proviso below) or similar devices, any amendment to the relevant interest rate margins and interest rate floors prior to the applicable date of determination and all upfront or similar fees or original issue discount (converted to yield assuming the shorter of (a) the weighted average life of the applicable Indebtedness at the time such Indebtedness was incurred and (b) a four-year life and, in each case, without any present value discount) generally paid or payable to the providers of such Indebtedness, but excluding any arrangement, commitment, amendment, structuring and underwriting fees paid or payable to the arranger (or its Affiliates) of such Indebtedness in their capacities as such (regardless of whether any such fees are paid to or shared in whole or part with any lender) and any other fee (including, if applicable, ticking fees) not generally paid to all lenders ratably; provided, that with respect to any Indebtedness that includes (i) an interest rate floor that is higher than the interest rate floor applicable to the Initial Term Loans, and such floor is applicable to the Initial Term Loans on the date of determination, such excess amount shall be deemed added to the interest rate margin for the purpose of calculating the increase in Effective Yield and (ii) an interest rate floor that is less than the interest rate floor applicable to the Initial Term Loans, and such floor is applicable to the Initial Term Loans on the date of determination, such lower floor amount shall be disregarded for the purpose of calculating the increase in Effective Yield.
“Employee” means, with respect to any Person, any director, officer, employee, member of management, manager or consultant of such Person.
“Engagement Letter” means the Amended and Restated Engagement Letter dated as of April 11, 2018, among the Borrower, Goldman Sachs Lending Partners LLC, Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. and RBC Capital Markets.
“Environmental Claims” means any and all actions, suits, orders, decrees, demands, demand letters, claims, liabilities, liens, notices of noncompliance, violation or potential responsibility or investigation (other than internal reports prepared by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries (a) in the ordinary course of such Person’s business or (b) as required in connection with a financing transaction or an acquisition or disposition of real estate) or proceedings relating in any way to any Environmental Law or any permit issued, or any approval given, under any such Environmental Law (hereinafter, “Claims”), including (i) any and all Claims by governmental or regulatory authorities for enforcement, cleanup, removal, response, remedial or other actions or damages pursuant to any applicable Environmental Law, (ii) any and all Claims by any third party seeking damages, contribution, indemnification, cost recovery, compensation or injunctive or other equitable relief relating to the presence, release or threatened release of Hazardous Materials or arising from alleged injury or threat of injury to human health or safety to the extent relating to human exposure to Hazardous Materials or arising from alleged injury or threat of injury to the environment including ambient air, surface water, groundwater, land surface, subsurface strata, and natural resources, and (iii) any and all Claims by any third party regarding environmental liabilities or obligations assumed or assigned by contract or operation of law.
“Environmental Laws” means any applicable Federal, state, foreign or local statute, law, rule, regulation, ordinance, code and rule of common law now or hereafter in effect and in each case as amended, and any binding judicial or administrative interpretation thereof, including any binding judicial or administrative order, consent decree or judgment, relating to the pollution or protection of the environment, including ambient air, surface water, groundwater, land surface, subsurface strata, and natural resources, or of human health or safety to the extent relating to human exposure to Hazardous Materials.
“ERISA” means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended, and any regulations promulgated thereunder.
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