SECOND AMENDED AND RESTATED FIRST LIEN CREDIT AGREEMENT, dated as of June 21, 2017 (this “Agreement”), among INCEPTION PARENT, INC., a Delaware corporation (“Holdings”), RACKSPACE TECHNOLOGY GLOBAL, INC. (formerly known as Rackspace Hosting, Inc.), a Delaware corporation (the “Company” or the “Borrower”), the LENDERS party hereto from time to time, and CITIBANK, N.A., as Administrative Agent (in such capacity, the “Administrative Agent”) for the Lenders and Collateral Agent for the Secured Parties.
WHEREAS, Holdings, Inception Merger Sub, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Merger Sub”), the Lenders party thereto and the Administrative Agent entered into that certain First Lien Credit Agreement, dated as of November 3, 2016 (as modified by the Joinder dated November 3, 2016, the “Original Credit Agreement”);
WHEREAS, Holdings, Merger Sub and the Company entered into the Merger Agreement (as defined below) pursuant to which Merger Sub was merged with and into the Company (the “Merger”), with the Company surviving as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Holdings;
WHEREAS, the Borrower entered into that certain Incremental Assumption and Amendment Agreement (the “2016 Incremental Assumption and Amendment Agreement”), dated as of December 20, 2016, by and among Holdings, the Borrower, the Subsidiary Loan Parties party thereto, the Lenders party thereto and the Administrative Agent, under which (i) certain Lenders extended credit to the Borrower in the form of Refinancing Term Loans consisting of Term B Loans in an aggregate principal amount of $2,000,000,000 and (ii) the Original Credit Agreement was amended and restated (the “Amended and Restated First Lien Credit Agreement”);
WHEREAS, the Borrower has entered into that certain Incremental Assumption and Amendment Agreement No. 2 (the “June 2017 Incremental Assumption and Amendment Agreement”), dated as of June 21, 2017 (the “June 2017 Effective Date”), by and among Holdings, the Borrower, the Subsidiary Loan Parties party thereto, the Lenders party thereto and the Administrative Agent, under which certain Lenders (such Lenders, the “June 2017 Term B Lenders”) are extending credit to the Borrower in the form of (i) Refinancing Term Loans consisting of Term B Loans in an aggregate principal amount of $1,995,000,000 (the “June 2017 Refinancing Term B Loans”) and (ii) Incremental Term Loans consisting of Term B Loans in an aggregate principal amount of $100,000,000 (the “June Incremental Term B Loans” and, together with the June 2017 Refinancing Term B Loans, the “June 2017 Term B Loans”); and
WHEREAS, the Administrative Agent, Holdings, the Borrower and the June 2017 Term B Lenders have agreed to amend and restate the Amended and Restated First Lien Credit Agreement as provided in this Agreement.
NOW, THEREFORE, the Amended and Restated First Lien Credit Agreement shall be, and hereby is, amended and restated in its entirety as follows:
ARTICLE I
Definitions
Section 1.01 Defined Terms. As used in this Agreement, the following terms shall have the meanings specified below:
“2016 Incremental Assumption and Amendment Agreement” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in the recitals hereto.