The Operative Documents will contain events of default (each an “Event of Default”) customarily found in loan agreements for similar debtor in possession financings and other events of default deemed by the DIP Lenders appropriate to or otherwise required by them in relation to this specific transaction, including, without limitation, the following: 1.the Borrowers’ failure to timely meet any Milestone (as defined below) unless extended in writing by the DIP Lenders and the Prepetition Secured Parties, in their sole discretion;
2.the Borrowers’ failure to make any payment to the DIP Lenders or the Prepetition Secured Parties when due under the terms of the Operative Documents;
3.the Borrowers noncompliance with the Budget Covenant;
4.the Borrowers’ noncompliance with the other covenants, or breaches of representations and warranties, in the Operative Documents or the Stalking Horse Purchase Agreement or the Alternative Purchase Agreement (as applicable, the “Purchase Agreement”), or the other documents related thereto (together with the Purchase Agreement, the “363 Sale Documents”);
5.the termination of the Stalking Horse Purchase Agreement or Alternative Purchase Agreement, as applicable;
6.any representation or warranty made by the Borrowers in the Operative Documents or the 363 Sale Documents shall prove to have been incorrect in any material respect when made or at any other times specified therein;
7.any other material breach of the Operative Documents or the 363 Sale Documents;
8.the Borrowers’ failure to satisfy or stay execution of judgments in excess of specified amounts;
9.any uninsured judgments are entered with respect to any postpetition non-ordinary course claims against any of the Borrowers or in a combined aggregate amount in excess of $250,000 unless stayed;
10.the payment of, or application by any Borrower for authority to pay, any prepetition claim or payable (whether by adequate protection or otherwise), via a “first-day” order or otherwise, other than (i) as consented to by the DIP Lenders and the Prepetition Secured Parties, (ii) as authorized by the Budget (including Permitted Variances), and (iii) permitted under the terms of the Operative Documents;
11.material impairment of the rights provided the DIP Lenders under the Operative Documents;
12.the entry of an order: (a) appointing a trustee, receiver or examiner with expanded powers, including to manage the Borrowers’ business, with respect to any of the Borrowers, (b) dismissing any of the Borrowers’ chapter 11 cases, (c) converting any of the Borrowers’ cases to cases under chapter 7 of the Bankruptcy Code, or (d) terminating or reducing the Borrowers’ exclusivity period under section 1121 of the Bankruptcy Code for any reason whatsoever, or the expiration of such period without extension;
13.the filing of any motion or other pleading by the Borrowers seeking, or otherwise consenting to, entry of any of the orders described immediately above, or the Borrowers’ failure to timely contest any such motion or pleading filed by another party;
14.the granting of relief from any stay of proceeding (including, without limitation, the automatic stay) so as to allow a third party to proceed against any assets of the Borrowers in excess of an amount to be determined (and acceptable to DIP Lenders and the Prepetition Secured Parties in their sole discretion), in the aggregate;
15.the filing of a motion by the Borrowers, without written consent of the DIP Lenders and the Prepetition Secured Parties, to incur debt secured by a lien with priority equal to, or superior to, the DIP Liens, the Prepetition Liens or the Adequate Protection Liens or which is given superpriority administrative expense status under section 364(c) of the Bankruptcy Code, unless such motion provides for the proceeds of such debt to be used for the indefeasible payment in full of the DIP Loans, the Prepetition Secured Obligations, the Adequate Protection Amount, and any and all other amounts due to the DIP Lenders and the Prepetition Secured Parties, or any of them;
16.entry of an order granting any lien or superpriority claim with the priority set forth immediately above;
17.the filing of a motion by the Borrowers to use cash collateral of the DIP Lenders or the Prepetition Secured Parties under section 363(c) of the Bankruptcy Code or any equivalent provision of relevant applicable law without prior written consent of the DIP Lenders and the Prepetition Secured Parties;
18.the Borrowers seeking to limit, or the entry of an order limiting, the rights of the DIP Lenders or the Prepetition Secured Parties to “credit bid” any portion of or all of the DIP Loans, the Prepetition Secured Obligations or the Adequate Protection Amount;
19.payment of (or application by any Borrower for authority to pay) adequate protection to any entity other than as set forth herein or in respect of any “first day” motion that the DIP Lenders and the Prepetition Secured Parties have consented to in writing;
20.the Borrowers’ filing of (or supporting another party in the filing of) a motion seeking entry of an order approving any key employee incentive plan, employee retention plan, or comparable plan, without the prior written consent of the DIP Lenders and the Prepetition Secured Parties;
21.any Borrower shall (i) challenge or contest the validity or enforceability of the DIP Orders or any Prepetition Loan Document or Operative Document or deny that it has further liability thereunder, (ii) challenge or contest the nature, extent, amount, enforceability, validity, priority or perfection of the obligations under the DIP Facility, the DIP Liens, the DIP superpriority claims, the Operative Documents, the Prepetition Secured Obligations, the Prepetition Liens, the Prepetition Loan Documents, the Adequate Protection Liens, Adequate Protection Amount, or the Adequate Protection Superpriority Claims, (iii) assert any claim, defense or cause of action that seeks to avoid, recharacterize, subordinate (whether equitable subordination or otherwise), disgorge, disallow, impair or offset all or any portion of the obligations under the DIP Facility, the DIP Liens, the DIP superpriority claims, the Operative Documents, the Prepetition Secured Obligations, the Prepetition Liens, the Prepetition Loan Documents, the Adequate Protection Liens, Adequate Protection Amount, or the Adequate Protection Superpriority Claims, (iv) investigate, join or file any motion, application or other pleading in support of, or publicly support any other entity that has asserted any of the claims, challenges or other requested relief contemplated in clauses (i) - (iii) above, or fails to timely contest such claims, challenges or other requested relief in good faith (provided, that responding to any investigation conducted by an official committee or other party with respect to the nature, extent, amount, enforceability, validity, priority or perfection of the Prepetition Secured Obligations, the Prepetition Liens, the or Prepetition Loan Documents, subject in each case to the DIP Orders, shall not, in and of itself, constitute an Event of Default hereunder, nor shall any objection to entry of the DIP Orders); or (B) the entry of a judgment or order in any of the Bankruptcy Cases sustaining any of the claims, challenges, causes of action or other relief contemplated in clauses (i) - (iii) above).
22.unless consented to in writing by the DIP Lenders and the Prepetition Secured Parties, the filing of a motion seeking approval of a sale pursuant to section 363 of the Bankruptcy Code (other than as contemplated by the Bidding Procedures Order) or a plan of reorganization or liquidation in any of the Chapter 11 Cases that, in either case, does not provide for indefeasible payment in full in cash of the DIP Loans and the Prepetition Secured Obligations and any other amounts outstanding pursuant to the Operative Documents and the Prepetition Loan Documents, on or prior to closing of such sale or the effective date of such plan;
23.unless consented to in writing by the DIP Lenders and the Prepetition Secured Parties, the consummation of any sale of all or substantially all assets of any Borrower pursuant to section 363 of the Bankruptcy Code or the effective date of any chapter 11 plan for any of the Borrowers;
24.the termination, non-renewal, assumption or rejection of any material contract or lease in any manner not consented to in writing by the DIP Lenders and the Prepetition Secured Parties except, in the case of any rejection, to the extent that the Borrowers have given notice to the DIP Lenders of their intent to reject such material contract or lease and DIP Lenders have failed to object to such rejection in writing within three (3) days of receipt of such notice;
25.entry of an order staying, reversing, vacating or otherwise modifying the DIP Facility or the DIP Orders in any manner not consented to in writing by the DIP Lenders and the Prepetition Secured Parties;
26.the filing by the Borrowers of any motion or a pleading seeking to amend, vacate or modify any of the provisions of the Interim DIP Order other than in connection with a Final DIP Order consented to by the DIP Lenders and the Prepetition Secured Parties;
27.Borrowers’ failure to timely perform or comply with any of the terms, provisions, conditions, covenants, or obligations under the Operative Documents, including the DIP Orders and the Budget Covenant; 28.a change of control with respect to any of the Borrowers shall occur (other than as a result of any sale of the Purchased Assets); 29.any material provision of the Operative Documents or the 363 Sale Documents shall cease to be valid and binding on the Borrowers, or the Borrowers shall so assert in any pleading filed in any court;
30.the entry of an order determining that any material portion of (i) the Collateral is not property of the Borrowers or their estates, (ii) the Borrowers’ assets are not capable of being sold pursuant to section 363 of the Bankruptcy Code, or (iii) there is a lien or other encumbrance on any material portion of the Borrowers’ assets that is not a Permitted Encumbrance;
31.the allowance of any claim or claims under section 506(c) of the Bankruptcy Code or otherwise against or in relation to any DIP Lender, Prepetition Secured Party, or Collateral; and
32.cessation of liens or superpriority claims granted in the DIP Orders to be valid, perfected and enforceable in all respects with the priority described herein. |