(d) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, the Borrower shall not be entitled to request, or to elect to convert or continue, any LIBOR Borrowing if the Interest Period requested with respect thereto would end after the Maturity Date for the applicable Loans.
(a) Each Lender shall make each Loan to be made by it hereunder by wire transfer of immediately available funds by 12:00 noon, New York City time, to the account of the Administrative Agent most recently designated by it for such purpose by notice to the Lenders. The Administrative Agent will make such Loans available to the Borrower by promptly remitting the amounts so received, in like funds, to such account as shall be designated by the Borrower for such purpose.
(a) Each Borrowing initially shall be of the Type specified in Section 2.01 and shall have an initial Interest Period as specified in such Section. Thereafter, the Borrower may elect to
convert such Borrowing to a Borrowing of a different Type or to continue such Borrowing and, in the case of a LIBOR Borrowing, may elect Interest Periods therefor, all as provided in this Section. The Borrower may elect different options with respect to different portions of the affected Borrowing, in which case each such portion shall be allocated ratably among the Lenders holding the Loans comprising such Borrowing, and the Loans comprising each such portion shall be considered a separate Borrowing.
(b) To make an election pursuant to this Section, the Borrower shall notify the Administrative Agent of such election by telephone (i) in the case of a conversion of a Borrowing to or a continuation of a Borrowing as a LIBOR Borrowing, by not later than 11:00 a.m., New York City time, three Business Days before the date of the proposed continuation or conversion or (ii) in the case of a conversion of a Borrowing to an ABR Borrowing, not later than 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on the date of the proposed conversion; provided, that, if the Borrower wishes to request LIBOR Loans having an Interest Period other than 1, 2, 3 or 6 months in duration as provided in the definition of “Interest Period”, the applicable notice must be received by the Administrative Agent not later than 11:00 a.m., New York City time, four Business Days prior to the requested date of such LIBOR Borrowing, whereupon the Administrative Agent shall give prompt notice to the applicable Lenders of such request and determine whether the requested Interest Period is acceptable to all of them and, not later than 11:00 a.m., New York City time, three Business Days before the requested date of such LIBOR Borrowing, the Administrative Agent shall notify the Borrower (which notice may be by telephone) whether or not the requested Interest Period has been consented to by all the applicable Lenders. Each such telephonic notice shall be irrevocable and shall be confirmed promptly by hand delivery or fax to the Administrative Agent of an executed written Interest Election Request signed by the Borrower. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section, the Borrower shall not be permitted to elect an Interest Period for LIBOR Loans that does not comply with Section 2.02(d).
(c) Each telephonic notice referred to in the preceding paragraph (b) and each written Interest Election Request shall specify the following information in compliance with Section 2.02 and paragraph (e) of this Section:
(i) the Borrowing to which such notice and Interest Election Request applies and, if different options are being elected with respect to different portions thereof, the portions thereof to be allocated to each resulting Borrowing (in which case the information to be specified pursuant to clauses (iii) and (iv) below shall be specified for each resulting Borrowing);
(ii) the effective date of the election made pursuant to such notice and Interest Election Request, which shall be a Business Day;
(iii) whether the resulting Borrowing is to be an ABR Borrowing or a LIBOR Borrowing; and
(iv) if the resulting Borrowing is to be a LIBOR Borrowing, the Interest Period to be applicable thereto after giving effect to such election, which shall be a period contemplated by the definition of the term “Interest Period”.
If any such notice and Interest Election Request requests a LIBOR Borrowing but does not specify an Interest Period, then the Borrower shall be deemed to have selected an Interest Period of one month’s duration. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, the Borrower may elect a Non-Standard Interest Period on only a single occasion, and only for the purpose of causing the
subsequent Interest Periods under this Agreement to end on the same dates as each “Interest Period” under and as defined in the Existing Credit Agreements. Each Lender waives any “breakage” costs that it would otherwise be entitled to pursuant to Section 2.15 of any of the Existing Credit Agreements in connection with the repayment of the Existing Credit Agreements on the Closing Date.
(d) Promptly following receipt of an Interest Election Request in accordance with this Section, the Administrative Agent shall advise each applicable Lender of the details thereof and of such Lender’s portion of each resulting Borrowing.
(e) If the Borrower fails to deliver a timely Interest Election Request with respect to a LIBOR Borrowing prior to the end of the Interest Period applicable thereto, then, unless such Borrowing is repaid as provided herein, at the end of such Interest Period such Borrowing shall be converted to an ABR Borrowing. Notwithstanding any contrary provision hereof, if an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and the Administrative Agent, at the request of the Required Lenders, so notifies the Borrower (provided, that, no such notice shall be required in the case of any Event of Default under clause (h) or (i) of Article VII with respect to the Borrower), then, so long as an Event of Default is continuing (i) no outstanding Borrowing may be converted to or continued as a LIBOR Borrowing and (ii) unless repaid, each LIBOR Borrowing shall, at the end of the Interest Period applicable thereto, be converted to an ABR Borrowing.
(f) To the extent that any calculation of interest required to be paid under this Agreement shall be based on (or result in) a calculation that is less than zero, such calculation shall be deemed zero for purposes of this Agreement.
SECTION 2.06. Termination of Commitments. The aggregate 3-Year Term Loan Commitments shall be automatically and permanently reduced to zero on the date of the initial 3-Year Term Loan Borrowing. The aggregate 5-Year Term Loan Commitments shall be automatically and permanently reduced to zero on the date of the initial 5-Year Term Loan Borrowing.
SECTION 2.07. [Reserved].
SECTION 2.08. Repayment of Loans; Evidence of Debt.
(a) The Borrower hereby unconditionally promises to pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of each Lender the then unpaid principal amount of each Loan made by such Lender to the Borrower as provided in Section 2.09.
(b) Each Lender shall maintain in accordance with its usual practice an account or accounts evidencing the Indebtedness of the Borrower to such Lender resulting from each Loan made by such Lender, including the amounts of principal and interest payable and paid to such Lender from time to time hereunder.
(c) The Administrative Agent shall maintain accounts in which it shall record (i) the amount of each Loan made hereunder, Type thereof and, if applicable, the Interest Period applicable thereto, (ii) the amount of any principal or interest due and payable or to become due and payable from the Borrower to each Lender hereunder and (iii) the amount of any sum received by the Administrative Agent hereunder for the account of the Lenders and each Lender’s share thereof.
(d) The entries made in the accounts maintained pursuant to paragraphs (b) or (c) of this Section shall be prima facie evidence of the existence and amounts of the obligations recorded
therein; provided, that, the failure of any Lender or the Administrative Agent to maintain such accounts or any error therein shall not in any manner affect the obligation of the Borrower to repay the Loans or pay any other amounts due hereunder in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.
(e) Any Lender may request that the Loans made by it be evidenced by a promissory note. In such event, the Borrower shall prepare, execute and deliver to such Lender such a promissory note payable to such Lender (or, if requested by such Lender, to such Lender and its registered assigns) and in substantially the form attached hereto as Exhibit C. Thereafter, the Loans evidenced by such promissory note and interest thereon shall at all times (including after assignment pursuant to Section 10.04) be represented by one or more promissory notes in such form payable to the payee named therein (or, if such promissory note is a registered note, to such payee and its registered assigns). Any such promissory note issued on or after the First Amendment Effective Date shall include the following legend:
FOR THE PURPOSES OF SECTIONS 1272, 1273 AND 1275 OF THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE OF 1986, AS AMENDED, THIS NOTE IS BEING ISSUED WITH ORIGINAL ISSUE DISCOUNT. THE LENDER MAY OBTAIN THE ISSUE PRICE, AMOUNT OF ORIGINAL ISSUE DISCOUNT, ISSUE DATE AND YIELD TO MATURITY FOR THIS NOTE BY SUBMITTING A WRITTEN REQUEST FOR SUCH INFORMATION TO THE BORROWER AT THE FOLLOWING ADDRESS: 1950 Hassell Road, Hoffman Estates, IL 60169.
SECTION 2.09. Amortization of Borrowings.
(a) (i) The Borrower shall repay to the 3-Year Term Loan Lenders on the Maturity Date for the 3-Year Term Loans the aggregate principal amount of all 3-Year Term Loans outstanding on such date.
(ii) The Borrower shall repay the 5-Year Term Loans to the 5-Year Term Loan Lenders on the last day of each calendar quarter, commencing December 31, 2018 (or, if the last day of any such quarter shall not be a Business Day, then on the next succeeding Business Day), in an amount for each such payment equal to 1.25% of the aggregate principal amount of the 5-Year Term Loans made on the Closing Date; provided, that, the
final principal repayment installment of the 5-Year Term Loans shall be repaid on the Maturity Date for the 5-Year Term Loans and in any event shall be in an amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of all 5-Year Term Loans outstanding on such date.
(b) Prior to any repayment of any 5-Year Term Loans under Section 2.09(a)(ii), the Borrower shall select the Borrowing or Borrowings to be repaid and shall notify the Administrative Agent in accordance with Section 2.10(d) as if such repayment were an optional prepayment. Each repayment of a Borrowing shall be applied ratably to the 5-Year Term Loans included in the repaid Borrowing. Repayments of 5-Year Term Loans shall be accompanied by accrued interest on the amounts repaid.
SECTION 2.10. Prepayment of Loans.
(a) The Borrower shall have the right at any time and from time to time to prepay any Borrowing in whole or in part, subject to the requirements of this Section.
(b) [Reserved].
(c) Prior to any optional prepayment of Borrowings hereunder, the Borrower shall select the Borrowing or Borrowings to be prepaid and shall specify such selection in the notice of such prepayment pursuant to paragraph (d) of this Section.
(d) The Borrower shall notify the Administrative Agent by telephone (confirmed by hand delivery or fax or any other form approved by the Administrative Agent and the Borrower, including any form on an electronic platform or electronic transmission system as shall be approved by the Administrative Agent) of any optional prepayment hereunder (i) in the case of a LIBOR Borrowing, not later than 11:00 a.m., New York City time, three Business Days before the date of prepayment or (ii) in the case of prepayment of an ABR Borrowing, not later than 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on the date of prepayment, or, in each case, such shorter period of time as is acceptable to the Administrative Agent in its sole discretion. Each such notice shall be irrevocable and shall specify the prepayment date and the principal amount of each Borrowing or portion thereof to be prepaid; provided, that, a notice of optional prepayment may state that such notice is conditioned upon the occurrence of subsequent events (including the effectiveness of other credit facilities), in which case such notice may be revoked by the Borrower (by notice to the Administrative Agent on or prior to the specified effective date) if such condition is not satisfied. Promptly following receipt of any such notice, the Administrative Agent shall advise the Lenders of the contents thereof. Each partial prepayment of any Borrowing shall be in an amount that would be permitted in the case of an advance of a Borrowing of the same Type as provided in Section 2.02. Each voluntary prepayment of the 5-Year Term Loans shall be applied to reduce the subsequent scheduled installments (including the balance due on the Maturity Date for the 5-Year Term Loans) of the 5-Year Term Loans to be made pursuant to Section 2.09(a)(ii) as specified by the Borrower in the notice of prepayment notice delivered to the Administrative Agent (or, in the absence of any such specification, ratably in accordance with the amounts of such installments). Each prepayment of a Borrowing shall be applied ratably to the Loans included in the prepaid Borrowing. Prepayments shall be accompanied by accrued interest to the extent required by Section 2.12.
SECTION 2.11. Fees.
(a) The Borrower agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent, for the account of each Lender, on the Closing Date, an upfront fee in the amount separately agreed upon between the Borrower and the Arrangers.
(b) The Borrower agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent, for its own account, fees payable in the amounts and at the times separately agreed upon between the Borrower and the Administrative Agent.
(c) All fees payable hereunder shall be paid in US Dollars on the dates due, in immediately available funds. Fees paid shall not be refundable under any circumstances.
(d) To the extent that any calculation of any fee required to be paid under this Agreement shall be based on (or result in) a calculation that is less than zero, such calculation shall be deemed zero for purposes of this Agreement.
SECTION 2.12. Interest.
(a) (i) The 3-Year Term Loans comprising each ABR Borrowing shall bear interest at the Alternate Base Rate plus the Applicable Rate set forth under the caption “3-Year Term Loan – ABR Spread” in the definition of such term.
(ii) The 5-Year Term Loans comprising each ABR Borrowing shall bear interest at the Alternate Base Rate plus the Applicable Rate set forth under the caption “5-Year Term Loan – ABR Spread” in the definition of such term.
(b) (i) The 3-Year Term Loans comprising each LIBOR Borrowing shall bear interest at the Adjusted LIBO Rate for the Interest Period in effect for such Borrowing plus the Applicable Rate set forth under the caption “3-Year Term Loan – LIBO Rate Spread” in the definition of such term.
(ii) The 5-Year Term Loans comprising each LIBOR Borrowing shall bear interest at the Adjusted LIBO Rate for the Interest Period in effect for such Borrowing plus the Applicable Rate set forth under the caption “5-Year Term Loan – LIBO Rate Spread” in the definition of such term.
(c) [Reserved].
(d) Notwithstanding the foregoing, if any principal of or interest on any Loan or any fee or other amount payable by the Borrower hereunder shall not be paid when due, whether at stated maturity, upon acceleration or otherwise, such overdue amount shall bear interest, after as well as before judgment, at a rate per annum equal to (i) in the case of overdue principal of any Loan, 2.00% per annum plus the rate otherwise applicable to such Loan as provided in the preceding paragraphs of this Section or (ii) in the case of any other amount, 2.00% per annum plus the rate applicable to 5-Year Term Loans that are ABR Loans as provided in paragraph (a)(ii) of this Section.
(e) Accrued interest on each Loan shall be payable in arrears on each Interest Payment Date for such Loan; provided, that, (i) interest accrued pursuant to paragraph (d) of this Section shall be payable on demand, (ii) in the event of any repayment or prepayment of any Loan, accrued interest on the principal amount repaid or prepaid shall be payable on the date of such repayment or prepayment and (iii) in the event of any conversion of any LIBOR Loan prior to the end of the current Interest Period therefor, accrued interest on such Loan shall be payable on the effective date of such conversion. All interest shall be payable in US Dollars.
(f) All interest hereunder shall be computed on the basis of a year of 360 days, except that interest computed by reference to the Alternate Base Rate at times when the Alternate Base Rate is based on Bank of America’s “prime rate” shall be computed on the basis of a year of 365 days (or 366 days in a leap year), and in each case shall be payable for the actual number of days elapsed (including the first day but excluding the last day). The applicable Alternate Base Rate or Adjusted LIBO Rate shall be determined by the Administrative Agent, and such determination shall be conclusive absent manifest error.
(g) To the extent that any calculation of interest or any fee required to be paid under this Agreement shall be based on (or result in) a calculation that is less than zero, such calculation shall be deemed zero for purposes of this Agreement.
SECTION 2.13. Alternate Rate of Interest; Illegality.
(a) If prior to the commencement of any Interest Period for a LIBOR Borrowing:
(i) the Administrative Agent determines (which determination shall be conclusive absent manifest error) that adequate and reasonable means do not exist for ascertaining the Adjusted LIBO Rate for such Interest Period; or
(ii) the Administrative Agent is advised by the Required Lenders that the Adjusted LIBO Rate for such Interest Period will not adequately and fairly reflect the cost to the Lenders of making or maintaining the Loans included in such Borrowing for such Interest Period;
then the Administrative Agent shall give notice (which may be telephonic) thereof to the Borrower and the Lenders as promptly as practicable and, until the Administrative Agent notifies the Borrower and the Lenders that the circumstances giving rise to such notice no longer exist, (A) any Interest Election Request that requests the conversion of any Borrowing to, or continuation of any Borrowing as, a LIBOR Borrowing shall be ineffective, (B) any LIBOR Borrowing shall be converted to, or continued as, on the last day of the Interest Period applicable thereto, an ABR Borrowing, and (C) the utilization of the Adjusted LIBO Rate component in determining the Alternate Base Rate shall be suspended.
(b) If any Lender determines that any law has made it unlawful, or that any Governmental Authority has asserted that it is unlawful, for any Lender or its applicable lending office to perform any of its obligations hereunder or to make, maintain or fund or charge interest with respect to any Loan or to determine or charge interest rates based upon the Adjusted LIBO Rate, or any Governmental Authority has imposed material restrictions on the authority of such Lender to purchase or sell, or to take deposits of, US Dollars in the London interbank market, then, on notice thereof by such Lender to the Borrower through the Administrative Agent, (i) any obligation of such Lender to issue, make, maintain, fund or charge interest with respect to any such Loan or continue LIBOR Loans or to convert ABR Loans to LIBOR Loans shall be suspended, and (ii) if such notice asserts the illegality of such Lender making or maintaining ABR Loans the interest rate on which is determined by reference to the Adjusted LIBO Rate component of the Alternate Base Rate, the interest rate on which ABR Loans of such Lender shall, if necessary to avoid such illegality, be determined by the Administrative Agent without reference to the Adjusted LIBO Rate component of the Alternate Base Rate, in each case until such Lender notifies the Administrative Agent and the Borrower that the circumstances giving rise to such determination no longer exist. Upon receipt of such notice, (A) the Borrower shall, upon demand from such Lender (with a copy to the Administrative Agent), prepay or, if applicable, convert all LIBOR Loans of such Lender to ABR Loans (the interest rate on which ABR Loans of such Lender shall, if necessary to avoid such illegality, be determined by the Administrative Agent without reference to the Adjusted LIBO Rate component of the Alternate Base Rate), either on the last day of the Interest Period therefor, if such Lender may lawfully continue to maintain such LIBOR Loans to such day, or immediately, if such Lender may not lawfully continue to maintain such LIBOR Loans and (B) if such notice asserts the illegality of such Lender determining or charging interest rates based upon the Adjusted LIBO Rate, the Administrative Agent shall during the period of such suspension compute the Alternate Base Rate applicable to such Lender without reference to the Adjusted LIBO Rate component thereof until the Administrative Agent is advised in writing by such Lender that it is no longer illegal for such Lender to determine or charge interest rates based upon the Adjusted LIBO Rate. Upon any such prepayment or conversion, the Borrower shall also pay accrued interest on the amount so prepaid or converted.
SECTION 2.14. Increased Costs.
(a) If any Change in Law shall:
(i) impose, modify or deem applicable any reserve, special deposit, compulsory loan, insurance charge or similar requirement against assets of, deposits with or for the account of, or credit extended by, any Lender (except any such reserve requirement reflected in the Adjusted LIBO Rate);
(ii) impose on any Lender or any applicable interbank market any other condition (other than with respect to Taxes) affecting this Agreement or LIBOR Loans made by any Lender; or
(iii) subject any Lender to any Taxes (other than (A) Indemnified Taxes, (B) Taxes described in clauses (b) through (d) of the definition of Excluded Taxes, and (C) Connection Income Taxes) on its loans, loan principal, letters of credit, commitments, or other obligations, or its deposits, reserves, other liabilities or capital attributable thereto;
and the result of any of the foregoing shall be to increase the cost to such Lender of making, continuing, converting into or maintaining any Loan (or of maintaining its obligation to make any such Loan) or to reduce the amount of any sum received or receivable by such Lender hereunder (whether of principal, interest or otherwise), then, upon request of such Lender, the Borrower will pay to such Lender such additional amount or amounts as will compensate such Lender for such additional costs incurred or reduction suffered.
(b) If any Lender reasonably determines that any Change in Law regarding capital or liquidity requirements has had or would have the effect of reducing the rate of return on such Lender’s capital or on the capital of such Lender’s holding company, if any, as a consequence of this Agreement or the Loans made by such Lender to a level below that which such Lender or such Lender’s holding company could have achieved but for such Change in Law (taking into consideration such Lender’s policies and the policies of such Lender’s holding company with respect to capital adequacy and liquidity), then from time to time the Borrower will pay to such Lender such additional amount or amounts as will compensate such Lender or such Lender’s holding company for any such reduction suffered.
(c) Each Lender shall determine the amount or amounts necessary to compensate such Lender or such Lender’s holding company, as the case may be, as specified in paragraph (a) or (b) of this Section using the methods customarily used by it for such purpose (and if such Lender uses more than one such method, the method used hereunder shall be that which most accurately determines such amount or amounts). A certificate of a Lender setting forth the amount or amounts necessary to compensate such Lender or such Lender’s holding company, as the case may be, as specified in paragraph (a) or (b) of this Section, and an explanation in reasonable detail of the method by which such amount shall have been determined, shall be delivered to the Borrower and shall be conclusive absent manifest error. The Borrower shall pay such Lender the amount shown as due on any such certificate within fifteen (15) Business Days after receipt thereof. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no Lender shall be entitled to seek compensation for additional amounts or costs pursuant to this Section unless it is the general policy of such Lender at such time to seek compensation under similar circumstances from other similarly situated borrowers with credit agreements containing yield protection provisions that provide for such compensation.
(d) Failure or delay on the part of any Lender to demand compensation pursuant to this Section shall not constitute a waiver of such Lender’s right to demand such compensation; provided, that, the Borrower shall not be required to compensate a Lender pursuant to this Section for any increased costs or reductions incurred more than 180 days prior to the date that such Lender notifies the Borrower of the Change in Law giving rise to such increased costs or reductions and
delivers a certificate with respect thereto as provided in paragraph (c) above; provided, further, that, if the Change in Law giving rise to such increased costs or reductions is retroactive, then the 180-day period referred to above shall be extended to include the period of retroactive effect thereof.
SECTION 2.15. Break Funding Payments. In the event of (a) the payment of any principal of any LIBOR Loan other than on the last day of an Interest Period applicable thereto (including as a result of an Event of Default or an optional prepayment of Loans), (b) the conversion of any LIBOR Loan to a Loan of a different Type or Interest Period other than on the last day of the Interest Period applicable thereto, (c) the failure to borrow, convert, continue or prepay any LIBOR Loan on the date specified in any notice delivered pursuant hereto (regardless of whether such notice is revoked under Section 2.10(d)) or (d) the assignment or deemed assignment of any LIBOR Loan other than on the last day of the Interest Period applicable thereto as a result of a request by the Borrower pursuant to Section 2.18, the Borrower shall compensate each Lender for the loss, cost and expense attributable to such event. Such loss, cost or expense to any Lender shall be deemed to include an amount determined by such Lender to be the excess, if any, of (i) the amount of interest which would have accrued on the principal amount of such Loan had such event not occurred, at the Adjusted LIBO Rate that would have been applicable to such Loan, for the period from the date of such event to the last day of the then current Interest Period therefor (or, in the case of a failure to borrow, convert or continue, for the period that would have been the Interest Period for such Loan), over (ii) the amount of interest that would accrue on such principal amount for such period at the interest rate which such Lender would bid were it to bid, at the commencement of such period, for deposits in US Dollars of a comparable amount and period from other banks in the London interbank market. A certificate of any Lender setting forth any amount or amounts that such Lender is entitled to receive pursuant to this Section, and setting forth in reasonable detail the calculations used by such Lender to determine such amount or amounts, shall be delivered to the Borrower and shall be conclusive absent manifest error. The Borrower shall pay such Lender the amount shown as due on any such certificate within thirty (30) days after receipt thereof.
SECTION 2.16. Taxes.
(a) Any and all payments by or on account of any Loan Party in respect of any Obligation hereunder or under any other Loan Document shall be made free and clear of and without deduction for any Taxes, except as required by applicable law. If any applicable law (as determined in the good faith discretion of an applicable withholding agent) requires the deduction of any Tax from any such payment, then the withholding agent shall make such deduction and timely pay the full amount deducted to the relevant Governmental Authority in accordance with applicable law. If any applicable withholding agent shall be required to deduct any Indemnified Taxes from such payments, then the sum payable by the applicable Loan Party shall be increased as necessary so that after making all required deductions for Indemnified Taxes (including deductions applicable to additional sums payable under this Section) the Administrative Agent or the applicable Lender, as the case may be, receives an amount equal to the sum it would have received had no such deductions for Indemnified Taxes been made.
(b) In addition, the Borrower shall pay any Other Taxes to the relevant Governmental Authority in accordance with applicable law.
(c) The Borrower shall indemnify the Administrative Agent and each Lender, within fifteen (15) Business Days after written demand therefor, for the full amount of any Indemnified Taxes paid by the Administrative Agent or such Lender, as the case may be, on or with respect to any payment by or on account of any obligation of any Loan Party hereunder or under any other Loan Document (including Indemnified Taxes imposed or asserted on or attributable to amounts payable under this Section) and any penalties, interest and reasonable expenses arising therefrom
or with respect thereto, whether or not such Indemnified Taxes were correctly or legally imposed or asserted by the relevant Governmental Authority. A certificate as to the amount of such payment or liability setting forth in reasonable detail the circumstances giving rise thereto and the calculations used by such Lender to determine the amount thereof delivered to the Borrower by a Lender, or by the Administrative Agent, on its own behalf or on behalf of a Lender, shall be conclusive absent manifest error.
(d) As soon as practicable after any payment of Indemnified Taxes by any Loan Party to a Governmental Authority, the Borrower shall deliver to the Administrative Agent the original or a certified copy of a receipt issued by such Governmental Authority evidencing such payment, a copy of the return reporting such payment or other evidence of such payment reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.
(e) Each Lender shall severally indemnify the Administrative Agent for (i) any Taxes (but, in the case of any Indemnified Taxes, only to the extent that the Loan Parties have not already indemnified the Administrative Agent for such Indemnified Taxes and without limiting the obligation of the Loan Parties to do so) attributable to such Lender and (ii) any Taxes attributable to such Lender’s failure to comply with the provisions of Section 10.04(g) relating to the maintenance of a Participant Register, in each case that are paid or payable by the Administrative Agent in connection with any Loan Document and any penalties, interest and reasonable expenses arising therefrom or with respect thereto, whether or not such Taxes were correctly or legally imposed or asserted by the relevant Governmental Authority. The indemnity under this paragraph shall be paid within fifteen (15) Business Days after the Administrative Agent delivers to the applicable Lender a certificate stating the amount of Taxes so paid or payable by the Administrative Agent. Such certificate shall be conclusive of the amount so paid or payable absent manifest error.
(f) (i) Any Lender that is entitled to an exemption from or reduction of withholding Tax with respect to payments made under any Loan Document shall deliver to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent, at the time or times reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent, such properly completed and executed documentation reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent as will permit such payments to be made without withholding or at a reduced rate of withholding. In addition, any Lender, if reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent, shall deliver such other documentation prescribed by applicable law or reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent as will enable the Borrower or the Administrative Agent to determine whether or not such Lender is subject to backup withholding or information reporting requirements. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the preceding two sentences, the completion, execution and submission of such documentation (other than such documentation set forth in Sections 2.16(f)(ii)(A), (ii)(B) and (ii)(D)) shall not be required if in the Lender’s reasonable judgment such completion, execution or submission would subject such Lender to any material unreimbursed cost or expense or would materially prejudice the legal or commercial position of such Lender.
(ii) Without limiting the generality of the foregoing,
(A) any Lender that is a US Person shall deliver to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent on or prior to the date on which such Lender becomes a Lender under this Agreement (and from time to time thereafter upon the reasonable request of the Borrower or the Administrative Agent), executed originals of IRS Form W-9 certifying that such Lender is exempt from U.S. Federal backup withholding tax;
(B) any Foreign Lender shall, to the extent it is legally entitled to do so, deliver to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent (in such number of copies as shall be requested by the recipient) on or prior to the date on which such Foreign Lender becomes a Lender under this Agreement (and from time to time thereafter upon the reasonable request of the Borrower or the Administrative Agent), whichever of the following is applicable:
(1) in the case of a Foreign Lender claiming the benefits of an income tax treaty to which the United States is a party (x) with respect to payments of interest under any Loan Document, executed originals of IRS Form W-8BEN or W-8BEN-E establishing an exemption from, or reduction of, U.S. Federal withholding Tax pursuant to the “interest” article of such tax treaty and (y) with respect to any other applicable payments under any Loan Document, IRS Form W-8BEN or W-8BEN-E establishing an exemption from, or reduction of, U.S. Federal withholding Tax pursuant to the “business profits” or “other income” article of such tax treaty;
(2) executed originals of IRS Form W-8ECI;
(3) in the case of a Foreign Lender claiming the benefits of the exemption for portfolio interest under Section 881(c) of the Code, (x) a certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit D-1 to the effect that such Foreign Lender is not a “bank” within the meaning of Section 881(c)(3)(A) of the Code, a “10 percent shareholder” of the Borrower within the meaning of Section 881(c)(3)(B) of the Code, or a “controlled foreign corporation” described in Section 881(c)(3)(C) of the Code (a “US Tax Compliance Certificate”) and (y) executed originals of IRS Form W-8BEN or W-8BEN-E; or
(4) to the extent a Foreign Lender is not the beneficial owner, executed originals of IRS Form W-8IMY, accompanied by IRS Form W-8ECI, IRS Form W-8BEN or W-8BEN-E, a US Tax Compliance Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit D-2 or Exhibit D-3, IRS Form W-9, and/or other certification documents from each beneficial owner, as applicable; provided, that, if the Foreign Lender is a partnership and one or more direct or indirect partners of such Foreign Lender are claiming the portfolio interest exemption, such Foreign Lender may provide a US Tax Compliance Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit D-4 on behalf of each such direct and indirect partner;
(C) any Foreign Lender shall, to the extent it is legally entitled to do so, deliver to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent (in such number of copies as shall be requested by the recipient) on or prior to the date on which such Foreign Lender becomes a Lender under this Agreement (and from time to time thereafter upon the reasonable request of the Borrower or the Administrative Agent), executed originals of any other form prescribed by applicable law as a basis for claiming exemption from or a reduction in U.S. Federal withholding Tax, duly completed, together with such supplementary documentation as may be prescribed by applicable law to permit the Borrower or the Administrative Agent to determine the withholding or deduction required to be made; and
(D) if a payment made to a Lender under any Loan Document would be subject to U.S. Federal withholding Tax imposed by FATCA if such Lender were to fail to comply with the applicable reporting requirements of FATCA (including those contained in Section 1471(b) or 1472(b) of the Code, as applicable), such Lender shall deliver to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent at the time or times prescribed by law and at such time or times reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent such documentation prescribed by applicable law (including as prescribed by Section 1471(b)(3)(C)(i) of the Code) and such additional documentation reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent as may be necessary for the Borrower and the Administrative Agent to comply with their obligations under FATCA and to determine that such Lender has complied with such Lender’s obligations under FATCA or to determine the amount to deduct and withhold from such payment. Solely for purposes of this clause (D), “FATCA” shall include any amendments made to FATCA after the Closing Date.
Each Lender agrees that if any form or certification it previously delivered expires or becomes obsolete or inaccurate in any respect, it shall update such form or certification or promptly notify the Borrower and the Administrative Agent in writing of its legal inability to do so.
(g) Each party’s obligations under this Section shall survive the resignation or replacement of the Administrative Agent or any assignment of rights by, or the replacement of, a Lender, the termination of the Commitments and the repayment, satisfaction or discharge of all obligations under any Loan Document.
(h) If any party determines, in its sole discretion exercised in good faith, that it has received a refund of any Taxes as to which it has been indemnified pursuant to this Section (including by the payment of additional amounts pursuant to this Section), it shall pay to the indemnifying party an amount equal to such refund (but only to the extent of indemnity payments made under this Section with respect to the Taxes giving rise to such refund), net of all out-of-pocket expenses (including Taxes) of such indemnified party and without interest (other than any interest paid by the relevant Governmental Authority with respect to such refund). Such indemnifying party, upon the request of such indemnified party, shall repay to such indemnified party the amount paid over pursuant to this paragraph (plus any penalties, interest or other charges imposed by the relevant Governmental Authority) in the event that such indemnified party is required to repay such refund to such Governmental Authority. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this paragraph, in no event will the indemnified party be required to pay any amount to an indemnifying party pursuant to this paragraph the payment of which would place the indemnified party in a less favorable net after-Tax position than the indemnified party would have been in if the Tax subject to indemnification and giving rise to such refund had not been deducted, withheld or otherwise imposed and the indemnification payments or additional amounts with respect to such Tax had never been paid. This paragraph shall not be construed to require any indemnified party to make available its Tax returns (or any other information relating to its Taxes that it deems confidential) to the indemnifying party or any other Person.
SECTION 2.17. Payments Generally; Pro Rata Treatment; Sharing of Set-offs.
(a) The Borrower and each Loan Party shall make each payment required to be made by it hereunder or under any other Loan Document (whether of principal, interest or fees, or of amounts payable under Section 2.14, 2.15 or 2.16, or otherwise) at or prior to the time expressly required hereunder or under such other Loan Document for such payment (or, if no such time is expressly
required, at or prior to 12:00 noon, New York City time), on the date when due, in immediately available funds, without any defense, set–off, recoupment, deduction or counterclaim. Any amounts received after such time on any date may, in the discretion of the Administrative Agent, be deemed to have been received on the next succeeding Business Day for purposes of calculating interest thereon. All such payments shall be made to the Administrative Agent to the applicable account specified by it for the account of the Lenders or, in any such case, to such other account as the Administrative Agent shall from time to time specify in a notice delivered to the Borrower; provided, that, payments pursuant to Sections 2.14, 2.15, 2.16 and 10.03 shall be made directly to the Persons entitled thereto and payments pursuant to other Loan Documents shall be made to the Persons specified therein (it being agreed that the Borrower and each Loan Party will be deemed to have satisfied its obligations with respect to payments referred to in this proviso if it shall make such payments to the persons entitled thereto in accordance with instructions provided by the Administrative Agent; the Administrative Agent agrees to provide such instructions upon request, and neither the Borrower nor any other Loan Party will be deemed to have failed to make such a payment if it shall transfer such payment to an improper account or address as a result of the failure of the Administrative Agent to provide proper instructions). The Administrative Agent shall distribute any such payments received by it for the account of any Lender or other Person promptly, in accordance with customary banking practices, following receipt thereof at the appropriate lending office or other address specified by such Lender or other Person. Except as otherwise provided in this Agreement, if any payment hereunder shall be due on a day that is not a Business Day, the date for payment shall be extended to the next succeeding Business Day and, in the case of any payment accruing interest, interest thereon shall be payable for the period of such extension. All payments hereunder, including of principal or interest in respect of any Loan, shall, except as otherwise expressly provided herein, be made in US Dollars; all other payments hereunder and under each other Loan Document shall be made in US Dollars. Any payment required to be made by the Administrative Agent hereunder shall be deemed to have been made by the time required if the Administrative Agent shall, at or before such time, have taken the necessary steps to make such payment in accordance with the regulations or operating procedures of the clearing or settlement system used by the Administrative Agent to make such payment.
(b) If any Lender shall, by exercising any right of set-off or counterclaim or otherwise, obtain payment in respect of any principal of or interest on its 3-Year Term Loan or its 5-Year Term Loan or other Obligations resulting in such Lender receiving payment of a proportion of the aggregate amount of its 3-Year Term Loan or its 5-Year Term Loan and accrued interest thereon or other such Obligations greater than its pro rata share thereof as provided herein, then the Lender receiving such greater proportion shall purchase (for cash at face value) participations in the 3-Year Term Loans or 5-Year Term Loans, as applicable, of the other 3-Year Term Loan Lenders or 5-Year Term Loan Lenders, as applicable, to the extent necessary so that the amount of all such payments shall be shared by the 3-Year Term Loan Lenders or the 5-Year Term Loan Lenders, as applicable, ratably in accordance with the aggregate amount of principal of and accrued interest on their respective 3-Year Term Loans or the 5-Year Term Loans, as applicable, and other amounts owing to them; provided, that, (i) if any such participations are purchased and all or any portion of the payment giving rise thereto is recovered, such participations shall be rescinded and the purchase price restored to the extent of such recovery, without interest, and (ii) the provisions of this paragraph shall not be construed to apply to any payment made by the Borrower pursuant to and in accordance with the express terms of this Agreement (for the avoidance of doubt, as in effect from time to time) or any payment obtained by a Lender as consideration for the assignment of or sale of a participation in any of its Loans to any assignee or participant, other than to the Borrower or any Subsidiary or Affiliate thereof (as to which the provisions of this paragraph shall apply). The Borrower consents to the foregoing and agrees, to the extent it may effectively do so under
applicable law, that any Lender acquiring a participation pursuant to the foregoing arrangements may exercise against the Borrower rights of set–off and counterclaim with respect to such participation as fully as if such Lender were a direct creditor of the Borrower in the amount of such participation. Any purchaser of a participation under this paragraph shall have the benefit of Sections 2.14, 2.15 and 2.16 with respect to the participation purchased, but shall not be deemed by virtue of such purchase to have extended any Commitment that it had not extended prior to such purchase.
(c) Unless the Administrative Agent shall have received notice from the Borrower prior to the date on which any payment is due to the Administrative Agent for the account of the Lenders hereunder that the Borrower will not make such payment, the Administrative Agent may assume that the Borrower has made such payment on such date in accordance herewith and may, in reliance upon such assumption, distribute to the Lenders the amount due. In such event, if the Borrower has not in fact made such payment, then each of the Lenders severally agrees to repay to the Administrative Agent forthwith on demand the amount so distributed to such Lender with interest thereon, for each day from and including the date such amount is distributed to it to but excluding the date of payment to the Administrative Agent, at the greater of the Federal Funds Effective Rate and a rate determined by the Administrative Agent in accordance with banking industry rules on interbank compensation.
(d) If any Lender shall fail to make any payment required to be made by it hereunder to or for the account of the Administrative Agent, then the Administrative Agent may, in its discretion (notwithstanding any contrary provision hereof), (i) apply any amounts thereafter received by the Administrative Agent for the account of such Lender to satisfy such Lender’s obligations in respect of such payment until all such unsatisfied obligations have been discharged or (ii) hold any such amounts in a segregated account as cash collateral for, and application to, any future funding obligations of such Lender pursuant to this Agreement (including pursuant to Sections 2.04(b), 2.17(c) and 10.03(c)), in each case in such order as shall be determined by the Administrative Agent in its discretion.
SECTION 2.18. Mitigation Obligations; Replacement of Lenders.
(a) If any Lender requests compensation under Section 2.14, or if the Borrower is required to pay any additional amount to any Lender or any Governmental Authority for the account of any Lender pursuant to Section 2.16, then such Lender shall consult with the Borrower regarding any actions that could be taken to reduce amounts payable under such Sections and the costs of taking such actions and shall, at the request of the Borrower following such consultations, use reasonable efforts to designate a different lending office for funding or booking its Loans hereunder or to assign its rights and obligations hereunder to another of its offices, branches or affiliates, if, in the judgment of such Lender, such designation or assignment (i) would eliminate or reduce amounts payable pursuant to Section 2.14 or Section 2.16, as the case may be, in the future and (ii) would not subject such Lender to any unreimbursed cost or expense and would not otherwise be disadvantageous to such Lender. The Borrower hereby agrees to pay all reasonable, direct, out-of-pocket costs and expenses incurred by any Lender in connection with any such designation or assignment.
(b) If (i) any Lender requests compensation under Section 2.14, or (ii) the Borrower is required to pay any additional amount to any Lender or any Governmental Authority for the account of any Lender pursuant to Section 2.16, or (iii) any Lender is a Non-Consenting Lender, then the Borrower may, at its sole expense and effort, upon notice to such Lender and the Administrative Agent, require such Lender to assign and delegate, without recourse (in accordance with and subject
to the restrictions contained in Section 10.04), all its interests, rights and obligations under the Loan Documents to an assignee that shall assume such obligations (which assignee may be another Lender, if a Lender accepts such assignment); provided, that, (A) the Borrower shall have received the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld, (B) such Lender shall have received payment of an amount equal to the outstanding principal of its Loans, accrued interest thereon, accrued fees and all other amounts payable to it hereunder, from the assignee (to the extent of such outstanding principal, funded participations and accrued interest and fees) or the Borrower (in the case of all other amounts), (C) in the case of any such assignment and delegation resulting from a claim for compensation under Section 2.14 or payments required to be made pursuant to Section 2.16, such assignment will result (or is reasonably expected to result) in a reduction in such compensation or payments, and (D) in the case of any such assignment and delegation resulting from the status of such Lender as a Non-Consenting Lender, such assignment, together with any assignments by other Non-Consenting Lenders, will enable the Borrower to obtain sufficient consents to cause the applicable amendment, modification or waiver to become effective. A Lender shall not be required to make any such assignment and delegation if, prior thereto, as a result of a waiver by such Lender or otherwise, the circumstances entitling the Borrower to require such assignment and delegation cease to apply. Each party hereto agrees that an assignment and delegation required pursuant to this paragraph may be effected pursuant to an Assignment and Assumption executed by the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and the assignee and that the Lender required to make such assignment and delegation need not be a party thereto.
SECTION 2.19. Successor LIBOR. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement or any other Loan Documents, if the Administrative Agent determines (which determination shall be conclusive absent manifest error), or the Borrower or Required Lenders notify the Administrative Agent (with, in the case of the Required Lenders, a copy to the Borrower) that the Borrower or Required Lenders (as applicable) have determined, that: (a) adequate and reasonable means do not exist for ascertaining the London interbank offered rate for any requested Interest Period, including because the Screen Rate is not available or published on a current basis and such circumstances are unlikely to be temporary; or (b) the administrator of the Screen Rate or a Governmental Authority having jurisdiction over the Administrative Agent has made a public statement identifying a specific date after which the London interbank offered rate or the Screen Rate shall no longer be made available, or used for determining the interest rate of loans (such specific date, the “Scheduled Unavailability Date”); or (c) syndicated loans currently being executed, or that include language similar to that contained in this Section 2.19, are being executed or amended (as applicable) to incorporate or adopt a new benchmark interest rate to replace the London interbank offered rate; then, reasonably promptly after such determination by the Administrative Agent or receipt by the Administrative Agent of such notice, as applicable, the Administrative Agent and the Borrower may amend this Agreement to replace the London interbank offered rate with an alternate benchmark rate (including any mathematical or other adjustments to the benchmark (if any) incorporated therein), giving due consideration to any evolving or then existing convention for similar syndicated credit facilities for such alternative benchmarks (any such proposed rate, a “LIBOR Successor Rate”), together with any proposed LIBOR Successor Rate Conforming Changes and any such amendment shall become effective at 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on the fifth Business Day after the Administrative Agent shall have posted such proposed amendment to all Lenders and the Borrower unless, prior to such time, Lenders comprising the Required Lenders have delivered to the Administrative Agent written notice that such Required Lenders do not accept such amendment.
If no LIBOR Successor Rate has been determined and the circumstances under clause (a) above exist or the Scheduled Unavailability Date has occurred (as applicable), the Administrative Agent will promptly so notify the Borrower and each Lender. Thereafter, (x) the obligation of the Lenders to make or maintain LIBOR Loans shall be suspended (to the extent of the affected LIBOR Loans or Interest Periods),
and (y) the Adjusted LIBO Rate component shall no longer be utilized in determining the Alternate Base Rate. Upon receipt of such notice, the Borrower may revoke any pending request for a Borrowing of, conversion to or continuation of LIBOR Loans (to the extent of the affected LIBOR Loans or Interest Periods) or, failing that, will be deemed to have converted such request into a request for an ABR Borrowing (subject to the foregoing clause (y)) in the amount specified therein.
Notwithstanding anything else herein, any definition of LIBOR Successor Rate shall provide that in no event shall such LIBOR Successor Rate be less than 0.75% for purposes of this Agreement.
ARTICLE III
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
The Borrower represents and warrants to the Lenders that:
SECTION 3.01. Organization; Powers. The Borrower and each of the Material Subsidiaries is duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation, has all requisite power and authority to carry on its business as now conducted and, except where the failure to do so, individually or in the aggregate, could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, is qualified to do business in, and is in good standing in, every jurisdiction where such qualification is required.
SECTION 3.02A. Authorization; Enforceability. Prior to the occurrence of any Collateral and Guarantee Trigger Event, the Transactions are within the Borrower’s powers and have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate and, if required, stockholder action. This Agreement has been duly executed and delivered by the Borrower and constitutes a legal, valid and binding obligation of the Borrower, enforceable in accordance with its terms, subject to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or other laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and subject to general principles of equity, regardless of whether considered in a proceeding in equity or at law.
SECTION 3.02B. Authorization; Enforceability. If any Collateral and Guarantee Trigger Event occurs, the Transactions are within each Loan Party’s powers and have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate or other organizational powers and, if required, stockholder action. This Agreement has been duly executed and delivered by the Borrower and constitutes, and each other Loan Document to which any Loan Party is to be a party, when executed and delivered by such Loan Party, will constitute, a legal, valid and binding obligation of the Borrower or such Loan Party, enforceable in accordance with its terms, subject to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or other laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and subject to general principles of equity, regardless of whether considered in a proceeding in equity or at law.
SECTION 3.03A. Governmental Approvals; No Conflicts. Prior to the occurrence of any Collateral and Guarantee Trigger Event, the Transactions (a) do not require any consent or approval of, registration or filing with, or any other action by, any Governmental Authority, except such as have been obtained or made and are in full force and effect and except as may be required under applicable securities laws and regulations, (b) will not violate any applicable law or regulation or the charter, by-laws or other organizational documents of the Borrower or any order of any Governmental Authority, (c) will not violate or result in a default under any indenture, agreement or other instrument binding upon the Borrower or any Subsidiary or their assets, or give rise to a right thereunder to require any payment to be made by the Borrower or any Subsidiary, and (d) will not result in the creation or imposition of any Lien on any asset of the Borrower or any Subsidiary.
SECTION 3.03B. Governmental Approvals; No Conflicts. If any Collateral and Guarantee Trigger Event occurs, the Transactions (a) do not require any consent or approval of, registration or filing with, or any other action by, any Governmental Authority, except (i) such as have been obtained or made and are in full force and effect, (ii) registrations or filings necessary to perfect Liens created under the Loan Documents and (iii) except as may be required under applicable securities laws and regulations, (b) will not violate any applicable law or regulation or the charter, by-laws or other organizational documents of any Loan Party or any order of any Governmental Authority, (c) will not violate or result in a default under any indenture, agreement or other instrument binding upon the Borrower or any Subsidiary or their assets, or give rise to a right thereunder to require any payment to be made by the Borrower or any Subsidiary, and (d) will not result in the creation or imposition of any Lien on any asset of the Borrower or any Subsidiary, except for the Senior Notes Indentures.
SECTION 3.04. Financial Condition; No Material Adverse Change.
(a) The Borrower has heretofore furnished to the Lenders its consolidated balance sheet and consolidated statements of income, stockholders’ equity and cash flows (i) as of and for its fiscal year ended June 30, 2018, audited by and accompanied by the opinion of Deloitte & Touche LLP, independent registered public accounting firm, and (ii) as of and for its fiscal quarter ended March 31, 2018, certified by a Financial Officer of the Borrower. Such financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position and results of operations and cash flows of the Borrower and the consolidated Subsidiaries as of such dates and for such periods in accordance with GAAP.
(b) Since June 30, 2018, there has been no material adverse change in the business, assets, operations or condition, financial or otherwise, of the Borrower and the Subsidiaries, taken as a whole.
SECTION 3.05. Properties.
(a) The Borrower and each Subsidiary has good title to, or valid leasehold interests in, all its real and personal property material to its business, except for minor defects in title that do not interfere with its ability to conduct its business as currently conducted or to utilize such properties for their intended purposes and except where the failure to do so, individually or in the aggregate, could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.
(b) Each of the Borrower and the Subsidiaries owns or is licensed to use all trademarks, tradenames, copyrights, patents and other intellectual property material to its business, and the use thereof by the Borrower and the Subsidiaries does not infringe upon the rights of any other Person, except for any such infringements that, individually or in the aggregate, could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.
SECTION 3.06. Litigation and Environmental Matters.
(a) There are no actions, suits or proceedings by or before any arbitrator or Governmental Authority pending against or, to the knowledge of the Borrower, threatened against or affecting the Borrower and the Subsidiaries (i) as to which there is a reasonable possibility of an adverse determination and that, if adversely determined, could reasonably be expected, individually or in the aggregate, to result in a Material Adverse Effect, (ii) that involve this Agreement or (iii) that involve the Transactions.
(b) Except with respect to any other matters that, individually or in the aggregate, could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, none of the Borrower or the Subsidiaries (i) has failed to comply with any Environmental Law or to obtain, maintain or comply with any permit, license or other approval required under any Environmental Law, (ii) has become subject to any Environmental Liability, (iii) has received notice of any claim with respect to any Environmental Liability or (iv) knows of any basis for any Environmental Liability.
SECTION 3.07. Compliance with Laws and Agreements. The Borrower and each Subsidiary is in compliance with all laws, regulations and orders of any Governmental Authority applicable to it or its property and all indentures, agreements and other instruments binding upon it or its property, except where the failure to be in compliance, individually or in the aggregate, could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.
SECTION 3.08. Federal Reserve Regulations.
(a) Neither the Borrower nor any Subsidiary is engaged principally, or as a substantial part of its activities, in the business of extending credit for the purpose of purchasing or carrying Margin Stock (within the meaning of Regulation U of the Board).
(b) No part of the proceeds of any Loan has been or will be used, whether directly or indirectly, and whether immediately, incidentally or ultimately, in any manner or for any purpose that has resulted or will result in a violation of Regulation T, U or X of the Board.
SECTION 3.09. Investment Company Status. Neither the Borrower nor any of the Subsidiaries is an “investment company” as defined in, or subject to regulation under, the Investment Company Act of 1940.
SECTION 3.10. Taxes. The Borrower and the Subsidiaries have timely filed or caused to be filed all Tax returns and reports required to have been filed and have paid or caused to be paid all Taxes required to have been paid by them, except (a) any Taxes that are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings and for which the Borrower or such Subsidiary has set aside on its books adequate reserves or (b) to the extent that the failure to do so could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.
SECTION 3.11. ERISA. No ERISA Event has occurred or is reasonably expected to occur that, when taken together with all other such ERISA Events for which liability is reasonably expected to occur, could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. The present value of all accumulated benefit obligations under each Plan (based on the assumptions used for purposes of Accounting Standards Codification Topic 715) did not, as of the date of the most recent financial statements reflecting such amounts, exceed by more than $75,000,000 the fair market value of the assets of such Plan, and the present value of all accumulated benefit obligations of all Plans in the aggregate (based on the assumptions used for purposes of Accounting Standards Codification Topic 715) did not, as of the date of the most recent financial statements reflecting such amounts, exceed by more than $75,000,000 the fair market value of the assets of all such Plans. As of the Closing Date, the Borrower is not, and the Borrower will not be, using its own “plan assets” (within the meaning of 29 CFR § 2510.3-101, as modified by Section 3(42) of ERISA) of one or more of its Benefit Plans in connection with the Loans or the Commitments.
SECTION 3.12. Disclosure. None of the reports, financial statements, certificates or other information (excluding any projections or forward-looking information and information of a general economic or industry nature) furnished by or on behalf of the Borrower or any other Loan Party to the Arrangers, the Administrative Agent or any Lender in connection with the negotiation of this Agreement
or delivered hereunder or under any other Loan Document, taken as a whole and including any supplements thereto, contained or will contain, at the time furnished, any material misstatement of fact or omitted or will omit, at the time furnished, to state any material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading. All projections and other forward-looking information contained in the reports, financial statements, certificates or other information furnished by or on behalf of the Borrower to the Arrangers, the Administrative Agent or any Lender in connection with the negotiation of this Agreement or delivered hereunder have been or will be prepared by the Borrower in good faith based upon assumptions that were reasonable at the time made and at the time such projections and other information were or will be furnished (it being understood that such projections are not to be viewed as fact and that actual results may vary therefrom and that such variations may be material and the Borrower does not make any representation that such projections will be realized). As of the Closing Date, the information included in any Beneficial Ownership Certification, if applicable, is true and correct in all respects.
SECTION 3.13. Solvency. Immediately after the consummation of the Transactions on the Closing Date, (a) the fair value of the assets of the Borrower and the Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis, at a fair valuation, will exceed their debts and liabilities, subordinated, contingent or otherwise, (b) the present fair saleable value of the property of the Borrower and the Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis will be greater than the amount that will be required to pay the probable liability of their debts and other liabilities, subordinated, contingent or otherwise, as such debts and other liabilities become absolute and matured, (c) the Borrower and the Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis will be able to pay their debts and liabilities, subordinated, contingent or otherwise, as such debts and liabilities become absolute and matured and (d) the Borrower and the Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis will not have unreasonably small capital with which to conduct the business in which they are engaged as such business is now conducted and is proposed to be conducted following the Closing Date.
SECTION 3.14. Anti-Corruption Laws and Sanction Laws. The Borrower has implemented and will maintain and enforce policies and procedures that are in the Borrower’s judgment appropriate to ensure compliance by the Borrower, its Subsidiaries, and their directors, officers, employees and agents with applicable Anti-Corruption Laws and applicable Sanction Laws, and the Borrower, its Subsidiaries and their respective officers and employees and, to the knowledge of the Borrower, its directors and agents, are in compliance with Anti-Corruption Laws and applicable Sanction Laws in all material respects. None of (a) the Borrower, any Subsidiary or, to the knowledge of the Borrower, any of their respective directors, officers or employees, or (b) to the knowledge of the Borrower, any agent of the Borrower or any Subsidiary that will act in any capacity in connection with or benefit from the credit facilities established hereby, is a Sanctioned Person. No Loan, use of the proceeds of any Loan or other transaction contemplated by this Agreement will result in a violation by any party hereto of Anti-Corruption Laws or applicable Sanction Laws.
SECTION 3.15. Affected Financial Institution. The Borrower is not an Affected Financial Institution.
SECTION 3.16. Collateral Matters. If any Collateral and Guarantee Trigger Event occurs:
(a) The Security and Pledge Agreement, upon execution and delivery thereof by the parties thereto, will be effective to create in favor of the Collateral Agent a valid and enforceable security interest in the Collateral and (i) when the Collateral constituting certificated securities (as defined in the UCC), solely to the extent required by the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement, is delivered to the Collateral Agent, together with instruments of transfer duly endorsed in blank, the security interest created under the Security and Pledge Agreement will constitute a valid and
perfected security interest in such Collateral (prior to all Liens on such Collateral, except for Liens (i) permitted by this Agreement which may have priority over the Liens of the Collateral Agent on such Collateral by operation of law (including the priority rules under the UCC) or (ii) which are otherwise permitted pursuant to Section 6.01 of this Agreement) and (ii) when financing statements in appropriate form are filed in the applicable filing offices, the security interest created under the Security and Pledge Agreement will constitute a valid and perfected security interest in the remaining Collateral (prior to all Liens on such Collateral, except for Liens (i) permitted by this Agreement which may have priority over the Liens of the Collateral Agent on such Collateral by operation of law (including the priority rules under the UCC) or (ii) which are otherwise permitted pursuant to Section 6.01 of this Agreement) to the extent perfection can be obtained by filing UCC financing statements.
(b) Upon the recordation of the IP Security Agreements with the United States Patent and Trademark Office or the United States Copyright Office, as applicable, and the filing of the financing statements referred to in clause (a) of this Section, the security interest created under the Security and Pledge Agreement will constitute a valid and perfected security interest in the Intellectual Property (as defined in the Security and Pledge Agreement) (prior to all Liens on such Collateral, except for Liens (i) permitted by this Agreement which may have priority over the Liens of the Collateral Agent on such Collateral by operation of law (including the priority rules under the UCC) or (ii) which are otherwise permitted pursuant to Section 6.01 of this Agreement) in which a security interest may be perfected by filing in the United States (it being understood that subsequent recordings in the United States Patent and Trademark Office or the United States Copyright Office may be necessary to perfect a security interest in such Intellectual Property acquired by the Loan Parties after the Initial Collateral and Guarantee Requirement Satisfaction Date).
SECTION 3.17. Subsidiaries; Loan Parties. If any Collateral and Guarantee Trigger Event occurs, on and after the Initial Collateral and Guarantee Requirement Satisfaction Date:
(a) Schedule 3.17(a) sets forth, as of the Initial Collateral and Guarantee Requirement Satisfaction Date, the name and jurisdiction of organization of, and the percentage of each class of Equity Interests owned by the Borrower or any other Subsidiary in, each Subsidiary and identifies each Designated Subsidiary, each Material Subsidiary and each Excluded Subsidiary.
(b) Schedule 3.17(b) sets forth a complete and accurate list as of the Initial Collateral and Guarantee Requirement Satisfaction Date of each Loan Party’s: (i) exact legal name, (ii) any former legal names in the four (4) months prior to the Initial Collateral and Guarantee Requirement Satisfaction Date, if any, (iii) jurisdiction of its incorporation or organization, as applicable, (iv) type of organization, (v) jurisdictions in which such Loan Party is qualified to do business, (vi) chief executive office address, (vii) principal place of business address, (viii) U.S. federal taxpayer identification number and (ix) organization identification number.
SECTION 3.18. Insurance. If any Collateral and Guarantee Trigger Event occurs, on and after the Initial Collateral and Guarantee Requirement Satisfaction Date, Schedule 3.18 sets forth, as of the Initial Collateral and Guarantee Requirement Satisfaction Date, a description of all material property, casualty, business interruption and general liability insurance policies maintained by or on behalf of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries.
ARTICLE IV
CONDITIONS
SECTION 4.01. Closing Date. This Agreement shall not become effective until, and the obligations of the Lenders to make Loans hereunder on the Closing Date shall not become effective until, in each case, each of the following conditions shall be satisfied (or waived in accordance with Section 10.02):
(a) (i) The Administrative Agent (or its counsel) shall have received from each party hereto either (A) a counterpart of this Agreement signed on behalf of such party or (B) written evidence satisfactory to the Administrative Agent (which may include fax or other electronic image scan transmission of a signed signature page of this Agreement) that such party has signed a counterpart of this Agreement, and (ii) each Lender requesting a promissory note shall have received an executed copy of such promissory note.
(b) The Administrative Agent shall have received such documents and certificates as the Administrative Agent or its counsel may reasonably request relating to the organization, existence and good standing of the Borrower, the authorization of the Transactions and any other legal matters relating to the Borrower, this Agreement or the Transactions, all in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and its counsel.
(c) Each Lender shall have received (i) all documentation and other information required by bank regulatory authorities under applicable “know your customer” and anti-money laundering rules and regulations, including the Patriot Act, that has been requested by the Administrative Agent or such Lender, and (ii) with respect to the Borrower, to the extent the Borrower qualifies as a “legal entity customer” under the Beneficial Ownership Regulation, a Beneficial Ownership Certification in relation to the Borrower to the extent requested by such Lender.
(d) The Administrative Agent shall have received a favorable written opinion (addressed to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders and dated the Closing Date) of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, counsel for the Borrower, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent. The Borrower hereby requests such counsel to deliver such opinions.
(e) The Administrative Agent shall have received a certificate, dated the Closing Date and signed by the President, a Vice President or a Financial Officer of the Borrower, confirming that, after giving effect to the Transactions to occur on the Closing Date, (i) the representations and warranties of the Borrower set forth in this Agreement are true and correct (A) in the case of representations and warranties qualified as to materiality, in all respects, and (B) otherwise, in all material respects, in each case on and as of the Closing Date, except to the extent such representations and warranties expressly relate to an earlier date, in which case such representations and warranties shall be true and correct (1) in the case of representations and warranties qualified as to materiality, in all respects, and (2) otherwise, in all material respects, as of such earlier date, and (ii) no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing.
(f) All Indebtedness under the Existing Credit Agreements shall be repaid in full and any commitments, guarantees or security interests relating thereto shall be terminated, in each case on or prior to the Closing Date.
(g) The Administrative Agent (for itself or for the benefit of the Lenders) and the Arrangers shall have received all fees and other amounts due and payable on or prior to the Closing Date pursuant to this Agreement or any engagement letter or fee letter entered into by the Borrower in connection herewith and not theretofore paid, including, to the extent invoiced not later than the second Business Day prior to the Closing Date (or such later date as the Borrower may agree), reimbursement or payment of all reasonable and documented out-of-pocket expenses (including reasonable fees, charges and disbursements of counsel) required to be reimbursed or paid by the Borrower in connection with this Agreement and the Transactions.
The Administrative Agent shall notify the Borrower and the Lenders of the Closing Date, and such notice shall be conclusive and binding.
ARTICLE V
AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS
Until the Commitments have expired or been terminated and the principal of and interest on each Loan and all fees and other amounts payable hereunder shall have been paid in full, the Borrower covenants and agrees with the Lenders that:
SECTION 5.01. Financial Statements and Other Information. The Borrower will furnish to the Administrative Agent:
(a) within 90 days after the end of each fiscal year of the Borrower, its audited consolidated balance sheet and related consolidated statements of income and cash flows as of the end of and for such year, setting forth in each case in comparative form the figures for the previous fiscal year, all reported on by Deloitte & Touche LLP or other independent registered public accountants of recognized national standing (without a “going concern” or like qualification or exception and without any qualification or exception as to the scope of such audit (other than solely as a result of an upcoming maturity date with respect to the Obligations or to the “Obligations” under and as defined in the Revolving Credit Agreement, in each case to occur within 12 months from the time such report and opinion are delivered)) to the effect that such consolidated financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial condition and results of operations and cash flows of the Borrower and its consolidated Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP consistently applied;
(b) within 45 days after the end of each of the first three fiscal quarters of each fiscal year of the Borrower, its consolidated balance sheet and related consolidated statements of income and cash flows as of the end of and for such fiscal quarter and the then elapsed portion of the fiscal year, setting forth in each case in comparative form the figures for the corresponding period or periods of (or, in the case of the balance sheet, as of the end of) the previous fiscal year, all certified by one of its Financial Officers as presenting fairly, in all material respects, the financial condition and results of operations and cash flows of the Borrower and its consolidated Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP consistently applied, subject to normal year-end audit adjustments and the absence of footnotes;
(c) concurrently with any delivery of financial statements under clause (a) or (b) above, a certificate of a Financial Officer of the Borrower (i) certifying as to whether a Default has occurred and, if a Default has occurred, specifying the details thereof and any action taken or proposed to be taken with respect thereto and (ii) setting forth reasonably detailed calculations demonstrating compliance with Sections 6.06 and 6.07;
(d) promptly after the same become publicly available, copies of all periodic and other reports, proxy statements and other materials filed by the Borrower or any of the Subsidiaries with the SEC, or any Governmental Authority succeeding to any or all of the functions of the SEC, or with any national securities exchange, or distributed by the Borrower or any Subsidiary to its shareholders generally, as the case may be (other than (i) registration statements on Form S-8, (ii) filings under Sections 16(a) or 13(d) of the Exchange Act and (iii) routine filings related to employee benefit plans);
(e) promptly, but not later than five Business Days after the publication of any change by Moody’s, S&P or Fitch in its Rating, notice of such change; and
(f) promptly following any request therefor, such other information regarding the operations, business affairs and financial condition of the Borrower or any of the Subsidiaries, or compliance with the terms of this Agreement, as the Administrative Agent or any Lender may reasonably request.
Information required to be delivered pursuant to clauses (a), (b) and (d) of this Section shall be deemed to have been delivered on the date on which the Borrower posts such information on the Borrower’s website on the Internet at cdkglobal.com or when such information is posted on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov. Notices required to be delivered pursuant to clause (e) of this Section shall be deemed to have been delivered on the date on which the Borrower posts such information on the Internet at the website cdkglobal.com or when the publication is first made available by means of Moody’s, S&P’s or Fitch (as the case may be) Internet subscription service. The Administrative Agent shall promptly make available to each Lender a copy of the certificate to be delivered pursuant to clause (c) of this Section by posting such certificate on the Platform or by other similar means.
The Borrower hereby acknowledges that (i) the Administrative Agent and/or any Arranger may, but shall not be obligated to, make available to the Lenders materials and/or information provided by or on behalf of the Borrower hereunder (collectively, “Borrower Materials”) by posting the Borrower Materials on IntraLinks, Syndtrak, ClearPar or a substantially similar electronic transmission system (the “Platform”) and (ii) certain of the Lenders (each, a “Public Lender”) may have personnel who do not wish to receive material non-public information with respect to the Borrower or its Affiliates, or the respective securities of any of the foregoing, and who may be engaged in investment and other market-related activities with respect to such Persons’ securities. The Borrower hereby agrees that (A) all Borrower Materials that are to be made available to Public Lenders shall be clearly and conspicuously marked “PUBLIC” which, at a minimum, shall mean that the word “PUBLIC” shall appear prominently on the first page thereof; (B) by marking Borrower Materials “PUBLIC,” the Borrower shall be deemed to have authorized the Administrative Agent, the Arrangers and the Lenders to treat such Borrower Materials as not containing any material non-public information with respect to the Borrower or its securities for purposes of United States Federal and state securities laws (provided, however, that, to the extent such Borrower Materials constitute Information (as defined in Section 10.12(a)), they shall be treated as set forth in Section 10.12); (C) all Borrower Materials marked “PUBLIC” are permitted to be made available through a portion of the Platform designated “Public Side Information;” and (D) the Administrative Agent and the Arrangers shall be entitled to treat any Borrower Materials that are not marked “PUBLIC” as being suitable only for posting on a portion of the Platform not designated “Public Side Information.”
SECTION 5.02. Notices of Material Events. The Borrower will furnish to the Administrative Agent and each Lender prompt written notice (in any case within five Business Days) of the following:
(a) the occurrence of any Default;
(b) the filing or commencement of any action, suit or proceeding by or before any arbitrator or Governmental Authority against or affecting the Borrower or any Subsidiary as to which there is a reasonable possibility of an adverse determination and that, if adversely determined, could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect;
(c) the occurrence of any ERISA Event that, alone or together with any other ERISA Events that have occurred, could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect;
(d) any other development that has resulted in, or could reasonably be expected to result in, a Material Adverse Effect;
(e) the occurrence of any Collateral and Guarantee Trigger Event; and
(f) during the Collateral and Guarantee Period, the occurrence of any event, or the satisfaction of any condition, that requires the obligations under any Senior Notes Indenture, pursuant to the terms and provisions of such Senior Notes Indenture, to become Senior Notes Indenture Secured Obligations.
Each notice delivered under this Section shall be accompanied by a statement of a Financial Officer or other executive officer of the Borrower setting forth the details of the event or development requiring such notice and any action taken or proposed to be taken with respect thereto.
SECTION 5.03. Existence; Conduct of Business. The Borrower will, and will cause each Material Subsidiary to, do or cause to be done all things necessary to preserve, renew and keep in full force and effect its legal existence and the rights, licenses, permits, privileges and franchises material to the conduct of its business; provided, that, the foregoing shall not prohibit any merger, consolidation, liquidation or dissolution permitted under Section 6.04A or Section 6.04B, as the case may be.
SECTION 5.04. Taxes. The Borrower will, and will cause each Subsidiary to, pay its Tax liabilities, that, if not paid, could result in a Material Adverse Effect before the same shall become delinquent or in default, except where (a) the validity or amount thereof is being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings, (b) the Borrower or such Subsidiary has set aside on its books adequate reserves with respect thereto in accordance with GAAP and (c) the failure to make payment pending resolution of such contest could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.
SECTION 5.05. Business and Properties. The Borrower will, and will cause each Material Subsidiary to, at all times, keep and maintain all property material to the conduct of its business in good working order and condition, ordinary wear and tear excepted.
SECTION 5.06. Books and Records; Inspection Rights. The Borrower will keep, and will cause each of its Subsidiaries to keep, proper books of record and account in which full, true and correct entries are made of all dealings and transactions in relation to its business and activities. The Borrower will, and will cause each of its Subsidiaries to, permit any representatives designated by the Administrative Agent, or by any Lender through the Administrative Agent, at reasonable times and upon reasonable prior notice, to visit and inspect its properties, to examine and make extracts from its books and records, and to discuss its affairs, finances and condition with its officers and, so long as a representative of the Borrower is present, independent accountants.
SECTION 5.07. Compliance with Laws. The Borrower will, and will cause each Subsidiary to, comply with all laws, rules, regulations and orders of any Governmental Authority applicable to it or its property (including ERISA and Environmental Laws), except where the failure to do so, individually or in
the aggregate, could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. The Borrower will maintain in effect and enforce policies and procedures designed to ensure compliance by the Borrower, the Subsidiaries and their respective directors, officers, employees and agents with Anti-Corruption Laws and applicable Sanction Laws.
SECTION 5.08. Use of Proceeds.
(a) The Borrower will use the proceeds of the Loans made hereunder on the Closing Date for general corporate purposes. The Borrower will ensure that at the time each Loan is made and after giving effect to the use of the proceeds thereof, no more than 25% of the value of the assets of either the Borrower or the Borrower and the Subsidiaries taken as a whole subject to the restrictions of Section 6.01, Section 6.04A or 6.04B, as the case may be, or Section 6.10, shall be represented by Margin Stock (within the meaning of Regulation U of the Board).
(b) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Borrower will not request any Loans and no part of the proceeds of any Loan will be used, whether directly or indirectly, by the Borrower, any Subsidiary or any of their respective directors, officers, employees and agents (i) in furtherance of an offer, payment, promise to pay, or authorization of the payment or giving of money, or anything else of value, to any Person in violation of any Anti-Corruption Laws, (ii) for the purpose of funding, financing or facilitating any activities, business or transaction of or with any Sanctioned Person or in any Sanctioned Country or (iii) in any manner that would result in the violation of any Sanction Laws applicable to any party hereto.
SECTION 5.09 .Additional Subsidiaries. If any Subsidiary is formed or acquired during the Collateral and Guarantee Period (it being understood that any Subsidiary ceasing to be an Excluded Subsidiary but remaining a Subsidiary shall be deemed to be the acquisition of such Subsidiary for purposes hereof), the Borrower will, and will cause each Loan Party to (a) within fifteen (15) days of such formation or acquisition, notify the Administrative Agent of such acquisition or formation and (b) within thirty (30) days of such formation or acquisition (or such longer period as the Administrative Agent may agree to in its sole discretion), cause the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement to be satisfied with respect to such Subsidiary (if it is a Designated Subsidiary) and with respect to any Equity Interests in such Subsidiary owned by any Loan Party.
SECTION 5.10. Covenant to Guarantee the Obligations; Covenant to Give Security.
(a) The Borrower will, and will cause each Designated Subsidiary to, satisfy the Initial Collateral and Guarantee Requirement within forty-five (45) days of any Collateral and Guarantee Trigger Event.
(b) During the Collateral and Guarantee Period (subject, for the avoidance of doubt, to the forty-five (45) day period set forth in clause (a) above), the Borrower will, and will cause each Designated Subsidiary to, (i) cause all property of each Loan Party (other than Excluded Property) to be subject at all times to valid and perfected Liens (prior to all Liens on such property, except for Liens (A) permitted by this Agreement which may have priority over the Liens of the Collateral Agent on such assets by operation of law (including the priority rules under the UCC) or (B) which are otherwise permitted pursuant to Section 6.01 of this Agreement) in favor of the Collateral Agent pursuant to the Collateral Documents, subject to the limitations and other agreements set forth in the definition of “Collateral and Guarantee Requirement” and (ii) cause the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement at all times to be satisfied with respect to the Borrower and each Designated Subsidiary.
(c) During the Collateral and Guarantee Period, the Borrower will, and will cause each Loan Party to, execute any and all further documents, financing statements, agreements and instruments, and take all such further actions (including the filing and recording of financing statements and other documents), that may be required under any applicable law, or that any Agent may reasonably request in writing, to cause the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement (subject to the limitations and other agreements set forth therein) to be and remain satisfied at all times or otherwise to effectuate the provisions of the Loan Documents, all at the expense of the Loan Parties.
SECTION 5.11. Information Regarding the Collateral. During the Collateral and Guarantee Period, the Borrower will, and will cause each Loan Party to, furnish to the Administrative Agent, within thirty (30) days (or such longer period as the Administrative Agent shall agree to in its sole discretion) of the effectiveness of any such change, written notice of any change in (a) the legal name of any Loan Party, as set forth in its organizational documents, (b) the jurisdiction of organization or the form of organization of any Loan Party (including as a result of any merger, amalgamation or consolidation), (c) the location of the chief executive office of any Loan Party or (d) the organizational identification number, if any, or the Federal Taxpayer Identification Number of any Loan Party.
SECTION 5.12. Maintenance of Insurance. During the Collateral and Guarantee Period:
(a) The Borrower will, and will cause each Subsidiary to, maintain with financially sound and reputable insurance companies insurance (or adequate self-insurance) in at least such amounts, of such character and against at least such risks as is usually maintained by companies of established repute engaged in the same or a similar business.
(b) The Borrower will, and will cause each Loan Party to, cause the Collateral Agent to be named as lenders’ loss payable, loss payee or mortgagee, as its interest may appear, and/or additional insured with respect of any such insurance providing liability coverage or coverage in respect of any Collateral, and cause, unless it is not the practice of such provider to do so or otherwise agreed to by the Collateral Agent, each provider of any such insurance to agree, by endorsement upon the policy or policies issued by it or by independent instruments furnished to the Collateral Agent that it will give the Collateral Agent thirty (30) days prior written notice before any such policy or policies shall be altered or cancelled (or ten (10) days prior notice in the case of cancellation due to the nonpayment of premiums). Annually, upon expiration of current insurance coverage, Borrower will, and will cause each Loan Party to, provide, or cause to be provided, to the Collateral Agent, such evidence of insurance as required by the Collateral Agent, including, but not limited to: (i) evidence of such insurance policies (including, without limitation and as applicable, ACORD Form 28 certificates (or similar form of insurance certificate), and ACORD Form 25 certificates (or similar form of insurance certificate)), (ii) declaration pages for each insurance policy and (iii) lender’s loss payable endorsement if the Collateral Agent is not on the declarations page for such policy.
ARTICLE VI
NEGATIVE COVENANTS
Until the Commitments have expired or terminated and the principal of and interest on each Loan and all fees and other amounts payable hereunder have been paid in full, the Borrower covenants and agrees with the Lenders that:
SECTION 6.01. Liens. The Borrower will not, and will not permit any Subsidiary to, create, incur, assume or permit to exist any Lien on any property or asset now owned or hereafter acquired by it, or assign or sell any income or revenues (including accounts receivable) or rights in respect thereof, except:
(a) Permitted Encumbrances;
(b) any Lien on any property or asset of the Borrower or any Subsidiary existing on the Closing Date and set forth in Schedule 6.01; provided, that, (i) such Lien shall not apply to any other property or asset of the Borrower or any Subsidiary and (ii) such Lien shall secure only those obligations that it secures on the Closing Date and extensions, renewals and replacements thereof that do not increase the outstanding principal amount thereof plus the aggregate amount of fees, underwriting discounts, premiums and other costs and expenses incurred in connection with such extensions, renewals or replacements;
(c) any Lien existing on any property or asset prior to the acquisition thereof by the Borrower or any Subsidiary or existing on any property or asset of any Person that becomes a Subsidiary after the Closing Date prior to the time such Person becomes a Subsidiary; provided, that, (i) such Lien is not created in contemplation of or in connection with such acquisition or such Person becoming a Subsidiary, as the case may be, (ii) such Lien shall not apply to any other property or assets of the Borrower or any Subsidiary and (iii) such Lien shall secure only those obligations which it secures on the date of such acquisition or the date such Person becomes a Subsidiary, as the case may be, and extensions, renewals and replacements thereof that do not increase the outstanding principal amount thereof plus the aggregate amount of fees, underwriting discounts, premiums and other costs and expenses incurred in connection with such extensions, renewals or replacements;
(d) Liens on fixed or capital assets acquired, constructed or improved by the Borrower or any Subsidiary; provided, that, (i) such Liens and the Indebtedness secured thereby are incurred prior to or within 180 days after such acquisition or the completion of such construction or improvement, (ii) the Indebtedness secured thereby does not exceed the cost of acquiring, constructing or improving such fixed or capital assets and (iii) such security interests shall not apply to any other property or assets of the Borrower or any Subsidiary;
(e) Liens on securities deemed to exist under repurchase agreements and reverse repurchase agreements entered into by the Borrower and the Subsidiaries;
(f) Liens in connection with any Permitted Securitization Financing; provided, that, (i) such Liens extend only to the assets subject thereto and Equity Interests of Special Purpose Securitization Subsidiaries, and (ii) such Permitted Securitization Financing is permitted pursuant to Section 6.02(k);
(g) (i) Liens solely on Receivables Assets securing Indebtedness permitted pursuant to Section 6.02(l); provided, that, such Liens extend only to the assets securing such Indebtedness; and (ii) Liens solely on Receivables Assets securing Indebtedness incurred by the Borrower in connection with (x) a sale or factoring of Receivables Assets or (y) a loan or line of credit secured solely by Receivables Assets; provided, that, (A) such Liens extend only to the assets securing such Indebtedness, and (B) the sum of (1) the aggregate outstanding balance of accounts receivable sold by the Borrower and/or subject to a loan or line of credit in all transactions permitted pursuant to this Section 6.01(g)(ii), plus (2) the aggregate outstanding balance of accounts receivable sold by the Borrower and the Subsidiaries and/or subject to a loan or line of credit in all transactions permitted pursuant to Section 6.02(l), plus (3) the aggregate outstanding balance of accounts
receivable sold by the Borrower and the Subsidiaries in connection with Permitted Securitization Financings permitted pursuant to Section 6.02(k), shall not at any time exceed the greater of (x) $150,000,000 during the term of this Agreement, and (y) 35% of the aggregate outstanding balance of accounts receivable of the Borrower and the Subsidiaries at such time;
(h) other Liens not expressly permitted by clauses (a) through (g) above; provided, that, the sum of (i) the aggregate principal amount of the outstanding obligations secured by Liens permitted under this clause (h), plus (ii) the aggregate outstanding principal amount of Indebtedness of Subsidiaries permitted by Section 6.02(m), plus (iii) the aggregate outstanding amount of Attributable Debt in respect of Sale and Leaseback Transactions permitted by Section 6.03(b) shall not at any time exceed the greater of $125,000,000 and 15% of Consolidated Net Tangible Assets; and
(i) during any Collateral and Guarantee Period, (i) Liens pursuant to any Loan Document (it being understood that, at any time during the Collateral and Guarantee Period, such Liens may extend to any obligations under any Senior Notes Indenture that pursuant to such Senior Notes Indenture have been required to become Senior Notes Indenture Secured Obligations at such time), and (ii) Liens pursuant to any “Loan Document” under and as defined in the Revolving Credit Agreement.
SECTION 6.02. Subsidiary Indebtedness. The Borrower will not permit any Subsidiary to incur any Indebtedness or to issue any preferred stock or other preferred Equity Interests except:
(a) Indebtedness, preferred stock or other preferred Equity Interests existing on the Closing Date and set forth on Schedule 6.02, and any extensions, renewals or replacements of any such Indebtedness that do not increase the outstanding principal amount thereof plus the aggregate amount of fees, underwriting discounts, premiums and other costs and expenses incurred in connection with such extension, renewal or replacement;
(b) Indebtedness of any Subsidiary owing to the Borrower or any other Subsidiary; provided, that, no such Indebtedness shall have been assigned to, or subjected to any Lien in favor of, a Person other than the Borrower or a Subsidiary;
(c) Indebtedness, preferred stock or preferred Equity Interests of any Person existing at the time it becomes a Subsidiary and any Refinancing Indebtedness in respect of any such Indebtedness; provided, that, such Indebtedness, preferred stock or preferred Equity Interests shall not have been incurred or issued, as applicable, in contemplation of or in connection with such Person becoming a Subsidiary;
(d) Indebtedness of any Subsidiary (i) incurred to finance the acquisition, construction or improvement of any fixed or capital assets, including Capital Lease Obligations; provided, that, such Indebtedness is incurred prior to or within 180 days after such acquisition or the completion of such construction or improvement and the principal amount of such Indebtedness does not exceed the cost of acquiring, constructing or improving such fixed or capital assets; or (ii) assumed in connection with the acquisition of any fixed or capital assets; and, in each case, Refinancing Indebtedness in respect of any of the foregoing;
(e) Indebtedness of any Person that becomes a Subsidiary (or of any Person not previously a Subsidiary that is merged or consolidated with or into a Subsidiary in a transaction permitted hereunder) after the Closing Date, or Indebtedness of any Person that is assumed by any Subsidiary in connection with an acquisition of assets by such Subsidiary; provided, that, (i) such
Indebtedness exists at the time such Person becomes a Subsidiary (or is so merged or consolidated) or such assets are acquired and is not created in contemplation of or in connection with such Person becoming a Subsidiary (or such merger or consolidation) or such assets being acquired and (ii) no Subsidiary (other than such Person or any special purpose merger Subsidiary with which such Person is merged or consolidated) shall Guarantee or otherwise become liable for the payment of such Indebtedness, and Refinancing Indebtedness in respect of any of the foregoing;
(f) Guarantees by any Subsidiary of Indebtedness of the Borrower or any other Subsidiary; provided, that, (i) the Indebtedness of any other Subsidiary so guaranteed is permitted under this Section and (ii) any Subsidiary that shall guarantee Indebtedness of the Borrower shall also have guaranteed the Obligations under an agreement satisfactory in form and substance to the Administrative Agent;
(g) Indebtedness incurred in connection with Hedging Agreements entered into for non-speculative purposes;
(h) Indebtedness owed in respect of any overdrafts and related liabilities arising from treasury, depository and cash management services or in connection with any automated clearing-house transfers of funds, in each case incurred in the ordinary course of business;
(i) Indebtedness in respect of workers’ compensation claims and bid, performance or surety bonds, and Indebtedness in respect of letters of credit, bank guarantees and similar instruments issued for the account of any Subsidiary in the ordinary course of business supporting such obligations;
(j) Indebtedness arising in connection with the endorsement of instruments for collection or deposit in the ordinary course;
(k) Indebtedness arising in connection with Permitted Securitization Financings; provided, that, the sum of (x) the aggregate outstanding balance of accounts receivable sold by the Borrower and the Subsidiaries in connection with Permitted Securitization Financings permitted pursuant to this Section 6.02(k), plus (y) the aggregate outstanding balance of accounts receivable sold by the Borrower and the Subsidiaries and/or subject to a loan or line of credit in all transactions permitted pursuant to Section 6.02(l), plus (z) the aggregate outstanding balance of accounts receivable sold by the Borrower and/or subject to a loan or line of credit in all transactions permitted pursuant to Section 6.01(g)(ii), shall not at any time exceed the greater of (i) $150,000,000 during the term of this Agreement, and (ii) 35% of the aggregate outstanding balance of accounts receivable of the Borrower and the Subsidiaries at such time;
(l) Indebtedness arising in connection with (i) a sale or factoring of Receivables Assets or (ii) a loan or line of credit secured solely by Receivables Assets; provided, that, the sum of (x) the aggregate outstanding balance of accounts receivable sold by the Borrower and the Subsidiaries and/or subject to a loan or line of credit in all transactions permitted pursuant to this Section 6.02(l), plus (y) the aggregate outstanding balance of accounts receivable sold by the Borrower and the Subsidiaries in connection with Permitted Securitization Financings permitted pursuant to Section 6.02(k), plus (z) the aggregate outstanding balance of accounts receivable sold by the Borrower and/or subject to a loan or line of credit in all transactions permitted pursuant to Section 6.01(g)(ii), shall not at any time exceed the greater of (A) $150,000,000 during the term of this Agreement, and (B) 35% of the aggregate outstanding balance of accounts receivable of the Borrower and the Subsidiaries at such time;
(m) other Indebtedness not expressly permitted by clauses (a) through (l) above; provided, that, the sum of (i) the aggregate principal amount of outstanding obligations secured by Liens permitted under Section 6.01(h), plus (ii) the aggregate outstanding principal amount of Indebtedness permitted under this clause (m), plus (iii) the aggregate outstanding amount of Attributable Debt in respect of Sale and Leaseback Transactions permitted by Section 6.03(b) shall not at any time exceed the greater of $125,000,000 and 15% of Consolidated Net Tangible Assets;
(n) Indebtedness of each “Borrowing Subsidiary” under and as defined in the Revolving Credit Agreement; and
(o) during the Collateral and Guarantee Period, (i) Guarantees by any Designated Subsidiary of (x) the Obligations and (y) the “Obligations” under and as defined in the Revolving Credit Agreement and (ii) Guarantees by any Designated Subsidiary of any Senior Notes Indenture Secured Obligations; provided, that, any Subsidiary that shall guarantee any such Indebtedness shall also have guaranteed the Obligations pursuant to the Loan Documents.
SECTION 6.03. Sale and Leaseback Transactions. The Borrower will not, and will not permit any of the Subsidiaries to, enter into or be a party to any Sale and Leaseback Transaction except:
(a) Sale and Leaseback Transactions to which the Borrower or any Subsidiary is a party as of the Closing Date that are set forth on Schedule 6.03; and
(b) other Sale and Leaseback Transactions not expressly permitted by clause (a) above; provided, that, the sum of (i) the aggregate principal amount of outstanding obligations secured by Liens permitted under Section 6.01(h), plus (ii) the aggregate outstanding principal amount of Indebtedness of Subsidiaries permitted by Section 6.02(m), plus (iii) the aggregate outstanding amount of Attributable Debt in respect of Sale and Leaseback Transactions permitted by this clause (b) shall not at any time exceed the greater of $125,000,000 and 15% of Consolidated Net Tangible Assets.
SECTION 6.04A. Fundamental Changes. Prior to the occurrence of any Collateral and Guarantee Trigger Event:
(a) The Borrower will not (i) merge into or consolidate with any other Person, (ii) permit any other Person to merge into or consolidate with it or (iii) liquidate or dissolve, except that, if at the time thereof and immediately after giving effect thereto no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the Borrower may merge or consolidate with any Subsidiary or other Person (or permit any such Person to merge or consolidate with it) if the Borrower is the surviving Person.
(b) The Borrower will not, and will not permit its Subsidiaries to, sell, transfer, lease or otherwise dispose of, directly or through any merger or consolidation and whether in one transaction or in a series of transactions, assets (including Equity Interests in Subsidiaries) representing all or substantially all the assets of the Borrower and the Subsidiaries (whether now owned or hereafter acquired), taken as a whole.
(c) The Borrower will not, and will not permit any Subsidiary to, engage to any material extent in any business other than businesses of the type conducted by the Borrower and the Subsidiaries on the Closing Date and businesses reasonably related, ancillary or complementary thereto or constituting a reasonable extension thereof (including, for the avoidance of doubt, in the case of any Special Purpose Securitization Subsidiary, Permitted Securitization Financings).
SECTION 6.04B. Fundamental Changes. During the Collateral and Guarantee Period:
(a) The Borrower will not, and will not permit its Subsidiaries to, (i) merge into or consolidate with any other Person, (ii) permit any other Person to merge into or consolidate with it or (iii) liquidate or dissolve, except that, if at the time thereof and immediately after giving effect thereto no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, (A) the Borrower may merge or consolidate with any Subsidiary or, in a transaction not prohibited by Section 6.08 or Section 6.10, as the case may be, any other Person (or permit any such Person to merge or consolidate with it), in each case, if the Borrower is the surviving Person, (B) any Subsidiary may merge or consolidate with any Person that is not the Borrower or any other Subsidiary (or permit any such Person to merge or consolidate with it) in a transaction not prohibited by Section 6.08 or Section 6.10, as the case may be, if such Subsidiary is the surviving Person, (C) any Loan Party (other than the Borrower) may merge or consolidate with any other Loan Party (other than the Borrower), (D) any Subsidiary that is not a Loan Party may be merged or consolidated with or into any Loan Party; provided, that, such Loan Party shall be the continuing or surviving Person, (E) any Subsidiary that is not a Loan Party may be merged or consolidated with or into any other Subsidiary that is not a Loan Party and (F) any Loan Party (other than the Borrower) or any Subsidiary that is not a Loan Party may be liquidated or dissolved so long as such liquidation or dissolution could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect and the assets of any Person liquidated or dissolved are transferred to a Loan Party.
(b) The Borrower will not, and will not permit its Subsidiaries to, sell, transfer, lease or otherwise dispose of, directly or through any merger or consolidation and whether in one transaction or in a series of transactions, assets (including Equity Interests in Subsidiaries) representing all or substantially all the assets of the Borrower and the Subsidiaries (whether now owned or hereafter acquired), taken as a whole.
(c) The Borrower will not, and will not permit any Subsidiary to, engage to any material extent in any business other than businesses of the type conducted by the Borrower and the Subsidiaries on the Closing Date and businesses reasonably related, ancillary or complementary thereto or constituting a reasonable extension thereof (including, for the avoidance of doubt, in the case of any Special Purpose Securitization Subsidiary, Permitted Securitization Financings).
SECTION 6.05A. Restrictive Agreements. Prior to the occurrence of any Collateral and Guarantee Trigger Event, the Borrower will not, and will not permit any Subsidiary to, enter into any agreement that restricts the ability of any Subsidiary to pay dividends or other distributions to the Borrower or other Subsidiaries or to make or repay loans or advances to the Borrower or other Subsidiaries; provided, that, the foregoing shall not apply to (a) restrictions imposed by law or by this Agreement; (b) restrictions imposed by the Senior Notes Indentures and the Revolving Credit Agreement; (c) restrictions existing on the Closing Date identified on Schedule 6.05 (or to any extension, amendment, modification, renewal or replacement thereof not expanding the scope of any such restriction or condition); (d) in the case of any Subsidiary that is not a wholly-owned Subsidiary, restrictions imposed by its organizational documents or any related joint venture or similar agreement; provided, that, such restrictions and conditions apply only to such Subsidiary; (e) restrictions imposed by agreements relating to Indebtedness of any Subsidiary in existence at the time such Subsidiary became a Subsidiary and permitted by Section 6.02(e) (but shall apply to any amendment or modification expanding the scope of any such restriction); provided, that, such restrictions and conditions apply only to such Subsidiary; (f) customary restrictions contained in agreements relating to the sale of a Subsidiary or any assets pending such sale to the extent that such restrictions apply only to the Subsidiary or assets to be sold and such sale is permitted hereunder; or (g) restrictions contained in any Permitted Securitization Documents with respect to any Special Purpose Securitization Subsidiary.
SECTION 6.05B. Restrictive Agreements. During the Collateral and Guarantee Period, the Borrower will not, and will not permit any Subsidiary to, enter into any agreement that restricts the ability of any such Person to (a) pay dividends or distributions to any Loan Party, (b) [reserved], (c) make or repay loans or advances to any Loan Party, (d) transfer any of its property to any Loan Party, (e) pledge its property pursuant to the Loan Documents (or any renewals, refinancings, exchanges, refundings or extensions thereof) or (f) in the case of a Person required by the Loan Documents to be a Loan Party, act as a Loan Party pursuant to the Loan Documents (or any renewals, refinancings, exchanges, refundings or extension thereof), except (in respect of any of the matters referred to in clauses (a) through (e) above) for (i) restrictions imposed by law, (ii) restrictions imposed by this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, (iii) restrictions imposed by the Senior Notes Indentures, (iv) restrictions imposed by the Revolving Credit Agreement and any “Loan Documents” under and as defined therein, (v) restrictions existing on the Closing Date identified on Schedule 6.05 (or to any extension, amendment, modification, renewal or replacement thereof not expanding the scope of any such restriction or condition), (vi) in the case of any Subsidiary that is not a wholly-owned Subsidiary, restrictions imposed by its organizational documents or any related joint venture or similar agreement; provided, that, such restrictions and conditions apply only to such Subsidiary, (vii) restrictions imposed by agreements relating to Indebtedness of any Subsidiary in existence at the time such Subsidiary became a Subsidiary and permitted by Section 6.02(e) (but shall apply to any amendment or modification expanding the scope of any such restriction); provided, that, such restrictions and conditions apply only to such Subsidiary, (viii) customary restrictions contained in agreements relating to the sale of a Subsidiary or any assets pending such sale to the extent that such restrictions apply only to the Subsidiary or assets to be sold and such sale is permitted hereunder, (ix) restrictions contained in any Permitted Securitization Documents with respect to any Special Purpose Securitization Subsidiary, (x) restrictions contained in any document or relating to Indebtedness incurred pursuant to Section 6.02(d); provided, that, any such restriction contained therein relates only to the asset or assets constructed or acquired in connection therewith, (xi) any Permitted Encumbrance or any document or instrument governing any Permitted Encumbrance; provided, that, any such restriction contained therein relates only to the asset or assets subject to such Permitted Encumbrance, (xii) any restrictions imposed by any agreement relating to secured Indebtedness permitted by this Agreement to the extent that such restrictions apply only to the property or assets securing such Indebtedness; provided, that, in each case such restrictions do not restrict the Liens securing the Obligations or the Liens securing the Obligations under and as defined in the Revolving Credit Agreement or the priority thereof, (xiii) customary provisions contained in leases or licenses of intellectual property and other similar agreements entered into in the ordinary course of business, (xiv) customary provisions restricting subletting or assignment of any lease governing a leasehold interest, (xv) customary provisions restricting assignment of any agreement entered into in the ordinary course of business, (xvi) customary restrictions and conditions contained in any document relating to any Lien, so long as (1) such Lien is permitted under Section 6.01 and such restrictions or conditions relate only to the specific asset subject to such Lien, (2) such restrictions and conditions are not created for the purpose of avoiding the restrictions imposed by this Section 6.05B and (3) such restrictions do not restrict the Liens securing the Obligations or the Liens securing the Obligations under and as defined in the Revolving Credit Agreement or the priority thereof, (xvii) customary net worth provisions contained in real property leases entered into by Subsidiaries, so long as the Borrower has determined in good faith that such net worth provisions would not reasonably be expected to impair the ability of the Borrower and the Subsidiaries to meet their ongoing obligations, (xviii) restrictions in agreements representing Indebtedness permitted under Section 6.02 of a Subsidiary that is not a Guarantor, (xix) customary restrictions contained in leases, subleases, licenses or Equity Interests or asset sale agreements otherwise permitted hereby as long as such restrictions relate to the Equity Interests and assets subject thereto, and (xx) restrictions on cash or other deposits imposed by customers under contracts entered into in the ordinary course of business.
SECTION 6.06. Leverage Ratio. The Borrower will not permit the Leverage Ratio, as of the end of any period of four consecutive fiscal quarters of the Borrower, to be greater than (a) 3.75 to 1.00, for any period of four consecutive fiscal quarters of the Borrower ending on or prior to December 31, 2019,
(b) 4.75 to 1.00, for any period of four consecutive fiscal quarters of the Borrower ending during the period from January 1, 2020 through and including March 31, 2021, (c) 4.25 to 1.00, for any period of four consecutive fiscal quarters of the Borrower ending during the period from April 1, 2021 through and including September 30, 2021 and (d) 3.75 to 1.00, for any period of four consecutive fiscal quarters of the Borrower ending thereafter.
SECTION 6.07. Ratio of Consolidated EBITDA to Consolidated Interest Expense. The Borrower will not permit the ratio of (a) Consolidated EBITDA to (b) Consolidated Interest Expense, for any period of four consecutive fiscal quarters of the Borrower ending after the Closing Date, commencing with the period of four consecutive fiscal quarters ending on September 30, 2018, to be less than 3.00 to 1.00.
SECTION 6.08. Investments. During the Collateral and Guarantee Period, the Borrower will not, and will not permit any Subsidiary to, make, create, incur or assume any Investments, except:
(a) Investments held in the form of cash or cash equivalents;
(b) Investments existing on the date on which a Collateral and Guarantee Trigger Event occurs; provided, that, such Investments were made, created, incurred or assumed prior to such Collateral and Guarantee Trigger Event;
(c) (i) Investments in any Person that is a Loan Party prior to giving effect to such Investment, (ii) Investments by Subsidiaries that are not Loan Parties in other Subsidiaries that are not Loan Parties, and (iii) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result from such Investment, Investments by Loan Parties in Subsidiaries that are not Loan Parties, joint ventures or other minority equity Investments in an aggregate amount invested during the Collateral and Guarantee Period not to exceed $100,000,000;
(d) Investments consisting of extensions of credit in the nature of accounts receivable or notes receivable arising from the grant of trade credit in the ordinary course of business, and Investments received in satisfaction or partial satisfaction thereof from financially troubled account debtors to the extent reasonably necessary in order to prevent or limit loss;
(e) loans and advances to officers, employees, consultants and independent contractors in an aggregate amount not to exceed $7,500,000 at any one time outstanding;
(f) Investments consisting of non-cash consideration received in the form of securities, notes or similar obligations in connection with Asset Sales not prohibited by this Agreement;
(g) Investments consisting of prepaid expenses, pledges or deposits made in the ordinary course of business;
(h) during the Collateral and Guarantee Period, Guarantees by any Designated Subsidiary permitted by Section 6.02(o);
(i) any other Investment; provided, that, (i) no Event of Default exists immediately prior to and after giving effect thereto and (ii) after giving effect to any such Investment on a pro forma basis, the Leverage Ratio shall be less than or equal to 3.75 to 1.00;
(j) to the extent constituting Investments, Restricted Payments permitted by Section 6.09B;
(k) Investments in Special Purpose Securitization Subsidiaries or any Investment by a Special Purpose Securitization Subsidiary in any other Person, in each case, to the extent made in connection with a Permitted Securitization Financing; provided, that, any such Investment in a Special Purpose Securitization Subsidiary is in the form of a contribution of Receivables Assets or interests therein;
(l) Investments in Hedging Agreements entered into in the ordinary course of business and not for speculative purposes; and
(m) Investments not otherwise permitted by this Section in an aggregate amount not to exceed $250,000,000 at any one time outstanding; provided, that, no Event of Default exists immediately prior to and after giving effect thereto.
SECTION 6.09A. Share Repurchases. Prior to the earlier to occur of (x) a Collateral and Guarantee Trigger Event and (y) the Covenant Relief End Date, the Borrower will not, and will not permit any Subsidiary to, declare or make, directly or indirectly, any Share Repurchase, or incur any obligation (contingent or otherwise) to do so, other than Permitted Share Repurchases.
SECTION 6.09B. Restricted Payments. During the Collateral and Guarantee Period, the Borrower will not, and will not permit any Subsidiary to, declare or make, directly or indirectly, any Restricted Payment, except that:
(a) each Subsidiary may make Restricted Payments to the Borrower or any wholly owned Subsidiary (or, in the case of non-wholly owned Subsidiaries, to the Borrower or any Subsidiary that is a direct or indirect parent of such Subsidiary and to each other owner of Equity Interests of such Subsidiary on a pro rata basis (or more favorable basis from the perspective of the Borrower or such Subsidiary) based on their relative ownership interests);
(b) each Loan Party and each Subsidiary may declare and make dividend payments or other distributions payable solely in common Equity Interests of such Person;
(c) the Borrower may make other Restricted Payments in an aggregate amount not to exceed $50,000,000 during any fiscal year of the Borrower; provided, that, no Event of Default exists immediately prior to and after giving effect thereto;
(d) the Borrower may make quarterly dividends with respect to its Equity Interests at a rate of $0.15 per share per fiscal quarter of the Borrower;
(e) the Borrower may make any other Restricted Payment; provided, that, (i) no Event of Default exists immediately prior to and after giving effect thereto and (ii) after giving effect to any such Restricted Payment on a pro forma basis, the Leverage Ratio shall be less than or equal to 3.25 to 1.00;
(f) the Borrower may make repurchases of Equity Interests in the Borrower or any Subsidiary deemed to occur upon the exercise of stock options or warrants if such Equity Interests represent a portion of the exercise price of such options or warrants;
(g) the Borrower may make repurchases of its Equity Interests deemed to occur upon the payment by the Borrower of employee or director tax liabilities arising from stock issued pursuant to stock option, restricted stock or other equity-based incentive plans or other benefit plans approved by the Board of Directors for employees, management or directors of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries; and
(h) the Borrower may make cash payments in lieu of the issuance of fractional shares in connection with the exercise of warrants, options, or other securities convertible into or exchangeable for Equity Interests of the Borrower.
SECTION 6.10. Asset Sales. During the Collateral and Guarantee Period, the Borrower will not, and will not permit any Subsidiary to, make or consummate, directly or indirectly any Asset Sale except that:
(a) the Borrower and its Subsidiaries may make Permitted Asset Sales;
(b) the Borrower and its Subsidiaries may sell, transfer or otherwise dispose of (i) Receivables Assets or interests therein, to the extent required or permitted by any Permitted Securitization Documents, in a transaction permitted by Section 6.02(k) and (ii) Receivables Assets or interests therein, in a transaction permitted by Section 6.02(l); and
(c) the Borrower and its Subsidiaries may make any other Asset Sale; provided, that, (i) no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing or would result therefrom and (ii) the aggregate fair market value of all assets sold, transferred or otherwise disposed of by the Borrower and its Subsidiaries in reliance on this clause (c) shall not, in any fiscal year of the Borrower, exceed $100,000,000.
ARTICLE VII
EVENTS OF DEFAULT
If any of the following events (each, an “Event of Default”) shall occur:
(a) the Borrower or any other Loan Party shall fail to pay any principal of any Loan when and as the same shall become due and payable, whether at the due date thereof or at a date fixed for prepayment thereof or otherwise;
(b) the Borrower or any other Loan Party shall fail to pay any interest on any Loan or any fee or any other amount (other than an amount referred to in clause (a) of this Article) payable under this Agreement or any other Loan Document, when and as the same shall become due and payable, and such failure shall continue unremedied for a period of five Business Days;
(c) any representation or warranty made or deemed made by or on behalf of the Borrower or any other Loan Party in or in connection with this Agreement or any other Loan Document or any amendment or modification hereof or waiver hereunder, or in any report, certificate, financial statement or other document furnished pursuant to or in connection with this Agreement or any other Loan Document or any amendment or modification hereof or thereof or waiver hereunder or thereunder, shall prove to have been incorrect in any material respect (without duplication of any materiality qualifier contained therein) when made or deemed made;
(d) the Borrower shall fail to observe or perform any covenant, condition or agreement contained in Section 5.02, Section 5.03 (with respect to the Borrower’s existence) or Section 5.08 or in Article VI;
(e) the Borrower or any other Loan Party shall fail to observe or perform any covenant, condition or agreement contained in this Agreement (other than those specified in clause (a), (b) or (d) of this Article) or any other Loan Document, and such failure shall continue unremedied for a period of thirty (30) days after notice thereof from the Administrative Agent or any Lender to the Borrower;
(f) the Borrower or any Subsidiary shall default in the payment (whether of principal or interest and regardless of amount) of any Material Indebtedness when due and payable after giving effect to any applicable grace periods;
(g) any event or condition shall occur that results in any Material Indebtedness becoming due prior to its scheduled maturity or that enables or permits (with or without the giving of notice, the lapse of time or both) the holder or holders of any Material Indebtedness or any trustee or agent on its or their behalf to cause such Material Indebtedness to become due, or to require the prepayment, repurchase, redemption or defeasance thereof, prior to its scheduled maturity; provided, that, this clause (g) shall not apply to secured Indebtedness that becomes due as a result of the voluntary sale or transfer of the property or assets securing such Indebtedness;
(h) an involuntary proceeding shall be commenced or an involuntary petition shall be filed seeking (i) liquidation, reorganization or other relief in respect of the Borrower or any Material Subsidiary or its debts, or of a substantial part of its assets, under any Federal, state or foreign bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership or similar law now or hereafter in effect or (ii) the appointment of a receiver, trustee, custodian, sequestrator, conservator or similar official for the Borrower or any Material Subsidiary or for a substantial part of its assets, and, in any such case, such proceeding or petition shall continue undismissed for sixty (60) days or an order or decree approving or ordering any of the foregoing shall be entered;
(i) the Borrower or any Material Subsidiary shall (i) voluntarily commence any proceeding or file any petition seeking liquidation, reorganization or other relief under any Federal, state or foreign bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership or similar law now or hereafter in effect, (ii) consent to the institution of, or fail to contest in a timely and appropriate manner, any proceeding or petition described in clause (h) of this Article, (iii) apply for or consent to the appointment of a receiver, trustee, custodian, sequestrator, conservator or similar official for the Borrower or any Material Subsidiary or for a substantial part of its assets, (iv) file an answer admitting the material allegations of a petition filed against it in any such proceeding, (v) make a general assignment for the benefit of creditors or (vi) take any action for the purpose of effecting any of the foregoing;
(j) the Borrower or any Material Subsidiary shall become unable, admit in writing its inability, or fail generally, to pay its debts as they become due;
(k) one or more judgments for the payment of money in an aggregate amount in excess of $50,000,000 shall be rendered against the Borrower, any Subsidiary or any combination thereof and the same shall remain undischarged and not vacated or paid in full for a period of 45 consecutive days during which execution shall not be effectively stayed (which stay shall include the posting of a bond pending appeal that has the effect of staying execution of such judgment), or any action shall be legally taken by a judgment creditor to attach or levy upon assets of the Borrower or any Subsidiary to enforce any such judgment;
(l) an ERISA Event shall have occurred that, when taken together with all other ERISA Events that have occurred, could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect;
(m) a Change in Control shall occur; or
(n) during the Collateral and Guarantee Period, any Collateral Document after delivery thereof pursuant to the terms of the Loan Documents shall for any reason cease to create a valid and perfected Lien (prior to all Liens on such assets, except for Liens (i) permitted by this Agreement which may have priority over the Liens of the Collateral Agent on such assets by operation of law (including the priority rules under the UCC) or (ii) which are otherwise permitted pursuant to Section 6.01 of this Agreement) on the Collateral purported to be covered thereby (except (i) as a result of the release of a Loan Party or the sale, transfer or other disposition to a Person that is not a Loan Party of the applicable Collateral in a transaction not prohibited by the Loan Documents, or (ii) as a result of the Collateral Agent’s failure to (A) maintain possession of any stock certificates, promissory notes or other instruments delivered to it under the Collateral Documents, or (B) make any filing of UCC continuation statements), or any Loan Party shall assert the invalidity of such Liens;
then, and in every such event (other than an event with respect to the Borrower described in clause (h) or (i) of this Article), and at any time thereafter during the continuance of such event, the Administrative Agent may and, at the request of the Required Lenders, shall, by notice to the Borrower, take either or both of the following actions at the same or different times: (i) terminate the Commitments, and thereupon the Commitments shall terminate immediately, and (ii) declare the Loans then outstanding to be due and payable in whole (or in part, in which case any principal or other amount not so declared to be due and payable may thereafter be declared to be due and payable), and thereupon the principal of the Loans so declared to be due and payable, together with accrued interest thereon and all fees and other obligations of the Borrower accrued hereunder, shall become due and payable immediately, without presentment, demand, protest or other notice of any kind, all of which are hereby waived by the Borrower; and in case of any event with respect to the Borrower described in clause (h) or (i) of this Article, the Commitments shall automatically terminate and the principal of the Loans then outstanding, together with accrued interest thereon and all fees and other obligations of the Borrower accrued hereunder, shall automatically become due and payable, without presentment, demand, protest or other notice of any kind, all of which are hereby waived by the Borrower.
After the exercise of remedies provided for in this Article (or after the Loans have automatically become immediately due and payable as set forth in this Article), any amounts received on account of the Obligations shall be applied by the Administrative Agent in the following order: (A) first, to payment of that portion of the Obligations constituting fees, indemnities, expenses and other amounts (including fees, charges and disbursements of counsel to the Administrative Agent and amounts payable under Sections 2.14, 2.15, 2.16 and 2.18) payable to the Administrative Agent in its capacity as such; (B) second, to payment of that portion of the Obligations constituting fees, indemnities and other amounts (other than principal and interest) payable to the Lenders (including fees, charges and disbursements of counsel to the respective Lenders and amounts payable under Sections 2.14, 2.15, 2.16 and 2.18), ratably among them in proportion to the respective amounts described in this clause (B) payable to them; (C) third, to payment of that portion of the Obligations constituting interest on the Loans, ratably among the Lenders in proportion to the respective amounts described in this clause (C) held by them; (D) fourth, to payment of that portion of the Obligations constituting unpaid principal of the Loans, ratably among the Lenders in proportion to the respective amounts described in this clause (D) held by them; and (E) last, the balance, if any, after all of the Obligations owing have been indefeasibly paid in full, to the Borrower or as otherwise required by any law.
ARTICLE VIII
THE AGENTS
In order to expedite the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, Bank of America is hereby appointed to act as Administrative Agent on behalf of the Lenders. Each of the Lenders and each assignee of any Lender hereby irrevocably authorizes the Administrative Agent to take such actions on behalf of such Lender or assignee and to exercise such powers as are delegated to the Administrative Agent by the terms of the Loan Documents, together with such actions and powers as are reasonably incidental thereto. The Administrative Agent is hereby expressly authorized by the Lenders, without hereby limiting any implied authority, and by the Borrower with respect to clause (c) below, (a) to receive on behalf of the Lenders all payments of principal of and interest on the Loans and all other amounts due to the Lenders hereunder, and promptly to distribute to each Lender its proper share of each payment so received; (b) to give notice on behalf of each of the Lenders to the Borrower of any Default or Event of Default specified in this Agreement of which the Administrative Agent has actual knowledge acquired in connection with its agency hereunder; and (c) to distribute to each Lender copies of all notices, financial statements and other materials delivered by any Loan Party pursuant to this Agreement or the other Loan Documents as received by the Administrative Agent.
In order to expedite the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, effective automatically upon the occurrence of any Collateral and Guarantee Trigger Event, Bank of America is hereby appointed to act as Collateral Agent hereunder and under the other Loan Documents for purposes of acquiring, holding and enforcing any and all Liens on Collateral granted by any of the Loan Parties to secure any of the Obligations, any “Obligations” under and as defined in the Revolving Credit Agreement and any applicable Senior Notes Indenture Secured Obligations, together with such powers and discretion as are reasonably incidental thereto. In connection therewith, the Collateral Agent and any co-agents, sub-agents and attorneys-in-fact appointed by the Collateral Agent pursuant to this Article for purposes of holding or enforcing any Lien on the Collateral (or any portion thereof) granted under the Collateral Documents, or for exercising any rights and remedies thereunder at the direction of the Collateral Agent, shall be entitled to the benefits of all provisions of this Article and Article X (as though such co-agents, sub-agents and attorneys-in-fact were the Collateral Agent under the Loan Documents) as if set forth in full herein with respect thereto and all references to the Administrative Agent in this Article shall, where applicable, be read as including a reference to the Collateral Agent. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Lenders expressly authorize the Collateral Agent to execute any and all documents (including releases) with respect to the Collateral and the rights of the Lenders with respect thereto, as contemplated by and in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement and the Collateral Documents and acknowledge and agree that any such action by the Collateral Agent shall bind the Lenders. Each of the Lenders and each assignee of any Lender hereby irrevocably authorizes the Collateral Agent to take such actions on behalf of such Lender or assignee and to exercise such powers as are delegated to the Collateral Agent by the terms of the Loan Documents, together with such actions and powers as are reasonably incidental thereto.
With respect to the Loans made by it hereunder, the Person serving as the Administrative Agent and/or the Collateral Agent in its individual capacity and not as Administrative Agent and/or Collateral Agent shall have the same rights and powers as any other Lender and may exercise the same as though it were not the Administrative Agent and/or the Collateral Agent, and such Person and its Affiliates may accept deposits from, lend money to and generally engage in any kind of business with the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries or other Affiliates thereof as if it were not the Administrative Agent and/or the Collateral Agent.
The Agents shall not have any duties or obligations except those expressly set forth in the Loan Documents. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing: (a) the Agents shall not be subject to any fiduciary or other implied duties, regardless of whether a Default has occurred and is continuing; (b) the Agents shall not have any duty to take any discretionary action or exercise any discretionary powers, except discretionary rights and powers expressly contemplated by the Loan Documents that the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent, as the case may be, is required to exercise upon receipt of notice in writing by the Required Lenders (or such other number or percentage of the Lenders as shall be necessary under the circumstances as provided in Section 10.02); provided, that, no Agent shall be required to take any action that, in its reasonable opinion or the reasonable opinion of its counsel, may expose such Agent to liability or that is contrary to any Loan Document or applicable law, including for the avoidance of doubt any action that may be in violation of the automatic stay under any debtor relief law; and (c) except as expressly set forth in the Loan Documents, the Agents shall not have any duty to disclose, or be liable for the failure to disclose, any information relating to the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries that is communicated to or obtained by the institution serving as Administrative Agent or Collateral Agent or any of their respective Affiliates in any capacity. No Agent shall be liable for any action taken or not taken by it with the consent or at the request of the Required Lenders (or such other number or percentage of the Lenders as shall be necessary under the circumstances as provided in Section 10.02) or in the absence of its own gross negligence or willful misconduct. No Agent shall be deemed to have knowledge of any Default unless and until written notice thereof is given to it by the Borrower (in which case the applicable Agent shall give written notice to each Lender), and no Agent shall be responsible for or have any duty to ascertain or inquire into (i) any statement, warranty or representation made in or in connection with any Loan Document, (ii) the contents of any certificate, report or other document delivered hereunder or thereunder or in connection herewith or therewith, (iii) the performance or observance of any of the covenants, agreements or other terms or conditions set forth herein or therein, (iv) the validity, enforceability, effectiveness or genuineness of any Loan Document or any other agreement, instrument or document, or (v) the satisfaction of any condition set forth in Article IV or elsewhere in any Loan Document, other than to confirm receipt of items expressly required to be delivered to the Administrative Agent and/or the Collateral Agent, as the case may be.
Each Agent shall be entitled to rely upon, and shall not incur any liability for relying upon, any notice, request, certificate, consent, statement, instrument, document or other writing believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed or sent by the proper Person. Each Agent also may rely upon any statement made to it orally or by telephone and believed by it to be made by the proper Person, and shall not incur any liability for relying thereon. Each Agent may consult with legal counsel (who may be counsel for the Borrower), independent accountants and other experts selected by it, and shall not be liable for any action taken or not taken by it in accordance with the advice of any such counsel, accountants or experts.
Each Agent may perform any and all its duties and exercise its rights and powers by or through any one or more sub-agents appointed by such Agent. Each Agent and any such sub-agent may perform any and all its duties and exercise its rights and powers through their respective Related Parties. The exculpatory provisions of the preceding paragraphs shall apply to any such sub-agent and to the Related Parties of the Agents and any such sub-agent, and shall apply to their respective activities in connection with the syndication of the credit facilities provided for herein as well as activities as an Agent. Neither the Administrative Agent nor the Collateral Agent shall be responsible for the negligence or misconduct of any sub-agents except to the extent that a court of competent jurisdiction determines in a final and non-appealable judgment that such Agent acted with gross negligence or willful misconduct in the selection of such sub-agents.
Subject to the conditions set forth herein, any Agent may resign at any time by notifying the Lenders and the Borrower. Upon any such resignation, the Required Lenders shall have the right, with the consent of the Borrower (not to be unreasonably withheld and except during the continuance of an Event of Default
hereunder, when no consent shall be required), to appoint a successor. If no successor to a retiring Agent shall have been so appointed by the Required Lenders and shall have accepted such appointment within thirty (30) days after the retiring Agent gives notice of its resignation (for purposes of this paragraph, the “Resignation Effective Date”), then the retiring Agent may, on behalf of the Lenders, appoint a successor Agent which shall be a bank with an office in New York, New York, or an Affiliate of any such bank; provided, that, whether or not a successor shall have been appointed, the Agent’s resignation shall become effective in accordance with such notice on the Resignation Effective Date. Upon the acceptance of its appointment as Administrative Agent or Collateral Agent hereunder by a successor and, during the Collateral and Guarantee Period with respect to the Collateral Agent, upon the execution and filing or recording of such financing statements, or amendments thereto, and such other instruments or notices, as may be necessary or desirable in order to continue the perfection of the Liens granted or purported to be granted by the Collateral Documents, the Administrative Agent or Collateral Agent, as applicable, shall thereupon succeed to and become vested with all the rights, powers, discretion, privileges, and duties of the retiring Administrative Agent or Collateral Agent and such retiring Agent shall be discharged from its duties and obligations hereunder. After any Agent’s resignation hereunder, the provisions of this Article and Section 10.03 shall continue in effect for the benefit of such retiring Agent, its sub-agents and their respective Related Parties in respect of any actions taken or omitted to be taken by any of them while it was acting as an Agent.
Each Lender agrees (a) to reimburse each Agent, on demand, in the amount of its pro rata share (based on the amount of its Loans and available Commitments hereunder) of any expenses incurred for the benefit of the Lenders by such Agent, including counsel fees and compensation of agents and employees paid for services rendered on behalf of the Lenders, that shall not have been reimbursed by the Borrower and (b) to indemnify and hold harmless the Agents and their respective Related Parties, on demand, in the amount of such pro rata share, from and against any and all liabilities, Taxes, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments, suits, costs, expenses or disbursements of any kind or nature whatsoever that may be imposed on, incurred by or asserted against it in its capacity as an Agent or any of them in any way relating to or arising out of this Agreement or any other Loan Document or action taken or omitted by it or any of them under this Agreement or any other Loan Document, to the extent the same shall not have been reimbursed by the Borrower; provided, that, no Lender shall be liable to any Agent or any such other indemnified Person for any portion of such liabilities, Taxes, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments, suits, costs, expenses or disbursements that are determined to have resulted from the gross negligence or willful misconduct of such Agent, any of its Related Parties or any of their respective directors, officers, employees or agents.
Each Lender acknowledges that it has, independently and without reliance upon any Agent, the Arrangers or any other Lender and based on such documents and information as it has deemed appropriate, made its own credit analysis and decision to enter into this Agreement. Each Lender also acknowledges that it will, independently and without reliance upon any Agent, the Arrangers or any other Lender and based on such documents and information as it shall from time to time deem appropriate, continue to make its own decisions in taking or not taking action under or based upon this Agreement, any other Loan Document or related agreement or any document furnished hereunder or thereunder. Each Lender represents and warrants that (i) the Loan Documents set forth the terms of a commercial lending facility and (ii) it is engaged in making, acquiring or holding commercial loans in the ordinary course and is entering into this Agreement as a Lender for the purpose of making, acquiring or holding commercial loans and providing other facilities set forth herein as may be applicable to such Lender, and not for the purpose of purchasing, acquiring or holding any other type of financial instrument, and each Lender agrees not to assert a claim in contravention of the foregoing. Each Lender represents and warrants that it is sophisticated with respect to decisions to make, acquire and/or hold commercial loans and to provide other facilities set forth herein, as may be applicable to such Lender, and either it, or the Person exercising discretion in making its
decision to make, acquire and/or hold such commercial loans or to provide such other facilities, is experienced in making, acquiring or holding such commercial loans or providing such other facilities.
None of the Lenders identified on the facing page or signature pages of this Agreement or elsewhere herein as a “lead arranger”, “bookrunner” or “syndication agent” shall have any right, power, obligation, liability, responsibility or duty under this Agreement other than those applicable to all Lenders as such.
In case of the pendency of any receivership, insolvency, liquidation, bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, adjustment, composition or other judicial proceeding relative to any Loan Party, the Administrative Agent (irrespective of whether the principal of any Loan shall then be due and payable as herein expressed or by declaration or otherwise and irrespective of whether the Administrative Agent shall have made any demand on the Borrower) shall be entitled and empowered, by intervention in such proceeding or otherwise: (a) to file and prove a claim for the whole amount of the principal and interest owing and unpaid by the Loan Parties in respect of the Loans and all other Obligations that are owing and unpaid and to file such other documents as may be necessary or advisable in order to have the claims of the Lenders and the Administrative Agent (including any claim for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Lenders and the Administrative Agent and its agents and counsel and all other amounts due the Lenders and the Administrative Agent) against the Loan Parties allowed in such judicial proceeding; and (b) to collect and receive any monies or other property payable or deliverable on any such claims and to distribute the same; and any custodian, receiver, assignee, trustee, liquidator, sequestrator or other similar official in any such judicial proceeding is hereby authorized by each Lender to make such payments to the Administrative Agent and, in the event that the Administrative Agent shall consent to the making of such payments directly to the Lenders, to pay to the Administrative Agent any amount due for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Administrative Agent and its agents and counsel, and any other amounts due the Administrative Agent hereunder. Nothing contained herein shall be deemed to authorize the Administrative Agent to authorize or consent to or accept or adopt on behalf of any Lender any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition affecting the Obligations or the rights of any Lender or to authorize the Administrative Agent to vote in respect of the claim of any Lender in any such proceeding.
During the Collateral and Guarantee Period, each of the Lenders (including in its capacities as a potential Cash Management Bank and a potential Hedge Bank) irrevocably authorizes and directs the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent, at their respective options and in their respective discretion:
(a) to release any Lien on any property granted to or held by the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent under any Loan Document (i) upon the expiration or termination of the Commitments and the repayment in full of the principal of and interest on each Loan and all fees and other amounts payable hereunder, (ii) that is sold or otherwise disposed of or to be sold or otherwise disposed of as part of or in connection with any sale or other disposition not prohibited hereunder or under any other Loan Document, (iii) to the extent such property becomes Excluded Property, or (iv) if approved, authorized or ratified in writing by the Required Lenders in accordance with Section 10.02;
(b) to subordinate any Lien on any property granted to or held by the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent under any Loan Document to the holder of any Lien on such property that is permitted by Section 6.01(d);
(c) to enter into the Pari Passu Intercreditor Agreement;
(d) to amend the Security and Pledge Agreement to include as secured obligations thereunder any obligations under any Senior Notes Indenture that pursuant to such Senior Notes Indenture have been required to become Senior Notes Indenture Secured Obligations; and
(e) to release any Guarantor from its obligations under the Guarantee Agreement and to release all Liens on its property granted to or held by the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent under any Loan Document if such Person ceases to be a Subsidiary (or otherwise becomes an Excluded Subsidiary) as a result of a transaction not prohibited under the Loan Documents; provided, that, no such release shall occur if such Guarantor continues to be a guarantor or a borrower in respect of any obligations under any Senior Notes Indenture or any “Obligations” under and as defined in the Revolving Credit Agreement.
Upon request of the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent at any time, the Required Lenders will confirm in writing the Administrative Agent’s or the Collateral Agent’s, as the case may be, authority to release or subordinate its interest in particular types or items of property, or to release any Guarantor from its obligations under the Guarantee Agreement pursuant to the immediately preceding paragraph. In each case as specified in the immediately preceding paragraph, the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent, as the case may be, will, at the Borrower’s expense, execute and deliver to the applicable Loan Party such documents as such Loan Party may reasonably request to evidence the release of such item of Collateral from the assignment and security interest granted under the Collateral Documents or to subordinate its interest in such item, or to release such Guarantor from its obligations under the Guarantee Agreement, in each case in accordance with the terms of the Loan Documents and the immediately preceding paragraph.
Neither the Administrative Agent nor the Collateral Agent shall be responsible for or have a duty to ascertain or inquire into any representation or warranty regarding the existence, value or collectability of the Collateral, the existence, priority or perfection of the Collateral Agent’s Lien thereon, or any certificate prepared by any Loan Party in connection therewith, nor shall any Agent be responsible or liable to the Lenders for any failure to monitor or maintain any portion of the Collateral.
Each Lender (a) represents and warrants, as of the date such Person became a Lender party hereto, and (b) covenants, from the date such Person became a Lender party hereto to the date such Person ceases being a Lender party hereto, for the benefit of, the Administrative Agent and not, for the avoidance of doubt, to or for the benefit of the Borrower, that at least one of the following is and will be true: (i) such Lender is not using “plan assets” (within the meaning of Section 3(42) of ERISA or otherwise) of one or more Benefit Plans with respect to such Lender’s entrance into, participation in, administration of and performance of the Loans, the Commitments or this Agreement, (ii) the transaction exemption set forth in one or more PTEs, such as PTE 84-14 (a class exemption for certain transactions determined by independent qualified professional asset managers), PTE 95-60 (a class exemption for certain transactions involving insurance company general accounts), PTE 90-1 (a class exemption for certain transactions involving insurance company pooled separate accounts), PTE 91-38 (a class exemption for certain transactions involving bank collective investment funds) or PTE 96-23 (a class exemption for certain transactions determined by in-house asset managers), is applicable with respect to such Lender’s entrance into, participation in, administration of and performance of the Loans, the Commitments and this Agreement, (iii)(A) such Lender is an investment fund managed by a “Qualified Professional Asset Manager” (within the meaning of Part VI of PTE 84-14), (B) such Qualified Professional Asset Manager made the investment decision on behalf of such Lender to enter into, participate in, administer and perform the Loans, the Commitments and this Agreement, (C) the entrance into, participation in, administration of and performance of the Loans, the Commitments and this Agreement satisfies the requirements of sub-sections (b) through (g) of Part I of PTE 84-14 and (D) to the best knowledge of such Lender, the requirements of subsection (a) of Part I of PTE 84-14 are satisfied with respect to such Lender’s entrance into, participation in, administration of and
performance of the Loans, the Commitments and this Agreement, or (iv) such other representation, warranty and covenant as may be agreed in writing between the Administrative Agent, in its sole discretion, and such Lender. In addition, unless either (1) clause (i) in the immediately preceding sentence is true with respect to a Lender or such Lender has provided another representation, warranty and covenant in accordance with clause (iv) in the immediately preceding sentence, such Lender further (x) represents and warrants, as of the date such Person became a Lender party hereto, to, and (y) covenants, from the date such Person became a Lender party hereto to the date such Person ceases being a Lender party hereto, for the benefit of, the Administrative Agent and not, for the avoidance of doubt, to or for the benefit of the Borrower, that the Administrative Agent is not a fiduciary with respect to the assets of such Lender involved in such Lender���s entrance into, participation in, administration of and performance of the Loans, the Commitments and this Agreement (including in connection with the reservation or exercise of any rights by the Administrative Agent under this Agreement, any Loan Document or any documents related hereto or thereto).
Except as otherwise expressly set forth herein, no Cash Management Bank or Hedge Bank that obtains the benefit of the provisions of the Guarantee Agreement or any Collateral by virtue of the provisions of any Loan Document shall have any right to notice of any action or to consent to, direct or object to any action under any Loan Document or otherwise in respect of the Collateral (including the release or impairment of any Collateral) (or to notice of or to consent to any amendment, waiver or modification of the provisions any Loan Document) other than in its capacity as a Lender and, in such case, only to the extent expressly provided in the Loan Documents. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Article VIII to the contrary, no Agent shall be required to verify the payment of, or that other satisfactory arrangements have been made with respect to, Obligations arising under Secured Cash Management Agreements and Secured Hedge Agreements, unless such Agent has received a Secured Party Designation Notice with respect to such Obligations, together with such supporting documentation as such Agent may request, from the applicable Cash Management Bank or the applicable Hedge Bank, as the case may be; provided, that, notwithstanding the foregoing, no Agent shall be required to verify the payment of, or that other satisfactory arrangements have been made with respect to, Obligations arising under Secured Cash Management Agreements and Secured Hedge Agreements in the case of the repayment in full of the principal and interest on the Loans and all fees and other amounts payable hereunder.
ARTICLE IX
[RESERVED]
ARTICLE X
MISCELLANEOUS
SECTION 10.01. Notices.
(a) Except in the case of notices and other communications expressly permitted to be given by telephone (and subject to paragraph (b) below), all notices and other communications provided for herein shall be in writing and shall be delivered by hand or overnight courier service, mailed by certified or registered mail or sent by telecopy, as follows:
(i) if to the Borrower, to it at 1950 Hassell Road, Hoffman Estates, IL 60169, Attention of General Counsel (Fax No. 847-839-2604), with a copy to Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, 1285 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10019-6064, Attention of Monica K. Thurmond (Fax No. 212-492-0055);
(ii) if to any Agent, as follows: (A) if such notice relates to financial/loan activity (including billing, payments and interest rate elections) to Bank of America, Building C, TX2-984-03-23, 2380 Performance Drive, Richardson, TX 75082, Attention: Arlene Minor (Telephone: 469-201-8837; Facsimile: 214-290-9412; Email: Arlene.l.minor@baml.com), and (B) if such notice relates to any other notices (including financial statements, compliance certificates, amendments, consents, voting, etc.), to Bank of America, 900 W. Trade St., 6th Floor, NC1-026-06-03, Charlotte, NC 28255, Attention: Melissa Mullis (Telephone: 980-386-9372; Facsimile: 704-409-0617; Email: melissa.mullis@baml.com); and
(iii) if to any other Lender, to it at its address (or fax number) set forth in its Administrative Questionnaire.
(b) Notices and other communications to the Lenders hereunder may be delivered or furnished by electronic communications pursuant to procedures approved by the Administrative Agent; provided, that, the foregoing shall not apply to notices under Article II to any Lender if such Lender has notified the Administrative Agent that it is incapable of receiving notices under such Article by electronic communication. The Administrative Agent or the Borrower may, in its discretion, agree to accept notices and other communications to it hereunder by electronic communications pursuant to procedures approved by it; provided, that, approval of such procedures and may be limited to particular notices or communications.
(c) Any party hereto may change its address or fax number for notices and other communications hereunder by notice to the other parties hereto, or in the case of a Lender, to the Administrative Agent and the Borrower. All notices and other communications given to any party hereto in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement shall be deemed to have been given on the date of receipt.
(d) THE PLATFORM IS PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE.” THE AGENT PARTIES (AS DEFINED BELOW) DO NOT WARRANT THE ACCURACY OR COMPLETENESS OF THE BORROWER MATERIALS OR THE ADEQUACY OF THE PLATFORM, AND EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM LIABILITY FOR ERRORS IN OR OMISSIONS FROM THE BORROWER MATERIALS. NO WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING ANY WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT OF THIRD PARTY RIGHTS OR FREEDOM FROM VIRUSES OR OTHER CODE DEFECTS, IS MADE BY ANY AGENT PARTY IN CONNECTION WITH THE BORROWER MATERIALS OR THE PLATFORM. In no event shall the Administrative Agent or any of its Related Parties (collectively, the “Agent Parties”) have any liability to the Borrower, any Lender or any other Person for losses, claims, damages, liabilities or expenses of any kind (whether in tort, contract or otherwise) arising out of the Borrower’s or the Administrative Agent’s transmission of Borrower Materials or notices through the Platform, any other electronic platform or electronic messaging service, or through the Internet; provided, that, the foregoing shall not apply to the extent such losses, claims, damages, liabilities or expenses result from the gross negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct of the Administrative Agent or any of its Related Parties.
SECTION 10.02. Waivers; Amendments.
(a) No failure or delay by the Administrative Agent or any Lender in exercising any right or power hereunder or under any other Loan Document shall operate as a waiver thereof, nor shall any single or partial exercise of any such right or power, or any abandonment or
discontinuance of steps to enforce such a right or power, preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right or power. The rights and remedies of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders hereunder and under the other Loan Documents are cumulative and are not exclusive of any rights or remedies that they would otherwise have. No waiver of any provision of any Loan Document or consent to any departure by the Borrower therefrom shall in any event be effective unless the same shall be permitted by paragraph (b) of this Section, and then such waiver or consent shall be effective only in the specific instance and for the specific purpose for which given. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the execution and delivery of this Agreement or the making of a Loan shall not be construed as a waiver of any Default, regardless of whether the Administrative Agent or any Lender may have had notice or knowledge of such Default at the time.
(b) None of this Agreement, any other Loan Document or any provision hereof or thereof may be waived, amended or modified except, in the case of this Agreement, pursuant to an agreement or agreements in writing entered into by the Borrower and the Required Lenders and acknowledged by the Administrative Agent or by the Borrower and the Administrative Agent with the consent of the Required Lenders or, in the case of any other Loan Document, pursuant to an agreement or agreements in writing entered into by the parties thereto, in each case with the consent of the Required Lenders; provided, that, no such agreement shall (i) increase any Commitment of any Lender without the written consent of such Lender, (ii) reduce the principal amount of any Loan or reduce the rate of interest thereon (other than as a result of any waiver of any increase in the interest rate applicable to any Loan pursuant to Section 2.12(d)), or reduce any fees payable hereunder, without the written consent of each Lender adversely affected thereby, (iii) postpone the date of any scheduled payment of the principal amount of any Loan, or any interest thereon, or any fees payable hereunder, or reduce the amount of, waive or excuse any such payment, or postpone the scheduled date of expiration of any Commitment, in each case, without the written consent of each Lender affected thereby, (iv) change Section 2.17(b), Section 2.17(c) or the last paragraph of Article VII in a manner that would alter the pro rata sharing of payments required thereby, without the written consent of each Lender, (v) change any of the provisions of this Section or the percentage set forth in the definition of the term “Required Lenders” or any other provision of this Agreement specifying the number or percentage of Lenders required to waive, amend or modify any rights thereunder or make any determination or grant any consent thereunder, without the written consent of each Lender, (vi) subordinate the Obligations of the Borrower to any other Indebtedness without the consent of each affected Lender, or (vii)(A) make any change so as to alter the manner of application of proceeds of any mandatory prepayment required by this Agreement and owing to the 3-Year Term Loan Lenders, without the consent of the Required 3-Year Term Loan Lenders, (B) change any of the provisions of clause (vii)(A) above or this clause (vii)(B) or the percentage set forth in the definition of the term “Required 3-Year Term Loan Lenders” without the written consent of each 3-Year Term Loan Lender, (C) make any change so as to alter the manner of application of proceeds of any mandatory prepayment required by this Agreement and owing to the 5-Year Term Loan Lenders, without the consent of the Required 5-Year Term Loan Lenders, or (D) change any of the provisions of clause (vii)(C) above or this clause (vii)(D) or the percentage set forth in the definition of the term “Required 5-Year Term Loan Lenders” without the written consent of each 5-Year Term Loan Lender; provided, further, that, no such agreement shall amend, modify or otherwise affect the rights or duties of the Administrative Agent hereunder or under any other Loan Document without the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent. Notwithstanding anything else in this Section to the contrary, (x) any amendment of the definition of the term “Applicable Rate” pursuant to the last sentence of such definition shall require only the written consent of the Borrower and the Required Lenders, (y) no consent with respect to any waiver, amendment or modification of this Agreement or any other Loan Document shall be required of any Lender that receives payment in full of the principal of
and interest accrued on each Loan made by, and all other amounts owing to, such Lender or accrued for the account of such Lender under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents at the time such amendment, waiver or other modification becomes effective and whose Commitments terminate by the terms and upon the effectiveness of such waiver, amendment or other modification, and (z) any provision of this Agreement or any other Loan Document may be amended by an agreement in writing entered into by the Borrower and the Administrative Agent to cure any ambiguity, omission, defect or inconsistency so long as, in each case, the Lenders shall have received at least three Business Days prior written notice thereof and the Administrative Agent shall not have received, within three Business Days of the date of such notice to the Lenders, a written notice from the Required Lenders, stating that the Required Lenders object to such amendment.
SECTION 10.03. Expenses; Indemnity; Damage Waiver.
(a) The Borrower shall pay (i) all reasonable and documented out-of-pocket expenses incurred by the Agents, the Arrangers and their respective Affiliates, including the reasonable and documented fees, charges and disbursements of one counsel for the Agents and the Arrangers, taken as a whole, in connection with the arrangement and syndication of the credit facilities provided for herein, the preparation and administration of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents and any amendments, modifications or waivers of the provisions hereof or thereof (whether or not the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby shall be consummated) and (ii) all reasonable and documented out-of-pocket expenses incurred by any Agent or any Lender, including the reasonable and documented fees, charges and disbursements of any counsel for any Agent or any Lender, incurred during any workout, restructuring or negotiations in respect of the Loans or in connection with the enforcement or protection of its rights under any Loan Document, including its rights under this Section or in connection with the Loans made hereunder.
(b) The Borrower shall indemnify each Agent, each Arranger, each Syndication Agent, each Lender and each Related Party of any of the foregoing Persons (each of the foregoing being called an “Indemnitee”), against, and hold each Indemnitee harmless from, any and all losses, liabilities and out-of-pocket costs or expenses, including the reasonable fees, charges and disbursements of any counsel for any Indemnitee, incurred by or asserted against any Indemnitee (whether by a third party or by the Borrower or any of its Affiliates, and whether based on contract, tort or any other theory) arising out of, in connection with, or as a result of (i) the arrangement and syndication of the credit facilities provided for herein, (ii) the consummation of the Transactions or any other transactions contemplated hereby, (iii) any Loan or the use of the proceeds therefrom, (iv) the execution, delivery or performance by the Borrower and the Subsidiaries of the Loan Documents, or any actions or omissions of the Borrower or any of the Subsidiaries in connection therewith or (v) any actual or prospective claim, litigation, investigation or proceeding relating to any of the foregoing, IN ALL CASES, WHETHER OR NOT CAUSED BY OR ARISING, IN WHOLE OR IN PART, OUT OF THE COMPARATIVE, CONTRIBUTORY OR SOLE NEGLIGENCE OF THE INDEMNITEE; provided, that, such indemnity shall not, as to any Indemnitee, be available to the extent that such losses, liabilities, costs or expenses shall have (A) been found by a final, non-appealable judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction to have resulted from the gross negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct of such Indemnitee, (B) resulted from a claim brought by the Borrower against an Indemnitee or any of its Related Parties for a material breach in bad faith of such Indemnitee’s obligations hereunder or under any other Loan Document, if the Borrower has obtained a final and nonappealable judgment in its favor on such claim as determined by a court of competent jurisdiction to the effect that such a material breach in bad faith has occurred or (C) arisen from any claim, action, suit, inquiry, litigation, investigation or proceeding that does not involve an act or omission of the Borrower or any of its Affiliates and is
brought by an Indemnitee against another Indemnitee (other than any claim, action, suit, inquiry, litigation, investigation or proceeding against an Agent or an Arranger in its capacity as such).
(c) To the extent that the Borrower fails to pay any amount required to be paid by it under paragraph (a) or (b) of this Section, or any Loan Party fails to pay any amount required to be paid by such Loan Party under Section 5.03(a) or Section 5.03(b) of the Guarantee Agreement, each Lender severally agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent such Lender’s pro rata share (determined as of the time that the applicable unreimbursed expense or indemnity payment is sought) of such unpaid amount; provided, that, the unreimbursed loss, liability, cost or expense, as the case may be, was incurred by or asserted against an Agent or against any Related Party acting for such Agent (or any sub-agent) in connection with such capacity. For purposes hereof, a Lender’s “pro rata share” shall be determined based upon its share of the sum of the aggregate outstanding Loans and unused Commitments at the time (or most recently) in effect.
(d) To the extent permitted by applicable law, the Borrower shall not assert, and the Borrower hereby waives, any claim against any Indemnitee, on any theory of liability, for special, indirect, consequential or punitive damages (as opposed to direct or actual damages) arising out of, in connection with or as a result of this Agreement or any agreement or instrument contemplated hereby, the Transactions, any Loan or the use of the proceeds thereof. No Indemnitee referred to in paragraph (b) above shall be liable for any damages arising from the use by unintended recipients of any information or other materials distributed by it through telecommunications, electronic or other information transmission systems in connection with this Agreement or the other Loan Documents or the Transactions contemplated hereby or thereby, other than for damages resulting from the gross negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct of such Indemnitee as determined by a final nonappealable judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction.
(e) All amounts due under this Section shall be payable within fifteen (15) Business Days after receipt by the Borrower of a reasonably detailed invoice therefor.
SECTION 10.04. Successors and Assigns.
(a) The provisions of this Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective successors and assigns permitted hereby, except that (i) the Borrower may not assign or otherwise transfer any of its rights or obligations hereunder or under any other Loan Document without the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent and each Lender (and any attempted assignment or transfer without such consent shall be null and void) and (ii) no Lender may assign or otherwise transfer its rights or obligations hereunder except in accordance with this Section. Nothing in this Agreement, expressed or implied, shall be construed to confer upon any Person (other than the parties hereto, their respective successors and assigns permitted hereby, Participants (to the extent provided in this Section), the Arrangers, the Syndication Agents and, to the extent expressly contemplated hereby, the sub-agents of the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent and the Related Parties of each of the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent and the Lenders) any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under or by reason of this Agreement.
(b) Subject to the conditions set forth in paragraph (c) below, any Lender may assign to one or more assignees all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including all or a portion of its Commitments and the Loans at the time owing to it) to an Eligible Assignee with the prior written consent (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld, delayed or conditioned) of:
(i) the Borrower; provided, that, no consent of the Borrower shall be required for an assignment to a Lender, an Affiliate of a Lender or a Related Fund, or, if an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, to any other assignee; provided, further, that, the Borrower shall be deemed to have consented to any such assignment unless it shall object thereto by written notice to the Administrative Agent within ten (10) Business Days after having received notice thereof; and
(ii) the Administrative Agent; provided, that, no consent of the Administrative Agent shall be required for an assignment of any Loan to a Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender.
(c) Assignments shall be subject to the following additional conditions:
(i) except in the case of an assignment to a Lender, an Affiliate of a Lender or a Related Fund or an assignment of the entire remaining amount of the assigning Lender’s Commitments and/or Loans, the amount of the Commitments and/or Loans of the assigning Lender subject to each such assignment (determined as of the date the Assignment and Assumption with respect to such assignment is delivered to the Administrative Agent) shall not be less than $5,000,000 unless each of the Borrower and the Administrative Agent otherwise consents; provided, that, no such consent of the Borrower shall be required if an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing;
(ii) each partial assignment shall be made as an assignment of a proportionate part of all the assigning Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement;
(iii) unless waived by the Administrative Agent in its sole discretion, the parties to each assignment shall execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent an Assignment and Assumption, together with a processing and recordation fee of $3,500; and
(iv) the assignee, if it shall not be a Lender, shall deliver to the Administrative Agent an Administrative Questionnaire.
(d) Subject to acceptance and recording thereof pursuant to paragraph (e) of this Section, from and after the effective date specified in each Assignment and Assumption the assignee thereunder shall be a party hereto and, to the extent of the interest assigned by such Assignment and Assumption, have the rights and obligations of a Lender under this Agreement, and the assigning Lender thereunder shall, to the extent of the interest assigned by such Assignment and Assumption, and except as provided by Section 2.16(g), be released from its obligations under this Agreement (and, in the case of an Assignment and Assumption covering all of the assigning Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement, such Lender shall cease to be a party hereto but shall continue to be entitled to the benefits of Sections 2.14, 2.15, 2.16 and 10.03). Any assignment or transfer by a Lender of rights or obligations under this Agreement that does not comply with this Section shall be treated for purposes of this Agreement as a sale by such Lender of a participation in such rights and obligations in accordance with paragraph (g) of this Section. In connection with any assignment by a Lender to an Affiliate of such Lender, unless such Lender is legally required to make such assignment, the Borrower shall not be responsible under Section 2.14 or Section 2.16 for any increased costs in effect at the time of and resulting from such assignment, but shall be responsible for any such increased costs that would have been incurred by the assigning Lender absent such assignment.
(e) The Administrative Agent, acting for this purpose as a non-fiduciary agent of the Borrower, shall maintain at one of its offices a copy of each Assignment and Assumption delivered to it and a register for the recordation of the names and addresses of the Lenders, and the Commitments of, and principal amount of the Loans owing to, each Lender pursuant to the terms hereof from time to time (the “Register”). The entries in the Register shall be conclusive, and the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and the Lenders may treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Register pursuant to the terms hereof as a Lender hereunder for all purposes of this Agreement, notwithstanding notice to the contrary. The Register shall be available for inspection by the Borrower and any Lender, at any reasonable time and from time to time upon reasonable prior notice.
(f) Upon its receipt of a duly completed Assignment and Assumption executed by an assigning Lender and an assignee, the assignee’s completed Administrative Questionnaire (unless the assignee shall already be a Lender hereunder), the processing and recordation fee referred to in paragraph (c) of this Section (unless otherwise waived by the Administrative Agent) and any consent to such assignment required by paragraph (b) or (c) of this Section, the Administrative Agent shall record the information contained in such Assignment and Assumption in the Register. No assignment shall be effective for purposes of this Agreement unless it has been recorded in the Register as provided in this paragraph.
(g) Any Lender may, without the consent of, or notice to, the Borrower or the Administrative Agent, sell participations to one or more banks or other entities (other than (x) any individual (or a holding company, investment vehicle or trust for, or owned and operated for the primary benefit, of any individual), or (y) the Borrower or any Affiliate of the Borrower) (each a “Participant”) in all or a portion of such Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement (including all or a portion of its Commitments and the Loans owing to it); provided, that, (i) such Lender’s obligations under this Agreement shall remain unchanged, (ii) such Lender shall remain solely responsible to the other parties hereto for the performance of such obligations and (iii) the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and the other Lenders shall continue to deal solely and directly with such Lender in connection with such Lender’s rights and obligations under the Loan Documents. Any agreement or instrument pursuant to which a Lender sells such a participation shall provide that such Lender shall retain the sole right to enforce the Loan Documents and to approve any amendment, modification or waiver of any provision of the Loan Documents; provided, that, such agreement or instrument may provide that such Lender will not, without the consent of the Participant, agree to any amendment, modification or waiver described in clauses (i), (ii) or (iii) of the first proviso to Section 10.02(b) that affects such Participant. Subject to paragraph (h) of this Section, the Borrower agrees that each Participant shall be entitled to the benefits of Sections 2.14, 2.15, and 2.16 to the same extent as if it were a Lender and had acquired its interest by assignment pursuant to paragraph (b) of this Section. To the extent permitted by law, each Participant also shall be entitled to the benefits of Section 10.08 as though it were a Lender; provided, that, such Participant agrees to be subject to Section 2.17(b) as though it were a Lender. Each Lender that sells a participation shall, acting solely for this purpose as a non-fiduciary agent of the Borrower, maintain a register on which it enters the name and address of each Participant and the principal amounts (and stated interest) of each Participant’s interest in the Loans or other obligations under this Agreement or any other Loan Document (the “Participant Register”); provided, that, no Lender shall have any obligation to disclose all or any portion of the Participant Register (including the identity of any Participant or any information relating to a Participant’s interest in any Commitments, Loans or its other obligations under any Loan Document) to any Person other than a Governmental Authority except to the extent that such disclosure is necessary to establish that such Commitment, Loan or other obligation is in registered form under Section 5f.103-1(c) of the United States Treasury Regulations. The entries in the Participant Register shall
be conclusive absent manifest error, and such Lender shall treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Participant Register as the owner of such participation for all purposes of this Agreement notwithstanding any notice to the contrary. For the avoidance of doubt, the Administrative Agent (in its capacity as Administrative Agent) shall have no responsibility for maintaining a Participant Register.
(h) A Participant shall not be entitled to receive any greater payment under Section 2.14 or Section 2.16 than the applicable Lender would have been entitled to receive with respect to the participation sold to such Participant, unless the sale of the participation to such Participant is made with the Borrower’s prior written consent. A Participant that would be a Foreign Lender if it were a Lender shall not be entitled to the benefits of Section 2.16 unless such Participant agrees, for the benefit of the Borrower, to comply with Section 2.16(f) as though it were a Lender.
(i) Any Lender may at any time pledge or assign a security interest in all or any portion of its rights under this Agreement to secure obligations of such Lender, including any pledge or assignment to secure obligations to a Federal Reserve Bank or any foreign central bank, and this Section shall not apply to any such pledge or assignment of a security interest; provided, that, no such pledge or assignment of a security interest shall release a Lender from any of its obligations hereunder or substitute any such pledgee or assignee for such Lender as a party hereto.
SECTION 10.05. Survival. All covenants, agreements, representations and warranties made by the Borrower or any other Loan Party herein, in the other Loan Documents and in the certificates or other instruments delivered in connection with or pursuant to this Agreement or any other Loan Document shall be considered to have been relied upon by the other parties hereto or thereto and shall survive the execution and delivery of the Loan Documents and the making of any Loans, regardless of any investigation made by any such other party or on its behalf and notwithstanding that any Agent, any Arranger, any Syndication Agent or any Lender may have had notice or knowledge of any Default or incorrect representation or warranty at the time any credit is extended hereunder, and shall continue in full force and effect as long as the principal of or any accrued interest on any Loan or any fee or any other amount payable under this Agreement is outstanding and unpaid and so long as the Commitments have not expired or terminated. The provisions of Sections 2.14, 2.15, 2.16, 10.03, clause (b) of Section 10.18 and Article VIII shall survive and remain in full force and effect regardless of the consummation of the Transactions or the other transactions contemplated hereby, the repayment of the Loans, the expiration or termination of the Commitments or the termination of this Agreement or any other Loan Document or any provision hereof or thereof.
SECTION 10.06. Counterparts; Integration; Effectiveness. This Agreement may be executed in counterparts (and by different parties hereto on different counterparts), each of which shall constitute an original, but all of which when taken together shall constitute a single contract. This Agreement and the other Loan Documents, any separate letter agreements with respect to fees payable to the Administrative Agent, the Lenders or the Arrangers, and any provisions in any engagement or commitment letter executed and delivered by the Borrower in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby that by the express terms of such engagement or commitment letter survive the execution or effectiveness of this Agreement, constitute the entire contract among the parties relating to the subject matter hereof and supersede any and all previous agreements and understandings, oral or written, relating to the subject matter hereof. Except as provided in Section 4.01, this Agreement shall become effective when it shall have been executed by the Administrative Agent and when the Administrative Agent shall have received counterparts hereof which, when taken together, bear the signatures of each of the other parties hereto, and thereafter shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective successors and assigns. Delivery of an executed counterpart of a signature page of this Agreement by fax or other electronic image scan transmission shall be effective as delivery of a manually executed counterpart of this Agreement.
SECTION 10.07. Severability. Any provision of this Agreement held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any jurisdiction shall, as to such jurisdiction, be ineffective to the extent of such invalidity, illegality or unenforceability without affecting the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions hereof; and the invalidity of a particular provision in a particular jurisdiction shall not invalidate such provision in any other jurisdiction.
SECTION 10.08. Right of Setoff. If an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, each Lender and each of its Affiliates is hereby authorized at any time and from time to time, to the fullest extent permitted by law, to set off and apply any and all deposits (general or special, time or demand, provisional or final and in whatever currency denominated) at any time held and other obligations at any time owing by such Lender or Affiliate to or for the credit or the account of the Borrower against any of and all the obligations of the Borrower now or hereafter existing under this Agreement held by such Lender, irrespective of whether or not such Lender shall have made any demand under this Agreement and although such obligations may be unmatured. Each Lender agrees promptly to notify the Administrative Agent after any such set-off and application made by such Lender; provided, that, the failure to give such notice shall not affect the validity of such set-off and application. The rights of each Lender under this Section are in addition to other rights and remedies (including other rights of setoff) which such Lender may have.
SECTION 10.09. Governing Law; Jurisdiction; Consent to Service of Process.
(a) This Agreement and each other Loan Document (except, as to any other Loan Document, as expressly set forth therein) shall be construed in accordance with and governed by the law of the State of New York.
(b) Each party hereto hereby irrevocably and unconditionally submits, for itself and its property, to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of the State of New York sitting in New York County and of the United States District Court of the Southern District of New York, and any appellate court from any thereof, in any action or proceeding arising out of or relating to any Loan Document, or for recognition or enforcement of any judgment, and each of the parties hereto hereby irrevocably and unconditionally agrees that all claims in respect of any such action or proceeding may be heard and determined in such New York State or, to the extent permitted by law, in such Federal court. Each of the parties hereto agrees that a final judgment in any such action or proceeding shall be conclusive and may be enforced in other jurisdictions by suit on the judgment or in any other manner provided by law. Nothing in this Agreement or any other Loan Document shall affect any right that the Administrative Agent or any Lender may otherwise have to bring any action or proceeding relating to this Agreement against any Loan Party or its properties in the courts of any jurisdiction.
(c) Each party hereto hereby irrevocably and unconditionally waives, to the fullest extent it may legally and effectively do so, any objection which it may now or hereafter have to the laying of venue of any suit, action or proceeding arising out of or relating to this Agreement or any other Loan Document or the Transactions in any court referred to in paragraph (b) of this Section. Each of the parties hereto hereby irrevocably waives, to the fullest extent permitted by law, the defense of an inconvenient forum to the maintenance of such action or proceeding in any such court.
(d) Each party to this Agreement irrevocably consents to service of process in the manner provided for notices in Section 10.01. Nothing in this Agreement or any other Loan Document will affect the right of any party hereto or thereto to serve process in any other manner permitted by law.
SECTION 10.10. WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL. EACH PARTY HERETO HEREBY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY RIGHT IT MAY HAVE TO A TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY LEGAL PROCEEDING DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT, ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY OR THEREBY (WHETHER BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT OR ANY OTHER THEORY). EACH PARTY HERETO (A) CERTIFIES THAT NO REPRESENTATIVE, AGENT OR ATTORNEY OF ANY OTHER PARTY HAS REPRESENTED, EXPRESSLY OR OTHERWISE, THAT SUCH OTHER PARTY WOULD NOT, IN THE EVENT OF LITIGATION, SEEK TO ENFORCE THE FOREGOING WAIVER AND (B) ACKNOWLEDGES THAT IT AND THE OTHER PARTIES HERETO HAVE BEEN INDUCED TO ENTER INTO THIS AGREEMENT BY, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THE MUTUAL WAIVERS AND CERTIFICATIONS IN THIS SECTION.
SECTION 10.11. Headings. Article and Section headings and the Table of Contents used herein are for convenience of reference only, are not part of this Agreement and shall not affect the construction of, or be taken into consideration in interpreting, this Agreement.
SECTION 10.12. Confidentiality; Non-Public Information.
(a) Each Agent and each Lender agree to maintain the confidentiality of the Information (as defined below), except that Information may be disclosed (i) to its and its Affiliates’ directors, officers, employees and agents, including accountants, legal counsel and other advisors, to Related Funds’ directors and officers and to any direct or indirect contractual counterparty in swap agreements (it being understood that each Person to whom such disclosure is made will be informed of the confidential nature of such Information and instructed to keep such Information confidential), (ii) to the extent requested by any regulatory authority (including any self-regulatory authority) having jurisdiction over such Lender, (iii) to the extent required by applicable laws or regulations or by any subpoena or similar legal process, (iv) to any other party to this Agreement, (v) to the extent required or advisable in the judgment of counsel in connection with any suit, action or proceeding relating to the enforcement of rights of the Agents or the Lenders against the Borrower or any other Loan Party under this Agreement or any other Loan Document, (vi) subject to an agreement containing provisions substantially the same as those of this Section, to (A) any assignee of or Participant in, or any prospective assignee of or Participant in, any of its rights or obligations under this Agreement or (B) any actual or prospective counterparty (or its advisors) to any swap or derivative transaction or any credit insurance provider relating to the Borrower and its obligations, (vii) with the consent of the Borrower or (viii) to the extent such Information (A) becomes publicly available other than as a result of a breach of this Section of which such Agent or such Lender is aware or (B) becomes available to any Agent or any Lender on a nonconfidential basis from a source other than the Borrower other than as a result of a breach of this Section of which such Agent or such Lender is aware. For the purposes of this Section, “Information” means all information received from the Borrower relating to the Borrower or its business, other than any such information that is available to any Agent or any Lender on a nonconfidential basis prior to disclosure by the Borrower other than as a result of a breach of this Section of which such Agent or such Lender is aware. Any Person required to maintain the confidentiality of Information as provided in this Section shall be considered to have complied with its obligation to do so if such Person has exercised the same degree of care to maintain the confidentiality of such Information as such Person would accord to its own confidential information.
(b) Each Lender acknowledges that Information furnished to it pursuant to this Agreement may include material non-public information concerning the Borrower and its Related Parties or the Borrower’s securities, and confirms that it has developed compliance procedures
regarding the use of material non-public information and that it will handle such material non-public information in accordance with those procedures and applicable law, including Federal and state securities laws.
(c) All information, including requests for waivers and amendments, furnished by the Borrower, the Subsidiaries or the Administrative Agent pursuant to, or in the course of administering, this Agreement will be syndicate-level information, which may contain material non-public information about the Borrower, the Subsidiaries and their Related Parties or the Borrower’s securities. Accordingly, each Lender represents to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent that it has identified in its Administrative Questionnaire a credit contact who may receive information that may contain material non-public information in accordance with its compliance procedures and applicable law, including Federal and state securities laws.
SECTION 10.13. Conversion of Currencies.
(a) If, for the purpose of obtaining judgment in any court, it is necessary to convert a sum owing hereunder in one currency into another currency, each party hereto agrees, to the fullest extent that it may effectively do so, that the rate of exchange used shall be that at which in accordance with normal banking procedures in the relevant jurisdiction the first currency could be purchased with such other currency on the Business Day immediately preceding the day on which final judgment is given.
(b) The obligations of the Borrower in respect of any sum due to any party hereto or any holder of the obligations owing hereunder (the “Applicable Creditor”) shall, notwithstanding any judgment in a currency (the “Judgment Currency”) other than the currency in which such sum is stated to be due hereunder (the “Agreement Currency”), be discharged only to the extent that, on the Business Day following receipt by the Applicable Creditor of any sum adjudged to be so due in the Judgment Currency, the Applicable Creditor may, in accordance with normal banking procedures in the relevant jurisdiction, purchase the Agreement Currency with the Judgment Currency; if the amount of the Agreement Currency so purchased is less than the sum originally due to the Applicable Creditor in the Agreement Currency, the Borrower agrees, as a separate obligation and notwithstanding any such judgment, to indemnify the Applicable Creditor against such loss. The obligations of the Borrower contained in this Section shall survive the termination of this Agreement and the payment of all other amounts owing hereunder.
SECTION 10.14. Interest Rate Limitation. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, if at any time the interest rate applicable to any Loan, together with all fees, charges and other amounts which are treated as interest on such Loan under applicable law (collectively the “Charges”), shall exceed the maximum lawful rate (the “Maximum Rate”) which may be contracted for, charged, taken, received or reserved by the Lender holding such Loan in accordance with applicable law, the rate of interest payable in respect of such Loan hereunder, together with all Charges payable in respect thereof, shall be limited to the Maximum Rate and, to the extent lawful, the interest and Charges that would have been payable in respect of such Loan but were not payable as a result of the operation of this Section shall be cumulated and the interest and Charges payable to such Lender in respect of other Loans or periods shall be increased (but not above the Maximum Rate therefor) until such cumulated amount, together with interest thereon at the Federal Funds Effective Rate to the date of repayment, shall have been received by such Lender.
SECTION 10.15. Patriot Act. Each Lender and the Administrative Agent hereby notifies the Borrower that pursuant to the Patriot Act, it is required to obtain, verify and record information that identifies each Loan Party, which information includes the name and address of the Borrower and other information that will allow such Lender and the Administrative Agent to identify the Borrower in
accordance with the Patriot Act. The Borrower agrees to provide to each Lender and the Administrative Agent, upon request, with all documentation and other information reasonably requested by such Lender or the Administrative Agent for purposes of compliance with applicable “know your customer” and anti-money laundering rules and regulations, including the Patriot Act and the Beneficial Ownership Regulation.
SECTION 10.16. No Fiduciary Relationship. The Borrower, on behalf of itself and the Subsidiaries, agrees that in connection with all aspects of the transactions contemplated hereby and any communications in connection therewith, the Borrower, the Subsidiaries and their Affiliates, on the one hand, and the Agents, the Lenders and their Affiliates, on the other hand, will have a business relationship that does not create, by implication or otherwise, any fiduciary duty on the part of the Agents, the Lenders or their Affiliates, and no such duty will be deemed to have arisen in connection with any such transactions or communications. The Borrower, on behalf of itself, the Subsidiaries and its and their respective Affiliates, waives and releases, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any claims that the Borrower, the Subsidiaries or such Affiliates may have against any Agent, any Person identified on the facing page or signature pages of this Agreement or elsewhere herein as a “syndication agent”, any Lender or any Affiliate of any of the foregoing in respect of any breach or alleged breach of agency or fiduciary duty.
SECTION 10.17. Electronic Execution. This Agreement, any other Loan Document, and any other document, amendment, approval, consent, information, notice, certificate, request, statement, disclosure or authorization related to this Agreement or any other Loan Document (each a “Communication”), including Communications required to be in writing, may be in the form of an Electronic Record and may be executed using an Electronic Signature. The Borrower agrees that any Electronic Signature on or associated with any Communication shall be valid and binding on the Borrower to the same extent as a manual, original signature, and that any Communication entered into by Electronic Signature, will constitute the legal, valid and binding obligation of the Borrower enforceable against the Borrower in accordance with the terms thereof to the same extent as if a manually executed original signature was delivered. Any Communication may be executed in as many counterparts as necessary or convenient, including both paper and electronic counterparts, but all such counterparts are one and the same Communication. For the avoidance of doubt, the authorization under this Section may include use or acceptance by the Administrative Agent and each of the Lenders of a manually signed paper Communication which has been converted into electronic form (such as scanned into .pdf format), or an electronically signed Communication converted into another format, for transmission, delivery and/or retention. The Administrative Agent and each of the Lenders may, at its option, create one or more copies of any Communication in the form of an imaged Electronic Record (“Electronic Copy”), which shall be deemed created in the ordinary course of such Person’s business, and destroy the original paper document. All Communications in the form of an Electronic Record, including an Electronic Copy, shall be considered an original for all purposes, and shall have the same legal effect, validity and enforceability as a paper record to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, the Administrative Agent is under no obligation to accept an Electronic Signature in any form or in any format unless expressly agreed to by the Administrative Agent pursuant to procedures approved by it; provided, that, without limiting the foregoing, (a) to the extent the Administrative Agent has agreed to accept such Electronic Signature, the Administrative Agent and each of the Lenders shall be entitled to rely on any such Electronic Signature purportedly given by or on behalf of the Borrower without further verification, and (b) upon the request of the Administrative Agent or any Lender, any Electronic Signature shall be promptly followed by such manually executed counterpart. For purposes hereof, “Electronic Record” and “Electronic Signature” shall have the meanings assigned to them, respectively, by 15 USC §7006, as it may be amended from time to time.
SECTION 10.18. Payments Set Aside. To the extent that any payment by or on behalf of the Borrower is made to the Administrative Agent or any Lender, or the Administrative Agent or any Lender exercises any right of setoff, and such payment or the proceeds of such setoff or any part thereof is
subsequently invalidated, declared to be fraudulent or preferential, set aside or required (including pursuant to any settlement entered into by the Administrative Agent or such Lender in its discretion) to be repaid to a trustee, receiver or any other party, in connection with any proceeding under any debtor relief law or otherwise, then (a) to the extent of such recovery, the obligation or part thereof originally intended to be satisfied shall be revived and continued in full force and effect as if such payment had not been made or such setoff had not occurred, and (b) each Lender severally agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent upon demand its applicable share (without duplication) of any amount so recovered from or repaid by the Administrative Agent, plus interest thereon from the date of such demand to the date such payment is made at a rate per annum equal to the greater (i) the Federal Funds Effective Rate from time to time in effect and (ii) an overnight rate from time to time in effect and determined by the Administrative Agent in accordance with banking industry rules on interbank compensation.
SECTION 10.19. Acknowledgement and Consent to Bail-In of Affected Financial Institutions. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any Loan Document or in any other agreement, arrangement or understanding among any such parties, each party hereto acknowledges that any liability of any Lender that is an Affected Financial Institution arising under any Loan Document, to the extent such liability is unsecured, may be subject to the write-down and conversion powers of the applicable Resolution Authority and agrees and consents to, and acknowledges and agrees to be bound by:
(a) the application of any Write-Down and Conversion Powers by the applicable Resolution Authority to any such liabilities arising hereunder which may be payable to it by any Lender that is an Affected Financial Institution; and
(b) the effects of any Bail-In Action on any such liability, including, if applicable:
(i) a reduction in full or in part or cancellation of any such liability;
(ii) a conversion of all, or a portion of, such liability into shares or other instruments of ownership in such Affected Financial Institution, its parent undertaking, or a bridge institution that may be issued to it or otherwise conferred on it, and that such shares or other instruments of ownership will be accepted by it in lieu of any rights with respect to any such liability under this Agreement or any other Loan Document; or
(iii) the variation of the terms of such liability in connection with the exercise of the write-down and conversion powers of the applicable Resolution Authority.
SECTION 10.20. Acknowledgement Regarding Any Supported QFCs. To the extent that the Loan Documents provide support, through a guarantee or otherwise, for any Hedging Agreement or any other agreement or instrument that is a QFC (such support, “QFC Credit Support”, and each such QFC, a “Supported QFC”), the parties acknowledge and agree as follows with respect to the resolution power of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation under the Federal Deposit Insurance Act and Title II of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (together with the regulations promulgated thereunder, the “U.S. Special Resolution Regimes”) in respect of such Supported QFC and QFC Credit Support (with the provisions below applicable notwithstanding that the Loan Documents and any Supported QFC may in fact be stated to be governed by the laws of the State of New York and/or of the United States or any other state of the United States), in the event a Covered Entity that is party to a Supported QFC (each, a “Covered Party”) becomes subject to a proceeding under a U.S. Special Resolution Regime, the transfer of such Supported QFC and the benefit of such QFC Credit Support (and any interest and obligation in or under such Supported QFC and such
QFC Credit Support, and any rights in property securing such Supported QFC or such QFC Credit Support) from such Covered Party will be effective to the same extent as the transfer would be effective under the U.S. Special Resolution Regime if the Supported QFC and such QFC Credit Support (and any such interest, obligation and rights in property) were governed by the laws of the United States or a state of the United States. In the event a Covered Party or a BHC Act Affiliate of a Covered Party becomes subject to a proceeding under a U.S. Special Resolution Regime, Default Rights under the Loan Documents that might otherwise apply to such Supported QFC or any QFC Credit Support that may be exercised against such Covered Party are permitted to be exercised to no greater extent than such Default Rights could be exercised under the U.S. Special Resolution Regime if the Supported QFC and the Loan Documents were governed by the laws of the United States or a state of the United States.
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