Exhibit 4.46
Confidential | Execution Version |
Dated 10 December 2021
PT HOEGH LNG LAMPUNG
as Borrower
and other Obligors
with
STANDARD CHARTERED BANK
as Facility Agent and Security Agent
for and on behalf of certain Finance Parties
STANDARD CHARTERED BANK
as K-sure Agent
THE FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS LISTED HEREIN
as Exiting Commercial Lenders
THE FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS LISTED HEREIN
as New Commercial Lenders
Second amendment and restatement agreement
relating to a term loan facility agreement dated 12 September 2013
(as supplemented, amended and restated by a Side Letter
dated 11 March 2014, a Second Side Letter dated 18 December 2014,
a Third Side Letter dated 30 June 2015, a Fourth Side
Letter dated 22 October 2015 and a First Amendment and
Restatement Agreement dated 29 September 2021)
for a $299,000,000 Term Loan Facility
in respect of the Floating Storage Regasification Unit
“PGN FSRU Lampung”
Contents
Clause | Page | |
1 | Interpretation | 2 |
2 | K-sure Lenders’ and K-Sure’s consent | 3 |
3 | Amendment and restatement | 3 |
4 | Representations and warranties | 3 |
5 | Fees and Expenses | 4 |
6 | Confirmations | 4 |
7 | Release of the Released Guarantees | 4 |
8 | Effective Date | 4 |
9 | Transfer of Commercial Lenders | 6 |
10 | Reservation of Rights | 9 |
11 | Miscellaneous | 10 |
12 | Governing Law and Dispute Resolution | 11 |
Schedule 1 Form of Amended and Restated Facility Agreement | 12 | |
Schedule 2 Commercial Lenders | 12 |
THIS AGREEMENT is dated 10 December 2021 and made between:
1 | PT HOEGH LNG LAMPUNG (the Borrower); |
2 | HÖEGH LNG PARTNERS LP (the Guarantor); |
3 | HOEGH LNG LAMPUNG PTE. LTD. (the Singapore Shareholder); |
4 | PT BAHTERA DAYA UTAMA (the Indonesian Shareholder); |
5 | HOEGH LNG SHIPPING SERVICES PTE. LTD., HOEGH LNG ASIA PTE. LTD., and HÖEGH LNG AS (the O&M Contractors and each an O&M Contractor); |
6 | STANDARD CHARTERED BANK as KSURE agent (the K-sure Agent); |
7 | STANDARD CHARTERED BANK as facility agent for the other Finance Parties (the Facility Agent); |
8 | STANDARD CHARTERED BANK as security agent for the Finance Parties (the Security Agent); |
9 | THE FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS listed in Schedule 2 of this Agreement as exiting commercial lenders (the Exiting Commercial Lenders); and |
10 | THE FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS listed in Schedule 2 of this Agreement as new commercial lenders (the New Commercial Lenders). |
WHEREAS:
(A) | Reference is made to: |
a. | the facility agreement dated 12 September 2013 (as supplemented, amended and restated by a Side Letter dated 11 March 2014, a Second Side Letter dated 18 December 2014, a Third Side Letter dated 30 June 2015, a Fourth Side Letter dated 22 October 2015 and a First Amendment and Restatement Agreement dated 29 September 2021 (the First Amendment and Restatement Agreement) and as further amended and supplemented from time to time (the Original Agreement)) for a $299,000,000 term loan facility in respect of the floating storage regasification unit “PGN FSRU Lampung” (the Vessel); |
b. | the irrevocable financial guarantee and indemnity in respect of the repayment of the Balloon and any LC Loan (as each such expression is defined in the Original Agreement) dated 20 September 2013 (as amended and restated by the First Amendment and Restatement Agreement) issued by Hoegh LNG Holdings Ltd (the Released Guarantor) in favour of the Security Agent (the Balloon Repayment Guarantee); and |
c. | the irrevocable financial guarantee and indemnity in respect of the K-sure Facility dated 20 September 2013 (as reconfirmed pursuant to the First Amendment and Restatement Agreement) issued by the Released Guarantor in favour of the K-sure Agent (the Prepayment Guarantee). |
(B) | Pursuant to clause 22.15 (Approved Refinancing) of the Original Agreement, the Borrower is entitled to procure that the Balloon is effectively refinanced by an extension of the FSRU Tranche Final Maturity Date (as defined in the Original Agreement) by way of an Approved Refinancing. |
(C) | The Parties have agreed to enter into this Agreement for the purposes of making certain amendments to the Original Agreement to reflect the terms of the Approved Refinancing, as |
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set out herein, including to release the Balloon Repayment Guarantee and the Prepayment Guarantee (together, the Released Guarantees) and replace them with the Guarantee.
(D) | The Facility Agent has obtained the consent of the Lenders to the terms of this Agreement and is accordingly entering into this Agreement on behalf of itself, the Mandated Lead Arrangers, the Lenders, the Hedging Banks, the Offshore Account Bank and the Onshore Account Bank, with their authority, in accordance with clause 37.1 (Appointment of the Facility Agent) of the Original Agreement. |
(E) | The K-sure Agent has obtained the consent of K-sure to the terms of this Agreement and is accordingly entering into this Agreement on behalf of itself and K-sure, with its authority, in accordance with clause 37.34 (K-sure Agent) of the Original Agreement. |
IT IS AGREED as follows:
1 | Interpretation |
1.1 | Definitions in Original Agreement |
Unless the context otherwise requires and save as mentioned below, words and expressions defined in the Original Agreement shall have the same meanings when used in this Agreement. In addition, in this Agreement, the following expressions shall have the following meanings:
2021 Disclosure Letters means the letter dated 29 September 2021, and the updated letter dated 26 November 2021, from the Borrower to the Facility Agent and the K-Sure Agent in relation to, inter alia, the PGN Arbitration.
Amended and Restated Facility Agreement means the Original Agreement as amended and restated pursuant to this Agreement.
Cash Lock-Up Account means, from the Effective Date, the redesignated Construction Account opened by the Borrower with the Offshore Account Bank with account number 0106930885.
Effective Date shall have the meaning given to it in clause 8 (Effective Date).
Fee Letter(s) means the arrangement fee letter(s) dated on or about the date of this Agreement between the Facility Agent, the New Commercial Lenders and the Borrower.
Guarantee means the guarantee dated on or about the date of this Agreement between the Guarantor, the Facility Agent and the Security Agent.
PGN Arbitration means the arbitration proceedings commenced by the Charterer against the Borrower in respect of the Charter by its notice of arbitration dated 2 August 2021 seeking to declare the Charter null and void and/or to terminate the Charter.
Relevant Parties means the Borrower, the Guarantor, the Singapore Shareholder, the Indonesian Shareholder and each O&M Contractor.
1.2 | Interpretation |
(a) | References in the Original Agreement to “this Agreement” shall, with effect from the Effective Date and unless the context otherwise requires, be references to the Original Agreement as amended by this Agreement and words such as “herein”, “hereof”, “hereunder”, “hereafter”, “hereby” and “hereto”, where they appear in the Original Agreement, shall be construed accordingly. |
(b) | This Agreement is a Finance Document. |
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1.3 | Incorporation of certain references |
Clauses 1.2 (Construction) to 1.6 (K-sure) of the Original Agreement shall be deemed to be incorporated in this Agreement in full, mutatis mutandis.
2 | K-sure Lenders’ and K-Sure’s consent |
(a) | The Facility Agent, by its signature to this Agreement, confirms that the K-sure Lenders are familiar with, and have consented to, the amendments to the Original Agreement as documented by this Agreement, subject to and in the manner set out in the other provisions of this Agreement (including, without limitation, clause 10 (Reservation of Rights)). |
(b) | The K-Sure Agent, by its signature to this Agreement, confirms that K-sure is familiar with, and has consented to, the amendments to the Original Agreement as documented by this Agreement, subject to and in the manner set out in the other provisions of this Agreement. |
3 | Amendment and restatement |
3.1 | Amendment and restatement of Original Agreement |
On and from the Effective Date, the Original Agreement shall be amended and restated as set out Schedule 1 (Form of Amended and Restated Facility Agreement) to this Agreement.
3.2 | Continuing obligations |
Each of the Relevant Parties hereby agrees that, notwithstanding the amendments made to the Original Agreement and the Finance Documents by this Agreement, its obligations under the Finance Documents to which it is a party, shall remain and continue in full force and effect (as amended and supplemented hereunder) and the Original Agreement and this Agreement shall each be read and construed as one instrument.
4 | Representations and warranties |
The Borrower represents and warrants to the Facility Agent on the date of this Agreement and on the Effective Date that:
(a) | other than as set out in paragraphs (b) and (c) below, the representations and warranties set out in clause 19 (Representations) of the Original Agreement are true and correct as if made at the date of this Agreement with reference to the facts and circumstances existing at such date(s) and as if: |
(i) | references therein to “Transaction Documents” or “Finance Documents” included reference to this Agreement; |
(ii) | references therein to “Security Documents” referred to the Security Documents as amended and/or confirmed pursuant to this Agreement; |
(iii) | references therein (and in the definition of ‘Legal Reservations’) to "legal opinions" also included the legal opinions delivered to the Facility Agent in connection with this Agreement; and |
(iv) | references therein to “Original Financial Statements” were to the latest financial statements delivered by the Borrower in accordance with the Original Agreement; and |
(b) | in respect of the representation and warranty set out in clause 19.14 (No proceedings pending or threatened) of the Original Agreement, other than as disclosed to the Facility |
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Agent and the K-sure Agent in the 2021 Disclosure Letters, no litigation, arbitration or administrative proceedings or investigations of, or before, any court, arbitral body or agency have (to the best of any Obligor’s knowledge and belief) been started or threatened against any Obligor which in relation to the Guarantor only, if adversely determined, would have or might reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
5 | Fees and Expenses |
(a) | The Borrower shall pay to any relevant Finance Party (each for its own account) the fees in the amounts and at the times agreed in the Fee Letter(s). |
(b) | The Borrower shall pay to the Facility Agent within fifteen (15) Business Days of demand all expenses (including legal fees) reasonably incurred by it in connection with the negotiation, preparation, printing and execution of this Agreement and any other documents referred to in this Agreement. |
6 | Confirmations |
(a) | Each of the Relevant Parties acknowledges and agrees that, notwithstanding the amendments to the Original Agreement made pursuant to this Agreement and the release of the Released Guarantees (together, the Amendments), each of the Finance Documents to which it is a party and its obligations and liabilities thereunder remain in full force and effect and each of the Security Documents (other than the Guarantees and the Guarantor’s Letter of Undertaking (as each such expression is defined in the Original Agreement)) remain effective to secure the Secured Obligations (as defined in those Security Documents and as amended by this Agreement) in favour of the Finance Parties. |
(b) | Each of the Relevant Parties acknowledges and agrees that, with effect from the Effective Date references to “the Agreement” or “the Facility Agreement” (where referring to the Original Agreement) in any of the Finance Documents to which it is a party shall henceforth be a reference to the Original Agreement as amended by this Agreement. |
(c) | The Borrower and the Security Agent (as Security Agent and as Offshore Account Bank) acknowledge and agree that on and from the Effective Date, the Construction Account shall be redesignated as the Cash Lock-Up Account. The Borrower acknowledges and agrees that notwithstanding such redesignation, the Security Interest constituted by the Account Security dated 11 October 2013 remains in full force and effect and effective as to secure the Secured Obligations. The Security Agent (as Security Agent and as Offshore Account Bank) acknowledges such Security Interest and no further notice or acknowledgement of charge is required. |
7 | Release of the Released Guarantees |
On the Effective Date, the Security Agent irrevocably and unconditionally releases the Released Guarantor from all obligations and liabilities (actual or contingent) under the Released Guarantees.
8 | Effective Date |
The amendments made to the Original Agreement by this Agreement, and the new Guarantee, shall take effect on and from the date (the Effective Date) on which the Facility Agent notifies the Borrower that the Facility Agent has received the following documents and evidence in form and substance satisfactory to it:
(a)in respect of the Relevant Parties:
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(i) | a copy certified by (A) a duly authorised officer and/or the company secretary of the Relevant Party or (B) in the case of the Borrower and the Indonesian Shareholder, an authorised director of the Borrower and the Indonesian Shareholder in accordance with its articles of association to be a true, complete and up-to-date copy, of the Constitutional Documents of that Relevant Party or equivalent documents in respect of that Relevant Party; |
(ii) | a copy, certified by (A) a duly authorised officer and/or the company secretary of the Relevant Party or (B) in the case of the Borrower and the Indonesian Shareholder, an authorised director of the Borrower and the Indonesian Shareholder in accordance with its articles of association to be a true copy, and as being in full force and effect and not amended or rescinded, of resolutions of the board of directors or governors (or of a committee of the board of directors or governors or an analogous management body) of that person: |
a. | approving the entering into by the Relevant Party of this Agreement; |
b. | authorising the execution by that Relevant Party of this Agreement; and |
c. | authorising an individual or individuals to sign and deliver on behalf of that Relevant Party this Agreement; |
(iii) | if required by that Relevant Party’s Constitutional Documents or applicable law, a copy of a resolution signed by all (or requisite number of) the holders of the issued shares in that Relevant Party, approving the terms of, and the transactions contemplated by, this Agreement; |
(iv) | a copy certified by (A) a duly authorised officer and/or the company secretary of that person or (B) in the case of the Borrower and the Indonesian Shareholder, an authorised director of the Borrower and the Indonesian Shareholder in accordance with its articles of association to be a true copy, and as being in full force and effect and not revoked or withdrawn, of any power of attorney issued by that person pursuant to the said resolutions; |
(v) | a certificate of incumbency (or equivalent) with a list of those signatories of the applicable Relevant Party that have executed or will execute (and who are authorised to do the same) this Agreement together with specimen signatures or attaching copies of documents with specimen signatures; |
(vi) | in relation to the Guarantor, a Certificate of Goodstanding dated within 1 month of the date on which the opinion referred to in paragraph (g)(iv) below is issued evidencing that the Guarantor remains in good standing with the Marshall Islands Registry on such date; and |
(vii) | a copy of a resolution of the board of commissioners of the Borrower and the Indonesian Shareholder, approving the terms of, and the transaction contemplated by, this Agreement; |
(b)the duly executed Guarantee;
(c)the duly executed Fee Letter(s);
(d) | evidence acceptable to the Facility Agent that all fees and expenses due to the Finance Parties from the Borrower pursuant to this Agreement and the Fee Letter(s) have been paid in full; |
(e) | no Event of Default is continuing as at the date of this Agreement or the Effective Date (and a certificate from an authorised director of the Borrower in accordance with its |
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articles of association confirming that no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing as at the date of this Agreement);
(f) | documentation and/or evidence satisfying the Lenders’ (including the New Commercial Lenders’) “know your customers” requirements which have been notified to the Borrower; |
(g) | legal opinions from: |
(i) | Norton Rose Fulbright (Asia) LLP, as English legal counsel to the Lenders, in respect of the validity and enforceability of this Agreement as a matter of English law; |
(ii) | Norton Rose Fulbright (Asia) LLP, as Singaporean legal counsel to the Lenders, in respect of the Singapore Shareholder and the execution of this Agreement by the Singapore Shareholder; |
(iii) | TNB & Partners in association with Norton Rose Fulbright Australia, as Indonesian legal counsel to the Lenders, in respect of the Borrower and each Indonesian Shareholder and the execution of this Agreement by each such person; and |
(iv) | Watson Farley & William LLP, as Marshall Islands counsel to the Lenders, in respect of the Guarantor and the execution of the Guarantee by the Guarantor; |
(h) | a duly executed bilingual (in English and Indonesian language) document which contains the key commercial terms of this Agreement; and |
(i) | in relation to the Reinsurance Fiduciary Assignment, the notice from the Borrower to the Insurer in which the Borrower informs that it has entered into this Agreement. |
9 | Transfer of Commercial Lenders |
(a) | This Agreement shall also take effect as a Transfer Certificate for the purposes of the Facility Agreement. |
(b) | On the Effective Date, the Exiting Commercial Lenders and the New Commercial Lenders agree, in accordance with clause 34.5 (Procedure for transfer) of the Facility Agreement: |
(i) | to the relevant Exiting Commercial Lender specified below assigning to the relevant New Commercial Lender(s) specified below all or part of that Exiting Commercial Lender’s rights (and such New Commercial Lender(s) assuming that Exiting Commercial Lender’s obligations) under the Facility Agreement and the other Finance Documents as referred to below and that Exiting Commercial Lender assigns and agrees to assign such rights to such New Commercial Lender(s) with effect from the Effective Date: |
DNB Bank ASA:
(A) | Bayfront Infrastructure Capital Pte Ltd assigns to DNB Bank ASA $1,599,642.21 of its Commitment in the Commercial Facility; |
(B) | Korea Development Bank assigns to DNB Bank ASA $3,067,024.79 of its Commitment in the Commercial Facility; and |
such that as at the Effective Date, DNB Bank ASA’s Commitment in the Commercial Facility shall be $4,666,667.
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Nordea Bank Abp, filial i Norge:
(A) | MUFG Bank, Ltd, Singapore Branch assigns to Nordea Bank Abp, filial i Norge $2,567,557.39 of its Commitment in the Commercial Facility; and |
(B) | Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation assigns to Nordea Bank Abp, filial i Norge $2,099,109.61 of its Commitment in the Commercial Facility, |
such that as at the Effective Date, Nordea Bank Abp, filial i Norge’s Commitment in the Commercial Facility shall be $4,666,667.
ABN AMRO Bank N.V., Oslo Branch:
(A) | Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation assigns to ABN AMRO Bank N.V., Oslo Branch $1,001,661.85 of its Commitment in the Commercial Facility; and |
(B) | Standard Chartered Bank (Singapore) Limited assigns to ABN AMRO Bank N.V., Oslo Branch $3,100,771.44 of its Commitment in the Commercial Facility; and |
(C) | Korea Development Bank assigns to ABN AMRO Bank N.V., Oslo Branch $33,746.67 of its Commitment in the Commercial Facility; and |
(D) | DBS Bank Ltd assigns to ABN AMRO Bank N.V., Oslo Branch $530,487.04 of its Commitment in the Commercial Facility |
such that as at the Effective Date, ABN AMRO Bank N.V., Oslo Branch’s Commitment in the Commercial Facility shall be $4,666,667.
(ii) | that each of the Exiting Commercial Lenders is released from the obligations owed by it which correspond to that portion of that Exiting Commercial Lender’s Commitment and participation in the Commercial Loan under the Facility Agreement specified above (but the obligations owed by the Obligors under the Finance Documents shall not be released); |
(iii) | that, on the Effective Date, each New Commercial Lender shall become a Party as a Commercial Lender and shall be bound by obligations equivalent to those from which the Exiting Commercial Lenders are released under paragraph (ii) above (in the amounts specified in paragraph (i) above); and |
(iv) | that the Facility Office and address, fax number and attention details for notices of each New Commercial Lender for the purposes of clause 39.2 (Addresses) of the Facility Agreement are: |
In respect of DBS Bank Ltd:
Credit Correspondence
Address: 12 Marina Boulevard Level 45, DBS Asia Central @ Marina Bay Financial Centre Tower 3, Singapore 018982
Attn: Dax Chow
Email: daxchow@dbs.com
Tel: +65 68785531
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Admin Correspondence
Address: 12 Marina Boulevard Level 45, DBS Asia Central @ Marina Bay Financial Centre Tower 3, Singapore 018982
Attn: Erin Foong / Debbie Kong
Tel : +65 6878 5184 / +65 6878 8578
Fax: + 65 6224 7044/ + 65 6224 7044
Email : erinfoong@dbs.com / debbiekong@dbs.com
In respect of DNB Bank ASA:
Loan issuer
DNB Bank ASA (Org. no 984 851 006)
Address Headquarter
Dronning Eufemias gate 30
0191 Oslo
Norway
Credit contact
Marius Eriksen
marius.eriksen@dnb.no
+47 936 88 186
Operational contact
DNB Loan admin
loanadmin.corporate@dnb.no
In respect of Nordea Bank Abp, filial i Norge:
Nordea Bank Abp, filial i Norge
Essendrops gate 7, P.O. Box 1166, Sentrum, NO-0107 Oslo, Norway
For loans operations matters:
Email:sls.shipping.norway@nordea.com
Attn :Nordea Loan Administration, Structured Loan Services
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In respect of ABN AMRO Bank N.V., Oslo Branch:
Facility Office:
ABN AMRO Bank N.V., Oslo Branch
Address: Olav Vs gate 5, 0161 Oslo, Norway
Business/Credit Matters:
Attn: Hilde Egeland Olsen / Emile Karsten
Address: Olav Vs gate 5, 0161 Oslo, Norway
Email: hilde.olsen@no.abnamro.com / Emile.karsten@no.abnamro.com
Tlf: +47 48 49 78 88 / +47 47 46 45 78
Administrative/Operations Matters:
Attn: OPS Credits Lending COB
Address: Coolsingel 93, 3012 AE Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Tlf: +31 10 4018628 / +31 10 4015639
Email: loket.leningenadministratie.ccs@nl.abnamro.com
(c) | The Relevant Parties, the Exiting Commercial Lenders and the New Commercial Lenders confirm, in accordance with Article 1421 of the Indonesian Civil Code and without prejudice to clause 6 (Confirmation) of this Agreement, that following the assignment of the Exiting Commercial Lender’s rights (and such New Commercial Lender(s) assuming that Exiting Commercial Lender’s obligations), the Original Security Documents shall continue to secure the Secured Obligations in favour of the Finance Parties. |
(d) | Each New Commercial Lender expressly acknowledges the limitations on the Exiting Commercial Lenders’ obligations set out in clause 34.4 (Limitation of responsibility of Existing Lenders) of the Facility Agreement. |
(e) | This Agreement acts as notice to the Facility Agent (on behalf of each Finance Party) and to the Borrower (on behalf of each Obligor) of the assignment referred to in this Agreement. |
(f) | This Agreement is accepted by the Facility Agent as a Transfer Certificate for the purposes of the Facility Agreement and the Transfer Date is confirmed as being the Effective Date. |
10 | Reservation of Rights |
10.1 | Notwithstanding the amendments to the Original Agreement (as set out in this Agreement), the Parties acknowledge that the Finance Parties have reserved and continue to reserve all rights and remedies that the Facility Agent and any of the other Finance Parties may have now or at any time under the Finance Documents arising as a result of the PGN Arbitration or the underlying facts giving rise to the PGN Arbitration and in relation to any breach or Default or Event of Default which may have occurred or be outstanding or which may occur or may be outstanding in the future. |
10.2 | Neither the Lenders’ nor K-sure’s consent in clause 2 (Lenders’ and K-sure’s consent), nor the amendments to the Original Agreement in clause 3, nor any delay in enforcing any rights arising under the Finance Documents as a result of any Default or Event of Default shall in any way |
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constitute a waiver of any Default or Event of Default and no waiver shall be implied as a result of any acts or omissions of the Finance Parties at any time.
10.3 | Any past, present or future conduct of the Finance Parties (or any of them) such as, for example only, any discussion with the Borrower or the Guarantor or performance of any Finance Document or not accelerating or taking any enforcement action does not constitute an election to affirm any Default or Event of Default or any breach of any Finance Document. |
10.4 | All of the Finance Parties’ rights under the Amended and Restated Facility Agreement and the other Finance Documents including, but not limited to, the right to specify further breaches and/or Defaults and/or Events of Default under the Amended and Restated Facility Agreement and/or the other Finance Documents and the right to accelerate the Loans under the Amended and Restated Facility Agreement in accordance with clause 31.30 (Acceleration) of the Amended and Restated Facility Agreement and exercise rights under the Finance Documents, are hereby expressly reserved and nothing contained herein shall constitute a waiver of the same. |
10.5 | This Agreement is in addition to and does not amend or replace in any way the terms of any previous correspondence sent by the Facility Agent to the Borrower in relation to any Default or Event of Default which has occurred under the Original Agreement, nor any other letter sent by the Facility Agent to the Borrower in relation to the Finance Documents (except to the extent the particular subject matter directly contradicts or supersedes a term of any such previous correspondence or letter). |
10.6 | Nothing in this Agreement shall constitute a waiver, or prejudice, diminish or otherwise adversely affect, any of the present or future rights, remedies, powers or discretions of the Finance Parties arising in respect of or pursuant to the Finance Documents, nor shall any single or partial exercise of any right, remedy, power or discretion prevent any further or other exercise or the exercise of any other right, remedy, power or discretion. |
11 | Miscellaneous |
11.1 | Translations |
(a) | This Agreement is executed in the English language. The Parties confirm that they fully understand and agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Agreement notwithstanding that it is prepared and executed in English. |
(b) | In compliance with Law No. 24 of 2009 regarding National Flag, Language, Emblem and Anthem in conjunction with Presidential Regulation No. 63 of 2019 regarding the Use of Indonesian Language (the Indonesian Language Regulation), the Borrower agrees, at its own cost, to translate and to ensure that the relevant Obligors take such actions as are reasonably required on their part and to use reasonable endeavours on the part of the other relevant Indonesian parties to execute a Bahasa Indonesia version of this Agreement and the Amended and Restated Facility Agreement in the agreed form, with (i) a confirmation that the translation constitutes the Indonesian version of the document to satisfy the requirements of the Indonesian Language Regulation and (ii) similar language undertakings as are provided in paragraphs (a), (c) and (d) of this clause 9.1, no later than thirty (30) days after the date of this Agreement (or any other date as agreed between the Borrower and the Facility Agent) and provide an original of the same (signed by the relevant Obligors) to the Facility Agent. |
(c) | The Parties agree that: (i) the Bahasa Indonesia version of this Agreement and the Amended and Restated Facility Agreement, if executed, will be deemed to be effective from the date the English language version was executed; and (ii) in the event of inconsistency between the Bahasa Indonesia version and the English version, to the extent permitted under applicable laws, the English version shall prevail. |
(d) | The Borrower further agrees and undertakes not to (or allow or assist any other party to), in any manner or forum, challenge the validity of, or raise or file any objection to, |
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this Agreement or the Amended and Restated Facility Agreement or the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and the Amended and Restated Facility Agreement on the basis of any failure to comply with Law No. 24 of 2009 regarding National Flag, Language, Emblem and Anthem in conjunction with Presidential Regulation No. 63 of 2019 regarding the Use of Indonesian Language or its implementing regulations or other similar laws and regulations applicable in Indonesia.
11.2 | Counterparts |
This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which shall be deemed to be an original as against any Party whose signature appears thereon, and all of which shall together constitute one and the same instrument. This Agreement shall become binding when one or more counterparts hereof, individually or taken together, shall bear the signatures of all of the Parties reflected hereon as the signatories.
11.3 | Severability |
If, at any time, any provision of this Agreement is or becomes illegal, invalid or unenforceable in any respect under any law of any jurisdiction, neither the legality, validity or enforceability of the remaining provisions nor the legality, validity or enforceability of such provision in any other respect or under the law of any other jurisdiction will be affected or impaired in any way.
11.4 | Notices |
The provisions of clause 42 (Notices) of the Original Agreement shall extend and apply to the giving or making of notices or demands hereunder as if the same were expressly stated herein.
12 | Governing Law and Dispute Resolution |
(a) | This Agreement and any non-contractual obligations arising out of or in connection with it shall be governed by, and shall be construed in accordance with, English law. |
(b) | Clause 49 (Enforcement) of the Original Agreement shall be deemed to be incorporated in this Agreement in full, mutatis mutandis. |
IN WITNESS whereof the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be duly executed the day and year first above written.
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Schedule 1
Form of Amended and Restated Facility Agreement
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Execution Version
Dated 12 September 2013
as supplemented, amended and restated by
a Side Letter dated 11 March 2014, a Second Side Letter dated 18 December 2014,
a Third Side Letter dated 30 June 2015, a Fourth Side Letter dated
22 October 2015, a First Amendment and Restatement Agreement dated 29 September 2021
and a Second Amendment and Restatement Agreement dated
10 December 2021 (and as may be further amended from time to time)
PT HOEGH LNG LAMPUNG
with
DBS BANK LTD., DNB BANK ASA, NORDEA BANK ABP, FILIAL I NORGE, ABN
AMRO BANK N.V., OSLO BRANCH, MUFG BANK, LTD., KOREA
DEVELOPMENT BANK, OVERSEA-CHINESE BANKING CORPORATION
LIMITED, AND STANDARD CHARTERED BANK (SINGAPORE) LIMITED
as Mandated Lead Arrangers
STANDARD CHARTERED BANK
as Facility Agent and Security Agent
THE FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS LISTED HEREIN
as Lenders
THE FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS LISTED HEREIN
as Hedging Banks
STANDARD CHARTERED BANK
as Offshore Account Bank
STANDARD CHARTERED BANK, JAKARTA BRANCH
as Onshore Account Bank
STANDARD CHARTERED BANK
as K-sure Agent
FACILITY AGREEMENT
for a $237,100,000 Term Loan Facility
in respect of the construction of one (1) Floating Storage Regasification Unit
“PGN FSRU Lampung”
(ex Hull No. 2548 at Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., Ltd.)
and a tower yoke mooring system
Contents
Clause | Page | |
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Section 1 – Interpretation | 1 | |
1 | Definitions and interpretation | 1 |
Section 2 - The Facilities | 50 | |
2 | The Facilities | 50 |
3 | Purpose | 51 |
4 | Conditions of Utilisation | 51 |
Section 3 - Utilisation | 54 | |
5 | Utilisation of Term Facility | 54 |
6 | [Intentionally blank] | 55 |
7 | [Intentionally blank] | 55 |
Section 4 - Repayment, Prepayment and Cancellation | 56 | |
8 | Repayment | 56 |
9 | Illegality, prepayment and cancellation | 56 |
Section 5 - Costs of Utilisation | 63 | |
10 | Interest | 63 |
11 | Interest Periods | 64 |
12 | Changes to the calculation of interest | 65 |
13 | Fees | 66 |
Section 6 - Additional Payment Obligations | 68 | |
14 | Tax gross-up and indemnities | 68 |
15 | Increased Costs | 71 |
16 | Other indemnities | 72 |
17 | Mitigation by the Lenders | 76 |
18 | Costs and expenses | 76 |
Section 7 - Representations, Undertakings and Events of Default | 78 | |
19 | Representations | 78 |
20 | Information undertakings | 84 |
21 | Financial covenants | 87 |
22 | General undertakings | 88 |
23 | [Intentionally blank] | 92 |
24 | Project undertakings | 92 |
25 | Dealings with the Vessel | 101 |
26 | Condition and operation of Vessel | 102 |
27 | Insurance | 104 |
28 | Minimum security value | 109 |
29 | Project Accounts, Receivables and Insurance Proceeds | 111 |
30 | Business restrictions | 124 |
31 | Hedging | 128 |
32 | Events of Default | 132 |
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33 | Position of Hedging Banks | 141 |
Section 8 - Changes to Parties | 144 | |
34 | Changes to the Lenders | 144 |
35 | Changes to the Obligors | 148 |
36 | Benefit and burden | 148 |
37 | Confidentiality | 148 |
Section 9 - The Finance Parties | 152 | |
38 | Roles of Facility Agent, Security Agent, Mandated Lead Arrangers and K-sure Agent | 152 |
39 | Conduct of business by the Finance Parties | 168 |
40 | Sharing among the Finance Parties | 169 |
Section 10 - Administration | 172 | |
41 | Payment mechanics | 172 |
42 | Set-off | 175 |
43 | Notices | 175 |
44 | Calculations and certificates | 177 |
45 | Partial invalidity | 177 |
46 | Remedies and waivers | 177 |
47 | Amendments and grant of waivers | 177 |
48 | Counterparts | 182 |
49 | Contractual recognition of bail-in | 182 |
Section 11 - Governing Law and Enforcement | 183 | |
50 | Governing law | 183 |
51 | Enforcement | 183 |
Schedule 1 The original parties | 184 | |
Schedule 2 Vessel information | 201 | |
Part 1 Description of the Vessel | 201 | |
Part 2 Vessel Information | 201 | |
Part 3 Mooring Information | 202 | |
Schedule 3 Conditions precedent | 203 | |
Part 1 Initial Conditions Precedent | 203 | |
Part 2 A Conditions Precedent to the Utilisation on Delivery | 208 | |
Part 3 Conditions subsequent | 212 | |
Schedule 4 Utilisation Requests | 214 | |
Utilisation Request for a Loan | 214 | |
Schedule 5 Selection Notice | 216 | |
Schedule 6 [Intentionally blank] | 217 | |
Schedule 7 Form of Transfer Certificate | 218 | |
Schedule 8 Form of Compliance Certificate | 220 | |
Schedule 9 Form of Market Disruption Notification | 221 |
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Schedule 10 Form of Project Budget Statement | 222 |
Schedule 11 Repayment Schedules | 225 |
Schedule 12 [Intentionally blank] | 227 |
Schedule 13 [Intentionally blank] | 228 |
Schedule 14 List of Translated Documents | 229 |
Schedule 15 Form of Accession Deed | 231 |
Schedule 16 [Intentionally blank] | 232 |
Schedule 17 Technical Adviser's Scope of Work | 233 |
Schedule 18 Form of instruction to Account Banks | 237 |
Part 1 : Borrower Withdrawal Instruction | 237 |
Part 2 : Facility Agent Withdrawal Instruction | 239 |
Schedule 19 Account Banks provisions | 241 |
Schedule 20 List of Approved Transferees | 247 |
THIS AGREEMENT is dated 12 September 2013, as supplemented, amended and restated by a Side Letter dated 11 March 2014, a Second Side Letter dated 18 December 2014, a Third Side Letter dated 30 June 2015, a Fourth Side Letter dated 22 October 2015, a First Amendment and Restatement Agreement dated 29 September 2021 and a Second Amendment and Restatement Agreement dated 10 December 2021 (and as may be further amended from time to time) and made between:
(1) | PT HOEGH LNG LAMPUNG (the Borrower); |
(2) | DBS BANK LTD., DNB BANK ASA, NORDEA BANK ABP, FILIAL I NORGE, ABN AMRO BANK N.V., OSLO BRANCH, MUFG BANK, LTD., KOREA DEVELOPMENT BANK, OVERSEA-CHINESE BANKING CORPORATION LIMITED, and STANDARD CHARTERED BANK (SINGAPORE) LIMITED as mandated lead arrangers (the Mandated Lead Arrangers); |
(3) | STANDARD CHARTERED BANK as KSURE agent (the K-sure Agent); |
(4) | THE FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS listed in Schedule 1 as lenders (the Original Lenders); |
(5) | THE FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS listed in Schedule 1 as hedging banks (the Original Hedging Banks); |
(6) | STANDARD CHARTERED BANK as facility agent for the other Finance Parties (the Facility Agent); |
(7) | STANDARD CHARTERED BANK as security agent for the Finance Parties (the Security Agent); and |
(8) | STANDARD CHARTERED BANK as offshore account bank (the Offshore Account Bank); |
(9) | STANDARD CHARTERED BANK, JAKARTA BRANCH as onshore account bank (the Onshore Account Bank). |
IT IS AGREED as follows:
Section 1 - Interpretation
1 | Definitions and interpretation |
1.1 | Definitions |
In this Agreement and (unless otherwise defined in the relevant Finance Document) the other Finance Documents:
2021 Disclosure Letters means the letter dated 29 September 2021, and the updated letter dated 26 November 2021, from the Borrower to the Facility Agent and the K-Sure Agent in relation to, inter alia, the PGN Arbitration.
50% Acquisition Terms is as defined in the Charter.
Accession Deed means a deed of accession entered into in the form set out in Schedule 15 (Form of Accession Deed) or such other form as is agreed by the Facility Agent and the Borrower.
Account means any bank account, deposit or certificate of deposit opened, made or established in accordance with clause 28 (Project Accounts, Receivables and Insurance Proceeds).
Account Bank means the Offshore Account Bank or the Onshore Account Bank.
Account Security means, in relation to a Project Account (other than the Distribution Account), a deed or other instrument executed by the Borrower in favour of the Security Agent in an agreed form conferring a Security Interest over that Project Account.
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Actual Project Cost means all Project Costs and other costs incurred to complete the Project (including Project Costs in respect of the Finance Documents) on or before Final Acceptance.
Affiliate means, in relation to any person, a Subsidiary of that person or a Holding Company of that person or any other Subsidiary of that Holding Company.
Agents means the K-sure Agent and the Facility Agent.
Agreed Scope of Work means the Technical Advisor's scope of work as set out in Schedule 17 (Technical Adviser's Scope of Work).
APLMA means the Asia Pacific Loan Market Association Limited.
Approved Credit Rating in respect of any relevant person, means a credit rating for the long term indebtedness of that person, or in the case of an insurer, an insurer financial strength rating, of not less than A- with Standard & Poor's Rating Agency (or an equivalent rating with another internationally recognised credit rating agency).
Approved Operator means each O&M Contractor or another appropriately qualified and experienced company or group of companies within the Höegh LNG Holdings Group or the Höegh MLP Group as may be notified to the Facility Agent or another appropriately qualified and experienced company approved by the Lenders and K-sure.
Approved Shareholder means the Singapore Shareholder, the Indonesian Shareholder or another company or group of companies which has provided, or in respect of which the Borrower has provided, to the Facility Agent all documentation and other evidence required by the Lenders in order for each Lender to carry out and be satisfied with the results of all necessary "know your customer" or other similar checks under all applicable laws and regulations pursuant to the transactions contemplated in the Finance Documents.
Approved Transferee means any of the financial institutions set out in Schedule 20 (List of Approved Transferees).
Approved Valuer means any of Clarksons, Breamar Seascope or Fearnleys A/S or any other independent ship broker nominated by the Borrower and approved by the Facility Agent for the purposes of giving a valuation pursuant to clause 28 (Minimum security value).
Article 55 BRRD means Article 55 of Directive 2014/59/EU establishing a framework for the recovery and resolution of credit institutions and investment firms.
Auditors means one of PricewaterhouseCoopers, Ernst & Young, KPMG or Deloitte & Touche or another approved reputable international firm of accountants.
Authority means any national, supranational, regional or local government or governmental, administrative, fiscal, judicial, or government-owned body, department, commission, authority, tribunal, agency or entity, or central bank (or any person, whether or not government-owned and howsoever constituted or called, that exercises the functions of a central bank) in a Relevant Jurisdiction.
Available Cash Flow means, in respect of any period and without double counting:
(a) | the aggregate of: |
(i) | all amounts received by the Borrower under or pursuant to the Charter and/or any other Project Agreement (including the Total Charter Rate during each period) and any compensation payments and/or Insurance Proceeds paid into, or permitted to be transferred into a Revenue Account which are not required to be applied in prepayment of any Facility, in each case in such period but excluding any up front or one off reimbursement payments not forming part of the Total Charter Rate received |
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by the Borrower in connection with any Alteration (as defined in the Charter) and the Mooring Purchase Price;
(ii) | all interest and other income received by the Borrower during such period in respect of the Project Accounts (other than the Distribution Account); and |
(iii) | refunds, credits, rebates or similar accounts of Tax actually received by the Borrower during such period, |
(b) | less the sum of: |
(i) | Operating Expenses paid by or due from the Borrower during such period excluding any payments by the Borrower in respect of (A) an Alteration referred to in paragraph (a) above or under the Mooring Documents or (B) any repairs and/or replacements or liabilities to the extent paid by Insurance Proceeds received by the Borrower (in the case of liabilities to the extent such Insurance Proceeds were paid in relation to such liabilities); and |
(ii) | the Tax Element received by the Borrower under the Charter and paid into the Rupiah Account. |
Available Commitment means, in relation to a Lender in respect of a Facility at any time, that Lender's Commitment under that Facility minus:
(a) | the aggregate amount of its participations in any outstanding Loans under the relevant Facility; and |
(b) | in relation to any proposed Utilisation, the aggregate amount of its participations in any Loans that are due to be made under the relevant Facility on or before the proposed Utilisation Date. |
Available Drawings means, at any date for determination under this Agreement, the total amount which, as at such time, any member of the Höegh MLP Group is entitled to draw under any credit facility with a major international bank or financial institution for a term of more than 12 months and not subject to any conditions with which it or any other relevant party would not be able to comply at such time.
Available Facility means, in relation to a Facility, at any relevant time the aggregate of each Lender's Available Commitment in respect of that Facility and Available Facilities means at any relevant time, the aggregate of each Lender's Available Commitment in respect of all of the Facilities.
Bail-In Action means the exercise of any Write-down and Conversion Powers.
Bail-In Legislation means:
(a) | in relation to an EEA Member Country which has implemented, or which at any time implements, Article 55 BRRD, the relevant implementing law or regulation as described in the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule from time to time; |
(b) | in relation to any other state other than such an EEA Member Country and the United Kingdom, any analogous law or regulation from time to time which requires contractual recognition of any Write-down and Conversion Powers contained in that law or regulation; and |
(c) | in relation to the United Kingdom, the UK Bail-In Legislation. |
Basel 2 Accord means the 'International Convergence of Capital Measurement and Capital Standards, a Revised Framework' published by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision in
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June 2004 as updated prior to and in the form existing on the date of this Agreement excluding any amendment thereto arising out of the Basel 3 Accord or Reformed Basel 3.
Basel 2 Approach means, in relation to any Finance Party, either the Standardised Approach or the relevant Internal Ratings Based Approach (each as defined in the Basel 2 Accord) adopted by that Finance Party (or any of its Affiliates) for the purposes of implementing or complying with the Basel 2 Accord.
Basel 2 Regulation means:
(a) | any law or regulation in force as at the date hereof implementing the Basel 2 Accord, (including the relevant provisions of, CRD IV, CRD V, CRR and CRR II) to the extent only that such law or regulation re-enacts and/or implements the requirements of the Basel 2 Accord but excluding any provision of such law or regulation implementing the Basel 3 Accord; and |
(b) | any Basel 2 Approach adopted by a Finance Party or any of its Affiliates. |
Basel 3 Accord means, together:
(a) | the agreements on capital requirements, a leverage ratio and liquidity standards contained in Basel III: A global regulatory framework for more resilient banks and banking systems, Basel III: International framework for liquidity risk measurement, standards and monitoring and Guidance for national authorities operating the countercyclical capital buffer published by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision in December 2010, each as amended, supplemented or restated; |
(b) | the rules for global systemically important banks contained in Global systemically important banks: assessment methodology and the additional loss absorbency requirement - Rules text published by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision in November 2011, as amended, supplemented or restated; and |
(c) | any further guidance or standards published by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision relating to Basel III |
other than, in each such case, the agreements, rules, guidance and standards set out in Reformed Basel 3 as amended, supplemented or restated after the date of this Agreement.
Basel 3 Increased Costs means an Increased Cost which is attributable to the implementation or application of or compliance with any Basel 3 Regulation (whether such implementation, application or compliance is by a government, regulators, Finance Party or any of its Affiliates).
Basel 3 Regulation means any law or regulation implementing the Basel 3 Accord (including the relevant provisions of CRD IV, CRD V, CRR and CRR II) save to the extent that such law or regulation re-enacts a Basel 2 Regulation and excluding any such law or regulation which implements Reformed Basel 3.
Book Equity means, at any date for determination under this Agreement, the value of the capital and reserves of the Guarantor determined in accordance with the latest published audited consolidated balance sheet or the latest published interim consolidated balance sheet of the Guarantor as delivered pursuant to clause 20.1 (Financial statements) (but excluding any hedging reserve as shown in the relevant consolidated equity statement and the mark-to-market value of any financial derivatives).
Borrower Assigned Property means all the right, title, interest and benefit of the Borrower in and to:
(a) | the Vessel Rights; |
(b) | the Guarantee Rights; |
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(c) | the Charter Documents; |
(d) | the Building Contract Documents; |
(e) | the Mooring Documents; |
(f) | any Subordinated Loans; |
(g) | the Promissory Notes; |
(h) | the Earnings; |
(i) | the Insurances; |
(j) | any Requisition Compensation; and |
(k) | each Hedging Contract. |
Borrower Withdrawal Request means a notice substantially in the form set out in Part 1 of Schedule 18 (Form of instruction to Account Banks) or any other form agreed between the Borrower, the relevant Account Bank and the Facility Agent.
Borrower's Security means together:
(a) | the Borrower Assigned Property; |
(b) | all of the Borrower's right, title, interest and benefit in and to the Vessel; |
(c) | all of the Borrower's right, title, interest and benefit in and to the Project Accounts (other than the Distribution Account); |
(d) | all the Borrower's other assets and undertakings (secured under the Fiduciary Assignment of Tangible Assets); and |
(e) | all proceeds of realisation or enforcement of any Security Interest under a Security Document in or over any of the foregoing or the exercise of all and any rights, powers and remedies in relation to any such Security Interest over the foregoing. |
Break Costs means the amount (if any) by which:
(a) | the interest (excluding the applicable Margin) which a Lender should have received for the period from the date of receipt of all or any part of its participation in a Loan or Unpaid Sum to the last day of the current Interest Period in respect of that Loan or Unpaid Sum) had the principal amount or Unpaid Sum received been paid on the last day of that Interest Period, |
exceeds:
(b) | the amount which that Lender would be able to obtain by placing an amount equal to the principal amount or Unpaid Sum received by it on deposit with a leading bank in the Interbank Market for a period starting on the Business Day following receipt or recovery and ending on the last day of the current applicable Interest Period. |
Builder means Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. a company incorporated in South Korea with its principal office at 1, Jeonha-Dong, Dong-Gu, Ulsan, Korea.
Builder's Performance L/C means any letter of credit issued to the Borrower pursuant to Article 7.10 of the Building Contract.
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Builder's Risk Insurances means:
(a) | all policies and contracts of insurance; and |
(b) | all entries of the Vessel and/or the Mooring in a protection and indemnity or war risks or other mutual insurance association |
in the joint names of: (i) the Builder (in the case of the Vessel) or the Mooring EPC Contractor and/or the Mooring Installation Contractor (in the case of the Mooring) and (ii) the Borrower in respect of or in connection with the Vessel and/or the Mooring taken out under the Building Contract or the relevant Mooring Document.
Building Contract means the contract specified in Schedule 2 (Vessel information) and made between the Builder and the Sponsor relating to, inter alia, the construction of the Vessel (the Original Building Contract) as amended by addenda 1 to 3 dated 10 June 2011, 26 March 2012 and 2 July 2012 as novated to the Borrower pursuant to the Building Contract Novation Agreement.
Building Contract Documents means the Building Contract, any Builder's Performance L/C, any Refund Guarantee and any other guarantee or security given to the Borrower by any persons for the Builder's obligations under the Building Contract and includes any change orders or other deed, document, agreement or instrument amending, varying or supplementing any of the foregoing documents or any of the terms and conditions thereof.
Building Contract Novation Agreement means the novation agreement dated 22 July 2013 (as further described in Part 2 of Schedule 2 (Vessel information)) made between the Borrower, the Sponsor and the Builder, pursuant to which the rights and obligations of the Sponsor under the Original Building Contract were novated in favour of the Borrower.
Business Day means:
(a) | if a payment in dollars is to be made or would, but for the operation of clause 41.8 (Business Days), fall to be made by any person on that day, a day (other than a Saturday or Sunday) on which banks are open for general business in Seoul, Singapore, London, Jakarta, New York, Oslo, Amsterdam and, if such payment relates to a payment under the Guarantee, Marshall Islands; or |
(b) | for the purposes of determining LIBOR, a day (other than a Saturday or Sunday) on which banks are open for the transaction of domestic and foreign exchange business in London; or |
(c) | for all other purposes, a day (other than a Saturday or Sunday) on which banks are open for general business in London, Singapore, Oslo, Seoul, Amsterdam and Jakarta. |
Cancellation Date shall have the meaning ascribed thereto in the Charter.
Capital Element means the hire payable by the Charterer to the Borrower in relation to the Vessel pursuant to clause 12 of the Charter, calculated in accordance with section 2.1 of Schedule 6 to the Charter.
Cash Lock-Up Account means, from the Effective Date, the account held by the Borrower with the Offshore Account Bank, redesignated as the PT HOEGH LNG LAMPUNG – Cash Lock-Up Account and includes any redesignation and each sub-account thereof.
Change in Location means a change in location of the Vessel from the Permitted Location.
Change of Control means:
(a) | the Shareholders, together, cease to, directly or indirectly, legally and beneficially, own one hundred per cent (100%) of the shares in the Borrower; or |
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(b) | the Guarantor ceases to, directly or indirectly, legally and beneficially, own at least forty nine per cent (49%) of the shares in the Borrower or have management control of the Borrower; or |
(c) | the Parent and/or any companies directly wholly owned and controlled by the Parent: |
(i) | cease to beneficially own either jointly or severally at least twenty five per cent (25%) of the Guarantor; or |
(ii) | cease to control (directly or indirectly) the general partner of the Guarantor; or |
(d) | if a majority of the board of directors of the Guarantor ceases to consist of directors that were recommended for election by a majority of the appointed directors of the Guarantor. |
Charged Property means all of the assets of the Obligors which from time to time are, or are expressed to be, the subject of the Security Documents.
Charter means the amended and restated contract dated 17 October 2012 (as further described in Part 2 of Schedule 2 (Vessel information)) in respect of the procurement of the Mooring and the installation, lease, operation and maintenance of the Vessel for an initial period of twenty (20) years (the Original Charter) made between (1) the Original Charterer and (2) the Sponsor, as novated by the Sponsor to the Borrower pursuant to the Charter Novation Agreement (Borrower) and as novated by the Original Charterer to the Charterer pursuant to the Charter Novation Agreement (Charterer).
Charter Documents means the Charter, the PGN L/C, the Umbrella Agreement, the Consortium Agreement, the Charter Guarantee and any guarantee or security given to the Borrower by any person for the Charterer's obligations under the Charter and includes any other deed, document, agreement or instrument amending, varying or supplementing any of the foregoing documents or any of the terms and conditions thereof.
Charter Guarantee means the guarantee dated 21 February 2014 issued by the Charter Guarantor in favour of the Borrower (as further described in Part 2 of Schedule 2 (Vessel information), together with each other each guarantee issued or to be issued by the Charter Guarantor upon a novation of the Charter pursuant to and in accordance with clause 16.3 of the Charter, in form and substance satisfactory to the Lenders, acting reasonably.
Charter Guarantor means PT Perusahaan Gas Negara (Persero) Tbk, as further described in Part 2 of Schedule 2 (Vessel information).
Charter Liabilities means any and all obligations of the Borrower (whether present or future, actual or contingent) under or pursuant to the terms of the Charter.
Charter Novation Agreement (Borrower) means the novation agreement dated 18 September 2013 made between the Borrower, Höegh LNG Ltd and the Original Charterer, pursuant to which the rights and obligations of Höegh LNG Ltd under the Original Charter (as defined in the definition of ‘Charter’) were novated in favour of the Borrower.
Charter Novation Agreement (Charterer) means the novation agreement dated 21 February 2014 made between the Borrower, the Original Charterer and the Charterer, pursuant to which the rights and obligations of the Original Charterer under the Original Charter (as novated by the Charter Novation Agreement (Borrower)) were novated in favour of the Charterer.
Charter Period means the “Lease Period” as defined in the Charter and further described in clause 3 of the Charter.
Charter Rate means the charter hire payable by the Charterer to the Borrower pursuant to the Charter in relation to the Vessel and payable pursuant to clause 12 of the Charter and which does not include the Operating and Maintenance Element or the Tax Element.
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Charterer means PT PGN LNG Indonesia, as further described in Part 2 of Schedule 2 (Vessel information) or a wholly owned Affiliate of the Charter Guarantor which is wholly Controlled (as defined in the Charter) by the Charter Guarantor to whom all rights and obligations of the Initial Company (as defined in the Charter) under the Charter have been novated pursuant to and in accordance with clause 16.3 of the Charter.
Charterer's Purchase Option means the purchase option in respect of the Vessel granted to the Charterer and exercisable in accordance with and subject to clause 36 of the Charter.
Classification means the classification specified in Schedule 2 (Vessel information) with the Classification Society or another classification approved by the Lenders as its classification.
Classification Society means the classification society specified in Part 2 of Schedule 2 (Vessel information) or another classification society requested by the Borrower or the Charterer, or as permitted under the Charter and in each case approved by the Lenders.
Co-assured means each party (other than the Borrower and any Finance Party) which is named as a co-assured on any of the Insurances in relation to the Vessel after Delivery.
Code means the US Internal Revenue Code of 1986.
Collateral means any and all assets over or in respect of which any Security Interest is created in favour of the Finance Parties or any of them pursuant to any Finance Document.
Commercial Facility means the term loan facility in an aggregate amount of up to the Commercial Facility Limit (of which $15,503,857.28 remains outstanding as at the Effective Date) to be made available to the Borrower by the Commercial Lenders under this Agreement.
Commercial Facility Final Maturity Date means 29 June 2026 or such later date as the Facility Agent may agree (on instructions of the Lenders, in their absolute discretion).
Commercial Facility Limit means an aggregate amount of $58,465,624.
Commercial Facility Repayment Dates means with respect to the Commercial Facility:
(a) | the First Repayment Date relating to such Facility; |
(b) | each of the dates falling at three (3) monthly intervals thereafter up to but not including the Commercial Facility Final Maturity Date; and |
(c) | the Commercial Facility Final Maturity Date. |
Commercial Facility Repayment Instalments means each scheduled repayment instalment payable on each Commercial Facility Repayment Date in accordance with clauses 8.2(b).
Commercial Facility Repayment Schedule means the schedule set out in Part A of Schedule 11 (Repayment Schedules).
Commercial Lender means:
(a) | any Original Commercial Lender; and |
(b) | any bank or financial institution which has become a party as a Commercial Lender in accordance with clause 34 (Changes to the Lenders). |
Commercial Loan means the loan made or to be made to the Borrower under the Commercial Facility or (as the context may require) the outstanding principal amount of such borrowing.
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Commitment means in relation to a Facility:
(a) | in relation to an Original Lender, the amount set opposite its name in Schedule 1 (The Original Lenders) in respect of such Facility and the amount of any other Commitment transferred to it under this Agreement in respect of such Facility ; and |
(b) | in relation to any other Lender, the amount of any Commitment transferred to it under this Agreement in respect of such Facility, |
in each case to the extent not cancelled, reduced or transferred by it under this Agreement.
Compliance Certificate means a certificate substantially in the form set out in Schedule 8 (Form of Compliance Certificate) or otherwise approved.
Compulsory Acquisition means requisition for title or other compulsory acquisition, nationalisation, requisition, appropriation, expropriation, deprivation, forfeiture or confiscation for any reason of the Vessel by any government entity or other competent authority, whether de jure or de factor, but shall exclude requisition for use or hire not involving requisition for title.
Confidential Information means all information relating to the Borrower, any Obligor, the Höegh MLP Group, the Höegh LNG Holdings Group, the Transaction Documents or a Facility of which a Finance Party becomes aware in its capacity as, or for the purpose of becoming, a Finance Party or which is received by a Finance Party in relation to, or for the purpose of becoming a Finance Party under, the Finance Documents or a Facility from either:
(a) | the Borrower or any member of the Höegh MLP Group or the Höegh LNG Holdings Group or any of their advisers; or |
(b) | another Finance Party, if the information was obtained by that Finance Party directly or indirectly from the Borrower or any member of the Höegh MLP Group or the Höegh LNG Holdings Group or any of their advisers, |
in whatever form, and includes information given orally and any document, electronic file or any other way of representing or recording information which contains or is derived or copied from such information but excludes information that:
(i) | is or becomes public information other than as a direct or indirect result of any breach by that Finance Party of clause 37 (Confidentiality); or |
(ii) | is identified in writing at the time of delivery as non-confidential by the Borrower or any member of the Höegh MLP Group or the Höegh LNG Holdings Group or any of their advisers; or |
(iii) | is known by that Finance Party before the date the information is disclosed to it in accordance with paragraphs (a) or (b) above or is lawfully obtained by that Finance Party after that date, from a source which is, as far as that Finance Party is aware, unconnected with the Borrower or the Höegh MLP Group or the Höegh LNG Holdings Group and which, in either case, as far as that Finance Party is aware, has not been obtained in breach of, and is not otherwise subject to, any obligation of confidentiality. |
Confidentiality Undertaking means a confidentiality undertaking substantially in a recommended form of the APLMA or in any other form agreed between the Facility Agent and the Borrower.
Confirmation shall have, in relation to any Hedging Transaction, the meaning given to it in the relevant Hedging Master Agreement.
Consents means and includes consents, authorisations (including any Project Authorisations and Environmental Licences), licences, approvals, registrations with, declarations to or filings with, or
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waivers or exemptions from governmental or public bodies or Regulatory Authority or other authorities or courts.
Consortium Agreement means the agreement between the Sponsor or the Borrower and the EPCIC Contractor relating to the allocation of responsibility for delay liquidated damages payable under the Charter and the EPCIC Agreement (the Original Consortium Agreement) and, if not entered into by the Borrower, as novated or to be novated to the Borrower pursuant to the Consortium Agreement Novation Agreement.
Consortium Agreement Novation Agreement means a novation agreement made between the Borrower, the Sponsor and the EPCIC Contractor pursuant to which the rights and obligations of the Sponsor under the Original Consortium Agreement are novated in favour of the Borrower.
Constitutional Documents means, in respect of an Obligor, such Obligor's memorandum and articles of association, by-laws or other constitutional documents including as referred to in any certificate relating to an Obligor delivered by that Obligor pursuant to Schedule 3 (Conditions precedent).
Construction Account means the dollar account of the Borrower opened or, as the context may require, to be opened by the Borrower with the Offshore Account Bank, designated by the Offshore Account Bank to be the PT HOEGH LNG LAMPUNG - Construction Account and includes any redesignation and each sub-account thereof.
Contract Price means the price of the Vessel payable under the Building Contract and includes the instalments of such price paid or to be paid.
Cost Overruns means that part of the Actual Project Cost which exceeds the Initial Project Budget.
CRD IV means the directive 2013/36/EU of the European Union on access to the activity of credit institutions and the prudential supervision of credit institutions and investment firms.
CRD V means the directive (EU) 2019/878 of the European Parliament and of the Council amending CRD IV as regards exempted entities, financial holding companies, mixed financial holding companies, remuneration, supervisory measures and powers and capital conservation measures.
CRR means either CRR-EU or, as the context may require, CRR-UK.
CRR-EU means regulation 575/2013 of the European Union on prudential requirements for credit institutions and investment firms and regulation 2019/876 of the European Union amending Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 and all delegated and implementing regulations supplementing that Regulation.
CRR-UK means CRR-EU as amended and transposed into the laws of the United Kingdom by the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 and the European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Act 2020 and as amended by the Capital Requirements (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019.
CRR II means either CRR II-EU or, as the context may require, CRR II-UK.
CRR II-EU means regulation 2019/876 amending CRR-EU as regards the leverage ratio, the net stable funding ratio, requirements for own funds and eligible liabilities, counterparty credit risk, market risk, exposures to central counterparties, exposures to collective investment undertakings, large exposures, reporting and disclosure requirements, and Regulation (EU) No 648/2012 and all delegated and implementing regulations supplementing that Regulation.
CRR II-UK means CRR II-EU as amended and transposed into the laws of the United Kingdom by the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 and the European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Act 2020 and as amended by the Capital Requirements (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019.
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Current Assets means the aggregate of current assets determined in accordance with the latest published audited consolidated balance sheet or the latest published interim consolidated balance sheet of the Guarantor as delivered pursuant to clause 20.1 (Financial statements), but excluding amounts in respect of marked-to-market value of any financial derivatives (including any hedging reserve as shown in the relevant consolidated equity statement).
Current Liabilities means the aggregate of all current liabilities determined in accordance with the latest published audited consolidated balance sheet or the latest published interim consolidated balance sheet of the Guarantor as delivered pursuant to clause 20.1 (Financial statements), however excluding:
(a) | marked-to-market value of any financial derivatives; and |
(b) | current portion of interest bearing debt which, for the avoidance of doubt, shall include any debt owed to Affiliates (including Hoegh LNG Holdings Ltd). |
Debt Service for any period means, the aggregate of:
(a) | the amount of interest on the Facilities which is payable under clause 10 (Interest); |
(b) | each principal amount of the Loans which is scheduled to be repaid under clause 8 (Repayment) ; and |
(c) | the Net Hedging Expenses, |
in each case during that period.
Debt Service Coverage Ratio means:
(a) | for any date of testing under clause 21 (Financial covenants) the ratio of (i) Available Cash Flow to (ii) Debt Service for the Relevant Period ending on that date; and |
(b) | for the purposes of the Distribution Restrictions, the ratio of (i) Available Cash Flow to (ii) Debt Service for the most recent 6 month period ending on the applicable Repayment Date which falls on or within 10 Business Days of the date of the applicable transfer to the Distribution Account (but excluding any Debt Service that is due on a Repayment Date falling at the start, or within one (1) month of the start, of that period), |
in each case, as confirmed by the Borrower to the Facility Agent in a Compliance Certificate in accordance with clause 20.2 (Provision and contents of Compliance Certificate).
Debt Service Reserve means on any date a sum equal to the projected Debt Service obligations of the Borrower under this Agreement due in the six month period from that date (in respect of any period commencing on a Repayment Date, excluding the amounts payable on that Repayment Date) and provided that for such purpose (a) LIBOR shall be assumed to be unchanged from the rate currently applicable for any Loan or pursuant to any Hedging Contract and (b) any Cash Sweep (as defined in, and applied in accordance with, clause 29.8(a)(viii) (Offshore Revenue Account, Payment Cascade)) shall not impact the calculation of the Debt Service Reserve.
Debt Service Reserve Account means the dollar account of the Borrower opened or, as the context may require, to be opened by the Borrower with the Offshore Account Bank, designated by the Offshore Account Bank to be the “PT HOEGH LNG LAMPUNG - Debt Service Reserve Account” and includes any redesignation and each sub-account thereof.
Deemed Acceptance means Final Acceptance occurring under the Charter other than pursuant to satisfaction of the Acceptance Conditions (as defined in the Charter).
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Default means an Event of Default or any event or circumstance which with giving of notice or lapse of time or the satisfaction of any other condition (or any combination thereof) would constitute an Event of Default.
Defaulting Lender means any Lender:
(a) | which has failed to make its participation in a Loan available (or has notified the Facility Agent or the Borrower (which has notified the Facility Agent) that it will not make its participation in a Loan available) by the Utilisation Date of that Loan in accordance with either clause 5.4 (K-sure Lenders' participation) or clause 5.5 (Commercial Lenders' participation); |
(b) | which has otherwise rescinded or repudiated a Finance Document; or |
(c) | with respect to which an Insolvency Event has occurred and is continuing, |
unless in the case of paragraph (a) above:
(i) | its failure to pay is caused by: |
(A) | administrative or technical error; or |
(B) | a Disruption Event; and |
payment is made within five (5) Business Days of its due date;
(ii) | the Lender is disputing in good faith whether it is contractually obliged to make the payment in question. |
Delivery means the delivery to, and acceptance of the Vessel by, the Borrower under the Building Contract.
Delivery Date means the date on which Delivery occurs.
Delivery Instalment means the instalment of the Contract Price falling due on Delivery.
Distribution Account means the dollar account of the Borrower opened or, as the context may require, to be opened by the Borrower with the Offshore Account Bank, designated by the Offshore Account Bank to be the “PT HOEGH LNG LAMPUNG - Distribution Account” and includes any redesignation and each sub-account thereof.
Disruption Event means either or both of:
(a) | a material disruption to those payment or communications systems or to those financial markets which are, in each case, required to operate in order for payments to be made in connection with the Facilities (or otherwise in order for the transactions contemplated by the Finance Documents to be carried out) which disruption is not caused by, and is beyond the control of, any of the Parties; or |
(b) | the occurrence of any other event which results in a disruption (of a technical or systems-related nature) to the treasury or payments operations of a Party preventing that, or any other Party: |
(i) | from performing its payment obligations under the Finance Documents; or |
(ii) | from communicating with other Parties in accordance with the terms of the Finance Documents, |
(and which (in either such case) is not caused by, and is beyond the control of, the Party whose operations are disrupted).
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Distribution Restriction means the occurrence of any of the following events:
(a) | the Debt Service Coverage Ratio for the most recent applicable period preceding, or ending on, the date of the proposed transfer to the Distribution Account is less than 1:20:1; |
(b) | the DSRA Balance is less than the Debt Service Reserve; |
(c) | any Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would occur as a result of the transfer to the Distribution Account; |
(d) | the Guarantor is in breach of any of the financial covenants set out in clause 21.2 (Guarantor Financial Covenants); |
(e) | the first Repayment Instalment for each of the Commercial Facility and the K-sure Facility has not been repaid in accordance with this Agreement; or |
(f) | the PGN Arbitration remains ongoing or there is any other litigation or proceedings started or ongoing as between the Borrower and the Charterer or the Charter Guarantor. |
Dollar Tax Account means the dollar account of the Borrower opened or as the context may require, to be opened by the Borrower with the Onshore Account Bank, designated by the Onshore Account Bank to be the “PT HOEGH LNG LAMPUNG – Dollar Tax Account” and includes any re-designation and each sub-account thereof.
DSRA Balance means at any time the aggregate of the amount standing to the credit of the Debt Service Reserve Account and the amounts available to be drawn under each DSRA Letter of Credit.
DSRA Letter of Credit means an irrevocable letter of credit issued by a DSRA L/C Issuer in favour of the Security Agent on terms acceptable to the Majority Lenders pursuant to clause 29.12(a) and includes any other letter of credit acceptable to the Majority Lenders that may replace it from time to time.
DSRA L/C Issuer means any Lender or other financial institution having an Approved Credit Rating.
Due Diligence Report means a report from the Technical Advisor prepared in accordance with the Agreed Scope of Work.
Earnings means all money at any time payable to the Borrower for or in relation to the use or operation of the Vessel including the Total Charter Rate, the Purchase Option Price, freight, hire and passage moneys, money payable to the Borrower for the provision of services by or from the Vessel or under any charter commitment, requisition for hire compensation, remuneration for salvage and towage services, demurrage and detention moneys and damages for breach and payments for termination or variation of any charter commitment.
EEA Member Country means any member state of the European Union, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway.
Effective Date has the meaning given to such expression in the Second Amendment and Restatement Agreement.
Enforcement Action means any action whatsoever to:
(a) | prematurely terminate or close out any Hedging Transaction (other than as provided by clause 33.4 (Close out of Hedging Contracts) or permitted under clause 31 (Hedging)); |
(b) | recover all or any part of any Hedging Debt including by set-off (whether by operation of law or otherwise) or combination of accounts; |
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(c) | exercise or enforce any rights under any guarantee, indemnity or other assurance in relation to (or given in support of) all or any part of any Hedging Debt (including under any Security Document); |
(d) | exercise or enforce any rights under any Security Interest whatsoever (including, without limitation, the crystallisation (automatic or otherwise) of a floating charge) which secures or purports to secure any Hedging Debt (including under any Security Document); |
(e) | apply, petition or vote for (or take any other steps which may lead to) any event described in clause 32.9 (Insolvency) or clause 32.10 (Insolvency proceedings) in relation to any Obligor; or |
(f) | designate an Early Termination Date (as defined in any Hedging Master Agreement) or terminate and/or close out any transaction under any Hedging Contract prior to its stated maturity or demand payment of any amount which would become payable on or following an Early Termination Date or any such termination and/or close out, in each case other than in accordance with clause 33.4 (Close out of Hedging Contracts) or permitted under clause 31 (Hedging). |
Environment means all or any of the following media: air (including air within buildings or other structures and whether below or above ground); land (including buildings and any other structures or erections in, on or under it and any soil and anything below the surface of the land); land covered with water; and water (including sea, ground and surface water and any living organism supported by such media).
Environmental and Social Regulations means:
(a) | any applicable law or regulation whose purpose or effect is (i) the protection of, or the prevention of damage to, the Environment, (ii) to regulate or control Environmental Contaminants, or (iii) to provide remedies in relation to harm or damage to the Environment; and |
(b) | any applicable law or regulation whose purpose or effect is (i) to prevent, regulate or control an detrimental social effect, (ii) to provide remedies in relation to any detrimental social effect or (iii) to impose obligation so requirements in relation to social or cultural matters. |
Environmental Claim means any claim, notice, prosecution, demand, action, abatement or other order (conditional or otherwise) relating to Environmental Matters or in response to a Spill or any notification or order requiring compliance with the terms of any Environmental Licence or Environmental Law and Environmental and Social Regulations which may reasonably be expected to result in a liability for an Obligor in respect of such matters that exceeds an amount of $1,000,000.
Environmental Contaminants means all Pollutants and contaminants (including any chemicals, biological, industrial, radioactive, dangerous, toxic or hazardous substance, water or residue, whether in solid or liquid form or a gas or vapour) and any genetically modified organisms.
Environmental Incident means any Spill from any vessel in circumstances where:
(a) | the Vessel or the Borrower or any O&M Contractor are or may reasonably be expected to be liable for Environmental Claims arising from the Spill (other than Environmental Claims arising and fully satisfied before the date of this Agreement) (in the case of an O&M Contractor only if such Environmental Claims have arisen due to it being an O&M Contractor of the Vessel or otherwise in respect of or in connection with the Vessel); and/or |
(b) | the Vessel is or may reasonably be expected to be arrested or attached in connection with any such Environmental Claim. |
Environmental Law means all or any law, statute, rule, regulation, treaty, by-law, code of practice, order, notice, demand, decision of the courts or of any applicable governmental authority
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or agency or any other regulatory or other body in any applicable jurisdiction relating to Environmental Matters.
Environmental Licence means any permit, licence, authorisation, consent or other approval required at any time by any Environmental Law and Environmental and Social Regulations for the operation of the Borrower's business or in order for the Borrower and each O&M Contractor to comply with its respective obligations under the Transaction Documents.
Environmental Management Plan means (i) the ship oil pollution emergency plan (SOPEP) in relation to the Vessel prepared in accordance with MARPOL 73/78 and (ii) the Environmental Management Plan prepared by the Charterer dated 12 September 2012, in the form provided by the Borrower to the Mandated Lead Arrangers prior to the date of this Agreement (unless otherwise agreed by the Lenders and the Borrower).
Environmental Matters means the pollution, conservation or protection of the Environment (both natural and built) or of man or any living organisms supported by the Environment.
EPCIC Agreement means the amended and restated contract between the Charterer and the EPCIC Contractor dated 17 October 2012 for the engineering, procurement, construction, installation and commissioning of the Project pipeline system on a turn-key, lump sum basis.
EPCIC Contractor means PT Rekayasa Industri, a company incorporated in Indonesia with its principal office at Jalan Kalibata Timur I No. 36, Jakarta 12740.
Equator Principles means the principles set out in a paper entitled “A financial industry benchmark for determining assessing and managing social and environmental risk in project financing” dated July 2006 and developed and adopted by the International Finance Corporation and various other financial institutions, as amended, revived or reissued from time to time.
Equity Loan means any loan or loan stock made or, as the context may require, to be made available by the Singapore Shareholder or an Affiliate of the Singapore Shareholder to the Indonesian Shareholder pursuant to an Equity Loan Agreement.
Equity Loan Agreement means any loan agreement made or to be made between the Singapore Shareholder or an Affiliate of the Singapore Shareholder and an Indonesian Shareholder pursuant to the Shareholders Agreement.
EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule means the document described as such and published by the Loan Market Association (or any successor person) from time to time.
Event of Default means any event or circumstance specified as such in clause 32 (Events of Default).
Excess Sponsor Funding means the amount by which the Sponsor Funding exceeds $104,000,000, as set out in the Financial Model and as such excess may be revised by the Borrower, with the consent of the Majority Lenders (acting reasonably and on the advice of the Technical Advisor) to reflect any additional Sponsor Funding not reflected in the Financial Model.
Facilities means:
(a) | the K-sure Facility; and |
(b) | the Commercial Facility, |
and Facility means any of them.
Facility Agent means Standard Chartered Bank or any person as may be appointed as facility agent under this Agreement.
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Facility Agent Withdrawal Request means a notice substantially in the form set out in Part 2 of Schedule 18 (Form of instruction to Account Banks) or any other form agreed between the Borrower, the relevant Account Bank and the Facility Agent.
Facility Limit means the aggregate of the Commercial Facility Limit and the K-sure Facility Limit being an aggregate amount of not more than $237,100,000.
Facility Obligor means the Borrower and the Guarantor.
Facility Office means the office or offices notified by a Lender to the Facility Agent in writing on or before the date it becomes a Lender (or, following that date, by not less than five (5) Business Days' written notice) as the office through which it will perform its obligations under this Agreement.
Facility Period means the period from and including the date of this Agreement to and including the date on which the Total Commitments of all Facilities have reduced to zero and all indebtedness of the Obligors under the Finance Documents has been fully paid and discharged.
FATCA means:
(a) | sections 1471 to 1474 of the Code or any associated regulations or other official guidance; |
(b) | any treaty, law, regulation or other official guidance enacted in any other jurisdiction, or relating to an intergovernmental agreement between the US and any other jurisdiction, which (in either case) facilitates the implementation of paragraph (a) above; or |
(c) | any agreement pursuant to the implementation of paragraphs (a) or (b) above with the US Internal Revenue Service, the US government or any governmental or taxation authority in any other jurisdiction. |
FATCA Application Date means:
(a) | in relation to a withholdable payment described in section 1473(1)(A)(i) of the Code (which relates to payments of interest and certain other payments from sources within the US), 1 January 2014; |
(b) | in relation to a withholdable payment described in section 1473(1)(A)(ii) of the Code (which relates to gross proceeds from the disposition of property of a type that can produce interest from sources within the US), 1 January 2017; or |
(c) | in relation to a passthru payment described in section 1471(d)(7) of the Code not falling within paragraphs (a) or (b) above, 1 January 2017, |
or, in each case, such other date from which such payment may become subject to a deduction or withholding required by FATCA as a result of any change in FATCA after the date of this Agreement.
FATCA Deduction means a deduction or withholding from a payment under a Finance Document required by FATCA.
FATCA Exempt Party means a Party that is entitled to receive payments free from any FATCA Deduction.
FATCA FFI means a foreign financial institution as defined in section 1471(d)(4) of the Code which, if any Finance Party is not a FATCA Exempt Party, could be required to make a FATCA Deduction.
Fee Letters means the letter(s) dated on or about the date of this Agreement between the relevant Finance Parties and the Borrower, each in the agreed form setting out any of the fees referred to in clause 13 (Fees) and Fee Letter means any of them.
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Fiduciary Assignment of Receivables means an Indonesian law deed of fiduciary security (jaminan fidusia) over the Borrower's rights under the Charter Documents, the Building Contract Documents, the Mooring Documents, the Vessel Rights and the Guarantee Rights executed by the Borrower in favour of the Security Agent in the agreed form.
Fiduciary Assignment of Tangible Assets means an Indonesian law deed of fiduciary security (jaminan fidusia) over all of the tangible assets of the Borrower executed by the Borrower in favour of the Security Agent in the agreed form.
Fiduciary Assignments means the Fiduciary Assignment of Receivables, the Insurance Fiduciary Assignment, the Reinsurance Fiduciary Assignment, the Fiduciary Assignment of Tangible Assets and the Shares Security in respect of each Indonesian Shareholder and Fiduciary Assignment means any of them.
Final Acceptance means (a) the issue of the Final Acceptance Certificate by the Charterer pursuant to and in accordance with the terms of the Charter following satisfaction of the NoR Conditions and the Final Acceptance Test to the satisfaction of the Charterer or (b) Deemed Acceptance.
Final Acceptance Certificate means the Certificate of Acceptance (as defined in the Charter) issued or to be issued by the Charterer upon Final Acceptance in accordance with the terms of the Charter.
Final Acceptance Date means the date on which Final Acceptance occurs.
Final Acceptance Test means the Acceptance Conditions as defined in clause 6.2 of the Charter.
Final Maturity Date means the K-Sure Facility Maturity Date or the Commercial Facility Final Maturity Date.
Finance Documents means this Agreement, the First Amendment and Restatement Agreement, the Second Amendment and Restatement Agreement, the Hedging Contracts, any Accession Deed, any Fee Letter, the Security Documents, any Subordination Deed, any Intercreditor Deed, each Utilisation Request and any other document designated as such by the Facility Agent and the Borrower.
Finance Party means the Facility Agent, the Security Agent, the K-sure Agent, any Account Bank, any Mandated Lead Arranger, any Hedging Bank and any Lender (including K-sure if it has become a Lender) and Finance Parties means all of them.
Financial Indebtedness means any indebtedness for or in respect of:
(a) | monies borrowed (including any overdraft facility); |
(b) | debit balances at banks or other financial institutions; |
(c) | any amount raised by acceptance under any acceptance credit facility or equivalent; |
(d) | any amount raised pursuant to any note purchase facility or the issue of bonds, notes, debentures, loan stock or any similar instrument; |
(e) | the amount of any liability in respect of any lease or hire purchase contract which would, in accordance with applicable GAAP, be treated as a finance or capital lease; |
(f) | unsubordinated redeemable preference shares (howsoever described); |
(g) | receivables sold or discounted (other than any receivables to the extent they are sold on a non-recourse basis); |
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(h) | any Treasury Transaction (and, when calculating the value of that Treasury Transaction, the marked to market value shall be taken into account); |
(i) | any counter-indemnity obligation in respect of a guarantee, bond, standby or documentary letter of credit or any other instrument issued by a bank or financial institution in respect of any underlying liability; |
(j) | any amount of any liability under an advance or deferred purchase agreement if (a) one of the primary reasons behind entering into the agreement is to raise finance or (b) the agreement is in respect of the supply of assets or services and payment is due more than 180 days after the date of supply; |
(k) | any amount raised under any other transaction (including any forward sale or purchase, sale and sale-back or sale and leaseback agreement) under which interest charges are customarily paid or having the commercial effect of a borrowing or otherwise classified as borrowings under applicable GAAP; and |
(l) | any guarantee for any of the items referred to in paragraphs (a) to (k) above. |
Financial Model means the financial model setting out the base case financial projections and ratios related to the Project prepared by the Sponsor and approved by the Mandated Lead Arrangers prior to the date of this Agreement (as updated from to time to time by the Borrower with the approval of the Majority Lenders).
First Amendment and Restatement Agreement means the agreement supplemental to this Agreement dated 29 September 2021 made between, inter alios, the Borrower, the Guarantor, the Singapore Shareholder, the Indonesian Shareholder, Hoegh LNG Shipping Services Pte. Ltd., Hoegh LNG Asia Pte. Ltd. and Hoegh LNG AS as O&M Contractors, the K-sure Agent, the Facility Agent (on behalf of itself, the Mandated Lead Arrangers, the Lenders, the Hedging Banks, the Offshore Account Bank, the Onshore Account Bank and Standard Chartered Bank as issuing bank) and the Security Agent.
First Repayment Date means, in respect of each of the Facilities, subject to clause 41.8 (Business Days), 29 December 2014.
Flag State means the country specified in Schedule 2 (Vessel information) or such other state or territory as may be approved by the Lenders and K-sure (such approval not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed), at the request of the Borrower, as being the Flag State for the purposes of the Finance Documents.
Force Majeure Event means an event beyond the control of the Borrower and/or the Charterer as described in clause 25 of the Charter.
Free Liquid Assets means, at any date of determination under this Agreement, the aggregate consolidated value of the Höegh MLP Group's:
(a) | cash in hand; |
(b) | deposits in banks (including any amounts credited to the Project Accounts) and financial institutions; |
(c) | debt securities which are publicly traded on a major stock exchange or investment market (valued as at any applicable date of determination) and rated at least A with Standard and Poor's; and |
(d) | Available Drawings, |
but excluding any of those assets subject to a Security Interest at any time.
FSRU means a floating LNG storage and regasification unit.
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Funding Rate means any individual rate notified by a Lender to the Facility Agent pursuant to paragraph (a)(ii) of clause 12.3 (Cost of funds).
Gap Analysis Report means a report from the Technical Advisor prepared in accordance with the Agreed Scope of Work.
GAAP means:
(a) | in relation to the Borrower, generally accepted accounting principles in Indonesia or, if so notified by the Borrower, generally accepted accounting principles in Indonesia or IFRS as may be notified to the Facility Agent by the Borrower prior to any such change applying for the purposes of this Agreement; and |
(b) | in relation to the Guarantor, IFRS or, if so notified by the Borrower, generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America or IFRS as may be notified to the Facility Agent by the Borrower prior to any such change applying for the purposes of this Agreement. |
Grosse Akte Pendaftaran Kapal means the authenticated copy of the Vessel’s registration deed.
Guarantee means the irrevocable financial guarantee and indemnity to be issued by the Guarantor in favour of the Security Agent in the agreed form.
Guarantee Rights means the rights of the Borrower under any guarantees or warranties issued by the Builder, the Mooring EPC Contractor, the Mooring Installation Contractor or any manufacturer, supplier or repairer in respect of the manufacture, design, conversion, construction, supply, installation, operation and maintenance of the Vessel and/or the Mooring or any equipment of the Vessel and/or the Mooring or part thereof (including, without limitation, under or pursuant to the Building Contract or the Mooring EPC Contract).
Guarantor means Hoegh LNG Partners LP, a non-resident limited partnership with registration number 950068 formed in the Republic of the Marshall Islands with its registered office at Trust Company Complex, Ajeltake Road, Ajeltake Island, Majuro, Marshall Islands MH96960 and its principle office at Canon's Court, 22 Victoria Street, Hamilton HM12, Bermuda.
Hedging Bank means:
(a) | any Original Hedging Bank; |
(b) | any bank, financial institution, any trust, fund or other entity which has become a Party in accordance with clause 31.7 (Assignment of Hedging Contracts by Hedging Banks), |
which in each case has entered into a Hedging Master Agreement with the Borrower and has not ceased to be a Party in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.
Hedging Contract means a Hedging Transaction together with the relevant Hedging Master Agreement and Hedging Contracts means all of them.
Hedging Debt means all present and future moneys, debts and liabilities due, owing and/or incurred by the Borrower to any Hedging Bank in connection with any Hedging Contract (in each case, whether alone or jointly, or jointly and severally, with any other person, whether actually or contingently, and whether as principal, surety or otherwise) determined pursuant to the respective Hedging Contract.
Hedging Exposure means, as at any relevant date, the aggregate of the amount certified by each of the Hedging Banks to the Security Agent to be the net amount in dollars (a) in relation to all Hedging Contracts that have been closed out on or prior to the relevant date, that is due and owing by the Borrower to the Hedging Banks (or, to the extent that such amount is due and owing by the Hedging Banks to the Borrower, which amount shall be expressed as a negative amount)
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in respect of such Hedging Contracts on the relevant date and (b) in relation to all Hedging Contracts that are continuing on the relevant date, that would be payable by the Borrower to the Hedging Banks (or, to the extent that such amount would be payable by the Hedging Banks to the Borrower, which amount shall be expressed as a negative amount) under (and calculated in accordance with) the early termination provisions of the Hedging Contracts as if an Early Termination Date (as defined in the Hedging Master Agreements) had occurred on the relevant date in relation to all such continuing Hedging Contracts.
Hedging Master Agreement means a 2002 form of ISDA Master Agreement and the Schedule thereto between the Borrower and a Hedging Bank in a form agreed between the Facility Agent, such Hedging Bank and the Borrower and Hedging Master Agreements means all of them.
Hedging Security means a first assignment of the Borrower's rights and interests in and to the Hedging Contracts in favour of the Security Agent in the agreed form.
Hedging Transaction means an interest rate swap transaction as evidenced by a Confirmation (as defined in the relevant Hedging Master Agreement) between the Borrower and a Hedging Bank under a Hedging Master Agreement and subject to the terms of this Agreement.
Höegh LNG Ltd means Höegh LNG Ltd., a company incorporated in Bermuda with its registered office at Canon's court, 22 Victoria Street, Hamilton HM 12, Bermuda.
Höegh LNG Holdings Group means the Parent and its Subsidiaries for the time being.
Höegh MLP Group means the Guarantor and its Subsidiaries for the time being.
Holding Company means, in relation to a company or corporation, any other company or corporation in respect of which it is a Subsidiary.
IFC Performance Standards means the performance standards set out in the paper entitled “Performance Standards and Guidance Notes - 2012 Edition” and developed by the International Finance Corporation.
IFRS means international accounting standards within the meaning of IAS regulation 1606/2002.
IMF means the International Monetary Fund.
Impaired Agent means an Agent at any time when:
(a) | it has failed to make (or has notified a Party that it will not make) a payment required to be made by it under the Finance Documents by the due date for payment; |
(b) | that Agent otherwise rescinds or repudiates a Finance Document; |
(c) | (if that Agent is also a Lender) it is a Defaulting Lender under paragraph (a) or (b) of the definition of Defaulting Lender; or |
(d) | an Insolvency Event has occurred and is continuing with respect to that Agent; |
unless, in the case of paragraph (a) above:
(i) | its failure to pay is caused by: |
(A) | administrative or technical error; or |
(B) | a Payment Disruption Event; and |
payment is made within five (5) Business Days of its due date; or
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(ii) | that Agent is disputing in good faith whether it is contractually obliged to make the payment in question. |
Increased Costs shall have the meaning given to it in clause 15.1(b) (Increased Costs).
Indemnified Person means:
(a) | K-sure, each Finance Party and each Receiver and any attorney, agent or other person appointed by them under and in accordance with the Finance Documents; |
(b) | each Affiliate of those persons; and |
(c) | any officers, employees or agents of any of the above persons. |
Indirect Tax means any goods and services tax, consumption tax, value added tax or any tax of a similar nature.
Indonesian Shareholders means the Original Indonesian Shareholder and each New Shareholder which is not an Affiliate of the Guarantor.
Initial Equity Account means a dollar account of the Borrower with a bank in Indonesia.
Initial Project Budget means $403,000,000.
Insolvency Event in relation to a Finance Party means that the Finance Party:
(a) | is dissolved (other than pursuant to a consolidation, amalgamation or merger); |
(b) | becomes insolvent or is unable to pay its debts or fails or admits in writing its inability generally to pay its debts as they become due; |
(c) | makes a general assignment, arrangement or composition with or for the benefit of its creditors; |
(d) | institutes or has instituted against it, by a regulator, supervisor or any similar official with primary insolvency, rehabilitative or regulatory jurisdiction over it in the jurisdiction of its incorporation or organisation or the jurisdiction of its head or home office, a proceeding seeking a judgment of insolvency or bankruptcy or any other relief under any bankruptcy or insolvency law or other similar law affecting creditors' rights, or a petition is presented for its winding-up or liquidation by it or such regulator, supervisor or similar official; |
(e) | has instituted against it a proceeding seeking a judgment of insolvency or bankruptcy or any other relief under any bankruptcy or insolvency law or other similar law affecting creditors' rights, or a petition is presented for its winding-up or liquidation, and, in the case of any such proceeding or petition instituted or presented against it, such proceeding or petition is instituted or presented by a person or entity not described in paragraph (d) above and: |
(i) | results in a judgment of insolvency or bankruptcy or the entry of an order for relief or the making of an order for its winding up or liquidation; or |
(ii) | is not dismissed, discharged, stayed or restrained in each case within 30 days of the institution or presentation thereof; |
(f) | has exercised in respect of it one or more of the stabilisation powers pursuant to Part 1 of the Banking Act 2009 and/or has instituted against it a bank insolvency proceeding pursuant to Part 2 of the Banking Act 2009 or a bank administration proceeding pursuant to Part 3 of the Banking Act 2009; |
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(g) | has a resolution passed for its winding-up, official management or liquidation (other than pursuant to a consolidation, amalgamation or merger); |
(h) | seeks or becomes subject to the appointment of an administrator, provisional liquidator, conservator, receiver, trustee, custodian or other similar official for it or for all or substantially all its assets (other than, for so long as it is required by law or regulation not to be publicly disclosed, any such appointment which is to be made, or is made, by a person or entity described in paragraph (d) above); |
(i) | has a secured party take possession of all or substantially all its assets or has a distress, execution, attachment, sequestration or other legal process levied, enforced or sued on or against all or substantially all its assets and such secured party maintains possession, or any such process is not dismissed, discharged, stayed or restrained, in each case within 30 days thereafter; |
(j) | causes or is subject to any event with respect to it which, under the applicable laws of any jurisdiction, has an analogous effect to any of the events specified in paragraphs (a) to (i) above; or |
(k) | takes any action in furtherance of, or indicating its consent to, approval of, or acquiescence in, any of the foregoing acts. |
Insurance Advisor means Bankserve Insurance Services Ltd or any other reputable insurance consultant familiar with the market with experience of assets of the same type as the Vessel, appointed by the Facility Agent on behalf of the Lenders, with the approval of the Borrower (such approval not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed and, to the extent that the Borrower has not responded to the Facility Agent within 5 Business Days of its request, such approval shall be deemed to have been given) to review the Insurances, the Finance Documents and, if necessary, the Reinsurances and to report to the Finance Parties whether such Insurances and/or Reinsurances are in full force and effect and in accordance with the requirements under the Finance Documents and the Charter (as applicable).
Insurance Assignment means, in relation to a Co-assured (other than the Charterer) a first assignment of that Co-assured's rights and interests in and to the Insurances (other than protection and indemnity policies) and all benefits thereof (including the right to receive claims and to return of premiums) in relation to the Vessel after Delivery in favour of the Security Agent in the agreed form.
Insurance Fiduciary Assignment means an Indonesian law deed of fiduciary security (jaminan fidusia) of the Borrower's rights in the Insurances and all benefits thereof (including the right to receive claims and to return of premiums) and the Builder's Risk Insurances executed by the Borrower in favour of the Security Agent in the agreed form.
Insurance Notice means, in relation to the Insurances of the Vessel and the Mooring, a notice of assignment of such Insurances in the form scheduled to the Security Assignment (in the case of the Borrower), the Insurance Assignment (in the case of any other Co-assured (other than the Charterer) or any Reinsurance Fiduciary Assignment (in the case of an Insurer).
Insurance Proceeds means all proceeds of the Insurances and/or Reinsurances and/or Builder's Risks Insurances (or any part thereof) from time to time received by any Obligor or any Finance Party (other than Total Loss Proceeds or Liability Insurance Proceeds).
Insurance Proceeds Account means the dollar account of the Borrower opened or as the context may require, to be opened by the Borrower with the Offshore Account Bank, designated by the Offshore Account Bank to be the PT HOEGH LNG LAMPUNG - Insurance Proceeds Account and includes any re-designation and each sub-account thereof.
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Insurances means:
(a) | all policies and contracts of insurance (which expression includes, without limitation, any confiscation, expropriation, nationalisation and deprivation insurance, together with any kidnap and ransom insurance); and |
(b) | all entries in a protection and indemnity or war risks or other mutual insurance association, |
in the name of the Borrower or the joint names of the Borrower and any other person in respect of or in connection with the Vessel and/or the Mooring (up to and including the Final Acceptance Date) and/or the Earnings and/or the Project generally other than Builder's Risk Insurances.
Insurer means any insurer which is from time to time party to any Reinsurance Fiduciary Assignment in favour of the Security Agent.
Interbank Market means the London interbank market.
Intercreditor Deed means the intercreditor deed dated on or around the date of this Agreement and entered into between each of the Finance Parties, the Borrower and the Singapore Shareholder.
Interest During Construction in relation to a Facility, means interest which accrues under that Facility from the date of this Agreement until the earlier of (a) Last Availability Date for that Facility and (b) Final Acceptance.
Interest Payment Date shall have the meaning ascribed thereto in clause 10.2 (Payment of interest).
Interest Period means, in relation to a Loan, each period determined in accordance with clause 11 (Interest Periods) and, in relation to an Unpaid Sum, each period determined in accordance with clause 10.3 (Default interest).
Interpolated Screen Rate means, in relation to LIBOR for any Loan or Unpaid Sum, the rate (rounded to the same number of decimal places as the two relevant Screen Rates) which results from interpolating on a linear basis between:
(a) | the applicable Screen Rate for the longest period (for which that Screen Rate is available) which is less than the Interest Period of that Loan or Unpaid Sum; and |
(b) | the applicable Screen Rate for the shortest period (for which that Screen Rate is available) which exceeds the Interest Period of that Loan or Unpaid Sum, |
each as of 11:00 a.m. on the Quotation Day for the offering of deposits in dollars.
K-sure means Korea Trade Insurance Corporation.
K-sure Agent means Standard Chartered Bank.
K-sure Facility means the term loan facility in an aggregate amount not exceeding the K-sure Facility Limit (of which $68,158,899.72] remains outstanding as at the Effective Date) to be made available to the Borrower by the K-sure Lenders on the terms, and subject to the conditions, of this Agreement.
K-sure Facility Final Maturity Date means, subject to clause 41.8 (Business Days), 29 June 2026, or such later date as the Facility Agent may agree (on instructions of the Lenders and K-sure, in their absolute discretion).
K-sure Facility Limit means an amount of $178,634,376.
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K-sure Facility Repayment Dates means with respect to the K-sure Facility:
(a) | the First Repayment Date relating to such Facility; |
(b) | each of the dates falling at three (3) monthly intervals thereafter up to but not including the K-sure Facility Final Maturity Date; and |
(c) | the K-sure Facility Final Maturity Date. |
K-sure Facility Repayment Instalments means each scheduled repayment instalment payable on each K-sure Facility Repayment Date in accordance with clause 8.2(a).
K-sure Facility Repayment Schedule means the schedule set out in Part B of Schedule 11 (Repayment Schedules).
K-sure Insurance Proceeds means any and all insurance moneys, recoveries and/or any other amounts payable by K-sure under the K-sure Policy.
K-sure Lenders means:
(a) | any Original K-sure Lender; and |
(b) | any bank or financial institutions which has become a party as a K-sure Lender in accordance with clause 34 (Changes to the Lenders), |
which in each case has not ceased to be a Party in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.
K-sure Loan means a loan made or to be made to the Borrower under the K-sure Facility or (as the context may require) the outstanding principal amount of such borrowing and K-sure Loans means all of them.
K-sure Policy means the insurance policy given or to be given by K-sure in relation to this Agreement.
K-sure Premium means the full sum payable to K-sure as stipulated in the K-sure Policy, which sum may be adjusted by K-sure on the last Utilisation of the K-sure Facility in accordance with the terms of such policy and K-sure's internal regulations.
Korea means the Republic of Korea.
Last Availability Date means the earliest to occur of:
(a) | 31 October 2014; |
(b) | the Termination Date; and |
(c) | the date falling ninety (90) days after the Final Acceptance Date; |
or in each case such later date as may be agreed in writing by the Borrower and the Facility Agent (acting on the instructions of the Lenders).
Latest Balance Sheet means the consolidated balance sheet of the Guarantor most recently delivered to the Facility Agent pursuant to clause 20.1 (Financial statements) and/or most recently made publicly available.
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Legal Reservations means:
(a) | the principle that equitable remedies may be granted or refused at the discretion of a court and the limitation of enforcement by laws relating to insolvency, reorganisation and other laws generally affecting the rights of creditors; |
(b) | the time barring of claims under the Limitation Acts, the possibility that an undertaking to assume liability for, or indemnify a person against, non-payment of UK stamp duty may be void and defences of set-off or counterclaim; |
(c) | notwithstanding the terms of any English Law Security Document or the assets or rights over which any English Law Security Document is expressed to create security, an English Law Security Document may not create effective security over an asset or right which is situated in or governed by the governing law of Indonesia (or in the case of Vessel Rights or Guarantee Rights any country other than England) and for the purpose of this paragraph (c) English Law Security Document means a Security Document governed by English law; |
(d) | in relation to an assignment or charging of Vessel Rights and/or Guarantee Rights only, an assignment or other charge in breach of a prohibition on assignment or charging or without a consent required for such assignment or charge may not be effective; |
(e) | as of the date of this Agreement, valid first-rank security interests under Indonesian laws are limited only to fiduciary security (fiducia), pledge (gadai) and mortgage (hak tanggungan), mortgage/hypothec over vessel and warehouse receipt (resi gudang). There is no assurance that Indonesian courts will recognize or enforce (i) the creation under any non-Indonesian law document of a security interest in assets of the Borrower located or sited in the Republic of Indonesia and (ii) the Powers of Attorney; |
(f) | foreclosure on and sale of the capital goods covered by the Fiduciary Assignment of Tangible Assets (if any) may require the prior approvals of the Coordinating Board of Investment (BKPM) or the Minister of Finance, which approval may be conditioned upon payment of import duties and import value added taxes and import luxury goods sales taxes which may have been exempted, suspended or deferred upon importation of such goods. |
(g) | foreclosure on and the sale of the Shares in the Borrower covered by the Share Security would be subject to the approvals from BKPM; |
(h) | any other matters which are set out as qualifications or reservations as to matters of law of general application in any legal opinion delivered to any of the Finance Parties pursuant to clause 4.1 (Initial conditions precedent) or in connection with any Finance Document entered into after the first Utilisation; and |
(i) | similar principles, rights and defences under the laws of any Relevant Jurisdiction. |
Lender means:
(a) | any Original Lender; and |
(b) | any bank, financial institution, or any trust, fund or other entity which has become a Party in accordance with clause 34 (Changes to the Lenders), |
which in each case has not ceased to be a Party in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.
Letter of Quiet Enjoyment means the letter of quiet enjoyment entered into or to be entered into between the Charterer, the Borrower and the Security Agent in the agreed form.
Liability Insurance Proceeds means the proceeds of the Insurances received in respect of protection and indemnity risks.
LIBOR means, in relation to the Loan or any part of it or any Unpaid Sum:
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(a) | the applicable Screen Rate as of 11:00 a.m. (London time) on the Quotation Day for the offering of deposits in dollars for a period equal in length to the Interest Period for the Loan or relevant part of it or Unpaid Sum; or |
(b) | as otherwise determined pursuant to clause 12 (Unavailability of Screen Rate), |
and, if in either such case, that rate is below zero, LIBOR will be deemed to be zero.
Limitation Acts means the Limitation Act 1980 and the Foreign Limitation Periods Act 1984.
LNG means liquefied natural gas.
Loans means, together, the K-sure Loans and the Commercial Loans and Loan means any of them.
London Business Day means a day (other than a Saturday or a Sunday) on which banks are open for business in London.
Loss of Hire Insurance Proceeds means the proceeds of the Insurances received in respect of loss of hire (if such Insurances are entered into in respect of the Vessel).
Loss Payable Clauses means, in relation to the Insurances of the Vessel and/or the Mooring, the provisions concerning payment of claims under such Insurances or, as the case may be, Reinsurances in the form scheduled to the Security Assignment, the Insurance Assignment, any Reinsurance Fiduciary Assignment (as the case may be) or in another approved form.
Losses means any losses, liabilities, costs, charges, expenses, claims, damages, penalties, fines or other sanctions of whatsoever nature (including without limitation, Taxes).
Maintenance Provider means Hoegh LNG Shipping Services Pte. Ltd. or such other Approved Operator which has been appointed by the Borrower as maintenance provider in accordance with clause 24.4 (Operation and Maintenance) of this Agreement.
Major Casualty means any casualty to the Vessel for which the total insurance claim, inclusive of any deductible, exceeds or is reasonably likely to exceed the Major Casualty Amount.
Major Casualty Amount means in respect of the Vessel, $30,000,000 (or the equivalent in any other currency).
Majority Lenders means at any time:
(a) | if there is any Loan then outstanding, a Lender or Lenders whose participations in the Loan(s) then outstanding aggregate more than 662/3 per cent of all such Loan(s); or |
(b) | if there is no Loan then outstanding and the Available Facilities are then greater than zero, a Lender or Lenders whose Available Commitments aggregate more than 662/3 per cent of the Available Facilities; or |
(c) | if there is no Loan then outstanding and the Available Facilities are then zero: |
(i) | if the Available Facilities became zero after a Loan ceased to be outstanding, a Lender or Lenders whose Available Commitments aggregated more than 662/3 per cent of the Available Facilities immediately before the Available Facilities became zero; or |
(ii) | if a Loan ceased to be outstanding after the Available Facilities became zero, a Lender or Lenders whose participations in the Loan(s) outstanding immediately before any Loan ceased to be outstanding aggregated more than 662/3 per cent of all such Loan(s). |
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Manuals and Technical Records means, in relation to the Vessel, all such books, records, logs, manuals, handbooks, technical data, plans, drawings and other materials and documents (whether or not kept or required to be kept in compliance with any applicable laws or the requirements of the Classification Society) relating to the Vessel.
Margin means:
(a) | in relation to the K-sure Loan, 2.30 per cent per annum; and |
(b) | in relation to the Commercial Loan, 3.75 per cent per annum. |
Master Maintenance Agreement means an agreement for the provision or procurement of maintenance between the Borrower and a Maintenance Provider in relation to the FSRU substantially following the terms set out in the applicable outline terms provided to the Mandated Lead Arrangers prior to the date of this Agreement or as otherwise approved.
Master Parts Agreement means an agreement for the provision or procurement of spare or replacement parts between the Borrower and a Parts Provider in relation to the FSRU substantially following the terms set out in the applicable outline terms provided to the Mandated Lead Arrangers prior to the date of this Agreement or as otherwise approved.
Material Adverse Effect means a material adverse effect on:
(a) | the business, operations, property, condition (financial or otherwise) or assets of the Höegh MLP Group taken as a whole; |
(b) | the ability of the Borrower or the Guarantor to perform their respective obligations under any of the Finance Documents or the Material Project Agreements to which they are a party; or |
(c) | the legality, validity or enforceability of, or the effectiveness or ranking of any Security Interest granted pursuant to, any of the Finance Documents or the rights or remedies of any Finance Party under any of the Finance Documents. |
Material Project Agreement means the Charter, any Charter Guarantee, the PGN L/C, the Umbrella Agreement, the Consortium Agreement, the Building Contract, the Refund Guarantee, any Builder's Performance L/C, the Mooring EPC Contract, the Mooring Installation Contract, the Modec Guarantee, the Supervision Agreement and any O&M Contract.
Minimum Value means, at any time, the amount in dollars which is at that time one hundred and twenty per cent (120%) of the Loans.
Modec means Modec International, Inc. whose corporate office is located at 14741 Yorktown Plaza Drive, Houston, TX 77040.
Modec Guarantee means the parent company guarantee to be issued by Modec in favour of the Borrower in respect of the Mooring EPC Contract following execution of the Mooring EPC Contract Novation Agreement.
Mooring means the Mooring as defined in the Charter.
Mooring Contract Price means the aggregate amount, payable by the Borrower (or prior to the relevant novation the Sponsor and/or its Affiliates) in respect of the Mooring under the Mooring EPC Contract and the Mooring Installation Contract, as notified by the Borrower to the Facility Agent.
Mooring Documents means the Mooring EPC Contract, the Modec Guarantee, the Mooring Installation Contract and any guarantee or security given to the Borrower by any person for the Mooring EPC Contractor's obligations under the Mooring EPC Contract and/or the Mooring Installation Contractor's obligations under the Mooring Installation Contract and includes any
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change orders or other deed, document, agreement or instrument amending, varying or supplementing any of the foregoing documents or any of the terms and conditions thereof.
Mooring EPC Contract means the contract specified in Schedule 2 (Vessel Information) and made between the Mooring EPC Contractor and the Sponsor relating to, inter alia, the construction of the Mooring (the Original Mooring EPC Contract) as novated or to be novated to the Borrower pursuant to the Mooring EPC Contract Novation Agreement.
Mooring EPC Contractor means SOFEC, Inc., a company incorporated in Texas, United States of America with its registered office at 14741 Yorktown Plaza Drive, Houston, Texas, 77040.
Mooring EPC Contract Novation Agreement means the novation agreement between the Borrower, the Mooring EPC Contractor and HLNG Asia Pte Ltd, pursuant to which the rights and obligations of HLNG Asia Pte Ltd under the Original Mooring EPC Contract are novated in favour of the Borrower.
Mooring Installation Contract means a contract relating to the installation of the Mooring at the Site to be made between the Borrower and the Mooring Installation Contractor substantially following the terms set out in the applicable letter of intent provided by the Borrower prior to the entry into such contract and approved by the Lenders (acting reasonably) or as otherwise approved.
Mooring Installation Contractor means a company approved by the Lenders (acting reasonably).
Mooring Payment Accounts means the Offshore Mooring Account and the Onshore Mooring Account and Mooring Payment Account means either of them.
Mooring Purchase Price means the amount in respect of the purchase price of the Mooring calculated in accordance with the Charter and payable by the Charterer to the Borrower.
Mortgage means a first ranking Indonesian ship hypothec (hipotek kapal) over the Vessel in the agreed form executed by the Borrower in favour of the Security Agent.
Mortgage Period means the period commencing on the date on which the Mortgage over the Vessel is executed and submitted for registration until the earlier of the date on which the Mortgage is released and discharged and the Total Loss Date in respect of the Vessel.
Net Hedging Expenses for any period means the amounts payable (or, in respect of a future period, projected to be payable) during that period under any Hedging Contract by the Borrower less the amounts payable (or, in respect of a future period, projected to be payable) during that period under any Hedging Contract to the Borrower in each case excluding any payment in respect of a party's costs of entering into or terminating a Hedging Contract (and, for the avoidance of doubt, any Net Hedging Expenses may be a negative amount as well as a positive amount).
New Lender has the meaning given to such term in clause 34.1 (Assignments and transfers by the Lenders).
New Shareholder means any person or corporate entity which has become a shareholder of the Borrower pursuant to and in accordance with clause 30.16 (Replacement and/or additional shareholder).
NoR Conditions means the “NoR Conditions” as defined in clause 6.1 of the Charter.
O&M Contract means a Technical Services Agreement, a Master Maintenance Agreement or a Master Parts Agreement.
O&M Contractor means a Maintenance Provider or a Parts Provider or a Technical Services Provider.
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O&M Contractor Undertaking means, in relation to each O&M Contractor which is an Affiliate of the Borrower or Guarantor, an undertaking by that O&M Contractor to the Security Agent in the agreed form.
Obligors means a Facility Obligor, the Singapore Shareholder, each O&M Contractor which is part of the Höegh LNG Holdings Group (so long as it is a party to a Security Document) and any other Affiliate of the Borrower (other than an Indonesian Shareholder) or the Guarantor which is from time to time a party to a Finance Document and Obligor means any of them.
OECD Common Approaches means Recommendation of the Council in Common Approaches for Officially Supported Export Credits and Environmental and Social Due Diligence (the Common Approaches) (TAD/ECG (2012) 5) dated 28 June 2012.
Offshore Account Bank means the Offshore Account Bank specified above and includes any person who may be appointed by the Borrower with the approval of the Majority Lenders (not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed) as an 'Offshore Account Bank' in addition to or, as the case may be, in substitution for the Offshore Account Bank as at the date of this Agreement and which has entered into an Accession Deed.
Offshore Mooring Payment Account means the dollar account of the Borrower opened or, as the context may require, to be opened by the Borrower with the Offshore Account Bank, designated by the Offshore Account Bank to be the “PT HOEGH LNG LAMPUNG – Offshore Mooring Payment Account” and includes any redesignation and each sub-account thereof.
Offshore Operating Account means the dollar account of the Borrower opened or as the context may require, to be opened by the Borrower with the Offshore Account Bank, designated by the Offshore Account Bank to be the “PT HOEGH LNG LAMPUNG – Offshore Operating Account” and includes any re-designation and each sub-account thereof.
Offshore Revenue Account means the dollar account of the Borrower opened or, as the context may require, to be opened by the Borrower with the Offshore Account Bank, designated by the Offshore Account Bank to be the “PT HOEGH LNG LAMPUNG - Offshore Revenue Account” and includes any redesignation and each sub-account thereof.
Onshore Account Bank means the Onshore Account Bank specified above and includes any person who may be appointed by the Borrower with the approval of the Majority Lenders (not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed) as an 'Onshore Account Bank' in addition to or, as the case may be, in substitution for the Onshore Account Bank as at the date of this Agreement and which has entered into an Accession Deed.
Onshore Delivery Account means the dollar account of the Borrower opened or as the context may require, to be opened by the Borrower with the Onshore Account Bank, designated by the Onshore Account Bank to be the “PT HOEGH LNG LAMPUNG – Onshore Delivery Account” and includes any re-designation and each sub-account thereof.
Onshore Operating Account means the rupiah account of the Borrower opened or as the context may require, to be opened by the Borrower with the Onshore Account Bank, designated by the Onshore Account Bank to be the “PT HOEGH LNG LAMPUNG – Onshore Operating Account” and includes any re-designation and each sub-account thereof.
Onshore Mooring Payment Account means the dollar account of the Borrower opened or, as the context may require, to be opened by the Borrower with the Onshore Account Bank, designated by the Onshore Account Bank to be the “PT HOEGH LNG LAMPUNG - Onshore Mooring Payment Account” and includes any redesignation and each sub-account thereof.
Onshore Proceeds Account means the dollar account of the Borrower opened or as the context may require, to be opened by the Borrower with the Onshore Account Bank, designated by the Onshore Account Bank to be the “PT HOEGH LNG LAMPUNG – Onshore Proceeds Account” and includes any re-designation and each sub-account thereof.
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Onshore Revenue Account means the dollar account of the Borrower opened or, as the context may require, to be opened by the Borrower with the Onshore Account Bank, designated by the Onshore Account Bank to be the “PT HOEGH LNG LAMPUNG - Onshore Revenue Account” and includes any redesignation and each sub-account thereof.
Operating Accounts means the Offshore Operating Account and the Onshore Operating Account and Operating Account means either of them.
Operating and Maintenance Element means the fee payable by the Charterer to the Borrower pursuant to clause 12 of the Charter, calculated in accordance with sections 3.2 to 3.7 of Schedule 6 to the Charter.
Operating Expenses means all operating expenses, taxes, capital expenditure, payments under Project Documents (other than Subordinated Loan Agreements and Promissory Notes), employee costs, insurance premiums and similar amounts payable by the Borrower.
Original Charterer means PT Perusahaan Gas Negara (Persero) Tbk, a state-owned limited liability company established under Indonesian Government Regulations and having its principal office at Jl. K.H. Zainul Arifin No. 20, Jakarta 1140, Indonesia.
Original Commercial Lenders means those banks and financial institutions listed in Schedule 1 (The Original Lenders) as Commercial Lenders.
Original Financial Statements means the audited consolidated financial statements of the Guarantor for its financial year ended 31 December 2020.
Original Hedging Banks means the banks and financial institutions listed in Schedule 1 as Hedging Banks.
Original Indonesian Shareholder means PT Bahtera Daya Utama, a company incorporated in Indonesia with its registered office at Jalan Ampera Raya No. 9-10, Jakarta Selatan 12550, Indonesia.
Original K-sure Lenders means those banks and financial institutions listed in Schedule 1 (The Original Lenders) as K-sure Lenders.
Original Lenders means the Original K-sure Lenders and the Original Commercial Lenders and Original Lender means any of them.
Original Security Documents means:
(a) | the Mortgage; |
(b) | the Security Assignment; |
(c) | the Project Agreements Assignment; |
(d) | the Insurance Assignment; |
(e) | the Shares Security |
(f) | the Sponsor's Assignment; |
(g) | the Account Security; |
(h) | each O&M Contractor Undertaking; |
(i) | the Supervisor Undertaking; |
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(j) | the Letter of Quiet Enjoyment; |
(k) | the Guarantee; |
(l) | the Fiduciary Assignments; |
(m) | the Hedging Security; |
(n) | any DSRA Letter of Credit; and |
(o) | the Powers of Attorney, |
as the same may be supplemented, amended or reconfirmed from time to time.
Original Shareholders means the Singapore Shareholder and the Original Indonesian Shareholder.
Parent means Höegh LNG Holdings Ltd, a company incorporated in Bermuda with its registered office at Canon's Court, 22 Victoria Street, Hamilton HM12, Bermuda.
Participating Member State means any member state of the European Community that adopts or has adopted the euro as its lawful currency in accordance with legislation of the European Community relating to Economic and Monetary Union.
Parts Provider means Hoegh LNG Asia Pte. Ltd. or such other Approved Operator which has been appointed by the Borrower as parts provider in accordance with clause 24.4 (Operation and Maintenance) of this Agreement.
Party means a party to this Agreement.
Perfection Requirements means the paying, making or the procuring of the appropriate registrations, taxes, fees, filings, endorsements, notarisation, stampings, translations and/or notifications in respect of the Security Documents as specifically referred to in any Finance Document or in any legal opinion delivered to the Facility Agent pursuant to clause 4 (Conditions of Utilisation) or in connection with the entry into any Finance Document.
Permitted Amendment means:
(a) | any amendment of, or waiver or release of a party's obligations under, any Subordinated Loan Agreement and/or any Promissory Note and/or any Equity Loan Agreement provided that if it is a material amendment, waiver or release it is notified in advance to the Facility Agent; |
(b) | any amendment of, or waiver or release of a party's obligations under, the Shareholders Agreement other than an amendment, waiver or release of any Restricted Provision which is notified in advance to the Facility Agent; |
(c) | [intentionally blank]; |
(d) | any amendment to an O&M Contract which does not result in the Operating Expenses of the Borrower for the applicable period exceeding the then applicable Projected Operating Expenses or increasing any other liability of the Borrower under the Project Agreements or in a change to the tenor of such Project Agreements and which is notified in advance to the Facility Agent; and |
(e) | any amendment to the Supervision Agreement or any other Project Agreement which is not a Material Project Agreement or expressly referred to elsewhere in this definition which does not result in an increase in any amount payable by the Borrower or the liability of the Borrower under the Project Agreements or in a change to the tenor of such Project Agreements and which is notified in advance to the Facility Agent; |
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(f) | any amendment to the Charter by way of a change order or written amendment which relates to matters of a purely technical and/or operational nature and which would not, or would not reasonably be expected to: |
(i) | require the Borrower to effect or otherwise result in a material structural alteration to the Vessel or the Mooring or affect the safety or structural integrity thereof; or |
(ii) | result in any change in the amount (by way of reduction), calculation, method or timing of payment of the Total Charter Rate; or |
(iii) | result in any reduction to the Charter Period or termination of the Charter; or |
(iv) | result in any change to the termination and/or force majeure provisions (if applicable) of a Project Agreement; or |
(v) | result in any change to any counterparty to a Project Agreement; or |
(vi) | result in any forecast shortfall in funding to achieve Final Acceptance in excess of $5,000,000 in aggregate during the construction period; or |
(vii) | result in an increase in Operating Expenses that are not being compensated in full by the Charterer; |
(g) | any amendment permitted under clause 24.1(d) or 24.1(e) (Project Agreements) or required pursuant to and in accordance with this Agreement and any consequential amendments required to be made to the Charter pursuant to an expert's determination; and |
(h) | any novation of a Project Agreement (other than the Charter) to the Borrower as contemplated by this Agreement, the Building Contract Novation Agreement, the Mooring EPC Contract Novation Agreement, the Umbrella Novation Agreement or the Consortium Agreement Novation Agreement; |
(i) | any novation of the Charter to the Borrower pursuant to the Charter Novation Agreement or by the Charterer pursuant to clause 16.3 of the Charter and in accordance with clause 24.1(d)(vi) of this Agreement; |
(j) | any extension of the term of the Charter. |
Permitted Financial Indebtedness means any:
(a) | Financial Indebtedness incurred under, or as expressly permitted by, the Finance Documents; and |
(b) | Financial Indebtedness in the form of Subordinated Loans or Promissory Notes; |
(c) | Financial Indebtedness incurred in respect of any trade and/or sundry creditors which is not exceeding ninety (90) days; and |
(d) | Financial Indebtedness under finance or capital leases of vehicles, plant, machinery, equipment or computers provided that the aggregate capital value of all such items so leased by the Borrower under outstanding leases does not exceed $250,000 at any time. |
Permitted Location means the Site or any other location required under the Charter Documents as the Lenders may approve in accordance with clause 24.12 (Negative covenants).
Permitted Maritime Liens means:
(a) | unless an Event of Default is continuing, any ship repairer's or outfitter's possessory lien in respect of the Vessel for an amount not exceeding the Major Casualty Amount; |
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(b) | any lien on the Vessel for master's, officer's or crew's wages outstanding in the ordinary course of its trading which are not overdue; |
(c) | any lien on the Vessel for salvage; and |
(d) | any lien arising in the ordinary course of business or operation of the Vessel created by statute or by operation of law in Indonesia (and constituting a bona fide, non-discriminatory measure of general application) and in respect of obligations which are not overdue or which are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings (and for the payment of which adequate reserves have been provided) so long as any such proceedings or the continued existence of such lien do not, in the reasonable opinion of the Facility Agent, involve any likelihood of the sale, forfeiture or loss or, or of any interest in, or loss of use (for a period of seven (7) days or more) of, the Vessel. |
Permitted Repayment means any repayment or payment in respect of Promissory Notes made by the Borrower prior to the first Utilisation Date provided that such repayment or payment is made solely from amounts paid by the Shareholders pursuant to the subscription of shares in or other capitalisation of share or equity of the Borrower.
Permitted Security Interest means:
(a) | any Security Interest which is created by or expressed to be created by any Finance Document; |
(b) | a Permitted Maritime Lien; |
(b) | until the date that the Shares Security is entered into by the Indonesian Shareholder, any Security Interest over the shares in the Borrower owned by the Indonesian Shareholder; |
(c) | any Security Interest arising under any retention of title, hire purchase or conditional sale arrangement or arrangements having similar effect in respect of goods supplied to the Borrower in the ordinary course of trading and on the supplier's standard or usual terms and not as a result of any default or omission by the Borrower; |
(d) | any Security Interest arising as a consequence of any finance or capital lease which is permitted pursuant to paragraph (e) of the definition of Permitted Financial Indebtedness; |
(e) | any Security Interest existing in favour of an Account Bank pursuant to paragraph 3.1 of Schedule 19 (Account Banks provisions); |
(f) | any other Security Interest approved by the Lenders; or |
(g) | any Security Interest arising under general banking conditions of a financial institution with whom a member of the Höegh MLP Group or the Höegh LNG Holdings Group holds a bank account. |
PGN Arbitration means the arbitration proceedings commenced by the Charterer against the Borrower in respect of the Charter by its notice of arbitration dated 2 August 2021 seeking to declare the Charter null and void and/or to terminate the Charter.
PGN L/C means an irrevocable standby letter of credit substantially in the form of Part B of Schedule 4 of the Charter or such other form as may be approved by the Lenders which is issued by an Approved Bank (as defined in the Charter) in favour of the Borrower in accordance with the Charter.
Pollutant means and includes LNG, crude oil and its products, any other polluting, toxic or hazardous substance and any other substance whose release into the environment is regulated or penalised by Environmental Laws.
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Powers of Attorney means the security powers of attorney in the agreed form granted or, as the context may require, to be granted by the Borrower to the Security Agent on behalf of the Finance Parties, pursuant to which the Borrower appoints or, as the context may require, will appoint the Security Agent as its attorney for the purposes of, inter alia, effecting the termination of the Charter, the repossession of the Vessel, the decommissioning of the Vessel, sale of the Vessel, the towage of the Vessel to a location outside the Permitted Location, the deregistration of the Vessel and/or creating second and subsequent hypothec over the Vessel.
Priority Operating Expenses means in any period the amount transferred from the Offshore Revenue Account to the Offshore Operating Account in respect of Operating Expenses pursuant to and in accordance with clause 29.8(a)(i).
Proceeds Application Event means the Borrower becoming obliged to prepay the Loans (or any part thereof) pursuant to the provisions of this Agreement (other than in accordance with clauses 9.1 (Illegality), 9.2 (Voluntary prepayment and cancellation) or 9.3 (Right of cancellation and prepayment in relation to a single Lender) unless applicable to all Loans and Lenders, clause 9.5 (Right of cancellation in relation to a Defaulting Lender), clause 9.10 (K-sure Policy) (in the event that only the K-sure Loans are required to be pre-paid in accordance with that clause) or clause 29.8(a)(viii) (Offshore Revenue Account, Payment cascade)).
Prohibited Payment means:
(a) | any offer, gift, payment, promise to pay, commission, fee, loan or other consideration which would constitute bribery or a breach of the Bribery Act 2010, the United States Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977 or other applicable law of any Relevant Jurisdiction or England and Wales; or |
(b) | any offer, gift, payment, promise to pay, commission, fee, loan or other consideration which would or might constitute bribery within the OECD Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions of 17 December 1997. |
Project means the Works and procurement and installation of the Mooring and the construction, installation, commissioning, operation and chartering to the Charterer of the Vessel pursuant to the Charter.
Project Accounts means, together, the following:
(a) | the Construction Account (which is, on and from the Effective Date, redesignated as the Cash Lock-Up Account); |
(b) | the Revenue Accounts; |
(c) | the Operating Accounts; |
(d) | the Onshore Proceeds Account; |
(e) | the Onshore Delivery Account; |
(f) | the Debt Service Reserve Account; |
(g) | the Rupiah Account; |
(h) | the Distribution Account; |
(i) | the Retention Account; |
(j) | the Insurance Proceeds Account; and |
(k) | the Dollar Tax Account. |
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Project Agreements means the Charter Documents, the Building Contract Documents, the Mooring Documents, the O&M Contracts, the Supervision Agreement, the Subordinated Loan Agreements (if any) and each other document the Facility Agent and the Borrower designate as a Project Agreement.
Project Agreements Assignment means a first assignment of the Borrower's rights and interest in and to the Material Project Agreements to which it is a party (including, without limitation, the Vessel Rights and the Guarantee Rights), the Subordinated Loan Agreement and the Promissory Notes by the Borrower in favour of the Security Agent in the agreed form.
Project Authorisations means all licences, permits, wayleaves, approvals, filings, registrations, exemptions, authorisations and consents (other than Environmental Licences) necessary to be obtained by the Borrower and/or any O&M Contractor in connection with the Transaction Documents, the Project and all activities related to the Project to be carried out by the Borrower and/or the O&M Contractor.
Project Budget Statement means each statement to be prepared and required to be submitted by the Borrower to the Facility Agent pursuant to and in accordance with clause 24.5 (Agreement of Projected Operating Expenses and Delivery of Project Budget Statement) substantially in the form attached as Schedule 10 (Form of Project Budget Statement) or as otherwise agreed by the Facility Agent and the Borrower and setting out the projected Projected Operating Expenses and the latest cashflow and tax projections for the relevant period, as such statement may be updated in accordance with clause 24.5 (Agreement of Projected Operating Expenses and Delivery of Project Budget Statement).
Project Cost means the costs and expenses incurred by the Borrower and, prior to first Utilisation, the Sponsor and/or its Affiliates in relation to, and costs and expenses to complete, the Project, including, without limitation, the construction and installation costs in respect of the Vessel and the Mooring, Interest During Construction, the K-sure Premium, Net Hedging Expenses payable up to the Final Acceptance Date, direct fees, costs and expenses incurred by the Borrower and/or the Sponsor and its Affiliates in relation to the Project and the Finance Documents and including in each case such amounts paid or funded by the Guarantor, the Sponsor, the Shareholders and any of their Affiliates, whether before or after the establishment of the Borrower and provided that in determining the amount of the Project Costs, amounts payable by the Borrower to the Sponsor and/or its Affiliates pursuant to the novation of any Material Project Agreement to the Borrower shall not be included in addition to the amounts paid by the Sponsor and/or its Affiliates in respect of those Material Project Agreements prior to novation and any margin payable to the Sponsor and/or its Affiliates by the Borrower pursuant to such novations over such amounts paid by the Sponsor and/or its Affiliates shall not be a Project Cost.
Projected Operating Expenses means the anticipated operating expenses of the Borrower for the applicable year as shown in the relevant Project Budget Statement.
Promissory Note means any promissory note or convertible promissory note issued by the Borrower in favour of the Guarantor, the Sponsor, a Shareholder or any of their Affiliates, and which, from the first Utilisation Date (or in the case of the Sponsor by no later than the date falling three (3) Business Days after the first Utilisation Date), is subordinated to the Facilities by way of a Subordination Deed.
Quotation Day means, in relation to any period for which an interest rate is to be determined, two (2) London Business Days before the first day of that period unless market practice differs in the Interbank Market for the relevant currency, in which case the Quotation Day for that currency shall be determined by the Facility Agent in accordance with market practice in the Interbank Market (and if quotations would normally be given by leading banks in the Interbank Market on more than one day, the Quotation Day will be the last of those days).
Receivables means:
(a) | all Sales Proceeds in respect of the Vessel; |
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(b) | proceeds in respect of any disposal of part of the Vessel; |
(c) | Total Loss Proceeds in respect of the Vessel; |
(d) | any Termination Fee; |
(e) | the Vessel Purchase Option Price; |
(f) | the Mooring Purchase Price; |
(g) | Tax refunds and other taxes applicable to the Project; |
(h) | all amounts which are received or receivable by the Borrower (or the Security Trustee as assignee) under the Building Contract Documents, the Mooring Contract Documents or the Charter Guarantee; |
(i) | the proceeds of any sale of the shares in respect of the Borrower pursuant to the Shares Security; |
(j) | all amounts which are, at any time received or receivable from the Guarantor under, and pursuant to the terms of, the Guarantee ; and |
(k) | all other amounts which are from time to time required, pursuant to the terms of the Finance Documents, to be deposited in a Revenue Account. |
Receiver means a receiver or a receiver and manager or an administrative receiver appointed in relation to the whole or any part of any Charged Property under any relevant Security Document.
Reformed Basel 3 means the agreements contained in Basel III: Finalising post-crisis reforms published by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision in December 2017, as amended, supplemented or restated.
Reformed Basel 3 Increased Cost means an Increased Cost which is attributable to the implementation or application of or compliance with any other law or regulation which implements Reformed Basel 3 (whether such implementation, application or compliance is by a government, regulator, Finance Party or any of its Affiliates.
Refund Guarantee means the guarantee details of which are specified in Schedule 2 (Vessel information) issued by the Refund Guarantor in respect of the Builder's obligations under the Building Contract and any further guarantee to be issued by the Refund Guarantor to the Borrower in respect of such obligations in accordance with the Building Contract.
Refund Guarantor means the refund guarantor specified as such in Schedule 2 (Vessel information) or any approved replacement Refund Guarantor in accordance with this Agreement.
Registry means such registrar, commissioner or representative of the Flag State who is duly authorised and empowered to register the Vessel, the Borrower's title to the Vessel and the Mortgage under the laws of its Flag State.
Regulatory Authority means the Classification Society, the Registry, and each other regulatory authority in Indonesia or elsewhere or, as the case may be, such other body carrying out the functions which are carried out by the Classification Society or the Registry or such other body in Indonesia or in any other location in which the Vessel is, or is proposed to be operated, in each case to the extent applicable to the Borrower, any O&M Contractor and/or the Vessel.
Reinsurance Fiduciary Assignment means the Indonesian law deed of fiduciary security (jaminan fidusia) over Insurance Proceeds (in respect of the Reinsurances and all benefits thereof including claims of whatsoever nature and return of premiums) executed by the Insurer(s) in favour of the Security Agent in the agreed form or such other form as may be approved.
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Reinsurances means any and all policies and contracts of reinsurance which are from time to time in place or taken out or entered into by or / for the benefit of the insurers in relation to any of the Insurances or any renewals or substitutions therefore.
Related Fund in relation to a fund (the first fund), means a fund which is managed or advised by the same investment manager or investment adviser as the first fund or, if it is managed by a different investment manager or investment adviser, a fund whose investment manager or investment adviser is an Affiliate of the investment manager or investment adviser of the first fund.
Relevant Jurisdiction means, in relation to an Obligor:
(a) | its jurisdiction of incorporation; |
(b) | any jurisdiction where any Charged Property owned by it is situated; and |
(c) | any jurisdiction whose laws govern the perfection of any of the Security Documents entered into by it. |
Relevant Period means in the case of the first Relevant Period, a period of nine (9) months ending on the first date of testing under clause 21.3 (Financial testing) and in the case of each subsequent Relevant Period, each period of nine (9) months ending on any Commercial Facility Repayment Date or K-sure Facility Repayment Date.
Repayment Dates means, together, the Commercial Facility Repayment Dates and the K-sure Facility Repayment Dates and Repayment Date shall mean any such date.
Repayment Instalments means the Commercial Facility Repayment Instalments and the K-sure Facility Repayment Instalments and Repayment Instalment shall mean any such instalment.
Repayment Schedule means, as the case may be, the K-sure Facility Repayment Schedule or the Commercial Facility Repayment Schedule.
Repeating Representations means each of the representations and warranties set out in clauses 19.1 (Status) to 19.10 (Ranking and effectiveness of security) (other than clause 19.8(c)).
Representative means any delegate, agent, manager, administrator, nominee, attorney, trustee or custodian.
Requisition Compensation means, in respect of the Vessel, any compensation paid or payable by a government entity to the Borrower for the requisition for title, confiscation or compulsory acquisition of the Vessel.
Resolution Authority means any body which has authority to exercise any Write-down and Conversion Powers.
Restricted Party means a person that is: (i) listed on, or (directly or indirectly) owned or controlled by a person listed on, or acting on behalf of a person listed on, any Sanctions List; (ii) not a natural person and is located in, incorporated under the laws of, or (directly or indirectly) owned or controlled by, or acting on behalf of, a person located in or organized under the laws of a country or territory that is the target of country-wide or territory-wide Sanctions; or (iii) otherwise a target of Sanctions (target of Sanctions signifying a person with whom a US person or other national of a Sanctions Authority would be prohibited or restricted by Sanctions from engaging in trade, business or other activities).
Restricted Provisions means clauses 4(a), 5, 8.1(a), (b)(i) and (ii), 8.1(c)(i), 8.2(d), (e) and (g), 8.3(a), (b)(i) and (b)(ii), (c)(i) and (f), 8.4(d), (e) and (g), 9(b), 9(e), 10(a), 15, 16(g), 17 and 19 of the Shareholders Agreement and the Super Majority Matters (as defined in the Shareholders Agreement) and Restricted Provision means any of them.
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Retention Account means the dollar account of the Borrower opened or, as the context may require, to be opened by the Borrower with the Offshore Account Bank, designated by the Offshore Account Bank to be the “PT HOEGH LNG LAMPUNG - Retention Account” and includes any redesignation and each sub-account thereof.
Revenue Accounts means the Onshore Revenue Account and the Offshore Revenue Account and Revenue Account means either of them.
Rupiah Account means the rupiah account of the Borrower opened or, as the context may require, to be opened by the Borrower with the Onshore Account Bank, designated by the Onshore Account Bank to be the “PT HOEGH LNG LAMPUNG - Rupiah Account” and includes any redesignation and each sub-account thereof.
Sales Proceeds means, in respect of the Vessel, the total proceeds of any sale of the Vessel by the Borrower after the date hereof including the Vessel Purchase Option Price received by the Borrower (or the Security Agent or Account Bank) on its behalf and, if the Vessel is sold in a currency other than dollars, the Sales Proceeds shall be the amount of dollars which the Borrower is able to purchase with the other currency at a market rate of exchange on the day of receipt of such other currency.
Sanctions means any embargoes, and any laws, regulations or restrictive measures concerning any economic sanctions administered, enacted or enforced by: (i) the United States government; (ii) the United Nations; (iii) the European Union; (iv) the United Kingdom; (v) the Norwegian State; (vi) any EEA member country or (vii) the respective governmental institutions and agencies of any of the foregoing, including, without limitation, the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the US Department of Treasury (OFAC), the United States Department of State and Her Majesty's Treasury (HMT) (together, the Sanctions Authorities).
Sanctions List means the “Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons” list maintained by OFAC, the Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets and the Investment Ban List maintained by HMT, or any similar list maintained by, or public announcement of Sanctions designation made by, any of the Sanctions Authorities.
Screen Rate means the London interbank rate administered by ICE Benchmark Administration Limited (or any other person which takes over the administration of that rate) for dollars and the relevant period displayed (before any correction, recalculation or republication by the administrator) on pages LIBOR01 or LIBOR02 of the Thomson Reuters screen (or any replacement Thomson Reuters page which displays that rate), or on the appropriate page of such other information service which publishes that rate from time to time in place of Thomson Reuters. If such page or service ceases to be available, the Facility Agent may specify another page or service displaying the relevant rate after consultation with the Borrower and the Lenders
Second Amendment and Restatement Agreement means the agreement supplemental to this Agreement dated 2021 made between, inter alios, the Borrower, the Guarantor, the Singapore Shareholder, the Indonesian Shareholder, Hoegh LNG Shipping Services Pte. Ltd., Hoegh LNG Asia Pte. Ltd. and Hoegh LNG AS as O&M Contractors, the K-sure Agent, the Facility Agent (on behalf of itself, the Mandated Lead Arrangers, the Hedging Banks, the Offshore Account Bank and the Onshore Account Bank), the Security Agent, the banks and financial institutions defined therein as Exiting Commercial Lenders and the banks and financial institutions defined therein as New Commercial Lenders.
Secured Obligations means the obligations of the Borrower and each other Facility Obligor to the Finance Parties or any of them under the Finance Documents and includes such obligations in respect of all sums of money (including, without limitation, the aggregate of the Loan and interest accrued and accruing thereon) and the Hedging Debt from time to time owing to the Finance Parties or any of them, whether actually or contingently and whether or not due and payable, under the Finance Documents or any of them.
Security Agent means Standard Chartered Bank or any other person as may be appointed Security Agent under this Agreement.
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Security Assignment means a first assignment of the Borrower's rights in respect of Insurances and all benefits thereof (including the right to receive claims and to return of premiums), Builder's Risks Insurances and all benefits thereof (including the right to receive claims and to return of premiums), Earnings and Requisition Compensation by the Borrower in favour of the Security Agent in the agreed form.
Security Documents means
(a) | the Original Security Documents; |
(b) | any Subordination Deed executed after the date of this Agreement; |
(c) | any other document as may after the date of this Agreement be executed by any Obligor, or by any other person if the Borrower has consented to such document being a Security Document to guarantee and/or secure any amounts owing to the Finance Parties under this Agreement or any other Security Document. |
Security Interest means a mortgage, charge, pledge, lien, assignment, trust, hypothecation or other security interest of any kind securing any obligation of any person or any other agreement or arrangement having a similar effect.
Security Value means, at any time until the Vessel has become a Total Loss, the amount in dollars which, at that time, is the aggregate of (a) the value of the Vessel (or, if less, the maximum amount capable of being secured by the Mortgage) and (b) the value of any additional security then held by the Security Agent provided under clause 28 (Minimum security value)), in each case as most recently determined in accordance with this Agreement.
Selection Notice means a notice substantially in the form set out in Schedule 5 (Selection Notice) given in accordance with clause 11 (Interest Periods).
Shareholder Agreement means the shareholders agreement dated 13 March 2013 made between the Singapore Shareholder and the Original Indonesian Shareholder in relation to the establishment and operation of the Borrower as may be amended, supplemented and/or replaced from time to time.
Shareholders means the Original Shareholders and any New Shareholder.
Shares Security means:
(a) | the Indonesian law pledge of shares (gadai saham) by each Shareholder (other than an Indonesian Shareholder) in favour of the Security Agent; and |
(b) | the Indonesian law deed of fiduciary security (jaminan fidusia) by each Indonesian Shareholder, |
each in the agreed form in respect of all of the shares in the Borrower owned by the relevant Shareholder.
Singapore Shareholder means Hoegh LNG Lampung Pte Ltd, a company incorporated in Singapore with its registered office at 4 Robinson Road, House of Eden #05-01, Singapore 048543 and any of its Affiliates which becomes a shareholder in the Borrower in accordance with the Finance Documents, in each case until it ceases to be a shareholder of the Borrower in accordance with the Finance Documents.
Site means the mooring site located approximately 16 kilometres offshore Lampung, South Sumatra, Indonesia, where the Vessel and the Mooring is stationed at the time of Final Acceptance as such site may be changed at the request of the Charterer in accordance with the Charter and with the prior approval of the Lenders (such approval not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed).
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Specifications means the specifications of the Vessel, as defined in the Building Contract.
Spill means any actual spill, release or discharge of a Pollutant into the Environment.
Sponsor means Höegh LNG Ltd., a company incorporated in Bermuda with its registered office at Canon's court, 22 Victoria Street, Hamilton HM 12, Bermuda.
Sponsor Funding means:
(a) | the amount of Project Costs paid by the Sponsor, the Guarantor, a Shareholder or any of their Affiliates (other than the Borrower), whether before or after incorporation of the Borrower; |
(b) | the amount of Project Costs paid by the Borrower which are funded by the Sponsor, the Borrower, the Guarantor, a Shareholder or any of their Affiliates other than from the proceeds of the Loans but in the case of receipts under the Charter only including any such Project Costs funded by the Mooring Purchase Price (which has not been included as Sponsor Funding under paragraph (a)) or part thereof or by payments made by the Charterer and which the Borrower is entitled to retain for its own account in relation to Alterations (as defined in the Charter) or variations or other changes under the Building Contract or Mooring Documents, having paid all costs required to implement such Alterations or such variations. |
Sponsor's Assignment means a first assignment of the Sponsor's rights and interest in and to the Umbrella Agreement and the Consortium Agreement by the Sponsor in favour of the Security Agent in the agreed form and which shall automatically be released upon the effective date of the novation of such Material Project Agreements to the Borrower pursuant to and in accordance with the Umbrella Novation Agreement and the Consortium Agreement Novation Agreement.
Subordinated Loan means any loan or loan stock made or, as the context may require to be made available by the Sponsor or a Shareholder or any of their Affiliates to the Borrower pursuant to a Subordinated Loan Agreement (and which is to be subordinated to the facility by way of a Subordination Deed from the first Utilisation Date or by no later than the third (3rd) Business Day after the first Utilisation Date in the case of the Sponsor).
Subordinated Loan Agreement means any loan agreement made or to be made between the Sponsor or a Shareholder or any of their respective Affiliates and the Borrower in relation to the provision of a Subordinated Loan to the Borrower.
Subordination Deed means any deed of subordination in the agreed form executed or, as the context may require, to be executed by either the Sponsor or a Shareholder or any of their respective Affiliates in favour of the Security Agent on behalf of the Finance Parties together with all deeds of accession entered into or to be entered into pursuant thereto.
Subsidiary means, in relation to any company or corporation, a company or corporation:
(a) | which is controlled, directly or indirectly, by the first mentioned company or corporation; |
(b) | more than half the issued equity share capital of which is beneficially owned, directly or indirectly, by the first mentioned company or corporation; or |
(c) | which is a Subsidiary of another Subsidiary of the first mentioned company or corporation, |
and for this purpose, a company or corporation shall be treated as being controlled by another if that other company or corporation is able to direct its affairs and/or to control the composition of its board of directors or equivalent body.
Supervision Agreement means the construction management agreement entered into between the Borrower and the Supervisor pursuant to which the Supervisor will on behalf of the Borrower
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supervise the performance of the Builder, Mooring EPC Contractor and Mooring Installation Contractor under the Building Contract, Mooring EPC Contract and Mooring Installation Contract.
Supervisor means a company or group of companies within the Höegh MLP Group as may be notified to the Facility Agent by the Borrower prior to the first Utilisation and as may be replaced by the Borrower with another company or group of companies within the Höegh MLP Group following notice to the Facility Agent.
Supervisor Undertaking means an undertaking by the Supervisor to the Security Agent in the agreed form.
Tax means any tax, levy, impost, duty or other charge or withholding of a similar nature (including any penalty or interest payable in connection with any failure to pay or any delay in paying any of the same) however so arising, including in Indonesia whether or not in connection with the Borrower and Taxation shall be construed accordingly.
Tax Element means the fee payable by the Charterer to the Borrower pursuant to clause 12 of the Charter, calculated in accordance with sections 4.2 and 4.3 of Schedule 6 to the Charter.
Technical Adviser means Crondall Energy or any other technical consultant with experience of assets of the same type as the Vessel and the Mooring appointed by the Facility Agent on behalf of the Lenders, with the approval of the Borrower (such approval not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed and, to the extent that the Borrower has not responded to the Facility Agent within 5 Business Days of delivery of its request, such approval shall be deemed to have been given) to carry out the Agreed Scope of Work.
Technical Services Agreement means an agreement between the Borrower and a Technical Services Provider pursuant to which the Borrower is provided with certain services and licensed intellectual property substantially following the terms set out in the applicable outline terms provided to the Mandated Lead Arrangers prior to the date of this Agreement or as otherwise approved.
Technical Services Provider means Höegh LNG AS or such other Approved Operator which has been appointed by the Borrower as the technical services provider in accordance with clause 24.4 (Operation and Maintenance) of this Agreement.
Term Facilities means the K-sure Facility and the Commercial Facility and Term Facility means either of them.
Termination Acquisition Notice is as defined in the Charter.
Termination Date means the earliest to occur of:
(a) | the Total Loss Date; |
(b) | the date that the Total Commitments are cancelled pursuant to clause 31.30 (Acceleration); |
(c) | the date on which the Total Commitments are reduced to zero pursuant to clause 9.3 (Right of cancellation and prepayment in relation to a single Lender) applying to all Lenders; |
(d) | the date on which the Total Commitments are reduced to zero and/or cancelled pursuant to clause 9.6 (Change of Control), 9.7 (Sale of Vessel), 9.8 (Charter and Charter Guarantee), 9.9 (PGN L/C) and 9.10 (K-sure Policy). |
Termination Fee means any amount payable to the Borrower by the Charterer under the charter upon termination of the Charter including the Vessel FM Termination Amount, the Non-Vessel FM Termination Amount, the Owner Breach Termination Amount, the Charterer Breach Termination Amount and the Acquisition Price as each such term is defined in Schedule 15 of the Charter.
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Total Assets means the total book value of all the assets of the Guarantor determined in accordance with the latest published audited consolidated balance sheet or the latest published interim consolidated balance sheet of the Guarantor as delivered pursuant to clause 20.1 (Financial statements) (excluding the marked to market value of any derivative transactions).
Total Charter Rate means the aggregate of the Capital Element, the Operating and Maintenance Element and Tax Element.
Total Commitments means, in relation to a Facility, at any time the aggregate of the Commitments under that Facility.
Total Loss means, in relation to the Vessel, its:
(a) | actual, constructive, compromised or arranged total loss; or |
(b) | requisition for title, confiscation, expropriation, nationalisation, seizure or other compulsory acquisition by a government entity; or |
(c) | hijacking, theft, condemnation, capture, seizure, arrest or detention for more than 30 days. |
Total Loss Date means:
(a) | in the case of an actual total loss, the date it happened or, if such date is not known, the date on which the Vessel was last reported; |
(b) | in the case of a constructive, compromised, agreed or arranged total loss, the earliest of: |
(i) | the date notice of abandonment of the Vessel is given to its insurers by the Borrower; or |
(ii) | if the insurers do not admit such a claim, the date later determined by a competent court of law to have been the date on which the total loss happened; or |
(iii) | the date upon which a binding agreement as to such compromised or arranged total loss has been entered into by the relevant insurers; |
(c) | in the case of a requisition for title, confiscation or compulsory acquisition, the date it happened; and |
(d) | in the case of hijacking, theft, condemnation, capture, seizure, arrest or detention, the date 30 days after the date upon which it happened. |
Total Loss Proceeds means the proceeds of any policy or contract of insurance or reinsurance arising in respect of any Total Loss or any Requisition Compensation received in respect of a Compulsory Acquisition.
Total Loss Repayment Date means where the Vessel has become a Total Loss the earlier of:
(a) | the date 180 days after its Total Loss Date; and |
(b) | the date upon which the Total Loss Proceeds are paid by insurers or the relevant government entity. |
Transaction means any transaction entered into pursuant to the Hedging Contracts.
Transaction Documents means the Finance Documents and the Material Project Agreements, as may be amended or supplemented from time to time in accordance with this Agreement.
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Transfer Certificate means a certificate substantially in the form set out in Schedule 7 (Form of Transfer Certificate) or any other form agreed between the Facility Agent and the Borrower.
Transfer Date means, in relation to a transfer, the later of:
(a) | the proposed Transfer Date specified in the Transfer Certificate; and |
(b) | the date on which the Facility Agent executes the Transfer Certificate. |
Treasury Transaction means any derivative or hedging transaction entered into in connection with protection against or benefit from fluctuation in any rate or price (including, without limitation, any Transaction).
Trust Property means, collectively:
(a) | all moneys duly received by the Security Agent under or in respect of the Finance Documents; |
(b) | any portion of the balance on any Project Account (other than the Distribution Account) held by or charged to the Security Agent at any time; |
(c) | the Security Interests, guarantees, security, powers and rights given to the Security Agent under and pursuant to the Finance Documents including, without limitation, the covenants given to the Security Agent in respect of all obligations of any Obligor; |
(d) | all assets paid or transferred to or vested in the Security Agent or its agent or received or recovered by the Security Agent or its agent in connection with any of the Finance Documents whether from any Obligor or any other person; and |
(e) | all or any part of any rights, benefits, interests and other assets at any time representing or deriving from any of the above, including all income and other sums at any time received or receivable by the Security Agent or its agent in respect of the same (or any part thereof). |
UK Bail-In Legislation means Part I of the United Kingdom Banking Act 2009 and any other law or regulation applicable in the United Kingdom relating to the resolution of unsound or failing banks, investment firms or other financial institutions or their affiliates (otherwise than through liquidation, administration or other insolvency proceedings).
Umbrella Agreement means the amended and restated contract dated 17 October 2012 setting out, inter alia, the joint and several liability of the Sponsor and the EPCIC Contractor for delay liquidated damages under the Charter and the EPCIC Agreement (the Original Umbrella Agreement) made between the Sponsor, the EPCIC Contractor and the Charterer as novated or to be novated to the Borrower pursuant to the Umbrella Novation Agreement.
Umbrella Novation Agreement means a novation agreement to be made between the Borrower, the Sponsor, the EPCIC Contractor and the Charterer, pursuant to which the rights and obligations of the Sponsor under the Original Umbrella Agreement are novated in favour of the Borrower.
Unpaid Sum means any sum due and payable but unpaid by an Obligor under the Finance Documents.
US Tax Obligor means:
(a) | a Borrower which is resident for tax purposes in the United States of America; or |
(b) | a Facility Obligor some or all of whose payments under the Finance Documents are from sources within the United States for US federal income tax purposes. |
Utilisation means the making of a Loan.
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Utilisation Date means the date on which a Utilisation is made, being a Business Day falling not later than the applicable Last Availability Date.
Utilisation Request means a notice substantially in the form set out in the form set out in Schedule 4 (Utilisation Requests) or any other form agreed between the Borrower and the Facility Agent (acting on the instructions of the Lenders).
Vessel means the FSRU referred to as the “FSRU” in the Charter, as further described in Schedule 2 (Vessel information), named “PGN FSRU Lampung” and registered with the Flag State in the name of the Borrower and where the context so permits includes any share or interest of the Borrower in it and its engines, machinery, boats, tackle, outfit, equipment, derricks, tools, cranes, rigging, pumps and pumping equipment, tubing, casing, spare gear, fuel, consumable or other stores, belongings, appurtenances and all fittings and equipment of the Vessel whether on board or ashore and whether now owned or later acquired by the Borrower (including, without limitation, all radio equipment and also any and all additions, improvements and replacements made in or to such vessel or any part of it or in or to its equipment and appurtenances but excluding, the Mooring and where applicable, all LNG stored in the Vessel, rented equipment and any other equipment installed on or used on the Vessel which is owned by the Charterer) in each case which are the property of the Borrower pursuant to the Charter or any other Project Agreement or become installed on the Vessel thereafter and which are the property of the Borrower or which, having been removed therefrom, remain the property of the Borrower, together with any and all replacements and renewals thereof and substitutions therefor from time to time made in accordance with the Project Agreements and which are the property of the Borrower and, where the context permits, Vessel shall include the Manuals and Technical Records in respect of the Vessel.
Vessel and Mooring Specifications means the specifications and performance criteria of the Vessel and the Mooring required by the Charter, as set out in schedules 1 and 2 to the Charter.
Vessel FM is as defined in the Charter.
Vessel FM Termination Amount means the fee payable by the Charterer to the Borrower pursuant to clause 26.4(a)(i) of the Charter, calculated in accordance with section 2 of Part A of Schedule 15 to the Charter.
Vessel Purchase Option Price means the amount in respect of the purchase price of the Vessel calculated in accordance with the Charter and payable by the Charterer upon the exercise of the Charterer's Purchase Option.
Vessel Representations means each of the representations and warranties set out in clauses 19.22 (Vessel status) and 19.23 (Earnings).
Vessel Rights means all rights, including without prejudice to the foregoing, the benefit of all warranties and indemnities to which the Borrower is from time to time entitled from any builder (including the Builder and the Mooring EPC Contractor), manufacturer, sub-contractor, supplier or repairer in respect of the manufacture, supply, condition, design, conversion, construction, installation or operation of the Vessel and/or the Mooring or any part thereof and any liquidated damages payable to the Borrower from time to time under any of the Building Contract Documents and/or the Mooring Documents.
Working Capital means, on any date, Current Assets less Current Liabilities.
Works means the design, development and construction of the Project and any other works contemplated by the Building Contract Documents and/or the Mooring Documents and/or the Charter Documents.
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Write-down and Conversion Power means:
(a) | in relation to any Bail-In Legislation described in the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule from time to time, the powers described as such in relation to that Bail-In Legislation in the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule; |
(b)
(i) | in relation to any other applicable Bail-In Legislation other than the UK Bail-In Legislation: any powers under that Bail-In Legislation to cancel, transfer or dilute shares issued by a person that is a bank or investment firm or other financial institution or affiliate of a bank, investment firm or other financial institution, to cancel, reduce, modify or change the form of a liability of such a person or any contract or instrument under which that liability arises, to convert all or part of that liability into shares, securities or obligations of that person or any other person, to provide that any such contract or instrument is to have effect as if a right had been exercised under it or to suspend any obligation in respect of that liability or any of the powers under that Bail-In Legislation that are related to or ancillary to any of those powers; and |
(ii) | any similar or analogous powers under that Bail-In Legislation; and |
(c) | in relation to any UK Bail-In Legislation, any powers under that UK Bail-In Legislation to cancel, transfer or dilute shares issued by a person that is a bank or investment firm or other financial institution or affiliate of a bank, investment firm or other financial institution, to cancel, reduce, modify or change the form of a liability of such a person or any contract or instrument under which that liability arises, to convert all or part of that liability into shares, securities or obligations of that person or any other person, to provide that any such contract or instrument is to have effect as if a right had been exercised under it or to suspend any obligation in respect of that liability or any of the powers under that UK Bail-In Legislation that are related to or ancillary to any of those powers. |
1.2 | Construction |
(a) | Unless a contrary indication appears, any reference in any of the Finance Documents to: |
(i) | Sections, clauses and Schedules are to be construed as references to the Sections and clauses of, and the Schedules to, the relevant Finance Document and references to a Finance Document include its Schedules; |
(ii) | a Finance Document or any other agreement or instrument is a reference to that Finance Document or other agreement or instrument as it may from time to time be amended, restated, novated or replaced, however fundamentally; |
(iii) | words importing the plural shall include the singular and vice versa; |
(iv) | a time of day are to London time unless otherwise specified; |
(v) | any person includes its successors in title, permitted assignees or transferees; |
(vi) | the knowledge, awareness and/or beliefs (and similar expressions) of any Obligor shall be construed so as to mean the knowledge, awareness and beliefs of the director and officers of such Obligor, having made due and careful enquiry; |
(vii) | agreed form means: |
(A) | where a Finance Document has already been executed by the Facility Agent or the Security Agent, such Finance Document in its executed form; |
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(B) | prior to the execution of a Finance Document, the form of such Finance Document separately agreed in writing between the Facility Agent (acting on the instructions of the Lenders) and the Borrower as the form in which that Finance Document is to be executed or another form approved at the request of the Borrower; |
(viii) | approved by the Majority Lenders or approved by the Lenders means approved in writing by the Facility Agent acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders or, as the case may be, the Lenders (on such conditions as they may respectively require and which are agreed by the Borrower) and otherwise approved means approved in writing by the Facility Agent (on such conditions as the Facility Agent may require and which are agreed by the Borrower) and approval and approve shall be construed accordingly; |
(ix) | assets includes present and future properties, revenues and rights of every description; |
(x) | an authorisation means any authorisation, consent, concession, approval, resolution, licence, exemption, filing, notarisation or registration; |
(xi) | charter commitment means, in relation to a vessel, any charter or contract for the use, employment or operation of that vessel or the carriage of people and/or cargo or the provision of services by or from it and includes any agreement for pooling or sharing income derived from any such charter or contract; |
(xii) | having management control of the Borrower means in the case of the Borrower, the direct or indirect power to appoint or remove the president director or the president commissioner or the majority of the directors or the majority of the commissioners of the Borrower and, for the purposes of this provision, power means the power (whether by way of ownership of shares, units or partnership interests, proxy, contract, agency or otherwise and/or through arrangements set out in the Shareholders Agreement and the Borrower’s articles of association or, as the case may be, the relevant limited partnership agreement); |
(xiii) | the term disposal or dispose means a sale, transfer or other disposal (including by way of lease or loan but not including by way of loan of money) by a person of all or part of its assets, whether by one transaction or a series of transactions and whether at the same time or over a period of time, but not the creation of a Security Interest; |
(xiv) | dollar/$ means the lawful currency of the United States of America; |
(xv) | the equivalent of an amount specified in a particular currency (the specified currency amount) shall, unless otherwise expressly stated, be construed as a reference to the amount of the other relevant currency which can be purchased with the specified currency amount in the London foreign exchange market at or about 11 a.m. on the date the calculation falls to be made (or if not a Business Day the immediately preceding Business Day) for spot delivery at the Facility Agent's (including for the purposes of 1.2(b)) or, as the context may require, the Account Bank's spot rate of exchange and the Facility Agent's or, as the case may be, the Account Bank's determination of any such equivalent shall be conclusive absent manifest error; |
(xvi) | a government entity means any government, state or agency of a state; |
(xvii) | a guarantee means any guarantee, letter of credit, bond, indemnity or similar assurance against loss, or any obligation, direct or indirect, actual or contingent, to purchase or assume any indebtedness of any person or to make an investment in or loan to any person or to purchase assets of any person where, in each case, such obligation is assumed in order to maintain or assist the ability of such person to meet its indebtedness; |
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(xviii) indebtedness includes any obligation (whether incurred as principal or as surety) for the payment or repayment of money, whether present or future, actual or contingent;
(xix) | month means a period starting on one day in a calendar month and ending on the numerically corresponding day in the next calendar month or the calendar month in which it is to end, except that: |
(A) | if the numerically corresponding day is not a Business Day, that period shall end on the next Business Day in that month (if there is one) or on the immediately preceding Business Day (if there is not); and |
(B) | if there is no numerically corresponding day in that month, that period shall end on the last Business Day in that month |
and the above rules in paragraphs (A) to (B) will only apply to the last month of any period;
(xx) | an obligation means any duty, obligation or liability of any kind; |
(xxi) | something being in the ordinary course of business of a person means something that is in the ordinary course of that person's then applicable business and operations which, in the case of the Borrower, is the Project (and not merely anything which that person is entitled to do under its Constitutional Documents); |
(xxii) | pay, prepay or repay in clause 30 (Business restrictions) includes by way of set-off, combination of accounts or otherwise; |
(xxiii) | a person includes any individual, firm, company, corporation, government entity or any association, trust, joint venture, consortium or partnership (whether or not having separate legal personality); |
(xxiv) | a regulation includes any regulation, rule, official directive, request or guideline (whether or not having the force of law, but if not having the force of law, which is generally complied with in the ordinary course of business of the party concerned or by those to which it is addressed) of any governmental, intergovernmental or supranational body, agency, department or regulatory, self-regulatory or other authority or organisation and includes (without limitation) any Basel 2 Regulation or Basel 3 Regulation or any law or regulation which implements Reformed Basel 3, in each case which is applicable to that Lender; |
(xxv) | right means any right, privilege, power or remedy, any proprietary interest in any asset and any other interest or remedy of any kind, whether actual or contingent, present or future, arising under contract or law, or in equity; |
(xxvi) | rupiah means the lawful currency of Indonesia; |
(xxvii) agent, trustee, fiduciary and fiduciary duty has in each case the meaning given to such term under applicable law;
(xxviii) (i) the winding up, dissolution, or administration of person or (ii) a receiver or administrative receiver or administrator in the context of insolvency proceedings or security enforcement actions in respect of a person shall be construed so as to include any equivalent or analogous proceedings or any equivalent and analogous person or appointee (respectively) under the law of the jurisdiction in which such person is established or incorporated or any jurisdiction in which such person carries on business including (in respect of proceedings) the seeking or occurrences of liquidation, winding-up, reorganisation, dissolution, administration, arrangement, adjustment, protection or relief of debtors;
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(xxix) | refinancing and reimbursing any payment or funding made by the Sponsor and/or a Shareholder and/or any of their Affiliates includes the Borrower making a payment or repayment pursuant to a Subordinated Loan Agreement or Promissory Note in an amount not exceeding such payment or funding; and |
(xxx) | a provision of law is a reference to that provision as amended or re-enacted. |
(b) | Where in this Agreement a provision includes a monetary reference level in one currency, unless a contrary indication appears, such reference level is intended to apply equally to its equivalent in other currencies as of the relevant time for the purposes of applying such reference level to any other currencies. |
(c) | Section, clause and Schedule headings are for ease of reference only. |
(d) | Unless a contrary indication appears, a term used in any other Finance Document or in any notice given under or in connection with any Finance Document has the same meaning in that Finance Document or notice as in this Agreement. |
(e) | A Default or an Event of Default is continuing if it has not been remedied or waived. |
1.3 | Third party rights |
(a) | Unless expressly provided to the contrary in a Finance Document for the benefit of a Finance Party or another Indemnified Person, a person (other than K-sure to the extent provided for under clause 1.6 (K-sure)) who is not a party to a Finance Document has no right under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 (the Third Parties Act) to enforce or to enjoy the benefit of any term of the relevant Finance Document. |
(b) | Any Finance Document may be rescinded or varied by the parties to it without the consent of any person who is not a party to it (unless otherwise provided by this Agreement). |
(c) | An Indemnified Person who is not a party to a Finance Document may only enforce its rights under that Finance Document through the Finance Party in relation to which it is an Indemnified Person and if and to the extent and in such manner as the Finance Party may determine. |
1.4 | Finance Documents |
Where any other Finance Document provides that this clause 1.4 shall apply to that Finance Document, any other provision of this Agreement which, by its terms, purports to apply to all or any of the Finance Documents and/or any Obligor shall apply to that Finance Document as if set out in it but with all necessary changes.
1.5 | Conflict of documents |
The terms of the Finance Documents (other than as relates to the creation and/or perfection of security) are subject to the terms of this Agreement and, in the event of any conflict between any provision of this Agreement and any provision of any Finance Document (other than in relation to the creation and/or perfection of security) the provisions of this Agreement shall prevail.
1.6 | K-sure |
Each Party agrees that:
(a) | K-sure shall not have any obligations or liabilities under this Agreement unless it has become a Lender; |
(b) | K-sure shall be a third party beneficiary of the rights expressed to be for its benefit or exercisable by it under this Agreement; and |
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(c) | This Agreement may not be amended to limit, modify or eliminate any rights of K-sure without its prior written consent. |
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Section 2 - The Facilities
2 | The Facilities |
2.1 | The Facilities |
(a) | Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Lenders make available to the Borrower: |
(i) | the Commercial Facility in an aggregate amount up to the Commercial Facility Limit (as adjusted in accordance with the terms of this Agreement); and |
(ii) | the K-sure Facility in an aggregate amount up to the K-sure Facility Limit (as adjusted pursuant to the terms of this Agreement). |
(b) | The obligation of each Commercial Lender under this Agreement shall be to contribute that proportion of each Commercial Loan of each Commercial Facility Loan which, as at the Utilisation Date for that Commercial Loan, its Commitment in respect of the Commercial Facility bears to the Total Commitments in respect of the Commercial Facility. |
(c) | The obligation of each K-sure Lender under this Agreement shall be to contribute that proportion of each K-sure Loan which, as at the Utilisation Date for each K-sure Loan, its Commitment in respect of the K-sure Facility bears to the Total Commitments in respect of the K-sure Facility. |
2.2 | Finance Parties' rights and obligations |
(a) | The obligations of each Finance Party under the Finance Documents are several. Failure by a Finance Party to perform its obligations under the Finance Documents does not affect the obligations of any other Party under the Finance Documents. No Finance Party is responsible for the obligations of any other Finance Party under the Finance Documents. |
(b) | The rights of each Finance Party under or in connection with the Finance Documents are separate and independent rights and any debt arising under the Finance Documents to a Finance Party from an Obligor shall be a separate and independent debt. |
(c) | A Finance Party may, except as otherwise stated in the Finance Documents (including clauses 38.26 (All enforcement action through the Security Agent)) and 39.2 (Finance Parties acting together), separately enforce its rights under the Finance Documents. |
2.3 | K-sure override |
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, nothing in this Agreement shall oblige any Finance Party to act (or omit to act) in a manner that is inconsistent with the terms of the K-sure Policy, in particular:
(a) | the Security Agent and each Agent shall be authorised to take all such actions as may be necessary to ensure that the terms of the K-sure Policy are complied with; and |
(b) | no Finance Party shall be obliged to do anything if to do so results or is reasonably likely to result in a breach of any term or affect the validity of the K-sure Policy. |
2.4 | Each Lender agrees that the Facility Agent, to the extent that such Lender's participation in a Loan is guaranteed or insured by K-sure under the K-sure Policy, will accept (for the purposes of Majority Lender or all Lender decisions or instructions) the decision or instruction of K-sure as advised to the Facility Agent by the K-sure Agent or K-sure and the decision or instruction of that Lender will be accepted only to the extent that such Lender's participation in a Loan is not guaranteed or insured by K-sure under the K-sure Policy. |
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2.5 | Each Finance Party will cooperate with the Agents and each other Finance Party, and take such actions and/or refrain from taking such actions as may be reasonably necessary, to ensure that the K-sure Policy continues in full force and effect. |
2.6 | The K-sure Agent shall provide the Borrower with a copy of the K-sure Policy promptly following its issue and the K-sure Agent and the K-sure Lenders shall not make or consent to any material amendment to the K-sure Policy without the prior written consent of the Borrower (not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed). |
2.7 | In the event of conflict between the terms of this Agreement and the K-sure Policy as between the K-sure Lenders and K-sure the terms of the K-sure Policy shall prevail. |
3 | Purpose |
3.1 | Purpose |
The Borrower shall apply all amounts borrowed under the Facilities in accordance with this clause 3.
3.2 | Use |
(a) | The Commercial Facility shall be made available to the Borrower solely to finance (or to refinance or reimburse any payments or funding made by the Sponsor and/or the Shareholders and/or any of their Affiliates in respect of) Project Costs (including the Contract Price) and the K-sure Premium. |
(b) | Subject to the terms of the K-sure Policy, the K-sure Facility shall be made available to the Borrower solely for the purpose of financing (or refinancing or reimbursing any funding made by the Sponsors and/or the Shareholders and/or any of their Affiliates in respect of) the Contract Price. For the avoidance of doubt, the K-sure Facility shall not be used to fund the payment of the K-sure Premium or any Interest During Construction. |
3.3 | Monitoring |
No Finance Party is bound to monitor or verify the application of any amount borrowed pursuant to this Agreement.
4 | Conditions of Utilisation |
4.1 | Initial conditions precedent |
The Borrower may not deliver a Utilisation Request unless the Facility Agent, or its duly authorised representative, has received, or is satisfied that it will receive on the relevant Utilisation Date, all of the documents and other evidence listed in Part 1 of Schedule 3 (Initial conditions precedent) in form and substance satisfactory to the Facility Agent.
4.2 | Conditions precedent to Utilisation on Delivery |
(a) | The Borrower may not deliver a Utilisation Request in respect of the Delivery Instalment unless the Facility Agent, or its duly authorised representative, has received all of the documents and evidence listed in Part 2A of Schedule 3 (Conditions precedent to Utilisation on Delivery) in form and substance satisfactory to the Facility Agent. |
(b) | The Utilisation in respect of the Delivery Instalment shall be paid in accordance with the provisions of clause 29.6 (Onshore Delivery Account) and the Building Contract and released to the Builder when the Facility Agent, or its duly authorised representative, receives the evidence listed in Part 2B of Schedule 3 (Conditions precedent to Release of Delivery Instalment) in form and substance satisfactory to the Facility Agent. |
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4.3 | Conditions subsequent |
The Borrower shall provide to the Facility Agent or its duly authorised representative the documents and evidence listed in Part 3 of Schedule 3 (Conditions subsequent) in form and substance satisfactory to the Lenders (acting reasonably) prior to the applicable date specified that Schedule.
4.4 | Notice to Lenders |
The Facility Agent shall notify the Borrower and the Lenders promptly upon receiving and being satisfied with all of the documents and evidence delivered to it under this clause 4.
4.5 | Further conditions precedent |
(a) | The Lenders will only be obliged to comply with clause 5.4 (K-sure Lenders' participation) and/or 5.5 (Commercial Lenders' participation) if on the date of a Utilisation Request and on the proposed Utilisation Date: |
(i) | no Default is continuing or would result from the proposed Utilisation; |
(ii) | no breach or default has occurred and is continuing under any of the Project Agreements or the Shareholders Agreement or the EPCIC Contract which has or might reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, save for any breach or default previously notified to and accepted by the Facility Agent in writing; |
(iii) | the Repeating Representations and, in relation to the first Utilisation, all of the other representations set out in clause 19 (Representations) (other than the Vessel Representations), are true in all material respects; and |
(iv) | in relation to each Utilisation during the Mortgage Period, the Vessel Representations are true in all material respects; and |
(v) | the Borrower has certified in the relevant Utilisation Request: |
(A) | that there is no forecast shortfall in funding in excess of $5,000,000 to achieve Delivery by the Last Availability Date and Final Acceptance by the earlier of (i) the Cancellation Date and (ii) 18 March 2015; and |
(B) | that there is no forecast delay in achieving Delivery and/or Final Acceptance on or prior to such dates, respectively; and |
(C) | the extent of any forecast Cost Overrun. |
(vi) | at the time the Technical Adviser delivered its latest report to the Facility Agent, the Technical Adviser did not confirm in writing to the Facility Agent that there is a funding shortfall or forecast delay referred to in paragraph (v) above or, if the Technical Advisor did confirm in writing to the Facility Agent that there is such a funding shortfall or forecast delay (and provided that the Facility Agent shall promptly notify the Borrower of the existence of any such notice), the Technical Advisor has since confirmed in writing to the Facility Agent that any such funding shortfall or forecast delay has been determined pursuant to clause 24.10(f) to not apply or the Borrower has provided evidence satisfactory to the Facility Agent and the Technical Adviser that such funding shortfall or forecast delay no longer applies; |
(vii) | the Borrower provides together with each Utilisation Request, invoices or other reasonable supporting documents (in form satisfactory to Facility Agent) relating to the Project Costs in respect of which payment and/or reimbursement is sought through the relevant Utilisation provided that the Borrower shall not be required to provide for any Utilisation copies of any invoices (or other supporting documentation other than a summary of such Project Costs so that for each Utilisation the amounts |
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set out in the summary and the relevant invoices shall equal the amount of the proposed Utilisation) in respect of any payment or reimbursement of an amount in respect of Project Costs (or an item or part thereof), other than amounts payable under the Building Contract, the Mooring EPC Contact and/or the Mooring Installation Contract, which is less than $325,000; and
(viii) | the Sponsor Funding is not less than $104,000,000 and the ratio of the aggregate Loans outstanding as at the proposed Utilisation Date (following the proposed Utilisation) and any Available Commitments as at the proposed Utilisation Date (following the proposed Utilisation) to Sponsor Funding would not exceed 3:1. |
(b) | The K-sure Lenders shall not be obliged to comply with their obligations under clause 5.4 (K-sure Lenders' participation) if (i) K-sure has declared in writing that further disbursements under this Agreement will not be covered by the K-sure Policy, (ii) K-sure has not requested the K-sure Lenders to suspend the making of the Loan in accordance with the K-sure Policy and/or the Lenders are required by any term of the K-sure Policy to suspend the making of the Loan and (iii) an occurrence, event or circumstance exists which prohibits any of the K-sure Lenders from participating in the Loan pursuant to the terms of the K-sure Policy. The K-sure Agent shall promptly notify the Borrower of any such declaration. |
4.6 | Waiver of conditions precedent and conditions subsequent |
The conditions in this clause 4 are inserted solely for the benefit of the Finance Parties and may be waived on their behalf in whole or in part and with (provided agreed by the Borrower) or without conditions by the Facility Agent acting on the instructions of the Lenders.
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Section 3 - Utilisation
5 | Utilisation of Term Facility |
5.1 | Delivery of a Utilisation Request for a Term Facility |
The Borrower may utilise a Term Facility by delivery to the Facility Agent of a duly completed Utilisation Request not later than 11:00 a.m. five (5) Business Days before the proposed Utilisation Date for a Loan or such shorter period as the Facility Agent (in consultation with the relevant Lenders) may agree.
5.2 | Completion of a Utilisation Request for a Term Facility |
(a) | Each Utilisation Request is irrevocable and will not be regarded as having been duly completed unless: |
(i) | it identifies the Facility to be utilised; |
(ii) | the proposed Utilisation Date is a Business Day falling not later than the Last Availability Date applicable to that Facility; |
(iii) | the currency and amount of the Utilisation comply with clause 5.3 (Currency and amount); |
(iv) | the proposed first Interest Period complies with clause 11 (Interest Periods); and |
(v) | it identifies (i) the purpose for the Utilisation and that purpose complies with clause 3 (Purpose) and (ii) the account into which the Utilisation is to be paid. |
(b) | No Utilisation Request shall request Utilisation of more than one Facility. |
(c) | The frequency of Utilisation Requests shall be limited across all Facilities to two (2) Business Days in any one (1) month. |
5.3 | Currency and amount |
The currency specified in a Utilisation Request must be dollars and the aggregate amount of the proposed Utilisations on any day must be a minimum of $2,500,000 (or if less, the applicable Available Facilities).
5.4 | K-sure Lenders' participation |
(a) | If the conditions set out in this Agreement have been met, each K-sure Lender shall make its participation in each K-sure Loan available by the Utilisation Date through its Facility Office. |
(b) | The amount of each K-sure Lender's participation in a K-sure Loan will be equal to the proportion borne by its K-sure Facility Commitment to the Total Commitments for the K-sure Facility immediately prior to making a K-sure Loan. |
(c) | The Facility Agent shall promptly notify each K-sure Lender and the K-sure Agent of the amount of a K-sure Loan and the amount of its participation in a K-sure Loan. |
(d) | The Facility Agent shall pay all amounts received by it in respect of each K-sure Loan (and its own participation in it, if any) to the Borrower or for its account in accordance with the instructions contained in the Utilisation Request. |
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5.5 | Commercial Lenders' participation |
(a) | If the conditions set out in this Agreement have been met, each Commercial Lender shall make its participation in each Commercial Loan available by the Utilisation Date through its Facility Office. |
(b) | The amount of each Commercial Lender's participation in a Commercial Loan will be equal to the proportion borne by its Commercial Facility Commitment to the Total Commitments for the Commercial Facility immediately prior to making a Commercial Loan. |
(c) | The Facility Agent shall promptly notify each Commercial Lender of the amount of a Commercial Loan and the amount of its participation in a Commercial Loan. |
(d) | The Facility Agent shall pay all amounts received by it in respect of each Commercial Loan (and its own participation in it, if any) to the Borrower or for its account in accordance with the instructions contained in the Utilisation Request. |
5.6 | Loans |
(a) | The aggregate of all Commercial Facility Loans shall not exceed the Commercial Facility Limit. |
(b) | The aggregate of all K-sure Loans shall not exceed the K-sure Facility Limit. |
(c) | In relation to each Loan, the amount of such Loan shall not, when aggregated with all Loans drawn down or to be drawdown as at the date of such Utilisation Request, exceed seventy five per cent (75%) of the aggregate Project Costs paid or incurred as at the Utilisation Date relating to that Loan. |
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Section 4- Repayment, Prepayment and Cancellation
8 | Repayment |
8.1 | Repayment |
The Borrower shall on each Repayment Date repay such part of the Loans as is required to be repaid by clause 8.2 (Scheduled repayment of Facilities).
8.2 | Scheduled repayment of Facilities |
(a) | Repayment of K-sure Loans |
(i) | The K-sure Loans shall be repaid by instalments on each K-sure Facility Repayment Date by the amounts specified in the K-sure Facility Repayment Schedule (as revised by clause 8.3). |
(ii) | On the K-sure Facility Final Maturity Date (without prejudice to any other provision of this Agreement), the K-sure Loans shall be repaid in full. |
(b) | Repayment of the Commercial Loans |
(i) | The Commercial Facility Loans shall be repaid by instalments on each Commercial Facility Repayment Date by the amounts specified in the Commercial Facility Repayment Schedule (as revised by clause 8.3). |
(ii) | On the Commercial Facility Final Maturity Date (without prejudice to any other provision of this Agreement), the Commercial Facility Loans shall be repaid in full. |
8.3 | Adjustment of scheduled repayments |
Subject to clause 9.13 (Restrictions), if:
(a) | the Total Commitments in respect of a Facility have been partially reduced under this Agreement; and/or |
(b) | any part of a Loan is prepaid before any Repayment Date, |
such reduction and/or prepayment shall be treated as reducing the repayment instalments for that Facility in inverse order of maturity. As soon as practicable after effecting any such recalculation, the Facility Agent shall, if applicable, provide the Borrower with a revised schedule of Repayment Instalments and such revised schedule shall, unless incorrect, with effect from the date on which such revised schedule is produced (and signed by the Facility Agent and dated), be substituted for the relevant existing schedule set out in Schedule 11 (Repayment Schedules).
8.4 | The Borrower shall not reborrow any part of any Facility which is repaid. |
9 | Illegality, prepayment and cancellation |
9.1 | Illegality |
If it becomes unlawful at any time in any applicable jurisdiction for a Lender to perform any of its obligations as contemplated by this Agreement or to fund or maintain its participation in any Utilisation or part thereof then:
(a) | the affected Lender shall promptly notify the Facility Agent upon becoming aware of that event; and |
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(b) | that Lender shall be given the opportunity (at its option) to transfer its rights and obligations to an Affiliate or a New Lender (as defined in clause 34 (Changes to the Lenders) pursuant to and in accordance with clause 34 (Changes to the Lenders)). If that Lender has not been able to effectively transfer its rights and obligations in such manner, then in the case of an affected Lender: |
(i) | upon the Facility Agent acting on the instruction of the affected Lender notifying the Borrower, the Commitment of that Lender will be immediately cancelled; and |
(ii) | the Borrower shall repay that Lender's participation in each Loan on the last day of the Interest Period for the relevant Loan occurring after the Facility Agent has notified the Borrower or, if earlier, the date specified by the Lender in the notice delivered to the Facility Agent (being no earlier than the last day of any applicable grace period permitted by law). |
9.2 | Voluntary prepayment and cancellation |
Subject to the proviso below, the Borrower may, if it gives the Facility Agent not less than ten (10) Business Days' (or such shorter period as the Majority Lenders may agree) prior written notice, prepay and/or cancel the whole or any part of the Term Facilities, the Loans under the Term Facilities or the Available Commitments for the Term Facilities (but if in part, being an amount that reduces the amount of the Term Facilities in aggregate by a minimum amount of five million dollars ($5,000,000) or in full).
9.3 | Right of cancellation and prepayment in relation to a single Lender |
(a) | If: |
(i) | any sum payable to any Lender by an Obligor is required to be increased under clause 14.2 (Tax gross-up) other than in respect of any withholding Tax payable in respect of payments under any Finance Document to Lenders in Korea or Singapore; or |
(ii) | any Lender claims indemnification from the Borrower under clause 14.3 (Tax indemnity) or clause 15.1 (Increased Costs); or |
the Borrower may, whilst (in the case of (i) and (ii) above) the circumstance giving rise to the requirement or indemnification or FATCA Deduction continues, give the Facility Agent notice of cancellation of the Commitment of that Lender and its intention to procure the repayment of that Lender's participation in the Loan.
(b) | On receipt of a notice referred to in clause 9.3(a) above, the Commitment of that Lender shall immediately be reduced to zero. |
(c) | On the last day of each Interest Period which ends after the Borrower has given notice under clause 9.3(a) above (or, if earlier, the date specified by the Borrower in that notice), the Borrower shall prepay that Lender's participation in each Loan. |
(d) | The Borrower may, in the circumstances set out in paragraph (a) above (when sub paragraph (i) of that paragraph applies), on 10 Business Days' prior notice to the Facility Agent and that Lender, replace that Lender by requiring that Lender to (and, to the extent permitted by law, that Lender shall) transfer pursuant to clause 34 (Changes to the Lenders) all (and not part only) of its rights and obligations under this Agreement to a Lender or other bank selected by the Borrower which confirms its willingness to assume and does assume all the obligations of the transferring Lender in accordance with clause 34 (Changes to the Lenders) for a purchase price in cash or other cash payment payable at the time of the transfer equal to the outstanding principal amount of such Lender's participation in the outstanding Loans and all accrued interest, Break Costs and other amounts payable in relation thereto under the Finance Documents. |
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(e) | The replacement of a Lender pursuant to paragraph 9.3(d) above shall be subject to the following conditions: |
(i) | the Borrower shall have no right to replace the Facility Agent; |
(ii) | neither the Facility Agent nor any Lender shall have any obligation to find a replacement Lender; |
(iii) | in no event shall the Lender replaced under paragraph (d) above be required to pay or surrender any of the fees received by such Lender pursuant to the Finance Documents; and |
(iv) | the Lender shall only be obliged to transfer its rights and obligations pursuant to paragraph (d) above once it is satisfied that it has complied with all necessary "know your customer" or other similar checks under all applicable laws and regulations in relation to that transfer. |
(f) | A Lender shall perform the checks described in paragraph (e)(iv) above as soon as reasonably practicable following delivery of a notice referred to in paragraph (d) above and shall notify the Facility Agent and the Borrower when it is satisfied that it has complied with those checks. |
9.4 | Total Loss |
On the Total Loss Repayment Date in relation to the Vessel:
(a) | the Total Commitments of all Facilities will be reduced to zero; |
(b) | the Borrower shall prepay the Loans and any Hedging Debt then due (in accordance with the terms of the Hedging Contracts) in full. |
9.5 | Right of cancellation in relation to a Defaulting Lender |
(a) | If any Lender becomes a Defaulting Lender, the Borrower may, at any time whilst the Lender continues to be a Defaulting Lender, give the Facility Agent fifteen (15) Business Days' notice of cancellation of each Available Commitment of that Lender. |
(b) | On the notice referred to in clause 9.5(a) above becoming effective, each Available Commitment of the Defaulting Lender shall immediately be reduced to zero. |
(c) | The Facility Agent shall as soon as practicable after receipt of a notice referred to in clause 9.5(a) above, notify all the Lenders and K-sure. |
9.6 | Change of Control |
If a Change of Control occurs the Facility Agent may, and shall if so directed by the Majority Lenders, by notice to the Borrower with effect from the date falling fifteen (15) Business Days after the giving of such notice (or such later date as may be approved in advance by the Majority Lenders) cancel the Total Commitments of all Facilities. The Borrower shall on the date such cancellation takes effect prepay the Loans in full, whereupon the Total Commitments of all Facilities shall be reduced to zero, and pay any Hedging Debt then due in full in accordance with the terms of the Hedging Contract.
9.7 | Sale of Vessel |
If at any time the Vessel is sold by or on behalf of the Borrower (including to the Charterer following exercise of the Charterer's Purchase Option), the Borrower shall forthwith upon the date on which any Sales Proceeds are received by it (or by the Security Agent on its behalf in which case it shall apply them to) prepay the Loans in full, whereupon the Total Commitments of all Facilities shall be reduced to zero, and pay any Hedging Debt then due in full in accordance with the terms of
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the Hedging Contracts. If the Sales Proceeds received are sufficient to pay, repay, satisfy and discharge the Secured Obligations in full and the other obligations to be paid in priority pursuant to the Intercreditor Deed, the Facility Agent shall as soon as reasonably practicable pay any Sales Proceeds remaining after such payment, repayment, satisfaction and discharge to the Borrower or to its order. The Finance Parties shall take such action as is reasonably requested by the Borrower in respect of any sale of the Vessel to release the Vessel from the relevant Security Interests created by the Security Documents upon discharge of the Secured Obligations in full. For the avoidance of doubt, the Finance Parties shall not be required to release such Security Interests unless the Lenders are satisfied that the Secured Obligations have been, or will be immediately upon the release of such Security Interests, paid in full.
9.8 | Charter and Charter Guarantee |
If:
(a) | the Charter or the Charter Guarantee is for any reason (other than for an Event of Owner's Default as defined in the Charter) and by any method terminated, repudiated or rescinded; or |
(b) | the Charter ceases to be in full force and effect (other than through expiry by lapse of time or fulfilment of all obligations thereunder); |
(c) | the Charter Guarantee ceases to be in full force and effect (other than through expiry by lapse of time or fulfilment of all obligations thereunder) unless the PGN L/C remains in full force and effect and such Charter Guarantee is replaced with a valid, binding and enforceable replacement Charter Guarantee within twenty (20) Business Days of it ceasing to be in full force and effect; or |
(d) | a payment of the Termination Fee is made or is payable, |
the Facility Agent may, and shall if so directed by the Majority Lenders, by notice to the Borrower with effect from the date falling five (5) Business Days after the giving of such notice (or thirty (30) Business Days of the occurrence of any event described in paragraphs (a) to (d) above if such event results in, or will following the issue of a termination notice result in, a Termination Fee being payable in accordance with the Charter and such Termination Fee is, or will be, sufficient to repay all Secured Obligations in full, or such later date as may be approved in advance by the Majority Lenders) cancel the Total Commitments of all Facilities. The Borrower shall on the date such cancellation takes effect (or if earlier the date the Termination Fee is paid) prepay the Loans in full, whereupon the Total Commitments of all Facilities shall be reduced to zero, and pay any Hedging Debt then due in full in accordance with the terms of the Hedging Contracts and the Finance Parties agree that following a notice under this clause the Borrower may take such actions as are necessary to terminate the Charter and shall promptly provide their confirmation of any consent or approval of such termination required pursuant to any Finance Document and reasonably requested by the Borrower.
9.9 | PGN L/C |
(a) | The Borrower shall promptly notify the Facility Agent if an Event of Company’s Default occurs under clause 26.2(b) of the Charter. |
(b) | If such Event of Company’s Default is not remedied to the satisfaction of the Lenders within thirty (30) Business Days of such event occurring and the Borrower has not drawn down under the PGN L/C and has not received and is not holding cash collateral in an amount equal to the face value of the PGN L/C that should have been in place, the Facility Agent may, and shall if so directed by the Majority Lenders, by notice to the Borrower with effect from the date falling thirty (30) Business Days after the giving of such notice (or such later date as may be approved in advance by the Majority Lenders) cancel the Total Commitments of all Facilities, provided that the Lenders shall not cancel the Total Commitments pursuant to this clause 9.9 (PGN L/C) if such Event of Company’s Default |
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under clause 26.2(b) of the Charter is the subject of a dispute with the Charterer and the Borrower is in good faith in the process of resolving such dispute and the Borrower is not in default under any payment obligation under a Finance Document and the credit balance of the Debt Service Reserve Account is not less than a sum equal to three (3) months' Debt Service obligations of the Borrower under this Agreement at that time.
(c) | Where the Total Commitments have been cancelled under this clause, the Borrower shall on the date such cancellation takes effect (or if earlier the date the Termination Fee is paid) prepay the Loans in full, whereupon the Total Commitments of all Facilities shall be reduced to zero, and pay any Hedging Debt the due in full in accordance with the terms of the Hedging Contracts and the Finance Parties agree that following a notice under this clause the Borrower may take such actions as are necessary to terminate the Charter and shall promptly provide their confirmation of any consent or approval of such termination required pursuant to any Finance Document and reasonably requested by the Borrower. |
9.10 | K-sure Policy |
If, at any time:
(a) | the K-sure Policy ceases to remain in full force and effect or ceases to be legal, valid, binding and (subject to general principles of law limiting enforceability) enforceable; or |
(b) | the K-sure Policy is repudiated, revoked, rescinded or suspended by K-sure, |
then the Facility Agent shall, by notice to the Borrower with effect from the date falling five (5) Business Days (or thirty (30) Business Days if for a reason not due to an action or inaction of an Obligor) after the giving of such notice (or such later date as may be approved in advance by the Majority Lenders), cancel the Total Commitments in respect of the K-sure Facility only. The Borrower shall, on the date such cancellation takes effect, prepay the K-sure Loans in full, whereupon the Total Commitments in respect of the K-Facility shall be reduced to zero, and pay any Hedging Debt then due in full in accordance with the terms of the Hedging Contracts.
9.11 | Insurance |
If:
(a) | the credit rating of any insurer (unless such Insurances are reinsured and the Reinsurance Fiduciary Assignment has been duly executed, in which case the credit rating of any reinsurer) in respect of the Insurances or, if applicable, the Reinsurances falls below the Approved Credit Rating such that the requirements of clause 27.3(d) are not met and such insurer or and the insurances or, as applicable, Reinsurances are not replaced with a replacement insurer or reinsurer such that the requirements of clause 27.3(d) are met and otherwise in compliance with clause 27 (Insurance) within forty five (45) days of the Facility Agent giving notice to the Borrower. |
(b) | any insurer being a provider of Insurances and/or Insurer is or becomes insolvent, unless (a) the Insurances and/or Reinsurances placed with such Insurer are re-placed with a replacement, solvent insurer within seven (7) days of the Facility Agent giving notice to the Borrower and, in the case of an Insurer, (b) the Reinsurance Fiduciary Assignment granted by such Insurer is within thirty (30) days of the Facility Agent giving notice to the Borrower replaced by a substitute Reinsurance Fiduciary Assignment issued by the replacement insurer on substantially the same terms. |
(c) | any Insurer fails to perform or observe any material covenant or obligation to be performed or observed by it under the Reinsurance Fiduciary Assignment (which the Facility Agent has notified the Borrower and Insurer of) unless either: |
(i) | the Facility Agent considers that the failure to perform or observe any such material covenant or obligation is capable of remedy and the failure is remedied within forty five (45) days of the Facility Agent giving notice to the Borrower and the Insurer; or |
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(ii) | within such forty five (45) day period, the Insurances placed with such Insurer are re-placed with a replacement insurer and the Reinsurance Fiduciary Assignment granted by such Insurer is replaced by a substitute Reinsurance Fiduciary Assignment issued by the replacement insurer on substantially the same terms. |
(d) | any representation made by an Insurer in any Reinsurance Fiduciary Assignment is or proves to have been incorrect or misleading in any material respect when made (which the Facility Agent has notified the Borrower and Insurer of) unless either: |
(i) | the incorrectness or misleading nature of the relevant representation and/or the underlying event or circumstance giving rise to it is capable of remedy and is remedied within forty five (45) days of the Facility Agent giving notice to the Borrower and/or the Insurer; or |
(ii) | within such forty five (45) day period, the Insurances placed with such Insurer are re-placed with a replacement insurer and the Reinsurance Fiduciary Assignment granted by such Insurer is replaced by a substitute Reinsurance Fiduciary Assignment issued by the replacement insurer on substantially the same terms. |
(e) | either: |
(i) | it is or becomes unlawful for an Insurer to perform any of its obligations under any Reinsurance Fiduciary Assignment entered into by it and/or any Security Interest created or expressed to be created or evidenced by any such Reinsurance Fiduciary Assignment ceases (subject to the Legal Reservations) to be effective; or |
(ii) | any obligation of an Insurer under any Reinsurance Fiduciary Assignment entered into by it is not (subject to the Legal Reservations) or ceases to be legal, valid, binding or enforceable, |
unless, within forty (45) days of the Facility Agent giving notice to the Borrower and/or the Insurer of such event, the Insurances placed with such Insurer are re-placed with a replacement insurer (whereby such unlawfulness, non-effectiveness, illegality, invalidity, non-binding nature or unenforceability is thereby remedied) and the Reinsurance Fiduciary Assignment granted by such Insurer is replaced by a substitute Reinsurance Fiduciary Assignment issued by the replacement insurer on substantially the same terms, then the Facility Agent may, by notice to the Borrower with effect from the date falling five (5) Business Days after the giving of such notice (or such later date as may be approved in advance by the Majority Lenders) cancel the Total Commitments. The Borrower shall on the date such cancellation takes effect prepay the Loans in full whereupon the Total Commitments of all Facilities shall be reduced to zero, and pay any Hedging Debt then due in full in accordance with the terms of the Hedging Contracts.
9.12 | Automatic cancellation |
The Available Commitments of a Facility which have not been utilised by the Last Availability Date applicable to such Facility shall be automatically cancelled at 17:00 on such Last Availability Date.
9.13 | Restrictions |
(a) | Any notice of cancellation or prepayment given by any Party under this clause 9 shall be irrevocable and, unless a contrary indication appears in this Agreement, shall specify the date or dates upon which the relevant cancellation or prepayment is to be made and the amount of that cancellation or prepayment. |
(b) | Any prepayment under this Agreement shall be made together with accrued interest on the amount prepaid and, if prepayment is made otherwise than on an Interest Payment Date, subject to any Break Costs (and any swap break costs in relation to the Loans (or any part thereof) which are payable in accordance with the terms of the Hedging Contracts), without premium or penalty. |
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(c) | The Borrower may not reborrow any part of either Facility which is prepaid. |
(d) | The Borrower shall not repay or prepay all or any part of either Facility or reduce all or any part of the Commitments except at the times and in the manner expressly provided for in this Agreement. |
(e) | No amount of the Total Commitments of any Facility reduced under this Agreement may be subsequently reinstated. |
(f) | If the Facility Agent receives a notice under this clause 9 it shall promptly forward a copy of that notice to either the Borrower or the affected Lender, as appropriate and provide a copy of such notice to K-sure. |
(g) | If the Total Commitments of any Facility are partially reduced under this Agreement (other than under clause 9.1 (Illegality) and clause 9.3 (Right of cancellation and prepayment in relation to a single Lender) and clause 9.5 (Right of cancellation in relation to a Defaulting Lender)), the Commitments of the Lenders in respect of that Facility shall be reduced rateably. |
(h) | Any prepayment under this Agreement (other than under clause 9.1 (Illegality), clause 9.2 (Voluntary prepayment and cancellation), clause 9.3 (Right of cancellation and prepayment in relation to a single Lender) and clause 9.5 (Right of cancellation in relation to a Defaulting Lender)) shall be applied pro rata against each Facility and pro rata among the Lenders in proportion to their participation in the Loans. |
(i) | Any prepayment and/or cancellation under clause 9.2 (Voluntary prepayment and cancellation) shall be applied pro rata against the Term Facilities in reducing the Term Facilities Loans and pro rata among the Lenders in proportion to their participation in such Loans. |
(j) | Any prepayment under this Agreement shall be made together with payment to a Hedging Banks (pro rata) of any amount falling due to the Hedging Banks under the Hedging Contracts on the date of that prepayment as a result of the termination or close out of the Hedging Contracts or any Hedging Transactions under them in accordance with clause 31.6 (Unwinding of Hedging Contracts) in relation to that prepayment. |
(k) | Any prepayment under this Agreement shall be applied against the outstanding repayment instalments of the Loans under the relevant Facility in inverse order of maturity. |
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Section 5 - Costs of Utilisation
10 | Interest |
10.1 | Calculation of interest |
The rate of interest on each Loan, for each Interest Period is the percentage rate per annum which is the aggregate of the applicable:
(a) | Margin; and |
(b) | LIBOR. |
10.2 | Payment of interest |
The Borrower shall pay accrued interest on that Loan on the last day of each Interest Period relating to such Loan (an Interest Payment Date) and, if the relevant Interest Period is longer than three (3) months, on the dates falling at three monthly intervals after the first day of the relevant Interest Period.
10.3 | Default interest |
(a) | If an Obligor fails to pay any amount payable by it under a Finance Document on its due date, interest shall accrue on the Unpaid Sum from the due date up to the date of actual payment (both before and after judgment) at a rate which, subject to clause 10.3(b) below, is two per cent (2%) higher than the rate which would have been payable if the Unpaid Sum had, during the period of non-payment, constituted a Loan for successive Interest Periods, each of a duration selected by the Facility Agent (acting reasonably). Any interest accruing in accordance with this clause 10.3 shall be immediately payable by the Obligor on demand by the Facility Agent. |
(b) | If any Unpaid Sum consists of all or part of a Loan which became due on a day which was not the last day of an Interest Period relating to that Loan or the relevant part of it: |
(i) | the first Interest Period for that Unpaid Sum shall have a duration equal to the unexpired portion of the current Interest Period relating to that Loan; and |
(ii) | the rate of interest applying to the overdue amount during that first Interest Period shall be two per cent (2%) higher than the rate which would have applied if the Unpaid Sum had not become due. |
(c) | Default interest (if unpaid) arising on an Unpaid Sum will be compounded with the Unpaid Sum at the end of each Interest Period applicable to that Unpaid Sum but will remain immediately due and payable. |
(d) | For the avoidance of doubt, this clause 10.3 does not apply to any amount payable under a Hedging Contract in respect of any continuing Transaction as to which section 2(e) (Default Interest; Other Amounts) of the ISDA Master Agreement of that Hedging Contract shall apply or in respect of any other Finance Document which also provides for interest to be paid on overdue amounts (other than pursuant to this provision). |
10.4 | Notification of rates of interest |
The Facility Agent shall promptly notify the Lenders and the Borrower of the determination of a rate of interest under this Agreement.
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11 | Interest Periods |
11.1 | Selection of Interest Periods |
(a) | The Borrower may select an Interest Period for a Loan in the Utilisation Request for that Loan or (if the Loan has already been borrowed) in a Selection Notice. |
(b) | Each Selection Notice is irrevocable and must be delivered to the Facility Agent by the Borrower not later than 11:00 a.m. four (4) Business Days before the last day of the then current Interest Period. |
(c) | If the Borrower fails to deliver a Selection Notice to the Facility Agent (in accordance with clause 11.1(b) or otherwise) the relevant Interest Period will, subject to clause 11.1(h) below, be three (3) months. |
(d) | Subject to this clause 11, the Borrower may select an Interest Period of one or three months or such other period as the Borrower may agree with the Facility Agent from time to time. |
(e) | No Interest Period for a Loan shall extend beyond that Loan's Final Maturity Date. |
(f) | Each Interest Period for a Loan shall commence on the actual Utilisation Date or (if already made) on the last day of its preceding Interest Period. |
(g) | If a Loan is already outstanding under a Facility, then the first Interest Period for each subsequent Loan under that Facility must end on the last day of the current Interest Period for such outstanding Loan (the Current Interest Period) and on the last day of the Current Interest Period, the new Loan will be consolidated with all other borrowings outstanding in respect of that Facility so that together they form the Loan on the last day of the Interest Period. The next following Interest Period will then be applicable to the Loan in accordance with the terms of clause 11.3 (Consolidation of Loans) as a whole. |
(h) | No Interest Period for any Loan under a Facility shall overrun a Repayment Date relating to such Facility. |
11.2 | Non-Business Days |
If an Interest Period would otherwise end on a day which is not a Business Day, that Interest Period will instead end on the next Business Day in that calendar month (if there is one) or the preceding Business Day (if there is not).
11.3 | Consolidation of Loans |
If two (2) or more Interest Periods:
(a) | relate to Loans under the same Facility; and |
(b) | end on the same date, |
the amounts to which those Interest Periods relate shall be consolidated into, and treated as, a single Loan under that Facility on the last day of the Interest Period.
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12 | Changes to the calculation of interest |
12.1 | Unavailability of Screen Rates |
(a) | If no Screen Rate is available for LIBOR for an Interest Period, the applicable LIBOR shall be the Interpolated Screen Rate for a period equal in length to that Interest Period. |
(b) | If no Screen Rate is available for LIBOR for: |
(i) | dollars; or |
(ii) | an Interest Period and it is not possible to calculate the Interpolated Screen Rate, |
there shall be no LIBOR for that Interest Period and clause 12.3 (Cost of funds) shall apply for that Interest Period.
12.2 | Market disruption |
If, before close of business one Business Day after the Quotation Date for an Interest Period, the Facility Agent receives notifications from a Lender or Lenders (whose participations in the Loan exceed fifty per cent. (50%) of the Loan) that the cost to it of funding its participation in the Loan or relevant part of it from whatever source it may reasonably select would be in excess of LIBOR then clause 12.3 (Cost of funds) shall apply to the Loan or relevant part of it for the relevant Interest Period.
12.3 | Cost of funds |
(a) | If this clause 12.3 applies, the rate of interest on each Lender’s share in that Loan for the Interest Period shall be the rate per annum which is the sum of: |
(i) | the Margin; and |
(ii) | the rate notified to the Facility Agent by that Lender as soon as practicable and in any event within ten (10) Business Days of the first day of that Interest Period, to be that which expresses as a percentage rate per annum the cost to the relevant Lender of funding its participation in the Loan or relevant part of it from whatever source it may reasonably select. |
(b) | If this clause 12.3 applies and the Facility Agent or the Borrower so require, the Facility Agent and the Borrower shall enter into negotiations (for a period of not more than thirty (30) days) with a view to agreeing a substitute basis for determining the rate of interest. |
(c) | Any alternative basis agreed pursuant to paragraph (b) above shall, with the prior consent of all the Lenders and the Borrower, be binding on all Parties. |
(d) | If paragraph (e) below does not apply and any rate notified to the Facility Agent under sub-paragraph (ii) of paragraph (a) above is less than zero, the relevant rate shall be deemed to be zero. |
(e) | If this clause 12.3 applies pursuant to clause 12.2 (Market disruption) and: |
(i) | a Lender's Funding Rate is less than LIBOR; or |
(ii) | a Lender does not supply a quotation by the time specified in paragraph (a)(ii) above, |
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the cost to that Lender of funding its participation in the Loan or relevant part of it for that Interest Period shall be deemed, for the purposes of paragraph (a) above, to be LIBOR.
12.4 | Notification to Borrower |
If clause 12.3 (Cost of funds) applies, the Facility Agent shall, as soon as is practicable, notify the Borrower.
12.5 | Break Costs |
(a) | The Borrower shall, promptly on demand by a Finance Party, pay to that Finance Party its Break Costs attributable to all or any part of a Loan or Unpaid Sum being paid by the Borrower on a day other than the last day of an Interest Period for that Loan or Unpaid Sum or relevant part of it. |
(b) | Each Lender shall, as soon as reasonably practicable after a demand by the Facility Agent, provide to the Facility Agent a certificate confirming the amount of its Break Costs for any Interest Period in which they accrue. |
13 | Fees |
13.1 | Commitment fee |
(a) | The Borrower shall pay to the Facility Agent (for the account of each Lender) a fee in dollars computed at the rate of forty per cent (40%) of the Margin per annum calculated daily on the Available Facility of each Facility calculated from the date of this Agreement (the Start Date) to the date of payment of the accrued commitment commission pursuant to clause 13.1(b) below. |
(b) | The Borrower shall pay the accrued commitment fee on the last day of the period of three months commencing on the Start Date, on the last day of each successive period of three months, on the Last Availability Date of each Facility and, if a Lender's Commitment is cancelled in full, on the cancelled amount of the relevant Lender's Commitment at the time the cancellation is effective. |
(c) | No commitment fee or commission is payable to the Facility Agent for any Lender in respect of its Available Commitment for any day when it is a Defaulting Lender. |
13.2 | Agency fee |
The Borrower shall pay to each Agent and Security Agent (each for its own account), whether or not any part of a Loan is ever drawn down, an agency fee in the amount and at the times agreed in a Fee Letter.
13.3 | Arrangement fee |
The Borrower shall pay to the Facility Agent (for the account of the Mandated Lead Arrangers), whether or not any part of a Loan its ever drawn down, a documentation fee in the amounts and at the times agreed in a Fee Letter.
13.4 | Account Bank fee |
The Borrower shall pay to each Account Banks (for its own account) a fee in the amount and at the times agreed in a Fee Letter to which that Account Bank is a party.
13.5 | K-sure Premium |
(a) | The Borrower shall pay the K-sure Premium to the K-sure Agent (for the account of K-sure). |
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(b) | The Borrower acknowledges that none of the Finance Parties nor the Builder are in any way involved in the final determination of the K-sure Premium or any additional K-sure Premium and that the Borrower will not raise against any of the Finance Parties any claim or defence of any kind whatsoever in relation to the calculation or payment of any K-sure Premium. Without prejudice to clause 13.5(c) below, the Borrower's obligation to pay the K-sure Premium shall be an absolute and unconditional obligation and, without limitation, shall not be affected by any failure by the Borrower to drawdown funds under this agreement or the prepayment or acceleration of the whole or any part of the Loans. |
(c) | The parties acknowledge that the K-sure Premium is refundable in accordance with the terms of the K-sure Policy and K-sure internal policy and any such refund shall be payable to the K-sure Agent and shall be transferred or paid by the K-sure Agent into the Offshore Revenue Account. No K-sure Premium shall be refundable following service of a notice by the Facility Agent pursuant to and in accordance with clause 32.30 (Acceleration). The K-sure Agent shall use reasonable endeavours to obtain a refund at the request of the Borrower. |
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Section 6 - Additional Payment Obligations
14 | Tax gross-up and indemnities |
14.1 | Definitions |
(a) | In this Agreement: |
Protected Party means a Finance Party or, in relation to clause 16.5 (Indemnity concerning security) and 16.11 (Interest) insofar as it relates to interest on any amount demanded by that Indemnified Person under clause 16 (Other indemnities), any Indemnified Person, which is or will be subject to any liability, or required to make any payment, for or on account of Tax in relation to a sum received or receivable (or any sum deemed for the purposes of Tax to be received or receivable) under a Finance Document.
Tax Credit means a credit against, relief or remission for, or repayment of any Tax.
Tax Deduction means a deduction or withholding for or on account of Tax from a payment under a Finance Document (other than a Hedging Contract or a FATCA Deduction).
Tax Payment means either the increase in a payment made by an Obligor to a Finance Party under clause 14.2 (Tax gross-up) or a payment under clause 14.3 (Tax indemnity).
(b) | Unless a contrary indication appears, in this clause 14 a reference to determines or determined means a determination made in the absolute discretion of the person making the determination, acting reasonably. |
14.2 | Tax gross-up |
(a) | Each Obligor shall make all payments to be made by it under any Finance Document without any Tax Deduction, unless a Tax Deduction is required by law. |
(b) | The Borrower shall, promptly upon becoming aware that an Obligor must make a Tax Deduction (or that there is any change in the rate or the basis of a Tax Deduction), notify the Facility Agent accordingly. Similarly, a Lender shall notify the Facility Agent on becoming so aware in respect of a payment payable to that Lender. If the Facility Agent receives such notification from a Lender it shall notify the Borrower and that Obligor. |
(c) | Subject to clause 34.2 (Conditions of assignment or transfer), if a Tax Deduction is required by law to be made by an Obligor, the amount of the payment due from that Obligor under the relevant Finance Document shall be increased to an amount which (after making any Tax Deduction) leaves an amount equal to the payment which would have been due if no Tax Deduction had been required to be made. |
(d) | If an Obligor is required to make a Tax Deduction, that Obligor shall make that Tax Deduction and, subject to the proviso in clause 34.2 (Conditions of assignment or transfer), any payment required in connection with that Tax Deduction within the time allowed and in the minimum amount required by law. |
(e) | Within thirty (30) days of making either a Tax Deduction or any payment required in connection with that Tax Deduction, the Obligor making that Tax Deduction shall deliver to the Facility Agent for the Finance Party entitled to the payment evidence reasonably satisfactory to that Finance Party that the Tax Deduction has been made or (as applicable) any appropriate payment paid to the relevant taxing authority. |
14.3 | Tax indemnity |
(a) | The Borrower shall within three (3) Business Days of demand by the Facility Agent pay to a Protected Party an amount equal to the loss, liability or cost which that Protected Party |
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determines will be or has been (directly or indirectly) suffered for or on account of Tax by that Protected Party in respect of a Finance Document.
(b) | Clause 14.3(a) above shall not apply: |
(i) | with respect to any Tax assessed on a Finance Party: |
(A) | under the law of the jurisdiction in which that Finance Party is incorporated or, if different, the jurisdiction (or jurisdictions) in which that Finance Party is treated as resident for tax purposes; or |
(B) | under the law of the jurisdiction in which that Finance Party's Facility Office is located in respect of amounts received or receivable in that jurisdiction, |
if that Tax is imposed on or calculated by reference to the net income received or receivable (but not any sum deemed to be received or receivable) by that Finance Party; or
(ii) | to the extent a loss, liability or cost is compensated for by an increased payment under clause 14.2 (Tax gross-up) or clause 14.9 (FATCA Deduction and gross-up by Obligor) or would have been compensated by an increased payment under clause 14.2 (Tax gross-up) but was not compensated solely because one of the exclusions in paragraph (d) of clause 14.2 (Tax gross-up) applied or the application of clause 34.2 (Conditions of assignment or transfer); or |
(iii) | to the extent a loss, liability or cost relates to a FATCA Deduction required to be made by a Party. |
(c) | A Protected Party making, or intending to make a claim under clause 14.3(a) above shall promptly notify the Facility Agent of the event which will give, or has given, rise to the claim, following which the Facility Agent shall notify the Borrower. |
(d) | A Protected Party shall, on receiving a payment from an Obligor under this clause 14.3, notify the Facility Agent. |
14.4 | Tax credit |
If an Obligor makes a Tax Payment and the relevant Finance Party determines that:
(a) | a Tax Credit is attributable to that Tax Payment; and |
(a) | that a Finance Party has obtained, utilised and retained that Tax Credit, |
the relevant Finance Party shall pay an amount to the relevant Obligor which that Finance Party determines will leave it (after that payment) in the same after-Tax position as it would have been in had the Tax Payment not been required to be made by the Obligor.
14.5 | Stamp taxes |
The Borrower shall pay and, within on demand, indemnify each Finance Party against any cost, loss or liability that Finance Party incurs in relation to all stamp duty, registration and other similar Taxes payable in respect of any Finance Document except for any stamp taxes relating to the transfer by a Finance Party of any participation in a Finance Document.
14.6 | Indirect Tax |
(a) | All consideration expressed to be payable under a Finance Document by any Party to a Finance Party shall be deemed to be exclusive of any Indirect Tax. If any Indirect Tax is chargeable on any supply made by any Finance Party to any Party in connection with a Finance Document and the Finance Party is required to account for that Indirect Tax, that |
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Party shall pay to the Finance Party (in addition to and at the same time as paying the consideration) an amount equal to the amount of the Indirect Tax.
(b) | Where a Finance Document requires any Party to reimburse a Finance Party for any costs or expenses, that Party shall also at the same time pay and indemnify the Finance Party against all Indirect Tax incurred by that Finance Party in respect of the costs or expenses to the extent that the Finance Party reasonably determines that it is not entitled to credit or repayment in respect of the Indirect Tax. |
(c) | A Finance Party making, or intending to make a claim under this clause 14.6 shall provide the Facility Agent with reasonable evidence of the Indirect Tax referred to in this clause 14.6 (if available), following which the Facility Agent shall pass on such evidence to the Borrower. |
14.7 | Conflict with Hedging Contracts |
In respect of any of the indemnities entered into in favour of the Hedging Banks in this clause 14 (and in clauses 15 (Increased Costs) and 16 (Other indemnities)), and in respect of the mitigation obligations of the Hedging Banks set out in clause 17 (Mitigation by the Lenders) to the extent of any inconsistency between such provisions and the equivalent indemnity and mitigation provisions set out in the Hedging Contracts, the provisions of the Hedging Contracts shall prevail.
14.8 | FATCA Information |
(a) | Subject to clause 14.8(c), each Party shall, within ten (10) Business Days of a reasonable request by another Party: |
(i) | confirm to that other Party whether it is: |
(A) | a FATCA Exempt Party; or |
(B) | not a FATCA Exempt Party; and |
(ii) | supply to that other Party such forms, documentation and other information relating to its status under FATCA (including its applicable passthru payment percentage or other information required under the US Treasury Regulations or other official guidance including intergovernmental agreements) as that other Party reasonably requests for the purposes of that other Party's compliance with FATCA. |
(b) | If a Party confirms to another Party pursuant to clause 14.8(a) that it is a FATCA Exempt Party and it subsequently becomes aware that it is not, or has ceased to be a FATCA Exempt Party, that Party shall notify that other Party reasonably promptly. |
(c) | Clause 14.8(a) shall not oblige any Finance Party to do anything which would or might in its reasonable opinion constitute a breach of: |
(i) | any law or regulation; |
(ii) | any fiduciary duty; or |
(iii) | any duty of confidentiality. |
(d) | If a Party fails to confirm its status or to supply forms, documentation or other information requested in accordance with clause 14.8(a) (including, for the avoidance of doubt, where clause 14.8(c) applies), then: |
(i) | if that Party failed to confirm whether it is (and/or remains) a FATCA Exempt Party then such Party shall be treated for the purposes of the Finance Documents as if it is not a FATCA Exempt Party; and |
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(ii) | if that Party failed to confirm its applicable passthru payment percentage then such Party shall be treated for the purposes of the Finance Documents (and payments made thereunder) as if its applicable passthru payment percentage is 100 per cent, |
until (in each case) such time as the Party in question provides the requested confirmation, forms, documentation or other information.
14.9 | FATCA Deduction |
(a) | Each Party may make any FATCA Deduction it is required to make by FATCA and any payment required in connection with that FATCA Deduction and no Party shall be required to increase any payment in respect of which it makes such a FATCA Deduction or otherwise compensate the recipient of the payment for that FATCA Deduction. |
(b) | Each Party shall promptly, upon becoming aware that it must make a FATCA Deduction (or that there is any change in the rate or the basis of such FATCA Deduction), notify the Party to whom it is making the payment and, in addition, shall notify the Borrower and the Facility Agent and the Facility Agent shall notify the other Finance Parties. |
15 | Increased Costs |
15.1 | Increased Costs |
(a) | Subject to clause 15.3 (Exceptions), the Borrower shall, promptly on demand by the Facility Agent, pay for the account of a Finance Party the amount of any Increased Costs incurred by that Finance Party or any of its Affiliates which: |
(i) | arises as a result of (i) the introduction of or any change in (or in the interpretation, administration or application of) any law or regulation or (ii) compliance with any law or regulation in either case made after the date of this Agreement; |
(ii) | is a Basel 3 Increased Cost; and/or |
(iii) | is a Reformed Basel 3 Increased Cost. |
The terms law and regulation in this clause 15.1(a) shall include, without limitation, any law or regulation concerning capital adequacy, prudential limits, liquidity, reserve assets or Tax.
(b) | In this Agreement Increased Costs means: |
(i) | a reduction in the rate of return from the Facility or on a Finance Party's (or its Affiliate's) overall capital; |
(ii) | an additional or increased cost; or |
(iii) | a reduction of any amount due and payable under any Finance Document, |
which is incurred or suffered by a Finance Party or any of its Affiliates to the extent that it is attributable to that Finance Party having entered into its Commitment or funding or performing its obligations under any Finance Document.
15.2 | Increased Cost claims |
(a) | A Finance Party intending to make a claim pursuant to clause 15.1 (Increased Costs) shall notify the Facility Agent of the event giving rise to the claim, following which the Facility Agent shall promptly notify the Borrower. |
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(b) | Each Finance Party shall, as soon as practicable after a demand by the Facility Agent provide a certificate confirming the amount of its Increased Costs to the Facility Agent. |
15.3 | Exceptions |
(a) | Clause 15.1 (Increased Costs) does not apply to the extent any Increased Cost is: |
(i) | attributable to a Tax Deduction required by law to be made by an Obligor; |
(ii) | compensated for by clause 14.3 (Tax indemnity) (or would have been compensated for under clause 14.3 (Tax indemnity) but was not so compensated solely because any of the exclusions in clause 14.3(b) applied) or the application of clause 34.2 (Conditions of assignment or transfer); |
(iii) | attributable to a FATCA Deduction required to be made by a Party; or |
(iv) | attributable to the wilful breach by the relevant Finance Party or its Affiliates of any law or regulation. |
(b) | In this clause 15.3, a reference to a Tax Deduction has the same meaning given to the term in clause 14.1 (Definitions). |
16 | Other indemnities |
16.1 | Currency indemnity |
(a) | If any sum due from an Obligor under the Finance Documents (a Sum), or any order, judgment or award given or made in relation to a Sum, has to be converted from the currency (the First Currency) in which that Sum is payable into another currency (the Second Currency) for the purpose of: |
(i) | making or filing a claim or proof against that Obligor; and/or |
(ii) | obtaining or enforcing an order, judgment or award in relation to any litigation or arbitration proceedings, |
that Obligor shall, as an independent obligation, promptly on demand by a Finance Party, indemnify each Finance Party to whom that Sum is due against any Losses arising out of or as a result of the conversion including any discrepancy between (i) the rate of exchange used to convert that Sum from the First Currency into the Second Currency and (ii) the rate or rates of exchange available to that person at the time of its receipt of that Sum.
(b) | Each Obligor waives any right it may have in any jurisdiction to pay any amount under the Finance Documents in a currency or currency unit other than that in which it is expressed to be payable. |
16.2 | Other indemnities |
The Borrower shall promptly on demand by a Finance Party or K-sure, indemnify each Finance Party and/or K-sure against all Losses incurred by that Finance Party or K-sure as a result of:
(a) | the occurrence of any Event of Default; |
(b) | a failure by an Obligor to pay any amount due under a Finance Document on its due date, including without limitation, all Losses arising as a result of clause 40 (Sharing among the Finance Parties); |
(c) | funding, or making arrangements to fund, its participation in a Loan requested by the Borrower in a Utilisation Request but not made by reason of the operation of any one or |
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more of the provisions of this Agreement (other than by reason of default or negligence by that Finance Party alone); or
(d) | a Loan (or part of a Loan) not being prepaid in accordance with a notice of prepayment given by the Borrower. |
16.3 | Indemnity to the Agents and the Security Agent |
The Borrower shall promptly indemnify the Agents and the Security Agent against:
(a) | all Losses incurred by the Agents and/or the Security Agent (each acting reasonably) as a result of: |
(i) | investigating any event which it reasonably believes is a Default; |
(ii) | acting or relying on any notice, request or instruction which it reasonably believes to be genuine, correct and appropriately authorised; or |
(iii) | taking, or failing to take, any action in connection with clause 2.3 (K-sure override) (provided that the relevant Agent or Security Agent (as relevant) acted in good faith in taking, or failing to take, such action). |
16.4 | Indemnity to K-sure |
The Borrower shall promptly indemnify K-sure in relation to any costs or expenses (including legal fees) reasonably suffered or incurred by K-sure in connection with any assignment or transfer to K-sure undertaken pursuant to clauses 32.32 to 32.36 (K-sure subrogation) (including legal fees) or in connection with any review by K-sure of or in relation to any Event of Default and/or amendment or supplement to any of the Finance Documents, dispute between the Borrower or any Obligor on the one hand and the Finance Parties on the other prior to the assignment referred to in clauses 32.32 to 32.36 (K-sure subrogation) and/or a request for a consent or approval from K-sure.
The provisions of clause 38.10 (Exclusion of Liability) and clause 38.11 (Lenders' indemnity to the Facility Agent) shall be deemed repeated and shall apply with respect to K-sure in this Agreement as if (each reference to the Facility Agent were a reference to K-sure and (ii) with respect to clause 38.11 (Lenders' indemnity to the Facility Agent), each reference to a Lender in such clause were a reference to a K-sure Lender.
16.5 | Indemnity concerning security |
(a) | The Borrower shall promptly indemnify the Security Agent and any Receiver against all Losses incurred by it as a result of: |
(i) | any failure by the Borrower to comply with its obligations under clause 18 (Costs and expenses); |
(ii) | the taking, holding, protection or enforcement of the Security Documents; |
(iii) | the exercise of any of the rights, powers, discretions and remedies vested in the Security Agent and each Receiver by the Finance Documents or by law unless and to the extent that it was caused by its gross negligence or wilful misconduct; |
(iv) | any default by any Obligor in the performance of any of its obligations expressed to be assumed by it in the Finance Documents; or |
(v) | or which otherwise relates to any of the Charged Property or the performance of the terms of the Finance Documents (otherwise than as a result of its gross negligence or wilful misconduct). |
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(b) | The Security Agent may, in priority to any payment to the other Finance Parties, indemnify itself out of the Trust Property in respect of, and pay and retain, all sums necessary to give effect to the indemnity in this clause 16.5 and shall have a lien on the Security Documents and the proceeds of the enforcement of those Security Documents for all monies payable to it. |
16.6 | General operating indemnity |
The Borrower hereby agrees at all times to pay promptly or, as the case may be, indemnify each Indemnified Person against all Losses incurred by it:
(a) | as a result of the relevant Finance Party and/or K-sure exercising its rights under and in accordance with the Finance Documents to operate, possess or dispose of the Vessel or the Mooring or to perform the obligations of the Borrower under a Material Project Agreement and which arise directly or indirectly out of the refurbishment, conversion, manufacture, construction, installation, transportation, ownership, possession, performance, management, import to or export from any jurisdiction, control, use or operation, registration, navigation, certification, classification, management, manning, provisioning, the provision of bunkers and lubricating oils, testing, design, condition, acceptance, chartering, sub-leasing, insurance, maintenance, repair, service, modification, refurbishment, dry-docking, survey, overhaul, replacement, removal, repossession, return, redelivery of the Vessel (or any part thereof) or the Mooring (or any part thereof), whether or not such Losses may be attributable to any defect in the Vessel (or any part thereof) or the Mooring (or any part thereof) or to the design, construction or use thereof or from any maintenance, service, repair, overhaul, inspection or to any other reason whatsoever (whether similar to any of the foregoing or not), and regardless of when the same shall arise (whether prior to, during or after termination of this Agreement) and whether or not the Vessel or the Mooring (or any part thereof) is in the possession or control of the Borrower, any O&M Contractor or the Charterer or any other person; and/or |
(b) | which arise as a result of the relevant Finance Party and/or K-sure being party to a Finance Document or exercising its rights under and in accordance with the Finance Documents to operate, possess or dispose of the Vessel or the Mooring or perform the obligations of the Borrower under a Material Project Agreement as a consequence of any claim that any design, article or material in the Vessel (or any part thereof) or the Mooring (or any part thereof) or any part thereof or relating thereto or the operation or use thereof constitutes an infringement of patent, copyright, design or other proprietary right; and/or |
(c) | in preventing or attempting to prevent the arrest, confiscation, seizure, taking in execution, requisition, impounding, forfeiture or detention of the Vessel (or any part thereof) or the Mooring (or any part thereof) or in securing or attempting to secure the release of the Vessel (or any part thereof) or the Mooring (or any part thereof) in each case in accordance with the Finance Documents. |
16.7 | Environmental indemnity |
Without prejudice to the provisions of clause 16.6 (General operating indemnity), the Borrower shall indemnify the Indemnified Persons and each of them on demand and hold the Indemnified Persons and each of them harmless from and against all costs, expenses, payments, charges, Losses, demands, liabilities, actions, proceedings (whether civil or criminal), penalties, fines, damages, judgments, orders, sanctions or other outgoings of whatever nature which may be suffered, incurred or paid by, or made or asserted against the Indemnified Persons or any of them at any time, whether before or after the repayment in full of principal and interest under this Agreement, relating to, or arising directly or indirectly in any manner or for any cause or reason whatsoever out of an Environmental Claim in respect of any Obligor or the Vessel (whilst owned and operated by the Borrower or any other Obligor) or the Mooring (whilst owned and operated by the Borrower or any other Obligor) made or asserted against the Indemnified Persons or any of them if such Environmental Claim would not have been, or been capable of being, made or asserted against the Indemnified Persons if the Finance Parties and/or K-sure or the relevant Finance Party or K-sure had not entered into this Agreement or any of the Finance Documents
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(or in the case of K-sure issued the K-sure Policy) and/or exercised any of their rights, powers and discretions thereby conferred in accordance with their terms and/or performed any of their obligations thereunder in accordance with their terms.
16.8 | The indemnities contained in clause 16.6 (General operating indemnity) and clause 16.7 (Environmental indemnity) shall not extend to any claim or liability of an Indemnified Person to the extent that such claim or liability: |
(a) | arises as a direct consequence of the gross negligence or wilful misconduct of that Indemnified Person or in the case of K-sure or a Finance Party and their related Indemnified Persons, K-sure or that Finance Party, as the case may be, or their related Indemnified Persons; |
(b) | is caused by any breach or failure on the part of that Indemnified Person or in the case of K-sure or a Finance Party and their related Indemnified Persons, K-sure or that Finance Party, as the case may be, or their related Indemnified Persons to comply with any of its obligations under any of the Finance Documents (but excluding any such breach or failure that arises as a result of the failure of a party to such Finance Document (other than that Indemnified Person or, in the case of a Finance Party or K-sure and their related Indemnified Persons, that Finance Party or K-sure or their related Indemnified Persons) to duly and punctually to perform its obligations); |
(c) | would have been, or capable of being, made or asserted against the Indemnified Person if the Finance Parties or relevant Finance Party or K-sure had not entered into one or more of the Finance Documents (or in the case of K-sure the K-sure Policy) and/or exercised any of their rights, powers and discretions thereby conferred in accordance with their terms and/or performed any of their obligations thereunder in accordance with their terms; |
(d) | represents any loss of future income or profits (other than to the extent the same comprises, consists or is derived from interest or the margin thereon or any Increased Costs); |
(e) | in respect of which that Indemnified Person or, in the case of K-sure or a Finance Party and their related Indemnified Persons, K-sure or that Finance Party or its related Indemnified Persons is expressly and specifically indemnified under any other provision of the Finance Documents. |
16.9 | Continuation of indemnities |
The indemnities of the Borrower in favour of an Indemnified Person contained in this Agreement shall continue in full force and effect notwithstanding any breach by any Finance Party which is not that Indemnified Person or the Finance Party to which that Indemnified Person relates, or the Borrower of the terms of this Agreement, the repayment or prepayment of a Loan, the cancellation of the Total Commitments or the repudiation by the Facility Agent (in the case of an Indemnified Person other than the Facility Agent and its related Indemnified Persons) or the Borrower of this Agreement and shall survive the termination or expiry of this Agreement.
16.10 Third Parties Act
Each Indemnified Person may rely on the terms of clause 16.5 (Indemnity concerning security) and clause 14 (Tax gross-up and indemnities) and 16.11 (Interest) insofar as it relates to interest on any amount demanded by that Indemnified Person under clause 16.5 (Indemnity concerning security), subject to clause 1.3 (Third party rights) and the provisions of the Third Parties Act.
16.11 | Interest |
Moneys becoming due by the Borrower to any Indemnified Person under the indemnities contained in this clause 16 or elsewhere in this Agreement shall be paid within five (5) Business Days of demand made by the relevant Finance Party and shall be paid together with interest on the sum demanded from the due date therefore to the date of reimbursement by the Borrower to
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such Finance Party (both before and after judgment) at the rate referred to in clause 10.3 (Default interest) without double counting.
17 | Mitigation by the Lenders |
17.1 | Mitigation |
(a) | Each Finance Party shall, in consultation with the Borrower, take all reasonable steps to mitigate any circumstances which arise and which would result in any amount becoming payable under or pursuant to, or cancelled pursuant to, any of clause 9.1 (Illegality), clause 14 (Tax gross-up and indemnities), clause 15 (Increased costs), or clause 16 (Other indemnities) including (but not limited to) transferring its rights and obligations under the Finance Documents to another Affiliate or Facility Office. |
(b) | Clause 17.1(a) does not in any way limit the obligations of any Obligor under the Finance Documents. |
17.2 | Limitation of liability |
(a) | The Borrower shall within five (5) Business Days of demand indemnify each Finance Party for all costs and expenses incurred by that Finance Party as a result of steps taken by it under clause 17.1 (Mitigation). |
(b) | No Finance Party is obliged to take any steps under clause 17.1 (Mitigation) if, in the opinion of that Finance Party (acting reasonably), to do so might be prejudicial to it. |
18 | Costs and expenses |
18.1 | Transaction expenses |
The Borrower shall within fifteen (15) Business Days of demand pay the Finance Parties and K-sure the amount of all costs and expenses (not exceeding the amounts which have been pre-approved by the Borrower and to the extent so approved, including fees, costs and expenses of legal advisers and insurance, technical and other consultants and advisers) reasonably incurred by any of them (and by any Receiver) in connection with the negotiation, preparation, printing, execution, syndication, registration and perfection and any release, discharge or reassignment of:
(a) | this Agreement and any other documents referred to in this Agreement and the Original Security Documents; |
(b) | any other Finance Documents executed or proposed to be executed after the date of this Agreement; and/or |
(c) | any Security Interest expressed or intended to be granted by a Finance Document. |
18.2 | Amendment costs |
If: (i) an Obligor requests an amendment, waiver or consent, or (ii) an amendment is required pursuant to clause 47.3 (Replacement of Screen Rate), the Borrower shall, within fifteen (15) Business Days of demand by the Facility Agent, reimburse the Finance Parties and K-sure for the amount of all costs and expenses (not exceeding the amounts which have been pre-approved by the Borrower and to the extent so approved including fees, costs and expenses of legal advisers and insurance and other consultants and advisers) reasonably incurred by the Finance Parties and K-sure (and by any Receiver) in responding to, evaluating, negotiating or complying with that request or requirement.
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18.3 | Enforcement, preservation and other costs |
The Borrower shall within five (5) Business Days of demand by a Finance Party or K-sure, pay to each Finance Party and/or K-sure, as the case may be, the amount of all costs and expenses (including fees, costs and expenses of legal advisers and insurance and other consultants and advisers) incurred by that Finance Party and/or K-sure in connection with the enforcement of, or the preservation of any rights under, any Finance Document and any proceedings initiated by or against any Finance Party or K-sure as a consequence of holding, or being a beneficiary of, the Charged Property or enforcing those rights, in each case in accordance with the Finance Documents.
18.4 | Appointment of advisers |
The Facility Agent may at any time:
(a) | appoint such advisers as it considers necessary (acting reasonably and with the prior consent of the Borrower (not to be unreasonably withheld)) to act on behalf of the Finance Parties in relation to the Project; and |
(b) | if any adviser resigns or its appointment ceases or is terminated, appoint a replacement to such advisers with the prior written consent of the Borrower (not to be unreasonably withheld). |
18.5 | Costs and expenses |
The Borrower shall pay to the Facility Agent any reasonable costs and expenses incurred by the Facility Agent in connection with the appointment of any adviser under this clause 18 not exceeding the amount which has been pre agreed by the Borrower.
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Section 7 - Representations, Undertakings and Events of Default
19 | Representations |
The Borrower makes and repeats the representations and warranties set out in this clause 19 to each Finance Party at the times specified in clause 19.31 (Times when representations are made) and provided that the Borrower only makes the representations in this clause 19 in respect of the Sponsor so long as it is a party to a Finance Document.
19.1 | Status |
(a) | Each Obligor and the Sponsor is duly incorporated and validly existing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation as a limited liability company or corporation. |
(b) | Each Obligor and the Sponsor has power and authority to carry on its business as it is now being conducted and to own its property and other assets. |
19.2 | Binding obligations |
Subject to any applicable Legal Reservation, the obligations expressed to be assumed by each Obligor and the Sponsor in each Transaction Document to which it is a party are legal, valid, binding and enforceable obligations.
19.3 | Power and authority |
(a) | Each Obligor and the Sponsor has power to enter into, perform and deliver and comply with its obligations under, and has taken all necessary action to authorise its entry into, each Transaction Document to which it is a party and the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents to which it is a party. |
(b) | No limitation on any Obligor's or the Sponsor's powers to borrow, create security or give guarantees will be exceeded as a result of any transaction under, or the entry into, any Finance Document to which such Obligor is, or is required to be, a party. |
19.4 | Non-conflict |
The entry into and performance by each Obligor and the Sponsor of, and the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents and the granting of the Security Interests purported to be created by the Security Documents do not and will not conflict with:
(a) | subject to any applicable Legal Reservation, any law or regulation applicable to any Obligor or the Sponsor; |
(b) | the constitutional documents of that Obligor or, as the case may be, the Sponsor; or |
(c) | in relation to the Borrower, any agreement or other instrument binding upon it or its assets or constitute a default or termination event (however described) under any such agreement or instrument: |
(d) | in relation to an Obligor (other than the Borrower) and/or the Sponsor in any material respect any agreement or other instrument binding upon that Obligor or its assets or constitute a default or termination event (however described) under any such agreement or instrument, or |
result in the creation of any Security Interest (save for a Permitted Maritime Lien or under a Security Document) on any of its assets, rights or revenues.
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19.5 | Validity and admissibility in evidence |
(a) | All Consents required (in connection with the Project and/or the Vessel and/or the Mooring or otherwise at the times this representation is made): |
(i) | to enable each Obligor and the Sponsor lawfully to enter into, exercise its rights and comply with its obligations (in the case of a Project Agreement the rights and obligations it is then entitled or required to exercise or perform, as the case may be) under each Transaction Document to which it is a party; and |
(ii) | subject to the Legal Reservations and Perfection Requirements, to make each Transaction Document to which it is a party admissible in evidence in its Relevant Jurisdiction, |
have been obtained or effected and are in full force and effect except any authorisation or filing referred to in clause 19.12 (No filing, stamp taxes or announcements), which authorisation or filing will be promptly obtained or effected within any applicable period.
(b) | All Consents necessary for the conduct of the business, trade and ordinary activities of each Obligor and the Sponsor have been obtained or effected and are in full force and effect if failure to obtain or effect those Consents has or is reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect. |
19.6 | Governing law and enforcement |
Subject to the Legal Reservations,
(a) | the choice of governing law of any Transaction Document will be recognised and enforced in each Obligor's and the Sponsor's Relevant Jurisdiction; and |
(b) | any arbitration award obtained in relation to an Obligor under a Finance Document will be recognised and enforced in the relevant Obligor's and the Sponsor's Relevant Jurisdictions. |
19.7 | Information |
(a) | Any Information is true and accurate in all material respects at the time it was given or made. |
(b) | There were at the time any Information was given or provided no facts or circumstances or any other information which have not been disclosed to a Finance Party in writing and could make the Information incomplete, untrue, inaccurate or misleading in any material respect. |
(c) | The Information did not at the time it was provided omit anything which could make that Information incomplete, untrue, inaccurate or misleading in any material respect. |
(d) | All opinions, projections, forecasts, estimates or expressions of intention contained in the Information and prepared by the Borrower, the Sponsor or their Affiliates and the assumptions on which they are based have been arrived at after due and careful enquiry and consideration and were believed to be reasonable by the person who provided that Information as at the date it was given or made. |
(e) | For the purposes of this clause 19.7, Information means: any written information provided by any Obligor to any of the Finance Parties in connection with the Transaction Documents or the transactions referred to in them, excluding any Information concerning any third party (which is not an Obligor or a member of the Höegh MLP Group ) which was received and provided by the Borrower, the Sponsor or any of their Affiliates in good faith and to the best of its knowledge and belief at the time it was given or provided. |
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19.8 | Original Financial Statements |
(a) | The Original Financial Statements were prepared in accordance with applicable GAAP consistently applied. |
(b) | The audited Original Financial Statements give a true and fair view of the consolidated financial condition and results of operations of the Guarantor during the relevant financial year. |
(c) | There has been no material adverse change in the assets, business or financial condition of the Guarantor since the date of the Original Financial Statements to a level that adversely effects the ability of any Obligor to perform its obligations under the Finance Documents. |
19.9 | Pari passu ranking |
Each Facility Obligor's payment obligations under the Finance Documents rank at least pari passu with all its other present and future unsecured and unsubordinated payment obligations, except for the order or priority for payments under the Finance Documents set out in any Finance Document and any obligations mandatorily preferred by law applying to companies generally.
19.10 | Ranking and effectiveness of security |
Subject to any applicable Legal Reservation and the Perfection Requirements, the security created by the Security Documents has (or will have when the Security Documents have been executed and the applicable Perfection Requirements completed) the priority which it is expressed to have in the Security Documents, the Charged Property is not subject to any Security Interest other than Permitted Security Interests and such security will following completion of the Perfection Requirements constitute perfected security on the assets described in the Security Documents to the extent provided for under the Security Documents.
19.11 No insolvency
No corporate action, legal proceeding or other procedure or step described in clause 32.10 (Insolvency proceedings) or creditors' process described in clause 32.12 (Creditors' process) has been taken or, to the knowledge of any Facility Obligor, threatened in relation to any Facility Obligor and none of the circumstances described in clause 32.9 (Insolvency) applies to any Facility Obligor.
19.12 No filing, stamp taxes or announcements
Under the laws of its Relevant Jurisdictions it is not necessary that any Transaction Document to which it is party be filed, recorded or enrolled with any court or other authority in that jurisdiction or that any stamp, registration, notarial or similar Taxes or fees be paid on or in relation to any such Transaction Document or the transactions contemplated by such Transaction Documents except for such filings, recordings, enrolments and payments that have been made, any applicable Perfection Requirements and any filing, recording or enrolling or any tax or fee payable in relation to any Transaction Document which is referred to in any legal opinion delivered to the Facility Agent under clause 4.1 (Initial conditions precedent) or in connection with any Finance Document entered into after first Utilisation and which will be made or paid promptly within any applicable period.
19.13 No Default
(a) | No Default is continuing or is reasonably likely to result from the making of any Utilisation or the entry into, the performance of, or any transaction contemplated by, any Transaction Document. |
(b) | No other event or circumstance is outstanding which constitutes (or, with the expiry of a grace period, the giving of notice, the making of any determination or any combination of any of the foregoing, would constitute) a default or termination event (however described) |
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under any other agreement or instrument which is binding on any Obligor or to which any Obligor's assets are subject which has or is reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect.
19.14 | No proceedings pending or threatened |
Other than as disclosed to the Facility Agent and the K-sure Agent in the 2021 Disclosure Letters, no litigation, arbitration or administrative proceedings or investigations of, or before, any court, arbitral body or agency have (to the best of any Obligor's knowledge and belief) been started or threatened against any Obligor which in relation to the Guarantor only, if adversely determined, would have or might reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
19.15 No breach of laws
(a) | Each Obligor is in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations, in the case of the Borrower, in all material respects and in the case of an Obligor other than the Borrower to the extent that failure to do so has or might reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. |
(b) | No labour dispute is current or, to the best of any Obligor's knowledge and belief, threatened against any Obligor which might reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. |
19.16 Taxation
(a) | The: |
(i) | Borrower is not overdue in the filing of any Tax returns or overdue in the payment of any amount in respect of Tax; and |
(ii) | Guarantor is not materially overdue in the filing of any Tax returns or materially overdue in the payment of any amount in respect of Tax, |
save in each case to the extent that (i) payment is being contested in good faith; (ii) adequate reserves are being maintained for those Taxes; and (iii) payment can be lawfully withheld and failure to pay these Taxes will not or could not reasonably be expected to result in the imposition of any penalty.
(b) | No claims or investigations are being, or is reasonably likely to be, made or conducted against any Obligor with respect to Taxes such that a liability of, or claim against, any Obligor is reasonably likely to arise for an amount for which adequate reserves are not being maintained and which has or is reasonably like to have a Material Adverse Effect. |
(c) | The Borrower is resident for Tax purposes only in the jurisdiction of its incorporation. |
19.17 | Security and Financial Indebtedness |
(a) | No Security Interest other than any Permitted Security Interest exists over all or any of the present or future assets of the Borrower or the Consortium Agreement or the Umbrella Agreement. |
(b) | The Borrower does not have any Financial Indebtedness outstanding in breach of this Agreement. |
19.18 Legal and beneficial ownership
Each Obligor which is a party to a Security Document is, subject to the Security Interests under the Security Documents, the sole legal and beneficial owner of the respective assets over which it purports to grant a Security Interest under the Security Documents.
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19.19 | Shares |
(a) | The shares of the Borrower will, at all times from the date of the Shares Security in respect of those shares, be fully paid and not subject to any Security Interest (other than pursuant to the Security Documents), any option to purchase or similar rights other than under the Shareholders Agreement and Equity Loan Agreements. The Constitutional Documents of the Borrower do not and could not restrict or inhibit any transfer of those shares on creation or enforcement of the Security Documents. Other than the Shareholders Agreement and Equity Loan Agreements, there are no agreements in force which provide for the issue or allotment of, or grant any person the right to call for the issue or allotment of, any share capital of the Borrower (including any option or right of pre-emption or conversion). |
(b) | The Guarantor indirectly, legally and beneficially, owns at least forty nine per cent (49%) of the shares in the Borrower and has management control over the Borrower. |
(c) | On the first Utilisation Date, the Indonesian Shareholders, together, directly, legally and beneficially, own fifty one per cent (51%) of the shares in the Borrower and the Singapore Shareholder directly, legally and beneficially, owns forty nine per cent (49%) of the shares in the Borrower. |
19.20 | Copies of documents |
The copies of the Project Agreements to which an Obligor or the Sponsor is a party and the Constitutional Documents of the Obligors delivered to the Facility Agent under clause 4 (Conditions of Utilisation) will be true, complete and accurate copies of such documents and all amendments and supplements to them as at the time of such delivery have been delivered to the Facility Agent and no other agreements or arrangements exist between any of the parties to any such Project Agreement which would materially affect the transactions or arrangements contemplated by any such Project Agreement or modify or release the obligations of any party under that Project Agreement which have not been delivered to the Facility Agent as required hereunder.
19.21 | No immunity |
No Obligor or any of its assets is immune to any legal action or proceeding that may be taken under the Finance Documents.
19.22 | Vessel status |
The Vessel shall:
(a) | on the first day of the Mortgage Period be registered in the name of the Borrower through the Registry as a ship (or other applicable category of vessel or installation) under the laws and flag of the Flag State. |
(b) | on the Delivery Date be seaworthy and has been built in accordance with its Specifications; |
(c) | on the Delivery Date be classed with the relevant Classification free of all overdue conditions; and |
(d) | on the Delivery Date be insured in the manner required by the Finance Documents. |
19.23 Earnings
There is no agreement or arrangement whereby the Earnings may be shared with any other person except as expressly provided for in the Finance Documents and Material Project Agreements.
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19.24 Other business
The Borrower is not currently involved in any business whatsoever, other than as contemplated by the Transaction Documents and has not undertaken any other business which is still continuing.
19.25 Subsidiaries and minority interest
The Borrower has no Subsidiaries and holds no share or stock in any corporate entity of any kind or in any partnership.
19.26 | No Prohibited Payments |
To the best of its knowledge, no Prohibited Payment has been made or provided, directly or indirectly, by (or on behalf of) it, any of its Affiliates, its officers, directors or any other person acting on its behalf to, or for the benefit of, any Authority (or any official, officer, director, agent or key employee of, or other person with management responsibilities in, any Authority) in connection with any Finance Document.
19.27 No funds of illicit origin
None of the sources of funds provided other than under the Finance Documents and to be used by it in connection with any Finance Document or its business are of illicit origin.
19.28 | Sanctions |
(a) | No Loan will be used by any Facility Obligor or any other member of the Höegh MLP Group: |
(i) | to finance equipment or sectors under embargo decisions of the United Nations or the World Bank; or |
(ii) | in breach of any Sanctions. |
(b) | No Obligor, nor any of their respective Subsidiaries or joint ventures, nor any of their respective directors, officers or employees nor, to the knowledge of the Borrower or the Guarantor, any persons acting on any of their behalf in connection with the Project: |
(i) | is a Restricted Party; |
(ii) | is aware of any valid claim, action, suit, proceeding or investigation against it with respect to Sanctions by any Sanctions Authority; or |
(iii) | is in breach of any Sanctions. |
19.29 No adverse consequences
(a) | Subject to the Legal Reservations, it is not necessary under the laws of the Relevant Jurisdictions of any Obligor: |
(i) | in order to enable any Finance Party to enforce its rights under any Finance Document; or |
(ii) | by reason of the execution of any Finance Document or the performance by any Obligor of its obligations under any Finance Document, |
that any Finance Party should be licensed, qualified or otherwise entitled to carry on business in any of such Relevant Jurisdictions.
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19.30 | K-sure Policy |
(a) | To the best of its knowledge, no Obligor has done, or omitted to do anything, and no event or circumstance has occurred, which has made, or could make, the K-sure Policy void or voidable. |
(b) | No Obligor has received any valid notification that the liability of K-sure or the government of Korea under the K-sure Policy has been reduced or avoided. |
19.31 | Times when representations are made |
(a) | All of the representations and warranties set out in this clause 19 (other than Vessel Representations) are made on the date of this Agreement and are deemed to be repeated on the dates of: |
(i) | the first Utilisation Request; and |
(ii) | the first Utilisation. |
(b) | The Repeating Representations are deemed to be repeated on the dates of each subsequent Utilisation Request and on the first day of each Interest Period. |
(c) | The Vessel Representations are deemed to be made and repeated on the first day of the Mortgage Period and on Final Acceptance. |
(d) | Each representation or warranty deemed to be made after the date of this Agreement shall be deemed to be made by reference to the facts and circumstances then existing at the date the representation or warranty is deemed to be made. |
20 | Information undertakings |
The undertakings in this clause 20 remain in force during the Facility Period.
In this clause 20:
Annual Financial Statement means in relation to a Facility Obligor the financial statements for a financial year of such Obligor delivered pursuant to clause 20.1(a)
Semi-annual Financial Statement means, in relation to a Facility Obligor the financial statements for the first half of a financial year of such Obligor delivered pursuant to clause 20.1(c)
20.1 | Financial statements |
(a) | The Borrower shall supply to the Facility Agent as soon as the same become available, but in any event within one hundred and twenty (120) days after the end of each of the relevant Facility Obligors' financial years the audited (consolidated in the case of the Guarantor) financial statements of the Borrower and the Guarantor for that financial year (or part of a year in the case of the Borrower's first statements). |
(b) | The Borrower shall use its reasonable endeavours to supply to the Facility Agent as soon as the same become available to it the annual audited financial statements (consolidated if applicable) of the Charterer for that financial year together with any information concerning the Charterer which the Lenders may reasonably require that the Borrower may obtain using reasonable endeavours. |
(c) | The Borrower shall supply to the Facility Agent as soon as the same become available, but in any event within ninety (90) days after the end of the first half of the relevant Facility Obligors' financial years the unaudited financial statements of the relevant Facility Obligor for that financial half-year. |
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20.2 | Provision and contents of Compliance Certificate |
(a) | Unless the Guarantor is not then a Facility Obligor, the Borrower shall supply a Compliance Certificate signed by an authorised signatory of the Guarantor or the Parent to the Facility Agent with each set of financial statements of the Guarantor delivered pursuant to clause 20.1 (Financial statements); |
(b) | The Borrower shall supply to the Facility Agent a Compliance Certificate signed by an authorised signatory of the Borrower within ten (10) Business Days of each K-sure Facility Repayment Date. |
(c) | Each Compliance Certificate shall, amongst other things, set out (in reasonable detail) computations as to compliance with clause 21.1 (Borrower Financial Covenants) (in the case of a Compliance Certificate signed by the Borrower) or clause 21.2 (Guarantor Financial Covenants) (in the case of a Compliance Certificate signed by the Guarantor). A Compliance Certificate signed by the Borrower shall also set out the Debt Service Coverage Ratio for the purposes of the Distribution Restrictions, if a transfer to the Distribution Account has been made or is proposed to be made on or within ten (10) Business Days of that Repayment Date. |
20.3 | Requirements as to financial statements |
(a) | The Borrower shall procure that each set of Annual Financial Statements and Semi-annual Financial Statements includes a profit and loss account, a balance sheet and a cashflow statement and that, in addition each set of Annual Financial Statements shall be audited by one of the Auditors. |
(b) | Each set of financial statements delivered pursuant to clause 20.1 (Financial statements) shall: |
(i) | be prepared in accordance with applicable GAAP; |
(ii) | give a true and fair view of (in the case of Annual Financial Statements for any financial year), or fairly represent (in other cases), the financial condition and operations of the relevant Obligor as at the date as at which those financial statements were drawn up; |
(iii) | in the case of Annual Financial Statements and the Semi-annual Financial Statements, be in English or accompanied by an English translation. |
20.4 | Information: miscellaneous |
The Borrower shall supply to the Facility Agent and the K-sure Agent (and the K-sure Agent shall supply to K-sure):
(a) | together with the monthly progress reports required to be delivered to the Facility Agent pursuant to clause 24.6(a) (Information concerning the Project): |
(i) | copies of all documents dispatched by the Borrower to its shareholders generally (or any class of them) (in relation to extraordinary matters); |
(ii) | copies of all documents dispatched by any Facility Obligor to its creditors generally; |
(b) | promptly upon becoming aware of them, the details of any litigation, arbitration or administrative proceedings which are current, threatened or pending against any Obligor, and which, if adversely determined, might reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect; |
(c) | promptly, such information as the Facility Agent may reasonably require about the Charged Property and compliance of the Obligors with the terms of any Security Documents; |
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(d) | promptly on request, such further information regarding the financial condition, assets and operations of the Borrower and/or the Guarantor and/or the performance of the Charter and/or the other Project Agreements as any Finance Party or K-sure, through the Facility Agent, may reasonably request, except to the extent that disclosure of such information would breach contract to which it is a party, any law, regulation or stock exchange requirement or listing rule; |
(e) | promptly following any changes to the authorised signatories of the Borrower in relation to any of the Project Accounts (other than the Distribution Account) and/or a Utilisation Request, notice of such changes in the form of a certificate signed by the authorised director(s) of the Borrower in accordance with its articles of association together with specimen signatures of any new signatory; |
(f) | promptly following the making of any amendment to any constitutional documents of either Facility Obligor, a notification of the details of such amendment together with complete copies of each amended constitutional document; and |
(g) | promptly following any changes in the percentage ownership interests and/or shareholding of the Borrower, a notification of the details of such change. |
20.5 | Change in law |
The Borrower shall, promptly upon becoming aware of the same, advise the Facility Agent upon any change in law or regulation which has or might reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
20.6 | Sufficient copies |
The Borrower shall supply sufficient copies of each document to be supplied under the Finance Documents to the Facility Agent to distribute to each of the Lenders and K-sure, and a document in electronic format shall be sufficient to satisfy this requirement provided that a single certified hard copy is provided to the Facility Agent if the relevant document is required to be provided in certified form and a certified hard copy is required to fulfil this requirement.
20.7 | "Know your customer" checks |
(a) | If: |
(i) | the introduction of or any change in (or in the interpretation, administration or application of) any law or regulation made after the date of this Agreement; |
(ii) | any change in the status of an Obligor or the composition of the shareholders of an Obligor after the date of this Agreement; or |
(iii) | a proposed assignment or transfer by a Lender of any of its rights and/or obligations under this Agreement to a party that is not a Lender prior to such assignment or transfer, |
obliges the Facility Agent or any Lender (or, in the case of paragraph (iii) above, any prospective new Lender) to comply with "know your customer" or similar identification procedures in circumstances where the necessary information is not already available to it, each Obligor shall promptly upon the request of the Facility Agent or any Lender supply, or procure the supply of, such documentation and other evidence as is reasonably requested by the Facility Agent (for itself or on behalf of any Lender) or any Lender (for itself or, in the case of the event described in paragraph (iii) above, on behalf of any prospective new Lender) in order for the Facility Agent, such Lender or, in the case of the event described in paragraph (iii) above, any prospective new Lender to carry out and be satisfied with the results of all necessary "know your customer" or other similar checks under all applicable laws and regulations pursuant to the transactions contemplated in the Finance Documents.
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(b) | Each Finance Party shall promptly upon the request of the Facility Agent or the Security Agent supply, or procure the supply of, such documentation and other evidence as is reasonably requested by the Facility Agent or the Security Agent (for itself) in order for it to carry out and be satisfied with the results of all necessary "know your customer" or other similar checks under all applicable laws and regulations pursuant to the transactions contemplated in the Finance Documents. |
20.8 | Notification of defaults |
The Borrower shall promptly inform the Facility Agent of:
(a) | any material occurrence of which it becomes aware which has or which might reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect; |
(b) | any Default under this Agreement of which it becomes aware and will from time to time, if so requested by the Security Agent, confirm to the Security Agent in writing that, save as otherwise stated in such confirmation, it is not aware of any Default that has occurred and is continuing; and/or |
(c) | any material breach of the Charter or any other Material Project Agreement or Shareholders Agreement or EPCIC Contract by any party (and the steps, if any, that the Borrower is aware are being taken to remedy such breach) promptly upon the Borrower becoming aware of the same; |
20.9 | Remedy of Defaults |
The Borrower will, promptly after request by the Facility Agent, provide the Facility Agent with evidence satisfactory to the Lenders (acting reasonably) of the remedy of any Default or Event of Default which has occurred and been remedied.
20.10 K-sure Policy
The Borrower will, promptly after request by the K-sure Agent, promptly supply to the K-sure Agent copies of all financial or other information reasonably required by K-sure to satisfy any request for information made by K-sure pursuant to the K-sure Policy, except to the extent that such disclosure of such information would breach contract to which it is a party, any law, regulation or stock exchange requirement or listing rule.
21 | Financial covenants |
The Borrower undertakes that the undertakings in this clause 21 will be complied with throughout the Facility Period.
21.1 | Borrower Financial Covenants |
The Borrower shall ensure that, from the second K-sure Facility Repayment Date and thereafter, the Debt Service Coverage Ratio for any Relevant Period is not less than 1.10:1.
21.2 | Guarantor Financial Covenants |
The Borrower shall procure that, from the date of this Agreement and thereafter throughout the Facility Period, the Guarantor complies with the following financial covenants:
(a) | Minimum Book Equity |
Book Equity is greater than the higher of (i) $200,000,000 and (ii) twenty five percent (25%) of the Total Assets;
(b) | Minimum liquidity |
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Free Liquid Assets are equal to or exceed the higher of (A) $15,000,000 and (B) the product of $2,500,000 and the number of vessels owned by or leased by the Höegh MLP Group and the Höegh MLP Group’s pro rata ownership of such vessels, subject to a cap of $20,000,000.
(c) | Working Capital |
Working Capital is greater than zero.
21.3 | Financial testing |
The financial covenants set out in this clause 21 shall be calculated in accordance with applicable GAAP and tested:
(a) | in the case of the Borrower's financial covenants in clause 21 (Borrower Financial Covenants), by reference to the Compliance Certificates signed by the Borrower delivered pursuant to clause 20.2; and |
(b) | in the case of the Guarantor's financial covenants in clause 21.2 (Guarantor Financial Covenants), by reference to each of the financial statements and each Compliance Certificate signed by the Guarantor delivered pursuant to clause 20.2 (Provision and contents of Compliance Certificate) on the date they are delivered, in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Agreement. |
22 | General undertakings |
The undertakings in this clause 22 will remain in force throughout the Facility Period.
22.1 | Use of proceeds |
The Borrower undertakes that the proceeds of Utilisations will be used exclusively for the purposes specified in clause 3 (Purpose).
22.2 | Authorisations |
The Borrower will promptly and shall procure that each other Obligor and the Sponsor shall:
(a) | obtain, comply with and do all that is necessary to maintain in full force and effect; and |
(b) | to the extent requested by the Facility Agent, supply certified copies to the Facility Agent of, |
each Consent required under any law or regulation of a Relevant Jurisdiction to:
(i) | enable it to perform its obligations under the Transaction Documents to which it is a party; |
(ii) | ensure the legality, validity, enforceability or admissibility in evidence of any Transaction Document to which it is a party; and |
(iii) | carry on its business where failure to do so has or might reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. |
22.3 | Pari passu |
The Borrower shall and shall ensure that each Facility Obligor shall ensure that its payment obligations under this Agreement and the other Finance Documents to which it is a party shall at all times rank at least pari passu with all its other present and future unsecured and unsubordinated indebtedness with the exception of any order of priority for payments under the
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Finance Documents set out in any Finance Documents and any obligations which are mandatorily preferred by law and not by contract.
22.4 | Compliance with laws |
(a) | The Borrower shall and shall procure that in respect of the Vessel any O&M Contractor will comply in all respects with all laws and regulations (including Environmental Laws and Environmental and Social Regulations) to which it may be subject where failure to do so has or might reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect or a material adverse effect on an Obligor's ability to perform its obligations under a Material Project Agreement. |
(b) | The Borrower will comply in all respects with all laws and regulations to which it may be subject with respect to the hedging ratio, liquidity ratio and all filing requirements in relation to the entry and implementation of this Agreement and including the submission of a monthly report of its payment obligations in accordance with Indonesian laws including, but not limited to: |
(i) | Bank Indonesia Regulation No. 16/21/PBI/2014 on Implementation of the Prudential Principles on the Offshore Loan Management of Non-Bank Corporation as amended by Bank Indonesia Regulation No. 18/4/PBI/2016 (and its implementing regulations, and as may be amended from time to time); |
(ii) | Bank Indonesia Regulation No. 16/22/PBI/2014 on Reporting of Foreign Exchange Activities and Reporting of the Implementation of the Prudential Principle on the Offshore Loan Management of Non-Bank Corporations in conjunction with Bank Indonesia Regulation No. 21/2/PBI/2019 on Reporting of Foreign Exchange Activities (and their respective implementing regulations, and as may be amended from time to time); |
(iii) | Bank Indonesia Regulation No. 16/10/PBI/2014 on Receipt of Foreign Exchange From Export Proceeds and Withdrawal of Foreign Exchange From Offshore Debt (as amended by Bank Indonesia Regulation No. 17/23/PBI/2015) (and their respective implementing regulations, and as may be amended from time to time); and |
(iv) | Bank Indonesia Regulation No. 21/15/PBI/2019 on Monitoring of Foreign Exchange Activities for Bank and Clients (and its implementing regulations, and as may be amended from time to time). |
22.5 | Anti-corruption law |
(a) | The Borrower will not directly or indirectly use the proceeds of any Facility to make any Prohibited Payment. |
(b) | The Borrower shall conduct its businesses in compliance with applicable anti-corruption laws. |
22.6 | Taxation |
(a) | The Borrower shall pay and discharge all Tax imposed upon it or its assets within such time period as may be allowed by law without incurring penalties unless and only to the extent that: |
(i) | such payment is being contested in good faith; |
(ii) | adequate reserves are being maintained for those Tax and the costs required to contest them which have been disclosed (or will when they are delivered) in its latest financial statements delivered to the Facility Agent under clause 20.1 (Financial statements); and |
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(iii) | such payment can be lawfully withheld. |
(b) | The Borrower shall maintain its residence for Tax purposes in the jurisdiction in which it is incorporated and ensure that it is not resident for Tax purposes in any other jurisdiction except with the consent of the Facility Agent. |
22.7 | Change of business |
The Borrower undertakes that no change will be made to the general nature of its business from that carried on at the date of this Agreement.
22.8 | Merger |
The Borrower will not enter into any amalgamation, demerger, merger, consolidation or corporate reconstruction.
22.9 | Further assurance |
(a) | The Borrower shall and shall ensure that each other Obligor and the Sponsor shall promptly do all such acts or execute all such documents (including assignments, transfers, mortgages, charges, notices and instructions) as the Facility Agent may reasonably specify (and in such form as the Facility Agent may reasonably require in favour of the Security Agent or its nominee(s)): |
(i) | to perfect any Security Interests created or expressed to be created by that Obligor and/or the Sponsor under or evidenced by the Security Documents (which may include the execution of a mortgage, pledge, fiduciary security, charge, assignment or other security over all or any of the assets which are, or are intended to be, the subject of the Security Documents) or for the exercise of any rights, powers and remedies of the Security Agent or the Finance Parties provided by or pursuant to the Finance Documents or by law; |
(ii) | confer on the Security Agent or on the Finance Parties Security Interests over any Charged Property of that Obligor and/or the Sponsor located in any jurisdiction equivalent or similar to the Security Interest expressed to be conferred by or pursuant to the Security Documents and that are recognised and effective under the laws of such jurisdiction; and/or |
(iii) | after an Event of Default that is continuing, to facilitate the realisation of the assets which are, or are intended to be, the subject of the Security Documents. |
(b) | The Borrower shall and shall ensure that each other applicable Obligor and/or, as the case may be, the Sponsor shall take all such action as is available to it (including making all filings and registrations) and is requested by the Security Agent and may be necessary for the purpose of the creation, perfection as required under the Finance Documents, protection or maintenance of any Security Interest conferred or expressed to be conferred on the Security Agent or the Finance Parties by or pursuant to the Finance Documents including but not limited to: |
(i) | the registration of the Fiduciary Assignments with the Fiduciary Registration Office having jurisdiction over the legal domicile of the relevant fiduciary grantor; |
(ii) | the registration of the Mortgage with the port authority that issued the Grosse Akta Pendaftaran Kapal relating to the Vessel; |
(iii) | the registration of the Shares Security in the Borrower's share register; |
(iv) | the reporting of the execution and the filing of this Agreement with each of Bank Indonesia, the Ministry of Finance and/or the Financial Service Authority (Otoritas Jasa Keuangan) (as applicable); and |
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(v) | the payment of nominal stamp tax in the amount of Rp10,000 on the Finance Documents to which the Borrower is a party. |
22.10 | Translations |
(a) | The Finance Documents are executed in the English language. The Parties confirm that they fully understand and agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of the Finance Documents notwithstanding that the Finance Documents are prepared and executed in English. |
(b) | In compliance with Law No. 24 of 2009 regarding National Flag, Language, Emblem and Anthem, the Borrower agrees, at its own cost: |
(i) | to translate and to ensure that the relevant Obligors take such actions as are reasonably required on their part and to use reasonable endeavours on the other relevant Indonesian parties to execute a Bahasa Indonesia version of each of the Transaction Documents listed in Schedule 14 (List of Translated Documents) in the agreed form: or |
(ii) | in the case of the Transaction Documents listed in Schedule 14 (List of Translated Documents) involving Indonesian parties (in addition to the Borrower), to translate and to ensure that the relevant Obligors and to use reasonable endeavours to ensure that all other relevant parties to such Transaction Documents sign a confirmation to be attached to each Indonesian translation pursuant to which the parties (i) confirm that the translation constitutes the Indonesian version of the document to satisfy the requirement of Law 24 and (ii) provide similar language undertakings as provided in items (a), (c) and (d) of this clause 22.10, |
no later than the later of (i) ninety (90) days after the date of this Agreement; (ii) the date such Transaction Document is entered into; (iii) or any other date as agreed between the Borrower and the Facility Agent; and provide a copy of the same to the Facility Agent (or in the case of a Finance Document an original signed by the relevant Obligors).
(c) | The Parties agree that: (i) the Bahasa Indonesia version of the Transaction Documents, if executed, will be deemed to be effective from the date the English language version was executed; and (ii) in the event of inconsistency between the Bahasa Indonesia version and the English version, the English version shall prevail and the relevant Bahasa Indonesia text will be deemed to be amended to conform with and to make the relevant Indonesian text consistent with the relevant English text. |
(d) | The Borrower further agrees and undertakes that not to (or allow or assist any other party to), in any manner or forum, challenge the validity of, or raise or file any objection to, this Agreement or any other Transaction Document or the transactions contemplated by any Transaction Document on the basis of any failure to comply with Law 24 or its implementing regulations or other similar laws and regulations applicable in Indonesia. |
22.11 No prejudicial action
The Borrower shall not do anything and shall not take any action against any person (including, without limitation, any insolvency official or similar officer of, or any creditor of, the Borrower or any other person claiming through, under or in place of the Borrower) which has or is reasonably likely to have the effect of prejudicing any Security Interest created by any Security Document in favour of any Finance Party except for such actions permitted by this Agreement.
22.12 Negative pledge in respect of Charged Property
Except for Permitted Security Interests, the Borrower will not and shall procure than no Obligor will grant or allow to exist any Security Interest over any Charged Property.
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22.13 | Action of Borrower |
At any time after an Event of Default which is continuing, the Borrower shall take such action, make such requests or demands and give such notices and certificates (including, without limitation, any lawful demand for payment under any of the Transaction Documents) as the Facility Agent or the Security Agent may reasonably request and, if requested by the Facility Agent shall not, without the prior written consent of the Facility Agent, take any steps to enforce or exercise, and shall take such reasonable steps as the Facility Agent or the Security Agent may direct to enforce or exercise, any rights, remedies, powers and privileges under the Charter or in respect of the Vessel or the Mooring or any of the Borrower's Security.
22.14 Subordinated Loan
(a) | At all times from the first Utilisation Date (or in the case of the Sponsor three (3) Business Days after the first Utilisation Date), the Borrower shall ensure (and procure) that if the Sponsor, a Shareholder (or any other member of the Höegh MLP Group ) has or may have outstanding rights or claims against the Borrower in respect of any Subordinated Loan or Promissory Note (or any other inter-company loan made available to the Borrower) such person shall have executed a Subordination Deed. The Finance Parties shall promptly take any action that is reasonably requested by the Borrower and required on their part to ensure a Subordination Deed is executed for this purpose. |
(b) | The Borrower agrees that following the occurrence of a Default, the Borrower shall not repay and shall procure that the Sponsor, a Shareholder or any relevant member of the Höegh MLP Group shall not demand or accept repayment of any such loans or payments of any Promissory Notes, in each case without the prior written consent of the Facility Agent acting on the instructions of the Lenders except to the extent that such payments are made from amounts standing to the credit of the Distribution Account (which payments can be made without any such consent). |
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24 | Project undertakings |
The undertakings in this clause 24 apply throughout the Facility Period.
24.1 | Project Agreements |
(a) | The Borrower shall, and shall procure that each other Obligor shall, duly and punctually perform, comply with and observe each of its respective obligations under each Project Agreement to which it is party and use its reasonable endeavours to ensure that each other party to them performs their obligations under the Project Agreements in each case to the extent that failure to do so has or may reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect or a material adverse effect on any Obligor's ability to perform its obligations under the Project Agreements. |
(b) | The Borrower shall, and shall procure that each other Obligor shall, maintain and enforce its respective rights under the Project Agreements in each case to the extent that failure to do so has or may reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect or a material adverse effect on any Obligor's ability to perform its obligations under the Project Agreements. |
(c) | If the Borrower and/or any other Obligor has the right to terminate a Material Project Agreement, the Borrower shall, and shall procure that any Obligor shall, (a) not exercise that right without the written consent of the Facility Agent (acting on the instructions of the Lenders and K-sure) and (b) exercise that right if so directed by the Facility Agent (acting on the instructions of the Lenders and K-sure) if an Event of Default is continuing, provided that if the Borrower has a right to terminate the Charter and the Charterer is, or would following such termination be, required to pay to the Borrower either a Company Breach Termination Amount or a Non Vessel FM Termination Amount (as each such term is |
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defined in the Charter) in an amount which is sufficient to discharge all Secured Obligations in full and no other Event of Default is continuing) such consent shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed) and the Borrower may exercise any rights to terminate a Project Agreement which a O&M Contractor or the Supervisor is party to at any time when that O&M Contractor or Supervisor is being replaced in accordance with this Agreement.
(d) | The Borrower shall not (and shall procure that no other Obligor shall), without the prior written consent of the Facility Agent (acting on the instructions of the Lenders), permit or agree or consent to: |
(i) | any withdrawal of the Vessel from service under the Charter at a time when the Borrower is entitled to terminate the Charter (except any suspension of services under clause 26.3(c) of the Charter or when termination is required or permitted under this Agreement) or which entitles the Charterer to terminate, or may reasonably be expected to entitle the Charterer to terminate, the Charter; |
(ii) | save for Permitted Amendments and as otherwise permitted under this Agreement (including under paragraph (e) below), any amendment or variation of, or waiver or release of a party's obligations or liabilities under, any Project Agreement or the Shareholder Agreement; |
(iii) | save for Permitted Amendments and as otherwise permitted under this Agreement, any variation or series of variations to the Works or any changes to the design or construction of the Project which (either alone or together with all other variations and changes) would or is reasonably likely to materially alter the nature of the Project, the manner in which it operates or the risk profile of the Project; |
(iv) | give a notice under the Charter requiring negotiation of the 50% Acquisition Terms (as defined in the Charter); |
(v) | except as expressly required under the Finance Documents, the assignment or transfer of a Project Agreement, Environmental Licence or Project Authorisation by the Borrower or any O&M Contractor; |
(vi) | any party to a Project Agreement (other than an Obligor) assigning or transferring that party's rights or obligations under that Project Agreement except a novation of the Charter pursuant to and in accordance with clause 16.3 of the Charter and provided that the Facility Agent has received a copy of the novated Charter and Charter Guarantee, in each case certified as true by an authorised signatory of the Borrower, duly executed by the parties thereto together with (A) a legal opinion in form satisfactory to the Facility Agent (acting reasonably and upon the advice of its legal counsel) as to the validity and enforceability of the Charter and the Charter Guarantee, the due incorporation of each of the new Charterer and the Charter Guarantor, its power and authority to enter into and perform the Charter and the Charter Guarantee, respectively, and all other documents and instruments to give effect to the same and (B) a certified true copy of the new PGN L/C (if required by applicable law following novation of the Charter) and valid Security Interest in respect of the Charter Guarantee and the PGN L/C in the same form as the Project Agreements Assignment or such other form as may be agreed and (C) a letter of quiet enjoyment in substantially the same form as the Letter of Quiet Enjoyment duly executed by the new Charterer; or |
(vii) | the termination of a Material Project Agreement or the Shareholders Agreement (unless directed to do so in accordance with clause 24.1(c) above or otherwise required or permitted under this Agreement). |
(e) | Each Lender shall respond promptly to a Borrower's request to vary the Charter (other than for a Permitted Amendment for which consent shall not be required) and in any event no later than fifteen (15) Business Days (or five (5) Business Days in the case of a variation to the Charter which results in an increase in amounts payable by PGN to the Borrower |
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under the Charter and such variation does not impose any additional materially onerous obligations on the Borrower) from receipt by that Lender of notice from the Borrower or the Facility Agent of the proposed variation. If a Lender or the Facility Agent fails to respond to the Borrower within such fifteen (15) day period (or, as the case may be, five (5) day period) then such Lender or the Facility Agent on behalf of the Lenders, as the case may be shall be deemed to have consented to such variation (including any consent required under clause 24.1(d)).
(f) | The Borrower shall: |
(i) | promptly notify the Facility Agent of any notice received from the Charter Guarantor in accordance with clause 5 of the Charter Novation Agreement (Charterer); |
(ii) | not consent to any proposed transfer of shares of the Charterer by the Charter Guarantor which it is entitled under the Charter Novation Agreement (Charterer) to withhold consent for, without the prior written consent of the Facility Agent (acting on the instructions of all of the Lenders) provided that the Lenders agree that consent shall not be withheld or delayed if the conditions specified in clause 5 of the Charter Novation Agreement (Charterer) have been satisfied in accordance with their terms; and |
(iii) | if requested by any Lender, subject to the relevant costs and expenses having been paid where they are to be borne by the relevant Lender, procure a legal opinion (in substantially the same form as the legal opinion issued by Oentoeng Suria & Partners in connection with the Charter Guarantee dated 26 February 2014 (the OSP Legal Opinion), subject to any changes to reflect changes in law, or such other form satisfactory to the Facility Agent acting reasonably and upon the advice of its legal counsel) to any bank which is to become a party to the Facility Agreement in accordance with its terms and which is not able to rely on the OSP Legal Opinion or any other legal opinion covering matters referred to in clause 24.1(d)(vi) that is provided pursuant to this Agreement. The Borrower will pay any costs or expenses in connection with the issuance of such legal opinion limited to one legal opinion per year per Lender (it being agreed that each such opinion may be addressed to more than one bank) and otherwise all such costs and expenses shall be borne by the relevant Lender. |
24.2 | Project Authorisations |
The Borrower shall, and (if applicable) each O&M Contractor, shall obtain, and maintain in full force and effect, each Project Authorisation necessary:
(a) | to enable it to lawfully enter into, exercise its rights and comply with its respective obligations under the Transaction Documents to which it is a party; and |
(b) | required by it to carry out the Project in accordance with the Project Agreements, |
and shall at all times comply with the requirements such Project Authorisations, in each case to the extent that failure to do so has or may reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect or a material adverse effect on any Obligor's ability to perform its obligations under the Project Agreements.
24.3 | Environmental Matters |
(a) | The Borrower shall, and shall procure that the O&M Contractors shall, ensure that it has each Environmental Licence required to be in its name and which is necessary for it to carry out the Project in accordance with the Material Project Agreements and that it maintains, and complies with the terms of, such Environmental Licences in each case to the extent that failure to do so has or may reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect or a material adverse effect on any Obligor's ability to perform its obligations under the Project Agreements and upon reasonable request by a Finance Party provide |
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such information in relation to the Project as is available to it and able to be disclosed without breach of any contract or law and is reasonably required by such Finance Party for determining the extent of compliance by that Finance Party with the Equator Principles to the extent applicable to the Project.
(b) | The Borrower shall, and shall procure that the O&M Contractors shall, comply with, and carry out the Project in accordance with, all applicable Environmental Laws and the Environmental and Social Regulations in each case to the extent that failure to do so has or may reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect or a material adverse effect on any Obligor's ability to perform its obligations under the Project Agreements. The Borrower will provide to the Facility Agent and the Technical Adviser details of all environmental tests and studies carried out in relation to the Project and the Site or any material environmental inspections, investigations, studies, audits, tests, reviews or other analyses, in each case which are received by it relating to the Borrower, any O&M Contractor, the Charterer and/or the Vessel and/or the Mooring and able to be disclosed without breach of any contract or applicable law. |
(c) | The Borrower will notify the Facility Agent as soon as reasonably practicable after becoming aware of: |
(i) | any Environmental Incident or any Spill which has given or it reasonably expects may give rise to an Environmental Incident; |
(ii) | any Environmental Claim being made against any Obligor (or any of their respective officers) relating to a breach of Environmental and Social Regulations or an Environmental Incident in respect of the Vessel and/or the Mooring and/or the Project or against the Vessel and of any Environmental Incident which may give rise to such a claim and will keep the Facility Agent regularly and promptly informed in reasonable detail of the nature of, and response to, any such Environmental Incident and the defence to any such claim; and |
(iii) | details of any material breach of or non-compliance by the Borrower with any Environmental and Social Regulation. |
(d) | The Borrower will duly and punctually perform, comply with and observe each of its obligations under the Environmental Management Plans, and shall provide the Facility Agent with any environmental monitoring reports that the Borrower has prepared or received pursuant to the Environmental Management Plans and which are able to be disclosed without any breach of any contract or law on a semi-annual basis. |
24.3A Poseidon Principles
(a) | The Borrower shall, upon the request of the Agent (at the request of any Lender) and at the cost of the Borrower, on or before 31 July in each calendar year, supply or use their best endeavours to procure the supply to the Agent (for such Lender) of all information necessary in order for such Lender to comply with its obligations under the Poseidon Principles in respect of the preceding year including, without limitation, all ship fuel oil consumption data required to be collected and reported in accordance with Regulation 22A of Annex VI and any Statement of Compliance, in each case relating to the relevant Ship(s) for the preceding year. No Lender shall publicly disclose such information with the identity of the Ship(s) without the prior written consent of the relevant Borrower. Such information shall be “Confidential Information” for the purposes of clause 37 (Confidentiality) but the Borrower acknowledges that, in accordance with the Poseidon Principles, such information will form part of the information published regarding the relevant Lender’s portfolio climate alignment. |
(b) | For the purposes of this clause 25.8: |
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Annex VI means Annex VI of the Protocol of 1997 (as subsequently amended from time to time) to amend the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships 1973 (Marpol), as modified by the Protocol of 1978 relating thereto.
Poseidon Principles means the financial industry framework for assessing and disclosing the climate alignment of ship finance portfolios published on 18 June 2019 as the same may be amended or replaced to reflect changes in applicable law or regulation or the introduction of or changes to mandatory requirements of the International Maritime Organization from time to time.
Statement of Compliance means a Statement of Compliance related to fuel oil consumption pursuant to regulations 6.6 and 6.7 of Annex VI.
24.3B Sustainable and socially responsible dismantling of Ships
(a) | The Vessel and any other vessel controlled by the Höegh MLP Group or Höegh LNG Holding Group will, when it is to be scrapped or when sold to an intermediary with the intention of being scrapped be recycled at a recycling yard which conducts its recycling business in a socially and environmentally responsible manner in accordance with the provisions of The Hong Kong International Convention for the safe and Environmentally Sound Recycling of Ships 2009 (whether or not it is in force) and/or, if applicable, the EU Ship Recycling Regulation and/or, if applicable, the Ship Recycling Facilities Regulations 2015. |
(b) | For the purposes of this clause 25.9, EU Ship Recycling Regulation means Regulation (EU) No 1257/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 November 2013 on ship recycling and amending Regulation (EC) No 1013/2006 and Directive 2009/16/EC (Text with EEA relevance). |
24.4 | Operation and Maintenance |
(a) | The Borrower shall from Delivery ensure that throughout the Facility Period the Vessel is at all times operated and maintained in accordance with appropriate industry standards. |
(b) | The Borrower shall further ensure that at all times throughout the Facility Period from Delivery O&M Contractors will be contracted to carry out the O&M Contracts and will not otherwise sub-contract or delegate any of its operation and maintenance obligations under the Charter to any other party (other than an Approved Operator) without the written consent of the Lenders, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed; |
(c) | The Borrower further undertakes that from Delivery there shall be no change in the companies carrying out the operation and maintenance services provided by the Borrower under the Charter in respect of the Vessel without the consent of the Facility Agent (acting on the instructions of the Lenders) unless: |
(i) | if such approval is required under the Charter, the Charterer has approved, in accordance with the terms of the Charter or, following an Event of Default, the Letter of Quiet Enjoyment, the appointment of the replacement operator (the Replacement Operator) to carry out the operation and maintenance services to be provided by the Borrower under the Charter (as the case may be); |
(ii) | the Replacement Operator is an Approved Operator; |
(iii) | the replacement contract (the Replacement Contract) to be entered into between the Replacement Operator and the Borrower is on terms acceptable to the Majority Lenders (acting reasonably); |
(iv) | if applicable, the Replacement Operator has entered into an accession deed (or such other documentation as may be required) whereby the Replacement Operator assumes all of an outgoing O&M Contractor's obligations under the Finance |
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Documents and such other amendments are made to the Finance Documents and the other Transaction Documents so as to ensure that the Replacement Operator assumes all of an outgoing O&M Contractor's obligations under such documents (to the satisfaction of the Lenders, acting reasonably); and
(v) | the Facility Agent has obtained satisfactory legal opinions in respect of the Replacement Operator's entry into the Replacement Contract and any applicable other documents referred to in paragraph (v) above. |
24.5 | Agreement of Projected Operating Expenses and Delivery of Project Budget Statement |
(a) | Prior to Delivery for the then current financial year and thereafter not less than sixty (60) days prior to the end of each of its financial years, the Borrower shall deliver to the Facility Agent the Project Budget Statement with the Projected Operating Expenses for the next financial year. If, in the opinion of the Majority Lenders (acting reasonably), the proposed Project Budget Statement is materially inaccurate, the Facility Agent shall be entitled (no later than thirty (30) days prior to the end of that financial year) to instruct the Technical Advisor to determine the Projected Operating Expenses in consultation with the Borrower and the Technical Advisor's determination shall be binding on the parties; provided that the Technical Advisor's terms of reference shall be solely to confirm such expenses or to adjust such expenses to the extent it determines them to be materially inaccurate and that prior to such determination the Borrower's Project Budget Statement shall continue to apply. |
(b) | Following delivery and, if applicable, determination of each Project Budget Statement in accordance with paragraph (a) above, the Borrower may amend that Project Budget Statement with the consent of the Facility Agent (acting reasonably) unless the amendment is to transfer Projected Operating Expenses (in respect of which a transfer to the Offshore Operating Account pursuant to clause 29.8(a) (Payment Cascade) has not been made) to a different month within the same financial year in which case such consent is not required and the Borrower may update and shall deliver to the Facility Agent the revised Project Budget Statement accordingly. |
24.6 | Information concerning the Project |
The Borrower shall furnish the Facility Agent promptly (or on a monthly basis where so indicated) with:
(a) | on a monthly basis until Final Acceptance, up to date progress reports with respect to the construction of the Vessel and the Mooring which shall include the projected Project Costs, details of any Cost Overrun, shortfall in funding to achieve Final Acceptance or forecast delay in achieving Delivery by the Last Availability Date and a statement from the Borrower in respect of the construction of the Downstream Pipeline (as defined in the Charter) and/or the Project; |
(b) | annual progress reports with respect of the operation of the Vessel and the Project; |
(c) | information relating to (i) any material amendments to or proposed amendments to the Vessel and Mooring Specifications and (ii) details of any material changes to the design, construction or operation of the Vessel and/or the Mooring prior to carrying out or agreeing such changes and (iii) details of any Permitted Amendments to the Material Project Agreements and the Shareholders Agreement and, to the extent available to the Borrower, the EPCIC Contract that have not previously been provided; |
(d) | on a monthly basis in respect of the previous month: |
(i) | details of any fines levied and charges made by the Charterer pursuant to the Charter (including the amount of each such fine and, to the extent available to the Borrower, the basis on which the fine was levied); |
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(ii) | details of any other Total Charter Rate reduction event incurred which results in a reduction in Total Charter Rate; |
(iii) | details of any period of off hire incurred which results in a suspension of the obligation to pay any Total Charter Rate or the amount by which the anticipated Total Charter Rate for that period has been reduced; |
(iv) | as from the ‘Effective Date’ (as defined in the First Amendment and Restatement Agreement) until: |
(A) | such time the Facility Agent notifies the Borrower that the PGN Arbitration has been terminated, cancelled or resolved favourably (in the opinion of the Majority Lenders (acting reasonably and promptly following any request by the Borrower to determine the same)), details of the amount of Total Charter Rate paid by the Charterer; |
(B) | such time the Facility Agent notifies the Borrower that the PGN Arbitration has been terminated, cancelled or resolved favourably (in the opinion of the Majority Lenders (acting reasonably and promptly following any request by the Borrower to determine the same)), the status of the Charter and discussions between the Borrower and the Charterer in respect of the PGN Arbitration, the Borrower's counterclaims against the Charterer following receipt of notice of the PGN Arbitration and all other outstanding disputes between the Borrower and the Charterer in respect of the Charter (in each case subject to any confidentiality restrictions: (1) under the SIAC Rules (as defined in clause 51.1 (Arbitration)) and (2) in the Charter); and |
(C) | any amendments to the Charter have been finalised and an amendment agreement has been entered into in respect of the same, the status of discussions between the Borrower and the Charterer in respect of the Charterer's request for the Borrower's consent to amend the Charter in respect of the proposed break bulk operations of the Vessel; |
(e) | notice of any party having begun any arbitration proceedings under any Project Agreement to which it is party, the conclusion of the arbitration and the terms of any award in such arbitration; |
(f) | information in relation to any proposed dry docking of the Vessel including the proposed date of any dry docking and the period for which it is expected that the Vessel will be suspended or in dry dock; |
(g) | copies of any material notices received by or on behalf of the Borrower or issued by or on behalf of the Borrower under any of the Material Project Agreements and which have not previously been provided; and |
(h) | such information that the Borrower is aware of concerning the Project or any Project Agreements that deviates from the requirements stipulated in the Charter and/or the O&M Contract and which might reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect and any remedial action proposed by the Borrower to eliminate or reduce the extent of any such deviation. |
24.7 | Information in relation to the Charterer |
The Borrower shall use its reasonable endeavours to provide any information in respect of the Charterer as the Lenders may reasonably require and request.
24.8 | Enforcement of rights |
The Borrower shall take such reasonable steps to enforce its rights under the Charter and the other Project Agreements which may reasonably be expected to be taken by a prudent FSRU
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owner or (following the occurrence of an Event of Default which is continuing) which may be required by the Facility Agent.
24.9 | Communications under the Charter and any O&M Contract |
The Borrower shall advise the Facility Agent promptly upon receipt by the Borrower of a termination notice under the Charter, and as soon as reasonably practicable (but in any event within one (1) Business Day), provide the Facility Agent with a copy of any such notice.
24.10 Technical Adviser
(a) | The Borrower shall give the Facility Agent and the Technical Adviser: |
(i) | reasonable notice of all acceptance tests to be carried out in respect of the Vessel and/or the Mooring (if it so requires) and copies of its reports on such tests promptly following completion of such tests to the extent necessary to carry out its Agreed Scope of Work; |
(ii) | promptly upon receipt by the Borrower and/or the O&M Contractor, a copy of any notice received from the Charterer in relation to any material operational issues in respect of the Charter which might reasonably be expected to adversely affect the amount of Charter Hire; |
(b) | The Technical Adviser is entitled to inspect the Borrower's and any O&M Contractor's records (including all drawings and specifications) in relation to the Vessel, the Mooring and the Project on reasonable prior notice to the Borrower or, as the case may be, any O&M Contractor to the extent necessary to carry out its Agreed Scope of Work; |
(c) | The Borrower shall use best endeavours to ensure that the Technical Advisor shall: |
(i) | at any time it has a material concern relating to the Project, which has been raised with the Borrower and not resolved, on reasonable prior notice to the Borrower be allowed to visit the Site and/or the Builder's and/or the Mooring EPC Contractor's yard and/or to board the Vessel and/or the Mooring to enable the Technical Adviser to investigate such concern (without interfering with or hindering performance of a Project Agreement or the safe and efficient operation of the Vessel or Mooring) and shall be given all proper facilities needed for that purpose; |
(ii) | following an Event of Default which is continuing, be granted access to any meetings between the Borrower and the Charterer or the Builder or the Mooring EPC Contractor, |
in each case subject to the consent of the Charterer or, as the case may be, the Builder or the Mooring EPC Contractor or the Mooring Installation Contractor.
(d) | The Borrower shall, and shall procure that the O&M Contractor shall: |
(i) | provide all necessary co-operation, access and assistance or, as the case may be, procure that the same is provided within their control to enable the Technical Adviser to complete its scope of work and produce the reports in accordance with the Agreed Scope of Work; and |
(ii) | following the occurrence of an Event of Default which is continuing and on request by the Facility Agent, prepare any report or investigate any concerns of the Facility Agent in each case of such operational or technical matters in respect of the Project as the Facility Agent shall reasonably advise. |
(e) | The Borrower shall promptly respond to each material concern referred to in any of the reports specified in the Agreed Scope of Work, at the request of the Facility Agent. |
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(f) | The Technical Adviser shall, until Final Acceptance, provide quarterly progress reports to the Facility Agent with respect to the construction of the Vessel and the Mooring and the Project. In the event that the Technical Adviser determines in a report at any time that there is a funding shortfall to achieve Final Acceptance by the earlier of (i) the Cancellation Date and (ii) 18 March 2015 or that the Project is likely to be delayed beyond such date, the Facility Agent shall notify the Borrower and the Borrower and the Lenders (in consultation with the Technical Adviser) shall use reasonable endeavours to agree the extent to which any funding shortfall to achieve Final Acceptance or such forecast delay exists, within a period of thirty (30) days after the date on which the Facility Agent notifies the Borrower that the Technical Adviser's report has determined that there is such a funding shortfall or forecast delay (the Negotiation Period). The Technical Adviser shall update such report promptly at the end of the Negotiation Period, if applicable, to reflect any revisions consequent on the information and clarifications provided by the Borrower in such period. If there has been a Negotiation Period, then unless otherwise agreed within the Negotiation Period, the Technical Adviser's report (as updated if applicable) shall be conclusive and binding on all parties. |
24.11 Advisers
The Borrower shall co-operate with, and shall from Delivery ensure that the O&M Contractor and use reasonable endeavours to ensure that each other party to the Project Agreements co-operates with reasonable requirements of the Technical Adviser and the Insurance Advisor.
24.12 Negative covenants
The Borrower shall not, and shall from Delivery procure that no O&M Contractor shall, without the prior written consent of the Facility Agent (acting on the instructions of the Lenders) agree to any Change in Location (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed), other than (a) within the Permitted Location for the normal operational duties or (b) in case of emergencies or where required for the safety of, maintenance or repair of the Vessel and/or its crew and personnel or (c) where required under the Charter for laying up of the Vessel in accordance with clause 28.1 of the Charter.
24.13 K-sure Policy
(a) | The Borrower shall take all action reasonably requested by the K-sure Agent or the Facility Agent to avert any risk covered by the K-sure Policy. |
(b) | The Borrower shall not take any action or omit to take any action which would: |
(i) | result in the restriction, reservation, annulment or termination of the K-sure Policy; or |
(ii) | give rise to an exclusion or defence to payment by K-sure applicable to an insured loss under the K-sure Policy. |
(c) | The Borrower shall not waive any right, claim or cause of action or other remedy or accept any offer of compensation in respect of an insured loss under the K-sure Policy. |
(d) | The Borrower agrees that, in the event that the Security Agent has filed or intends to file a claim for payment under K-sure Policy, the Borrower shall: |
(i) | use its best efforts to assist in filing a claim for compensation, indemnity or reimbursement in respect of any loss; |
(ii) | use its best efforts to co-operate in good faith with the Security Agent and K-sure with respect to any verification of claim, eligibility or amount by any such person (including but not limited to providing evidence, documentation, information, certificates and other forms of proof reasonably requested in connection therewith). |
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25 | Dealings with the Vessel |
The Borrower undertakes that this clause 25 will be complied with throughout the Mortgage Period.
25.1 | Vessel's name and registration |
(a) | The Vessel’s name shall only be changed after prior notice to the Facility Agent. |
(b) | The Vessel shall remain permanently registered with the relevant Registry under the laws of the Flag State. Except with approval of the Lenders, the Vessel shall not be registered under any other flag or at any other port or fly any other flag (other than that of the Flag State). If that registration is for a limited period, it shall be renewed at least 45 days before the date it is due to expire and the Facility Agent shall be notified of that renewal at least 30 days before that expiry date. |
(c) | Nothing will be done and no action will be omitted by the Borrower or any other Obligor if that might result in such registration being forfeited or imperilled or the Vessel being required to be registered under the laws of another state of registry. |
25.2 | Sale or other disposal of the Vessel |
Except:
(a) | with approval of the Lenders and K-sure; or |
(b) | for the 50%Acquisition Terms and any sale that complies with clause 9.7 (Sale of Vessel) and in each case where the Secured Obligations have been, or will be concurrently with the sale, prepaid in full; or |
(c) | in accordance with clause 30.8(b) (Disposals), |
the Borrower will not sell, or agree to, transfer, abandon or otherwise dispose of the Vessel or any share or interest in it or agree to do so (other than as contemplated in paragraph (b) above and pursuant to the Finance Documents).
25.3 | Sale of the Mooring |
Except a sale or transfer to the Charterer pursuant to and in accordance with the terms of the Charter, the Borrower will not sell, transfer, abandon or otherwise dispose of the Mooring or any share or interest in it or agree to do so (other than as contemplated in this clause 25.3 and pursuant to the Finance Documents).
25.4 | Conveyance on default |
Following the occurrence of an Event of Default which is continuing, where the Vessel is (or is to be) sold in exercise of any power conferred by the Security Documents, the Borrower shall, upon the Facility Agent's request, immediately execute such form of transfer of title to the Vessel as the Facility Agent may require.
25.5 | Chartering |
Except with approval, the Borrower shall not enter into any charter commitment for the Vessel (except for the Charter and the O&M Contracts).
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25.6 | Movement of parts |
Except with approval, the Borrower shall not allow any machinery, equipment or materials which are an integral part of the Vessel to be removed outside the Permitted Location except as and when necessary to repair or replace them.
25.7 | Sanctions |
(a) | The Borrower shall not, and shall not permit or authorize any other person to, directly or indirectly, use, lend, make payments of, contribute or otherwise make available, all or any part of the proceeds of any Loan to fund any trade, business or other activities: (i) involving or for the benefit of any Restricted Party, or (ii) in any other manner that would reasonably be expected to result in any Obligor or any Lender being in breach of any Sanctions (if any to the extent applicable to any of them) or becoming a Restricted Party. |
(b) | The Borrower shall not permit or authorize and shall use reasonable endeavours to prevent the Vessel being used directly or indirectly: (i) by or for the benefit or any Restricted Party; and/or or (ii) in any business which could reasonably be expected to expose the Vessel or the Finance Parties to enforcement proceedings or any other adverse consequences whatsoever arising from Sanctions. |
26 | Condition and operation of Vessel |
The Borrower undertakes that this clause 26 will be complied with in relation to the Vessel throughout the Mortgage Period.
26.1 | Repair |
The Vessel shall be kept in a good, safe and efficient state of repair. The quality of workmanship and materials used to repair the Vessel or replace any damaged, worn or lost parts or equipment shall be sufficient to ensure that the Vessel's value is not reduced (fair wear and tear excepted) as a result of any repair or replacement.
26.2 | Modification |
Except with approval or as permitted under this Agreement, the structure, type or performance characteristics of the Vessel shall not be modified in a way which might reasonably be expected to materially alter the Vessel in a manner that would materially reduce its value.
26.3 | Removal of parts |
Except with approval, no material part of the Vessel shall be removed from the Vessel if to do so would materially reduce its value (unless for repair or if at the same time it is replaced with equivalent parts or equipment owned by the Borrower free of any Security Interest except under Permitted Security Interests).
26.4 | Third party owned equipment |
Except with approval, equipment owned by a third party (other than the Mooring) shall not be installed on the Vessel if it cannot be removed without risk of causing damage to the structure or fabric of the Vessel or incurring significant expense.
26.5 | Maintenance of class |
The Vessel's class shall be, and shall be maintained throughout the Mortgage Period as, the Classification.
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26.6 | Surveys |
The Vessel shall be submitted to surveys which are required for it to maintain the Classification as its class. Copies of reports of those surveys shall be provided promptly to the Facility Agent if it so requests.
26.7 | Notice of drydockings |
(a) | The Borrower shall ensure that the Vessel is not put into drydock without the consent of the Facility Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders, in consultation with the Technical Advisor if required), such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed. |
(b) | In the event that the Vessel is drydocked in accordance with clause 26.7(a), the Facility Agent shall be given reasonable advance notice of any intended drydocking of the Vessel (whatever the purpose of that drydocking) and of the intended yard in which such drydocking is to be carried out. No drydocking may be carried out in a yard which is not approved by the Facility Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders), such approval not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed. |
26.8 | Prevention and release from arrest |
All debts, damages, liabilities and outgoings which have given, or may reasonably be expected to give, rise to maritime, statutory or possessory liens on, or claims enforceable against, the Vessel, the Earnings or Insurances shall be promptly paid and discharged when due.
26.9 | Notification of certain events |
The Facility Agent shall promptly after the Borrower becomes aware of such event be notified of:
(a) | any damage to the Vessel where the cost of the resulting repairs is reasonably likely to exceed the Major Casualty Amount; |
(b) | any occurrence which is reasonably likely to result in the Vessel becoming a Total Loss; |
(c) | any requisition of the Vessel for hire other than under the Charter; |
(d) | any requirement or recommendation made in relation to the Vessel by any insurer or the Classification Society or by any competent authority which is not, or cannot be, complied with in the manner or time required or recommended; and |
(e) | any arrest or detention of the Vessel or any exercise or purported exercise of a lien or other claim on the Vessel or the Earnings or Insurances other than the Finance Documents. |
26.10 | Repairers' liens |
Except with approval of the Facility Agent (acting reasonably), the Vessel shall not be put into any other person's possession for work to be done on the Vessel if the cost to the Borrower of that work will exceed or is likely to exceed the Major Casualty Amount unless that person gives the Security Agent a written undertaking in approved terms not to exercise any lien on the Vessel or the Vessel's Earnings for any of the cost of such work.
26.11 | Codes |
The Vessel and the Obligors responsible for its operation shall at all times comply with the requirements of any applicable code or prescribed procedures required to be observed by the Vessel or in relation to its operation under any applicable law or regulation (including but not limited to those currently known as the ISM Code and the ISPS Code) to the extent that failure to comply has or could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect or a material
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adverse effect on any Obligor's ability to perform its obligations under the Material Project Agreements to which it is a party. The Facility Agent shall promptly be informed of:
(a) | any threatened or actual withdrawal of any certificate issued in accordance with any such code which is or may be applicable to each of the Vessel and its operation and required by the Borrower for the purposes of the Charter; and |
(b) | the receipt of notification that any application for such a certificate has been refused. |
26.12 Lawful use
The Vessel shall not be employed:
(a) | in any way or in any activity which is unlawful under applicable international law or the domestic laws of Indonesia; |
(b) | in storing illicit or prohibited goods; |
(c) | in a way which may make it liable to be condemned by a prize court or destroyed, seized or confiscated; or |
(d) | in carrying contraband goods, |
and the persons responsible for the operation of the Vessel shall take all necessary and proper precautions to ensure that this does not happen.
26.13 | War zones |
(a) | Except with the approval of the Facility Agent (acting on the instructions of the Lenders and K-sure), the Vessel shall not enter or remain in any zone which has been declared a war zone by any applicable government entity or the Vessel's war risk insurers. |
(b) | If approval is granted for the Vessel to enter or remain in any such war zone, any requirements of the Facility Agent and/or the Vessel's insurers necessary to ensure that the Vessel remains properly and fully insured in accordance with the Finance Documents (including any requirement for the payment of extra insurance premiums) and agreed by the Borrower for the purposes of such approval shall be complied with. |
26.14 | Inspection of books and records |
The Facility Agent shall be allowed proper and reasonable access to the Borrower’s accounting records when it requests it and with not less than 5 days' prior notice to the Borrower (or such shorter period as may be agreed by the Borrower).
27 | Insurance |
The Borrower undertakes that this clause 27 shall be complied with at all times throughout the Facility Period.
27.1 | Insurance terms |
In this clause 27:
excess risks means the proportion (if any) of claims for general average, salvage and salvage charges not recoverable under the hull and machinery insurances of a vessel in consequence of the value at which the vessel is assessed for the purpose of such claims exceeding its insured value
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excess war risk P&I cover means cover for claims only in excess of amounts recoverable under the usual war risk cover including (but not limited to) hull and machinery, crew and protection and indemnity risks
hull cover means insurance cover against the risks identified in clause 27.2(a)(i)
minimum hull cover means an amount equal at the relevant time to 120 per cent of such proportion of the Loans
P&I association means a protection and indemnity association which is a member of the International Group of protection and indemnity associations (or, if the International Group ceases to exist, any other leading protection and indemnity association or other leading provider of protection and indemnity insurance) (including, without limitation, the proportion (if any) of any collision liability not covered under the terms of the hull cover)
P&I risks means the usual risks (including liability for oil pollution, excess war risk P&I cover) covered by a P&I association.
27.2 | Coverage required |
The Vessel and the Mooring shall be insured:
(a) | In the case of the Vessel, on and at all times after Delivery, |
(i) | against fire and usual marine risks (including excess risks) and war risks (including war protection and indemnity risks and terrorism risks) on an agreed value basis, for at least its minimum hull cover and no less than US$400,000,000; |
(ii) | against P&I risks for such amount then available in the insurance market for vessels of similar age, size and type as the Vessel as would be reasonable and expected for a prudent FSRU operator to insure against (but, in relation to liability for oil pollution, for an amount of not less than $500,000,000); |
(iii) | against such other risks and matters which would be reasonable and expected in the international insurance market from time to time (such as Workmen's Compensation and/or Employer's Liability or Third Party Legal Liability Insurance) for a prudent FSRU operator to insure against and which are proposed by the Facility Agent in consultation with the Borrower and the Insurance Adviser. |
(iv) | on terms which comply with the other provisions of this clause 27; and |
(b) | In the case of the Vessel, on and at all times from the earlier of (i) Arrival Time (as defined in the Charter) or (ii) Final Acceptance against loss of hire for a daily amount sufficient to cover in full the aggregate of the Capital Element, the Operating and Maintenance Element and all Tax payable by the Borrower not (i) covered by the Tax Element or (ii) otherwise payable by or to be reimbursed by the Charterer under the Charter of not less than 180 days (after deductible of 20 days) each accident or occurrence and in all; and |
(c) | In the case of the Mooring, on and at all times after delivery of the Mooring to the Borrower under the Mooring EPC Contract until transfer to the Charterer, the Mooring shall at all times be insured:(i) with a Construction All Risk (CAR) Insurance on an agreed value for physical loss or damage to property, including third party liability insurance for limit USD 50,000,000. |
27.3 | Placing of cover |
The insurance coverage required by clause 27.2 (Coverage required) shall be:
(a) | in the name of the Borrower (in the case of the Vessel's hull cover) and no other person (other than the Security Agent if required by the Facility Agent, the Charterer, any O&M |
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Contractor and any other person which is approved and where, if so required by the Facility Agent, such person (other than the Charterer) has duly executed and delivered a first priority assignment and/or subordination of its interest in the Insurances (other than protection and indemnity insurances) to the Security Agent in an approved form and provided such supporting documents and opinions in relation to that assignment as the Facility Agent requires);
(b) | if the Facility Agent so requests, in the joint names of the Borrower and Security Agent (and, to the extent reasonably practicable in the insurance market, without liability on the part of the Security Agent for premiums or calls); |
(c) | in dollars or another approved currency; and |
(d) | on terms reasonable in accordance with international insurance market practice and the requirements of the Charter (the Borrower to consult with the Facility Agent on such terms in the case of the first placing of any such insurance and, in the case of P&I Risks, with a P&I association(s). Each of the policies shall be placed with insurers with an Approved Credit Rating (or, if placed with insurers with no credit rating or a credit rating lower than the Approved Credit Rating, reinsured not less than 98 per cent (or such lower percentage as is then required by applicable law) with reinsurers so that not more than 20 per cent of each policy is placed with reinsurers with a credit rating for its long term indebtedness of not less than BBB with Standard & Poor's Rating Agency (or the equivalent rating with another internationally recognised credit rating agency) and otherwise with reinsurers with an Approved Credit Rating and in all respects subject to the execution of the Reinsurance Fiduciary Assignment in the case of an Indonesian primary insurer). For the purposes of this clause 27.3, the Norwegian Shipowners’ Mutual War Risks Association (Den Norske Krigsforsikring for Skib (‘DNK’)) shall be deemed to have an Approved Credit Rating. |
27.4 | Deductibles |
The aggregate amount of any excess or deductible under the Vessel's hull cover shall not exceed an amount not exceeding $500,000.
27.5 | Mortgagee's insurance |
The Borrower shall promptly reimburse to the Facility Agent the cost (pre-approved by the Borrower, such approval not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed) (with certification by the Facility Agent being prima facie evidence) of taking out and keeping in force in respect of the Vessel on terms in line with international market standards, or in considering or making claims under, a mortgagee's interest insurance for the benefit of the Finance Parties for an amount acceptable to K-sure and up to its minimum hull cover.
27.6 | Fleet liens, set off and cancellations |
If the Vessel's hull cover also insures other vessels, the Security Agent shall either be given an undertaking in approved terms by the brokers or (if such cover is not placed through brokers or the brokers do not, under any applicable laws or insurance terms, have such rights of set off and cancellation) the relevant insurers that the brokers or (if relevant) the insurers will not:
(a) | set off against any claims in respect of the Vessel any premiums due in respect of any of such other vessels insured; or |
(b) | cancel that cover because of non-payment of premiums in respect of such other vessels, |
or the Borrower shall ensure that hull cover for the is provided under a separate policy from any other vessels.
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27.7 | Payment of premiums |
All premiums, calls, contributions or other sums payable in respect of the Insurances shall be paid punctually.
27.8 | Details of proposed renewal of Insurances |
(a) | At least twenty one (21) days before any of the Insurances are due to expire, the Facility Agent shall be told the names of the brokers, insurers and associations proposed to be used for the renewal of such Insurances and either that there is no change in the amounts, risks and terms in, against and on which the Insurances are proposed to be renewed or that there will be changes. If any of the terms of such Insurances are changed then the Borrower will on request by the Facility Agent provide details of such changes. |
(b) | The Borrower will procure that the relevant brokers and/or insurers and or P&I Club will provide the Facility Agent with pro forma copies of all policies relating to the Insurances that are to be effected or renewed. |
27.9 | Instructions for renewal |
At least seven (7) days before any of the Insurances are due to expire, instructions shall be given by the Borrower to brokers, insurers and associations for them to be renewed or replaced on or before their expiry.
27.10 Confirmation of renewal
The Insurances shall be renewed or replaced upon their expiry or replacement in a manner and on terms which comply with this clause 27 and confirmation of such renewal or replacement given by the relevant brokers or insurers to the Facility Agent at least seven (7) days (or such shorter period as may be approved) before such expiry or replacement.
27.11 P&I guarantees
Any guarantee or undertaking required by any protection and indemnity or war risks association in relation to the Vessel shall be provided when required by the association.
27.12 | Insurance documents |
The Facility Agent shall be provided with cover notes of all insurance and reinsurance policies and other documentation issued by brokers, insurers, reinsurers and associations in connection with the Insurances and the Reinsurances promptly after they have been placed or renewed but in any case no later than thirty (30) days following such placement or renewal.
27.13 Letters of undertaking
Unless otherwise approved where the Facility Agent is satisfied that equivalent protection is afforded by the terms of the relevant Insurances and/or any applicable law and/or a letter of undertaking already provided, on each placing or renewal of the Insurances, the Facility Agent shall be provided promptly with letters of undertaking in an approved form (having regard to general insurance market practice and law at the time of issue of such letter of undertaking) from the relevant brokers.
27.14 Insurance Notices and Loss Payable Clauses
The interest of the Security Agent as assignee of the Insurances shall be endorsed on all policies for the Insurances by the incorporation of a Loss Payable Clause and an Insurance Notice in respect of the Vessel.
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27.15 Insurance correspondence
If so requested by the Facility Agent, the Facility Agent shall promptly be provided with copies of all material written communications between the assureds and brokers, insurers and associations relating to any of the Insurances which are available to the Borrower for provision as soon as they are available to the Borrower to be provided.
27.16 Qualifications and exclusions
All requirements applicable to the Insurances to be complied with by the Borrower shall be complied with and the Insurances shall only be subject to exclusions or qualifications which have been approved by the Insurance Advisor.
27.17 Independent report
The Facility Agent shall be entitled to obtain a detailed report on the adequacy of the Insurances and/or Reinsurances on an annual basis and when the terms of the Insurances and/or Reinsurances have been changed from the Insurance Advisor and the Borrower shall reimburse the Facility Agent for the cost of obtaining any such report on an annual basis and following any change to the terms of such Insurances and/or Reinsurances, provided that such costs have been pre-approved by the Borrower (not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed).
27.18 | Collection of claims |
All documents and other information and assistance available to be provided by the Borrower and required from the Borrower by the Facility Agent to assist it and/or the Security Agent in trying to collect or recover any claims under the Insurances and/or Reinsurances acting in accordance with the terms of the Finance Documents shall be provided promptly.
27.19 Employment of Vessel
The Vessel shall only be employed or operated in conformity with the terms of the relevant Insurances (including any express or implied warranties) and not in any other way (unless the insurers have consented and any additional requirements of the insurers have been satisfied).
27.20 Declarations and returns
If the Insurances are on terms that require a declaration, certificate or other document to be made or filed before the Vessel sails to, or in the case of the Vessel, operates within, an area, those terms shall be complied with within the time and in the manner required by those Insurances.
27.21 Settlement of claims
Any claim under the Insurances for a Total Loss or Major Casualty shall only be settled, compromised or abandoned with the prior approval of the Facility Agent, acting on the instructions of the Lenders not to be unreasonably withheld in the case of settlement or compromise for a Major Casualty (exclusive of any deductible) where the requirements of clause 29.13(a)(ii)(A) are satisfied or for a Total Loss where the Total Loss Proceeds are sufficient to repay the Secured Obligations.
27.22 | Further undertaking |
The Borrower will, at all times during the Facility Period, take all reasonable action within its power to comply or procure compliance at all times with the terms and conditions of all Insurances (or Reinsurances), and use its reasonable endeavours to procure that nothing is at any time done, or suffered to be done, by any Obligor whereby any Insurance (or Reinsurance) or other insurance required to be maintained by it hereunder, may be impaired, suspended or rendered void or voidable in whole or in part, or any claim becomes uncollectable in full or in part, including, without limitation:
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(a) | complying with all of the requirements expressly imposed on it under the Insurances; |
(b) | taking all reasonable action within its power to procure that at all times all parties to the Insurances (other than, if applicable, any Finance Party) comply with all of the requirements under the Insurances; and |
(c) | complying with the express terms of all Insurances and taking all action necessary to maintain the Insurances as valid and up-to-date insurances. |
28 | Minimum security value |
28.1 | Undertaking to comply |
The Borrower undertakes that this clause 28 will be complied with from the Effective Date and thereafter throughout the Facility Period.
28.2 | Valuation of assets |
For the purpose of the Finance Documents, the value at any time of the Vessel or any other asset over which additional security is provided under this clause 28 will be its value as most recently determined in accordance with this clause 28.
28.3 | Valuation frequency |
(a) | On a semi-annual basis (together with each second Compliance Certificate to be delivered by the Borrower under clause 20.2(b) (Provision and contents of Compliance Certificate) following the Effective Date, the Borrower shall provide to the Facility Agent the valuation of the Vessel and each other asset referred to in clause 28.2 carried out in accordance with this clause 28. In addition, valuation of the Vessel and each such asset referred to in clause 28.2 may be required by the Facility Agent at any other time when there is a continuing Default. |
(b) | In addition, each Lender has the right to request an additional valuation of the Vessel at any time. If such request is at a time that there is no continuing Default, then such Lender shall bear all costs and expenses of providing such a valuation. If such request is at a time that there is a continuing Default, then the Borrower shall bear all costs and expenses of providing such valuation. |
28.4 | Expenses of valuation |
Subject to clause 28.3(b) above, the Borrower shall bear, and reimburse to the Facility Agent where incurred by the Facility Agent, all costs and expenses of providing such a valuation.
28.5 | Valuations procedure |
The value of the Vessel shall be determined in accordance with, and by valuers approved and appointed in accordance with, this clause 28. Additional security provided under this clause 28 shall be valued in such a way, on such a basis and by such persons (including the Facility Agent itself) as may be approved by the Majority Lenders or as may be agreed in writing by the Borrower and the Facility Agent (on the instructions of the Majority Lenders).
28.6 | Currency of valuation |
Valuations shall be provided by valuers in dollars or, if a valuer is of the view that the relevant type of vessel is generally bought and sold in another currency, in that other currency. If a valuation is provided in another currency, for the purposes of this Agreement it shall be converted into dollars at the Facility Agent’s spot rate of exchange for the purchase of dollars with that other currency as at the date to which the valuation relates.
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28.7 | Basis of valuation |
Each valuation will be addressed to the Facility Agent in its capacity as such and made:
(a) | without physical inspection (unless required by the Facility Agent); and |
(b) | on the basis of a sale for prompt delivery for a price payable in full in cash on delivery at arm’s length on normal commercial terms between a willing buyer and a willing seller, without taking into account any existing charter or other contract of employment and after deducting the estimated amount of the usual and reasonable expenses which would be incurred in connection with a sale. |
28.8 | Information required for valuation |
The Borrower shall promptly provide to the Facility Agent and any such valuer any information which they reasonably require for the purposes of providing such a valuation.
28.9 | Approval of valuers |
All valuers must be Approved Valuers.
28.10 Appointment of valuers
When a valuation is required for the purposes of this clause 28, the Borrower shall promptly appoint Approved Valuers to provide such a valuation. If the Borrower fails to do so promptly, the Facility Agent may appoint Approved Valuers to provide that valuation.
28.11 | Number of valuers |
(a) | Each valuation shall be carried out by two (2) Approved Valuers nominated by the Borrower or, in the circumstances described in clause 28.10, appointed by the Facility Agent. |
(b) | If the two valuations vary by more than 10%, then the value of the Vessel shall be determined by reference to those two valuations and a third valuation provided by a third approved valuer nominated by the Facility Agent. |
28.12 | Differences in valuations |
If valuations provided by individual valuers differ, the value of the Vessel for the purposes of the Finance Documents will be the mean average of those valuations.
28.13 Security shortfall
If at any time the Security Value is less than the Minimum Value, the Facility Agent may, and shall, if so directed by the Majority Lenders, by notice to the Borrower require that such deficiency be remedied. The Borrower shall then within thirty (30) days of receipt of such notice ensure that the Security Value equals or exceeds the Minimum Value. For this purpose, Borrower may:
(a) | provide additional security over other assets approved by the Majority Lenders in accordance with this clause 28; and/or |
(b) | cancel part of the Total Commitments under clause 9.2 (Voluntary prepayment and cancellation) and prepay a corresponding amount of the Loans. |
For the purpose of this clause (i) cash collateral in dollars or another currency acceptable to the Facility Agent which is held in a blocked account and which is the subject of a Security Interest complying with clause 29 (Project Accounts, Receivables and Insurance Proceeds) in favour of the Security Agent will be acceptable for the purpose of constituting additional security and shall be valued at par and/or (ii) a first priority mortgage in favour of the Security Agent over another
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vessel reasonably acceptable to the Security Agent shall be valued on the same basis as the valuation provided in relation to the Vessel.
28.14 Creation of additional security
The value of any additional security which the Borrower offers to provide to remedy all or part of a shortfall in the amount of the Security Value will only be taken into account for the purposes of determining the Security Value if and when:
(a) | that additional security, its value and the method of its valuation have been approved by the Majority Lenders; |
(b) | a Security Interest over that security has been constituted in favour of the Security Agent or (if appropriate) the Finance Parties in an approved form and manner; |
(c) | this Agreement has been unconditionally amended in such manner as the Facility Agent requires in consequence of that additional security being provided; and |
(d) | the Facility Agent, or its duly authorised representative, has received such documents and evidence it may require in relation to that amendment and additional security including documents and evidence of the type referred to in Schedule 3 (Conditions precedent) in relation to that amendment and additional security and its execution and (if applicable) registration. |
28.15 | Release of additional security |
If at any time the Security Agent holds additional security provided under this clause 28 and the Security Value, disregarding the value of that additional security, exceeds the Minimum Value by at least ten per cent (10%) of the Minimum Value and the Security Value has been determined by reference to valuations provided no more than 90 days previously, the Borrower may, by notice to the Facility Agent, require the release and discharge of that additional security. The Facility Agent shall then promptly direct the Security Agent to release and discharge that additional security if no Default is then continuing or will result from such release and discharge and, upon such release and discharge and, if so required by the Facility Agent, the Borrower shall reimburse to the Facility Agent and the Security Agent any costs and expenses payable under clause 18 (Costs and expenses) in relation to that release and discharge.
29 | Project Accounts, Receivables and Insurance Proceeds |
29.1 | The Borrower undertakes with each of the Finance Parties that, from the first Utilisation Date and thereafter, for so long as any Commitment or amount is outstanding under the Finance Documents, it will: |
(a) | open each of the Project Accounts with the Account Banks (and such other accounts as may from time to time be requested by the Borrower and approved by the Facility Agent) and, in connection therewith, will from time to time complete all "know your customer" and other returns necessary for such process if any; |
(b) | not withdraw any moneys, certificates of deposit or other securities from any Project Account (other than the Distribution Account) otherwise than in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement and the Account Security; and |
(c) | not request a withdrawal of any moneys from any Project Account (other than the Distribution Account) without the prior written consent of the Facility Agent if: |
(i) | an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would occur as a result (wholly or partly) of such withdrawal and (in either case) the Facility Agent has notified the Borrower and the Account Bank that no such withdrawal will be permitted; or |
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(ii) | such Project Account is overdrawn or would become overdrawn as a result of such withdrawal. |
29.2 | With effect from the first Utilisation Date, the Borrower shall: |
(a) | maintain each of its Project Accounts with an Account Bank; |
(b) | immediately disclose to the Facility Agent the particulars of any bank accounts of the Borrower other than the Project Accounts and notify the Facility Agent immediately upon opening any bank accounts other than the Project Accounts; |
(c) | pay and direct that the Charterer and any other relevant person shall pay: |
(i) | all Total Charter Rate (other than the Tax Element) and other Earnings payable to the Borrower in respect of the Vessel into a Revenue Account in dollars; |
(ii) | all the Tax Element payable to the Borrower in respect of the Vessel into the Rupiah Account in rupiah or the Dollar Tax Account in dollars; and |
(iii) | the Mooring Purchase Price into a Mooring Payment Account; |
(d) | pay proceeds of Utilisations of the Term Facilities (other than the Utilisations in respect of the Delivery Instalment) and the proceeds of Subordinated Loans, for issuance of Promissory Notes and share subscriptions in the Borrower payable to the Borrower into the Onshore Proceeds Account or the Construction Account (prior to Final Acceptance) or the Offshore Revenue Account (on and following Final Acceptance); |
(e) | in the case of the proceeds of Utilisations in respect of the Delivery Instalment, pay such proceeds into the Onshore Delivery Account for onward transmission by the Onshore Account Bank to the Builder's bank in accordance with clause 29.6 (Onshore Delivery Account). |
(f) | pay or procure the payment of all compensation from time to time during the Facility Period received in respect of any requisition of the Vessel for hire into a Revenue Account; |
(g) | direct the Hedging Banks to pay any moneys received or receivable from the Hedging Banks under or pursuant to the Hedging Contracts into a Revenue Account and provided that any Hedging Banks who are party to this Agreement shall be deemed to have received such direction; |
(h) | permit the Security Agent and the Facility Agent to apply all Earnings in respect of the Vessel in accordance with the Security Assignment and/or in accordance with this clause 28; |
(i) | subject to clause 29.4 (Construction Account), pay all Receivables payable to it (other than the Tax Element and the Mooring Purchase Price) or procure that such proceeds are paid into either Revenue Account, for application in accordance with 29.7 (Onshore Revenue Account) and/or 29.8 (Offshore Revenue Account); |
(j) | pay all Insurance Proceeds and Liability Insurance Proceeds in respect of the Vessel, received by it whether greater or less than the Major Casualty Amount, or procure that such proceeds are paid, in the manner contemplated by clause 29.13 (Insurance Proceeds Account); and |
(k) | pay the proceeds of any Permitted Financial Indebtedness payable to the Borrower into a Project Account (other than the Distribution Account or the Rupiah Account) as the circumstances may require to be notified by the Borrower to the Facility Agent. |
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the relevant authorities and/or the relevant Account Bank from time to time, then the Borrower irrevocably authorises the relevant Account Bank to convert the amount received into dollars at the rate of exchange then prevailing in the market in accordance with the relevant Account Bank's normal operating practices and any incidental costs of making such conversion in accordance with this clause shall be borne by the Borrower.
29.4 | Construction Account / Cash Lock-Up Account |
On and from the Effective Date, the Account Bank and the Borrower redesignate the Construction Account as the Cash Lock-Up Account.
(a) | Payments |
(i) | The Borrower shall ensure that at all time prior to Final Acceptance, except as otherwise contemplated in clauses 29.2, 29.5, 29.6, 29.7 (Onshore Revenue Account), 29.14 (Rupiah Account) and 29.15, all amounts received by the Borrower in respect of Utilisations, under Hedging Contracts or Project Agreements, Sponsor Funding and liquidated damages are paid into the Construction Account. |
(ii) | On and from the Effective Date and until such time the Facility Agent notifies the Borrower that the PGN Arbitration has been terminated, cancelled or resolved favourably (in the opinion of the Majority Lenders (acting reasonably and promptly following any request by the Borrower to determine the same)), the Borrower shall, promptly after each Cash Sweep, transfer into the Cash Lock-Up Account all monies standing to the credit of the Offshore Revenue Account. |
(b) | Withdrawals |
(i) | The Borrower shall be entitled to withdraw funds from the Construction Account to: (i) meet any Project Costs and payments under the Finance Documents; (ii) transfer to the Distribution Account the proceeds of any Utilisation which have been transferred into the Construction Account and are permitted to be transferred into the Distribution Account pursuant to clause 5; and iii) after the Final Acceptance Date transfer any amounts on such account to the Offshore Revenue Account, and for each such withdrawal the Borrower shall deliver a Borrower Withdrawal Request to the relevant Account Bank (with a copy to the Facility Agent) no later than two (2) Business Days prior to the relevant payment date. |
(ii) | Once the Facility Agent notifies the Borrower that the PGN Arbitration has been terminated, cancelled or resolved favourably (in the opinion of the Majority Lenders (acting reasonably and promptly following any request by the Borrower to determine the same)), any amounts standing to the credit of the Cash Lock-Up Account may be transferred to the Distribution Account provided that no Distribution Restriction shall have occurred and be continuing. |
(c) | Final Acceptance |
The Borrower hereby irrevocably authorises and instructs the relevant Account Bank to transfer (and the Offshore Account Bank agrees to make such transfer upon receipt of a Borrower Withdrawal Request provided no later than two (2) Business Days prior to such transfer date) on the date falling ten (10) Business Days after the Final Acceptance Date all moneys standing to the credit of the Construction Account if any transferred to the Offshore Revenue Account.
29.5 | Onshore Proceeds Account |
(a) | Payments |
No later than one (1) Business Day following receipt of any payment into the Onshore Proceeds Account, the relevant Account Bank shall transfer (and the Borrower hereby irrevocably authorises and instructs that Account Bank to make such transfer) such amount to the
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Construction Account (prior to the Final Acceptance Date) and to the Offshore Revenue Account (on and following the Final Acceptance Date). The Borrower shall notify the Onshore Account Bank of the occurrence of the Final Acceptance Date on the Final Acceptance Date and within two (2) Business Days of receipt of such notice the Onshore Account Bank shall ensure that amounts are transferred to the Offshore Revenue Account in accordance with this clause 29.5(a).
(b) | Withdrawals |
The Onshore Account Bank shall make the transfers required pursuant to clause 29.5(a) automatically and no Borrower Withdrawal Request shall be required for such transfer. During the Facility Period, the Borrower shall not withdraw or request a withdrawal of moneys from the Onshore Proceeds Account except (i) as provided for in clause 29.5(a), (ii) in accordance with the terms of the Account Security or (iii) with the Lenders' prior written consent.
29.6 | Onshore Delivery Account |
(a) | Payments |
No later than one (1) Business Day following receipt of the proceeds of Utilisations in respect of the Delivery Instalment into the Onshore Delivery Account, unless the Borrower, Lenders and the Onshore Account Bank otherwise agree, the Onshore Account Bank shall upon receipt of a Facility Agent Withdrawal Request provided two (2) Business Days prior to the relevant transfer date, transfer (and the Borrower hereby irrevocably authorises and instructs that Account Bank to make such transfer) such amount to the Builder's bank in accordance with Article (X)(4)(a)(ii) of the Building Contract. The transfer shall be accompanied by a MT199 message in a form agreed by the Borrower, relevant Account Bank and the Lenders and funds shall be released to the Builder in accordance with clause 4.2(b).
(b) | Withdrawals |
During the Facility Period, the Borrower shall not withdraw or request a withdrawal of moneys from the Onshore Delivery Account except (i) as provided for in clause 29.6(a), (ii) in accordance with the terms of the Account Security or (iii) with the Lenders' prior written consent.
29.7 | Onshore Revenue Account |
(a) | Payments |
No later than one (1) Business Day following receipt of any payment into the Onshore Revenue Account, the relevant Account Bank shall transfer (and the Borrower hereby irrevocably authorises and instructs that Account Bank to make such transfer) such amount to the Offshore Revenue Account.
(b) | Withdrawals |
No Borrower Withdrawal Request shall be required for a transfer pursuant to clause 29.7(a). During the Facility Period, the Borrower shall not withdraw or request a withdrawal of moneys from the Onshore Revenue Account except (i) as provided for in clause 29.7(a), (ii) in accordance with the terms of the Account Security or (iii) with the Lenders' prior written consent.
29.8 | Offshore Revenue Account |
(a) | Payment Cascade |
Subject to clause 29.8(c) and clause 29.8(e), the Borrower shall apply the amounts standing to the credit of the Offshore Revenue Account in the following order of priority:
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(i) | up to twice in any month, in or towards payment in dollars to the Offshore Operating Account of an amount which, when taken together with all other payments under this sub-paragraph in the same financial year, does not exceed 125 per cent of the Projected Operating Expenses payable in that month and each prior month in that financial year as specified in the Project Budget Statement for that financial year; |
(ii) | secondly, on each Repayment Date and/or at any other time when such fees or prepayments are due, in payment in dollars of all fees (including commitment fee), expenses, charges and prepayments of Loans and accrued interest on such amounts prepaid due to the Finance Parties pursuant to the Finance Documents to the extent not paid from the Retention Account ; |
(iii) | thirdly, on any date to pay any amounts which are due and payable under the Finance Documents and not otherwise referred to in this clause 29.8(a) or clause 29.9 or payable on a date otherwise than as set out in this clause 29.8(a) or clause 29.9; |
(iv) | fourthly, on each date (being a Business Day calculated in accordance with clause 1.2(a)(xix)) (a retention date) falling 1 month after the date (the start date) three months before the First Repayment Date and at 1 month intervals after that, the Borrower shall pay into the Retention Account the lower of: (A) the balance on the Offshore Revenue Account on such date after any payments in priority to this paragraph (iii) are made and (B) such amount as will ensure that the amount credited to the Retention Account is the relevant fraction of: |
(A) | the aggregate of all amounts in respect of interest (including any default interest) due on an Interest Payment Date falling at the end of any Interest Period current or ending on that retention date and payable under the Finance Documents and projected Net Hedging Expenses (if a positive number) in respect of the period ending on the relevant Interest Payment Date; |
(B) | all amounts in respect of principal on Loans payable on the first Repayment Date that falls on or after such retention date and payable under clause 8 (Repayment) (or otherwise pursuant to the Finance Documents); and |
(C) | any swap termination sums / close-out payments payable to the Hedging Banks under the Hedging Contracts on the first Repayment Date that falls on or after such retention date. |
The relevant fraction of such an amount referred to in paragraphs (A) to (C) as at a retention date will be the fraction whose numerator is the number of retention dates from the beginning of that Interest Period (in the case of an amount referred to in paragraph (A)) (but excluding any retention date at the start of such period) up to and including the relevant retention date or (in the case of an amount referred to in paragraph (B) or (C)) since the start date or, if later, the previous Repayment Date (but excluding any retention date at the start of such period) and whose denominator is the number of retention dates from the beginning of that Interest Period (in the case of an amount referred to in paragraph (A)) (but excluding any retention date at the start of such period) up to and including the relevant Interest Payment Date or (in the case of an amount referred to in paragraph (B) or (C)) the number of retention dates falling during the period beginning on the previous K-sure Facility Repayment Date (or the start date in the case of the retention dates before the First Repayment Date) (but in each case excluding any retention date at the start of such period) and ending on the K-sure Facility Repayment Date immediately following the start of such period;
(v) | fifthly, at the option of the Borrower in transfer to the Retention Account of any amount; |
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(vi) | sixthly, on the relevant due date in payment of any amounts that are payable from the Retention Account but are unable to be paid from the amounts standing to the credit of the Retention Account ; |
provided that if there would, but for this proviso, be inadequate moneys standing to the credit of the Offshore Revenue Account on the relevant due date to make the payments referred to in paragraphs (ii), (iii) and/or (vi) above in full, then the relevant shortfall shall be met from any funds available first, in the Debt Service Reserve Account (or available to be drawn under any DSRA Letter of Credit) and, for this purpose, the Borrower hereby authorizes the Facility Agent and the Account Banks to apply the funds on the Debt Service Reserve Account (or available to be drawn under any DSRA Letter of Credit) for such purpose and the Facility Agent, the Security Agent and the relevant Account Bank must apply such amounts for that purpose and in the case of the Facility Agent sign the relevant Facility Agent Withdrawal Request for such payment;
(vii) | seventhly, on each Repayment Date, in transfer to the Debt Service Reserve Account of such amount (up to the balance remaining on the Offshore Revenue Account) needed to ensure that the DSRA Balance is equal to the applicable Debt Service Reserve at such time; |
(viii) | eighthly, on each Repayment Date whilst the PGN Arbitration is ongoing and until such time as the Facility Agent notifies the Borrower that the PGN Arbitration has been terminated, cancelled or resolved favourably (in the opinion of the Majority Lenders (acting reasonably and promptly following any request by the Borrower to determine the same)), 50% of any moneys remaining on the Offshore Revenue Account after the applications under the preceding paragraphs of this clause 29.8(a) (Payment Cascade) have been made in full for the applicable date shall be paid to the Facility Agent and applied in prepayment of the Loans in accordance with clause 9.13 (Restrictions), as if it were a voluntary prepayment pursuant to clause 9.2 (Voluntary prepayment and cancellation) (though, for the avoidance of doubt, no notice or minimum amount requirements pursuant to clause 9.2 shall apply to such prepayment) (the Cash Sweep); and |
(ix) | ninthly, (provided no Proceeds Application Event has occurred for which the relevant required prepayments have not been made) on each Repayment Date or within thirteen (13) Business Days thereafter, any moneys remaining on the Offshore Revenue Account after the applications under the preceding paragraphs of this clause 29.8(a) (Payment Cascade) have been made in full for the applicable date may be transferred to the Distribution Account provided that no Distribution Restriction shall have occurred and be continuing. |
(b) | To ensure compliance with clause 29.8(a), the Borrower shall: |
(A) | in respect of transfers to any third parties (other than the Facility Agent) in accordance with clause 29.8(a), provide the Facility Agent with a Facility Agent Withdrawal Request signed by the Borrower no later than four (4) Business Days prior to the relevant payment date and the Facility Agent shall, provided that such Facility Agent Withdrawal Request is in compliance with this clause 29.8 or appears to it to be so in compliance, deliver to the relevant Account Bank the countersigned Facility Agent Withdrawal Request no later than two (2) Business Days before the relevant payment date; |
(B) | in respect of transfers to the Distribution Account in accordance with this clause 29.8 (Offshore Revenue Account), provide the Facility Agent with a Facility Agent Withdrawal Request signed by the Borrower (and in the case of a transfer on or after the First Repayment Date a copy of the relevant Compliance Certificate pursuant to clause 20.2(b)) no later than five (5) Business Days prior to the relevant payment date and the Facility Agent shall provide the Lenders with a copy of such Facility Agent Withdrawal Request |
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and, if applicable, the relevant Compliance Certificate. Unless the Majority Lenders have instructed the Facility Agent by such date that the conditions set out in clause 29.8(a)(ix) are not met (in the case of a transfer on or after the First Repayment Date) or the withdrawal is not permitted under clause 29.8(e) (in the case of a transfer prior to the First Repayment Date), the Facility Agent shall deliver to the relevant Account Bank the countersigned Facility Agent Withdrawal Request no later than two (2) Business Days before the relevant payment date.
(C) | in respect of transfers to a Project Account (other than the Distribution Account) in accordance with clause 29.8(a) or clause 29.8(e), deliver a Borrower Withdrawal Request to the relevant Account Bank (with a copy to the Facility Agent) no later than two (2) Business Days prior to the relevant payment date; |
(D) | on a monthly basis from the Final Acceptance Date within seven (7) Business Days of the end of each calendar month, provide to the Facility Agent a detailed summary of all withdrawals from the Offshore Revenue Account in that calendar month and with appropriate statements and/or information as may be reasonably required by the Facility Agent for the purpose of determining that such withdrawals have been made in compliance with this clause 29.8. |
(c) | All Receivables (other than the Mooring Purchase Price and the Tax Element) from time to time received by the Borrower, either Agent, the Security Agent or either Account Bank after Final Acceptance shall be paid to and held in the Offshore Revenue Account, except as otherwise contemplated in clause 29.7(Onshore Revenue Account) and shall in each case, if applicable following transfer to the Offshore Revenue Account, be applied in accordance with this clause 29.8. |
(d) | Upon the occurrence of a Proceeds Application Event (or if later the date the relevant prepayment is due) and at all times thereafter (until the relevant payments have been made together with the other amounts then due under the Finance Documents), all amounts standing to the credit of the Offshore Revenue Account (including all interest accrued thereon whilst held in the Offshore Revenue Account), together with all Receivables otherwise held by either Agent, the Security Agent, either Account Bank or the Borrower, shall (after providing for any Losses ranking by law in priority to the Secured Obligations) be applied (and, for this purpose, the Borrower hereby instructs the Facility Agent to make such application (and the Facility Agent hereby instructs the Account Banks, and the Borrower hereby authorises the Account Banks to make such payments) as soon as reasonably practicable in paying the following amounts in the following order: |
(i) | first, in or towards reimbursing all and any expenses and charges properly suffered, incurred or paid by the Finance Parties or any Receiver pursuant to the Finance Documents and all and any remuneration payable to any Receiver pursuant to the Finance Documents; |
(ii) | secondly, in or towards the required prepayment of the Loans and accrued interest and all other amounts then due under the Finance Documents and any Hedging Debt then due (in each case for further application in accordance with clause 41.6 (Partial payments); and |
(iii) | thirdly, an amount equal to the balance (if any) shall be paid to the Borrower or as it directs (including in accordance with the order of priorities in clause 29.8(a)). |
To ensure compliance with this clause 29.8(d) the Facility Agent shall deliver to the relevant Account Bank a Facility Agent Withdrawal Request (with a copy to the Borrower) for payment in accordance with this clause 29.8(d) no later than two (2) Business Days before the relevant payment date (and the Borrower hereby authorises that Account Bank to make the payment in accordance with such Facility Agent Withdrawal Request).
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(e) | Notwithstanding clause 29.8(a), the Borrower may: (i) transfer any amounts received into the Offshore Revenue Account prior to the Final Acceptance Date into the Construction Account, (ii) transfer to the Distribution Account the proceeds of any Utilisation which have been transferred into the Offshore Revenue Account and are permitted to be transferred into the Distribution Account pursuant to clause 5; and (iii) transfer into the Offshore Operating Account the proceeds of Subordinated Loans, for issuance of Promissory Notes and share subscriptions in the Borrower received by the Borrower and transferred to the Offshore Revenue Account after the Final Acceptance Date. |
(f) | Withdrawals |
During the Facility Period the Borrower shall not withdraw or request a withdrawal of moneys from the Offshore Revenue Account except as provided for in clause 29.8(a) or 29.8(d) or clause 29.8(e) or in accordance with the terms of the Account Security.
(g) | Information |
Without prejudice to the other provisions of this Agreement, the Borrower undertakes that it will provide to the Facility Agent promptly such information as may be reasonably required by the Facility Agent for the purpose of determining the amounts to be credited to each of the Project Accounts referred to in clause 29.8(a) or otherwise for application in accordance with the provisions of clause 29.8(a).
29.9 | Retention Account |
(a) | The Borrower shall not withdraw amounts standing to the credit of the Retention Account except as permitted by paragraph (b) below. The Borrower may withdraw amounts from the Retention Account by providing the Facility Agent with a Facility Agent Withdrawal Request signed by the Borrower no later than four (4) Business Days prior to the relevant payment date and the Facility Agent shall, provided that such Facility Agent Withdrawal Request is in compliance with this clause 29.9 or appears to it to be so in compliance, deliver to the relevant Account Bank the countersigned Facility Agent Withdrawal Request no later than two (2) Business Day before the relevant payment date. |
(b) | The Borrower shall apply amounts standing to the credit of the Retention Account in the following order of priority: |
(i) | firstly, on each Interest Payment Date, in payment in dollars, on a pari passu basis, to: |
(A) | the Lenders pro rata of all amounts in respect of interest (including any default interest) then due (or overdue) on that Interest Payment Date and payable under the Finance Documents; |
(B) | the Hedging Banks pro rata of all amounts (other than any swap termination sums / close-out payments under the Hedging Contracts) (if any) then due and payable to the Hedging Banks under the Hedging Contracts in respect of the period ending on that Interest Payment Date; |
(ii) | secondly, on each Repayment Date, in payment in dollars, on a pari passu basis, to: |
(A) | the Lenders pro rata of all amounts in respect of principal on Loans then due (or overdue) on that Repayment Date and payable under clause 8 (Repayment) (or otherwise pursuant to the Finance Documents); and |
(B) | the Hedging Banks pro rata of any swap termination sums / close-out payments owing to them under the Hedging Contracts; and |
provided that if there would, but for this proviso, be inadequate moneys standing to the credit of the Retention Account on that Interest Payment Date or Repayment
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Date to make the payments referred to in paragraphs (i) and (ii) above in full, then the relevant shortfall shall be met from any funds available first, in the Offshore Revenue Account and then from the Debt Service Reserve Account (or available to be drawn under any DSRA Letter of Credit) and, for this purpose, the Borrower hereby authorizes the Facility Agent and the Account Banks to apply the funds on the Offshore Revenue Account and/or Debt Service Reserve Account (or available to be drawn under any DSRA Letter of Credit) for such purpose and the Facility Agent, the Security Agent and the relevant Account Bank must apply such amounts for that purpose and in the case of the Facility Agent sign the relevant Facility Agent Withdrawal Request for such payment; and
(iii) | thirdly, at the option of the Borrower, in payment to the Borrower's Offshore Revenue Account of any amount by which the balance on the Retention Account exceeds that maximum amount then required to be in such account pursuant to clause 29.8(a). |
29.10 | Operating Accounts |
(a) | Payments |
The Borrower shall be entitled to:
(i) | make transfers from the Offshore Operating Account to the Onshore Operating Account for Operating Expenses payable in Rupiah; and |
(ii) | withdraw funds from the Onshore Operating Account and the Offshore Operating Account to pay any Operating Expenses on such dates and in such amounts as are necessary and transfers to the Offshore Revenue Account permitted by clause 29.13 (Insurance Proceeds Account). |
To ensure compliance with this clause 29.10(a) the Borrower shall deliver to the relevant Account Bank a Borrower Withdrawal Request for payment in accordance with this clause 29.10(a) no later than two (2) Business Days before the relevant payment date.
(b) | Cash Sweep |
The Borrower shall ensure that on 31st December of each year the amounts standing to the credit of the Operating Accounts shall not exceed 125 per cent of the Projected Operating Expenses for January of the following year as set out in the relevant Project Budget Statement. To ensure compliance with this clause 29.10(b), the Borrower shall transfer any such excess to the Offshore Revenue Account and the relevant Account Bank agrees to make such transfer upon receipt of a Borrower Withdrawal Request provided no later than two (2) Business Days prior to the relevant payment date.
(c) | Withdrawals |
During the Facility Period, the Borrower shall not withdraw or request a withdrawal of moneys from either Operating Account except (i) as provided for in clause 29.10(a) and (b), (ii) in accordance with the terms of the Account Security or (iii) with the Lenders' prior written consent.
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29.12 | Debt Service Reserve Account |
(a) | At any time (unless an Event of Default shall have occurred at such time and be continuing), the Borrower shall be entitled to withdraw moneys standing to the credit of the Debt Service Reserve Account provided that the Borrower has provided a DSRA Letter of Credit (procured by the Shareholders or any of their Affiliates) or to the extent that the DSRA Balance is greater than the Debt Service Reserve. The amount available to be withdrawn shall be such amount that ensures after such withdrawal the DSRA Balance is equal to the |
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Debt Service Reserve. Any such moneys withdrawn from the Debt Service Reserve Account shall be paid:
(i) | into the Distribution Account in the case of the transfer pursuant to the issuance of a DSRA Letter of Credit; or |
(ii) | into the Offshore Revenue Account in the case of a withdrawal due to the DSRA Balance exceeding the Debt Service Reserve other than due to the issue of a DSRA Letter of Credit. |
(b) | The Borrower shall not enter into any counter indemnity or other obligations with the DSRA L/C Issuer in connection with the issue of any DSRA Letter of Credit. No DSRA L/C Issuer shall be entitled to share in the security constituted by the Security Documents with the Finance Parties by reason of provision of the DSRA Letter of Credit. Each DSRA Letter of Credit shall be renewed and/or replaced by the Borrower with a new DSRA Letter of Credit one month prior to the expiry of the then current DSRA Letter of Credit, provided that the Borrower shall not be obliged to ensure such renewal or replacement if the cash balance on the Debt Service Reserve Account is then equal to the Debt Service Reserve. If not replaced as required pursuant to this paragraph (b), the Security Agent shall be entitled to claim under the existing DSRA Letter of Credit an amount equal to the applicable Debt Service Reserve less the cash balance on the Debt Service Reserve Account and such amount shall be credited to the Debt Service Reserve Account. |
(c) | The Borrower shall not withdraw or request a withdrawal of moneys from the Debt Service Reserve Account except as provided in clause 29.8(a) (Payment Cascade), clause 29.9 or as provided in paragraph (a) above. |
(d) | Subject to any withdrawal permitted pursuant to clause 29.12(c), the Borrower shall ensure that, at all times, the DSRA Balance is not less than the Debt Service Reserve. |
(e) | To ensure compliance with this clause 29.12 the relevant Account Bank shall only make a transfer from the Debt Service Reserve Account in accordance with paragraph (a) or (c) above and upon receipt of a Facility Agent Withdrawal Request. The Borrower may withdraw amounts from the Debt Service Reserve Account by providing the Facility Agent with a Facility Agent Withdrawal Request signed by the Borrower no later than four (4) Business Days prior to the relevant payment date and the Facility Agent shall, provided that such Facility Agent Withdrawal Request is in compliance with this clause 29.12 or appears to it to be so in compliance, deliver to the relevant Account Bank the countersigned Facility Agent Withdrawal Request no later than two (2) Business Day before the relevant payment date. |
29.13 | Insurance Proceeds Account |
(a) | Unless an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, all Insurance Proceeds from time to time received by the Borrower, the Security Agent or either Account Bank during the Facility Period shall (after providing for any Losses ranking by law in priority to the Secured Obligations) be applied as follows: |
(i) | if those Insurance Proceeds are in an amount less than the Major Casualty Amount, an amount equal to those Insurance Proceeds shall be paid to the Operating Account and the Borrower shall use such Insurance Proceeds in repairing or replacing such asset or property and/or in discharging the liability in respect of which they have been paid except to the extent that the repairs or replacement are unnecessary for continued operation or have already been paid for and/or the liability already discharged or those Insurance Proceeds exceed the cost of repair in which case such excess Insurance Proceeds shall be transferred to the Offshore Revenue Account and if a Termination Date has occurred applied in accordance with clause 29.18 (Application after Termination Date); |
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(ii) | if those Insurance Proceeds are in an amount equal to or exceeding the Major Casualty Amount an amount equal to those Insurance Proceeds shall be paid into the Insurance Proceeds Account and thereafter: |
(A) | if the Borrower is able to demonstrate to the satisfaction of the Lenders (acting reasonably and on the advice of the Technical Adviser and in consultation with the Borrower) that it is technically feasible to repair or replace and make good the relevant damage or loss with a financial model showing (1) a projected average Debt Service Coverage Ratio (for the purpose of clause 21) of 1.10:1 and (2) projected sufficient cash and cash flow (including the existing and projected cash balance on the Debt Service Reserve Account and amounts then available to be drawn down under any DSRA Letter of Credit) to pay Debt Service, in each case for the remainder of the Facility Period, an amount equal to those Insurance Proceeds shall be paid: |
(1) | to the Borrower (to such account as is advised by the Borrower), following receipt by the Facility Agent from the Borrower of evidence reasonably satisfactory to the Facility Agent that the relevant damage or loss has been properly made good and repaired and that all repair accounts and other liabilities whatsoever in connection with that damage or loss have been fully paid and discharged by the Borrower; or |
(2) | to the persons or person effecting the repairs to the Vessel on account of those repairs in the course of those repairs being effected (if staged payments for such repairs are required) or after those repairs have been effected (in all other circumstances); |
(B) | if the Lenders have not provided their consent to the application in accordance with paragraph (a) (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed), those Insurance Proceeds that are not applied as contemplated by paragraph (A) above shall be paid into the Offshore Revenue Account for application in accordance with clause 29.18 (Application after Termination Date). |
(b) | All amounts of Liability Insurance Proceeds from time to time received by the Borrower, the Security Agent or the Account Banks during the Facility Period shall be paid to the person who incurred the liability or who suffered the damage to which those Liability Insurance Proceeds relate or, where that liability has been satisfied, to the person who has satisfied that liability, in reimbursement to that person of the monies expended by it in satisfaction of that liability, in each case and to the extent applicable, following the receipt by the Security Agent from the Borrower of evidence satisfactory to the Security Agent acting reasonably that the relevant liability or damage was incurred or suffered or, as the case may be, that the relevant liability has been satisfied. |
(c) | All amounts of Loss of Hire Insurance Proceeds from time to time received by the Borrower, the Security Agent or the Account Banks during the Facility Period shall be paid into the Offshore Revenue Account. |
(d) | If an Event of Default is continuing, all amounts of Insurance Proceeds and/or Liability Insurance Proceeds from time to time received or held by the Security Agent or the Account Banks shall be applied in accordance with clause 38.23 (Order of application). |
(e) | To ensure compliance with this clause 29.13: |
(i) | the Borrower shall provide its instructions for payment (by providing the relevant Facility Agent Withdrawal Request signed by the Borrower) in accordance with this clause 29.13 to the Facility Agent (for its confirmation of compliance) no later than five (5) Business Days prior to the relevant payment date; and |
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(ii) | the relevant Account Bank shall only make a transfer from the Insurance Proceeds Account upon receipt of a Facility Agent Withdrawal Request countersigned by the Facility Agent no later than two (2) Business Days prior to the relevant payment date (and the Borrower hereby irrevocably authorises and instructs the relevant Account Bank to make the payment in accordance with such Facility Agent Withdrawal Request). |
29.14 Rupiah Account and Dollar Tax Account
(a) | The Borrower may wit withdraw moneys from the Rupiah Account and Dollar Tax Account only for the payment of its Tax obligations unless an Event of Default occurs and is continuing, in which case any transfer and withdrawal shall require consent of the Majority Lenders. |
(b) | To ensure compliance with this clause 29.14, the relevant Account Bank shall only make a transfer from the Rupiah Account upon receipt of a Borrower Withdrawal Request which is delivered by the Borrower to that Account Bank no later than two (2) Business Days prior to the relevant payment date. |
29.15 Onshore Mooring Payment Account
(a) | Payments |
No later than one (1) Business Day following receipt of any payment into the Onshore Mooring Payment Account, the relevant Account Bank shall transfer (and the Borrower hereby irrevocably authorises and instructs that Account Bank to make such transfer) such amount to the Offshore Mooring Payment Account.
(b) | Withdrawals |
No Borrower Withdrawal Request shall be required for a transfer pursuant to clause 29.15(a). During the Facility Period, the Borrower shall not withdraw or request a withdrawal of moneys from the Onshore Mooring Payment Account except (i) as provided for in clause 29.15(a), (ii) in accordance with the terms of the Account Security or (iii) with the Lenders' prior written consent.
29.16 | Offshore Mooring Payment Account |
(a) | The Borrower shall not withdraw or request a withdrawal of moneys from the Offshore Mooring Payment Account other than to (i) transfer amounts to the Construction Account or the Offshore Revenue Account; or (ii) transfer moneys standing to the credit of the Offshore Mooring Payment Account to the Distribution Account. |
(b) | To ensure compliance with this clause 29.16: |
(i) | the Borrower shall provide its instructions for payment (by providing the relevant Facility Agent Withdrawal Request signed by the Borrower) in accordance with this clause 29.16 to the Facility Agent (for its confirmation of compliance) no later than five (5) Business Days prior to the relevant payment date; |
(ii) | the relevant Account Bank shall only make a transfer from the Offshore Mooring Account upon receipt of a Facility Agent Withdrawal Request countersigned by the Facility Agent no later than two (2) Business Days prior to the relevant payment date (and the Borrower hereby authorises that Account Bank to make the payment in accordance with such Facility Agent Withdrawal Request). |
29.17 Distribution Account
The Borrower shall be entitled to withdraw moneys from the Distribution Account without restriction.
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29.18 Application after Termination Date
Upon and following any Termination Date, the Facility Agent will (and the Account Banks and the Security Agent hereby agree to) on the due date for payment in accordance with this Agreement apply the proceeds of realisation of any Collateral, including any credit balance on any Project Account (other than the Distribution Account), any Insurance Proceeds and/or Total Loss Proceeds and/or Liability Insurance Proceeds and any other moneys received under or pursuant to the Finance Documents and the Security Documents (after providing for all costs, charges, expenses and liabilities and other payments ranking in priority to the Secured Obligations) in the following manner and order:
(a) | first, in or towards payment to the Security Agent of any unpaid costs and expenses incurred in connection with the enforcement or attempted enforcement of any of the rights under any of the Finance Documents; and |
(b) | secondly, for further application in accordance with clause 38.23 (Order of application). |
29.19 Payment Administration
(a) | Each of the Project Accounts shall be operated by the relevant Account Bank solely in accordance with this clause 28 and each instruction to the Account Banks shall be compliant with the format indicated in Schedule 18 (Form of instruction to Account Bank). For the avoidance of doubt, adherence to the terms of this clause 28 is the Facility Agent's responsibility. |
(b) | The general provisions set out in Schedule 19 (Account Bank provisions) are incorporated into this Agreement by reference and, in the case of any conflict between the other provisions of this Agreement and Schedule 19, the provisions of Schedule 19 shall prevail. |
29.20 Other provisions
(a) | A Project Account (other than Project Accounts in place as of the first Utilisation Date) may only be designated for the purposes described in this clause 28 after the first Utilisation Date if: |
(i) | such designation is made in writing by the Borrower to the Facility Agent and specifies the name and address of the relevant Account Bank and the number and any designation or other reference attributed to the Account; |
(ii) | an Account Security (other than in the case of the Distribution Account) has been duly executed and delivered by the Borrower in favour of the Security Agent; |
(iii) | any notice required by the Account Security to be given to an Account Bank has been given to the relevant Account Bank in the form required by the relevant Account Security; and |
(iv) | the Facility Agent, or its duly authorised representative, has received such documents and evidence it may require in relation to the Account and the Account Security including documents and evidence of the type referred to in Schedule 3 (Conditions precedent) in relation to the Account and the relevant Account Security. |
(b) | The Accounts shall, unless otherwise agreed by the Borrower, be interest bearing with such interest paid into the relevant Project Account to which it relates and the rates of payment of interest and other terms regulating any Project Account will be a matter of separate agreement between the Borrower and the relevant Account Bank. If a Project Account (other than the Distribution Account) is a fixed term deposit account, the Borrower may select the terms of deposits until the relevant Account Security has become enforceable and the Security Agent directs otherwise. |
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(c) | The Borrower shall not close any Project Account (other than the Distribution Account) or alter the terms of any Project Account (other than the Distribution Account) from those in force at the time it is designated for the purposes of this clause 28 or waive any of its rights in relation to a Project Account (other than the Distribution Account) except with approval. |
(d) | The Borrower shall deposit with the Security Agent all certificates of deposit, receipts or other instruments or securities relating to any Project Account (other than the Distribution Account), notify the Security Agent of any claim or notice relating to a Project Account (other than the Distribution Account) from any other party and provide the Facility Agent with any other information it may request concerning any Project Account (other than the Distribution Account). |
(e) | The Facility Agent shall promptly countersign and provide to the relevant Account Bank any Facility Agent Withdrawal Request or Borrower Withdrawal Request which is provided to it for its countersignature in accordance with this Agreement for a withdrawal which is in compliance with this clause 28 and the Lenders shall promptly provide such instructions as are required by the Facility Agent to countersign and provide to the relevant Account Bank any such Facility Agent Withdrawal Request or Borrower Withdrawal Request. |
(f) | For the purposes of this clause 28 a withdrawal from a Project Account includes a payment or transfer from such Project Account. |
(g) | Each Finance Party agrees that if it is an Account Bank in respect of a Project Account (other than the Distribution Account) then there will be no restrictions on charging that Project Account as contemplated by this Agreement and it shall not (except with the approval of the Majority Lenders) exercise any right of combination, consolidation or set-off which it may have in respect of that Account in a manner adverse to the rights of the other Finance Parties. |
30 | Business restrictions |
The Borrower undertakes that this clause 30 will be complied throughout the Facility Period.
30.1 | General negative pledge |
The Borrower shall not permit any Security Interest to exist, arise or be created or extended over all or any part of its assets except for:
(a) | those granted or expressed to be granted by any of the Security Documents; and |
(b) | Permitted Security Interests. |
30.2 | Transactions similar to security |
(Without prejudice to clauses 30.3 (Financial Indebtedness) and 30.8 (Disposals)), the Borrower shall not:
(a) | sell, transfer or otherwise dispose of any of its assets on terms whereby that asset is or may be leased to, or re-acquired by, any other member of the Höegh MLP Group other than pursuant to disposals permitted under clause 30.8 (Disposals); |
(b) | sell, transfer, factor or otherwise dispose of any of its receivables on recourse terms (except for the discounting of bills or notes in the ordinary course of business); |
(c) | enter into any arrangement under which money or the benefit of a bank or other account may be applied, set-off or made subject to a combination of accounts; or |
(d) | enter into any other preferential arrangement having a similar effect, |
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in circumstances where the arrangement or transaction is entered into primarily as a method of raising Financial Indebtedness or of financing the acquisition of an asset except where such arrangement or transaction would be permitted by clause 30.1 (General negative pledge) if such arrangement or transaction had been a Security Interest.
30.3 | Financial Indebtedness |
The Borrower shall not incur, or permit to exist, any Financial Indebtedness owed by it to anyone else except:
(a) | Financial Indebtedness incurred under the Finance Documents; |
(b) | Permitted Financial Indebtedness; and |
(c) | Financial Indebtedness permitted under clause 30.5 (Loans and credit). |
30.4 | Guarantees |
The Borrower shall not give or permit to exist, any guarantee by it in respect of indebtedness of any person or allow any of its indebtedness to be guaranteed by anyone else (except pursuant to the Guarantee or otherwise by the Guarantor).
30.5 | Loans and credit |
The Borrower shall not make, grant or permit to exist any loans or any credit by it to anyone else other than trade credit granted by it to its customers on normal commercial terms in the ordinary course of its business and any loans made from amounts standing to the credit of the Distribution Account.
30.6 | Bank accounts and other financial transactions |
The Borrower shall not:
(a) | maintain any current or deposit account (other than the Project Accounts and, prior to the first Utilisation Date, the Initial Equity Account) with a bank or financial institution except for the deposit of money, operation of current accounts and the conduct of electronic banking operations with the Account Banks; |
(b) | hold cash in any account (other than with the Account Banks) over or in respect of which any set-off, combination of accounts, netting or Security Interest exists except for the Initial Equity Account prior to the first Utilisation Date; |
(c) | be party to any banking or financial transaction, whether on or off balance sheet, that is not permitted under this Agreement. |
30.7 | Other obligations and/or business |
The Borrower shall not:
(a) | enter into any contract or agreement with any person and will not otherwise create, undertake, assume or incur any obligation or liability whatsoever to any person other than in its ordinary course of business or as provided for in, or as permitted by, the Transaction Documents and arrangements entered into as a result thereof and each other document required to be executed and delivered by it in accordance with the provisions hereof or thereof; or |
(b) | undertake or become involved in any business whatsoever other than as contemplated by the Transaction Documents without the prior written consent of the Facility Agent acting with the consent of all the Lenders. |
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30.8 | Disposals |
The Borrower shall not enter into a single transaction or a series of transactions, whether related or not and whether voluntarily or involuntarily, to sell, transfer, assign, pledge, charter, discount or otherwise dispose of any of its present and future business, undertaking, assets and revenues, including, but not limited to, its title, rights or interests in or to the Vessel or any equipment or any of the Borrower's Security (other than the Permitted Security Interests) except for any of the following disposals so long as they are not prohibited by any other provision of the Finance Documents:
(a) | disposals of assets made in (and on terms reflecting) the ordinary course of trading of the disposing entity; |
(b) | disposals of obsolete assets, or assets which are no longer required for the purpose of the business of the Borrower in each case for cash on normal commercial terms and on an arm's length basis; |
(c) | disposals of any assets, rights and revenues permitted by any Finance Document, or including without limitation under clauses 25.2 (Sale or disposal of the Vessel) and 25.3 (Sale of the Mooring) of this Agreement, or required pursuant to any other Finance Document; |
(d) | dealings with trade creditors with respect to book debts in the ordinary course of trading; and |
(e) | the application of cash or cash equivalents in the acquisition of assets or services in the ordinary course of its business. |
30.9 | Contracts and arrangements with Affiliates |
The Borrower shall not be party to any arrangement or contract with any of its Affiliates unless such arrangement or contract is on an arm's length basis.
30.10 Subsidiaries
The Borrower shall not establish or acquire a company or other entity which would be or become a member of the Höegh MLP Group or reactivate any member of the Höegh MLP Group.
30.11 | Acquisitions and investments |
The Borrower shall not acquire any person, business or assets or make any investment in any person or business or enter into any joint-venture arrangement except:
(a) | the Vessel, the Mooring and the Borrower Assigned Property; |
(b) | acquisitions of assets in the ordinary course of business (not being new businesses or vessels); or |
(c) | pursuant to any Transaction Document to which it is party. |
30.12 Reduction of capital
The Borrower shall not redeem or purchase or otherwise reduce any of its share capital or any warrants or any uncalled or unpaid liability in respect of its share capital or reduce the amount (if any) for the time being standing to the credit of its share premium account or capital redemption or other undistributable reserve in any manner.
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30.13 Increase in capital
The Borrower shall not issue shares to anyone unless to an existing Shareholder provided there is no change in the percentage ownership interests and/or shareholding in the Borrower that constitutes a Change of Control or to a New Shareholder which is an Approved Shareholder in accordance with clause 30.16 (Replacement and/or additional shareholder) and in each case provided that any such issued shares are, from the first Utilisation Date, subject to the Shares Security .
30.14 Distributions and other payments
Except to the extent the relevant payment is made from amounts standing to the credit of the Distribution Account and for any Permitted Repayment, the Borrower shall not:
(a) | pay (including by way of set-off, combination of accounts or otherwise) any dividend or redeem or make any other distribution or payment (whether in cash or in specie), including any interest and/or unpaid dividends, in respect of its equity or any of its other share capital or any warrants for the time being in issue; or |
(b) | make any payment (including by way of set-off, combination of accounts or otherwise) by way of interest, or repayment, redemption, purchase or other payment, in respect of any Subordinated Loan or Promissory Note to a Shareholder or the Sponsor or another member of the Höegh MLP Group or to any other person. |
30.15 Change in ownership
(a) | Subject to paragraphs (b) and (c) below, the Borrower shall not, change or permit any change in the percentage shareholding held by the Shareholders in the Borrower as at the first Utilisation Date without the prior written consent of the Lenders. |
(b) | The Indonesian Shareholder may transfer all or part of its shareholding in the Borrower to another Shareholder or a New Shareholder which is an Approved Shareholder in accordance with clause 30.16 (Replacement and/or additional shareholder). |
(c) | The Singapore Shareholder may transfer all or part of its shareholding in the Borrower to an Affiliate which is a wholly owned Subsidiary of the Guarantor in accordance with clause 30.16 (Replacement and/or additional shareholder). |
30.16 | Replacement and/or additional shareholder |
No Shareholder shall transfer any of the shares held by it in the Borrower without the prior written consent of the Lenders (acting reasonably) unless:
(a) | the appointment of a New Shareholder would not breach the terms of the Charter, the Shareholders' Agreement or any applicable law or regulation; |
(b) | the New Shareholder is an Approved Shareholder; |
(c) | the transfer does not result in a Change in Control; |
(d) | the Lenders have obtained all internal "know your customer" approvals required for the proposed appointment of the New Shareholder and can satisfy their know your customer requirements in respect of the New Shareholder; |
(e) | the New Shareholder has, or will have concurrently with such transfer, entered into an accession deed (solely or together with the transferring shareholder) or such other documentation as may reasonably be required whereby the New Shareholder assumes all applicable obligations of the transferring Shareholder under any applicable Finance Documents (to the satisfaction of the Majority Lenders (acting reasonably)) and any other documents which the Facility Agent (acting reasonably) may consider necessary in relation |
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to appointment of the New Shareholder to ensure that rights equivalent to those provided to the Finance Parties under the Finance Documents in respect of the transferring shareholder and its shares are preserved; and
(f) | if required by the Facility Agent (acting reasonably), the Facility Agent has obtained satisfactory legal opinions in respect of the New Shareholder's entry into any of the documents entered into by the New Shareholder pursuant to paragraph (e) above. |
31 | Hedging |
The undertakings in this clause apply throughout the Facility Period.
31.1 | Hedging |
(a) | Subject to clause 31.1(j) below, the Borrower shall enter into and maintain at all times on and from the date falling three (3) months after the date of this Agreement, Hedging Transactions on a forward start basis to commence from no later than the scheduled first Repayment Date for the Facilities which provide for protection against adverse movements in interest rates for an aggregate notional principal amount that is not less than seventy per cent (70%) of the aggregate of the Total Commitments of the Commercial Facility (as at the date of this Agreement) but not greater than one hundred per cent (100%) (provided that the Borrower shall not be in breach of this requirement where such notional amounts are greater than one hundred per cent (100%) due to a prepayment if it is in compliance with such requirement within 20 Business Days or if due to a cancellation by any Finance Party or due to the occurrence of any Last Availability Date it is in compliance with such requirement within 20 Business Days after being notified of such event by the Facility Agent) of the aggregate of the Loans; |
(b) | The initial Hedging Transactions to be entered into within 3 months of the date of this Agreement shall be entered into by the Borrower with the Original Lenders with the credit spread, in basis points (bps), over the offer side of the dollar swap rate, as calculated in line with the scheduled Repayment Instalments, based on the prevailing dollar swap yield curve, agreed by the Borrower and the Mandated Lead Arrangers in writing on or prior to the date of this Agreement, such Hedging Transactions to be entered into with each of the Original Lenders pro rata to the respective Commitments of the Original Lenders (provided that the Original Lenders enter into such Hedging Transactions on such agreed terms). Any Hedging Transactions required or permitted to be entered into by the Borrower after such initial Hedging Transactions shall, subject to clause 33.4(f) be entered into with such Lenders as the Borrower may select and on such terms as they may agree. |
(c) | All Original Hedging Banks shall be Original Lenders. |
(d) | The Borrower shall no later than three (3) months after the first Utilisation Date, execute and deliver to the Facility Agent a copy of the Hedging Master Agreements that there are required to have been entered into by such date pursuant to clause 31.1(a) certified as true by an authorised signatory of the Borrower and evidence of the entry into the Hedging Transactions. |
(e) | Each Hedging Contract contemplated by this clause 31.1 (Hedging) shall: |
(i) | provide that the Termination Currency (as defined in each Hedging Contract) of each Hedging Contract is dollars; |
(ii) | provide for two-way payments in the event of a termination of a Hedging Transaction, whether upon a Termination Event or an Event of Default (each as defined in the relevant Hedging Contract) as the applicable payment measure; and |
(iii) | provide that the governing law is English law. |
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(f) | The Hedging Transactions contemplated by this clause 31.1 (Hedging) shall: |
(i) | individually provide for the Borrower to pay a fixed rate of interest in respect of the relevant notional principal amount from the first Repayment Dates of the Facilities; and |
(ii) | collectively match the repayment profile of the Loans in a manner consistent with clause 31.1(a), including pursuant to any adjustment necessitated by clause 8.3 (Adjustments of scheduled repayments). |
(g) | The Borrower and Hedging Banks shall use reasonable endeavours to ensure that: |
(i) | each Floating Rate Payer Payment Date (as defined in each Hedging Contract) in respect of each Hedging Transaction shall coincide with each Repayment Date; |
(ii) | each Reset Date (as defined in each Hedging Contract) in respect of each Hedging Transaction is consistent with each Quotation Day; and |
(iii) | the Floating Rate Option (as defined in each Hedging Contract) in respect of each Hedging Transaction is consistent with the definition of LIBOR, including with respect to the first Interest Period and any fallback determination provisions. |
(h) | Each Hedging Bank shall, promptly upon entry into any Hedging Transaction, deliver to the Facility Agent an original or certified copy of the relevant Confirmation. |
(i) | Other than Hedging Transactions which meet the requirements of this clause 31 (Hedging), the Borrower shall not enter into derivative transactions. |
(j) | In the circumstances referred to in clauses 33.4(f)(i), and 31.1(k) and from the date designated as the Early Termination Date by the terminating Hedging Bank or the Borrower, as applicable, the Borrower shall, if such action is necessary in order for the Borrower to comply with clause 31.1(a) above, have a period of thirty (30) days to execute replacement Hedging Transactions in accordance with the provisions of clause 31.1(b) and 33.4(f). In such case, unless otherwise agreed or due to the Hedging Banks not being willing to enter into such replacement Hedging Transactions following the procedures set out in clause 31.1(b), should the Borrower fail to execute replacement Hedging Transactions sufficient to comply with clause 31.1(a) within such thirty (30) day period, this shall constitute a breach of clause 31.1(a) but not otherwise. If execution of such replacement Hedging Transactions is unnecessary in order for the Borrower to comply with clause 31.1(a) above, the Borrower may execute replacement Hedging Transactions in accordance with the provisions of clause 31.1(b) and 33.4(f) but failure to do so shall not constitute a breach of clause 31.1(a). |
(k) | If an Event of Default (as defined in a Hedging Contract) occurs in respect of a Hedging Bank the Borrower shall, if requested by the Facility Agent, promptly exercise its rights to terminate the Hedging Transactions with the Hedging Bank in respect of which such event applies. |
(l) | The Borrower may if any Termination Event or Event of Default (as such terms are defined in a Hedging Contract) occurs in respect of a Hedging Bank, subject to the consent of the Facility Agent if such termination, unwinding or close out would or is reasonably likely to result in a net amount payable by the Borrower in respect of such termination, unwinding or close out (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed where the Borrower can demonstrate that, taking into account such payment, it would still be in compliance with clause 21.1 (Borrower Financial Covenants) in respect of the Relevant Period in which such payment would be payable or that such payment will be met from funds in the Distribution Account or advanced pursuant to a Subordinated Loan or Promissory Note) or if an Event of Default is continuing, exercise its rights to terminate any of the Hedging Transactions with the Hedging Bank in respect of whom the event applies, subject to compliance with clause 31.1(a). |
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(m) | The Borrower may at any time, subject to the consent of the Facility Agent if such termination, unwinding or close out would or is reasonably likely to result in a net amount payable by the Borrower in respect of such termination, unwinding or close out (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed where the Borrower can demonstrate that, taking into account such payment, it would still be in compliance with clause 21.1 (Borrower Financial Covenants) in respect of the Relevant Period in which such payment would be payable or that such payment will be met from funds in the Distribution Account or advanced pursuant to a Subordinated Loan or Promissory Note) or if an Event of Default is continuing and provided that following such action it will be in compliance with clause 31.1(a), exercise its rights to terminate, unwind or close out any Hedging Transactions provided that, except in the circumstances provided for in clauses 31.1(j), 31.1(k), 31.1(l) and 33.4(f), such action is taken in respect of each of the existing Hedging Transactions pro rata. |
(n) | The Borrower may enter into any further Hedging Transactions provided that such Hedging Transactions are entered into in compliance with clause 31.1(a) and in accordance with clause 31.1(b) and 33.4(f) and unless such Hedging Transactions are otherwise expressly permitted or provided for under any other provision of clause 31 or 33 or they are entered into with the prior written consent of the Facility Agent. |
31.2 | Variations |
Except with the approval of the Facility Agent (or as required under clause 31.6 (Unwinding of Hedging Contracts), or to align the payment dates with actual Repayment Dates for which no such approval shall be required) no Hedging Master Agreement or Hedging Contract shall be varied provided that, to the extent that any adjustment is made under clause 8.3 (Adjustment of scheduled repayments) or after such variation the Borrower will be in compliance with clause 31.1(a), no such approval shall be required to vary the profile of any Hedging Transaction to match such adjustment and for this purpose vary includes terminating or closing out any Hedging Transaction and provided that the Borrower may terminate, unwind or close out any Hedging Transaction subject to compliance with clause 31.1. Furthermore, no such approval is required if the variation is minor or of an administrative nature or corrects a manifest or proven error.
31.3 | Releases and waivers |
Except with the approval of the Facility Agent (subject to clause 31.7 (Assignment of Hedging Contracts by Hedging Banks)), the Borrower shall not release any obligation of any Hedging Bank under the Hedging Contracts (including by way of novation), nor waive of any breach of any such obligation nor consent to anything which would otherwise be such a breach.
31.4 | Assignment by Borrower |
Except pursuant to the Hedging Security or as permitted or required under this Agreement, the Borrower shall not assign or otherwise dispose of its rights under any Hedging Contract.
31.5 | Termination of Hedging Contracts by Borrower |
Except with the approval of the Facility Agent or as permitted under this Agreement and subject to clause 33.4(f), the Borrower shall not terminate or rescind any Hedging Contract or close out or unwind any Hedging Transaction for any reason whatsoever.
31.6 | Unwinding of Hedging Contracts |
(a) | Subject to clause 31.6(b) below, if, the 20 Business Day period referred to in clause 31.1(a) has lapsed, and whether as a result of any prepayment (in whole or in part) of the Loans or any cancellation (in whole or in part) of the Commitment or otherwise, the aggregate notional principal amount under all Hedging Transactions entered into by the Borrower exceeds or will exceed the aggregate amount of Loans in respect of the Facilities outstanding at that time after such prepayment or cancellation, then each of the Hedging |
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Banks shall promptly after the expiry of such period close out and terminate a sufficient portion of each Hedging Transaction (on a pro rata basis) as is necessary to ensure that the aggregate notional principal amount under the remaining continuing Hedging Transactions is not greater than one hundred per cent (100%) of the aggregate of the Loans outstanding at that time and as scheduled to be repaid from time to time thereafter pursuant to clause 8 (Repayment).
(b) | Where the prepayment of a Loan (or any part thereof) arises as a result of the circumstances described in clause 9.1 (Illegality) in relation to a single Lender (and such circumstances also affect such person (or its respective Affiliate) acting in its capacity as Hedging Bank, as a result of which such Hedging Bank is entitled to designate an Early Termination Date (as defined in the relevant Hedging Master Agreement) with respect to the whole of the relevant Hedging Transaction), then such Hedging Bank shall (on the instruction of the Facility Agent) immediately close out and terminate such Hedging Transaction. |
31.7 | Assignment of Hedging Contracts by Hedging Banks |
(a) | A Hedging Bank (the Existing Hedging Bank) shall assign its rights or transfer by novation its rights and obligations under this Agreement (in its capacity as a Hedging Bank and not, if applicable, as a Lender) to another bank or financial institution (or, following an Event of Default that is continuing, to a trust, fund or other entity) which is regularly engaged in or established for the purpose of making, purchasing or investing in loans, securities or other financial assets and entering into ISDA derivative documentation and interest rate swaps (including an Affiliate of such Hedging Bank) (the New Hedging Bank) to the extent that such Hedging Bank has assigned or transferred its rights to such New Hedging Bank under, and in accordance with the terms of, the relevant Hedging Contract and shall ensure each New Hedging Bank becomes a Party in capacity or, a hedging Bank by executing a Succession Deed. The consent of the Borrower is required for an assignment by a Hedging Bank, unless the assignment is to another Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender or an Event of Default is continuing or such assignment or transfer is made after the Final Acceptance Date to an Approved Transferee and the relevant Existing Hedging Bank has notified the Borrower of the proposed assignment or transfer and New Hedging Bank at least five (5) Business Days prior to, and consulted with the Borrower on, the proposed assignment or transfer. The Facility Agent will immediately advise the Borrower and the Agents of the assignment. |
(b) | The Borrower's consent to an assignment may not be unreasonably withheld or delayed and will be deemed to have been given ten (10) Business Days after it has received the Existing Hedging Bank's request for consent unless consent is expressly refused within that time |
(c) | Except in the case of a transfer that meets the criteria specified in clause 31.7(a) above or when an Event of Default which is continuing, no Hedging Bank is entitled to transfer its Hedging Contract other than to an Alternative Financial Institution (as defined in clause 33.4(f)). |
(d) | Neither the Borrower nor the other Obligors shall be liable for any costs (including break costs) arising from the termination of any Hedging Contracts and/or entering into new hedging arrangements on less favourable rates than the existing Hedging Contracts which are incurred as a result of voluntary transfers by Lenders or Hedging Banks. |
(e) | If such assignment or transfer would at the date of such assignment or transfer subject the Borrower to any greater withholding tax liability hereunder to the New Hedging Bank than it would have had to the Existing Hedging Bank on such date then unless such assignment or transfer was made at the request or with the consent of the Borrower in order to mitigate or avoid the requirement for payment of additional amounts or increased costs or to mitigate or avoid an illegality, the Borrower shall not be obliged to pay any such additional withholding tax or increased costs under this Agreement in excess of that it would have been obliged to pay had no such assignment or transfer then taken place. |
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31.8 | Information concerning Hedging Contracts |
The Hedging Banks shall provide the Facility Agent with any information it may request concerning any Hedging Contract, including all reasonable information, accounts and records that may be necessary or of assistance to enable the Facility Agent to verify the amounts of all payments and any other amounts payable under the Hedging Contracts or to enable any Finance Party to comply with any reporting obligation under the laws or regulations of any jurisdiction in respect of any Hedging Contract.
32 | Events of Default |
Each of the events or circumstances set out in clauses 32.1 to 32.29 is an Event of Default.
32.1 | Non-payment |
An Obligor does not pay on the due date any amount payable pursuant to a Finance Document at the place at and in the currency in which it is expressed to be payable and such failure to pay is not remedied within five (5) Business Days of its due date.
32.2 | Financial covenants |
The Borrower does not comply with clauses 21.1 (Borrower Financial Covenants) or 21.2 (Guarantor Financial Covenants) or the Guarantor does not comply with clause 21 (Financial covenants) of the Guarantee.
32.3 | Value of security |
The Borrower does not comply with clause 28 (Minimum security value).
32.4 | Insurance |
(a) | The Insurances and, if applicable, the Reinsurances of the Vessel are not in place and in force in the manner (except for any requirement other than at the time of such insurance or reinsurance being taken, as to credit rating of any insurer or reinsurer) required by clause 27 (Insurance). |
(b) | Any insurer or reinsurer disclaims liability under the Insurances or, if applicable, the Reinsurances of the Vessel by reason of any mis-statement or failure or default by any Obligor. |
32.5 | Other obligations |
(a) | An Obligor does not comply with any provision of the Finance Documents (other than those referred to in clauses 32.1 (Non-payment), 32.2 (Financial covenants), 32.3 (Value of security), and 32.4 (Insurance)). |
(b) | No Event of Default under clause 32.5(a) above will occur if the failure to comply is capable of remedy and the failure is remedied within fifteen (15) Business Days of the Facility Agent giving notice to the Borrower. |
32.6 | Misrepresentation |
(a) | Any representation or statement made or deemed to be made by an Obligor in the Finance Documents or any other document delivered by or on behalf of any Obligor under or in connection with any Finance Document is or proves to have been incorrect or misleading in any material respect when made or deemed to be made. |
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rise to it is capable of remedy and is remedied within fifteen (15) Business Days of the Facility Agent giving notice to the Borrower.
(c) | No Event of Default will occur under this clause 32.6 (Misrepresentation) in the case of a representation, statement or document made or delivered by, or in respect of, a Shareholder, O&M Contractor or Supervisor if the misrepresentation and/or mis-statement and/or underlying event or circumstance giving rise to it is capable of remedy by replacing such Shareholder, O&M Contractor or Supervisor and in the case of a Shareholder such Shareholder is replaced as a shareholder in the Borrower with a New Shareholder pursuant to and in accordance with clause 30.16 (Replacement and/or additional shareholder), or in the case of an O&M Contractor if a replacement operator which is an Approved Operator is appointed pursuant to and in accordance with clause 24.4 (Operation and Maintenance), or in the case of a Supervisor such Supervisor is replaced with a new Supervisor, in each case within thirty (30) Business Days of the Facility Agent giving notice to the Borrower. |
32.7 | Unlawfulness and invalidity |
(a) | It is or becomes unlawful for an Obligor, a Shareholder or the Charterer to perform any of its obligations under the Finance Documents. |
(b) | Any obligation or obligations of any Obligor, a Shareholder or the Charterer under any Finance Documents are not (subject to the Legal Reservations) or cease to be, legal, valid, binding or enforceable and the cessation individually or cumulatively materially and adversely affects the interests of the Lenders under the Finance Documents. |
(c) | Any Finance Document or any Security Interest created or expressed to be created or evidenced by the Security Documents (other than a Reinsurance Fiduciary Assignment) ceases (subject to the Legal Reservations) to be in full force and effect (other than by a termination permitted under the Finance Documents) or is alleged by a party to it (other than a Finance Party) to be ineffective for any reason. |
(d) | No Event of Default will occur under this clause 32.7 (Unlawfulness and invalidity) in the case of a Finance Document entered into by, or an obligation of or in respect of, a Shareholder, O&M Contractor or Supervisor if it is capable of remedy by replacing such Shareholder, O&M Contractor or Supervisor and the entry if applicable into replacement Finance Documents and in the case of a Shareholder such Shareholder is replaced as a shareholder in the Borrower with a New Shareholder pursuant to and in accordance with clause 30.16 (Replacement and/or additional shareholder), or in the case of an O&M Contractor if a replacement operator which is an Approved Operator is appointed pursuant to and in accordance with clause 24.4 (Operation and Maintenance), or in the case of a Supervisor such Supervisor is replaced with a new Supervisor, in each case together with the entry into of the applicable Finance Documents and within thirty (30) Business Days of the Facility Agent giving notice to the Borrower. |
32.8 | Cross default |
(a) | Any Financial Indebtedness of any Facility Obligor is declared to be or otherwise becomes due and payable prior to its specified maturity as a result of an event of default (however described). |
(b) | Any commitment for any Financial Indebtedness of any Facility Obligor is cancelled or suspended by a creditor of that Obligor as a result of an event of default (however described). |
(c) | Any creditor of any Facility Obligor becomes entitled to declare any Financial Indebtedness of that Obligor due and payable prior to its specified maturity as a result of an event of default (however described). |
(d) | No Event of Default will occur under this clause 32.8 if the aggregate amount of Financial Indebtedness or commitment for Financial Indebtedness falling within clauses 32.8(a) to |
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32.8(c) above is, in the case of the Guarantor, less than $10,000,000 (or its equivalent in any other currency or currencies).
32.9 | Insolvency |
(a) | Any Obligor or the Charterer or the Charter Guarantor or the Builder or the Mooring EPC Contractor or the Mooring Installation Contractor or the EPCIC Contractor or the Refund Guarantor or Modec is unable or admits inability to pay its debts as they fall due, suspends making payments on any of its debts or, by reason of actual or anticipated financial difficulties, commences negotiations with one or more of its creditors with a view to rescheduling any of its indebtedness. |
(b) | A moratorium is declared in respect of any indebtedness of any Obligor or the Charterer or the Builder. If a moratorium occurs, the ending of the moratorium will not, subject to paragraph (c) below, remedy any Event of Default caused by that moratorium. |
(c) | No Event of Default will occur under this clause 32.9 (Insolvency) if any of the events described in paragraphs (a) and (b) above occurs in respect of the Charterer, the Charter Guarantor, the Builder, the EPCIC Contractor, the Mooring EPC Contractor, Modec or the Mooring Installation Contractor and it might reasonably be expected that such event would not have a material adverse effect on the delivery of the Vessel in accordance with the Building Contract or the Charterer's obligation to pay Charter Hire in accordance with the Charter. |
(d) | No Event of Default will occur under this clause 32.9 (Insolvency) in the case a Shareholder, O&M Contractor or Supervisor if in the case of a Shareholder such Shareholder is replaced as a shareholder in the Borrower with a New Shareholder pursuant to and in accordance with clause 30.16 (Replacement and/or additional shareholder), or in the case of an O&M Contractor if a replacement operator which is an Approved Operator is appointed pursuant to and in accordance with clause 24.4 (Operation and Maintenance), or in the case of a Supervisor such Supervisor is replaced with a new Supervisor, in each case within thirty (30) Business Days of any event described within clauses 32.9(a) and (b) above having taken place (provided that none of the events described within clauses 32.9(a) and (b) above has occurred in respect of such New Shareholder or replacement O&M Contractor or Supervisor). |
32.10 Insolvency proceedings
(a) | Any corporate action, legal proceedings or other procedure or step is taken in relation to: |
(i) | the suspension of payments, a moratorium of any indebtedness, winding-up, dissolution, administration or reorganisation (by way of voluntary arrangement, scheme of arrangement or otherwise) of any Obligor or the Charterer or the Charter Guarantor or the Builder or Modec or the Refund Guarantor or the Mooring EPC Contractor or the Mooring Installation Contractor or the EPCIC Contractor; |
(ii) | if by reason of actual or anticipated financial difficulties, a composition, compromise, assignment or arrangement with any creditor of any Obligor or the Charterer or the Charter Guarantor or the Builder or Modec or the Refund Guarantor or the Mooring EPC Contractor or the Mooring Installation Contractor or the EPCIC Contractor; |
(iii) | the appointment of a liquidator, receiver, administrator, administrative receiver, compulsory manager or other similar officer in respect of any Obligor or the Charterer or the Builder or the Mooring EPC Contractor or the Mooring Installation Contractor or the EPCIC Contractor or any of its assets (including the directors of any person requesting a person to appoint any such officer in relation to it or any of its assets); or |
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(iv) | enforcement of any Security Interest over any assets of any Obligor or the Charterer or the Builder or the Mooring EPC Contractor or the Mooring Installation Contractor or the EPCIC Contractor, |
or any analogous procedure or step is taken in any jurisdiction.
(b) | Clause 32.10(a) shall not apply to any winding-up petition (or analogous procedure or step) which is frivolous or vexatious and (i) is discharged, stayed or dismissed within fourteen (14) days of commencement (or, if earlier, the date on which it is advertised) or (ii) if the Facility Agent is satisfied (acting upon the advice of its legal counsel) that there is no reasonable prospect of success. |
(c) | No Event of Default will occur under this clause 32.10 (Insolvency proceedings) if any of the events described in paragraphs 32.10(a)(i) to (a)(iv) above occurs: |
(i) | in respect of the Builder or the Refund Guarantor after Delivery or in respect of the EPCIC Contractor, the Mooring EPC Contractor or the Mooring Installation Contractor or Modec after Final Acceptance; or |
(ii) | in respect of the Refund Guarantor, if a replacement refund guarantee in the form of the existing Refund Guarantee or another approved form is issued by a bank or financial institution approved by the Facility Agent and K-sure within sixty (60) days of any event described within paragraphs (a) or (b) above having taken place; or |
(iii) | in respect of the Charterer, the Builder, the EPCIC Contractor, the Mooring EPC Contractor, Modec or the Mooring Installation Contractor and it might reasonably be expected that such event would not have a material adverse effect on the delivery of the Vessel in accordance with the Building Contract or the Charterer's obligation to pay Charter Hire in accordance with the Charter. |
(d) | No Event of Default will occur under this clause 32.10 (Insolvency proceedings) in the case a Shareholder, O&M Contractor or Supervisor if in the case of a Shareholder such Shareholder is replaced as a shareholder in the Borrower with a New Shareholder pursuant to and in accordance with clause 30.16 (Replacement and/or additional shareholder), or in the case of an O&M Contractor if a replacement operator which is an Approved Operator is appointed pursuant to and in accordance with clause 24.4 (Operation and Maintenance), or in the case of a Supervisor such Supervisor is replaced with a new Supervisor, in each case within thirty (30) Business Days of any event described within clauses 32.10(a)(i) to (a)(iv) above having taken place (provided that none of the events described within clauses 32.10(a)(i) to (a)(iv) above has occurred in respect of such New Shareholder or replacement O&M Contractor or Supervisor). |
32.11 | DSRA L/C Issuer credit rating |
(a) | At any time, the credit rating of any DSRA L/C Issuer who is the issuer of an outstanding DSRA Letter of Credit falls below the Approved Credit Rating. |
(b) | No Event of Default will occur under this clause 32.11 if within twenty (20) Business Days (or if earlier, prior to expiry of the relevant DSRA Letter of Credit) of the Facility Agent giving notice to the Borrower either (a) a replacement DSRA Letter of Credit issued by a bank or financial institution having an Approved Credit Rating is provided to the Facility Agent or (b) the balance on the Debt Service Reserve Account is fully reinstated by the Guarantor or any of its Affiliates (other than the Borrower) to be equal to the applicable Debt Service Reserve. |
32.12 | Creditors' process |
(a) | Other than pursuant to a Security Document or a Total Loss, any expropriation, attachment, sequestration, distress, execution or analogous process affects any asset or assets of any |
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Facility Obligor with an aggregate value in excess of US$10,000,000 in respect of the Guarantor only and is not discharged within fourteen (14) days.
(b) | Any final judgment or order with an aggregate value in excess of US$10,000,000 in respect of the Guarantor only is made against any Facility Obligor and is not stayed or complied with within seven (7) days or, in respect of the Guarantor only, such later period as is required to be complied with under applicable law. |
32.13 | Cessation of business |
The Borrower or the Guarantor suspends or ceases to carry on (or threatens to suspend or cease to carry on) all or a material part of its current business.
32.14 Expropriation
The authority or ability of any Facility Obligor to conduct its business is limited or wholly or substantially curtailed by any seizure, expropriation, nationalisation, intervention, restriction or other action by or on behalf of any government, regulatory or other authority or other person in relation to the Borrower or any of its assets.
32.15 | Repudiation and rescission of Finance Documents |
(a) | An Obligor or a Shareholder repudiates or purports to repudiate a Finance Document or evidences an intention to rescind a Finance Document. |
(b) | No Event of Default will occur under this clause 32.15 (Repudiation and rescission of Finance Documents) in the case of an Indonesian Shareholder if such Shareholder is replaced as a shareholder in the Borrower with a New Shareholder pursuant to and in accordance with clause 30.16 (Replacement and/or additional shareholder) within thirty (30) Business Days of any event described within paragraph (a) above having taken place (provided that none of the events described within paragraph (a) above has occurred in respect of such New Shareholder). |
32.16 Litigation
Any material litigation, alternative dispute resolution, arbitration or administrative proceeding related to the Project is taking place, or threatened or a claim in respect of any such proceedings is brought against any Facility Obligor or any of their respective assets, rights or revenues which, in the opinion of the Majority Lenders (acting reasonably), has or is reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect or a material adverse effect on any Facility Obligor's ability to perform its obligations under the Project Agreements.
32.17 Material Adverse Effect
(a) | Any event or circumstance or series of events (including but not limited to any change of law or hostilities or civil war in the Flag State or any Relevant Jurisdiction or there is a seizure of power in the Flag State) occurs which, in the opinion of the Majority Lenders (acting reasonably), has or is reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect. |
(b) | No Event of Default will occur under this clause 32.17 (Material Adverse Effect) if the relevant event or circumstance or series of events relates to a Shareholder, O&M Contractor or Supervisor if in the case of a Shareholder such Shareholder is replaced as a shareholder in the Borrower with a New Shareholder pursuant to and in accordance with clause 30.16 (Replacement and/or additional shareholder), or in the case of an O&M Contractor if a replacement operator which is an Approved Operator is appointed pursuant to and in accordance with clause 24.4 (Operation and Maintenance), or in the case of a Supervisor such Supervisor is replaced with a new Supervisor, in each case within thirty (30) Business Days of the Facility Agent giving notice to the Borrower |
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32.18 Arrest of Vessel / Mooring
The Vessel or, prior to any sale or transfer permitted under this Agreement, the Mooring is arrested, confiscated, seized, taken in execution, impounded, forfeited, detained in exercise or purported exercise of any possessory lien or other claim and the Borrower fails to procure the release of the Vessel or the Mooring within a period of thirty (30) days thereafter (or such longer period as may be approved).
32.19 | Vessel registration |
Except with approval the Vessel is not registered or the Mortgage is not executed in accordance with and within the time specified in this Agreement or, after the start of the Mortgage Period, the registration of the Vessel under the laws and flag of its Flag State is cancelled or terminated or, where applicable, not renewed.
32.20 Hedging Contracts
(a) | An Event of Default (as defined in any Hedging Contract or such other equivalent definition(s) in any Hedging Contract) has occurred with respect to the Borrower and is continuing under any Hedging Contract; or |
(b) | An Early Termination Date (as defined in any Hedging Contract or such other equivalent definition in any Hedging Contract) has occurred (except with the approval of the Facility Agent or in accordance with clause 31.1(k), 31.1(l) or 31.1(m) or clause 33.4 (Close out of Hedging Contracts)). |
(c) | No Event of Default under clause 32.20(b) shall occur if the applicable Early Termination Date is a date designated by a terminating Hedging Bank in breach of its obligations under clause 33.4(b), 33.4(e) or 33.4(f). |
32.21 Breach of obligations in relation to the Project Accounts
(a) | The Borrower commits any breach of or omits to observe any of the covenants, obligations and undertakings expressed to be assumed by it under clause 28 (Project Accounts, Receivables and Insurance Proceeds) of this Agreement; or |
(b) | or any moneys standing to the credit of any Project Account are or become subject to any attachment or similar type of order and is not discharged within fourteen (14) days. |
(c) | No Event of Default under clause 32.21 above will occur if the breach (other than a deliberate breach) or omission (other than a deliberate omission) is capable of remedy and is remedied within seven (7) Business Days of the Facility Agent giving notice to the Borrower. |
32.22 O&M Contract
(a) | Subject to (b) below, failure of an O&M Contractor to perform or observe any material covenant or obligation to be performed or observed by it under an O&M Contract where such failure to perform or observe any such covenant or obligation by it is not remedied in accordance with the requirements of the applicable O&M Contract. |
(b) | No Event of Default will occur under this clause 32.22 if the Borrower notifies the Facility Agent of the event described in this clause 32.22 having taken place and a replacement operator which is an Approved Operator is appointed pursuant to clause 24.4 (Operation and Maintenance) within thirty (30) days of notice from the Facility Agent. |
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32.23 Qualification of accounts
The Auditors of any Facility Obligor qualify their report on the audited financial statements of any Facility Obligor in any way whatsoever which is reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect.
32.24 | Charter termination and breach |
Except with the approval of the Facility Agent:
(a) | (except as a result of the Vessel becoming a Total Loss or in the circumstances contemplated in clause 9.8 (Charter and Charter Guarantee)) the Charter is terminated, cancelled, rescinded, repudiated or frustrated as a result of an Owner's Event of Default (as defined in the Charter); or |
(b) | an Event of Company's Default (as defined in the Charter) occurs under clause 26.2 of the Charter and the non-payment is not rectified and any shortfall not paid by the Charterer or recovered under the PGN L/C within thirty (30) Business Days of the Facility Agent giving notice to the Borrower or, if earlier within thirty (30) Business Days of the Borrower giving notice to the Charterer provided that no Event of Default shall occur under this paragraph (b) if such payment is the subject to a dispute with the Charterer and the Borrower is in good faith in the process of resolving such dispute and the Borrower is not in default under any payment obligation under a Finance Document and the credit balance of the Debt Service Reserve Account is not less than a sum equal to three (3) months' Debt Service obligations of the Borrower under this Agreement at that time; or |
(c) | the Charterer is otherwise in breach of its obligations under the Charter which has or is reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect. |
32.25 Project Agreements
(a) | Any event of default or any other breach occurs under any of the Material Project Agreements, the Shareholders Agreement or the EPCIC Contract which entitles the Builder (prior to the Delivery Date) and/or the Charterer to terminate the Building Contract and/or the Charter (other than in the circumstances contemplated in clause 9.8 (Charter and Charter Guarantee) or is reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect. |
(b) | any Material Project Agreement or the Shareholders Agreement or the EPCIC Contract becomes unlawful or unenforceable for any reason (other than in the case of the Shareholders Agreement to the extent that any such unenforceability is in respect of the rights or obligations of any of the Shareholders in relation to a transfer of shares that may be required by any Shareholder) and the Borrower fails to make alternative arrangements satisfactory to the Facility Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders (acting reasonably)) within thirty (30) Business Days of notice from the Facility Agent; or |
(c) | any Obligor, the EPCIC Contractor or the Charterer repudiates a Material Project Agreement (other than the Charter) or any such Material Project Agreement is cancelled, terminated or suspended or varied or amended in breach of this Agreement. |
(d) | No Event of Default will occur under this clause 32.25 (Project Agreements) if any of the events or circumstances described in paragraphs (a) to (c) above occurs: |
(i) | in respect of the Building Contract or the Refund Guarantee after Delivery; or |
(ii) | in respect of the Supervision Agreement after the later of (A) Delivery and (B) the completion Works under the Mooring Installation Contract; or |
(iii) | in respect of the EPCIC Contractor or EPCIC Contract and it might reasonably be expected not to: (A) delay Final Acceptance beyond the earlier of (x) Cancellation |
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Date and (y) 18 March 2015 or (B) have a material adverse effect on the Charterer's obligation to pay Charter Hire; or
(iv) | in respect of the Mooring EPC Contract, the Mooring Installation Contract, the Modec Guarantee, the Umbrella Agreement, the Consortium Agreement or the EPCIC Contract after Final Acceptance. |
32.26 Environmental
There occurs an Environmental Incident unless within thirty (30) days of such Environmental Incident occurring it is determined that all Environmental Claims in respect of such Environmental Incident (excluding any deductibles) are payable in full by the Borrower's Insurances and the Facility Agent (acting reasonably) is satisfied that there is sufficient cash and cash flow to pay all deductibles which are payable and, if applicable, all claims for an amount less than the deductible(s).
32.27 Abandonment of the Vessel
The Project or the Vessel is abandoned by the Borrower.
32.28 Ownership of the Vessel
The Borrower ceases to be the owner of the Vessel, unless it has been sold in accordance with clauses 9.7 (Sale of Vessel) and/or 25.2 (Sale or other disposal of the Vessel) or pursuant to a Security Document.
32.29 | Redeployment of the Vessel |
After the Final Acceptance Date, there is a redeployment of the Vessel or the Mooring or a relocation from the Permitted Location (other than for the normal operation of the Vessel at the Permitted Location or for maintenance or repairs or a short-term relocation (in each case of no more than thirty (30) days) required in the case of an emergency or security reason where the prior written consent of the Facility Agent cannot be obtained in sufficient time or when required under the Charter for laying up of the Vessel in accordance with clause 28.1 of the Charter) without the prior written consent of the Facility Agent (acting on the instructions of the Lenders), such consent not to be unreasonably withheld.
32.30 | Acceleration |
On and at any time after the occurrence of an Event of Default which is continuing the Facility Agent may, and shall if so directed by the Majority Lenders, by notice to the Borrower:
(a) | cancel the Total Commitments at which time they shall immediately be cancelled; and/or |
(b) | declare that all or part of the Loans, together with accrued interest and all other amounts accrued or outstanding under the Finance Documents be immediately due and payable, at which time they shall become immediately due and payable; and/or |
(c) | declare that all or part of the Loans be payable on demand, at which time it shall immediately become payable on demand by the Facility Agent on the instructions of the Majority Lenders; and/or |
(d) | declare that all outstanding Hedging Transactions entered into under the Hedging Contracts shall be terminated or closed out by the Hedging Banks; |
(e) | declare that no withdrawals be made from any Project Account (other than the Distribution Account); and/or |
(f) | exercise or direct the Security Agent to exercise any or all of its rights, remedies, powers or discretions under the Finance Documents including but not limited to making a demand |
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under the Guarantee and/or enforcing any Security Interest created by the Security Documents.
32.31 Remedies in relation to the K-sure Policy
(a) | The remedies stated in clause 32.30 (Acceleration) shall be without prejudice to the rights of the K-sure Agent and K-sure Lenders to make claims under and enforce the K-sure Policy. |
(b) | Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement and the other Finance Documents, the Facility Agent (or K-sure Agent as the case may be) shall only make written demand to K-sure under the K-sure Policy after the Facility Agent has first made a written demand for payment of the relevant amount of the Secured Obligations under the applicable Guarantee to the extent such Guarantee guarantees the payment of such amount of Secured Obligations. |
32.32 | K-sure subrogation |
Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement and, in addition to, and without prejudice to, any right of indemnification or subrogation K-sure may have at law, in equity or otherwise, the Borrower and the Finance Parties unconditionally agrees that following payments by K-sure under the K-sure Policy in accordance with the terms of the K-sure Policy:
(a) | K-sure shall to the extent of such payments be subrogated to the relevant Lenders' rights under the Finance Documents in accordance with the K-sure Policy and, furthermore, the Borrower consents to any assignment by the relevant Lenders of any or all of their rights under the Finance Documents to K-sure as may be required by the provisions of the K-sure Policy. |
(b) | To the extent required to do so by K-sure pursuant to the terms of the K-sure Policy, the K-sure Lenders shall cause a transfer to K-sure in respect of such party of its Commitment in respect of the K-sure Facility or (as the case may be) its portion of the K-sure Loans as is equal to the amount simultaneously paid to it by K-sure under the K-sure Policy. |
32.33 | The Borrower agrees to cooperate with the Agents and the Lenders, as the case may be, in giving effect to any subrogation or assignment referred to in clause 32.32 above, and to take all actions requested by an Agent, any Lender or K-sure, in each case to the extent capable of being done by it, to implement or give effect to such subrogation or assignment. |
32.34 | On the date of any subrogation to, or (as applicable) assignment of, rights referred to in clauses 32.32 to 32.36 (K-sure subrogation): |
(a) | all further rights and benefits (including the right to receive commission in respect thereof but not any duty or other obligations) whatsoever of the relevant Lender in relation to the portion of the Loans or the rights and benefits to which such assignment or rights of subrogation relate under or arising out of this Agreement shall, to the extent of such assignment or rights of subrogation, be vested in and be for the benefit of K-sure; and |
(b) | references in this Agreement to the Lenders shall, where relevant in the context thereafter be construed so as to include K-sure in relation to such rights and benefits as are assigned to, or to which K-sure has rights of subrogation. |
32.35 | All agreements, representations and warranties made in this Agreement in favour of the relevant Lender shall survive any assignment or transfer made pursuant to clauses 32.32 to 32.36 (K-sure subrogation) and shall also inure to the benefit of K-sure. |
32.36 | The K-sure Agent, the Facility Agent and the Security Agent each agree that they will consult with K-sure prior to issuing a notice pursuant to clause 32.30 (although the consent of K-sure shall not be required in order for the Facility Agent and the Security Agent to issue such notice). |
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33 | Position of Hedging Banks |
33.1 | Rights of Hedging Bank |
Each Hedging Bank is a Finance Party and as such, will be entitled to share in the security constituted by the Security Documents in respect of any liabilities of the Borrower under the Hedging Contracts with such Hedging Bank in the manner and to the extent contemplated by the Finance Documents.
33.2 | No voting rights |
Subject to clause 47.2 (Exceptions), no Hedging Bank shall be entitled to vote on any matter where a decision of the Lenders alone is required under this Agreement, whether before or after the termination or close out of the Hedging Contracts with such Hedging Bank, provided that each Hedging Bank shall be entitled to vote on any matter where a decision of all the Finance Parties is expressly required.
33.3 | Acceleration and enforcement of security |
Subject to clause 47.2 (Exceptions), neither the Agents nor the Security Agent or any other beneficiary of the Security Documents shall be obliged, in connection with any action taken or proposed to be taken under or pursuant to clause 32 (Events of Default) or pursuant to the other Finance Documents, to have any regard to the requirements of any Hedging Bank except to the extent that the relevant Hedging Bank is also a Lender.
33.4 | Close out of Hedging Contracts |
(a) | The parties to this Agreement agree that at any time when an Event of Default is continuing the Facility Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders) shall be entitled, by notice in writing to a Hedging Bank, to instruct such Hedging Bank to terminate and close out any Hedging Transactions (or parts thereof) with the Borrower (on the basis that the Hedging Transactions shall be closed out pro rata and pari passu). The relevant Hedging Bank will terminate and close out the relevant Hedging Transactions (or parts thereof) and/or the relevant Hedging Contracts in accordance with such notice immediately upon receipt of such notice. |
(b) | No Hedging Bank shall be entitled to terminate or close out any Hedging Contract or any Hedging Transaction under it prior to its stated maturity except: |
(i) | in accordance with a notice served by the Facility Agent under clause 33.4(a); or |
(ii) | in accordance with clause 31.6 (Unwinding of Hedging Contracts) (or, for the avoidance of doubt, as a result of a termination or close out by the Borrower in accordance with clause 31 (Hedging)); or |
(iii) | if the Borrower has not paid amounts due under the relevant Hedging Contract and such amounts remain unpaid for a period of five (5) days after the due date for payment; or |
(iv) | if the Facility Agent takes any action under clause 32.30 (Acceleration); or |
(v) | if the Loans and other amounts outstanding under the Finance Documents (other than amounts outstanding under the Hedging Contracts) have been repaid by the Borrower in full; or |
(vi) | if, following the occurrence of any Illegality, Bankruptcy, Tax Event, Tax Event Upon Merger, Force Majeure Event or Additional Termination Event (as each such expression is defined in the Hedging Master Agreements), the relevant Hedging Bank is entitled to terminate or close out the relevant Hedging Transaction pursuant to the relevant Hedging Contract. |
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(c) | If there is a net amount payable to the Borrower under a Hedging Transaction or a Hedging Contract upon its termination and close out as a result of a notice pursuant to clause 33.4(a), the relevant Hedging Bank shall forthwith pay that net amount (together with interest earned on such amount) to the Security Agent for application in accordance with clause 38.23 (Order of application). |
(d) | No Hedging Bank shall set-off any such net amount against or exercise any right of combination in respect of any other claim it has against the Borrower. |
(e) | If, as a result of any termination or close-out of any Hedging Transaction pursuant to any Illegality, Tax Event or Force Majeure Event as referred to in clause 33.4(b)(vi), the Borrower would fail to comply with the requirements set out in clause 31.1(a), the relevant Hedging Bank shall, as a condition of its right to designate an Early Termination Date, use all reasonable efforts (which will not require such Hedging Bank to incur a loss, other than immaterial, incidental expenses (as determined by such Hedging Bank in its reasonable discretion)) to transfer within thirty (30) days (in the case of Tax Event or Force Majeure Event) or seven (7) Business Days (in the case of Illegality) after it gives notice of its intention to terminate or close out the relevant Hedging Transaction(s) all its rights and obligations under the relevant Hedging Contract to another of its Offices (as defined in the Hedging Master Agreements) or Affiliates (and any such transferee shall be required to accede to this Agreement as a Hedging Bank) so that the relevant Termination Event (as defined in the Hedging Master Agreements) ceases to exist. The Borrower hereby consents to any such transfer. Such time period shall run concurrently with any time period relating to any transfer requirement or Waiting Period (as defined in the Hedging Master Agreements) under the relevant Hedging Contract. |
(f)
(i) | If the relevant Hedging Bank is unable to effect the transfer referred to in clause 33.4(e) within the relevant time period it will give notice to the Borrower (copied to the Facility Agent) to that effect following expiry of the relevant period, whereupon the Hedging Bank may then designate an Early Termination Date with respect to the relevant Hedging Transaction(s). |
(ii) | Following designation of an Early Termination Date in relation to any Hedging Transaction by (1) a Hedging Bank pursuant to clause 33.4(f)(i) or following the occurrence of a Tax Event Upon Merger or (2) the Borrower in accordance with the terms of the relevant Hedging Contract and with the consent of the Facility Agent, the Borrower shall follow the process set out in clause 31.1(b) to the extent required in order to prevent any breach of clause 31.1(a) from arising as a result of the relevant termination or close-out pursuant such designation upon the expiry of the period referred to in clause 31.1(j). |
(iii) | In the event that no Lender is willing to take up the additional notional amount requested by the Borrower in accordance with clause 31.1(b), the Borrower may enter into one or more Hedging Contracts (on terms substantially the same as the Hedging Master Agreements entered into by the Original Hedging Banks on or about the date of this Agreement), with one or more Alternative Financial Institutions. |
For the purpose of this clause 33.4(f) and clause 31.7(c) above, Alternative Financial Institution shall mean a financial institution, with an Approved Credit Rating, which is regularly engaged in or established for the purpose of investing in loans, securities or other financial assets and entering into ISDA derivative documentation and interest rate swaps and which, simultaneously with entering into a Hedging Contract with the Borrower, accedes to this Agreement as a Hedging Bank.
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33.5 | No Enforcement Action |
Other than the steps permitted by clause 33.4, no Hedging Bank will take any Enforcement Action without the prior written consent of the Security Agent.
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Section 8 - Changes to Parties
34 | Changes to the Lenders |
34.1 | Assignments and transfers by the Lenders |
(a) | Subject to this clause 34, a Lender (the Existing Lender) may: |
(i) | assign any of its rights; or |
(ii) | transfer by novation any of its rights and obligations, |
to another bank or financial institution, or to a trust, fund or other entity which is regularly engaged in or established for the purpose of making, purchasing or investing in loans, securities or other financial assets (the New Lender).
(b) | In addition to the other rights provided to Lenders under this clause 34, each Lender may without consulting with or obtaining consent from any Obligor, at any time charge, assign by way of security or otherwise create a Security Interest in or over (whether by way of collateral or otherwise) all or any of its rights under any Finance Document to secure obligations of that Lender including, without limitation: |
(i) | any charge, assignment by way of security or other Security Interest to secure obligations to a federal reserve or central bank; and |
(ii) | in the case of any Lender which is a fund, any charge, assignment by way of security or other Security Interest granted to any holders (or trustee or representatives of holders) of obligations owed, or securities issued, by that Lender as security for those obligations or securities, |
except that no such charge, assignment or other Security Interest shall:
(A) | release a Lender from any of its obligations under the Finance Documents or substitute the beneficiary of the relevant charge, assignment or Security Interest for the Lender as a party to any of the Finance Documents; or |
(B) | require any payments to be made by an Obligor or grant to any person any more extensive rights than those required to be made or granted to the relevant Lender under the Finance Documents. |
34.2 | Conditions of assignment or transfer |
(a) | The consent of the Borrower is required for an assignment or transfer by a Lender, unless: |
(i) | the assignment is to another Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender; or |
(ii) | an Event of Default is continuing; or |
(iii) | such assignment or transfer is made after the Final Acceptance Date to an Approved Transferee and the relevant Existing Lender has notified the Borrower of the proposed assignment or transfer and New Lender at least five (5) Business Days prior to, and consulted with the Borrower on, the proposed assignment or transfer. |
The Facility Agent will immediately advise the Borrower and the Agents of the assignment or transfer.
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(b) | The Borrower's consent to an assignment or transfer may not be unreasonably withheld or delayed and will be deemed to have been given ten (10) Business Days after the Lender has delivered its request for consent to the Borrower unless consent is expressly refused within that time. |
(c) | K-sure's consent is required for an assignment or transfer by a Lender in respect of any part of the K-sure Facility. |
(d) | An Existing Lender shall provide the Borrower with at least two (2) Business Days' prior written notice prior to an assignment or transfer in accordance with clause 34.1, unless the assignment or transfer is: |
(i) | by a K-sure Lender to K-sure; or |
(ii) | to another Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender; and/or |
(iii) | made at a time when an Event of Default is continuing. |
(e) | An assignment or transfer will only be effective: |
(i) | in the case of an assignment, on receipt by the Facility Agent of written confirmation from the New Lender (in form and substance satisfactory to the Facility Agent) that the New Lender will assume the same obligations to the other Finance Parties and the other Finance Parties as it would have been under if it was an Original Lender or, in the case of a transfer, if the procedure set out in clause 34.5 (Procedure for transfer) is complied with; |
(ii) | on the New Lender entering into any documentation required for it to accede as a party to the Intercreditor Deed and any Security Document to which the Original Lender is a party in its capacity as a Lender; |
(iii) | on the Facility Agent (or, if appropriate, the Existing Lender) obtaining all "know your customer" or other checks relating to any person that it is required to carry out in relation to such assignment or transfer to a New Lender, the completion of which the Facility Agent (or, if appropriate, the Existing Lender) shall promptly notify to the Existing Lender (or, as appropriate, the Facility Agent) and the New Lender; |
(iv) | if that Existing Lender assigns or transfers equal fractions of its Commitment and participation in the Utilisations (if any) under the Facilities; and |
(v) | if at the time when an assignment or transfer takes effect more than one Utilisation is outstanding, the assignment of an Existing Lender's participation in the Utilisations (if any) under the Facilities shall take effect in respect of the same fraction of each such Utilisation. |
(f) | If: (i) a Lender or Hedging Bank assigns or transfers any of its rights or obligations under the Finance Documents or changes its Facility Office; and (ii) as a result of circumstances existing at the date the assignment, transfer or change occurs, the Borrower would be obliged to make a payment to the New Lender or Lender acting through its new Facility Office or new Hedging Bank under clause 14 (Tax gross-up and indemnities) or clause 15 (Increased Costs), then the New Lender or Lender acting through its new Facility Office or new Hedging Bank is only entitled to receive payment under those clauses to the same extent as the Existing Lender or Lender acting through its previous Facility Office or Hedging Bank would have been if the assignment, transfer or change had not occurred. |
34.3 | Fee |
Except for any assignment or transfer from a K-sure Lender to K-sure, the New Lender shall, on the date upon which an assignment or transfer takes effect, pay to the Facility Agent (for its own account) a fee of $5,000.
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34.4 | Limitation of responsibility of Existing Lenders |
(a) | Unless expressly agreed to the contrary, an Existing Lender makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility to a New Lender for: |
(i) | the legality, validity, effectiveness, adequacy or enforceability of the Finance Documents or any other documents; |
(ii) | the financial condition of any Obligor; |
(iii) | the performance and observance by any Obligor or any other person of its obligations under the Finance Documents or any other documents; |
(iv) | the application of any Basel 2 Regulation or Basel 3 Regulation to the transactions contemplated by the Finance Documents; or |
(v) | the accuracy of any statements (whether written or oral) made in or in connection with any Finance Document or any other document, |
and any representations or warranties implied by law are excluded.
(b) | Each New Lender confirms to the Existing Lender and the other Finance Parties and the Finance Parties that it: |
(i) | has made (and shall continue to make) its own independent investigation and has not relied exclusively on any information provided to it by the Existing Lender or any other Finance Party in connection with any Finance Document; |
(ii) | has made (and shall continue to make) its own independent investigation and assessment of the application of any Basel 2 Regulation or Basel 3 Regulation to the transactions contemplated by the Finance Documents; and |
(iii) | will continue to make its own independent appraisal of the creditworthiness of each Obligor and their related entities whilst any amount is or may be outstanding under the Finance Documents or any Commitment is in force. |
(c) | Nothing in any Finance Document obliges an Existing Lender to: |
(i) | accept a re-assignment or re-transfer from a New Lender of any of the rights assigned and obligations transferred under this clause 34 (Changes to the Lenders); or |
(ii) | support any losses directly or indirectly incurred by the New Lender by reason of the non-performance by any Obligor of its obligations under the Finance Documents or by reason of the application of any Basel 2 Regulation to the transactions contemplated by the Finance Documents or otherwise. |
34.5 | Procedure for transfer |
(a) | Subject to the conditions set out in clause 34.2 (Conditions of assignment or transfer) an assignment or transfer is effected in accordance with clause 34.5(b) below when (a) the Facility Agent executes an otherwise duly completed Transfer Certificate and (b) the Facility Agent executes any document required under clause 34.2(e) which it may be necessary for it to execute in each case delivered to it by the Existing Lender and the New Lender duly executed by them and, in the case of any such other document, any other relevant person. The Facility Agent shall, as soon as reasonably practicable after receipt by it of a Transfer Certificate and any such other document each duly completed, appearing on its face to comply with the terms of this Agreement and delivered in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, execute that Transfer Certificate and such other document. The |
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Borrower and the other Finance Parties irrevocably authorise the Facility Agent to execute any Transfer Certificate on their behalf without any consultations with them.
(b) | On the Transfer Date: |
(i) | to the extent that in the Transfer Certificate the Existing Lender seeks to assign its rights and be released from its obligations under any Finance Document, the Existing Lender shall assign such rights absolutely to the New Lender and shall be released from further obligations towards the Borrower and the other Finance Parties under such Finance Documents (being the Discharged Rights Obligations) (but the obligations owed by the Borrower under the Finance Documents shall not be released); |
(ii) | to the extent that in the Transfer Certificate the Existing Lender seeks to transfer by novation its rights and obligations under this Agreement the Borrower and the Existing Lender shall be released from further obligations towards one another under this Agreement and their respective rights against one another under this Agreement shall be cancelled (being the Discharged Rights and Obligations); |
(iii) | in the case of an assignment pursuant to paragraph (i) above, the New Lender shall assume obligations towards the Borrower and the other Finance Parties and the Borrower and the other Finance Parties shall acquire rights against the New Lender which differ from the Discharged Rights Obligations only insofar as the New Lender has assumed and/or the Borrower and the other Finance Parties acquired the same in place of the Existing Lender and the New Lender shall be bound by the Discharged Rights Obligations; |
(iv) | in the case of a transfer pursuant to paragraph (ii) above, the Borrower and the New Lender shall assume obligations towards one another and/or acquire rights against one another which differ from the Discharged Rights and Obligations only insofar as that the Borrower and the New Lender have assumed and/or acquired the same in place of that the Borrower and the Existing Lender; |
(v) | the other Finance Parties and the New Lender shall acquire the same rights and assume the same obligations between themselves as they would have acquired and assumed had the New Lender been an Original Lender with the rights and/or obligations acquired or assumed by it as a result of the transfer and to that extent the Security Agent, Existing Lender and the other Finance Parties shall each be released from further obligations to each other under the Finance Documents; and |
(vi) | the New Lender shall become a Party as a Lender. |
34.6 | Copy of Transfer Certificate to Borrower |
The Facility Agent shall, as soon as reasonably practicable after it has executed a Transfer Certificate and any other document required under clause 34.2(e), send a copy of that Transfer Certificate and such documents to the Borrower.
34.7 | Universal Succession (Assignments and Transfers) |
(a) | If a Lender is to be merged with any other person by universal succession, such Lender shall, at its own cost within 45 days of that merger furnish to the Facility Agent: |
(i) | an original or certified true copy of a legal opinion issued by a qualified legal counsel practising law in its jurisdiction of incorporation confirming that all such Lender's assets, rights and obligations generally have been duly vested in the succeeding entity who has succeeded to all relationships as if those assets, rights and obligations had been originally acquired, incurred or entered into by the succeeding entity; and |
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(ii) | an original or certified true copy of a written confirmation by either the Lender's legal counsel or such other legal counsel acceptable to the Facility Agent and for the benefit of the Facility Agent (in its capacity as agent of the Lenders) that the laws of England and of the jurisdiction in which the Facility Office of such Lender is located recognise such merger by universal succession under the relevant foreign laws, |
whereupon a transfer and novation of all such Lender's assets, rights and obligations to its succeeding entity shall have been, or be deemed to have been, duly effected as at the date of the said merger.
(b) | If such Lender, in a universal succession, does not comply with the requirements under paragraph (a) above, the Facility Agent has the right to decline to recognise the succeeding entity and demand such Lender and the succeeding entity to either sign and deliver a Transfer Certificate to the Facility Agent evidencing the disposal of all rights and obligations of such Lender to that succeeding entity, or provide or enter into such documents, or make such arrangements acceptable to the Facility Agent (acting on the advice of the Lender's legal counsel (any legal costs so incurred shall be borne by the relevant Lender)) in order to establish that all rights and obligations of the relevant Lender under this Agreement have been transferred to and assumed by the succeeding entity. |
(c) | This clause 34.7 shall be subject to clause 34.2(e). |
35 | Changes to the Obligors |
None of the Obligors may assign any of its rights or transfer any of its rights or obligations under the Finance Documents.
36 | Benefit and burden |
This Agreement shall be binding upon, and enure for the benefit of, the Finance Parties and their respective successors in title and transferees and the Borrower and its successors in title.
37 | Confidentiality |
37.1 | Confidential Information |
Each Finance Party agrees to keep all Confidential Information confidential and not to disclose it to anyone, save to the extent permitted by clause 37.2 (Disclosure of Confidential Information) and clauses 37.3(a) to 37.3(c) (Disclosure to numbering service providers), and to ensure that all Confidential Information is protected with security measures and a degree of care that would apply to its own confidential information.
37.2 | Disclosure of Confidential Information |
Any Finance Party may disclose:
(a) | to any of its Affiliates and Related Funds and any of its or their officers, directors, employees, professional advisers, auditors, partners, insurers and insurance brokers, reinsurers and reinsurance brokers and Representatives such Confidential Information as that Finance Party shall consider appropriate if any person to whom the Confidential Information is to be given pursuant to this paragraph 37.2(a) is informed in writing of its confidential nature and that some or all of such Confidential Information may be price-sensitive information except that there shall be no such requirement to so inform if the recipient is subject to professional obligations to maintain the confidentiality of the information or is otherwise bound by requirements of confidentiality in relation to the Confidential Information; |
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(b) | to any person: |
(i) | to (or through) whom it assigns or transfers (or may potentially assign or transfer) all or any of its rights and/or obligations under one or more Finance Documents or which succeeds (or which may potentially succeed) it as Agent or Security Agent and, in each case, to any of that person's Affiliates, Representatives and professional advisers; |
(ii) | with (or through) whom it enters into (or may potentially enter into), whether directly or indirectly, any sub-participation in relation to, or any other transaction under which payments are to be made or may be made by reference to, one or more Finance Documents and/or one or more Obligors and to any of that person's Affiliates, Representatives and professional advisers; |
(iii) | appointed by any Finance Party or by a person to whom clauses 37.2(a) or 37.2(b)(i) above applies to receive communications, notices, information or documents delivered pursuant to the Finance Documents on its behalf (including, without limitation, any person appointed under clause 38.15 (Relationship with the Lenders and the Hedging Banks)); |
(iv) | who invests in or otherwise finances (or may potentially invest in or otherwise finance), directly or indirectly, any transaction referred to in clauses 37.2(a) or 37.2(b)(i) above; |
(v) | to whom information is required or requested to be disclosed by any court of competent jurisdiction or any governmental, banking, taxation or other regulatory authority or similar body, the rules of any relevant stock exchange or pursuant to any applicable law or regulation; |
(vi) | to whom information is required to be disclosed in connection with, and for the purposes of, any litigation, arbitration, administrative or other investigations, proceedings or disputes; |
(vii) | to whom or for whose benefit that Finance Party charges, assigns or otherwise creates Security (or may do so) pursuant to clause 34.1(b); |
(viii) | who is a Party; or |
(ix) | with the consent of the Borrower; |
in each case, such Confidential Information as that Finance Party shall consider appropriate if:
(A) | in relation to clauses 37.2(b)(i) and 37.2(b)(ii) above, the person to whom the Confidential Information is to be given has entered into a Confidentiality Undertaking except that there shall be no requirement for a Confidentiality Undertaking if the recipient is a professional adviser and is subject to professional obligations to maintain the confidentiality of the Confidential Information; |
(B) | in relation to clause 33.4(b)(iii) above, the person to whom the Confidential Information is to be given has entered into a Confidentiality Undertaking or is otherwise bound by requirements of confidentiality in relation to the Confidential Information they receive and is informed that some or all of such Confidential Information may be price-sensitive information; |
(C) | in relation to clauses 33.4(b)(iv), 33.4(b)(v) and 33.4(b)(vi) above, the person to whom the Confidential Information is to be given is informed of its confidential nature and that some or all of such Confidential Information may be price-sensitive information except that there shall be no requirement to so |
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inform if, in the opinion of that Finance Party, it is not practicable so to do in the circumstances; and
(c) | to any person appointed by that Finance Party or by a person to whom clauses 37.2(b)(i) above applies to provide administration or settlement services in respect of one or more of the Finance Documents including without limitation, in relation to the trading of participations in respect of the Finance Documents, such Confidential Information as may be required to be disclosed to enable such service provider to provide any of the services referred to in this paragraph (c) if the service provider to whom the Confidential Information is to be given has entered into a confidentiality agreement substantially in the form of the LMA Master Confidentiality Undertaking for Use With Administration/Settlement Service Providers or such other form of confidentiality undertaking agreed between the Borrower and the relevant Finance Party; |
(d) | to any rating agency (including any professional advisers) such Confidential Information as may be required to be disclosed to enable such rating agency to carry out its normal rating activities in relation to the Finance Documents and/or the Obligors if the rating agency to whom the Confidential Information is to be given is informed of its confidential nature and that some or all of such Confidential Information may be price-sensitive information. |
37.3 | Disclosure to numbering service providers |
(a) | Any Finance Party may disclose to any national or international numbering service provider appointed by that Finance Party to provide identification numbering services in respect of this Agreement, the Facility and/or one or more Obligors the following information: |
(i) | names of Obligors; |
(ii) | country of domicile of Obligors; |
(iii) | place of incorporation of Obligors; |
(iv) | date of this Agreement; |
(v) | clause 50 (Governing law); |
(vi) | the names of the Facility Agent and the Arranger; |
(vii) | date of each amendment and restatement of this Agreement; |
(viii) | amount of Total Commitments; |
(ix) | currency of the Facility; |
(x) | type of Facility; |
(xi) | ranking of Facility; |
(xii) | the term of the Facility; |
(xiii) | changes to any of the information previously supplied pursuant to paragraphs (i) to (xii) above; and |
(xiv) | such other information agreed between such Finance Party and the Borrower, |
to enable such numbering service provider to provide its usual syndicated loan numbering identification services.
(b) | The Parties acknowledge and agree that each identification number assigned to this Agreement, the Facilities and/or one or more Obligors by a numbering service provider and |
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the information associated with each such number may be disclosed to users of its services in accordance with the standard terms and conditions of that numbering service provider.
(c) | The Borrower represents that none of the information set out in clauses 37.3(a)(i) to 37.3(a)(xiii) above is, nor will at any time be, unpublished price-sensitive information. |
(d) | The Facility Agent shall notify the Borrowers and the other Finance Parties of: |
(i) | the name of any numbering service provider appointed by the Facility Agent in respect of this Agreement, the Facility and/or one or more Obligors; and |
(ii) | the number or, as the case may be, numbers assigned to this Agreement, the Facility and/or one or more Obligors by such numbering service provider. |
37.4 | Entire agreement |
This clause 37 (Confidentiality) constitutes the entire agreement between the Parties in relation to the obligations of the Finance Parties under the Finance Documents regarding Confidential Information and supersedes any previous agreement, whether express or implied, regarding Confidential Information.
37.5 | Inside information |
Each of the Finance Parties acknowledges that some or all of the Confidential Information is or may be price-sensitive information and that the use of such information may be regulated or prohibited by applicable legislation including securities law relating to insider dealing and market abuse and each of the Finance Parties undertakes not to use any Confidential Information for any unlawful purpose.
37.6 | Notification of disclosure |
Each of the Finance Parties agrees (to the extent permitted by law and regulation) to inform the Borrower:
(a) | of the circumstances of any disclosure of Confidential Information made pursuant to clause 37.2(b)(iv) (Disclosure of Confidential Information) except where such disclosure is made to any of the persons referred to in that clause during the ordinary course of its supervisory or regulatory function; and |
(b) | upon becoming aware that Confidential Information has been disclosed in breach of this clause 37 (Confidentiality). |
37.7 | Continuing obligations |
The obligations in this clause 37 (Confidentiality) are continuing and, in particular, shall survive and remain binding on each Finance Party for a period of twelve months from the earlier of:
(a) | the date on which all amounts payable by the Obligors under or in connection with the Finance Documents have been paid in full and all Commitments have been cancelled or otherwise cease to be available; and |
(b) | the date on which such Finance Party otherwise ceases to be a Finance Party. |
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Section 9 - The Finance Parties
38 | Roles of Facility Agent, Security Agent, Mandated Lead Arrangers and K-sure Agent |
38.1 | Appointment of the Facility Agent |
(a) | Each other Finance Party (other than the Security Agent) appoints the Facility Agent to act as its agent under and in connection with the Finance Documents. |
(b) | Each such other Finance Party authorises the Facility Agent: |
(i) | to exercise the rights, powers, authorities and discretions specifically given to the Facility Agent under or in connection with the Finance Documents together with any other incidental rights, powers, authorities and discretions; and |
(ii) | subject always to clause 47.2 (Exceptions), to execute each of the Security Documents and all other documents that may be approved by the Majority Lenders for execution by it. |
38.2 | Instructions to Facility Agent |
(a) | The Facility Agent shall: |
(i) | unless a contrary indication appears in a Finance Document, exercise or refrain from exercising any right, power, authority or discretion vested in it as Facility Agent in accordance with any instructions given to it by: |
(A) | all Lenders if the relevant Finance Document stipulates the matter is an all Lender decision; and |
(B) | in all other cases, the Majority Lenders; and |
(ii) | not be liable for any act (or omission) if it acts (or refrains from acting) in accordance with clause 38.2(a)(i) above. |
(b) | The Facility Agent shall be entitled to request instructions, or clarification of any instruction, from the Majority Lenders (or, if the relevant Finance Document stipulates the matter is a decision for any other Lender or group of Lenders, from that Lender or group of Lenders) as to whether, and in what manner, it should exercise or refrain from exercising any right, power, authority or discretion and the Facility Agent may refrain from acting unless and until it receives those instructions or that clarification. |
(c) | Save in the case of decisions stipulated to be a matter for any other Lender or group of Lenders under the relevant Finance Document and unless a contrary indication appears in a Finance Document, any instructions given to the Facility Agent by the Majority Lenders shall override any conflicting instructions given by any other Parties and will be binding on all Finance Parties (other than the Security Agent). |
(d) | The Facility Agent may refrain from acting in accordance with any instructions of any Lender or group of Lenders until it has received any indemnification and/or security that it may in its discretion require (which may be greater in extent than that contained in the Finance Documents and which may include payment in advance) for any cost, loss or liability which it may incur in complying with those instructions. |
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(e) | In the absence of, or while awaiting, instructions from the Majority Lenders (or, if appropriate, the Lenders), the Facility Agent may act (or refrain from acting) as it considers to be in the best interest of the Finance Parties. |
(f) | The Facility Agent is not authorised to act on behalf of a Lender or any Hedging Provider (without first obtaining that Lender's or any Hedging Provider's consent) in any legal or arbitration proceedings relating to any Finance Document. This paragraph (f) shall not apply to any legal or arbitration proceeding relating to the perfection, preservation or protection of rights under the Security Documents or enforcement of the Security Documents. |
(g) | Neither the Facility Agent nor the Co-ordinating Bank shall be obliged to request any certificate, opinion or other information under clause 20 (Information undertakings) unless so required in writing by a Lender or any Hedging Bank, in which case the Facility Agent shall promptly make the appropriate request of the Borrower if such request would be in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. |
38.3 | Duties of the Facility Agent |
(a) | The Facility Agent shall promptly forward to a Party the original or a copy of any document which is delivered to the Facility Agent for that Party by any other Party. |
(b) | Except where a Finance Document specifically provides otherwise, the Facility Agent is not obliged to review or check the adequacy, accuracy or completeness of any document it forwards to another Party. |
(c) | If the Facility Agent receives notice from a Party referring to this Agreement, describing a Default and stating that the circumstance described is a Default, it shall promptly notify the other Finance Parties. |
(d) | If the Facility Agent is aware of the non-payment of any principal, interest, commitment fee or other fee payable to a Finance Party (other than the Facility Agent or the Security Agent for their own account) under this Agreement it shall promptly notify the other Finance Parties. |
(e) | The Facility Agent's duties under the Finance Documents are solely mechanical and administrative in nature. |
38.4 | Role of the Mandated Lead Arrangers |
Except as specifically provided in the Finance Documents, the Mandated Lead Arrangers have no obligations of any kind to any other Party under or in connection with any Finance Document or the transactions contemplated by the Finance Documents.
38.5 | No fiduciary duties |
(a) | Nothing in this Agreement or any other Finance Document constitutes the Facility Agent as a trustee or fiduciary of any other person. |
(b) | None of the Facility Agent, the Security Agent or the Mandated Lead Arrangers shall be bound to account to any Lender or any Hedging Bank for any sum or the profit element of any sum received by it for its own account or have any obligations to the other Finance Parties beyond those expressly stated in the Finance Documents. |
38.6 | Business with the Höegh LNG Holdings Group |
The Facility Agent, the Security Agent and the Mandated Lead Arrangers may accept deposits from, lend money to and generally engage in any kind of banking or other business with any Obligor or other member of the Höegh LNG Holdings Group or the Höegh MLP Group or their
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respective Affiliates as if it were not performing the duties specified herein or any other Finance Document.
38.7 | Rights and discretions of the Facility Agent |
(a) | The Facility Agent may rely on: |
(i) | any representation, notice or document believed by it to be genuine, correct and appropriately authorised; and |
(ii) | any statement made by a director, authorised signatory or employee of any person regarding any matters which may reasonably be assumed to be within his or her knowledge or within his or her power to verify. |
(b) | The Facility Agent may assume (unless it has received notice to the contrary in its capacity as facility agent for the other Finance Parties) that: |
(i) | no Default has occurred (unless it has actual knowledge of a Default arising under clause 32.1 (Non-payment)); |
(ii) | any right, power, authority or discretion vested in any Party or the Majority Lenders has not been exercised; and |
(iii) | any notice or request made by the Borrower (other than a Utilisation Request or Selection Notice) is made on behalf of and with the consent and knowledge of all the Obligors. |
(c) | The Facility Agent may engage, pay for and rely on the advice or services of any lawyers, accountants, surveyors or other experts in the conduct of its obligations and responsibilities under the Finance Documents, subject to clause 18 (Costs and expenses). |
(d) | The Facility Agent may act in relation to the Finance Documents through its personnel and agents. |
(e) | The Facility Agent may disclose to any other Party any information it reasonably believes it has received as facility agent under this Agreement. |
(f) | Without prejudice to the generality of paragraph (e) above, the Facility Agent: |
(i) | may disclose; and |
(ii) | upon the written request of the Borrower or the Majority Lenders shall, as soon as reasonably practicable, disclose, |
the identity of a Defaulting Lender to the other Finance Parties and the Borrower.
(g) | Notwithstanding any other provision of any Finance Document to the contrary, the Facility Agent is not obliged to do or omit to do anything if it would or might in its reasonable opinion constitute a breach of any law or regulation or a breach of a fiduciary duty or duty of confidentiality. The Facility Agent may do anything which in its opinion, is necessary or desirable to comply with any law or regulation of any jurisdiction. |
38.8 | Majority Lenders' instructions |
(a) | Unless a contrary indication appears in a Finance Document (including, but not limited to, clause 47.2 (Exceptions)), the Facility Agent shall: |
(i) | exercise any right, power, authority or discretion vested in it as Facility Agent (including giving instructions to the Security Agent) in accordance with any instructions given to it by the Majority Lenders (or, if so instructed by the Majority |
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Lenders, refrain from exercising any right, power, authority or discretion vested in it as Facility Agent); and
(ii) | not be liable for any act (or omission) if it acts (or refrains from taking any action) in accordance with an instruction of the Majority Lenders. |
(b) | Unless a contrary indication appears in a Finance Document (including, but not limited to, clause 47.2 (Exceptions)), any instructions given by the Majority Lenders to the Facility Agent (in relation to any right, power, authority or discretion vested in it as Facility Agent) shall be binding on all the Finance Parties (other than the Security Agent). |
(c) | The Facility Agent may refrain from acting in accordance with the instructions of the Majority Lenders (or, if appropriate, the Lenders) until it has received such security as it may require for any cost, loss or liability (together with any associated Indirect Tax) which it may incur in complying with the instructions. |
(d) | In the absence of, or while awaiting, instructions from the Majority Lenders (or, if appropriate, the Lenders), the Facility Agent may act (or refrain from taking action) as it considers to be in the best interest of the Finance Parties. |
(e) | The Facility Agent is not authorised to act on behalf of a Lender or any Hedging Bank (without first obtaining that Lender's or that Hedging Bank's consent) in any legal or arbitration proceedings relating to any Finance Document. This clause 38.8(e) shall not apply to any legal or arbitration proceeding relating to the perfection, preservation or protection of rights under the Security Documents or enforcement of the Security Documents. |
(f) | The Facility Agent shall not be obliged to request any certificate, opinion or other information under clause 20 (Information undertakings) unless so required in writing by a Lender or any Hedging Bank, in which case the Facility Agent shall promptly make the appropriate request of the Borrower if such request would be in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. |
38.9 | Responsibility for documentation and other matters |
The Facility Agent, the Security Agent, any Mandated Lead Arranger, any Receiver or any Delegate:
(a) | is not responsible for the adequacy, accuracy and/or completeness of any information (whether oral or written) supplied by the Facility Agent, the Security Agent, any Mandated Lead Arranger, an Obligor or any other person given in or in connection with any Finance Document or the transactions contemplated in the Finance Documents or of any representations in any Finance Document or of any copy of any document delivered under any Finance Document; |
(b) | is not responsible for the legality, validity, effectiveness, adequacy or enforceability of any Finance Document or any Project Agreement or any other agreement, arrangement or document entered into, made or executed in anticipation of or in connection with any Finance Document or any Project Agreement; |
(c) | is not responsible for the application of any Basel 2 Regulation or Basel 3 Regulation to the transactions contemplated by the Finance Documents; |
(d) | is not responsible for any loss to the Trust Property arising in consequence of the failure, depreciation or loss of any Charged Property or any investments made or retained in good faith or by reason of any other matter or thing; |
(e) | is not obliged to account to any person for any sum or the profit element of any sum received by it for its own account; |
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(f) | is not responsible for the failure of any Obligor or any other party to perform its obligations under any Finance Document, Project Agreement or the financial condition of any such person; |
(g) | is not responsible to ascertain whether all deeds and documents which should have been deposited with it (or the Security Agent) under or pursuant to any of the Security Documents have been so deposited; |
(h) | is not responsible to investigate or make any enquiry into the title of any Obligor or any other party to any of the Charged Property or any of its other property or assets; |
(i) | is not responsible for the failure to register any of the Security Documents with the Registrar of Companies or any other public office; |
(j) | is not responsible for the failure to register any of the Security Documents in accordance with the provisions of the documents of title of any Obligor or any other party to any of the Charged Property; |
(k) | is not responsible for the failure to take or require any Obligor or any other party to take any steps to render any of the Security Documents effective as regards property or assets outside England or Wales or to secure the creation of any ancillary charge under the laws of the jurisdiction concerned; or |
(l) | is not (unless it is the same entity as the Security Agent) responsible on account of the failure of the Security Agent to perform or discharge any of its duties or obligations under the Security Documents. |
38.10 | Exclusion of liability |
(a) | Without limiting clause 38.10(b) (and without prejudice to the provisions of clause 41.10 (Disruption to Payment Systems etc.)), the Facility Agent will not be liable for any action or omission taken or committed by it under or in connection with any Finance Document or any insurance policy, unless directly caused by its gross negligence or wilful misconduct. |
(b) | No Party (other than the Facility Agent) may take any proceedings against any officer, employee or agent of the Facility Agent in respect of any claim it might have against the Facility Agent or in respect of any act or omission of any kind by that officer, employee or agent in relation to any Finance Document or any insurance policy and any officer, employee or agent of the Facility Agent may rely on this clause subject to clause 1.3 (Third party rights) and the provisions of the Third Parties Act. |
(c) | The Facility Agent will not be liable for any delay (or any related consequences) in crediting an account with an amount required under the Finance Documents to be paid by the Facility Agent if the Facility Agent has taken all necessary steps as soon as reasonably practicable to comply with the regulations or operating procedures of any recognised clearing or settlement system used by the Facility Agent for that purpose. |
(d) | Nothing in this Agreement shall oblige the Facility Agent, the Security Agent or any Mandated Lead Arranger to carry out any "Know Your Customer" or other checks in relation to any person on behalf of any Lender or any Hedging Bank and each Lender and each Hedging Bank confirms to the Facility Agent, the Security Agent and the Mandated Lead Arrangers that it is solely responsible for any such checks it is required to carry out and that it may not rely on any statement in relation to such checks made by the Facility Agent the Security Agent or any Mandated Lead Arranger. |
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38.11 Lenders' indemnity to the Facility Agent
(a) | Each Lender shall (in proportion to its share of the Total Commitments or, if the Total Commitments are then zero, to its share of the Total Commitments immediately prior to their reduction to zero): |
(i) | indemnify the Facility Agent, promptly on demand, against: |
(A) | any Losses for negligence or any other category of liability whatsoever incurred by such Lenders' Representative in the circumstances contemplated pursuant to clause 41.10 (Disruption to Payment Systems etc) notwithstanding the Facility Agent's negligence, gross negligence, or any other category of liability whatsoever but not including any claim based on the fraud of the Facility Agent); and |
(B) | any cost, loss or liability incurred by the Facility Agent (otherwise than by reason of the Facility Agent's gross negligence or wilful misconduct) including the costs of any person engaged in accordance with clause 38.7 (Rights and discretions of the Facility Agent) and any Receiver in acting as its agent under the Finance Documents (unless the Facility Agent has been reimbursed by an Obligor pursuant to a Finance Document or out of the Trust Property); and |
(ii) | reimburse the Facility Agent for any out of pocket expenses (including reasonable legal fees and expenses) incurred by it in connection with the preparation, execution, administration or enforcement of, or legal advice in respect of rights or responsibilities under, the Finance Documents, to the extent that the Facility Agent is not reimbursed for such expenses by the Borrower pursuant to and in accordance with clause 18.1 (Transaction expenses). |
(b) | Subject to clause 38.11(c) below, the Borrower shall immediately on demand reimburse any Lender for any payment that Lender makes to the Facility Agent pursuant to paragraph (a) above. |
(c) | Clause 38.11(b) above shall not apply to the extent that the indemnity payment in respect of which the Lender claims reimbursement relates to a liability of the Facility Agent to an Obligor. |
(d) | The provisions of this clause 38.11 shall survive the termination or expiry of this Agreement. |
38.12 Resignation of the Facility Agent
(a) | The Facility Agent may resign and appoint one of its Affiliates as successor by giving thirty (30) days prior written notice to the Lenders, the Hedging Banks, the Security Agent, the K-sure Agent and the Borrower. |
(b) | Alternatively the Facility Agent may resign by giving thirty (30) days' notice to the other Finance Parties and the Borrower, in which case the Majority Lenders (after consultation with the Borrower) may appoint a successor Facility Agent. |
(c) | If the Majority Lenders have not appointed a successor Facility Agent in accordance with clause 38.12(b) above within thirty (30) days after notice of resignation was given, the Facility Agent (after consultation with the Borrower) may appoint a successor Facility Agent. |
(d) | If the Facility Agent wishes to resign because (acting reasonably) it has concluded that it is no longer appropriate for it to remain as agent and the Facility Agent is entitled to appoint a successor Facility Agent under clause 38.12(c) above, the Facility Agent may (if it concludes (acting reasonably) that it is necessary to do so in order to persuade the proposed successor Facility Agent to become a party to this Agreement as Facility Agent) agree with the proposed successor Facility Agent amendments to this clause 38 and any other term of this Agreement dealing with the rights or obligations of the Facility Agent |
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consistent with then current market practice for the appointment and protection of corporate trustees together with any reasonable amendments to the agency fee payable under this Agreement which are consistent with the successor Facility Agent's normal fee rates and those amendments will bind the Parties.
(e) | The retiring Facility Agent shall, at its own cost, make available to the successor Facility Agent such documents and records and provide such assistance as the successor Facility Agent may reasonably request for the purposes of performing its functions as Facility Agent under the Finance Documents. |
(f) | The Facility Agent's resignation notice shall only take effect upon the appointment of a successor. |
(g) | The appointment of the successor Facility Agent shall take effect on the date specified in the notice from the Majority Lenders to the retiring Facility Agent. As of this date, the retiring Facility Agent shall be discharged from any further obligation in respect of the Finance Documents but shall remain entitled to the benefit of clause 16.3 (Indemnity to the Agents and the Security Agent) and this clause 38 (and any agency fees for the account of the retiring Facility Agent shall cease to accrue from (and shall be payable on) that date. Its successor and each of the other Parties shall have the same rights and obligations amongst themselves as they would have had if such successor had been an original Party. |
(h) | After consultation with the Borrower, the Majority Lenders may, by notice to the Facility Agent, require it to resign in accordance with clause 38.12(b). In this event, the Facility Agent shall resign in accordance with clause 38.12(b). |
38.13 Replacement of the Facility Agent
(a) | After consultation with the Borrower, the Majority Lenders may, by giving 30 days' notice to the Facility Agent (or, at any time the Facility Agent is an Impaired Agent, by giving any shorter notice determined by the Majority Lenders) replace the Facility Agent by appointing a successor Facility Agent. |
(b) | The retiring Facility Agent shall (at its own cost if it is an Impaired Agent and otherwise at the expense of the Lenders) make available to the successor Facility Agent such documents and records and provide such assistance as the successor Facility Agent may reasonably request for the purposes of performing its functions as Agent under the Finance Documents. |
(c) | The appointment of the successor Facility Agent shall take effect on the date specified in the notice from the Majority Lenders to the retiring Facility Agent. As from this date, the retiring Facility Agent shall be discharged from any further obligation in respect of the Finance Documents (other than its obligations under clause 38.13(a)) but shall remain entitled to the benefit of clause 16.3 (Indemnity to the Agents and the Security Agent) and this clause 38 (and any agency fees for the account of the retiring Facility Agent shall cease to accrue from (and shall be payable on) that date). |
(d) | Any successor Facility Agent and each of the other Parties shall have the same rights and obligations amongst themselves as they would have had if such successor had been an original Party. |
(e) | The Facility Agent shall resign in accordance with clause 38.13 (and, to the extent applicable, shall use reasonable endeavours to appoint a successor Facility Agent) if, on or after the date which is three months before the earliest FATCA Application Date relating to any payment to the Facility Agent under the Finance Documents, either: |
(i) | the Facility Agent fails to respond to a request under clause 14.8 (FATCA Information) and a Lender reasonably believes that the Facility Agent will not be (or will have ceased to be) a FATCA Exempt Party on or after that FATCA Application Date; |
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(ii) | the information supplied by the Facility Agent pursuant to clause 14.8 (FATCA Information) indicates that the Facility Agent will not be (or will have ceased to be) a FATCA Exempt Party on or after that FATCA Application Date; or |
(iii) | the Facility Agent notifies the Borrower and the Lenders that the Facility Agent will not be (or will have ceased to be) a FATCA Exempt Party on or after that FATCA Application Date; |
(iv) | and (in each case) a Lender reasonably believes that a Party will be required to make a FATCA Deduction that would not be required if the Facility Agent were a FATCA Exempt Party, and that Lender, by notice to the Facility Agent, requires it to resign. |
38.14 | Confidentiality |
(a) | In acting as facility agent for the Finance Parties, the Facility Agent shall be regarded as acting through its department, division or team directly responsible for the management of the Finance Documents which shall be treated as a separate entity from any other of its divisions, departments or teams. |
(b) | If information is received by another division or department of the Facility Agent, it may be treated as confidential to that division or department and the Facility Agent shall not be deemed to have notice of it. |
(c) | Notwithstanding any other provision of any Finance Document to the contrary, the Facility Agent is not obliged to disclose to any other person (i) any confidential information or (ii) any other information if the disclosure would or might in its reasonable opinion constitute a breach of any law or a breach of a fiduciary duty. |
38.15 | Relationship with the Lenders and the Hedging Banks |
(a) | The Facility Agent may treat each Lender and each Hedging Bank as a Lender or (as the case may be) a Hedging Bank, entitled to payments under this Agreement and acting through its Facility Office unless it has received not less than five (5) Business Days prior notice from that Lender or that Hedging Bank to the contrary in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. |
(b) | Each Lender and each Hedging Bank shall supply the Facility Agent with any information that the Facility Agent may reasonably specify as being necessary or desirable to enable the Facility Agent or the Security Agent to perform its functions as Facility Agent or Security Agent. Each Lender and each Hedging Bank shall deal with the Security Agent exclusively through the Facility Agent and shall not deal directly with the Security Agent. |
38.16 | Credit appraisal by the Lenders and the Hedging Banks |
Without affecting the responsibility of any Obligor for information supplied by it or on its behalf in connection with any Finance Document, each Lender and each Hedging Bank confirms to each other Finance Party that it has been, and will continue to be, solely responsible for making its own independent appraisal and investigation of all risks arising under or in connection with any Finance Document including but not limited to:
(a) | the financial condition, status and nature of each Obligor and the Höegh MLP Group; |
(b) | the legality, validity, effectiveness, adequacy or enforceability of any Transaction Document and any other agreement, arrangement or document entered into, made or executed in anticipation of, under or in connection with any Transaction Document; |
(c) | the application of any Basel 2 Regulation or Basel 3 Regulation to the transactions contemplated by the Finance Documents; |
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(d) | whether any Finance Party has recourse, and the nature and extent of that recourse, against any Party or any of its respective assets under or in connection with any Finance Document, the transactions contemplated by the Finance Documents or any other agreement, arrangement or document entered into, made or executed in anticipation of, under or in connection with any Finance Document; |
(e) | the adequacy, accuracy and/or completeness of any information provided by the Facility Agent, any Party or by any other person under or in connection with any Transaction Document, the transactions contemplated by the Finance Documents or any other agreement, arrangement or document entered into, made or executed in anticipation of, under or in connection with any Transaction Document; and |
(f) | the right of title of any person to, or the value or sufficiency of, any part of the Charged Property, the priority of the Security Documents or the existence of any Security Interest affecting the Charged Property. |
38.17 Deduction from amounts payable by the Facility Agent
If any Party owes an amount to the Facility Agent under the Finance Documents the Facility Agent may, after giving notice to that Party, deduct an amount not exceeding that amount from any payment to that Party which the Facility Agent would otherwise be obliged to make under the Finance Documents and apply the amount deducted in or towards satisfaction of the amount owed. For the purposes of the Finance Documents that Party shall be regarded as having received any amount so deducted.
38.18 Reliance and engagement letters
Each Finance Party confirms that each of the Security Agent, the Facility Agent and any Mandated Lead Arranger has authority to accept on its behalf (and ratifies the acceptance on its behalf of any letters or reports already accepted by the Security Agent or the Facility Agent or a Mandated Lead Arranger) the terms of any reliance letter or engagement letters relating to any reports, opinions or letters provided by accountants or other professional advisers in connection with the Finance Documents or the transactions contemplated in the Finance Documents and to bind it in respect of those reports, opinions or letters and to sign such letters on its behalf and further confirms that it accepts the terms and qualifications set out in such letters.
38.19 Common parties
Although the Facility Agent and the Security Agent may from time to time be the same entity, that entity will have entered into the Finance Documents (to which it is party) in its separate capacities as facility agent for the Finance Parties and (as appropriate) security agent and trustee for the Finance Parties. Where any Finance Document provides for the Facility Agent or Security Agent to communicate with or provide instructions to the other, while they are the same entity, such communication or instructions will not be necessary.
38.20 Security Agent
(a) | Each other Finance Party appoints the Security Agent to act as its agent and (to the extent permitted under any applicable law) trustee under and in connection with the Security Documents and confirms that the Security Agent shall have a lien on the Security Documents and the proceeds of the enforcement of those Security Documents for all moneys payable to the beneficiaries of those Security Documents. |
(b) | Each other Finance Party authorises the Security Agent: |
(i) | to perform the duties, obligations and responsibilities and to exercise the rights, powers, authorities and discretions specifically given to the Security Agent under or in connection with the Finance Documents together with any other incidental rights, powers, authorities and discretions; and |
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(ii) | to execute each of the Security Documents and all other documents that may be approved by the Facility Agent and/or the Majority Lenders for execution by it. |
(c) | The Security Agent accepts its appointment under clause 38.20 (Security Agent) as trustee of the Trust Property with effect from the date of this Agreement and declares that it holds the Trust Property on trust for itself, the other Finance Parties (for so long as they are Finance Parties) and such other persons entitled under the Intercreditor Deed on and subject to the terms set out in clauses 38.20 to 38.28 (inclusive), the Intercreditor Deed and the Security Documents to which it is a party. |
38.21 Application of certain clauses to Security Agent
(a) | Clauses 38.7 (Rights and discretions of the Facility Agent), 38.9 (Responsibility for documentation and other matters), 38.10 (Exclusion of liability), 38.11 (Lenders' indemnity to the Facility Agent), 38.12 (Resignation of the Facility Agent), 38.13 (Replacement of the Facility Agent), 38.14 (Confidentiality), 38.15 (Relationship with the Lenders and the Hedging Banks), 38.16 (Credit appraisal by the Lenders and the Hedging Banks) and 38.17 (Deduction from amounts payable by the Facility Agent) shall each extend so as to apply to the Security Agent in its capacity as such and for that purpose each reference to the Facility Agent in these clauses shall extend to include in addition a reference to the Security Agent in its capacity as such. |
(b) | In addition, clause 38.12 (Resignation of the Facility Agent) shall, for the purposes of its application to the Security Agent pursuant to clause 38.21(a), have the following additional sub-clause: |
At any time after the appointment of a successor, the retiring Security Agent shall do and execute all acts, deeds and documents reasonably required by its successor to transfer to it (or its nominee, as it may direct) any property, assets and rights previously vested in the retiring Security Agent pursuant to the Security Documents and which shall not have vested in its successor by operation of law. All such acts, deeds and documents shall be done or, as the case may be, executed at the cost of the retiring Security Agent (except where the Security Agent is retiring under clause 38.12(h) as extended to it by clause 38.21(a), in which case such costs shall be borne by the Lenders (in proportion to its share of the Total Commitments or, if the Total Commitments are then zero, to its share of the Total Commitments immediately prior to their reduction to zero)).
38.22 | Instructions to Security Agent |
(a) | Unless a contrary indication appears in a Finance Document, the Security Agent shall: |
(i) | exercise any right, power, authority or discretion vested in it as Security Agent in accordance with any instructions given to it by the Facility Agent (or, if so instructed by the Facility Agent, refrain from exercising any right, power, authority or discretion vested in it as Security Agent); and |
(ii) | not be liable for any act (or omission) if it acts (or refrains from taking any action) in accordance with such an instruction of the Facility Agent (the Facility Agent in each case acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders or, if appropriate pursuant to clause 47.2 (Exceptions), the Lenders). |
(b) | The Security Agent shall be entitled to request instructions, or clarification of any instruction, from the Facility Agent as to whether, and in what manner, it should exercise or refrain from exercising any right, power, authority or discretion and the Security Agent may refrain from acting unless and until it receives those instructions or that clarification. |
(c) | Unless a contrary indication appears in a Finance Document, any instructions given by the Facility Agent to the Security Agent in accordance with clause 38.22(a) shall override any conflicting instructions given by any other Parties and will be binding on the Finance Parties. |
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(d) | The Security Agent may refrain from acting in accordance with the instructions of the Facility Agent until it has received such security as it may require for any cost, loss or liability (together with any associated Indirect Tax) which it may incur in complying with the instructions. |
(e) | In the absence of, or while awaiting, instructions from the Facility Agent, (including in exceptional circumstances where time does not permit the Facility Agent obtaining instructions from the Lenders and urgent action is required) the Security Agent may act (or refrain from taking action) as it considers to be in the best interest of the Finance Parties. |
(f) | The Security Agent is not authorised to act on behalf of another Finance Party (without first obtaining that Finance Party's consent) in any legal or arbitration proceedings relating to any Finance Document but this is without prejudice to clauses 38.22(a) and 38.22(e), including the right to enforce the Security Documents in accordance with these clauses. |
38.23 | Order of application |
(a) | Except as otherwise provided in this Agreement and subject to the terms of the Intercreditor Agreement, the Security Agent agrees to apply the Trust Property in accordance with the following respective claims: |
(i) | first, as to a sum equivalent to the amounts payable to K-sure under clause 16.4, the Facility Agent and/or the K-sure Agent and/or the Security Agent under the Finance Documents (excluding any amounts received by the Facility Agent and/or the Security Agent pursuant to clause 38.11 (Lenders' indemnity to the Facility Agent) as extended to the Security Agent pursuant to clause 38.21 (Application of certain clauses to Security Agent) or by the K-sure Agent pursuant to clause 38.22(f)), for the Facility Agent and/or the K-sure Agent and/or the Security Agent absolutely, and/or K-sure; |
(ii) | secondly, as to a sum equivalent to any other unpaid fees, costs (including, without limitation, Break Costs) and expenses of the Facility Agent, the Security Agent, the Account Bank, the Mandated Lead Arrangers and any Receiver under the Finance Documents; |
(iii) | thirdly, in or towards payment, on a pari passu basis, to (i) the Lenders pro rata of any accrued interest, fee or commission due but unpaid under the Finance Documents and (ii) the Hedging Banks pro rata of any sums (other than swap termination / close-out payments sums under the Hedging Contracts) owing to them under any of the Finance Documents; |
(iv) | fourthly, in or towards payment, on a pari passu basis, to: |
(A) | the Lenders pro rata of any principal which is due (or overdue) but unpaid under the Finance Documents; and |
(B) | the Hedging Banks pro rata of any termination sums / close-out payments owing to them under the Hedging Contracts; |
(v) | fifthly, only when an Event of Default is continuing, until such time as the Security Agent is satisfied that all obligations owed to the Finance Parties have been irrevocably and unconditionally discharged in full or no Event of Default is continuing, held by the Security Agent on a suspense account for payment of any further amounts owing to the Finance Parties under the Finance Documents and further application in accordance with this clause 38.23(a) as and when any such amounts later fall due, to the extent there remains a risk of an insolvency (as described in clause 32.9 (Insolvency)) and/or insolvency proceedings (as described in clause 32.10 (Insolvency proceedings)) affecting the Borrower; |
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(vi) | sixthly, to such other persons (if any) as are entitled thereto in accordance with the Intercreditor Agreement; |
(vii) | seventhly, to such other persons (if any) as are legally entitled thereto in priority to the Obligors; and |
(viii) | eighthly, as to the balance (if any), for the Obligors by or from whom or from whose assets the relevant amounts were paid, received or recovered or other person entitled to them. |
(b) | The Security Agent shall make each application as soon as is practicable after the relevant moneys are received by, or otherwise become available to, it save that (without prejudice to any other provision contained in any of the Security Documents) the Security Agent (acting on the instructions of the Facility Agent) or any receiver or administrator may, when an Event of Default is continuing, credit any moneys received by it to a suspense account for so long and in such manner as the Security Agent or such receiver or administrator may from time to time determine with a view to preserving the rights of the Finance Parties or any of them to prove for the whole of their respective claims against the Borrower or any other person liable provided that: (1) when such amounts taken together with other amounts that are held on similar suspense or nominal accounts in accordance with the Finance Documents are sufficient to discharge the Borrower's obligations under the Finance Documents they must be so applied; and (ii) such amount shall be treated as having been paid when due for all purposes under the Finance Documents, including the determination of interest accruing on amounts, whether at the default rate or otherwise. |
(c) | The Security Agent shall obtain a good discharge in respect of the amounts expressed to be due to the other Finance Parties as referred to in this clause 38.23 by paying such amounts to the Facility Agent for distribution in accordance with clause 41 (Payment mechanics). |
38.24 Perpetuities
The perpetuity period to the extent applicable to this Agreement and the other Finance Documents shall be 125 years from the date of this Agreement.
38.25 Powers and duties of the Security Agent as trustee of the security
In its capacity as trustee in relation to the Security Documents, the Security Agent:
(a) | shall, without prejudice to any of the powers, discretions and immunities conferred upon trustees by law (and to the extent not inconsistent with the provisions of this Agreement or any of the Security Documents), have all the same powers and discretions as a natural person acting as the beneficial owner of such property and/or as are conferred upon the Security Agent by this Agreement and/or any Security Document but so that the Security Agent may only exercise such powers and discretions to the extent that it is authorised to do so by the provisions of this Agreement; |
(b) | shall (subject to clause 38.23 (Order of application)) be entitled (in its own name or in the names of nominees) to invest moneys from time to time forming part of the Trust Property or otherwise held by it as a consequence of any enforcement of the security constituted by any Finance Document which, in the reasonable opinion of the Security Agent, it would not be practicable to distribute immediately, by placing the same on deposit in the name or under the control of the Security Agent as the Security Agent may think fit without being under any duty to diversify the same and the Security Agent shall not be responsible for any loss due to interest rate or exchange rate fluctuations except for any loss arising from the Security Agent's gross negligence or wilful misconduct; |
(c) | may, subject to the consent of the Borrower unless an Event of Default is continuing, in the conduct of its obligations under and in respect of the Security Documents (otherwise than in relation to its right to make any declaration, determination or decision), instead of acting |
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personally, employ and pay any agent (whether being a lawyer or any other person) to transact or concur in transacting any business and to do or concur in doing any acts required to be done by the Security Agent (including the receipt and payment of money) and on the basis that (i) any such agent engaged in any profession or business shall be entitled to be paid all usual professional and other charges for business transacted and acts done by him or any partner or employee of his or her in connection with such employment and (ii) the Security Agent shall not be bound to supervise, or be responsible for any loss incurred by reason of any act or omission of, any such agent if the Security Agent shall have exercised reasonable care in the selection of such agent; and
(d) | may place all deeds and other documents relating to the Trust Property which are from time to time deposited with it pursuant to the Security Documents in any safe deposit, safe or receptacle selected by the Security Agent exercising reasonable care or with any firm of solicitors or company whose business includes undertaking the safe custody of documents selected by the Security Agent exercising reasonable care and may make any such arrangements as it thinks fit for allowing Obligors access to, or its solicitors or auditors possession of, such documents when necessary or convenient and the Security Agent shall not be responsible for any loss incurred in connection with any such deposit, access or possession if it has exercised reasonable care in the selection of a safe deposit, safe, receptacle or firm of solicitors or company (save that it shall take reasonable steps to pursue any person who may be liable to it in connection with such loss). |
38.26 | All enforcement action through the Security Agent |
None of the other Finance Parties shall have any independent power to enforce any of the Security Documents or to exercise any rights, discretions or powers or to grant any consents or releases under or pursuant to any of the Security Documents or otherwise have direct recourse to the security and/or guarantees constituted by any of the Security Documents except through the Security Agent. If any Lender is a party to any Security Document it shall promptly upon being requested by the Facility Agent to do so grant power of attorney or other sufficient authority to the Security Agent to enable the Security Agent to exercise any rights, discretions or powers or to grant any consents or releases under such Security Document.
38.27 Co-operation to achieve agreed priorities of application
The other Finance Parties shall co-operate with each other and with the Security Agent and any receiver or administrator under the Security Documents in realising the property and assets subject to the Security Documents and in ensuring that the net proceeds realised under the Security Documents after deduction of the expenses of realisation are applied in accordance with clause 38.23 (Order of application).
38.28 Indemnity from Trust Property
(a) | In respect of all liabilities, costs or expenses for which the Obligors are liable under this Agreement, the Security Agent and each Affiliate of the Security Agent and each officer or employee of the Security Agent or its Affiliate (each an Indemnified Person) shall be entitled to be indemnified out of the Trust Property in respect of all liabilities, damages, costs, claims, charges or expenses whatsoever properly incurred or suffered by such Indemnified Person in the execution or exercise or bona fide purported execution or exercise of the trusts, rights, powers, authorities, discretions and duties created or conferred by or pursuant to the Finance Documents. |
(b) | The rights conferred by this clause 38.28 are without prejudice to any right to indemnity by law given to trustees generally and to any provision of the Finance Documents entitling the Security Agent or any other person to an indemnity in respect of, and/or reimbursement of, any liabilities, costs or expenses incurred or suffered by it in connection with any of the Finance Documents or the performance of any duties under any of the Finance Documents. Nothing contained in this clause 38.28 shall entitle the Security Agent or any other person to be indemnified in respect of any liabilities, damages, costs, claims, charges or expenses |
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to the extent that the same arise from such person's own gross negligence or wilful misconduct.
38.29 Finance Parties to provide information
The other Finance Parties shall provide the Security Agent with such written information as it may reasonably require for the purposes of carrying out its duties and obligations under the Security Documents and, in particular, with such necessary directions in writing so as to enable the Security Agent to make the calculations and applications contemplated by clause 38.23 (Order of application) above and to apply amounts received under, and the proceeds of realisation of, the Security Documents as contemplated by the Security Documents, clause 41.6 (Partial payments) and clause 38.23 (Order of application).
38.30 | Release to facilitate enforcement and realisation |
Each Finance Party acknowledges that pursuant to any enforcement action by the Security Agent (or a Receiver) carried out on the instructions of the Facility Agent it may be desirable for the purpose of such enforcement and/or maximising the realisation of the Charged Property being enforced against, that any rights or claims of or by the Security Agent (for the benefit of the Finance Parties) and/or any Finance Parties against any Obligor and/or any Security Interest over any assets of any Obligor (in each case) as contained in or created by any Finance Document, other than such rights or claims or security being enforced, be released in order to facilitate such enforcement action and/or realisation and, notwithstanding any other provision of the Finance Documents, each Finance Party hereby irrevocably authorises the Security Agent (acting on the instructions of the Facility Agent) to grant any such releases to the extent necessary to fully effect such enforcement action and realisation including, without limitation, to the extent necessary for such purposes to execute release documents in the name of and on behalf of the Finance Parties. Where the relevant enforcement is by way of disposal of shares in the Borrower, the requisite release shall include releases of all claims (including under guarantees) of the Finance Parties and/or the Security Agent against the Borrower and of all Security Interests over the assets of the Borrower.
38.31 Undertaking to pay
The Borrower undertakes with the Security Agent on behalf of the Finance Parties that it will, on demand by the Security Agent, pay to the Security Agent all money from time to time owing, and discharge all other obligations from time to time incurred, by it under or in connection with the Finance Documents provided that any payment under this undertaking shall discharge its obligation to pay such amount to the relevant Finance Party entitled to such payment.
38.32 Additional trustees
The Security Agent shall have power by notice in writing to the other Finance Parties and the Borrower to appoint any person approved by the Borrower (such approval not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed) either to act as separate trustee or as co-trustee jointly with the Security Agent:
(a) | if the Security Agent reasonably considers such appointment to be in the best interests of the Finance Parties; |
(b) | for the purpose of conforming with any legal requirement, restriction or condition in any jurisdiction in which any particular act is to be performed; or |
(c) | for the purpose of obtaining a judgment in any jurisdiction or the enforcement in any jurisdiction against any person of a judgment already obtained, |
and any person so appointed shall (subject to the provisions of this Agreement) have such rights (including as to reasonable remuneration), powers, duties and obligations as shall be conferred or imposed by the instrument of appointment approved by the Borrower. The Security Agent shall have power to remove any person so appointed. At the request of the
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Security Agent, the other parties to this Agreement shall forthwith execute all such documents and do all such things as may be required to perfect such appointment or removal and each Finance Party irrevocably authorises the Security Agent in its name and on its behalf to do the same. Such a person shall accede to this Agreement as a Security Agent to the extent necessary to carry out their role on terms satisfactory to the Security Agent and (subject always to the provisions of this Agreement) have such trusts, powers, authorities, liabilities and discretions (not exceeding those conferred on the Security Agent by this Agreement and the other Finance Documents) and such duties and obligations as shall be conferred or imposed by the instrument of appointment (being no less onerous than would have applied to the Security Agent but for the appointment). The Security Agent shall not be bound to supervise, or be responsible for any loss incurred by reason of any act or omission of, any such person if the Security Agent shall have exercised reasonable care in the selection of such person.
38.33 Non-recognition of trust
It is agreed by all the parties to this Agreement that:
(a) | in relation to any jurisdiction the courts of which would not recognise or give effect to the trusts expressed to be constituted by this clause 38, the relationship of the Security Agent and the other Finance Parties shall be construed as one of principal and agent, but to the extent permissible under the laws of such jurisdiction, all the other provisions of this Agreement shall have full force and effect between the parties to this Agreement; and |
(b) | the provisions of this clause 38 insofar as they relate to the Security Agent in its capacity as trustee for the Finance Parties and the relationship between themselves and the Security Agent as their trustee may be amended by agreement between the other Finance Parties and the Security Agent. |
38.34 | K-sure Agent |
(a) | Each K-sure Lender hereby appoints and authorises the K-sure Agent to act as its agent in connection herewith and for all purposes under the K-sure Policy, with power to take all such actions as are specified for the K-sure Agent to take on behalf of the K-sure Lenders insured under the K-sure Policy, together with such other powers as are specifically delegated to the K-sure Agent by the terms of the K-sure Policy or are reasonably incidental thereto, and each K-sure Lender hereby authorises and instructs the K-sure Agent to execute and deliver, if required, on its behalf the K-sure Policy and agrees severally to be bound by the terms and conditions of the K-sure Policy as if it had executed and delivered such agreement for and in its own name. |
(b) | Each K-sure Lender represents and warrants to the K-sure Agent that (i) it has reviewed the K-sure Policy and is aware of the provisions thereof, (ii) the representations and warranties made by the K-sure Agent on behalf of each K-sure Lender under the K-sure Policy are true and correct with respect to such Lender in all respects, and (iii) no information provided by such K-sure Lender in writing to the K-sure Agent or to K-sure prior to the date hereof was incomplete, untrue or incorrect in any respect except to the extent that such Lender, in the exercise of reasonable care and due diligence prior to the giving of the information, could not have discovered the error or omission. Each K-sure Lender represents and warrants that it has not taken (or failed to take), and agrees that it shall not take (or fail to take), any action that would result in the K-sure Agent being in breach of any of its obligations in its capacity as K-sure Agent under the K-sure Policy or the other Transaction Documents, or result in the K-sure Lenders being in breach of any of their respective obligations as insured parties, under the K-sure Policy, or which would otherwise prejudice the K-sure Agent's ability to make a claim on behalf of the K-sure Lenders under the K-sure Policy. |
(c) | The K-sure Agent agrees to furnish promptly to each K-sure Lender, a copy of each written communication received by it from, or sent by it to, K-sure expressly relating to the K-sure Policy. The K-sure Agent agrees not to take any action under the K-sure Policy without the |
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consent of the Lenders (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld), unless the K-sure Agent has reasonably determined that such action would not be material to the coverage provided to the K-sure Lender thereunder.
(d) | Each Lender acknowledges and agrees that it shall have no entitlement to make any claim or to take any action whatsoever under or in connection with the K-sure Policy except through the K-sure Agent and that all of the rights of the K-sure Lenders under the K-sure Policy shall only be exercised by the K-sure Agent. |
(e) | The K-sure Agent agrees to take such actions under the K-sure Policy (including with respect to any amendment, modification or supplement to the K-sure Policy) as may be directed by the Lenders from time to time; provided that, anything herein or in the K-sure Policy to the contrary notwithstanding, the K-sure Agent shall not be obliged to take any such action or to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur any liability in the performance of any of its duties or the exercise of any of its rights or powers hereunder or thereunder if it shall have reasonable grounds for believing that repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity against such risk or liability is not reasonably assured to it or if such action would be contrary to applicable law. |
(f) | Each K-sure Lender severally agrees to indemnify the K-sure Agent and its affiliates, and its and their respective officers, directors, employees and agents for any and all liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments, suits, costs, expenses or disbursements of any kind and nature whatsoever that may be imposed on, incurred by, or asserted against the K-sure Agent or any of its affiliates or its or their respective officers, directors, employees or agents arising out of or by reason of any action taken by the K-sure Agent or any of its affiliates or its or their respective officers, directors, employees or agents or as a result of any misrepresentations and/or other breaches under paragraph (b) above, provided that no K-sure Lender shall be liable for any of the foregoing to the extent they arise from the gross negligence or wilful misconduct of the K-sure Agent. Each Lender expressly confirms and agrees that the K-sure Agent shall not be liable for any loss caused as a result of the breach by any Lender of its obligations under paragraph (b) above. The provisions of paragraphs (a) and (b) above, pertaining to the procedures to be followed in connection with the appointment of successor Facility Agent and Security Agent shall constitute, mutatis mutandis, the procedures to be followed in connection with the appointment of a successor K-sure Agent. |
(g) | Each K-sure Lender severally agrees to reimburse the K-sure Agent in respect of the K-sure Premium (or any part thereof) if such premium (or any part thereof) is paid by the K-sure Agent and the K-sure Agent is not fully reimbursed in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. |
(h) | If the K-sure Agent receives any K-sure Insurance Proceeds, the K-sure Agent shall pay the amount actually received by it to the Facility Agent for application in accordance with the provisions of clauses 38.23 (Order of application). The K-sure Insurance Proceeds are for the benefit of the Finance Parties and not for the benefit of the Borrowers. K-sure Insurance Proceeds received by the K-sure Agent or applied by the Facility Agent pursuant to this Agreement shall not be deemed to satisfy the obligations of the Borrower under any Security Document which obligations shall remain due and payable notwithstanding the receipt or application of those K-sure Insurance Proceeds. |
38.35 Application of certain clauses to K-sure Agent
Clauses 38.12 (Resignation of the Facility Agent), 38.13 (Replacement of the Facility Agent), 38.14 (Confidentiality) shall each extend so as to apply to the K-Sure Agent in its capacity as such and for that purpose each reference to the Facility Agent in these clauses shall extend to include in addition a reference to the K-sure Agent in its capacity as such.
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39 | Conduct of business by the Finance Parties |
39.1 | Finance Parties tax affairs |
No provision of this Agreement will:
(a) | interfere with the right of any Finance Party to arrange its affairs (tax or otherwise) in whatever manner it thinks fit; |
(b) | oblige any Finance Party to investigate or claim any credit, relief, remission or repayment available to it or the extent, order and manner of any claim; or |
(c) | oblige any Finance Party to disclose any information relating to its affairs (tax or otherwise) or any computations in respect of Tax. |
39.2 | Finance Parties acting together |
Notwithstanding clause 2.2 (Finance Parties' rights and obligations), if the Facility Agent makes a declaration under clause 32.30 (Acceleration) the Facility Agent shall, in the names of all the Finance Parties, take such action on behalf of the Finance Parties and conduct such negotiations with the Borrower and other Obligors and generally administer the Facility in accordance with the wishes of the Majority Lenders. All the Finance Parties shall be bound by the provisions of this clause and no Finance Party shall be entitled to take action independently against any Obligor or any of their respective assets without the prior consent of the Majority Lenders.
This clause shall not override clause 38 (Roles of Facility Agent, Security Agent, Mandated Lead Arrangers and K-sure Agent) as it applies to the Security Agent.
39.3 | Majority Lenders |
(a) | Where any Finance Document provides for any matter to be determined by reference to the opinion of, or to be subject to the consent, approval or request of, the Majority Lenders or for any action to be taken on the instructions of the Majority Lenders (a majority decision), such majority decision shall (as between the Lenders) only be regarded as having been validly given or issued by the Majority Lenders if all the Lenders shall have received prior notice of the matter on which such majority decision is required and the relevant majority of Lenders shall have given or issued such majority decision subject to paragraph (b) below. However (as between any Obligor and the Finance Parties) the relevant Obligor shall be entitled (and bound) to assume that such notice shall have been duly received by each Lender and that the relevant majority shall have been obtained to constitute Majority Lenders when notified to this effect by the Facility Agent whether or not this is the case. |
(b) | If, within the relevant decision period provided for under the relevant provision of the Finance Documents (or if there is no such period, fifteen (15) Business Days after the Facility Agent despatching to each Lender a notice requesting instructions (or confirmation of instructions) from the Lenders or the agreement of the Lenders to any amendment, modification, waiver, variation or excuse of performance for the purposes of, or in relation to, any of the Finance Documents), the Facility Agent has not received a reply specifically giving or confirming or refusing to give or confirm the relevant instructions or, as the case may be, approving or refusing to approve the proposed amendment, modification, waiver, variation or excuse of performance, then (irrespective of whether such Lender responds at a later date) the Facility Agent shall treat any Lender which has not so responded as having indicated a desire to be bound by the wishes of 662/3 per cent of those Lenders (measured in terms of the total Commitments of those Lenders) which have so responded and their Commitment shall be disregarded for the purposes of determining whether a relevant percentage of the Total Commitments has been obtained. |
(c) | For the purposes of clause 39.3(b), any Lender which notifies the Facility Agent of a wish or intention to abstain on any particular issue shall be treated as if it had not responded. |
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(d) | Clauses 39.3(b) and 39.3(c) shall not apply in relation to those matters referred to in, or the subject of, clause 47.2 (Exceptions). |
39.4 | Conflicts |
(a) | The Borrower acknowledges that any Mandated Lead Arranger and its parent undertaking, subsidiary undertakings and fellow subsidiary undertakings (together an Arranger Group) may be providing debt finance, equity capital or other services (including financial advisory services) to other persons with which the Borrower may have conflicting interests in respect of the Facility or otherwise. |
(b) | No member of an Arranger Group shall use confidential information gained from any Obligor by virtue of the Facility or its relationships with any Obligor in connection with their performance of services for other persons. This shall not, however, affect any obligations that any member of an Arranger Group has as Facility Agent in respect of the Finance Documents. The Borrower also acknowledges that no member of an Arranger Group has any obligation to use or furnish to any Obligor information obtained from other persons for their benefit. |
(c) | The terms parent undertaking, subsidiary undertaking and fellow subsidiary undertaking when used in this clause have the meaning given to them in sections 1161 and 1162 of the Companies Act 2006. |
40 | Sharing among the Finance Parties |
40.1 | Payments to Finance Parties |
If a Finance Party (a Recovering Finance Party) receives or recovers any amount from an Obligor other than in accordance with clause 41 (Payment mechanics) and applies that amount to a payment due under the Finance Documents then:
(a) | the Recovering Finance Party shall, within three (3) Business Days, notify details of the receipt or recovery, to the Facility Agent; |
(b) | the Facility Agent shall determine whether the receipt or recovery is in excess of the amount the Recovering Finance Party would have been paid had the receipt or recovery been received or made by the Facility Agent and distributed in accordance with clause 41 (Payment mechanics), without taking account of any Tax which would be imposed on the Facility Agent in relation to the receipt, recovery or distribution; and |
(c) | the Recovering Finance Party shall, promptly on demand by the Facility Agent, pay to the Facility Agent an amount (the Sharing Payment) equal to such receipt or recovery less any amount which the Facility Agent determines may be retained by the Recovering Finance Party as its share of any payment to be made, in accordance with clause 41.6 (Partial payments). |
40.2 | Redistribution of payments |
The Facility Agent shall treat the Sharing Payment as if it had been paid by the relevant Obligor and distribute it between the Finance Parties (other than the Recovering Finance Party) in accordance with clause 41.6 (Partial payments).
40.3 | Recovering Finance Party's rights |
(a) | On a distribution by the Facility Agent under clause 40.2 (Redistribution of payments), the Recovering Finance Party will be subrogated to the rights of the Finance Parties which have shared in the redistribution. |
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(b) | If and to the extent that the Recovering Finance Party is not able to rely on its rights under clause 40.3(a) above, the relevant Obligor shall be liable to the Recovering Finance Party for a debt equal to the Sharing Payment which is immediately due and payable. |
40.4 | Reversal of redistribution |
If any part of the Sharing Payment received or recovered by a Recovering Finance Party becomes repayable and is repaid by that Recovering Finance Party, then:
(a) | each Finance Party which has received a share of the relevant Sharing Payment pursuant to clause 40.2 (Redistribution of payments) shall, upon request of the Facility Agent, pay to the Facility Agent for account of that Recovering Finance Party an amount equal to the appropriate part of its share of the Sharing Payment (together with an amount as is necessary to reimburse that Recovering Finance Party for its proportion of any interest on the Sharing Payment which that Recovering Finance Party is required to pay); and |
(b) | that Recovering Finance Party's rights of subrogation in respect of any reimbursement shall be cancelled and the relevant Obligor will be liable to the reimbursing Lender for the amount so reimbursed. |
40.5 | Exceptions |
(a) | This clause 40 shall not apply to the extent that the Recovering Finance Party would not, after making any payment pursuant to this clause, have a valid and enforceable claim against the relevant Obligor. |
(b) | A Recovering Finance Party is not obliged to share with any other Finance Party any amount which the Recovering Finance Party has received or recovered as a result of taking legal or arbitration proceedings in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, if: |
(i) | it notified that other Finance Party of the legal or arbitration proceedings; |
(ii) | the taking legal or arbitration proceedings was in accordance with the terms of this Agreement; and |
(iii) | that other Finance Party had an opportunity to participate in those legal or arbitration proceedings but did not do so as soon as reasonably practicable having received notice and did not take separate legal or arbitration proceedings. |
40.6 | Application of proceeds under K-sure Policy |
The foregoing provisions of this clause 40 shall not apply to any proceeds under the K-sure Policy and instead:
(a) | if any Finance Party receives any proceeds under the K-sure Policy, it shall pay such moneys to the Facility Agent; |
(b) | notwithstanding the provisions of clause 41.6 (Partial payments), any such moneys shall be applied by the Facility Agent only in favour of the K-sure Lenders, and, for the avoidance of doubt, no such proceeds shall be available in any circumstances to the Obligors; |
(c) | no such proceeds (whether before or after application in accordance with the provisions of clause 40.6(b) above) shall be deemed to satisfy the obligations of the Obligors, shall be ignored in calculating the amount owing to the Finance Parties and any of them in respect of the K-sure Policy and, for the avoidance of doubt, the obligations of each Obligor under each Finance Document to which it is a party shall remain in full force and effect unaffected by the receipt of any such insurance proceeds; and |
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(d) | any unpaid K-sure Premium shall constitute amounts then due and payable in respect of the K-sure Facility under the Finance Documents (and any of them) for the purposes of the amounts then due and payable in respect of clause 18.1 (Transaction expenses). |
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Section 10 - Administration
41 | Payment mechanics |
41.1 | Payments to the Facility Agent |
(a) | On each date on which the Borrower or a Lender is required to make a payment under a Finance Document, the Borrower or Lender shall make the same available to the Facility Agent (unless a contrary indication appears in a Finance Document) for value on the due date at the time and in such funds specified by the Facility Agent as being customary at the time for settlement of transactions in the relevant currency in the place of payment. |
(b) | Payment shall be made to such account in the principal financial centre of the country of that currency with such bank as the Facility Agent specifies. |
41.2 | Distributions by the Facility Agent |
Each payment received by the Facility Agent under the Finance Documents for another Party shall, subject to clause 41.3 (Distributions to an Obligor) and clause 41.4 (Clawback and pre-funding) be made available by the Facility Agent as soon as practicable after receipt to the Party entitled to receive payment in accordance with this Agreement (in the case of a Lender, for the account of its Facility Office), to such account as that Party may notify to the Facility Agent by not less than five Business Days' notice with a bank specified by that Party in the principal financial centre of the country of that currency.
41.3 | Distributions to an Obligor |
The Facility Agent may (with the consent of the Obligor or in accordance with clause 42 (Set-off)) apply any amount received by it for that Obligor in or towards payment (on the date and in the currency and funds of receipt) of any amount due from that Obligor under the Finance Documents or in or towards purchase of any amount of any currency to be so applied.
41.4 | Clawback and pre-funding |
(a) | Where a sum is to be paid to the Facility Agent under the Finance Documents for another Party, the Facility Agent is not obliged to pay that sum to that other Party (or to enter into or perform any related exchange contract) until it has been able to establish to its satisfaction that it has actually received that sum. |
(b) | If the Facility Agent pays an amount to another Party and it proves to be the case that the Facility Agent had not actually received that amount, then the Party to whom that amount (or the proceeds of any related exchange contract) was paid by the Facility Agent shall on demand refund the same to the Facility Agent together with interest on that amount from the date of payment to the date of receipt by the Facility Agent, calculated by the Facility Agent to reflect its cost of funds. |
(c) | If the Facility Agent is willing to make available amounts for the account of the Borrower before receiving funds from the Lenders then if and to the extent that the Facility Agent does so but it proves to be the case that it does not then receive funds from a Lender in respect of a sum which it paid to the Borrower: |
(i) | the Facility Agent may notify the Borrower of that Lender's identity and the Borrower shall on demand refund it to the Facility Agent; and |
(ii) | the Lender by whom those funds should have been made available or, if that Lender fails to do so, the Borrower, shall on demand pay to the Facility Agent the amount (as certified by the Facility Agent) which will indemnify the Facility Agent against any funding cost incurred by it as a result of paying out that sum before receiving those funds from that Lender. |
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41.5 | Impaired Agent |
(a) | If, at any time, the Facility Agent becomes an Impaired Agent, the Borrower or a Lender which is required to make a payment under the Finance Documents to the Facility Agent in accordance with clauses 41.1 (Payments to the Facility Agent) may instead either: |
(i) | pay that amount direct to the required recipient(s); or |
(ii) | if in its absolute discretion it considers that it is not reasonably practicable to pay that amount direct to the required recipient(s), pay the relevant part of that amount to an interest-bearing account held with an Approved Transferee and in relation to which no Insolvency Event has occurred and is continuing, in the name of the Borrower or the Lender making the payment (the Paying Party) and designated as a trust account for the benefit of the Party or Parties beneficially entitled to that payment under the Finance Documents (the Recipient Party or Recipient Parties). |
In each case such payments must be made on the due date for payment under the Finance Documents.
(b) | All interest accrued on the amount standing to the credit of the trust account shall be for the benefit of the Recipient Party or the Recipient Parties pro rata to their respective entitlements. |
(c) | A Party which has made a payment in accordance with paragraphs (a) and (b) above shall be discharged of the relevant payment obligation under the Finance Documents and shall not take any credit risk with respect to the amounts standing to the credit of the trust account. |
(d) | Promptly upon the appointment of a successor Facility Agent in accordance with this Agreement, each Paying Party shall (other than to the extent that that Party has given an instruction pursuant to paragraph (e) below) give all requisite instructions to the bank with whom the trust account is held to transfer the amount (together with any accrued interest) to the successor Facility Agent for distribution to the relevant Recipient Party or Recipient Parties in accordance with clause 41.2 (Distributions by the Facility Agent). |
(e) | A Paying Party shall, promptly upon request by a Recipient Party and to the extent: |
(i) | that it has not given an instruction pursuant to paragraph (d) above; and |
(ii) | that it has been provided with the necessary information by that Recipient Party, |
give all requisite instructions to the bank with whom the trust account is held to transfer the relevant amount (together with any accrued interest) to that Recipient Party.
41.6 | Partial payments |
(a) | If the Facility Agent receives a payment for application against amounts due under the Finance Documents that is insufficient to discharge all the amounts then due and payable by an Obligor under those Finance Documents, the Facility Agent shall apply that payment towards the obligations of that Obligor under those Finance Documents in the following order: |
(i) | first, in or towards payment pro rata of any unpaid fees, costs (including Break Costs) and expenses (ignoring any fees payable under clause 13 (Fees)) of the Agents, the Security Agent or the Mandated Lead Arrangers under those Finance Documents; |
(ii) | secondly, in or towards payment to the Lenders pro rata of any amount owing to the Lenders under clause 38.11 (Lenders' indemnity to the Facility Agent) including any |
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amount resulting from the indemnity to the Security Agent under clause 38.21(a) (Application of certain clauses to Security Agent);
(iii) | thirdly, in or towards payment, on a pari passu basis, to (i) the Lenders pro rata of any accrued interest, fee or commission due but unpaid under those Finance Documents and (ii) the Hedging Banks pro rata of any sums owing to them under any of those Finance Documents (other than any swap termination sums / close-out payments owing to them under the Hedging Contracts); |
(iv) | fourthly, in or towards payment, on a pari passu basis, to: |
(A) | the Lenders pro rata of any principal which is due but unpaid under those Finance Documents; and |
(B) | the Hedging Banks pro rata of any termination sums owing to them under the Hedging Contracts; and |
(v) | fifthly, in or towards payment pro rata of any other sum due but unpaid under the Finance Documents. |
(b) | The Facility Agent shall, if so directed by all the Lenders and the Hedging Banks, vary the order set out in paragraphs (a)(i) to (a)(v) of clause 41.6(a). |
(c) | Clauses 41.6(a) and 41.6(b) above will override any appropriation made by an Obligor. |
41.7 | No set-off by Obligors |
All payments to be made by an Obligor under the Finance Documents shall be calculated and be made without (and free and clear of any deduction for) set-off or counterclaim.
41.8 | Business Days |
(a) | Any payment which is due to be made on a day that is not a Business Day shall be made on the next Business Day in the same calendar month (if there is one) or the preceding Business Day (if there is not). |
(b) | During any extension of the due date for payment of any principal or Unpaid Sum under this Agreement, interest is payable on the principal or Unpaid Sum at the rate payable on the original due date. |
41.9 | Currency of account |
(a) | Subject to clauses 41.9(b) to 41.9(c), dollars is the currency of account and payment for any sum due from an Obligor under any Finance Document. |
(b) | A repayment of all or part of any Loan or an Unpaid Sum and each payment of interest shall be made in dollars on its due date. |
(c) | Each payment in respect of the amount of any costs, expenses or Tax or other losses shall be made in dollars and, if they were incurred in a currency other than dollars, the amount payable under the Finance Documents shall be the equivalent in dollars of the relevant amount in such other currency on the date on which it was incurred. |
(d) | All moneys received or held by the Security Agent or by a Receiver under a Security Document in a currency other than dollars may be sold for dollars and the Obligor which executed that Security Document shall indemnify the Security Agent against the full cost in relation to the sale. Neither the Security Agent nor such Receiver will have any liability to that Obligor in respect of any loss resulting from any fluctuation in exchange rates after the sale. |
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41.10 | Disruption to Payment Systems etc. |
If the Facility Agent determines (in its discretion) that a Disruption Event has occurred or the Facility Agent is notified by the Borrower that a Disruption Event has occurred:
(a) | the Facility Agent may, and shall if requested to do so by the Borrower, consult with the Borrower with a view to agreeing with the Borrower such changes to the operation or administration of the Facility as the Facility Agent may deem necessary in the circumstances; |
(b) | the Facility Agent shall not be obliged to consult with the Borrower in relation to any changes mentioned in paragraph (a) above if, in its opinion, it is not practicable to do so in the circumstances and, in any event, shall have no obligation to agree to such changes; |
(c) | the Facility Agent may consult with the Finance Parties in relation to any changes mentioned in paragraph (a) above but shall not be obliged to do so if, in its opinion, it is not practicable to do so in the circumstances; |
(d) | any such changes agreed upon by the Facility Agent and the Borrower shall (whether or not it is finally determined that a Disruption Event has occurred) be binding upon the Parties as an amendment to (or, as the case may be, waiver of) the terms of the Finance Documents notwithstanding the provisions of clause 47 (Amendments and grant of waivers); |
(e) | the Facility Agent shall not be liable for any damages, costs or losses whatsoever (including, without limitation for negligence, gross negligence or any other category of liability whatsoever but not including any claim based on the fraud of the Facility Agent) arising as a result of its taking, or failing to take, any actions pursuant to or in connection with this clause 41.10; and |
(f) | the Facility Agent shall notify the Finance Parties of all changes agreed pursuant to clause 41.10(d) above. |
42 | Set-off |
A Finance Party may set off any matured obligation due from an Obligor under any Finance Document against any matured obligation owed by that Finance Party to that Obligor, regardless of the place of payment, booking branch or currency of either obligation. If the obligations are in different currencies, the Finance Party may convert either obligation at a market rate of exchange in its usual course of business for the purpose of the set-off.
43 | Notices |
43.1 | Communications in writing |
Any communication to be made under or in connection with the Finance Documents shall be made in writing and, unless otherwise stated, may be made by fax, email or letter.
43.2 | Addresses |
The address, email address and fax number (and the department or officer, if any, for whose attention the communication is to be made) of each Obligor or any Finance Party for any communication or document to be made or delivered under or in connection with the Finance Documents is:
(a) | in the case of any Obligor which is a Party, that identified with its name in Schedule 1 (The original parties); |
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(b) | in the case of any Obligor which is not a Party, that identified in any Finance Document to which it is a party; |
(c) | in the case of any Original Lender, the Security Agent, the Facility Agent, the K-sure Agent and any other original Finance Party that identified with its name in Schedule 1 (The original parties); and |
(d) | in the case of each other Lender or Finance Party, that notified in writing to the Facility Agent on or prior to the date on which it becomes a Party in the relevant capacity, |
or, in each case, any substitute address, email address, fax number, or department or officer as an Obligor or Finance Party may notify to the Facility Agent (or the Facility Agent may notify to the other Parties, if a change is made by the Facility Agent) by not less than five (5) Business Days' notice.
43.3 | Delivery |
(a) | Any communication or document made or delivered by one person to another under or in connection with the Finance Documents will only be effective: |
(i) | if by way of fax or, in the case of a Party other than an Account Bank, email, when received in legible form; or |
(ii) | if by way of letter, when it has been left at the relevant address or five (5) Business Days after being deposited in the post postage prepaid in an envelope addressed to it at that address; |
and, if a particular department or officer is specified as part of its address details provided under clause 43.2 (Addresses), if addressed to that department or officer.
(b) | Any communication or document to be made or delivered to the Facility Agent, the Account Banks or the Security Agent will be effective only when actually received by the Facility Agent, the Account Banks or the Security Agent and then only if it is expressly marked for the attention of the department or officer identified in Schedule 1 (The original parties) (or any substitute department or officer as the Facility Agent or the Security Agent shall specify for this purpose). |
(c) | All notices from or to an Obligor to or from a Finance Party shall be sent through the Facility Agent. |
(d) | Any communication or document made or delivered to the Borrower in accordance with this clause will be deemed to have been made or delivered to each of the Obligors. |
(e) | Any electronic communication which becomes effective, in accordance with paragraph (a) above, after 5:00 p.m. in the place of receipt shall be deemed only to become effective on the following day. |
43.4 | Notification of address, email address and fax number |
Promptly upon receipt (from an Obligor) of notification of an address, email address and fax number or change of address, email address or fax number pursuant to clause 43.2 (Addresses) or changing its own address, email address or fax number, the Facility Agent shall notify the other Parties.
43.5 | Communication when Agent is Impaired Agent |
If the Facility Agent is an Impaired Agent the Parties may, instead of communicating with each other through the Facility Agent, communicate with each other directly and (while the Facility Agent is an Impaired Agent) all the provisions of the Finance Documents which require communications to be made or notices to be given to or by the Facility Agent shall be varied so
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that communications may be made and notices given to or by the relevant Parties directly. This provision shall not operate after a replacement Agent has been appointed
43.6 | English language |
(a) | Any notice given under or in connection with any Finance Document shall be in English. |
(b) | All other documents provided under or in connection with any Finance Document shall be: |
(i) | in English; or |
(ii) | if not in English, and if so required by the Facility Agent, accompanied by a certified English translation and, in this case, the English translation will prevail unless the document is a constitutional, statutory or other official document. |
44 | Calculations and certificates |
44.1 | Accounts |
In any litigation or arbitration proceedings arising out of or in connection with a Finance Document, the entries made in the accounts maintained by a Finance Party are prima facie evidence of the matters to which they relate.
44.2 | Certificates and determinations |
Any certification or determination by a Finance Party of a rate or amount under any Finance Document is in the absence of manifest error, conclusive evidence of the matters to which it relates.
44.3 | Day count convention |
Any interest, commission or fee accruing under a Finance Document will accrue from day to day and is calculated on the basis of the actual number of days elapsed and a year of 360 days or, in any case where the practice in the Interbank Market differs, in accordance with that market practice.
45 | Partial invalidity |
If, at any time, any provision of the Finance Documents is or becomes illegal, invalid or unenforceable in any respect under any law of any jurisdiction, neither the legality, validity or enforceability of the remaining provisions nor the legality, validity or enforceability of such provision under the law of any other jurisdiction will in any way be affected or impaired.
46 | Remedies and waivers |
No failure to exercise, nor any delay in exercising, on the part of any Finance Party, any right or remedy under the Finance Documents shall operate as a waiver, nor shall any single or partial exercise of any right or remedy prevent any further or other exercise or the exercise of any other right or remedy. The rights and remedies provided in the Finance Documents are cumulative and not exclusive of any rights or remedies provided by law.
47 | Amendments and grant of waivers |
47.1 | Required consents |
(a) | Subject to clause 47.2 (Exceptions), any term of the Finance Documents may be amended or waived with the consent of the Facility Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders and, if it affects the rights and obligations of the Security Agent or either Agent, the consent of the Facility Agent or the Security Agent and, if it affects the rights and |
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obligations of the Hedging Banks, the consent of the Hedging Banks) and any such amendment or waiver agreed, given or effected by the Facility Agent will be binding on the other Parties.
(b) | The Facility Agent may (or, in the case of the Security Documents, instruct the Security Agent to) effect, on behalf of any Finance Party, any amendment, waiver, discharge or release permitted by this clause. |
(c) | Without prejudice to the generality of clause 38.7 (Rights and discretions of the Facility Agent), the Facility Agent may engage, pay for and rely on the services of lawyers in determining the consent level required for and effecting any amendment, waiver, discharge, release or consent under this Agreement. |
47.2 | Exceptions |
(a) | An amendment, waiver, discharge or release or a consent of, or in relation to, the terms of any Finance Document that has the effect of changing or which relates to: |
(i) | the definition of “Majority Lenders” in clause 1.1 (Definitions); |
(ii) | the definition of “Last Availability Date” in clause 1.1 (Definitions); |
(iii) | the definition of “Final Maturity Date” in clause 1.1 (Definitions); |
(iv) | an extension to the date of payment of any amount under the Finance Documents ; |
(v) | a reduction in the Margin or a reduction in the amount of any payment of principal, interest, fees or commission payable or the rate at which they are calculated; |
(vi) | an increase in, or an extension of, any Commitment or the Total Commitments, an extension of any period within which the Facility is available for Utilisation or any requirement that a cancellation of Commitments reduces the Commitments of the Lenders rateably under the Facility; |
(vii) | a change to the Borrower or any other Obligor (other than Supervisor and the appointment of a replacement O&M Contractor which is an Approved Operator pursuant to clause 24.4 (Operation and Maintenance)) or the Charterer; |
(viii) | any provision which expressly requires the consent or approval of all the Lenders; |
(ix) | clauses 20.1 (Financial statements), 20.2 (Provisions and contents of Compliance Certificate) or 20.3 (Requirements as to financial statements) or clause 21 (Financial covenants); |
(x) | clause 2.2 (Finance Parties' rights and obligations), clause 34 (Changes to the Lenders), clause 40.1 (Payments to Finance Parties) or this clause 47; |
(xi) | the order of distribution under clauses 38.23 (Order of application) or 41.6 (Partial payments); |
(xii) | the currency in which any amount is payable under any Finance Document; |
(xiii) | the nature or scope of the Charged Property or the manner in which the proceeds of enforcement of the Security Documents are distributed; or |
(xiv) | the circumstances in which the security constituted by the Security Documents are permitted or required to be released under any of the Finance Documents, |
shall not be made without the prior consent of the Lenders and K-sure.
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(b) | Amendments to or waivers in respect of the Hedging Contracts may only be agreed by the Hedging Banks. |
(c) | An amendment or waiver which relates to the rights or obligations of the Facility Agent, the Security Agent, the Hedging Banks or the Mandated Lead Arrangers in their respective capacities as such (and not just as a Lender) may not be effected without the consent of the Agents, Security Agent, the Hedging Banks and the Mandated Lead Arrangers (as the case may be). |
(d) | Notwithstanding clauses 47.1 and 47.2(a) to 47.2(c) (inclusive), the Facility Agent may with the consent of the Borrower make technical amendments to the Finance Documents arising out of manifest errors on the face of the Finance Documents, where such amendments would not prejudice or otherwise be adverse to the interests of any Finance Party without any reference or consent of the Finance Parties. |
(e) | Notwithstanding the provisions of this clause 47.2, any waiver of an Event of Default and enforcement of remedies related thereto shall require the consent of K-sure. |
(f) | The K-sure Agent shall provide a copy of any amendment or waiver to K-sure within ten (10) days of such amendment or waiver becoming effective. |
47.3 | Replacement of Screen Rate |
(a) | If a Screen Rate Replacement Event has occurred, any amendment or waiver which relates to: |
(i) | providing for the use of a Replacement Benchmark in place of (or in addition to) the Screen Rate; and |
(ii) | any or all of the following: |
(A) | aligning any provision of any Finance Document to the use of that Replacement Benchmark; |
(B) | enabling that Replacement Benchmark to be used for the calculation of interest under this Agreement (including, without limitation, any consequential changes required to enable that Replacement Benchmark to be used for the purposes of this Agreement); |
(C) | implementing market conventions applicable to that Replacement Benchmark; |
(D) | providing for appropriate fallback (and market disruption) provisions for that Replacement Benchmark; or |
(E) | adjusting the pricing to reduce or eliminate, to the extent reasonably practicable, any transfer of economic value from one Party to another as a result of the application of that Replacement Benchmark (and if any adjustment or method for calculating any adjustment has been formally designated, nominated or recommended by the Relevant Nominating Body, the adjustment shall be determined on the basis of that designation, nomination or recommendation), |
may be made with the consent of the Facility Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders) and the Borrower. The Lenders and the Borrower shall have regard to, and to the extent practicable, use all reasonable endeavours to align such amendments or waivers with, the amendments and waivers applicable to, or to be applied under, the Hedging Contracts.
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(b) | If, as at 1 January 2023, this Agreement provides that the rate of interest for the Loan is to be determined by reference to the Screen Rate: |
(i) | a Screen Rate Replacement Event shall be deemed to have occurred on that date in relation to the Screen Rate; and |
(ii) | the Facility Agent (acting on the instructions of the of the Majority Lenders) and the Obligors shall enter into negotiations in good faith with a view to agreeing the use of a Replacement Benchmark in place of the Screen Rate from and including a date no later than 31 March 2023. |
(c) | If any Lender fails to respond to a request for an amendment or waiver described in, or for any other vote of Lenders in relation to, paragraphs (a) or (b) above within ten (10) Business Days (or such longer time period in relation to any request which the Borrower and the Facility Agent may agree) of that request being made: |
(i) | its Commitment(s) shall not be included for the purpose of calculating the Total Commitments under the Facility when ascertaining whether any relevant percentage of Total Commitments has been obtained to approve that request; and |
(ii) | its status as a Lender shall be disregarded for the purpose of ascertaining whether the agreement of any specified group of Lenders has been obtained to approve that request. |
(d) | In this clause 47.3: |
Relevant Nominating Body means any applicable central bank, regulator or other supervisory authority or a group of them, or any working group or committee sponsored or chaired by, or constituted at the request of, any of them or the Financial Stability Board.
Replacement Benchmark means a benchmark rate which is:
(i) | formally designated, nominated or recommended as the replacement for the Screen Rate by: |
(A) | the administrator of the Screen Rate (provided that the market or economic reality that such benchmark rate measures is the same as that measured by the Screen Rate); or |
(B) | any Relevant Nominating Body, |
and if replacements have, at the relevant time, been formally designated, nominated or recommended under both paragraphs, the “Replacement Benchmark” will be the replacement under this definition;
(ii) | in the opinion of the Majority Lenders and the Borrower, generally accepted in the international or any relevant domestic syndicated loan markets as the appropriate successor to that Screen Rate; or |
(iii) | in the opinion of the Majority Lenders and the Borrower, an appropriate successor to the Screen Rate, |
provided that, in determining a Replacement Benchmark, the Majority Lenders and the Borrower shall have regard to and, to the extent practicable, use all reasonable endeavours to align the selection with, the replacement benchmark determined or to be determined under the Hedging Contracts.
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Screen Rate Replacement Event means, in relation to the Screen Rate:
(i) | the methodology, formula or other means of determining the Screen Rate has, in the opinion of the Majority Lenders and the Borrower materially changed; |
(ii) | any of the following applies: |
(A) | either: |
(1) | the administrator of the Screen Rate or its supervisor publicly announces that such administrator is insolvent; or |
(2) | information is published in any order, decree, notice, petition or filing, however described, of or filed with a court, tribunal, exchange, regulatory authority or similar administrative, regulatory or judicial body which reasonably confirms that the administrator of the Screen Rate is insolvent, |
provided that, in each case, at that time, there is no successor administrator to continue to provide the Screen Rate;
(B) | the administrator of the Screen Rate publicly announces that it has ceased or will cease, to provide the Screen Rate permanently or indefinitely and, at that time, there is no successor administrator to continue to provide the Screen Rate; |
(C) | the supervisor of the administrator of the Screen Rate publicly announces that such Screen Rate has been or will be permanently or indefinitely discontinued; |
(D) | the administrator of the Screen Rate or its supervisor announces that the Screen Rate may no longer be used; |
(E) | the supervisor of the administrator of the Screen Rate makes a public announcement or publishes information: |
(1) | stating that the Screen Rate is no longer or, as of a specified future date will no longer be, representative of the underlying market or economic reality that it is intended to measure and that representativeness will not be restored (as determined by such supervisor); and |
(2) | with awareness that any such announcement or publication will engage certain triggers for fallback provisions in contracts which may be activated by any such pre-cessation announcement or publication; or |
(iii) | the administrator of the Screen Rate determines that the Screen Rate should be calculated in accordance with its reduced submissions or other contingency or fallback policies or arrangements and either: |
(A) | the circumstance(s) or event(s) leading to such determination are not (in the opinion of the Majority Lenders and the Borrower) temporary; or |
(B) | the Screen Rate is calculated in accordance with any such policy or arrangement for a period of no less than twenty (20) days; or |
(iv) | in the opinion of the Majority Lenders and the Borrower the Screen Rate is otherwise no longer appropriate for the purposes of calculating interest under this Agreement. |
For the avoidance of doubt, the FCA announcement made on the 5 March 2021 shall not constitute a Screen Rate Replacement Event as at the Effective Date.
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47.4 | Releases |
Except with the approval of the Lenders or as is expressly permitted or required by the Finance Documents, the Facility Agent shall not have authority to authorise the Security Agent to release:
(a) | any Charged Property from the security constituted by any Security Document; or |
(b) | any Obligor from any of its guarantee or other obligations under any Finance Document. |
48 | Counterparts |
Each Finance Document may be executed in any number of counterparts, and this has the same effect as if the signatures on the counterparts were on a single copy of the Finance Document.
49 | Contractual recognition of bail-in |
Notwithstanding any other term of any Finance Document or any other agreement, arrangement or understanding between the Parties, each Party (and any other Obligor who is a party to any other Finance Document to which this clause is expressed by the terms of that other Finance Document to apply) acknowledges and accepts that any liability of any Finance Party to another Finance Party or to an Obligor under or in connection with the Finance Documents may be subject to Bail-In Action by the relevant Resolution Authority and acknowledges and accepts to be bound by the effect of:
(a) | any Bail-In Action in relation to any such liability, including (without limitation): |
(i) | a reduction, in full or in part, in the principal amount, or outstanding amount due (including any accrued but unpaid interest) in respect of any such liability; |
(ii) | a conversion of all, or part of, any such liability into shares or other instruments of ownership that may be issued to, or conferred on, it; and |
(iii) | a cancellation of any such liability; and |
(b) | a variation of any term of any Finance Document to the extent necessary to give effect to any Bail-In Action in relation to any such liability. |
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Section 11 - Governing Law and Enforcement
50 | Governing law |
This Agreement and any non-contractual obligations connected with it are governed by English law.
51 | Enforcement |
51.1 | Arbitration |
(a) | Any dispute arising out of or in connection with this Agreement, including any question regarding its existence, validity or termination, shall be referred to and finally resolved by arbitration in Singapore in accordance with the Arbitration Rules of Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC Rules) for the time being in force which rules are deemed to be incorporated by reference to this clause. |
(b) | The tribunal shall consist of a panel of three arbitrators (the Tribunal) appointed in accordance with the SIAC Rules. |
(c) | The language of the arbitration shall be English. |
(d) | The Parties undertake to keep confidential the existence of, and all awards in, any arbitration, together with all materials in the proceedings created for the purpose of the arbitration and all other documents produced by another party in the proceedings not otherwise in the public domain - save and to the extent that disclosure may be required of a Party by legal duty, to protect or pursue a legal right or to enforce or challenge an award in bona fide legal proceedings before a state court or other judicial authority. |
(e) | By agreeing to arbitration in accordance with this clause, the Parties do not intend to deprive any competent court of its jurisdiction to issue a pre-arbitral injunction, pre-arbitral attachment or other order in aid of the arbitration proceedings or the enforcement of any award. Any interim or provisional relief ordered by any competent court may subsequently be vacated, continued or modified by the arbitral tribunal on the application of either Party. |
This Agreement has been entered into on the date stated at the beginning of this Agreement.
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Schedule 1
The original parties
Borrower
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Name: | PT HOEGH LNG LAMPUNG |
Jurisdiction of incorporation | Indonesia |
Registration number (or equivalent, if any) | TDP 09.05.1.50.78984 |
Registered office | Jl Jenderal Sudirman Kav 1, Jakarta 10220, Indonesia |
Address for service of notices | PT Hoegh LNG Lampung Fax No: +62 21 574 2180 Tel No: +62 21 574 2181 Attention: Managing Director E-mail: irman.rumadja@hoeghlng.com With copy to: Hoegh LNG Lampung Pte Ltd Fax No:+65 6438 6493 Tel No:+65 6511 1950 Attention:Parthsarthi Jindal E-mail: Parthsarthi.jindal@hoeghlng.com |
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Guarantor
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Name of Guarantor | HÖEGH LNG PARTNERS LP |
Jurisdiction of incorporation | Republic of the Marshall Islands |
Registration number (or equivalent, if any) | 950068 |
Registered Agent | The Trust Company of the Marshall Islands Inc. |
Registered office of the partnership | Trust Company Complex, Ajeltake Road, Ajeltake Island, Majuro, Marshall Islands MH96960 |
Principal place of business | Canon's Court, 22 Victoria Street, Hamilton HM 12, Bermuda |
Address for service of notices | c/o Höegh LNG AS Drammensveien 134, P.O. Box 4 Skoyen, NO-0212 Oslo, Norway Fax No: +47 975 57 401 Tel No: +47 975 57 400 Attention: VP Finance E-mail: finance@hoeghlng.com |
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Shareholders
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Name of Singapore Shareholder | HOEGH LNG LAMPUNG PTE LTD |
Jurisdiction of incorporation | Singapore |
Registration number (or equivalent, if any) | 201230099W |
Registered office | 163 Tras Street #03-01 Lian Huat Building, Singapore 079024 |
Address for service of notices | 3 Anson Road, #14-04 Springleaf Tower, Singapore 079909 Fax No:+65 6438 6493 Tel No:+65 6511 1950 Parthsarthi.jindal@hoeghlng.com E-mail: Parthsarthi.jindal@hoeghlng.com / yin-ying.guay@hoeghlng.com |
Name of Indonesian Shareholder | PT BAHTERA DAYA UTAMA |
Jurisdiction of incorporation | Indonesia |
Registration number (or equivalent, if any) | TDP 09.03.1.46.82799 |
Registered office | Jalan Ampera Raya No. 9-10, Jakarta Selatan 12550, Indonesia |
Address for service of notices | Jalan Ampera Raya No. 9-10, Jakarta Selatan 12550, Indonesia Fax No: 7808055 Tel No: 7808044 Attention: Director E-mail: nbasuki@imeco.co.id |
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The Original Lenders and their Commitments
(i) | Commercial Lenders |
(A) | Prior to Effective Date |
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Name | Facility Office, address, fax number and attention details for notices and account details for payments | Account details | Commitment |
MUFG Bank, Ltd | Administrative / Credit Contacts MUFG Bank Ltd., Jakarta Branch Address: Trinity Tower 6-9 Fl. Jl. HR Rasuna Said Kav. C22 Blok IIB Jakarta 12940, Indonesia Attn: Nurhayani Purwitasari/Rumata Rennyati/Rini Lestari/Rachel Anasthasia Siwabessy/William Ganis/Muhamad Ardiansyah Tel: (62-21) 2553 8369 ext. 3630 / (62-21) 2553 8369 ext. 3647/ (62-21) 2553 8369 ext. 3643 / (62-21) 2553 8369 ext. 3609 / (62-21) 3049 9306 ext. 2106/ (62-21) 3049 9306 ext. 2154 Fax: (62-21) 573 5724 / (62-21) 570 6184 Email: Nurhayani_Purwitasari@id.mufg.jp rumata_rennyati@id.mufg.jp rini_lestari@id.mufg.jp rachel_anasthasia_siwabessy@id.mufg.jp william_ganis@id.mufg.jp muhamad_ardiansyah@id.mufg.jp Credit Contacts MUFG Bank Ltd., Singapore Branch Address: 7 Straits View, #23-01 Marina One East Tower, Singapore 018936 Attn: Joanna Swee / Kelvin Chew / Chin Zhuo Song / Arthur Tay Tel: +65 6918 4770 / +65 6918 3496 / +65 6918 4717 / +65 6918 4775 Fax: +65 6918 4446 Email: joanna_swee@sg.mufg.jp kelvin_chew@sg.mufg.jp zhuosong_chin@sg.mufg.jp arthur_tay@sg.mufg.jp | USD Payment Details Beneficiary Bank: MUFG Bank, Ltd, New York Branch Swift No.: BOTKUS33 Country Payable: Indonesia Beneficiary Details: MUFG Bank, Ltd, Jakarta Branch Account number: USD acc.: 536 - 390317 IDR acc. : 516 - 390303 Payment Details: Fee / Interest / Principal Payments of PT Hoegh LNG Lampung | 2,567,557.39 |
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DBS Bank Ltd | DBS Bank Credit Correspondence Address: 12 Marina Boulevard Level 45, DBS Asia Central @ Marina Bay | USD Payment Details: USD correspondent | 2,034,343.32 |
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| Financial Centre Tower 3, Singapore 018982 Attn: Dax Chow Email: daxchow@dbs.com Tel: +65 68785531 Admin Correspondence Address: 12 Marina Boulevard Level 45 DBS Asia Central @ Marina Bay Financial Centre Tower 3, Singapore 018982 Attn: Erin Foong / Debbie Kong Tel : +65 6878 5184 / +65 6878 8578 Fax: + 65 6224 7044/ + 65 6224 7044 Email : erinfoong@dbs.com / debbiekong@dbs.com | bank: JP Morgan Chase Bank, N.A. SWIFT Code: CHASUS33 Account name: DBS Bank Ltd SWIFT code: DBSSSGSG A/C No. 0011745957 ABA No: 021000021 Chips ID: 0002 Payment Details: Fee / Interest / Principal Payments of PT Hoegh LNG Lampung | | |
The Korea Development Bank | The Korea Development Bank 14 Eunhaeng-ro, Youngdeungpo-gu, Seoul 07242, Korea Email : kdbindw@kdb.co.kr, msjung@kdb.co.kr, pf_operation@kdb.co.kr Fax : +82 2 787 5693 Tel : +82 2 787 5672 | Bank: JPMorgan Chase Bank, New York BIC : CHASUS33 Account name: The Korea Development Bank (KODBKRSE) Account: 544-7-71671 CHIPS 069628 (ABA Number 021-0000-21) Reference : PF2-LAMPUNG | 3,100,771.46 | |
| / 65 6530 4988 / 65 6530 5956 | PT Hoegh LNG | | |
Oversea- Chinese Banking Corporation Limited | Credit correspondences Address: 65 Chulia Street OCBC Centre #10-00 Singapore 049513 Angeline Teo / Lam Wai Kay / Remee Chen Tel : 65 6530 8708 / 65 6530 4988 / 65 6530 5956 AngelineTeo@ocbc.com / waikaylam@ocbc.com / remeechen@ocbc.com Fax : +65 6536 9327 Administrative correspondences | Name of Currency: USD Account Holding Bank: JP Morgan Chase Bank, NY City: New York, USA SWIFT Address: CHASUS33 Beneficiary: OCBC Singapore Reference: WCM – PT Hoegh LNG Lampung (Attention: Kathy Ho / Lam Wai Kay) | 3,100,771.46 |
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| Address: 65 Chulia Street OCBC Centre #10-00 Singapore 049513 Kathy Ho / Kelvin Ang / Nirmala / Sally Ong / Evelyn Wong Tel : 6530 1595 / 6538 1111 Service Code 328 (Option 2 for Loans) homlkathy@ocbc.com / BBCSCSyndication@ocbc.com Fax : +65 6536 6449 / +65 6535 6990 | | |
Standard Chartered Bank | Standard Chartered Bank Credit Correspondences Standard Chartered Bank Address: 8 Marina Boulevard, Marina Bay Financial Centre, 26F Singapore 018981 Attn: Ross Bennett Tel: +65 65964015 Fax: +65 66349568 Email: ross.bennett@sc.com Admin Correspondences Address: 8 Marina Boulevard, Marina Bay Financial Centre, 26F Singapore 018981 Attn: Ross Bennett Tel: +65 65964015 Fax: +65 66349568 Email: ross.bennett@sc.com | Standard Chartered Bank, New York Swift: SCBLUS33 Account No.: 3582-088503-001 (CHIPS UID 057220) Account Name: Standard Chartered Bank, Singapore SWIFT Address: SCBSGSG Reference: Hoegh LNG Lampung (Attn: Ross Bennett) | 3,100,771.44 |
TOTAL OUTSTANDING | | | 15,503,857.28 |
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(B) | On and from the Effective Date |
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Name | Facility Office, address, fax number and attention details for notices and account details for payments | Account details | Commitment |
DBS Bank Ltd | Credit Correspondence Address: 12 Marina Boulevard Level 45, DBS Asia Central @ Marina Bay Financial Centre Tower 3, Singapore 018982 Attn: Dax Chow Email: daxchow@dbs.com Tel: +65 68785531 Admin Correspondence Address: 12 Marina Boulevard Level 45 DBS Asia Central @ Marina Bay Financial Centre Tower 3, Singapore 018982 Attn: Erin Foong / Debbie Kong Tel : +65 6878 5184 / +65 6878 8578 Fax: + 65 6224 7044/ + 65 6224 7044 Email : erinfoong@dbs.com / debbiekong@dbs.com | USD Payment Details: USD correspondent bank: JP Morgan Chase Bank, N.A. SWIFT Code: CHASUS33 Account name: DBS Bank Ltd SWIFT code: DBSSSGSG A/C No. 0011745957 ABA No: 021000021 Chips ID: 0002 Payment Details: Fee / Interest / Principal Payments of PT Hoegh LNG Lampung | 1,503,857.28 |
| 006) 936 88 186 | | |
DNB Bank ASA | Loan issuer DNB Bank ASA (Org. no 984 851 006) Address Headquarter Dronning Eufemias gate 30 0191 Oslo Norway Credit contact Marius Eriksen marius.eriksen@dnb.no +47 936 88 186 Operational contact | Bank Name : Bank of New York Mellon, New York SWIFT: IRVTUS3N Account Name : DNB Bank ASA, Oslo Account No. : 8033261374 SWIFT: DNBANOKK | 4,666,667 |
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| DNB Loan admin loanadmin.corporate@dnb.no | | |
Nordea Bank Abp, filial i Norge | Nordea Bank Abp, filial i Norge Essendrops gate 7 P.O. Box 1166, Sentrum NO-0107 Oslo, Norway For loans operations matters: Email:sls.shipping.norway@nordea.com Attn :Nordea Loan Administration, Structured Loan Services | Pay to beneficiary bank: Nordea Bank Abp, filial i Norge Beneficiary bank swift: NDEANOKK Favour of: Nordea Bank Abp, filial i Norge, Structured Loan Services Correspondent bank name: Bank of America Correspondent bank Swift: BOFAUS3N Account: IBAN NO7460025944944 | 4,666,667 |
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ABN AMRO Bank N.V., Oslo Branch | Facility Office: ABN AMRO Bank N.V., Oslo Branch Address: Olav Vs gate 5, 0161 Oslo, Norway Business/Credit Matters: Attn: Hilde Egeland Olsen / Emile Karsten Address: Olav Vs gate 5, 0161 Oslo, Norway Email: hilde.olsen@no.abnamro.com Emile.karsten@no.abnamro.com Tlf: +47 48 49 78 88 +47 47 46 45 78 Administrative/Operations Matters: Attn: OPS Credits Lending COB Address: Coolsingel 93, 3012 AE Rotterdam, The Netherlands | USD Account number: NL60ABNA0626269504 Beneficiary: ABN AMRO Bank N.V. Amsterdam Receiver: ABNANL2A Our correspondent: Bank of America Intl. New York Swift address (with bank): BOFAUS3N Reference: PT Hoegh LNG Lampung | 4,666,667 |
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| Tlf: +31 10 4018628 / +31 10 4015639 Email: loket.leningenadministratie.ccs@nl.abnamro.com | | |
TOTAL | | | 15,503,857.28 |
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(ii)K-sure Lenders
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Name | Facility Office, address, fax number and attention details for notices and account details for payments | Account details | Commitment |
MUFG Bank, Ltd | Administrative / Credit Contacts MUFG Bank Ltd., Jakarta Branch Address: Trinity Tower 6-9 Fl. Jl. HR Rasuna Said Kav. C22 Blok IIB Jakarta 12940, Indonesia Attn: Nurhayani Purwitasari/Rumata Rennyati/Rini Lestari/Rachel Anasthasia Siwabessy/William Ganis/Muhamad Ardiansyah Tel: (62-21) 2553 8369 ext. 3630 / (62-21) 2553 8369 ext. 3647/ (62-21) 2553 8369 ext. 3643 / (62-21) 2553 8369 ext. 3609 / (62-21) 3049 9306 ext. 2106/ (62-21) 3049 9306 ext. 2154 Fax: (62-21) 573 5724 / (62-21) 570 6184 Email: Nurhayani_Purwitasari@id.mufg.jp rumata_rennyati@id.mufg.jp rini_lestari@id.mufg.jp rachel_anasthasia_siwabessy@id.mufg.jp william_ganis@id.mufg.jp muhamad_ardiansyah@id.mufg.jp Credit Contacts MUFG Bank Ltd., Singapore Branch Address: 7 Straits View, #23-01 Marina One East Tower, Singapore 018936 Attn: Joanna Swee / Kelvin Chew / Chin Zhuo Song / Arthur Tay Tel: +65 6918 4770 / +65 6918 3496 / +65 6918 4717 / +65 6918 4775 Fax: +65 6918 4446 Email: joanna_swee@sg.mufg.jp kelvin_chew@sg.mufg.jp zhuosong_chin@sg.mufg.jp arthur_tay@sg.mufg.jp | USD Payment Details Beneficiary Bank: MUFG Bank, Ltd, New York Branch Swift No.: BOTKUS33 Country Payable: Indonesia Beneficiary Details: MUFG Bank, Ltd, Jakarta Branch Account number: USD acc.: 536 - 390317 IDR acc. : 516 - 390303 Payment Details: Fee / Interest / Principal Payments of PT Hoegh LNG Lampung | 13,631,779.94 |
DBS Bank Ltd | DBS Bank Credit Correspondences Address: 12 Marina Boulevard Level 45, DBS Asia Central @ Marina Bay Financial Centre Tower 3 Singapore 018982 Attn: Berna Okten Tel: +(65) 6878 2073 Fax: +(65) 6224 7044 Email: bernaokten@dbs.com | USD Payment Details: Beneficiary Bank: The Bank of New York Mellon, New York SWIFT Code: IRVTUS3N Beneficiary Details: DBS Bank Ltd | 13,631,779.94 |
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| Admin Correspondences Address: 12 Marina Boulevard Level 45, DBS Asia Central @ Marina Bay Financial Centre Tower 3 Singapore 018982 Attn: Tham Choi Ling / John Lim Tel: +(65) 6878 8634 / 4707 Fax: +(65) 6224 7044 Email: choiling@dbs.com johnl@dbs.com | SWIFT address: DBSSSGSG A/C No. 8900298189 Payment Details: Fee / Interest / Principal Payments of PT Hoegh LNG Lampung | |
Korea Development Bank | Korea Development Bank Project Finance Department II Credit Correspondences Korea Development Bank Address: 14, Eunhaeng-ro, Youngdeungpo-gu, Seoul 150-973, Korea Attn: Energy & Natural Resources Team Se-Hee HWANG / Dae-Kwon Chung Tel: +82-2-787-5668 /+82 -2-787-5666 Fax: +82-2-787-5693 Email: seheehwang@kdb.co.kr gooddk@kdb.co.kr Admin Correspondences Address: 14, Eunhaeng-ro, Youngdeungpo-gu, Seoul 150-973, Korea Attn: Operations Department Hyeong-Seop SHIM / Se-Young CHUN Tel: +82-2-787-7358 /+82 -2-787-7357 Fax: +82-2-787-5299 Email: hshim@kdb.co.kr csy226@kdb.co.kr | Bank name: Address: Swift code: Beneficiary Bank: Reference: Principal (or Interest or Fee) Payment for PT HOEGH LNG LAMPUNG Account number: | 13,631,779.94 |
Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation Limited | Credit correspondences Address: 65 Chulia Street OCBC Centre #10-00 Singapore 049513 Angeline Teo / Lam Wai Kay / Remee Chen Tel : 65 6530 8708 / 65 6530 4988 / 65 6530 5956 AngelineTeo@ocbc.com / waikaylam@ocbc.com / remeechen@ocbc.com Fax : +65 6536 9327 | Name of Currency: USD Account Holding Bank: JP Morgan Chase Bank, NY City: New York, USA SWIFT Address: CHASUS33 Beneficiary: OCBC Singapore Reference: WCM – PT Hoegh LNG Lampung (Attention: Kathy Ho / Lam Wai Kay ) | 13,631,779.94 |
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Administrative correspondences Address: 65 Chulia Street OCBC Centre #10-00 Singapore 049513 Kathy Ho / Kelvin Ang / Nirmala / Sally Ong / Evelyn Wong Tel : 6530 1595 / 6538 1111 Service Code 328 (Option 2 for Loans) homlkathy@ocbc.com / BBCSCSyndication@ocbc.com Fax : +65 6536 6449 / +65 6535 6990 | |||
Standard Chartered Bank (Singapore) Limited | Standard Chartered Bank (Singapore) Limited Credit Correspondences Standard Chartered Bank (Singapore) Limited Address: 8 Marina Boulevard, Marina Bay Financial Centre, 26F, Singapore 018981 Attn:Ross Bennett Tel:+65 65964015 Fax:+65 66349568 Email: ross.bennett@sc.com Admin Correspondences Address: 8 Marina Boulevard, Marina Bay Financial Centre, 26F, Singapore 018981 Attn:Ross Bennett Tel:+65 65964015 Fax:+65 66349568 Email: ross.bennett@sc.com | Standard Chartered Bank, New York Swift: SCBLUS33 Account No.: 3582-088503-001 (CHIPS UID 057220) Account Name: Standard Chartered Bank, Singapore SWIFT Address: SCBSGSG Reference: Hoegh LNG Lampung (Attn: Ross Bennett) | 13,631,779.96 |
TOTAL | | | 68,158,899.72 |
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The Hedging Banks
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Name | Office, address, fax number and attention details for notices and account details for payments |
MUFG Bank, Ltd | Administrative / Credit Contacts MUFG Bank Ltd., Jakarta Branch Address: Trinity Tower 6-9 Fl. Jl. HR Rasuna Said Kav. C22 Blok IIB Jakarta 12940, Indonesia Attn: Nurhayani Purwitasari/Rumata Rennyati/Rini Lestari/Rachel Anasthasia Siwabessy/William Ganis/Muhamad Ardiansyah Tel: (62-21) 2553 8369 ext. 3630 / (62-21) 2553 8369 ext. 3647/ (62-21) 2553 8369 ext. 3643 / (62-21) 2553 8369 ext. 3609 / (62-21) 3049 9306 ext. 2106/ (62-21) 3049 9306 ext. 2154 Fax: (62-21) 573 5724 / (62-21) 570 6184 Email: Nurhayani_Purwitasari@id.mufg.jp rumata_rennyati@id.mufg.jp rini_lestari@id.mufg.jp rachel_anasthasia_siwabessy@id.mufg.jp william_ganis@id.mufg.jp muhamad_ardiansyah@id.mufg.jp Credit Contacts MUFG Bank Ltd., Singapore Branch Address: 7 Straits View, #23-01 Marina One East Tower, Singapore 018936 Attn: Joanna Swee / Kelvin Chew / Chin Zhuo Song / Arthur Tay Tel: +65 6918 4770 / +65 6918 3496 / +65 6918 4717 / +65 6918 4775 Fax: +65 6918 4446 Email: joanna_swee@sg.mufg.jp kelvin_chew@sg.mufg.jp zhuosong_chin@sg.mufg.jp arthur_tay@sg.mufg.jp Account Payment Details Beneficiary Bank: MUFG Bank, Ltd, New York Branch Swift No.: BOTKUS33 Country Payable: Indonesia Beneficiary Details: MUFG Bank, Ltd, Jakarta Branch Account number.: USD acc. : 536 - 390317 IDR acc. : 516 - 390303 Payment Details: Fee / Interest / Principal Payments of PT Hoegh LNG Lampung |
Korean Development Bank | Korean Development Bank Trading Center |
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| Address: 14, Eunhaeng-ro, Youngdeungpo-gu, Seoul 150-973, Korea Attention: Han-June JO / Ki-Hoon KIM Tel: +82- 2-787-6983 / +82-2-787-7302 Fax: +82-2-787-7397 Email:giuni@kdb.co.kr /kim_kihoon@kdb.co.kr |
Standard Chartered Bank (Singapore) Limited | Standard Chartered Bank (Singapore) Limited Address:8 Marina Boulevard, #27-01 Marina Bay Financial Centre, Singapore 018981 Attention: Alok Raturi Tel: +65 65578162 Fax: +65 66349531 Email:Alok.Raturi@sc.com |
DBS Bank Ltd | DBS Bank Credit Correspondences Address: 12 Marina Boulevard Level 45 DBS Asia Central @ Marina Bay Financial Centre Tower 3, Singapore 018982 Attn: Berna Okten Tel: +(65) 6878 2073 Fax: +(65) 6224 7044 Email: bernaokten@dbs.com Admin Correspondences Address: 12 Marina Boulevard Level 45 DBS Asia Central @ Marina Bay Financial Centre Tower 3, Singapore 018982 Attn:Tham Choi Ling / John Lim Tel:+(65) 6878 8634 / 4707 Fax:+(65) 6224 7044 Email: choiling@dbs.com johnl@dbs.com |
Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation Limited | Credit Correspondences Address: 65 Chulia Street OCBC Centre #10-00 Singapore 049513 Angeline Teo / Lam Wai Kay / Remee Chen Tel : 65 6530 8708 / 65 6530 4988 / 65 6530 5956 AngelineTeo@ocbc.com / waikaylam@ocbc.com / remeechen@ocbc.com Fax : 65 6536 9327 |
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| Admin Correspondences Address: 65 Chulia Street OCBC Centre #10-00 Singapore 049513 Benny Sim (Trade settlement) / Lisa Ng (Trade advice and confirmation) / Wayne Yuen (Trade advice and confirmation) / Lam Wai Kay / Remee Chen Tel : 65 6318 7375 / 65 68505307 / 65 68505301 / 65 6530 4988 / 65 6530 5956 SimTCBenny@ocbc.com / LisaNg@ocbc.com / YuenJinWayne@ocbc.com / waikaylam@ocbc.com / remeechen@ocbc.com Fax : 65 6830 7975 (Trade settlement) / 65 6830 7974 (Trade advice and Confirmation) / 65 6536 9327 (Credit) |
The Facility Agent
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Name | Standard Chartered Bank |
Address | 6th Floor, 1 Basinghall Avenue, London. EC2V 5DD |
Fax Number | - |
Attention | Paul Thompson |
Telephone number | +44 020 7885 6651 |
Email address | loansagencyuk@sc.com |
Account Details (USD) | A/C with Bank: Standard Chartered Bank, New York (SCBLUS33) Beneficiary: Standard Chartered Bank, London (SCBLGB2L) Account No: 3582-088442-001 Ref: Loans Agency / PT Hoegh / [Payment Reference] |
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The Security Agent
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Name | Standard Chartered Bank |
Address | 6th Floor, 1 Basinghall Avenue, London. EC2V 5DD |
Fax Number | - |
Attention | Paul Thompson |
Telephone number | +44 020 7885 6651 |
Email address | loansagencyuk@sc.com |
Account Details (USD) | A/C with Bank: Standard Chartered Bank, New York (SCBLUS33) Beneficiary: Standard Chartered Bank, London (SCBLGB2L) Account No: 3582-088442-001 Ref: Loans Agency / PT Hoegh / [Payment Reference] |
The K-Sure Agent
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Name | Standard Chartered Bank |
Address | 6th Floor, 1 Basinghall Avenue, London. EC2V 5DD |
Fax Number | - |
Attention | Paul Thompson |
Telephone number | +44 020 7885 6651 |
Email address | loansagencyuk@sc.com |
Account Details (USD) | A/C with Bank: Standard Chartered Bank, New York (SCBLUS33) Beneficiary: Standard Chartered Bank, London (SCBLGB2L) Account No: 3582-088442-001 Ref: Loans Agency / PT Hoegh / [Payment Reference] |
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The Offshore Account Bank
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Name | Standard Chartered Bank |
Address | Addressed to: Securities Services Manager 7 Changi Business Crecent, Level 3, Singapore 486028 |
Fax Number | +65 63051760 |
Attention | Steven Truong / Murad Abdul |
Telephone number | +65 65962549, +65 65961164 |
Email address | - |
Account Details (USD) | Pay to: Standard Chartered Bank Account Number: 3582-088503-001 Account Bank / Account name: Standard Chartered Bank, New York (SWIFT Code: SCBLUS33) Favouring: Standard Chartered Bank, Singapore (SWIFT Code: SCBLSGSG) Quoting Ref: (in respect of the Offshore Account Bank Fee PT Hoegh LNG Lampung) Attn: SEC SVS – Steven Truong/Murad Abdul |
The Onshore Account Bank
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Name | Standard Chartered Bank, Jakarta Branch |
Address | Securities Services, Menara Standard Chartered Bank, Jl. Prof. DR. Satrio, No. 164 Jakarta 12930 |
Fax Number | +62 21 571 9671 |
Attention | Muhammad Rizki Samhudi – Head of Corporate Action Securities Services Operation |
Telephone number | +62 21 255 50205 |
Email address | M.Rizki.Samhudi@sc.com |
Account Details (USD) | Pay to: Standard Chartered Bank Account Number: 3582-088517-001 Account Bank / Account name: Standard Chartered Bank, New York (SWIFT Code: SCBLUS33) Favouring: Standard Chartered Bank, Jakarta (Securities Services) Quoting Ref: (in respect of the Onshore Account Bank Fee PT Hoegh LNG Lampung) Attn: SEC SVS – Reni Astuti |
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Schedule 2
Vessel information
Part 1
Description of the Vessel
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Name | “PGN FSRU Lampung” |
Gross Tons | 109,671 |
Net Tons | 36,732 |
Type | Ship Type 2G(-163oC, 500kg/m3, 70kPa) |
Length overall | 282 M |
Breadth moulded | 46 M |
Depth moulded | 19.97 M |
Storage capacity | 170,000 CBM |
Part 2
Vessel Information
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Builder: | Hyundai Heavy Industries Co, Ltd |
Builder's registered office: | 1. Jeonha-Dong, Gong-Gu, Ulsan, Korea |
Date and description of Building Contract: | Building contract dated 10 June 2011 between the Builder and the Sponsor as novated to the Borrower pursuant to a novation agreement dated 22 July 2013 |
Flag State | Indonesia |
Charter description: | Charter contract dated 25 January 2012 (the Original Charter) between PT Perusahaan Gas Negara (Persero) Tbk (as original charterer) and Hoegh LNG Ltd, as amended and restated by an amendment and restatement agreement dated 17 October 2012 and as novated to the Borrower pursuant to the Charter Novation Agreement (Borrower) and to the Charterer pursuant to the Charter Novation Agreement (Charterer) |
Charter Novation Agreement (Borrower): | Novation agreement dated 18 September 2013 made between the Borrower, Hoegh LNG Ltd and the Original Charterer, pursuant to which the rights and obligations of Hoegh LNG Ltd under the Original Charter were novated in favour of the Borrower |
Charter Novation Agreement (Charterer): | Novation agreement dated 21 February 2014 made between the Borrower, the Original Charterer and the Charterer, |
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| pursuant to which the rights and obligations of the Original Charterer under the Original Charter (as novated by the Charter Novation Agreement (Borrower)) were novated in favour of the Charterer |
Charter Guarantee: | Guarantee dated 21 February 2014 issued by the Charter Guarantor in favour of the Borrower |
Charterer: | PT PGN LNG Indonesia |
Charter Guarantor / Original Charterer: | PT Perusahaan Gas Negara (Persero) Tbk |
Classification: | +1A1, Tanker for Liquefied Gas, Ship type 2G(-163oC, 500kg/m3,70kPa, NAUTICUS(Newbuilding), REGAS-2, E0, NAUT-OC, CLEAN, BIS, CSA-FLS2, PLUS, COAT-PSPC(B), Recyclable, GAS FUELLED, TMON |
Classification Society: | Det Norske Veritas |
Refund Guarantor | Kookmin Bank Republic of Korea |
Refund Guarantor's registered office | 9-1 2-Ga, Namdaemun-Ro, Jung-Gu Seoul, 100-703, Korea |
Refund Guarantee | Refund guarantee dated 26 July 2013 with number M076Q1307XD00071 issued by the RefundGuarantor in favour of the Borrower in respect of the Builder's obligations under the Building Contract |
Part 3
Mooring Information
Mooring EPC Contractor: | SOFEC, Inc. |
Mooring EPC Contractor's registered office: | 14741 Yorktown Plaza Drive, Houston, Texas, 77040 |
Date and description of Mooring EPC Contract: | Contract dated 16 November 2012 made between the Mooring EPC Contractor and the Sponsor to establish the minimum technical requirements to be met during the operation, as well as to supply data for the contractual requirements towards design, purchasing of equipment, construction/fabrication and installation of the tower yoke mooring system for the safe mooring and operation of FSRU and feeder vessel LNGC, to be installed offshore Labuhan Maringgai, Indonesia for the full Design Service Life of 20 years, to be novated to the Borrower |
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Schedule 3
Conditions precedent
Part 1
Initial Conditions Precedent
1 | Constitutional Documents and corporate authorities |
In respect of each Obligor and the Sponsor which is, or is to be by the date of the first Utilisation, a party to a Finance Document and each Indonesian Shareholder (each a Relevant Party):
(a) | a copy certified by (i) a duly authorised officer and/or the company secretary of the relevant person or (ii) in the case of the Borrower and each Indonesian Shareholder, an authorised director of the Borrower and the relevant Indonesian Shareholder in accordance with its articles of association respectively to be a true, complete and up-to-date copy, of the Constitutional Documents of that person or equivalent documents in respect of that person; |
(b) | a copy, certified by (i) a duly authorised officer and/or the company secretary of the relevant person or (ii) in the case of the Borrower and each Indonesian Shareholder, an authorised director of the Borrower and the relevant Indonesian Shareholder in accordance with its articles of association respectively to be a true copy, and as being in full force and effect and not amended or rescinded, of resolutions of the board of directors or governors (or of a committee of the board of directors or governors or an analogous management body) of that person: |
(i) | approving the entering into by the Relevant Party of the Transaction Documents to which that person is (or is to be by the date of the first Utilisation) party (the Relevant Transaction Documents); |
(ii) | authorising the execution by that Relevant Party of such of the Relevant Transaction Documents; and |
(iii) | authorising an individual or individuals to sign and deliver on behalf of that person such of the Relevant Transaction Documents; |
(c) | if required by that Relevant Party's Constitutional Documents or applicable law, a copy of a resolution signed by all (or requisite number of) the holders of the issued shares in that Relevant Party, approving the terms of, and the transactions contemplated by, the Relevant Transaction Documents; |
(d) | a copy certified by (i) a duly authorised officer and/or the company secretary of that person or (ii) in the case of the Borrower and each Indonesian Shareholder, an authorised director of the Borrower and each Indonesian Shareholder in accordance with its articles of association respectively to be a true copy, and as being in full force and effect and not revoked or withdrawn, of any power of attorney issued by that person pursuant to the said resolutions; |
(e)a certificate of incumbency with a list of those signatories of the applicable party that have executed or will execute (and who are authorised) the Relevant Transaction Documents together with specimen signatures or attaching copies of documents with specimen signatures; and
(f)a copy of a resolution of the board of commissioners of the Borrower and each Indonesian Shareholder, approving the terms of, and the transaction contemplated by, the Transaction Documents to which the Borrower and each Indonesian Shareholder is a party.
2 | Consents |
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A certificate from the Borrower listing all material Consents necessary for ownership and operation of the FSRU in Indonesia in accordance with the Charter and, in relation to each such Consent, specifying whether that Consent is required to be in place by Delivery or by Final Acceptance.
3 | Finance Documents |
(a) | An original counterpart of this Agreement and each Fee Letter duly executed and delivered by the Borrower. |
(b) | Each Subordination Deed required under this Agreement to have been entered into by the date of the first Utilisation and all documents required to be delivered pursuant thereto duly executed by the Obligors who are party thereto. |
(c) | An original of the following Original Security Documents: |
(i) | the Guarantee; |
(ii) | [intentionally blank]; |
(iii) | the Security Assignment; |
(iv) | the Project Agreements Assignment; |
(v) | the Account Security; |
(vi) | the Sponsor's Assignment |
(vii) | the Supervisor Undertaking; |
(viii) | the Shares Security; |
(ix) | the Letter of Quiet Enjoyment; |
(x) | the Hedging Security; |
(xi) | the Fiduciary Assignment of Tangible Assets; and |
(xii) | the Fiduciary Assignment of Receivables, |
and an original of each notice of assignment and acknowledgement required thereunder each duly executed by each of the relevant parties thereto.
(d) | Agreed forms of each of the other Finance Documents, executed copies of which are to be provided under Part 2 and Part 3 of this Schedule 3. |
(e) | Documentary evidence that the Shares Security in respect of each Indonesian Shareholder, the Fiduciary Assignment of Tangible Assets and the Fiduciary Assignment of Receivables has been duly registered with the Fiduciary Registration Registry (as evidenced by the receipt from the Fiduciary Registration Office accepting the registration thereof). |
(f) | Documentary evidence that the acknowledgments required under the Fiduciary Assignment of Receivables have been obtained from relevant counterparties. |
(g) | Documentary evidence that all filings and registrations in relation to the Finance Documents that have been entered into by the date of the first Utilisation and that are required and capable to be made under applicable laws by the Obligors to have been made by the date of the first Utilisation, including the reports of: (i) the Borrower's offshore loan |
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plan that covers the offshore loan Facilities under this Agreement; and (ii) the execution of this Agreement to Bank Indonesia as required under Bank Indonesia Regulation No. 14/21/PBI/2012 have been made.
(h) | Documentary evidence that the report of the Borrower's offshore loan under this Agreement at the latest on the 10th day following the date of the execution of this Agreement to the Team for Coordination of Management of Offshore Commercial Loans (Tim Koordinasi Pengelolaan Pinjaman Komersial Luar Negeri) and the Ministry of Finance has been made. |
(i) | The original shares certificate(s) evidencing each Shareholder's percentage share ownership in the Borrower. |
(j) | The certified true copy of the share register of the Borrower that provides the registration of the Shareholders' share ownership in the Borrower and the Shares Security in respect of the Singapore Shareholder. |
4 | Project Agreements |
(a) | A copy, certified as a true copy by a duly authorised signatory of the Borrower, of: |
(i) | the Charter (including the Charter Novation Agreement); |
(ii) | the Umbrella Agreement; |
(iii) | the Consortium Agreement; |
(iv) | any Charter Guarantee; |
(v) | the Building Contract (including the Building Contract Novation Agreement); |
(vi) | Refund Guarantee; |
(vii) | the Mooring EPC Contract (including the Mooring EPC Contract Novation Agreement); |
(viii) | the Modec Guarantee; |
(ix) | the EPCIC Agreement; |
(x) | the Shareholders Agreement; |
(xi) | the Equity Loan Agreements; |
(xii) | any Subordinated Loan Agreements; |
(xiii) | the Promissory Notes, |
in each case duly executed by the parties thereto and, if copies have not been, or if not substantially in the form of a draft, delivered to the Mandated Lead Arrangers prior to the date of this Agreement, in form and substance satisfactory to the Lenders;
(b) | A certificate from the Borrower confirming that each of the Project Agreements delivered to the Facility Agent pursuant to paragraph (a) above are true, complete and accurate copies of such documents and all amendments and supplements to them as at the date of the relevant Utilisation Request have been delivered to the Facility Agent and all such documents remain in full force and effect on such date. |
(c) | Evidence as to the due incorporation of each of the Obligors to the Material Project Agreements delivered pursuant to paragraph (a) above, its power and authority to enter |
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into and perform the Material Project Agreement to which it is a party and all other documents and instruments to give effect to the same, and evidence of the authority of the signatories of the other parties to such Material Project Agreements.
(d) | A legal due diligence report of the applicable Material Project Agreements in the form provided to the Mandated Lead Arrangers prior to the date of this Agreement. |
5 | Legal opinions |
Legal opinions from:
(a) | Susandarini & Partners, Indonesian counsel to the Lenders in respect of the Borrower and each Indonesian Shareholder, the execution of the Finance Documents to which that person is a party and the validity and enforceability of such Finance Documents as a matter of Indonesian law; |
(b) | Norton Rose Fulbright (Asia) LLP, English counsel to the Lenders in respect of the validity and enforceability of the Finance Documents as a matter of English law; |
(c) | Norton Rose Fulbright (Asia) LLP, Singapore counsel to the Lenders in respect of the Singapore Shareholder, the execution of the Finance Documents to which that person is a party and the validity and enforceability of the Finance Documents as a matter of Singapore law; |
(d) | Lee & Ko, Korean counsel to the Lenders in respect of the validity and enforceability of the K-sure Policy and the Refund Guarantee as a matter of Korean law; and |
(e) | Conyers Dill & Pearman, Bermuda counsel to the Lenders in respect of the Guarantor and the Sponsor and the execution of the Finance Documents to which that person is a party and the validity and enforceability of such Finance Documents as a matter of Bermuda law; |
in each case addressed to the Security Agent and the Facility Agent and substantially in the form provided to the Mandated Lead Arrangers prior to the date of this Agreement).
6 | Accounts and financial information |
(a) | The Original Financial Statements. |
(b) | Evidence that each of the Project Accounts have been opened and that all necessary bank mandates and signature forms have been delivered to the relevant Account Bank. |
(c) | A certificate from a duly authorised signatory of the Borrower confirming details of the total Project Costs incurred. |
(d) | An updated copy of the Financial Model, confirming, inter alia: |
(i) | the Project Cost incurred and forecast to be incurred to achieve Final Acceptance; and |
(ii) | that there is no forecast Cost Overrun or shortfall in funding to achieve Final Acceptance by the earlier of (i) the Cancellation Date and (ii) 18 March 2015. |
7 | Technical Adviser |
Receipt by the Facility Agent of the Due Diligence Report and the Gap Analysis Report in the form approved by the Mandated Lead Arrangers prior to the date of this Agreement.
8 | "Know Your Customer" Requirements |
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Documentation and/or evidence satisfying the Lenders' "know your customers" requirements which have been notified to the Borrower.
9 | K-sure Policy |
(a) | Evidence acceptable to the Agents that the K-sure Policy: |
(i) | has been issued; |
(ii) | is in full force and effect; and |
(iii) | that the K-sure Premium has been or will, on the first Utilisation Date, be paid in full either by way of Sponsor Funding or from the proceeds of the first Commercial Facility Loan to be advanced to the Borrower and the K-sure Agent has not received notice or, following request, any confirmation from K-sure that the K-sure Policy: |
(A) | has been terminated; |
(B) | has been breached; or |
(C) | is the subject of any arbitration or legal proceedings. |
10 | Fees |
Evidence acceptable to the Facility Agent that all fees and expenses due to the Finance Parties from the Borrower (including the fees of the Insurance Advisor and the Facility Agent's legal counsel) and any applicable commitment commission payable on the first Utilisation Date have been, or will, on the first Utilisation Date, be paid in full.
11 | Project Information |
(a) | A copy of all invoices received by the Borrower or the Sponsor from the Builder under the Building Contract and evidence that such invoices have been fully paid to the Builder pursuant to the terms of the Building Contract; |
(b) | Where applicable, a copy of the certificates from the relevant classification society confirming the facts set out in the Builder's invoices referred to in paragraph (a) above; and |
(c) | if the Facility Agent so requires, in respect of any of the documents referred to above in this paragraph 11 that are not in English, a certified English translation prepared by a translator approved by the Facility Agent. |
12 | Insurance/Reinsurance |
A final opinion in form and content satisfactory to the Lenders from the Insurance Advisor, as to the adequacy of the Builder's Risk Insurances and the planned Insurances and Reinsurances in respect of the Vessel.
13 | Environment and social |
A copy of the Environmental Impact Assessment prepared by the Charterer in the form provided to the Mandated Lead Arrangers prior to the date of this Agreement.
14 | Further conditions |
Such further opinions or evidence as may be reasonably required by the Facility Agent in connection with the entry into and performance of the transactions contemplated by any Finance Document or for the validity and enforceability of any Finance Document and notified in writing to the Borrower in advance of being required.
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Part 2A
Conditions Precedent to the Utilisation on Delivery
1 | Constitutional Documents and corporate authorities |
Confirmation from a duly authorised officer and/or the company secretary of each Obligor that there has been no change in the Constitutional Documents of the relevant person since the date on which a certified copy thereof was provided to the Facility Agent or, as the case may be, a copy certified by (i) a duly authorised officer and/or the company secretary of the relevant person or (ii) in the case of the Borrower, an authorized director of the Borrower in accordance with its articles of association of any amendments thereto and in respect of the Finance Documents to be entered into by that Obligor which are specified in Part 2 and Part 3 of this Schedule either a confirmation that the board resolutions, powers of attorney and other corporate authorisations referred to in paragraph 1 Part 1 of this Schedule 3 remain unchanged and in full force and effect in relation to those Finance Documents or to the extent applicable new board resolutions, powers of attorney and other corporate authorisations in relation to Finance Documents equivalent to those required to be provided pursuant to paragraph 1 Part 1 of this Schedule 3 or required for issuance of any legal opinion referred to in this Part 2
2 | Finance Documents |
(a) | An original of: |
(i) | the Fiduciary Assignment of Insurances; |
(ii) | the Insurance Assignment; |
(iii) | the Reinsurance Fiduciary Assignment; |
(iv) | the O&M Contractor Undertakings; |
(v) | the Powers of Attorney (attested, notarised, legalised and delivered to the Lenders' Indonesian legal counsel for the purpose of registration, as necessary) duly executed by the Borrower in favour of the Security Agent. |
(vi) | to the extent required 22.14 (Subordinated Loans) and not already entered into, a Subordination Deed in respect of any Indebtedness owed by the Borrower under any Subordinated Loan or Promissory Note. |
(b) | Documentary evidence that the Fiduciary Assignment of Insurances and the Reinsurance Fiduciary Assignment have been duly registered with the Fiduciary Registration Office (as evidenced by the receipt from the Fiduciary Registration Office accepting the registration thereof). |
3 | Project Agreements |
(a) | A copy, certified as a true copy by a duly authorised signatory of the Borrower, of: |
(i) | any Builder's Performance L/C issued to the Borrower; |
(ii) | the O&M Contracts; |
(iii) | the Consortium Agreement Novation Agreement; and |
(iv) | the Umbrella Novation Agreement. |
(b) | A certificate from the Borrower confirming that each of the Material Project Agreements delivered to the Facility Agent pursuant to Part 1 of this Schedule and paragraph (b) above are true, complete and accurate copies of such documents and all amendments and |
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supplements to them as at the date of the relevant Utilisation Request have been delivered to the Facility Agent and all such documents remain in full force and effect on such date.
(c) | Evidence as to the due incorporation of each of the Obligors to the Material Project Agreements delivered pursuant to paragraph (a) above, its power and authority to enter into and perform the Material Project Agreement to which it is a party and all other documents and instruments to give effect to the same, and evidence of the authority of the signatories of the other parties to such Material Project Agreements. |
(d) | To the extent not already provided to the Facility Agent, a certified copy of any Sponsor Loan Agreement and/or any Promissory Note which will be in existence on the Utilisation Date. |
4 | Legal Opinions |
(a) | Legal opinions from: |
(i) | Susandarini & Partners, Indonesian counsel to the Lenders in respect of the Borrower and any Insurer, the execution of the Finance Documents specified in Part 2 of this Schedule to which that person is a party and the validity and enforceability of such Finance Documents as a matter of Indonesian law; and |
(ii) | Norton Rose Fulbright (Asia) LLP, English counsel to the Lenders in respect of the validity and enforceability of the Finance Documents specified in Part 2 of this Schedule as a matter of English law; and |
(iii) | any other legal advisers to the Lenders in any applicable jurisdiction in respect of each Obligor which is or will be a party to a Finance Document on the relevant Utilisation Date, |
and in each case addressed to the Security Agent and the Facility Agent and substantially in the form provided to the Mandated Lead Arrangers prior to the date of the Utilisation Request.
(b) | Evidence satisfactory to the Lenders that the terms and conditions of the legal opinions received under paragraph 5 of Part 1 of Schedule 3 need not be altered or modified in any way which is material in the opinion of the Facility Agent or, to the extent they do and the Facility Agent so requires, have been modified and updated as the case may be. |
5 | Construction Matters |
A certificate from the Borrower confirming that:
(a) | neither the Sponsor nor the Builder have, nor will have from the relevant Utilisation Date following payment of the Delivery Instalment to the Builder, any lien or other right to detain and/or possess the Vessel; and |
(b) | all costs, fees and expenses payable by the Borrower in connection with the Building Contract Documents have been paid in full or will be paid in full on the relevant Utilisation Date on terms acceptable to the Lenders (and that there are no monies outstanding in respect of the Building Contract Documents). |
6 | Insurances/Reinsurances |
(a) | Evidence that the insurance and reinsurance obligations of the Obligors under the Finance Documents and under the Charter have been complied with and that the Vessel will be on the Delivery Date insured in accordance with the terms of the Finance Documents and the Charter. |
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(b) | Receipt by the Facility Agent of, in respect of the Vessel, letters of undertaking from the insurers/reinsurers and the mutual association or club with which the protection and liability insurances are placed in respect of the Vessel or evidence satisfactory to the Facility Agent that these documents will be provided promptly after the Delivery Date upon the insurers receiving the relevant notices. |
(c) | Receipt by the Facility Agent of certified true copies of the insurance and reinsurance policies in respect of the insurance and reinsurance cover for the Vessel required to be in place under this Agreement on Delivery and list of insurers and reinsurers of the Vessel under such policies. |
(d) | Evidence that all premia and calls in respect of Insurances and Reinsurances in respect of the Vessel required to be in place under this Agreement on Delivery which have fallen due have been paid or will be paid on the Delivery Date. |
(e) | Evidence that the insurers of the Hull and Machinery and marine risks in respect of the Vessel under the relevant policy(s) referred to above have agreed that they have no right of subrogation against the Charterer. |
(f) | Evidence that all fees and expenses required to be paid by the Borrower pursuant to clause 27.5 (Mortgagee's insurance) has been paid in full. |
(g) | A report from the Insurance Consultant, as to the compliance of the Insurances and Reinsurances in respect of the Vessel and the Mooring with the requirements under this Agreement and the Charter. |
(h) | Such evidence as the Facility Agent may reasonably require as to the due incorporation of the Insurer, its power and authority to enter into and perform the Reinsurance Fiduciary Assignment and the authorisation of its entry into the Reinsurance Fiduciary Assignment. |
7 | Technical Adviser |
A report in form and content satisfactory to the Lenders from the Technical Adviser, as to the adequacy of construction of the Vessel in accordance with the Agreed Scope of Work.
8 | Vessel conditions and construction matters |
(a) | Vessel conditions |
(i) A copy of the Environmental Management Plan.
(i) | Evidence that the Vessel is classed with the relevant Classification free of all overdue conditions of the relevant Classification Society which have not expired (in the form of a copy of the provisional Classification Certificate for the Vessel issued by the Classification Society upon (or just prior to) Delivery). |
(b) | In respect of the Vessel, copies of (if so requested by the Facility Agent) any certificates issued under the ISM Code and the ISPS Code required to be observed by the Vessel. |
9 | Fees and expenses |
Evidence that all fees and expenses due to the Finance Parties (including the fees of the Insurance Consultant and the Facility Agent's legal advisers) and any applicable commitment commission payable on the Utilisation Date for Delivery have been paid in full or will be paid on the Utilisation Date for Delivery.
10 | K-sure Policy |
(a) | Evidence acceptable to the Agents that the K-sure Policy: |
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(i) | has been issued; |
(ii) | is in full force and effect; and |
(iii) | that the K-sure Premium has been or will, on the first Utilisation Date, be paid in full either by way of Sponsor Funding or from the proceeds of the first Commercial Facility Loan to be advanced to the Borrower and the K-sure Agent has not received notice or, following request, any confirmation from K-sure that the K-sure Policy: |
(A) | has been terminated; |
(B) | has been breached; or |
(C) | is the subject of any arbitration or legal proceedings. |
11 | Further conditions |
Such further opinions or evidence as may be reasonably required by the Facility Agent in connection with the entry into and performance of the transactions contemplated by any Finance Document referred to in Part 2 of this Schedule or for the validity and enforceability of any such Finance Document and notified in writing to the Borrower in advance of being required.
Part 2B
Conditions Precedent to Release of Delivery Instalment
1 | Protocol of Delivery and Acceptance |
A certified copy of the Protocol of Delivery and Acceptance of the Vessel (as defined in the Building Contract) signed by the Builder and the Borrower.
2 | Project Information |
A certificate from the Borrower confirming that:
(a) | all material Consents required to be obtained by Delivery (as referred to in the list provided to the Facility Agent pursuant to paragraph 2 of Part 1 of this Schedule has been given, issued, made or acquired and remain in full force and effect or, as the case may be, that such Consents obtained prior to the Utilisation Date on Delivery are unamended and remain in full force and effect; and |
(b) | the Charterer has not exercised the Charterer's Purchase Option. |
3 | Fees and expenses |
Evidence that all fees and expenses due to the Finance Parties (including the fees of the Insurance Consultant and the Facility Agent's legal advisers) and any applicable commitment commission payable on the Delivery Date have been paid in full.
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Part 3
Conditions subsequent
1 | Registration of the Vessel and Mortgage |
(a) | An original of the Grosse Akte Pendaftaran Kapal to be provided no later than ten (10) Business Days after the Delivery Date. |
(b) | No later than one (1) Business Days after the later of (i) the Delivery Date and (ii) the date of issuance of the Grosse Akte Pendaftaran Kapal evidence that the Borrower has submitted an application for registration of the Mortgage with the officials of the Directorate General of Sea Communication of the Department of Communication of the Republic of Indonesia. |
(c) | No later than five (5) Business Days after the later of (i) the Delivery Date and (ii) the date of issuance of the Grosse Akte Pendaftaran Kapal evidence that the Mortgage has been executed in the presence of officials of the Directorate General of Sea Communication of the Department of Communication of the Republic of Indonesia and submitted for registration against the Vessel as a first priority Indonesian ship mortgage. |
(d) | An original of the Gross Akta Hipotek to be provided no later than thirty (30) days after the date of execution of the Mortgage evidencing that the Mortgage has been duly registered against the Vessel as a valid first priority Indonesian ship mortgage with the Directorate General of Sea Communication of the Department of Communication of the Republic of Indonesia in accordance with the laws of Indonesia as evidenced by the issuance of Gross Akta Hipotek Pertama. |
(e) | Documentary evidence to be provided no later than the earlier of (i) twenty (20) Business Days after the later of (A) the Delivery Date and (B) the date of issuance of the Grosse Akte Pendaftaran Kapal and (ii) the issuance of Notice of Readiness (as defined in the Charter) that the Borrower possesses a SIUPAL or other relevant license required under Indonesian laws/regulations for the purpose of owning the Vessel. |
(f) | No later than five (5) Business Days after the Delivery Date an original of the Protocol of Delivery and Acceptance of the Vessel (as defined in the Building Contract) signed by the Builder and the Borrower. |
2 | Project Agreements |
(a) | No later than 31 December 2013, a copy, certified as a true copy by a duly authorised signatory of the Borrower, of the Mooring Installation Contract. |
(b) | Promptly upon receipt by the Borrower and no later than seven Business Days after Final Acceptance, a copy, certified as a true copy by a duly authorised signatory of the Borrower, of the PGN L/C |
(c) | Evidence as to the due incorporation of each of the Obligors to the Material Project Agreements delivered pursuant to paragraphs (a) and (b) above, its power and authority to enter into and perform the Material Project Agreement to which it is a party and all other documents and instruments to give effect to the same, and evidence of the authority of the signatories of the other parties to such Material Project Agreements. |
3 | Fiduciary Assignments |
No later than twenty (20) days after the Delivery Date:
(a) | The original certificates of each of the Insurance Fiduciary Assignment, the Reinsurance Fiduciary Assignment, the Share Security in respect of each Indonesian Shareholder, the |
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Fiduciary Assignment of Tangible Assets and the Fiduciary Assignment of Receivables, duly issued by the Fiduciary Registration Office;
(b) | the notices required under the Insurance Fiduciary Assignment and the Reinsurance Fiduciary Assignment have been sent to relevant counterparties; and |
(c) | any acknowledgments required under the Insurance Fiduciary Assignment and the Reinsurance Fiduciary Assignment have been obtained from relevant counterparties. |
(d) | The certified true copy of the share register of the Borrower that provides the registration of the Shareholders' share ownership in the Borrower and the Shares Security in respect of each Indonesian Shareholder |
4 | Sponsor |
No later than three (3) Business Days following the first Utilisation, a certificate signed by an authorised signatory of the Sponsor and the Borrower that the Sponsor has no liabilities whatsoever outstanding from the Borrower in respect of any Promissory Note or evidence that the Sponsor has entered into or acceded to a Subordination Deed.
5 | Classification |
No later than the Final Acceptance Date, the form of a copy of the Classification Certificate for the Vessel evidencing that the Vessel is classed with the relevant Classification Society free of all overdue conditions of the relevant Classification Society which have not expired.
6 | Execution of Bahasa versions |
The documents referred to in clause 22.10 (Translations) by the date referred to such clause.
7 | Hedging |
No later than three (3) months after the date of this Agreement, a copy of the duly executed Hedging Master Agreements required to have been entered into by such date in accordance with clause 31.1(a).
8 | Signing Authority |
No later than 14 days after the first Utilisation Date, the Borrower shall provide to the Lenders a power of attorney confirming that Mr. Mochammad Ali Suharsono, President Director of PT Rekayasa Industri has authority to execute the Mooring Installation Contract or confirmation acceptable to Korea Development Bank from the Borrower's Indonesian legal counsel that a power of attorney is not required and that Mr Mochammad Ali Suharsono is an authorised signatory of PT Rekayasa Industri.
9 | Charter Novation Agreement (Charterer) |
No later than 14 days after the first Utilisation Date, a legal opinion from Oentoeng Suria & Partners (or another legal counsel approved by the Facility Agent in substantially the same form as the OSP Legal Opinion or such other form satisfactory to the Facility Agent acting reasonably and upon the advice of its legal counsel) in respect of the due incorporation of the new Charterer and the execution of the Charter Novation Agreement (Charterer) by the new Charterer and the Original Charterer.
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Schedule 4
Utilisation Requests
Utilisation Request for a Loan
From: PT HOEGH LNG LAMPUNG
To: [⚫]
Dated: [⚫] 2013
Dear Sirs
$237,100,000 Term Loan Facility Agreement dated 12 September 2013 (as supplemented,
amended and restated from time to time, including by an amendment and restatement
agreement dated [⚫] 2021) (the Agreement)
1 | We refer to the Agreement. This is a Utilisation Request. Terms defined in the Agreement have the same meaning in this Utilisation Request unless given a different meaning in this Utilisation Request. |
2 | We wish to utilise the [Commercial] [K-Sure] Facility on the following terms: |
| |
Facility: | [Commercial] [K-Sure] |
Proposed Utilisation Date: | [⚫] (or, if that is not a Business Day, the next Business |
Loan amount: | $[⚫] |
3 | We confirm that: |
(a) | each condition specified in clause 4.5 (Further conditions precedent) is satisfied on the date of this Utilisation Request and hereby make the certification referred to therein. |
(b) | at the date of this Utilisation Request and following the proposed Utilisation the ratio of the aggregate Loans outstanding as at the Utilisation Date to Sponsor Funding does not exceed 75:25. |
(c) | there is no forecast shortfall in funding in excess of $5,000,000 to achieve Delivery by the Last Availability Date and Final Acceptance by the earlier of (i) the Cancellation Date and (ii) 18 March 2015; |
(d) | there is no forecast delay in achieving Delivery and/or Final Acceptance on or prior to such dates, respectively; and |
(e) | [insert details of the extent of any Cost Overrun or confirmation that there is no Cost Overrun]. |
4 | The purpose of this Loan is [specify purpose complying with clause 3 of the Agreement] and its proceeds should be credited to the following account(s) in the following amounts: |
(a) | an amount of $[⚫] shall be paid to [⚫] [specify relevant account of the Borrower]; and |
(b) | an amount of $[⚫] shall be paid to [⚫]. |
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5 | We request that the first Interest Period for the Loan be [⚫] months. |
6 | This Utilisation Request is irrevocable. |
Yours faithfully
…………………………………
authorised signatory for
PT HOEGH LNG LAMPUNG
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Schedule 5
Selection Notice
From: PT HOEGH LNG LAMPUNG
To: [⚫]
Dated: [⚫]
Dear Sirs
$237,100,000 Term Loan Facility Agreement dated 12 September 2013 (as supplemented,
amended and restated from time to time, including by an amendment and restatement agreement
dated [⚫] 2021) (the Agreement)
PT HOEGH LNG LAMPUNG (the Borrower)
1 | We refer to the Agreement. This is a Selection Notice. Terms defined in the Agreement have the same meaning in this Selection Notice unless given a different meaning in this Selection Notice. |
2 | We request that the next Interest Period for the Loan be [1][3] months. |
3 | This Selection Notice is irrevocable. |
Yours faithfully
.....................................
authorised signatory for
PT HOEGH LNG LAMPUNG
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Schedule 6
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Schedule 7
Form of Transfer Certificate
To: [⚫]
From: [The Existing Lender] (the Existing Lender) and [The New Lender] (the New Lender)
Dated: [⚫]
$237,100,000 Term Loan Facility Agreement dated 12 September 2013 (as supplemented,
amended and restated from time to time, including by an amendment and restatement agreement
dated [⚫] 2021) (the Agreement)
PT HOEGH LNG LAMPUNG
1 | We refer to the Agreement. This is a Transfer Certificate. Terms defined in the Agreement have the same meaning in this Transfer Certificate unless given a different meaning in this Transfer Certificate. |
2 | We refer to clause 34.5 (Procedure for transfer): |
(a) | The Existing Lender and the New Lender agree to the Existing Lender assigning to the New Lender all or part of the Existing Lender's Commitment rights and assuming the Existing Lender's obligations referred to in the Schedule in accordance with clause 34.5 (Procedure for transfer) and the Existing Lender assigns and agrees to assign such rights to the New Lender with effect from the Transfer Date. |
(b) | The proposed Transfer Date is [⚫]. |
(c) | The Facility Office and address, email address, fax number and attention details for notices of the New Lender for the purposes of clause 43.2 (Addresses) are set out in the Schedule. |
3 | The New Lender expressly acknowledges the limitations on the Existing Lender's obligations set out in clause 34.4(c). |
4 | This Transfer Certificate may be executed in any number of counterparts and this has the same effect as if the signatures on the counterparts were on a single copy of this Transfer Certificate. |
This Transfer Certificate and any non-contractual obligations connected with it are governed by English law.
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The Schedule
Commitment/rights to be assigned and obligations to be assumed
[insert relevant details]
Facility Office address, fax number, email address and attention details for notices and account details for payments
[insert relevant details]
[Existing Lender] [New Lender]
By: By:
This Transfer Certificate is accepted by the Facility Agent and the Transfer Date is confirmed to be as stated above.
[⚫]
By:
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Schedule 8
Form of Compliance Certificate
To: Standard Chartered Bank as Facility Agent
From: [PT Hoegh LNG Lampung][Hoegh LNG Partners LP ]
Dated: [⚫]
Dear Sirs
$237,100,000 Term Loan Facility Agreement dated 12 September 2013 (as supplemented,
amended and restated from time to time, including by an amendment and restatement agreement
dated [⚫] 2021) (the Agreement)
PT HOEGH LNG LAMPUNG (the Borrower)
1 | I/We refer to the Agreement. This is a Compliance Certificate. Terms defined in the Agreement have the same meaning when used in this Compliance Certificate unless given a different meaning in this Compliance Certificate. |
2 | I/We confirm that: |
3 | [Note: insert required financial covenant confirmations.] |
4 | 1[I/We confirm that we are not aware that any Default is continuing.] [If this statement cannot be made, the certificate should identify any Default that the Borrower is aware is continuing and the steps, if any, the Borrower is aware being taken to remedy it.] |
Signed by:
| |
………………… | ………………… |
[Finance Director] [⚫] | [Chief Financial Officer] |
1 | To be included in the Borrower's Compliance Certificate only |
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Schedule 9
Form of Market Disruption Notification
To: Standard Chartered Bank as Facility Agent
From: [Lender]
Dated: [⚫]
Dear Sirs
$237,100,000 Term Loan Facility Agreement dated 12 September 2013 (as supplemented,
amended and restated from time to time, including by an amendment and restatement agreement
dated [⚫] 2021) (the Agreement)
PT HOEGH LNG LAMPUNG
1 | We refer to the Agreement. This is a Market Disruption Notification. Terms defined in the Agreement have the same meaning when used in this Market Disruption Notification unless given a different meaning in this Market Disruption Notification. |
2 | We hereby notify you that, in relation to our participation in the Loan referred to below and the Interest Period referred to below, the cost to us of obtaining a matching deposit (or matching deposits) in the Interbank Market would be in excess of LIBOR: |
Loan (currency and amount): $[⚫]
Interest Period: [⚫] months commencing on [⚫]
Cost of funds: [⚫]
3 | We request that, as soon as practicable, you inform the other Lenders that you have received a Market Disruption Notification in respect of the Loan and Interest Period referred to in paragraph 2 above, without stating our name or the amount or percentage of our participation. However, we acknowledge that you shall be under no liability for any act or omission in this respect. |
Yours faithfully
…………………………………………
authorised signatory for
[name of relevant Lender]
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Schedule 10
Form of Project Budget Statement
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FSRU [⚫] | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
PROJECT BUDGET STATEMENT | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
XXX | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Projected Annual Availability: [ ] | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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| | YEAR | ||||||||||||
| | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | TOTAL |
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Revenue | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
1 | Capital Element | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
2 | Operating Cost Element | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
3 | Tax Element | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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TOTAL REVENUE | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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Operating Expenses: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Technical Services Agreement Expenses | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Master Maintenance Agreement Expenses | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Master Parts Agreement Expenses | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Other 3rd party O&M expenses (1) | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
1 | Total O&M Expenses | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
2 | Insurance - MII | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
3 | Admin | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
4 | Agency | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
5 | Tax Element Tax + Tax Gross Up | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
6 | Withholding Tax - Interest Special Event Tax + Tax Gross Up | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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TOTAL EXPENSES | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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Excess Cash | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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(1) includes | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Manning Costs | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Maintenance and Repair Cost | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Consumables and Stores Cost | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Insurance Cost | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Miscellaneous Costs | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Management and Operational Costs | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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Schedule 11
Repayment Schedules
Repayment Date | Month | K-Sure Facility | Commercial Facility |
Start Date | 0 | - | - |
1st Repayment Date | 3 | 9,993,629.78 | 2,671,948.72 |
2nd Repayment Date | 6 | 3,721,549.50 | 1,044,029.00 |
3rd Repayment Date | 9 | 3,721,459.50 | 1,044,029.00 |
4th Repayment Date | 12 | 3,721,639.50 | 1,044,029.00 |
5th Repayment Date | 15 | 3,721,549.50 | 1,044,029.00 |
6th Repayment Date | 18 | 3,721,549.50 | 1,044,029.00 |
7th Repayment Date | 21 | 3,721,559.50 | 1,044,029.00 |
8th Repayment Date | 24 | 3,721,549.50 | 1,044,029.00 |
9th Repayment Date | 27 | 3,721,549.50 | 1,044,029.00 |
10th Repayment Date | 30 | 3,721,549.50 | 1,044,029.00 |
11th Repayment Date | 33 | 3,721,549.50 | 1,044,029.00 |
12th Repayment Date | 36 | 3,721,549.50 | 1,044,029.00 |
13th Repayment Date | 39 | 3,721,549.50 | 1,044,029.00 |
14th Repayment Date | 42 | 3,721,549.50 | 1,044,029.00 |
15th Repayment Date | 45 | 3,721,549.50 | 1,044,029.00 |
16th Repayment Date | 48 | 3,721,549.50 | 1,044,029.00 |
17th Repayment Date | 51 | 3,721,549.50 | 1,044,029.00 |
18th Repayment Date | 54 | 3,721,549.50 | 1,044,029.00 |
19th Repayment Date | 57 | 3,721,549.50 | 1,044,029.00 |
20th Repayment Date | 60 | 3,721,549.50 | 1,044,029.00 |
21st Repayment Date | 63 | 3,721,549.50 | 1,044,029.00 |
22nd Repayment Date | 66 | 3,721,549.50 | 1,044,029.00 |
23rd Repayment Date | 69 | 3,721,549.50 | 1,044,029.00 |
24th Repayment Date | 72 | 3,721,549.50 | 1,044,029.00 |
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25th Repayment Date | 75 | 3,721,549.50 | 1,044,029.00 |
26th Repayment Date | 78 | 3,721,549.50 | 1,044,029.00 |
27th Repayment Date | 81 | 3,721,549.50 | 1,044,029.00 |
28th Repayment Date | 84 | 3,721,549.50 | 1,044,029.00 |
29th Repayment Date | 87 | 3,721,549.50 | 815,992.49 |
30th Repayment Date | 90 | 3,721,549.50 | 815,992.49 |
31st Repayment Date | 93 | 3,721,549.50 | 815,992.49 |
32nd Repayment Date | 96 | 3,721,549.50 | 815,992.49 |
33rd Repayment Date | 99 | 3,721,549.50 | 815,992.49 |
34th Repayment Date | 102 | 3,721,549.50 | 815,992.49 |
35th Repayment Date | 105 | 3,721,549.50 | 815,992.49 |
36th Repayment Date | 108 | 3,721,549.50 | 815,992.49 |
37th Repayment Date | 111 | 3,721,549.50 | 815,992.49 |
38th Repayment Date | 114 | 3,721,549.50 | 815,992.49 |
39th Repayment Date | 117 | 3,721,549.50 | 815,992.49 |
40th Repayment Date | 120 | 3,721,549.50 | 815,992.49 |
41st Repayment Date | 123 | 3,721,549.50 | 815,992.49 |
42nd Repayment Date | 126 | 3,721,549.50 | 815,992.49 |
43rd Repayment Date | 129 | 3,721,549.50 | 815,992.49 |
44th Repayment Date | 132 | 3,721,549.50 | 815,992.49 |
45th Repayment Date | 135 | 3,721,549.50 | 815,992.49 |
46th Repayment Date | 138 | 3,721,549.50 | 815,992.49 |
47th Repayment Date | 141 | 1,171,008.72 | 815,992.49 |
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Schedule 12
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Schedule 13
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Schedule 14
List of Translated Documents
1 | This Agreement; |
2 | Fee Letters; |
3 | Security Assignment; |
4 | Account Security; |
5 | Insurance Assignment; |
6 | Hedging Security; |
7 | O&M Contractor Undertaking (if issued by a party incorporated in Indonesia) |
8 | Supervisor Undertaking (if issued by a party incorporated in Indonesia) |
9 | Letter of Quiet Enjoyment; |
10 | Powers of Attorney; |
11 | Project Agreements Assignment; |
12 | Subordination Deed; |
13 | Intercreditor Deed; |
14 | Subordinated Loan Agreement; |
15 | Promissory Notes; |
16 | Utilisation Request; |
17 | Charter |
18 | Charter Novation Agreement; |
19 | any Charter Guarantee |
20 | Building Contract Novation Agreement; |
21 | Mooring EPC Contract Novation Agreement; |
22 | Umbrella Agreement; |
23 | Umbrella Novation Agreement; |
24 | Consortium Agreement; |
25 | Consortium Agreement Novation Agreement; |
26 | Mooring Installation Contract; |
27 | Supervision Agreement; |
28 | Master Maintenance Agreement; |
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29 | Master Parts Agreement; and |
30 | Technical Services Agreement. |
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Schedule 15
Form of Accession Deed
THIS ACCESSION DEED is dated [⚫] and made between
(1) | The parties currently party to the facility agreement referred to below (the Existing Parties); [and] |
(2) | [ [⚫] (the Accession Party); [and]] |
(3) | [ [⚫] (the Transferor).] |
IT IS AGREED that:
1 | This Accession Deed relates to a facility agreement deed dated [date] (as amended and in force from time to time, the Facility Agreement) made between [specify parties]. Words and expressions defined in, or to be construed in accordance with, the Facility Agreement shall have the same meanings and construction when used in this Accession Deed. |
2 | [The Accession Party [has entered into a Hedging Master Agreement] [or] [become a Lender] [specify other relevant action] full particulars of which are set out in the schedule to this Accession Deed and confirms that it has supplied the Facility Agent with a copy of [specify all relevant agreements or documents]. |
OR
[The Transferor has transferred to the Accession Party [all] [part] of [specify property or rights being transferred] (the Transferred Interests) details of which are set out in the schedule to this Accession Deed].
3 | The parties to this Accession Deed agree and acknowledge that the rights and obligations of the Accession Party in relation to the Transferred Interests are subject to the terms and conditions of the Facility Agreement. |
4 | [The Transferor transfers the Transferred Interests to the Accession Party by signature of this Accession Deed and the Facility Agent and the K-sure Agent accepts such transfer on behalf of the Existing Parties for the purposes of clause [⚫] of the Facility Agreement.] |
5 | The Accession Party undertakes with effect from the date of this Accession Deed to observe and perform the terms and obligations set out in the Facility Agreement relative to [specify relevant capacity] all of which shall be binding on the Accession Party as if it were originally included in the term[s] [specify relevant definition(s) relating to capacity of Accession Party]. |
6 | The Existing Parties undertake to the Accession Party that they will observe and perform the terms and conditions set out in the Facility Agreement all of which shall remain binding on the Existing Parties relative to the [specify relevant capacity] as if it were originally included in the term[s] [specify definition related to capacity of [Accession Party]]. |
7 | This Accession Deed and the rights and obligations of the parties under this Accession Deed are governed by and shall be construed in accordance with English law. |
8 | The provisions of clauses [⚫] in the Facility Agreement shall be incorporated in this Accession Deed. |
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Schedule 16
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Schedule 17
Technical Adviser's Scope of Work
Gap Analysis Report
1 | Review on the Lease Operation and Maintenance Agreement, Mooring EPC contract, shipbuilding contract, EPCIC and other material equipment supply contracts and/or Purchase Orders. |
2 | Perform a high level review of previous technical advisor's technical evaluation findings to identify any gaps or residual risks that still need to be considered by the project. |
3 | Detailed evaluation of each phase of the Project from construction, Owners Acceptance Testing, Hook-up/Commissioning, Charter Acceptance Testing and subsequent operations and maintenance. The evaluation shall include: |
(a) | Review Project schedule, based on current progress of the project and identify the critical path(s) and adequacy of delivery dates to meet the Project schedule. To the extent information is available, comment on the construction and completion schedule of the undersea pipeline that will connect the mooring to shore being undertaken by PT Rekayasa Industri; |
(b) | Review of interfaces between the Project and other components of the LNG Terminal; |
(c) | Review of key risks in each phase to successful completion and potential mitigants to deal with identified issues; |
(d) | (Note - review of operating and maintenance arrangements is excluded from this CTR.); |
(e) | Perform a high level assessment of previous technical advisor's review the Health, Safety and Environmental policies established for the Project to identify any gaps or residual risks that still need to be considered by the project. |
(f) | Recommendations on suitable mitigants to the identified risks, to reduce the risk to an as low as reasonably practicable basis. |
4 | Review of the project management organization, project management tools, controls, duties and responsibilities as organised by Hoegh LNG for the Project. |
5 | Review the Project budget & contingencies including the basis for establishing the budget and the feasibility of the budget. |
6 | Perform a high level assessment of previous technical advisor's technical review to identify any residual technology risks to this project; providing, where necessary, commentary on the level of risks, mitigants in place and the sufficiency of the mitigants to reduce identified risks to an as low as reasonably practical basis. |
7 | Perform a high level assessment of previous technical advisor's review and provide any supplementary comments on performance guarantees, liquidated damages and warranties provided under the project agreements. This will be reviewed and the impact on the overall risk profile of the project and contract assessed. |
8 | Working together with Lenders' Legal Counsel to ensure that the technical and operating covenants in the facility documents are aligned with construction, delivery and operating requirements under the Lease Operation and Maintenance Agreement. |
9 | Advise on other technical related matters, reasonably requested by Lenders |
10 | Attend clarification meetings with lenders as required |
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11 | Prepare a Technical Due Diligence Draft Report prior to signing of facility agreement. This report will consolidate the supplemental ITA scope of work (Gap Analysis) and additional analysis results and findings; where relevant, reference will be made to the previous technical advisor's Interim Report.2 |
Construction Monitoring Report
1 | Perform monthly (for highlighting to the Lenders any red flag issues) and quarterly (for the purposes of preparing a report Quarterly Report) reviews of the Project Progress Reports (construction of the FSRU, Mooring and pipeline (to the extent information is made available by PGN)) until sailaway and acceptance of the FSRU. These reviews will consider any key risks or issues identified in the Technical Due Diligence, as well as identifying any impacts to achieving the planned project schedule, budgeted project cost and comment on any technical issues arising on the Project. |
2 | At the request of lenders (subject to the provisions of the Facility Agreement), to conduct site inspections at the shipyard and/or the Project site in Indonesia. |
3 | Each Quarterly Report shall include the following sections |
· | Commentary on individual project area (including HHI, SOFEC, pipeline, installation and DNV) and overall progress achieved versus planned - focus on overall progress status and key milestones/ activities, including interface issues |
· | Budget status review including contingency allocation and variation status |
· | Schedule forecast commentary/ observations |
· | Project organisation - by exception reporting on planned recruitment and additional resource requirements |
· | Specific observations on key risk areas and period specific LTA monitoring topics |
· | Update of LTA risk register/ matrix and LTA monitoring action list |
· | Recommendations and observations on additional risk mitigation or progress recovery measures |
Delivery and Acceptance Review
Review of the Borrower's reports on Owners Acceptance Tests conducted for Sailaway of the FSRU from the shipyard and review on the commissioning and acceptance of the FSRU (or if applicable an assessment of the other items referred to in the definition of Completion Guarantee Release Report) on behalf of Lenders to prepare a Completion Guarantee Release Report, when requested by the Borrower. Technical Advisor can be required to prepare more than one such report, subject to Borrower and Technical Advisor agreeing costs of such report.
Completion Guarantee Release Report means a report from the Technical Advisor confirming that any of the following applies:
2 | For the avoidance of doubt Interim Report, Gap Analysis Report and Due Diligence Report have been completed prior to signing. |
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clause 21.1 (Borrower financial covenants) throughout any continuous period of 90 days after the Final Acceptance Date; or
(b) | in the case of Deemed Acceptance, the FSRU has continued to meet the Operational Minimum Requirements (as defined in the Charter) and continued to comply with the Warranty Performance Requirement (as defined in the Charter), in each case, to a sufficient extent to permit the Borrower to maintain the Debt Service Coverage Ratio as required by clause 21.1 (Borrower financial covenants) throughout any continuous period of 90 days after Deemed Acceptance; and at any time after Deemed Acceptance: |
(i) | the FSRU satisfied all the AMR Requirements; or |
(ii) | in the event that an AMR Requirement was not satisfied, and there was not a reasonable opportunity (including by the supply of LNG and the nomination of regasified LNG by the Charterer) or it was agreed in consultation with the Technical Advisor that it was not reasonably practicable to determine whether the FSRU could satisfy that AMR Requirement, then as a minimum requirement the FSRU has demonstrated that: |
(A) | for LNG transfer, storage and cargo handling systems: |
(I) | the FSRU is capable of ship to ship transfer of LNG in accordance with the Charter; and |
(II) | the LNG cargo storage and handling systems have been fully tested and accepted under the Building Contract; |
(B) | for regasification and export systems: |
(I) | each of the 3 LNG trains is capable of achieving its name plate capacity at 120MMscf per day, together with evidence that it is capable of ramping down to a minimum send-out rate of 45MMscf per day; or |
(II) | if the system testing is limited (e.g. by LNG supply or gas export limitations) by the Charterer preventing the running of the trains to full capacity, each of the 3 LNG trains is capable of regasifying LNG at a rate of at least 45MMscf per day; or |
(c) | in the case of Deemed Acceptance, to the extent that the requirements of paragraph (b) have not been satisfied, the Technical Advisor has assessed the performance of any untested or partially tested part of the FSRU, and is of the opinion that the FSRU is likely to be capable of satisfying the applicable Warranty Performance Requirements (as defined in the Charter) based on the results of operations and testing of the FSRU, including during vendor factory acceptance testing, sea trials and gas trials performed under the Building Contract and acceptance testing performed under the Charter. |
For the purposes of this definition, an AMR Requirement means any of paragraphs 1(b), 1(c), 1(d), 1(f), 1(g), 1(h) and 1(i) of the Part A of Schedule 2 of the Charter.
Project Progress Reports means the monthly report prepared by the Borrower until Final Acceptance, within 3 weeks of the end of each month, on the progress of all elements of the FSRU and Mooring and (to the extent information is made available by PGN) pipeline construction. The report should include sufficient details on
· | Progress summary narrative on all areas of project |
· | Progress/ schedule status analysis (including S curves) |
· | Budget expenditure versus budget (including S curves) |
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· | Any concerns regarding Class status |
· | Main interface actions, activities, milestones and key activity progress tracking/ forecasting (e.g. TSS release to HHI) |
· | Main milestones planned and achieved for period |
· | Any main areas of concern |
· | Key risk management activities against risk register |
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Schedule 18
Form of instruction to Account Banks
Part 1: Borrower Withdrawal Instruction
To: Standard Chartered Bank
as Account Bank
cc: Standard Chartered Bank
as Facility Agent
From: PT Hoegh LNG Lampung
as Borrower
Dated: [⚫] Time: [⚫]
Dear Sirs
$237,100,000 Term Loan Facility Agreement dated 12 September 2013 (as supplemented,
amended and restated from time to time, including by an amendment and restatement agreement
dated [⚫] 2021) (the Agreement)
1 | We refer to the Agreement. This is a Borrower Withdrawal Request. |
2 | We confirm that [insert details of purpose of required withdrawals]. |
3 | In accordance with clause [⚫] of the Facility Agreement, we instruct you to withdraw monies from the [specify relevant Project Account (account no. [⚫]) and apply such monies in the order as set out below: |
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S.No. | Currency | Amount | Payee | Payee account details: account holder's name: | Account No | Bank Name | Bank Address | SWIFT Code: | Reference: |
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4 | This withdrawal instruction is irrevocable. |
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5 | We hereby represent and warrant that this withdrawal instruction is in compliance with clause 28 (Project Accounts, Receivables and Insurance Proceeds) of the Facility Agreement. |
Yours faithfully
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for and on behalf of
PT Hoegh LNG Lampung as Borrower
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Part 2: Facility Agent Withdrawal Instruction
To: Standard Chartered Bank
as Account Bank
From: Standard Chartered Bank
as Facility Agent
and: PT Hoegh LNG Lampung
as Borrower
Dated: [⚫]
Time: [⚫]
Dear Sirs
$237,100,000 Term Loan Facility Agreement dated 12 September 2013 (as supplemented,
amended and restated from time to time, including by an amendment and restatement agreement
dated [⚫] 2021) (the Agreement)
1 | We refer to the Agreement. This is a Facility Agent Withdrawal Request. |
2 | We confirm that [insert details of purpose of required withdrawals]. |
3 | In accordance with clause [⚫] of the Facility Agreement, we instruct you to withdraw monies from the [specify relevant Project Account (account no. [⚫]) and apply such monies in the order as set out below: |
S.No. | Currency | Amount | Payee | Payee account details: account holder's name: | Account No | Bank Name | Bank Address | SWIFT Code: | Reference: |
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4 | This withdrawal instruction is irrevocable. |
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5 | We hereby represent and warrant that this withdrawal instruction is in compliance with clause 28 (Project Accounts, Receivables and Insurance Proceeds) of the Facility Agreement. |
Yours faithfully
………………………
for and on behalf of
PT Hoegh LNG Lampung as Borrower
COUNTERSIGNATURE OF FACILITY AGENT REQUIRED
………………………
for and on behalf of
Standard Chartered Bank as Facility Agent
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Schedule 19
Account Banks provisions
1 | Operation of the Project Accounts |
1.1 | Instructions to Account Banks and compliance with directions |
The Facility Agent and the Borrower agree to give to the Account Banks all directions necessary to enable each Account Bank to operate the relevant Projects Accounts in accordance with the terms of the Finance Documents. The Account Banks shall comply with any instruction delivered to the Account Bank in accordance with clause 28 (Project Accounts) to debit the Project Accounts but only if the relevant instruction (i) is in respect of a specified sum of money; (ii) is in writing or, in the case of a transfer of funds by electronic transmission, is evidenced in accordance with the relevant Account Bank's normal banking practice for such transfers; and (iii) complies with the form of instruction to Account Bank set out in Schedule 18.
1.2 | Payments to be made out of Singapore (for the Offshore Account Bank) and Indonesia (for the Onshore Account Bank) only |
All payments out of the Accounts shall be made by the Account Banks in Singapore (for the Offshore Account Bank) and Indonesia (for the Onshore Account Bank) only and the Account Banks are not permitted to make any payments out of the Accounts in any other jurisdiction for any reason whatsoever.
1.3 | Conflicting instructions |
In the case of any conflict between any instructions given to an Account Bank by the Facility Agent and any other person the instructions of the Facility Agent will prevail.
1.4 | No overdraft, insufficient moneys |
Amounts shall only be withdrawn from the Project Accounts to the extent such withdrawal does not cause the Project Accounts to have a negative balance and the Account Banks shall not have any obligation to monitor the Project Accounts for this purpose or incur any liability whatsoever from any non-distribution in such circumstances.
1.5 | Authorised signatories, call-back contacts |
Each of the Facility Agent and the Borrower shall provide a list of authorised signatories and call-back contacts to each Account Bank on or prior to the first Utilisation. Each of the Facility Agent and the Borrower undertakes to give each Account Bank five (5) clear Business Days' notice in writing of any amendment to their authorised signatories or call-back contacts.
2 | Reliance and Assumptions by Account Banks |
2.1 | Right to rely on communications |
Each of the Account Banks may rely on:
(a) | any communication or document reasonably believed by it to be genuine (even if such communication or document is later reversed, modified, set aside or vacated); and/or |
(b) | any document of any kind prima facie properly executed and submitted by any person whom the relevant Account Bank has reasonable grounds to believe is entitled to execute and submit such document in relation to any matter arising under |
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or in connection with this Agreement (even if such document is later reversed, modified, set aside or vacated).
2.2 | Right to consult and rely on professional advisers |
Each of the Account Banks may, at the reasonable expense of the Borrower, consult legal counsel or professional advisers over any question as to the provisions of this Agreement, its rights, obligations and/or its duties. Each of the Account Banks may rely on and act pursuant to the advice of its counsel or other professional advisers with respect to any matter (whether or not contentious) relating to this Agreement and shall not be liable for any action taken or omitted by it in good faith in accordance with such advice.
2.3 | Right to assume no breach of obligations under the Account Agreement |
Each of the Account Banks can assume that no other party to this Agreement is in breach of its obligations hereunder unless the relevant Account Bank has actual notice to the contrary in its capacity as account bank.
2.4 | Right to assume all conditions to payment met |
Each of the Account Banks may assume that all conditions for the making of any payment out of the amounts standing to the credit of the Project Accounts held with it which are specified in any instruction from the Borrower or the Facility Agent have been satisfied, unless the relevant Account Bank has actual notice to the contrary in its capacity as account bank.
3 | Expenses |
3.1 | Account Banks' right of lien |
The Borrower is liable for payment of any fees, expenses and other sums payable to the Account Banks pursuant to this Agreement. The Account Banks may debit any amounts due to it in respect of the operation of the relevant Project Accounts and shall be entitled to retain that proportion of the amounts standing to the credit of the Revenue Accounts (or either of them) equal to any unpaid fees and other charges due to the Account Banks (or either of them) under this Agreement (in respect of any Project Account) until all such fees and charges have been paid in full.
4 | No Duty or Obligation |
4.1 | No implied duties or obligations |
The Account Banks shall be obliged to perform only such duties as are set out in the Finance Documents and no implied duties or obligations shall be read into this Agreement against either of the Account Banks.
4.2 | No duty or obligation greater than that owed to general banking customers |
Neither of the Account Banks shall be under any duty or obligation to give the amounts held by it hereunder any greater degree of care than it gives to amounts held for its general banking customers.
4.3 | No duty or obligation to make payments |
Neither of the Account Banks shall be obliged to make any payment or otherwise to act on any request or instruction notified to it under this Agreement if:
(a) | it is unable to verify any signature pursuant to any request or instruction against the specimen signature provided for the relevant authorised signatory; or |
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(b) | it is unable to validate the authenticity of the request by telephoning a call-back contact as provided to it pursuant to paragraph 1.4 above; or |
(c) | if, in the relevant Account Bank's reasonable opinion, it conflicts with any provision of this Agreement or otherwise does not comply with the requirements of this Agreement. |
4.4 | No duty or obligation to ensure accuracy of any communication |
Neither of the Account Banks is under no duty or obligation to ensure that any certificate, consent, notice, instruction or other communication which is or appears to be given by the Facility Agent in accordance with this Agreement is accurate, correct or duly authorised and shall be entitled to act in reliance without further enquiry upon any such certificate, consent, notice, instruction or other communication and shall not be under any duty or obligation to verify the accuracy or correctness of any statements made therein (even if such certificate, consent, notice, instruction or other communication is later reversed, modified, set aside or vacated).
4.5 | No duty or obligation to take any action which may be illegal |
Notwithstanding any other provision of any Finance Document to the contrary, neither of the Account Banks is obliged to do or omit to do anything if it would or might in its reasonable opinion constitute a breach of any law and neither of the Account Banks shall be liable for any failure to carry out any or all of its obligations under this Agreement where performance of any such duty or obligation would be in breach of any law or other regulation.
4.6 | No duty to be bound by terms of settlement without consent |
In the event that the terms of a settlement of any dispute involving the Borrower results in an increase, extension, modification or other variation of the duties, obligations or liabilities of either Account Bank contemplated by this Agreement, then such variation shall only be effective where, and to the extent, the relevant Account Bank has given its written consent to be bound thereby.
4.7 | No duty or obligation to ensure that funds used for proper purpose |
Neither of the Account Banks is under a duty or obligation to ensure that any funds withdrawn from the Project Accounts are actually applied for the purpose for which they are withdrawn.
5 | Limitation of Liability |
5.1 | General exclusion of liability |
Neither of the Account Banks shall be liable to any person or entity for any loss, liability, claim, action, damages or expenses arising out of or in connection with anything done or omitted to be done by it pursuant to and in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement save as are caused by its own gross negligence or wilful misconduct.
5.2 | No liability where withdrawal wrongly made in good faith |
Neither of the Account Banks is responsible or liable to the Borrower or the Contractors for any withdrawal wrongly made, if the relevant Account Bank acted in good faith in relation to that withdrawal.
5.3 | No liability for consequential loss, etc. |
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Notwithstanding the foregoing, under no circumstances will either of the Account Banks be liable to any party whether in contract, tort or otherwise, for any consequential loss (including, but not limited to, loss of business, goodwill, opportunity or profit) even if advised of the possibility of such loss or damage.
5.4 | No liability for events of force majeure |
In no event shall either of the Account Banks be liable for any Losses suffered due to a Force Majeure event (as each such expression is defined below).
Losses means any losses, damages, demands, claims, liabilities, costs (including legal costs) and expenses of any kind (including any direct, indirect or consequential losses, loss of profit, loss of goodwill and loss of reputation) whether or not they were foreseeable or likely to occur.
Force Majeure means any:
(a) | flood, storm, earthquake or other natural event; |
(b) | war, hostilities, terrorism, revolution, riot or civil disorder; |
(c) | strike, lockout or other industrial action; |
(d) | change in any law or any change in the interpretation or enforcement of any law; |
(e) | act or order of any Authority; |
(f) | order of any court or other judicial body; |
(g) | restriction or impending restriction on the availability, convertibility, credit or transferability of any currency; |
(h) | computer system malfunction or failure (regardless of cause) or any third party interference with a computer system; |
(i) | error, failure, interruption, delay or non-availability of any goods or services supplied to the Borrower or the relevant Account Bank by a third party; or |
(j) | other circumstance beyond the reasonable control of the relevant Account Bank. |
6 | Indemnity |
The Borrower (and, to the extent that the relevant Account Bank has not been reimbursed by the Borrower pursuant to a Finance Document, the Lenders) shall indemnify and keep indemnified each of the Account Banks and its directors, officers, agents and employees (each an Indemnified Party) and hold each of them harmless from and against any and all losses, liabilities, claims, charges, actions, demands, damages, fees, costs and expenses (including, without limitation, fees and disbursements of the Indemnified Party's counsel) arising out of or in connection with (a) its appointment as an Account Bank under, and its performance of, the Finance Documents including, but not limited to, the reliance by such Account Bank on any instruction, and (b) the exercise of its rights and powers as an Account Bank under, or the enforcement of any provision of, the Finance Documents, save as are caused by its (or their) own gross negligence or wilful misconduct. The indemnities in this paragraph 6 shall survive the termination of this Agreement, or the resignation or removal of the relevant Account Bank.
7 | Disclosure and Publicity |
7.1 | Publicity |
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No material in any language which mentions either of the Account Bank's names or the rights, powers or duties of the Account Banks may be issued by either of the other Parties or on their behalf without the prior written consent of the relevant Account Bank.
8 | Resignation of Account Banks |
8.1 | Account Banks' right of resignation |
An Account Bank may resign and be discharged from its duties or obligations under this Agreement at any time by giving sixty (60) Business Days' notice in writing of such resignation.
8.2 | Procedure for nominating replacement Account Bank |
The Borrower and the Facility Agent will within 15 Business Days of receipt of the relevant Account Bank's resignation notice, jointly nominate and inform the relevant Account Bank in writing of a replacement Account Bank (together with details of the accounts into which the funds standing to the credit of the Project Accounts will be transferred). If the relevant Account Bank does not receive any nomination notice within such period, such Account Bank will nominate another bank or financial institution of international standing and repute before resigning and being discharged from its duties and obligations under this Agreement and any such nomination and resulting appointment of a replacement Account Bank will be binding upon the Parties. The Parties will forthwith take all necessary steps to novate this Agreement to the replacement Account Bank, discharge the relevant Account Bank from its obligations under this Agreement and make such other changes to this Agreement and the other Finance Documents (including entering into replacement Account Security) as shall be required to reflect the replacement of the relevant Account Bank.
8.3 | Fees and expenses relating to replacement of Account Banks |
The Borrower will pay to the relevant Account Bank any fees due and owing to such Account Bank, plus any costs and expenses such Account Bank and the other Finance Parties will reasonably incur in connection with the transfer of the Project Accounts to the replacement account bank and the novation of, and amendments to, the Finance Documents referred to in paragraph 8.2 above. No compensation or fees paid to the relevant Account Bank hereunder will be refundable notwithstanding the resignation, replacement or other termination of the appointment of such Account Bank for any reason whatsoever.
9 | Termination |
No later than thirty (30) days after the expiry of the Facility Period, the agreement contained in this Schedule 19 (Account Bank provisions) will automatically terminate and the Project Accounts will automatically be closed, provided that the Account Banks shall first transfer any balance standing to the credit of the Project Accounts to the order of the Borrower.
10 | Governing Law |
Notwithstanding that this Agreement is governed by English law, any deposits standing to the credit of the Project Accounts from time to time and all payments out of the Project Accounts are governed by the prevailing laws in effect in Singapore in the case of the Project Accounts with the Offshore Account Bank and Indonesia in the case of the Project Accounts with the Onshore Account Bank.
11 | Miscellaneous |
11.1 Monies held as banker; no trust
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It is hereby acknowledged that all monies held by each Account Bank under the Finance Documents are held by it as banker. Nothing, whether by reason of any matter or thing contained in this Agreement or otherwise, constitutes either Account Bank or any of its officers, employees, partners, servants or agents as a trustee or fiduciary of any other person.
11.2 | Succession and merger |
Any legal entity into which either Account Bank is merged or converted or any legal entity resulting from any merger or conversion to which either Account Bank is a party shall, to the extent permitted by applicable law, be the successor to the relevant Account Bank without any further formality.
11.3 | Ability to engage in other business; waiver of conflict |
Each of the Borrower, the Facility Agent and the Security Agent acknowledges and agrees that (without objection), (i) each Account Bank and its Affiliates may accept deposits from, lend money to and generally engage in any kind of banking or other business and provide a broad range of financial services (including without limitation funding or advisory services and trading in debt and equity securities, both for its own account and the account of any client of the relevant Account Bank or of its Affiliates), (ii) each Account Bank may act in different capacities in relation to the transactions contemplated by the Finance Documents or otherwise, including as Facility Agent, Security Agent, Mandated Lead Arranger, Lender and Hedging Bank; and (iii) may, during the course of the contemplated transactions hereof or otherwise, be engaged in transactions and services with clients who may have conflicting interests to the Borrower, the Facility Agent and the Security Agent and/or other parties involved in the transactions contemplated in the Finance Documents.
11.4 Not required to risk own funds
Neither of the Account Banks shall be required to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur any financial liability in the performance of any of its duties or the exercise of any right, power or authority hereunder
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Schedule 20List of Approved Transferees
1. | ABN AMRO Bank |
2. | Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited |
3. | Bank of China |
4. | Bayfront Infrastructure Capital |
5. | BNP Paribas |
6. | Cathay United Bank |
7. | Commonwealth Bank of Australia |
8. | China Construction Bank |
9. | Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank |
10. | Credit Industriel et Commercial |
11. | Clifford Capital |
12. | CTBC Bank |
13. | DBS Bank Limited |
14. | DNB Bank ASA |
15. | DZ Bank |
16. | E Sun Bank |
17. | Hong Kong Mortgage Corporation Limited |
18. | Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation |
19. | Industrial and Commercial Bank of China |
20. | ING Bank N.V. |
21. | Intesa Sanpaolo Bank |
22. | The Korea Development Bank |
23. | MUFG Bank |
24. | Mizuho Bank, Ltd. |
25. | National Australian Bank |
26. | Natixis |
27. | OCBC Bank |
28. | Sinopac |
29. | Shinhan |
30. | Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank |
31. | Societe Generale |
32. | Standard Chartered Bank |
33. | Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation |
34. | Taipei Fubon |
35. | United Overseas Bank |
36. | Woori Bank |
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SIGNATURES
THE BORROWER | |
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PT HOEGH LNG LAMPUNG | |
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By: | |
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THE FACILITY AGENT | |
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Standard Chartered Bank | |
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By: | |
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THE SECURITY AGENT | |
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Standard Chartered Bank | |
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By: | |
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THE K-SURE AGENT | |
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Standard Chartered Bank | |
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By: | |
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THE OFFSHORE ACCOUNT BANK | |
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Standard Chartered Bank | |
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By: | |
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THE ONSHORE ACCOUNT BANK | |
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Standard Chartered Bank, Jakarta Branch | |
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By: | |
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THE HEDGING BANKS | |
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MUFG Bank, Ltd | |
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By: | |
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Standard Chartered Bank (Singapore) Limited | |
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By: | |
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DBS Bank Ltd | |
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By: | |
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Korea Development Bank | |
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By: | |
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The Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation Limited | |
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By: | |
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THE COMMERCIAL LENDERS | |
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DBS Bank Ltd | |
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By: | |
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Nordea Bank Abp, filial i Norge | |
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By: | |
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DNB Bank ASA | |
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By: | |
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ABN AMRO Bank N,V., Oslo Branch | |
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By: | |
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THE K-SURE LENDERS | |
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MUFG Bank, Ltd | |
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By: | |
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Standard Chartered Bank (Singapore) Limited | |
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By: | |
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DBS Bank Ltd | |
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By: | |
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Korea Development Bank | |
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By: | |
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The Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation Limited | |
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By: | |
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THE MANDATED LEAD ARRANGERS | |
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Nordea Bank Abp, filial i Norge | |
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By: | |
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DNB Bank ASA | |
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By: | |
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ABN AMRO Bank N,V., Oslo Branch | |
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By: | |
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MUFG Bank, Ltd | |
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By: | |
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Standard Chartered Bank (Singapore) Limited | |
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By: | |
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DBS Bank Ltd | |
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By: | |
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Korea Development Bank | |
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By: | |
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The Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation Limited | |
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By: | |
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Schedule 2 Commercial Lenders
The Exiting Commercial Lenders
1. | MUFG Bank, Ltd. |
2. | DBS Bank Ltd |
3. | The Korea Development Bank |
4. | Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation Limited |
5. | Standard Chartered Bank (Singapore) Limited |
6. | Bayfront Infrastructure Capital Pte. Ltd. |
The New Commercial Lenders
1. | DBS Bank Ltd |
2. | DNB Bank ASA |
3. | Nordea Bank Abp, filial i Norge |
4. | ABN AMRO Bank N.V., Oslo Branch |
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SIGNATURES
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THE BORROWER | |
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PT HOEGH LNG LAMPUNG | |
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By: Irman Darmawan Rumadja | |
President Director | |
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/s/ Irman Darmawan Rumadja | |
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THE GUARANTOR | |
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HÖEGH LNG PARTNERS LP | |
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By: Håvard Furu | |
Attorney-in-Fact | |
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/s/ Håvard Furu | |
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THE SINGAPORE SHAREHOLDER | |
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HOEGH LNG LAMPUNG PTE. LTD. | |
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By: Parthsarthi Jindal | |
Director and Attorney-in-Fact | |
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/s/ Parthsarthi Jindal | |
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THE INDONESIAN SHAREHOLDER | |
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PT BAHTERA DAYA UTAMA | |
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By: Nurcahya Basuki | |
Director | |
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/s/ Nurcahya Basuki | |
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THE O&M CONTRACTORS | |
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HOEGH LNG SHIPPING SERVICES PTE. LTD. | |
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By: Parthsarthi Jindal | |
Director and Attorney-in-Fact | |
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/s/ Parthsarthi Jindal | |
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HOEGH LNG ASIA PTE. LTD. | |
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By: Parthsarthi Jindal | |
Director and Attorney-in-Fact | |
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/s/ Parthsarthi Jindal | |
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HOEGH LNG AS | |
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By: Thor Jørgen Guttormsen | |
General Manager | |
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/s/ Thor Jørgen Guttormsen | |
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THE FACILITY AGENT | |
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(on behalf of itself and certain other Finance Parties) | |
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Standard Chartered Bank | |
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By: Paul Thompson | |
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/s/ Paul Thompson | |
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THE SECURITY AGENT | |
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Standard Chartered Bank | |
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By: Paul Thompson | |
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/s/ Paul Thompson | |
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THE K-SURE AGENT | |
(on behalf of itself and K-Sure) | |
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Standard Chartered Bank | |
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By: Paul Thompson | |
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/s/ Paul Thompson | |
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THE EXITING COMMERCIAL LENDERS | |
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MUFG Bank, Ltd. | |
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By: Joanna Swee | |
Director, Head of Portfolio Administration | |
Asian Investment Banking Division | |
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/s/ Joanna Swee | |
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DBS Bank Ltd | |
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By: SVP Gideon Low | |
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/s/ Gideon Low | |
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The Korea Development Bank | |
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By: Seungho Choi | |
General Manager | |
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/s/ Seungho Choi | |
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Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation Limited | |
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By: Lisa Fung | |
Head, Wholesale Corporate Marketing | |
OCBC Bank | |
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/s/ Lisa Fung | |
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Standard Chartered Bank (Singapore) Limited | |
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By: Abhishek Badkul | |
Co-Head, Project & Export Finance, Asean and Australia | |
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/s/ Abhishek Badkul | |
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Bayfront Infrastructure Capital Pte. Ltd. | |
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By: Edmund Lee Kwing Mun / Sophia Lim Siew Fay | |
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/s/ Edmund Lee Kwing Mun /s/ Sophia Lim Siew Fay | |
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THE NEW COMMERCIAL LENDERS | |
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DBS Bank Ltd | |
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By: SVP Gideon Low | |
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/s/ Gideon Low | |
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DNB Bank ASA
By: Einar Aaser | Maria Ruud Dingstad |
Senior Vice President | Vice President |
DNB Bank ASA | DNB Bank ASA |
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/s/ Einar Aaser/s/ Maria Ruud Dingstad | |
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Nordea Bank Abp, filial i Norge | |
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By: Sophie Polisena | |
Attorney-in-fact | |
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/s/ Sophie Polisena | |
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ABN AMRO Bank N.V., Oslo Branch
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By: NA Dylishome | |
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/s/ NA Dylishome | /s/ [signature illegible] |
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