shall survive the execution and delivery of this Amendment and shall continue in full force and effect for the benefit of the Lenders, the Agent, and any other Person indemnified under the Credit Agreement or any other Loan Document; (d) the obligations incurred under the Credit Agreement shall, to the extent outstanding on the Effective Date, continue outstanding under the Credit Agreement, as amended and otherwise modified by this Amendment and shall not be deemed to be paid, released, discharged or otherwise satisfied by the execution of this Amendment, and the amendments and modifications to the Credit Agreement as hereby effectuated by this Amendment shall not constitute a refinancing, substitution or novation of such obligations or any of the other rights, duties and obligations of the parties hereunder; (e) the execution, delivery and effectiveness of this Amendment shall not operate as a waiver of any right, power or remedy of the Lenders or the Agent under the Credit Agreement, nor constitute a waiver of any covenant, agreement or obligation under the Credit Agreement, except to the extent that any such covenant, agreement or obligation is no longer set forth therein or is modified thereby; and (f) any and all references to the Credit Agreement, as amended hereby in any Loan Document shall, without further action of the parties, be deemed a reference to the Credit Agreement as amended by this Amendment, as the Credit Agreement shall be further amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, and any and all references to the Loan Documents shall be deemed a reference to the Loan Documents under the Credit Agreement, as it may be amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time. SECTION 5. Confirmation of Obligations Under the Loan Documents. (a) The Liens and security interests created and granted to the Agent, for the benefit of the Lenders, pursuant to the Collateral Documents and any other Loan Documents shall continue without any diminution thereof; and (b) the Credit Agreement and the other Loan Documents (including the Collateral Documents) shall remain in full force and effect until the termination of all Obligations under the Credit Agreement and all parties’ obligations arising thereunder are hereby confirmed. The Guarantors confirm and agree that their obligations under the Collateral Documents, as amended on the date hereof, shall continue without any diminution thereof and shall remain in full force and effect upon and after the Effective Date. SECTION 6. Confirmation of Representations and Warranties Under the Loan Documents. The Borrower and each of the other Credit Parties are capable of complying with and are in compliance with all of the provisions of the Loan Documents applicable to the Borrower, Grantors (as defined in the Guarantees) and Guarantors, as applicable, and the representations and warranties of the Credit Parties contained in the Loan Documents, are true and correct in all material respects on and as of the date hereof, except for any representation and warranty that expressly relates to an earlier date, in which case, such representation and warranty shall only be true and correct as of such date. SECTION 7. Reference to and Effect on the Loan Documents. On and after the Effective Date, each reference in the Credit Agreement to “this Agreement”, “hereunder”, “hereof” or words of like import referring to the Credit Agreement, and each reference in the other Loan Documents to “the Credit Agreement”, “thereunder”, “thereof” or words of like import referring to the Credit Agreement, shall mean and be a reference to the Credit Agreement, as amended and otherwise modified hereby. Except as amended or waived herein, all of the provisions of the Credit Agreement and the other Loan Documents are and shall remain in full force and effect in accordance with the terms thereof and are hereby in all respects ratified and confirmed. SECTION 8. Execution in Counterparts. This Amendment may be executed by one or more of the parties hereto in any number of separate counterparts and all of said counterparts taken together shall be deemed to constitute one and the same instrument. Delivery of an executed signature page of this Amendment by facsimile transmission shall be effective as delivery of a manually executed counterpart hereof. A set of the copies of this Amendment signed by all the parties hereto shall be lodged with the Borrower and the Agent. |