respect to any Permitted Acquisition) for all such purchases on and after the Amendment No. 4 Effective Date shall not exceed $100,000,000.
law, treaty, rule or regulation, or determination of an arbitrator or a court or other Governmental Authority, in each case applicable to or binding upon such Person or any of its material property or to which such Person or any of its material property is subject.
“Standby Letter of Credit” shall have the meaning assigned to such term inSection 5.1(a).
“Stated Multi-Currency Termination Date” shall mean January 15, 2012.
“Stock” means shares of capital stock (whether denominated as common stock or preferred stock), beneficial, partnership or membership interests, participations or other equivalents (regardless of how designated) of or in a corporation, partnership, limited liability company or equivalent entity, whether voting or non-voting.
“Stock Equivalents” means all securities convertible into or exchangeable for Stock and all warrants, options or other rights to purchase or subscribe for any Stock, whether or not presently convertible, exchangeable or exercisable.
“Stockholders Agreement” shall mean the Stockholders Agreement dated February 20, 2004 by and between Revlon and Fidelity Management & Research Co., as amended through the date hereof and as the same may be amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time.
“Subordinated Notes” shall mean the notes in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $327,078,000, issued by the Company pursuant to the Subordinated Notes Indenture, as such Subordinated Notes may be amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time to the extent permitted by Section 11.9.
“Subordinated Notes Indenture” shall mean the Indenture, dated as of February 1, 1998, between the Company and U.S. Bank Trust National Association (formerly known as First Trust National Association), relating to the 8-5/8% Senior Subordinated Notes of the Company, as the same may be amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time to the extent permitted bySection 11.9.
“Subsidiary” of any Person shall mean a corporation or other entity of which an aggregate of more than 50% of the shares of Stock or Stock Equivalents having ordinary voting power (irrespective of whether, at the time, such Stock or Stock Equivalents have or might have such power only by reason of the happening of a contingency) to elect the directors of such corporation, or other Persons performing similar functions for such entity, are owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by such Person or one or more Subsidiaries of such Person;provided,however, that, (a) unless otherwise qualified, all references to a “Subsidiary” or to “Subsidiaries” in this Agreement shall refer to a Subsidiary or Subsidiaries of the Company, but shall exclude RPH, and (b) unless otherwise qualified, all references to a “wholly-owned Subsidiary” in this Agreement shall refer to a Subsidiary or Subsidiaries of the Company of which the Company directly or indirectly owns all of the capital stock or other equity interests (other than directors’ qualifying shares).
“Subsidiary Guarantor” shall mean each Guarantor that is a Subsidiary of the Company.
“Supermajority Multi-Currency Lenders” at any date shall mean the Multi-Currency Lenders having more than 66-2/3% of the Aggregate Multi-Currency Commitment then in effect or, after the Multi-Currency Termination Date, 66-2/3% of the Aggregate Actual Outstanding Multi-Currency Extensions of Credit then outstanding;
provided,however, that for purposes of determining “Supermajority Multi-Currency Lenders,” Swing Line Loans shall be deemed to be held ratably by the Multi-Currency Lenders and not by the Swing Line Lender;provided,further, that a Non-Funding Lender shall not be included in the calculation of “Supermajority Multi-Currency Lenders.”
“Surplus Assets” shall mean personal property of the Company and its Subsidiaries which has been used in the business of the Company and its Subsidiaries for not less than one year and which is sufficiently immaterial to the conduct of the business of the Company and its Subsidiaries that the contribution thereof to any Permitted Joint Venture would not result in the acquisition by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries of a substantially similar item of personal property during the period of one year following the date of such contribution.
“Swing Line Lender” shall mean Citicorp or any other Multi-Currency Lender that becomes the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent or agrees, with the approval of the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent and the Company, to act as the Swing Line Lender hereunder, in each case, in its capacity as the Swing Line Lender hereunder.
“Swing Line Loan Request” shall have the meaning assigned to such term inSection 4.1(a).
“Swing Line Loans” shall have the meaning assigned to such term inSection 4.1(a).
“Syndicated Lender” shall mean each Lender, other than the Local Fronting Lenders (acting in their respective capacities as such); collectively, the “Syndicated Lenders”.
“Syndicated Loan” shall mean a Term Loan, a Revolving Credit Loan or a Swing Line Loan, as the context shall require; collectively, the “Syndicated Loans”.
“Syndication Agent” shall mean UBS Securities LLC, in its capacity as Syndication Agent.
“Synthetic Purchase Agreement” shall mean any agreement pursuant to which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is or may become obligated to make (a) any payment in connection with the purchase by any third party from a Person other than the Company or any of its Subsidiaries of any Stock or Stock Equivalents of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or any Indebtedness referred to inSection 11.9(other than in connection with any such payment which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries would be permitted to make pursuant toSection 11.7or 11.9, as applicable) or (b) any payment (except as otherwise expressly permitted bySection 11.7or11.9), the amount of which is determined by reference to the price or value at any time of any such Stock, Stock Equivalents or Indebtedness;provided,however, that no phantom stock or similar plan providing for payments only to current or former directors, officers or employees of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (or to their heirs or estates) shall be deemed to be a Synthetic Purchase Agreement.
“Target Operating Day” shall mean any date that is not (a) a Saturday or Sunday, (b) Christmas Day or New Year’s Day or (c) any other day on which the Trans-European
Real-time Gross Settlement Operating System (or any successor settlement system) is not operating (as determined by the Administrative Agents).
“Taxable Lender” shall have the meaning assigned to such term inSection 7.12(e).
“Term Loan” and “Term Loans” shall have the meanings assigned to such terms in Section 2.1.
“Term Loan Administrative Agent” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in the preamble hereto, and shall include any successor “Term Loan Administrative Agent” pursuant toSection 13.7;provided,however, that after all Payment Obligations arising under the Term Loan Facility have been Fully Satisfied, all of the duties of the Term Loan Administrative Agent under this Agreement shall be performed by the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent in its capacity as Multi-Currency Administrative Agent.
“Term Loan Collateral” shall have the meaning specified in the Intercreditor Agreement.
“Term Loan Commitment” of any Term Loan Lender shall mean the obligation of such Term Loan Lender to make Term Loans to the Company on the Closing Date, in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed the amount set forth opposite such Term Loan Lender’s name onSchedule II; collectively, as to all such Term Loan Lenders, the “Term Loan Commitments”.
“Term Loan Facility” shall mean the Term Loan Commitment and the provisions herein related to the Term Loans.
“Term Loan Lender” shall mean each bank or other financial institution from time to time party hereto which holds a Term Loan Commitment or a Term Loan; collectively, the “Term Loan Lenders”.
“Term Loan Maturity Date” shall mean the date which is the sixth anniversary of the Closing Date.
“Term Loan Note” shall mean a promissory note of the Company, substantially in the form ofExhibit A with appropriate insertions as to date and principal, payable to a Term Loan Lender.
“Term Loan Percentage” shall mean, at any date with respect to each Term Loan Lender, the percentage which the Term Loan Commitment of such Term Loan Lender constitutes of the Aggregate Term Loan Commitment (or, at any time after the Closing Date, the percentage which the aggregate outstanding principal amount of such Term Loan Lender’s Term Loans at such date constitutes of the aggregate outstanding principal amount of Term Loans of all Term Loan Lenders at such date).
“Term Loan Termination Date” shall mean the earlier of (a) the Term Loan Maturity Date and (b) the date on which the Payment Obligations become due and payable pursuant toSection 12.1.
“Trademark” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in the Pledge and Security Agreement.
“Tranche” shall mean the collective reference to Eurodollar Loans or Eurocurrency Loans, the Interest Periods with respect to all of which begin on the same date and end on the same later date (whether or not such Eurodollar Loans or Eurocurrency Loans, as the case may be, shall originally have been made on the same day).
“Transferee” shall mean any Eligible Assignee, Special Purpose Vehicle and participant to whichSections 14.6(a), 14.6(f)and14.6(g), respectively, apply.
“UCC” shall have the meaning specified in the Pledge and Security Agreement.
“Undrawn L/C Obligations” shall mean the portion, if any, of the Payment Obligations constituting the contingent obligation of the Company to reimburse each Issuing Lender in respect of the then undrawn and unexpired portions of the Letters of Credit issued by such Issuing Lender pursuant to Section 5.4.
“United Kingdom” shall mean the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
“United States” shall mean any state of the United States of America and the District of Columbia.
“Unfunded Pension Amount” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 8.8.
“Uniform Customs” shall mean the Uniform Customs and Practice for Documentary Credits (1993 Revision), International Chamber of Commerce Publication No. 500 or International Standard Practices ISP 98 (1998), International Chamber of Commerce Publication No. 590, as appropriate, in either case, as the same may be amended from time to time.
“Unpledged International Property” shall mean (a) the portion (if any) of the Stock of each first-tier Foreign Subsidiary of the Company or any Subsidiary Guarantor which is not pledged to the Collateral Agent pursuant to the Pledge and Security Agreement and (b) any patents, trademarks and copyrights of the Foreign Subsidiaries of the Company.
“Updated Appraisal” shall mean each appraisal (other than the Initial Appraisals) that is conducted after the Closing Date pursuant toSection 10.15or10.17(b)for purpose of determining the Borrowing Base, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent and performed by an appraiser that is reasonably satisfactory to the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent.
“Voting Stock” shall have the meaning assigned to such term inSection 10.11(b).
“Working Capital” shall mean, for any Person at any date, the amount, if any, by which the Consolidated Current Assets of such Person at such date exceeds the Consolidated Current Liabilities of such Person at such date.
“Working Day” shall mean any Business Day other than a Business Day on which commercial banks in London, England are authorized or required by law to close;provided,however, that when such term is used for the purpose of determining the date on which the Eurocurrency Base Rate is determined for any loan denominated in euro for any Interest Period therefor and for purposes of determining the first and last day of any such Interest Period, references to Working Days shall be deemed to be references to Target Operating Days.
Section 1.2 Other Definitional Provisions. (a) All terms defined in this Agreement shall have the defined meanings when used in the Notes, the Security Documents, any other Loan Document or any certificate or other document made or delivered pursuant hereto or thereto unless otherwise defined therein.
(b) As used herein, in the Notes, in the Security Documents, in the other Loan Documents and in any certificate or other document made or delivered pursuant hereto or thereto, accounting terms not defined in Section 1.1, and accounting terms partly defined inSection 1.1 to the extent not defined, shall have the respective meanings assigned to them under GAAP. To the extent that the definitions of accounting terms herein are inconsistent with the meanings of such terms under GAAP, the definitions contained herein shall control.
(c) The words “hereof,” “herein” and “hereunder” and words of similar import when used in this Agreement, the Notes, any Security Documents or any other Loan Document shall refer to this Agreement, such Note, such Security Document or such other Loan Document, as the case may be, as a whole and not to any particular provision of this Agreement, such Note, such Security Document or such other Loan Document, as the case may be; and Article, Section, Schedule and Exhibit references contained in this Agreement are references to Articles, Sections, Schedules and Exhibits in or to this Agreement, unless otherwise specified. The term “including” when used in any Loan Document means “including without limitation” except when used in the computation of time periods.
ARTICLE II
AMOUNTS AND TERMS OF TERM LOAN COMMITMENT
Section 2.1 Term Loan Commitments. Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, each Term Loan Lender severally agrees to make term loans in Dollars (individually, a “Term Loan”; collectively, the “Term Loans”) to the Company under the Term Loan Commitments, which Term Loans shall be made in a single drawing on the Closing Date;provided,however, that the aggregate outstanding amount of the Term Loans made by any Term Loan Lender shall not exceed such Term Loan Lender’s Term Loan Commitment. The Term Loans may from time to time be (a) Eurodollar Loans, (b) Alternate Base Rate Loans or (c) a combination thereof, as determined by the Company and notified to the Term Loan Administrative Agent in accordance with Section 2.3and 7.7;provided,however, that the Term Loans borrowed on the Closing Date shall initially be made as Alternate Base Rate Loans. Amounts borrowed under thisSection 2.1 and repaid or prepaid may not be reborrowed.
Section 2.2 Obligations of the Company. (a) The Company agrees that each Term Loan made by each Term Loan Lender pursuant hereto shall constitute the promise and obligation of the Company to pay to the Term Loan Administrative Agent, for the benefit of such Term Loan Lender, at the office of the Term Loan Administrative Agent listed in Section 14.2, in lawful money of the United States of America and in immediately available funds the aggregate
unpaid principal amount of the Term Loans made by such Term Loan Lender pursuant toSection 2.1, which amounts shall be due and payable (whether at maturity or by acceleration) as set forth in this Agreement and, in any event, on the Term Loan Termination Date.
(b) The Company agrees that each Term Loan Lender is authorized to record (i) the date and amount of the Term Loan made by such Term Loan Lender pursuant toSection 2.1, (ii) the date of each interest rate conversion pursuant toSection 7.7and the principal amount subject thereto, (iii) the date and amount of each payment or prepayment of principal of and interest with respect to each Term Loan and (iv) in the case of each Eurodollar Loan, the interest rate and Interest Period, in the books and records of such Term Loan Lender and in such manner as is reasonable and customary for such Term Loan Lender and a certificate of an officer of such Term Loan Lender, setting forth in reasonable detail the information so recorded, shall constitute prima facie evidence of the accuracy of the information so recorded;provided,however, that the failure to make any such recording or any error in such recording shall not in any way affect the Payment Obligations of the Company hereunder.
(c) The Company agrees that, upon the request to the Term Loan Administrative Agent by any Term Loan Lender at any time, the Term Loan of such Term Loan Lender shall be evidenced by a Term Loan Note, payable to the order of such Term Loan Lender and representing the obligation of the Company to pay a principal amount equal to the amount of the Term Loan Commitment of such Term Loan Lender or, if less, the aggregate unpaid principal amount of the Term Loan made by such Term Loan Lender, with interest on the unpaid principal amount thereof from time to time outstanding under such Term Loan Note as prescribed in Section 7.5.
Section 2.3 Procedure for Borrowing Term Loans. (a) The Company may request a borrowing under the Term Loan Commitments on the Closing Date, subject toSection 2.1, by giving irrevocable notice to the Term Loan Administrative Agent at least one Business Day prior thereto, which notice shall be in substantially the form ofExhibit H-1 (a “Notice of Borrowing”) and specify (i) the aggregate principal amount to be borrowed and (ii) the Closing Date. Upon receipt of any such notice, the Term Loan Administrative Agent will promptly notify each Term Loan Lender thereof. Each Term Loan Lender will make available to the Term Loan Administrative Agent in immediately available funds at the office of the Term Loan Administrative Agent specified in Section 14.2(or at such other location as the Term Loan Administrative Agent may direct), by 1:00 P.M., New York City time, on the Closing Date an amount equal to the Term Loan Percentage of such Term Loan Lender multiplied by the aggregate principal amount of the Term Loans requested to be made on the Closing Date in Dollars, in funds immediately available to the Term Loan Administrative Agent. The proceeds of the Term Loans received by the Term Loan Administrative Agent hereunder on the applicable borrowing date shall promptly be made available to the Company by the Term Loan Administrative Agent’s crediting the account of the Company designated to the Term Loan Administrative Agent with the aggregate amount actually received by the Term Loan Administrative Agent from the Term Loan Lenders and in like funds as received by the Term Loan Administrative Agent.
(b) The failure of any Term Loan Lender to make the Term Loan to be made by it on the applicable borrowing date shall not relieve any other Term Loan Lender of its obligation hereunder to make its Term Loan on such borrowing date, but no Term Loan Lender shall be responsible for the failure of any other Term Loan Lender to make the Term Loan to be made by such other Term Loan Lender on such borrowing date.
Section 2.4 Amortization of Term Loans. (a) The Term Loans of each Term Loan Lender shall mature in twenty consecutive quarterly installments, each of which shall be in an amount equal to such Term Loan Lender’s Term Loan Percentage multiplied by the amount set forth below opposite such installment (as such amounts may be reduced from time to time in accordance withSection 7.2(b) or7.4(d)):
Installment | Principal Amount |
October 15, 2005 | $2,000,000 |
January 15, 2006 | $2,000,000 |
April 15, 2006 | $2,000,000 |
July 15, 2006 | $2,000,000 |
October 15, 2006 | $2,000,000 |
January 15, 2007 | $2,000,000 |
April 15, 2007 | $2,000,000 |
July 15, 2007 | $2,000,000 |
October 15, 2007 | $2,000,000 |
January 15, 2008 | $2,000,000 |
April 15, 2008 | $2,000,000 |
July 15, 2008 | $2,000,000 |
October 15, 2008 | $2,000,000 |
January 15, 2009 | $2,000,000 |
Installment | Principal Amount |
April 15, 2009 | $2,000,000 |
July 15, 2009 | $2,000,000 |
October 15, 2009 | $2,000,000 |
January 15, 2010 | $2,000,000 |
April 15, 2010 | $2,000,000 |
Term Loan Maturity Date | $762,000,000 |
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(b) Any Term Loans then outstanding shall be repaid in full (together with accrued interest and other amounts owing on account thereof) on the Term Loan Termination Date.
Section 2.5 Use of Proceeds of Term Loans. The proceeds of the Term Loans hereunder shall be used by the Company for the purpose of refinancing certain outstanding Indebtedness of the Company and its Subsidiaries under the Existing Agreement and other existing Indebtedness and to redeem or repurchase Indebtedness issued under the Designated Senior Secured Indenture (including fees and expenses in connection with such refinancing, repurchase and redemption), and for general corporate purposes not prohibited hereunder. To the extent that any Designated Senior Secured Notes shall remain outstanding after the Closing Date, an amount of the proceeds of the Term Loans and, if necessary, Revolving Credit Loans made on the Closing Date, sufficient to purchase, redeem or defease such Designated Senior Secured Notes and pay interest and any premium thereon shall, at the Company’s option, be deposited in a defeasance trust with the trustee under the Designated Senior Secured Indenture or placed in a Cash Collateral Account under the direction of the Term Loan Administrative Agent pending their use to repurchase, redeem or defease such Designated Senior Secured Notes.
ARTICLE III
AMOUNT AND TERMS OF REVOLVING CREDIT SUB-FACILITY
Section 3.1 Revolving Credit Commitments. (a) Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, each Multi-Currency Lender severally agrees to make loans in Dollars to the Company (individually, a “Revolving Credit Loan”; collectively, the “Revolving Credit Loans”) under the Aggregate Multi-Currency Commitment from time to time during the Commitment Period in an aggregate principal amount at any one time outstanding not to exceed such Multi-Currency Lender’s Multi-Currency Commitment Percentage of the Aggregate Multi-
Currency Commitment;provided,however, that at no time (after giving effect to the making of such Revolving Credit Loans and the use of the proceeds thereof) may the Aggregate Outstanding Multi-Currency Extensions of Credit exceed the Maximum Multi-Currency Availability. During the Commitment Period, the Company may use the Aggregate Multi-Currency Commitment by borrowing Revolving Credit Loans, repaying the Revolving Credit Loans in whole or in part and reborrowing, all in accordance with the terms and conditions hereof.
(b) The Company shall have the right to send to the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent, after the Closing Date, one or more Facilities Increase Notices to request an increase (each a “Facilities Increase”) in the Aggregate Multi-Currency Commitment in a principal amount not to exceed $50,000,000 in the aggregate for all such requests;provided,however, that (A) no Facilities Increase shall be requested later than one year prior to the Stated Multi-Currency Termination Date, and (B) no Facilities Increase shall become effective earlier than 10 days after the delivery of the Facilities Increase Notice to the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent in respect of such Facilities Increase. Nothing in this Agreement shall be construed to obligate any Lender to negotiate for (whether or not in good faith), solicit, provide or consent to any increase in the Multi-Currency Commitments, and any such increase may be subject to changes in any term herein. The Multi-Currency Administrative Agent shall promptly notify each Lender of the proposed Facilities Increase and of the proposed terms and conditions therefor agreed between the Company and the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent. Each such Lender (and each of their Affiliates and Related Funds) may, in its sole discretion, commit to participate in such Facilities Increase by forwarding its commitment to the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent therefor in form and substance satisfactory to the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent. The Multi-Currency Administrative Agent shall allocate, in its sole discretion but in amounts not to exceed for each such Lender the commitment received from such Lender, Affiliate or Approved Fund, the Multi-Currency Commitments to be made as part of the Facilities Increase to the Lenders from which it has received such written commitments. If the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent does not receive enough commitments from existing Lenders or their Affiliates or Approved Funds, it may, after consultation with the Company, allocate to Eligible Assignees any excess of the proposed amount of such Facilities Increase agreed with the Company over the aggregate amounts of the commitments received from existing Lenders. Each Facilities Increase shall become effective on a date agreed by the Company and the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent (each a “Facilities Increase Date”), which shall be in any case on or after the date of satisfaction of the conditions precedent set forth in Section 9.3. The Multi-Currency Administrative Agent shall notify the Lenders and the Company, on or before 1:00 P.M. (New York City time) on the day following the Facilities Increase Date of the effectiveness of the Facilities Increase on the Facilities Increase Date and shall record in the Register all applicable additional information in respect of such Facilities Increase. On the Facilities Increase Date for any Facilities Increase, each Lender or Eligible Assignee participating in such Facilities Increase shall purchase and assume from each existing Multi-Currency Lender having Revolving Credit Loans and participations in Letters of Credit outstanding on such Facilities Increase Date, without recourse or warranty, an undivided interest and participation, to the extent of such Lender’s Multi-Currency Commitment Percentage of the new Multi-Currency Commitments (after giving effect to such Facilities Increase), in the aggregate outstanding Revolving Credit Loans and participations in Letters of Credit, so as to ensure that, on the Facilities Increase Date after giving effect to such Facilities Increase, each Multi-Currency Lender is owed only its Multi-Currency Commitment Percentage of the Revolving Credit Loans and participations in Letters of Credit outstanding on such Facilities Increase Date.
Section 3.2 Obligations of Company. (a) The Company hereby agrees that each Revolving Credit Loan made by each Multi-Currency Lender to the Company pursuant
hereto shall constitute the promise and obligation of the Company to pay to such Multi-Currency Lender, at the office of the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent listed in Section 14.2, in Dollars and in immediately available funds, the aggregate unpaid principal amount of all Revolving Credit Loans made by such Multi-Currency Lender pursuant to Section 3.1, which amounts shall be due and payable (whether at maturity or by acceleration) as set forth in this Agreement and, in any event, on the Multi-Currency Termination Date.
(b) The Company hereby agrees that each Multi-Currency Lender is authorized to record (i) the date and amount of each Revolving Credit Loan made by such Multi-Currency Lender pursuant to Section 3.1, (ii) the date of each interest rate conversion pursuant toSection 7.7which is applicable to such Revolving Credit Loan and the principal amount subject thereto, (iii) the date and amount of each payment or prepayment of principal of and interest with respect to each Revolving Credit Loan made by the Company to such Multi-Currency Lender and (iv) in the case of each Revolving Credit Loan which bears interest at a rate based upon the Eurodollar Rate, the interest rate and Interest Period, in the books and records of such Multi-Currency Lender and in such manner as is reasonable and customary for it and a certificate of an officer of such Multi-Currency Lender, setting forth in reasonable detail the information so recorded, shall constitute prima facie evidence of the accuracy of the information so recorded;provided,however, that the failure to make any such recording or any error in such recording shall not in any way affect the Payment Obligations of the Company hereunder.
(c) The Company agrees that, upon the request to the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent by any Multi-Currency Lender at any time, the Revolving Credit Loans of such Multi-Currency Lender shall be evidenced by a promissory note of the Company, substantially in the form ofExhibit B with appropriate insertions as to date and principal amount (a “Revolving Credit Note”), payable to the order of such Multi-Currency Lender and representing the obligation of the Company to pay a principal amount equal to the amount of the Aggregate Multi-Currency Commitment of such Multi-Currency Lender or, if less, the aggregate unpaid principal amounts of the Revolving Credit Loans made by such Multi-Currency Lender, with interest on the unpaid principal amount thereof from time to time outstanding under such Revolving Credit Note as prescribed in Section 7.5.
Section 3.3 Procedure for Borrowing Revolving Credit Loans. (a) The Company may request a borrowing of Revolving Credit Loans during the Commitment Period on any Working Day, if the Revolving Credit Loans to be borrowed are Eurodollar Loans, or on any Business Day, if the Revolving Credit Loans to be borrowed are Alternate Base Rate Loans, by submitting an irrevocable Notice of Borrowing to the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent, specifying (i) the aggregate principal amount to be borrowed, (ii) the requested borrowing date, (iii) the Available Multi-Currency Commitment (after giving effect to the proposed borrowing), (iv) whether the Revolving Credit Loans to be borrowed are to be Eurodollar Loans or Alternate Base Rate Loans or a combination thereof and, if a combination, the respective aggregate amount of each type of borrowing and (v) if the Revolving Credit Loans to be borrowed are Eurodollar Loans, the length of the Interest Period or Interest Periods applicable thereto;provided,however, that any Revolving Credit Loans to be made to the Company on the Closing Date shall be made as Alternate Base Rate Loans. Any such notice of borrowing must be received by the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent prior to 11:00 A.M., New York City time, three Working Days prior to the requested borrowing date, in the case of Eurodollar Loans, and one Business Day prior to the requested borrowing date, in the case of Alternate Base Rate Loans. Each borrowing of Revolving Credit Loans shall, subject to Section 7.7(g), be in an aggregate principal amount equal to (x) $5,000,000 or a whole multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof (in the case of Eurodollar Loans) or (y) the lesser of $2,500,000 (or, if less, the maximum amount which is then
available to the Company pursuant toSection 3.1) or a whole multiple of $500,000 in excess thereof (in the case of Alternate Base Rate Loans). Upon receipt of any such notice, the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent will promptly notify each Multi-Currency Lender thereof. Each Multi-Currency Lender will make available to the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent at the office of the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent specified inSection 14.2 (or at such other location as the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent may direct), by 1:00 P.M., New York City time, on the requested borrowing date, an amount equal to the Multi-Currency Commitment Percentage of such Multi-Currency Lender multiplied by the aggregate principal amount of the Revolving Credit Loans requested to be borrowed in Dollars, in funds immediately available to the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent. The proceeds of such Revolving Credit Loans received by the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent hereunder shall promptly be made available to the Company by the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent’s crediting the account of the Company designated to the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent with the aggregate amount actually received by the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent from the Multi-Currency Lenders and in like funds as received by the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent.
(b) The failure of any Multi-Currency Lender to make the Revolving Credit Loan to be made by it on any requested borrowing date shall not relieve any other Multi-Currency Lender of its obligation hereunder to make its Revolving Credit Loan on such borrowing date, but no Multi-Currency Lender shall be responsible for the failure of any other Multi-Currency Lender to make the Revolving Credit Loan to be made by such other Multi-Currency Lender on such borrowing date.
Section 3.4 Use of Proceeds of Revolving Credit Loans. The proceeds of the Revolving Credit Loans hereunder shall be used for the purpose of refinancing certain outstanding Indebtedness of the Company and its Subsidiaries under the Existing Agreement and other existing Indebtedness, and for general corporate purposes not prohibited hereunder.
ARTICLE IV
AMOUNT AND TERMS OF SWING LINE SUB-FACILITY
Section 4.1 Swing Line Commitments. (a) Subject to the terms and conditions hereof, the Swing Line Lender agrees to make swing line loans (individually, a “Swing Line Loan”; collectively, the “Swing Line Loans”) to the Company in Dollars under the Aggregate Multi-Currency Commitment from time to time during the Commitment Period in an aggregate principal amount at any one time outstanding not to exceed $30,000,000;provided,however, that at no time (after giving effect to the making of such Swing Line Loan and the use of the proceeds thereof) may the Aggregate Outstanding Multi-Currency Extensions of Credit exceed the Maximum Multi-Currency Availability. Amounts borrowed by the Company under thisSection 4.1 may be repaid and, up to but excluding the last day of the Commitment Period, reborrowed. All Swing Line Loans shall be made as Alternate Base Rate Loans and shall not be entitled to be converted into Eurodollar Loans. The Company shall give the Swing Line Lender irrevocable notice, which notice shall be in substantially the form ofExhibit H-3 (a “Swing Line Loan Request”), and which notice must be received by the Swing Line Lender prior to 1:00 P.M., New York City time on the requested borrowing date, specifying the amount of each requested Swing Line Loan. The Swing Line Lender shall not make any Swing Line Loan in the period commencing on the first Business Day after it receives written notice from the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent or any Multi-Currency Lender that one or more of the conditions precedent contained inSection 9.2shall not on such date be satisfied, and ending when such conditions are satisfied. The Swing Line Lender shall not otherwise be required to determine that, or take notice
whether, the conditions precedent set forth inSection 9.2 have been satisfied in connection with the making of any Swing Line Loan. The proceeds of each Swing Line Loan will be made available by the Swing Line Lender to the Company by crediting the account of the Company designated to the Swing Line Lender with such proceeds.
(b) The Company hereby agrees that each Swing Line Loan made by the Swing Line Lender to the Company pursuant to this Section 4.1shall constitute the promise and obligation of the Company to pay to such Swing Line Lender, at the office of the Swing Line Lender listed inSection 14.2, in Dollars and in immediately available funds, the aggregate unpaid principal amount of all Swing Line Loans made by such Swing Line Lender pursuant toSection 4.1(a), which amounts shall be due and payable (whether at maturity or by acceleration) as set forth in this Agreement and, in any event, on the Multi-Currency Termination Date. The Company hereby agrees that the Swing Line Lender is authorized to record (i) the date and amount of each Swing Line Loan made by such Swing Line Lender pursuant toSection 4.1(a) and (ii) the date and amount of each payment or prepayment of principal of and interest with respect to each Swing Line Loan made by the Company to such Swing Line Lender, in the books and records of such Swing Line Lender and in such manner as is reasonable and customary for it and a certificate of an officer of such Swing Line Lender, setting forth in reasonable detail the information so recorded, shall constitute prima facie evidence of the accuracy of the information so recorded;provided,however, that the failure to make any such recording or any error in such recording shall not in any way affect the Payment Obligations of the Company hereunder.
(c) The Swing Line Lender, at any time in its sole and absolute discretion, may, and at any time as there shall be $25,000,000 in aggregate principal amount of Swing Line Loans outstanding shall, on behalf of the Company (which hereby irrevocably directs the Swing Line Lender to act on its behalf) request each Multi-Currency Lender to make a Revolving Credit Loan in an amount equal to such Multi-Currency Lender’s Multi-Currency Commitment Percentage of the amount of the Swing Line Loans (the “Refunded Swing Line Loans”) outstanding on the date such notice is given. Unless any of the events described inparagraph (j) ofSection 12.1 shall have occurred (in which event the procedures ofparagraph (d) of this Section 4.1shall apply) each Multi-Currency Lender shall make the proceeds of its Revolving Credit Loan available to the Swing Line Lender for its own account at the office specified for the Swing Line Lender inSection 14.2 prior to 1:00 P.M. (New York City time) in funds immediately available on the Business Day next succeeding the date such notice is given. The proceeds of such Revolving Credit Loans shall be immediately applied to repay the Refunded Swing Line Loans.
(d) If, prior to the making of a Revolving Credit Loan pursuant toparagraph (c) ofSection 4.1, one of the events described inparagraph (j) ofSection 12.1 shall have occurred, each Multi-Currency Lender will, on the date such Revolving Credit Loan was to have been made, purchase an undivided participating interest in the Refunded Swing Line Loan in an amount equal to its Multi-Currency Commitment Percentage of such Refunded Swing Line Loan. Each Multi-Currency Lender will immediately transfer to the Swing Line Lender, in immediately available funds, the amount of its participation.
(e) Whenever, at any time after the Swing Line Lender has received from any Multi-Currency Lender such Multi-Currency Lender’s participating interest in a Refunded Swing Line Loan pursuant toclause (d) above, the Swing Line Lender receives any payment on account thereof, the Swing Line Lender will distribute to such Multi-Currency Lender its participating interest in such amount (appropriately adjusted, in the case of interest payments, to reflect the period of time during which such Multi-Currency Lender’s participating interest was
outstanding and funded) in like funds as received;provided,however, that in the event that such payment received by the Swing Line Lender is required to be returned, such Multi-Currency Lender will return to the Swing Line Lender any portion thereof previously distributed by the Swing Line Lender to it in like funds as such payment is required to be returned by the Swing Line Lender.
Section 4.2 Participations. Each Multi-Currency Lender’s obligation to purchase participating interests pursuant toparagraph (d) ofSection 4.1 shall be absolute and unconditional and shall not be affected by any circumstance, including, without limitation, (a) any set-off, counterclaim, recoupment, defense or other right which such Multi-Currency Lender may have against the Swing Line Lender, the Company or any other Person for any reason whatsoever; (b) the occurrence or continuance of an Event of Default; (c) any adverse change in the condition (financial or otherwise) of the Company or any other Person; (d) any breach of this Agreement by the Company or any other Multi-Currency Lender; or (e) any other circumstance, happening or event whatsoever, whether or not similar to any of the foregoing.
Section 4.3 Use of Proceeds of Swing Line Loans. The proceeds of the Swing Line Loans hereunder shall be used by the Company for any purpose for which the proceeds of Revolving Credit Loans may be used.
ARTICLE V
AMOUNT AND TERMS OF LETTER OF CREDIT SUB-FACILITY
Section 5.1 Letters of Credit Facility. (a) Subject to the terms and conditions hereof, each Issuing Lender, in reliance upon the representations and warranties contained herein and in the other Loan Documents and upon the agreements of the other Multi-Currency Lenders set forth inSection 5.3(a) and (b), agrees to issue under the Aggregate Multi-Currency Commitment any letter of credit (each, a “Letter of Credit”) requested to be issued by it and so issued by it for the account of the Company or for the co-account of any Subsidiary on any Business Day during the Commitment Period in such form as may be approved from time to time by such Issuing Lender;provided,however, that such Issuing Lender shall have no obligation to issue such Letter of Credit if, after giving effect to such issuance, (i) the Equivalent in Dollars of the L/C Obligations would exceed $60,000,000 and (ii) the sum of the Aggregate Outstanding Multi-Currency Extensions of Credit would exceed the Maximum Multi-Currency Availability. Each Letter of Credit shall (i) be denominated in Dollars or such Denomination Currency acceptable to the Issuing Lender in its sole discretion, (ii) be either (x) a standby letter of credit issued to support obligations of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, contingent or otherwise, which are of a type for which Revolving Credit Loans (if the obligations were then due and payable) would be available (a “Standby Letter of Credit”), or (y) a documentary letter of credit in respect of the purchase of goods or services by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business (a “Commercial Letter of Credit”) and (iii) expire no later than one year from the date of issue, in the case of Commercial Letters of Credit, and five years from the date of issue, in the case of Standby Letters of Credit;provided,further, that no Letter of Credit shall have an expiration date that is later than the Stated Multi-Currency Termination Date;provided,further, that the Undrawn L/C Obligations in respect of each Letter of Credit which expires after the last day of the Commitment Period shall be Fully Secured from and after such day.
(b) Each Letter of Credit shall be subject to the Uniform Customs and, to the extent not inconsistent therewith, the laws of the State of New York.
(c) No Issuing Lender shall at any time be obligated to issue any Letter of Credit hereunder to the extent that such issuance would conflict with, or cause such Issuing Lender or any L/C Participant to exceed any limits imposed by, any applicable Requirement of Law.
(d) No Issuing Lender shall issue any Letter of Credit in the period commencing on the first Business Day after it receives written notice from the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent or any Multi-Currency Lender that one or more of the conditions precedent contained inSection 9.2 or the first proviso inSection 5.1(a)above are not on such date satisfied or duly waived and ending when such conditions are satisfied or duly waived. No Issuing Lender shall otherwise be required to determine that, or take notice whether, the conditions precedent set forth inSection 9.2 have been satisfied in connection with the issuance of any Letter of Credit.
Section 5.2 Procedure for Issuance of Letters of Credit. The Company shall request that an Issuing Lender issue a Letter of Credit by delivering to such Issuing Lender at its address for notices specified herein (with a copy to the Multi-Currency Administration Agent) an Application therefor, completed to the satisfaction of such Issuing Lender, and such other certificates, documents and other papers and information as such Issuing Lender reasonably may request. Upon receipt of any Application, such Issuing Lender will process such Application and the certificates, documents and other papers and information delivered to it in connection therewith in accordance with its customary procedures and shall promptly issue the Letter of Credit requested thereby (but in no event shall such Issuing Lender be required to issue any Letter of Credit earlier than three Business Days after its receipt of the Application therefor and all such other certificates, documents and other papers and information relating thereto) by issuing the original of such Letter of Credit to the beneficiary thereof or as otherwise may be agreed by such Issuing Lender and the Company. Such Issuing Lender shall (i) in the case of each Standby Letter of Credit, notify each L/C Participant and the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent promptly following the request for and following the issuance of the Standby Letter of Credit and furnish a copy of such Standby Letter of Credit to the Company and to the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent promptly following the issuance thereof and (ii) in the case of Commercial Letters of Credit, provide to each L/C Participant and the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent, promptly following the end of each calendar month during which it has issued Commercial Letters of Credit, a monthly activity report of the Commercial Letters of Credit issued by it during such month.
Section 5.3 L/C Participations. (a) The Issuing Lender with respect to each Letter of Credit irrevocably agrees to grant and hereby grants to each L/C Participant, and, to induce such Issuing Lender to issue Letters of Credit hereunder, each L/C Participant irrevocably agrees to accept and purchase, and hereby accepts and purchases, from such Issuing Lender, on the terms and conditions hereinafter stated, for such L/C Participant’s own account and risk an undivided interest equal to such L/C Participant’s Multi-Currency Commitment Percentage in such Issuing Lender’s obligations and rights under each Letter of Credit issued hereunder and the amount of each draft paid by such Issuing Lender thereunder. Each L/C Participant unconditionally and irrevocably agrees with such Issuing Lender that, if a draft is paid under any Letter of Credit issued by it for which such Issuing Lender is not reimbursed in full by the Company in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, such L/C Participant shall pay to such Issuing Lender upon demand at such Issuing Lender’s address for notices specified herein an amount equal to such L/C Participant’s Multi-Currency Commitment Percentage of the Equivalent in Dollars of the amount of such draft, or any part thereof, which is not so reimbursed.
(b) If any amount required to be paid by any L/C Participant to an Issuing Lender pursuant toSection 5.3(a) in respect of any unreimbursed portion of any payment made by such Issuing Lender under any Letter of Credit issued by it is paid to such Issuing Lender within three Business Days after the date such payment is due, such L/C Participant shall pay to such Issuing Lender on demand an amount equal to the product of such amount, multiplied by the daily average Federal Funds Effective Rate, as quoted by such Issuing Lender, during the period from and including the date such payment is required to the date on which such payment is immediately available to such Issuing Lender, times a fraction the numerator of which is the number of days that elapse during such period and the denominator of which is 360. If any such amount required to be paid by any L/C Participant pursuant toSection 5.3(a) is not in fact made available to such Issuing Lender by such L/C Participant within three Business Days after the date such payment is due, such Issuing Lender shall be entitled to recover from such L/C Participant, on demand, such amount with interest thereon calculated from such due date at the rate per annum applicable to Revolving Credit Loans that are Alternate Base Rate Loans hereunder. A certificate of the relevant Issuing Lender submitted to any L/C Participant with respect to any amounts owing under thisSection 5.3(b)shall be conclusive in the absence of manifest error.
(c) Whenever, at any time after any Issuing Lender has made payment under any Letter of Credit issued by it and has received from any L/C Participant its pro rata share of such payment in accordance withSection 5.3(a), such Issuing Lender receives any payment related to such Letter of Credit (whether directly from the Company or otherwise, including proceeds of collateral applied thereto by such Issuing Lender), or any payment of interest on account thereof, such Issuing Lender promptly will distribute to such L/C Participant its pro rata share thereof;provided,however, that in the event that any such payment received by such Issuing Lender shall be required to be returned by such Issuing Lender, such L/C Participant shall return to such Issuing Lender the portion thereof previously distributed by such Issuing Lender to it.
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Section 5.3, the failure of any L/C Participant to make any payment due by it under thisSection 5.3 in a timely manner shall not relieve any other L/C Participant of its obligation hereunder to make its own payment in a timely manner, but no L/C Participant shall be responsible for the failure of any other L/C Participant to make any payment pursuant to thisSection 5.3owing by such other L/C Participant on any date.
Section 5.4 L/C Reimbursement Obligation of the Company. The Company agrees to reimburse each Issuing Lender on each date on which such Issuing Lender notifies the Company of the date and amount of a draft presented under any Letter of Credit issued and paid by such Issuing Lender for the amount of (a) such draft so paid and (b) any taxes, fees, charges or other costs or expenses incurred by such Issuing Lender in connection with such payment. Each such payment shall be made to the relevant Issuing Lender at its address for notices specified herein (or, if such Issuing Lender has notified the Company that such Letter of Credit was issued from a different lending office of such Issuing Lender at the request of the Company, the lending office from which such Letter of Credit was issued) in lawful money of the United States or the applicable Denomination Currency, as the case may be, and in immediately available funds. Interest shall be payable on any and all amounts remaining unpaid by the Company under thisSection 5.4 from the date such amounts become payable (whether at stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise) until payment in full at the rate which would be payable on any outstanding Revolving Credit Loans that are Alternate Base Rate Loans which were then overdue.
Section 5.5 Obligations Absolute. The Company’s obligations under thisSection 5 shall be absolute and unconditional under any and all circumstances and irrespective of any setoff, counterclaim or defense to payment which the Company may have or have had against the relevant Issuing Lender, any beneficiary of Letter of Credit, any Lender or any other Person. The Company also agrees with each Issuing Lender that such Issuing Lender shall not be responsible for, and the Company’s L/C Reimbursement Obligations underSection 5.4 shall not be affected by, among other things, the validity or genuineness of documents or of any endorsements thereon, even though such documents shall in fact prove to be invalid, fraudulent or forged, or any dispute between or among the Company and any beneficiary of any Letter of Credit or any other party to which such Letter of Credit may be transferred or any claims whatsoever of the Company against any beneficiary of such Letter of Credit or any such transferee. No Issuing Lender shall be liable for any error, omission, interruption or delay in transmission, dispatch or delivery of any message or advice, however transmitted, in connection with any Letter of Credit issued by it, except for errors or omissions caused by such Issuing Lender’s gross negligence or willful misconduct. The Company agrees that any action taken or omitted by any Issuing Lender under or in connection with any Letter of Credit issued by such Issuing Lender or the related drafts or documents, if done in the absence of gross negligence or willful misconduct and in accordance with the standards of care specified in the UCC, shall be binding on the Company and shall not result in any liability of such Issuing Lender to the Company.
Section 5.6 Letter of Credit Payments. If any draft shall be presented for payment under any Letter of Credit, the Issuing Lender in respect of such Letter of Credit shall promptly notify the Company of the date and amount thereof. The responsibility of such Issuing Lender to the Company in connection with any draft presented for payment under any Letter of Credit issued by it shall, in addition to any payment obligation expressly provided for in such Letter of Credit, be limited to determining that the documents (including each draft) delivered under such Letter of Credit in connection with such presentment are in conformity with such Letter of Credit.
Section 5.7 Application. To the extent that any provision of any Application or other agreement required by the Issuing Lender related to any Letter of Credit is inconsistent with the provisions of the other Loan Documents, the provisions of the other Loan Documents shall apply.
Section 5.8 Cash Collateral for Letters of Credit. (a) If the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent or the Required Multi-Currency Lenders shall so request when an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Company shall promptly deposit in a Cash Collateral Account under the direction of the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent the amount equal to 105% of Equivalent in Dollars of the sum of the aggregate amount of all Undrawn L/C Obligations (the “Deposit Requirement”). The Company further agrees that, from and after any such request for cash collateralization, so long as such Event of Default is continuing, the Company will deposit from time to time into such Cash Collateral Account any such additional amounts as shall be necessary to cause the amount on deposit therein to be not less than the amount of the Deposit Requirement then in effect.
(b) Following the occurrence and during the continuance of any Event of Default, the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent may direct the Collateral Agent to apply amounts held in the Cash Collateral Account maintained pursuant toparagraph (a) above to the payment of the Payment Obligations on account of the Letters of Credit in such order as the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent shall elect, with any amounts remaining on deposit therein
after giving effect to such application on account of the Letters of Credit to be applied pursuant to the Intercreditor Agreement.
Section 5.9 Existing Letters of Credit. Schedule 5.9 (Existing Letters of Credit) contains a schedule of certain letters of credit issued prior to the Closing Date by Citibank, N.A. for the account of any Borrower. On the Closing Date, (i) such letters of credit, to the extent outstanding, shall be automatically and without further action by the parties thereto converted to Letters of Credit issued pursuant to thisSection 5.9 for the account of such Borrower and subject to the provisions hereof, and for this purpose the fees specified inSection 5.4 shall be payable (in substitution for any fees set forth in the applicable letter of credit reimbursement agreements or applications relating to such letters of credit) as if such letters of credit had been issued on the Closing Date, (ii) each of the issuers of such Letters of Credit shall be deemed to be an “Issuing Lender” hereunder solely for the purpose of maintaining such letters of credit, (iii) the Equivalent in Dollars of the face amount of such letters of credit shall be included in the calculation of L/C Obligations and (iv) all liabilities of the Borrowers with respect to such letters of credit shall constitute Payment Obligations. No letter of credit converted in accordance with thisSection 5.9 shall be amended, extended or renewed without the prior written consent of the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent.
ARTICLE VI
AMOUNT AND TERMS OF LOCAL LOAN SUB-FACILITY
Section 6.1 Local Loan Commitments. Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, each Local Fronting Lender severally agrees to make loans (and, to the extent provided inSection 6.9, to create Acceptances) under the Aggregate Multi-Currency Commitment in Dollars and in the Denomination Currency set forth opposite its name onSchedule 1.1 to the Company and to the Local Borrowing Subsidiary for such Denomination Currency from time to time during the Commitment Period (individually, a “Local Loan”; collectively, the “Local Loans”);provided,however, that, after giving effect to the making and the use of proceeds thereof, (i) the aggregate amount of the Local Outstandings of such Local Fronting Lender shall not exceed the amount equal to its Currency Sublimit then in effect and (ii) the sum of the Aggregate Outstanding Multi-Currency Extensions of Credit shall not exceed the Maximum Multi-Currency Availability. The Local Loans made by each Local Fronting Lender generally shall be made by such Local Fronting Lender from a lending office which is located within the jurisdiction of its respective Denomination Currency;provided,however, that, in the event that the Company or the relevant Local Borrowing Subsidiary so requests and the relevant Local Fronting Lender (in its sole discretion) so agrees, any Local Loans to be made by such Local Fronting Lender may be made from a lending office of such Local Fronting Lender which is not located in the jurisdiction of its Denomination Currency. During the Commitment Period, the Local Borrowers may use the Aggregate Multi-Currency Commitment by borrowing Local Loans and Acceptances, repaying the Local Loans and Acceptances in whole or in part and reborrowing, all in accordance with the terms and conditions hereof.
Section 6.2 Obligations of Local Borrowers. (a) Each Local Borrower hereby agrees that each Local Loan made by each Local Fronting Lender to such Local Borrower pursuant hereto shall constitute the promise and obligation of such Local Borrower to pay to such Local Fronting Lender, at the office of such Local Fronting Lender listed onSchedule III hereto (or, if such Local Fronting Lender has notified such Local Borrower that a Local Loan was funded by a different lending office of such Local Fronting Lender pursuant toSection 6.1, the lending office from which such Local Loan was funded), in lawful money of the Denomination
Currency (or, with respect to Local Loans which are Dollar Loans, in Dollars) and in immediately available funds the aggregate unpaid principal amount of all Local Loans made by such Local Fronting Lender pursuant toSection 6.1, which amounts shall be due and payable (whether at maturity or by acceleration) as set forth in this Agreement and, in any event, on the Multi-Currency Termination Date. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement or any other Loan Document, (i) no Local Borrowing Subsidiary organized under the laws of any jurisdiction outside the United States shall pay or be obligated under any Loan Document to pay any amounts other than the Payment Obligations arising from the Local Loans of such Local Borrowing Subsidiary, including any amounts owing by or on account of any other Loan Party pursuant to this Agreement or any other Loan Document or in respect of any other Secured Obligations and (ii) no assets of any Local Borrowing Subsidiary organized outside of the United States shall be used to pay or secure obligations of the Company, any other Loan Party or any other Local Borrowing Subsidiary under any Loan Document or in respect of any other Secured Obligations.
(b) Each Local Borrower hereby agrees that each Local Fronting Lender is authorized to record (i) the date, amount and currency of each Local Loan made by such Local Fronting Lender to such Local Borrower pursuant toSection 6.1, (ii) the date of each interest rate conversion pursuant toSection 7.7 which is applicable to such Local Loan and the principal amount subject thereto, (iii) the date and amount of each payment or prepayment of principal of and interest with respect to each Local Loan made by such Local Borrower to such Local Fronting Lender and (iv) in the case of each Local Loan which bears interest at a rate based upon the relevant Eurocurrency Rate or Eurodollar Rate or (if it is customary in the relevant jurisdiction for Local Rate Loans to be subject to Interest Periods) Local Rate, the interest rate and Interest Period, in the books and records of such Local Fronting Lender and in such manner as is reasonable and customary for it and a certificate of an officer of such Local Fronting Lender, setting forth in reasonable detail the information so recorded, shall constitute prima facie evidence of the accuracy of the information so recorded;provided,however, that the failure to make any such recording or any error in such recording shall not in any way affect the Payment Obligations of the relevant Local Borrower hereunder.
Section 6.3 Procedure for Borrowing Local Loans. Each Local Borrower may request a borrowing of Local Loans under the Aggregate Multi-Currency Commitment in Dollars or in the relevant Denomination Currency from the applicable Local Fronting Lender during the Commitment Period on any Working Day, if the Local Loans to be borrowed are Eurodollar Loans or Eurocurrency Loans, or on any Business Day, if the Local Loans to be borrowed are Alternate Base Rate Loans or Local Rate Loans, by submitting an irrevocable Notice of Borrowing to the relevant Local Fronting Lender (with a copy to the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent), specifying (i) the aggregate principal amount of the relevant currency to be borrowed, (ii) the requested borrowing date, (iii) whether the Local Loans to be borrowed are to be Eurodollar Loans or Alternate Base Rate Loans (in the case of Dollar Loans) or Eurocurrency Loans or Local Rate Loans (in the case of other Local Loans) or (in either case) a combination thereof and, if a combination, the respective aggregate amount of each type of borrowing and (iv) if the Local Loans to be borrowed are Eurodollar Loans or Eurocurrency Loans or (if it is customary in the relevant jurisdiction for Local Rate Loans to be subject to Interest Periods) Local Rate Loans, the length of the Interest Period or Interest Periods applicable thereto;provided,however, that any Local Loans to be made to the Company or a Local Borrowing Subsidiary on the Closing Date shall be made as Local Rate Loans. Any such notice of borrowing must be received by the relevant Local Fronting Lender prior to 11:00 A.M., local time, three Working Days prior to the requested borrowing date (or such shorter period prior thereto as such Local Fronting Lender may agree) in the case of Eurodollar Loans or
Eurocurrency Loans, and on the requested borrowing date, in the case of Alternate Base Rate or Local Rate Loans (with the presentation by any third party of any check or draft drawn on the account of the relevant Local Borrower or any other borrowing by way of overdraft being deemed to constitute a notice of borrowing of Local Rate Loans in the amount of such check, draft or other borrowing, to the extent that insufficient funds are then available for the payment thereof in the account of such Local Borrower with the relevant Local Fronting Lender);provided,further, that the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent may, at any time and from time to time in its sole discretion, suspend the right of the Local Borrowers with respect to any one or more Denomination Currencies to borrow Alternate Base Rate Loans or Local Rate Loans on the basis of same-day notice by providing written notice of such suspension to the Company and the affected Local Borrowing Subsidiaries (with a copy to the relevant Local Fronting Lender) not less than two Business Days prior to the effectiveness thereof (or, during such time as any Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, on the date of such effectiveness), in which event any such notice of borrowing (other than any notice of borrowing deemed to be made on account of a check, draft or other customary means of borrowing by way of overdraft drawn by such Local Borrower prior to the date of such notice of suspension) of Alternate Base Rate Loans or Local Rate Loans must (until such notice of suspension has been revoked by the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent) be received by the Local Fronting Lender prior to 11:00 A.M., local time, one Business Day prior to the requested borrowing date. In the event that the relevant Local Fronting Lender determines on the requested borrowing date that the making of such requested Local Loan will not cause the Local Outstandings of such Local Fronting Lender to exceed the amount equal to its Currency Sublimit then in effect (in each case, as has been notified to such Local Fronting Lender by the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent pursuant toSection 6.8(b)), such Local Fronting Lender will make the requested Local Loan available to the relevant Local Borrower, at the principal lending office of such Local Fronting Lender in the relevant jurisdiction, by 1:00 P.M., local time, on the requested borrowing date, in funds immediately available to such Local Borrower. Promptly following the making of each such Local Loan, such Local Fronting Lender shall provide notice to the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent of the amount thereof. The minimum amount of each borrowing of Local Loans shall, subject toSection 7.7(g), be in an aggregate principal amount (not to exceed the relevant Currency Sublimit) to be mutually agreed upon by the relevant Local Fronting Lender and the relevant Local Borrower. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in thisSection 6.3, no Local Fronting Lender shall be obligated hereunder to advance any Local Loan by way of an overdraft, but rather shall provide overdrafts only if it elects (in its sole discretion) to do so. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any Local Loans (as defined in the Existing Agreement) which are outstanding on the Closing Date from a Local Fronting Lender hereunder listed onSchedule 6.3 shall be deemed to be refinanced with “Local Loans” (as defined herein) hereunder.
Section 6.4 Currency Conversion and Contingent Funding Agreement. (a) Each Multi-Currency Lender hereby unconditionally and irrevocably agrees to purchase (in Dollars) an undivided participating interest in its ratable share of such Local Loans and Acceptances made by such Local Fronting Lenders as the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent may at any time request;provided,however, that:
(i) the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent hereby agrees that, it will not request any such purchase of participating interests unless a Liquidity Event Period has commenced and is continuing or a Default or an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing;
(ii) the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent hereby agrees that it promptly will request that the Multi-Currency Lenders purchase such participating interest in all
Local Loans and Acceptances made by any Local Fronting Lender which provides to the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent a written certification that an Event of Default described inSection 12.1(a)is continuing with respect to the Local Loans or Acceptances made by such Local Fronting Lender and requesting that such request be made by the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent; and
(iii) in the event that any of the events specified inclauses (i), (ii) or(iii) ofSection 12.1(j)shall have occurred with respect to any Local Borrower, each Multi-Currency Lender shall be deemed to have purchased, automatically and without request, such participating interest in the Local Loans and Acceptances made to such Local Borrower.
Any such request by the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent shall be made in writing to each Multi-Currency Lender and shall specify the amount of Dollars (based upon the actual exchange rate at which the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent anticipates being able to obtain the relevant Denomination Currency, with any excess payment being refunded to the Multi-Currency Lenders and any deficiency remaining payable by the Multi-Currency Lenders) required from such Multi-Currency Lender in order to effect the purchase by such Multi-Currency Lender of a participating interest in the amount equal to its Multi-Currency Commitment Percentage multiplied by the aggregate then outstanding principal amount (in the Denomination Currency) of the relevant Local Loans and Acceptances (together with accrued interest thereon and other amounts owing in connection therewith) in such Denomination Currency. Promptly upon receipt of such request, each Multi-Currency Lender shall deliver to the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent (in immediately available funds) the amount so specified by the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent. The Multi-Currency Administrative Agent shall convert such amounts into the relevant Denomination Currency and shall promptly deliver the proceeds of such conversion to the relevant Local Fronting Lender in immediately available funds. From and after such purchase, (i) the outstanding Local Loans and Acceptances in which the Multi-Currency Lenders have purchased such participations shall be deemed to have been converted into Revolving Credit Loans that are Alternate Base Rate Loans denominated in Dollars (with such conversion constituting, for purposes ofSection 7.11, a prepayment of such Local Loans and Acceptances before the last day of the Interest Period with respect thereto), (ii) any further Local Loans to be made to such Borrower shall be made in Dollars, with each Multi-Currency Lender purchasing a participating interest therein in the manner described in the foregoing provisions of thisSection 6.4(a) immediately upon the making thereof in the amount equal to such Multi-Currency Lender’s Multi-Currency Commitment Percentage thereof (with the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent hereby agreeing to provide prompt notice to each such Multi-Currency Lender of its receipt from the relevant Local Fronting Lender of a notice of borrowing and of making the relevant Local Loan), (iii) no further Acceptances shall be created for the account of such Borrower, (iv) all amounts from time to time accruing, and all amounts from time to time payable, on account of such Local Loans and Acceptances (including, without limitation, any interest and other amounts which were accrued but unpaid on the date of such purchase) shall be payable in Dollars as if such Local Loan or Acceptance, as the case may be, had originally been made in Dollars and shall (other than with respect to the portion of the Applicable Margin which, pursuant toSection 7.5, is expressly stated to be paid for the account of the Local Fronting Lender) be distributed by the relevant Local Fronting Lender to the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent, for the accounts of the Multi-Currency Lenders, on account of such participating interests. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in thisSection 6.4, the failure of any Multi-Currency Lender to purchase its participating interest in any Local Loan or Acceptance shall not relieve any other Multi-Currency Lender of its obligation hereunder to purchase its participating interest in a timely manner, but no Multi-Currency Lender shall be
responsible for the failure of any other Multi-Currency Lender to purchase the participating interest to be purchased by such other Multi-Currency Lender on any date.
(b) If any amount required to be paid by any Multi-Currency Lender pursuant toSection 6.4(a) is paid to the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent within three Business Days following the date upon which such Multi-Currency Lender receives notice from the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent that the Local Loan or Acceptance in which such Multi-Currency Lender has purchased a participating interest has been made or created (as the case may be), such Multi-Currency Lender shall pay to the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent on demand an amount equal to the product of such amount, times the daily average Federal Funds Effective Rate, as quoted by the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent, during the period from and including the date such payment is required to the date on which such payment is immediately available to the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent, times a fraction the numerator of which is the number of days that elapse during such period and the denominator of which is 360. If any such amount required to be paid by any Multi-Currency Lender pursuant toSection 6.4(a) is not in fact made available to the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent within three Business Days following the date upon which such Multi-Currency Lender receives notice from the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent that the Local Loan or Acceptance in which such Multi-Currency Lender has purchased a participating interest has been made or created (as the case may be), the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent shall be entitled to recover from such Multi-Currency Lender, on demand, such amount with interest thereon calculated from such due date at the rate per annum applicable to Revolving Credit Loans that are Alternate Base Rate Loans hereunder. A certificate of the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent submitted to any Multi-Currency Lender with respect to any amounts owing under thisSection 6.4(b)shall be conclusive in the absence of manifest error. Amounts payable by any Multi-Currency Lender pursuant to thisSection 6.4(b)shall be paid to the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent, for the account of the relevant Local Fronting Lender;provided,however, that, if the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent (in its sole discretion) has elected to fund on behalf of such Multi-Currency Lender the amounts owing to such Local Fronting Lender, then the amounts shall be paid to the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent, for its own account.
(c) Whenever, at any time after the relevant Local Fronting Lender has received from any Multi-Currency Lender such Multi-Currency Lender’s participating interest in a Local Loan or Acceptance pursuant toclause(a), the Local Fronting Lender receives any payment on account thereof, such Local Fronting Lender will distribute to the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent, for the account of such Multi-Currency Lender, such Multi-Currency Lender’s participating interest in such amount (appropriately adjusted, in the case of interest payments, to reflect the period of time during which such Multi-Currency Lender’s participating interest was outstanding) in like funds as received;provided,however, that in the event that such payment received by such Local Fronting Lender is required to be returned, such Multi-Currency Lender will return to such Local Fronting Lender any portion thereof previously distributed by such Local Fronting Lender to such Multi-Currency Lender in like funds as such payment is required to be returned by such Local Fronting Lender.
(d) Each Multi-Currency Lender’s obligation to purchase participating interests pursuant toclause (a) above shall be absolute and unconditional and shall not be affected by any circumstance, including, without limitation, (a) any set-off, counterclaim, recoupment, defense or other right which such Multi-Currency Lender may have against the relevant Local Fronting Lender, the relevant Local Borrower or any other Person for any reason whatsoever; (b) the occurrence or continuance of a Default or an Event of Default; (c) any adverse change in the condition (financial or otherwise) of the relevant Local Borrower or any
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other Person; (d) any breach of this Agreement by the relevant Local Borrower, any other Local Borrower or any other Lender; or (e) any other circumstance, happening or event whatsoever, whether or not similar to any of the foregoing;provided,however, that no Multi-Currency Lender shall be obligated to purchase participating interests in any Local Loans made by a Local Fronting Lender to the extent that such Local Loans (at the time when made) caused the amount of Local Loans outstanding from such Local Fronting Lender to be in excess of the Currency Sublimit then in effect with respect to such Local Fronting Lender.
Section 6.5 Designation of Additional Denomination Currencies. (a) The Company may from time to time request that any one or more additional freely available currencies which are freely transferable and freely convertible into Dollars be designated as “Denomination Currencies” hereunder by providing written notice to the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent specifying (i) the relevant Local Borrowing Subsidiary for such currency (which need not be an existing Local Borrowing Subsidiary), (ii) the requested amount of the Currency Sublimit for such Denomination Currency and (iii) specifying the Local Fronting Lender with respect thereto and the Maximum Sublimit to be inserted inSchedule III for such Local Fronting Lender;provided,however, that in no event shall the sum of all Currency Sublimits (after giving effect to the requested designation of an additional Denomination Currency and any concurrent re-allocation of the Currency Sublimits pursuant toSection 6.6) exceed the Aggregate Currency Sublimit then in effect. The Multi-Currency Administrative Agent shall promptly forward to each Multi-Currency Lender a copy of any such notice. Within ten Business Days following the receipt of such notice, each Multi-Currency Lender shall notify the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent in writing whether such designation is acceptable to such Multi-Currency Lender (in its sole discretion) and the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent promptly shall notify the Company thereof.
(b) In the event that such designation is acceptable to the Required Multi-Currency Lenders, the Company shall cause the requested Local Borrowing Subsidiary to deliver to the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent (i) a Local Borrowing Subsidiary Joinder Agreement, (ii) such other documents, instruments, agreements and legal opinions as the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent reasonably may request (including, in any event, an opinion of local counsel in the relevant jurisdiction to the effect that no Multi-Currency Lender, other than the relevant Local Fronting Lender, shall be deemed to be doing business in the relevant jurisdiction, or otherwise shall be subject to regulation or taxation therein, solely as a result of the agreements set forth herein; with such legal opinions to be in form and substance reasonably acceptable to the Required Multi-Currency Lenders) and (iii) a Local Fronting Lender Joinder Agreement from the Local Fronting Lender for such Denomination Currency.
(c) From and after the date upon which the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent has received the documents (all of which shall be in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent) described inSection 6.5(b),Schedule III hereto shall be deemed to be amended to reflect (i) the designation of such currency as a Denomination Currency, (ii) the aggregate amount of the Currency Sublimit and Maximum Sublimit with respect thereto, (iii) the name and applicable local lending office of the relevant Local Fronting Lender with respect thereto and (iv) the name of the relevant Local Borrowing Subsidiary.
(d) With respect to any Denomination Currency set forth onSchedule III, the Company may designate an additional or different Local Borrowing Subsidiary with respect thereto with the approval of the Required Multi-Currency Lenders and the relevant Local Fronting Lender, which designation shall take effect from and after the date upon which the
Multi-Currency Administrative Agent has received the documents described inSection 6.5(b)(i) and (ii) with respect to such designated Local Borrowing Subsidiary and from and after such dateSchedule III shall be deemed to be amended to reflect the name of the Local Borrowing Subsidiary so designated.
(e) The Multi-Currency Administrative Agent shall give prompt notice to the Multi-Currency Lenders of the effectiveness of any such designation and shall deliver to each Multi-Currency Lender and the Company a revised version ofSchedule III which reflects any such amendment.
Section 6.6 Re-Allocation of Currency Sublimits. (a) The Company (on its own behalf and as agent of the Local Borrowing Subsidiaries) may from time to time (but, unless the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent shall otherwise agree, not more frequently than two times per calendar month) request that the amount of any one or more Currency Sublimits be increased and/or the amount of any one or more Currency Sublimits be decreased by delivering a written request for such re-allocation to the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent. Each such request shall specify the amount (in Dollars) of the increase or decrease, as the case may be, applicable to each affected Currency Sublimit. The Multi-Currency Administrative Agent shall deliver to each affected Local Fronting Lender a copy of such request promptly following receipt thereof.
(b) Unless the revised Currency Sublimit of any Local Fronting Lender will, after giving effect to the requested re-allocation of Currency Sublimits, be in excess of the Maximum Sublimit then in effect for such Local Fronting Lender, then the Currency Sublimits shall be deemed to be so re-allocated andSchedule III shall be deemed to be amended to reflect such reallocation;provided,however, that (i) no Local Fronting Lender shall be required to lend more than its Currency Sublimit (as in effect prior to the effectiveness of such re-allocation) until such Local Fronting Lender has received notice from the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent of the effectiveness of such re-allocation (which notice the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent agrees to deliver promptly upon such effectiveness) and (ii) after giving effect to such re-allocation, the Aggregate Outstanding Multi-Currency Extensions of Credit will not exceed the Maximum Multi-Currency Availability then in effect. Promptly following the effectiveness of such re-allocation, the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent shall deliver to each Multi-Currency Lender and the Company a revisedSchedule III which reflects such amendment.
(c) In the event that the revised Currency Sublimit of any Local Fronting Lender will (after giving effect to the requested re-allocation of Currency Sublimits) be in excess of the Maximum Sublimit specified for such Local Fronting Lender onSchedule III, then such Local Fronting Lender and the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent shall have ten Business Days to determine whether (in their sole discretion) to approve such increase. In the event that such Local Fronting Lender and the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent approve such increase (which approval shall be delivered in writing to the Company and, in the case of the approval of such Local Fronting Lender, to the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent) then the Currency Sublimit and the Maximum Sublimit of such Local Fronting Lender shall be re-allocated to such higher amounts requested for such Local Fronting Lender in the request delivered to the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent pursuant toSection 6.6(a). In the event that such Local Fronting Lender and the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent do not approve such increase in accordance with the foregoing terms of thisSection 6.6(c), then the Currency Sublimit of such Local Fronting Lender shall be increased only to its existing Maximum Sublimit on the date upon which either such Local Fronting Lender or the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent notifies the Company that such increase has not been approved (or, if no such notice is given, at the end of such ten day
approval period). Promptly following the effectiveness of any such reallocation, the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent shall deliver to each Multi-Currency Lender and the Company a revisedSchedule III which reflects such amendment. The Company or the relevant Local Borrowing Subsidiary shall pay any stamp, recording or other similar tax payable under the laws of the local jurisdiction which is required as a result of any such increase in the Maximum Sublimit of its relevant Local Fronting Lender.
(d) In connection with any re-allocation made in accordance with thisSection 6.6, the Company may designate that the Currency Sublimit applicable to any Local Fronting Lender is to be reduced to zero and that the relevant Local Borrowing Subsidiary is to cease to be a “Local Borrowing Subsidiary” hereunder. From and after any such designation and repayment of all relevant Local Loans or Acceptances then outstanding, such Local Borrowing Subsidiary shall cease to be a Borrower hereunder, such Local Fronting Lender shall cease to be the “Local Fronting Lender” for the relevant Denomination Currency and (except to the extent that the provisions ofSection 6.5 subsequently are complied with) no further Local Loans or Acceptances shall be made to any Borrower in such Denomination Currency.
(e) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, no such reallocation shall be permitted if, after giving effect thereto, the Aggregate Outstanding Multi-Currency Extensions of Credit will exceed the Maximum Multi-Currency Availability then in effect.
Section 6.7 Resignation or Removal of a Local Fronting Lender. (a) In the event that a Local Fronting Lender shall so elect, such Local Fronting Lender shall resign as Local Fronting Lender by giving written notice of its resignation to the Company, the relevant Local Borrowing Subsidiary and the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent, with such resignation becoming effective on the date which is the earlier of (i) the date upon which a Local Fronting Lender reasonably acceptable to the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent and the Company (on its own behalf and as agent for the relevant Local Borrowing Subsidiary) is designated as a substitute Local Fronting Lender in accordance with the provisions ofSection 6.7(c) and (ii) such other date upon which such Local Fronting Lender, the Company and the relevant Local Borrowing Subsidiary otherwise agree;provided,however, that such effective date shall in no event be later than the date which is 30 days following the date upon which such written notice is delivered to the Company. Any Local Loans and Acceptances made by such Local Fronting Lender which are outstanding on such termination date shall be due and payable on such termination date.
(b) The Company (on its own behalf and as agent for the relevant Local Borrowing Subsidiary) at any time may, using its commercially reasonable judgment, request that any Local Fronting Lender cease to be designated as such by giving written notice of such request to the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent (which notice the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent promptly shall deliver to such Local Fronting Lender and to each Multi-Currency Lender). Immediately upon receipt of such request, such Local Fronting Lender shall cease to make any additional Local Loans and cease to create any additional Acceptances, and all Local Loans and Acceptances then maintained by such Local Fronting Lender shall be due and payable on the date requested by the Company (which date shall be not earlier than (i) the earlier of (A) 30 days following delivery of such notice, in the case of Alternate Base Rate Loans, Local Rate Loans and Acceptances and (B) the last day of the Interest Period then in effect with respect thereto, in the case of Eurocurrency Loans or Eurodollar Loans, as the case may be, and (ii) such other date upon which such Local Fronting Lender, the Company and the relevant Local Borrowing Subsidiary otherwise agree). From and after the date upon which all such Local Loans and
Acceptances are repaid (together with accrued interest and other amounts owing to such Local Fronting Lender on account thereof), such Local Fronting Lender shall cease to be a “Local Fronting Lender” with respect to such Denomination Currency.
(c) In the event that the Local Fronting Lender with respect to any Denomination Currency shall cease to serve as such pursuant toSection 6.7(a) or(b), the Company (on its own behalf and as agent of the relevant Local Borrowing Subsidiary) may designate another Local Fronting Lender reasonably acceptable to the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent to serve as “Local Fronting Lender” with respect to such Denomination Currency;provided,however, that no Multi-Currency Lender shall be so designated without its agreement (in its sole discretion) to serve as the “Local Fronting Lender” with respect to such Denomination Currency hereunder. Upon any such designation and the receipt by the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent of a Local Fronting Lender Joinder Agreement, duly executed and delivered by such designated Local Fronting Lender, such Multi-Currency Lender shall be deemed to be the “Local Fronting Lender” with respect to such Denomination Currency for all purposes under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents.
(d) During any period when no substitute Local Fronting Lender has been duly appointed in accordance with the terms ofSection 6.7(c), the right of the Borrowers to borrow in such Denomination Currency shall be suspended.
Section 6.8 Reports. (a) Each Local Fronting Lender shall deliver to the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent on the first Business Day of each calendar week and on the first Business Day of each calendar month (and at any time and from time to time when the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent may so request) a statement, substantially in the form ofExhibit P-1, showing (i) the aggregate principal amount of Local Loans in the relevant Denomination Currency outstanding from such Local Fronting Lender as of the close of business on each Business Day during the prior week (or portion thereof), (ii) the aggregate principal amount of Local Loans in Dollars outstanding from such Local Fronting Lender as of the close of business on each Business Day during the prior week (or portion thereof), (iii) the aggregate undiscounted face amount of Acceptances outstanding from such Local Fronting Lender as of the close of business on each Business Day during the prior week (or portion thereof) and (iv) such other matters as are contained therein. The Multi-Currency Administrative Agent hereby agrees to deliver a copy of each such statement to the Company promptly following its receipt thereof and of any such statement to any Multi-Currency Lender promptly upon its request therefor.
(b) Promptly following any change in the Currency Sublimit in effect for any Local Fronting Lender, the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent shall deliver to such Local Fronting Lender a statement indicating the new Currency Sublimit in effect for such Local Fronting Lender.
Section 6.9 Bankers’ Acceptances. (a) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, any Local Fronting Lender may agree (in its sole discretion from time to time) to create bankers’ acceptances under its Currency Sublimit by way of the acceptance and discount of Drafts (the “Acceptances”) pursuant to thisSection 6.9;provided,however, that no Local Fronting Lender shall have any obligation to create and/or discount Acceptances, regardless of any prior practice of doing so for the account of such Local Borrowing Subsidiary. Any Acceptances created pursuant to thisSection 6.9shall be denominated in the Denomination Currency for the relevant Local Fronting Lender (and not in Dollars), and shall be for such tenor and in such amount as may be mutually agreed upon by the relevant Local Fronting Lender and
Local Borrowing Subsidiary;provided,however, that in no event shall any Acceptance mature after the date which is 30 days prior to the Multi-Currency Termination Date.
(b) Unless the relevant Local Borrowing Subsidiary and Local Fronting Lender otherwise agree, the relevant Local Borrowing Subsidiary shall give to the relevant Local Fronting Lender not less than two Business Days’ prior written notice of its intent to borrow by way of Acceptances from any Local Fronting Lender which has agreed to accept and discount Drafts for the account of such Local Borrowing Subsidiary, which notice shall be accompanied by (i) a Draft which has been completed, executed and delivered by a duly authorized officer of such Local Borrowing Subsidiary and (ii) such other documents, instruments and certificates as such Local Fronting Lender reasonably may request;provided,however, that, after giving effect to the creation of such Acceptance, the Local Outstandings owing to such Local Fronting Lender shall not exceed the amount equal to its Currency Sublimit then in effect. On the requested borrowing date, the relevant Local Fronting Lender will accept such Draft and discount such accepted Draft in accordance with the provisions ofSection 6.9(c).
(c) Any Local Fronting Lender may, in its sole discretion, elect to discount Drafts of the relevant Local Borrowing Subsidiary on the date upon which such Local Fronting Lender accepts such Drafts by discounting such Draft at the rate per annum equal to the Local Rate (which may be a different rate than the Local Rate then payable on account of Local Loans in such Denomination Currency) then in effect plus the Applicable Margin then in effect for Local Rate Loans;provided,however, that, unless the relevant Local Fronting Lender and Local Borrowing Subsidiary otherwise agree, such discount shall be calculated by,first, discounting the aggregate face amount of such Draft at the rate per annum equal to the Local Rate then in effect and,second, discounting the result thereof at the rate per annum equal to the Applicable Margin then in effect for Local Rate Loans. Promptly following such discounting (and, in any event, on the date thereof), such Local Fronting Lender shall make available to such Local Borrowing Subsidiary the amount equal to the discounted face amount of such Draft in the manner in which such Local Fronting Lender makes available Local Loans pursuant toSection 6.3.
(d) Each Local Borrowing Subsidiary hereby unconditionally agrees to pay to the relevant Local Fronting Lender the aggregate, undiscounted face amount of each Draft accepted by such Local Fronting Lender hereunder on the maturity date thereof (or on such earlier date upon which the obligations of such Local Borrowing Subsidiary under this Agreement shall become or shall have been declared due and payable pursuant to the terms and conditions of this Agreement). Interest shall accrue on any amount owing pursuant to thisSection 6.9(d) which is not paid when due (whether by scheduled maturity, mandatory prepayment, acceleration or otherwise) from the date such amount becomes due until paid in full at a fluctuating rate per annum equal to the rate which would then be payable on any overdue Local Rate Loans and shall be payable by such Local Borrowing Subsidiary upon demand by such Local Fronting Lender.
(e) Each Multi-Currency Lender hereby unconditionally and irrevocably agrees to purchase undivided participating interests in the Acceptances created by each Local Fronting Lender in accordance with the provisions ofSection 6.4.
(f) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the indefeasible prepayment by the relevant Local Borrowing Subsidiary to the relevant Local Fronting Lender of all or a portion of any outstanding Acceptance shall be deemed to constitute a prepayment of such portion of such Acceptance for all purposes hereunder, regardless of whether
the relevant Local Fronting Lender has distributed such amount to the holder of the underlying Draft.
Section 6.10 Use of Proceeds of Local Loans and Acceptances. The proceeds of the Local Loans and Acceptances hereunder shall be used by the relevant Borrower for general corporate purposes of such Borrower and its Subsidiaries not prohibited hereunder.
ARTICLE VII
PROVISIONS RELATING TO CERTAIN EXTENSIONS OF CREDIT; FEES AND PAYMENT
Section 7.1 Voluntary Termination or Reduction of Aggregate Multi-Currency Commitment. The Company (on its own behalf and as agent for the Local Borrowing Subsidiaries) shall have the right at any time, upon not less than five Business Days’ notice to the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent, to terminate or, from time to time, permanently reduce the Aggregate Multi-Currency Commitment, subject to the provisions ofSection 7.7(g) andSection 7.11, with any such voluntary reduction (i) being in an amount equal to $5,000,000 or a whole multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof and (ii) reducing permanently the amount of the Aggregate Multi-Currency Commitment then in effect.
Section 7.2 Optional Prepayments. (a) The Company may, subject toSection 7.11, at any time and from time to time, prepay any Term Loans, Revolving Credit Loans and Swing Line Loans borrowed by it which are then outstanding, in whole or in part, without premium or penalty (subject to the second proviso hereto), upon at least three Working Days’ irrevocable notice to the applicable Administrative Agent, in the case of Eurodollar Loans or Eurocurrency Loans, one Business Day’s irrevocable notice to the applicable Administrative Agent, in the case of Alternate Base Rate Loans (other than Swing Line Loans) and irrevocable notice to the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent (which notice must be received by the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent prior to 1:00 P.M., New York City time) on the date of prepayment, in the case of Swing Line Loans, specifying (i) the date and amount of such prepayment, (ii) the principal amount to be prepaid, (iii) whether the prepayment is of Term Loans, Revolving Credit Loans or Swing Line Loans or a combination thereof, and, if of a combination thereof, the amount of prepayment allocable to each and (iv) whether the prepayment is of Eurodollar Loans, Eurocurrency Loans or Alternate Base Rate Loans or a combination thereof, and, if of a combination thereof, the amount of prepayment allocable to each (and, with respect to such Eurodollar Loans and Eurocurrency Loans, each Tranche thereof),provided,however, that the Company shall not prepay any Swing Line Loans on any day on which the Company has requested a borrowing thereof, andprovided,further, that (A) any Term Loans prepaid pursuant to thisSection 7.2 (including underclause (B) below) on or before the third anniversary of the Closing Date shall be accompanied by a premium in an amount equal to the Prepayment Fee, and (B) any prepayment of the Term Loans in whole upon a refinancing thereof (whether with proceeds of equity or indebtedness) shall be deemed to be an optional prepayment. Upon receipt of any such notice, the applicable Administrative Agent will promptly notify each affected Lender thereof. If any such notice is given, the Company will make the prepayment specified therein, and such prepayment shall be due and payable on the date specified therein. Each partial prepayment pursuant to thisSection 7.2 shall be in an amount equal to $5,000,000 or a whole multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof (or, in the case of Swing Line Loans, $500,000 or a whole multiple of $100,000 in excess thereof) and shall comply withSection 7.7(g).Any such optional prepayments of the Term Loans shall be applied,first, in the
direct order of maturity to the remaining installments thereof maturing in the next twelve (12) months, and second, ratably to the remaining installments thereof maturing thereafter.
(b) The Company and each Local Borrowing Subsidiary may, subject toSection 7.11, at any time and from time to time, prepay any Local Loans borrowed by it or Acceptances created for its account which are then outstanding, in whole or in part, without premium or penalty, upon at least three Working Days’ irrevocable notice to the relevant Local Fronting Lender (with a copy to the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent), in the case of Eurodollar Loans or Eurocurrency Loans, and two Business Days’ irrevocable notice to such Local Fronting Lender, in the case of Alternate Base Rate Loans, Local Rate Loans or Acceptances, specifying (i) the date and amount of such prepayment, (ii) whether the amounts prepaid are on account of Acceptances or Local Loans (and, if on account of Local Loans, whether such Local Loans to be prepaid are denominated in Dollars or in a Denomination Currency, as the case may be) or a combination thereof, and, if a combination thereof, the amount of prepayment allocable to each and (iii) whether the prepayment is of Eurodollar Loans or Alternate Base Rate Loans (in the case of any prepayment of any such Loans denominated in Dollars) or Eurocurrency Loans or Local Rate Loans (otherwise) or (in either case) a combination thereof, and, if of a combination thereof, the amount of prepayment allocable to each (and, with respect to such Eurodollar Loans, Eurocurrency Loans or, to the extent applicable, Local Rate Loans, each Tranche thereof);provided,however, that Local Loans borrowed by way of overdrafts may be repaid on same-day notice without regard to any minimum amount of repayment required by thisSection 7.2(b), with any deposit of funds (whether by clearance of a check, receipt of a wire transfer or otherwise) in the account of the relevant Local Borrowing Subsidiary maintained by the Local Fronting Lender with respect to such overdrafts being deemed to constitute such notice of prepayment. If any such notice is given, the relevant Local Borrower will make the prepayment specified therein, and such prepayment shall be due and payable on the date specified therein. Each partial prepayment of the Local Loans pursuant to thisSection 7.2 shall be in such minimum amount as may be mutually agreed upon by the relevant Local Fronting Lender and the relevant Borrower and shall comply withSection 7.7(g);provided,however, that in no event shall such minimum amount be greater than $500,000 or the Equivalent thereof in the relevant Denomination Currency.
Section 7.3 Mandatory Prepayments and Commitment Reductions. (a) Unless the Required Multi-Currency Lenders otherwise agree, if at any time and from time to time the Aggregate Outstanding Multi-Currency Extensions of Credit exceed the Maximum Multi-Currency Availability at such time, the Company and/or the Local Borrowing Subsidiaries shall immediately repay the Revolving Credit Loans, the Swing Line Loans, the Local Loans, the Acceptances and/or the L/C Reimbursement Obligations (and, to the extent necessary, cause the then outstanding Undrawn L/C Obligations to be Fully Secured) in accordance with the provisions ofSection 7.4 by the amount equal to such excess.
(b) Unless the Required Multi-Currency Lenders otherwise agree, if at any time and from time to time the sum (based on the Borrowing Base Certificate most recently delivered to the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent pursuant toSection 10.17 or at the request of the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent) of (i) the aggregate outstanding principal amount of Local Loans denominated in Dollars which are owing by the Local Borrowers to a Local Fronting Lender, (ii) the Equivalent in Dollars of 105% of the aggregate outstanding principal amount of Local Loans denominated in the relevant Denomination Currency which are owing by the Local Borrowers to such Local Fronting Lender and (iii) the Equivalent in Dollars of 105% of the aggregate undiscounted face amount of Acceptances in the relevant Denomination Currency which are owing by the relevant Local Borrowing Subsidiary to such Local Fronting Lender,
exceeds the Currency Sublimit for such Local Fronting Lender, such Local Borrowers shall, within three Business Days, repay the Local Loans and Acceptances owing by them to such Local Fronting Lender by the amount equal to such excess.
(c) Unless the Required Term Loan Lenders otherwise agree, the Term Loans owing to each Term Loan Lender shall be repaid, without premium, within 100 days after the last day of each fiscal year of the Company by an amount equal to 50% of Excess Cash Flow for such fiscal year in accordance with the provisions ofSection 7.4;provided,however, that any Term Loan Lender may elect to waive its rights to any payment owing to it pursuant to thisSection 7.3(c) and, if any Term Loan Lender so elects, the amounts otherwise payable to such Term Loan Lender (if not made from proceeds of Revolving Credit Loans) shall instead be applied to repay the Revolving Credit Loans (without any permanent reduction of the Aggregate Multi-Currency Commitment).
(d) On the Multi-Currency Termination Date, the Aggregate Multi-Currency Commitment shall terminate and the Borrowers shall cause all Payment Obligations in respect of the Aggregate Actual Outstanding Multi-Currency Extensions of Credit to be Fully Satisfied.
(e) Promptly following a Net Proceeds Event (and in any event within one Business Day following receipt by the relevant Person of the Net Proceeds from such Net Proceeds Event):
(i) unless the Required Lenders otherwise agree, the New Term Loans shall be repaid and the Aggregate Multi-Currency Commitments shall be permanently reduced, in the manner set forth inSection 7.4(a), by the amount equal to the aggregate amount of Net Proceeds received from Net Proceeds Events described inclause (a) of such definition;
(ii) unless the Required Lenders otherwise agree, the New Term Loans and the Revolving Credit Loans shall be repaid (without any corresponding reduction of the Aggregate Multi-Currency Commitment), in the manner set forth inSection 7.4(a), by the amount equal to the portion of the aggregate amount of Net Proceeds (other than the Net Proceeds from Resale Transactions) received by the Company and its Subsidiaries from all Net Proceeds Events described in clause (b) of such definition;provided,however, that (x) no such prepayment of the New Term Loans or the Revolving Credit Loans shall be required pursuant to thisSection 7.3(e)(ii) with respect to any sale, lease, transfer or other disposition of Term Loan Collateral during any twelve-month period ending on an anniversary of the date hereof to the extent that the aggregate amount of such Net Proceeds, together with all other Net Proceeds described in thisSection 7.3(e)(ii) received during such period from any sale, lease, transfer or other disposition of Term Loan Collateral, is less than $10,000,000 or the Equivalent in any other currency thereof;provided,further, that in the event that the aggregate Net Proceeds described in this clause (x) received during such twelve-month period (the “Annual Net Proceeds”) is less than $10,000,000, the difference between $10,000,000 and the Annual Net Proceeds may be added to the $10,000,000 permitted to be excluded from the prepayment of the New Term Loans or the Revolving Credit Loans pursuant to this clause (x) applicable to any subsequent twelve-month period (up to a maximum excluded amount not to exceed $25,000,000 in any such twelve-month period) and (y) for purposes of thisSection 7.3(e)(ii) only, the term “Net Proceeds” shall not include the Net Proceeds from any Specified Disposition to the extent that the aggregate amount of Net Proceeds from all
Specified Dispositions since the Amendment No. 4 Effective Date does not exceed $25,000,000; and
(iii) unless the Required Multi-Currency Lenders otherwise agree, the Revolving Credit Loans shall be repaid (without any corresponding reduction of the Aggregate Multi-Currency Commitment) by the Net Proceeds received by the Company and its Subsidiaries from all Net Proceeds Events in respect of Specified Dispositions to the extent excluded from clause (ii) above;
provided,however, that any Term Loans prepaid on or before the third anniversary of the Closing Date pursuant to thisSection 7.3(e) shall be accompanied by a premium in an amount equal to the Prepayment Fee applicable at such time.
(f) If, any Borrower would incur costs pursuant toSection 7.11 as a result of any payment due pursuant to thisSection 7.3 (other thanclause (h) below), such Borrower may deposit the amount of such payment with the applicable Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the relevant Lenders, in a Cash Collateral Account under the control of the applicable Administrative Agent, until the end of the applicable Interest Period at which time such payment shall be made (provided that such deposit does not violate any provision of any Indenture then in effect). Each Borrower hereby grants to the applicable Administrative Agent, for the benefit of such Lenders, a security interest (or, if the applicable Borrower is a Local Borrowing Subsidiary organized under the laws of the Commonwealth of Australia or any political subdivision thereof, the applicable Administrative Agent shall have a right to apply and setoff such payment toward any amount payable by such Local Borrowing Subsidiary at the end of the applicable Interest Period) in all amounts in which such Borrower has any right, title or interest which are from time to time on deposit in such Cash Collateral Account and expressly waives all rights (which rights such Borrower hereby acknowledges and agrees are vested exclusively in the applicable Administrative Agent) to exercise dominion or control over any such amounts.
(g) Upon the borrowing of Term Loans pursuant toSection 2.1, the Term Loan Commitment of each Term Loan Lender shall be automatically and permanently reduced in the amount of the Term Loan made by each Term Loan Lender pursuant to such borrowing. The Aggregate Term Loan Commitment, if any, shall terminate on the Closing Date after the funding of the Term Loans.
(h) The Borrowers hereby irrevocably waive the right to direct, during a Liquidity Event Period or, prior to the delivery of a Notice of Actionable Default, at any time an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the application of all funds in the Cash Concentration Account or any other Approved Deposit Account (or any Cash Collateral Account under the direction of any Loan Party, if any) and agrees that the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent may (in its sole discretion exercised reasonably) and, upon the written direction of the Required Multi-Currency Lenders given at any time during such Liquidity Event Period, shall (i) deliver a Blockage Notice (or similar term, as defined in each Deposit Account Control Agreement) to each Deposit Account Bank for each Approved Deposit Account and (ii) apply all available funds in (A) the Cash Concentration Account or any other Approved Deposit Account on a daily basis (but only so long as such Liquidity Event Period or Event of Default, as the case may be, is continuing) as follows:first, to repay the outstanding principal amount of the Swing Line Loans until such Swing Line Loans have been repaid in full; andsecond, to repay the outstanding principal balance of the Revolving Credit Loans until such Revolving Credit Loans shall have been repaid in full and (B) such Cash Collateral Account for the purposes contemplated under the Loan Documents in its sole discretion exercised reasonably. The Multi-
Currency Administrative Agent agrees to use its commercially reasonable efforts to apply such funds in accordance with thisSection 7.3(h), and the Borrowers consent to such application. Without diminishing the control of the Collateral Agent (under the direction of the applicable Agent) over amounts from time to time on deposit in any Cash Collateral Account, the applicable Agent shall from time to time (upon the request of the Company so long as no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing) direct the Collateral Agent to promptly return to the Company any amounts on deposit in such Cash Collateral Account which are in excess of the amount required to be deposited therein under the Loan Documents. If no Liquidity Event or Event of Default shall be continuing, the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent shall not deliver any Blockage Notice and shall, upon receipt of three Business Days’ prior written notice and a certificate of a Responsible Officer of the Company that no Liquidity Event or Event of Default is continuing, withdraw all Blockage Notices in effect at such time.
Section 7.4 Application of Payments and Commitment Reductions. (a)Any prepayment of the New Term Loans or reduction of the Aggregate Multi-Currency Commitment required pursuant toSection 7.3(e)(i) shall be applied,first, to the repayment of the New Term Loans then outstanding to the extent required by the New Term Loan Agreement and,second, to the permanent reduction of the Aggregate Multi-Currency Commitment then in effect. Any prepayment of the New Term Loans and Revolving Credit Loans required pursuant toSection 7.3(e)(ii) shall be applied, if in respect of the sale, lease, transfer or other disposition of Term Loan Collateral, to the repayment of the New Term Loans to the extent required by the New Term Loan Agreement, and if in respect of the sale, lease, transfer or other disposition of Multi-Currency Collateral or any other assets to the repayment of the Revolving Credit Loans (without any permanent reduction of the Aggregate Multi-Currency Commitment).
(b) To the extent that any reduction of the Aggregate Multi-Currency Commitment necessitates the prepayment of amounts outstanding thereunder pursuant toSection 7.3, such prepayment shall be applied to repay the Multi-Currency Loans, the Acceptances and/or the L/C Reimbursement Obligations (and, to the extent necessary, cause the then outstanding Undrawn L/C Obligations to be Fully Secured), as the Company and the Local Borrowing Subsidiaries so determine, subject toSection 7.4(c).
(c) To the extent that any reduction of the Aggregate Multi-Currency Commitment necessitates the prepayment of Local Loans and Acceptances outstanding thereunder pursuant toSection 7.3, such prepayment shall be applied,first, to the Local Loans of such Local Borrowers as the Company (on its own behalf and as agent of the Local Borrowing Subsidiaries) may elect and,second, to the Acceptances;provided,however, that, during such time as an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, such prepayment shall be applied to the Local Loans and (to the extent relevant) Acceptances of such Local Borrowers as the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent may elect.
(d) Any prepayment of the Term Loans required pursuant toSection 7.3 shall be applied,first, in the direct order of maturity to the then outstanding installments thereof maturing in the next twelve months and,second, ratably to the remaining installments thereof.
Section 7.5 Interest Rate and Payment Dates; Risk Participation Fees; Local Administrative Fee. (a) The Eurodollar Loans shall bear interest on the unpaid principal amount thereof for each day during each Interest Period with respect thereto at a rate per annum equal to the Eurodollar Rate for such dayplus the Applicable Margin.
(b) The Alternate Base Rate Loans shall bear interest on the unpaid principal amount thereof at a rate per annum equal to the Alternate Base Rate plus the Applicable Margin.
(c) Each Eurocurrency Loan shall bear interest on the unpaid principal amount thereof for each day during each Interest Period with respect thereto at a rate per annum equal to the Eurocurrency Rate applicable to the relevant Denomination Currency for such day plus the Applicable Margin.
(d) Each Local Rate Loan shall bear interest on the unpaid principal amount thereof at a rate per annum equal to the Local Rate applicable to the relevant Denomination Currency plus the Applicable Margin.
(e) Notwithstanding the rates of interest specified inclauses (a)through(d) of thisSection 7.5 or elsewhere in this Agreement, effective immediately upon the occurrence of an Event of Default underSection 12.1(a) or(j) and for as long thereafter as such Event of Default shall be continuing, all of the aggregate unpaid principal amount of the Loans, Acceptances and unpaid L/C Reimbursement Obligations, and (to the extent permitted by applicable law) any overdue interest, fees and other amounts due under the Loan Documents, shall (i) bear interest at a rate per annum (the “Default Rate”) which is equal to 2% above (x) the rate which would otherwise be applicable thereto pursuant to thisSection 7.5 or, (y) if no such rate would otherwise be applicable, if due to a Multi-Currency Lender, the rate applicable to Multi-Currency Loans that are Alternate Base Rate Loans and, if due to a Term Loan Lender, the rate applicable to Term Loans that are Alternate Base Rate Loans and (ii) if such amount is on account of a Eurodollar Loan or a Eurocurrency Loan, be converted to an Alternate Base Rate Loan or a Local Rate Loan, as the case may be, at the end of the Interest Period applicable thereto.
(f) Interest on each Syndicated Loan accrued to but not including each Interest Payment Date applicable thereto shall be payable in arrears on each such Interest Payment Date;provided,however, that interest accruing on the principal of or (to the extent permitted by applicable law) interest or any other amount payable in connection with any such Syndicated Loan not paid when due (whether at stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise), shall be payable from time to time upon demand of the applicable Administrative Agent acting on the affected Lenders’ behalf.
(g) Interest on each Local Loan accrued to but not including each Interest Payment Date applicable thereto shall be payable in arrears to the relevant Local Fronting Lender on each such Interest Payment Date;provided,however, that interest accruing on the principal of, or (to the extent permitted by applicable law) interest or any other amount payable in connection with, any Local Loan not paid when due (whether at stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise), shall be payable from time to time upon demand of the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent acting on the affected Local Fronting Lender’s behalf. Interest on each Local Loan shall be payable to the relevant Local Fronting Lender in the Denomination Currency applicable to it (or, with respect to Local Loans which are denominated in Dollars, in Dollars). On each Interest Payment Date (including, without limitation, each Interest Payment Date with respect to Acceptances), the Local Fronting Lender shall deliver to the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent, the Company and the relevant Local Borrowing Subsidiary an Interest Allocation Statement, substantially in the form ofExhibit P-2, and the Company and the relevant Local Borrowing Subsidiary shall (in the absence of manifest error) pay the amount specified therein on such Interest Payment Date.
(h) As promptly as is practicable following each date upon which a Local Fronting Lender receives a payment of interest under this Agreement on account of Local Loans and/or Acceptances, such Local Fronting Lender shall convert into Dollars (at the exchange rate then applicable to it) the amount equal to (i) the portion of such payment which constitutes the Applicable Margin thereon (or, with respect to each Multi-Currency Lender which funded the purchase of a participating interest in such Local Loan or Acceptance pursuant toSection 6.4(a), as the case may be, such Multi-Currency Lender’s Multi-Currency Commitment Percentage of the full amount of such interest payment)minus (ii) 1/4 of 1% per annum on the aggregate undiscounted face amount of the extensions of credit on account of which such interest payment was made (which unconverted amount shall be retained by such Local Fronting Lender for its own account). In consideration of the agreement of the Multi-Currency Lenders to purchase participating interests in the Local Loans and Acceptances, each Local Fronting Lender hereby agrees to pay to the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent, for the ratable account of each Multi-Currency Lender, a risk participation fee in the amount equal to the proceeds received by such Local Fronting Lender from such conversion (other than any such proceeds payable for the account of a Non-Funding Lender, which proceeds shall be retained by such Local Fronting Lender for its own account) or, if no such conversion is required, the amount which would have been converted if such interest had been paid in a Denomination Currency;provided,however, that, in the event that the Multi-Currency Lenders have funded the purchase of participating interests in the extensions of credit on account of which such interest payment was made pursuant toSection 6.4(a), such Local Fronting Lender shall instead pay to the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent, for the account of each Multi-Currency Lender which has so funded such purchase, the amount equal to such Multi-Currency Lender’s Multi-Currency Commitment Percentage of the proceeds received by such Local Fronting Lender from such conversion. Such amount shall be payable to the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent in Dollars on the date upon which such Local Fronting Lender receives the proceeds of such conversion. For purposes of thisSection 7.5(h), interest shall be deemed to have been received by the Local Fronting Lender on account of an Acceptance on the last day of the calendar month in which such Acceptance matures.
(i) On each date upon which any Local Borrower pays interest to a Local Fronting Lender hereunder on account of any Local Loan and on each date upon which any Acceptance is created by a Local Lender for the account of a Local Borrower hereunder, such Local Borrower shall pay to such Local Fronting Lender (for its own account) a local administrative fee in the amount equal to 1/4 of 1% per annum on the aggregate principal amount of the Local Loans with respect to which such interest is being paid or on the aggregate undiscounted face amount of such Acceptance, as the case may be.
Section 7.6 Letter of Credit Fees, Commissions and Other Charges. (a) The Company shall pay to the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent, for the account of the relevant Issuing Lender and the applicable L/C Participants with respect to each Letter of Credit, a letter of credit commission with respect to such Letter of Credit in an amount per annum equal to (i) the Applicable Margin applicable to Revolving Credit Loans that are Eurodollar Loans on the date of payment of such letter of credit commission (of which 1/4 of 1% per annum shall be for the account of the relevant Issuing Lender and the remainder of such fee shall be for the accounts of the relevant L/C Participants and such Issuing Lender to be shared ratably among them in accordance with their respective Multi-Currency Commitment Percentages) multiplied by (ii) the undrawn face amount of such Letter of Credit;provided,however, that in no event shall such letter of credit commission in respect of any Commercial Letter of Credit be less than the amount which would be paid in respect of such Commercial Letter of Credit if it had a tenor of 120 days.
(b) Letter of credit commissions which are payable pursuant toclause (a)above shall be non-refundable and shall be payable to the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent in arrears on account of the period from the issuance date with respect to such Letter of Credit through the day immediately preceding the next L/C Fee Payment Date (or, if earlier, the expiry date for such Letter of Credit) and on each succeeding L/C Fee Payment Date on account of the period from such L/C Fee Payment Date through the day immediately preceding the next L/C Fee Payment Date (or, if earlier, the expiry date for such Letter of Credit).
(c) In addition to the foregoing fees and commissions, the Company shall pay or reimburse the relevant Issuing Lender directly (and not through the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent) in respect of each Letter of Credit for such normal and customary costs and expenses as are incurred or charged by such Issuing Lender in issuing, effecting payment under, amending or otherwise administering any Letter of Credit issued by it.
(d) The Multi-Currency Administrative Agent shall pay to each applicable L/C Participant and the relevant Issuing Lender all fees and commissions (including, without limitation, any fees and commissions paid to the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent for the account of each such L/C Participant and such Issuing Lender on the issuance date of any Letter of Credit) received from time to time by the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent for their respective accounts pursuant to thisSection 7.6 within one Business Day following each L/C Fee Payment Date.
Section 7.7 Conversion Options, Minimum Tranches and Maximum Interest Periods. (a) The Borrowers may elect from time to time to convert outstanding Syndicated Loans from Eurodollar Loans to Alternate Base Rate Loans by giving the applicable Administrative Agent at least one Business Day’s prior irrevocable notice of such election. The Borrowers may elect from time to time and at any time to convert outstanding Syndicated Loans from Alternate Base Rate Loans to Eurodollar Loans by giving the applicable Administrative Agent at least three Working Days’ irrevocable notice of such election;provided,however, that no Syndicated Loan may be converted into a Eurodollar Loan when any Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and the applicable Administrative Agent or the Required Term Loan Lenders or Required Multi-Currency Lenders, as applicable, so elect by notice to the Company. Upon receipt of such notice, the applicable Administrative Agent shall promptly notify each affected Syndicated Lender thereof. On the date on which such conversion is being made, each such affected Syndicated Lender shall take such action as is necessary to effect such conversion. All or any part of the outstanding Syndicated Loans may be converted as provided herein. Each such notice by the Borrowers shall be in substantially the form ofExhibit I (a “Notice of Conversion or Continuation”),
(b) Any Syndicated Loans which are Eurodollar Loans may be continued as such upon the expiration of an Interest Period with respect thereto by giving the applicable Administrative Agent at least three Working Days’ irrevocable notice for continuation thereof;provided,however, that no such Eurodollar Loan may be continued as such when any Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and the applicable Administrative Agent or the Required Term Loan Lenders or Required Multi-Currency Lenders, as applicable, so elect by notice to the Company, and, instead, such Eurodollar Loans shall be automatically converted to an Alternate Base Rate Loan on the last day of the Interest Period for such Eurodollar Loans. The applicable Administrative Agent shall notify each affected Syndicated Lender promptly that such automatic conversion shall occur. Each such notice by the Borrowers shall be in substantially the form of the Notice of Conversion or Continuation.
(c) Each Borrower may elect from time to time to convert outstanding Local Loans from Eurodollar Loans to Alternate Base Rate Loans (in the case of Local Loans which are in Dollars) by giving (or causing the Company to give) the relevant Local Fronting Lender (with a copy to the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent) at least two Business Days’ prior irrevocable notice of such election. Each Local Borrower may elect from time to time to convert outstanding Local Loans from Eurocurrency Loans to Local Rate Loans (in the case of Local Loans which are in a Denomination Currency) by giving (or causing the Company to give) the relevant Local Fronting Lender at least two Business Days’ prior irrevocable notice of such election. Each Borrower may elect from time to time and at any time to convert outstanding Local Loans from Alternate Base Rate Loans to Eurodollar Loans (in the case of Local Loans which are in Dollars) by giving (or causing the Company to give) the relevant Local Fronting Lender (with a copy to the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent) at least three Working Days’ irrevocable notice of such election;provided,however, that no Alternate Base Rate Loans may be converted to Eurodollar Loans when any Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent or the Required Multi-Currency Lenders so elect by notice to the Company. Each Local Borrower may elect from time to time and at any time to convert outstanding Local Rate Loans to Eurocurrency Loans (in the case of Local Loans which are in a Denomination Currency) by giving (or causing the Company to give) the relevant Local Fronting Lender (with a copy to the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent) at least three Working Days’ irrevocable notice of such election;provided,further, that no Local Rate Loans may be converted to Eurocurrency Loans when any Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent or the Required Multi-Currency Lenders so elect by notice to the Company. On the date on which such conversion is being made, the relevant Local Fronting Lender shall take such action as is necessary to effect such conversion. All or any part of the outstanding Local Loans may be converted as provided herein.
(d) Any Local Loans which are Eurodollar Loans or Eurocurrency Loans or (to the extent applicable) Local Rate Loans may be continued as such upon the expiration of an Interest Period with respect thereto by giving the relevant Local Fronting Lender (with a copy to the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent) at least three Working Days’ irrevocable notice for continuation thereof;provided,however, that no such Eurodollar Loan or Eurocurrency Loan may be continued as such when any Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent or the Required Multi-Currency Lenders so elect by notice to the Company and, instead, such Eurodollar Loans shall be automatically converted to Alternate Base Rate Loans and such Eurocurrency Loans shall be automatically converted to Local Rate Loans on the last day of the Interest Period for such Eurodollar Loans or Eurocurrency Loans. The Multi-Currency Administrative Agent shall notify the relevant Local Fronting Lenders promptly that such automatic conversion shall occur.
(e) In the event that a timely notice of conversion or continuation with regard to Syndicated Loans which are Eurodollar Loans is not given in accordance with this Section 7.7, then, unless the applicable Administrative Agent shall have received timely notice from the Company in accordance withSection 7.2 that such Eurodollar Loans are to be prepaid on the last day of such Interest Period, the Company shall be deemed irrevocably to have requested that such Eurodollar Loans be converted into Alternate Base Rate Loans on the last day of such Interest Period.
(f) In the event that a timely notice of conversion or continuation with regard to Local Loans which are Eurodollar Loans or Eurocurrency Loans is not given in accordance with thisSection 7.7, then, unless the relevant Local Fronting Lender shall have received timely notice from the relevant Borrower in accordance withSection 7.2 that such
Eurodollar Loans or Eurocurrency Loans, as the case may be, are to be prepaid on the last day of such Interest Period, such Borrower shall be deemed irrevocably to have requested that such Eurodollar Loans be converted into Alternate Base Rate Loans or such Eurocurrency Loans be converted into Local Rate Loans, as the case may be, on the last day of such Interest Period. In the event that a timely notice of continuation with regard to Local Rate Loans which are subject to an Interest Period is not given in accordance with thisSection 7.7, then, unless the relevant Local Fronting Lender shall have received timely notice from the relevant Borrower in accordance withSection 7.2 that such Local Rate Loans are to be converted into Eurocurrency Loans or prepaid on the last day of such Interest Period, such Borrower shall be deemed irrevocably to have requested that such Local Rate Loans be continued as such on the last day of such Interest Period for a new Interest Period which is the shortest such Interest Period available to such Borrower from the relevant Local Fronting Lender.
(g) Any borrowing or continuation of Eurodollar Loans or Eurocurrency Loans, or conversion to or from Eurodollar Loans or Eurocurrency Loans, or payments or prepayments of Eurodollar Loans or Eurocurrency Loans, shall be in such amounts and be made pursuant to such elections so that, after giving effect thereto, (i) the aggregate principal amount of each Tranche of Syndicated Loans which are Eurodollar Loans or Eurocurrency Loans shall be $5,000,000 or a whole multiple (to the extent possible) of $1,000,000 in excess thereof, (ii) the aggregate principal amount of each Tranche of Local Loans which are Eurodollar Loans, Alternate Base Rate Loans, Eurocurrency Loans and Local Rate Loans in each Denomination Currency shall be in such amount as may be mutually agreed upon by the relevant Local Fronting Lender and the relevant Borrower, (iii) the aggregate principal amount of all Syndicated Loans which are Alternate Base Rate Loans (other than Swing Line Loans) shall be $2,500,000 or a whole multiple (to the extent possible) of $500,000 in excess thereof and (iv) there shall not be more than (A) 15 Tranches of Syndicated Loans which are Eurodollar Loans at any one time outstanding and (B) two Tranches (or such other number of Tranches as may be mutually agreed upon by the relevant Local Fronting Lender and the relevant Borrowers) of Local Loans which are Eurodollar Loans, Eurocurrency Loans and (to the extent that an Interest Period is applicable thereto) Local Rate Loans in each Denomination Currency at any one time outstanding.
Section 7.8 Inability to Determine Interest Rate. (a) In the event that the Designated Multi-Currency Administrative Agent or the relevant Local Fronting Lender shall have determined (which determination, in the absence of manifest error, shall be conclusive and binding upon each Borrower) that by reason of circumstances affecting the relevant interbank eurocurrency market, adequate and reasonable means do not exist for ascertaining the Eurodollar Rate or any relevant Eurocurrency Rate for any Interest Period with respect to (i) any proposed Loan that the relevant Borrower has requested be made as Eurodollar Loans or Eurocurrency Loans, (ii) a Eurodollar Loan that will result from the requested conversion of all or part of the Alternate Base Rate Loans into Eurodollar Loans, (iii) a Eurocurrency Loan that will result from the requested conversion of all or part of the Local Rate Loans in any Denomination Currency into Eurocurrency Loans, (iv) the continuation of a Eurodollar Loan or a Eurocurrency Loan as such for an additional Interest Period (any such Loan described inclauses (i), (ii), (iii),or (iv) of thisSection 7.8(a) being herein called an “Affected Loan”), the Designated Multi-Currency Administrative Agent or the relevant Local Fronting Lender (as the case may be) shall forthwith give telecopy or telephonic notice of such determination, confirmed in writing, to the relevant Borrower (with a copy to the Company, the Designated Multi-Currency Administrative Agent and any affected Lenders) at least two Business Days prior to, as the case may be, the borrowing date for such Eurodollar Loan or Eurocurrency Loan, the conversion date for such Alternate Base Rate Loan or Local Rate Loan or the last day of the Interest Period applicable to such Eurodollar Loan or Eurocurrency Loan. Unless the relevant Borrower shall have notified the Designated
Multi-Currency Administrative Agent (in the case of any Syndicated Loan), the relevant Local Fronting Lender (in the case of any Local Loan) or the Designated Multi-Currency Administrative Agent promptly upon receipt of such telecopy or telephonic notice that it wishes to rescind or modify its request regarding such Affected Loans, then, as the case may be, (x) any requested Eurodollar Loan shall be made as an Alternate Base Rate Loan, continued as an Alternate Base Rate Loan or converted into an Alternate Base Rate Loan or (y) any requested Local Loan which is a Eurocurrency Loan shall be made as a Local Rate Loan, continued as a Local Rate Loan or converted into a Local Rate Loan. Until any such notice has been withdrawn by the Designated Multi-Currency Administrative Agent or the relevant Local Fronting Lender, as the case may be, no further Affected Loans shall be made.
(b) In the event that the Lenders holding the majority of the relevant Commitment determine that the Eurocurrency Rate determined or to be determined for such Interest Period will not accurately reflect the cost to them of making or maintaining any Syndicated Loans that a Borrower has requested that they make or maintain as, or convert to, Eurodollar Loans or Eurocurrency Loans, as the case may be, the applicable Administrative Agent shall forthwith give telecopy or telephonic notice of such determination to such Borrower (with a copy to the Company, to the extent that the Company is not such Borrower) on or before the requested borrowing, conversion or continuation date for such Syndicated Loans or the next succeeding Interest Period with respect thereto. Unless the relevant Borrower shall have notified the applicable Administrative Agent promptly after receipt of such telecopy or telephonic notice that it wishes to rescind or modify its borrowing request, then any such Eurodollar Loans shall be made as or converted to Alternate Base Rate Loans.
Section 7.9 Illegality. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision herein, if any change in law, rule, regulation, treaty or directive or in the interpretation or application thereof, shall make it unlawful for any Lender (other than a Local Fronting Lender) to make or maintain Eurodollar Loans or Eurocurrency Loans as contemplated by this Agreement or to accept deposits in order to make or maintain such Eurodollar Loans or Eurocurrency Loans, as the case may be, (i) such Lender shall promptly notify the applicable Administrative Agent and the Company thereof, (ii) the agreements of such Lender hereunder to make, continue or convert to Eurodollar Loans or Eurocurrency Loans, as the case may be, shall be suspended forthwith and (iii) such Lender’s Syndicated Loans then outstanding as Eurodollar Loans or Eurocurrency Loans, if any, shall in the case of Eurodollar Loans or Eurocurrency Loans, automatically become Alternate Base Rate Loans for the duration of the respective Interest Periods applicable thereto (or, if permitted by applicable law, at the end of such Interest Periods).
(b) Notwithstanding any other provision herein, if any change in law, rule, regulation, treaty or directive or in the interpretation or application thereof, shall make it unlawful for any Local Fronting Lender to make or maintain Local Loans as Eurodollar Loans in Dollars or Eurocurrency Loans in the Denomination Currency applicable to it as contemplated by this Agreement or to accept deposits in order to make or maintain such Eurocurrency Loans, (i) such Local Fronting Lender shall promptly notify the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent, the Company and the relevant Local Borrowing Subsidiary thereof, (ii) the agreements of such Local Fronting Lender hereunder to make or convert to Eurodollar Loans or Eurocurrency Loans, as the case may be, shall be suspended forthwith, (iii) such Local Fronting Lender’s Local Loans then outstanding as (A) Eurocurrency Loans, if any, shall automatically become Local Rate Loans for the duration of the respective Interest Periods applicable thereto (or, if permitted by applicable law, at the end of such Interest Periods) or (B) Eurodollar Loans, if any, shall automatically become Alternate Base Rate Loans for the duration of the respective Interest Periods applicable thereto (or, if permitted by applicable law, at the end of such Interest Periods).
(c) Notwithstanding any other provision herein, if any change in law, rule, regulation, treaty or directive or in the interpretation or application thereof, shall make it unlawful for any Multi-Currency Lender to purchase a participating interest in any Local Loan or Acceptance, such Multi-Currency Lender shall use reasonable efforts (including reasonable efforts to change the office in which it is booking such participating interest) to avoid such prohibition;provided,however, that such efforts shall not cause the imposition on such Multi-Currency Lender of any additional costs or legal or regulatory burdens deemed by such Multi-Currency Lender to be material or otherwise be deemed by such Multi-Currency Lender to be disadvantageous to it or contrary to its policies. In the event that such efforts are not sufficient to avoid such prohibition, (i) such Multi-Currency Lender shall be deemed to be a Non-Funding Lender with respect to such participating interest and the Local Loan or Acceptance, as the case may be, to which it relates (except that such Multi-Currency Lender shall not forfeit its voting rights under this Agreement solely as a result of becoming a Non-Funding Lender pursuant to the provisions of thisclause (c)), (ii) such Multi-Currency Lender shall promptly notify the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent, the relevant Local Fronting Lender, the Company and the relevant Local Borrowing Subsidiary thereof and (iii) the agreements of such Local Fronting Lender to make further Local Loans (or, to the extent applicable, to make further Local Loans upon such interest rate basis) and Acceptances hereunder shall be suspended forthwith.
(d) The Company agrees promptly to pay to any Syndicated Lender, and each Borrower agrees promptly to pay to any Local Fronting Lender, any additional amounts necessary to compensate such Lender for any costs incurred by it as a consequence of such Borrower making any repayment in accordance with thisSection 7.9, including, without limitation, any interest or fees payable by such Lender to lenders of funds obtained by it in order to make or maintain its Eurodollar Loans or Eurocurrency Loans, as the case may be. A certificate as to any such costs payable pursuant to thisSection 7.9 submitted by an officer of any Lender, through the applicable Administrative Agent, to the Company (on its own behalf or as agent of the Borrowers) shall be conclusive, in the absence of manifest error.
Section 7.10 Requirements of Law; Changes of Law. (a) In the event that the adoption of or any change in law, rule, regulation, treaty or directive or in the interpretation or application thereof, or compliance by any Lender with any request or directive (whether or not having the force of law) issued after the date hereof from any central bank or other Governmental Authority:
(i) imposes upon such Lender any tax of any kind whatsoever with respect to this Agreement, its Notes, any Letter of Credit, any Application or any Loan, or changes the basis of taxation of payments to such Lender of principal, commitment fee, interest or any other amount payable hereunder (except for (w) income and franchise taxes imposed on such Lender by the jurisdiction under the laws of which such Lender is organized or any political subdivision or taxing authority thereof or therein, or by the jurisdiction of the principal office of such Lender or any political subdivision or taxing authority thereof or therein or the office of such Lender from which it is making its Loans or any political subdivision or taxing authority thereof or therein, (x) any branch profits taxes imposed by the United States of America or any similar tax imposed by any other jurisdiction described inclause (w) above, (y) taxes resulting from the substitution of any such system by another system of taxation,provided,however, that the taxes payable by such Lender subject to such other system of taxation are not generally charged to borrowers from such Lender having loans or advances bearing interest at a rate similar to the Eurodollar Rate, the Eurocurrency Rate or the Local Rate and (z) Non-Excluded
Taxes, Other Taxes, and taxes imposed by way of deduction or withholding, which shall be exclusively governed bySection 7.12);
(ii) imposes, modifies or holds applicable any reserve, special deposit, compulsory loan or similar requirement against any Loan made, or assets held by, or credit extended by, or deposits or other liabilities in or for the account of, or acquisition of funds by or for the account of, any office of such Lender, which is not otherwise included in the determination of the Eurodollar Rate, the Eurocurrency Rate or the Local Rate, as the case may be, hereunder; or
(iii) imposes on such Lender any other condition;
and the result of any of the foregoing is to increase the cost to such Lender of making, renewing, maintaining or participating in advances or extensions of credit (including, without limitation, Acceptances) or issuing or participating in Letters of Credit or to reduce any amount receivable by it in respect of its Eurodollar Loans, Eurocurrency Loans or Local Rate Loans, then, in any such case, the relevant Borrower shall promptly pay such Lender any additional amounts necessary to compensate such Lender for such additional cost or reduced amount receivable as reasonably determined by it with respect to this Agreement (including, without limitation, its participating interests in Letters of Credit, Acceptances and Local Loans), its Notes or its Loans after taking into account any amounts paid or payable pursuant toSection 7.12(a). If a Lender becomes entitled to claim any additional amounts pursuant to thisSection 7.10(a), it shall promptly notify the relevant Borrower, through the applicable Administrative Agent, of the event by reason of which it has become so entitled. A certificate as to any additional amounts payable pursuant to the foregoing sentence submitted by an officer of a Lender, through the applicable Administrative Agent, to the relevant Borrower shall be conclusive, in the absence of manifest error.
(b) In the event that any Lender shall have determined that the adoption of any law, rule, regulation or guideline adopted pursuant to or arising out of the International Convergence of Capital Measurement and Capital Standards or of any Requirement of Law otherwise regarding capital adequacy, or any change therein or in the interpretation or application thereof or compliance by any Lender with any request or directive regarding capital adequacy (whether or not having the force of law) from any central bank or Governmental Authority, does or shall have the effect of reducing the rate of return on such Lender’s capital as a consequence of its obligations hereunder or under any Acceptance or Letter of Credit to a level below that which such Lender could have achieved but for such adoption, change or compliance (taking into consideration such Lender’s policies with respect to capital adequacy) by an amount which is reasonably deemed by such Lender to be material, then from time to time, promptly after submission by such Lender, through the applicable Administrative Agent, to the relevant Borrower of a written request therefor, such Borrower shall promptly pay to such Lender such additional amount or amounts as will compensate such Lender for such reduction.
(c) The agreements in thisSection 7.10shall survive the termination of this Agreement and payment of the Loans, the Notes, the Drafts, the L/C Reimbursement Obligations and all other amounts payable hereunder.
Section 7.11 Indemnity. Each Borrower agrees to promptly pay and indemnify each Lender for, and to hold such Lender harmless from, any loss or expense which such Lender may sustain or incur in its reemployment of funds obtained in connection with the making or maintaining of, or converting to, Eurodollar Loans, Eurocurrency Loans or Local Rate
Loans (including, without limitation, its participating interests therein) as a consequence of (a) any default by such Borrower in borrowing such Eurodollar Loans, Eurocurrency Loans or Local Rate Loans after such Borrower has given a notice in respect thereof or (b) any default by such Borrower in converting (i) Alternate Base Rate Loans to Eurodollar Loans or Eurocurrency Loans, (ii) Eurocurrency Loans to Local Rate Loans or (iii) Local Rate Loans to Eurodollar Loans or Eurocurrency Loans, after such Borrower has given a notice in respect thereof or (c) any failure by such Borrower to prepay Eurodollar Loans, Eurocurrency Loans or Local Rate Loans, as the case may be, after such Borrower has given notice in respect thereof or (d) any payment, prepayment (whether optional or mandatory) or conversion (whether optional or mandatory) of any Eurodollar Loan or Eurocurrency Loan (or, to the extent applicable, Local Rate Loan) by such Borrower on a day which is not the last day of an Interest Period with respect thereto. A certificate as to any additional amounts payable pursuant to this Section 7.11 submitted by an officer of a Lender, through the applicable Administrative Agent, to the relevant Borrower shall be conclusive, absent manifest error. The agreements in thisSection 7.11shall survive termination of this Agreement and payment of the Loans, the Notes, the Drafts, the L/C Reimbursement Obligations and all other amounts payable hereunder.
Section 7.12 Taxes. (a) All payments made by each Borrower under this Agreement shall be made free and clear of, and without reduction for or on account of, any present or future income, stamp or other taxes, levies, imposts, duties, charges, fees, deductions or withholdings, now or hereafter imposed, levied, collected, withheld or assessed by any Governmental Authority, excluding, in the case of the Administrative Agents, the Collateral Agent and each Lender, (i) income and franchise taxes imposed on the Administrative Agents, the Collateral Agent or such Lender by the jurisdiction under the laws of which it is organized or any political subdivision or taxing authority thereof or therein, or by the jurisdiction of the principal office of the Administrative Agents, the Collateral Agent or such Lender or the office of such Lender from which it is making its Loans or any political subdivision or taxing authority thereof or therein, but not excluding any such tax imposed on or with respect to a Multi-Currency Lender that is required to be withheld by a Local Fronting Lender or Borrower with respect to any payments due to a Multi-Currency Lender from such Local Fronting Lender or Borrower pursuant to this Agreement and (ii) any branch profits taxes imposed by the United States of America or any similar tax imposed by any other jurisdiction described inclause (i) above (all such non-excluded Taxes being called “Non-Excluded Taxes”). If any Non-Excluded Taxes are required to be withheld from any amounts payable to the Administrative Agents, the Collateral Agent, or any Lender hereunder, under the Notes or in respect of any Loan, Draft or Letter of Credit, the amounts so payable to it shall (without any obligation on the part of any Borrower to pay such amounts ratably in accordance with the provisions of Section 7.5) be increased to the extent necessary to yield to the Administrative Agents, the Collateral Agent or such Lender (after payment of all Non-Excluded Taxes) interest or any such other amounts payable hereunder at the rates or in the amounts specified in this Agreement and the Notes. Whenever any Non-Excluded Taxes or Other Taxes are payable by a Borrower, as promptly as possible thereafter, such Borrower shall send to the Administrative Agents, for its own account or for the account of the Collateral Agent, or such Lender, as the case may be, a certified copy of an original official receipt showing payment thereof. If any Borrower fails to pay any Non-Excluded Taxes or Other Taxes when due to the appropriate taxing authority or fails to remit to the Administrative Agents the required receipts or other required documentary evidence, such Borrower shall indemnify the Administrative Agents, the Collateral Agent and the Lenders for any incremental taxes, interest or penalties that may become payable by the Administrative Agents, the Collateral Agent or any Lender as a result of any such failure. For purposes of thisSection 7.12 all payments made by a Local Fronting Lender pursuant to this Agreement shall be treated as if such payments were made by the relevant Borrower.
(b) In addition, each Borrower shall pay, or cause to be paid, any Other Taxes to the relevant Governmental Authority in accordance with applicable law.
(c) Except as the Company shall otherwise consent, each Lender hereby severally (but not jointly) represents that, under applicable law and treaties in effect on the date of this Agreement (or, in the case of a Transferee, the date such Person became a Transferee), no United States federal taxes will be required to be withheld by the Administrative Agents or the Company with respect to any payments to be made to such Lender in respect of this Agreement. Each Lender or Transferee which itself is not a U.S. person as defined in Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code for federal income tax purposes or which is lending from an office that is not incorporated under the laws of the United States of America or a state thereof agrees severally (but not jointly) that it will:
(i) (1) prior to the Closing Date (or, in the case of a Transferee, prior to the date it becomes a Transferee), deliver to the Company and the applicable Administrative Agent two duly completed copies of United States Internal Revenue Service Form W-8BEN or W-8ECI, or successor applicable form, as the case may be, certifying in each case that such Lender or Transferee is entitled to receive all payments under this Agreement, the Notes and the Drafts payable to it, without deduction or withholding of any United States federal income taxes;
(2) deliver to the Company and the applicable Administrative Agent two further copies of the such Form W-8BEN or W-8ECI, or successor applicable form, or other manner of certification, as the case may be, on or before the date that any such form expires or becomes obsolete or after the occurrence of any event requiring a change in the most recent form previously delivered by it to the Company; and
(3) use its reasonable efforts to obtain such extensions or renewals thereof as may reasonably be requested by the Company, certifying that such Lender or Transferee is entitled to receive payments under this Agreement without deduction or withholding of any United States federal income Non-Excluded Taxes; or
(ii) in the case of any such Lender or Transferee that is not a “bank” within the meaning of Section 881(c)(3)(A) of the Code, (i) represent to the Company (for the benefit of the Company and the applicable Administrative Agent) that it is not a bank within the meaning of Section 881(c)(3)(A) of the Code, a “10-percent shareholder” within the meaning of Section 881(c)(3)(B) of the Code or a controlled foreign corporation receiving interest from a related person for purposes of Section 881(c)(3)(C) of the Code, (ii) agree to furnish to the Company on or before the date of any payment by the Company, with a copy to the applicable Administrative Agent, (A) a certificate substantially in the form ofExhibit Q hereto (any such certificate a “U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate”) and (B) two accurate and complete original signed copies of United States Internal Revenue Service Form W-8BEN, or successor applicable form certifying to such Lender’s or Transferee’s legal entitlement at the date of such certificate to an exemption from U.S. withholding tax under the provisions of Section 881(c) of the Code with respect to payments to be made under this Agreement (and to deliver to the Company and the applicable Administrative Agent two further copies of such form on or before the date it expires or becomes obsolete and after the occurrence of any event requiring a change in the most recently provided form and, if necessary, obtain any extensions of time reasonably requested by the Company or the applicable Administrative Agent for filing and completing such forms), and (iii) agree, to the extent legally entitled to do so, upon
reasonable request by the Company, to provide to the Company (for the benefit of the Company and the applicable Administrative Agent) such other forms as may be reasonably required to establish the legal entitlement of such Lender or Transferee to an exemption from withholding with respect to payments under this Agreement;
unless in any such case any change in law, rule, regulation, treaty or directive, or in the interpretation or application thereof, has occurred prior to the date on which any such delivery would otherwise be required which renders all such forms inapplicable or which would prevent such Lender or Transferee from duly completing and delivering any such form with respect to it and such Lender or Transferee advises the Company that it is not capable of receiving payments without any deduction or withholding of United States federal income tax. Notwithstanding any provision ofSection 7.12(a) to the contrary, the Company shall have no obligation to pay any amount to or for the account of any such Lender or Transferee on account of any Non-Excluded Taxes pursuant toSection 7.12(a) (including, without limitation, the second sentence thereof) to the extent that such amount results from (i) the failure of any such Lender or Transferee to comply with its obligations pursuant to thisSection 7.12(c) or (ii) any representation or warranty made or deemed to be made by any such Lender or Transferee pursuant to thisSection 7.12(c)proving to have been incorrect, false or misleading in any material respect when so made or deemed to be made.
(d) Each Lender agrees to use reasonable efforts (including reasonable efforts to change the office in which it is booking its Loans) to avoid or to minimize any amounts in respect of taxes which might otherwise be payable pursuant toSection 7.10 or thisSection 7.12;provided,however, that such efforts shall not cause the imposition on such Lender of any additional costs or legal or regulatory burdens deemed by such Lender to be material or otherwise be deemed by such Lender to be disadvantageous to it or contrary to its policies.
(e) In the event that such reasonable efforts pursuant toSection 7.12(c)(i) are insufficient to avoid all withholding taxes which would be payable pursuant to thisSection 7.12, then such Lender (the “Taxable Lender”) shall use its reasonable efforts to transfer, at the cost of the Company, to any other Lender (which is not subject to such withholding taxes) its Dollar Loans and its Commitments hereunder;provided,however, that such transfer shall not be deemed by such Taxable Lender, in its sole discretion, to be disadvantageous to it or contrary to its policies. In the event that the Taxable Lender is unable, or otherwise is unwilling, so to transfer its Dollar Loans and Commitments, the Company may, at its own cost, designate an alternate bank or other financial institution to purchase the Taxable Lender’s Dollar Loans and Commitments and, subject to the approval of the Administrative Agent (which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld), the Taxable Lender shall transfer, at the cost of the Company, its Dollar Loans and Commitments to such alternate bank or other financial institution and such alternate bank or other financial institution shall become a Lender hereunder.
(f) The agreements in thisSection 7.12 shall survive termination of this Agreement and payment of the Loans, the Notes, the Drafts, the L/C Reimbursement Obligations and all other amounts payable hereunder.
(g) If a Lender or an Administrative Agent receives a refund in respect of any Non-Excluded Taxes or Other Taxes with respect to which the Company has paid additional amounts pursuant to thisSection 7.12, it shall within a reasonable time from the date of such receipt pay over the amount of such refund to the Company, net of all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses of such Lender or Administrative Agent and without interest (other than interest paid by the relevant taxation authority with respect to such refund);provided,however, that the Company,
upon the request of such Lender or Administrative Agent, agrees to repay the amount paid or portion thereof over to the Company (plus penalties, interest or other reasonable charges) to such Lender or Administrative Agent in the event such Lender or Administrative Agent is required to repay such refund or portion thereof to such taxation authority.
Section 7.13 Commitment Fee. (a) The Company agrees to pay to the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent, for the account of each Multi-Currency Lender, a commitment fee from and including the Closing Date in the amount equal to the Commitment Fee Rate on the amount equal to the Multi-Currency Commitment Percentage of such Multi-Currency Lender multiplied by the average daily amount by which the Aggregate Multi-Currency Commitment exceeds the Aggregate Actual Outstanding Multi-Currency Extensions of Credit (without taking into account any amount of Swing Line Loans from time to time outstanding) during the period for which such fee is payable.
(b) Each commitment fee owing pursuant toSection 7.13(a)shall be payable, in arrears, (x) for each fiscal quarter of the Company (or portion thereof) following the Closing Date, on the date which is two Business Days following the last day of each such fiscal quarter (commencing on September 30, 2004);provided,however, that if the Company shall not have received from the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent the documentation supporting calculations of such commitment fee prior to such date, then, on the date which is two Business Days after the date of the Company’s receipt from the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent of such supporting documentation and (y) on the last day of the Commitment Period.
Section 7.14 Computation of Interest and Fees. (a) Interest in respect of the Alternate Base Rate Loans bearing interest at a rate based uponclause (a) of the definition of “Alternate Base Rate” shall be calculated on the basis of a 365 or 366-day year, as the case may be, for the actual days elapsed. Interest in respect of the Local Rate Loans and Acceptances shall be calculated on the basis of a 365 or 366-day year, as the case may be, for the actual days elapsed or on such other basis as may be agreed from time to time by the relevant Local Fronting Lender and the relevant Borrowers to reflect customary practices in the relevant jurisdiction. Interest in respect of the Alternate Base Rate Loans bearing interest at a rate based upon the Federal Funds Effective Rate, the Eurodollar Loans, the Eurocurrency Loans, Letter of Credit commissions and commitment fees shall be calculated on the basis of a 360-day year for the actual days elapsed (or, in the case of Eurocurrency Loans, such other basis as may be agreed from time to time by the relevant Local Fronting Lender and the relevant Borrower to reflect customary practices in the relevant jurisdiction). The Designated Multi-Currency Administrative Agent will, as soon as practicable, notify the Company and the Syndicated Lenders of each determination of a Eurodollar Rate with respect to Syndicated Loans and of any change in the Alternate Base Rate with respect to Syndicated Loans and the effective date thereof. Each Local Fronting Lender will, as soon as practicable, notify the relevant Borrower and the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent of each determination of a Eurocurrency Rate for its Denomination Currency, of a Eurodollar Rate for its Local Loans which are Dollar Loans, of any change in the Local Rate for its Denomination Currency, of any change in the Alternate Base Rate for its Local Loans which are Dollar Loans and (in each case) the effective date thereof. Any change in the interest rate on a Syndicated Loan which is an Alternate Base Rate Loan resulting from a change in the Alternate Base Rate shall become effective as of the opening of business on the day on which such change shall become effective. Any change in the interest rate on a Local Loan which is an Alternate Base Rate Loan resulting from a change in the Alternate Base Rate shall become effective as of the opening of business in the jurisdiction of the local lending office of the relevant Local Fronting Lender on the day on which such change shall become effective. Any change in the interest rate on a Local Rate Loan resulting from a change in the Local Rate shall
become effective as of the opening of business on the day on which such change in the Local Rate shall become effective.
(b) Except as set forth inSection 7.8, each determination of an interest rate by the Designated Multi-Currency Administrative Agent or the Local Fronting Lender, as the case may be, pursuant to any provision of this Agreement shall be conclusive and binding on the relevant Borrower and the Lenders, in the absence of manifest error.
Section 7.15 Pro Rata Treatment and Payments. (a) Each borrowing by any Local Borrower of Local Loans and Acceptances shall be made from the Local Fronting Lender with respect to the relevant Denomination Currency.
(b) On any date when and to the extent that, in the reasonable determination of the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent in its sole discretion, the Borrowers would be able, under the terms and conditions hereof, to reborrow the amount of such payment (or otherwise obtain additional extensions of credit) under the Aggregate Multi-Currency Commitment and to satisfy any conditions precedent to such reborrowing (or other extension of credit), no portion of any such payment shall be distributed to any Lender (a “Non-Funding Lender”) which has (x) failed to make a Revolving Credit Loan or Refunded Swing Line Loan or to purchase (or otherwise make any payment on account of) any participating interest held by such Non-Funding Lender in any L/C Reimbursement Obligation, Acceptance or Local Loan or (y) given notice to the Company, any Local Fronting Lender or the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent that it will not make, or that it has disaffirmed or repudiated any obligation to make, any Revolving Credit Loans or Refunded Swing Line Loans, or to purchase (or otherwise make any payment on account of) any participating interest held by such Non-Funding Lender in any L/C Reimbursement Obligation, Acceptance or Local Loan, in any such case by reason of the provisions of the Financial Institution Reform, Recovery and Enforcement Act of 1989 or otherwise (other than as the result of a good faith belief that the conditions precedent to borrowing set forth in Section 9.2 have not been satisfied).
(c) All payments (including prepayments) to be made by the Company on account of principal, interest and fees (other than those relating to Local Loans and Acceptances) shall be made without set-off or counterclaim and shall be made to the applicable Administrative Agent for the account of the relevant Lenders (or, in the case of payments on account of Swing Line Loans, to the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent for the account of the Swing Line Lender) at the office of the applicable Administrative Agent specified inSection 14.2, or at such other location as such Administrative Agent may direct, on or prior to 1:00 P.M., New York City time, in lawful money of the United States of America and in immediately available funds. The applicable Administrative Agent shall distribute such payments in accordance with the provisions ofSection 7.15(g) promptly upon receipt in like funds as received;provided,however, that payments received by the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent on account of interest or fees on the Local Loans and Acceptances may be held by the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent and distributed to the Multi-Currency Lenders not less frequently than weekly.
(d) All payments (including prepayments) to be made by any Local Borrower on account of principal, interest and fees relating to Local Loans and Acceptances shall be made without set-off or counterclaim and shall be made to the Local Fronting Lender to which such amounts are owing at the office of such Local Fronting Lender specified inSchedule III, or at such other location as such Local Fronting Lender may direct, on or prior to 1:00 P.M., local time at the principal lending office of such Local Fronting Lender. Each such payment shall, to the extent that it is owing on account of Local Loans which are Dollar Loans, be paid in Dollars
and, otherwise, shall be paid in the relevant Denomination Currency and in immediately available funds. Each Local Fronting Lender shall give prompt notice to the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent of amounts from time to time received by it hereunder.
(e) If any payment hereunder (other than payments on Eurodollar Loans or Eurocurrency Loans) becomes due and payable on a day other than a Business Day, such payment shall be extended to the next succeeding Business Day and, with respect to payments of principal, interest thereon shall be payable at the then applicable rate during such extension. If any payment hereunder on a Eurodollar Loan or a Eurocurrency Loan becomes due and payable on a day other than a Working Day, the maturity thereof shall be extended to the next succeeding Working Day unless the effect of such extension would be to extend such payment into another calendar month, in which event such payment shall be made on the immediately preceding Working Day.
(f) Unless the applicable Administrative Agent shall have been notified by telephone, confirmed in writing, by any Syndicated Lender prior to a borrowing date that such Lender will not make the amount which would constitute its Commitment Percentage of the borrowing to be made on such date available to such Administrative Agent on such borrowing date, such Administrative Agent may assume that such Syndicated Lender has made such amount available to such Administrative Agent and, in reliance upon such assumption, make available to the relevant Borrower a corresponding amount. If such amount is made available to the applicable Administrative Agent on a date after such borrowing date, such Syndicated Lender shall pay to such Administrative Agent on demand an amount equal to the product of (i) the daily average Federal Funds Effective Rate during such period as determined by such Administrative Agent multiplied by (ii) such amount multiplied by (iii) a fraction of which the numerator is the number of days from and including such borrowing date to the date on which such amount becomes immediately available to such Administrative Agent and of which the denominator is 360. A certificate of the applicable Administrative Agent submitted to any Syndicated Lender with respect to any amounts owing under thisparagraph (f) shall be conclusive, in the absence of manifest error. If such amount is not in fact made available to the applicable Administrative Agent by such Syndicated Lender within three Business Days after such borrowing date, such Administrative Agent shall be entitled to recover such amount, with interest thereon at the rate per annum then applicable to Revolving Credit Loans that are Alternate Base Rate Loans hereunder, within eight Business Days after demand, from the relevant Borrower.
(g) Unless a Notice of Actionable Default has been delivered pursuant to the Intercreditor Agreement, except as otherwise expressly set forth herein, all payments and any other amounts received by any Administrative Agent from or for the benefit of the Borrowers shall be applied as follows:first, to pay principal of, and interest on, any portion of the Loans any Administrative Agent may have advanced pursuant to the express provisions of this Agreement on behalf of any Lender, for which such Administrative Agent has not then been reimbursed by such Lender or the Loan Parties;second, to pay fees and expenses of the Agents then due and payable;third, all other Payment Obligations then due and payable; andfourth, as the Company so designates. All such payments shall be allocated ratably among such of the Agents, Lenders and Issuing Lenders as are entitled thereto;provided,however, that all such payments received (i) in respect of any Swing Line Loans shall be distributed to the Swing Line Lender, (ii) in respect of any Local Loans to the applicable Loan Fronting Lender and (iii) in respect of any L/C Reimbursement Obligations to the applicable Issuing Lender.
(h) The Borrowers hereby irrevocably waive the right to direct the application of any and all payments in respect of the Payment Obligations (including all funds
deposited in the Cash Concentration Account, any other Approved Deposit Account or any Cash Collateral Account) after the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default and agree that, notwithstanding the provisions ofSection 7.3,Section 7.4 orSection 7.15(g), after the delivery of a Notice of Actionable Default and prior to the withdrawal of all Notices of Actionable Default then pending pursuant to the Intercreditor Agreement, (i) all payments made to or received by any Agent, Lender or Issuing Lender constituting proceeds of Collateral shall be applied pursuant to the Intercreditor Agreement and (ii) all other payments made to or received by any Agent, Lender or Issuing Lender shall be applied in the following order:
(i) first, to pay interest on and then principal of any portion of any Loans that any Agent may have advanced on behalf of any Lender or Issuing Lender for which such Agent has not then been reimbursed by such Lender or the Loan Parties;
(ii) second, to pay Payment Obligations in respect of any expense reimbursements or indemnities then due to the Agents;
(iii) third, to pay Payment Obligations in respect of any expense reimbursements or indemnities then due to the Lenders and Issuing Lenders;
(iv) fourth, to pay Payment Obligations in respect of any fees then due to the Agents;
(v) fifth, to pay Payment Obligations in respect of any fees then due to the Lenders and Issuing Lenders;
(vi) sixth, to pay interest then due and payable in respect of all Payment Obligations;
(vii) seventh, to pay or prepay principal payments (and, when applicable, to provide cash collateral) for all Payment Obligations;
(viii) eighth, to pay all other Payment Obligations; and
(ix) ninth, as directed by the Company;
provided,however, that if sufficient funds are not available to fund all payments to be made in respect of any of the Payment Obligations set forth in any ofclauses first througheighthabove, the available funds being applied with respect to any such Payment Obligation (unless otherwise specified in such clause) shall be allocated to the payment of such Payment Obligations ratably, based on the proportion of each Agent’s and each Lender’s interest in the aggregate outstanding Payment Obligations described in such clauses;provided,further, that payments that would otherwise be allocated to the Multi-Currency Lenders shall be allocatedfirst to repay Protective Advances and Swing Line Loans until paid in full,second to repay Local Loans until such Loans are paid in full andthen to repay the Revolving Credit Loans. The order of payment application set forth inclauses (i) through(viii) above may be amended at any time and from time to time by the Required Lenders without any notice to or consent of or approval by any Loan Party or any other Person that is not a party to this Agreement;provided,however, that (i) any such amendment adversely affecting any Agent shall also require the prior written consent of such Agent, (ii) any such amendment not adversely affecting the Multi-Currency Lenders shall not require the consent of the Required Multi-Currency Lenders and (iii) any such amendment not
adversely affecting the Term Loan Lenders shall not require the consent of the Required Term Loan Lenders.
(i) At the option of the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent, principal on the Swing Line Loans, L/C Reimbursement Obligations, interest, fees, expenses and other sums due and payable in respect of the Revolving Credit Loans and Protective Advances may be paid from the proceeds of Swing Line Loans or Revolving Credit Loans. The Company, each Lender and each Issuing Lender hereby authorizes the Swing Line Lender to make such Swing Line Loans pursuant toArticle IV and the Multi-Currency Lenders to make such Revolving Credit Loans pursuant toArticle IIIfrom time to time in the amounts of any and all principal payable with respect to the Swing Line Loans, L/C Reimbursement Obligations, interest, fees, expenses and other sums payable in respect of the Revolving Credit Loans and Protective Advances, and further authorizes the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent to give the Multi-Currency Lenders notice of any borrowing with respect to such Swing Line Loans and Revolving Credit Loans and to distribute the proceeds of such Swing Line Loans and Revolving Credit Loans to pay such amounts. The Borrowers agree that all such Swing Line Loans and Revolving Credit Loans so made shall be deemed to have been requested by it (irrespective of the satisfaction of the conditions inSection 9.2, which conditions the Multi-Currency Lenders hereby irrevocably waive for the purposes of thisclause (i)) and directs that all proceeds thereof shall be used to pay such amounts.
Section 7.16 Interest Act (Canada). For purposes of the Interest Act (Canada), whenever any interest under this Agreement on account of Local Loans or Acceptances which are made in Canada or made to any Local Borrowing Subsidiary which is organized under the laws of Canada or any Province thereof is calculated using a rate based upon a year of 360 days, such rate determined pursuant to such calculation, when expressed as an annual rate, is equivalent to (x) the applicable rate based upon a year of 360 days, (y) multiplied by the actual number of days in the calendar year in which the period for which such interest is payable ends, and (z) divided by 360. The rates of interest specified in this Agreement are nominal rates and all interest payments and computations are to be made without allowance or deduction for deemed reinvestment of interest.
ARTICLE VIII
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
In order to induce the Lenders, the Issuing Lenders, the Administrative Agents and the Collateral Agent to enter into this Agreement and to make the Loans and to issue or participate in Letters of Credit hereunder, the Company hereby represents and warrants to each of them that:
Section 8.1 Corporate Existence. Each Loan Party is duly organized, validly existing and (to the extent applicable under the laws of the jurisdiction of its organization) in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation, has the corporate (or other requisite legal) power to own its assets and to transact the business in which it is presently engaged, and is (to the extent applicable under the laws of the relevant jurisdiction) duly qualified as a foreign corporation and (to the extent applicable under the laws of the relevant jurisdiction) in good standing under the laws of each jurisdiction where its ownership or lease of property or the conduct of its business requires such qualification and where all such failures to so qualify and be in good standing would, in the aggregate, be reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect.
Section 8.2 Corporate Power. (a) Each Loan Party has the corporate power, authority and legal right to execute, deliver and perform this Agreement and the other Loan Documents to which it is a party and, in the case of each of the Borrowers, to borrow hereunder, and it has taken as of the Closing Date all necessary corporate action to authorize the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents to which it is a party and, in the case of each of the Borrowers, to authorize its borrowings on the terms and conditions of this Agreement.
(b) No consent of any other Person (including, without limitation, stockholders or creditors of any Borrower or of any Parent of the Company), and no consent, license, permit, approval or authorization of, exemption by, or registration, filing or declaration with, any Governmental Authority is required in connection with the execution, delivery, performance, validity or enforceability of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents to which any Loan Party is a party by or against such Loan Party, except for (i) filing of the Mortgages referred to inSection 9.1(d), (ii) any filings required under the UCC, (iii) any filings required to be made with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the U.S. Copyright Office, (iv) any filings, notices, consents, licenses, permits, approvals, authorizations, registrations or declarations required under the laws of jurisdictions other than the United States or any political subdivision thereof in connection with the pledge of stock of Foreign Subsidiaries or any assets located in, or created under, the laws of any such jurisdiction or political subdivision and (v) any consents, licenses, permits, approvals or authorizations, exemptions, registrations, filings or declarations that have already been obtained and remain in full force and effect.
(c) This Agreement has been, and the other Loan Documents to which it is a party will be, executed and delivered by a duly authorized officer of each Loan Party. This Agreement constitutes, and the other Loan Documents to which it is a party, when executed and delivered by it and the other parties thereto, will constitute, the legal, valid and binding obligations of each Loan Party, enforceable against it in accordance with their respective terms except as enforceability may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, reorganization or other similar laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and except as enforceability may be limited by general principles of equity.
Section 8.3 No Legal Bar to Loans. The execution, delivery and performance by each Loan Party of each Loan Document to which it is a party will not violate any Contractual Obligation or material Requirement of Law to which such Loan Party is a party, or, to the best knowledge of the Company, any Parent of the Company is a party or by which such Loan Party or, to the best knowledge of the Company, any Parent of the Company or any of their respective material properties or assets may be bound, and will not result in the creation or imposition of any Lien (other than under the Security Documents or as contemplated by the Intercreditor Agreement) on any of their respective material properties or assets pursuant to the provisions of any Contractual Obligation.
Section 8.4 No Material Litigation. No litigation, investigation or administrative proceeding of or before any court, arbitrator or Governmental Authority is presently pending or, to the knowledge of any Loan Party, threatened against it, any of the other Loan Parties, or any of its or their properties or assets, (a) with respect to this Agreement, any other Loan Document or any of the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby, (b) with respect to the validity or enforceability of the obligations of any Borrower or any Loan Party under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents to which it is a party, (c) with respect to the rights of the relevant Issuing Lender, any L/C Participant, or the Agents with respect to any Application or Letter of Credit, (d) with respect to the rights of the relevant Local Fronting Lender or the Multi-
Currency Lenders with respect to any Local Loan or Acceptance or (e) which would be reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect, except (in the case of thisclause (e) only) for any litigation, investigation or administrative proceeding which has been disclosed in any of the Company’s or Revlon’s public filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission including its Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2003 and its reports on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended March 31, 2004 or which arises out of the same facts and circumstances, and alleges substantially the same complaints and damages, as any litigation, investigation or proceeding so disclosed and in which there has been no material adverse change since the date of such disclosure.
Section 8.5 No Default. No Borrower nor any of its Subsidiaries is in default in any material respect in the payment or performance of any material obligations or in the performance of any Contractual Obligation to which it is a party or by which it or any of its material properties or assets may be bound, and no Default hereunder has occurred and is continuing. No Borrower nor any of its Subsidiaries is in default under any material order, award or decree of any court, arbitrator or Governmental Authority binding upon or affecting it or by which any of its material properties or assets is bound or affected, and no such order, award or decree would be reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect.
Section 8.6 Ownership of Properties; Liens. Except as is or would be permitted pursuant toSection 11.3, each Borrower and its Subsidiaries has (a) good and marketable title to all its owned, and valid leasehold interests in all its leased, real property and (b) good title to all its owned, and valid leasehold interests in all its leased, personal properties and assets, in each case subject to no Lien.
Section 8.7 Taxes. (a) Each Borrower and each of its Subsidiaries and, to the best knowledge of the Company, any other member (as such term is defined in Treasury Regulations §1.1502-1(b), or any similar provision of state, local or foreign law) of the consolidated, combined or unitary group (if any) of which the Company is or was a member, has timely filed or caused to be timely filed all material tax returns (including, without limitation, information returns) which are required to be filed, and have paid all material taxes (whether or not shown to be due and payable on such returns) or on any assessments made against them (other than those being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings for which adequate reserves (in accordance with GAAP) have been provided on the books of such Borrower or such Subsidiary, or other member of the consolidated, combined or unitary group, as the case may be), and no tax Liens which violateSection 11.3(a) have been filed. As of the date hereof, the period within which United States federal income taxes may be assessed against any Borrower and each of its Subsidiaries has expired without further extension or waiver for all taxable years ending on or before December 31, 2002.
(b) The Company does not intend to treat the Loans and the Letters of Credit and the related transactions contemplated hereby as being a “reportable transaction” (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.6011-4).
Section 8.8 ERISA. No Reportable Event has occurred during the immediately preceding six-year period with respect to any Plan that resulted or would be reasonably likely to result in any unpaid liability that would be reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect, and each Plan (other than any Multiemployer Plan or any multiemployer health or welfare plan) has complied and has been administered in compliance with applicable provisions of ERISA and the Code except for such non-compliance that would not be reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect. The amount by which (a) the present value of all
accrued benefits under each Single Employer Plan maintained by the Company or any Commonly Controlled Entity (based on then current assumptions used to fund such Plan, except that the liability discount rate shall instead be the reasonable expected long term rate of return on plan assets used in the Company’s annual audited financial statements), as of the last annual valuation date applicable thereto (except with regard to the long term rate of return on plan assets, such rate used in the Company’s annual audited financial statements for the Company’s last fiscal year ending on or before such valuation date), exceeds (b) the value of the assets of each such Plan allocable to such benefits, in the aggregate for all such Plans as to which such present value of accrued benefits exceeds the value of its assets (the “Unfunded Pension Amount”), when aggregated with the Potential Withdrawal Liability (as hereinafter defined), is less than $70,000,000. No Borrower nor any Commonly Controlled Entity has during the immediately preceding six-year period had a complete or partial withdrawal from any Multiemployer Plan that resulted or would be reasonably likely to result in any unpaid withdrawal liability under Section 4201 of ERISA that would be reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect. The “Potential Withdrawal Liability” shall mean the withdrawal liability under Section 4201 of ERISA to which a Borrower or any Commonly Controlled Entity would become subject under ERISA if such Borrower or any Commonly Controlled Entity were to withdraw completely from all Multiemployer Plans as of the most recent valuation date applicable thereto. No Borrower nor any Commonly Controlled Entity has received notice that any Multiemployer Plan is in Reorganization or Insolvent where such Reorganization or Insolvency has resulted, or would be reasonably likely to result in an unpaid liability that would be reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect nor, to the best knowledge of such Borrower, is any such Reorganization or Insolvency reasonably likely to occur.
Section 8.9 Financial Condition. The audited consolidated balance sheets of the Company and its Subsidiaries as at December 31, 2001, December 31, 2002 and December 31, 2003 and the related audited consolidated statements of operations and stockholders’ equity and cash flows for the fiscal years ended on such dates and the notes thereto present fairly the consolidated financial condition of the Company and its Subsidiaries as of such dates, and the consolidated results of their operations and cash flows for the fiscal years then ended. The unaudited consolidated condensed balance sheet of the Company and its Subsidiaries as at March 31, 2004 and the related unaudited consolidated condensed statements of operations and stockholders’ equity and cash flows for the period ended on such date and the notes thereto present fairly the consolidated financial condition of the Company and its Subsidiaries as of such date, and the consolidated results of their operations and cash flows for the period then ended (subject to normal year-end audit adjustments and the absence of footnotes). All such financial statements, have been prepared in accordance with GAAP (subject, in the case of the interim financial statements, to normal year-end audit adjustments and the absence of footnotes) applied consistently throughout the periods presented except as disclosed in such financial statements and the notes thereto. Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has any material Contingent Obligation or any material obligation, liability or commitment, direct or contingent (including, without limitation, any liability for taxes or any material forward or long-term commitment), which is not (A) reflected in the foregoing statements and the notes thereto or (B) permitted to be incurred under this Agreement.
Section 8.10 No Change. Since December 31, 2005, there has been no material adverse change in the business, condition (financial or otherwise), operations, performance, properties or prospects of either of (a) Revlon or (b) the Company and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole (it being understood that nothing set forth in the Form 10-Q’s of the Company for the fiscal quarters ended March 31, 2006, June 30, 2006 and September 30, 2006 filed with the SEC or the Form 8-K’s of the Company filed with or furnished to the SEC prior to
the date hereof during fiscal year 2006 constitutes, either individually or in the aggregate, such a material adverse change).
Section 8.11 Federal Regulations. No Borrower nor any of its Subsidiaries is engaged or will engage, principally or as one of its important activities, in the business of extending credit for the purpose of “purchasing” or “carrying” any “margin stock” within the respective meanings of each of the quoted terms under Regulation U of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. No part of the proceeds of the Loans or other extensions of credit hereunder will be used for any purpose which violates the provisions of Regulation U or X of such Board of Governors. In the event that any part of the proceeds of the extensions of credit hereunder are used to “purchase” or “carry” any such “margin stock,” the Company will (and will cause its Subsidiaries to) provide such documents and information (including, without limitation, duly completed and executed originals of Federal Reserve Form G-3 or U-1) to the Administrative Agents and the Lenders as the Administrative Agents reasonably may request in order to evidence that the representations and warranties contained in thisSection 8.11 remain true and correct in all material respects.
Section 8.12 Investment Company Act; PUHCA. None of Revlon, the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company is (a) an “investment company” or an “affiliated person” of, or “promoter” or “principal underwriter” for, an “investment company”, as each such term is defined and used in the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, or (b) a “holding company” or an “affiliate”, a “holding company” or a “subsidiary company” of a “holding company”, as each such term is defined and used in thePublic Utility Holding Company Act of 2005, 42 U.S.C. §§ 16457et seq., as amended.
Section 8.13 Matters Relating to Subsidiaries. Set forth inSchedule 8.13 is a complete and accurate list showing all Subsidiaries of Revlon and the Company as of the date of this Agreement and, as to each such Subsidiary, the jurisdiction of its organization, the percentage of the outstanding shares of stock owned (directly or indirectly) by the Company and the direct parent thereof.
Section 8.14 Mortgages. Each Mortgage is effective to grant a legal, valid and enforceable mortgage lien on all of the mortgagor’s right, title and interest in the Mortgaged Property thereunder. When each Mortgage is duly recorded in the appropriate county office or offices and the mortgage recording fees and taxes in respect thereof are paid and compliance is otherwise had with the formal requirements of state law applicable to the recording of real estate mortgages generally, such Mortgage shall constitute a fully perfected, first-priority lien on and security interest in such Mortgaged Property, subject only to Customary Permitted Liens, Liens securing the Designated Eligible Obligations as provided for in the Intercreditor Agreement and such Liens, defects and encumbrances as may be approved by the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent and except as enforceability may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or similar laws affecting the enforcement of creditors’ rights generally and by general equitable principles.
Section 8.15 Solvency. (a) The aggregate value of all of the assets of the Company on a consolidated and an unconsolidated basis, at a fair valuation, exceeds the total liabilities of the Company on a consolidated and an unconsolidated basis (including contingent, subordinated, unmatured and unliquidated liabilities). The Company has the ability to pay its debts as they mature and it does not have unreasonably small capital with which to conduct its business. For purposes of thisSection 8.15, the “fair valuation” of such assets shall be determined on the basis of that amount which may be realized within a reasonable time, in any
manner through realization of the value of or dispositions of such assets at the regular market value, conceiving the latter as the amount which could be obtained for the property in question within such period by a capable and diligent business person from an interested buyer who is willing to purchase under ordinary selling conditions.
(b) Each Borrower is in compliance with all material Requirements of Law applicable to it with respect to capitalization and, to the knowledge of the Company or such Local Borrowing Subsidiary, has sufficient capital with which to conduct its business in accordance with past practice. No Borrower is undercapitalized to such an extent that, solely as a result of such undercapitalization, (i) any Lender would be deemed under the laws of the relevant jurisdiction to owe a fiduciary duty to any other creditor of such Borrower or (ii) the Local Loans made or the Acceptances created by the relevant Local Fronting Lender to such Borrower would be subordinated to any obligations of such Borrower owing to any other Person.
Section 8.16 Environmental Matters. (a) Except as set forth inSchedule 8.16hereto, and except to the extent provided inclause (b) below:
(i) the Mortgaged Properties do not contain any Hazardous Materials in concentrations which violate any applicable Environmental Laws governing the use, storage, treatment, transportation, manufacture, refinement, handling, production or disposal of Hazardous Materials;
(ii) the Mortgaged Properties are in compliance with all Environmental Laws, including all applicable federal, state and local standards and requirements regarding the generation, treatment, storage, handling, use or disposal of Hazardous Materials at the Mortgaged Properties and there is no Hazardous Materials contamination which could materially interfere with the continued operation of the Mortgaged Properties or materially impair the fair saleable value thereof;
(iii) none of the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company has received, or is aware of, any existing or contemplated notice of violation or potential liability by any regulatory agency or Person regarding environmental control matters or permit compliance with regard to the Mortgaged Properties;
(iv) Hazardous Materials have not been transferred from the Mortgaged Properties to any other location in violation of any applicable Environmental Laws and the Company has not received notice of any potential liability associated with such transferred materials; and
(v) there are no administrative actions or judicial proceedings by a Governmental Authority or other Person pending or contemplated under any applicable Environmental Laws to which the Company, any Subsidiary of the Company or any mortgagor is or will be named as a party with respect to the Mortgaged Properties.
(b) Each of the representations and warranties set forth inSection 8.16(a) are true and correct with respect to each parcel of real property owned or operated by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, except to the extent that individually or in the aggregate with all items set forth onSchedule 8.16 and the facts and circumstances giving rise to any such failure to be so true and correct would not be reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect.
(c) The Company and any Subsidiary of the Company is in compliance with Environmental Laws and is not aware of any facts, circumstances or conditions relating to the Company, any Subsidiary of the Company or any real property currently or formerly owned, operated or leased by the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company that would result in the Company or any Subsidiary incurring liability under Environmental Laws, except for such noncompliance or liability which individually or in the aggregate would not be reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect.
Section 8.17 Models. (a) The financial models andpro forma financial statements referenced inSection 9.1(j), together with any notes thereto, were prepared in good faith on the basis of the assumptions stated therein, which assumptions were reasonable in light of conditions existing at the time of delivery of such models andpro forma financial statements, and represented, at the time of delivery, the Company’s best estimate of its future financial performance.
(b) After giving effect to the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, the Company and its Subsidiaries will have recorded assets and liabilities substantially similar to the recorded assets and liabilities contemplated for such date by the pro forma balance sheet referenced inSection 9.1(j).
(c) The financial models (if any) relating to the Company and provided to each Lender pursuant toSection 10.1(b), together with any notes thereto, were prepared in good faith on the basis of the assumptions stated therein, which assumptions were reasonable in light of conditions existing at the time of delivery of such models and represented, at the time of delivery, the Company’s best estimate of its future financial performance.
Section 8.18 Disclosure. No information, schedule, exhibit or report or other document furnished by the Company, its Subsidiaries or Affiliates to any Agent or any Lender in connection with the negotiation of this Agreement and the Security Documents or pursuant to the terms of this Agreement and the Security Documents, as such information, schedule, exhibit or report or other document has been amended, supplemented or superseded by any other information, schedule, exhibit or report or other document later delivered to the same parties receiving such information, schedule, exhibit or report or other document, contained any material misstatement of fact or omitted to state a material fact or any fact necessary to make the statements contained therein, in light of the circumstances when made, not materially misleading.
Section 8.19 Senior Indebtedness. The Payment Obligations of the Company constitute “Senior Debt” (or any analogous term) for purposes of the Subordinated Notes and any Indebtedness issued pursuant toSection 11.2(b)(vi)(A), the Net Proceeds of which are used to refinance Indebtedness under the Subordinated Notes Indenture.
Section 8.20 Regulation H. No Mortgaged Property is located in an area that has been identified by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development as an area having special flood hazards and in which flood insurance has been made available under the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968.
Section 8.21 Affiliate Obligations. Other than trade payables, other Indebtedness in the ordinary course of business or any interest payable from time to time in respect of and in accordance with the terms of any such Indebtedness, no Indebtedness is owing to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries from the Affiliates of the Company on the Closing Date, other than amounts permitted pursuant toSection 11.8(f).
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Section 8.22 Indebtedness Owing to Affiliates. No Affiliate of the Company (other than officers and directors of the Company and its Subsidiaries) holds any Indebtedness of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (not including (i) any trade credit in the ordinary course of business, (ii) any Capital Contribution Note, (iii) any Indebtedness in respect of the M&F Loans, (iv) any Indebtedness permitted underSection 11.2(o) or (v) any Indebtedness of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries of a class that is publicly held or issued pursuant to a Rule 144A offering, including Indebtedness issued under an Indenture), except to the extent that such Affiliate has duly executed and delivered to the Administrative Agents an Affiliate Subordination Letter which remains in full force and effect.
ARTICLE IX
CONDITIONS PRECEDENT
Section 9.1 Conditions to Initial Extensions of Credit. The agreement of the relevant Lenders to make the initial extensions of credit (regardless of whether such extensions of credit are to be made in the form of Loans, Acceptances or Letters of Credit) requested to be made by it hereunder and the effectiveness of this Agreement shall be subject to the satisfaction or waiver by such Lender of the following conditions precedent (the date on which such conditions are satisfied or waived (except to the extent set forth inSection 10.16) being herein called the “Closing Date”):
(a) Execution of Agreement. This Agreement shall have become binding upon the parties hereto in accordance withSection 14.12 and the Administrative Agents shall have received a Local Fronting Lender Joinder Agreement, duly executed and delivered by each Local Fronting Lender listed onSchedule III.
(b) Notes. The Administrative Agents shall have received:
(i) for the account of each Term Loan Lender which has so requested, a Term Loan Note conforming to the requirements hereof and executed and delivered by a duly authorized officer of the Company; and
(ii) for the account of each Multi-Currency Lender which has so requested, a Revolving Credit Note conforming to the requirements hereof and executed and delivered by a duly authorized officer of the Company.
(c) Pledge and Security Agreement. The Administrative Agents shall have received the Pledge and Security Agreement, duly executed by the Company and each Guarantor, together with each of the following:
(i) evidence satisfactory to the Administrative Agents that, upon the filing and recording of instruments delivered on the Closing Date, the Collateral Agent (for the benefit of the Secured Parties) shall have a valid and perfected security interest in the Collateral, including such documents duly executed by each Loan Party as the Administrative Agents may request with respect to the perfection of the Collateral Agent’s security interests in the Collateral (including financing statements under the UCC, patent, trademark and copyright security agreements suitable for filing with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office or the U.S. Copyright Office, as the case may be, and other applicable documents under the laws of the United States and the United Kingdom
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and any political subdivision thereof with respect to the perfection of Liens created by the Pledge and Security Agreement);
(ii) all certificates, instruments and other documents representing all Pledged Stock being pledged pursuant to such Pledge and Security Agreement and stock powers for such certificates, instruments and other documents executed in blank;
(iii) all instruments representing Pledged Debt Instruments being pledged pursuant to such Pledge and Security Agreement duly endorsed in favor of the Collateral Agent or in blank; and
(iv) all Deposit Account Control Agreements, duly executed by the corresponding Deposit Account Bank and Loan Party, that, in the reasonable judgment of the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent, shall be required for the Loan Parties to comply withSection 10.19.
(d) Mortgages. The Administrative Agents shall have received (i) Mortgages for the Real Property identified onSchedule 9.1(d) in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, duly executed and delivered by a duly authorized officer of the Company, and (ii) all Mortgage Supporting Documents relating thereto.
(e) Lien Searches. The Administrative Agents shall have received the results of Lien searches as of a recent date, conducted by a search service reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agents, and the Administrative Agents shall be satisfied that no Liens are outstanding on the property or assets of any Loan Party, other than any such Liens (i) which are permitted pursuant to the terms of the Loan Documents or (ii) as to which the Administrative Agents have received documentation reasonably satisfactory to them evidencing the termination or concurrent termination of such Liens.
(f) Corporate Proceedings. The Administrative Agents shall have received (a) certified copies of the Charter and by-laws (or analogous organizational documents) of each Borrower and each Loan Party (together with a certified English translation thereof with respect to any such document which is not in English) and (b) the resolutions (or analogous authorizations), in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agents, of the Board of Directors of each Borrower and each Loan Party (together with a certified English translation thereof with respect to any such document which is not in English), authorizing in each case the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement, the Notes and the other Loan Documents to which such Borrower or such Loan Party is a party, in each case certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of such Borrower or such Loan Party as of the Closing Date and each such certificate shall state that the resolutions thereby certified have not been amended, modified, revoked or rescinded as of the date of such certificate.
(g) Incumbency Certificates. The Administrative Agents shall have received a certificate of the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary (or analogous officer) of each Borrower and each Loan Party dated the Closing Date, as to the incumbency and signature of the officers of such Borrower and such Loan Party executing each of this Agreement, the Notes and each other Loan Document to which such Borrower and such Loan Party is a party, and any certificate or other documents to be delivered by it pursuant thereto, together with evidence of the incumbency of such Secretary or Assistant Secretary as the case may be.
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(h) Certain Legal Opinions. The Administrative Agents shall have received executed legal opinions of:
(i) Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, as counsel to the Company and as special New York counsel to the Borrowing Subsidiaries, substantially in the form ofExhibit L-1;
(ii) the Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer and General Counsel of the Company, substantially in the form ofExhibit L-2;
(iii) Weil, Gotshal & Manages LLP, as counsel to the Administrative Agents, substantially in the form ofExhibit L-3;
(iv) each of the domestic local counsel listed onSchedule 9.1(h)(iv), in form and substance reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agents; and
(v) each of the international local counsel listed onSchedule 9.1(h)(v), in form and substance reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agents.
Each of the foregoing legal opinions shall be accompanied by copies of the legal opinions, if any, upon which such counsel rely, and in each case shall contain such changes thereto as may be approved by, and as shall otherwise be in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to, the Administrative Agents and shall cover such other matters incident to the transactions contemplated by the Loan Documents as the Administrative Agents may reasonably require. Each of the counsel delivering the foregoing legal opinions is expressly instructed to deliver its opinion for the benefit of each of the Administrative Agents, the Collateral Agent, each Lender and each Issuing Lender.
(i) Fees. The Administrative Agents shall have received or shall concurrently receive, for the accounts of the Lenders, each Agent and the Arranger, all accrued fees and expenses owing hereunder or in connection herewith to such Persons (including, without limitation, accrued fees and disbursements of primary counsel, local counsel and special counsel to the Administrative Agents and the Collateral Agent), to the extent that such fees and expenses have been presented for payment a reasonable time prior to the Closing Date.
(j) Financial Models. The Administrative Agents shall have received consolidated financial models (including, without limitation, projections through the Company’s 2010 fiscal year) andpro forma financial statements relating to the Company and its Subsidiaries (which financial models andpro forma consolidated financial statements shall be in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agents), certified by a Responsible Officer of the Company as (i) being the financial models andpro forma financial statements referenced inSection 8.17(a) and (ii) having been delivered to each Lender prior to the date of execution by such Lender of this Agreement.
(k) Financial Statements. The Administrative Agents shall have received copies of the financial statements referenced inSection 8.9.
(l) Compliance with Indentures. The making of the extensions of credit hereunder and the granting of the Liens under the Security Documents shall not violate any provisions of the Indentures, and the Administrative Agents shall have received a certificate of a Responsible Officer of the Company (which certificate shall be in form and substance reasonably
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satisfactory to the Administrative Agents) certifying that the transactions contemplated hereby do not necessitate the sharing (on an equal and ratable basis or otherwise) of collateral security granted pursuant to the Security Documents with any trustee or holder of Indebtedness under the Indentures.
(m) Additional Matters. All corporate and other proceedings, and all documents, instruments and other legal, diligence and financial matters in connection with the transactions contemplated by the Loan Documents shall be reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the Administrative Agents and their counsel.
(n) Intercreditor Agreement. The Administrative Agents shall have received the Intercreditor Agreement, duly executed and delivered by duly authorized officers of each of the parties thereto.
(o) Refinancing, Repurchase and/or Redemption. The Administrative Agents shall have received satisfactory evidence that (i)(A) the Company shall have obtained consents to the extent necessary under the Designated Senior Secured Indenture, if any, to permit the incurrence of the Term Loans and the extensions of credit then made under the Multi-Currency Facility, and (B) all Indebtedness outstanding under the Designated Senior Secured Indenture shall have been repurchased, repaid or redeemed in full or, to the extent that any Designated Senior Secured Notes shall remain outstanding after the Closing Date, an amount of the proceeds of the Term Loans and, if necessary, Revolving Credit Loans made on the Closing Date, sufficient to purchase, redeem or defease such Designated Senior Secured Notes and pay interest and any premium thereon shall, at the Company’s option, be deposited in a defeasance trust with the trustee under the Designated Senior Secured Indenture or placed in a Cash Collateral Account under the direction of the Term Loan Administrative Agent pending their use to repurchase, redeem or defease such Designated Senior Secured Notes, and (ii) all Liens granted, and guarantees made, in connection with the Designated Senior Secured Notes shall have been, or shall concurrently be released or terminated, as the case may be, or arrangements reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agents shall have been made for such release or termination.
(p) Solvency Certificate. The Administrative Agents shall have received a solvency certificate, in the form attached hereto asExhibit R from the Chief Financial Officer of the Company.
(q) USA Patriot Act. Each of the Lenders shall have received, sufficiently in advance of the Closing Date, all documentation and other information required by the applicable Governmental Authorities under applicable “know your customer” and anti-money laundering rules and regulations, including without limitation the USA Patriot Act (Title III of Pub. L. 107-56 (signed into law October 26, 2001)) (the “Act”).
(r) Cash Management. The Multi-Currency Administrative Agent shall have received evidence that, as of the Closing Date, the procedures with respect to cash management required by the Security Documents have been established and are currently being maintained by the Company and each Subsidiary Guarantor, together with copies of all executed lockbox agreements and Deposit Account Control Agreements executed by the Company and such Subsidiary Guarantor in connection therewith.
(s) Refinancing of Existing Credit Agreement. (i) All obligations under the Existing Agreement shall have been repaid in full, (ii) the Existing Agreement and all Loan
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Documents (as defined therein) shall have been terminated on terms satisfactory to the Administrative Agents and (iii) the Administrative Agents shall have received a payoff letter duly executed and delivered by the Company and the Administrative Agent under the Existing Agreement or other evidence of such termination, in each case in form and substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agents.
(t) Debt Rating Condition. The Term Loan Facility shall be rated at least B- by S&P and at least B3 by Moody’s, both of which ratings shall remain in effect on the Closing Date.
(u) Field Examination; Initial Appraisals. The Multi-Currency Administrative Agent shall be satisfied with the results of a field examination of the Company and its Subsidiaries conducted by Citicorp’s internal auditors no more than 10 days prior to the Closing Date and shall have received appraisals (the “Initial Appraisals”) of all Inventory, Accounts, Real Property and Equipment of the Company and the Subsidiary Guarantors, each in form and substance satisfactory to the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent.
(v) Intellectual Property. The Administrative Agents shall have received a certificate of a Responsible Officer of the Company (which certificate shall be in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agents) certifying that the Company has received from Murray, Devine & Co., Inc. an appraisal of its and its Subsidiaries’ Trademarks, Patents and certain other intangible assets valuing such Trademarks, Patents and intangible assets in excess of 167% of the aggregate principal amount of Term Loans made on the Closing Date.
(w) Insurance. The Administrative Agents shall have received evidence reasonably satisfactory to them that the insurance policies required bySection 10.5 and any Collateral Document are in full force and effect, together with endorsements naming the Collateral Agent, on behalf of the Secured Parties, as an additional insured or loss payee under all insurance policies to be maintained with respect to the properties of the Company and its Subsidiaries.
Section 9.2 Conditions to Each Extension of Credit. The agreement of each Lender to make any Loan (other than any Revolving Credit Loan the proceeds of which are to be used exclusively to repay Refunded Swing Line Loans) requested to be made by it on any date, the agreement of each Local Fronting Lender to create any Acceptances to be created by it on any date and the agreement of the Issuing Lender to issue any Letter of Credit to be issued by it on any date (including, without limitation, its initial extension of credit), are subject to the satisfaction of the following conditions precedent:
(a) Request for Borrowing or Issuance of Letter of Credit. With respect to any Loan, the applicable Administrative Agent (and, with respect to Swing Line Loans, the Swing Line Lender and, with respect to Local Loans, the relevant Local Fronting Lender) shall have received a duly executed Notice of Borrowing (or, in the case of Swing Line Loans, a duly executed Swing Line Loan Request), and, with respect to any Letter of Credit, the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent and the Issuing Lender shall have received a duly executed Application.
(b) Representations and Warranties. Each of the representations and warranties made by each party to each Loan Document in or pursuant to this Agreement or any other Loan Document, or contained in any certificate or financial statement (other than estimates and projections which are (x) identified as such and (y) contained in any financial statement)
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furnished at any time under or in connection with this Agreement or any other Loan Document shall be true and correct in all material respects on and as of such date as if made on and as of such date (except to the extent that such representations and warranties relate to a particular date, in which case such representations and warranties shall be true and correct in all material respects on and as of such date), both before and after giving effect to such Loan, the creation of such Acceptance or the issuance of such Letter of Credit, as the case may be, and to all other extensions of credit to be made on such date and the use of the proceeds thereof.
(c) No Default. No Event of Default and no Default shall have occurred and be continuing on such date, before and after giving effect to the extensions of credit requested to be made on such date.
(d) Borrowing Base. The Company shall have delivered the Borrowing Base Certificate most recently required to be delivered bySection 10.17. After giving effect to the Loans requested to be made, the Acceptances requested to be created or the Letters of Credit requested to be issued on any such date and the use of proceeds thereof, the Aggregate Outstanding Multi-Currency Extensions of Credit shall not exceed the Maximum Multi-Currency Availability at such time.
(e) Liquidity Event Period. On such date, and after giving effect to the extensions of credit requested to be made on such date, either (i) no Liquidity Event Period shall have commenced and be continuing or (ii) if a Liquidity Event Period shall have commenced and be continuing, the Consolidated Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio of the Company and its Subsidiaries for the period of four consecutive fiscal quarters of the Company ending on the last day of the most recent fiscal quarter prior to such date shall be greater than or equal to 1.00 to 1.00.
Each borrowing by, and Letter of Credit issued on behalf of, a Borrower hereunder (including, without limitation, each borrowing effected through the creation of an Acceptance) shall constitute a representation and warranty by the Company and (to the extent that such Borrower is not the Company) such Borrower, as of the date of such borrowing or other extension of credit, that the conditions contained inparagraphs (b),(c), (d) and(e) of this Section 9.2 have been satisfied.
Section 9.3 Conditions to Each Facilities Increase. Each Facilities Increase shall not become effective prior to the satisfaction of all of the following conditions precedent:
(a) Certain Documents. The Multi-Currency Administrative Agent shall have received on or prior to the Facilities Increase Date for such Facilities Increase each of the following, each dated such Facilities Increase Date unless otherwise indicated or agreed to by the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent and each in form and substance satisfactory to the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent:
(i) written commitments duly executed by existing Lenders (or their Affiliates or Approved Funds) or Eligible Assignees in an aggregate amount equal to the amount of the proposed Facilities Increase (as agreed between the Company and the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent but in any case not to exceed, in the aggregate for all such Facilities Increases, the maximum amount set forth inSection 3.1(b)) and, in the case of each such Eligible Assignee or Affiliate or Approved Fund that is not an existing Lender, an assumption agreement in form and substance satisfactory to the Multi-
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Currency Administrative Agent and duly executed by the Company, the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent and such Affiliate, Approved Fund or Eligible Assignee;
(ii) an amendment to this Agreement (including toSchedule II), effective as of the Facilities Increase Date and executed by the Company and the Administrative Agents, to the extent necessary to implement terms and conditions of the Facilities Increase as agreed by the Company and the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent but which, in any case, shall not be materially different from the existing Multi-Currency Facility;
(iii) certified copies of resolutions of the Board of Directors of the Company and each Guarantor approving the consummation of such Facilities Increase and the execution, delivery and performance of the corresponding amendments to this Agreement and the other documents to be executed in connection therewith;
(iv) a favorable opinion of counsel for the Company and each Guarantor, addressed to the Administrative Agents, the Lenders and the Issuing Lenders and in form and substance and from counsel reasonably satisfactory to the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent; and
(v) such other document as the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent may reasonably request or as any Lender participating in such Facilities Increase may require as a condition to its commitment in such Facilities Increase.
(b) Fee and Expenses Paid. There shall have been paid to the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent, for the account of the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent and the Lenders participating in such Facilities Increase on such Facilities Increase Date, as applicable, all fees and expenses (including reasonable fees and expenses of counsel) due and payable on or before the Facilities Increase Date.
(c) Other Conditions. (i) The conditions precedent set forth inSection 9.2shall have been satisfied both before and after giving effect to such Facilities Increase and (ii) such Facilities Increase shall be made on the terms and conditions set forth inSection 3.1(b).
ARTICLE X
AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS
The Company hereby agrees that, until the Payment Obligations have been Fully Satisfied:
Section 10.1 Financial Statements. The Company will furnish to each Lender, through the Administrative Agents:
(a) as soon as available, but in any event within 90 days after the end of each fiscal year of the Company, a copy of the consolidated balance sheet of the Company and its Subsidiaries as at the end of such fiscal year and the related consolidated statements of operations and stockholders’ equity and cash flows for such year, setting forth in each case in comparative form (to the extent that such information has not previously been provided to the Lenders in form substantially similar to that required pursuant to thisSection 10.1(a)) the figures for the previous year, certified without a “going concern” or like qualification or exception, or qualification
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arising out of the scope of the audit, by KPMG LLP or other independent certified public accountants of nationally recognized standing reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agents;
(b) as soon as available, but in any event within 90 days after the end of each fiscal year of the Company, a copy of (i) the annual business plan of the Company and its Subsidiaries for the next succeeding fiscal year, including model quarterly balance sheets and statements of operations and of cash flow, (ii) a two-year model (including, without limitation, model annual balance sheets and statements of operations and of cash flow) for the Company and its Subsidiaries and (iii) a two-year model (including, without limitation, model annual balance sheets and statements of operations and of cash flow) for Revlon and its Subsidiaries, and all of the foregoing shall be in form and detail reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agents and shall be certified by a Responsible Officer of the Company; and
(c) as soon as available, but in any event within 45 days after the end of each of the first three fiscal quarters of each fiscal year of the Company, a copy of (i) the unaudited consolidated, condensed balance sheets of the Company and its Subsidiaries as at the end of each such quarter, (ii) the related unaudited consolidated, condensed statements of operations and of cash flows for the portion of the fiscal year through such date and (iii) the related unaudited consolidated, condensed statements of operations for such quarterly period, setting forth in each case in comparative form (to the extent that such information has not previously been provided to the Lenders in form substantially similar to that required pursuant to thisSection 10.1(c)) the figures for the corresponding fiscal period of the previous year (other than the balance sheets, which shall present such corresponding figures at the last day of the previous fiscal year), certified (subject to normal year-end audit adjustments) by a Responsible Officer of the Company;
all such financial statements to be prepared in reasonable detail and (except as approved by such accountants or Responsible Officer, as the case may be, and disclosed therein) in accordance with GAAP applied consistently throughout the periods reflected therein (subject, in the case of interim periods, to normal year-end adjustments and the absence of notes).
Section 10.2 Certificates; Other Information. The Company will furnish to each Lender, through the Administrative Agents:
(a) concurrently with the delivery of its financial statements referred to inSection 10.1(a), a certificate of the independent certified public accountants certifying such financial statements, to the extent available pursuant to the policies and procedures of such independent certified public accountants, stating that in making the examination necessary therefor, no knowledge was obtained of any Default or Event of Default with respect toSection 11.1, except as specified in such certificate (which certificate may be limited by applicable accounting rules or guidelines);
(b) concurrently with the delivery of its financial statements referred to inSection 10.1(a) and(c), a certificate of a Responsible Officer of the Company, substantially in the form ofExhibit M (Form of Compliance Certificate), and if such certificate demonstrates an Event of Default of the covenant contained inSection 11.1(b), the Company may deliver together with such certificate, notice of its intent to cure (a “Notice of Intent to Cure”) such Event of Default pursuant toSection 12.2;
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(c) within five days after the same are sent, copies of all financial statements and reports which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries and any Parent of the Company sends to holders of its publicly traded debt or equity securities, and within five days after the same are filed, copies of all financial statements and reports (including copies of all registration statements, proxy statements and regular and periodic reports, if any) which any of such Persons may make to, or file with, the Securities and Exchange Commission or any successor thereto;
(d) within 10 days following the last day of each fiscal quarter of the Company (commencing with the fiscal quarter ended September 30, 2004), a schedule listing (i) all Subsidiaries of the Company as of the last day of the fiscal quarter most recently ended, (ii) all Subsidiaries of the Company which have been acquired or created during the fiscal quarter then ended and (iii) all Persons which have ceased to be Subsidiaries of the Company during such prior fiscal quarter of the Company;
(e) at least 10 days prior to the issuance thereof, a certificate of a Responsible Officer of the Company as to the issuance of any letter of credit permitted bySection 11.2(m), which certificate shall include (i) the amount of such letter of credit (including, with respect to any such letter of credit that is denominated in a currency other than Dollars, the Equivalent in Dollars thereof), (ii) the stated expiry date thereof, (iii) the issuer thereof and (iv) the beneficiary thereof;
(f) promptly after the delivery of the same to the M&F Lender, any request for a borrowing of a M&F Loan; and
(g) promptly, such additional documents and financial and other information (including, without limitation, amendments to the Certificate of Incorporation and By-Laws of such Person) relating to REV Holdings and its Subsidiaries (or, at any time when REV Holdings ceases to have any significant Indebtedness, Revlon and its Subsidiaries) as any Agent, or any Lender acting through the Administrative Agents, may from time to time reasonably request.
Section 10.3 Payment of Obligations. The Company will, and will cause each of its Subsidiaries to, pay, discharge or otherwise satisfy at or (to the extent not otherwise prohibited hereunder) before maturity or before they become delinquent, as the case may be, all its Indebtedness and other material obligations of whatever nature, except when the amount or validity thereof is then being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings and reserves with respect thereto to the extent, if any, required by GAAP have been provided on the books of the Company or such Subsidiary, as the case may be. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the foregoing sentence, the Company shall not be in default under thisSection 10.3 unless the aggregate amount of non-contested Indebtedness or obligations which it and its Subsidiaries have so failed to pay, discharge or satisfy before they become delinquent and which remain delinquent at the time of determination is more than $10,000,000 (or, with respect to any other currency, the Equivalent thereof) in the aggregate.
Section 10.4 Conduct of Business and Maintenance of Existence. Except as permitted by this Agreement, the Company will continue to engage in business of the same general type as now conducted by it; and, except as permitted by this Agreement, the Company will, and will cause each of its Subsidiaries to, preserve, renew and keep in full force and effect its corporate existence and take all reasonable action to maintain all rights, privileges and franchises necessary or desirable in the normal conduct of its business, except as otherwise permitted pursuant toSections 11.5 and11.6, and comply with all Contractual Obligations and Requirements of Law except to the extent that all failures to comply therewith would not in the
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aggregate, be reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect. The Company will not make any material change in its present method of conducting business. The Company will cause each of its Subsidiaries to engage primarily in no business other than the business of developing, manufacturing, distributing and/or selling (including marketing and advertising) beauty, skin care, fragrance, personal care and/or related products (or of holding properties incidental to such businesses).
Section 10.5 Maintenance of Property; Insurance. The Company will, and will cause each of its Subsidiaries to, (a) keep all property useful and necessary in its business in good working order and condition, except where the failure to do so would not, in the aggregate, be reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect and (b) maintain with financially sound and reputable insurance companies insurance on such of its property and against such liabilities in at least such amounts and against at least such risks as are customarily insured against in the same general area by companies engaged in the same or a similar business and furnish to the Agents, upon written request, and to each Lender which makes a written request through the Administrative Agents, reasonable information as to the insurance carried.
Section 10.6 Inspection of Property; Books and Records; Discussions. The Company will, and will cause each of its Subsidiaries to, (a) keep proper books of accounts and records in which entries in conformity in all material respects with all Requirements of Law shall be made of all dealings and transactions in relation to its businesses and activities and which shall permit the preparation of financial statements in conformity with GAAP and (b) permit representatives of any Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent to visit and inspect such of its properties during normal business hours as such Administrative Agent or Collateral Agent reasonably may request and (during such visit or inspection, or otherwise upon request by an Administrative Agent or Collateral Agent) examine and make abstracts from such of its books and records as it may reasonably request at any reasonable time and as often as may reasonably be desired, and to discuss the business, condition (financial or otherwise), performance, properties and prospects of the Company and its Subsidiaries with officers and employees of the Company and its Subsidiaries and with its then independent certified public accountants.
Section 10.7 Notices. The Company will promptly give notice to the Administrative Agents and each Lender, through the Administrative Agents:
(a) of the occurrence of any Default or Event of Default;provided,however, that with respect to any Default or Event of Default arising underSection 12.1(q), the Company will give notice thereof to the Administrative Agents no later than the first Business Day after its becoming aware of the occurrence of any Default or Event of Default thereunder;
(b) of any default or event of default by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries under any Contractual Obligation of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or the institution of, or the occurrence of any material adverse change, in the status or likely result of, any litigation, investigation or proceeding which may exist at any time between the Company or any of its Subsidiaries and any Governmental Authority or any other Person which, in any of the foregoing cases, would be reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect;
(c) of any default or event of default by Revlon or (to its actual knowledge) REV Holdings, Revlon Holdings, M&FH, M&F, M&FG or Mafco Guarantor Corp. under any agreements or other instruments governing Indebtedness of such Person involving an aggregate amount in excess of $5,000,000 (or, with respect to any other currency, the Equivalent thereof);
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(d) of (i) any violation or noncompliance by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or, to the best of its knowledge, any other Person of any Environmental Laws which would be reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect or (ii) any liability or potential liability to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or, to the best of its knowledge, to any other Person under, any Environmental Laws which would be reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect;
(e) of any of the following events, as soon as possible, and in any event, within 30 days after the Company knows or has reason to know thereof:
(i) the occurrence or expected occurrence of any Reportable Event with respect to any Plan; or
(ii) the institution of proceedings or the taking or expected taking of any other action by PBGC or the Company or any Commonly Controlled Entity to terminate, withdraw or partially withdraw from any Plan and with respect to a Multiemployer Plan, the Reorganization or Insolvency of such Plan;
if such Reportable Event, termination, withdrawal or partial withdrawal (and, in the case of any Multiemployer Plan, its Reorganization or Insolvency) would be reasonably likely to result in liability to the Company and the Guarantors, in the aggregate, in excess of $1,000,000;
(f) of a material adverse change in the business, condition (financial or otherwise), operations, performance, properties or prospects of the Company and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole, or of any event which would be reasonably likely to materially adversely affect the ability of the Company and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole to perform their obligations under the Loan Documents; and
(g) of the consummation of any transaction permitted bySection 11.8(e), which notices shall, in any event, be given within five Business Days thereafter.
Each notice pursuant to thisSection 10.7 shall be accompanied by a statement of a Responsible Officer of the Company setting forth details of the occurrence referred to therein and stating what action the Company proposes to take with respect thereto.
Section 10.8 Maintenance of Corporate Identity. The Company will operate its businesses, and will cause its Subsidiaries to operate their respective businesses, and maintain their records, independently from any Person (a “Parent”) which, directly or indirectly, is in control (as defined in Rule 12b-2 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended) of the Company and independently from any Subsidiary of such Parent other than the Company and its Subsidiaries; and the Company will maintain bank accounts separate from the bank accounts of each Parent of the Company and act solely in its own corporate name and through its own authorized officers and agents.
Section 10.9 Environmental Laws. The Company will, and will cause each of its Subsidiaries to:
(a) Comply with and require compliance by all tenants and subtenants, if any, with all Environmental Laws and obtain and comply with and maintain, and require that all tenants and subtenants obtain and comply with and maintain, any and all licenses, approvals, registrations or permits required by Environmental Laws except to the extent that the failure to do
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so either individually or in the aggregate would not be reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect; and
(b) Conduct and complete all investigations, studies, sampling and testing, and all remedial, removal and other actions required under Environmental Laws and promptly comply with all orders and directives of all Governmental Authorities respecting Environmental Laws, except (i) to the extent that the failure to perform any obligations contained in thisclause (b) would not be reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect or (ii) to the extent that such obligations are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings and provided that the pendency of any and all such proceedings would not be reasonably expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
Section 10.10 Additional Guaranties. The Company will from time to time cause each Domestic Subsidiary thereof which has not previously done so to execute and deliver to the Administrative Agents duly executed supplements and amendments to the Guaranty, in each case, in form and substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agents. In the event that there shall be a change in law that eliminates the adverse tax consequences to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries that would have resulted on the date hereof (so that such consequences, if any, are immaterial) from the guaranty by any Foreign Subsidiary of the Payment Obligations, the Company will cause each of its Foreign Subsidiaries to execute and deliver to the Administrative Agents duly executed supplements and amendments to the Guaranty, in each case, in form and substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agents. Each such supplement or amendment shall be accompanied by such resolutions, incumbency certificates and legal opinions as are reasonably requested by the Administrative Agents and are in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agents.
Section 10.11 Additional Stock Pledges. (a) The Company will, and will cause each of its Domestic Subsidiaries to, pledge to the Collateral Agent 100% of the issued and outstanding Stock and Stock Equivalents (other than directors’ qualifying shares) of each Domestic Subsidiary of the Company which has not previously been pledged hereunder. Such pledge shall be granted pursuant to duly executed joinders and amendments to the Pledge and Security Agreement and, if applicable, the other Security Documents, in each case in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agents.
(b) Except to the extent set forth inSection 10.16, the Company will, and will cause each of the Subsidiary Guarantors to, pledge to the Collateral Agent 66% (rounded downward to eliminate any fraction of a share) of the issued and outstanding shares of each class of Stock and Stock Equivalents entitled to vote (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.956-2(c)(2)) (“Voting Stock”) and 100% of the issued and outstanding shares of each class of Stock and Stock Equivalents not entitled to vote (within the meaning of such regulation) (“Non-Voting Stock”) of each first-tier Foreign Subsidiary of the Company or such Subsidiary Guarantor which (in each case) is owned of record by the Company or such Subsidiary Guarantor and which has not previously been pledged hereunder;provided,however, that in no event shall the Company and the Subsidiary Guarantors pledge an aggregate amount of Voting Stock that exceeds 66% of the total outstanding Voting Stock (taken as a whole) of any first-tier Foreign Subsidiary of the Company or such Subsidiary Guarantor. Each such pledge shall be granted pursuant to duly executed joinders and amendments to the Pledge and Security Agreement and if applicable, the other Security Documents, in each case, as (x) the New Term Loan Administrative Agent deems necessary or advisable in order to effectively grant a valid, perfected and enforceable security interest in the Pledged Stock delivered thereto under the laws of the State of New York and, if such issuer of Pledged Stock is organized under the laws of the United
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Kingdom, Canada or Bermuda and, if requested by the New Term Loan Administrative Agent in its sole discretion exercised reasonably and in accordance with customary business practices for comparable financing transactions, such other jurisdiction in which the issuer of such Pledged Stock is organized to the extent such jurisdiction constitutes, directly or indirectly, one of the top five net revenue generating markets of the Company and its Subsidiaries and (y) is in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the New Term Loan Administrative Agent. Notwithstanding the foregoing, unless either the New Term Loan Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders (as defined in the New Term Loan Agreement) shall at any time otherwise reasonably request, no such pledge shall be required pursuant to thisSection 10.11(b) with respect to the Stock and Stock Equivalents of any first-tier Foreign Subsidiary listed onSchedule 8.13 which is not pledged on the Closing Date or is acquired or formed after the date hereof and either (A) is listed onSchedule 8.13 as being slated for liquidation, dissolution or merger or (B) does not have assets in excess of $5,000,000 (or, with respect to any other currency, the Equivalent thereof).
(c) Each joinder and amendment to the Pledge and Security Agreement and the other Security Documents required to be executed and delivered pursuant to thisSection 10.11 shall be promptly executed and delivered after the organization, acquisition or identification of any such Subsidiary Guarantor or first-tier Foreign Subsidiary and shall be accompanied by share certificates evidencing the Pledged Stock thereunder (to the extent that such Pledged Stock is certificated), together with an undated stock power for each such share certificate (duly executed in blank and delivered by a duly authorized officer of the pledgor of the Pledged Stock represented by such certificate). Each joinder and amendment to the Pledge and Security Agreement and the other Security Documents executed and delivered pursuant to thisSection 10.11 shall be accompanied by (i) in the case of the pledge of Stock or Stock Equivalents of any Foreign Subsidiary, evidence of the taking of all such other actions as may be necessary or appropriate for the perfection and first priority of such pledge, and (ii) in the case of any Subsidiary, such resolutions, incumbency certificates and legal opinions as are reasonably requested by the Administrative Agents and shall otherwise be in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agents.
(d) In the event that there shall be a change in law that eliminates the adverse tax consequences to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries that would have resulted on the date hereof (so that such consequences, if any, are immaterial) from the pledge of 66-2/3% or more of the Voting Stock of any Foreign Subsidiary, the Company will, and will cause each of its Subsidiaries to, (i) pledge such additional amount of shares of such Voting Stock (with respect to each Foreign Subsidiary the Voting Stock of which then is pledged hereunder) and (ii) notwithstanding the provisions ofSection 10.11(b), pledge the maximum amount of shares of such Voting Stock (with respect to each Foreign Subsidiary the Voting Stock of which is pledged thereafter), in each case which can be so pledged without the incurrence of adverse tax consequences and take or cause to be taken such further action as the Administrative Agents may reasonably request (including, without limitation, the delivery of legal opinions) in order to perfect its security interest in such stock.
Section 10.12 Additional Collateral. The Company will cause each of its Subsidiary Guarantors which has not previously done so to execute and deliver to the Administrative Agents duly executed joinders and amendments to the Pledge and Security Agreement and, if applicable, the other Security Documents, in each case, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agents, and to take such other action as reasonably shall be necessary or as the Administrative Agents reasonably shall request to grant to the Collateral Agent a valid and enforceable first priority perfected security interest in all Collateral of such Subsidiary Guarantor (subject to any Liens permitted bySection 11.3). Each such joinder
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and amendment shall be accompanied by such evidence of the taking of all actions as may be necessary or appropriate for the perfection and first priority of such security interest (including, without limitation, the filing of any necessary Uniform Commercial Code financing statements) and such resolutions, incumbency certificates and legal opinions as are reasonably requested by the Administrative Agents, all of which shall be in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agents.
Section 10.13 Asset Transfers. (a) Each of the Company and the Subsidiary Guarantors will grant to the Collateral Agent a first priority, perfected security interest (subject to any Liens thereon which are permitted to encumber the relevant asset pursuant toSection 11.3) in all properties and assets (whether tangible or intangible) of a type that constitutes Collateral under any Security Document to which the Company or any Subsidiary Guarantor is a party which are sold, transferred, conveyed or otherwise distributed to the Company or any such Subsidiary Guarantor (including, without limitation, by way of merger or consolidation) from any Subsidiary of the Company simultaneously with the effectiveness of such sale, transfer, conveyance or other distribution.
(b) The Company and each Subsidiary Guarantor will take such action from time to time as is necessary (or otherwise reasonably requested by the Administrative Agents) to ensure that the Collateral Agent at all times holds a perfected security interest in all Collateral under the Security Documents, except as otherwise permitted hereunder.
Section 10.14 Intellectual Property. (a) The Company will, and will cause each of the Subsidiary Guarantors to, take such action as is necessary (or as otherwise is reasonably requested by the New Term Loan Administrative Agent) in order to grant to the Collateral Agent a first priority, perfected security interest in any copyright registration in which the Company or any of the Subsidiary Guarantors may from time to time obtain any interest.The Company will submit, and will cause each Subsidiary Guarantor to submit, to the Administrative Agents, by each January 31st and July 31st of each year following the Closing Date, commencing January 31, 2005 (or, if the New Term Loan Administrative Agent reasonably so requests in writing, more often;provided,however, that, except during such time as a Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the New Term Loan Administrative Agent shall not so request more frequently than monthly), a Copyright Security Agreement (substantially in the form attached to the Pledge and Security Agreement or such other form reasonably acceptable to the New Term Loan Administrative Agent) confirming the security interest of the Collateral Agent in any Copyright acquired or with respect to which the Company or any Subsidiary Guarantor filed an application for copyright registration during the two prior calendar quarters, duly executed and in proper form for recordation in the United States Copyright Office.
(b) The Company will, to the extent permitted by Title 15 of the United States Code, submit, and will cause each Subsidiary Guarantor to submit, to the United States Patent and Trademark Office for registration or recordation, as applicable:
(i) a completed application for trademark registration, in such class or classes as is in conformity with its ordinary business practice then in effect, of each Trademark acquired or adopted and used or intended to be used by it, with respect to any mark which, in the Company’s reasonable judgment, is a Significant Trademark;provided,however, that within 30 days after receipt of notice from the New Term Loan Administrative Agent, the Company shall, or shall cause the applicable Subsidiary Guarantor to, submit to the United States Patent and Trademark Office for registration a completed application for trademark registration, in such class or classes as is in
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conformity with its ordinary business practice then in effect, of any Trademark acquired or adopted and used or intended to be used by it, with respect to any mark which the Required Lenders (as defined in the New Term Loan Agreement) reasonably deem to be of such significance as to require the Company or such Subsidiary Guarantor to take such steps as may be necessary or desirable to grant to the Collateral Agent a perfected, first priority security interest in such Trademark to the extent that it has any ownership interest in such Trademark which is registerable by it under trademark or other applicable law; and
(ii) with respect to any interest acquired after the date hereof by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries in a Significant Trademark, any appropriate assignment to the Company or such Subsidiary Guarantor of the interest acquired by it in the United States in such Significant Trademark, including, without limitation, all previously unrecorded assignments to the Company’s or such Subsidiary Guarantor’s predecessors-in-interest of which the Company or any Subsidiary Guarantor is or becomes aware.
The Company will, and will cause each Subsidiary Guarantor to, use its respective commercially reasonable best efforts to comply with all requirements of the Lanham Act and the rules and regulations thereunder, as from time to time in effect, or other applicable law necessary in order to validly register and maintain the registration of any such Significant Trademark with the United States Patent and Trademark Office, except as permitted pursuant toSections 10.4, 11.5 and 11.6 hereof. The Company will submit, and will cause each Subsidiary Guarantor to submit, to the Administrative Agents, by each January 31st and July 31st of each year following the Closing Date, commencing January 31, 2005 (or, if the New Term Loan Administrative Agent reasonably so requests in writing, more often;provided,however, that, except during such time as a Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the New Term Loan Administrative Agent shall not so request more frequently than monthly), a Trademark Security Agreement (substantially in the form attached to the Pledge and Security Agreement or such other form reasonably acceptable to the New Term Loan Administrative Agent) confirming the security interest of the Collateral Agent in any Trademark acquired or with respect to which the Company or any Subsidiary Guarantor filed an application for trademark registration during the two prior calendar quarters, duly executed and in proper form for recordation in the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
(c) The Company will, to the extent permitted by Title 35 of the United States Code, submit, and will cause each Subsidiary Guarantor to submit, to the United States Patent and Trademark Office for issuance or recordation, as applicable:
(i) an application for letters patent for each patentable invention acquired by or invented by or for it which invention is of such a nature that the Company or its Subsidiaries, in accordance with its ordinary business practice then in effect, would file a patent application in the United States Patent and Trademark Office with respect to it; and
(ii) with respect to any interest acquired after the date hereof by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries in a Patent, any appropriate assignment to the Company or such Domestic Subsidiary of the interest acquired by it in the United States in such Patent, including, without limitation, all previously unrecorded assignments to the Company’s or such Domestic Subsidiary’s predecessors-in-interest of which the Company or any Subsidiary Guarantor is or becomes aware.
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The Company will, and will cause each Subsidiary Guarantor to, use its respective commercially reasonable best efforts to comply with all requirements of the United States Patent Act and the rules and regulations thereunder, as from time to time in effect, or other applicable law necessary in order to validly obtain and maintain any Patent with the United States Patent and Trademark Office, except as permitted pursuant toSections 10.4, 11.5 and11.6 hereof. The Company will submit, and will cause each Subsidiary Guarantor to submit, to the Administrative Agents, by each January 31st and July 31st of each year following the Closing Date, commencing January 31, 2005 (or, if the Administrative Agents reasonably so requests in writing, more often;provided,however, that, except during such time as a Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Administrative Agents shall not so request more frequently than monthly), a Patent Security Agreement (substantially in the form attached to the Pledge and Security Agreement or such other form reasonably acceptable to the New Term Loan Administrative Agent) confirming the security interest of the Collateral Agent in any Patent acquired or with respect to which the Company or any Subsidiary Guarantor filed an application for letters patent during the two prior calendar quarters, duly executed and in proper form for recordation in the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in thisSection 10.14, the Company and its Subsidiaries shall have the right to license their respective Patents and Trademarks to third parties on an arms’ length basis;provided,however, that, except with respect to Trademarks and Patents which constitute Disposition Assets or with respect to which the only substantial use by the Company and its Subsidiaries is in connection with a business constituting a Disposition Asset, that any such license of (i) a Trademark shall be for use with respect to products which are not reasonably likely to be competitive with those produced and/or marketed by the Company and its Subsidiaries and (ii) a Patent shall be for applications which would not be reasonably likely to diminish the value of any product line of the Company and its Subsidiaries, except for, in the case of each ofclause (i) and(ii), licenses or cross-licenses granted by the Company or any such Subsidiary in connection with the settlement or other disposition of litigation or other disputes with respect to Patents or Trademarks,provided,however, that such licenses or cross-licenses shall be granted (x) in the reasonable business judgment of the Company or any such Subsidiary, or (y) as may be required by any Governmental Authority having jurisdiction over any such litigation or dispute. Each Administrative Agent and each Lender hereby acknowledges and agrees that any security interest held by the Collateral Agent in any Patent or Trademark which is licensed in accordance with the provisions of thisSection 10.14(d) shall be subordinate to such license agreement and each Lender hereby instructs the Administrative Agents to execute and deliver such instruments, documents and agreements as the Company reasonably may request in order to confirm such subordination.
Section 10.15 Additional Mortgages. With respect to any fee interest in any real property located in the United States having a value (together with improvements thereon) of at least $7,500,000 acquired after the Closing Date by the Company or any of its Domestic Subsidiaries, the Company or such Subsidiary shall promptly (and in any event within 45 days after (x) the acquisition thereof or (y) in the case of costs and expenses referred to inclause (c) below, the receipt of an invoice in respect thereof) (a) execute and deliver a first-priority and a second-priority Mortgage, in favor of the Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the holders of the Secured Obligations, covering such real property (subject to Customary Permitted Liens, Liens securing the Designated Eligible Obligations as provided for in the Intercreditor Agreement and other Liens approved by the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent), (b) if requested by the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent, provide all Mortgage Supporting Documents relating thereto and (c) pay all costs and expenses associated with the foregoing.
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Section 10.16 Post-Closing Matters. The Company shall, and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to, deliver each of the documents, instruments and agreements set forth onSchedule 10.16 within the time periods set forth on such Schedule.
Section 10.17 Borrowing Base Determination. (a) The Company may deliver from time to time a Borrowing Base Certificate, but in any event shall deliver a Borrowing Base Certificate (i) as soon as available but in any event not later than 15 days after the end of each fiscal month and (ii) during a Liquidity Event Period or if an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, not later than 5 days after the end the last day of each week (containing available updated figures for Eligible Receivables but not, unless otherwise available, Eligible Inventory), in each case, executed by a Responsible Officer of the Company.
(b) The Company may and, upon request of the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent, shall conduct, or cause to be conducted, at its expense, and present to the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent for approval, such Appraisals, investigations and reviews as the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent shall request for the purpose of determining the Borrowing Base, all upon reasonable notice and at such times during normal business hours and as often as may be reasonably requested;provided,however, that unless a Default or Event of Default shall be continuing, the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent shall request no more than four such Appraisals, investigations and reviews during any calendar year. The Company shall furnish to the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent any information that the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent may reasonably request regarding the determination and calculation of the Borrowing Base including correct and complete copies of any invoices, underlying agreements, instruments or other documents and the identity of all Account Debtors in respect of the Accounts referred to therein.
(c) The Company shall promptly notify the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent in writing in the event that at any time the Company receives or otherwise gains knowledge that (i) the Borrowing Base is less than 90% of the Borrowing Base reflected in the most recent Borrowing Base Certificate delivered pursuant toclause (a) above, (ii) the outstanding Aggregate Outstanding Multi-Currency Extensions of Credit exceed the Maximum Multi-Currency Availability as a result of a decrease therein, in which case such notice shall also include the amount of such excess or (iii) a Liquidity Event Period has begun.
(d) The Multi-Currency Administrative Agent may, at the Company’s sole cost and expense, make test verifications of the Accounts and physical verifications of the Inventory in any manner and through any medium that the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent reasonably considers advisable, and the Company shall furnish all such assistance and information as the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent may reasonably require in connection therewith;provided,however, that unless a Default or Event of Default shall be continuing, the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent shall request no more than four such verifications during any calendar year. At any time and from time to time, upon the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent’s request and at the expense of the Company, the Company shall cause independent public accountants or others reasonably satisfactory to the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent to furnish to the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent reports showing reconciliations, aging and test verifications of, and trial balances for, the Accounts;provided,further, that unless a Default or Event of Default shall be continuing, (i) the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent shall request no more than four such reports during any calendar year and (ii) the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent shall request reports showing reconciliations only at the end of a fiscal quarter.
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Section 10.18 Tax Reporting. Promptly after the Company determines that it intends to treat the Loans and the Letters of Credit and the related transactions contemplated hereby as a “reportable transaction” (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.6011-4), the Company shall give the Administrative Agents written notice thereof and shall deliver to the Administrative Agents all U.S. Internal Revenue Service forms required in connection therewith.
Section 10.19 Control Accounts; Approved Deposit Accounts.
(a) The Company shall, and shall cause each of the Subsidiary Guarantors to, except cash or Cash Equivalents subject to a Lien permitted underSection 11.3(c),(d),(p) or(q), (i) deposit in an Approved Deposit Account all cash and all Proceeds of any Account or General Intangible they receive from any other Person, (ii) not maintain any funds or other assets in any Securities Account that is not a Control Account and (iii) not establish or maintain any Deposit Account other than with a Deposit Account Bank;provided,however, that the Company and each of its Subsidiaries may deposit cash into and maintain (A) payroll, benefits, withholding tax, escrow, customs and other fiduciary accounts and (B) other accounts as long as the aggregate balance in all such other accounts does not exceed $5,000,000 at any time.
(b) The Company shall, and shall cause each of the Subsidiary Guarantors, to instruct (or, with respect to General Intangibles, use commercially reasonable efforts to instruct) each Account Debtor with a principal place of business located in the jurisdictions permitted inclause (f) of the definition of “Eligible Receivables” obligated to make a payment to any of them under any Account or General Intangible to make payment, or to continue to make payment, to an Approved Deposit Account.
(c) In the event (i) the Company, any Subsidiary Guarantor or any Deposit Account Bank shall, after the date hereof, terminate an agreement with respect to the maintenance of an Approved Deposit Account for any reason, (ii) the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent shall demand such termination as a result of the failure of a Deposit Account Bank to comply in any material respect with the terms of the applicable Deposit Account Control Agreement or (iii) the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent determines in its sole discretion exercised reasonably that the financial condition of a Deposit Account Bank has materially deteriorated, the Company shall, and shall cause each Subsidiary Guarantor to, notify all of their respective obligors that were making payments to such terminated Approved Deposit Account to make all future payments to another Approved Deposit Account.
(d) In the event (i) the Company, any Subsidiary Guarantor or any Approved Securities Intermediary shall, after the date hereof, terminate an agreement with respect to the maintenance of a Control Account for any reason, (ii) the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent shall demand such termination as a result of the failure of an Approved Securities Intermediary to comply with the terms of the applicable Securities Account Control Agreement or (iii) the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent determines in its sole discretion exercised reasonably that the financial condition of an Approved Securities Intermediary has materially deteriorated, the Company shall, and shall cause each Subsidiary Guarantor to, notify all of its obligors that were making payments to such terminated Control Account to make all future payments to another Control Account.
(e) Any Administrative Agent may establish one or more Cash Collateral Accounts with such depositaries and Securities Intermediaries as it in its sole discretion shall determine to the extent expressly contemplated in any Loan Document and shall (or direct the
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Collateral Agent to) apply the all funds on deposit in such Cash Collateral Account as so contemplated. Funds on deposit in any Cash Collateral Account may be invested (but the applicable Administrative Agent shall be under no obligation to make any such investment) in Cash Equivalents at the direction of the applicable Administrative Agent and, except during a Liquidity Event Period or the continuance of an Event of Default, the applicable Administrative Agent agrees with the Company to direct the Collateral Agent to issue Entitlement Orders for such investments in Cash Equivalents as requested by the Company;provided,however, that neither any Administrative Agent nor the Collateral Agent shall have any responsibility for, or bear any risk of loss of, any such investment or income thereon.
Section 10.20 Landlord Waiver and Bailee’s Letters.
The Company shall, and shall cause each of the Subsidiary Guarantors to, use commercially reasonable best efforts to deliver Landlord Waivers and Bailee’s Letters pursuant toSection 10.16 and as the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent shall request from time to time in its sole discretion exercised reasonably and in accordance with customary business practices for comparable asset-based transactions.
ARTICLE XI
NEGATIVE COVENANTS
The Company hereby agrees that, until the Payment Obligations are Fully Satisfied:
Section 11.1 Financial Covenants. The Company will not:
(a) [Intentionally Omitted.]
(b) Consolidated Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio. Until all Payment Obligations arising under the Multi-Currency Facility have been Fully Satisfied, without the consent of the Required Multi-Currency Lenders, in the event a Liquidity Event Period has continued for at least 30 consecutive days, permit the Consolidated Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio of the Company and its Subsidiaries for any period of four consecutive fiscal quarters of the Company ending on the last day of the most recent fiscal quarter ending prior to or during such Liquidity Event Period to be less than 1.00 to 1.00.
Section 11.2 Indebtedness. The Company will not, and will not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, create, incur, assume or suffer to exist any Indebtedness, except for:
(a) Indebtedness in respect of the Payment Obligations;
(b) Indebtedness under the Senior Notes Indenture in respect of the Existing Senior Notes and Indebtedness under the Subordinated Notes Indenture, and any Indebtedness resulting from the refinancing of any such Indebtedness, or the refinancing of any of the Term Loans in whole or in part (subject to the payment of any applicable Prepayment Fee);provided,however, that (i) the primary obligor with respect to any such refinancing Indebtedness is the same as the primary obligor on the Indebtedness refinanced thereby and (except in the case of any Permitted Third Lien Financing) any contingent obligor of such refinancing Indebtedness was or would have been required to be a contingent obligor of the Indebtedness refinanced thereby (except to the extent that such primary obligor and/or contingent obligor may be substituted by a
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new primary obligor or contingent obligor, as the case may be, which has no material assets other than assets which, immediately prior to such substitution, constituted the assets of the original primary obligor and/or contingent obligor), (ii) the principal amount of any such refinancing Indebtedness (as determined as of the date of the incurrence of such refinancing Indebtedness in accordance with GAAP) does not exceed the principal amount of the Indebtedness refinanced thereby together with any premium actually paid thereon and reasonable costs and expenses (including underwriting discounts) incurred in connection with such refinancing Indebtedness, (iii) the interest rate applicable to such refinancing Indebtedness shall not be less favorable to the obligor than it would obtain in an arm’s length transaction with a Person that is not an Affiliate thereof and shall reflect the prevailing market conditions at the time of such refinancing, (iv) such refinancing Indebtedness does not have any scheduled installments of principal thereof due prior to the date that is six months after the Stated Multi-Currency Termination Date, (v) with respect to each issue of refinancing Indebtedness in excess of $5,000,000 (or, with respect to any other currency, the Equivalent thereof) in the aggregate, either (A) the covenants, defaults and similar provisions applicable to such refinancing Indebtedness or obligations are no more restrictive, taken as a whole, than the provisions contained in and otherwise consistent with market terms of agreements governing comparable Indebtedness of similar companies in the high yield market at the time of such refinancing and do not conflict with the provisions of this Agreement,provided, that a certificate of a Responsible Officer delivered to the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent at least five Business Days prior to the incurrence of such refinancing Indebtedness, together with a reasonably detailed description of the material terms and conditions of such Indebtedness or drafts of the documentation relating thereto, stating that the Company has determined in good faith that such terms and conditions satisfy the foregoing requirement shall be conclusive evidence that such terms and conditions satisfy the foregoing requirement unless the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent notifies the Company within such five Business Day period that it disagrees with such determination (including a reasonable description of the basis upon which it disagrees), or (B) such refinancing Indebtedness is otherwise upon terms and subject to definitive documentation which is in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent, (vi) if the Indebtedness being refinanced is Indebtedness under the Subordinated Notes Indenture, such refinancing Indebtedness shall be (A) subordinated to the Payment Obligations on terms that are reasonably satisfactory to the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent (it being understood that subordination terms substantially similar to those applicable to the Subordinated Notes are deemed to be satisfactory) or (B) pursuant to a Permitted Third Lien Financing and (vii) such refinancing Indebtedness shall be unsecured unless pursuant to a Permitted Third Lien Financing.
(c) Indebtedness (i) of the Company owing to any of its wholly-owned Subsidiaries, (ii) of any wholly-owned Subsidiary of the Company owing to any other wholly-owned Subsidiary of the Company and (iii) of any wholly-owned Subsidiary of the Company owing to the Company;provided,however, in each case, that the aggregate principal amount of such Indebtedness of any Subsidiary that is not a Guarantor incurred after the date hereof shall be subject toSection 11.8(j);
(d) Indebtedness of any Foreign Subsidiary or any foreign branch of a Domestic Subsidiary principally doing business outside of the United States (including, without limitation, Indebtedness on account of letters of credit not issued under this Agreement) incurred for working capital purposes (and, without duplication, any Contingent Obligation of the Company in respect thereof) in an aggregate principal amount at any time outstanding not exceeding for the Foreign Subsidiaries and foreign branches of Domestic Subsidiaries in the aggregate $50,000,000 (or, with respect to any other currency, the Equivalent in Dollars thereof);provided,however, that for purposes of thisSection 11.2(d), such aggregate principal amount
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shall not include (x) an amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of Indebtedness of the Foreign Subsidiaries and foreign branches of Domestic Subsidiaries to any bank which is offset by compensating balances at such bank (which Indebtedness shall be permitted hereunder) and (y) Indebtedness otherwise permitted by thisSection 11.2;
(e) Indebtedness of the Company to Affiliates in respect of Capital Contribution Notes which evidence cash amounts actually received by the Company from such Affiliates on account of Capital Contributions;
(f) Indebtedness to employees or former employees of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries in the nature of deferred compensation;
(g) Indebtedness of the Company and its Subsidiaries under Interest Rate Agreements which are in existence on the date hereof, and other Indebtedness of the Company and its Subsidiaries under Interest Rate Agreements, which (i) have a tenor which is not in excess of six years, (ii) are not leveraged, (iii) are in an aggregate notional amount (net of any offsetting economic positions among such Interest Rate Agreements) not to exceed $300,000,000 at any one time outstanding (including, without limitation, all Interest Rate Agreements in effect on the date hereof) and (iv) have the sole purpose of hedging interest rate exposure of the Company and its Subsidiaries;
(h) Hedging Contracts of the Company and its Subsidiaries entered into in the ordinary course of business of the Company and its Subsidiaries for the purpose of providing foreign exchange for their respective operating requirements or of hedging currency exposure;
(i) unsecured Indebtedness of the Company to an M&F Lender in an aggregate amount not to exceed $152,000,000 at any one time outstanding (as may be increased due to the accrual and capitalization of interest) (the “Permitted M&F Loan Amount”), consisting of Indebtedness in respect of (i) the M&F Consolidated Line of Credit and (ii) any refinancing or replacement of, or addition to, any such Indebtedness (whether upon repayment of such Indebtedness or at any time thereafter) in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed the Permitted M&F Loan Amount on terms and conditions (taken as whole) that are no less favorable to the Company or the Lenders than the terms and conditions of the M&F Loans as in effect on the Amendment No. 4 Effective Date (taken as a whole);provided,however, that such Indebtedness may be refinanced or replaced by any Person other than an M&F Lender (or any Affiliate thereof) to the extent (A) the final maturity date for such refinancing Indebtedness shall be at least 90 days after the Stated Multi-Currency Termination Date, (B) the aggregate principal amount of any Indebtedness permitted under thisclause (i)shall not exceed the Permitted M&F Loan Amount and (C) the covenants, defaults and similar provisions applicable to such refinancing Indebtedness or obligations are no more restrictive, taken as a whole, than the provisions contained in and otherwise consistent with market terms of agreements governing Indebtedness of similar companies in the high yield market at the time of such refinancing and do not conflict with the provisions of this Agreement; provided, that a certificate of a Responsible Officer delivered to the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent at least five Business Days prior to the incurrence of such refinancing Indebtedness, together with a reasonably detailed description of the material terms and conditions of such Indebtedness or drafts of the documentation relating thereto, stating that the Company has determined in good faith that such terms and conditions satisfy the foregoing requirement shall be conclusive evidence that such terms and conditions satisfy the foregoing requirement unless the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent notifies the Company within such five Business Day period that it disagrees with such determination (including a reasonable description of the basis upon which it disagrees);
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(j) Indebtedness of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries in the nature of guarantees as referred to inclause (k) of the definition of “Indebtedness” inSection 1.1 which is permitted bySection 11.3(m);
(k) Indebtedness of any Foreign Subsidiary or a foreign branch of a Domestic Subsidiary principally doing business outside of the United States to any Person (other than an Affiliate of the Company), in an aggregate principal amount at any one time outstanding not to exceed $50,000,000 (or with respect to any other currency, the Equivalent in Dollars thereof);provided,however, that, such Indebtedness (i) is not guaranteed by the Company (except to the extent that the Lien permitted bySection 11.3(m), in itself, constitutes a guarantee) and (ii) is either offset or secured by a counterpart deposit, compensating balance or a pledge of cash deposit;provided,further, that such counterpart deposit, compensating balance or cash deposit pledge does not constitute Collateral (as defined in any Security Document) or any of the Unpledged International Property;
(l) Capital Lease Obligations and purchase money Indebtedness of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries to finance the acquisition of capital assets;provided,however, that the Dollar Equivalent of the aggregate outstanding principal amount of all such Capital Lease Obligations and purchase money Indebtedness shall not exceed $35,000,000 at any time;
(m) Indebtedness to any Person (other than an Affiliate of the Company) in respect of the undrawn portion of the face amount of or unpaid reimbursement obligations in respect of letters of credit not issued under this Agreement for the account of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries in an aggregate amount at any one time outstanding not to exceed $30,000,000 (or with respect to any other currency, the Equivalent in Dollars thereof);provided,however, that such Indebtedness is offset or secured by a counterpart deposit, compensating balance or a pledge of cash deposits;
(n) Indebtedness of the Company under the Designated Senior Secured Indenture so long as such Indebtedness is repurchased or redeemed on or prior to the date that is 60 days after the Closing Date;
(o) additional Indebtedness in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $200,000,000 at any one time outstanding;provided,however, that such Indebtedness shall be unsecured at all times during the term of this Agreement;
(p) Indebtedness incurred in connection with financing Permitted Acquisitions or any refinancing of Indebtedness under this clause (p);provided,however, that any Indebtedness pursuant this clause (p) shall be (i) unsecured at all times during the term of this Agreement and (ii) subordinated to the Payment Obligations on terms that are reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agents (it being understood that subordination terms substantially similar to those applicable to the Subordinated Notes are deemed to be satisfactory); and
(q) Indebtedness in respect of the New Term Loan Payment Obligations (including pursuant to any Incremental Term Loans) and any Indebtedness resulting from the refinancing of such Indebtedness;provided,however, that (i) the aggregate principal amount of any Indebtedness permitted under this clause (q) at any time outstanding shall not exceed the sum of (A) $1,040,000,000 plus (B) in the case of any refinancing, the amount of any premium actually paid on the Indebtedness being refinanced and reasonable costs and expenses (including underwriting discounts) incurred in connection with such refinancing Indebtedness, (ii) the
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primary obligor with respect to any such refinancing Indebtedness is the same as the primary obligor on the Indebtedness refinanced thereby and any contingent obligor of such refinancing Indebtedness was or would have been required to be a contingent obligor of the Indebtedness refinanced thereby, (iii) the interest rate applicable to such refinancing Indebtedness shall not be less favorable to the obligor than it would obtain in an arm’s length transaction with a Person that is not an Affiliate thereof and shall reflect the prevailing market conditions at the time of such refinancing, (iv) such refinancing Indebtedness does not have a final maturity prior to the the Stated Multi-Currency Termination Date, (v) the covenants, defaults and similar provisions applicable to such refinancing Indebtedness or obligations are no more restrictive, taken as a whole, than the provisions contained in the New Term Loan Agreement and do not conflict with the provisions of this Agreement,provided, that a certificate of a Responsible Officer delivered to the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent at least five Business Days prior to the incurrence of such refinancing Indebtedness, together with a reasonably detailed description of the material terms and conditions of such Indebtedness or drafts of the documentation relating thereto, stating that the Company has determined in good faith that such terms and conditions satisfy the foregoing requirement shall be conclusive evidence that such terms and conditions satisfy the foregoing requirement unless the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent notifies the Company within such five Business Day period that it disagrees with such determination (including a reasonable description of the basis upon which it disagrees), and (vi) such refinancing indebtedness is subject to an intercreditor agreement on terms reasonably satisfactory to the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent (it being understood that terms substantially similar to those applicable to the New Term Loans under the Intercreditor Agreement are deemed to be satisfactory);
provided,however, that in no event may the Company or any of its Subsidiaries incur any Indebtedness to REV Holdings or RPH.
Section 11.3 Limitation on Liens. The Company will not, and will not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, create, incur, assume or suffer to exist any Lien upon any of their properties, assets (including shares of stock) or revenues, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, except for:
(a) Liens for taxes not yet due or which are being contested in good faith and by appropriate proceedings if adequate reserves with respect thereto are maintained on the books of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, as the case may be, in accordance with GAAP;
(b) carriers’, warehousemens’, mechanics’, materialmens’, repairmens’ or other like Liens arising in the ordinary course of business which are not overdue for a period of more than 45 days or which are being contested in good faith and by appropriate proceedings;
(c) pledges or deposits in connection with workers’ compensation, unemployment insurance and other social security legislation;provided,however, that no such Lien shall encumber any Collateral (other than cash or Cash Equivalents) under any of the Security Documents or any of the Unpledged International Property;
(d) deposits to secure the performance of bids, trade contracts (other than for borrowed money), leases, statutory obligations, surety and appeal bonds, performance bonds and other obligations of a like nature incurred in the ordinary course of business,provided,however, that no such Lien shall encumber any Collateral (other than cash or Cash Equivalents) under any of the Security Documents or any of the Unpledged International Property;
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(e) easements, rights-of-way, restrictions and other similar encumbrances incurred in the ordinary course of business which, in the aggregate, are not substantial in amount, and which do not in any case materially detract from the value of the property subject thereto or interfere with the ordinary conduct of the business of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries;
(f) Liens in favor of the United States of America for amounts paid by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries as progress payments under government contracts entered into by them;provided,however, that no such Lien shall encumber any Collateral under any of the Security Documents or any of the Unpledged International Property;
(g) Liens existing on the date of this Agreement which are disclosed in the title insurance policies delivered pursuant toSection 9.1(d) orSchedule 11.3;
(h) Liens under the Security Documents (including, without limitation, Liens which secure Designated Eligible Obligations as provided for in the Intercreditor Agreement) or any other Lien securing all or any portion of the Payment Obligations or the New Term Loan Payment Obligations or any refinancings thereof permitted bySection 11.2(q), or Designated Eligible Obligations as provided for in the Intercreditor Agreement;
(i) attachment, judgment or other similar Liens arising in connection with court or arbitration proceedings; provided,however, that the same are discharged, or that execution or enforcement thereof is stayed pending appeal, within 30 days or (in the case of any execution or enforcement pending appeal) such lesser time during which such appeal may be taken;
(j) other Liens incidental to the conduct of the business of the Company and its Subsidiaries or the ownership of any of their assets not incurred in connection with Indebtedness or Contingent Obligations, which Liens do not in any case materially detract from the value of the property subject thereto or interfere with the ordinary conduct of the business of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries;provided,however, that no such Lien shall encumber any Collateral under any Security Document or any of the Unpledged International Property;
(k) Liens securing any Indebtedness permitted bySection 11.2(d) or any Liens replacing such permitted Liens; provided,however, that (i) no such Lien shall encumber any asset of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries organized under the laws of a jurisdiction within the United States or any Collateral under any Security Document or any of the Unpledged International Property and (ii) any such Lien which secures reimbursement obligations under letters of credit not issued under this Agreement shall be limited to (A) the assets acquired or shipped with the support of such letter of credit and (B) any assets of a Foreign Subsidiary which are in the care, custody or control of such issuer of such letter of credit in the ordinary course of business;
(l) Liens securing any Indebtedness permitted bySection 11.2(g),Section 11.2(h) or obligations of any Foreign Subsidiary or a foreign branch of any Domestic Subsidiary principally doing business outside of the United States in respect of treasury, depository, overdraft and other cash management arrangements maintained with any Lender, any Affiliate of a Lender or any other Person reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agents or any Liens replacing such permitted Liens;provided,however, that no such Lien shall encumber any asset of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries organized under the laws of a jurisdiction within the United States or any Collateral under any Security Document or any of the Unpledged International Property;
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(m) Liens in the nature of counterpart deposits or pledges of cash deposits of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries to secure Indebtedness of Foreign Subsidiaries of the Company or a foreign branch of a Domestic Subsidiary principally doing business outside of the United States, which Indebtedness is permitted pursuant toSection 11.2(k)); provided,however, that no such Lien shall encumber any Collateral under any of the Security Documents or any of the Unpledged International Property;
(n) possessory Liens in favor of securities intermediaries, commodity intermediaries, brokers and dealers arising in connection with the acquisition or disposition of investments of the type permitted bySection 11.8;provided,however, that such Liens (i) attach only to such investments and (ii) secure only obligations incurred in the ordinary course and arising in connection with the acquisition or disposition of such investments and not any obligation in connection with margin financing; andprovided,further, that such Liens attach only to the property of the Company or its Subsidiary, as the case may be, for whose account any such obligations have been incurred;
(o) purchase money Liens granted by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (including the interest of a lessor under a Capital Lease and purchase money Liens to which any property is subject at the time, on or after the date hereof, of the Company’s or such Subsidiary’s acquisition thereof) securing Indebtedness permitted underSection 11.2(l) and limited in each case to the property purchased with the proceeds of such purchase money Indebtedness or subject to such Capital Lease (or proceeds thereof or additional property in the nature of improvements thereto);
(p) Liens in the nature of counterpart deposits or pledges of cash deposits of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries to secure Indebtedness permitted pursuant toSection 11.2(m);provided,however, that the amount of any such deposit does not exceed the amount of the Indebtedness it secures;
(q) additional Liens incurred in the ordinary course of business of the Company and its Subsidiaries securing Indebtedness or other obligations of the Company and/or any of its Subsidiaries (other than such Indebtedness or other obligation owing to an Affiliate of the Company) not to exceed $10,000,000 (or, with respect to any other currency, the Equivalent thereof) in the aggregate at any one time outstanding; provided,however, that no such Lien shall encumber any Collateral (other than cash or Cash Equivalents) under any of the Security Documents or any of the Unpledged International Property; and
(r) Liens securing any Permitted Third Lien Financing.
Section 11.4 Limitation on Contingent Obligations. The Company will not, and will not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, agree to, or assume or incur, or otherwise in any way be or become responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, with respect to, any Contingent Obligation, except for:
(a) the Guaranty;
(b) Contingent Obligations set forth onSchedule 11.4;
(c) any Contingent Obligation of the Company in the nature of a guarantee in the ordinary course of business of any Indebtedness or other obligations of any of its Subsidiaries permitted under this Agreement;
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(d) any Contingent Obligation of any Subsidiary of the Company in the nature of a guarantee in the ordinary course of business of any Indebtedness or other obligations of any of the Subsidiaries of such Subsidiary permitted under this Agreement;
(e) any Contingent Obligation of any Subsidiary of the Company in the nature of a guarantee in the ordinary course of business of Indebtedness (other than the Subordinated Notes, the Designated Senior Secured Notes or any Indebtedness referred to inSection 11.2(b)that is not permitted to have such Contingent Obligation by the terms ofSection 11.2(b)) or other obligations of the Company or any other Subsidiary of the Company;
(f) any Contingent Obligation of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries in the nature of a guarantee of Indebtedness of any Permitted Joint Venture;provided,however, that the incurrence of such Contingent Obligation is permitted bySection 11.8(e)orSection 11.8(k); and
(g) any Contingent Obligation of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries in the nature of a guarantee of Indebtedness of officers and directors of the Company and its Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business;provided,however, that the sum of the aggregate principal amount of the Indebtedness so guaranteed and the aggregate principal amount of all then outstanding loans permitted bySection 11.8(f) does not exceed $7,000,000 at any one time outstanding.
Section 11.5 Limitation on Fundamental Changes. The Company will not, and will not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, enter into any transaction in the nature of merger or consolidation or amalgamation, or liquidate, wind up or dissolve itself (or suffer any liquidation or dissolution), convey, sell, lease, assign, transfer (including any transfer, relocation, situation or registration of any asset owned by any Loan Party to the Commonwealth of Australia other than in the ordinary course of business) or otherwise dispose of, in one transaction or a series of related transactions, all or a substantial part of the business or assets of the Company, or enter into any such transaction or series of related transactions with regard to a group of Subsidiaries which, if merged into a single Subsidiary, would constitute a substantial part of the business or assets of the Company, or acquire by purchase or otherwise all or substantially all the business or assets of, or stock or other evidences of beneficial ownership of, any Person, except that during such time as no Specified Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing (or would result therefrom):
(a) the Company and its Subsidiaries may engage in Permitted Intercompany Transfers; and
(b) the Company and any of its Subsidiaries may engage in transactions permitted underSection 11.6 or Section 11.8(d), (e), (i) or (k).
Section 11.6 Limitation on Sale of Assets. The Company will not, and will not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, sell, lease, assign, transfer or otherwise dispose of any of its assets (including, without limitation, receivables and leasehold interests), whether now owned or hereafter acquired, or, in the case of any of the Subsidiaries of the Company, issue any Stock or Stock Equivalents (other than any director’s qualifying shares), to any Person, except:
(a) sales, transfers and other dispositions by the Company and its Subsidiaries of (i) obsolete or worn out property in the ordinary course of business or (ii) contemplated byclause (b)(ii) of the definition of “Net Proceeds Event”;
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(b) sales, transfers and other dispositions of property (including, without limitation, inventory) by the Company and its Subsidiaries to third parties in the ordinary course of business for fair market value;
(c) during such time as no Specified Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing (or would result therefrom), Permitted Intercompany Transfers;
(d) during such time as no Specified Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing (or would result therefrom), any Specified Dispositions for fair market value (which property, in the aggregate, the Company hereby represents and warrants is not material to the conduct of the business of the Company and its Subsidiaries);
(e) during such time as no Specified Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing (or would result therefrom), sales, transfers and other dispositions of assets of the Company and its Subsidiaries to Permitted Joint Ventures in accordance with the provisions of Section 11.8;
(f) during such time as no Specified Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing (or would result therefrom), any Resale Transactions to Persons other than Affiliates for fair market value;
(g) other sales, transfers and other dispositions by the Company and its Subsidiaries which are permitted bySection 10.14,11.3 or11.5; and
(h) sales, transfers and other dispositions by the Company and its Subsidiaries of assets with an aggregate fair market value not to exceed (i) $50,000,000 in the calendar year ending December 31, 2006 and (ii) $25,000,000 in any calendar year thereafter;provided,however, that, in the case of clauses (i) and (ii), no Default or Event of Default shall be in effect prior to or after giving effect to any such sale, transfer or other disposition;provided,further, that in the event that any amount of assets permitted to be disposed of in any calendar year pursuant to this clause (h) is not disposed of during such calendar year, such amount may be carried over for dispositions in any subsequent calendar year (up to a maximum amount not to exceed $50,000,000 and limited to an aggregate fair market value of $50,000,000 for any calendar year);provided,further, that, in the case of clauses (i) and (ii), all Net Proceeds of such sale, transfer or other disposition are applied to the payment of the Payment Obligations as set forth in, and to the extent required by,Section 7.3(e)(ii)).
Section 11.7 Limitation on Restricted Payments. (a) The Company will not, and will not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, make any Restricted Payment, except that, so long as no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing at the time such Restricted Payment is made or would result therefrom and the representations and warranties deemed to be made pursuant toSection 11.7(b) are true and correct in all material respects as of the date such Restricted Payment is made, the following Restricted Payments may be made:
(i) Restricted Payments on account of amounts payable under the Prior Tax Sharing Agreement, with respect to state and local taxes and federal taxes;provided,however, that no such Restricted Payment (whether in cash or otherwise) shall be made more than ten Business Days prior to the date upon which the related liability to the Internal Revenue Service (or the relevant state or local taxing authority) for tax (including estimated taxes) is paid (or, if no such taxes are payable, ordinarily would have been due);
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(ii) Restricted Payments made to Permitted Joint Ventures, to the extent that such Restricted Payments are permitted pursuant toSection 11.8(e) orSection 11.8(k);
(iii) Restricted Payments made from time to time to finance Revlon’s purchase, redemption, acquisition or retirement for value of, or payment of amounts owing in respect of, any shares, interests, rights to purchase, warrants, options, participations, stock appreciation rights, performance units or other equivalents or interests in the equity of Revlon held by any current or former director, officer, consultant or employee of Revlon, the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company in such person’s role as a director, officer, consultant or employee (or by their estates or any beneficiaries of their estates);provided,however, that (x) the sum of (1) the aggregate amount of Restricted Payments made pursuant to thisclause (iii) and (2) the aggregate amount of open-market purchases of common stock and restricted stock of Revlon together with any other investments made as permitted underSection 11.8(g), does not exceed $8,000,000 in any calendar year and (y) amounts available pursuant to thisclause (iii)to be utilized for Restricted Payments during any calendar year which are not utilized during such year may be carried forward and utilized in any succeeding calendar year;
(iv) subject to the limitations set forth inSections 11.8(f) and11.8(g), Restricted Payments made from time to time to finance the investments contemplated bySections 11.8(f) and11.8(g); and
(v) additional Restricted Payments in an aggregate amount, together with the aggregate principal amount of all Indebtedness defeased, prepaid or otherwise repurchased pursuant toSection 11.9(c)(vi), not to exceed the sum of (x) $15,000,000 and (y) the portion, if any, of Capital Contributions received by the Company that (1) are not used to defease, prepay or otherwise repurchase the principal amount of any Indebtedness under the Subordinated Notes Indenture and (2) do not constitute a Cure Amount or a New Term Loan Cure Amount.
(b) The making of each Restricted Payment pursuant toSection 11.7(a) shall constitute a representation and warranty by the Company that, on and as of the date upon which such Restricted Payment is made (both before and after giving effect to the making thereof), the representations and warranties contained inSection 8.10andSection 8.15(a) are true and correct.
Section 11.8 Limitation on Investments. The Company will not, and will not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, make or commit to make any advance, loan, extension of credit or capital contribution to, or purchase of any stock, bonds, notes, debentures or other securities of, or make any other investment in, any Person, except as otherwise permitted bySection 11.10 and except that:
(a) each of the Company and its Subsidiaries may make or commit to make investments in cash or Cash Equivalents held in a Deposit Account or a Control Account, subject toSection 10.19, if applicable, with respect to the Company and the Subsidiary Guarantors;
(b) each of the Company and its Subsidiaries may make or commit to make investments in Accounts, contract rights, accounts and chattel paper (as defined in the UCC), put and call foreign exchange options to the extent necessary to hedge foreign exchange exposures or foreign exchange spot and forward contracts, and notes receivable, arising or acquired in the ordinary course of business and in Hedging Contracts;
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(c) the Company may make or commit to make any loan or advance or purchase any securities constituting a Restricted Payment permitted bySection 11.7;
(d) if in the reasonable judgment of the Company, any customer is deemed to be in a reorganization or unable to make a timely cash payment on Indebtedness or other obligations of such customer owing to it, each of the Company and its Subsidiaries may invest or commit to invest in securities issued by such customer or any Affiliate thereof (other than any Affiliate of the Company) in lieu of cash payment;provided,however, that the Company or such Subsidiary, as the case may be, has paid no new consideration (other than forgiveness of Indebtedness or other obligations) therefor;
(e) each of the Company and its Subsidiaries may make or commit to make Investments; provided, however, that (i) no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing at the time of such Investment (or would result therefrom) and (ii) the aggregate Investment Consideration (excluding any such consideration paid with the proceeds of, or Stock or Stock Equivalents issued pursuant to, an Equity Offering and as reduced by the amount equal to the Net Proceeds received by the Company and its Subsidiaries from any Net Proceeds Event on account of any Resale Transaction with respect to any such Investment) with respect to all such Investments made after the Amendment No. 4 Effective Date pursuant to thisSection 11.8(e) plus Contingent Obligations incurred after the Amendment No. 4 Effective Date pursuant toSection 11.4(f) by virtue of thisSection 11.8(e) plus Intercompany Investments made after the Amendment No. 4 Effective Date pursuant toSection 11.8(j)(iii)(z) does not exceed $50,000,000 at any one time outstanding;
(f) each of the Company and its Subsidiaries may make or commit to make loans to officers and directors of the Company and its Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business to the extent permitted by applicable law, in an aggregate principal amount which, in the aggregate with all then outstanding Contingent Obligations permitted by Section 11.4(g), does not exceed $7,000,000 at any one time outstanding from the Company and its Subsidiaries to all such officers and directors;
(g) the Company (and, in the case ofclause (ii) below, the Company’s Domestic Subsidiaries) may make or commit to make investments in (i) open-market purchases of common stock of Revlon and (ii) any other investment available to highly compensated employees under any “excess 401-(k) plan” of the Company (or any of its Domestic Subsidiaries, as applicable), in each case to the extent necessary to permit the Company (or such Domestic Subsidiary, as applicable) to satisfy its obligations under such “excess 401-(k) plan” for highly compensated employees;provided,however, that the aggregate amount of such purchases and other investments under thisSection 11.8(g) together with any Restricted Payments made as permitted under Section 11.7(a)(iii) does not exceed $8,000,000 in any year and (ii) amounts available pursuant to thisSection 11.8(g) to be utilized for investments during any year which are not utilized during such year may be carried forward and utilized in any succeeding year;
(h) subject to the limitations set forth inSection 11.7(a)(iii), each of the Company and its Subsidiaries may make or commit to make investments from time to time in connection with the transactions contemplated bySection 11.7(a)(iii);
(i) each of the Company and its Subsidiaries may make or commit to make Permitted Acquisitions;
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(j) each of the Company and its Subsidiaries may make or commit to make any advance, loan, extension of credit or capital contribution to, or purchase any Stock or Stock Equivalents, bonds, notes, debentures or other securities of, or make any other investment in, any of the Company (except for any Stock, Stock Equivalents or bonds, notes, debentures or other securities or other Indebtedness, other than intercompany Indebtedness incurred in the ordinary course of business, of the Company) or any Subsidiary (each an “Intercompany Investment”);provided,however, that with respect to any Intercompany Investment made after the date hereof by the Company or any Domestic Subsidiary in any Subsidiary that is not a Guarantor, (i) such Intercompany Investment shall only be made in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice, (ii) if such Intercompany Investment is made in cash as an advance, loan or other extension of credit, such Intercompany Investment shall be evidenced by an intercompany note which, in the case of any such note held by the Company or any Subsidiary Guarantor, shall be promptly pledged to the Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, pursuant to the relevant Security Documents and (iii) if such Intercompany Investment is made in cash as a capital contribution, such Intercompany Investment shall only be made in a Foreign Subsidiary (w) in an aggregate amount such that after giving effect thereto, such Foreign Subsidiary (A) is in compliance with all material Requirements of Law applicable to it with respect to capitalization, (B) has sufficient capital with which to conduct its business in accordance with past practice and (C) is not undercapitalized to such an extent that, solely as a result of such undercapitalization, (I) any creditor of such Foreign Subsidiary would be deemed under the laws of any relevant jurisdiction to owe a fiduciary duty to any other creditor of such Foreign Subsidiary or (II) if applicable, the Local Loans made or the Acceptances created by the relevant Local Fronting Lender to such Foreign Subsidiary would be subordinated to any obligations of such Foreign Subsidiary owing to any other Person, (x) to the extent that on the date of such contribution, the cash contributed to the capital of the applicable Foreign Subsidiary, if loaned or advanced through an intercompany loan evidenced by a note, would either (A) not cause the Company or the Domestic Subsidiary of the Company acquiring such note to be deemed to be doing business in any jurisdiction outside of the United States or otherwise subject to taxation or regulation in such jurisdiction or (B) not require the Foreign Subsidiary issuing such note to withhold from any payment made in respect thereof any amount now or hereafter imposed, levied, collected or assessed by any relevant jurisdiction, or any political subdivision or taxing authority thereof or therein, (y) in connection with any sale, transfer or other disposition of capital stock or other equity interests or assets of such Foreign Subsidiary permitted hereunder, to the extent that the aggregate amount of such capital contribution does not exceed the aggregate amount outstanding of any Indebtedness and other obligations of such Foreign Subsidiary owing to the Company or any of its Domestic Subsidiaries that was in each case created or otherwise incurred on or prior to the date of such sale, transfer or other disposition and which Indebtedness and other obligations are outstanding immediately prior to such sale, transfer or other disposition or (z)in connection with the formation or organization of such Foreign Subsidiary, to the extent that the amounts expended after the Amendment No. 4 Effective Date pursuant to thisSection 11.8(j)(iii)(z) plus amounts expended after the Amendment No. 4 Effective Date pursuant toSection 11.8(e) plus Contingent Obligations incurred after the Amendment No. 4 Effective Date pursuant toSection 11.4(f) by virtue ofSection 11.8(e) do not exceed $50,000,000 at any one time outstanding; and
(k) each of the Company and its Subsidiaries may make or commit to make Investments in Permitted Joint Ventures;provided,however, that (i) no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing at the time of such Investment (or would result therefrom) and (ii) the aggregate Investment Consideration (excluding any such consideration paid with the proceeds of, or Stock or Stock Equivalents issued pursuant to, an Equity Offering and as reduced by the amount equal to the Net Proceeds received by the Company and its Subsidiaries from any Net Proceeds Event on account of any Resale Transaction with respect to any such Investment)
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with respect to all such Investments made pursuant to this clause (k) does not exceed $50,000,000 at any one time outstanding;provided,further, that none of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries shall commit to make any such Investment unless such Investment is then permitted hereunder.
Section 11.9 Limitation on Payments on Account of Debt; Synthetic Purchase Agreements. The Company will not, and will not permit any of its Subsidiaries to:
(a) amend, waive, supplement or otherwise modify in any material respect (including without limitation, amendments of the interest rate or payment terms thereof) (i) any Indenture or any agreement governing the Subordinated Notes or any agreement governing any refinancing Indebtedness of the Indentures or the Term Loans incurred pursuant toSection 11.2(b), if the proposed amendment, waiver or supplement is adverse to the Lenders, (ii) any agreement governing the M&F Loans on terms and conditions (taken as whole) unless such amendment, waiver, supplement or modification is no less favorable to the Company or the Lenders than the terms and conditions of the M&F Loans as in effect on the Amendment No. 4 Effective Date (taken as a whole), (iii) any Indebtedness permitted pursuant toSection 11.2(o), if the proposed amendment, waiver or supplement is adverse to the Lenders or (iv) any other Indebtedness not permitted pursuant to the terms of this Agreement as in effect on the date hereof but entered into with the consent of the Required Lenders, if the proposed amendment, waiver or supplement is adverse to the Lenders;
(b) amend, waive, supplement or otherwise modify any Capital Contribution Note;
(c) directly or indirectly, defease, or make or commit to make any optional prepayment of, or otherwise repurchase, any of its Indebtedness, except:
(i) Indebtedness under this Agreement;
(ii) Indebtedness which is permitted byparagraphs (c), (d), (f), (g) through(m) and(o) through(q) ofSection 11.2;
(iii) Indebtedness which is permitted byparagraph (b) ofSection 11.2 with proceeds of any refinancing of such Indebtedness pursuant toSections 11.2(b),11.2(i) or11.2(o) or with proceeds of any Capital Contribution that do not constitute a Cure Amount or a New Term Loan Cure Amount;provided, that in the case of any refinancing with Indebtedness pursuant toSection 11.2(o), such refinancing Indebtedness matures at least six months after the Stated Multi-Currency Termination Date;
(iv) Indebtedness (including, without limitation, Indebtedness which is permitted underSection 11.2(b)) in an aggregate amount not to exceed the amount of Excess Cash Flow in any fiscal year not required to be applied as a mandatory prepayment of the New Term Loans pursuant to the New Term Loan Agreement;provided,however, that (1) the prepayment required bySection 7.3(a) (or any similar successor provision) of the New Term Loan Agreement with respect to such fiscal year has been made and (2) the Aggregate Actual Outstanding Multi-Currency Extensions of Credit (other than Undrawn L/C Obligations) at the time of such redemption, repurchase, defeasance or repayment is $50,000,000 or less;
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(v) Indebtedness (including, without limitation, Indebtedness which is permitted underSection 11.2(b)) that is repaid with the proceeds of Equity Offerings by Revlon; and
(vi) additional Indebtedness (including, without limitation, Indebtedness which is permitted underSection 11.2(b)) in an aggregate principal amount, together with the aggregate amount of all Restricted Payments made pursuant toSection 11.7(a)(v), not to exceed the sum of (x) $15,000,000 and (y) the portion, if any, of Capital Contributions received by the Company that are not used to defease, prepay or otherwise repurchase the principal amount of any Indebtedness under the Subordinated Notes Indenture; and
(d) enter into or be party to, or make any payment under, any Synthetic Purchase Agreement.
Section 11.10 Limitation on Transactions with Affiliates. The Company will not, and will not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, (a) engage in any transaction with any Affiliate of the Company, except upon terms no less favorable to the Company or such Subsidiary, as the case may be, than it would obtain in a comparable arm’s length transaction with a Person not an Affiliate, or (b) sell, transfer, convey, assign or otherwise dispose of any material asset to any Affiliate of the Company;provided,however, that nothing contained in thisSection 11.10 shall prohibit (x) the Company from making Restricted Payments permitted bySection 11.7, (y) the Company or any of its Subsidiaries from engaging in any transaction pursuant to and in accordance with the Occupancy Agreement, dated as of June 1, 2001, between M&FG and the Company, as amended by Amendments thereto dated as of October 14, 2003 and June 14, 2004 and (z) payments required to be made by the Company with respect to its obligations under the Company Tax Sharing Agreement.
Section 11.11 Hazardous Materials. The Company will not, and will not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, cause or knowingly permit any of the Mortgaged Properties or any other of its assets to be used to generate, manufacture, refine, transport, treat, store, handle, dispose, transfer, produce or process Hazardous Materials, except in compliance in all respects with all applicable Environmental Laws and in a manner that would not reasonably be expected to result in a liability under any applicable Environmental Laws, nor release, discharge, dispose of or permit or suffer any release or disposal as a result of any act or omission on its part, or on the part of any tenant or subtenant, of Hazardous Materials onto any such property or asset in violation of any Environmental Law or in a manner that would reasonably be expected to result in a liability under any applicable Environmental Laws, except where such non-compliance or liability would not be reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect.
Section 11.12 Accounting Changes. (a) The Company will not, and will not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, make or permit to be made any change in accounting policies affecting the presentation of financial statements or reporting practices from those employed by the Company in the audited financial statements contained in its Annual Report on Form 10-K for its fiscal year ended December 31, 2003, unless (i) such changes are required or permitted by GAAP, (ii) such changes are disclosed to the Lenders through the Administrative Agents or otherwise and (iii) if requested by the Administrative Agents, relevant prior financial statements are reconciled (in form and detail reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agents) to show comparative results and reconciliations.
(b) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, compliance with the financial covenants contained inSection 11.1 shall be determined based upon GAAP as
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in effect as of the date of, and as used in, the preparation of the audited consolidated financial statements of the Company and its Subsidiaries for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2005.
Section 11.13 Limitation on Negative Pledge Clauses. The Company will not, and will not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, enter into any agreement (other than the Loan Documents and documents related to the M&F Loans or the New Term Loan Agreement or any permitted refinancing thereof) with any Person which prohibits or limits the ability of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries to create, incur, assume or suffer to exist any Lien securing the Payment Obligations upon any of its properties, assets or revenues, whether now owned or hereafter acquired;provided,however, that any of the Company and its Subsidiaries may enter into any such agreement to the extent that such agreement is in connection with a Lien permitted byparagraph (c),(d),(f),(h),(j),(k),(m),(n),(o),(p),(q) or(r) ofSection 11.3 and any such prohibitions or limitations apply only to the property encumbered by such Lien.
Section 11.14 Amendment of Company Tax Sharing Agreement. The Company will not, and will not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, amend, modify, change, waive, cancel or terminate any term or condition of the Company Tax Sharing Agreement in a manner adverse to the interests of the Company or the Lenders without the prior written consent of the Required Lenders.
Section 11.15 Limitations on Restrictions on Subsidiary Distributions. The Company shall not, and shall not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, agree to enter into or suffer to exist or become effective any consensual encumbrance or restriction of any kind on the ability of such Subsidiary to pay dividends or make any other distribution or transfer of funds or assets or make loans or advances to or other investments in, or pay any Indebtedness owed to, the Company or any other Subsidiary of the Company, except (i) pursuant to the Loan Documents and the New Term Loan Agreement and any permitted refinancing thereof, (ii) any agreements governing purchase money Indebtedness or Capital Lease Obligations permitted bySection 11.2(l) (in which latter case, any prohibition or limitation shall only be effective against the assets financed thereby) and (iii) pursuant to any agreement relating to a disposition of property of the Company or any Subsidiary permitted under this Agreement, to the extent such restrictions restrict the transfer of the property subject to such agreement.
Section 11.16 Limitation on Activities of RPH. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement or any other Loan Document, the Company shall not cause or permit RPH to (a) conduct, transact or otherwise engage in, or commit to conduct, transact or otherwise engage in, any business or operations, (b) incur, create, assume or suffer to exist any Indebtedness or other liabilities or financial obligations or (c) own, lease, manage or otherwise operate any properties or assets (including cash and Cash Equivalents), in each case, other than (i) those incidental to RPH’s ownership and licensing of the Intellectual Property transferred to it in connection with the Company’s disposition of its professional products business and (ii) nonconsensual obligations imposed by Requirement of Law and obligations with respect to its capital stock.
Section 11.17 Prohibition on Speculative Hedging Transactions. The Company shall not, and shall not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, engage in any speculative transaction involving Hedging Contracts, except as expressly permitted under this Agreement and for the sole purpose of hedging in the ordinary course of business.
ARTICLE XII
EVENTS OF DEFAULT
Section 12.1 Events of Default. Upon the occurrence and during the continuance of any of the following events:
(a) Payments. Failure by any Borrower to pay any principal of any Loan, Note or Draft, or any L/C Reimbursement Obligation, when due in accordance with the terms thereof and hereof; or failure by any Borrower to pay any interest on any Loan, Note or Draft, or any L/C Reimbursement Obligation, within five days after the date when due in accordance with the terms thereof and hereof or any fee or other amount payable in connection with any Loan Document within five days after the date when due; or
(b) Representations and Warranties. Any representation or warranty made or deemed made by any Borrower or any other Loan Party in any Loan Document or which is contained in any certificate or financial statement furnished at any time under or in connection herewith or therewith shall prove to have been incorrect, false or misleading in any material respect on or as of the date when made or deemed to have been made; or
(c) Certain Covenants.
(i) Default by any Loan Party in the observance or performance of any negative covenant or agreement contained inSection 11.1(b), which Default either (A) has been specified in a written notice to the Company as an Event of Default by the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent, at the direction of the Required Multi-Currency Lenders, or (B) has continued for a period of 45 days without being cured or waived by the Required Multi-Currency Lenders; or
(ii) Default by any Loan Party in the observance or performance of any other negative covenant or agreement contained inArticle XI; or
(iii) Default by any Loan Party in the observance of any covenant or agreement contained inSections 10.4(with respect to the first sentence thereof) or10.7(a); or
(d) Other Covenants. Default by any Loan Party in the observance or performance of any other covenant or agreement contained or incorporated by reference in this Agreement or any other Loan Document and the continuance of such default unremedied for a period of 15 days; or
(e) Effectiveness of the Security Documents. On or after the Closing Date and subject toSection 10.16, (i) for any reason (other than any act on the part of any Agent or any Lender) any Security Document ceases to be or is not in full force and effect or any of the Liens intended to be created by any Security Document ceases to be or is not a valid and perfected Lien having the priority contemplated thereby with respect to Collateral having an aggregate fair market value in excess of $1,000,000 or (ii) any Borrower, or any other Loan Party shall assert in writing that any Security Document has ceased to be or is not in full force and effect; or
(f) Cross Default. Any of Revlon or any of its Subsidiaries shall Cross Default;
(g) Control Persons. (i) Any Person (or group of Persons acting in concert), other than Ronald O. Perelman or, in the event of his incompetence or death, his estate, heirs, executor, administrator, committee or other personal representative and his (or any of their) Affiliates (without giving effect toclause (a) of the definition thereof) (collectively, “ROP”), shall “control” the Company, as such term is used in Rule 405 promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or (ii) in the event that ROP ceases to so “control” the Company, any other Person (or group of Persons acting in concert) shall own, directly or indirectly, equity interests representing more than 35% of the total voting power represented by the issued and outstanding equity interests of the Company then entitled to vote in the election of the Board of Directors of the Company, or (iii) the Continuing Directors shall cease to constitute at least a majority of the board of directors of the Company; or
(h) Ownership. Revlon shall at any time for any reason cease to be the beneficial and record owner of 100% of the outstanding shares of capital stock and other equity interests of the Company; or
(i) Default under Company Tax Sharing Agreement. At any time, any party (other than the Company or any of its Subsidiaries) shall default in its payment obligations under the Company Tax Sharing Agreement; or
(j) Commencement of Bankruptcy or Reorganization Proceeding. (i) Revlon, any Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries shall commence any case, proceeding or other action (A) under any existing or future law of any jurisdiction, domestic or foreign, relating to bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or relief of debtors, seeking to have an order for relief entered with respect to it, or seeking to adjudicate it as bankrupt or insolvent, or seeking reorganization, arrangement, adjustment, wind-up, liquidation, dissolution, composition or other relief with respect to it or its debts, or (B) seeking appointment of a receiver, trustee, custodian or other similar official for it or for all or any substantial part of its assets; or, (ii) there shall be commenced against Revlon, any Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries any such case, proceeding or other action referred to inclause (i) of thisparagraph (j) which results in the entry of an order for relief or any such adjudication or appointment remains undismissed, undischarged or unbonded for a period of 60 days;provided,however, that each Borrower, for itself and as agent for each of its Subsidiaries, hereby expressly authorizes each Agent and each Lender to appear in any court conducting any such case, proceeding or other action during such 60-day period to preserve, protect and defend their rights under the Loan Documents; or (iii) there shall be commenced against Revlon, any Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries any case, proceeding or other action seeking issuance of a warrant of attachment, execution, distraint or similar process against all or any substantial part of its assets which results in the entry of an order for any such relief which shall not have been vacated, discharged, or stayed or bonded pending appeal within 60 days from the entry thereof; or (iv) Revlon, any Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries shall take any action authorizing, or in furtherance of, or indicating its consent to, approval of, or acquiescence in, any of the acts set forth above in thisparagraph (j); or (v) Revlon, any Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries shall generally not, or shall be unable to, or shall admit in writing its inability to, pay its debts as they become due; or
(k) Material Judgments. (i) One or more judgments or decrees shall be entered against the Company or any of its Subsidiaries involving in the aggregate a liability of $5,000,000 or more or any judgment or decree shall be entered against Revlon in excess of $20,000,000 (or, in each case, with respect to any other currency, the Equivalent thereof) and all such judgments or decrees shall not have been vacated, stayed, satisfied, discharged or bonded (or, if available subject to the foreign equivalent thereof) pending appeal within 60 days from the
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entry thereof (provided that no Event of Default shall arise under thisSection 12.1(k) as a result of any such judgment or decree to the extent that (x) it is covered by a valid policy of insurance covering payment thereof which has been provided by an Eligible Insurer and (y) such Eligible Insurer has been notified of, and has not disputed the claim made for payment of, the amount of such judgment or decree) or (ii) any non-monetary judgment or order shall be rendered against the Company or any of its Subsidiaries that is reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect, and in the case of eitherclause (i) or(ii), there shall be any period of 10 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 unless such judgment or order shall have been vacated, satisfied, discharged or bonded (or, if available subject to the foreign equivalent thereof) pending appeal; or
(l) ERISA. (i) Any Person shall engage in any “prohibited transaction” (as defined in Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code) involving any Plan, (ii) any “accumulated funding deficiency” (as defined in Section 302 of ERISA), whether or not waived, shall exist with respect to any Plan or, for years for which funding requirements are governed by the Pension Protection Act of 2006, any failure to satisfy the applicable minimum funding standard under Section 412(a)(2) of the Code, whether or not waived, shall exist with respect to any Plan, (iii) a Reportable Event shall occur with respect to, or proceedings shall commence to have a trustee appointed, or a trustee shall be appointed, to administer or to terminate, any Single Employer Plan, which Reportable Event or commencement of proceedings or appointment of a trustee is, in the reasonable opinion of the Required Lenders, likely to result in the termination of such Plan for purposes of Title IV of ERISA, (iv) any Single Employer Plan shall terminate for purposes of Title IV of ERISA, (v) the Company or any Commonly Controlled Entity of the Company shall, or in the reasonable opinion of the Required Lenders is likely to, incur any liability in connection with a withdrawal from, or the Insolvency or Reorganization of, a Multiemployer Plan or (vi) any other event or condition shall occur or exist, with respect to a Plan; and in each case inclauses (i) through(vi) above, such event or condition, together with all other such events or conditions, if any, would be reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect; or
(m) Matters Relating to Subordinated and Other Indebtedness. On or after the Closing Date, (i) if for any reason (other than any act on the part of any Agent or any Lender) (A) any Affiliate Subordination Letter then required to be delivered by an Affiliate pursuant to the terms of this Agreement shall cause to be or shall not be in full force and effect or (B) any Affiliate which is party to an Affiliate Subordination Letter shall assert in writing that the Affiliate Subordination Letter to which it is a party has ceased to be or is not in full force and effect or (ii) any Subordinated Notes or other Indebtedness (other than trade credit in the ordinary course of business and any Capital Contribution Note) of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries shall be held by (or otherwise owing to) any Affiliate of the Company (other than officers and directors of the Company) if such Affiliate has not executed and delivered an agreement substantially in the form of the Affiliate Subordination Letter within ten Business Days following the acquisition of such Indebtedness by such Affiliate;provided,however, that an Affiliate Subordination Letter shall not be required to be delivered with respect to (i) trade credit in the ordinary course of business, (ii) any Capital Contribution Note, (iii) any M&F Loan, (iv) any Indebtedness permitted underSection 11.2(o)or (v) any Indebtedness of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries of a class that is publicly held or issued pursuant to a Rule 144A offering, including Indebtedness issued pursuant to an Indenture; or
(n) Additional Subsidiaries. Revlon shall create or otherwise have any direct Subsidiary other than the Company; or
(o) Capital Contributions. Revlon shall fail to promptly (and in any event within five Business Days following receipt by it of the applicable Net Proceeds) make Capital Contributions to the Company in an amount equal to 100% of the Net Proceeds of any Equity Offering (other than amounts which are applied by Revlon to repurchase, repay, defease or redeem any Subordinated Notes, Existing Senior Notes, New Term Loans or other Indebtedness for borrowed money of the Company scheduled to mature on or prior to the Stated Multi-Currency Termination Date, which Indebtedness so purchased is substantially concurrently contributed by Revlon to the capital of the Company or transferred in exchange for Stock of the Company); or
(p) Revlon Operations. Revlon shall have any meaningful assets (other than any Capital Contribution Notes or rights with respect to the M&F Investment Agreement, the Company Tax Sharing Agreement and the Stockholders Agreement) or Indebtedness (other than (w) Indebtedness the Net Proceeds of which are applied to prepay the New Term Loans and reduce the Aggregate Multi-Currency Commitments to the extent required bySection 7.3(e)(i), (x) Indebtedness of the type contemplated byclause (i) of the definition of such term, (y) Indebtedness in respect of the Guaranty and (z) Indebtedness in respect of the Indentures or other permitted Indebtedness of the Company) or shall conduct any meaningful business, other than (i) its ownership of the Company and (ii) such activities as are customary for a publicly traded holding company which is not itself an operating company; or
(q) M&F Loans. Any M&F Lender shall have failed to fund any binding commitments by such M&F Lender under any agreement governing any M&F Loan, which request shall be sent promptly to the Administrative Agents pursuant toSection 10.2(f) hereof; or
(r) Designated Senior Secured Notes. The Company shall not have repurchased, repaid, defeased or redeemed in full all of the Designated Senior Secured Notes issued and outstanding under the Designated Senior Secured Indenture within 60 days after the Closing Date; or
(s) Subordinated Notes. The Subordinated Notes or the guarantees thereof (or any refinancing Indebtedness of the Subordinated Notes incurred pursuant toSection 11.2(b)(vi)(A)) shall cease, for any reason, to be validly subordinated to the Payment Obligations as provided in the Subordinated Note Indenture (or the agreement governing such refinancing Indebtedness) or the trustee in respect of the Subordinated Notes (or the agreement governing such refinancing Indebtedness) or the holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Subordinated Notes (or such refinancing Indebtedness) shall so assert; or
(t) Additional Equity Offerings. (i) The aggregate commitments by the M&F Lenders to provide the M&F Loans to the Company (whether such commitments are funded or unfunded) shall be less than $87,000,000 at any time during the period from the Amendment No. 2 Effective Date to the date on which Revlon shall have consummated one or more Equity Offerings after the Amendment No. 2 Effective Date generating at least $75,000,000 in gross proceeds and made Capital Contributions to the Company in an amount equal to the Net Proceeds in respect thereof, other than amounts which are applied by Revlon to repurchase, repay, defease or redeem any Subordinated Notes, Existing Senior Notes, New Term Loans or other Indebtedness for borrowed money of the Company scheduled to mature on or prior to the Stated Multi-Currency Termination Date (provided that no such Equity Offering shall be required hereunder), or (ii) the Company shall fail to apply any Capital Contributions referred to in clause (i) above promptly after its receipt thereof to repurchase, repay, defease or redeem any Subordinated Notes, Existing Senior Notes, New Term Loans or other Indebtedness for borrowed
money of the Company scheduled to mature on or prior to the Stated Multi-Currency Termination Date, including, without limitation, repayment of outstanding Multi-Currency Loans without any corresponding permanent reduction in the Aggregate Multi-Currency Commitment;
then, and in any such event, (x) if such event is an Event of Default specified inclause (i), (ii) or(iii) ofparagraph (j) of thisSection 12.1 with respect to any Loan Party, automatically the Commitments shall immediately terminate and the Loans hereunder (with accrued interest thereon) and all other amounts owing under this Agreement (including, without limitation, all amounts of L/C Obligations, whether or not the beneficiaries of the then outstanding Letters of Credit shall have presented the documents required thereunder), the Notes and the Drafts shall immediately become due and payable, and (y) if such event is any other Event of Default, any or all of the following actions may be taken: (i) with the consent of the Required Multi-Currency Lenders, the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent may, or upon the request of the Required Multi-Currency Lenders, the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent shall, by notice to the Company, declare the Aggregate Multi-Currency Commitment to be terminated forthwith, whereupon the Aggregate Multi-Currency Commitment shall immediately terminate; and/or (ii) with the consent of the Required Multi-Currency Lenders, the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent may, or upon the request of the Required Multi-Currency Lenders, the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent shall, by notice to the Company (on its own behalf and as agent for the Borrowing Subsidiaries), declare all or any part of the Revolving Credit Loans, Swing Line Loans, Local Loans and Acceptances (with accrued interest thereon) and any other amounts owing under this Agreement to the Multi-Currency Lenders (including, without limitation, all amounts of L/C Obligations, whether or not the beneficiaries of the then outstanding Letters of Credit shall have presented the documents required thereunder), the Revolving Credit Notes and the Drafts to be due and payable forthwith, whereupon the same shall immediately become due and payable; and/or (iii) with the consent of the Required Term Loan Lenders, the Term Loan Administrative Agent may, or upon the request of the Required Term Loan Lenders, the Term Loan Administrative Agent shall, by notice to the Company (on its own behalf and as agent for the Borrowing Subsidiaries), declare all or any part of the Term Loans (with accrued interest thereon) and any other amounts owing under this Agreement to the Term Loan Lenders and the Term Loan Notes to be due and payable forthwith, whereupon the same shall immediately become due and payable. In addition to the remedies set forth above, the Administrative Agents may direct the Collateral Agent to exercise any remedies provided for by the Security Documents in accordance with the terms thereof or any other remedies provided by applicable law.
With respect to all Letters of Credit with respect to which presentment for honor shall not have occurred at the time of an acceleration pursuant to the preceding paragraph, the Company shall at such time deposit as collateral security for such Letters of Credit in a Cash Collateral Account an amount of cash in Dollars equal to the Deposit Requirement in effect at such time. Amounts held in such Cash Collateral Account shall be applied by the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent (in such order as it shall elect) to the payment of the Payment Obligations on account of the Letters of Credit which are then or thereafter due and payable and to cause any then-outstanding Undrawn L/C Obligations to be Fully Secured. Following the payment of all such Payment Obligations and the termination of all Letters of Credit, any balance remaining in such Cash Collateral Account shall be applied in accordance with the Intercreditor Agreement.
Except as expressly provided above in thisSection 12.1, presentment, demand, protest and all other notices of any kind are hereby expressly waived.
Section 12.2 Right to Cure.
(a) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained inSection 12.1(c)(i), in the event that the Company fails to comply with the requirements of the covenant set forth inSection 11.1(b) for any period, at any time on or before the tenth day after the date of delivery of a Notice of Intent to Cure by the Company to the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent pursuant toSection 10.2(b), the Company shall have the right (the “Cure Right”) to issue Permitted Cure Securities to Revlon for cash or otherwise receive Capital Contributions in cash from Revlon, and upon the receipt by the Company of such cash (the “Cure Amount”), the covenant set forth inSection 11.1(b) shall be recalculated, giving effect to a pro forma increase to EBITDA in accordance with the definition thereof for the fiscal quarter for which such Cure Right was exercised in an amount equal to such Cure Amount (and such increase shall be included in each period that includes such fiscal quarter);provided,however, that such pro forma adjustment to EBITDA shall be given solely for the purpose of determining the existence of a Default or an Event of Default under the covenant set forth inSection 11.1(b) with respect to any period that includes the fiscal quarter for which such Cure Right was exercised and not for any other purpose under any Loan Document.
(b) If, after the exercise of the Cure Right and the recalculations pursuant toclause (a) above, the Company shall then be in compliance with the requirements of the covenant set forth inSection 11.1(b) for such fiscal quarter, the Company shall be deemed to have satisfied the requirements of the covenant set forth inSection 11.1(b) as of the relevant date of determination with the same effect as though there had been no failure to comply therewith at such date, and the applicable Default or Event of Default underSection 12.1(c)(i) that had occurred shall be deemed cured;provided,however, that (i) the Company may not exercise the Cure Right more than two times in any four fiscal quarter period, (ii) with respect to any exercise of the Cure Right, the Cure Amount shall be no greater than the amount required to cause the Company to be in compliance with the covenant set forth inSection 11.1(b) and (iii) to the extent that the Cure Amount proceeds are used to repay Indebtedness, such Indebtedness shall not be deemed to have been repaid for purposes of calculating the covenant inSection 11.1(b) for the period with respect to which such Cure Amount applies.
ARTICLE XIII
THE AGENTS
Section 13.1 Authorization and Action.
(a) Each Multi-Currency Lender and each Issuing Lender hereby appoints Citicorp as the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent hereunder, and each Multi-Currency Lender and each Issuing Lender authorizes the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents as are delegated to the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent under such documents and to exercise such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto. Without limiting the foregoing, each Multi-Currency Lender and each Issuing Lender hereby authorizes the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent to execute and deliver, and to perform its obligations under, each of the Loan Documents to which the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent is a party, to exercise all rights, powers and remedies that the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent may have under such Loan Documents.
(b) Each Term Loan Lender hereby appoints Citicorp as the Term Loan Administrative Agent hereunder and each Term Loan Lender authorizes the Term Loan Administrative Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers under
this Agreement and the other Loan Documents as are delegated to the Term Loan Administrative Agent under such agreements and to exercise such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto. Without limiting the foregoing, each Term Loan Lender hereby authorizes the Term Loan Administrative Agent to execute and deliver, and to perform its obligations under, each of the Loan Documents to which the Term Loan Administrative Agent is a party, to exercise all rights, powers and remedies that the Term Loan Administrative Agent may have under such Loan Documents.
(c) Each Lender and each Issuing Lender hereby acknowledges the appointment of Citicorp as the Collateral Agent, and hereby authorizes the Collateral Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers, as set forth in the Intercreditor Agreement.
(d) As to any matters not expressly provided for by this Agreement and the other Loan Documents (including enforcement or collection), the Agents shall not 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 (i) in the case of the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent, the Required Multi-Currency Lenders (or, where required by the express terms of this Agreement, a greater proportion of the Multi-Currency Lenders), and such instructions shall be binding upon each Multi-Currency Lender and each Issuing Lender, (ii) in the case of the Term Loan Administrative Agent, the Required Term Loan Lenders (or, where required by the express terms of this Agreement, a greater proportion of the Term Loan Lenders), and such instructions shall be binding upon each Term Loan Lender, and (iii) in the case of the Collateral Agent, as set forth in the Intercreditor Agreement, and such instructions shall be binding upon each Lender and each Issuing Lender (in each case, subject to any limitations imposed thereon in the Intercreditor Agreement);provided,however, that no Agent shall be required to take any action that (i) such Agent in good faith believes exposes it to personal liability unless such Agent receives an indemnification satisfactory to it from the applicable Lenders and the Issuing Lenders with respect to such action or (ii) is contrary to this Agreement or any Requirement of Law. Each Agent agrees to give to each applicable Lender and Issuing Lender prompt notice of each notice given to it by any Loan Party pursuant to the terms of this Agreement or the other Loan Documents.
(e) In performing its functions and duties hereunder and under the other Loan Documents, each Agent is acting solely on behalf of (i) the applicable Lenders, (ii) in the case of the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent, the Issuing Lenders and (iii) in the case of the Collateral Agent, the Secured Parties and its duties are entirely administrative in nature. No Agent assumes, or shall be deemed to have assumed, any obligation other than as expressly set forth herein and in the other Loan Documents or any other relationship as the agent, fiduciary or trustee of or for any Lender, Issuing Lender, Secured Party or holder of any other Payment Obligation. Each Agent may perform any of their duties under any Loan Document by or through their agents or employees.
(f) The Arranger, the Syndication Agent and the Documentation Agent shall have no obligations or duties whatsoever in such capacities under this Agreement or any other Loan Document and shall incur no liability hereunder or thereunder in such capacities.
Section 13.2 Agents’ Reliance, Etc. None of the Agents, any of their Affiliates or any of their respective directors, officers, agents or employees shall be liable for any action taken or omitted to be taken by it, him, her or them under or in connection with this Agreement or the other Loan Documents, except for its, his, her or their own gross negligence,
bad faith or willful misconduct. Without limiting the foregoing, each of the Agents (a) may treat the payee of any Note as its holder until such Note has been assigned in accordance withSection 14.6, (b) may rely on the Register to the extent set forth in Section 14.6, (c) may consult with legal counsel (including counsel to the Company or any other 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, (d) makes no warranty or representation to any Lender or Issuing Lender and shall not be responsible to any Lender or Issuing Lender for any statements, warranties or representations made by or on behalf of Revlon, the Company or any of the Company’s Subsidiaries in or in connection with this Agreement or any other Loan Document, (e) shall not have any duty to ascertain or to inquire either as to the performance or observance of any term, covenant or condition of this Agreement or any other Loan Document, as to the financial condition of any Borrower or any Loan Party or as to the existence or possible existence of any Default or Event of Default, (f) shall not be responsible to any Lender or Issuing Lender for the due execution, legality, validity, enforceability, genuineness, sufficiency or value of, or the attachment, perfection or priority of any Lien created or purported to be created under or in connection with, this Agreement, any other Loan Document or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant hereto or thereto and (g) shall incur no liability under or in respect of this Agreement or any other Loan Document by acting upon any notice, consent, certificate or other instrument or writing (which writing may be a telecopy or electronic mail) or any telephone message believed by it to be genuine and signed or sent by the proper party or parties.
Section 13.3 Posting of Approved Electronic Communications.
(a) Each of the Lenders, the Issuing Lenders and the Borrowers agree, and the Company shall cause each Subsidiary Guarantor to agree, that the Agents may, but shall not be obligated to, make the Approved Electronic Communications available to the Lenders and Issuing Lenders by posting such Approved Electronic Communications on IntraLinks™ or a substantially similar electronic platform chosen by the Agents to be their electronic transmission system (the “Approved Electronic Platform”).
(b) Although the Approved Electronic Platform and its primary web portal are secured with generally-applicable security procedures and policies implemented or modified by the Administrative Agents from time to time (including, as of the Closing Date, a dual firewall and a User ID/Password Authorization System) and the Approved Electronic Platform is secured through a single-user-per-deal authorization method whereby each user may access the Approved Electronic Platform only on a deal-by-deal basis, each of the Lenders, the Issuing Lenders and the Borrowers acknowledges and agrees, and the Company shall cause each Subsidiary Guarantor to acknowledge and agree, that the distribution of material through an electronic medium is not necessarily secure and that there are confidentiality and other risks associated with such distribution. In consideration for the convenience and other benefits afforded by such distribution and for the other consideration provided hereunder, the receipt and sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged, each of the Lenders, the Issuing Lenders and the Borrowers hereby approves, and the Company shall cause each Subsidiary Guarantor to approve, distribution of the Approved Electronic Communications through the Approved Electronic Platform and understands and assumes, and the Company shall cause each Subsidiary Guarantor to understand and assume, the risks of such distribution.
(c) THE APPROVED ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS AND THE APPROVED ELECTRONIC PLATFORM ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE”. NONE OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENTS OR ANY OF THEIR AFFILIATES OR ANY
OF THEIR RESPECTIVE OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, ADVISORS OR REPRESENTATIVES (THE “AGENT AFFILIATES”) WARRANT THE ACCURACY, ADEQUACY OR COMPLETENESS OF THE APPROVED ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS AND THE APPROVED ELECTRONIC PLATFORM AND EACH EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS LIABILITY FOR ERRORS OR OMISSIONS IN THE APPROVED ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS AND THE APPROVED ELECTRONIC PLATFORM. NO WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT OF THIRD PARTY RIGHTS OR FREEDOM FROM VIRUSES OR OTHER CODE DEFECTS) IS MADE BY THE AGENT AFFILIATES IN CONNECTION WITH THE APPROVED ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS OR THE APPROVED ELECTRONIC PLATFORM.
(d) Each of the Lenders, the Issuing Lenders and the Borrowers agree, and the Company shall cause each Subsidiary Guarantor to agree, that the Administrative Agents may, but (except as may be required by applicable law) shall not be obligated to, store the Approved Electronic Communications on the Approved Electronic Platform in accordance with the Administrative Agents’ generally-applicable document retention procedures and policies.
Section 13.4 The Agents Individually. With respect to its Commitments and Loans, the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent, the Term Loan Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent, each in their individual capacity, shall each have and may exercise the same rights and powers hereunder and is subject to the same obligations and liabilities as and to the extent set forth herein for any other Lender. The terms “Lenders”, “Term Loan Lenders”, “Revolving Credit Lenders”, “Required Term Loan Lenders”, “Required Multi-Currency Lenders”, “Required Lenders” and any similar terms shall, unless the context clearly otherwise indicates, include, without limitation, each Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent in its individual capacity as a Lender, a Term Loan Lender, a Multi-Currency Lender or as one of the Required Term Loan Lenders, Required Multi-Currency Lenders or Required Lenders. Any Administrative Agent or Collateral Agent or any of their respective Affiliates may accept deposits from, lend money to, and generally engage in any kind of banking, trust or other business with, any Borrower and any Loan Party as if such Person were not acting as an Agent.
Section 13.5 Lender Credit Decision. Each Lender and each Issuing Lender acknowledges that it shall, independently and without reliance upon the Administrative Agents or any other Lender conduct its own independent investigation of the financial condition and affairs of the Borrowers and each Loan Party in connection with the making and continuance of the Loans and with the issuance of the Letters of Credit. Each Lender and each Issuing Lender also acknowledges that it shall, independently and without reliance upon the Administrative Agents or any other Lender 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 and other Loan Documents.
Section 13.6 Indemnification. Each Lender agrees to indemnify each Agent and each of its Affiliates, and each of their respective directors, officers, employees, agents and advisors (to the extent not reimbursed by the Company), from and against such Lender’s Commitment Percentage of any and all liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments, suits, costs, expenses and disbursements (including fees, expenses and disbursements of financial and legal advisors) of any kind or nature whatsoever that may be imposed on, incurred by, or asserted against, such Agent or any of its Affiliates, directors, officers, employees, agents and advisors in any way relating to or arising out of this Agreement or the other Loan
Documents or any action taken or omitted by such Agent under this Agreement or the other Loan Documents;provided,however, that no Lender 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 or such Affiliate’s gross negligence or willful misconduct. Without limiting the foregoing, each Lender agrees to reimburse each Agent promptly upon demand for its ratable share of any out-of-pocket expenses (including fees, expenses and disbursements of financial and legal advisors) incurred by such Agent in connection with the preparation, execution, delivery, administration, modification, amendment or enforcement (whether through negotiations, legal proceedings or otherwise) of, or legal advice in respect of its rights or responsibilities under, this Agreement or the other Loan Documents, to the extent that such Agent is not reimbursed for such expenses by the Company or another Loan Party.
Section 13.7 Successor Agent. Subject to the terms of thisSection 13.7, each Administrative Agent may resign at any time by giving written notice thereof to the Lenders and the Company. Upon any such resignation, (a) the Required Term Loan Lenders shall have the right to appoint a successor Term Loan Administrative Agent and (b) the Required Multi-Currency Lenders shall have the right to appoint a successor Multi-Currency Administrative Agent. If no successor Administrative Agent shall have been so appointed, and shall have accepted such appointment, within 30 days after the retiring Administrative Agent’s giving of notice of resignation, then the retiring Administrative Agent may, on behalf of the applicable Lenders, appoint a successor Administrative Agent selected from among the applicable Lenders. In either case, such appointment shall be subject to the prior written approval of the Company (which approval may not be unreasonably withheld or delayed and shall not be required upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default). Upon the acceptance of any appointment as Administrative Agent by a successor Administrative Agent, such successor Administrative Agent shall succeed to, and become vested with, all the rights, powers, privileges and duties of the retiring Administrative Agent, and the retiring Administrative Agent shall be discharged from its duties and obligations under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents. Prior to any retiring Administrative Agent’s resignation hereunder as Administrative Agent, the retiring Administrative Agent shall take such action as may be reasonably necessary to assign to the successor Administrative Agent its rights as Administrative Agent under the Loan Documents. After such resignation, the retiring Administrative Agent shall continue to have the benefit of this Article XIII as to any actions taken or omitted to be taken by it while it was Administrative Agent under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents. If no Lender has accepted appointment as a successor Term Loan Administrative Agent or Multi-Currency Administrative Agent within 30 days following a retiring Agent’s notice of resignation, the retiring Agent’s resignation shall nevertheless thereupon become effective, and the Required Term Loan Lenders or the Required Multi-Currency Lenders, as the case may be, shall assume and perform all of the duties of the retiring Term Loan Administrative Agent or Multi-Currency Administrative Agent hereunder until such time, if any, as the Required Term Loan Lenders or the Required Multi-Currency Lenders, as the case may be, appoint a successor agent as provided for above. The resignation and removal of the Collateral Agent shall be governed by the Intercreditor Agreement.
Section 13.8 Concerning the Collateral and the Security Documents.
(a) Each Multi-Currency Lender and each Issuing Lender agrees that any action taken by the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent or the Required Multi-Currency Lenders (or, where required by the express terms of this Agreement, a greater proportion of the Multi-Currency Lenders) in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement or of the other
Loan Documents, and the exercise by the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent or the Required Multi-Currency Lenders (or, where so required, such greater proportion of the Multi-Currency Lenders) of the powers set forth herein or therein, together with such other powers as are reasonably incidental thereto, shall be authorized and binding upon all of the Multi-Currency Lenders and the Issuing Lenders. Each Term Loan Lender agrees that any action taken by the Term Loan Administrative Agent or the Required Term Loan Lenders (or, where required by the express terms of this Agreement, a greater proportion of the Term Loan Lenders) in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement or of the other Loan Documents, and the exercise by the Term Loan Administrative Agent or the Required Term Loan Lenders (or, where so required, such greater proportion of the Term Loan Lenders) of the powers set forth herein or therein, together with such other powers as are reasonably incidental thereto, shall be authorized and binding upon all of the Term Loan Lenders. Each Lender and each Issuing Lender agrees that any action taken by the Collateral Agent in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement or of the other Loan Documents, and the exercise by the Collateral Agent of the powers set forth herein or therein, together with such other powers as are reasonably incidental thereto, shall be authorized and binding upon all of the Lenders, the Issuing Lenders and the other Secured Parties. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Collateral Agent shall have the sole and exclusive right and authority to (i) act as the disbursing and collecting agent for the Lenders and the Issuing Lenders with respect to all payments and collections arising in connection with the Collateral and with the Security Documents, (ii) execute and deliver each Security Document and accept delivery of each such agreement delivered by Revlon, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, (iii) act as collateral agent for the Lenders, the Issuing Lenders and the other Secured Parties for purposes of the perfection of all security interests and Liens created by such agreements and all other purposes stated therein;provided,however, that the Collateral Agent hereby appoints, authorizes and directs each Administrative Agent, Lender and each Issuing Lender to act as collateral sub-agent for the Administrative Agents, Collateral Agent, the Lenders, the Issuing Lenders and the other Secured Parties for purposes of the perfection of all security interests and Liens with respect to the Collateral, including any Deposit Accounts maintained by a Loan Party with, and cash and Cash Equivalents held by, such Administrative Agent, Lender or such Issuing Lender, (iv) manage, supervise and otherwise deal with the Collateral, (v) take such action as is necessary or desirable to maintain the perfection and priority of the security interests and Liens created or purported to be created by the Security Documents and (vi) except as may be otherwise specifically restricted by the terms hereof or of any other Loan Document, upon receipt of instructions from the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent or the New Term Loan Administrative Agent, as applicable, pursuant to the Intercreditor Agreement, exercise all remedies given to the Administrative Agents, the Lenders, the Issuing Lenders and the other Secured Parties with respect to the Collateral under the Loan Documents relating thereto, applicable law or otherwise.
(b) Each of the Administrative Agents, the Lenders and the Issuing Lenders hereby authorizes and directs the Collateral Agent (without any further notice or consent) to, promptly release or subordinate any Lien as set forth inSection 9 of the Intercreditor Agreement.
ARTICLE XIV
MISCELLANEOUS
Section 14.1 Amendments and Waivers.
(a) Except as otherwise expressly provided in this Agreement or the Intercreditor Agreement, the Administrative Agents, on the one hand, and the Company, on the
other hand, may from time to time with the prior written consent of the Required Lenders enter into written amendments, supplements or modifications for the purpose of adding, deleting or modifying any provision of any Loan Document or changing in any manner the rights, remedies, obligations and duties of the parties thereto, and with the written consent of the Required Lenders, the Administrative Agents, on behalf of the Lenders, may execute and deliver a written instrument waiving, on such terms and conditions as may be specified in such instrument, any of the requirements applicable to the Loan Parties, as the case may be, party to any Loan Document, or any Default or Event of Default and its consequences;provided,however, that:
(i) without the consent of any Lender, the Company and the Administrative Agents may enter into any amendment necessary to implement the terms of a Facilities Increase in accordance with the terms of this Agreement (as in effect on the Amendment No. 4 Effective Date);
(ii) with the consent of only the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent and the Supermajority Multi-Currency Lenders and the Company, the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent may amend, supplement or otherwise modify or waive any of the terms and provisions (and related definitions) related to the Borrowing Base and any provisions (including advance rates) relating to the Maximum Multi-Currency Availability;
(iii) with the consent of only the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent and the Required Multi-Currency Lenders and the Company, the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent may amend, supplement or otherwise modify or waive any of the terms and provisions (and related definitions) (A) under Article III (Revolving Credit Sub-Facility), Article IV (Swing Line Sub-Facility),Article V (Letter of Credit Sub-Facility) andArticle VI (Local Loan Sub-Facility) and any other provisions related solely to the borrowings (including any conditions to such borrowings or the Facility Increase and increases to interest rates and fees) and payment procedures under the Multi-Currency Facility, (B) solely affecting the relative rights, remedies, obligations and priorities among the Multi-Currency Lenders, which does not adversely affect any Term Loan Lender and (C) related toSection 11.1(b) prior to the occurrence of any Event of Default arising thereunder (in each case, except to the extent any such amendment, supplement, modification or waiver would result in an increase of the Aggregate Multi-Currency Commitment, it being understood that any Facility Increase permitted under this Agreement as of the Closing Date does not constitute such increase);
(iv) with the consent of only the Term Loan Administrative Agent and the Required Term Loan Lenders and the Company, the Term Loan Administrative Agent may amend, supplement or otherwise modify or waive any of the terms and provisions (and related definitions) (A) under Article II (Term Loan Commitment) and any other provisions related solely to the borrowings (including any conditions to such borrowings and increases to interest rates and fees) and payment procedures under the Term Loan Facility and (B) solely affecting the relative rights, remedies, obligations and priorities among the Term Loan Lenders, which does not adversely affect any Multi-Currency Lender (in each case, except to the extent any such amendment, supplement, modification or waiver would result in an increase of the Aggregate Term Loan Commitment or the aggregate outstanding principal amount of the Term Loans);
(v) (A) no amendment, waiver or consent shall, unless in writing and signed by any 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, (B) no amendment, waiver or consent shall, unless in writing and signed by the Swing Line Lender, Issuing Lender or Local Fronting Lender in addition to the Lenders required above to take such action, affect the rights or duties of the Swing Line Lender, Issuing Lender or Local Fronting Lender, respectively, under this Agreement or the other Loan Documents and (C) no amendment, waiver or consent shall, unless in writing and signed by any Special Purpose Vehicle that has been granted an option pursuant toSection 14.6(f), affect the grant or nature of such option or the right or duties of such Special Purpose Vehicle hereunder;
(vi) no amendment, supplement or modification of, or waiver or consent under, any of the Security Documents to which the Collateral Agent is a party shall be effective unless in writing and signed by the Collateral Agent (at the direction of the the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent, the Lenders, the New Term Loan Administrative Agent or the New Term Loan Lenders, as applicable, pursuant to the Intercreditor Agreement) in addition to the Agents and Lenders required above to take such action; and
(vii) the Administrative Agents may, with the consent of the Company, amend, modify or supplement any Loan Document to cure any ambiguity, typographical error, defect or inconsistency;
provided,further, that, except as otherwise expressly provided in this Agreement or the Intercreditor Agreement, no such waiver, amendment, supplement or modification shall be effective to, without the prior written consent, in addition to the Lenders required above to take such action, of each Lender directly affected thereby:
(viii) (A) modify the Commitment of such Lender or subject such Lender to any additional obligation, (B) extend any scheduled final maturity of any Loan owing to such Lender, (C) waive or reduce, or postpone or cancel any scheduled date fixed for the payment of (it being understood that any mandatory prepayment required underSection 7.3 does not constitute any scheduled date fixed for payments), principal of or interest on any such Loan or any fees owing to such Lender, (D) reduce, or release any Borrower from its obligations to repay, any other Payment Obligation owed to such Lender or (E) consent to the assignment or transfer by any Borrower of any of its rights and obligations under this Agreement;
(ix) amend, modify or waive any provision of Section 7.4 (Application of Payments and Commitment Reductions), Section 7.15 (Pro Rata Treatment and Payments) or Section 14.7 (Adjustments; Set-off);
(x) expressly subordinate any of the Payment Obligations or Liens securing the Payment Obligations, except in accordance with this Agreement and the Intercreditor Agreement;
(xi) (A) amend, modify or waive thisSection 14.1 or any other provision specifying the Agents, Lenders or group of Lenders required for any amendment, modification or waiver thereof or (B) change the respective percentages specified in the definition of “Required Lenders,” “Required Multi-Currency Lenders,” or “Required Term Loan Lenders”; or
(xii) release (A) all or substantially all of the Collateral provided for in the Security Documents, (B) the guarantee obligations of Revlon provided for in any Security Document or (C) the guarantee obligations of all or substantially all of the Guarantors (other than Revlon) provided for in the Security Documents.
(b) Any waiver, amendment, supplement or modification pursuant to thisSection 14.1 shall apply equally to each of the Lenders and shall be binding upon the Lenders and all future holders of any of the Loans, the Notes, the L/C Reimbursement Obligations and all other Payment Obligations. In the case of such waiver, the parties to the Loan Documents, the Lenders, the Collateral Agent and the Administrative Agents shall be restored to their former positions and rights hereunder and under the Notes and the Security Documents, and any Default or any Event of Default waived shall, to the extent provided in such waiver, be deemed to be cured and not continuing; but, no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other Default or Event of Default, or impair any right consequent thereon. The Administrative Agents shall, as soon as practicable, furnish a copy of each such amendment, supplement, modification or waiver to each Lender.
(c) To the extent (a) the consent of any Lender in its capacity as a Multi-Currency Lender or a Term Loan Lender, as applicable, is required, but not obtained (any such Lender whose consent is not obtained as described in thisSection 14.1(c) being referred to as a “Non-Consenting Lender”) in connection with any proposed amendment, modification, supplement or waiver (a “Proposed Change”) and (b) the applicable Administrative Agent shall have consented to such Proposed Change, at the request of the Company and with the consent of such Administrative Agent (in its sole discretion exercised reasonably), any Eligible Assignee reasonably acceptable to such Administrative Agent (which Eligible Assignee may be the Lender acting as such Administrative Agent and shall have consented to such Proposed Change) shall have the right (but not the obligation) to purchase from such Non-Consenting Lender, and such Non-Consenting Lender shall, upon the request of such Administrative Agent, sell and assign to such Eligible Assignee all of (i) the Multi-Currency Commitments, the Multi-Currency Loans and the Aggregate Actual Outstanding Multi-Currency Extensions of Credit or (ii) the Term Loan Commitments and the Term Loans, as the case may be, of such Non-Consenting Lender for an amount equal to the principal balance of all applicable Loans held by such Non-Consenting Lender under clause (i) or(ii) above and all accrued and unpaid interest and fees with respect thereto through the date of such sale and purchase (the “Purchase Amount”);provided,however, that such sale and purchase (and the corresponding assignment) shall not be effective until (A) such Administrative Agent shall have received from such Eligible Assignee an agreement in form and substance satisfactory to such Administrative Agent and the Company whereby such Eligible Assignee shall agree to be bound by the terms hereof, (B) such Non-Consenting Lender shall have received the Purchase Amount from such Eligible Assignee and (C) in the case ofclause (ii) above, the Company shall have paid such Non-Consenting Lender an amount equal to the Prepayment Fee, if any, on the aggregate outstanding principal amount of all Term Loans subject to such sale and purchase (which sale and purchase shall constitute a prepayment of such Term Loans). Each Lender agrees that, if it becomes a Non-Consenting Lender, it shall execute and deliver to the applicable Administrative Agent (x) an Assignment and Acceptance to evidence such sale and assignment and (y) to the extent the Commitments and Loans subject to such Assignment and Acceptance are evidenced by a Note or Notes, such Note or Notes;provided,however, that the failure of any Non-Consenting Lender to execute an Assignment and Acceptance or deliver such Note or Notes shall not render such sale and purchase (and the corresponding assignment) invalid.
Section 14.2 Notices. (a) Addresses for Notices. All notices, demands, requests, consents and other communications provided for in this Agreement or any other Loan Document shall be given in writing, or by any telecommunication device capable of creating a written record (including electronic mail), and addressed to the party to be notified as follows:
(i) if to the Company:
Revlon Consumer Products Corporation
237 Park Avenue
New York, New York 10017
Attention: Vice President, Finance and Treasury
Telecopy: (212) 527-5225
E-Mail Address: manuel.rivero@revlon.com
with a copy (other than of items relating to funding and payments) to:
Revlon Consumer Products Corporation
237 Park Avenue
New York, New York 10017
Attention: Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer and General Counsel
Telecopy: (212) 527-5693
E-Mail Address: robert.kretzman@revlon.com
(ii) if to any Lender, at its lending office specified opposite its name onSchedule I or on the signature page of any applicable Assignment and Acceptance;
(iii) if to any Issuing Lender, at the address set forth under its name onSchedule I; and
(iv) if to the Administrative Agents or the Swing Line Lender:
Citicorp USA, Inc.
388 Greenwich Street
New York, New York 10013
Attention: James J. McCarthy
Telecopy no: (212) 816-2613
E-Mail Address: james.j.mccarthy@citigroup.com
with a copy (other than of items relating to funding and payments) to:
Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP
767 Fifth Avenue
New York, New York 10153-0119
Attention: Daniel S. Dokos
Telecopy no: (212) 310-8007
E-Mail Address: daniel.dokos@weil.com
or at such other address as shall be notified in writing (x) in the case of the Company, the Administrative Agents and the Swing Line Lender, to the other parties and (y) in the case of all other parties, to the Company and the Administrative Agents.
(b) Effectiveness of Notices. All notices, demands, requests, consents and other communications described inclause (a)above shall be effective (i) if delivered by hand, including any overnight courier service, upon delivery, (ii) if delivered by first class, postage prepaid mail, five days after deposited in the mails, (iii) except to any Loan Party, if delivered by posting to an Approved Electronic Platform, an Internet website or a similar telecommunication device requiring that a user have prior access to such Approved Electronic Platform, website or other device, when such notice, demand, request, consent and other communication shall have been made generally available on such Approved Electronic Platform, Internet website or similar device to the class of Person being notified (regardless of whether any such Person must accomplish, and whether or not any such Person shall have accomplished, any action prior to obtaining access to such items, including registration, disclosure of contact information, compliance with a standard user agreement or undertaking a duty of confidentiality) and (iv) if delivered by electronic mail or any other telecommunications device, when transmitted to an electronic mail address (or by another means of electronic delivery) as provided inclause (a)above;provided,however, that notices and communications to the Administrative Agents pursuant toArticle II, Article III, Article IV, Article V, Article VI, Article VIIandArticle XIII shall not be effective until received by the Administrative Agents.
(c) Use of Electronic Platform. Notwithstandingclauses (a)and(b) above (unless either Administrative Agent requests that the provisions ofclauses (a)and(b) above be followed) and any other provision in this Agreement or any other Loan Document providing for the delivery of, any Approved Electronic Communication by any other means, the Loan Parties shall deliver all Approved Electronic Communications to each Administrative Agent by properly transmitting such Approved Electronic Communications electronically (in a format acceptable to the Administrative Agents) to oploanswebadmin@citigroup.com or such other electronic mail address (or similar means of electronic delivery) as such Administrative Agent may notify the Company. Nothing in thisclause(c) shall prejudice the right of such Administrative Agent or any Lender or Issuer to deliver any Approved Electronic Communication to any Loan Party in any manner authorized in this Agreement.
Section 14.3 No Waiver; Cumulative Remedies. No failure to exercise and no delay in exercising, on the part of the Administrative Agents, the Collateral Agent or any Lender, any right, remedy, power or privilege hereunder, shall operate as a waiver thereof; nor shall any single or partial exercise of any right, remedy, power or privilege hereunder preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right, remedy, power or privilege. The rights, remedies, powers and privileges herein provided are cumulative and not exclusive of any rights, remedies, powers and privileges provided by law.
Section 14.4 Survival of Representations and Warranties. All representations and warranties made hereunder and in any document, certificate or statement delivered pursuant hereto or in connection herewith shall survive the execution and delivery of this Agreement and the Notes.
Section 14.5 Payment of Expenses. (a) The Company shall, and shall cause each other Loan Party to, upon demand, pay, or reimburse each Agent, for all of such Agent’s reasonable and invoiced internal audit, appraisal and valuation costs and expenses and all reasonable and invoiced out-of-pocket costs and expenses of every type and nature (including the reasonable fees, expenses and disbursements of the Agents’ counsel, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP (or any other primary counsel selected by such Agent), local legal counsel, auditors, accountants, appraisers, printers, insurance and environmental advisors, and other consultants and agents) incurred by such Agent in connection with any of the following: (i) each Administrative
Agent’s audit and investigation of the Company and its Subsidiaries in connection with the preparation, negotiation or execution of any Loan Document or such Administrative Agent’s periodic audits of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, as the case may be, (ii) the preparation, negotiation, execution or interpretation of this Agreement (including, without limitation, the satisfaction or attempted satisfaction of any condition set forth inArticle IX), any Loan Document or any proposal letter or commitment letter issued in connection therewith, or the making of the Loans hereunder, (iii) the creation, perfection or protection of the Liens under any Loan Document (including any reasonable fees, disbursements and expenses for local counsel in various jurisdictions as contemplated by the Agreement), (iv) the ongoing administration of this Agreement and the Loans, including consultation with attorneys in connection therewith and with respect to each Agent’s rights and responsibilities hereunder and under the other Loan Documents, (v) the protection, collection or enforcement of any Payment Obligation or the enforcement of any Loan Document, (vi) the commencement, defense or intervention in any court proceeding relating in any way to the Payment Obligations, any Loan Party, any of the Company’s Subsidiaries, this Agreement or any other Loan Document, (vii) the response to, and preparation for, any subpoena or request for document production with which such Agent is served or deposition or other proceeding in which such Agent is called to testify, in each case, relating in any way to the Payment Obligations, any Loan Party, any of the Company’s Subsidiaries, this Agreement or any other Loan Document or (viii) any amendment, consent, waiver, assignment, restatement, or supplement to any Loan Document or the preparation, negotiation and execution of the same.
(b) The Company further agrees to, and to cause each other Loan Party to, pay or reimburse each of the Agents and each of the Lenders and Issuing Lenders upon demand for all out-of-pocket costs and expenses, including reasonable and invoiced attorneys’ fees (including costs of counsel and costs of settlement), incurred by such Agents, such Lenders or such Issuing Lenders in connection with any of the following: (i) in enforcing any Loan Document or Payment Obligation or any security therefor or exercising or enforcing any other right or remedy available by reason of an Event of Default, (ii) in connection with any refinancing or restructuring of the credit arrangements provided hereunder in the nature of a “work-out” or in any insolvency or bankruptcy proceeding, (iii) in commencing, defending or intervening in any litigation or in filing a petition, complaint, answer, motion or other pleadings in any legal proceeding relating to the Payment Obligations, any Loan Party, any of the Company’s Subsidiaries and related to or arising out of the transactions contemplated hereby or by any other Loan Document or (iv) in taking any other action in or with respect to any suit or proceeding (bankruptcy or otherwise) described inclause (i), (ii) or(iii) above.
(c) Any obligation of the Company or any other Loan Party pursuant to thisSection 14.5 shall survive Full Satisfaction of the Payment Obligations.
Section 14.6 Assignments and Participations; Binding Effect. (a) Each Lender may sell, transfer, negotiate or assign to one or more Eligible Assignees all or a portion of its rights and obligations hereunder (including all of its rights and obligations with respect to the Term Loans, the Revolving Credit Loans, the Swing Line Loans, the Local Loans, the Acceptances and the Letters of Credit);provided,however, that (i) if any such assignment shall be of the assigning Lender’s Aggregate Actual Outstanding Multi-Currency Extensions of Credit and Multi-Currency Commitments, such assignment shall cover the same percentage of such Lender’s Aggregate Actual Outstanding Multi-Currency Extensions of Credit and Multi-Currency Commitments, (ii) the aggregate amount being assigned pursuant to each such assignment (determined as of the date of the Assignment and Acceptance with respect to such assignment) shall in no event (if less than the assignor’s entire interest) be less than $1,000,000 or an integral
multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof in the case of Term Loans, and $5,000,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof in the case of Multi-Currency Commitments, except, in either case, (A) with the consent of the Company and the applicable Administrative Agent or (B) if such assignment is being made to a Lender or an Affiliate or Related Fund of such Lender and (iii) if such Eligible Assignee is not, prior to the date of such assignment, a Lender or an Affiliate or Related Fund of a Lender, such assignment shall be subject to the prior consent of the applicable Administrative Agent and the Company (which consents shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed); andprovided,further, that, notwithstanding any other provision of this Section 14.6, the consent of the Company shall not be required (x) for any assignment occurring when any Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing and (y) for any assignment by an Administrative Agent or any Affiliate or Related Fund of an Administrative Agent of the Commitments or Loans held on the Closing Date by an Administrative Agent or any such Affiliate or Related Fund if such assignment is made as part of the primary syndication of the Term Loan Facility and the Multi-Currency Facility.
(b) The parties to each such assignment shall execute and deliver to the applicable Administrative Agent, for its acceptance and recording, an Assignment and Acceptance, together with any Note (if the assigning Lender’s Loans are evidenced by a Note) subject to such assignment. Upon the execution, delivery, acceptance and recording of any Assignment and Acceptance and, other than in respect of assignments made pursuant to Section 14.1(c), the receipt by the applicable Administrative Agent from the assignee of an assignment fee in the amount of $3,500, from and after the effective date specified in such Assignment and Acceptance, (i) the assignee thereunder shall become a party hereto and, to the extent that rights and obligations under the Loan Documents have been assigned to such assignee pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance, have the rights and obligations (including without limitation the obligations underSection 7.12(c)) of a Lender hereunder;provided, however, that no Transferee (including an assignee that is already a Lender hereunder at the time of the assignment) shall be entitled to receive any greater amount pursuant to Section 7.12 than that to which the assignor Lender would have been entitled to receive had no such assignment occurred, (ii) the Notes (if any) corresponding to the Loans assigned thereby shall be transferred to such assignee by notification in the Register and (iii) the assignor thereunder shall, to the extent that rights and obligations under this Agreement have been assigned by it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance, relinquish its rights (except for those surviving the payment in full of the Payment Obligations) and be released from its obligations under the Loan Documents, other than those relating to events or circumstances occurring prior to such assignment (and, in the case of an Assignment and Acceptance covering all or the remaining portion of an assigning Lender’s rights and obligations under the Loan Documents, such Lender shall cease to be a party hereto). Solely for purposes of calculating the assignment fee under thisSection 14.6(b), multiple assignments on the same date by a Lender to its Affiliates or Related Funds shall constitute one assignment.
(c) Each Administrative Agent shall maintain at its address referred to in Section 14.2 a copy of each Assignment and Acceptance delivered to and accepted by it and a register for the recording of the names and addresses of the Term Loan Lenders and the Multi-Currency Lenders, as applicable, and the applicable Commitments of and principal amount of and interest with respect to the Loans and L/C Obligations owing to each applicable Lender from time to time (each, a “Register”). Any assignment pursuant to thisSection 14.6 shall not be effective until such assignment is recorded in such Register. The entries in each Register shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error, and the Loan Parties, the Administrative Agents and the Lenders may treat each Person whose name is recorded in such Register as a Lender for all purposes of this Agreement. All information contained in each
Register as to any Lender shall be available for inspection by the Company, the Administrative Agents or such Lender at any reasonable time and from time to time upon reasonable prior notice.
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the Loans (including the Notes evidencing such Loans) and L/C Obligations are registered obligations and the right, title, and interest of the Lenders and their assignees in and to such Loans and L/C Obligations shall be transferable only upon notation of such transfer in the applicable Register. A Note shall only evidence the Lender’s or an assignee’s right, title and interest in and to the related Loan, and in no event is any such Note to be considered a bearer instrument or obligation. ThisSection 14.6 shall be construed so that the Loans and L/C Obligations are at all times maintained in “registered form” within the meaning of Sections 163(f), 871(h)(2) and 881(c)(2) of the Internal Revenue Code and any related regulations (or any successor provisions of the Internal Revenue Code or such regulations). Solely for purposes of this and for tax purposes only, the Administrative Agents shall act as the Company’s agent for purposes of maintaining such notations of transfer in each Register.
(e) Upon its receipt of an Assignment and Acceptance executed by an assigning Lender and an assignee, the applicable Administrative Agent shall, if such Assignment and Acceptance has been completed, (i) accept such Assignment and Acceptance, (ii) record or cause to be recorded the information contained therein in the applicable Register and (iii) give prompt notice thereof to the Company. Within five Business Days after its receipt of such notice, the Company, at its own expense, shall, if requested by such assignee, execute and deliver to the applicable Administrative Agent, new Notes to the order of such assignee in an amount equal to the Loans and Commitments assumed by it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance and, if the assigning Lender has surrendered any Note for exchange in connection with the assignment and has retained Loans or Commitments hereunder, new Notes to the order of the assigning Lender in an amount equal to the Loans or Commitments retained by it hereunder. Such new Notes shall be dated the same date as the surrendered Notes.
(f) In addition to the other assignment rights provided in thisSection 14.6, each Lender may do each of the following:
(i) grant to a Special Purpose Vehicle the option to make all or any part of any Loan that such Lender would otherwise be required to make hereunder and the exercise of such option by any such Special Purpose Vehicle and the making of Loans pursuant thereto shall satisfy (once and to the extent that such Loans are made) the obligation of such Lender to make such Loans thereunder,provided,however, that (x) nothing herein shall constitute a commitment or an offer to commit by such a Special Purpose Vehicle to make Loans hereunder and no such Special Purpose Vehicle shall be liable for any indemnity or other Payment Obligation (other than the making of Loans for which such Special Purpose Vehicle shall have exercised an option, and then only in accordance with the relevant option agreement) and (y) such Lender’s obligations under the Loan Documents shall remain unchanged, such Lender shall remain responsible to the other parties for the performance of its obligations under the terms of this Agreement and shall remain the holder of the Payment Obligations for all purposes hereunder; and
(ii) assign, as collateral or otherwise, any of its rights under this Agreement, whether now owned or hereafter acquired (including rights to payments of principal or interest on the Loans), to (A) without notice to or consent of the Administrative Agents or the Company, any Federal Reserve Bank (pursuant to Regulation A of the Federal Reserve Board) and (B) without consent of the Administrative Agents or the Company,
(1) any holder of, or trustee for the benefit of, the holders of such Lender’s securities and (2) any Special Purpose Vehicle to which such Lender has granted an option pursuant toclause (i) above;
provided,however, that no such assignment or grant shall release such Lender from any of its obligations hereunder except as expressly provided inclause (i) above and except, in the case of a subsequent foreclosure pursuant to an assignment as collateral, if such foreclosure is made in compliance with the other provisions of thisSection 14.6 other than thisclause (f) orclause (g) below. Each party hereto acknowledges and agrees 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 such Special Purpose Vehicle, such party shall not institute against, or join any other Person in instituting against, any Special Purpose Vehicle that has been granted an option pursuant to thisclause (f)any bankruptcy, reorganization, insolvency or liquidation proceeding (such agreement shall survive the payment in full of the Payment Obligations). The terms of the designation of, or assignment to, such Special Purpose Vehicle shall not restrict such Lender’s ability to, or grant such Special Purpose Vehicle the right to, consent to any amendment or waiver to this Agreement or any other Loan Document or to the departure by the Company from any provision of this Agreement or any other Loan Document without the consent of such Special Purpose Vehicle except, as long as the Administrative Agents and the Lenders, Issuing Lenders and other Secured Parties shall continue to, and shall be entitled to continue to, deal solely and directly with such Lender in connection with such Lender’s obligations under this Agreement, to the extent any such consent would reduce the principal amount of, or the rate of interest on, any Payment Obligations, amend thisclause (f) or postpone any scheduled date of payment of such principal or interest. Each Special Purpose Vehicle shall be entitled to the benefits ofSection 7.9(d), 7.10 and7.12 as if it were such Lender;provided,however, that anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding, the Company shall not, at any time, be obligated to make underSection 7.9(d),7.10 and7.12 to any such Special Purpose Vehicle and any such Lender any payment in excess of the amount the Company would have been obligated to pay to such Lender in respect of such interest if such Special Purpose Vehicle had not been assigned the rights of such Lender hereunder;provided,further, that any such Special Purpose Vehicle shall have complied with the requirements ofSection 7.12.
(g) Each Lender may sell participations to one or more Persons in or to all or a portion of its rights and obligations under the Loan Documents (including all its rights and obligations with respect to Term Loans, the Revolving Credit Loans, the Swing Line Loans, the Local Loans, the Acceptances and the Letters of Credit). The terms of such participation shall not, in any event, require the participant’s consent to any amendments, waivers or other modifications of any provision of any Loan Documents, the consent to any departure by any Loan Party therefrom, or to the exercising or refraining from exercising any powers or rights such Lender may have under or in respect of the Loan Documents (including the right to enforce the obligations of the Loan Parties), except if any such amendment, waiver or other modification or consent would (i) reduce the amount, or postpone any date fixed for the payment of principal, interest or fees payable to such participant under the Loan Documents, to which such participant would otherwise be entitled under such participation or (ii) result in the release of all or substantially all of the Collateral other than in accordance with Section 9 of the Intercreditor Agreement. In the event of the sale of any participation by any Lender, (w) such Lender’s obligations under the Loan Documents shall remain unchanged, (x) such Lender shall remain solely responsible to the other parties for the performance of such obligations, (y) such Lender shall remain the holder of such Payment Obligations for all purposes of this Agreement and (z) the Company, the Agents and the other Lenders shall continue to deal solely and directly with such Lender in connection with such Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement. Each
participant shall be entitled to the benefits ofSection 7.9(d), 7.10 and7.12 as if it were a Lender;provided,however, that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the Company shall not, at any time, be obligated to make any payment underSection 7.9(d), 7.10and 7.12 to the participants in the rights and obligations of any Lender (together with such Lender) in excess of the amount the Company would have been obligated to pay to such Lender in respect of such interest had such participation not been sold;provided,further, that any such participant shall have complied with the requirements ofSection 7.12.
(h) Any Issuing Lender may at any time assign its rights and obligations hereunder to any other Issuing Lender by an instrument in form and substance satisfactory to the Company, the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent, such Issuing Lender and such other Issuing Lender. If any Issuing Lender ceases to be an Issuing Lender hereunder by virtue of any assignment made pursuant to thisSection 14.6, then, as of the effective date of such cessation, such Issuing Lender’s obligations to issue Letters of Credit pursuant toArticle V shall terminate and such Issuing Lender shall be an Issuing Lender hereunder only with respect to outstanding Letters of Credit issued prior to such date.
(i) This Agreement shall become effective when it shall have been executed by the Company, the Administrative Agents and the Collateral Agent and when the Administrative Agents shall have been notified by each Lender and Issuing Lender that such Lender or Issuing Lender has executed it and thereafter shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the Borrowers, the Administrative Agents, the Collateral Agent and each Lender and Issuing Lender and, in each case, their respective successors and assigns;provided,however, that no Borrower shall have the right to assign its rights hereunder or any interest herein without the prior written consent of the Lenders.
Section 14.7 Adjustments; Set-off. (a) On the date of occurrence of any Event of Default specified inclause (i), (ii) or(iii) ofSection 12.1(j), each Multi-Currency Lender shall be deemed to have purchased an interest in the Payment Obligations owing to each other Multi-Currency Lender (and, to the extent necessary after giving effect to any actual recoveries on such Payment Obligations, shall actually fund such purchase) such that, after giving effect to all such purchases or deemed purchases, each Multi-Currency Lender is owed directly or through such purchase or deemed purchase the portion of the aggregate amount of Payment Obligations then outstanding with respect to the Aggregate Multi-Currency Commitment equal to such Lender’s ratable share of all Payment Obligations then outstanding with respect to such Aggregate Multi-Currency Commitment. Each Multi-Currency Lender hereby acknowledges and agrees that its obligation to purchase such Payment Obligations in accordance with the provisions of thisSection 14.7(a) shall be irrevocable and unconditional.
(b) Unless an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, if any Syndicated Lender (a “benefitted Lender”) shall at any time receive any payment of all or part of any of its Loans or L/C Reimbursement Obligations owing to it under any Commitment, or interest thereon, pursuant to a guarantee or otherwise, or receive any collateral in respect thereof (whether voluntarily or involuntarily, by set-off or otherwise), in a greater proportion than any such payment to and collateral received by any other Syndicated Lender, if any, in respect of such other Lender’s Loans or L/C Reimbursement Obligations, as the case may be, owing to it under such Commitment or interest thereon, such benefitted Lender shall purchase for cash from the other Syndicated Lenders such portion of each such other Syndicated Lender’s similar Loans or L/C Reimbursement Obligations, or shall provide such other Syndicated Lenders with the benefits of any such collateral, or the proceeds thereof, as shall be necessary to cause such benefitted Lender to share the excess payment or benefits of such collateral or proceeds ratably
with each of the Syndicated Lenders which hold such Commitment;provided,however, that if all or any portion of such excess payment or benefits is thereafter recovered from such benefitted Lender, such purchase shall be rescinded, and the purchase price and benefits returned, to the extent of such recovery, but without interest. Each Borrower agrees that each Lender so purchasing a portion of another Lender’s Loans or L/C Reimbursement Obligations may exercise all rights of payment (including, without limitation, rights of set-off) with respect to such portion as fully as if such purchasing Lender were the direct holder of such portion. After the delivery of a Notice of Actionable Default and prior to the withdrawal of all Notices of Actionable Default then pending, all payments or Collateral (or proceeds thereof) received by any Agent, Lender or Issuing Lender in contravention of this Agreement, the Intercreditor Agreement or any other Loan Document, shall be segregated and held in trust and forthwith paid over to the Collateral Agent to be applied pursuant toSection 7.15(h).
(c) Subject to the Intercreditor Agreement, in addition to any rights and remedies of the Syndicated Lenders provided by law, upon both the occurrence of an Event of Default and acceleration of the Payment Obligations owing in connection with this Agreement, each Syndicated Lender and each of its Affiliates shall have the right, without prior notice to the Company, any such notice being expressly waived to the extent permitted by applicable law, to set off and apply against any indebtedness, whether matured or unmatured, of the Company to such or any other Syndicated Lender or such Affiliate any amount owing from such Syndicated Lender or such Affiliate to the Company at, or at any time after, the happening of both of the above mentioned events, and such right of set-off may be exercised by such Syndicated Lender or such Affiliate against the Company or against any trustee in bankruptcy, debtor in possession, assignee for the benefit of creditors, receiver, custodian or execution, judgment or attachment creditor of the Company, or against anyone else claiming through or against the Company or such trustee in bankruptcy, debtor in possession, assignee for the benefit of creditors, receivers, or execution, judgment or attachment creditor, notwithstanding the fact that such right of set-off shall not have been exercised by such Syndicated Lender or such Affiliate prior to the making, filing or issuance, or service upon such Syndicated Lender or such Affiliate of, or of notice of, any such petition, assignment for the benefit of creditors, appointment or application for the appointment of a receiver, or issuance of execution, subpoena, order or warrant. Each Syndicated Lender agrees promptly to notify the Company and the Administrative Agents after any such set-off and application made by such Syndicated Lender or any of its Affiliates; provided,however, that the failure to give such notice shall not affect the validity of such set-off and application.
(d) In addition to any rights and remedies of the Local Fronting Lenders provided by law, upon both the occurrence of an Event of Default and acceleration of the obligations owing in connection with this Agreement, each Local Fronting Lender shall have the right, without prior notice to any Borrower, any such notice being expressly waived to the extent permitted by applicable law, to set off and apply against any indebtedness, whether matured or unmatured, of such Borrower to such Local Fronting Lender any amount owing from such Local Fronting Lender to such Borrower at, or at any time after, the happening of both of the above mentioned events, and such right of set-off may be exercised by such Local Fronting Lender against such Borrower or against any trustee in bankruptcy, debtor in possession, assignee for the benefit of creditors, receiver, custodian or execution, judgment or attachment creditor of such Borrower, or against anyone else claiming through or against such Borrower or such trustee in bankruptcy, debtor in possession, assignee for the benefit of creditors, receivers, or execution, judgment or attachment creditor, notwithstanding the fact that such right of set-off shall not have been exercised by such Local Fronting Lender prior to the making, filing or issuance, or service upon such Local Fronting Lender of, or of notice of, any such petition, assignment for the benefit of creditors, appointment or application for the appointment of a receiver, or issuance of
execution, subpoena, order or warrant. Each Local Fronting Lender agrees promptly to notify such Borrower and the Administrative Agents after any such set-off and application made by such Local Fronting Lender;provided,however, that the failure to give such notice shall not affect the validity of such set-off and application.
Section 14.8 Delegation by each Local Borrowing Subsidiary. Each Local Borrowing Subsidiary hereby irrevocably designates and appoints the Company as the agent of such Local Borrowing Subsidiary under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents for the purpose of giving notices and taking other actions delegated to such Local Borrowing Subsidiary pursuant to the terms of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents. In furtherance of the foregoing, each Local Borrowing Subsidiary hereby irrevocably grants to the Company such Local Borrowing Subsidiary’s power-of-attorney, and hereby authorizes the Company, to act in place of such Local Borrowing Subsidiary with respect to matters delegated to such Local Borrowing Subsidiary pursuant to the terms of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents and to take such other actions as are reasonably incidental thereto. Each Local Borrowing Subsidiary hereby further acknowledges and agrees that the Company shall receive all notices to such Local Borrowing Subsidiary for all purposes of this Agreement. The Company hereby agrees to provide prompt notice to the relevant Local Borrowing Subsidiary of any notices received and all action taken by the Company under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents on behalf of such Local Borrowing Subsidiary.
Section 14.9 Judgment. The Payment Obligations of each Borrower in respect of each Local Loan and Acceptance reimbursement obligation due to any party hereto in Dollars (including, without limitation, by virtue of any conversion of a Local Loan or Acceptance from a Denomination Currency into Dollars pursuant to the provisions ofSection 6.4) or any holder of any bond which is denominated in Dollars, shall, notwithstanding any judgment in a currency (the “judgment currency”) other than Dollars, be discharged only to the extent that on the Business Day following receipt by such party or such holder (as the case may be) of any sum adjudged to be so due in the judgment currency such party or such holder (as the case may be) may in accordance with normal banking procedures purchase Dollars with the judgment currency; if the amount of Dollars so purchased is less than the sum originally due to such party or such holder (as the case may be) in Dollars, such Borrower agrees, as a separate obligation and notwithstanding any such judgment, to indemnify such party or such holder (as the case may be) against such loss, and if the amount of Dollars so purchased exceeds the sum originally due to any party to this Agreement or any holder of Notes (as the case may be), such party or such holder (as the case may be), agrees to remit to such Borrower, such excess.
Section 14.10 Intercreditor Agreement. Each Lender hereby acknowledges that it has fully reviewed the Intercreditor Agreement and, by its execution of this Agreement, hereby consents to the execution and delivery of the Intercreditor Agreement by the Term Loan Administrative Agent, the Multi-Currency Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent (in their respective capacities as Agents hereunder and as agent for the holders of the Designated Eligible Obligations) and agrees to comply with the terms thereof (which terms are incorporated herein by reference in their entirety) as if such Lender were a direct signatory thereto.
Section 14.11 Severability; Conflicts. Any provision of this Agreement which is prohibited or unenforceable in any jurisdiction shall, as to such jurisdiction, be ineffective to the extent of such prohibition or unenforceability without invalidating the remaining provisions hereof, and any such prohibition or unenforceability in any jurisdiction shall not invalidate or render unenforceable such provision in any other jurisdiction. In the event of any conflict between the terms of this Agreement and any other Loan Document (except for the Intercreditor
Agreement), the terms of this Agreement shall govern. In the event of any conflict between the terms of the Intercreditor Agreement and this Agreement or any other Loan Document, the Intercreditor Agreement shall govern.
Section 14.12 Counterparts; Confidentiality. (a) This Agreement may be executed by one or more of the parties to this Agreement on any number of separate counterparts and all of such counterparts taken together shall be deemed to constitute one and the same instrument. Delivery of an executed signature page of this Agreement by facsimile transmission or by posting on the Approved Electronic Platform shall be as effective as delivery of a manually executed counterpart hereof. A set of the copies of this Agreement signed by all the parties shall be lodged with the Company and the Administrative Agents.
(b) Each Lender agrees that it will not disclose Confidential Information (as defined below) to any Person other than (i) as may be consented to by the Company, (ii) as may be required by law or pursuant to legal process and (iii) to prospective participants and Transferees and those of such Lender’s directors, officers, employees, examiners and professional advisors who have a need to know the Confidential Information in accordance with customary banking practices and who receive the Confidential Information having been made aware of the restrictions of thisSection 14.12(b). As used herein, the term “Confidential Information” means all information contained in materials relating to the Company and its Subsidiaries provided to the Lenders by the Company or its representatives or agents other than (x) information which is at the time so provided or thereafter becomes generally available to the public other than as a result of a disclosure by one or more Lenders, (y) information which was available to any Lender prior to its disclosure to the Lenders by the Company, its representatives or agents and (z) information which becomes available to one or more Lenders from a source other than the Company, its representatives or agents.
Section 14.13 Submission To Jurisdiction; Waivers. (a) Each Local Borrowing Subsidiary hereby irrevocably and unconditionally submits to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of any New York state or federal court sitting in the City of New York and any competent court of the jurisdiction under the laws of which such Local Borrowing Subsidiary is organized (the “local court”), and any appellate court from any thereof, in any action or proceeding arising out of or relating to this Agreement, the Notes or any Draft. Each Local Borrowing Subsidiary hereby irrevocably and unconditionally agrees that all claims in respect of such action or proceeding may be heard and determined in such New York state court or local court or, to the extent permitted by law, in such federal court. Each Local Borrowing Subsidiary hereby irrevocably and unconditionally waives, to the fullest extent it may effectively do so, any defense of an inconvenient forum to the maintenance of such action or proceeding in any such court and any right of jurisdiction on account of the place of residence or domicile of such Local Borrowing Subsidiary. Each Local Borrowing Subsidiary hereby irrevocably and unconditionally appoints the Company as its agent to receive on behalf of such Local Borrowing Subsidiary and its property service of copies of the summons and complaint and any other process which may be served in any such action or proceeding in any such New York state or federal court. In any such action or proceeding in such New York state or federal court sitting in the City of New York, such service may be made on such Local Borrowing Subsidiary by delivering a copy of such process to such Local Borrowing Subsidiary in care of the Company at the Company’s address listed inSection 14.2 and by depositing a copy of such process in the mails by certified or registered air mail, addressed to such Local Borrowing Subsidiary (such service to be effective upon such receipt by the Company and the depositing of such process in the mails as aforesaid). Each Local Borrowing Subsidiary hereby irrevocably and unconditionally authorizes and directs the Company to accept such service on its behalf. Each Local Borrowing Subsidiary hereby
agrees that, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, 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.
(b) The Company hereby irrevocably and unconditionally:
(i) submits for itself and its property in any legal action or proceeding relating to this Agreement or any other Loan Document to which it is a party, or for recognition and enforcement of any judgment in respect thereof, to the non-exclusive general jurisdiction of the courts of the State of New York, the courts of the United States for the Southern District of New York, and appellate courts from any thereof;
(ii) consents that any such action or proceeding may be brought in such courts and waives trial by jury and any objection that it may now or hereafter have to the venue of any such action or proceeding in any such court or that such action or proceeding was brought in an inconvenient court and agrees not to plead or claim the same;
(iii) agrees that service of process in any such action or proceeding may be effected by mailing a copy thereof by registered or certified mail (or any substantially similar form of mail), postage prepaid, to it at its address set forth inSection 14.2 or at such other address of which the Administrative Agents shall have been notified pursuant thereto; and
(iv) agrees that nothing herein shall affect the right to effect service of process in any other manner permitted by law or shall limit the right to sue in any other jurisdiction.
(c) Each Borrower, each Agent and each Lender hereby irrevocably and unconditionally waives trial by jury in any legal action or proceeding referred to inclause (a) above.
Section 14.14 Acknowledgements. Each Borrower hereby acknowledges that:
(a) it has been advised by counsel in the negotiation, execution and delivery of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents;
(b) none of any Agent, the Arranger or any Lender has any fiduciary relationship with or duty to such Borrower arising out of or in connection with this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents, and the relationship between each such Agent, Arranger and Lenders, on one hand, and such Borrower, on the other hand, in connection herewith or therewith is solely that of debtor and creditor; and
(c) no joint venture is created hereby or by the other Loan Documents or otherwise exists by virtue of the transactions contemplated hereby among the Lenders or among such Borrower and the Lenders.
Section 14.15 USA PATRIOT Act. Each Lender hereby notifies each of the Borrowers that pursuant to the requirements of the Act, it is required to obtain, verify and record information that identifies each Borrower, which information includes the name and address of
each Borrower and other information that will allow such Lender to identify each Borrower in accordance with the Act.
Section 14.16 Governing Law. This Agreement shall be governed by, and construed and interpreted in accordance with, the law of the State of New York.
Section 14.17 Indemnities. (a) The Company agrees to, and shall cause each other Loan Party to, indemnify and hold harmless each Agent, the Arranger, each Lender and each Issuing Lender and each of their respective Affiliates, and each of the directors, officers, employees, agents, trustees, representatives, attorneys, consultants and advisors of or to any of the foregoing (including those retained in connection with the satisfaction or attempted satisfaction of any condition set forth inArticle IX) (each such Person being an “Indemnitee”) from and against any and all claims, damages, liabilities, obligations, losses, penalties, actions, judgments, suits, costs, disbursements and expenses, joint or several, of any kind or nature (including reasonable fees, disbursements and expenses of financial and legal advisors to any such Indemnitee) that may be imposed on, incurred by or asserted against any such Indemnitee in connection with or arising out of any investigation, litigation or proceeding, whether or not such investigation, litigation or proceeding is brought by any such Indemnitee or any of its directors, security holders or creditors or any such Indemnitee, director, security holder or creditor is a party thereto, whether direct, indirect, or consequential and whether based on any federal, state or local law or other statutory regulation, securities or commercial law or regulation, or under common law or in equity, or on contract, tort or otherwise, in any manner relating to or arising out of this Agreement, any other Loan Document, any Payment Obligation, any Letter of Credit, or any act, event or transaction related or attendant to any thereof, or the use or intended use of the proceeds of the Loans or Letters of Credit or in connection with any investigation of any potential matter covered hereby (collectively, the “Indemnified Matters”);provided,however, that the Company shall not have any liability under thisSection 14.17 to an Indemnitee with respect to any Indemnified Matter to the extent such liability has resulted from the gross negligence or willful misconduct of that Indemnitee, as determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in a final non-appealable judgment or order;provided,further, that the Company shall not be required to reimburse the Indemnitees for the fees and expenses of more than one joint counsel for the Administrative Agents and the Collateral Agent and one joint counsel for the other Indemnitees unless such representation shall result in a conflict of interest among the Indemnitees. Without limiting the foregoing, “Indemnified Matters” include (i) all Environmental Liabilities and Costs arising from or connected with the past, present or future operations of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries involving any property subject to a Security Document, or damage to real or personal property or natural resources or harm or injury alleged to have resulted from any Release of Hazardous Materials on, upon or into such property or any contiguous real estate, (ii) any costs or liabilities incurred in connection with any Remedial Action concerning the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, (iii) any costs or liabilities incurred in connection with any Lien in favor of any Governmental Authority for Environmental Liabilities and Costs and (iv) any costs or liabilities incurred in connection with any other matter under any Environmental Law, including the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act of 1980 (49 U.S.C. § 9601 et seq.) and applicable state property transfer laws, whether, with respect to any such matter, such Indemnitee is a mortgagee pursuant to any leasehold mortgage, a mortgagee in possession, the successor in interest to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, or the owner, lessee or operator of any property of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries by virtue of foreclosure, except, with respect to those matters referred to inclauses (i),(ii),(iii) and(iv) above, to the extent (x) incurred following foreclosure by the Collateral Agent, at the direction of the Administrative Agents, any Lender or any Issuing Lender, or any Agent, any Lender or any Issuing Lender having become the successor in interest to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries
and (y) to the extent attributable to acts of the Agents, such Lender or such Issuing Lender or any agent on behalf of such Agent, such Lender or such Issuing Lender.
(b) The Company shall, and shall cause each other Loan Party to, indemnify the Agents, the Lenders and each Issuing Lenders for, and hold the Agents, the Lenders and each Issuing Lender harmless from and against, any and all claims for brokerage commissions, fees and other compensation made against the Agents, the Lenders and the Issuing Lenders for any broker, finder or consultant with respect to any agreement, arrangement or understanding made by or on behalf of any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement.
(c) The Company, at the request of any Indemnitee, shall have the obligation to defend against any investigation, litigation or proceeding or requested Remedial Action, in each case contemplated inclause (a) above, and the Company, in any event, may participate in the defense thereof with legal counsel of the Company’s choice. In the event that such Indemnitee requests the Company to defend against such investigation, litigation or proceeding or requested Remedial Action, the Company shall promptly do so and lead such defense, and such Indemnitee shall have the right to have legal counsel of its choice participate in such defense;provided,however, that the fees and expenses of such counsel shall be reasonable for a secondary counsel;provided,further, that the Company shall not be required to reimburse the Indemnitees for the fees and expenses of more than one joint counsel for the Administrative Agents and the Collateral Agent and one joint counsel for the other Indemnitees unless such representation shall result in a conflict of interest among the Indemnitees. No action taken by legal counsel chosen by such Indemnitee in defending against any such investigation, litigation or proceeding or requested Remedial Action, shall vitiate or in any way impair the Company’s obligation and duty hereunder to indemnify and hold harmless such Indemnitee.
(d) The Company agrees that any indemnification or other protection provided to any Indemnitee pursuant to this Agreement (including pursuant to thisSection 14.17) or any other Loan Document shall (i) survive Full Satisfaction of the Payment Obligations and (ii) inure to the benefit of any Person that was at any time an Indemnitee under this Agreement or any other Loan Document.
Section 14.18 Limitation of Liability. (a) The Company agrees that no Indemnitee shall have any liability (whether in contract, tort or otherwise) to any Loan Party or any of their respective Subsidiaries or any of their respective equity holders or creditors for or in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby and in the other Loan Documents, except to the extent such liability is determined in a final non-appealable judgment by a court of competent jurisdiction to have resulted primarily from such Indemnitee’s gross negligence or willful misconduct. In no event, however, shall any Indemnitee be liable on any theory of liability for any special, indirect, consequential or punitive damages (including, without limitation, any loss of profits, business or anticipated savings). The Company hereby waives, releases and agrees (each for itself and on behalf of Revlon and the Company’s Subsidiaries) not to sue upon any such claim for any special, indirect, consequential or punitive damages, whether or not accrued and whether or not known or suspected to exist in its favor.
(b) IN NO EVENT SHALL ANY AGENT AFFILIATE HAVE ANY LIABILITY TO ANY LOAN PARTY, LENDER, ISSUING LENDER OR ANY OTHER PERSON FOR DAMAGES OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING DIRECT OR INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, LOSSES OR EXPENSES (WHETHER IN TORT OR CONTRACT OR OTHERWISE) ARISING OUT OF ANY LOAN PARTY OR ANY
AGENT AFFILIATE’S TRANSMISSION OF APPROVED ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS THROUGH THE INTERNET OR ANY USE OF THE APPROVED ELECTRONIC PLATFORM, EXCEPT TO THE EXTENT SUCH LIABILITY OF ANY AGENT AFFILIATE IS FOUND IN A FINAL NON-APPEALABLE JUDGMENT BY A COURT OF COMPETENT JURISDICTION TO HAVE RESULTED PRIMARILY FORM SUCH AGENT AFFILIATE’S GROSS NEGLIGENCE OR WILLFUL MISCONDUCT.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be executed by their respective officers thereunto duly authorized, as of the date first above written.
| | REVLON CONSUMER PRODUCTS CORPORATION |
| | By: | /s/ Steven F. Schiffman |
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| | | Name: | Steven F. Schiffman |
| | | Title: | Senior Vice President and Treasurer |
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| | REVLON INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION (UK Branch), as a Local Borrowing Subsidiary |
| | By: | /s/ Michael T. Sheehan |
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| | | Name: | Michael T. Sheehan |
| | | Title: | Vice President and Secretary |
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| | REVLON AUSTRALIA Pty LIMITED, as a Local Borrowing Subsidiary |
| | By: | /s/ Michael T. Sheehan |
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| | | Name: | Michael T. Sheehan |
| | | Title: | Attorney in Fact |
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| | EUROPÉENNE DE PRODUITS DE BEAUTÉ, S.A.S., as a Local Borrowing Subsidiary |
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| | By: | /s/ Michael T. Sheehan |
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| | | Name: | Michael T. Sheehan |
| | | Title: | Attorney in Fact |
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| | REVLON S.p.A., as a Local Borrowing Subsidiary |
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| | By: | /s/ Michael T. Sheehan |
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| | | Name: | Michael T. Sheehan |
| | | Title: | Director |
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| | CITICORP USA, INC., as Term Loan Administrative Agent |
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| | By: | /s/ John G. McAuley |
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| | | Name: | John G. McAuley |
| | | Title: | Vice President |
| | CITICORP USA, INC., as Multi-Currency Administrative Agent and Swing Line Lender |
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| | By: | /s/ James J. McCarthy |
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| | | Name: | James J. McCarthy |
| | | Title: | Vice President/Director |
| | CITICORP USA, INC., as Collateral Agent |
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| | By: | /s/ James J. McCarthy |
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| | | Name: | James J. McCarthy |
| | | Title: | Vice President/Director |
| | CITICORP USA, INC., as Lender |
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| | By: | /s/ James J. McCarthy |
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| | | Name: | James J. McCarthy |
| | | Title: | Vice President/Director |
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| | CITIBANK, N.A., as Issuing Lender |
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| | By: | /s/ James J. McCarthy |
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| | | Name: | James J. McCarthy |
| | | Title: | Vice President/Director |
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SIGNED, SEALED and DELIVERED | ) |
by , | ) |
the lawful attorney of | ) L. S. /s/ Michael Sheehan |
REVLON (HONG KONG) LIMITED, | ) |
a Local Borrowing Subsidiary | ) |
in the presence of : | ) |
Witness’s signature | /s/ Melissa J. Mitidiero |
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Witness’s name Melissa J. Mitidiero
Occupation Senior Paralegal
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| | WELLS FARGO FOOTHILL, LLC, as a Lender |
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| | By: | /s/ Sanat Amladi |
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| | | Name: | Sanat Amladi |
| | | Title: | Vice President |
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| | GMAC COMMERCIAL FINANCE LLC, as a Lender |
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| | By: | /s/ George Grieco |
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| | | Name: | George Grieco |
| | | Title: | Director |
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| | UBS, AG, STAMFORD BRANCH, as a Lender |
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| | By: | /s/ Wilfred V. Balm |
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| | | Name: | Wilfred V. Balm |
| | | Title: | Director Banking Products Services, US |
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| | By: | /s/ Joselin Fernandes |
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| | | Name: | Joselin Fernandes |
| | | Title: | Associate Director Banking Products Services, US |
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| | STATE OF CALIFORNIA PUBLIC EMPLOYEES’ RETIREMENT SYSTEM, as a Lender |
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| | By: | /s/ Curtis D. Ishii |
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| | | Name: | Curtis D. Ishii |
| | | Title: | Senior Investment Officer |
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