Exhibit 10.1
EXECUTION VERSION
CASH COLLATERAL
AND LETTER OF CREDIT REIMBURSEMENT AGREEMENT
This CASH COLLATERAL AND LETTER OF CREDIT REIMBURSEMENT AGREEMENT (this “Agreement”) is made and entered into as of December 4, 2020 by and among LSC COMMUNICATIONS, INC., a Delaware corporation (the “Borrower”), the undersigned Guarantors (as defined in the DIP Credit Agreement (as defined below)), BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., in its capacity as Issuing Bank (the “Issuing Bank”), and the undersigned Lenders under the DIP Credit Agreement (the “Lenders”).
RECITALS
WHEREAS, on April 13, 2020, the Borrower and the other Loan Parties filed voluntary petitions for relief under Title 11 of the United States Code (as now or hereafter in effect, or any successor thereto, the “Bankruptcy Code”) in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York (the “Bankruptcy Court”), such cases are being jointly administered under Case No. 20-10950 (the “Chapter 11 Cases”), and the Loan Parties continue to operate their businesses and manage their properties as debtors and debtors-in-possession pursuant to Sections 1107 and 1108 of the Bankruptcy Code.
WHEREAS, the Borrower, the Lenders, the Issuing Bank and Bank of America, N.A., as Administrative Agent, are parties to that certain Superpriority Secured Debtor-in-Possession Credit Agreement dated as of April 15, 2020 (as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “DIP Credit Agreement”), pursuant to which the Lenders have made available to Borrower a senior secured superpriority debtor-in-possession credit facility, including the letters of credit issued or extended by the Issuing Bank listed on Schedule 1(a) (the “Existing Letters of Credit”).
WHEREAS, pursuant to that certain Order (i) Approving the Purchase Agreement Among the Debtors and Buyer, (ii) Approving the Sale of Debtors’ Assets Free and Clear of Liens, Claims, Interests and Encumbrances, (iii) Authorizing Assumption and Assignment of Certain Executory Contracts and Unexpired Leases and (iv) Granting Related Relief [Dkt. 876] (the “Sale Order”), entered by the Bankruptcy Court on October 7, 2020 in the Chapter 11 Cases, the Bankruptcy Court approved the sale of substantially all of the Loan Parties’ assets free and clear of all liens, claims, interests and encumbrances to ACR III Libra Holdings LLC (the “Asset Sale”).
WHEREAS, in connection with the Asset Sale and the payment in full of all Obligations (other than (i) the LC Exposures of the Lenders and (ii) contingent indemnification obligations for which no claim has been asserted) with the proceeds thereof, the Borrower has requested that the Lenders and Issuing Bank agree to restate all obligations with respect to the Existing Letters of Credit, including without limitation the Lenders’ reimbursement obligations to the Issuing Bank in respect of the Existing Letters of Credit, as obligations under this Agreement such that the Existing Letters of Credit shall be deemed to have been issued pursuant to this Agreement and from and after the Effective Date be subject to and governed by the terms and conditions of this Agreement.
WHEREAS, it is the intention of the parties hereto that the obligations under this Agreement (i) be and are a portion of the same obligations that are outstanding under the DIP Credit Agreement immediately prior to the Effective Date and (ii) shall not be deemed to be paid, released, discharged or otherwise satisfied by the execution of this Agreement, and this Agreement shall not constitute a refinancing, substitution or novation of such obligations or any of the other rights, duties and obligations of the parties hereunder.
WHEREAS, in consideration of the Issuing Bank’s agreement to (i) allow the Existing Letters of Credit to remain outstanding and (ii) continue serving as Issuing Bank with respect to the Existing Letters of Credit, the Borrower and Guarantors are required to (x) execute this Agreement in favor of the Issuing Bank and (y) deliver the Cash Collateral (as defined herein).