(b) the Administrative Agent shall have received a consent fee in the amount of $105,000 payable to the Administrative Agent, for the ratable benefit of the Lenders that execute the consent prior to September 30, 2023.
SECTION 4. Conduct of Administrative Agent and Lenders; Release of Claims. The Loan Parties and their Affiliates, successors, assigns, and legal representatives (collectively, the “Releasors”), acknowledge and agree that through the date hereof, each Secured Party has acted in good faith and has conducted itself in a commercially reasonable manner in its relationships with the Releasors in connection with this Agreement and in connection with the Secured Obligations, the Credit Agreement, and the other Loan Documents, and the obligations and liabilities of the Releasors existing thereunder or arising in connection therewith, and the Releasors hereby waive and release any claims to the contrary. The Releasors hereby release, acquit, and forever discharge each Secured Party and its Affiliates (including, without limitation, its parent and its subsidiaries) and their respective officers, directors, employees, agents, attorneys, advisors, successors and assigns, both present and former (collectively, the “Secured Party Affiliates”) from any and all manner of losses, costs, defenses, damages, liabilities, deficiencies, actions, causes of action, suits, debts, controversies, damages, judgments, executions, claims, demands, and expenses whatsoever, asserted or unasserted, known or unknown, foreseen or unforeseen, in contract, tort, law or equity (generically, “Claims”), that any Releasor has or may have against any Secured Party and/or any Secured Party Affiliate by reason of any action, failure to act, event, statement, accusation, assertion, matter, or thing whatsoever arising from or based on facts occurring prior to the effectiveness of this Agreement that arises out of or is connected to the Loan Documents or the Secured Obligations. Each of the Releasors hereby unconditionally and irrevocably agrees that it will not sue any Secured Party or any Secured Party Affiliate on the basis of any Claim released, remised, and discharged by such Releasor pursuant to this paragraph. If any Releasor or any of their respective successors, assigns or other legal representatives violates the foregoing covenant, each Releasor, for itself and its successors, assigns, and legal representatives, agrees to pay, in addition to such other damages as any Secured Party or any Secured Party Affiliate may sustain as a result of such violation, all reasonable and documented attorneys’ fees and costs incurred by any Secured Party or any Secured Party Affiliate as a result of such violation.
SECTION 5. Miscellaneous Terms.
(a) Loan Document. For avoidance of doubt, the Borrower, the Administrative Agent, and the Lenders party hereto hereby acknowledge and agree that this Agreement is a Loan Document.
(b) Effect of Agreement. Except as set forth expressly hereinabove, all terms of the Credit Agreement and the other Loan Documents shall be and remain in full force and effect, and shall constitute the legal, valid, binding, and enforceable obligations of the Loan Parties. Except to the extent otherwise expressly set forth herein, the amendments and waiver set forth herein shall have prospective application only from and after the date of this Agreement.
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