“EEA Financial Institution” shall mean (a) any credit institution or investment firm established in any EEA Member Country which is subject to the supervision of an EEA Resolution Authority, (b) any entity established in an EEA Member Country which is a parent of an institution described inclause (a) of this definition, or (c) any institution established in an EEA Member Country which is a subsidiary of an institution described inclauses (a) or(b) of this definition and is subject to consolidated supervision with its parent.
“EEA Member Country” shall mean any of the member states of the European Union, Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Norway.
“EEA Resolution Authority” shall mean any public administrative authority or any Person entrusted with public administrative authority of any EEA Member Country (including any delegee) having responsibility for the resolution of any EEA Financial Institution.
“Effective Yield” shall mean, as to any Revolving Loans or other Indebtedness, the effective yield on such Revolving Loans or other Indebtedness as mutually determined by the Administrative Agent and the Lead Borrower in good faith, taking into account the applicable interest rate margins, any interest rate floors or similar devices and all fees, including upfront or similar fees or original issue discount (amortized over the shorter of (x) the Weighted Average Life to Maturity of such Loans or other Indebtedness and (y) the four years following the date of incurrence thereof) payable generally to lenders providing such Loans or other Indebtedness, but excluding any arrangement, structuring, commitment, underwriting or other fees payable in connection therewith that are not generally shared with the relevant lenders and customary consent fees paid generally to consenting lenders. Each mutual determination of the “Effective Yield” by the Administrative Agent and the Lead Borrower shall be conclusive and binding on all Lenders absent manifest error.
“Eligible Accounts” shall mean, collectively, the Eligible Billed Accounts and the Eligible Unbilled Accounts.
“Eligible Billed Accounts” shall mean, on any date of determination of the Borrowing Base, all of the Accounts owned by all applicable Loan Parties and reflected in the most recent Borrowing Base Certificate delivered by the Lead Borrower to the Administrative Agent, except any Account to which any of the exclusionary criteria set forth below applies. In addition, the Administrative Agent reserves the right, at any time and from time to time after the Closing Date, to adjust any of the criteria set forth below, to establish new criteria with respect to Eligible Billed Accounts and to adjust the advance rates, in each case, in its Permitted Discretion, subject to the approval of the Supermajority Lenders, as the case may be, in the case of adjustments, new criteria or increases in advance rates which, in each case, have the effect of making more credit available than would have been available if the standards in effect on the Closing Date had continued to be in effect. Eligible Billed Accounts shall not include any of the following Accounts:
(i) any Account in which the Collateral Agent, on behalf of the Secured Parties, does not have a valid and enforceable first priority (subject to Permitted Borrowing Base Liens) perfected (or equivalent in any foreign jurisdiction) Lien (which, for purposes of Accounts owned by Belgian Borrowers that are governed under the laws of a jurisdiction other than Belgian, shall require the taking of additional perfection steps other than solely the execution of Belgian Law Security Agreements);
(ii) any Account that is not owned by a Loan Party;
(iii) any Account due from, (A) in the case of the European Facility, an Account Debtor that is not domiciled in the United States, Mexico, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Greece, Germany, Italy, Ireland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden or the United Kingdom and (if not a natural person) organized or incorporated under the laws of the United States, Mexico, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Greece, Germany, Italy, Ireland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden or the United Kingdom, and (B) in the case of the U.S. Revolving Subfacility or the U.S. FILO Subfacility, an Account Debtor that is not domiciled in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Belgium, Germany, Poland, Spain, Sweden or the United Kingdom and (if not a natural person) organized or incorporated under the laws of the United States, Canada, Mexico, Belgium, Germany, Poland, Spain, Sweden or the United Kingdom, unless, in each case, such Account is
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