NINTH WAIVER AND CONSENTNinth Waiver and Consent • March 30th, 2004 • SMTC Corp • Printed circuit boards • New York
NINTH WAIVER AND CONSENT, dated February 23, 2004 (the “Agreement”), to and under the Amended and Restated Credit and Guarantee Agreement, dated as of July 27, 2000 (as heretofore amended, supplemented or otherwise modified, the “Credit Agreement”), among SMTC Corporation (“Holdings”), HTM Holdings, Inc. (the “U.S. Borrower”), SMTC Manufacturing Corporation of Canada (the “Canadian Borrower”; together with the U.S. Borrower, the “Borrowers”), the several banks and other financial institutions or entities from time to time parties thereto (the “Lenders”), Lehman Brothers Inc., as advisor, lead arranger and book manager, The Bank of Nova Scotia, as syndication agent, Lehman Commercial Paper Inc., as general administrative agent (in such capacity, the “General Administrative Agent”), The Bank of Nova Scotia, as Canadian administrative agent, Lehman Commercial Paper Inc., as collateral monitoring agent, and General Electric Capital Corporation, as documentation agent.
