Exhibit 99(b)
EXECUTION COPY
SUPPLEMENT TO THE EQUITY PURCHASE AND COMMITMENT AGREEMENT
THIS SUPPLEMENT TO THE EQUITY PURCHASE AND COMMITMENT AGREEMENT (this “Supplement”), dated as of January 18, 2007, is made by and among A-D Acquisition Holdings, LLC, a limited liability company formed under the laws of the State of Delaware (“ADAH”), Harbinger Del-Auto Investment Company, Ltd., an exempted company incorporated in the Cayman Islands (“Harbinger”), Dolce Investments LLC (“Dolce”), a limited liability company formed under the laws of the State of Delaware, Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, a Delaware corporation (“Merrill”), UBS Securities LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“UBS”), and Delphi Corporation, a Delaware corporation (as a debtor-in-possession and a reorganized debtor, as applicable, the “Company”). ADAH, Harbinger, Dolce, Merrill and UBS are each individually referred to herein as an “Investor” and collectively as the “Investors”. Capitalized terms used and not defined in this Supplement have the meanings assigned thereto in the EPCA (as defined below).
WHEREAS, the Company and certain of its subsidiaries and affiliates (the “Debtors”) commenced jointly administered cases (the “Chapter 11 Cases”) under United States Bankruptcy Code, 11 U.S.C. §§ 101-1330, as amended and in effect on October 8, 2005 (the “Bankruptcy Code”) in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York (the “Bankruptcy Court”);
WHEREAS, the Company and the Investors have entered into an Equity Purchase and Commitment Agreement (the “EPCA”) dated as of even date herewith;
WHEREAS, on the terms and subject to the conditions contained in this Supplement, the Company and the Investors agree to implement the provisions set forth herein with respect to the EPCA; and
WHEREAS, the Debtors, the Investors and General Motors Corporation have entered into an amendment and supplement to the Plan Framework Support Agreement, dated as of January 18, 2007 (the “PSA Supplement”).
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual promises, agreements, representations, warranties and covenants contained herein, each of the parties hereto hereby agrees as follows:
1. | | Amendment and Supplement of EPCA. |
So long as the official committee of unsecured creditors appointed on October 17, 2005 in the Chapter 11 Cases (the “Creditors’ Committee”) shall support the implementation of the EPCA, the PSA, and each of the transactions contemplated by the EPCA and the PSA, the EPCA shall be amended and supplemented by the provisions set forth below;provided, that if the Creditors’ Committee, in the exercise of its fiduciary duties, shall subsequently withdraw, qualify or modify in a manner adverse to the Investors (or resolve to do any of the foregoing) its support for the implementation of the EPCA, the PSA, or any of the transactions contemplated by the EPCA or the PSA, or shall have
approved or recommended any competing or other transaction inconsistent with the EPCA or the PSA, this Supplement shall terminate and shall be of no further force or effect and as a result, all additions contained in this Supplement shall be deleted, all deletions resulting from this Supplement shall be reinserted and the EPCA will remain in full force and effect as if this Supplement had never existed (a “Withdrawal of Support”);provided, that if the Creditors’ Committee (a) objects in any pleading to (i) any of the terms of any Plan Document (as such term in defined in the PSA) solely on the basis of comments provided by such committee pursuant to Section 2.1 of the PSA Supplement, but rejected by the Debtors or the Investors or (ii) the position that the Debtors, any Investor or any other party takes as to the appropriate rate of interest on Trade and Other Unsecured Claims (as defined in the PSA) as permitted by Section 6.3 of the PSA as amended by the PSA Supplement, or (b) unsuccessfully seeks the termination of the EPCA pursuant to Section 2(h) below, then in each such case such objection or action shall not be considered a Withdrawal of Support for the purposes of this Supplement.
2. | | Amended and Supplemented Provisions of EPCA. |
On the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in Section 1:
| (a) | | In Section 2(j) of the EPCA, after the words “to the extent incurred on or before” shall be added “the first to occur of the date on which this Agreement terminates in accordance with its terms and”. |
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| (b) | | At the end of the first sentence of Section 5(t) of the EPCA, the following provision shall be added: |
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| | | “;provided, that if the Company delivers to ADAH and Dolce definitive term sheets for such proposed debt financing that have been approved by the Company’s board of directors and executed by the banks or other financing sources providing such debt financing reflecting then-prevailing market terms with respect to the applicable interest rate, redemption provisions and fees (a “Company Financing Proposal”), then each of ADAH and Dolce shall inform the Company in writing (a “Financing Notice”) whether or not the Company Financing Proposal is acceptable to it within five (5) Business Days of its receipt of the definitive term sheets for such Company Financing Proposal. If after the Company delivers to ADAH and Dolce a Company Financing Proposal either ADAH or Dolce fails to deliver a Financing Notice within five (5) Business Days or each of the following circumstances occurs, then the Company may terminate this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby may be abandoned: (x) either ADAH or Dolce delivers a Financing Notice in which it does not approve the Company Financing Proposal, (y) ADAH and Dolce do not present to the Company, within 30 days of the delivery of the Financing Notice by each of ADAH and Dolce (the “Financing Decision Date”), an alternative written expression of interest to provide the Debt Financing on terms more favorable to the Company than the Company Financing Proposal (a “Preferred Debt Financing”) and (z) ADAH and Dolce do not provide to the Company commitment letters executed by the banks or other financing sources providing |