Exhibit 10.1
Execution Version
CERTAIN IDENTIFIED INFORMATION HAS BEEN EXCLUDED FROM THE EXHIBIT BECAUSE IT IS BOTH NOT MATERIAL AND IS THE TYPE THAT THE REGISTRANT TREATS AS PRIVATE OR CONFIDENTIAL. REDACTED INFORMATION IS INDICATED BY [***]
AMENDMENT NO. 4 TO CREDIT AGREEMENT
AMENDMENT NO. 4 TO CREDIT AGREEMENT, dated as of August 1, 2024 (this “Amendment”) is entered into among PARAMOUNT GLOBAL (previously known as VIACOMCBS INC.), a Delaware corporation (“Paramount”), the SUBSIDIARY BORROWERS party hereto, the LENDERS party hereto and JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., as Administrative Agent (the “Administrative Agent”). Capitalized terms used and not otherwise defined herein (including in the preliminary statements hereto) have the meanings assigned to them in the Existing Credit Agreement or the Credit Agreement (as defined below), as the context requires.
WHEREAS, Paramount, the Subsidiary Borrowers from time to time party thereto, the Lenders from time to time party thereto, and the Administrative Agent entered into that certain Amended and Restated Credit Agreement dated as of January 23, 2020 (as amended pursuant to Amendment No. 1 dated as of December 9, 2021, Amendment No. 2 dated as of February 14, 2022, Amendment No. 3 dated as of March 3, 2023, and as may be further amended, amended and restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time prior to the date hereof, the “Existing Credit Agreement”; the Existing Credit Agreement, as amended by this Amendment, the “Credit Agreement”).
WHEREAS, upon consummation of the transactions contemplated by that certain Transaction Agreement, dated as of July 7, 2024 (as may be amended, amended and restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “CoC Transaction Agreement”), by and among Skydance Media, LLC, a California limited liability company, New Pluto Global, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“New Pluto”), a consortium of investors identified in such agreements, Paramount and certain of its affiliates will engage in a series of transactions pursuant to which, among other things, Paramount will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of New Pluto (such transactions, collectively, the “CoC Transactions” and the date on which the CoC Transactions are consummated, the “Transaction Closing Date”).
WHEREAS, Paramount has requested that the Administrative Agent and the Lenders agree to (a) amend the Existing Credit Agreement to revise the Change of Control provisions and related definitions to reflect the pro forma ownership structure of Paramount after giving effect to the CoC Transactions and to make certain other changes as set forth herein and (b) have New Pluto join the Credit Agreement as a “Borrower” thereunder by delivering to the Administrative Agent a joinder agreement substantially in the form of Exhibit A attached hereto (the “Parent Borrower Joinder”).
WHEREAS, each Lender party hereto, constituting the Required Lenders under the Existing Credit Agreement, has agreed to the Parent Borrower Joinder and the Transaction Closing Date Amendments (as defined below), and acknowledges and agrees that, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Credit Agreement or any other Loan Document, the transactions contemplated by the CoC Transaction Agreement and the CoC Transactions are deemed permitted under the Credit Agreement, in each case on the terms and conditions set forth herein.
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual agreements, provisions and covenants contained herein, and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto agree as follows:
SECTION 1. Amendments to Credit Agreement. Subject to the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Sections 4 and 5 hereof, the Existing Credit Agreement (excluding the signature pages, schedules, annexes and exhibits thereto) is hereby amended, on the Amendments Operative Date (as defined below), to delete the stricken text (indicated textually in the same manner as the following example: stricken text) and to add the underlined text (indicated textually in the same manner as the following example: underlined text) as set forth in the pages of the Credit Agreement and such Annexes and Exhibits attached as Annex A hereto (such modifications, collectively, the “Transaction Closing Date Amendments”).
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