EXHIBIT 10.1
Execution Copy
$371,134,375 million
AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT
Dated as of April 28, 2006
Among
THE KANSAS CITY SOUTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY
asBorrower
THE GUARANTORS NAMED HEREIN
asGuarantors
and
THE INITIAL LENDERS, INITIAL ISSUING BANK AND SWING LINE BANK NAMED HEREIN
asInitialLenders,InitialIssuingBankandSwingLineBank
and
THE BANK OF NOVA SCOTIA
asCollateralAgent
and
THE BANK OF NOVA SCOTIA
asAdministrativeAgent
and
MORGAN STANLEY SENIOR FUNDING, INC AND HARRIS BANK, N.A.,
asCo-SyndicationAgents
LASALLE BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION AND BANK OF TOKYO-MITSUBISHI UFJ TRUST COMPANY
asCo-Documentation Agents
and
SCOTIA CAPITAL
asLeadArrangerandBookrunner
TABLE OF CONTENTS | ||||
Section | Page | |||
ARTICLE I | ||||
DEFINITIONS AND ACCOUNTING TERMS | ||||
SECTION 1.01. Certain Defined Terms | 1 | |||
SECTION 1.02. Computation of Time Periods; Other Definitional Provisions | 27 | |||
SECTION 1.03. Accounting Terms | 27 | |||
SECTION 1.04. Currency Equivalents Generally | 27 | |||
ARTICLE II | ||||
AMOUNTS AND TERMS OF THE ADVANCES AND THE LETTERS OF CREDIT | ||||
SECTION 2.01. The Advances and the Letters of Credit | 27 | |||
SECTION 2.02. Making the Advances | 29 | |||
SECTION 2.03. Issuance of and Drawings and Reimbursement Under Letters of Credit | 31 | |||
SECTION 2.04. Repayment of Advances | 33 | |||
SECTION 2.05. Termination or Reduction of the Commitments | 34 | |||
SECTION 2.06. Prepayments | 34 | |||
SECTION 2.07. Interest | 36 | |||
SECTION 2.08. Fees | 36 | |||
SECTION 2.09. Conversion of Advances | 37 | |||
SECTION 2.10. Increased Costs, Etc. | 38 | |||
SECTION 2.11. Payments and Computations | 39 | |||
SECTION 2.12. Taxes | 41 | |||
SECTION 2.13. Sharing of Payments, Etc. | 42 | |||
SECTION 2.14. Use of Proceeds | 43 | |||
SECTION 2.15. Defaulting Lenders | 43 | |||
SECTION 2.16. Evidence of Debt | 45 | |||
SECTION 2.17. Mitigation Obligations; Replacement of Lenders | 46 | |||
ARTICLE III | ||||
CONDITIONS OF LENDING AND ISSUANCES OF LETTERS OF CREDIT | ||||
SECTION 3.01. Conditions Precedent to Restatement | 47 | |||
SECTION 3.02. Conditions Precedent to Each Borrowing and Issuance and Renewal | 49 | |||
SECTION 3.03. Determinations Under Section 3.01 | 50 |
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Section | Page | |||
ARTICLE IV | ||||
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES | ||||
SECTION 4.01. Representations and Warranties of Parent and the Borrower | 50 | |||
ARTICLE V | ||||
COVENANTS OF THE BORROWER AND PARENT | ||||
SECTION 5.01. Affirmative Covenants | 54 | |||
SECTION 5.02. Negative Covenants | 59 | |||
SECTION 5.03. Reporting Requirements | 66 | |||
SECTION 5.04. Financial Covenants | 69 | |||
ARTICLE VI | ||||
EVENTS OF DEFAULT | ||||
SECTION 6.01. Events of Default | 71 | |||
SECTION 6.02. Actions in Respect of the Letters of Credit upon Default | 73 | |||
ARTICLE VII | ||||
THE AGENTS | ||||
SECTION 7.01. Authorization and Action | 73 | |||
SECTION 7.02. Agents’ Reliance, Etc. | 74 | |||
SECTION 7.03. BNS and Affiliates | 75 | |||
SECTION 7.04. Lender Party Credit Decision | 75 | |||
SECTION 7.05. Indemnification | 75 | |||
SECTION 7.06. Successor Agents | 76 | |||
SECTION 7.07. Other Agents; Arranger and Managers | 77 | |||
ARTICLE VIII | ||||
GUARANTY | ||||
SECTION 8.01. Guaranty; Limitation of Liability. | 77 | |||
SECTION 8.02. Guaranty Absolute | 78 | |||
SECTION 8.03. Waivers and Acknowledgments | 79 | |||
SECTION 8.04. Subrogation | 80 | |||
SECTION 8.05. Guaranty Supplements | 80 | |||
SECTION 8.06. Subordination | 80 | |||
SECTION 8.07. Continuing Guaranty; Assignments | 81 |
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Section | Page | |||
ARTICLE IX | ||||
MISCELLANEOUS | ||||
SECTION 9.01. Amendments, Etc. | 82 | |||
SECTION 9.02. Notices, Etc. | 82 | |||
SECTION 9.03. No Waiver; Remedies | 83 | |||
SECTION 9.04. Costs and Expenses | 83 | |||
SECTION 9.05. Right of Set-off | 84 | |||
SECTION 9.06. Binding Effect | 84 | |||
SECTION 9.07. Assignments and Participations | 85 | |||
SECTION 9.08. Execution in Counterparts | 88 | |||
SECTION 9.09. No Liability of the Issuing Bank | 88 | |||
SECTION 9.10. Confidentiality | 88 | |||
SECTION 9.11. Release of Collateral and Guarantees | 88 | |||
SECTION 9.12. Non-Consenting Lenders | 89 | |||
SECTION 9.13. Affirmation of Subsidiary Guarantors | 89 | |||
SECTION 9.14. Patriot Act Notice | 89 | |||
SECTION 9.15. Jurisdiction, Etc. | 89 | |||
SECTION 9.16. Governing Law | 90 | |||
SECTION 9.17. WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL | 90 |
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SCHEDULES | ||||
Schedule I | - | Commitments and Applicable Lending Offices | ||
Schedule II | - | Subsidiary Guarantors | ||
Schedule 4.01(b) | - | Subsidiaries | ||
Schedule 4.01(d) | - | Authorizations, Approvals, Actions, Notices and Filings | ||
Schedule 4.01(q) | - | Environmental Disclosure | ||
Schedule 4.01(s) | - | Existing Debt | ||
Schedule 4.01(t) | - | Surviving Debt | ||
Schedule 4.01(u) | - | Liens | ||
Schedule 4.01(v) | - | Owned Real Property | ||
Schedule 4.01(w)(i) | - | Leased Real Property (Lessee) | ||
Schedule 4.01(w)(ii) | - | Leased Real Property (Lessor) | ||
Schedule 4.01(w)(iii) | - | Property with Title Insurance | ||
Schedule 4.01(w)(iv) | - | Property with Surveys | ||
Schedule 4.01(x) | - | Investments | ||
Schedule 4.01(y) | - | Intellectual Property | ||
Schedule 5.01(j)(iii) | - | Post Closing Actions |
EXHIBITS | ||||
Exhibit A-1 | - | Form of Revolving Credit Note | ||
Exhibit A-2 | - | Form of Term B Note | ||
Exhibit B | - | Form of Notice of Borrowing | ||
Exhibit C | - | Form of Assignment and Acceptance | ||
Exhibit D | - | Form of Security Agreement | ||
Exhibit E | - | Form of Mortgage | ||
Exhibit F | - | Form of Solvency Certificate | ||
Exhibit G | - | Form of Opinion of Counsel to the Loan Parties | ||
Exhibit H | - | Form of Opinion of Local Counsel to the Loan Parties | ||
Exhibit I | - | Form of Guaranty Supplement |
AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT
AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT (this “Agreement”) dated as of April 28, 2006 among The Kansas City Southern Railway Company, a Missouri corporation (the “Borrower”), Kansas City Southern, a Delaware corporation (the “Parent”), the Subsidiary Guarantors (as hereinafter defined), the Lenders (as hereinafter defined), the Issuing Bank (as hereinafter defined), the Swing Line Bank (as hereinafter defined), The Bank of Nova Scotia (“BNS”), as collateral agent (together with any successor collateral agent appointed pursuant to Article VII, the “Collateral Agent”) for the Secured Parties (as hereinafter defined), Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc, and Harris N.A., as co-syndication agents, LaSalle Bank National Association and Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi IFJ Trust Company, as co-documentation agents, and BNS, as administrative agent (together with any successor administrative agent appointed pursuant to Article VII, the “Administrative Agent” and, together with the Collateral Agent, the “Agents”) for the Lender Parties (as hereinafter defined), and Scotia Capital as lead arranger and bookrunner (the “Arranger”).
PRELIMINARY STATEMENTS:
1. The Borrower has requested that the Lenders amend and restate (such amendment and restatement being referred to herein as the “Restatement”) its existing $250 million credit agreement dated as of March 30, 2004 (as amended or otherwise modified prior to the date hereof, the “Existing Credit Facility”).
2. The Lender Parties have indicated their willingness to agree to the Restatement and extend credit to the Borrower, and the Issuing Bank has agreed to issue Letters of Credit for the account of the Borrower, on the terms and conditions of this Agreement.
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and of the mutual covenants and agreements contained herein, the parties hereto hereby agree as follows:
ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS AND ACCOUNTING TERMS
SECTION 1.01.Certain Defined Terms. As used in this Agreement, the following terms shall have the following meanings (such meanings to be equally applicable to both the singular and plural forms of the terms defined):
“2000 Senior Notes” means the unsecured 9-1/2% senior notes of the Borrower due October 1, 2008 in an aggregate principal amount of $200,000,000 issued pursuant to the 2000 Senior Notes Indenture.
“2000 Senior Notes Indenture”means the Indenture dated as of September 27, 2000 between the Borrower and The Bank of New York as trustee, as amended to the extent permitted under the Loan Documents.
“2002 Senior Notes” means the unsecured 7-1/2% senior notes of the Borrower due June 15, 2009 in an aggregate principal amount of $200,000,000 issued pursuant to the 2002 Senior Notes Indenture.
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“2002 Senior Notes Indenture” means the Indenture dated as of June 12, 2002 between the Borrower and US Bank National Association as trustee, as amended to the extent permitted under the Loan Documents.
“Administrative Agent” has the meaning specified in the recital of parties to this Agreement.
“Administrative Agent’s Account” means the account of the Administrative Agent specified by the Administrative Agent in writing to the Lender Parties from time to time.
“Advance” means a Term B Advance, a Revolving Credit Advance, a Swing Line Advance or a Letter of Credit Advance.
“Affiliate” means, as to any Person, any other Person that, directly or indirectly, controls, is controlled by or is under common control with such Person or is a director or officer of such Person. For purposes of this definition, the term “control” (including the terms “controlling”, “controlled by” and “under common control with”) of a Person means the possession, direct or indirect, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of such Person, whether through the ownership of Voting Interests, by contract or otherwise.
“Agents” has the meaning specified in the recital of parties to this Agreement.
“Applicable Commitment Fee Rate” means, at any time, in respect of the Revolving Credit Facility, (a) until the first date after the Effective Date when the Borrower delivers the financial statements and related certificates and schedules required pursuant to Section 5.03(b) or (c), 0.50% per annum, and (b) thereafter, a percentage per annum as set forth below determined by reference to the Leverage Ratio as set forth in the most recent officer’s certificate received by the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 5.03(b) or (c):
Applicable | ||||
Commitment | ||||
Leverage Ratio | Fee Rate | |||
Level I less than or equal to 3.25: 1.00 | 0.375 | % | ||
Level II greater than 3.25: 1.00 but less than or equal to 4.25:1.00 | 0.500 | % | ||
Level III greater than 4.25: 1.00 but less than or equal to 5.25: 1.00 | 0.500 | % | ||
Level IV greater than 5.25: 1.00 | 0.500 | % |
Any increase or decrease in the Applicable Commitment Fee Rate resulting from a change in the Leverage Ratio shall become effective as of the first Business Day immediately following the date an officer’s certificate is delivered pursuant to Section 5.03(b) or (c);provided,however, that if such officer’s certificate is not delivered when due in accordance with such Section, then until
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the first Business Day after the date on which such officer’s certificate is delivered, Level IV shall apply as of the first Business Day after the date on which such officer’s certificate was required to have been delivered.
“Applicable Lending Office” means, with respect to each Lender Party, such Lender Party’s Domestic Lending Office in the case of a Base Rate Advance and such Lender Party’s Eurodollar Lending Office in the case of a Eurodollar Rate Advance.
“Applicable Margin” means (a) in respect of the Revolving Credit Facility and the Swing Line Facility, (i) until the first date after the Effective Date when the Borrower delivers the financial statements and related certificates and schedules required pursuant to Section 5.03(c) for the fiscal quarter ending June 30, 2006, 1.00% per annum for Base Rate Advances and 2.00% per annum for Eurodollar Rate Advances and (ii) thereafter, a percentage as set forth below per annum determined by reference to the Leverage Ratio, as set forth in the most recent officer’s certificate received by the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 5.03(b) or (c):
Applicable | Applicable | |||||||
Margin for | Margin for | |||||||
Base Rate | Eurodollar Rate | |||||||
Leverage Ratio | Advances | Advances | ||||||
Level I less than or equal to 3.25: 1.00 | 0.250 | % | 1.250 | % | ||||
Level II greater than 3.25: 1.00 but less than or equal to 4.25:1.00 | 0.500 | % | 1.500 | % | ||||
Level III greater than 4.25: 1.00 but less than or equal to 5.25: 1.00 | 0.750 | % | 1.750 | % | ||||
Level IV greater than 5.25: 1.00 | 1.000 | % | 2.000 | % |
and (b) in respect of the Term B Facility, 0.75% per annum for Base Rate Advances and 1.75% per annum for Eurodollar Rate Advances.
In respect of the Revolving Credit Facility and the Swing Line Facility, after the first date after the Effective Date on which the Borrower delivers the financial statements and related certificates and schedules required pursuant to Section 5.03 (b) or (c), the Applicable Margin for each Base Rate Advance thereunder and the Applicable Margin for each Eurodollar Rate Advance thereunder shall be determined by reference to the Leverage Ratio, in effect on the first day of each Interest Period for such Advance as reflected on the most recent financial statements delivered pursuant to Sections 5.03(b) or (c), as the case may be;provided,however, that (A) no change in the Applicable Margin shall be effective until three Business Days after the date on which the Administrative Agent receives the financial statements required to be delivered pursuant to Section 5.03(b) or (c), as the case may be, and a certificate of the chief financial officer or treasurer of the Borrower demonstrating such Leverage Ratio;provided,further, that if such officer’s certificate is not delivered when due in accordance with such Section, then until the
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first Business Day after the date on which such officer’s certificate is delivered, Level IV shall apply as of the first Business Day after the date on which such officer’s certificate was required to have been delivered.
“Appropriate Lender” means, at any time, with respect to (a) any of the Term B Facility or the Revolving Credit Facility, a Lender that has a Commitment with respect to such Facility or has made an Advance with respect to such Facility at such time, (b) the Letter of Credit Facility, (i) the Issuing Bank and (ii) if the other Revolving Credit Lenders have made Letter of Credit Advances pursuant to Section 2.03(c) that are outstanding at such time, each such other Revolving Credit Lender and (c) the Swing Line Facility, (i) the Swing Line Bank and (ii) if the other Revolving Credit Lenders have made Swing Line Advances pursuant to Section 2.02(b) that are outstanding at such time, each such other Revolving Credit Lender.
“Approved Fund” means any Fund that is administered or managed by (i) a Lender Party, (ii) an Affiliate of a Lender Party or (iii) an entity or an Affiliate of an entity that administers or manages a Lender Party.
“Arranger” has the meaning set forth in the recital of the parties hereto.
“Assignment and Acceptance” means an assignment and acceptance entered into by a Lender Party and an Eligible Assignee (with the consent of any party whose consent is required by Section 9.07 or the definition of “Eligible Assignee”), and accepted by the Administrative Agent, in accordance with Section 9.07 and in substantially the form of Exhibit C hereto or any other form approved by the Administrative Agent.
“Attributable Debt” means, in connection with any Sale and Leaseback Transaction, the present value (discounted in accordance with GAAP at the discount rate implied in the lease) of the obligations of the lessee for rental payments during the term of the lease.
“Available Amount” of any Letter of Credit means, at any time, the maximum amount available to be drawn under such Letter of Credit at such time (assuming compliance at such time with all conditions to drawing).
“Bankruptcy Law” means any proceeding of the type referred to in Section 6.01(f) or Title II, U.S. Code, or any similar foreign, federal or state law for the relief of debtors.
“Base Rate” means a fluctuating interest rate per annum in effect from time to time, which rate per annum shall at all times be equal to the higher of:
(a) the rate of interest announced publicly by the Administrative Agent in New York, New York, from time to time, as the Administrative Agent’s base or prime commercial lending rate; and
(b)1/2 of 1% per annum above the Federal Funds Rate.
“Base Rate Advance” means an Advance that bears interest as provided in Section 2.07(a)(i).
“BNS” has the meaning specified in the recital of parties to this Agreement.
“Borrower” has the meaning specified in the recital of parties to this Agreement.
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“Borrower’s Account” means the account of the Borrower specified by the Borrower in writing to the Administrative Agent from time to time.
“Borrowing” means a Term B Borrowing, a Revolving Credit Borrowing or a Swing Line Borrowing.
“Business Day” means any day that is not a Saturday or Sunday or any other day on which banks are not required or authorized by law to close in New York City and, if the applicable Business Day relates to any Eurodollar Rate Advances, any day on which dealings are carried on in the London interbank market.
“Capital Expenditures” means, for any Person for any period, the sum of, without duplication, (a) all expenditures made by such Person during such period for equipment, fixed assets, real property or improvements, or for replacements or substitutions therefor or additions thereto, that have been or should be, in accordance with GAAP, reflected as additions to property, plant or equipment in a Consolidated statement of cash flows of such Person for such period plus (b) the aggregate amount of all Capitalized Lease Obligations assumed or incurred during such period.
“Capitalized Lease Obligations” means with respect to any Person the Obligations of such Person to pay rent or other amounts under any lease of (or other arrangement conveying the right to use) real or personal property, or a combination thereof, which Obligations are required to be classified and accounted for as a capital lease on a balance sheet of such Person in accordance with GAAP and the amount of such Obligations shall be the capitalized amount thereof determined in accordance with GAAP.
“Cash Equivalents” means any of the following, to the extent owned by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries free and clear of all Liens other than Liens created under the Collateral Documents: (a) readily marketable direct obligations of the Government of the United States or any agency or instrumentality thereof or obligations unconditionally guaranteed by the full faith and credit of the Government of the United States, (b) insured certificates of deposit of or time deposits with any commercial bank that is a Lender Party or a member of the Federal Reserve System, is organized under the laws of the United States or any State thereof and has combined capital and surplus of at least $500 million, in each case, having a maturity of not greater than 180 days from the date of acquisition thereof, (c) commercial paper maturing within 270 days from the date of acquisition thereof in an aggregate amount of no more than $20 million per issuer outstanding at any time, issued by any corporation organized under the laws of any State of the United States and rated, at the time of acquisition, at least “Prime-1” (or the then equivalent grade) by Moody’s or “A-1” (or the then equivalent grade) by S&P, (d) Investments, classified in accordance with GAAP as Current Assets of the Parent or any of its Subsidiaries, in money market investment programs registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, which are administered by financial institutions that have the highest commercial paper rating obtainable from either Moody’s or S&P, and the portfolios of which are limited solely to Investments of the character, quality and maturity described in clauses (a), (b) and (c) of this definition, (e) fully collateralized repurchase agreements with a term of not more than 30 days for securities described in clause (a) above and entered into with a financial institution satisfying the criteria described in clause (b) above, or (f) such other liquid investments as shall be approved by the Administrative Agent.
“Caymex” means Caymex Transportation, Inc., a Delaware corporation.
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“CERCLA” means the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act of 1980, as amended from time to time.
“CERCLIS” means the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Information System maintained by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
“Change of Control” shall be deemed to have occurred if (i) at any time, less than 75% of the members of the board of directors of Parent shall be (A) individuals who are members of such board on the date hereof or (B) individuals whose election, or nomination for election by Parent’s stockholders, was approved by a vote of at least 75% of the members of the board then still in office who are members of the board on the date hereof (or whose election or nomination has been approved as provided in this clause (B)), (ii) at any time, any person, or any two or more persons acting as a partnership, limited partnership, syndicate, or other group for the purpose of acquiring, holding or disposing of Equity Interests of Parent, shall become, according to public announcement or filing, the “beneficial owner” (as defined in Rule 13d-3 issued under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended), directly or indirectly, of securities of Parent representing 30% or more (calculated in accordance with such Rule 13d-3) of the combined voting power of Parent’s then outstanding voting securities, (iii) any Person other than Parent shall acquire ownership, directly or indirectly, beneficially or of record of any Equity Interests of the Borrower or (iv) a “Change of Control” (or similar event), as such term may be defined in any indenture or other agreement or instrument governing Material Debt, shall have occurred.
“Collateral” means all “Collateral” and “Mortgaged Property” referred to in the Collateral Documents and all other property that is or is intended to be subject to any Lien in favor of the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties.
“Collateral Agent” has the meaning specified in the recital of parties to this Agreement.
“Collateral Agent’s Office” means, with respect to the Collateral Agent or any successor Collateral Agent, the office of such Agent as such Agent may from time to time specify to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent.
“Collateral Documents” means the Security Agreement and the Mortgages, each of the collateral documents, instruments and agreements delivered pursuant to Sections 3.01(a)(ii) and 5.01(i), and each other agreement that creates or purports to create a Lien in favor of the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties.
“Commitment” means a Term B Commitment, a Revolving Credit Commitment, a Swing Line Commitment or a Letter of Credit Commitment.
“Commitment Fee” has the meaning specified in Section 2.08(a).
“Confidential Information” means information that any Loan Party furnishes to any Agent or any Lender Party in a writing designated as confidential, but does not include any such information that is or becomes generally available to the public other than as a result of a breach by such Agent or any Lender Party of its obligations hereunder or that is or becomes available to such Agent or such Lender Party from a source other than the Loan Parties that is not, to the best of such Agent’s or such Lender Party’s knowledge, acting in violation of a confidentiality agreement with a Loan Party.
“Consolidated” refers to the consolidation of accounts in accordance with GAAP.
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“Consolidated Interest Expense” means, for any period, the sum, without duplication, of (a) the interest expense (including imputed interest expense in respect of Capitalized Lease Obligations, but excluding amortization of deferred financing costs) of the Parent and its Subsidiaries for such period, determined on a Consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP and (b) all cash dividends paid during such period by the Parent and the Borrower with respect to the Convertible Preferred Stock and Preferred Interests issued after the date hereof in respect of which cash dividends are payable.
“Consolidated Net Income” means, for any period, the net income or loss of the Parent and its Subsidiaries for such period determined on a Consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP;provided that there shall be excluded (a) the income of any Person that is not an Affiliate, other than income (i) earned after June 30, 2005 and (ii) actually paid by such Person to the Parent or any of its Subsidiaries during such period in the form of dividends or other distributions, and (b) the income or loss of any Person accrued prior to the date it becomes a Subsidiary of the Parent or is merged into or consolidated with the Parent or any Subsidiary of the Parent or the date that such Person’s assets are acquired by the Parent or any of its Subsidiaries.
“Consolidated Net Worth” shall mean, on any date, the stockholders’ equity of the Parent and its Subsidiaries on such date, determined on a Consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP.
“Contingent Obligation” means, with respect to any Person, any Obligation or arrangement of such Person to guarantee or intended to guarantee any Debt, leases, dividends or other payment Obligations (“primary obligations”) of any other Person (the “primary obligor”) in any manner, whether directly or indirectly, including, without limitation, (a) the direct or indirect guarantee, endorsement (other than for collection or deposit in the ordinary course of business), co-making by such Person of the Obligation of a primary obligor, (b) the Obligation to make take-or-pay or similar payments, if required, regardless of nonperformance by any other party or parties to an agreement or (c) any Obligation of such Person, whether or not contingent, (i) to purchase any such primary obligation or any property constituting direct or indirect security therefor, (ii) to advance or supply funds (A) for the purchase or payment of any such primary obligation or (B) to maintain working capital or equity capital of the primary obligor or otherwise to maintain the net worth or solvency of the primary obligor, (iii) to purchase property, assets, securities or services primarily for the purpose of assuring the owner of any such primary obligation of the ability of the primary obligor to make payment of such primary obligation, (iv) under Standby Letters of Credit or (v) otherwise to assure or hold harmless the holder of such primary obligation against loss in respect thereof. The amount of any Contingent Obligation shall be deemed to be an amount equal to the stated or determinable amount of the primary obligation in respect of which such Contingent Obligation is made (or, if less, the maximum amount of such primary obligation for which such Person may be liable pursuant to the terms of the instrument evidencing such Contingent Obligation) or, if not stated or determinable, the maximum reasonably anticipated liability in respect thereof (assuming such Person is required to perform thereunder), as determined by such Person in good faith.
“Controlled Group” means all members of a controlled group of corporations and all trades or businesses (whether or not incorporated) under common control which, together with Parent or any of its Subsidiaries, are treated as a single employer under Section 414(b) or 414(c) of the Internal Revenue Code or, solely for purposes of Section 302 of ERISA and Section 412 of the Internal Revenue Code, are treated as a single employer under Section 414(b), (c), (m) or (o) of the Internal Revenue Code.
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“Conversion”, “Convert” and “Converted” each refer to a conversion of Advances of one Type into Advances of the other Type pursuant to Section 2.09 or 2.10.
“Convertible Preferred Stock” means the 4.25% Redeemable Cumulative Convertible Perpetual Preferred Stock in an aggregate principal amount of $200 million issued by the Parent on May 5, 2003 and the 5.125% Cumulative Convertible Perpetual Preferred Stock in an aggregate principal amount of $210 million issued by the Parent on December 9, 2005.
“Current Assets” of any Person means, at any date of determination, all assets of such Person that would, in accordance with GAAP, be classified as current assets of a company conducting a business the same as or similar to that of such Person, after deducting adequate reserves in each case in which a reserve is proper in accordance with GAAP.
“Debt” of any Person means, without duplication, (a) all indebtedness of such Person for borrowed money, (b) all Obligations of such Person for the deferred purchase price of property or services (other than current accounts payable incurred in the ordinary course of such Person’s business), (c) all Obligations of such Person evidenced by notes, bonds, debentures or other similar instruments, (d) all Obligations of such Person under any conditional sale or other title retention agreement with respect to property acquired by such Person, (e) all Capitalized Lease Obligations of such Person, (f) all Obligations of such Person in respect of bankers acceptances and as an account party in respect of letters of credit and letters of guaranty, (g) all Contingent Obligations and Obligations in respect of Securitization Transactions of such Person and (h) all indebtedness and other payment Obligations referred to in clauses (a) through (g) above of another Person secured by (or for which the holder of such Debt has an existing right, contingent or otherwise, to be secured by) any Lien on property (including, without limitation, accounts and contract rights) owned by such Person, even though such Person has not assumed or become liable for the payment of such indebtedness or other payment Obligations. The Debt of any Person shall include the Debt of any other entity (including any partnership in which such Person is a general partner) to the extent such Person is liable therefor as a result of such Person’s ownership interest in or other relationship with such entity, except to the extent the terms of such Debt provide that such Person is not liable therefor. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the definition of “Debt” shall exclude indebtedness that may be satisfied by the Parent or its subsidiaries with the issuance of stock or other Equity Interests of the Parent or its subsidiaries;providedthat such indebtedness must be repaid with such stock or Equity Interests or cash proceeds from the issuance of stock or Equity Interests unless (i) after giving effect to any payment in cash that is not cash proceeds from the issuance of stock or Equity Interests, the Parent would have been in compliance with the financial covenants pursuant to Section 5.04 as determined on a pro forma basis as of the most recently ended fiscal quarter as if such indebtedness had constituted “Debt” or (ii) if the Revolving Credit Facility would remain undrawn after such repayment and have availability thereunder of not less than $25,000,000.
“Debt for Borrowed Money” means, at any date of determination, the sum of (i) the aggregate principal amount of all Debt that, in accordance with GAAP, would be classified as indebtedness on the balance sheet of the Parent and its Subsidiaries at such dateplus the amount of any Debt owed by any Loan Party to Meridian Speedway, and (ii) the aggregate amount of all Securitization Transactions of the Borrower at such date.
“Default” means any Event of Default or any event that would constitute an Event of Default but for the passage of time or the requirement that notice be given or both.
“Default Interest” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.07(b).
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“Defaulted Advance” means, with respect to any Lender Party at any time, the portion of any Advance required to be made by such Lender Party to the Borrower pursuant to Section 2.01 or 2.02 at or prior to such time that has not been made by such Lender Party or by the Administrative Agent for the account of such Lender Party pursuant to Section 2.02(e) as of such time. In the event that a portion of a Defaulted Advance shall be deemed made pursuant to Section 2.15(a), the remaining portion of such Defaulted Advance shall be considered a Defaulted Advance originally required to be made pursuant to Section 2.01 on the same date as the Defaulted Advance so deemed made in part.
“Defaulted Amount” means, with respect to any Lender Party at any time, any amount required to be paid by such Lender Party to any Agent or any other Lender Party hereunder or under any other Loan Document at or prior to such time that has not been so paid as of such time, including, without limitation, any amount required to be paid by such Lender Party to (a) the Swing Line Bank pursuant to Section 2.02(b) to purchase a portion of a Swing Line Advance made by the Swing Line Bank, (b) the Issuing Bank pursuant to Section 2.03(c) to purchase a portion of a Letter of Credit Advance made by the Issuing Bank, (c) the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 2.02(e) to reimburse the Administrative Agent for the amount of any Advance made by the Administrative Agent for the account of such Lender Party, (d) any other Lender Party pursuant to Section 2.13 to purchase any participation in Advances owing to such other Lender Party and (e) any Agent or the Issuing Bank pursuant to Section 7.05 to reimburse such Agent or the Issuing Bank for such Lender Party’s ratable share of any amount required to be paid by the Lender Parties to such Agent or the Issuing Bank as provided therein. In the event that a portion of a Defaulted Amount shall be deemed paid pursuant to Section 2.15(b), the remaining portion of such Defaulted Amount shall be considered a Defaulted Amount originally required to be paid hereunder or under any other Loan Document on the same date as the Defaulted Amount so deemed paid in part.
“Defaulting Lender” means, at any time, any Lender Party that, at such time, (a) owes a Defaulted Advance or a Defaulted Amount or (b) shall take any action or be the subject of any action or proceeding of a type described in Section 6.01(f).
“Domestic Lending Office” means, with respect to any Lender Party, the office of such Lender Party specified as its “Domestic Lending Office” opposite its name on Schedule I hereto or in the Assignment and Acceptance pursuant to which it became a Lender Party, as the case may be, or such other office of such Lender Party as such Lender Party may from time to time specify to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent.
“EBITDA” means, at any date of determination, the sum, determined on a Consolidated basis, of Consolidated Net Income for such period plus (a) without duplication and to the extent deducted in determining such Consolidated Net Income, the sum of (i) Consolidated Interest Expense for such period, (ii) consolidated income tax expense for such period, (iii) all amounts attributable to depreciation and amortization for such period, including amortization of deferred financing costs, and (iv) all extraordinary losses for such period and minus (b) without duplication and to the extent included in determining such Consolidated Net Income, any extraordinary gains for such period determined in accordance with GAAP for the most recently completed Measurement Period;provided,however, that EBITDA shall exclude (i) non-cash charges not to exceed $5,000,000 in the aggregate per annum arising from claims adjustments and accounting changes and (ii) non-cash charges not to exceed $35,700,000 in the aggregate for the fiscal quarter ended September 30, 2005 with respect to an increase in claims reserves.
“Effective Date” has the meaning specified in Section 3.01.
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“Eligible Assignee” means with respect to any Facility (other than the Letter of Credit Facility), (i) a Lender Party; (ii) an Affiliate of a Lender Party; (iii) an Approved Fund; and (iv) any other Person (other than an individual) approved by (x) the Administrative Agent, (y) in the case of an assignment of a Revolving Credit Commitment, the Issuing Bank and (z) unless a Default has occurred and is continuing, the Borrower (each such approval not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed);provided, however,that neither any Loan Party nor any Affiliate of a Loan Party shall qualify as an Eligible Assignee under this definition.
“Environmental Action” means any action, suit, demand, demand letter, claim, notice of non-compliance or violation, notice of liability or potential liability, investigation, proceeding, consent order or consent agreement relating in any way to any Environmental Law, any Environmental Permit or Hazardous Material or arising from alleged injury or threat to health, safety or the environment, including, without limitation, (a) by any governmental or regulatory authority for enforcement, cleanup, removal, response, remedial or other actions or damages and (b) by any governmental or regulatory authority or third party for damages, contribution, indemnification, cost recovery, compensation or injunctive relief.
“Environmental Law” means any Federal, state, local or foreign statute, law, ordinance, rule, regulation, code, order, writ, judgment, injunction, decree or judicial or agency interpretation, policy or guidance relating to pollution or protection of the environment, health, safety or natural resources, including, without limitation, those relating to the use, handling, transportation, treatment, storage, disposal, release or discharge of Hazardous Materials.
“Environmental Liability” means any liability, contingent or otherwise (including any liability for damages, costs of environmental remediation, fines, penalties or indemnities), of Parent, the Borrower or any Subsidiary directly or indirectly resulting from or based upon (a) violation of any Environmental Law, (b) the generation, use, handling, transportation, storage, treatment or disposal of any Hazardous Materials, (c) exposure to any Hazardous Materials, (d) the release or threatened release of any Hazardous Materials into the environment or (e) any contract, agreement or other consensual arrangement pursuant to which liability is assumed or imposed with respect to any of the foregoing.
“Environmental Permit” means any permit, approval, identification number, license or other authorization required under any Environmental Law.
“Equity Interests” means, with respect to any Person, shares of capital stock of (or other ownership or profit interests in) such Person, warrants, options or other rights for the purchase or other acquisition from such Person of shares of capital stock of (or other ownership or profit interests in) such Person, securities convertible into or exchangeable for shares of capital stock of (or other ownership or profit interests in) such Person or warrants, rights or options for the purchase or other acquisition from such Person of such shares (or such other interests), and other ownership or profit interests in such Person (including, without limitation, partnership, member or trust interests therein), whether voting or nonvoting, and whether or not such shares, warrants, options, rights or other interests are authorized or otherwise existing on any date of determination.
“ERISA” means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended from time to time, and the regulations promulgated and rulings issued thereunder.
“ERISA Event” means (a) any Reportable Event; (b) the existence with respect to any Plan of an “accumulated funding deficiency” (as defined in Section 412 of the Internal Revenue Code or Section 302 of ERISA), whether or not waived; (c) the filing pursuant to Section 412(d)
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of the Internal Revenue Code or Section 303(d) of ERISA of an application for a waiver of the minimum funding standard with respect to any Plan; (d) the incurrence by Parent or any member of the Controlled Group of any liability under Title IV of ERISA with respect to the termination of any Plan; (e) the receipt by Parent or any member of the Controlled Group from the PBGC or a plan administrator of any notice relating to an intention to terminate any Plan or to appoint a trustee to administer any Plan; (f) the incurrence by Parent or any member of the Controlled Group of any liability with respect to the withdrawal or partial withdrawal from any Plan or Multiemployer Plan; or (g) the receipt by Parent or any member of the Controlled Group of any notice, or the receipt by any Multiemployer Plan from Parent or any member of the Controlled Group of any notice, concerning the imposition of Withdrawal Liability or a determination that a Multiemployer Plan is, or is expected to be, insolvent or in reorganization, within the meaning of Title IV of ERISA.
“Escrow Bank” has the meaning specified in Section 2.15(c).
“Eurocurrency Liabilities” has the meaning specified in Regulation D of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, as in effect from time to time.
“Eurodollar Lending Office” means, with respect to any Lender Party, the office of such Lender Party specified as its “Eurodollar Lending Office” opposite its name on Schedule I hereto or in the Assignment and Acceptance pursuant to which it became a Lender Party (or, if no such office is specified, its Domestic Lending Office), or such other office of such Lender Party as such Lender Party may from time to time specify to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent.
“Eurodollar Rate” means, for any Interest Period, an interest rate per annum equal to the rate per annum obtained by dividing (a) the rate per annum (rounded upwards, if necessary, to the nearest 1/100 of 1%) appearing on the page of the Telerate screen (or any successor page) that displays an average British Bankers Association Interest Settlement Rate for deposits in Dollars (for delivery on the first day of such Interest Period) with a term equivalent to such Interest Period, determined as of approximately 11:00 A.M. (London time) two Business Days before the first day of such Interest Period (providedthat, if for any reason such rate does not appear on such page or service or such page or service shall not be available, the term “Eurodollar Rate” shall mean the rate per annum (rounded upwards, if necessary, to the nearest 1/100 of 1%) equal to the rate determined by the Administrative Agent to be the offered rate on such other page or other service that displays an average British Bankers Association Interest Settlement Rate for deposits in Dollars (for delivery on the first day of such Interest Period) with a term equivalent to such Interest Period, determined as of approximately 11:00 A.M. (London time) two Business Days prior to the first day of such Interest Period) by (b) a percentage equal to 100% minus the Eurodollar Rate Reserve Percentage for such Interest Period.
“Eurodollar Rate Advance” means an Advance that bears interest as provided in Section 2.07(a)(ii).
“Eurodollar Rate Reserve Percentage” for any Interest Period for all Eurodollar Rate Advances comprising part of the same Borrowing means the reserve percentage applicable two Business Days before the first day of such Interest Period under regulations issued from time to time by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (or any successor) for determining the maximum reserve requirement (including, without limitation, any emergency, supplemental or other marginal reserve requirement) for a member bank of the Federal Reserve System in New York City with respect to liabilities or assets consisting of or including Eurocurrency Liabilities (or with respect to any other category of liabilities that includes deposits by reference
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to which the interest rate on Eurodollar Rate Advances is determined) having a term equal to such Interest Period.
“Events of Default” has the meaning specified in Section 6.01.
“Excess Cash Flow” means, for any Fiscal Year,
(a) EBITDA for such Fiscal Year;minus
(b) cash tax payments made by Parent and its Subsidiaries during such Fiscal Year;minus
(c) Consolidated Interest Expense for such Fiscal Year;minus
(d) (i) cash Capital Expenditures for such Fiscal Year (except to the extent attributable to the incurrence of Capitalized Lease Obligations or otherwise financed by incurring long-term Debt) and (ii) capital contributions, loans and guaranteed Debt and Sale and Leaseback Transactions made in cash during such Fiscal Year, in each case permitted by Section 5.02(f)(viii);minus
(e) the aggregate principal amount of long-term Debt repaid or prepaid by Parent and its Subsidiaries during such Fiscal Year, excluding (i) Debt in respect of Revolving Credit Advances and Letters of Credit, (ii) Term B Advances prepaid pursuant to Section 2.06(b)(ii) (other than any part of such prepayment attributable to gains on asset sales that are included in the calculation of Consolidated Net Income for such Fiscal Year), and (iii) repayments or prepayments of long-term Debt financed by incurring other long-term Debt or by issuing Equity Interests;minus
(f) the aggregate amount of Investments or other payments required to be made by the Parent or any of its Subsidiaries during such Fiscal Year pursuant to mandatory capital calls or similar agreements under joint venture, limited liability company or shareholder agreements and actually made in cash during such Fiscal Year.
“Excluded Taxes” means, with respect to the Administrative Agent or any Lender Party, (a) income or franchise taxes imposed on (or measured by) its net income by the United States of America, or by the jurisdiction under the laws of which the Administrative Agent or such Lender Party, as the case may be, is organized or in which the principal office of the Administrative Agent or such Lender Party, as applicable, is located or, in the case of any Lender Party, in which its Applicable Lending Office is located, (b) any branch profits tax imposed by the United States of America or any similar tax imposed by any other jurisdiction described in clause (a) above, and (c) in the case of a Foreign Lender Party, any withholding tax that (i) is in effect and would apply to amounts payable to such Foreign Lender Party at the time such Foreign Lender Party becomes a party to this Agreement (or designates a different Applicable Lending Office), except to the extent that such Foreign Lender Party (or a Lender Party assignor, if any) was entitled, at the time of designation of a different Applicable Lending Office (or the effective date of the Assignment and Acceptance pursuant to which such Foreign Lender Party becomes a party to this Agreement), to receive additional amounts from a Loan Party with respect to any withholding tax pursuant to Section 2.12(a), or (ii) is attributable to such Foreign Lender Party’s failure to comply with Section 2.12(e) (other than if such failure is due to a change in law, occurring after the date on which applicable documentation originally was required to be provided).
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“Existing Credit Facility” has the meaning specified in the Preliminary Statements.
“Existing Debt” means Debt of each Loan Party and its Subsidiaries outstanding immediately before the occurrence of the Effective Date.
“Extraordinary Receipt” means any cash received by or paid to or for the account of any Person not in the ordinary course of business, consisting of proceeds of property insurance, condemnation awards (and payments in lieu thereof), indemnity payments and proceeds received in connection with any taking under the power of eminent domain or similar proceedings.
“Facility” means the Term B Facility, the Revolving Credit Facility, the Swing Line Facility or the Letter of Credit Facility.
“Federal Funds Rate” means, for any period, a fluctuating interest rate per annum equal for each day during such period to the weighted average of the rates on overnight Federal funds transactions with members of the Federal Reserve System arranged by Federal funds brokers, as published for such day (or, if such day is not a Business Day, for the next preceding Business Day) by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, or, if such rate is not so published for any day that is a Business Day, the average of the quotations for such day for such transactions received by the Administrative Agent from three Federal funds brokers of recognized standing selected by it.
“Fee Letter” means the fee letter dated as of March 17, 2006 between the Borrower and BNS, as amended.
“Fiscal Year” means a fiscal year of the Parent and its Consolidated Subsidiaries ending on December 31 in any calendar year.
“Foreign Lender Party” means any Lender Party that is organized under the laws of a jurisdiction other than the United States of America, any State thereof or the District of Columbia.
“Foreign Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary that is organized under the laws of a jurisdiction other than the United States of America, any State thereof or the District of Columbia.
“Fund” means any Person (other than an individual) that is or will be engaged in making, purchasing, holding or otherwise investing in commercial loans and similar extensions of credit in the ordinary course of its business.
“GAAP” has the meaning specified in Section 1.03.
“Governmental Authority”means any nation or government, any state, province, city, municipal entity or other political subdivision thereof, and any governmental, executive, legislative, judicial, administrative or regulatory agency, department, authority, instrumentality, commission, board, bureau or similar body, whether federal, state, provincial, territorial, local or foreign.
“Governmental Authorization”means any authorization, approval, consent, franchise, license, covenant, order, ruling, permit, certification, exemption, notice, declaration or similar
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right, undertaking or other action of, to or by, or any filing, qualification or registration with, any Governmental Authority.
“Grupo Parent” means a wholly owned direct or indirect domestic subsidiary of Parent that will at all times, individually or together with another direct or indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Parent, be the record and beneficial owner of all Equity Interests in Grupo TFM owned directly or indirectly by Parent (except that up to 25% of the Equity Interests in Grupo TFM may be owned by Kansas City Southern de México, S.A. de C.V., so long as Grupo TFM owns at least 80% of the issued and outstanding Equity Interests in Kansas City Southern de México, S.A. de C.V.).
“Grupo TFM Acquisition” means the acquisition by Parent, directly or indirectly, from Grupo TMM of all the Equity Interests owned, directly or indirectly, by Grupo TMM in Grupo TFM pursuant to a transaction or series of transactions that result in Grupo Parent or another wholly owned subsidiary of Parent owning directly or indirectly all such Equity Interests.
“Grupo TFM” means Grupo Transportacion Ferroviaria Mexicana, S.A. de C.V., a Mexican corporation.
“Grupo TFM Notes” means the promissory notes issued in connection with the Grupo TFM Acquisition by the Parent, KARA Sub, Inc., a Delaware corporation, KCS Investment I, Ltd., a Delaware corporation, and Caymex in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $87,000,000.
“Grupo TMM” means Grupo TMM, S.A., a Mexican corporation.
“Guaranteed Obligations” has the meaning specified in Section 8.01.
“Guaranties” means the Parent Guaranty and the Subsidiary Guaranty.
“Guarantors” means the Parent and the Subsidiary Guarantors.
“Guaranty Supplement” has the meaning specified in Section 8.05.
“Hazardous Materials” means (a) petroleum or petroleum products, by-products or breakdown products, radioactive materials, asbestos-containing materials, polychlorinated biphenyls and radon gas and (b) any other chemicals, materials or substances designated, classified or regulated as hazardous or toxic or as a pollutant or contaminant under any Environmental Law.
“Hedge Agreements” means interest rate swap, cap or collar agreements, interest rate future or option contracts, currency swap agreements, currency future or option contracts, commodity price hedging agreements and arrangements and other hedging agreements.
“Hedge Bank” means any Lender Party or an Affiliate of a Lender Party in its capacity as a party to a Secured Hedge Agreement.
“Indemnified Party” has the meaning specified in Section 9.04(b).
“Indemnified Taxes” means Taxes other than Excluded Taxes.
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“Initial Extension of Credit” means the earlier to occur of the initial Borrowing and the initial issuance of a Letter of Credit hereunder.
“Initial Issuing Bank” means the bank listed on the signature pages hereof as the Initial Issuing Bank.
“Initial Lender Parties” means the Initial Issuing Bank, the Initial Lenders and the Initial Swing Line Bank.
“Initial Lenders” means the banks, financial institutions and other institutional lenders listed on the signature pages hereof as the Initial Lenders.
“Initial Swing Line Bank” means the bank listed on the signature pages hereof as the Initial Swing Line Bank.
“Intercompany Loan Repayment” has the meaning specified in Section 2.14.
“Interest Coverage Ratio” means, at any date of determination, the ratio of (a) EBITDA to (b) Consolidated Interest Expense, in each case, for the most recently completed Measurement Period.
“Interest Period” means, for each Eurodollar Rate Advance comprising part of the same Borrowing, the period commencing on the date of such Eurodollar Rate Advance or the date of the Conversion of any Base Rate Advance into such Eurodollar Rate Advance, and ending on the last day of the period selected by the Borrower pursuant to the provisions below and, thereafter, each subsequent period commencing on the last day of the immediately preceding Interest Period and ending on the last day of the period selected by the Borrower pursuant to the provisions below. The duration of each such Interest Period shall be one, two, three or six months, as the Borrower may, upon notice received by the Administrative Agent not later than 1:00 P.M. (New York City time) on the third Business Day prior to the first day of such Interest Period, select (or such shorter periods as the Borrower may select and may be available and acceptable to the Lenders);provided,however, that:
(a) the Borrower may not select any Interest Period with respect to any Eurodollar Rate Advance under a Facility that ends after any principal repayment installment date for such Facility unless, after giving effect to such selection, the aggregate principal amount of Base Rate Advances and of Eurodollar Rate Advances having Interest Periods that end on or prior to such principal repayment installment date for such Facility shall be at least equal to the aggregate principal amount of Advances under such Facility due and payable on or prior to such date;
(b) whenever the last day of any Interest Period would otherwise occur on a day other than a Business Day, the last day of such Interest Period shall be extended to occur on the next succeeding Business Day,provided,however, that, if such extension would cause the last day of such Interest Period to occur in the next following calendar month, the last day of such Interest Period shall occur on the next preceding Business Day;
(c) whenever the first day of any Interest Period occurs on a day of an initial calendar month for which there is no numerically corresponding day in the calendar month that succeeds such initial calendar month by the number of months equal to the number of months in such Interest Period, such Interest Period shall end on the last Business Day of such succeeding calendar month; and
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(d) until the earlier to occur of (x) the 30th day following the Effective Date and (y) that date upon which the Arranger has determined (and notifies the Borrower) that the primary syndication of the Facilities (and the resultant addition of institutions as Lenders) has been completed no Eurodollar Rate Advances having an interest period greater than one month may be incurred.
“Internal Revenue Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended from time to time, and the regulations promulgated and rulings issued thereunder.
“Interstate Commerce Act” means the Interstate Commerce Commission Termination Act of 1995, and the regulations promulgated thereunder.
“Inventory” means all Inventory referred to in Section 1(b) of the Security Agreement.
“Investment” in any Person means any loan or advance to such Person, any purchase or other acquisition of any Equity Interests or Debt or the assets comprising a division or business unit or a substantial part or all of the business of such Person, any capital contribution to such Person or any other direct or indirect investment in such Person, including, without limitation, any acquisition by way of a merger or consolidation (or similar transaction) and any arrangement pursuant to which the investor incurs any Contingent Obligation in respect of such person or Debt of the types referred to in clause (h) of the definition of “Debt” in respect of such Person.
“Issuing Bank” means the Initial Issuing Bank and any Eligible Assignee to which the Letter of Credit Commitment hereunder has been assigned pursuant to Section 9.07 so long as such Eligible Assignee expressly agrees to perform in accordance with their terms all of the obligations that by the terms of this Agreement are required to be performed by it as an Issuing Bank and notifies the Administrative Agent of its Applicable Lending Office and the amount of its Letter of Credit Commitment (which information shall be recorded by the Administrative Agent in the Register), for so long as such Initial Issuing Bank or Eligible Assignee, as the case may be, shall have a Letter of Credit Commitment.
“L/C Collateral Account” has the meaning specified in the Security Agreement.
“L/C Disbursement” shall mean a payment or disbursement made by the Issuing Bank pursuant to a Letter of Credit.
“L/C Related Documents” has the meaning specified in Section 2.04(d)(ii).
“Lender Party” means any Lender, the Issuing Bank or the Swing Line Bank.
“Lenders” means the Initial Lenders and each Person that shall become a Lender hereunder pursuant to Section 9.07 for so long as such Initial Lender or Person, as the case may be, shall be a party to this Agreement.
“Lenders Presentation” means the presentation to the Lenders dated April 2006 used by the Arranger in connection with the syndication of the Commitments.
“Letter of Credit Advance” means an advance made by the Issuing Bank or any Revolving Credit Lender pursuant to Section 2.03(c).
“Letter of Credit Agreement” has the meaning specified in Section 2.03(a).
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“Letter of Credit Commitment” means, with respect to the Issuing Bank at any time, the amount set forth opposite the Issuing Bank’s name on Schedule I hereto under the caption “Letter of Credit Commitment” or, if the Issuing Bank has entered into an Assignment and Acceptance, set forth for the Issuing Bank in the Register maintained by the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 9.07(d) as the Issuing Bank’s “Letter of Credit Commitment”, as such amount may be reduced at or prior to such time pursuant to Section 2.05.
“Letter of Credit Facility” means, at any time, an amount equal to the amount of the Issuing Bank’s Letter of Credit Commitment at such time, as such amount may be reduced at or prior to such time pursuant to Section 2.05.
“Letters of Credit” has the meaning specified in Section 2.01(d).
“Leverage Ratio” means, at any date of determination, the ratio of (a) the aggregate amount of Debt for Borrowed Money at such date to (b) EBITDA at such date determined in accordance with GAAP for the most recently completed Measurement Period.
“Lien” means any lien, security interest or other charge or encumbrance of any kind, including, without limitation, the lien or retained security title of a conditional vendor.
“Loan Documents” means (i) this Agreement, (ii) the Notes, (iii) the Guaranties, (iv) the Collateral Documents, (v) the Fee Letters, (vi) each Letter of Credit Agreement, and (vii ) each Secured Hedge Agreement, in each case as amended.
“Loan Parties” means the Parent, the Borrower and the Subsidiary Guarantors.
“Margin Stock” has the meaning specified in Regulation U.
“Material Adverse Change” means any material adverse change in the business, condition (financial or otherwise), operations, performance, properties or prospects of the Parent and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole.
“Material Adverse Effect” means a material adverse effect on (a) the business, condition (financial or otherwise), operations, performance, properties or prospects of the Parent and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, (b) the rights and remedies of any Agent or any Lender Party under any Loan Document or (c) the ability of any Loan Party to perform its Obligations under any Loan Document to which it is or is to be a party.
“Material Debt” means (i) Debt (other than the Obligations hereunder) of the Parent or its Subsidiaries in an aggregate principal amount exceeding $20,000,000 or (ii) obligations in respect of any Hedge Agreement of the Parent or its Subsidiaries in an aggregate principal amount exceeding $30,000,000. For purposes of determining Material Debt, the “principal amount” of the obligations of Parent or any Subsidiary in respect of any Hedging Agreement at any time shall be the maximum aggregate amount (giving effect to any netting agreements) that Parent or such Subsidiary would be required to pay if such Hedging Agreement were terminated at such time.
“Material Debt Document” means any indenture or other agreement or instrument governing or evidencing Material Debt.
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“Measurement Period” means, at any date of determination, the most recently completed four consecutive fiscal quarters of the Parent ending on or prior to such date.
“Meridian Speedway” means Meridian Speedway, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, a joint venture with respect to which not less than 65% of the interest in the capital or profits of such joint venture is directly or indirectly owned or controlled by Parent.
“Meridian Speedway Company Agreement” means that certain Limited Liability Company Agreement of Meridian Speedway by and between the Parent and The Alabama Great Southern Railroad Company, entered into by the parties thereto pursuant to the terms of the Meridian Speedway Transaction Agreement, as modified, amended, amended and restated or supplemented from time to time.
“Meridian Speedway Transaction Agreement” means that certain Transaction Agreement dated as of December 1, 2005, by and among the Parent, the Borrower, Norfolk Southern Corporation and The Alabama Great Southern Railroad Company, as modified, amended, amended and restated or supplemented from time to time.
“Mexrail” means Mexrail, Inc., a Delaware corporation.
“Mexrail Acquisition” means the acquisition by the Parent, directly or indirectly, of all of the Equity Interests in Mexrail for consideration in an aggregate principal amount of approximately $80,000,000.
“Moody’s” means Moody’s Investors Service, Inc.
“Mortgage Policies” means fully paid American Land Title Association Lender’s title insurance policies in form and substance, with endorsements and in amounts reasonably acceptable to the Collateral Agent (it being understood that such amounts will equal the corresponding fair market values of the properties being mortgaged, or, if there shall result in no additional undue cost to the mortgagor, the Commitment under this Agreement), issued, coinsured and reinsured, if applicable, by Stewart Title Guaranty Company, insuring the Mortgages to be valid first and subsisting Liens on the property described therein, free and clear of all defects (including, but not limited to, mechanics’ and materialmen’s Liens) and encumbrances, excepting only Permitted Encumbrances, and providing for such other affirmative insurance (including endorsements for future advances under the Loan Documents and for mechanics’ and materialmen’s Liens) and such coinsurance and direct access reinsurance as the Collateral Agent may deem necessary or desirable.
“Mortgages” means the deeds of trust, trust deeds, mortgages, leasehold mortgages and/or leasehold deeds of trust duly executed by the Loan Parties in connection with the Existing Credit Facility, as set forth on Schedule III, and each other mortgage delivered pursuant to Section 5.01(i) hereof, in each case, as amended, amended and restated or otherwise modified from time to time.
“Multiemployer Plan” shall mean a Plan that is a “multiemployer plan” as defined in Section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA as to which Parent or any member of the Controlled Group may have any liability.
“Net Cash Proceeds” means (a) with respect to any sale, lease, transfer or other disposition (including pursuant to a Sale and Leaseback Transaction or Securitization
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Transaction) of any assets of the Parent or any of its Subsidiaries (other than any sale, lease, transfer or other disposition of assets pursuant to clause (i), (iii) or (vi) of Section 5.02(e) and transfers of accounts receivable in Securitization Transactions to the extent the aggregate amount of all such transactions after the Effective Date hereof shall not exceed $25,000,000) and with respect to Extraordinary Receipts, the excess, if any, of (i) the sum of cash and Cash Equivalents received in connection with such sale, lease, transfer or other disposition or Extraordinary Receipt (including any cash or Cash Equivalents received by way of deferred payment pursuant to, or by monetization of, a note receivable or otherwise, but only as and when so received) over (ii) the sum of (A) the principal amount of any Debt (other than Debt under the Loan Documents) that is secured by such asset and that is required to be repaid in connection with such sale, lease, transfer or other disposition thereof or otherwise subject to mandatory prepayment as a result of such event, (B) the reasonable and customary out-of-pocket costs, fees, commissions, premiums and expenses incurred by the Parent or its Subsidiaries, (C) federal, state, provincial, foreign and local taxes reasonably estimated (on a Consolidated basis) to be actually payable within the current or the immediately succeeding tax year as a result of any gain recognized in connection therewith and (D) the amount of any reserves established by the Parent or any of its Subsidiaries to fund contingent liabilities reasonably estimated to be payable during the year in which such event occurred or the next succeeding year and that are directly attributable to such event;provided,however, that Net Cash Proceeds shall not include any such amounts to the extent such amounts are reinvested in the business of the Parent and its Subsidiaries within 360 days after the date of receipt thereof;provided furtherthat Net Cash Proceeds under this clause (a) shall not include the first $20,000,000 of Net Cash Proceeds in any Fiscal Year;
(b) with respect to the incurrence or issuance of any Debt by the Parent or any of its Subsidiaries (other than (x) Debt permitted pursuant to Section 5.02(b)(i), (iii), (iv) and (v)), the excess of (i) the sum of the cash and Cash Equivalents received in connection with such incurrence or issuance over (ii) the underwriting discounts and commissions or other similar payments, and other out-of-pocket costs, fees, commissions, premiums and expenses incurred by the Parent or any of its Subsidiaries in connection with such incurrence or issuance to the extent such amounts were not deducted in determining the amount referred to in clause (i); and
(c) with respect to the incurrence or issuance of any Debt by the Parent or any of its Subsidiaries pursuant to Section 5.02(b)(v), if the Parent and Borrower do not meet the Debt incurrence test under Section 5.02(b)(i)(H), any amount of such cash and Cash Equivalents received not used to prepay the outstanding Revolving Credit Advances under the Revolving Credit Facility in accordance with Section 2.06(a).
“Non-Consenting Lender” means, in the event that the Required Lenders have agreed to any consent, waiver or amendment pursuant to Section 9.01 that requires the consent of one or more Lenders in addition to the Required Lenders, any Lender who is entitled to agree to such consent, waiver or amendment but who does not so agree.
“Non-Core Business Subsidiary” means any single domestic Subsidiary of the Borrower and any of such Subsidiary’s respective Subsidiaries conducting business of a nature distinct from that of the Loan Parties.
“Note” means a Term B Note or a Revolving Credit Note.
“Notice of Borrowing” has the meaning specified in Section 2.02(a).
“Notice of Issuance” has the meaning specified in Section 2.03(a).
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“Notice of Renewal” has the meaning specified in Section 2.01(e).
“Notice of Swing Line Borrowing” has the meaning specified in Section 2.02(b).
“Notice of Termination” has the meaning specified in Section 2.01(e).
“NPL” means the National Priorities List under CERCLA.
“Obligation” means, with respect to any Person, any payment, performance or other obligation of such Person of any kind, including, without limitation, any liability of such Person on any claim, whether or not the right of any creditor to payment in respect of such claim is reduced to judgment, liquidated, unliquidated, fixed, contingent, matured, disputed, undisputed, legal, equitable, secured or unsecured, and whether or not such claim is discharged, stayed or otherwise affected by any proceeding referred to in Section 6.01(f). Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Obligations of any Loan Party under the Loan Documents include (a) the obligation to pay principal, interest, Letter of Credit commissions, charges, expenses, fees, attorneys’ fees and disbursements, indemnities and other amounts payable by such Loan Party under any Loan Document and (b) the obligation of such Loan Party to reimburse any amount in respect of any of the foregoing that any Lender Party, in its sole discretion, may elect to pay or advance on behalf of such Loan Party.
“OECD” means the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
“Off Balance Sheet Obligation” means, with respect to any Person, any Obligation of such Person under a synthetic lease, tax retention operating lease, off-balance sheet loan or similar off-balance sheet financing classified as an operating lease in accordance with GAAP, if such Obligations would give rise to a claim against such Person in a proceeding referred to in Section 6.01(f);providedthat “Off Balance Sheet Obligations” shall not include Obligations incurred to finance property and equipment in the ordinary course of business.
“Other Taxes” means any and all present or future recording, stamp, documentary, excise, transfer, sales, property, or similar taxes, charges or levies arising from any payment made hereunder or under the Notes or under any other Loan Document or from the execution, delivery, registration or enforcement of, or otherwise with respect to, this Agreement, the Notes or any other Loan Document.
“Parent” has the meaning specified in the recital of parties to this Agreement.
“Parent Guaranty” means the guaranty of the Parent set forth in Article VIII.
“Patriot Act” means the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001, Pub. L. 107-56, signed into law October 26, 2001.
“PBGC” means the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation referred to and defined in ERISA and any successor entity performing similar functions.
“Permitted Encumbrances” has the meaning specified in the Mortgages.
“Permitted Liens” means such of the following as to which no enforcement, collection, execution, levy or foreclosure proceeding shall have been commenced: (a) Liens for taxes,
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assessments and governmental charges or levies to the extent not required to be paid under Section 5.01(b); (b) Liens imposed by law, such as materialmen’s, mechanics’, carriers’, workmen’s and repairmen’s Liens and other similar Liens arising in the ordinary course of business securing obligations that (i) are not overdue for a period of more than 90 days or which are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings and (ii) individually or together with all other Permitted Liens outstanding on any date of determination do not materially adversely affect the use of the property to which they relate; (c) pledges or deposits in the ordinary course of business to secure obligations under workers’ compensation laws or similar legislation or to secure public or statutory obligations; (d) deposits to secure the performance of bids, trade contracts and leases (other than Debt), statutory obligations, surety bonds (other than bonds related to judgments or litigation), performance bonds and other obligations of a like nature incurred in the ordinary course of business; (e) Liens securing judgments (or the payment of money not constituting a Default under Section 6.01(g)) or securing appeal or other surety bonds related to such judgments, and (f) Permitted Encumbrances.
“Person” means an individual, partnership, corporation (including a business trust), limited liability company, joint stock company, trust, unincorporated association, joint venture or other entity, or a government or any political subdivision or agency thereof.
“Plan” means any employee pension benefit plan that is covered by Title IV of ERISA or subject to the minimum funding standards under Section 412 of the Internal Revenue Code as to which Parent or any member of the Controlled Group may have any liability.
“Pledged Shares” has the meaning specified in the Security Agreement.
“Post Petition Interest” has the meaning specified in Section 8.06.
“Preferred Interests” means, with respect to any Person, Equity Interests issued by such Person that are entitled to a preference or priority over any other Equity Interests issued by such Person upon any distribution of such Person’s property and assets, whether by dividend or upon liquidation.
“Prepayment Date” means with respect to any cash receipts from a transaction described in clause (a) or (b) of the definition of “Net Cash Proceeds”, (x) other than in the case of the incurrence or issuance of Debt pursuant to Section 5.02(b)(v), the third Business Day, and (y) in the case of the incurrence or issuance of Debt pursuant to Section 5.02(b)(v), the 120th day, in each case, following the date of the receipt of such Net Cash Proceeds by the Parent or any of its Subsidiaries or, if any cash receipts from a transaction described in clause (a) of the definition of “Net Cash Proceeds” are not deemed to be Net Cash Proceeds pursuant to the penultimate proviso of such clause and are not reinvested in the business of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries within 360 days after the date of receipt thereof, the date which is 360 days following the date of receipt of such cash receipts.
“Prior Effective Date” means the “Effective Date” as defined in the Existing Credit Facility.
“Properties” shall mean all Rights of Way (as defined in each of the Mortgages) and those real estate assets listed on Schedules 4.01(v) and 4.01(w)(ii).
“Pro Rata Share” of any amount means, with respect to any Revolving Credit Lender at any time, the product of such amounttimesa fraction the numerator of which is the amount of
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such Lender’s Revolving Credit Commitment at such time (or, if the Revolving Credit Commitments shall have been terminated pursuant to Section 2.05 or 6.01, such Lender’s Revolving Credit Commitment as in effect immediately prior to such termination) and the denominator of which is the Revolving Credit Facility at such time (or, if the Revolving Credit Commitments shall have been terminated pursuant to Section 2.05 or 6.01, the Revolving Credit Facility as in effect immediately prior to such termination).
“Railway Labor Act” means Railway Labor Act, as amended from time to time.
“Register” has the meaning specified in Section 9.07(d).
“Regulation U” means Regulation U of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, as in effect from time to time.
“Reportable Event” shall mean any reportable event as defined in Section 4043 of ERISA and the regulations issued under such Section with respect to a Plan (other than a Multiemployer Plan), excluding, however, such events as to which the PBGC by regulation or by technical update waived the requirement of Section 4043(a) of ERISA that it be notified within 30 days of the occurrence of such event; provided that a failure to meet the minimum funding standard of Section 412 of the Internal Revenue Code and of Section 302 of ERISA shall be a reportable event regardless of the issuance of any waiver in accordance with Section 412(d) of the Internal Revenue Code or Section 303(d) of ERISA.
“Required Lenders” means, at any time, Lenders owed or holding at least a majority in interest of the sum of (a) the aggregate principal amount of the Advances outstanding at such time, (b) the aggregate Available Amount of all Letters of Credit outstanding at such time, and (c) the aggregate Unused Revolving Credit Commitments at such time;provided,however, that if any Lender shall be a Defaulting Lender at such time, there shall be excluded from the determination of Required Lenders at such time (A) the aggregate principal amount of the Advances owing to such Lender (in its capacity as a Lender) and outstanding at such time, (B) such Lender’s Pro Rata Share of the aggregate Available Amount of all Letters of Credit outstanding at such time, and (C) the Unused Revolving Credit Commitment of such Lender at such time. For purposes of this definition, the aggregate principal amount of Swing Line Advances owing to the Swing Line Bank and of Letter of Credit Advances owing to the Issuing Bank and the Available Amount of each Letter of Credit shall be considered to be owed to the Revolving Credit Lenders ratably in accordance with their respective Revolving Credit Commitments.
“Restatement” has the meaning specified in the Preliminary Statements.
“Revolving Credit Advance” has the meaning specified in Section 2.01(b).
“Revolving Credit Borrowing” means a borrowing consisting of simultaneous Revolving Credit Advances of the same Type made by the Revolving Credit Lenders.
“Revolving Credit Commitment” means, collectively, (a) with respect to any Revolving Credit Lender at any time, the amount set forth opposite such Lender’s name on Schedule I hereto under the caption “Revolving Credit Commitment” and (b) if any such Lender has entered into one or more Assignment and Acceptances, set forth for such Lender in the Register maintained by the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 9.07(d), in each case, as such Lender’s “Revolving Credit Commitment”, may be reduced at or prior to such time pursuant to Section 2.05.
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“Revolving Credit Facility” means, at any time, the aggregate amount of the Revolving Credit Lenders’ Revolving Credit Commitments at such time.
“Revolving Credit Lender” means any Lender that has a Revolving Credit Commitment.
“Revolving Credit Note” means a promissory note of the Borrower payable to the order of any Revolving Credit Lender, in substantially the form of Exhibit A-1 hereto, evidencing the aggregate indebtedness of the Borrower to such Lender resulting from the Revolving Credit Advances, Letter of Credit Advances and Swing Line Advances made by such Lender, as amended.
“Sale and Leaseback Transaction” means any arrangement, directly or indirectly, whereby any Person shall sell or transfer any property, real or personal, used or useful in its business, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, and thereafter rent or lease such property or other property which it intends to use for substantially the same purpose or purposes as the property being sold or transferred.
“Secured Hedge Agreement” means any Hedge Agreement required or permitted under Article V that is entered into by and between any Loan Party and any Hedge Bank.
“Secured Obligations” has the meaning specified in Section 2 of the Security Agreement.
“Secured Parties” means the Agents, the Lender Parties and the Hedge Banks.
“Securitization Transaction” means any transfer by the Borrower or any Subsidiary of accounts receivable or interests therein (a) to a trust, partnership, corporation or other entity, which transfer is funded in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, by the incurrence or issuance by the transferee or any successor transferee of Debt or other securities that are to receive payments from, or that represent interests in, the cash flow derived from such accounts receivable or interests, or (b) directly to one or more investors or other purchasers. The amount of any Securitization Transaction shall be deemed at any time to be the aggregate principal or stated amount of the Debt or other securities referred to in the preceding sentence or, if there shall be no such principal or stated amount, the uncollected amount of the accounts receivable transferred pursuant to such Securitization Transaction net of any such accounts receivable that have been written off as uncollectible.
“Security Agreement” means the security agreement executed on the Prior Effective Date, as amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified, together with each other security agreement and security agreement supplement delivered pursuant to Section 5.01(i).
“Senior Secured Debt” means any Debt that is pari passu with the Debt under the Loan Documents and secured on a first priority basis;providedthat all Debt incurred to purchase newly acquired equipment to the extent such newly acquired equipment is subject to a Sale and Leaseback Transaction shall not constitute “Debt” for the purposes of this definition if such transaction is consummated on or prior to the 120th day of the acquisition of such newly-acquired equipment subject to such Sale and Leaseback Transaction.
“Significant Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary which is not a Foreign Subsidiary the Consolidated revenues of which for the most recent Fiscal Year for which audited financial statements have been delivered pursuant to Section 5.03 were greater than 5% of Parent’s Consolidated revenues for such Fiscal Year or the Consolidated tangible assets of which as of the
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end of such Fiscal Year were greater than 5% of Parent’s Consolidated tangible assets as of such date.
“Solvent” and “Solvency” mean, with respect to any Person on a particular date, that on such date (a) the fair value of the property of such Person is greater than the total amount of liabilities, including, without limitation, contingent liabilities, of such Person, (b) the present fair salable value of the assets of such Person is not less than the amount that will be required to pay the probable liability of such Person on its debts as they become absolute and matured, (c) such Person does not intend to, and does not believe that it will, incur debts or liabilities beyond such Person’s ability to pay such debts and liabilities as they mature and (d) such Person is not engaged in business or a transaction, and is not about to engage in business or a transaction, for which such Person’s property would constitute an unreasonably small capital. The amount of contingent liabilities at any time shall be computed as the amount that, in the light of all the facts and circumstances existing at such time, represents the amount that can reasonably be expected to become an actual or matured liability.
“Standby Letter of Credit” means any Letter of Credit issued under the Letter of Credit Facility, other than a Trade Letter of Credit.
“S&P” means Standard & Poor’s, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
“STB” shall mean the Surface Transportation Board, a board established within the Department of Transportation, or any successor Federal agency charged with similar regulation of common carriers.
“Subordinated Debt” means any Debt of any Loan Party that is subordinated to the Obligations of such Loan Party under the Loan Documents on, and that otherwise contains, terms and conditions satisfactory to the Required Lenders.
“Subordinated Debt Documents” means all agreements, indentures and instruments pursuant to which Subordinated Debt is issued, in each case as amended, to the extent permitted under the Loan Documents.
“Subordinated Obligations” has the meaning specified in Section 8.06.
“Subsidiary” of any Person means any corporation, partnership, joint venture, limited liability company, trust or estate of which (or in which) more than 50% of (a) the issued and outstanding capital stock having ordinary voting power to elect a majority of the Board of Directors of such corporation (irrespective of whether at the time capital stock of any other class or classes of such corporation shall or might have voting power upon the occurrence of any contingency), (b) the interest in the capital or profits of such partnership, joint venture or limited liability company or (c) the beneficial interest in such trust or estate is at the time directly or indirectly owned or controlled by such Person, by such Person and one or more of its other Subsidiaries or by one or more of such Person’s other Subsidiaries. References in this Agreement or any Loan Document to any “Subsidiary” or “Subsidiaries” of the Borrower and/or the Parent shall not under any circumstances include Mexrail, Meridian Speedway (except that, for purposes of (x) Section 5.02(n) and (y) in the calculation of EBITDA (to the extent attributable to the Borrower based on the Borrower’s pro rata share of the outstanding Equity Interests of Meridian Speedway), Meridian Speedway shall be a Subsidiary), Caymex, any domestic wholly owned subsidiary of Parent which directly or indirectly owns the Equity Interests of Grupo TFM or Panama Canal Railway Company and any of their respective subsidiaries.
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“Subsidiary Guarantors” means the Subsidiaries of the Borrower listed on Schedule II hereto and each other Subsidiary of the Borrower that shall be required to execute and deliver a guaranty pursuant to Section 5.01(i).
“Subsidiary Guaranty” means the guaranty of the Subsidiary Guarantors set forth in Article VIII together with each other guaranty and guaranty supplement delivered pursuant to Section 5.01(i), in each case as amended, amended and restated, modified or otherwise supplemented.
“Supplemental Collateral Agent” has the meaning specified in Section 7.01(c).
“Surviving Debt” means Debt of each Loan Party and its Subsidiaries outstanding immediately before and after giving effect to the Initial Extension of Credit.
“Swing Line Advance” means an advance made by (a) the Swing Line Bank pursuant to Section 2.01(c) or (b) any Revolving Credit Lender pursuant to Section 2.02(b).
“Swing Line Bank” means the Initial Swing Line Bank and any Eligible Assignee to which the Swing Line Commitment hereunder has been assigned pursuant to Section 9.07 so long as such Eligible Assignee expressly agrees to perform in accordance with their terms all obligations that by the terms of this Agreement are required to be performed by it as a Swing Line Bank and notifies the Administrative Agent of its Applicable Lending Office and the amount of its Swing Line Commitment (which information shall be recorded by the Administrative Agent in the Register), for so long as such Initial Swing Line Bank or Eligible Assignee, as the case may be, shall have a Swing Line Commitment.
“Swing Line Borrowing” means a borrowing consisting of a Swing Line Advance made by the Swing Line Bank pursuant to Section 2.01(c) or the Revolving Credit Lenders pursuant to Section 2.02(b).
“Swing Line Commitment” means, with respect to the Swing Line Bank at any time, the amount set forth opposite the Swing Line Bank’s name on Schedule I hereto under the caption “Swing Line Commitment” or, if the Swing Line Bank has entered into an Assignment and Acceptances, set forth for the Swing Line Bank in the Register maintained by the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 9.07(d) as the Swing Line Bank’s “Swing Line Commitment”, as such amount may be reduced at or prior to such time pursuant to Section 2.05.
“Swing Line Facility” means, at any time, an amount equal to the amount of the Swing Line Bank’s Swing Line Commitments at such time, as such amount may be reduced at or prior to such time pursuant to Section 2.05.
“Taxes” means any and all present or future taxes, levies, imposts, duties, deductions, charges or withholdings, and all liabilities with respect thereto, imposed by any Governmental Authority.
“Term B Advance” has the meaning specified in Section 2.01(a).
“Term B Borrowing” means a borrowing consisting of simultaneous Term B Advances of the same Type made by the Term B Lenders.
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“Term B Commitment” means, with respect to any Term B Lender at any time, the amount set forth opposite such Lender’s name on Schedule I hereto under the caption “Term B Commitment” or, if such Lender has entered into one or more Assignment and Acceptances, set forth for such Lender in the Register maintained by the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 9.07(d) as such Lender’s “Term B Commitment”, as such amount may be reduced at or prior to such time pursuant to Section 2.05.
“Term B Facility” means, at any time, the aggregate amount of the Term B Lenders’ Term B Commitments at such time.
“Term B Lender” means any Lender that has a Term B Commitment or holds a Term B Advance.
“Term B Note” means a promissory note of the Borrower payable to the order of any Term B Lender, in substantially the form of Exhibit A-2 hereto, evidencing the indebtedness of the Borrower to such Lender resulting from the Term B Advance made by such Lender, as amended.
“Termination Date” means the earlier of (a) the date of termination in whole of the Revolving Credit Commitments, the Letter of Credit Commitment, the Swing Line Commitment, the Term B Commitments pursuant to Section 2.05 or 6.01 and (b) (i) for purposes of the Revolving Credit Facility, the Swing Line Facility and the Letter of Credit Facility, April 28, 2011, (ii) for purposes of the Term B Facility and for all other purposes, April 28, 2013;provided, however, that if, on any date the Facilities are not rated at least Ba3 by Moody’s and BB+ by S&P (in each case, with at least stable outlooks), the “Termination Date” for each of the Facilities shall be the date that is 90 days prior to the earliest final maturity date of any outstanding 2000 Senior Notes and 2002 Senior Notes unless (x) such 2000 Senior Notes and 2002 Senior Notes, as the case may be, have been refinanced in full on or prior to such date or (y) an amount sufficient to indefeasibly repay such 2000 Senior Notes and 2002 Senior Notes, as the case may be, has been deposited with the applicable bond trustee on or prior to such date and, after giving effect to such deposit, the Borrower is in pro forma compliance with all financial covenants set forth in Section 5.04 as determined on a pro forma basis as the most recently ended fiscal year.
“Trade Letter of Credit” means any Letter of Credit that is issued under the Letter of Credit Facility for the benefit of a supplier of Inventory to the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries to effect payment for such Inventory or otherwise issued in the ordinary course of business, the conditions to drawing under which include the presentation to the Issuing Bank of negotiable bills of lading, invoices and related documents sufficient, in the judgment of the Issuing Bank, to create a valid and perfected lien on or security interest in such Inventory, bills of lading, invoices and related documents in favor of the Issuing Bank.
“Transaction” means the Restatement and the other transactions contemplated by the Loan Documents.
“Type” refers to the distinction between Advances bearing interest at the Base Rate and Advances bearing interest at the Eurodollar Rate.
“Unused Revolving Credit Commitment” means, with respect to any Revolving Credit Lender at any time, (a) such Lender’s Revolving Credit Commitment at such timeminus(b) the sum of (i) the aggregate principal amount of all Revolving Credit Advances, Swing Line
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Advances and Letter of Credit Advances made by such Lender (in its capacity as a Lender) and outstanding at such timeplus(ii) such Lender’s Pro Rata Share of (A) the aggregate Available Amount of all Letters of Credit outstanding at such time, (B) the aggregate principal amount of all Letter of Credit Advances made by the Issuing Bank pursuant to Section 2.03(c) and outstanding at such time and (C) the aggregate principal amount of all Swing Line Advances made by the Swing Line Bank pursuant to Section 2.01(c) and outstanding at such time.
“Voting Interests” means shares of capital stock issued by a corporation, or equivalent Equity Interests in any other Person, the holders of which are ordinarily, in the absence of contingencies, entitled to vote for the election of directors (or persons performing similar functions) of such Person, even if the right so to vote has been suspended by the happening of such a contingency.
“Welfare Plan” means a welfare plan, as defined in Section 3(1) of ERISA, that is maintained for employees of any Loan Party or in respect of which any Loan Party could have liability.
“Withdrawal Liability” means liability to a Multiemployer Plan as a result of a complete or partial withdrawal from such Multiemployer Plan, as such terms are defined in Part I of Subtitle E of Title IV of ERISA.
SECTION 1.02.Computation of Time Periods; Other Definitional Provisions. In this Agreement and the other Loan Documents in the computation of periods of time from a specified date to a later specified date, the word “from” means “from and including” and the words “to” and “until” each mean “to but excluding”. References in the Loan Documents to any agreement or contract “as amended” shall mean and be a reference to such agreement or contract as amended, amended and restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time in accordance with its terms.
SECTION 1.03.Accounting Terms. All accounting terms not specifically defined herein shall be construed in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles consistent with those applied in the preparation of the financial statements referred to in Section 4.01(g) (“GAAP”).
SECTION 1.04.Currency Equivalents Generally. Any amount specified in this Agreement (other than in Articles II, VII and IX) or any of the other Loan Documents to be in U.S. dollars shall also include the equivalent of such amount in any currency other than U.S. dollars, such equivalent amount to be determined at the rate of exchange quoted by BNS in New York, New York at the close of business on the Business Day immediately preceding any date of determination thereof, to prime banks in New York, New York for the spot purchase in the New York foreign exchange market of such amount in U.S. dollars with such other currency.
ARTICLE II
AMOUNTS AND TERMS OF THE ADVANCES
AND THE LETTERS OF CREDIT
AND THE LETTERS OF CREDIT
SECTION 2.01.The Advances and the Letters of Credit. (a)The Term B Advances. Each Term B Lender severally agrees, on the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth, to make a single advance (a “Term B Advance”) to the Borrower on the Effective Date in an amount not to exceed such Lender’s Term B Commitment. The Term B Borrowing shall consist of Term B Advances made simultaneously by the Term B Lenders ratably according to their Term B Commitments whereupon the Term B Commitments shall be reduced to zero in accordance with Section 2.05(b). Notwithstanding the
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foregoing, each Term Lender that was a party to the Existing Credit Facility that executes a counterpart to this Agreement on the Effective Date (each, a “Converting Term Lender”) (x) severally agrees to convert (a “Term Loan Conversion”), on the Effective Date, all “Term Loans” (as defined in the Existing Credit Facility) of such Converting Term Lender outstanding on the Effective Date (immediately prior to giving effect thereto) into a term loan hereunder (each such term loan, a “Converted Term Loan” and, collectively, the “Converted Term Loans”), which Term Loan Conversion shall be deemed to constitute the making of a Term Loan for all purposes hereunder in an amount equal to the amount of such Converted Term Loans; provided, that to the extent that the Term Loan Commitment of any Converting Term Loan exceeds the aggregate amount of such Converting Term Lender’s Converted Term Loans, such Converting Term Lender shall be obligated to make a Term Loan to the Borrower in an amount equal to such excess in accordance with the first sentence of this Section 2.01. Amounts borrowed under this Section 2.01(a) and repaid or prepaid may not be reborrowed.
(b)The Revolving Credit Advances. Each Revolving Credit Lender severally agrees, on the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth, to make advances (each a “Revolving Credit Advance”) to the Borrower from time to time on any Business Day during the period from the Effective Date until the Termination Date in respect of the Revolving Credit Facility in an amount for each such Advance not to exceed such Lender’s Unused Revolving Credit Commitment at such time. Each Revolving Credit Borrowing shall be in an aggregate amount of $2,000,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof (other than a Borrowing the proceeds of which shall be used solely to repay or prepay in full outstanding Swing Line Advances or outstanding Letter of Credit Advances or a Borrowing which corresponds to an amortization payment) and shall consist of Revolving Credit Advances made simultaneously by the Revolving Credit Lenders ratably according to their Revolving Credit Commitments. Within the limits of each Revolving Credit Lender’s Unused Revolving Credit Commitment in effect from time to time, the Borrower may borrow under this Section 2.01(b), prepay pursuant to Section 2.06(a) and reborrow under this Section 2.01(b).
(c)The Swing Line Advances. The Swing Line Bank agrees on the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth, to make Swing Line Advances to the Borrower from time to time on any Business Day during the period from the Effective Date until the Termination Date in respect of the Revolving Credit Facility (i) in an aggregate amount not to exceed at any time outstanding the Swing Line Bank’s Swing Line Commitment at such time and (ii) in an amount for each such Swing Line Borrowing not to exceed the aggregate of the Unused Revolving Credit Commitments of the Revolving Credit Lenders at such time. No Swing Line Advance shall be used for the purpose of funding the payment of principal of any other Swing Line Advance. Each Swing Line Borrowing shall be in an amount of $500,000 or an integral multiple of $100,000 in excess thereof and shall be made as a Base Rate Advance. Within the limits of the Swing Line Facility and within the limits referred to in clause (ii) above, the Borrower may borrow under this Section 2.01(c), repay pursuant to Section 2.04(c) or prepay pursuant to Section 2.06(a) and reborrow under this Section 2.01(c). Immediately upon the making of a Swing Line Advance, each Revolving Credit Lender shall be deemed to, and hereby irrevocably and unconditionally agrees to, purchase from the Swing Line Bank a risk participation in such Swing Line Advance in an amount equal to the product of such Lender’s Pro Rata Sharetimes the amount of such Swing Line Advance.
(d)The Letters of Credit. The Issuing Bank agrees, on the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth, to issue (or cause its Affiliate that is a commercial bank to issue on its behalf) letters of credit (the “Letters of Credit”) in U.S. dollars for the account of the Borrower from time to time on any Business Day during the period from the Effective Date until 60 days before the Termination Date in respect of the Revolving Credit Facility in an aggregate Available Amount (i) for all Letters of Credit not to exceed at any time the lesser of (x) the Letter of Credit Facility at such time and (y) the Issuing Bank’s Letter of Credit Commitment at such time and (ii) for each such Letter of Credit not to exceed the Unused
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Revolving Credit Commitments of the Revolving Credit Lenders at such time. No Letter of Credit shall have an expiration date (including all rights of the Borrower or the beneficiary to require renewal) later than the earlier of 60 days before the Termination Date in respect of the Revolving Credit Facility and (A) in the case of a Standby Letter of Credit, one year after the date of issuance thereof, but may by its terms be renewable annually upon notice (a “Notice of Renewal”) given to the Issuing Bank and the Administrative Agent on or prior to any date for notice of renewal set forth in such Letter of Credit but in any event at least three Business Days prior to the date of the proposed renewal of such Standby Letter of Credit and upon fulfillment of the applicable conditions set forth in Article III unless the Issuing Bank has notified the Borrower (with a copy to the Administrative Agent) on or prior to the date for notice of termination set forth in such Letter of Credit but in any event at least 30 Business Days prior to the date of automatic renewal of its election not to renew such Standby Letter of Credit (a “Notice of Termination”) and (B) in the case of a Trade Letter of Credit, 60 days after the date of issuance thereof;providedthat the terms of each Standby Letter of Credit that is automatically renewable annually shall (x) require the Issuing Bank that issued such Standby Letter of Credit to give the beneficiary named in such Standby Letter of Credit notice of any Notice of Termination, (y) permit such beneficiary, upon receipt of such notice, to draw under such Standby Letter of Credit prior to the date such Standby Letter of Credit otherwise would have been automatically renewed and (z) not permit the expiration date (after giving effect to any renewal) of such Standby Letter of Credit in any event to be extended to a date later than 60 days before the Termination Date in respect of the Revolving Credit Facility. If either a Notice of Renewal is not given by the Borrower or a Notice of Termination is given by the Issuing Bank pursuant to the immediately preceding sentence, such Standby Letter of Credit shall expire on the date on which it otherwise would have been automatically renewed. Within the limits of the Letter of Credit Facility, and subject to the limits referred to above, the Borrower may request the issuance of Letters of Credit under this Section 2.01(d), repay any Letter of Credit Advances resulting from drawings thereunder pursuant to Section 2.04(d) and request the issuance of additional Letters of Credit under this Section 2.01(d).
SECTION 2.02.Making the Advances. (a) Except as otherwise provided in Section 2.02(b) or 2.03, each Borrowing shall be made on notice, given not later than 1:00 P.M. (New York City time) on the third Business Day prior to the date of the proposed Borrowing in the case of a Borrowing consisting of Eurodollar Rate Advances, or not later than 1:00 P.M. (New York City time) on the Business Day of the proposed Borrowing in the case of a Borrowing consisting of Base Rate Advances, by the Borrower to the Administrative Agent, which shall give to each Appropriate Lender prompt notice thereof by telex, telecopier or other form of electronic communication. Each such notice of a Borrowing (a “Notice of Borrowing”) shall be by telephone, confirmed immediately in writing, or telex, telecopier or other form of electronic communication, in substantially the form of Exhibit B hereto, specifying therein the requested (i) date of such Borrowing, (ii) Facility under which such Borrowing is to be made, (iii) Type of Advances comprising such Borrowing, (iv) aggregate amount of such Borrowing and (v) in the case of a Borrowing consisting of Eurodollar Rate Advances, initial Interest Period for each such Advance. Each Appropriate Lender shall, before 12:00 P.M. (New York City time) on the date of any Borrowing, make available for the account of its Applicable Lending Office to the Administrative Agent at the Administrative Agent’s Account, in same day funds, such Lender’s ratable portion of such Borrowing in accordance with the respective Commitments under the applicable Facility of such Lender and the other Appropriate Lenders. After the Administrative Agent’s receipt of such funds and upon fulfillment of the applicable conditions set forth in Article III, the Administrative Agent will make such funds available to the Borrower by crediting the Borrower’s Account;provided,however, that, in the case of any Revolving Credit Borrowing, the Administrative Agent shall first apply such funds to prepay ratably the aggregate principal amount of any Swing Line Advances and Letter of Credit Advances outstanding at such time, together with interest accrued and unpaid thereon to and as of such date.
(b) (i) Each Swing Line Borrowing shall be made on notice, given not later than 1:00 P.M. (New York City time) on the date of the proposed Swing Line Borrowing, by the Borrower to
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the Swing Line Bank and the Administrative Agent. Each such notice of a Swing Line Borrowing (a “Notice of Swing Line Borrowing”) shall be by telephone, confirmed immediately in writing, or telex, telecopier or other form of electronic communication, specifying therein the requested (i) date of such Borrowing, (ii) amount of such Borrowing and (iii) maturity of such Borrowing (which maturity shall be no later than the tenth Business Day after the requested date of such Borrowing). The Swing Line Bank will make the amount of the requested Swing Line Advances available to the Administrative Agent at the Administrative Agent’s Account, in same day funds. After the Administrative Agent’s receipt of such funds and upon fulfillment of the applicable conditions set forth in Article III, the Administrative Agent will make such funds available to the Borrower by crediting the Borrower’s Account.
(ii) The Swing Line Bank may, at any time in its sole and absolute discretion, request on behalf of the Borrower (and the Borrower hereby irrevocably authorizes the Swing Line Bank to so request on its behalf) that each Revolving Credit Lender make a Base Rate Advance in an amount equal to such Lender’s Pro Rata Share of the amount of Swing Line Advances then outstanding. Such request shall be deemed to be a Notice of Borrowing for purposes hereof and shall be made in accordance with the provisions of Sections 2.01(b) and 2.02(a) without regard solely to the minimum amounts specified therein but subject to the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 3.02. The Swing Line Bank shall furnish the Borrower with a copy of the applicable Notice of Borrowing promptly after delivering such notice to the Administrative Agent. Each Revolving Credit Lender shall make an amount equal to its Pro Rata Share of the amount specified in such Notice of Borrowing available for the account of its Applicable Lending Office to the Administrative Agent for the account of the Swing Line Bank, by deposit to the Administrative Agent’s Account, in same date funds, not later than 11:00 A.M. on the day specified in such Notice of Borrowing.
(iii) If for any reason any Swing Line Advance cannot be refinanced by a Revolving Credit Borrowing as contemplated by Section 2.02(b)(ii), the request for Base Rate Advances submitted by the applicable Swing Line Bank as set forth in Section 2.02(b)(ii) shall be deemed to be a request by the Swing Line Bank that each of the Revolving Credit Lenders fund its risk participation in the relevant Swing Line Advance and each Revolving Credit Lender’s payment to the Administrative Agent for the account of the Swing Line Bank pursuant to Section 2.02(b)(ii) shall be deemed payment in respect of such participation.
(iv) If and to the extent that any Revolving Credit Lender shall not have made the amount of its Pro Rata Share of such Swing Line Advance available to the Administrative Agent in accordance with the provisions of Section 2.02(b)(ii), such Revolving Credit Lender agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent forthwith on demand such amount together with interest thereon, for each day from the date of the applicable Notice of Borrowing delivered by the Swing Line Bank until the date such amount is paid to the Administrative Agent, at the Federal Funds Rate.
(v) Each Revolving Credit Lender’s obligation to make Revolving Credit Advances or to purchase and fund risk participations in Swing Line Advances pursuant to this Section 2.02(b) shall be absolute and unconditional and shall not be affected by any circumstance, including (A) any set-off, counterclaim, recoupment, defense or other right which such Lender may have against the Swing Line Bank, the Borrower or any other Person for any reason whatsoever, (B) the occurrence of continuance of a Default, or (C) any other occurrence, event or condition, whether or not similar to any of the foregoing;provided,however, that each Revolving Credit Lender’s obligation to make Revolving Credit Advances pursuant to this Section 2.02(b) is subject to satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 3.02. No funding of risk participations shall relieve or otherwise impair the obligation of the Borrower to repay Swing Line Advances, together with interest as provided herein.
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(c) Anything in subsection (a) above to the contrary notwithstanding, (i) the Borrower may not select Eurodollar Rate Advances for any Borrowing if the aggregate amount of such Borrowing is less than $1,000,000 (unless such Borrowing corresponds to an amortization payment) or if the obligation of the Appropriate Lenders to make Eurodollar Rate Advances shall then be suspended pursuant to Section 2.09 or 2.10 and (ii) the Term B Advances may not be outstanding as part of more than 10 separate Interest Periods and the Revolving Credit Advances may not be outstanding as part of more than 15 separate Interest Periods.
(d) Each Notice of Borrowing and each Notice of Swing Line Borrowing shall be irrevocable and binding on the Borrower. In the case of any Borrowing that the related Notice of Borrowing specifies is to be comprised of Eurodollar Rate Advances, the Borrower shall indemnify each Appropriate Lender against any loss, cost or expense incurred by such Lender as a result of any failure to fulfill on or before the date specified in such Notice of Borrowing for such Borrowing the applicable conditions set forth in Article III, including, without limitation, any loss, cost or expense incurred by reason of the liquidation or reemployment of deposits or other funds acquired by such Lender to fund the Advance to be made by such Lender as part of such Borrowing when such Advance, as a result of such failure, is not made on such date.
(e) Unless the Administrative Agent shall have received notice from an Appropriate Lender prior to the date of any Borrowing under a Facility under which such Lender has a Commitment that such Lender will not make available to the Administrative Agent such Lender’s ratable portion of such Borrowing, the Administrative Agent may assume that such Lender has made such portion available to the Administrative Agent on the date of such Borrowing in accordance with subsection (a) of this Section 2.02 and the Administrative Agent may, in reliance upon such assumption, make available to the Borrower on such date a corresponding amount. If and to the extent that such Lender shall not have so made such ratable portion available to the Administrative Agent, such Lender and the Borrower severally agree to repay or pay to the Administrative Agent forthwith on demand such corresponding amount and to pay interest thereon, for each day from the date such amount is made available to the Borrower until the date such amount is repaid or paid to the Administrative Agent, at (i) in the case of the Borrower, the interest rate applicable at such time under Section 2.07 to Advances comprising such Borrowing and (ii) in the case of such Lender, the Federal Funds Rate. If such Lender shall pay to the Administrative Agent such corresponding amount, such amount so paid shall constitute such Lender’s Advance as part of such Borrowing for all purposes.
(f) The failure of any Lender to make the Advance to be made by it as part of any Borrowing shall not relieve any other Lender of its obligation, if any, hereunder to make its Advance on the date of such Borrowing, but no Lender shall be responsible for the failure of any other Lender to make the Advance to be made by such other Lender on the date of any Borrowing.
SECTION 2.03.Issuance of and Drawings and Reimbursement Under Letters of Credit. (a)Request for Issuance. Each Letter of Credit shall be issued upon notice, given not later than 11:00 A.M. (New York City time) on the third Business Day (or such fewer days as the Issuing Bank and the Borrower shall agree) prior to the date of the proposed issuance of such Letter of Credit, by the Borrower to the Issuing Bank, which shall give to the Administrative Agent and each Revolving Credit Lender prompt notice thereof by telecopier or electronic communication. Each such notice of issuance of a Letter of Credit (a “Notice of Issuance”) shall be by telephone, confirmed immediately in writing, telecopier, or other form of electronic communication, specifying therein the requested (A) date of such issuance (which shall be a Business Day), (B) Available Amount of such Letter of Credit, (C) expiration date of such Letter of Credit, (D) name and address of the beneficiary of such Letter of Credit and (E) form of such Letter of Credit, and shall be accompanied by such application and agreement for letter of credit as the Issuing Bank may specify to the Borrower for use in connection with such requested
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Letter of Credit (a “Letter of Credit Agreement”). If (x) the requested form of such Letter of Credit is acceptable to the Issuing Bank in its sole discretion and (y) it has not received notice of objection to such issuance from Lenders holding at least 51% of the Revolving Credit Commitments, the Issuing Bank will, upon fulfillment of the applicable conditions set forth in Article III, make such Letter of Credit available to the Borrower at its office referred to in Section 9.02 or as otherwise agreed with the Borrower in connection with such issuance. In the event and to the extent that the provisions of any Letter of Credit Agreement shall conflict with this Agreement, the provisions of this Agreement shall govern.
(b)Letter of Credit Reports. The Issuing Bank shall furnish (A) to the Administrative Agent on the first Business Day of each week a written report summarizing issuance and expiration dates of Letters of Credit issued during the previous week and drawings during such week under all Letters of Credit, (B) to each Revolving Credit Lender on the first Business Day of each month a written report summarizing issuance and expiration dates of Letters of Credit issued during the preceding month and drawings during such month under all Letters of Credit and (C) to the Administrative Agent and each Revolving Credit Lender on the first Business Day of each calendar quarter a written report setting forth the average daily aggregate Available Amount during the preceding calendar quarter of all Letters of Credit.
(c)Participations in Letters of Credit. Upon the issuance of a Letter of Credit by the Issuing Bank under Section 2.03(a), the Issuing Bank shall be deemed, without further action by any party hereto, to have sold to each Revolving Credit Lender, and each such Revolving Credit Lender shall be deemed, without further action by any party hereto, to have purchased from the Issuing Bank, a participation in such Letter of Credit in an amount for each Revolving Credit Lender equal to such Lender’s Pro Rata Share of the Available Amount of such Letter of Credit, effective upon the issuance of such Letter of Credit. In consideration and in furtherance of the foregoing, each Revolving Credit Lender hereby absolutely and unconditionally agrees to pay such Lender’s Pro Rata Share of each L/C Disbursement made by the Issuing Bank and not reimbursed by the Borrower forthwith on the date due as provided in Section 2.04(d) by making available for the account of its Applicable Lending Office to the Administrative Agent for the account of the Issuing Bank by deposit to the Administrative Agent’s Account, in same day funds, an amount equal to such Lender’s Pro Rata Share of such L/C Disbursement. Each Revolving Credit Lender acknowledges and agrees that its obligation to acquire participations pursuant to this Section 2.03(c) in respect of Letters of Credit is absolute and unconditional and shall not be affected by any circumstance whatsoever, including the occurrence and continuance of a Default or an Event of Default or the termination of the Commitments, and that each such payment shall be made without any set-off, abatement, withholding or reduction whatsoever. If and to the extent that any Revolving Credit Lender shall not have so made the amount of such L/C Disbursement available to the Administrative Agent, such Revolving Credit Lender agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent forthwith on demand such amount together with interest thereon, for each day from the date such L/C Disbursement is due pursuant to Section 2.04(d) until the date such amount is paid to the Administrative Agent, at the Federal Funds Rate for its account or the account of the Issuing Bank, as applicable. If such Lender shall pay to the Administrative Agent such amount for the account of the Issuing Bank on any Business Day, such amount so paid in respect of principal shall constitute a Letter of Credit Advance made by such Lender on such Business Day for purposes of this Agreement, and the outstanding principal amount of the Letter of Credit Advance made by the Issuing Bank shall be reduced by such amount on such Business Day.
(d)Drawing and Reimbursement. The payment by the Issuing Bank of a draft drawn under any Letter of Credit shall constitute for all purposes of this Agreement the making by the Issuing Bank of a Letter of Credit Advance, which shall be a Base Rate Advance, in the amount of such draft.
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(e)Failure to Make Letter of Credit Advances. The failure of any Lender to make the Letter of Credit Advance to be made by it on the date specified in Section 2.03(c) shall not relieve any other Lender of its obligation hereunder to make its Letter of Credit Advance on such date, but no Lender shall be responsible for the failure of any other Lender to make the Letter of Credit Advance to be made by such other Lender on such date.
SECTION 2.04.Repayment of Advances. (a)Term B Advances. The Borrower shall repay the Term B Advances to the Administrative Agent, for the ratable account of the Term B Lenders, in equal quarterly installments on the last Business Day of each March, June, September and December, commencing with the fiscal quarter ending September 30, 2006, in an amount equal to 0.25% of the initial aggregate principal amount of the Term B Advances;provided,however, that the final principal installment shall be repaid on the Termination Date in respect of the Term B Facility and in any event shall be in an amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of the Term B Advances outstanding on such date.
(b)Revolving Credit Advances. The Borrower shall repay to the Administrative Agent for the ratable account of the Revolving Credit Lenders on the Termination Date in respect of the Revolving Credit Facility the aggregate principal amount of the Revolving Credit Advances then outstanding.
(c)Swing Line Advances. The Borrower shall repay to the Administrative Agent for the account of the Swing Line Bank and each other Revolving Credit Lender that has made a Swing Line Advance the outstanding principal amount of each Swing Line Advance made by each of them on the earlier of the maturity date specified in the applicable Notice of Swing Line Borrowing (which maturity shall be no later than the tenth Business Day after the requested date of such Borrowing) and the Termination Date in respect of the Revolving Credit Facility.
(d)Letter of Credit Advances. (i) The Borrower shall repay to the Administrative Agent for the account of the Issuing Bank and each other Revolving Credit Lender that has made a Letter of Credit Advance on the earlier of demand and the Termination Date in respect of the Revolving Credit Facility the outstanding principal amount of each Letter of Credit Advance made by each of them.
(ii) The Obligations of the Borrower under this Agreement, any Letter of Credit Agreement and any other agreement or instrument relating to any Letter of Credit shall be unconditional and irrevocable, and shall be paid strictly in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, such Letter of Credit Agreement and such other agreement or instrument under all circumstances, including, without limitation, the following circumstances:
(A) any lack of validity or enforceability of any Loan Document, any Letter of Credit Agreement, any Letter of Credit or any other agreement or instrument relating thereto (all of the foregoing being, collectively, the “L/C Related Documents”);
(B) any change in the time, manner or place of payment of, or in any other term of, all or any of the Obligations of the Borrower in respect of any L/C Related Document or any other amendment or waiver of or any consent to departure from all or any of the L/C Related Documents;
(C) the existence of any claim, set-off, defense or other right that the Borrower may have at any time against any beneficiary or any transferee of a Letter of Credit (or any Persons for which any such beneficiary or any such transferee may be acting), the Issuing Bank or any other
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Person, whether in connection with the transactions contemplated by the L/C Related Documents or any unrelated transaction;
(D) any statement or any other document presented under a Letter of Credit proving to be forged, fraudulent, invalid or insufficient in any respect or any statement therein being untrue or inaccurate in any respect;
(E) payment by the Issuing Bank under a Letter of Credit against presentation of a draft, certificate or other document that does not strictly comply with the terms of such Letter of Credit;
(F) any exchange, release or non-perfection of any Collateral or other collateral, or any release or amendment or waiver of or consent to departure from the Guaranties or any other guarantee, for all or any of the Obligations of the Borrower in respect of the L/C Related Documents; or
(G) any other circumstance or happening whatsoever, whether or not similar to any of the foregoing, including, without limitation, any other circumstance that might otherwise constitute a defense available to, or a discharge of, the Borrower.
SECTION 2.05.Termination or Reduction of the Commitments. (a)Optional. The Borrower may, upon at least three Business Days’ notice to the Administrative Agent, terminate in whole or reduce in part the unused portions of the Unused Revolving Credit Commitments;provided,however, that each partial reduction of the Revolving Credit Facility (i) shall be in an aggregate amount of $5,000,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof and (ii) shall be made ratably among the Appropriate Lenders in accordance with their respective Pro Rata Shares with respect to such Facility.
(b)Mandatory. (i) Upon the funding of the Term B Advances on the Effective Date pursuant to Section 2.01(a), the aggregate Term B Commitments of the Term B Lenders shall be reduced to zero.
(ii) The Letter of Credit Facility shall be permanently reduced from time to time on the date of each reduction in the Revolving Credit Facility by the amount, if any, by which the amount of the Letter of Credit Facility exceeds the Revolving Credit Facility after giving effect to such reduction of the Revolving Credit Facility.
(iii) The Swing Line Facility shall be permanently reduced from time to time on the date of each reduction in the Revolving Credit Facility by the amount, if any, by which the amount of the Swing Line Facility exceeds the Revolving Credit Facility after giving effect to such reduction of the Revolving Credit Facility.
SECTION 2.06.Prepayments. (a)Optional. The Borrower may, upon at least one Business Day’s notice in the case of Base Rate Advances and three Business Days’ notice in the case of Eurodollar Rate Advances, in each case to the Administrative Agent stating the proposed date and aggregate principal amount of the prepayment, and if such notice is given the Borrower shall, prepay the outstanding aggregate principal amount of the Advances comprising part of the same Borrowing in whole or ratably in part, together with accrued interest to the date of such prepayment on the aggregate principal amount prepaid;provided,however, that (x) each partial prepayment shall be in an aggregate principal amount of $2,000,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof and (y) if any prepayment of a Eurodollar Rate Advance is made on a date other than the last day of an Interest Period for such Advance, the Borrower shall also pay any amounts owing pursuant to Section 9.04(c). Each such
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prepayment of any Term B Advance shall be applied to the installments thereof on a pro rata basis ratably to the Appropriate Lenders in accordance with their respective outstanding Term B Advances.
(b)Mandatory. (i) The Borrower shall, on the 90th day following the end of each Fiscal Year, if the Leverage Ratio as of the last day of such Fiscal Year is greater than 4.00:1.00, prepay an aggregate principal amount of the Term B Advances in an amount equal to 50% of the amount of Excess Cash Flow for such Fiscal Year. Each such prepayment shall be applied to the installments of the Term B Facility on a pro rata basis ratably to the Appropriate Lenders in accordance with their respective outstanding Term B Advances.
(ii) The Borrower shall, on each Prepayment Date, prepay an aggregate principal amount of the Term B Advances in an amount equal to the amount of such Net Cash Proceeds. Each such prepayment shall be applied to the installments of the Term B Facility on a pro rata basis ratably to the Appropriate Lenders in accordance with their respective outstanding Term B Advances.
(iii) The Borrower shall, on each Business Day, prepay an aggregate principal amount of the Revolving Credit Advances comprising part of the same Borrowings, the Letter of Credit Advances and the Swing Line Advances and deposit an amount in the L/C Collateral Account in an amount equal to the amount by which (A) the sum of the aggregate principal amount of (x) the Revolving Credit Advances, (y) the Letter of Credit Advances and (z) the Swing Line Advances then outstanding plus the aggregate Available Amount of all Letters of Credit then outstanding exceeds (B) the Revolving Credit Facility on such Business Day.
(iv) The Borrower shall, on each Business Day, pay to the Administrative Agent for deposit in the L/C Collateral Account an amount sufficient to cause the aggregate amount on deposit in the L/C Collateral Account to equal the amount by which the aggregate Available Amount of all Letters of Credit then outstanding exceeds the Letter of Credit Facility on such Business Day.
(v) Prepayments of the Revolving Credit Facility made pursuant to clause (iii) above shall befirstapplied to prepay Letter of Credit Advances then outstanding until such Advances are paid in full,secondapplied to prepay Swing Line Advances then outstanding until such Advances are paid in full andthirdapplied to prepay Revolving Credit Advances then outstanding comprising part of the same Borrowings until such Advances are paid in full andfourthdeposited in the L/C Collateral Account to cash collateralize 100% of the Available Amount of the Letters of Credit then outstanding; and the amount remaining (if any) after the prepayment in full of the Advances then outstanding and the 100% cash collateralization of the aggregate Available Amount of Letters of Credit then outstanding may be retained by the Borrower. Upon the drawing of any Letter of Credit for which funds are on deposit in the L/C Collateral Account, such funds shall be applied to reimburse the Issuing Bank or Revolving Credit Lenders, as applicable.
(vi) Anything contained in this Section 2.06(b) to the contrary notwithstanding, if, following the occurrence of any “Asset Disposition” (as such term is defined in the 2002 Senior Notes Indenture) by any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries, the Parent would be required to apply or cause its Subsidiaries to apply an amount equal to any of the “Net Available Cash” (as defined in the 2002 Senior Notes Indenture) thereof by a particular date (an “Application Date”) in a particular manner, in order to excuse the Borrower from being required to make an “Offer” (as defined in the 2002 Senior Notes Indenture) in connection with such “Asset Disposition,” and the Borrower shall have failed to so apply an amount equal to such “Net Available Cash” at least 10 days before the applicable Application Date, or cause to be applied an amount equal to any such “Net Available Cash,” then the Borrower shall immediately pay or cause to be paid to the Administrative Agent an amount equal to such “Net Available
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Cash” to be applied to the payment of the Term B Advances in the manner set forth in Section 2.06(b)(ii) in such amounts as shall excuse the Borrower from making any such “Offer”.
(vii) All prepayments under this subsection (b) shall be made together with accrued interest to the date of such prepayment on the principal amount prepaid, together with any amounts owing pursuant to Section 9.04(c).
SECTION 2.07.Interest. (a)Scheduled Interest. The Borrower shall pay interest on the unpaid principal amount of each Advance owing to each Lender from the date of such Advance until such principal amount shall be paid in full, at the following rates per annum:
(i)Base Rate Advances. During such periods as such Advance is a Base Rate Advance, a rate per annum equal at all times to the sum of (A) the Base Rate in effect from time to timeplus(B) the Applicable Margin in effect from time to time, payable in arrears quarterly on the last day of each March, June, September and December during such periods and on the date such Base Rate Advance shall be Converted or paid in full.
(ii)Eurodollar Rate Advances. During such periods as such Advance is a Eurodollar Rate Advance, a rate per annum equal at all times during each Interest Period for such Advance to the sum of (A) the Eurodollar Rate for such Interest Period for such Advanceplus(B) the Applicable Margin in effect on the first day of such Interest Period, payable in arrears on the last day of such Interest Period and, if such Interest Period has a duration of more than three months, on each day that occurs during such Interest Period every three months from the first day of such Interest Period and on the date such Eurodollar Rate Advance shall be Converted or paid in full.
(b)Default Interest. Upon the occurrence and during the continuance of a Default under Section 6.01(a), the Administrative Agent may, and upon the request of the Required Lenders shall, require that the Borrower pay interest (“Default Interest”) on (i) the unpaid overdue principal amount of each Advance owing to each Lender Party, payable in arrears on the dates referred to in clause (i) or (ii) of Section 2.07(a), as applicable, and on demand, at a rate per annum equal at all times to 2% per annum above the rate per annum required to be paid on such Advance pursuant to clause (i) or (ii) of Section 2.07(a), as applicable, and (ii) to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, the amount of any interest, fee or other amount payable under this Agreement or any other Loan Document to any Agent or any Lender Party that is not paid when due, from the date such amount shall be due until such amount shall be paid in full, payable in arrears on the date such amount shall be paid in full and on demand, at a rate per annum equal at all times to 2% per annum above the rate per annum required to be paid, in the case of interest, on the Type of Advance on which such interest has accrued pursuant to clause (i) or (ii) of Section 2.07(a), as applicable, and, in all other cases, on Base Rate Advances pursuant to clause (i) of Section 2.07(a);provided,however, that following the acceleration of the Advances, or the giving of notice by the Agent to accelerate the Advances, pursuant to Section 6.01, Default Interest shall accrue and be payable hereunder whether or not previously required by the Administrative Agent.
(c)Notice of Interest Period and Interest Rate. Promptly after receipt of a Notice of Borrowing pursuant to Section 2.02(a), a notice of Conversion pursuant to Section 2.09 or a notice of selection of an Interest Period pursuant to the terms of the definition of “Interest Period”, the Administrative Agent shall give notice to the Borrower and each Appropriate Lender of the applicable Interest Period and the applicable interest rate determined by the Administrative Agent for purposes of clause (a)(i) or (a)(ii) above.
SECTION 2.08.Fees. (a)Commitment Fee. The Borrower shall pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of the Revolving Credit Lenders a commitment fee (the
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“Commitment Fee”), from the Effective Date in the case of each Initial Lender and from the effective date specified in the Assignment and Acceptance pursuant to which it became a Lender in the case of each other Lender until the Termination Date, payable in arrears quarterly on the last day of each March, June, September and December, commencing June 30, 2006, and on the Termination Date, equal to the Applicable Commitment Fee Rate times the average daily Unused Revolving Credit Commitment of such Lender;provided,however, that any Commitment Fee accrued with respect to any of the Commitments of a Defaulting Lender during the period prior to the time such Lender became a Defaulting Lender and unpaid at such time shall not be payable by the Borrower so long as such Lender shall be a Defaulting Lender except to the extent that such Commitment Fee shall otherwise have been due and payable by the Borrower prior to such time; and provided further that no Commitment Fee shall accrue on any of the Commitments of a Defaulting Lender so long as such Lender shall be a Defaulting Lender.
(b)Letter of Credit Fees, Etc. (i) The Borrower shall pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of each Revolving Credit Lender a commission, payable in arrears quarterly on the last day of each March, June, September and December, commencing June 30, 2006, and on the earliest to occur of the full drawing, expiration, termination or cancellation of any Letter of Credit and on the Termination Date in respect of the Letter of Credit Facility, on such Lender’s Pro Rata Share of the average daily aggregate Available Amount during such quarter of (A) all Standby Letters of Credit outstanding from time to time at the Applicable Margin for Eurodollar Rate Advances under the Revolving Credit Facility and (B) all Trade Letters of Credit then outstanding at the rate of 0.20% per annum. Upon the occurrence and during the continuance of a Default under Section 6.01(a) or 6.01(f), the amount of commission payable by the Borrower under this clause (b)(i) shall be increased by 2% per annum on any overdue amounts.
(ii) The Borrower shall pay to the Issuing Bank, for its own account, (A) a commission, payable in arrears quarterly on the last day of each March, June, September and December, commencing June 30, 2006, and on the Termination Date in respect of the Letter of Credit Facility, on the average daily aggregate Available Amount during such quarter, from the Effective Date until the Termination Date in respect of the Letter of Credit Facility, at the rate of 1/4 of 1% per annum and (B) such other commissions, fronting fees, issuance fees, transfer fees and other fees and charges in connection with the issuance or administration of each Letter of Credit as the Borrower and the Issuing Bank shall agree.
(c)Agents’ Fees. The Borrower shall pay to each Agent for its own account such fees as may from time to time be agreed between the Borrower and such Agent.
SECTION 2.09.Conversion of Advances. (a)Optional. The Borrower may on any Business Day, upon notice given to the Administrative Agent not later than 1:00 P.M. (New York City time) on the third Business Day prior to the date of the proposed Conversion and subject to the provisions of Section 2.10, Convert all or any portion of the Advances of one Type comprising the same Borrowing into Advances of the other Type;provided,however, that any Conversion of Eurodollar Rate Advances into Base Rate Advances shall be made only on the last day of an Interest Period for such Eurodollar Rate Advances, any Conversion of Base Rate Advances into Eurodollar Rate Advances shall be in an amount not less than the minimum amount specified in Section 2.02(c), no Conversion of any Advances shall result in more separate Borrowings than permitted under Section 2.02(c) and each Conversion of Advances comprising part of the same Borrowing under any Facility shall be made ratably among the Appropriate Lenders in accordance with their Commitments under such Facility. Each such notice of Conversion shall, within the restrictions specified above, specify (i) the date of such Conversion, (ii) the Advances to be Converted and (iii) if such Conversion is into Eurodollar Rate Advances, the duration of the initial Interest Period for such Advances. Each notice of Conversion shall be irrevocable and binding on the Borrower.
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(b)Mandatory. (i) On the date on which the aggregate unpaid principal amount of Eurodollar Rate Advances comprising any Borrowing shall be reduced, by payment or prepayment or otherwise, to less than $1,000,000, other than by reason of an amortization payment, such Advances shall automatically Convert into Base Rate Advances.
(ii) If the Borrower shall fail to select the duration of any Interest Period for any Eurodollar Rate Advances in accordance with the provisions contained in the definition of “Interest Period” in Section 1.01, the Administrative Agent will forthwith so notify the Borrower and the Appropriate Lenders, whereupon each such Eurodollar Rate Advance will automatically, on the last day of the then existing Interest Period therefor, Convert into a Eurodollar Rate Advance with an Interest Period of one month.
(iii) Upon the occurrence and during the continuance of any Default, (x) each Eurodollar Rate Advance will automatically, on the last day of the then existing Interest Period therefor, Convert into a Base Rate Advance and (y) the obligation of the Lenders to make, or to Convert Advances into, Eurodollar Rate Advances shall be suspended.
SECTION 2.10.Increased Costs, Etc. (a) If, due to either (i) the adoption of or any change in or in the interpretation of any law or regulation after the date of this Agreement or (ii) the compliance with any guideline or request from any central bank or other governmental authority (whether or not having the force of law) after the date of this Agreement, there shall be any increase in the cost to any Lender Party of agreeing to make or of making, funding or maintaining Eurodollar Rate Advances or of agreeing to issue or of issuing or maintaining or participating in Letters of Credit or of agreeing to make or of making or maintaining Letter of Credit Advances (excluding, for purposes of this Section 2.10, any such increased costs resulting from (x) Taxes or Other Taxes (as to which Section 2.12 shall govern) and (y) changes in the basis of taxation of overall net income or overall gross income by the United States or by the foreign jurisdiction or state under the laws of which such Lender Party is organized or has its Applicable Lending Office or any political subdivision thereof), then the Borrower shall from time to time, upon demand by such Lender Party (with a copy of such demand to the Administrative Agent), pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Lender Party additional amounts sufficient to compensate such Lender Party for such increased cost;provided,however, that the Borrower shall not be responsible for costs under this Section 2.10(a) arising more than 180 days prior to receipt by the Borrower of the demand from the affected Lender Party pursuant to this Section 2.10(a). A certificate as to the amount of such increased cost, submitted to the Borrower by such Lender Party, shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error.
(b) If any Lender Party determines that compliance with any law or regulation or any guideline or request from any central bank or other governmental authority (whether or not having the force of law) which becomes effective after the date hereof affects or would affect the amount of capital required or expected to be maintained by such Lender Party or any corporation controlling such Lender Party and that the amount of such capital is increased by or based upon the existence of such Lender Party’s commitment to lend or to issue or participate in Letters of Credit hereunder and other commitments of such type or the issuance or maintenance of or participation in the Letters of Credit (or similar contingent obligations) (and a similar reserve requirement is not already reflected in the definition of “Eurodollar Rate”), then, upon demand by such Lender Party or such corporation (with a copy of such demand to the Administrative Agent), the Borrower shall pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Lender Party, from time to time as specified by such Lender Party, additional amounts sufficient to compensate such Lender Party in the light of such circumstances, to the extent that such Lender Party reasonably determines such increase in capital to be allocable to the existence of such Lender Party’s commitment to lend or to issue or participate in Letters of Credit hereunder or to the issuance or maintenance of or participation in any Letters of Credit;provided furtherthat the Borrower shall not be
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responsible for costs under this Section 2.10(b) arising more than 180 days prior to receipt by the Borrower of the demand from the affected Lender Party pursuant to this Section 2.10(b). A certificate as to such amounts submitted to the Borrower by such Lender Party shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error.
(c) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, if the adoption of or any change in or in the interpretation of any law or regulation shall make it unlawful, or any central bank or other governmental authority shall assert that it is unlawful, for any Lender or its Eurodollar Lending Office to perform its obligations hereunder to make Eurodollar Rate Advances or to continue to fund or maintain Eurodollar Rate Advances hereunder, then, on notice thereof and demand therefor by such Lender to the Borrower through the Administrative Agent, (i) each Eurodollar Rate Advance under each Facility under which such Lender has a Commitment will automatically, upon such demand, Convert into a Base Rate Advance and (ii) the obligation of the Appropriate Lenders to make, or to Convert Advances into, Eurodollar Rate Advances shall be suspended until the Administrative Agent shall notify the Borrower that such Lender has determined that the circumstances causing such suspension no longer exist;provided,however, that, before making any such demand, such Lender agrees to use reasonable efforts (consistent with its internal policy and legal and regulatory restrictions) to designate a different Eurodollar Lending Office if the making of such a designation would allow such Lender or its Eurodollar Lending Office to continue to perform its obligations to make Eurodollar Rate Advances or to continue to fund or maintain Eurodollar Rate Advances and would not, in the judgment of such Lender, be otherwise disadvantageous to such Lender.
SECTION 2.11.Payments and Computations. (a) The Borrower shall make each payment hereunder and under the Notes, irrespective of any right of counterclaim or set-off (except as otherwise provided in Section 2.15), not later than 11:00 A.M. (New York City time) on the day when due in U.S. dollars to the Administrative Agent at the Administrative Agent’s Account in same day funds, with payments being received by the Administrative Agent after such time being deemed to have been received on the next succeeding Business Day for purposes of calculating interest thereon. The Administrative Agent will promptly thereafter cause like funds to be distributed (i) if such payment by the Borrower is in respect of principal, interest, commitment fees or any other Obligation then payable hereunder and under the Notes to more than one Lender Party, to such Lender Parties for the account of their respective Applicable Lending Offices ratably in accordance with the amounts of such respective Obligations then payable to such Lender Parties and (ii) if such payment by the Borrower is in respect of any Obligation then payable hereunder to one Lender Party, to such Lender Party for the account of its Applicable Lending Office, in each case to be applied in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. Upon its acceptance of an Assignment and Acceptance and recording of the information contained therein in the Register pursuant to Section 9.07(d), from and after the effective date of such Assignment and Acceptance, the Administrative Agent shall make all payments hereunder and under the Notes in respect of the interest assigned thereby to the Lender Party assignee thereunder, and the parties to such Assignment and Acceptance shall make all appropriate adjustments in such payments for periods prior to such effective date directly between themselves.
(b) The Borrower hereby authorizes each Lender Party and each of its Affiliates, if and to the extent payment owed to such Lender Party is not made when due hereunder or, in the case of a Lender, under the Note held by such Lender, to charge from time to time, to the fullest extent permitted by law, against any or all of the Borrower’s accounts with such Lender Party or such Affiliate any amount so due;providedthat such Lender first confirms with the Administrative Agent that such payment has not been made to the Administrative Agent.
(c) All computations of interest based on the Base Rate shall be made by the Administrative Agent on the basis of a year of 365 or 366 days, as the case may be, and all computations
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of interest based on the Eurodollar Rate or the Federal Funds Rate and of fees and Letter of Credit commissions shall be made by the Administrative Agent on the basis of a year of 360 days, in each case for the actual number of days (including the first day but excluding the last day) occurring in the period for which such interest, fees or commissions are payable. Each determination by the Administrative Agent of an interest rate, fee or commission hereunder shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error.
(d) Whenever any payment hereunder or under the Notes shall be stated to be due on a day other than a Business Day, such payment shall be made on the next succeeding Business Day, and such extension of time shall in such case be included in the computation of payment of interest or commitment or letter of credit fee or commission, as the case may be;provided,however, that, if such extension would cause payment of interest on or principal of Eurodollar Rate Advances to be made in the next following calendar month, such payment shall be made on the next preceding Business Day.
(e) Unless the Administrative Agent shall have received notice from the Borrower prior to the date on which any payment is due to any Lender Party hereunder that the Borrower will not make such payment in full, the Administrative Agent may assume that the Borrower has made such payment in full to the Administrative Agent on such date and the Administrative Agent may, in reliance upon such assumption, cause to be distributed to each such Lender Party on such due date an amount equal to the amount then due such Lender Party. If and to the extent the Borrower shall not have so made such payment in full to the Administrative Agent, each such Lender Party shall repay to the Administrative Agent forthwith on demand such amount distributed to such Lender Party together with interest thereon, for each day from the date such amount is distributed to such Lender Party until the date such Lender Party repays such amount to the Administrative Agent, at the Federal Funds Rate.
(f) Whenever any payment received by the Administrative Agent under this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents is insufficient to pay in full all amounts due and payable to the Agents and the Lender Parties under or in respect of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents on any date, such payment shall be distributed by the Administrative Agent and applied by the Agents and the Lender Parties in the following order of priority:
(i)first, to the payment of all of the fees, indemnification payments, costs and expenses that are due and payable to the Agents (solely in their respective capacities as Agents) under or in respect of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents on such date, ratably based upon the respective aggregate amounts of all such fees, indemnification payments, costs and expenses owing to the Agents on such date;
(ii)second, to the payment of all of the fees, indemnification payments, costs and expenses that are due and payable to the Issuing Bank and the Swing Line Bank (solely in their respective capacities as such) under or in respect of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents on such date, ratably based upon the respective aggregate amounts of all such fees, indemnification payments, costs and expenses owing to the Issuing Bank and the Swing Line Bank on such date;
(iii)third, to the payment of all of the indemnification payments, costs and expenses that are due and payable to the Lenders under Sections 9.04 hereof, Section 20 of the Security Agreement and any similar section of any of the other Loan Documents on such date, ratably based upon the respective aggregate amounts of all such indemnification payments, costs and expenses owing to the Lenders on such date;
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(iv)fourth, to the payment of all of the amounts that are due and payable to the Administrative Agent and the Lender Parties under Sections 2.10 and 2.12 hereof on such date, ratably based upon the respective aggregate amounts thereof owing to the Administrative Agent and the Lender Parties on such date;
(v)fifth, to the payment of all of the fees that are due and payable to the Lenders under Section 2.08(a) on such date, ratably based upon the respective aggregate Commitments of the Lenders under the Facilities on such date;
(vi)sixth, to the payment of all of the accrued and unpaid interest on the Obligations of the Borrower under or in respect of the Loan Documents that is due and payable to the Administrative Agent and the Lender Parties under Section 2.07(b) on such date, ratably based upon the respective aggregate amounts of all such interest owing to the Administrative Agent and the Lender Parties on such date;
(vii)seventh, to the payment of all of the accrued and unpaid interest on the Advances that is due and payable to the Administrative Agent and the Lender Parties under Section 2.07(a) on such date, ratably based upon the respective aggregate amounts of all such interest owing to the Administrative Agent and the Lender Parties on such date;
(viii)eighth, to the payment of the principal amount of all of the outstanding Advances that is due and payable to the Administrative Agent and the Lender Parties on such date, ratably based upon the respective aggregate amounts of all such principal owing to the Administrative Agent and the Lender Parties on such date; and
(ix)ninth, to the payment of all other Obligations of the Loan Parties owing under or in respect of the Loan Documents that are due and payable to the Administrative Agent and the other Secured Parties on such date, ratably based upon the respective aggregate amounts of all such Obligations owing to the Administrative Agent and the other Secured Parties on such date.
If the Administrative Agent receives funds for application to the Obligations of the Loan Parties under or in respect of the Loan Documents under circumstances for which the Loan Documents do not specify the Advances or the Facility to which, or the manner in which, such funds are to be applied, the Administrative Agent may, but shall not be obligated to, elect to distribute such funds to each of the Lender Parties in accordance with such Lender Party’s Pro Rata Share of the sum of (A) the aggregate principal amount of all Advances outstanding at such time and (b) the aggregate Available Amount of all Letters of Credit outstanding at such time, in repayment or prepayment of such of the outstanding Advances or other Obligations then owing to such Lender Party, and, in the case of the Term B Facility, for application to such principal repayment installments thereof, as the Administrative Agent shall direct.
SECTION 2.12.Taxes. (a) Any and all payments by or on account of any obligation of any Loan Party hereunder or under the Notes or any other Loan Document shall be made free and clear of and without deduction for any Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes; provided that if any Loan Party shall be required to deduct any Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes from such payments, then (i) the sum payable shall be increased as necessary so that after making all required deductions (including deductions applicable to additional sums payable under this Section) the Administrative Agent or any Lender Party (as the case may be) receives an amount equal to the sum it would have received had no such deductions been made, (ii) such Loan Party shall make such deductions and (iii) such Loan Party shall pay the full amount deducted to the relevant Governmental Authority in accordance with applicable law.
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(b) In addition, a Loan Party shall pay any Other Taxes to the relevant Governmental Authority in accordance with applicable law.
(c) Each Loan Party shall indemnify the Administrative Agent and each Lender Party, within 10 days after written demand therefor, for the full amount of any Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes paid by the Administrative Agent or such Lender Party, as the case may be, on or with respect to any payment by or on account of any obligation of such Loan Party hereunder or under the Notes or under any other Loan Document (including Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes imposed or asserted on or attributable to amounts payable under this Section) and any penalties, interest and reasonable expenses arising therefrom or with respect thereto, whether or not such Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes were correctly or legally imposed or asserted by the relevant Governmental Authority. A certificate as to the amount of such payment or liability delivered to a Loan Party by a Lender Party or the Administrative Agent on its own behalf or on behalf of a Lender Party, shall be conclusive absent manifest error.
(d) As soon as practicable after any payment of Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes by any Loan Party to a Governmental Authority, such Loan Party shall deliver to the Administrative Agent the original or a certified copy of a receipt issued by such Governmental Authority evidencing such payment, a copy of the return reporting such payment or other evidence of such payment reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.
(e) Any Foreign Lender Party that is entitled to an exemption from or reduction of withholding tax under the law of the jurisdiction in which a Loan Party is located, or any treaty to which such jurisdiction is a party, with respect to payments under this Agreement shall deliver to such Loan Party (with a copy to the Administrative Agent), at the time or times prescribed by applicable law, such properly completed and executed documentation prescribed by applicable law or reasonably requested by such Loan Party as will permit such payments to be made without withholding or at a reduced rate; provided that such Foreign Lender has received written notice from such Loan Party advising it of the availability of such exemption or reduction and supplying all applicable documentation.
SECTION 2.13.Sharing of Payments, Etc. If any Lender Party shall obtain at any time any payment (whether voluntary, involuntary, through the exercise of any right of set-off, or otherwise, other than as a result of an assignment pursuant to Section 9.07) (a) on account of Obligations due and payable to such Lender Party hereunder and under the Notes and the other Loan Documents at such time in excess of its ratable share (according to the proportion of (i) the amount of such Obligations due and payable to such Lender Party hereunder and under the Notes and the other Loan Documents at such time to (ii) the aggregate amount of the Obligations due and payable to all Lender Parties hereunder and under the Notes and the other Loan Documents at such time) of payments on account of the Obligations due and payable to all Lender Parties hereunder and under the Notes at such time obtained by all the Lender Parties at such time or (b) on account of Obligations owing (but not due and payable) to such Lender Party hereunder and under the Notes and the other Loan Documents at such time in excess of its ratable share (according to the proportion of (i) the amount of such Obligations owing to such Lender Party hereunder and under the Notes and the other Loan Documents at such time to (ii) the aggregate amount of the Obligations owing (but not due and payable) to all Lender Parties hereunder and under the Notes and the other Loan Documents at such time) of payments on account of the Obligations owing (but not due and payable) to all Lender Parties hereunder and under the Notes at such time obtained by all of the Lender Parties at such time, such Lender Party shall forthwith purchase from the other Lender Parties such interests or participating interests in the Obligations due and payable or owing to them, as the case may be, as shall be necessary to cause such purchasing Lender Party to share the excess payment ratably with each of them;provided,however, that if all or any portion of such excess payment is thereafter recovered from such purchasing Lender Party, such purchase from each other Lender Party shall be
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rescinded and such other Lender Party shall repay to the purchasing Lender Party the purchase price to the extent of such Lender Party’s ratable share (according to the proportion of (i) the purchase price paid to such Lender Party to (ii) the aggregate purchase price paid to all Lender Parties) of such recovery together with an amount equal to such Lender Party’s ratable share (according to the proportion of (i) the amount of such other Lender Party’s required repayment to (ii) the total amount so recovered from the purchasing Lender Party) of any interest or other amount paid or payable by the purchasing Lender Party in respect of the total amount so recovered;provided furtherthat, so long as the Obligations under the Loan Documents shall not have been accelerated, any excess payment received by any Appropriate Lender shall be shared on a pro rata basis only with other Appropriate Lenders. The Borrower agrees that any Lender Party so purchasing an interest or participating interest from another Lender Party pursuant to this Section 2.13 may, to the fullest extent permitted by law, exercise all its rights of payment (including the right of set-off) with respect to such interest or participating interest, as the case may be, as fully as if such Lender Party were the direct creditor of the Borrower in the amount of such interest or participating interest, as the case may be.
SECTION 2.14.Use of Proceeds. The proceeds of the Advances and issuances of Letters of Credit shall be available (and the Borrower agrees that it shall use such proceeds and Letters of Credit) to consummate the Restatement (including the repayment of the advances under the Existing Credit Facility), pay related transaction fees and expenses, and provide working capital for the Borrower and its Subsidiaries for general corporate purposes which shall include (x) the financing of the repayment of certain intercompany loans (the “Intercompany Loan Repayment”) and (y) the financing of the Mexrail Acquisition.
SECTION 2.15.Defaulting Lenders. (a) In the event that, at any one time, (i) any Lender Party shall be a Defaulting Lender, (ii) such Defaulting Lender shall owe a Defaulted Advance to the Borrower and (iii) the Borrower shall be required to make any payment hereunder or under any other Loan Document to or for the account of such Defaulting Lender, then the Borrower may, so long as no Default shall occur or be continuing at such time and to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, set off and otherwise apply the Obligation of the Borrower to make such payment to or for the account of such Defaulting Lender against the obligation of such Defaulting Lender to make such Defaulted Advance. In the event that, on any date, the Borrower shall so set off and otherwise apply its obligation to make any such payment against the obligation of such Defaulting Lender to make any such Defaulted Advance on or prior to such date, the amount so set off and otherwise applied by the Borrower shall constitute for all purposes of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents an Advance by such Defaulting Lender made on the date of such setoff under the Facility pursuant to which such Defaulted Advance was originally required to have been made pursuant to Section 2.01. Such Advance shall be considered, for all purposes of this Agreement, to comprise part of the Borrowing in connection with which such Defaulted Advance was originally required to have been made pursuant to Section 2.01, even if the other Advances comprising such Borrowing shall be Eurodollar Rate Advances on the date such Advance is deemed to be made pursuant to this subsection (a). The Borrower shall notify the Administrative Agent at any time the Borrower exercises its right of set-off pursuant to this subsection (a) and shall set forth in such notice (A) the name of the Defaulting Lender and the Defaulted Advance required to be made by such Defaulting Lender and (B) the amount set off and otherwise applied in respect of such Defaulted Advance pursuant to this subsection (a). Any portion of such payment otherwise required to be made by the Borrower to or for the account of such Defaulting Lender which is paid by the Borrower, after giving effect to the amount set off and otherwise applied by the Borrower pursuant to this subsection (a), shall be applied by the Administrative Agent as specified in subsection (b) or (c) of this Section 2.15.
(b) In the event that, at any one time, (i) any Lender Party shall be a Defaulting Lender, (ii) such Defaulting Lender shall owe a Defaulted Amount to any Agent or any of the other
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Lender Parties and (iii) the Borrower shall make any payment hereunder or under any other Loan Document to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Defaulting Lender, then the Administrative Agent may, on its behalf or on behalf of such other Agents or such other Lender Parties and to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, apply at such time the amount so paid by the Borrower to or for the account of such Defaulting Lender to the payment of each such Defaulted Amount to the extent required to pay such Defaulted Amount. In the event that the Administrative Agent shall so apply any such amount to the payment of any such Defaulted Amount on any date, the amount so applied by the Administrative Agent shall constitute for all purposes of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents payment, to such extent, of such Defaulted Amount on such date. Any such amount so applied by the Administrative Agent shall be retained by the Administrative Agent or distributed by the Administrative Agent to such other Agents or such other Lender Parties, ratably in accordance with the respective portions of such Defaulted Amounts payable at such time to the Administrative Agent, such other Agents and such other Lender Parties and, if the amount of such payment made by the Borrower shall at such time be insufficient to pay all Defaulted Amounts owing at such time to the Administrative Agent, such other Agents and such other Lender Parties, in the following order of priority:
(i)first, to the Agents for any Defaulted Amounts then owing to them, in their capacities as such, ratably in accordance with such respective Defaulted Amounts then owing to the Agents;
(ii)second, to the Issuing Bank and the Swing Line Bank for any Defaulted Amounts then owing to them, in their capacities as such, ratably in accordance with such respective Defaulted Amounts then owing to the Issuing Bank and the Swing Line Bank; and
(iii)third, to any other Lender Parties for any Defaulted Amounts then owing to such other Lender Parties, ratably in accordance with such respective Defaulted Amounts then owing to such other Lender Parties.
Any portion of such amount paid by the Borrower for the account of such Defaulting Lender remaining, after giving effect to the amount applied by the Administrative Agent pursuant to this subsection (b), shall be applied by the Administrative Agent as specified in subsection (c) of this Section 2.15.
(c) In the event that, at any one time, (i) any Lender Party shall be a Defaulting Lender, (ii) such Defaulting Lender shall not owe a Defaulted Advance or a Defaulted Amount and (iii) the Borrower, any Agent or any other Lender Party shall be required to pay or distribute any amount hereunder or under any other Loan Document to or for the account of such Defaulting Lender, then the Borrower or such Agent or such other Lender Party shall pay such amount to the Administrative Agent to be held by the Administrative Agent, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, in escrow or the Administrative Agent shall, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, hold in escrow such amount otherwise held by it. Any funds held by the Administrative Agent in escrow under this subsection (c) shall be deposited by the Administrative Agent in an account with a bank (the “Escrow Bank”) selected by the Administrative Agent, in the name and under the control of the Administrative Agent, but subject to the provisions of this subsection (c). The terms applicable to such account, including the rate of interest payable with respect to the credit balance of such account from time to time, shall be the Escrow Bank’s standard terms applicable to escrow accounts maintained with it. Any interest credited to such account from time to time shall be held by the Administrative Agent in escrow under, and applied by the Administrative Agent from time to time in accordance with the provisions of, this subsection (c). The Administrative Agent shall, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, apply all funds so held in escrow from time to time to the extent necessary to make any Advances required to be made by such Defaulting Lender and to pay any amount payable by such Defaulting Lender hereunder and under the other Loan Documents to the Administrative Agent or any other Lender Party, as and when such
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Advances or amounts are required to be made or paid and, if the amount so held in escrow shall at any time be insufficient to make and pay all such Advances and amounts required to be made or paid at such time, in the following order of priority:
(i)first, to the Agents for any amounts then due and payable by such Defaulting Lender to them hereunder, in their capacities as such, ratably in accordance with such respective amounts then due and payable to the Agents;
(ii)second, to the Issuing Bank and the Swing Line Bank for any amounts then due and payable to them hereunder, in their capacities as such, by such Defaulting Lender, ratably in accordance with such respective amounts then due and payable to the Issuing Bank and the Swing Line Bank;
(iii)third, to any other Lender Parties for any amount then due and payable by such Defaulting Lender to such other Lender Parties hereunder, ratably in accordance with such respective amounts then due and payable to such other Lender Parties; and
(iv)fourth, to the Borrower for any Advance then required to be made by such Defaulting Lender pursuant to a Commitment of such Defaulting Lender.
In the event that any Lender Party that is a Defaulting Lender shall, at any time, cease to be a Defaulting Lender, any funds held by the Administrative Agent in escrow at such time with respect to such Lender Party shall be distributed by the Administrative Agent to such Lender Party and applied by such Lender Party to the Obligations owing to such Lender Party at such time under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents ratably in accordance with the respective amounts of such Obligations outstanding at such time.
(d) The rights and remedies against a Defaulting Lender under this Section 2.15 are in addition to other rights and remedies that the Borrower may have against such Defaulting Lender with respect to any Defaulted Advance and that any Agent or any Lender Party may have against such Defaulting Lender with respect to any Defaulted Amount.
SECTION 2.16.Evidence of Debt. (a) Each Lender Party shall maintain in accordance with its usual practice an account or accounts evidencing the indebtedness of the Borrower to such Lender resulting from each Advance owing to such Lender Party from time to time, including the amounts of principal and interest payable and paid to such Lender from time to time hereunder. The Borrower agrees that upon notice by any Lender Party to the Borrower (with a copy of such notice to the Administrative Agent) to the effect that a promissory note or other evidence of indebtedness is required or appropriate in order for such Lender Party to evidence (whether for purposes of pledge, enforcement or otherwise) the Advances owing to, or to be made by, such Lender Party, the Borrower shall promptly execute and deliver to such Lender Party, with a copy to the Administrative Agent, a Revolving Credit Note and a Term B Note, as applicable, in substantially the form of Exhibits A-1 and A-2 hereto, respectively, payable to the order of such Lender Party in a principal amount equal to the Revolving Credit Commitment and the Term B Commitment, respectively, of such Lender Party. All references to Notes in the Loan Documents shall mean Notes, if any, to the extent issued hereunder.
(b) The Register maintained by the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 9.07(d) shall include a control account, and a subsidiary account for each Lender Party, in which accounts (taken together) shall be recorded (i) the date and amount of each Borrowing made hereunder, the Type of Advances comprising such Borrowing and, if appropriate, the Interest Period applicable thereto, (ii) the terms of each Assignment and Acceptance delivered to and accepted by it, (iii) the amount of any
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principal or interest due and payable or to become due and payable from the Borrower to each Lender Party hereunder, and (iv) the amount of any sum received by the Administrative Agent from the Borrower hereunder and each Lender Party’s share thereof.
(c) Entries made in good faith by the Administrative Agent in the Register pursuant to subsection (b) above, and by each Lender Party in its account or accounts pursuant to subsection (a) above, shall beprima facieevidence of the amount of principal and interest due and payable or to become due and payable from the Borrower to, in the case of the Register, each Lender Party and, in the case of such account or accounts, such Lender Party, under this Agreement, absent manifest error;provided,however, that the failure of the Administrative Agent or such Lender Party to make an entry, or any finding that an entry is incorrect, in the Register or such account or accounts shall not limit or otherwise affect the obligations of the Borrower under this Agreement.
SECTION 2.17.Mitigation Obligations; Replacement of Lenders. (a) If any Lender requests compensation under Section 2.10, or if the Borrower is required to pay any additional amount to any Lender or any Governmental Authority for the account of any Lender pursuant to Section 2.12, then such Lender shall use reasonable efforts to designate a different lending office for funding or booking its Advances hereunder or to assign its rights and obligations hereunder to another of its offices, branches or affiliates, if, in the judgment of such Lender, such designation or assignment (i) would eliminate or reduce amounts payable pursuant to Section 2.10 or 2.12, as the case may be, in the future and (ii) would not subject such Lender to any unreimbursed cost or expense and would not otherwise be disadvantageous to such Lender. The Borrower hereby agrees to pay all reasonable costs and expenses incurred by any Lender in connection with any such designation or assignment.
(b) If any Lender requests compensation under Section 2.10, or if the Borrower is required to pay any additional amount to any Lender or any Governmental Authority for the account of any Lender pursuant to Section 2.12, or if any Lender is a Defaulting Lender, then the Borrower may, at its sole expense and effort, upon notice to such Lender and the Administrative Agent, require such Lender to assign and delegate, without recourse (in accordance with and subject to the restrictions contained in Section 9.07), all of its interests, rights and obligations under this Agreement to an assignee that shall assume such obligations (which assignee may be another Lender, if a Lender accepts such assignment);providedthat (i) the Borrower shall have received the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent (and, if a Revolving Credit Commitment is being assigned, the Issuing Bank and Swing Line Bank), which consent shall not unreasonably be withheld, (ii) such Lender shall have received payment of an amount equal to the outstanding principal of its Advances and participations in LC Disbursements and Swing Line Advances, accrued interest thereon, accrued fees and all other amounts payable to it hereunder, from the assignee (to the extent of such outstanding principal and accrued interest and fees) or the Borrower (in the case of all other amounts) and (iii) in the case of any such assignment resulting from a claim for compensation under Section 2.10 or payments required to be made pursuant to Section 2.12, such assignment will result in a material reduction in such compensation or payments. A Lender shall not be required to make any such assignment and delegation if, prior thereto, as a result of a waiver by such Lender or otherwise, the circumstances entitling the Borrower to require such assignment and delegation cease to apply.
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ARTICLE III
CONDITIONS OF LENDING AND
ISSUANCES OF LETTERS OF CREDIT
ISSUANCES OF LETTERS OF CREDIT
SECTION 3.01.Conditions Precedent to Restatement. The Restatement shall become effective on and as of the first date (the “Effective Date”) on which the following conditions precedent have been satisfied:
(a) The Administrative Agent shall have received on or before the Effective Date the following, each dated such day (unless otherwise specified), in form and substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent (unless otherwise specified) and (except for the Notes) in sufficient copies for each Lender Party:
(i) The Notes payable to the order of the Lenders to the extent requested by the Lenders pursuant to the terms of Section 2.16.
(ii) Except as otherwise provided in Sections 5.01(l) and 5.01(j)(iii), all necessary modifications or confirmations to the Collateral Documents in effect on the Effective Date shall have been duly executed and delivered so as to ensure the continued effectiveness of the security interests created thereby, as reasonably determined by the Administrative Agent and its counsel, and the Administrative Agent shall have received evidence that all such other action as shall be necessary or desirable to record, perfect or protect the security interests of the Secured Parties shall have been taken.
(iii) Certified copies of the resolutions of the Board of Directors of each Loan Party approving the Transaction and each Loan Document to which it is or is to be a party, and of all documents evidencing other necessary corporate action and governmental and other third party approvals and consents, if any, with respect to the Transaction and each Loan Document to which it is or is to be a party.
(iv) A copy of a certificate of the Secretary of State of the jurisdiction of incorporation of each Loan Party, dated reasonably near the date of the Initial Extension of Credit, certifying (A) as to a true and correct copy of the charter of such Loan Party and each amendment thereto on file in such Secretary’s office and (B) that (1) such amendments are the only amendments to such Loan Party’s charter on file in such Secretary’s office, (2) such Loan Party has paid all franchise taxes to the date of such certificate (to the extent the Secretary of State in the applicable jurisdictions typically provides such a certification) and (3) such Loan Party is duly incorporated and in good standing or presently subsisting under the laws of the State of the jurisdiction of its incorporation.
(v) (i) A certificate of the Secretary or Assistant Secretary of each Loan Party, countersigned on behalf of such Loan Party by another officer of such Loan Party, dated the date of the Initial Extension of Credit (the statements made in which certificate shall be true on and as of the date of the Initial Extension of Credit), certifying as to (A) the absence of any amendments to the charter of such Loan Party since the date of the Secretary of State’s certificate referred to in Section 3.01(a)(iv) and (B) a true and correct copy of the bylaws of such Loan Party as in effect on the date of the Initial Extension of Credit, and (ii) a certificate of the President or a Vice
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President of the Borrower, dated the date of the Initial Extension of Credit (the statements made in which certificate shall be true on and as of the date of the Initial Extension of Credit), certifying as to (A) the truth of the representations and warranties contained in the Loan Documents as though made on and as of the date of the Initial Extension of Credit and (B) the absence of any event occurring and continuing, or resulting from the Initial Extension of Credit, that constitutes a Default.
(vi) A certificate of the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of each Loan Party certifying the names and true signatures of the officers of such Loan Party authorized to sign each Loan Document to which it is or is to be a party and the other documents to be delivered hereunder and thereunder.
(vii) A certificate, in substantially the form of Exhibit F hereto, attesting to the Solvency of the Loan Parties before and after giving effect to the Transaction, from the chief financial officer of the Parent.
(viii) A certificate of the Chief Financial Officer of the Borrower certifying that the assets being transferred to Meridian Joint Speedway pursuant to the Meridian Joint Speedway Transaction Agreement have a book value not in excess of $170,000,000.
(ix) Such financial, business and other information regarding each Loan Party and its Subsidiaries as the Lender Parties shall have requested, including, without limitation, information as to possible contingent liabilities, tax matters, environmental matters, obligations under Plans, Multiemployer Plans and Welfare Plans, collective bargaining agreements and other arrangements with employees, audited annual financial statements dated December 31, 2005, interim financial statements dated the end of the most recent fiscal quarter for which financial statements are available (or, in the event the Lender Parties’ due diligence review reveals material changes since such financial statements, as of a later date within 45 days of the day of the Initial Extension of Credit), pro forma financial statements as to the Parent and forecasts prepared by management of the Parent, in form and substance satisfactory to the Lender Parties, of balance sheets, income statements and cash flow statements on a quarterly basis for the first year following the day of the Initial Extension of Credit and on an annual basis for each year thereafter until the Termination Date.
(x) A Notice of Borrowing or Notice of Issuance, as applicable, relating to the Initial Extension of Credit.
(xi) A favorable opinion of Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal LLP, counsel for the Loan Parties, in substantially the form of Exhibit G hereto and as to such other matters as any Lender Party through the Administrative Agent may reasonably request.
(b) The Lender Parties shall be satisfied that all Existing Debt, other than Surviving Debt, has been prepaid, redeemed or defeased in full or otherwise satisfied and extinguished and all commitments relating thereto terminated and that all Surviving Debt shall be on terms and conditions satisfactory to the Lender Parties.
(c) All Governmental Authorizations and third party consents and approvals necessary in connection with the Transaction shall have been obtained (without the imposition of any conditions that are not acceptable to the Lender Parties) and shall remain in effect; all
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applicable waiting periods in connection with the Transaction shall have expired without any action being taken by any competent authority, and no law or regulation shall be applicable in the judgment of the Lender Parties, in each case that restrains, prevents or imposes materially adverse conditions upon the Transaction or the rights of the Loan Parties or their Subsidiaries freely to transfer or otherwise dispose of, or to create any Lien on, any properties now owned or hereafter acquired by any of them.
(d) The Lender Parties shall have been given such access to the management, records, books of account, contracts and properties of the Parent and its Subsidiaries as they shall have requested.
(e) The Borrower shall have paid all accrued fees of the Agents and the Lender Parties and all accrued expenses of the Agents (including the accrued fees and expenses of counsel to the Administrative Agent).
(f) The Lender Parties shall be satisfied with the nature of and amount of all existing and potential environmental concerns associated with the facilities of the Loan Parties, and shall be satisfied with the Borrower’s plans with respect thereto.
(g) The Borrower shall have, and shall have caused each other obligor under the Collateral Documents to, execute and deliver any and all further documents, financing statements, agreements and instruments, and take all such further actions that may be required to cause the collateral to have a perfected, first priority security interest in favor of the Secured Parties.
(h) The Facilities shall have received debt ratings from Moody’s and S&P.
SECTION 3.02.Conditions Precedent to Each Borrowing and Issuance and Renewal. The obligation of each Appropriate Lender to make an Advance (other than a Letter of Credit Advance made by the Issuing Bank or a Revolving Credit Lender pursuant to Section 2.03(c) and a Swing Line Advance made by a Revolving Credit Lender pursuant to Section 2.02(b)) on the occasion of each Borrowing (including the initial Borrowing), and the obligation of the Issuing Bank to issue a Letter of Credit (including the initial issuance) or renew a Letter of Credit and the right of the Borrower to request a Swing Line Borrowing, shall be subject to the further conditions precedent that on the date of such Borrowing or issuance or renewal (a) the following statements shall be true (and each of the giving of the applicable Notice of Borrowing, Notice of Swing Line Borrowing, Notice of Issuance or Notice of Renewal and the acceptance by the Borrower of the proceeds of such Borrowing or of such Letter of Credit or the renewal of such Letter of Credit shall constitute a representation and warranty by the Borrower that both on the date of such notice and on the date of such Borrowing or issuance or renewal such statements are true):
(i) the representations and warranties contained in each Loan Document are correct on and as of such date, before and after giving effect to such Borrowing or issuance or renewal and to the application of the proceeds therefrom, as though made on and as of such date, other than any such representations or warranties that, by their terms, refer to a specific date other than the date of such Borrowing or issuance or renewal, in which case as of such specific date; and
(ii) no Default has occurred and is continuing, or would result from such Borrowing or issuance or renewal or from the application of the proceeds therefrom:
and (b) the Administrative Agent shall have received such other approvals, opinions or documents as any Appropriate Lender through the Administrative Agent may reasonably request.
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SECTION 3.03.Determinations Under Section 3.01. For purposes of determining compliance with the conditions specified in Section 3.01, each Lender Party shall be deemed to have consented to, approved or accepted or to be satisfied with each document or other matter required thereunder to be consented to or approved by or acceptable or satisfactory to the Lender Parties unless an officer of the Administrative Agent responsible for the transactions contemplated by the Loan Documents shall have received notice from such Lender Party prior to the Initial Extension of Credit specifying its objection thereto and, if the Initial Extension of Credit consists of a Borrowing, such Lender Party shall not have made available to the Administrative Agent such Lender Party’s ratable portion of such Borrowing.
ARTICLE IV
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
SECTION 4.01.Representations and Warranties of Parent and the Borrower. Each of Parent and the Borrower represent and warrants as follows:
(a) Each Loan Party and each of its Subsidiaries (i) is an entity duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its organization, (ii) is duly qualified and in good standing as a foreign entity in each other jurisdiction in which it owns or leases property or in which the conduct of its business requires it to so qualify or be licensed except where the failure to so qualify or be licensed would not be reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect and (iii) has all requisite power and authority (including, without limitation, all Governmental Authorizations) to own or lease and operate its properties and to carry on its business as now conducted and as proposed to be conducted. All of the outstanding Equity Interests in the Borrower have been validly issued, are fully paid and non-assessable and are owned by the Parent free and clear of all Liens, except those created under the Collateral Documents.
(b) Set forth on Schedule 4.01(b) hereto is a complete and accurate list of all Subsidiaries of each Loan Party, showing as of the date hereof (as to each such Subsidiary) the jurisdiction of its incorporation, the number of shares of each class of its Equity Interests authorized, and the number outstanding, on the date hereof and the percentage of each such class of its Equity Interests owned by such Loan Party at the date hereof. All of the outstanding Equity Interests in each Loan Party’s Subsidiaries that are subject to the Security Agreement have been validly issued, are fully paid and non-assessable and are owned by such Loan Party or one or more of its Subsidiaries free and clear of all Liens, except those created under the Collateral Documents.
(c) The execution, delivery and performance by each Loan Party of each Loan Document to which it is or is to be a party, and the consummation of the Transaction, are within such Loan Party’s powers, have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate or other action, and do not (i) contravene such Loan Party’s organizational documents, (ii) violate any law, rule, regulation (including, without limitation, Regulation X of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and any provision of the Interstate Commerce Act and the Railway Labor Act), order, writ, judgment, injunction, decree, determination or award, (iii) conflict with or result in the breach of, or constitute a default or require any payment to be made under, any contract, loan agreement, indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, lease or other instrument binding on or affecting any Loan Party, any of its Subsidiaries or any of their properties or (iv) except for the Liens created under the Loan Documents, result in or require the creation or imposition of any Lien upon or with respect to any of the properties of any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries. No
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Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries is in violation of any such law, rule, regulation, order, writ, judgment, injunction, decree, determination or award or in breach of any such contract, loan agreement, indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, lease or other instrument, the violation or breach of which could be reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect.
(d) No Governmental Authorization, and no notice to or filing with, any Governmental Authority or any other third party is required for (i) the due execution, delivery, recordation, filing or performance by any Loan Party of any Loan Document to which it is or is to be a party, or for the consummation of the Transaction, (ii) the grant by any Loan Party of the Liens granted by it pursuant to the Collateral Documents, (iii) the perfection or maintenance of the Liens created under the Collateral Documents (including the first priority nature thereof) or (iv) the exercise by any Agent or any Lender Party of its rights under the Loan Documents or the remedies in respect of the Collateral pursuant to the Collateral Documents, except for the authorizations, approvals, actions, notices and filings listed on Schedule 4.01(d) hereto, all of which have been duly obtained, taken, given or made and are in full force and effect. All applicable waiting periods in connection with the Transaction have expired without any action having been taken by any competent authority restraining, preventing or imposing materially adverse conditions upon the Transaction or the rights of the Loan Parties or their Subsidiaries freely to transfer or otherwise dispose of, or to create any Lien on, any properties now owned or hereafter acquired by any of them.
(e) This Agreement has been, and each other Loan Document when delivered hereunder will have been, duly executed and delivered by each Loan Party party thereto. This Agreement is, and each other Loan Document when delivered hereunder will be, the legal, valid and binding obligation of each Loan Party party thereto, enforceable against such Loan Party in accordance with its terms.
(f) There is no action, suit, investigation, litigation or proceeding affecting any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries, including any Environmental Action, pending or threatened before any Governmental Authority or arbitrator that (i) could be reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect or (ii) purports to affect the legality, validity or enforceability of any Loan Document or the consummation of the Transaction.
(g) The Consolidated balance sheet of the Parent and its subsidiaries as at December 31, 2005, and the related Consolidated statement of income and Consolidated statement of cash flows of the Parent and its subsidiaries for the fiscal year then ended, accompanied by an unqualified opinion of KPMG LLP, independent public accountants, copies of which have been furnished to each Lender Party, fairly present the Consolidated financial condition of the Parent and its subsidiaries as at such dates and the Consolidated results of operations of the Parent and its subsidiaries for the periods ended on such dates, all in accordance with GAAP applied on a consistent basis, and since December 31, 2005, there has been no Material Adverse Change.
(h) The Consolidated pro forma balance sheet of Parent and its subsidiaries as at December 31, 2005, and the related Consolidated pro forma statements of income and cash flows of Parent and its subsidiaries for the twelve months then ended, certified by the chief financial officer of the Parent, copies of which have been furnished to each Lender Party, fairly present the Consolidated pro forma financial condition of the Parent and its subsidiaries as at such date and the Consolidated pro forma results of operations of the Parent and its subsidiaries for the period then ended on such date, in each case giving effect to the Transaction, all in accordance with GAAP.
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(i) The Consolidated forecasted balance sheet, statement of income and statement of cash flows of Parent and its Subsidiaries delivered to the Lender Parties pursuant to Section 3.01(a)(ix) or 5.03 were prepared in good faith on the basis of the assumptions stated therein, which assumptions were fair in light of the conditions existing at the time of delivery of such forecasts, and represented, at the time of delivery, the Parent’s best estimate of its future financial performance.
(j) Neither the Lenders Presentation nor any other information, exhibit or report furnished by or on behalf of any Loan Party to any Agent or any Lender Party in connection with the negotiation and syndication of the Loan Documents or pursuant to the terms of the Loan Documents contained any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made therein not misleading.
(k) The Borrower is not engaged in the business of extending credit for the purpose of purchasing or carrying Margin Stock, and no proceeds of any Advance or drawings under any Letter of Credit will be used to purchase or carry any Margin Stock or to extend credit to others for the purpose of purchasing or carrying any Margin Stock.
(l) Neither any Loan Party nor any of its Subsidiaries is an “investment company”, or an “affiliated person” of, or “promoter” or “principal underwriter” for, an “investment company”, as such terms are defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended. Neither any Loan Party nor any of its Subsidiaries is a “holding company”, or a “subsidiary company” of a “holding company”, or an “affiliate” of a “holding company” or of a “subsidiary company” of a “holding company”, as such terms are defined in the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935, as amended. Neither the making of any Advances, nor the issuance of any Letters of Credit, nor the application of the proceeds or repayment thereof by the Borrower, nor the consummation of the other transactions contemplated by the Loan Documents, will violate any provision of any such Act or any rule, regulation or order of the Securities and Exchange Commission thereunder.
(m) Neither any Loan Party nor any of its Subsidiaries is a party to any indenture, loan or credit agreement or any lease or other agreement or instrument or subject to any charter or corporate restriction that could be reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect.
(n) Upon the filings of the Mortgages in accordance with the terms of the Loan Documents and the delivery of Account Control Agreements in accordance with the terms of the Loan Documents, all filings and other actions necessary or desirable to perfect and protect the security interest in the Collateral created under the Collateral Documents have been duly made or taken and are in full force and effect, and the Collateral Documents create in favor of the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties a valid and, together with such filings and other actions, perfected security interest in the Collateral, securing the payment of the Secured Obligations. The Loan Parties are the legal and beneficial owners of the Collateral free and clear of any Lien, except for the liens and security interests created or permitted under the Loan Documents.
(o) Each Loan Party is, individually and together with its Subsidiaries, Solvent.
(p) No ERISA Event has occurred or is reasonably expected to occur that, when taken together with all other such ERISA Events for which liability is reasonably expected to occur, could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. The present value of all accumulated benefit obligations under each Plan (based on the assumptions used for purposes
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of Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 87) did not, as of the date of the most recent financial statements reflecting such amounts, exceed by more than $10,000,000 the fair market value of the assets of such Plan, and the present value of all accumulated benefit obligations of all underfunded Plans (based on the assumptions used for purposes of Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 87) did not, as of the date of the most recent financial statements reflecting such amounts, exceed by more than $20,000,000 the fair market value of the assets of all such underfunded Plans.
(q) Except as otherwise set forth on Schedule 4.01(q) hereto or as disclosed in Parent’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2005, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission and except with respect to any other matters that, individually or in the aggregate, could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, neither Parent, the Borrower nor any other Subsidiary (i) has failed to comply with any Environmental Law or to obtain, maintain or comply with any permit, license or other approval required under any Environmental Law, (ii) has become subject to any Environmental Liability, (iii) has received notice of any claim with respect to any Environmental Liability or (iv) to the best knowledge and belief of Parent and the Borrower, knows of any basis for any Environmental Liability.
(r) (i) As of the date hereof, neither any Loan Party nor any of its Subsidiaries is party to any tax sharing agreement relating to current or future Fiscal Years. (ii) Each of Parent and the Subsidiaries has timely filed or caused to be filed all Tax returns and reports required to have been filed and has paid or caused to be paid all Taxes required to have been paid by it, except (a) any Taxes that are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings and for which Parent or such Subsidiary, as applicable, has set aside on its books adequate reserves or (b) to the extent that the failure to do so could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.
(s) Set forth on Schedule 4.01(s) hereto is a complete and accurate list as of the date hereof of all Existing Debt (other than Surviving Debt), showing the obligor and the principal amount outstanding thereunder.
(t) Set forth on Schedule 4.01(t) hereto is a complete and accurate list as of the date hereof of all Surviving Debt (other than Surviving Debt consisting of intercompany Debt between Loan Parties), showing the obligor and the principal amount outstanding thereunder, the maturity date thereof and the amortization schedule therefor.
(u) Set forth on Schedule 4.01(u) hereto is a complete and accurate list of all Liens on the property or assets of any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries as of the date hereof, showing as of the date hereof the lienholder thereof, the principal amount of the obligations secured thereby and the property or assets of such Loan Party or such Subsidiary subject thereto.
(v) Set forth on Schedule 4.01(v) hereto as of the date hereof is a complete and accurate list of all major real property owned by any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries, showing as of the date hereof the common name, county or other relevant jurisdiction, state, record owner and a value (as reasonably determined by the Borrower and approved by the Administrative Agent) thereof. Each Loan Party or such Subsidiary has good, marketable and insurable fee simple title to such real property, free and clear of all Liens, other than Liens created or permitted by the Loan Documents.
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(w) (i) Set forth on Schedule 4.01(w)(i) hereto as of the date hereof is a complete and accurate list of all major leases of real property under which any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries is the lessee, showing as of the date hereof the common name, county or other relevant jurisdiction, state, lessor and the lessee thereof.
(ii) Set forth on Schedule 4.01(w)(ii) hereto as of the date hereof is a complete and accurate list of all major leases of real property under which any Loan Party is the lessor, showing as of the date hereof the common name, county or other relevant jurisdiction, state, lessor, lessee and a value (as reasonably determined by the Borrower and approved by the Administrative Agent) thereof.
(x) Set forth on Schedule 4.01(x) hereto as of the date hereof is a complete and accurate list of all Investments in excess of $1,000,000 held by any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries on the date hereof (other than Investments in Subsidiaries and other than Investments in Cash Equivalents), showing as of the date hereof the amount, obligor or issuer and maturity, if any, thereof.
(y) Set forth on Schedule 4.01(y) hereto as of the date hereof is a complete and accurate list of all patents, trademarks, trade names, service marks and copyrights, and all applications therefor and licenses thereof which are registered and material to the business of any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries, showing as of the date hereof the jurisdiction in which registered, the registration number, the date of registration and the expiration date.
ARTICLE V
COVENANTS OF THE BORROWER AND PARENT
SECTION 5.01.Affirmative Covenants. From and after the Effective Date, so long as any Advance or any other Obligation of any Loan Party under any Loan Document shall remain unpaid, any Letter of Credit shall be outstanding or any Lender Party shall have any Commitment hereunder, each of Parent and the Borrower will:
(a)Compliance with Laws, Etc. Comply, and cause each of their Subsidiaries to comply, in all material respects, with all applicable laws, rules, regulations and orders, such compliance to include, without limitation, compliance with ERISA, Environmental Laws, the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Chapter of the Organized Crime Control Act of 1970, the Interstate Commerce Act and the Railway Labor Act except where the failure to do so could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
(b)Payment of Taxes, Etc. Pay and discharge, and cause each of their Subsidiaries to pay and discharge, before the same shall become delinquent, (i) all taxes, assessments and governmental charges or levies imposed upon it or upon its property and (ii) all lawful claims that, if unpaid, might by law become a Lien upon its property;provided,however, that neither the Parent, the Borrower nor any of their Subsidiaries shall be required to pay or discharge any such tax, assessment, charge or claim that is being contested in good faith and by proper proceedings and as to which appropriate reserves are being maintained, unless and until any Lien resulting therefrom attaches to its property and becomes enforceable against its other creditors.
(c)Maintenance of Insurance. Maintain, and cause each of their Subsidiaries to maintain, insurance with responsible and reputable insurance companies or associations in such amounts and covering such risks as is usually carried by companies engaged in similar businesses
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and owning similar properties in the same general areas in which the Parent, the Borrower or such Subsidiary operates.
(d)Preservation of Corporate Existence, Etc. Preserve and maintain, and cause each of their Subsidiaries to preserve and maintain, its existence, legal structure, legal name, rights (charter and statutory), permits, licenses, approvals, privileges and franchises;provided,however, that the Parent, the Borrower and their Subsidiaries may consummate any merger or consolidation permitted under Section 5.02(d) andprovided further that neither the Parent, the Borrower nor any of their Subsidiaries shall be required to preserve any right, permit, license, approval, privilege or franchise if the Board of Directors of the Parent, the Borrower or such Subsidiary shall determine that the preservation thereof is no longer desirable in the conduct of the business of the Parent, the Borrower or such Subsidiary, as the case may be, and that the loss thereof is not disadvantageous in any material respect to the Parent, the Borrower, such Subsidiary or the Lender Parties.
(e)Visitation Rights. At any reasonable time and from time to time, upon reasonable notice, permit any of the Agents or any of the Lender Parties, or any agents or representatives thereof, to examine and make copies of and abstracts from the records and books of account of, and visit the properties of, the Parent, the Borrower and any of their Subsidiaries, and to discuss the affairs, finances and accounts of the Parent, the Borrower and any of their Subsidiaries with any of their officers or directors provided that any such examinations shall be at the Lender’s sole expense and the Lenders shall coordinate the timing of their visits through the Administrative Agent.
(f)Keeping of Books. Keep, and cause each of their Subsidiaries to keep, proper books of record and account, in which full and correct entries shall be made of all financial transactions and the assets and business of the Parent, the Borrower and each such Subsidiary in accordance with GAAP in effect from time to time.
(g)Maintenance of Properties, Etc. Maintain and preserve, and cause each of their Subsidiaries to maintain and preserve, all of its properties that are used or useful in the conduct of its business in good working order and condition, ordinary wear and tear excepted.
(h)Transactions with Affiliates. Conduct, and cause each of their Subsidiaries to conduct, all transactions otherwise permitted under the Loan Documents with any of their Affiliates on terms that are fair and reasonable and no less favorable to Parent, the Borrower or such Subsidiary than it would obtain in a comparable arm’s-length transaction with a Person not an Affiliate.
(i)Covenant to Guarantee Obligations and Give Security. Upon (x) the formation or acquisition of any Significant Subsidiary by any Loan Party or (y) the acquisition of any material property by any Loan Party, and such property, in the judgment of the Collateral Agent, shall not already be subject to a perfected first priority security interest in favor of the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties, then in each case at the Borrower’s expense:
(i) in connection with the formation or acquisition of a Significant Subsidiary, within 30 days after such formation or acquisition, cause each such Subsidiary, and cause each direct and indirect parent of such Subsidiary (if it has not already done so), to duly execute and deliver to the Collateral Agent a guaranty or guaranty supplement, in form and substance satisfactory to the Collateral Agent, guaranteeing the other Loan Parties’ obligations under the Loan Documents,
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(ii) within 30 days after such formation or acquisition, furnish to the Collateral Agent a description of the real and personal properties of such Subsidiary or the real and personal properties so acquired, in each case in detail satisfactory to the Collateral Agent,
(iii) within 60 days after (A) such acquisition of any material property by any Loan Party, duly execute and deliver, and cause the applicable Loan Party to duly execute and deliver, to the Collateral Agent such additional mortgages, pledges, assignments, security agreement supplements, intellectual property security agreement supplements and other security agreements as reasonably requested by, and in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Collateral Agent, securing payment of all the Obligations of such Loan Party under the Loan Documents and constituting Liens on all such properties and (B) formation or acquisition of any new Significant Subsidiary, cause such Significant Subsidiary to duly execute and deliver to the Collateral Agent mortgages, pledges, assignments, security agreement supplements, intellectual property security agreement supplements and other security agreements as reasonably requested by, and in form and substance satisfactory to the Collateral Agent, securing payment of all of the obligations of such Subsidiary under the Loan Documents, and cause the applicable Loan Party and each such Significant Subsidiary to take, whatever action may be reasonably necessary or advisable in the opinion of the Collateral Agent to vest in the Collateral Agent (or in any representative of the Collateral Agent designated by it) valid and subsisting Liens on the properties purported to be subject to the mortgages, pledges, assignments, security agreement supplements, intellectual property security agreement supplements and security agreements delivered pursuant to this Section 5.01(i), enforceable against all third parties in accordance with their terms,
(iv) within 60 days after such formation or acquisition, deliver to the Collateral Agent, upon the reasonable request of the Collateral Agent, a signed copy of a favorable opinion, addressed to the Collateral Agent and the other Secured Parties, of counsel for the Loan Parties acceptable to the Collateral Agent as to (1) the matters contained in clauses (i) and (iii) above, (2) such guaranties, guaranty supplements, mortgages, pledges, assignments, security agreement supplements, intellectual property security agreement supplements and security agreements being legal, valid and binding obligations of each Loan Party party thereto enforceable in accordance with their terms, (3) any recordings, filings, notices, endorsements and other actions taken pursuant thereto being sufficient to create valid perfected Liens on such properties, as to matters of corporate formalities as Collateral Agent may request, and (4) such other matters as the Collateral Agent may reasonably request,
(v) as promptly as practicable after such request, formation or acquisition, deliver, upon the request of the Collateral Agent in its reasonable credit judgment, to the Collateral Agent with respect to each parcel of real property with a value in excess of $500,000 owned or held by the applicable Loan Party and each newly acquired or newly formed Significant Subsidiary title insurance, land surveys and engineering, soils and other reports, and environmental assessment reports, each in scope, form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Collateral Agent,provided,however, that to the extent that any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries shall have otherwise received any of the foregoing items with respect to such real property, such items shall, promptly after the receipt thereof, be delivered to the Collateral Agent, and
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(vi) at any time and from time to time, promptly execute and deliver, and cause to execute and deliver, each Loan Party and each newly acquired or newly formed Significant Subsidiary any and all further instruments and documents and take, and cause each Loan Party and each newly acquired or newly formed Significant Subsidiary to take, all such other action as the Collateral Agent may deem reasonably necessary or desirable to obtain the full benefits of, or in perfecting and preserving the Liens of, such guaranties, mortgages, pledges, assignments, security agreement supplements, intellectual property security agreement supplements and security agreements;provided, however, that nothing in this clause (i) shall require the creation or perfection of pledges or security interests in particular assets of the Loan Parties if the Collateral Agent shall have determined that the cost of creation and perfection of such pledges or security interests is excessive in view of the benefit to be obtained by the Lenders.
(j)Further Assurances. (i) Promptly upon request by any Agent, or any Lender Party through the Administrative Agent, correct, and cause each of their Subsidiaries promptly to correct, any material defect or error that may be discovered in any Loan Document or in the execution, acknowledgment, filing or recordation thereof, and
(ii) Promptly upon request by any Agent, or any Lender Party through the Administrative Agent, do, execute, acknowledge, deliver, record, re-record, file, re-file, register and re-register any and all such further acts, deeds, conveyances, pledge agreements, mortgages, deeds of trust, trust deeds, assignments, financing statements and continuations thereof, termination statements, notices of assignment, transfers, certificates, assurances and other instruments as any Agent, or any Lender Party through the Administrative Agent, may reasonably require from time to time in order to (A) carry out more effectively the purposes of the Loan Documents, (B) to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, subject any Loan Party’s or any of its Subsidiaries’ properties, assets, rights or interests to the Liens now or hereafter intended to be covered by any of the Collateral Documents, (C) perfect and maintain the validity, effectiveness and priority of any of the Collateral Documents and any of the Liens intended to be created thereunder and (D) assure, convey, grant, assign, transfer, preserve, protect and confirm more effectively unto the Secured Parties the rights granted or now or hereafter intended to be granted to the Secured Parties under any Loan Document or under any other instrument executed in connection with any Loan Document to which any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries is or is to be a party, and cause each of its Subsidiaries to do so; and
(iii) Take or cause to be taken each action specified on Schedule 5.01(j)(iii) within the time period specified for such action to be taken on such schedule.
(k)Delivery of Environmental Reports. Promptly provide to the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent, at the expense of the Borrower, copies of any environmental site assessment report for the Parent, the Borrower or any of their Subsidiaries’ properties described in the Mortgages, indicating the presence or absence of Hazardous Materials in any material respect and the estimated cost of any compliance, removal or remedial action in connection with any Hazardous Materials on such properties.
(l)Mortgages. By the date that is 45 days after the Effective Date, as such time period may be extended in the Administrative Agent’s reasonable discretion, the Borrower shall deliver:
(A) Amendments in form and substance satisfactory to the Collateral Agent of the Mortgages, each duly executed and acknowledged by Borrower, together with a
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mortgage modification endorsement to each Mortgage Policy delivered with respect to each such Mortgage under the Existing Credit Agreement in a form suitable for filing or recording and otherwise in form and substance satisfactory to the Collateral Agent,
(B) A fully paid “date down” endorsement to each Mortgage Policy for the properties listed on Schedule IV in form and substance acceptable to the Collateral Agent, dated the date of this Agreement, and issued by Stewart Title Guaranty Company, which states, among other things, that since the effective date of applicable mortgage policy, there have been no changes in the state of title, including no new Liens that do not constitute Permitted Encumbrances,
(C) Such other consents, agreements and confirmations of lessors and third parties as the Collateral Agent may deem necessary or desirable and evidence that all other actions that the Collateral Agent may deem necessary or desirable in order to continue valid first and subsisting Liens on the property described in the Mortgages has been taken.
(D) In addition to items listed immediately above, the Collateral Agent shall be satisfied with the advice from local counsel acceptable to the Collateral Agent in each state in which a Mortgage is recorded which imposes a mortgage recording (or similar) tax in connection with such Mortgage relating to the effects of the transactions contemplated herein on the Lien priority of each such Mortgage, the mortgage recording (or similar) taxes payable in connection with each such Mortgage, and related matters.
(m)Maintenance of Separate Existence. Cause Meridian Speedway to (i) maintain its funds in accounts which are separate and distinct from any account maintained by any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries, (ii) maintain its own business and financial records, (iii) act pursuant to corporate resolutions or similar authority granted in accordance with the Meridian Speedway Company Agreement, laws applicable to governance of Meridian Speedway and with procedures required by any other organizational document of Meridian Speedway, (iv) document and record in its financial records each transaction between Meridian Speedway, on the one hand, and any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries, on the other hand, in accordance with business practices commonly employed by enterprises similar to Meridian Speedway with respect to transactions with non-Affiliates, (v) conduct its business with third parties in the name of Meridian Speedway and not in the name of any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries and (vi) have at the time Meridian Speedway commences the business of Meridian Speedway capitalization adequate (in the reasonable determination of the Parent) to meet its reasonably anticipated business needs.
(n)Certain Indebtedness. Indebtedness that is excluded pursuant to the last sentence of the definition of “Debt” shall be repaid with the issuance of stock or other Equity Interests of the Parent or its subsidiaries or cash proceeds from the issuance of stock or Equity Interests unless (i) after giving effect to any payment in cash that is not cash proceeds from the issuance of stock or Equity Interests, the Parent would have been in compliance with the financial covenants pursuant to Section 5.04 as determined on a pro forma basis as of the most recently ended fiscal quarter as if such indebtedness had constituted “Debt” or (ii) if the Revolving Credit Facility would remain undrawn after such repayment and have availability thereunder of not less than $25,000,000.
(o)Meridian Speedway. The terms of all agreements entered into in connection with formation and funding of Meridian Speedway shall not vary in any material respect from the
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terms of the agreements and the term sheet delivered to the Collateral Agent prior to the Effective Date.
SECTION 5.02.Negative Covenants. From and after the Effective Date, so long as any Advance or any other Obligation of any Loan Party under any Loan Document shall remain unpaid, any Letter of Credit shall be outstanding or any Lender Party shall have any Commitment hereunder, each of the Parent and the Borrower will not, at any time:
(a)Liens, Etc. Create, incur, assume or suffer to exist, or permit any of their Subsidiaries to create, incur, assume or suffer to exist, any Lien on or with respect to any of its properties of any character (including, without limitation, accounts) whether now owned or hereafter acquired, or sign or file or suffer to exist, or permit any of its Subsidiaries to sign or file or suffer to exist, under the Uniform Commercial Code of any jurisdiction or with the STB, a financing statement or other filing that names the Parent, the Borrower or any of their Subsidiaries as debtor (other than any filing made by a lessor of property solely for protective purposes), or sign or suffer to exist, or permit any of their Subsidiaries to sign or suffer to exist, any security agreement authorizing any secured party thereunder to file such financing statement or other filing, or assign, or permit any of their Subsidiaries to assign, any accounts or other right to receive income, except:
(i) Liens created under the Loan Documents;
(ii) Permitted Liens;
(iii) Liens existing on the date hereof and described on Schedule 4.01(u) hereto;
(iv) purchase money Liens upon or in real property or equipment acquired or held by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business to secure the purchase price of such property or equipment or to secure Debt incurred solely for the purpose of financing the acquisition, construction or improvement of any such property or equipment to be subject to such Liens, or Liens existing on any such property or equipment at the time of acquisition (other than any such Liens created in contemplation of such acquisition that do not secure the purchase price), or extensions, renewals or replacements of any of the foregoing for the same or a lesser amount;provided,however, that no such Lien shall extend to or cover any property other than the property or equipment being acquired, constructed or improved, and no such extension, renewal or replacement shall extend to or cover any property not theretofore subject to the Lien being extended, renewed or replaced; andprovided furtherthat the Debt secured by Liens permitted by this clause (iv) shall be permitted under Section 5.02(b)(i)(H);
(v) Liens arising in connection with Capitalized Lease Obligations permitted under Section 5.02(b)(i)(H);providedthat no such Lien shall extend to or cover any Collateral or assets other than the assets subject to such Capitalized Lease Obligations;
(vi) Liens on property of a Person existing at the time such Person is merged into or consolidated with the Parent, the Borrower or any of their Subsidiaries or becomes a Subsidiary of the Parent or Borrower;providedthat such Liens were not created in contemplation of such merger, consolidation or investment and do not extend to any
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assets other than those of the Person merged into or consolidated with the Parent, the Borrower or such Subsidiary or acquired by the Parent, the Borrower or such Subsidiary;
(vii) to the extent any Securitization Transaction is not structured as a true sale of accounts receivable, Liens existing or deemed to exist in connection with such Securitization Transactions; provided, that any outstanding Term B Advances shall be prepaid to the extent required under Section 2.06; and
(viii) Liens not expressly permitted by clauses (i) through (vi); provided that the sum of (A) the aggregate principal amount of the outstanding Debt of Parent and its Subsidiaries secured by Liens permitted by this clause and (B) the Attributable Debt in connection with all Sale and Leaseback Transactions of Parent and its Subsidiaries permitted by Section 5.02(h)(iii) does not at any time exceed 10% of Consolidated Net Worth.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, neither the Loan Parties nor any of their Subsidiaries shall create, incur, assume or suffer to exist any Lien on the Equity Interests of the Loan Parties in Meridian Speedway without the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent, except for any Lien on the Equity Interests of the Loan Parties in Meridian Speedway created, incurred, assumed or suffered to exist with respect to any Debt permitted pursuant to Section 5.02(b)(v);provided that the aggregate Equity Interests held by the Loan Parties in Meridian Speedway subject to any such Lien, taken together with the aggregate Equity Interests held by Persons that are not Loan Parties in Meridian Speedway, shall at all times be less than 50% of the aggregate outstanding Voting Interests in Meridian Speedway.
(b)Debt. Create, incur, assume or suffer to exist, or permit any of its Subsidiaries to create, incur, assume or suffer to exist, any Debt and Off Balance Sheet Obligations, except:
(i) in the case of the Parent, the Borrower and any of their respective Subsidiaries,
(A) Debt under the Loan Documents;
(B) the Surviving Debt, and any Debt extending the maturity of, or refunding or refinancing, in whole or in part, any Surviving Debt (“Refinancing Debt”),providedthat the principal amount of such Refinancing Debt shall not exceed the sum of (i) the principal amount of the Surviving Debt outstanding immediately prior to such extension, refunding or refinancing, (ii) the aggregate amount of any prepayment fees or premiums, consent fees and/or other costs and expenses directly related to the extension, refunding or refinancing of such Surviving Debt and (iii) the reasonable fees, expenses and costs directly related to issuing the Refinancing Debt, and the direct and contingent obligors therefore shall not be changed, as a result of or in connection with such extension, refunding or refinancing,provided furtherthat the terms relating to principal amount, amortization, maturity, collateral (if any) and subordination (if any), and other material terms taken as a whole, of such Refinancing Debt, and of any agreement entered into and of any instrument issued in connection therewith, are no less favorable in any material respect to the Loan Parties or the Lender Parties than the terms of any agreement or instrument governing the Surviving Debt being extended, refunded or refinanced;
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(C) Debt of Parent or the Borrower as an account party in respect of letters of credit (which do not constitute Letters of Credit hereunder) in an aggregate stated amount at any time outstanding not in excess of $10,000,000;
(D) Debt of (i) any Loan Party that is owed to any other Loan Party, (ii) any Subsidiary of the Parent that is not a Loan Party owed to any Subsidiary of the Parent that is not a Loan Party, (iii) Debt of any Loan Party owed to any Subsidiary of the Parent that is not a Loan Party which, to the extent that the aggregate amount for all such Debt exceeds $10,000,000, shall include subordination terms acceptable to the Administrative Agent and (iv) Debt of any Subsidiary of the Parent that is not a Loan Party owed to any Loan Party to the extent constituting an Investment permitted by Section 5.02(f);
(E) Debt of any Person that becomes a Subsidiary of the Borrower or the Parent after the date hereof in accordance with the terms of Section 5.02(f) which Debt is existing at the time such Person becomes a Subsidiary of the Borrower or the Parent (other than Debt incurred solely in contemplation of such Person becoming a Subsidiary of the Borrower or the Parent);
(F) Securitization Transactions;
(G) Debt under the Grupo TFM Notes;
(H) Any other Debt,providedthat before and after giving effect to the incurrence of such Debt (i) the ratio of Senior Secured Debt to EBITDA is less than 2.75:1.00 and (ii) the Loan Parties are otherwise in compliance with the financial covenants set forth in Section 5.04 andprovided further that, if such Debt is unsecured, (a) in no event shall the terms of such Debt require any scheduled payment of principal in cash of such Debt prior to the Termination Date, (b) a Subsidiary shall not guarantee such Debt unless (i) such Subsidiary is also a Subsidiary Guarantor under this Agreement, and (ii) such guarantee of such Debt provides for the release and termination thereof, without action by any party, upon any release and termination of such Subsidiary Guaranty by the applicable Subsidiary (other than by reason of repayment and satisfaction of all of the Obligations);
(I) Debt incurred to finance newly-acquired equipment in contemplation of a Sale and Leaseback Transaction within 120 days following the incurrence thereof pursuant to Section 5.02(h)(iii), to the extent the conditions set forth therein are satisfied;
(J) Debt consisting of guaranties described in 5.02(b)(i)(H).
(ii) [Intentionally Omitted]
(iii) Neither Parent nor the Borrower will, nor will they permit any Subsidiary to, issue any preferred stock or other Preferred Interests other than Preferred Interests of Parent that are not by their terms or by the terms of any agreement or instrument subject to any redemption, repurchase or similar requirement for the payment of cash, whether absolute, at the option of any holder thereof or upon the occurrence of any event or
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contingency (other than an event which results in an Event of Default hereunder) which could occur prior to the final maturity of all the Advances;
(iv) Parent will not permit Caymex or any other domestic wholly owned subsidiary of the Parent that directly or indirectly owns the Equity Interests of Grupo TFM to create, incur or assume any Debt other than Debt the proceeds of which are used to finance or refinance its foreign operations in Mexico and Panama or to make distributions to the Parent; and
(v) Debt owed by the Parent, the Borrower, or any Subsidiary of the Parent to Meridian Speedway which Debt shall not exceed an aggregate amount equal to $170,000,000 and be on terms and conditions reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent, including, without limitation, (A) subordination terms and (B) compliance with Section 5.02(n) hereof.
(c)Change in Nature of Business. Make, or permit any of their Subsidiaries (other than, with respect to the Borrower, a Non-Core Business Subsidiary) to make, any material change in the nature of its business as carried on at the date hereof.
(d)Mergers, Etc. Merge into or consolidate with any Person or permit any Person to merge into Parent or the Borrower, or permit any of their Subsidiaries to do so, except that:
(i) any Subsidiary of Parent or the Borrower may merge into or consolidate with the Parent, any other Subsidiary of Parent or the Borrower,providedthat, in the case of any such merger or consolidation, the Person formed by such merger or consolidation shall be an Affiliate of the Parent or the Borrower which is also a Loan Party,provided furtherthat, in the case of any such merger or consolidation to which a Subsidiary Guarantor is a party, the Person formed by such merger or consolidation shall be a Subsidiary Guarantor;
(ii) in connection with any acquisition permitted under Section 5.02(f), any Subsidiary of the Parent or the Borrower may merge into or consolidate with any other Person or permit any other Person to merge into or consolidate with it;providedthat the Person surviving such merger shall be an Affiliate of the Parent or the Borrower which is also a Loan Party; and
(iii) in connection with any sale or other disposition permitted under Section 5.02(e) (other than clause (ii) thereof), any Subsidiary of the Parent may merge into or consolidate with any other Person or permit any other Person to merge into or consolidate with it;
provided,however, that in each case, immediately before and after giving effect thereto, no Default shall have occurred and be continuing.
(e)Sales, Etc., of Assets. Sell, lease, transfer or otherwise dispose of, or permit any of its Subsidiaries to sell, lease, transfer or otherwise dispose of, any assets, or grant any option or other right to purchase, lease or otherwise acquire any assets, except:
(i) sales of Inventory, used or surplus equipment, non-operating assets and non-income producing assets and Cash Equivalents in the ordinary course of its business
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and the granting of any option or other right to purchase, lease or otherwise acquire Inventory in the ordinary course of its business;
(ii) in a transaction authorized by Section 5.02(d);
(iii) sales, transfers or other dispositions of assets among Loan Parties;
(iv) other sales, transfers or other dispositions of assets;providedthat (i) the Net Cash Proceeds from any such sale, transfer or other disposition are paid to the Lenders to the extent required by Section 2.06(b) and (ii) such assets are sold, transferred or otherwise disposed of for fair market value;
(v) sales, transfers and other dispositions of accounts receivable pursuant to one or more Securitization Transactions;providedthat the Net Cash Proceeds from such sale are used to prepay the Term B Advances pursuant to and in the amount required in, Section 2.06(b)(ii); and
(vi) sales, transfers, options for sales or transfers, or other dispositions of track assets in an amount not to exceed a book value thereof equal to $170,000,000 to Meridian Speedway pursuant to the terms and conditions set forth in the Meridian Speedway Transaction Agreement.
(f)Investments in Other Persons. Make or hold, or permit any of their Subsidiaries to make or hold, any Investment in any Person, except:
(i) Investments by the Parent, the Borrower and their Subsidiaries in Loan Parties;providedthat, with respect to the Borrower, all such Investments in a Non-Core Business Subsidiary shall not exceed an aggregate principal amount equal to $15,000,000 at any time outstanding, including, with respect to any assets comprising such Investment, the fair market value thereof;
(ii) loans and advances to employees in the ordinary course of the business of the Parent and its Subsidiaries as presently conducted in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $2,000,000 at any time outstanding;
(iii) Investments by the Parent and its Subsidiaries in Cash Equivalents;
(iv) Investments existing on the date hereof and described on Schedule 4.01(x) hereto;
(v) Investments by the Borrower in Hedge Agreements;
(vi) Investments consisting of intercompany Debt permitted under Section 5.02(b), including, without limitation, loans and advances to Parent;
(vii) Investments received in connection with the bankruptcy or reorganization of, or settlement of delinquent accounts and disputes with, customers and suppliers, in each case in the ordinary course of business;
(viii) Guarantees for the benefit of, or capital contributions or loans to, or sale and leaseback transactions with, Texas Mexican Railway Company or any other domestic
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railway company that owns railways that are contiguous with those owned by the Borrower;providedthat, since the Prior Effective Date, the aggregate amount of such capital contributions, loans and guaranteed Debt and sale and leaseback transactions shall not exceed $30,000,000;
(ix) Guarantees for the benefit of, or capital contributions or loans to, or sale and leaseback transactions with, any company that is engaged in the same line of business as the Borrower or a related line of business;providedthat, since the Prior Effective Date, the aggregate amount of such capital contributions, loans and guaranteed Debt and sale and leaseback transactions shall not exceed $25,000,000;
(x) Investments made with the net proceeds of issuances of Equity Interests by Parent or any of its Subsidiaries;
(xi) the Mexrail Acquisition;
(xii) Investments by the Parent or Borrower of track assets in an amount not to exceed a book value thereof equal to $170,000,000 in the Meridian Speedway pursuant to the terms and conditions set forth in the Meridian Speedway Transaction Agreement and the Meridian Speedway Company Agreement;
(xiii) The Investments in Meridian Speedway Joint Venture permitted pursuant to Section 5.02(e)(vi) and Investments by the Parent or the Borrower not exceeding $10,000,000 per annum in Meridian Speedway;providedthat up to $5,000,000 in additional Investments by the Borrower in Meridian Speedway may be made in the immediately following fiscal year if such Investments were not made in the current fiscal year;
(xiv) Investments not expressly permitted by clauses (i) through (xiii); provided that the aggregate amount of all such Investments shall not at any time exceed $10,000,000.
(g)Restricted Payments. Declare or pay any dividends, purchase, redeem, retire, defease or otherwise acquire for value any of its Equity Interests now or hereafter outstanding, return any capital to its stockholders, partners or members (or the equivalent Persons thereof) as such, make any distribution of assets, Equity Interests, obligations or securities to its stockholders, partners or members (or the equivalent Persons thereof) as such, or permit any of their Subsidiaries to do any of the foregoing, or permit any of their Subsidiaries to purchase, redeem, retire, defease or otherwise acquire for value any Equity Interests in Parent or the Borrower or to issue or sell any Equity Interests therein of any entity whose Equity Interests have been pledged as Collateral under the Security Agreement, except that, so long as no Default shall have occurred and be continuing at the time of any action described below or would result therefrom:
(i) Parent may (A) declare and pay dividends and distributions payable only in common stock of Parent, (B) make payments restricted by this section pursuant to and in accordance with stock option plans or other benefit plans for management or employees of Parent and its Subsidiaries, and (C) purchase, redeem, retire, defease or otherwise acquire for value any of its Equity Interests made by exchange for, or out of the proceeds of the substantially contemporaneous sale of, Equity Interests, and (D) pay cash
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dividends with respect to shares of its Preferred Interests in respect of which cash dividends are payable or which require redemptions or repurchases in cash, and
(ii) any Subsidiary of the Parent may (A) declare and pay dividends ratably with respect to their capital stock and (B) declare and pay dividends in cash or property to any other Loan Party of which it is a Subsidiary.
(h)Sale and Leaseback Transactions. Parent will not, and will not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, enter into any Sale and Leaseback Transaction other than:
(i) Sale and Leaseback Transactions involving locomotives, rolling stock or other equipment with Southern Capital Corporation, LLC;
(ii) Sale and Leaseback Transactions permitted by clauses (viii) and (ix) of Section 5.02(f); and
(iii) any other Sale and Leaseback Transaction if (i) at the time of such Sale and Leaseback Transaction no Default shall have occurred and be continuing, (ii) the proceeds from the sale of the subject property shall be at least equal to its fair market value on the date of such sale, and (iii) the sum of (A) the aggregate principal amount of the outstanding Debt of Parent and its Subsidiaries secured by Liens permitted by clause (viii) of Section 5.02(a) and (B) the Attributable Debt in connection with all Sale and Leaseback Transactions of Parent and its Subsidiaries permitted by this Section 5.02(h)(iii) does not at any time exceed 10% of Consolidated Net Worth; provided that any Sale and Leaseback Transaction permitted pursuant to this Section 5.02(h)(iii) shall be deemed not to include any Attributable Debt for the purposes hereof to the extent that such Sale and Leaseback Transaction is consummated with respect to such newly-acquired equipment.
(i)Prepayments, Etc., of Debt. Prepay, redeem, purchase, defease or otherwise satisfy prior to the scheduled maturity thereof in any manner, or make any payment in violation of any subordination terms of, any Debt, except (i) the prepayment of the Advances in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, (ii) regularly scheduled or required repayments or redemptions of Debt (other than payments in respect of Subordinated Debt which are in contravention of the subordination provisions thereof), (iii) any prepayments or redemptions of Debt in connection with a refunding or refinancing of such Debt permitted by Section 5.02(b)(i)(B), (iv) payments of secured Debt that becomes due as a result of the voluntary sale or transfer of the property or assets securing such Debt and (v) payments in respect of Debt owed to Parent or any Subsidiary, or amend, modify or change in any manner any term or condition of any Material Debt or Subordinated Debt, or take any other action in connection with any Material Debt that would impair the value of the interest or rights of any Loan Party thereunder or that would impair the rights or interests of any Agent or any Lender Party, or permit any of its Subsidiaries to do any of the foregoing other than to prepay any Debt payable to the Borrower or the Parent.
(j)Negative Pledge. Enter into or suffer to exist, or permit any of their Subsidiaries to enter into or suffer to exist, any agreement prohibiting or conditioning the creation or assumption of any Lien upon any of its property or assets (including, without limitation, any Equity Interests in Meridian Speedway (except as otherwise permitted pursuant to Section 5.02(a), as provided in the agreements entered into in connection with formation and funding of Meridian Speedway and in accordance with the terms of Loan Documents, or with the express prior written consent of the Administrative Agent) except (i) in favor of the Secured Parties or (ii)
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in connection with (A) any Surviving Debt, (B) any purchase money Debt permitted by Section 5.02(b)(i)(H) solely to the extent that the agreement or instrument governing such Debt permits the Liens of the Secured Parties under the Loan Documents, and any Liens in connection with the refinancing thereof, (C) any Capitalized Lease Obligation permitted by Section 5.02(b)(i)(H) solely to the extent that such Capitalized Lease Obligation permits the Liens of the Secured Parties under the Loan Documents and any Liens in connection with the refinancing thereof, or (D) any Debt outstanding on the date any Subsidiary of Parent becomes such a Subsidiary (so long as such agreement was not entered into solely in contemplation of such Subsidiary becoming a Subsidiary of Parent).
(k)Partnerships, Etc. Become a general partner in any general or limited partnership or joint venture, or permit any of its Subsidiaries to do so.
(l)Speculative Transactions. Engage, or permit any of its Subsidiaries to engage, in any transaction involving speculative transactions other than Hedge Agreements entered into in the ordinary course of business to hedge or mitigate risks to which Parent, the Borrower or any of their Subsidiaries shall be exposed in the conduct of their business and not for speculative purposes.
(m)Formation of Subsidiaries. Organize or invest, or permit any of their Subsidiaries to organize or invest, in any new Subsidiary except as permitted under Section 5.02(f)(i) or (x).
(n)Payment Restrictions Affecting Subsidiaries. Directly or indirectly, enter into or suffer to exist, or permit any of their Subsidiaries to enter into or suffer to exist, any agreement or arrangement limiting the ability of any of their Subsidiaries to declare or pay dividends or other distributions in respect of its Equity Interests or repay or prepay any Debt owed to, make loans or advances to, or otherwise transfer assets to or invest in, Parent or any Subsidiary of Parent (whether through a covenant restricting dividends, loans, asset transfers or investments, a financial covenant or otherwise), except (i) the Loan Documents, (ii) any agreement or instrument evidencing Surviving Debt, (iii) any agreement in effect at the time such Subsidiary becomes a Subsidiary of the Borrower or the Parent, so long as such agreement was not entered into solely in contemplation of such Person becoming a Subsidiary of the Borrower or the Parent, and (iv) the agreements entered into in connection with formation and funding of Meridian Speedway and in accordance with terms of the Loan Documents.
SECTION 5.03.Reporting Requirements. So long as any Advance or any other Obligation of any Loan Party under any Loan Document shall remain unpaid, any Letter of Credit shall be outstanding or any Lender Party shall have any Commitment hereunder, Parent or the Borrower will furnish to the Agents and the Lender Parties:
(a)Default Notice, Etc. As soon as possible and in any event within five days after the occurrence of each Default or any event, development or occurrence reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect continuing on the date of such statement, including, without limitation, notice of all actions, suits, investigations, litigation and proceedings before any Governmental Authority affecting any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries of the type described in Section 4.01(f), a statement of the chief financial officer of the Borrower setting forth details of such Default or such litigation or other proceeding and the action that the Borrower has taken and proposes to take with respect thereto.
(b)Annual Financials. As soon as available and in any event within 90 days after the end of each Fiscal Year (A), a copy of audited financial statements for such year for Parent
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and its subsidiaries, including therein a Consolidated balance sheet of Parent and its subsidiaries as of the end of such Fiscal Year and a Consolidated statement of income and a Consolidated statement of cash flows of Parent and its subsidiaries for such Fiscal Year, in each case accompanied by (i) an opinion (without a “going concern” or like qualification or exception and without any qualification or exception as to the scope of such audit) of KPMG LLP or other independent public accountants of recognized standing acceptable to the Required Lenders, together with a certificate of such accounting firm to the Lender Parties stating that in the course of the regular audit of the business of the Parent and its subsidiaries, which audit was conducted by such accounting firm in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards, such accounting firm has obtained no knowledge that a Default has occurred and is continuing during the course of its audit (which certificate may be limited to the extent required by accounting rules or guidelines), or if, in the opinion of such accounting firm, a Default has occurred and is continuing, a statement as to the nature thereof, and (ii) a certificate of the chief financial officer of the Parent stating that no Default has occurred and is continuing or, if a Default has occurred and is continuing, a statement as to the nature thereof and the action that the Parent has taken and proposes to take with respect thereto together with a schedule in form satisfactory to the Administrative Agent of the computations used by the Borrower in determining, as of the end of such Fiscal Year, compliance with the covenants contained in Section 5.04providedthat in the event of any change in generally accepted accounting principles used in the preparation of such financial statements, the Parent shall also provide, if necessary for the determination of compliance with Section 5.04, a statement of reconciliation conforming such financial statements to GAAP, (B) for Parent and its Consolidated subsidiaries other than Mexrail, Caymex, any domestic wholly owned subsidiary of Parent which holds the Investment in Grupo TFM or the Panama Canal Railway Company, and their respective subsidiaries, its unaudited consolidated balance sheet and related statement of income as of the end of and for such year, all certified by its chief financial officer as presenting fairly in all material respects the financial condition and results of operations of Parent and its Consolidated subsidiaries other than Mexrail, Caymex, any domestic wholly owned subsidiary of Parent which holds the Investment in Grupo TFM or the Panama Canal Railway Company, and their respective subsidiaries, on a consolidated basis consistently applied and (C) for the Loan Parties on a non-consolidated basis, unaudited summary financial statements for such Fiscal Year certified by its chief financial officer.
(c)Quarterly Financials. As soon as available and in any event within 50 days after the end of each of the first three quarters of each Fiscal Year, (A) a Consolidated balance sheet of Parent and its subsidiaries as of the end of such quarter and a Consolidated statement of income and a Consolidated statement of cash flows of Parent and its subsidiaries for the period commencing at the end of the previous fiscal quarter and ending with the end of such fiscal quarter and a Consolidated statement of income and a Consolidated statement of cash flows of Parent and its subsidiaries for the period commencing at the end of the previous Fiscal Year and ending with the end of such quarter, setting forth in each case in comparative form the corresponding figures for the corresponding date or period of the preceding Fiscal Year, all in reasonable detail and duly certified (subject to normal year-end audit adjustments) by the chief financial officer of the Parent as having been prepared in accordance with GAAP, together with (i) a certificate of said officer stating that no Default has occurred and is continuing or, if a Default has occurred and is continuing, a statement as to the nature thereof and the action that the Parent has taken and proposes to take with respect thereto and (ii) a schedule in form satisfactory to the Administrative Agent of the computations used by the Borrower in determining compliance with the covenants contained in Section 5.04,providedthat in the event of any change in generally accepted accounting principles used in the preparation of such financial statements, the Borrower shall also provide, if necessary for the determination of compliance with Section 5.04, a statement of reconciliation conforming such financial statements to GAAP, (B) for Parent and its
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Consolidated subsidiaries other than Mexrail, Caymex, any domestic wholly owned subsidiary of Parent which holds the Investment in Group TFM or the Panama Canal Railway Company, and their respective subsidiaries, its unaudited consolidated balance sheet and related statement of income as of the end of and for such fiscal quarter and the then elapsed portion of the fiscal year, all certified by its chief financial officer as presenting fairly in all material respects the financial condition and results of operations of Parent and its Consolidated subsidiaries other than Mexrail, Caymex, any domestic wholly owned subsidiary of Parent which holds the Investment in Group TFM or the Panama Railway Company, and their respective subsidiaries, on a consolidated basis consistently applied, subject to normal year-end audit adjustments and the absence of footnotes and (C) for the Loan Parties on a non-consolidated basis, unaudited summary financial statements for such fiscal quarter certified by its chief financial officer.
(d)Annual Forecasts. As soon as available and in any event no later than 30 days after the end of each Fiscal Year, forecasts prepared by management of Parent and the Borrower, in form satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, of balance sheets, income statements and cash flow statements on a monthly basis for the Fiscal Year following such Fiscal Year and on an annual basis for each Fiscal Year thereafter until the Termination Date.
(e)Securities Reports. Promptly after the same shall be publicly available, copies of all proxy statements, financial statements, regular, periodic and special reports, and all registration statements, that any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries files with the Securities and Exchange Commission or any governmental authority that may be substituted therefor, or with any national securities exchange.
(f)Agreement Notices. Promptly upon receipt thereof, copies of all notices, requests and other documents received by any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries under or pursuant to any Material Debt Document or instrument, indenture, loan or credit or similar agreement regarding or related to any breach or default by any party thereto or any other event that could materially impair the value of the interests or the rights of any Loan Party or otherwise have a Material Adverse Effect and copies of any amendment, modification or waiver of any material provision of any Material Debt Document and, from time to time upon request by the Administrative Agent, such information and reports regarding the Material Debt Documents as the Administrative Agent may reasonably request.
(i)ERISA. Prompt written notice of (i) the occurrence of any Reportable Event with respect to any Plan, (ii) the incurrence of Withdrawal Liability with respect to any Multiemployer Plan, (iii) the receipt by Parent or any member of the Controlled Group of any notice concerning the imposition of Withdrawal Liability or a determination that a Multiemployer Plan is, or is expected to be, insolvent or in reorganization within the meaning of Title IV of ERISA or (iv) any other development that results in, or could reasonably be expected to result in, a Material Adverse Effect.
(g)Environmental Conditions. Promptly after the assertion or occurrence thereof, notice of any Environmental Action against or of any noncompliance by any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries with any Environmental Law or Environmental Permit that could (i) reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect or (ii) cause any property described in the Mortgages to be subject to any material restrictions on ownership, occupancy, use or transferability under any Environmental Law.
(h)Insurance. The Borrower will furnish to the Lenders, upon request of the Administrative Agent, information in reasonable detail as to the insurance coverage it maintains.
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(i)Other Information. Such other information respecting the business, condition (financial or otherwise), operations, performance, properties or prospects of any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries as any Agent, or any Lender Party through the Administrative Agent, may from time to time reasonably request.
SECTION 5.04.Financial Covenants. So long as any Advance or any other Obligation of any Loan Party under any Loan Document shall remain unpaid, any Letter of Credit shall be outstanding or any Lender Party shall have any Commitment hereunder, the Parent and its Subsidiaries will:
(a)Leverage Ratio. Maintain at the end of each fiscal quarter of the Parent a Leverage Ratio of not more than the amount set forth below for each period set forth below:
Quarter Ending | Ratio | |
March 31, 2006 | 5.75:1.00 | |
June 30, 2006 | 5.50:1.00 | |
September 30, 2006 | 5.25:1.00 | |
December 31, 2006 | 5.25:1.00 | |
March 31, 2007 | 5.00:1.00 | |
June 30, 2007 | 5.00:1.00 | |
September 30, 2007 | 5.00:1.00 | |
December 31, 2007 | 5.00:1.00 | |
March 31, 2008 | 4.75:1.00 | |
June 30, 2008 | 4.75:1.00 | |
September 30, 2008 | 4.75:1.00 | |
December 31, 2008 | 4.75:1.00 | |
March 31, 2009 | 4.50:1.00 | |
June 30, 2009 | 4.50:1.00 | |
September 30, 2009 | 4.50:1.00 | |
December 31, 2009 | 4.50:1.00 | |
March 31, 2010 | 4.50:1.00 | |
June 30, 2010 | 4.50:1.00 | |
September 30, 2010 | 4.50:1.00 | |
December 31, 2010 | 4.50:1.00 | |
March 31, 2011 | 4.50:1.00 | |
June 30, 2011 | 4.50:1.00 | |
September 30, 2011 | 4.50:1.00 | |
December 31, 2011 | 4.50:1.00 | |
March 31, 2012 | 4.50:1.00 | |
June 30, 2012 | 4.50:1.00 | |
September 30, 2012 | 4.50:1.00 | |
December 31, 2012 | 4.50:1.00 | |
March 31, 2013 | 4.50:1.00 | |
June 30, 2013 | 4.50:1.00 |
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(b)Interest Coverage Ratio. Maintain at the end of each fiscal quarter of the Parent an Interest Coverage Ratio of not less than the amount set forth below for each period set forth below:
Quarter Ending | Ratio | |
March 31, 2006 | 1.75:1.00 | |
June 30, 2006 | 1.75:1.00 | |
September 30, 2006 | 1.75:1.00 | |
December 31, 2006 | 1.75:1.00 | |
March 31, 2007 | 2.00:1.00 | |
June 30, 2007 | 2.00:1.00 | |
September 30, 2007 | 2.00:1.00 | |
December 31, 2007 | 2.00:1.00 | |
March 31, 2008 | 2.00:1.00 | |
June 30, 2008 | 2.00:1.00 | |
September 30, 2008 | 2.25:1.00 | |
December 31, 2008 | 2.25:1.00 | |
March 31, 2009 | 2.25:1.00 | |
June 30, 2009 | 2.25:1.00 | |
September 30, 2009 | 2.50:1.00 | |
December 31, 2009 | 2.50:1.00 | |
March 31, 2010 | 2.50:1.00 | |
June 30, 2010 | 2.50:1.00 | |
September 30, 2010 | 2.50:1.00 | |
December 31, 2010 | 2.50:1.00 | |
March 31, 2011 | 2.50:1.00 | |
June 30, 2011 | 2.50:1.00 | |
September 30, 2011 | 2.50:1.00 | |
December 31, 2011 | 2.50:1.00 | |
March 31, 2012 | 2.50:1.00 | |
June 30, 2012 | 2.50:1.00 | |
September 30, 2012 | 2.50:1.00 | |
December 31, 2012 | 2.50:1.00 | |
March 31, 2013 | 2.50:1.00 | |
June 30, 2013 | 2.50:1.00 |
providedthat, with respect to clause (a) and (b) of this Section 5.04, for purposes of the calculation of the Leverage Ratio and the Interest Coverage Ratio, respectively, all Debt incurred to purchase newly-acquired equipment to the extent such newly-acquired equipment is subject to a Sale and Leaseback Transaction shall not constitute “Debt” for the purposes of this Section 5.04 if such transaction is consummated on or prior to the 105th day of the acquisition of such newly-acquired equipment subject to such Sale and Leaseback Transaction.
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ARTICLE VI
EVENTS OF DEFAULT
SECTION 6.01.Events of Default. If any of the following events (“Events of Default”) shall occur and be continuing:
(a) (i) the Borrower shall fail to pay any principal of any Advance when the same shall become due and payable or (ii) the Borrower shall fail to pay any interest on any Advance, or any Loan Party shall fail to make any other payment under any Loan Document, in each case under this clause (ii) within five Business Days after the same shall become due and payable; or
(b) any representation or warranty made by any Loan Party (or any of its officers) under or in connection with any Loan Document shall prove to have been incorrect in any material respect when made; or
(c) Parent or the Borrower shall fail to perform or observe any term, covenant or agreement contained in Section 2.14, 5.01(d), (e), 5.02, 5.03 or 5.04; or
(d) any Loan Party shall fail to perform or observe any other term, covenant or agreement contained in any Loan Document on its part to be performed or observed if such failure shall remain unremedied for 15 days after written notice thereof shall have been given to the Borrower by any Agent or any Lender Party; or
(e) any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries shall fail to pay any principal of, premium or interest on or any other amount payable in respect of any Material Debt of such Loan Party or such Subsidiary (as the case may be) that is outstanding (but excluding Debt outstanding hereunder), when the same becomes due and payable (whether by scheduled maturity, required prepayment, acceleration, demand or otherwise), and such failure shall continue after the applicable grace period, if any, specified in the agreement or instrument relating to such Debt; or any other event shall occur or condition shall exist under any agreement or instrument relating to any such Debt and shall continue after the applicable grace period, if any, specified in such agreement or instrument, if the effect of such event or condition is to accelerate, or to permit the acceleration of, the maturity of such Debt or otherwise to cause, or to permit the holder thereof to cause, such Debt to mature; or any such Debt shall be declared to be due and payable or required to be prepaid or redeemed (other than by a regularly scheduled required prepayment or redemption), purchased or defeased, or an offer to prepay, redeem, purchase or defease such Debt shall be required to be made, in each case prior to the stated maturity thereof; or
(f) any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries shall generally not pay its debts as such debts become due, or shall admit in writing its inability to pay its debts generally, or shall make a general assignment for the benefit of creditors; or any proceeding shall be instituted by or against any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries seeking to adjudicate it a bankrupt or insolvent, or seeking liquidation, winding up, reorganization, arrangement, adjustment, protection, relief, or composition of it or its debts under any law relating to bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization or relief of debtors, or seeking the entry of an order for relief or the appointment of a receiver, trustee or other similar official for it or for any substantial part of its property and, in the case of any such proceeding instituted against it (but not instituted by it) that is being diligently contested by it in good faith, either such proceeding shall remain undismissed or unstayed for a period of 60 days or any of the actions sought in such proceeding (including, without limitation, the entry of an order for relief against, or the appointment of a receiver, trustee, custodian or other similar
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official for, it or any substantial part of its property) shall occur; or any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries shall take any corporate action to authorize any of the actions set forth above in this subsection (f); or
(g) any judgments or orders, either individually or in the aggregate, for the payment of money in excess of $10,000,000 shall be rendered against any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries and either (i) enforcement proceedings shall have been commenced by any creditor upon such judgment or order or (ii) there shall be any period of 30 consecutive days during which a stay of enforcement of such judgment or order, by reason of a pending appeal or otherwise, shall not be in effect; or
(h) any non-monetary judgment or order shall be rendered against any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries that is reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect, and there shall be any period of 60 consecutive days during which a stay of enforcement of such judgment or order, by reason of a pending appeal or otherwise, shall not be in effect; or
(i) any provision of any Loan Document after delivery thereof pursuant to Section 3.01 or 5.01(i) shall for any reason cease to be valid and binding on or enforceable against any Loan Party party to it, or any such Loan Party shall so state in writing; or
(j) any Collateral Document or financing statement after delivery thereof pursuant to Section 3.01 or 5.01(i) shall for any reason (other than pursuant to the terms thereof) cease to create a valid and perfected first priority lien on and security interest in a material portion of the Collateral purported to be covered thereby; or
(k) a Change of Control shall occur;
(l) any ERISA Event shall have occurred which, in the opinion of the Required Lenders, could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect;
(m) an event of Default (as defined in any Mortgage) shall have occurred and be continuing; or
(n) an event of default or purchase termination event or other comparable event shall occur in respect of any Securitization Transaction in an aggregate amount greater than $20,000,000, in any case that could reasonably be expected to have a material and adverse effect on the liquidity of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries or otherwise result in a Material Adverse Effect;
then, and in any such event, the Administrative Agent (i) shall at the request, or may with the consent, of the Required Lenders, by notice to the Borrower, declare the Commitments of each Lender Party and the obligation of each Lender Party to make Advances (other than Letter of Credit Advances by the Issuing Bank or a Revolving Credit Lender pursuant to Section 2.03(c) and Swing Line Advances by a Revolving Credit Lender pursuant to Section 2.02(b)) and of the Issuing Bank to issue Letters of Credit to be terminated, whereupon the same shall forthwith terminate, and (ii) shall at the request, or may with the consent, of the Required Lenders, (A) by notice to the Borrower, declare the Notes, all interest thereon and all other amounts payable under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents to be forthwith due and payable, whereupon the Notes, all such interest and all such amounts shall become and be forthwith due and payable, without presentment, demand, protest or further notice of any kind, all of which are hereby expressly waived by the Borrower, (B) by notice to each party required under the terms of any agreement in support of which a Standby Letter of Credit is issued, request that all Obligations under such
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agreement be declared to be due and payable;provided,however, that in the event of an actual or deemed entry of an order for relief with respect to the Borrower under the Federal Bankruptcy Code, (x) the Commitments of each Lender Party and the obligation of each Lender Party to make Advances (other than Letter of Credit Advances by the Issuing Bank or a Revolving Credit Lender pursuant to Section 2.03(c) and Swing Line Advances by a Revolving Credit Lender pursuant to Section 2.02(b)) and of the Issuing Bank to issue Letters of Credit shall automatically be terminated and (y) the Notes, all such interest and all such amounts shall automatically become and be due and payable, without presentment, demand, protest or any notice of any kind, all of which are hereby expressly waived by the Borrower.
SECTION 6.02.Actions in Respect of the Letters of Credit upon Default. If any Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the Administrative Agent may, or shall at the request of the Required Lenders, irrespective of whether it is taking any of the actions described in Section 6.01 or otherwise, make demand upon the Borrower to, and forthwith upon such demand the Borrower will, pay to the Collateral Agent on behalf of the Lender Parties in same day funds at the Collateral Agent’s Office, for deposit in the L/C Collateral Account, an amount equal to the aggregate Available Amount of all Letters of Credit then outstanding;provided,however, that in the event of an actual or deemed entry of an order for relief with respect to the Borrower under the Bankruptcy Law, the Borrower will pay to the Collateral Agent on behalf of the Lender Parties in same day funds at the Collateral Agent’s Office, for deposit in the L/C Collateral Account, an amount equal to the aggregate Available Amount of all Letters of Credit then outstanding, without presentment, demand, protest or any notice of any kind, all of which are hereby expressly waived by the Borrower. If at any time the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent determines that any funds held in the L/C Collateral Account are subject to any right or claim of any Person other than the Agents and the Lender Parties or that the total amount of such funds is less than the aggregate Available Amount of all Letters of Credit, the Borrower will, forthwith upon demand by the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent, pay to the Collateral Agent, as additional funds to be deposited and held in the L/C Collateral Account, an amount equal to the excess of (a) such aggregate Available Amount over (b) the total amount of funds, if any, then held in the L/C Collateral Account that the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent, as the case may be, determines to be free and clear of any such right and claim. Upon the drawing of any Letter of Credit for which funds are on deposit in the L/C Collateral Account, such funds shall be applied to reimburse the Issuing Bank or Revolving Credit Lenders, as applicable, to the extent permitted by applicable law.
ARTICLE VII
THE AGENTS
SECTION 7.01.Authorization and Action. (a) Each Lender Party (in its capacities as a Lender, the Swing Line Bank (if applicable), the Issuing Bank (if applicable) and on behalf of itself and its Affiliates as potential Hedge Banks) hereby appoints and authorizes each Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers and discretion under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents as are delegated to such Agent by the terms hereof and thereof, together with such powers and discretion as are reasonably incidental thereto. As to any matters not expressly provided for by the Loan Documents (including, without limitation, enforcement or collection of the Notes), no Agent shall be required to exercise any discretion or take any action, but shall be required to act or to refrain from acting (and shall be fully protected in so acting or refraining from acting) upon the instructions of the Required Lenders, and such instructions shall be binding upon all Lender Parties and all holders of Notes;provided,however, that no Agent shall be required to take any action that exposes such Agent to personal liability or that is contrary to this Agreement or applicable law. Each Agent agrees to give to each Lender Party prompt notice of each notice given to it by the Borrower pursuant to the terms of this Agreement.
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(b) In furtherance of the foregoing, each Lender Party (in its capacities as a Lender, the Swing Line Bank (if applicable), the Issuing Bank (if applicable) and on behalf of itself and its Affiliates as potential Hedge Banks) hereby appoints and authorizes the Collateral Agent to act as the agent of such Lender Party for purposes of acquiring, holding and enforcing any and all Liens on Collateral granted by any of the Loan Parties to secure any of the Secured Obligations, together with such powers and discretion as are reasonably incidental thereto. In this connection, the Collateral Agent (and any Supplemental Collateral Agents appointed by the Collateral Agent pursuant to Section 7.01(c) for purposes of holding or enforcing any Lien on the Collateral (or any portion thereof) granted under the Collateral Documents, or for exercising any rights or remedies thereunder at the direction of the Collateral Agent), shall be entitled to the benefits of this Article VII (including, without limitation, Section 7.05 as though such Supplemental Collateral Agents were an “Agent” under the Loan Documents) as if set forth in full herein with respect thereto.
(c) Any Agent may execute any of its duties under this Agreement or any other Loan Document (including for purposes of holding or enforcing any Lien on the Collateral (or any portion thereof) granted under the Collateral Documents or of exercising any rights and remedies thereunder at the direction of the Collateral Agent) by or through agents, employees or attorneys-in-fact and shall be entitled to advice of counsel and other consultants or experts concerning all matters pertaining to such duties. The Collateral Agent may also from time to time, when the Collateral Agent deems it to be necessary or desirable, appoint one or more trustees, co-trustees, collateral co-agents, collateral subagents or attorneys-in-fact (each, a “Supplemental Collateral Agent”) with respect to all or any part of the Collateral;provided,however, that no such Supplemental Collateral Agent shall be authorized to take any action with respect to any Collateral unless and except to the extent expressly authorized in writing by the Collateral Agent. Should any instrument in writing from the Borrower or any other Loan Party be required by any Supplemental Collateral Agent so appointed by the Collateral Agent to more fully or certainly vest in and confirm to such Supplemental Collateral Agent such rights, powers, privileges and duties, the Borrower shall, or shall cause such Loan Party to, execute, acknowledge and deliver any and all such instruments promptly upon request by the Collateral Agent. If any Supplemental Collateral Agent, or successor thereto, shall die, become incapable of acting, resign or be removed, all rights, powers, privileges and duties of such Supplemental Collateral Agent, to the extent permitted by law, shall automatically vest in and be exercised by the Collateral Agent until the appointment of a new Supplemental Collateral Agent. No Agent shall be responsible for the negligence or misconduct of any agent, attorney-in-fact or Supplemental Collateral Agent that it selects in accordance with the foregoing provisions of this Section 7.01(c) in the absence of such Agent’s gross negligence or willful misconduct.
SECTION 7.02.Agents’ Reliance, Etc. Neither any Agent nor any of their respective directors, officers, agents or employees shall be liable for any action taken or omitted to be taken by it or them under or in connection with the Loan Documents, except for its or their own gross negligence or willful misconduct. Without limitation of the generality of the foregoing, each Agent: (a) may treat the payee of any Note as the holder thereof until, in the case of the Administrative Agent, the Administrative Agent receives and accepts an Assignment and Acceptance entered into by the Lender that is the payee of such Note, as assignor, and an Eligible Assignee, as assignee, or, in the case of any other Agent, such Agent has received notice from the Administrative Agent that it has received and accepted such Assignment and Acceptance, in each case as provided in Section 9.07; (b) may consult with legal counsel (including counsel for any Loan Party), independent public accountants and other experts selected by it and shall not be liable for any action taken or omitted to be taken in good faith by it in accordance with the advice of such counsel, accountants or experts; (c) makes no warranty or representation to any Lender Party and shall not be responsible to any Lender Party for any statements, warranties or representations (whether written or oral) made in or in connection with the Loan Documents; (d) shall not have any duty to ascertain or to inquire as to the performance, observance or satisfaction of any of the terms, covenants or conditions of any Loan Document on the part of any Loan Party or the existence at any time of any
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Default under the Loan Documents or to inspect the property (including the books and records) of any Loan Party; (e) shall not be responsible to any Lender Party for the due execution, legality, validity, enforceability, genuineness, sufficiency or value of, or the perfection or priority of any lien or security interest created or purported to be created under or in connection with, any Loan Document or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant thereto; and (f) shall incur no liability under or in respect of any Loan Document by acting upon any notice, consent, certificate or other instrument or writing (which may be by telegram, telecopy or telex) believed by it to be genuine and signed or sent by the proper party or parties.
SECTION 7.03.BNS and Affiliates. With respect to its Commitments, the Advances made by it and the Notes issued to it, BNS shall have the same rights and powers under the Loan Documents as any other Lender Party and may exercise the same as though it were not an Agent; and the term “Lender Party” or “Lender Parties” shall, unless otherwise expressly indicated, include BNS in its individual capacity. BNS and its affiliates may accept deposits from, lend money to, act as trustee under indentures of, accept investment banking engagements from and generally engage in any kind of business with, any Loan Party, any of its Subsidiaries and any Person that may do business with or own securities of any Loan Party or any such Subsidiary, all as if BNS were not an Agent and without any duty to account therefor to the Lender Parties. No Agent shall have any duty to disclose any information obtained or received by it or any of its Affiliates relating to any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries to the extent such information was obtained or received in any capacity other than as such Agent.
SECTION 7.04.Lender Party Credit Decision. Each Lender Party acknowledges that it has, independently and without reliance upon any Agent or any other Lender Party and based on the financial statements referred to in Section 4.01 and such other documents and information as it has deemed appropriate, made its own credit analysis and decision to enter into this Agreement. Each Lender Party also acknowledges that it will, independently and without reliance upon any Agent or any other Lender Party and based on such documents and information as it shall deem appropriate at the time, continue to make its own credit decisions in taking or not taking action under this Agreement.
SECTION 7.05.Indemnification. (a) Each Lender Party severally agrees to indemnify each Agent (to the extent not promptly reimbursed by the Borrower) from and against such Lender Party’s ratable share (determined as provided below) of any and all liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments, suits, costs, expenses or disbursements of any kind or nature whatsoever that may be imposed on, incurred by, or asserted against such Agent in any way relating to or arising out of the Loan Documents or any action taken or omitted by such Agent under the Loan Documents (collectively, the “Indemnified Costs”);provided,however, that no Lender Party shall be liable for any portion of such liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments, suits, costs, expenses or disbursements resulting from such Agent’s gross negligence or willful misconduct as found in a final, non-appealable judgment by a court of competent jurisdiction. Without limitation of the foregoing, each Lender Party agrees to reimburse each Agent promptly upon demand for its ratable share of any costs and expenses (including, without limitation, fees and expenses of counsel) payable by the Borrower under Section 9.04, to the extent that such Agent is not promptly reimbursed for such costs and expenses by the Borrower. In the case of any investigation, litigation or proceeding giving rise to any Indemnified Costs, this Section 7.05 applies whether any such investigation, litigation or proceeding is brought by any Lender Party or any other Person.
(b) Each Lender Party severally agrees to indemnify the Issuing Bank (to the extent not promptly reimbursed by the Borrower) from and against such Lender Party’s ratable share (determined as provided below) of any and all liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments, suits, costs, expenses or disbursements of any kind or nature whatsoever that may be imposed on, incurred by, or asserted against the Issuing Bank in any way relating to or arising out of the Loan
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Documents or any action taken or omitted by the Issuing Bank under the Loan Documents;provided,however, that no Lender Party shall be liable for any portion of such liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments, suits, costs, expenses or disbursements resulting from the Issuing Bank’s gross negligence or willful misconduct as found in a final, non-appealable judgment by a court of competent jurisdiction. Without limitation of the foregoing, each Lender Party agrees to reimburse the Issuing Bank promptly upon demand for its ratable share of any costs and expenses (including, without limitation, fees and expenses of counsel) payable by the Borrower under Section 9.04, to the extent that the Issuing Bank is not promptly reimbursed for such costs and expenses by the Borrower.
(c) For purposes of this Section 7.05, the Lender Parties’ respective ratable shares of any amount shall be determined, at any time, according to the sum of (i) the aggregate principal amount of the Advances outstanding at such time and owing to the respective Lender Parties, (ii) their respective Pro Rata Shares of the aggregate Available Amount of all Letters of Credit outstanding at such time, (iii) the aggregate unused portions of their respective Term B Commitments at such time and (iv) their respective Unused Revolving Credit Commitment at such time;providedthat the aggregate principal amount of Swing Line Advances owing to the Swing Line Bank and of Letter of Credit Advances owing to the Issuing Bank shall be considered to be owed to the Revolving Credit Lenders ratably in accordance with their respective Revolving Credit Commitments. The failure of any Lender Party to reimburse any Agent or the Issuing Bank, as the case may be, promptly upon demand for its ratable share of any amount required to be paid by the Lender Parties to such Agent or the Issuing Bank, as the case may be, as provided herein shall not relieve any other Lender Party of its obligation hereunder to reimburse such Agent or the Issuing Bank, as the case may be, for its ratable share of such amount, but no Lender Party shall be responsible for the failure of any other Lender Party to reimburse such Agent or the Issuing Bank, as the case may be, for such other Lender Party’s ratable share of such amount. Without prejudice to the survival of any other agreement of any Lender Party hereunder, the agreement and obligations of each Lender Party contained in this Section 7.05 shall survive the payment in full of principal, interest and all other amounts payable hereunder and under the other Loan Documents.
SECTION 7.06.Successor Agents. Any Agent may resign as to any or all of the Facilities at any time by giving written notice thereof to the Lender Parties and the Borrower and may be removed as to all of the Facilities at any time with or without cause by the Required Lenders;provided,however, that any removal of the Administrative Agent will not be effective until it has also been replaced as Collateral Agent, Swing Line Bank and Letter of Credit Issuing Bank and released from all of its obligations in respect thereof. Upon any such resignation or removal, the Required Lenders shall have the right with the approval of the Borrower (such approval not to be unreasonably withheld) to appoint a successor Agent as to such of the Facilities as to which such Agent has resigned or been removed. If no successor Agent shall have been so appointed by the Required Lenders, and shall have accepted such appointment, within 30 days after the retiring Agent’s giving of notice of resignation or the Required Lenders’ removal of the retiring Agent, then the retiring Agent may, on behalf of the Lender Parties, with the approval of the Borrower (such approval not to be unreasonably withheld) appoint a successor Agent, which shall be a commercial bank organized under the laws of the United States or of any State thereof and having a combined capital and surplus of at least $250,000,000. Upon the acceptance of any appointment as Agent hereunder by a successor Agent as to all of the Facilities and, in the case of a successor Collateral Agent, upon the execution and filing or recording of such financing statements, or amendments thereto, and such amendments or supplements to the Mortgages, and such other instruments or notices, as may be necessary or desirable, or as the Required Lenders may request, in order to continue the perfection of the Liens granted or purported to be granted by the Collateral Documents, such successor Agent shall succeed to and become vested with all the rights, powers, discretion, privileges and duties of the retiring Agent, and the retiring Agent shall be discharged from its duties and obligations under the Loan Documents. Upon the acceptance of any appointment as Agent hereunder by a successor Agent as to less than all of the Facilities and, in the case of a successor Collateral Agent, upon the
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execution and filing or recording of such financing statements, or amendments thereto, and such amendments or supplements to the Mortgages, and such other instruments or notices, as may be necessary or desirable, or as the Required Lenders may request, in order to continue the perfection of the Liens granted or purported to be granted by the Collateral Documents, such successor Agent shall succeed to and become vested with all the rights, powers, discretion, privileges and duties of the retiring Agent as to such Facilities, other than with respect to funds transfers and other similar aspects of the administration of Borrowings under such Facilities, issuances of Letters of Credit (notwithstanding any resignation as Agent with respect to the Letter of Credit Facility) and payments by the Borrower in respect of such Facilities, and the retiring Administrative Agent shall be discharged from its duties and obligations under this Agreement as to such Facilities, other than as aforesaid. If within 45 days after written notice is given of the retiring Agent’s resignation or removal under this Section 7.06 no successor Agent shall have been appointed and shall have accepted such appointment, then on such 45th day (a) the retiring Agent’s resignation or removal shall become effective, (b) the retiring Agent shall thereupon be discharged from its duties and obligations under the Loan Documents and (c) the Required Lenders shall thereafter perform all duties of the retiring Agent under the Loan Documents until such time, if any, as the Required Lenders appoint a successor Agent as provided above. After any retiring Agent’s resignation or removal hereunder as Agent as to any of the Facilities shall have become effective, the provisions of this Article VII shall inure to its benefit as to any actions taken or omitted to be taken by it while it was Agent as to such Facilities under this Agreement.
SECTION 7.07.Other Agents; Arranger and Managers. None of the Lenders or other Persons identified on the facing page or signature pages of this Agreement as a “syndication agent,” “documentation agent,” “bookrunner,” or “lead arranger” shall have any right, power, obligation, liability, responsibility or duty under this Agreement other than to the extent expressly set forth herein and, in the case of such Lender Parties, those applicable to all Lender Parties as such. Without limiting the foregoing, none of the Lender Parties or other Persons so identified shall have or be deemed to have any fiduciary relationship with any Lender Party. Each Lender Party acknowledges that it has not relied, and will not rely, on any of the Lender Parties or other Persons so identified in deciding to enter into this Agreement or in taking or not taking action hereunder.
ARTICLE VIII
GUARANTY
SECTION 8.01.Guaranty; Limitation of Liability. (a) Each Guarantor, jointly and severally, hereby absolutely, unconditionally and irrevocably guarantees the punctual payment when due, whether at scheduled maturity or on any date of a required prepayment or by acceleration, demand or otherwise, of all Obligations of each other Loan Party now or hereafter existing under or in respect of the Loan Documents (including, without limitation, any extensions, modifications, substitutions, amendments or renewals of any or all of the foregoing Obligations), whether direct or indirect, absolute or contingent, and whether for principal, interest (including, without limitation, Post Petition Interest), premiums, fees, indemnities, contract causes of action, costs, expenses or otherwise (such Obligations being the “Guaranteed Obligations”), and agrees to pay any and all expenses (including, without limitation, fees and expenses of counsel) incurred by the Administrative Agent or any other Secured Party in enforcing any rights under this Guaranty or any other Loan Document. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Guarantor’s liability shall extend to all amounts that constitute part of the Guaranteed Obligations and would be owed by any other Loan Party to any Secured Party under or in respect of the Loan Documents but for the fact that they are unenforceable or not allowable due to the existence of a bankruptcy, reorganization or similar proceeding involving such other Loan Party.
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(b) Each Guarantor, and by its acceptance of this Guaranty, the Administrative Agent and each other Secured Party, hereby confirms that it is the intention of all such Persons that this Guaranty and the Obligations of each Subsidiary Guarantor hereunder not constitute a fraudulent transfer or conveyance for purposes of Bankruptcy Law, the Uniform Fraudulent Conveyance Act, the Uniform Fraudulent Transfer Act or any similar foreign, federal or state law to the extent applicable to this Guaranty and the Obligations of each Subsidiary Guarantor hereunder. To effectuate the foregoing intention, the Administrative Agent, the other Secured Parties and the Guarantors hereby irrevocably agree that the Obligations of each Subsidiary Guarantor under this Guaranty at any time shall be limited to the maximum amount as will result in the Obligations of such Guarantor under this Guaranty not constituting a fraudulent transfer or conveyance.
(c) Each Guarantor hereby unconditionally and irrevocably agrees that in the event any payment shall be required to be made to any Secured Party under this Guaranty or any other guaranty, such Guarantor will contribute, to the maximum extent permitted by law, such amounts to each other Guarantor and each other guarantor so as to maximize the aggregate amount paid to the Secured Parties under or in respect of the Loan Documents.
SECTION 8.02.Guaranty Absolute. Each Guarantor guarantees that the Guaranteed Obligations will be paid strictly in accordance with the terms of the Loan Documents, regardless of any law, regulation or order now or hereafter in effect in any jurisdiction affecting any of such terms or the rights of any Secured Party with respect thereto. The Obligations of each Guarantor under or in respect of this Guaranty are independent of the Guaranteed Obligations or any other Obligations of any other Loan Party under or in respect of the Loan Documents, and a separate action or actions may be brought and prosecuted against each Guarantor to enforce this Guaranty, irrespective of whether any action is brought against the Borrower or any other Loan Party or whether the Borrower or any other Loan Party is joined in any such action or actions. The liability of each Guarantor under this Guaranty shall be irrevocable, absolute and unconditional irrespective of, and each Guarantor hereby irrevocably waives any defenses it may now have or hereafter acquire in any way relating to, any or all of the following:
(a) any lack of validity or enforceability of any Loan Document or any agreement or instrument relating thereto;
(b) any change in the time, manner or place of payment of, or in any other term of, all or any of the Guaranteed Obligations or any other Obligations of any other Loan Party under or in respect of the Loan Documents, or any other amendment or waiver of or any consent to departure from any Loan Document, including, without limitation, any increase in the Guaranteed Obligations resulting from the extension of additional credit to any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries or otherwise;
(c) any taking, exchange, release or non-perfection of any Collateral or any other collateral, or any taking, release or amendment or waiver of, or consent to departure from, any other guaranty, for all or any of the Guaranteed Obligations;
(d) any manner of application of Collateral or any other collateral, or proceeds thereof, to all or any of the Guaranteed Obligations, or any manner of sale or other disposition of any Collateral or any other collateral for all or any of the Guaranteed Obligations or any other Obligations of any Loan Party under the Loan Documents or any other assets of any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries;
(e) any change, restructuring or termination of the corporate structure or existence of any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries;
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(f) any failure of any Secured Party to disclose to any Loan Party any information relating to the business, condition (financial or otherwise), operations, performance, properties or prospects of any other Loan Party now or hereafter known to such Secured Party (each Guarantor waiving any duty on the part of the Secured Parties to disclose such information);
(g) the failure of any other Person to execute or deliver this Guaranty, any Guaranty Supplement or any other guaranty or agreement or the release or reduction of liability of any Guarantor or other guarantor or surety with respect to the Guaranteed Obligations; or
(h) any other circumstance (including, without limitation, any statute of limitations) or any existence of or reliance on any representation by any Secured Party that might otherwise constitute a defense available to, or a discharge of, any Loan Party or any other guarantor or surety.
This Guaranty shall continue to be effective or be reinstated, as the case may be, if at any time any payment of any of the Guaranteed Obligations is rescinded or must otherwise be returned by any Secured Party or any other Person upon the insolvency, bankruptcy or reorganization of the Borrower or any other Loan Party or otherwise, all as though such payment had not been made.
SECTION 8.03.Waivers and Acknowledgments. (a) Each Guarantor hereby unconditionally and irrevocably waives promptness, diligence, notice of acceptance, presentment, demand for performance, notice of nonperformance, default, acceleration, protest or dishonor and any other notice with respect to any of the Guaranteed Obligations and this Guaranty and any requirement that any Secured Party protect, secure, perfect or insure any Lien or any property subject thereto or exhaust any right or take any action against any Loan Party or any other Person or any Collateral.
(b) Each Guarantor hereby unconditionally and irrevocably waives any right to revoke this Guaranty and acknowledges that this Guaranty is continuing in nature and applies to all Guaranteed Obligations, whether existing now or in the future.
(c) Each Guarantor hereby unconditionally and irrevocably waives (i) any defense arising by reason of any claim or defense based upon an election of remedies by any Secured Party that in any manner impairs, reduces, releases or otherwise adversely affects the subrogation, reimbursement, exoneration, contribution or indemnification rights of such Guarantor or other rights of such Guarantor to proceed against any of the other Loan Parties, any other guarantor or any other Person or any Collateral and (ii) any defense based on any right of set-off or counterclaim against or in respect of the Obligations of such Guarantor hereunder.
(d) Each Guarantor acknowledges that the Collateral Agent may, without notice to or demand upon such Guarantor and without affecting the liability of such Guarantor under this Guaranty, foreclose under any mortgage by nonjudicial sale, and each Guarantor hereby waives any defense to the recovery by the Collateral Agent and the other Secured Parties against such Guarantor of any deficiency after such nonjudicial sale and any defense or benefits that may be afforded by applicable law.
(e) Each Guarantor hereby unconditionally and irrevocably waives any duty on the part of any Secured Party to disclose to such Guarantor any matter, fact or thing relating to the business, condition (financial or otherwise), operations, performance, properties or prospects of any other Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries now or hereafter known by such Secured Party.
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(f) Each Guarantor acknowledges that it will receive substantial direct and indirect benefits from the financing arrangements contemplated by the Loan Documents and that the waivers set forth in Section 8.02 and this Section 8.03 are knowingly made in contemplation of such benefits.
SECTION 8.04.Subrogation. Each Guarantor hereby unconditionally and irrevocably agrees not to exercise any rights that it may now have or hereafter acquire against the Borrower, any other Loan Party or any other insider guarantor that arise from the existence, payment, performance or enforcement of such Guarantor’s Obligations under or in respect of this Guaranty or any other Loan Document, including, without limitation, any right of subrogation, reimbursement, exoneration, contribution or indemnification and any right to participate in any claim or remedy of any Secured Party against the Borrower, any other Loan Party or any other insider guarantor or any Collateral, whether or not such claim, remedy or right arises in equity or under contract, statute or common law, including, without limitation, the right to take or receive from the Borrower, any other Loan Party or any other insider guarantor, directly or indirectly, in cash or other property or by set-off or in any other manner, payment or security on account of such claim, remedy or right, unless and until all of the Guaranteed Obligations and all other amounts payable under this Guaranty shall have been paid in full in cash, all Letters of Credit and all Secured Hedge Agreements shall have expired or been terminated and the Commitments shall have expired or been terminated. If any amount shall be paid to any Guarantor in violation of the immediately preceding sentence at any time prior to the latest of (a) the payment in full in cash of the Guaranteed Obligations and all other amounts payable under this Guaranty, (b) the Termination Date and (c) the latest date of expiration or termination of all Letters of Credit and all Secured Hedge Agreements, such amount shall be received and held in trust for the benefit of the Secured Parties, shall be segregated from other property and funds of such Guarantor and shall forthwith be paid or delivered to the Administrative Agent in the same form as so received (with any necessary endorsement or assignment) to be credited and applied to the Guaranteed Obligations and all other amounts payable under this Guaranty, whether matured or unmatured, in accordance with the terms of the Loan Documents, or to be held as Collateral for any Guaranteed Obligations or other amounts payable under this Guaranty thereafter arising. If (i) any Guarantor shall make payment to any Secured Party of all or any part of the Guaranteed Obligations, (ii) all of the Guaranteed Obligations and all other amounts payable under this Guaranty shall have been paid in full in cash, (iii) the Termination Date shall have occurred and (iv) all Letters of Credit and all Secured Hedge Agreements shall have expired or been terminated, the Secured Parties will, at such Guarantor’s request and expense, execute and deliver to such Guarantor appropriate documents, without recourse and without representation or warranty, necessary to evidence the transfer by subrogation to such Guarantor of an interest in the Guaranteed Obligations resulting from such payment made by such Guarantor pursuant to this Guaranty.
SECTION 8.05.Guaranty Supplements. Upon the execution and delivery by any Person of a guaranty supplement in substantially the form of Exhibit I hereto (each, a “Guaranty Supplement”), (a) such Person shall be referred to as an “Additional Guarantor” and shall become and be a Guarantor hereunder, and each reference in this Guaranty to a “Guarantor” shall also mean and be a reference to such Additional Guarantor, and each reference in any other Loan Document to a “Subsidiary Guarantor” shall also mean and be a reference to such Additional Guarantor, and (b) each reference herein to “this Guaranty”, “hereunder”, “hereof” or words of like import referring to this Guaranty, and each reference in any other Loan Document to the “Guaranty”, “thereunder”, “thereof” or words of like import referring to this Guaranty, shall mean and be a reference to this Guaranty as supplemented by such Guaranty Supplement.
SECTION 8.06.Subordination. Each Guarantor hereby subordinates any and all debts, liabilities and other Obligations owed to such Guarantor by each other Loan Party (the “Subordinated Obligations”) to the Guaranteed Obligations to the extent and in the manner hereinafter set forth in this Section 8.06:
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(a)Prohibited Payments, Etc. Except during the continuance of a Default (including the commencement and continuation of any proceeding under any Bankruptcy Law relating to any other Loan Party), each Guarantor may receive regularly scheduled payments from any other Loan Party on account of the Subordinated Obligations. After the occurrence and during the continuance of any Default (including the commencement and continuation of any proceeding under any Bankruptcy Law relating to any other Loan Party), however, unless the Required Lenders otherwise agree, no Guarantor shall demand, accept or take any action to collect any payment on account of the Subordinated Obligations.
(b)Prior Payment of Guaranteed Obligations. In any proceeding under any Bankruptcy Law relating to any other Loan Party, each Guarantor agrees that the Secured Parties shall be entitled to receive payment in full in cash of all Guaranteed Obligations (including all interest and expenses accruing after the commencement of a proceeding under any Bankruptcy Law, whether or not constituting an allowed claim in such proceeding (“Post Petition Interest”)) before such Guarantor receives payment of any Subordinated Obligations.
(c)Turn-Over. After the occurrence and during the continuance of any Default (including the commencement and continuation of any proceeding under any Bankruptcy Law relating to any other Loan Party), each Guarantor shall, if the Administrative Agent so requests, collect, enforce and receive payments on account of the Subordinated Obligations as trustee for the Secured Parties and deliver such payments to the Administrative Agent on account of the Guaranteed Obligations (including all Post Petition Interest), together with any necessary endorsements or other instruments of transfer, but without reducing or affecting in any manner the liability of such Guarantor under the other provisions of this Guaranty.
(d)Administrative Agent Authorization. After the occurrence and during the continuance of any Default (including the commencement and continuation of any proceeding under any Bankruptcy Law relating to any other Loan Party), the Administrative Agent is authorized and empowered (but without any obligation to so do), in its discretion, (i) in the name of each Guarantor, to collect and enforce, and to submit claims in respect of, Subordinated Obligations and to apply any amounts received thereon to the Guaranteed Obligations (including any and all Post Petition Interest), and (ii) to require each Guarantor (A) to collect and enforce, and to submit claims in respect of, Subordinated Obligations and (B) to pay any amounts received on such obligations to the Administrative Agent for application to the Guaranteed Obligations (including any and all Post Petition Interest).
SECTION 8.07.Continuing Guaranty; Assignments. This Guaranty is a continuing guaranty and shall (a) remain in full force and effect until the latest of (i) the payment in full in cash of the Guaranteed Obligations and all other amounts payable under this Guaranty, (ii) the Termination Date and (iii) the latest date of expiration or termination of all Letters of Credit and all Secured Hedge Agreements, (b) be binding upon the Guarantor, its successors and assigns and (c) inure to the benefit of and be enforceable by the Secured Parties and their successors, transferees and assigns. Without limiting the generality of clause (c) of the immediately preceding sentence, any Secured Party may assign or otherwise transfer all or any portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, all or any portion of its Commitments, the Advances owing to it and the Note or Notes held by it) to any other Person, and such other Person shall thereupon become vested with all the benefits in respect thereof granted to such Secured Party herein or otherwise, in each case as and to the extent provided in Section 9.07. No Guarantor shall have the right to assign its rights hereunder or any interest herein without the prior written consent of the Secured Parties.
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ARTICLE IX
MISCELLANEOUS
SECTION 9.01.Amendments, Etc. No amendment or waiver of any provision of this Agreement or the Notes or any other Loan Document, nor consent to any departure by any Loan Party therefrom, shall in any event be effective unless the same shall be in writing and signed (or, in the case of the Collateral Documents, consented to) by the Required Lenders, and then such waiver or consent shall be effective only in the specific instance and for the specific purpose for which given;provided,however, that (a) no amendment, waiver or consent shall, unless in writing and signed by all of the Lender Parties (other than any Lender Party that is, at such time, a Defaulting Lender), do any of the following at any time: (i) waive any of the conditions specified in Section 3.01 or, in the case of the Restatement, Section 3.02, (ii) change the number of Lenders or the percentage of (x) the Commitments, (y) the aggregate unpaid principal amount of the Advances or (z) the aggregate Available Amount of outstanding Letters of Credit that, in each case, shall be required for the Lenders or any of them to take any action hereunder, (iii) reduce or limit the obligations of any Guarantor under Section 7.01 or release such Guarantor or otherwise limit such Guarantor’s liability with respect to the Obligations owing to the Agents and the Lender Parties except in connection with transactions otherwise permitted hereunder, (iv) release all or substantially all of the Collateral in any transaction or series of related transactions, (v) amend Section 2.13 or this Section 9.01, (vi) increase the Commitments of the Lenders, (vii) reduce the principal of, or interest on, the Notes or any fees or other amounts payable hereunder, (viii) postpone any date scheduled for any payment of principal of, or interest on, the Notes pursuant to Section 2.04 or 2.07 or any date fixed for payment of fees or other amounts payable hereunder, or (ix) limit the liability of any Loan Party under any of the Loan Documents and (b) no amendment, waiver or consent shall, unless in writing and signed by the Required Lenders and each Lender (other than any Lender that is, at such time, a Defaulting Lender) that has a Commitment under, or is owed any amounts under or in respect of, the Term B Facility or the Revolving Credit Facility if such Lender is directly and adversely affected by such amendment, waiver or consent: (i) increase the Commitments of such Lender; (ii) reduce the principal of, or stated rate of interest on, the Notes held by such Lender or any fees or other amounts stated to be payable hereunder to such Lender; or (iii) postpone any date scheduled for any payment of principal of, or interest on, the Notes pursuant to Section 2.04 or 2.07 or any date fixed for any payment of fees hereunder or any Guaranteed Obligations payable under the Subsidiary Guaranty;provided furtherthat no amendment, waiver or consent shall, unless in writing and signed by the Swing Line Bank or the Issuing Bank, as the case may be, in addition to the Lenders required above to take such action, affect the rights or obligations of the Swing Line Bank or of the Issuing Bank, as the case may be, under this Agreement; andprovided furtherthat no amendment, waiver or consent shall, unless in writing and signed by an Agent in addition to the Lenders required above to take such action, affect the rights or duties of such Agent under this Agreement or the other Loan Documents.
SECTION 9.02.Notices, Etc. All notices and other communications provided for hereunder shall be in writing (including telegraphic, telecopy, facsimile, or e-mail communication) and mailed, telegraphed, telecopied, telexed, faxed or delivered, if to Parent or the Borrower, at its address at P.O. Box 219335, Kansas City, Missouri 64121-9335, Attention: Senior Vice President-Finance and Treasurer (Facsimile No. (816) 983-1198), with a copy to the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (Facsimile No. (816) 983-1297), if to any Initial Lender Party, at its Domestic Lending Office specified opposite its name on Schedule I hereto; if to any other Lender Party, at its Domestic Lending Office specified in the Assignment and Acceptance pursuant to which it became a Lender Party; if to the Collateral Agent, at its address at 600 Peach Street, N.E., Suite 2700, Atlanta, GA 30308, Attention: [Eudia Smith], E-mail Address: eudia_smith@scotiacapital.com; if to the Administrative Agent, at its address at 600 Peach Street, N.E., Suite 2700, Atlanta, GA 30308, Attention: [Eudia Smith], E-mail Address: eudia_smith@scotiacapital.com; or, as to any party, at such other address as shall be
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designated by such party in a written notice to the other parties. All such notices and other communications shall, when mailed, telegraphed, telecopied, telexed, faxed or E-mailed, be effective when deposited in the mails, delivered to the telegraph company, transmitted by telecopier or facsimile or confirmed by telex answerback, respectively, except that notices and communications to any Agent pursuant to Article II, III or VII shall not be effective until received by such Agent. Delivery by facsimile or other form of electronic communication of an executed counterpart of a signature page to any amendment or waiver of any provision of this Agreement or the Notes or of any Exhibit hereto to be executed and delivered hereunder shall be effective as delivery of an original executed counterpart thereof.
SECTION 9.03.No Waiver; Remedies. No failure on the part of any Lender Party or any Agent to exercise, and no delay in exercising, any right hereunder or under any Note or any other Loan Document shall operate as a waiver thereof; nor shall any single or partial exercise of any such right preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right. The remedies herein provided are cumulative and not exclusive of any remedies provided by law.
SECTION 9.04.Costs and Expenses. (a) The Borrower agrees to pay on demand (i) all reasonable costs and expenses of each Agent in connection with the preparation, execution, delivery, administration, modification and amendment of, or any consent or waiver under, the Loan Documents (including, without limitation, (A) all due diligence, collateral review, syndication, transportation, computer, duplication, appraisal, audit, insurance, consultant, search, filing and recording fees and expenses and (B) the reasonable fees and expenses of counsel for each Agent with respect thereto, with respect to advising such Agent as to its rights and responsibilities, or the perfection, protection or preservation of rights or interests, under the Loan Documents, with respect to negotiations with any Loan Party or with other creditors of any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries arising out of any Default or any events or circumstances that may give rise to a Default and with respect to presenting claims in or otherwise participating in or monitoring any bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar proceeding involving creditors’ rights generally and any proceeding ancillary thereto) and (ii) all costs and expenses of each Agent and each Lender Party in connection with the enforcement of the Loan Documents, whether in any action, suit or litigation, or any bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar proceeding affecting creditors’ rights generally (including, without limitation, the reasonable fees and expenses of counsel for the Administrative Agent and each Lender Party with respect thereto).
(b) The Borrower agrees to indemnify, defend and save and hold harmless each Agent, each Lender Party and each of their Affiliates and their respective officers, directors, employees, agents and advisors (each, an “Indemnified Party”) from and against, and shall pay on demand, any and all claims, damages, losses, liabilities and expenses (including, without limitation, reasonable fees and expenses of counsel) that may be incurred by or asserted or awarded against any Indemnified Party, in each case arising out of or in connection with or by reason of (including, without limitation, in connection with any investigation, litigation or proceeding or preparation of a defense in connection therewith) (i) the Facilities, the actual or proposed use of the proceeds of the Advances or the Letters of Credit, the Transaction Documents or any of the transactions contemplated thereby or (ii) the actual or alleged presence of Hazardous Materials on any property of any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries or any Environmental Action relating in any way to any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries, except to the extent such claim, damage, loss, liability or expense is found in a final, non-appealable judgment by a court of competent jurisdiction to have resulted from such Indemnified Party’s gross negligence or willful misconduct. In the case of an investigation, litigation or other proceeding to which the indemnity in this Section 9.04(b) applies, such indemnity shall be effective whether or not such investigation, litigation or proceeding is brought by any Loan Party, its directors, shareholders or creditors or an Indemnified Party or any other Person, whether or not any Indemnified Party is otherwise a party thereto and whether or not the Transaction is consummated. The Borrower also agrees not to assert any claim against any Agent,
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any Lender Party or any of their Affiliates, or any of their respective officers, directors, employees, agents and advisors, on any theory of liability, for special, indirect, consequential or punitive damages arising out of or otherwise relating to the Facilities, the actual or proposed use of the proceeds of the Advances or the Letters of Credit, the Transaction Documents or any of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents.
(c) If any payment of principal of, or Conversion of, any Eurodollar Rate Advance is made by the Borrower to or for the account of a Lender Party other than on the last day of the Interest Period for such Advance, as a result of a payment or Conversion pursuant to Section 2.06, 2.09(b)(i) or 2.10(d), acceleration of the maturity of the Notes pursuant to Section 6.01 or for any other reason, or if the Borrower fails to make any payment or prepayment of an Advance for which a notice of prepayment has been given or that is otherwise required to be made, whether pursuant to Section 2.04, 2.06 or 6.01 or otherwise, the Borrower shall, upon demand by such Lender Party (with a copy of such demand to the Administrative Agent), pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Lender Party any amounts required to compensate such Lender Party for any additional losses, costs or expenses that it may reasonably incur as a result of such payment or Conversion or such failure to pay or prepay, as the case may be, including, without limitation, any loss, cost or expense incurred by reason of the liquidation or reemployment of deposits or other funds acquired by any Lender Party to fund or maintain such Advance.
(d) If any Loan Party fails to pay when due any costs, expenses or other amounts payable by it under any Loan Document, including, without limitation, fees and expenses of counsel and indemnities, such amount may be paid on behalf of such Loan Party by the Administrative Agent or any Lender Party, in its sole discretion.
(e) Without prejudice to the survival of any other agreement of any Loan Party hereunder or under any other Loan Document, the agreements and obligations of the Borrower contained in Sections 2.10 and 2.12 and this Section 9.04 shall survive the payment in full of principal, interest and all other amounts payable hereunder and under any of the other Loan Documents.
SECTION 9.05.Right of Set-off. Upon (a) the occurrence and during the continuance of any Event of Default and (b) the making of the request or the granting of the consent specified by Section 6.01 to authorize the Administrative Agent to declare the Notes due and payable pursuant to the provisions of Section 6.01, each Agent and each Lender Party and each of their respective Affiliates is hereby authorized at any time and from time to time, to the fullest extent permitted by law, to set off and otherwise apply any and all deposits (general or special, time or demand, provisional or final) at any time held and other indebtedness at any time owing by such Agent, such Lender Party or such Affiliate to or for the credit or the account of the Borrower against any and all of the Obligations of the Borrower then due under the Loan Documents. Each Agent and each Lender Party agrees promptly to notify the Borrower after any such set-off and application;provided,however, that the failure to give such notice shall not affect the validity of such set-off and application. The rights of each Agent and each Lender Party and their respective Affiliates under this Section are in addition to other rights and remedies (including, without limitation, other rights of set-off) that such Agent, such Lender Party and their respective Affiliates may have.
SECTION 9.06.Binding Effect. This Agreement shall become effective when it shall have been executed by the Borrower and each Agent and the Administrative Agent shall have been notified by each Initial Lender Party (or otherwise received evidence satisfactory to the Administrative Agent) that such Initial Lender Party has executed it and thereafter shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the Borrower, each Agent and each Lender Party and their respective successors and assigns, except that the Borrower shall not have the right to assign its rights hereunder or any interest herein without the prior written consent of the Lender Parties.
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SECTION 9.07.Assignments and Participations. (a) Each Lender may assign to one or more Eligible Assignees all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, all or a portion of its Commitment or Commitments, the Advances owing to it and the Note or Notes held by it);provided,however, that (i) each such assignment shall be of a uniform, and not a varying, percentage of all rights and obligations under and in respect of any or all Facilities, (ii) except in the case of an assignment to a Person that, immediately prior to such assignment, was a Lender, an Affiliate of any Lender or an Approved Fund of any Lender or an assignment of all of a Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement, the aggregate amount of the Commitments being assigned to such Eligible Assignee pursuant to such assignment (determined as of the date of the Assignment and Acceptance with respect to such assignment) shall in no event be less than 1,000,000 (or such lesser amount as shall be approved by the Administrative Agent and, so long as no Default shall have occurred and be continuing at the time of effectiveness of such assignment, the Borrower) under each Facility for which a Commitment is being assigned, (iii) each such assignment shall be to an Eligible Assignee, (iv) no such assignments shall be permitted without the consent of the Administrative Agent until the Administrative Agent shall have notified the Lender Parties that syndication of the Commitments hereunder has been completed and (v) the parties to each such assignment shall execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent, for its acceptance and recording in the Register, an Assignment and Acceptance, together with any Note or Notes subject to such assignment and a processing and recordation fee of $3,500;provided that, only one such fee shall be payable in respect of simultaneous assignments by any Lender to its Affiliates.
(b) Upon such execution, delivery, acceptance and recording, from and after the effective date specified in such Assignment and Acceptance, (i) the assignee thereunder shall be a party hereto and, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned to it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance, have the rights and obligations of a Lender or Issuing Bank, as the case may be, hereunder and (ii) the Lender or Issuing Bank assignor thereunder shall, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned by it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance, relinquish its rights (other than its rights under Sections 2.10, 2.12 and 9.04 to the extent any claim thereunder relates to an event arising prior to such assignment) and be released from its obligations under this Agreement (and, in the case of an Assignment and Acceptance covering all of the remaining portion of an assigning Lender’s or Issuing Bank’s rights and obligations under this Agreement, such Lender or Issuing Bank shall cease to be a party hereto).
(c) By executing and delivering an Assignment and Acceptance, each Lender Party assignor thereunder and each assignee thereunder confirm to and agree with each other and the other parties thereto and hereto as follows: (i) other than as provided in such Assignment and Acceptance, such assigning Lender Party makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to any statements, warranties or representations made in or in connection with any Loan Document or the execution, legality, validity, enforceability, genuineness, sufficiency or value of, or the perfection or priority of any lien or security interest created or purported to be created under or in connection with, any Loan Document or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant thereto; (ii) such assigning Lender Party makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to the financial condition of any Loan Party or the performance or observance by any Loan Party of any of its obligations under any Loan Document or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant thereto; (iii) such assignee confirms that it has received a copy of this Agreement, together with copies of the financial statements referred to in Section 4.01 and such other documents and information as it has deemed appropriate to make its own credit analysis and decision to enter into such Assignment and Acceptance; (iv) such assignee will, independently and without reliance upon any Agent, such assigning Lender Party or any other Lender Party and based on such documents and information as it shall deem appropriate at the time, continue to make its own credit decisions in taking or not taking action under this Agreement; (v) such assignee confirms that it is an Eligible Assignee; (vi) such assignee appoints and
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authorizes each Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers and discretion under the Loan Documents as are delegated to such Agent by the terms hereof and thereof, together with such powers and discretion as are reasonably incidental thereto; and (vii) such assignee agrees that it will perform in accordance with their terms all of the obligations that by the terms of this Agreement are required to be performed by it as a Lender or Issuing Bank, as the case may be.
(d) The Administrative Agent, acting for this purpose (but only for this purpose) as the agent of the Borrower, shall maintain at its address referred to in Section 9.02 a copy of each Assignment and Acceptance delivered to and accepted by it and a register for the recordation of the names and addresses of the Lender Parties and the Commitment under each Facility of, and principal amount of the Advances owing under each Facility to, each Lender Party from time to time (the “Register”). The entries in the Register shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error, and the Borrower, the Agents and the Lender Parties shall treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Register as a Lender Party hereunder for all purposes of this Agreement. The Register shall be available for inspection by the Borrower or any Agent or any Lender Party at any reasonable time and from time to time upon reasonable prior notice.
(e) Upon its receipt of an Assignment and Acceptance executed by an assigning Lender Party and an assignee, together with any Note or Notes subject to such assignment, the Administrative Agent shall, if such Assignment and Acceptance has been completed and is in substantially the form of Exhibit C hereto, (i) accept such Assignment and Acceptance, (ii) record the information contained therein in the Register and (iii) give prompt notice thereof to the Borrower and each other Agent. In the case of any assignment by a Lender, within five Business Days after its receipt of such notice, the Borrower, at its own expense, shall execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent in exchange for the surrendered Note or Notes a new Note to the order of such Eligible Assignee in an amount equal to the Commitment assumed by it under each Facility pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance and, if any assigning Lender has retained a Commitment hereunder under such Facility, a new Note to the order of such assigning Lender in an amount equal to the Commitment retained by it hereunder. Such new Note or Notes shall be in an aggregate principal amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of such surrendered Note or Notes, shall be dated the effective date of such Assignment and Acceptance and shall otherwise be in substantially the form of Exhibit A-1 or A-2 hereto, as the case may be.
(f) The Issuing Bank may assign to an Eligible Assignee all of its rights and obligations under the undrawn portion of its Letter of Credit Commitment at any time;provided,however, that each such assignment shall be to an Eligible Assignee and the parties to each such assignment shall execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent, for its acceptance and recording in the Register, an Assignment and Acceptance, together with a processing and recordation fee of $3,500;provided that, only one such fee shall be payable in respect of simultaneous assignments by any Lender to its Affiliates.
(g) Each Lender Party may sell participations to one or more Persons (other than any Loan Party or any of its Affiliates) in or to all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, all or a portion of its Commitments, the Advances owing to it and the Note or Notes (if any) held by it);provided,however, that (i) such Lender Party’s obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, its Commitments) shall remain unchanged, (ii) such Lender Party shall remain solely responsible to the other parties hereto for the performance of such obligations, (iii) such Lender Party shall remain the holder of any such Note for all purposes of this Agreement, (iv) the Borrower, the Agents and the other Lender Parties shall continue to deal solely and directly with such Lender Party in connection with such Lender Party’s rights and obligations under this Agreement and (v) no participant under any such participation shall have any right to approve any amendment or waiver of any provision of any Loan Document, or any consent to any departure by any
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Loan Party therefrom, except to the extent that such amendment, waiver or consent would reduce the principal of, or interest on, the Notes or any fees or other amounts payable hereunder, in each case to the extent subject to such participation, postpone any date fixed for any payment of principal of, or interest on, the Notes or any fees or other amounts payable hereunder, in each case to the extent subject to such participation, release all or substantially all of the Collateral or reduce or limit the obligations of any Guarantor under Section 8.01 or release such Guarantor except in connection with transactions otherwise permitted hereunder.
(h) Any Lender Party may, in connection with any assignment or participation or proposed assignment or participation pursuant to this Section 9.07, disclose to the assignee or participant or proposed assignee or participant any information relating to the Borrower furnished to such Lender Party by or on behalf of the Borrower;provided,however, that, prior to any such disclosure, the assignee or participant or proposed assignee or participant shall agree to preserve the confidentiality of any Confidential Information received by it from such Lender Party.
(i) Notwithstanding any other provision set forth in this Agreement, any Lender Party may at any time create a security interest in all or any portion of its rights under this Agreement (including, without limitation, the Advances owing to it and the Note or Notes held by it), including without limitation, in favor of any Federal Reserve Bank in accordance with Regulation A of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
(j) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, any Lender that is a fund that invests in bank loans may create a security interest in all or any portion of the Advances owing to it and the Note or Notes held by it to the trustee for holders of obligations owed, or securities issued, by such fund as security for such obligations or securities,providedthat unless and until such trustee actually becomes a Lender in compliance with the other provisions of this Section 9.07, (i) no such pledge shall release the pledging Lender from any of its obligations under the Loan Documents and (ii) such trustee shall not be entitled to exercise any of the rights of a Lender under the Loan Documents even though such trustee may have acquired ownership rights with respect to the pledged interest through foreclosure or otherwise.
(k) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, any Lender Party (a “Granting Lender”) may grant to a special purpose funding vehicle identified as such in writing from time to time by the Granting Lender to the Administrative Agent and the Borrower (an “SPC”) the option to provide all or any part of any Advance that such Granting Lender would otherwise be obligated to make pursuant to this Agreement,providedthat (i) nothing herein shall constitute a commitment by any SPC to fund any Advance, and (ii) if an SPC elects not to exercise such option or otherwise fails to make all or any part of such Advance, the Granting Lender shall be obligated to make such Advance pursuant to the terms hereof. The making of an Advance by an SPC hereunder shall utilize the Commitment of the Granting Lender to the same extent, and as if, such Advance were made by such Granting Lender. Each party hereto hereby agrees that (i) no SPC shall be liable for any indemnity or similar payment obligation under this Agreement for which a Lender Party would be liable, (ii) no SPC shall be entitled to the benefits of Sections 2.10 and 2.12 (or any other increased costs protection provision) and (iii) the Granting Bank shall for all purposes, including, without limitation, the approval of any amendment or waiver of any provision of any Loan Document, remain the Lender Party of record hereunder. In furtherance of the foregoing, each party hereto hereby agrees (which agreement shall survive the termination of this Agreement) that, prior to the date that is one year and one day after the payment in full of all outstanding commercial paper or other senior Debt of any SPC, it will not institute against, or join any other person in instituting against, such SPC any bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, insolvency, or liquidation proceeding under the laws of the United States or any State thereof. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, any SPC may (i) with notice to,
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but without prior consent of, the Borrower and the Administrative Agent and with the payment of a processing fee of $500, assign all or any portion of its interest in any Advance to the Granting Lender and (ii) disclose on a confidential basis any non-public information relating to its funding of Advances to any rating agency, commercial paper dealer or provider of any surety or guarantee or credit or liquidity enhancement to such SPC. This subsection (k) may not be amended without the prior written consent of each Granting Lender, all or any part of whose Advances are being funded by the SPC at the time of such amendment.
SECTION 9.08.Execution in Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts and by different parties hereto in separate counterparts, each of which when so executed shall be deemed to be an original and all of which taken together shall constitute one and the same agreement. Delivery by telecopier or other form of electronic communication of an executed counterpart of a signature page to this Agreement shall be effective as delivery of an original executed counterpart of this Agreement.
SECTION 9.09.No Liability of the Issuing Bank. The Borrower assumes all risks of the acts or omissions of any beneficiary or transferee of any Letter of Credit with respect to its use of such Letter of Credit. Neither the Issuing Bank nor any of its officers or directors shall be liable or responsible for: (a) the use that may be made of any Letter of Credit or any acts or omissions of any beneficiary or transferee in connection therewith; (b) the validity, sufficiency or genuineness of documents, or of any endorsement thereon, even if such documents should prove to be in any or all respects invalid, insufficient, fraudulent or forged; (c) payment by the Issuing Bank against presentation of documents that do not strictly comply with the terms of a Letter of Credit, including failure of any documents to bear any reference or adequate reference to the Letter of Credit; or (d) any other circumstances whatsoever in making or failing to make payment under any Letter of Credit, except that the Borrower shall have a claim against the Issuing Bank, and the Issuing Bank shall be liable to the Borrower, to the extent of any direct, but not consequential, damages suffered by the Borrower that the Borrower proves were caused by (i) the Issuing Bank’s willful misconduct or gross negligence as determined in a final, non-appealable judgment by a court of competent jurisdiction in determining whether documents presented under any Letter of Credit comply with the terms of the Letter of Credit or (ii) the Issuing Bank’s willful failure to make lawful payment under a Letter of Credit after the presentation to it of a draft and certificates strictly complying with the terms and conditions of the Letter of Credit. In furtherance and not in limitation of the foregoing, the Issuing Bank may accept documents that appear on their face to be in order, without responsibility for further investigation, regardless of any notice or information to the contrary.
SECTION 9.10.Confidentiality. Neither any Agent nor any Lender Party shall disclose any Confidential Information to any Person without the consent of the Borrower, other than (a) to such Agent’s or such Lender Party’s Affiliates and their officers, directors, employees, agents and advisors and to actual or prospective Eligible Assignees and participants, and then only on a confidential basis, (b) as required by any law, rule or regulation or judicial process, (c) as requested or required by any state, Federal or foreign authority or examiner (including the National Association of Insurance Commissioners or any similar organization or quasi-regulatory authority) regulating such Lender Party, (d) to any rating agency when required by it,providedthat, prior to any such disclosure, such rating agency shall undertake to preserve the confidentiality of any Confidential Information relating to the Loan Parties received by it from such Lender Party, (e) in connection with the exercise of any right or remedy under this Agreement or any other Loan Document or (f) to any direct or indirect contractual counterparty in swap agreements or such contractual counterparty’s professional advisor (so long as such contractual counterparty or professional advisor agrees to be bound by the provisions of this Section 9.10).
SECTION 9.11.Release of Collateral and Guarantees. In the event that Parent or any Subsidiary sells, transfers or otherwise disposes of all or any portion of any of the Equity Interests, assets
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or property owned by Parent or such Subsidiary in a transaction not prohibited by this Agreement, the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent shall promptly (and the Lenders hereby authorize and instruct the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent to) take such action and execute any such documents as may be reasonably requested by the Borrower to release any Liens created by any Loan Document in respect of such Equity Interests, assets or property, including the release and satisfaction of record of any mortgage or deed of trust granted in connection herewith, and, in the case of a disposition of all or substantially all the Equity Interests or assets of any Subsidiary that is a Loan Party, to terminate such Subsidiary’s Obligations under the Guaranty and each other Loan Document. In addition, the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent will take such actions as are reasonably requested by the Borrower to terminate the Liens and security interests created by the Loan Documents when all the Obligations have been paid in full and all Letters of Credit and Commitments have been terminated. The Borrower agrees to pay all out-of-pocket expenses of the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent in connection with releases of Liens and Obligations under the Guaranty provided for in this Section.
SECTION 9.12.Non-Consenting Lenders. If, at any time, any Lender becomes a Non-Consenting Lender, then the Borrower may, at its sole cost and expense, on prior written notice to the Administrative Agent and such Lender, replace such Lender by causing such Lender to (and such Lender shall be obligated to) assign pursuant to Section 9.07 all of its rights and obligations under this Agreement to one or more Eligible Assignees;providedthat neither the Administrative Agent nor any Lender shall have any obligation to the Borrower to find a replacement Lender or other such Person;provided furtherthat such Non-Consenting Lender shall be entitled to receive the full outstanding principal amount of Advances so assigned, together with accrued interest and fees payable in respect of such Advances as of the date of such assignment.
SECTION 9.13.Affirmation of Subsidiary Guarantors. Each Subsidiary Guarantor hereby consents to the Restatement, and hereby confirms and agrees that the obligations of such Subsidiary Guarantor contained in Article VIII of the Restatement, or in any other Loan Documents to which it is a party are, and shall remain, in full force and effect and are hereby ratified and confirmed in all respects. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Collateral Documents to which such Subsidiary Guarantor is a party and all of the Collateral described therein do, and shall continue to secure, payment of all of the Secured Obligations (in each case, as defined therein).
SECTION 9.14.Patriot Act Notice. Each Lender and each Agent (for itself and not on behalf of any Lender) hereby notifies the Loan Parties that pursuant to the requirements of the Patriot Act, it is required to obtain, verify and record information that identifies each Loan Party, which information includes the name and address of such Loan Party and other information that will allow such Lender or such Agent, as applicable, to identify such Loan Party in accordance with the Patriot Act. The Borrower shall, and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to, provide such information and take such actions as are reasonably requested by any Agent or any Lender in order to assist the Agents and the Lenders in maintaining compliance with the Patriot Act.
SECTION 9.15.Jurisdiction, Etc. (a) Each of the parties hereto hereby irrevocably and unconditionally submits, for itself and its property, to the nonexclusive jurisdiction of any New York State court or Federal court of the United States of America sitting in New York City, and any appellate court from any thereof, in any action or proceeding arising out of or relating to this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents to which it is a party, or for recognition or enforcement of any judgment, and each of the parties hereto hereby irrevocably and unconditionally agrees that all claims in respect of any such action or proceeding may be heard and determined in any such New York State court or, to the fullest extent permitted by law, in such Federal court. Each of the parties hereto agrees that a final judgment in any such action or proceeding shall be conclusive and may be enforced in other jurisdictions by suit on the judgment or in any other manner provided by law. Nothing in this Agreement shall affect
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any right that any party may otherwise have to bring any action or proceeding relating to this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents in the courts of any jurisdiction.
(b) Each of the parties hereto irrevocably and unconditionally waives, to the fullest extent it may legally and effectively do so, any objection that it may now or hereafter have to the laying of venue of any suit, action or proceeding arising out of or relating to this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents to which it is a party in any New York State or Federal court. Each of the parties hereto hereby irrevocably waives, to the fullest extent permitted by law, the defense of an inconvenient forum to the maintenance of such action or proceeding in any such court.
SECTION 9.16.Governing Law. This Agreement and the Notes shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of New York.
SECTION 9.17.WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL. EACH OF THE BORROWER, THE AGENTS AND THE LENDER PARTIES IRREVOCABLY WAIVES ALL RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY ACTION, PROCEEDING OR COUNTERCLAIM (WHETHER BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE) ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO ANY OF THE LOAN DOCUMENTS, THE ADVANCES, THE LETTERS OF CREDIT OR THE ACTIONS OF ANY AGENT OR ANY LENDER PARTY IN THE NEGOTIATION, ADMINISTRATION, PERFORMANCE OR ENFORCEMENT THEREOF.
SCHEDULE I
COMMITMENTS AND APPLICABLE LENDING OFFICES
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