AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT dated as of February 15, 2006, among BURGER KING HOLDINGS, INC., BURGER KING CORPORATION, as Borrower, The Lenders Party Hereto, JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., as Administrative Agent, CITICORP NORTH AMERICA, INC., as...
EXHIBIT 10.1
AMENDED AND RESTATED
CREDIT AGREEMENT
dated as of
February 15, 2006,
among
BURGER KING HOLDINGS, INC.,
BURGER KING CORPORATION,
as Borrower,
The Lenders Party Hereto,
JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.,
as Administrative Agent,
CITICORP NORTH AMERICA, INC.,
as Syndication Agent, and
BANK OF AMERICA, N.A.,
RBC CAPITAL MARKETS and
WACHOVIA BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
as Documentation Agents
___________________________
X.X. XXXXXX SECURITIES INC. | and | CITIGROUP GLOBAL |
MARKETS INC., |
as Co-Lead Arrangers and Joint Bookrunners
TABLE OF CONTENTS | ||||
Page | ||||
ARTICLE I | ||||
Definitions | ||||
SECTION | 1.01 | Defined Terms | 1 | |
SECTION | 1.02 | Classification of Loans and Borrowings | 33 | |
SECTION | 1.03 | Terms Generally | 33 | |
SECTION | 1.04 | Accounting Terms; GAAP | 34 | |
SECTION | 1.05 | Pro Forma Calculations | 34 | |
SECTION | 1.06 | Currency Translation | 34 | |
ARTICLE II | ||||
The Credits | ||||
SECTION | 2.01 | Commitments | 36 | |
SECTION | 2.02 | Loans and Borrowings | 36 | |
SECTION | 2.03 | Requests for Borrowings | 37 | |
SECTION | 2.04 | Swingline Loans | 38 | |
SECTION | 2.05 | Letters of Credit | 39 | |
SECTION | 2.06 | Funding of Borrowings | 46 | |
SECTION | 2.07 | Interest Elections | 47 | |
SECTION | 2.08 | Termination and Reduction of Commitments | 48 | |
SECTION | 2.09 | Repayment of Loans; Evidence of Debt | 49 | |
SECTION | 2.10 | Amortization of Term Loans | 50 | |
SECTION | 2.11 | Prepayment of Loans | 52 | |
SECTION | 2.12 | Fees | 54 | |
SECTION | 2.13 | Interest | 55 | |
SECTION | 2.14 | Alternate Rate of Interest | 56 | |
SECTION | 2.15 | Increased Costs | 57 | |
SECTION | 2.16 | Break Funding Payments | 58 | |
SECTION | 2.17 | Taxes | 58 | |
SECTION | 2.18 | Payments Generally; Pro Rata Treatment; Sharing of Setoffs | 60 | |
SECTION | 2.19 | Mitigation Obligations; Replacement of Lenders | 62 | |
SECTION | 2.20 | Incremental Term Loans | 63 | |
ARTICLE III | ||||
Representations and Warranties | ||||
SECTION | 3.01 | Organization; Powers | 65 | |
SECTION | 3.02 | Authorization; Enforceability | 65 | |
SECTION | 3.03 | Governmental Approvals; No Conflicts | 65 | |
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SECTION | 3.04 | Financial Condition; No Material Adverse Change | 66 | |
SECTION | 3.05 | Properties | 66 | |
SECTION | 3.06 | Litigation and Environmental Matters | 67 | |
SECTION | 3.07 | Compliance with Laws and Agreements | 67 | |
SECTION | 3.08 | Investment and Holding Company Status | 67 | |
SECTION | 3.09 | Taxes | 67 | |
SECTION | 3.10 | ERISA | 68 | |
SECTION | 3.11 | Disclosure | 68 | |
SECTION | 3.12 | Subsidiaries | 68 | |
SECTION | 3.13 | Labor Matters | 68 | |
SECTION | 3.14 | Solvency | 69 | |
SECTION | 3.15 | OFAC | 69 | |
ARTICLE IV | ||||
Conditions | ||||
SECTION | 4.01 | [Intentionally Omitted] | 69 | |
SECTION | 4.02 | Each Credit Event | 69 | |
ARTICLE V | ||||
Affirmative Covenants | ||||
SECTION | 5.01 | Financial Statements and Other Information | 70 | |
SECTION | 5.02 | Notices of Material Events | 72 | |
SECTION | 5.03 | Information Regarding Collateral | 72 | |
SECTION | 5.04 | Existence; Conduct of Business | 73 | |
SECTION | 5.05 | Payment of Obligations | 73 | |
SECTION | 5.06 | Maintenance of Properties | 73 | |
SECTION | 5.07 | Insurance | 73 | |
SECTION | 5.08 | Books and Records; Inspection and Audit Rights | 74 | |
SECTION | 5.09 | Compliance with Laws | 74 | |
SECTION | 5.10 | Use of Proceeds and Letters of Credit | 74 | |
SECTION | 5.11 | Additional Subsidiaries | 75 | |
SECTION | 5.12 | Further Assurances | 75 | |
SECTION | 5.13 | Interest Rate Protection | 75 | |
SECTION | 5.14 | Rated Credit Facilities | 75 | |
ARTICLE VI | ||||
Negative Covenants | ||||
SECTION | 6.01 | Indebtedness; Certain Equity Securities | 76 | |
SECTION | 6.02 | Liens | 79 | |
SECTION | 6.03 | Fundamental Changes | 81 | |
SECTION | 6.04 | Investments, Loans, Advances, Guarantees and Acquisitions | 82 | |
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SECTION | 6.05 | Asset Sales | 85 | |
SECTION | 6.06 | Sale and Leaseback Transactions | 87 | |
SECTION | 6.07 | Swap Agreements | 87 | |
SECTION | 6.08 | Restricted Payments; Certain Payments of Indebtedness | 87 | |
SECTION | 6.09 | Transactions with Affiliates | 91 | |
SECTION | 6.10 | Restrictive Agreements | 93 | |
SECTION | 6.11 | Amendment of Material Documents | 94 | |
SECTION | 6.12 | Interest Expense Coverage Ratio | 94 | |
SECTION | 6.13 | Leverage Ratio | 94 | |
SECTION | 6.14 | Maximum Capital Expenditures | 95 | |
SECTION | 6.15 | Changes in Fiscal Periods | 95 | |
ARTICLE VII | ||||
Events of Default | ||||
ARTICLE VIII | ||||
The Administrative Agent | ||||
ARTICLE IX | ||||
Miscellaneous | ||||
SECTION | 9.01 | Notices | 101 | |
SECTION | 9.02 | Waivers; Amendments | 102 | |
SECTION | 9.03 | Expenses; Indemnity; Damage Waiver | 104 | |
SECTION | 9.04 | Successors and Assigns | 106 | |
SECTION | 9.05 | Survival | 110 | |
SECTION | 9.06 | Counterparts; Integration | 110 | |
SECTION | 9.07 | Severability | 110 | |
SECTION | 9.08 | Right of Setoff | 111 | |
SECTION | 9.09 | Governing Law; Jurisdiction; Consent to Service of Process | 111 | |
SECTION | 9.10 | WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL | 112 | |
SECTION | 9.11 | Headings | 112 | |
SECTION | 9.12 | Confidentiality | 112 | |
SECTION | 9.13 | Interest Rate Limitation | 113 | |
SECTION | 9.14 | USA Patriot Act | 113 | |
SECTION | 9.15 | Conversion of Currencies | 113 | |
SECTION | 9.16 | Dutch Parallel Debt | 114 | |
SECTION | 9.17 | Certain German Matters | 115 | |
SECTION | 9.18 | 2005 Credit Agreement; Effectiveness of Amendment and Restatement | 116 | |
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SCHEDULES: | ||||
Schedule | 1.01 | — | Original Letters of Credit | |
Schedule | 2.01 | — | Commitments | |
Schedule | 3.04 | — | Financial Statements | |
Schedule | 3.06 | — | Disclosed Matters | |
Schedule | 3.12 | — | Subsidiaries | |
Schedule | 6.01 | — | Existing Indebtedness | |
Schedule | 6.02 | — | Existing Liens | |
Schedule | 6.04 | — | Existing Investments | |
EXHIBITS: | ||||
Exhibit A | — | Form of Assignment and Assumption | ||
Exhibit B-1 | — | Form of Opinion of Associate General Counsel | ||
Exhibit B-2 | — | Form of Opinion of Xxxxx Xxxx & Xxxxxxxx | ||
Exhibit B-3 | — | Form of Opinion of Local Counsel | ||
Exhibit C | — | Form of Collateral Agreement | ||
Exhibit D | — | Form of Perfection Certificate | ||
Exhibit E | — | Form of Compliance Certificate | ||
Exhibit F | — | Reaffirmation Agreement |
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AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT dated as of February 15, 2006 (this “Agreement”), among BURGER KING HOLDINGS, INC., BURGER KING CORPORATION, the LENDERS party hereto, JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., as Administrative Agent, and CITICORP NORTH AMERICA, INC., as Syndication Agent. |
Subject to satisfaction of the conditions set forth in the Amendment and Restatement Agreement dated as of February 15, 2006 (the “Amendment and Restatement Agreement”), among Holdings, the Borrower, the Required Restatement Lenders (as defined therein) and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as administrative agent, the 2005 Credit Agreement shall be amended and restated as provided herein.
ARTICLE I
Definitions
SECTION 1.01. Defined Terms. As used in this Agreement, the following terms have the meanings specified below:
“2005 Credit Agreement” means the Credit Agreement dated as of July 13, 2005, among Holdings, the Borrower, the lenders party thereto from time to time, JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as administrative agent, Citicorp North America, Inc., as syndication agent, and Bank of America N.A., RBC Capital Markets and Wachovia Bank, National Association, as documentation agents.
“ABR”, when used in reference to any Loan or Borrowing, refers to whether such Loan, or the Loans comprising such Borrowing, are bearing interest at a rate determined by reference to the Alternate Base Rate.
“Additional Lender” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.20(c) .
“Adjusted Eurocurrency Rate” means, with respect to any Eurocurrency Borrowing for any Interest Period, an interest rate per annum (rounded upwards, if necessary, to the next 1/16 of 1%) equal to (a)(i) for any Eurocurrency Borrowing denominated in U.S. Dollars or Sterling, the LIBO Rate, or (ii) for any Eurocurrency Borrowing denominated in Euros, the EURO LIBO Rate, in each case in effect for such Interest Period, multiplied by (b) the Statutory Reserve Rate.
“Administrative Agent” means JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., in its capacity as administrative agent for the Lenders hereunder, and its successors in such capacity as provided in Article VIII.
“Administrative Questionnaire” means an administrative questionnaire in a form supplied by the Administrative Agent.
“Affiliate” means, with respect to a specified Person, another Person that directly, or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, Controls or is Controlled by or is under common Control with the Person specified, provided, however, that solely for purposes of Section 6.09, the term “Affiliate” shall also include any person that directly, or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, owns 10% or more of any class of Equity Interests of the Person specified or that is an executive officer or director of the Person specified. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no Sponsor or Sponsor Affiliate shall be deemed to be an Affiliate of any Loan Party other than for purposes of Section 6.09.
“Alternate Base Rate” means, for any day, a rate per annum equal to the greater of (a) the Prime Rate in effect on such day and (b) the Federal Funds Effective Rate in effect on such day plus 1/2 of 1%. Any change in the Alternate Base Rate due to a change in the Prime Rate or the Federal Funds Effective Rate shall be effective from and including the effective date of such change in the Prime Rate or the Federal Funds Effective Rate, respectively.
“Alternative Currency” means Euro or Sterling.
“Alternative Currency Letter of Credit” means a Letter of Credit denominated in an Alternative Currency.
“Alternative Currency LC Exposure” means LC Exposure related to Alternative Currency Letters of Credit.
“Amendment and Restatement Agreement” has the meaning assigned to such term in the preamble to this Agreement.
“Applicable Percentage” means, at any time with respect to any Global Revolving Lender or any U.S. Revolving Lender, the percentage of the aggregate Global Revolving Commitments or aggregate U.S. Revolving Commitments, as the case may be, represented by such Lender’s Global Revolving Commitment or U.S. Revolving Commitment, as the case may be, at such time. If the Revolving Commitments have terminated or expired, the Applicable Percentages shall be determined based upon the Revolving Commitments most-recently in effect, giving effect to any assignments of Revolving Loans, LC Exposures and Swingline Exposures that occur after such termination or expiration.
“Applicable Rate” means, for any day with respect to any Loan that is a Tranche A Term Loan, Tranche B-1 Term Loan or Revolving Loan, as the case may be, the applicable rate per annum set forth below under the caption “Tranche A Term Loan ABR Spread”, “Tranche A Term Loan Eurocurrency Spread”, “Tranche B-1 Term Loan ABR Spread”, “Tranche B-1 Term Loan Eurocurrency Spread”, “Revolving Loan ABR Spread” or “Revolving Loan Eurocurrency Spread”, as the case may be, based upon the Leverage Ratio as of the most recent determination date:
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Tranche A | Tranche A | Tranche B-1 | Tranche B-1 | Revolving | Revolving | |||||||
Term Loan | Term Loan | Term Loan | Term Loan | Loan | Loan | |||||||
ABR | Eurocurrency | ABR | Eurocurrency | ABR | Eurocurrency | |||||||
Leverage Ratio: | Spread | Spread | Spread | Spread | Spread | Spread | ||||||
Category 1 | ||||||||||||
Greater than or equal to | 0.75% | 1.75% | 0.75% | 1.75% | 0.75% | 1.75% | ||||||
4.00 to 1.00 | ||||||||||||
Category 2 | ||||||||||||
Less than 4.00 to 1.00 | 0.75% | 1.75% | 0.50% | 1.50% | 0.75% | 1.75% | ||||||
but greater than or equal to | ||||||||||||
3.00 to 1.00 | ||||||||||||
Category 3 | ||||||||||||
Less than 3.00 to 1.00 | 0.50% | 1.50% | 0.50% | 1.50% | 0.50% | 1.50% | ||||||
but greater than or equal to | ||||||||||||
2.50 to 1.00 | ||||||||||||
Category 4 | ||||||||||||
Less than 2.50 to 1.00 | 0.25% | 1.25% | 0.50% | 1.50% | 0.25% | 1.25% |
For purposes of the foregoing, (a) the Leverage Ratio shall be determined on a Pro Forma Basis as of the end of each fiscal quarter of the Borrower’s fiscal year based upon the Borrower’s consolidated financial statements delivered pursuant to Section 5.01(a) or (b) and (b) each change in the Applicable Rate resulting from a change in the Leverage Ratio shall be effective during the period commencing on and including the date of delivery to the Administrative Agent of such consolidated financial statements and related certificate of a Financial Officer indicating such change and ending on the date immediately preceding the effective date of the next such change, provided that the Leverage Ratio shall be deemed to be in Category 1 (i) at the written request of the Required Lenders at any time that an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing (or, in the case of an Event of Default of the type described in paragraph (h) or (i) of Article VII with respect to Holdings or the Borrower, automatically) or (ii) at the option of the Administrative Agent or at the request of the Required Lenders if the Borrower fails to deliver the consolidated financial statements or related certificate of a Financial Officer required to be delivered by it pursuant to Section 5.01(a) or (b) and Section 5.01(c), as the case may be, during the period from the expiration of the required time for delivery thereof until such consolidated financial statements and related certificate of a Financial Officer are delivered; provided further that, solely in respect of the Tranche B-1 Term Loans, and except as provided in the immediately preceding proviso, the Leverage Ratio shall be deemed to be in Category 2 until such date that is six months after the Restatement Effective Date (on which date, and until the next determination of the Leverage Ratio pursuant to clause (a) of this paragraph, the Leverage Ratio in respect of the Tranche B-1 Term Loans shall be the Leverage Ratio determined pursuant to clause (a) of this paragraph for the most recently ended fiscal quarter of the Borrower’s fiscal year for which financial statements were delivered pursuant to Section 5.01(a) or (b) prior to such date, and afterwards, the Leverage Ratio in respect of the Tranche B-1 Term Loans shall be as determined pursuant to clause (a) of this paragraph).
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“Approved Fund” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 9.04(b) .
“Assignment and Assumption” means an assignment and assumption entered into by a Lender and an assignee (with the consent of any party whose consent is required by Section 9.04), and accepted by the Administrative Agent, in the form of Exhibit A or any other form approved by the Administrative Agent.
“Board” means the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System of the United States of America.
“Borrower” means Burger King Corporation, a Florida corporation.
“Borrowing” means (a) Loans of the same Class, Type and currency, made, converted or continued on the same date and, in the case of Eurocurrency Loans, as to which a single Interest Period is in effect, or (b) a Swingline Loan.
“Borrowing Minimum” shall mean (a) in the case of a Borrowing denominated in U.S. Dollars, $5,000,000, (b) in the case of a Borrowing denominated in Euro, €5,000,000 and (c) in the case of a Borrowing denominated in Sterling, £3,000,000.
“Borrowing Multiple” shall mean (a) in the case of a Borrowing denominated in U.S. Dollars, $1,000,000, (b) in the case of a Borrowing denominated in Euro, €1,000,000 and (c) in the case of a Borrowing denominated in Sterling, £1,000,000.
“Borrowing Request” means a request by the Borrower for a Borrowing in accordance with Section 2.03.
“Business Day” means any day that is not a Saturday, Sunday or other day on which commercial banks in New York City are authorized or required by law to remain closed, provided that (a) when used in connection with a Eurocurrency Loan, the term “Business Day” shall also exclude any day on which banks are not open for dealings in dollar deposits in the London interbank market , (b) when used in connection with any Loan denominated in any Alternative Currency, the term “Business Day” shall also include any day on which banks are open for dealings in deposits in Euro, Sterling and U.S. Dollars in London and (c) when used in connection with a Loan denominated in Euro, the term “Business Day” shall also exclude any day on which the Trans-European Automated Real Time Gross Settlement Express Transfer (TARGET) payment system is not open for the settlement of payments in Euro.
“Capital Expenditures” means, for any period, (a) the additions to property, plant and equipment and other capital expenditures of the Borrower and the Subsidiaries that are (or should be) set forth in a consolidated statement of cash flows of the Borrower for such period prepared in accordance with GAAP and (b) Capital Lease Obligations incurred by the Borrower and the Subsidiaries during such period, but excluding in each case any such expenditure (i) made to restore, replace or rebuild property to the condition of such property immediately prior to any damage, loss, destruction or condemnation of such property, to the extent such expenditure is made
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with, or subsequently reimbursed out of, insurance proceeds, indemnity payments, condemnation awards (or payments in lieu thereof) or damage recovery proceeds relating to any such damage, loss, destruction or condemnation, (ii) constituting reinvestment of the Net Proceeds of any event described in clause (a) or (b) of the definition of the term “Prepayment Event”, to the extent permitted by Section 2.11(c)(i), (iii) made by the Borrower or any Subsidiary as payment of the consideration for a Permitted Acquisition, (iv) made to repair, renovate or improve any restaurant acquired pursuant to a Permitted Acquisition prior to the date that is six months after the date of completion of such Permitted Acquisition, (v) constituting a debt or equity investment in a Franchisee, (vi) made by the Borrower or any Subsidiary to effect leasehold improvements to any property leased by the Borrower or such Subsidiary as lessee, to the extent that such expenses have been reimbursed by the landlord and (vii) made with the Net Proceeds from the issuance of Qualified Equity Interests.
“Capital Lease Obligations” of any Person means the obligations of such Person to pay rent or other amounts under any lease of (or other arrangement conveying the right to use) real or personal property, or a combination thereof, which obligations are required to be classified and accounted for as capital leases on a balance sheet of such Person under GAAP, and the amount of such obligations shall be the capitalized amount thereof determined in accordance with GAAP.
“Cash Amount” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 5.10.
“Change in Control” means (a) the failure by Holdings to own, beneficially and of record, 100% of the Equity Interests in the Borrower, (b) prior to an IPO, the failure by the Permitted Investors collectively to own, directly or indirectly through a wholly owned Subsidiary, beneficially and of record, Equity Interests in Holdings representing at least a majority of each of the aggregate ordinary voting power and the aggregate equity value represented by the issued and outstanding Equity Interests in Holdings, (c) after an IPO, (i) the acquisition of ownership, directly or indirectly, beneficially or of record, by any Person or group (within the meaning of the Exchange Act and the rules of the SEC thereunder as in effect on the Effective Date) other than the Permitted Investors, of Equity Interests representing more than 25% of either the aggregate ordinary voting power or the aggregate equity value represented by the issued and outstanding Equity Interests in Holdings, and (ii) the ownership, directly or indirectly, beneficially or of record, by the Permitted Investors collectively of Equity Interests in Holdings representing in the aggregate a lesser percentage of either the aggregate ordinary voting power or the aggregate equity value represented by the issued and outstanding Equity Interests in Holdings than such Person or group, (d) the occupation of a majority of the seats (other than vacant seats) on the board of directors of Holdings by Persons who were neither (i) nominated by a majority of the board of directors of Holdings or one or more of the Permitted Investors nor (ii) appointed by directors so nominated or (e) the occurrence of a “Change of Control” (or similar event, however denominated), as defined in any Subordinated Debt Documents or any indenture or agreement, in each case in respect of Material Indebtedness of Holdings, the Borrower or any Subsidiary, if as a result thereof, any of Holdings, the Borrower or any Subsidiary becomes obligated to make any payment in respect of such Indebtedness.
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“Change in Law” means (a) the adoption of any law, rule or regulation after the Effective Date, (b) any change in any law, rule or regulation or in the interpretation or application thereof by any Governmental Authority after the Effective Date or (c) compliance by any Lender or Issuing Bank (or, for purposes of Section 2.15(b), by any lending office of such Lender or by such Lender’s or Issuing Bank’s holding company, if any) with any request, guideline or directive (whether or not having the force of law) of any Governmental Authority made or issued after the Effective Date.
“Class”, when used in reference to any Loan or Borrowing, refers to whether such Loan, or the Loans comprising such Borrowing, are Global Revolving Loans, U.S. Revolving Loans, Tranche A Term Loans, Tranche B-1 Term Loans, Incremental Term Loans or Swingline Loans and, when used in reference to any Commitment, refers to whether such Commitment is a Global Revolving Commitment, U.S. Revolving Commitment, Tranche B-1 Commitment or a Commitment in respect of any Incremental Term Loans. Incremental Term Loans that have different terms and conditions (together with the Commitments in respect thereof) shall be construed to be in different Classes.
“Class”, when used in reference to any Lender, refers to whether such Lender has a Loan or Commitment with respect to a particular Class.
“CLO” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 9.04(b) .
“Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended from time to time.
“Collateral” means any and all “Collateral”, as defined in any applicable Security Document.
“Collateral Agreement” means the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement among Holdings, the Borrower, the Subsidiary Loan Parties and the Administrative Agent, substantially in the form of Exhibit C.
“Collateral and Guarantee Requirement” means, at any time, the requirement that:
(a) the Administrative Agent shall have received from each Loan Party (i) either (x) a counterpart of the Collateral Agreement duly executed and delivered on behalf of such Loan Party or (y) in the case of any Person that becomes a Loan Party after the Effective Date, a supplement to the Collateral Agreement, in the form specified therein, duly executed and delivered on behalf of such Loan Party and (ii) with respect to any Loan Party that directly owns Equity Interests of a Foreign Subsidiary that is not a De Minimis Foreign Subsidiary, a counterpart of each Foreign Pledge Agreement that the Administrative Agent determines, based on the advice of counsel, to be necessary or advisable in connection with the pledge of, or the granting of security interests
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in, Equity Interests of such Foreign Subsidiary, in each case duly executed and delivered on behalf of such Loan Party and such Foreign Subsidiary;
(b) all outstanding Equity Interests of the Borrower and each Subsidiary, in each case directly owned by or on behalf of any Loan Party, shall have been pledged pursuant to the Collateral Agreement or, if required pursuant to clause (a) above, a Foreign Pledge Agreement (except that the Loan Parties shall not be required to pledge (i) more than 65% of the outstanding voting Equity Interests of any Foreign Subsidiary, (ii) the Equity Interests of any Foreign Subsidiary if the pledge of such Equity Interests would be prohibited by applicable law or (iii) the Equity Interests of any Excluded Subsidiary) and, except as otherwise agreed upon by the Administrative Agent, the Administrative Agent shall have received certificates or other instruments representing all such Equity Interests that are certificated (other than any such Equity Interests of De Minimis Foreign Subsidiaries), together with undated stock powers or other instruments of transfer with respect thereto endorsed in blank;
(c) all documents and instruments, including Uniform Commercial Code financing statements, required by law or reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent to be filed, registered or recorded to create the Liens intended to be created by the Collateral Agreement and the Foreign Pledge Agreements and perfect such Liens to the extent required by, and with the priority required by, this Agreement, the Collateral Agreement and the Foreign Pledge Agreements, shall have been filed, registered or recorded or delivered to the Administrative Agent for filing, registration or recording; and
(d) each Loan Party shall have obtained all consents and approvals required to be obtained by it in connection with the execution and delivery of all Security Documents to which it is a party, the performance of its obligations thereunder and the granting by it of the Liens thereunder.
“Commitment” means (a) with respect to any Lender, such Lender’s Global Revolving Commitment, U.S. Revolving Commitment, Tranche B-1 Commitment or commitment in respect of any Incremental Term Loans or any combination thereof (as the context requires) and (b) with respect to the Swingline Lender, its Swingline Commitment.
“Consolidated Cash Interest Expense” means, for any period, the excess of (a) the sum of (i) the interest expense (including imputed interest expense in respect of Capital Lease Obligations) of Holdings, the Borrower and the Subsidiaries for such period, determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP, (ii) any interest accrued during such period in respect of Indebtedness of Holdings, the Borrower or any Subsidiary that is required to be capitalized rather than included in consolidated interest expense for such period in accordance with GAAP and (iii) any cash payments made during such period in respect of obligations referred to in clause (b)(ii) below that were amortized or accrued in a previous period, minus (b) the sum of (i) to the extent included in such consolidated interest expense for such period, non-cash amounts attributable to
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amortization of financing costs paid in a previous period, (ii) to the extent included in such consolidated interest expense for such period, non-cash amounts attributable to amortization of debt discounts or accrued interest payable in kind for such period and (iii) cash interest income actually received in such period. Consolidated Cash Interest Expense shall be deemed to be (a) for the four fiscal quarter period ended September 30, 2005, Consolidated Cash Interest Expense for the fiscal quarter ended September 30, 2005, multiplied by four, (b) for the four fiscal quarter period ended December 31, 2005, Consolidated Cash Interest Expense for the two fiscal quarters ended December 31, 2005, multiplied by two, and (c) for the four fiscal quarter period ended March 31, 2006, Consolidated Cash Interest Expense for the three fiscal quarters ended March 31, 2006, multiplied by 4/3.
“Consolidated EBITDA” means, for any period, Consolidated Net Income for such period plus (a) without duplication and to the extent deducted in determining such Consolidated Net Income, the sum of (i) consolidated interest expense for such period, (ii) consolidated income tax expense for such period, (iii) all amounts attributable to depreciation and amortization for such period (excluding amortization expense attributable to a prepaid cash item that was paid in a prior period), (iv) any non-cash charges or losses for such period (but excluding any non-cash charge or loss in respect of an item that increased Consolidated Net Income in a prior period and any such charge or loss that results from the write-down or write-off of inventory), (v) the amount of management, consulting and advisory fees (including the management services termination fee permitted to be paid pursuant to Section 6.08(a)(xiv)), and reimbursement of out-of-pocket costs and expenses incurred in connection therewith, paid to any Sponsor or Sponsor Affiliate (or any accruals related to such fees, costs and expenses) during such period not to exceed, in the case of such fees other than the management services termination fee permitted to be paid pursuant to Section 6.08(a)(xiv), during any one fiscal year of the Borrower, 0.5% of consolidated total revenues of the Borrower for the immediately preceding fiscal year of the Borrower, (vi) non-recurring fees and expenses incurred during such period in connection with the Transactions in an aggregate amount not to exceed $5,000,000 during any period, (vii) non-cash exchange, translation or performance losses relating to any foreign currency hedging transactions or currency fluctuations, (viii) any expense relating to defined benefits pension or post-retirement benefit plans, (ix) amounts paid pursuant to Section 6.08(a)(xiii) during such period and (x) any extraordinary losses for such period, and minus (b) without duplication and (except in the case of clauses (i) and (vi)) to the extent included in determining such Consolidated Net Income, the sum of (i) any cash disbursements during such period that relate to non-cash charges or losses added to Consolidated Net Income pursuant to clause (a)(iv) of this paragraph in any prior period, (ii) any extraordinary gains for such period, (iii) any non-cash gains for such period, (iv) any income relating to defined benefits pension or post-retirement benefit plans, (v) all gains during such period resulting from the sale or disposition of any asset of the Borrower or any Subsidiary outside the ordinary course of business and (vi) any amounts contributed by Holdings, the Borrower or any Subsidiary in cash to any defined benefits pension or post-retirement benefit plans during such period, all determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP. Consolidated EBITDA shall be deemed to be $95,000,000, $63,700,000
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and $57,800,000 for the fiscal quarters ended December 31, 2004, March 31, 2005 and June 30, 2005, respectively.
“Consolidated EBITDAR” means, for any period, Consolidated EBITDA for such period plus, to the extent deducted in determining Consolidated Net Income for such period, Consolidated Rental Expense for such period.
“Consolidated Net Income” means, for any period, the net income or loss of Holdings, the Borrower and the Subsidiaries for such period determined on a consolidated basis (taken as a single accounting period) in accordance with GAAP, provided that there shall be excluded (a) the income of any Subsidiary to the extent that the declaration or payment of dividends or other distributions by such Subsidiary of that income is not at the time permitted by any of its Organizational Documents, a Requirement of Law or any agreement or instrument applicable to such Subsidiary, except to the extent of the amount of cash dividends or other cash distributions actually paid to the Borrower or any Subsidiary (unless the income of such Subsidiary would be excluded from Consolidated Net Income pursuant to this proviso or the proviso to clause (b) of this definition) during such period, and (b) the income or loss of any Person (other than the Borrower or any Subsidiary) in which the Borrower or any Subsidiary owns an Equity Interest, except (in the case of income) to the extent of the amount of cash dividends or other cash distributions actually paid to the Borrower or any Subsidiary (unless the income of such Subsidiary would be excluded from Consolidated Net Income pursuant to this proviso or the proviso to clause (a) of this definition) during such period.
“Consolidated Rental Expense” means, for any period, the aggregate rental expense of Holdings, the Borrower and the Subsidiaries in respect of real property for such period, determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP in respect of all rent obligations under operating leases in respect of real property.
“Consolidated Tangible Assets” means, on any date, the aggregate amount of assets (less applicable accumulated depreciation, amortization and other reserves and other properly deductible items) of the Borrower and the Subsidiaries, minus (a) all minority interests in consolidated Subsidiaries held by Persons other than the Borrower or any of the Subsidiaries and (b) all intangible assets of the Borrower and the Subsidiaries, including intellectual property, goodwill and unamortized debt discount and expense and other unamortized deferred charges, all determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP.
“Control” means the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management or policies of a Person, whether through the ability to exercise voting power, by contract or otherwise. The terms “Controlling” and “Controlled” have meanings correlative thereto.
“Default” means any event or condition that constitutes an Event of Default or that upon notice, lapse of time or both would, unless cured or waived, become an Event of Default.
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“De Minimis Foreign Subsidiary” means, at any date of determination, any Foreign Subsidiary the Equity Interests of which are required to be pledged pursuant to the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement and which has assets having an aggregate book value of less than $2,500,000 at such date.
“Disclosed Matters” means the actions, suits and proceedings and the environmental matters disclosed in Schedule 3.06.
“Disqualified Equity Interests” means Equity Interests that (a) require the payment of any dividends (other than dividends payable solely in shares of Qualified Equity Interests), (b) mature or are mandatorily redeemable or subject to mandatory repurchase or redemption or repurchase at the option of the holders thereof, in each case in whole or in part and whether upon the occurrence of any event, pursuant to a sinking fund obligation, on a fixed date or otherwise, prior to the date that is 180 days after the Tranche B-1 Maturity Date or, if such Equity Interests are issued after the Borrower has obtained any Incremental Term Loans or while any Commitments from Additional Lenders to make Incremental Term Loans remain in effect, 180 days after the maturity date for such Incremental Term Loans, unless all such Incremental Term Loans have been repaid in full and all Commitments in respect thereof shall have been terminated (other than (i) upon payment in full of the Loan Document Obligations, reduction of the LC Exposure to zero and termination of the Commitments or (ii) upon a “change in control”, provided that any payment required pursuant to this clause (ii) is contractually subordinated in right of payment to the Loan Document Obligations on terms reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and such requirement is applicable only in circumstances that are market on the date of issuance of such Equity Interests), (c) require the maintenance or achievement of any financial performance standards other than as a condition to the taking of specific actions or provide remedies to holders thereof (other than voting and management rights and increases in pay-in-kind dividends) or (d) are convertible or exchangeable, automatically or at the option of any holder thereof, into any Indebtedness, Equity Interests or other assets other than Qualified Equity Interests.
“Domestic Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary incorporated or organized under the laws of the United States of America, any State thereof or the District of Columbia.
“Effective Date” means July 13, 2005.
“EMU Legislation” means the legislative measures of the European Union for the introduction of, changeover to or operation of the Euro in one or more member states.
“Environmental Laws” means all treaties, laws, rules, regulations, codes, ordinances, orders, decrees, judgments, injunctions, notices or binding agreements issued, promulgated or entered into by or with any Governmental Authority, relating in any way to the environment, the preservation or reclamation of natural resources, the generation,
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management, Release or threatened Release of any Hazardous Material or to health and safety matters.
“Environmental Liability” means any liability, contingent or otherwise (including any liability for damages, costs of medical monitoring, costs of environmental remediation or restoration, administrative oversight costs, consultants’ fees, fines, penalties or indemnities), of Holdings, the Borrower or any Subsidiary directly or indirectly resulting from or based upon (a) any actual or alleged violation of any Environmental Law or permit, license or approval issued thereunder, (b) the generation, use, handling, transportation, storage, treatment or disposal of any Hazardous Materials, (c) exposure to any Hazardous Materials, (d) the Release or threatened Release of any Hazardous Materials or (e) any contract, agreement or other consensual arrangement pursuant to which liability is assumed or imposed with respect to any of the foregoing.
“Equity Interests” means shares of capital stock, partnership interests, membership interests in a limited liability company, beneficial interests in a trust or other equity ownership interests in a Person.
“ERISA” means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended from time to time.
“ERISA Affiliate” means any trade or business (whether or not incorporated) that, together with the Borrower, is treated as a single employer under Section 414(b) or (c) of the Code or, solely for purposes of Section 302 of ERISA and Section 412 of the Code, is treated as a single employer under Section 414 of the Code.
“ERISA Event” means (a) any “reportable event”, as defined in Section 4043 of ERISA or the regulations issued thereunder with respect to a Plan (other than an event for which the 30-day notice period is waived), (b) the existence with respect to any Plan of an “accumulated funding deficiency” (as defined in Section 412 of the Code or Section 302 of ERISA), whether or not waived, (c) the filing pursuant to Section 412(d) of the Code or Section 303(d) of ERISA of an application for a waiver of the minimum funding standard with respect to any Plan, (d) the incurrence by the Borrower or any of its ERISA Affiliates of any liability under Title IV of ERISA with respect to the termination of any Plan, (e) the receipt by the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate from the PBGC of any notice to appoint a trustee to administer any Plan, (f) the incurrence by the Borrower or any of its ERISA Affiliates of any liability with respect to the withdrawal or partial withdrawal from any Plan or Multiemployer Plan or (g) the receipt by the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate of any notice, or the receipt by any Multiemployer Plan from the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate of any notice, concerning the imposition of Withdrawal Liability or a determination that a Multiemployer Plan is, or is expected to be, insolvent or in reorganization, within the meaning of Title IV of ERISA.
“Euro” or “€” refers to the currency constituted by the Treaty on the European Union and as referred to in the EMU Legislation.
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“Eurocurrency”, when used in reference to any Loan or Borrowing, refers to whether such Loan, or the Loans comprising such Borrowing, are bearing interest at a rate determined by reference to the Adjusted Eurocurrency Rate.
“EURO LIBO Rate” means, with respect to any Eurocurrency Borrowing denominated in Euro, for any Interest Period, the offered rate for deposits in Euros in the European interbank market for the relevant Interest Period that is determined by the Banking Federation of the European Union, and displayed on the appropriate page of the Telerate Screen, at or about 11:00 a.m. (Brussels time) two Business Days prior to the first day of the relevant Interest Period, provided that, to the extent that an interest rate is not ascertainable pursuant to the foregoing provisions of this definition, the “EUROLIBO Rate” shall be the interest rate per annum determined by the Administrative Agent to be the average of the rates per annum at which deposits in Euro are offered for a maturity comparable to such relevant Interest Period to major banks in the London interbank market in London, England by the Administrative Agent at approximately 11:00 a.m. (London time) on the date that is two Business Days prior to the beginning of such Interest Period.
“Event of Default” has the meaning assigned to such term in Article VII.
“Excess Cash Flow” means, for any fiscal year of the Borrower, the sum (without duplication) of:
(a) the Consolidated Net Income for such fiscal year, adjusted to exclude any gains or losses attributable to any sale, transfer or other disposition of any property or any asset outside the ordinary course of business or any casualty or condemnation event; plus
(b) depreciation, amortization and other non-cash charges or losses (including deferred income tax expense) deducted in determining Consolidated Net Income for such fiscal year; plus
(c) the sum of (i) the amount, if any, by which Net Working Capital decreased during such fiscal year (except as a result of the reclassification of items from short-term to long-term or vice-versa), (ii) the net amount, if any, by which the consolidated long-term deferred revenues and other consolidated accrued long-term liability accounts of Holdings, the Borrower and the Subsidiaries increased during such fiscal year and (iii) the net amount, if any, by which the consolidated long-term asset accounts of Holdings, the Borrower and the Subsidiaries decreased during such fiscal year; minus
(d) the sum of (i) any non-cash gains included in determining such Consolidated Net Income for such fiscal year, (ii) the amount, if any, by which Net Working Capital increased during such fiscal year (except as a result of the reclassification of items from long-term to short-term or vice-versa), (iii) the net amount, if any, by which the consolidated deferred revenues and other consolidated accrued long-term liability accounts of Holdings, the Borrower and
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the Subsidiaries decreased during such fiscal year and (iv) the net amount, if any, by which the consolidated accrued long-term asset accounts of Holdings, the Borrower and the Subsidiaries increased during such fiscal year; minus
(e) the sum (without duplication) of (i) Capital Expenditures made in cash for such fiscal year (except to the extent attributable to the incurrence of Capital Lease Obligations or otherwise financed by incurring Long-Term Indebtedness (excluding Indebtedness in respect of the Revolving Loans), by issuing Equity Interests (other than to Holdings, the Borrower or any Subsidiary), through the receipt of capital contributions (other than capital contributions made by Holdings, the Borrower or any Subsidiary) or using the proceeds of any disposition of assets outside the ordinary course of business or other proceeds not included in clauses (a) through (c) above and (ii) cash consideration paid during such fiscal year to make Permitted Acquisitions, other investments or expenditures excluded from the definition of the term “Capital Expenditures” by virtue of clause (iv) or (v) of such definition or other capital investments and acquisitions (except, in each case, to the extent financed by incurring Long-Term Indebtedness (excluding Indebtedness in respect of the Revolving Loans), by issuing Equity Interests (other than to Holdings, the Borrower or any Subsidiary), through the receipt of capital contributions (other than capital contributions made by Holdings, the Borrower or any Subsidiary) or using the proceeds of any disposition of assets outside the ordinary course of business or other proceeds not included in clauses (a) through (c) above); minus
(f) the aggregate principal amount of Long-Term Indebtedness repaid or prepaid by the Borrower and the Subsidiaries during such fiscal year, excluding (i) Indebtedness in respect of Revolving Loans and Letters of Credit or other revolving credit facilities (unless there is a corresponding reduction in the aggregate Revolving Commitments or the commitments in respect of such other revolving credit facilities, as the case may be), (ii) Term Loans prepaid pursuant to Section 2.11(a), (c) or (d) and (iii) repayments or prepayments of Long-Term Indebtedness financed (A) by incurring other Long-Term Indebtedness, to the extent that repayments or prepayments in respect of such other Long-Term Indebtedness would, pursuant to this clause (f), be deducted in determining Excess Cash Flow when made, (B) by issuing Equity Interests (other than to Holdings, the Borrower or any Subsidiary), (C) through the receipt of capital contributions (other than capital contributions made by Holdings, the Borrower or any Subsidiary) or (D) using the proceeds of any disposition of assets outside the ordinary course of business or other proceeds not included in clauses (a) through (c) above; minus
(g) the aggregate amount of Restricted Payments made by the Borrower to Holdings in cash during such fiscal year pursuant to Section 6.08(a) (other than clause (vi), (ix) or (x) thereof), except to the extent that such Restricted Payments are made to fund expenditures that reduce Consolidated Net Income.
“Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
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“Exchange Rate” means, on any day, for purposes of determining the U.S. Dollar Equivalent of any other currency, the rate at which such other currency may be exchanged into U.S. Dollars at the time of determination on such day on the Reuters WRLD Page for such currency. In the event that such rate does not appear on any Reuters WRLD Page, the Exchange Rate shall be determined by reference to such other publicly available service for displaying exchange rates as may be agreed upon by the Administrative Agent and the Borrower, or, in the absence of such an agreement, such Exchange Rate shall instead be the arithmetic average of the spot rates of exchange of the Administrative Agent in the market where its foreign currency exchange operations in respect of such currency are then being conducted, at or about such time as the Administrative Agent shall elect after determining that such rates shall be the basis for determining the Exchange Rate, on such date for the purchase of U.S. Dollars for delivery two Business Days later, provided that if at the time of any such determination, for any reason, no such spot rate is being quoted, the Administrative Agent may use any reasonable method it deems appropriate to determine such rate, and such determination shall be conclusive absent manifest error.
“Excluded Subsidiary” means BK Family Fund, Inc., a Florida not-for-profit corporation, BK Card Company, Inc., a Florida corporation, and The Xxxxxxx Corporation, a New Mexico Corporation.
“Excluded Taxes” means, with respect to the Administrative Agent, any Lender, any Issuing Bank or any other recipient of any payment to be made by or on account of any obligation of the Borrower hereunder, (a) income or franchise taxes imposed on (or measured by) its net income by the United States of America, or by the jurisdiction under the laws of which such recipient is organized or in which its principal office is located or, in the case of any Lender, in which its applicable lending office is located, (b) with respect to each Lender, taxes imposed by reason of such Lender doing business in the jurisdiction imposing such tax, other than solely as a result of this Agreement or any transaction contemplated hereby, (c) any branch profits taxes imposed by the United States of America or any similar tax imposed by any other jurisdiction described in clause (a) above and (d) in the case of a Foreign Lender (other than an assignee pursuant to a request by the Borrower under Section 2.19(b)), any withholding tax that (i) is in effect and would apply to amounts payable to such Foreign Lender at the time such Foreign Lender becomes a party to this Agreement (or designates a new lending office), except to the extent that such Foreign Lender (or its assignor, if any) was entitled, at the time of designation of a new lending office (or assignment), to receive additional amounts from the Borrower with respect to any withholding tax pursuant to Section 2.17(a), or (ii) is attributable to such Foreign Lender’s failure to comply with Section 2.17(e) .
“Fair Labor Standards Act” means the Fair Labor Standards Act, 29 U.S.C. ss.201 et seq.
“Federal Funds Effective Rate” means, for any day, the weighted average (rounded upwards, if necessary, to the next 1/100 of 1%) of the rates on overnight Federal funds transactions with members of the Federal Reserve System arranged by
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Federal funds brokers, as published on the next succeeding Business Day by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, or, if such rate is not so published for any day that is a Business Day, the average (rounded upwards, if necessary, to the next 1/100 of 1%) of the quotations for such day for such transactions received by the Administrative Agent from three Federal funds brokers of recognized standing selected by it.
“Financial Officer” means the chief financial officer, principal accounting officer, treasurer or controller of the Borrower.
“Foreign Acquisition” means any Permitted Acquisition by the Borrower or a Subsidiary Loan Party of a Person that is not organized under the laws of the United States of America, any State thereof or the District of Columbia, and shall include, in the case of a Permitted Acquisition by the Borrower or a Subsidiary Loan Party of the Equity Interests of a Person that is organized under the laws of the United States of America, any State thereof or the District of Columbia, the indirect acquisition of any subsidiary of such Person that is not so organized and that is acquired as a result of such Permitted Acquisition (with the value of such indirect acquisition to be determined at the time such Permitted Acquisition is made in good faith by the Borrower based upon the fair value of such subsidiary).
“Foreign Lender” means any Lender that is organized under the laws of a jurisdiction other than that in which the Borrower is located. For purposes of this definition, the United States of America, each State thereof and the District of Columbia shall be deemed to constitute a single jurisdiction.
“Foreign Pledge Agreement” means a pledge or charge agreement with respect to the Collateral that constitutes Equity Interests of a Foreign Subsidiary, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.
“Foreign Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary that is organized under the laws of a jurisdiction other than the United States of America, any State thereof or the District of Columbia.
“Franchise Agreement” means each franchise agreement between the Borrower or any Subsidiary and a Franchisee.
“Franchisee” means any Person, other than Holdings, the Borrower or any Subsidiary, that owns and operates a restaurant that is branded as Burger King or Hungry Jack’s.
“GAAP” means generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America.
“Global Revolving Commitment” means, with respect to each Lender, the commitment, if any, of such Lender to make Global Revolving Loans and to acquire participations in Letters of Credit and Swingline Loans hereunder, expressed as an amount representing the maximum possible aggregate amount of such Lender’s Global Revolving Exposure hereunder, as such commitment may be (a) reduced from time to
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time pursuant to Section 2.08 and (b) reduced or increased from time to time pursuant to assignments by or to such Lender pursuant to Section 9.04. The initial amount of each Lender’s Global Revolving Commitment is set forth on Schedule 2.01, or in the Assignment and Assumption pursuant to which such Lender shall have assumed its Global Revolving Commitment, as the case may be. The initial aggregate amount of the Lenders’ Global Revolving Commitments on the Restatement Effective Date is $142,500,000.
“Global Revolving Exposure” means, at any time, the sum of (a) the aggregate principal amount of the Global Revolving Loans denominated in U.S. Dollars outstanding at such time, (b) the U.S. Dollar Equivalent of the aggregate principal amount of the Global Revolving Loans denominated in an Alternative Currency outstanding at such time, (c) the LC Exposure at such time and (d) the Swingline Exposure at such time. The Global Revolving Exposure of any Lender at any time shall be its Applicable Percentage of the Global Revolving Exposure at such time.
“Global Revolving Lender” means a Lender with a Global Revolving Commitment or, if the Global Revolving Commitments have terminated or expired, a Lender with Global Revolving Exposure.
“Global Revolving Loan” means a Loan made pursuant to clause (b)(i) of Section 2.01.
“Governmental Authority” means the government of the United States of America, any other nation or any political subdivision thereof, whether state or local, and any agency, authority, instrumentality, regulatory body, court, central bank or other entity exercising executive, legislative, judicial, taxing, regulatory or administrative powers or functions of or pertaining to government (including any supra-national bodies such as the European Union or the European Central Bank).
“Granting Lender” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 9.04(e) .
“Guarantee” of or by any Person (the “guarantor”) means any obligation, contingent or otherwise, of the guarantor guaranteeing or having the economic effect of guaranteeing any Indebtedness or other obligation of any other Person (the “primary obligor”) in any manner, whether directly or indirectly, and including any obligation of the guarantor, direct or indirect, (a) to purchase or pay (or advance or supply funds for the purchase or payment of) such Indebtedness or other obligation or to purchase (or to advance or supply funds for the purchase of) any security for the payment thereof, (b) to purchase or lease property, securities or services for the purpose of assuring the owner of such Indebtedness or other obligation of the payment thereof, (c) to maintain working capital, equity capital or any other financial statement condition or liquidity of the primary obligor so as to enable the primary obligor to pay such Indebtedness or other obligation or (d) as an account party in respect of any letter of credit or letter of guaranty issued to support such Indebtedness or obligation, provided, that the term Guarantee shall not include endorsements for collection or deposit in the ordinary course of business.
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“Hazardous Materials” means all explosive, radioactive, hazardous or toxic substances, materials, wastes or other pollutants, including petroleum or petroleum by-products or distillates, asbestos or asbestos-containing materials, polychlorinated biphenyls, radon gas, chlorofluorocarbons and other ozone-depleting substances or lead-based paint that are regulated pursuant to any Environmental Law.
“Holdings” means Burger King Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation.
“Incremental Facility Amendment” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.20(c) .
“Incremental Facility Closing Date” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.20(c) .
“Incremental Term Loans” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.20(a) .
“Indebtedness” of any Person means, without duplication, (a) all obligations of such Person for borrowed money, (b) all obligations of such Person evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes or similar instruments, (c) all obligations of such Person under conditional sale or other title retention agreements relating to property acquired by such Person, (d) all obligations of such Person in respect of the deferred purchase price of property or services (excluding trade accounts payable and other accrued obligations, in each case incurred in the ordinary course of business and not more than 90 days past due (unless being contested in good faith by appropriate actions)), (e) all Indebtedness of others secured by (or for which the holder of such Indebtedness has an existing right, contingent or otherwise, to be secured by) any Lien on property owned or acquired by such Person, whether or not the Indebtedness secured thereby has been assumed, (f) all Guarantees by such Person of Indebtedness of others, (g) all Capital Lease Obligations of such Person, (h) all obligations, contingent or otherwise, of such Person as an account party in respect of letters of credit and letters of guaranty, (i) all obligations, contingent or otherwise, of such Person in respect of bankers’ acceptances and (j) all obligations of such Person with respect to the redemption, repayment or other repurchase of any Disqualified Equity Interests. The Indebtedness of any Person shall include the Indebtedness of any other entity (including any partnership in which such Person is a general partner) to the extent such Person is liable therefor as a result of such Person’s ownership interest in or other relationship with such entity, except to the extent the terms of such Indebtedness provide that such Person is not liable therefor. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in connection with any Permitted Acquisition, the term “Indebtedness” shall not include contingent post-closing purchase price adjustments or earn-outs to which the seller in such Permitted Acquisition may become entitled.
“Indemnified Taxes” means Taxes other than Excluded Taxes.
“Information Memorandum” means the Confidential Information Memorandum dated January 2006, relating to the Borrower and the Restatement Transactions.
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“Interest Coverage Ratio” means, on any date, the ratio of (a) Consolidated EBITDA to (b) Consolidated Cash Interest Expense for the period of four consecutive fiscal quarters of the Borrower ended on such date (or, if such date is not the last day of a fiscal quarter, ended on the last day of the fiscal quarter of the Borrower most-recently ended prior to such date).
“Interest Election Request” means a request by the Borrower to convert or continue a Revolving Borrowing or Term Borrowing in accordance with Section 2.07.
“Interest Payment Date” means (a) with respect to any ABR Loan (including a Swingline Loan), the last day of each March, June, September and December and (b) with respect to any Eurocurrency Loan, the last day of the Interest Period applicable to the Borrowing of which such Loan is a part and, in the case of a Eurocurrency Borrowing with an Interest Period of more than three months’ duration, each day prior to the last day of such Interest Period that occurs at intervals of three months’ duration after the first day of such Interest Period.
“Interest Period” means, with respect to any Eurocurrency Borrowing, the period commencing on the date of such Borrowing and ending on the numerically corresponding day in the calendar month that is one, two, three or six months thereafter (or nine or twelve months thereafter if, at the time of the relevant Borrowing, all Lenders participating therein agree to make an interest period of such duration available), as the Borrower may elect, provided, that (a) if any Interest Period would end on a day other than a Business Day, such Interest Period shall be extended to the next succeeding Business Day unless such next succeeding Business Day would fall in the next calendar month, in which case such Interest Period shall end on the next preceding Business Day and (b) any Interest Period that commences on the last Business Day of a calendar month (or on a day for which there is no numerically corresponding day in the last calendar month of such Interest Period) shall end on the last Business Day of the last calendar month of such Interest Period. For purposes hereof, the date of a Borrowing initially shall be the date on which such Borrowing is made and thereafter shall be the effective date of the most recent conversion or continuation of such Borrowing.
“IPO” means a bona fide underwritten initial public offering of voting common Equity Interests of Holdings as a direct result of which at least 10% of the aggregate voting common Equity Interests of Holdings (calculated on a fully diluted basis taking into account all options or other rights to acquire voting common Equity Interests of Holdings then outstanding, regardless of whether such options or other rights are then currently exercisable) will be beneficially owned by Persons other than the Permitted Investors, Holdings and Affiliates of Holdings (including all directors, officers and employees of Holdings, the Borrower or any Subsidiary).
“Issuing Bank” means, as the context may require, (a) JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. and each other Issuing Bank designated by the Borrower as such pursuant to Section 2.05(k), in each case in its capacity as an issuer of Letters of Credit hereunder, and its successors in such capacity as provided in Section 2.05(i), and (b) with respect to each Original Letter of Credit, the Lender that issued such Original Letter of Credit. An
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Issuing Bank may, in its discretion, arrange for one or more Letters of Credit to be issued by Affiliates of such Issuing Bank, in which case the term “Issuing Bank” shall include any such Affiliate with respect to Letters of Credit issued by such Affiliate.
“LC Disbursement” means a payment made by an Issuing Bank pursuant to a Letter of Credit. The amount of any LC Disbursement made by an Issuing Bank in an Alternative Currency and not reimbursed by the Borrower shall be determined as set forth in paragraph (e) or (m) of Section 2.05, as applicable.
“LC Exposure” means, at any time, the sum of (a) the aggregate undrawn amount of all outstanding Letters of Credit denominated in U.S. Dollars at such time, (b) the U.S. Dollar Equivalent of the aggregate undrawn amount of all outstanding Alternative Currency Letters of Credit at such time, (c) the aggregate amount of all LC Disbursements made in U.S. Dollars that have not yet been reimbursed by or on behalf of the Borrower at such time and (d) the U.S. Dollar Equivalent of the aggregate amount of all LC Disbursements made in an Alternative Currency that have not yet been reimbursed by or on behalf of the Borrower at such time. The LC Exposure of any Global Revolving Lender at any time shall be its Applicable Percentage of the aggregate LC Exposure at such time.
“Lenders” means the Persons listed on Schedule 2.01, the Persons listed on Schedule 1 to the Amendment and Restatement Agreement and any other Person that shall have become a party hereto pursuant to Section 9.04 or Section 2.20, other than any such Person that ceases to be a party hereto pursuant to Section 9.04. Unless the context otherwise requires, the term “Lenders” includes the Swingline Lender.
“Letter of Credit” means any letter of credit issued pursuant to this Agreement or the 2005 Credit Agreement (including each Original Letter of Credit).
“Leverage Ratio” means, on any date, the ratio of (a) Total Indebtedness as of such date minus unrestricted cash and cash equivalents (determined in accordance with GAAP) of Holdings, the Borrower and the Subsidiaries in excess of $50,000,000, to (b) Consolidated EBITDA for the period of four consecutive fiscal quarters of the Borrower ended on such date (or, if such date is not the last day of a fiscal quarter, ended on the last day of the fiscal quarter of the Borrower most-recently ended prior to such date).
“LIBO Rate” means, with respect to any Eurocurrency Borrowing denominated in U.S. Dollars or Sterling for any Interest Period, the rate per annum determined by the Administrative Agent at approximately 11:00 a.m., London time, two Business Days prior to the commencement of such Interest Period (or on the date of the commencement of such Interest Period if such Eurocurrency Borrowing is denominated in Sterling) by reference to the British Bankers’ Association Interest Settlement Rates for deposits in the currency of such Eurocurrency Borrowing (as set forth by any service selected by the Administrative Agent that has been nominated by the British Bankers’ Association as an authorized information vendor for the purpose of displaying such rates) with a maturity comparable to such Interest Period. In the event that such rate is not
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available at such time for any reason, then the “LIBO Rate” with respect to such Eurocurrency Borrowing for such Interest Period shall be the interest rate per annum determined by the Administrative Agent to be the average of the rates per annum at which deposits in the currency of such Eurocurrency Borrowing are offered for a maturity comparable to such relevant Interest Period to major banks in the London interbank market in London, England, as selected by the Administrative Agent at approximately 11:00 a.m., London time, two Business Days prior to the commencement of such Interest Period (or on the date of the commencement of such Interest Period if such Eurocurrency Borrowing is denominated in Sterling).
“Lien” means, with respect to any asset, (a) any mortgage, deed of trust, lien, pledge, hypothecation, encumbrance, charge or security interest in, on or of such asset, (b) the interest of a vendor or a lessor under any conditional sale agreement, capital lease or title retention agreement (or any financing lease having substantially the same economic effect as any of the foregoing) relating to such asset and (c) in the case of securities, any purchase option, call or similar right of a third party with respect to such securities.
“Loan Document Obligations” has the meaning assigned to such term in the Collateral Agreement.
“Loan Documents” means this Agreement, the Amendment and Restatement Agreement, any Incremental Facility Amendment, the Collateral Agreement and the other Security Documents.
“Loan Parties” means Holdings, the Borrower and the Subsidiary Loan Parties.
“Loans” means the loans made by the Lenders to the Borrower pursuant to this Agreement, and any loans made by the Lenders to the Borrowers that are outstanding under the 2005 Credit Agreement on the Restatement Effective Date (which loans shall remain outstanding hereunder on the terms set forth herein, except as otherwise provided herein and in the Amendment and Restatement Agreement with respect to the Original Tranche B Term Loans).
“Long-Term Indebtedness” means any Indebtedness (excluding Indebtedness permitted by Section 6.01(a)(iii)) that, in accordance with GAAP, constitutes (or, when incurred, constituted) a long-term liability.
“Material Adverse Effect” means a material adverse effect on (a) the business, operations or financial condition of Holdings, the Borrower and the Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, (b) the ability of any Loan Party to perform any of its material obligations under any Loan Document or (c) the rights of or benefits available to the Lenders under any Loan Document.
“Material Indebtedness” means Indebtedness (other than the Loans and Letters of Credit), or obligations in respect of one or more Swap Agreements, of any one or more of Holdings, the Borrower and the Subsidiaries in an aggregate principal amount
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exceeding $20,000,000. For purposes of determining Material Indebtedness, the “principal amount” of the obligations of Holdings, the Borrower or any Subsidiary in respect of any Swap Agreement at any time shall be the maximum aggregate amount (giving effect to any netting agreements) that Holdings, the Borrower or such Subsidiary would be required to pay if such Swap Agreement were terminated at such time.
“Moody’s” means Xxxxx’x Investors Service, Inc.
“Multiemployer Plan” means a multiemployer plan as defined in Section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA.
“Net Proceeds” means, with respect to any event, (a) the cash proceeds received in respect of such event, including (i) any cash received in respect of any non-cash proceeds (including any cash payments received by way of deferred payment of principal pursuant to a note or installment receivable or purchase price adjustment or earn-out, but excluding any reasonable interest payments), but only as and when received, (ii) in the case of a casualty, insurance proceeds, and (iii) in the case of a condemnation or similar event, condemnation awards and similar payments, minus (b) the sum of (i) all reasonable fees and out-of-pocket expenses paid by Holdings, the Borrower and the Subsidiaries to third parties (other than Subsidiaries) in connection with such event, (ii) in the case of a sale, transfer or other disposition of an asset (including pursuant to a Sale and Leaseback Transaction or a casualty or a condemnation or similar proceeding), the amount of all payments that are permitted hereunder and are made by Holdings, the Borrower and the Subsidiaries as a result of such event to repay Indebtedness (other than Loans) secured by such asset or otherwise subject to mandatory prepayment as a result of such event, (iii) the amount of all taxes paid (or reasonably estimated to be payable) by Holdings, the Borrower and the Subsidiaries, and the amount of any reserves established by Holdings, the Borrower and the Subsidiaries to fund contingent liabilities reasonably estimated to be payable, in each case during the year that such event occurred or the next succeeding year and that are directly attributable to such event (as determined reasonably and in good faith by the Borrower), provided that any reduction at any time in the amount of any such reserves (other than as a result of payments made in respect thereof) shall be deemed to constitute the receipt by the Borrower at such time of Net Proceeds in the amount of such reduction, and (iv) in the case of a sale, transfer or other disposition of an asset that is consummated substantially concurrently with the acquisition of the same asset, the aggregate cash consideration paid to acquire such asset.
“Net Working Capital” means, at any date, (a) the consolidated current assets of Holdings, the Borrower and the Subsidiaries as of such date (excluding cash and Permitted Investments) minus (b) the consolidated current liabilities of Holdings, the Borrower and the Subsidiaries as of such date (excluding current liabilities in respect of Indebtedness). Net Working Capital at any date may be a positive or negative number. Net Working Capital increases when it becomes more positive or less negative and decreases when it becomes less positive or more negative.
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“Non-Consenting Lender” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 9.02(c) ..
“Obligations” has the meaning assigned to such term in the Collateral Agreement.
“OECD Country” means any member country of the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development.
“Original Credit Agreement” means the Credit Agreement among the Borrower, Diageo plc, Diageo Finance plc, Diageo Enterprises, JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. (formerly JPMorgan Chase Bank), as facility agent, the Lenders party thereto and others named therein (as amended, supplemented, restated or otherwise modified), which Credit Agreement was replaced by the 2005 Credit Agreement as of the Effective Date.
“Original Letters of Credit” means each letter of credit previously issued for the account of, or guaranteed by, the Borrower pursuant to the Original Credit Agreement that (a) is outstanding on the Restatement Effective Date and (b) is listed on Schedule 1.01.
“Original Tranche B Term Loans” means the Tranche B term loans under the 2005 Credit Agreement that are outstanding on the Restatement Effective Date (which loans shall be converted into Tranche B-1 Term Loans or prepaid in full on the Restatement Effective Date, as contemplated by the Amendment and Restatement Agreement and Section 5.10) . As of the Restatement Effective Date and prior to such prepayment or conversion, the aggregate outstanding principal amount of the Original Tranche B Term Loans is $746,250,000.
“Organizational Documents” means, with respect to any Person, the charter, articles or certificate of organization or incorporation and bylaws or other organizational or governing documents of such Person.
“Other Taxes” means any and all present or future recording, stamp, documentary, excise, transfer, sales, property or similar taxes, charges or levies arising from any payment made under any Loan Document or from the execution, delivery or enforcement of, or otherwise with respect to, any Loan Document.
“Participant” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 9.04(c) .
“PBGC” means the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation referred to and defined in ERISA and any successor entity performing similar functions.
“Perfection Certificate” means a certificate in the form of Exhibit D or any other form approved by the Administrative Agent.
“Permitted Acquisition” means any acquisition by the Borrower or a wholly owned Subsidiary of any restaurant (whether through the acquisition of real property or assets, from a Franchisee or otherwise) or all the outstanding Equity Interests
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(other than directors’ qualifying shares and shares required by applicable law to be issued to nationals or citizens) in, all or substantially all the assets of, or all or substantially all the assets constituting a division or line of business of, a Person if (a) such acquisition was not preceded by, or consummated pursuant to, a hostile offer (including a proxy contest), (b) no Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, (c) such acquisition and all transactions related thereto are consummated in accordance with applicable material laws, (d) all actions required to be taken with respect to any acquired or newly formed Subsidiary under Sections 5.11 and 5.12 shall have been taken, (e) the Borrower is in compliance, on a Pro Forma Basis after giving effect to such acquisition as of the last day of the most-recently ended fiscal quarter of the Borrower for which financial statements have been delivered pursuant to Section 5.01(a) or (b), with the covenants contained in Section 6.13, (f) after giving effect to such acquisition, the Borrower shall have no less than $100,000,000 of aggregate cash and cash equivalents and unused and available Revolving Commitments, (g) the business of such Person or such assets, as the case may be, constitutes a business permitted by Section 6.03(b) and (i) in the case of any acquisition resulting in cash consideration in excess of $15,000,000, the Borrower has delivered to the Administrative Agent a certificate of a Financial Officer to the effect set forth in clauses (a), (b), (c), (d), (e), (f) and (g) above, together with all relevant available financial information for the Person or assets to be acquired and setting forth reasonably detailed calculations demonstrating compliance with clause (e) above.
“Permitted Encumbrances” means:
(a) Liens imposed by law for taxes, assessments or other governmental charges that are not yet due or are being contested in compliance with Section 5.05;
(b) carriers’, warehousemen’s, mechanics’, materialmen’s, repairmen’s, landlords’ and other like Liens imposed by law, arising in the ordinary course of business and securing obligations that are not overdue by more than 60 days or are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings and, in the case of material obligations, in compliance with Section 5.05;
(c) pledges and deposits made, and other Liens incurred, in the ordinary course of business in compliance with workers’ compensation, unemployment insurance and other social security laws or regulations;
(d) deposits and other Liens incurred to secure the performance of bids, trade contracts, leases, statutory obligations, surety and appeal bonds, performance bonds and other obligations of a like nature, in each case in the ordinary course of business;
(e) judgment liens in respect of judgments that do not constitute an Event of Default under clause (k) of Article VII;
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(f) easements, zoning restrictions, rights-of-way and similar encumbrances on real property imposed by law or arising in the ordinary course of business that do not secure any monetary obligations and do not interfere with the ordinary conduct of business of the Borrower or any Subsidiary; and
(g) Liens arising from Permitted Investments described in clause (d) of the definition of the term “Permitted Investments”,
provided that the term “Permitted Encumbrances” shall not include any Lien securing Indebtedness (other than pursuant to clause (d) above).
“Permitted Investments” means:
(a) direct obligations of, or obligations the principal of and interest on which are unconditionally guaranteed by, the United States of America, any State thereof or any political subdivision of any such State or any OECD Country (or by any agency of the United States of America or any OECD Country to the extent such obligations are backed by the full faith and credit of the United States of America or such OECD Country, as the case may be), in each case maturing within one year from the date of acquisition thereof;
(b) investments in commercial paper maturing within one year from the date of acquisition thereof and having, at such date of acquisition, one of the two highest credit ratings obtainable from S&P or from Moody’s;
(c) investments in certificates of deposit, banker’s acceptances and time or demand deposits maturing within one year from the date of acquisition thereof issued or guaranteed by or placed with, and money market deposit accounts issued or offered by, any office of any commercial bank organized under the laws of the United States of America or any State thereof or any OECD Country that has a combined capital and surplus and undivided profits of not less than $100,000,000;
(d) fully collateralized repurchase agreements with a term of not more than 30 days for securities described in clause (a) above and entered into with a financial institution satisfying the criteria described in clause (c) above;
(e) investments in “money market funds” within the meaning of Rule 2a-7 of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, substantially all of whose assets are invested in investments of the type described in clauses (a) through (d) above; and
(f) foreign investments substantially comparable to any of the foregoing in connection with managing cash of any Subsidiary having operations in a foreign country.
“Permitted Investors” means the Sponsors and any Sponsor Affiliate.
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“Permitted Sale and Leaseback Transaction” means any Sale and Leaseback Transaction by the Borrower or any Subsidiary that is made for cash consideration in an amount not less than the fair value of the fixed or capital assets that are sold or transferred pursuant to such Sale and Leaseback Transaction if (x) such Sale and Leaseback Transaction, together with all other Sale and Leaseback Transactions made pursuant to this clause (x), does not result in aggregate Net Cash Proceeds in excess of $2,500,000 in any fiscal year or (y) (a) immediately before and after giving effect thereto, no Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, (b)(i) the Borrower is in compliance on a Pro Forma Basis after giving effect to such Sale and Leaseback Transaction and the application of the proceeds therefrom with the covenants contained in Sections 6.12 and 6.13, recomputed as of the last day of the most-recently ended fiscal quarter of the Borrower prior to such Sale and Leaseback Transaction for which financial statements have been delivered pursuant to Section 5.01(a) or (b), and (ii) the Rent-Adjusted Leverage Ratio, after giving effect to such Sale and Leaseback Transaction and the application of the proceeds therefrom, recomputed on a Pro Forma Basis as of the last day of the most-recently ended fiscal quarter of the Borrower prior to such Sale and Leaseback Transaction for which financial statements have been delivered pursuant to Section 5.01(a) or (b), is either (x) less than 3.00 to 1.00 or (y) not greater than the Rent-Adjusted Leverage Ratio recomputed on a Pro Forma Basis as of such date without giving effect to such Sale and Leaseback Transaction and the application of the proceeds therefrom, (c) the Borrower complies with Section 2.11(c)(ii) and (d) the Borrower has, in the case of any Sale and Leaseback Transaction resulting in cash consideration in excess of $15,000,000, delivered to the Administrative Agent a certificate of a Financial Officer to such effect, together with all relevant financial information reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent, including reasonably detailed calculations demonstrating compliance with clauses (b) and (c) above.
“Person” means any natural person, corporation, limited liability company, trust, joint venture, association, company, partnership, Governmental Authority or other entity.
“PIK Notes” means the $533,780,019.85 aggregate principal amount of pay-in-kind notes issued by Holdings, all of which are held as of the Effective Date by Gramet Holdings Corp., an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Diageo plc, certain independent directors of Holdings and the Sponsor Affiliates that own Equity Interests of Holdings.
“Plan” means any employee pension benefit plan (other than a Multiemployer Plan) subject to the provisions of Title IV of ERISA or Section 412 of the Code or Section 302 of ERISA, and in respect of which the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate is an “employer” as defined in Section 3(5) of ERISA.
“Prepayment Event” means:
(a) any sale, transfer or other disposition (including pursuant to a Sale and Leaseback Transaction (other than a Permitted Sale and Leaseback Transaction) and by way of merger or consolidation) of any property or asset of Holdings, the
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Borrower or any Subsidiary, other than dispositions permitted by clauses (a), (b), (c), (f), (g), (h), (i) and (j) of Section 6.05; or
(b) any casualty or other insured damage to, or any taking under power of eminent domain or by condemnation or similar proceeding of, any property or asset of Holdings, the Borrower or any Subsidiary with a fair market value immediately prior to such event equal to or greater than $5,000,000;
(c) the incurrence by Holdings, the Borrower or any Subsidiary of any Indebtedness, other than Indebtedness permitted under Section 6.01 (except as required by Section 6.01(a)(xi)(A)(1)(y)) or permitted by the Required Lenders pursuant to Section 9.02; and
(d) any Permitted Sale and Leaseback Transaction.
“Prime Rate” means the rate of interest per annum publicly announced from time to time by JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. as its prime rate in effect at its principal office in New York City; each change in the Prime Rate shall be effective from and including the date such change is publicly announced as being effective.
“Pro Forma Basis” means, with respect to the calculation of the Leverage Ratio, the Interest Coverage Ratio or the Rent-Adjusted Leverage Ratio as of any date, that such calculation shall give pro forma effect to all Permitted Acquisitions, all Permitted Sale and Leaseback Transactions, all issuances, incurrences or assumptions of Indebtedness (with any such Indebtedness being deemed to be amortized over the applicable testing period in accordance with its terms) and all sales, transfers or other dispositions of any material assets outside the ordinary course of business, in each case that have occurred during (or, if such calculation is being made for the purpose of determining whether any proposed acquisition will constitute a Permitted Acquisition, whether any proposed Sale and Leaseback Transaction will constitute a Permitted Sale and Leaseback Transaction, the extent of any prepayment pursuant to Section 2.11(c)(ii), whether any Capital Expenditure is permitted under Section 6.14 or whether any Incremental Term Loans may be made, since the beginning of) the four consecutive fiscal quarter period of the Borrower most-recently ended on or prior to such date as if they occurred on the first day of such four consecutive fiscal quarter period (including cost savings to the extent such cost savings would be permitted to be reflected in pro forma financial information complying with the requirements of GAAP and Article XI of Regulation S-X under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, as interpreted by the Staff of the SEC, and as certified by a Financial Officer).
“Proposed Change” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 9.02(c) .
“Qualified Equity Interests” means Equity Interests of Holdings other than Disqualified Equity Interests.
“Reaffirmation Agreement” means the Reaffirmation Agreement, entered into in connection with the Amendment and Restatement Agreement, attached hereto as
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Exhibit F, among Holdings, the Borrower and the other Reaffirming Parties (as defined therein), as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time.
“Register” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 9.04(b) .
“Related Parties” means, with respect to any specified Person, such Person’s Affiliates and the respective directors, officers, employees, agents, trustees and advisors of such Person and such Person’s Affiliates.
“Release” means any release, spill, emission, leaking, dumping, injection, pouring, deposit, disposal, discharge, dispersal, leaching or migration into or through the environment (including ambient air, surface water, groundwater, land surface or subsurface strata) or within or upon any building, structure, facility or fixture.
“Rent-Adjusted Leverage Ratio” means, as of any date, the ratio of (a) the sum of (i) an amount equal to eight times Consolidated Rental Expense for the most recent period of four consecutive fiscal quarters ending on the date of the most-recently ended fiscal quarter of the Borrower for which financial statements have been delivered pursuant to Section 5.01(a) or (b)) and (ii) Total Indebtedness as of the last day of such period to (b) Consolidated EBITDAR for such period.
“Required Lenders” means, at any time, Lenders having Revolving Exposures, Term Loans and unused Commitments (other than Swingline Commitments) representing more than 50% of the aggregate Revolving Exposures, outstanding Term Loans and unused Commitments (other than Swingline Commitments) at such time.
“Requirement of Law” means, with respect to any Person, any statute, law, treaty, rule, regulation, order, decree, writ, injunction or determination of any arbitrator or 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.
“Restatement Effective Date” has the meaning assigned to such term in the Amendment and Restatement Agreement.
“Restatement Transactions” means the execution and delivery of the Amendment and Restatement Agreement by each Person party thereto, the satisfaction of the conditions to the effectiveness thereof and the consummation of the transactions contemplated thereby, including the borrowing of the Tranche B-1 Term Loans, the conversion of the Original Tranche B Term Loans and the use of proceeds of the Tranche B-1 Term Loans funded by the Tranche B-1 Lenders (and not converted), together with the Cash Amount, to (i) prepay in full the outstanding Original Tranche B Term Loans on the Restatement Effective Date and (ii) pay a dividend to holders of common share Equity Interests in Holdings, and make payments to holders of options to acquire common share Equity Interests in Holdings and restricted share unit awards issued by Holdings, in an aggregate amount of up to $400,000,000.
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“Restricted Payment” means any dividend or other distribution (whether in cash, securities or other property) with respect to any Equity Interests in Holdings, the Borrower or any Subsidiary, or any payment (whether in cash, securities or other property), including any sinking fund or similar deposit, on account of the purchase, redemption, retirement, acquisition, cancelation or termination of any Equity Interests in Holdings, the Borrower or any Subsidiary or any option, warrant or other right to acquire any such Equity Interests in Holdings, the Borrower or any Subsidiary, or any other payment (including any payment under any Swap Agreement) that has a substantially similar effect to any of the foregoing.
“Revolving Availability Period” means the period from and including the Effective Date to but excluding the earlier of the Revolving Maturity Date and the date of termination of the Revolving Commitments.
“Revolving Borrowing” means a Borrowing comprised of Revolving Loans.
“Revolving Commitment” means, with respect to each Lender, the sum of such Lender’s Global Revolving Commitment and such Lender’s U.S. Revolving Commitment.
“Revolving Exposure” means, at any time, the sum of the aggregate Global Revolving Exposures and the aggregate U.S. Revolving Exposures. The Revolving Exposure of any Lender at any time shall be the sum of its Global Revolving Exposure and its U.S. Revolving Exposure at such time.
“Revolving Lender” means a Lender with a Revolving Commitment or, if the Revolving Commitments have terminated or expired, a Lender with Revolving Exposure.
“Revolving Loan” means a Global Revolving Loan or a U.S. Revolving Loan.
“Revolving Maturity Date” means June 30, 2011.
“S&P” means Standard & Poor’s Ratings Group, Inc.
“Sale and Leaseback Transaction” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 6.06.
“SEC” means the Securities and Exchange Commission or any Governmental Authority succeeding to any of its principal functions.
“Security Documents” means the Collateral Agreement, the Foreign Pledge Agreements, the Reaffirmation Agreement and each other security agreement or other instrument or document executed and delivered pursuant to any of the foregoing or pursuant to Section 5.11 or 5.12 to secure any of the Obligations.
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“Significant Subsidiary” means, at any date of determination, any Subsidiary with assets having an aggregate fair market value of $2,500,000 or more at such date.
“SPV” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 9.04(e) .
“Sponsor” means each of Texas Pacific Group, Xxxx Capital and Xxxxxxx Sachs Capital Partners L.P.
“Sponsor Affiliate” means any Affiliate of a Sponsor other than (a) Holdings, the Borrower and the Subsidiaries and (b) any other operating company or a Person controlled by such an operating company.
“Statutory Reserve Rate” means, with respect to any currency, a fraction (expressed as a decimal), the numerator of which is the number one and the denominator of which is the number one minus the aggregate of the maximum reserve, liquid asset, fees or similar requirements (including any marginal, special, emergency or supplemental reserves or other requirements) established by any central bank, monetary authority, the Board, the Financial Services Authority, the European Central Bank or other Governmental Authority for any category of deposits or liabilities customarily used to fund loans in such currency, expressed in the case of each such requirement as a decimal. Such reserve percentages shall, in the case of U.S. Dollar denominated Loans, include those imposed pursuant to Regulation D of the Board. For purposes of this definition, Eurocurrency Loans shall be deemed to constitute eurocurrency funding and to be subject to such reserve, liquid asset or similar requirements without benefit of or credit for proration, exemptions or offsets that may be available from time to time to any Lender under such Regulation D or any comparable law, rule or regulation. The Statutory Reserve Rate shall be adjusted automatically on and as of the effective date of any change in any reserve, liquid asset or similar requirement.
“Sterling” or “£” refers to lawful money of the United Kingdom.
“Subordinated Debt” means unsecured Indebtedness of Holdings or the Borrower (other than intercompany Indebtedness) that (a) does not require any scheduled payment of principal (including pursuant to a sinking fund obligation) or mandatory redemption or redemption at the option of the holders thereof (except for redemptions in respect of asset sales and changes in control on terms that are market terms on the date of issuance) prior to the date that is 180 days after the Tranche B-1 Maturity Date or, if such Indebtedness is incurred after the Borrower has obtained any Incremental Term Loans or while any Commitments from Additional Lenders to make Incremental Term Loans remain in effect, 180 days after the maturity date for such Incremental Term Loans, unless all such Incremental Term Loans have been repaid in full and all Commitments in respect thereof have been terminated, (b) contains subordination and guarantee release provisions that are reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, (c) contains other terms (including covenants, events of default, remedies, redemption provisions and change of control provisions) that are market terms on the date of issuance (as determined in good faith by the Borrower) or are not materially more restrictive than the covenants
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and events of default contained in this Agreement, provided that the terms of such Indebtedness shall not in any case require the maintenance or achievement of any financial performance standards other than as a condition to the taking of specified actions, and (d) bears interest at a fixed rate that is a market rate of interest on the date of issuance of such Indebtedness as determined by the Borrower in good faith.
“Subordinated Debt Documents” means the indenture or indentures under which any Subordinated Debt is issued, all side letters, instruments, agreements and other documents evidencing or governing any Subordinated Debt, providing for any Guarantee or other right in respect thereof, affecting the terms of the foregoing or entered into in connection therewith and all schedules, exhibits and annexes to each of the foregoing.
“Subordinated Refinancing Indebtedness” means any Subordinated Debt issued to refinance, redeem or repurchase (collectively, “refinance”) any other Subordinated Debt, provided that such Subordinated Debt is in an aggregate principal amount not more than the aggregate principal amount of the Subordinated Debt being refinanced (plus any accrued but unpaid interest or premium thereon, provided that such premium is either payable by the terms of the Subordinated Debt being refinanced or is not more than a market premium at the time as determined in good faith by the Borrower).
“subsidiary” means, with respect to any Person (the “parent”) at any date, any corporation, limited liability company, partnership, association or other entity the accounts of which would be consolidated with those of the parent in the parent’s consolidated financial statements if such financial statements were prepared in accordance with GAAP as of such date, as well as any other corporation, limited liability company, partnership, association or other entity (a) of which securities or other ownership interests representing more than 50% of the equity or more than 50% of the ordinary voting power or, in the case of a partnership, more than 50% of the general partnership interests are, as of such date, owned, controlled or held, or (b) that is, as of such date, otherwise Controlled, by the parent or one or more subsidiaries of the parent or by the parent and one or more subsidiaries of the parent.
“Subsidiary” means any subsidiary of the Borrower.
“Subsidiary Loan Party” means any Subsidiary that is not a Foreign Subsidiary or an Excluded Subsidiary.
“Swap Agreement” means any agreement with respect to any swap, forward, future or derivative transaction or option or similar agreement involving, or settled by reference to, one or more rates, currencies, commodities, equity or debt instruments or securities, or economic, financial or pricing indices or measures of economic, financial or pricing risk or value or any similar transaction or any combination of these transactions, provided that no phantom stock or similar plan providing for payments only on account of services provided by current or former directors, officers, employees or consultants of Holdings, the Borrower or the Subsidiaries shall be a Swap Agreement.
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“Swingline Borrowing” means a Borrowing comprised of Swingline Loans.
“Swingline Commitment” means the commitment of the Swingline Lender to make Swingline Loans.
“Swingline Exposure” means, at any time, the aggregate principal amount of all Swingline Loans outstanding at such time. The Swingline Exposure of any Global Revolving Lender at any time shall be its Applicable Percentage of the Swingline Exposure at such time.
“Swingline Lender” means JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., in its capacity as lender of Swingline Loans hereunder.
“Swingline Loan” means a Loan made pursuant to Section 2.04.
“Syndication Agent” means Citicorp North America, Inc., in its capacity as syndication agent for the Lenders hereunder, and its successors in such capacity.
“Taxes” means any and all present or future taxes, levies, imposts, duties, deductions, charges or withholdings imposed by any Governmental Authority.
“Term Borrowing” means a Borrowing comprised of Term Loans.
“Term Commitments” means the Tranche B-1 Commitments and any commitments to make Incremental Term Loans.
“Term Lenders” means the Tranche A Lenders, the Tranche B-1 Lenders and any Lenders with an outstanding Incremental Term Loan or a Commitment to make an Incremental Term Loan.
“Term Loans” means the Tranche A Term Loans, the Tranche B-1 Term Loans and any Incremental Term Loans.
“Total Indebtedness” means, as of any date, the aggregate principal amount of Indebtedness of Holdings, the Borrower and the Subsidiaries outstanding as of such date, determined on a consolidated basis, provided that for purposes of this definition the term “Indebtedness” shall not include (a) contingent obligations of Holdings, the Borrower or any Subsidiary as an account party or applicant in respect of any letter of credit, letter of guaranty or bankers’ acceptance unless such letter of credit, letter of guaranty or bankers’ acceptance supports an obligation that constitutes Indebtedness, (b) Indebtedness incurred pursuant to Section 6.01(a)(vii), (viii), (ix) or (x) or (c) obligations in respect of Disqualified Equity Interests that constitute Disqualified Equity Interests solely by virtue of clause (a) of the definition thereof.
“Tranche A Lender” means a Lender with an outstanding Tranche A Term Loan.
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“Tranche A Maturity Date” means June 30, 2011.
“Tranche A Term Loans” means the Tranche A term loans under the 2005 Credit Agreement that are outstanding on the Restatement Effective Date (which loans shall remain outstanding hereunder on the terms set forth herein). On the Restatement Effective Date, the aggregate outstanding principal amount of the Tranche A Term Loans is $250,000,000.
“Tranche B-1 Commitment” means, with respect to each Lender, the commitment, if any, of such Lender under the Amendment and Restatement Agreement to make a Tranche B-1 Term Loan hereunder on the Restatement Effective Date, expressed as an amount representing the maximum principal amount of the Tranche B-1 Term Loan to be made by such Lender hereunder. The initial amount of each Lender’s Tranche B-1 Commitment is as set forth on Schedule 1 to the Amendment and Restatement Agreement. The initial aggregate amount of the Lenders’ Tranche B-1 Commitments on the Restatement Effective Date is $1,096,250,000.
“Tranche B-1 Lender” means a Lender with a Tranche B-1 Commitment or an outstanding Tranche B-1 Term Loan.
“Tranche B-1 Maturity Date” means June 30, 2012.
“Tranche B-1 Term Loans” means Loans made pursuant to clause (a) of Section 2.01 and the Amendment and Restatement Agreement.
“Transactions” means (a) the execution, delivery and performance by each Loan Party of the Loan Documents to which it is to be a party, the borrowing of Loans, the use of the proceeds thereof and the issuance of Letters of Credit hereunder, (b) the repayment in full of all obligations under the Original Credit Agreement, the termination of all commitments and guarantee and other obligations thereunder and the release of all liens in respect thereof, (c) the repayment of the entire amount of outstanding PIK Notes, (d) the Restatement Transactions and (e) the payment of the Transaction Costs.
“Transaction Costs” means all fees, costs and expenses incurred or payable by Holdings, the Borrower or any Subsidiary in connection with the Transactions.
“Type”, when used in reference to any Loan or Borrowing, refers to whether the rate of interest on such Loan, or on the Loans comprising such Borrowing, is determined by reference to the Adjusted Eurocurrency Rate or the Alternate Base Rate.
“U.S. Dollars” or “$” refers to lawful money of the United States of America.
“U.S. Dollar Equivalent” means, on any date of determination, (a) with respect to any amount in U.S. Dollars, such amount, and (b) with respect to any amount in any other currency, the equivalent in U.S. Dollars of such amount, determined by the
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Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 1.06 using the Exchange Rate with respect to such currency at the time in effect under the provisions of such Section.
“U.S. Revolving Commitment” means, with respect to each Lender, the commitment, if any, of such Lender to make U.S. Revolving Loans, expressed as an amount representing the maximum possible aggregate amount of such Lender’s U.S. Revolving Exposure hereunder, as such commitment may be (a) reduced from time to time pursuant to Section 2.08 and (b) reduced or increased from time to time pursuant to assignments by or to such Lender pursuant to Section 9.04. The initial amount of each Lender’s U.S. Revolving Commitment is set forth on Schedule 2.01, or in the Assignment and Assumption pursuant to which such Lender shall have assumed its U.S. Revolving Commitment, as the case may be. The initial aggregate amount of the Lenders’ U.S. Revolving Commitments on the Restatement Effective Date is $7,500,000.
“U.S. Revolving Exposure” means, at any time, the aggregate principal amount of the U.S. Revolving Loans outstanding at such time. The U.S. Revolving Exposure of any Lender at any time shall be its Applicable Percentage of the U.S. Revolving Exposure at such time.
“U.S. Revolving Lender” means a Lender with a U.S. Revolving Commitment or, if the U.S. Revolving Commitments have terminated or expired, a Lender with U.S. Revolving Exposure.
“U.S. Revolving Loan” means a Loan made pursuant to clause (b)(ii) of Section 2.01.
“wholly owned Subsidiary” means, with respect to any Person at any date, a subsidiary of such Person of which securities or other ownership interests representing 100% of the Equity Interests (other than directors’ qualifying shares and shares required by applicable law to be issued to nationals or citizens) are, as of such date, owned, controlled or held 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.
“Withdrawal Liability” means liability to a Multiemployer Plan as a result of a complete or partial withdrawal from such Multiemployer Plan, as such terms are defined in Part I of Subtitle E of Title IV of ERISA.
SECTION 1.02. Classification of Loans and Borrowings. For purposes of this Agreement, Loans may be classified and referred to by Class (e.g., a “Revolving Loan”) or by Type (e.g., a “Eurocurrency Loan”) or by Class and Type (e.g., a “Eurocurrency Revolving Loan”). Borrowings also may be classified and referred to by Class (e.g., a “Revolving Borrowing”) or by Type (e.g., a “Eurocurrency Borrowing”) or by Class and Type ( e.g., a “Eurocurrency Revolving Borrowing”).
SECTION 1.03. Terms Generally. The definitions of terms herein shall apply equally to the singular and plural forms of the terms defined. Whenever the context may require, any pronoun shall include the corresponding masculine, feminine and neuter forms. The words “include”, “includes” and “including” shall be deemed to
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be followed by the phrase “without limitation”. The word “will” shall be construed to have the same meaning and effect as the word “shall”. Unless the context requires otherwise, (a) any definition of or reference to any agreement, instrument or other document herein shall be construed as referring to such agreement, instrument or other document as from time to time amended, amended and restated, supplemented or otherwise modified (subject to any restrictions on such amendments, supplements or modifications set forth herein), (b) any reference herein to any Person shall be construed to include such Person’s successors and assigns, (c) the words “herein”, “hereof” and “hereunder”, and words of similar import, shall be construed to refer to this Agreement in its entirety and not to any particular provision hereof, (d) all references herein to Articles, Sections, Exhibits and Schedules shall be construed to refer to Articles and Sections of, and Exhibits and Schedules to, this Agreement and (e) the words “asset” and “property” shall be construed to have the same meaning and effect and to refer to any and all tangible and intangible assets and properties, including cash, securities, accounts and contract rights.
SECTION 1.04. Accounting Terms; GAAP. Except as otherwise expressly provided herein, all terms of an accounting or financial nature shall be construed in accordance with GAAP, as in effect from time to time, provided that, if the Borrower notifies the Administrative Agent that the Borrower requests an amendment to any provision (including any definition) hereof to eliminate the effect of any change occurring after the Effective Date in GAAP or in the application thereof on the operation of such provision (or if the Administrative Agent notifies the Borrower that the Required Lenders request an amendment to any provision hereof for such purpose), regardless of whether any such notice is given before or after such change in GAAP or in the application thereof, then such provision shall be interpreted on the basis of GAAP as in effect and applied immediately before such change shall have become effective until such notice shall have been withdrawn or such provision amended in accordance herewith.
SECTION 1.05. Pro Forma Calculations. With respect to any period during which any Permitted Acquisition, any Permitted Sale and Leaseback Transaction or any sale, transfer or other disposition of any material assets outside the ordinary course of business occurs, calculations of the Leverage Ratio, the Interest Coverage Ratio and the Rent-Adjusted Leverage Ratio with respect to such period shall be made on a Pro Forma Basis.
SECTION 1.06. Currency Translation. (a) For purposes of determining compliance as of any date with Section 6.01, 6.02, 6.03, 6.05, 6.07, 6.08, 6.09 or 6.14, or for purposes of making any determination under paragraph (f), (g), (k) or (l) of Article VII, amounts incurred or outstanding in currencies other than U.S. Dollars shall be translated into U.S. Dollars at the exchange rates in effect on the last Business Day of the fiscal quarter immediately preceding the fiscal quarter in which such determination occurs or in respect of which such determination is being made, as such exchange rates shall be determined in good faith by the Borrower by reference to customary indices, provided that if any Indebtedness is incurred to refinance other Indebtedness denominated in a currency other than U.S. Dollars, and such refinancing would cause the applicable U.S. Dollar-denominated restriction to be exceeded if calculated at the
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relevant currency exchange rate in effect on the date of such refinancing, the limitation on the permitted amount of such Indebtedness will be deemed not to have been exceeded so long as the principal amount of such refinancing Indebtedness does not exceed the principal amount of such Indebtedness being refinanced (and, for the purposes of this proviso, if refinancing Indebtedness is to be incurred in a different currency from the Indebtedness being refinanced, the principal amount of such refinancing Indebtedness and the Indebtedness being refinanced will be calculated based on the currency exchange rate in effect on the date of such refinancing with respect to the currencies in which such respective Indebtedness is denominated). For purposes of determining compliance as of any date with Section 6.04, amounts incurred or outstanding in currencies other than U.S. Dollars shall be translated into U.S. Dollars at the exchange rates in effect on the last Business Day of the fiscal quarter immediately preceding the fiscal quarter in which such amount was incurred, as such exchange rates shall be determined in good faith by the Borrower by reference to customary indices. No Default shall arise as a result of any limitation or threshold set forth in U.S. Dollars in Section 6.01, 6.02, 6.03, 6.04, 6.05, 6.07, 6.08, 6.09 or 6.14 or paragraph (f), (g), (k) or (l) of Article VII being exceeded solely as a result of changes in currency exchange rates from those rates applicable on the last day of the fiscal quarter immediately preceding the fiscal quarter in which such determination occurs or in respect of which such determination is being made or such amount was incurred, as the case may be.
(b) (i) The Administrative Agent shall determine the U.S. Dollar Equivalent of any Alternative Currency Letter of Credit as of each date (with such date to be reasonably determined by the Administrative Agent) that is on or about the date of each request for the issuance, amendment, renewal or extension of such Alternative Currency Letter of Credit, using the Exchange Rate for the applicable currency in relation to U.S. Dollars in effect on the date of determination, and each such amount shall be the U.S. Dollar Equivalent of such Letter of Credit until the next required calculation thereof pursuant to this Section 1.06(b)(i) .
(ii) The Administrative Agent shall determine the U.S. Dollar Equivalent of any Borrowing denominated in any Alternative Currency as of each date (with such date to be reasonably determined by the Administrative Agent) that is on or about the date of a Borrowing Request or Interest Election Request with respect to such Borrowing, in each case using the Exchange Rate for the applicable currency in relation to U.S. Dollars in effect on the date of determination, and each such amount shall be the U.S. Dollar Equivalent of such Borrowing until the next required calculation thereof pursuant to this Section 1.06(b)(ii) .
(iii) The U.S. Dollar Equivalent of any LC Disbursement made by any Issuing Bank in any Alternative Currency and not reimbursed by the Borrower shall be determined as set forth in paragraph (e) or (m) of Section 2.05, as applicable. In addition, the U.S. Dollar Equivalent of the LC Exposure shall be determined as set forth in paragraph (j) of Section 2.05, at the time and in the circumstances specified therein.
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(iv) The Administrative Agent shall notify the Borrower, the applicable Lenders and the applicable Issuing Bank of each calculation of the U.S. Dollar Equivalent of each Letter of Credit, Borrowing and L/C Disbursement.
ARTICLE II
The Credits
SECTION 2.01. Commitments. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein and in the Amendment and Restatement Agreement, (a) each Lender listed on Schedule 1 to the Amendment and Restatement Agreement agrees to make a Tranche B-1 Term Loan in U.S. Dollars to the Borrower on the Restatement Effective Date in a principal amount not exceeding its Tranche B-1 Commitment or to convert such Lender’s Original Tranche B Term Loans into Tranche B-1 Term Loans on the Restatement Effective Date (in each case, as provided in the Amendment and Restatement Agreement) and (b) each Lender having a Revolving Commitment agrees (i) to make Global Revolving Loans to the Borrower from time to time during the Revolving Availability Period in U.S. Dollars or in any Alternative Currency in an aggregate principal amount that will not result in such Lender’s Global Revolving Exposure exceeding such Lender’s Global Revolving Commitment and (ii) to make U.S. Revolving Loans to the Borrower from time to time during the Revolving Availability Period in U.S. Dollars in an aggregate principal amount that will not result in such Lender’s U.S. Revolving Exposure exceeding such Lender’s U.S. Revolving Commitment, provided that no Global Revolving Loan shall be made in an Alternative Currency if, after the making of such Global Revolving Loan, the U.S. Dollar Equivalent of the aggregate principal amount of outstanding Global Revolving Loans denominated in an Alternative Currency would exceed $50,000,000. Within the foregoing limits and subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, the Borrower may borrow, prepay and reborrow Revolving Loans. Amounts repaid or prepaid in respect of Term Loans may not be reborrowed. All Term Loans, Revolving Loans, Swingline Loans and Letters of Credit outstanding under the 2005 Credit Agreement on the Restatement Effective Date shall remain outstanding hereunder on the terms set forth herein, except as otherwise provided herein and in the Amendment and Restatement Agreement with respect to the Original Tranche B Term Loans.
SECTION 2.02. Loans and Borrowings. (a) Each Loan (other than a Swingline Loan) shall be made as part of a Borrowing consisting of Loans of the same Class and Type made by the Lenders ratably in accordance with their respective Commitments of the applicable Class. The failure of any Lender to make any Loan required to be made by it shall not relieve any other Lender of its obligations hereunder, provided that the Commitments of the Lenders are several and no Lender shall be responsible for any other Lender’s failure to make Loans as required.
(b) Subject to Section 2.14, (i) each Revolving Borrowing denominated in an Alternative Currency shall be comprised entirely of Eurocurrency Loans and (ii) each Revolving Borrowing denominated in U.S. Dollars and each Term Borrowing shall be comprised entirely of ABR Loans or Eurocurrency Loans as the Borrower may request in
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accordance herewith. Each Swingline Loan shall be an ABR Loan. Each Lender at its option may make any Eurocurrency Loan by causing any domestic or foreign branch or Affiliate of such Lender to make such Loan, provided that any exercise of such option shall not affect the obligation of the Borrower to repay such Loan in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.
(c) At the commencement of each Interest Period for any Eurocurrency Borrowing, such Borrowing shall be in an aggregate amount that is an integral multiple of the Borrowing Multiple and not less than the Borrowing Minimum. At the time that each ABR Revolving Borrowing is made, such Borrowing shall be in an aggregate amount that is an integral multiple of the Borrowing Multiple and not less than the Borrowing Minimum. Each Swingline Loan shall be in an amount that is an integral multiple of $100,000 and not less than $1,000,000. Borrowings of more than one Type and Class may be outstanding at the same time, provided that there shall not at any time be more than a total of twelve Eurocurrency Borrowings outstanding. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, an ABR Revolving Borrowing may be in an aggregate amount that is equal to the entire unused balance of the aggregate Global Revolving Commitments or aggregate U.S. Revolving Commitments, as the case may be, and a Swingline Loan may be in an aggregate amount that is equal to the entire unused balance of the aggregate Global Revolving Commitments or that is required to finance the reimbursement of an LC Disbursement as contemplated by Section 2.05(e) .
(d) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, the Borrower shall not be entitled to request, or to elect to convert or continue, any Borrowing if the Interest Period requested with respect thereto would end after the Revolving Maturity Date, the Tranche A Maturity Date or the Tranche B-1 Maturity Date, as the case may be.
SECTION 2.03. Requests for Borrowings. To request a Revolving Borrowing or Term Borrowing, the Borrower shall notify the Administrative Agent of such request by telephone (a) in the case of a Eurocurrency Borrowing denominated in U.S. Dollars, not later than 11:00 a.m., New York City time, three Business Days before the date of the proposed Borrowing, (b) in the case of a Eurocurrency Borrowing denominated in an Alternative Currency, not later than 11:00 am, New York City time, four Business Days before the date of the proposed Borrowing or (c) in the case of an ABR Borrowing, not later than 1:00 p.m., New York City time, one Business Day before the date of the proposed Borrowing, provided that any such notice of an ABR Revolving Borrowing to finance the reimbursement of an LC Disbursement as contemplated by Section 2.05(e) may be given not later than 10:00 a.m., New York City time, on the date of the proposed Borrowing. Each such telephonic Borrowing Request shall be irrevocable and shall be confirmed promptly by hand delivery or telecopy to the Administrative Agent of a written Borrowing Request in a form approved by the Administrative Agent and signed by the Borrower. Each such telephonic and written Borrowing Request shall specify the following information:
(i) whether the requested Borrowing is to be a Global Revolving Borrowing, U.S. Revolving Borrowing, Tranche B-1 Term Borrowing or a Borrowing of any Incremental Term Loan;
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(ii) the currency and aggregate amount of such Borrowing;
(iii) the date of such Borrowing, which shall be a Business Day;
(iv) whether such Borrowing is to be an ABR Borrowing or a Eurocurrency Borrowing;
(v) in the case of a Eurocurrency Borrowing, the initial Interest Period to be applicable thereto, which shall be a period contemplated by the definition of the term “Interest Period”;
(vi) the location and number of the Borrower’s account to which funds are to be disbursed, which shall comply with the requirements of Section 2.06; and
(vii) that as of such date Sections 4.02(a) and (b) are satisfied.
If no currency is specified with respect to any Eurocurrency Revolving Borrowing, then the Borrower shall be deemed to have selected U.S. Dollars. If no election as to the Type of Borrowing is specified, then the requested Borrowing shall be (i) in the case of a Borrowing denominated in U.S. Dollars, an ABR Borrowing, and (ii) in the case of a Borrowing denominated in an Alternative Currency, a Eurocurrency Borrowing. If no Interest Period is specified with respect to any requested Eurocurrency Revolving Borrowing, then the Borrower shall be deemed to have selected an Interest Period of one month’s duration. Promptly following receipt of a Borrowing Request in accordance with this Section, the Administrative Agent shall advise each Lender of the details thereof and of the amount of such Lender’s Loan to be made as part of the requested Borrowing.
SECTION 2.04. Swingline Loans. (a) Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, the Swingline Lender agrees to make Swingline Loans to the Borrower in U.S. Dollars from time to time during the Revolving Availability Period, in an aggregate principal amount at any time outstanding that will not result in (i) the aggregate principal amount of outstanding Swingline Loans exceeding $25,000,000 or (ii) the aggregate Global Revolving Exposures exceeding the aggregate Global Revolving Commitments, provided that the Swingline Lender shall not make a Swingline Loan to refinance an outstanding Swingline Loan. Within the foregoing limits and subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, the Borrower may borrow, prepay and reborrow Swingline Loans.
(b) To request a Swingline Loan, the Borrower shall notify the Administrative Agent of such request by telephone (confirmed by telecopy), not later than 12:00 noon, New York City time, on the day of such proposed Swingline Loan. Each such notice shall be irrevocable and shall specify the requested date (which shall be a Business Day) and amount of the requested Swingline Loan. The Administrative Agent will promptly advise the Swingline Lender of any such notice received from the Borrower. The Swingline Lender shall make each Swingline Loan available to the Borrower by means of a credit to the general deposit account of the Borrower maintained with the Swingline Lender (or, in the case of a Swingline Loan made to finance the reimbursement of an LC Disbursement as provided in Section 2.05(e), by remittance to
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the applicable Issuing Bank or, to the extent that the Global Revolving Lenders have made payments pursuant to Section 2.05(e) to reimburse the applicable Issuing Bank, to such Lenders and such Issuing Bank as their interests may appear) by 3:00 p.m., New York City time, on the requested date of such Swingline Loan.
(c) The Swingline Lender may by written notice given to the Administrative Agent not later than 12:00 noon, New York City time, on any Business Day require the Global Revolving Lenders to acquire participations on such Business Day in all or a portion of the Swingline Loans outstanding. Such notice shall specify the aggregate amount of Swingline Loans in which Global Revolving Lenders will participate. Promptly upon receipt of such notice, the Administrative Agent will give notice thereof to each Global Revolving Lender, specifying in such notice such Lender’s Applicable Percentage of such Swingline Loan or Swingline Loans. Each Global Revolving Lender hereby absolutely and unconditionally agrees, upon receipt of notice as provided above, to pay to the Administrative Agent, for the account of the Swingline Lender, such Lender’s Applicable Percentage of such Swingline Loan or Swingline Loans. Each Global Revolving Lender acknowledges and agrees that its obligation to acquire participations in Swingline Loans pursuant to this paragraph is absolute and unconditional and shall not be affected by any circumstance whatsoever, including the occurrence and continuance of a Default or reduction or termination of the Commitments, and that each such payment shall be made without any offset, abatement, withholding or reduction whatsoever. Each Global Revolving Lender shall comply with its obligation under this paragraph by wire transfer of immediately available funds, in the same manner as provided in Section 2.06 with respect to Loans made by such Lender (and Section 2.06 shall apply, mutatis mutandis, to the payment obligations of the Global Revolving Lenders), and the Administrative Agent shall promptly pay to the Swingline Lender the amounts so received by it from the Global Revolving Lenders. The Administrative Agent shall notify the Borrower of any participations in any Swingline Loan acquired pursuant to this paragraph, and thereafter payments in respect of such Swingline Loan shall be made to the Administrative Agent and not to the Swingline Lender. Any amounts received by the Swingline Lender from the Borrower (or other party on behalf of the Borrower) in respect of a Swingline Loan after receipt by the Swingline Lender of the proceeds of a sale of participations therein shall be promptly remitted to the Administrative Agent and any such amounts received by the Administrative Agent shall be promptly remitted by the Administrative Agent to the Global Revolving Lenders that shall have made their payments pursuant to this paragraph and to the Swingline Lender, as their interests may appear, provided that any such payment so remitted shall be repaid to the Swingline Lender or the Administrative Agent, as the case may be, if and to the extent such payment is required to be refunded to the Borrower for any reason. The purchase of participations in a Swingline Loan pursuant to this paragraph shall not relieve the Borrower of any default in the payment thereof.
SECTION 2.05. Letters of Credit. (a) General. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, the Borrower may request the issuance of Letters of Credit for its own account (or for the account of any Subsidiary so long as the Borrower and such Subsidiary are co-applicants), in a form reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent and the applicable Issuing Bank, at any time and from time to time during the
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Revolving Availability Period. In the event of any inconsistency between the terms and conditions of this Agreement and the terms and conditions of any form of letter of credit application or other agreement submitted by the Borrower to, or entered into by the Borrower with, an Issuing Bank relating to any Letter of Credit, the terms and conditions of this Agreement shall control.
(b) Notice of Issuance, Amendment, Renewal, Extension; Certain Conditions. To request the issuance of a Letter of Credit (or the amendment, renewal or extension of an outstanding Letter of Credit), the Borrower shall hand deliver or telecopy (or transmit by electronic communication, if arrangements for doing so have been approved by the applicable Issuing Bank) to the applicable Issuing Bank (except that the Issuing Bank in respect of Original Letters of Credit shall not issue additional Letters of Credit and, unless agreed by it, shall not be required to amend, renew or extend an Original Letter of Credit) and the Administrative Agent (reasonably in advance of the requested date of issuance, amendment, renewal or extension) a notice requesting the issuance of a Letter of Credit, or identifying the Letter of Credit to be amended, renewed or extended, and specifying the date of issuance, amendment, renewal or extension (which shall be a Business Day), the date on which such Letter of Credit is to expire (which shall comply with paragraph (c) of this Section), the amount of such Letter of Credit, the currency in which such Letter of Credit is to be denominated, the name and address of the beneficiary thereof and such other information as shall be necessary to prepare, amend, renew or extend such Letter of Credit. If requested by the applicable Issuing Bank, the Borrower also shall submit a letter of credit application on such Issuing Bank’s standard form in connection with any request for a Letter of Credit. A Letter of Credit shall be issued, amended, renewed or extended only if (and upon issuance, amendment, renewal or extension of each Letter of Credit the Borrower shall be deemed to represent and warrant that), after giving effect to such issuance, amendment, renewal or extension, (i) the LC Exposure shall not exceed $75,000,000 and (ii) the aggregate Global Revolving Exposures shall not exceed the aggregate Global Revolving Commitments.
(c) Expiration Date. Each Letter of Credit shall expire at or prior to the close of business on the earlier of (i) the date that is one year after the date of the issuance of such Letter of Credit (or, in the case of any renewal or extension thereof, one year after such renewal or extension) and (ii) the date that is five Business Days prior to the Revolving Maturity Date, provided, however, that a Letter of Credit may, upon the request of the Borrower, include a provision whereby such Letter of Credit shall be renewed automatically for additional consecutive periods of one year or less (but not beyond the date that is five Business Days prior to the Revolving Maturity Date) unless the applicable Issuing Bank notifies the beneficiary thereof at least 30 days prior to the then-applicable expiration date that such Letter of Credit will not be renewed.
(d) Participations. By the issuance of a Letter of Credit (or an amendment to a Letter of Credit increasing the amount thereof) and without any further action on the part of the applicable Issuing Bank or the Lenders, such Issuing Bank hereby grants to each Global Revolving Lender, and each Global Revolving Lender hereby acquires from such Issuing Bank, a participation in such Letter of Credit equal to such Lender’s
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Applicable Percentage of the aggregate amount available to be drawn under such Letter of Credit. In consideration and in furtherance of the foregoing, each Global Revolving Lender hereby absolutely and unconditionally agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent, for the account of the applicable Issuing Bank, such Lender’s Applicable Percentage of (i) each LC Disbursement made by such Issuing Bank in U.S. Dollars and (ii) the U.S. Dollar Equivalent, using the Exchange Rate in effect on the date such payment is required, of each LC Disbursement made by such Issuing Bank in an Alternative Currency and, in each case, not reimbursed by the Borrower on the date due as provided in paragraph (e) of this Section, or of any reimbursement payment required to be refunded to the Borrower for any reason (or if such LC Disbursement or reimbursement payment was refunded in an Alternative Currency, the U.S. Dollar Equivalent thereof using the Exchange Rate in effect on the date of such refund). Each Global Revolving Lender acknowledges and agrees that its obligation to acquire participations pursuant to this paragraph in respect of Letters of Credit is absolute and unconditional and shall not be affected by any circumstance whatsoever, including any amendment, renewal or extension of any Letter of Credit or the occurrence and continuance of a Default or reduction or termination of the Commitments, and that each such payment shall be made without any offset, abatement, withholding or reduction whatsoever.
(e) Reimbursement. If the applicable Issuing Bank shall make any LC Disbursement in respect of a Letter of Credit, the Borrower shall reimburse such LC Disbursement by paying to the Administrative Agent an amount equal to such LC Disbursement, in the currency in which such LC Disbursement is made, not later than 3:00 p.m., New York City time, on the date that such LC Disbursement is made, if the Borrower shall have received notice of such LC Disbursement prior to 10:00 a.m., New York City time, on such date, or, if such notice has not been received by the Borrower prior to such time on such date, then not later than (i) 3:00 p.m., New York City time, on the Business Day that the Borrower receives such notice, if such notice is received prior to 10:00 a.m., New York City time, on the day of receipt, or (ii) 12:00 noon, New York City time, on the Business Day immediately following the day that the Borrower receives such notice, if such notice is not received prior to 10:00 a.m., New York City time, on the day of receipt, provided that, if such LC Disbursement is not less than $1,000,000, the Borrower may, subject to the conditions to borrowing set forth herein, request in accordance with Section 2.03 or 2.04 that such payment be financed with an ABR Revolving Borrowing or Swingline Loan in an equivalent amount and, to the extent so financed, the Borrower’s obligation to make such payment shall be discharged and replaced by the resulting ABR Revolving Borrowing or Swingline Loan. If the Borrower fails to make such payment when due (or if any such reimbursement payment is required to be refunded to the Borrower for any reason), then (A) if such payment relates to an Alternative Currency Letter of Credit, automatically and with no further action required, the Borrower’s obligation to reimburse the applicable LC Disbursement shall be permanently converted into an obligation to reimburse the U.S. Dollar Equivalent, calculated using the Exchange Rate on the date when such payment was due, of such LC Disbursement and (B) in the case of each LC Disbursement, the Administrative Agent shall notify the applicable Issuing Bank and each Global Revolving Lender of the applicable LC Disbursement, the payment then due from the Borrower in respect thereof and such Lender’s Applicable Percentage thereof. Promptly following receipt of such
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notice, each Global Revolving Lender shall pay to the Administrative Agent its Applicable Percentage of the payment then due from the Borrower, in the same manner as provided in Section 2.06 with respect to Loans made by such Lender (and Section 2.06 shall apply, mutatis mutandis, to the payment obligations of the Global Revolving Lenders), and the Administrative Agent shall promptly pay to the applicable Issuing Bank the amounts so received by it from the Global Revolving Lenders. Promptly following receipt by the Administrative Agent of any payment from the Borrower pursuant to this paragraph, the Administrative Agent shall distribute such payment to the applicable Issuing Bank or, to the extent that Global Revolving Lenders have made payments pursuant to this paragraph to reimburse such Issuing Bank, then to such Lenders and such Issuing Bank as their interests may appear. Any payment made by a Global Revolving Lender pursuant to this paragraph to reimburse an Issuing Bank for any LC Disbursement (other than the funding of ABR Revolving Loans or a Swingline Loan as contemplated above) shall not constitute a Loan and shall not relieve the Borrower of its obligation to reimburse such LC Disbursement. If the Borrower’s reimbursement of, or obligation to reimburse, any amounts in any Alternative Currency would subject the Administrative Agent, the applicable Issuing Bank or any Lender to any stamp duty, ad valorem charge or similar tax that would not be payable if such reimbursement were made or required to be made in U.S. Dollars, the Borrower shall, at its option, either (x) indemnify the Administrative Agent, the relevant Issuing Bank or such Lender for the full amount of any such tax in accordance with, and subject to, the procedures set forth in Section 2.17(c) or (y) reimburse each LC Disbursement made in such Alternative Currency in U.S. Dollars, in an amount equal to the U.S. Dollar Equivalent, calculated using the applicable Exchange Rate on the date such LC Disbursement is made, of such LC Disbursement.
(f) Obligations Absolute. The Borrower’s obligation to reimburse LC Disbursements as provided in paragraph (e) of this Section shall be absolute, unconditional and irrevocable, and shall be performed strictly in accordance with the terms of this Agreement under any and all circumstances whatsoever and irrespective of (i) any lack of validity or enforceability of any Letter of Credit or this Agreement, or any term or provision therein, (ii) any draft or other document presented under a Letter of Credit proving to be forged, fraudulent or invalid in any respect or any statement therein being untrue or inaccurate in any respect, (iii) payment by the applicable Issuing Bank under a Letter of Credit against presentation of a draft or other document that does not comply with the terms of such Letter of Credit or (iv) any other event or circumstance whatsoever, whether or not similar to any of the foregoing, that might, but for the provisions of this Section, constitute a legal or equitable discharge of, or provide a right of setoff against, the Borrower’s obligations hereunder. Neither the Administrative Agent, the Lenders nor any Issuing Bank, nor any of their Related Parties, shall have any liability or responsibility by reason of or in connection with the issuance or transfer of any Letter of Credit or any payment or failure to make any payment thereunder (irrespective of any of the circumstances referred to in the preceding sentence), or any error, omission, interruption, loss or delay in transmission or delivery of any draft, notice or other communication under or relating to any Letter of Credit (including any document required to make a drawing thereunder), any error in interpretation of technical terms or any consequence arising from causes beyond the control of such Issuing Bank, provided
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that the foregoing shall not be construed to excuse the applicable Issuing Bank from liability to the Borrower to the extent of any direct damages (as opposed to consequential or punitive damages, claims in respect of which are hereby waived by the Borrower to the extent permitted by applicable law) suffered by the Borrower that are caused by the applicable Issuing Bank’s failure to exercise care when determining whether drafts and other documents presented under a Letter of Credit comply with the terms thereof. The parties hereto expressly agree that, in the absence of gross negligence or wilful misconduct on the part of the applicable Issuing Bank (as finally determined by a court of competent jurisdiction), such Issuing Bank shall be deemed to have exercised care in each such determination. In furtherance of the foregoing and without limiting the generality thereof, the parties agree that, with respect to documents presented that appear on their face to be in substantial compliance with the terms of a Letter of Credit, the applicable Issuing Bank may, in its sole discretion, either accept and make payment upon such documents without responsibility for further investigation, regardless of any notice or information to the contrary, or refuse to accept and make payment upon such documents if such documents are not in strict compliance with the terms of such Letter of Credit, and any such acceptance or refusal shall be deemed not to constitute gross negligence or wilful misconduct.
(g) Disbursement Procedures. The applicable Issuing Bank shall, promptly following its receipt thereof, examine all documents purporting to represent a demand for payment under a Letter of Credit. Such Issuing Bank shall promptly notify the Administrative Agent and the Borrower by telephone (confirmed by telecopy) of such demand for payment and whether such Issuing Bank has made or will make an LC Disbursement thereunder, provided that any failure to give or delay in giving such notice shall not relieve the Borrower of its obligation to reimburse such Issuing Bank and the Global Revolving Lenders with respect to any such LC Disbursement in accordance with paragraph (e) of this Section.
(h) Interim Interest. If an Issuing Bank shall make any LC Disbursement, then, unless the Borrower shall reimburse such LC Disbursement in full on the date such LC Disbursement is made, the unpaid amount thereof shall bear interest, for each day from and including the date such LC Disbursement is made to but excluding the date that the Borrower reimburses such LC Disbursement, (i) if such LC Disbursement is made in U.S. Dollars, at the rate per annum then applicable to ABR Revolving Loans and (ii) if such LC Disbursement is made in an Alternative Currency, at the rate per annum then applicable to Eurocurrency Revolving Loans, provided that, in each case, if the Borrower fails to reimburse such LC Disbursement when due pursuant to paragraph (e) of this Section, then Section 2.13(c) shall apply. Interest accrued pursuant to this paragraph shall be for the account of the applicable Issuing Bank, except that interest accrued on and after the date of payment by any Revolving Lender pursuant to paragraph (e) of this Section to reimburse such Issuing Bank shall be for the account of such Lender to the extent of such payment.
(i) Replacement of an Issuing Bank. An Issuing Bank may be replaced at any time by written agreement among the Borrower, the Administrative Agent, the replaced Issuing Bank and the successor Issuing Bank. The Administrative Agent shall
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notify the Lenders of any such replacement of an Issuing Bank. At the time any such replacement shall become effective, the Borrower shall pay all unpaid fees accrued for the account of the replaced Issuing Bank pursuant to Section 2.12(b) . From and after the effective date of any such replacement, (i) the successor Issuing Bank shall have all the rights and obligations of an Issuing Bank under this Agreement with respect to Letters of Credit to be issued thereafter and (ii) references herein to the term “Issuing Bank” shall be deemed to refer to such successor or to any previous Issuing Bank, or to such successor and all previous Issuing Banks, as the context shall require. After the replacement of an Issuing Bank hereunder, the replaced Issuing Bank shall remain a party hereto and shall continue to have all the rights and obligations of an Issuing Bank under this Agreement with respect to Letters of Credit issued by it prior to such replacement, but shall not be required to issue additional Letters of Credit.
(j) Cash Collateralization. If any Event of Default shall occur and be continuing, on the Business Day on which the Borrower receives notice from the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders (or, if the maturity of the Loans has been accelerated, Global Revolving Lenders with LC Exposure representing greater than 50% of the LC Exposure) demanding the deposit of cash collateral pursuant to this paragraph, the Borrower shall deposit in an account with the Administrative Agent, in the name of the Administrative Agent and for the benefit of the Lenders, an amount in cash in U.S. Dollars equal to the LC Exposure as of such date plus any accrued and unpaid interest thereon, provided that (i) the portions of such amount attributable to undrawn Alternative Currency Letters of Credit or LC Disbursements in an Alternative Currency that the Borrower is not late in reimbursing shall be deposited in the applicable Alternative Currencies in the actual amounts of such undrawn Letters of Credit and LC Disbursements and (ii) the obligation to deposit such cash collateral shall become effective immediately, and such deposit shall become immediately due and payable, without demand or other notice of any kind, upon the occurrence of any Event of Default with respect to Holdings or the Borrower described in paragraph (h) or (i) of Article VII. For the purposes of this paragraph, the Alternative Currency LC Exposure shall be calculated using the Exchange Rates on the date notice demanding cash collateralization is delivered to the Borrower. The Borrower also shall deposit cash collateral pursuant to this paragraph as and to the extent required by Section 2.11(b) . Each such deposit shall be held by the Administrative Agent as collateral for the payment and performance of the obligations of the Borrower under this Agreement. The Administrative Agent shall have exclusive dominion and control, including the exclusive right of withdrawal, over such account. Other than any interest earned on the investment of such deposits, which investments shall be made at the option and sole discretion of the Administrative Agent and at the Borrower’s risk and expense, such deposits shall not bear interest. Interest or profits, if any, on such investments shall accumulate in such account. Moneys in such account shall be applied by the Administrative Agent to reimburse each Issuing Bank for LC Disbursements for which it has not been reimbursed and, to the extent not so applied, shall be held for the satisfaction of the reimbursement obligations of the Borrower for the LC Exposure at such time or, if the maturity of the Loans has been accelerated (but subject to the consent of Global Revolving Lenders with LC Exposure representing greater than 50% of the LC Exposure), be applied to satisfy other obligations of the Borrower under this Agreement. If the Borrower is required to provide an amount of
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cash collateral hereunder as a result of the occurrence of an Event of Default, such amount (to the extent not applied as aforesaid) shall be returned to the Borrower within three Business Days after all Events of Default have been cured or waived. If the Borrower is required to provide an amount of cash collateral hereunder pursuant to Section 2.11(b), such amount (to the extent not applied as aforesaid) shall be returned to the Borrower as and to the extent that, after giving effect to such return, the Borrower would remain in compliance with Section 2.11(b) and no Default shall have occurred and be continuing.
(k) Additional Issuing Banks. From time to time, the Borrower may by notice to the Administrative Agent designate a Global Revolving Lender (in addition to JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.) that agrees (in its sole discretion) to act in such capacity and which is reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, as an Issuing Bank, provided that each of the Syndication Agent, Bank of America, N.A., Royal Bank of Canada and Wachovia Bank, National Association, shall be deemed reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent for purposes of this paragraph (k). Such additional Issuing Bank shall execute a counterpart of this Agreement in such capacity and shall thereafter be an Issuing Bank hereunder for all purposes.
(l) Issuing Bank Agreements. Unless otherwise requested by the Administrative Agent, each Issuing Bank shall report in writing to the Administrative Agent (i) on the first Business Day of each week, the daily activity (set forth by day) in respect of Letters of Credit during the immediately preceding week, including all issuances, extensions, amendments and renewals, all expirations and cancelations and all disbursements and reimbursements, (ii) on or prior to each Business Day on which such Issuing Bank expects to issue, amend, renew or extend any Letter of Credit, the date of such issuance, amendment, renewal or extension, and the aggregate face amount of the Letters of Credit to be issued, amended, renewed or extended by it and outstanding after giving effect to such issuance, amendment, renewal or extension occurred (and whether the amount thereof changed), it being understood that such Issuing Bank shall not permit any issuance, renewal, extension or amendment resulting in an increase in the amount of any Letter of Credit to occur without first obtaining written (or, with respect to any Issuing Bank, if the Administrative Agent so agrees with respect to such Issuing Bank, telephonic) confirmation from the Administrative Agent that such issuance is then permitted under this Agreement, (iii) on each Business Day on which such Issuing Bank makes any LC Disbursement in respect of any Letter of Credit, the date of such LC Disbursement and the amount of such LC Disbursement, (iv) on any Business Day on which the Borrower fails to reimburse an LC Disbursement required to be reimbursed to such Issuing Bank on such day, the date of such failure and the amount and currency of such LC Disbursement and (v) on any other Business Day, such other information as the Administrative Agent shall reasonably request.
(m) Conversion. In the event that the Loans become immediately due and payable on any date pursuant to Article VII, all amounts (i) that the Borrower is at the time or thereafter becomes required to reimburse or otherwise pay to the Administrative Agent in respect of LC Disbursements made under any Alternative Currency Letter of Credit (other than amounts in respect of which such Borrower has deposited cash
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collateral pursuant to paragraph (j) above, if such cash collateral was deposited in the applicable Alternative Currency to the extent so deposited or applied), (ii) that the Global Revolving Lenders are at the time or thereafter become required to pay to the Administrative Agent and the Administrative Agent is at the time or thereafter becomes required to distribute to the applicable Issuing Bank pursuant to paragraph (e) of this Section in respect of unreimbursed LC Disbursements made under any Alternative Currency Letter of Credit and (iii) of each Global Revolving Lender’s participation in any Alternative Currency Letter of Credit under which an LC Disbursement has been made shall, automatically and with no further action required, be converted into the U.S. Dollar Equivalent, calculated using the Exchange Rates on such date (or in the case of any LC Disbursement made after such date, on the date such LC Disbursement is made), of such amounts. On and after such conversion, all amounts accruing and owed to the Administrative Agent, the applicable Issuing Bank or any Lender in respect of the obligations described in this paragraph shall accrue and be payable in U.S. Dollars at the rates otherwise applicable hereunder.
SECTION 2.06. Funding of Borrowings. (a) Each Lender shall make each Loan to be made by it hereunder on the proposed date thereof by wire transfer of immediately available funds by 12:00 noon, New York City time, to the account of the Administrative Agent most-recently designated by it for such purpose by notice to the Lenders, provided that Swingline Loans shall be made as provided in Section 2.04. The Administrative Agent will make such Loans available to the Borrower by promptly crediting the amounts so received, in like funds, to an account of the Borrower maintained with the Administrative Agent or otherwise designated by the Borrower (i) in the case of Loans denominated in U.S. Dollars, in New York City and (ii) in the case of Loans denominated in Euro or Sterling, in London, and in each case designated by the Borrower in the applicable Borrowing Request, provided that Revolving Loans made to finance the reimbursement of an LC Disbursement as provided in Section 2.05(e) shall be remitted by the Administrative Agent to the applicable Issuing Bank or, to the extent that Revolving Lenders have made payments pursuant to Section 2.05(e) to reimburse such Issuing Bank, then to such Lenders and the applicable Issuing Bank as their interests may appear.
(b) Unless the Administrative Agent shall have received notice from a Lender prior to the proposed date of any Borrowing that such Lender will not make available to the Administrative Agent such Lender’s share of such Borrowing, the Administrative Agent may assume that such Lender has made such share available on such date in accordance with paragraph (a) of this Section and may, in reliance upon such assumption and in its sole discretion, make available to the Borrower a corresponding amount. In such event, if a Lender has not in fact made its share of the applicable Borrowing available to the Administrative Agent, then the applicable Lender and the Borrower severally agree to pay to the Administrative Agent forthwith on demand such corresponding amount with interest thereon, for each day from and including the date such amount is made available to the Borrower to but excluding the date of payment to the Administrative Agent, at (i) in the case of such Lender, (x) if such Borrowing is denominated in U.S. Dollars, the greater of the Federal Funds Effective Rate and a rate determined by the Administrative Agent in accordance with banking industry rules on
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interbank compensation, and (y) if such Borrowing is denominated in an Alternative Currency, the rate reasonably determined by the Administrative Agent to be the cost to it of funding such amount, or (ii) in the case of the Borrower, the interest rate applicable to such Borrowing. If such Lender pays such amount to the Administrative Agent, then such amount shall constitute such Lender’s Loan included in such Borrowing.
SECTION 2.07. Interest Elections. (a) Each Revolving Borrowing and Term Borrowing initially shall be of the Type specified in the applicable Borrowing Request or designated by Section 2.03 and, in the case of a Eurocurrency Borrowing, shall have an initial Interest Period as specified in such Borrowing Request or designated by Section 2.03. Thereafter, the Borrower may elect to convert such Borrowing to a different Type or to continue such Borrowing and, in the case of a Eurocurrency Borrowing, may elect Interest Periods therefor, all as provided in this Section, provided that the Borrower may not elect to convert any Borrowing denominated in an Alternative Currency to an ABR Borrowing and may not change the currency in which any Borrowing is denominated. The Borrower may elect different options with respect to different portions of the affected Borrowing, in which case each such portion shall be allocated ratably among the Lenders holding the Loans comprising such Borrowing, and the Loans comprising each such portion shall be considered a separate Borrowing. This Section shall not apply to Swingline Borrowings, which may not be converted or continued.
(b) To make an election pursuant to this Section, the Borrower shall notify the Administrative Agent of such election by telephone by the time that a Borrowing Request would be required under Section 2.03 if the Borrower were requesting a Revolving Borrowing of the Type resulting from such election to be made on the effective date of such election. Each such telephonic Interest Election Request shall be irrevocable and shall be confirmed promptly by hand delivery or telecopy to the Administrative Agent of a written Interest Election Request in a form approved by the Administrative Agent and signed by the Borrower.
(c) Each telephonic and written Interest Election Request shall specify the following information in compliance with Section 2.02:
(i) the Borrowing to which such Interest Election Request applies and, if different options are being elected with respect to different portions thereof, the portions thereof to be allocated to each resulting Borrowing (in which case the information to be specified pursuant to clauses (iii) and (iv) below shall be specified for each resulting Borrowing);
(ii) the effective date of the election made pursuant to such Interest Election Request, which shall be a Business Day;
(iii) whether the resulting Borrowing is to be an ABR Borrowing or a Eurocurrency Borrowing; and
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(iv) if the resulting Borrowing is a Eurocurrency Borrowing, the Interest Period to be applicable thereto after giving effect to such election, which shall be a period contemplated by the definition of the term “Interest Period”.
If any such Interest Election Request requests a Eurocurrency Borrowing but does not specify an Interest Period, then the Borrower shall be deemed to have selected an Interest Period of one month’s duration.
(d) Promptly following receipt of an Interest Election Request, the Administrative Agent shall advise each Lender of the details thereof and of such Lender’s portion of each resulting Borrowing.
(e) If the Borrower fails to deliver a timely Interest Election Request with respect to a Eurocurrency Borrowing prior to the end of the Interest Period applicable thereto, then, unless such Borrowing is repaid as provided herein, at the end of such Interest Period such Borrowing shall be converted to an ABR Borrowing (unless such Borrowing is denominated in an Alternative Currency, in which case such Borrowing shall become due and payable on the last day of such Interest Period). Notwithstanding any contrary provision hereof, if an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and (other than in the case of an Event of Default of the type described in paragraph (h) or (i) of Article VII with respect to Holdings or the Borrower) the Administrative Agent, at the request of the Required Lenders, so notifies the Borrower (and, in the case of an Event of Default of the type described in paragraph (h) or (i) of Article VII with respect to Holdings or the Borrower, automatically), then, so long as an Event of Default is continuing (i) no outstanding Revolving Borrowing denominated in an Alternative Currency may be continued for an Interest Period of more than one month’s duration, (ii) no outstanding Borrowing denominated in U.S. dollars may be converted to or continued as a Eurocurrency Borrowing and (iii) unless repaid, each Eurocurrency Borrowing denominated in U.S. Dollars shall be converted to an ABR Borrowing at the end of the Interest Period applicable thereto.
SECTION 2.08. Termination and Reduction of Commitments. (a) Unless previously terminated, (i) the Tranche B-1 Commitments shall terminate at 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on the Restatement Effective Date and (ii) the Revolving Commitments shall terminate on the Revolving Maturity Date.
(b) The Borrower may at any time terminate, or from time to time reduce, the Commitments of any Class, provided that (i) each reduction of the Commitments of any Class shall be in an amount that is an integral multiple of $1,000,000 and not less than $10,000,000, (ii) the Borrower may not terminate either Class of Revolving Commitments without also terminating the other Class of Revolving Commitments, and any reduction of Revolving Commitments shall be allocated pro rata between the Global Revolving Commitments and the U.S. Revolving Commitments (based on the aggregate Commitments of each such Class) and (iii) the Borrower shall not terminate or reduce either Class of the Revolving Commitments if, after giving effect to any concurrent prepayment of the Revolving Loans of such Class in accordance with Section 2.11, the aggregate Revolving Exposures of such Class (excluding, in the case of any termination
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of the Global Revolving Commitments, the portion of the Global Revolving Exposures attributable to outstanding Letters of Credit if and to the extent that the Borrower has made arrangements satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and the applicable Issuing Bank with respect to such Letters of Credit and such Issuing Bank has released the Global Revolving Lenders from their participation obligations with respect to such Letters of Credit) would exceed the aggregate Revolving Commitments of such Class.
(c) The Borrower shall notify the Administrative Agent of any election to terminate or reduce the Commitments under paragraph (b) of this Section at least three Business Days prior to the effective date of such termination or reduction, specifying such election and the effective date thereof. Promptly following receipt of any such notice, the Administrative Agent shall advise the Lenders of the contents thereof. Each notice delivered by the Borrower pursuant to this Section shall be irrevocable, provided that a notice of termination of the Revolving Commitments delivered by the Borrower may state that such notice is conditioned upon the effectiveness of other credit facilities or the receipt of the proceeds from the issuance of other Indebtedness, in which case such notice may be revoked by the Borrower (by notice to the Administrative Agent on or prior to the specified effective date) if such condition is not satisfied. Any termination or reduction of the Commitments of any Class shall be permanent. Each reduction of the Commitments of any Class shall be made ratably among the Lenders in accordance with their respective Commitments of such Class.
SECTION 2.09. Repayment of Loans; Evidence of Debt. (a) The Borrower hereby unconditionally promises to pay (i) to the Administrative Agent for the account of each Lender the then unpaid principal amount of each Revolving Loan of such Lender on the Revolving Maturity Date, (ii) to the Administrative Agent for the account of each Lender the then unpaid principal amount of each Term Loan of such Lender as provided in Section 2.10 and (iii) to the Swingline Lender the then unpaid principal amount of each Swingline Loan on the earlier of the Revolving Maturity Date and the first date after such Swingline Loan is made that is the 15th or last day of a calendar month and is at least three Business Days after such Swingline Loan is made, provided that on each date that a Revolving Borrowing is made, the Borrower shall repay all Swingline Loans that were outstanding on the date such Borrowing was requested.
(b) Each Lender shall maintain in accordance with its usual practice an account or accounts evidencing the indebtedness of the Borrower to such Lender resulting from each Loan made by such Lender, including the amounts of principal and interest payable and paid to such Lender from time to time hereunder.
(c) The Administrative Agent shall maintain accounts in which it shall record (i) the amount of each Loan made hereunder, the Class, Type and currency thereof and the Interest Period applicable thereto, (ii) the amount of any principal or interest due and payable or to become due and payable from the Borrower to each Lender hereunder and (iii) the amount of any sum received by the Administrative Agent hereunder for the account of the Lenders and each Lender’s share thereof.
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(d) The entries made in the accounts maintained pursuant to paragraph (b) or (c) of this Section shall be prima facie evidence of the existence and amounts of the obligations recorded therein, provided that the failure of any Lender or the Administrative Agent to maintain such accounts or any error therein shall not in any manner affect the obligation of the Borrower to repay the Loans and pay interest thereon in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.
(e) Any Lender may request that Loans of any Class made by it be evidenced by a promissory note. In such event, the Borrower shall prepare, execute and deliver to such Lender a promissory note payable to the order of such Lender (or, if requested by such Lender, to such Lender and its registered assigns) and in a form approved by the Administrative Agent, provided that, in order for any such promissory notes to be delivered on the Effective Date, the request therefor shall be delivered no later than two Business Days prior to the Effective Date. Thereafter, the Loans evidenced by such promissory note and interest thereon shall at all times (including after assignment pursuant to Section 9.04) be represented by one or more promissory notes in such form payable to the order of the payee named therein (or, if such promissory note is a registered note, to such payee and its registered assigns).
SECTION 2.10. Amortization of Term Loans. (a) Subject to adjustment pursuant to paragraph (d) of this Section, the Borrower shall repay Tranche A Term Loan Borrowings on each date set forth below in the aggregate principal amount set forth opposite such date:
Date | Amount | |
September 30, 2006 | $6,250,000 | |
December 31, 2006 | $6,250,000 | |
March 31, 2007 | $6,250,000 | |
June 30, 2007 | $6,250,000 | |
September 30, 2007 | $6,250,000 | |
December 31, 2007 | $6,250,000 | |
March 31, 2008 | $6,250,000 | |
June 30, 2008 | $6,250,000 | |
September 30, 2008 | $12,500,000 | |
December 31, 2008 | $12,500,000 | |
March 31, 2009 | $12,500,000 | |
June 30, 2009 | $12,500,000 | |
September 30, 2009 | $15,625,000 | |
December 31, 2009 | $15,625,000 | |
March 31, 2010 | $15,625,000 | |
June 30, 2010 | $15,625,000 | |
September 30, 2010 | $21,875,000 | |
December 31, 2010 | $21,875,000 | |
March 31, 2011 | $21,875,000 | |
Tranche A Maturity Date | $21,875,000 |
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(b) Subject to adjustment pursuant to paragraph (d) of this Section, the Borrower shall repay Tranche B-1 Term Loan Borrowings on each date set forth below in the aggregate principal amount set forth opposite such date:
Date | Amount | |
March 31, 2006 | $2,750,000 | |
June 30, 2006 | $2,750,000 | |
September 30, 2006 | $2,750,000 | |
December 31, 2006 | $2,750,000 | |
March 31, 2007 | $2,750,000 | |
June 30, 2007 | $2,750,000 | |
September 30, 2007 | $2,750,000 | |
December 31, 2007 | $2,750,000 | |
March 31, 2008 | $2,750,000 | |
June 30, 2008 | $2,750,000 | |
September 30, 2008 | $2,750,000 | |
December 31, 2008 | $2,750,000 | |
March 31, 2009 | $2,750,000 | |
June 30, 2009 | $2,750,000 | |
September 30, 2009 | $2,750,000 | |
December 31, 2009 | $2,750,000 | |
March 31, 2010 | $2,750,000 | |
June 30, 2010 | $2,750,000 | |
September 30, 2010 | $2,750,000 | |
December 31, 2010 | $2,750,000 | |
March 31, 2011 | $2,750,000 | |
June 30, 2011 | $2,750,000 | |
September 30, 2011 | $258,937,500 | |
December 31, 2011 | $258,937,500 | |
March 31, 2012 | $258,937,500 | |
Tranche B-1 Maturity | $258,937,500 | |
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(c) To the extent not previously paid, (i) all Tranche A Term Loans shall be due and payable on the Tranche A Maturity Date and (ii) all Tranche B-1 Term Loans shall be due and payable on the Tranche B-1 Maturity Date.
(d) Any prepayment of a Term Borrowing of any Class shall be applied to reduce the subsequent scheduled repayments of the Term Borrowings of such Class to be made pursuant to this Section or, except as otherwise provided in any Incremental Facility Amendment, pursuant to the corresponding section of such Incremental Facility Amendment, (i) in the case of prepayments pursuant to Section 2.11(a) or 2.11(d), in order of maturity and (ii) in the case of prepayments pursuant to Section 2.11(c), ratably. If the initial aggregate amount of the Lenders’ Term Commitments of any Class exceeds the aggregate principal amount of Term Loans of such Class that are made on the Effective Date, then the scheduled repayments of Term Borrowings of such Class to be
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made pursuant to this Section shall be reduced ratably by an aggregate amount equal to such excess.
(e) Prior to any repayment of any Term Borrowings of any Class hereunder, the Borrower shall select the Borrowing or Borrowings of the applicable Class to be repaid and shall notify the Administrative Agent by telephone (confirmed by telecopy) of such election not later than 11:00 a.m., New York City time, three Business Days before the scheduled date of such repayment. Each repayment of a Borrowing shall be applied ratably to the Loans included in the repaid Borrowing. Repayments of Term Borrowings shall be accompanied by accrued interest on the amount repaid.
SECTION 2.11. Prepayment of Loans. (a) The Borrower shall have the right at any time and from time to time to prepay any Borrowing in whole or in part, subject to the requirements of this Section.
(b) In the event and on such occasion that the aggregate Global Revolving Exposures or aggregate U.S. Revolving Exposures exceed the aggregate Revolving Commitments of such Class, the Borrower shall prepay Revolving Borrowings of such Class or, if applicable, Swingline Borrowings (or, if no such Borrowings are outstanding, deposit cash collateral in an account with the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 2.05(j)) in an aggregate amount equal to such excess.
(c) (i) In the event and on each occasion that any Net Proceeds are received by or on behalf of Holdings, the Borrower or any Subsidiary in respect of any Prepayment Event described in clauses (a) through (c) of the definition of the term “Prepayment Event”, the Borrower shall, within five Business Days after such Net Proceeds are received, prepay Term Borrowings in an aggregate amount equal to 100% of the amount of such Net Proceeds, provided that, in the case of any event described in clause (a) or (b) of the definition of the term “Prepayment Event”, if the Borrower and the Subsidiaries apply the Net Proceeds from such event (or a portion thereof) within 360 days after receipt of such Net Proceeds and at a time when no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, (A) to acquire real property, equipment or other tangible assets to be used in the business of the Borrower and the Subsidiaries, (B) to make Capital Expenditures otherwise permitted under this Agreement or (C) in the case of any Prepayment Event described in clause (b) of the definition of the term “Prepayment Event”, to repair or restore the property or asset in respect of which such Net Proceeds were received (provided that, in each case, the Borrower has delivered to the Administrative Agent within five Business Days after such Net Proceeds are received a certificate of a Financial Officer stating its intention to do so and certifying that no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing), then no prepayment shall be required pursuant to this paragraph in respect of the Net Proceeds in respect of such event (or the portion of such Net Proceeds specified in such certificate, if applicable) except to the extent of any such Net Proceeds therefrom that have not been so applied by the end of such 360-day period, at which time a prepayment shall be required in an amount equal to such Net Proceeds that have not been so applied.
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(ii) In the event and on each occasion that any Net Proceeds are received by or on behalf of Holdings, the Borrower or any Subsidiary in respect of any event described in clause (d) of the definition of the term “Prepayment Event”, the Borrower shall, within five Business Days after such Net Proceeds are received, prepay Term Borrowings in an aggregate amount necessary so that after giving effect to each such Permitted Sale and Leaseback Transaction and the application of the proceeds therefrom (i) the Rent-Adjusted Leverage Ratio, recomputed on a Pro Forma Basis as of the last day of the most-recently ended fiscal quarter of the Borrower prior to such Permitted Sale and Leaseback Transaction for which financial statements have been delivered pursuant to Section 5.01(a) or (b) is either (x) not greater than the Rent-Adjusted Leverage Ratio immediately prior to such Permitted Sale and Leaseback Transaction and the application of the proceeds therefrom or (y) less than 3.00 to 1.00, and (ii) the Interest Coverage Ratio, recomputed on a Pro Forma Basis as of the last day of the most-recently ended fiscal quarter of the Borrower prior to such Permitted Sale and Leaseback Transaction for which financial statements have been delivered pursuant to Section 5.01(a) or (b), is not less than the Interest Coverage Ratio recomputed on a Pro Forma Basis for such period without giving effect to such Permitted Sale and Leaseback Transaction and the application of the proceeds therefrom, provided that no such prepayment shall be required from the Net Proceeds of any Permitted Sale and Leaseback Transaction received in any fiscal year unless the Net Proceeds of such Permitted Sale and Leaseback Transaction, together with the Net Proceeds of all other Permitted Sale and Leaseback Transactions consummated in such fiscal year, exceed $2,500,000 (in which case the Borrower need apply only the amount of such Net Proceeds in excess of $2,500,000 in accordance with this paragraph (ii)).
(d) Following the end of each fiscal year of the Borrower, commencing with the fiscal year ending June 30, 2006, the Borrower shall prepay Term Borrowings in an aggregate amount equal to 50% of Excess Cash Flow for such fiscal year, provided that (i) such amount shall be reduced by the aggregate amount of prepayments of Term Loans made pursuant to Section 2.11(a) during such fiscal year and (ii) no such prepayment shall be required if the Leverage Ratio at the end of such fiscal year is less than 3.00 to 1.00. Each prepayment pursuant to this paragraph shall be made on or within five Business Days of the date on which financial statements are delivered pursuant to Section 5.01 with respect to the fiscal year for which Excess Cash Flow is being calculated (and in any event within 95 days after the end of such fiscal year).
(e) Prior to any optional or mandatory prepayment of Borrowings hereunder, the Borrower shall select the Borrowing or Borrowings to be prepaid and shall specify such selection in the notice of such prepayment pursuant to paragraph (f) of this Section. In the event of any optional or mandatory prepayment of Term Borrowings made at a time when Term Borrowings of more than one Class remain outstanding, the Borrower shall select Term Borrowings to be prepaid so that the aggregate amount of such prepayment is allocated between Tranche A Term Loan Borrowings and Tranche B-1 Term Loan Borrowings (and, to the extent provided in the Incremental Facility Amendment for any Class of Incremental Term Loans, the Borrowings of such Class) pro rata based on the aggregate principal amount of outstanding Borrowings of each such Class, provided that any Tranche B-1 Lender (and, to the extent provided in the
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Incremental Facility Amendment for any Class of Incremental Term Loans, any Lender that holds Incremental Term Loans of such Class) may elect, by notice to the Administrative Agent by telephone (confirmed by telecopy) at least one Business Day prior to the prepayment date, to decline all or any portion of any prepayment of its Tranche B-1 Term Loans or Incremental Term Loans of any such Class pursuant to this Section (other than an optional prepayment pursuant to paragraph (a) of this Section, which may not be declined), in which case the aggregate amount of the prepayment that would have been applied to prepay Tranche B-1 Term Loans or Incremental Term Loans of any such Class but was so declined shall be applied to prepay Tranche A Term Loan Borrowings (and, if no Tranche A Term Loan Borrowings remain outstanding, shall be retained by the Borrower).
(f) The Borrower shall notify the Administrative Agent (and, in the case of prepayment of a Swingline Loan, the Swingline Lender) by telephone (confirmed by telecopy) of any prepayment hereunder (i) in the case of prepayment of a Eurocurrency Borrowing, not later than 11:00 a.m., New York City time, three Business Days before the date of prepayment, (ii) in the case of prepayment of an ABR Borrowing, not later than 11:00 a.m., New York City time, one Business Day before the date of prepayment or (iii) in the case of prepayment of a Swingline Loan, not later than 12:00 noon, New York City time, on the date of prepayment. Each such notice shall be irrevocable and shall specify the prepayment date, the principal amount of each Borrowing or portion thereof to be prepaid and, in the case of a mandatory prepayment, a reasonably detailed calculation of the amount of such prepayment, provided that a notice of optional prepayment may state that such notice is conditional upon the effectiveness of other credit facilities or the receipt of the proceeds from the issuance of other Indebtedness, in which case such notice of prepayment may be revoked by the Borrower (by notice to the Administrative Agent on or prior to the specified date) if such condition is not satisfied. Promptly following receipt of any such notice (other than a notice relating solely to Swingline Loans), the Administrative Agent shall advise the Lenders of the contents thereof. Each partial prepayment of any Borrowing shall be in an amount that would be permitted in the case of an advance of a Borrowing of the same Type as provided in Section 2.02, except as necessary to apply fully the required amount of a mandatory prepayment. Each prepayment of a Borrowing shall be applied ratably to the Loans included in the prepaid Borrowing. Prepayments shall be accompanied by accrued interest to the extent required by Section 2.13.
SECTION 2.12. Fees. (a) The Borrower agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of each Lender a commitment fee, which shall accrue at a rate equal to 0.50% per annum on the average daily unused amount of the Revolving Commitment of such Lender during the period from and including the Effective Date to but excluding the date on which the Revolving Commitments terminate. Accrued commitment fees shall be payable in arrears on the third Business Day following the last day of March, June, September and December of each year and on the date on which the Revolving Commitments terminate, commencing on the first such date to occur after the Effective Date. All commitment fees shall be computed on the basis of a year of 360 days and shall be payable for the actual number of days elapsed (including the first day but excluding the last day). For purposes of computing commitment fees, a
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Global Revolving Commitment of a Lender shall be deemed to be used to the extent of the outstanding Global Revolving Loans and LC Exposure of such Lender (and the Swingline Exposure of such Lender shall be disregarded for such purpose).
(b) The Borrower agrees to pay (i) to the Administrative Agent for the account of each Global Revolving Lender a participation fee with respect to its participations in Letters of Credit, which shall accrue at the same Applicable Rate used to determine the interest rate applicable to Eurocurrency Revolving Loans on the average daily amount of such Lender’s LC Exposure (excluding any portion thereof attributable to unreimbursed LC Disbursements) during the period from and including the Effective Date to but excluding the later of the date on which such Lender’s Revolving Commitment terminates and the date on which such Lender ceases to have any LC Exposure, and (ii) to each Issuing Bank a fronting fee in respect of each Letter of Credit issued by such Issuing Bank, which shall accrue at a rate equal to 0.25% per annum on the average daily amount of the LC Exposure (excluding any portion thereof attributable to unreimbursed LC Disbursements) during the period from and including the Effective Date to but excluding the later of the date of termination of the Revolving Commitments and the date on which there ceases to be any LC Exposure, as well as such Issuing Bank’s standard fees with respect to the issuance, amendment, renewal or extension of any Letter of Credit or processing of drawings thereunder. Participation fees and fronting fees accrued through and including the last day of March, June, September and December of each year shall be payable on the third Business Day following such last day, commencing on the first such date to occur after the Effective Date, provided that all such fees shall be payable on the date on which the Revolving Commitments terminate and any such fees accruing after the date on which the Revolving Commitments terminate shall be payable on demand. Any other fees payable to any Issuing Bank pursuant to this paragraph shall be payable within 10 days after demand. All participation fees and fronting fees shall be computed on the basis of a year of 360 days and shall be payable for the actual number of days elapsed (including the first day but excluding the last day).
(c) The Borrower agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent, for its own account, fees payable in the amounts and at the times separately agreed upon between the Borrower and the Administrative Agent.
(d) All fees payable hereunder shall be paid on the dates due, in immediately available funds, to the Administrative Agent (or to the applicable Issuing Bank, in the case of fees payable to it) for distribution, in the case of commitment fees and participation fees, to the Lenders entitled thereto. Fees paid shall not be refundable under any circumstances.
SECTION 2.13. Interest. (a) The Loans comprising each ABR Borrowing (including each Swingline Loan) shall bear interest at the Alternate Base Rate plus the Applicable Rate.
(b) The Loans comprising each Eurocurrency Borrowing shall bear interest at the Adjusted Eurocurrency Rate for the Interest Period in effect for such Borrowing plus the Applicable Rate.
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(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, if any principal of or interest on any Loan or any fee or other amount payable by the Borrower hereunder is not paid when due, whether at stated maturity, upon acceleration or otherwise, such overdue amount shall bear interest, after as well as before judgment, at a rate per annum equal to (i) in the case of overdue principal of or interest on any Loan, 2.00% plus the rate otherwise applicable to such Loan as provided in the preceding paragraphs of this Section or (ii) in the case of any other amount, 2.00% plus the rate applicable to ABR Revolving Loans as provided in paragraph (a) of this Section.
(d) Accrued interest on each Loan shall be payable in arrears on each Interest Payment Date for such Loan and, in the case of Revolving Loans, upon termination of the Revolving Commitments, provided that (i) interest accrued pursuant to paragraph (c) of this Section shall be payable on demand, (ii) in the event of any repayment or prepayment of any Loan (other than a prepayment of an ABR Revolving Loan prior to the end of the Revolving Availability Period), accrued interest on the principal amount repaid or prepaid shall be payable on the date of such repayment or prepayment and (iii) in the event of any conversion of any Eurocurrency Loan prior to the end of the current Interest Period therefor, accrued interest on such Loan shall be payable on the effective date of such conversion.
(e) All interest hereunder shall be computed on the basis of a year of 360 days, except that (i) interest on Loans denominated in Sterling and (ii) interest computed by reference to the Alternate Base Rate at times when the Alternate Base Rate is based on the Prime Rate shall be computed on the basis of a year of 365 days (or 366 days in a leap year), and in each case shall be payable for the actual number of days elapsed (including the first day but excluding the last day). The applicable Alternate Base Rate or Adjusted Eurocurrency Rate shall be determined by the Administrative Agent, and such determination shall be conclusive absent manifest error.
SECTION 2.14. Alternate Rate of Interest. If prior to the commencement of any Interest Period for a Eurocurrency Borrowing denominated in any currency:
(a) the Administrative Agent determines (which determination shall be conclusive absent manifest error) that adequate and reasonable means do not exist for ascertaining the Adjusted Eurocurrency Rate for such Interest Period; or
(b) the Administrative Agent is advised by the Required Lenders that the Adjusted Eurocurrency Rate for such Interest Period will not adequately and fairly reflect the cost to such Lenders of making or maintaining their Loans included in such Borrowing for such Interest Period;
then the Administrative Agent shall give notice thereof to the Borrower and the Lenders by telephone or telecopy as promptly as practicable thereafter and, until the Administrative Agent notifies the Borrower and the Lenders that the circumstances giving rise to such notice no longer exist, (i) any Interest Election Request that requests the conversion of any Borrowing denominated in such currency to, or continuation of any Borrowing denominated in such currency as, a Eurocurrency Borrowing shall be
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ineffective, and any Eurocurrency Borrowing denominated in such currency that is requested to be continued (A) if such currency is the U.S. Dollar, shall be converted to an ABR Borrowing on the last day of the Interest Period applicable thereto and (B) if such currency is an Alternative Currency, shall be repaid on the last day of the Interest Period applicable thereto, and (ii) if any Borrowing Request requests a Eurocurrency Borrowing denominated in such currency (A) if such currency is the U.S. Dollar, such Borrowing shall be made as an ABR Borrowing and (B) if such currency is an Alternative Currency, such Borrowing Request shall be ineffective.
SECTION 2.15. Increased Costs. (a) If any Change in Law shall:
(i) impose, modify or deem applicable any reserve, special deposit, compulsory loan, insurance charge or similar requirement against assets of, deposits with or for the account of, or credit extended by, any Lender or Issuing Bank (except any such reserve requirement reflected in the Adjusted Eurocurrency Rate); or
(ii) impose on any Lender or Issuing Bank or the London interbank market any other condition, cost or expense affecting this Agreement or Eurocurrency Loans made by such Lender or any Letter of Credit or participation therein;
and the result of any of the foregoing shall be to increase the cost to such Lender of making or maintaining any Eurocurrency Loan (or of maintaining its obligation to make any such Loan) or to increase the cost to such Lender or Issuing Bank of participating in, issuing or maintaining any Letter of Credit or to reduce the amount of any sum received or receivable by such Lender or Issuing Bank hereunder (whether of principal, interest or otherwise), then the Borrower will pay to such Lender or the Issuing Bank, as the case may be, such additional amount or amounts as will compensate such Lender or Issuing Bank, as the case may be, for such additional costs incurred or reduction suffered.
(b) If any Lender or Issuing Bank determines that any Change in Law regarding capital requirements has or would have the effect of reducing the rate of return on such Lender’s or Issuing Bank’s capital or on the capital of such Lender’s or Issuing Bank’s holding company, if any, as a consequence of this Agreement or the Loans made by, or participations in Letters of Credit held by, such Lender, or the Letters of Credit issued by such Issuing Bank, to a level below that which such Lender or such Issuing Bank or such Lender’s or such Issuing Bank’s holding company could have achieved but for such Change in Law (taking into consideration such Lender’s or such Issuing Bank’s policies and the policies of such Lender’s or such Issuing Bank’s holding company with respect to capital adequacy), then from time to time the Borrower will pay to such Lender or such Issuing Bank, as the case may be, such additional amount or amounts as will compensate such Lender or such Issuing Bank or such Lender’s or such Issuing Bank’s holding company for any such reduction suffered.
(c) A certificate of a Lender or an Issuing Bank setting forth the amount or amounts necessary to compensate such Lender or Issuing Bank or its holding company, as the case may be, as specified in paragraph (a) or (b) of this Section shall be
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delivered to the Borrower and shall be conclusive absent manifest error. The Borrower shall pay such Lender or Issuing Bank, as the case may be, the amount shown as due on any such certificate within 10 days after receipt thereof.
(d) Failure or delay on the part of any Lender or any Issuing Bank to demand compensation pursuant to this Section shall not constitute a waiver of such Lender’s or Issuing Bank’s right to demand such compensation, provided that the Borrower shall not be required to compensate a Lender or an Issuing Bank pursuant to this Section for any increased costs or reductions incurred more than 270 days prior to the date that such Lender or Issuing Bank, as the case may be, notifies the Borrower of the Change in Law giving rise to such increased costs or reductions and of such Lender’s or Issuing Bank’s intention to claim compensation therefor, provided further that, if the Change in Law giving rise to such increased costs or reductions is retroactive, then the 270-day period referred to above shall be extended to include the period of retroactive effect thereof.
SECTION 2.16. Break Funding Payments. In the event of (a) the payment of any principal of any Eurocurrency Loan other than on the last day of an Interest Period applicable thereto (including as a result of an Event of Default), (b) the conversion of any Eurocurrency Loan other than on the last day of the Interest Period applicable thereto, (c) the failure to borrow, convert, continue or prepay any Revolving Loan or Term Loan on the date specified in any notice delivered pursuant hereto (regardless of whether such notice may be revoked under Section 2.11(f) and is revoked in accordance therewith) or (d) the assignment of any Eurocurrency Loan other than on the last day of the Interest Period applicable thereto as a result of a request by the Borrower pursuant to Section 2.19 or Section 9.02(c), then, in any such event, the Borrower shall compensate each Lender for the loss, cost and expense attributable to such event. In the case of a Eurocurrency Loan, such loss, cost or expense to any Lender shall be deemed to include an amount determined by such Lender to be the excess, if any, of (i) the amount of interest that would have accrued on the principal amount of such Loan had such event not occurred, at the Adjusted Eurocurrency Rate that would have been applicable to such Loan, for the period from the date of such event to the last day of the then current Interest Period therefor (or, in the case of a failure to borrow, convert or continue, for the period that would have been the Interest Period for such Loan), over (ii) the amount of interest that would accrue on such principal amount for such period at the interest rate that such Lender would bid were it to bid, at the commencement of such period, for dollar deposits of a comparable amount and period from other banks in the eurocurrency market. A certificate of any Lender setting forth any amount or amounts that such Lender is entitled to receive pursuant to this Section shall be delivered to the Borrower and shall be conclusive absent manifest error. The Borrower shall pay such Lender the amount shown as due on any such certificate within 10 days after receipt thereof.
SECTION 2.17. Taxes. (a) Any and all payments by or on account of any obligation of any Loan Party under any Loan Document shall be made free and clear of and without deduction for any Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes, provided that if the Borrower shall be required to deduct any Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes from such
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payments, then (i) the sum payable shall be increased as necessary so that after making all required deductions (including deductions applicable to additional sums payable under this Section) the Administrative Agent, Lender or Issuing Bank (as the case may be) receives an amount equal to the sum it would have received had no such deductions been made, (ii) the Borrower shall make such deductions and (iii) the Borrower shall pay the full amount deducted to the relevant Governmental Authority in accordance with applicable law.
(b) Without limiting the provisions of paragraph (a) above, the Borrower shall timely pay any Other Taxes to the relevant Governmental Authority in accordance with applicable law.
(c) The Borrower shall indemnify the Administrative Agent, each Lender and each Issuing Bank, within 10 days after written demand therefor, for the full amount of any Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes paid by the Administrative Agent, such Lender or such Issuing Bank, as the case may be, on or with respect to any payment by or on account of any obligation of the Borrower under any Loan Document (including Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes imposed or asserted on or attributable to amounts payable under this Section) and any penalties, interest and reasonable expenses arising therefrom or with respect thereto, whether or not such Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes were correctly or legally imposed or asserted by the relevant Governmental Authority, provided that the Borrower shall not be obligated to make payment to the Administrative Agent, such Lender or such Issuing Bank pursuant to this Section in respect of penalties, interest and other liabilities attributable to any Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes if (i) written demand therefor has not been made by the Administrative Agent, such Lender or such Issuing Bank within 30 days from the date on which the Administrative Agent, such Lender or such Issuing Bank knew of the imposition of Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes by the relevant Governmental Authority, (ii) such penalties, interest and other liabilities have accrued after the Borrower has indemnified or paid any additional amount pursuant to this Section or (iii) such penalties, interest and other liabilities are attributable to the gross negligence or wilful misconduct of the Administrative Agent, such Lender or such Issuing Bank. After the Administrative Agent, a Lender or an Issuing Bank learns of the imposition of Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes, the Administrative Agent, such Lender or such Issuing Bank, as the case may be, will act in good faith to promptly notify the Borrower of its obligations hereunder. A certificate as to the amount of such payment or liability delivered to the Borrower by a Lender or an Issuing Bank, or by the Administrative Agent on its own behalf or on behalf of a Lender or an Issuing Bank, shall be conclusive absent manifest error.
(d) As soon as practicable after any payment of Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes by the Borrower to a Governmental Authority, the Borrower shall deliver to the Administrative Agent the original or a certified copy of a receipt issued by such Governmental Authority evidencing such payment, a copy of the return reporting such payment or other evidence of such payment reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.
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(e) Any Foreign Lender that is entitled to an exemption from or reduction of withholding tax under the law of the jurisdiction in which the Borrower is located, or any treaty to which such jurisdiction is a party, with respect to payments under this Agreement shall deliver to the Borrower (with a copy to the Administrative Agent), at the time or times prescribed by applicable law, such properly completed and executed documentation prescribed by applicable law or reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent as will permit such payments to be made without withholding or at a reduced rate, provided that such Foreign Lender has received written notice from the Borrower or Administrative Agent, as the case may be, advising it of the availability of such exemption or reduction and supplying all applicable documentation.
(f) If the Administrative Agent, a Lender or an Issuing Bank determines that it is entitled to receive a refund from a Governmental Authority in respect of Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes as to which it has been indemnified by the Borrower pursuant to this Section, or with respect to which the Borrower has paid additional amounts pursuant to this Section, it shall promptly notify the Borrower of the availability of such refund and shall, within 30 days after receipt of a request by the Borrower (whether as a result of notification that it has made to the Borrower or otherwise), make a claim to such Governmental Authority for such refund at the Borrower’s expense. If the Administrative Agent, an Issuing Bank or a Lender determines, in its sole discretion, that it has received a refund of any Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes as to which it has been indemnified by the Borrower or with respect to which the Borrower has paid additional amounts pursuant to this Section, it shall pay over such refund to the Borrower (but only to the extent of indemnity payments made, or additional amounts paid, by the Borrower under this Section with respect to the Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes giving rise to such refund), net of all out-of-pocket expenses of the Administrative Agent, such Issuing Bank or such Lender and without interest (other than any interest paid by the relevant Governmental Authority with respect to such refund), provided, that the Borrower, upon the request of the Administrative Agent, such Issuing Bank or such Lender, agrees to repay the amount paid over to the Borrower (plus any penalties, interest or other charges imposed by the relevant Governmental Authority) to the Administrative Agent, such Issuing Bank or such Lender in the event the Administrative Agent, such Issuing Bank or such Lender is required to repay such refund to such Governmental Authority. This Section shall not be construed to require the Administrative Agent, any Issuing Bank or any Lender to make available its tax returns (or any other information relating to its taxes that it deems confidential) to the Borrower or any other Person.
SECTION 2.18. Payments Generally; Pro Rata Treatment; Sharing of Setoffs. (a) The Borrower shall make each payment required to be made by it under any Loan Document (whether of principal, interest, fees or reimbursement of LC Disbursements, or of amounts payable under Section 2.15, 2.16 or 2.17, or otherwise) prior to the time expressly required hereunder or under such other Loan Document for such payment (or, if no such time is expressly required, prior to 12:00 noon, New York City time), on the date when due, in immediately available funds, without setoff or counterclaim. Any amounts received after such time on any date may, in the discretion of the Administrative Agent, be deemed to have been received on the next succeeding Business Day for purposes of calculating interest thereon. All such payments shall be
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made to the Administrative Agent to the applicable account designated to the Borrower by the Administrative Agent, except payments to be made directly to an Issuing Bank or Swingline Lender as expressly provided herein and except that payments pursuant to Sections 2.15, 2.16, 2.17 and 9.03 shall be made directly to the Persons entitled thereto and payments pursuant to other Loan Documents shall be made to the Persons specified therein. The Administrative Agent shall distribute any such payments received by it for the account of any other Person to the appropriate recipient promptly following receipt thereof. If any payment under any Loan Document shall be due on a day that is not a Business Day, the date for payment shall be extended to the next succeeding Business Day and, in the case of any payment accruing interest, interest thereon shall be payable for the period of such extension. All payments under each Loan Document of principal or interest in respect of any Loan (or of any breakage indemnity in respect of any Loan) shall be made in the currency of such Loan, and, except as otherwise expressly set forth in any Loan Document, all other payments under each Loan Document shall be made in U.S. Dollars.
(b) If at any time insufficient funds are received by and available to the Administrative Agent to pay fully all amounts of principal, unreimbursed LC Disbursements, interest and fees then due hereunder, such funds shall be applied (i) first, towards payment of interest and fees then due hereunder, ratably among the parties entitled thereto in accordance with the amounts of interest and fees then due to such parties, and (ii) second, towards payment of principal and unreimbursed LC Disbursements then due hereunder, ratably among the parties entitled thereto in accordance with the amounts of principal and unreimbursed LC Disbursements then due to such parties.
(c) If any Lender shall, by exercising any right of setoff or counterclaim or otherwise, obtain payment in respect of any principal of or interest on any of its Revolving Loans, Term Loans or participations in LC Disbursements or Swingline Loans resulting in such Lender receiving payment of a greater proportion of the aggregate amount of its Revolving Loans, Term Loans and participations in LC Disbursements and Swingline Loans and accrued interest thereon than the proportion received by any other Lender, then the Lender receiving such greater proportion shall purchase (for cash at face value) participations in the Revolving Loans, Term Loans and participations in LC Disbursements and Swingline Loans of other Lenders to the extent necessary so that the benefit of all such payments shall be shared by the Lenders ratably in accordance with the aggregate amount of principal of and accrued interest on their respective Revolving Loans, Term Loans and participations in LC Disbursements and Swingline Loans, provided that (i) if any such participations are purchased and all or any portion of the payment giving rise thereto is recovered, such participations shall be rescinded and the purchase price restored to the extent of such recovery, without interest, and (ii) the provisions of this paragraph shall not be construed to apply to any payment made by the Borrower pursuant to and in accordance with the express terms of this Agreement or any payment obtained by a Lender as consideration for the assignment of or sale of a participation in any of its Loans or participations in LC Disbursements to any assignee or participant, other than to the Borrower or any Subsidiary or other Affiliate thereof (as to which the provisions of this paragraph shall apply). The Borrower consents to the
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foregoing and agrees, to the extent it may effectively do so under applicable law, that any Lender acquiring a participation pursuant to the foregoing arrangements may exercise against the Borrower rights of setoff and counterclaim with respect to such participation as fully as if such Lender were a direct creditor of the Borrower in the amount of such participation.
(d) Unless the Administrative Agent shall have received notice from the Borrower prior to the date on which any payment is due to the Administrative Agent for the account of the Lenders or the applicable Issuing Bank hereunder that the Borrower will not make such payment, the Administrative Agent may assume that the Borrower has made such payment on such date in accordance herewith and may, in reliance upon such assumption and in its sole discretion, distribute to the Lenders or such Issuing Bank, as the case may be, the amount due. In such event, if the Borrower has not in fact made such payment, then each of the Lenders or the applicable Issuing Bank, as the case may be, severally agrees to repay to the Administrative Agent forthwith on demand the amount so distributed to such Lender or Issuing Bank with interest thereon, for each day from and including the date such amount is distributed to it to but excluding the date of payment to the Administrative Agent, at the greater of the Federal Funds Effective Rate and a rate determined by the Administrative Agent in accordance with banking industry rules on interbank compensation.
(e) If any Lender shall fail to make any payment required to be made by it pursuant to Section 2.04(c), 2.05(d) or (e), 2.06(a) or (b), 2.18(d) or 9.03(c), then the Administrative Agent may, in its discretion (notwithstanding any contrary provision hereof), apply any amounts thereafter received by the Administrative Agent for the account of such Lender to satisfy such Lender’s obligations under such Sections until all such unsatisfied obligations are fully paid.
SECTION 2.19. Mitigation Obligations; Replacement of Lenders. (a) If any Lender requests compensation under Section 2.15, or if the Borrower is required to pay any additional amount to the Administrative Agent, any Issuing Bank or any Lender or any Governmental Authority for the account of any Lender pursuant to Section 2.17, then the Administrative Agent, such Issuing Bank or such Lender shall use reasonable efforts to designate a different lending office for funding or booking its Loans hereunder or to assign its rights and obligations hereunder to another of its offices, branches or affiliates, if, in the judgment of the Administrative Agent, such Issuing Bank or such Lender, such designation or assignment (i) would eliminate or reduce amounts payable pursuant to Section 2.15 or 2.17, as the case may be, in the future and (ii) would not subject the Administrative Agent, such Issuing Bank or such Lender to any unreimbursed cost or expense and would not be inconsistent with its reasonable internal policies or otherwise be disadvantageous to the Administrative Agent, such Issuing Bank or such Lender. The Borrower hereby agrees to pay all reasonable costs and expenses incurred by the Administrative Agent, any Issuing Bank or any Lender in connection with any such designation or assignment.
(b) If any Lender requests compensation under Section 2.15, or if the Borrower is required to pay any additional amount to any Lender or any Governmental
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Authority for the account of any Lender pursuant to Section 2.17, or if any Lender defaults in its obligation to fund Loans hereunder, then the Borrower may, at its sole expense and effort, upon notice to such Lender and the Administrative Agent, require such Lender to assign and delegate, without recourse (in accordance with and subject to the restrictions contained in Section 9.04), all its interests, rights and obligations under this Agreement to an assignee that shall assume such obligations (which assignee may be another Lender, if a Lender accepts such assignment), provided that (i) the Borrower shall have received the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent (and, if a Revolving Commitment is being assigned, each Issuing Bank and the Swingline Lender), which consent shall not unreasonably be withheld, (ii) such Lender shall have received payment of an amount equal to the outstanding principal of its Loans and participations in LC Disbursements and Swingline Loans, accrued interest thereon, accrued fees and all other amounts payable to it hereunder from the assignee (to the extent of such outstanding principal and accrued interest and fees) or the Borrower (in the case of all other amounts), (iii) the Borrower or such assignee shall have paid to the Administrative Agent the processing and recordation fee specified in Section 9.04(b) and (iv) in the case of any such assignment resulting from a claim for compensation under Section 2.15 or payments required to be made pursuant to Section 2.17, such assignment will result in a material reduction in such compensation or payments. A Lender shall not be required to make any such assignment and delegation if, prior thereto, as a result of a waiver by such Lender or otherwise (including as a result of any action taken by such Lender under paragraph (a) above), the circumstances entitling the Borrower to require such assignment and delegation cease to apply.
SECTION 2.20. Incremental Term Loans. (a) At any time and from time to time prior to the Tranche B-1 Maturity Date, subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, the Borrower may, by notice to the Administrative Agent (whereupon the Administrative Agent shall promptly deliver a copy to each of the Lenders), request to add one or more additional tranches of term loans (the “Incremental Term Loans”), provided that at the time of each such request and upon the effectiveness of each Incremental Facility Amendment, (A) no Default has occurred and is continuing or shall result therefrom, (B) the Borrower shall be in compliance on a Pro Forma Basis with the covenants contained in Sections 6.12, 6.13 and 6.14 recomputed as of the last day of the most-recently ended fiscal quarter of the Borrower for which financial statements have been delivered pursuant to Section 5.01(a) or (b) and (C) the Borrower shall have delivered a certificate of a Financial Officer to the effect set forth in clauses (A) and (B) above, together with reasonably detailed calculations demonstrating compliance with clause (B) above. Notwithstanding anything to contrary herein, the aggregate principal amount of the Incremental Term Loans shall not exceed $150,000,000. Each tranche of Incremental Term Loans shall be in an integral multiple of $1,000,000 and be in an aggregate principal amount that is not less than $50,000,000, provided that such amount may be less than $50,000,000 if such amount represents all the remaining availability under the aggregate principal amount of Incremental Term Loans set forth above.
(b) The Incremental Term Loans (i) shall rank pari passu or junior in right of payment in respect of the Collateral and with the Obligations in respect of the Revolving Commitments, the Tranche A Term Loans and the Tranche B-1 Term Loans,
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(ii) for purposes of prepayments, shall be treated substantially the same as (and in any event no more favorably than) the Tranche B-1 Term Loans and (iii) other than amortization, pricing or maturity date, shall have the same terms as the Tranche B-1 Term Loans, provided that (A) if the Applicable Rate (which, for such purposes only, shall be deemed to include all upfront or similar fees or original issue discount payable to all Lenders providing such Incremental Term Loans) relating to any Incremental Term Loan exceeds the Applicable Rate (which, for such purposes only, shall be deemed to include all upfront or similar fees or original issue discount payable to all Lenders providing the Tranche B-1 Term Loans) relating to the Tranche B-1 Term Loans immediately prior to the effectiveness of the applicable Incremental Facility Amendment by more than 0.25%, the Applicable Rate relating to the Tranche B-1 Term Loans shall be adjusted to be equal to the Applicable Rate (which, for such purposes only, shall be deemed to include all upfront or similar fees or original issue discount payable to all Lenders providing such Incremental Term Loans) relating to such Incremental Term Loans minus 0.25%, (B) any Incremental Term Loan shall not have a final maturity date earlier than the Tranche B-1 Maturity Date and (C) any Incremental Term Loan shall not have a weighted average life that is shorter than the weighted average life of the then-remaining Tranche B-1 Term Loans.
(c) Each notice from the Borrower pursuant to this Section shall set forth the requested amount and proposed terms of the relevant Incremental Term Loans. Any additional bank, financial institution, existing Lender or other Person that elects to extend Incremental Term Loans shall be reasonably satisfactory to the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and the Syndication Agent (any such bank, financial institution, existing Lender or other Person being called an “Additional Lender”) and, if not already a Lender, shall become a Lender under this Agreement pursuant to an amendment (an “Incremental Facility Amendment”) to this Agreement and, as appropriate, the other Loan Documents, executed by Holdings, the Borrower, such Additional Lender and the Administrative Agent. No Incremental Facility Amendment shall require the consent of any Lenders other than the Additional Lenders with respect to such Incremental Facility Amendment. No Lender shall be obligated to provided any Incremental Term Loans, unless it so agrees. Commitments in respect of any Incremental Term Loans shall become Commitments under this Agreement. An Incremental Facility Amendment may, without the consent of any other Lenders, effect such amendments to any Loan Documents as may be necessary or appropriate, in the opinion of the Administrative Agent, to effect the provisions of this Section (including to provide for voting provisions applicable to the Additional Lenders comparable to the provisions of clause (B) of the second proviso of Section 9.02(b)) . The effectiveness of any Incremental Facility Amendment shall, unless otherwise agreed to by the Administrative Agent and the Additional Lenders, be subject to the satisfaction on the date thereof (each, an “Incremental Facility Closing Date”) of each of the conditions set forth in Section 4.02 (it being understood that all references to “the date of such Borrowing” in Section 4.02 shall be deemed to refer to the Incremental Facility Closing Date). The proceeds of any Incremental Term Loans will be used only for general corporate purposes (including Permitted Acquisitions).
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ARTICLE III
Representations and Warranties
Each of Holdings and the Borrower represents and warrants to the Lenders that:
SECTION 3.01. Organization; Powers. Each Loan Party is duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its organization, has all requisite power and authority to carry on its business as now conducted and as proposed to be conducted, to execute, deliver and perform its obligations under each Loan Document to which it is a party and to effect the Transactions and, except where the failure to do so, individually or in the aggregate, could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, is qualified to do business in, and is in good standing in, every jurisdiction where such qualification is required.
SECTION 3.02. Authorization; Enforceability. The Transactions to be entered into by each Loan Party have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate or other action and, if required, action by the holders of such Loan Party’s Equity Interests. This Agreement has been duly executed and delivered by each of Holdings and the Borrower and constitutes, and each other Loan Document to which any Loan Party is to be a party, when executed and delivered by such Loan Party, will constitute, a legal, valid and binding obligation of Holdings, the Borrower or such Loan Party (as the case may be), enforceable in accordance with its terms, subject to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or other laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and subject to general principles of equity, regardless of whether considered in a proceeding in equity or at law.
SECTION 3.03. Governmental Approvals; No Conflicts. The Transactions (a) do not require any consent or approval of, registration or filing with, or any other action by, any Governmental Authority, except such as have been obtained or made and are in full force and effect and except filings necessary to perfect Liens created under the Loan Documents, (b) will not violate the Organizational Documents of Holdings, the Borrower or any Subsidiary, (c) will not violate any Requirement of Law applicable to Holdings, the Borrower or any Subsidiary, (d) will not violate or result in a default under any indenture, agreement or other instrument (including all Franchise Agreements) binding upon Holdings, the Borrower or any Subsidiary or their respective assets, or give rise to a right thereunder to require any payment to be made by Holdings, the Borrower or any Subsidiary or give rise to a right of, or result in, termination, cancelation or acceleration of any obligation thereunder, and (e) will not result in the creation or imposition of any Lien on any asset of Holdings, the Borrower or any Subsidiary (except Liens created under the Loan Documents), except, in the cases of clauses (c) and (d), for any such violations or defaults that, individually or in the aggregate, could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.
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SECTION 3.04. Financial Condition; No Material Adverse Change. (a) Holdings has heretofore furnished to the Lenders its consolidated balance sheet and consolidated statements of operations, stockholders’ equity and cash flows (i) as of and for each of the fiscal years ended June 30, 2003, June 30, 2004 and June 30, 2005, reported on by KPMG LLP, independent public accountants, and (ii) as of and for each of the fiscal quarters ended September 30, 2005 and December 31, 2005 (and comparable periods for the prior fiscal year), certified by its chief financial officer. Except as set forth in Schedule 3.04, such financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position and results of operations and cash flows of Holdings, the Borrower and the Subsidiaries as of such dates and for such periods in accordance with GAAP consistently applied, subject to year-end audit adjustments and the absence of footnotes in the case of the statements referred to in clause (ii) above.
(b) Holdings has heretofore furnished to the Lenders its pro forma consolidated balance sheet as of December 31, 2005, prepared giving effect to the Restatement Transactions as if the Restatement Transactions had occurred on such date. Such pro forma consolidated balance sheet (i) has been prepared in good faith based on the same assumptions used to prepare the pro forma financial statements included in the Information Memorandum (which assumptions are believed by Holdings and the Borrower to be reasonable), (ii) is based on information available to Holdings and the Borrower after due inquiry, (iii) accurately reflects all adjustments necessary to give effect to the Transactions and (iv) presents fairly, in all material respects, the pro forma financial position of Holdings, the Borrower and the Subsidiaries as of December 31, 2005, as if the Transactions had occurred on such date.
(c) Except as disclosed in the financial statements referred to above or the notes thereto or in the Information Memorandum and except for the Disclosed Matters, after giving effect to the Transactions, none of Holdings, the Borrower or the Subsidiaries has, as of the Effective Date, any material contingent liabilities, unusual long-term commitments or unrealized losses, in each case outside the ordinary course of business.
(d) No event, change or condition has occurred that has had, or could reasonably be expected to have, a material adverse effect on the business, operations or financial condition of Holdings, the Borrower and the Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, since June 30, 2005.
SECTION 3.05. Properties. (a) Each of Holdings, the Borrower and the Subsidiaries has good title to, or valid leasehold interests in, all its real and personal property material to its business, except for defects in title that do not materially interfere with its ability to conduct its business as currently conducted or as proposed to be conducted.
(b) Each of Holdings, the Borrower and the Subsidiaries owns, or is licensed to use, all trademarks, tradenames, copyrights, patents and other intellectual property necessary to conduct its business, and the use thereof by Holdings, the Borrower and the Subsidiaries does not infringe upon the rights of any other Person, except for any
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such infringements that, individually or in the aggregate, could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.
SECTION 3.06. Litigation and Environmental Matters. (a) There are no actions, suits or proceedings or, to the knowledge of Holdings or the Borrower, investigations, by or before any arbitrator or Governmental Authority pending against or, to the knowledge of Holdings, the Borrower or any Subsidiary, threatened against or affecting Holdings, the Borrower or any Subsidiary (i) that could reasonably be expected, individually or in the aggregate, to result in a Material Adverse Effect (other than the Disclosed Matters) or (ii) that (x) on the Restatement Effective Date, involve any of the Loan Documents or the Restatement Transactions or (y) on the date of any credit event after the Restatement Effective Date, could affect the legality, validity or enforceability of any of the Loan Documents.
(b) Except for the Disclosed Matters and except with respect to any other matters that, individually or in the aggregate, could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, neither Holdings, the Borrower nor any Subsidiary (i) has failed to comply with any Environmental Law or to obtain, maintain or comply with any permit, license or other approval required under any Environmental Law, (ii) has become subject to any Environmental Liability, (iii) has received notice of any claim with respect to any Environmental Liability or (iv) knows of any basis for any Environmental Liability.
(c) Since the date of this Agreement, there has been no change in the status of the Disclosed Matters that, individually or in the aggregate, has resulted in, or could reasonably be expected to result in, a Material Adverse Effect.
SECTION 3.07. Compliance with Laws and Agreements. Each of Holdings, the Borrower and the Subsidiaries is in compliance with (a) its Organizational Documents, (b) all Requirements of Law applicable to it or its property and (c) all indentures, agreements and other instruments binding upon it or its property (including all Franchise Agreements), except, in the case of clauses (b) and (c) of this Section, where the failure to do so, individually or in the aggregate, could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.
SECTION 3.08. Investment and Holding Company Status. None of Holdings, the Borrower or any Subsidiary is (a) required to register as an “investment company” as defined in, or subject to regulation under, the Investment Company Act of 1940 or (b) a “holding company” as defined in, or subject to regulation under, the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935.
SECTION 3.09. Taxes. Each of Holdings, the Borrower and the Subsidiaries (a) has timely filed or caused to be filed all Tax returns and reports required to have been filed, except to the extent that failure to do so could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, and (b) has paid or caused to be paid all Taxes required to have been paid by it, except to the extent that the failure to do so would not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.
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SECTION 3.10. ERISA. No ERISA Event has occurred or is reasonably expected to occur that, when taken together with all other such ERISA Events for which liability is reasonably expected to occur, could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. The minimum funding standards of ERISA and the Code with respect to each Plan have been satisfied.
SECTION 3.11. Disclosure. The Borrower has disclosed to the Lenders all agreements, instruments and corporate or other restrictions to which Holdings, the Borrower or any Subsidiary is subject, and all other matters known to any of them, that, individually or in the aggregate, could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. Neither the Information Memorandum nor any of the other reports, financial statements, certificates or other information furnished by or on behalf of any Loan Party and made available by current management to the Administrative Agent or any Lender in connection with the negotiation of any Loan Document or delivered thereunder (as modified or supplemented by other information so furnished), when taken as a whole, contains any material misstatement of fact or omits to state any material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading as of the date made, provided that, with respect to projected financial information, Holdings and the Borrower represent only that such information was prepared in good faith based upon assumptions believed by them to be reasonable at the time delivered and, if such projected financial information was delivered (a) on or prior to the Effective Date, as of the Effective Date or (b) in connection with the Restatement Transactions on or prior to the Restatement Effective Date, as of the Restatement Effective Date (it being understood that such forecasts and projections are subject to significant uncertainties and contingencies, many of which are beyond the Borrower’s control, that no assurance can be given that forecasts or projections will be realized, and that actual results may differ from projections and such difference may be material).
SECTION 3.12. Subsidiaries. Holdings does not have any subsidiaries other than the Borrower and the Subsidiaries. Schedule 3.12 sets forth the name of, and the ownership interest of the Borrower and each Subsidiary in, each Subsidiary and identifies each Subsidiary that is a Subsidiary Loan Party, in each case as of the Restatement Effective Date.
SECTION 3.13. Labor Matters. As of the Restatement Effective Date, there are no strikes or lockouts or any other material labor disputes against Holdings, the Borrower or any Subsidiary pending or, to the knowledge of Holdings, the Borrower or any Subsidiary, threatened. There is no organizing activity involving Holdings, the Borrower or any Subsidiary pending or, to the knowledge of Holdings, the Borrower or any Subsidiary, threatened by any labor union or group of employees, except those that, in the aggregate, would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. There are no representation proceedings pending or, to the knowledge of Holdings, the Borrower or any Subsidiary, threatened with the National Mediation Board, and no labor organization or group of employees of Holdings, the Borrower or any Subsidiary has made a pending demand for recognition, except those that, in the aggregate, would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. There are no material
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complaints or charges against Holdings, the Borrower or any Subsidiary pending or, to the knowledge of Holdings, the Borrower or any Subsidiary, threatened to be filed with any Governmental Authority or arbitrator based on, arising out of, in connection with, or otherwise relating to the employment or termination of employment by Holdings, the Borrower or any Subsidiary of any individual, except those that, in the aggregate, would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. The consummation of the Transactions will not give rise to any right of termination or right of renegotiation on the part of any union under any collective bargaining agreement to which Holdings, the Borrower or any Subsidiary is bound.
SECTION 3.14. Solvency. Immediately after the consummation of the Transactions to occur on the Restatement Effective Date, (a) the fair value of the assets of each Loan Party, at a fair valuation, will exceed its debts and liabilities, subordinated, contingent or otherwise, (b) the present fair saleable value of the property of each Loan Party will be greater than the amount that will be required to pay the probable liability of its debts and other liabilities, subordinated, contingent or otherwise, as such debts and other liabilities become absolute and matured, (c) each Loan Party will be able to pay its debts and liabilities, subordinated, contingent or otherwise, as such debts and liabilities become absolute and matured, and (d) each Loan Party will not have unreasonably small capital with which to conduct the business in which it is engaged as such business is now conducted and is proposed to be conducted following such date.
SECTION 3.15. OFAC. None of Holdings, the Borrower or any Subsidiary is (a) named on the list of Specially Designated Nationals or Blocked Persons maintained by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control or (b)(i) an agency of the government of a country, (ii) an organization controlled by a country or (iii) a Person resident in a country, in each case that is subject to a sanctions program identified on the list maintained by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, as such program may be applicable to such agency, organization or Person, and the proceeds from the Loans will not be used to fund any operations in, finance any investments or activities in, or make any payments to, any such country or Person.
ARTICLE IV
Conditions
SECTION 4.01. [Intentionally Omitted]
SECTION 4.02. Each Credit Event. The obligation of each Lender to make a Loan on the occasion of any Borrowing, and of any Issuing Bank to issue, amend, renew or extend any Letter of Credit, is subject to receipt of the request therefor in accordance herewith and to the satisfaction of the following conditions:
(a) The representations and warranties of each Loan Party set forth in the Loan Documents that are qualified by materiality shall be true and correct, and the representations and warranties that are not so qualified shall be true and correct in all
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material respects, in each case on and as of the date of such Borrowing or the date of issuance, amendment, renewal or extension of such Letter of Credit, as the case may be (other than with respect to any representation and warranty that expressly relates to an earlier date, in which case such representation and warranty shall be true and correct, or true and correct in all material respects, as the case may be, as of such earlier date).
(b) At the time of and immediately after giving effect to such Borrowing or the issuance, amendment, renewal or extension of such Letter of Credit, as the case may be, no Default shall have occurred and be continuing.
Each Borrowing (provided that a conversion or a continuation of a Borrowing shall not constitute a “Borrowing” for purposes of this Section) and each issuance, amendment, renewal or extension of a Letter of Credit shall be deemed to constitute a representation and warranty by Holdings and the Borrower on the date thereof as to the matters specified in paragraphs (a) and (b) of this Section.
ARTICLE V
Affirmative Covenants
Until the Commitments have expired or been terminated and the principal of and interest on each Loan and all fees, expenses and other amounts (other than contingent amounts not yet due) payable under any Loan Document shall have been paid in full and all Letters of Credit shall have expired or been terminated (or, with respect to outstanding Letters of Credit, shall have been fully cash collateralized or backed by standby letters of credit reasonably acceptable to the applicable Issuing Bank) and all LC Disbursements shall have been reimbursed, each of Holdings and the Borrower covenants and agrees with the Lenders that:
SECTION 5.01. Financial Statements and Other Information. The Borrower will furnish to the Administrative Agent on behalf of each Lender:
(a) within 90 days after the end of each fiscal year of the Borrower, Holdings’s consolidated balance sheet and related consolidated statements of operations, stockholders’ equity and cash flows as of the end of and for such year, and related notes thereto, setting forth in each case in comparative form the figures for the previous fiscal year, all reported on by KPMG LLP or other independent public accountants of recognized national standing (without a “going concern” or like qualification or exception and without any qualification or exception as to the scope of such audit) to the effect that such consolidated financial statements present fairly in all material respects the financial condition and results of operations of Holdings, the Borrower and the Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP consistently applied;
(b) within 45 days after the end of each of the first three fiscal quarters of each fiscal year of the Borrower, Holdings’s consolidated balance sheet and related consolidated statements of operations, stockholders’ equity and cash flows
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as of the end of and for such fiscal quarter and the then elapsed portion of the fiscal year, setting forth in each case in comparative form the figures for the corresponding period or periods of (or, in the case of the balance sheet, as of the end of) the previous fiscal year, all certified by a Financial Officer as presenting fairly in all material respects the financial condition and results of operations of Holdings, the Borrower and the Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP consistently applied, subject to normal year-end audit adjustments and the absence of footnotes;
(c) within five Business Days of delivery of financial statements under paragraph (a) or (b) above, a certificate of a Financial Officer substantially in the form of Exhibit E (i) certifying as to whether a Default has occurred and, if a Default has occurred, specifying the details thereof and any action taken or proposed to be taken with respect thereto and (ii) setting forth reasonably detailed calculations (A) demonstrating compliance with the covenants contained in Sections 6.12, 6.13 and 6.14 and (B) in the case of financial statements delivered under paragraph (a) above, beginning with the financial statements for the fiscal year of the Borrower ending June 30, 2006, of Excess Cash Flow;
(d) within five Business Days of delivery of financial statements under paragraph (a) above, a certificate of the accounting firm that reported on such financial statements stating whether they obtained knowledge during the course of their examination of such financial statements of any Default under Section 6.12, 6.13 or 6.14 and, if such knowledge has been obtained, describing such Default (which certificate may be limited to the extent required by accounting rules or guidelines);
(e) if, as a result of any change in GAAP or in the application thereof from those in effect on the Restatement Effective Date, the financial statements delivered pursuant to clause (a) or (b) above will differ in any material respect from the financial statements that would have been delivered pursuant to such clauses had no such change in GAAP or the application thereof been made, then, together with the first delivery of financial statements pursuant to paragraph (a) or (b) above following such change, a schedule prepared by a Financial Officer on behalf of the Borrower reconciling such changes to what the financial statements would have been without giving effect to such change;
(f) no later than 45 days after the commencement of each fiscal year of the Borrower, a detailed consolidated budget for such fiscal year (including a projected consolidated balance sheet and consolidated statements of projected operations, income and cash flows as of the end of and for such fiscal year and setting forth the assumptions used for purposes of preparing such budget);
(g) promptly after the same become publicly available, copies of all annual, regular, special and periodic reports, proxy statements and registration statements (other than exhibits thereto and any registration statements on Form S-8 or its equivalent) filed by Holdings, the Borrower or any Subsidiary with the
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SEC or with any national securities exchange or, after an IPO, distributed by Holdings to the holders of its Equity Interests generally, as the case may be; and
(h) promptly following any request therefor, such other information regarding the operations, business affairs and financial condition of Holdings, the Borrower or any Subsidiary, or compliance with the terms of any Loan Document, as the Administrative Agent or any Lender may reasonably request.
SECTION 5.02. Notices of Material Events. Holdings and the Borrower will furnish to the Administrative Agent (for distribution to each Lender through the Administrative Agent) prompt written notice of the following:
(a) the occurrence of any Default;
(b) the filing or commencement of any action, suit or proceeding by or before any arbitrator or Governmental Authority against or, to the knowledge of Financial Officer or another executive officer of Holdings, the Borrower or any Subsidiary, affecting Holdings, the Borrower or any Affiliate thereof that could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect;
(c) the occurrence of any ERISA Event or any fact or circumstance that gives rise to a reasonable expectation that any ERISA Event will occur that, in either case, alone or together with any other ERISA Events that have occurred or are reasonably expected to occur, could reasonably be expected to result in liability of Holdings, the Borrower and the Subsidiaries in an aggregate amount exceeding $20,000,000;
(d) any change in the ratings of the credit facilities made available under this Agreement by S&P or Xxxxx’x, or any notice from either such agency indicating its intent to effect such a change or to place the Borrower or such credit facilities on a “CreditWatch” or “WatchList” or any similar list, in each case with negative implications, or its cessation of, or its intent to cease, rating such credit facilities; and
(e) any other development (including notice of any Environmental Liability) that results in, or could reasonably be expected to result in, a Material Adverse Effect.
Each notice delivered under this Section shall be accompanied by a written statement of a Financial Officer or other executive officer of the Borrower setting forth the details of the event or development requiring such notice and any action taken or proposed to be taken with respect thereto.
SECTION 5.03. Information Regarding Collateral. (a) The Borrower will furnish to the Administrative Agent prompt written notice of any change (i) in any Loan Party’s corporate name, (ii) in the jurisdiction of incorporation or organization of any Loan Party or (iii) in any Loan Party’s organizational identification number. The Borrower agrees not to effect or permit any change referred to in the preceding sentence
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unless all filings have been made under the Uniform Commercial Code or otherwise that are required in order for the Administrative Agent to continue at all times following such change to have a valid, legal and perfected security interest in all the Collateral.
(b) At the time of delivery of financial statements pursuant to Section 5.01(a), the Borrower shall deliver to the Administrative Agent a certificate executed by a Financial Officer or chief legal officer of the Borrower (i) setting forth the information required pursuant to Sections 1 and 2 of the Perfection Certificate or confirming that there has been no change in such information since the date of the Perfection Certificate delivered on the Effective Date or the date of the most recent certificate delivered pursuant to this Section and (ii) certifying that all Uniform Commercial Code financing statements containing a description of the Collateral have been filed of record in each governmental, municipal or other appropriate office in each jurisdiction identified pursuant to clause (i) above to the extent necessary to protect and perfect the security interests under the Collateral Agreement for a period of not less than 18 months after the date of such certificate (except as noted therein with respect to any continuation statements to be filed within such period).
SECTION 5.04. Existence; Conduct of Business. (a) Subject to paragraph (b) below, each of Holdings and the Borrower will, and will cause each Subsidiary to, do or cause to be done all things necessary to obtain, preserve, renew and keep in full force and effect its legal existence and the rights, licenses, permits, privileges, franchises, patents, copyrights, trademarks and trade names necessary for the conduct of its business, provided that the foregoing shall not prohibit any merger, consolidation, liquidation or dissolution permitted under Section 6.03.
(b) The Borrower will cause The Xxxxxxx Corporation to be dissolved as soon as practicable after the Effective Date, and the assets of such Subsidiary, to the extent they exceed estimated liabilities thereof, shall be acquired by the Borrower or a Subsidiary Loan Party in such dissolution.
SECTION 5.05. Payment of Obligations. Each of Holdings and the Borrower will, and will cause each Subsidiary to, pay its material obligations (other than Indebtedness and any obligations in respect of any Swap Agreements), including Tax liabilities, before the same shall become delinquent or in default, except where the validity or amount thereof is being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings or other appropriate actions and the failure to make payment pending such contest or action could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.
SECTION 5.06. Maintenance of Properties. Each of Holdings and the Borrower will, and will cause each Subsidiary to, keep and maintain all property in good working order and condition, ordinary wear and tear excepted, except where the failure to do so, individually or in the aggregate, could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.
SECTION 5.07. Insurance. Each of Holdings and the Borrower will, and will cause each Subsidiary to, maintain, with financially sound and reputable insurance
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companies, (a) insurance in such amounts (with no greater risk retention and giving effect to self-insurance) and against such risks as is (i) customarily maintained by companies of established repute engaged in the same or similar businesses operating in the same or similar locations and (ii) considered adequate by Holdings and the Borrower and (b) all insurance as may be required by law. The Borrower will furnish to the Lenders, upon request of the Administrative Agent, information in reasonable detail as to the insurance so maintained.
SECTION 5.08. Books and Records; Inspection and Audit Rights. Each of Holdings and the Borrower will, and will cause each Subsidiary to, keep proper books of record and account in which full, true and correct entries are made of all material dealings and transactions in relation to its business and activities. Each of Holdings and the Borrower will, and will cause each Subsidiary to, permit any representatives designated by the Administrative Agent or any Lender, upon reasonable prior notice, to visit and inspect its properties, to examine and make extracts from its books and records, and to discuss its affairs, finances and condition with its officers and independent accountants, all at such reasonable times during normal business hours and as often as reasonably requested, provided that visits by the Lenders shall be coordinated with the Administrative Agent and, so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, shall not occur more than twice in any fiscal year of the Borrower.
SECTION 5.09. Compliance with Laws. Each of Holdings and the Borrower will, and will cause each Subsidiary to, comply with all material Requirements of Law with respect to it or its property.
SECTION 5.10. Use of Proceeds and Letters of Credit. The proceeds of the Tranche B-1 Term Loans funded by the Tranche B-1 Lenders (and not converted), together with approximately $55,000,000 of Borrower’s cash on-hand (the “Cash Amount”), will be used only for (a) the prepayment on the Restatement Effective Date of all the outstanding Original Tranche B Term Loans (together with accrued interest thereon) pursuant to Section 2.11(a) of the 2005 Credit Agreement, (b) the declaration and payment of a dividend by Borrower to Holdings in an aggregate amount of up to $400,000,000, (c) (i) the declaration and payment of a dividend by Holdings to the holders of common share Equity Interests in Holdings and (ii) payments to certain holders of options issued by Holdings to acquire common share Equity Interests in Holdings and payments to certain holders of restricted share unit awards issued by Holdings, together, such payments under clauses (i) and (ii), in an aggregate amount of up to $400,000,000 and (d) the payment of fees, costs and expenses payable in connection with the Restatement Transactions (including amounts payable under Section 2.16 of the 2005 Credit Agreement). The proceeds of the Revolving Loans and Swingline Loans drawn after the Effective Date will be used only for general corporate purposes (including Permitted Acquisitions). No part of the proceeds of any Loan will be used, whether directly or indirectly, for any purpose that entails a violation of any of the Regulations of the Board, including Regulations T, U and X. Letters of Credit will be used only for general corporate purposes.
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SECTION 5.11. Additional Subsidiaries. If (a) any additional Subsidiary the Equity Interests of which are required to be pledged pursuant to the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement is formed or acquired after the Restatement Effective Date or (b) as of the end of any fiscal quarter of the Borrower, any Subsidiary that was a De Minimis Foreign Subsidiary no longer constitutes a De Minimis Foreign Subsidiary, then, in each case, the Borrower will, within five Business Days after (i) in the case of clause (a) above, the date such Subsidiary is formed or acquired or (ii) in the case of clause (b) above, the date on which financial statements are required to be delivered pursuant to Section 5.01(a) or (b) with respect to such fiscal quarter, notify the Administrative Agent thereof and, within ten calendar days after such Subsidiary is formed or acquired, in the case of Domestic Subsidiaries, and within 45 calendar days after such Subsidiary is formed or acquired (or, in the case of clause (b) above, within 45 calendar days after the end of such fiscal quarter), in the case of Foreign Subsidiaries, cause the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement to be satisfied with respect to such Subsidiary (if it is a Subsidiary Loan Party) and with respect to any Equity Interest in such Subsidiary owned by or on behalf of any Loan Party to the extent required to be pledged pursuant to the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement.
SECTION 5.12. Further Assurances. Each of Holdings and the Borrower will, and will cause each Subsidiary Loan Party to, execute any and all further documents, financing statements, agreements and instruments, and take all such further actions (including the filing and recording of financing statements and other documents), that may be required under any applicable law, or that the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders may reasonably request, to cause the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement to be and remain satisfied, all at the expense of the Loan Parties. Each of Holdings and the Borrower also agrees to provide to the Administrative Agent, from time to time upon request, evidence reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent as to the perfection and priority of the Liens created or intended to be created by the Security Documents. As soon as practicable after the Restatement Effective Date, the Borrower shall cause to be delivered to the Administrative Agent such additional documentation with respect to pledges of Equity Interests of Foreign Subsidiaries as the Administrative Agent shall have reasonably requested prior to the Restatement Effective Date.
SECTION 5.13. Interest Rate Protection. The Borrower will, for a period of not less than two years following the Effective Date, maintain in effect, one or more Swap Agreements with one or more Revolving Lenders (or any Affiliate of a Revolving Lender) or with such other parties as shall be reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent, the effect of which is that at least 33% of the aggregate principal amount of Term Loans will be subject to interest at a fixed rate or the interest cost in respect of which will be fixed, in each case on terms and conditions reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent.
SECTION 5.14. Rated Credit Facilities. Each of Holdings and the Borrower will use commercially reasonable efforts to cause the credit facilities made available under this Agreement to be continuously rated by S&P and Xxxxx’x.
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ARTICLE VI
Negative Covenants
Until the Commitments have expired or been terminated and the principal of and interest on each Loan and all fees, expenses and other amounts payable (other than contingent amounts not yet due) under any Loan Document have been paid in full and all Letters of Credit have expired or been terminated (or, with respect to outstanding Letters of Credit, shall have been fully cash collateralized or backed by standby letters of credit reasonably acceptable to the applicable Issuing Bank) and all LC Disbursements shall have been reimbursed, each of Holdings and the Borrower covenants and agrees with the Lenders that:
SECTION 6.01. Indebtedness; Certain Equity Securities. (a) The Borrower will not, and will not permit any Subsidiary to, create, incur, assume or permit to exist any Indebtedness, except:
(i) Indebtedness created under the Loan Documents;
(ii) Indebtedness existing on the Effective Date and set forth in Schedule 6.01 to the 2005 Credit Agreement and extensions, renewals and replacements of any such Indebtedness, provided that such extending, renewal or replacement Indebtedness (A) shall not be Indebtedness of an obligor that was not an obligor with respect to the Indebtedness being extended, renewed or replaced, (B) shall not be in a principal amount that exceeds the principal amount of the Indebtedness being extended, renewed or replaced (plus any accrued but unpaid interest and redemption premium payable by the terms of such Indebtedness thereon), (C) shall not have an earlier maturity date or shorter weighted average life than the Indebtedness being extended, renewed or replaced and (D) shall be subordinated to the Obligations on the same terms as the Indebtedness being extended, renewed or replaced;
(iii) Indebtedness of the Borrower to any Subsidiary and of any Subsidiary to the Borrower or any other Subsidiary, provided (A) that Indebtedness of any Subsidiary that is not a Loan Party to the Borrower or any Subsidiary Loan Party shall be subject to Section 6.04 and (B) Indebtedness of the Borrower to any Subsidiary and Indebtedness of any Subsidiary Loan Party to any Subsidiary that is not a Subsidiary Loan Party shall be subordinated to the Obligations on terms reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent;
(iv) Guarantees by the Borrower of Indebtedness of Holdings or any Subsidiary and by any Subsidiary of Indebtedness of Holdings, the Borrower or any other Subsidiary, provided that (A) the Indebtedness so Guaranteed is permitted by this Section (other than clause (a)(ii) or (a)(vi)), (B) Guarantees by the Borrower or any Subsidiary Loan Party of Indebtedness of any Subsidiary that is not a Loan Party shall be subject to Section 6.04, (C) Guarantees permitted under this clause (iv) shall be subordinated to the Obligations of the applicable
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Subsidiary to the same extent and on the same terms as the Indebtedness so Guaranteed is subordinated to the Obligations and (D) no Subordinated Debt shall be Guaranteed by any Subsidiary unless such Subsidiary is a Loan Party that has Guaranteed the Obligations pursuant to the Collateral Agreement;
(v) (A) Indebtedness of the Borrower or any Subsidiary incurred to finance the acquisition, construction or improvement of any fixed or capital assets, including Capital Lease Obligations and any Indebtedness assumed by the Borrower or any Subsidiary in connection with the acquisition of any such assets or secured by a Lien on any such assets prior to the acquisition thereof, provided that such Indebtedness is incurred prior to or within 180 days after such acquisition or the completion of such construction or improvement, (B) extensions, renewals and replacements of any such Indebtedness so long as the principal amount of any such extensions, renewals or replacements does not exceed the principal amount of the Indebtedness being extended, renewed or replaced (plus any accrued but unpaid interest and premium payable by the terms of such Indebtedness thereon) and (C) Capital Lease Obligations incurred by the Borrower or any Subsidiary in respect of any Permitted Sale and Leaseback Transaction, provided that the aggregate principal amount of Indebtedness permitted by sub-clauses (A) and (B) of this clause (v) shall not exceed $75,000,000 at any time outstanding;
(vi) Indebtedness of any Person (A) that becomes a Subsidiary or merges with or into a Subsidiary or the Borrower after the Effective Date or (B) all or substantially all the assets of which are acquired by the Borrower or any Subsidiary pursuant to a transaction in which Indebtedness is assumed by the Borrower or any Subsidiary, in each case after the Effective Date, provided that such Indebtedness exists at the time such Person becomes a Subsidiary or merges with or into a Subsidiary or the Borrower or at the time of such asset acquisition, and is not created in contemplation of or in connection with such Person becoming a Subsidiary or merging with or into a Subsidiary or the Borrower or at the time of such asset acquisition, and extensions, renewals and replacements of any such Indebtedness so long as the principal amount of such extensions, renewals and replacements does not exceed the principal amount of the Indebtedness being extended, renewed or replaced (plus any accrued but unpaid interest and redemption premium payable by the terms of such Indebtedness thereon), provided that the aggregate principal amount of Indebtedness permitted by this clause (vi) shall not exceed $30,000,000 at any time outstanding;
(vii) Indebtedness in respect of netting services, overdraft protection or in connection with deposit accounts and securities accounts, in each case incurred in the ordinary course of business;
(viii) Indebtedness owed to any Person (including obligations in respect of letters of credit for the benefit of such Person) providing workers’ compensation, health, disability or other employee benefits or property, casualty or liability
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insurance, pursuant to reimbursement or indemnification obligations to such Person, in each case incurred in the ordinary course of business;
(ix) Indebtedness of the Borrower or any Subsidiary in respect of performance bonds, bid bonds, appeal bonds, surety bonds, performance and completion guarantees and similar obligations (other than in respect of other Indebtedness for borrowed money), in each case provided in the ordinary course of business;
(x) Indebtedness in respect of Swap Agreements permitted by Section 6.07;
(xi) (A) Subordinated Debt that is issued for cash payable on the date of issuance thereof or as consideration for a Permitted Acquisition, provided that (1) if such Subordinated Debt is issued for cash, the Net Proceeds of such Subordinated Debt are used, promptly after such Net Proceeds are received by the Borrower, (x) to consummate one or more Permitted Acquisitions, or (y) to prepay Terms Loans pursuant to Section 2.11(c)(i), (2) no Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom and (3) the Borrower is in compliance on a Pro Forma Basis after giving effect to the incurrence of such Subordinated Debt with the covenants contained in Sections 6.12 and 6.13 recomputed as of the last day of the most-recently ended fiscal quarter of the Borrower prior to the issuance of such Subordinated Debt for which financial statements have been delivered pursuant to Section 5.01(a) or (b) and, in the case of any issuance of Subordinated Debt in an aggregate principal amount in excess of $15,000,000, has delivered to the Administrative Agent a certificate of a Financial Officer to such effect, together with all relevant financial information reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent, including reasonably detailed calculations demonstrating compliance with clause (3) above and (B) Subordinated Refinancing Indebtedness in respect of Subordinated Debt issued pursuant to clause (A) above or this clause (B);
(xii) Guarantees or the assumption of up to $50,000,000 at any time outstanding of Indebtedness of Franchisees, suppliers, customers, distributors or licensees of the Borrower and the Subsidiaries, in each case to the extent permitted pursuant to Section 6.04(o);
(xiii) Indebtedness secured by Liens pursuant to Section 6.02(xiii) in an aggregate principal amount not exceeding $50,000,000 at any time outstanding;
(xiv) Indebtedness of Holdings or the Borrower not exceeding $20,000,000 at any time outstanding, evidenced by promissory notes issued to former or current management, directors, Franchisees or employees of Holdings, the Borrower or any of the Subsidiaries in lieu of any cash payment permitted to be made under Section 6.08(a)(iii), provided that (A) all such Indebtedness shall be unsecured and expressly subordinated to the prior payment in full in cash of all Obligations on terms that are reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent
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and (B) the aggregate principal amount of all such Indebtedness incurred in any fiscal year of the Borrower, when added to the aggregate amount of all Restricted Payments made in such fiscal year pursuant to Section 6.08(a)(iii), shall not exceed $5,000,000;
(xv) Indebtedness of Foreign Subsidiaries in an aggregate principal amount not exceeding $20,000,000 at any time outstanding; and
(xvi) other unsecured Indebtedness in an aggregate principal amount not exceeding $30,000,000 at any time outstanding.
(b) Holdings will not create, incur, assume or permit to exist any Indebtedness except (i) Indebtedness created under the Loan Documents, (ii) Subordinated Debt or unsecured Guarantees of any Subordinated Debt, provided that such Guarantees shall be subordinated to the Obligations to the same extent and on the same terms as the Indebtedness so Guaranteed is subordinated to the Obligations, (iii) Disqualified Equity Interests permitted pursuant to paragraph (c) of this Section 6.01 and (iv) other unsecured Indebtedness in an aggregate principal amount not exceeding $5,000,000 at any time outstanding.
(c) Neither Holdings nor the Borrower will, nor will they permit any Subsidiary to, issue any preferred Equity Interests or any Disqualified Equity Interests, except (i) in the case of Holdings, preferred Equity Interests that are Qualified Equity Interests or (ii) in the case of Holdings or the Borrower, Disqualified Equity Interests permitted to be incurred under Section 6.01(a)(xvi) .
SECTION 6.02. Liens. (a) Neither Holdings nor the Borrower will, nor will they permit any Subsidiary to, create, incur, assume or permit to exist any Lien on any property or asset now owned or hereafter acquired by it, or assign or sell any income or revenues (including accounts receivable) or rights in respect of any thereof, except:
(i) Liens created under the Loan Documents;
(ii) Permitted Encumbrances;
(iii) any Lien on any property or asset of the Borrower or any Subsidiary existing on the Effective Date and set forth in Schedule 6.02, provided that (A) such Lien shall not apply to any other property or asset of the Borrower or any Subsidiary and (B) such Lien shall secure only those obligations that it secures on the Effective Date and extensions, renewals and replacements thereof so long as the principal amount of such extensions, renewals and replacements does not exceed the principal amount of the obligations being extended, renewed or replaced (plus any accrued but unpaid interest and premium payable by the terms of such obligations thereon);
(iv) any Lien existing on any property or asset prior to the acquisition thereof by the Borrower or any Subsidiary or existing on any property or asset any Person that becomes a Subsidiary or merges with or into a Subsidiary or the
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Borrower after the Effective Date prior to the time such Person becomes a Subsidiary or such merger, provided that (A) such Lien is not created in contemplation of or in connection with such acquisition or such Person becoming a Subsidiary or merging with or into a Subsidiary or the Borrower, as the case may be, (B) such Lien shall not apply to any other property or asset of the Borrower or any Subsidiary and (C) such Lien shall secure only those obligations that it secures on the date of such acquisition or the date such Person becomes a Subsidiary or merges with or into a Subsidiary or the Borrower, as the case may be, and extensions, renewals and replacements thereof so long as the principal amount of such extensions, renewals and replacements does not exceed the principal amount of the obligations being extended, renewed or replaced (plus any accrued but unpaid interest and premium payable by the terms of such obligations thereon);
(v) Liens on fixed or capital assets acquired, constructed or improved (including any such assets made the subject of a Capital Lease Obligation incurred) by the Borrower or any Subsidiary, provided that (A) such Liens secure Indebtedness incurred or assumed to finance such acquisition, construction or improvement and are permitted by clause (v)(A) of Section 6.01(a) or to extend, renew or replace such Indebtedness and are permitted by clause (v)(B) of Section 6.01(a), (B) such Liens and the Indebtedness secured thereby are incurred or assumed prior to or within 180 days after such acquisition or the completion of such construction or improvement (provided that this clause (B) shall not apply to any Indebtedness permitted by clause (v)(B) of Section 6.01(a) or any Lien securing such Indebtedness), (C) the Indebtedness secured thereby does not exceed the lesser of the cost of acquiring, constructing or improving such fixed or capital asset or, in the case of Indebtedness permitted by clause (v)(A) of Section 6.01, its fair market value at the time such security interest attaches, and in any event, the aggregate principal amount of such Indebtedness does not exceed $50,000,000 at any time outstanding and (D) such Liens shall not apply to any other property or assets of the Borrower or any Subsidiary;
(vi) Liens of a collecting bank arising in the ordinary course of business under Section 4-208 of the Uniform Commercial Code in effect in the relevant jurisdiction covering only the items being collected upon;
(vii) Liens representing any interest or title of a licensor, lessor or sublicensor or sublessor under any lease or license permitted by this Agreement;
(viii) Liens that are rights of setoff relating to deposit accounts in favor of banks and other depositary institutions arising in the ordinary course of business;
(ix) Liens granted by a Subsidiary that is not a Loan Party in favor of the Borrower or another Loan Party in respect of Indebtedness or other obligations owed by such Subsidiary to such Loan Party;
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(x) Liens granted in connection with any Permitted Sale and Leaseback Transaction;
(xi) Liens in favor of customs and revenue authorities arising as a matter of law to secure payment of customs duties in connection with the importation of goods;
(xii) Liens on not more than $5,000,000 of cash and cash equivalents securing Swap Agreements that (A) are permitted by Section 6.07, (B) hedge or mitigate risks as a result of currency fluctuations and (C) no Revolving Lender (or Affiliate thereof) is, after reasonable inquiry by the Borrower, willing and able to provide;
(xiii) Liens on assets, other than Equity Interests, receivables, inventory and intellectual property, securing Indebtedness outstanding pursuant to Section 6.01(a)(xiii);
(xiv) Liens on the assets of a Foreign Subsidiary that secure Indebtedness of such Foreign Subsidiary that is incurred pursuant to Section 6.01(a)(xv); and
(xv) Liens not otherwise permitted by this Section to the extent that neither (A) the aggregate outstanding principal amount of the obligations secured thereby nor (B) the aggregate fair market value (determined as of the date such Lien is incurred) of the assets subject thereto exceeds $5,000,000 at any time outstanding.
SECTION 6.03. Fundamental Changes. (a) Neither Holdings nor the Borrower will, nor will they permit any Subsidiary to, merge into or consolidate with any other Person, or permit any other Person to merge into or consolidate with it, or liquidate or dissolve, except that, if at the time thereof and immediately after giving effect thereto no Default shall have occurred and be continuing (i) any Person may merge into the Borrower in a transaction in which the Borrower is the surviving corporation, (ii) any Person (other than the Borrower) may merge into any Subsidiary in a transaction in which the surviving entity is a Subsidiary and (if any party to such merger is a Subsidiary Loan Party) is a Subsidiary Loan Party, (iii) any Subsidiary may liquidate or dissolve if the Borrower determines in good faith that such liquidation or dissolution is in the best interests of the Borrower and is not materially disadvantageous to the Lenders and (iv) any Subsidiary may merge into another Person in connection with the disposition of such Subsidiary if such disposition is permitted pursuant to Section 6.05, provided that any such merger involving a Person that is not a wholly owned Subsidiary immediately prior to such merger shall not be permitted unless also permitted by Sections 6.04, 6.05 and 6.06.
(b) The Borrower will not, and Holdings and the Borrower will not permit any Subsidiary to, engage to any material extent in any business other than businesses of the type conducted by the Borrower and the Subsidiaries on the Effective Date and businesses reasonably related, complementary or ancillary thereto.
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(c) Holdings will not engage in any business or activity other than (i) the ownership of all the outstanding Equity Interests of the Borrower and activities incidental thereto, (ii) the maintenance of its corporate existence and activities incidental thereto, including general and corporate overhead, (iii) activities required to comply with applicable law, (iv) maintenance and administration of stock option and stock ownership plans and activities incidental thereto, (v) the receipt of Restricted Payments and the making of Restricted Payments to the extent permitted by Section 6.08, (vi) the obtainment of, and the payment of any fees and expenses for, management, consulting, investment banking and advisory services to the extent otherwise permitted by this Agreement, (vii) compliance with its obligations under the Loan Documents and any Subordinated Debt Documents, (viii) in connection with, and following the completion of, an IPO, activities necessary or reasonably advisable for or incidental to the initial registration and listing of Holdings common stock and the continued existence of Holdings as a public company and (ix) activities incidental to legal, tax and accounting matters in connection with any of the foregoing activities. Holdings will not own or acquire any assets (other than Equity Interests of the Borrower, cash and Permitted Investments) or incur any liabilities (other than liabilities permitted pursuant to Section 6.01(b), liabilities imposed by law, including tax liabilities, and other liabilities incidental to its existence and permitted business and activities).
SECTION 6.04. Investments, Loans, Advances, Guarantees and Acquisitions. Neither Holdings nor the Borrower will, nor will they permit any Subsidiary to, purchase, hold or acquire (including pursuant to any merger with any Person that was not a wholly owned Subsidiary prior to such merger) any Equity Interests in or evidences of Indebtedness or other securities (including any option, warrant or other right to acquire any of the foregoing) of, make or permit to exist any loans or advances to, Guarantee any Indebtedness of, or make or permit to exist any investment or any other interest in, any other Person, or purchase or otherwise acquire (in one transaction or a series of transactions) any assets of any other Person constituting a business unit (any such purchase, holding, acquisition, loan, advance, Guarantee, investment or interest, an “Investment”), except:
(a) Permitted Investments;
(b) Permitted Acquisitions that are not Foreign Acquisitions;
(c) Investments existing on the Effective Date and set forth on Schedule 6.04;
(d) Foreign Acquisitions and Investments (other than loans, advances and Guarantees, which are covered by paragraphs (e) and (f) below) by Holdings in the Borrower and by the Borrower and the Subsidiaries in Equity Interests of Subsidiaries, provided that (i) any such Equity Interests directly held by a Loan Party shall be pledged pursuant to the Collateral Agreement (subject to the limitations applicable to Equity Interests of a Foreign Subsidiary referred to in the definition of the term “Collateral and Guarantee Requirement”) and (ii) the aggregate amount of (x) Foreign Acquisitions and (y) Investments made pursuant
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to this clause (ii)(y) by Loan Parties in Subsidiaries that are not Loan Parties (including in connection with a Permitted Acquisition by a Subsidiary that is not a Loan Party), together with intercompany loans made under the proviso to paragraph (e) of this Section and Guarantees given under the proviso to paragraph (f) of this Section, shall not exceed $50,000,000 in any one fiscal year of the Borrower (in each case determined at the time made and without regard to any subsequent write-downs or write-offs and net of all returns of capital in respect of such Foreign Acquisition or Investment and excluding any Investments received in respect of, or consisting of, the transfer or contribution of Equity Interests in any Foreign Subsidiary to any other Foreign Subsidiary), provided that the conversion or capitalization of any loan or advance into Equity Interests shall not constitute a new Investment so long as such loan or advance was permitted pursuant to paragraph (e) below at the time of its incurrence or was outstanding on the Effective Date and is set forth on Schedule 6.04;
(e) loans or advances made by the Borrower to any Subsidiary and made by any Subsidiary to the Borrower or any other Subsidiary, provided that the amount of such loans and advances made pursuant to this paragraph (e) by Loan Parties to Subsidiaries that are not Loan Parties (including in connection with a Permitted Acquisition by a Subsidiary that is not a Loan Party), together with Investments and Foreign Acquisitions made under clause (ii) of the proviso to paragraph (d) of this Section and Guarantees given under the proviso to paragraph (f) of this Section, shall not exceed $50,000,000 in any one fiscal year of the Borrower (in each case determined at the time made and without regard to any subsequent write-downs or write-offs and net of all returns of principal in respect of such loans or advances and excluding any Investments consisting of intercompany notes received in connection with the transfer or contribution of Equity Interests in any Foreign Subsidiary to any other Foreign Subsidiary);
(f) Guarantees of Indebtedness of Holdings, the Borrower or any Subsidiary that are permitted by Section 6.01, provided that the aggregate principal amount of Indebtedness of Subsidiaries that are not Loan Parties that is Guaranteed by any Loan Party (together with Investments and Foreign Acquisitions made under clause (ii) of the proviso to paragraph (d) of this Section and intercompany loans made under the proviso to paragraph (e) of this Section) shall not exceed $50,000,000 in any one fiscal year of the Borrower (in each case determined at the time the Guarantee is given (with any subsequent increases in the amount of Indebtedness that is Guaranteed being deemed an additional Guarantee) without regard to any subsequent write-downs or write-offs and net of all returns of principal in respect of such Guarantee);
(g) loans or advances to employees of Holdings, the Borrower or any Subsidiary made in the ordinary course of business of Holdings, the Borrower or any Subsidiary not exceeding $10,000,000 in the aggregate outstanding at any time (determined without regard to any write-downs or write-offs of such loans or advances);
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(h) payroll, travel, relocation and similar advances to cover matters that are expected at the time of such advances ultimately to be treated as expenses of Holdings, the Borrower or any Subsidiary for accounting purposes and that are made in the ordinary course of business;
(i) Investments received in connection with the bankruptcy or reorganization of, or settlement of delinquent accounts or other obligations and disputes with, customers, suppliers and Franchisees, in each case in the ordinary course of business;
(j) Investments in the form of Swap Agreements permitted by Section 6.07;
(k) Investments of any Person existing at the time such Person becomes a Subsidiary or consolidates or merges with the Borrower or any Subsidiary (including in connection with a Permitted Acquisition) so long as such Investments were not made in contemplation of such Person becoming a Subsidiary or of such consolidation or merger;
(l) Investments resulting from pledges or deposits described in clause (c) or (d) of the definition of the term “Permitted Encumbrance”;
(m) Investments received in connection with the disposition or license of any asset permitted by Section 6.05;
(n) receivables or other trade payables owing to the Borrower or a Subsidiary if created or acquired in the ordinary course of business and payable or dischargeable in accordance with customary trade terms, provided that such trade terms may include such concessionary trade terms, as the Borrower or any Subsidiary deems reasonable under the circumstances;
(o) Investments consisting of Guarantees or the assumption of Indebtedness (to the extent permitted by Section 6.01) of, loans made to, or the acquisition of loans made to or Equity Interests in, Franchisees, customers, suppliers or licensees of the Borrower and the Subsidiaries in an aggregate amount not exceeding $40,000,000 in any fiscal year of the Borrower (net of returns of capital or principal in respect of such Investments), provided that any such Investments in excess of $15,000,000 in any fiscal year shall be deemed Capital Expenditures for purposes of Section 6.14;
(p) Investments the consideration for which consists solely of shares of Qualified Equity Interests or which are made from the proceeds of a sale of Qualified Equity Interests within 365 days after the date of such sale of Qualified Equity Interests;
(q) Investments in an aggregate amount, as valued at cost at the time each such Investment is made and including all related commitments for future Investments, and taken together with the aggregate amount of Restricted
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Payments made under Section 6.08(a)(vi), not exceeding 50% of Excess Cash Flow from and after July 1, 2005, through the end of the most-recently ended fiscal year of the Borrower prior to the date any such Investment is made for which financial statements have been delivered pursuant to Section 5.01(a), provided that (x) at the time of any such Investment, no Default shall have occurred and be continuing or would result therefrom, (y) at the time of such Investment and after giving effect thereto and to any borrowing in connection therewith, the Leverage Ratio on a Pro Forma Basis as of the last day of the most-recently ended fiscal quarter of the Borrower for which financial statements have been delivered pursuant to Section 5.01(a) or (b) is less than 3.00 to 1.00 and (z) in the case of any such Investment in an amount in excess of $15,000,000, the Borrower has delivered to the Administrative Agent a certificate of a Financial Officer, together with all relevant financial information reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent, demonstrating the calculation of such Excess Cash Flow; and
(r) other Investments by the Borrower or any Subsidiary in an aggregate amount, as valued at cost at the time each such Investment is made and including all related commitments for future Investments, not exceeding $25,000,000 in the aggregate for all such Investments made or committed to be made from and after the Effective Date plus an amount equal to any returns of capital or sale proceeds actually received in cash in respect of any such Investments (which amount shall not exceed the amount of such Investment valued at cost at the time such Investment was made).
SECTION 6.05. Asset Sales. Neither Holdings nor the Borrower will, nor will they permit any Subsidiary to, sell, transfer, lease or otherwise dispose of any asset, including any Equity Interest owned by it, nor will Holdings or the Borrower permit any Subsidiary to issue any additional Equity Interest in such Subsidiary (other than issuing directors’ qualifying shares, issuing shares required by applicable law to be issued to nationals or citizens and issuing Equity Interests to the Borrower or another Subsidiary in compliance with Section 6.04(d) or (m)), except:
(a) sales, transfers, leases and other dispositions of (i) inventory, (ii) used, obsolete or surplus equipment and (iii) Permitted Investments, in each case in the ordinary course of business;
(b) sales, transfers, leases and other dispositions to the Borrower or a Subsidiary, provided that any such sales, transfers, leases or other dispositions involving a Subsidiary that is not a Loan Party shall be made (i) in compliance with Section 6.09(a)(i) or (ii) to the extent not made in compliance with Section 6.09(a)(i), shall be treated as an Investment in such Subsidiary and shall be permitted only to the extent permitted pursuant to Section 6.04(d);
(c) sales, transfers and other dispositions of accounts receivable or other rights to payment in connection with the compromise, settlement or collection thereof in the ordinary course of business;
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(d) sales, transfers, leases and other dispositions of property to the extent that such property constitutes an Investment permitted by clause (i), (k), (m), (q) or (r) of Section 6.04 or another asset received as consideration for the disposition of any asset permitted by this Section (in each case, other than Equity Interests in a Subsidiary, unless all Equity Interests in such Subsidiary are sold in accordance with this Section 6.05);
(e) Permitted Sale and Leaseback Transactions;
(f) leases or subleases entered into in the ordinary course of business, including any increase in the frequency or amount of ordinary course leasing as compared to the Effective Date, to the extent that they do not materially interfere with the business of Holdings, the Borrower or any Subsidiary;
(g) licenses or sublicenses of intellectual property (i) in the ordinary course of business or (ii) to any Subsidiary, and licenses, sublicenses or contributions of non-U.S. goodwill and non-U.S. going-concern value to any Subsidiary;
(h) dispositions resulting from any casualty or other insured damage to, or any taking under power of eminent domain or by condemnation or similar proceeding of, any property or asset of the Borrower or any Subsidiary;
(i) Restricted Payments, to the extent permitted pursuant to Section 6.08;
(j) sales, transfers and other dispositions of assets resulting in aggregate Net Proceeds not exceeding $1,000,000 in the case of any single transaction or series of related transactions; and
(k) sales, transfers and other dispositions of assets (other than Equity Interests in a Subsidiary unless all Equity Interests in such Subsidiary are sold) that are not permitted by any other clause of this Section, provided that the aggregate fair market value of all assets sold, transferred or otherwise disposed of in reliance upon this clause (k) shall not exceed during any fiscal year of the Borrower 7.0% of Consolidated Tangible Assets of Holdings as of the end of the fiscal year of the Borrower most-recently ended prior to such fiscal year,
provided that:
(A) all sales, transfers, leases and other dispositions permitted hereby (other than those permitted by clause (a)(i) or (a)(ii), clause (b), clause (c), clause (d), clause (f) (unless the lessee is a Person that is not a Franchisee), clause (g), clause (h) or clause (i)) shall be made for fair value, and
(B) all sales, transfers, leases and other dispositions permitted hereby (other than those permitted by clause (a)(i) or (a)(ii), clause (b) (unless the disposition is a disposition of assets (other than (x) Franchise Agreements with non-U.S. Franchisees or assets consisting solely of non-U.S. goodwill and/or
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non-U.S. going-concern value that, in each case, are disposed of to a Foreign Subsidiary (i) all the Equity Interests of which are owned directly or indirectly by a Loan Party, (ii) that is not limited by any of its Organizational Documents, any Requirement of Law (other than statutory restrictions relating to the payment of dividends that are customarily imposed based on capital, surplus, profits or other similar measures) or any agreement or instrument applicable to it from declaring and paying dividends or other distributions to the Borrower or any Subsidiary (and will not agree to any such consensual limitation) and (iii) that has not incurred (and thereafter shall not incur) any Indebtedness other than intercompany Indebtedness incurred for the purpose of acquiring or licensing such Franchise Agreements, non-U.S. goodwill, non-U.S. going-concern value or rights to intellectual property owned by the Borrower or a Subsidiary and Indebtedness incurred pursuant to Section 6.01(a)(xv) and (y) the transfer or contribution of Equity Interests in any Foreign Subsidiary to any other Foreign Subsidiary) by a Loan Party to a Subsidiary that is not a Loan Party), clause (c), clause (d), clause (f) (unless the lessee is a Person that is not a Franchisee), clause (g), clause (h), clause (i) or clause (j)) shall be made for consideration at least 75% of which consists of cash or Permitted Investments payable at the time of such sale, transfer or other disposition or, in the case of a disposition to a Franchisee, notes payable in cash within 365 days from the date of such disposition (excluding, for the purposes of such calculation, any assumption of liabilities of the Borrower or any Subsidiary by the transferee thereof).
SECTION 6.06. Sale and Leaseback Transactions. Neither Holdings nor the Borrower will, nor will they permit any Subsidiary to, enter into any arrangement, directly or indirectly, whereby it shall sell or transfer any real property, used or useful in its business, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, and thereafter rent or lease such real property (a “Sale and Leaseback Transaction”), except for any Permitted Sale and Leaseback Transaction.
SECTION 6.07. Swap Agreements. Neither Holdings nor the Borrower will, nor will they permit any Subsidiary to, enter into any Swap Agreement, except (a) Swap Agreements required by Section 5.13 or entered into to hedge or mitigate risks to which the Borrower or any Subsidiary has actual or anticipated exposure (other than those in respect of shares of capital stock or other equity ownership interests of the Borrower or any Subsidiary) and (b) Swap Agreements entered into in order to effectively cap, collar or exchange interest rates (from fixed to floating rates, from one floating rate to another floating rate or otherwise) with respect to any interest-bearing liability or investment of the Borrower or any Subsidiary.
SECTION 6.08. Restricted Payments; Certain Payments of Indebtedness. (a) Neither Holdings nor the Borrower will, nor will they permit any Subsidiary to, declare or make, or agree to pay or make, directly or indirectly, any Restricted Payment, or incur any obligation (contingent or otherwise) to do so, except:
(i) the Subsidiaries may declare and pay dividends ratably with respect to their Equity Interests;
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(ii) Holdings may declare and pay dividends with respect to its Equity Interests payable solely in shares of Qualified Equity Interests;
(iii) the Borrower may, or may make Restricted Payments to Holdings and Holdings may, make Restricted Payments, not exceeding, taken together with the aggregate principal amount of all Indebtedness incurred under Section 6.01(a)(xiv) during such fiscal year, $5,000,000 during any fiscal year, pursuant to and in accordance with stock option plans or other benefit plans approved by the Borrower’s board of directors for former or current management, directors, Franchisees or employees of Holdings, the Borrower or any of the Subsidiaries;
(iv) the Borrower may make Restricted Payments to Holdings at such times and in such amounts (A) not exceeding $5,000,000 during any fiscal year, as shall be necessary to permit Holdings to discharge its general corporate and overhead (including franchise taxes and directors fees and, following the completion of an IPO, costs and expenses necessary for or incidental to Holdings’s continued existence as a public company) expenses incurred in the ordinary course and other permitted liabilities and (B) as shall be necessary to pay the Tax liabilities of Holdings directly attributable to (or arising as a result of) the operations of the Borrower and the Subsidiaries, provided, however, that (1) the amount of Restricted Payments pursuant to clause (B) of this clause (iv) shall not exceed the amount that the Borrower and the Subsidiaries would be required to pay in respect of Federal, State and local taxes were the Borrower and the Subsidiaries to pay such taxes as stand-alone taxpayers and (2) all Restricted Payments made to Holdings pursuant to this clause (iv) are used by Holdings for the purposes specified herein within five Business Days after Holdings’s receipt thereof;
(v) the Borrower may make Restricted Payments to the extent necessary to permit Holdings to make payments of or on account of (A) management, consulting, investment banking and advisory fees and (B) reimbursement of out-of-pocket costs and expenses incurred in connection with management, consulting, investment banking and advisory services, in each case to the Sponsors or Sponsor Affiliates to the extent permitted by Section 6.09, provided that no Default shall have occurred and be continuing or would result therefrom;
(vi) on or after (A) July 1, 2007, the Borrower may declare and pay dividends and distributions to Holdings, and Holdings may declare and pay dividends and distributions with respect to, or otherwise repurchase, redeem or retire, its Equity Interests, up to an amount, taken together with the aggregate amount of Investments made under Section 6.04(q), equal to 50% of Excess Cash Flow from and after July 1, 2005, through the end of the most-recently ended fiscal year of the Borrower prior to the date of such dividend, distribution, repurchase, redemption or retirement for which financial statements have been delivered pursuant to Section 5.01(a), provided that (x) at the time of any such dividend, distribution, repurchase, redemption or retirement, no Default shall have occurred and be continuing or would result therefrom, (y) at the time of such
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dividend, distribution, repurchase, redemption or retirement and after giving effect thereto and to any borrowing in connection therewith, the Leverage Ratio on a Pro Forma Basis as of the last day of the most-recently ended fiscal quarter of the Borrower for which financial statements have been delivered pursuant to Section 5.01(a) or (b) is less than 3.00 to 1.00 and (z) in the case of any such Restricted Payment in an amount in excess of $15,000,000, the Borrower has delivered to the Administrative Agent a certificate of a Financial Officer, together with all relevant financial information reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent, demonstrating the calculation of such Excess Cash Flow or (B) the completion of an IPO, the Borrower may declare and pay dividends and distributions to Holdings, and Holdings may declare and pay dividends and distributions with respect to, or otherwise repurchase, redeem or retire, its common share Equity Interests, up to an amount, taken together with the aggregate amount of Investments made under Section 6.04(q), equal to the greater of (x) 50% of Excess Cash Flow from and after July 1, 2005, through the end of the most-recently ended fiscal year of the Borrower prior to the date of such dividend, distribution, repurchase, redemption or retirement for which financial statements have been delivered pursuant to Section 5.01(a), and (y) the sum of (1) $50,000,000, (2) 50% of Consolidated Net Income of Holdings during the period from and after December 31, 2005, to the end of the most-recently ended fiscal quarter of Holdings prior to the date of such dividend or distribution for which financial statements have been delivered pursuant to Section 5.01(a) or (b) (or in case such Consolidated Net Income shall be a deficit, minus 100% of such deficit) and (3) the aggregate amount of proceeds received by Holdings as a result of the issuance of Qualified Equity Interests (other than such proceeds used in accordance with Section 6.08(vii)), provided that (x) at the time of such dividend, no Default shall have occurred and be continuing or would result therefrom and (y) at the time of such dividend and after giving effect thereto, the Borrower complies, on a Pro Forma Basis, with the covenants set out in Sections 6.12 and 6.13;
(vii) concurrently with any issuance of Qualified Equity Interests, Holdings may redeem, purchase or retire any Equity Interests of Holdings using the proceeds of, or convert or exchange any Equity Interests of Holdings for, such Qualified Equity Interests;
(viii) the Borrower may make Restricted Payments to Holdings in such amounts as shall be necessary to pay out-of-pocket legal, accounting and filing fees, costs and expenses incurred in connection with a proposed initial public offering of Qualified Equity Interests of Holdings, provided that no Default shall have occurred and be continuing or would result therefrom;
(ix) the Borrower may make Restricted Payments to Holdings in such amounts as are necessary to repay in full on the Effective Date the PIK Notes;
(x) the Borrower or Holdings may make up to $5,000,000 of Restricted Payments on, or within 15 days of, the Effective Date to finance the return of
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capital and accrued interest to participants in the Investment Deferred Compensation Plan of the Borrower and Holdings;
(xi) the Borrower may make Restricted Payments to Holdings in an amount necessary to enable Holdings to make required payments in respect of Disqualified Equity Interests or Subordinated Debt issued by Holdings, provided that (i) such payments are permitted (x) in the case of Disqualified Equity Interests, by another clause of this Section 6.08 or (y) in the case of Subordinated Debt, by paragraph (b) of this Section 6.08 and (ii) Holdings promptly applies such proceeds in the manner required by such Disqualified Equity Interests or Subordinated Debt;
(xii) the Borrower or any Subsidiary may acquire, redeem or retire any Equity Interests of any other Subsidiary provided that such acquisition, redemption or retirement is permitted pursuant to Sections 6.03 and 6.04;
(xiii) notwithstanding any other provision of this Section 6.08 and Section 6.09, with the proceeds of the Tranche B-1 Term Loans funded by the Tranche B-1 Lenders (and not converted) (other than that portion of the Tranche B-1 Term Loans used to prepay the Original Tranche B Term Loans on the Restatement Effective Date) and the Cash Amount, (A) the Borrower may declare and pay a dividend to Holdings, (B) Holdings may declare and pay a dividend with respect to common share Equity Interests in Holdings and (C) the Borrower or Holdings may make payments to holders of options to acquire common share Equity Interests in Holdings and holders of restricted share unit awards issued by Holdings, provided that the aggregate amount of dividends and payments made by each of the Borrower and Holdings under this paragraph (xiii) shall not exceed $400,000,000, provided further that (x) at the time of such dividend or payment, no Default shall have occurred and be continuing or would result therefrom and (y) at the time of such dividend or payment and after giving effect thereto, the Borrower complies, on a Pro Forma Basis, with the covenants set out in Sections 6.12 and 6.13; and
(xiv) substantially concurrently with an IPO, and in any event, no later than 30 Business Days following the issue or transfer of Equity Interests pursuant to such IPO, the Borrower may make Restricted Payments to Holdings to the extent necessary to permit Holdings to make the payment of the fees permitted to be paid pursuant to Section 6.09(ix)(B), provided that (A) no Default shall have occurred and be continuing or would result therefrom and (B) at the time of such payment and after giving effect thereto, the Borrower complies, on a Pro Forma Basis, with the covenants set out in Sections 6.12 and 6.13.
(b) Neither Holdings nor the Borrower will, nor will they permit any Subsidiary to, make or agree to pay or make, directly or indirectly (other than agreeing to customary provisions in respect of repayment and repurchase upon asset sales in any Subordinated Debt Documents), any payment or other distribution (whether in cash, securities or other property) of or in respect of principal of or interest on any
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Subordinated Debt, or any payment or other distribution (whether in cash, securities or other property), including any sinking fund or similar deposit, on account of the purchase, redemption, retirement, acquisition, cancelation or termination of any Subordinated Debt, or any other payment (including any payment under any Swap Agreement) that has a substantially similar effect to any of the foregoing, except:
(i) payment of regularly scheduled interest and principal payments as, in the form of payment and when due in respect of any Subordinated Debt, payments due upon a change of control under any Subordinated Debt or upon acceleration of the maturity of any Subordinated Debt, in each case other than payments in respect of Subordinated Debt prohibited by the subordination provisions thereof;
(ii) refinancings of Indebtedness to the extent permitted by Section 6.01; and
(iii) payment or other distribution in respect of principal or interest on, or payment or other distribution on account of the purchase, redemption, retirement, acquisition, cancelation or termination of, any Subordinated Debt, in each case exchange for, or out of the Net Proceeds of, the substantially concurrent sale of Qualified Equity Interests of Holdings.
SECTION 6.09. Transactions with Affiliates. (a) Neither Holdings nor the Borrower will, nor will they permit any Subsidiary to, sell, lease or otherwise transfer any property or assets to, or purchase, lease or otherwise acquire any property or assets from, or otherwise engage in any other transactions with, any of its Affiliates, except:
(i) transactions at prices and on terms and conditions not less favorable to the Borrower or such Subsidiary than could be obtained on an arm’s-length basis from unrelated third parties,
(ii) transactions between or among the Borrower and the Subsidiary Loan Parties not involving any other Affiliate,
(iii) loans or advances to employees permitted under Section 6.04(g),
(iv) payroll, travel, relocation and similar advances to cover matters permitted under Section 6.04(h),
(v) any contribution to the capital of Holdings by the Permitted Investors or any purchase of Equity Interests in Holdings by any Permitted Investor not prohibited by this Agreement,
(vi) the payment of reasonable fees to directors of Holdings, the Borrower or any Subsidiary who are not employees of Holdings, the Borrower or any Subsidiary, and compensation and employee benefit arrangements paid to, and indemnities provided for the benefit of, directors, officers or employees of Holdings, the Borrower or the Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business,
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(vii) any issuances of securities or any payments, awards or grants in cash, securities or otherwise pursuant to, or the funding of, employment agreements, stock options and stock ownership plans approved by Holdings’s or the Borrower’s board of directors or any committee thereof,
(viii) employment and severance arrangements entered into in the ordinary course of business between Holdings, the Borrower or any Subsidiary and any employee thereof in accordance with such employee’s employee agreement or the Borrower’s severance policy approved by Holdings’s or the Borrower’s board of directors or any committee thereof,
(ix) any payments permitted under Section 6.09(b) and any payments to the Sponsors or any Sponsor Affiliate (A) for reimbursement of out-of-pocket costs and expenses and (B) for a fee of up to $30,000,000 in the aggregate in respect of the termination of management services provided to the Borrower and Holdings by the Sponsor or any Sponsor Affiliate,
(x) any Restricted Payment permitted by Section 6.08,
(xi) the grant of stock options or similar rights in respect of Equity Interests of Holdings to officers, employees, Franchisees, consultants and directors of the Borrower or any Subsidiary pursuant to plans approved by Holdings’s board of directors or any committee thereof and the payment of amounts of the issuance of Equity Interests pursuant thereto in each case to the extent not prohibited by this Agreement,
(xii) transactions constituting Investments permitted pursuant to Section 6.04(d), (e), (f) or (p), or constituting Investments in a Subsidiary permitted pursuant to Section 6.04(q) or (r),
(xiii) transactions permitted pursuant to Section 6.05(b)(ii) or (g) (other than transactions permitted pursuant to clause (g)(i)) and Investments permitted pursuant to Section 6.04 received in connection with transactions permitted pursuant to Section 6.05(g) (other than transactions permitted pursuant to clause (g)(i)),
(xiv) entry into a Tax sharing agreement with Holdings providing for (in each case subject to compliance with Section 6.08) the payments of Taxes (including interest and penalties) and expenses, control of tax filings and contests, and other normal, usual and customary provisions, and
(xv) the provision of legal, accounting or administrative services to Holdings or any Subsidiary in the ordinary course of business.
(b) Neither Holdings nor the Borrower will, nor will they permit any Subsidiary to, make any payment of or on account of monitoring or management or similar fees payable to the Sponsor or any Sponsor Affiliate (i) in an aggregate amount in any fiscal year in excess of 0.5% of consolidated total revenues of the Borrower for the immediately preceding fiscal year or (ii) after the consummation of an IPO (other than the payment of fees in respect of the termination of management services provided to
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Holdings by the Sponsor or any Sponsor Affiliate permitted pursuant to Section 6.09(a)(ix)(B)) .
SECTION 6.10. Restrictive Agreements. Neither Holdings nor the Borrower will, nor will they permit any Subsidiary to, directly or indirectly, enter into, incur or permit to exist any agreement or other consensual arrangement that prohibits, restricts or imposes any condition upon (a) the ability of Holdings, the Borrower or any Subsidiary to create, incur or permit to exist any Lien upon any Equity Interests of any Subsidiary owned by such Person securing the Obligations or (b) the ability of any Subsidiary to pay dividends or other distributions with respect to any of its Equity Interests or to make or repay loans or advances to the Borrower or any other Subsidiary or to Guarantee Indebtedness of the Borrower or any other Subsidiary, provided that:
(i) the foregoing shall not apply to restrictions and conditions imposed by (A) law or (B) any Loan Document;
(ii) the foregoing shall not apply to restrictions and conditions existing on the Effective Date or to any extension, renewal, amendment, modification or replacement thereof, except to the extent any such amendment, modification or replacement expands the scope of any such restriction or condition;
(iii) the foregoing shall not apply to customary restrictions and conditions contained in agreements relating to the sale of a Subsidiary or any assets pending such sale, provided that such restrictions and conditions apply only to the Subsidiary or assets that is or are to be sold and such sale is permitted hereunder;
(iv) clause (a) of the foregoing shall not apply to customary provisions in leases, licenses and other contracts restricting the assignment thereof;
(v) the foregoing shall not apply to restrictions imposed by any agreement relating to secured Indebtedness permitted by this Agreement to the extent such restriction applies only to the property securing such Indebtedness;
(vi) the foregoing shall not apply to any restrictions or conditions set forth in any agreement in effect at any time any Person becomes a Subsidiary (but not any modification or amendment expanding the scope of any such restriction or condition), provided that such agreement was not entered into in contemplation of such Person becoming a Subsidiary and the restriction or condition set forth in such agreement does not apply to Holdings, the Borrower or any other Subsidiary;
(vii) restrictions or conditions in any Indebtedness permitted pursuant to Section 6.01 to the extent such restrictions or conditions are no more restrictive than the restrictions and conditions in the Loan Documents or, in the case of Subordinated Debt, are market terms at the time of issuance or, in the case of Indebtedness of any Foreign Subsidiary, are imposed solely on such Foreign Subsidiary, provided that any such restrictions or conditions permit compliance with the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement and Section 5.11; and
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(viii) restrictions on cash or other deposits imposed by agreements entered into in the ordinary course of business.
SECTION 6.11. Amendment of Material Documents. Neither Holdings nor the Borrower will, nor will they permit any Subsidiary to, amend, modify or waive any provision of (a) the Organizational Documents of any Loan Party in a manner materially adverse to the Lenders or (b) any Subordinated Debt Documents if the effect of such amendment, modification or waiver is to (i) increase the rate of interest payable with respect to such Subordinated Debt, (ii) change the dates upon which payments of principal or interest are due on such Subordinated Debt other than to extend such dates, (iii) change any default or event of default other than to delete or make less restrictive any default or event of default provision therein with respect to such Subordinated Debt, (iv) change the redemption or prepayment provisions of such Subordinated Debt other than to extend the dates therefor or to reduce the premiums payable in connection therewith, (v) grant any security or collateral to secure payment of such Subordinated Debt or (vi) change or amend any other term, if such change or amendment would (x) materially increase the obligations of Holdings, the Borrower or any Subsidiary party thereto thereunder, (y) confer additional material rights on the holder of such Subordinated Debt or (z) result in such Subordinated Debt being subject to a term or condition that would not be permitted (under the definition of the term “Subordinated Debt”) if such Subordinated Debt were being issued on the date of such amendment, modification or waiver.
SECTION 6.12. Interest Expense Coverage Ratio. The Borrower will not permit the Interest Coverage Ratio for any period of four consecutive fiscal quarters of the Borrower ending on or about any date during any period set forth below to be less than the ratio set forth below opposite such period:
Period | Ratio | |
Effective Date through June 30, 2006 | 2.50 to 1.00 | |
July 1, 2006 through June 30, 2007 | 2.75 to 1.00 | |
Thereafter | 3.00 to 1.00 |
SECTION 6.13. Leverage Ratio. The Borrower will not permit the Leverage Ratio as of any date during any period set forth below to exceed the ratio set forth below opposite such period:
Period | Ratio | |
Effective Date through September 30, 2006 | 5.00 to 1.00 | |
October 1, 2006 through March 31, 2007 | 4.75 to 1.00 | |
April 1, 2007 through June 30, 2007 | 4.50 to 1.00 |
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July 1, 2007 through June 30, 2008 | 4.00 to 1.00 | |
July 1, 2008 through June 30, 2009 | 3.50 to 1.00 | |
Thereafter | 3.00 to 1.00 |
SECTION 6.14. Maximum Capital Expenditures. (a) The aggregate amount of Capital Expenditures made by Holdings, the Borrower and the Subsidiaries in any fiscal year shall not exceed the amount set forth below opposite such fiscal year:
Fiscal Year | Amount |
2006 | $180,000,000 |
2007 | $200,000,000 |
2008 | $200,000,000 |
2009 | $200,000,000 |
2010 | $200,000,000 |
2011 | $200,000,000 |
2012 | $200,000,000 |
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the aggregate amount of Capital Expenditures set forth in the table above for any of the 2007 fiscal year, the 2008 fiscal year, the 2009 fiscal year, the 2010 fiscal year, the 2011 fiscal year or the 2012 fiscal year shall be increased to $250,000,000 for so long as the Rent-Adjusted Leverage Ratio is less than 3.00 to 1.00.
(b) The amount of Capital Expenditures set forth in Section 6.14(a) in respect of any fiscal year shall be increased (but not decreased) by an amount equal to 50% of (i) the amount of unused Capital Expenditures for the immediately preceding fiscal year less (ii) the amount of unused Capital Expenditures carried forward to such immediately preceding fiscal year pursuant to this paragraph, provided that no unused Capital Expenditures that are available in any fiscal year as a result of the final sentence of Section 6.14(a) may increase the amount of Capital Expenditures available in any subsequent fiscal year at any time that the Rent-Adjusted Leverage Ratio is equal to or greater than 3.00 to 1.00.
(c) If any Capital Expenditure is made (or contractually committed to be made) during any fiscal year of the Borrower at any time that the Rent-Adjusted Leverage Ratio is less than 3.00 to 1.00, so long as such Capital Expenditure was permitted to be made hereunder at such time, no Default shall arise under paragraph (a) or (b) of this Section with respect to such Capital Expenditure solely as a result of a subsequent increase in the Rent-Adjusted Leverage Ratio to 3.00 to 1.00 or greater during such fiscal year of the Borrower.
SECTION 6.15. Changes in Fiscal Periods. The Borrower will neither (a) permit its fiscal year or the fiscal year of any Subsidiary to end on a day other than June 30, nor (b) change its method of determining fiscal quarters.
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ARTICLE VII
Events of Default
If any of the following events (any such event, an “Event of Default”) shall occur:
(a) the Borrower shall fail to pay any principal of any Loan or any reimbursement obligation in respect of any LC Disbursement when and as the same shall become due and payable, whether at the due date thereof or at a date fixed for prepayment thereof or otherwise;
(b) the Borrower shall fail to pay any interest on any Loan or any fee or any other amount (other than an amount referred to in paragraph (a) of this Article) payable under any Loan Document, when and as the same shall become due and payable, and such failure shall continue unremedied for a period of five Business Days;
(c) any representation or warranty made or deemed made by or on behalf of Holdings, the Borrower or any Subsidiary in or in connection with any Loan Document or any amendment or modification thereof or waiver thereunder, or in any report, certificate, financial statement or other document furnished pursuant to or in connection with any Loan Document or any amendment or modification thereof or waiver thereunder shall, if qualified by materiality, prove to have been incorrect or, if not so qualified, prove to have been incorrect in any material respect, in each case when made or deemed made;
(d) Holdings or the Borrower shall fail to observe or perform any covenant, condition or agreement contained in Section 5.02, 5.04 (with respect to the existence of Holdings or the Borrower) or 5.10 or in Article VI;
(e) any Loan Party shall fail to observe or perform any covenant, condition or agreement contained in any Loan Document (other than those specified in paragraph (a), (b) or (d) of this Article), and such failure shall continue unremedied for a period of 30 days after notice thereof from any Lender or the Administrative Agent to the Borrower;
(f) Holdings, the Borrower or any Subsidiary shall fail to make any payment (whether of principal or interest and regardless of amount) in respect of any Material Indebtedness, when and as the same shall become due and payable;
(g) any event or condition occurs that results in any Material Indebtedness becoming due prior to its scheduled maturity or that enables or permits (with all applicable grace periods having expired, provided that, during the applicable grace period, no additional consideration is paid or additional rights are granted in respect of such Material Indebtedness) the holder or holders of any Material Indebtedness or any trustee or agent on its or their behalf to cause any Material Indebtedness to become due, or to require the prepayment, repurchase,
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redemption or defeasance thereof, prior to its scheduled maturity, provided that this paragraph (g) shall not apply to secured Indebtedness that becomes due as a result of the sale, transfer or other disposition (including as a result of a casualty or condemnation event) of any property or assets securing such Indebtedness (to the extent such sale, transfer or other disposition is not prohibited under this Agreement);
(h) an involuntary proceeding shall be commenced or an involuntary petition shall be filed seeking (i) liquidation, reorganization or other relief in respect of Holdings, the Borrower or any Significant Subsidiary or its debts, or of a substantial part of its assets, under any Federal, state or foreign bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership or similar law now or hereafter in effect or (ii) the appointment of a receiver, trustee, custodian, sequestrator, conservator or similar official for Holdings, the Borrower or any Significant Subsidiary or for a substantial part of its assets, and, in any such case, such proceeding or petition shall continue undismissed for 60 days or an order or decree approving or ordering any of the foregoing shall be entered;
(i) Holdings, the Borrower or any Significant Subsidiary shall (i) voluntarily commence any proceeding or file any petition seeking liquidation, reorganization or other relief under any Federal, state or foreign bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership or similar law now or hereafter in effect, (ii) consent to the institution of, or fail to contest in a timely and appropriate manner, any proceeding or petition described in paragraph (h) of this Article, (iii) apply for or consent to the appointment of a receiver, trustee, custodian, sequestrator, conservator or similar official for Holdings, the Borrower or any Significant Subsidiary or for a substantial part of its assets, (iv) file an answer admitting the material allegations of a petition filed against it in any such proceeding, (v) make a general assignment for the benefit of creditors or (vi) take any action for the purpose of effecting any of the foregoing;
(j) Holdings, the Borrower or any Significant Subsidiary shall become unable, admit in writing its inability or fail generally to pay its debts as they become due;
(k) one or more judgments for the payment of money in an aggregate amount in excess of $20,000,000 shall be rendered against Holdings, the Borrower, any Subsidiary or any combination thereof and the same shall remain undischarged for a period of 45 consecutive days during which execution shall not be effectively stayed, or any action shall be legally taken by a judgment creditor to attach or levy upon any assets of Holdings, the Borrower or any Subsidiary to enforce any such judgment;
(l) an ERISA Event shall have occurred that when taken together with all other ERISA Events that have occurred (i) could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect or (ii) results in liability of Holdings, the Borrower
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and the Subsidiaries in an aggregate amount exceeding $20,000,000, which liability remains undischarged for a period of 45 consecutive days;
(m) any Lien purported to be created under any Security Document shall cease to be, or shall be asserted by any Loan Party not to be, a valid and perfected Lien on any Collateral, with the priority required by the applicable Security Document, except (i) in respect of Collateral having an aggregate value not in excess of $2,000,000, (ii) as a result of the sale or other disposition of the applicable Collateral in a transaction permitted under the Loan Documents or (iii) as a result of the Administrative Agent’s failure to maintain possession of any stock certificates or other instruments delivered to it under the Collateral Agreement;
(n) any Loan Document or any Guarantee of the Loan Document Obligations shall for any reason be asserted by any Loan Party not to be a legal, valid and binding obligation of any Loan Party that is a party thereto;
(o) the Guarantees of the Loan Document Obligations by Holdings, the Borrower and the Subsidiary Loan Parties pursuant to the Collateral Agreement shall cease to be in full force and effect (in each case, other than in accordance with the terms of the Loan Documents);
(p) (i) any Subordinated Debt or any Guarantee thereof shall cease, for any reason, to be, or shall be asserted by any Loan Party or the holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of any series of Subordinated Debt not to be, validly subordinated to the Loan Document Obligations or the obligations of Holdings and the Subsidiary Loan Parties in respect of their Guarantees under the Collateral Agreement, as the case may be, as provided in the Subordinated Debt Documents or (ii) the Loan Document Obligations shall cease to constitute, or shall be asserted by any Loan Party or the holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of any series of Subordinated Debt not to constitute, “Senior Indebtedness” or “Designated Senior Indebtedness” (or the equivalent thereof) under the subordination provisions of any Subordinated Debt Document; or
(q) a Change in Control shall occur;
then, and in every such event (other than an event with respect to Holdings or the Borrower described in paragraph (h) or (i) of this Article), and at any time thereafter during the continuance of such event, the Administrative Agent may, and at the request of the Required Lenders shall, by notice to the Borrower, take either or both of the following actions, at the same or different times: (i) terminate the Commitments, and thereupon the Commitments shall terminate immediately, and (ii) declare the Loans then outstanding to be due and payable in whole (or in part, in which case any principal not so declared to be due and payable may thereafter be declared to be due and payable), and thereupon the principal of the Loans so declared to be due and payable, together with accrued interest thereon and all fees and other obligations of the Borrower accrued hereunder, shall become due and payable immediately, without presentment, demand,
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protest or other notice of any kind, all of which are hereby waived by the Borrower; and in case of any event with respect to Holdings or the Borrower described in paragraph (h) or (i) of this Article, the Commitments shall automatically terminate and the principal of the Loans then outstanding, together with accrued interest thereon and all fees and other obligations of the Borrower accrued hereunder, shall automatically become due and payable, without presentment, demand, protest or other notice of any kind, all of which are hereby waived by the Borrower.
ARTICLE VIII
The Administrative Agent
Each of the Lenders and each Issuing Bank hereby irrevocably appoints the Administrative Agent as its agent and authorizes the Administrative Agent to take such actions on its behalf and to exercise such powers as are delegated to the Administrative Agent by the terms of the Loan Documents, together with such actions and powers as are reasonably incidental thereto. In addition, to the extent required under the laws of any jurisdiction other than the United States, each of the Lenders and the Issuing Banks hereby grants to the Administrative Agent any required powers of attorney to execute and enforce any Security Document governed by the laws of such jurisdiction on such Lender’s or Issuing Bank’s behalf. The provisions of this Article are solely for the benefit of the Administrative Agent, the Lenders and the Issuing Banks, and the Borrower shall not have rights as a third party beneficiary of any of such provisions.
The bank serving as the Administrative Agent hereunder shall have the same rights and powers in its capacity as a Lender as any other Lender and may exercise the same as though it were not the Administrative Agent, and such bank and its Affiliates may accept deposits from, lend money to and generally engage in any kind of business with Holdings, the Borrower or any Subsidiary or other Affiliate thereof as if it were not the Administrative Agent hereunder.
The Administrative Agent shall not have any duties or obligations except those expressly set forth in the Loan Documents. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, (a) the Administrative Agent shall not be subject to any fiduciary or other implied duties, regardless of whether a Default has occurred and is continuing, (b) the Administrative Agent shall not have any duty to take any discretionary action or exercise any discretionary powers, except discretionary rights and powers expressly contemplated by the Loan Documents that the Administrative Agent is required to exercise in writing as directed by the Required Lenders (or such other number or percentage of the Lenders as shall be necessary or believed by the Administrative Agent in good faith to be necessary under the circumstances as provided in Section 2.05(j) or Section 9.02), and (c) except as expressly set forth in the Loan Documents, the Administrative Agent shall not have any duty to disclose, and shall not be liable for the failure to disclose, any information relating to Holdings, the Borrower or any Subsidiary that is communicated to or obtained by the bank serving as Administrative Agent or any of its Affiliates in any capacity. The Administrative Agent shall not be liable for any action taken or not taken by it with the consent or at the request of the Required Lenders (or such other number or
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percentage of the Lenders as shall be necessary under the circumstances as provided in Section 2.05(j) or Section 9.02) or in the absence of its own gross negligence or wilful misconduct. The Administrative Agent shall be deemed not to have knowledge of any Default unless and until written notice thereof is given to the Administrative Agent by Holdings, the Borrower or a Lender, and the Administrative Agent shall not be responsible for or have any duty to ascertain or inquire into (i) any statement, warranty or representation made in or in connection with any Loan Document, (ii) the contents of any certificate, report or other document delivered thereunder or in connection therewith, (iii) the performance or observance of any of the covenants, agreements or other terms or conditions set forth in any Loan Document or the occurrence of any Default, (iv) the validity, enforceability, effectiveness or genuineness of any Loan Document or any other agreement, instrument or document or (v) the satisfaction of any condition set forth in Article IV or elsewhere in any Loan Document, other than to confirm receipt of items expressly required to be delivered to the Administrative Agent.
The Administrative Agent shall be entitled to rely upon, and shall not incur any liability for relying upon, any notice, request, certificate, consent, statement, instrument, document or other writing (including any electronic message, Internet or intranet website posting or other distribution) believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed or sent or otherwise authenticated by the proper Person. The Administrative Agent also may rely upon any statement made to it orally or by telephone and believed by it to be made by the proper Person, and shall not incur any liability for relying thereon. The Administrative Agent may consult with legal counsel (who may be counsel for the Borrower), independent accountants and other experts selected by it, and shall not be liable for any action taken or not taken by it in accordance with the advice of any such counsel, accountants or experts.
The Administrative Agent may perform any and all its duties and exercise its rights and powers by or through any one or more sub-agents appointed by the Administrative Agent. The Administrative Agent and any such sub-agent may perform any and all its duties and exercise its rights and powers by or through their respective Related Parties. The exculpatory provisions of this Article shall apply to any such subagent and to the Related Parties of the Administrative Agent and any such sub-agent, and shall apply to their respective activities in connection with the syndication of the credit facilities provided for herein as well as activities as Administrative Agent.
Subject to the appointment and acceptance of a successor Administrative Agent as provided in this paragraph, the Administrative Agent may resign at any time upon notice to the Lenders, the Issuing Banks and the Borrower. Upon any such resignation, the Required Lenders shall have the right, in consultation with the Borrower, to appoint a successor. If no successor shall have been so appointed by the Required Lenders and shall have accepted such appointment within 30 days after the retiring Administrative Agent gives notice of its resignation, then the retiring Administrative Agent may, on behalf of the Lenders and the Issuing Banks, appoint a successor Administrative Agent that shall be a bank with an office in New York, New York, or an Affiliate of any such bank. Upon the acceptance of its appointment as Administrative Agent hereunder by a successor, such successor shall succeed to and become vested with
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all the rights, powers, privileges and duties of the retiring Administrative Agent, and the retiring Administrative Agent shall be discharged from all its duties and obligations under the Loan Documents. The fees payable by the Borrower to a successor Administrative Agent shall be the same as those payable to its predecessor unless otherwise agreed between the Borrower and such successor. After the Administrative Agent’s resignation hereunder, the provisions of this Article and Section 9.03 shall continue in effect for the benefit of such retiring Administrative Agent, its sub-agents and their respective Related Parties in respect of any actions taken or omitted to be taken by any of them while the retiring Administrative Agent was acting as Administrative Agent.
Each Lender and each Issuing Bank acknowledges that it has, independently and without reliance upon the Administrative Agent or any other Lender or any of their Related Parties and based on such documents and information as it has deemed appropriate, made its own credit analysis and decision to enter into this Agreement. Each Lender and each Issuing Bank also acknowledges that it will, independently and without reliance upon the Administrative Agent or any other Lender or any of their Related Parties and based on such documents and information as it shall from time to time deem appropriate, continue to make its own decisions in taking or not taking action under or based upon this any Loan Document or any related agreement or any document furnished thereunder.
Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, none of the Syndication Agent, Joint Bookrunners or Co-Lead Arrangers listed on the cover page hereof shall have any powers, duties or responsibilities under any Loan Document, except in its capacity, as applicable, as the Administrative Agent, a Lender or an Issuing Bank hereunder.
ARTICLE IX
Miscellaneous
SECTION 9.01. Notices. Except in the case of notices and other communications expressly permitted to be given by telephone, all notices and other communications provided for herein shall be in writing and shall be delivered by hand or overnight courier service, mailed by certified or registered mail or sent by telecopy, as follows:
(a) if to Holdings or the Borrower, to it at 0000 Xxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxx, Xxxxx, Xxxxxxx 00000 (Telecopy No. (000) 000-0000);
(b) if to the Administrative Agent, to JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., 0000 Xxxxxx, 00xx Xxxxx, Xxxxxxx, Xxxxx 00000, Attention of Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx (Telecopy No.: (000) 000-0000), with a copy to JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., 700 Lavaca Avenue, Mail Code TX3-8217, Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 00000-0000, Attention of Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxx (Telecopy No. (000) 000-0000);
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(c) if to an Issuing Bank or Swingline Lender other than the Administrative Agent, to it at the address or telecopy number set forth separately in writing; and
(d) if to any other Lender, to it at its address (or telecopy number) set forth in its Administrative Questionnaire.
Any party hereto may change its address or telecopy number for notices and other communications hereunder by notice to the other parties hereto. Notices and other communications to the Lenders and an Issuing Bank hereunder may also be delivered or furnished by electronic communication (including e-mail and Internet or intranet websites) pursuant to procedures approved by the Administrative Agent, provided that the foregoing shall not apply to notices to any Lender or an Issuing Bank pursuant to Article II if such Lender or such Issuing Bank, as applicable, has notified the Administrative Agent that it is incapable of receiving notices under such Article by electronic communication. The Administrative Agent or the Borrower may, in its discretion, agree to accept notices and other communications to it hereunder by electronic communications pursuant to procedures approved by it, provided that approval of such procedures may be limited to particular notices or communications. All notices and other communications given to any party hereto in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement shall be deemed to have been given on the date of receipt.
SECTION 9.02. Waivers; Amendments. (a) No failure or delay by the Administrative Agent, any Issuing Bank or any Lender in exercising any right or power under any Loan Document shall operate as a waiver thereof, nor shall any single or partial exercise of any such right or power, or any abandonment or discontinuance of steps to enforce such a right or power, preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right or power. The rights and remedies of the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Banks and the Lenders hereunder and under the other Loan Documents are cumulative and are not exclusive of any rights or remedies that they would otherwise have. No waiver of any provision of any Loan Document or consent to any departure by any Loan Party therefrom shall in any event be effective unless the same shall be permitted by paragraph (b) of this Section, and then such waiver or consent shall be effective only in the specific instance and for the purpose for which given. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the making of a Loan or the issuance, amendment, renewal or extension of a Letter of Credit shall not be construed as a waiver of any Default, regardless of whether the Administrative Agent, any Lender or any Issuing Bank may have had notice or knowledge of such Default at the time. No notice or demand on the Borrower or Holdings in any case shall entitle the Borrower or Holdings to any other or further notice or demand in similar or other circumstances.
(b) Except as provided in Section 2.20 with respect to any Incremental Facility Amendment, neither any Loan Document nor any provision thereof may be waived, amended or modified except, in the case of this Agreement, pursuant to an agreement or agreements in writing entered into by Holdings, the Borrower and the Required Lenders or, in the case of any other Loan Document, pursuant to an agreement or agreements in writing entered into by the Administrative Agent and the Loan Party or
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Loan Parties that are parties thereto, in each case with the consent of the Required Lenders, provided that no such agreement shall (i) increase the Commitment of any Lender without the written consent of such Lender, (ii) reduce or forgive the principal amount of any Loan or LC Disbursement or reduce the rate of interest thereon, or reduce any fees payable hereunder, without the written consent of each Lender affected thereby, provided that any amendment to the financial covenant definitions in this Agreement shall not constitute a reduction in the rate of interest for purposes of this clause (ii), (iii) postpone or otherwise extend the maturity of any Loan, or the date of any scheduled payment of the principal amount of any Term Loan under Section 2.10 or the applicable Incremental Facility Amendment, or the required date of reimbursement of any LC Disbursement, or any date for the payment of any interest or fees payable hereunder, or reduce or forgive the amount of, waive or excuse any such payment, or postpone or otherwise extend the scheduled date of expiration of any Commitment, without the written consent of each Lender affected thereby, (iv) change Section 2.18(b) or (c), the penultimate sentence of Section 2.11(f) or the last sentence of Section 2.08(c), in each case in a manner that would alter the pro rata sharing of payments or commitment reductions required thereby, without the written consent of each Lender adversely affected thereby, (v) change any of the provisions of this Section or the percentage set forth in the definition of “Required Lenders” or any other provision of any Loan Document specifying the number or percentage of Lenders (or Lenders of any Class) required to waive, amend or modify any rights thereunder or make any determination or grant any consent thereunder, without the written consent of each Lender (or each Lender of such Class, as the case may be) (it being understood that, other than pursuant to any Incremental Facility Amendment (the consent requirements for which are set forth in Section 2.20), with the consent of the Required Lenders, additional extensions of credit pursuant to this Agreement may be included in the determination of the Required Lenders on substantially the same basis as the Term Loans and Revolving Commitments on the date hereof), (vi) release Holdings or any material Subsidiary Loan Party from its Guarantee under the Collateral Agreement (except as expressly provided in the Collateral Agreement), or limit its liability in respect of such Guarantee, without the written consent of each Lender, (vii) release all or substantially all the Collateral from the Liens of the Security Documents, without the written consent of each Lender, (viii) change any provisions of any Loan Document in a manner that by its terms adversely affects the rights in respect of payments due to Lenders holding Loans of any Class differently than those holding Loans of any other Class, without the written consent of Lenders holding a majority in interest of the outstanding Loans and unused Commitments of each affected Class, (ix) modify the protections afforded to an SPV pursuant to the provisions of Section 9.04(e) without the written consent of such SPV, (x) change the rights of the Tranche B-1 Lenders to decline mandatory prepayments as provided in Section 2.11 or the rights of any Additional Lenders of any Class to decline mandatory prepayments of Term Loans of such Class as provided in the applicable Incremental Facility Amendment, without the written consent of Tranche B-1 Lenders or Additional Lenders of such Class, as applicable, holding a majority of the outstanding Tranche B-1 Loans or Term Loans of such Class, as applicable or (xi) effect any waiver, amendment or modification of Section 5.02 of the Collateral Agreement, or any comparable provision of any other Security Document, in a manner that materially adversely affects the rights in respect of
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payments or collateral of Lenders, without the consent of each Lender so affected, provided further that (A) no such agreement shall amend, modify or otherwise affect the rights or duties of the Administrative Agent, an Issuing Bank or the Swingline Lender without the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent, such Issuing Bank or the Swingline Lender, as the case may be, and (B) any waiver, amendment or modification of this Agreement that by its terms affects the rights or duties under this Agreement of Lenders holding Loans or Commitments of a particular Class (but not the Lenders holding Loans or Commitments of any other Class) may be effected by an agreement or agreements in writing entered into by Holdings, the Borrower and the requisite percentage in interest of the affected Class of Lenders that would be required to consent thereto under this Section if such Class of Lenders were the only Class of Lenders hereunder at the time.
(c) In connection with any proposed amendment, modification, waiver or termination (a “Proposed Change”) requiring the consent of all Lenders or all affected Lenders, if the consent of holders of two-thirds in interest of the outstanding Loans and unused Commitments (and, to the extent any Proposed Change requires the consent of Lenders holding Loans of any Class pursuant to clause (v), (viii) or (x) of paragraph (b) of this Section, the consent of holders of two-thirds in interest of the outstanding Loans and unused Commitments of such Class) to such Proposed Change is obtained, but the consent to such Proposed Change of other Lenders whose consent is required is not obtained (any such Lender whose consent is not obtained as described in paragraph (b) of this Section being referred to as a “Non-Consenting Lender”), then, so long as the Lender that is acting as Administrative Agent is not a Non-Consenting Lender, the Borrower may, at its sole expense and effort, upon notice to such Non-Consenting Lender and the Administrative Agent, require such Non-Consenting Lender to assign and delegate, without recourse (in accordance with and subject to the restrictions contained in Section 9.04), all its interests, rights and obligations under this Agreement to an assignee that shall assume such obligations (which assignee may be another Lender, if a Lender accepts such assignment), provided that (a) the Borrower shall have received the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent (and, if a Revolving Commitment is being assigned, each Issuing Bank and the Swingline Lender), which consent shall not unreasonably be withheld, (b) such Non-Consenting Lender shall have received payment of an amount equal to the outstanding principal of its Loans and participations in LC Disbursements and Swingline Loans, accrued interest thereon, accrued fees and all other amounts payable to it hereunder from the assignee (to the extent of such outstanding principal and accrued interest and fees) or the Borrower (in the case of all other amounts) and (c) the Borrower or such assignee shall have paid to the Administrative Agent the processing and recordation fee specified in Section 9.04(b) .
SECTION 9.03. Expenses; Indemnity; Damage Waiver. (a) The Borrower shall pay (i) all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses incurred by the Administrative Agent and its Affiliates, including the reasonable fees, charges and disbursements of counsel for the Administrative Agent, in connection with the syndication of the credit facilities provided for herein, the preparation and administration of the Loan Documents or any amendments, modifications or waivers of the provisions thereof (whether or not the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby shall be
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consummated), (ii) all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses incurred by any Issuing Bank in connection with the issuance, amendment, renewal or extension of any Letter of Credit or any demand for payment thereunder and (iii) all out-of-pocket expenses incurred by the Administrative Agent, any Issuing Bank or any Lender, including the fees, charges and disbursements of any counsel for the Administrative Agent, any Issuing Bank or any Lender, in connection with the enforcement or protection of its rights in connection with the Loan Documents, including its rights under this Section, or in connection with the Loans made or Letters of Credit issued hereunder, including all such out-of-pocket expenses incurred during any workout, restructuring or negotiations in respect of such Loans or Letters of Credit.
(b) The Borrower shall indemnify the Administrative Agent, each Issuing Bank and each Lender, and each Related Party of any of the foregoing Persons (each such Person being called an “Indemnitee”), against, and hold each Indemnitee harmless from, any and all losses, claims, damages, liabilities and related expenses, including the fees, charges and disbursements of any counsel for any Indemnitee, incurred by or asserted against any Indemnitee by any third party or by Holdings, the Borrower or any Subsidiary arising out of, in connection with, or as a result of (i) the execution or delivery of any Loan Document or any other agreement or instrument contemplated thereby, the performance by the parties to the Loan Documents of their respective obligations thereunder or the consummation of the Transactions or any other transactions contemplated thereby, (ii) any Loan or Letter of Credit or the use of the proceeds therefrom (including any refusal by an Issuing Bank to honor a demand for payment under a Letter of Credit if the documents presented in connection with such demand do not strictly comply with the terms of such Letter of Credit), (iii) any actual or alleged presence or Release of Hazardous Materials on, at, to or from any property currently or formerly owned or operated by Holdings, the Borrower or any Subsidiary, or any other Environmental Liability related in any way to Holdings, the Borrower or any Subsidiary, or (iv) any actual or prospective claim, litigation, investigation or proceeding relating to any of the foregoing, whether based on contract, tort or any other theory, whether brought by a third party or by Holdings, the Borrower or any Subsidiary and regardless of whether any Indemnitee is a party thereto, provided that such indemnity shall not, as to any Indemnitee, be available to the extent that such losses, claims, damages, liabilities or related expenses are determined by a court of competent jurisdiction by final and nonappealable judgment to have resulted from (i) the gross negligence or wilful misconduct of such Indemnitee or (ii) the breach by such Indemnitee of its obligations under any Loan Document.
(c) To the extent that the Borrower fails to pay any amount required to be paid by it to the Administrative Agent or the applicable Issuing Bank under paragraph (a) or (b) of this Section, and without limiting the Borrower’s obligation to do so, each Lender severally agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent or such Issuing Bank, as the case may be, such Lender’s pro rata share (determined as of the time that the applicable unreimbursed expense or indemnity payment is sought) of such unpaid amount, provided that the unreimbursed expense or indemnified loss, claim, damage, liability or related expense, as the case may be, was incurred by or asserted against the Administrative Agent or such Issuing Bank in its capacity as such. For purposes hereof, a Lender’s “pro
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rata share” shall be determined based upon its share of the aggregate Revolving Exposures, outstanding Term Loans and unused Commitments at the time, provided that, for purposes of indemnifying the Issuing Bank hereunder, such “pro rata share” shall be based upon the aggregate Revolving Exposures and unused Revolving Commitments. The obligations of the Lenders under this paragraph (c) are subject to the last sentence of Section 2.02(a) (which shall apply mutatis mutandis to the Lenders’ obligations under this paragraph (c)).
(d) To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, neither Holdings nor the Borrower shall assert, and each hereby waives, any claim against any Indemnitee, on any theory of liability, for special, indirect, consequential or punitive damages (as opposed to direct or actual damages) arising out of, in connection with, or as a result of, any Loan Document or any agreement or instrument contemplated thereby, the Transactions, any Loan or Letter of Credit or the use of the proceeds thereof.
(e) All amounts due under this Section shall be payable not later than ten days after written demand therefor.
SECTION 9.04. Successors and Assigns. (a) The provisions of this Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective successors and assigns permitted hereby (including any Affiliate of an Issuing Bank that issues any Letter of Credit), except that (i) the Borrower may not assign or otherwise transfer any of its rights or obligations hereunder without the prior written consent of each Lender (and any attempted assignment or transfer by the Borrower without such consent shall be null and void) and (ii) no Lender may assign or otherwise transfer its rights or obligations hereunder except in accordance with this Section. Nothing in this Agreement, expressed or implied, shall be construed to confer upon any Person (other than the parties hereto, their respective successors and assigns permitted hereby (including any Affiliate of an Issuing Bank that issues any Letter of Credit), Participants (to the extent provided in paragraph (c) of this Section) and, to the extent expressly contemplated hereby, the Related Parties of each of the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Banks and the Lenders) any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under or by reason of this Agreement.
(b) (i) Subject to the conditions set forth in paragraph (b)(ii) below, any Lender may assign to one or more assignees all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including all or a portion of its Commitment and the Loans at the time owing to it) with the prior written consent (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed) of (A) the Borrower, provided that no consent of the Borrower shall be required for an assignment to a Lender, an Affiliate of a Lender, an Approved Fund (as defined below) or, if an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, any other assignee, (B) the Administrative Agent, provided that no consent of the Administrative Agent shall be required for an assignment of all or any portion of a Term Loan to a Lender, an Affiliate of a Lender or an Approved Fund and (C) each Issuing Bank, provided that no consent of an Issuing Bank shall be required for an assignment of all or any portion of a Term Loan or Term Commitment.
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(ii) Assignments shall be subject to the following additional conditions: (A) except in the case of an assignment to a Lender, an Affiliate of a Lender or an Approved Fund or an assignment of the entire remaining amount of the assigning Lender’s Commitment or Loans of any Class, the amount of the Commitment or Loans of the assigning Lender subject to each such assignment (determined as of the trade date specified in the Assignment and Acceptance with respect to such assignment or, if no trade date is so specified, as of the date the Assignment and Assumption with respect to such assignment is delivered to the Administrative Agent) shall not be less than $5,000,000 or, in the case of a Term Loan, $1,000,000, unless the Borrower and the Administrative Agent otherwise consent (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed), provided that no such consent of the Borrower shall be required if an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, (B) each partial assignment shall be made as an assignment of a proportionate part of all the assigning Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement, provided that this clause (B) shall not be construed to prohibit assignment of a proportionate part of all the assigning Lender’s rights and obligations in respect of one Class of Commitments or Loans, (C) the parties to each assignment shall execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent an Assignment and Assumption, together with a processing and recordation fee of $3,500, provided that assignments made pursuant to Section 2.19(b) or Section 9.02(c) shall not require the signature of the assigning Lender to become effective, provided, further, that only one such processing and recordation fee shall be payable in connection with simultaneous assignments to two or more assignees that are Affiliates of one another, or to two or more Approved Funds that are managed or advised by the same investment advisor, and (D) the assignee, if it shall not be a Lender, shall deliver to the Administrative Agent an Administrative Questionnaire and any tax forms required by Section 2.17(e) .
For purposes of paragraph (b) of this Section, the term “Approved Fund” and “CLO” have the following meanings:
“Approved Fund” means (a) a CLO and (b) with respect to any Lender that is a fund that invests in bank loans and similar extensions of credit, any other fund that invests in bank loans and similar extensions of credit and is managed or advised by the same investment advisor as such Lender or by an Affiliate of such investment advisor.
“CLO” means an entity (whether a corporation, partnership, trust or otherwise) that is engaged in making, purchasing, holding or otherwise investing in bank loans and similar extensions of credit in the ordinary course and is administered or managed by a Lender or an Affiliate of such Lender.
(iii) Subject to acceptance and recording thereof pursuant to paragraph (b)(v) of this Section, from and after the effective date specified in each Assignment and Assumption, the assignee thereunder shall be a party hereto and, to the extent of the interest assigned by such Assignment and Assumption, have the rights and obligations of a Lender under this Agreement, and the assigning Lender thereunder shall, to the extent of the interest assigned by such Assignment and Assumption, be released from its obligations under this Agreement (and, in the case of an Assignment and
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Assumption covering all of the assigning Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement, such Lender shall cease to be a party hereto but shall continue to be entitled to the benefits of Sections 2.15, 2.16, 2.17 and 9.03 and to any fees payable hereunder that have accrued for such Lender’s account but have not yet been paid). Any assignment or transfer by a Lender of rights or obligations under this Agreement that does not comply with this Section shall be treated for purposes of this Agreement as a sale by such Lender of a participation in such rights and obligations in accordance with paragraph (c)(i) of this Section.
(iv) The Administrative Agent, acting for this purpose as an agent of the Borrower, shall maintain at one of its offices a copy of each Assignment and Assumption delivered to it and a register for the recordation of the names and addresses of the Lenders, and the Commitment of, and principal amount of the Loans and LC Disbursements owing to, each Lender pursuant to the terms hereof from time to time (the “Register”). The entries in the Register shall be conclusive absent manifest error, and Holdings, the Borrower, the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Banks and the Lenders may treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Register pursuant to the terms hereof as a Lender hereunder for all purposes of this Agreement, notwithstanding notice to the contrary. The Register shall be available for inspection by the Borrower, any Issuing Bank and any Lender, at any reasonable time and from time to time upon reasonable prior notice.
(v) Upon its receipt of a duly completed Assignment and Assumption executed by an assigning Lender and an assignee, the assignee’s completed Administrative Questionnaire and any tax forms required by Section 2.17(e) (unless the assignee shall already be a Lender hereunder), the processing and recordation fee referred to in paragraph (b)(ii) of this Section and any written consent to such assignment required by paragraph (b)(i) of this Section, the Administrative Agent shall accept such Assignment and Assumption and record the information contained therein in the Register. No assignment shall be effective for purposes of this Agreement unless it has been recorded in the Register as provided in this paragraph.
(vi) The words “execution”, “signed”, “signature” and words of like import in any Assignment and Assumption shall be deemed to include electronic signatures or the keeping of records in electronic form, each of which shall be of the same legal effect, validity or enforceability as a manually executed signature or the use of a paper-based recordkeeping system, as the case may be, to the extent and as provided for in any applicable law, including the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act, the New York State Electronic Signatures and Records Act or any other similar state laws based on the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act.
(c) (i) Any Lender may, without the consent of the Borrower, the Administrative Agent, any Issuing Bank or the Swingline Lender, sell participations to one or more banks or other entities (a “Participant”) in all or a portion of such Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement (including all or a portion of its Commitment and the Loans owing to it), provided that (A) such Lender’s obligations under this Agreement shall remain unchanged, (B) such Lender shall remain solely responsible to
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the other parties hereto for the performance of such obligations and (C) Holdings, the Borrower, the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Banks and the other Lenders shall continue to deal solely and directly with such Lender in connection with such Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement. Any agreement or instrument pursuant to which a Lender sells such a participation shall provide that such Lender shall retain the sole right to enforce the Loan Documents and to approve any amendment, modification or waiver of any provision of the Loan Documents, provided that such agreement or instrument may provide that such Lender will not, without the consent of the Participant, agree to any amendment, modification or waiver described in clause (i), (ii), (iii), (vi) or (vii) of the first proviso to Section 9.02(b) that affects such Participant. Subject to paragraph (c)(ii) of this Section, the Borrower agrees that each Participant shall be entitled to the benefits of Sections 2.15, 2.16 and 2.17 to the same extent as if it were a Lender and had acquired its interest by assignment pursuant to paragraph (b) of this Section. To the extent permitted by law, each Participant also shall be entitled to the benefits of Section 9.08 as though it were a Lender, provided that such Participant agrees to be subject to Section 2.18(c) as though it were a Lender.
(ii) A Participant shall not be entitled to receive any greater payment under Section 2.15 or Section 2.17 than the applicable Lender would have been entitled to receive with respect to the participation sold to such Participant, unless the sale of the participation to such Participant is made with the Borrower’s prior written consent. A Participant that would be a Foreign Lender if it were a Lender shall not be entitled to the benefits of Section 2.17 unless the Borrower is notified of the participation sold to such Participant and such Participant agrees, for the benefit of the Borrower, to comply with Section 2.17(e) as though it were a Lender.
(d) Any Lender may, without the consent of the Borrower or the Administrative Agent, at any time pledge or assign a security interest in all or any portion of its rights under this Agreement to secure obligations of such Lender, including any pledge or assignment to secure obligations to a Federal Reserve Bank, and this Section shall not apply to any such pledge or assignment of a security interest, provided that no such pledge or assignment of a security interest shall release a Lender from any of its obligations hereunder or substitute any such pledgee or assignee for such Lender as a party hereto.
(e) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, any Lender (a “Granting Lender”) may grant to a special purpose funding vehicle (an “SPV”), identified as such in writing from time to time by the Granting Lender to the Administrative Agent and the Borrower, the option to provide to the Borrower all or any part of any Loan that such Granting Lender would otherwise be obligated to make to the Borrower pursuant to this Agreement, provided that (i) nothing herein shall constitute a commitment by any SPV to make any Loan and (ii) if an SPV elects not to exercise such option or otherwise fails to provide all or any part of such Loan, the Granting Lender shall be obligated to make such Loan pursuant to the terms hereof. The making of a Loan by an SPV hereunder shall utilize the Commitment of the Granting Lender to the same extent, and as if, such Loan were made by such Granting Lender. Each party hereto hereby agrees that no SPV shall be liable for any indemnity or similar payment obligation
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under this Agreement (all liability for which shall remain with the Granting Lender). In furtherance of the foregoing, each party hereto hereby agrees (which agreement shall survive the termination of this Agreement) that, prior to the date that is one year and one day after the payment in full of all outstanding commercial paper or other senior indebtedness of any SPV, such party will not institute against, or join any other person in instituting against, such SPV any bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, insolvency or liquidation proceedings under the laws of the United States or any State thereof. In addition, notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Section 9.04, any SPV may (i) with notice to, but without the prior written consent of, the Borrower and the Administrative Agent and without paying any processing fee therefor, assign all or a portion of its interests in any Loans to the Granting Lender or to any financial institutions (consented to by the Borrower and Administrative Agent) providing liquidity or credit support to or for the account of such SPV to support the funding or maintenance of Loans and (ii) disclose on a confidential basis any non-public information relating to its Loans to any rating agency, commercial paper dealer or provider of any surety, guarantee or credit or liquidity enhancement to such SPV.
SECTION 9.05. Survival. All covenants, agreements, representations and warranties made by the Loan Parties in the Loan Documents and in the certificates or other instruments delivered in connection with or pursuant to any Loan Document shall be considered to have been relied upon by the other parties hereto and shall survive the execution and delivery of the Loan Documents and the making of any Loans and issuance of any Letters of Credit, regardless of any investigation made by any such other party or on its behalf and notwithstanding that the Administrative Agent, any Issuing Bank or any Lender may have had notice or knowledge of any Default or incorrect representation or warranty at the time any credit is extended hereunder, and shall continue in full force and effect as long as the principal of or any accrued interest on any Loan or any fee or any other amount payable under this Agreement is outstanding and unpaid or any Letter of Credit is outstanding and so long as the Commitments have not expired or terminated. The provisions of Sections 2.15, 2.16, 2.17 and 9.03 and Article VIII shall survive and remain in full force and effect regardless of the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby, the repayment of the Loans, the expiration or termination of the Letters of Credit and the Commitments or the termination of this Agreement or any provision hereof.
SECTION 9.06. Counterparts; Integration. This Agreement may be executed in counterparts (and by different parties hereto on different counterparts), each of which shall constitute an original, but all of which when taken together shall constitute a single contract. This Agreement, the other Loan Documents and any separate letter agreements with respect to fees payable to the Administrative Agent, the Syndication Agent or the syndication of the Loans and Commitments constitute the entire contract among the parties relating to the subject matter hereof and supersede any and all previous agreements and understandings, oral or written, relating to the subject matter hereof.
SECTION 9.07. Severability. Any provision of this Agreement held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any jurisdiction shall, as to such jurisdiction, be ineffective to the extent of such invalidity, illegality or unenforceability without affecting
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the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions hereof; and the invalidity of a particular provision in a particular jurisdiction shall not invalidate such provision in any other jurisdiction.
SECTION 9.08. Right of Setoff. If an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, each Lender, each Issuing Bank and each of their respective Affiliates is hereby authorized at any time and from time to time, to the fullest extent permitted by law, to set off and apply any and all deposits (general or special, time or demand, provisional or final, in whatever currency) at any time held and other obligations (in whatever currency) at any time owing by such Lender, such Issuing Bank or any such Affiliate to or for the credit or the account of the Borrower against any of and all the obligations of the Borrower now or hereafter existing under this Agreement held by such Lender or such Issuing Bank, irrespective of whether or not such Lender or such Issuing Bank shall have made any demand under this Agreement and although such obligations may be unmatured or are owed to a branch or office of such Lender or such Issuing Bank different from the branch or office holding such deposit or obligated on such Indebtedness. The applicable Lender and the applicable Issuing Bank shall notify the Borrower and the Administrative Agent of such setoff and application, provided that any failure to give or any delay in giving such notice shall not affect the validity of any such setoff and application under this Section. The rights of each Lender, each Issuing Bank and their respective Affiliates under this Section are in addition to other rights and remedies (including other rights of setoff) that such Lender, such Issuing Bank and their respective Affiliates may have.
SECTION 9.09. Governing Law; Jurisdiction; Consent to Service of Process. (a) This Agreement shall be construed in accordance with and governed by the law of the State of New York.
(b) Each of Holdings and the Borrower hereby irrevocably and unconditionally submits, for itself and its property, to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of the State of New York sitting in New York County and of the United States District Court of the Southern District of New York, and any appellate court from any thereof, in any action or proceeding arising out of or relating to any Loan Document, or for recognition or enforcement of any judgment, and each of the parties hereto hereby irrevocably and unconditionally agrees that all claims in respect of any such action or proceeding may be heard and determined in such New York State or, to the extent permitted by law, in such Federal court. Each of the parties hereto agrees that, to the extent permitted by applicable law, a final judgment in any such action or proceeding shall be conclusive and may be enforced in other jurisdictions by suit on the judgment or in any other manner provided by law. Nothing in any Loan Document shall affect any right that the Administrative Agent, any Issuing Bank or any Lender may otherwise have to bring any action or proceeding relating to any Loan Document against Holdings, the Borrower or their respective properties in the courts of any jurisdiction.
(c) Each of Holdings and the Borrower hereby irrevocably and unconditionally waives, to the fullest extent it may legally and effectively do so, any objection that it may now or hereafter have to the laying of venue of any suit, action or
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proceeding arising out of or relating to any Loan Document in any court referred to in paragraph (b) of this Section. Each of the parties hereto hereby irrevocably waives, to the fullest extent permitted by law, the defense of an inconvenient forum to the maintenance of such action or proceeding in any such court.
(d) Each party to this Agreement irrevocably consents to service of process in the manner provided for notices in Section 9.01. Nothing in any Loan Document will affect the right of any party to this Agreement to serve process in any other manner permitted by law.
SECTION 9.10. WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL. EACH PARTY HERETO HEREBY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY RIGHT IT MAY HAVE TO A TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY LEGAL PROCEEDING DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO ANY LOAN DOCUMENT OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED THEREBY (WHETHER BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT OR ANY OTHER THEORY). EACH PARTY HERETO (A) CERTIFIES THAT NO REPRESENTATIVE, AGENT OR ATTORNEY OF ANY OTHER PARTY HAS REPRESENTED, EXPRESSLY OR OTHERWISE, THAT SUCH OTHER PARTY WOULD NOT, IN THE EVENT OF LITIGATION, SEEK TO ENFORCE THE FOREGOING WAIVER AND (B) ACKNOWLEDGES THAT IT AND THE OTHER PARTIES HERETO HAVE BEEN INDUCED TO ENTER INTO THIS AGREEMENT BY, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THE MUTUAL WAIVERS AND CERTIFICATIONS IN THIS SECTION.
SECTION 9.11. Headings. Article and Section headings and the Table of Contents used herein are for convenience of reference only, are not part of this Agreement and shall not affect the construction of, or be taken into consideration in interpreting, this Agreement.
SECTION 9.12. Confidentiality. Each of the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Banks and the Lenders agrees to maintain the confidentiality of the Information (as defined below), except that Information may be disclosed (a) to its and its Affiliates’ directors, officers, employees and agents, including accountants, legal counsel and other advisors (it being understood that the Persons to whom such disclosure is made will be informed of the confidential nature of such Information and instructed to keep such Information confidential), (b) to the extent requested by any regulatory authority, (c) to the extent required by applicable laws or regulations or by any subpoena or similar legal process (in which case notice of such subpoena or similar legal process shall, to the extent not prohibited by such subpoena or legal process, be provided to the Borrower prior to the disclosure of such Information), (d) to any other party to this Agreement, (e) in connection with the exercise of any remedies hereunder or any suit, action or proceeding relating to any Loan Document or the enforcement of rights thereunder, (f) subject to an agreement containing provisions substantially the same as those of this Section, to (i) any assignee of or Participant in, or any prospective assignee of or Participant in, any of its rights or obligations under this Agreement, (ii) any actual or prospective counterparty (or its advisors) to any Swap Agreement relating to any Loan
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Party and its obligations under the Loan Documents and (iii) to any pledgee referred to in Section 9.04(d), (g) with the consent of the Borrower or (h) to the extent such Information (i) becomes publicly available other than as a result of a breach of this Section or (ii) becomes available to the Administrative Agent, any Issuing Bank or any Lender on a nonconfidential basis from a source other than Holdings or the Borrower (provided that the source is not actually known by such disclosing party to be bound by an agreement containing provisions substantially the same as those contained in this Section 9.12) . For the purposes of this Section, “Information” means all information received from Holdings or the Borrower relating to Holdings or the Borrower or its business, other than any such information that is available to the Administrative Agent, any Issuing Bank or any Lender on a nonconfidential basis prior to disclosure by Holdings or the Borrower. Any Person required to maintain the confidentiality of Information as provided in this Section shall be considered to have complied with its obligation to do so if such Person has exercised the same degree of care to maintain the confidentiality of such Information as such Person would accord to its own confidential information.
SECTION 9.13. Interest Rate Limitation. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, if at any time the interest rate applicable to any Loan or participation in any LC Disbursement, together with all fees, charges and other amounts that are treated as interest on such Loan or LC Disbursement or participation therein under applicable law (collectively the “Charges”), shall exceed the maximum lawful rate (the “Maximum Rate”) that may be contracted for, charged, taken, received or reserved by the Lender holding such Loan or LC Disbursement or participation therein in accordance with applicable law, the rate of interest payable in respect of such Loan hereunder, together with all Charges payable in respect thereof, shall be limited to the Maximum Rate and, to the extent lawful, the interest and Charges that would have been payable in respect of such Loan or LC Disbursement or participation therein but were not payable as a result of the operation of this Section shall be cumulated and the interest and Charges payable to such Lender in respect of other Loans or LC Disbursement or participation therein or periods shall be increased (but not above the Maximum Rate therefor) until such cumulated amount, together with interest thereon at the Federal Funds Effective Rate to the date of repayment, shall have been received by such Lender.
SECTION 9.14. USA Patriot Act. Each Lender hereby notifies Holdings and the Borrower that pursuant to the requirements of the USA Patriot Act (Title III of Pub. L. 107-56 (signed into law October 26, 2001)) (the “Act”), it is required to obtain, verify and record information that identifies Holdings and the Borrower, which information includes the name and address of Holdings and the Borrower and other information that will allow such Lender to identify Holdings and the Borrower in accordance with the Act.
SECTION 9.15. Conversion of Currencies. (a) If, for the purpose of obtaining judgment in any court, it is necessary to convert a sum owing hereunder in one currency into another currency, each party hereto agrees, to the fullest extent that it may effectively do so, that the rate of exchange used shall be that at which in accordance with normal banking procedures in the relevant jurisdiction the first currency could be
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purchased with such other currency on the Business Day immediately preceding the day on which final judgment is given.
(b) The obligations of the Borrower in respect of any sum due to any party hereto or any holder of the obligations owing hereunder (the “Applicable Creditor”) shall, notwithstanding any judgment in a currency (the “Judgment Currency”) other than the currency in which such sum is stated to be due hereunder (the “Agreement Currency”), be discharged, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, only to the extent that, on the Business Day following receipt by the Applicable Creditor of any sum adjudged to be so due in the Judgment Currency, the Applicable Creditor may in accordance with normal banking procedures in the relevant jurisdiction purchase the Agreement Currency with the Judgment Currency; if the amount of the Agreement Currency so purchased is less than the sum originally due to the Applicable Creditor in the Agreement Currency, such Borrower agrees, as a separate obligation and notwithstanding any such judgment, to indemnify, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, the Applicable Creditor against such loss. The obligations of the Borrower contained in this Section 9.15 shall survive the termination of this Agreement and the payment of all other amounts owing hereunder.
SECTION 9.16. Dutch Parallel Debt. (a) The Borrower hereby irrevocably and unconditionally undertakes to pay to the Administrative Agent amounts equal to the aggregate amount from time to time payable (verschuldigd) to any of the Secured Parties under or pursuant to the Obligations (such payment undertaking to the Administrative Agent hereinafter referred to as the “Parallel Debt Obligations”).
(b) The Parallel Debt Obligations will become due and payable (opeisbaar) immediately upon the Administrative Agent’s first demand, which may be made at any time, as and when one or more of the Obligations becomes due and payable.
(c) Each of the parties to this Agreement hereby acknowledges that (A) the Parallel Debt Obligations constitute undertakings, obligations and liabilities of the Borrower to the Administrative Agent that are transferable and independent from, and without prejudice to, the corresponding Obligations and (B) the Parallel Debt Obligations represent the Administrative Agent’s own separate claim to receive payment of the Parallel Debt Obligations from the Borrower, it being understood that the amount that is or may become due and payable by the Borrower under or pursuant to the Parallel Debt Obligations from time to time shall never exceed the aggregate amount that is payable under the Obligations from time to time.
(d) For the avoidance of doubt, each of the parties to this Agreement confirms that the claims of the Administrative Agent against the Borrower in respect of the Parallel Debt Obligations and the claims of any one or more of the Secured Parties against the Borrower under or pursuant to the Obligations payable to such Secured Parties do not constitute common property (een gemeenschap) within the meaning of Article 3:166 of the Netherlands Civil Code (“NCC”) and that the provisions relating to such common property shall not apply. If, however, it would be held that such claims of the Administrative Agent and such claims of any one or more of the Secured Parties do
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constitute such common property and such provisions do apply, the parties to this Agreement agree that this Agreement and the Collateral Agreement shall constitute an administration agreement (beheersregeling) within the meaning of Article 3:168 NCC.
(e) For the avoidance of doubt, the parties hereto confirm that this Agreement is not to be construed as an agreement as referred to in Article 6:16 NCC and that Article 6:16 NCC shall not apply, and therefore that the provisions relating to common property (een gemeenschap) within the meaning of Article 3:166 NCC shall not apply by analogy to the relationship between the Secured Parties on the one hand, and the Borrower as debtor of the Parallel Debt Obligations, on the other hand.
(f) To the extent the Administrative Agent irrevocably (onaantastbaar) receives any amount in payment of the Parallel Debt Obligations (the “Received Amount”), the Administrative Agent shall distribute such amount among the Secured Parties in accordance with the Collateral Agreement. Upon irrevocable (onaantastbaar) receipt of any Received Amount, the Obligations shall be reduced by an aggregate amount (the “Deductible Amount”) equal to the Received Amount in the manner as if the Deductible Amount were received as a payment of the Obligations on the date of receipt by the Administrative Agent of the Received Amount.
SECTION 9.17. Certain German Matters. (a) Each Loan Party hereby agrees and covenants with the Administrative Agent by way of an abstract acknowledgement of debt (abstraktes Schuldanerkenntnis) that each of them shall pay to the Administrative Agent sums equal to, and in the currency of, any sums owing by it to a Secured Party (other than the Administrative Agent) under any Loan Document (the “Principal Obligations”) as and when the same fall due for payment under the relevant Loan Document (the “German Parallel Obligations”).
(b) The Administrative Agent shall have its own independent right to demand payment of the German Parallel Obligations by the Loan Parties. The rights of the Secured Parties to receive payment of the Principal Obligations are several from the rights of the Administrative Agent to receive the German Parallel Obligations, provided that the payment by a Loan Party of its German Parallel Obligations to the Administrative Agent in accordance with this Section 9.17 shall be a good discharge of the corresponding Principal Obligations and the payment by a Loan Party of its corresponding Principal Obligations in accordance with the provisions of the Loan Documents shall be a good discharge of the relevant German Parallel Obligations. In the event of a good discharge of the Principal Obligations the Administrative Agent shall not be entitled any more to demand payment of the corresponding German Parallel Obligations and such German Parallel Obligations shall cease to exist. This shall apply accordingly in the event of a good discharge of the German Parallel Obligations to the corresponding Principal Obligations.
(c) In relation to the Security Documents governed by German law (the “German Security Documents”), the following additional provisions shall apply: (i) The Administrative Agent shall hold and administer any Collateral governed by German law (the “German Security”) that is security assigned (Sicherungseigentum/
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Sicherungsabtretung) or otherwise transferred under a non-accessory security right (nicht akzessorische Sicherheit) to it as trustee (Treuhänder) for the benefit of the Secured Parties and shall administer any German Security that is pledged (Verpfändung) or otherwise transferred to a Secured Party under an accessory security right (akzessorische Sicherheit) as agent, (ii) each of the Secured Parties hereby authorizes the Administrative Agent (whether or not by or through employees or agents) (A) to exercise such rights, remedies, powers and discretions as are specifically delegated to or conferred upon the Administrative Agent by the German Security Documents together with such powers and discretions as are reasonably incidental thereto, (B) to take such action on its behalf as may from time to time be authorized under or in accordance with the German Security Documents and (C) to accept as its representative (Stellvertreter) any pledge or other creation of any accessory right made to such Secured Party in relation to the Loan Documents, (iii) the Administrative Agent shall be exempted from the restrictions of double representation and self-dealing under any applicable law and in particular Section 181 of the German Civil Code, and (iv) none of the Secured Parties shall have any independent power to enforce any of the German Security Documents or to exercise any rights, discretions or powers or to grant any consents or releases under or pursuant to any of the German Security Documents or otherwise have direct recourse to the security constituted by any of the German Security Documents except through the Administrative Agent.
SECTION 9.18. 2005 Credit Agreement; Effectiveness of Amendment and Restatement. Until this Agreement becomes effective in accordance with the terms of the Amendment and Restatement Agreement, the 2005 Credit Agreement shall remain in full force and effect and shall not be affected hereby. On and after the Restatement Effective Date, all obligations of Holdings and the Borrower under the 2005 Credit Agreement shall become obligations of Holdings and the Borrower hereunder, secured by the Security Documents, and the provisions of the 2005 Credit Agreement shall be superseded by the provisions hereof.
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