Form of Note Agreement]
Exhibit d.2
[Form of
Note Agreement]
DATED
AS OF ________________, 2010
BY
AND AMONG
FULL
CIRCLE CAPITAL CORPORATION
AND
THE
SEVERAL INVESTORS PARTY HERETO
$[
]
8%
SENIOR SUBORDINATED UNSECURED NOTES
TABLE
OF CONTENTS
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ARTICLE
1 DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE
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Section
1.01 Definitions.
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Section
1.02 Rules of
Construction.
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ARTICLE
2 THE NOTES; CLOSING
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Section
2.01 Notes.
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Section
2.02 Closing.
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5
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Section
2.03 Conditions
to Closing.
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5
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Section
2.04 Replacement
Notes.
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Section
2.05 Outstanding
Notes.
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Section
2.06 Transfer
and Exchange of Notes.
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Section
2.07 CUSIP.
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ARTICLE
3 REDEMPTIONS; REPURCHASES
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Section
3.01 Optional
Redemption.
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Section
3.02 Selection
of Notes to be Redeemed.
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Section
3.03 Notice of
Redemption.
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8
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Section
3.04 Effect of
Notice of Redemption.
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Section
3.05 Notes
Redeemed in Part.
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ARTICLE
4 REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
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Section
4.01 Representations of the
Company.
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Section
4.02 Representations and
Warranties of the Investors.
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ARTICLE
5 COVENANTS
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Section
5.01 Payment of
Notes.
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Section
5.02 Reports.
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Section
5.03 Corporate
Existence.
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Section
5.04 No Layering
of Debt.
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Section
5.05 Initial
Public Offering.
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Section
5.06 Transactions
Permitted.
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ARTICLE
6 SUCCESSOR CORPORATION
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Section
6.01 Merger,
Consolidation or Sale of Assets.
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Section
6.02 Successor
Corporation Substituted.
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ARTICLE
7 DEFAULT AND REMEDIES
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Section
7.01 Events of
Default.
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Section
7.02 Acceleration.
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Section
7.03 Other
Remedies.
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Section
7.04 Waiver of
Defaults and Events of Default.
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Section
7.05 Control by
Majority.
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Section
7.06 Rights of
Holders to Receive Payment.
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Section
7.07 Restoration
of Rights and Remedies.
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Section
7.08 Rights and
Remedies Cumulative.
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Section
7.09 Delay or
Omission Not a Waiver.
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ARTICLE
8 AMENDMENTS, SUPPLEMENTS AND WAIVERS
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Section
8.01 Consent of
Holders.
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Section
8.02 Revocation
and Effect of Consents.
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Section
8.03 Notation on
or Exchange of Notes.
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Section
8.04 Record Date
for Voting of Holders.
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ARTICLE
9 INDEMNIFICATION
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Section
9.01 Indemnification by the
Company.
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Section
9.02 Indemnification
Procedures.
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Section
9.03 Survival.
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ARTICLE
10 MISCELLANEOUS
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Section
10.01 Notices.
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Section
10.02 Governing
Law; Jury Trial.
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Section
10.03 No
Personal Liability of Directors, Officers, Employees and
Stockholders.
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Section
10.04 Successors.
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Section
10.05 Severability.
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Section
10.06 Table of
Contents; Headings; Counterpart Signatures.
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Section
10.07 No Third
Party Beneficiaries
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Section
10.08 Further
Assurances.
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Section
10.09 Expenses.
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Section
10.10 Incorporation of
Subordination Provisions.
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EXHIBIT A
– FORM OF NOTE
SCHEDULE
I – LIST OF INVESTORS
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This NOTE
AGREEMENT (this “Agreement”), dated as of
_____________, 2010, is among Full Circle Capital Corporation, a Maryland
corporation (the “Company”), and the several
investors listed on Schedule I attached
hereto (each an “Investor” and, collectively,
the “Investors”).
WHEREAS,
the Company and each Investor are executing and delivering this Agreement in
reliance upon the exemption from registration afforded by Rule 506 of Regulation
D as promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
WHEREAS,
the Company has authorized the issuance of up to $[ ] of Notes, which shall be
issued pursuant to and in accordance with the terms of this
Agreement.
WHEREAS,
the Company desires to issue the Notes to the Investors in the principal amounts
set forth on Schedule
I attached hereto, and the Investors desire to purchase the Notes from
the Company in such principal amounts, in each case, in accordance with the
terms and conditions stated in this Agreement.
NOW,
THEREFORE, the Company and each Investor hereby agree as follows:
ARTICLE
1
DEFINITIONS
AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE
Section
1.01 Definitions.
“Affiliate” of any specified
Person means any other Person directly or indirectly Controlling or Controlled
by or under direct or indirect common Control with such specified
Person.
“Applicable Agreements” has
the meaning specified in Section
4.01(c).
“Applicable Law” has the
meaning specified in Section
4.01(c).
“Board of Directors” means,
with respect to any Person, the Board of Directors of such Person or any
committee of the Board of Directors authorized to act therefor.
“Bankruptcy Law” means Title
11, U.S. Code, or any similar federal or state law for the relief of
debtors.
“Business Day” means a day
other than a Saturday, a Sunday or a day on which banking institutions in the
City of New York are authorized by law, regulation or executive order to remain
closed. If a payment date is a date that is not a Business Day,
payment may be made on the next succeeding Business Day and no interest shall
accrue on such payment for the intervening period.
“Cash” or “cash” means United States
dollars.
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“Charter Documents” has the
meaning specified in Section
4.01(c).
“Closing” means the closing of
the issuance of the Notes in accordance with Section
2.02.
“Closing Date” means the date
on which the conditions set forth in Section 2.03 are
satisfied or waived, or such other date as is agreed to by the Company and the
Majority Holders.
“Common Stock” means the
Company’s common stock, par value $0.01 per share.
“Control” means the
possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the
direction of the management or policies of the Company, whether through the
ability to exercise voting power, by contract or otherwise. For
purposes of this definition, the terms “Controlling,” “Controlled by” and “under
common Control with” have correlative meanings.
“Default” or “default” means any event
which is, or after the giving of notice or the passage of time, or both, would
be, an Event of Default.
“Equity Interests” means
shares of capital stock, partnership interests, membership interests in a
limited liability company, beneficial interests in a trust or other equity
ownership interests in a Person, and any warrants, options or other rights
entitling the holder thereof to purchase or acquire any such equity
interest.
“Event of Default” has the
meaning specified in Section
7.01.
“Exchange Act” means the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations
promulgated thereunder.
“Full Circle Advisors” means
Full Circle Advisors, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, its Affiliates,
and its and their respective successors.
“Full Circle Portfolio
Acquisition” has the meaning specified in the Registration
Statement.
“GAAP” means generally
accepted accounting principles consistently applied as in effect on the Closing
Date.
“Government Authority” has the
meaning specified in Section
4.01(c).
“Guarantee” means a guarantee
other than by endorsement of negotiable instruments for collection in the
ordinary course of business, direct or indirect, in any manner including,
without limitation, by way of a pledge of assets or through letters of credit or
reimbursement agreements in respect thereof, of all or any part of any
Indebtedness.
“Holder” means the person in
whose name a Note is registered on the Company’s books.
“Indebtedness” means, without
duplication, all obligations of the Company and its Subsidiaries (a) in respect
of borrowed money or with respect to deposits or advances of any kind, (b)
evidenced by bonds, notes, debentures or similar instruments, (c) under capital
leases (d) in respect of obligations under conditional sale or other title
retention agreements relating to property acquired by the Company and its
Subsidiaries, (e) in respect of the deferred purchase price of property or
services (excluding accounts payable incurred in the ordinary course of
business), (f) in respect of Indebtedness of others secured by any Lien on
property owned or acquired by the Company or a Subsidiary, whether or not the
Indebtedness secured thereby has been assumed, (g) in respect of Guarantees of
Indebtedness of others, (h) in respect of obligations, contingent or otherwise,
as an account party in respect of letters of credit and letters of guaranty, and
(i) in respect of obligations, contingent or otherwise, relating to bankers’
acceptances.
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“Indemnified Liability” has
the meaning specified in Section
9.01.
“Indemnitee” has the meaning
specified in Section
9.01.
“Initial Public Offering”
means an underwritten initial public offering of Common Stock of the Company
pursuant to the Registration Statement.
“Investment” means, for any
Person: (a) Equity Interests, bonds, notes, debentures or other securities of
any other Person or any agreement to acquire any Equity Interests, bonds, notes,
debentures or other securities of any other Person (including any “short sale”
or any sale of any securities at a time when such securities are not owned by
the Person entering into such sale); (b) deposits, advances, loans or other
extensions of credit made to any other Person (including purchases of property
from another Person subject to an understanding or agreement, contingent or
otherwise, to resell such property to such Person); or (c) any interest rate
protection agreement, foreign currency exchange protection agreement, commodity
price protection agreement or other interest or currency exchange rate or
commodity price hedging arrangement.
“Investment Company Act” has
the meaning specified in Section
4.01(p).
“Lien” has the meaning
specified in Section
4.01(d).
“Majority Holders” means (a)
prior to the Closing, Investors to whom at least a majority in principal amount
of the Notes are proposed to be issued, as set forth on Schedule 1 attached
hereto, and (b) following the Closing, the Holders of at least a majority in
principal amount of the Notes then outstanding.
“Material Adverse Effect” has
the meaning specified in Section
4.01(a).
“Notes” means the Company’s 8%
Senior Subordinated Notes that are issued pursuant to this Agreement, in each
case as amended or supplemented from time to time.
“OFAC” has the meaning
specified in Section
4.01(l).
“Person” or “person” means any individual,
corporation, partnership, limited liability company, joint venture, association,
joint-stock company, trust, unincorporated organization or government (including
any agency or political subdivision thereof).
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“Registration Statement” means
the Company’s registration statement on Form N-2 (File No. 333-166302) at
the time that it is declared effective by the SEC pursuant to the Securities
Act.
“Sanctions” has the meaning
specified in Section
4.01(l).
“SEC” means the United States
Securities and Exchange Commission.
“Securities Act” means the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated
thereunder.
“Subsidiary” means with
respect to any Person at any date, any corporation, limited liability company,
partnership, association or other entity the accounts of which would be
consolidated with those of such Person in such Person’s consolidated financial
statements if such financial statements were prepared in accordance with GAAP as
of such date, as well as any other corporation, limited liability company,
partnership, association or other entity (a) of which securities or other
ownership interests representing more than 50% of the equity or more than 50% of
the ordinary voting power or, in the case of a partnership, more than 50% of the
general partnership interests are, as of such date, owned, controlled or held,
or (b) that is, as of such date, otherwise controlled, by such Person or one or
more subsidiaries of such Person by such Person and one or more subsidiaries of
such Person. Anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding, the
term “Subsidiary” shall not include any Person that constitutes an Investment
held by the Company in the ordinary course of business and that is not, under
GAAP, consolidated on the financial statements of the Company and its
Subsidiaries.
“Transactions” means the
consummation of the Full Circle Portfolio Acquisition and the consummation of
the Initial Public Offering.
Section
1.02 Rules of
Construction.
Unless
the context otherwise requires:
(1) a
term has the meaning assigned to it;
(2) an
accounting term not otherwise defined has the meaning assigned to it in
accordance with GAAP;
(3) “or”
is not exclusive;
(4) words
in the singular include the plural, and words in the plural include the
singular;
(5) “will”
shall be interpreted to express a command;
(6) references
to Sections of, or rules under, the Securities Act or Exchange Act shall be
deemed to include substitute, replacement or successor Sections or rules adopted
by the SEC from time to time;
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(7) references
to any Person include such Person’s permitted assigns and
successors;
(8) provisions
apply to successive events and transactions; and
(9) “herein,”
“hereof” and other words of similar import refer to this Agreement as a whole
and not to any particular Article, Section or other subdivision.
ARTICLE
2
THE
NOTES; CLOSING
Section
2.01 Notes.
The Company has duly authorized the
issue of $[ ] aggregate principal amount of its Notes, such Notes to be in the
form set out in Exhibit A. Subject to the terms and conditions of
this Agreement, the Company hereby agrees to deliver to each Investor the
respective principal amount of the Notes set forth opposite such Investor’s name
in Schedule
I. The Notes will be issued only in denominations of $100,000
and integral multiples of $10,000 in excess thereof.
Section
2.02 Closing.
At the Closing, upon the satisfaction
or waiver of the conditions to Closing set forth in Section 2.03, the
Company will deliver to each Investor the Note to be issued to such Investor,
dated the Closing Date, registered in such Investor’s name (but not in the name
of a nominee), and in the principal amount set forth opposite such Investor’s
name on Schedule
I.
Section
2.03 Conditions to
Closing.
(a) Each
Investor’s obligations hereunder are subject to the fulfillment, prior to or at
the Closing, of the following conditions:
(i) such
Investor shall have received from the Company a fully executed copy of this
Agreement (which may be given by facsimile transmission or electronic mail) and
an original or copy of an executed Note;
(ii) the
Transactions shall have been consummated prior to or substantially concurrent
with the Closing; and
(iii) the
representations and warranties of the Company set forth in Section 4.01 shall be
true and correct (without giving effect to any “material,” “materiality,”
“Material Adverse Effect” or any similar terms, qualifications or limitations to
such representations and warranties) in all material respects on and as of the
Closing Date (except to the extent any such representation or warranty relates
to or is made as of a specific earlier date, in which case it shall be true and
correct in all material respects as of such specific earlier date).
(b) The
Company’s obligation to issue the Notes is subject to the following
conditions:
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(i) each
of the Investors shall have performed and complied with all agreements and
conditions contained in this Agreement required to be performed or complied with
by it;
(ii) the
Transactions shall have been consummated prior to or substantially concurrent
with the Closing; and
(iii) the
representations and warranties of the Investors set forth in Section 4.02 shall be
true and correct in all material respects on and as of the Closing
Date.
Section
2.04 Replacement
Notes.
(a) If
any mutilated Note is surrendered to the Company, or the Company receives
evidence to its satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any Note, and
there is delivered to the Company such Note or indemnity as may be required by
it to save it harmless from any loss that it may suffer if the Note is replaced,
then, in the absence of notice to the Company that such Note has been acquired
by a bona fide purchaser, the Company shall execute and deliver, in exchange for
any such mutilated Note or in lieu of any such destroyed, lost or stolen Note, a
new Note of like tenor and principal amount.
(b) In
case any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Note has become or is about
to become due and payable, or is about to be redeemed or repurchased by the
Company pursuant to Article 3, the
Company, in its discretion, may, instead of issuing a new Note, pay or redeem
such Note, as the case may be. Upon the issuance of any new Notes
under this Section
2.04, the Company may require the payment by the Holder of a sum
sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in
relation thereto and any other expenses in connection therewith.
(c) Every
new Note issued pursuant to this Section 2.04 in lieu
of any destroyed, lost or stolen Note shall constitute an original additional
contractual obligation of the Company, whether or not the destroyed, lost or
stolen Note shall be at any time enforceable by anyone, and shall be entitled to
all benefits of this Agreement equally and proportionately with any and all
other Notes duly issued hereunder.
Section
2.05 Outstanding
Notes.
The Notes
outstanding at any time are all the Notes issued pursuant to this Agreement
except for Notes that have been cancelled or delivered to the Company for
cancellation. If a Note is replaced pursuant to Section 2.04, it
ceases to be outstanding unless the Company receives proof satisfactory to it
that the replaced Note is held by a bona fide purchaser. If the
principal amount of any Note is paid in full, it ceases to be outstanding and
ceases to accrue interest. A Note does not cease to be outstanding
because the Company or an Affiliate of the Company holds the Note; provided that in determining
whether the Majority Holders have concurred in any direction, waiver or consent,
Notes owned by the Company or any Affiliate of the Company will be considered as
though not outstanding.
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Upon surrender of any Note to the
Company for registration of transfer or exchange (and in the case of a surrender
for registration of transfer accompanied by a written instrument of transfer
duly executed by the registered Holder of such Note or such Holder’s attorney
duly authorized in writing and accompanied by the address for notices of each
transferee of such Note or part thereof), within ten Business Days thereafter
the Company shall execute and deliver, at the Company’s expense (except as
provided below), one or more new Notes (as requested by the Holder thereof) in
exchange therefor, in an aggregate principal amount equal to the unpaid
principal amount of the surrendered Note. Each such new Note shall be
payable to such Person as such Holder may request. Each such new Note
shall be dated and bear interest from the date to which interest shall have been
paid on the surrendered Note or dated the date of the surrendered Note if no
interest shall have been paid thereon. The Company may require
payment of a sum sufficient to cover any stamp tax or governmental charge
imposed in respect of any such transfer of Notes. Except in
connection with and as contemplated by the Full Circle Portfolio Acquisition and
the other transactions related thereto, notes shall not be transferred or
registered in denominations of less than $100,000 or any integral multiple of
$10,000 in excess thereof; provided that if necessary to
enable the registration of transfer by a Holder of its entire holding of Notes,
one Note may be in a denomination of less than $100,000. In order to
effectuate any transfer pursuant to this Section 2.06, the
transferor and transferee shall have completed the Transfer Notice attached to
the form of Note attached as Exhibit A hereto.
Section
2.07 CUSIP.
The Company will use commercially
reasonable efforts to obtain, prior to the issuance of the Notes or as promptly
thereafter as practical, a CUSIP number for the Notes; provided that the Company
makes no representation as to the correctness or accuracy of the CUSIP number,
if any, printed on the Notes.
ARTICLE
3
REDEMPTIONS;
REPURCHASES
Section
3.01 Optional
Redemption.
Subject
to the subordination provisions set forth in the Notes, the Company may, at its
option, at any time and from time to time redeem all or any part of the Notes
(in a minimum principal amount of $100,000 and otherwise in multiples of $10,000
in excess thereof) on any date prior to maturity upon delivery of the notice as
set forth in Section
3.03 at a redemption price of 100% of the principal amount thereof, plus
accrued and unpaid interest to the redemption date.
Section
3.02 Selection of Notes to be
Redeemed.
If less
than all of the Notes are to be redeemed, the Notes shall be redeemed on a pro rata basis based on the
aggregate principal amount of Notes held by each Holder. Provisions
of this Agreement that apply to Notes called for redemption also apply to
portions of Notes called for redemption.
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Section
3.03 Notice of
Redemption.
At least
five days but not more than 60 days before a redemption date, the Company shall
deliver or cause to be delivered a notice of redemption to each Holder of Notes
to be redeemed at such Holder’s address as it appears on the Company’s
books.
The
notice shall identify the Notes to be redeemed and shall state:
(1) the
redemption date;
(2) the
redemption price;
(3) that
Notes called for redemption must be presented and surrendered to the Company to
collect the redemption price plus accrued and unpaid interest, if
any;
(4) that,
unless the Company defaults in making the redemption, interest on Notes called
for redemption ceases to accrue on and after the redemption date and the only
remaining right of the Holder is to receive payment of the redemption price upon
presentation and surrender to the Company of the Notes; and
(5) if
any Note is being redeemed in part, the portion of the principal amount of such
Note to be redeemed and that, after the redemption date, upon presentation and
surrender of such Note, a new Note or Notes in principal amount equal to the
unpaid portion thereof will be issued.
Section
3.04 Effect of Notice of
Redemption.
Once the
notice of redemption described in Section 3.03 is
delivered, Notes called for redemption become due and payable on the redemption
date and at the redemption price stated in the notice. Upon
presentation and surrender to the Company, such Notes shall be paid at the
redemption price, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to the redemption
date; provided, that if
the redemption date is on an interest payment date, any accrued and unpaid
interest shall be payable to the Holder of the redeemed Notes registered on the
relevant record date;
provided, further, that if the redemption date is not a Business Day,
payment shall be made on the next succeeding Business Day and no interest shall
accrue for the period from such redemption date to such succeeding Business
Day. The notice, if delivered in the manner herein provided, shall be
conclusively presumed to have been duly given, whether or not the Holder
receives such notice. In any case, failure to deliver such notice or
any defect in the notice to the Holder of any Note designated for redemption as
a whole or in part shall not affect the validity of the proceedings for the
redemption of any other Note.
Section
3.05 Notes Redeemed in
Part.
Upon
surrender of a Note that is redeemed in part, the Company shall execute for the
Holder (at the Company’s expense) a new Note equal in principal amount to the
unpaid portion of the Note surrendered.
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ARTICLE
4
REPRESENTATIONS
AND WARRANTIES
Section
4.01 Representations of the
Company.
The Company represents and warrants to
each Investor as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date
that:
(a) Organization; Power and
Authority. The Company is a corporation duly organized and
validly existing under the laws of the State of Maryland, and is duly qualified
as a foreign corporation in each jurisdiction in which such qualification is
required by law, except where the failure to be so qualified would not,
individually or in the aggregate, have a material adverse effect on (i) the
properties, business, operations or financial condition of the Company, or (ii)
the ability of the Company to perform its obligations in all material respects
under this Agreement and the Notes (each, a “Material Adverse
Effect”). The Company has the requisite corporate power and
authority to carry on its business as presently conducted, to execute and
deliver this Agreement and the Notes and to perform the provisions hereof and
thereof, except, in each case, where the failure to have such power and
authority would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse
Effect.
(b) Authorization;
Enforceability. This Agreement and the Notes have been duly
authorized by all necessary corporate action on the part of the Company, and
this Agreement constitutes, and upon execution and delivery thereof each Note
will constitute, a legal, valid and binding obligation of the Company
enforceable against the Company in accordance with its terms, except as such
enforceability may be limited by (i) applicable bankruptcy, insolvency,
reorganization, moratorium or other similar laws affecting the enforcement of
creditors’ rights generally and (ii) general principles of equity
(regardless of whether such enforceability is considered in a proceeding in
equity or at law).
(c) No
Violations. The Company is not (i) in violation of its
articles of incorporation, by-laws or similar organizational documents (the
“Charter Documents”),
(ii) in violation of any federal, state, local or foreign statute, law or
ordinance, or any judgment, decree, rule, regulation or order (collectively,
“Applicable Law”) of
any federal, state, local and other governmental authority, governmental or
regulatory agency or body, court, arbitrator or self-regulatory organization,
domestic or foreign (each, a “Governmental Authority”)
applicable to it or any of its properties or assets, or (iii) in
breach of the terms or provisions of or in default under any material indenture,
agreement or other instrument to which it is a party or by which it or its
property or assets are or may be bound (collectively, “Applicable Agreements”),
except with respect to (ii) and (iii) above for such violations, breaches or
defaults that would not, individually or in the aggregate, result in a Material
Adverse Effect.
(d) No
Conflicts. Neither the execution, delivery or performance of
the this Agreement and the Notes nor the consummation of any transactions
contemplated herein or therein will violate or constitute a breach of
or a default (with the passage of time or otherwise) under, require the consent
of any person under, result in the imposition of a lien, security interest,
mortgage, pledge, charter, or encumbrance of any kind (collectively, “Liens”) on any properties or
assets of the Company or result in an acceleration of Indebtedness under or
pursuant to (i) the Charter Documents, (ii) any Applicable Law or (iii) any
Applicable Agreement, except with respect to (ii) and (iii) above for such
violations, breaches or defaults that would not, individually or in the
aggregate, result in a Material Adverse Effect.
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(e) No
Litigation. There is no action, claim, suit, demand, hearing,
notice of violation or deficiency, or proceeding, domestic or foreign, pending
or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened, that either (i) seeks to
restrain, enjoin, prevent the consummation of, or otherwise challenge any of the
transactions contemplated by this Agreement, or (ii) is reasonably likely,
individually or in the aggregate, to have a Material Adverse
Effect.
(f) Taxes. The
Company has filed all material income and other tax returns that are required to
have been filed in any jurisdiction, and the Company has paid all material taxes
and assessments shown to be due and payable on such returns and all other
material taxes and assessments levied upon it or its properties, assets, income
or franchises, to the extent such taxes and assessments have become due and
payable and before they have become delinquent, except for any taxes and
assessments the amount, applicability or validity of which is currently being
contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings.
(g) Title to
Properties. Except as would not result in a Material Adverse
Effect, the Company has good and marketable title to all real property owned by
it, good and valid title to all personal property owned by it and good and valid
title to all leasehold estates in real and personal property being leased by
it.
(h) Intellectual
Property. The Company owns or is licensed to use all
trademarks, tradenames, copyrights, patents and other intellectual property
material to its business, and the use thereof by the Company does not infringe
upon the rights of any other Person, except for such infringements that,
individually or in the aggregate, would not have a Material Adverse
Effect.
(i) No Material Adverse
Change. Subsequent to the date as of which information is
given in the Registration Statement, except as disclosed therein, (i) the
Company has not incurred any liabilities, direct or contingent, that are
material, individually or in the aggregate, to the Company, and (ii) there has
not been any material adverse change in the properties, business, operations or
financial condition of the Company.
(j) Federal Reserve
Regulations. None of the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement will violate or result in a violation of Section 7 of the Exchange
Act, (including, without limitation, Regulation T (12 C.F.R. Part 220),
Regulation U (12 C.F.R. Part 221) or Regulation X (12 C.F.R. Part 224) of the
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System).
(k) Full
Disclosure. The Registration Statement, at the time it was or
is declared effective by the SEC, including the information deemed to be a part
thereof, did not or will not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or
omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements contained therein
not misleading.
(l) Foreign Assets Control
Regulations. The issuance of the Notes hereunder will not
cause any person participating in the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement to violate the economic sanctions laws, executive orders, or
regulations administered by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of
Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”), including the OFAC
regulations contained in 31 CFR, Subtitle B, Chapter V, as amended
(collectively, “Sanctions”). Without
limiting the foregoing, the Company is not and, to the knowledge of the Company,
no director, officer, agent, employee, or other person acting on behalf of the
Company is, the subject of Sanctions, nor is located, organized or resident in a
country or territory that is the subject of Sanctions.
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(m) Solvency. After
the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and the
Initial Public Offering, the Company will be Solvent. As used in this
paragraph, the term “Solvent” means, with respect to a particular date, that on
such date (i) the present fair market value (or present fair saleable value) of
the assets of the Company is not less than the total amount required
to pay the liabilities of the Company on its total existing debts and
liabilities (including contingent liabilities) as they become absolute and
matured; (ii) the Company is able to pay its debts and other liabilities,
contingent obligations and commitments as they mature and become due in the
normal course of business; (iii) the Company is not incurring debts or
liabilities beyond its ability to pay as such debts and liabilities mature; and
(iv) the Company is not otherwise insolvent under the standards set forth in
Applicable Laws.
(n) Insurance. The
Company is insured against such losses and risks and in such amounts as are
prudent and customary in the businesses in which it is engaged and locations in
which it operates. All material policies of insurance insuring the
Company or its assets, employees, officers and directors are in full force and
effect (provided that
the Company’s directors and officers insurance policy will not take effect until
the consummation of the Initial Public Offering). The Company is in
compliance with the terms of such policies and instruments in all material
respects.
(o) Equity Interests and
Subsidiaries. All of the issued and outstanding shares of
capital stock of the Company have been duly authorized and validly issued, are
fully paid and nonassessable, and were not issued in violation of, and are not
subject to, any preemptive or similar rights. All of the outstanding
shares of capital stock or other equity interests of each of the Subsidiaries
are owned, directly or indirectly, by the Company, and except as would not have
a Material Adverse Effect, are free and clear of all Liens. Except as
disclosed in the Registration Statement, there are no outstanding (A) options,
warrants, subscriptions, calls or other rights for unaffiliated third parties to
purchase from the Company or any of the Subsidiaries, (B) agreements, contracts,
arrangements or other obligations of the Company or any of the Subsidiaries to
issue to, or to repurchase or otherwise acquire from, any unaffiliated third
parties or (C) other rights of unaffiliated third parties to convert any
obligation into or exchange any securities for, in the case of each of clauses
(A) through (C), any shares of capital stock of or other ownership or equity
interests in the Company or any of the Subsidiaries.
(p) Investment Company
Act. From and after the date that the Company becomes a
“business development company” under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as
amended (the “Investment
Company Act”), the Company represents and warrants that it is a company
that has elected to be regulated as a “business development company” within the
meaning of the Investment Company Act. The business and other
activities of the Company, including issuing the Notes hereunder and the
consummation of the Transactions, do not result in any violation or breach in
any material respect of the applicable provisions of the Investment Company
Act.
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(q) Private
Offering. Neither the Company nor, to its knowledge, anyone
acting on its behalf has taken or will take any action that will subject the
issuance of the Notes to the registration requirements of Section 5 of the
Securities Act.
Section
4.02 Representations and
Warranties of the Investors.
Each Investor, severally and not
jointly, represents and warrants to the Company as of the date hereof and as of
the Closing Date that:
(a) Accredited Investor
Status. Such Investor is an “accredited investor” as defined
in Rule 501(a) of Regulation D promulgated under the Securities
Act.
(b) Power and
Authority. Such Investor has the power and authority both to
carry on the activities in which it is engaged and to purchase the Notes and its
purchase of the Notes is in full compliance with applicable laws and
regulations.
(c) Investment Intent; Transfer
Restrictions. Such Investor is acquiring the Notes as
principal for its own account for investment purposes and not with a view to
distributing or reselling such Notes or any part thereof in violation of
applicable securities laws, without prejudice, however, to such Investor’s right
at all times to sell or otherwise dispose of all or any part of the Notes in
compliance with applicable federal and state securities laws. Nothing contained herein shall be deemed
a representation or warranty by such Investor to hold the Notes for any period
of time. Such Investor acknowledges that it is able to bear
the financial risks associated with an investment in the Notes and that it has
received such information as it has deemed necessary or appropriate to conduct
its due diligence investigation and has sufficient knowledge and experience in
investing in companies similar to the Company so as to be able to evaluate the
risks and merits of its investment in the Company. Such Investor
understands that the Notes have not been registered under the Securities Act,
and therefore the Notes may not be sold, assigned or transferred in the U.S.
other than pursuant to (i) an effective registration statement under the
Securities Act or (ii) an exemption from such registration requirements, and
that the Notes shall bear the following legend:
“THIS
SECURITY HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED
(THE “SECURITIES ACT”), OR ANY STATE SECURITIES LAWS. NEITHER THIS
SECURITY NOR ANY INTEREST OR PARTICIPATION HEREIN MAY BE REOFFERED, SOLD,
ASSIGNED, TRANSFERRED, PLEDGED, ENCUMBERED OR OTHERWISE DISPOSED OF IN THE
ABSENCE OF SUCH REGISTRATION OR UNLESS SUCH TRANSACTION IS EXEMPT FROM, OR NOT
SUBJECT TO, THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT. THE
HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY, BY ITS ACCEPTANCE HEREOF, REPRESENTS THAT IT IS AN
“ACCREDITED INVESTOR” WITHIN THE MEANING OF RULE 501 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT,
AND (2) AGREES TO OFFER, SELL OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER SUCH SECURITY ONLY (A) TO
THE COMPANY, (B) FOR SO LONG AS THE SECURITIES ARE ELIGIBLE FOR RESALE PURSUANT
TO RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, TO A PERSON IT REASONABLY BELIEVES IS A
“QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER” AS DEFINED
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IN RULE
144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT THAT PURCHASES FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT OR FOR THE
ACCOUNT OF A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER TO WHICH NOTICE IS GIVEN THAT THE
TRANSFER IS BEING MADE IN RELIANCE ON RULE 144A, (C) PURSUANT TO OFFERS AND
SALES TO NON-U.S. PURCHASERS THAT OCCUR OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES WITHIN THE
MEANING OF REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (D) TO AN INSTITUTIONAL
“ACCREDITED INVESTOR” WITHIN THE MEANING OF SUBPARAGRAPH (a)(1),(2), (3) OR (7)
OF RULE 501 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT THAT IS ACQUIRING THE SECURITY FOR ITS OWN
ACCOUNT, OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF SUCH AN INSTITUTIONAL ACCREDITED INVESTOR, FOR
INVESTMENT PURPOSES AND NOT WITH A VIEW TO, OR FOR OFFER OR SALE IN CONNECTION
WITH, ANY DISTRIBUTION IN VIOLATION OF THE SECURITIES ACT, (E) PURSUANT TO A
REGISTRATION STATEMENT WHICH HAS BEEN DECLARED EFFECTIVE UNDER THE SECURITIES
ACT, OR (F) PURSUANT TO ANOTHER AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION
REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT AND THE SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY OTHER
JURISDICTION, INCLUDING ANY STATE OF THE UNITED STATES, SUBJECT TO THE COMPANY’S
RIGHT PRIOR TO ANY SUCH OFFER, SALE OR TRANSFER PURSUANT TO CLAUSE (C), (D) OR
(F) TO REQUIRE THE DELIVERY OF AN OPINION OF COUNSEL, CERTIFICATION AND/OR OTHER
INFORMATION SATISFACTORY TO THE COMPANY AND IN EACH OF THE FOREGOING CASES, A
CERTIFICATE OF TRANSFER IN THE FORM APPEARING ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THIS SECURITY
IS COMPLETED AND DELIVERED BY THE TRANSFEROR TO THE COMPANY.”
ARTICLE
5
COVENANTS
Section
5.01 Payment of
Notes.
Subject
to the subordination provisions set forth in the Notes, the Company shall duly
and punctually pay in United States dollars the principal of, and premium, if
any, and interest on, the Notes in accordance with the terms of the Notes and
this Agreement.
Section
5.02 Reports.
Whether
or not required by the rules and regulations of the SEC, so long as any Notes
are outstanding, the Company shall file with the SEC, to the extent such filings
are accepted by the SEC, and, if such filings are not available through the
SEC’s XXXXX system, shall furnish to the Holders of the Notes (within 15 days of
such filing), all quarterly and annual reports that would be required to be
filed with the SEC pursuant to Section 13 of the Exchange Act if the Company
were required to file under such Section.
Section
5.03 Corporate
Existence.
Subject
to Article 6,
the Company will do or cause to be done all things necessary to preserve and
keep in full force and effect its corporate existence and rights (charter and
statutory) in accordance with its Charter Documents (as the same may be amended
from time to time), licenses and franchises of the Company.
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Section
5.04 No Layering of
Debt.
The Company will not incur any
Indebtedness that is secured on a junior lien basis to any other
Indebtedness. The Company will not incur any Indebtedness that is
contractually subordinated in right of payment to any other Indebtedness unless
such Indebtedness is also subordinated to the Notes on substantially identical
terms.
Section
5.05 Initial Public
Offering.
In the event that the underwriting or
other similar purchase agreement relating to the Initial Public Offering expires
or is terminated prior to the closing of the Initial Public Offering, the
Company will, if requested by any Holder, cooperate with such Holders to unwind
the issuance of the Notes to such Holder.
Section
5.06 Transactions
Permitted.
Notwithstanding
any other provision of this Agreement (including, without limitation, any
provisions of this Article 5 or the
provisions of Article
6 or Section
2.06), the consummation of the Transactions and the other transactions
related thereto shall be deemed not to violate any provisions of this
Agreement.
ARTICLE
6
SUCCESSOR
CORPORATION
Section
6.01 Merger, Consolidation or
Sale of Assets.
The
Company shall not, directly or indirectly, consolidate or merge with or into
another Person; or sell, assign, transfer, convey or otherwise dispose of all or
substantially all of the properties or assets of the Company in one or more
related transactions, to another Person, unless:
(1) either:
(A) the
Company is the surviving Person; or
(B) the
Person formed by or surviving any such consolidation or merger (if other than
the Company) or to which such sale, assignment, transfer, conveyance or other
disposition has been made is an entity organized or existing under the laws of
the United States, any state of the United States or the District of
Columbia;
(2) the
Person formed by or surviving any such consolidation or merger (if other than
the Company) or the person to which such sale, assignment, transfer, conveyance
or other disposition has been made assumes all the obligations of the Company
under the Notes and this Agreement; and
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(3) immediately
after giving effect to such transaction, no default or Event of Default
exists.
Section
6.02 Successor Corporation
Substituted.
Upon any
consolidation or merger, or any sale, assignment, transfer, lease, conveyance or
other disposition of all or substantially all of the properties or assets of the
Company in a transaction in accordance with the provisions of Section 6.01, the
successor Person formed by such consolidation or into or with which the Company
is merged or to which such sale, assignment, transfer, lease, conveyance or
other disposition is made shall succeed to, and be substituted for (so that from
and after the date of such consolidation, merger, sale, assignment, transfer,
lease, conveyance or other disposition, the provisions of this Agreement
referring to the “Company” shall refer instead to the successor Person and not
to the Company), and may exercise every right and power of the Company and shall
succeed to every obligation of the Company under this Agreement and the Notes
with the same effect as if such successor Person had been named as the Company
herein, and thereafter, except in the case of a lease, the predecessor
corporation shall be relieved of all obligations and covenants under this
Agreement and the Notes.
ARTICLE
7
DEFAULT
AND REMEDIES
Section
7.01 Events of
Default.
An “Event
of Default” shall mean one of the following events (provided that any such event
that is cured by or on behalf of the Company shall cease to constitute an Event
of Default under this Agreement):
(1) default
in the payment of interest on the Notes when it becomes due and payable, and
continuance of such default for a period of 30 days;
(2) default
in the payment of principal of, or premium, if any, on the Notes, as and when
the same become due, either at stated maturity, upon redemption, or
otherwise;
(3) default
or breach in the performance or breach of any covenant in the Notes or this
Agreement, and continuation of such default or breach for a period of 60 days
after Holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the Notes have given
written notice to the Company specifying such default or breach and requiring it
to be remedied and stating that such notice is a “Notice of
Default”;
(4) a
default on any Indebtedness (including judgment debt), either pursuant to a loan
agreement with FCC, LLC d/b/a First Capital as the lender, or which default
results in the acceleration of Indebtedness in an amount in excess of $35.0
million without such Indebtedness having been discharged or the acceleration
having been cured, waived, rescinded or annulled, for a period of 30 days or
more after the Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the
outstanding Notes have given written notice to the Company specifying such
default or breach and requiring it to be remedied and stating that such notice
is a “Notice of Default”;
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(5) the
entry of an order for relief against the Company or any of its Subsidiaries
under Bankruptcy Law by a court having jurisdiction in the premises or a decree
or order by a court having jurisdiction in the premises adjudging the Company or
such Subsidiary as bankrupt or insolvent under any other applicable federal or
state law, or the entry of a decree or order approving as properly filed a
petition seeking reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition of or in
respect of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries under Bankruptcy Law or any
other applicable federal or state law, or appointing a receiver, liquidator,
assignee, trustee, sequestrator (or other similar official) of the Company or
any of its Subsidiaries, or of any substantial part of their respective
property, or ordering the winding up or liquidation of its affairs, and the
continuance of any such decree or order unstayed and in effect for a period of
60 consecutive days;
(6) the
consent by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries to the institution of
bankruptcy or insolvency proceedings against it, or the filing by the Company or
any of its Subsidiaries of a petition or answer or consent seeking
reorganization or relief under Bankruptcy Law or any other applicable federal or
state law, or the consent by them to the filing of any such petition or to the
appointment of a receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator (or other
similar official) of the Company or such Subsidiary or of any substantial part
of their respective property, or the making by it of an assignment for the
benefit of creditors, or the admission by them in writing of their inability to
pay their debts generally as they become due, or the taking of corporate action
by the Company or such Subsidiary in furtherance of any such action;
or
(7) Full
Circle Advisors no longer is the investment adviser of the Company.
Section
7.02 Acceleration.
(a) If
an Event of Default, other than an Event of Default pursuant to clause (5) or
(6) of Section
7.01, has occurred and has not been cured or waived, then the Holders of
not less than 50% in principal amount of the Notes may declare the entire
principal amount of, and any accrued and unpaid interest on, the Notes to be
immediately due and payable. If an Event of Default of the type
described in clause (5) or (6) in Section 7.01 above
has occurred, the entire principal amount of, and any accrued and unpaid
interest on, the Notes shall become immediately due and payable without any
declaration or any act of any Holder. Any such acceleration of the
Notes shall be subject to the subordination provisions set forth
therein.
(b) The
Majority Holders, by notice to the Company, may rescind an acceleration and its
consequences if (i) all existing Events of Default, other than the nonpayment of
the principal of and accrued interest on the Notes which has become due solely
by such declaration of acceleration, have been cured or waived; (ii) the Company
has paid or deposited with a reputable escrow agent a sum sufficient to pay (A)
all overdue interest on the Notes, (B) the principal of any Note which has
become due otherwise then by such declaration of acceleration, and (C) to the
extent the payment of such interest is lawful, interest on overdue installments
of interest and overdue principal, which has become due otherwise than by such
declaration of acceleration; and (iii) the rescission would not conflict with
any judgment or decree of a court of competent jurisdiction. No such
rescission shall affect any subsequent default or impair any right consequent
thereon.
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Section
7.03 Other
Remedies.
Subject
to the subordination provisions set forth in the Notes, in case of an Event of
Default hereunder, each Holder may in its discretion proceed to protect and
enforce the rights vested in it by this Agreement by such proceedings as such
Holder shall deem most effectual to protect and enforce any of such rights,
either by suit in equity or by action at law or by proceeding in bankruptcy or
otherwise, whether for the specific enforcement of any covenant or agreement
contained in this Agreement or in aid of the exercise of any power granted in
this Agreement, or to enforce any other legal or equitable right vested in the
Holders by this Agreement or by law.
Section
7.04 Waiver of Defaults and
Events of Default.
Subject
to the proviso in the last sentence of Section 2.05 and to
Section 7.06,
the Majority Holders, by notice to the Company, may waive any past default or
Event of Default and its consequences, except the consent of the Holder of each
Note affected thereby shall be required to waive a default in the payment of the
principal of (or premium, if any) or interest on any Note as specified in
clauses (1) and (2) of Section 7.01, or a
default in respect of a covenant or provision hereof which cannot be modified or
amended pursuant to Section 8.01 without
the consent of the Holder of each Note affected thereby. When a
default or Event of Default is waived, it is cured and ceases, but no such
waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other default or impair any consequent
right.
Section
7.05 Control by
Majority.
Except as
set forth in Section
7.03, the Majority Holders may direct the time, method and place of
conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Holders.
Section
7.06 Rights of Holders to Receive
Payment.
Notwithstanding
any other provision of this Agreement (but subject to the subordination
provisions set forth in the Notes), the right of any Holder of a Note to receive
payment of principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on the Note, on or
after the respective dates on which such payments are due as expressed in the
Note, or to bring suit for the enforcement of any such payment on or after such
respective dates, is absolute and unconditional and shall not be impaired or
affected without the consent of such Holder.
Section
7.07 Restoration of Rights and
Remedies.
If any
Holder has instituted any proceeding to enforce any right or remedy under this
Agreement and such proceeding has been discontinued or abandoned for any reason,
or has been determined adversely to such Holder, then and in every such case,
subject to any determination in such proceeding, the Company and the Holders
shall be restored severally and respectively to their former positions hereunder
and thereafter all rights and remedies of the Holders shall continue as though
no such proceeding had been instituted.
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Section
7.08 Rights and Remedies
Cumulative.
Except as
otherwise provided with respect to the replacement or payment of mutilated,
destroyed, lost or stolen Notes pursuant to Section 2.04, no
right or remedy herein conferred upon or reserved to the Holders is intended to
be exclusive of any other right or remedy, and every right and remedy shall, to
the extent permitted by law, be cumulative and in addition to every other right
and remedy given hereunder or now or hereafter existing at law or in equity or
otherwise. The assertion or employment of any right or remedy
hereunder, or otherwise, shall not prevent the concurrent assertion or
employment of any other appropriate right or remedy.
Section
7.09 Delay or Omission Not a
Waiver.
No delay
or omission of any Holder to exercise any right or remedy accruing upon any
Event of Default shall impair any such right or remedy or constitute a waiver of
any such Event of Default or an acquiescence therein. Every right and
remedy given by this Article 7 or by law to the Holder may be exercised from
time to time, and as often as may be deemed expedient, by the Holder, as the
case may be.
ARTICLE
8
AMENDMENTS,
SUPPLEMENTS AND WAIVERS
Section
8.01 Consent of
Holders.
Except as
otherwise set forth in this Section 8.01, the
Company with the written consent of the Majority Holders may amend or supplement
this Agreement or the Notes and waive compliance in a particular instance by the
Company with any provision of this Agreement or the Notes. Subject to
Section 8.02,
without the written consent of each Holder affected, an amendment, supplement or
waiver may not:
(1) reduce
the amount of Notes whose Holders must consent to an amendment, supplement or
waiver;
(2) reduce
the rate of or change the time for payment of interest, including default
interest, on any Note;
(3) reduce
the principal amount of or change the fixed maturity of any Note or alter the
provisions with respect to redemption under Article 3 or
specified in the Notes (including, without limitation, any right of a Holder to
have its Notes redeemed or repurchased);
(4) make
any Note payable in money other than that stated in the Note;
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(5) impair
any rights of such Holder under Section
7.06;
(6) make
any change in the percentage of principal amount of Notes necessary to waive
compliance with certain provisions of this Agreement pursuant to Sections 7.04 and
7.06 or this
clause of this Section
8.01;
(7) waive
any redemption payment with respect to any Note;
(8) waive
a continuing default or Event of Default in the payment of principal of, or
premium, if any, or interest on the Notes;
(9) make
any change in the definitions with respect to any of the foregoing provisions;
or
(10) make
any change in the preceding amendment and waiver provisions.
Prior to
any amendment, supplement or waiver under this Section 8.01 becoming
effective, the Company shall deliver to the Holders affected thereby a notice
briefly describing the amendment, supplement or waiver. Any failure
of the Company to deliver such notice, or any defect therein, shall not,
however, in any way impair or affect the validity of any such amendment,
supplement or waiver.
Section
8.02 Revocation and Effect of
Consents.
Until an
amendment, supplement or waiver becomes effective, a consent to it by a Holder
is a continuing consent by the Holder and every subsequent Holder of a Note or
portion of a Note that evidences the same debt as the consenting Holder’s Note,
even if notation of the consent is not made on any Note. However, any
such Holder or subsequent Holder may revoke the consent as to his Note or
portion of a Note if the Company receives the notice of revocation before the
date the amendment, supplement or waiver becomes effective.
After an
amendment, supplement or waiver becomes effective, it shall bind every
Holder.
Section
8.03 Notation on or Exchange of
Notes.
If
an amendment, supplement or waiver changes the terms of a Note, the Company may
require the Holder of the Note to deliver it to the Company. The
Company may place an appropriate notation on the Note about the changed terms
and return it to the Holder. Alternatively, if the Company so
determines, the Company in exchange for the Note shall issue a new Note that
reflects the changed terms.
Section
8.04 Record Date for Voting of
Holders.
The Company may set a record date for
purposes of determining the identity of Holders entitled to vote or consent to
any action by vote or consent authorized or permitted under this Agreement,
which record date shall be not less than 10 days prior to the first solicitation
of such vote or consent. If a record date is fixed, those persons who
were Holders of Notes at such record date (or their duly designated proxies),
and only those persons, shall be entitled to take such action by vote or consent
or to revoke any vote or consent previously given, whether or not such persons
continue to be Holders after such record date.
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ARTICLE
9
INDEMNIFICATION
Section
9.01 Indemnification by the
Company.
In consideration of each Investor’s
execution and delivery of this Agreement and acquiring the Notes and in addition
to all of the Company's other obligations hereunder, the Company shall defend,
protect, indemnify and hold harmless each Investor (in its capacity as such or
as a Holder of the Notes) and all of their stockholders, partners, members,
officers, directors, and employees (individually an “Indemnitee” and,
collectively, the “Indemnitees”), as incurred,
from and against any and all actions, causes of action, suits, claims, losses,
costs, penalties, fees, liabilities and damages, and reasonable and documented
expenses in connection therewith (irrespective of whether any such Indemnitee is
a party to the action for which indemnification hereunder is sought), and
including reasonable and documented attorneys' fees and disbursements (the
“Indemnified
Liabilities”), incurred by any Indemnitee as a result of, or arising out
of, or relating to (a) any breach of the Company’s obligation to issue the Notes
under this Agreement or (b) any cause of action, suit or claim brought or made
against such Indemnitee by a third party (including for these purposes a
derivative action brought on behalf of the Company) and arising out of or
resulting from the execution, delivery, performance or enforcement of this
Agreement or the Notes.
Section
9.02 Indemnification
Procedures.
(a) Promptly
after receipt by an Indemnitee under this Article 9 of notice
of the commencement of any action or proceeding (including any governmental
action or proceeding) involving an Indemnified Liability, such Indemnitee shall,
if a claim for indemnification in respect thereof is to be made against any
indemnifying party under this Article 9, deliver to
the indemnifying party a written notice of the commencement thereof, and the
indemnifying party shall have the right to participate in, and, to the extent
the indemnifying party so desires, to assume control of the defense thereof with
counsel reasonably satisfactory to such indemnified party; provided, however, that an
Indemnitee shall have the right to retain its own counsel with the fees and
expenses of not more than one counsel for all Indemnitees to be paid by the
indemnifying party, if, in the reasonable opinion of counsel to the Indemnitee,
the representation by such counsel of the Indemnitee and the indemnifying party
would be inappropriate due to actual or potential differing interests between
such Indemnitee and any other party represented by such counsel in such
proceeding. Legal counsel for any Indemnitees referred to in the
immediately preceding sentence shall be selected by the Majority
Holders. The Indemnitee shall cooperate fully with the indemnifying
party in connection with any negotiation or defense of any such action or
Indemnified Liabilities by the indemnifying party and shall furnish to the
indemnifying party all information reasonably available to the Indemnitee that
relates to such action or Indemnified Liabilities. The indemnifying
party shall keep the Indemnitee fully apprised at all times as to the status of
the defense or any settlement negotiations with respect thereto. No
indemnifying party shall be liable for any settlement of any action, claim or
proceeding effected without its prior written consent, provided, however, that
the indemnifying party shall not unreasonably withhold, delay or condition its
consent. No indemnifying party shall, without the prior written
consent of the Indemnitee, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld,
conditioned or delayed, consent to entry of any judgment or enter into any
settlement or other compromise which does not include as an unconditional term
thereof the giving by the claimant or plaintiff to such Indemnitee of a release
from all liability in respect to such Indemnified Liabilities or
litigation. Following indemnification as provided for hereunder, the
indemnifying party shall be subrogated to all rights of the Indemnitee with
respect to all third parties, firms or corporations relating to the matter for
which indemnification has been made. The failure to deliver written
notice to the indemnifying party within a reasonable time of the commencement of
any such action shall not relieve such indemnifying party of any liability to
the Indemnitee under Article 9, except to
the extent that the indemnifying party is prejudiced in its ability to defend
such action.
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(b) The
indemnity agreements contained herein shall be in addition to any cause of
action or similar right of the Indemnitee against the indemnifying party or
others, and any liabilities the indemnifying party may be subject to pursuant to
the law.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, in no
event shall the Company or any Investor be liable to any Indemnitee for any
consequential, special, punitive or other indirect damages.
Section
9.03 Survival.
The obligations of the Company under
this Article 9
shall survive the payment or transfer of any Note, the enforcement, amendment or
waiver of any provision of this Agreement or the Notes, and the termination of
this Agreement.
ARTICLE
10
MISCELLANEOUS
Section
10.01 Notices.
Any
notices, consents, waivers or other communications required or permitted to be
given under the terms of this Agreement must be in writing and will be deemed to
have been delivered: (i) immediately, upon delivery by electronic
mail, (ii) upon receipt, when delivered personally; (iii) upon receipt, when
sent by facsimile (provided confirmation of transmission is mechanically or
electronically generated and kept on file by the sending party and a duplicate
copy is sent by electronic mail in PDF format); or (iv) one Business Day after
deposit with an overnight courier service, in each case properly addressed to
the party to receive the same. The addresses and facsimile numbers
for such communications shall be:
To the Company:
Full
Circle Capital Corporation
000 Xxxxxxxxxxx Xxx., Xxxxx
X-000
Xxx Xxxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
Facsimile: (000) 000-0000
E-mail:
[ ]
Attention:
[ ]
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If to an Investor, to its address,
facsimile number and electronic mail address set forth on Schedule
I.
The
Company or the Investors by notice to the others may designate additional or
different addresses for subsequent notices or communications.
Failure
to deliver a notice or communication to a Investor or any defect in it shall not
affect its sufficiency with respect to other Investors. If a notice
or communication to a Investor is delivered in the manner provided above, it is
duly given, whether or not the addressee receives it.
Section
10.02 Governing Law; Jury
Trial.
All questions concerning the
construction, validity, enforcement and interpretation of this Agreement shall
be governed by the internal laws of the State of New York, without giving effect
to any choice of law or conflict of law provision or rule (whether of the State
of New York or any other jurisdictions) that would cause the application of the
laws of any jurisdictions other than the State of New York. The
Company and each Investor hereby irrevocably submits to the non-exclusive
jurisdiction of the state and federal courts sitting in The City of New York,
Borough of Manhattan, for the adjudication of any dispute hereunder or in
connection herewith or with any transaction contemplated hereby, and hereby
irrevocably waives, and agrees not to assert in any suit, action or proceeding,
any claim that it is not personally subject to the jurisdiction of any such
court, that such suit, action or proceeding is brought in an inconvenient forum
or that the venue of such suit, action or proceeding is improper. The
Company and each Investor hereby irrevocably waives personal service of process
and consent to process being served in any such suit, action or proceeding by
mailing a copy thereof to such party at the address for such notices to it under
this Agreement and agrees that such service shall constitute good and sufficient
service of process and notice thereof. Nothing contained herein shall
be deemed to limit in any way any right to serve process in any manner permitted
by law. THE
COMPANY AND EACH INVESTOR HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES ANY RIGHT IT
MAY HAVE, AND AGREES NOT TO REQUEST, A JURY TRIAL FOR THE ADJUDICATION OF ANY
DISPUTE HEREUNDER OR IN CONNECTION WITH OR ARISING OUT OF THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY
TRANSACTION CONTEMPLATED HEREBY.
Section
10.03 No Personal Liability of
Directors, Officers, Employees and Stockholders.
No past,
present or future director, officer, employee or stockholder of the Company, as
such, will have any liability for any obligations of the Company under the Notes
and this Agreement or any claim based on, in respect of, or by reason of, such
obligations or their creation. The waiver and release are part of the
consideration for the issuance of the Notes. The waiver may not be
effective to waive liabilities under the federal securities laws.
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Section
10.04 Successors.
This
Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties and
their respective successors and assigns, including any transferee of the
Notes. The Company shall not assign this Agreement or any rights or
obligations hereunder without the prior written consent of the Majority
Holders.
Section
10.05 Severability.
In case
any provision in this Agreement or in the Notes shall be invalid, illegal or
unenforceable, the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining
provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby.
Section
10.06 Table of Contents; Headings;
Counterpart Signatures.
The table
of contents and headings of the Articles and Sections of this Agreement have
been inserted for convenience of reference only, are not to be considered a part
hereof, and shall in no way modify or restrict any of the terms or provisions
hereof. The parties may sign multiple counterparts of this
Agreement. Each signed counterpart shall be deemed an original, but
all of them together represent the same agreement.
Section
10.07 No Third Party
Beneficiaries
This
Agreement is intended for the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective
permitted successors and assigns, and is not for the benefit of, nor may any
provision hereof be enforced by, any other Person.
Section
10.08 Further
Assurances.
Each party shall do and perform, or
cause to be done and performed, all such further acts and things, and shall
execute and deliver all such other agreements, certificates, instruments and
documents, as any other party may reasonably request in order to carry out the
intent and accomplish the purposes of this Agreement and the consummation of the
transactions contemplated hereby.
Section
10.09 Expenses.
Each
party to this Agreement shall bear their own costs and expenses in connection
with the execution, delivery and negotiation of this Agreement and the Notes and
the issuance of the Notes to the Investors.
Section
10.10 Incorporation of
Subordination Provisions.
The
subordination provisions set forth in the form of Note attached as Exhibit A are
hereby incorporated herein and made a part hereof as though fully set forth
herein and shall apply to all Notes issued hereunder.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto
have hereunto set their hands as of the date first set forth above.
THE
COMPANY
FULL
CIRCLE CAPITAL CORPORATION
By:
Name: Xxxx X. Xxxxxx
Title: Chief Executive
Officer
[Signature
Page – Note Agreement]
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INVESTORS
[TO
COME]
[Signature
Page – Note Agreement]
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