CREDIT AGREEMENT, dated as of September 13, 2019 (as amended by Amendment No. 1, dated as of March 20, 2020, Incremental Facility Agreement and Technical Amendment No. 2, dated as of May 7, 2020, Incremental Facility Agreement No. 3, dated as of June 11, 2020, Amendment No. 4 to Credit Agreement and Incremental Facility Agreement, dated as of May 7, 2021, Amendment No. 5 to Credit Agreement and Incremental Facility Agreement, dated as of June 11, 2021, Amendment No. 6 to Credit Agreement and Incremental Facility Agreement, dated as of November 10, 2021, Amendment No. 7 to Credit Agreement, dated as of March 14, 2022, Amendment No. 8 to the Credit Agreement, dated as of August 12, 2022, and as further amended, this “Agreement”), among BLIZZARD MIDCO, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“Initial Holdings”), BLIZZARD MERGER SUB, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“Merger Sub”), and after giving effect to the Merger, NORVAX, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“Norvax”), the LENDERS and ISSUING BANKS party hereto and OWL ROCK CAPITAL CORPORATION, as Administrative Agent and as Collateral Agent.
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WHEREAS, pursuant to the Merger Agreement, (a) Blizzard Parent, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“Parent”) will acquire (the “Acquisition”), directly or indirectly, all of the limited liability company interests of Norvax, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (the “Target”) through certain investor exchange agreements and the merger of Merger Sub with and into the Target (the “Merger”), with the Target being the surviving entity of such merger (the “Merger”) and the Target will become a wholly-owned direct or indirect subsidiary of Initial Holdings (the direct Subsidiary of Parent) and (b) except with respect to certain equity interests of the Target held by, without limitation, equityholders, management and/or employees of the Target and its subsidiaries which will be rolled over into Equity Interests in Parent or a Parent Entity of Parent (in such capacity, the “Rollover Investors”), the equity holders of the Target will receive cash in exchange for their Equity Interests in the Target (collectively, the “Merger Consideration”).
WHEREAS, the Investors will, directly or indirectly, make the Equity Contribution;
WHEREAS, in connection with the foregoing, Holdings and the Borrower have requested that, immediately upon the satisfaction in full of the applicable conditions precedent set forth in Section 4.01 below, the Lenders and Issuing Banks extend credit to the Borrower in the form of (a) $300,000,000 in aggregate principal amount of Initial Term Loans to be borrowed on the Effective Date and (b) a revolving credit facility in an initial aggregate principal amount of $30,000,000 of Revolving Commitments;
WHEREAS, the proceeds of the Initial Term Loans and Revolving Loans (to the extent permitted in accordance with Section 5.10), in each case, to be made on the Effective Date, together with (a) a portion of the cash on hand at the Target and its Subsidiaries and (b) the proceeds of the Equity Contribution, will be used to pay for the Effective Date Refinancing and to finance a portion of the Transactions (including working capital and/or purchase price adjustments and the payment of the Merger Consideration and the Transaction Costs);
WHEREAS, the Lenders have indicated their willingness to extend such credit and the Issuing Banks have indicated their willingness to issue Letters of Credit, in each case on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth below;
WHEREAS, in connection with the foregoing and as an inducement for the Lenders and the Issuing Banks to extend the credit contemplated hereunder, the Borrower has agreed to secure all of its Secured Obligations by granting to the Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, a first priority lien (such priority subject to Liens permitted hereunder) on substantially all of its assets (except as otherwise set forth in the Loan Documents), including a pledge of all of the Equity Interests of each of its Subsidiaries (other than any Equity Interests constituting Excluded Assets); and
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