AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT
This AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT (“Agreement”) is entered into as of September 30, 2021, among STERICYCLE, INC., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), certain Subsidiaries of the Company party hereto pursuant to Section 2.14 (each a “Designated Borrower” and, together with the Company, the “Borrowers” and, each a “Borrower”), each lender from time to time party hereto (collectively, the “Lenders” and individually, a “Lender”), JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. (“JPMCB”), Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (“SMBC”; together with JPMCB in such capacities, collectively, the “Syndication Agents”), Fifth Third Bank, National Association, MUFG Bank, Ltd., Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, and Regions Bank, as Co-Documentation Agents (in such capacities, the “Co-Documentation Agents”), and BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., as Administrative Agent, Swing Line Lender and an L/C Issuer.
WHEREAS, the Company, the Designated Borrowers, the lenders party thereto (the “Existing Lenders”), and Bank of America, N.A., as Administrative Agent, are parties to that certain Credit Agreement, dated as of November 17, 2017 (as amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time prior to the date hereof, the “Existing Credit Agreement”); and
WHEREAS, the Company has requested that the Existing Credit Agreement be amended and restated in order to, among other things, extend the maturity date of the term loan facilities and revolving facilities and make certain other amendments to the Existing Credit Agreement as set forth herein; and
WHEREAS, the Company, the Lenders, and the Administrative Agent have agreed to and desire to amend and restate the Existing Credit Agreement on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth herein;
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual covenants and agreements herein contained and other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto covenant and agree as follows:
ARTICLE I.
DEFINITIONS AND ACCOUNTING TERMS
1.01 Defined Terms. As used in this Agreement, the following terms shall have the meanings set forth below:
“2024 Senior Notes” means those certain 5.375% Senior Notes due 2024, issued by the Company under that certain Indenture, dated as of June 14, 2019, between the Company and U.S. Bank National Association, as trustee.
“2029 Senior Notes” means those certain 3.875% Senior Notes due 2029, issued by the Company under that certain Indenture, dated as of November 24, 2020, between the Company and U.S. Bank National Association, as trustee.
“Acquisition” means the acquisition, by purchase or otherwise, of all or substantially all of the assets (or any part of the assets constituting all or substantially all of a business or line of business) of any Person, whether such acquisition is direct or indirect, including through the acquisition of the business of, or more than 50% of the outstanding Voting Stock of, such Person, and whether such acquisition is effected in a single transaction or in a series of related transactions, and the acquisition, by purchase or otherwise, of additional shares of the outstanding Voting Stock of any Subsidiary of the Company which is not then a wholly-owned Subsidiary of the Company.
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