“Specified Disposition” means any sale, transfer or other disposition, or series of related sales, transfers or other dispositions (other than (x) in the ordinary course of business or (y) among Restricted Companies), (a) that involves assets comprising all or substantially all of an operating unit of a business or common Equity Interests of any Person, in each case owned by any Restricted Company and (b) that, at the time of such disposition, represents more than 5% of the Consolidated EBITDA of the Restricted Companies; provided that at the discretion of the Company, any such disposition that meets the criteria set forth in clause (a) above but not the criteria set forth in clause (b) above may be deemed to be a Specified Disposition for purposes of calculations made on a Pro Forma Basis.
“Specified Qualified Acquisition” means any Permitted Acquisition by the Restricted Companies, if the aggregate amount of Indebtedness incurred by the Restricted Companies to finance the purchase price of, or other consideration for, or assumed by the Restricted Companies in connection with, such Permitted Acquisition is at least $1,500,000,000.
“Specified Qualified Acquisition Election” has the meaning specified in Section 7.07.
“Specified Rating Agencies” means S&P and Moody’s.
“Specified Responsible Officer” means the chief executive officer, president, chief financial officer, treasurer, chief accounting officer or chief legal officer of the Company.
“Specified Transaction” means, any Investment, Restricted Payment, designation of an Unrestricted Subsidiary, or incurrence of Indebtedness in respect of which compliance with the financial covenants set forth in Section 7.07 is by the terms of this Agreement required to be calculated on a Pro Forma Basis, or any Specified Disposition.
“Subsidiary” of a Person means a corporation, partnership, joint venture, limited liability company or other business entity of which a majority of the shares of securities or other interests having ordinary voting power for the election of directors or other governing body (other than securities or interests having such power only by reason of the happening of a contingency) are at the time beneficially owned, or the management of which is otherwise controlled, directly, or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, or both, by such Person. Unless otherwise specified, all references herein to a “Subsidiary” or to “Subsidiaries” shall refer to a Subsidiary or Subsidiaries of the Company.
“Successor Company” has the meaning specified in Section 7.02.
“Supplemental Administrative Agent” has the meaning specified in Section 9.12 and “Supplemental Administrative Agents” shall have the corresponding meaning.
“Swap Contract” means (a) any and all rate swap transactions, basis swaps, credit derivative transactions, forward rate transactions, commodity swaps, commodity options, forward contracts, futures contracts, equity or equity index swaps or options, bond or bond price or bond index swaps or options or forward bond or forward bond price or forward bond index transactions, interest rate options, forward foreign exchange transactions, cap transactions, floor transactions, collar transactions, currency swap transactions, cross-currency rate swap transactions, currency options, spot contracts, repurchase agreements, reverse repurchase agreements, sell buy backs and buy sell back agreements, and securities lending and borrowing agreements or any other similar transactions or any combination of any of the foregoing (including any options to enter into any of the foregoing), whether or not any such transaction is governed by or subject to any master agreement, and (b) any and all transactions of any kind, and the related confirmations, which are subject to the terms and conditions of, or governed by, any form of master agreement published by the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc., any International Foreign Exchange Master Agreement, or any other master agreement or related schedules, including any such obligations or liabilities arising therefrom.
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