Existing Notes means, collectively, the Existing Senior Guaranteed Notes and the Existing Senior Notes.
Qualifying Notes means, at any time, any securities (other than the Notes) issued directly or indirectly by the Issuer:
Existing Unsecured Notes the Borrower’s 11.5% Senior Notes due 2018, issued pursuant to the Existing Unsecured Indenture, outstanding on the Closing Date or subsequently issued in exchange for or in respect of any such notes.
New Notes shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 32.
2017 Notes means the aggregate principal amount of US$600,000,000 of 6.25% Guaranteed Senior Notes Due 2017 issued pursuant to the 2017 Note Indenture.
Additional Secured Debt Designation means a notice in substantially the form of Exhibit A.
New Secured Notes means the $550 million of first lien secured notes to be issued by New Valaris Holdco comprising (i) the Rights Offering New Secured Notes to be issued in the Rights Offering on the terms set forth in the New Secured Notes Term Sheet attached as Exhibit 2 to the Restructuring Term Sheet and the Rights Offering Procedures, (ii) the Holdback Notes to be issued on the terms set forth in the Backstop Agreement,
Second Lien Notes Trustee “Second Lien Noteholder”, “High Yield Agent”, “HY Borrower”, “High Yield Creditor”, “High Yield Lender”, “Unsecured Agent”, “Unsecured Lender”, “Security Agent”, “Security Grantor”, “Senior Agent”, “Senior Arranger”, “Senior Borrower”, “Senior Creditor”, “Senior Guarantor”, “Senior Lender”, “Senior Secured Notes Guarantor”, “Senior Secured Notes Issuer”, “Senior Secured Notes Trustee”, “Senior Secured Noteholder”, “Subordinated Creditor”, “Permitted Affiliate Parent”, the “Company” or any other person shall be construed so as to include its successors in title, permitted assigns and permitted transferees and, in the case of the Security Agent, any person for the time being appointed as Security Agent or Security Agents in accordance with this Agreement;
Senior Notes Trustee means Xxxxx Fargo Bank, National Association, together with its permitted successors and assigns.
Existing Senior Secured Notes means the Borrower’s $800,000,000 8.500% Senior Secured Notes due 2019, issued pursuant to the Existing Senior Secured Notes Indenture.
Subordinated Notes means the Initial Notes and the Exchange Notes and, more particularly, any Subordinated Note authenticated and delivered under this Indenture, including those Subordinated Notes issued or authenticated upon transfer, replacement or exchange.
Convertible Notes means the 2.75% Convertible Senior Notes of the Borrower due 2022 issued pursuant to the Convertible Notes Indenture.
2014 Notes means the aggregate principal amount of US$399,517,000 of 10.25% Guaranteed Senior Notes Due 2014 issued pursuant to the 2014 Note Indenture.
Refinancing Notes means any secured or unsecured notes or loans issued by the Borrower or any Subsidiary Loan Party (whether under an indenture, a credit agreement or otherwise) and the Indebtedness represented thereby; provided, that (a) (i) 100% of the Net Proceeds of such Refinancing Notes that are secured on a pari passu basis with the Term B-1 Loans are used to permanently reduce Loans and/or replace Commitments substantially simultaneously with the issuance thereof or (ii) 90% of the Net Proceeds of any other Refinancing Notes are used to permanently reduce Loans and/or replace Commitments substantially simultaneously with the issuance thereof; (b) the principal amount (or accreted value, if applicable) of such Refinancing Notes does not exceed the principal amount (or accreted value, if applicable) of the aggregate portion of the Loans so reduced and/or Commitments so replaced (plus unpaid accrued interest and premium (including tender premiums) thereon and underwriting discounts, defeasance costs, fees, commissions and expenses); (c) the final maturity date of such Refinancing Notes is on or after the Term Facility Maturity Date or the Revolving Facility Maturity Date, as applicable, of the Term Loans so reduced or the Revolving Facility Commitments so replaced; (d) the Weighted Average Life to Maturity of such Refinancing Notes is greater than or equal to the Weighted Average Life to Maturity of the Term Loans so reduced or the Revolving Facility Commitments so replaced, as applicable; (e) in the case of Refinancing Notes in the form of notes issued under an indenture, the terms thereof do not provide for any scheduled repayment, mandatory redemption or sinking fund obligations prior to the Term Facility Maturity Date of the Term Loans so reduced or the Revolving Facility Maturity Date of the Revolving Facility Commitments so replaced, as applicable (other than customary offers to repurchase or mandatory prepayment provisions upon a change of control, asset sale or event of loss and customary acceleration rights after an event of default); (f) the other terms of such Refinancing Notes (other than interest rates, fees, floors, funding discounts and redemption or prepayment premiums and other pricing terms), taken as a whole, are substantially similar to, or not materially less favorable to the Borrower and its Subsidiaries than the terms, taken as a whole, applicable to the Term B-1 Loans (except for covenants or other provisions applicable only to periods after the Latest Maturity Date in effect at the time such Refinancing Notes are issued), as determined by the Borrower in good faith (or, if more restrictive, the Loan Documents are amended to contain such more restrictive terms to the extent required to satisfy the foregoing standard); (g) there shall be no obligor in respect of such Refinancing Notes that is not a Loan Party; and (h) Refinancing Notes that are secured by Collateral shall be subject to the provisions of a Permitted Pari Passu Intercreditor Agreement or a Permitted Junior Intercreditor Agreement, as applicable.
New Senior Notes has the meaning set forth in the recitals hereto.
Additional Senior Notes shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 11.2(b).
Initial Note Holders shall have the meaning assigned to such term in the preamble to this Agreement.
Senior Notes Claim means a Claim arising under or as a result of the Senior Notes.
Lead Securitization Notes means Note A-1-A, Note A-1-B, Note A-1-C, Note A-1-D, Note A-1-E, Note B-1, Note B-2, Note B-3, Note B-4 and Note B-5 for so long as any such note is included in the Lead Securitization.
2013 Notes means the 4.375% Senior Secured Notes due 2023 and the 5.950% Senior Secured Notes due 2043 issued by the Issuer on March 18, 2013.
Senior Secured Notes Trustee means U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association, as successor in interest to U.S. Bank National Association, as trustee under the Senior Secured Notes Indenture.
Senior Unsecured Notes means $2,000,000,000 in aggregate principal amount of the Borrower’s 9.000% senior notes due 2025 issued pursuant to the Senior Unsecured Notes Indenture on the Closing Date.
Initial Debentures means the Debentures designated as “9.5% Unsecured Convertible Debentures” and described in Section 2.5;
New Securities Indenture means an indenture between the Company and the New Securities Trustee, identical in all material respects to the Indenture (except that the transfer restrictions shall be modified or eliminated, as appropriate), which may be the Indenture if in the terms thereof appropriate provision is made for the New Securities.
Existing Senior Notes means the Existing 2020 Senior Notes and the Existing 2021 Senior Notes, collectively.
Bridge Notes means the series of notes, of which this Note is a part, dated on or about the date hereof, each of which are identical, other than the date of the Note, identity of the Holder and principal amount of this Note.