AGREEMENT AS AMENDED AND RESTATED ON 11 MAY, 2007 US$1,300,000,000 CREDIT FACILITY For SEASPAN CORPORATION as Borrower Arranged by CITIGROUP GLOBAL MARKETS LIMITED and FORTIS CAPITAL CORP. with CITIGROUP GLOBAL MARKETS LIMITED CREDIT SUISSE DNB NOR...
Exhibit 1
FINAL FORM
AGREEMENT
8 AUGUST 2005
AS AMENDED AND RESTATED ON 11 MAY, 2007
US$1,300,000,000
CREDIT FACILITY
For
SEASPAN CORPORATION
as Borrower
Arranged by
CITIGROUP GLOBAL MARKETS LIMITED and FORTIS CAPITAL CORP.
with
CITIGROUP GLOBAL MARKETS LIMITED
CREDIT SUISSE
DNB NOR BANK ASA
FORTIS CAPITAL CORP.
LANDESBANK HESSEN-THÜRINGEN
as Mandated Lead Arrangers
with
FORTIS CAPITAL CORP.
as Facility Agent
Xxxxx & Xxxxx LLP
CONTENTS
Clause | Page | |||
1. |
Interpretation | 1 | ||
2. |
Facility and Purpose | 19 | ||
3. |
Conditions Precedent | 19 | ||
4. |
Utilisation | 20 | ||
5. |
Repayment | 22 | ||
6. |
Prepayment and Cancellation | 23 | ||
7. |
Interest | 27 | ||
8. |
Terms | 28 | ||
9. |
Market Disruption | 29 | ||
10. |
Taxes | 30 | ||
11. |
Increased Costs | 31 | ||
12. |
Retention Account | 32 | ||
13. |
Payments | 33 | ||
14. |
Representations | 36 | ||
15. |
Information Covenants | 41 | ||
16. |
General Covenants | 43 | ||
17. |
Financial Covenants | 56 | ||
18. |
Valuation | 60 | ||
19. |
Default | 61 | ||
20. |
Security | 65 | ||
21. |
The Administrative Parties | 68 | ||
22. |
Evidence and Calculations | 72 | ||
23. |
Fees | 72 | ||
24. |
Indemnities and Break Costs | 73 | ||
25. |
Expenses | 76 | ||
26. |
Waiver of Consequential Damages | 76 | ||
27. |
Amendments and Waivers | 76 | ||
28. |
Changes to the Parties | 78 | ||
29. |
Disclosure of Information | 80 | ||
30. |
Set-Off | 81 | ||
31. |
Pro Rata Sharing | 81 | ||
32. |
Severability | 82 | ||
33. |
Counterparts | 82 | ||
34. |
Notices | 83 | ||
35. |
Language | 84 | ||
36. |
Governing Law | 84 | ||
37. |
Enforcement | 84 |
Schedule | Page | |||
1. |
Original Parties | 86 | ||
Part 1 Original Owners and the Initial Vessels | 86 | |||
Part 2 Original Lenders | 90 | |||
2. |
Initial Condition Precedent Documents | 92 | ||
3. |
Conditions Subsequent to Loan | 97 | ||
4. |
Payments | 98 | ||
Part 1 Form of Request | 98 | |||
Part 2 Payment Advice | 99 | |||
5. |
Calculation of the Mandatory Cost | 100 | ||
6. |
Form of Transfer Certificate | 102 | ||
7. |
Compliance Certificate | 104 | ||
8. |
Annual Compliance Certificate | 105 | ||
9. |
Borrower’s Certificate | 106 | ||
10. |
Estimated Addback Relating to Certain Secured Vessels Depreciation | 107 | ||
11. |
Standing Payment Instructions | 109 | ||
Signatories |
110 | |||
Appendix | ||||
1. |
Form of Insurances Assignment | 113 | ||
2. |
Form of Mortgage | 114 | ||
3. |
Form of Deed of Covenants | 115 | ||
4. |
Form of Management Agreement Assignment | 116 | ||
5. |
Form of Swap Mortgage | 117 | ||
6. |
Form of Swap Deed of Covenants | 118 | ||
7. |
Form of Swap Agreement Assignment | 119 | ||
8. |
Form of Time Charter, Charter Guarantee and Earnings Assignment | 120 |
THIS AGREEMENT is dated 8 August 2005 and was amended and restated on 11 May, 2007
BETWEEN:
(1) | SEASPAN CORPORATION, a corporation incorporated according to the laws of the Republic of the Xxxxxxxx Islands with its registered office at Trust Company Complex, Ajeltake Road, Ajeltake Island, Majuro, Xxxxxxxx Islands MH96960 (the Borrower); |
(2) | CITIGROUP GLOBAL MARKETS LIMITED and FORTIS CAPITAL CORP. as joint arrangers (in this capacity the Arrangers); |
(3) | CITIGROUP GLOBAL MARKETS LIMITED, CREDIT SUISSE, DNB NOR BANK ASA, FORTIS CAPITAL CORP. and LANDESBANK HESSEN-THÜRINGEN as mandated lead arrangers; |
(4) | THE FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS listed in Part 2 of Schedule 1 (Original Parties) as original lenders (the Original Lenders); and |
(5) | FORTIS CAPITAL CORP. as facility agent (in this capacity the Facility Agent). |
IT IS AGREED as follows:
1. | INTERPRETATION |
1.1 | Definitions |
In this Agreement:
Account Bank means Fortis Bank N.V. whose registered office is situated at Xxxxxxxxxx 00, 0000 XX Xxxxxxxxx, xxx Xxxxxxxxxxx or any other bank or financial institution with which, with the prior written consent of the Facility Agent (acting in accordance with the instructions of the Majority Lenders), the Retention Account is at any time held.
Acquisition Date means:
(a) | in respect of a new Additional Vessel, the date upon which such Additional Vessel is delivered under the relevant Shipbuilding Contract; or |
(b) | in respect of a used Additional Vessel, the date upon which title to such Additional Vessel passes to the Borrower. |
Additional Vessels means any new or used container vessel owned or to be acquired by the Borrower (other than an Initial Vessel) and Additional Vessel means any of them.
Administrative Party means the Arrangers or the Facility Agent.
Affiliate means a Subsidiary or a Holding Company of a person or any other Subsidiary of that Holding Company.
Agreement means this credit agreement, including any schedules or appendices hereto, as amended from time to time.
Amendment Date means the date on which this Agreement was amended and restated, being on or around 11 May, 2007.
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Annual Compliance Certificate means the form of certificate attached at Schedule 8 (Annual Compliance Certificate).
Applicable Law means any or all applicable law (whether civil, criminal or administrative), common law, statute, statutory instrument, treaty, convention, regulation, directive, by-law, demand, decree, ordinance, injunction, resolution, order, judgment, rule, permit, licence or restriction (in each case having the force of law) and codes of practice or conduct, circulars and guidance notes generally accepted and applied by the global container shipping industry, in each case of any government, quasi-government, supranational, federal, state or local government, statutory or regulatory body, court, agency or association relating to all laws, rules, directives and regulations, national or international, public or private in any applicable jurisdiction from time to time.
Applicable Time means:
(a) | in respect of an Initial Vessel other than a Maersk Vessel, within ten (10) Business Days of the Delivery Date of that Vessel (irrespective of whether a Loan is made relating to that Vessel) and, in respect of a Maersk Vessel, on the date that a Maersk Vessel becomes a Secured Vessel; or |
(b) | in respect of any Additional Vessel, immediately following and on the date such Additional Vessel becomes a Secured Vessel. |
Approved Valuers means Braemar Seascope Shipping Limited and X. Xxxxxxxx & Co. Ltd. or such other independent reputable shipbroker acceptable to the Facility Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders) and the Borrower.
X.X. Xxxxxx-Maersk means X.X. Xxxxxx-Maersk A/S.
Asset Purchase Agreement means the asset purchase agreement dated the date hereof among the Borrower, SCLL and the Original Owners.
Availability Period means the period from and including the Closing Date, to and including the Final Maturity Date.
Borrowing Base Advance Ratio means a Loan to Value Ratio of no more than 70 per cent.
Break Costs means the amount (if any) which a Lender is entitled to receive under this Agreement as compensation if any part of a Loan or overdue amount is prepaid other than on the last day of a Term for such Loan or overdue amount or, as the case may be, the amount (if any) which any Swap Counterparty is entitled to receive under any Swap Agreement in the event that such Swap Agreement is terminated early, each as determined pursuant to Clause 24.3 (Break Costs) hereof.
Builder means Samsung Heavy Industries Co. Ltd., a corporation organised and existing under the laws of the Republic of Korea with its registered office at Samsung Yoksam Building, 000-0, Xxxxxx-Xxxx, Xxxxxxx-Xx, Xxxxx, Xxxxx, or, from time to time, any builder of an Additional Vessel.
Business Day means a day (other than a Saturday or a Sunday) on which banks are open for general business in London, England, New York, the United States of America, Vancouver, Canada, Hong Kong and Hamburg, Germany.
Cash and Cash Equivalents shall have the meaning given to it in Clause 17.1 (Financial Covenants).
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Change of Control means, after the occurrence of the IPO, the acquisition, directly or indirectly, by any person or group other than the Seaspan Group of beneficial ownership of more than fifty (50) per cent. of the aggregate outstanding voting power of the equity interests of the Borrower.
Charter Default means a default by a Charterer that results in the Borrower having an obligation to prepay all or any of the Loans pursuant to Clause 16.25(b) (Termination of Time Charter).
Charter Guarantees means:
(a) | in relation to each of the CSCL Vessels, the guarantee provided or to be provided by CSCL and the guarantee provided or to be provided by CSCL Hong Kong, in each case in favour of the Borrower in respect of the obligations of CSCL Asia; |
(b) | in relation to each of the Hapag-Xxxxx Vessels, the guarantee provided by CP Ships Limited (if any) in favour of the relevant Original Owner in respect of charterhire under the relevant Time Charter by Hapag-Xxxxx, as and when novated by such Original Owner to the Borrower pursuant to a novation agreement, and the counter-guarantee provided by Hapag-Xxxxx XX in respect of the obligations of CP Ships Limited under such guarantee; and |
(c) | in relation to any Additional Vessel, a guarantee (if any) in form and substance satisfactory to the Facility Agent (acting on the instructions of the Lenders, each acting reasonably). |
and Charter Guarantee means any of them.
Charter Guarantor means:
(a) | in the case of the Time Charters to CSCL Asia; CSCL and CSCL Hong Kong together; |
(b) | in the case of the Time Charters to Hapag Xxxxx; the Hapag Xxxxx Charter Guarantor; and |
(c) | in the case of a Time Charter of an Additional Vessel; the guarantor providing the relevant Charter Guarantee (if any). |
Charterers means CSCL Asia, Hapag-Xxxxx, XX Xxxxxx-Maersk or any substitute charterer from time to time in accordance with the provisions of Clause 16.25 (Termination of Time Charter) or any charterer from time to time of an Additional Vessel and Charterer means any of them.
Closing Date means 12 August, 2005.
Commitment means:
(a) | for an Original Lender, the aggregate amount set opposite its name in Part 2 of Schedule 1 (Original Parties) under the headings Commitments and the amount of any other commitment to advance funds under this Agreement it acquires; and |
(b) | for any other Lender, the amount of any commitment to advance funds under this Agreement it acquires, |
to the extent not cancelled, transferred or reduced under this Agreement.
Commitment Reduction Dates means:
(a) | each of the eight consecutive dates referred to in Clause 6.8(b) (Automatic reduction and cancellation); and |
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(b) | in the event that the Extension Option is utilised, each of the four consecutive dates referred to in Clause 6.8(c) (Automatic reduction and cancellation). |
Compliance Certificate means the form of certificate attached at Schedule 7 (Compliance Certificate).
Confidentiality Undertaking means a confidentiality undertaking in a form agreed between the Borrower and the Facility Agent.
CSCL means China Shipping Container Lines Co., Ltd.
CSCL Asia means China Shipping Container Lines Co., (Asia) Ltd.
CSCL Hong Kong means China Shipping Container Lines (Hong Kong) Co., Ltd.
CSCL Vessels means the vessels chartered to CSCL Asia as set out in Part 1 of Schedule 1 (Original Parties) and any additional vessels which may be chartered to CSCL Asia following the Amendment Date which the Borrower brings into the Facility as Secured Vessels.
CSG means China Shipping (Group) Company.
Date of Total Loss means, in respect of a Secured Vessel, the date of Total Loss of that Vessel which date shall be deemed to have occurred:
(a) | in the case of an actual total loss, on the actual date and at the time that Secured Vessel was lost or, if such date is not known, on the date on which that Vessel was last reported; |
(b) | in the case of a constructive total loss, upon the date and at the time notice of abandonment is given to the Insurers for the time being (provided a claim for total loss is admitted by such Insurers) or, if such Insurers do not forthwith admit such a claim, at the earliest of the date and time at which either a total loss is subsequently admitted by the Insurers or a total loss is subsequently adjudged by a competent court of law or arbitration tribunal to have occurred or one hundred and eighty (180) days from the date of notice of abandonment; |
(c) | in the case of a compromised, agreed or arranged total loss, on the date upon which a binding agreement as to such compromised, agreed or arranged total loss has been entered into by the Insurers; |
(d) | in the case of requisition for title or other compulsory acquisition, on the date upon which the relevant requisition for title or other compulsory acquisition occurs; and |
(e) | in the case of capture, seizure, arrest, detention, requisition for hire or confiscation by any government or by persons acting or purporting to act on behalf of any government or by any other person which deprives the Borrower or, as the case may be, the Charterer of the use of that Vessel for more than sixty (60) days, upon the expiry of the period of sixty (60) days after the date upon which the relevant capture, seizure, arrest, detention, requisition or confiscation occurred. |
Deed of Covenants means, in respect of a Secured Vessel, the deed of covenants entered into or to be entered into by the Borrower and the Facility Agent collateral to the Mortgage over that Vessel in the form of Appendix 3.
Default means:
(a) | an Event of Default; or |
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(b) | an event which would be (with the expiry of a grace period, the giving of notice or the making of any determination under the Finance Documents or any combination of them) an Event of Default. |
Delivery Date means, in respect of a Secured Vessel, the date of actual delivery of that Vessel to the Borrower.
Dollars or US$ means the lawful currency for the time being of the United States of America.
DPP means the deed of proceeds and priorities to be entered into by, inter alios, the Borrower, the Facility Agent and the Swap Counterparties prior to any Swap Mortgage being granted to the Swap Counterparties in form and substance satisfactory to the Facility Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders).
Earnings means, in respect of a Secured Vessel, all present and future moneys and claims which are earned by or become payable to or for the account of the Borrower in connection with the operation or ownership of that Vessel and including but not limited to:
(a) | freights, passage and hire moneys (howsoever earned); |
(b) | remuneration for salvage and towage services; |
(c) | demurrage and detention moneys; |
(d) | all moneys and claims in respect of the requisition for hire of that Vessel; |
(e) | payments received in respect of any off-hire insurance; and |
(f) | payments received pursuant to any Charter Guarantee relating to that Vessel. |
Environment means:
(a) | any land including, without limitation, surface land and sub-surface strata, sea bed or river bed under any water (as referred to below) and any natural or man-made structures; |
(b) | water including, without limitation, coastal and inland waters, surface waters, ground waters and water in drains and sewers; and |
(c) | air including, without limitation, air within buildings and other natural or man-made structures above or below ground. |
Environmental Approvals means any permit, licence, approval, ruling, variance, exemption or other authorisation required under applicable Environmental Laws.
Environmental Claim means any claim by any person or persons or any governmental, judicial or regulatory authority which arises out of any breach, contravention or violation of Environmental Law or of the existence of any liability or potential liability arising from such breach, contravention or violation or the presence of Hazardous Material in contravention of Environmental Laws. In this context, claim means: a claim for damages, compensation, fines, penalties or any other payment of any kind whether or not similar to the foregoing; an order or direction to take, or not to take, certain action or to desist from or suspend certain action by any governmental, judicial or regulatory authority; and any form of enforcement or regulatory action.
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Environmental Laws means any or all Applicable Law relating to or concerning:
(a) | pollution or contamination of the Environment, any ecological system or any living organisms which inhabit the Environment or any ecological system; |
(b) | the generation, manufacture, processing, distribution, use (including abuse), treatment, storage, disposal, transport or handling of Hazardous Materials; and |
(c) | the emission, leak, release, spill or discharge into the Environment of noise, vibration, dust, fumes, gas, odours, smoke, steam, effluvia, heat, light, radiation (of any kind), infection, electricity or any Hazardous Material and any matter or thing capable of constituting a nuisance or an actionable tort or breach of statutory duty of any kind in respect of such matters, |
including, without limitation, the following laws of the United States of America: the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act of 1980, as amended, the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act, as amended, the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, as amended, the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, as amended, and the Toxic Substances Control Act, as amended, together, in each case, with the regulations promulgated and the guidance issued pursuant thereto.
Environmental Representative means the Borrower and the Manager together with their respective employees and all of those persons for whom the Borrower or the Manager is responsible under any Applicable Law in respect of any activities undertaken in relation to any of the Secured Vessels.
Event of Default means an event specified as such in Clause 19 (Default) of this Agreement.
Excess Risks means, in respect of a Secured Vessel:
(a) | the proportion of claims for general average, salvage and salvage charges which are not recoverable as a result of the value at which that Vessel is assessed for the purpose of such claims exceeding her hull and machinery insured value; and |
(b) | collision liabilities not recoverable in full under the hull and machinery insurance by reason of those liabilities exceeding such proportion of the insured value of that Vessel as is covered by the hull and machinery insurance. |
Existing Credit Facility means any existing credit facility whatsoever provided to any Subsidiary of SCLL in respect of any one or more of the Initial Vessels.
Extension Option means the option to extend the Final Maturity Date by twelve months, exercisable by the Borrower pursuant to Clause 5.3 (Extension Option).
Facility means the credit facility made available under this Agreement.
Facility Office means in respect of a Lender, the office through which that Lender will perform its obligations under this Agreement from time to time, which at the date of this Agreement, is the address shown for such Lender in Part 2 of Schedule 1 (Original Parties) or such other address as a Lender may notify to the Facility Agent from time to time.
Fee Letter means any letter entered into by reference to this Agreement between one or more Administrative Parties and the Borrower setting out the amount of certain fees referred to in this Agreement.
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Final Maturity Date means either:
(a) | the seventh anniversary of the Amendment Date; or |
(b) | in the event that the Extension Option is exercised, the eighth anniversary of the Amendment Date. |
Finance Document means:
(a) | this Agreement; |
(b) | each Security Document; |
(c) | the DPP; |
(d) | each Swap Agreement; |
(e) | the Fee Letters; |
(f) | each Manager’s Undertaking; |
(g) | a Transfer Certificate; and |
(h) | any other document designated as such by the Facility Agent and the Borrower. |
Finance Party means a Lender, a Swap Counterparty or an Administrative Party.
Financial Indebtedness means any indebtedness for or in respect of:
(a) | moneys borrowed; |
(b) | any acceptance credit; |
(c) | any bond, note, debenture, loan stock or other similar instrument; |
(d) | any redeemable preference share; |
(e) | any agreement treated as a finance or capital lease in accordance with U.S. GAAP; |
(f) | receivables sold or discounted (otherwise than on a non-recourse basis); |
(g) | the acquisition cost of any asset to the extent payable after its acquisition or possession by the party liable where the deferred payment is arranged primarily as a method of raising finance or financing the acquisition of that asset; |
(h) | any derivative transaction protecting against or benefiting from fluctuations in any rate or price (and, except for non-payment of an amount, the then xxxx to market value of the derivative transaction will be used to calculate its amount); |
(i) | any other transaction (including any forward sale or purchase agreement) which has the commercial effect of a borrowing; |
(j) | any counter-indemnity obligation in respect of any guarantee, indemnity, bond, letter of credit or any other instrument issued by a bank or financial institution; or |
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(k) | any guarantee, indemnity or similar assurance against financial loss of any person. |
Hapag-Xxxxx means Hapag-Xxxxx USA, LLC or any successor.
Hapag-Xxxxx Charter Guarantor means CP Ships Limited and Hapag-Xxxxx XX.
Hapag-Xxxxx Vessels means the vessels chartered to Hapag-Xxxxx as set out in Part 1 of Schedule 1 (Original Parties) and any additional vessels which may be chartered to Hapag-Xxxxx following the Amendment Date which the Borrower brings into the Facility as Secured Vessels.
Hazardous Material means any element or substance, whether natural or artificial, and whether consisting of gas, liquid, solid or vapour, whether on its own or in any combination with any other element or substance, which is listed, identified, defined or determined by any Environmental Law or other Applicable Law to be, to have been, or to be capable of being or becoming harmful to mankind or any living organism or damaging to the Environment, including, without limitation, oil (as defined in the United States Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act of 1980, as amended).
Hedging Policy means the hedging policy implemented and to be maintained by the Borrower as determined by the Borrower’s board of directors and as agreed by the Facility Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders) by its acknowledgement of the hedging policy letter addressed to the Facility Agent from the Borrower dated on or before the date of the first Loan.
Holding Company means a holding company within the meaning of section 736 of the Companies Xxx 0000.
Increased Cost means:
(a) | an additional or increased cost; |
(b) | a reduction in the rate of return under a Finance Document or on its overall capital; or |
(c) | a reduction of an amount due and payable under any Finance Document, |
which is incurred or suffered by a Finance Party or any of its Affiliates but only to the extent attributable to that Finance Party having entered into any Finance Document or funding or performing its obligations under any Finance Document.
Initial Market Value means:
(a) | in respect of those Initial Vessels which have, as of the Amendment Date, been delivered to the Borrower, the market value of that Vessel as at the Amendment Date; |
(b) | in respect of those Initial Vessels which have, as of the Amendment Date, not yet been delivered to the Borrower, the market value of that Vessel determined at the Amendment Date having regard to the Delivery Date of such Vessel in accordance with the relevant Shipbuilding Contract; or |
(c) | in respect of an Additional Vessel, the market value of that Vessel as at the Acquisition Date of that Additional Vessel. |
in each case, determined in accordance with Clause 18 (Valuation).
Initial Transfers means the transfer by Fortis Capital Corp. to the Original Lenders on or around the Amendment Date of those parts of its commitment (as the same is set out in paragraph (A) of Part 2 of Schedule 1 (Original Parties)) necessary to reflect the commitments set out in paragraph (B) of Part 2 of Schedule 1 (Original Parties).
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Initial Vessels means each of the CSCL Vessels, Hapag-Xxxxx Vessels and the Maersk Vessels, which are listed in Part 1 of Schedule 1 (Original Parties) and Initial Vessel means any of them.
Insurances Assignment means, in respect of a Secured Vessel, the assignment of the Obligatory Insurances granted or to be granted in favour of the Facility Agent by the Borrower in the form of Appendix 1 together with any and all notices and acknowledgements entered into in connection therewith.
Insurers means the underwriters or insurance companies with whom any Obligatory Insurances are effected and the managers of any protection and indemnity or war risks association in which any of the Secured Vessels may at any time be entered.
IPO means an initial public offering of the common shares of the Borrower.
ISM Code means the International Safety Management Code (including the guidelines on its implementation), adopted by the International Maritime Organization Assembly as Resolutions A.741(18) and A.788(19), as the same may have been or may be amended or supplemented from time to time. The terms “safety management system”, “Safety Management Certificate”, “Document of Compliance” and “major non-conformity” shall have the same meanings as are given to them in the ISM Code.
ISPS Code means the International Ship and Port Facility Security Code adopted by the International Maritime Organization Assembly as the same may have been or may be amended or supplemented from time to time.
Lender means:
(a) | an Original Lender; or |
(b) | any person which becomes a party to this Agreement after the date of this Agreement pursuant to Clause 28.2 (Assignments and transfers by Lenders), |
and Lenders means all of them.
LIBOR means for a Term of any Loan or overdue amount:
(a) | the applicable Screen Rate; or |
(b) | if no Screen Rate is available for the relevant currency or Term of that Loan or overdue amount, the arithmetic mean (rounded upward to four decimal places) of the rates, as supplied to the Facility Agent at its request, quoted by the Reference Banks to leading banks in the London interbank market, |
as of 11.00 a.m. on the second London Business Day before the start of the Term for the offering of deposits in the currency of that Loan or overdue amount for a period comparable to that Term.
Loan to Value Ratio means, at any date of determination, the ratio of the aggregate principal amount of the outstanding Loans, less any Cash and Cash Equivalents secured to the Lenders pursuant to the Security Documents, to the aggregate of the latest Market Values of all of the Vessels which are, at that time, Secured Vessels.
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Loans means any loan drawn down under this Facility (each a Loan).
London Business Day means a day (other than a Saturday or a Sunday) on which banks are open for business in London.
Losses means each and every liability, loss, charge, claim, demand, action, proceeding, damage, judgment, order or other sanction, enforcement, penalty, fine, fee, commission, interest, lien, salvage, general average, cost and expense of whatsoever nature suffered or incurred by or imposed on the Lenders.
Maersk Vessels means the Vessels chartered to X.X. Xxxxxx-Maersk as set out in Part 1 of Schedule 1 (Original Parties) and any additional vessels which may be chartered to X.X. Xxxxxx-Maersk following the Amendment Date which the Borrower brings into the Facility as Secured Vessels.
Majority Lenders means Lenders:
(a) | whose share in the outstanding Loans and whose undrawn Commitments then aggregate not less than 66 2/3% of the aggregate of all the outstanding Loans and the undrawn Commitments of all the Lenders; |
(b) | if there is no Loan then outstanding, whose undrawn Commitments then aggregate not less than 66 2/3% of the Total Commitments; or |
(c) | if there is no Loan then outstanding and the Total Commitments have been reduced to zero, whose Commitments aggregated not less than 66 2/3% of the Total Commitments immediately before the reduction. |
Management Agreement means the management agreement dated 8 August 2005 between the Borrower and the Manager as the same may be amended from time to time in accordance with this Agreement.
Management Agreement Assignment means the assignment of the Management Agreement granted or to be granted in favour of the Facility Agent by the Borrower in the form of Appendix 4 together with any and all notices and acknowledgements entered into in connection therewith, one to be entered into between the Manager and the Borrower.
Manager means Seaspan Management Services Limited of Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxx, 0 Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx, XX 00, Bermuda or such other professional manager or managers as may be approved by the Facility Agent (acting in accordance with the instructions of the Majority Lenders) from time to time.
Manager’s Undertaking means a letter of undertaking to be issued by the Manager to the Facility Agent confirming it shall not make a claim to security ranking ahead of the Lenders’ security in respect of a Secured Vessel in form and substance satisfactory to the Facility Agent.
Mandatory Cost means the properly evidenced cost of complying with certain regulatory requirements, expressed as a percentage rate per annum and calculated by the Facility Agent under Schedule 5 (Calculation of the Mandatory Cost).
Margin means:
(a) | in the case of Over-Advance Loans, 100 bps per annum; and |
(b) | in the case of Loans which are not Over-Advance Loans, 70 bps per annum. |
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Market Value means, in respect of a Vessel, the Initial Market Value or, as the case may be, any market value of that Vessel subsequently calculated in accordance with Clause 18 (Valuation).
Material Adverse Effect means a material adverse effect on:
(a) | the ability of the Borrower to perform all of its payment obligations under this Agreement; or |
(b) | the validity or enforceability of this Agreement. |
Maturity Date means the last day of the Term of a Loan.
Maximum Facility Amount means, subject to Clause 6.8 (Automatic reduction and cancellation), one billion three hundred million Dollars (US$1,300,000,000).
Measurement Period means, at any time, the last four (4) fiscal quarters for the Borrower provided always that until four (4) fiscal quarters have elapsed from the date of this Agreement, the period from the date of this Agreement until the date of determination.
Mortgage means, in respect of a Secured Vessel, the first priority Hong Kong ship mortgage given or to be given by the Borrower in favour of the Facility Agent in the form attached at Appendix 2.
Obligatory Insurances means in respect of each Secured Vessel:
(a) | all contracts and policies of insurance and all entries in clubs and/or associations which are from time to time required to be effected and maintained in accordance with this Agreement in respect of each of the Vessels; and |
(b) | all benefits under the contracts, policies and entries under paragraph (a) above and all claims in respect of them and the return of premiums. |
Original Balance Sheet means the unaudited balance sheet of the Borrower prepared as at 31 December 2004.
Original Owners means the companies listed in Part 1 of Schedule 1 (Original Parties) and Original Owner means any of them.
Over-Advance Limit means one hundred million Dollars (US$100,000,000).
Over-Advance Loan means any Loan which utilises any part of the Over-Advance Limit.
Over-Advance Period means, in relation to any Over-Advance Loan, the period commencing on the Utilisation Date for such Loan and ending on the earlier of the date falling twelve months from such Utilisation Date and the date on which such Over-Advance Loan is repaid in full.
Party means a party to this Agreement or any Finance Document.
Permitted Liens means, in respect of a Secured Vessel:
(a) | Security Interests created by the Security Documents; |
(b) | Security Interests created by the Swap Mortgage; |
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(c) | liens for unpaid crew’s wages including wages of the master and stevedores employed by the Vessel, outstanding in the ordinary course of trading for not more than one calendar month after the due date for payment; |
(d) | liens for salvage; |
(e) | liens for classification or scheduled dry docking or for necessary repairs to that Vessel whose aggregate cost does not exceed US$1,500,000 at any one time in respect of that Vessel; |
(f) | liens for collision; |
(g) | liens for master’s disbursements incurred in the ordinary course of trading; |
(h) | statutory and common law liens of carriers, warehousemen, mechanics, suppliers, materials men, repairers or other similar liens, including maritime liens, in each case arising in the ordinary course of business, outstanding for not more than one month whose aggregate value does not exceed US$500,000; and |
(i) | solely for the period from the date of this Agreement up to and including the date on which a Vessel becomes a Secured Vessel, Security Interests relating to such Vessel created pursuant to the terms of the relevant Existing Credit Facility in favour of the lenders under such facility, |
in the case of paragraphs (c) to (h) inclusive provided that the amounts which give rise to such liens are paid when due (or, in the case of paragraph (c) or (h) above, within one month of such amount being outstanding) or, if not paid when due are being disputed in good faith by appropriate proceedings (and for the payment of which adequate reserves or security are at the relevant time maintained or provided), provided further that such proceedings, whether by payment of adequate security into Court or otherwise, do not give rise to a material risk of the relevant Vessel or any interest therein being seized, sold, forfeited or otherwise lost or of criminal liability on the Facility Agent.
Pro Rata Share means:
(a) | for the purpose of determining a Lender’s share in a utilisation of the Facility, the proportion which its Commitment bears to the Total Commitments; and |
(b) | for any other purpose on a particular date: |
(i) | the proportion which a Lender’s share of the Loans (if any) bears to all the Loans; |
(ii) | if there is no Loan outstanding on that date, the proportion which its Commitment bears to the Total Commitments on that date; or |
(iii) | if the Total Commitments have been cancelled, the proportion which its Commitment bore to the Total Commitments immediately before being cancelled. |
Quarter Day means 30 March, 30 June, 30 September, 30 December in each year provided always that such date is a Business Day.
Rate Fixing Day means two (2) London Business Days before the first day of a Term, or unless market practice differs in the London interbank market for a currency, in which case the Rate Fixing Day for that currency will be determined by the Facility Agent in accordance with market practice in the London interbank market (and if quotations would normally be given by leading banks in the London interbank market on more than one day, the Rate Fixing Day will be the last of those days).
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Reference Banks means Fortis Capital Corp., Citibank, N.A. and DnB Nor Bank ASA and any other bank or financial institution appointed as such by the Facility Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders) under this Agreement.
Related Contracts means any or all of the following (as the context requires):
(a) | the Obligatory Insurances; |
(b) | the Time Charters; |
(c) | the Management Agreement; and |
(d) | the Charter Guarantees. |
Release means an emission, spill, release or discharge into or upon the air, surface water, groundwater, or soils of any Hazardous Materials for which the Borrower has any liability under Environmental Law, except in accordance with a valid Environmental Approval.
Request means a request made by the Borrower for a Loan, substantially in the form of Part 1 of Schedule 4 (Form of Request).
Required Insurance Amount means, in respect of a Secured Vessel, at any date of determination, 125% of the proportion of the aggregate principal amount of the outstanding Loans which is equal to the proportion that the latest Market Value of that Vessel bears to the aggregate of the latest Market Values of all of the Secured Vessels.
Requisition Compensation means, in respect of a Secured Vessel, all moneys or other compensation payable by reason of requisition for title to, or other compulsory acquisition of, that Vessel including requisition for hire.
Retention Account means the bank account to be opened by the Borrower with the Account Bank and designated “Seaspan Corporation – Retention Account”.
Retention Account Charge means the fixed charge or, as the case may be, pledge in respect of all monies standing to the credit from time to time of the Retention Account granted or to be granted by the Borrower in favour of the Facility Agent on or about the date of this Agreement, together with any and all notices and acknowledgements entered into in connection therewith.
Revised Advance Ratio means a Loan to Value Ratio of no more than 80 per cent.
Rollover Loan means one or more Loans:
(a) | to be made on the same day that a maturing Loan is due to be repaid in accordance with Clause 5.1(a); |
(b) | the aggregate amount of which is equal to or less than the maturing Loan; and |
(c) | to be made for the purpose of refinancing a maturing Loan. |
SAFE means the State Administration of Foreign Exchange of the People’s Republic of China.
SCLL means Seaspan Container Lines Limited.
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Screen Rate means, for LIBOR, and in respect of a Term, the percentage rate per annum for a period substantially the same as the relevant Term displayed on page 3750 of the Reuters screen. If the relevant page is replaced or the service ceases to be available, the Facility Agent may specify another page or service displaying the appropriate rate.
Seaspan Group means:
(a) | any of Xxxx Xxxxxxxxxx, Xxxxx Xxxxxxxxxx, Xxxxx Xxxx, Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxxxx or any of their estate, spouse, and/or descendants; or |
(b) | any trust for the benefit of the persons listed in (a) above; or |
(c) | an Affiliate of any of the persons listed in (a) or (b) above. |
For the purposes of paragraph (c) control means the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of a person, whether through the ownership of voting stock, by contract or otherwise and controls and controlled shall be construed in like manner.
Second Retention Account Charge means the second priority fixed charge or, as the case may be, pledge in respect of all monies standing to the credit from time to time of the Retention Account granted or to be granted by the Borrower in favour of the Facility Agent on or about the Amendment Date, together with any and all notices and acknowledgements entered into in connection therewith.
Secured Liabilities means all present and future obligations and liabilities (actual or contingent) of the Borrower to the Finance Parties or any of them under or in connection with any Finance Document.
Secured Vessel means any Vessel which, at the relevant time, has been delivered to the Borrower and in relation to which the Borrower has executed the Security Agreements set out in Part B of Schedule 2 (Initial Condition Precedent Documents), provided that if at any time a Vessel is not insured in accordance with the terms of the relevant Mortgage, then for so long as such Vessel is not so insured, such Vessel shall, if the Facility Agent determines, cease to be a Secured Vessel.
Security Agreements means:
(a) | the Mortgages; |
(b) | the Deeds of Covenant; |
(c) | the Swap Mortgages; |
(d) | the Swap Deeds of Covenant; |
(e) | the Insurances Assignments; |
(f) | the Management Agreement Assignment; |
(g) | the Time Charter, Charter Guarantee and Earnings Assignments; |
(h) | the Retention Account Charge; |
(i) | the Second Retention Account Charge; |
(j) | the Swap Agreement Assignments; and |
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(k) | any other document designated as such in writing by the Borrower and the Facility Agent. |
Security Assets means any asset which is the subject of a Security Interest created by a Security Document or any interest or profit in respect of an investment in accordance with Clause 20.5 (Investments).
Security Document means:
(a) | each Security Agreement; and |
(b) | any other document evidencing or creating security over any asset of the Borrower to secure any obligation of the Borrower to the Finance Parties or any of them under the Finance Documents. |
Security Interest means any mortgage, pledge, lien, charge, assignment, hypothecation or security interest or any other agreement or arrangement having a similar effect.
Shipbuilding Contract means:
(a) | in respect of an Initial Vessel, the agreement between the Builder and relevant Original Owner or as assigned to the Original Owner by Seaspan (Cyprus) Limited, and as amended, pursuant to which the Builder agreed to build and deliver that Vessel to the Borrower; and |
(b) | in respect of an Additional Vessel, any agreement between a builder and the Borrower pursuant to which that builder shall agree to build and deliver such Additional Vessel to the Borrower. |
S & P means Standard & Poor’s Ratings Group and any successor thereto.
Subsidiary means:
(a) | a subsidiary within the meaning of section 736 of the Companies Xxx 0000; and |
(b) | unless the context otherwise requires, a subsidiary undertaking within the meaning of section 258 of the Companies Xxx 0000. |
Swap Agreements means, if any, each of the ISDA Master Agreements (and the confirmation thereunder) entered into or to be entered into in respect of interest rate swaps in respect of the Loans (or any part of the Loans) by any Swap Counterparty and the Borrower in pursuance of the Hedging Policy.
Swap Agreement Assignment means, in respect of each Swap Agreement, the assignment of that Swap Agreement to be granted by the Borrower in favour of the Facility Agent (for and on behalf of itself and the Finance Parties) in the form attached at Appendix 7, together with any and all notices and acknowledgements entered into in connection therewith.
Swap Counterparty means any party to a Swap Agreement who provides interest rate hedging facilities to the Borrower in respect of the Loans.
Swap Deed of Covenants means, in respect of a Secured Vessel, the deed of covenants entered into or to be entered into by the Borrower and the Swap Counterparties (or any agent or security trustee on their behalf) collateral to the Swap Mortgage over that Vessel in the form of Appendix 6.
Swap Mortgage means:
(a) | in respect of a Secured Vessel (other than the Maersk Vessels), the second priority Hong Kong ship mortgage to be given by the Borrower in favour of the Swap Counterparties (or any agent or security trustee on their behalf); and |
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(b) | in respect of a Maersk Vessel, the second priority Hong Kong ship mortgage to be given by the Borrower in favour of DnB Nor Bank ASA (or any agent or security trustee on their behalf) |
in each case in the form attached at Appendix 5.
Tax means any tax, levy, impost, duty or other charge or withholding of a similar nature (including, without limitation, any penalty or interest payable in connection with any failure to pay or any delay in paying any of the same).
Tax Deduction means a deduction or withholding for or on account of Tax made from a payment under a Finance Document by a payer for or on account of Tax imposed on that payer by any jurisdiction from which such payment is made or within which such payment arises.
Tax Payment means a payment made by the Borrower to a Lender in any way relating to a Tax Deduction or under any indemnity given by the Borrower in respect of Tax under any Finance Document.
Term means each period determined under Clause 7 or Clause 8 of this Agreement by reference to which interest payable on a Loan or an overdue amount is calculated.
Time Charter means, in respect of an Initial Vessel, the time charterparty set out in Part 1 of Schedule 1 (Original Parties) or, in respect of either an Initial Vessel or any other Vessel, such other time charterparty entered into from time to time in respect of such Vessel in accordance with this Agreement.
Time Charter, Charter Guarantee and Earnings Assignment means, in respect of a Secured Vessel, the assignment of the Time Charter, any Charter Guarantee and the Earnings granted or to be granted by the Borrower in favour of the Facility Agent in the form attached at Appendix 8 (or in such other form as may be approved by the Facility Agent acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders, it being agreed and acknowledged that such form shall be amended to delete references to a Charter Guarantee where a Charter Guarantee is not required as a part of the approval of a Time Charter by the Facility Agent in accordance with Clause 16.24(a), Clause 16.24(c), Clause 16.25(c) or Clause 16.25(d) ), together with any and all notices and acknowledgements entered into in connection therewith.
Total Commitments means the aggregate of the Commitments of all the Lenders.
Total Loss means in relation to a Secured Vessel:
(a) | actual, constructive, compromised, agreed or arranged total loss of that Vessel; |
(b) | requisition for title or other compulsory acquisition of that Vessel otherwise than by requisition for hire; |
(c) | capture, seizure, arrest, detention, or confiscation of that Vessel by any government or by persons acting or purporting to act on behalf of any government or by any other person which deprives the Borrower of that Vessel or as the case may be the Charterer of the use of that Vessel for more than sixty (60) days after that occurrence; and |
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(d) | requisition for hire of that Vessel by any government or by persons acting or purporting to act on behalf of any government which deprives the Borrower or as the case may be the Charterer of the use of that Vessel for a period of sixty (60) days, other than a charter of the Vessel to a government or government agency approved by the Borrower and by the Facility Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders). |
Transfer Certificate means a certificate, substantially in the form of Schedule 6 (Form of Transfer Certificate), with such amendments as the Facility Agent and the Borrower may approve or reasonably require or any other form agreed between the Facility Agent and the Borrower.
U.S. GAAP means generally accepted accounting principles adopted and accepted in the United States of America (a) on the date of this Agreement when used in the context of calculating the financed covenants set out in Clause 17 and (b) otherwise, from time to time.
Utilisation Date means each date on which the Facility or any part thereof is utilised.
Vessels means together the Initial Vessels and each Additional Vessel acquired from time to time and Vessel means any of them.
1.2 | Construction |
(a) | In this Agreement, unless the contrary intention appears, a reference to: |
(i) | an amendment includes a supplement, novation, restatement or re-enactment and amended will be construed accordingly; |
(ii) | assets includes present and future properties, revenues and rights of every description; |
(iii) | an authorisation includes an authorisation, consent, approval, resolution, licence, exemption, filing, registration or notarisation; |
(iv) | disposal means a sale, transfer, grant, lease or other disposal, whether voluntary or involuntary, and dispose will be construed accordingly; |
(v) | indebtedness includes any obligation (whether incurred as principal or as surety) for the payment or repayment of money; |
(vi) | a person includes any individual, company, corporation, unincorporated association or body (including a partnership, trust, joint venture or consortium), government, state, agency, organisation or other entity whether or not having separate legal personality and their successors in title, permitted assigns and permitted transferees; |
(vii) | a regulation includes any regulation, rule, official directive, request or guideline (whether or not having the force of law but, if not having the force of law, being of a type with which any person to which it applies is accustomed to comply) of any governmental, inter-governmental or supranational body, agency, department or regulatory, self-regulatory or other authority or organisation; |
(viii) | a currency is a reference to the lawful currency for the time being of the relevant country; |
(ix) | a Default being outstanding means that it has not been cured, remedied or waived; |
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(x) | a provision of law is a reference to that provision as extended, applied, amended or re-enacted and includes any subordinate legislation; |
(xi) | a Clause, a Subclause or a Schedule is a reference to a clause or subclause of, or a schedule to, this Agreement; |
(xii) | a Finance Document or another document is a reference to that Finance Document or other document as amended; |
(xiii) | a time of day is a reference to London time; and |
(xiv) | words importing the plural shall include the singular and vice versa. |
(b) | Unless the contrary intention appears, a reference to a month or months is a reference to a period starting on (and including) one day in a calendar month and ending on (but excluding) the numerically corresponding day in the next calendar month or the calendar month in which it is to end, except that: |
(i) | if the numerically corresponding day is not a Business Day, the period will end on the next Business Day in that month (if there is one) or the preceding Business Day (if there is not); |
(ii) | if there is no numerically corresponding day in that month, that period will end on the last Business Day in that month; and |
(iii) | notwithstanding subparagraph (i) above, a period which commences on the last Business Day of a month will end on the last Business Day in the next month or the calendar month in which it is to end, as appropriate. |
(c) | Unless expressly provided to the contrary in a Finance Document, a person who is not a party to a Finance Document may not enforce any of its terms under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Xxx 0000 and notwithstanding any term of any Finance Document, the consent of any third party is not required for any variation (including any release or compromise of any liability) or termination of that Finance Document. |
(d) | Unless the contrary intention appears or unless the context otherwise permits: |
(i) | a reference to a Party will not include that Party if it has ceased to be a Party under this Agreement; |
(ii) | a word or expression used in any other Finance Document or in any notice given in connection with any Finance Document has the same meaning in that Finance Document or notice as in this Agreement; and |
(iii) | any obligation of the Borrower under the Finance Documents which is not a payment obligation remains in force in accordance with its terms for so long as any payment obligation of the Borrower is or may be outstanding under the Finance Documents. |
(e) | The headings in this Agreement do not affect its interpretation. |
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2. | FACILITY AND PURPOSE |
2.1 | Facility |
Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Lenders make available to the Borrower a revolving credit facility in a maximum aggregate amount equal to the Maximum Facility Amount.
2.2 | Purpose |
Each Loan may be used only in or towards:
(a) | financing the cost of acquiring a Vessel or Vessels; |
(b) | refinancing the whole or any part of the cost of any Vessel or Vessels which have been purchased by the Borrower and financed by debt or equity; or |
(c) | general corporate purposes of the Borrower. |
2.3 | No obligation to monitor |
No Finance Party is obliged to monitor or verify the utilisation of any Loan.
2.4 | Nature of a Finance Party’s rights and obligations |
Unless otherwise agreed by all the Finance Parties:
(a) | the obligations of a Finance Party under the Finance Documents are several; |
(b) | failure by a Finance Party to perform its obligations does not affect the obligations of any other Party under the Finance Documents; |
(c) | no Finance Party is responsible for the obligations of any other Finance Party under the Finance Documents; |
(d) | the rights of a Finance Party under the Finance Documents are separate and independent rights; |
(e) | a Finance Party may, except as otherwise stated in the Finance Documents, separately enforce those rights; and |
(f) | a debt arising under the Finance Documents to a Finance Party is a separate and independent debt. |
3. | CONDITIONS PRECEDENT |
3.1 | Conditions precedent documents |
(a) | A Loan shall not be drawn down until the Facility Agent has notified the Borrower and the Lenders that it is satisfied that, subject to Clause 4.3 (Over-Advance Loans), immediately following the drawing of such Loan, the Loan to Value Ratio shall not exceed the Borrowing Base Advance Ratio. The Facility Agent must give this notification to the Borrower and the Lenders promptly upon being so satisfied. |
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(b) | A Loan shall not be drawn down until the Facility Agent has received all of the documents and evidence set out in Part 1 of Schedule 2 (Initial Condition Precedent Documents) in form and substance satisfactory to the Facility Agent. |
(c) | A Vessel shall not be considered a Secured Vessel until the Facility Agent has notified the Borrower and the Lenders that it has received all of the documents and evidence set out in Part 2 of Schedule 2 (Initial Condition Precedent Documents) in form and substance satisfactory to the Facility Agent or that it expects to receive outstanding documents or evidence on or before the date that a Vessel is to become a Secured Vessel for the purpose of the Borrowing Base Advance Ratio. The Facility Agent must give this notification to the Borrower and the Lenders promptly upon being so satisfied. |
(d) | Immediately following the date upon which a Vessel becomes a Secured Vessel (and in any event no later than ten (10) Business Days of a Vessel becoming a Secured Vessel), the Borrower shall provide to the Facility Agent all documents and evidence set out in Schedule 3 (Conditions Subsequent to Loan) in form and substance satisfactory to the Facility Agent. |
3.2 | Further conditions precedent |
The obligations of each Lender to advance any Loan are subject to the further conditions precedent that on both the date of the Request and the Utilisation Date for that Loan:
(a) | the representations made under Clause 14 (Representations) are correct in all material respects; and |
(b) | no Default or, in the case of a Rollover Loan, no Event of Default is outstanding or would result from that Loan being made. |
4. | UTILISATION |
4.1 | Giving of Requests |
(a) | The Borrower may borrow a Loan by giving to the Facility Agent a duly completed Request. |
(b) | Unless the Facility Agent otherwise agrees, the latest time for receipt by the Facility Agent of a duly completed Request is 11.00 a.m. (New York time) four (4) Business Days prior to the date of the proposed borrowing. |
(c) | Each Request is irrevocable. |
(d) | A Request for a Rollover Loan will not be required. |
4.2 | Completion of Requests |
A Request for a Loan will not be regarded as having been duly completed unless:
(a) | the Utilisation Date is a Business Day falling within the Availability Period; |
(b) | the Utilisation Date does not fall before the Delivery Date of any Vessel that will be included in the calculation of the Loan to Value Ratio for the purposes of Clause 3.1(a); |
(c) | the amount requested does not exceed, when aggregated with the amounts drawn down or to be drawn down under any other Requests: |
(i) | the Maximum Facility Amount; and |
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(ii) | if the Request is in respect of an Over-Advance Loan, the Over-Advance Limit; |
(d) | the proposed Term complies with this Agreement; and |
(e) | in respect of any Request submitted after the Amendment Agreement has become effective, the Initial Transfers have taken place. |
Only one Loan may be requested in a Request.
4.3 | Over-Advance Loans |
The Borrower shall be permitted to submit a Request for a Loan in circumstances where the Borrowing Base Advance Ratio would be exceeded following any such Loan being advanced, provided that:
(a) | the Request complies with the requirements of Clause 4.2; |
(b) | the Loan is to be used by the Borrower only to acquire Additional Vessels in circumstances where the Borrower would not otherwise be able to do so due to the Borrowing Base Advance Ratio being exceeded; |
(c) | the Revised Advance Ratio will be satisfied following any such advance during the Over-Advance Period; and |
(d) | in respect of any Additional Vessels acquired (in whole or part) by the proceeds of an Over-Advance Loan, each such Vessel: |
(i) | becomes a Secured Vessel on or prior to the date such Over-Advance Loan is drawn down; and |
(ii) | notwithstanding Clause 3.1(d), immediately following the date on which such Vessel becomes a Secured Vessel (and in any event no later than three (3) Business Days of such Vessel becoming a Secured Vessel), the Borrower shall provide to the Facility Agent all documents and evidence in respect of such Vessel set out in Schedule 3 (Conditions Subsequent to Loan) in form and substance satisfactory to the Facility Agent. |
For the avoidance of doubt, any Loans provided pursuant to this Clause shall not be considered new money and shall form part of the Maximum Facility Amount.
4.4 | Advance of Loans |
(a) | The Facility Agent must promptly and in any event one (1) Business Day before the Rate Fixing Day notify each Lender of the details of the requested Loan and the amount of its share in that Loan. |
(b) | The amount of each Lender’s share of the Loan will be its Pro Rata Share on the proposed Utilisation Date. |
(c) | No Lender is obliged to participate in a Loan if, as a result, its share in the Loans would exceed its Commitment. |
(d) | If the conditions set out in this Agreement have been met, each Lender must make its share in the Loan available by the Utilisation Date through its Facility Office. |
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5. | REPAYMENT |
5.1 | Repayment |
(a) | The Borrower must repay each Loan in full on its Maturity Date. Subject to the other terms of this Agreement, any amounts repaid under this paragraph (a) may be reborrowed. |
(b) | On the Maturity Date of a Loan (other than the Final Maturity Date), provided that: |
(i) | no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing; |
(ii) | the time for prepayment following the occurrence of a mandatory prepayment event which is continuing has not yet occurred; and |
(iii) | the Borrower has not given notice in accordance with Clause 6.7 (Voluntary prepayment), |
and subject always to the provisions of Clause 5.2 (Repayment on Commitment Reduction Dates), such Loan will be rolled over for another Term and become a Rollover Loan.
(c) | Each Loan shall in any event be repaid in full on the Final Maturity Date. |
5.2 | Repayment on Commitment Reduction Dates |
Following the occurrence of a Commitment Reduction Date, the Borrower must repay such part of the Loans then outstanding as exceeds the Total Commitments (as the same may have been reduced by any Commitment reductions under Clause 6.8 (Automatic reduction and cancellation)). Any such repayment shall be applied against the Loans pro rata.
5.3 | Extension Option |
(a) | On the date falling twelve months after the Amendment Date, the Borrower may, by at least 30 days prior written notice to the Facility Agent, exercise the Extension Option, provided that: |
(i) | the Borrower has demonstrated, to the satisfaction of the Facility Agent (acting on the instructions of the Lenders), that it has a Charter Coverage Ratio of not less than 1.1 to 1.00; and |
(ii) | the Borrower confirms to the Facility Agent (and such confirmation is acceptable to the Facility Agent) that, at the time of exercising the Extension Option, the representations made under Clause 14 (Representations) are correct in all material respects and all other provisions of this Agreement are being complied with. |
(b) | For the purposes of this Clause, the Charter Coverage Ratio shall be the ratio calculated and approved by the Facility Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders) of (i) the net present value (calculated using the weighted average cost of capital as a discount rate) of the aggregate charterhire (less that part of the charterhire that would be required for operating expenses based on the reasonable determination by the Borrower) payable under the Time Charters then in force as at the date of determination in relation to the Secured Vessels, including, for each of the Time Charters to Hapag-Xxxxx, charterhire which would be payable during each of the seven one year extension periods as though they had been exercised, to (ii) the total principal outstanding amounts of the Loans. |
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The Charter Coverage Ratio shall be calculated by the Facility Agent and presented to the Lenders with a recommendation for their approval.
6. | PREPAYMENT AND CANCELLATION |
6.1 | Mandatory prepayment – illegality |
(a) | If it becomes, or to the knowledge of any Lender is to become, unlawful in any jurisdiction for a Lender to perform any of its obligations as contemplated by this Agreement or a Finance Document or to fund or maintain its share in one or more of the Loans (the Event of Illegality), that Lender shall notify the Facility Agent and the Borrower. |
(b) | After notification under paragraph (a) above, the Borrower and that Lender shall thereafter consult with each other and use reasonable commercial efforts for a period of thirty (30) days or in the event that the Event of Illegality takes effect before the expiration of thirty (30) days, for the maximum number of days available before the Event of Illegality takes effect with a view to restructuring the Facility in such a way as to avoid the effect of the Event of Illegality. |
(c) | If agreement cannot be reached between the parties within the period specified in paragraph (b) above: |
(i) | the Borrower shall repay the share of that Lender in the relevant Loan or Loans on the date specified in paragraph (d) below to the extent required to resolve the illegality; and |
(ii) | the Commitment of that Lender will be immediately cancelled. |
(d) | The date for repayment of a Lender’s share in a Loan or Loans will be: |
(i) | the last day of the current Term of that Loan; or |
(ii) | if earlier, the date specified by that Lender in the notice delivered to the Borrower (being no earlier than the last day of any applicable grace period permitted by Applicable Law). |
6.2 | Mandatory prepayment – Change of Control of Borrower |
(a) | The Borrower must promptly notify the Facility Agent if it becomes aware of a Change of Control. |
(b) | After notification under paragraph (a) above or if the Facility Agent otherwise becomes aware of the same, the Facility Agent may (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders), by notice to the Lenders and the Borrower delivered to the Borrower at any time within thirty (30) days of such notification: |
(i) | cancel the Facility; and |
(ii) | declare all outstanding Loans to be promptly, and in any event within thirty (30) days, due and payable. |
Any such notice will take effect in accordance with its terms.
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6.3 | Mandatory prepayment – Termination of Charter |
(a) | Unless the Borrower complies with the provisions of Clause 16.25(c) (Termination of Time Charter) or the Facility Agent receives additional security satisfactory to the Facility Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders), upon the termination of a Time Charter in accordance with 16.25(b) (Termination of Charter), the Borrower shall be obliged to prepay the outstanding Loans to the extent necessary to ensure that the Loan to Value Ratio is no greater than the Borrowing Base Advance Ratio. |
(b) | Unless the Borrower complies with the provisions of Clause 16.25(d) (Termination of Time Charter) or the Facility Agent receives additional security satisfactory to the Facility Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders), upon the termination or expiration of a majority of the Time Charters associated with any Charterer (as set out in Clause 16.25(d)), the Borrower shall be obliged to prepay the outstanding Loans to the extent necessary to ensure that the Loan to Value Ratio is no greater than the Borrowing Base Advance Ratio. |
(c) | The obligations of the Borrower to prepay down to the Borrowing Base Advance Ratio under this Clause 6.3 shall apply irrespective of whether any such prepayment takes place during an Over-Advance Period. |
(d) | All prepayments under this Clause 6.3 will be applied pro rata against the Loans then outstanding unless the Borrower nominates in writing that the prepayment is to be applied first against specific Loans then outstanding. |
6.4 | Mandatory prepayment – Sale or Total Loss of a Secured Vessel |
(a) | The Borrower shall, immediately on receipt of the same, credit to the Retention Account the sale or Total Loss proceeds received by the Borrower in respect of a Secured Vessel the subject of a sale or Total Loss. Such proceeds shall remain in the Retention Account for a period of thirty (30) days during which the Facility Agent shall be entitled to procure valuations of the remaining Secured Vessels in accordance with Clause 18 (Valuation), such valuations to be at the cost of the Borrower other than where the most recent valuations are less than sixty (60) days old, in which event the cost of any such valuations shall be for the account of the Lenders. In the event that any such valuation shows that the Borrowing Base Advance Ratio is not satisfied, then the Borrower shall be obliged to apply such sale proceeds or insurance proceeds against Loans then outstanding to the extent required to ensure that the Borrowing Base Advance Ratio is satisfied, such amounts to be applied pro rata against the Loans then outstanding unless the Borrower nominates in writing that the prepayment is to be applied first against specific Loans then outstanding. |
(b) | The obligation of the Borrower to prepay down to the Borrowing Base Advance Ratio pursuant to this Clause 6.4 shall apply irrespective of whether prepayment takes place during an Over-Advance Period. Any balance of sale proceeds or insurance proceeds after such application shall be available immediately to the Borrower. |
6.5 | Mandatory Prepayment – Removal of a Secured Vessel |
(a) | The Borrower may elect to remove a Vessel from inclusion as a Secured Vessel by: |
(i) | notifying the Facility Agent of the removal of the Secured Vessel; and |
(ii) | prepaying the outstanding Loans to the extent required to reduce the Loan to Value Ratio (excluding from the calculation the relevant Secured Vessel) to the Borrowing Base Advance Ratio or below, such amounts to be applied pro rata against the Loans then outstanding unless the Borrower nominates in writing that the prepayment is to be applied first against specific Loans then outstanding. |
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The Secured Vessel will be no longer considered a Secured Vessel upon the Facility Agent confirming that the prepayment required in paragraph (ii) above has occurred. The Facility Agent shall be entitled to procure valuations of the remaining Secured Vessels in accordance with Clause 18 (Valuation), such valuations to be at the cost of the Borrower other than where the most recent valuations are less than sixty (60) days old, in which event the cost of any such valuations shall be for the account of the Lenders. The obligation of the Borrower to prepay down to the Borrowing Base Advance Ratio shall apply irrespective of whether prepayment takes place during an Over-Advance Period.
(b) | All prepayments under this Clause 6.5 will be applied pro rata against the Loans then outstanding unless the Borrower nominates in writing that the prepayment is to be applied first against specific Loans then outstanding. |
6.6 | Mandatory prepayment – Revised Advance Ratio |
(a) | If following the making of an Over-Advance Loan, either: |
(i) | the Revised Advance Ratio is exceeded at any time during the Over-Advance Period; or |
(ii) | at the expiry of the Over-Advance Period, the Borrowing Base Advance Ratio is exceeded, |
then the Borrower shall be required to immediately repay such amount of the outstanding Loans as is necessary to bring the Loan to Value Ratio below the Revised Advance Ratio (and, at the expiry of the Over-Advance Period, below the Borrowing Base Advance Ratio).
(b) | Any prepayment under this Clause shall be applied first against the Over-Advance Loans outstanding and then against the other Loans then outstanding, in each case on a pro rata basis against the relevant Loans. |
(c) | During any Over-Advance Period each of the Borrowing Base Advance Ratio and the Revised Advance Ratio shall be tested quarterly by reference to the latest valuations conducted in accordance with Clause 18.1 (Valuation). |
6.7 | Voluntary prepayment |
(a) | The Borrower may, by giving not less than five (5) days’ prior written notice to the Facility Agent, prepay the Loans in whole or from time to time in part on the last day of any Term. |
(b) | A prepayment must be in a minimum amount of US$2,000,000 and in integral multiples of US$1,000,000 if in excess of US$2,000,000. |
(c) | Any voluntary prepayment under this Clause 6.7 will be applied against the Loans pro rata unless the Borrower nominates in writing that the prepayment is to be applied first against specific Loans then outstanding. |
6.8 | Automatic reduction and cancellation |
(a) | The obligation of a Lender to advance the undrawn amount of its Commitment will be automatically cancelled at the close of business on the last day of the Availability Period. |
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(b) | Commencing on the date falling five years and three months from the Amendment Date, the Total Commitments of the Lenders shall automatically reduce by eight consecutive quarterly reductions, each of 2.5% of the Maximum Facility Amount, being US$32,500,000. |
(c) | In the event that the Extension Option is exercised, then in addition to the Commitment reductions set out in paragraph (b) above, then commencing on the date falling seven years after the Amendment Date, the Total Commitments shall reduce by four consecutive quarterly reductions, each of 5.0% of the Maximum Facility Amount, being US$65,000,000. |
(d) | Each Commitment reduction under this Clause 6.7 shall be applied against the Commitments of the Lenders pro rata. The specified amounts shall be reduced by any prior cancellation made under Clause 6.1 (Mandatory prepayment – illegality) or voluntary cancellation under Clause 6.9 (Voluntary cancellation) and Clause 6.10 (Voluntary prepayment and cancellation). |
6.9 | Voluntary cancellation |
(a) | The Borrower may, by giving not less than ten (10) days’ prior notice to the Facility Agent, cancel the unutilised amount of the Total Commitments in whole or in part. |
(b) | Partial cancellation of the Total Commitments must be in a minimum amount of US$5,000,000 and in integral multiples of US$2,500,000 in excess of US$5,000,000. |
(c) | Any cancellation in part will be applied against the Commitment of each Lender pro rata. |
6.10 | Voluntary prepayment and cancellation |
(a) | If the Borrower is, or will be, required to pay to a Lender a Tax Payment or an Increased Cost, the Borrower may, while the requirement continues, give notice to the Facility Agent requesting prepayment and cancellation in respect of that Lender. |
(b) | After notification under paragraph (a) above: |
(i) | the Borrower must repay or prepay that Lender’s share in each Loan made to it on the date specified in paragraph (c) below; and |
(ii) | the Commitment of that Lender will be immediately cancelled. |
(c) | The date for repayment or prepayment of a Lender’s share in a Loan(s) will be the last day of the current Term for the relevant Loan or, if earlier, the date specified by the Borrower in the notice delivered to the Facility Agent. |
6.11 | Re-borrowing of Loans |
Any prepayment of a Loan under Clause 6.1 (Mandatory prepayment – illegality), Clause 6.2 (Mandatory prepayment – Change of Control of Borrower) and Clause 6.8 (Automatic reduction and cancellation) may not be re-borrowed. Any other prepayment of a Loan may be re-borrowed.
6.12 | Miscellaneous provisions |
(a) | Any notice of prepayment and/or cancellation under this Agreement is irrevocable and must specify the relevant date(s). |
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(b) | All prepayments under this Agreement must be made with accrued interest on the amount prepaid. All prepayments shall also be subject to Break Costs in respect of any amounts prepaid to the Lenders in accordance with Clause 24.3 (Break Costs). |
(c) | No prepayment or cancellation is allowed except in accordance with the express terms of this Agreement. |
7. | INTEREST |
7.1 | Calculation of interest |
(a) | The rate of interest on each Loan for each Term is the percentage rate per annum equal to the aggregate of: |
(i) | the Margin; |
(ii) | LIBOR; and |
(iii) | any increase in Mandatory Cost above the level of Mandatory Cost prevailing at the date of this Agreement (together, the Interest Rate). |
(b) | Interest shall be calculated by reference to the actual number of days elapsed and on the basis of a year of 360 days. Interest shall accrue from and including the first day of each Term to but excluding the last day of such Term. |
7.2 | Payment of interest |
Except where it is provided to the contrary in this Agreement, the Borrower must pay accrued interest on each Loan on the last day of each Term.
7.3 | Interest on overdue amounts |
(a) | If the Borrower fails to pay any amount payable by it under the Finance Documents, it must immediately on demand by the Facility Agent pay interest on the overdue amount from its due date up to the date of actual payment, both before, on and after judgment. |
(b) | If the overdue amount is a principal amount of a Loan or is an amount accruing in respect of interest on a Loan and becomes due and payable prior to the last day of its current Term, then: |
(i) | the first Term for that overdue amount will be the unexpired portion of that Term and the rate of interest on the overdue amount for that first Term will be two (2) per cent. per annum above the Interest Rate; and |
(ii) | thereafter, any subsequent Term for that overdue amount shall be selected by the Facility Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders, acting reasonably) who may select successive Terms of any duration up to six (6) months, and the rate of interest on the overdue amount will be two (2) per cent. per annum above the Interest Rate. |
After the expiry of the first Term for that overdue amount, the rate on the overdue amount will be calculated in accordance with paragraph (c) below.
(c) | In respect of any amounts outstanding other than in accordance with paragraph (b) above, interest on such overdue amount is payable at a rate determined by the Facility Agent to be |
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two (2) per cent. per annum above the Interest Rate. For this purpose, the Facility Agent may (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders, acting reasonably) select successive Terms of any duration of up to six (6) months. |
(d) | Interest (if unpaid) on an overdue amount will be compounded with that overdue amount at the end of each of its Terms but will remain immediately due and payable. |
7.4 | Notification of rates of interest |
The Facility Agent must promptly notify each Party of the determination of a rate of interest under this Agreement.
8. | TERMS |
8.1 | Selection |
(a) | Each Loan has one Term only. |
(b) | The Term for a Loan (other than the first Loan) shall, subject to Clause 8.1(f), be the same as the then current Term for all then outstanding Loans. |
(c) | The Borrower must select the Term for the first Loan in the relevant Request and shall be entitled to select (by written notice to the Facility Agent) the Term for each Rollover Loan. Subject to the following provisions of this Clause 8, each such Term for a Loan or a Rollover Loan will be a period of one (1), two (2), three (3) or six (6) months, or such other period as may be agreed by the Borrower and the Facility Agent. If the Borrower fails to select a Term for a Loan, that Term will, subject to the other provisions of this Clause 8, be three (3) months. |
(d) | The term for a Rollover Loan will be the same duration as the previous Term for such Loan, unless the Borrower provides to the Facility Agent an irrevocable notice pursuant to Clause 8.1(c) requesting a different Term in accordance with Clause 8.1(c) no later than 11.00 a.m. (New York time) three (3) Business Days before the Rate Fixing Date for that Term. |
(e) | Subject only to Clause 8.1(f), the Term for all Rollover Loans shall be the same. |
(f) | The Borrower may, on or before the time a Request is given, request that a Term for a Loan is not consolidated with existing Terms for other Loans then outstanding. No more than five (5) such non-consolidated Loans may be outstanding at any one time. In the event of such a request, the Borrower must select both the Term for such Loan in the relevant Request and when such Loan is rolled over and the provisions of Clause 8.1(c) will apply to such selection. |
8.2 | Consolidation |
The Term for a Loan will commence on its Utilisation Date and unless the Borrower requests otherwise in accordance with Clause 8.1(f) above, the Term for each Loan will be consolidated with the Term for all other outstanding Loans.
8.3 | No overrunning the Final Maturity Date |
If a Term would otherwise overrun the Final Maturity Date, it will be shortened so that it ends on the Final Maturity Date.
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8.4 | Other adjustments |
The Facility Agent and the Borrower may enter into such other arrangements as they may agree for the adjustment of Terms and the consolidation and/or splitting of Loans.
9. | MARKET DISRUPTION |
9.1 | Failure of the Reference Bank to supply a rate |
If LIBOR is to be calculated by reference to the Reference Banks but if the Reference Banks are unable to supply a rate by 11.00 a.m. on the Rate Fixing Day, the applicable LIBOR will be calculated in accordance with Clause 9.2 (Market disruption).
9.2 | Market disruption |
(a) | A market disruption event shall arise where: |
(i) | no, or only one, Reference Bank supplies a rate by 11.00 a.m. on the Rate Fixing Day; or |
(ii) | the Facility Agent receives by close of business on the Rate Fixing Day notification from any Lender or Lenders whose aggregate shares in the relevant Loan exceed 35% of that Loan that the cost to them of obtaining matching deposits in the relevant interbank market is in excess of LIBOR for the relevant Term. |
(b) | The Facility Agent must promptly notify the Borrower and the Lenders of a market disruption event. |
(c) | After notification under paragraph (b) above, the rate of interest on the affected Loan for the relevant Term will be the aggregate of the applicable: |
(i) | Margin; |
(ii) | the rate notified to the Facility Agent by those Lenders as soon as practicable, and in any event before interest is due to be paid in respect of that Term, to be that which expresses as a percentage rate per annum the cost to those Lenders of funding the Loan from whatever source each of them may reasonably select; and |
(iii) | any increase in Mandatory Cost above the level of Mandatory Cost prevailing at the Amendment Date. |
9.3 | Alternative basis of interest or funding |
(a) | If a market disruption event occurs and the Facility Agent or the Borrower so require, the Borrower and the Facility Agent must enter into negotiations for a period of not more than thirty (30) days with a view to agreeing to an alternative basis for determining the rate of interest and/or funding for the affected Loan and any future Loan. |
(b) | Any alternative basis agreed between the Borrower and the Facility Agent will be, with the prior written consent of all the Lenders, binding on all the Parties hereto. |
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10. | TAXES |
10.1 | Tax gross-up |
(a) | The Borrower must make all payments to be made by it under the Finance Documents without any Tax Deduction, unless a Tax Deduction is required by an Applicable Law. |
(b) | If a Tax Deduction is required by an Applicable Law to be made by the Borrower or, as the case may be, the Facility Agent, the amount of the payment due from the Borrower will be increased, or, as the case may be, the Borrower shall make an additional payment, so that the amount (after making the Tax Deduction) received by the recipient is equal to the payment which would have been due if no Tax Deduction had been required. |
(c) | If the Borrower is required to make a Tax Deduction, the Borrower must make the minimum Tax Deduction and must make any payment required in connection with that Tax Deduction within the time allowed by the Applicable Law. |
(d) | Within fifteen (15) days of making either a Tax Deduction or a payment required in connection with a Tax Deduction the Borrower must deliver to the Facility Agent for the relevant Finance Party, documents or other information (or certified copies thereof) evidencing satisfactorily to that Finance Party (acting reasonably) that the Tax Deduction has been made or (as applicable) the appropriate payment has been paid to the relevant taxing authority. |
10.2 | Tax Indemnity |
Without prejudice to the provisions of Clause 10.1 (Tax gross-up), if any Lender is required to make any payment on account of Tax solely as a result of its entry into any Finance Document (not being a Tax imposed on the net income of a Lender or its Facility Office by the jurisdiction in which it is incorporated, or the jurisdiction in which its Facility Office is located or on the capital of that Lender employed in such jurisdiction or jurisdictions) on any sum received or receivable under the Finance Documents (including, without limitation, any sum received or receivable under this Clause 10.2) or any liability in respect of any such payment is asserted, imposed, levied or assessed against a Lender, the Borrower shall (within three (3) Business Days of demand by the Facility Agent) indemnify that Lender against such payment or liability, together with any interest, penalties and expenses payable or incurred in connection therewith.
10.3 | Tax Credit |
If a Lender or, as the case may be, the Facility Agent, determines (acting in its absolute discretion and in accordance with its internal policies), that it has received, realised, utilised and retained a Tax benefit by reason of any deduction or withholding in respect of which the Borrower has made an increased payment or paid a compensating sum under this Clause 10 that Lender or, as the case may be, the Facility Agent shall, provided it has received all amounts which are then due and payable by the Borrower under any of the provisions of this Agreement and the other Finance Documents, pay to the Borrower (to the extent that that Lender or, as the case may be, the Facility Agent can do so without prejudicing the amount of that benefit and the right of that Lender, or as the case may be, the Facility Agent to obtain any other benefit, relief or allowance which may be available to it), such amount, if any, as that Lender, or as the case may be, the Facility Agent shall determine (acting in its absolute discretion and in accordance with its internal policies), will leave that Lender, or as the case may be, the Facility Agent in no better and no worse position than it would have been in if the deduction or withholding had not been required and so that it retains no benefit as a result of the receipt of such deduction.
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10.4 | Notification of Claim |
A Lender making, or intending to make, a claim under Clause 10.2 (Tax Indemnity) shall promptly notify the Facility Agent of the event which will give, or has given, rise to the claim, following which the Facility Agent shall notify the Borrower.
10.5 | Conduct of Business by the Finance Parties |
No provision of this Agreement will:
(a) | interfere with the right of any Finance Party to arrange its affairs (tax or otherwise) in whatever manner it thinks fit; |
(b) | oblige any Finance Party to investigate or claim any credit, relief, remission or repayment available to it or the extent, order and manner of any claim; or |
(c) | oblige any Finance Party to disclose any information relating to its affairs (tax or otherwise) or any computations in respect of Tax. |
10.6 | Stamp taxes |
The Borrower must pay and indemnify each Finance Party against any stamp duty, registration or other similar Tax payable by a Finance Party in connection with the entry into, performance or enforcement of any Finance Document, except for any such Tax payable in connection with entering into a Transfer Certificate.
10.7 | Value added taxes |
Any amount (including costs and expenses) payable under a Finance Document by the Borrower is exclusive of any value added tax or any other Tax of a similar nature which might be chargeable in connection with that amount. If any such Tax is chargeable, the Borrower must pay to the relevant Finance Party (in addition to and at the same time as paying that amount) an amount equal to the amount of that Tax.
11. | INCREASED COSTS |
11.1 | Increased Costs |
Except as provided below in this Clause 11, the Borrower must pay to a Finance Party the amount of any Increased Cost incurred by that Finance Party or its Subsidiaries, or its Affiliates as a result of:
(a) | the introduction of, or any change in, or any change in the interpretation or application of, any law or regulation of general application to financial institutions in the jurisdiction of such Finance Party; or |
(b) | compliance with any law or regulation, |
made after the Amendment Date.
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11.2 | Exceptions |
The Borrower need not make any payment for an Increased Cost to the extent that the Increased Cost is:
(a) | compensated for under another Clause or would have been but for an exception to that Clause; |
(b) | a Tax on the overall net income of the relevant Finance Party or any of its Subsidiaries; or |
(c) | attributable to the relevant Finance Party or any of its Affiliates or Subsidiaries wilfully failing to comply with any law or regulation. |
11.3 | Claims |
If a Finance Party intends to make a claim for an Increased Cost it must notify the Borrower promptly of the circumstances giving rise to, and the amount of, the claim.
11.4 | Mitigation |
(a) | Each Finance Party must, in consultation with the Borrower, use its best endeavours to mitigate any circumstances which arise and which result or would result in any Increased Cost being payable to that Finance Party. |
(b) | The Borrower must indemnify that Finance Party for all costs and expenses reasonably incurred by that Finance Party as a result of any step taken by it under paragraph (a) above. |
(c) | A Finance Party is not obliged to take any step under this Subclause if, in the opinion of that Finance Party (acting reasonably), to do so might be prejudicial to it. |
11.5 | Replacement of Lender |
Following a claim by a Lender for an Increased Cost, the Borrower shall, with the consent of the Facility Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders), be entitled to oblige such Lender to transfer its Commitment to a Lender or new lender pursuant to the terms of Clause 28 (Changes to the Parties).
12. | RETENTION ACCOUNT |
12.1 | Maintenance of Retention Account |
The Borrower shall maintain the Retention Account with the Account Bank until the Final Maturity Date, free of Security Interests and rights of set-off other than as created by or pursuant to the Security Documents.
12.2 | Transfers to Retention Account |
(a) | The Borrower shall procure that upon receipt of any amounts representing proceeds of a sale of a Vessel or proceeds following a Total Loss of a Secured Vessel or proceeds following the termination of a Time Charter, such amounts are paid into the Retention Account. |
(b) | Upon the occurrence of an Event of Default which is continuing, the Borrower shall procure that all Earnings in respect of the Secured Vessels are transferred into the Retention Account. |
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12.3 | Application of Retention Account |
(a) | In the event that a mandatory prepayment obligation arises under Clause 6.4 (Mandatory prepayment – Sale or Total Loss of a Secured Vessel) upon a sale or Total Loss of a Secured Vessel, the Borrower shall procure that there is transferred from the Retention Account (and irrevocably authorises the Facility Agent to instruct the Account Bank to transfer from the Retention Account) to the Facility Agent, in prepayment of the relevant Loan, any amounts as may be required pursuant to Clause 6.4 to ensure that the Loan to Value Ratio is less than the Borrowing Base Advance Ratio. Unless an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the balance of the proceeds of a sale or Total Loss of the relevant Secured Vessel following such transfer from the Retention Account may be released to such other account as the Borrower shall designate. |
(b) | In the event that a charter termination event arises under Clause 16.25(b) (Termination of Time Charter), the Borrower shall procure that there is transferred from the Retention Account (and irrevocably authorises the Facility Agent to instruct the Account Bank to transfer from the Retention Account): |
(i) | if the Borrower locates a substitute charterer in accordance with Clause 16.25(c) or (d), to such other account as the Borrower may designate, the charter termination amount relating to the relevant Secured Vessel; or |
(ii) | if a mandatory prepayment obligation arises under Clause 6.3(b), to the Facility Agent in prepayment of the Loans an amount necessary to ensure that the Loan to Value Ratio is no greater than the Borrowing Base Advance Ratio. |
(c) | Following the occurrence of an Event of Default which is continuing, any moneys standing to the credit of the Retention Account shall be applied in accordance with Clause 13.7 (Payments). |
12.4 | Restriction on withdrawal |
During the term of the Facility, no sum may be withdrawn from the Retention Account (except in accordance with this Clause 12) without the prior written consent of the Facility Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders).
13. | PAYMENTS |
13.1 | Place |
(a) | Unless a Finance Document specifies that payments under it are to be made in another manner, all payments by a Party (other than the Facility Agent) under the Finance Documents must be made to the Facility Agent to its account no. 0011624418 with X X Xxxxxx Xxxxx, New York, ABA No. 021 000 021 for the credit of Fortis Capital Corp. or such other account in the United States of America as it may notify to that Party for this purpose by not less than five (5) Business Days’ prior notice. |
(b) | Notwithstanding paragraph (a) above, any payment to be made under the Finance Documents by the Facility Agent to a Lender shall be made in accordance with that Lender’s Standing Payment Instruction. |
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13.2 | Funds |
Payments under the Finance Documents to the Facility Agent must be made for value on the due date at such times and in such funds as the Facility Agent may specify to the Party concerned as being customary at the time for the settlement of transactions in the relevant currency in the place for payment.
13.3 | Distribution |
(a) | Each payment received by the Facility Agent under the Finance Documents for another Party must, except as provided below, be made available by the Facility Agent to that Party by payment (as soon as practicable after receipt) to its account with such office or bank as it may notify to the Facility Agent for this purpose by not less than five (5) Business Days’ prior notice. |
(b) | The Facility Agent may apply any amount received by it from the Borrower in or towards payment (on the date and in the currency and funds of receipt) of any amount due from the Borrower under the Finance Documents or in or towards the purchase of any amount of any currency to be so applied. |
(c) | Where a sum is paid to the Facility Agent under this Agreement for another Party, the Facility Agent is not obliged to pay that sum to that Party until it has established that it has actually received it. However, the Facility Agent may assume that the sum has been paid to it, and, in reliance on that assumption, make available to that Party a corresponding amount. If it transpires that the sum has not been received by the Facility Agent, that Party must immediately on demand by the Facility Agent refund any corresponding amount made available to it together with interest on that amount from the date of payment to the date of receipt by the Facility Agent at a rate calculated by the Facility Agent to reflect its cost of funds. |
(d) | For the purposes of this Clause 13 (Payments) Standing Payment Instruction means: |
(i) | in relation to a Lender which is a Lender on the date of this Agreement, payment instructions set below the name of that Lender in Schedule 11 (Standing Payment Instructions); or |
(ii) | in relation to a Lender which becomes a Lender after the date of this Agreement, payment instructions set out in the Transfer Certificate to which that Lender is a party, |
or such other payment instructions the Lender may notify to the Facility Agent by not less than five (5) Business Days’ notice.
13.4 | Currency |
All amounts payable under the Finance Documents are payable in Dollars provided always that amounts payable in respect of costs and expenses are payable in the currency in which those costs and expenses are incurred.
13.5 | No set-off or counterclaim |
All payments made by the Borrower under the Finance Documents must be made without set-off or counterclaim.
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13.6 | Business Days |
(a) | If a payment under the Finance Documents is due on a day which is not a Business Day, the due date for that payment will instead be the next Business Day in the same calendar month (if there is one) or the preceding Business Day (if there is not). |
(b) | During any extension of the due date for payment of any principal under this Agreement interest is payable on that principal at the rate payable on the original due date. |
13.7 | Payments |
(a) | Subject always to the provisions of the DPP, if any Administrative Party receives a payment insufficient to discharge all the amounts then due and payable by the Borrower under the Finance Documents, then, except to the extent otherwise provided in any Finance Document, all the proceeds of the enforcement of the security conferred by the Security Agreements shall be applied by the Administrative Party towards the obligations of the Borrower under the Finance Documents in the following order: |
(i) | first, in or towards payment or satisfaction pro rata of all costs, charges, sales taxes, expenses and liabilities incurred and payments made by the Finance Parties (other than the Swap Counterparties) or any receiver and all remuneration payable to the Finance Parties (other than the Swap Counterparties) or any receiver under or pursuant to the Security Documents including, without limitation, legal expenses, re-instatement costs and any costs incurred in recovering possession of the Security Assets; |
(ii) | second, in or towards payment pro rata of any unpaid fees, costs and expenses of the Finance Parties (other than the Swap Counterparties) to the extent not recovered under paragraph (i) above under this Agreement and the Security Documents; |
(iii) | third, in or towards payment pro rata of any accrued but unpaid interest payable to the Finance Parties (other than the Swap Counterparties) under this Agreement and the Security Documents; |
(iv) | fourth, in or towards payment pro rata of any Break Costs of the Lenders due but unpaid and payable to the Finance Parties (other than the Swap Counterparties) under this Agreement and the Security Documents; |
(v) | fifth, in or towards payment pro rata of any principal in respect of this Agreement and the Security Documents (other than anything owing to the Swap Counterparties under the Swap Agreements) due but unpaid; |
(vi) | sixth, in or towards payment pro rata to the Finance Parties (other than the Swap Counterparties) of any other amounts which are due but unpaid by the Borrower to any of the Finance Parties (other than the Swap Counterparties) under the Finance Documents in such order as the Finance Parties (other than the Swap Counterparties) shall in their absolute discretion determine; |
(vii) | seventh, in or towards payment of any unpaid interest, fees, costs and expenses of the Swap Counterparties under the Swap Agreements and the Swap Mortgages; |
(viii) | eighth, in or towards payment of any Break Costs of the Swap Counterparties due but unpaid under the Swap Agreements; |
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(ix) | ninth, in or towards payment to the Swap Counterparties of any other amounts which are or may become owing by the Borrower to any of the Swap Counterparties under the Swap Agreement; |
(x) | tenth, after all amounts payable or which may become payable under the Finance Documents have been paid in full and the Finance Documents have been discharged and the payments under subparagraph (x) have been made, in or towards payment of the surplus, if any, to the Borrower or other persons entitled thereto. |
(b) | The Facility Agent must, if so directed by all the Lenders, vary the order set at subparagraphs 13.7(a)(ii) to 13.7(a)(vi) above. |
(c) | This Clause 13.7 will override any appropriation made by the Borrower. |
13.8 | Timing of payments |
If a Finance Document does not provide for when a particular payment is due, that payment will be due within three (3) Business Days of demand by the relevant Finance Party.
14. | REPRESENTATIONS |
14.1 | Representations |
The representations set out in this Clause 14 are made, unless otherwise stated, by the Borrower to the Finance Parties.
14.2 | Status |
(a) | It is a limited liability company, duly incorporated and validly existing under the laws of the Republic of the Xxxxxxxx Islands. |
(b) | It and each of its Subsidiaries, if any, has the power to own its assets and carry on its business as it is being conducted. |
(c) | No person or group other than the Seaspan Group owns or will beneficially own more than fifty (50) per cent. of the aggregate outstanding voting power of the equity interests of the Borrower. |
14.3 | Powers and authority |
It has the power to enter into and perform, and has taken all necessary action to authorise the entry into and performance of, the Finance Documents to which it is or will be a party and the transactions contemplated by those Finance Documents.
14.4 | Legal validity |
Subject to any general principles of law limiting its obligations and referred to in any legal opinion required under this Agreement, each Finance Document to which it is a party is its legally binding, valid and enforceable obligation.
14.5 | Non-conflict |
The entry into and performance by it of, and the transactions contemplated by, the Finance Documents to which it is a party do not conflict in any material respect with:
(a) | any law or regulation applicable to it; |
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(b) | its or any of its Subsidiaries’ constitutional documents; or |
(c) | any document which is binding upon it or any of its Subsidiaries or any of its or its Subsidiaries’ assets. |
14.6 | No Default |
(a) | No Default is outstanding or will result from the execution of, or the performance of any transaction contemplated by, any Finance Document. |
(b) | No other event is outstanding which constitutes a default under any document which is binding on it or any of its Subsidiaries or any of its or its Subsidiaries’ assets to an extent or in a manner which is reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect. |
14.7 | Authorisations |
Except for registration of (a) the Mortgages at the Hong Kong Shipping Register, (b) any Security Agreement creating a charge over Security Assets of the Borrower with the Hong Kong Registrar of Companies or (c) any relevant Security Agreement under the Companies Xxx 0000, all authorisations required by it in connection with the entry into, performance, validity and enforceability of, and the transactions contemplated by, the Finance Documents have been obtained or effected (as appropriate) and are in full force and effect.
14.8 | Financial statements |
The audited consolidated financial statements of the Borrower most recently delivered to the Facility Agent (or, until delivery of the first audited financial statements, the Original Balance Sheet) together with any other financial information supplied to the Facility Agent by the Borrower:
(a) | have been prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP, consistently applied; |
(b) | have been audited in accordance with U.S. GAAP; and |
(c) | fairly represent its financial condition (consolidated, if applicable) as at the date to which they were drawn up, |
except, in each case, as disclosed to the contrary in those financial statements or other information.
14.9 | No material adverse change |
There has been no material adverse change in the ability of the Borrower to make all the required payments under this Agreement or the validity or enforceability of this Agreement since the date of incorporation of the Borrower or following the receipt by the Facility Agent of an Annual Compliance Certificate, since the date of the then latest Annual Compliance Certificate.
14.10 | Litigation |
No litigation, arbitration or administrative proceedings of or before any court, arbitral body or agency (including, but not limited to, investigative proceedings) which, if adversely determined, might reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect have (to the best of its knowledge and belief) been started or threatened against the Borrower.
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14.11 | Pari passu ranking |
Its payment obligations under the Finance Documents rank at least pari passu with all its other present and future unsecured and unsubordinated payment obligations, except for obligations mandatorily preferred by law applying to companies generally.
14.12 | Taxes on payments |
All amounts payable by it to the Facility Agent under the Finance Documents and the Related Contracts may be made without any Tax Deduction.
14.13 | Stamp duties |
Except as notified in writing to and accepted by the Facility Agent, no stamp or registration duty or similar Tax or charge is payable in its jurisdiction of incorporation in respect of any Finance Document or Related Contract.
14.14 | Environment |
At and at all times after the Applicable Time, and except as may already have been disclosed by the Borrower in writing to the Facility Agent:
(a) | the Borrower and its Environmental Representatives have, without limitation, complied with the provisions of all applicable Environmental Laws in relation to each Secured Vessel; |
(b) | the Borrower and its Environmental Representatives have obtained all requisite Environmental Approvals in relation to each Secured Vessel and are in compliance with such Environmental Approvals; |
(c) | neither the Borrower nor any of its Environmental Representatives have received notice of any Environmental Claim in relation to a Secured Vessel which alleges that the Borrower is not in compliance with applicable Environmental Laws in relation to such Secured Vessel or Environmental Approvals in relation to such Secured Vessel; |
(d) | there is no Environmental Claim in relation to any Secured Vessel pending or threatened which is such that a first class Borrower or operator of vessels such as the Vessels, making all due enquiries and complying in all respects with its obligations under the ISM Code, ought to have known about; and |
(e) | there has been no Release of Hazardous Materials by or in respect of any Secured Vessel about which a first class Borrower or operator of vessels such as the Vessels making all due enquiries and complying in all respects with its obligations under the ISM Code ought to have known about. |
14.15 | Security Interests |
No Security Interest exists over its or any of its Subsidiary’s assets which would cause a breach of Clause 16.5 (Security Interests).
14.16 | Security Assets |
The Borrower is solely and absolutely entitled to the Security Assets over which it has or will create any Security Interest pursuant to the Security Documents to which it is, or will be, a party and there is no agreement or arrangement, other than in the DPP, under which it is obliged to share any proceeds of or derived from such Security Assets with any third party.
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14.17 | ISM Code compliance |
In respect of each Secured Vessel, on and at all times following the Applicable Time in respect of that Vessel, the Borrower is in full compliance with the ISM Code in respect of that Vessel.
14.18 | ISPS Code Compliance |
In respect of each Secured Vessel, on and at all times following the Applicable Time in respect of that Vessel, the Borrower is in full compliance with the ISPS Code in respect of that Vessel.
14.19 | No amendments to Related Contracts |
Other than as notified to and agreed by the Facility Agent in writing, there have been no amendments to any of the Related Contracts.
14.20 | Money Laundering |
Any borrowing by the Borrower and the performance of its obligations hereunder and under the other Finance Documents to which it is a party will be for its own account and will not involve any breach by it of any law or regulatory measure relating to money laundering as defined in Article 1 of the Directive (91/308/EEC) of the Council of the European Communities or any equivalent law or regulatory measure in any other jurisdiction.
14.21 | Insolvency |
(a) | The Borrower is neither unable, nor admits or has admitted its inability, to pay its debts or has suspended making payments on any of its debts. |
(b) | The Borrower, by reason of actual or anticipated financial difficulties neither has commenced, nor intends to commence, negotiations with one or more of its creditors with a view to rescheduling any of its Financial Indebtedness. |
(c) | The value of the assets of the Borrower is not less than its liabilities (taking into account contingent and prospective liabilities). |
(d) | No moratorium has been, or may, in the reasonably foreseeable future be, declared in respect of any indebtedness of the Borrower. |
(e) | No reorganisation or liquidation of the Borrower has occurred. |
14.22 | Immunity |
(a) | The execution by it of each Finance Document to which it is a party constitutes, and the exercise by it of its rights and performance of its obligations under each such Finance Document will constitute, private and commercial acts performed for private and commercial purposes. |
(b) | It will not be entitled to claim immunity from suit, execution, attachment or other legal process in any proceedings taken in its jurisdiction of incorporation in relation to any Finance Document. |
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14.23 | No adverse consequences |
(a) | It is not necessary under the laws of its jurisdiction of incorporation: |
(i) | in order to enable the Facility Agent to enforce its rights under any Finance Document; or |
(ii) | by reason of the execution of any Finance Document or the performance by it of its obligations under any Finance Document, |
that the Facility Agent should be licensed, qualified or otherwise entitled to carry on business in its jurisdiction of incorporation; and
(b) | The Facility Agent will not be deemed to be resident, domiciled or carrying on business in its jurisdiction of incorporation by reason only of the execution, performance and/or enforcement of any Finance Document. |
14.24 | Jurisdiction/governing law |
(a) | Its: |
(i) | irrevocable submission under this Agreement to the jurisdiction of the courts of England; |
(ii) | agreement that this Agreement is governed by English law; and |
(iii) | agreement not to claim any immunity to which it or its assets may be entitled, |
are legal, valid and binding under the laws of its jurisdiction of incorporation.
(b) | Any judgment obtained in England will be recognised and be enforceable by the courts of its jurisdiction of incorporation, subject to any statutory or other conditions of such jurisdiction. |
14.25 | Charters |
On the date a Vessel becomes a Secured Vessel, any Time Charter in respect of that Vessel shall be in full force and effect.
14.26 | Times for making representations |
(a) | The representations set out in this Clause 14 are made by the Borrower on the date of this Agreement. |
(b) | Unless a representation is expressed to be given at a specific date, each representation is deemed to be repeated by the Borrower on the Amendment Date, on the date of each Request, the date each Loan is made (other than a Rollover Loan) and annually on each anniversary of the first Utilisation Date when the Borrower shall provide to the Facility Agent an Annual Compliance Certificate. |
(c) | When a representation is repeated, it is applied to the circumstances existing at the time of repetition. |
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15. | INFORMATION COVENANTS |
15.1 | Financial statements |
(a) | The Borrower must supply to the Facility Agent in sufficient copies (which may take the form of an electronic copy) for all the Lenders: |
(i) | its audited consolidated financial statements for each of its financial years ending after the date hereof; |
(ii) | its interim unaudited financial statements for the first half-year of each of its financial years; and |
(iii) | if and to the extent the Borrower is required by any Applicable Law to produce quarterly financial statements, the quarterly financial statements for the Borrower as the case may be for the first and third quarters of each of its financial years ending after the date hereof. |
(b) | The Borrower must supply to the Facility Agent copies of the semi-annual financial statements of each of CSCL, CSCL Hong Kong and CSCL Asia for the relevant financial period as soon as such statements become publicly available, and if such statements are not made publicly available, then within 120 days of the end of the relevant financial period of such company. |
(c) | The Borrower must supply to the Facility Agent copies of the audited financial statements of each Charterer and Charter Guarantor (to the extent that the Borrower is entitled to or does receive the same and the Borrower shall use all reasonable endeavours to include an obligation to provide the same in the relevant Time Charter and Charter Guarantee (in each case which are entered into following the Amendment Date) or otherwise to obtain a copy) for each of the relevant party’s financial years within five (5) Business Days of such financial statements becoming available to the Borrower. |
(d) | All financial statements must be supplied promptly after they are available and: |
(i) | in the case of audited financial statements of the Borrower, within 180 days of the end of the relevant financial period; |
(ii) | in the case of interim semi-annual financial statements of the Borrower, within ninety (90) days of the end of the relevant financial period; and |
(iii) | in the case of interim quarterly financial statements of the Borrower, within sixty (60) days of the end of the relevant financial period. |
(e) | The Facility Agent shall send to each Lender all of the financial statements received by it under this Clause 15.1 within fifteen (15) days of receipt of such financial statements. |
15.2 | Form of financial statements |
(a) | The Borrower must ensure that each set of its financial statements supplied under this Agreement fairly represents the financial condition (consolidated or otherwise) of the Borrower as at the date to which those financial statements were drawn up. |
(b) | The Borrower must notify the Facility Agent of any change to the basis on which its audited financial statements are prepared. |
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(c) | If requested by the Facility Agent, the Borrower must supply or procure that the following are supplied to the Facility Agent: |
(i) | a full description of any change notified under paragraph (b) above; and |
(ii) | sufficient information to enable the Facility Agent to make a proper comparison between the financial position shown by the set of financial statements prepared on the changed basis and its most recent audited consolidated financial statements delivered to the Facility Agent under this Agreement. |
(d) | If requested by the Facility Agent, the Borrower must enter into discussions for a period of not more than thirty (30) days with a view to agreeing to any amendments required to be made to this Agreement to place the Facility Agent in the same position as it would have been in if the change had not happened. |
(e) | If no agreement is reached under paragraph (d) above on the required amendments to this Agreement, the Borrower must ensure that its auditors certify those amendments; the certificate of the auditors will be, in the absence of manifest error, binding on all the Parties. |
15.3 | Compliance Certificate |
(a) | The Borrower must supply to the Facility Agent a Compliance Certificate in the form attached at Schedule 7 on a quarterly basis (the first such Compliance Certificate to be provided on the first Quarter Day following the date of the first drawdown under the Facility). |
(b) | The Borrower must supply to the Facility Agent an Annual Compliance Certificate in the form attached at Schedule 8 with each set of its financial statements sent to the Facility Agent under this Agreement. |
(c) | Each Compliance Certificate supplied by the Borrower must be signed by its chief financial officer or chief executive officer. |
15.4 | Access to Books and Records |
Upon the request of the Facility Agent, the Borrower shall provide the Facility Agent and any of its representatives, professional advisors and contractors with access to, and permit inspection of, its books and records, in each case at reasonable times and upon reasonable notice.
15.5 | Information - miscellaneous |
The Borrower must supply to the Facility Agent in sufficient copies (which may take the form of an electronic copy) for all the Lenders:
(a) | copies of all documents despatched by it to its creditors generally or any class of them at the same time as they are despatched; |
(b) | copies of all notices and minutes relating to any Extraordinary General Meeting of its shareholders at the same time as they are despatched; |
(c) | promptly upon becoming aware of them, details of any litigation, arbitration or administrative proceedings which are current, threatened or pending against it and which might, if adversely determined, have a Material Adverse Effect; and |
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(d) | promptly on request, such further information, in sufficient copies for all the Lenders, regarding the financial condition and operations of the Borrower as the Facility Agent may reasonably request. |
15.6 | Notification of Default |
(a) | Unless the Facility Agent has already been so notified, the Borrower must notify the Facility Agent of any Default (and the steps, if any, being taken to remedy it) promptly upon becoming aware of its occurrence. |
(b) | Promptly on request by the Facility Agent but not more often than once in each period of 12 months, unless the Facility Agent, acting reasonably, believes an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing (in which event the Facility Agent shall be entitled to make such requests as and when it considers it appropriate to do so), the Borrower must supply to the Facility Agent a certificate, signed by two of its authorised signatories on its behalf, certifying that no Default is outstanding or, if a Default is outstanding, specifying the Default and the steps, if any, being taken to remedy it. |
15.7 | Year end |
The Borrower may not change its financial year end.
16. | GENERAL COVENANTS |
16.1 | General |
The Borrower agrees to be bound by the covenants set out in this Clause 16 relating to it.
16.2 | Authorisations |
The Borrower must promptly obtain, maintain and comply, in all material respects, with the terms of any authorisation required under any Applicable Law to enable it to perform its obligations under, or for the validity or enforceability of, any Finance Document.
16.3 | Compliance with laws |
The Borrower must comply and must procure that the Manager complies in all respects with all Applicable Laws to which it is subject where failure to do so is reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect.
16.4 | Pari passu ranking |
The Borrower must ensure that its payment obligations under the Finance Documents rank at least pari passu with all its other present and future unsecured and unsubordinated payment obligations, except for obligations mandatorily preferred by law applying to companies generally.
16.5 | Security Interests |
The Borrower shall not, and the Borrower shall procure that the Manager does not, create or permit to subsist any Security Interest over the Obligatory Insurances or any other Security Assets or any Related Contract other than:
(a) | Permitted Liens; or |
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(b) | with the prior written consent of the Facility Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders). |
16.6 | No other business assets or Financial Indebtedness |
The Borrower shall not engage in any business other than the direct or indirect ownership, operation and chartering of container vessels and any business incidental thereto, nor shall the Borrower incur any Financial Indebtedness to be secured in any way on the Vessels, or any of them, or any other Security Asset other than the Financial Indebtedness contemplated by this Agreement or the Swap Agreements. The Borrower may incur any other indebtedness or issue guarantees against financial loss of any person on an unsecured basis or secured on assets which are not Security Assets.
16.7 | Payment of dividends |
The Borrower shall not pay any dividends or make any other distributions (whether by loan or otherwise) to shareholders unless, under Applicable Law and accounting principles in its jurisdiction of incorporation it is entitled to distribute as dividends or such other distribution and no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing.
16.8 | Change of business |
(a) | The Borrower must ensure that no change is made to the general nature of its business from that carried on at the date of this Agreement other than the direct or indirect ownership, operation and chartering of container vessels and any business incidental thereto. |
(b) | The Borrower must maintain its place of business, and keep its corporate documents and records, at Trust Company Complex, Ajeltake Road, Ajeltake Island, Majuro, Xxxxxxxx Islands MH96960, and the Borrower will not establish, or do anything as a result of which it would be deemed to have, a place of business in any country other than the Republic of the Xxxxxxxx Islands, provided that the Borrower may establish a place of business in, and may keep its corporate documents and records at, Hong Kong and Vancouver or either of them if the Facility Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders) is satisfied that such establishment in such location does not adversely affect the validity, enforceability or effectiveness of any Security Agreement and does not give rise to any requirement under any Applicable Law for a Tax Deduction. |
16.9 | Mergers |
The Borrower shall not enter into any amalgamation, demerger, merger or reconstruction otherwise than under an intra-group re-organisation on a solvent basis or other transaction agreed by the Facility Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders).
16.10 | Security |
The Borrower:
(a) | will procure, at the Applicable Time, that the relevant Mortgage is, and continues to be, registered as a first priority mortgage on the Hong Kong Shipping Register; |
(b) | without prejudice to paragraph (a) will procure that the Mortgages and any other security conferred by it under any Security Document are registered as a first priority interest with the relevant authorities within the period prescribed by the Applicable Laws and is maintained and perfected with the relevant authorities; |
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(c) | will at its own cost, use best efforts to ensure that any Finance Document validly creates the obligations and Security Interests which it purports to create; and |
(d) | without limiting the generality of paragraph (a) above, will at its own cost, promptly register, file, record or enrol any Finance Document with any court or authority, pay any stamp, registration or similar tax payable in respect of any Finance Document, give any notice or take any other step which, in the reasonable opinion of the Facility Agent, is or has become necessary or desirable for any Finance Document to be valid, enforceable or admissible in evidence or to ensure or protect the priority of any Security Interest which it creates. |
16.11 | Transactions with affiliated companies |
The Borrower may not enter into any material transaction with any Affiliate of it unless it is either (a) to comply with any obligations the Borrower may have under the Finance Documents or (b) on an arm’s length basis or on terms reasonably consistent with and having a substantially similar commercial effect to an arm’s length transaction.
16.12 | Registration of the Vessels |
The Borrower shall and procure that the Manager shall:
(a) | procure and maintain with effect from, the Applicable Time, the valid and effective provisional registration of the Secured Vessels under the flag of Hong Kong and shall effect permanent registration of the Vessel within two months from the Applicable Time, or such other flag of equivalent reputation as is satisfactory to the Facility Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders, such approval not to be unreasonably withheld), and shall ensure nothing is done or omitted by which the registration of the Secured Vessels would or might be defeated or imperilled; and |
(b) | not change the name or port of registration of the Secured Vessels without the prior written consent of the Facility Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders) (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld). |
16.13 | Left deliberately blank |
16.14 | Classification and repair |
The Borrower will, and will procure that the Manager will from the Applicable Time:
(a) | ensure that the Secured Vessels are surveyed from time to time as required by the classification society in which the Vessel is for the time being entered and maintain and preserve the Vessel in good working order and repair, ordinary wear and tear excepted, and in any event in such condition as will entitle each to the classification that it has as of the Delivery Date with Lloyds Register of Shipping or Det Norske Veritas, (or to the equivalent classification in another internationally recognised classification society of like standing acceptable to the Facility Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders)), free of all overdue requirements and recommendations of that classification society; |
(b) | procure that all repairs to or replacement of any damaged, worn or lost parts or equipment shall be effected in such manner (both as regards workmanship and quality of materials) as not to diminish the value of the Secured Vessels; |
(c) | not remove any material part of any of the Secured Vessels, or any item of equipment installed on any of the Secured Vessels unless the part or item so removed is forthwith |
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replaced by a suitable part or item which is in the same condition as or better condition than the part or item removed, is free from any Security Interest (other than a Permitted Security Interest) or any right in favour of any person other than the Facility Agent and becomes on installation on that Secured Vessel the property of the Borrower and subject to the security constituted by the relevant Security Document(s) provided that the Borrower may install and remove equipment owned by a third party if the equipment can be removed without any risk of damage to a Secured Vessel; |
(d) | ensure that each Secured Vessel complies with all Applicable Laws from time to time applicable to vessels registered under the laws and flag of Hong Kong or such other flag, under which that Secured Vessel may be registered from time to time in accordance with this Agreement; and |
(e) | not without the prior written consent of the Facility Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders) (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld), cause or permit to be made any substantial change in the structure, type or performance characteristics of any of the Secured Vessels and provide notification of such substantial changes in structure, type or performance characteristics of any of the Secured Vessels to the Facility Agent and, furthermore, provide confirmation to the Facility Agent that such substantial change in structure, type or performance characteristics of any of the Secured Vessels shall not result in a breach of any covenant under this Agreement. |
16.15 | Lawful and Safe Operation |
The Borrower will, and will procure that the Manager will, at all times after the Applicable Time:
(a) | operate each Secured Vessel and cause each of the Secured Vessels to be operated in a manner consistent in all material respects with any and all laws, regulations, treaties and conventions (and all rules and regulations issued thereunder) from time to time applicable to that Vessel; |
(b) | not cause or permit any of the Secured Vessels to trade with, or within the territorial waters of any country in which her safety could reasonably be expected to be imperilled by exposure to piracy, terrorism, arrest, requisition, confiscation, forfeiture, seizure, destruction or condemnation as prize; |
(c) | not cause or permit any of the Secured Vessels to be employed in any manner which will or may give rise to any reasonable degree of likelihood that such Vessel would be liable to requisition, confiscation, forfeiture, seizure, destruction or condemnation as prize; |
(d) | not cause or permit any of the Secured Vessels to be employed in any trade or business which is forbidden by international law or is illicit or in carrying illicit or prohibited goods; |
(e) | in the event of hostilities in any part of the world (whether war be declared or not) not cause or permit any of the Secured Vessels to be employed in carrying any contraband goods and that she does not trade in any zone after it has been declared a war zone by any authority or by any of that Vessel’s war risks Insurers unless that Vessel’s Insurers shall have confirmed to the Borrower that such Vessel is held covered under the Obligatory Insurances for the voyage(s) in question; and |
(f) | not charter any of the Secured Vessels or permit any of the Secured Vessels to serve under any contract of affreightment with any foreign country or national of any foreign country which would be contrary to Applicable Law or would render any Finance Document or the security conferred by the Security Documents unlawful. |
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16.16 | Repair of the Vessels |
The Borrower will not and will procure that the Manager will not, at any time after the Applicable Time, put any of the Secured Vessels into the possession of any person for the purpose of work being done upon her beyond the amount of US$5,000,000 (or equivalent), other than for classification or scheduled dry docking unless such person shall have given an undertaking to the Facility Agent not to exercise any lien on that Vessel or Obligatory Insurances for the cost of that work or otherwise.
16.17 | Arrests and Liabilities |
The Borrower will, and will procure that the Manager will, at all times after the Applicable Time:
(a) | pay and discharge all obligations and liabilities whatsoever which have given or may give rise to liens (other than liens arising in the ordinary course of operation of any of the Secured Vessels in each case for amounts the payment of which is not yet due or, if due and payable, is being disputed in good faith by appropriate proceeding (and for the payment of which adequate reserves have been provided or are and continue to be available)) on or claims enforceable against any of the Secured Vessels and take all reasonable steps to prevent a threatened arrest of any of the Secured Vessels; |
(b) | notify the Facility Agent promptly in writing of the levy of either distress on any of the Secured Vessels or her arrest, detention, seizure, condemnation as prize, compulsory acquisition or requisition for title or use and (save in the case of compulsory acquisition or requisition for title or use) obtain her release within thirty (30) days; |
(c) | pay and discharge when due all dues, taxes, assessments, governmental charges, fines and penalties lawfully imposed on or in respect of any of the Secured Vessels or the Borrower except those which are being disputed in good faith by appropriate proceedings (and for the payment of which adequate reserves have been provided or are and continue to be available) and provided that the continued existence of such dues, taxes, assessments, governmental charges, fines or penalties does not give rise to any reasonable degree of likelihood that any of the Secured Vessels would be liable to arrest, requisition, confiscation, forfeiture, seizure, destruction or condemnation as prize; and |
(d) | pay and discharge all other obligations and liabilities whatsoever in respect of any of the Secured Vessels and the Obligatory Insurances except those which are being disputed in good faith by appropriate proceedings (and for the payment of which adequate reserves have been provided or are and continue to be available) and provided that the continued existence of those obligations and liabilities in respect of any of the Secured Vessels and the Obligatory Insurances does not give rise to any reasonable degree of likelihood that such Vessel would be liable to arrest, requisition, confiscation, forfeiture, seizure, destruction or condemnation as prize and provided always that each Secured Vessel remains properly managed and insured at all times in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. |
16.18 | Related Contracts |
The Borrower shall not take any action, enter into any document or agreement or omit to take any action or to enter into any document or agreement which would, or could reasonably be expected to, cause any Related Contract to cease to remain in full force and effect and shall use all reasonable endeavours to procure that each other party to any Related Contract does not take any action, enter into any document or agreement or omit to take any action or to enter into any document or agreement which would, or could reasonably be expected to, cause any Related Contract to cease to remain in full force and effect.
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16.19 | Environment |
The Borrower shall, and shall procure that the Manager shall, at all times after the Applicable Time:
(a) | comply with all applicable Environmental Laws including, without limitation, requirements relating to the establishment of financial responsibility (and shall require that all Environmental Representatives of the Borrower comply with all applicable Environmental Laws and obtain and comply with all required Environmental Approvals, which Environmental Laws and Environmental Approvals relate to any of the Secured Vessels or her operation or her carriage of cargo); and |
(b) | promptly upon the occurrence of any of the following events in relation to a Secured Vessel, provide to the Facility Agent a certificate of an officer of the Borrower or of the Borrower’s agents specifying in detail the nature of the event concerned: |
(i) | the receipt by the Borrower or any Environmental Representative (where the Borrower has knowledge of the receipt) of any Environmental Claim; or |
(ii) | any Release of Hazardous Materials. |
16.20 | Information regarding the Vessels |
The Borrower shall, and shall procure that the Manager shall, at all times after the Applicable Time:
(a) | promptly notify the Facility Agent of the occurrence of any accident, casualty or other event which has caused or resulted in or may cause or result in a Secured Vessel being or becoming a Total Loss; |
(b) | promptly notify the Facility Agent of any requirement or recommendation made by any Insurer or classification society or by any competent authority which is not complied with in a timely manner; |
(c) | annually provide the Facility Agent with a schedule setting outgoing and all intended dry dockings of any of the Secured Vessels, such schedule to form part of the Annual Compliance Certificate; |
(d) | promptly notify the Facility Agent of any Environmental Claim being made in connection with any of the Secured Vessels or its operation; |
(e) | promptly notify the Facility Agent of any claim for breach of the ISM Code being made in connection with any of the Secured Vessels or its operation; |
(f) | promptly notify the Facility Agent of any claim for breach of the ISPS Code being made in connection with any of the Secured Vessels or its operation; |
(g) | give to the Facility Agent from time to time on request such information, in sufficient copies (which may take the form of electronic copies) for all the Lenders, as the Facility Agent may reasonably require regarding any of the Secured Vessels, her employment, position and engagements; |
(h) | provide the Facility Agent with copies of the classification certificate of the Vessels and of all periodic damage or survey reports on any of the Secured Vessels which the Facility Agent may reasonably request; |
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(i) | promptly furnish the Facility Agent with full information of any casualty or other accident or damage to any of the Secured Vessels involving an amount in excess of US$1,500,000 (or equivalent); |
(j) | give to the Facility Agent and its duly authorised representatives reasonable access to any of the Secured Vessels for the purpose of conducting on board inspections and/or surveys of such Secured Vessel and pay the reasonable expenses incurred by the Facility Agent in connection with the inspections and/or surveys provided that, unless a Default has occurred and is continuing, such inspections and/or surveys shall not take place at the expense of the Borrower and the Facility Agent shall co-operate with the Borrower in respect of the timing for and the place where such surveys take place in order to minimise disruption to the activities of such Secured Vessel; and |
(k) | if the Facility Agent reasonably believes an Event of Default may have occurred, furnish to the Facility Agent from time to time upon reasonable request certified copies of the ship’s log in respect of any of the Secured Vessels. |
16.21 | Provision of further information |
The Borrower shall, and shall procure that the Manager shall, as soon as practicable following receipt of a request by the Facility Agent, provide the Facility Agent, with sufficient copies for all the Lenders, with any additional or further financial or other information relating to any of the Secured Vessels, the Obligatory Insurances or to any other matter relevant to, or to any provision of, a Finance Document which the Facility Agent may reasonably request.
16.22 | Management |
The Borrower shall, and shall procure that the Manager shall, ensure that at all times after the Applicable Time:
(a) | the relevant Secured Vessel is managed by the Manager; and |
(b) | no Manager shall terminate or materially vary the terms of its management or appoint an alternative manager, provided that the Borrower shall be entitled so to do with the prior written consent of the Facility Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders). |
However, in the event that a Manager’s appointment as manager of any one of the Secured Vessels ceases or is terminated in circumstances where it was not possible for the Borrower to obtain the prior written consent of the Facility Agent, the Borrower shall promptly and in any event within ten (10) days from the date of the termination of such Manager’s appointment, provide to the Facility Agent details of a replacement manager, such manager to be satisfactory to the Facility Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders).
16.23 | Proceeds from sale or Total Loss of a Vessel |
(a) | The Borrower shall procure that the proceeds from a sale or Total Loss of the relevant Secured Vessel shall immediately upon receipt by the Borrower be paid into the Retention Account in accordance with Clause 12.2 for application by the Facility Agent in accordance with Clause 12.3, unless an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, in which case the proceeds from a sale or Total Loss of such Vessel shall immediately upon receipt by the Borrower be paid to the Facility Agent for application in accordance with Clause 13.7 (Payments). |
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(b) | For and so long as the Borrower holds any such proceeds as referred to in paragraph (a) it shall do so on trust for the Facility Agent. |
16.24 | Charters |
(a) | The Borrower will not let any of the Secured Vessels on demise, consecutive voyage or voyage charter for any period without the consent of the Facility Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders) such consent not to be unreasonably withheld. |
(b) | The Borrower shall be entitled to let its Initial Vessels, in accordance with the terms of the initial Time Charters PROVIDED always that: |
(i) | the Borrower shall remain liable under any time charter to perform all the obligations assumed by it under the Time Charter; |
(ii) | the Facility Agent shall not be under any obligations or liability under any time charter or liable to make any payment under that time charter; and |
(iii) | the Facility Agent shall not be obliged to enforce against any charterer any term of any time charter, or to make any enquiries as to the nature or sufficiency of any payment received by the Facility Agent. |
(c) | The Borrower shall ensure that from the date of the Loan for the acquisition of an Additional Vessel, such Additional Vessel shall be the subject of a time charter with a minimum term of one (1) year and otherwise in form and substance and with a charterer acceptable to the Facility Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders, which instructions are to be given reasonably) and the Borrower shall at all times ensure that: |
(i) | the Borrower shall remain liable under any time charter to perform all the obligations assumed by it under that time charter; |
(ii) | the Facility Agent shall not be under any obligations or liability under any time charter or liable to make any payment under that time charter; and |
(iii) | the Facility Agent shall not be obliged to enforce against any charterer any term of any time charter, or to make any enquiries as to the nature or sufficiency of any payment received by the Facility Agent. |
16.25 | Termination of Time Charter |
(a) | At all times after the Applicable Time and until the Final Maturity Date, the Borrower shall advise the Facility Agent of any of the following events: |
(i) | any breach (other than a technical breach which is cured promptly) by the relevant Charterer or the Borrower of the terms of a Time Charter of which the Borrower becomes aware; |
(ii) | the termination of a Time Charter by either the Borrower or the relevant Charterer; |
(iii) | as soon as it becomes aware of such event, the occurrence of an event of cross default of the nature referred to in Clause 19.5 (Cross-default) in respect of a Charterer, PROVIDED always that such event shall not arise in respect of the Charterer where the aggregate amount of the relevant Financial Indebtedness of the Charterer is less than US$50,000,000 or its equivalent; or |
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(iv) | as soon as it becomes aware of such event, the occurrence of an insolvency event of the nature referred to in Clause 19.6 (Insolvency), 19.7 (Insolvency proceedings), 19.8 (Creditors’ process) or 19.9 (Cessation of business) in respect of a Charterer, |
and upon the occurrence of any such event the Facility Agent shall be (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders) entitled to require that the Borrower exercises all of its rights under the relevant Time Charter including, where applicable, the termination of the Time Charter in respect of the relevant Vessel.
(b) | In the event of a termination of a Time Charter in accordance with Clause 16.25(a) or otherwise, in relation to which a charter termination fee is payable, such termination fee shall be payable into the Retention Account in accordance with Clause 12.2. |
(c) | In the event of a termination of a Time Charter referred to in Clause 16.25(b) above or otherwise the Borrower shall, within ninety (90) days of such termination, enter into a substitute time charter with a charterer acceptable to the Lenders and with a term of at least the same remaining duration as the Time Charter which has terminated, such time charter to be in form and substance reasonably acceptable to the Facility Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders) and the relevant charter termination fee shall be released to the Borrower in accordance with Clause 12.3(b)(i), failing which either: |
(i) | the charter termination fee shall be applied by the Facility Agent in prepayment of the relevant Loan to the extent required to ensure that the Loan to Value Ratio is no greater than the Borrowing Base Advance Ratio (irrespective of whether such termination or expiration occurs during an Over-Advance Period), and if for any reason the amount of the charter termination fee shall be insufficient to make the prepayment described in this paragraph (i), the Borrower shall, without demand, provide the Facility Agent with an amount equal to the amount of the shortfall; or |
(ii) | the Borrower shall provide or cause to be provided to the Facility Agent such additional security as is satisfactory to the Facility Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders) so as to achieve the Loan to Value Ratio referred to in paragraph (i) above. |
(d) | In the event of a termination or expiration of at least 50.1% of the Time Charters associated with any Charterer where either (i) such Charterer has at least three (3) Secured Vessels on charter or (ii) such Charterer has more than 50.1% of the Secured Vessels on charter at such time, such termination or expiration being in accordance with Clause 16.25(a) or otherwise, the Borrower shall, within ninety (90) days of such termination or expiration, enter into suitable substitute time charters each with a charterer acceptable to the Lenders and with a term of at least the same remaining duration as the Time Charter which has terminated or expired, each such time charter to be in form and substance reasonably acceptable to the Facility Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders), provided that all amounts due and payable by the Borrower under the Facility have been paid and no due and payable amounts remaining outstanding, failing which the Borrower shall either: |
(i) | prepay such amount of the outstanding Loans to the extent required to ensure that the Loan to Value Ratio is not more than the Borrowing Base Advance Ratio (irrespective of whether such termination or expiration occurs during an Over-Advance Period); or |
(ii) | the Borrower shall provide or cause to be provided to the Facility Agent such additional security as is satisfactory to the Facility Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders) so as to achieve the Loan to Value Ratio referred to in paragraph (i) above. |
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16.26 | Scope of Obligatory Insurances |
The Borrower will, in respect of each Secured Vessel:
(a) | at all times after the Applicable Time for a Secured Vessel, keep that Vessel insured in the Required Insurance Amount, in Dollars in the name of the Borrower or (if the Facility Agent so requires) in the joint names of the Borrower and the Facility Agent without the Facility Agent being liable but having the right to pay premiums, through brokers approved by the Facility Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders) against fire and usual marine risks (including hull and machinery and Excess Risks) with approved underwriters or insurance companies approved by the Facility Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders) and by policies in form and content approved by the Facility Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders); |
(b) | at all times after the Applicable Time for a Secured Vessel, keep that Vessel insured in the Required Insurance Amount in the same manner as above against war risks (including risks of mines and all risks, whether or not regarded as war risks, London Blocking and Trapping Addendum and Lost Vessel Clause, excepted by the free of capture and seizure clauses in the standard form of Lloyds marine policy) either: |
(i) | with underwriters or insurance companies approved by the Facility Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders) and by policies in form and content approved by the Facility Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders); or |
(ii) | by entering the relevant Vessel in an approved war risks association, |
and for the avoidance of doubt, such war risks insurance will include protection and indemnity liability up to at least the Required Insurance Amount, excluding any liability in respect of death, injury or damage to crew;
(c) | at all times after the Applicable Time for a Secured Vessel, keep that Vessel entered in respect of her full value and tonnage in an approved protection and indemnity association against all risks as are normally covered by such protection and indemnity association (including pollution risks and the proportion not recoverable in case of collision under the running down clause inserted in the ordinary Lloyds policies), such cover for pollution risks to be for: |
(i) | a minimum amount of US$1,000,000,000 or such other amount of cover against pollution risks as shall at any time be comprised in the basic entry of each Vessel with either a protection and indemnity association which is an acceptable member of either the International Group of protection and indemnity associations (or any successor organisation designated by the Facility Agent for this purpose) or the International Group (or such successor organisation) itself; or |
(ii) | if the International Group or any such successor ceases to exist or ceases to provide or arrange any cover for pollution risks (or any supplemental cover for pollution risks over and above that afforded by the basic entry of each Vessel with its protection and indemnity association), such aggregate amount of cover against pollution risks as shall be available on the open market and by basic entry with a protection and indemnity association for ships of the same type, size, age and flag as each respective Vessel, |
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provided that, if any Vessel has ceased trading or is in lay up and in either case has unloaded all cargo, the level of pollution risks cover afforded by ordinary protection and indemnity cover available through a member of the International Group or such successor organisation or, as the case may be, on the open market in such circumstances shall be sufficient for such purposes; and
(d) | at all times after the Applicable Time for a Secured Vessel, whenever any Vessel is trading to Japanese territorial waters and when so required by the Facility Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders), maintain in full force and effect social responsibility insurance in respect of the Vessel with underwriters or insurance companies approved by the Facility Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders) and by policies in form and content approved by the Facility Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders), provided always that a first class Borrower or operator of vessels such as the Vessels would maintain and effect such social responsibility insurance. |
16.27 | Obligatory Insurances |
Without prejudice to its obligations under Clause 16.26 (Scope of Obligatory Insurances), the Borrower will:
(a) | not without the prior consent of the Facility Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders) alter any Obligatory Insurance nor make, do, consent or agree to any act or omission which would or might render any Obligatory Insurance invalid, void, voidable or unenforceable or render any sum paid out under any Obligatory Insurance repayable in whole or in part; |
(b) | not cause or permit any Secured Vessel to be operated in any way inconsistent with the provisions or warranties of, or implied in, or outside the cover provided by, any Obligatory Insurance or to be engaged in any voyage or to carry any cargo not permitted by any Obligatory Insurances without first covering the relevant Vessel in the relevant Required Insurance Amount and her freights for an amount approved by the Facility Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders) in Dollars or another approved currency with the Insurers; |
(c) | duly and punctually pay when due all premiums, calls, contributions or other sums of money from time to time payable in respect of any Obligatory Insurance; |
(d) | renew all Obligatory Insurances at least fourteen (14) days before the relevant policies or contracts expire and procure that the approved brokers and/or war risks and protection and indemnity clubs and associations shall promptly confirm in writing to the Facility Agent as and when each renewal is effected; |
(e) | forthwith upon the effecting of any Obligatory Insurance, give written notice of the insurance to the Facility Agent stating the full particulars (including the dates and amounts) of the insurance, and on request produce the receipts for each sum paid by it pursuant to paragraph (c) above; |
(f) | not settle, release, compromise or abandon any claim in respect of any Total Loss unless the Facility Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders) is satisfied that such release, settlement, compromise or abandonment will not prejudice the interests of the Finance Parties under or in relation to any Finance Document; |
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(g) | arrange for the execution and delivery of such guarantees as may from time to time be required by any protection and indemnity or war risks club or association; |
(h) | procure that the interest of the Facility Agent is noted on all policies of insurance; |
(i) | procure that a loss payee provision in the form scheduled to the Insurances Assignment and reflecting the provisions of Clause 16.28 (Application of Insurance Proceeds) is endorsed on all policies of insurance relating to the Secured Vessels; |
(j) | obtain from the relevant insurance brokers and P&I Club letters of undertaking in the forms scheduled to the Insurances Assignments; and |
(k) | in the event that the Borrower receives payment of any moneys under the Insurance Assignment, save as provided in the loss payable clauses scheduled to the Insurance Assignment, forthwith pay over the same to the Facility Agent and, until paid over, such moneys shall be held in trust for the Facility Agent by the Borrower. |
16.28 | Application of Insurance Proceeds |
(a) | All sums receivable in respect of the Obligatory Insurances after the occurrence of an Event of Default shall be paid to the Facility Agent and the Facility Agent shall apply them in accordance with Clause 13.7 (Payments). |
(b) | Subject to paragraph (a) above: |
(i) | each sum receivable in respect of a major casualty of a Secured Vessel (being any casualty in respect of which the claim or the aggregate of the claims exceeds US$20,000,000 (or its equivalent)), other than in respect of protection and indemnity risk insurances, shall be paid to the Facility Agent; and |
(ii) | the insurance moneys received by the Facility Agent in respect of any such major casualty shall be paid: |
(A) | to the person to whom the relevant liability shall have been incurred; or |
(B) | upon the Borrower furnishing evidence satisfactory to the Facility Agent that all loss and damage resulting from the casualty has been properly made good and repaired, to the Borrower or, at the option of the Facility Agent, to the person by whom any repairs have been or are to be effected. |
(iii) | The receipt by any such person referred to in paragraph (A) and (B) of paragraph (ii) above shall be a full and sufficient discharge of the same to the Facility Agent. |
(c) | Subject to paragraph (a) above, each sum receivable in respect of the Obligatory Insurances (insofar as the same are hull and machinery or war risks insurances) which does not exceed US$20,000,000 or its equivalent shall be paid in full to the Borrower or to its order and shall be applied by it for the purpose of making good the loss and fully repairing all damage in respect of which the receivable shall have been collected. |
(d) | Subject to paragraph (a) above, each sum receivable in respect of protection and indemnity risk Obligatory Insurances shall be paid direct to the person to whom the liability, to which that sum relates, was incurred, or to the Borrower in reimbursement to it of moneys expended in satisfaction of such liability. |
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(e) | Notwithstanding any other provision in this Clause 16.28, all sums receivable in respect of Obligatory Insurances relating to a Total Loss shall be applied in accordance with Clause 13.7 (Payments). |
16.29 | Power of Facility Agent to Insure |
If the Borrower fails to effect and keep in force Obligatory Insurances in accordance with this Agreement, it shall be permissible, but not obligatory, for the Facility Agent to effect and keep in force insurance or insurances in the amounts required under this Agreement and entries in a protection and indemnity association or club and, if it deems necessary or expedient, to insure the war risks upon any Secured Vessel, and the Borrower will reimburse the Facility Agent for the costs of so doing.
16.30 | ISM Code |
The Borrower shall, and shall procure that the Manager shall:
(a) | at all times after the Applicable Time be responsible for compliance by itself and by each Secured Vessel with the ISM Code; |
(b) | at all times after the Applicable Time ensure that: |
(i) | each Secured Vessel has a valid Safety Management Certificate (as defined in the ISM Code); |
(ii) | each Secured Vessel is subject to a safety management system (as defined in the ISM Code) which complies with the ISM Code; and |
(iii) | there is a valid Document of Compliance (as defined in the ISM Code), which is held on board the Secured Vessel, |
and shall deliver to the Facility Agent, on or before the Applicable Time, a copy of a valid Safety Management Certificate and a valid Document of Compliance in respect of the relevant Vessel, in each case duly certified by an officer of the Borrower;
(c) | promptly notify the Facility Agent of any actual or, upon becoming aware of the same, threatened withdrawal of an applicable Safety Management Certificate or Document of Compliance; |
(d) | promptly notify the Facility Agent of the identity of the person ashore designated for the purposes of paragraph 4 of the ISM Code and of any change in the identity of that person; and |
(e) | promptly upon becoming aware of the same notify the Facility Agent of the occurrence of any accident or major non-conformity (as defined in the ISM Code) requiring action under the ISM Code. |
16.31 | ISPS Code |
The | Borrower shall, and shall procure that the Manager shall, at all times after the Applicable Time: |
(a) | comply and be responsible for compliance by itself and by each Secured Vessel with the ISPS Code; |
(b) | ensure that: |
(i) | each Secured Vessel has a valid International Ship Security Certificate; |
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(ii) | each Secured Vessel’s security system and its associated security equipment comply with section 19.1 of Part A of the ISPS Code; |
(iii) | each Secured Vessel’s security system and its associated security equipment comply in all respects with the applicable requirements of Chapter XI-2 of SOLAS and Part A of the ISPS Code; and |
(iv) | an approved ship security plan is in place. |
16.32 | No amendment to Related Contracts |
The Borrower shall not amend or agree to any material amendment to the Related Contracts without the prior written consent of the Facility Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders).
16.33 | Hedging Strategy |
From the date of this Agreement until the Final Maturity Date, the Borrower shall maintain and implement the Hedging Policy.
16.34 | Dry Docking |
The Borrower shall procure that the Manager shall:
(a) | from time to time have sufficient liquid funds available to ensure that, on the date of the scheduled dry docking of a Secured Vessel, the Manager shall have sufficient available liquid funds to meet all of its obligations under the Management Agreement including, but not limited to, the cost of such scheduled dry docking in relation to that Vessel; and |
(b) | provide to the Facility Agent a certificate signed by the chief executive officer of the Manager in the form of Schedule 9 on a semi-annual basis (the first such certificate to be provided six (6) months from the date of this Agreement). |
16.35 | Tonnage |
The Borrower shall procure that, at all times prior to the Final Maturity Date, the tonnage weighted average age of the Secured Vessels (calculated in a manner satisfactory to the Facility Agent), shall not at any time exceed twelve years.
16.36 | SAFE approval |
In the event that CSCL obtains SAFE approval in relation to any guarantee of a time charter or bareboat charter provided by CSCL, the Borrower shall procure that CSCL obtains SAFE approval and any necessary SAFE registrations in relation to each Charter Guarantee provided by CSCL.
17. | FINANCIAL COVENANTS |
17.1 | Definitions |
In this Clause:
Cash and Cash Equivalents means, as at any date of determination:
(a) | cash in hand or on deposit in the Retention Account; |
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(b) | any investment in marketable obligations issued or guaranteed by the government of the United States of America, Canada or the United Kingdom or by an instrumentality or agency of the government of the United States of America, Canada or the United Kingdom, maturing within one (1) year after the relevant date of calculation; |
(c) | time deposits and certificates of deposit of any commercial bank having, or which is the principal banking subsidiary of a bank holding company having, a credit rating of either A by S&P or Fitch or A2 by Xxxxx’x which time deposits and certificates of deposit mature within one (1) year after the relevant date of calculation; |
(d) | repurchase obligations with a term of not more than ninety (90) days for underlying securities of the type referred to in subclause (b) above entered into with any bank meeting the qualifications specified in subclause (c) above; |
(e) | open market commercial paper: |
(i) | for which a recognised trading market exists; |
(ii) | issued in the United States of America, Canada or the United Kingdom; |
(iii) | which matures within one (1) year after the relevant date of calculation; and |
(iv) | which has a credit rating of either A-1 by S&P or Fitch or P-1 by Xxxxx’x, or, if no rating is available in respect of the commercial paper, the issuer of which has, in respect of its long-term debt obligations, an equivalent rating; |
(f) | any other instrument, security or investment approved by the Majority Lenders, |
in each case, to which the Borrower is beneficially entitled at that time, which is unencumbered (other than by any of the Security Documents) and which is capable of being applied against Total Borrowings.
EBITDA means the net income of the Borrower for a Measurement Period as adjusted by:
(a) | adding back taxation; |
(b) | adding back Interest Expenses; |
(c) | taking no account of any extraordinary item; |
(d) | excluding any amount attributable to minority interests; |
(e) | adding back depreciation and amortisation; and |
(f) | taking no account of any revaluation of an asset or any loss or gain over book value arising on the disposal of an asset (otherwise than in the ordinary course of trading) by the Borrower during that Measurement Period. |
Interest and Principal Coverage Ratio means, as at any date of determination and with respect to any period, the ratio of EBITDA for such period to Interest and Principal Expense for such period.
Interest and Principal Expense means all Interest Expense incurred and all payments of principal made by the Borrower during a Measurement Period.
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Interest Expense means all cash interest and cash commitment fees incurred by the Borrower during a Measurement Period.
Marketable Securities means any bonds, stocks, notes or bills payable in a freely convertible and transferable currency and which are listed on a stock exchange acceptable to the Facility Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders).
Net Interest Coverage Ratio means, as at any date of determination and with respect to any period, the ratio of EBITDA for such period to Net Interest Expense for such period.
Net Interest Expense means Interest Expense less all interest and other financing charges received by the Borrower during a Measurement Period.
Tangible Net Worth means at any time the amount paid up or credited as paid up on the issued share capital of the Borrower based on the latest published audited balance sheet of the Borrower (the latest balance sheet) but adjusted by:
(a) | adding any amount standing to the credit of the profit and loss account of the Borrower for the period ending on the date of the latest balance sheet; |
(b) | deducting any dividend or other distribution declared, recommended or made by the Borrower; |
(c) | deducting any amount standing to the debit of the profit and loss account of the Borrower for the period ending on the date of the latest balance sheet; |
(d) | deducting any amount attributable to goodwill (other than goodwill attributable to the Vessels) or any other intangible asset; |
(e) | deducting any amount attributable to an upward revaluation of assets after the date of this Agreement; |
(f) | adding the amount referred to in Schedule 10 for the date of the latest balance sheet (as the same may be adjusted from time to time to reflect the sale of any of the CSCL Vessels which are Initial Vessels (other than CSCL Melbourne, CSCL Brisbane, CSCL Zeebrugge and CSCL Long Beach) following the date of this Agreement); |
(g) | reflecting any variation in the amount of the issued share capital of the Borrower and the capital and revenue reserves of the Borrower after the date of the latest balance sheet; |
(h) | reflecting any variation in the interest of the Borrower since the date of the latest balance sheet; |
(i) | excluding any amount attributable to deferred taxation; and |
(j) | excluding any amount attributable to minority interests. |
Total Assets means, at any date, the aggregate of:
(a) | the then current book values of all vessels owned or leased with a purchase option by the Borrower, but adding back, in relation to the Vessels referred to in Schedule 10, the amount referred to in paragraph (f) of the definition of Tangible Net Worth; |
(b) | the then current aggregate amount of cash, Marketable Securities (but no other bonds, notes or bills and less any cash or Marketable Securities accounted for in the definition of Total Borrowings below) and receivables due to the Borrower (less provision for bad and doubtful debts) as shown in the latest financial statements; and |
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(c) | the book values of all other (non-shipping) assets as shown in such latest financial statements. |
Total Borrowings means, in respect of the Borrower, at any time the aggregate of the following:
(a) | the outstanding principal amount of any moneys borrowed; |
(b) | the outstanding principal amount of any acceptance under any acceptance credit; |
(c) | the outstanding principal amount of any bond, note, debenture, loan stock or other similar instrument; |
(d) | the capitalised element of indebtedness under a finance or capital lease; |
(e) | the outstanding principal amount of all moneys owing in connection with the sale or discounting of receivables (otherwise than on a non-recourse basis); |
(f) | the outstanding principal amount of any indebtedness arising from any deferred payment agreements arranged primarily as a method of raising finance or financing the acquisition of an asset; |
(g) | any fixed or minimum premium payable on the repayment or redemption of any instrument referred to in paragraph (c) above; |
(h) | the outstanding principal amount of any indebtedness arising in connection with any other transaction (including any forward sale or purchase agreement) which has the commercial effect of a borrowing; and |
(i) | the outstanding principal amount of any indebtedness of any person of a type referred to in the above paragraphs which is the subject of a guarantee, indemnity or similar assurance against financial loss given by the Borrower. |
17.2 | Interpretation |
(a) | Except as provided to the contrary in this Agreement, an accounting term used in this Clause is to be construed in accordance with U.S. GAAP. |
(b) | Any amount in a currency other than Dollars is to be taken into account at its Dollar equivalent calculated on the basis of: |
(i) | the Facility Agent’s spot rate of exchange for the purchase of the relevant currency in the London foreign exchange market with Dollars at or about 11.00 a.m. on the day the relevant amount falls to be calculated; or |
(ii) | if the amount is to be calculated on the last day of a financial period of the Borrower, the relevant rates of exchange used by the Borrower in, or in connection with, its financial statements for that period. |
(c) | No item must be credited or deducted more than once in any calculation under this Clause. |
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17.3 | Tangible Net Worth |
The Borrower must ensure that Tangible Net Worth always exceeds four hundred and fifty million Dollars (US$450,000,000).
17.4 | Gearing |
The Borrower must ensure that Total Borrowings are always less than 65% of Total Assets at that time.
17.5 | Minimum Liquidity |
If, at any time, more than 50% of the Vessels (assessed by value) are subject to time charters which have a remaining term of one year or less (excluding any optional extensions not then exercised), the Borrower must ensure that the Cash and Cash Equivalents held by the Borrower at such date of determination are not less than twenty five million Dollars (US$25,000,000).
17.6 | Net Interest Coverage Ratio |
The Borrower must ensure that the Net Interest Coverage Ratio is always greater than 2.50 to 1.
17.7 | Interest and Principal Coverage Ratio |
The Borrower must ensure that the Interest and Principal Coverage Ratio is always greater than or equal to 1.1 to 1.
17.8 | Testing of Financial Covenants |
(a) | Each of the financial covenants set out in Clauses 17.3 to 17.7 (inclusive) shall be tested by reference to each rolling twelve (12) month Measurement Period, provided always that the Interest and Principal Coverage Ratio referred to in Clause 17.7 shall be tested on the basis of the financial statements of the Borrower for the last fiscal quarter of the Borrower in the event of the occurrence of the circumstances set out in Clause 16.25(d) (Termination of Time Charter). |
(b) | The Borrower shall provide a Compliance Certificate each quarter in respect of the financial covenants. |
18. | VALUATION |
18.1 | Valuation |
For the purposes of this Clause 18:
(a) | the Initial Market Value of any Secured Vessel and each subsequent valuation of a Secured Vessel shall be the mean average of two valuations each certified in Dollars and carried out by two of the Approved Valuers, reporting to the Facility Agent by way of written reports in form and substance satisfactory to the Facility Agent (acting reasonably) on the basis of a sale for prompt delivery of the Secured Vessel for cash (free of Security Interests), on a without charter basis and at arm’s-length on normal commercial terms as between willing seller and buyer; and |
(b) | there shall be deducted from any value or valuation produced in accordance with this Clause 18.1 the amount which is owing or might become owing and which is secured on the asset concerned by any prior or equal ranking Security Interest (other than in favour of the Facility Agent to secure the Secured Liabilities). |
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18.2 | Delivery of Valuations |
(a) | Prior to the Amendment Date, the Borrower will procure a valuation (being the Initial Market Value) in relation to each Secured Vessel, on the basis described in Clause 18.1. |
(b) | In respect of any Additional Vessel, the Borrower will procure a valuation (being the Initial Market Value) within a period of thirty (30) days prior to that Vessel becoming a Secured Vessel. |
(c) | In respect of the Secured Vessels, the Borrower will procure a valuation on the basis described in Clause 18.1 within each consecutive six (6) month period (the first such period commencing on the Amendment Date) at the time required by the Facility Agent. Such valuations shall be prepared in accordance with Clause 18.1 and used as the basis for determining the Borrowing Base Advance Ratio and, during an Over-Advance Period, the Revised Advance Ratio. |
(d) | The Borrower will procure in favour of the Facility Agent and the Approved Valuers, all such information, facilities and rights of inspection as they may reasonably (having regard to the use and operation of the Secured Vessel) require in order to effect such valuations. |
(e) | All valuations shall be at the expense of the Borrower. |
(f) | If an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Borrower shall be liable to pay for such valuations of any Secured Vessel from such of the Approved Valuers under Clause 18.2(a) as the Facility Agent shall require. |
(g) | Any valuation under this Clause 18 shall be binding and conclusive (save for manifest error). |
19. | DEFAULT |
19.1 | Events of Default |
Each of the events set out in this Clause 19 is an Event of Default.
19.2 | Non-payment |
The Borrower does not pay on the due date any amount payable by it under the Finance Documents in the manner required under the Finance Documents, unless the non-payment:
(a) | is caused by technical or administrative error; and |
(b) | is remedied within three (3) Business Days of the due date. |
19.3 | Breach of other obligations |
(a) | The Borrower does not comply with any term of Clause 16 (General Covenants) or Clause 17 (Financial Covenants), unless the non compliance: |
(i) | is capable of remedy; and |
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(ii) | is remedied within thirty (30) days of the earlier of the Facility Agent giving notice to the Borrower and discovery (and for the purposes of this paragraph discovery means actual awareness). |
The Borrower acknowledges that for the purposes of paragraph (i) above, non-compliance with the following shall not be capable of remedy:
(A) | Clause 16.10(a) and 16.10(b) (Security), but in respect of subparagraph (b) only insofar as it relates to the Mortgage, the Time Charter, Charter Guarantee and Earnings Assignment and the Insurances Assignment; |
(B) | Clause 16.12(a) (Registration of the Vessels); |
(C) | the Obligatory Insurances being in full force and effect; and |
(D) | Clause 17 (Financial Covenants), |
provided always that, in the case of (A) and (B) above, if the non-compliance is caused by technical or administrative error only, is corrected within three (3) Business Days of the earlier of the Facility Agent giving notice to the Borrower and discovery (discovery having the same meaning as in Clause 19.3(a)(ii)), and, in the case of (C) above, if the non-compliance is caused by technical or administrative error only, is corrected within one (1) Business Day and in each case the Facility Agent (acting on the good faith and reasonable instructions of the Majority Lenders) is satisfied that the Finance Parties have neither suffered nor will, in the future, suffer any material detriment (whether financial, to their security position or otherwise howsoever) as a result of the non-compliance.
(b) | Any Party (other than a Finance Party or the Account Bank) does not comply with any other term of the Finance Documents not already referred to in this Clause which the Facility Agent (acting on the good faith and reasonable instructions of the Majority Lenders) considers to be material, unless the non-compliance: |
(i) | is capable of remedy; and |
(ii) | is remedied within fourteen (14) days of the earlier of the Facility Agent giving notice and discovery by the relevant Party (discovery having the same meaning as in Clause 19.3(a)(ii)) of the non-compliance. |
19.4 | Misrepresentation |
A representation made or repeated by the Borrower (or by any other Party other than a Finance Party or the Account Bank) in any Finance Document or in any document delivered by or on behalf of the Borrower under any Finance Document is incorrect in any respect which the Facility Agent (acting on the good faith and reasonable instructions of the Majority Lenders) considers to be material when made or deemed to be repeated, unless the circumstances giving rise to the misrepresentation:
(a) | are capable of remedy; and |
(b) | are remedied within thirty (30) days of the earlier of the Facility Agent giving notice and the relevant Party becoming aware of the misrepresentation. |
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19.5 | Cross-default |
Any of the following occurs in respect of the Borrower:
(a) | any of its Financial Indebtedness is not paid when due (after the expiry of any originally applicable grace period); |
(b) | any of its Financial Indebtedness: |
(i) | becomes prematurely due and payable; or |
(ii) | is placed on demand; or |
(iii) | is capable of being declared by a creditor to be prematurely due and payable or being placed on demand, |
in each case, as a result of an event of default (howsoever described) and after the expiry of any applicable grace period; or
(c) | any commitment for its Financial Indebtedness is cancelled or suspended as a result of an event of default (howsoever described), |
unless the aggregate amount of Financial Indebtedness falling within paragraphs (a) to (c) above is less than US$25,000,000 or its equivalent.
19.6 | Insolvency |
Any of the following occurs in respect of the Borrower:
(a) | it is, or is deemed for the purposes of any Applicable Law to be, unable to pay its debts as they fall due or insolvent; |
(b) | it admits its inability to pay its debts as they fall due; |
(c) | it suspends making payments on any of its debts or announces an intention to do so; |
(d) | by reason of actual or anticipated financial difficulties, it begins negotiations with any creditor for the rescheduling of any of its indebtedness; or |
(e) | a moratorium is declared in respect of any of its indebtedness. |
If a moratorium occurs in respect of the Borrower, the ending of the moratorium will not remedy any Event of Default caused by the moratorium.
19.7 | Insolvency proceedings |
(a) | Except as provided in paragraph (b) below, any of the following occurs in respect of the Borrower: |
(i) | any step is taken with a view to a moratorium, a composition, assignment or similar arrangement with any of its creditors; |
(ii) | a meeting of its shareholders, directors or other officers is convened for the purpose of considering any resolution to petition for or to file documents with a court for its winding-up, administration or dissolution or any such resolution is passed; |
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(iii) | any person presents a petition, or files documents with a court for its winding-up, administration or dissolution; |
(iv) | an order for its winding-up, administration or dissolution is made; |
(v) | any liquidator, trustee in bankruptcy, judicial custodian, compulsory manager, receiver, administrative receiver, administrator or similar officer is appointed in respect of it or any of its assets; |
(vi) | its directors, shareholders or other officers request the appointment of, or give notice of their intention to appoint a liquidator, trustee in bankruptcy, judicial custodian, compulsory manager, receiver, administrative receiver, administrator or similar officer; or |
(vii) | any other analogous step or procedure is taken in any jurisdiction. |
(b) | Paragraph (a) above does not apply to a frivolous or vexatious petition for winding-up presented by a creditor which is being contested in good faith and with due diligence and is discharged or struck out within fourteen (14) days. |
19.8 | Creditors’ process |
Any attachment, sequestration, distress, execution or analogous event affects any asset(s) of the Borrower, having an aggregate value of twenty five million Dollars (US$25,000,000) or its equivalent and is not discharged within thirty (30) days.
19.9 | Cessation of business |
The Borrower ceases, or threatens to cease, to carry on business except as a result of any disposal not prohibited under this Agreement.
19.10 | Failure to pay final judgment |
The Borrower fails to comply with or pay any sum due from it under any final judgment or any final order made or given by any court of competent jurisdiction.
19.11 | Effectiveness of Finance Documents |
(a) | It is or becomes unlawful for the Borrower or any other Party (other than a Finance Party or the Account Bank) to perform any of its material obligations under the Finance Documents. |
(b) | Any material provision of a Finance Document is not effective or is alleged by the Borrower to be ineffective for any reason. |
(c) | Any material provision of a Finance Document is not effective or is alleged by any Party (other than a Finance Party, the Borrower or the Account Bank) to be ineffective for any reason. |
(d) | The Borrower repudiates any material provision of a Finance Document or evidences an intention to repudiate any material provision of a Finance Document. |
(e) | Any Party (other than a Finance Party or the Account Bank) repudiates any material provision of a Finance Document or evidences an intention to repudiate any material provision of a Finance Document. |
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19.12 | Invalidity of Security Documents |
Any of the Security Documents ceases to be valid in any material respect or any of those Security Documents creating a Security Interest in favour of the Facility Agent ceases to provide a perfected first priority security interest in favour of the Facility Agent.
19.13 | Acceleration |
If an Event of Default is outstanding, the Facility Agent, if the Majority Lenders so instruct it, shall by notice to the Borrower:
(a) | cancel the undrawn, uncancelled amount of the Maximum Facility Amount; and/or |
(b) | declare that all or part of any amounts outstanding under the Finance Documents are: |
(i) | immediately due and payable; and/or |
(ii) | payable on demand by the Facility Agent. |
Any notice given under this Subclause will take effect in accordance with its terms.
20. | SECURITY |
20.1 | Facility Agent as trustee |
Unless expressly provided to the contrary herein or in any Finance Document and except as otherwise required by Applicable Law, the Facility Agent holds any security created by a Security Document on trust for the Finance Parties.
20.2 | Responsibility |
The Facility Agent is not liable or responsible to any other Finance Party for:
(a) | any failure in perfecting or protecting the security created by any Security Document; or |
(b) | any other action taken or not taken by it in connection with any Security Document, |
unless directly caused by its gross negligence or wilful misconduct.
20.3 | Title |
The Facility Agent may accept, without enquiry, the title (if any) the Borrower may have to any asset over which security is intended to be created by any Security Document.
20.4 | Possession of documents |
The Facility Agent is not obliged to hold in its own possession any Security Document, title deed or other document in connection with any asset over which security is intended to be created by a Security Document.
20.5 | Investments |
Except as otherwise provided in any Security Document, all moneys received by the Facility Agent under a Security Document will, until utilised, be invested in the name of, or under the control of, the Facility Agent in any investments selected by the Facility Agent (acting on the instructions of the
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Majority Lenders). Additionally, those moneys may be placed on deposit in the name of, or under the control of, the Facility Agent at any bank or institution (including itself) and upon such terms as it may think fit. Any interest or profit earned by the Facility Agent in connection with such investments shall be that of the Borrower and added to the Security Assets.
20.6 | Approval |
Each Finance Party confirms its approval of each Security Document.
20.7 | Release of security |
(a) | If a disposal of any Security Asset is made to a third party in the following circumstances: |
(i) | the Majority Lenders agree to the disposal; |
(ii) | the disposal is allowed by the terms of the Finance Documents and will not result or could not reasonably be expected to result in any breach of any term of any Finance Document; |
(iii) | the disposal is being made at the request of the Facility Agent in circumstances where any security created by the Security Documents has become enforceable; or |
(iv) | the disposal is being effected by enforcement of a Security Document, |
or if a prepayment is made pursuant to Clauses 6.4, 6.5 or 6.7 and, in any such case, the Facility Agent is satisfied that the Loan to Value Ratio would not exceed the Borrowing Base Advance Ratio following any such disposal and/or prepayment (and release), then the asset being disposed of or to which the prepayment relates will be released from any security over it created by a Security Document. However, the proceeds of any disposal or prepayment (or an amount corresponding to them) must be applied in accordance with the requirements of the Finance Documents (if any).
(b) | Following the Final Maturity Date and provided that all the Loans have been irrevocably and unconditionally repaid in full to the satisfaction of the Finance Parties, the Security Documents shall be released. |
(c) | If the Facility Agent is satisfied that a release is allowed under this Subclause, the Facility Agent must execute (at the request and expense of the Borrower) any document which is reasonably required to achieve that release. Each other Finance Party irrevocably authorises the Facility Agent to execute any such document. |
20.8 | Co-security Agent |
(a) | The Facility Agent may appoint a separate security agent or a co-security agent in any jurisdiction outside the United States of America: |
(i) | if the Facility Agent considers that without the appointment the interests of the Lenders under the Finance Documents might be materially and adversely affected; |
(ii) | for the purpose of complying with any law, regulation or other condition in any jurisdiction; or |
(iii) | for the purpose of obtaining or enforcing a judgment or enforcing any Finance Document in any jurisdiction. |
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(b) | Any appointment under this Subclause will only be effective if the security agent or co security agent confirms to the Facility Agent and the Borrower in form and substance satisfactory to the Facility Agent that it is bound by the terms of this Agreement as if it were the Facility Agent. |
(c) | The Facility Agent may remove any security agent or co-security agent appointed by it and may appoint a new security agent or co-security agent in its place. |
(d) | The Borrower must pay to the Facility Agent any reasonable remuneration paid by the Facility Agent to any security agent or co-security agent appointed by it, together with any related costs and expenses properly incurred by the security agent or co-security agent. |
20.9 | Parallel Debt |
(a) | The Borrower hereby irrevocably and unconditionally undertakes to pay to the Facility Agent amounts equal to any amounts owing by the Borrower (whether owed as borrower of a facility or as joint and several obligor) to the relevant Finance Parties under the Finance Documents as and when the same fall due for payment thereunder, so that the Facility Agent shall be the obligee of such covenant to pay and shall be entitled to claim performance thereof in its own name and not as agent acting on behalf of the relevant Finance Parties. The Borrower and the Facility Agent acknowledge that for this purpose such obligations of the Borrower are several and are separate and independent from, and without prejudice to, the identical obligations which the Borrower has to the Finance Parties under the relevant Finance Documents, provided that this shall not, at the same time, result in the Borrower incurring an aggregate obligation to any such Finance Parties under the Finance Documents. To this end and without prejudice to the foregoing, it is agreed that (a) the amounts due and payable by the Borrower under this Clause 20.9 (the Parallel Debt) shall be decreased to the extent that the Borrower paid any amounts to the Finance Parties or any of them in respect of the Secured Liabilities and vice versa and (b) the Parallel Debt shall not exceed the aggregate of the corresponding obligations which the Borrower has to the Finance Parties under the Finance Documents. |
(b) | Nothing in this Clause shall in any way negate, affect or increase the obligations of the Borrower to any Finance Parties under the Finance Documents in respect of the Secured Liabilities. For the purpose of this Clause, the Facility Agent acts in its own name and on behalf of itself and not as agent or representative of any other party hereto and any security granted to the Facility Agent to secure the Parallel Debt is granted to the Facility Agent in its capacity as creditor of the Parallel Debt and solely for the purpose referred to above. |
20.10 | Dutch Security |
(a) | The Facility Agent shall obtain any Security Interest provided under or pursuant to a Security Document governed by Dutch law (the Dutch Security) in its own name. |
(b) | The Facility Agent shall have full and unrestricted entitlement to and authority in respect of the Dutch Security, provided that it shall be under an obligation to exercise such rights (and perform such obligations) in accordance with the contractual undertakings set out in any Finance Document. |
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21. | THE ADMINISTRATIVE PARTIES |
21.1 | Appointment and duties of the Facility Agent |
(a) | Save as provided in Clause 20.10 (Dutch Security), each Finance Party (other than the Facility Agent) irrevocably appoints the Facility Agent to act as its agent under the Finance Documents. |
(b) | Each Finance Party irrevocably authorises the Facility Agent on its behalf to: |
(i) | perform the duties and to exercise the rights, powers and discretions that are specifically given to it under the Finance Documents, together with any other incidental rights, powers and discretions; and |
(ii) | execute each Finance Document expressed to be executed by the Facility Agent on that Party’s behalf. |
(c) | The Facility Agent has only those duties which are expressly specified in the Finance Documents. Those duties are solely of a mechanical and administrative nature. |
21.2 | Role of the Arrangers |
Except as specifically provided in the Finance Documents, the Arrangers in their capacity as Arrangers have no obligations of any kind to any other Party in connection with any Finance Document.
21.3 | No fiduciary duties |
Except as specifically provided in a Finance Document, nothing in the Finance Documents makes an Administrative Party a trustee or fiduciary for any other Party or any other person. No Administrative Party needs to hold in trust any moneys paid to it for a Party or be liable to account for interest on those moneys.
21.4 | Individual position of an Administrative Party |
(a) | If it is also a Lender, each Administrative Party has the same rights and powers under the Finance Documents as any other Lender and may exercise those rights and powers as though it were not an Administrative Party. |
(b) | Each Administrative Party may: |
(i) | carry on any business with the Borrower or its related entities (including acting as an agent or a trustee for any other financing); and |
(ii) | retain any profits or remuneration it receives under the Finance Documents or in relation to any other business it carries on with the Borrower or its related entities. |
21.5 | Reliance |
The Facility Agent may:
(a) | rely on any notice or document believed by it to be genuine and correct and to have been signed by, or with the authority of, the proper person; |
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(b) | rely on any statement made by any person regarding any matters which may reasonably be assumed to be within his knowledge or within his power to verify; |
(c) | engage, pay for and rely on professional advisors selected by it; and |
(d) | act under the Finance Documents through its personnel and agents. |
21.6 | Majority Lenders’ instructions |
(a) | The Facility Agent is fully protected if it acts on the instructions of the Majority Lenders in the exercise of any right, power or discretion or any matter not expressly provided for in the Finance Documents. Any such instructions given by the Majority Lenders will be binding on all the Lenders. In the absence of instructions, then unless the Finance Documents expressly provide that the Facility Agent acts on the instructions of the Majority Lenders in exercising the relevant right, power or discretion, the Facility Agent may act as it considers to be in the best interests of all the Lenders. |
(b) | Each Lender acknowledges and confirms that it shall act in a reasonable manner when reaching any decision as to the exercise or non-exercise of any right, power or discretion by the Facility Agent. |
(c) | The Facility Agent may assume that unless it has received notice to the contrary, any right, power, authority or discretion vested in any Party or the Majority Lenders has not been exercised. |
(d) | The Facility Agent is not authorised to act on behalf of a Lender (without first obtaining that Lender’s consent) in any legal or arbitration proceedings in connection with any Finance Document. |
(e) | The Facility Agent may require the receipt of security satisfactory to it, whether by way of payment in advance or otherwise, against any liability or loss which it may incur in complying with the instructions of the Majority Lenders. |
21.7 | Responsibility |
(a) | No Administrative Party is responsible to any other Finance Party for the adequacy, accuracy or completeness of: |
(i) | any Finance Document or any other document; or |
(ii) | any statement or information (whether written or oral) made in or supplied in connection with any Finance Document. |
(b) | Without affecting the responsibility of the Borrower for information supplied by it or on its behalf in connection with any Finance Document, each Lender confirms that it: |
(i) | has made, and will continue to make, its own independent appraisal of all risks arising under or in connection with the Finance Documents (including the financial condition and affairs of the Borrower and its related entities and the nature and extent of any recourse against any Party or its assets); and |
(ii) | has not relied exclusively on any information provided to it by any Administrative Party in connection with any Finance Document. |
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21.8 | Exclusion of liability |
(a) | The Facility Agent is not liable or responsible to any other Finance Party for any action taken or not taken by it in connection with any Finance Document, unless directly caused by its gross negligence or wilful misconduct. |
(b) | No Party (other than the Facility Agent) may take any proceedings against any officer, employee or agent of the Facility Agent in respect of any claim it might have against the Facility Agent or in respect of any act or omission of any kind by that officer, employee or agent in connection with any Finance Document. Any officer, employee or agent of the Facility Agent may rely on this Subclause and enforce its terms under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Xxx 0000. |
21.9 | Default |
(a) | The Facility Agent is not obliged to monitor or enquire whether a Default has occurred. The Facility Agent is not deemed to have knowledge of the occurrence of a Default. |
(b) | If the Facility Agent: |
(i) | receives notice from a Party referring to this Agreement, describing a Default and stating that the event is a Default; or |
(ii) | is aware of the non-payment of any principal or interest or any fee payable to a Lender under this Agreement, it must promptly notify the Lenders. |
21.10 | Information |
(a) | The Facility Agent must promptly forward to the person concerned the original or a copy of any document which is delivered to the Facility Agent by a Party for that person. |
(b) | Except where a Finance Document specifically provides otherwise, the Facility Agent is not obliged to review or check the adequacy, accuracy or completeness of any document it forwards to another Party. |
(c) | Except as provided above, the Facility Agent has no duty: |
(i) | either initially or on a continuing basis to provide any Lender with any credit or other information concerning the risks arising under or in connection with the Finance Documents (including any information relating to the financial condition or affairs of the Borrower or its related entities or the nature or extent of recourse against any Party or its assets) whether coming into its possession before, on or after the date of this Agreement; or |
(ii) | unless specifically requested to do so by a Lender in accordance with a Finance Document, to request any certificate or other document from the Borrower. |
(d) | In acting as the Facility Agent, the agency division of the Facility Agent is treated as a separate entity from its other divisions and departments. Any information acquired by the Facility Agent which, in its opinion, is acquired by it otherwise than in its capacity as the Facility Agent may be treated as confidential by the Facility Agent and will not be treated as information possessed by the Facility Agent in its capacity as such. |
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(e) | The Borrower irrevocably authorises the Facility Agent to disclose to the other Finance Parties any information which, is received by it in its capacity as the Facility Agent. |
21.11 | Indemnities |
(a) | Without limiting the liability of the Borrower under the Finance Documents, each Lender must indemnify the Facility Agent for that Lender’s Pro Rata Share of any loss or liability incurred by the Facility Agent in acting as the Facility Agent, except to the extent that the loss or liability is caused by the Facility Agent’s gross negligence or wilful misconduct. |
(b) | The Facility Agent may deduct from any amount received by it for a Lender any amount due to the Facility Agent from that Lender under a Finance Document but unpaid. |
21.12 | Compliance |
Each Administrative Party may refrain from doing anything (including disclosing any information) which might, based on the reasonable opinion of its legal counsel, constitute a breach of any law or regulation or be otherwise actionable at the suit of any person, and may do anything which, in its opinion, is necessary or desirable to comply with any law or regulation.
21.13 | Resignation of the Facility Agent |
(a) | The Facility Agent may resign by giving written notice to the Lenders and the Borrower, in which case the Majority Lenders shall appoint a successor facility agent of which the Borrower approves, such approval not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed. |
(b) | If no successor Facility Agent has been appointed under paragraph (a) above within thirty (30) days after notice of resignation was given, the Facility Agent may appoint a successor Facility Agent. |
(c) | The resignation of the Facility Agent and the appointment of any successor facility agent will both become effective only when the successor facility agent (i) notifies all the Parties that it accepts its appointment and (ii) confirms that it is satisfied that the rights under the Security Documents have been assigned or transferred to it. On giving the notification and confirmation, the successor facility agent will succeed to the position of the Facility Agent and the term Facility Agent will mean the successor facility agent. |
(d) | The retiring Facility Agent must, at its own cost, make available to the successor Facility Agent such documents and records and provide such assistance as the successor Facility Agent may reasonably request for the purposes of performing its functions as the Facility Agent under the Finance Documents. |
(e) | Upon its resignation becoming effective, this Clause will continue to benefit the retiring Facility Agent in respect of any action taken or not taken by it in connection with the Finance Documents while it was the Facility Agent, and, subject to paragraph (d) above, it will have no further obligations in its capacity as Facility Agent under any Finance Document. |
(f) | The Majority Lenders may, by notice to the Facility Agent, require it to resign under paragraph (a) above. |
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21.14 | Relationship with Lenders |
(a) | The Facility Agent may treat each Lender as a Lender entitled to payments under this Agreement and as acting through its Facility Office(s) until it has received not less than five (5) Business Days’ prior notice from that Lender to the contrary. |
(b) | The Facility Agent may at any time, and must if requested to do so by the Majority Lenders, convene a meeting of the Lenders. |
(c) | The Facility Agent must keep a register of all the Parties and supply any other Party with a copy of the register on request. The register will include each Lender’s Facility Office(s) and contact details for the purposes of this Agreement. |
21.15 | Notice period |
Where this Agreement specifies a minimum period of notice to be given to the Facility Agent, the Facility Agent may, at its discretion, accept a shorter notice period.
22. | EVIDENCE AND CALCULATIONS |
22.1 | Accounts |
Accounts maintained by the Facility Agent in connection with this Agreement are conclusive (save for manifest error) evidence of the matters to which they relate for the purpose of any litigation or arbitration proceedings.
22.2 | Certificates and determinations |
Any certification or determination by the Facility Agent of a rate or amount under the Finance Documents will be, in the absence of manifest error, conclusive evidence of the matters to which it relates.
22.3 | Calculations |
Any interest or fee accruing under this Agreement accrues from day to day and is calculated on the basis of the actual number of days elapsed and a year of 360 days or otherwise, depending on what the Facility Agent determines is market practice.
23. | FEES |
23.1 | Commitment fee |
(a) | The Borrower must pay to the Facility Agent for and on behalf of the Lenders a commitment fee calculated at the rate of 37.5% of the Margin from time to time per annum on the undrawn, uncancelled amount of the Maximum Facility Amount. The commitment fee shall accrue from the day following the Amendment Date. |
(b) | Accrued commitment fee is payable quarterly in arrears and on the last day of each Term. Accrued commitment fee is also payable to the Facility Agent for a Lender on the date its Commitment is cancelled in full. |
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23.2 | Participation fee |
The Borrower must pay to the Facility Agent for the benefit pro rata of the Lenders a participation fee in the manner agreed in the Fee Letter between the Arrangers, the Facility Agent and the Borrower.
23.3 | Underwriting and Arrangement fee |
The Borrower must pay to the Arrangers underwriting and arrangement fees in the manner agreed in the Fee Letter between the Arrangers, the Facility Agent and the Borrower.
23.4 | Structuring and Bookrunning fee |
The Borrower must pay to the Arrangers structuring and bookrunning fees in the manner agreed in the Fee Letter between the Arrangers, the Facility Agent and the Borrower.
23.5 | Facility Agent’s fee |
The Borrower must pay to the Facility Agent an agency and security trustee fee in the manner agreed in the Fee Letter between the Arrangers, the Facility Agent and the Borrower.
23.6 | Refund of fees |
The fees referred to in this Clause 23 and the Fee Letter shall not be refunded under any circumstances whatsoever once they have been paid.
24. | INDEMNITIES AND BREAK COSTS |
24.1 | Currency indemnity |
(a) | The Borrower shall, as an independent obligation and within three (3) Business Days of demand, indemnify each Finance Party against any cost, loss or liability which that Finance Party incurs as a consequence of: |
(i) | the Finance Party receiving an amount in respect of the Borrower’s liability under the Finance Documents; or |
(ii) | that liability being converted into a claim, proof, judgment or order, |
in a currency other than the currency in which the amount is expressed to be payable under the relevant Finance Document.
(b) | The Borrower waives any right it may have in any jurisdiction to pay any amount under the Finance Documents in a currency other than that in which it is expressed to be payable. |
24.2 | Other indemnities |
(a) | The Borrower shall, as an independent obligation and within three (3) Business Days of demand, indemnify each Finance Party against any cost, loss or liability which that Finance Party incurs as a consequence of: |
(i) | the occurrence of any Event of Default; |
(ii) | any failure by the Borrower to pay any amount due under a Finance Document on its due date; |
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(iii) | (other than by reason of negligence or default by that Finance Party) a Loan (or part of a Loan) not being made after a Request has been delivered for that Loan; or |
(iv) | a Loan (or part of a Loan) not being prepaid in accordance with a notice of prepayment. |
The liability of the Borrower in each case includes any cost, loss or expense on account of funds borrowed, contracted for or utilised to fund any amount payable under any Finance Document, any amount repaid or prepaid or any Loan.
(b) | The Borrower must indemnify against any cost, loss or liability incurred by any Finance Party as a result of: |
(i) | investigating any event which that Finance Party reasonably believes to be a Default; or |
(ii) | acting or relying on any notice of the Borrower which that Finance Party reasonably believes to be genuine, correct and appropriately authorised. |
(c) | The Borrower must indemnify and agree to hold harmless the Finance Parties and in each case, each of its and their Affiliates and each of their respective officers, directors, employees, agents, advisors and representatives (each, an Indemnified Party) from and against any and all claims, damages, losses, liabilities, costs, legal expenses and expenses (altogether Losses), joint or several, that may be incurred by or asserted or awarded against any Indemnified Party, in each case arising out of or in connection with or relating to any claim, investigation, litigation or proceeding (or the preparation of any defence with respect thereto) commenced or threatened in relation to the Finance Documents or the Related Contracts (or the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby) or any use made or proposed to be made with the proceeds of the Facility. This indemnity shall apply whether or not such claims, investigation, litigation or proceeding is brought by the Borrower, the shareholders of the Borrower or the creditors of the Borrower, an Indemnified Party or any other person, or an Indemnified Party is otherwise a party thereto, except to the extent such Losses are found in a final, non-appealable judgment by a court of competent jurisdiction to have resulted from such Indemnified Party’s gross negligence or wilful misconduct. |
(d) | No Indemnified Party shall have any liability (whether direct or indirect, in contract, tort or otherwise) to the Borrower or any shareholders or creditors of the Borrower for or in connection with the transactions referred to in paragraph (c) above, except for direct (as opposed to indirect or consequential) damages or losses to the extent such liability is found in a final non-appealable judgment by a court of competent jurisdiction to have resulted from such Indemnified Party’s gross negligence or wilful misconduct. |
(e) | The Borrower must indemnify and hold each Finance Party harmless on a full indemnity basis, from and against each and every Loss: |
(i) | arising directly or indirectly out of or in any way connected with the ownership, possession, performance, transportation, management, sale, import to or export from any jurisdiction, control, use or operation, registration, navigation, certification, classification, management, xxxxxxx, provisioning, the provision of bunkers and lubricating oils, testing, design, condition, delivery, acceptance, leasing, subleasing, chartering, insurance, maintenance, repair, service, modification, refurbishment, dry docking, survey, conversion, overhaul, replacement, removal, repossession, return, redelivery, storage, sale, disposal, the complete or partial removal, decommissioning, making safe, destruction, abandonment or loss by the Borrower |
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or any other person of any of the Secured Vessels or caused by any of the Secured Vessels becoming a wreck or an obstruction to navigation, whether or not such liability may be attributable to any defect in any of the Secured Vessels or to the design, construction or use thereof or from any maintenance, service, repair, dry docking, overhaul, inspection or for any other reason whatsoever (whether similar to any of the foregoing or not), and regardless of when the same shall arise and whether or not any of the Secured Vessels (or any part thereof) is in possession or control of the Borrower or the Manager or any other person and whether or not the same is in United Kingdom waters or abroad; |
(ii) | arising directly or indirectly out of or in any way connected with any Release of Hazardous Material, any Environmental Claim, or any breach of an Environmental Law or the terms and conditions of an Environmental Approval; |
(iii) | as a consequence of any claim that any design, article or material in any of the Secured Vessels or any part thereof or relating thereto or the operation or use thereof constitutes an infringement of patent, copyright, design or other proprietary right; or |
(iv) | in preventing or attempting to prevent the arrest, seizure, taking in execution, requisition, impounding, forfeiture or detention of any of the Secured Vessels or in securing or attempting to secure the release of any of the Secured Vessels. |
24.3 | Break Costs |
(a) | The Borrower must pay to each Lender or, as the case may be, each Swap Counterparty, its Break Costs in accordance with this Agreement. |
(b) | In respect of a Lender, Break Costs are the amount (if any) determined by the relevant Lender by which: |
(i) | the interest which that Lender would have received for the period from the date of receipt of payment of a Loan or an overdue amount to the last day of the current Term for that Loan or overdue amount if the principal or overdue amount received had been paid on the last day of that Term; |
exceeds
(ii) | the amount which that Lender would be able to obtain by placing an amount equal to the amount received by it on deposit with a leading bank in the appropriate interbank market for a period starting on the Business Day following receipt and ending on the last day of the applicable Term. |
(c) | In respect of a Swap Counterparty, Break Costs are the amount (if any) determined by that Swap Counterparty which would indemnify that Swap Counterparty against any loss or liability that it incurs as a consequence of terminating all or any part of the swap or other hedging arrangements under any Swap Agreement. |
(d) | Each Lender, or as the case may be, each Swap Counterparty, must supply to the Borrower details of the amount of any Break Costs claimed by it under this Clause. |
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25. | EXPENSES |
25.1 | Initial costs |
The Borrower must pay to each Finance Party the amount of all reasonable costs and expenses (including legal fees) incurred by it in connection with (but not limited to) the negotiation, preparation, printing and execution of the Finance Documents.
25.2 | Subsequent costs |
The Borrower must pay to each Finance Party the amount of all reasonable costs and expenses (including legal fees) incurred by it in connection with:
(a) | the negotiation, preparation, printing and execution of any Finance Document (other than a Transfer Certificate) executed after the date of this Agreement; and |
(b) | any amendment, waiver or consent requested by or on behalf of the Borrower or specifically allowed by this Agreement. |
The Borrower shall not be required to bear the amount of any costs and expenses (including legal fees) incurred by a Lender or a New Lender (as that term is defined in Clause 28.2 (Assignments and transfers by Lenders)) in connection with any voluntary transfer made by a Lender under this Agreement or any of the Security Agreements. In the event that a Lender is required to undertake any such transfers as a result of the provisions of Clause 11.4 (Mitigation) any costs of that Lender or a New Lender arising out of such transfer shall be payable by the Borrower.
25.3 | Enforcement costs |
The Borrower must pay to each Finance Party the amount of all costs and expenses (including legal fees) incurred by it in connection with the enforcement or attempted enforcement of, or the preservation or attempted preservation of any rights under, any Finance Document.
26. | WAIVER OF CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES |
In no event shall any Finance Party be liable on any theory of liability for any special, indirect, consequential or punitive damages and the Borrower hereby waives, releases and agrees (for itself and on behalf of its Subsidiaries) not to xxx upon any such claim for any such damages, unless caused by the fraud, wilful default or recklessness of the relevant Finance Party in performance of any of its obligations under this Agreement or any of the Finance Documents.
27. | AMENDMENTS AND WAIVERS |
27.1 | Procedure |
(a) | Except as provided in this Clause 27, no term of the Finance Documents may be amended or waived without the agreement of the Borrower and the Majority Lenders. The Facility Agent may effect, on behalf of any Finance Party, an amendment or waiver allowed under this Clause. |
(b) | The Facility Agent must promptly notify the other Parties of any amendment or waiver effected by it under paragraph (a) above. Any such amendment or waiver is binding on all the Parties. |
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27.2 | Exceptions |
(a) | An amendment or waiver which relates to: |
(i) | the definition of Majority Lenders in Clause 1.1 (Definitions); |
(ii) | the definition of any of the Initial Vessels in Clause 1.1 (Definitions); |
(iii) | an extension of the date of payment of any amount to a Lender under the Finance Documents; |
(iv) | a reduction in the amount of any payment of principal, interest, fee or other amount payable to a Lender under the Finance Documents; |
(v) | an increase in, or an extension of, a Commitment or the Total Commitments; |
(vi) | an increase in the Borrowing Base Advance Ratio or the Revised Advance Ratio; |
(vii) | a release of the Borrower; |
(viii) | a term of a Finance Document which expressly requires the consent of each Lender; |
(ix) | the right of a Lender to assign or transfer its rights or obligations under the Finance Documents; |
(x) | a reduction in the Margin or the Interest Rate; |
(xi) | the release of security; or |
(xii) | this Clause, |
may only be made with the consent of all the Lenders and the Borrower such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed.
(b) | An amendment or waiver which relates to the rights or obligations of an Administrative Party may only be made with the consent of that Administrative Party, the Majority Lenders and the Borrower. |
27.3 | Change of currency |
If a change in any currency of a country occurs (including where there is more than one currency or currency unit recognised at the same time as the lawful currency of a country), the Finance Documents will be amended to the extent the Facility Agent (acting reasonably and on the instructions of the Majority Lenders and after consultation with the Borrower) determines is necessary to reflect the change.
27.4 | Waivers and remedies cumulative |
The rights of each Finance Party under the Finance Documents:
(a) | may be exercised as often as necessary; |
(b) | are cumulative and not exclusive of its rights under the general law; and |
(c) | may be waived only in writing and specifically. |
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Delay in exercising or non-exercise of any right is not a waiver of that right.
28. | CHANGES TO THE PARTIES |
28.1 | Assignments and transfers by Borrower |
The Borrower may not assign or transfer any of its rights and obligations under the Finance Documents without the prior consent of all the Lenders.
28.2 | Assignments and transfers by Lenders |
(a) | A Lender (the Existing Lender) may, subject to the following provisions of this Subclause, at any time assign or transfer (including by way of novation) any of its rights and obligations under this Agreement to another bank, financial institution or to a trust, fund or other entity which is regularly engaged or established for the purpose of making, purchasing or otherwise investing in loans, securities or other financial assets (the New Lender), provided always that: |
(i) | each assignment or transfer shall be uniform, and not a varying percentage of all rights and obligations under this Agreement; |
(ii) | each assignment or transfer shall not result in increased liability to the Borrower; |
(iii) | the Facility Agent shall provide to the Borrower details of the proposed new lenders at least seven (7) Business Days prior to the proposed transfer date and the Borrower shall approve or object to the identity of any one or more of the proposed new lenders on such list (such approval not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed). The relevant Lender shall be entitled to effect a transfer or assignment to any proposed new lender on such list to which the Borrower has not objected on reasonable grounds within such seven (7) Business Day period; |
(iv) | the Existing Lender shall first offer to transfer or assign its rights to a lender participating in an Existing Credit Facility. The lender will be deemed to have rejected the offer if such lender has not accepted within fifteen (15) days of receipt of the offer; |
(v) | following primary syndication, at no time shall the number of Lenders exceed thirty five (35) unless the prior written consent of the Borrower is obtained (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld). |
(b) | An Existing Lender may at any time assign or transfer (including by way of novation) any of its rights and obligations under this Agreement to an Affiliate of the Existing Lender without the consent of the Borrower. |
(c) | Unless the Borrower otherwise agrees (acting reasonably), a transfer of part of a Commitment or the rights and obligations under this Agreement by the Existing Lender must be in a minimum amount of twenty five million Dollars (US$25,000,000) unless the Commitment of the Existing Lender is less than such amount in which case the whole of the Commitment of the Existing Lender will be transferred. |
(d) | A transfer of obligations will be effective only if either: |
(i) | the obligations are novated in accordance with the following provisions of this Clause 28; or |
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(ii) | the New Lender confirms to the Facility Agent and the Borrower in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Facility Agent and the Borrower that it is bound by the terms of this Agreement, |
and, in each case, the New Lender enters into the DPP by way of an Accession Agreement (as defined in the DPP).
(e) | On the transfer becoming effective in this manner, the relevant Lender will be released from its obligations under this Agreement to the extent that they are transferred to the New Lender. |
(f) | Any reference in this Agreement to a Lender includes a New Lender but excludes a Lender if no amount is or may be owed to or by it under this Agreement. |
28.3 | Procedure for transfer by way of novations |
(a) | In this Subclause: |
Transfer Date means, for a Transfer Certificate, the later of:
(i) | the proposed Transfer Date specified in that Transfer Certificate; and |
(ii) | the date on which the Facility Agent executes that Transfer Certificate. |
(b) | A novation is effected if: |
(i) | the Existing Lender and the New Lender deliver to the Facility Agent a duly completed Transfer Certificate; and |
(ii) | the Facility Agent executes it. |
(c) | On the Transfer Date: |
(i) | the New Lender will assume the rights and obligations of the Existing Lender expressed to be the subject of the novation in the Transfer Certificate in substitution for the Lender; and |
(ii) | the Existing Lender will be released from those obligations and cease to have those rights. |
(d) | Each Party (other than the Existing Lender and the New Lender) irrevocably authorises the Facility Agent to execute any duly completed Transfer Certificate on its behalf. |
28.4 | Limitation of responsibility of Existing Lender |
(a) | Unless expressly agreed to the contrary, an Existing Lender is not responsible to a New Lender for: |
(i) | the legality, validity, effectiveness, completeness, accuracy, adequacy or enforceability of any Finance Document or any other document; |
(ii) | the financial condition of the Borrower; |
(iii) | the performance and observance by the Borrower of its obligations under the Finance Documents or any other documents; or |
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(iv) | the accuracy of any statement or information (whether written or oral) made in or supplied in connection with any Finance Document, |
and any representations or warranties implied by law are excluded.
(b) | Each New Lender confirms to the Existing Lender that it: |
(i) | has made, and will continue to make, its own independent appraisal of all risks arising under or in connection with the Finance Documents (including the financial condition and affairs of the Borrower and its related entities and the nature and extent of any recourse against any Party or its assets) in connection with its participation in this Agreement; and |
(ii) | has not relied exclusively on any information supplied to it by the Existing Lender in connection with any Finance Document. |
(c) | Nothing in any Finance Document requires an Existing Lender to: |
(i) | accept a re-transfer from a New Lender of any of the rights and obligations assigned or transferred under this Clause; or |
(ii) | support any losses incurred by the New Lender by reason of the non-performance by the Borrower of its obligations under any Finance Document or otherwise. |
28.5 | Costs resulting from change of Lender or Facility Office |
If:
(a) | a Lender assigns or transfers any of its rights and obligations under the Finance Documents or changes its Facility Office; and |
(b) | as a result of circumstances existing at the date of assignment, transfer or change occurs, the Borrower would be obliged to pay a Tax Payment or an Increased Cost, |
then, unless the assignment, transfer or change is made by a Lender to mitigate any circumstances giving rise to a Tax Payment, Increased Cost or a right to be prepaid and/or cancelled by reason of illegality, the Borrower need only pay that Tax Payment or Increased Cost to the same extent that it would have been obliged to if no assignment, transfer or change had occurred.
28.6 | Changes to the Reference Banks |
If a Reference Bank (or, if a Reference Bank is not a Lender, the Lender of which it is an Affiliate) ceases to be a Lender, the Facility Agent must (in consultation with the Borrower) appoint another Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender to replace that Reference Bank.
29. | DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION |
Each Finance Party may disclose such information as that Finance Party shall consider appropriate in respect of information supplied to it, by or on behalf of the Borrower, the Seaspan Group, the Charterers or the Finance Documents to:
(a) | in the case of any other Finance Party, any of its Affiliates; or |
(b) | any other person who has not been objected to by the Borrower pursuant to Clause 28.2(a)(iii) (Assignments and transfers by Lenders), to (or through) whom an |
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Existing Lender assigns or transfers (or may potentially assign or transfer) all or any of its rights and obligations under this Agreement or with (or through) whom a Lender enters into (or may potentially enter into) any sub-participation in relation to, or any other transaction under which payments are to be made by reference to, this Agreement or the Borrower; or |
(c) | any person to whom, and to the extent that, information is required to be disclosed by any Applicable Law; or |
(d) | any other Finance Party; or |
(e) | to its and the Borrower’ professional advisors, |
PROVIDED ALWAYS that, in relation to paragraph (b) above, the person to whom the information is to be given has entered into a Confidentiality Undertaking. Except as provided in this Clause, a Lender may not disclose any information about the Borrower, the Seaspan Group, the Charterers or the Finance Documents to any person.
30. | SET-OFF |
A Finance Party may set off any matured obligation owed to it by the Borrower under the Finance Documents against any obligation (whether or not matured) owed by that Finance Party to the Borrower, regardless of the place of payment, booking branch or currency of either obligation. If the obligations are in different currencies, that Finance Party may convert either obligation at a market rate of exchange in its usual course of business for the purpose of the set-off.
31. | PRO RATA SHARING |
31.1 | Redistribution |
If any amount owing by the Borrower under this Agreement to a Lender (the recovering Lender) is discharged by payment, set-off or any other manner other than through the Facility Agent under this Agreement (a recovery), then:
(a) | the recovering Lender must, within three (3) Business Days, supply details of the recovery to the Facility Agent; |
(b) | the Facility Agent must calculate whether the recovery is in excess of the amount which the recovering Lender would have received if the recovery had been received by the Facility Agent under this Agreement; and |
(c) | the recovering Lender must pay to the Facility Agent an amount equal to such excess (the redistribution). |
31.2 | Effect of redistribution |
(a) | The Facility Agent must treat a redistribution as if it were a payment by the Borrower under this Agreement and distribute it among the Lenders, other than the recovering Lender, accordingly. |
(b) | When the Facility Agent makes a distribution under paragraph (a) above, the recovering Lender will be subrogated to the rights of the Finance Parties which have shared in that redistribution. |
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(c) | If and to the extent that the recovering Lender is not able to rely on any rights of subrogation under paragraph (b) above, the Borrower will owe the recovering Lender a debt which is equal to the redistribution, immediately payable and of the type originally discharged. |
(d) | If: |
(i) | a recovering Lender must subsequently return a recovery, or an amount measured by reference to a recovery, to the Borrower; and |
(ii) | the recovering Lender has paid a redistribution in relation to that recovery, |
each Finance Party must reimburse the recovering Lender all or the appropriate portion of the redistribution paid to that Finance Party, together with interest for the period while it held the re-distribution. In this event, the subrogation in paragraph (b) above will operate in reverse to the extent of the reimbursement.
31.3 | Exceptions |
Notwithstanding any other term of this Clause, a recovering Lender need not pay a redistribution to the extent that:
(a) | it would not, after the payment, have a valid claim against the Borrower in the amount of the redistribution; or |
(b) | it would be sharing with another Finance Party any amount which the recovering Lender has received or recovered as a result of legal or arbitration proceedings, where: |
(i) | the recovering Lender notified the Facility Agent of those proceedings; and |
(ii) | the other Finance Party had an opportunity to participate in those proceedings but did not do so or did not take separate legal or arbitration proceedings as soon as reasonably practicable after receiving notice of them. |
32. | SEVERABILITY |
If a term of a Finance Document is or becomes illegal, invalid or unenforceable in any jurisdiction, that shall not affect:
(a) | the legality, validity or enforceability in that jurisdiction of any other term of the Finance Documents; or |
(b) | the legality, validity or enforceability in other jurisdictions of that or any other term of the Finance Documents. |
33. | COUNTERPARTS |
Each Finance Document may be executed in any number of counterparts and by facsimile provided that original signed copies are provided within a reasonable period of time thereafter. This has the same effect as if the signatures on the counterparts were on a single copy of the Finance Document.
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34. | NOTICES |
34.1 | In writing |
(a) | Any communication in connection with a Finance Document must be in writing and, unless otherwise stated, may be given in person, by post, fax, e-mail or by any other electronic communication approved by the Facility Agent. |
(b) | For the purpose of the Finance Documents, an electronic communication will be treated as being in writing. |
(c) | Unless it is agreed to the contrary, any consent or agreement required under a Finance Document must be given in writing. |
34.2 | Contact details |
(a) | Except as provided below, the contact details of each Party for all communications in connection with the Finance Documents are those notified by that Party for this purpose to the Facility Agent on or before the date it becomes a Party. |
(b) | The contact details of the Borrower for this purpose are: |
Address: |
Xxxx 0, 0xx Xxxxx, Xxxx Xxxxxx, 000 Xxxxxxxxx Xxxx Xxxx, Xxxx Xxxx, X00000 | |
Fax number: |
(000) 000 00000 | |
Attention: |
Xxxxx Xxxxxxx, Chief Financial Officer |
with a copy to Seaspan Ship Management Ltd. of:
Address: |
0000-000 Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxx, X.X., Xxxxxx X0X 0X0 | |
Fax number: |
000-000-0000 | |
Attention: |
Xxxxx Xxxx, Chief Executive Officer |
(c) | The contact details of the Facility Agent for this purpose are: |
Address: |
000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, XX 00000, XXX | |
Fax number: |
000 000 000 0000/8181 | |
Attention: |
Loan Administration |
(d) | A Party may change its contact details by giving five (5) Business Days’ notice to the Facility Agent or (in the case of the Facility Agent) to the other Parties. |
(e) | Where a Party nominates a particular department or officer to receive a communication, a communication will not be effective if it fails to specify that department or officer. |
34.3 | Effectiveness |
(a) | Except as provided below, any communication in connection with a Finance Document will be deemed to be given as follows: |
(i) | if delivered in person, at the time of delivery; |
(ii) | if posted, ten (10) days after being deposited in the post, postage prepaid, in a correctly addressed envelope; |
(iii) | if by fax, when received in legible form; and |
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(iv) | if by e-mail or any other electronic communication, when received in legible form. |
(b) | A communication given under paragraph (a) above but received on a non-working day or after business hours in the place of receipt will only be deemed to be given on the next working day in that place. |
(c) | A communication to the Facility Agent will only be effective on actual receipt by it. |
34.4 | Borrower |
All communications under the Finance Documents to or from the Borrower must be sent through the Facility Agent or with a copy to the Facility Agent.
34.5 | Entire Agreement |
This Agreement and the other Finance Documents entered into pursuant to this Agreement contain the whole agreement between the parties relating to the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and supersede all previous agreements between the parties relating to such transactions.
35. | LANGUAGE |
(a) | Any notice given in connection with a Finance Document must be in English. |
(b) | Any other document provided in connection with a Finance Document must be: |
(i) | in English; or |
(ii)(unless | the Facility Agent otherwise agrees) accompanied by a certified English translation. In this case, the English translation prevails unless the document is a statutory or other official document. |
36. | GOVERNING LAW |
This Agreement is governed by English law.
37. | ENFORCEMENT |
37.1 | Jurisdiction |
(a) | The English courts have jurisdiction to settle any dispute in connection with any Finance Document. |
(b) | The English courts are the most appropriate and convenient courts to settle any such dispute. |
(c) | This Clause is for the benefit of the Lenders only. To the extent allowed by law, the Lenders may take: |
(i) | proceedings in any other court; and |
(ii) | concurrent proceedings in any number of jurisdictions. |
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37.2 | Service of process |
(a) | The Borrower irrevocably appoints Xxxxxxxx Chance Secretaries Limited of 00 Xxxxx Xxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxx, X00 0XX as its agent under the Finance Documents for service of process in any proceedings before the English courts. |
(b) | If any person appointed as process agent is unable for any reason to act as agent for service of process, the Borrower must immediately appoint another agent on terms acceptable to the Facility Agent. Failing this, the Facility Agent may appoint another agent for this purpose. |
(c) | The Borrower agrees that failure by a process agent to notify it of any process will not invalidate the relevant proceedings. |
(d) | This Clause does not affect any other method of service allowed by law. |
37.3 | Waiver of immunity |
The Borrower irrevocably and unconditionally:
(a) | agrees not to claim any immunity from proceedings brought by a Finance Party against it in relation to a Finance Document and to ensure that no such claim is made on its behalf; |
(b) | consents generally to the giving of any relief or the issue of any process in connection with those proceedings; and |
(c) | waives all rights of immunity in respect of it or its assets. |
THIS AGREEMENT has been entered into on the date stated at the beginning of this Agreement.
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SCHEDULE 1
ORIGINAL PARTIES
PART 1
ORIGINAL OWNERS AND THE INITIAL VESSELS
A. CSCL Vessels
No. | Vessel Name |
Size (teu) |
IMO Number |
Original Owner |
Charterer |
Charter | ||||||
1. | CSCL Hamburg | 4,000 | 0000000 | CSCL Hamburg Shipping Company Limited | CSCL Asia | Dated 28 July, 2000 between the Original Owner and CSG as novated to the Borrower and CSCL Asia | ||||||
2. | CSCL Chiwan | 4,000 | 0000000 | CSCL Chiwan Shipping Company Limited | CSCL Asia | Dated 28 July, 2000 between the Original Owner and CSG as novated to the Borrower and CSCL Asia | ||||||
3. | CSCL Ningbo | 4,000 | 0000000 | CSCL Ningbo Shipping Company Limited | CSCL Asia | Dated 28 July, 2000 between the Original Owner and CSG as novated to the Borrower and CSCL Asia | ||||||
4. | CSCL Dalian | 4,000 | 0000000 | CSCL Dalian Shipping Company Limited | CSCL Asia | Dated 28 July, 2000 between the Original Owner and CSG as novated to the Borrower and CSCL Asia | ||||||
5. | CSCL Felixstowe | 4,000 | 0000000 | CSCL Felixstowe Shipping Company Limited | CSCL Asia | Dated 28 July, 2000 between the Original Owner and CSG as novated to the Borrower and CSCL Asia | ||||||
6. | CSCL Oceania | 8,000 | 0000000 | Clorina Marine Company Limited | CSCL Asia | Dated 25 December, 2002 between the Original Owner and CSG as novated to the Borrower and CSCL Asia | ||||||
7. | CSCL | 8,000 | 0000000 | Xxxx Shipping | CSCL | Dated 25 December, | ||||||
Africa | Company Limited | Asia | 2002 between the Original Owner and CSG as novated to the Borrower and CSCL Asia |
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8. | CSCL Vancouver | 4,000 | 0000000 | Vancouver Shipping Company Limited | CSCL Asia | Dated 25 December, 2002 between the Original Owner and CSG as novated to the Borrower and CSCL Asia | ||||||
9. | CSCL Sydney | 4,000 | 0000000 | Tofino Shipping Company Limited | CSCL Asia | Dated 25 December, 2002 between the Original Owner and CSG as novated to the Borrower and CSCL Asia | ||||||
10. | CSCL New York | 4,000 | 0000000 | Nootka Shipping Company Limited | CSCL Asia | Dated 27 January, 2003 between the Original Owner and CSG as novated to the Borrower and CSCL Asia | ||||||
11. | CSCL Melbourne | 4,000 | 0000000 | Nanaimo Shipping Company Limited | CSCL Asia | Dated 27 January, 2003 between the Original Owner and CSG as novated to the Borrower and CSCL Asia | ||||||
12. | CSCL Brisbane | 4,000 | 0000000 | Burrard Shipping Company Limited | CSCL Asia | Dated 27 January, 2003 between the Original Owner and CSG as novated to the Borrower and CSCL Asia | ||||||
13. | CSCL Zeebrugge | 9,000 | 0000000 | Hemlock Shipping Company Limited | CSCL Asia | Dated 10 April, 2004 between the Original Owner and CSG as novated to the Borrower and CSCL Asia | ||||||
14. | CSCL Long Beach* | 9,600 | · | Spruce Shipping Company Limited | CSCL Asia | Dated 10 April, 2004 between the Original Owner and CSG and to be novated to the Borrower and CSCL Asia on the Delivery Date |
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B. Hapag-Xxxxx Vessels
No. | Vessel Name |
Size (teu) |
IMO Number |
Original Owner |
Charterer |
Charter | ||||||
1. | New Delhi Express | 4,000 | 0000000 | Seaspan King Shipping Company Limited | Hapag-Xxxxx | Dated 12 August, 2003 between the Borrower and CP Ships USA, LLC, as renamed Hapag-Xxxxx USA, LLC | ||||||
2. | Dubai Express |
4,000 | 0000000 | Seaspan Queen Shipping Company Limited | Hapag-Xxxxx | Dated 12 August, 2003 between the Borrower and CP Ships USA, LLC, as renamed Hapag-Xxxxx USA, LLC | ||||||
3. | Jakarta Express |
4,000 | 0000000 | Seaspan Knight Shipping Company Limited | Hapag-Xxxxx | Dated 12 August, 2003 between the Borrower and CP Ships USA, LLC, as renamed Hapag-Xxxxx USA, LLC | ||||||
4. | Saigon Express | 4,000 | 0000000 | Seaspan Xxxxxx Shipping Company Limited | Hapag-Xxxxx | Dated 12 August, 2003 between the Borrower and CP Ships USA, LLC, as renamed Hapag-Xxxxx USA, LLC | ||||||
5. | Lahore Express | 4,000 | 0000000 | Seaspan Castle Shipping Company Limited | Hapag-Xxxxx | Dated 12 August, 2003 between the Borrower and CP Ships USA, LLC, as renamed Hapag-Xxxxx USA, LLC | ||||||
6. | Rio Grande Express | 4,000 | 0000000 | Seaspan Pawn Shipping Company Limited | Hapag-Xxxxx | Dated 12 August, 2003 between the Borrower and CP Ships USA, LLC, as renamed Hapag-Xxxxx USA, LLC | ||||||
7. | Xxxxxx Express | 4,000 | 0000000 | Seaspan Ace Shipping Company Limited | Hapag-Xxxxx | Dated 12 August, 2003 between the Borrower and CP Ships USA, LLC, as renamed Hapag-Xxxxx USA, LLC |
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8. | Rio de Janeiro Express | 4,000 | 0000000 | Seaspan Eagle Shipping Company Limited | Hapag-Xxxxx | Dated 12 August, 2003 between the Borrower and CP Ships USA, LLC, as renamed Hapag-Xxxxx USA, LLC | ||||||
9. | Manila Express* | 4,250 | · | Seaspan Birdie Shipping Company Limited | Hapag-Xxxxx | Dated 12 August, 2003 between the Borrower and CP Ships USA, LLC, as renamed Hapag-Xxxxx USA, LLC | ||||||
C. Maersk Vessels | ||||||||||||
No. | Vessel Name |
Size (teu) |
IMO Number |
Original Owner |
Charterer |
Charter | ||||||
10. | MSC Sweden | 4,000 | 0000000 | Not applicable | X.X Xxxxxx-Maersk | Dated 11 October, 2006 between the Borrower and X.X. Xxxxxx-Xxxxxx | ||||||
00. | Maersk Matane | 4,000 | 0000000 | Not applicable | X.X Xxxxxx-Maersk | Dated 11 October, 2006 between the Borrower and X.X. Xxxxxx-Xxxxxx | ||||||
00. | Maersk Marystown | 4,000 | 0000000 | Not applicable | X.X Xxxxxx-Maersk | Dated 11 October, 2006 between the Borrower and X.X. Xxxxxx-Xxxxxx | ||||||
00. | Maersk Moncton | 4,000 | 0000000 | Not applicable | X.X Xxxxxx-Maersk | Dated 11 October, 2006 between the Borrower and X.X. Xxxxxx-Maersk |
Note. | * Indicates vessels that are not yet delivered to the Borrower as of the Amendment Date. |
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PART 2
ORIGINAL LENDERS
A. PRIOR TO THE INITIAL TRANSFERS
Name of Original Lender |
Facility Office |
Commitment (US$) | ||
Fortis Capital Corp. |
000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, XX 00000, XXX | 1,300,000,000 |
B. FOLLOWING THE INITIAL TRANSFERS
Name of Original Lender |
Facility Office |
Commitment (US$) | ||
Fortis Capital Corp. |
000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, XX 00000, XXX | 110,000,000 | ||
Citibank, N.A. |
000 Xxxx Xxxxxx, 00xx Xxxxx, Xxx Xxxx XX 00000, XXX | 90,000,000 | ||
DnB Nor Bank ASA |
000 Xxxx Xxxxxx, Xxx Xxxx XX 00000, XXX | 110,000,000 | ||
Credit Suisse |
Ship Finance, Xx Xxxxx-Xxxxxx, 0-0 X.X. Xxx, 0000 Xxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxxx | 153,000,000 | ||
Landesbank Hessen -Thüringen Girozentrale |
000 Xxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, XX 00000-0000, XXX | 120,000,000 | ||
HVB Group |
Xx Xxxxxxxxxx 00, 00000 Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxx | 80,000,000 | ||
KfW |
Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx. 0-0, 00000 Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxx | 80,000,000 | ||
HSH Nordbank XX |
Xxxxxxx-Xxxxxxxxx-Xxxxx 00, X-00000 Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxx | 90,000,000 | ||
The Governor and Company of the Bank of Scotland |
Corporate, Marine Finance, 2nd Floor, Pentland House, 0 Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxx XX00 0XX, XX | 62,000,000 | ||
Crédit Industriel et Commercial, New York Branch |
000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, XX 00000, XXX | 50,000,000 |
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The Governor and Company of the Bank of Ireland |
Xxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxx 0, Xxxxxxx | 50,000,000 | ||
NIBC Bank N.V. (formerly known as NIB Capital Bank N.V.) |
Xxxxxxxxxxxxx 0, 0000 XX, Xxx Xxxxx, Xxx Xxxxxxxxxxx | 50,000,000 | ||
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, Brussels Branch |
Avenue des Arts 58, Xxx 00, 0000 Xxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxx | 35,000,000 | ||
Calyon |
9, quai due Président Xxxx Xxxxxx – 92920 Paris La Défense Cedex, France |
35,000,000 | ||
Dexia Bank Belgium S.A. |
Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxxxx 00, 0000 Xxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxx | 50,000,000 | ||
Lloyds TSB Bank plc |
00 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxx XX0X 0XX, XX | 50,000,000 | ||
Swedbank AB |
Swedbank Marine Finance, E 421 Xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 00, XX-000 00 Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxx | 50,000,000 | ||
Alliance & Leicester Commercial Finance plc |
000 Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx X0 0XX, XX | 35,000,000 |
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SCHEDULE 2
INITIAL CONDITION PRECEDENT DOCUMENTS
PART 1
1. | BORROWER |
(a) | A certified copy* of the constitutional documents of the Borrower or, if the Facility Agent already has a copy, a certificate of the Borrower certifying that the copy in the Facility Agent’s possession is still correct, complete and in full force and effect as at a date no earlier than the date of the Request together with an up to date Certificate of Goodstanding dated no more than ten (10) Business Days prior to the first Utilisation Date. |
(b) | A certified copy* of a resolution of the board of directors of the Borrower (unless such resolution in relation to the issues below is still in full force and effect): |
(i) | approving the terms of, and the transactions contemplated by, each Finance Document and each Related Contract to which the Borrower is a party and resolving that it executes each such Finance Document and each Related Contract, then to be executed; |
(ii) | authorising a specified person or persons to execute each Finance Document and each Related Contract on its behalf to which it is a party, then to be executed; and |
(iii) | authorising a specified person or persons, on its behalf, to sign and/or despatch all other documents and notices to be signed and/or despatched by it under or in connection with each Finance Document and each Related Contract to which it is a party, then to be executed. |
(c) | A specimen of the signature of each person authorised by the resolution referred to in paragraph (b) above. |
(d) | A certified copy* of all other resolutions, consents, licences, exemptions and filings, corporate, official or otherwise which the Lender may reasonably require in connection with this Agreement or any other Finance Document. |
2. | FINANCE DOCUMENTS AND RELATED CONTRACTS |
(a) | A duly executed original of this Agreement (to be provided at the time of the initial Request only). |
(b) | A duly executed original of the DPP (to be provided at the time of the initial Request only). |
(c) | A duly executed original of the Retention Account Charge (to be provided at the time of the initial Request only). |
(d) | A duly executed original of the Second Retention Account Charge (to be provided at the Amendment Date only); |
(e) | A duly executed original of the Fee Letter (to be provided at the time of the initial Request only). |
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(f) | A certified copy of the Management Agreement, duly executed (to be provided at the time of the initial Request only). |
(g) | A duly executed original of the Management Agreement Assignment (to be provided at the time of the initial Request only). |
(h) | A duly executed original of the relevant Swap Agreement(s). |
(i) | A duly executed original of the Swap Agreement Assignment for each Swap Agreement. |
(j) | Duly executed originals of all notices of assignment required to be served under each Security Document referred to above and faxed copies of the acknowledgments thereof (where it is not possible to provide originals of the same, with originals to follow as soon as practicable), duly executed by each relevant counterparty. |
3. | OTHER DOCUMENTS AND EVIDENCE |
(a) | A copy of any other authorisation or other document, opinion or assurance which the Facility Agent considers to be necessary or desirable in connection with the entry into and performance of, and the transactions contemplated by, any Finance Document or any Related Contract or for the validity and enforceability of any Finance Document or any Related Contract. |
(b) | A letter from Xxxxxxxx Chance Secretaries Limited agreeing to its appointment as process agent for the Borrower under the Finance Documents (to be provided at the time of the initial Request only). |
(c) | A letter from the Borrower to Facility Agent (duly acknowledged by the Facility Agent) detailing Hedging Policy to be implemented (to be provided at the time of the initial Request only). |
4. | OTHER REQUIREMENTS |
(a) | Evidence satisfactory to the Facility Agent (acting on behalf of the Majority Lenders) that the Borrower has successfully completed an IPO. |
*Each certified copy document must be certified by a director, officer or duly authorised attorney of the Borrower as being true and complete as at a date no earlier than the date of the Request for a Loan.
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PART 2
1. | FINANCE DOCUMENTS AND RELATED CONTRACTS |
(a) | A duly executed original of each Time Charter, Charter Guarantee and Earnings Assignment relating to the Vessel to become a Secured Vessel. |
(b) | A duly executed original of the Mortgage relating to the Vessel to become a Secured Vessel. |
(c) | A duly executed original of the Deed of Covenants relating to the Vessel to become a Secured Vessel. |
(d) | A duly executed original of the Insurances Assignment relating to the Vessel to become a Secured Vessel. |
(e) | A duly executed original of each of the Manager’s Undertakings relating to the Vessel to become a Secured Vessel. |
(f) | A duly executed original of the Swap Mortgage relating to the Vessel to become a Secured Vessel. |
(g) | A duly executed original of the Swap Deed of Covenants relating to the Vessel to become a Secured Vessel. |
(h) | A certified copy* of the Time Charter (including the documentation by which the benefit and burden of such Time Charter has been transferred to the Borrower from the Original Owner) relating to the Vessel to become a Secured Vessel, duly executed. |
(i) | A certified copy* of the Charter Guarantee relating to the Vessel to become a Secured Vessel, duly executed. |
(j) | A certified copy* of the documentation pursuant to which the Vessel to become a Secured Vessel has been sold to the Borrower. |
(k) | Duly executed originals of all notices of assignment required to be served under each Security Document referred to above and faxed copies of the acknowledgements thereof (where it is not possible to provide originals of the same, with such originals to follow as soon as practicable), duly executed by each relevant counterparty. |
2. | OTHER DOCUMENTS |
A copy of any other authorisation or other document, opinion or assurance which the Facility Agent considers to be necessary or desirable in connection with the entry into and performance of, and the transactions contemplated by, any Finance Document or any Related Contract or for the validity and enforceability of any Finance Document or any Related Contract.
3. | THE SECURED VESSEL DELIVERY DOCUMENTS |
(a) | A certified copy* of: |
(i) | a classification certificate in respect of the Vessel showing the Secured Vessel to be in class without recommendation, condition or qualification or, in the event that this is not available, a faxed copy with a certified copy to follow as soon as practicable; |
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(ii) | a valid Interim Safety Management Certificate for the Secured Vessel; |
(iii) | a valid Document of Compliance; and |
(iv) | a valid International Ship Security Certificate for the Secured Vessel. |
(b) | Evidence acceptable to the Facility Agent that immediately following the drawdown of a Loan that any Vessel to be included as a Secured Vessel for the purpose of the Borrowing Base Advance Ratio will be delivered to the Borrower (whether under the relevant Shipbuilding Contract or otherwise) and title (as described in paragraph (a)(ii) of Schedule 3) to the Vessel will pass to the Borrower. |
4. | INSURANCE |
(a) | A certified copy of all current insurance policies in respect of the Vessel to become a Secured Vessel. |
(b) | A duly executed and, where necessary, notarised notice of assignment (and acknowledgement of the same) of the Obligatory Insurances in respect of the Vessel to become a Secured Vessel duly executed by the Borrower substantially in the form provided for in the Insurances Assignment. |
(c) | Fax confirmation from each broker and club concerned with the Obligatory Insurances of the Vessel to become a Secured Vessel that: |
(i) | the relevant cover is in effect; |
(ii) | they will accept notice of assignment of the Obligatory Insurances in favour of the Facility Agent and execute an acknowledgement of the notice in the form required by the Facility Agent; |
(iii) | they will restrict their lien for unpaid premiums under any fleet policy to unpaid premiums in respect of that Vessel only; |
(iv) | they will issue a letter of undertaking in the current LIBA form (in the case of Lloyds brokers), in the form provided for in the Insurances Assignment (in the case of non Lloyds brokers and insurers other than clubs) or in their current standard form (in the case of clubs); |
(v) | they will accept endorsement of a loss payable clause on the policies in the form provided for in the Insurances Assignment (in the case of brokers and insurers other than clubs) or will note the interest of the Facility Agent in the entry for the Vessel by way of a loss payable clause in their current standard form (in the case of clubs); and |
(vi) | they are not aware of any mortgage, charge, assignment or other encumbrance affecting the Obligatory Insurances with which they are concerned (other than any previously disclosed by the Borrower to the Facility Agent in writing). |
(d) | Confirmation from the Facility Agent of its satisfaction with a final insurance report prepared by Xxxxx Insurance Brokers. |
(e) | Confirmation from the Facility Agent of its receipt of a Valuation of the Vessel to become a Secured Vessel showing the Initial Market Value of that Xxxxxx. |
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0. | LEGAL OPINIONS |
(a) | A legal opinion of Xxxxx & Overy LLP, London office, English legal advisors to the Lenders, addressed to the Facility Agent as agent for and on behalf of itself and the Lenders. |
(b) | A legal opinion of Xxxxx & Xxxxx LLP, Hong Kong office, Hong Kong legal advisors to the Facility Agent, addressed to the Facility Agent as agent for and on behalf of itself and the Lenders. |
(c) | A legal opinion of Xxxxxx & Xxxxxx LLP, Xxxxxxxx Island legal advisors to the Facility Agent, addressed to the Facility Agent as agent for and on behalf of itself and the Lenders. |
(d) | A legal opinion of Xxxxx & Overy LLP, Amsterdam office, Dutch legal advisors to the Lenders, addressed to the Facility Agent as agent for and on behalf of itself and the Lenders in respect of the Retention Account Charge (to be provided at the time of the initial Request only). |
(e) | A legal opinion of legal advisors (who shall be acceptable to the Majority Lenders, in their sole discretion) practising in the jurisdiction of incorporation of any Charterer, addressed to the Facility Agent as agent for and on behalf of itself and the Lenders in respect of the Charterer (to the extent that the same has not been dealt with in any of the legal opinions referred to above). |
(f) | A legal opinion of legal advisors (who shall be acceptable to the Majority Lenders, in their sole discretion) practising in the jurisdiction of incorporation of any Charterer Guarantor, addressed to the Facility Agent as agent for and on behalf of itself and the Lenders in respect of the Charterer Guarantor (to the extent that the same has not been dealt with in any of the legal opinions referred to above). |
6. | OTHER REQUIREMENTS |
* | Each certified copy document must be certified by a director, officer or duly authorised attorney of the Borrower as being true and complete as at a date no earlier than the date of the Request for a Loan. |
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SCHEDULE 3
CONDITIONS SUBSEQUENT TO LOAN
The Facility Agent shall require the following documentation and evidence from the Borrower, in respect of a Vessel at the time provided for in Clause 3.1(d) or, in respect of an Additional Vessel which is to become a Secured Vessel, Clause 4.3(d)(ii).
(a) | Evidence that: |
(i) | the Mortgage and the Swap Mortgage in respect of the Vessel have been duly recorded in the Hong Kong Shipping Register and constitutes a first priority security interest and a second priority security interest, respectively, and a second priority security interest, respectively, over the Vessel and that all taxes and fees payable to the Hong Kong Shipping Register in respect of that Vessel have been paid in full; |
(ii) | the title to the Vessel is held by the Borrower free of all Security Interests other than Permitted Liens; and |
(iii) | the Vessel is provisionally registered in the name of the Borrower, as appropriate, as a Hong Kong flag ship at the port of Hong Kong. |
(b) | In respect of an Additional Vessel, confirmation acceptable to the Facility Agent that the Charterer has accepted the Vessel pursuant to the terms of the relevant Time Charter. |
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SCHEDULE 4
PAYMENTS
PART 1
FORM OF REQUEST
To: |
Fortis Capital Corp. as Facility Agent | |
From: |
Seaspan Corporation | |
Date: |
[ ] |
Credit Agreement dated 8 August 2005
as amended by an amendment and restatement agreement dated May, 2007 (the Credit Agreement)
1. | We wish to borrow a Loan from you as follows: |
(a) | Utilisation Date: [ ] |
(b) | Amount/currency: [ ] |
2. | Term: [ ] |
3. | Payment Instructions: [ ] |
4. | We confirm that each condition specified in Clause 3.2 (Further conditions precedent) of the Credit Agreement is satisfied on the date of this Request. |
By: |
|
SEASPAN CORPORATION as borrower |
Authorised Signatory |
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PART 2
PAYMENT ADVICE
To: |
Seaspan Corporation | |
From: |
Fortis Capital Corp. as Facility Agent | |
Date: |
[ ] |
Credit Agreement dated 8 August 2005 as amended by an amendment and restatement agreement dated May, 2007
Further to receipt of your request dated [ ] and attached hereto requesting the advance of a Loan, we confirm that all amounts have been advanced in accordance with the requirements of the attached Request.
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SCHEDULE 5
CALCULATION OF THE MANDATORY COST
1. | General |
The Mandatory Cost is the weighted average of the rates calculated below by the Facility Agent on the first day of a Term. The Facility Agent must distribute each amount of Mandatory Cost among the Lenders on the basis of the rate for each Lender.
2. | For a Lender lending from a Facility Office in the U.K. |
(a) | The relevant rate for a Lender lending from a Facility Office in the U.K. is the arithmetic mean of the rates notified by each of the Reference Banks to the Facility Agent and calculated in accordance with the following formulae: |
where on the day of application of the formula:
E | is the charge payable by the Reference Bank to the Financial Services Authority under the fees rules (but, for this purpose, calculated by the Facility Agent on a notional basis as being the average of the fee tariffs within fee-block Category A1 (Deposit acceptors) of the fees rules, applying any applicable discount and ignoring any minimum fee required under the fees rules) and expressed in pounds per £1 million of the tariff base of that Reference Bank. |
(b) | For the purposes of this paragraph 2: |
(i) | eligible liabilities and special deposit have the meanings given to them at the time of application of the formula by the Bank of England; |
(ii) | fees rules means the then current rules on periodic fees in the Supervision Manual of the FSA Handbook; and |
(iii) | tariff base has the meaning given to it in the fees rules. |
(c) | Each rate calculated in accordance with a formula is, if necessary, rounded upward to four decimal places. |
(d) | (i) Each Reference Bank must supply to the Facility Agent the information required by it to make a calculation of the rate for that Reference Bank. The Facility Agent may assume that this information is correct in all respects. |
(ii) | If a Reference Bank fails to do so, the Facility Agent may assume that the Reference Bank’s obligations in respect of cash ratio deposits, special deposits and the fees rules are the same as those of a typical bank from its jurisdiction of incorporation with a Facility Office in the same jurisdiction as its Facility Office. |
(iii) | The Facility Agent has no liability to any Party if its calculation over or under compensates any Lender. |
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3. | For a Lender lending from a Facility Office in a Participating Member State |
(a) | The relevant rate for a Lender lending from a Facility Office in a Participating Member State is the percentage rate per annum notified by that Lender to the Facility Agent as its cost of complying with the minimum reserve requirements of the European Central Bank. |
(b) | If a Lender fails to specify a rate under paragraph (a) above, the Facility Agent will assume that the Lender has not incurred any such cost. |
4. | Changes |
The Facility Agent may, after consultation with the Borrower and the Lenders, notify all the Parties of any amendment to this Schedule which is required to reflect:
(a) | any change in law or regulation; or |
(b) | any requirement imposed by the Bank of England, the Financial Services Authority or the European Central Bank (or, in any case, any successor authority). |
Any | notification will be, in the absence of manifest error, conclusive and binding on all the Parties. |
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SCHEDULE 6
FORM OF TRANSFER CERTIFICATE
To: |
Seaspan Corporation | |
From: |
[THE EXISTING BANK] and [THE NEW BANK] | |
Date: |
[ ] |
Credit Agreement dated 8 August 2005
as amended by an amendment and restatement agreement dated May, 2007 (the Credit Agreement)
We refer to Clause 28.3 (Procedure for transfer by way of novations) of the Credit Agreement. Terms not defined in this Certificate are as defined in the Credit Agreement.
1. | We [ ] (the Existing Bank) and [ ] (the New Bank) agree to the Existing Bank and the New Bank novating all the Existing Bank’s rights and obligations referred to in the Schedule in accordance with Clause 28.3 (Procedure for transfer by way of novations). |
2. | The specified date for the purposes of Clause 28.3(a) (Procedure for transfer by way of novations) is [date of novation]. |
3. | The Facility Office and address for notices of the New Bank for the purposes of Clause 34.2 (Contact details) are set out in the Schedule attached to this Certificate. |
4. | This Novation Certificate is governed by English law. |
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THE SCHEDULE
Rights and obligations to be novated
[Choose one of the following options (a) to (d):]
(a) | all of the rights and obligations of the Existing Lender in respect of the Facility – principal amount US$[ ]. |
(b) | all of the rights and obligations of the Existing Lender in respect of Vessel Loan [ ] [and Vessel Loan [ ]] -principal amount US$[ ]. |
(c) | the principal amount of US$[ ] in respect of each of the Loans and all the rights and obligations attached to the same-total principal amount US$[ ]. |
(d) | the principal amount of US$[ ] in respect of [each of] Vessel Loan [ ] [and Vessel Loan [ ] and [ ]] and all the rights and obligations attached to the same. |
[New Bank] |
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[Facility Office Address for notices] | ||
[Existing Bank] |
[New Bank] | |
By: |
By: | |
Date: |
Date: | |
The Transfer Date is confirmed by the Facility Agent as [ ]. | ||
FORTIS CAPITAL CORP. | ||
By: |
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SCHEDULE 7
COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE
To: |
Fortis Capital Corp. as Facility Agent | |
From: |
Seaspan Corporation |
Credit Agreement dated 8 August 2005
as amended by an amendment and restatement agreement dated May, 2007 (the Credit Agreement)
1. | Terms defined in the Credit Agreement have the same meaning in this Certificate. |
2. | I/We hereby certify that as of [ ] the status of the financial covenants set out in Clause 17 (Financial Covenants) of the Credit Agreement are as follows: |
(a) | Tangible Net Worth: the Tangible Net Worth of the Borrower is [·] Dollars (US$[·]). |
(b) | Gearing: the Total Borrowings are [·] and therefore do not exceed 65% of Total Assets. |
(c) | Net Interest Coverage Ratio: the Interest Coverage Ratio is [·]. |
(d) | Interest and Principal Coverage Ratio: the Interest and Principal Coverage Ratio is [·]. |
[ ]
Yours faithfully, |
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[______________________________] | ||
Chief Executive Officer |
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[or] |
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______________________________ | ||
Chief Financial Officer |
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SCHEDULE 8
ANNUAL COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE
To: |
Fortis Capital Corp. as Facility Agent | |
From: |
Seaspan Corporation |
Credit Agreement dated 8 August 2005
as amended by an amendment and restatement agreement dated May, 2007 (the Credit Agreement)
1. | Terms defined in the Credit Agreement have the same meaning in this Certificate. |
2. | I/We hereby certify that [no Default has occurred and is continuing or is outstanding] [a Default under Clause [ ] of [specify document] is outstanding and the following steps are being taken to remedy it [ ]. |
3. | [Except as set out below, the representations set out in Clause 14 (Representations) of the Credit Agreement are deemed to be repeated as at the date hereof.] |
4. | I/We hereby attach a list of the estimated dates of the intended dry docking of the Vessels actually delivered on or before the date of this Certificate. |
5. | I/We hereby certify that as of [ ] the status of the financial covenants set out in Clause 17 (Financial Covenants) of the Credit Agreement are as follows: |
(a) | Tangible Net Worth: the Tangible Net Worth of the Borrower is not less than four hundred and fifty million Dollars (US$450,000,000). |
(b) | Gearing: the Total Borrowings do not exceed 65% of Total Assets. |
(c) | Net Interest Coverage Ratio: the Interest Coverage Ratio is greater than 2.50 to 1. |
(d) | Interest and Principal Coverage Ratio: the Interest and Principal Coverage Ratio is not |
[ ]
Yours faithfully, |
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[______________________________] | ||
Chief Executive Officer |
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[or] |
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______________________________ | ||
Chief Financial Officer |
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SCHEDULE 9
BORROWER’S CERTIFICATE
To: |
Fortis Capital Corp. as Facility Agent | |
From: |
Seaspan Corporation |
Credit Agreement dated 8 August 2005
as amended by an amendment and restatement agreement dated May, 2007 (the Credit Agreement)
1. | Terms defined in the Credit Agreement have the same meaning in this Certificate. |
2. | I/We hereby confirm that on the date of this Certificate the Manager has provided us with the certificate attached hereto. |
[ ]
Yours faithfully, |
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[______________________________] | ||
Chief Executive Officer |
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SCHEDULE 10
ESTIMATED ADDBACK RELATING TO CERTAIN SECURED VESSELS DEPRECIATION
Date |
Amount of Add Back (US$) | |
30 September 2005 |
207,588,000 | |
31 December 2005 |
205,843,000 | |
31 March 2006 |
204,099,000 | |
30 June 2006 |
202,354,000 | |
30 September 2006 |
200,610,000 | |
31 December 2006 |
198,866,000 | |
31 March 2007 |
197,121,000 | |
30 June 2007 |
195,377,000 | |
30 September 2007 |
193,632,000 | |
31 December 2007 |
191,888,000 | |
31 March 2008 |
190,143,000 | |
30 June 2008 |
188,399,000 | |
30 September 2008 |
186,655,000 | |
31 December 2008 |
184,910,000 | |
31 March 2009 |
183,166,000 | |
30 June 2009 |
181,42,000 1 | |
30 September 2009 |
179,677,000 | |
31 December 2009 |
177,932,000 | |
31 March 2010 |
176,188,000 | |
30 June 2010 |
174,443,000 | |
30 September 2010 |
172,699,000 | |
31 December 2010 |
170,955,000 | |
31 March 2011 |
169,210,000 | |
30 June 2011 |
167,466,000 | |
30 September 2011 |
165,721,000 | |
31 December 2011 |
163,977,000 | |
30 March 2012 |
162,232,000 | |
29 June 2012 |
160,488,000 | |
29 September 2012 |
158,744,000 | |
30 December 2012 |
156,999,000 | |
31 March 2013 |
155,255,000 | |
30 June 2013 |
153,510,000 | |
30 September 2013 |
151,766,000 | |
31 December 2013 |
150,021,000 | |
31 March 2014 |
148,277,000 |
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Date |
Amount of Add Back (US$) | |
30 June 2014 |
146,253,000 | |
30 September 2014 |
144,788,000 | |
31 December 2014 |
143,044,000 |
Note: The above table applies to each of the CSCL Vessels which are Initial Vessels (other than CSCL Melbourne, CSCL Brisbane, CSCL Zeebrugge and CSCL Long Beach).
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SCHEDULE 11
STANDING PAYMENT INSTRUCTIONS
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SIGNATORIES
Borrower | ||
SEASPAN CORPORATION | ||
By: |
| |
The Arrangers | ||
CITIGROUP GLOBAL MARKETS LIMITED | ||
By: |
| |
FORTIS CAPITAL CORP. | ||
By: |
| |
The Facility Agent | ||
FORTIS CAPITAL CORP. | ||
By: |
| |
The Lenders | ||
CITIBANK N.A. | ||
By: |
| |
CREDIT SUISSE | ||
By: |
| |
DNB NOR BANK ASA | ||
By: |
| |
FORTIS CAPITAL CORP | ||
By: |
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THE GOVERNOR AND COMPANY OF THE BANK OF SCOTLAND | ||
By: |
| |
THE GOVERNOR AND COMPANY OF THE BANK OF IRELAND | ||
By: |
| |
CRÉDIT INDUSTRIEL ET COMMERCIAL, NEW YORK BRANCH | ||
By: |
| |
LANDESBANK HESSEN-THÛRINGEN GIROZENTRALE | ||
By: |
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HSH NORDBANK AG | ||
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HVB GROUP | ||
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KFW | ||
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NIBC BANK N.V. | ||
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SUMITOMO MITSUI BANKING CORPORATION, BRUSSELS BRANCH | ||
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ALLIANCE & LEICESTER COMMERCIAL FINANCE PLC | ||
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CALYON | ||
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DEXIA BANK BELGIUM S.A. | ||
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LLOYDS TSB BANK PLC | ||
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SWEDBANK AB | ||
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APPENDIX 1
FORM OF INSURANCES ASSIGNMENT
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APPENDIX 2
FORM OF MORTGAGE
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APPENDIX 3
FORM OF DEED OF COVENANTS
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APPENDIX 4
FORM OF MANAGEMENT AGREEMENT ASSIGNMENT
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APPENDIX 5
FORM OF SWAP MORTGAGE
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APPENDIX 6
FORM OF SWAP DEED OF COVENANTS
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APPENDIX 7
FORM OF SWAP AGREEMENT ASSIGNMENT
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APPENDIX 8
FORM OF TIME CHARTER, CHARTER GUARANTEE AND EARNINGS ASSIGNMENT
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