Restricted Payments Covenant definition

Restricted Payments Covenant means the covenant set forth in Section 10(a).
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Restricted Payments Covenant means the covenant set forth in Section 4.07 of the Holdings Indenture. “Securities Act” means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
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Restricted Payments Covenant. The Issuer and its restricted subsidiaries will be prohibited from making any “restricted payments” (including dividends, investments and voluntary prepayments of junior lien or subordinated indebtedness) except pursuant to customary exceptions for a 144A-for-life high yield financing, including, without limitation, (i) from a cumulative “builder” basket to equal the sum of 50% of Free Cash Flow of the Issuer (plus 100% of any Declined Free Cash Flow) since the beginning of the fiscal quarter in which the Notes are issued, (ii) a general basket equal to an amount to be agreed and (iii) a basket equal to the amount of unrestricted cash on hand of the Issuer and its subsidiaries on the Plan Effective Date (as defined in the Restructuring Support Agreement) in excess of $110 million; provided, that in the case of clauses (i) and (ii) above, any such restricted payment shall be subject to (x) a Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio (as defined below) of at least 2.00:1.00 and (y) a total net leverage ratio of no greater than a level to be agreed.
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Examples of Restricted Payments Covenant in a sentence

  • As explained above, actions that may appear contractually permissible in isolation may nevertheless be impermissible when viewed in the aggregate.4 We believe the Transaction should be aggregated for the purpose of determining whether the Upstream Payments constitute dividends or distributions barred by the Restricted Payments Covenant.

  • The only difference between the two is that your letter chose to substitute the word “payments” for the word actually used in the indenture, which is “transaction.” The undefined word “transaction” is used nowhere else in the Restricted Payments Covenant.

  • Amendment to "Restricted Payments" Covenant: Section 4.4 of each of the Indentures prohibits, with certain exceptions, Valentia and its Restricted Subsidiaries from making any Restricted Payments.

  • Moreover, such an interposition is plainly one of the kinds of gimmick the words “directly or indirectly” in the Restricted Payments Covenant were intended to render ineffectual.

  • While we discuss at length below factors that would support a court aggregating Jackson’s, Luxco’s, and Intermediate’s actions, we note that those factors support numerous other arguments that the Upstream Transfers violate the 2020 Indenture, among them that the Restricted Payments Covenant by its terms cannot be circumvented by doing “indirectly” what cannot be done “directly” and that the Transaction violated the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing in the 2020 Indenture.

  • The Restricted Payments Covenant would have allowed Jackson to borrow far less in the fourth quarter than the $130 million it borrowed to help fund the September Dividend (and less still if Jackson had any other need for the revolver in the fourth quarter).

  • The September Dividend and the intercompany loans that swiftly followed (the “Transaction”) violated the Restricted Payments Covenant.

  • Adjusted EBITDA per Restricted Payments Covenant 4,578 4,857 5,240 5,036 4,222 3 4 5 2 1 2008 includes litigation accrual, charge related to a counterparty bankruptcy and losses on sale of receivables, net of insurance settlement proceeds.

  • The Consolidated EBITDA basket in the Restricted Payments Covenant will be calculated for the period starting on March 28, 2009 instead of March 28, 2008.

  • And it does not dispute that the Restricted Payments Covenant was violated if the Transaction is so aggregated.

Related to Restricted Payments Covenant

  • Restricted Payments as defined in Section 7.6.

  • Restricted Payment means any dividend or other distribution (whether in cash, securities or other property) with respect to any capital stock or other Equity Interest of the Borrower or any Subsidiary, or any payment (whether in cash, securities or other property), including any sinking fund or similar deposit, on account of the purchase, redemption, retirement, acquisition, cancellation or termination of any such capital stock or other Equity Interest, or on account of any return of capital to the Borrower’s stockholders, partners or members (or the equivalent Person thereof).

  • Restricted Payment Conditions is defined in Section 10.9.

  • Permitted Restricted Payments means any of the following Restricted Payments made by:

  • Permitted Payment as defined in Subsection 8.2(b).

  • Permitted Payments has the meaning specified in Section 7.06(b).

  • Excepted Payments means and include (a)(i) any indemnity (whether or not constituting Supplemental Lease Rent and whether or not a Lease Event of Default exists) payable to either the Trust Company, the Lessor Manager, the Equity Investor, the Owner Lessor, or the Owner Participant or to their respective Indemnitees and successors and permitted assigns (other than the Lease Indenture Trustee) pursuant to Section 2.3, 9.1, 9.2, 11.1 or 11.2 of the Participation Agreement, Section 7.1 or 7.2 of the LLC Agreement, and any payments under the Tax Indemnity Agreement or (ii) any amount payable by the Company to the Owner Lessor, the Equity Investor or the Owner Participant to reimburse any such Person for its costs and expenses in exercising its rights or complying with its obligations under the Operative Documents, (b)(i) insurance proceeds, if any, payable to the Owner Lessor or the Owner Participant under insurance separately maintained by the Owner Lessor or the Owner Participant with respect to the Facility as permitted by Section 11.5 of the Facility Lease or (ii) proceeds of personal injury or property damage or other liability insurance maintained under any Operative Document for the benefit of the Trust Company, the Lessor Manager, the Owner Lessor or the Owner Participant, (c) any amount payable to the Owner Participant as the purchase price of the Owner Participant's right and interest in the Member Interest, (d) any amounts payable to the Owner Participant upon exercise by the Company of the Special Lessee Transfer pursuant to Section 13.1 of the Participation Agreement, (e) all other fees expressly payable to the Owner Participant, the Equity Investor or the Owner Lessor under the Operative Documents, (f) if the Facility Lessee exercises its right to assume the Lessor Notes, any Termination Value (or amount calculated by reference thereto) or purchase price payable by the Facility Lessee in connection therewith, (g) any payments made under the Lessee Guaranty in respect of any of the foregoing and (h) any payments in respect of interest, or any payments made on an After-Tax Basis, to the extent attributable to payments referred to in clause (a) through (g) above that constitute Excepted Payments.

  • Restricted Debt Payment has the meaning set forth in Section 6.04(b).

  • Restricted Debt Payments has the meaning set forth in Section 6.04(b).

  • Restricted Payment Transaction means any Restricted Payment permitted pursuant to Section 409, any Permitted Payment, any Permitted Investment, or any transaction specifically excluded from the definition of the term “Restricted Payment” (including pursuant to the exception contained in clause (i) and the parenthetical exclusions contained in clauses (ii) and (iii) of such definition).

  • Permitted Payments to Parent means, without duplication as to amounts:

  • Required Payments means each of the items described in (i) through (xii) of Section 3.4 of the Indenture.

  • Excluded Payments means (i) indemnity payments paid or payable by Lessee to or in respect of Owner Participant, or Owner Trustee in its individual capacity, their respective Affiliates, successors and permitted assigns and their directors, officers, employees, servants and agents pursuant to Section 9 of the Participation Agreement or any corresponding payments under the Lease, (ii) proceeds of public liability insurance paid or payable as a result of insurance claims made, or losses suffered, by Owner Trustee in its individual capacity or by Owner Participant, that are payable directly to Owner Trustee in its individual capacity, or Owner Participant, respectively, for their own account, (iii) proceeds of insurance maintained with respect to the Aircraft by Owner Participant or any Affiliate thereof for its or their own account or benefit (whether directly or through Owner Trustee) and permitted under Section 11.2 of the Lease, (iv) all payments required to be made under the Tax Indemnity Agreement by Lessee whether or not denominated as Supplemental Rent, (v) any Transaction Expenses paid or payable by the Lessee to the Owner Trustee (to the extent for its sole benefit) or the Owner Participant pursuant to the Lease or the Participation Agreement, (vi) any amount payable to the Owner Participant by any transferee as the purchase price of the Owner Participant's interest in the Trust Estate, (vii) any interest that pursuant to the Operative Agreements may from time to time accrue in respect of any of the amounts described in clauses (i) through (vi) above, (viii) any right to enforce the payment of any amount described in clauses (i) through (vii) above (PROVIDED, that the rights referred to in this clause (viii) shall not be deemed to include the exercise of any remedies provided for in the Lease other than the right to xxx for specific performance of any covenant to make such payment or to xxx for damages in respect of the breach of any such covenant) and (ix) any right to exercise any election or option or make any decision or determination, or to give or receive any notice, consent, waiver or approval, or to take any other action in respect of, but in each case, only to the extent relating to, any Excluded Payments.

  • Permitted Financial Indebtedness means Financial Indebtedness:

  • Permitted Dividends means dividends or distributions made by the Company on its Class A Shares, and, without duplication, the Operating Partnerships to fund such dividends or distributions, annually in an aggregate amount equal to not less than 20% of the Company’s annual Distributable Earnings or more than 30% of Distributable Earnings; provided, that, if the minimum amount of dividends or distributions eligible to be made hereunder would be $1.00 or less per Class A Share, then up to $1.00 per Class A Share (subject to appropriate adjustment in the event of any equity dividend, equity split, combination or other similar recapitalization with respect to the Class A Shares after the Issuance Date).

  • Guaranteed Payment for each Class of Notes and any Payment Date means the sum of (i) the related Guaranteed Principal Payment Amount plus (ii) the related Aggregate Investor Interest for the Payment Date.

  • Restricted Debt has the meaning set forth in Section 6.04(b).

  • Required Payment shall have the meaning assigned such term in Section 4.04.

  • Restricted Junior Payment means (i) any dividend or other distribution, direct or indirect, on account of any shares of any class of capital stock of Seller now or hereafter outstanding, except a dividend payable solely in shares of that class of stock or in any junior class of stock of Seller, (ii) any redemption, retirement, sinking fund or similar payment, purchase or other acquisition for value, direct or indirect, of any shares of any class of capital stock of Seller now or hereafter outstanding, (iii) any payment or prepayment of principal of, premium, if any, or interest, fees or other charges on or with respect to, and any redemption, purchase, retirement, defeasance, sinking fund or similar payment and any claim for rescission with respect to the Subordinated Loans (as defined in the Receivables Sale Agreement), (iv) any payment made to redeem, purchase, repurchase or retire, or to obtain the surrender of, any outstanding warrants, options or other rights to acquire shares of any class of capital stock of Seller now or hereafter outstanding, and (v) any payment of management fees by Seller (except for reasonable management fees to the Originator or its Affiliates in reimbursement of actual management services performed).

  • Restricted Indebtedness means Indebtedness of the Borrower or any Subsidiary, the payment, prepayment, repurchase or defeasance of which is restricted under Section 6.09(b).

  • Deferred Payment means any severance pay or benefits to be paid or provided to Executive (or Executive’s estate or beneficiaries) pursuant to this Agreement and any other severance payments or separation benefits, that in each case, when considered together, are considered deferred compensation under Section 409A.

  • Total Required Payment means, for a Payment Date, the sum of

  • Debt Payments means for any period, in each case, all cash actually expended by any Borrower to make: (a) interest payments on any Advances hereunder, plus (b) scheduled principal payments on the Equipment Loans plus (c) scheduled principal payments on the Term Loans plus (d) payments for all fees, commissions and charges set forth herein, plus (e) payments on Capitalized Lease Obligations, plus (f) payments with respect to any other Indebtedness for borrowed money.

  • Prohibited Payment means any bribe, rebate, payoff, influence payment, kickback or other payment or gift of money or anything of value (including meals or entertainment) to any officer, employee or ceremonial office holder of any government or instrumentality thereof, political party or supra-national organization (such as the United Nations), any political candidate, any royal family member or any other person who is connected or associated personally with any of the foregoing that is prohibited under any Law for the purpose of influencing any act or decision of such payee in his official capacity, inducing such payee to do or omit to do any act in violation of his lawful duty, securing any improper advantage or inducing such payee to use his influence with a government or instrumentality thereof to affect or influence any act or decision of such government or instrumentality.

  • Permitted Ratio Debt means Indebtedness of the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries; provided that (a) such Indebtedness is either (x) senior unsecured Indebtedness ranking pari passu in right of payment to the Obligations or (y) subordinated in right of payment to the Obligations, (b) such Indebtedness does not mature prior to the date that is 91 days after the Latest Maturity Date at the time such Indebtedness is incurred, (c) such Indebtedness has no scheduled amortization or scheduled payments of principal and is not subject to mandatory redemption, repurchase, prepayment or sinking fund obligation (other than customary offers to repurchase upon a change of control, asset sale or casualty event and customary acceleration rights after an event of default) prior to the date that is 91 days after the Latest Maturity Date at the time such Indebtedness is incurred, (d) no Default or Event of Default shall then exist or result therefrom, (e) immediately after giving effect thereto and to the use of the proceeds thereof, the Lead Borrower shall be in Pro Forma Compliance with a Total Net Leverage Ratio of 6.00:1.00 as of the most recently ended Test Period for which financial statements have been delivered pursuant to Sections 5.04(a) and 5.04(b), (f) the covenants, events of default, guarantees and other terms of such Indebtedness are customary for similar Indebtedness in light of then-prevailing market conditions and in any event, when taken as a whole (other than interest rate and redemption premiums), are not more restrictive to the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries than those set forth in this Agreement (provided that a certificate of a Responsible Officer of the Lead Borrower delivered to the Administrative Agent in good faith at least five (5) Business Days prior to the incurrence of such Indebtedness, together with a reasonably detailed description of the material terms and conditions of such Indebtedness or drafts of the documentation relating thereto, stating that the Lead Borrower has determined in good faith that such terms and conditions satisfy the requirement set out in the foregoing clause (f), shall be conclusive evidence that such terms and conditions satisfy such requirement unless the Administrative Agent provides notice to the Lead Borrower of an objection during such five (5) Business Day period (including a reasonable description of the basis upon which it objects)), (g) in respect of which no Restricted Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower that is not a Guarantor under the Loan Documents is an obligor, (h) if such Indebtedness is subordinated, (x) the subordination provisions shall be reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and (y) the Term Loan Facilities shall have been, and while the Term Loan Facilities remain outstanding no other Indebtedness is or is permitted to be, designated as “designated senior debt” or its equivalent in respect of such Indebtedness and (i) the Lead Borrower shall have delivered to the Administrative Agent an officer’s certificate executed by a Responsible Officer of the Lead Borrower certifying to such officer’s knowledge, compliance with the requirements of this definition, including reasonably detailed calculations required to demonstrate compliance with the Total Net Leverage Ratio required by clause (e) above.

  • Deferred Payments means any severance pay or benefits to be paid or provided to Executive (or Executive’s estate or beneficiaries) pursuant to this Agreement and any other severance payments or separation benefits to be paid or provided to Executive (or Executive’s estate or beneficiaries), that in each case, when considered together, are considered deferred compensation under Section 409A.