Investment means any advance, loan, extension of credit (by way of guarantee or otherwise), any capital contribution to, or purchase any stock, bonds, notes, debentures or other debt securities of, or any assets constituting a business unit of, or make any other investment in, any other person.
Multiemployer Plan means a multiemployer plan as defined in Section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA to which any Parent Group or any ERISA Affiliate:
| (a) | makes or is obligated to make contributions; |
| (b) | during the preceding five plan years, has made or been obligated to make contributions; or |
| (c) | has any actual or contingent liability. |
Permitted Acquisition means the purchase or other acquisition by the Parent or any Restricted Subsidiary of all or a majority of the Capital Stock of, or all or substantially all of the property of, any person, or of any business or division of any person;provided that with respect to each purchase or other acquisition, after giving effect thereto, the Parent and its Restricted Subsidiaries are in compliance with US ABL Credit Agreement and such newly created or acquired Subsidiary shall, to the extent required by and comply with the requirements in US ABL Credit Agreement.
Plan means any employee benefit plan as defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA, including any employee welfare benefit plan (as defined in Section 3(1) of ERISA), any employee pension benefit plan (as defined in Section 3(2) of ERISA but excluding any Multiemployer Plan), and any plan which is both an employee welfare benefit plan and an employee pension benefit plan, and in respect of which any member of the Parent Group or any ERISA Affiliate is (or, if such Plan were terminated, would under Section 4069 of ERISA be deemed to be) an “employer” as defined in Section 3(5) of ERISA.
Reference Period means each period of four consecutive quarters of the Parent.
Restricted Payments means declare or pay any dividend (other than dividends payable solely in common stock of the person making such dividend) on, or make any payment on account of, or set apart assets for a sinking or other analogous fund for, the purchase, redemption, defeasance, retirement or other acquisition of, any Capital Stock of any member of the Parent Group, whether now or hereafter outstanding, or make any other distribution in respect thereof, either directly or indirectly, whether in cash or property or in obligations of any member of the Parent Group.
Restricted Subsidiary any Subsidiary of the Parent other than an Unrestricted Subsidiary.
Swap Agreementmeans any agreement with respect to any swap, forward, future or derivative transaction or option or similar agreement involving, or settled by reference to, one or more rates, currencies, commodities, equity or debt instruments or securities, or economic, financial or pricing indices or measures of economic, financial or pricing risk or value or any similar transaction or any combination of these transactions; provided that no phantom stock or similar plan providing for payments only on account of services provided by current or former directors, officers, employees or consultants of the Parent or any of its Subsidiaries shall be a “Swap Agreement”.
Swap Obligationmeans, with respect to any person, any and all obligations of such person, whether absolute or contingent and howsoever and whensoever created, arising, evidenced or acquired (including all renewals, extensions and modifications thereof and substitutions therefor), under:
| (a) | any and all Swap Agreements; and |
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