tranche B-1 Letters of Credit outstanding (and
thereafter shall be deemed to have been made under Revolving Letters of Credit) and (iii) any
Letter of Credit that expires or terminates will be deemed to be first a Revolving Letter of
Credit, for so long as, and to the extent that, there are outstanding Revolving Letters of Credit
immediately prior to such expiration or termination. To the extent necessary to implement the
foregoing, the identification of a Letter of Credit as a Revolving Letter of Credit or a Tranche
B-1 Letter of Credit may change from time to time and a portion of a Letter of Credit may be deemed
to be a Tranche B-1 Letter of Credit and the remainder be deemed to be a Revolving Letter of
Credit.
3.2 Procedure for Issuance of Letter of Credit The Borrower may from time to time request that
the Issuing Lender issue a Letter of Credit by delivering to the Issuing Lender at its address for
notices specified herein an Application therefor, completed to the satisfaction of the Issuing
Lender, and such other certificates, documents and other papers and information as the Issuing
Lender may request. Upon receipt of any Application, the Issuing Lender will process such
Application and the certificates, documents and other papers and information delivered to it in
connection therewith in accordance with its customary procedures and shall promptly issue the
Letter of Credit requested thereby (but in no event shall the Issuing Lender be required to issue
any Letter of Credit earlier than three Business Days after its receipt of the Application therefor
and all such other certificates, documents and other papers and information relating thereto) by
issuing the original of such Letter of Credit to the beneficiary thereof or as otherwise may be
agreed to by the Issuing Lender and the Borrower. The Issuing Lender shall furnish a copy of such
Letter of Credit to the Borrower promptly following the issuance thereof. The Issuing Lender shall
promptly furnish to the Administrative Agent, which shall in turn promptly furnish to the Lenders,
notice of the issuance of each Letter of Credit (including the amount thereof).
3.3 Fees and Other Charges. (a) The Borrower will pay a fee on all outstanding Letters
of Credit at a per annum rate equal to (i) with respect to Revolving Letters of Credit the
Applicable Margin then in effect with respect to Eurodollar Loans under the Extended Revolving
Facility, shared ratably among the Extended Revolving Lenders and (ii) with respect to Tranche B-1
Letters of Credit, the Applicable Margin with respect to Eurodollar Loans under the Tranche B-1
Facility, shared ratably among the Tranche B-1 Lenders. Such fees shall be payable (A) with
respect to Revolving Letters of Credit, quarterly in arrears on each L/C Fee Payment Date after the
issuance date and (B) with respect to Tranche B-1 Letters of Credit, monthly in arrears on each L/C
Fee Payment Date after the issuance date. In addition, the Borrower shall pay to the Issuing
Lender for its own account a fronting fee in an amount per annum separately agreed with the Issuing
Lender on the undrawn and unexpired amount of each Letter of Credit, payable (i) with respect to
Revolving Letters of Credit, quarterly in arrears on each L/C Fee Payment Date after the issuance
date and (ii) with respect to Tranche B-1 Letters of Credit, monthly in arrears on each L/C Fee
Payment Date after the issuance date.
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(b) In addition to the foregoing fees, the Borrower shall pay or reimburse the Issuing
Lender for such normal and customary costs and expenses as are incurred or charged by the Issuing
Lender in issuing, negotiating, effecting payment under, amending or otherwise administering any
Letter of Credit.
3.4 L/C Participations. (a) The Issuing Lender irrevocably agrees to grant and hereby grants
to each L/C Participant under the applicable Facility, and, to induce the Issuing Lender to issue
Letters of Credit hereunder, each L/C Participant under the applicable Facility irrevocably agrees
to accept and purchase and hereby accepts and purchases from the Issuing Lender, on the terms and
conditions hereinafter stated, for such L/C Participant’s own account and risk an undivided
interest equal to such L/C Participant’s Revolving Percentage (in the case of Revolving Letters of
Credit) or such L/C Participant’s Tranche B-1 Percentage (in the case of Tranche B-1 Letters of
Credit) in the Issuing Lender’s obligations and rights under each Letter of Credit issued hereunder
under a Facility and the amount of each draft paid by the Issuing Lender thereunder. Each L/C
Participant under a Facility unconditionally and irrevocably agrees with the Issuing Lender that,
if a draft is paid under any Letter of Credit issued under such Facility for which the Issuing
Lender is not reimbursed in full by the Borrower in accordance with the terms of this Agreement (i)
such L/C Participant shall pay to the Issuing Lender upon demand at the Issuing Lender’s address
for notices specified herein an amount equal to such L/C Participant’s Revolving Percentage of the
amount of such draft, or any part thereof, that is not so reimbursed, in the case of Revolving
Letters of Credit and (ii) such L/C Participant hereby irrevocably authorizes the Administrative
Agent to make available to such Issuing Lender upon demand at the Issuing Lender’s address for
notices specified herein such L/C Participant’s Tranche B-1 Percentage of the amount of such draft,
or any part thereof, that is not so reimbursed from amounts on deposit in such Tranche B-1 Lender’s
Tranche B-1 Credit Linked Account (whether or not the conditions to borrowing set forth in Section
5.2 are satisfied).
(b) If any amount required to be paid by any L/C Participant to the Issuing Lender pursuant to
Section 3.4(a) in respect of any unreimbursed portion of any payment made by the Issuing Lender
under any Revolving Letter of Credit is paid to the Issuing Lender within three Business Days after
the date such payment is due, such L/C Participant shall pay to the Issuing Lender on demand an
amount equal to the product of (i) such amount, times (ii) the daily average Federal Funds
Effective Rate during the period from and including the date such payment is required to the date
on which such payment is immediately available to the Issuing Lender, times (iii) a fraction the
numerator of which is the number of days that elapse during such period and the denominator of
which is 360. If any such amount required to be paid by any L/C Participant pursuant to Section
3.4(a) is not made available to the Issuing Lender by such L/C Participant within three Business
Days after the date such payment is due, the Issuing Lender shall be entitled to recover from such
L/C Participant, on demand, such amount with interest thereon calculated from such due date at the
rate per annum applicable to ABR Loans under the Revolving Facility. A certificate of the Issuing
Lender submitted to any L/C Participant with respect to any amounts owing under this Section shall
be conclusive in the absence of manifest error.
(c) Whenever, at any time after the Issuing Lender has made payment under any Letter of Credit
and has received from any L/C Participant its pro rata share of such payment in
accordance with Section 3.4(a), the Issuing Lender receives any payment related to such Letter of
Credit (whether directly from the Borrower or otherwise, including proceeds of collateral applied
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thereto by the Issuing Lender), or any payment of interest on account thereof, the Issuing
Lender will (i) if such payment is with respect to a Revolving Letter of Credit, distribute to such
L/C Participant its pro rata share thereof and (ii) if such payment is with respect
to a Tranche B-1 Letter of Credit, return to each Tranche B-1 Lender its pro rata
share thereof by deposit into its Tranche B-1 Credit Linked Account; provided,
however, that in the event that any such payment received by the Issuing Lender shall be
required to be returned by the Issuing Lender, (A) if such Letter of Credit is a Revolving Letter
of Credit, such L/C Participant shall return to the Issuing Lender the portion thereof previously
distributed by the Issuing Lender to it and (B) if such Letter of Credit is a Tranche B-1 Letter of
Credit, the Tranche B-1 Lenders hereby irrevocably authorize the Administrative Agent to make
available to such Issuing Lender the portion thereof previously distributed to the Issuing Lender
from amounts on deposit in such Tranche B-1 Lender’s Tranche B-1 Credit Linked Account.
3.5 Reimbursement Obligation of the Borrower The Borrower agrees to reimburse the Issuing
Lender no later than the first Business Day following each date on which the Issuing Lender
notifies the Borrower of the date and amount of a draft presented under any Letter of Credit and
paid by the Issuing Lender for the amount of (a) such draft so paid and (b) any taxes, fees,
charges or other costs or expenses incurred by the Issuing Lender in connection with such payment;
provided, that such reimbursement obligation of the Borrower shall (i) in the case where
such reimbursement obligation is in respect of a Tranche B-1 Letter of Credit be deemed to be
satisfied to the extent funds on deposit in the Tranche B-1 Credit Linked Accounts are withdrawn
and applied thereto in accordance with Sections 2.4(c)(ii) and 3.4(a) (whether or not the
conditions to borrowing set forth in Section 5.2 are satisfied) and (ii) in the case where such
reimbursement obligation is in respect of a Revolving Letter of Credit, be deemed to be satisfied
when the Extended Revolving Lenders have funded Extended Revolving Loans in the amount of such
draft so paid to reimburse such Lender in accordance with the following procedures: (A) the
applicable Issuing Lender shall also notify the Administrative Agent of the amount to be so
reimbursed, (B) the Borrower shall automatically be deemed to have requested a borrowing of
Extended Revolving Loans to be made as ABR Loans in the amount of such reimbursement obligation,
and (C) the Administrative Agent shall have notified each Extended Revolving Lender of the same and
the amount to be funded by such Revolving Lender which amount with respect to such Revolving Lender
shall equal its Revolving Percentage of such reimbursement obligation (which shall be funded by
such Revolving Lender whether or not the conditions to borrowing set forth in Section 5.2 are
satisfied). Each such payment shall be made to the Issuing Lender at its address for notices
specified herein in lawful money of the United States and in immediately available funds. Interest
shall be payable on any and all amounts remaining unpaid by the Borrower under this Section from
the date such amounts become payable (whether at stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise)
until payment in full at the rate set forth in (i) until the second Business Day following the date
of the applicable drawing, Section 2.16(b) and (ii) thereafter, Section 2.16(c).
3.6 Obligations Absolute The Borrower’s obligations under this Section 3 shall be absolute and
unconditional under any and all circumstances and irrespective of any setoff, counterclaim or
defense to payment that the Borrower may have or may have had against the Issuing Lender, any
beneficiary of a Letter of Credit or any other Person. The Borrower also agrees with the Issuing
Lender that the Issuing Lender shall not be responsible for, and the Borrower’s Reimbursement
Obligations under Section 3.5 shall not be affected by, among other things, the validity or
genuineness of documents or of any endorsements thereon, even though
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such documents shall in fact prove to be invalid, fraudulent or forged, or any dispute between or
among the Borrower and any beneficiary of any Letter of Credit or any other party to which such
Letter of Credit may be transferred or any claims whatsoever of the Borrower against any
beneficiary of such Letter of Credit or any such transferee. The Issuing Lender shall not be
liable for any error, omission, interruption or delay in transmission, dispatch or delivery of any
message or advice, however transmitted, in connection with any Letter of Credit, except for errors
or omissions found by a final and nonappealable decision of a court of competent jurisdiction to
have resulted from the gross negligence or willful misconduct of the Issuing Lender. The Borrower
agrees that any action taken or omitted by the Issuing Lender under or in connection with any
Letter of Credit or the related drafts or documents, if done in the absence of gross negligence or
willful misconduct and in accordance with the standards of care specified in the Uniform Commercial
Code of the State of New York, shall be binding on the Borrower and shall not result in any
liability of the Issuing Lender to the Borrower. The foregoing shall not be construed to excuse
the Issuing Lender from liability to the Borrower to the extent of any direct damages (as opposed
to consequential damages, claims in respect of which are hereby waived by the Borrower to the
extent permitted by applicable law) suffered by the Borrower that are caused by the Issuing
Lender’s failure to exercise the agreed standard of care (as set forth in Section 3.7 below) in
determining whether drafts and other documents presented under a Letter of Credit comply with the
terms thereof. The parties hereto expressly agree that the Issuing Lender shall have exercised the
agreed standard of care in the absence of gross negligence or willful misconduct on the part of the
Issuing Lender.
3.7 Letter of Credit Payments If any draft shall be presented for payment under any Letter
of Credit, the Issuing Lender shall promptly notify the Borrower of the date and amount thereof.
The responsibility of the Issuing Lender to the Borrower in connection with any draft presented for
payment under any Letter of Credit shall, in addition to any payment obligation expressly provided
for in such Letter of Credit, be limited to determining that the documents (including each draft)
delivered under such Letter of Credit in connection with such presentment are substantially in
conformity with such Letter of Credit.
3.8 Applications To the extent that any provision of any Application related to any Letter
of Credit is inconsistent with the provisions of this Section 3, the provisions of this Section 3
shall apply.
SECTION 4. REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
To induce the Administrative Agent and the Lenders to enter into this Agreement and to make
the Loans and issue or participate in the Letters of Credit, the Borrower hereby represents and
warrants to the Administrative Agent and each Lender that:
4.1 Financial Condition. The audited consolidated balance sheets of the Borrower as at
December 31, 2008 and December 31, 2009, and the related consolidated statements of income and of
cash flows for the fiscal years ended on such dates, reported on by, and accompanied by an
unqualified report from, Deloitte & Touche LLP, present fairly the consolidated financial condition
of the Borrower as at such date, and the consolidated results of its operations and its
consolidated cash flows for the respective fiscal years then ended. The Borrower and its
Subsidiaries do not have any material Guarantee Obligations, contingent
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liabilities or liabilities for taxes, or any long-term leases or unusual forward or long-term
commitments, including any interest rate or foreign currency swap or exchange transaction or other
obligation in respect of derivatives, that are not reflected in the most recent financial
statements referred to in this paragraph. During the period from December 31, 2009 to and
including the Fifth Amendment Effective Date there has been no Disposition by the Borrower of any
material part of its business or property.
4.2 No Change Since December 31, 2009 there has been no development or event that has had or
would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
4.3 Existence; Compliance with Law Each of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries (a) is (except in
the case of any Immaterial Subsidiary) duly organized, validly existing and in good standing (to
the extent such concept is relevant in the applicable jurisdiction) under the laws of the
jurisdiction of its organization, (b) has the corporate or other organizational power and
authority, and the legal right, to own and operate its property, to lease the property it operates
as lessee and to conduct the business in which it is currently engaged, (c) is duly qualified as a
foreign corporation or other entity and in good standing under the laws of each jurisdiction where
its ownership, lease or operation of property or the conduct of its business requires such
qualification and (d) is in compliance with all Requirements of Law except, in the case of clauses
(c) and (d), to the extent that the failure to be qualified or comply would not, in the aggregate,
reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
4.4 Power; Authorization; Enforceable Obligations Each Loan Party has the corporate or other
organizational power and authority, and the legal right, to make, deliver and perform the Loan
Documents to which it is a party and, in the case of the Borrower, to borrow hereunder. Each Loan
Party has taken all necessary corporate or other organizational action to authorize the execution,
delivery and performance of the Loan Documents to which it is a party and, in the case of the
Borrower, to authorize the borrowings on the terms and conditions of this Agreement. No consent or
authorization of, filing with, notice to or other act by or in respect of, any Governmental
Authority or any other Person is required in connection with the Transaction and the borrowings
hereunder or with the execution, delivery, performance, validity or enforceability of this
Agreement or any of the Loan Documents, except consents, authorizations, filings and notices
described in Schedules 4.4, 4.19(a) and 4.19(b), which consents, authorizations, filings and
notices have been obtained or made and are in full force and effect or will have been obtained or
made and be in full force and effect on the Fifth Amendment Effective Date. Each Loan Document has
been duly executed and delivered on behalf of each Loan Party party thereto. This Agreement
constitutes, and each other Loan Document upon execution will constitute, a legal, valid and
binding obligation of each Loan Party party thereto, enforceable against each such Loan Party in
accordance with its terms, except as enforceability may be limited by applicable bankruptcy,
insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or similar laws affecting the enforcement of creditors’
rights generally and by general equitable principles (whether enforcement is sought by proceedings
in equity or at law).
4.5 No Legal Bar The execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and the other
Loan Documents, the issuance of Letters of Credit, the borrowings hereunder and the use of the
proceeds thereof will not violate any Requirement of Law or any material Contractual Obligation of
the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries and will not result in, or require, the creation
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or imposition of any Lien on any of their respective properties or revenues pursuant to any
Requirement of Law or any such Contractual Obligation (other than the Liens created by the Security
Documents). No Requirement of Law or Contractual Obligation applicable to the Borrower or any of
its Subsidiaries would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
4.6 Litigation No litigation, investigation or proceeding of or before any arbitrator or
Governmental Authority is pending or, to the knowledge of the Borrower, threatened by or against
the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries or against any of their respective properties or revenues
(a) with respect to any of the Loan Documents or any of the transactions contemplated hereby or
thereby, or (b) that would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
4.7 No Default Neither the Borrower nor any of its Subsidiaries is in default under or with
respect to any of its Contractual Obligations in any respect that would reasonably be expected to
have a Material Adverse Effect. No Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing.
4.8 Ownership of Property; Liens. Each of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries (other than
Foreign Subsidiaries, as to which no representation is made) has title in fee simple to, or a valid
leasehold interest in, all its real property, and good title to, or a valid leasehold interest in,
all its other property, and none of such property is subject to any Lien except as permitted by
Section 7.3.
4.9 Intellectual Property. The Borrower and each of its Subsidiaries owns, or is licensed to
use, all material Intellectual Property necessary for the conduct of its business as currently
conducted. No material claim has been asserted and is pending by any Person challenging or
questioning the use of any Intellectual Property or the validity or effectiveness of any
Intellectual Property, nor does the Borrower know of any valid basis for any such claim. The use
of Intellectual Property by the Borrower and its Subsidiaries does not infringe on the rights of
any Person in any material respect.
4.10 Taxes. Each of the Borrower and each of its Subsidiaries has filed or caused to be
filed all Federal, state and other material tax returns that are required to be filed and has paid
all taxes shown to be due and payable on said returns or on any assessments made against it or any
of its property and all other taxes, fees or other charges imposed on it or any of its property by
any Governmental Authority (other than any the amount or validity of which are currently being
contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings and with respect to which reserves in conformity
with GAAP have been provided on the books of the Borrower or its Subsidiaries, as the case may be);
no tax Lien has been filed, and, to the knowledge of the Borrower, no claim is being asserted, with
respect to any such tax, fee or other charge.
4.11 Federal Regulations. No part of the proceeds of any Loans will be used for “buying”
or “carrying” any “margin stock” within the respective meanings of each of the quoted terms under
Regulation U as now and from time to time hereafter in effect or for any purpose that violates the
provisions of the Regulations of the Board. If requested by any Lender or the Administrative
Agent, the Borrower will furnish to the Administrative Agent and each Lender a
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statement to the foregoing effect in conformity with the requirements of FR Form G-3 or FR Form
U-1, as applicable, referred to in Regulation U.
4.12 Labor Matters. Except as, in the aggregate, would not reasonably be expected to have a
Material Adverse Effect: (a) there are no strikes or other labor disputes against the Borrower or
any of its Subsidiaries pending or, to the knowledge of the Borrower, threatened; (b) hours worked
by and payment made to employees of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries have not been in violation of
the Fair Labor Standards Act or any other applicable Requirement of Law dealing with such matters;
and (c) all payments due from the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries on account of employee health
and welfare insurance have been paid or accrued as a liability on the books of the Borrower or the
relevant Subsidiary.
4.13 ERISA. Neither a Reportable Event which could give rise to a material liability nor an
“accumulated funding deficiency” (within the meaning of Section 412 of the Code or Section 302 of
ERISA) has occurred during the five-year period prior to the date on which this representation is
made or deemed made with respect to any Plan, and each Plan has complied in all material respects
with the applicable provisions of ERISA and the Code. No termination of a Single Employer Plan has
occurred, and no Lien in favor of the PBGC or a Plan has arisen, during such five-year period. The
present value of all accrued benefits under each Single Employer Plan (based on those assumptions
used to fund such Plans) did not, as of the last annual valuation date prior to the date on which
this representation is made or deemed made, exceed the value of the assets of such Plan allocable
to such accrued benefits by an amount which would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse
Effect. Neither the Borrower nor any Commonly Controlled Entity has had a complete or partial
withdrawal from any Multiemployer Plan that has resulted or would reasonably be expected to result
in a material liability under ERISA, and neither the Borrower nor any Commonly Controlled Entity
would become subject to any material liability under ERISA if the Borrower or any such Commonly
Controlled Entity were to withdraw completely from all Multiemployer Plans as of the valuation date
most closely preceding the date on which this representation is made or deemed made. No such
Multiemployer Plan is in Reorganization or Insolvent.
4.14 Investment Company Act; Other Regulations. No Loan Party is an “investment company,” or a
company “controlled” by an “investment company,” within the meaning of the Investment Company Act
of 1940, as amended. No Loan Party is subject to regulation under any Requirement of Law (other
than Regulation X of the Board) that limits its ability to incur Indebtedness.
4.15 Subsidiaries. Except as disclosed to the Administrative Agent by the Borrower in
writing from time to time after the Closing Date, (a) Schedule 4.15 sets forth the name and
jurisdiction of formation of each Subsidiary and, as to each such Subsidiary, the percentage of
each class of Capital Stock owned by any Loan Party and (b) there are no outstanding subscriptions,
options, warrants, calls, rights or other agreements or commitments (other than stock options
granted to employees or directors and directors’ qualifying shares) of any nature relating to any
Capital Stock of the Borrower or any Subsidiary, except as created by the Loan Documents.
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4.16 Use of Proceeds. The proceeds of the Tranche B Term Loans made on the Fifth Amendment
Effective Date will be used to refinance existing Indebtedness of the Borrower and its
Subsidiaries, to pay fees and expenses relating to the Transaction and for general corporate
purposes. The proceeds of the Revolving Loans, Tranche B-1 Loans made after the Fifth Amendment
Effective Date and the Swingline Loans, and the Letters of Credit, shall be used for general
corporate purposes.
4.17 Environmental Matters. Except as, in the aggregate, would not reasonably be expected to
have a Material Adverse Effect:
(a) the facilities and properties owned, leased or operated by the Borrower or any of its
Subsidiaries (the “Properties”) do not contain, and have not previously contained, any
Materials of Environmental Concern in amounts or concentrations or under circumstances that
constitute or constituted a violation of, or could give rise to liability under, any Environmental
Law;
(b) neither the Borrower nor any of its Subsidiaries has received or is aware of any written
notice of violation, alleged violation, non-compliance, liability or potential liability regarding
environmental matters or compliance with Environmental Laws with regard to any of the Properties or
the business operated by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries (the “Business”), nor does
the Borrower have knowledge or reason to believe that any such notice will be received or is being
threatened;
(c) Materials of Environmental Concern have not been transported or disposed of from the
Properties in violation of, or in a manner or to a location that could give rise to liability
under, any Environmental Law, nor have any Materials of Environmental Concern been generated,
treated, stored or disposed of at, on or under any of the Properties in violation of, or in a
manner that could give rise to liability under, any applicable Environmental Law;
(d) no judicial proceeding or governmental or administrative action is pending or, to the
knowledge of the Borrower, threatened, under any Environmental Law to which the Borrower or any
Subsidiary is or will be named as a party with respect to the Properties or the Business, nor are
there any consent decrees or other decrees, consent orders, administrative orders or other orders,
or other administrative or judicial requirements outstanding under any Environmental Law with
respect to the Properties or the Business;
(e) there has been no release or threat of release of Materials of Environmental Concern at or
from the Properties, or arising from or related to the operations of the Borrower or any Subsidiary
in connection with the Properties or otherwise in connection with the Business, in violation of or
in amounts or in a manner that could give rise to liability under Environmental Laws;
(f) the Properties and all operations at the Properties are in compliance, and have in the
last five years been in compliance, with all applicable Environmental Laws, and there is no
contamination at, under or about the Properties or violation of any Environmental Law with respect
to the Properties or the Business; and
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(g) neither the Borrower nor any of its Subsidiaries has assumed any liability of any other
Person under Environmental Laws.
4.18 Accuracy of Information, etc. No statement or information contained in this
Agreement, any other Loan Document or any other document, certificate or written statement
furnished by or on behalf of any Loan Party to the Administrative Agent or the Lenders, or any of
them, for use in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or the other Loan
Documents, contained as of the date such statement, information, document or certificate was so
furnished, any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact necessary to
make the statements contained herein or therein, when taken as a whole, not materially misleading.
The projections and pro forma financial information contained in the materials referenced above are
based upon good faith estimates and assumptions believed by management of the Borrower to be
reasonable at the time made, it being recognized by the Lenders that such financial information as
it relates to future events is not to be viewed as fact and that actual results during the period
or periods covered by such financial information may differ from the projected results set forth
therein by a material amount. There is no fact known to any Loan Party that would reasonably be
expected to have a Material Adverse Effect that has not been expressly disclosed herein, in the
other Loan Documents or in any other documents, certificates and statements furnished to the
Administrative Agent and the Lenders for use in connection with the transactions contemplated
hereby and by the other Loan Documents.
4.19 Security Documents. (a) The Guarantee and Collateral Agreement is effective to
create in favor of the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Lenders, a legal, valid and
enforceable (except as enforceability may be limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency,
reorganization, moratorium or similar laws affecting the enforcement of creditors’ rights
generally) security interest in the Collateral described therein and proceeds thereof. In the case
of the Pledged Stock described in the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement, when the Administrative
Agent obtains control of stock certificates representing such Pledged Stock, and in the case of the
other Collateral described in the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement, when financing statements and
other filings specified on Schedule 4.19(a) in appropriate form are or have been filed in the
offices specified on Schedule 4.19(a), the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement shall constitute a
fully perfected Lien on, and security interest in, all right, title and interest of the Loan
Parties in such Collateral and the proceeds thereof to the extent a security interest can be
perfected by filings or other action required thereunder as security for the Obligations (as
defined in the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement), in each case prior and superior in right to any
other Person (except, in the case of Collateral other than Pledged Stock with respect to which the
Administrative Agent has control, Liens permitted by Section 7.3).
(b) Each of the Mortgages is effective to create in favor of the Administrative Agent, for the
benefit of the Lenders, a legal, valid and enforceable Lien on the Mortgaged Properties described
therein and proceeds thereof, and when the Mortgages are or have been filed in the offices
specified on Schedule 4.19(b), each such Mortgage shall constitute a fully perfected Lien on, and
security interest in, all right, title and interest of the Loan Parties in the Mortgaged Properties
and the proceeds thereof, as security for the Obligations (as defined in the relevant Mortgage), in
each case prior and superior in right to any other Person. As of the Fifth Amendment Effective
Date, Schedule 1.1B lists each of the real properties in the United States
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owned in fee simple by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries having a value, in the
reasonable opinion of the Borrower, in excess of $5,000,000.
4.20 Solvency. Each Loan Party is, and after giving effect to the Transactions and the
incurrence of all Indebtedness and obligations being incurred in connection herewith and therewith
will be and will continue to be, Solvent.
4.21 Senior Indebtedness. The Obligations constitute “Senior Debt” of the Borrower under and as
defined in the Senior Subordinated Note Indenture and the obligations of each Subsidiary Guarantor
under the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement constitute “Guarantor Senior Debt” of such Subsidiary
Guarantor under and as defined in the Senior Subordinated Note Indenture.
4.22 First Priority Claims. As long as the Intercreditor Agreement is in effect, the
Borrower Obligations and the Guarantor Obligations (as such terms are defined in the Guarantee and
Collateral Agreement) constitute First Priority Claims (as defined in the Intercreditor Agreement
and the Second Lien Note Indenture), and the Liens on the Collateral securing the Borrower
Obligations and the Guarantor Obligations constitute First Priority Liens (as defined in the Second
Lien Note Indenture).
SECTION 5. CONDITIONS PRECEDENT
5.1 [Reserved]
5.2 Conditions to Each Extension of Credit. The agreement of each Lender to make any
extension of credit requested to be made by it on any date (including its initial extension of
credit) is subject to the satisfaction of the following conditions precedent:
(a) Representations and Warranties. Each of the representations and warranties
made by any Loan Party in or pursuant to the Loan Documents shall be true and correct in all
material respects on and as of such date as if made on and as of such date (except to the extent
any such representation and warranty expressly relates to an earlier date, in which case it was
true and correct in all material respects as of such earlier date).
(b) No Default. No Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing
on such date or after giving effect to the extensions of credit requested to be made on such date.
Each borrowing by and issuance of a Letter of Credit on behalf of the Borrower hereunder shall
constitute a representation and warranty by the Borrower as of the date of such extension of credit
that the conditions contained in this Section 5.2 have been satisfied.
SECTION 6. AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS
The Borrower hereby agrees that, so long as the Commitments remain in effect, any Letter of
Credit remains outstanding or any Loan or other amount is owing to any Lender or the Administrative
Agent hereunder, the Borrower shall and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to:
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6.1 Financial Statements. Furnish to the Administrative Agent and each Lender:
(a) as soon as available, but in any event within 90 days after the end of each fiscal year of
the Borrower, a copy of the audited consolidated balance sheet of the Borrower and its consolidated
Subsidiaries as at the end of such year and the related audited consolidated statements of income
and of cash flows (or such other similar or additional statement then required by the SEC for
annual reports filed pursuant to the Exchange Act) for such year, setting forth in each case in
comparative form the figures for the previous year, reported on without a “going concern” or like
qualification or exception, or qualification arising out of the scope of the audit, or other
material qualification or exception, by Deloitte & Touche LLP or other independent certified public
accountants of nationally recognized standing; and
(b) as soon as available, but in any event not later than 45 days after the end of each of the
first three quarterly periods of each fiscal year of the Borrower, the unaudited consolidated
balance sheet of the Borrower and its consolidated Subsidiaries as at the end of such quarter and
the related unaudited consolidated statements of income and of cash flows (or such other or similar
or additional statement then required by the SEC for quarterly reports filed pursuant to the
Exchange Act) for such quarter and the portion of the fiscal year through the end of such quarter,
setting forth in each case in comparative form the figures for the previous year, certified by a
Responsible Officer as being fairly stated in all material respects (subject to normal year-end
audit adjustments).
All such financial statements shall be complete and correct in all material respects and shall be
prepared in reasonable detail and in accordance in all material respects with GAAP applied
consistently throughout the periods reflected therein and with prior periods (except as approved by
such accountants or officer, as the case may be, and disclosed therein).
Financial statements required to be delivered pursuant to this Section 6.1 shall be deemed to
have been delivered on the date on which the Borrower provides notice to the Administrative Agent
(which notice the Administrative Agent shall promptly provide to the Lenders) that such financial
statements are included in its annual report on Form 10-K or Form 10-Q, as the case may be, as
filed with the SEC, and such report has been posted on the SEC website on the Internet at
xxx.xxx/xxxxx/xxxxxxxx.xxx (or any successor website), on the Borrower’s IntraLinks site at
xxxxxxxxxx.xxx or at another relevant website identified in such notice and accessible by the
Lenders without charge.
6.2 Certificates; Other Information. Furnish to the Administrative Agent and each Lender
(or, in the case of clause (g), to the relevant Lender):
(a) concurrently with the delivery of the financial statements referred to in Section 6.1(a),
a certificate of the independent certified public accountants reporting on such financial
statements stating that in making the examination necessary therefor no knowledge was obtained of
any Event of Default arising as a result of non-compliance with Section 7.1, except as specified in
such certificate (which certificate may be limited to accounting matters and disclaim
responsibility for legal interpretations);
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(b) within 10 Business Days after the delivery of any financial statements pursuant to Section
6.1, (i) a certificate of a Responsible Officer stating that, to the best of each such Responsible
Officer’s knowledge, each Loan Party during such period has observed or performed all of its
covenants and other agreements, and satisfied every condition, contained in this Agreement and the
other Loan Documents to which it is a party to be observed, performed or satisfied by it, and that
such Responsible Officer has obtained no knowledge of any Default or Event of Default except as
specified in such certificate and (ii) in the case of quarterly or annual financial statements, a
Compliance Certificate containing all information and calculations necessary for determining
compliance by the Borrower and its Subsidiaries with the provisions of this Agreement referred to
therein as of the last day of the fiscal quarter or fiscal year of the Borrower, as the case may
be;
(c) no later than three (3) Business Days prior to the effectiveness thereof, copies of
substantially final drafts of any proposed amendment, supplement, waiver or other modification with
respect to the Senior Subordinated Note Indenture or the Second Lien Note Indenture;
(d) promptly upon the mailing thereof, copies of all financial statements and reports (except
to the extent previously delivered pursuant to Section 6.1) that the Borrower sends to the holders
of any class of its debt securities or public equity securities and, within five days after the
same are filed, copies of all financial statements and reports that the Borrower may make to, or
file with, the SEC;
(e) as soon as available, but in any event not later than 45 days after the end of each
fiscal year of the Borrower (but only if the Borrower’s Consolidated Leverage Ratio is greater than
3.50 to 1.0 as of the end of the Borrower’s third fiscal quarter in such ending fiscal year), a
copy of the projections by the Borrower of its operating budget and cash flow budget for each
quarter of the fiscal year in which such delivery is required to be made, such projections to be
accompanied by a certificate of a Responsible Officer to the effect that such projections have been
prepared based upon good faith estimates and assumptions and on the basis of sound financial
planning practice; and
(f) promptly, such additional financial and other information as any Lender may from time
to time reasonably request.
6.3 Payment of Taxes. Pay, discharge or otherwise satisfy at or before maturity or before they
become delinquent, as the case may be, all tax obligations that are material to the Borrower and
its Subsidiaries taken as a whole of whatever nature, except where the amount or validity thereof
is currently being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings and reserves in conformity
with GAAP with respect thereto have been provided on the books of the Borrower or its Subsidiaries,
as the case may be.
6.4 Maintenance of Existence; Compliance. (a) (i) Preserve, renew and keep in full force and
effect its corporate or other organizational existence and (ii) take all reasonable action to
maintain all rights, privileges and franchises necessary or desirable in the normal conduct of the
Business, except, in each case, as otherwise permitted by Section 7.4 and except, in the case of
clause (ii) above, to the extent that failure to do so would not reasonably be expected to have a
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Material Adverse Effect; and (b) comply with all Contractual Obligations and Requirements of Law
except to the extent that failure to comply therewith could not, in the aggregate, reasonably be
expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
6.5 Maintenance of Property; Insurance. (a) Keep all property useful and necessary in its
business in good working order and condition, ordinary wear and tear excepted and (b) maintain with
financially sound and reputable insurance companies insurance on all its property in at least such
amounts and against at least such risks (but including in any event public liability, product
liability and business interruption) as are usually insured against in the same general area by
companies engaged in the same or a similar business.
6.6 Inspection of Property; Books and Records; Discussions. (a) Keep proper books of records
and accounts in which full, true and correct entries in conformity in all material respects with
GAAP and all Requirements of Law shall be made of all dealings and transactions in relation to its
business and activities and (b) permit representatives of any Lender, upon reasonable prior written
notice, to make reasonable visits to and inspections of any of its properties and examine and make
abstracts from any of its books and records at any reasonable time and as often as may reasonably
be desired and to discuss the business, operations, properties and financial and other condition of
the Borrower and its Subsidiaries with officers of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries.
6.7 Notices. Promptly give notice to the Administrative Agent and each Lender of:
(a) the occurrence of any Default or Event of Default upon obtaining knowledge thereof;
(b) any (i) default or event of default under any Contractual Obligation of the Borrower or
any of its Subsidiaries or (ii) litigation, investigation or proceeding that may exist at any time
between the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries and any Governmental Authority, that in either
case, if not cured or if adversely determined, as the case may be, would reasonably be expected to
have a Material Adverse Effect;
(c) any litigation or proceeding affecting the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries in which
the amount involved is $25,000,000 or more and not covered by insurance or in which injunctive or
similar relief is sought;
(d) the following events, as soon as possible and in any event within 30 days after the
Borrower knows or has reason to know thereof: (i) the occurrence of any Reportable Event with
respect to any Plan, a failure to make any required contribution to a Plan, the creation of any
Lien in favor of the PBGC or a Plan or any withdrawal from, or the termination, Reorganization or
Insolvency of, any Multiemployer Plan or (ii) the institution of proceedings or the taking of any
other action by the PBGC or the Borrower or any Commonly Controlled Entity or any Multiemployer
Plan with respect to the withdrawal from, or the termination, Reorganization or Insolvency of, any
Plan; and
(e) any development or event that has had or would reasonably be expected to have a
Material Adverse Effect.
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Each notice pursuant to this Section 6.7 shall be accompanied by a statement of a Responsible
Officer setting forth details of the occurrence referred to therein and stating what action the
Borrower or the relevant Subsidiary proposes to take with respect thereto.
6.8 Environmental Laws. (a) Comply with, and ensure compliance in all material respects by
all tenants and subtenants, if any, with, all applicable Environmental Laws, and obtain and comply
with and maintain, and ensure that all tenants and subtenants obtain and comply in all material
respects with and maintain, any and all licenses, approvals, notifications, registrations or
permits required by applicable Environmental Laws, except, in each case with respect to this
Section 6.8, to the extent the failure to do so would not reasonably be expected to have,
individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect.
(b) Conduct and complete all investigations, studies, sampling and testing, and all remedial,
removal and other actions required under Environmental Laws and promptly comply in all material
respects with all lawful orders and directives of all Governmental Authorities regarding
Environmental Laws.
6.9 Additional Collateral, etc. (a) With respect to any property acquired after the Closing
Date by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries (other than an Excluded Subsidiary) (other than (x)
any property described in paragraph (b), (c) or (d) below and (y) any property subject to a Lien
expressly permitted by Section 7.3(g)) as to which the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the
Lenders, does not have a perfected Lien, promptly (i) execute and deliver to the Administrative
Agent such amendments to the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement or such other documents as the
Administrative Agent deems necessary or advisable to grant to the Administrative Agent, for the
benefit of the Lenders, a security interest in such property and (ii) take all actions necessary or
advisable to grant to the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Lenders, a perfected
security interest in such property having the highest priority then available, including the filing
of Uniform Commercial Code financing statements in such jurisdictions as may be required by the
Guarantee and Collateral Agreement or by law or as may be requested by the Administrative Agent.
(b) With respect to any fee interest in any real property having a value (together with
improvements thereof) of at least $5,000,000 acquired after the Closing Date by the Borrower or any
of its Subsidiaries (other than (x) any such real property subject to a Lien expressly permitted by
Section 7.3(g) and (y) real property acquired by any Excluded Subsidiary), promptly (i) execute and
deliver a first priority Mortgage, in favor of the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the
Lenders, covering such real property, (ii) if requested by the Administrative Agent, provide the
Lenders with (x) title and extended coverage insurance covering such real property in an amount at
least equal to the purchase price of such real property (or such other amount as shall be
reasonably specified by the Administrative Agent) as well as a current ALTA survey thereof,
together with a surveyor’s certificate and (y) any consents or estoppels reasonably deemed
necessary or advisable by the Administrative Agent in connection with such mortgage or deed of
trust, each of the foregoing in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative
Agent and (iii) if requested by the Administrative Agent, deliver to the Administrative Agent legal
opinions relating to the matters described above, which opinions shall be in form and substance,
and from counsel, reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.
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(c) With respect to any new Subsidiary (other than a Foreign Subsidiary) created or acquired
after the Closing Date by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries (which, for the purposes of this
paragraph (c), shall include any existing Subsidiary that ceases to be an Excluded Subsidiary),
promptly (i) execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent such amendments to the Guarantee and
Collateral Agreement as the Administrative Agent deems necessary or advisable to grant to the
Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Lenders, a perfected first priority security interest
in the Capital Stock of such new Subsidiary that is owned by the Borrower or any of its
Subsidiaries, (ii) deliver to the Administrative Agent the certificates representing such Capital
Stock, together with undated stock powers, in blank, executed and delivered by a duly authorized
officer of the Borrower or such Subsidiary, as the case may be, and take such other action as may
be necessary or, in the opinion of the Administrative Agent, desirable to perfect the
Administrative Agent’s security interest therein, (iii) cause such new Subsidiary (other than
Excluded Subsidiaries) (A) to become a party to the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement and (B) to
deliver to the Administrative Agent a certificate of such Subsidiary, substantially in the form of
Exhibit C, with appropriate insertions and attachments, and (iv) if requested by the Administrative
Agent, deliver to the Administrative Agent legal opinions relating to the matters described above,
which opinions shall be in form and substance, and from counsel, reasonably satisfactory to the
Administrative Agent.
(d) With respect to any new first-tier Foreign Subsidiary (other than any Immaterial Foreign
Subsidiary (as defined in the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement)) of a Loan Party created or
acquired after the Closing Date by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, promptly (i) execute
and deliver to the Administrative Agent such amendments to the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement
as the Administrative Agent deems necessary or advisable to grant to the Administrative Agent, for
the benefit of the Lenders, a perfected first priority security interest in the Capital Stock of
such new Subsidiary (provided that in no event shall more than 65% of the total outstanding
Capital Stock of any such new Subsidiary be required to be so pledged, provided,
further, that the Borrower shall not be obligated to pledge the Capital Stock of a Foreign
Subsidiary to the extent such pledge would violate the laws of the jurisdiction of such Foreign
Subsidiary’s organization), (ii) deliver to the Administrative Agent the certificates representing
such Capital Stock, together with undated stock powers, in blank, executed and delivered by a duly
authorized officer of the Borrower or such Subsidiary, as the case may be, and take such other
action as may be necessary or, in the opinion of the Administrative Agent, desirable to perfect the
Administrative Agent’s security interest therein, and (iii) if requested by the Administrative
Agent, deliver to the Administrative Agent legal opinions relating to the matters described above,
which opinions shall be in form and substance, and from counsel, reasonably satisfactory to the
Administrative Agent.
(e) Not permit any Subsidiary to guarantee payment of any of the Second Priority Claims unless
and until such Subsidiary has guaranteed payment of the First Priority Claims pursuant to the
Guarantee and Collateral Agreement.
(f) Except as required by the terms of the Second Lien Note Indenture or the Second Priority
Collateral Documents, prior to taking any action to create or perfect any Lien on any Collateral
securing the Second Priority Claims provide the Administrative Agent at least five Business Days
prior notice of such action, and promptly following the taking of any action to
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create or perfect any Lien on any Collateral securing the Second Priority Claims notify the
Administrative Agent in writing of such action.
(g) Upon request of the Administrative Agent from time to time promptly provide the
Administrative Agent with information regarding any property of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries
which secures or purports to secure any Second Priority Claims and the actions taken to create or
perfect the applicable Liens, to the extent such information is reasonably available to the
Borrower or its Subsidiaries and is not subject to any legal or similar privilege.
SECTION 7. NEGATIVE COVENANTS
The Borrower hereby agrees that, so long as the Commitments remain in effect, any Letter of
Credit remains outstanding or any Loan or other amount is owing to any Lender or the Administrative
Agent hereunder, the Borrower shall not, and shall not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, directly
or indirectly:
7.1 Financial Condition Covenants.
(a) Consolidated Net Leverage Ratio. Permit the Consolidated Net Leverage Ratio as at
the last day of any period of four consecutive fiscal quarters of the Borrower ending with any
fiscal quarter during any period set forth below to exceed the ratio set forth below opposite such
period:
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Consolidated Net |
Period |
|
Leverage Ratio |
First Quarter 2010
|
|
5.50 to 1.00 |
Second Quarter 2010
|
|
4.50 to 1.00 |
Third Quarter 2010
|
|
4.25 to 1.00 |
Fourth Quarter 2010
|
|
4.25 to 1.00 |
First Quarter 2011
|
|
4.00 to 1.00 |
Second Quarter 2011
|
|
3.75 to 1.00 |
Third and Fourth Quarters 2011
|
|
3.50 to 1.00 |
Fiscal Year 2012 and thereafter
|
|
3.50 to 1.00 |
(b) Consolidated Interest Coverage Ratio. Permit the Consolidated Interest Coverage
Ratio for any period of four consecutive fiscal quarters of the Borrower ending with any fiscal
quarter during any period set forth below to be less than the ratio set forth below opposite such
period:
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|
|
|
|
Consolidated |
|
|
Interest |
Period |
|
Coverage Ratio |
First Quarter 2010
|
|
2.00 to 1.00 |
Second Quarter 2010
|
|
2.25 to 1.00 |
Third Quarter 2010
|
|
2.30 to 1.00 |
Fourth Quarter 2010
|
|
2.35 to 1.00 |
First Quarter 2011
|
|
2.55 to 1.00 |
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|
|
|
|
Consolidated |
|
|
Interest |
Period |
|
Coverage Ratio |
Second Quarter 2011
|
|
2.55 to 1.00 |
Third and Fourth Quarters 2011
|
|
2.55 to 1.00 |
Fiscal Year 2012 and thereafter
|
|
2.75 to 1.00 |
7.2 Indebtedness. Create, issue, incur, assume, become liable in respect of or suffer to exist
any Indebtedness, except:
(a) Indebtedness of any Loan Party pursuant to any Loan Document;
(b) Indebtedness of the Borrower to any of its Subsidiaries and of any Subsidiary to the
Borrower or any other Subsidiary of the Borrower;
(c) Guarantee Obligations incurred in the ordinary course of business by the Borrower or any
of its Subsidiaries of obligations of any Subsidiary in an aggregate amount not to exceed
$100,000,000 at any time, unless otherwise permitted hereunder;
(d) Indebtedness existing on the Fifth Amendment Effective Date (or which may be incurred
pursuant to commitments existing on the Fifth Amendment Effective Date) listed on Schedule 7.2(d)
and any refinancings, refundings, renewals or extensions thereof (without increasing, or shortening
the maturity of, the principal amount thereof);
(e) Indebtedness (including, without limitation, Capital Lease Obligations) secured by Liens
permitted by Section 7.3(g) or (i) in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $50,000,000 at
any one time outstanding;
(f) (i) Indebtedness of the Borrower in respect of the Senior Subordinated Notes in an
aggregate principal amount not to exceed $500,000,000 and any Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness in
respect thereof and (ii) Guarantee Obligations of any Subsidiary Guarantor in respect of such
Indebtedness, provided, that such Guarantee Obligations are subordinated to the same extent
as the obligations of the Borrower in respect of the Senior Subordinated Notes;
(g) Hedge Agreements (including Guarantee Obligations of the Loan Parties in respect of
Hedge Agreements entered into by Tenneco Management (Europe) Limited or any Subsidiary that
succeeds Tenneco Management (Europe) Limited in the performance of international treasury
management functions) in respect of (i) Indebtedness that bears interest on a fixed or floating
rate basis, so long as such agreements are not entered into for speculative purposes and (ii)
currencies as long as such agreements are entered into to hedge actual exposure and not entered
into for speculative purposes;
(h) additional Indebtedness of Foreign Subsidiaries of the Borrower under lines of credit;
provided, that, at the time any such Indebtedness is incurred, after giving effect to such
incurrence, the aggregate principal amount of all such Indebtedness permitted under this clause (h)
shall not exceed the local currency equivalent of (i) $100,000,000 if the Consolidated Net
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Leverage Ratio (calculated after giving effect to the incurrence of such Indebtedness) is equal to or
greater than 3.0 to 1.0 as of the last day of the most recently ended fiscal quarter, or (ii)
$150,000,000 at any time if the Consolidated Net
Leverage Ratio (calculated after giving effect to the incurrence of such Indebtedness) is less than 3.0 to 1.0 as of the last day of the most
recently ended fiscal quarter;
(i) Indebtedness of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries in respect of Stub Debt;
(j) additional Indebtedness of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries in an aggregate
principal amount (for the Borrower and all Subsidiaries) not to exceed, at any time outstanding,
$100,000,000;
(k) Capital Lease Obligations arising from Permitted Sale/Leasebacks;
(l) (i) Indebtedness of the Borrower in respect of the Second Lien Notes in an aggregate
principal amount not to exceed $475,000,000 and any Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness in respect
thereof and (ii) Guarantee Obligations of any Subsidiary Guarantor in respect of such Indebtedness;
(m) Indebtedness in respect of Cash Management Obligations, including Cash Pooling Agreements,
or guarantees thereof, including the guarantee set forth in Section 2.1(f) of the Guarantee and
Collateral Agreement;
(n) additional unsecured Indebtedness of Foreign Subsidiaries in an aggregate principal amount
not to exceed the local currency equivalent of €225,000,000 at any time to the extent the proceeds
are used directly or indirectly to prepay, repurchase or redeem the Senior Unsecured Notes and to
pay any fees and premiums arising in connection with such refinancing;
(o) unsecured Guarantee Obligations of the Borrower and the other Loan Parties of obligations
of any Subsidiary (other than secured obligations of the type described in clause (h) above);
(p) (i) unsecured Indebtedness of the Borrower and guarantees thereof by Subsidiary Guarantors
only for the purpose of refinancing subordinated Indebtedness of the Borrower, as long as (A) such
unsecured Indebtedness and guarantees comply with the conditions set forth in clauses (c)(i),
(iii), (iv) and (v) of the definition of “Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness”, (B) the Second Lien
Notes have been repaid or refinanced with the proceeds of Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness and
(C) on a pro forma basis the Consolidated Net Leverage Ratio would be equal to or less than 3.0:1.0
and (ii) Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness in respect thereof;
(q) (i) unsecured Indebtedness of the Borrower consisting of senior unsecured Indebtedness,
senior subordinated Indebtedness, and guarantees thereof by Subsidiary Guarantors, provided
(A) such unsecured Indebtedness complies with the conditions set forth in clauses (c)(i), (iii),
(iv) and (v) of the definition of “Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness” and (B) the proceeds are
used to finance acquisitions permitted under Section 7.8(j) or (k) and (ii) any Permitted
Refinancing Indebtedness in respect thereof; and
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(r) Indebtedness of TAOC in connection with the Xxxx County Facility IDB Transaction.
7.3 Liens. Create, incur, assume or suffer to exist any Lien upon any of its property,
whether now owned or hereafter acquired, except for:
(a) Liens for taxes not yet due or that are being contested in good faith by appropriate
proceedings, provided that adequate reserves with respect thereto are maintained on the
books of any Loan Party or any Excluded Subsidiary, as the case may be, in conformity with GAAP;
(b) statutory liens of landlords and carriers, warehousemen, mechanics, materialmen, repairmen
or other like Liens arising in the ordinary course of business that are not overdue for a period of
more than 30 days or that are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings;
(c) pledges or deposits in connection with workers’ compensation, unemployment insurance and
other social security legislation;
(d) deposits to secure the performance of bids, trade contracts (other than for borrowed
money), leases, statutory obligations, surety and appeal bonds, performance bonds and other
obligations of a like nature incurred in the ordinary course of business;
(e) easements, rights-of-way, restrictions and other similar encumbrances incurred in the
ordinary course of business that, in the aggregate, are not substantial in amount and that do not
in any case materially detract from the value of the property subject thereto or materially
interfere with the ordinary conduct of the business of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries;
(f) Liens in existence on the Fifth Amendment Effective Date listed on Schedule 7.3(f),
securing Indebtedness permitted by Section 7.2(d), provided that no such Lien is
spread to cover any additional property after the Fifth Amendment Effective Date and that the
amount of Indebtedness secured thereby is not increased;
(g) Liens securing Indebtedness incurred pursuant to Section 7.2(e) on property at the time it
is acquired by any the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, provided that such Liens do not
spread to cover other properties;
(h) Liens arising solely by virtue of any statutory or common law provisions related to
banker’s liens, rights of set-off or similar rights and remedies as to deposit accounts;
(i) Liens securing Indebtedness of the Borrower or any Subsidiary incurred pursuant to Section
7.2(e) to finance the acquisition of fixed or capital assets, provided that (i) such Liens
do not at any time encumber any property other than the property financed by such Indebtedness and
(ii) the amount of Indebtedness secured thereby is not increased;
(j) Liens created pursuant to the Security Documents;
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(k) Liens consisting of judgment or judicial attachment Liens and Liens securing contingent
obligations on appeal and other bonds in connection with court proceedings or judgments up to the
aggregate at any time outstanding of $50,000,000;
(l) any interest or title of a lessor under any lease entered into by the Borrower or any
other Subsidiary in the ordinary course of its business and covering only the assets so leased;
(m) Permitted Receivables Financings;
(n) Liens not otherwise permitted by this Section so long as neither (i) the aggregate
outstanding principal amount of the obligations secured thereby nor (ii) the aggregate fair market
value (determined as of the date such Lien is incurred) of the assets subject thereto exceeds (as
to the Borrower and all Subsidiaries) $75,000,000 at any one time;
(o) Liens on property of Foreign Subsidiaries securing Indebtedness permitted by Section
7.2(h);
(p) Liens on the Collateral securing Indebtedness of the Borrower or any Subsidiary Guarantor
incurred pursuant to Section 7.2(l), provided that such Liens are, at all times prior to
repayment in full in cash of the Obligations and termination of the Revolving Commitments and of
the Total Tranche B-1 Credit Linked Deposit Amount, subordinate to Liens created under the Loan
Documents securing the First Priority Claims pursuant to the terms of the Intercreditor Agreement;
and
(q) Liens on cash, cash equivalents, deposit accounts and similar items of Foreign
Subsidiaries securing Cash Management Obligations, including obligations in respect of any Cash
Pooling Agreement, and guarantees by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries of such Cash
Management Obligations or other Obligations (it being understood that the Borrower and the Domestic
Subsidiaries may not provide a security interest in the Collateral or their other assets for Cash
Management Obligations or obligations under any Cash Pooling Agreement to benefit
Foreign Subsidiaries except to the extent the secured party is a Lender (or any Affiliate of a
Lender));
(r) Liens on up to $20,000,000 of cash collateral securing obligations to issuing banks in
respect of banker’s acceptances issued through joint ventures of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries
in the People’s Republic of China; and
(s) Liens on the Xxxx County Facility and related assets in connection with the Xxxx County
Facility IDB Transaction.
7.4 Fundamental Changes. Enter into any merger, consolidation or amalgamation, or
liquidate, wind up or dissolve itself (or suffer any liquidation or dissolution), or Dispose of all
or substantially all of its property or business, except that:
(a) (i) any Subsidiary of the Borrower may be merged or consolidated with or into the Borrower
(provided that the Borrower shall be the continuing or surviving corporation) or with or
into any Wholly Owned Subsidiary Guarantor (provided that the Wholly Owned
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Subsidiary Guarantor shall be the continuing or surviving entity) and (ii) any Foreign Subsidiary may be
merged with or into any other Subsidiary (provided that, if such other Subsidiary is a
Domestic Subsidiary, such Domestic Subsidiary shall be the continuing or surviving entity);
(b) (i) any Subsidiary of the Borrower may Dispose of any or all of its assets (upon voluntary
liquidation or otherwise) to the Borrower or any Wholly Owned Subsidiary Guarantor and (ii) any
Foreign Subsidiary may Dispose of any or all of its assets upon voluntary liquidation or otherwise
to any other Subsidiary; and
(c) any Subsidiary (i) in which the Borrower and its Subsidiaries own Capital Stock
representing less than 80% of the ordinary voting power of such Subsidiary or (ii) that is a
Foreign Subsidiary or an Immaterial Domestic Subsidiary may be liquidated as long as the proceeds
of such liquidation (after satisfying all Contractual Obligations of such Subsidiary) are
distributed to the holders of the Capital Stock of such Subsidiary on an approximately ratable
basis (based on their respective equity ownership interests in such Subsidiary).
7.5 Disposition of Property. Dispose of any of its property, whether now owned or
hereafter acquired, or, in the case of any Subsidiary, issue or sell any shares of such
Subsidiary’s Capital Stock to any Person, except:
(a) the Disposition of obsolete or worn out property in the ordinary course of business;
(b) the sale of inventory in the ordinary course of business;
(c) Dispositions permitted by Section 7.4(b);
(d) (i) the sale or issuance of any Subsidiary’s Capital Stock to the Borrower or any Wholly
Owned Subsidiary Guarantor or (ii) the sale or transfer of any Immaterial Subsidiary’s Capital
Stock or assets to the Borrower or any other Loan Party or any Wholly-Owned Subsidiary;
(e) any Permitted Receivables Financing;
(f) Dispositions listed and described on Schedule 7.5 attached hereto;
(g) any Disposition of assets (i) from one Foreign Subsidiary to a Foreign Subsidiary, (ii)
from one Loan Party to another Loan Party or (iii) from a Subsidiary to a Loan Party;
(h) the Disposition of other property not described in clauses (a) — (g) above or (i)-(n)
below for fair market value as long as (i) at least 75% of the consideration consists of cash and
cash equivalents and (ii) the aggregate fair market value of such property so disposed of does not
exceed the sum of (A) 25% of the Consolidated Total Assets of the Borrower as determined on the
Closing Date plus (B) the proceeds of all Reinvestment Deferred Amounts with respect to
Dispositions reinvested in the business of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries after the Closing
Date; provided, that neither the Borrower nor any Subsidiary Guarantor shall make
Dispositions, the proceeds of which are reinvested in Subsidiaries that are not Subsidiary
Guarantors, with respect to
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property having an aggregate fair market value in excess of 25% of the
Consolidated Total Assets of the Borrower as determined on the Closing Date;
(i) (i) the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries may transfer or contribute ownership of the
Capital Stock of any Foreign Subsidiary formed or organized under the laws of (a) any European
country or (b) any state, province, district or other subdivision of any such country, in each case
to Tenneco Automotive Iberica, S.A.; and (ii) the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries may transfer
or contribute ownership of the Capital Stock of any other Foreign Subsidiary (i.e., Foreign
Subsidiaries not described in the preceding clause (i)) to the Borrower or a Subsidiary of the
Borrower;
(j) the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries may transfer or contribute ownership of the
Capital Stock of any Foreign Subsidiary or Joint Venture formed or organized under the laws of (i)
the People’s Republic of China or (ii) any state, province, district or other subdivision thereof
in each case to a Wholly Owned Subsidiary of the Borrower that is formed or organized under the
laws of (A) either the People’s Republic of China or the United States or (B) any state, province,
district or other subdivision of either such country;
(k) the Borrower and its Subsidiaries may sell property pursuant to Permitted Sale/Leasebacks;
(l) the Disposition of property as an Investment made pursuant to Section 7.8(g) in any Joint
Venture or in any Person who, prior to the Investment, is not a Subsidiary and who becomes, as a
result of the Investment, a Subsidiary that is not a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary;
(m) the Disposition of the Capital Stock or assets of any Immaterial Subsidiary (other than
any Disposition permitted pursuant to clause (g) above);
(n) the sale by the Borrower and its Subsidiaries (i) of post-dated checks in accordance with
past practice of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries in the People’s Republic of China and (ii) bills
of exchange in accordance with past practice of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries in Europe;
(o) [reserved];
(p) at the request of the Administrative Agent, the shares of any Foreign Subsidiary formed or
organized under the laws of the Czech Republic may be transferred to any Wholly Owned Subsidiary to
the extent necessary to pledge up to 65% of the voting capital stock of such Subsidiary under the
laws of the Czech Republic pursuant to the Security Documents;
(q) the Disposition of the Xxxx County Facility from TAOC to the Xxxx County Industrial
Building Authority, in connection with the Xxxx County Facility IDB Transaction; and
(r) the sale by Tenneco Global Holdings Inc. and Tenneco International Holdings Corp. of all
the shares of Tenneco Automotive Polska Sp Zoo, Monroe Czechias r.o. and/or Tenneco Automotive
France S.A.S. to Tenneco International Luxembourg SA or to another Foreign Subsidiary of the
Borrower that is a Wholly Owned Subsidiary.
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Simultaneously with any transfer described in Section 7.5(i), (j) or (r) of this Agreement, the
Lenders authorize the Administrative Agent to release the Lien on and security interest created by
the Loan Documents in the Capital Stock of the Subsidiaries so transferred or contributed and
authorize the Administrative Agent to take any action reasonably requested by the Borrower to
effect such release.
Any Disposition made pursuant to clause (g)(i) or (i)(ii) above of Capital Stock or assets of a
Foreign Subsidiary the Capital Stock of which constitutes Collateral under this Agreement shall be
made for fair market value paid in cash. All such cash in excess of an amount equal to
$150,000,000 shall be retained and/or reinvested in Loan Parties or in Foreign Subsidiaries the
Capital Stock of which constitutes Collateral under the Agreement.
7.6 Restricted Payments. Declare or pay any dividend (other than dividends payable solely
in common stock of the Person making such dividend) on, or make any payment on account of, or set
apart assets for a sinking or other analogous fund for, the purchase, redemption, defeasance,
retirement or other acquisition of, any Capital Stock of the Borrower or any Subsidiary, whether
now or hereafter outstanding, or make any other distribution in respect thereof, either directly or
indirectly, whether in cash or property or in obligations of the Borrower or any Subsidiary
(collectively, “Restricted Payments”), except that:
(a) any Subsidiary may make Restricted Payments to the Borrower, any Subsidiary or to any
other Person (ratably based on such other Person’s equity ownership in such Subsidiary) which owns
Capital Stock of such Subsidiary;
(b) so long as no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the
Borrower may purchase the Borrower’s common stock or common stock options from present or former
officers or employees of the Borrower or its Subsidiaries upon the death, disability or termination
of employment of such officer or employee, provided that the aggregate amount of Restricted
Payments under this paragraph (b) shall not exceed $1,000,000;
(c) the Borrower may make Restricted Payments in an aggregate amount not to exceed $30,000,000
in any fiscal year as long as, after giving effect to each such Restricted Payment, the pro forma
Consolidated Leverage Ratio is less than 3.25 to 1.0 (as calculated on the
last day of the most recent fiscal quarter for which financial statements are available); and
provided if, after giving effect to a Restricted Payment, the pro forma Consolidated
Leverage Ratio would be less than 2.5 to 1.0 (as calculated on the last day of the most recent
fiscal quarter for which financial statements are available), then the Borrower may make Restricted
Payments after the Closing Date in an aggregate amount not to exceed the sum of $100,000,000 plus
50% of Consolidated Net Income accruing from the Closing Date (it being understood that any
Restricted Payment permitted at the time it was made shall be deemed to be permitted
notwithstanding that the conditions specified in paragraph (c) for such Restricted Payment may no
longer be satisfied thereafter); and provided further that the amount of Restricted
Payments permitted under this paragraph (c) for any period shall be reduced by the amount of any
Restricted Payments made pursuant to paragraph (b) above in such period. No Restricted Payment may
be made pursuant to this paragraph (c) during a Default or Event of Default other than Restricted
Payments required pursuant to contractual obligations to purchase Capital Stock or options of the
Borrower or any
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Subsidiary from officers or employees or former officers or employees of the
Borrower and its Subsidiaries; and
(d) the Borrower may withhold shares of Capital Stock of the Borrower from, and pay personal
payroll taxes of employees in respect of vested restricted shares of, options to purchase and other
equity incentive awards in respect of, the Capital Stock of the Borrower.
7.7 [Intentionally Omitted]
7.8 Investments. Make any advance, loan, extension of credit (by way of guaranty or
otherwise) or capital contribution to, or purchase any Capital Stock, bonds, notes, debentures or
other debt securities of, or any assets constituting a business unit of, or make any other
investment in, any Person (all of the foregoing, “Investments”), except:
(a) extensions of trade credit in the ordinary course of business;
(b) investments in Cash Equivalents;
(c) (i) Guarantee Obligations permitted by Section 7.2 and (ii) Guarantee Obligations arising
in the ordinary course of business with respect to other obligations that do not constitute
Indebtedness;
(d) loans and advances to employees of the Borrower or any Subsidiary of the Borrower in the
ordinary course of business (including for travel, entertainment and relocation expenses) in an
aggregate amount for the Borrower or any Subsidiary of the Borrower not to exceed $10,000,000 at
any one time outstanding;
(e) Investments made by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries in the Borrower or any of its
Subsidiaries with the proceeds of any Reinvestment Deferred Amount;
(f) intercompany Investments by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries in the Borrower or any
Person that, prior to such investment, is a Subsidiary;
(g) Investments in Joint Ventures and in any Person who, prior to the Investment, is not a
Subsidiary and who becomes, as a result of the Investment, a Subsidiary that is
not a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary in an aggregate amount not to exceed $125,000,000 in each fiscal
year; provided, that (i) any such amount not so invested in the fiscal year for which it is
permitted may be carried over for investment in the next succeeding fiscal year only, (ii) in each
fiscal year, amounts carried over from previous years shall be deemed to be used first for purposes
of calculating future carry-over amounts and (iii) the maximum amount permitted to be carried over
in each fiscal year shall be limited to $125,000,000 ;
(h) Investments in existence on the Fifth Amendment Effective Date listed on Schedule 7.8(h),
provided that no such Investment is increased except as permitted by the other provisions
of this Section 7.8;
(i) the Finance Subsidiary may execute and deliver one or more subordinated promissory notes
(having terms customary for similar notes issued in transactions similar to a
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Permitted Receivables Financing) to the Borrower and its Subsidiaries representing the deferred purchase price of
receivables sold to the Finance Subsidiary in a Permitted Receivables Financing, and the Borrower
and its Subsidiaries may contribute receivables and other assets of the type referred to in the
definition of “Permitted Receivables Financing” to the capital of the Finance Subsidiary in
connection with a Permitted Receivables Financing;
(j) acquisitions as long as, after giving effect thereto, the pro forma Consolidated Net
Leverage Ratio would be less than 3.0 to 1.0 (it being understood that the Borrower may utilize any
remaining portion of the aggregate amount described in the succeeding paragraph (k) to consummate
an acquisition to the extent the pro forma Consolidated Net Leverage Ratio would equal or exceed
3.0 to 1.0 after giving effect thereto);
(k) other acquisitions the aggregate consideration for which does not exceed the sum of (i)
$250,000,000, (ii) the Net Cash Proceeds of Qualified Capital Stock of the Borrower issued after
February 19, 2009 and (iii) the portion of annual Excess Cash Flow (beginning with Excess Cash Flow
for fiscal year 2010) not required to be applied to the payment of the Facilities and not used for
other purposes;
(l) deposit accounts maintained in the ordinary course of business;
(m) in addition to Investments otherwise expressly permitted by this Section, Investments by
the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries in an aggregate amount (valued at cost) not to exceed
$100,000,000 during the term of this Agreement; and
(n) TAOC may consummate the Xxxx County Facility IDB Transaction.
7.9 Optional Payments and Modifications of Senior Subordinated Notes.
(a) Make or offer to make any optional or voluntary payment, prepayment, repurchase or redemption
of or otherwise optionally or voluntarily defease or segregate funds with respect to the Senior
Subordinated Notes (or New Unsecured Indebtedness, to the extent that it consists of subordinated
Indebtedness), (b) amend, modify, waive or otherwise change, or consent or agree to any amendment,
modification, waiver or other change to, any of the terms of the Senior Subordinated Notes (or of
such New Unsecured Indebtedness) or the Senior Subordinated Indenture (or, if applicable, the New
Unsecured Indebtedness Agreement) (other than any such amendment, modification, waiver or other
change that (x) (i) would extend the maturity or reduce
the amount of any payment of principal thereof or reduce the rate or extend any date for payment of
interest thereon and (ii) does not involve the payment of a consent fee or (y) is not adverse to
the Lenders), or (c) designate any Indebtedness (other than obligations of the Loan Parties
pursuant to the Loan Documents) as “Designated Senior Debt” for the purposes of the Senior
Subordinated Note Indenture (or, if applicable, the New Unsecured Indebtedness Agreement).
Notwithstanding the foregoing, as long as no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is
continuing the Borrower may purchase and cancel or redeem (i) its Senior Subordinated Notes (or
such New Unsecured Indebtedness) with the Net Cash Proceeds of Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness
or with the Net Cash Proceeds of shares of common stock of the Borrower, in each case issued within
180 days prior to such purchase and cancellation or redemption, (ii) its Senior Subordinated Notes
(or such New Unsecured Indebtedness) in an amount equal to the sum of (x) the Net Cash Proceeds of
Qualified Capital Stock issued by the Borrower after the Closing Date plus (y) the portion of
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annual Excess Cash Flow (beginning with Excess Cash Flow for fiscal year 2010) not required to be
applied to payment of the Facilities and which is not used for other purposes, provided
that (x) the aggregate principal amount of Senior Subordinated Notes (or New Unsecured
Indebtedness) purchased and cancelled or redeemed pursuant to this clause (ii) and (y) the sum of
the aggregate principal amount of the Senior Subordinated Notes (or such New Unsecured
Indebtedness) purchased and cancelled or redeemed pursuant to this clause (ii) and the aggregate
principal amount of Senior Unsecured Notes (or such New Unsecured Indebtedness) purchased and
cancelled or redeemed pursuant to clauses (iv), (v) and (vi) of the second sentence of Section 7.15
are capped as follows based on the pro forma Consolidated Leverage Ratio after
giving effect to such purchase, cancellation or redemption, and (iii) its Senior Subordinated Notes
(or such New Unsecured Indebtedness) in exchange for Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness or in
exchange for shares of common stock of the Borrower:
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Senior Subordinated |
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7.10 Transactions with Affiliates. Enter into or suffer to exist any transaction,
including any purchase, sale, lease or exchange of property, the rendering of any service or the
payment of any management, advisory or similar fees, with any non-consolidated Affiliate unless
such transaction is upon fair and reasonable terms no less favorable to the Borrower or such
Subsidiary, as the case may be, than it would obtain in a comparable arm’s length transaction with
a Person that is not a non-consolidated Affiliate.
7.11 Sales and Leasebacks. Enter into or suffer to exist any arrangement with any Person
providing for the leasing by the Borrower or any Subsidiary of real or personal property that has
been or is to be sold or transferred in a related transaction by the Borrower or
such Subsidiary to such Person or to any other Person to whom funds have been or are to be advanced
by such Person on the security of such property or rental obligations of the Borrower or such
Subsidiary except for such transactions entered into after the date hereof as long as (i) the
aggregate fair market value of the property sold in connection therewith does not exceed
$200,000,000, the consideration for each such sale shall be cash, and such transactions are
consummated on an arm’s length basis and the Net Cash Proceeds thereof are applied to prepay the
Term Loans and reduce the Total Tranche B-1 Credit Linked Deposit Amount as set forth in Sections
2.13(b) and 2.19(b) or (ii) the transaction involves a lease with a term of one year or less
following the related sale (collectively, the “Permitted Sale/Leasebacks”) (the Borrower
agreeing that all Permitted Sale/Leasebacks shall be Asset Sales and the Lenders hereby authorizing
the Administrative Agent to release any Lien on or security interests in any such property created
by the Loan Documents upon consummation of such Permitted Sale/Leasebacks). Notwithstanding
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anything to the contrary contained herein, any Permitted Sale/Leasebacks shall be deemed to be
expressly permitted pursuant to each other provision of this Section 7 (other than Sections 7.1 and
7.10) that would otherwise be construed to prohibit or restrict such Permitted Sale/Leasebacks. In
the event that the Borrower or a Subsidiary enters into an operating lease in connection with a
Permitted Sale/Leaseback, then the Borrower shall deliver to the Administrative Agent at the time
it or a Subsidiary enters into such lease, a schedule setting forth the principal and interest
components of payments to be made under such lease as reasonably determined by the Borrower.
7.12 Changes in Fiscal Periods. Permit the fiscal year of the Borrower to end on a day
other than December 31 or change the Borrower’s method of determining fiscal quarters.
7.13 Negative Pledge Clauses. Enter into or suffer to exist or become effective any
agreement that prohibits or limits the ability of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries to
create, incur, assume or suffer to exist any Lien upon any of its property or revenues, whether now
owned or hereafter acquired, to secure its obligations under the Loan Documents to which it is a
party other than (a) this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, (b) any agreements governing any
purchase money Liens or Capital Lease Obligations otherwise permitted hereby (in which case, any
prohibition or limitation shall only be effective against the assets financed thereby), (c)
customary non-assignment provisions of any contract and (d) customary restrictions on the creation
of Liens on any property or assets arising under a security agreement governing a Lien permitted
under this Agreement.
7.14 Lines of Business. Enter into any business, either directly or through any
Subsidiary, except for those businesses in which the Borrower and its Subsidiaries are engaged on
the date of this Agreement or that are reasonably related thereto.
7.15 Optional Payments and Modifications of Senior Unsecured Notes. (a) Make or offer to
make any optional or voluntary payment, prepayment, repurchase or redemption of or otherwise
optionally or voluntarily defease or segregate funds with respect to the Senior Unsecured Notes (or
New Unsecured Indebtedness, to the extent that it consists of senior unsecured Indebtedness), or
(b) amend, modify, waive or otherwise change, or consent or agree to any amendment, modification,
waiver or other change to, any of the terms of the Senior Unsecured Notes (or of such New Unsecured
Indebtedness) or the Senior Unsecured Note Indenture (or, if applicable, the New Unsecured
Indebtedness Agreement) (other than any such amendment, modification, waiver or other change that
(i) (A) would extend the maturity or reduce the amount
of any payment of principal thereof or reduce the rate or extend any date for payment of interest
thereon and (B) does not involve the payment of a consent fee or (ii) is not adverse to the
Lenders). Notwithstanding the foregoing, as long as no Default or Event of Default has occurred
and is continuing, the Borrower may purchase and cancel or redeem its Senior Unsecured Notes (or
such New Unsecured Indebtedness) (i) with the Net Cash Proceeds of Permitted Refinancing
Indebtedness or with the Net Cash Proceeds of shares of common stock of the Borrower, in each case
issued within 180 days prior to such purchase and cancellation or redemption, (ii) with the Net
Cash Proceeds of the Incremental Facilities or Indebtedness incurred under Section 7.2(n), (iii)
with the Net Cash Proceeds of senior or subordinated unsecured Indebtedness of the Borrower
incurred after the Closing Date, which Indebtedness may be guaranteed by the other Loan Parties on
a senior or subordinated basis, as applicable, (iv) with the proceeds of the Revolving Loans, (v)
with the cash generated by the operations of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries (and the Borrower
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shall concurrently with any purchase of Senior Unsecured Notes (or such New Unsecured Indebtedness)
under this clause (v) deliver a certificate to the Administrative Agent setting forth a calculation
of such cash generated by operations), (vi) in an amount equal to the sum of (x) the Net Cash
Proceeds of Qualified Capital Stock issued by the Borrower after the Closing Date plus (y) the
portion of annual Excess Cash Flow (beginning with Excess Cash Flow for fiscal year 2010) not
required to be applied to payment of the Facilities and which is not used for other purposes,
provided that the aggregate principal amount of Senior Unsecured Notes (or such New
Unsecured Indebtedness) purchased and cancelled or redeemed pursuant to clauses (iv), (v) and (vi),
together with the aggregate principal amount of Senior Subordinated Notes (or New Unsecured
Indebtedness) purchased and cancelled or redeemed pursuant to clause (ii) of the second sentence of
Section 7.9, is capped as follows based on the pro forma Consolidated Leverage
Ratio after giving effect to such purchase, cancellation or redemption and (vii) in exchange for
Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness or in exchange for shares of common stock of the Borrower:
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PF Consolidated Leverage Ratio |
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Aggregate Maximum Amount |
≥ 3.0x
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$20 million |
≥ 2.5x
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100 million |
< 2.5x
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125 million |
SECTION 8. EVENTS OF DEFAULT
If any of the following events shall occur and be continuing:
(a) the Borrower shall fail to pay any principal of any Loan or Reimbursement Obligation when
due in accordance with the terms hereof; or the Borrower shall fail to pay any interest on any Loan
or Reimbursement Obligation, or any other amount payable hereunder or under any other Loan
Document, within five days after any such interest or other amount becomes due in accordance with
the terms hereof; or
(b) any representation or warranty made or deemed made by any Loan Party herein or in any
other Loan Document or that is contained in any certificate, document or financial or other written
statement furnished by it at any time under or in connection with this Agreement
or any such other Loan Document shall prove to have been inaccurate in any material respect on
or as of the date made or deemed made; or
(c) any Loan Party shall default in the observance or performance of any agreement contained
in clause (i) or (ii) of Section 6.4(a) (with respect to the Borrower only), Section 6.7(a) or
Section 7 of this Agreement or Sections 5.5 and 5.7(b) of the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement;
or
(d) any Loan Party shall default in the observance or performance of any other agreement
contained in this Agreement or any other Loan Document (other than as provided in paragraphs (a)
through (c) of this Section), and such default shall continue unremedied for a period of 30 days
after notice to the Borrower from the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders; or
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(e) the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries shall (i) default in making any payment of any
principal of any Indebtedness (including any Guarantee Obligation, but excluding the Loans) on the
scheduled or original due date with respect thereto; or (ii) default in making any payment of any
interest on any such Indebtedness beyond the period of grace, if any, provided in the instrument or
agreement under which such Indebtedness was created; or (iii) default in the observance or
performance of any other agreement or condition relating to any such Indebtedness or contained in
any instrument or agreement evidencing, securing or relating thereto, or any other event shall
occur or condition exist, in each case the effect of which default or other event or condition is
to cause, or to permit the holder or beneficiary of such Indebtedness (or a trustee or agent on
behalf of such holder or beneficiary) to cause, with the giving of notice if required, such
Indebtedness to become due prior to its stated maturity or (in the case of any such Indebtedness
constituting a Guarantee Obligation) to become payable; provided, that a default, event or
condition described in clause (i), (ii) or (iii) of this paragraph (e) shall not at any time
constitute an Event of Default unless, at such time, one or more defaults, events or conditions of
the type described in clauses (i), (ii) and (iii) of this paragraph (e) shall have occurred and be
continuing with respect to Indebtedness the aggregate outstanding principal amount of which exceeds
in the aggregate $50,000,000 for the Borrower and its Subsidiaries; or an event of default shall
occur and be continuing under the Senior Subordinated Note Indenture or the Second Lien Note
Indenture; or
(f) (i) the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries (except for Immaterial Subsidiaries) shall
commence any case, proceeding or other action (A) under any existing or future law of any
jurisdiction, domestic or foreign, relating to bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or relief of
debtors, seeking to have an order for relief entered with respect to it, or seeking to adjudicate
it a bankrupt or insolvent, or seeking reorganization, arrangement, adjustment, winding-up,
liquidation, dissolution, composition or other relief with respect to it or its debts, or (B)
seeking appointment of a receiver, trustee, custodian, conservator or other similar official for it
or for all or any substantial part of its assets, or the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries shall
make a general assignment for the benefit of its creditors; or (ii) there shall be commenced
against the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries (except for Immaterial Subsidiaries) any case,
proceeding or other action of a nature referred to in clause (i) above that (A) results in the
entry of an order for relief or any such adjudication or appointment or (B) remains undismissed,
undischarged or unbonded for a period of 60 days; or (iii) there shall be commenced against the
Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries (except for Immaterial Subsidiaries) any case, proceeding or
other action seeking issuance of a warrant of attachment, execution, distraint or similar process
against all or any
substantial part of its assets that results in the entry of an order for any such relief that
shall not have been vacated, discharged, or stayed or bonded pending appeal within 60 days from the
entry thereof; or (iv) the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries (except for Immaterial Subsidiaries)
shall take any action in furtherance of, or indicating its consent to, approval of, or acquiescence
in, any of the acts set forth in clause (i), (ii), or (iii) above; or (v) the Borrower or any of
its Subsidiaries (except for Immaterial Subsidiaries) shall generally not, or shall be unable to,
or shall admit in writing its inability to, pay its debts as they become due; or
(g) (i) any Person shall engage in any “prohibited transaction” (as defined in Section 406 of
ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code) involving any Plan, (ii) any “accumulated funding deficiency”
(as defined in Section 302 of ERISA), whether or not waived, shall exist with respect to any Plan
or any Lien in favor of the PBGC or a Plan shall arise on the assets of the Borrower or any
Commonly Controlled Entity, (iii) a Reportable Event shall occur with respect to,
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or proceedings shall commence to have a trustee appointed, or a trustee shall be appointed, to administer or to
terminate, any Single Employer Plan, which Reportable Event or commencement of proceedings or
appointment of a trustee is, in the reasonable opinion of the Required Lenders, likely to result in
the termination of such Plan for purposes of Title IV of ERISA, (iv) any Single Employer Plan shall
terminate for purposes of Title IV of ERISA, (v) the Borrower or any Commonly Controlled Entity
shall, or in the reasonable opinion of the Required Lenders is likely to, incur any liability in
connection with a withdrawal from, or the Insolvency or Reorganization of, a Multiemployer Plan or
(vi) any other event or condition shall occur or exist with respect to a Plan; and in each case in
clauses (i) through (vi) above, such event or condition, together with all other such events or
conditions, if any, could, in the sole judgment of the Required Lenders, reasonably be expected to
have a Material Adverse Effect; or
(h) one or more judgments or decrees shall be entered against the Borrower or any of its
Subsidiaries involving in the aggregate for the Borrower and its Subsidiaries a liability (not paid
or fully covered by insurance as to which the relevant insurance company has acknowledged coverage)
of $75,000,000 or more, and all such judgments or decrees shall not have been vacated, discharged,
stayed or bonded pending appeal within 30 days from the entry thereof; or
(i) any of the Security Documents shall cease, for any reason, to be in full force and effect,
or any Loan Party or any Affiliate of any Loan Party shall so assert, or any Lien created by any of
the Security Documents shall cease to be enforceable and of the same effect and priority purported
to be created thereby if the aggregate value of the affected Collateral is more than $5,000,000; or
(j) the guarantee contained in Section 2 of the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement shall
cease, for any reason, to be in full force and effect or any Loan Party shall so assert; or
(k) any “person” or “group” (as such terms are used in Sections 13(d) and 14(d) of the
Exchange Act), shall become, or obtain rights (whether by means or warrants, options or otherwise)
to become, the “beneficial owner” (as defined in Rules 13(d)-3 and 13(d)-5 under the Exchange Act),
directly or indirectly, of more than 25% of the outstanding common stock of the
Borrower; or (ii) the board of directors of the Borrower shall cease to consist of a majority
of Continuing Directors; or (iii) a Specified Change of Control shall occur; or
(l) the Senior Subordinated Notes or any guarantee thereof shall cease, for any reason, to be
validly subordinated to the Obligations or the obligations of the Subsidiary Guarantors under the
Guarantee and Collateral Agreement, as the case may be, as provided in the Senior Subordinated Note
Indenture, or any Loan Party, any Affiliate of any Loan Party, the trustee in respect of the Senior
Subordinated Notes or the holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Senior
Subordinated Notes shall so assert; or
(m) any Lien securing or purporting to secure the Second Priority Claims shall cease, for any
reason, to be subordinated to the Lien created under the Loan Documents securing or purporting to
secure the First Priority Claims, as provided in the Intercreditor Agreement, or any Loan Party,
any Affiliate of any Loan Party, the trustee in respect of the Second Lien Notes or the
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holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Second Lien Notes shall so assert; or the
Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries shall make any payment, prepayment, repurchase or redemption of
or on the Second Lien Notes other than scheduled payments of interest or as permitted by the last
sentence of Section 7.15;
then, and in any such event, (A) if such event is an Event of Default specified in clause (i) or
(ii) of paragraph (f) above with respect to the Borrower, automatically the Commitments and the
Borrower’s right to request the making of a Tranche B-1 Loan or the issuance or extension of a
Tranche B-1 Letter of Credit or an increase to the stated amount thereof shall immediately
terminate and the Loans hereunder (with accrued interest thereon) and all other amounts owing under
this Agreement and the other Loan Documents (including all amounts of L/C Obligations, whether or
not the beneficiaries of the then outstanding Letters of Credit shall have presented the documents
required thereunder) shall immediately become due and payable, and (B) if such event is any other
Event of Default, either or both of the following actions may be taken: (i) with the consent of
the Required Lenders, the Administrative Agent may, or upon the request of the Required Lenders,
the Administrative Agent shall, by notice to the Borrower declare the Revolving Commitments and the
Borrower’s right to request the making of a Tranche B-1 Loan or the issuance or extension of a
Tranche B-1 Letter of Credit or an increase to the stated amount thereof to be terminated
forthwith, whereupon the Revolving Commitments and the Borrower’s right to request the making of a
Tranche B-1 Loan on the issuance or extension of a Tranche B-1 Letter of Credit or an increase in
the stated amount thereof shall immediately terminate; and (ii) with the consent of the Required
Lenders, the Administrative Agent may, or upon the request of the Required Lenders, the
Administrative Agent shall, by notice to the Borrower, declare the Loans hereunder (with accrued
interest thereon) and all other amounts owing under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents
(including all amounts of L/C Obligations, whether or not the beneficiaries of the then outstanding
Letters of Credit shall have presented the documents required thereunder) to be due and payable
forthwith, whereupon the same shall immediately become due and payable. With respect to all
Letters of Credit with respect to which presentment for honor shall not have occurred at the time
of an acceleration pursuant to this paragraph, the Borrower shall at such time deposit in a cash
collateral account opened by the Administrative Agent an amount equal to the aggregate then undrawn
and unexpired amount of such Letters of Credit. Amounts held in such cash collateral account shall
be applied by the Administrative Agent to the payment of drafts drawn under such Letters of Credit,
and the unused portion thereof after all
such Letters of Credit shall have expired or been fully drawn upon, if any, shall be applied to
repay other obligations of the Borrower hereunder and under the other Loan Documents. After all
such Letters of Credit shall have expired or been fully drawn upon, all Reimbursement Obligations
shall have been satisfied and all other obligations of the Borrower hereunder and under the other
Loan Documents shall have been paid in full, the balance, if any, in such cash collateral account
shall be returned to the Borrower (or such other Person as may be lawfully entitled thereto).
Except as expressly provided above in this Section, presentment, demand, protest and all other
notices of any kind are hereby expressly waived by the Borrower.
SECTION 9. THE AGENTS
9.1 Appointment. Each Lender hereby irrevocably designates and appoints the Administrative
Agent as the agent of such Lender under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, and each such
Lender irrevocably authorizes the Administrative Agent, in such
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capacity, to take such action on its behalf under the provisions of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents and to exercise such
powers and perform such duties as are expressly delegated to the Administrative Agent by the terms
of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, together with such other powers as are reasonably
incidental thereto. Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary elsewhere in this Agreement,
the Administrative Agent shall not have any duties or responsibilities, except those expressly set
forth herein, or any fiduciary relationship with any Lender, and no implied covenants, functions,
responsibilities, duties, obligations or liabilities shall be read into this Agreement or any other
Loan Document or otherwise exist against the Administrative Agent.
9.2 Delegation of Duties. The Administrative Agent may execute any of its duties under
this Agreement and the other Loan Documents by or through agents or attorneys-in-fact and shall be
entitled to advice of counsel concerning all matters pertaining to such duties. The Administrative
Agent shall not be responsible for the negligence or misconduct of any agents or attorneys in-fact
selected by it with reasonable care.
9.3 Exculpatory Provisions. Neither any Agent nor any of their respective officers,
directors, employees, agents, attorneys-in-fact or affiliates shall be (i) liable for any action
lawfully taken or omitted to be taken by it or such Person under or in connection with this
Agreement or any other Loan Document (except to the extent that any of the foregoing are found by a
final and nonappealable decision of a court of competent jurisdiction to have resulted from its or
such Person’s own gross negligence or willful misconduct) or (ii) responsible in any manner to any
of the Lenders for any recitals, statements, representations or warranties made by any Loan Party
or any officer thereof contained in this Agreement or any other Loan Document or in any
certificate, report, statement or other document referred to or provided for in, or received by the
Agents under or in connection with, this Agreement or any other Loan Document or for the value,
validity, effectiveness, genuineness, enforceability or sufficiency of this Agreement or any other
Loan Document or for any failure of any Loan Party a party thereto to perform its obligations
hereunder or thereunder. The Agents shall not be under any obligation to any Lender to ascertain
or to inquire as to the observance or performance of any of the agreements contained in, or
conditions of, this Agreement or any other Loan Document, or to inspect the properties, books or
records of any Loan Party.
9.4 Reliance by Administrative Agent. The Administrative Agent shall be entitled to rely,
and shall be fully protected in relying, upon any instrument, writing, resolution, notice, consent,
certificate, affidavit, letter, telecopy, telex or teletype message, statement, order or other
document or conversation believed by it to be genuine and correct and to have been signed, sent or
made by the proper Person or Persons and upon advice and statements of legal counsel (including
counsel to the Borrower), independent accountants and other experts selected by the Administrative
Agent. The Administrative Agent may deem and treat the payee of any Note as the owner thereof for
all purposes unless a written notice of assignment, negotiation or transfer thereof shall have been
filed with the Administrative Agent. The Administrative Agent shall be fully justified in failing
or refusing to take any action under this Agreement or any other Loan Document unless it shall
first receive such advice or concurrence of the Required Lenders (or, if so specified by this
Agreement, all Lenders) as it deems appropriate or it shall first be indemnified to its
satisfaction by the Lenders against any and all liability and expense that may be incurred by it by
reason of taking or continuing to take any such action. The Administrative Agent shall in all
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cases be fully protected in acting, or in refraining from acting, under this Agreement and the
other Loan Documents in accordance with a request of the Required Lenders (or, if so specified by
this Agreement, all Lenders), and such request and any action taken or failure to act pursuant
thereto shall be binding upon all the Lenders and all future holders of the Loans.
9.5 Notice of Default. The Administrative Agent shall not be deemed to have knowledge or
notice of the occurrence of any Default or Event of Default hereunder unless the Administrative
Agent has received notice from a Lender, the Borrower referring to this Agreement, describing such
Default or Event of Default and stating that such notice is a “notice of default”. In the event
that the Administrative Agent receives such a notice, the Administrative Agent shall give notice
thereof to the Lenders. The Administrative Agent shall take such action with respect to such
Default or Event of Default as shall be reasonably directed by the Required Lenders (or, if so
specified by this Agreement, all Lenders); provided that unless and until the
Administrative Agent shall have received such directions, the Administrative Agent may (but shall
not be obligated to) take such action, or refrain from taking such action, with respect to such
Default or Event of Default as it shall deem advisable in the best interests of the Lenders.
9.6 Non-Reliance on Agents and Other Lenders. Each Lender expressly acknowledges that
neither the Agents nor any of their respective officers, directors, employees, agents,
attorneys-in-fact or affiliates have made any representations or warranties to it and that no act
by any Agent hereinafter taken, including any review of the affairs of a Loan Party or any
affiliate of a Loan Party, shall be deemed to constitute any representation or warranty by any
Agent to any Lender. Each Lender represents to the Agents that it has, independently and without
reliance upon any Agent or any other Lender, and based on such documents and information as it has
deemed appropriate, made its own appraisal of and investigation into the business, operations,
property, financial and other condition and creditworthiness of the Loan Parties and their
affiliates and made its own decision to make its extensions of credit hereunder, provide its
Tranche B-1 Credit Linked Deposit Amount and enter into this Agreement. Each Lender also
represents that it will, independently and without reliance upon any Agent or any other Lender, and
based on such documents and information as it shall deem appropriate at the time, continue to make
its own credit analysis, appraisals and decisions in taking or not taking action under this
Agreement and the other Loan Documents, and to make such investigation as it deems necessary to
inform itself as to the business, operations, property, financial and other condition and
creditworthiness of the Loan Parties and their affiliates. Except for notices, reports and other documents expressly
required to be furnished to the Lenders by the Administrative Agent hereunder, the Administrative
Agent shall not have any duty or responsibility to provide any Lender with any credit or other
information concerning the business, operations, property, condition (financial or otherwise),
prospects or creditworthiness of any Loan Party or any affiliate of a Loan Party that may come into
the possession of the Administrative Agent or any of its officers, directors, employees, agents,
attorneys-in-fact or affiliates.
9.7 Indemnification. The Lenders agree to indemnify each Agent in its capacity as such (to
the extent not reimbursed by the Borrower and without limiting the obligation of the Borrower to
do so), ratably according to their respective Aggregate Exposure Percentages in effect on the date
on which indemnification is sought under this Section (or, if indemnification is sought after the
date upon which the Commitments shall have terminated and the Loans shall have been paid in full,
ratably in accordance with such Aggregate Exposure Percentages immediately prior to
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such date), from and against any and all liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, actions,
judgments, suits, costs, expenses or disbursements of any kind whatsoever that may at any time
(whether before or after the payment of the Loans) be imposed on, incurred by or asserted against
such Agent in any way relating to or arising out of, the Commitments, this Agreement, any of the
other Loan Documents or any documents contemplated by or referred to herein or therein or the
transactions contemplated hereby or thereby or any action taken or omitted by such Agent under or
in connection with any of the foregoing; provided that no Lender shall be liable for the
payment of any portion of such liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, actions,
judgments, suits, costs, expenses or disbursements that are found by a final and nonappealable
decision of a court of competent jurisdiction to have resulted from such Agent’s gross negligence
or willful misconduct. The agreements in this Section shall survive the payment of the Loans and
all other amounts payable hereunder.
9.8 Agent in Its Individual Capacity. Each Agent and its affiliates may make loans to,
accept deposits from and generally engage in any kind of business with any Loan Party as though
such Agent was not an Agent. With respect to its Loans made or renewed by it and with respect to
any Letter of Credit issued or participated in by it, each Agent shall have the same rights and
powers under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents as any Lender and may exercise the same as
though it were not an Agent, and the terms “Lender” and “Lenders” shall include each Agent in its
individual capacity.
9.9 Successor Administrative Agent. The Administrative Agent may resign as Administrative
Agent upon 20 days’ notice to the Lenders and the Borrower. If the Administrative Agent shall
resign as Administrative Agent under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, then the Required
Lenders shall appoint from among the Lenders a successor agent for the Lenders, which successor
agent shall (unless an Event of Default under Section 8(a) or Section 8(f) with respect to the
Borrower shall have occurred and be continuing) be subject to approval by the Borrower (which
approval shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed), whereupon such successor agent shall
succeed to the rights, powers and duties of the Administrative Agent, and the term “Administrative
Agent” shall mean such successor agent effective upon such appointment and approval, and the former
Administrative Agent’s rights, powers and duties as Administrative Agent shall be terminated,
without any other or further act or deed on the part of such former Administrative Agent or any of
the parties to this Agreement or any holders of the Loans. If no
successor agent has accepted appointment as Administrative Agent by the date that is 20 days
following a retiring Administrative Agent’s notice of resignation, the retiring Administrative
Agent’s resignation shall nevertheless thereupon become effective and the Lenders shall assume and
perform all of the duties of the Administrative Agent hereunder until such time, if any, as the
Required Lenders appoint a successor agent as provided for above. After any retiring
Administrative Agent’s resignation as Administrative Agent, the provisions of this Section 9 shall
inure to its benefit as to any actions taken or omitted to be taken by it while it was
Administrative Agent under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents. Upon the effectiveness of
the retirement of any Administrative Agent, the retiring Administrative Agent may, at its option
(i) transfer the management of all then existing Tranche B-1 Credit Linked Accounts to the
successor Administrative Agent or (ii) close all such Tranche B-1 Credit Linked Accounts upon the
establishment of new Tranche B-1 Credit Linked Accounts with the successor Administrative Agent
(and the successor Administrative Agent shall establish such new accounts) and transfer all amounts
on deposit in such Tranche B-1 Credit Linked Accounts to such new accounts.
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9.10 Documentation Agents and Syndication Agent. Neither the Documentation Agents nor the
Syndication Agent shall have any duties or responsibilities hereunder in their capacities as such.
SECTION 10. MISCELLANEOUS
10.1 Amendments and Waivers. (a) Neither this Agreement, any other Loan Document, nor any
terms hereof or thereof may be amended, supplemented or modified except in accordance with the
provisions of this Section 10.1. The Required Lenders and each Loan Party that is a party to the
relevant Loan Document may, or, with the written consent of the Required Lenders, the
Administrative Agent and each Loan Party that is a party to the relevant Loan Document may, from
time to time, (a) enter into written amendments, supplements or modifications hereto and to the
other Loan Documents for the purpose of adding any provisions to this Agreement or the other Loan
Documents or changing in any manner the rights of the Lenders or of the Loan Parties hereunder or
thereunder or (b) waive, on such terms and conditions as the Required Lenders or the Administrative
Agent, as the case may be, may specify in such instrument, any of the requirements of this
Agreement or the other Loan Documents or any Default or Event of Default and its consequences;
provided, however, that no such waiver and no such amendment, supplement or modification shall (i)
eliminate or reduce any voting rights under this Section 10.1, forgive the principal amount or
extend the final scheduled date of maturity of any Loan or extend any L/C Participant’s interest in
the Issuing Lender’s obligations and rights under any Letter of Credit beyond the Revolving
Termination Date or the Tranche B-1 Settlement Date, extend the scheduled date of any amortization
payment in respect of any Term Loan, extend the date on which the Tranche B-1 Credit Linked
Deposits are required to be returned in full to the Tranche B-1 Lenders, reduce the stated rate of
any interest or fee payable hereunder or the Tranche B-1 Fixed Return Rate (except (x) in
connection with the waiver of applicability of any post-default increase in interest rates and (y)
that any amendment or modification in the financial definitions in this Agreement shall not
constitute a reduction in the rate of interest or commitment fee for purposes of this clause (i))
or the amount of return due to the Tranche B-1 Lenders pursuant to Section 2.4(d) or extend the
scheduled date of any payment thereof, increase the amount or extend the expiration date of any
Lender’s Revolving Commitment or the Tranche B-1 Credit Linked Deposit Amount with respect to any
Lender, in each case without the consent of each Lender directly affected thereby; (ii) reduce any percentage specified
in the definition of Required Lenders, consent to the assignment or transfer by the Borrower of any
of its rights and obligations under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, release all or
substantially all of the Collateral or release all or substantially all of the Subsidiary
Guarantors from their obligations under the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement, in each case
without the consent of all Lenders; (iii) amend, modify or waive any provision of Section 2.19
without the consent of the Majority Facility Lenders in respect of each Facility adversely affected
thereby; (iv) reduce the amount of Net Cash Proceeds or Excess Cash Flow required to be applied to
prepay Loans under this Agreement without the consent of the Majority Facility Lenders under each
Facility adversely affected thereby; (v) reduce the percentage specified in the definition of
Majority Facility Lenders with respect to any Facility without the consent of all Lenders under
such Facility; (vi) amend, modify or waive any provision of Section 9 without the consent of the
Administrative Agent; (vii) amend, modify or waive any provision of Section 2.8 or 2.9 without the
consent of the Swingline Lender; (viii) amend, modify or waive any provision of Section 3 without
the consent of the Issuing Lender; or (ix) amend, modify or waive Section 2.4 (or any provision or
definition referred
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to therein) to the extent it adversely affects the Tranche B-1 Lenders without
the consent of the Majority Facility Lenders under the Tranche B-1 Facility (it being agreed that,
with the consent of the Required Lenders, additional extensions of credit and tranches and
increases in the amount of the Facilities may be added to this Agreement and may share in any
payments, prepayments, Collateral and voting rights on a pro rata basis and corresponding
amendments to the Loan Documents may be made; provided that the consent of the Required Lenders
shall not be required in connection with any Incremental Facility). Any such waiver and any such
amendment, supplement or modification shall apply equally to each of the Lenders and shall be
binding upon the Loan Parties, the Lenders, the Administrative Agent and all future holders of the
Loans. In the case of any waiver, the Loan Parties, the Lenders and the Administrative Agent shall
be restored to their former position and rights hereunder and under the other Loan Documents, and
any Default or Event of Default waived shall be deemed to be cured and not continuing; but no such
waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other Default or Event of Default, or impair any right
consequent thereon.
(b) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement,
(i) if the Borrower elects to extend the Revolving Termination Date, it may do so by
providing written notice to the Administrative Agent; provided that
(A) no Revolving Lender shall be obligated to consent to such extension;
(B) such extension shall be effective only if consented to by all of the
Revolving Lenders; and
(C) no such extension shall be permitted if, after giving effect thereto and to
any prepayments of the Revolving Loans and Swingline Loans made on the effective
date thereof, the Total Revolving Extensions of Credit would exceed the Total
Revolving Commitments,
and, in connection therewith, this Agreement and the other Loan Documents may be amended
from time to time with the consent of only the Majority Facility Lenders in respect of the
Revolving Facility, the Issuing Lender, the Administrative Agent and the Borrower to the
extent necessary to implement the provisions of this clause (i) (including to reflect the
extension of the Revolving Termination Date); and
(ii) this Agreement may be amended with the written consent of only the Administrative
Agent, the Borrower and the Lenders providing the relevant Replacement Term Loans (as
defined below) to the extent necessary to permit the refinancing of the entire Tranche B-1
Facility (“Refinanced Facility”) with a replacement “B” term loan tranche (including
a synthetic term loan tranche similar to the Tranche B-1 Facility hereunder)
(“Replacement Term Loans”), provided that (a) the aggregate principal amount
of such Replacement Term Loans shall not exceed the aggregate principal amount of such
Refinanced Facility, (b) the Applicable Margin for such Replacement Term Loans shall not be
higher than the Applicable Margin for such Refinanced Facility, (c) the weighted average
life to maturity of such Replacement Term Loans shall not be shorter than the
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weighted average life to maturity of such Refinanced Facility at the time of such refinancing and (d)
all other terms applicable to such Replacement Term Loans shall be substantially identical
to, or less favorable to the Lenders providing such Replacement Term Loans than, those
applicable to such Refinanced Facility, except to the extent necessary to provide for
covenants and other terms applicable to any period after the Tranche B-1 Final Maturity Date
and except that mandatory prepayments of the Replacement Term Loans may be made ratably with
the Tranche B Term Loans; and
(iii) this Agreement and the other Loan Documents may be amended with the written
consent of only the Administrative Agent and the Borrower to the extent necessary in order
to evidence and implement the Incremental Facilities pursuant to Section 2.27 and the
increase in the Revolving Facility pursuant to Section 2.6(c).
(c) The Borrower shall be permitted to replace any Lender that has not consented to any
amendment, modification, supplement or waiver of or to the Loan Documents requested by the Borrower
(a “Requested Amendment”) which requires the consent of each Lender, provided that (i) such
replacement does not conflict with any Requirement of Law, (ii) the Requested Amendment has been
consented to by the Supermajority Lenders (as defined below), (iii) the replacement financial
institution shall purchase, at par, all Loans and other amounts owing to such replaced Lender on or
prior to the date of replacement (and, if applicable, its Tranche B-1 Credit Linked Deposit), (iv)
the Borrower shall be liable to such replaced Lender under Section 2.22 if any Eurodollar Loan
owing to such replaced Lender shall be purchased other than on the last day of the Interest Period
relating thereto, (v) the replacement financial institution, if not already a Lender, shall be
reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, (vi) the replaced Lender shall be obligated to
make such replacement in accordance with the provisions of Section 10.6 (provided that the Borrower
shall be obligated to pay the registration and processing fee referred to therein, except to the
extent the replacement financial institution is already a Lender), (vii) the replacement Lender
shall consent to the Requested Amendment, (viii) until such time as such replacement shall be
consummated, the Borrower shall pay all additional amounts (if any) required pursuant to Section
2.20 or 2.21(a), as the case may be, and (ix) any such replacement shall not be deemed to be a
waiver of any rights that the Borrower, the Administrative Agent or
any other Lender shall have against the replaced Lender. As used herein, “Supermajority
Lenders” means the Required Lenders except that the percentage “50%” referred to therein shall be
deemed to be a reference to “66%”.
10.2 Notices. All notices, requests and demands to or upon the respective parties hereto
to be effective shall be in writing (including by telecopy), and, unless otherwise expressly
provided herein, shall be deemed to have been duly given or made when delivered, or three Business
Days after being deposited in the mail, postage prepaid, or, in the case of telecopy notice, when
received, addressed as follows in the case of the Borrower and the Administrative Agent, and as set
forth in an administrative questionnaire delivered to the Administrative Agent in the case of the
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provided that any notice, request or demand to or upon the Administrative Agent or the
Lenders shall not be effective until received.
10.3 No Waiver; Cumulative Remedies. No failure to exercise and no delay in exercising, on
the part of the Administrative Agent or any Lender, any right, remedy, power or privilege hereunder
or under the other Loan Documents shall operate as a waiver thereof; nor shall any single or
partial exercise of any right, remedy, power or privilege hereunder preclude any other or further
exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right, remedy, power or privilege. The rights,
remedies, powers and privileges herein provided are cumulative and not exclusive of any rights,
remedies, powers and privileges provided by law.
10.4 Survival of Representations and Warranties. All representations and warranties made
hereunder, in the other Loan Documents and in any document, certificate or statement delivered
pursuant hereto or in connection herewith shall survive the execution and delivery of this
Agreement and the making of the Loans and other extensions of credit hereunder.
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10.5 Payment of Expenses and Taxes. The Borrower agrees (a) to pay or reimburse the
Administrative Agent for all its reasonable out-of-pocket costs and expenses incurred in connection
with the development, preparation and execution of, and any amendment, supplement or modification
to, this Agreement and the other Loan Documents and any other documents prepared in connection
herewith or therewith, and the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby,
including the reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel to the Administrative Agent and filing
and recording fees and expenses, (b) to pay or reimburse each Lender and the Administrative Agent
for all its costs and expenses incurred in connection with the enforcement or preservation of any
rights under this Agreement, the other Loan Documents and any such other documents, including the
fees and disbursements of counsel (including the allocated fees and expenses of in-house counsel)
to each Lender and of counsel to the Administrative Agent, (c) to pay, indemnify, and hold each
Lender and the Administrative Agent harmless from, any and all recording and filing fees and any
and all liabilities with respect to, or resulting from any delay in paying, stamp, excise and
similar taxes, if any, that may be payable or determined to be payable in connection with the
execution and delivery of, or consummation or administration of any of the transactions
contemplated by, or any amendment, supplement or modification of, or any waiver or consent under or
in respect of, this Agreement, the other Loan Documents and any such other documents, and (d) to
pay, indemnify, and hold each Lender and the Administrative Agent and their respective officers,
directors, trustees, employees, affiliates, agents and controlling persons (each, an “Indemnitee”)
harmless from and against any and all other liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties,
actions, judgments, suits, costs, expenses or disbursements of any kind or nature whatsoever with
respect to the execution, delivery, enforcement, performance and administration of this Agreement,
the other Loan Documents and any such other documents, including any of the foregoing relating to
the use of proceeds of the Loans or the violation of, noncompliance with or liability under, any
Environmental Law applicable to the operations of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries or any of
the Properties and the reasonable fees and expenses of legal counsel in connection with claims,
actions or proceedings by any Indemnitee against any Loan Party under any Loan Document (all the
foregoing in this clause (d), collectively, the “Indemnified Liabilities”), provided, that the
Borrower shall have no obligation hereunder to any Indemnitee with respect to Indemnified
Liabilities to the extent such Indemnified Liabilities are found by a final and nonappealable
decision of a court of competent jurisdiction to have resulted from the gross negligence or willful
misconduct of such Indemnitee. Without limiting the foregoing, and to the extent permitted by
applicable law, the Borrower agrees not to assert and to cause its Subsidiaries not to assert, and
hereby waives and agrees to cause its Subsidiaries to so waive, all rights for contribution or any
other rights of recovery with respect to all claims, demands, penalties, fines, liabilities,
settlements, damages, costs and expenses of whatever kind or nature, under or related to
Environmental Laws, that any of them might have by statute or otherwise against any Indemnitee.
All amounts due under this Section 10.5 shall be payable promptly after written demand therefor.
The agreements in this Section 10.5 shall survive repayment of the Loans and all other amounts
payable hereunder.
10.6 Successors and Assigns; Participations and Assignments. (a) This Agreement shall be
binding upon and inure to the benefit of the Borrower, the Lenders, the Administrative Agent, all
future holders of the Loans and their respective successors and assigns, except that the Borrower
may not assign or transfer any of its rights or obligations under this
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Agreement without the prior written consent of each Lender (except in a transaction permitted by Section 7.4).
(b) Any Lender may, without the consent of the Borrower or the Administrative Agent, in
accordance with applicable law, at any time sell to one or more banks, financial institutions or
other entities (each, a “Participant”) participating interests in any Loan owing to such
Lender, any Commitment of such Lender, the Tranche B-1 Credit Linked Deposit Amount of such Lender
or any other interest of such Lender hereunder and under the other Loan Documents. In the event of
any such sale by a Lender of a participating interest to a Participant, such Lender’s obligations
under this Agreement to the other parties to this Agreement shall remain unchanged, such Lender
shall remain solely responsible for the performance thereof, such Lender shall remain the holder of
any such Loan for all purposes under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, and the Borrower
and the Administrative Agent shall continue to deal solely and directly with such Lender in
connection with such Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement and the other Loan
Documents. In no event shall any Participant under any such participation have any right to
approve any amendment or waiver of any provision of any Loan Document, or any consent to any
departure by any Loan Party therefrom, except to the extent that such amendment, waiver or consent
would reduce the principal of, or interest on, the Loans or any fees payable hereunder, or postpone
the date of the final maturity of the Loans, in each case to the extent subject to such
participation. The Borrower agrees that if amounts outstanding under this Agreement and the Loans
are due or unpaid, or shall have been declared or shall have become due and payable upon the
occurrence of an Event of Default, each Participant shall, to the maximum extent permitted by
applicable law, be deemed to have the right of setoff in respect of its participating interest in
amounts owing under this Agreement to the same extent as if the amount of its participating
interest were owing directly to it as a Lender under this Agreement, provided that, in
purchasing such participating interest, such Participant shall be deemed to have agreed to share
with the Lenders the proceeds thereof as provided in Section 10.7(a) as fully as if it were a
Lender hereunder. The Borrower also agrees that each Participant shall be entitled to the benefits
of Sections 2.18, 2.19 and 2.20 with respect to its participation in the Commitments and the Loans
outstanding from time to time as if it was a Lender; provided that, in the case of Section
2.19, such Participant shall have complied with the requirements of said Section and
provided, further, that
no Participant shall be entitled to receive any greater amount pursuant to any such Section
than the transferor Lender would have been entitled to receive in respect of the amount of the
participation transferred by such transferor Lender to such Participant had no such transfer
occurred. Each Lender that sells a participation, acting solely for this purpose as an agent of
the Borrower, shall maintain a register on which it enters the name and address of each Participant
and the principal amounts (and stated interest) of each Participant’s interest in the Loans or
other obligations under this Agreement (the “Participant Register”). The entries in the
Participant Register shall be conclusive, and such Lender, each Loan Party and the Administrative
Agent shall treat each person whose name is recorded in the Participant Register pursuant to the
terms hereof as the owner of such participation for all purposes of this Agreement, notwithstanding
notice to the contrary.
(c) Any Lender (an “Assignor”) may, in accordance with applicable law, at any time and
from time to time assign to any Lender, any affiliate of any Lender or any Lender Affiliate or,
with the consent of the Borrower and the Administrative Agent (which, in each case, shall not be
unreasonably withheld or delayed), to an additional bank, financial institution or other entity (an
“Assignee”) all or any part of its rights and obligations under this Agreement pursuant to
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an Assignment and Acceptance, executed by such Assignee, such Assignor and any other Person whose
consent is required pursuant to this paragraph, and delivered to the Administrative Agent for its
acceptance and recording in the Register; provided that (i) no such assignment to an
Assignee (other than any Lender, any affiliate of any Lender or any Lender Affiliate) shall be in
an aggregate principal amount of less than $5,000,000 in the case of Revolving Commitments,
$1,000,000 in the case of Tranche B Term Loans or $1,000,000 in the case of Tranche B-1 Credit
Linked Deposit Amounts (provided that assignments made by any Lender on the same day to an Assignee
and its affiliates (including any Lender Affiliates) and contemporaneous assignments by Lender
Affiliates to a single Assignee may be treated as a single assignment for purposes of satisfying
any such minimum assignment amount requirement (other than in the case of an assignment of all of a
Lender’s interests under the applicable Facility), (ii) after giving effect to any such assignment,
such Lender and its affiliates (including any Lender Affiliates) shall retain Commitments, Term
Loans and Tranche B-1 Credit Linked Deposit Amounts in an aggregate principal amount of $5,000,000
in the case of Revolving Commitments, $1,000,000 in the case of Tranche B Term Loans or $1,000,000
in the case of Tranche B-1 Credit Linked Deposit Amounts (other than in the case of an assignment
of all of a Lender’s interests under the applicable Facility), in each case unless otherwise agreed
by the Borrower and the Administrative Agent, and (iii) no Lender may assign any interest in the
Revolving Facility (other than, with the consent of the Administrative Agent, not to be
unreasonably withheld or delayed, to an affiliate of such Lender or, to another Lender then holding
Revolving Commitments) without the consent of the Administrative Agent, the Borrower, the Issuing
Lender and the Swingline Lender (not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed). For purposes of the
proviso contained in the preceding sentence, the amount described therein shall be aggregated in
respect of each Lender and its related Lender Affiliates, if any (other than in the case of an
assignment of all of a Lender’s interests under this Agreement). Any such assignment need not be
ratable as among the Facilities. Upon such execution, delivery, acceptance and recording, from and
after the effective date determined pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance, (x) the Assignee
thereunder shall be deemed a party hereto and, to the extent provided in such Assignment and
Acceptance, have the rights and obligations of a Lender hereunder with a Commitment and/or Loans as
set forth therein, and (y) the Assignor thereunder shall, to the extent provided in such Assignment
and Acceptance, be released from its obligations under this Agreement (and, in the case of an
Assignment and Acceptance covering all of an Assignor’s rights and obligations under this Agreement, such
Assignor shall cease to be a party hereto). Notwithstanding any provision of this Section 10.6,
the consent of the Borrower shall not be required for any assignment that occurs when an Event of
Default pursuant to Sections 8(a) or 8(f) shall have occurred and be continuing with respect to the
Borrower. Without the consent of the Borrower and the Administrative Agent, the Tranche B-1 Credit
Linked Deposit of any Tranche B-1 Lender shall not be released in connection with any assignment by
such Tranche B-1 Lender, but shall instead be purchased by the relevant assignee and continue to be
held for application (to the extent not already applied) in accordance with Section 2.4 to satisfy
such assignee’s obligations in respect of Tranche B-1 Exposure. Each Tranche B-1 Lender agrees
that immediately prior to such assignment (x) the Administrative Agent shall establish a new
Tranche B-1 Credit Linked Account
in the name of such assignee, (y) unless otherwise consented to
by the Administrative Agent, a corresponding portion of the amount on deposit in the Tranche B-1
Credit Linked Account of the assignor Tranche B-1 Lender shall be purchased by the assignee and
shall be transferred from the assignor’s Tranche B-1 Credit Linked Account to the assignee’s
Tranche B-1 Credit Linked Account and (z) if after giving effect to such
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assignment the aggregate amount of the Tranche B-1 Credit Linked Deposit Account of the assignor Tranche B-1 Lender shall be
$0, the Administrative Agent shall close the Tranche B-1 Credit Linked Account of such assignor
Tranche B-1 Lender.
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, any Lender which is a bank (a
“Granting Bank”) may grant to a special purpose funding vehicle (an “SPC”),
identified as such in writing from time to time by the Granting Bank to the Administrative Agent
and the Borrower, the option to provide to the Borrower all or any part of any Loan which such
Granting Bank would otherwise be obligated to make to the Borrower pursuant to this Agreement;
provided, that (i) nothing herein shall constitute a commitment by any SPC to make any Loan
and (ii) if an SPC elects not to exercise such option or otherwise fails to provide all or any part
of such Loan, the Granting Bank shall be obligated to make such Loan pursuant to the terms hereof.
The making of a Loan by an SPC hereunder shall utilize the Commitment of the Granting Bank to the
same extent, and as if, such Loan were made by such Granting Bank. Each party hereto hereby agrees
that no SPC shall be liable for any indemnity or similar payment obligation hereunder (all
liability for which shall remain with the Granting Bank). In furtherance of the foregoing, each
party hereto agrees (which agreement shall survive termination of this Agreement) that in the event
of any such grant by a Granting Bank to an SPC of the option to provide to the Borrower all or any
part of its Loan, (i) such Granting Bank’s obligations under this Agreement to the other parties to
this Agreement shall remain unchanged and such Granting Bank shall remain solely responsible for
the performance of such obligations under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, (ii) such
Granting Bank shall remain the holder of such Loan for all purposes under this Agreement and the
other Loan Documents and nothing contained in this Section 10.6(d) is intended to excuse the
Granting Bank from the full performance of its obligations hereunder and thereunder or otherwise
diminish the duties and liabilities of the Granting Bank under this Agreement or the other Loan
Documents (other than it being understood that any payment obligation on the part of such Granting
Bank to make a Loan hereunder shall, if such Loan is made by any SPC, be deemed to have been
satisfied upon the making of such Loan by such SPC), (iii) the Borrower and the Administrative
Agent shall continue to deal solely and directly with such Granting Bank in connection with such
Granting Bank’s rights and obligations under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, (iv) in
no event shall any SPC have any right to approve any amendment or waiver of any provision of any
Loan Document, or any consent to any
departure by any Loan Party therefrom, or be included in any determination of the Required
Lenders or the Majority Facility Lenders hereunder for any purpose, (v) prior to the date that is
one year and one day after the payment in full of all outstanding commercial paper or other senior
Indebtedness of any SPC, it will not institute against, or join any other Person in instituting
against, such SPC any bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, insolvency or liquidation
proceedings under the laws of the United States or any State thereof. In addition, notwithstanding
anything to the contrary contained in this Section 10.6(d), any SPC may (X) with notice to, but
without prior written consent of, the Borrower and the Administrative Agent (subject, however, to
the approval of the financial institution as set forth below), assign all or a portion of its
interests in any Loan to the Granting Bank or to a financial institution (previously approved in
writing by the Borrower and the Administrative Agent) providing liquidity and/or credit support to
or for the account of such SPC to support the funding or maintenance of the Loans and (Y) subject
to Section 10.15 hereof, disclose on a confidential basis any non-public information relating to
its Loans to any rating agency as specifically provided for in Section 10.15 hereof. This Section
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amended without the prior written consent of the SPC, the Borrower and the
Administrative Agent.
(e) The Administrative Agent shall, on behalf of the Borrower, maintain at its address
referred to in Section 10.2 a copy of each Assignment and Acceptance delivered to it and a register
(the “Register”) for the recordation of the names and addresses of the Lenders and the
Commitment of, and the principal amount of the Loans owing to and the amount of the Tranche B-1
Credit Linked Deposit Amount of, each Lender from time to time. The entries in the Register shall
be conclusive, in the absence of manifest error, and the Borrower, each other Loan Party, the
Administrative Agent and the Lenders shall treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Register
as the owner of the Loans and any Notes evidencing the Loans recorded therein and the Tranche B-1
Credit Linked Deposits Accounts for all purposes of this Agreement. Any assignment of any Loan,
whether or not evidenced by a Note or Tranche B-1 Credit Linked Deposit Amount, shall be effective
only upon appropriate entries with respect thereto being made in the Register (and each Note shall
expressly so provide). Any assignment or transfer of all or part of a Loan evidenced by a Note
shall be registered on the Register only upon surrender for registration of assignment or transfer
of the Note evidencing such Loan, accompanied by a duly executed Assignment and Acceptance, and
thereupon one or more new Notes shall be issued to the designated Assignee. The Register shall be
available for inspection by any Lender at any reasonable time and from time to time upon reasonable
prior notice.
(f) Upon its receipt of an Assignment and Acceptance executed by an Assignor, an Assignee and
any other Person whose consent is required by Section 10.6(c), together with payment to the
Administrative Agent of a registration and processing fee of $3,500 (which shall not be an
obligation of the Borrower and which shall be paid once in connection with simultaneous assignments
for a Lender and its affiliates (including any Lender Affiliates) if any), the Administrative Agent
shall (i) promptly accept such Assignment and Acceptance and (ii) record the information contained
therein in the Register on the effective date determined pursuant thereto.
(g) The Assignee, if it shall not be a Lender, shall deliver to the Administrative Agent an
administrative questionnaire in which the Assignee designates one or more credit contacts to whom
all syndicate-level information (which may contain material non-public
information about the Borrower and its Affiliates and their related parties or their
respective securities) will be made available and who may receive such information in accordance
with the assignee’s compliance procedures and applicable laws, including Federal and state
securities laws.
(h) For avoidance of doubt, the parties to this Agreement acknowledge that the provisions of
this Section 10.6 concerning assignments of Loans and Notes and Tranche B-1 Credit Linked Deposit
Amounts relate only to absolute assignments and that such provisions do not prohibit assignments
creating security interests, including any pledge or assignment by a Lender of any Loan or Note to
any Federal Reserve Bank in accordance with applicable law.
(i) The Borrower, upon receipt of written notice from the relevant Lender, agrees to issue
Notes to any Lender requiring Notes to facilitate transactions of the type described in paragraph
(h) above.
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10.7 Adjustments; Set-off. (a) Except to the extent that this Agreement expressly
provides for payments to be allocated to a particular Lender or to the Lenders under a particular
Facility, if any Lender (a “Benefitted Lender”) shall, at any time after the Loans and other
amounts payable hereunder shall immediately become due and payable pursuant to Section 8, receive
any payment of all or part of the Obligations owing to it, or receive any collateral in respect
thereof (whether voluntarily or involuntarily, by set-off, pursuant to events or proceedings of the
nature referred to in Section 8(f), or otherwise), in a greater proportion than any such payment to
or collateral received by any other Lender, if any, in respect of the Obligations owing to such
other Lender, such Benefitted Lender shall purchase for cash from the other Lenders a participating
interest in such portion of the Obligations owing to each such other Lender, or shall provide such
other Lenders with the benefits of any such collateral, as shall be necessary to cause such
Benefitted Lender to share the excess payment or benefits of such collateral ratably with each of
the Lenders; provided, however, that if all or any portion of such excess payment or benefits is
thereafter recovered from such Benefitted Lender, such purchase shall be rescinded, and the
purchase price and benefits returned, to the extent of such recovery, but without interest.
(b) In addition to any rights and remedies of the Lenders provided by law, each Lender shall
have the right, without prior notice to the Borrower, any such notice being expressly waived by the
Borrower to the extent permitted by applicable law, upon any amount owing by the Borrower hereunder
becoming due and payable (whether at the stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise) and
remaining unpaid past any applicable grace period, to set off and appropriate and apply against
such amount any and all deposits (general or special, time or demand, provisional or final), in any
currency, and any other credits, indebtedness or claims, in any currency, in each case whether
direct or indirect, absolute or contingent, matured or unmatured, at any time held or owing by such
Lender or any branch or agency thereof to or for the credit or the account of the Borrower, as the
case may be. Each Lender agrees promptly to notify the Borrower and the Administrative Agent after
any such setoff and application made by such Lender, provided that the failure to give such
notice shall not affect the validity of such setoff and application.
10.8 Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed by one or more of the parties to this
Agreement on any number of separate counterparts, and all of said counterparts taken together shall
be deemed to constitute one and the same instrument. Delivery of an executed
signature page of this Agreement by facsimile transmission shall be effective as delivery of a
manually executed counterpart hereof. A set of the copies of this Agreement signed by all the
parties shall be lodged with the Borrower and the Administrative Agent.
10.9 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 not invalidate or render unenforceable such provision
in any other jurisdiction.
10.10 Integration. This Agreement and the other Loan Documents represent the agreement of
the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and the Lenders with respect to the subject matter hereof,
and there are no promises, undertakings, representations or warranties by the Administrative Agent
or any Lender relative to subject matter hereof not expressly set forth or referred to herein or in
the other Loan Documents.
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10.11 GOVERNING LAW. THIS AGREEMENT AND THE RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF THE PARTIES UNDER
THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED AND INTERPRETED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAW OF
THE STATE OF NEW YORK.
10.12 Submission To Jurisdiction; Waivers. The Borrower hereby irrevocably and
unconditionally:
(a) submits for itself and its property in any legal action or proceeding relating to this
Agreement and the other Loan Documents to which it is a party, or for recognition and enforcement
of any judgment in respect thereof, to the non-exclusive general jurisdiction of the courts of the
State of New York, the courts of the United States for the Southern District of New York, and
appellate courts from any thereof;
(b) consents that any such action or proceeding may be brought in such courts and waives any
objection that it may now or hereafter have to the venue of any such action or proceeding in any
such court or that such action or proceeding was brought in an inconvenient court and agrees not to
plead or claim the same;
(c) agrees that service of process in any such action or proceeding may be effected by mailing
a copy thereof by registered or certified mail (or any substantially similar form of mail), postage
prepaid, to the Borrower, as the case may be at its address set forth in Section 10.2 or at such
other address of which the Administrative Agent shall have been notified pursuant thereto;
(d) agrees that nothing herein shall affect the right to effect service of process in any
other manner permitted by law or shall limit the right to xxx in any other jurisdiction; and
(e) waives, to the maximum extent not prohibited by law, any right it may have to claim or
recover in any legal action or proceeding referred to in this Section any special, exemplary,
punitive or consequential damages.
10.13 Acknowledgments. The Borrower hereby acknowledges that:
(a) it has been advised by counsel in the negotiation, execution and delivery of this
Agreement and the other Loan Documents;
(b) neither the Administrative Agent nor any Lender has any fiduciary relationship with or
duty to the Borrower arising out of or in connection with this Agreement or any of the other Loan
Documents, and the relationship between Administrative Agent and Lenders, on one hand, and the
Borrower, on the other hand, in connection herewith or therewith is solely that of debtor and
creditor; and
(c) no joint venture is created hereby or by the other Loan Documents or otherwise exists by
virtue of the transactions contemplated hereby among the Lenders or among the Borrower and the
Lenders.
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10.14 Releases of Guarantees and Liens. (a) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary
contained herein or in any other Loan Document, the Administrative Agent is hereby irrevocably
authorized by each Lender (without requirement of notice to or consent of any Lender except as
expressly required by Section 10.1) to take any action requested by the Borrower having the effect
of releasing any Collateral or guarantee obligations (i) to the extent necessary to permit
consummation of any transaction not prohibited by any Loan Document or that has been consented to
in accordance with Section 10.1 or (ii) under the circumstances described in paragraph (b) below.
(b) At such time as the Loans, the Reimbursement Obligations and the other obligations under
the Loan Documents (other than obligations under or in respect of Hedge Agreements and contingent
indemnity obligations not due and payable) shall have been paid in full, the Commitments have been
terminated and no Letters of Credit shall be outstanding, the Collateral shall be released from the
Liens created by the Security Documents, and the Security Documents and all obligations (other than
those expressly stated to survive such termination) of the Administrative Agent and each Loan Party
under the Security Documents shall terminate, all without delivery of any instrument or performance
of any act by any Person.
(c) The Administrative Agent and the Lenders agree that Liens on assets of the Loan Parties
created by the Loan Documents will be terminated and released upon the transfer of such assets to a
Foreign Subsidiary pursuant to Section 7.5(r). The Administrative Agent is hereby irrevocably
authorized by each Lender (without requirement of notice to or consent of any Lender) to take any
action requested by the Borrower to effect any termination or release described in this paragraph
(c).
10.15 Confidentiality. Each of the Administrative Agent and each Lender agrees to keep
confidential all non-public information provided to it by any Loan Party pursuant to this Agreement
that is designated by such Loan Party as confidential; provided that nothing herein shall
prevent the Administrative Agent or any Lender from disclosing any such information (a) to the
Administrative Agent, any other Lender, any affiliate of any Lender or any Lender Affiliate, (b) to
any pledgee required to in Section 10.6(h) or any Transferee or prospective Transferee that agrees
to comply with the provisions of this Section, (c) to its employees, directors, agents,
attorneys, accountants and other professional advisors or those of any of its affiliates, (d) upon
the request or demand of any Governmental Authority, (e) in response to any order of any court or
other Governmental Authority or as may otherwise be required pursuant to any Requirement of Law,
(f) if requested or required to do so in connection with any litigation or similar proceeding, (g)
that has been publicly disclosed, (h) to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners or any
similar organization or any nationally recognized rating agency that requires access to information
about a Lender’s investment portfolio in connection with ratings issued with respect to such
Lender, (i) in connection with the exercise of any remedy hereunder or under any other Loan
Document or (j) to any direct or indirect contractual counterparty in swap agreements or such
contractual counterparty’s professional advisor (so long as such contractual counterparty or
professional advisor to such contractual counterparty agrees to be bound by the provisions of this
Section 10.15).
Each Lender acknowledges that information furnished to it pursuant to this Agreement or the
other Loan Documents may include material non-public information concerning
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the Borrower and its Affiliates and their related parties or their respective securities, and confirms that it has
developed compliance procedures regarding the use of material non-public information and that it
will handle such material non-public information in accordance with those procedures and applicable
law, including Federal and state securities laws.
All information, including requests for waivers and amendments, furnished by the Borrower or
the Administrative Agent pursuant to, or in the course of administering, this Agreement or the
other Loan Documents will be syndicate-level information, which may contain material non-public
information about the Borrower and its Affiliates and their related parties or their respective
securities. Accordingly, each Lender represents to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent that
it has identified in its administrative questionnaire a credit contact who may receive information
that may contain material non-public information in accordance with its compliance procedures and
applicable law, including Federal and state securities laws.
10.16 WAIVERS OF JURY TRIAL. THE BORROWER, THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT AND THE LENDERS HEREBY
IRREVOCABLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY WAIVE TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY LEGAL ACTION OR PROCEEDING RELATING TO
THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT AND FOR ANY COUNTERCLAIM THEREIN.
10.17 Effect of Amendment and Restatement of the Existing Credit Agreement.
(a) This Agreement shall be deemed to be an amendment to and restatement of the Existing
Credit Agreement and the Existing Credit Agreement as amended and restated hereby shall remain in
full force and effect and is hereby ratified and confirmed in all respects. All extensions of
credit under the Existing Credit Agreement on the Closing Date shall remain outstanding following
the Closing Date as specified in Section 3.1(c) and shall be continued under this Agreement, as
amended in the manner set forth herein. All references to the Existing Credit Agreement in any
other agreement or document shall, on and after the Closing Date, be deemed to refer to the
Existing Credit Agreement as amended and restated hereby. The Borrower agrees, acknowledges and
affirms that (i) each of the Security Documents to which it is a party shall remain in full force
and effect and shall constitute security
for all extensions of credit pursuant to the Existing Credit Agreement as amended and restated
hereby and (ii) any reference to the Existing Credit Agreement appearing in any such Security
Document shall on and after the Closing Date be deemed to refer to the Existing Credit Agreement as
amended and restated hereby.
(b) On the Closing Date, each of the lenders party to the Existing Credit Agreement and not
continuing as a Lender hereunder hereby agrees that, upon its acceptance of the outstanding amounts
owed to it under the Existing Credit Agreement on the Closing Date, such lender shall have
consented to the amendment and restatement of the Existing Credit Agreement as provided herein.
10.18 Covenant of the Tranche B-1 Lenders. Each Tranche B-1 Lender represents and
warrants, as to itself, to the Borrower that such Tranche B-1 Lender has not granted any Liens on
any of the funds on deposit in its Tranche B-1 Credit Linked Account and covenants for the benefit
of the Borrower that such Tranche B-1 Lender shall not grant any Lien on any such funds on deposit
but shall instead keep such funds free and clear of any Liens.
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10.19 USA Patriot Act. Each Lender that is subject to the requirements of the Patriot Act
hereby notifies the Borrower and each Guarantor that pursuant to the requirements of the Patriot
Act, it is required to obtain, verify and record information that identifies the Borrower, which
information includes the name and address of the Borrower and each Guarantor and other information
that will allow such Lender to identify the Borrower and each Guarantor in accordance with the
Patriot Act.
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Annex A
PRICING GRID FOR NON-EXTENDED REVOLVING FACILITY
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Applicable Margin |
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Applicable Margin |
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Consolidated Net Leverage Ratio |
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for Eurodollar Loans |
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for ABR Loans |
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Commitment Fee Rate |
Greater than or equal to 5.0 to 1.0
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5.50%
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4.50%
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.75% |
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Less than 5.0 to 1.0 and greater
than or equal to 4.0 to 1.0
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5.00%
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4.00%
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.50% |
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Less than 4.0 to 1.0
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4.50%
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3.50%
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.50% |
PRICING GRID FOR EXTENDED REVOLVING FACILITY (INCLUDING
SWINGLINE LOANS)
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Applicable Margin |
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Applicable Margin |
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Consolidated Net Leverage Ratio |
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for Eurodollar Loans |
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for ABR Loans |
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Commitment Fee Rate |
Greater than or equal to 5.0 to 1.0
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5.50%
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4.50%
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.75% |
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Less than 5.0 to 1.0 and greater
than or equal to 4.0 to 1.0
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5.00%
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4.00%
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.75% |
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Less than 4.0 to 1.0 and greater
than or equal to 2.25 to 1.0
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4.50%
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3.50%
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.75% |
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Less than 2.25 to 1.0 and greater
than or equal to 2.0 to 1.0
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4.25%
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3.25%
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.50% |
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Less than 2.0 to 1.0
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4.00%
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3.00%
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.50% |
PRICING GRID FOR TRANCHE B TERM FACILITY
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Applicable Margin |
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Applicable Margin |
Consolidated Net Leverage Ratio |
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for Eurodollar Loans |
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for ABR Loans |
Greater than or equal to 2.25 to 1.0
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4.75%
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3.75% |
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Less than 2.25 to 1.0
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4.50%
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3.50% |
PRICING GRID FOR TRANCHE B-1 FACILITY
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Applicable Margin |
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Applicable Margin |
Consolidated Net Leverage Ratio |
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for Eurodollar Loans |
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for ABR Loans |
Greater than or equal to 5.0 to 1.0
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5.50%
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4.50% |
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Less than 5.0 to 1.0
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5.00%
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4.00% |
Changes in the Applicable Margin with respect to Revolving Loans, Swingline Loans, Tranche B Term
Loans, the Tranche B-1 Facility or the Commitment Fee Rate resulting from changes in the
Consolidated Net Leverage Ratio shall become effective on the date (the “Adjustment Date”)
on which financial statements are delivered to the Lenders pursuant to Section 6.1(a) or (b) (but
in any event not later than the 45th day after the end of each of the first three quarterly periods
of each fiscal year or the 90th day after the end of each fiscal year, as the case may be) and
shall remain in effect until the next change to be effected pursuant to this paragraph. If any
financial statements referred to above are not delivered within the time periods specified above,
then, until such financial statements are delivered, the Consolidated Net Leverage Ratio as at the
end of the fiscal period that would have been covered thereby shall for the purposes of this
definition be deemed to be greater than 5.0 to 1.0. In addition, at all times while an Event of
Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the Consolidated Net Leverage Ratio shall for the
purposes of this definition be deemed to be greater than 5.0 to 1.0. Each determination of the
Consolidated Net Leverage Ratio pursuant to this pricing grid shall be made with respect to (or, in
the case of clause (a) of the definition thereof, as at the end of) the period of four consecutive
fiscal quarters of the Borrower ending at the end of the period covered by the relevant financial
statements.
EXHIBIT A
TO THE CREDIT AGREEMENT
GUARANTEE AND COLLATERAL AGREEMENT
GUARANTEE AND COLLATERAL AGREEMENT, dated as of March ___, 2007 (amending and restating the
Guarantee and Collateral Agreement dated as of November 4, 1999, as previously amended and amended
and restated), made by each of the signatories hereto (together with any other entity that may
become a party hereto as provided herein, the “Grantors”), in favor of JPMORGAN CHASE BANK,
N.A., as Administrative Agent (in such capacity, the “Administrative Agent”) for the banks
and other financial institutions (the “Lenders”) from time to time parties to the Second
Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of March ___, 2007 (as amended, supplemented or
otherwise modified from time to time, the “Credit Agreement”), among Tenneco Inc., a
Delaware corporation (the “Borrower”), the Lenders, ______ and ______, as co-documentation
agents, Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., as syndication agent, and the Administrative Agent.
WITNESSETH:
WHEREAS, pursuant to the Credit Agreement dated as of September 30, 1999, as amended and
restated as of December 12, 2003 and as amended thereafter and prior to the date hereof (the
“Existing Credit Agreement”), among the Borrower, the lenders and agents party thereto and
JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. (as successor to The Chase Manhattan Bank), the lenders thereunder made
extensions of credit to the Borrower;
WHEREAS, the Existing Credit Agreement has been amended and restated pursuant to the Credit
Agreement, and all obligations, liabilities, indebtedness and liens created by the Existing Credit
Agreement are continued unimpaired and in full force and effect pursuant to the Credit Agreement;
WHEREAS, pursuant to the Credit Agreement, the Lenders have severally made and agreed to make
extensions of credit to the Borrower upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth
therein;
WHEREAS, the Borrower is a member of an affiliated group of companies that includes each other
Grantor;
WHEREAS, the proceeds of the extensions of credit under the Credit Agreement have been and
will be used in part to enable the Borrower to make valuable transfers to one or more of the other
Grantors in connection with the operation of their respective businesses;
WHEREAS, the Borrower and the other Grantors are engaged in related businesses, and each
Grantor derives and will derive substantial direct and indirect benefit from the making of the
extensions of credit under the Credit Agreement;
WHEREAS, the Grantors and the Administrative Agent are parties to the Guarantee and Collateral
Agreement dated as of November 4, 1999, as amended and amended and restated prior to the date
hereof (the “Existing Guarantee and Collateral Agreement”);
WHEREAS, it is a condition precedent to the obligation of the Lenders to make their respective
extensions of credit to the Borrower under the Credit Agreement that the Grantors shall have
executed and delivered this Agreement to the Administrative Agent for the ratable benefit of the
Lenders;
WHEREAS, for convenience the parties hereto desire to amend and restate the Existing Guarantee
and Collateral Agreement pursuant to this Agreement rather than amend the Existing Guarantee and
Collateral Agreement;
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and to induce the Administrative Agent and
the Lenders to enter into the Credit Agreement and to induce the Lenders to make their respective
extensions of credit to the Borrower under the Credit Agreement, the Existing Guarantee and
Collateral Agreement is hereby amended and restated as of the Restatement Date (as defined below)
as follows:
SECTION 1. DEFINED TERMS
1.1 Definitions. (a) Unless otherwise defined herein, terms defined in the Credit Agreement and used herein
shall have the meanings given to them in the Credit Agreement, and the following terms are used
herein as defined in the New York UCC: Accounts, Certificated Security, Chattel Paper, Commercial
Tort Claims, Documents, Equipment, Farm Products, Instruments, Inventory, Letter of Credit Rights
and Supporting Obligations.
(b) The following terms shall have the following meanings:
“Agreement”: the Existing Guarantee and Collateral Agreement, as amended and
restated by this Guarantee and Collateral Agreement, as the same may be further amended,
supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time.
“Borrower Obligations”: the collective reference to the unpaid principal of
and interest on the Loans and Reimbursement Obligations and all other obligations and
liabilities of the Borrower (including, without limitation, interest accruing at the then
applicable rate provided in the Credit Agreement after the maturity of the Loans and
Reimbursement Obligations and interest accruing at the then applicable rate provided in the
Credit Agreement after the filing of any petition in bankruptcy, or the commencement of any
insolvency, reorganization or like proceeding, relating to the Borrower, whether or not a
claim for post-filing or post-petition interest is allowed in such proceeding) to the
Administrative Agent or any Lender (or, in the case of any Lender Hedge Agreement or Cash
Management Obligations, any Affiliate of any Lender), whether direct or indirect, absolute
or contingent, due or to become due, or now existing or hereafter incurred, which may arise
under, out of, or in connection with, the Credit Agreement, this
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Agreement, the other Loan Documents, any Letter of Credit, any Lender Hedge Agreement
(including any guarantees of the Borrower of any Lender Hedge Agreements entered into by
Tenneco Management (Europe) Limited or any Subsidiary that succeeds Tenneco Management
(Europe) Limited in the performance of international treasury management functions for the
Company), any Cash Management Obligation (including any guarantees of the Borrower of any
Cash Management Obligations entered into by any Subsidiary) or any other document made,
delivered or given in connection with any of the foregoing, in each case whether on account
of principal, interest, reimbursement obligations, fees, indemnities, costs, expenses or
otherwise (including, without limitation, all fees and disbursements of counsel to the
Administrative Agent or to the Lenders that are required to be paid by the Borrower pursuant
to the terms of any of the foregoing agreements).
“Cash Management Obligation”: the collective reference to (a) any obligation
of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries in respect of (i) overdrafts and related
liabilities owed to any Lender (or any Affiliate of a Lender) that arise from treasury,
depositary or cash pooling or management services including in connection with any automated
clearing house transfers of funds or any similar transactions and (ii) credit and/or
purchasing cards issued by any Lender (or any Affiliate of a Lender) to or for the benefit
or account of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries or their respective employees and (b)
any Supplemental Cash Management Obligations. For the avoidance of doubt, the parties agree
that any obligation of the Borrower or its Subsidiaries to a Lender (or its Affiliate) under
any Cash Pooling Agreement to which such Lender (or its Affiliate) is a party constitutes a
“Cash Management Obligation” for purposes hereof.
“Collateral”: as defined in Section 3.
“Collateral Account”: any collateral account established by the Administrative
Agent as provided in Section 6.1 or 6.4.
“Copyrights”: (i) all copyrights arising under the laws of the United States,
any other country or any political subdivision thereof, whether registered or unregistered
and whether published or unpublished (including, without limitation, those listed in
Schedule 6), all registrations and recordings thereof, and all applications in
connection therewith, including, without limitation, all registrations, recordings and
applications in the United States Copyright Office, and (ii) the right to obtain all
renewals thereof.
“Copyright Licenses”: any written agreement naming any Grantor as licensor or,
any written agreement naming any Grantor as licensee to the extent such agreement permits
the Grantor to grant a security interest in its rights thereunder, including, without
limitation, those listed in Schedule 6, granting any right under any Copyright,
including, without limitation, the grant of rights to manufacture, distribute, exploit and
sell materials derived from any Copyright.
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“Deposit Account”: as defined in the Uniform Commercial Code of any applicable
jurisdiction and, in any event, including, without limitation, any demand, time, savings,
passbook or like account maintained with a depositary institution.
“Foreign Subsidiary”: any Subsidiary organized under the laws of any
jurisdiction outside the United States of America.
“Foreign Subsidiary Voting Stock”: the voting Capital Stock of any Foreign
Subsidiary.
“General Intangibles”: all “general intangibles” as such term is defined in
Section 9-102(a)(42) of the New York UCC (other than any Foreign Subsidiary Voting Stock
excluded from the definition of “Pledged Stock”) and, in any event, including, without
limitation, with respect to any Grantor, all contracts, agreements, instruments and
indentures in any form, and portions thereof, to which such Grantor is a party or under
which such Grantor has any right, title or interest or to which such Grantor or any property
of such Grantor is subject, as the same may from time to time be amended, supplemented or
otherwise modified, including, without limitation, (i) all rights of such Grantor to receive
moneys due and to become due to it thereunder or in connection therewith, (ii) all rights of
such Grantor to damages arising thereunder and (iii) all rights of such Grantor to perform
and to exercise all remedies thereunder.
“Guarantor Obligations”: with respect to any Guarantor (i) all obligations and
liabilities of such Guarantor which may arise under or in connection with this Agreement
(including, without limitation, Section 2) or any other Loan Document to which such
Guarantor is a party, (ii) all obligations or liabilities of such Guarantor under or in
respect of Lender Hedge Agreements to which such Guarantor is a party and (iii) all
obligations and liabilities of such Guarantor in respect of or in connection with Cash
Management Obligations; in each case whether on account of guarantee obligations,
reimbursement obligations, fees, indemnities, costs, expenses or otherwise and whether
material or contingent (including, without limitation, all fees and disbursements of counsel
to the Administrative Agent or to the Lenders that are required to be paid by such Guarantor
pursuant to the terms of this Agreement or any other Loan Document).
“Guarantors”: the collective reference to each Grantor other than the
Borrower.
“Immaterial Foreign Subsidiary”: at any time, (i) any Foreign Subsidiary of a
Grantor (other than a Wholly Owned Subsidiary) established prior to the date hereof where
the Grantor is prohibited from pledging its ownership interests in such Foreign Subsidiary
without the consent of the other owner or owners of such Foreign Subsidiary, (ii) any
Foreign Subsidiary where the consent of a governmental authority is required for a Grantor
to pledge the Capital Stock of such Foreign Subsidiary owned by the Grantor (but only until
such time as such approval has been obtained), (iii) any Foreign Subsidiary where the
Grantors collectively own less than 1% of the Capital Stock of such Foreign Subsidiary and
(iv) any Foreign Subsidiary of a Grantor having total assets (as
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determined in accordance
with GAAP) in an amount of less than 1% of Consolidated
Total Assets of the Borrower; provided, however, that the total assets (as so
determined) of all Immaterial Foreign Subsidiaries referenced in the foregoing clause (iv)
shall not exceed 5% of Consolidated Total Assets of the Borrower. In the event that the
total assets of all Immaterial Foreign Subsidiaries referenced in clause (iv) of the
foregoing sentence exceed 5% of Consolidated Total Assets of the Borrower, the Borrower will
designate Foreign Subsidiaries which would otherwise constitute Immaterial Foreign
Subsidiaries to be excluded as Immaterial Foreign Subsidiaries until such 5% threshold is
met.
“Intellectual Property”: the collective reference to all rights, priorities
and privileges relating to intellectual property, whether arising under United States,
multinational or foreign laws or otherwise, including, without limitation, the Copyrights,
the Copyright Licenses, the Patents, the Patent Licenses, the Trademarks and the Trademark
Licenses, and all rights to xxx at law or in equity for any infringement or other impairment
thereof, including the right to receive all proceeds and damages therefrom, but excluding
any intellectual property granted to any Grantor as licensee to the extent such Grantor is
not expressly permitted to grant a security interest in its rights under such license.
“Intercompany Note”: any promissory note evidencing loans made by any Grantor
to the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries.
“Investment Property”: the collective reference to (i) all “investment
property” as such term is defined in Section 9-102(a)(49) of the New York UCC (other than
any Foreign Subsidiary Voting Stock excluded from the definition of “Pledged Stock”) and
(ii) whether or not constituting “investment property” as so defined, all Pledged Notes and
all Pledged Stock.
“Issuers”: the collective reference to each issuer of any Investment Property.
“Lender Hedge Agreements”: all interest rate swaps, caps or collar agreements
or similar arrangements entered into by the Borrower or Tenneco Management (Europe) Limited
or any Subsidiary that succeeds Tenneco Management (Europe) Limited in the performance of
international treasury management functions for the Borrower with any Lender (or any
Affiliate of any Lender) providing for protection against fluctuations in interest rates or
currency exchange rates or the exchange of nominal interest obligations, either generally or
under specific contingencies.
“New York UCC”: the Uniform Commercial Code as from time to time in effect in
the State of New York.
“Obligations”: (i) in the case of the Borrower, the Borrower Obligations, and
(ii) in the case of each Guarantor, its Guarantor Obligations.
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“Patents”: (i) all letters patent of the United States, any other country or
any political subdivision thereof, all reissues and extensions thereof and all goodwill
associated therewith, including, without limitation, any of the foregoing referred to in
Schedule 6, (ii) all applications for letters patent of the United States or any
other country and all divisions, continuations and continuations-in-part thereof, including,
without limitation, any of the foregoing referred to in Schedule 6, and (iii) all
rights to obtain any reissues or extensions of the foregoing.
“Patent License”: all agreements, whether written or oral, providing for (i)
the grant by any Grantor of any right to manufacture, use or sell any invention covered in
whole or in part by a Patent and (ii) the grant to any Grantor of any right to manufacture,
use or sell any invention covered in whole or in part by a Patent (to the extent such
agreement permits the Grantor to grant a security interest in its rights thereunder),
including, without limitation, any of the foregoing referred to in Schedule 6.
“Pledged Notes”: all promissory notes listed on Schedule 2, all
Intercompany Notes at any time issued to any Grantor and all other promissory notes issued
to or held by any Grantor (other than promissory notes issued in connection with extensions
of trade credit by any Grantor in the ordinary course of business).
“Pledged Stock”: the shares of Capital Stock listed on Schedule 2,
together with any other shares, stock certificates, options or rights of any nature
whatsoever in respect of the Capital Stock of any Person that may be issued or granted to,
or held by, any Grantor while this Agreement is in effect other than the Capital Stock of
any Immaterial Foreign Subsidiary; provided that in no event shall more than 66% of
the total outstanding Foreign Subsidiary Voting Stock of any Foreign Subsidiary be required
to be pledged hereunder, provided, further, that the Grantors shall not be
obligated to pledge the Capital Stock of a Foreign Subsidiary to the extent such pledge
would violate the laws of the jurisdiction of such Foreign Subsidiary’s organization.
“Proceeds”: all “proceeds” as such term is defined in Section 9-102(a)(64) of
the New York UCC and, in any event, shall include, without limitation, all dividends or
other income from the Investment Property, collections thereon or distributions or payments
with respect thereto.
“Receivable”: any right to payment for goods sold or leased or for services
rendered, whether or not such right is evidenced by an Instrument or Chattel Paper and
whether or not it has been earned by performance (including, without limitation, any
Account).
“Restatement Date”: March ___, 2007.
“Supplemental Cash Management Obligations”: obligations of the Borrower and
its Subsidiaries in respect of working capital and long term credit agreements, credit
facilities supporting letters of credit and/or bank issued guarantees and foreign exchange
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liens of credit provided by any Lender (or any Affiliate of a Lender) in an aggregate
amount of up to $15,000,000 at any time. Notwithstanding the foregoing (i) an
obligation shall constitute a Supplemental Cash Management Obligation only if the Borrower
has designated such obligation as a Supplemental Cash Management Obligation in writing to
the Administrative Agent, (ii) no obligation shall constitute a Supplemental Cash Management
Obligation if its treatment as such would violate any material Contractual Obligation of the
Borrower and its Subsidiaries and (iii) no more than $15,000,000 of obligations shall
constitute Supplemental Cash Management Obligations at any time.
“Securities Act”: the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
“Trademarks”: (i) all trademarks, trade names, corporate names, company names,
business names, fictitious business names, trade styles, service marks, logos and other
source or business identifiers, and all goodwill associated therewith, now existing or
hereafter adopted or acquired, all registrations and recordings thereof, and all
applications in connection therewith, whether in the United States Patent and Trademark
Office or in any similar office or agency of the United States, any State thereof or any
other country or any political subdivision thereof, or otherwise, and all common-law rights
related thereto, including, without limitation, any of the foregoing referred to in
Schedule 6, and (ii) the right to obtain all renewals thereof.
“Trademark License”: any agreement, whether written or oral, providing for (i)
the grant by any Grantor of any right to use any Trademark and (ii) the grant to any Grantor
of any right to use any Trademark (to the extent such agreement permits the Grantor to grant
a security interest in its rights thereunder), including, without limitation, any of the
foregoing referred to in Schedule 6.
1.2 Other Definitional Provisions. (a) The words “hereof,” “herein”, “hereto” and “hereunder” and words of similar import
when used in this Agreement shall refer to this Agreement as a whole and not to any particular
provision of this Agreement, and Section and Schedule references are to this Agreement unless
otherwise specified.
(b) The meanings given to terms defined herein shall be equally applicable to both the
singular and plural forms of such terms.
(c) Where the context requires, terms relating to the Collateral or any part thereof,
when used in relation to a Grantor, shall refer to such Grantor’s Collateral or the relevant
part thereof.
SECTION 2. GUARANTEE
2.1 Guarantee. (a) Each of the Guarantors hereby, jointly and severally, unconditionally and irrevocably,
guarantees to the Administrative Agent, for the ratable benefit of the Lenders and their respective
successors, indorsees, transferees and assigns, the prompt and
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complete payment and performance by the Borrower when due (whether at the stated maturity, by
acceleration or otherwise) of the Borrower Obligations.
(b) Anything herein or in any other Loan Document to the contrary notwithstanding, the maximum
liability of each Guarantor hereunder and under the other Loan Documents shall in no event exceed
the amount which can be guaranteed by such Guarantor under applicable federal and state laws
relating to the insolvency of debtors (after giving effect to the right of contribution established
in Section 2.2).
(c) Each Guarantor agrees that the Borrower Obligations may at any time and from time to time
exceed the amount of the liability of such Guarantor hereunder without impairing the guarantee
contained in this Section 2 or affecting the rights and remedies of the Administrative Agent or any
Lender hereunder.
(d) The guarantee contained in this Section 2 shall remain in full force and effect until all
the Borrower Obligations (other than contingent indemnity obligations not due and payable) and the
obligations of each Guarantor under the guarantee contained in this Section 2 shall have been
satisfied by payment in full, no Letter of Credit shall be outstanding and the Commitments shall be
terminated, notwithstanding that from time to time during the term of the Credit Agreement the
Borrower may be free from any Borrower Obligations.
(e) No payment made by the Borrower, any of the Guarantors, any other guarantor or any other
Person or received or collected by the Administrative Agent or any Lender from the Borrower, any of
the Guarantors, any other guarantor or any other Person by virtue of any action or proceeding or
any set-off or appropriation or application at any time or from time to time in reduction of or in
payment of the Borrower Obligations shall be deemed to modify, reduce, release or otherwise affect
the liability of any Guarantor hereunder which shall, notwithstanding any such payment (other than
any payment made by such Guarantor in respect of the Borrower Obligations or any payment received
or collected from such Guarantor in respect of the Borrower Obligations), remain liable for the
Borrower Obligations up to the maximum liability of such Guarantor hereunder until the Borrower
Obligations are paid in full (other than contingent indemnity obligations not due and payable), no
Letter of Credit shall be outstanding and the Commitments are terminated.
(f) The Borrower hereby unconditionally guarantees to the Administrative Agent, for the
ratable benefit of the Lenders (and their Affiliates) and their respective successors, indorsees,
transferees and assigns, the prompt and complete payment and performance by its Subsidiaries of
their Cash Management Obligations and their obligations and liabilities under the Lender Hedge
Agreements.
2.2 Right of Contribution. Each Guarantor hereby agrees that to the extent that a Guarantor shall have paid more than
its proportionate share of any payment made hereunder, such Guarantor shall be entitled to seek and
receive contribution from and against any other Guarantor hereunder which has not paid its
proportionate share of such payment. Each Guarantor’s right of contribution shall be subject to
the terms and conditions of Section 2.3. The
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provisions of this Section 2.2 shall in no respect limit the obligations and liabilities of any
Guarantor to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders, and each Guarantor shall remain liable to
the Administrative Agent and the Lenders for the full amount guaranteed by such Guarantor
hereunder.
2.3 No Subrogation. Notwithstanding any payment made by any Guarantor hereunder or any set-off or application
of funds of any Guarantor by the Administrative Agent or any Lender, no Guarantor shall be entitled
to be subrogated to any of the rights of the Administrative Agent or any Lender against the
Borrower or any other Guarantor or any collateral security or guarantee or right of offset held by
the Administrative Agent or any Lender for the payment of the Borrower Obligations, nor shall any
Guarantor seek or be entitled to seek any contribution or reimbursement from the Borrower or any
other Guarantor in respect of payments made by such Guarantor hereunder, until all amounts owing to
the Administrative Agent and the Lenders by the Borrower on account of the Borrower Obligations are
paid in full (other than contingent indemnity obligations not due and payable), no Letter of Credit
shall be outstanding and the Commitments are terminated. If any amount shall be paid to any
Guarantor on account of such subrogation rights at any time when all of the Borrower Obligations
shall not have been paid in full (other than contingent indemnity obligations not due and payable),
such amount shall be held by such Guarantor in trust for the Administrative Agent and the Lenders,
segregated from other funds of such Guarantor, and shall, forthwith upon receipt by such Guarantor,
be turned over to the Administrative Agent in the exact form received by such Guarantor (duly
indorsed by such Guarantor to the Administrative Agent, if required), to be applied against the
Borrower Obligations, whether matured or unmatured, in such order as the Administrative Agent may
determine.
2.4 Amendments, etc. with respect to the Borrower Obligations. Each Guarantor shall
remain obligated hereunder notwithstanding that, without any reservation
of rights against any Guarantor and without notice to or further assent by any Guarantor, any
demand for payment of any of the Borrower Obligations made by the Administrative Agent or any
Lender may be rescinded by the Administrative Agent or such Lender and any of the Borrower
Obligations continued, and the Borrower Obligations, or the liability of any other Person upon or
for any part thereof, or any collateral security or guarantee therefor or right of offset with
respect thereto, may, from time to time, in whole or in part, be renewed, extended, amended,
modified, accelerated, compromised, waived, surrendered or released by the Administrative Agent or
any Lender, and the Credit Agreement and the other Loan Documents and any other documents executed
and delivered in connection therewith may be amended, modified, supplemented or terminated, in
whole or in part, as the Administrative Agent (or the Required Lenders or all Lenders, as the case
may be) may deem advisable from time to time, and any collateral security, guarantee or right of
offset at any time held by the Administrative Agent or any Lender for the payment of the Borrower
Obligations may be sold, exchanged, waived, surrendered or released. Neither the Administrative
Agent nor any Lender shall have any obligation to protect, secure, perfect or insure any Lien at
any time held by it as security for the Borrower Obligations or for the guarantee contained in this
Section 2 or any property subject thereto.
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2.5 Guarantee Absolute and Unconditional. Each Guarantor waives any and all notice of the creation, renewal, extension or accrual of
any of the Borrower Obligations and notice of or proof of reliance by the Administrative Agent or
any Lender upon the guarantee contained in this Section 2 or acceptance of the guarantee contained
in this Section 2; the Borrower Obligations, and any of them, shall conclusively be deemed to have
been created, contracted or incurred, or renewed, extended, amended or waived, in reliance upon the
guarantee contained in this Section 2; and all dealings between the Borrower and any of the
Guarantors, on the one hand, and the Administrative Agent and the Lenders, on the other hand,
likewise shall be conclusively presumed to have been had or consummated in reliance upon the
guarantee contained in this Section 2. Each Guarantor waives diligence, presentment, protest,
demand for payment and notice of default or nonpayment to or upon the Borrower or any of the
Guarantors with respect to the Borrower Obligations. Each Guarantor understands and agrees that
the guarantee contained in this Section 2 shall be construed as a continuing, absolute and
unconditional guarantee of payment without regard to (a) the validity or enforceability of the
Credit Agreement or any other Loan Document, any of the Borrower Obligations or any other
collateral security therefor or guarantee or right of offset with respect thereto at any time or
from time to time held by the Administrative Agent or any Lender, (b) any defense, set-off or
counterclaim (other than a defense of payment or performance) which may at any time be available to
or be asserted by the Borrower or any other Person against the Administrative Agent or any Lender,
or (c) any other circumstance whatsoever (with or without notice to or knowledge of the Borrower or
such Guarantor) which constitutes, or might be construed to constitute, an equitable or legal
discharge of the Borrower for the Borrower Obligations, or of such Guarantor under the guarantee
contained in this Section 2, in bankruptcy or in any other instance. When making any demand
hereunder or otherwise pursuing its rights and remedies hereunder against any Guarantor, the
Administrative Agent or any Lender may, but shall be under no obligation to, make a similar demand
on or otherwise pursue such rights and remedies as it may have against the Borrower, any other
Guarantor or any other Person or against any collateral security or guarantee for the Borrower
Obligations or any right of offset with respect thereto, and any failure by the Administrative
Agent or any Lender to make any such demand, to pursue such other rights or remedies or to collect
any payments from the Borrower, any other Guarantor or any other Person or to realize upon any such
collateral security or guarantee or to exercise any such right of offset, or any release of the
Borrower, any other Guarantor or any other Person or any such collateral security, guarantee or
right of offset, shall not relieve any Guarantor of any obligation or liability hereunder, and
shall not impair or affect the rights and remedies, whether express, implied or available as a
matter of law, of the Administrative Agent or any Lender against any Guarantor. For the purposes
hereof “demand” shall include the commencement and continuance of any legal proceedings.
2.6 Reinstatement. The guarantee contained in this Section 2 shall continue to be effective, or be reinstated,
as the case may be, if at any time payment, or any part thereof, of any of the Borrower Obligations
is rescinded or must otherwise be restored or returned by the Administrative Agent or any Lender
upon the insolvency, bankruptcy, dissolution, liquidation or reorganization of the Borrower or any
Guarantor, or upon or as a result of the appointment of a receiver, intervenor or conservator of,
or trustee or similar officer for, the Borrower or any
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Guarantor or any substantial part of its property, or otherwise, all as though such payments had
not been made.
2.7 Payments. Each Guarantor hereby guarantees that payments hereunder will be paid to the Administrative
Agent without set-off or counterclaim in Dollars at the office of the Administrative Agent located
at 000 Xxxx Xxxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000.
SECTION 3. GRANT OF SECURITY INTEREST
Each Grantor hereby assigns and transfers to the Administrative Agent, and hereby grants to
the Administrative Agent, for the ratable benefit of the Lenders, a security interest in, all of
the following property now owned or at any time hereafter acquired by such Grantor or in which such
Grantor now has or at any time in the future may acquire any right, title or interest
(collectively, the “Collateral”), as collateral security for the prompt and complete
payment and performance when due (whether at the stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise) of
such Grantor’s Obligations:
(a) all Accounts;
(b) all Chattel Paper;
(c) all Deposit Accounts;
(d) all Documents;
(e) all Equipment;
(f) all General Intangibles;
(g) all Instruments;
(h) all Intellectual Property;
(i) all Inventory;
(j) all Investment Property;
(k) all Letter of Credit Rights;
(l) all Commercial Tort Claims in an amount in excess of $500,000 in which any Grantor
has rights, as set forth on Schedule 7;
(m) all other property not otherwise described above;
(n) all books and records pertaining to the Collateral; and
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(o) to the extent not otherwise included, all Proceeds, Supporting Obligations and
products of any and all of the foregoing and all collateral security and guarantees given by
any Person with respect to any of the foregoing.
SECTION 4. REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
To induce the Administrative Agent and the Lenders to enter into the Credit Agreement and to
induce the Lenders to make their respective extensions of credit to the Borrower thereunder, each
Grantor hereby represents and warrants to the Administrative Agent and each Lender that:
4.1 Title; No Other Liens. Except (a) for the security interest granted to the Administrative Agent for the ratable
benefit of the Lenders pursuant to this Agreement, (b) for the other Liens permitted to exist on
the Collateral by the Credit Agreement, and (c) those items set forth on Schedule 6, such
Grantor owns each item of the Collateral free and clear of any and all Liens or claims of others.
No financing statement or other public notice with respect to all or any part of the Collateral is
on file or of record in any public office, except such as have been filed in favor of the
Administrative Agent, for the ratable benefit of the Lenders, pursuant to this Agreement or as are
permitted by the Credit Agreement.
4.2 Perfected First Priority Liens. The security interests granted pursuant to this Agreement (a) upon completion of the
filings and other actions specified on Schedule 3 (which, in the case of all filings and
other documents referred to on said Schedule, have been delivered to the Administrative Agent in
completed and, when required, duly executed form unless otherwise referred to in such Schedule)
will constitute valid perfected security interests in all of the Collateral (to the extent a
perfected security interest is required pursuant to this Agreement and except as otherwise stated
on Schedule 3) in favor of the Administrative Agent, for the ratable benefit of the
Lenders, as collateral security for such Grantor’s Obligations, enforceable in accordance with the
terms hereof against all creditors of such Grantor and any Persons purporting to purchase any
Collateral from such Grantor, except as otherwise provided on Schedule 3, and (b) are prior
to all other Liens on the Collateral in existence on the date hereof except as are permitted by the
Credit Agreement and except for unrecorded Liens permitted by the Credit Agreement which have
priority over the Liens on the Collateral by operation of law.
4.3 Jurisdiction of Organization. On the Restatement Date, such Grantor’s jurisdiction of organization, identification number
from such jurisdiction of organization (if any) and the location of such Grantor’s chief executive
office or sole place of business are specified on Schedule 4.
4.4 Inventory and Equipment. On the Restatement Date, the Inventory and the Equipment (other than mobile goods), in each
case having an aggregate value in excess of $1,000,000, are kept at the locations listed on
Schedule 5.
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4.5 Farm Products. None of the Collateral constitutes, or is the Proceeds of, Farm Products.
4.6 Investment Property. (a) The shares of Pledged Stock pledged by such Grantor hereunder constitute all the
issued and outstanding shares of all classes of the Capital Stock of each Issuer owned by such
Grantor or, in the case of Foreign Subsidiary Voting Stock, if less, 65% of the outstanding Foreign
Subsidiary Voting Stock of each relevant Issuer owned directly by such Grantor.
(b) All the shares of the Pledged Stock have been duly and validly issued and are fully paid
and nonassessable.
(c) Each of the Pledged Notes constitutes the legal, valid and binding obligation of the
obligor with respect thereto, enforceable in accordance with its terms, subject to the effects of
bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent conveyance, reorganization, moratorium and other similar laws
relating to or affecting creditors’ rights generally, general equitable principles (whether
considered in a proceeding in equity or at law) and an implied covenant of good faith and fair
dealing.
(d) Such Grantor is the record and beneficial owner of, and has good and marketable title to,
the Investment Property pledged by it hereunder, free of any and all Liens or options in favor of,
or claims of, any other Person, except the security interest created by this Agreement and security
interests permitted by Section 7.3(p) of the Credit Agreement.
4.7 Receivables. (a) No amount payable to such Grantor under or in connection with any Receivable is evidenced
by any Instrument or Chattel Paper which has not been delivered to the Administrative Agent, except
for any of the foregoing to the extent subject to and included in a Permitted Receivables
Financing.
(b) None of the obligors on any Receivables is a Governmental Authority.
(c) The amounts represented by such Grantor to the Lenders from time to time as owing to such
Grantor in respect of the Receivables as of the last day of any fiscal month will be accurate.
4.8 Intellectual Property. (a) Except as otherwise set forth on such Schedule, Schedule 6 lists all
registered, and all material unregistered, Intellectual Property owned by such Grantor in its own
name on the Restatement Date and all applications to register any such Intellectual Property.
(b) On the Restatement Date, all material Intellectual Property is valid, subsisting,
unexpired and enforceable, has not been abandoned and does not infringe the intellectual property
rights of any other Person in any material respect.
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(c) Except as set forth in Schedule 6, on the Restatement Date, none of the material
Intellectual Property is the subject of any licensing or franchise agreement pursuant to which such
Grantor is the licensor or franchisor.
(d) No holding, decision or judgment has been rendered by any Governmental Authority which
would limit, cancel or question the validity of, or such Grantor’s rights in, any Intellectual
Property in any respect that would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
(e) No action or proceeding is pending, or, to the knowledge of such Grantor, threatened, on
the date hereof (i) seeking to limit, cancel or question the validity of any Intellectual Property
or such Grantor’s ownership interest therein, and (ii) which, if adversely determined, would have a
material adverse effect on the value of any material Intellectual Property.
SECTION 5. COVENANTS
Each Grantor covenants and agrees with the Administrative Agent and the Lenders that, from and
after the date of this Agreement until the Obligations shall have been paid in full (other than
contingent indemnity obligations not due and payable), no Letter of Credit shall be outstanding and
the Commitments shall have terminated:
5.1 Delivery of Instruments, Certificated Securities and Chattel Paper.
If any amount payable under or in connection with any of the Collateral in excess of
$500,000 shall be or become evidenced by any Instrument, Certificated Security or Chattel Paper,
such Instrument, Certificated Security or Chattel Paper shall be immediately delivered to the
Administrative Agent, duly indorsed in a manner satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, to be
held as Collateral pursuant to this Agreement, except to the extent any of the foregoing is subject
to and included in a Permitted Receivables Financing.
5.2 Maintenance of Insurance. (a) Such Grantor will maintain, with financially sound and reputable companies with A.M.
Best ratings of A-III or better, insurance policies (i) insuring the Inventory and Equipment
against loss by fire, explosion, theft and such other casualties and (ii) insuring such Grantor,
the Administrative Agent and the Lenders against liability for personal injury and property damage
relating to such Inventory and Equipment, in both cases as is normal and customary for the
automotive parts industry and mutually agreeable to such Grantor and the Administrative Agent whose
consent shall not be unreasonably withheld.
(b) All such insurance shall (i) provide that no cancellation, material reduction in amount or
material change in coverage thereof shall be effective until at least 30 days after receipt by the
Administrative Agent of written notice thereof, (ii) name the Administrative Agent as insured party
or additional loss payee as its interests may appear and (iii) be reasonably satisfactory in all
other respects to the Administrative Agent.
(c) The Borrower shall deliver to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders a report of a
reputable insurance broker with respect to such insurance substantially concurrently
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with each delivery of the Borrower’s audited annual financial statements and such supplemental
reports with respect thereto as the Administrative Agent may from time to time reasonably request.
5.3 Payment of Obligations. Such Grantor will pay and discharge or otherwise satisfy at or before maturity or before
they become delinquent, as the case may be, all taxes, assessments and governmental charges or
levies imposed upon the Collateral or in respect of income or profits therefrom, as well as all
claims of any kind (including, without limitation, claims for labor, materials and supplies)
against or with respect to the Collateral, except that no such tax, assessment, charge or levy need
be paid if the amount or validity thereof is currently being contested in good faith by appropriate
proceedings, reserves in conformity with GAAP with respect thereto have been provided on the books
of such Grantor and such proceedings would not reasonably be expected to result in the sale,
forfeiture or loss of any material portion of the Collateral or any interest therein.
5.4 Maintenance of Perfected Security Interest; Further Documentation.
(a) Such Grantor shall maintain the security interest created by this Agreement as a
perfected security interest having at least the priority described in Section 4.2 (and as otherwise
reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent) and shall defend such security interest against
the claims and demands of all Persons whomsoever.
(b) Such Grantor will furnish to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders from time to time
statements and schedules further identifying and describing the assets and property of such Grantor
constituting Collateral and such other reports in connection therewith as the Administrative Agent
may reasonably request, all in reasonable detail.
(c) At any time and from time to time, upon the written request of the Administrative Agent,
and at the sole expense of such Grantor, such Grantor will promptly and duly execute and deliver,
and have recorded, such further instruments and documents and take such further actions as the
Administrative Agent may reasonably request for the purpose of obtaining or preserving the full
benefits of this Agreement and of the rights and powers herein granted, including, without
limitation, (i) filing any financing or continuation statements under the Uniform Commercial Code
(or other similar laws) in effect in any jurisdiction with respect to the security interests
created hereby and (ii) in the case of Investment Property, Deposit
Accounts and any other relevant Collateral, taking any actions necessary to enable the
Administrative Agent to obtain “control” (within the meaning of the applicable Uniform Commercial
Code) with respect thereto.
5.5 Changes in Jurisdiction of Organization, Locations, Name, etc.
Such Grantor will not, except upon 15 days’ prior written notice to the Administrative Agent
and delivery to the Administrative Agent of all additional financing statements and other documents
(executed where required) reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent to maintain the
validity, perfection and priority of the security interests provided for herein:
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(i) change its jurisdiction of organization or, if such Grantor does not have a
jurisdiction of organization for purposes of the New York UCC, the location of its chief
executive office or sole place of business from that referred to in Section 4.3; or
(ii) change its name.
5.6 Notices. Such Grantor will advise the Administrative Agent and the Lenders promptly after such
Grantor obtains knowledge thereof, in reasonable detail, of the following:
(a) any Lien (other than security interests created hereby or Liens permitted under the Credit
Agreement) on any of the Collateral which would adversely affect the ability of the Administrative
Agent to exercise any of its remedies hereunder; and
(b) the occurrence of any other event which would reasonably be expected to have a material
adverse effect on the aggregate value of the Collateral or on the security interests created
hereby.
5.7 Investment Property. (a) If such Grantor shall become entitled to receive or shall receive any stock
certificate (including, without limitation, any certificate representing a stock dividend or a
distribution in connection with any reclassification, increase or reduction of capital or any
certificate issued in connection with any reorganization), option or rights in respect of the
Pledged Stock of any Issuer, whether in addition to, in substitution of, as a conversion of, or in
exchange for, any shares of the Pledged Stock, or otherwise in respect thereof, such Grantor shall,
to the extent such certificate, option or right constitutes Pledged Stock, accept the same as the
agent of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders, hold the same in trust for the Administrative
Agent and the Lenders and deliver the same forthwith to the Administrative Agent in the exact form
received, duly indorsed by such Grantor to the Administrative Agent, if required, together with an
undated stock power covering such certificate duly executed in blank by such Grantor and with, if
the Administrative Agent so requests, signature guaranteed, to be held by the Administrative Agent,
subject to the terms hereof, as additional collateral security for the Obligations. In each case,
except to the extent the Credit Agreement permits the applicable Grantor to retain such sums of
money or property, (i) any sums paid upon or in respect of the
Investment Property upon the liquidation or dissolution of any Issuer shall be paid over to
the Administrative Agent to be held by it hereunder as additional collateral security for the
Obligations, and in case any distribution of capital shall be made on or in respect of the
Investment Property or any property shall be distributed upon or with respect to the Investment
Property pursuant to the recapitalization or reclassification of the capital of any Issuer or
pursuant to the reorganization thereof, the property so distributed shall, unless otherwise subject
to a perfected security interest in favor of the Administrative Agent, be delivered to the
Administrative Agent to be held by it hereunder as additional collateral security for the
Obligations, and (ii) if any sums of money or property so paid or distributed in respect of the
Investment Property shall be received by such Grantor, such Grantor shall, until such money or
property is paid or delivered to the Administrative Agent, hold such money or property in trust
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for the Lenders, segregated from other funds of such Grantor, as additional collateral security for
the Obligations.
(b) Without the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent, such Grantor will not (i)
vote to enable, or take any other action to permit, any Issuer to issue any stock or other equity
securities of any nature or to issue any other securities convertible into or granting the right to
purchase or exchange for any stock or other equity securities of any nature of any Issuer (except
pursuant to a transaction permitted by the Credit Agreement), (ii) sell, assign, transfer,
exchange, or otherwise dispose of, or grant any option with respect to, the Investment Property or
Proceeds thereof (except pursuant to a transaction permitted by the Credit Agreement), (iii)
create, incur or permit to exist any Lien or option in favor of, or any claim of any Person with
respect to, any of the Investment Property or Proceeds thereof, or any interest therein, except for
the security interests created by this Agreement except for Liens permitted by Section 7.3(p) of
the Credit Agreement or (iv) enter into any agreement or undertaking restricting the right or
ability of such Grantor or the Administrative Agent to sell, assign or transfer any of the
Investment Property or Proceeds thereof.
(c) In the case of each Grantor which is an Issuer, such Issuer agrees that (i) it will be
bound by the terms of this Agreement relating to the Investment Property issued by it and will
comply with such terms insofar as such terms are applicable to it, (ii) it will notify the
Administrative Agent promptly in writing of the occurrence of any of the events described in
Section 5.7(a) with respect to the Pledged Stock or other Investment Property (as applicable)
issued by it and (iii) the terms of Sections 6.3(c) and 6.7 shall apply to it, mutatis
mutandis, with respect to all actions that may be required of it pursuant to Section 6.3(c)
or 6.7 with respect to the Investment Property issued by it.
5.8 Receivables. (a) Other than in the ordinary course of business consistent with its past practice, such
Grantor will not (i) grant any extension of the time of payment of any Receivable, (ii) compromise
or settle any Receivable for less than the full amount thereof, (iii) release, wholly or partially,
any Person liable for the payment of any Receivable, (iv) allow any credit or discount whatsoever
on any Receivable or (v) amend, supplement or modify any Receivable in any manner that could
adversely affect the value thereof.
(b) Such Grantor will deliver to the Administrative Agent a copy of each material demand,
notice or document received by it that questions or calls into doubt the validity or enforceability
of more than 5% of the aggregate amount of the then outstanding Receivables.
5.9 Intellectual Property. (a) Such Grantor (either itself or through licensees) will (i) continue to use each material
Trademark on each and every trademark class of goods applicable to its current line as reflected in
its current catalogs, brochures and price lists in order to maintain such Trademark in full force
free from any claim of abandonment for non-use, (ii) maintain as in the past the quality of
products and services offered under such Trademark, (iii) use such Trademark with the appropriate
notice of registration and all other notices and legends required by applicable Requirements of
Law, (iv) not adopt or use any xxxx which is confusingly similar or a colorable imitation of such
Trademark unless the Administrative Agent,
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for the ratable benefit of the Lenders, shall obtain a perfected security interest in such
xxxx (to the extent a security interest in such xxxx xxx be perfected by filing under the
applicable Uniform Commercial Code, or similar law in a foreign jurisdiction, or with the US Patent
and Trademark Office, or corresponding foreign office, and to the extent requested pursuant to
clause (f) below) pursuant to this Agreement, and (v) not (and not permit any licensee or
sublicensee thereof to) do any act or knowingly omit to do any act whereby such Trademark may
become invalidated or impaired in any way.
(b) Such Grantor (either itself or through licensees) will not do any act, or omit to do any
act, whereby any material Patent may become forfeited, abandoned or dedicated to the public.
(c) Such Grantor (either itself or through licensees) (i) will employ each material Copyright
and (ii) will not (and will not permit any licensee or sublicensee thereof to) do any act or
knowingly omit to do any act whereby any material portion of the Copyrights may become invalidated
or otherwise impaired. Such Grantor will not (either itself or through licensees) do any act
whereby any material portion of the Copyrights may fall into the public domain.
(d) Such Grantor (either itself or through licensees) will not do any act that knowingly uses
any material Intellectual Property to infringe the intellectual property rights of any other
Person.
(e) Such Grantor will notify the Administrative Agent and the Lenders immediately if it knows,
or has reason to know, that any application or registration relating to any material Intellectual
Property may become forfeited, abandoned or dedicated to the public, or of any adverse
determination or development (including, without limitation, the institution of, or any such
determination or development in, any proceeding in the United States Patent and Trademark Office,
the United States Copyright Office or any court or tribunal in any country) regarding such
Grantor’s ownership of, or the validity of, any material Intellectual Property
subject to such an application or registration or such Grantor’s right to register the same or
to own and maintain the same.
(f) Whenever such Grantor, either by itself or through any agent, employee, licensee or
designee, shall file an application for the registration of any Intellectual Property with the
United States Patent and Trademark Office, the United States Copyright Office or any similar office
or agency in any other country or any political subdivision thereof, such Grantor shall report such
filing to the Administrative Agent concurrerently with the delivery of the compliance certificate
required to be delivered pursuant to Section 6.2(b) of the Credit Agreement for the fiscal quarter
in which such filing occurs. Upon request of the Administrative Agent, such Grantor shall execute
and deliver, and have recorded, any and all agreements, instruments, documents, and papers as the
Administrative Agent may request to evidence the Administrative Agent’s and the Lenders’ security
interest in any Copyright, Patent or Trademark and the goodwill (if applicable) and general
intangibles of such Grantor relating thereto or represented thereby.
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(g) Such Grantor will take all reasonable and necessary steps, including, without limitation,
in any proceeding before the United States Patent and Trademark Office, the United States Copyright
Office or any similar office or agency in any other country or any political subdivision thereof,
to maintain and pursue each application (and to obtain the relevant registration) and to maintain
each registration of the material registered Intellectual Property, including, without limitation,
filing of applications for renewal, affidavits of use and affidavits of incontestability.
(h) In the event that any material Intellectual Property is infringed, misappropriated or
diluted by a third party, such Grantor shall (i) take such actions as such Grantor shall reasonably
deem appropriate under the circumstances to protect such Intellectual Property and (ii) if such
Intellectual Property is of material economic value, promptly notify the Administrative Agent after
it learns thereof and xxx for infringement, misappropriation or dilution, to seek injunctive relief
where appropriate and to recover any and all damages for such infringement, misappropriation or
dilution.
5.10 Jurisdiction of Organization. At the Administrative Agent’s request, each Grantor will provide its jurisdiction of
organization, identification number from the jurisdiction of organization (if any), and the
location of such Grantor’s chief executive office or sole place of business. In addition, the
Administrative Agent may request, and such Grantor shall provide, a certified charter, certificate
of incorporation, or other organizational document and long form good standing certificate from
each Grantor.
5.11 Commercial Tort Claims. Such Grantor will advise the Administrative Agent of such Grantor’s interest in any
Commercial Tort Claim in an amount in excess of $500,000 in which such Grantor believes it has
rights, and such Grantor shall promptly provide the Administrative Agent with an updated
Schedule 7 describing such Commercial Tort Claim or such information with respect thereto
as the Administrative Agent may reasonably request in order to attach and perfect a security
interest therein in accordance with applicable law.
SECTION 6. REMEDIAL PROVISIONS
6.1 Certain Matters Relating to Receivables. (a) The Administrative Agent shall have the right to make test verifications of the
Receivables in any manner and through any medium that it reasonably considers advisable, and each
Grantor shall furnish all such assistance and information as the Administrative Agent may require
in connection with such test verifications after the occurrence of an Event of Default. At any
time and from time to time, upon the Administrative Agent’s request and at the expense of the
relevant Grantor, such Grantor shall cause independent public accountants or others satisfactory to
the Administrative Agent to furnish to the Administrative Agent reports showing reconciliations,
aging and test verifications of, and trial balances for, the Receivables.
(b) The Administrative Agent hereby authorizes each Grantor to collect such Grantor’s
Receivables, subject to the Administrative Agent’s direction and control, and the Administrative
Agent may curtail or terminate said authority at any time after the occurrence and
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during the continuance of an Event of Default. If required by the Administrative Agent at any time
after the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, any payments of
Receivables, when collected by any Grantor, (i) shall be forthwith (and, in any event, within two
Business Days) deposited by such Grantor in the exact form received, duly indorsed by such Grantor
to the Administrative Agent if required, in a Collateral Account maintained under the sole dominion
and control of the Administrative Agent, subject to withdrawal by the Administrative Agent for the
account of the Lenders only as provided in Section 6.5, and (ii) until so turned over, shall be
held by such Grantor in trust for the Administrative Agent and the Lenders, segregated from other
funds of such Grantor. Each such deposit of Proceeds of Receivables shall be accompanied by a
report identifying in reasonable detail the nature and source of the payments included in the
deposit.
(c) At the Administrative Agent’s request during the existence of an Event of Default, each
Grantor shall deliver to the Administrative Agent all original and other documents evidencing, and
relating to, the agreements and transactions which gave rise to the Receivables, including, without
limitation, all original orders, invoices and shipping receipts.
6.2 Communications with Obligors; Grantors Remain Liable. (a) The Administrative Agent in its own name or in the name of others may at any time
after the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default communicate with obligors
under the Receivables and parties to any material contract of any Grantor to verify with them to
the Administrative Agent’s satisfaction the existence, amount and terms of any Receivables or any
material contract of any Grantor.
(b) Upon the request of the Administrative Agent at any time after the occurrence and during
the continuance of an Event of Default, each Grantor shall notify obligors on the Receivables and
parties to any material contract of any Grantor that the Receivables and
such contracts have been assigned to the Administrative Agent for the ratable benefit of the
Lenders and that payments in respect thereof shall be made directly to the Administrative Agent.
(c) Anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding, each Grantor shall remain liable under
each of the Receivables and material contracts of any Grantor to observe and perform all the
conditions and obligations to be observed and performed by it thereunder, all in accordance with
the terms of any agreement giving rise thereto. Neither the Administrative Agent nor any Lender
shall have any obligation or liability under any Receivable (or any agreement giving rise thereto)
or any contract of any Grantor by reason of or arising out of this Agreement or the receipt by the
Administrative Agent or any Lender of any payment relating thereto, nor shall the Administrative
Agent or any Lender be obligated in any manner to perform any of the obligations of any Grantor
under or pursuant to any Receivable (or any agreement giving rise thereto) or any contract of any
Grantor, to make any payment, to make any inquiry as to the nature or the sufficiency of any
payment received by it or as to the sufficiency of any performance by any party thereunder, to
present or file any claim, to take any action to enforce any performance or to collect the payment
of any amounts which may have been assigned to it or to which it may be entitled at any time or
times.
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6.3 Pledged Stock. (a) Unless an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing and the
Administrative Agent shall have given notice to the relevant Grantor of the Administrative Agent’s
intent to exercise its corresponding rights pursuant to Section 6.3(b), each Grantor shall be
permitted to receive all cash dividends paid in respect of the Pledged Stock and all payments made
in respect of the Pledged Notes, in each case paid in the normal course of business of the relevant
Issuer and consistent with past practice, to the extent permitted in the Credit Agreement, and to
exercise all voting and corporate or other rights with respect to the Investment Property;
provided, however, that no vote shall be cast or corporate or other right exercised or other action
taken which, in the Administrative Agent’s reasonable judgment, would impair the Collateral in any
material respect or which would be inconsistent with or result in any violation of any provision of
the Credit Agreement, this Agreement or any other Loan Document.
(b) If an Event of Default shall occur and be continuing and the Administrative Agent shall
give notice of its intent to exercise such rights to the relevant Grantor or Grantors, (i) the
Administrative Agent shall have the right to receive any and all cash dividends, payments or other
Proceeds paid in respect of the Investment Property and make application thereof to the Obligations
in such order as the Administrative Agent may determine, and (ii) any or all of the Investment
Property shall be registered in the name of the Administrative Agent or its nominee, and the
Administrative Agent or its nominee may thereafter exercise (x) all voting, corporate and other
rights pertaining to such Investment Property at any meeting of shareholders of the relevant Issuer
or Issuers or otherwise and (y) any and all rights of conversion, exchange and subscription and any
other rights, privileges or options pertaining to such Investment Property as if it were the
absolute owner thereof (including, without limitation, the right to exchange at its discretion any
and all of the Investment Property upon the merger, consolidation, reorganization, recapitalization
or other fundamental change in the organizational structure of any Issuer, or upon the exercise by
any Grantor or the Administrative Agent of any right, privilege or option pertaining to such
Investment Property, and in connection therewith, the right to deposit and deliver any and all of
the Investment Property with any committee, depository, transfer agent, registrar or other
designated agency upon such terms and conditions as the Administrative Agent may determine), all
without liability except to account for property actually received by it, but the Administrative
Agent shall have no duty to any Grantor to exercise any such right, privilege or option and shall
not be responsible for any failure to do so or delay in so doing.
(c) Each Grantor hereby authorizes and instructs each Issuer of any Investment Property
pledged by such Grantor hereunder to (i) comply with any instruction received by it from the
Administrative Agent in writing that (x) states that an Event of Default has occurred and is
continuing and (y) is otherwise in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, without any other
or further instructions from such Grantor, and each Grantor agrees that each Issuer shall be fully
protected in so complying, and (ii) unless otherwise expressly permitted hereby, pay any dividends
or other payments with respect to the Investment Property directly to the Administrative Agent.
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6.4 Proceeds to be Turned Over To Administrative Agent. In addition to the rights of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders specified in Section
6.1 with respect to payments of Receivables, if an Event of Default shall occur and be continuing,
all Proceeds received by any Grantor in respect of Collateral consisting of cash, checks and other
near-cash items shall be held by such Grantor in trust for the Administrative Agent and the
Lenders, segregated from other funds of such Grantor, and shall, forthwith upon receipt by such
Grantor, be turned over to the Administrative Agent in the exact form received by such Grantor
(duly indorsed by such Grantor to the Administrative Agent, if required). All Proceeds received by
the Administrative Agent hereunder shall be held by the Administrative Agent in a Collateral
Account maintained under its sole dominion and control. All Proceeds while held by the
Administrative Agent in a Collateral Account (or by such Grantor in trust for the Administrative
Agent and the Lenders) shall continue to be held as collateral security for all the Obligations and
shall not constitute payment thereof until applied as provided in Section 6.5.
6.5 Application of Proceeds. At such intervals as may be agreed upon by the Borrower and the Administrative Agent, or,
if an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, at any time at the Administrative
Agent’s election, the Administrative Agent may apply all or any part of Proceeds held in any
Collateral Account in payment of the Obligations in such order as the Administrative Agent may
elect, and any part of such funds which the Administrative Agent elects not so to apply and deems
not required as collateral security for the Obligations shall be paid over from time to time by the
Administrative Agent to the Borrower or to whomsoever may be lawfully entitled to receive the same.
Any balance of such Proceeds remaining after the Obligations shall have been paid in full (other
than contingent indemnity obligations not due and payable), no Letters of Credit shall be
outstanding and the Commitments shall have terminated shall be paid over to the Borrower or to
whomsoever may be lawfully entitled to receive the same.
6.6 Code and Other Remedies. If an Event of Default shall occur and be continuing, the Administrative Agent, on behalf
of the Lenders, may exercise, in addition to all other rights and remedies granted to them in this
Agreement and in any other instrument or agreement securing, evidencing or relating to the
Obligations, all rights and remedies of a secured party under the New York UCC or any other
applicable law. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Administrative Agent,
without demand of performance or other demand, presentment, protest, advertisement or notice of any
kind (except any notice required by law referred to below) to or upon any Grantor or any other
Person (all and each of which demands, defenses, advertisements and notices are hereby waived), may
in such circumstances forthwith collect, receive, appropriate and realize upon the Collateral, or
any part thereof, and/or may forthwith sell, lease, assign, give option or options to purchase, or
otherwise dispose of and deliver the Collateral or any part thereof (or contract to do any of the
foregoing), in one or more parcels at public or private sale or sales, at any exchange, broker’s
board or office of the Administrative Agent or any Lender or elsewhere
upon such terms and conditions as it may deem advisable and at such prices as it may deem
best, for cash or on credit or for future delivery without assumption of any credit risk. The
Administrative Agent or any Lender shall have the right upon any such public sale or sales, and, to
the extent permitted by law, upon any such private sale or sales, to purchase the whole or any part
of the Collateral so sold, free of any right
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or equity of redemption in any Grantor, which right or equity is hereby waived and released.
Each Grantor further agrees, at the Administrative Agent’s request, to assemble the Collateral and
make it available to the Administrative Agent at places which the Administrative Agent shall
reasonably select, whether at such Grantor’s premises or elsewhere. The Administrative Agent shall
apply the net proceeds of any action taken by it pursuant to this Section 6.6, after deducting all
reasonable costs and expenses of every kind incurred in connection therewith or incidental to the
care or safekeeping of any of the Collateral or in any way relating to the Collateral or the rights
of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders hereunder, including, without limitation, reasonable
attorneys’ fees and disbursements, to the payment in whole or in part of the Obligations, in such
order as the Administrative Agent may elect, and only after such application and after the payment
by the Administrative Agent of any other amount required by any provision of law, including,
without limitation, Section 9-615(a)(3) of the New York UCC, need the Administrative Agent account
for the surplus, if any, to any Grantor. To the extent permitted by applicable law, each Grantor
waives all claims, damages and demands it may acquire against the Administrative Agent or any
Lender arising out of the exercise by them of any rights hereunder. If any notice of a proposed
sale or other disposition of Collateral shall be required by law, such notice shall be deemed
reasonable and proper if given at least 10 days before such sale or other disposition.
6.7 Registration Rights. (a)(1) If the Administrative Agent shall determine to exercise its right to sell any or
all of the Pledged Stock pursuant to Section 6.6, and if in the opinion of the Administrative Agent
it is necessary or advisable to have the Pledged Stock, or that portion thereof to be sold,
registered under the provisions of the Securities Act, the relevant Grantor will cause the Issuer
thereof to (i) execute and deliver, and cause the directors and officers of such Issuer to execute
and deliver, all such instruments and documents, and do or cause to be done all such other acts as
may be, in the opinion of the Administrative Agent, necessary or advisable to register the Pledged
Stock, or that portion thereof to be sold, under the provisions of the Securities Act, (ii) use its
best efforts to cause the registration statement relating thereto to become effective and to remain
effective for a period of one year from the date of the first public offering of the Pledged Stock,
or that portion thereof to be sold, and (iii) make all amendments thereto and/or to the related
prospectus which, in the opinion of the Administrative Agent, are necessary or advisable, all in
conformity with the requirements of the Securities Act and the rules and regulations of the
Securities and Exchange Commission applicable thereto. Each Grantor agrees to cause such Issuer to
comply with the provisions of the securities or “Blue Sky” laws of any and all jurisdictions which
the Administrative Agent shall designate and to make available to its security holders, as soon as
practicable, an earnings statement (which need not be audited) which will satisfy the provisions of
Section 11(a) of the Securities Act.
(b) Each Grantor recognizes that the Administrative Agent may be unable to effect a public
sale of any or all the Pledged Stock, by reason of certain prohibitions contained in the Securities
Act and applicable state securities laws or otherwise, and may be compelled to resort to one or
more private sales thereof to a restricted group of purchasers which will be obliged to agree,
among other things, to acquire such securities for their own account for
investment and not with a view to the distribution or resale thereof. Each Grantor
acknowledges and agrees that any such private sale may result in prices and other terms less
favorable than if
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such sale were a public sale and, notwithstanding such circumstances, agrees that any such
private sale shall be deemed to have been made in a commercially reasonable manner. The
Administrative Agent shall be under no obligation to delay a sale of any of the Pledged Stock for
the period of time necessary to permit the Issuer thereof to register such securities for public
sale under the Securities Act, or under applicable state securities laws, even if such Issuer would
agree to do so.
(c) Each Grantor agrees to use its best efforts to do or cause to be done all such other acts
as may be necessary to make such sale or sales of all or any portion of the Pledged Stock pursuant
to this Section 6.7 valid and binding and in compliance with any and all other applicable
Requirements of Law. Each Grantor further agrees that a breach of any of the covenants contained
in this Section 6.7 will cause irreparable injury to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders, that
the Administrative Agent and the Lenders have no adequate remedy at law in respect of such breach
and, as a consequence, that each and every covenant contained in this Section 6.7 shall be
specifically enforceable against such Grantor, and such Grantor hereby waives and agrees not to
assert any defenses against an action for specific performance of such covenants except for a
defense that no Event of Default has occurred under the Credit Agreement.
6.8 Deficiency. Each Grantor shall remain liable for any deficiency if the proceeds of any sale or other
disposition of the Collateral are insufficient to pay its Obligations and the reasonable fees and
disbursements of any attorneys employed by the Administrative Agent or any Lender to collect such
deficiency.
SECTION 7. THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT
7.1 Administrative Agent’s Appointment as Attorney-in-Fact, etc. (a) Each Grantor hereby irrevocably constitutes and appoints the Administrative Agent and any
officer or agent thereof, with full power of substitution, as its true and lawful attorney-in-fact
with full irrevocable power and authority in the place and stead of such Grantor and in the name of
such Grantor or in its own name, for the purpose of carrying out the terms of this Agreement, to
take any and all appropriate action and to execute any and all documents and instruments which may
be necessary or desirable to accomplish the purposes of this Agreement, and, without limiting the
generality of the foregoing, each Grantor hereby gives the Administrative Agent the power and
right, on behalf of such Grantor, without notice to or assent by such Grantor, to do any or all of
the following:
(i) in the name of such Grantor or its own name, or otherwise, take possession of and
indorse and collect any checks, drafts, notes, acceptances or other instruments for the
payment of moneys due under any Receivable or any material contract of any Grantor or with
respect to any other Collateral and file any claim or take any other action or proceeding in
any court of law or equity or otherwise deemed appropriate by the
Administrative Agent for the purpose of collecting any and all such moneys due under
any Receivable or any material contract of any Grantor or with respect to any other
Collateral whenever payable;
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(ii) in the case of any Intellectual Property, execute and deliver, and have recorded,
any and all agreements, instruments, documents and papers as the Administrative Agent may
request to evidence the Administrative Agent’s and the Lenders’ security interest in such
Intellectual Property and the goodwill (if applicable) and general intangibles of such
Grantor relating thereto or represented thereby;
(iii) pay or discharge taxes and Liens levied or placed on or threatened against the
Collateral, effect any repairs or any insurance called for by the terms of this Agreement
and pay all or any part of the premiums therefor and the costs thereof;
(iv) execute, in connection with any sale provided for in Section 6.6 or 6.7, any
indorsements, assignments or other instruments of conveyance or transfer with respect to the
Collateral; and
(v) (1) direct any party liable for any payment under any of the Collateral to make
payment of any and all moneys due or to become due thereunder directly to the Administrative
Agent or as the Administrative Agent shall direct; (2) ask or demand for, collect, and
receive payment of and receipt for, any and all moneys, claims and other amounts due or to
become due at any time in respect of or arising out of any Collateral; (3)(i) sign and
indorse any invoices, freight or express bills, bills of lading, storage or warehouse
receipts, drafts against debtors, assignments, verifications, notices and other documents in
connection with any of the Collateral; (4) commence and prosecute any suits, actions or
proceedings at law or in equity in any court of competent jurisdiction to collect the
Collateral or any portion thereof and to enforce any other right in respect of any
Collateral; (5) defend any suit, action or proceeding brought against such Grantor with
respect to any Collateral; (6) settle, compromise or adjust any such suit, action or
proceeding and, in connection therewith, give such discharges or releases as the
Administrative Agent may deem appropriate; (7) assign any Copyright, Patent or Trademark
(along with the goodwill of the business to which any such Copyright, Patent or Trademark
pertains), throughout the world for such term or terms, on such conditions, and in such
manner, as the Administrative Agent shall in its sole discretion determine; and (8)
generally, sell, transfer, pledge and make any agreement with respect to or otherwise deal
with any of the Collateral as fully and completely as though the Administrative Agent were
the absolute owner thereof for all purposes, and do, at the Administrative Agent’s option
and such Grantor’s expense, at any time, or from time to time, all acts and things which the
Administrative Agent deems necessary to protect, preserve or realize upon the Collateral and
the Administrative Agent’s and the Lenders’ security interests therein and to effect the
intent of this Agreement, all as fully and effectively as such Grantor might do.
Anything in this Section 7.1(a) to the contrary notwithstanding, the Administrative Agent
agrees that it will not exercise any rights under the power of attorney provided for in this
Section 7.1(a) unless an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing.
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(b) If any Grantor fails to perform or comply with any of its agreements contained herein, the
Administrative Agent, at its option, but without any obligation so to do, may perform or comply, or
otherwise cause performance or compliance, with such agreement.
(c) The expenses of the Administrative Agent incurred in connection with actions undertaken as
provided in this Section 7.1, together with interest thereon at a rate per annum equal to the
highest rate per annum at which interest would then be payable on any category of past due ABR
Loans under the Credit Agreement, from the date of demand by the Administrative Agent to the date
reimbursed by the relevant Grantor, shall be payable by such Grantor to the Administrative Agent on
demand.
(d) Each Grantor hereby ratifies all that said attorneys shall lawfully do or cause to be done
by virtue hereof. All powers, authorizations and agencies contained in this Agreement are coupled
with an interest and are irrevocable until this Agreement is terminated and the security interests
created hereby are released.
7.2 Duty of Administrative Agent. The Administrative Agent’s sole duty with respect to the custody, safekeeping and physical
preservation of the Collateral in its possession, under Section 9-207 of the New York UCC or
otherwise, shall be to deal with it in the same manner as the Administrative Agent deals with
similar property for its own account. Neither the Administrative Agent, any Lender nor any of
their respective officers, directors, employees or agents shall be liable for failure to demand,
collect or realize upon any of the Collateral or for any delay in doing so or shall be under any
obligation to sell or otherwise dispose of any Collateral upon the request of any Grantor or any
other Person or to take any other action whatsoever with regard to the Collateral or any part
thereof. The powers conferred on the Administrative Agent and the Lenders hereunder are solely to
protect the Administrative Agent’s and the Lenders’ interests in the Collateral and shall not
impose any duty upon the Administrative Agent or any Lender to exercise any such powers. The
Administrative Agent and the Lenders shall be accountable only for amounts that they actually
receive as a result of the exercise of such powers, and neither they nor any of their officers,
directors, employees or agents shall be responsible to any Grantor for any act or failure to act
hereunder, except for their own gross negligence or willful misconduct.
7.3 Financing Statements. Pursuant to applicable law, each Grantor authorizes the Administrative Agent to file or
record financing statements and other filing or recording documents or instruments with respect to
the Collateral without the signature of such Grantor in such form and in such offices as the
Administrative Agent determines appropriate to perfect the security interests of the Administrative
Agent under this Agreement. Each Grantor authorizes the Administrative Agent to use the collateral
description of “all personal property” in any such financing statements. Each Grantor hereby
ratifies and authorizes the filing by the Administrative Agent of any financing statement with
respect to the Collateral made prior to the Restatement Date. A
photographic or other reproduction of this Agreement shall be sufficient as a financing
statement or other filing or recording document or instrument for filing or recording in any
jurisdiction.
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7.4 Authority of Administrative Agent. Each Grantor acknowledges that the rights and responsibilities of the Administrative Agent
under this Agreement with respect to any action taken by the Administrative Agent or the exercise
or non-exercise by the Administrative Agent of any option, voting right, request, judgment or other
right or remedy provided for herein or resulting or arising out of this Agreement shall, as between
the Administrative Agent and the Lenders, be governed by the Credit Agreement and by such other
agreements with respect thereto as may exist from time to time among them, but, as between the
Administrative Agent and the Grantors, the Administrative Agent shall be conclusively presumed to
be acting as agent for the Lenders with full and valid authority so to act or refrain from acting,
and no Grantor shall be under any obligation, or entitlement, to make any inquiry respecting such
authority.
SECTION 8. MISCELLANEOUS
8.1 Amendments in Writing. None of the terms or provisions of this Agreement may be waived, amended, supplemented or
otherwise modified except in accordance with subsection 10.1 of the Credit Agreement.
8.2 Notices. All notices, requests and demands to or upon the Administrative Agent or any Grantor
hereunder shall be effected in the manner provided for in subsection 10.2 of the Credit Agreement;
provided that any such notice, request or demand to or upon any Guarantor shall be addressed to
such Guarantor at its notice address set forth on Schedule 1.
8.3 No Waiver by Course of Conduct; Cumulative Remedies. Neither the Administrative Agent nor any Lender shall by any act (except by a written
instrument pursuant to Section 8.1), delay, indulgence, omission or otherwise be deemed to have
waived any right or remedy hereunder or to have acquiesced in any Default or Event of Default. No
failure to exercise, nor any delay in exercising, on the part of the Administrative Agent or any
Lender, any right, power or privilege hereunder shall operate as a waiver thereof. No single or
partial exercise of any right, power or privilege hereunder shall preclude any other or further
exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right, power or privilege. A waiver by the
Administrative Agent or any Lender of any right or remedy hereunder on any one occasion shall not
be construed as a bar to any right or remedy which the Administrative Agent or such Lender would
otherwise have on any future occasion. The rights and remedies herein provided are cumulative, may
be exercised singly or concurrently and are not exclusive of any other rights or remedies provided
by law.
8.4 Enforcement Expenses; Indemnification. (a) Each Guarantor agrees to pay or reimburse each Lender and the Administrative Agent for
all its costs and expenses incurred in collecting against such Guarantor under the guarantee
contained in Section 2 or otherwise enforcing or preserving any rights under this Agreement and the
other Loan Documents to which such Guarantor is a party, including, without limitation, the
reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel (including the allocated fees and expenses of in-house
counsel) to each Lender and of counsel to the Administrative Agent.
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(b) Each Guarantor agrees to pay, and to save the Administrative Agent and the Lenders
harmless from, any and all liabilities with respect to, or resulting from any delay in paying, any
and all stamp, excise, sales or other taxes which may be payable or determined to be payable with
respect to any of the Collateral or in connection with any of the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement.
(c) Each Guarantor agrees to pay, and to save the Administrative Agent and the Lenders
harmless from, any and all liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, actions,
judgments, suits, costs, expenses or disbursements of any kind or nature whatsoever with respect to
the execution, delivery, enforcement, performance and administration of this Agreement to the
extent the Borrower would be required to do so pursuant to subsection 10.5 of the Credit Agreement.
(d) The agreements in this Section 8.4 shall survive repayment of the Obligations and all
other amounts payable under the Credit Agreement and the other Loan Documents.
8.5 Successors and Assigns. This Agreement shall be binding upon the successors and assigns of each Grantor and shall
inure to the benefit of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders and their successors and assigns;
provided that no Grantor may assign, transfer or delegate any of its rights or obligations under
this Agreement without the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent.
8.6 Set-Off. Each Grantor hereby irrevocably authorizes the Administrative Agent and each Lender at any
time and from time to time while an Event of Default pursuant to subsection 8(a) of the Credit
Agreement shall have occurred and be continuing, without notice to such Grantor or any other
Grantor, any such notice being expressly waived by each Grantor, to set-off and appropriate and
apply any and all deposits (general or special, time or demand, provisional or final), in any
currency, and any other credits, indebtedness or claims, in any currency, in each case whether
direct or indirect, absolute or contingent, matured or unmatured, at any time held or owing by the
Administrative Agent or such Lender to or for the credit or the account of such Grantor, or any
part thereof in such amounts as the Administrative Agent or such Lender may elect, against and on
account of the obligations and liabilities of such Grantor to the Administrative Agent or such
Lender hereunder and claims of every nature and description of the Administrative Agent or such
Lender against such Grantor, in any currency, whether arising hereunder, under the Credit
Agreement, any other Loan Document or otherwise, as the Administrative Agent or such Lender may
elect, whether or not the Administrative Agent or any Lender has made any demand for payment and
although such obligations, liabilities and claims may be contingent or unmatured. The
Administrative Agent and each Lender shall notify such
Grantor promptly of any such set-off and the application made by the Administrative Agent or
such Lender of the proceeds thereof, provided that the failure to give such notice shall not affect
the validity of such set-off and application. The rights of the Administrative Agent and each
Lender under this Section 8.6 are in addition to other rights and remedies (including, without
limitation, other rights of set-off) which the Administrative Agent or such Lender may have.
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8.7 Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed by one or more of the parties to this Agreement on any
number of separate counterparts (including by telecopy), and all of said counterparts taken
together shall be deemed to constitute one and the same instrument.
8.8 Severability. Any provision of this Agreement which 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 not invalidate or render unenforceable such provision in
any other jurisdiction.
8.9 Section Headings. The Section headings used in this Agreement are for convenience of reference only and are
not to affect the construction hereof or be taken into consideration in the interpretation hereof.
8.10 Integration. This Agreement and the other Loan Documents represent the agreement of the Grantors, the
Administrative Agent and the Lenders with respect to the subject matter hereof and thereof, and
there are no promises, undertakings, representations or warranties by the Administrative Agent or
any Lender relative to subject matter hereof and thereof not expressly set forth or referred to
herein or in the other Loan Documents.
8.11 GOVERNING LAW. THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED AND INTERPRETED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE
LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.
8.12 Submission To Jurisdiction; Waivers. Each Grantor hereby irrevocably and unconditionally:
(a) submits for itself and its property in any legal action or proceeding relating to this
Agreement and the other Loan Documents to which it is a party, or for recognition and enforcement
of any judgment in respect thereof, to the non-exclusive general jurisdiction of the courts of the
State of New York, the courts of the United States of America for the Southern District of New
York, and appellate courts from any thereof;
(b) consents that any such action or proceeding may be brought in such courts and waives any
objection that it may now or hereafter have to the venue of any such action or proceeding in any
such court or that such action or proceeding was brought in an inconvenient court and agrees not to
plead or claim the same;
(c) agrees that service of process in any such action or proceeding may be effected by mailing
a copy thereof by registered or certified mail (or any substantially similar form of mail), postage
prepaid, to such Grantor at its address referred to in Section 8.2 or at such other address of
which the Administrative Agent shall have been notified pursuant thereto;
(d) agrees that nothing herein shall affect the right to effect service of process in any
other manner permitted by law or shall limit the right to xxx in any other jurisdiction; and
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recover in any legal action or proceeding referred to in this Section any special, exemplary,
punitive or consequential damages.
8.13 Acknowledgements. Each Grantor hereby acknowledges that:
(a) it has been advised by counsel in the negotiation, execution and delivery of this
Agreement and the other Loan Documents to which it is a party;
(b) neither the Administrative Agent nor any Lender has any fiduciary relationship with or
duty to any Grantor arising out of or in connection with this Agreement or any of the other Loan
Documents, and the relationship between the Grantors, on the one hand, and the Administrative Agent
and Lenders, on the other hand, in connection herewith or therewith is solely that of debtor and
creditor; and
(c) no joint venture is created hereby or by the other Loan Documents or otherwise exists by
virtue of the transactions contemplated hereby among the Lenders or among the Grantors and the
Lenders.
8.14 Additional Grantors. Each Subsidiary of the Borrower that is required to become a party to this Agreement
pursuant to subsection 6.10 of the Credit Agreement shall become a Grantor for all purposes of this
Agreement upon execution and delivery by such Subsidiary of an Assumption Agreement in the form of
Annex 1 hereto.
8.15 Releases. (a) At such time as the Loans, the Reimbursement Obligations and the other Obligations
shall have been paid in full (other than contingent indemnity obligations not due and payable), the
Commitments have been terminated and no Letters of Credit shall be outstanding, the Collateral
shall be released from the Liens created hereby, and this Agreement and all obligations (other than
those expressly stated to survive such termination) of the Administrative Agent and each Grantor
hereunder shall terminate, all without delivery of any instrument or performance of any act by any
party, and all rights to the Collateral shall revert to the Grantors. At the request and sole
expense of any Grantor following any such termination, the Administrative Agent shall deliver to
such Grantor any Collateral held by the Administrative Agent hereunder, and execute and deliver to
such Grantor such documents as such Grantor shall reasonably request to evidence such termination.
(b) If any of the Collateral shall be sold, transferred or otherwise disposed of by any
Grantor in a transaction permitted by the Credit Agreement, then the Administrative Agent,
at the request and sole expense of such Grantor, shall execute and deliver to such Grantor all
releases or other documents reasonably necessary or desirable for the release of the Liens created
hereby on such Collateral. At the request and sole expense of the Borrower, a Subsidiary Guarantor
shall be released from its obligations hereunder in the event that all the Capital Stock of such
Subsidiary Guarantor shall be sold, transferred or otherwise disposed of in a transaction permitted
by the Credit Agreement or such Subsidiary is no longer required by the Loan Documents to be (and
the Borrower notifies the Administrative Agent that such Subsidiary shall
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Subsidiary Guarantor; provided that the Borrower shall have delivered to the Administrative
Agent, at least ten Business Days prior to the date of the proposed release, a written request for
release identifying the relevant Subsidiary Guarantor and the terms of the sale or other
disposition in reasonable detail, including the price thereof and any expenses in connection
therewith, together with a certification by the Borrower stating that such transaction is in
compliance with the Credit Agreement and the other Loan Documents.
8.16 WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL. EACH PARTY HERETO HEREBY IRREVOCABLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY WAIVES TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY LEGAL
ACTION OR PROCEEDING RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT AND FOR ANY COUNTERCLAIM
THEREIN.
8.17 Amendment and Restatement. (a) This Agreement amends and restates the Existing Guarantee and Collateral Agreement.
All terms, conditions, agreements, covenants and representations and warranties contained in the
Existing Guarantee and Collateral Agreement remain in full force and effect, except as expressly
amended herein. Nothing herein or in the other Loan Documents shall impair or adversely affect the
continuation of the liability of the Borrower for the Borrower Obligations or of any other Grantor
for the Guarantor Obligations incurred before the Restatement Date and the security interests,
Liens and other interests in the Collateral granted, pledged and or assigned by the Grantors to the
Administrative Agent pursuant to the Existing Guarantee and Collateral Agreement.
(b) The amendment and restatement herein shall not, in any manner, be construed to constitute
payment of, or impair, limit, cancel or extinguish, or constitute a novation in respect of any of
the obligations, liabilities and indebtedness of the Grantors evidenced by or arising under the
Existing Guarantee and Collateral Agreement and the other Loan Documents, and the Lien and
security interests securing such obligations, liabilities and indebtedness, which shall continue in
full force and effect and shall not in any manner be impaired, limited, terminated, waived or
released.
(c) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Loan Document, any term,
condition, agreement, covenant or representation or warranty amended by this Agreement shall be
deemed to have been so amended for all periods prior to the Restatement Date (regardless of whether
such amendment by its terms purports to apply as of a certain date),
and during all such periods no Grantor shall have been required, or be liable for any failure,
to comply with any such provision except as amended by this Agreement.
8.18 Waiver of Covenant Violations Under Existing Guarantee and Collateral Agreement.
The Administrative Agent (and by their receipt of the benefits hereof, the Lenders) hereby waive
(i) any violation of any covenant set forth in Section 5 and Section 6 of the Existing Guarantee
and Collateral Agreement occurring prior to the date hereof (and any breach of any representation
or warranty with respect to the existence of a Default or Event of Default under such Sections) and
(ii) any Default or Event of Default that has occurred or would occur by virtue of any such
violation.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each of the undersigned has caused this Guarantee and Collateral Agreement
to be duly executed and delivered, and amended and restated as set forth herein.
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Acknowledged and Agreed as of the date hereof:
JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.
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Schedule 1
NOTICE ADDRESSES OF GUARANTORS
Schedule 2
DESCRIPTION OF INVESTMENT PROPERTY
Pledged Stock:
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Schedule 3
FILINGS AND OTHER ACTIONS
REQUIRED TO PERFECT SECURITY INTERESTS
Uniform Commercial Code Filings
[List each office where a financing statement is to be filed]*
Patent and Trademark Filings
[List all filings]
Actions with respect to Pledged Stock**
Other Actions
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trademarks requires filings under the UCC in the jurisdictions where filings
would be made for general intangibles, as well as filings in the U.S Copyright
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Schedule 4
LOCATION OF JURISDICTION OF ORGANIZATION AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICE
Schedule 5
LOCATION OF INVENTORY AND EQUIPMENT
Schedule 6
COPYRIGHTS AND COPYRIGHT LICENSES
PATENTS AND PATENT LICENSES
TRADEMARKS AND TRADEMARK LICENSES
Schedule 7
COMMERCIAL TORT CLAIMS
Annex 1 to
Guarantee and Collateral Agreement
ASSUMPTION AGREEMENT, dated as of ____________ ___, 200_, made by _____________________, a
_________ corporation (the “Additional Grantor”), in favor of JPMORGAN CHASE BANK,
N.A., as administrative agent (in such capacity, the “Administrative Agent”) for the banks
and other financial institutions (the “Lenders”) parties to the Credit Agreement referred
to below. All capitalized terms not defined herein shall have the meaning ascribed to them in such
Credit Agreement.
WITNESSETH:
WHEREAS, Tenneco Inc. (the “Borrower”), the Lenders, ______ and _________, as
Co-Documentation Agents, Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., as Syndication Agent, and the
Administrative Agent have entered into the Credit Agreement, dated as of September 30, 1999, as
amended, and as amended and restated pursuant to the Second Amended and Restated Credit Agreement
dated as of March ___ 2007 (as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the
“Credit Agreement”);
WHEREAS, in connection with the Credit Agreement, the Borrower and certain of its Affiliates
(other than the Additional Grantor) have entered into the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement, dated
as of November 4, 1999 (as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the
“Guarantee and Collateral Agreement”) in favor of the Administrative Agent for the benefit
of the Lenders;
WHEREAS, the Credit Agreement requires the Additional Grantor to become a party to the
Guarantee and Collateral Agreement; and
WHEREAS, the Additional Grantor has agreed to execute and deliver this Assumption Agreement in
order to become a party to the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement;
NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS AGREED:
1. Guarantee and Collateral Agreement. By executing and delivering this Assumption
Agreement, the Additional Grantor, as provided in Section 8.14 of the Guarantee and Collateral
Agreement, hereby becomes a party to the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement as a Grantor thereunder
with the same force and effect as if originally named therein as a Grantor and, without limiting
the generality of the foregoing, hereby expressly assumes all obligations and liabilities of a
Grantor thereunder. The information set forth in Annex 1-A hereto is hereby added to the
information set forth in the Schedules to the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement. The Additional
Grantor hereby represents and warrants that each of the representations and warranties contained in
Section 4 of the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement is true and correct
on and as the date hereof (after giving effect to this Assumption Agreement) as if made on and
as of such date.
2. Governing Law. THIS ASSUMPTION AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND
CONSTRUED AND INTERPRETED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Assumption Agreement to be duly executed
and delivered as of the date first above written.
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Annex 1-A to
Assumption Agreement
Supplement to Schedule 1
Supplement to Schedule 2
Supplement to Schedule 3
Supplement to Schedule 4
Supplement to Schedule 5
Supplement to Schedule 6
Supplement to Schedule 7
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SECTION 3. GRANT OF SECURITY INTEREST |
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SECTION 4. REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES |
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Title; No Other Liens |
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SCHEDULES
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Schedule 1
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Assumption Agreement |
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GUARANTEE AND COLLATERAL AGREEMENT
(amending and restating the Guarantee and Collateral
Agreement dated as of November 4, 1999, as previously
amended and amended and restated)
made by
TENNECO INC.,
TENNECO AUTOMOTIVE OPERATING COMPANY INC.,
TENNECO INTERNATIONAL HOLDING CORP.,
TENNECO GLOBAL HOLDINGS INC.,
THE PULLMAN COMPANY,
TMC TEXAS INC.
and
CLEVITE INDUSTRIES INC.
in favor of
JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.
as Administrative Agent
Dated as of March ___, 2007
EXHIBIT B
TO THE CREDIT AGREEMENT
FORM OF
COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE
[For the Fiscal Quarter ending _____]
[For the Fiscal Year ending _____]
Pursuant to Section 6.2(b) of the Second Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as
of March 16, 2007 (amending and restating the Credit Agreement dated as of September 30, 1999, as
amended and restated on December 12, 2003, as further amended, the “Credit Agreement”;
terms defined therein being used herein as therein defined unless otherwise defined), among TENNECO
INC., the lenders parties thereto (the “Lenders”), the Syndication Agent and the
Co-Documentation Agents parties thereto and JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., as Administrative Agent, the
undersigned, duly elected, qualified and acting Responsible Officer of the Borrower hereby
certifies that, to the best of such Responsible Officer’s knowledge:
The Borrower and each other Loan Party has, during the period or periods referred to above,
observed or performed all of its covenants and other agreements, and satisfied every condition,
contained in the Credit Agreement and the other Loan Documents to which it is a party to be
observed, performed or satisfied by it on or before the date hereof, and as of the date hereof such
Responsible Officer has obtained no knowledge of any Default or Event of Default except as follows:
________________________.
The financial statements referred to in Section 6.1 of the Credit Agreement which have been
delivered prior to or which are delivered concurrently with the delivery of this Compliance
Certificate fairly present in all material respects the consolidated financial position of the
Borrower and its consolidated Subsidiaries as at the date of such financial statements, and the
consolidated results of their operations and their consolidated cash flows for the fiscal quarter
then ended (subject to normal year-end audit adjustments in the case of quarterly financial
statements). Such financial statements have been prepared in accordance with GAAP applied
consistently throughout the period involved and with prior periods (except as approved by a
Responsible Officer and disclosed therein).
The covenants as listed and calculated below are based on the financial statements referred to in
Section 6.1 of the Credit Agreement which are delivered concurrently with the delivery of this
Compliance Certificate.
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(to the extent not included in Consolidated Total
Debt) the Domestic Receivables Program Amount as of
such day less (y) the aggregate amount of
unrestricted cash and cash equivalents of the
Borrower and its Subsidiaries in excess of
$50,000,000 (such excess amount not to exceed
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(a) Aggregate amount of Guarantee Obligations
incurred in the ordinary course of business by the
Borrower and its Subsidiaries of obligations of any
Subsidiary not otherwise permitted under
the Credit Agreement in an aggregate amount not to
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(c) Aggregate amount of Indebtedness of the
Borrower and its Subsidiaries, including Capital
Lease Obligations, permitted by Section 7.2(e) of the
Credit Agreement, in an amount not to exceed
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(d) Aggregate amount of Indebtedness of the
Borrower in respect of the Senior Subordinated Notes
permitted by Section 7.2(f) of the Credit Agreement,
in an amount not to exceed $500,000,000 |
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(e) Aggregate amount of Indebtedness of Foreign
Subsidiaries under lines of credit in an amount not
to exceed the local currency equivalent of (i)
$100,000,000 if the Consolidated Net Leverage Ratio
(calculated after giving effect to the incurrence of
such Indebtedness) is equal to or greater than 3.0 to
1.0 as of the last day of the most recently ended
fiscal quarter, or (ii) $150,000,000 at any time if
the Consolidated Net Leverage Ratio (calculated after
giving effect to the incurrence of such Indebtedness)
is less than 3.0 to 1.0 as of the last day of the
most recently ended fiscal quarter |
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(f) Aggregate amount of additional Indebtedness
of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries in an
aggregate principal amount not to exceed $100,000,000 |
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(g) Aggregate amount of Indebtedness of the
Borrower in respect to the second lien notes in an
aggregate principal amount not to exceed $475,000.00 |
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(h) Aggregate amount of additional unsecured
Indebtedness of Foreign Subsidiaries in an aggregate
principal amount not to exceed the local currency
equivalent of €225,000,000 |
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(a) Dispositions pursuant to Section 7.5(h) of the
Credit Agreement so long as the fair market value of
such disposed property does not exceed $_______(i.e.,
25% of Consolidated Total Assets of the Borrower on
the Closing Date ($__________) plus the proceeds of
any Reinvestment Deferred Amount reinvested in the
business of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries after
the Closing Date ($__________) ) |
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(a) Restricted Payments made pursuant to Section
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aggregate amount of payments does not exceed
$1,000,000 |
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(b) Restricted Payments made pursuant to Section
7.6(c) of the Credit Agreement so long as the
aggregate amount of payments does not exceed
$30,000,000 as long as, after giving effect to each
such Restricted Payment, the pro forma Consolidated
Leverage Ratio is less than 3.25 to 1.0; and provided
if, after giving effect to a Restricted Payment, the
pro forma Consolidated Leverage Ratio would be less
than 2.5 to 1.0, then the Borrower may make
Restricted Payments after the Closing Date in an
aggregate amount not to exceed the sum of
$100,000,000 plus 50% of Consolidated Net Income
accruing from the Closing Date |
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(a) Aggregate amount of loans and advances to
employees of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries
as described in Section 7.8(d) of the Credit
Agreement (not to exceed $10,000,000 at any one time
outstanding) |
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(b) Aggregate amount of investments in Joint
Ventures as described in Section 7.8(g) of the Credit
Agreement (not to exceed $125,000,000 during any
fiscal year) |
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(c) Aggregate amount of other acquisitions so
long as the aggregate consideration does not exceed
the sum of (i) $250,000,000, (ii) the Net Cash
Proceeds of Qualified Capital Stock of the Borrower
issued after February 19, 2009 and (iii) the portion
of annual Excess Cash Flow (beginning with Excess
Cash Flow for fiscal year 2010) not required to be
applied to the payment of the Facilities and not used
for other purposes |
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(d) Aggregate amount of other Investments not
otherwise permitted by Section 7.8 of the Credit
Agreement so long as the aggregate amount expended in
connection therewith does not exceed $100,000,000
(valued at cost) |
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereto set my name in my capacity as an officer of the
Borrower.
Dated:
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Schedule 1 to
Compliance Certificate
Calculations
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Consolidated Total Debt: for the Borrower and its
Subsidiaries as of any date, without duplication, shall be: |
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(a) all indebtedness for borrowed money,
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(b) all obligations for the deferred purchase price of property or services (other
than any such obligations incurred in the ordinary course of business maturing
less than one year from the creation thereof),
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(c) all obligations evidenced by notes, bonds, debentures or other similar
instruments (other than an operating lease, synthetic lease or similar
arrangement),
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(d) all unpaid reimbursement obligations in respect of drawings under letters of
credit,
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(e) all obligations of the kind referred to in clauses (a) through (i) above
secured by (or for which the holder of such obligation has an existing right,
contingent or otherwise, to be secured by) any Lien on property (including accounts
and contract rights) owned by any such Person, whether or not such Person has
assumed or become liable for the payment of such obligation.
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CONSOLIDATED TOTAL DEBT
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Consolidated EBITDA: for any period
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plus the sum of (without duplication and to the extent reflected as a charge
in the statement of Consolidated Net Income for such period) |
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(a) total income tax expense,
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and debt issuance costs and commissions, discounts and other fees and charges
associated with Indebtedness,
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(f) all premiums and interest rate hedge termination costs in
connection with any purchase or redemption of the Senior Subordinated Notes, the Senior
Unsecured Notes and/or the Second Lien Notes, and
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(c) other noncash income, all as determined on a consolidated basis in
accordance with GAAP.
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CONSOLIDATED EBITDA
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(a) total interest expense determined in accordance with GAAP (excluding (i) all
premiums and interest rate hedge termination costs in connection with any purchase or
redemption of the Senior Subordinated Notes, the Senior Unsecured Notes and/or Second
Lien Notes, (ii) upfront fees paid in connection with the Fifth Amendment, and (iii)
any writeoff of amortized debt issuance costs upon any prepayment of the Senior
Subordinated Notes, the Second Lien Notes or the Senior Unsecured Notes), net of
interest income.
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EXHIBIT C
TO THE CREDIT AGREEMENT
FORM OF
CLOSING CERTIFICATE
I, the undersigned, [President/Vice President/Chief Financial Officer] of [NAME OF LOAN
PARTY], a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of (the
“Company”), do hereby certify on behalf of the Company that:
1. This Certificate is furnished pursuant to the Second Amended and Restated Credit
Agreement, dated as of March 16, 2007, among Tenneco Inc., the Lenders parties thereto, the
Co-Documentation Agents and Syndication Agent party thereto and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as
Administrative Agent (amending and restating the Credit Agreement dated as of September 30, 1999,
as amended and restated on December 12, 2003, as further amended) (such Credit Agreement, as in
effect on the date of this Certificate, being herein called the “Credit Agreement”). Unless
otherwise defined herein, capitalized terms used in this Certificate shall have the meanings set
forth in the Credit Agreement.
2. The following named individuals are elected or appointed officers of the Company,
and each holds the office of the Company set forth opposite his or her name and has held such
office since , 20___1. The signature written opposite the name and
title of each such officer is his or her genuine signature.
3. Attached hereto as Exhibit A is a certified copy of the Certificate of
Incorporation of the Company, as filed in the Office of the Secretary of State of the State of
on , 20___, together with all amendments thereto adopted through the date
hereof.
4. Attached hereto as Exhibit B is a true and correct copy of the By-Laws of the
Company which were duly adopted, are in full force and effect on the date hereof, and have been in
effect since , 20__.
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officer who will sign the Credit Agreement and any Note, including the officer
who will sign the certification at the end of this Certificate or related
documentation. |
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5. Attached hereto as Exhibit C is a true and correct copy of resolutions which were
duly adopted on , 20___ [by unanimous written consent of the Board of Directors of the
Company] [by a meeting of the Board of Directors of the Company at which a quorum was present and
acting throughout], and said resolutions have not been rescinded, amended or modified. Except as
attached hereto as Exhibit C, no resolutions have been adopted by the Board of Directors of the
Company which deal with the execution, delivery or performance of the Loan Documents.
6. On the date hereof, all of the conditions set forth in Section 5.1 of the Credit
Agreement have been satisfied or waived in accordance with the Credit Agreement.
7. On the date hereof, the representations and warranties of the Company set forth
in the Credit Agreement are true and correct with the same effect as though such representations
and warranties had been made on and as of the date hereof.
8. On the date hereof, no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing
or would result from any Borrowing to occur on the date hereof or the application of the proceeds
thereof, as applicable.
9. There is no proceeding for the dissolution or liquidation of the Company or
threatening its existence.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this ___ day of ___, 2007.
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I, the undersigned, [Secretary/Assistant Secretary] of the [LOAN PARTY], do hereby certify
that:
1. [Name of Person making above certifications] is the duly elected and qualified
[President/Vice President/Chief Financial Officer] of the [LOAN PARTY] and the signature above is
his genuine signature.
2. The certifications made by [name of Person making above certifications] in Items
2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 above are true and correct.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this ___ day of ___, 2007.
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EXHIBIT D
TO THE CREDIT AGREEMENT
Reference made to Exhibit D to the Existing Credit Agreement
EXHIBIT E
TO THE CREDIT AGREEMENT
FORM OF
ASSIGNMENT AND ACCEPTANCE
Reference is made to the Second Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of March 16,
2007, amending and restating the Credit Agreement dated as of September 30, 1999, as amended and
restated on December 12, 2003, as further amended (as further amended, modified and supplemented
from time to time, the “Credit Agreement”), among Tenneco Inc. (the “Borrower”),
the Lenders party thereto , the Documentation Agent and Syndication Agent named therein and
JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as administrative agent (in such capacity, the “Administrative
Agent”). Unless otherwise defined herein, terms defined in the Credit Agreement and used
herein shall have the meanings given to them in the Credit Agreement.
The Assignor identified on Schedule 1 hereto (the “Assignor”) and the Assignee
identified on Schedule 1 hereto (the “Assignee”) agree as follows:
1. The Assignor hereby irrevocably sells and assigns to the Assignee without recourse to the
Assignor, and the Assignee hereby irrevocably purchases and assumes from the Assignor without
recourse to the Assignor, as of the Effective Date (as defined below), the interest described in
Schedule 1 hereto (the “Assigned Interest”) in and to the Assignor’s rights and obligations
under the Credit Agreement with respect to those credit facilities contained in the Credit
Agreement as are set forth on Schedule 1 hereto (individually, an “Assigned Facility”;
collectively, the “Assigned Facilities”), in a principal amount for each Assigned Facility
as set forth on Schedule 1 hereto.
2. The Assignor (a) makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect
to any statements, warranties or representations made in or in connection with the Credit Agreement
or with respect to the execution, legality, validity, enforceability, genuineness, sufficiency or
value of the Credit Agreement, any other Loan Document or any other instrument or document
furnished pursuant thereto, other than that the Assignor has not created any adverse claim upon the
interest being assigned by it hereunder and that such interest is free and clear of any such
adverse claim and (b) makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with
respect to the financial condition of the Borrower, any of its Affiliates or any other obligor or
the performance or observance by the Borrower, any of its Affiliates or any other obligor of any of
their respective obligations under the Credit Agreement or any other Loan Document or any other
instrument or document furnished pursuant hereto or thereto.
3. The Assignee (a) represents and warrants that it is legally authorized to enter into this
Assignment and Acceptance; (b) confirms that it has received a copy of the Credit Agreement,
together with copies of the financial statements delivered pursuant to Section 4.1 thereof and
such other documents and information as it has deemed appropriate to make its own credit analysis
and decision to enter into this Assignment and Acceptance; (c) agrees that it will, independently
and without reliance upon the Assignor, the Administrative Agent or any Lender and based on such
documents and information as it shall deem appropriate at the time, continue
to make its own credit
decisions in taking or not taking action under the Credit Agreement, the other Loan Documents or
any other instrument or document furnished pursuant hereto or thereto; (d) appoints and authorizes
the Administrative Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers and
discretion under the Credit Agreement, the other Loan Documents or any other instrument or document
furnished pursuant hereto or thereto as are delegated to the Administrative Agent by the terms
thereof, together with such powers as are incidental thereto; and (e) agrees that it will be bound
by the provisions of the Credit Agreement and will perform in accordance with its terms all the
obligations which by the terms of the Credit Agreement are required to be performed by it as a
Lender including, if it is organized under the laws of a jurisdiction outside the United States,
its obligation pursuant to Section 2.21(d) of the Credit Agreement.
4. The effective date of this Assignment and Acceptance shall be the Effective Date of Assignment
described in Schedule 1 hereto (the “Effective Date”). Following the execution of this
Assignment and Acceptance, it will be delivered to the Administrative Agent for acceptance by it
and recording by the Administrative Agent pursuant to the Credit Agreement, effective as of the
Effective Date (which shall not, unless otherwise agreed to by the Administrative Agent, be earlier
than five Business Days after the date of such acceptance and recording by the Administrative
Agent).
5. Upon such acceptance and recording, from and after the Effective Date, the Administrative Agent
shall make all payments in respect of the Assigned Interest (including payments of principal,
interest, fees and other amounts) to the Assignor for amounts which have accrued to the Effective
Date and to the Assignee for amounts which have accrued subsequent to the Effective Date. The
Assignor and the Assignee shall make all appropriate adjustments in payments by the Administrative
Agent for periods prior to the Effective Date or with respect to the making of this assignment
directly between themselves.
6. From and after the Effective Date, (a) the Assignee shall be a party to the Credit Agreement
and, to the extent provided in this Assignment and Acceptance, have the rights and obligations of a
Lender thereunder and under the other Loan Documents and shall be bound by the provisions thereof
and (b) the Assignor shall, to the extent provided in this Assignment and Acceptance, relinquish
its rights and be released from its obligations under the Credit Agreement.
7. This Assignment and Acceptance shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of
the State of New York.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Assignment and Acceptance to be
executed as of the date first above written by their respective duly authorized officers on
Schedule 1 hereto.
Schedule 1
to Assignment and Acceptance with respect to the Second
Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of March 16, 2007,
amending and restating the Credit Agreement dated as of September 30,
1999, as amended and restated on December 12, 2003, as further amended,
(as further amended, modified and supplemented from time to time, the “Credit
Agreement”), among Tenneco Inc. (the “Borrower”), the Lenders
party thereto , the Documentation Agent and Syndication Agent named
therein and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Administrative Agent
Name of Assignor: __________________
Name of Assignee: __________________
Effective Date of Assignment: __________________
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EXHIBIT F
TO THE CREDIT AGREEMENT
INTERCREDITOR AGREEMENT
INTERCREDITOR AGREEMENT, dated as of June 19, 2003, among JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, as Credit
Agent, WACHOVIA BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Trustee and as Collateral Agent, and TENNECO
AUTOMOTIVE, INC.
WITNESSETH
WHEREAS, the Company (such term and each other capitalized term used herein having the
meanings set forth in Section 1 below), certain lenders (including lenders acting as syndication
agent and co-documentation agents), and JPMorgan Chase Bank, as administrative agent and collateral
agent, are parties to the Credit Agreement dated as of September 30, 1999, as amended to the date
hereof (as further amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time in a manner
consistent with the definition of “Credit Agreement” below, the “Existing Credit Agreement”);
WHEREAS, the Obligations of the Company under the Credit Agreement are secured (together with
certain other obligations) by various assets of the Company and certain Subsidiaries thereof;
WHEREAS, the Company, certain Subsidiaries of the Company and the Trustee have entered into
the Indenture dated as of June 19, 2003 (as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time
to time, the “Indenture”), pursuant to which the Company intends to issue the Notes;
WHEREAS, the Company and certain lenders under the Existing Credit Agreement have entered into
the Fourth Amendment dated as of May 29, 2003 (the “Fourth Amendment”), to the Existing Credit
Agreement that, among other things, permits, subject to certain terms and conditions, (a) the
issuance of the Notes by the Company and (b) a second priority Lien on the Common Collateral to
secure the Second Priority Claims; and
WHEREAS, it is a condition precedent to the effectiveness of the Fourth Amendment that the
parties hereto enter into this Agreement;
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing, the mutual covenants and obligations herein
set forth and for other good and valuable consideration, the sufficiency and receipt of which are
hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto, intending to be legally bound, hereby agree as follows:
SECTION 1. (a) Definitions. As used in this Agreement, the following terms have the
meanings specified below:
“Agreement” means this Agreement, as amended, renewed, extended, supplemented
or otherwise modified from time to time in accordance with the terms hereof.
“Bankruptcy Law” means Title 11 of the United States Code and any similar
Federal, state or foreign law for the relief of debtors.
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“Business Day” means any day other than a Saturday, a Sunday or a day that is a
legal holiday under the laws of the State of New York or on which banking institutions in
the State of New York are required or authorized by law or other governmental action to
close.
“Cash Management Obligations “ means, with respect to any Person, all
obligations of such Person in respect of overdrafts and related liabilities owed to any
other Person that arise from treasury, depositary or cash management services, including in
connection with any automated clearing house transfers of funds, or any similar
transactions.
“Common Collateral” means all of the assets of any Grantor, whether real,
personal or mixed, constituting both First Priority Collateral and Second Priority
Collateral.
“Company” means Tenneco Automotive Inc.
“Comparable Second Priority Collateral Document” means, in relation to any
Common Collateral subject to any Lien created under any First Priority Collateral Document,
that Second Priority Collateral Document which creates a Lien on the same Common Collateral,
granted by the same Grantor.
“Credit Agent” means (i) JPMorgan Chase Bank in its capacity as collateral
agent under the Existing Credit Agreement and the Loan Documents (as defined therein) and
also includes its successors thereunder as collateral agent for the First Priority Lenders
(or if there is more than one agent, a majority of them) under the First Priority Documents
exercising substantially the same rights and powers, or if there is no acting Credit Agent
under the Existing Credit Agreement, the Required Lenders or, if designated by the Credit
Agent under the Existing Credit Agreement, the lead agent under any other First-Lien Credit
Facility; and (ii) if the Existing Credit Agreement is no longer the Senior Credit
Agreement, the financial institution then acting as lead agent or collateral agent (in its
capacity as such) under the Senior Credit Agreement and the related loan documents and also
includes its successors thereunder as lead agent or collateral agent for the First Priority
Lenders thereunder (or if there is more than one agent, a majority of them) under such First
Priority Documents exercising substantially the same rights and powers, or if there is no
acting lead agent or collateral agent under the Senior Credit Agreement, First Priority
Lenders thereunder holding more than 50% of the aggregate outstanding term Indebtedness and
revolving credit commitments thereunder.
“Credit Agreement” means the Existing Credit Agreement, together with any
documents evidencing or governing any Obligations relating thereto (including, without
limitation, any guarantee agreements and security documents), in each case as such
agreements may be amended (including any amendment and restatement thereof), supplemented or
otherwise modified from time to time, including any agreement extending the maturity of,
refinancing, replacing or otherwise restructuring (including increasing the amount of
available borrowings thereunder (provided that such increase in borrowings is permitted by
Section 4.03 of the Indenture) or adding Subsidiaries as
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additional borrowers or guarantors thereunder) all or any portion of the Indebtedness
under such agreement or any successor or replacement agreement and whether by the same or
any other agent, lender or group of lenders. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Notes and
the Indenture shall not constitute a Credit Agreement.
“Credit Facilities” means one or more debt facilities (including the Credit
Agreement) or commercial paper facilities providing for revolving credit loans, term loans,
receivables financing (including through the sale of receivables to lenders or to special
purpose entities formed to borrow from lenders against such receivables) or letters of
credit, or any debt securities or other form of debt financing (including convertible or
exchangeable debt instruments), in each case, as amended, supplemented, modified, extended,
renewed, restated or refunded in whole or in part from time to time.
“Designated Second Priority Agent” means at any time the Trustee or such other
Second Priority Agent as shall be designated by all Second Priority Agents to act as
Designated Second Priority Agent, as such other Second Priority Agent shall be identified in
a certificate executed by all Second Priority Agents and delivered to the Administrative
Agent.
“Discharge of First Priority Claims” means, except to the extent otherwise
provided in Section 5.6, payment in full in cash of (a) the principal of and interest and
premium, if any, on all Indebtedness outstanding under the First-Lien Credit Facilities or,
with respect to letters of credit outstanding thereunder, delivery of cash collateral or
backstop letters of credit in respect thereof in compliance with such First-Lien Credit
Facilities, as applicable, in each case after or concurrently with termination of all
commitments to extend credit thereunder and (b) any other First Priority Claims that are due
and payable or otherwise accrued and owing at or prior to the time such principal and
interest are paid.
“Existing Credit Agreement” has the meaning set forth in the recitals hereto.
“First-Lien Credit Facilities” means (a) the Credit Facilities provided
pursuant to the Credit Agreement and (b) any other Credit Facility, that, in the case of
both clauses (a) and (b), is secured by a Lien permitted by clause (B) of Section 4.15 of
the Indenture.
“First Priority Cash Management Obligations” means any Cash Management
Obligations secured by any Common Collateral under the same First Priority Collateral
Documents that secure Obligations under the Senior Credit Agreement.
“First Priority Claims” means (a) all Obligations under the Credit Agreement,
(b) all Obligations under one or more First-Lien Credit Facilities (other than the Credit
Facilities provided pursuant to the Credit Agreement), the Indebtedness under each of which
is designated by the Company as “First Priority Claims” for purposes of the Indenture,
provided that the First Priority Lenders under each First-Lien Credit Facility then in
effect have consented to such designation pursuant to the provisions of the First Priority
Documents then in effect, (c) all other Obligations of the Company or any other Grantor
under the First Priority Documents, including all First Priority Hedging
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Obligations and First Priority Cash Management Obligations and (d) all Future Other
First-Lien Obligations. Except as provided in the last sentence of this definition, any
Obligations described in the preceding sentence shall constitute First Priority Claims only
to the extent such Obligations are permitted pursuant to the Indenture. First Priority
Claims shall include all interest accrued or accruing (or which would, absent the
commencement of an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding, accrue) after the commencement of
an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding in accordance with and at the rate specified in the
relevant First Priority Document whether or not the claim for such interest is allowed as a
claim in such Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding. To the extent any payment with respect
to the First Priority Claims (whether by or on behalf of any Grantor, as proceeds of
security, enforcement of any right of set-off or otherwise) is declared to be fraudulent or
preferential in any respect, set aside or required to be paid to a debtor in possession,
trustee, receiver or similar Person, then the obligation or part thereof originally intended
to be satisfied shall be deemed to be reinstated and outstanding as if such payment had not
occurred. Notwithstanding the foregoing the Notes and related Obligations will not
constitute First Priority Claims and Collateral therefor will not constitute First Priority
Collateral even if any proceeds of the Notes are used to repay Obligations under the Credit
Agreement. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this definition, any
Obligation under a First Priority Document (including any Cash Management Obligations or
Hedging Obligations) shall constitute a “First Priority Claim” if the Credit Agent or the
relevant First Priority Lender or First Priority Lenders under such First Priority Document
shall have received a written representation from the Company in or in connection with such
First Priority Document that such Obligation constitutes a “First Priority Claim” under and
as defined in the Indenture (whether or not such Obligation is at any time determined not to
have been permitted to be incurred under the Indenture).
“First Priority Collateral” means all of the assets of any Grantor, whether
real, personal or mixed, with respect to which a Lien is granted or held as security for any
First Priority Claim.
“First Priority Collateral Documents” means any agreement, document or
instrument pursuant to which a Lien is granted securing any First Priority Claims or under
which rights or remedies with respect to such Liens are governed.
“First Priority Documents” means the Credit Agreement, the First Priority
Collateral Documents, and each of the other agreements, documents and instruments (including
each agreement, document or instrument providing for or evidencing a First Priority Hedging
Obligation or First Priority Cash Management Obligation) providing for or evidencing any
Obligation under the Credit Agreement or any other First-Lien Credit Facility or any Future
Other First-Lien Obligations, and any other related document or instrument executed or
delivered pursuant to any First Priority Document at any time or otherwise evidencing any
First Priority Claims.
“First Priority Hedging Obligations” means any Hedging Obligations secured by
any Common Collateral under the same First Priority Collateral Documents that secure
Obligations under the Senior Credit Agreement.
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“First Priority Lenders” means the Persons holding First Priority Claims,
including the Credit Agent.
“First Priority Liens”means all Liens that secure First Priority Claims
“Future Other First-Lien Obligations” means all Obligations of the Company or
any other Grantor in respect of Cash Management Obligations or Hedging Obligations that are
designated by the Company as “First Priority Claims” for purposes of the Indenture (other
than any First Priority Cash Management Obligations and First Priority Hedging Obligations);
provided that the required lenders (however denominated) under any Senior Credit Agreement
then in effect have consented to such designation.
“Grantors” means each of the Company and the Subsidiaries that has executed and
delivered a First Priority Collateral Document or a Second Priority Collateral Document.
“Hedging Obligations” means, with respect to any Person, the obligations of
such Person in respect of (a) interest rate or currency swap agreements, interest rate or
currency cap agreements, interest rate or currency collar agreements, or (b) other
agreements or arrangements designed to protect such Person against fluctuations in interest
rates and/or currency exchange rates.
“Indebtedness” means and includes all Obligations that constitute
“Indebtedness” within the meaning of the Indenture or the Senior Credit Agreement.
“Indenture” has the meaning set forth in the recitals hereto.
“Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding” means (a) any voluntary or involuntary
case or proceeding under any Bankruptcy Law with respect to any Grantor, (b) any other
voluntary or involuntary insolvency, reorganization or bankruptcy case or proceeding, or any
receivership, liquidation, reorganization or other similar case or proceeding with respect
to any Grantor or with respect to any of their respective assets, (c) any liquidation,
dissolution, reorganization or winding up of any Grantor whether voluntary or involuntary
and whether or not involving insolvency or bankruptcy or (d) any assignment for the benefit
of creditors or any other marshalling of assets and liabilities of any Grantor.
“Lien” means, with respect to any asset, (a) any mortgage, deed of trust, lien,
pledge, hypothecation, encumbrance, charge or security interest in, on or of such asset, (b)
the interest of a vendor or a lessor under any conditional sale agreement, capital lease or
title retention agreement (or any financing lease having substantially the same economic
effect as any of the foregoing) relating to such asset and (c) in the case of securities,
any purchase option, call or similar right of a third party with respect to such securities.
“Noteholders” means the Persons holding Notes from time to time.
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“Notes” means (a) the 10 1/4% Senior Secured Notes due 2013 to be issued by the
Company, (b) the exchange notes issued in exchange therefor as contemplated by the
Registration Rights Agreement dated as of June 19, 2003, among the Company and the Initial
Purchasers (as defined therein) and (c) any additional notes issued under the Indenture by
the Company, to the extent permitted by the Indenture and the Senior Credit Agreement.
“Obligations” means any and all obligations with respect to the payment of (a)
any principal of or interest (including interest accruing on or after the commencement of
any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding, whether or not a claim for post-filing interest is
allowed in such proceeding) or premium on any Indebtedness, including any reimbursement
obligation in respect of any letter of credit, (b) any fees, indemnification obligations,
damages, expense reimbursement obligations or other liabilities payable under the
documentation governing any Indebtedness, (c) any obligation to post cash collateral in
respect of letters of credit and any other obligations or (d) any Cash Management
Obligations or Hedging Obligations.
“Other Second-Lien Obligations” has the meaning set forth in the Indenture;
provided that (a) no Obligations with respect to any Indebtedness shall be an “Other
Second-Lien Obligation” unless such Obligation is permitted by the Senior Credit Agreement
and is secured by a Lien permitted by the Senior Credit Agreement and (b) such Obligations
(except for the Notes and related Obligations) are designated by the Company as “Other
Second-Lien Obligations” for purposes of the Indenture.
“Person” means any natural person, corporation, limited liability company,
trust, joint venture, association, company, partnership, entity or other party, including
any government and any political subdivision, agency or instrumentality thereof.
“Pledged Collateral” means (a) the “Pledged Securities” under, and as defined
in, the Second Priority Security Agreement, and (b) any other Common Collateral in the
possession of the Credit Agent (or its agents or bailees), to the extent that possession
thereof is necessary to perfect a Lien thereon under the Uniform Commercial Code.
“Recovery” has the meaning set forth in Section 6.5 hereof.
“Required Lenders” means, with respect to any amendment or modification of the
Senior Credit Agreement, or any termination or waiver of any provision of the Senior Credit
Agreement, or any consent or departure by the Company or any of the Subsidiaries therefrom,
those First Priority Lenders the approval of which is required to approve such amendment or
modification, termination or waiver or consent or departure.
“Second Priority Agent” means each of the Trustee and each other Person which
acts as trustee, lead agent, administrative agent or collateral agent for any Second
Priority Lenders and, if any Second Priority Claims do not have a trustee, lead agent,
administrative agent or collateral agent, the representative appointed by the holders of at
least a majority of such Second Priority Claims.
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“Second Priority Claims” means all Obligations in respect of the Notes or
arising under the Second Priority Documents or any of them. Second Priority Claims shall
include all interest accrued (or which would, absent the commencement of an Insolvency or
Liquidation Proceeding, accrue) after the commencement of an Insolvency or Liquidation
Proceeding in accordance with and at the rate specified in the relevant Second Priority
Document whether or not the claim for such interest is allowed as a claim in such Insolvency
or Liquidation Proceeding. To the extent any payment with respect to the Second Priority
Claims (whether by or on behalf of any Grantor, as proceeds of security, enforcement of any
right of setoff or otherwise) is declared to be fraudulent or preferential in any respect,
set aside or required to be paid to a debtor in possession, trustee, receiver or similar
Person, then the obligation or part thereof originally intended to be satisfied shall be
deemed to be reinstated and outstanding as if such payment had not occurred.
“Second Priority Collateral” means all of the assets of any Grantor, whether
real, personal or mixed, with respect to which a Lien is granted or held as security for any
Second Priority Claim.
“Second Priority Collateral Documents” means the Second Priority Security
Agreement, the Second Priority Mortgages and any other document or instrument pursuant to
which a Lien is granted by any Grantor to secure any Second Priority Claims or under which
rights or remedies with respect to any such Lien are governed.
“Second Priority Documents” means (a) the Indenture, the Notes, the Second
Priority Collateral Documents and each of the other agreements, documents or instruments
evidencing or governing any Other Second-Lien Obligations and (b) any other related
documents or instruments executed and delivered pursuant to any Second Priority Document
described in clause (a) above evidencing or governing any Obligations thereunder.
“Second Priority Lenders” means the Persons holding Second Priority Claims,
including the Noteholders, the Trustee, the other Second Priority Agents, if any, and any
other agent, representative or Second Priority Agent for any of the foregoing.
“Second Priority Mortgages” means a collective reference to each mortgage, deed
of trust, deed to secure debt and any other document or instrument under which any Lien on
real property owned by any Grantor is granted to secure any Second Priority Claims or under
which rights or remedies with respect to any such Liens are governed.
“Second Priority Security Agreement” means the Collateral Agreement, dated as
of June 19, 2003, among the Company, the other Grantors and the Trustee.
“Senior Credit Agreement” means the Existing Credit Agreement; provided that if
at any time a Discharge of First Priority Claims occurs with respect to the Existing Credit
Agreement (without giving effect to Section 5.6), then, to the extent provided in Section
5.6, the term “Senior Credit Agreement” means the First-Lien Credit Facility designated
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by the Company as the “Senior Credit Agreement” in accordance with such Section (it
being understood that only one Senior Credit Agreement may be in effect at any time).
“Subsidiary” means any “Subsidiary” of the Company, as defined in the Indenture
or the Senior Credit Agreement.
“Trustee” means Wachovia Bank, National Association, in its capacity as trustee
under the Indenture and collateral agent under the Second Priority Collateral Documents, and
also includes its successors hereunder as collateral agent or trustee for the Noteholders.
“Uniform Commercial Code” or “UCC” means the Uniform Commercial Code as
from time to time in effect in the State of New York.
(b) Terms Generally. The definitions of terms herein shall apply equally to the
singular and plural forms of the terms defined. Whenever the context may require, any pronoun shall
include the corresponding masculine, feminine and neuter forms. The words “include”, “includes” and
“including” shall be deemed to be followed by the phrase “without limitation”. The word “will”
shall be construed to have the same meaning and effect as the word “shall”. Unless the context
requires otherwise (i) any definition of or reference to any agreement, instrument or other
document herein shall be construed as referring to such agreement, instrument or other document as
from time to time amended, supplemented or otherwise modified, (ii) any reference herein to any
Person shall be construed to include such Person’s successors and assigns, (iii) the words
“herein”, “hereof” and “hereunder”, and words of similar import, shall be construed to refer to
this Agreement in its entirety and not to any particular provision hereof, (iv) all references
herein to Sections shall be construed to refer to Sections of this Agreement and (v) the words
“asset” and “property” shall be construed to have the same meaning and effect and to refer to any
and all tangible and intangible assets and properties, including cash, securities, accounts and
contract rights. When used in reference to a Second Priority Agent, the phrase “applicable Second
Priority Lenders” shall mean the Second Priority Lenders for whom such Second Priority Agent acts
as agent, trustee or representative; the phrase “applicable Second Priority Document” means the
Second Priority Documents under which such Second Priority Agent acts as agent, trustee or
representative; and the phrase “applicable Second Priority Claims” means the Second Priority Claims
of such Second Priority Agent and the Second Priority Lenders for whom it acts as agent, trustee or
representative.
SECTION 2. Lien Priorities
2.1 Subordination. Notwithstanding the date, manner or order of grant, attachment or
perfection of any Liens granted to the Second Priority Agents or the Second Priority Lenders on the
Common Collateral or of any Liens granted to the Credit Agent or the First Priority Lenders on the
Common Collateral and notwithstanding any provision of the UCC or any other applicable law or the
Second Priority Documents or the First Priority Documents or any other circumstance whatsoever,
each Second Priority Agent, on behalf of itself and the applicable Second Priority Lenders, hereby
agrees that: (a) any Lien on the Common Collateral securing any First Priority Claims now or
hereafter held by or on behalf of the Credit Agent or any First Priority Lenders or any agent or
trustee therefor shall be senior in all respects and prior
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to any Lien on the Common Collateral securing any of the Second Priority Claims; and (b) any
Lien on the Common Collateral now or hereafter held by or on behalf of any Second Priority Agent or
any Second Priority Lenders or any agent or trustee therefor regardless of how acquired, whether by
grant, statute, operation of law, subrogation or otherwise, shall be junior and subordinate in all
respects to all Liens on the Common Collateral securing any First Priority Claims. All Liens on the
Common Collateral securing any First Priority Claims shall be and remain senior in all respects and
prior to all Liens on the Common Collateral securing any Second Priority Claims for all purposes,
whether or not such Liens securing any First Priority Claims are subordinated to any Lien securing
any other obligation of the Company, any other Grantor or any other Person.
2.2 Prohibition on Contesting Liens. Each of the Second Priority Agents, for itself and on
behalf of each applicable Second Priority Lender, and the Credit Agent, for itself and on behalf of
each First Priority Lender it represents, agrees that it shall not (and hereby waives any right to)
contest or support any other Person in contesting, in any proceeding (including any Insolvency or
Liquidation Proceeding), the priority, validity or enforceability of a Lien held by or on behalf of
any of the First Priority Lenders in the First Priority Collateral or by or on behalf of any of the
Second Priority Lenders in the Common Collateral, as the case may be; provided that nothing in this
Agreement shall be construed to prevent or impair the rights of the Credit Agent or any First
Priority Lender to enforce this Agreement, including the priority of the Liens securing the First
Priority Claims as provided in Section 2.1.
2.3 No New Liens. So long as the Discharge of First Priority Claims has not occurred, (a)
the parties hereto agree that, after the date hereof, if any Second Priority Agent shall hold any
Lien on any assets of the Company or any other Grantor securing any Second Priority Obligations
that are not also subject to the first-priority Lien of the Credit Agent under the First Priority
Documents, such Second Priority Agent, upon demand by the Credit Agent or the Company, will either
release such Lien or assign it to the Credit Agent as security for the First Priority Claims (and
such Second Priority Agent may retain a subordinated Lien securing Second Priority Claims in
accordance with this Agreement if so assigned), and (b) the Company agrees that it will not, and
will not permit any Subsidiary to, grant or permit to exist any Lien on any assets of the Company
or any of its Subsidiaries to secure any Second Priority Claim unless a perfected prior Lien on the
same assets has been granted to secure the First Priority Claims.
2.4 Effectiveness. No First Lien Lender or Second Lien Lender shall have any rights or
obligations under this Agreement unless it (or its trustee, administrative agent or collateral
agent on its behalf) shall have, at the request of the then Credit Agent under the Senior Credit
Agreement, executed and delivered to such Credit Agent an agreement to be bound by the provisions
of this Agreement in form and at such time reasonably satisfactory to such Credit Agent, and no
Obligations (other than Obligations in respect of the Existing Credit Agreement and related First
Priority Documents and Obligations in respect of the Notes and related Second Priority Documents)
shall be deemed First Priority Claims or Second Priority Claims unless such joinder is executed and
delivered in the form requested by such Credit Agent.
SECTION 3. Enforcement
3.1 Exercise of Remedies
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(a) So long as the Discharge of First Priority Claims has not occurred, whether or not
any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any
other Grantor, (i) the Second Priority Agents and the Second Priority Lenders will not
exercise or seek to exercise any rights or remedies (including set-off) with respect to any
Common Collateral, institute any action or proceeding with respect to such rights or
remedies (including any action of foreclosure), contest, protest or object to any
foreclosure proceeding or action brought by the Credit Agent or any First Priority Lender,
the exercise of any right under any lockbox agreement, control agreement, blocked account
agreement, landlord waiver or bailee’s letter or similar agreement or arrangement to which
any Second Priority Agent or any Second Priority Lender is a party, or any other exercise by
any such Person, of any rights and remedies relating to the Common Collateral under the
First Priority Documents or otherwise, or object to the forbearance by the First Priority
Lenders from bringing or pursuing any foreclosure proceeding or action or any other exercise
of any rights or remedies relating to the Common Collateral and (ii) the Credit Agent and
the First Priority Lenders shall have the exclusive right to enforce rights, exercise
remedies (including set-off and the right to credit bid their debt) and make determinations
regarding the release, disposition, or restrictions with respect to the Common Collateral
without any consultation with or the consent of any Second Priority Agent or any Second
Priority Lender; provided, that (A) in any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding commenced by
or against the Company or any Grantor, a Second Priority Agent may file a claim or statement
of interest with respect to the Second Priority Claims, and (B) a Second Priority Agent may
take any action (not adverse to the prior Liens on the Common Collateral securing the First
Priority Claims, or the rights of the Credit Agent or the First Priority Lenders to exercise
remedies in respect thereof) in order to preserve or protect its Lien on the Common
Collateral. In exercising rights and remedies with respect to the Common Collateral, the
Credit Agent and the First Priority Lenders may enforce the provisions of the First Priority
Documents and exercise remedies thereunder, all in such order and in such manner as they may
determine in the exercise of their sole discretion. Such exercise and enforcement shall
include the rights of an agent appointed by them to sell or otherwise dispose of Common
Collateral upon foreclosure, to incur expenses in connection with such sale or disposition,
and to exercise all the rights and remedies of a secured lender under the Uniform Commercial
Code and under the comparable law of any applicable jurisdiction and of a secured creditor
under Bankruptcy Laws of any applicable jurisdiction.
(b) Each Second Priority Agent, on behalf of itself and the applicable Second Priority
Lenders, agrees that it will not take or receive, directly or indirectly, in cash or other
property or by setoff, counterclaim or in any other manner (whether pursuant to any
enforcement, collection, execution, levy or foreclosure proceeding or otherwise), any Common
Collateral or any proceeds of Common Collateral, in each case in connection with the
exercise of any right or remedy (including set-off) with respect to any Common Collateral
(or in respect of any Common Collateral in the event of the occurrence of an Insolvency or
Liquidation Proceeding with respect to a Grantor), unless and until the Discharge of First
Priority Claims has occurred. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, unless and
until the Discharge of First Priority Claims has occurred, except as expressly provided in
the proviso in clause (ii) of Section 3.1(a)
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above, the sole right of the Second Priority Agents and the Second Priority Lenders
with respect to the Common Collateral is to hold a Lien on the Common Collateral pursuant to
the Second Priority Documents for the period and to the extent granted therein and to
receive a share of the proceeds thereof, if any, after the Discharge of the First Priority
Claims has occurred.
(c) Subject to the proviso in clause (ii) of Section 3.1(a) above and without limiting
the effect of other provisions of this Agreement, (i) each Second Priority Agent, for itself
and on behalf of the applicable Second Priority Lenders, agrees that such Second Priority
Agent and the applicable Second Priority Lenders will not take any action that would hinder
any exercise of remedies undertaken by the Credit Agent under the First Priority Documents,
including any sale, lease, exchange, transfer or other disposition of the Common Collateral,
whether by foreclosure or otherwise, and (ii) each Second Priority Agent, for itself and on
behalf of the applicable Second Priority Lenders, hereby waives any and all rights it or the
applicable Second Priority Lenders may have as a junior lien creditor to object to the
manner in which the Credit Agent or the First Priority Lenders seek to enforce or collect
the First Priority Claims or the Liens granted in any of the First Priority Collateral,
regardless of whether any action or failure to act by or on behalf of the Credit Agent or
First Priority Lenders is adverse to the interest of the Second Priority Lenders.
(d) Each Second Priority Agent, on behalf of itself and the applicable Second Priority
Lenders, hereby acknowledges and agrees that no covenant, agreement or restriction contained
in any Second Priority Document shall be deemed to restrict in any way the rights and
remedies of the Credit Agent or the First Priority Lenders with respect to the Common
Collateral as set forth in this Agreement and the First Priority Documents.
3.2 Cooperation. Subject to the proviso in clause (ii) of Section 3.1(a) above, each Second
Priority Agent, on behalf of itself and the applicable Second Priority Lenders, agrees that, unless
and until the Discharge of First Priority Claims has occurred, it will not commence, or join with
any Person (other than the First Priority Lenders and the Credit Agent upon the request thereof) in
commencing, any enforcement, collection, execution, levy or foreclosure action or proceeding with
respect to any Lien held by it under any of the Second Priority Documents or otherwise.
SECTION 4. Payments
4.1 Application of Proceeds. As long as the Discharge of First Priority Claims has not
occurred, the Common Collateral or proceeds thereof received in connection with the sale or other
disposition of, or collection on, such Common Collateral upon the exercise of remedies (or in
respect of any Common Collateral in the event of the occurrence of an Insolvency or Liquidation
Proceeding with respect to a Grantor), shall be applied by the Credit Agent to the First Priority
Claims in such order as specified in the relevant First Priority Documents (or, if an order is not
specified in the First Priority Documents, in such order determined by the Credit Agent in its sole
discretion) until the Discharge of First Priority Claims has occurred. Upon the Discharge of the
First Priority Claims, the Credit Agent shall deliver to
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the Designated Second Priority Agent (or to the Company if there is no Designated Second
Priority Agent at the time) or as a court of competent jurisdiction may otherwise direct any
proceeds of Common Collateral held by it in the same form as received, with any necessary
endorsements or as a court of competent jurisdiction may otherwise direct to be applied, if
applicable, by the Designated Second Priority Agent to the Second Priority Claims in accordance
with the respective rights of the respective Second Priority Agents therefor.
4.2 Payments Over. Any Common Collateral or proceeds thereof (or amounts in respect thereof)
received by any Second Priority Agent or any Second Priority Lender in connection with the exercise
of any right or remedy (including set-off) relating to the Common Collateral in contravention of
this Agreement shall be segregated and held in trust and forthwith paid over to the Credit Agent
for the benefit of the First Priority Lenders in the same form as received, with any necessary
endorsements or as a court of competent jurisdiction may otherwise direct. The Credit Agent is
hereby authorized to make any such endorsements as agent for any such Second Priority Agent or any
such Second Priority Lender. This authorization is coupled with an interest and is irrevocable.
SECTION 5. Other Agreements
5.1 Releases
(a) If in connection with:
(i) the exercise of the Credit Agent’s remedies in respect of the Common
Collateral provided for in Section 3.1, including any sale, lease, exchange,
transfer or other disposition of any such Common Collateral;
(ii) any sale, lease, exchange, transfer or other disposition of any Common
Collateral permitted under the terms of the Senior Credit Agreement (whether or not
an event of default thereunder, and as defined therein, has occurred and is
continuing) and permitted or not prohibited under Section 4.12 of the Indenture
(Limitation on Asset Sales); or
(iii) any agreement between the Credit Agent and the Company or any other
Grantor which expressly releases the Credit Agent’s Lien on any portion of the
Common Collateral or to release any Grantor from its obligations under its guaranty
of the First Priority Claims; provided that (A) after giving effect to the release,
Obligations secured by first priority Liens on the remaining Common Collateral
remain outstanding (unless such Obligations are deemed paid in full by the Credit
Agent and the Company) and (B) no such release shall be effective against the Second
Priority Lenders under the Indenture and the Notes if an Event of Default has
occurred and is continuing under the Indenture as of the time of such proposed
release and written notice of the occurrence and continuation of such Event of
Default is received by the Credit Agent at least one business day prior to such
release until such time as such Event of Default is cured or waived unless such
release is consented to by the holders of at least a majority in aggregate principal
amount of the Notes at the time outstanding;
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the Credit Agent, for itself or on behalf of any of the First Priority Lenders, releases any of its
Liens on any part of the Common Collateral, the Liens, if any, of each Second Priority Agent, for
itself or for the benefit of the applicable Second Priority Lenders, on such Common Collateral
shall be automatically, unconditionally and simultaneously released and each Second Priority Agent,
for itself or on behalf of any such applicable Second Priority Lender, promptly shall execute and
deliver to the Credit Agent or such Grantor such termination statements, releases and other
documents as the Credit Agent or such Grantor may request to effectively confirm such release. The
Company shall promptly advise (i) each Second Priority Agent and the Credit Agent of the occurrence
of an Event of Default and (ii) each Second Priority Agent of any proposed release of Common
Collateral cognizable under Section 5.1(a)(iii).
(b) Each Second Priority Agent, for itself and on behalf of the applicable Second Priority
Lenders, hereby irrevocably constitutes and appoints the Credit Agent and any officer or agent of
the Credit Agent, with full power of substitution, as its true and lawful attorney-in-fact with
full irrevocable power and authority in the place and stead of such Second Priority Agent or such
holder or in the Credit Agent’s own name, from time to time in the Credit Agent’s discretion, for
the purpose of carrying out the terms of this Section 5.1, to take any and all appropriate action
and to execute any and all documents and instruments which may be necessary or desirable to
accomplish the purposes of this Section 5.1, including any termination statements, endorsements or
other instruments of transfer or release.
5.2 Insurance. Unless and until the Discharge of First Priority Claims has occurred, the
Credit Agent and the First Priority Lenders shall have the sole and exclusive right under the First
Priority Documents, to the extent such a right is granted in the First Priority Documents, to
adjust settlement for any insurance policy covering the Common Collateral in the event of any loss
thereunder and to approve any award granted in any condemnation or similar proceeding affecting the
Common Collateral. Unless and until the Discharge of First Priority Claims has occurred, all
proceeds of any such policy and any such award if in respect to the Common Collateral shall be paid
to the Credit Agent for the benefit of the First Priority Lenders to the extent required under the
First Priority Documents and thereafter to the Designated Second Priority Agent (or to the Company
is there is no Designated Second Priority Agent at the time) for the benefit of the Second Priority
Lenders to the extent required under the applicable Second Priority Documents and then to the owner
of the subject property or as a court of competent jurisdiction may otherwise direct. If any
Second Priority Agent or any Second Priority Lender shall, at any time, receive any proceeds of any
such insurance policy or any such award in contravention of this Agreement, it shall pay such
proceeds over to the Credit Agent in accordance with the terms of Section 4.2.
5.3 Amendments to Second Priority Documents
(a) Without the prior written consent of the Credit Agent and the Required Lenders, no
Second Priority Collateral Document may be amended, supplemented or otherwise modified or
entered into to the extent such amendment, supplement or modification, or the terms of any
new Second Priority Collateral Document, would be prohibited by any of the terms of the
First Priority Documents. Each Second Priority Agent agrees that each Second Priority
Collateral Document shall
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include the following language (or language to similar effect approved by the Credit
Agent):
“Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the lien and security interest
granted to the [Insert title of Second Priority Agent] pursuant to this Agreement
and the exercise of any right or remedy by the [Insert title of Second Priority
Agent] hereunder are subject to the provisions of the Intercreditor Agreement, dated
as of June 19, 2003 (as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to
time, the “Intercreditor Agreement”), among Tenneco Automotive Inc., JPMorgan Chase
Bank, as Credit Agent, and Wachovia Bank, National Association, as Trustee. In the
event of any conflict between the terms of the Intercreditor Agreement and this
Agreement, the terms of the Intercreditor Agreement shall govern.”
In addition, each Second Priority Agent agrees that each Second Priority Mortgage covering any
Common Collateral shall contain such other language as the Credit Agent may reasonably request to
reflect the subordination of such Second Priority Mortgage to the First Priority Collateral
Document covering such Common Collateral.
(b) In the event the Credit Agent or the First Priority Lenders enter into any
amendment, waiver or consent in respect of any of the First Priority Collateral Documents
for the purpose of adding to, or deleting from, or waiving or consenting to any departures
from any provisions of, any First Priority Collateral Document or changing in any manner the
rights of the Credit Agent, the First Priority Lenders, the Company or any other Grantor
thereunder, then such amendment, waiver or consent shall apply automatically to any
comparable provision of the Comparable Second Priority Collateral Document without the
consent of any Second Priority Agent or any Second Priority Lenders and without any action
by any Second Priority Agent, the Company or any other Grantor, provided, that (A) no such
amendment, waiver or consent shall have the effect of removing assets subject to the Lien of
the Second Priority Collateral Documents, except to the extent that a release of such Lien
is permitted by Section 5.1, (B) notice of such amendment, waiver or consent shall have been
given to the applicable Second Priority Agent and (C) no such amendment, waiver, or consent
shall be effective to amend or waive a Comparable Second Priority Collateral Document if it
shall materially adversely affect the rights of the Second Priority Lenders unless such
change, waiver or modification materially adversely affects the rights of the First Priority
Lenders in a like or similar manner (it being understood that amendments, waivers and
consents which have the effect of adding collateral, adding remedies or enhancing the
ability of the First Priority Lenders to exercise remedies or perfect security interests in
collateral shall be deemed not to be materially adverse to the Second Priority).
5.4 Rights As Unsecured Creditors. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this
Agreement, each of the Second Priority Agents and the Second Priority Lenders may exercise rights
and remedies as an unsecured creditor against the Company or any Subsidiary that has guaranteed the
Second Priority Obligations in accordance with the terms of the Second Priority Documents and
applicable law. Nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit the receipt by any Second Priority Agent
or any Second Priority Lenders of the required payments of interest,
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premium, if any, and principal on the Second Priority Claims and related fees and expenses so
long as such receipt is not the direct or indirect result of the exercise by any Second Priority
Agent or any Second Priority Lender of rights or remedies as a secured creditor or enforcement in
contravention of this Agreement of any Lien held by any of them (or received or paid in respect of
any Common Collateral in the event of the occurrence of an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding
with respect to a Grantor). In the event any Second Priority Agent or any Second Priority Lender
becomes a judgment lien creditor in respect of Common Collateral as a result of its enforcement of
its rights as an unsecured creditor, such judgment lien shall be subordinated to the Liens securing
First Priority Claims on the same basis as the other Liens securing the Second Priority Claims are
so subordinated to such First Priority Claims under this Agreement. Nothing in this Agreement
impairs or otherwise adversely affects any rights or remedies the Credit Agent or the First
Priority Lenders may have with respect to the First Priority Collateral.
5.5 Bailee for Perfection
(a) The Credit Agent agrees to hold the Pledged Collateral that is part of the Common
Collateral in its possession or control (or in the possession or control of its agents or
bailees) as bailee for the applicable Second Priority Agents and any assignee solely for the
purpose of perfecting the security interest granted in such Pledged Collateral pursuant to
the Second Priority Security Documents, subject to the terms and conditions of this Section
5.5.
(b) Until the Discharge of First Priority Claims has occurred, the Credit Agent shall
be entitled to deal with the Pledged Collateral in accordance with the terms of the First
Priority Documents as if the Liens of the Second Priority Agents under the Second Priority
Collateral Documents did not exist. The rights of the Second Priority Agents shall at all
times be subject to the terms of this Agreement and to the Credit Agent’s rights under the
First Priority Documents.
(c) The Credit Agent shall have no obligation whatsoever to the Second Priority Agents
or any Second Priority Lender to assure that the Pledged Collateral is genuine or owned by
any of the Grantors or to preserve rights or benefits of any Person except as expressly set
forth in this Section 5.5. The duties or responsibilities of the Credit Agent under this
Section 5.5 shall be limited solely to holding the Pledged Collateral as bailee for the
applicable Second Priority Agents for purposes of perfecting the Lien held by such Second
Priority Agents.
(d) The Credit Agent shall not have by reason of the Second Priority Collateral
Documents or this Agreement or any other document a fiduciary relationship in respect of any
Second Priority Agent or any Second Priority Lender.
(e) Upon the Discharge of First Priority Claims, the Credit Agent shall deliver to the
Designated Second Priority Agent (or to the Company if there is no Designated Second
Priority Agent at the time) the remaining Pledged Collateral (if any) together with any
necessary endorsements (or otherwise allow the Designated Second Priority Agent, if
applicable, to obtain control of such Pledged Collateral) or as a court of competent
jurisdiction may otherwise direct.
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5.6 When Discharge of First Priority Claims Deemed to Not Have Occurred. If at any time
after the Discharge of First Priority Claims has occurred the Company designates any other
First-Lien Credit Facility to be the “Senior Credit Agreement” hereunder, then such Discharge of
First Priority Claims shall automatically be deemed not to have occurred for all purposes of this
Agreement (other than with respect to any actions taken prior to the date of such designation as a
result of the occurrence of such first Discharge of First Priority Claims), and such other
First-Lien Credit Facility shall automatically be treated as the Senior Credit Agreement for all
purposes of this Agreement, including for purposes of the Lien priorities and rights in respect of
Common Collateral set forth herein. Upon receipt of notice of such designation (including the
identity of the new Credit Agent), the Second Priority Agent shall promptly (i) enter into such
documents and agreements (including amendments or supplements to this Agreement) as the Company or
such new Credit Agent shall request in order to provide to the new Credit Agent the rights of the
Credit Agent contemplated hereby and (ii) deliver to the Credit Agent the Pledged Collateral
together with any necessary endorsements (or otherwise allow such Credit Agent to obtain control of
such Pledged Collateral).
5.7 Cooperation. Upon request of the Credit Agent from time to time, each Second
Priority Agent shall promptly disclose to the Collateral Agent all information in its possession
reasonably requested by the Credit Agent with respect to the Second Priority Collateral, including
the identity of the Grantors and guarantors of any Second Priority Obligations and the description,
location and timing of perfection of Liens purported to be created on the Second Priority
Collateral to secure Second Priority Claims and shall promptly deliver to the Credit Agent copies
of the Second Priority Documents and other documents relating to the Second Priority Collateral,
such as Uniform Commercial Code Financing Statements and record copies of Second Priority
Collateral Documents.
SECTION 6. Insolvency or Liquidation Proceedings
6.1 Financing Issues. If the Company or any other Grantor shall be subject to any Insolvency
or Liquidation Proceeding and the Credit Agent shall desire to permit the use of cash collateral or
to permit the Company or any other Grantor to obtain financing under Section 363 or Section 364 of
Title 11 of the United States Code or any similar Bankruptcy Law (“DIP Financing”), then each
Second Priority Agent, on behalf of itself and the applicable Second Priority Lenders, agrees that
it will raise no objection to such use of cash collateral or DIP Financing and will not request
adequate protection or any other relief in connection therewith (except to the extent permitted by
Section 6.3) and, to the extent the Liens securing the First Priority Claims are subordinated or
pari passu with such DIP Financing, will subordinate its Liens in the Common Collateral to such DIP
Financing (and all Obligations relating thereto) on the same basis as the Liens securing the Second
Priority Claims are subordinated to First Priority Claims under this Agreement.
6.2 Relief from the Automatic Stay. Until the Discharge of First Priority Claims has
occurred, each Second Priority Agent, on behalf of itself and the applicable Second Priority
Lenders, agrees that none of them shall seek relief from the automatic stay or any other stay in
any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding in respect of the Common Collateral, without the prior
written consent of the Credit Agent and the Required Lenders.
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6.3 Adequate Protection. Each Second Priority Agent, on behalf of itself and the applicable
Second Priority Lenders, agrees that none of them shall contest (or support any other Person
contesting) (a) any request by the Credit Agent or the First Priority Lenders for adequate
protection or (b) any objection by the Credit Agent or the First Priority Lenders to any motion,
relief, action or proceeding based on the Credit Agent or the First Priority Lenders claiming a
lack of adequate protection. Notwithstanding the foregoing contained in this Section 6.3, in any
Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding, (i) if the First Priority Lenders (or any subset thereof) are
granted adequate protection in the form of additional collateral in connection with any DIP
Financing or use of cash collateral under Section 363 or Section 364 of Title 11 of the United
States Code or any similar Bankruptcy Law, then each Second Priority Agent, on behalf of itself or
any of the applicable Second Priority Lenders, may seek or request adequate protection in the form
of a replacement Lien on such additional collateral, which Lien, if any, shall be subordinated to
the Liens securing the First Priority Claims and such DIP Financing (and all Obligations relating
thereto) on the same basis as the other Liens securing the Second Priority Claims are so
subordinated to the First Priority Claims under this Agreement, and (ii) in the event a Second
Priority Agent, on behalf of itself and the Second Priority Lenders, seeks or requests adequate
protection and such adequate protection is granted in the form of additional collateral, then such
Second Priority Agent, on behalf of itself or any of the applicable Second Priority Lenders, agrees
that the Credit Agent shall also be granted a senior Lien on such additional collateral as security
for the First Priority Claims and any such DIP Financing and that any Lien on such additional
collateral securing the Second Priority Claims shall be subordinated to the Liens on such
collateral securing the First Priority Claims and any such DIP Financing (and all Obligations
relating thereto) and any other Liens granted to the First Priority Lenders as adequate protection
on the same basis as the other Liens securing the Second Priority Claims are so subordinated to
such First Priority Claims under this Agreement.
6.4 No Waiver. Nothing contained herein shall prohibit or in any way limit the Credit Agent
or any First Priority Lender from objecting in any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding or
otherwise to any action taken by any Second Priority Agent or any of the Second Priority Lenders,
including the seeking by any Second Priority Agent or any Second Priority Lender of adequate
protection (other than as allowed pursuant to Section 6.3 of this Agreement) or the asserting by
any Second Priority Agent or any Second Priority Lender of any of its rights and remedies under the
Second Priority Documents or otherwise.
6.5 Preference Issues. If any First Priority Lender is required in any Insolvency or
Liquidation Proceeding or otherwise to turn over or otherwise pay to the estate of the Company or
any other Grantor any amount (a “Recovery”), then the First Priority Claims shall be reinstated to
the extent of such Recovery and the First Priority Lenders shall be entitled to receive payment in
full in cash (including, in the case of any letter of credit, cash collateral therefor) with
respect to all such recovered amounts. If this Agreement shall have been terminated prior to such
Recovery, this Agreement shall be reinstated in full force and effect, and such prior termination
shall not diminish, release, discharge, impair or otherwise affect the obligations of the parties
hereto.
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SECTION 7. Reliance; Waivers; Etc.
7.1 Reliance. The consent by the First Priority Lenders to the execution and delivery of the
Second Priority Documents and the grant to any Second Priority Agent on behalf of the applicable
Second Priority Lenders of a Lien on the Common Collateral and all loans and other extensions of
credit made or deemed made on and after the date hereof by the First Priority Lenders to the
Company or any Grantor shall be deemed to have been given and made in reliance upon this Agreement.
Each Second Priority Agent, on behalf of itself and the applicable Second Priority Lenders,
acknowledges that it and such Second Priority Lenders have, independently and without reliance on
the Credit Agent or any First Priority Lender, and based on documents and information deemed by
them appropriate, made their own credit analysis and decision to enter into the Indenture, this
Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby and they will continue to make their
own credit decision in taking or not taking any action under the Indenture or this Agreement.
7.2 No Warranties or Liability. Each Second Priority Agent, on behalf of itself and the
applicable Second Priority Lenders, acknowledges and agrees that each of the Credit Agent and the
First Priority Lenders have made no express or implied representation or warranty, including with
respect to the execution, validity, legality, completeness, collectibility or enforceability of any
of the First Priority Documents, the ownership of any Common Collateral or the perfection or
priority of any Liens thereon. The First Priority Lenders will be entitled to manage and supervise
their respective loans and extensions of credit under the First Priority Documents as they may, in
their sole discretion, deem appropriate, and the First Priority Lenders may manage their loans and
extensions of credit without regard to any rights or interests that any Second Priority Agent or
any of the Second Priority Lenders have in the Common Collateral or otherwise, except as otherwise
provided in this Agreement. Neither the Credit Agent nor any First Priority Lender shall have any
duty to any Second Priority Agent or any of the Second Priority Lenders to act or refrain from
acting in a manner which allows, or results in, the occurrence or continuance of an event of
default or default under any agreements with the Company or any Subsidiary thereof (including the
Second Priority Documents), regardless of any knowledge thereof which they may have or be charged
with.
7.3 No Waiver of Lien Priorities
(a) No right of the First Priority Lenders, the Credit Agent or any of them to enforce
any provision of this Agreement or any First Priority Document shall at any time in any way
be prejudiced or impaired by any act or failure to act on the part of the Company or any
other Grantor or by any act or failure to act by any First Priority Lender or the Credit
Agent, or by any noncompliance by any Person with the terms, provisions and covenants of
this Agreement, any of the First Priority Documents or any of the Second Priority Documents,
regardless of any knowledge thereof which the Credit Agent or the First Priority Lenders, or
any of them, may have or be otherwise charged with;
(b) Without in any way limiting the generality of the foregoing paragraph, the First
Priority Lenders, the Credit Agent and any of them, may, at any time and from time to time,
without the consent of, or notice to, any Second Priority Agent or
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any Second Lien Lender, without incurring any liabilities to any Second Priority Agent
or any Second Lien Lender and without impairing or releasing the Lien priorities and other
benefits provided in this Agreement (even if any right of subrogation or other right or
remedy of any Second Priority Agent or any Second Lien Lender is affected, impaired or
extinguished thereby) do any one or more of the following:
(i) change the manner, place or terms of payment or change or extend the time
of payment of, or amend, renew, exchange, increase or alter, the terms of any of the
First Priority Claims or any Lien on any First Priority Collateral or guaranty
thereof or any liability of the Company or any other Grantor, or any liability
incurred directly or indirectly in respect thereof (including any increase in or
extension of the First Priority Claims, without any restriction as to the amount,
tenor or terms of any such increase or extension) or otherwise amend, renew,
exchange, extend, modify or supplement in any manner any Liens held by the Credit
Agent or any of the First Priority Lenders, the First Priority Claims or any of the
First Priority Documents;
(ii) sell, exchange, release, surrender, realize upon, enforce or otherwise
deal with in any manner and in any order any part of the First Priority Collateral
or any liability of the Company or any other Grantor to the First Priority Lenders
or the Credit Agent, or any liability incurred directly or indirectly in respect
thereof;
(iii) settle or compromise any First Priority Claim or any other liability of
the Company or any other Grantor or any security therefor or any liability incurred
directly or indirectly in respect thereof and apply any sums by whomsoever paid and
however realized to any liability (including the First Priority Claims) in any
manner or order;
(iv) subordinate the priority of the First Priority Lien held by any First
Priority Lender to the priority of the First Priority Lien held by any other Lender;
(v) enter into or amend any First Priority Document in order to create or
acquire additional collateral for the First Priority Claims, to create and perfect
security interests in and Liens on collateral and to increase and enhance the
exercise of remedies thereunder and take actions in furtherance of the foregoing;
and
(vi) exercise or delay in or refrain from exercising any right or remedy
against the Company or any security or any other Grantor or any other Person, elect
any remedy and otherwise deal freely with the Company, any other Grantor or any
First Priority Collateral and any security and any guarantor or any liability of the
Company or any other Grantor to the First Priority Lenders or any liability incurred
directly or indirectly in respect thereof.
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(c) Each Second Priority Agent, on behalf of itself and the applicable Second Priority
Lenders, also agrees that the First Priority Lenders and the Credit Agent shall have no
liability to any Second Priority Agent or any Second Priority Lender, and each Second
Priority Agent, on behalf of itself and the applicable Second Priority Lenders, hereby
waives any claim against any First Priority Lender or the Credit Agent, arising out of any
and all actions which the First Priority Lenders or the Credit Agent may take or permit or
omit to take with respect to: (i) the First Priority Documents, (ii) the collection of the
First Priority Claims or (iii) the foreclosure upon, or sale, liquidation or other
disposition of, any First Priority Collateral. Each Second Priority Agent, on behalf of
itself and the applicable Second Priority Lenders, agrees that the First Priority Lenders
and the Credit Agent have no duty to them in respect of the maintenance or preservation of
the First Priority Collateral, the First Priority Claims or otherwise; and
(d) Each Second Priority Agent, on behalf of itself and the applicable Second Priority
Lenders, agrees not to assert and hereby waives, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any
right to demand, request, plead or otherwise assert or otherwise claim the benefit of, any
marshalling, appraisal, valuation or other similar right that may otherwise be available
under applicable law or any other similar rights a junior secured creditor may have under
applicable law.
7.4 Obligations Unconditional. All rights, interests, agreements and obligations of the
Credit Agent and the First Priority Lenders and the Second Priority Agents and the Second Priority
Lenders, respectively, hereunder shall remain in full force and effect irrespective of:
(a) any lack of validity or enforceability of any First Priority Documents or any
Second Priority Documents;
(b) any change in the time, manner or place of payment of, or in any other terms of,
all or any of the First Priority Claims or Second Priority Claims, or any amendment or
waiver or other modification, including any increase in the amount thereof, whether by
course of conduct or otherwise, of the terms of the Senior Credit Agreement or any other
First Priority Document or of the terms of the Indenture or any other Second Priority
Document;
(c) any exchange of any security interest in any Common Collateral or any other
collateral, or any amendment, waiver or other modification, whether in writing or by course
of conduct or otherwise, of all or any of the First Priority Claims or Second Priority
Claims or any guarantee thereof;
(d) the commencement of any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding in respect of the
Company or any other Grantor; or
(e) any other circumstances which otherwise might constitute a defense available to, or
a discharge of, the Company or any other Grantor in respect of the First Priority Claims, or
of any Second Priority Agent or any Second Priority Lender in respect of this Agreement.
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SECTION 8. Miscellaneous
8.1 Conflicts. In the event of any conflict between the provisions of this Agreement and the
provisions of the First Priority Documents or the Second Priority Documents, the provisions of this
Agreement shall govern.
8.2 Continuing Nature of this Agreement; Severability. This Agreement shall continue to be
effective until the Discharge of First Priority Claims shall have occurred. This is a continuing
agreement of lien subordination and the First Priority Lenders may continue, at any time and
without notice to any Second Priority Agent or any Second Priority Lender, to extend credit and
other financial accommodations and lend monies to or for the benefit of the Company or any other
Grantor constituting First Priority Claims on reliance hereof. Each Second Priority Agent, on
behalf of itself and the applicable Second Priority Lenders, hereby waives any right it may have
under applicable law to revoke this Agreement or any of the provisions of this Agreement. The terms
of this Agreement shall survive, and shall continue in full force and effect, in any Insolvency or
Liquidation Proceeding. Any provision of this Agreement which is prohibited or unenforceable in any
jurisdiction shall not invalidate the remaining provisions hereof, and any such prohibition or
unenforceability in any jurisdiction shall not invalidate or render unenforceable such provision in
any other jurisdiction.
8.3 Amendments; Waivers. No amendment, modification or waiver of any of the provisions of
this Agreement by any Second Priority Agent or the Credit Agent shall be deemed to be made unless
the same shall be in writing signed on behalf of the party making the same or its authorized agent
and each waiver, if any, shall be a waiver only with respect to the specific instance involved and
shall in no way impair the rights of the parties making such waiver or the obligations of the other
parties to such party in any other respect or at any other time. The Company and other Grantors
shall not have any right to consent to or approve any amendment, modification or waiver of any
provision of this Agreement except to the extent their rights are directly affected.
8.4 Information Concerning Financial Condition of the Company and the Subsidiaries. (a) The
Credit Agent and the First Priority Lenders, on the one hand, and the Second Priority Agents and
the Second Priority Lenders, on the other hand, shall each be responsible for keeping themselves
informed of (i) the financial condition of the Company and the Subsidiaries and all endorsers
and/or guarantors of the Second Priority Claims or the First Priority Claims and (ii) all other
circumstances bearing upon the risk of nonpayment of the Second Priority Claims or the First
Priority Claims.
(b) The Credit Agent and the First Priority Lenders shall have no duty to advise any Second
Priority Agent or any Second Priority Lender of information known to it or them regarding such
condition or any such circumstances or otherwise. In the event the Credit Agent or any of the First
Priority Lenders, in its or their sole discretion, undertakes at any time or from time to time to
provide any such information to any Second Priority Agent or any Second Priority Lender, it or they
shall be under no obligation (i) to make, and the Credit Agent and the First Priority Lenders shall
not make, any express or implied representation or warranty, including with respect to the
accuracy, completeness, truthfulness or validity of any such information so provided, (ii) to
provide any additional information or to provide any such
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information on any subsequent occasion, (iii) to undertake any investigation or (iv) to
disclose any information which, pursuant to accepted or reasonable commercial finance practices,
such party wishes to maintain confidential or is otherwise required to maintain confidential.
(c) Subject to Section 5.7, the Second Priority Agents and the Second Priority Lenders shall
have no duty to advise any First Priority Agent or any First Priority Lender of information known
to it or them regarding such condition or any such circumstances or otherwise. In the event any
Second Priority Agent or any of the Second Priority Lenders, in its or their sole discretion,
undertakes at any time or from time to time to provide any such information to any First Priority
Agent or any First Priority Lender, it or they shall be under no obligation (i) to make, and the
Second Priority Agents and the Second Priority Lenders shall not make, any express or implied
representation or warranty, including with respect to the accuracy, completeness, truthfulness or
validity of any such information so provided, (ii) to provide any additional information or to
provide any such information on any subsequent occasion, (iii) to undertake any investigation or
(iv) to disclose any information which, pursuant to accepted or reasonable commercial finance
practices, such party wishes to maintain confidential or is otherwise required to maintain
confidential.
8.5 Subrogation. Each Second Priority Agent, on behalf of itself and the applicable Second
Priority Lenders, hereby waives any rights of subrogation it may acquire as a result of any payment
hereunder until the Discharge of First Priority Claims has occurred.
8.6 Application of Payments. All payments received by the First Priority Lenders may be
applied, reversed and reapplied, in whole or in part, to such part of the First Priority Claims as
the First Priority Lenders, in their sole discretion, deem appropriate. Each Second Priority
Agent, on behalf of itself and the applicable Second Priority Lenders, assents to any extension or
postponement of the time of payment of the First Priority Claims or any part thereof and to any
other indulgence with respect thereto, to any substitution, exchange or release of any security
which may at any time secure any part of the First Priority Claims and to the addition or release
of any other Person primarily or secondarily liable therefor.
8.7 Consent to Jurisdiction; Waivers. The parties hereto consent to the jurisdiction of any
state or federal court located in New York, New York, and consent that all service of process may
be made by registered mail directed to such party as provided in Section 8.8 below for such party.
Service so made shall be deemed to be completed three days after the same shall be posted as
aforesaid. The parties hereto waive any objection to any action instituted hereunder based on forum
non conveniens, and any objection to the venue of any action instituted hereunder. Each of the
parties hereto waives any right it may have to trial by jury in respect of any litigation based on,
or arising out of, under or in connection with this Agreement, or any course of conduct, course of
dealing, verbal or written statement or action of any party hereto.
8.8 Notices. All notices to the Second Priority Lenders and the First Priority Lenders
permitted or required under this Agreement may be sent to the applicable Second Priority Agent and
the Credit Agent, respectively. Unless otherwise specifically provided herein, any notice or other
communication herein required or permitted to be given shall be in writing and may be personally
served, telecopied, electronically mailed or sent by courier service or U.S.
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mail and shall be deemed to have been given when delivered in person or by courier service,
upon receipt of a telecopy or electronic mail or four Business Days after deposit in the U.S. mail
(registered or certified, with postage prepaid and properly addressed). For the purposes hereof,
the addresses of the parties hereto shall be as set forth below each party’s name on the signature
pages hereto, or, as to each party, at such other address as may be designated by such party in a
written notice to all of the other parties.
8.9 Further Assurances. Each Second Priority Agent, on behalf of itself and the applicable
Second Priority Lenders, agrees that each of them shall take such further action and shall execute
and deliver to the Credit Agent and the First Priority Lenders such additional documents and
instruments (in recordable form, if requested) as the Credit Agent or the First Priority Lenders
may reasonably request to effectuate the terms of and the lien priorities contemplated by this
Agreement.
8.10 Governing Law. This Agreement has been delivered and accepted at and shall be deemed to
have been made at New York, New York and shall be interpreted, and the rights and liabilities of
the parties bound hereby determined, in accordance with the laws of the State of New York.
8.11 Binding on Successors and Assigns. This Agreement shall be binding upon the Credit
Agent, the First Priority Lenders, the Second Priority Agents, the Second Priority Lenders, the
Company and their respective permitted successors and assigns.
8.12
Specific Performance. The Credit Agent may demand specific performance of this
Agreement. Each Second Priority Agent, on behalf of itself and the applicable Second Priority
Lenders, hereby irrevocably waives any defense based on the adequacy of a remedy at law and any
other defense which might be asserted to bar the remedy of specific performance in any action which
may be brought by the Credit Agent.
8.13 Section Titles; Time Periods. The section titles contained in this Agreement are and
shall be without substantive meaning or content of any kind whatsoever and are not a part of this
Agreement. In the computation of time periods, unless otherwise specified the word “from” means
“from and including” and each of the words “to” and “until” means “to but excluding” and the word
“through” means “to and including”.
8.14 Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in one or more counterparts, each of which
shall be an original and all of which shall together constitute one and the same document.
8.15 Authorization. By its signature, each Person executing this Agreement on behalf of a
party hereto represents and warrants to the other parties hereto that it is duly authorized to
execute this Agreement.
8.16 No Third Party Beneficiaries. This Agreement and the rights and benefits hereof shall
inure to the benefit of each of the parties hereto and their respective successors and assigns and
shall inure to the benefit of each of the holders of First Priority Claims and Second Priority
Claims. No other Person, including the Company or any other Grantor, the Company or
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any other Grantor as debtor-in-possession or any trustee in an Insolvency or Liquidation
Proceeding, shall have or be entitled to assert rights or benefits hereunder.
8.17 Effectiveness. This Agreement shall become effective when executed and delivered by the
parties hereto. This Agreement shall be effective both before and after the commencement of any
Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding. All references to the Company or any other Grantor shall
include the Company or any Grantor as debtor and debtor-in-possession and any receiver or trustee
for the Company or any other Grantor (as the case may be) in any Insolvency or Liquidation
Proceeding.
8.18 Credit Agent and Second Priority Agent. It is understood and agreed that (a) JPMorgan
Chase Bank is entering into this Agreement in its capacity as Credit Agent and the provisions of
Section 9 of the Existing Credit Agreement applicable to JPMorgan Chase Bank as administrative
agent thereunder shall also apply to JPMorgan Chase Bank as Credit Agent hereunder, and (b)
Wachovia Bank, National Association is entering in this Agreement in its capacity as Trustee
(including its capacity as Collateral Agent under the Indenture and the other Second Priority
Documents) and the provisions of Article 7 of the Indenture applicable to the Trustee thereunder
shall also apply to the Trustee hereunder.
8.19 Designations. For purposes of the provisions hereof and the Indenture requiring the
Company to designate Indebtedness for the purposes of the term “First Priority Claims”, “First-Lien
Credit Facilities”, “Other Second-Lien Obligations” any other designations for any other purposes
hereunder or under the Indenture, any such designation shall be sufficient if the relevant
designation is set forth in writing, signed on behalf of the Company by an officer thereof and
delivered to the Trustee and the Credit Agent. For all purposes hereof and the Indenture, the
Company hereby designates the Credit Facilities provided pursuant to the Existing Credit Agreement
as the First-Lien Credit Facility and any Obligations in respect of the Existing Credit Agreement
as “Credit Agreement Obligations” and “First Priority Claims” under the Indenture.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have executed this Agreement as of the date first
written above.
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Trustee:
WACHOVIA BANK, NATIONAL
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TENNECO AUTOMOTIVE INC.
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Collateral Agent:
WACHOVIA BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Collateral
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EXHIBIT G
TO THE CREDIT AGREEMENT
FORM OF EXEMPTION CERTIFICATE
Reference is made to the Second Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of March 16,
2007, amending and restating the Credit Agreement dated as of September 30, 1999, as amended and
restated on December 12, 2003, as further amended, (as further amended, modified and supplemented
from time to time, the “Credit Agreement”), among Tenneco Inc. (the “Borrower”),
the Lenders party thereto , the Documentation Agent and Syndication Agent named therein and
JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as administrative agent (in such capacity, the “Administrative Agent”).
Unless otherwise defined herein, terms defined in the Credit Agreement and used herein shall have
the meanings given to them in the Credit Agreement. (the “Non-U.S. Lender”)
is providing this certificate pursuant to Section 2.21(d) of the Credit Agreement. The Non-U.S.
Lender hereby represents and warrants that:
1. The Non-U.S. Lender is the sole record and beneficial owner of the Loans in respect of
which it is providing this certificate.
2. The Non-U.S. Lender is not a “bank” for purposes of Section 881(c)(3)(A) of the Internal
Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”). In this regard, the Non-U.S. Lender further
represents and warrants that:
(a) the Non-U.S. Lender is not subject to regulatory or other legal requirements as a bank in
any jurisdiction; and
(b) the Non-U.S. Lender has not been treated as a bank for purposes of any tax, securities law
or other filing or submission made to any Governmental Authority, any application made to a rating
agency or qualification for any exemption from tax, securities law or other legal requirements.
3. The Non-U.S. Lender is not a 10-percent shareholder of the Borrower within the meaning of
Section 881(c)(3)(B) of the Code.
4. The Non-U.S. Lender is not a controlled foreign corporation receiving interest from a
related person within the meaning of Section 881(c)(3)(C) of the Code.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has duly executed this certificate.
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Exhibit B
ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND CONSENT
Dated as of June 3, 2010
Reference is made to the Second Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of March 16,
2007 (amending and restating the Amended and Restated Credit Agreement dated as of December 12,
2003 (amending and restating the Credit Agreement dated as of September 30, 1999)) (as amended and
waived by the Amendment and Waiver dated as of July 23, 2007, the Second Amendment dated as of
November 26, 2007, the Third Amendment dated as of December 23, 2008, the Fourth Amendment dated as
of February 19, 2009, and the Fifth Amendment dated as of the date hereof (the “Fifth
Amendment”), the “Credit Agreement”), among TENNECO INC., a Delaware corporation, the
several lenders from time to time parties thereto (the “Lenders”), JPMORGAN CHASE BANK,
N.A., a national banking association, as administrative agent for the Lenders (in such capacity,
the “Administrative Agent”), and the other financial institutions named therein as agents
for the Lenders. Unless otherwise defined herein or the content otherwise require, terms defined
in the Credit Agreement and used herein shall have the meaning given to them in the Credit
Agreement.
1. Each of the signatories hereto is a grantor (each, a “Grantor”) under the Guarantee
and Collateral Agreement dated as of March 16, 2007 (amending and restating the Guarantee and
Collateral Agreement dated as of November 4, 1999, as previously amended and restated) and each
Grantor hereby (a) acknowledges and agrees to the Credit Agreement, the Fifth Amendment and the
transactions contemplated thereby and (b) consents to the corresponding amendment of the other Loan
Documents. Each Grantor’s obligations under the Loan Documents, after giving effect to the
Amendment and the other amendments and transactions contemplated by this Acknowledgment and
Consent, are and shall remain in full force and effect. Each Grantor acknowledges that pursuant to
the Fifth Amendment the maturity date of all or a portion of the Revolving Facility is being
extended and the Tranche B Term Loans are being borrowed, among other things.
2. This Acknowledgment and Consent may be executed by one or more of the parties hereto on any
number of separate counterparts (including by facsimile or electronic transmission), and all of
said counterparts taken together shall be deemed to constitute one and the same instrument.
3. THIS ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND CONSENT AND THE RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF THE PARTIES HEREUNDER
SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED AND INTERPRETED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW
YORK.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have caused this Acknowledgment and Consent to be duly
executed and delivered as of the date first above written.
GRANTORS:
TENNECO INC.
TENNECO AUTOMOTIVE OPERATING COMPANY INC.
TENNECO INTERNATIONAL HOLDING CORP.
TENNECO GLOBAL HOLDINGS INC.
THE PULLMAN COMPANY
TMC TEXAS INC.
CLEVITE INDUSTRIES INC.
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