“GAAP” means U.S. generally accepted accounting principles, as in effect at the time such term is relevant.
“Governmental Entity” means any transnational, federal, state, local or foreign government, or any court of competent jurisdiction, administrative agency or commission or other governmental authority or instrumentality, domestic or foreign, or any national securities exchange or national quotation system on which securities issued by the Corporation or any of its Subsidiaries are listed or quoted.
“Indebtedness” means, with respect to any Person, without duplication: (i) (A) indebtedness for borrowed money, (B) all obligations of such Person evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes or similar instruments, (C) all obligations of such Person under interest rate or currency hedging transactions (valued at the termination value thereof), (D) all letters of credit issued for the account of such Person and (E) obligations of such Person to pay rent or other amounts under any lease of real property or personal property, which obligations are required to be classified as capital leases in accordance with GAAP; (ii) indebtedness for borrowed money of any other Person guaranteed, directly or indirectly, in any manner by such Person; and (iii) indebtedness of the type described in clause (i) above secured by any Encumbrance upon property owned by such Person, even though such Person has not in any manner become liable for the payment of such indebtedness;provided,however, that Indebtedness shall not be deemed to include (i) any accounts payable or trade payables incurred in the ordinary course of business of such Person, or (ii) any intercompany indebtedness between any Person and any wholly owned Subsidiary of such Person or between any wholly owned Subsidiaries of such Person.
“Law” means any law, treaty, statute, ordinance, code, rule, regulation, judgment, decree, order, writ, award, injunction, authorization or determination enacted, entered, promulgated, enforced or issued by any Governmental Entity.
A “Liquidity Impairment” shall be deemed to occur to the extent that any necessary cash settlement(s) of Roll-over Warrants, or any payment(s) in accordance with Article V of the Stockholder Agreement, would:
(i) violate, breach or give rise to a default or event of default under or in respect of any contract, credit facility, agreement or other obligation of the Corporation, either existing as of the Closing Date, incurred in connection with the Merger or the financing and other transactions consummated substantially concurrently with the Merger or entered into after the Closing Date (with the approval of a majority of the Tengelmann Directors), or any refinancing thereof (with the approval of a majority of Tengelmann Directors or on terms substantially similar to, and in any event no less favorable to the Corporation than, the terms of the obligation being refinanced), or
(ii) reasonably be expected, after giving effect to the proposed cash settlement or payment, to cause (A) cashplus cash equivalentsplus marketable securitiesplus cash available for drawdown under any then existing credit agreement or other financing facility of the Corporation or any of its Subsidiaries (without conditions that are not reasonably capable of being satisfied at the applicable time)less (B) cash in storesplus restricted cashplus restricted marketable securities, to equal less than $200,000,000, as of the date of the proposed cash
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settlement or payment, as applicable, or any date within 180 days thereafter, after taking into account any changes or adjustments to any of the foregoing items scheduled or reasonably anticipated, in good faith, by the Chief Financial Officer of the Corporation to occur during such 180-day period.
For purposes of the foregoing definition, the terms “cash”, “cash equivalents”, “marketable securities”, “restricted cash” and “restricted marketable securities” shall mean the amount set forth opposite the corresponding line item on the Corporation’s most recent audited or unaudited consolidated balance sheet prior to the date of the proposed cash settlement or payment (i.e. as at the end of the most recently concluded 4-week fiscal period) and “cash in stores” shall mean cash held by all of the Corporation’s or any of its Subsidiaries’ stores as of such balance sheet date as determined by the Corporation in accordance with past practices.
“Merger” means the acquisition of Pathmark, a Delaware corporation, by the Corporation.
“NYSE” means the New York Stock Exchange.
“Outstanding Percentage Interest” means, as of any date of determination, the percentage of Voting Power in the Corporation (determined on the basis of the number of outstanding shares of Voting Stock of the Corporation (including for such purposes any Voting Stock underlying stock options that is beneficially owned by Christian W.E. Haub as of the date of the Stockholder Agreement), as set forth in the most recent Securities and Exchange Commission filing of the Corporation prior to such date that contained such information) that is beneficially owned by Tengelmann and its Affiliates as of such date;provided¸however, that to the extent that any decrease in Tengelmann’s Outstanding Percentage Interest is attributable to issuances of Equity Securities by the Corporation (as opposed to dispositions of Equity Securities of the Corporation by Tengelmann or its Affiliates), such decrease will not be taken into account for purposes of calculating Outstanding Percentage Interest for purposes of this Article XI unless such decrease is attributable to issuance of Equity Securities by the Corporation (x) in connection with a Business Combination by the Corporation or other acquisition by the Corporation, other than the Merger, approved by Tengelmann in accordance with Section 2(a)(i) or Section 2(b)(i) of this Article XI or (y) on or about the Closing Date in connection with the Merger, as merger consideration, but not in any event by any warrants or options issued in connection with the Merger.
“Pathmark” means Pathmark Stores, Inc., a Delaware corporation.
“Person” means any individual, firm, corporation, partnership, company, limited liability company, trust, joint venture, association, Governmental Entity, unincorporated organization or other entity, foreign or domestic.
“Roll-over Warrants” means the warrants issued as part of the Merger by the Corporation to Yucaipa in exchange for the Series A Warrants and the Series B Warrants.
“Series A Warrants” means the Series A warrants to purchase 10,060,000 shares of common stock of Pathmark at an exercise price of $8.50 per share, as such share amount and
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exercise price may be adjusted from time to time in accordance with the terms of such warrants in effect on the date hereof (or as such terms shall be amended pursuant to agreements entered into on the date hereof in connection with the Merger).
“Series B Warrants” means the Series B warrants to purchase 15,046,350 shares of common stock of Pathmark at an exercise price of $15.00 per share, as such share amount and exercise price may be adjusted from time to time in accordance with the terms of such warrants in effect on the date hereof (or as such terms shall be amended pursuant to agreements entered into on the date hereof in connection with the Merger).
A “Subsidiary” of any Person means, on any date, any Person (i) the accounts of which would be consolidated with and into those of the applicable Person in such Person’s consolidated financial statements if such financial statements were prepared in accordance with GAAP or (ii) of which (a) securities or other ownership interests representing more than 50% of the equity or (b) more than 50% of the ordinary voting power or, in the case of a partnership, more than 50% of the general partnership interests, as of such date, are owned, controlled or held by the applicable Person or one or more Subsidiaries of such Person.
“Tengelmann” means Tengelmann Warenhandels-Gesellschaft KG, a limited partnership organized under the laws of Germany.
“Tengelmann Director” means a Director designated for nomination by Tengelmann and actually elected (including to fill a vacancy) pursuant to the provisions of Section 1.
“Trading Day” means (i) for so long as the common stock of the Corporation is listed or admitted for trading on the NYSE or another national securities exchange, a day on which the NYSE or such other national securities exchange is open for business or (ii) if the common stock of the Corporation ceases to be so listed, any day other than a Saturday or Sunday or a day on which banking institutions in the State of New York are authorized or obligated by Law or executive order to close.
“Voting Power” means the power to vote or to control, directly or indirectly, by proxy or otherwise, the vote of any Voting Stock at the time such determination is made;provided that a Person will not be deemed to have Voting Power as a result of an agreement, arrangement or understanding to vote such Voting Stock if such agreement, arrangement or understanding (i) arises solely from a revocable proxy or consent given in response to a public proxy or consent solicitation made pursuant to the applicable rules and regulations under the Exchange Act and (ii) is not also then reportable by such Person on Schedule 13D under the Exchange Act (or any comparable or successor report). For purposes of determining the percentage of Voting Power of any class or series (or classes or series) beneficially owned by Tengelmann or any other Person, any Voting Stock not outstanding which is issuable pursuant to conversion, exchange or other rights, warrants, options or similar securities (other than any Voting Stock underlying stock options that is beneficially owned by Christian W. E. Haub as of the date of this Agreement) will not be deemed to be outstanding for the purpose of computing the Voting Power of Tengelmann or any other Person.
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“Voting Stock” of any Person means securities beneficially owned by such Person then having the right to vote generally in any election of directors of the Corporation.
“Yucaipa” means Yucaipa Corporate Initiatives Fund I, L.P., Yucaipa American Alliance Fund I, L.P. and Yucaipa American Alliance (Parallel) Fund I, L.P.
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