Collateral and Guarantors
All obligations under the ABL Facility (and at the Company’s option certain hedging, cash management and bank product obligations secured under the ABL Facility) are unconditionally guaranteed by Parent on a limited-recourse basis and each of the Subsidiary Guarantors. The obligations are secured by a pledge of the Company’s capital stock directly held by Parent and substantially all of assets of the Company and each Subsidiary Guarantor, including a pledge of the capital stock of all entities directly held by the Company or any Subsidiary Guarantor (which pledge is limited to 65% of the capital stock of first-tier foreign subsidiaries), in each case subject to exceptions. Such security interest consists of (1) a first-priority lien with respect to the ABL Priority Collateral and (2) a second-priority lien with respect to the Term/Notes Priority Collateral.
Restrictive Covenants and Other Matters
The ABL Facility requires that the Company, commencing on or after the last day of the first full fiscal quarter ending after the Closing Date, maintain a minimum fixed charge coverage ratio of 1.0 to 1.0 at any time if as of such time availability is less than the greater of (x) $50 million and (y) 10% of the lesser of (i) the borrowing base at such time and (ii) the aggregate amount of ABL Facility commitments at such time.
The ABL Facility contains certain customary affirmative covenants. The negative covenants in the ABL Facility include, among other things, limitations (none of which are absolute) on the ability of each of the Company, and its restricted subsidiaries to, among other things: (i) incur or guarantee additional indebtedness; (ii) pay dividends or distributions on, or redeem or repurchase, capital stock and make other restricted payments; (iii) make certain investments; (iv) consummate certain asset sales; (v) engage in certain transactions with affiliates; and (vi) grant or assume certain liens.
The ABL Facility contains certain customary events of default, including relating to a change of control. If an event of default occurs, the lenders under the ABL Facility will be entitled to take various actions, including the acceleration of amounts due under the ABL Facility and all actions permitted to be taken by a secured creditor in respect of the collateral securing the ABL Facility.
Certain Relationships
The lenders under the Term Loan Facility and the ABL Facility and their respective affiliates have in the past engaged, and may in the future engage, in transactions with and perform services, including commercial banking, financial advisory and investment banking services, for the Company and its affiliates in the ordinary course of business for which they have received or will receive customary fees and expenses. Affiliates of one or more of the lenders under the Term Loan Facility and the ABL Facility acted as initial purchasers in the offering of the Secured Notes and received customary fees in connection with such offering.
Item 1.02 | Termination of a Material Definitive Agreement. |
Termination of ABL Credit Agreement and Term Loan Credit Agreement
In connection with the consummation of the Merger, on the Closing Date, Michaels Stores, Inc. (“MSI”), an indirect, wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company, terminated (i) the Third Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated May 27, 2016 (as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified, including pursuant to the First Amendment to Third Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated August 30, 2019, the “Existing ABL Credit Agreement”; the asset-based loan facility provided pursuant to the ABL Credit Agreement, the “Existing ABL Credit Facility”), by and among MSI and certain subsidiaries of MSI, as borrowers, Michaels Funding, Inc., the direct parent company of MSI, and certain subsidiaries of MSI, as facility guarantors, the lenders from time to time party thereto and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as administrative agent and collateral agent; and (ii) the Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated January 28, 2013 (as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified, including pursuant to the First Amendment to Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated June 10, 2014, the Second Amendment to Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated September 28, 2016, the Third