AMENDMENT NO. 2 TO
TAX RECEIVABLE AGREEMENT
This AMENDMENT NO. 2 (this “Amendment”), dated as of June 23, 2023, to that certain Tax Receivable Agreement, dated as of December 19, 2016 (as amended prior to the date hereof, the “Agreement”), by and among Select Energy Services, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Corporate Taxpayer”), the TRA Holders and the Agent. Capitalized terms used but not defined herein have the meanings given such terms in the Agreement.
WHEREAS, the Corporate Taxpayer, the TRA Holders and the Agent are parties to the Agreement;
WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 7.7 of the Agreement, the Agreement may be amended in writing by each of the Corporate Taxpayer and by TRA Holders who would be entitled to receive more than fifty percent (50%) of the aggregate amount of the Early Termination Payments payable to all TRA Holders if the Corporate Taxpayer had exercised its right of early termination on the date of the Reorganization Transactions;
WHEREAS, the Agreement utilizes the London Interbank Offered Rate (“LIBOR”) for certain purposes, including the determination of the Agreed Rate and the Default Rate, and the administrator of LIBOR intends to discontinue publishing LIBOR;
WHEREAS, the U.S. Congress enacted the Adjustable Interest Rate (LIBOR) Act (the “LIBOR Act”) as part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2022 (Pub. L. 117-103), and the LIBOR Act, among other things, sets forth benchmark replacement rates for legacy contracts governed by U.S. law that reference LIBOR and that do not provide for the use of a clearly defined or practicable replacement benchmark rate when LIBOR is discontinued;
WHEREAS, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (the “Federal Reserve”) has promulgated final regulations (the “LIBOR Regulations”) that, among other things, carry out the LIBOR Act and set forth the benchmark replacement rate that would replace LIBOR in the Agreement following June 30, 2023; and
WHEREAS, the parties to the Agreement desire to amend the Agreement to replace the use of LIBOR in the Agreement with the use of the benchmark replacement rate that, under the LIBOR Act and the LIBOR Regulations, would otherwise replace LIBOR in the Agreement following June 30, 2023.
NOW THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing and the covenants and agreements set forth herein and for good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged, the parties hereby agree as follows:
1.The definition of “LIBOR” in Section 1.1 of the Agreement is deleted in its entirety.
2.The following definitions are added to Section 1.1 of the Agreement:
“CME Term SOFR” means, during any period, an interest rate per annum equal to the CME Term SOFR Reference Rates for a 12-month tenor, as published by the CME