write-off of deferred financing fees, debt issuance costs, debt discount or premium, terminated hedging obligations and other commissions, financing fees and expenses and, adjusted, to the extent included, to exclude any refunds or similar credits received in connection with the purchasing or procurement of goods or services under any purchasing card or similar program,
(ii) provision for Taxes based on income, profits, revenue or capital for such period, including, without limitation, state, franchise, excise, gross receipts, value added, margins, and similar taxes and foreign withholding taxes (including penalties and interest related to taxes or arising from tax examinations) and, without duplication of the foregoing, any payments to any direct or indirect parent in respect of such taxes (including, without limitation, the amount of any distributions in respect of the foregoing items pursuant to Section 6.08(a)(xiii)),
(iii) depreciation and amortization expense for such period,
(iv) costs and expenses incurred in connection with, or related to, the Spin-Off, including but not limited to severance costs, relocation costs, repositioning and other restructuring costs, integration and facilities’ opening costs and other business optimization expenses and operating improvements and establishment costs, recruiting fees, signing costs, retention or completion bonuses, transition costs, costs related to closure/consolidation of facilities, internal costs in respect of Spin-Off related initiatives and curtailments or modifications to pension and post-retirement employee benefit plans (including any settlement of pension liabilities), contract terminations and professional and consulting fees incurred in connection with any of the foregoing, in each case incurred in connection with the Spin-Off during such period to the extent such incurrence occurs prior to theone-yearsecond anniversary of the Effective Date,
(v) fees, costs and expenses incurred during such period in connection with any proposed or actual permitted merger, acquisition, Investment, asset sale, other disposition or capital marketsor financing transaction, without regard to the consummation thereof,
(vi) unusual, non-recurring or exceptional expenses, losses or charges incurred during such period in an aggregate amount not to exceed, together with any amounts added back pursuant toclauseclauses (vii) and/or (xii) of this definition of “Consolidated EBITDA” (beginning with the period ending on the last day of the first full fiscal quarter following the Effective Date)and/or clause (b) of the definition of “Pro Forma Basis” for such period,(A) until the date that is 24 months after the First Amendment Effective Date, 20% of Consolidated EBITDA for such period and (B) thereafter, 10% of Consolidated EBITDA for such period (in each case, determined prior to theadjustmentadjustments contemplated by this clause (vi)), such clauses (vii) and (xii) and such clause (b) (collectively, the “Applicable Adjustments”).
(vii) [reserved],
(vii) integration costs, transition costs, consolidation and closing costs for facilities, costs incurred in connection with any non-recurring strategic initiatives, acquisitions and non-recurring intellectual property development at any time, other business optimization expenses (including costs and expenses relating to business optimization programs, new systems design, technology upgrades and implementation costs), severance