FIRST AMENDMENT AND CONSENTCredit Agreement • December 11th, 2009 • Smithfield Foods Inc • Meat packing plants • New York
Contract Type FiledDecember 11th, 2009 Company Industry JurisdictionFIRST AMENDMENT AND CONSENT, dated as of October 29, 2009 (this “Amendment”), to (a) the Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of July 2, 2009 (as the same may be amended (including pursuant to this Amendment), supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Credit Agreement”), among SMITHFIELD FOODS, INC., a Virginia corporation (the “Company”); each of the Subsidiaries of the Company from time to time party to the Credit Agreement (each individually, a “Subsidiary Guarantor” and, collectively, the “Subsidiary Guarantors” and, together with the Company, the “Obligors”), the lenders from time to time party to the Credit Agreement (the “Lenders”), COOPERATIEVE CENTRALE RAIFFEISEN-BOERENLEENBANK B.A. “RABOBANK NEDERLAND”, NEW YORK BRANCH, as syndication agent, BARCLAYS BANK PLC, MORGAN STANLEY BANK, N.A., and GENERAL ELECTRIC CAPITAL CORPORATION, as co-documentation agents, JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A. and GENERAL ELECTRIC CAPITAL CORPORATION, as joint collateral agents