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Exhibit 10.17
Execution Copy
DIEBOLD, INCORPORATED,
THE SUBSIDIARY BORROWERS,
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LOAN AGREEMENT
dated as of December 1, 1999
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BANK ONE, MICHIGAN, as Agent
and
THE LENDERS PARTY HERETO
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BANC ONE CAPITAL MARKETS, INC.,
as Arranger
BANK OF AMERICA, N.A.,
as Syndication Agent
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
ARTICLE I - DEFINITIONS ........................................................
1.1. Defined Terms ................................................
ARTICLE II- THE CREDITS ........................................................
2.1. The Commitments ..............................................
2.2. Repayment of Loans; Evidence of Debt .........................
2.3. Procedures for Borrowing .....................................
2.4. Termination or Reduction of Revolving Credit Commitments .....
2.5. Facility and Agent Fees ......................................
2.6. Optional and Mandatory Principal Payments on All Loans
2.7. Conversion and Continuation of Outstanding Advances ..........
2.8. Interest Rates, Interest Payment Dates;
Interest and Fee Basis .......................................
2.9. Rates Applicable After Default ...............................
2.10. Pro Rata Payment, Method of Payment ..........................
2.11. Telephonic Notices ...........................................
2.12. Notification of Advances, Interest Rates, Prepayments and
Commitment Reductions ........................................
2.13. Lending Installations ........................................
2.14. Non-Receipt of Funds by the Agent ............................
2.15. Facility Letters of Credit ...................................
2.16. Swing Loans ..................................................
2.17. Application of Payments with Respect to Defaulting Lenders ...
2.18 Guarantees ...................................................
ARTICLE III - CHANGE IN CIRCUMSTANCES, TAXES ...................................
3.1. Yield Protection .............................................
3.2. Changes in Capital Adequacy Regulations ......................
3.3. Availability of Types of Advances ............................
3.4. Funding Indemnification ......................................
3.5. Lender Statements; Survival of Indemnity .....................
3.6. Taxes ........................................................
3.7. Substitution of Lender .......................................
ARTICLE IV - CONDITIONS PRECEDENT ..............................................
4.1. Closing Conditions ...........................................
4.2. Each Advance .................................................
ARTICLE V - REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES .....................................
5.1. Corporate Existence and Standing .............................
5.2. Authorization and Validity ...................................
5.3. No Conflict; Government Consent ..............................
5.4. Financial Statements .........................................
5.5. Material Adverse Change ......................................
5.6. Taxes ........................................................
5.7. Litigation and Contingent Obligations ........................
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5.8. Subsidiaries .................................................
5.9. ERISA ........................................................
5.10. Accuracy of Information ......................................
5.11. Regulations T, U and X .......................................
5.12. Material Agreements ..........................................
5.13. Compliance With Laws .........................................
5.14. Plan Assets; Prohibited Transactions .........................
5.15. Environmental Matters ........................................
5.16. Investment Company Act .......................................
5.17. Public Utility Holding Company Act ...........................
5.18. Subsidiary Borrowers .........................................
5.19. Insurance ....................................................
5.20. Ownership of Properties ......................................
5.21 Labor Controversies ..........................................
5.22 Burdensome Obligations .......................................
5.23 Year 2000 ....................................................
ARTICLE VI- COVENANTS ..........................................................
6.1. Financial Reporting ..........................................
6.2. Use of Proceeds ..............................................
6.3. Notice of Default ............................................
6.4. Properties; Conduct of Business ..............................
6.5. Taxes ........................................................
6.6. Insurance ....................................................
6.7. Compliance with Laws .........................................
6.8. Inspection ...................................................
6.9. Merger .......................................................
6.10. Sale of Assets ...............................................
6.11. Investments ..................................................
6.12. Liens ........................................................
6.13. Year 2000 ....................................................
6.14. Affiliates ...................................................
6.15. Indebtedness .................................................
6.16. Limitation on Restrictions On Subsidiary Distributions .......
6.17. Financial Contracts ..........................................
6.18. Total Debt to Capitalization Ratio ...........................
6.19. Interest Coverage Ratio ......................................
ARTICLE VII- DEFAULTS ..........................................................
ARTICLE VIII- ACCELERATION, WAIVERS, AMENDMENTS AND REMEDIES ...................
8.1. Acceleration .................................................
8.2. Amendments ...................................................
8.3. Preservation of Rights .......................................
ARTICLE IX - GUARANTEE .........................................................
9.1. Guarantee ....................................................
9.2. No Subrogation ...............................................
9.3. Amendments, etc. with respect to the Obligations;
Waiver of Rights .............................................
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9.4. Guarantee Absolute and Unconditional .........................
9.5. Reinstatement ................................................
9.6. Payments .....................................................
ARTICLE X - GENERAL PROVISIONS .................................................
10.1. Survival of Representations ..................................
10.2. Governmental Regulation ......................................
10.3. Taxes ........................................................
10.4. Headings .....................................................
10.5. Entire Agreement .............................................
10.6. Several Obligations; Benefits of this Agreement ..............
10.7. Expenses; Indemnification ....................................
10.8. Numbers of Documents .........................................
10.9. Accounting ...................................................
10.10. Severability of Provisions ...................................
10.11. Nonliability of Lenders ......................................
10.12. Confidentiality ..............................................
10.13. Nonreliance ..................................................
ARTICLE XI- THE AGENT; ETC. ....................................................
11.1. Appointment; Nature of Relationship ..........................
11.2. Powers .......................................................
11.3. General Immunity .............................................
11.4. No Responsibility for Loans, Recitals, etc. ..................
11.5. Action on Instructions of Lenders ............................
11.6. Employment of Agents and Counsel .............................
11.7. Reliance on Documents; Counsel ...............................
11.8. Agent's Reimbursement and Indemnification ....................
11.9. Notice of Default ............................................
11.10. Rights as a Lender ...........................................
11.11. Lender Credit Decision .......................................
11.12. Successor Agents .............................................
11.13 Right to Indemnity ...........................................
11.14 Delegation to Affiliates .....................................
ARTICLE XII- SETOFF; ADJUSTMENTS AMONG LENDERS .................................
12.1. Setoff .......................................................
12.2. Ratable Payments .............................................
ARTICLE XIII - BENEFIT OF AGREEMENT; ASSIGNMENTS; PARTICIPATIONS ...............
13.1. Successors and Assigns .......................................
13.2. Participations ...............................................
13.2.1 Permitted Participants; Effect ......................
13.2.2. Voting Rights .......................................
13.2.3. Benefit of Setoff ...................................
13.3. Assignments ..................................................
13.3.1. Permitted Assignments ...............................
13.3.2. Effect; Effective Date ..............................
13.4. Dissemination of Information .................................
13.5. Tax Treatment ................................................
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ARTICLE XIV - NOTICES ..........................................................
14.1. Notices ......................................................
14.2. Change of Address ............................................
ARTICLE XV - COUNTERPARTS ......................................................
ARTICLE XVI- CHOICE OF LAW, CONSENT TO JURISDICTION, WAIVER
OF JURY TRIAL, JUDGMENT CURRENCY ..................................
16.1. Choice of Law ................................................
16.2. Waiver of Jury Trial .........................................
16.3. Submission to Jurisdiction; Waivers ..........................
16.4. Acknowledgments ..............................................
16.5. Power of Attorney ............................................
16.6. Judgment .....................................................
EXHIBITS
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EXHIBIT A - PRICING SCHEDULE
EXHIBIT B - DOMESTIC SUBSIDIARY BORROWER OPINION OF COUNSEL
EXHIBIT C - FOREIGN SUBSIDIARY BORROWER OPINION OF COUNSEL
EXHIBIT D - GUARANTY
EXHIBIT E - JOINDER AGREEMENT
EXHIBIT F-1 - REVOLVING CREDIT NOTE
EXHIBIT F-2 - TERM LOAN NOTE
EXHIBIT G - OPINION OF COUNSEL
EXHIBIT H - WRITTEN TRANSFER INSTRUCTIONS
EXHIBIT I - COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE
EXHIBIT J - ASSIGNMENT AGREEMENT
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SCHEDULES
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SCHEDULE 1.1(a) - COMMITMENTS
SCHEDULE 1.1(b) - SUBSIDIARY BORROWERS
SCHEDULE 5.7 - LITIGATION
SCHEDULE 5.8 - SUBSIDIARIES
SCHEDULE 6.12 - LIENS
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THIS LOAN AGREEMENT (this "Agreement"), dated as of December 1, 1999,
among DIEBOLD, INCORPORATED, an Ohio corporation (the "COMPANY"), the SUBSIDIARY
BORROWERS (as hereinafter defined) from time to time parties hereto (together
with the Company, the "BORROWERS"), the lenders from time to time parties hereto
(the "LENDERS"), and BANK ONE, MICHIGAN, a Michigan banking corporation, as
Agent.
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and the mutual
agreements contained herein, the parties hereto agree as follows:
ARTICLE I
DEFiNITIONS
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1.1 DEFINED TERMS. As used in this Agreement, the following terms shall
have the following meanings:
"ACQUISITION" means any transaction, or any series of related
transactions, consummated on or after the date of this Agreement, by which the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries (i) acquires any going business or all or
substantially all of the assets of any Person or division thereof, whether
through purchase of assets, merger or otherwise or (ii) directly or indirectly
acquires (in one transaction or as the most recent transaction in a series of
transactions) at least a majority (in number of votes) of the Voting Stock of
any Person.
"ADVANCE" means a borrowing hereunder (or conversion or continuation
thereof) consisting of the aggregate amount of the several Loans or Facility
Letters of Credit of the same Type and, in the case of Eurocurrency Loans, in
the same Agreed Currency and for the same Interest Period, and further, in the
case of Eurodollar Loans, for the same Interest Period, made by the Lenders on
the same Borrowing Date (or converted or continued by the Lenders on the same
date of conversion or continuation).
"AFFILIATE" of any Person means any other Person directly or indirectly
controlling, controlled by or under common control with such Person. A Person
shall be deemed to control another Person if the controlling Person owns 10% or
more of any class of Voting Stock of the controlled Person or possesses,
directly or indirectly, the power to direct or cause the direction of the
management or policies of the controlled Person, whether through ownership of
Capital Stock, by contract or otherwise.
"AGENT" means Bank One in its capacity as contractual representative of
the Lenders pursuant to Article XI, and not in its individual capacity as a
Lender, and any successor Agent appointed pursuant to Article XI.
"AGGREGATE COMMITMENTS" means the aggregate amount, stated in U.S.
Dollars, of the Commitments of all Lenders.
"AGGREGATE EURO REVOLVING CREDIT COMMITMENTS" means the aggregate
amount, stated in Euro, of the Euro Revolving Credit Commitments of all of the
Euro Revolving Credit Lenders.
"AGGREGATE EURO REVOLVING CREDIT OUTSTANDINGS" means as at any date of
determination with respect to any Euro Revolving Credit Lender, the sum of the
aggregate unpaid principal amount of such Lender's Euro Revolving Credit Loans
on such date and the amount of such Lender's Pro Rata Share of
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the Euro Facility Letter of Credit Obligations and Swing Loans to the Foreign
Subsidiary Borrowers on such date, both stated in Euro based on the Euro
Equivalent Amount.
"AGGREGATE REVOLVING CREDIT COMMITMENTS" means, on any date of
determination, the U.S. Dollar Equivalent on such date of the aggregate amount
of the Revolving Credit Commitments of all of the Revolving Credit Lenders.
"AGGREGATE EURO TERM LOAN COMMITMENTS" means the aggregate amount,
stated in Euros, of Euro Term Loan Commitments of all the Euro Term Loan
Lenders, as reduced from time to time pursuant to principal payments on the Euro
Term Loans.
"AGGREGATE EURO TERM LOAN OUTSTANDINGS" means as at any date of
determination with respect to any Lender, the sum of the aggregate unpaid
principal amount, stated in Euros based on the Euro Equivalent Amount, of such
Lender's portion of the Euro Term Loans on such date.
"AGGREGATE REVOLVING CREDIT OUTSTANDINGS" means as at any date of
determination with respect to any Revolving Credit Lender, the sum of the U. S.
Dollar Equivalent on such date of the aggregate unpaid principal amount of such
Lender's Revolving Credit Loans on such date and the U. S. Dollar Equivalent on
such date of the amount of such Lender's Pro Rata Share of the Facility Letter
of Credit Obligations and Swing Loans on such date.
"AGGREGATE TERM LOAN COMMITMENTS" means the aggregate amount, stated in
U.S. Dollars, of Term Loan Commitments of all the Term Loan Lenders, as reduced
from time to time pursuant to principal payments on the Term Loans.
"AGGREGATE TERM LOAN OUTSTANDINGS" means as at any date of
determination with respect to any Lender, the sum of the aggregate unpaid
principal amount, stated in U.S. Dollars, of such Lender's portion of the Term
Loans on such date.
"AGGREGATE TOTAL OUTSTANDINGS" means as at any date of determination
with respect to any Lender, the U.S. Dollar Equivalent of an amount equal to (a)
the Aggregate Revolving Credit Outstandings of such Lender on such date or (b)
the Aggregate Term Loan Outstandings of such Lender on such date, as the case
may be.
"AGGREGATE U.S. REVOLVING CREDIT COMMITMENTS" means the aggregate
amount in U.S. Dollars of the U.S. Revolving Credit Commitments of all of the
Revolving Credit Lenders.
"AGGREGATE U.S. REVOLVING CREDIT OUTSTANDINGS" means as at any date of
determination with respect to any Revolving Credit Lender, the sum of the
aggregate unpaid principal amount of such Lender's U.S. Revolving Credit Loans
on such date and the amount of such Lender's Pro Rata Share of the U.S. Facility
Letter of Credit Obligations and Swing Loans to the Company on such date, both
stated in U.S. Dollars.
"AGGREGATE U.S. TERM LOAN COMMITMENTS" means the aggregate amount,
stated in U.S. Dollars, of U.S. Term Loan Commitments of all the U.S. Term Loan
Lenders, as reduced from time to time pursuant to principal payments on the U.S.
Term Loans.
"AGGREGATE U.S. TERM LOAN OUTSTANDINGS" means as at any date of
determination with respect to any Lender, the sum of the aggregate unpaid
principal amount, stated in U.S. Dollars, of such Lender's portion of the U.S.
Term Loans on such date.
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"AGREED CURRENCIES" means (i) Dollars, (ii) so long as it remains an
Eligible Currency, the Euro, and (iii) any other Eligible Currency which the
Borrowers request the Agent to include as an Agreed Currency hereunder and which
is acceptable to all of the Euro Lenders and the Agent.
"AGREEMENT" means this loan agreement, as it may be amended or modified
and in effect from time to time.
"AGREEMENT ACCOUNTING PRINCIPLES" means generally accepted accounting
principles as in effect on the Effective Date in the United States, applied in a
manner consistent with the audited consolidated financial statements of the
Company and its Subsidiaries for the fiscal year ending December 31, 1998;
PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that, if generally accepted accounting principles in the
United States of America shall require the Company to adopt other principles,
then the financial statements required to be delivered hereunder may be prepared
on the basis of such other principles but when delivered shall also be
accompanied by a reconciliation, reasonably satisfactory in scope and detail to
the Agent, to permit the review of such financial statements as if they were
prepared in accordance with Agreement Accounting Principles.
"AGREEMENT CURRENCY" is defined in Section 16.6.
"ALTERNATE BASE RATE" means, for any day, a rate of interest per annum
equal to the higher of (a) the Prime Rate for such day or (b) the sum of the
Federal Funds Effective Rate for such day plus 1/2% per annum.
"APPLICABLE MARGIN" means the amounts set forth in the Pricing Schedule
on Exhibit A hereto.
"ARRANGER" means Banc One Capital Markets, Inc., a Delaware
corporation, and its successors.
"ARTICLE" means an article of this Agreement unless another document is
specifically referenced.
"ASSIGNMENT" is defined in Section 13.3.1.
"AUTHORIZED OFFICER" means, with respect to any Borrower, any of the
president, the chief executive officer, any Designated Financial Officer or the
secretary of the Company or any other Person designated by any of the foregoing
in writing to the Agent from time to time to act on behalf of any Borrower (or,
if so designated, a specific Borrower) which designation has not been rescinded
in writing, in each case acting singly.
"AVAILABLE FOREIGN CURRENCIES" means the Agreed Currencies other than
Dollars.
"BANK ONE" means Bank One, Michigan, a Michigan banking corporation.
"BORROWERS" is defined in the preamble hereto.
"BORROWING DATE" means any Business Day specified in a notice pursuant
to Section 2.3, 2.7, 2.15 or 2.16 as a date on which a Borrower requests the
Lenders to make Loans hereunder or, with respect to the issuance of any Facility
Letter of Credit, the date the applicable Issuer issues such Facility Letter of
Credit.
"BUSINESS DAY" means (i) with respect to any borrowing, payment or rate
selection of Eurocurrency Advances, a day (other than a Saturday or Sunday) on
which banks generally are open in
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Detroit, Chicago, London and New York for the conduct of substantially all of
their commercial lending activities and on which dealings in Dollars and the
other Agreed Currencies are carried on in the London interbank market (and, if
the Advances which are the subject of such borrowing, payment or rate selection
are denominated in Euro, a day upon which such clearing system as is determined
by the Agent to be suitable for clearing or settlement of the Euro is open for
business), and (ii) for all other purposes, a day (other than a Saturday or
Sunday) on which banks generally are open in Detroit, Chicago, London and New
York for the conduct of substantially all of their commercial lending
activities.
"CAPITAL STOCK" means (i) in the case of any corporation, all capital
stock and any securities exchangeable for or convertible into capital stock and
any warrants, rights or other options to purchase or otherwise acquire capital
stock or such securities or any other form of equity securities, (ii) in the
case of an association or business entity, any and all shares, interests,
participations, rights or other equivalents (however designated) of corporate
stock, (iii) in the case of a partnership or limited liability company,
partnership or membership interests (whether general or limited) and (iv) any
other interest or participation that confers on a Person the right to receive a
share of the profits and losses of, or distributions of assets of, the issuing
Person.
"CAPITALIZED LEASE" of a Person means any lease of Property by such
Person as lessee which would be capitalized on a balance sheet of such Person
prepared in accordance with Agreement Accounting Principles.
"CAPITALIZED LEASE OBLIGATIONS" of a Person means the amount of the
obligations of such Person under Capitalized Leases which would be shown as a
liability on a balance sheet of such Person prepared in accordance with
Agreement Accounting Principles.
"CASH EQUIVALENTS" means (i) securities issued directly and fully
guaranteed or insured by the United States of America or any agency or
instrumentality thereof (provided that the full faith and credit of the United
States of America is pledged in support thereof), (ii) Dollar denominated time
deposits, certificates of deposit and bankers' acceptances of (x) any Lender or
(y) any bank whose short-term commercial paper rating from S&P is at least
investment grade or the equivalent thereof (any such bank, an "Approved
Lender"), (iii) commercial paper issued by any Lender or Approved Lender or by
the parent company of any Lender or Approved Lender and commercial paper issued
by, or guaranteed by, any industrial or financial company with a short-term
commercial paper rating of at least investment grade or the equivalent thereof,
(iv) investment grade bonds and preferred stock of investment grade companies,
including but not limited to municipal bonds, corporate bonds, treasury bonds,
etc., (v) foreign Investments denominated in an Eligible Currency that are of
similar type of, and that have a rating comparable to, any of the Investments
referred to in the preceding clauses (i) through (iv) above, (vi) investments in
money market funds substantially all the assets of which are comprised of
securities of the types described in clauses (i) through (v) above and (vii)
other securities and financial instruments which offer a security comparable to
those listed above.
"CHANGE OF CONTROL" means (i) a majority of the members of the Board of
Directors of Company shall not be Continuing Directors; or (ii) any Person
including a "group" (within the meaning of Sections 13(d) and 14(d)(2) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended) which includes such Person, shall
purchase or otherwise acquire, directly or indirectly, beneficial ownership of
Voting Stock of Company and, as a result of such purchase or acquisition, any
such Person (together with its Affiliates), shall directly or indirectly
beneficially own in the aggregate Voting Stock representing more than 30% of the
combined voting power of Company's Voting Stock.
"CODE" means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, reformed or
otherwise modified from time to time.
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"COMMITMENT" means, for each Lender, such Lender's U.S. Revolving
Credit Commitment, Euro Revolving Credit Commitment, U.S. Term Loan Commitment
and Euro Term Loan Commitment, and "Commitments" means the aggregate of all of
the Lenders' Commitments.
"COMPANY" is defined in the preamble hereto.
"COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE" is defined in Section 6.1(iii).
"CONDEMNATION" is defined in Section 7.8.
"CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION" is defined in Section 10.11.
"CONTINGENT OBLIGATION" of a Person means any agreement, undertaking or
arrangement by which such Person assumes, guaranties, endorses, contingently
agrees to purchase or provide funds for the payment of, or otherwise becomes or
is contingently liable upon, the obligation or liability of any other Person, or
agrees to maintain the net worth or working capital or other financial condition
of any other Person, or otherwise assures any creditor of such other Person
against loss, including, without limitation, any comfort letter, operating
agreement or take-or-pay contract. The amount of any Contingent Obligation shall
be equal to the amount of the obligation that is so guarantied or supported that
is actually outstanding or otherwise due and payable from time to time, if a
fixed and determinable amount or if there is no fixed or determinable amount,
either (x) if a maximum amount is guaranteed, the maximum amount or (y) if there
is no maximum amount the amount of the obligation that is so guarantied or
supported.
"CONTINUING DIRECTORS" means individuals who at the beginning of any
period of two consecutive calendar years constituted the board of directors of
the Company, together with any new directors whose election by such board of
directors or whose nomination for election was approved by a vote of at least
two-thirds of the members of such board of directors then still in office who
either were members of such board of directors at the beginning of such period
or whose election or nomination for election was previously so approved.
"CONTROLLED GROUP" means all members of a controlled group of
corporations and all trades or businesses (whether or not incorporated) under
common control which, together with the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, are
treated as a single employer under Sections 414(b) or (c) of the Code.
"CONVERSION/CONTINUATION NOTICE" is defined in Section 2.7.1.
"DEFAULT" means an event described in Article VII.
"DEFAULTING LENDER" means any Lender that (a) on any Borrowing Date
fails to make available to the Agent such Lender's Loans required to be made to
a Borrower on such Borrowing Date or (b) shall not have made a payment to the
Issuer pursuant to Section 2.15.5 or the Agent pursuant to Section 2.16. Once a
Lender becomes a Defaulting Lender, such Lender shall continue as a Defaulting
Lender until such time as such Defaulting Lender makes available to the Agent
the amount of such Defaulting Lender's Loans and/or to an Issuer such payments
requested by an Issuer together with all other amounts required to be paid to
the Agent and/or the Issuers pursuant to this Agreement.
"DESIGNATED FINANCIAL OFFICER" means, with respect to any Borrower, its
chief financial officer, director of treasury services, treasurer, assistant
treasurer, or similar position.
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"DISQUALIFIED STOCK" means any Capital Stock that, by its terms (or by
the terms of any security into which it is convertible or for which it is
exchangeable), or upon the happening of any event, matures or is mandatorily
redeemable, pursuant to a sinking fund obligation or otherwise, or redeemable at
the option of the holder thereof, in whole or in part.
"DOLLARS", "U.S. DOLLARS" and "$" means dollars in lawful currency of
the United States of America.
"DOLLAR EQUIVALENT AMOUNT" of any currency at any date shall mean (i)
the amount of such currency if such currency is in Dollars or (ii) the
Equivalent Amount of Dollars if such currency is any currency other than
Dollars, calculated on the basis of the arithmetical mean of the buy and sell
spot rates of exchange of the Agent for such currency on the London market at
11:00 a.m., London time, on such date or as most recently determined by the
Agent.
"DOMESTIC SUBSIDIARY" means each present and future Subsidiary of the
Company which is not a Foreign Subsidiary.
"DOMESTIC SUBSIDIARY BORROWER" means each Domestic Subsidiary listed as
a Domestic Subsidiary Borrower in Schedule 1.1(b) as amended from time to time
in accordance with Section 8.2.2.
"DOMESTIC SUBSIDIARY OPINION" means with respect to any Domestic
Subsidiary Borrower, a legal opinion of counsel to such Domestic Subsidiary
Borrower addressed to the Agent and the Lenders concluding that such Domestic
Subsidiary Borrower and the Loan Documents to which it is a party substantially
comply with the matters listed on Exhibit B, with such assumptions,
qualifications and deviations therefrom as the Agent shall approve.
"EBIT" means, for any period, the sum of (a) the consolidated net
income (or loss) of the Company and its Subsidiaries for such period determined
in conformity with Agreement Accounting Principles, PLUS (b)to the extent
deducted in determining such net income, income taxes, and Interest Expense, and
any extraordinary and non-recurring losses and non-cash charges and related tax
effects in accordance with Agreement Accounting Principles, MINUS (c) to the
extent included in determining such net income, each of the following, without
duplication: (i) the income of any Person (other than a Wholly Owned Subsidiary
of the Company) in which any Person other than the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries has a joint interest or a partnership interest or other ownership
interest, except to the extent of the amount of dividends or other distributions
actually paid to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries by such Person during
such period, (ii) the income of any Person accrued prior to the date it becomes
a Subsidiary of the Company or is merged into or consolidated with the Company
or any of its Subsidiaries or that Person's assets are acquired by the Company
or any of its Subsidiaries, (iii) gains from the sale, exchange, transfer or
other disposition of property or assets not in the ordinary course of business
of the Company and its Subsidiaries, and related tax effects in accordance with
Agreement Accounting Principles, (iv) any other extraordinary or non-recurring
gains or other income not from the continuing operations of the Company or its
Subsidiaries, and related tax effects in accordance with Agreement Accounting
Principles and (v) the income of any Subsidiary of the Company (other than
Subsidiaries which are not material in the aggregate as agreed upon between the
Company and the Agent) to the extent that the declaration or payment of
dividends or similar distributions by that Subsidiary of that income is not at
the time permitted by operation of the terms of its charter or any agreement,
instrument, judgment, decree, order, statute, rule or governmental regulation
applicable to that Subsidiary.
"EFFECTIVE DATE" means the date on which the conditions precedent set
forth in Sections 4.1 and 4.2 are satisfied.
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"ELIGIBLE CURRENCY" means any currency other than Dollars (i) that is
readily available, (ii) that is freely traded, (iii) in which deposits are
customarily offered to banks in the London interbank market, (iv) which is
convertible into Dollars in the international interbank market and (v) as to
which a Dollar Equivalent Amount may be readily calculated. If, after the
designation by the Lenders of any currency as an Agreed Currency, (x) currency
control or other exchange regulations are imposed in the country in which such
currency is issued with the result that different types of such currency are
introduced, (y) such currency is, in the determination of the Agent, no longer
readily available or freely traded or (z) in the determination of the Agent, a
Dollar Equivalent Amount of such currency is not readily calculable, the Agent
shall promptly notify the Lenders and the Company, and such currency shall no
longer be an Agreed Currency until such time as all of the Lenders agree to
reinstate such currency as an Agreed Currency and promptly, but in any event
within five Business Days of receipt of such notice from the Agent, the Borrower
shall repay all Loans in such affected currency or convert such Loans into Loans
in Dollars or another Agreed Currency, subject to the other terms set forth in
Article II.
"ENVIRONMENTAL LAWS" means, with respect to the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries, any and all federal, state, local and foreign statutes, laws,
judicial decisions, regulations, ordinances, rules, judgments, orders, decrees,
plans, injunctions, permits, concessions, grants, franchises, licenses,
agreements and other governmental restrictions relating to (a) the protection of
the environment, (b) effect of the environment on human health, (c) emissions,
discharges or releases of Hazardous Substances into surface water, ground water
or land, or (d) the manufacture, processing, distribution, use, treatment,
storage, disposal, transport or handling of Hazardous Substances or the clean-up
or other remediation thereof, in each case, applicable to the Company's or any
of its Subsidiary's operations or Property.
"EQUIVALENT AMOUNT" of any currency with respect to any amount of any
other currency at any date means the equivalent in such currency of such amount
of such other currency, calculated on the basis of the arithmetical mean of the
buy and sell spot rates of exchange of the Agent for such currency at 11:00
a.m., London time, on the date on or as of which such amount is to be
determined.
"ERISA" means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as
amended from time to time, and any rule or regulation issued thereunder.
"EURO" and/or "EUR" means the euro referred to in Council Regulation
(EC) No. 1103/97 dated June 17, 1997 passed by the Council of the European
Union, or, if different, the then lawful currency of the member states of the
European Union that participate in the third stage of Economic and Monetary
Union.
"EURO EQUIVALENT AMOUNT" of any currency at any date shall mean (i) the
amount of such currency if such currency is in Euros or (ii) the Equivalent
Amount of Euros if such currency is any currency other than Euros, calculated on
the basis of the arithmetical mean of the buy and sell spot rates of exchange of
the Agent for such currency on the London market at 11:00 a.m., London time, on
such date or as most recently determined in good faith by the Agent.
"EURO FACILITY LETTER OF CREDIT" means any Letter of Credit for the
account of a Foreign Subsidiary Borrower.
"EURO FACILITY LETTER OF CREDIT OBLIGATIONS" means Facility Letter of
Credit Obligations with respect to Euro Facility Letters of Credit.
"EURO LENDER" means any Euro Revolving Credit Lender or Euro Term Loan
Lender.
"EURO LOAN" means any Euro Revolving Credit Loan or Euro Term Loan.
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"EURO REVOLVING CREDIT COMMITMENT" means, as to any Lender at any time,
its obligation to make Revolving Credit Loans to the Foreign Subsidiary
Borrowers under Section 2.1.2 in an aggregate Euro Equivalent Amount not to
exceed at any time outstanding the Euro amount set forth opposite such Lender's
name in Schedule 1.1(a) under the heading "Euro Revolving Credit Commitment" or
as otherwise established pursuant to Section 13.3, as such amount may be reduced
from time to time pursuant to Section 2.4, 13.3 and the other applicable
provisions hereof.
"EURO REVOLVING CREDIT LENDER" means any Lender which has a Euro
Revolving Credit Commitment.
"EURO REVOLVING CREDIT LOANS" means Revolving Credit Loans made to the
Foreign Subsidiary Borrowers under Section 2.1.2.
"EURO TERM LOAN" means, with respect to a Lender, such Lender's portion
of the term loan made in Available Foreign Currencies pursuant to Section 2.1.4.
"EURO TERM LOAN COMMITMENT" means as to any Lender at any time, its
obligation to make the Euro Term Loan to the Company in an aggregate Euro
Equivalent Amount not to exceed at any time outstanding the aggregate
outstanding principal amount of its respective Euro Revolving Credit Loans of
such Lender outstanding on the Facility Termination Date or as otherwise
established pursuant to Section 13.3, as such amount may be reduced from time to
time pursuant to Section 13.3 and the other applicable provisions hereof.
"EURO TERM LOAN LENDERS" means those Lenders which have a Euro Term
Loan Commitment or, if such Commitments have been terminated, have an
outstanding Euro Term Loan.
"EUROCURRENCY ADVANCE" means a Multicurrency Advance which bears
interest at the Eurocurrency Rate.
"EUROCURRENCY LOAN" means a Multicurrency Loan which bears interest at
the Eurocurrency Rate.
"EUROCURRENCY RATE" means, with respect to a Eurocurrency Loan for the
relevant Interest Period, the sum of (a) the Eurocurrency Reference Rate
applicable to such Interest Period, plus (b) the amount of all reserves, costs
or similar requirements relating to the funding of the relevant Available
Foreign Currency, as determined by the Agent, plus (c) the Applicable Margin.
"EUROCURRENCY REFERENCE RATE" means, with respect to each Interest
Period for a Multicurrency Loan:
(a) the rate per annum quoted at or about 11:00 a.m. (London time) on
the Quotation Date for such period on that page of the Bloombergs'
or Reuters' Screen, as determined by the Agent, which displays
British Bankers Association Interest Settlement Rates for deposits
in the relevant Available Foreign Currency for such period or, if
such page or service shall cease to be available, such other page
or such other service (as the case may be) for the purpose of
displaying British Bankers Association Interest Settlement Rates
for such currency as the Agent, in its discretion, shall select.
(b) If no such rate is displayed for the relevant currency and the
relevant period and there is no Available Foreign Currency
alternative service on which two or more such quotations for the
Available Foreign Currency are displayed, "Eurocurrency Reference
Rate" will
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be the rate at which deposits in the Available Foreign Currency of
that amount are offered by the Agent for that period to prime banks
in the London inter bank market at or about 11:00 a.m. (London
time) on the Quotation Date for such period.
"EURODOLLAR ADVANCE" means an Advance which bears interest at a
Eurodollar Rate.
"EURODOLLAR BASE RATE" means, with respect to a Eurodollar Loan for the
relevant Interest Period, the rate determined by the Agent to be the rate at
which the Agent offers to place deposits in Dollars with first-class banks in
the London interbank market at approximately 11:00 a.m. (London time) two
Business Days prior to the first day of such Interest Period, in the approximate
amount of Bank One's relevant Eurodollar Loan and having a maturity
approximately equal to such Interest Period.
"EURODOLLAR LOAN" means a Loan which bears interest at a Eurodollar
Rate.
"EURODOLLAR RATE" means, with respect to a Eurodollar Loan for the
relevant Interest Period, the sum of (a) the quotient of (i) the Eurodollar Base
Rate applicable to such Interest Period, divided by (ii) one minus the Reserve
Requirement (expressed as a decimal) applicable to such Interest Period, plus
(b) the Applicable Margin. The Eurodollar Rate shall be rounded to the next
higher multiple of 1/16 of 1% if the rate is not such a multiple.
"EXCHANGE RATE" means with respect to any non-U.S. Dollar currency on
any date, the rate at which such currency may be exchanged into U.S. Dollars, as
set forth on such date on the relevant Bloomberg currency page at or about 11:00
a.m., Detroit time. In the event that such rate does not appear on any Bloomberg
currency page, the "Exchange Rate" with respect to such non-U.S. Dollar currency
shall be determined by reference to such other publicly available service for
displaying exchange rates as may be agreed upon by the Agent and the Company or,
in the absence of such agreement, such "Exchange Rate" shall instead be the
Agent's spot rate of exchange in the interbank market where its foreign currency
exchange operations in respect of such non-U.S. Dollar currency are then being
conducted, at or about 10:00 a.m., local time, on such date for the purchase of
U.S. Dollars with such non-U.S. Dollar currency, for delivery three Business
Days later; PROVIDED, that if at the time of any such determination, no such
spot rate can reasonably be quoted, the Agent may use any reasonable method as
it deems applicable to determine such rate, and such determination shall be
conclusive absent manifest error.
"FACILITY LETTER OF CREDIT" means a Letter of Credit issued by an
Issuer pursuant to Section 2.15.
"FACILITY LETTER OF CREDIT OBLIGATIONS" means, as at the time of
determination thereof, all liabilities, whether actual or contingent, of a
Borrower with respect to the Facility Letters of Credit, including the sum of
(a) Reimbursement Obligations and, without duplication, (b) the aggregate
undrawn face amount of the outstanding Facility Letters of Credit.
"FACILITY TERMINATION DATE" means the earlier to occur of (a) November
29, 2000 or (b) the date on which the Revolving Credit Commitments are
terminated pursuant to Article VIII.
"FEDERAL FUNDS EFFECTIVE RATE" means, for any day, an interest rate per
annum equal to the weighted average of the rates on overnight Federal funds
transactions with members of the Federal Reserve System arranged by Federal
funds brokers on such day, as published for such day (or, if such day is not a
Business Day, for the immediately preceding Business Day) by the Federal Reserve
Bank of New York, or, if such rate is not so published for any day which is a
Business Day, the average of the quotations at approximately 10:00 a.m. (Detroit
time) on such day on such transactions received by the Agent from three Federal
funds brokers of recognized standing selected by the Agent in its sole
discretion or, when used in
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connection with any Advance denominated in any Eligible Currency, "Federal Funds
Effective Rate" means the correlative rate of interest with respect to such
Eligible Currency as determined by the Agent in its sole discretion for such
day.
"FINANCIAL CONTRACT" of a Person means (a) any exchange-traded or
over-the-counter futures, forward, swap or option contract or other financial
instrument with similar characteristics or (b) any Rate Hedging Agreement.
"FIXED RATE" means the Eurodollar Rate or the Eurocurrency Rate.
"FIXED RATE ADVANCE" means an Advance which bears interest at a Fixed
Rate.
"FIXED RATE LOAN" means a Loan which bears interest at a Fixed Rate.
"FLOATING RATE" means, for any day, a rate per annum (based on a year
of 365 or 366 days as appropriate) equal to the sum of (a) the Applicable Margin
plus (b) the Alternate Base Rate for such day, in each case changing when and as
the Alternate Base Rate changes.
"FLOATING RATE ADVANCE" means an Advance which bears interest at the
Floating Rate.
"FLOATING RATE LOAN" means a Loan which bears interest at the Floating
Rate.
"FOREIGN SUBSIDIARY" means each Subsidiary organized under the laws of
a jurisdiction outside of the United States.
"FOREIGN SUBSIDIARY BORROWER" means each Foreign Subsidiary listed as a
Foreign Subsidiary Borrower in Schedule 1.1(b) as amended from time to time in
accordance with Section 8.2.2.
"FOREIGN SUBSIDIARY OPINION" means with respect to any Foreign
Subsidiary Borrower, a legal opinion of counsel to such Foreign Subsidiary
Borrower addressed to the Agent and the Lenders concluding that such Foreign
Subsidiary Borrower and the Loan Documents to which it is a party substantially
comply with the matters listed on Exhibit C, with such assumptions,
qualifications and deviations therefrom as the Agent shall approve.
"GOVERNMENTAL AUTHORITY" means any nation or government, any state, or
other political subdivision thereof and any entity exercising executive,
legislative, judicial, regulatory or administrative functions of or pertaining
to government.
"GUARANTOR" means (a) with respect to the Obligations of the Subsidiary
Borrowers, the Company, each present and future Domestic Subsidiary of the
Company required to execute a Guaranty pursuant to Section 2.18 and,
additionally with respect only to the Obligations of each Foreign Subsidiary
Borrower, each parent corporation or other owner and Subsidiary of such Foreign
Subsidiary Borrower (unless such parent corporation or other owner or Subsidiary
Borrower is prohibited from doing so by law or a material adverse tax
consequence would result therefrom) required to execute a Guaranty pursuant to
Section 2.18, and (b) with respect to the Company, each present and future
Domestic Subsidiary of the Company required to execute a Guaranty pursuant to
Section 2.18 and any other Person executing a Guaranty at any time.
"GUARANTY" means, with respect to the Company, the guarantee contained
in Article IX and, with respect to any other Guarantor, each guaranty agreement
in substantially the form of Exhibit D hereto or, in the case of Foreign
Subsidiaries that are Guarantors, such other form agreed to by the Agent and the
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Company duly executed and delivered by each such Guarantor to the Agent,
including any amendment, modification, renewal or replacement of such guaranty
agreement.
"HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES" means any material or substance: (1) which is or
becomes defined as a hazardous substance, pollutant, or contaminant, pursuant to
the Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act
("CERCLA") (42 USC Section 9601 et. seq.) as amended and regulations promulgated
under it; (2) containing gasoline, oil, diesel fuel or other petroleum products;
(3) which is or becomes defined as hazardous waste pursuant to the Resource
Conservation and Recovery Act ("RCRA") (42 USC Section 6901 et. seq.) as amended
and regulations promulgated under it; (4) containing polychlorinated biphenyls
(PCBs); (5) containing asbestos; (6) which is radioactive; (7) the presence of
which requires investigation or remediation under any Environmental Law; (8)
which is or becomes defined or identified as a hazardous waste, hazardous
substance, hazardous or toxic chemical, pollutant, contaminant, or biologically
Hazardous Substance under any Environmental Law.
"INDEBTEDNESS" of a Person means, without duplication, such Person's
(a) obligations for borrowed money or similar obligations, (b) obligations
representing the deferred purchase price of Property or services (other than
accounts payable and/or accrued expenses and commercial Letters of Credit with
respect to the foregoing, in each case arising in the ordinary course of such
Person's business payable in accordance with customary practices), (c)
obligations, whether or not assumed, secured by Liens on property now or
hereafter owned or acquired by such Person, (d) obligations which are evidenced
by notes, acceptances, or other instruments (other than Financial Contracts), to
the extent of the amounts actually borrowed, due, payable or drawn, as the case
may be, (e) Capitalized Lease Obligations, (f) all obligations in respect of
Letters of Credit (other than commercial Letters of Credit referenced in clause
(b) above), whether drawn or undrawn, contingent or otherwise, (g) any other
obligation for borrowed money or other financial accommodation which in
accordance with Agreement Accounting Principles would be shown as a liability on
the consolidated balance sheet of such Person, (h) Off-Balance Sheet
Liabilities, and (i) Contingent Obligations with respect to any of the
foregoing.
"INTEREST COVERAGE RATIO" means, as of the end of any fiscal quarter,
the ratio of (a) EBIT to (b) Interest Expense, in each case calculated for the
four consecutive fiscal quarters then ending, on a consolidated basis for the
Company and its Subsidiaries in accordance with Agreement Accounting Principles.
"INTEREST EXPENSE" means, with respect to any period, the aggregate of
all interest expense reported by the Company and its Subsidiaries in accordance
with Agreement Accounting Principles during such period, net of any cash
interest income received by the Company and its Subsidiaries during such period
from Investments. As used in this definition, the term "interest" shall include,
without limitation, all interest, fees and costs payable with respect to the
obligations under this Agreement (other than fees and costs which may be
capitalized as transaction costs in accordance with Agreement Accounting
Principles), any discount in respect of sales of accounts receivable and/or
related contract rights and the interest portion of Capitalized Lease payments
during such period, all as determined in accordance with Agreement Accounting
Principles.
"INTEREST PERIOD" means with respect to any Fixed Rate Loan:
(a) initially, the period commencing on the borrowing or
conversion date, as the case may be, with respect to such Fixed Rate
Loan and ending one, two, three, or six months thereafter, or such
other period as agreed upon by the Lenders making such Fixed Rate Loan,
as selected by the relevant Borrower in its notice of borrowing or
notice of conversion, as the case may be, given with respect thereto;
and
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(b) thereafter, each period commencing on the last day of the
next preceding Interest Period applicable to such Fixed Rate Loan and
ending one, two, three or six months thereafter, or such other period
as agreed upon by the Lenders, as selected by the relevant Borrower by
irrevocable notice to the 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:
(i) if any Interest Period pertaining to a Fixed Rate
Loan 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;
(ii) any Interest Period applicable to a Fixed Rate
Loan that would otherwise extend beyond, with respect to any
Term Loan, the Maturity Date, or, with respect to any other
Loan, the Facility Termination Date, shall end on the Maturity
Date or the Facility Termination Date, as the case may be; and
(iii) any Interest Period pertaining to a Fixed Rate
Loan that begins on the last Business Day of a calendar month
(or on a day for which there is no numerically corresponding
day in the calendar month at the end of such Interest Period)
shall end on the last Business Day of a calendar month.
"INVESTMENT" of a Person means any loan, advance (other than
commission, travel and similar advances to officers and employees made in the
ordinary course of business), extension of credit (other than accounts
receivable and/or accrued expenses arising in the ordinary course of business
payable in accordance with customary practices and loans to employees in the
ordinary course of business) or contribution of capital by such Person; stocks,
bonds, mutual funds, partnership interests, notes, debentures or other
securities owned by such Person; any deposit accounts and certificates of
deposit owned by such Person; and structured notes, derivative financial
instruments and other similar instruments or contracts owned by such Person
(other than Financial Contracts).
"ISSUERS" or "ISSUER" means (i) Bank One, and (ii) any Lending
Installation of Bank One as Bank One may determine to be the issuer for any
Facility Letter of Credit.
"JOINDER AGREEMENT" means the Joinder Agreement to be entered into by
each Subsidiary Borrower subsequent to the date hereof pursuant to Section
8.2.2, substantially in the form of Exhibit E hereto.
"JUDGMENT CURRENCY" is defined in Section 16.6.
"LENDERS" means the lending institutions listed on the signature pages
of this Agreement or otherwise party hereto as a Lender from time to time, and
their respective successors and, to the extent permitted by Section 13.3,
assigns.
"LENDING INSTALLATION" means, with respect to a Lender or the Agent,
any office, branch, subsidiary or Affiliate of such Lender or the Agent, as the
case may be.
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"LETTER OF CREDIT" of a Person means a letter of credit or similar
instrument which is issued upon the application of such Person or upon which
such Person is an account party or for which such Person is in any way liable.
"LETTER OF CREDIT COLLATERAL ACCOUNT" is defined in Section 2.15.7.
"LIEN" means any lien (statutory or other), mortgage, pledge,
hypothecation, fixed or floating charge, assignment, deposit arrangement,
encumbrance or preference, priority or other security agreement or preferential
arrangement of any kind or nature whatsoever (including, without limitation, the
interest of a vendor or lessor under any conditional sale, Capitalized Lease or
other title retention agreement).
"LOAN" means, with respect to a Lender, such Lender's Revolving Credit
Loans and portion of the Term Loans, and, with respect to the Agent, Swing
Loans.
"LOAN DOCUMENTS" means this Agreement, the Notes, any Rate Hedging
Agreements with any Lenders or their Affiliates and the other agreements,
certificates and other documents contemplated hereby or executed or delivered
pursuant hereto by any Borrower or any Guarantor at any time with or in favor of
the Agent or any Lender.
"LONDON BANKING DAY" means any day on which banks in London are open
for substantially all of their banking business, including dealings in foreign
currency and exchange.
"MARGIN STOCK" means "margin stock" as defined in Regulations U or X or
"marginable OTC stock" or "foreign margin stock" within the meaning of
Regulation T.
"MATERIAL ADVERSE EFFECT" means a material adverse effect on (i) the
business, Property, condition (financial or otherwise) or results of operations
of the Company and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole, (ii) the ability of the
Borrowers and Guarantors, taken as a whole, to pay the Obligations under the
Loan Documents, or (iii) the validity or enforceability of any of the Loan
Documents or the rights or remedies of the Agent or the Lenders thereunder.
"MATURITY DATE" means the earlier to occur of (a) November 29, 2002 or
(b) the date on which the maturity of the Term Loans are accelerated pursuant to
Article VIII.
"MOODY'S" means Xxxxx'x Investors Service, Inc.
"MULTICURRENCY ADVANCE" means a borrowing hereunder (or continuation or
a conversion thereof) consisting of the several Multicurrency Loans made on the
same Borrowing Date (or date of conversion or continuation) by the Lenders to a
Borrower of the same Type, in the same Available Foreign Currency and for the
same Interest Period.
"MULTICURRENCY LOANS" means, Euro Loans and any Swing Loans made to the
Foreign Subsidiary Borrowers.
"MULTIEMPLOYER PLAN" means a plan defined in Section 4001(a)(3) of
ERISA to which the Company or any member of the Controlled Group has an
obligation to contribute.
"NET WORTH" means, as of any date, the amount of any capital stock,
paid in capital and similar equity accounts plus (or minus in the case of a
deficit) the capital surplus and retained earnings of the Company and its
Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis, all as determined in accordance with
Agreement Accounting Principles.
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"NON-CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION" is defined in Section 10.11.
"NON-EXCLUDED TAXES" is defined in Section 3.6.1.
"NOTES" means the collective reference to the Revolving Credit Notes
and the Term Notes.
"NOTICE OF ASSIGNMENT" is defined in Section 13.3.2.
"OBLIGATIONS" means collectively, the unpaid principal of and interest
on the Loans, all obligations and liabilities pursuant to the Facility Letters
of Credit, all Rate Hedging Obligations and all other obligations and
liabilities of each Borrower and each Guarantor to the Agent or the Lenders
(including Affiliates of such Lenders in the case of Rate Hedging obligations)
under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents (including, without
limitation, interest accruing at the then applicable rate provided in this
Agreement or any other applicable Loan Document after the maturity of the Loans
and interest accruing at the then applicable rate provided in this Agreement or
any other applicable Loan Document after the filing of any petition in
bankruptcy, or the commencement of any insolvency, reorganization or like
proceeding, relating to any Borrower or any Guarantor, as the case may be,
whether or not a claim for post-filing or post-petition interest is allowed in
such proceeding), 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, the other Loan Documents or any other
document made, delivered or given in connection therewith, in each case whether
on account of principal, interest, reimbursement obligations, fees, indemnities,
costs, expenses or otherwise (including, without limitation, all reasonable fees
and disbursements of counsel to the Agent or to the Lenders that are required to
be paid by any Borrower or any Guarantor pursuant to the terms of this Agreement
or any other Loan Document).
"OBLIGOR" means any Person which is obligated to make payments for the
provision of goods and services pursuant to a Contract.
"OFF-BALANCE SHEET LIABILITY of a Person means (i) any repurchase
obligation or liability of such Person with respect to accounts or notes
receivable sold by such Person, (ii) any liability under any Sale and Leaseback
Transaction which is not a Capitalized Lease, (iii) any liability under any
so-called "synthetic lease" transaction entered into by such Person, or (iv) any
obligation arising with respect to any other transaction which is the functional
equivalent of or takes the place of borrowing but which does not constitute a
liability on the balance sheets of such Person.
"PARTICIPANTS" is defined in Section 13.2.1.
"PAYMENT DATE" means the last Business Day of each March, June,
September and December occurring after the Effective Date, commencing December
31, 1999.
"PBGC" means the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, or any successor
thereto.
"PERSON" means any natural person, corporation, firm, joint venture,
limited liability company, partnership, association, enterprise, company or
other entity or organization, or any government or political subdivision or any
agency, department or instrumentality thereof.
"PLAN" means an employee pension benefit plan which is covered by Title
IV of ERISA or subject to the minimum funding standards under Section 412 of the
Code as to which the Company or any member of the Controlled Group has any
obligation to contribute to on or after the Effective Date.
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"PRIME RATE" means the per annum rate announced or established by the
Agent from time to time as its "prime rate" (it being acknowledged that such
announced rate may not necessarily be the lowest rate charged by the Agent to
any of its customers) or the corporate base rate of interest announced or
established by any Affiliate of the Agent or, when used in connection with any
Advance denominated in any Eligible Currency, "Prime Rate" means the correlative
floating rate of interest customarily applicable to similar extensions of credit
to corporate borrowers denominated in such currency in the country of issue, as
determined by the Agent, which Prime Rate shall change simultaneously with any
change in such announced or established rates.
"PRO RATA SHARE" means, for each Lender, the ratio of such Lender's
Commitment (calculated using the U.S. Dollar Equivalent thereof) to the
Aggregate Commitment (calculated using the U.S. Dollar Equivalent thereof),
PROVIDED that (a) with respect to U.S. Revolving Credit Loans, U.S. Facility
Letters of Credit, Swing Loans made to the Company and facility fees with
respect to the U.S. Revolving Credit Commitment, Pro Rata Share means, for each
Lender, the ratio such Lender's U.S. Revolving Credit Commitment bears to the
Aggregate U.S. Revolving Credit Commitments, (b) with respect to Euro Revolving
Credit Loans, Euro Facility Letters of Credit, Swing Loans made to the Foreign
Subsidiary Borrowers and facility fees with respect to the Euro Revolving Credit
Commitment, Pro Rata Share means, for each Lender, the ratio such Lender's Euro
Revolving Credit Commitment bears to the Aggregate Euro Revolving Credit
Commitments, (c) with respect to the U.S. Term Loan, Pro Rata Share means, for
each Lender, the ratio such Lender's U.S. Term Loan Commitment bears to the
Aggregate U.S. Term Loan Commitment, and (d) with respect to the Euro Term Loan,
Pro Rata Share means, for each Lender, the ratio such Lender's Euro Term Loan
Commitment bears to the Aggregate Euro Term Loan Commitment. If at any time the
Commitments have been terminated, the amount of any Commitment for the purposes
of this definition of "Pro Rata Share" only shall be deemed equal to the amount
of such Commitment immediately prior to its termination.
"PROPERTY" of a Person means any and all property, whether real,
personal, movable, immovable, tangible, intangible, or mixed, of such Person, or
other assets owned, leased or operated by such Person.
"PURCHASERS" is defined in Section 13.3.1.
"QUOTATION DATE" in relation to any period for which a Eurocurrency
Reference Rate is to be determined hereunder, means the date on which quotations
would ordinarily be given by prime Lenders in the London inter-bank market for
deposits in the Available Foreign Currency in relation to which such rate is to
be determined for delivery on the first day of that period, provided that, if,
for such period, quotations would ordinarily be given on more than one date, the
Quotation Date for that period shall be the last of those dates.
"RATE HEDGING AGREEMENT" means an agreement, device or arrangement
providing for payments which are related to fluctuations of interest rates,
exchange rates or forward rates, including, but not limited to,
dollar-denominated or cross-currency interest rate exchange agreements, forward
currency exchange agreements, interest rate cap or collar protection agreements,
forward rate currency or interest rate options, puts and warrants.
"RATE HEDGING OBLIGATIONS" of a Person means any and all obligations of
such Person, whether absolute or contingent and howsoever and whensoever
created, arising, evidenced or acquired (including all renewals, extensions and
modifications thereof and substitutions therefor), under (a) any and all Rate
Hedging Agreements, and (b) any and all cancellations, buy backs, reversals,
terminations or assignments of any Rate Hedging Agreement.
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"REGULATION D" means Regulation D of the Board of Governors of the
Federal Reserve System as from time to time in effect and any successor thereto
or other regulation or official interpretation of said Board of Governors
relating to reserve requirements applicable to member banks of the Federal
Reserve System.
"REGULATION T" means Regulation T of the Board of Governors of the
Federal Reserve System as from time to time in effect and any successor or other
regulation or official interpretation of said Board of Governors.
"REGULATION U" means Regulation U of the Board of Governors of the
Federal Reserve System as from time to time in effect and any successor or other
regulation or official interpretation of said Board of Governors.
"REGULATION X" means Regulation X of the Board of Governors of the
Federal Reserve System as from time to time in effect and any successor or other
regulation or official interpretation of said Board of Governors.
"REIMBURSEMENT OBLIGATIONS" means, at any time, the aggregate of the
obligations of the Borrowers to the Lenders and the Issuers in respect of all
unreimbursed payments or disbursements made by the Issuers and the Lenders under
or in respect of the Facility Letters of Credit.
"RELEASE" means any release, spill, leak, discharge or leaching of any
Hazardous Substances into the environment in violation of any Environmental Law.
"REMEDIAL ACTION" means an action to address a Release or other
violation of Environmental Laws required by any Environmental Law.
"REPORTABLE EVENT" means a reportable event as defined in Section 4043
of ERISA and the regulations issued under such section with respect to a Plan
subject to Title IV of ERISA, excluding, however, such events as to which the
PBGC by regulation waived the requirement of Section 4043(a) of ERISA that it be
notified within 30 days of the occurrence of such event, PROVIDED, however, that
a failure to meet the minimum funding standard of Section 412 of the Code and of
Section 302 of ERISA shall be a Reportable Event regardless of the issuance of
any such waiver of the notice requirement in accordance with Section 4043(a) of
ERISA or of the minimum funding standard under Section 412(d) of the Code.
"REQUIRED EURO REVOLVING CREDIT LENDERS" means (a) at any time prior to
the termination of the Euro Revolving Credit Commitments, Euro Revolving Credit
Lenders holding not less than 51% of the aggregate Euro Revolving Credit
Commitments of all Euro Revolving Credit Lenders and (b) at any time after the
termination of the Euro Revolving Credit Commitments, Euro Revolving Credit
Lenders whose aggregate Euro Revolving Credit Loans and Pro Rata Shares of Euro
Facility Letters of Credit aggregate at least 51% date of the Aggregate Euro
Revolving Credit Loans of all Euro Revolving Credit Lenders and all Euro
Facility Letters of Credit.
"REQUIRED LENDERS" means (a) at any time prior to the termination of
the Commitments, Lenders holding not less than 51% of the U. S. Dollar
Equivalent of the aggregate Commitments of all Lenders; and (b) at any time
after the termination of the Commitments, Lenders whose Aggregate Total
Outstandings aggregate at least 51% of the Aggregate Total Outstandings of all
Lenders.
"REQUIRED U.S. REVOLVING CREDIT LENDERS" means (a) at any time prior to
the termination of the U.S. Revolving Credit Commitments, U.S. Revolving Credit
Lenders holding not less than 51% of the aggregate U.S. Revolving Credit
Commitments of all U.S. Revolving Credit Lenders and (b) at any time
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after the termination of the U.S. Revolving Credit Commitments, U.S. Revolving
Credit Lenders whose aggregate U.S. Revolving Credit Loans and Pro Rata Shares
of U.S. Facility Letters of Credit aggregate at least 51% date of the Aggregate
U.S. Revolving Credit Loans of all U.S. Revolving Credit Lenders and all U.S.
Facility Letters of Credit.
"REQUIRED EURO TERM LOAN LENDERS" means Euro Term Loan Lenders holding
not less than 51% of the aggregate amount of the Euro Term Loan made by all Euro
Term Loan Lenders.
"REQUIRED U.S. TERM LOAN LENDERS" means U.S. Term Loan Lenders holding
not less than 51% of the aggregate amount of the U.S. Term Loan made by all U.S.
Term Loan Lenders.
"REQUIREMENT OF LAW" means 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.
"RESERVE REQUIREMENT" means, with respect to an Interest Period for
Eurodollar Loans or Eurocurrency Loans, the maximum aggregate reserve
requirement (including all basic, supplemental, marginal and other reserves),
assessments or similar requirements under any regulations of the Board of
Governors of the Federal Reserve System or other Governmental Authority having
jurisdiction with respect thereto dealing with reserve requirements prescribed
for eurocurrency funding (currently referred to as "Eurocurrency Liabilities" in
Regulation D).
"REVOLVING CREDIT ADVANCE" means a borrowing hereunder (or continuation
or conversion thereof) consisting of the several Revolving Credit Loans made on
the same Borrowing Date (or date of conversion or continuation) by the Lenders
to a Borrower of the same Type and in the case of Fixed Rate Advances, for the
same Interest Period.
"REVOLVING CREDIT COMMITMENTS" means the Euro Revolving Credit
Commitments and the U.S. Revolving Credit Commitments.
"REVOLVING CREDIT COMMITTED PERCENTAGE" means as to any Lender at any
time, the percentage which the U.S. Dollar Equivalent of such Lender's Revolving
Credit Commitments then constitutes of the aggregate U.S. Dollar Equivalent of
the Revolving Credit Commitments of all Lenders (or, if the Revolving Credit
Commitments have terminated or expired, the percentage which (a) the U.S. Dollar
Equivalent of the Aggregate Revolving Credit Outstandings of such Lender at such
time then constitutes of (b) the U.S. Dollar Equivalent of the Aggregate
Revolving Credit Outstandings of all Revolving Credit Lenders at such time).
"REVOLVING CREDIT LENDERS" means those Lenders which have a Revolving
Credit Commitment or, if such Commitments shall have been terminated, have
outstanding Revolving Credit Loans or Facility Letter of Credit Obligations.
"REVOLVING CREDIT LOANS" means, with respect to a Lender, such Lender's
revolving credit loans made pursuant to Section 2.1.
"REVOLVING CREDIT NOTE" is defined in Section 2.2.3.
"S&P" means Standard & Poor's Rating Services, a division of The McGraw
Hill Companies, Inc.
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"SALE AND LEASEBACK TRANSACTION" means any sale or other transfer of
property by any Person with the intent to lease or use such Property as lessee
or in any other capacity.
"SECTION" means a numbered section of this Agreement, unless another
document is specifically referenced.
"SIGNIFICANT SUBSIDIARY" means each present or future subsidiary of the
Company which would constitute a "significant subsidiary" within the meaning of
Rule 1-02 of Regulation S-X as currently in effect promulgated by the Securities
and Exchange Commission.
"SINGLE EMPLOYER PLAN" means a Plan which is maintained by the Company
or any member of the Controlled Group for employees of the Company or any member
of the Controlled Group.
"SUBSIDIARY" of a Person means (a) any corporation more than 50% of the
outstanding securities having ordinary voting power of which shall at the time
be owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by such Person or by one or more
of its Subsidiaries or by such Person and one or more of its Subsidiaries, or
(b) any partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture or
similar business organization more than 50% of the ownership interests having
ordinary voting power of which shall at the time be so owned or controlled.
Unless otherwise expressly provided, all references herein to a "Subsidiary"
means a Subsidiary of the Company.
"SUBSIDIARY BORROWERS" means Foreign Subsidiary Borrowers and Domestic
Subsidiary Borrowers.
"SUBSTANTIAL PORTION" means, with respect to the Property of the
Company and its Subsidiaries, Property which (a) represents more than 15% of the
consolidated assets of the Company and its Subsidiaries as would be shown in the
consolidated financial statements of the Company and its Subsidiaries as at the
beginning of the twelve-month period ending with the month in which such
determination is made, (b) is responsible for more than 15% of the consolidated
net sales of the Company and its Subsidiaries as reflected in the financial
statements referred to in clause (a) above, (c) represents more than 25% of the
consolidated assets of the Company and its Subsidiaries as would be shown in the
consolidated financial statements of the Company and its Subsidiaries as of the
Effective Date or (d) is responsible for more than 25% of the consolidated net
sales of the Company and its Subsidiaries as reflected in the financial
statements referred to in clause (c) above.
"SWING LOANS" is defined in Section 2.16.
"TANGIBLE NET WORTH" means, as of any date, the difference of (i) Net
Worth, minus (ii) to the extent included in determining the amount under the
foregoing clause (i), the net book value of goodwill, cost in excess of fair
value of net assets acquired, patents, trademarks, tradenames and copyrights,
treasury stock and all other assets which are deemed intangible assets under
Agreement Accounting Principles.
"TERM LOAN COMMITMENTS" means the Euro Term Loan Commitments and the
U.S. Term Loan Commitments.
"TERM LOANS" means, with respect to a Lender, such Lender's portion of
the U.S. Term Loan and the Euro Term Loan.
"TERM LOAN NOTE" is defined in Section 2.2.3.
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"TOTAL DEBT" as of any date, means all of the following for the Company
and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis and without duplication: (i) all
debt for borrowed money and similar monetary obligations evidenced by bonds,
notes, debentures, Capitalized Lease Obligations or otherwise, including without
limitation obligations in respect of the deferred purchase price of properties
or assets, in each case whether direct or indirect (other than accounts payable
and/or accrued expenses and commercial Letters of Credit with respect to the
foregoing, in each case arising in the ordinary course of such Person's business
payable in accordance with customary practices); (ii) all liabilities secured by
any Lien existing on property owned or acquired subject thereto, whether or not
the liability secured thereby shall have been assumed; (iii) all reimbursement
obligations under outstanding Letters of Credit (other than commercial Letters
of Credit referenced in clause (i) above) in respect of drafts which (A) may be
presented or (B) have been presented and have not yet been paid and are not
included in clause (i) above; (iv) all Off Balance Sheet Liabilities; and (v)
all guarantees and other Contingent Obligation relating to indebtedness or
liabilities of the type described in the foregoing clauses (i), (ii) or (iii);
provided that money borrowed by the Company against the cash value of life
insurance policies owned by the Company shall not be considered part of Total
Debt.
"TOTAL DEBT TO CAPITALIZATION RATIO" means the ratio of Total Debt to
the sum of(a) Total Debt plus (b) Net Worth, as calculated in accordance with
Agreement Accounting Principles.
"TRANSFEREE" is defined in Section 13.4.
"TYPE" means, with respect to any Advance, its nature as a Floating
Rate Advance, Eurocurrency Advance or Eurodollar Advance.
"UNFUNDED LIABILITIES" means the amount (if any) by which the actuarial
present value of all benefit liabilities under all Single Employer Plans exceeds
the fair market value of all such Plan assets allocable to such benefit
liabilities, all determined as of the then most recent valuation date for such
Plans in accordance with Section 4001(a)(18) of ERISA.
"UNMATURED DEFAULT" means an event which but for the lapse of time or
the giving of notice, or both, would constitute a Default.
"U.S. DOLLAR EQUIVALENT" means, on any date with respect to an amount
denominated in any currency other than U.S. Dollars, the equivalent in U.S.
Dollars of such amount determined at the Exchange Rate on the date of
determination of such equivalent.
"U.S. FACILITY LETTER OF CREDIT" means any Letter of Credit for the
account of the Company.
"U.S. FACILITY LETTER OF CREDIT OBLIGATIONS" means Facility Letter of
Credit Obligations with respect to U.S. Facility Letters of Credit.
"U.S. LENDER" means any U.S. Revolving Credit Lender or U.S. Term Loan
Lender.
"U.S. LOAN" means any U.S. Revolving Credit Loan or U.S. Term Loan.
"U.S. REVOLVING CREDIT COMMITMENT" means, as to any Lender at any time,
its obligation to make Revolving Credit Loans to the Company in Dollars in an
aggregate amount not to exceed at any time outstanding the U.S. Dollar amount
set forth opposite such Lender's name in Schedule 1.1(a) under the heading "U.S.
Revolving Credit Commitment" or as otherwise established pursuant to Section
13.3, as such amount may be reduced from time to time pursuant to Sections 2.4,
13.3 and the other applicable provisions hereof.
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"U.S. REVOLVING CREDIT LENDER" means any Lender which has a U.S.
Revolving Credit Commitment.
"U.S. REVOLVING CREDIT LOANS" means Revolving Credit Loans made to the
Company pursuant to Section 2.1.1.
"U.S. TERM LOAN" means, with respect to a Lender, such Lender's portion
of the term loan made in U.S. Dollars pursuant to Section 2.1.3.
"U.S. TERM LOAN COMMITMENT" means as to any Lender at any time, its
obligation to make the U.S. Term Loan to the Company in an aggregate amount not
to exceed at any time outstanding the aggregate outstanding principal amount of
its respective U.S. Revolving Credit Loans of such Lender outstanding on the
Facility Termination Date or as otherwise established pursuant to Section 13.3,
as such amount may be reduced from time to time pursuant to Section 13.3 and the
other applicable provisions hereof.
"U.S. TERM LOAN LENDER" means any Lender which has a U.S. Term Loan
Commitment or, if such Commitments have been terminated, has an outstanding Term
Loan.
"VOTING STOCK" of a Person means all classes of Capital Stock of such
Person then outstanding and normally entitled (without regard to the occurrence
of any contingency) to vote in the election of directors, managers, trustees or
similar persons thereof.
"WHOLLY OWNED SUBSIDIARY" of a Person means any other Person of which
100% of the outstanding Voting Stock of which shall at the time be owned or
controlled, directly or indirectly, by such Person or one or more Wholly Owned
Subsidiaries of such Person, or by such Person and one or more Wholly Owned
Subsidiaries of such Person.
"YEAR 2000 ISSUES" means anticipated costs, problems and uncertainties
associated with the inability of certain computer applications to effectively
handle data including dates on and after January 1, 2000, as such inability
directly affects the business, operations and financial condition of the
Borrower and its Subsidiaries.
"YEAR 2000 PROGRAM" is defined in Section 5.23.
1.2 RULES OF CONSTRUCTION. All terms defined in Section 1.1 shall
include both the singular and the plural forms thereof and shall be construed
accordingly. Use of the terms "HEREIN", "HEREOF", and "HEREUNDER" shall be
deemed references to this Agreement in its entirety and not to the Section or
clause in which such term appears. References to "SECTIONS" and "SUBSECTIONS"
shall be to Sections and subsections, respectively, of this Agreement unless
otherwise specifically provided. Notwithstanding anything herein, in any
financial statements of the Company or in Agreement Accounting Principles to the
contrary, for purposes of calculating the Applicable Margin and of calculating
and determining compliance with the financial covenants in Sections 6.17 and
6.18, including defined terms used therein, any Acquisitions made by the Company
or any of its Subsidiaries, including through mergers or consolidations and
including the incurrence of all Indebtedness related thereto and any other
related financial transactions, during the period for which such financial
covenants were calculated shall be deemed to have occurred on the first day of
the relevant period for which such financial covenants and the Applicable Margin
were calculated on a pro forma basis acceptable to the Agent.
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THE CREDITS
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2.1 COMMITMENTS.
2.1.1 From and including the Effective Date and prior to the Facility
Termination Date, each U.S. Revolving Credit Lender severally agrees, on the
terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, to make U.S. Revolving Credit
Loans to the Company and the Domestic Subsidiary Borrowers from time to time so
long as after giving effect thereto and to any concurrent repayment of Loans the
Aggregate U.S. Revolving Credit Outstandings of each U.S. Revolving Credit
Lender are equal to or less than its U.S. Revolving Credit Commitment. Subject
to the terms of this Agreement, the Company and the Domestic Subsidiary
Borrowers may borrow, repay and reborrow U.S. Revolving Credit Loans at any time
prior to the Facility Termination Date. The U.S. Revolving Credit Loans may be
Floating Rate Loans or Eurodollar Loans, or a combination thereof selected in
accordance with Sections 2.3 and 2.7. The U.S. Revolving Credit Commitments to
lend hereunder shall expire on the Facility Termination Date.
2.1.2 From and including the Effective Date and prior to the Facility
Termination Date, each Euro Revolving Credit Lender severally agrees, on the
terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, to make Euro Revolving Credit
Loans to the Company and the Foreign Subsidiary Borrowers from time to time so
long as after giving effect thereto and to any concurrent repayment of Loans the
Aggregate Euro Revolving Credit Outstandings of each Euro Revolving Credit
Lender are equal to or less than its Euro Revolving Credit Commitment. Subject
to the terms of this Agreement, the Company and the Foreign Subsidiary Borrowers
may borrow, repay and reborrow Euro Revolving Credit Loans at any time prior to
the Facility Termination Date. The Euro Revolving Credit Loans will be
Eurocurrency Loans as selected in accordance with Sections 2.3 and 2.7. The Euro
Revolving Credit Commitments to lend hereunder shall expire on the Facility
Termination Date.
2.1.3 Each U.S. Term Loan Lender severally agrees, on the terms and
conditions set forth in this Agreement, to make a single U.S. Term Loan to the
Company and the Domestic Subsidiary Borrowers on the Facility Termination Date
in an amount not to exceed, with respect to each U.S. Term Loan Lender, the
aggregate outstanding principal amount of such Lender's U.S. Revolving Credit
Loans outstanding on the Facility Termination Date. The U.S. Term Loan, or any
portion thereof, may be Floating Rate Loans or Eurodollar Loans, or a
combination thereof, with the selection in accordance with procedures acceptable
to the Agent.
2.1.4 Each Euro Term Loan Lender severally agrees, on the terms and
conditions set forth in this Agreement, to make a single Euro Term Loan to the
Foreign Subsidiary Borrowers on the Facility Termination Date in an amount not
to exceed, with respect to each Euro Term Loan Lender, the aggregate outstanding
principal amount of such Lender's Euro Revolving Credit Loans outstanding on the
Facility Termination Date. The Euro Term Loan, or any portion thereof, will be
Eurocurrency Loans.
2.2 REPAYMENT OF LOANS; EVIDENCE OF DEBT.
2.2.1 (a) The Company and each Domestic Subsidiary Borrower hereby
unconditionally promise to pay to the Agent for the account of each U.S.
Revolving Credit Lender in U.S. Dollars the then unpaid principal amount of each
U.S. Revolving Credit Loan of such Lender made to the Company or such Domestic
Subsidiary Borrower on the Facility Termination Date and on such other dates and
in such other amounts as may be required from time to time under the terms of
this Agreement. The Company and each Domestic Subsidiary Borrower hereby further
agree to pay to the Agent for the account of each U.S. Revolving Credit Lender
interest in U.S. Dollars on the unpaid principal amount of
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the U.S. Revolving Credit Loans from time to time outstanding until payment
thereof in full at the rates per annum, and on the dates, set forth in Section
2.8.
(b) The Company and each Foreign Subsidiary Borrower hereby
unconditionally promise to pay to the Agent for the account of each Euro
Revolving Credit Lender in the relevant Available Foreign Currency the then
unpaid principal amount of each Euro Revolving Credit Loan of such Lender made
to the Company or such Foreign Subsidiary Borrower on the Facility Termination
Date and on such other dates and in such other amounts as may be required from
time to time under the terms of this Agreement. The Company and each Foreign
Subsidiary Borrower hereby further agree to pay to the Agent for the account of
each Euro Revolving Credit Lender interest in the relevant Available Foreign
Currency on the unpaid principal amount of the Euro Revolving Credit Loans from
time to time outstanding until payment thereof in full at the rates per annum,
and on the dates, set forth in Section 2.8.
(c) The Company and each Domestic Subsidiary Borrower hereby
unconditionally promise to pay to the Agent for the account of each U.S. Term
Loan Lender in U.S. Dollars the entire outstanding principal amount of the U.S.
Term Loan in eight (8) equal quarterly installments payable on the date three
months after the Facility Termination Date and each successive three months
thereafter to and including the Maturity Date, when the U.S. Term Loan should be
due and payable in full.
(d) The Company and each Foreign Subsidiary Borrower hereby
unconditionally promise to pay to the Agent for the account of each Euro Term
Loan Lender in the relevant Available Foreign Currencies the entire outstanding
principal amount of the Euro Term Loan in eight (8) equal quarterly installments
payable on the date three months after the Facility Termination Date and each
successive three months thereafter to and including the Maturity Date, when the
Euro Term Loan should be due and payable in full.
2.2.2 The books and records of the Agent and of each Lender shall, to
the extent permitted by applicable law, be PRIMA FACIE evidence of the existence
and amounts of the obligations of the Borrowers therein recorded; PROVIDED,
HOWEVER, that the failure of any Lender or the Agent to maintain any such books
and records or any error therein, shall not in any manner affect the obligation
of the Borrowers to repay (with applicable interest) the Loans made to such
Borrowers by such Lender in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.
2.2.3 The Borrowers agree that, upon the request to the Agent by any
Lender from time to time and the subsequent request to the Company by the Agent,
the relevant Borrowers will execute and deliver to such Lender (a) promissory
notes of each Borrower evidencing the Revolving Credit Loans of any such
requesting Revolving Credit Lender, substantially in the form of Exhibit
F-1 with appropriate insertions as to date, currency and principal amount (each,
a "REVOLVING CREDIT NOTE"), and (b) promissory notes of each Borrower evidencing
the Term Loans of any such requesting Term Loan Lenders, substantially in the
form of Exhibit F-2 with appropriate insertions as to date and principal amount
(each, a "TERM LOAN NOTE"); PROVIDED, that the delivery of such Notes shall not
be a condition precedent to the Effective Date or any Advance.
2.3 PROCEDURES FOR BORROWING. (a) The Company and each Domestic
Subsidiary Borrower may borrow under the U.S. Revolving Credit Commitments and
each Foreign Subsidiary Borrower may borrow under the Euro Revolving Credit
Commitments, in each case from time to time prior to the Facility Termination
Date on any Business Day.
(b) In the case of a borrowing under the U.S. Revolving Credit
Commitments, the Company and each borrowing Domestic Subsidiary Borrower shall
give the Agent irrevocable notice (which notice must be received by the Agent
prior to 11:00 a.m., Detroit time) (i) three Business Days
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prior to the requested Borrowing Date, if all or any part of the requested
Revolving Credit Loans are to be Eurodollar Loans, or (ii) one Business Day
prior to the requested Borrowing Date otherwise, specifying in each case (w) the
amount to be borrowed, (x) the requested Borrowing Date, (y) whether the
borrowing is to be of Eurodollar Loans, Floating Rate Loans or a combination
thereof and (z) if the borrowing is to be entirely or partly of Eurodollar
Loans, the amount of such Type of Loan and the length of the initial Interest
Periods therefor. Each borrowing under the U.S. Revolving Credit Commitments
shall be in an amount equal to (A) in the case of Floating Rate Loans,
$5,000,000 or a whole multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof (or, if the then
aggregate available U.S. Revolving Credit Commitments are less than $5,000,000,
such lesser amount) and (B) in the case of Eurodollar Loans, $5,000,000 or a
whole multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof. Upon receipt of any such notice
from the Company or any such Domestic Subsidiary Borrower, as the case may be,
the Agent shall promptly notify each Revolving Credit Lender thereof. Not later
than noon, Detroit time on each requested Borrowing Date each Revolving Credit
Lender shall make an amount equal to its Pro Rata Share of the principal amount
of the Revolving Credit Loans requested to be made on such Borrowing Date
available to the Agent at its Detroit office specified in Section 14.1 in U.S.
Dollars and in immediately available funds. The Agent shall on such date credit
the account of the Company on the books of such office with the aggregate of the
amounts made available to the Agent by the Revolving Credit Lenders and in like
funds as received by the Agent.
(c) In the case of a borrowing under the Euro Revolving Credit
Commitments, the Company and each Foreign Subsidiary Borrower shall give the
Agent irrevocable notice (which notice must be received by the Agent prior to
11:00 a.m., London time three Business Days prior to the requested Borrowing
Date) specifying in each case (i) the amount to be borrowed, (ii) the requested
Borrowing Date, (iii) the Available Foreign Currency thereof and (iv) the length
of the initial Interest Period therefor. Each borrowing by the Company or a
Foreign Subsidiary Borrower under Section 2.1.2 or 2.1.4 shall be in an
Available Foreign Currency. Each such borrowing by the Company or any Foreign
Subsidiary Borrower shall be in an amount equal to an amount in the relevant
Available Foreign Currency which is 5,000,000 units or a whole multiple of
1,000,000 units in excess thereof or such other amounts as may be agreed upon
between the Company and the Agent. Upon receipt of any such notice from any such
Borrower, the Agent shall promptly notify the relevant Revolving Credit Lenders
with respect to such Borrowing. Not later than 1:00 p.m., local time of the
Agent's funding office for such Borrower, on the requested Borrowing Date, each
such Revolving Credit Lender shall make an amount equal to its Pro Rata Share of
the principal amount of such Revolving Loans requested to be made on such
Borrowing Date available to the Agent at the Agent's funding office for such
Borrower specified by the Agent from time to time by notice to such Revolving
Credit Lenders and in immediately available or other same day funds customarily
used for settlement in the relevant Available Foreign Currency. The amounts made
available by each such Revolving Credit Lender will then be made-available to
the relevant Borrower at the funding office for such Borrower and in like funds
as received by the Agent.
(d) The Company and each borrowing Domestic Subsidiary Borrower
shall give the Agent irrevocable notice (which notice must be received by the
Agent prior to 11:00 a.m. Detroit time) at least 15 days prior to the Facility
Termination Date if the Company and such Domestic Subsidiary Borrowers will be
borrowing the U.S. Term Loan. The Company and each borrowing Foreign Subsidiary
Borrower shall give the Agent irrevocable notice (which notice must be received
by the Agent prior to 11:00 a.m., London time) at least 15 days prior to the
Facility Termination Date if the Company and such Foreign Subsidiary Borrowers
will be borrowing the Euro Term Loan. The initial interest rate and Interest
Period, if applicable, on the Term Loans will determined pursuant to procedures
acceptable to the Agent and the Borrowers and consistent with this Agreement.
2.4 TERMINATION OR REDUCTION OF REVOLVING CREDIT COMMITMENTS. The
Company or any Foreign Subsidiary Borrower may permanently reduce the Euro
Revolving Credit Commitments, in
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whole or in part, ratably among the Euro Revolving Credit Lenders in integral
multiples of EUR5,000,000 and the Company or any Domestic Subsidiary Borrower
may permanently reduce the U.S. Revolving Credit Commitments, in whole or in
part, ratably among the U.S. Revolving Credit Lenders in integral multiples of
$10,000,000, in each case upon at least three Business Days' irrevocable written
notice to the Agent, and which notice shall specify the amount of any such
reduction, PROVIDED, however, that the Aggregate Euro Revolving Credit
Commitments may not be reduced below the Aggregate Euro Revolving Credit
Outstandings of all Lenders and the Aggregate U.S. Revolving Credit Commitments
may not be reduced below the Aggregate U.S. Revolving Credit Outstandings of all
Lenders. In addition, all accrued facility fees shall be payable on the
effective date of any termination of the Revolving Credit Commitments.
2.5 FACILITY AND AGENT FEES. (a) Each Borrower agrees to pay to the
Agent for the account of each Lender a facility fee at the rate per annum set
forth in the Pricing Schedule on Exhibit A attached hereto, on the average daily
amount of each Revolving Credit Commitment of such Lender to such Borrower,
whether used or unused, from and including the Effective Date to but excluding
the Facility Termination Date, payable on each Payment Date hereafter and on the
Facility Termination Date. The facility fee payable in respect to each Revolving
Credit Commitment shall be payable in the currency in which such Revolving
Credit Commitment is denominated.
(b) The Company agrees to pay to the Agent for its own account,
such other fees as agreed to in writing between the Company and the Agent.
2.6 OPTIONAL AND MANDATORY PRINCIPAL PAYMENTS ON ALL LOANS.
2.6.1 Each Borrower may at any time and from time to time prepay
Floating Rate Loans, in whole or in part, without penalty or premium, upon at
least one Business Day's irrevocable notice to the Agent, specifying the date
and amount of prepayment. If any such notice is given, the amount specified in
such notice shall be due and payable on the date specified therein. Partial
prepayment of Floating Rate Loans shall be in a minimum aggregate amount of
$1,000,000 or any integral multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof.
2.6.2 Each Borrower may at any time and from time to time prepay,
without premium or penalty (but together with payment of any amount payable
pursuant to Section 3.4), its Eurodollar Loans and its Multicurrency Loans in
whole or in part, upon at least three Business Days' irrevocable notice to the
Agent specifying the date and amount of prepayment. Partial payments of
Eurodollar Loans shall be in a minimum aggregate amount of $5,000,000 or any
integral multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof. Partial prepayments of
Multicurrency Loans shall be in an aggregate principal amount in the relevant
Available Foreign Currency of 5,000,000 units or any integral multiple of
1,000,000 units in excess thereof, or such lesser principal amount as may equal
the outstanding Multicurrency Loans or such lesser amount as may be agreed to by
the Agent.
2.6.3 (i) If the Aggregate Euro Revolving Credit Outstandings exceed
the Aggregate Euro Revolving Credit Commitments at any time the Foreign
Subsidiary Borrowers shall promptly prepay the Aggregate Euro Revolving Credit
Outstandings in the amount of such excess and (ii) if the Aggregate U.S.
Revolving Credit Outstandings exceed the Aggregate U.S. Revolving Credit
Commitments at any time the Company shall promptly prepay the Aggregate U.S.
Revolving Credit Outstandings in the amount of such excess.
2.6.4 Each prepayment pursuant to this Section 2.6 and each conversion
(other than a conversion of a Floating Rate Loan to a Fixed Rate Loan) pursuant
to Section 2.7 shall be accompanied
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by accrued and unpaid interest on the amount prepaid to the date of prepayment
and any amounts payable under Section 3.4 in connection with such payment.
2.6.5 Prepayments pursuant to this Section 2.6 shall be applied as
follows: (a) in the case of prepayments made by the Company or a Domestic
Subsidiary Borrower, first to prepay Floating Rate Loans and second to prepay
Eurodollar Loans then outstanding in such order as the Company or such Borrower
may direct and (b) in the case of prepayments made by a Borrower of
Multicurrency Loans, to prepay Multicurrency Loans made to such Borrower in such
order as the Company or such Borrower may direct, provided that all prepayments
on any Loans to a Borrower shall be applied pro rata to the Loans owing by such
Borrower.
2.6.6 All amounts prepaid, other than prepayment of the Term Loans, may
be reborrowed and successively repaid and reborrowed, subject to the other terms
and conditions in this Agreement. All prepayments of the Term Loans will be
applied to the maturities thereof in inverse order.
2.7. CONVERSION AND CONTINUATION OF OUTSTANDING ADVANCES.
2.7.1 ADVANCES. Floating Rate Advances shall continue as Floating Rate
Advances unless and until such Floating Rate Advances are converted into
Eurodollar Advances. Each Eurodollar Advance shall continue as a Eurodollar
Advance until the end of the then applicable Interest Period therefor, at which
time such Eurodollar Advance shall be automatically converted into a Floating
Rate Advance unless the Company shall have given the Agent a
Conversion/Continuation Notice requesting that, at the end of such Interest
Period, such Eurodollar Advance continue as a Eurodollar Advance for the same or
another Interest Period. Subject to the terms hereof, the Company may elect from
time to time to convert all or any part of a Revolving Credit Advance or Term
Loan of any Type to the Company or any Domestic Subsidiary Borrower into any
other Type or Types of Advance; PROVIDED that any conversion of any Eurodollar
Advance shall be made on, and only on, the last day of the Interest Period
applicable thereto. The Company shall give the Agent irrevocable notice (a
"Conversion/Continuation Notice") of each conversion of an Advance or
continuation of a Eurodollar Advance not later than 11:00 a.m. (Detroit time) at
least one Business Day, in the case of a conversion into a Floating Rate
Advance, or three Business Days, in the case of a conversion into or
continuation of a Eurodollar Advance, prior to the date of the requested
conversion or continuation, specifying:
(a) the requested date, which shall be a Business Day, of such
conversion or continuation,
(b) the aggregate amount and Type of the Revolving Credit Advance or
Term Loan which is to be converted or continued, and
(c) the amounts and Type(s) of Revolving Credit Advance(s) or Term Loan
into which such Advance is to be converted or continued and, in the case of a
conversion into or continuation of a Eurodollar Advance, the duration of the
Interest Period applicable thereto.
2.7.2 MULTICURRENCY ADVANCES. Any Multicurrency Advances may be
continued as such upon the expiration of the then current Interest Period with
respect thereto by the relevant Borrower giving the Agent irrevocable notice not
later than 11:00 a.m. (London time) at least three Business Days prior to the
date of the requested continuation, specifying the duration of the Interest
Period applicable thereto, PROVIDED, that if the relevant Borrower shall fail to
give such notice, such Multicurrency Advance shall be automatically continued
for an Interest Period of one month provided that such continuation would not
extend the Interest Period beyond the Facility Termination Date in the case of
Euro Revolving Credit Loans or the Maturity Date in the case of the Euro Term
Loan.
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2.8 INTEREST RATES, INTEREST PAYMENT DATES; INTEREST AND FEE BASIS. (a)
Each Floating Rate Loan shall bear interest on the outstanding principal amount
thereof, for each day from and including the date such Loan is made or is
converted from a Fixed Rate Loan into a Floating Rate Loan pursuant to Section
2.7 to but excluding the date it becomes due or is converted into a Fixed Rate
Loan pursuant to Section 2.7 hereof, at a rate per annum equal to the Floating
Rate for such day. 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 Interest Period. Each Multicurrency Loan to
any Foreign Subsidiary Borrower (other than a Swing Loan) shall bear interest
for each day during each Interest Period with respect thereto at a rate per
annum equal to the applicable Eurocurrency Rate determined for such Interest
Period or at such other interest rate as agreed to by such Foreign Subsidiary
Borrower and all Euro Lenders with a Commitment to such Foreign Subsidiary
Borrower.
(b) Interest accrued on each Floating Rate Advance shall be payable on
each Payment Date, commencing with the first such date to occur after the
Effective Date and at maturity. Interest accrued on each Fixed Rate Advance
shall be payable on the last day of its applicable Interest Period, on any date
on which the Fixed Rate Advance is prepaid, whether by acceleration or
otherwise, and at maturity. Interest accrued on each Fixed Rate Advance having
an Interest Period longer than three months shall also be payable on the last
day of each three-month interval during such Interest Period.
(c) Interest shall be payable for the day an Advance is made but not
for the day of any payment on the amount paid if payment is received prior to
1:00 p.m. (local time) at the place of payment. If any payment of principal of
or interest on an Advance shall become due on a day which is not a Business Day,
except as otherwise provided in the definition of Interest Period, such payment
shall be made on the next succeeding Business Day and, in the case of a
principal payment, such extension of time shall be included in computing
interest in connection with such payment.
(d) All interest and fees shall be computed on the basis of the actual
number of days (including the first day but excluding the last day) occurring
during the period such interest or fee is payable over a year comprised of 360
days or, in the case of Floating Rate Loans, 365/366 days, unless the Agent
determines that it is market practice to calculate such interest or fees on
Multicurrency Advances on a different basis.
(e) Changes in the rate of interest on that portion of any Advance
maintained as a Floating Rate Advance will take effect simultaneously with each
change in the Alternate Base Rate. Each Fixed Rate Advance shall bear interest
on the outstanding principal amount thereof from and including the first day of
the Interest Period applicable thereto to (but not including) the last day of
such Interest Period at the interest rate determined as applicable to such Fixed
Rate Advance. No Interest Period may end after, with respect to any Term Loan,
the Maturity Date, or, with respect to any Revolving Credit Loan, the Facility
Termination Date.
2.9 RATES APPLICABLE AFTER DEFAULT. Notwithstanding anything to the
contrary contained in this Agreement, during the continuance of a Default the
Required Lenders may, at their option, by notice to the Borrowers (which notice
may be revoked at the option of the Required Lenders notwithstanding any
provision of Section 8.2 requiring unanimous consent of the Lenders to changes
in interest rates), declare that no Advance may be made as, converted into or
continued (after the expiration of the then current Interest Period) as a Fixed
Rate Advance, provided that, notwithstanding the foregoing, any outstanding
Eurocurrency Advance may be continued for an Interest Period not to exceed one
month after such notice to the Borrowers by the Required Lenders. Upon and
during the continuance of any Default under Section 7.2, the Required Lenders
may, at their option, by notice to the Company (which notice may be revoked at
the option of the Required Lenders notwithstanding any provision of Section 8.2
requiring unanimous consent of the Lenders as to changes and interest rates)
declare that (i) each
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Fixed Rate Advance shall bear interest for the remainder of the applicable
Interest Period at the rate otherwise applicable to such Interest Period plus 2%
per annum, and (ii) each Floating Rate Advance and any other amount due under
this Agreement shall bear interest at a rate per annum equal to the Floating
Rate otherwise applicable to Floating Rate Loans plus 2% per annum, provided
that, upon and during the continuance of any acceleration for any reason of any
of the Obligations, the interest rate set forth in clauses (i) and (ii) shall be
applicable to all Advances without any election or action on the part of the
Agent or any Lender.
2.10 PRO RATA PAYMENT, METHOD OF PAYMENT.
2.10.1 Each borrowing of Loans by the Company or any Domestic
Subsidiary Borrower from the U.S. Lenders shall be made pro rata according to
the Pro Rata Shares of such Lenders in effect on the date of such borrowing.
Each payment by the Company or any Domestic Subsidiary Borrower on account of
any facility fee shall be allocated by the Agent among the Lenders in accordance
with their respective Pro Rata Shares. Any reduction of the Commitments of the
U.S. Lenders shall be allocated by the Agent among the U.S. Lenders pro rata
according to the Pro Rata Shares of the U.S. Lenders with respect thereto.
Except as otherwise provided in this Agreement, each optional prepayment by the
Company or any Domestic Subsidiary Borrower on account of principal or interest
on its U.S. Loans shall be allocated by the Agent pro rata according to the
respective outstanding principal amounts thereof. All payments (including
prepayments) to be made by the Company or any Domestic Subsidiary Borrower
hereunder in respect of amounts denominated in Dollars, whether on account of
principal, interest, fees or otherwise, shall be made, without setoff,
deduction, or counterclaim, in immediately available funds to the Agent at the
Agent's address specified pursuant to Article XIV, or at any other Lending
Installation of the Agent specified in writing by the Agent to the Company or
the relevant Domestic Subsidiary Borrower, as the case may be, by 1:00 P.M.
(Detroit time) on the date when due. Each payment delivered to the Agent for the
account of any Lender shall be delivered promptly by the Agent to such Lender in
the same type of funds that the Agent received at its address specified pursuant
to Article XIV or at any Lending Installation specified in a notice received by
the Agent from such Lender.
2.10.2 Each borrowing of Euro Loans by any Foreign Subsidiary Borrower
in any Available Foreign Currency shall be allocated by the Agent pro rata
according to the Pro Rata Shares of the Euro Lenders with respect to such
Borrower in effect on the date of such Loan. Each payment by any Foreign
Subsidiary Borrower on account of any facility fee shall be allocated by the
Agent among the Lenders to such Foreign Subsidiary Borrower in accordance with
their respective Pro Rata Shares. Any reduction of any of the Euro Commitments
shall be allocated by the Agent pro rata according to the Pro Rata Shares of the
Euro Lenders with respect thereto. Except as provided in Section 2.6, each
payment (including each prepayment) by a Foreign Subsidiary Borrower on account
of principal of and interest on Euro Loans shall be allocated by the Agent pro
rata according to the respective principal amounts of the Euro Loans then due
and owing by such Borrower to each Euro Lender that made such Euro Loans. All
payments (including prepayments) to be made by a Borrower on account of Euro
Loans, whether on account of principal, interest, fees or otherwise, shall be
made without setoff, deduction, or counterclaim in the currency of such Euro
Loans (in same day or other funds customarily used in the settlement of
obligations in such currency) to the Agent for the account of the Euro Lenders
that made such Loans, at the payment office for such Euro Loans specified from
time to time by the Agent by notice to the Borrowers prior to 1:00 p.m. local
time at such payment office on the due date thereof. The Agent shall distribute
such payment to the Euro Lenders entitled to receive the same promptly upon
receipt in like funds as received. In the case of any payment of facility fees
by Foreign Subsidiary Borrowers under Section 2.5 and any prepayments required
of Foreign Subsidiary Borrowers under Section 2.6.3, the Company shall designate
which Foreign Subsidiary Borrowers shall pay such amounts and, absent such
determination or if any Default has occurred and is continuing, the Agent shall
determine which Foreign
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Subsidiary Borrower or Foreign Subsidiary Borrowers shall make such payments,
provided that it is acknowledged that each Foreign Subsidiary Borrower is
liable, without duplication, for the full amount of facility fees payable under
Section 2.5 and is obligated to make any required prepayments under Section
2.6.3 to the extent such Foreign Subsidiary Borrower has any Aggregate Euro
Revolving Credit Outstandings.
2.11 TELEPHONIC NOTICES. Each Borrower hereby authorizes the Lenders
and the Agent to extend, convert or continue Advances, effect selections of
Types of Advances and to transfer funds based on telephonic notices made by any
Person or Persons the Agent or any Lender reasonably and in good faith believes
to be an Authorized Officer. Each Borrower agrees to deliver promptly to the
Agent a written confirmation, if such confirmation is requested by the Agent or
any Lender, of each telephonic notice signed by an Authorized Officer. If the
written confirmation differs in any material respect from the action taken by
the Agent and the Lenders, the records of the Agent and the Lenders shall govern
absent manifest error.
2.12 NOTIFICATION OF ADVANCES, INTEREST RATES, PREPAYMENTS AND
COMMITMENT REDUCTIONS. Promptly after receipt thereof, the Agent will notify
each Lender of the contents of each Revolving Credit Commitment reduction
notice, Multicurrency Commitment reduction notice, Borrowing notice,
Conversion/Continuation Notice, and repayment notice received by it hereunder.
The Agent will notify each Lender of the interest rate applicable to each Fixed
Rate Advance promptly upon determination of such interest rate and will give
each Lender prompt notice of each change in the Alternate Base Rate.
2.13 LENDING INSTALLATIONS. Each Lender may, except as otherwise
provided in Section 3.6, make and book its Loans at any Lending Installation(s)
selected by such Lender and may change its Lending Installation(s) from time to
time. All terms of this Agreement shall apply to any such Lending
Installation(s) and the Notes, if any, shall be deemed held by each Lender for
the benefit of such Lending Installation(s). Each Lender may, by written or
telex notice to the Agent and the applicable Borrower, designate one or more
Lending Installations which are to make and book Loans and for whose account
Loan payments are to be made.
2.14 NON-RECEIPT OF FUNDS BY THE AGENT. Unless a Borrower or a
Lender, as the case may be, notifies the Agent prior to the date on which it is
scheduled to make payment to the Agent of (a) in the case of a Lender, the
proceeds of a Loan or (b) in the case of a Borrower, a payment of principal,
interest or fees to the Agent for the account of the Lenders, that it does not
intend to make such payment, the Agent may assume that such payment has been
made. The Agent may, but shall not be obligated to, make the amount of such
payment available to the intended recipient in reliance upon such assumption. If
such Lender or Borrower, as the case may be, has not in fact made such payment
to the Agent, the recipient of such payment shall, on demand by the Agent,
repay to the Agent the amount so made available together with interest thereon
in respect of each day during the period commencing on the date such amount was
so made available by the Agent until the date the Agent recovers such amount at
a rate per annum equal to (i) in the case of payment by a Lender, the Federal
Funds Effective Rate for the first five days and the interest rate applicable to
the relevant Loan for each day thereafter or (ii) in the case of payment by a
Borrower, the interest rate applicable to the relevant Loan.
2.15 FACILITY LETTERS OF CREDIT.
2.15.1 OBLIGATION TO ISSUE. Subject to the terms and conditions of this
Agreement and in reliance upon the representations and warranties of the
Borrowers herein set forth, the Issuers hereby agree to issue for the account of
a Borrower through such of the Issuer's Lending Installations or Affiliates as
the Issuer may determine, one or more Facility Letters of Credit in accordance
with this
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Section 2.15, from time to time during the period, commencing on the Effective
Date and ending five Business Days prior to the Facility Termination Date.
2.15.2 CONDITIONS FOR ISSUANCE. In addition to being subject to the
satisfaction of the conditions contained in Sections 4.1 and 4.2, the obligation
of an Issuer to issue any Facility Letter of Credit is subject to the
satisfaction in full of the following conditions:
(a) the aggregate maximum amount then available for drawing under
Facility Letters of Credit issued by the Issuers, after giving effect to the
Facility Letter of Credit requested hereunder, shall not exceed any limit
imposed by law or regulation upon the Issuer;
(b) the requested Facility Letter of Credit shall not have an
expiration date later than the earlier of (i) one year after the date of
issuance of such Facility Letter of Credit and (ii) five Business Days prior to
the Facility Termination Date, PROVIDED that any Facility Letter of Credit with
a one-year tenor may provide for the renewal thereof for additional one-year
periods (which shall in no event extend beyond the date referred to in clause
(ii) above);
(c) after giving effect to the Facility Letter of Credit requested
hereunder, the aggregate maximum amount then available for drawing under
Facility Letters of Credit issued by the Issuers, shall not exceed (i)
$50,000,000 in the case of Facility Letters of Credit for the account of the
Company and Domestic Subsidiary Borrowers and (ii) EUR25,000,000 in the case of
Facility Letters of Credit for the account of Foreign Subsidiary Borrowers, and
no prepayment would be required under this Agreement and no provision of this
Agreement would be breached;
(d) the applicable Borrower shall have delivered to the applicable
Issuer at such times and in such manner as such Issuer may reasonably prescribe
such documents and materials as may be required pursuant to the terms of the
proposed Letter of Credit and the proposed Letter of Credit shall be reasonably
satisfactory to such Issuer as to form and content; and
(e) as of the date of issuance, no order, judgment or decree of any
Court, arbitrator or governmental authority shall purport by its terms to enjoin
or restrain such Issuer from issuing the Facility Letter of Credit and no law,
rule or regulation applicable to such Issuer and no request or directive
(whether or not having the force of law) from any governmental authority with
jurisdiction over such Issuer shall prohibit or request that such Issuer refrain
from the issuance of Letters of Credit generally or the issuance of that
Facility Letter of Credit.
2.15.3 PROCEDURE FOR ISSUANCE OF FACILITY LETTERS OF CREDIT. (a) The
applicable Borrower shall give one of the Issuers and the Agent three Business
Days' prior written notice of any requested issuance of a Facility Letter of
Credit under this Agreement (except that, in lieu of such written notice, a
Borrower may give an Issuer (i) notice of such request by tested telex or other
tested arrangement satisfactory to such Issuer or (ii) telephonic notice of such
request if confirmed in writing by delivery to such Issuer (A) immediately (x)
of a telecopy of the written notice required hereunder which has been signed by
an Authorized Officer of such Borrower or (y) of a telex containing all
information required to be contained in such written notice and (B) promptly
(but in no event later than the requested time of issuance) of a copy of the
written notice required hereunder containing the original signature of an
Authorized Officer of such Borrower); such notice shall be irrevocable and shall
specify the stated amount and Available Foreign Currency or U.S. Dollars of the
Facility Letter of Credit requested (which requested currency shall be limited
to the currency in which such Borrower may obtain Loans under this Agreement),
the effective date (which day shall be a Business Day) of issuance of such
requested Facility Letter of Credit, the date on which such requested Facility
Letter of Credit is to expire (which date shall be a Business Day and shall in
no event be later than the fifth day prior to the Facility Termination Date),
the purpose
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for which such Facility Letter of Credit is to be issued, and the Person for
whose benefit the requested Facility Letter of Credit is to be issued. The Agent
shall give notice to each applicable Revolving Credit Lender of the issuance of
each Facility Letter of Credit reasonably promptly after such Facility Letter of
Credit is issued. At the time such request is made, the requesting Borrower
shall also provide the applicable Issuer with all information necessary for the
issuance of the Facility Letter of Credit it is requesting. Such notice, to be
effective, must be received by such Issuer not later than 2:00 p.m. (local time)
or the time agreed upon by such Issuer and such Borrower on the last Business
Day on which notice can be given under this Section 2.15.3.
(b) Subject to the terms and conditions of this Section 2.15.3 and
provided that the applicable conditions set forth in Sections 4.1 and 4.2 hereof
have been satisfied, the Issuer shall, on the requested date, issue a Facility
Letter of Credit on behalf of the applicable Borrower in accordance with such
Issuer's usual and customary business practices.
(c) The Issuers shall not extend or amend any Facility Letter of Credit
unless the requirements of this Section 2.15 are met as though a new Facility
Letter of Credit was being requested and issued.
2.15.4 REIMBURSEMENT OBLIGATIONS. (a) Each Borrower agrees to pay to
the Issuer the amount of all Reimbursement Obligations, interest and other
amounts payable to the Issuer under or in connection with any Facility Letter of
Credit issued on behalf of such Borrower immediately when due, irrespective of
any claim, set-off, defense or other right that the Borrower, the Company or any
Subsidiary may have at any time against the Issuer or any other Person, under
all circumstances, including without limitation, any of the following
circumstances:
(i) any lack of validity or enforceability of this Agreement or any of
the other Loan Documents;
(ii) the existence of any claim, setoff, defense or other right that
any Borrower or any Subsidiary may have at any time against a beneficiary named
in a Facility Letter of Credit or any transferee of any Facility Letter of
Credit (or any Person for whom any such transferee may be acting), any Issuer,
any Lender, or any other Person, whether in connection with this Agreement, any
Facility Letter of Credit, the transactions contemplated herein or any unrelated
transactions (including any underlying transactions between any Borrower or any
Subsidiary and the beneficiary named in any Facility Letter of Credit);
(iii) any draft, certificate or any other document presented under the
Facility Letter of Credit proving to be forged, fraudulent, invalid or
insufficient in any respect or any statement therein being untrue or inaccurate
in any respect;
(iv) the surrender or impairment of any security for the performance or
observance of any of the terms of any of the Loan Documents; or
(v) the occurrence of any Default or Unmatured Default.
(b) The Issuer shall promptly notify the applicable Borrower of any
draw under a Facility Letter of Credit. Such Borrower shall reimburse the
applicable Issuer for drawings under a Facility Letter of Credit issued by it on
behalf of such Borrower promptly after the payment by the Issuer. Any
Reimbursement Obligation with respect to any Facility Letter of Credit shall
bear interest from the date of the relevant drawings under the pertinent
Facility Letter of Credit at (i) in the case of such Obligations denominated in
U.S. Dollars, the interest rate for Floating Rate Loans or (ii) in the case of
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Obligations denominated in an Available Foreign Currency, at the correlative
floating rate of interest customarily applicable to similar extensions of credit
to corporate borrowers denominated in such currency in the country of issue of
such currency, as reasonably determined by the Agent. In addition to its other
rights, the Issuers shall also have all rights for indemnification and
reimbursement as each Lender is entitled under this Agreement.
2.15.5 PARTICIPATION. (a) Immediately upon issuance by an Issuer of any
Facility Letter of Credit in accordance with the procedures set forth in Section
2.15.3, (i) with respect to each U.S. Facility Letter of Credit, each Revolving
Credit Lender shall be deemed to have irrevocably and unconditionally purchased
and received from such Issuer, without recourse or warranty, an undivided
interest and participation equal to its Pro Rata Share of such U.S. Facility
Letter of Credit (including, without limitation, all obligations of the
applicable Borrower with respect thereto) and any security therefor or guaranty
pertaining thereto and (ii) with respect to each Multicurrency Facility Letter
of Credit, each Euro Lender with respect to the Borrower for the account of
which such Multicurrency Facility Letter of Credit is issued shall be deemed to
have irrevocably and unconditionally purchased and received from such Issuer,
without recourse or warranty, an undivided interest and participation equal to
its Pro Rata Share in such Multicurrency Facility Letter of Credit (including,
without limitation, all obligations of the applicable Borrower with respect
thereto), any security therefor or guaranty pertaining thereto; PROVIDED, that a
Letter of Credit issued by an Issuer shall not be deemed to be a Facility Letter
of Credit for purposes of this Section 2.15.5 if such Issuer shall have received
written notice from any Revolving Credit Lender on or before one Business Day
prior to the date of its issuance of such Letter of Credit that one or more of
the conditions contained in Sections 4.1 or 4.2 are not then satisfied, and, in
the event an Issuer receives such a notice, it shall have no further obligation
to issue any Letter of Credit until such notice is withdrawn by that Revolving
Credit Lender or such condition has been effectively waived in accordance with
the provisions of this Agreement.
(b) In the event that an Issuer makes any payment under any Facility
Letter of Credit and the applicable Borrower shall not have repaid such amount
to the Issuer pursuant to Section 2.15.4, the Issuer shall promptly notify the
Agent and each Revolving Credit Lender participating in such Letter of Credit of
such failure, and each Revolving Credit Lender participating in such Letter of
Credit shall promptly and unconditionally pay to the Agent for the account of
such Issuer the amount of such Lender's Pro Rata Share of the unreimbursed
amount of any such payment in such currency. If any Revolving Credit Lender
participating in such Facility Letter of Credit fails to make available to such
Issuer any amounts due to such Issuer pursuant to this Section 2.15.5(b), such
Issuer shall be entitled to recover such amount, together with interest thereon
(i) in the case of amounts denominated in U.S. Dollars, at the Federal Funds
Effective Rate, for the first three Business Days after such Lender receives
such notice and thereafter, at the Floating Rate, or (ii) in the case of amounts
denominated in an Available Foreign Currency, at a local cost of funds rate for
obligations in such currency as determined by the Agent for the first three
Business Days after such Lender receives such notice, and thereafter at the
floating rate of interest correlative to the Floating Rate customarily
applicable to similar extensions of credit to corporate borrowers denominated in
such currency in the country of issue of such currency, as determined by the
Agent, in either case payable (i) on demand, (ii) by setoff against any payments
made to such Issuer for the account of such Lender or (iii) by payment to such
Issuer by the Agent of amounts otherwise payable to such Lender under this
Agreement. The failure of any Revolving Credit Lender to make available to the
Agent its Pro Rata Share of the unreimbursed amount of any such payment shall
not relieve any other Revolving Credit Lender of its obligation hereunder to
make available to the Agent its Pro Rata Share of the unreimbursed amount of any
payment on the date such payment is to be made, but no Revolving Credit Lender
shall be responsible for the failure of any other Revolving Credit Lender to
make available to the Agent its Pro Rata Share of the unreimbursed amount of any
payment on the date such payment is to be made.
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(c) Whenever the Issuer receives a payment on account of a
Reimbursement Obligation, including any interest thereon, it shall promptly pay
to each Revolving Credit Lender that has funded its participating interest
therein, in like funds as received an amount equal to such Lender's Pro Rata
Share thereof.
(d) The obligations of a Revolving Credit Lender to make payments to
the Agent with respect to a Facility Letter of Credit shall be absolute,
unconditional and irrevocable, not subject to any counterclaim, set-off,
qualification or exception whatsoever and shall be made in accordance with the
terms and conditions of this Agreement under all circumstances.
(e) In the event any payment by a Borrower received by the Agent with
respect to a Facility Letter of Credit and distributed by the Agent to the
Lenders on account of their participations is thereafter set aside, avoided or
recovered from the Agent in connection with any receivership, liquidation,
reorganization or bankruptcy proceeding, each Revolving Credit Lender that
received such distribution shall, upon demand by the Agent, contribute such
Lender's Pro Rata Share of the amount set aside, avoided or recovered together
with interest at the rate required to be paid by the Agent upon the amount
required to be repaid by it.
2.15.6 COMPENSATION FOR FACILITY LETTERS OF CREDIT. The Issuer of a
Facility Letter of Credit shall have the right to receive from the Borrower that
requested issuance of such Facility Letter of Credit, solely for the account of
such Issuer, a fronting fee in an amount equal to 0.10% per annum as well as the
Issuer's reasonable and customary costs of issuing and servicing the Facility
Letters of Credit. In addition, such Borrower shall pay to the Agent for the
account of each Revolving Credit Lender participating in such Facility Letter of
Credit a non-refundable fee at a per annum rate in the amount shown on the
Pricing Schedule on Exhibit A applied to the face amount of the Facility Letter
of Credit, payable quarterly in arrears for the account of all Revolving Credit
Lenders participating in such Facility Letter of Credit (including the Issuers)
ratably from the date such Facility Letter of Credit is issued until its stated
expiry date.
2.15.7 LETTER OF CREDIT COLLATERAL ACCOUNT. Each Borrower hereby agrees
that it will, until the final expiration date of any Facility Letter of Credit
and thereafter as long as any amount is payable to the Lenders in respect of any
Facility Letter of Credit, maintain a special collateral account (the "Letter of
Credit Collateral Account") at the Agent's office at the address specified
pursuant to Article XIV, in the name of such Borrower but under the sole
dominion and control of the Agent, for the benefit of the Lenders and in which
such Borrower shall have no interest other than as set forth in Section 8.1. The
Agent will invest any funds on deposit from time to time in the Letter of Credit
Collateral Account in certificates of deposit of the Agent having a maturity not
exceeding 30 days. Nothing in this Section 2.15.7 shall either obligate the
Agent to require any Borrower to deposit any funds in the Letter of Credit
Collateral Account or limit the right of the Agent to release any funds held in
the Letter of Credit Collateral Account other than as required by Section 8.1,
and the Borrower's obligations to deposit funds in the Letter of Credit
Collateral Account are limited to the circumstances required by Section 8.1.
2.15.8 NATURE OF OBLIGATIONS. (a) As among the Borrowers, the Issuers
and the Revolving Credit Lenders, each Borrower assumes all risks of the acts
and omissions of, or misuse of the Facility Letters of Credit by, the respective
beneficiaries of the Facility Letters of Credit requested by it. In furtherance
and not in limitation of the foregoing, the Issuers and the Revolving Credit
Lenders shall not be responsible for (i) the form, validity, sufficiency,
accuracy, genuineness or legal effect of any document submitted by any party in
connection with the application for and issuance of any Facility Letter of
Credit, even if it should in fact prove to be in any or all respects invalid,
insufficient, inaccurate, fraudulent or forged; (ii) the validity or sufficiency
of any instrument transferring or assigning or purporting to transfer or assign
a Facility Letter of Credit or the rights or benefits thereunder or proceeds
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thereof, in whole or in part, which may prove to be invalid or ineffective for
any reason; (iii) failure of the beneficiary of a Facility Letter of Credit to
comply fully with conditions required in order to draw upon such Facility Letter
of Credit; (iv) errors, omissions, interruptions or delays in transmission or
delivery of any messages, by mail, cable, telegraph, telex or otherwise; (v)
errors in interpretation of technical terms; (vi) misapplication by the
beneficiary of a Facility Letter of Credit of the proceeds of any drawing under
such Facility Letter of Credit; or (vii) any consequences arising from causes
beyond the control of the Issuers or the Revolving Credit Lenders. In addition
to amounts payable as elsewhere provided in this Section 2.15, such Borrower
hereby agrees to protect, indemnify, pay and save the Agent, each Issuer and
each Lender harmless from and against any and all claims, demands, liabilities,
damages, losses, costs, charges and expenses (including reasonable attorneys'
fees) arising from the claims of third parties against the Agent or such Issuer
in respect of any Facility Letter of Credit requested by such Borrower.
(b) In furtherance and extension and not in limitation of the specific
provisions hereinabove set forth, any action taken or omitted by the Issuers or
any Revolving Credit Lender under or in connection with the Facility Letters of
Credit or any related certificates, if taken or omitted in good faith, shall not
put such Issuer or such Lender under any resulting liability to any Borrower or
relieve any Borrower of any of its obligations hereunder to the Issuers, the
Agent or any Revolving Credit Lender.
(c) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Section
2.15.8, a Borrower shall not have any obligation to indemnify the Agent, any
Issuer or any Lender under this Section 2.15 in respect of any liability
incurred by each arising primarily out of the gross negligence or willful
misconduct of such Agent, Issuer or Lender, as determined by a court of
competent jurisdiction, or out of the wrongful dishonor by such Issuer of a
proper demand for payment made under the Facility Letters of Credit issued by
such Issuer as determined by a court of competent jurisdiction, unless such
dishonor was made at the request of such Borrower in writing, or out of the
wrongful honor by such Issuer of a demand for payment made under the Facility
Letters of Credit issued by such Issuer which demand for payment does not comply
with the conditions required in order to draw upon such Facility Letter of
Credit as determined by a court of competent jurisdiction, unless such dishonor
was made at the request of such Borrower in writing.
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Section 2.16. SWING LOANS.
(a) MAKING OF SWING LOANS. The Agent may elect in its sole discretion
to make revolving loans (the "SWING LOANS") to any Borrower solely for the
Agent's own account, from time to time prior to the Facility Termination Date up
to an aggregate principal amount at any one time outstanding not to exceed (i)
in the case of Swing Loans to the Company or a Domestic Subsidiary Borrower, the
lesser of $20,000,000 or the unused amount of the Aggregate U.S. Revolving
Credit Commitments and (ii) in the case of Swing Loans to a Foreign Subsidiary
Borrower, the lesser of EUR10,000,000 or the unused amount of the Aggregate Euro
Revolving Credit Commitments. The Agent may make Swing Loans (subject to the
conditions precedent set forth in Article IV), PROVIDED that the Agent has
received a request in writing or via telephone from an Authorized Officer of
such Borrower for funding of a Swing Loan no later than such time required by
the Agent, on the Business Day on which such Swing Loan is requested to be made.
The Agent shall not make any Swing Loan in the period commencing one Business
Day after the Agent becomes aware that one or more of the conditions precedent
contained in Section 4.2 are not satisfied and ending upon the satisfaction or
waiver of such condition(s). Each outstanding Swing Loan shall be payable on the
Business Day following demand therefor, with interest at the Floating Rate in
the case of Swing Loans to the Company or a Domestic Subsidiary Borrower and
such rate agreed to between the Agent and such Borrower in the case of Swing
Loans to a Foreign Subsidiary Borrower accrued thereon, and shall be subject to
all the terms and conditions applicable to Loans, except that all interest
thereon shall be payable to the Agent solely for its own account.
(b) SWING LOAN BORROWING REQUESTS. Each Borrower agrees to deliver
promptly to the Agent a written confirmation of each telephonic notice for Swing
Loans signed by an Authorized Officer. If the written confirmation differs in
any material respect from the action taken by the Agent, the records of the
Agent shall govern, absent manifest error.
(c) REPAYMENT OF SWING LOANS. At any time after making a Swing Loan,
the Agent may request such Borrower to, and upon request by the Agent such
Borrower shall, promptly request an Advance from all Revolving Credit Lenders to
such Borrower and apply the proceeds of such Advance to the repayment of any
Swing Loan owing by such Borrower not later than the Business Day following the
Agent's request. Notwithstanding the foregoing, upon the earlier to occur of (a)
three Business Days after demand is made by the Agent, and (b) the Facility
Termination Date, each Revolving Credit Lender to such Borrower (other than the
Agent) shall irrevocably and unconditionally purchase from the Agent, without
recourse or warranty, an undivided interest and participation in such Swing Loan
in an amount equal to such Lender's Pro Rata Share of such Swing Loan and
promptly pay such amount to the Agent in immediately available finds (or, in the
case of participations in Swing Loans denominated in an Available Foreign
Currency, same day funds). Such payment shall be made by the other Lenders
whether or not a Default is then continuing or any other condition precedent set
forth in Section 4.2 is then met and whether or not such Borrower has then
requested an Advance in such amount. If any Lender fails to make available to
the Agent, any amounts due to the Agent from such Lender pursuant to this
Section, the Agent shall be entitled to recover such amount, together with
interest thereon at the Federal Funds Effective Rate or such other local cost of
funds rate determined by the Agent with respect to any Swing Loan denominated in
any Available Foreign Currency for the first three Business Days after such
Lender receives notice of such required purchase and thereafter, at the rate
applicable to such Loan, payable (i) on demand, (ii) by setoff against any
payments made to the Agent for the account of such Lender or (iii) by payment to
the Agent by the Agent of amounts otherwise payable to such Lender under this
Agreement. The failure of any Lender to make available to the Agent its Pro Rata
Share of any unpaid Swing Loan shall not relieve any other Lender of its
obligation hereunder to make available to the Agent its Pro Rata Share of any
unpaid Swing Loan on the date such payment is to be made, but no Lender shall be
responsible for the failure of any other Lender to make available to the Agent
its Pro Rata Share of any unpaid Swing Loan.
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2.17 APPLICATION OF PAYMENTS WITH RESPECT TO DEFAULTING LENDERS. No
payments of principal, interest or fees delivered to the Agent for the account
of any Defaulting Lender shall be delivered by the Agent to such Defaulting
Lender. Instead, such payments shall, for so long as such Defaulting Lender
shall be a Defaulting Lender, be held by the Agent, and the Agent is hereby
authorized and directed by all parties hereto to hold such funds in escrow and
apply such funds as follows:
(i) FIRST, if applicable to any payments due to an Issuer pursuant to
Section 2.15.5 or the Agent under Section 2.16; and
(ii) SECOND, to Loans required to be made by such Defaulting Lender on
any Borrowing Date to the extent such Defaulting Lender fails to make such
Loans.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, upon the termination of the Commitments and the
payment and performance of all of the Obligations (other than those owing to a
Defaulting Lender), any funds then held in escrow by the Agent pursuant to the
preceding sentence shall be distributed to each Defaulting Lender, PRO RATA in
proportion to amounts that would be due to each Defaulting Lender but for the
fact that it is a Defaulting Lender.
2.18 GUARANTIES. The Company shall execute and deliver, or cause to be
executed and delivered, to the Lenders and the Agent from time to time
Guaranties of certain present and future Domestic Subsidiaries and certain
Foreign Subsidiaries which are described as potential Guarantors in the
definition of Guarantors such that, at all times, all such Subsidiaries which
are not Guarantors do not, if considered in the aggregate as a single
Subsidiary, constitute a Significant Subsidiary. In connection with the delivery
of any such Guaranties, Company shall provide such other documentation to the
Agent, including, without limitation, one or more opinions of counsel
satisfactory to the Agent, corporate documents and resolutions, which in the
reasonable opinion of the Agent is necessary or advisable in connection
therewith.
ARTICLE III
CHANGE IN CIRCUMSTANCES, TAXES
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3.1 YIELD PROTECTION. If after the date hereof any law or any
governmental or quasi-governmental rule, regulation, policy, guideline or
directive (whether or not having the force of law), or any change or
modification thereof, or any interpretation thereof, or the compliance of any
Lender therewith,
(a) subjects any Lender or any applicable Lending Installation to
any tax, duty, charge or withholding on or from payments due
from any Borrower or changes the basis of taxation of payments
to any Lender in respect of its Loans or other amounts due it
hereunder (excluding income taxes and franchise taxes (imposed
in lieu of income taxes) imposed on the Agent or any Lender as
a result of a present or former connection between the 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 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), or
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(b) imposes or increases or deems applicable any reserve,
assessment, insurance charge, special deposit or similar
requirement against assets of, deposits with or for the
account of, or credit extended by, any Lender or any
applicable Lending Installation (other than reserves and
assessments taken into account in determining the interest
rate applicable to Fixed Rate Advances), or
(c) imposes any other condition the result of which is to increase
the cost to any Lender or any applicable Lending Installation
of making, funding or maintaining loans or reduces any amount
receivable by any Lender or any applicable Lending
Installation in connection with loans, or requires any Lender
or any applicable Lending Installation to make any payment
calculated by reference to the amount of loans held or
interest received by it, by an amount deemed material by such
Lender,
then, within 15 days of demand by such Lender, the affected Borrower shall pay
such Lender that portion of such increased expense incurred or reduction in an
amount received that such Lender reasonably determines is attributable to
making, funding and maintaining its Loans or its Commitments.
3.2 CHANGES IN CAPITAL ADEQUACY REGULATIONS. If a Lender reasonably
determines that the amount of capital required or expected to be maintained by
such Lender, any Lending Installation of such Lender or any corporation
controlling such Lender is increased as a result of a Change, then, within 15
days of demand by such Lender, the Company shall pay such Lender the amount
necessary to compensate for any shortfall in the rate of return on the portion
of such increased capital that such Lender reasonably determines is attributable
to this Agreement, its Loans or its obligation to make Loans hereunder (after
taking into account such Lender's policies as to capital adequacy). "Change"
means (a) any change after the date of this Agreement in the Risk-Based Capital
Guidelines or (b) any adoption of or change in any other law, governmental or
quasi-governmental rule, regulation, policy, guideline, interpretation, or
directive (whether or not having the force of law) after the date of this
Agreement that affects the amount of capital required or expected to be
maintained by any Lender or any Lending Installation or any corporation
controlling any Lender. "Risk-Based Capital Guidelines" means (i) the risk-based
capital guidelines in effect in the United States on the date of this Agreement,
including transition rules, and (ii) the corresponding capital regulations
promulgated by regulatory authorities outside the United States implementing the
July 1988 report of the Basle Committee on Banking Regulation and Supervisory
Practices Entitled "International Convergence of Capital Measurements and
Capital Standards," including transition rules, and any amendments to such
regulations adopted prior to the date of this Agreement.
3.3 AVAILABILITY OF TYPES OF ADVANCES. If any Lender reasonably
determines that maintenance of its Eurodollar Loans or Multicurrency Loans at a
suitable Lending Installation would violate any applicable law, rule,
regulation, or directive, whether or not having the force of law, or if the
Required U.S. Lenders with respect to Eurodollar Loans or the Required Euro
Revolving Credit Lenders with respect to any Multicurrency Loan to any Foreign
Subsidiary Borrower determine that (i) deposits of a currency, type and maturity
appropriate to match fund Eurodollar or Eurocurrency Loans are not available or
(ii) the interest rate applicable to a Eurocurrency Loan or Eurodollar Loan does
not accurately reflect the cost of making or maintaining such Loans, then the
Agent shall suspend the availability of the affected Type of Loans and require
any Loans of the affected Type to be repaid at the end of the Interest Period
for the affected Loan. Notwithstanding the satisfaction of all conditions
referred to in Article II and Article IV with respect to any Advance in any
Agreed Currency other than Dollars, if there shall occur on or prior to the date
of such Advance any change in national or international financial, political or
economic conditions or currency exchange rates or exchange controls which would
in the reasonable opinion of the Agent or the Required Lenders make it
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the Eurocurrency Loans comprising such Advance to be denominated in the Agreed
Currency specified by a Borrower, then the Agent shall forthwith give notice
thereof to such Borrower and the Lenders, and such Loans shall not be made.
3.4 FUNDING INDEMNIFICATION. If any payment of a Fixed Rate Advance
occurs on a date that is not the last day of the applicable Interest Period,
whether because of acceleration, prepayment or otherwise, or a Fixed Rate
Advance is not made on the date specified by a Borrower for any reason other
than default by the Lenders, such Borrower will indemnify each Lender for any
reasonable loss or reasonable cost incurred by it resulting therefrom,
including, without limitation, any reasonable loss or reasonable cost in
liquidating or employing deposits acquired to fund or maintain the Fixed Rate
Advance, but excluding the loss of the Applicable Margin.
3.5 LENDER STATEMENTS; SURVIVAL OF INDEMNITY. To the extent
reasonably possible, each Lender shall designate an alternate Lending
Installation with respect to its Eurodollar Rate Loans and Multicurrency Rate
Loans to reduce any liability of a Borrower to such Lender under Sections 3.1
and 3.2 or to avoid the unavailability of a Type of Advance under Section 3.3,
so long as such designation is not disadvantageous to such Lender in any
material respect. Each Lender shall deliver a written statement of such Lender
to the applicable Borrower (with a copy to the Agent) as to the amount due, if
any, under Section 3.1, 3.2 or 3.4. Such written statement shall set forth in
reasonable detail the calculations upon which such Lender determined such amount
and shall state that amounts determined in accordance with such procedures are
being charged by such Lender to other borrowers with credit facilities similar
to this Agreement and credit characteristics comparable to the Company as
determined by such Lender and shall be final, conclusive and binding on the
Borrowers in the absence of manifest error. Determination of amounts payable
under such sections in connection with a Eurodollar Rate Loans and Multicurrency
Rate Loans shall be calculated as though each Lender funded such Loans through
the purchase of a deposit of the type and maturity corresponding to the deposit
used as a reference in determining the interest rate applicable to such Loan,
whether in fact that is the case or not. Unless otherwise provided herein, the
amount specified in the written statement of any Lender shall be payable on
demand after receipt by the applicable Borrower of such written statement. The
obligations of the Borrowers under Sections 3.1, 3.2, 3.4 and 3.6 shall survive
payment of the Obligations and termination of this Agreement. The Borrowers
shall have no obligation to compensate any Lender with respect to amounts
provided in Sections 3.1, 3.2, 3.4 or 3.6 with respect to any period prior to
the date which is 120 days prior to the date such Lender delivers its written
statement hereunder requesting compensation.
3.6 TAXES.
3.6.1 All payments of principal and interest made by the Borrowers
under this Agreement and any Note, if any, and all Reimbursement Obligations
with respect to Facility Letters of Credit 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 in lieu of income taxes) imposed on the Agent or any Lender as a
result of a present or former connection between the 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 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") are required to be withheld from any amounts payable to
the Agent, any Issuer or any Lender hereunder or under any Note or Facility
Letter of Credit, the amounts so
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payable to the Agent, such Issuer or such Lender shall be increased to the
extent necessary to yield to the Agent or such Lender (after payment of all
Non-Excluded Taxes) interest or any such other amounts payable hereunder at the
rates and in the amounts specified in this Agreement PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that (i)
with respect to any Loan or Facility Letter of Credit in U.S. Dollars to the
Company, the Company shall not be required to increase any such amounts payable
to any Lender that is not organized under the laws of the United States of
America or a state thereof if such Lender fails to comply with the requirements
of Section 3.6.2, (ii) with respect to any Loan or Facility Letter of Credit in
any Available Foreign Currency, a Borrower shall not be required to increase any
such amounts payable to any Lender if such Lender fails to comply with the
requirements of Section 3.6.3 and (iii) with respect to any Multicurrency Loan
or any Multicurrency Facility Letter of Credit, the Foreign Subsidiary Borrower
shall not be required to increase any such amounts payable to any Lender or the
Agent to the extent such Lender could avoid the payment of such amount by
changing its Lending Installation, provided that any such change in any Lending
Installation shall not be required if such Lender cannot change its Lending
Installation for any reason or such Lender has determined that it is
disadvantageous to it to do so. Whenever any Non-Excluded Taxes are payable by a
Borrower, as promptly as possible thereafter such Borrower shall send to the
Agent for its own account or for the account of such Lender, as the case may be,
a certified copy of an original official receipt received by such Borrower
showing payment thereof. If a Borrower fails to pay any Non-Excluded Taxes when
due to the appropriate taxing authority or fails to remit to the Agent the
required receipts or other required documentary evidence, such Borrower shall
indemnify the Agent and the Lenders for any incremental taxes, interest or
penalties that may become payable by the Agent or any Lender as a result of any
such failure. The agreements in this Section shall survive the termination of
this Agreement and the payment of the Loans and all other amounts payable
hereunder.
3.6.2 Each U.S. Lender that is not incorporated under the laws of the
United States of America or a state thereof shall:
(a) at least five Business Days before the date of the initial
payment to be made by the Company under this Agreement to such Lender,
deliver to the Company and the Agent (A) two duly completed copies of
United States Internal Revenue Service Form 1001 or 4224, or successor
applicable form, as the case may be, certifying that it is entitled to
receive payments under this Agreement without deduction or withholding
of any United States federal income taxes and (B) an Internal Revenue
Service Form W-8 or W-9, or successor applicable form, as the case may
be, certifying that it is entitled to an exemption from United States
backup withholding tax;
(b) deliver to the Company and the Agent two further copies of
any such form or certification at least five Business Days before the
date that any such form or certification expires or becomes obsolete
and after the occurrence of any event requiring a change in the most
recent form previously delivered by it to the Agent and the Company;
(c) obtain such extensions of time for filing and complete such
forms or certifications as may reasonably be requested by the Company
or the Agent; and
(d) file amendments to such forms as and when required; and each
Lender (or Transferee) that is incorporated or organized under the laws
of the United States of America or a State thereof shall provide two
properly completed and duly executed copies of Form W-9, or successor
applicable form, at the times specified for delivery of forms under
this Section 3.6.2 unless an event (including, without limitation, any
change in treaty, law or regulation) has occurred after the date such
Person becomes a Lender hereunder which renders all such forms
inapplicable or which would prevent such Lender from duly completing
and delivering any such
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form with respect to it and such Lender so advises the Company and the
Agent; PROVIDED, however, that the Company may rely upon such forms
provided to the Company for all periods prior to the occurrence of such
event. Each Person that shall become a U.S. Lender or a Participant
pursuant to Section 13.2 shall, upon the effectiveness of the related
transfer, be required to provide all of the forms, certifications and
statements required pursuant to this Section, PROVIDED that in the case
of such Participant, the obligations of such Participant pursuant to
this Section 3.6.2 shall be determined as if such Participant were a
Lender, except that such Participant shall furnish all such required
forms, certifications and statements to the Lender from which the
related participation shall have been purchased.
3.6.3 Each Euro Lender that is not incorporated or organized under the
laws of the jurisdiction (a) under the laws of which a Foreign Subsidiary
Borrower is incorporated or organized, or (b) in which such Foreign Subsidiary
Borrower is located, and, in either case, is a Lender to such Foreign Subsidiary
Borrower shall, upon request by such Foreign Subsidiary Borrower, within a
reasonable period of time after such request, deliver to such Foreign Subsidiary
Borrower or the applicable governmental or taxing authority, as the case may be,
any form or certificate required in order that any payment by such Foreign
Subsidiary Borrower under this Agreement or any Notes to such Lender may be made
free and clear of, and without deduction or withholding for or on account of any
Non-Excluded Tax (or to allow any such deduction or withholding to be at a
reduced rate) imposed on such payment under the laws of the jurisdiction under
which such Foreign Subsidiary Borrower is incorporated or organized, PROVIDED
that such Lender is legally entitled to complete, execute and deliver such form
or certificate and such completion, execution or submission would not prejudice
the legal position of such Lender.
3.6.4 Each Lender agrees to use reasonable efforts to avoid or to
minimize any amounts that might otherwise be payable pursuant to this Section
3.6, PROVIDED that such effort shall not impose on any such Lender any
additional costs or legal or regulatory burdens deemed by such Lender in its
reasonable judgment to be material. In the event that any Lender determines that
any event or circumstance that will lead to a claim by it under this Section 3.6
has occurred or will occur, such Lender will use its best efforts to so notify
the Company in writing, PROVIDED that any failure to provide such notice shall
in no way impair the rights of any Lender to demand and receive compensation
under this Section 3.6.
3.7 SUBSTITUTION OF LENDER. If (a) the obligation of any Lender to
make or maintain Fixed Rate Loans has been suspended pursuant to Section 3.3,
except when all Lenders' obligations to make or maintain Fixed Rate Loans have
been suspended other than by reason of such Lender's obligation to make or
maintain Fixed Rate Loans being suspended, (b) any Lender has demanded
compensation under Sections 3.1, 3.2 or 3.6 when all Lenders have not done so,
(c) any Lender is a Defaulting Lender or (d) in connection with a request by any
Borrower to obtain the consent of the Lenders to a waiver, amendment or
modification of any provision of this Agreement or any other Loan Document that
requires the consent of all Lenders, any Lender having not more than 10% of the
sum of the Aggregate Total Outstandings of all Lenders at such time has declined
to agree to such request when the Required Lenders have agreed to such request,
the Company shall have the right, if no Default then exists, to replace such
Lender (a "Replaced Lender") with one or more other lenders (collectively, the
"Replacement Lender") acceptable to the Agent, PROVIDED that (i) at the time of
any replacement pursuant to this Section 3.7, the Replacement Lender shall enter
into one or more Assignments pursuant to which the Replacement Lender shall
acquire the Commitments and outstanding Loans and other obligations of the
Replaced Lender and, in connection therewith, shall pay to the Replaced Lender
in respect thereof an amount equal to the sum of (A) the amount of principal of,
and all accrued interest on, all outstanding Loans of the Replaced Lender, (B)
the amount of all accrued, but theretofore unpaid, fees owing to the Replaced
Lender hereunder and (C) the amount that would be payable by the Borrowers to
the Replaced Lender pursuant to Section 3.4, if any, if the Borrowers prepaid at
the time of such replacement all of the
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Loans of such Replaced Lender outstanding at such time and (ii) all obligations
of the Borrowers then owing to the Replaced Lender (other than those
specifically described in clause (i) above in respect of which the assignment
purchase price has been, or is concurrently being, paid) shall be paid in full
to such Replaced Lender concurrently with such replacement. Upon the execution
of the respective Assignments, the payment of amounts referred to in clauses (i)
and (ii) above and, if so requested by the Replacement Lender, delivery to the
Replacement Lender of the appropriate Note or Notes executed by the appropriate
Borrower, the Replacement Lender shall become a Lender hereunder and the
Replaced Lender shall cease to constitute a Lender hereunder. The provisions of
this Agreement (including without limitation Sections 3.4 and 10.7) shall
continue to govern the rights and obligations of a Replaced Lender with respect
to any Loans made or any other actions taken by such lender while it was a
Lender. Nothing herein shall release any Defaulting Lender from any obligation
it may have to any Borrower, the Agent, Issuer or any other Lender.
ARTICLE IV
CONDITIONS PRECEDENT
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4.1 CLOSING CONDITIONS. On the date hereof, the Borrowers shall
furnish, or shall cause to be furnished, to the Agent, each of the following:
(a) Copies of the articles of incorporation or similar
organizational documents of each Borrower and Guarantor,
together with all amendments thereto, and a certificate of good
standing or similar governmental evidence of corporate
existence, certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary
of such Borrower or Guarantor, as the case may be.
(b) Copies of the by-laws and Board of Directors' resolutions (and
resolutions of other bodies, if any are deemed necessary by
counsel for any Lender) of each Borrower and Guarantor
authorizing the execution of the Loan Documents, certified by
the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary or other duly
authorized representative of such Borrower or Guarantor, as the
case may be.
(c) An incumbency certificate of each Borrower and Guarantor, which
shall identify by name and title and bear the signature of the
officers of such Borrower or such Guarantor authorized to sign
the applicable Loan Documents and to make borrowings hereunder,
upon which certificate the Agent and the Lenders shall be
entitled to rely until informed of any change in writing by
such Borrower or such Guarantor.
(d) A Compliance Certificate, signed by any Designated Financial
Officer of each Borrower.
(e) A written opinion of the Borrowers' and Guarantors' counsel,
addressed to the Agent and Lenders, in substantially the form
of Exhibit G hereto.
(f) Written money transfer instructions, in substantially the form
of Exhibit H hereto, addressed to the Agent and signed by an
Authorized Officer, together with such other related money
transfer authorizations as the Agent may have reasonably
requested.
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(g) Copies of all governmental and nongovernmental consents,
approvals, authorizations, declarations, registrations or
filings required on the part of any Borrower or any Guarantor
in connection with the execution, delivery and performance of
the Loan Documents or the transactions contemplated hereby or
thereby or as a condition to the legality, validity or
enforceability of the Loan Documents, certified as true and
correct in full force and effect as of the Effective Date by a
duly authorized officer of the Borrowers, or if none is
required, a certificate of such officer to that effect.
(h) The Guaranty executed by all of the Guarantors.
(i) Payment of all fees owing to the Agent or any Lender by the
Borrowers and the Guarantors as of the Effective Date.
(j) Satisfactory results of all due diligence required by the
Agent, including a review of all contingent liabilities, a
review of contracts and insurance, a review of all litigation,
and environmental matters and other due diligence.
(k) Copies of such financial statements of the Company and its
Subsidiaries required by the Agent, together with prospective
financial statements for the Company and its Subsidiaries, in
each case in form and substance satisfactory to the Agent.
(l) Evidence reasonably satisfactory to the Agent that, since
September 30, 1999, there has been no change in the business,
property, condition (financial or otherwise) or results of
operations of the Company and its Subsidiaries which could
reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
(m) Information reasonably satisfactory to the Agent regarding the
Borrowers' Year 2000 Program.
(n) Such other agreements and documents, and the satisfaction of
such other conditions, as may be reasonably required by the
Agent, including without limitation a subrogation and
contribution agreement executed by the Borrowers and the
Guarantors, and such funding instructions, sources and uses
certificate and other certificates required by the Agent.
4.2 EACH ADVANCE. The Lenders shall not be required to make any Loans
nor shall any Issuer be required to issue any Letter of Credit, unless on the
applicable Borrowing Date, both before and after giving effect on a pro forma
basis to such Loan or Letter of Credit:
(a) There exists no Default or Unmatured Default.
(b) The representations and warranties contained in Article V are true
and correct as of such Borrowing Date except (i) to the extent any such
representation or warranty is stated to relate solely to an earlier date, in
which case such representation or warranty shall be true and correct on and as
of such earlier date and (ii) the representations contained in Section 5.5 shall
be limited (as determined by the Agent) with respect to any Loans or Letters of
Credit made after the initial Loans and Letters of Credit hereunder if the
credit facilities hereunder are used for commercial paper backup to the extent
required by the relevant rating agencies with respect to such commercial paper.
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(c) All legal matters incident to the making of such Loans or the
issuance of such Facility Letter of Credit shall be satisfactory to the Agent
and its counsel.
(d) If such Loan is an initial Loan to a Subsidiary Borrower, the Agent
shall have received a Foreign Subsidiary Opinion or Domestic Subsidiary Opinion,
as the case may be, in respect of such Subsidiary Borrower and such other
documents reasonably requested by the Agent.
Each Borrowing notice with respect to each borrowing by a Borrower
hereunder or each request for an issuance of a Facility Letter of Credit shall
constitute a representation and warranty by the Company and such Borrower that
the conditions contained in Sections 4.2(a), (b) and (c) have been satisfied.
ARTICLE V
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
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Each of the Company and the Subsidiary Borrowers (insofar as the
representations and warranties set forth below relate to such Subsidiary
Borrower) represents and warrants to the Lenders that:
5.1 CORPORATE EXISTENCE AND STANDING. Each Borrower and Guarantor is a
corporation, partnership, limited liability company or other organization, duly
organized and validly existing under the laws of its jurisdiction of
organization and has all requisite corporate, partnership, company or similar
authority to conduct its business as presently conducted.
5.2 AUTHORIZATION AND VALIDITY. Each Borrower has the corporate or
other power and authority and legal right to execute and deliver the Loan
Documents and to perform its obligations thereunder. The execution and delivery
by each of the Borrowers of the Loan Documents and the performance of their
obligations thereunder have been duly authorized by proper corporate
proceedings, and the Loan Documents to which they are a party constitute legal,
valid and binding obligations of the Borrowers enforceable against the Borrowers
in accordance with their terms, except as enforceability may be limited by
bankruptcy, insolvency or similar laws affecting the enforcement of creditors'
rights generally and by general principles of equity.
5.3 NO CONFLICT: GOVERNMENT CONSENT. Neither the execution and delivery
by the Borrowers of the Loan Documents, nor the consummation of the transactions
therein contemplated, nor compliance with the provisions thereof will violate
any law, rule, regulation, order, writ, judgment, injunction, decree or award
binding on the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or the Company's or any
Subsidiary's constitutive documents or the provisions of any indenture,
instrument or agreement to which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is a
party or is subject, or by which it, or its Property, is bound, or conflict with
or constitute a default thereunder, or result in the creation or imposition of
any Lien (other than any Lien permitted by Section 6.12) in, of or on the
Property of the Company or a Subsidiary pursuant to the terms of any such
indenture, instrument or agreement. Other than those that have been obtained, no
order, consent, approval, license, authorization, or validation of, or filing,
recording or registration with, or exemption by, or other action in respect of
any governmental or public body or authority, or any subdivision thereof, is
required to authorize, or is required in connection with the execution, delivery
and performance of, or the legality, validity, binding effect or enforceability
of, any of the Loan Documents.
5.4 FINANCIAL STATEMENTS. All financial statements of the Company and
its Subsidiaries heretofore delivered to the Lenders were prepared in accordance
with generally accepted accounting
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principles in effect on the date such statements were prepared and fairly
present in all material respects the consolidated financial condition and
operations of the Company and its Subsidiaries.
5.5 MATERIAL ADVERSE CHANGE. Since September 30, 1999 or, after the
first financial statements are delivered under Sections 6.1(i) or (ii), since
the date of the financial statements most recently delivered under Section
6.1(i) or (ii), there has been no change in the business, Property, prospects,
condition (financial or otherwise) or results of operations of the Company and
its Subsidiaries which could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse
Effect.
5.6 TAXES. The Company and its Subsidiaries have filed all United
States federal tax returns and all other material tax returns that are required
to be filed by any Governmental Authority and have paid all taxes shown as due
pursuant to said returns or pursuant to any assessment received by the Company
or any of its Subsidiaries by any Governmental Authority, except such taxes, if
any, as are being contested in good faith and as to which adequate reserves have
been provided in accordance with Agreement Accounting Principles and as to which
no Lien (other than as permitted by Section 6.12) exists. No tax liens have been
filed and no claims are being asserted with respect to any such taxes, other
than as permitted by Section 6.12. The charges, accruals and reserves on the
books of the Company and its Subsidiaries in respect of any taxes or other
governmental charges are adequate.
5.7 LITIGATION AND CONTINGENT OBLIGATIONS. Except as set forth on
Schedule 5.7 hereto, there is no litigation, arbitration or proceeding pending
or, to the knowledge of any of the Company's executive officers, any
governmental investigation or inquiry pending or any litigation, arbitration,
governmental investigation, proceeding or inquiry threatened against or
affecting the Company or any of its Subsidiaries that could reasonably be
expected to have a Material Adverse Effect or which seeks to prevent, enjoin or
delay the making of the Loans or Advances. Other than any liability incident to
such litigation, arbitration or proceedings listed on Schedule 5.7, the Company
and its Subsidiaries have no material Contingent Obligations not provided for or
disclosed in the financial statements referred to in Section 5.4.
5.8 SUBSIDIARIES. Schedule 5.8 hereto contains an accurate list of all
Subsidiaries of the Company as of the date of this Agreement, setting forth
their respective jurisdictions of incorporation or organization and the
percentage of their respective Capital Stock owned by the Company or other
Subsidiaries. All of the issued and outstanding shares of Capital Stock of such
Subsidiaries held by the Company have been duly authorized and issued and are
fully paid and non-assessable.
5.9 ERISA. Each member of the Controlled Group has fulfilled its
material obligations under the minimum funding standards of ERISA and the Code
with respect to each Single Employer Plan. Each member of the Controlled Group
is in material compliance with the applicable provisions of ERISA and the Code
with respect to each Plan except where such non compliance would not have a
Material Adverse Effect. Each Single Employer Plan complies in all material
respects with all applicable requirements of law and regulations, no Reportable
Event which has or may result in any material liability has occurred with
respect to any Single Employer Plan, and no steps have been taken to reorganize
or terminate any Single Employer Plan. No member of the Controlled Group has (i)
sought a waiver of the minimum funding standard under Section 412 of the Code in
respect of any Plan, (ii) failed to make any contribution or payment to any
Single Employer Plan or Multiemployer Plan, or made any amendment to any Plan,
which has resulted or could result in the imposition of a Lien or the posting of
a bond or other security under ERISA or the Code or (iii) incurred any material,
actual liability under Title IV of ERISA other than a liability to the PBGC for
premiums under Section 4007 of ERISA or a liability that has been satisfied.
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5.10 ACCURACY OF INFORMATION. No information, exhibit or report
furnished by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries in writing to the Agent or
to any Lender in connection with the negotiation of the Loan Documents contained
any material misstatement of fact or omitted to state a material fact or any
fact necessary to make the statements contained therein not misleading in light
of the circumstances in which made, as of the date thereof; PROVIDED, HOWEVER,
that with respect to projected financial information, the Company represents
only that such information has been prepared in good faith based on assumptions
believed by the Company to be reasonable.
5.11 REGULATIONS T, U AND X. Neither the Company nor any of its
Subsidiaries extends or maintains, in the ordinary course of business, credit
for the purpose, whether immediate, incidental, or ultimate, of buying or
carrying Margin Stock, and no part of the proceeds of any Advance will be used
for the purpose, whether immediate, incidental, or ultimate, of buying or
carrying any such Margin Stock or maintaining or extending credit to others for
such purpose in any way that would violate Regulation T, U or X. After applying
the proceeds of each Advance, Margin Stock will not constitute more than 25% of
the value of the assets (either of the Company alone or of the Company and its
Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis) that are subject to any provisions of any
Loan Document that may cause the Advances to be deemed secured, directly or
indirectly, by Margin Stock. The Company and its Subsidiaries are in compliance
with Section 6.2.
5.12 MATERIAL AGREEMENTS. Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary is a
party to any agreement or instrument or subject to any charter or other
corporate restriction which could reasonably be expected to have a Material
Adverse Effect. Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary is in default in the
performance, observance or fulfillment of any of the obligations, covenants or
conditions contained in any agreement to which it is a party (including any
agreement or instrument evidencing or governing Indebtedness), which default
could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
5.13 COMPLIANCE WITH LAWS; PROPERTIES. The Company and its Subsidiaries
have complied with all applicable statutes, rules, regulations, orders and
restrictions of any domestic or foreign government or any instrumentality or
agency thereof, having jurisdiction over the conduct of their respective
businesses or the ownership of their respective Property, failure to comply with
which could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
5.14 PLAN ASSETS; PROHIBITED TRANSACTIONS. The Company and its
Subsidiaries have not engaged in any non-exempt prohibited transaction within
the meaning of Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code which could
result in any material liability; and neither the execution of this Agreement
nor the making of Loans (assuming the accuracy of the following representations
and warranties which the Lenders hereby make for the benefit of the Borrowers:
(i) that no part of the funds to be used by the Lenders for funding any of the
Loans shall constitute assets of an "employee benefit plan" within the meaning
of ERISA or the assets of a "plan" as defined in Section 4975(e)(l) of the Code
and (ii) that no Lender will transfer its interest herein unless the prospective
transferee makes the representations and warranties set forth in this
parenthetical phrase as if had originally been a party to this agreement)
hereunder will constitute a non-exempt prohibited transaction within the meaning
of Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code.
5.15 ENVIRONMENTAL MATTERS. In the ordinary course of its business, the
officers of the Company consider the effect of Environmental Laws on the
business of the Company and its Subsidiaries, in the course of which they
identify and evaluate potential risks and liabilities accruing to the Company
and its Subsidiaries due to Environmental Laws. On the basis of this
consideration, the Company has reasonably concluded that the Company and its
Subsidiaries are not in violation of any Environmental Laws in such a fashion
that could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. Neither the
Company nor any Subsidiary has received any written notice to the effect that
its
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operations are not in material compliance with any of the requirements of
applicable Environmental Laws or, to the knowledge of any Borrower, are the
subject of any federal or state investigation evaluating whether any Remedial
Action is required to be performed by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries,
which non-compliance or Remedial Action could reasonably be expected to have a
Material Adverse Effect.
5.16 INVESTMENT COMPANY ACT. No Borrower is an "investment company" or
a company "controlled" by an "investment company", within the meaning of the
Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.
5.17 PUBLIC UTILITY HOLDING COMPANY ACT. No Borrower is a "holding
company" or a "subsidiary company" of a "holding company", or an "affiliate" of
a "holding company" or of a "subsidiary company" of a "holding company", within
the meaning of the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935, as amended.
5.18 SUBSIDIARY BORROWERS. (a) Except as described on Schedule 5.8,
each Subsidiary Borrower is a direct or indirect Wholly Owned Subsidiary of the
Company (excluding director qualifying shares); and
(b) Each Subsidiary Borrower will have, upon becoming a party hereto,
all right and authority to enter into this Agreement and each other Loan
Document to which it is a party, and to perform all of its obligations under
this and each other Loan Document to which it is a party; all of the foregoing
actions will have been taken prior to any request for Loans by such Borrower,
duly authorized by all necessary action on the part of such Borrower, and when
such Subsidiary Borrower becomes a party hereto, this Agreement and each other
Loan Document to which it is a party will constitute valid and binding
obligations of such Borrower enforceable in accordance with their respective
terms except as such terms may be limited by the application of bankruptcy,
moratorium, insolvency and similar laws affecting the rights of creditors
generally and by general principles of equity.
5.19 INSURANCE. The Company and its Subsidiaries maintain insurance
with financially sound and reputable insurance companies (or self-insurance
programs) on their Property in such amounts (with such customary deductibles,
exclusions and self-insurance) and covering such risks as management of the
Company reasonably considers consistent with sound business practice.
5.20 OWNERSHIP OF PROPERTIES. On the Effective Date, the Company and
its Subsidiaries will have good title, free of all Liens (other than as
permitted by Section 6.12), to all Property and assets reflected in the
financial statements as owned by it.
5.21 LABOR CONTROVERSIES. There are no labor controversies pending or,
to the best of the Company's knowledge, threatened against the Company or any
Subsidiary, that could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
5.22 BURDENSOME OBLIGATIONS. The Company does not presently anticipate
that future expenditures needed to meet the provisions of federal or state
statutes, orders, rules or regulations will be so burdensome as to cause a
Material Adverse Effect.
5.23 YEAR 2000. The Borrower has made a reasonable assessment of the
Year 2000 Issues and has a realistic and achievable program for remediating the
Year 2000 Issues on a timely basis (the "Year 2000 Program"). Based on such
assessment and on the Year 2000 Program the Borrowers do not reasonably
anticipate that Year 2000 Issues will have a Material Adverse Effect.
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ARTICLE VI
COVENANTS
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During the term of this Agreement, unless the Required Lenders shall
otherwise consent in writing:
6.1 FINANCIAL REPORTING. The Company will maintain, for itself and each
Subsidiary, a system of accounting established and administered in accordance
with Agreement Accounting Principles, and furnish to the Lenders:
(i) Within 90 days after the close of each of its fiscal years, an
unqualified (except for qualifications relating to changes in accounting
principles or practices reflecting changes in Agreement Accounting Principles
and required or approved by the Company's independent certified public
accountants) audit report certified by independent certified public accountants
reasonably acceptable to the Agent, prepared in accordance with Agreement
Accounting Principles on a consolidated basis for itself and its Subsidiaries,
including balance sheets as of the end of such period, related profit and loss
statements, and a statement of cash flows, accompanied by a certificate of said
accountants that, in the course of their examination necessary for their
certification of the foregoing, they have obtained no knowledge of any Default
or Unmatured Default, or if, in the opinion of such accountants, any Default or
Unmatured Default shall exist, stating the nature and status thereof.
(ii) Within 45 days after the close of each of the first three
quarterly periods of each fiscal year, for itself and its Subsidiaries,
consolidated unaudited balance sheets as at the close of each such period and
consolidated unaudited profit and loss statements and a consolidated unaudited
statement of cash flows for the period from the beginning of such fiscal year to
the end of such quarter, all certified by its Designated Financial Officer.
(iii) Together with the financial statements required under
Sections 6.1(i) and (ii), a compliance certificate in substantially the form of
Exhibit I (a "Compliance Certificate") signed by its Designated Financial
Officer and stating that no Default or Unmatured Default exists, or if any
Default or Unmatured Default exists, stating the nature and status thereof.
(iv) As soon as possible and in any event within 30 Business Days
after the Company knows that any Reportable Event has occurred with respect to
any Plan, a statement, signed by the Designated Financial Officer of the
Company, describing said Reportable Event and the action which the Company
proposes to take with respect thereto.
(v) As soon as possible and in any event within 15 Business Days
after receipt by the Company, a copy of (a) any written notice or claim to the
effect that the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is or may be liable to any
Person as a result of the Release by the Company, any of its Subsidiaries, or
any other Person of any Hazardous Substances into the environment, and (b) any
written notice alleging any violation of any Environmental Law by the Company or
any of its Subsidiaries, which, in either case, could reasonably be expected to
have a Material Adverse Effect.
(vi) Promptly after the sending or filing thereof, copies of all
reports, proxy statements and financial statements that the Company or any of
its Subsidiaries sends to or files with any of their respective securities
holders or any securities exchange or the Securities Exchange and Commission or
any successor agency thereof pertaining to the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries as the issuer of securities.
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(vii) Such other information (including non-financial information)
as the Agent or any Lender may from time to time reasonably request.
6.2 USE OF PROCEEDS. The Company will, and will cause each Subsidiary
to, use the proceeds of the Advances for general corporate purposes, including
Acquisitions and commercial paper back up. The Company will not, nor will it
permit any Subsidiary to, use any of the proceeds of the Advances to purchase or
carry any Margin Stock in any way in violation of Regulation T, U or X.
6.3 NOTICE OF DEFAULT. The Company will, and will cause each Borrower
and Subsidiary to, give prompt notice in writing to the Agent of the occurrence
of any Default or Unmatured Default and of any other development, financial or
otherwise (including, without limitation, developments with respect to Year 2000
Issues), which could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
6.4 CONDUCT OF BUSINESS. The Company will, and will cause each
Subsidiary to, carry on and conduct its business in substantially the same
fields of enterprise as it is presently conducted or fields related thereto or
extensions thereof (taking the Company and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated
basis) and do all things necessary to remain duly incorporated or organized,
validly existing and (to the extent such concept applies to such entity) in good
standing as a domestic corporation, partnership or limited liability company in
its jurisdiction of incorporation or organization, as the case may be, and
maintain all requisite authority to conduct its business in each jurisdiction in
which its business is conducted, unless the failure to do so could not
reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
6.5 TAXES. The Company will, and will cause each Subsidiary to, timely
file complete and correct United States federal and applicable foreign, state
and local tax returns required by law and pay when due all taxes, assessments
and governmental charges and levies upon it or its income, profits or Property,
except those that are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings
and with respect to which adequate reserves have been set aside in accordance
with Agreement Accounting Principles, except where the failure to do so could
not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
6.6 INSURANCE. The Company will, and will cause each Subsidiary to,
maintain with financially sound and reputable insurance companies insurance on
all their Property in such amounts (with such customary deductibles, exclusions
and self-insurance) and covering such risks as is consistent with sound business
practice.
6.7 COMPLIANCE WITH LAWS. The Company will, and will cause each
Subsidiary to, comply with all Requirements of Law, except where the failure to
do so could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
6.8 PROPERTIES; INSPECTION. The Company will, and will cause each
Subsidiary to, do all things necessary to maintain, preserve, protect and keep
its Property in good repair, working order and condition, and make all necessary
and proper repairs, renewals and replacements to the extent the Company
reasonably deems consistent with sound business practice. The Company will, and
will cause each Subsidiary to, permit the Agent and the Lenders, by their
respective representatives and agents, to reasonably inspect any of the Property
of the Company and each Subsidiary, the financial or accounting records of the
Company and each Subsidiary and other documents of the Company and each
Subsidiary, in each case only to the extent any of the foregoing is reasonably
related to the credit evaluation by the Agent and the Lenders under this
Agreement, to examine and make copies of such records and documents of the
Company and each Subsidiary, and to discuss the affairs, finances and accounts
of the Company and each Subsidiary with, and to be advised as to the same by,
their respective officers upon reasonable prior notice at such reasonable times
and intervals as the Agent may designate.
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6.9 MERGER. The Company will not, nor will it permit any Subsidiary
to, merge or consolidate with or into any other Person, except that, provided
that no Default or Unmatured Default shall have occurred and be continuing or
would result therefrom on a pro forma basis reasonably acceptable to the Agent,
the Company may merge or consolidate with any other U.S. corporation and each
Subsidiary may merge or consolidate with any other Person, provided, further,
that (i) in the case of any such merger or consolidation involving the Company,
the Company is the surviving corporation and (ii) in the case of any such merger
or consolidation involving a Subsidiary which is a Subsidiary Borrower, the
surviving corporation assumes all of such Borrower's obligations under this
Agreement and remains or becomes a Subsidiary Borrower.
6.10 SALE OF ASSETS. The Company will not, nor will it permit any
Subsidiary to, lease, sell or otherwise dispose of its Property, to any other
Person (other than to the Company or a Guarantor or between Foreign
Subsidiaries), except:
(i) Sales of inventory in the ordinary course of business.
(ii) Sales or other dispositions in the ordinary course of business of
fixed assets for the purpose of replacing such fixed assets, provided that such
fixed assets are replaced within 180 days of such sale or other disposition with
other fixed assets that have a fair market value not materially less than the
fixed assets sold or otherwise disposed of.
(iii) Other leases, sales (including sale-leasebacks) or other
dispositions of its Property that, together with all other Property of the
Company and its Subsidiaries previously leased, sold or disposed of (other than
as provided in clauses (i) and (ii) above) as permitted by this Section during
the twelve-month period ending with the month prior to the month in which any
such lease, sale or other disposition occurs, do not constitute a Substantial
Portion of the Property of the Company and its Subsidiaries.
Notwithstanding anything in this Section 6.10 to the contrary, (a) no such
leases, sales or other dispositions of property may be made (other than pursuant
to clause (i) above) if any Default or Unmatured Default has occurred and is
continuing, and (b) all leases, sales and other dispositions of Property at any
time shall be for not materially less than the fair market value of such
Property as determined in good faith by the Company.
6.11 INVESTMENTS AND ACQUISITIONS. The Company will not, nor will it
permit any Subsidiary to, make or suffer to exist any Investments, or
commitments therefor, or to make any Acquisition of any Person, except, so long
as no Default or Unmatured Default exists or would be caused thereby:
(i) Investments in Cash Equivalents.
(ii) Investments in Guarantors.
(iii) Other Investments in existence on the date hereof.
(iv) Other Investments provided that the aggregate amount of such
Investments made in any fiscal year does not exceed 15% of Tangible Net Worth as
of the beginning of such fiscal year.
(v) Any Acquisition so long as the aggregate amount of consideration
(including without limitation any payments in cash, Capital Stock or other
consideration, any direct or deferred payments (to the extent such deferred
payments should be shown as a liability on a balance sheet of the Company and
its Subsidiaries in accordance with Agreement Accounting Principles) and the
amount of any
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Indebtedness (other than Letters of Credit incurred in the ordinary course of
business) assumed or otherwise incurred in connection with such Acquisition)
paid or payable by the Company or any Subsidiary in connection with any such
Acquisition does not exceed 30% of the then Tangible Net Worth (or, in the case
of the contemplated Acquisition identified by the Company to the Agent prior to
the Effective Date as Project Road Runner, 40% of the then Tangible Net Worth,
provided that the Company delivers to the Agent prior to such Acquisition a pro
forma Compliance Certificate indicating pro forma compliance with Sections 6.18
and 6.19) and such Acquisition is not hostile and shall have been approved by
the board of directors or similar governing body of the target of such
Acquisition.
6.12 LIENS. The Company will not, nor will it permit any Subsidiary
to, create, incur, or suffer to exist any Lien in, of or on the Property of the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries, except:
(i) Liens for taxes, assessments or governmental charges or levies
on its Property if the same shall not at the time be delinquent or thereafter
can be paid without penalty, or are being contested in good faith and by
appropriate proceedings and for which adequate reserves in accordance with
Agreement Accounting Principles shall have been set aside on its books.
(ii) Liens imposed by law, such as landlord's, carriers',
warehousemen's and mechanics' liens and other similar liens arising in the
ordinary course of business that secure payment of obligations not more than 60
days past due or that are being contested in good faith by appropriate
proceedings and for which adequate reserves in accordance with Agreement
Accounting Principles shall have been set aside on its books.
(iii) Liens arising out of pledges or deposits under worker's
compensation laws, unemployment insurance, old age pensions, or other social
security or retirement benefits, or similar legislation (other than Liens in
favor of the PGBC).
(iv) Utility easements, building restrictions and such other
encumbrances or charges against real property as are of a nature generally
existing with respect to properties of a similar character and that do not in
any material way affect the marketability of the same or interfere with the use
thereof in the business of the Company or its Subsidiaries.
(v) Liens existing on the date hereof and described on Schedule
6.12, provided that no increase in the principal amount secured thereby is
permitted.
(vi) Any extension, renewal or replacement (or successive extensions,
renewals or replacements) in whole or in part of any Lien referred to in the
foregoing clauses, provided, however, that the principal amount of Indebtedness
secured thereby shall not exceed the principal amount of Indebtedness so secured
prior to such extension, renewal or replacement and that such extension, renewal
or replacement Lien shall be limited to all or a part of the assets that secured
the Lien so extended, renewed or replaced (plus improvements and construction on
such real property).
(vii) Liens securing Indebtedness and not otherwise permitted by the
foregoing provisions of this Section 6.12, provided that the aggregate
outstanding principal amount of the Indebtedness secured by all such Liens shall
not at any time exceed 10% of Tangible Net Worth.
6.13 YEAR 2000. The Company will take and will cause each of its
Subsidiaries to take all such actions as are reasonably necessary to
successfully implement the Year 2000 Program and to assure that Year 2000 Issues
will not have a Material Adverse Effect. At the request of the Agent, the
Company will provide a description of the Year 2000 Program, together with any
updates or progress reports with respect thereto.
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6.14 AFFILIATES. The Company will not, and will not permit any
Subsidiary to, enter into any transaction (including, without limitation, the
purchase or sale of any Property or service) with, or make any payment or
transfer to, any Affiliate except pursuant to the reasonable requirements of the
Company's or such Subsidiary's business and upon fair and reasonable terms
(taken as a whole) not materially less favorable to the Company or such
Subsidiary than the Company or such Subsidiary would obtain in a comparable
arms-length transaction.
6.15 INDEBTEDNESS OF CERTAIN SUBSIDIARIES. The Company will not permit
any Subsidiary which is not a Guarantor to create, incur or suffer to exist any
Indebtedness, except:
(i) The Loans, the Facility Letters of Credit and the other
Obligations.
(ii) Indebtedness outstanding on the date of this Agreement, but no
increase in the principal amount thereof.
(iii) Indebtedness of any Person that becomes a Subsidiary after the
date hereof; provided that such Indebtedness existed at the time such Person
becomes a Subsidiary and was not created in contemplation of or in connection
with such Person becoming a Subsidiary.
(iv) Any refunding or refinancing of any Indebtedness referred to in
clauses (ii) and (iii) above, provided that any such refunding or refinancing
does not increase the principal amount thereof.
(v) Indebtedness arising from (a) the endorsement of negotiable
instruments for deposit or collection or similar transactions in the ordinary
course of business, or (b) the honoring by a bank or other financial institution
of a check, draft or similar instrument inadvertently (except in the case of
daylight overdrafts) drawn against insufficient funds in the ordinary course of
business.
(vi) Other Indebtedness; provided that, at the time of the creation,
incurrence or assumption of such other Indebtedness and after giving effect
thereto, the aggregate amount of all such other Indebtedness of such
Subsidiaries does not exceed an amount equal to 10% of Tangible Net Worth at
such time.
6.16 LIMITATION ON RESTRICTIONS ON SUBSIDIARY DISTRIBUTIONS. The
Company will not, and will not permit any Subsidiary to, enter into or suffer to
exist or become effective any consensual encumbrance or restriction on the
ability of any Subsidiary of the Company to (i) pay dividends or make any other
distributions in respect of any Capital Stock of such Subsidiary held by, or
pay any Indebtedness owed to, the Company or any other Subsidiary of the
Company, (ii) make loans or advances to the Company or any other Subsidiary of
the Company or (iii) transfer any of its assets to the Company or any other
Subsidiary of the Company, except for such encumbrances or restrictions existing
under or by reason of (a) any restrictions existing under the Loan Documents,
(b) any restrictions with respect to a Subsidiary imposed pursuant to an
agreement which has been entered into in connection with the disposition of all
or substantially all of the Capital Stock or assets of such Subsidiary, (c) any
restrictions with respect to assets encumbered by a Lien permitted by Section
6.12 so long as such restriction applies only to the assets encumbered by such
permitted Lien, and (d) to the extent required by the minority shareholders
thereof, any restriction with respect to a Foreign Subsidiary of which less than
90% of the Voting Stock is owned by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries.
6.17 FINANCIAL CONTRACTS. The Company will not, and will not permit any
Subsidiary to, enter into or remain a party to any Financial Contract for
purposes of financial speculation.
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6.18 TOTAL DEBT TO CAPITALIZATION RATIO. The Company shall not permit
its Total Debt to Capitalization Ratio to exceed 50%.
6.19 INTEREST COVERAGE RATIO. The Company shall not permit its Interest
Coverage Ratio to be less than 5.0 to 1.0 as of the last day of any fiscal
quarter.
ARTICLE VII
DEFAULTS
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The occurrence of any one or more of the following events shall
constitute a Default:
7.1 Any representation or warranty made, including without limitation
those deemed made pursuant to Section 4.2, by or on behalf of the Company or its
Subsidiaries to the Lenders or the Agent in any Loan Document, in connection
with any Loan or Facility Letter of Credit, or in any certificate or information
delivered in writing in connection with any Loan Document or in any certificate
or information delivered in writing in connection with any Loan Document shall
be false in any material respect on the date as of which made.
7.2 Nonpayment of principal of any Loan when due, or nonpayment of
interest on any Loan or of any facility fee within five Business Days after
written notice from the Agent that the same has become due, or nonpayment of any
other obligations under any of the Loan Documents within five Business Days
after written notice from the Agent that the same has become due.
7.3 The breach by any Borrower of any of the terms or provisions in
Sections 6.2, 6.3, 6.9, 6.10, 6.11, 6.12, 6.13, 6.14, 6.15, 6.16, 6.17, 6.18 or
6.19.
7.4 The breach by any Borrower or Guarantor (other than a breach which
constitutes a Default under Section 7.1, 7.2 or 7.3) of any of the terms or
provisions of this Agreement or any other Loan Document which is not remedied
within 30 days after written notice from the Agent.
7.5 Failure of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries to pay when due
any Indebtedness or Rate Hedging Obligations aggregating in excess of
$15,000,000 ("Material Indebtedness"); or the default by the Company or any of
its Subsidiaries in the performance of any term, provision or condition
contained in any agreement under which any such Material Indebtedness was
created or is governed, or any other event shall occur or condition exist, the
effect of which is to cause, or to permit the holder or holders of such Material
Indebtedness to cause, such Material Indebtedness to become due prior to its
stated maturity; or any Material Indebtedness of the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries shall be declared to be due and payable or required to be prepaid
or repurchased (other than by a regularly scheduled payment) prior to the stated
maturity thereof; or the Company or any of its Subsidiaries shall not pay, or
admit in writing its inability to pay, its debts generally as they become due.
7.6 The Company or any of its Subsidiaries, shall (i) have an order for
relief entered with respect to it under any existing or future law of any
jurisdiction, domestic or foreign, relating to bankruptcy, insolvency,
reorganization or relief of debtors, (ii) make an assignment for the benefit of
creditors, (iii) apply for, seek, consent to, or acquiesce in, the appointment
of a receiver, custodian, trustee, examiner, liquidator or similar official for
it or any Substantial Portion of its Property, (iv) institute any proceeding
seeking an order for relief under any existing or future law of any
jurisdiction, domestic or foreign, relating to bankruptcy, insolvency,
reorganization or relief of debtors, seeking to adjudicate it a bankrupt or
insolvent, or seeking dissolution, winding up, liquidation, reorganization,
arrangement, adjustment or composition of it or its debts or seeking similar
relief under any law of any
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jurisdiction, domestic or foreign, relating to bankruptcy, insolvency or
reorganization or relief of debtors or similar proceeding or fail to file an
answer or other pleading denying the material allegations of any such proceeding
filed against it, (v) take any corporate, company or other action to authorize
or effect any of the foregoing actions set forth in this Section 7.6 or (vi)
fail to contest in good faith any appointment or proceeding described in Section
7.7.
7.7 Without its application, approval or consent, a receiver, trustee,
examiner, liquidator or similar official shall be appointed for the Company or
any of its Subsidiaries or any Substantial Portion of their respective Property,
or a proceeding described in Section 7.6(iv) shall be instituted against the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries and such appointment continues undischarged
or such proceeding continues undismissed or unstayed for a period of 60
consecutive days.
7.8 Any court, government or governmental agency shall without
appropriate compensation condemn, seize or otherwise appropriate, or take
custody or control of (each a "Condemnation"), all or any portion of the
Property of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries which, when taken together
with all other Property of the Company and its Subsidiaries so condemned,
seized, appropriated, or taken custody or control of, during the twelve-month
period ending with the month in which any such Condemnation occurs, constitutes
a Substantial Portion and is reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse
Effect.
7.9 The Company or any of its Subsidiaries shall fail within 90 days to
pay, bond or otherwise discharge any judgment or order for the payment of money
in excess of $15,000,000 in aggregate amount for the Company and its
Subsidiaries, which is not stayed on appeal.
7.10 Any member of the Controlled Group shall fail to pay when due an
amount or amounts aggregating in excess of $15,000,000 which it shall have
become liable to pay under Title IV of ERISA; or notice of intent to terminate a
Single Employer Plan with Unfunded Liabilities in excess of $15,000,000 (a
"Material Plan") shall be filed under Section 4041(c) of ERISA by any member of
the Controlled Group, any plan administrator or any combination of the
foregoing; or the PBGC shall institute proceedings under Title IV of ERISA to
terminate, to impose liability (other than for premiums under Section 4007 of
ERISA) in respect of, or to cause a trustee to be appointed to administer any
Material Plan; or a condition shall exist that could reasonably be expected to
result in PBGC obtaining a decree adjudicating that any Material Plan must be
terminated; or there shall occur a complete or partial withdrawal from, or a
default, within the meaning of Section 4219(c)(5) of ERISA, with respect to, one
or more Multiemployer Plans which causes one or more members of the Controlled
Group to incur a current payment obligation for withdrawal liability in excess
of $15,000,000 in aggregate amount for the Controlled Group.
7.11 The Company or any of its Subsidiaries shall be the subject of any
proceeding or investigation pertaining to the Release by the Company or any of
its Subsidiaries or any other Person of any Hazardous Substance, or any
violation of any applicable Environmental Law, which, in either case, could
reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
7.12 The occurrence of any Change of Control.
7.13. The occurrence of any "default", as defined in any Loan Document,
or the breach of any of the terms or provisions of any Loan Document, which
default or breach continues beyond any period of grace therein provided.
7.14 Any Guaranty shall fail to remain in full force or effect or any
action shall be taken to discontinue or assert the invalidity or
unenforceability of any Guaranty by any Guarantor, or any
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Guarantor shall fail to comply with any of the terms or provisions of any
Guaranty to which it is a party, or any Guarantor denies that it has any further
liability under any Guaranty to which it is a party, or gives notice to such
effect.
ARTICLE VIII
ACCELERATION, WAIVERS, AMENDMENTS AND REMEDIES
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8.1 ACCELERATION. (a) If any Default described in Section 7.6 or 7.7
occurs, (i) the obligations of the Lenders to make Loans hereunder and the
obligations of the Issuers to issue Facility Letters of Credit shall
automatically terminate and the Obligations shall immediately become due and
payable without presentment, demand, protest or notice of any kind, all of which
the Borrowers hereby expressly waive and without any election or action on the
part of the Agent or any Lender and (ii) each Borrower will be and become
thereby unconditionally obligated, without the need for demand or the necessity
of any act or evidence, to deliver to the Agent, at its address specified
pursuant to Article XIV, for deposit into the Letter of Credit Collateral
Account, an amount (the "Collateral Shortfall Amount") equal to the excess, if
any, of
(A) 100% of the sum of the aggregate maximum amount remaining available
to be drawn under the Facility Letters of Credit requested by such Borrower
(assuming compliance with all conditions for drawing thereunder) issued by an
Issuer and outstanding as of such time, OVER
(B) the amount on deposit for such Borrower in the Letter of Credit
Collateral Account at such time that is free and clear of all rights and claims
of third parties (other than the Agent and the Lenders) and that has not been
applied by the Lenders against the Obligations of such Borrower.
(b) If any Default occurs and is continuing (other than a Default
described in Section 7.6 or 7.7), (i) the Required Lenders may terminate or
suspend the obligations of the Lenders to make Loans and the obligation of the
Issuers to issue Facility Letters of Credit hereunder, or declare the
Obligations to be due and payable, or both, whereupon (if so declared) the
Obligations shall become immediately due and payable, without presentment,
demand, protest or notice of any kind, all of which the Borrowers hereby
expressly waive and (ii) the Required Lenders may, upon notice delivered to the
Borrowers with outstanding Facility Letters of Credit and in addition to the
continuing right to demand payment of all amounts payable under this Agreement,
make demand on each such Borrower to deliver (and each such Borrower will,
forthwith upon demand by the Required Lenders and without necessity of further
act or evidence, be and become thereby unconditionally obligated to deliver), to
the Agent, at its address specified pursuant to Article XIV, for deposit into
the Letter of Credit Collateral Account an amount equal to the Collateral
Shortfall Amount payable by such Borrower.
(c) If at any time while any Default is continuing, the Agent
determines that the Collateral Shortfall Amount at such time is greater than
zero, the Agent may make demand on the Borrowers with outstanding Facility
Letters of Credit to deliver (and each such Borrower will, forthwith upon demand
by the Agent and without necessity of further act or evidence, be and become
thereby unconditionally obligated to deliver), to the Agent as additional funds
to be deposited and held in the Letter of Credit Collateral Account an amount
equal to such Collateral Shortfall Amount payable by such Borrower at such time.
(d) The Agent may at any time or from time to time after funds are
deposited in the Letter of Credit Collateral Account, apply such funds to the
payment of the Obligations of the relevant Borrowers
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and any other amounts as shall from time to time have become due and payable by
the relevant Borrowers to the Lenders under the Loan Documents.
(e) Neither the Borrowers nor any Person claiming on behalf of or
through the Borrowers shall have any right to withdraw any of the funds held in
the Letter of Credit Collateral Account. After all of the Obligations have been
indefeasibly paid in full or upon the request of the Company if no Default has
occurred and is continuing, any funds remaining in the Letter of Credit
Collateral Account shall be returned by the Agent to the applicable Borrower(s)
or paid to whoever may be legally entitled thereto at such time.
(f) The Agent shall exercise reasonable care in the custody and
preservation of any funds held in the Letter of Credit Collateral Account and
shall be deemed to have exercised such care if such funds are accorded treatment
substantially equivalent to that which the Agent accords its own property, it
being understood that the Agent shall not have any responsibility for taking any
necessary steps to preserve rights against any Persons with respect to any such
funds.
8.2 AMENDMENTS.
8.2.1 Subject to the provisions of this Article VIII, the Required
Lenders (or the Agent with the consent in writing of the Required Lenders) and
the Borrowers may enter into agreements supplemental hereto for the purpose of
adding or modifying any provisions to the Loan Documents or changing in any
manner the rights of the Lenders or the Borrowers hereunder or waiving any
Default hereunder; PROVIDED, HOWEVER no such supplemental agreement shall, (i)
without the consent of the Required U.S. Revolving Credit Lenders, allow the
Company to obtain a U.S. Revolving Credit Loan or U.S. Facility Letter of Credit
if it would otherwise be unable to do so absent such supplemental agreement,
(ii) without the consent of the Required Euro Revolving Credit Lenders, allow
any Foreign Subsidiary Borrower to obtain a Euro Revolving Credit Loan or Euro
Facility Letter of Credit if it would otherwise be unable to do so absent such
supplemental agreement, (iii) without the consent of the Required U.S. Term Loan
Lenders, allow the Company to obtain the U.S. Term Loan if it would otherwise be
unable to do so absent such supplemental agreement, (iv) without the consent of
the Required Euro Term Loan Lenders, allow any Foreign Subsidiary Borrower to
obtain the Euro Term Loan if it would otherwise be unable to do so absent such
supplemental agreement, (v) without the consent of the Agent, modify any rights
or obligations of any kind of the Agent, and (vi) without the consent of the
Issuer, modify any rights or obligations of any kind of the Issuer, and PROVIDED
FURTHER that no such supplemental agreement shall, without the consent of each
Lender:
(a) Extend the final maturity of any Loan, Note or Reimbursement
Obligation or postpone any regularly scheduled payment of principal of any Loan
or forgive all or any portion of the principal amount thereof, or reduce the
rate or extend the time of payment of interest or fees thereon.
(b) Reduce the percentage specified in the definition of Required
Lenders, Required Euro Revolving Credit Lenders, Required U.S. Revolving Credit
Lenders, Required Euro Term Loan Lenders or Required U.S. Term Loan Lenders.
(c) Extend the Facility Termination Date or the Maturity Date, or
reduce the amount or extend the payment date for, the mandatory payments
required under Section 2.6, or increase the amount of any Commitment of any
Lender hereunder or the Aggregate Commitments other than as allowed hereunder,
or permit any Borrower to assign its rights under this Agreement.
(d) Amend this Section 8.2.1.
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(e) Release any Guarantor which is the Company or a Significant
Subsidiary.
8.2.2 In addition to amendments effected pursuant to the foregoing,
Schedule 1.1(b) may be amended as follows:
(i) Schedule 1.1(b) will be automatically amended to add
Subsidiaries of the Company as additional Subsidiary Borrowers upon (a)
execution and delivery by the Company, any such Subsidiary Borrower and
the Agent, of a Joinder Agreement providing for any such Subsidiary to
become a Subsidiary Borrower, (b) delivery to the Agent of (A) a
Domestic Subsidiary Opinion or Foreign Subsidiary Opinion, as the case
may be, in respect of such additional Subsidiary Borrower and (B) such
other documents with respect thereto as the Agent shall reasonably
request and (C) the written approval of the Agent in its sole
discretion.
(ii) Schedule 1.1(b) will be automatically amended to remove any
Subsidiary as a Subsidiary Borrower upon (A) written notice by the
Company to the Agent to such effect and (B) repayment in full of all
outstanding Loans and all other obligations pursuant to any Loan
Document of such Subsidiary Borrower.
(iii) It is acknowledged and agreed that there may be more than
one Foreign Subsidiary Borrower, provided that there may not be a
number thereof more than reasonably allowed by the Agent.
8.2.3 No modification or waiver of any provision of this Agreement
relating to the Agent shall be effective without the written consent of the
Agent. No modification or waiver of any provision of this Agreement relating to
any Issuer shall be effective without the written consent of such Issuer. The
Agent may waive payment of the fee required under Section 13.3.2 without
obtaining the consent of any other party to this Agreement. Notwithstanding
anything herein to the contrary, any Defaulting Lender shall not be entitled to
vote (whether to consent or to withhold its consent) with respect to any
amendment, modification, termination or waiver and, for purposes of determining
the Required Euro Revolving Credit Lenders, Required U.S. Revolving Credit
Lenders, Required Euro Term Loan Lenders and Required U.S. Term Loan Lenders,
the Commitments and the Loans of such Defaulting Lender shall be disregarded and
the Agent shall have the ability, but not the obligation, to replace any such
Defaulting Lender with another lender or lenders.
8.2.4. New lenders ("New Lenders") may become Lenders hereunder and
existing Lenders may increase their Commitments hereunder by executing an
assumption agreement and other agreements and documents in form and substance
acceptable to the Company and the Agent, provided that (i) the Company and the
Agent consent thereto and (ii) without the prior written consent of all of the
Lenders, the Aggregate Commitments may not be increased by more than a Dollar
Equivalent Amount equal to $50,000,000 in excess of the Aggregate Commitments in
effect on the Effective Date.
8.3 PRESERVATION OF RIGHTS. No delay or omission of the Lenders or
the Agent to exercise any right under the Loan Documents shall impair such right
or be construed to be a waiver of any Default or an acquiescence therein, and
the making of a Loan notwithstanding the existence of a Default or the inability
of the Borrowers to satisfy the conditions precedent to such Loan shall not
constitute any waiver or acquiescence. Any single or partial exercise of any
such right shall not preclude other or further exercise thereof or the exercise
of any other right, and no waiver, amendment or other variation of the terms,
conditions or provisions of the Loan Documents whatsoever shall be valid unless
in writing signed by the Lenders required pursuant to Section 8.2, and then only
to the extent in such writing specifically set forth. All remedies contained in
the Loan Documents or by law afforded shall be cumulative and all shall be
available to the Agent and the Lenders until the Obligations have been paid in
full.
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ARTICLE IX
GUARANTEE
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9.1 GUARANTEE. (a) The Company hereby unconditionally and irrevocably
guarantees to the Agent and the Lenders and their respective successors,
endorsees, transferees and assigns, the prompt and complete payment and
performance by the Subsidiary Borrowers when due (whether at the stated
maturity, by acceleration or otherwise) of the Obligations owing by such
Subsidiary Borrowers.
(b) The Company further agrees to pay any and all reasonable expenses
(including, without limitation, all reasonable fees and disbursements of
counsel) which are paid or incurred by the Agent, or any Lender in enforcing any
rights with respect to, or collecting, any or all of the Obligations and/or
enforcing any rights with respect to, or collecting against, the Company under
this Section or, in the case of the Agent, obtaining advice of counsel in
respect thereof. This Section shall remain in full force and effect until the
Obligations are paid in full and the Commitments are terminated, notwithstanding
that from time to time prior thereto the Borrowers may be free from any
Obligations.
(c) No payment or payments made by any Borrower or any other Person or
received or collected by the Agent or any Lender from any Borrower 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 Obligations shall be deemed to modify, reduce, release or otherwise affect
the liability of the Company hereunder, which shall, notwithstanding any such
payment or payments, remain liable hereunder for the Obligations until the
Obligations are paid in full and the Commitments are terminated.
(d) The Company agrees that whenever, at any time, or from time to
time, it shall make any payment to the Agent or any Lender on account of its
liability under this Section, it will notify the Agent and such Lender in
writing that such payment is made under this Section for such purpose.
9.2 NO SUBROGATION. Notwithstanding any payment or payments made by the
Company hereunder, or any set-off or application of funds of the Company by the
Agent or any Lender, the Company shall not be entitled to be subrogated to any
of the rights of the Agent or any Lender against the Borrowers or against any
guarantee or right of offset held by the Agent or any Lender for the payment of
the Obligations, nor shall the Company seek or be entitled to seek any
contribution or reimbursement from the Borrowers in respect of payments made by
the Company hereunder, until all amounts owing to the Agent and the Lenders by
the Borrowers on account of the Obligations are paid in full and the Commitments
are terminated. If any amount shall be paid to the Company on account of such
subrogation rights at any time when all of the Obligations shall not have been
paid in full, such amount shall be held by the Company in trust for the Agent
and the Lenders, segregated from other finds of the Company, and shall,
forthwith upon receipt by the Company, be turned over to the Agent in the exact
form received by the Company (duly endorsed by the Company to the Agent, if
required), to be applied against the Obligations, whether matured or unmatured,
in such order as Agent may determine. The provisions of this paragraph shall
survive the termination of this Agreement and the payment in full of the
Obligations and the termination of the Commitments.
9.3 AMENDMENTS. ETC. WITH RESPECT TO THE OBLIGATIONS; WAIVER OF RIGHTS.
The Company shall remain obligated hereunder notwithstanding that, without any
reservation of rights against the Company, and without notice to or further
assent by the Company, any demand for payment of any of the Obligations made by
the Agent or the Required Lenders may be rescinded by the Agent or the Required
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Lenders, and any of the Obligations continued, and the Obligations, or the
liability of any other party upon or for any part thereof, or any 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 Agent or the Required
Lenders, and any Loan Documents and any other documents executed and delivered
in connection therewith may be amended, modified, supplemented or terminated, in
whole or in part, in accordance with the provisions thereof as the Agent (or the
Required Lenders, as the case may be) may deem advisable from time to time, and
any guarantee or right of offset at any time held by the Agent or any Lender for
the payment of the Obligations may be sold, exchanged, waived, surrendered or
released. None of the Agent or any Lender shall have any obligation to protect,
secure, perfect or insure any Lien at any time held by it as security for the
Obligations or for this Agreement or any property subject thereto. When making
any demand hereunder against the Company, the Agent or any Lender may, but shall
be under no obligation to, make a similar demand on any other Borrower or any
other guarantor, and any failure by the Agent or any Lender to make any such
demand or to collect any payments from any other Borrower or any such other
guarantor or any release of the Borrowers or such other guarantor shall not
relieve the Company of its obligations or liabilities hereunder, and shall not
impair or affect the rights and remedies, express or implied, or as a matter of
law, of the Agent or any Lender against the Company. For the purposes hereof
"demand" shall include the commencement and continuance of any legal
proceedings.
9.4 GUARANTEE ABSOLUTE AND UNCONDITIONAL. The Company waives any and
all notice of the creation, renewal, extension or accrual of any of the
Obligations and notice of or proof of reliance by the Agent or any Lender upon
this Agreement or acceptance of this Agreement; the 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 this Agreement; and
all dealings among the Borrowers, on the one hand, and the Agent and the
Lenders, on the other, shall likewise be conclusively presumed to have been had
or consummated in reliance upon this Agreement. The Company waives diligence,
presentment, protest, demand for payment and notice of default or nonpayment to
or upon the Subsidiary Borrowers and the Company with respect to the
Obligations. This Article IX shall be construed as a continuing, absolute and
unconditional guarantee of payment without regard to (a) the validity,
regularity or enforceability of this Agreement, any other Loan Document, any of
the Obligations or any guarantee or right of offset with respect thereto at any
time or from time to time held by the Agent or any Lender, (b) any defense,
set-off or counterclaim (other than a defense of payment or performance by any
Borrower) which may at any time be available to or be asserted by any Borrower
against the Agent or any Lender, or (c) any other circumstance whatsoever (with
or without notice to or knowledge of any Borrower) that constitutes, or might be
construed to constitute, an equitable or legal discharge of the Borrowers for
the Obligations, or of the Company under this Section 9.4, in bankruptcy or in
any other instance (other than a defense of payment or performance by the
Borrowers). When pursuing its rights and remedies hereunder against the Company,
the Agent and any Lender may, but shall be under no obligation to, pursue such
rights and remedies as it may have against any Borrower or any other Person or
against any guarantee for the Obligations or any right of offset with respect
thereto, and any failure by the Agent or any Lender to pursue such other rights
or remedies or to collect any payments from the Borrowers or any such other
Person or to realize upon any such guarantee or to exercise any such right of
offset, or any release of the Borrowers or any such other Person or of any such
guarantee or right of offset, shall not relieve the Company of any liability
hereunder, and shall not impair or affect the rights and remedies, whether
express, implied or available as a matter of law, of the Agent or any Lender
against the Company. This Article IX shall remain in full force and effect and
be binding in accordance with and to the extent of its terms upon the Company
and its successors and assigns, and shall inure to the benefit of the Agent and
the Lenders, and their respective successors, indorsees, transferees and
assigns, until all the Obligations and the obligations of the Company under this
Agreement shall have been satisfied by payment in full and the Commitments shall
be terminated, notwithstanding that from time to time during the term of this
Agreement the Borrowers may be free from any Obligations.
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9.5 REINSTATEMENT. This Article IX 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 Obligations is rescinded or must otherwise be restored or returned
by the Agent or any Lender upon the insolvency, bankruptcy, dissolution,
liquidation or reorganization of any Borrower or upon or as a result of the
appointment of a receiver, intervenor or conservator of, or Trustee or similar
officer for, any Borrower or any substantial part of its property, or otherwise,
all as though such payments had not been made.
9.6 PAYMENTS. The Company hereby agrees that all payments required to
be made by it hereunder will be made to the Agent without set-off or
counterclaim in accordance with the terms of the Obligations, including, without
limitation, in the currency in which payment is due.
ARTICLE X
GENERAL PROVISIONS
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10.1 SURVIVAL OF REPRESENTATIONS. All representations and warranties of
the Borrowers contained in this Agreement shall survive delivery of the Loan
Documents and the making of the Loans herein contemplated.
10.2 GOVERNMENTAL REGULATION. Anything contained in this Agreement to
the contrary notwithstanding, no Lender shall be obligated to extend credit to a
Borrower in violation of any limitation or prohibition provided by any
applicable statute or regulation.
10.3 TAXES. Any taxes (excluding income taxes and franchise taxes
(imposed in Lieu of income taxes), imposed on the Agent or any Lender as a
result of a present or former connection between the 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 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)) or other similar assessments or
charges made by any governmental or revenue authority in respect of the Loan
Documents shall be paid by the Company, together with interest and penalties, if
any.
10.4 HEADINGS. Section headings in the Loan Documents are for
convenience of reference only, and shall not govern the interpretation of any of
the provisions of the Loan Documents.
10.5 ENTIRE AGREEMENT. The Loan Documents embody the entire agreement
and understanding among the Borrowers, the Agent and the Lenders and supersede
all prior agreements and understandings among the Borrowers, the Agent and the
Lenders relating to the subject matter thereof other than any fee letters among
any Borrowers and either of the Agent or Arranger and any other agreements of
any of the Borrowers with the Agent which survive the execution of the Loan
Documents.
10.6 SEVERAL OBLIGATIONS; BENEFITS OF THIS AGREEMENT. The respective
obligations of the Lenders hereunder are several and not joint and no Lender
shall be the partner or agent of any other (except to the extent to which the
Agent is authorized to act as such). The failure of any Lender to perform any of
its obligations hereunder shall not relieve any other Lender from any of its
obligations hereunder. This Agreement shall not be construed so as to confer any
right or benefit upon any Person other than the parties to this Agreement and
their respective successors and assigns.
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10.7 EXPENSES; INDEMNIFICATION. (i) The Borrowers shall reimburse the
Agent and the Arranger for any reasonable costs, internal charges and
out-of-pocket expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees and time charges of
attorneys for the Agent, which attorneys may be employees of the Agent) paid or
incurred by the Agent or the Arranger in connection with the preparation,
negotiation, execution, delivery, syndication, review, amendment, modification,
and administration (including, without limitation, preparation of the reports
described below) of the Loan Documents. The Borrowers also agree to reimburse
the Agent, the Arranger and the Lenders for any reasonable costs, internal
charges and out-of-pocket expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees and
time charges of attorneys for the Agent, the Arranger and the Lenders, which
attorneys may be employees of the Agent, the Arranger or the Lenders) paid or
incurred by the Agent, the Arranger or any Lender in connection with the
collection and enforcement of the Loan Documents. The Borrowers acknowledge and
agree that from time to time the Agent may prepare and may distribute to the
Lenders (but shall have no obligation or duty to prepare or to distribute to the
Lenders) certain audit reports (the "Reports") pertaining to any Borrower's and
Guarantors' assets for internal use by the Agent from information furnished to
it by or on behalf of the Borrowers, after the Agent has exercised its rights of
inspection pursuant to this Agreement; provided that, if any Lender requests
copies of any future similar Reports which the Agent has prepared, then the
Agent will provide such reports to such Lender provided that such Lender has
executed an indemnity agreement acceptable to the Agent. The Borrowers further
acknowledge and agree that the Agent or any of its agents or representatives may
conduct reasonable comprehensive field audits of the Property of the Company and
each Subsidiary, financial or accounting records of the Company and each
Subsidiary and other documents of the Company and each Subsidiary, in each case
only to the extent any of the foregoing is reasonably related to the credit
evaluation by the Agent and the Lenders under this Agreement, provided that (x)
other than after the occurrence and during continuance of a Default, no more
than one such comprehensive field audit shall be conducted in any fiscal year
and (y) only after the occurrence and during continuance of a Default shall such
field audits be at the Company's expense.
(ii) The Borrowers hereby further agree to indemnify the Agent,
the Arranger and each Lender, and their respective directors, officers and
employees against all losses, claims, damages, penalties, judgments, liabilities
and reasonable expenses (including, without limitation, all reasonable expenses
of litigation or preparation therefor whether or not the Agent, the Arranger or
any Lender is a party thereto) which any of them may pay or incur at any time
arising out of or relating to this Agreement, the other Loan Documents, the
transactions contemplated hereby or the direct or indirect application or
proposed application of the proceeds of any Loan or Facility Letters of Credit
hereunder except to the extent that they are determined in a final
non-appealable judgment by a court of competent jurisdiction to have resulted
from the gross negligence or willful misconduct of the party seeking
indemnification. The obligations of the Borrowers under this Section 10.7 shall
survive the termination of this Agreement.
10.8 ACCOUNTING. Except as provided to the contrary herein, all
accounting terms used herein shall be interpreted and all accounting
determinations hereunder shall be made in accordance with Agreement Accounting
Principles. For purposes of Article VI (including any baskets or limitations
expressed in U.S. Dollars therein) of this Agreement, any Indebtedness,
Investment or other amount made or incurred in any currency other than U.S.
Dollars shall be deemed to be the U.S. Dollar Equivalent thereof.
10.9 SEVERABILITY OF PROVISIONS. Any provision in any Loan Document
that is held to be inoperative, unenforceable, or invalid in any jurisdiction
shall, as to that jurisdiction, be inoperative, unenforceable, or invalid
without affecting the remaining provisions in that jurisdiction or the
operation, enforceability, or validity of that provision in any other
jurisdiction, and to this end the provisions of all Loan Documents are declared
to be severable.
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10.10 NONLIABILITY OF LENDERS. The relationship between the Borrowers
and the Lenders and the Agent shall be solely that of borrower and lender.
Neither the Agent nor any Lender shall have any fiduciary responsibilities to
any Borrower. Neither the Agent nor any Lender undertakes any responsibility to
any Borrower to review or inform any Borrower of any matter in connection with
any phase of such Borrower's business or operations. Each Borrower agrees that
neither the Agent nor any Lender shall have liability to any Borrower (whether
sounding in tort, contract or otherwise) for losses suffered by any Borrower in
connection with, arising out of, or in any way related to, the transactions
contemplated and the relationship established by the Loan Documents, or any act,
omission or event occurring in connection therewith, unless it is determined by
a court of competent jurisdiction in a final and non-appealable order that such
losses resulted from the gross negligence or willful misconduct of, or violation
of applicable laws or any of the Loan Documents by, the party from which
recovery is sought. Neither the Agent nor any Lender shall have any liability
with respect to, and each Borrower hereby waives, releases and agrees not to xxx
for, any special, indirect or consequential damages suffered by the Borrowers in
connection with, arising out of, or in any way related to the Loan Documents or
the transactions contemplated thereby.
10.11 CONFIDENTIALITY. Each Lender agrees to hold any information that
it may receive from any Borrower pursuant to this Agreement (such information,
exclusive of Non-Confidential Information as defined below, is defined herein as
the "Confidential Information") in confidence, and will not disclose or use for
any purpose other than its credit evaluation under this Agreement such
Confidential Information, except for disclosure: (i) to any Transferee or
prospective Transferee to the extent provided in Section 13.4; (ii) to legal
counsel, accountants and other professional advisors to that Lender to the
extent necessary to advise that Lender concerning its rights or obligations in
respect of this Agreement; PROVIDED that such professional advisor agrees to
hold any Confidential Information which it may receive in confidence and not to
disclose or use such Confidential Information for any purpose other than
advising that Lender with respect to its rights and obligations under this
Agreement; (iii) to regulatory officials to the extent required by applicable
law, rule, regulations, order, policy or directive (whether or not any such
policy or directive has the force of law); and (iv) pursuant to any order of any
court, arbitrator or Governmental Authority of competent jurisdiction (or as
otherwise required by law); PROVIDED, however, that the Lender (or other Person
given Confidential Information by such Lender) shall provide the Company with
prompt notice of any such required disclosure so that the Company may seek a
protective order or other appropriate remedy, and in the event that such
protective order or other remedy is not obtained, such Lender (or such other
Person) will furnish only that portion of the Confidential Information which is
legally required. As used herein, "Non-Confidential Information" shall mean any
information which (a) is or becomes generally available to the public other than
as a result of a disclosure by the Lender or the Lender's representatives, or
(b) becomes available to the Lender on a non-confidential basis from a source
other than the Company or one of its agents or (c) was known to the Lender on a
non-confidential basis prior to its disclosure to the Lender by the Company or
one of its agents.
10.12 NONRELIANCE. Each Lender hereby represents that it is not
relying on or looking to any Margin Stock for the repayment of the Loans
provided for herein.
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ARTICLE XI
THE AGENT
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11.1 APPOINTMENT; NATURE OF RELATIONSHIP. Bank One is hereby appointed
by the Lenders as the Agent hereunder and under each other Loan Document, and
each of the Lenders irrevocably authorizes the Agent to act as the contractual
representative of such Lender with the rights and duties expressly set forth
herein and in the other Loan Documents. The Agent agrees to act as such
contractual representative upon the express conditions contained in this Article
XI. Notwithstanding the use of the defined term "Agent," it is expressly
understood and agreed that the Agent shall not have any fiduciary
responsibilities to any Lender by reason of this Agreement or any other Loan
Document and that the Agent is merely acting as the contractual representative
of the Lenders with only those duties as are expressly set forth in this
Agreement and the other Loan Documents. In its capacity as the Lenders'
contractual representative, the Agent (i) does not hereby assume any fiduciary
duties to any of the Lenders, (ii) is a "representative" of the Lenders within
the meaning of Section 9-105 of the Uniform Commercial Code and (iii) is acting
as an independent contractor, the rights and duties of which are limited to
those expressly set forth in this Agreement and the other Loan Documents. Each
of the Lenders hereby agrees to assert no claim against the Agent on any agency
theory or any other theory of liability for breach of fiduciary duty, all of
which claims each Lender hereby waives.
11.2 POWERS. The Agent shall have and may exercise such powers under
the Loan Documents as are specifically delegated to the Agent by the terms of
each thereof, together with such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto.
The Agent shall not have any implied duties to the Lenders, or any obligation to
the Lenders to take any action thereunder except any action specifically
provided by the Loan Documents to be taken by the Agent.
11.3 GENERAL IMMUNITY. Neither Agent nor any of its directors,
officers, agents or employees shall be liable to the Borrowers, the Lenders or
any Lender for (a) any action taken or omitted to be taken by it or them
hereunder or under any other Loan Document or in connection herewith or
therewith except to the extent such action or inaction is determined in a final
non-appealable judgment by a court of competent jurisdiction to have arisen from
the gross negligence or willful misconduct of such Person; or (b) any
determination by the Agent that compliance with any law or any governmental or
quasi-governmental rule, regulation, order, policy, guideline or directive
(whether or not having the force of law) requires the Advances and Commitments
hereunder to be classified as being part of a "highly leveraged transaction".
11.4 NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR LOANS, RECITALS, ETC. Neither the Agent nor
any of its directors, officers, agents or employees shall be responsible for or
have any duty to ascertain, inquire into, or verify (i) any statement, warranty
or representation made in connection with any Loan Document or any borrowing
hereunder; (ii) the performance or observance of any of the covenants or
agreements of any obligor under any Loan Document, including, without
limitation, any agreement by an obligor to furnish information directly to each
Lender; (iii) the satisfaction of any condition specified in Article IV; (iv)
the validity, enforceability, effectiveness, sufficiency or genuineness of any
Loan Document or any other instrument or writing furnished in connection
therewith; (v) the value, sufficiency, creation, perfection or priority of any
Lien in any collateral security; (vi) the existence or possible existence of any
Default or Unmatured Default; or (vii) the financial condition of any Borrower
or Guarantor or any of their respective Subsidiaries. The Agent shall not have
any duty to disclose to the Lenders information that is not required to be
furnished by the Borrowers to the Agent at the time, but is voluntarily
furnished by the Borrowers to the Agent (either in its capacity as the Agent or
in its individual capacity).
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11.5 ACTION ON INSTRUCTIONS OF LENDERS. The Agent shall in all cases be
fully protected in acting, or in refraining from acting, hereunder and under any
other Loan Document in accordance with written instructions signed by the
Required Lenders (or all Lenders if required under Section 8.2.1), and such
instructions and any action taken or failure to act pursuant thereto shall be
binding on all of the Lenders and on all holders of the Obligations. The Lenders
hereby acknowledge that the Agent shall not be under any duty to take any
discretionary action permitted to be taken by it pursuant to the provisions of
this Agreement or any other Loan Document unless it shall be requested in
writing to do so by the Required Lenders. The Agent shall be fully justified in
failing or refusing to take any action hereunder and under any other Loan
Document unless it shall first be indemnified to its satisfaction by the Lenders
pro rata against any and all liability, cost and expense that it may incur by
reason of taking or continuing to take any such action.
11.6 EMPLOYMENT OF AGENTS AND COUNSEL. The Agent may execute any of its
duties as Agent hereunder and under any other Loan Document by or through
employees, agents, and attorneys-in-fact and shall not be answerable to the
Lenders, except as to money or securities received by it or its authorized
agents, for the default or misconduct of any such agents or attorneys-in-fact
selected by it with reasonable care. The Agent shall be entitled to advice of
counsel concerning the contractual arrangement between the Agent and the Lenders
and all matters pertaining to the Agent's duties hereunder and under any other
Loan Document.
11.7 RELIANCE ON DOCUMENTS; COUNSEL. The Agent shall be entitled to
rely upon any Note, notice, consent, certificate, affidavit, letter, telegram,
statement, paper or document believed by it to be genuine and correct and to
have been signed or sent by the proper Person or Persons, and, in respect to
legal matters, upon the opinion of counsel selected by the Agent, which counsel
may be employees of the Agent.
11.8 AGENT'S REIMBURSEMENT AND INDEMNIFICATION. The Lenders agree to
reimburse and indemnify (to the extent not reimbursed by a Borrower and without
limiting the obligation of any Borrower to do so) the Agent ratably in
proportion to the U.S. Dollar Equivalent of their respective Commitments (or, if
the Commitments have been terminated, in proportion to the U.S. Dollar
Equivalent of their respective Commitments immediately prior to such
termination) (i) for any amounts not reimbursed by the Company for which the
Agent is entitled to reimbursement by the Company or the other Borrowers under
the Loan Documents, (ii) for any other expenses incurred by the Agent on behalf
of the Lenders, in connection with the preparation, execution, delivery,
administration and enforcement of the Loan Documents (including, without
limitation, for any expenses incurred by the Agent in connection with any
dispute between the Agent and any Lender or between two or more of the Lenders)
and (iii) for any liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, actions,
judgments, suits, costs, expenses or disbursements of any kind and nature
whatsoever which may be imposed on, incurred by or asserted against the Agent in
any way relating to or arising out of the Loan Documents or any other document
delivered in connection therewith or the transactions contemplated thereby
(including, without limitation, for any such amounts incurred by or asserted
against the Agent in connection with any dispute between the Agent and any
Lender or between two or more of the Lenders), or the enforcement of any of the
terms thereof or of any such other documents, PROVIDED that no Lender shall be
liable for any of the foregoing to the extent any of the foregoing is found in a
final non-appealable judgment by a court of competent jurisdiction to have
resulted from the gross negligence or willful misconduct of the Agent. The
obligations of the Lenders under this Section 11.8 shall survive payment of the
Obligations and termination of this Agreement.
11.9 NOTICE OF DEFAULT. The Agent shall not be deemed to have knowledge
or notice of the occurrence of any Default or Unmatured Default hereunder unless
the Agent has received written notice
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from a Lender or a Borrower referring to this Agreement describing such Default
or Unmatured Default and stating that such notice is a "notice of default". In
the event that the Agent receives such a notice, the Agent shall give prompt
notice thereof to the Lenders.
11.10 RIGHTS AS A LENDER. In the event the Agent is a Lender, the Agent
shall have the same rights and powers hereunder and under any other Loan
Document as any Lender and may exercise the same as though it were not an Agent,
and the term "Lender" or "Lenders" shall, at any time when the Agent is a
Lender, unless the context otherwise indicates, include the Agent in its
individual capacity. The Agent and its Affiliates may accept deposits from, lend
money to, and generally engage in any kind of trust, debt, equity or other
transaction, in addition to those contemplated by this Agreement or any other
Loan Document, with the Company or any of its Subsidiaries in which the Company
or such Subsidiary is not restricted hereby from engaging with any other Person.
11.11 LENDER CREDIT DECISION. Each Lender acknowledges that it has,
independently and without reliance upon the Agent, the Arranger or any other
Lender and based on the financial statements prepared by the Borrowers and such
other documents and information as it has deemed appropriate, made its own
credit analysis and decision to enter into this Agreement and the other Loan
Documents. Each Lender also acknowledges that it will, independently and without
reliance upon the Agent, the Arranger or any other Lender and based on such
documents and information as it shall deem appropriate at the time, continue to
make its own credit decisions in taking or not taking action under this
Agreement and the other Loan Documents.
11.12 SUCCESSOR AGENT. The Agent may resign at any time by giving
written notice thereof to the Lenders and the Company, such resignation to be
effective upon the appointment of a successor Agent or, if no such successor
Agent has been appointed, forty-five days after the retiring Agent gives notice
of its intention to resign. The Agent may be removed at any time with or without
cause by written notice received by the Agent from the Required Lenders and,
unless a Default has occurred and is continuing, the Company, such removal to be
effective on the date specified by the Required Lenders and, unless a Default
has occurred and is continuing, the Company. Upon any such resignation or
removal, the Required Lenders shall have the right to appoint, with the consent
of the Company (unless a Default has occurred and is continuing), on behalf of
the Borrowers and the Lenders, a successor Agent to the Agent. If no such
successor Agent shall have been so appointed by the Required Lenders within
thirty days after such resigning Agent's giving notice of its intention to
resign, then such resigning Agent may appoint, with the consent of the Company
(unless a Default has occurred and is continuing), on behalf of the Company and
the Lenders, a successor Agent for itself. If the Agent has resigned or been
removed and no successor Agent has been appointed, the Lenders may perform all
the duties of the Agent hereunder and the Company shall make all payments in
respect of the Obligations to the applicable Lender and for all other purposes
shall deal directly with the Lenders. No successor Agent shall be deemed to be
appointed hereunder until such successor Agent has accepted the appointment. Any
such successor Agent shall be a commercial bank having capital and retained
earnings of at least $500,000,000. Upon the acceptance of any appointment as an
Agent hereunder by a successor Agent, such successor Agent shall thereupon
succeed to and become vested with all the rights, powers, privileges and duties
of the resigning or removed Agent. Upon the effectiveness of the resignation or
removal of the Agent, the resigning or removed Agent shall be discharged from
its duties and obligations hereunder and under the Loan Documents. After the
effectiveness of the resignation or removal of an Agent, the provisions of this
Article XI shall continue in effect for the benefit of the Agent in respect of
any actions taken or omitted to be taken by it while it was acting as an Agent
hereunder and under the other Loan Documents.
11.13 RIGHT TO INDEMNITY. The Agent shall be fully justified in failing
or refusing to take any action hereunder unless it shall first be indemnified to
its satisfaction by the Lenders pro rata against any
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and all liability and expense which may be incurred by it by reason of taking or
continuing to take any such action.
11.14 DELEGATION TO AFFILIATES. The Borrowers and the Lenders agree
that the Agent may delegate any of its duties under this Agreement to any of its
Affiliates. Any such Affiliate (and such Affiliate's directors, officers, agents
and employees) which performs duties in connection with this Agreement shall be
entitled to the same benefits of the indemnification, waiver, and other
protective provisions to which the Agent is entitled under Articles X and XI.
ARTICLE XII
SETOFF; ADJUSTMENTS AMONG LENDERS
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12.1 SETOFF. In addition to, and without limitation of, any rights of
the Lenders under applicable law, if any Default occurs and is continuing, any
and all deposits (including all account balances, whether provisional or final
and whether or not collected or available) and any other Indebtedness at any
time held or owing by any Lender to or for the credit or account of any Borrower
may be offset and applied toward the payment of the Obligations owing to such
Lender by such Borrower.
12.2 RATABLE PAYMENTS. If any Lender, whether by setoff or otherwise,
has payment made to it upon its Obligations owing from a Borrower (other than
payments received pursuant to Section 3.1, 3.2, 3.4, 3.6 or 10.7) in a greater
proportion than that received by any other Lender on its Obligations owing from
such Borrower, such Lender agrees, promptly upon demand, to purchase a portion
of the Advances to such Borrower held by the other Lenders so that after such
purchase each Lender will hold its ratable proportion of Advances to such
Borrower. If any Lender, whether in connection with setoff or amounts which
might be subject to setoff or otherwise, receives any protection for its
Obligations or such amounts which may be subject to setoff, such Lender agrees,
promptly upon demand, to take such action necessary such that all Lenders share
in the benefits of such protection ratably in proportion to their Aggregate
Total Outstandings (in accordance with the formula set forth in the next
sentence).
ARTICLE XIII
BENEFIT OF AGREEMENT; ASSIGNMENTS; PARTICIPATIONS
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13.1 SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS. The terms and provisions of the Loan
Documents shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the Borrowers and
the Lenders and their respective successors and assigns, except that (i) the
Borrowers shall not have the right to assign their rights or obligations under
the Loan Documents and (ii) any assignment by any Lender must be made in
compliance with Section 13.3. Notwithstanding clause (ii) of this Section, any
Lender may at any time, without the consent of the Borrowers or the Agent,
assign all or any portion of its rights under this Agreement, and the Loan
Documents to a Federal Reserve Bank; PROVIDED, however, that no such assignment
to a Federal Reserve Bank shall release the transferor Lender from its
obligations hereunder. The Agent may treat the payee of any Loan Document as the
owner thereof for all purposes hereof unless and until such payee complies with
Section 13.3 in the case of an assignment thereof or, in the case of any other
transfer, a written notice of the transfer is filed with the Agent. Any assignee
or transferee of any of the Advances or a Note agrees by acceptance thereof to
be bound by all the terms and provisions of the Loan Documents. Any request,
authority or consent of any Person, who at the time of making such request or
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giving such authority or consent is the owner of any of the Advances or a holder
of any Note, shall be conclusive and binding on any subsequent holder,
transferee or assignee of such Note or of any Note or Notes issued in exchange
therefor.
13.2 PARTICIPATIONS.
13.2.1 PERMITTED PARTICIPANTS; EFFECT. Subject to Section 13.4, any
Lender may, in the ordinary course of its business and in accordance with
applicable law, at any time sell to one or more banks or other entities
("Participants") participating interests in any Obligations owing to such
Lender, any Note held by such Lender, any Commitment of such Lender or any other
interest of such Lender under the Loan Documents. In the event of any such sale
by a Lender of participating interests to a Participant such Lender's
obligations under the Loan Documents shall remain unchanged, such Lender shall
remain solely responsible to the other parties hereto for the performance of
such obligations, such Lender shall remain the holder of any such Obligations or
Note for all purposes under the Loan Documents, all amounts payable by the
Borrowers under this Agreement shall be determined as if such Lender had not
sold such participating interests (including without limitation payments with
respect to Non-Excluded Taxes), and the Borrowers and the Agent shall continue
to deal solely and directly with such Lender in connection with such Lender's
rights and obligations under the Loan Documents.
13.2.2 VOTING RIGHTS. Each Lender shall retain the sole right to
approve, without the consent of any Participant, any amendment, modification or
waiver of any provision of the Loan Documents other than any amendment,
modification or waiver with respect to any Loan or Commitment in which such
Participant has an interest which forgives principal, interest or fees or
reduces the interest rate or fees payable with respect to any such Loan or
Commitment, extends the Facility Termination Date, postpones any date fixed for
any regularly-scheduled payment of principal of, or interest or fees on, any
such Loan or Commitment, releases the Company as guarantor of any such Loan or
releases all or substantially all of the collateral, if any, securing any such
Loan.
13.3 ASSIGNMENTS.
13.3.1 PERMITTED ASSIGNMENTS. Subject to Section 13.4, any Lender may,
in the ordinary course of its business and in accordance with applicable law, at
any time assign to one or more banks, finance companies, insurance companies or
other financial institutions or funds that are engaged in making, purchasing or
otherwise investing in commercial loans in the ordinary course of its business
or any other entity ("Purchasers") all or any part of its rights and obligations
under the Loan Documents. Such assignment shall be substantially in the form of
Exhibit J hereto (an "Assignment") or in such other form as may be agreed to by
the parties thereto. The consent of the Agent, any Issuer and the Company shall
be required prior to an assignment becoming effective, which consent shall not
be unreasonably withheld or delayed and shall not be required if such assignment
is to another Lender or to an Affiliate of a Lender; provided, upon and during
the continuance of any Default, the consent of the Company shall not be
required. Each such assignment shall be in an amount not less than the lesser of
(i) $5,000,000 and in multiples of $1,000,000 (or its approximate equivalent in
the relevant Available Foreign Currency) or (ii) unless such assignment is of
the entire amount of the commitments of such Lender, the remaining amount of the
assigning Lender's Commitment (calculated as at the date of such assignment)
shall not be less than $5,000,000 (or its approximate equivalent thereof in the
relevant Available Foreign Currency).
13.3.2 EFFECT; EFFECTIVE DATE. Upon (i) delivery to the Agent of an
Assignment, together with any consents required by Section 13.3.1, and (ii)
payment of a $3,500 fee to the Agent for processing such assignment, such
assignment shall become effective on the effective date specified in such Notice
of Assignment. The Notice of Assignment shall contain a representation by the
Purchaser to the effect that none of the consideration used to make the purchase
of the Commitment and Loans under the
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applicable assignment agreement are "plan assets" as defined under ERISA and
that the rights and interests of the Purchaser in and under the Loan Documents
will not be "plan assets" under ERISA. On and after the effective date of such
assignment, such Purchaser shall for all purposes be a Lender party to this
Agreement and any other Loan Document executed by the Lenders and shall have all
the rights and obligations of a Lender under the Loan Documents, to the same
extent as if it were an original party hereto, and no further consent or action
by the Company, the Lenders or the Agent shall be required to release the
transferor Lender with respect to the percentage of the Aggregate Commitments
and Advances assigned to such Purchaser. Upon the consummation of any assignment
to a Purchaser pursuant to this Section 13.3.2, the transferor Lender, the Agent
and the Company shall make appropriate arrangements so that replacement Notes,
if applicable, are issued to such transferor Lender and new Notes or, as
appropriate, replacement Notes, are issued to such Purchaser, in each case in
principal amounts reflecting their respective Commitments, as adjusted pursuant
to such assignment.
13.4 DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION. Each Borrower authorizes each Lender
to disclose to any Participant or Purchaser or any other Person acquiring an
interest in the Loan Documents by operation of law (each a "Transferee") and any
prospective Transferee any and all information in such Lender's possession
concerning the creditworthiness of the Company and its Subsidiaries, PROVIDED
that each Transferee and prospective Transferee agrees to be bound by Section
10.12.
13.5 TAX TREATMENT. If any interest in any Loan Document is transferred
to any Transferee that is organized under the laws of any jurisdiction other
than the United States or any State thereof (in the case of a Transferee that is
a Lender to the Company or a Domestic Subsidiary Borrower), or of the
jurisdiction in which a Foreign Subsidiary Borrower is located (in the case of a
Transferee which is a Lender to such Foreign Subsidiary Borrower), the
transferor Lender shall cause such Transferee, concurrently with the
effectiveness of such transfer, to comply with the provisions of Section 3.6.
ARTICLE XIV
NOTICES
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14.1 NOTICES. Except as otherwise permitted by Article II with respect
to borrowing notices, all notices, requests and other communications to any
party hereunder shall be in writing (including bank wire, facsimile transmission
or similar writing) and shall be given to such party: (x) in the case of a
Borrower or the Agent, at its address or facsimile number set forth on the
signature pages hereof, (y) in the case of any Lender, at its address or
facsimile number set forth in Schedule 1.1(a) hereto or on the signature pages
hereto or otherwise established pursuant to an Assignment or (z) in the case of
any party, such other address or facsimile number as such party may hereafter
specify for the purpose by notice to the Agent and the Borrowers. Each such
notice, request or other communication shall be effective (i) if given by
facsimile transmission, when transmitted to the facsimile number specified in
this Section and confirmation of receipt is received, (ii) if given by mail, 72
hours after such communication is deposited in the mails with first class
postage prepaid, addressed as aforesaid or (iii) if given by any other means,
when delivered at the address specified in this Section; PROVIDED that notices
to the Agent under Article II shall not be effective until received.
14.2 CHANGE OF ADDRESS. Any Borrower, the Agent and any Lender may each
change the address for service of notice upon it by a notice in writing to the
other parties hereto.
ARTICLE XV
COUNTERPARTS
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This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts, all of
which taken together shall constitute one agreement, and any of the parties
hereto may execute this Agreement by signing any such counterpart. This
Agreement shall be effective when it has been executed by the Borrowers, the
Agent and the Lenders and each party has notified the Agent by telex or
telephone, that it has taken such action.
ARTICLE XVI
CHOICE OF LAW, CONSENT TO JURISDICTION.
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WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL, JUDGMENT CURRENCY
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16.1 CHOICE OF LAW. THE LOAN DOCUMENTS (OTHER THAN THOSE CONTAINING A
CONTRARY EXPRESS CHOICE OF LAW PROVISION) SHALL BE CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH
THE INTERNAL LAWS (AND NOT THE LAW OF CONFLICTS) OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN.
16.2 WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL. EACH BORROWER, THE AGENT AND EACH LENDER
HEREBY WAIVES TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY JUDICIAL PROCEEDING INVOLVING, DIRECTLY OR
INDIRECTLY, ANY MATTER (WHETHER SOUNDING IN TORT, CONTRACT OR OTHERWISE) IN ANY
WAY ARISING OUT OF, RELATED TO, OR CONNECTED WITH ANY LOAN DOCUMENT OR THE
RELATIONSHIP ESTABLISHED THEREUNDER.
16.3 SUBMISSION TO JURISDICTION; WAIVERS. (a) Each Borrower hereby
irrevocably and unconditionally:
(i) 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 any United States federal or
Michigan state court sitting in Detroit, Michigan and appellate
courts from any thereof;
(ii) 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;
(iii) 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 Company or such Foreign Subsidiary
Borrower, as the case may be, at the address specified in Section
14.1, or at such other address of which the Agent shall have been
notified pursuant thereto;
(iv) 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
(v) 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 subsection any special, exemplary,
punitive or consequential damages.
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(b) Each Subsidiary Borrower hereby irrevocably appoints the Company as
its agent for service of process in any proceeding referred to in Section
16.3(i) and agrees that service of process in any such proceeding may be made by
mailing or delivering a copy thereof to it care of Company at its address for
notices set forth in Section 14.1.
16.4 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. Each 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) none of the Agent or any Lender has any fiduciary
relationship with or duty to such Borrower arising out of or in
connection with this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents, and
the relationship between the Agent and the Lenders, on the one hand,
and the Borrowers, 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 Borrowers and the
Lenders.
16.5 POWER OF ATTORNEY. Each Subsidiary Borrower hereby grants to the
Company an irrevocable power of attorney to act as its attorney-in-fact with
regard to matters relating to this Agreement and each other Loan Document,
including, without limitation, execution and delivery of any amendments,
supplements, waivers or other modifications hereto or thereto, receipt of any
notices hereunder or thereunder and receipt of service of process in connection
herewith or therewith. Each Subsidiary Borrower hereby explicitly acknowledges
that the Agent and each Lender have executed and delivered this Agreement and
each other Loan Document to which it is a party, and has performed its
obligations under this Agreement and each other Loan Document to which it is a
party, in reliance upon the irrevocable grant of such power of attorney pursuant
to this subsection. The power of attorney granted by each Subsidiary Borrower
hereunder is coupled with an interest.
16.6 JUDGMENT. (a) If for the purpose of obtaining judgment in any
court it is necessary to convert a sum due hereunder in one currency into
another currency, the parties hereto agree, to the fullest extent that they may
effectively do so, under applicable law that the rate of exchange used shall be
that at which in accordance with normal banking procedures the Agent could
purchase the first currency with such other currency in the city in which it
normally conducts its foreign exchange operation for the first currency on the
Business Day preceding the day on which final judgment is given.
(b) The obligation of each Borrower in respect of any sum due from it
to any Lender hereunder shall, notwithstanding any judgment in a currency (the
"JUDGMENT CURRENCY") other than that in which such sum is denominated in
accordance with the applicable provisions of this Agreement (the "AGREEMENT
CURRENCY"), be discharged only to the extent that on the Business Day following
receipt by such Lender of any sum adjudged to be so due in the Judgment Currency
such Lender may in accordance with normal banking procedures purchase the
Agreement Currency with the Judgment Currency; if the amount of Agreement
Currency so purchased is less than the sum originally due to such Lender in the
Agreement Currency, such Borrower agrees notwithstanding any such judgment to
indemnify such Lender against such loss, and if the amount of the Agreement
Currency so purchased exceeds the sum originally due to any Lender, such Lender
agrees to remit to such Borrower such excess.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Borrowers, the Lenders and the Agent have
executed this Agreement as of the date first above written.
DIEBOLD, INCORPORATED
By: /s/ Xxxxxx W. O'Dell
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Print Name: Xxxxxx W. O'Dell
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Title: President and Chief Executive Officer
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0000 Xxxxxxx Xxxx
Xxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxx 00000-0000
Attention: Chief Financial Officer and Director of
Treasury Services
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BANK ONE, MICHIGAN, as Agent and as a
Lender
By: /s/ Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxx
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Print Name: XXXXXXX X. XXXXXX
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Title: VICE PRESIDENT
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000 Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx 00000
Attention: Xxxx XxXxxx
Phone: 000-000-0000
Fax: 000-000-0000
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ABN-AMRO BANK N.V.
By: /s/ Xxxxx X. XxXxxxxx, Xx. By: /s/ X. X. Xxxxxxx
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Print: Xxxxx X. XxXxxxxx, Xx. Print Name: XXXXXXXXXXX X. XXXXXXX
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Title: Vice President Title: VICE PRESIDENT
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Xxx XXX Xxxxx Xxx. 0000
Xxxxxxxxxx, XX 00000
Attention Xxxxx Xxxxxxx
Phone 000-000-0000
Fax: 000-000-0000
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BANK OF AMERICA, N.A.
By: /s/ Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxx
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Print Name: XXXXXXX X. XXXXX
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Title: MANAGING DIRECTOR
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000 X. XxXxxxx Xxxxxx, XX XX 1-231-09-40
Xxxxxxx, XX 00000-0000
Phone: 000-000-0000
Fax: 000-000-0000
Attention: Xxxx XxXxxxx
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THE CHASE MANHATTAN BANK
By: /s/ Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxx
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Print Name: Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxx
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Title: Vice President
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0000 Xxxx Xxxxx Xxxxx
Xxxxxxx, XX 00000
Attention: Xxxxxx Xxxxxx
Phone: 000-000-0000
Fax: 000-000-0000
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KEYBANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
By: /s/ Xxx XxxXxxxxx
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Print Name: Xxx XxxXxxxxx
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Title: SVP
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000 Xxxxxx Xxxxxx
XX00-00-0000
Xxxxxxxxx, XX 00000
Attention: Xxx XxxXxxxxx
Phone: 000-000-0000
Fax: 000-000-0000
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NATIONAL CITY BANK
By: /s/ Xxxxx X. Xxxxxx
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Print Name: XXXXX X. XXXXXX
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Title: SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT
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0000 X. Xxxxx Xxxxxx
Location Code: 2077
Xxxxxxxxx, XX 00000
Attention: Xxxxx X. Xxxxxx
Phone: 000-000-0000
Fax: 000-000-0000
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XXX XXXX XX XXX XXXX
By: /s/ Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx
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Print Name: Xxxxxx X Xxxxxxx
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Title: Vice President
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Xxx Xxxx Xxxxxx, 00xx Xxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, XX 00000
Attention: Xxx XxXxxxxxx
Phone: 000-000-0000
Fax: 000-000-0000
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SCHEDULE 1.1(a)
Commitments
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U.S. Revolving Euro Revolving
Credit Commitments Credit Commitments
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Bank One, Administrative Agent $43,333,335 (21.67%) Euro 21,666,665 (21.67%)
Bank of America, Syndication Agent 34,000,000 (17.00%) 17,000,000 (17.00%)
KeyBank National
Association, Co-Agent 29,333,333 (14.67%) 14,666,667 (14.67%)
National City Bank, Co-Agent 29,333,333 (14.67%) 14,666,667 (14.67%)
ABN Amro Bank, N.V. 21,333,333 (10.67%) 10,666,667 (10.67%)
The Bank of New York 21,333,333 (10.67%) 10,666,667 (10.67%)
The Chase Manhattan Bank 21,333,333 (10.67%) 10,666,667 (10.67%)
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$200,000,000 Euro 100,000,000
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Xxxxxxx, Incorporated/Bank One, Michigan
Loan Agreement Schedules
Schedules 1.1(b) - Subsidiary Borrowers
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None.
Schedule 5.7 - Litigation
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None.
Schedule 5.8 - Subsidiaries
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Attached.
Schedule 6.12 - Liens
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Liens in respect of Industrial Revenue Bonds issued by:
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Staunton, Virginia Principal amount of secured indebtedness
not to exceed $7,500,000; Lien limited to
project assets
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Danville, Virginia Principal amount of secured indebtedness
not to exceed $5,800,000; Lien limited to
project assets
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Lexington, North Carolina Principal amount of secured indebtedness
not to exceed $7,500,000; Lien limited to
project assets
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EXHIBIT A
PRICING SCHEDULE
The Applicable Margin for Floating Rate Loans, Eurodollar Loans and
Multicurrency Loans, the Facility Fee payable pursuant to Section 2.5 and the
Letter of Credit Fee payable pursuant to Section 2.15.6 shall, subject to the
last sentence of this Exhibit A, be determined in accordance with the Pricing
Matrix set forth below based on the Company's Total Debt to Capitalization Ratio
in effect from time to time.
Pricing Matrix (in basis points)
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Level Total Debt to Facility Fee Floating Rate Applicable Eurodollar/
Capitalization Margin for Eurocurrency Margin
Ratio Revolving for Revolving Credit
Credit Loans Loans, Multicurrency
Loans and Letter of
Credit Fees
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I Less than 25% 8.0 b.p. 0.0 b.p. 27.0 b.p.
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II Greater than or equal to 25% but Less than 35% 10.0 b.p. 0.0 b.p. 35.0 b.p
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III Greater than or equal to 35% but Less than 45% 15.0 b.p. 0.0 b.p. 40.0 b.p.
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IV Greater than or equal to 45% 20.0 b.p. 0.0 b.p. 55.0 b.p.
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If the Aggregate Total Outstandings of all Lenders exceeds 33%, but is
less than 66%, of the Aggregate Commitments of all Lenders, the Eurodollar,
Eurocurrency and Letter of Credit Fee Applicable Margin will increase by 7.5
basis points at every level on the Pricing Matrix. If the Aggregate Total
Outstandings of all Lenders equals or exceeds 66% of the Aggregate Commitmeents
of all Lenders, the Eurodollar, Eurocurrency and Letter of Credit Fee Applicable
Margin will increase by 15 basis points at every level on the Pricing Matrix.
Such Applicable Margin shall be determined in accordance with the
foregoing Pricing Matrix based on the Company's level as reflected in the most
recent financial statements of the Company delivered pursuant to Section 6.1.(i)
and (ii) of the Loan Agreement. Adjustments, if any, to the Applicable Margin
shall be effective 50 days after the end of each of the first three fiscal
quarters of each fiscal year of he Company and 95 days after the end of each
fiscal year of the Company, commencing with the first such day after the
Effective Date. If the Borrower fails to deliver the financials statements
required pursuant to Section 6.1(i) or (ii) at the time required or any other
Default has occurred and is continuing, then the Applicable Margin shall be the
highest Applicable Margin set forth in the foregoing Pricing Matrix until such
Default is cured or waived under the Agreement. Notwithstanding the foregoing,
the Applicable Margin for the period from the Effective Date until it shall be
adjusted for the first time shall be the Level __ Applicable Margin described
above.
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EXHIBIT B
OPINIONS FOR
DOMESTIC SUBSIDIARY BORROWERS
1. The Domestic Subsidiary Borrower is duly organized, validly existing
and in good standing under the laws of _________________ [specify the
jurisdiction of its organization] (the "JURISDICTION").
2. The Domestic Subsidiary Borrower has the power and authority, and
the legal right, to make, deliver and perform its obligations under the Loan
Agreement and the other Loan Documents to which it is a party (collectively, the
"Domestic Subsidiary Loan Documents") and to borrow under the Loan Agreement.
The Domestic Subsidiary Borrower has taken all necessary corporate and other
action to authorize the performance of its obligations under the Domestic
Subsidiary Loan Documents and to authorize the execution, delivery and
performance of the Domestic Subsidiary Loan Documents.
3. Except for consents, authorizations, approvals, notices and filings
described on the attached Schedule 1, if any, all of which have been obtained,
made or waived and are in full force and effect, no consent or authorization of,
approval by, notice to, filing with or other act by or in respect of, any
Governmental Authority is required in connection with the borrowings by the
Domestic Subsidiary Borrower under the Domestic Subsidiary Loan Documents or
with the execution, delivery, performance, validity or enforceability of any of
the Domestic Subsidiary Loan Documents.
4. The Domestic Subsidiary Loan Documents have been duly executed and
delivered on behalf of the Domestic Subsidiary Borrower.
5. The execution and delivery of the Domestic Subsidiary Loan Documents
by the Domestic Subsidiary Borrower, the performance of its obligations
thereunder, the consummation of the transactions contemplated thereby, the
compliance by the Domestic Subsidiary Borrower with any of the provisions
thereof, the borrowings under the Loan Agreement and the use of proceeds
thereof, all as provided therein, (a) will not violate, or constitute a default
under, any Requirement of Law applicable to the Domestic Subsidiary Borrower and
(b) will not result in, or require, the creation or imposition of any Lien on
any of its properties or revenues pursuant to any such Requirement of Law.
6. In any action or proceeding arising out of or relating to the
Domestic Subsidiary Loan Documents in any court in the Jurisdiction, such court
would recognize and give effect to the choice of law provisions in the Domestic
Subsidiary Loan Documents wherein the parties thereto agree that the Domestic
Subsidiary Loan Documents shall be governed by, and construed and interpreted in
accordance with, the laws of the State of Michigan.
7. The submission by the Domestic Subsidiary Borrower to the
non-exclusive jurisdiction of any Michigan State court or United States federal
court sitting in Detroit, Michigan is valid and binding under the laws of the
Jurisdiction.
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EXHIBIT C
OPINIONS FOR
FOREIGN SUBSIDIARY BORROWERS
1. The Foreign Subsidiary Borrower is duly organized, validly existing
and in good standing under the laws of __________________ [specify the
jurisdiction of its organization] (the "JURISDICTION").
2. The Foreign Subsidiary Borrower has the power and authority, and the
legal right, to make, deliver and perform its obligations under the Loan
Agreement and the other Loan Documents to which it is a party (collectively, the
"Foreign Subsidiary Loan Documents") and to borrow under the Loan Agreement. The
Foreign Subsidiary Borrower has taken all necessary corporate and other action
to authorize the performance of its obligations under the Foreign Subsidiary
Loan Documents and to authorize the execution, delivery and performance of the
Foreign Subsidiary Loan Documents.
3. Except for consents, authorizations, approvals, notices and filings
described on the attached Schedule 1, all of which have been obtained, made or
waived and are in full force and effect, no consent or authorization of,
approval by, notice to, filing with or other act by or in respect of, any
Governmental Authority is required in connection with the borrowings by the
Foreign Subsidiary Borrower under the Foreign Subsidiary Loan Documents or with
the execution, delivery, performance, validity or enforceability of any of the
Foreign Subsidiary Loan Documents.
4. The Foreign Subsidiary Loan Documents have been duly executed and
delivered on behalf of the Foreign Subsidiary Borrower.
5. The execution and delivery of the Foreign Subsidiary Loan Documents
by the Foreign Subsidiary Borrower, the performance of its obligations
thereunder, the consummation of the transactions contemplated thereby, the
compliance by the Foreign Subsidiary Borrower with any of the provisions
thereof, the borrowings under the Loan Agreement and the use of proceeds
thereof, all as provided therein, (a) will not violate, or constitute a default
under, any Requirement of Law applicable to the Foreign Subsidiary Borrower and
(b) will not result in, or require, the creation or imposition of any Lien on
any of its properties or revenues pursuant to any such Requirement of Law.
6. There are no taxes imposed by the Jurisdiction (a) on or by virtue
of the execution, delivery, enforcement or performance of the Foreign Subsidiary
Loan Documents and or (b) on any payment to be made by the Foreign Subsidiary
Borrower pursuant to the Foreign Subsidiary Loan Documents other than any
Non-Excluded Taxes payable by the Foreign Subsidiary Borrower as provided in the
Loan Agreement.
7. To ensure the legality, validity, enforceability or admissibility in
evidence of the Foreign Subsidiary Loan Documents it is not necessary that any
Foreign Subsidiary Loan Documents or any other document be filed, registered or
recorded with, or executed or notarized before, any court of other authority of
the Jurisdiction or that any registration charge or stamp or similar tax be paid
on or in respect of the Foreign Subsidiary Loan Documents, except for those
described on Schedule 1 hereto, all of which have been duly made.
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8. The Foreign Subsidiary Loan Documents are in proper legal form under
the laws of the Jurisdiction for the enforcement thereof against the Foreign
Subsidiary Borrower under the laws of the Jurisdiction.
9. In any action or proceeding arising out of or relating to the
Foreign Subsidiary Loan Documents in any court in the Jurisdiction, such court
would recognize and give effect to the choice of law provisions in the Foreign
Subsidiary Loan Documents wherein the parties thereto agree that the Foreign
Subsidiary Loan Documents shall be governed by, and construed and interpreted in
accordance with, the laws of the State of Michigan.
10. It is not necessary under the laws of the Jurisdiction (a) in order
to enable the Agent and the Lenders or any of them to enforce their respective
rights of the Foreign Subsidiary Loan Documents or (b) by reason of the
execution of the Foreign Subsidiary Loan Documents or the performance of the
Foreign Subsidiary Loan Documents that any of them should be licensed, qualified
or entitled to carry on business in the Jurisdiction.
11. Neither the Agent nor any of the Lenders will be deemed to be
resident, domiciled, carrying on business or subject to taxation in the
Jurisdiction merely by reason of the execution of the Foreign Subsidiary Loan
Documents or the performance or enforcement of any thereof. The performance by
the Agent and the Lenders or any of them of any action required or permitted
under the Foreign Subsidiary Loan Documents will not violate any law or
regulation, or be contrary to the public policy, of the Jurisdiction.
12. If any judgment of a competent court outside the Jurisdiction were
rendered against the Foreign Subsidiary Borrower in connection with any action
arising out of or relating to the Foreign Subsidiary Loan Documents, such
judgment would be recognized and could be sued upon in the courts of the
Jurisdiction, and such courts could grant a judgment which would be enforceable
against the Foreign Subsidiary Borrower in the Jurisdiction without any retrial
unless it is shown that (a) the foreign court did not have jurisdiction in
accordance with its jurisdictional rules, (b) the party against whom the
judgment of such foreign court was obtained had no notice of the proceedings or
(c) the judgment of such foreign court was obtained through collusion or fraud
or was based upon clear mistake of fact or law.
13. The submission by the Foreign Subsidiary Borrower to the
non-exclusive jurisdiction of any Michigan State court or United States federal
court sitting in Detroit, Michigan is valid and binding under the laws of the
Jurisdiction.
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EXHIBIT D
GUARANTY AGREEMENT
PARTIES
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THIS GUARANTY AGREEMENT, dated as of December 1, 1999 (this
"Guaranty"), is made by each of the undersigned (collectively, the "Guarantors")
in favor of each of the Lenders as defined below.
RECITALS
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X. Xxxxxxx, Incorporated, an Ohio corporation (the "Company"), the
Subsidiary Borrowers from time to time parties thereto (the "Subsidiary
Borrowers", and together with the Company, the "Borrowers"), the lenders from
time to time parties hereto (the "Lenders"), and Bank One, Michigan, a Michigan
banking corporation, as agent for the Lenders (in such capacity, the "Agent")
have executed a Loan Agreement dated as of the date hereof (as amended or
modified from time to time, and together with any agreement executed in
replacement therefor or otherwise refinancing such credit agreement, the "Loan
Agreement", and the Loan Agreement, the Loan Documents (as defined in the Loan
Agreement), any Rate Hedging Agreements among any Borrowers and any Lenders or
their Affiliates, and all other agreements and instruments among the Borrowers,
the Agent and the Lenders, or any of them, executed in connection therewith,
whether now or hereafter executed, and any supplements or modifications thereof
and any agreements or instruments issued in exchange or replacement therefor,
collectively referred to as the "Agreements").
B. Pursuant to the terms of the Agreements the Lenders have agreed to
make certain extensions of credit to the Borrowers.
C. Each Guarantor is an affiliate of the Borrowers, the Borrowers and
the Guarantors are engaged in related businesses, and the Guarantors have
derived or will derive substantial direct and indirect benefit from the making
of the extensions of credit by the Lenders.
D. The obligation of the Lenders to make or continue to make certain
extensions of credit under the Loan Agreement are conditioned upon, among other
things, the execution and delivery by the Guarantors of this Guaranty, and the
extensions of credit under the Loan Agreement were made in reliance upon the
issuance of this Guaranty.
AGREEMENT
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In consideration of the premises and to induce the Lenders to make
loans, extend credit or make other financial accommodations, and to continue to
keep such credit and other financial accommodations available to the Borrowers,
each Guarantor hereby agrees with and for the benefit of the Lenders as follows:
1. DEFINED TERMS. As used in this Guaranty, terms defined in the first
paragraph of this Guaranty and in the recital paragraphs are used herein as
defined therein, and the following terms shall have the following meanings:
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"Cumulative Guarantors" shall mean the Guarantors and all other
future guarantors of the Guaranteed Obligations.
"Guaranteed Obligations" shall mean all indebtedness, obligations
and liabilities of any kind of each of the Borrowers to any of the Lenders or
the Agent in connection with or pursuant to the Agreements, including without
limitation, all principal, interest (including but without limitation interest
which, but for the filing of a bankruptcy petition, would have accrued on the
principal amount of the Guaranteed Obligations), reimbursement obligations,
indemnity obligations, charges, fees and costs and expenses, including without
limitation reasonable fees and expenses of counsel, in each case whether now
existing or hereafter arising, direct or indirect, absolute or contingent, joint
and/or several, secured or unsecured, arising by operation of law or otherwise.
All other capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings
ascribed thereto in the Loan Agreement.
2. GUARANTEE. (a) Each Guarantor hereby guarantees to the Lenders and
the Agent, irrevocably, absolutely and unconditionally, as primary obligor and
not as surety only, the prompt and complete payment of the Guaranteed
Obligations. Notwithstanding the foregoing or anything else herein to the
contrary, any Guarantor that is a Foreign Subsidiary shall guarantee only the
Guaranteed Obligations consisting of Obligations of Foreign Subsidiary Borrowers
organized in the jurisdiction in which such Guarantor is organized.
(b) All payments to be made under this Guaranty (except pursuant to
paragraph (c) below) shall be made to each Lender pro rata in accordance with
the unpaid amount of Guaranteed Obligations held by each Lender at the time of
such payment.
(c) The Guarantors agree to make prompt payment, on demand, of any
and all reasonable costs and expenses incurred by the Agent or any Lender in
connection with enforcing the obligations of any of the Guarantors hereunder,
including without limitation the reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel.
3. CONSENTS TO RENEWALS, MODIFICATIONS AND OTHER ACTIONS AND EVENTS.
This Guaranty and all of the obligations of the Guarantors hereunder shall
remain in full force and effect without regard to and shall not be released,
affected or impaired by: (a) any amendment, assignment, transfer, modification
of or addition or supplement to the Guaranteed Obligations or any Agreement; (b)
any extension, indulgence, increase in the Guaranteed Obligations or other
action or inaction in respect of any of the Agreements or otherwise with respect
to the Guaranteed Obligations, or any acceptance of security for, or other
guaranties of, any of the Guaranteed Obligations or Agreements, or any
surrender, release, exchange, impairment or alteration of any such security or
guaranties including without limitation the failing to perfect a security
interest in any such security or abstaining from taking advantage of or
realizing upon any other guaranties or upon any security interest in any such
security; (c) any default by any Borrower under, or any lack of due execution,
invalidity or unenforceability of, or any irregularity or other defect in, any
of the Agreements; (d) any waiver by any Lender or the Agent or any other person
of any required performance or otherwise of any
GUARANTY AGREEMENT
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condition precedent or waiver of any requirement imposed by any of the
Agreements, any other guaranties or otherwise with respect to the Guaranteed
Obligations; (e) any exercise or non-exercise of any right, remedy, power or
privilege in respect of this Guaranty, any other guaranty or any of the
Agreements; (f) any sale, lease, transfer or other disposition of the assets of
any Borrower or any consolidation or merger of any Borrower with or into any
other person, corporation, or entity, or any transfer or other disposition of
any shares of Capital Stock of any Borrower; (g) any bankruptcy, insolvency,
reorganization or similar proceedings involving or affecting any Borrower or any
other guarantor of the Guaranteed Obligations; (h) the release or discharge of
any Borrower or Guarantor from the performance or observance of any agreement,
covenant, term or condition under any of the Guaranteed Obligations or contained
in any of the Agreements, of any Cumulative Guarantor or of this Guaranty, by
operation of law or otherwise; or (i) any other cause whether similar or
dissimilar to the foregoing which, in the absence of this provision, would
release, affect or impair the obligations, covenants, agreements and duties of
any Guarantor hereunder, including without limitation any act or omission by any
Lender or the Agent or any other any person which increases the scope of any
Guarantor's risk; and in each case described in this paragraph whether or not
any Guarantor shall have notice or knowledge of any of the foregoing, each of
which is specifically waived by each Guarantor. Each Guarantor warrants to the
Lenders and the Agent that it has adequate means to obtain from each Borrower on
a continuing basis information concerning the financial condition and other
matters with respect to each Borrower and that it is not relying on any Lender
or the Agent to provide such information either now or in the future.
4. WAIVERS, ETC. Each Guarantor unconditionally waives: (a) notice of
any of the matters referred to in Paragraph 3 above; (b) all notices which may
be required by statute, rule of law or otherwise to preserve any rights of any
Lender or the Agent, including, without limitation, notice to the Guarantors of
default, presentment to and demand of payment or performance from any Borrower
and protest for non-payment or dishonor; (c) any right to the exercise by any
Lender or the Agent of any right, remedy, power or privilege in connection with
any of the Agreements; (d) any requirement of diligence or marshaling on the
part of any Lender or the Agent; (e) any requirement that any Lender or the
Agent, in the event of any default by any Borrower, first make demand upon or
seek to enforce remedies against, any Borrower or any other Cumulative Guarantor
before demanding payment under or seeking to enforce this Guaranty; (f) any
right to notice of the disposition of any security which any Lender or the Agent
may hold from any Borrower or otherwise and any right to object to the
commercial reasonableness of the disposition of any such security; and (g) all
errors and omissions in connection with any Lender's or the Agent's
administration of any of the Guaranteed Obligations, any of the Agreements or
any other Cumulative Guarantor, or any other act or omission of any Lender or
the Agent which changes the scope of such Guarantor's risk. The obligations of
each Guarantor hereunder shall be complete and binding forthwith upon the
execution of this Guaranty by it and subject to no condition whatsoever,
precedent or otherwise, and notice of acceptance hereof or action in reliance
hereon shall not be required.
5. NATURE OF GUARANTY; PAYMENTS. This Guaranty is an absolute,
unconditional, irrevocable and continuing guaranty of payment and not a guaranty
of collection, and is wholly independent of and in addition to other rights and
remedies of any Lender or the Agent with respect to any Borrower, any
collateral, any Cumulative Guarantor or otherwise, and it is not contingent upon
the pursuit by any Lender or the Agent of any such rights and remedies, such
pursuit being hereby waived by each Guarantor. The obligations of each Guarantor
hereunder shall be continuing and shall continue (regardless of any statute of
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limitations otherwise applicable) and cover and include all the Guaranteed
Obligations of each Borrower accruing or in the process of accruing to the
Lenders or the Agent before the Agent delivers to the Guarantors a release of
this Guaranty, which is in writing, refers specifically to this Guaranty, and is
signed by a President, a Senior Vice President, or a Vice President of the
Agent. Nothing shall discharge or satisfy the liability of any Guarantor
hereunder except the full and irrevocable payment and performance of all of the
Guaranteed Obligations and the expiration or termination of all the Agreements.
All payments to be made by the Guarantors hereunder shall be made without
set-offs or counterclaim, and each Guarantor hereby waives the assertion of any
such set-offs or counterclaims in any proceeding to enforce its obligations
hereunder. All payments to be made by each Guarantor hereunder shall also be
made without deduction or withholding for, or on account of, any present or
future taxes or other similar charges of whatsoever nature, provided that if any
Guarantor is nevertheless required by law to make any deduction or withholding,
such Guarantor shall pay to the Lenders and the Agent such additional amounts as
may be necessary to ensure that the Lenders and the Agent shall receive a net
sum equal to the sum which it would have received had no such deduction or
withholding been made. Each Guarantor agrees that, if at any time all or any
part of any payment previously applied by any Lender or the Agent to any of the
Guaranteed Obligations must be returned by such Lender or the Agent for any
reason, whether by court order, administrative order, or settlement and whether
as a "voidable preference", "fraudulent conveyance" or otherwise, each Guarantor
remains liable for the full amount returned as if such amount had never been
received by such Lender or the Agent, notwithstanding any termination of this
Guaranty or any cancellation of any of the Agreements and the Guaranteed
Obligations and all obligations of each Guarantor hereunder shall be reinstated
in such case.
6. EVIDENCE OF GUARANTEED OBLIGATIONS. Each Lender's and the Agent's
books and records showing the Guaranteed Obligations shall be admissible in any
action or proceeding, shall be binding upon each Guarantor for the purpose of
establishing the Guaranteed Obligations due from the Borrowers and shall
constitute prima facie proof, absent manifest error, of the Guaranteed
Obligations of the Borrowers to such Lender or the Agent, as well as the
obligations of each Guarantor to such Lender or the Agent.
7. SUBORDINATION, SUBROGATION, CONTRIBUTION, ETC. Each Guarantor agrees
that all present and future indebtedness, obligations and liabilities of the
Borrowers to such Guarantor shall be fully subordinate and junior in right and
priority of payment to any indebtedness of the Borrowers to the Lenders, and no
Guarantor shall have any right of subrogation, contribution (including but
without limitation the contribution and subrogation rights granted below),
reimbursement or indemnity whatsoever nor any right of recourse to security for
the debts and obligations of the Borrowers unless and until all Guaranteed
Obligations shall have been paid in full, such payment is not subject to any
possibility of revocation or rescission and all Agreements have expired or been
terminated. Subject to the preceding sentence, if any Guarantor makes a payment
in respect of the Guaranteed Obligations it shall be subrogated to the rights of
the payee against the Borrowers with respect to such payment and shall have the
rights of contribution set forth below against all other Cumulative Guarantors
and each Guarantor agrees that all other Cumulative Guarantors shall have the
rights of contribution against it set forth below. If any Guarantor makes a
payment in respect of the Guaranteed Obligations that is smaller in proportion
to its Payment Share (as hereinafter defined) than such payments made by the
other Cumulative Guarantors are in proportion to the amounts of their respective
Payment Shares, such Guarantor shall, when permitted by the first sentence of
this Section 7, pay to the other Guarantors an amount such that the net payments
made by the Cumulative
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Guarantors in respect of the Guaranteed Obligations shall be shared among the
Cumulative Guarantors pro rata in proportion to their respective Payment Shares.
If any Guarantor receives any payment by way of subrogation that is greater in
proportion to the amount of its Payment Share than the payments received by the
other Cumulative Guarantors are in proportion to the amounts of their respective
Payment Shares, such Guarantor shall, when permitted by the first sentence of
this Section 7, pay to the other Cumulative Guarantors an amount such that the
subrogation payments received by the Guarantors shall be shared among the
Cumulative Guarantors pro rata in proportion to their respective Payment Shares.
For purposes of this Guaranty, the "Payment Share" of any Cumulative
Guarantor shall be the sum of (a) the aggregate proceeds of the Guaranteed
Obligations received by such Guarantor (and, if received subject to a repayment
obligation, remaining unpaid on the Determination Date, as hereinafter defined),
plus (b) the product of (i) the aggregate Guaranteed Obligations remaining
unpaid on the date such Guaranteed Obligations become due and payable in full,
whether by stated maturity, acceleration or otherwise (the "Determination Date")
reduced by the amount of such Guaranteed Obligations attributed to all of the
Cumulative Guarantors pursuant to clause (a) above, times (ii) a fraction, the
numerator of which is such Guarantor's net worth on the effective date of this
Guaranty (determined as of the end of the immediately preceding fiscal reporting
period of the Guarantor), and the denominator of which is the aggregate net
worth of all of the Cumulative Guarantors, determined for each Cumulative
Guarantor on the respective effective date of the guaranty signed by such
Cumulative Guarantor.
8. ASSIGNMENT BY LENDERS. Each Lender and the Agent shall have the
right to assign and transfer this Guaranty to any assignee of any portion of the
Guaranteed Obligations. Each Lender's and the Agent's successors and assigns
hereunder shall have the right to rely upon and enforce this Guaranty.
9. JOINT AND SEVERAL OBLIGATIONS. The obligations of the Guarantors
hereunder and all other Cumulative Guarantors shall be joint and several and
each Guarantor shall be liable for all of the Guaranteed Obligations to the
extent provided herein regardless of any other Cumulative Guarantors, and each
Lender and the Agent shall have the right, in its sole discretion to pursue its
remedies against any Guarantor without the need to pursue its remedies against
any other Cumulative Guarantor, whether now or hereafter in existence, or
against any one or more Cumulative Guarantors separately or against any two or
more jointly, or against some separately and some jointly.
10. REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES. Each Guarantor hereby represents
and warrants to the Lenders and the Agent that:
(a) the execution, delivery and performance by the Guarantor of
this Guaranty are within its corporate powers, have been duly authorized by all
necessary corporate action, require no action by or in respect of, or filing
with, any governmental body, agency or official, and do not contravene or
constitute a default under, any provision of applicable law or regulation or of
the articles of incorporation or other charter documents or bylaws of such
Guarantor, or of any agreement, judgment, injunction, order, decree or other
instrument binding upon such Guarantor, or result in the creation or imposition
of any lien, security interest or other charge or encumbrance on any asset of
such Guarantor;
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(b) this Guaranty constitutes a legal, valid and binding agreement
of each Guarantor, enforceable against the Guarantor in accordance with its
terms;
(c) as of the date hereof, each of the following is true and
correct for each Guarantor: (i) the fair saleable value and the fair valuation
of such Guarantor's property is greater than the total amount of its liabilities
(including contingent liabilities) and greater than the amount that would be
required to pay its probable aggregate liability on its existing debts as they
become absolute and matured, (ii) each Guarantor's capital is not unreasonably
small in relation to its current and/or contemplated business or other
undertaken transactions, and (iii) each Guarantor does not intend to incur, or
believe that it will incur, debt beyond its ability to pay such debts as they
become due; and
(d) the Borrowers, the Guarantors and the other affiliates of the
Borrowers are engaged as an integrated group in related businesses; that the
integrated operation requires financing on such a basis that credit supplied to
the Borrowers can be made available from time to time to various subsidiaries of
the Borrowers, as required for the continued successful operation of the
integrated group as a whole; and that each Guarantor has requested the Lenders
to continue to lend and to make credit available to the Borrowers for the
purpose of financing the integrated operations of the Borrowers and its
subsidiaries, including each Guarantor, with each Guarantor expecting to derive
benefit, direct or indirectly, from the loans and other credit extended by the
Lenders to the Borrowers, both in such Guarantor's separate capacity and as a
member of the integrated group, inasmuch as the successful operation and
condition of each Guarantor is dependent upon the continued successful
performance of the functions of the integrated group as a whole. Each of the
Guarantors hereby determines and agrees that the execution, delivery and
performance of this Guaranty are necessary and convenient to the conduct,
promotion or attainment of the business of such Guarantor and in furtherance of
the corporate purposes of such Guarantor.
11. BINDING ON SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS. This Guaranty shall be the
valid, binding and enforceable obligation of the Guarantors and their successors
and assigns.
12. INDEMNITY. As a separate, additional and continuing obligation,
each Guarantor unconditionally and irrevocably undertakes and agrees with each
Lender and the Agent that, should the Guaranteed Obligations not be recoverable
from any Guarantor as guarantor under this Guaranty for any reason whatsoever
(including, without limitation, by reason of any provision of any of the
Guaranteed Obligations or the Agreements being or becoming void, unenforceable,
or otherwise invalid under any applicable law) then, notwithstanding any
knowledge thereof by any Lender or the Agent at any time, each Guarantor as
original and independent obligor, upon demand by the Agent, will make payment to
the Lenders and the Agent of the Guaranteed Obligations by way of a full
indemnity.
13. CUMULATIVE RIGHTS AND REMEDIES, ETC. The obligations of each
Guarantor under this Guaranty are continuing obligations and a new cause of
action shall arise in respect of each default hereunder. No course of dealing on
the part of any Lender or the Agent, nor any delay or failure on the part of any
Lender or the Agent in exercising any right, power or privilege hereunder, shall
operate as a waiver of such right, power, or privilege or otherwise prejudice
the Lenders' or the Agent's rights and remedies hereunder; nor shall any single
or partial exercise thereof preclude any further exercise thereof or the
exercise of any other right, power or privilege. No right or remedy conferred
upon or reserved to any
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Lender or the Agent under this Guaranty is intended to be exclusive of any other
right or remedy, and every right and remedy shall be cumulative and in addition
to every other right or remedy given hereunder or now or hereafter existing
under any applicable law. Every right and remedy given by this Guaranty or by
applicable law to the Lenders and the Agent may be exercised from time to time
and as often as may be deemed expedient by any Lender or the Agent.
14. SEVERABILITY. If any one or more provisions of this Guaranty should
be invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any respect, the validity, legality and
enforceability of the remaining provisions contained herein shall not in any way
be affected, impaired, prejudiced or disturbed thereby, and any provision
hereunder found partially unenforceable shall be interpreted to be enforceable
to the fullest extent possible. If at any time all or any portion of the
obligation of any Guarantor under this Guaranty would otherwise be determined by
a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, unenforceable or avoidable
under Section 548 of the federal Bankruptcy Code or under any fraudulent
conveyance or transfer laws or similar applicable law of any jurisdiction, then
notwithstanding any other provisions of this Guaranty to the contrary such
obligation or portion thereof of such Guarantor under this Guaranty shall be
limited to the greatest of (i) the value of any quantified economic benefits
accruing to such Guarantor as a result of this Guaranty, (ii) an amount equal to
95% of the excess on the date the relevant Guaranteed Obligations were incurred
of the present fair saleable value of the assets of such Guarantor over the
amount of all liabilities of such Guarantor, contingent or otherwise, and (iii)
the maximum amount of which this Guaranty is determined to be enforceable.
15. MERGER; AMENDMENTS; HEADINGS. This Guaranty is intended as a final
expression of the subject matter hereof and is also intended as a complete and
exclusive statement of the terms hereof. Each Guarantor's liability hereunder is
independent of and in addition to its liability under any other guaranty
previously of subsequently executed. No course of dealing, course of performance
or trade usage, and no parole evidence of any nature, shall be used to
supplement or modify any terms hereof, nor are there any conditions to the full
effectiveness of this Guaranty. None of the terms and provisions of this
Guaranty may be waived, altered, modified or amended in any way except by an
instrument in writing executed by duly authorized officers of the Agent and the
Guarantors. The headings of the various paragraphs hereof are for the
convenience of reference only and shall in no way modify any of the terms
hereof.
16. CHOICE OF LAW. THIS GUARANTY SHALL BE CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH
THE INTERNAL LAWS (AND NOT THE LAW OF CONFLICTS) OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN.
17. WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL. EACH GUARANTOR, AND THE AGENT AND EACH LENDER
IN ACCEPTING THIS GUARANTY, HEREBY WAIVES TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY JUDICIAL
PROCEEDING INVOLVING, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, ANY MATTER (WHETHER SOUNDING IN
TORT, CONTRACT OR OTHERWISE) IN ANY WAY ARISING OUT OF, RELATED TO, OR CONNECTED
WITH THIS GUARANTY OR THE RELATIONSHIP ESTABLISHED HEREUNDER.
18. SUBMISSION TO JURISDICTION; WAIVERS. (a) Each Guarantor hereby
irrevocably and unconditionally:
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(i) submits for itself and its property in any legal action or
proceeding relating to this Guaranty, or for recognition and
enforcement of any judgment in respect hereof, to the non-exclusive
general jurisdiction of any United States federal or Michigan state
court sitting in Detroit, Michigan and appellate courts from any
thereof;
(ii) 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;
(iii) 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 Guarantor at the address specified in Section 19, or
at such other address of which the Agent shall have been notified
pursuant thereto;
(iv) 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
(v) 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 subsection any special, exemplary,
punitive or consequential damages.
19. NOTICES. Any notice, demand, consent or request given or made to
each Guarantor by any Lender or the Agent shall be deemed to have been duly
given or made if sent in writing (including telecommunications) to such
Guarantor to the address or telex or telecopy number set forth below the name of
such Guarantor on the signature page hereof, or at such other address or telex
or telecopy number as such Guarantor may hereafter specify to the Agent in
writing. All notices or other communications sent by means of telecopy, telex or
other wire transmission shall be made with request for assurance of receipt in a
manner typical with respect to communications of that type. Written notices or
other communications shall be deemed delivered upon receipt if delivered by hand
or by telecopy, three Business Days after mailing if mailed, or one Business Day
after deposit with an overnight courier service if delivered by overnight
courier. Notices or other communications delivered by hand shall be deemed
delivered upon receipt.
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EXECUTED and effective as of the day and year first above written.
XXXXXXX INVESTMENT COMPANY
By:____________________________________
Title:_________________________
Wilmington Trust Company
Xxxxxx Square North
0000 Xxxxx Xxxxxx Xx.
Xxxxxxxxxx, XX 00000
DIEBOLD FINANCE COMPANY, INC.
By:____________________________________
Title:_________________________
Wilmington Trust Company
Xxxxxx Square North
0000 Xxxxx Xxxxxx Xx.
Xxxxxxxxxx, XX 00000
DIEBOLD CREDIT CORPORATION
By:____________________________________
Title:_________________________
Diebold, Incorporated
0000 Xxxxxxx Xx.
Xxxxx Xxxxxx, XX 00000
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DIEBOLD SST HOLDING COMPANY, INC.
By:____________________________________
Title:_________________________
Diebold, Incorporated
0000 Xxxxxxx Xx.
Xxxxx Xxxxxx, XX 00000
DIEBOLD SELF-SERVICES SYSTEMS
By:____________________________________
Title:_________________________
Diebold, Incorporated
0000 Xxxxxxx Xx.
Xxxxx Xxxxxx, XX 00000
DIEBOLD HOLDING COMPANY, INC.
By:____________________________________
Title:_________________________
Diebold, Incorporated
0000 Xxxxxxx Xx.
Xxxxx Xxxxxx, XX 00000
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XXXXXXX XXXXXX HOLDING COMPANY, INC.
By:____________________________________
Title:_________________________
Diebold, Incorporated
0000 Xxxxxxx Xx.
Xxxxx Xxxxxx, XX 00000
DIEBOLD LATIN AMERICA HOLDING COMPANY,
INC.
By:____________________________________
Title:_________________________
Diebold, Incorporated
0000 Xxxxxxx Xx.
Xxxxx Xxxxxx, XX 00000
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EXHIBIT E
JOINDER AGREEMENT
THIS JOINDER AGREEMENT, dated as of ____________, ____, is entered into
by _______________ (the "New Subsidiary Borrower") pursuant to the Loan
Agreement dated as of December 1, 1999 (as amended or modified from time to
time, the "Loan Agreement"), among Diebold, Incorporated (the "Company"), the
Subsidiary Borrowers party thereto, the Lenders party thereto and Bank One,
Michigan, as Agent.
WITNESSETH:
WHEREAS, the parties to this Joinder Agreement wish to designate the
New Subsidiary Borrower as a Subsidiary Borrower under the Loan Agreement in the
manner hereinafter set forth; and
WHEREAS, this Joinder Agreement is entered into pursuant to the Loan
Agreement;
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises, the parties hereto
hereby agree as follows:
1. The New Subsidiary Borrower hereby acknowledges that it has received
and reviewed a copy of the Loan Agreement and the other Loan Documents and
unconditionally agrees to: (a) join the Loan Agreement and the other Loan
Documents as a Subsidiary Borrower, (b) be bound by, and hereby ratifies and
confirms, all covenants, agreements, consents, submissions, appointments,
acknowledgments and other terms and provisions attributable to a Subsidiary
Borrower in the Loan Agreement and the other Loan Documents; and (c) perform all
obligations required of it as a Subsidiary Borrower by the Loan Agreement and
the other Loan Documents.
2. The New Subsidiary Borrower hereby represents and warrants that the
representations and warranties with respect to it contained in, or made or
deemed made by it in, the Loan Agreement and any other Loan Document are true
and correct on the date hereof.
3. The address and jurisdiction of incorporation of the New Subsidiary
Borrower is set forth in Schedule A to this Joinder Agreement.
4. The Company agrees that its guarantee contained in Article IX of the
Loan Agreement shall remain in full force and effect after giving effect to this
Joinder Agreement, including without limitation after including the New
Subsidiary Borrower as a Subsidiary Borrower under the Loan Agreement.
5. This Joinder Agreement shall be governed by, and construed and
interpreted in accordance with, the laws of the State of Michigan.
6. Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the
meanings ascribed thereto in the Loan Agreement.
7. This Joinder Agreement may be executed in any number of
counterparts, all of which taken together shall constitute one agreement.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each of the undersigned has caused this Joinder
Agreement to be duly executed and delivered as of the day and year set forth
above.
__________________________,
as a Subsidiary Borrower
By:________________________________
Name: _____________________________
Title: ____________________________
DIEBOLD, INCORPORATED
By:________________________________
Name: _____________________________
Title: ____________________________
Accepted and Acknowledged:
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BANK ONE, MICHIGAN,
as Agent
By:________________________________
Name: _____________________________
Title: ____________________________
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ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
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REVOLVING CREDIT NOTE
_______________ ______________,_______
____________________________ ("Borrower"), unconditionally promises to
pay to the order of ________________ ("Lender") on or before the Facility
Termination Date (as defined in the Loan Agreement hereinafter referred to) for
the account of its applicable Lending Installation the principal sum of
___________________ or the aggregate unpaid principal amount of all Revolving
Credit Loans made by the Lender to the Borrower pursuant to the Agreement
whichever is less, in immediately available funds at the Lending Installation of
the Agent designated by the Agent for the Borrower, together with interest on
the unpaid principal amount hereof at the rates and on the dates set forth in
the Loan Agreement.
The Lender shall, and is hereby authorized to, record in accordance
with its usual practice, the date and amount of each Revolving Credit Loan, the
date and amount of each principal payment and the date to which payment of this
Note has been extended, provided, however, that failure to do so shall not
affect the Borrower's obligation to pay amounts due hereunder.
The Borrower expressly waives any presentments, demand, protest or
notice in connection with this Revolving Credit Note now, or hereafter, required
by applicable law.
This Revolving Credit Note is one of the Revolving Credit Notes issued
pursuant to the provisions of the Loan Agreement dated as of December 1, 1999
among Diebold, Incorporated, the Subsidiary Borrowers party thereto, the Lenders
party thereto, and Bank One, Michigan, as Agent, as it may be amended from time
to time (the "Loan Agreement"), to which reference is hereby made for a
statement of the terms and conditions under which this Revolving Credit Note may
be prepaid or its maturity date extended or accelerated.
The Revolving Credit Note shall be construed in accordance with and
governed by the laws of Michigan applicable to contracts made and performed in
Michigan by a Michigan borrower and a Michigan banking corporation located in
Michigan, as lender.
_______________________________
By: ___________________________
Title: ________________________
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EXHIBIT F-2
TERM NOTE
_______________ ______________,_______
____________________("Borrower"), unconditionally promises to pay to
the order of ________________("Lender") on or before the Maturity Date (as
defined in the Loan Agreement hereinafter referred to) for the account of its
applicable Lending Installation the principal sum of__________________
(_____________) or the aggregate unpaid principal amount of all Term Loans made
by the Lender to the Borrower pursuant to the Agreement whichever is less, in
immediately available funds at the Lending Installation of the Agent designated
by the Agent for the Borrower, together with principal installments and interest
on the unpaid principal amount hereof at the rates and on the dates set forth in
the Loan Agreement.
The Lender shall, and is hereby authorized to, record in accordance
with its usual practice, the date and amount of each Term Loan, the date and
amount of each principal payment and the date to which payment of this Note has
been extended, provided, however, that failure to do so shall not affect the
Borrower's obligation to pay amounts due hereunder.
The Borrower expressly waives any presentments, demand, protest or
notice in connection with this Term Note now, or hereafter, required by
applicable law.
This Term Note is one of the Term Notes issued pursuant to the
provisions of the Loan Agreement dated as of December 1, 1999 among Diebold,
Incorporated, the Subsidiary Borrowers party thereto, the Lenders party thereto,
and Bank One, Michigan, as Agent, as it may be amended from time to time (the
"Loan Agreement"), to which reference is hereby made for a statement of the
terms and conditions under which this Term Note may be prepaid or its maturity
date extended or accelerated.
The Term Note shall be construed in accordance with and governed by the
laws of Michigan applicable to contracts made and performed in Michigan by a
Michigan borrower and a Michigan banking corporation located in Michigan, as
lender.
_______________________________
By: ___________________________
Title: ________________________
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EXHIBIT G
December 1, 1999
To: The Agent and each Lender
party to the Credit Agreement
referred to below
Re: Diebold Incorporated Credit Facility With Bank One, Michigan
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Ladies and Gentlemen:
We have acted as special counsel for Diebold Investment Company, a
Delaware corporation, Diebold Credit Corporation, a Delaware corporation,
Diebold Holding Company, Inc., a Delaware corporation. Diebold SST Holding
Company, a Delaware corporation, Diebold Self-Service Systems, a New York
general partnership, Diebold Mexico Holding Company, Inc., a Delaware
corporation, Diebold Latin America Holding Company, Inc., a Delaware
corporation, and Diebold Finance Company, Inc., a Delaware corporation
(collectively, the "GUARANTORS"), and Diebold, Incorporated, an Ohio corporation
("DIEBOLD", and, collectively with the Guarantors, the "LOAN PARTIES"), in
connection with the Credit Agreement dated as of December 1 , 1999 (the "CREDIT
AGREEMENT") by and among Diebold, certain Subsidiary Borrowers from time to time
party thereto, the lenders party thereto (collectively, the "LENDERS"), and Bank
One, Michigan as agent (the "AGENT"). This opinion is delivered to you at the
request of Diebold pursuant to subsection 4.1(e) of the Credit Agreement.
Capitalized terms used in this letter and not otherwise defined have the
meanings assigned to such terms in the Credit Agreement. With your permission,
all assumptions and statements of reliance in this letter have been made without
any independent investigation or verification on our part except to the extent
otherwise expressly stated and we express no opinion with respect to the subject
matter or accuracy of the assumptions or items upon which we have relied.
In connection with the opinions expressed in this letter, we have
examined such documents, records and matters of law as we have deemed necessary
for the purposes of the opinions expressed below. We have examined among other
documents, the following:
(a) an executed copy of the Credit Agreement;
(b) an executed copy of the Guaranty; and
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(c) an Officer's Certificate for the Loan Parties delivered to us in
connection with this letter, a copy of which is attached as Annex A
(the "OFFICER'S CERTIFICATE").
The documents referred to in items (a) and (b) above are collectively referred
to in this letter as the "DOCUMENTS".
In all such examinations, we have assumed the legal capacity of all
natural persons executing documents, the genuineness of all signatures, the
authenticity of original and certified documents and the conformity to original
or certified copies of all copies submitted to us as conformed or reproduction
copies. As to various questions of fact relevant to the opinions expressed in
this letter, we have relied upon, and assume the accuracy of, representations
and warranties contained in the Documents and certificates and written
statements and other information of or from representatives of the Loan Parties
and others and assume compliance on the part of all parties (other than the Loan
Parties) to the Documents with their covenants and agreements contained in such
Documents. We have relied solely upon certificates of public officials as to the
factual matters set forth therein and, as to the opinions expressed in paragraph
1 below, as to the legal conclusions expressed therein. With respect to the
opinion expressed in paragraph 2 below, we have relied solely upon an officer's
certificate delivered to us by Diebold Holding Company, Inc. and Diebold SST
Holding Company, Inc. With respect to the opinions expressed in paragraphs 3 and
6 below, our opinions are limited (i) to our actual knowledge, if any, of the
Loan Parties' specially regulated business activities and properties based
solely upon an officer's certificate in respect of such matters and without any
independent investigation or verification on our part and (ii) to our review of
only those laws and regulations that, in our experience, are normally applicable
to transactions of the type contemplated by the Documents.
To the extent it may be relevant to the opinions expressed in this
letter, we have assumed that the parties to the Documents other than the Loan
Parties have the power to enter into and perform such Documents and to
consummate the transactions contemplated by such Documents and that such
Documents have been duly authorized, executed and delivered by. and constitute
legal, valid and binding obligations of, such parties.
Based upon the foregoing, and subject to the limitations,
qualifications and assumptions set forth in this letter, we are of the opinion
that:
1. Each Loan Party (other than Diebold Self-Service Systems) is a
corporation validly existing and in good standing under the laws of its
jurisdiction of incorporation as of the dates listed for such corporation on the
attached Annex B.
2. Xxxxxxx Self-Service Systems is a general partnership, continued
tinder the laws of the State of New York, between Diebold Holding Company, Inc.
and Diebold SST Holding Company.
3. Each Loan Party has the organizational power and authority to
conduct its business substantially as described in the Officer's Certificate.
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4. The execution, delivery and performance by each Loan Party of the
Documents (i) have been authorized by all necessary corporate (or, with respect
to Diebold Self-Service Systems, partnership) action by such entity and (ii) do
not contravene any provision of the certificate or articles of incorporation or
bylaws (or with respect to Diebold Self-Service Systems, its amended and
restated partnership agreement) of such Loan Party.
5. The execution, delivery and performance by each Loan Party of the
Documents to which it is party (i) do not violate any agreement binding upon
such Loan Party or its property or any court decree or order binding upon such
Loan Party or its property (this opinion being limited (1) to those agreements,
decrees or orders that have been identified to us in the Officer's Certificate
other than agreements related to the Industrial Revenue Bonds identified therein
and (2) in that we express no opinion with respect to any violation not readily
ascertainable from the face of any such agreement, decree or order or arising
under or based upon any cross-default provision insofar as it relates to a
default under an agreement not so identified to us or arising under or based
upon any covenant of a financial or numerical nature or requiring computation),
and (ii) will not result in or require the creation or imposition of any
security interest or lien upon any of their respective properties under the
provisions of any agreement or order binding upon such corporation or its
properties other than any rights of set-off or other liens in favor of the Agent
or the Lenders arising under any of the Documents or applicable law (this
opinion being limited to those agreements and orders that have been identified
to us in the Officer's Certificate other than agreements related to the
Industrial Revenue Bonds identified therein).
6. The execution and delivery to the Agent and the Lenders by each Loan
Party of the Documents to which such Loan Party is a party, the obtaining of any
Loans and Letters of Credit thereunder, and the performance by each Loan Party
of its obligations under such Documents do not violate the Delaware General
Corporation Law (the "DGCL"), the Ohio General Corporation Law the New York
Partnership Law, or any present law or present regulation of any governmental
agency or authority of the United States of America known by us to be applicable
to such Loan Party or its property.
7. The execution and delivery to the Agent and the Lenders by each Loan
Party of the Documents to which such Loan Party is a party, the obtaining of any
Loans and Letters of Credit thereunder, and the performance by each Loan Party
of its obligations under such Documents do not require under present law any
filing or registration by such Loan Xxxxx with, or approval or consent to such
Loan Party of, any governmental agency or authority of the States of Delaware,
New York, Ohio or the United States of America that has not been made or
obtained except those required in the ordinary course of business.
8. Each of the Documents to which any Loan Party is a party has been
duly executed and delivered on behalf of such Loan Party.
We express no opinion as to the application of, and our opinions above
are subject to the effect, if any, of, any applicable fraudulent conveyance,
fraudulent transfer, fraudulent obligation or preferential transfer law.
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The opinions expressed in this letter are limited to the federal law of
the United States America, the DGCL, the New York Partnership Law and the Ohio
General Corporation Law.
We express no opinion as to the compliance or noncompliance, or the
effect of compliance or noncompliance, of the addressee of this letter with any
state or federal laws regulations applicable to it by reason of its status as or
affiliation with a federally insured deposit institution.
The opinions expressed in this letter are solely for the benefit of the
Agent and each Lender in connection with the transactions referred to in this
letter and may not be relied on by the Age or any Lender for any other purpose,
in any manner or for any purpose by any other person or entity provided, that
the Agent and each Lender may provide this opinion to each participant and
permitted assignee under the Documents and such participants and assignees may
rely on this opinion.
Very truly yours,
Xxxxx, Day, Xxxxxx & Xxxxx
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ANNEX A
DIEBOLD, INCORPORATED
AND ITS SUBSIDIARIES
Officer's Certificate
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Reference is made to the opinion letter of Xxxxx, Day, Xxxxxx & Xxxxx
(the "OPINION") delivered in connection with the Credit Agreement dated as of
December 1, 1999 by and among Diebold, Incorporated and certain Subsidiary
Borrowers from time to time party thereto, as borrowers, the lenders party
thereto, as lenders, and Bank One, Michigan as agent. Capitalized terms used in
this certificate and not otherwise defined have the meanings assigned to such
terms in the Opinion.
The undersigned officer of each Loan Party certifies, in connection
with the execution, delivery and performance by the Loan Parties of the
Documents, the consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Documents
and the Opinion, as follows:
1. Attached as Schedule I for each Loan Party is a list of(i) all
indentures, mortgages, deeds of trust, security or pledge agreements,
guarantees, loan or credit agreements and other agreements or instruments and
(ii) all decrees and orders, in each case in clause (i) and (ii) above, to which
such Loan Party is a party or that are otherwise binding upon such Loan Party or
any of its assets or property and that contain financial or other covenants or
provisions for defaults or events of default or similar events or occurrences or
that otherwise would or could have the effect of (a) restricting the types of
provisions that any other agreement to which such Loan Party becomes a party may
contain, (b) restricting the conduct of such Loan Party's business, the
incurrence of indebtedness, guarantees or other liabilities or obligations, the
creation of liens upon any of such Loan Party's property or assets or otherwise
restricting the execution, delivery, and performance of, or the consummation of
the transactions contemplated by, the Documents or (c) resulting in, or
requiring the creation or imposition of, any lien upon any of such Loan Party's
assets or property as a result of the execution, delivery or performance of, or
the consummation of the transactions contemplated by, any of the Documents. A
true and complete copy of each of the above agreements, instruments, documents,
decrees and orders has been previously furnished to Xxxxx, Day, Xxxxxx & Xxxxx.
No default or event of default or violation of any such agreements, instruments,
decrees or orders exists or, immediately after giving effect to entry into the
Documents or consummation of any of the transactions contemplated by the
Documents, will exist.
2. The nature of each Loan Party's business and the purposes of each
Loan Party is described for such Loan Party and attached as Schedule II. The
Loan Parties are not engaged in any activity or business not permitted under
those provisions of its constitutive documents specifying the nature of such
Loan Party's business and the purposes of such Loan Party. No Loan Party engages
or proposes to engage in any industry or business or activity, or own any
property or asset, that causes or would cause it to be subject to special local,
state or federal regulation not generally applicable to business corporations,
other than the licensing requirements which Diebold must
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satisfy in numerous state and local jurisdictions to engage in its businesses of
electronic security sales, installation and repair business and alarm monitoring
in those jurisdictions.
Executed and delivered as of the 1st day of December, 1999.
DIEBOLD, INCORPORATED
By:_________________________________
Title:______________________________
DIEBOLD INVESTMENT COMPANY
By:_________________________________
Title:______________________________
DIEBOLD CREDIT CORPORATION
By:_________________________________
Title:______________________________
DIEBOLD HOLDING COMPANY, INC.
By:_________________________________
Title:______________________________
DIEBOLD SST HOLDING COMPANY
By:_________________________________
Title:______________________________
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DIEBOLD SELF-SERVICE SYSTEMS
By:_________________________________
Title:______________________________
DIEBOLD MEXICO HOLDING COMPANY, INC.
By:_________________________________
Title:______________________________
DIEBOLD LATIN AMERICA HOLDING COMPANY, INC.
By:_________________________________
Title:______________________________
DIEBOLD FINANCE COMPANY, INC.
By:_________________________________
Title:______________________________
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SCHEDULE I
TO OFFICER'S CERTIFICATE
Material Agreements, Decrees and Orders
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Agreements
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Agreements with respect to the (i) $5,800,000.00 Industrial Development
Authority of Danville, Virginia Adjustable Rate Industrial Revenue Bonds, Series
1997 (Diebold, Incorporated Project), (ii) $7,500,000.00 Industrial Development
Authority of Staunton, Virginia Adjustable Rate Industrial Revenue Bonds, Series
1997 (Diebold, Incorporated Project), and (iii) $7,500,000.00 Davidson County
Industrial Facilities and Pollution Control Financing Authority Adjustable Rate
Industrial Development Revenue Bond Series 1997 (Diebold, Incorporated Project).
Decrees and Orders
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None.
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SCHEDULE II
TO OFFICER'S CERTIFICATE
Description of Business
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The Loan Parties develop, manufacture, sell and service automated
teller machines ("ATMs"), electronic and physical security systems, various
products used to equip bank facilities, and software and integrated systems for
global financial and commercial markets.
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ANNEX B
Good Standing
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Domestic Jurisdiction
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Date
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Diebold Investment Company Delaware 11/22/99
Diebold Credit Corporation Delaware 11/22/99
Diebold Holding Company, Inc. Delaware 11/22/99
Diebold SST Holding Company Delaware 11/22/99
Diebold Mexico Holding Company, Inc. Delaware 11/22/99
Diebold Latin America Holding Company, Inc. Delaware 11/22/99
Diebold Finance Company, Inc. Delaware 11/22/99
Diebold, Incorporated Ohio 11/23/99
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EXHIBIT G (continued)
December ___, 1999
To: Bank One, Michigan, Agent
and each Lender
party to the Credit Agreement
referred to below
Re: Diebold Incorporated Credit Facility With Bank One, Michigan
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Ladies and Gentlemen:
In response to your request for an opinion, please be advised that this
law firm has been engaged to act as special counsel for Diebold, Incorporated,
in connection with the execution by Diebold Investment Company, a Delaware
corporation, Diebold Credit Corporation, a Delaware corporation, Diebold Holding
Company, Inc., a Delaware corporation, Diebold SST Holding Company, a Delaware
corporation, Diebold Self Service Systems, a New York general partnership,
Diebold Mexico Holding Company, Inc., a Delaware corporation, Diebold Latin
America Holding Company, Inc., a Delaware corporation, and Diebold Finance
Company, Inc., a Delaware corporation (collectively, the "GUARANTORS"), and
Diebold, Incorporated, an Ohio corporation ("DIEBOLD", and, collectively with
the Guarantors, the "LOAN PARTIES"), of a certain Credit Agreement dated as of
December 1, 1999 and a certain Guaranty Agreement dated December 1, 1999
(collectively the "Loan Documents") by and among Diebold, certain Subsidiary
Borrowers from time to time party thereto, the lenders party thereto
(collectively, the "LENDERS"), and Bank One, Michigan as agent (the "AGENT"),
and the effect of the execution, delivery and performance by each of the Loan
Parties of the Loan Documents upon certain Agreements, as defined below.
In connection with the opinion expressed in this letter, we have
examined such documents, records and matters of law as we have deemed necessary
for the purposes of the opinion expressed below. We have examined, among other
documents, Bond Transcripts for the following Bond Issues:
(a) $5,800,000.00 Industrial Development Authority Of Danville,
Virginia Adjustable Rate Industrial Revenue Bonds, Series 1997
(Diebold, Incorporated Project)
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(b) $7,500,000.00 Industrial Development Authority Of Staunton,
Virginia, Adjustable R Industrial Development Revenue Bonds, Series
1997 (Diebold, Incorporated Project) and
(c) $7,500,000.00 Davidson County Industrial Facilities And Pollution
Control Financing Authority Adjustable Rate Industrial Development
Revenue Bonds, Series 1997 (Diebold, Incorporated Project)
The documents referred to in items (a) through (c) above are collectively
referred to in this letter "as the "AGREEMENTS".
Based upon the foregoing, and subject to the limitations,
qualifications and assumptions set forth in this letter, we are of the opinion
that:
The execution, delivery and performance by each Loan Party of the
Loan Documents (i) does not violate any of the Agreements binding upon such Loan
Party or its property (this opinion being limited (1) to those Agreements
identified above and (2) in that we express no opinion with respect to any
violation not readily ascertainable from the face of any such Agreement or
arising under or based upon any cross-default provision insofar as it relates to
a default under an agreement not so identified to us or arising under or based
upon any covenant of a financial or numerical nature or requiring computation),
and (ii) will not result in or require the creation or imposition of any
security interest or lien upon any of their respective properties under the
provisions of any the Agreements binding upon such corporation or its properties
(this opinion being limited to those Agreements identified above).
The opinions expressed in this letter are solely for the benefit of
the Agent and each Lender in connection with the transactions referred to in
this letter and may not be relied on for any other purpose, in any manner or for
any purpose by any other person or entity; PROVIDED, that the Agent and each
Lender may provide this opinion to each participant and permitted assignee under
the Credit Agreement and such participants and assignees may rely on this
opinion.
Very truly yours
BLACK, McCUSKEY, XXXXXX & XXXXXXX
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EXHIBIT H
Money Transfer Instructions
As supplied by the Company to the Agent prior to closing
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EXHIBIT I
COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE
To: The Agent and Lenders parties to the
Credit Agreement Described Below
This Compliance Certificate is furnished pursuant to that certain Loan
Agreement dated as of December 1, 1999 (as amended, modified, renewed or
extended from time to time, the "Agreement") among DIEBOLD, INCORPORATED (the
"Company"), certain Subsidiary Borrowers, the lenders party thereto and BANK
ONE, MICHIGAN, as Agent for the Lenders. Unless otherwise defined herein,
capitalized terms used in this Certificate have the meanings ascribed thereto in
the Agreement.
THE UNDERSIGNED HEREBY CERTIFIES THAT:
1. I am the duly elected __________ of the Company;
2. I have reviewed the terms of the Agreement and I have made, or have
caused to be made under my supervision, a detailed review of the transactions
and conditions of the Company and its Subsidiaries during the accounting period
covered by the attached financial statements;
3. The examinations described in paragraph 2 did not disclose, and I
have no knowledge of, the existence of any condition or event which constitutes
a Default or Unmatured Default during or at the end of the accounting period
covered by the attached financial statements or as of the date of this
Certificate, except as set forth below; and
4. Schedule I attached hereto sets forth financial data and
computations evidencing the Company's compliance with Section 6.18 and 6.19 of
the Agreement and calculations of the Applicable Margin, all of which data and
computations are true, complete and correct.
Described below are the exceptions, if any, to paragraph 3 by listing,
in detail, the nature of the condition or event, the period during which it has
existed and the action which the Company has taken, is taking, or proposes to
take with respect to each such condition or event:
_______________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________
The foregoing certifications, together with the computations set forth
in Schedule I hereto and the financial statements delivered with this
Certificate in support hereof, are made and delivered this __ day of_____,___.
___________________________
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SCHEDULE I TO COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE
Compliance Calculations for Loan Agreement
CALCULATION AS OF_______________, ____
A. Leverage Ratio (Section 6.18)
1. Total Debt of the Company and its $___________
Subsidiaries
2. Net Worth $___________
3. Total Debt to Capitalization Ratio _________:1.00 (must be no greater
(Ratio of Line Al to Line Al than 0.50 to 1.00)
+ Line A2)
B. Interest Coverage Ratio (Section 6.19)
1. Consolidated Net Income for past
four fiscal quarters $___________
2. Income taxes for past four fiscal $___________
quarters subtracted in calculating
Consolidated Net Income
3. Interest expense for past four
fiscal quarters $___________
subtracted in calculating
Consolidated Net Income
4. EBIT (sum of lines Fl, F2 and F3) $___________
5. Interest Expense $___________
6. Ratio of Line B4 to Line B5 _________:1.00 (ratio of Line B4
to B5 must not be
less than 5.00 to 1.00)
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EXHIBIT J
ASSIGNMENT AGREEMENT
This Assignment Agreement (this "Assignment Agreement") between
__________________________ (the "Assignor") and ___________________________ (the
"Assignee") is dated as of___________,_____. The parties hereto agree as
follows:
1. PRELIMINARY STATEMENT. The Assignor is a party to a Loan Agreement
(which, as it may be amended, modified, renewed or extended from time to time is
herein called the "Loan Agreement") described in Item 1 of Schedule 1 attached
hereto ("Schedule 1"). Capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise defined
herein shall have the meanings attributed to them in the Loan Agreement.
2. ASSIGNMENT AND ASSUMPTION. The Assignor hereby sells and assigns to
the Assignee, and the Assignee hereby purchases and assumes from the Assignor,
an interest in and to the Assignor's rights and obligations under the Loan
Agreement and the other Loan Documents, such that after giving effect to such
assignment the Assignee shall have purchased pursuant to this Assignment
Agreement the percentage interest specified in Item 3 of Schedule 1 of all
outstanding rights and obligations under the Loan Agreement and the other Loan
Documents relating to the facilities listed in Item 3 of Schedule 1. The
aggregate Commitments (or Loans, if the applicable Commitments have been
terminated) purchased by the Assignee hereunder is set forth in Item 4 of
Schedule 1.
3. EFFECTIVE DATE. The effective date of this Assignment Agreement (the
"Effective Date") shall be the later of the date specified in Item 5 of Schedule
1 or two Business Days (or such shorter period agreed to by the Agent) after
this Assignment Agreement, together with any consents required under the Loan
Agreement, are delivered to the Agent. In no event will the Effective Date occur
if the payments required to be made by the Assignee to the Assignor on the
Effective Date are not made on the proposed Effective Date.
4. PAYMENT OBLIGATIONS. In consideration for the sale and assignment of
Loans hereunder, the Assignee shall pay the Assignor, on the Effective Date, the
amount agreed to by the Assignor and the Assignee. On and after the Effective
Date, the Assignee shall be entitled to receive from the Agent all payments of
principal, interest and fees with respect to the interest assigned hereby. The
Assignee will promptly remit to the Assignor any interest on Loans and fees
received from the Agent which relate to the portion of the Commitments or Loans
assigned to the Assignee hereunder for periods prior to the Effective Date and
not previously paid by the Assignee to the Assignor. In the event that either
party hereto receives any payment to which the other party hereto is entitled
under this Assignment Agreement, then the party receiving such amount shall
promptly remit it to the other party hereto.
5. RECORDATION FEE. The Assignor and Assignee each agree to pay
one-half of the recordation fee required to be paid to the Agent in connection
with this Assignment Agreement unless otherwise agreed among the Assignee and
the Assignor.
6. REPRESENTATIONS OF THE ASSIGNOR; LIMITATIONS ON THE ASSIGNOR'S
LIABILITY. The Assignor represents and warrants that (i) it is the legal and
beneficial owner of the interest being assigned by it hereunder, (ii) such
interest is free and clear of any adverse claim created by the Assignor and
(iii) the execution and delivery of this Assignment Agreement by the Assignor is
duly authorized. It is understood and agreed that the assignment and assumption
hereunder are made without recourse to the Assignor and that the Assignor makes
no other representation or warranty of any kind to
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the Assignee. Neither the Assignor nor any of its officers, directors,
employees, agents or attorneys shall be responsible for (i) the due execution,
legality, validity, enforceability, genuineness, sufficiency or collectability
of any Loan Document, including without limitation, documents granting the
Assignor and the other Lenders a security interest in assets of any Borrower or
Guarantor, (ii) any representation, warranty or statement made in or in
connection with any of the Loan Documents, (iii) the financial condition or
creditworthiness of any Borrower or Guarantor, (iv) the performance of or
compliance with any of the terms or provisions of any of the Loan Documents, (v)
inspecting any of the property, books or records of any Borrower or Guarantor,
(vi) the validity, enforceability, perfection, priority, condition, value or
sufficiency of any collateral securing or purporting to secure the Loans or
(vii) any mistake, error of judgment, or action taken or omitted to be taken in
connection with the Loans or the Loan Documents.
7. REPRESENTATIONS AND UNDERTAKINGS OF THE ASSIGNEE. The Assignee (i)
confirms that it has received a copy of the Loan Agreement, together with copies
of the financial statements requested by the Assignee and such other documents
and information as it has deemed appropriate to make its own credit analysis and
decision to enter into this Assignment Agreement, (ii) agrees that it will,
independently and without reliance upon the Agent, the Assignor or any other
Lender and based on such documents and information at it shall deem appropriate
at the time, continue to make its own credit decisions in taking or not taking
action under the Loan Documents, (iii) appoints and authorizes the Agent to take
such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers under the Loan
Documents as are delegated to the Agent by the terms thereof, together with such
powers as are reasonably incidental thereto, (iv) confirms that the execution
and delivery of this Assignment Agreement by the Assignee is duly authorized,
(v) agrees that it will perform in accordance with their terms all of the
obligations which by the terms of the Loan Documents are required to be
performed by it as a Lender, (vi) agrees that its payment instructions and
notice instructions are as set forth in the attachment to Schedule 1, (vii)
confirms that none of the funds, monies, assets or other consideration being
used to make the purchase and assumption hereunder are "plan assets" as defined
under ERISA and that its rights, benefits and interests in and under the Loan
Documents will not be "plan assets" under ERISA, (viii) agrees to indemnify and
hold the Assignor harmless against all losses, costs and expenses (including,
without limitation, reasonable attorneys' fees) and liabilities incurred by the
Assignor in connection with or arising in any manner from the Assignee's
non-performance of the obligations assumed under this Assignment Agreement, and
(ix) if applicable, attaches the forms prescribed by the Internal Revenue
Service of the United States and any other applicable government agency
certifying that the Assignee is entitled to receive payments under the Loan
Documents without deduction or withholding of any United States federal income
taxes or othe applicable documents.
8. GOVERNING LAW. This Assignment Agreement shall be governed by the
internal law, and not the law of conflicts, of the State of Michigan.
9. NOTICES. Notices shall be given under this Assignment Agreement in
the manner set forth in the Loan Agreement. For the purpose hereof, the
addresses of the parties hereto (until notice of a change is delivered) shall be
the address set forth in the attachment to Schedule 1.
10. COUNTERPARTS; DELIVERY BY FACSIMILE. This Assignment Agreement may
be executed in counterparts. Transmission by facsimile of an executed
counterpart of this Assignment Agreement shall be deemed to constitute due and
sufficient delivery of such counterpart and such facsimile shall be deemed to be
an original counterpart of this Assignment Agreement.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the duly authorized officers of the parties hereto
have executed this Assignment Agreement by executing Schedule 1 hereto as of the
date first above written.
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SCHEDULE 1
to Assignment Agreement
1. Description and Date of Loan Agreement:
2. Date of Assignment Agreement: _______, ______
3. Amounts (As of Date of Item 2 above):
4. Assignee's Commitments (or Loans
with respect to terminated
Commitments) purchased
hereunder: [Description of Commitments assigned]
5. Proposed Effective Date: ______________________
Accepted and Agreed:
[NAME OF ASSIGNOR] [NAME OF ASSIGNEE]
By: _______________________________ By: ________________________________
Title:_____________________________ Title: _____________________________
If required:
ACCEPTED AND CONSENTED TO BY ACCEPTED AND CONSENTED TO BY
DIEBOLD, INCORPORATED BANK ONE, MICHIGAN, as Agent
By: _______________________________ By: ________________________________
Title:_____________________________ Title: _____________________________
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Attachment to SCHEDULE 1 to ASSIGNMENT AGREEMENT
ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION SHEET
--------------------------------
Attach Assignor's Administrative Information Sheet, which must
include notice addresses for the Assignor and the Assignee
(Sample form shown below)
ASSIGNOR INFORMATION
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Contact:
--------
Name:________________________________ Telephone No.: _____________________
Fax No.: ____________________________ Telex No.: _________________________
Answerback: ________________________
Payment Information:
--------------------
Name & ABA # of Destination Bank: ______________________________________________
______________________________________________
Account Name & Number for Wire Transfer: _______________________________________
_______________________________________
Other Instructions:_____________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________
Address for Notices for Assignor: ______________________________________________
-------------------------------- ______________________________________________
______________________________________________
ASSIGNEE INFORMATION
--------------------
Credit Contact:
---------------
Name:____________________________ Telephone No.:_____________________________
Fax No.:_________________________ Telex No.:_________________________________
Answerback:________________________________
Key Operations Contacts:
------------------------
Booking Installation:____________ Booking Installation:______________________
Name:____________________________ Name:______________________________________
Telephone No.:___________________ Telephone No.:_____________________________
Fax No.:_________________________ Fax No.:___________________________________
Telex No.:_______________________ Telex No.:_________________________________
Answerback:______________________ Answerback:________________________________
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Payment Information:
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Name & ABA # of Destination Bank:_______________________________________________
_______________________________________________
Account Name & Number for Wire Transfer:________________________________________
________________________________________
Other Instructions:_____________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________
Address for Notices for Assignee: ______________________________________________
-------------------------------- ______________________________________________
______________________________________________
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