Exhibit 10.3
EXECUTION VERSION
CREDIT AGREEMENT
Dated as of December 10, 2013
by and among
RADIOSHACK CORPORATION,
as the Borrower,
THE OTHER PERSONS PARTY HERETO THAT ARE
DESIGNATED AS CREDIT PARTIES,
SALUS CAPITAL PARTNERS, LLC,
for itself, as a Lender and as Agent for all Lenders,
and
THE OTHER FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS PARTY HERETO,
as Lenders
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
ARTICLE I. THE CREDITS | 1 | |||||
1.1 | Amounts and Terms of Commitments | 1 | ||||
1.2 | Evidence of Term Loans; Notes | 2 | ||||
1.3 | Interest | 2 | ||||
1.4 | Loan Accounts | 3 | ||||
1.5 | [Reserved] | 4 | ||||
1.6 | [Reserved] | 4 | ||||
1.7 | Optional Prepayments | 4 | ||||
1.8 | Mandatory Prepayments of the Term Loan | 5 | ||||
1.9 | Fees | 6 | ||||
1.10 | Payments by the Borrower | 7 | ||||
1.11 | Payments by the Lenders to Agent | 9 | ||||
ARTICLE II. CONDITIONS PRECEDENT | 10 | |||||
2.1 | Conditions of Initial Term Loan | 10 | ||||
2.2 | Additional Conditions to Borrowing | 13 | ||||
ARTICLE III. REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES | 14 | |||||
3.1 | Corporate Existence and Power | 14 | ||||
3.2 | Corporate Authorization; No Contravention | 14 | ||||
3.3 | Governmental Authorization | 14 | ||||
3.4 | Binding Effect | 15 | ||||
3.5 | Litigation | 15 | ||||
3.6 | No Default | 15 | ||||
3.7 | ERISA Compliance | 16 | ||||
3.8 | Use of Proceeds; Margin Regulations | 16 | ||||
3.9 | Ownership of Property; Liens | 16 | ||||
3.10 | Taxes | 17 | ||||
3.11 | Financial Condition | 17 | ||||
3.12 | Environmental Matters | 18 | ||||
3.13 | Regulated Entities | 19 | ||||
3.14 | Solvency | 19 | ||||
3.15 | Labor Relations | 20 | ||||
3.16 | Intellectual Property | 20 | ||||
3.17 | Brokers’ Fees; Transaction Fees | 20 | ||||
3.18 | Insurance | 20 | ||||
3.19 | Ventures, Subsidiaries and Affiliates; Outstanding Stock | 21 | ||||
3.20 | Jurisdiction of Organization; Chief Executive Office | 21 | ||||
3.21 | Locations of Inventory and Books and Records | 21 | ||||
3.22 | Deposit Accounts and Other Accounts | 21 | ||||
3.23 | Government Contracts | 22 |
3.24 | Customer and Trade Relations | 22 | ||||
3.25 | Bonding | 22 | ||||
3.26 | Subordinated Debt | 22 | ||||
3.27 | Full Disclosure | 22 | ||||
3.28 | Foreign Assets Control Regulations and Anti-Money Laundering | 22 | ||||
3.29 | Patriot Act | 23 | ||||
3.30 | Aircraft or Aircraft Engine Collateral | 23 | ||||
ARTICLE IV. AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS | 23 | |||||
4.1 | Financial Statements | 23 | ||||
4.2 | Appraisals; Certificates; Other Information | 25 | ||||
4.3 | Notices | 29 | ||||
4.4 | Preservation of Corporate Existence, Etc. | 31 | ||||
4.5 | Maintenance of Property | 32 | ||||
4.6 | Insurance | 32 | ||||
4.7 | Payment of Obligations | 33 | ||||
4.8 | Compliance with Laws | 34 | ||||
4.9 | Inspection of Property and Books and Records | 34 | ||||
4.10 | Use of Proceeds | 35 | ||||
4.11 | Credit Card Arrangements; Cash Management | 35 | ||||
4.12 | Collateral Access Agreements | 37 | ||||
4.13 | Further Assurances | 37 | ||||
4.14 | Environmental Matters | 39 | ||||
4.15 | Physical Inventories | 39 | ||||
4.16 | Appraisals | 39 | ||||
4.17 | [Reserved] | 40 | ||||
4.18 | Phase II Assessment | 40 | ||||
4.19 | Property Condition Assessment | 40 | ||||
4.20 | Mexican Subsidiary Actions | 40 | ||||
4.21 | Post-Closing Matters | 40 | ||||
ARTICLE V. NEGATIVE COVENANTS | 40 | |||||
5.1 | Limitation on Liens | 40 | ||||
5.2 | Disposition of Assets | 43 | ||||
5.3 | Consolidations and Mergers | 44 | ||||
5.4 | Acquisitions; Loans and Investments | 44 | ||||
5.5 | Limitation on Indebtedness | 46 | ||||
5.6 | Employee Loans and Transactions with Affiliates | 47 | ||||
5.7 | [Reserved] | 48 | ||||
5.8 | Margin Stock; Use of Proceeds | 48 | ||||
5.9 | Contingent Obligations | 48 | ||||
5.10 | Compliance with ERISA | 49 | ||||
5.11 | Restricted Payments | 49 | ||||
5.12 | Change in Business | 50 | ||||
5.13 | Change in Structure | 50 |
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5.14 | Changes in Accounting, Name or Jurisdiction of Organization | 50 | ||||
5.15 | Amendments to Other Agreements and Subordinated Indebtedness | 50 | ||||
5.16 | No Negative Pledges | 51 | ||||
5.17 | OFAC; Patriot Act | 51 | ||||
5.18 | Sale-Leasebacks | 52 | ||||
5.19 | Hazardous Materials | 52 | ||||
5.20 | Prepayments of Other Indebtedness | 52 | ||||
5.21 | Mexican Subsidiary Actions | 52 | ||||
ARTICLE VI. [reserved] | 52 | |||||
ARTICLE VII. EVENTS OF DEFAULT | 52 | |||||
7.1 | Events of Default | 52 | ||||
7.2 | Remedies | 55 | ||||
7.3 | Rights Not Exclusive | 56 | ||||
ARTICLE VIII. THE AGENT | 56 | |||||
8.1 | Appointment and Duties | 56 | ||||
8.2 | Binding Effect | 57 | ||||
8.3 | Use of Discretion | 57 | ||||
8.4 | Delegation of Rights and Duties | 58 | ||||
8.5 | Reliance and Liability | 58 | ||||
8.6 | Agent Individually | 60 | ||||
8.7 | Lender Credit Decision | 60 | ||||
8.8 | Expenses; Indemnities; Withholding | 61 | ||||
8.9 | Resignation of Agent | 62 | ||||
8.10 | Release of Collateral or Guarantors | 63 | ||||
8.11 | Intercreditor Agreement | 63 | ||||
ARTICLE IX. MISCELLANEOUS | 64 | |||||
9.1 | Amendments and Waivers | 64 | ||||
9.2 | Notices | 66 | ||||
9.3 | Electronic Transmissions | 67 | ||||
9.4 | No Waiver; Cumulative Remedies | 68 | ||||
9.5 | Costs and Expenses | 68 | ||||
9.6 | Indemnity | 69 | ||||
9.7 | Marshaling; Payments Set Aside | 70 | ||||
9.8 | Successors and Assigns | 70 | ||||
9.9 | Assignments and Participations; Binding Effect | 71 | ||||
9.10 | Non-Public Information; Confidentiality | 74 | ||||
9.11 | Set-off; Sharing of Payments | 76 | ||||
9.12 | Counterparts; Facsimile Signature | 77 | ||||
9.13 | Severability | 77 | ||||
9.14 | Captions | 77 |
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9.15 | Independence of Provisions | 77 | ||||
9.16 | Interpretation | 78 | ||||
9.17 | No Third Parties Benefited | 78 | ||||
9.18 | Governing Law and Jurisdiction | 78 | ||||
9.19 | Waiver of Jury Trial | 79 | ||||
9.20 | Entire Agreement; Release; Survival | 79 | ||||
9.21 | Patriot Act | 80 | ||||
9.22 | Replacement of Lender | 80 | ||||
9.23 | Joint and Several | 80 | ||||
9.24 | Creditor-Debtor Relationship | 81 | ||||
9.25 | Actions in Concert | 81 | ||||
9.26 | Credit Parties’ Acknowledgement of Matters Regarding the Revolving Borrowing Base and the Inventory Sale Reserve | 81 | ||||
ARTICLE X. TAXES, YIELD PROTECTION AND ILLEGALITY | 81 | |||||
10.1 | Taxes | 81 | ||||
10.2 | Illegality | 84 | ||||
10.3 | Increased Costs and Reduction of Return | 85 | ||||
10.4 | Funding Losses | 86 | ||||
10.5 | Inability to Determine Rates | 86 | ||||
10.6 | Reserves on LIBOR Rate Loans | 87 | ||||
10.7 | Certificates of Lenders | 87 | ||||
ARTICLE XI. DEFINITIONS | 87 | |||||
11.1 | Defined Terms | 87 | ||||
11.2 | Other Interpretive Provisions | 116 | ||||
11.3 | Accounting Terms and Principles | 118 | ||||
11.4 | Payments | 118 |
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SCHEDULES
Schedule 1.1(a) | Term Loan Commitments | |
Schedule 1.1(c) | Dealers | |
Schedule 1.1(d) | Franchisees | |
Schedule 3.5 | Litigation | |
Schedule 3.7 | ERISA | |
Schedule 3.8 | Closing Date Sources and Uses; Funds Flow Memorandum | |
Schedule 3.9 | Ownership of Property; Liens | |
Schedule 3.10 | Tax Audits | |
Schedule 3.11(a) | Historical Financial Statements | |
Schedule 3.11(b) | Pro Forma Financial Statements | |
Schedule 3.11(e) | Projections | |
Schedule 3.15 | Labor Relations | |
Schedule 3.16 | Intellectual Property | |
Schedule 3.18 | Insurance | |
Schedule 3.19 | Ventures, Subsidiaries and Affiliates; Outstanding Stock | |
Schedule 3.20 | Jurisdiction of Organization; Chief Executive Office | |
Schedule 3.21 | Locations of Inventory, Equipment and Books and Records | |
Schedule 3.22 | Deposit Accounts and Other Accounts | |
Schedule 3.23 | Government Contracts | |
Schedule 3.24 | Customer and Trade Relations | |
Schedule 3.25 | Bonding | |
Schedule 4.2(f) | Financial and Collateral Reports | |
Schedule 4.21 | Post-Closing Matters | |
Schedule 5.1 | Liens | |
Schedule 5.4 | Investments | |
Schedule 5.5 | Indebtedness | |
Schedule 5.6 | Transactions with Affiliates | |
Schedule 5.9 | Contingent Obligations | |
Schedule 11.1 | Prior Indebtedness | |
EXHIBITS | ||
Exhibit 2.1 | Closing Checklist | |
Exhibit 4.2(b) | Form of Compliance Certificate | |
Exhibit 4.11 | Form of Credit Card Notification | |
Exhibit 11.1(a) | Form of Assignment | |
Exhibit 11.1(f) | Form of Term Note |
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CREDIT AGREEMENT
This CREDIT AGREEMENT (including all exhibits and schedules hereto, as the same may be amended, modified and/or restated from time to time, this “Agreement”) is entered into as of December 10, 2013, by and among RADIOSHACK CORPORATION, a Delaware corporation (the “Borrower”), the other Persons party hereto that are designated as a “Credit Party”, Salus Capital Partners, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (in its individual capacity, “Salus”), as Agent for the several financial institutions from time to time party to this Agreement (collectively, the “Lenders” and individually each a “Lender”) and for itself as a Lender, and such Lenders.
W I T N E S S E T H:
WHEREAS, the Borrower has requested, and the Lenders have agreed to make available to the Borrower, a term loan upon and subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement to (a) refinance Prior Indebtedness, (b) provide for working capital and other general corporate purposes of the Borrower and (c) fund certain fees and expenses associated with the funding of the Term Loans and the refinancing of Prior Indebtedness;
WHEREAS, the Borrower desires to secure all of its Obligations under the Loan Documents by granting to Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, a security interest in and lien upon substantially all of its Property;
WHEREAS, subject to the terms hereof, certain Subsidiaries of the Borrower are willing to guaranty all of the Obligations of the Borrower and to grant to Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, a security interest in and lien upon substantially all of its Property;
WHEREAS, all Obligations of the Credit Parties to the Lenders hereunder and under the other Loan Documents shall be full recourse to each of the Credit Parties and secured by Agent’s security interest in and liens on all or substantially all of the assets of the Credit Parties included in the Collateral;
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual agreements, provisions and covenants contained herein, the parties hereto agree as follows:
ARTICLE I.
THE CREDITS
1.1Amounts and Terms of Commitments.
(a)The Term Loan.
(i) Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement and in reliance upon the representations and warranties of the Credit Parties contained herein, each Lender with a Term Loan Commitment severally and not jointly agrees to lend, on
the Closing Date, to the Borrower the amount set forth opposite such Lender’s name inSchedule 1.1(a) under the heading “Term Loan Commitments” (such amount being referred to herein as such Lender’s “Term Loan Commitment”). Amounts borrowed under thissubsection 1.1(a)(i) are referred to as the “Term Loan.”
(ii) Amounts borrowed as a Term Loan which are repaid or prepaid may not be reborrowed.
(iii) In addition, with the written consent of, and pursuant to documentation acceptable to, the Agent, one or more of the Lenders may make additional term loans in an aggregate amount not to exceed $12,500,000 (“Protective Advances”) to Borrower on the same terms and conditions of the loans made by the Lenders on the Closing Date that such Lenders deem necessary or desirable, directly or indirectly, (1) to maintain, protect or preserve the value of the Collateral and/or the Agent’s or Lenders’ rights therein as determined in the discretion of the Agent, including to preserve the Credit Parties’ business assets and infrastructure (such as the payment of insurance premiums, taxes, necessary suppliers, rent and payroll, including, without limitation, any other payments made concurrently with a payment relating to the maintenance, protection or preservation of value of the Collateral and/or the Agent’s or Lenders’ rights therein or for the preservation of the Credit Parties’ business assets or infrastructure), (2) to implement and exercise an enforcement action with respect to the Collateral, (3) to fund an orderly liquidation or wind-down of the Credit Parties’ assets or business or an Insolvency Proceeding (whether or not occurring prior to or after the commencement of an Insolvency Proceeding), (4) to enhance the likelihood, or maximize, the repayment of the Obligations or (5) to pay any other amounts chargeable to Credit Parties under any Loan Documents, including costs, fees and expenses relating thereto. No Protective Advances shall remain outstanding for more than forty-five (45) consecutive days. All Protective Advances shall bear interest at the rate applicable to Base Rate Loans, which interest shall be payable at the time interest is payable on the Term Loans and on the date of the repayment of such Protective Advance.
1.2Evidence of Term Loans; Notes. The Term Loan made by each Lender with a Term Loan Commitment is evidenced by this Agreement and, if requested by such Lender, a Term Note payable to such Lender in an amount equal to the unpaid principal balance of the Term Loan held by such Lender on the date of the issuance of such Term Note.
1.3Interest.
(a) Subject tosubsections 1.3(c) and1.3(d) andSections 10.2 and10.5, the Term Loan shall bear interest on the outstanding principal amount thereof from the date when made at a rate per annum equal to LIBORplus the Applicable Margin. All Base Rate Loans shall bear interest on the outstanding principal amount thereof at a rate per annum rate equal to the Base Rateplus the Applicable Margin. Each determination of an interest rate by Agent shall be conclusive and binding on the Borrower and the Lenders in the absence of manifest error. All computations of fees and interest payable under this Agreement shall be made on the basis of a 360-day year and actual days elapsed. Interest and fees shall accrue during each period during which interest or such fees are computed from the first day thereof to the last day thereof.
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(b) Interest on the Term Loan shall be paid in arrears on each Interest Payment Date. Interest shall also be paid on the date of any payment or prepayment of Term Loan in full.
(c) At the election of the Required Lenders while any Event of Default exists (or automatically while any Event of Default undersubsection 7.1(a),7.1(f) or7.1(g) exists), the Borrower shall pay interest (after as well as before entry of judgment thereon to the extent permitted by law) on the Term Loan and other Obligations under the Loan Documents from and after the date of occurrence of such Event of Default, at a rate per annum which is determined by adding two percent (2.0%) per annum to the Applicable Margin then in effect for the Term Loan (plus the LIBOR or Base Rate, as the case may be) or the rate (if any) then in effect for such other Obligations. All such interest shall be payable on demand of the Required Lenders.
(d) Anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding, the obligations of the Borrower hereunder shall be subject to the limitation that payments of interest shall not be required, for any period for which interest is computed hereunder, to the extent (but only to the extent) that contracting for or receiving such payment by the respective Lender would be contrary to the provisions of any law applicable to such Lender limiting the highest rate of interest which may be lawfully contracted for, charged or received by such Lender, and in such event the Borrower shall pay such Lender interest at the highest rate permitted by applicable law (“Maximum Lawful Rate”); provided, however, that if at any time thereafter the rate of interest payable hereunder is less than the Maximum Lawful Rate, the Borrower shall continue to pay interest hereunder at the Maximum Lawful Rate until such time as the total interest received by Agent, on behalf of Lenders, is equal to the total interest that would have been received had the interest payable hereunder been (but for the operation of this paragraph) the interest rate payable since the Closing Date as otherwise provided in this Agreement.
1.4Loan Accounts.
(a) Agent, on behalf of the Lenders, shall record on its books and records the amount of the Term Loan made, the interest rate applicable, all payments of principal and interest thereon, and, on or after 2:00 p.m. (New York time) on each day, the then current daily balance of the Term Loan. Agent shall deliver to the Borrower and each Lender on a monthly basis a loan statement setting forth such record for the immediately preceding calendar month. Such record shall, absent manifest error, be conclusive evidence of the amount of the Term Loan made by the Lenders to the Borrower and the interest and payments thereon. Any failure to so record or any error in doing so, or any failure to deliver such loan statement shall not, however, limit or otherwise affect the obligation of the Borrower hereunder (and under any Note) to pay any amount owing with respect to the Term Loan or provide the basis for any claim against Agent.
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(b) Agent, acting as a non-fiduciary agent of the Borrower solely for tax purposes and solely with respect to the actions described in thissubsection 1.4(b), shall establish and maintain at its address referred to inSection 9.2 (or at such other address as Agent may notify the Borrower) (A) a record of ownership (the “Register”) in which Agent agrees to register by book entry the interests (including any rights to receive payment hereunder) of each Lender in the Term Loan, and any assignment of any such interest, obligation or right and (B) accounts in the Register in accordance with its usual practice in which it shall record (1) the names and addresses of the Lenders (and each change thereto pursuant toSections 9.9 and9.22), (2) the Commitments of each Lender, (3) the principal amount of and stated interest on the portion of the Term Loan owing to each Lender pursuant to the terms hereof and from time to time and (4) any other payment received by Agent from the Borrower and its application to the Obligations.
(c) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, the Term Loan (including any Notes evidencing the Term Loan) is a registered obligation, the right, title and interest of the Lenders and their assignees in and to the Term Loan, as the case may be, shall be transferable only upon notation of such transfer in the Register and no assignment thereof shall be effective until recorded therein. ThisSection 1.4 andSection 9.9 shall be construed so that the Term Loan is at all times maintained in “registered form” within the meaning of Sections 163(f), 871(h)(2) and 881(c)(2) of the Code.
(d) The Credit Parties, Agent and the Lenders shall treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Register as a Lender for all purposes of this Agreement. Information contained in the Register with respect to any Lender shall be available for access by the Borrower, Agent or such Lender during normal business hours and from time to time upon at least one Business Day’s prior notice. No Lender shall, in such capacity, have access to or be otherwise permitted to review any information in the Register other than information with respect to such Lender unless otherwise agreed by Agent.
1.5[Reserved].
1.6[Reserved].
1.7Optional Prepayments.
(a) The Borrower may, at any time upon at least two (2) Business Days’ (or such shorter period as is acceptable to Agent) prior written notice by the Borrower to Agent, prepay the Term Loan in whole or in part on a pro rata basis in an amount greater than or equal to $1,000,000, in each instance, without penalty or premium except as provided inSections 1.9 and10.4; provided that each Lender shall have the right to decline any prepayment (other than a prepayment of the entire Term Loan in connection with a refinancing thereof) of its portion of the Term Loan pursuant to thissubsection 1.7(a), in which case such declined prepayment shall be applied to the portion of the Term Loan held by Lenders that accept such prepayment on a pro rata basis. Optional partial prepayments of the Term Loan in amounts less than $1,000,000 shall not be permitted.
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(b) The notice of any prepayment shall not thereafter be revocable by the Borrower and Agent will promptly notify each Lender thereof and of such Lender’s Commitment Percentage of such prepayment; provided that any such notice may be conditioned upon the effectiveness of a refinancing of the Term Loan in full or a transaction that would result in a Change of Control, in which case such notice may be revoked by Borrower by written notice to the Agent on or prior to the effective date. The payment amount specified in such notice shall be due and payable on the date specified therein. Together with each prepayment under thisSection 1.7, the Borrower shall pay any amounts required pursuant toSection 10.4.
1.8Mandatory Prepayments of the Term Loan.
(a)Term Loan. The aggregate outstanding principal amount of the Term Loan shall be repaid in full on the Maturity Date, if not sooner paid in full.
(b)[Reserved].
(c)Asset Dispositions; Events of Loss. If a Credit Party shall at any time or from time to time:
(i) make or agree to make a Disposition; or
(ii) suffer an Event of Loss;
then (subject in all cases to the terms of the Intercreditor Agreement) (A) the Borrower shall promptly notify Agent of such proposed Disposition or Event of Loss (including a description of the assets subject to such Disposition or Event of Loss and the amount of the estimated Net Proceeds (including the estimated Net Proceeds attributable to SCP Priority Collateral and ABL Priority Collateral, respectively) to be received by a Credit Party in respect thereof) and (B) promptly upon receipt by a Credit Party of the Net Proceeds of such Disposition or Event of Loss, in the case of Net Proceeds of any SCP Priority Collateral (regardless of whether a Lien in favor of the Agent has actually been granted thereon), the Borrower shall deliver, or cause to be delivered, (1) in the case of a Disposition, all such Net Proceeds to the Agent for distribution to the Lenders as a prepayment of the Term Loan, which prepayment shall be applied in accordance withsubsection 1.8(d), and (2) in the case of an Event of Loss, (A) to the extent an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing at such time, or to the extent such Net Proceeds exceed $5,000,000, all such Net Proceeds and (B) in all other cases such Net Proceeds to the extent the same are not actually applied to repair or reconstruct the damaged Property or Property affected by the condemnation or taking, which prepayment shall be applied in accordance withsubsection 1.8(d).
(d)Application of Prepayments. Subject tosubsection 1.10(c)(ii) and the terms of the Intercreditor Agreement, any prepayments pursuant tosubsection 1.8(c)shall be applied to the Obligations in the order set forth insubsection 1.10(c)(i). Together with each prepayment under thisSection 1.8, the Borrower shall pay any amounts required pursuant toSection 10.4.
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(e) [Reserved].
(f)No Implied Consent. Provisions contained in thissubsection 1.8 for the application of proceeds of certain transactions shall not be deemed to constitute consent of the Lenders to transactions that are not otherwise permitted by the terms hereof or the other Loan Documents.
1.9Fees.
(a)Fees. The Borrower shall pay to Agent, for Agent’s own account and the account of the Lenders (as applicable), fees in the amounts and at the times set forth in a letter agreement among the Borrower, the Agent, GE Capital Markets, Inc., CIT Finance LLC, The CIT Group/Business Credit, Inc., RBS Citizens, N.A., RBS Citizens Business Capital, a division of RBS Asset Finance, Inc. and General Electric Capital Corporation and dated as of October 21, 2013 (as amended from time to time, the “Fee Letter”).
(b)Prepayment Fee. If the Borrower pays or prepays all or any portion of the Term Loan for any reason (including, without limitation, in the event of the termination of this Agreement and repayment of the Obligations at any time prior to the Maturity Date, for any reason, including (i) termination upon the election of the Required Lenders to terminate after the occurrence and during the continuation of an Event of Default, (ii) foreclosure and sale of Collateral, (iii) sale of the Collateral in any Insolvency Proceeding, or (iv) restructure, reorganization, or compromise of the Obligations by the confirmation of a plan of reorganization or any other plan of compromise, restructure, or arrangement in any Insolvency Proceeding), then, in view of the impracticability and extreme difficulty of ascertaining the actual amount of damages to the Lenders or profits lost by the Lenders as a result of such payment or prepayment, and by mutual agreement of the parties as to a reasonable estimation and calculation of the lost profits or damages of the Lenders, the Borrower shall pay to Agent, for the pro rata benefit of the applicable Lenders, as liquidated damages and compensation for the costs of being prepared to make funds available hereunder an amount equal to the Applicable Percentage multiplied by the principal amount of the Term Loan paid or prepaid. As used herein, the term “Applicable Percentage” shall mean (w) four percent (4.00%), in the case of a payment or prepayment on or prior to the first anniversary of the Closing Date, (x) three percent (3.00%), in the case of a payment or prepayment after the first anniversary of the Closing Date but on or prior to the second anniversary thereof, (y) two percent (2.00%), in the case of a payment or prepayment after the second anniversary of the Closing Date but on or prior to the third anniversary thereof and (z) one percent (1.00%), in the case of a payment or prepayment after the third anniversary of the Closing Date but on or prior to the fourth anniversary thereof. The Credit Parties agree that the Applicable Percentages are a reasonable calculation of Lenders’ lost profits in view of the difficulties and impracticality of determining actual damages resulting from a prepayment and/or an early repayment of the Term Loan. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any prepayment of the Term Loan from the Net Proceeds of a Disposition of any fixtures or equipment located in any Store that is closed shall not be subject to the prepayment fees required under thisSection 1.9(b).
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1.10Payments by the Borrower.
(a) All payments (including prepayments) to be made by each Credit Party on account of principal, interest, fees and other amounts required hereunder shall be made withoutset-off, recoupment, counterclaim or deduction of any kind, shall, except as otherwise expressly provided herein, be made to Agent (for the ratable account of the Persons entitled thereto) at the address for payment specified in the signature page hereof in relation to Agent (or such other address as Agent may from time to time specify in accordance withSection 9.2), including payments utilizing the ACH system, and shall be made in Dollars and by wire transfer or ACH transfer in immediately available funds (which shall be the exclusive means of payment hereunder), no later than 2:00 p.m. (New York time) on the date due. Any payment which is received by Agent later than 2:00 p.m. (New York time) may in Agent’s discretion be deemed to have been received on the immediately succeeding Business Day and any applicable interest or fee shall continue to accrue. The Borrower and each other Credit Party hereby irrevocably waives the right to direct the application during the continuance of an Event of Default of any and all payments in respect of any Obligation and any proceeds of Collateral.
(b) If any payment hereunder shall be stated to be due on a day other than a Business Day, such payment shall be made on the next succeeding Business Day, and such extension of time shall in such case be included in the computation of interest or fees, as the case may be.
(c) (i) So long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, subject to the terms of the Intercreditor Agreement, all payments received by Agent in respect of any Obligation and all funds transferred and credited to the Agent’s Account shall be applied to the Obligations as follows:
first, to the payment of any Protective Advance;
second, to payment of interest, fees (including prepayment fees), costs, expenses, indemnification obligations, increased costs amounts and any other similar amounts then due and payable by the Credit Parties under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents;
third, with respect to any optional prepayment pursuant tosubsection 1.7(a) or any mandatory prepayment pursuant tosubsection 1.8(c), to the outstanding principal amount of the Term Loan; and
fourth, to the Borrower or for the account of and paid to whoever may be lawfully entitled thereto.
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In carrying out the foregoing, (A) amounts received shall be applied in the numerical order provided until exhausted prior to the application to the next succeeding category and (B) each of the Lenders or other Persons entitled to payment shall receive an amount equal to its pro rata share of amounts available to be applied pursuant to clausesfirst,second andthird above (with the amount of principal or interest payable to any Lender determined based upon such Lender’s Commitment Percentage of the aggregate outstanding amount of principal or interest, as applicable, for all Lenders).
(i) During the continuance of an Event of Default, subject to the terms of the Intercreditor Agreement, Agent shall apply any and all payments received by Agent in respect of any Obligation in accordance with clausesfirst throughfifth below. Notwithstanding any provision herein to the contrary, subject to the terms of the Intercreditor Agreement, all amounts collected or received by Agent after any or all of the Obligations have been accelerated (so long as such acceleration has not been rescinded), including proceeds of Collateral, shall be applied as follows:
first, to the payment of any Protective Advance and then ratably to fees, costs and expenses, including Attorney Costs, of Agent payable or reimbursable by the Credit Parties under the Loan Documents;
second, payment of fees (including prepayment fees), costs, expenses, indemnification obligations, increased costs amounts and any other similar amounts, including Attorney Costs of Lenders payable or reimbursable by the Credit Parties under the Loan Documents (subject to any limitations set forth herein (includingSection 9.5));
third, to payment of all accrued unpaid interest on the Obligations and fees owed to Agent and the Lenders, including interest and fees accruing during any Insolvency Proceeding with respect to one or more Credit Parties, regardless of whether such interest and fees are disallowed as a claim in that Insolvency Proceeding;
fourth, to payment of principal of the Term Loan;
fifth, to payment of any other amounts owing constituting Obligations; and
sixth, to the Borrower or for the account of and paid to whoever may be lawfully entitled thereto.
In carrying out the foregoing, (A) amounts received shall be applied in the numerical order provided until exhausted prior to the application to the next succeeding category and (B) each of the Lenders or other Persons entitled to payment shall receive an amount equal to its pro rata share of amounts available to be applied pursuant to clausesfirst, second,third, fourthand fifth above (with the amount of principal or interest payable to any Lender determined based upon such Lender’s Commitment Percentage of the aggregate outstanding amount of principal or interest, as applicable, for all Lenders).
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1.11Payments by the Lenders to Agent.
(a) Agent may, on behalf of Lenders, disburse funds to the Borrower for the Term Loan requested. Each Lender shall reimburse Agent on demand for all funds disbursed on its behalf by Agent, or if Agent so requests, each Lender will remit to Agent its Commitment Percentage of the Term Loan before Agent disburses same to the Borrower. If Agent elects to require that each Lender make funds available to Agent prior to disbursement by Agent to the Borrower, Agent shall advise each Lender by telephone, fax or email (as designated by such Lender to Agent) of the amount of such Lender’s Commitment Percentage of the Term Loan requested by the Borrower no later than the Business Day prior to the scheduled Borrowing date applicable thereto, and each such Lender shall pay Agent such Lender’s Commitment Percentage of such requested Term Loan, in same day funds, by wire transfer to Agent’s account, as set forth on Agent’s signature page hereto, no later than 2:00 p.m. (New York time) on such scheduled Borrowing date. Nothing in thissubsection 1.11(a) or elsewhere in this Agreement or the other Loan Documents, including the remaining provisions ofSection 1.11, shall be deemed to require Agent to advance funds on behalf of any Lender or to relieve any Lender from its obligation to fulfill its Commitments hereunder or to prejudice any rights that Agent, any Lender or the Borrower may have against any Lender as a result of any default by such Lender hereunder.
(b) [Reserved].
(c)[Reserved].
(d)Return of Payments.
(i) If Agent pays an amount to a Lender under this Agreement in the belief or expectation that a related payment has been or will be received by Agent from the Borrower and such related payment is not received by Agent, then Agent will be entitled to recover such amount from such Lender on demand without setoff, counterclaim or deduction of any kind.
(ii) If Agent determines at any time that any amount received by Agent under this Agreement or any other Loan Document must be returned to any Credit Party or paid to any other Person pursuant to any insolvency law or otherwise, then, notwithstanding any other term or condition of this Agreement or any other Loan Document, Agent will not be required to distribute any portion thereof to any Lender. In addition, each Lender will repay to Agent on demand any portion of such amount that Agent has distributed to such Lender, together with interest at such rate, if any, as Agent is required to pay to the Borrower or such other Person, without setoff, counterclaim or deduction of any kind, and Agent will be entitled to set-off against future distributions to such Lender any such amounts (with interest) that are not repaid on demand.
(e)Procedures. Agent is hereby authorized by each Credit Party and each other Secured Party to establish procedures (and to amend such procedures from time to time) to facilitate the delivery of notices, reports and other information to the Lenders. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, Agent is hereby authorized to establish procedures to make available or deliver, or to accept, notices, documents and similar items on, by posting to or submitting and/or completion on, E-Systems.
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ARTICLE II.
CONDITIONS PRECEDENT
2.1Conditions of Initial Term Loan Borrowing. The obligation of each Lender to make its portion of the Term Loan hereunder is subject to satisfaction of the following conditions in a manner satisfactory to Agent and the Lenders:
(a)Loan Documents. Agent shall have received on or before the Closing Date all of the agreements, documents, instruments and other items (to the extent not already set forth in thisArticle II) set forth on the closing checklist attached hereto asExhibit 2.1), each in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Agent and the Lenders;
(b)Availability. After giving effect to the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby and by the ABL Loan Documents, payment of all costs and expenses in connection therewith and funding of the Term Loan, Total Liquidity of the Credit Parties shall be not less than $625,000,000, which shall be comprised of no less than $420,000,000 of Availability and no less than $205,000,000 of cash on hand of the Credit Parties (or cash held by financial institutions as cash collateral for letters of credit issued on behalf of the Credit Parties) as evidenced by bank statements delivered to the Agent and the Required Lenders on the Closing Date and/or such other evidence acceptable to Agent and the Required Lenders, of which no less than $105,000,000 shall be “unrestricted cash” (i.e., cash in bank accounts evidenced by bank statements delivered to the Agent on the Closing Date and/or such other evidence acceptable to Agent, which cash is unrestricted);
(c)Repayment of Prior Lender Obligations; Satisfaction of Outstanding L/Cs. (i) Agent shall have received a fully executed pay-off letter reasonably satisfactory to Agent and the Lenders confirming that all Prior Indebtedness and other obligations owing by any Credit Party to each Prior Lender will be repaid in full from the proceeds of the Term Loan and the ABL Term Loan and that all Liens upon any of the Property of the Credit Parties or any of their Subsidiaries in favor of any Prior Lender shall be terminated by such Prior Lender immediately upon such payment; and (ii) all letters of credit issued or guaranteed by any Prior Lender shall have been cash collateralized or supported by a Letter of Credit Issued pursuant to the ABL Credit Agreement, as mutually agreed upon by the ABL Agent, the Borrower and Prior Lender;
(d)Governmental and Third Party Approvals. Agent shall have received (i) satisfactory evidence that the Credit Parties have obtained all required consents and approvals of all Persons including all requisite Governmental Authorities, to the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents or (ii) an officer’s certificate in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Agent and the Lenders affirming that no such consents or approvals are required;
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(e)Funds Flow; Payment of Fees. Agent shall have received an executed flow of funds instruction letter and the Borrower shall have paid the fees required to be paid on the Closing Date, including the fees in the respective amounts specified inSection 1.9 and in the Fee Letter, and shall have reimbursed Agent and the Lenders for all fees, costs and expenses of closing required to be paid by the Credit Parties pursuant to the Loan Documents and invoiced, in the case of costs and expenses, at least one Business Day prior to the Closing Date (including, without limitation fees and expenses of counsel for the Lenders other than the Agent in an amount not to exceed $75,000);
(f)Collateral Audit. Agent shall have received a pre-funding roll forward collateral audit, in form and substance satisfactory to Agent and the Lenders;
(g)Due Diligence Reviews; W-9s. (i) Agent or its representatives shall have completed satisfactory: (A) background checks and know-your-customer reviews on Borrower, its management team and significant related parties; (B) an environmental review; (C) an insurance review; and (D) legal due diligence including review of all material pending or threatened litigation or proceedings in any court or administrative forum, and (ii) Agent shall have received from each Credit Party two completed originals of Form W-9 (certifying that such Credit Party is entitled to an exemption from U.S. backup withholding tax) or any successor form;
(h)Structure. The ownership, capital, corporate, tax, organizational and legal structure of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries on the Closing Date shall be satisfactory to the Agent and the Lenders;
(i)Lien Searches. Agent and the Lenders shall have received UCC, judgment, tax lien, intellectual property and other lien searches, together with UCC filings and terminations and intellectual property filings that are in form and substance satisfactory to the Agent and the Lenders;
(j)Mortgages. With respect to the Real Estate to be mortgaged, receipt by the Agent and the Lenders of (i) property condition assessments, (ii) title commitments, (iii) flood hazard determinations, (iv) federal flood insurance policies or binders for each parcel of real estate located in a Special Flood Hazard Area, and (v) other customary mortgage documentation, in each case in form and substance satisfactory to the Agent and the Lenders;
(k)Reliance Letters. Agent and the Lenders shall have received reliance letters for the existing field examination and Inventory appraisals provided to the Agent or satisfactory field examination and Inventory appraisals by Agent or its representatives of Borrower’s and its subsidiaries’ respective business, operations, financial condition, assets and Inventory;
(l)Pro Forma Balance Sheet. Agent and the Lenders shall have received a pro forma closing balance sheet, adjusted to give effect to the transactions contemplated hereby and by the ABL Loan Documents, that is satisfactory to the Agent and the Lenders;
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(m)Pro Forma Financial Projections. Agent shall have received pro forma financial projections for Fiscal Years 2013 and 2014, on a monthly basis, including income statements, cash flow statements, balance sheets and Availability forecasts, in form and substance satisfactory to the Agent and the Lenders;
(n)Solvency Certificate. Agent shall have received a customary solvency certificate executed by the Borrower’s chief financial officer certifying that the Credit Parties, after incurring the indebtedness contemplated in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby and by the ABL Loan Documents, are Solvent;
(o)Borrowing Base Certificate. Agent and the Lenders shall have received a Borrowing Base Certificate, certified on behalf of the Borrower by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower, setting forth the Revolving Borrowing Base of the Borrower as at October 31, 2013, evidencing Availability not less than $420,000,000 after giving effect to the transactions contemplated hereby and under the ABL Credit Agreement on the Closing Date;
(p)ABL Term Loan. Receipt by the Borrower of net proceeds of the ABL Term Loan;
(q)ABL Loan Documents. Agent and the Lenders shall have received a certificate from the Borrower attaching true and complete copies of each material ABL Loan Document;
(r)Material Adverse Change. Since December 31, 2012, there shall not have occurred any change, development, or event that has or would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect on the operations, business, properties or condition (financial or otherwise) of the Borrower, or the Credit Parties and their subsidiaries taken as a whole;
(s)Wireless Carrier Contracts. Since December 31, 2012, there shall not have been any material and adverse change to, or termination of, any Wireless Carrier Contract;
(t)No Default Under Other Documents. Both before and after giving effect to the transactions contemplated hereby, the absence of any default or event of default under the ABL Loan Documents or under any material contract or agreement (including any Wireless Carrier Contract) of the Borrower or its subsidiaries;
(u)Litigation. There being no order or injunction or pending litigation in which there is a reasonable possibility of a decision which would have a Material Adverse Effect and no pending litigation seeking to enjoin or prevent the transactions contemplated hereby or by the ABL Loan Documents;
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(v)Legal Opinions. Agent and the Lenders shall have received customary corporate approval of the financing as well as customary opinions of counsel addressed to Agent and the Lenders, dated the Closing Date and otherwise in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Agent and the Lenders;
(w)Secretary’s Certificates. Agent and the Lenders shall have received customary secretary’s certificates for each Credit Party attaching (a) articles of incorporation or organization or other similar document for such Credit Party, certified as of a recent date by the applicable governmental authority, (b) certificates attesting to the good standing of such Credit Party in its jurisdiction of incorporation or formation, (c) the bylaws or operating agreement for such Credit Party, (d) the resolutions of such Credit Party’s board of directors or other appropriate governing body approving and authorizing the execution, delivery and performance the Loan Documents and (e) incumbency specimens;
(x)Insurance. Agent and the Lenders shall have received (i) insurance certificates in form and substance satisfactory to the Agent and the Lenders demonstrating that the insurance policies required bySection 4.6 are in full force and effect and (ii) all insurance endorsements required bySection 4.6;
(y)Consumer Information. The Agent and each Lender shall have received a true, accurate and complete copy of the Credit Parties’ current policy for treatment, handling and storage of consumer information and personally identifiable information; and
(z)Other Information. Agent and the Lenders shall have received and be satisfied with the such other information (financial or otherwise) reasonably requested by Agent or any Lender.
2.2Additional Conditions to Borrowing. Except as otherwise expressly provided herein, no Lender shall be obligated to fund any portion of the Term Loan, if, as of the date thereof:
(a) any representation or warranty by any Credit Party contained herein or in any other Loan Document is untrue or incorrect in any material respect (without duplication of any materiality qualifier contained therein) as of such date, except to the extent that such representation or warranty expressly relates to an earlier date (in which event such representation or warranty was untrue or incorrect in any material respect (without duplication of any materiality qualifier contained therein) as of such earlier date); or
(b) any Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result after giving effect to the Term Loan.
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ARTICLE III.
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
The Credit Parties, jointly and severally, represent and warrant to Agent and each Lender that the following are, and after giving effect to the Term Loan will be, true, correct and complete:
3.1Corporate Existence and Power. Each Credit Party and each of their respective Subsidiaries:
(a) is duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation, organization or formation, as applicable;
(b) has the power and authority and all governmental licenses, authorizations, Permits, consents and approvals to own its assets, carry on its business and execute, deliver, and perform its obligations under, the Loan Documents to which it is a party;
(c) is duly qualified and licensed and in good standing, under the laws of each jurisdiction where its ownership, lease or operation of Property or the conduct of its business requires such qualification or license; and
(d) is in compliance with all Requirements of Law;
except, in each case referred to inclause (c) orclause (d), to the extent that the failure to do so would not reasonably be expected to have, either individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect.
3.2Corporate Authorization; No Contravention. The execution, delivery and performance by each of the Credit Parties of this Agreement, and by each Credit Party and each of their respective Subsidiaries of any other Loan Document and ABL Loan Document to which such Person is party, have been duly authorized by all necessary action, and do not and will not:
(a) contravene the terms of any of that Person’s Organization Documents;
(b) conflict with or result in any material breach or contravention of, or result in the creation of any Lien under, any document evidencing any material Contractual Obligation to which such Person is a party or any order, injunction, writ or decree of any Governmental Authority to which such Person or its Property is subject; or
(c) violate any Requirement of Law in any material respect.
3.3Governmental Authorization. No material approval, consent, exemption, authorization, or other action by, or notice to, or filing with, any Governmental Authority is necessary or required in connection with the execution, delivery or performance by, or enforcement against, any Credit Party or any Subsidiary of any Credit Party of this Agreement or any other Loan Document except (a) for recordings and filings in connection with the Liens granted to Agent under the Collateral Documents and (b) those obtained or made on or prior to the Closing Date.
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3.4Binding Effect. This Agreement and each other Loan Document to which any Credit Party or any Subsidiary of any Credit Party is a party constitute the legal, valid and binding obligations of each such Person which is a party thereto, enforceable against such Person in accordance with their respective terms, except as enforceability may be limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, or similar laws affecting the enforcement of creditors’ rights generally or by equitable principles relating to enforceability.
3.5Litigation. Except as specifically disclosed inSchedule 3.5 and, to the extent disclosed to the Lenders in their conference call with the Borrower on November 25, 2013, except for audits conducted by the IRS and other taxing authorities and any related actions, suits, proceedings, claims or disputes, there are no actions, suits, proceedings, claims or disputes pending, or to the best knowledge of each Credit Party, threatened or contemplated, at law, in equity, in arbitration or before any Governmental Authority, against any Credit Party, any Subsidiary of any Credit Party or any of their respective Properties which:
(a) purport to affect or pertain to this Agreement, any other Loan Document, or any of the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby; or
(b) would reasonably be expected to result in monetary judgment(s) or relief, individually or in the aggregate, in excess of $10,000,000 (to the extent not covered by independent third-party insurance as to which the insurer is rated at least “A” by A.M. Best Company, has been notified of the potential claim and does not dispute coverage); or
(c) seek an injunction or other equitable relief which would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
No injunction, writ, temporary restraining order or any order of any nature has been issued by any court or other Governmental Authority purporting to enjoin or restrain the execution, delivery or performance of this Agreement or any other Loan Document, or directing that the transactions provided for herein or therein not be consummated as herein or therein provided. As of the Closing Date, no Credit Party or any Subsidiary of any Credit Party is the subject of an audit or, to each Credit Party’s knowledge, any review or investigation by any Governmental Authority (excluding the IRS and other taxing authorities) concerning the material violation or possible material violation of any Requirement of Law.
3.6No Default. No Default or Event of Default exists or would result from the incurring of any Obligations by any Credit Party or the grant or perfection of Agent’s Liens on the Collateral. No Credit Party and no Subsidiary of any Credit Party is in default under or with respect to any Contractual Obligation in any respect which, individually or together with all such defaults, would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
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3.7ERISA Compliance.Schedule 3.7 sets forth, as of the Closing Date, a complete and correct list of, and that separately identifies, (a) all Title IV Plans, (b) all Multiemployer Plans and (c) all material Benefit Plans. Each Benefit Plan, and each trust thereunder, intended to qualify for tax exempt status under Section 401 or 501 of the Code or other Requirements of Law so qualifies. Except to the extent not reasonably expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, (x) each Benefit Plan is in compliance with applicable provisions of ERISA, the Code and other Requirements of Law, (y) there are no existing or pending (or to the knowledge of any Credit Party, threatened) claims (other than routine claims for benefits in the normal course), sanctions, actions, lawsuits or other proceedings or investigation involving any Benefit Plan to which any Credit Party incurs or otherwise has or could have an obligation or any Liability and (z) no ERISA Event is reasonably expected to occur. On the Closing Date, no ERISA Event has occurred in connection with which obligations and liabilities (contingent or otherwise) remain outstanding.
3.8Use of Proceeds; Margin Regulations. No Credit Party and no Subsidiary of any Credit Party is engaged in the business of purchasing or selling Margin Stock or extending credit for the purpose of purchasing or carrying Margin Stock.Schedule 3.8 contains a description of the Credit Parties’ sources and uses of funds on the Closing Date, including the Term Loan made on the Closing Date and a funds flow memorandum detailing how funds from each source are to be transferred to particular uses.
3.9Ownership of Property; Liens.
(a) As of the Closing Date, the Real Estate listed inSchedule 3.9 constitutes all of the Real Estate of each Credit Party and each of their respective Subsidiaries. Each of the Credit Parties and each of their respective Subsidiaries has good record and indefeasible title in fee simple to, or valid leasehold interests in, all Real Estate, and good and valid title to all owned personal property and valid leasehold interests in all leased personal property, in each instance, necessary or used in the ordinary conduct of their respective businesses. As of the Closing Date, none of the Real Estate owned in fee by any Credit Party or any Subsidiary of any Credit Party is subject to any Liens other than Permitted Liens. As of the Closing Date,Schedule 3.9 also describes any purchase options, rights of first refusal or other similar contractual rights pertaining to any Real Estate. As of the Closing Date, all material permits required to have been issued or appropriate to enable all Real Estate material to the business of the Credit Parties to be lawfully occupied and used for all of the purposes for which it is currently occupied and used have been lawfully issued and are in full force and effect.
(b) The Collateral Documents create in favor of the Agent, for the ratable benefit of the Secured Parties, a legal, valid and enforceable security interest in the Collateral described therein as security for the Obligations to the extent that a legal, valid, binding and enforceable security interest in such Collateral may be created under the UCC (and subject, in each case, to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization,
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moratorium or other laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and subject to general principles of equity, regardless of whether considered in a proceeding in equity or at law) and the Collateral Documents constitute, or will upon the filing of financing statements and the obtaining of “control”, in each case, as applicable, with respect to the relevant Collateral as required under the UCC, the creation of a fully perfected first priority Lien on, and security interest in, all right, title and interest of the Borrower and each other Credit Party thereunder in such Collateral, in each case prior and superior in right to any other Person (other than (x) Permitted Liens having priority under applicable law and (y) ABL Priority Collateral), except as permitted hereunder or under any other Loan Document, in each case to the extent that a security interest may be perfected by the filing of a financing statement under the UCC or by obtaining “control”.
3.10Taxes. All federal, state, local and foreign income and franchise and other material tax returns, reports and statements (collectively, the “Tax Returns”) required to be filed by any Tax Affiliate have been filed with the appropriate Governmental Authorities, all such Tax Returns are true and correct in all material respects, and all Taxes reflected therein or otherwise due and payable have been paid prior to the date on which any Liability may be added thereto for non-payment thereof except for (a) those contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings diligently conducted and for which adequate reserves are maintained on the books of the appropriate Tax Affiliate in accordance with GAAP or (b) to the extent that the failure to do so could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. As of the Closing Date, except as set forth onSchedule 3.10, no Tax Return is under audit or examination by any Governmental Authority, and no notice of any audit or examination or any assertion of any claim for Taxes has been given or made by any Governmental Authority. Proper and accurate amounts have been withheld by each Tax Affiliate from their respective employees for all periods in compliance in all material respects with the tax, social security and unemployment withholding provisions of applicable Requirements of Law and such withholdings have been timely paid to the respective Governmental Authorities. No Tax Affiliate has participated in a “reportable transaction” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.6011-4(b) or has been a member of an affiliated, combined or unitary group other than the group of which a Tax Affiliate is the common parent.
3.11Financial Condition.
(a) Each of (i) the audited Consolidated balance sheet of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries dated December 31, 2012, and the related audited Consolidated statements of income or operations, shareholders’ equity and cash flows for the Fiscal Year ended on that date and (ii) the unaudited interim Consolidated balance sheet of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries dated October 31, 2013 and the related unaudited Consolidated statements of income, shareholders’ equity and cash flows for the ten (10) Fiscal Months then ended, in each case, as attached hereto asSchedule 3.11(a):
(x) were prepared in accordance with GAAP consistently applied throughout the respective periods covered thereby, except as otherwise expressly noted therein, subject to, in the case of the unaudited interim financial statements, normal year-end adjustments and the lack of footnote disclosures; and
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(y) present fairly in all material respects the Consolidated financial condition of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries as of the dates thereof and results of operations for the periods covered thereby.
(b) The pro forma unaudited Consolidated balance sheet of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries dated October 31, 2013 delivered on the Closing Date and attached hereto asSchedule 3.11(b) was prepared by the Borrower giving pro forma effect to the transactions contemplated by the Loan Documents and the ABL Loan Documents, was based on the unaudited Consolidated balance sheets of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries dated October 31, 2013, and was prepared in accordance with GAAP, with only such adjustments thereto as would be required in a manner consistent with GAAP.
(c) Since December 31, 2012, there has been no Material Adverse Effect.
(d) The Credit Parties and their Subsidiaries have no Indebtedness other than Indebtedness permitted pursuant toSection 5.5 and have no Contingent Obligations other than Contingent Obligations permitted pursuant toSection 5.9, and since September 1, 2013 there has not been (and none of the Credit Parties has received any notice of) (i) a material reduction or proposed reduction in the aggregate amount of trade credit available to the Credit Parties for purchases of inventory from their key merchandise vendors, or (ii) a material tightening of the terms of the trade credit or the credit limits made available to the Credit Parties by any of its key merchandise vendors.
(e) All financial performance projections delivered to Agent, including the financial performance projections delivered on the Closing Date and attached hereto asSchedule 3.11(e), represent the Borrower’s good faith estimate of future financial performance and are based on assumptions believed by the Borrower to be fair and reasonable, it being acknowledged and agreed by Agent and Lenders that projections as to future events are not to be viewed as facts and that the actual results during the period or periods covered by such projections may differ from the projected results.
(f) To the best of the Credit Parties’ knowledge, any inventory replenishment concerns are not reoccurring and, to the best of their knowledge, will not similarly or negatively impact the Credit Parties’ future or continued ability to replenish inventory consistent with levels planned in the ordinary course of business and as demonstrated in the projections attached hereto asSchedule 3.11(e).
3.12Environmental Matters. Except as would not reasonably be expected to result in, either individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect, (a) the operations of each Credit Party and each Subsidiary of each Credit Party are and have been in compliance with all applicable Environmental Laws, including obtaining, maintaining and complying with all Permits required by any applicable Environmental
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Law, (b) no Credit Party and no Subsidiary of any Credit Party is party to, and no Credit Party and no Subsidiary of any Credit Party and no Real Estate currently (or to the knowledge of any Credit Party previously) owned by any such Person is subject to or the subject of, any Contractual Obligation or any pending (or, to the knowledge of any Credit Party, threatened) order, action, investigation, suit, proceeding, audit, claim, demand, dispute or notice of violation or of potential liability or similar notice relating in any manner to any Environmental Laws, (c) no Lien in favor of any Governmental Authority securing, in whole or in part, Environmental Liabilities has attached to any Property of any Credit Party or any Subsidiary of any Credit Party and, to the knowledge of any Credit Party, no facts, circumstances or conditions exist that could reasonably be expected to result in any such Lien attaching to any such Property, (d) no Credit Party and no Subsidiary of any Credit Party has caused or suffered to occur a Release of Hazardous Materials at, to or from any Real Estate owned by such Credit Party, (e) all Real Estate currently (or to the knowledge of any Credit Party previously) owned by any such Credit Party and each Subsidiary of each Credit Party is free of contamination by any Hazardous Materials and (f) no Credit Party and no Subsidiary of any Credit Party (i) is or has been engaged in, or has permitted any current or former tenant to engage in, operations in violation of any Environmental Law or (ii) knows of any facts, circumstances or conditions reasonably constituting notice of a violation of any Environmental Law, including receipt of any information request or notice of potential responsibility under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act or similar Environmental Laws, except, in each case, to the extent that such violation could not reasonably be expected to have, either individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect. Each Credit Party has made available to Agent copies of all Phase I environmental assessments, Phase II environmental assessments and all other existing material environmental reports, reviews and audits and all documents pertaining to actual or potential material Environmental Liabilities, in each case to the extent such reports, reviews, audits and documents are in their possession, custody or control.
3.13Regulated Entities. None of any Credit Party, any Person controlling any Credit Party, or any Subsidiary of any Credit Party (other than Tandy Life Insurance Company), is (a) an “investment company” within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940 or (b) subject to regulation under the Federal Power Act, the Interstate Commerce Act, any state public utilities code, or any other federal or state statute, rule or regulation limiting its ability to incur Indebtedness, pledge its assets or perform its Obligations under the Loan Documents.
3.14Solvency. Both before and after giving effect to (a) the Term Loan made on or prior to the date this representation and warranty is made or remade, (b) the disbursement of the proceeds of the Term Loan to or as directed by the Borrower, (c) the consummation of the transactions contemplated by the ABL Loan Documents and (d) the payment and accrual of all transaction costs in connection with the foregoing, both the Credit Parties taken as a whole and the Borrower individually are Solvent.
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3.15Labor Relations. There are no strikes, work stoppages, slowdowns or lockouts existing, pending (or, to the knowledge of any Credit Party, threatened) against or involving any Credit Party or any Subsidiary of any Credit Party, except for those that would not, in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. Except as set forth inSchedule 3.15, as of the Closing Date, (a) there is no collective bargaining or similar agreement with any union, labor organization, works council or similar representative covering any employee of any Credit Party or any Subsidiary of any Credit Party, (b) no petition for certification or election of any such representative is existing or pending with respect to any employee of any Credit Party or any Subsidiary of any Credit Party and (c) no such representative has sought certification or recognition with respect to any employee of any Credit Party or any Subsidiary of any Credit Party.
3.16Intellectual Property.Schedule 3.16 sets forth a true and complete list as of the Closing Date or the most recent date of delivery of the reports required pursuant tosubsection 4.2(o) of the following Intellectual Property each Credit Party owns, is the licensee of, or otherwise has the right to use: (i) Intellectual Property that is registered or subject to applications for registration, (ii) Internet Domain Names (other than Internet Domain Names owned by third parties and used by a Credit Party that are not material to such Credit Party’s business) and (iii) other material Intellectual Property, separately identifying that owned and licensed to such Credit Party and including for each of the foregoing items (1) the owner, (2) the title, (3) the jurisdiction in which such item has been registered or otherwise arises or in which an application for registration has been filed, (4) as applicable, the registration or application number and registration or application date and (5) any IP Licenses or other rights (including franchises) granted by such Credit Party with respect thereto (other than IP Licenses to franchisees and dealers). Each Credit Party and each Subsidiary of each Credit Party owns, or is licensed to use, all Intellectual Property necessary to conduct its business as currently conducted except for such Intellectual Property the failure of which to own or license would not reasonably be expected to have, either individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect. To the knowledge of each Credit Party, (a) the conduct and operations of the businesses of each Credit Party and each Subsidiary of each Credit Party does not infringe, misappropriate, dilute, violate or otherwise impair any Intellectual Property owned by any other Person and (b) no other Person has contested any right, title or interest of any Credit Party or any Subsidiary of any Credit Party in, or relating to, any Intellectual Property, other than, in each case, as cannot reasonably be expected to affect the Loan Documents and the transactions contemplated therein and would not, in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
3.17Brokers’ Fees; Transaction Fees. Except for fees payable to Agent and Lenders and their respective advisors, and fees payable to Peter J. Solomon Company and AlixPartners, LLP on the Closing Date, none of the Credit Parties or any of their respective Subsidiaries has any obligation to any Person in respect of any finder’s, broker’s or investment banker’s fee in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby.
3.18Insurance.Schedule 3.18 lists all insurance policies of any nature maintained, as of the Closing Date, for current occurrences by each Credit Party, including issuers, coverages and deductibles. Each of the Credit Parties and each of their respective Subsidiaries and their respective tangible Properties are insured with
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financially sound and reputable insurance companies which are not Affiliates of the Borrower, in such amounts, with such deductibles and covering such risks as are customarily carried by companies engaged in similar businesses of the same size and character as the business of the Credit Parties and, to the extent relevant, owning similar Properties in localities where such Person operates.
3.19Ventures, Subsidiaries and Affiliates; Outstanding Stock. Except as set forth inSchedule 3.19, as of the Closing Date, no Credit Party and no Subsidiary of any Credit Party (a) has any Subsidiaries, or (b) is engaged in any joint venture or partnership with any other Person, or is an Affiliate of any other Person. All issued and outstanding Stock and Stock Equivalents of each of the Credit Parties and each of their respective Subsidiaries are (i) duly authorized and validly issued, (ii) to the extent applicable, fully paid, non-assessable, and (iii) free and clear of all Liens other than, Liens permitted bySection 5.1(c),(q),(r) and(s). All such securities were issued in material compliance with all applicable state and federal laws concerning the issuance of securities. Except as set forth inSchedule 3.19, as of the Closing Date or the most recent date such Schedule is required to be delivered pursuant tosubsection 4.2(o), there are no pre-emptive or other outstanding rights to purchase, options, warrants or similar rights or agreements pursuant to which any Credit Party may be required to issue, sell, repurchase or redeem any of its Stock or Stock Equivalents or any Stock or Stock Equivalents of its Subsidiaries. Set forth inSchedule 3.19 is a true and complete organizational chart of the Borrower and all of its Subsidiaries as of the Closing Date or the most recent date such chart is required to be delivered pursuant toSection 4.2(o), which the Credit Parties shall update upon notice to Agent promptly following the incorporation, organization or formation of any Subsidiary and promptly following the completion of any Permitted Acquisition.
3.20Jurisdiction of Organization; Chief Executive Office.Schedule 3.20 (as updated in accordance with the terms hereof) lists each Credit Party’s jurisdiction of organization, legal name and organizational identification number, if any, and the location of such Credit Party’s chief executive office or sole place of business, and suchSchedule 3.20 also lists all jurisdictions of organization and legal names of such Credit Party for the five years preceding the Closing Date.
3.21Locations of Inventory and Books and Records. Each Credit Party’s Inventory (other than Inventory in transit) and books and records concerning the Collateral are kept at the locations listed inSchedule 3.21 as of the Closing Date or the most recent date such list is required to be delivered pursuant toSection 4.2(o).
3.22Deposit Accounts and Other Accounts.Schedule 3.22 lists all banks and other financial institutions at which any Credit Party maintains deposit or other accounts as of the Closing Date, and such Schedule correctly identifies the name, address and any other relevant contact information reasonably requested by Agent with respect to each depository, the name in which the account is held, a description of the purpose of the account, and the complete account number therefor.
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3.23Government Contracts. Except as set forth inSchedule 3.23, as of the Closing Date or the most recent date suchSchedule 3.23 is required to be delivered pursuant tosubsection 4.2(o), no Credit Party is a party to any contracts or agreements with any Governmental Authority with an aggregate value in excess of $5,000,000, and no Credit Party’s Accounts are subject to the Federal Assignment of Claims Act of 1940 (31 U.S.C. Section 3727) or any similar state or local law (except to the extent the Account has been assigned to the Agent in compliance with the Federal Assignment of Claims Act of 1940 or such state or local law).
3.24Customer and Trade Relations. Except as described onSchedule 3.24, as of the Closing Date, there exists no actual or, to the knowledge of any Credit Party, threatened termination or cancellation of, or any material adverse modification or change in (a) the business relationship of any Credit Party with any customer or group of customers whose purchases during the preceding 12 calendar months caused them to be ranked among the ten largest customers of such Credit Party or (b) the business relationship of any Credit Party with any Specified Wireless Provider or any other supplier essential to its operations.
3.25Bonding. Except as set forth inSchedule 3.25, as of the Closing Date or the most recent date suchSchedule 3.25 is required to be delivered pursuant tosubsection 4.2(o), no Credit Party is a party to or bound by any surety bond agreement, indemnification agreement therefor or bonding requirement with respect to products or services sold by it.
3.26Subordinated Debt. The Borrower has delivered to Agent a complete and correct copy of any Subordinated Indebtedness Documents (including all schedules, exhibits, amendments, supplements, modifications, assignments and all other documents delivered pursuant thereto or in connection therewith). All Obligations constitute Indebtedness entitled to the benefits of the subordination provisions contained in any Subordination Agreement.
3.27Full Disclosure. None of the representations or warranties made by any Credit Party or any of their Subsidiaries in the Loan Documents as of the date such representations and warranties are made or deemed made, and none of the statements contained in each exhibit, report, statement or certificate furnished by or on behalf of any Credit Party or any of their Subsidiaries in connection with the Loan Documents (including the offering and disclosure materials, if any, delivered by or on behalf of any Credit Party to Agent or the Lenders prior to the Closing Date), contains any untrue statement of a material fact or omits any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements made therein, in light of the circumstances under which they are made, not misleading as of the time when made or delivered; provided that with respect to projections, the Credit Parties represent only that such projections were prepared in good faith based upon estimates, information and assumptions believed to be reasonable.
3.28Foreign Assets Control Regulations and Anti-Money Laundering. Each Credit Party and each Subsidiary of each Credit Party is and will remain in compliance in all material respects with all U.S. economic sanctions laws, Executive Orders and implementing regulations as promulgated by the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of
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Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”), and all applicable anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing provisions of the Bank Secrecy Act and all regulations issued pursuant to it. No Credit Party and no Subsidiary or Affiliate of a Credit Party (i) is a Person designated by the U.S. government on the list of the Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons (the “SDN List”) with which a U.S. Person cannot deal with or otherwise engage in business transactions, (ii) is a Person who is otherwise the target of U.S. economic sanctions laws such that a U.S. Person cannot deal or otherwise engage in business transactions with such Person or (iii) is controlled by (including without limitation by virtue of such person being a director or owning voting shares or interests), or acts, directly or indirectly, for or on behalf of, any person or entity on the SDN List or a foreign government that is the target of U.S. economic sanctions prohibitions such that the entry into, or performance under, this Agreement or any other Loan Document would be prohibited under U.S. law.
3.29Patriot Act. The Credit Parties, each of their Subsidiaries and each of their Affiliates are in compliance with (a) the Trading with the Enemy Act, and each of the foreign assets control regulations of the United States Treasury Department and any other enabling legislation or executive order relating thereto, (b) the Patriot Act and (c) other federal or state laws relating to “know your customer” and anti-money laundering rules and regulations. No part of the proceeds of the Term Loan will be used directly or indirectly for any payments to any government official or employee, political party, official of a political party, candidate for political office, or anyone else acting in an official capacity, in order to obtain, retain or direct business or obtain any improper advantage, in violation of the United States Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977.
3.30Aircraft or Aircraft Engine Collateral. As of the Closing Date, neither the Credit Parties nor any of their Subsidiaries own any aircraft or aircraft engines.
ARTICLE IV.
AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS
Each Credit Party covenants and agrees that, so long as any Lender shall have any Commitment hereunder, or any portion of the Term Loan or other Obligation (other than contingent indemnification Obligations to the extent no claim giving rise thereto has been asserted) shall remain unpaid, unsatisfied or outstanding:
4.1Financial Statements. Each Credit Party shall maintain, and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to maintain, a system of accounting established and administered in accordance with sound business practices to permit the preparation of Consolidated financial statements in conformity with GAAP (provided that monthly financial statements shall not be required to have footnote disclosures and are subject to normal year-end adjustments). The Borrower shall deliver to Agent (for prompt further distribution to each Lender) by Electronic Transmission and in detail reasonably satisfactory to Agent and the Required Lenders:
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(a) as soon as available, but not later than ninety (90) days after the end of each Fiscal Year of the Borrower, a Consolidated balance sheet of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries as at the end of such Fiscal Year, and the related Consolidated statements of income or operations, stockholders’ equity and cash flows for such Fiscal Year, setting forth in each case in comparative form the figures for the previous Fiscal Year, all in reasonable detail and prepared in accordance with GAAP, audited and accompanied by a report and opinion of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP or any other independent registered public accounting firm of nationally recognized standing, which report and opinion shall be prepared in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards and shall not be subject to any “going concern” or like qualification or exception or explanatory paragraph or any qualification or exception as to the scope of such audit and shall be to the effect that such financial statements fairly represent in all material respects the financial condition and results of operations of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries on a Consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP consistently applied;
(b) as soon as available, but not later than forty-five (45) days after the end of each of the first three (3) Fiscal Quarters of each Fiscal Year of the Borrower, a Consolidated balance sheet of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries as at the end of such Fiscal Quarter, and the related (i) Consolidated statements of income or operations for such Fiscal Quarter and for the portion of the Fiscal Year then ended and (ii) Consolidated statements of cash flows for the portion of the Fiscal Year then ended, setting forth in each case in comparative form the figures and projections for the corresponding Fiscal Quarter of the previous Fiscal Year and the corresponding portion of the previous Fiscal Year, all in reasonable detail and certified by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower as fairly presenting in all material respects the financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries in accordance with GAAP, subject only to normal year-end audit adjustments and the absence of footnotes; and
(c) as soon as available, but not later than thirty (30) days after the end of the first two (2) fiscal months of each Fiscal Quarter of the Borrower, a Consolidated balance sheet of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries as at the end of each such fiscal month, and the related (i) Consolidated statements of income or operations for such fiscal month and for the portion of the Fiscal Year then ended and (ii) Consolidated statements of cash flows for the portion of the Fiscal Year then ended (it being understood that such monthly balance sheets, statements of income or operations and statements of cash flows shall be internal non-GAAP financial statements prepared by the Borrower in the ordinary course), setting forth in each case in comparative form the figures and projections for the corresponding fiscal month of the previous Fiscal Year and the corresponding portion of the previous Fiscal Year, all in reasonable detail and certified by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower as fairly presenting in all material respects the financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the obligations insubsections (a) and(b) of thisSection 4.1 may be satisfied with respect to financial information of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries by furnishing (A) the Consolidated financial statements of Borrower, or (B) the Borrower’s Form 10-K or 10-Q, as applicable, filed with the SEC (provided, that such documents shall be deemed furnished if made available on the internet via EDGAR, or any successor system of the SEC, or via the Borrower’s website on the Internet at
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http://www.radioshackcorporation.com/), and to the extent such information is in lieu of information required to be provided undersubsection 4.1(a), such materials are accompanied by a report and opinion of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP or any other independent registered public accounting firm of nationally recognized standing, which report and opinion shall be prepared in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards and shall not be subject to any “going concern” or like qualification or exception or any qualification or explanatory paragraph or exception as to the scope of such audit and shall be to the effect that such financial statements fairly represent the financial condition and results of operations of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries on a Consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP consistently applied.
4.2Appraisals; Certificates; Other Information. The Borrower shall furnish to Agent by Electronic Transmission:
(a) together with each delivery of financial statements pursuant tosubsections 4.1(a) and4.1(b), (i) a management discussion and analysis report, in reasonable detail, signed by the chief financial officer or chief executive officer of the Borrower, describing the operations and financial condition of the Credit Parties and their Subsidiaries for the Fiscal Quarter and the year-to-date period then ended (or for the Fiscal Year then ended in the case of annual financial statements), and (ii) a report setting forth in comparative form the corresponding figures for the corresponding periods of the previous Fiscal Year and the corresponding figures from the most recent projections for the current Fiscal Year delivered pursuant tosubsection 4.2(g) and discussing the reasons for any significant variations;
(b) concurrently with the delivery of the financial statements referred to insubsections 4.1(a),4.1(b) and4.1(c) above, a fully and properly completed Compliance Certificate in the form ofExhibit 4.2(b), certified on behalf of the Borrower by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower, which Compliance Certificate shall, among other things, (i) certify as to whether a Default or Event of Default has occurred and, if a Default or Event of Default has occurred, specifying the details thereof and any action taken or proposed to be taken with respect thereto, (ii) set forth reasonably detailed calculations with respect to the Consolidated Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio for such period and (iii) set forth a total Store, Dealer Store and Franchise Store count as of the first day of the current fiscal period and the number of Store, Dealer Store and Franchise Store openings and Store, Dealer Store and Franchise Store closings during the immediately preceding fiscal period;
(c) promptly after the same are publicly available, copies of all annual, regular, periodic and special reports and registration statements which the Borrower files with the Securities and Exchange Commission or with any Governmental Authority that may be substituted therefor (other than amendments to any registration statement (to the extent such registration statement, in the form it became effective, is delivered), exhibits to any registration statement and, if applicable, any registration statement on Form S-8) and in any case not otherwise required to be delivered to the Agent pursuant hereto; provided that such documents shall be deemed furnished if made available on the internet via EDGAR, or any successor system of the Securities and Exchange Commission, or via the Borrower’s website on the Internet athttp://www.radioshackcorporation.com;
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(d) as soon as available and in any event (i)(A) with respect to each Fiscal Month (other than the last Fiscal Month of a Fiscal Quarter), within fifteen (15) days after the end of such Fiscal Month, (B) with respect to the last Fiscal Month of each Fiscal Quarter, within twenty (20) days after the end of such Fiscal Month and (C) if an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, at such other times as Agent may reasonably require, a Borrowing Base Certificate, certified on behalf of the Borrower by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower, setting forth the Revolving Borrowing Base and the ABL Term Loan Borrowing Base of the Borrower as at the end of the most-recently ended Fiscal Month or as at such other date as Agent may reasonably require, as applicable, and (ii) with respect to the last Fiscal Month of a Fiscal Quarter, within fifteen (15) days after the end of such Fiscal Month, a preliminary (for informational purposes only) borrowing base report which shall be in the form of a Borrowing Base Certificate (a “Preliminary Borrowing Base Report”) setting forth a preliminary calculation of the Revolving Borrowing Base and the ABL Term Loan Borrowing Base of the Borrower as at the end of the most-recently ended Fiscal Month or as at such other date as Agent may reasonably require, as applicable, which Preliminary Borrowing Base Report is certified on behalf of the Borrower by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower as being the Borrower’s best good faith estimate of the information set forth therein based on assumptions believed by the Borrower to be fair and reasonable in light of then-existing circumstances (it being understood that such Preliminary Borrowing Base Report is based on preliminary information developed by the Borrower and the information contained in the Borrowing Base Certificate for such period may differ from the information provided in such Preliminary Borrowing Base Report and it being acknowledged and agreed that (x) in no event shall the Preliminary Borrowing Base report have the effect of increasing Availability and (y) the ABL Agent may implement Reserves in respect of information reflected in such Preliminary Borrowing Base Report);provided,however, that if (1) any Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or (2) Availability falls below twenty percent (20%) of the Revolving Borrowing Base, then such Borrowing Base Certificate shall be delivered on Wednesday of each fiscal calendar week (or if such day is not a Business Day, on the next succeeding Business Day) until the date on which, in the case of clause (1) above, such Event of Default is waived or cured or, in the case of clause (2) above (such cure not to exceed one (1) time in any 12-month period), Availability has been greater than twenty percent (20%) of the Revolving Borrowing Base for forty-five (45) consecutive calendar days after the occurrence of such event, and shall set forth the Revolving Borrowing Base and the ABL Term Loan Borrowing Base of the Borrower as of the close of business on the immediately preceding Saturday;
(e) to the extent not disclosed in a Borrower’s Form 8-K, promptly after the furnishing thereof, copies of any notices of default, reservation of rights or enforcement action received by any Credit Party or any Subsidiary from any holder of Indebtedness or debt securities of such Person with a principal balance in excess of $5,000,000;
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(f) the financial and collateral reports described onSchedule 4.2(f) hereto at the times and accompanied by such other deliverables prescribed thereon;
(g) as soon as available, and in any event no later than sixty (60) days after the end of each Fiscal Year of the Borrower, (i) a detailed Consolidated budget by Fiscal Month for the following Fiscal Year (including a projected Consolidated balance sheet of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, the related Consolidated statements of projected cash flow and projected income and a summary of the material underlying assumptions applicable thereto), (ii) the projected Revolving Borrowing Base and ABL Term Loan Borrowing Base and (iii) Availability forecasts, in each case, as of the end of each Fiscal Month of the following Fiscal Year, and, as soon as available, significant revisions, if any, of such Fiscal Year budget and projections with respect to such Fiscal Year (collectively, the “Projections”). The Projections shall in each case be in form and detail satisfactory to the Agent and the Required Lenders and accompanied by a certificate of a Responsible Officer of Borrower stating that such Projections are based on estimates, information and assumptions believed to be reasonable and that such Responsible Officer has no reason to believe that such Projections are incorrect or misleading in any material respect, it being understood that no assurance is given that such Projections will be realized and that such Projections may vary from actual results and such variances may be substantial;
(h) promptly upon receipt thereof, copies of any reports submitted by the Borrower’s certified public accountants in connection with each annual, interim or special audit or review of any type of the financial statements or internal control systems of any Credit Party made by such accountants, including any comment letters submitted by such accountants to management of any Credit Party in connection with their services;
(i) to the extent such appraisals are not obtained by the ABL Agent pursuant to the ABL Credit Agreement, upon Agent’s request from time to time (and at least once per calendar year), the Credit Parties shall permit and enable Agent to obtain appraisals in form and substance and from appraisers reasonably satisfactory to Agent stating the then Net Orderly Liquidation Value, or such other value as determined by Agent, of all or any portion of the Inventory of any Credit Party or any Subsidiary of any Credit Party; provided, that notwithstanding any provision herein to the contrary, the Credit Parties shall only be obligated to reimburse Agent for the expenses for such Inventory appraisals (A) once per year if the Aggregate Revolving Loan Commitment is not Drawn during such year, (B) twice per year if the Aggregate Revolving Loan Commitment is Drawn during such year, (C) three times per year if at any point during such year Availability is less than twenty percent (20%) of the Revolving Borrowing Base and (D) at any time upon the occurrence and during the continuance of a Default or an Event of Default, which appraisals shall not count against the limits set forth in clause (A), (B) and (C);
(j) simultaneously with the delivery thereof to the ABL Agent, a copy of any Inventory or Real Estate or other appraisal delivered pursuant to the ABL Loan Documents;
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(k) as soon as available, and in any event no later than sixty (60) days after the end of each Fiscal Year of the Borrower, or, during the continuance of a Default or an Event of Default, as more frequently required by the Agent in its Permitted Discretion, fixed asset, real estate and intellectual property appraisals, in each case in form and detail satisfactory to Required Lenders;
(l) a copy of any inventory, account, fixed asset, real estate, intellectual property or other appraisal delivered pursuant to the ABL Loan Documents;
(m) no later than the second Business Day after the end of each calendar week, commencing with the first full week of March 2014, a copy of the weekly sales report provided to senior management of the Borrower setting forth weekly sales information, including comparable same store sale information for the same period during the prior year;
(n) at least five (5) Business Days (or such shorter time as agreed to by the Required Lenders) prior to the making of any Specified Payment, detailed calculations demonstrating satisfaction with each of the Payment Conditions and all components thereof, with such supporting documentation as the Agent may reasonably request;
(o) simultaneously with the delivery of the financial statements delivered pursuant tosubsection 4.1(a) orsubsection 4.1(b), (i) a report describing in reasonable detail (A) any Intellectual Property which during such Fiscal Quarter was acquired, registered or for which applications for registration were filed by any Credit Party or any Subsidiary thereof and any statement of use or amendment to allege use with respect to intent-to-use trademark application and (B) any new or expired and/or terminated (1) exclusive outbound licenses with respect to any Intellectual Property or (2) non-exclusive outbound licenses with respect to any Intellectual Property that are issued outside of the Ordinary Course of Business, in each case including any such licenses contained in a dealer or franchise agreement, (ii) a newSchedule 3.19 with an updated organization chart of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries and an updated list of pre-emptive or other outstanding rights to purchase, options, warrants or similar rights or agreements pursuant to which any Credit Party may be required to issue, sell, repurchase or redeem any of its Stock or Stock Equivalents or any Stock or Stock Equivalents of its Subsidiaries, (iii) an updatedSchedule 3.21 (list of locations where Inventory (other than Inventory in transit) of the Credit Parties and books and records regarding the Collateral are kept), (iv) a list of all Stores including (A) a breakdown of Stores opened and closed since the list of Stores last delivered to Agent pursuant to thissubsection 4.2(o), (B) an updatedSchedule 1.1(c) (Dealer Stores) and (C) an updated Schedule 1.1(d) (Franchisee Stores) and (v) an updatedSchedule 3.23 (government contracts) andSchedule 3.25 (surety bonds), or alternatively, in the cases of clauses (ii), (iii) or (iv), a certification that such Schedules or the lists or information contained therein that is required to be updated pursuant hereto have not changed since such Schedule was last delivered to Agent on the Closing Date or pursuant to thissubclause 4.2(o); and
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(p) promptly, such additional business, financial, corporate affairs, perfection certificates and other information (including, without limitation, Collateral reports) as Agent or any Lender (requesting through the Agent) may from time to time reasonably request.
4.3Notices. The Borrower shall notify promptly Agent and each Lender of each of the following (and in no event later than three (3) Business Days after a Responsible Officer becomes aware thereof):
(a) the occurrence or existence of any Default or Event of Default, or any event or circumstance that foreseeably will become a Default or Event of Default;
(b) any breach ornon-performance of, any material amendment of, any termination of or any default under, (i) any Wireless Carrier Contract, (ii) any lease for any of the Credit Parties’ distribution centers or warehouses or (iii) any other Contractual Obligation of any Credit Party or any Subsidiary of any Credit Party, or any violation of, or non-compliance with, any Requirement of Law, which, with respect to this clause (iii), would reasonably be expected to result, either individually or in the aggregate, in a Material Adverse Effect, including a description of such breach, non-performance, default, violation or non-compliance and the steps, if any, such Person has taken, is taking or proposes to take in respect thereof;
(c) any dispute, litigation, investigation, proceeding or suspension which may exist at any time between any Credit Party or any Subsidiary of any Credit Party and any Governmental Authority which would reasonably be expected to result, either individually or in the aggregate, in Liabilities in excess of $5,000,000;
(d) the commencement of, or any material development in, any litigation or proceeding affecting any Credit Party or any Subsidiary of any Credit Party (i) in which the amount of damages claimed is $5,000,000 or more, (ii) in which injunctive or similar relief is sought and which, if adversely determined, would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, or (iii) in which the relief sought is an injunction or other stay of the performance of this Agreement or any other Loan Document;
(e) (i) the receipt by any Credit Party of any notice of violation of or potential liability or similar notice under Environmental Law, (ii)(A) unpermitted Releases, (B) the existence of any condition that could reasonably be expected to result in violations of or Liabilities under, any Environmental Law or (C) the commencement of, or any material change to, any action, investigation, suit, proceeding, audit, claim, demand, dispute alleging a violation of or Liability under any Environmental Law which in the case of clauses (A), (B) and (C) above, in the aggregate for all such clauses, would reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, (iii) the receipt by any Credit Party of notification that any Property of any Credit Party is subject to any Lien in favor of any Governmental Authority securing, in whole or in part, Environmental Liabilities and (iv) any proposed acquisition or lease of Real Estate, if such acquisition or lease would have a reasonable likelihood of resulting in a Material Adverse Effect;
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(f) (i) on or prior to any filing by any ERISA Affiliate of any notice of any reportable event under Section 4043 of ERISA, or intent to terminate any Title IV Plan, a copy of such notice (ii) promptly, and in any event within ten (10) days, after any officer of any ERISA Affiliate knows or has reason to know that a request for a minimum funding waiver under Section 412 of the Code has been filed with respect to any Title IV Plan or Multiemployer Plan, a notice describing such waiver request and any action that any ERISA Affiliate proposes to take with respect thereto, together with a copy of any notice filed with the PBGC or the IRS pertaining thereto, and (iii) promptly, and in any event within ten (10) days after any officer of any ERISA Affiliate knows or has reason to know that an ERISA Event will or has occurred, a notice describing such ERISA Event, and any action that any ERISA Affiliate proposes to take with respect thereto, together with a copy of any notices received from or filed with the PBGC, IRS, Multiemployer Plan or other Benefit Plan pertaining thereto;
(g) any Material Adverse Effect subsequent to the date of the most recent audited financial statements delivered to Agent and Lenders pursuant to this Agreement;
(h) any material change in accounting policies or financial reporting practices by any Credit Party or any Subsidiary of any Credit Party;
(i) any labor controversy resulting in or threatening to result in any strike, work stoppage, boycott, shutdown or other labor disruption against or involving any Credit Party or any Subsidiary of any Credit Party if the same would reasonably be expected to have, either individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect;
(j) the creation, establishment or acquisition of any Subsidiary or the issuance by or to any Credit Party of any Stock or Stock Equivalent (other than issuances by Borrower of Stock or Stock Equivalents);
(k) the creation of any Contractual Obligation of any Tax Affiliate, or the receipt of any request directed to any Tax Affiliate, to make any material adjustment under Section 481(a) of the Code, by reason of a change in accounting method or otherwise;
(l) with respect to all Tax Proceedings referenced in the Borrower’s most recent Form 10-K or Form 10-Q and any other Tax Proceeding that could reasonably be expected to result in Liabilities for Taxes in excess of $5,000,000, the Borrower shall (i) keep Agent informed in a timely manner of all assessments, determinations, deficiencies or proposed adjustments made or asserted by a Governmental Authority in writing with respect to such Tax Proceeding, and (ii) provide Agent with copies of any written correspondence or filings with any such Governmental Authority regarding any such assessment, determination, deficiency or proposed adjustment with respect to Taxes of any Tax Affiliate or prospective or potential Tax liabilities in excess of $5,000,000;
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(m) any amendment, waiver, supplement or other modification of the ABL Credit Agreement or any other ABL Loan Document (accompanied by a true, correct and complete copy thereof);
(n) the filing of any Lien for unpaid taxes against any Credit Party in excess of $5,000,000;
(o) the discharge by any Credit Party of its present independent accountants or any withdrawal or resignation by such independent accountants;
(p) any casualty or other damage (whether insured or uninsured) to any portion of the Collateral in excess of $5,000,000, or the commencement of any action or proceeding for the taking of any interest in a portion of the Collateral in excess of $5,000,000 or any part thereof or interest therein under power of eminent domain or by condemnation or similar proceeding;
(q) any change after the Closing Date to the fiscal periods which constitute the Borrower’s Fiscal Year, Fiscal Quarters or Fiscal Months other than a change of the Borrower’s Fiscal Year to a period ending on the Saturday closest to the last day of January, and corresponding changes to the Borrower’s Fiscal Quarters and Fiscal Months;
(r) to the extent not disclosed in the Borrower’s Form 8-K, promptly after the furnishing thereof, copies of (i) any notices of default, reservation of rights or enforcement action received by any Credit Party or any Subsidiary thereof from an holder of Indebtedness or debt securities of such Person and (ii) material statements or reports furnished to any holder of any permitted Lien and, in each case, not otherwise required to be furnished to the Agent and the Lenders pursuant toSection 4.1 any other subsection of thisSection 4.3; and
Each notice pursuant to thisSection 4.3 shall be in electronic form accompanied by a statement by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower setting forth details of the occurrence referred to therein, and stating what action the Borrower or other Person proposes to take with respect thereto and at what time. Each notice undersubsection 4.3(a) shall describe with particularity any and all clauses or provisions of this Agreement or other Loan Document that have been breached or violated.
4.4Preservation of Corporate Existence, Etc. Each Credit Party shall, and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to:
(a) preserve and maintain in full force and effect its organizational existence and good standing under the laws of its jurisdiction of incorporation, organization or formation, as applicable, except as permitted bySection 5.3;
(b) preserve and maintain in full force and effect all material rights, privileges, qualifications, permits, licenses and franchises necessary in the normal conduct of its business except as permitted bySections 5.2 and5.3 and except as would not reasonably be expected to have, either individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect;
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(c) use its commercially reasonable efforts, in the Ordinary Course of Business, to preserve its business organization and preserve the goodwill and business of the customers, suppliers and others having material business relations with it;
(d) preserve or renew all of its material registered trademarks, trade names and service marks; and
(e) conduct its business and affairs without infringement of or interference with any Intellectual Property of any other Person in any respect and shall comply in all respects with the terms of its IP Licenses, except to the extent that such non-compliance or infringement could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
4.5Maintenance of Property. Each Credit Party shall maintain, and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to maintain, and preserve all of its Property which is used or useful in its business in good working order and condition, ordinary wear and tear excepted and shall make all necessary repairs thereto and renewals and replacements thereof except where the failure to do so would not reasonably be expected to have, either individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect.
4.6Insurance.
(a) Each Credit Party shall, and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to, (i) maintain or cause to be maintained in full force and effect all policies of insurance of any kind with respect to the Property and businesses of the Credit Parties and such Subsidiaries (including policies of life, fire, theft, product liability, public liability, Flood Insurance, property damage, other casualty, employee fidelity, workers’ compensation, business interruption (or insurance on the retail value of Inventory) and employee health and welfare insurance) with financially sound and reputable insurance companies or associations (in each case that are not Affiliates of the Borrower) of a nature and providing such coverage as is sufficient and as is customarily carried by businesses of the size and character of the business of the Credit Parties and (ii) cause all such insurance relating to any Property or business of any Credit Party to name Agent as additional insured or lenders loss payee, as agent for the Lenders, as appropriate. All policies of insurance on real and personal property of the Credit Parties will contain an endorsement, in form and substance acceptable to Agent, showing loss payable to Agent (Form CP 1218 or equivalent and naming Agent as lenders loss payee as agent for the Lenders) and, to the extent applicable, business interruption endorsements and such other provisions as the Agent may reasonably require from time to time to protect the interests of the Credit Parties. Such endorsement, or an independent instrument furnished to Agent, will provide that the insurance companies will give Agent at least thirty (30) days’ prior written notice before any such policy or policies of insurance shall be altered or canceled and that no act or default of the Credit Parties or any other Person shall affect the right of Agent to recover under such policy or policies of insurance in case of loss or damage.
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After the occurrence of an Event of Default (and for so long as such Event of Default is continuing) or to the extent relating to an Event of Loss with respect to SCP Priority Collateral in excess of $5,000,000, each Credit Party shall direct all present and future insurers under its “All Risk” policies of property insurance to pay all proceeds payable thereunder with respect to SCP Priority Collateral directly to Agent. If any insurance proceeds are paid by check, draft or other instrument payable to any Credit Party and Agent jointly, Agent may endorse such Credit Party’s name thereon and do such other things as Agent may deem advisable to reduce the same to cash. Notwithstanding the requirement insubsection (i) above, Federal Flood Insurance shall not be required for (x) Real Estate not located in a Special Flood Hazard Area, or (y) Real Estate located in a Special Flood Hazard Area in a community that does not participate in the National Flood Insurance Program.
(b) Unless the Credit Parties provide Agent with evidence of the insurance coverage required by this Agreement (including, without limitation, Flood Insurance), Agent may purchase insurance (including, without limitation, Flood Insurance) at the Credit Parties’ expense to protect Agent’s and Lenders’ interests in the Credit Parties’ and their Subsidiaries’ properties. This insurance may, but need not, protect the Credit Parties’ and their Subsidiaries’ interests. The coverage that Agent purchases may not pay any claim that any Credit Party or any Subsidiary of any Credit Party makes or any claim that is made against such Credit Party or any Subsidiary in connection with said Property. The Borrower may later cancel any insurance purchased by Agent, but only after providing Agent with evidence that there has been obtained insurance as required by this Agreement. If Agent purchases insurance, the Credit Parties will be responsible for the costs of that insurance, including interest and any other charges Agent may impose in connection with the placement of insurance, until the effective date of the cancellation or expiration of the insurance. The costs of the insurance shall be added to the Obligations. The costs of the insurance may be more than the cost of insurance the Borrower may be able to obtain on its own.
4.7Payment of Obligations. Each Credit Party shall, and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to, pay, discharge and perform as the same shall become due and payable or required to be performed, all their respective obligations and liabilities, including:
(a) all tax liabilities, assessments and governmental charges or levies upon it or its Property, unless (i) the same are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings diligently prosecuted which stay the filing or enforcement of any Lien and for which adequate reserves in accordance with GAAP are being maintained by such Person; and (ii) the aggregate Liabilities secured by such Lien do not exceed $10,000,000.
(b) all lawful claims which, if unpaid, would by law become a Lien upon its Property unless the same are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings diligently prosecuted which stay the imposition or enforcement of any Lien and for which adequate reserves in accordance with GAAP are being maintained by such Person;
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(c) all Indebtedness, as and when due and payable, but subject to any subordination provisions contained herein, in any other Loan Document and/or in any instrument or agreement evidencing such Indebtedness;
(d) the performance of all obligations under any Contractual Obligation (including, with limitation, any Wireless Carrier Contract) to which such Credit Party or any of its Subsidiaries is bound, or to which it or any of its Property is subject, except where the failure to perform would not reasonably be expected to have, either individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect; and
(e) payments to the extent necessary to avoid the imposition of a Lien with respect to, or the involuntary termination of any underfunded Benefit Plan.
4.8Compliance with Laws. Each Credit Party shall, and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to, comply with all Requirements of Law of any Governmental Authority having jurisdiction over it or its business, except where the failure to comply would not reasonably be expected to have, either individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect.
4.9Inspection of Property and Books and Records. Each Credit Party shall maintain and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to maintain proper books of record and account, in which full, true and correct entries in conformity with GAAP consistently applied shall be made of all financial transactions and matters involving the assets and business of such Person. Each Credit Party shall, and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to, with respect to each owned, leased, or controlled property, during normal business hours and upon reasonable advance notice (unless an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, in which event no notice shall be required and Agent shall have access at any and all times during the continuance thereof): (a) provide access to such property to Agent and any of its Related Persons, as frequently as Agent reasonably determines to be appropriate; (b) permit Agent and any of its Related Persons to audit, inspect and make extracts and copies from all of such Credit Party’s books and records; and (c) to the extent such field examinations or verifications are not obtained by the ABL Agent pursuant to the ABL Credit Agreement, permit Agent and any of its Related Persons to conduct field examinations, and evaluate and make physical verifications of the Inventory and other Collateral in any manner and through any medium that Agent considers advisable, in each instance, at the Credit Parties’ expense;provided the Credit Parties shall only be obligated to reimburse Agent for the expenses for (i) one such field examination, audit and inspection per year if the Aggregate Revolving Loan Commitment is not Drawn during such year, (ii) two such field examinations, audits and inspections per year if the Aggregate Revolving Loan Commitment is Drawn during such year, (iii) three such field examinations, audits and inspections per year if at any point during such year Availability is less than twenty percent (20%) of the Revolving Borrowing Base and (iv) any other field examination, audit or inspection upon the occurrence and during the continuance of a Default or an Event of Default, which field examination, audit or inspection shall not count against the limits set forth inclause (i),(ii) and(iii). Any Lender may accompany Agent or its Related Persons in connection with any inspection at such Lender’s expense.
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4.10Use of Proceeds. The Borrower shall use the proceeds of the Term Loan solely as follows: (a) refinance Prior Indebtedness, (b) provide for working capital and other general corporate purposes of the Borrower and (c) fund certain fees and expenses associated with the funding of the Term Loan and the refinancing of Prior Indebtedness not in contravention of any Requirement of Law and not in violation of this Agreement.
4.11Credit Card Arrangements; Cash Management.
(a) Each Credit Party has heretofore delivered to the Agent notifications (each, a “Credit Card Notification”) substantially in the form attached hereto asExhibit 4.11, which were executed on behalf of such Credit Party and addressed to each of such Credit Party’s credit card and debit card clearinghouses and processors.
(b) Within ninety (90) days after the Closing Date, each Credit Party shall enter into a blocked account agreement (each, a “Blocked Account Agreement”), reasonably satisfactory to the Agent, with each Blocked Account Bank, with respect to each DDA (other than Excluded DDAs) in which funds of any Credit Party are concentrated (collectively, the “Blocked Accounts”) from:
(i) the sale of Inventory and other Collateral;
(ii) all proceeds of collections of Accounts;
(iii) each Blocked Account (including all cash deposited therein from each DDA); and
(iv) the cash proceeds of all credit card and debit card charges.
(c) Subject to the Intercreditor Agreement, during the continuance of a Cash Dominion Event, Agent may direct the applicable processor identified in each Credit Card Notification to transfer all amounts owing by such processor to any Credit Party to an account of Agent or as otherwise instructed by Agent, in each case to the extent permitted pursuant to the terms of such Credit Card Notification.
(d) Upon the occurrence and during the continuance of a Cash Dominion Event, Agent may exercise exclusive control over deposit accounts subject to a Blocked Account Agreement to the extent permitted pursuant to and in accordance with the terms of such Blocked Account Agreement and the Intercreditor Agreement.
(e) If any cash, Cash Equivalents or Investment Property owned by any Credit Party (other than (i) petty cash and other accounts funded in the ordinary course of business, the deposits in which shall not aggregate more than $10,000,000 (or such greater amount to which the Agent may agree), (ii) deposit accounts subject to Liens permitted underSection 5.1(e), (iii) payroll, trust and tax withholding accounts funded in the ordinary course of business and required by applicable law and (iv) zero balance disbursement accounts (collectively, “Excluded DDAs”)) are deposited to any account (including any securities account, brokerage account or commodities account), or held or invested in any manner, otherwise than in a Blocked Account that is subject to a Blocked
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Account Agreement (or a DDA the funds in which are swept or transferred daily to a Blocked Account or unless the Agent requires a Control Agreement with respect to such DDA), then, (x) with respect to those accounts existing on the Closing Date, within ninety (90) days after the Closing Date and (y) with respect to all other accounts, promptly, each Credit Party shall (A) cause all funds in such accounts or so held or so invested to be transferred with such frequency as may be required by the Agent to a Blocked Account that is subject to a Blocked Account Agreement (or a DDA the funds in which are swept or transferred daily to a Blocked Account or unless the Agent requires a Control Agreement with respect to such DDA) and (B) enter into, and cause each depository, securities intermediary or commodities intermediary to enter into, Control Agreements providing the Agent “control” (subject to the occurrence and continuance of a Cash Dominion Event and the terms of the Intercreditor Agreement) over such deposit, securities, commodity or similar account maintained by such Person.
(f) The Credit Parties may close DDAs or Blocked Accounts and/or open new DDAs or Blocked Accounts, subject to the execution and delivery to the Agent of appropriate Blocked Account Agreements or Control Agreements consistent with the provisions of thisSection 4.11.
(g) In the event that, notwithstanding the provisions of thisSection 4.11, during the continuation of a Cash Dominion Event, a Credit Party receives or otherwise has dominion and control of any proceeds of Collateral or collections, such proceeds and collections shall be held in trust by such Credit Party for the Agent, shall not be commingled with any of any Credit Party’s other funds or deposited in any account of a Credit Party and shall promptly be deposited, subject to the Intercreditor Agreement, into the Agent’s Account or dealt with in such other fashion as such Credit Party may be instructed by the Agent.
(h) The Credit Parties shall establish and maintain cash management arrangements and procedures, including Blocked Accounts and the Operating Account, reasonably satisfactory to the ABL Agent. Promptly upon the request of the Agent, the Borrower shall deliver to the Agent a schedule setting forth all DDAs that are maintained by the Credit Parties as of such date, which schedule shall include, with respect to each depository (i) the name and address of such depository, (ii) the account number(s) maintained with such depository and (iii) a contact person at such depository.
(i) Within ninety (90) days after the Closing Date, the Borrower (i) shall establish a separate segregated deposit account (the “Residual Account Deposit Account”) into which it shall deposit only identifiable proceeds of the Residual Accounts and (ii) enter into a blocked account agreement (the “Residual Account Blocked Account Agreement”) reasonably satisfactory to the Agent with respect to such deposit account. The Residual Account Deposit Account shall be under the control of the Agent and shall be separate from all other deposit accounts of the Credit Parties, and amounts on deposit therein shall be segregated from all other Cash and Cash Equivalents of the Credit Parties and their Subsidiaries. Promptly after opening the Residual Account Deposit Account the Borrower shall deposit all proceeds that it shall have received from the Residual Accounts on or after Closing Date. Thereafter, within two (2) Business
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Days after the Borrower’s receipt thereof, it shall deposit all proceeds that it receives with respect to the Residual Accounts into the Residual Account Deposit Account. The Borrower shall not withdraw any amounts from the Residual Account Deposit Account unless (i) after giving effect to such withdrawal the aggregate amount of proceeds in such deposit account shall be equal to or greater than $4,800,000 or (ii) the aggregate amount of unrestricted Cash and Cash Equivalents of the Borrower shall be less than $40,000,000. No such withdrawals by the Borrower from the Residual Account Deposit Account shall be permitted at any time that a Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, and each Residual Account Blocked Account Agreement shall require, after the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default and notice from the Agent, the ACH or wire transfer to the Agent on each Business Day of any amounts on deposit in the Residual Account Deposit Account for application to the Obligations in accordance withSection 1.10.
(j) The Credit Parties shall establish the “SCP Priority Account” referred to in the Intercreditor Agreement upon the request of the Agent. Such account shall be under the control of the Agent, shall be separate from all other deposit accounts of the Credit Parties shall be subject to blocked account or other arrangements reasonably satisfactory to the Agent as contemplated by the Intercreditor Agreement.
4.12Collateral Access Agreements. Each Credit Party shall use commercially reasonable efforts to obtain a Collateral Access Agreement from: (i) the lessor of each distribution center and warehouse location of the Credit Parties; (ii) the lessor of each leased property of the Credit Parties (other than distribution centers and warehouse locations of the Credit Parties) or bailee in possession of any Collateral or mortgagee of any property owned by a Credit Party in fee, in each case located in a Landlord Lien State; and (iii) the lessor of each other material leased location as Agent may require, with respect to each location where any Collateral is stored or located, which agreement shall, in each case, be reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the Required Lenders.
4.13Further Assurances.
(a) Each Credit Party shall ensure that all written information, exhibits and reports furnished to Agent or the Lenders do not and will not contain any untrue statement of a material fact and do not and will not omit to state any material fact or any fact necessary to make the statements contained therein not misleading in light of the circumstances in which made, and will promptly disclose to Agent and the Lenders and correct any defect or error that may be discovered therein or in any Loan Document or in the execution, acknowledgement or recordation thereof.
(b) Promptly upon request by Agent, the Credit Parties shall (and, subject to the limitations hereinafter set forth, shall cause each of their Subsidiaries to) take such additional actions and execute such documents as Agent may reasonably require from time to time in order (i) to carry out more effectively the purposes of this Agreement or any other Loan Document, (ii) to subject to the Liens created by any of the Collateral Documents any of the Properties, rights or interests covered by any of the
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Collateral Documents, (iii) to perfect and maintain the validity, effectiveness and priority of any of the Collateral Documents and the Liens intended to be created thereby, and (iv) to better assure, convey, grant, assign, transfer, preserve, protect and confirm to the Secured Parties the rights granted or now or hereafter intended to be granted to the Secured Parties under any Loan Document. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing and except as otherwise approved in writing by Required Lenders, the Credit Parties shall cause each of their Domestic Subsidiaries (other than (a) a Domestic Subsidiary with assets less than 2.50% of the total assets of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries on a Consolidated basis (each an “Immaterial Subsidiary”), so long as the aggregate assets of all Immaterial Subsidiaries does not exceed 5.00% of the total assets of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries on a Consolidated basis, (b) Tandy Life Insurance Company and (c) such Domestic Subsidiaries owned indirectly through a Foreign Subsidiary) to guaranty the Obligations and to cause each such Subsidiary to grant to Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, a security interest in, subject to the limitations hereinafter set forth and the other Loan Documents, substantially all of such Subsidiary’s Property to secure such guaranty. Furthermore and except as otherwise approved in writing by Required Lenders, each Credit Party shall, and shall cause each of its Domestic Subsidiaries (other than Domestic Subsidiaries owned indirectly through a Foreign Subsidiary) to, pledge all of the Stock and Stock Equivalents of each of its Domestic Subsidiaries (other than Domestic Subsidiaries owned indirectly through a Foreign Subsidiary) (provided that with respect to any Domestic Subsidiary that is a Foreign Subsidiary Holding Company, such pledge shall be limited to sixty-five percent (65%) of such Domestic Subsidiary’s outstanding voting Stock and Stock Equivalents and one hundred percent (100%) of such Domestic Subsidiary’s outstanding non-voting Stock and Stock Equivalents) and First Tier Foreign Subsidiaries (provided that with respect to any First Tier Foreign Subsidiary, such pledge shall be limited to sixty-five percent (65%) of such Foreign Subsidiary’s outstanding voting Stock and Stock Equivalents and one hundred percent (100%) of such Foreign Subsidiary’s outstanding non-voting Stock and Stock Equivalents) in each instance, to Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, to secure the Obligations. In connection with each pledge of certificated Stock and Stock Equivalents, the Credit Parties shall deliver, or cause to be delivered, to Agent, irrevocable proxies and stock powers and/or assignments, as applicable, duly executed in blank. In the event any Credit Party acquires any Real Estate in the United States with a Fair Market Value in excess of $2,500,000 (unless such Real Estate is subject to a Lien permitted pursuant toSection 5.1(h) that prohibits the Lien of the Agent thereon), within 60 days after such acquisition, such Person shall execute and/or deliver, or cause to be executed and/or delivered, to Agent, (v) an appraisal complying with FIRREA, (x) a fully executed Mortgage, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Agent, together with an A.L.T.A. or TLTA (if applicable) lender’s title insurance policy issued by a title insurer reasonably satisfactory to Agent, in form and substance and in an amount reasonably satisfactory to Agent insuring that the Mortgage is a valid and enforceable first priority Lien on the respective property, free and clear of all defects, encumbrances and Liens, (y) then current A.L.T.A. surveys, certified to Agent by a licensed surveyor sufficient to allow the issuer of the lender’s title insurance policy to issue such policy without a survey exception and (z) an environmental site assessment prepared by a qualified firm reasonably acceptable to Agent, in form and substance
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satisfactory to Agent. In addition to the obligations set forth insubsections 4.6(a) and4.13(b)(w), within forty-five days after written notice from Agent to Credit Parties that any Real Estate is located in a Special Flood Hazard Area, Credit Parties shall satisfy the Federal Flood Insurance requirements ofsubsection 4.6(a).
4.14Environmental Matters. Each Credit Party shall, and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to, comply with, and maintain its Real Estate, whether owned, leased, subleased or otherwise operated or occupied, in compliance with, all applicable Environmental Laws (including by implementing any Remedial Action necessary to achieve such compliance) or that is required of the Credit Party or any Subsidiary of any Credit Party by orders and directives of any Governmental Authority except where the failure to comply would not reasonably be expected to, individually or in the aggregate, result in a Material Adverse Effect. Without limiting the foregoing, if an Event of Default is continuing or if Agent at any time has a reasonable basis to believe that there exist material violations of Environmental Laws by any Credit Party or any Subsidiary of any Credit Party or that there exist any material Environmental Liabilities, then each Credit Party shall (to the extent contractually or lawfully permitted to do so), promptly upon receipt of request from Agent, cause the performance of, and allow Agent and its Related Persons access to such Real Estate for the purpose of conducting, such environmental audits and assessments, including subsurface sampling of soil and groundwater, and cause the preparation of such reports, in each case as Agent may from time to time reasonably request. Such audits, assessments and reports, to the extent not conducted by Agent or any of its Related Persons, shall be conducted and prepared by reputable environmental consulting firms reasonably acceptable to Agent and shall be in form and substance reasonably acceptable to Agent.
4.15Physical Inventories. The Credit Parties, at their own expense, shall cause not less than one (1) physical count of Inventory to be undertaken in each twelve (12) month period (or alternatively, periodic cycle counts) in conjunction with the preparation of its annual audited financial statements, conducted following such methodology as is consistent with the methodology used in the immediately preceding Inventory (or cycle count) or as otherwise consistent with standard and customary business practices, and shall post such results to the Credit Parties’ stock ledgers and general ledgers, as applicable. Following the completion of such Inventory count or periodic cycle count, at the reasonable request of the Agent, the Borrower shall deliver a summary, in form and substance reasonably acceptable to Agent, of the results of such physical inventory or periodic cycle count to the Lenders.
4.16Appraisals. Within ninety (90) days after the Closing Date, the Borrower shall deliver to the Agent (1) real estate appraisals prepared by an appraiser retained by the Agent in conformance with FIRREA appraisal requirements for Real Estate owned in fee by a Credit Party or Subsidiary thereof (other than the unimproved land located in Stockton, California), (2) machinery and equipment appraisals prepared by an appraiser retained by the Agent and (3) intellectual property appraisals prepared by an appraiser retained by the Agent, in each case in form and substance acceptable to, and conducted by appraisers satisfactory to, the Agent.
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4.17[Reserved].
4.18Phase II Assessment. No later than June 30, 2014 (or such later date agreed to by the Required Lenders in writing), the Borrower shall deliver to Lenders a Phase II environmental assessment with respect to the owned Real Estate located at 900 Terminal Road and 1000 Terminal Road in Fort Worth, Texas and, as soon as practicable after the delivery of such environmental assessment (or such later date agreed to by the Required Lenders in writing), the Borrower shall complete any remediation recommended in the Phase II environmental assessment, in each case to the extent mutually agreed upon by Agent and the Borrower.
4.19Property Condition Assessment. No later than March 31, 2014 (or such later date agreed to by the Required Lenders in writing), the Borrower shall complete any remediation recommended in the property condition assessments delivered in accordance withSection 2.1(j), in each case to the extent relating to non-cosmetic remediation identified to Borrower by the Agent on or prior to the date of this Agreement.
4.20Mexican Subsidiary Actions. Within one hundred twenty (120) days after the Closing Date (or such later date agreed to by the Required Lenders in writing), the Borrower shall either (i) cause Worldwide Electronics, S.A. de C.V., a wholly-owned Subsidiary of Tandy Holdings, Inc., to be dissolved in accordance with applicable Requirements of Law or (ii) cause 65% of the Stock of Worldwide Electronics, S.A. de C.V. to be pledged to Agent in a manner satisfactory to Agent and its counsel and consistent with the Loan Documents delivered to Agent on or before the Closing Date with respect to the Mexican Subsidiaries of ITC Services, Inc. and Tandy International Corporation.
4.21Post-Closing Matters. The Credit Parties shall satisfy the requirements set forth onSchedule 4.21, on or before the date specified for such requirement onSchedule 4.21 (or such later date agreed to by Agent in writing).
ARTICLE V.
NEGATIVE COVENANTS
Each Credit Party covenants and agrees that, so long as any Lender shall have any Commitment hereunder, or any portion of the Term Loan or other Obligation (other than contingent indemnification Obligations to the extent no claim giving rise thereto has been asserted) shall remain unpaid, unsatisfied or outstanding:
5.1Limitation on Liens. No Credit Party shall, and no Credit Party shall suffer or permit any of its Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, make, create, incur, assume or suffer to exist any Lien upon or with respect to any part of its Property, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, other than the following (“Permitted Liens”):
(a) any Lien existing on the Property of a Credit Party or a Subsidiary of a Credit Party on the Closing Date and set forth inSchedule 5.1 securing Indebtedness outstanding on such date and permitted bysubsection 5.5(c), including replacement or substitute Liens on the Property currently subject to such Liens securing Indebtedness permitted bysubsection 5.5(c);
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(b) any Lien created under any Loan Document;
(c) Liens for Taxes, fees, assessments or other governmental charges (i) which are not past due or remain payable without penalty, or (ii) thenon-payment of which is permitted bySection 4.7(a);
(d) carriers’, warehousemen’s, mechanics’, landlords’, materialmen’s, repairmen’s or other similar Liens arising in the Ordinary Course of Business which are not past due for a period of more than 30 days or remain payable without penalty or which are being contested in good faith and by appropriate proceedings diligently prosecuted, which proceedings have the effect of preventing the forfeiture or sale of the Property subject thereto and for which adequate reserves in accordance with GAAP are being maintained;
(e) Liens (other than any Lien imposed by ERISA) consisting of pledges or deposits required in the Ordinary Course of Business in connection with workers’ compensation, unemployment insurance and other social security legislation or to secure the performance of tenders, statutory obligations, surety, stay, customs and appeals bonds, bids, leases, governmental contract, trade contracts, performance and return of money bonds and other similar obligations (exclusive of obligations for the payment of borrowed money) or to secure liability to insurance carriers;
(f) Liens consisting of judgment or judicial attachment liens (other than for payment of taxes, assessments or other governmental charges), provided that the enforcement of such Liens is effectively stayed and all such Liens secure claims in the aggregate at any time outstanding for the Credit Parties and their Subsidiaries not exceeding $10,000,000 (to the extent not covered by independent third-party insurance as to which the insurer is rated at least “A” by A.M. Best Company, has been notified of the potential claim and does not dispute coverage);
(g) easements,rights-of-way, zoning and other restrictions, minor defects or other irregularities in title, and other similar encumbrances which do not in any case materially detract from the value of the Property subject thereto or interfere in any material respect with the ordinary conduct of the businesses of any Credit Party or any Subsidiary of any Credit Party;
(h) Liens on any Property acquired or held by any Credit Party or any Subsidiary of any Credit Party securing Indebtedness incurred or assumed for the purpose of financing (or refinancing) all or any part of the cost of acquiring, constructing, repairing, replacing or improving such Property and permitted undersubsection 5.5(d); provided that (i) any such Lien attaches to such Property concurrently with or within one hundred eighty (180) days after the acquisition, construction, repair, replacement or improvement thereof, (ii) such Lien attaches solely to the Property so acquired, constructed, repaired, replaced or improved in such transaction and the proceeds thereof, and (iii) the principal amount of the debt secured thereby does not exceed 100% of the cost of such Property;
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(i) Liens securing Capital Lease Obligations permitted undersubsection 5.5(d);
(j) any interest or title of a lessor or sublessor under any lease not prohibited by this Agreement;
(k) Liens arising out of conditional sale, title retention, consignment or similar arrangements for sale of goods entered into by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries in the Ordinary Course of Business not prohibited by this Agreement;
(l) Liens arising from the filing of precautionary uniform commercial code financing statements with respect to any lease not prohibited by this Agreement;
(m) non-exclusive licenses and sublicenses granted by a Credit Party and leases or subleases (by a Credit Party as lessor or sublessor) to third parties in the Ordinary Course of Business not interfering in any material respect with the business of the Credit Parties or any of their Subsidiaries;
(n) Liens in favor of collecting banks arising by operation of law under Article 4 of the Uniform Commercial Code;
(o) Liens (including the right of set-off) in favor of a bank or other depository institution arising as a matter of law encumbering deposits;
(p) Liens in favor of customs and revenue authorities arising as a matter of law which secure payment of customs duties in connection with the importation of goods in the Ordinary Course of Business, which payments are not overdue for a period of more than thirty (30) days and no other action has been taken to enforce such Lien or which are being contested in good faith;
(q) Liens securing the ABL Obligations;
(r) Liens solely on assets of Foreign Subsidiaries securing Indebtedness incurred pursuant toSection 5.5(i); and
(s) Liens existing on the Property (other than ABL Priority Collateral) of any Person at the time such Person becomes a Subsidiary after the Closing Date in connection with a Permitted Acquisition; provided that (i) such Lien was not created in contemplation of such acquisition or such Person becoming a Subsidiary, (ii) such Lien does not extend to or cover any other assets or Property (other than the proceeds or products thereof and accessions or additions thereto) and (iii) such Liens do not secure Indebtedness in excess of $10,000,000.
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5.2Disposition of Assets. No Credit Party shall, and no Credit Party shall suffer or permit any of its Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, sell, assign, lease, convey, transfer or otherwise dispose (collectively, “dispositions”) of (whether in one or a series of transactions) any Property (including the Stock of any Subsidiary of any Credit Party, whether in a public or a private offering or otherwise, and accounts and notes receivable, with or without recourse) or enter into any agreement to do any of the foregoing, except:
(a) dispositions of Inventory to retail, wholesale and commercial customers, orworn-out or surplus Property, all in the Ordinary Course of Business, excluding, in each case, dispositions in connection with Store closures;
(b) (i) dispositions of Cash Equivalents in the Ordinary Course of Business made to a Person that is not an Affiliate of any Credit Party and (ii) conversions of Cash Equivalents into cash or other Cash Equivalents;
(c) transactions permitted underSection 5.1(m);
(d) as long as (i) no Event of Default hereof then exists or would arise therefrom, (ii) no Overadvance would result therefrom, (iii) not less than eighty-five percent (85%) of the aggregate sales price from such disposition shall be paid in cash, and (iv) the assets subject to any such sale are sold at arm’s length for an amount not less than the fair market value thereof, bulk sales or other dispositions of the Credit Parties’ Inventory and other assets not in the Ordinary Course of Business in connection with Store closings; provided that (i) such Store closures and related Inventory and other asset dispositions shall not exceed, in any Fiscal Year of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, the lesser of (x) two hundred (200) stores or (y) five percent (5%) of the number of the Credit Parties’ Stores as of the beginning of such Fiscal Year (in each case, net of (1) Store openings during such Fiscal Year and (2) Store relocations (A) occurring substantially contemporaneously, but in no event later than sixty (60) Business Days after the related Store closure date, or (B) wherein a binding lease has been entered into prior to the related Store closure date) as set forth in the Compliance Certificate delivered pursuant toSection 4.2(b), and (ii) as of any date after the Closing Date, the aggregate number of such Store closures since the Closing Date shall not exceed six hundred (600) Stores (net of (1) Store openings from and after the Closing Date and (2) Store relocations (A) occurring substantially contemporaneously, but in no event later than sixty (60) Business Days after the related Store closure date or (B) wherein a binding lease has been entered into prior to the related Store closure date) as set forth in the Compliance Certificate delivered pursuant toSection 4.2(b); provided further, that (I) all sales of Inventory and other assets in connection with Store closings in a transaction or series of related transactions shall be in accordance with liquidation agreements and with professional liquidators reasonably acceptable to the Required Lenders, (II) the net cash proceeds received in connection with such asset sales shall be applied to prepay the Obligations in accordance withSection 1.8 and (III) to the extent at least fifteen (15) Stores are closed in any Fiscal Month (net of any Store openings for such Fiscal Month), the Agent shall have received a Borrowing Base Certificate giving effect to such disposition on a Pro Forma Basis, which shall include any Inventory Sale Reserve with respect thereto;
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(e) dispositions of property (other than Inventory, Accounts, Real Estate and Intellectual Property) not otherwise permitted under thisSection 5.2; provided that (i) at the time of such Disposition, no Default or Event of Default shall exist or would arise from such Disposition, and no Overadvance would result therefrom, (ii) not less than eighty-five percent (85%) of the aggregate sales price from such disposition shall be paid in cash, (iii) the assets subject to any such sale are sold at arm’s length for an amount not less than the fair market value thereof and (iv) the aggregate book value of all property disposed of pursuant to thisclause (e) shall not exceed $20,000,000 in any Fiscal Year or $50,000,000 in the aggregate after the Closing Date;
(f) as long as no Event of Default hereof then exists or would arise therefrom, disposition of the Real Estate located at 401/501 NE 38th Street, Fort Worth, Texas 76106 and all fixtures and related assets so long as not less than 85% of the aggregate sale price from such disposition shall be paid in cash;
(g) as long as no Event of Default hereof then exists or would arise therefrom, dispositions of the unimproved land located in Stockton, California;
(h) dispositions of Property by any Credit Party or any of its Subsidiaries to any other Credit Party or Subsidiary of a Credit Party; provided that if the transferor of such Property is a Credit Party, the transferee thereof must be a Credit Party; and
(i) dispositions of Property expressly permitted bySection 5.4 orSection 5.11.
5.3Consolidations and Mergers. No Credit Party shall, and no Credit Party shall suffer or permit any of its Subsidiaries to merge, consolidate with or into, or convey, transfer, lease or otherwise dispose of (whether in one transaction or in a series of transactions) all or substantially all of its assets (whether now owned or hereafter acquired) to or in favor of any Person, except upon not less than five (5) Business Days prior written notice to Agent and compliance with the terms ofSection 4.13, (a) any Subsidiary of the Borrower may merge with or dissolve or liquidate into or transfer or dispose of all or substantially all of its assets to the Borrower or another Credit Party, provided that the Borrower or other Credit Party shall be the continuing or surviving entity and all actions required to maintain perfected Liens on the Stock of the surviving entity and other Collateral in favor of Agent shall have been completed and (b) any Subsidiary that is not a Credit Party (other than Tandy Life Insurance Company) may merge with or dissolve or liquidate into or transfer or dispose of its assets to another Subsidiary that is not a Credit Party.
5.4Acquisitions; Loans and Investments. No Credit Party shall and no Credit Party shall suffer or permit any of its Subsidiaries to (i) purchase or acquire, or make any commitment to purchase or acquire any Stock or Stock Equivalents, or other securities of, or any interest in, any Person, including the establishment or creation of a Subsidiary, or (ii) make or commit to make any Acquisitions, including without limitation, by way of merger, consolidation or other combination or (iii) make or purchase, or commit to make
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or purchase, any advance, loan, extension of credit or capital contribution to or any other investment in, any Person, including the Borrower, any Affiliate of the Borrower or any Subsidiary of the Borrower (the items described inclauses (i),(ii) and(iii) are referred to as “Investments”), except for the following (“Permitted Investments”):
(a) Investments in cash and Cash Equivalents;
(b) Investments consisting of (i) advances, loans, extensions of credit or capital contributions by any Credit Party to or in any other then existing Credit Party, (ii) advances, loans, extensions of credit, purchases of equity in or capital contributions by a Borrower or any other Credit Party to or in any then existing Excluded Subsidiaries of a Borrower not to exceed $40,000,000 in the aggregate at any time outstanding for all such advances, loans, extensions of credit, purchases of equity in and capital contributions (it being understood that any capital contributions made pursuant to this clause (b) shall be net of any distributions made by the Subsidiary who received such capital contributions to the Credit Party making such capital contribution after the date of such capital contribution); provided, that (A) if any Credit Party executes and delivers to the Borrower a note (collectively, the “Intercompany Notes”) to evidence any Investments described in the foregoingclauses (i) and(ii), that Intercompany Note shall be pledged and delivered to Agent pursuant to the Guaranty and Security Agreement as additional collateral security for the Obligations; (B) the Borrower shall accurately record all intercompany transactions on its books and records; (C) at the time any such intercompany loan or advance is made by the Borrower to any other Credit Party and after giving effect thereto, the Borrower shall be Solvent; and (D) at the time of any such intercompany advance, loan, extension of credit, purchase of equity or capital contribution is made and immediately after giving effect thereto, the Borrower shall have Availability of not less than $250,000,000; and (iii) advances, loans, extensions of credit or capital contributions by an Excluded Subsidiary (other than Tandy Life Insurance Company) to or in the Borrower or any Subsidiary; provided that to the extent any Indebtedness is owed by a Credit Party to an Excluded Subsidiary, it is subordinated to the Obligations on terms reasonably acceptable to the Required Lenders;
(c) Investments consisting of the non-cash portion of consideration received in connection with transactions permitted pursuant toSection 5.2;
(d) Investments acquired in connection with the settlement of delinquent Accounts in the Ordinary Course of Business or in connection with the bankruptcy or reorganization of suppliers or customers;
(e) Investments existing on the Closing Date and set forth inSchedule 5.4;
(f) loans or advances to employees permitted underSection 5.6(f) and(g);
(g) Permitted Acquisitions;
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(h) So long as no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, other Investments in an aggregate amount not to exceed $10,000,000 at any time outstanding, determined without regard to any write-downs or write-offs thereof;
(i) other Investments in an aggregate amount, when added to any Investments made in accordance withSection 5.4(g), not to exceed $10,000,000 during the term of this Agreement, provided the Payment Conditions are satisfied at the time of any such Investment;
(j) Investments consisting of extensions of credit in the nature of accounts receivable or notes receivable arising from the grant of trade credit in the Ordinary Course of Business, and Investments received in satisfaction or partial satisfaction thereof from financially troubled account debtors and other creditors to suppliers in the Ordinary Course of Business;
(k) Investments consisting of Contingent Obligations permitted bySection 5.9; and
(l) Restricted Payments permitted bySection 5.11.
Notwithstanding the foregoing terms of thisSection 5.4 or any other Section of this Agreement, no Foreign Subsidiary of the Borrower shall own a Domestic Subsidiary.
5.5Limitation on Indebtedness. No Credit Party shall, and no Credit Party shall suffer or permit any of its Subsidiaries to, create, incur, assume, permit to exist, or otherwise become or remain directly or indirectly liable with respect to, any Indebtedness, except for the following (“Permitted Indebtedness”):
(a) the Obligations;
(b) Indebtedness consisting of Contingent Obligations permitted pursuant toSection 5.9;
(c) Indebtedness existing on the Closing Date (including outstanding letters of credit, so long as such letters of credit are terminated or backstopped on or prior to the expiration date of such letters credit as in effect on the Closing Date, without giving effect to any auto-renewal feature thereof) and set forth inSchedule 5.5, including Permitted Refinancings of such Indebtedness other than letters of credit;
(d) Indebtedness consisting of Capital Lease Obligations or secured by Liens permitted bysubsection 5.1(h) in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed at any time outstanding $20,000,000 and Permitted Refinancings thereof;
(e) unsecured intercompany Indebtedness permitted pursuant tosubsection 5.4(b);
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(f) the ABL Obligations;provided that the principal amount of the ABL Obligations shall in no event exceed the Maximum ABL Facility Amount (as defined in the Intercreditor Agreement);
(g) Indebtedness incurred in the ordinary course of business in connection with the financing of insurance premiums;
(h) Indebtedness under the 6.75% Notes and Permitted Refinancings thereof; and
(i) Indebtedness of Foreign Subsidiaries in an aggregate amount not to exceed $15,000,000 at any one time outstanding;provided that such Indebtedness is non-recourse to any Credit Party or such Credit Party’s Property.
5.6Employee Loans and Transactions with Affiliates. No Credit Party shall, and no Credit Party shall suffer or permit any of its Subsidiaries to, enter into any transaction with any Affiliate of the Borrower or of any such Subsidiary, except:
(a) as expressly permitted by this Agreement;
(b) in the Ordinary Course of Business and pursuant to the reasonable requirements of the business of such Credit Party or such Subsidiary upon fair and reasonable terms no less favorable to such Credit Party or such Subsidiary than would be obtained in a comparable arm’s length transaction with a Person not an Affiliate of the Borrower or such Subsidiary and which are disclosed in writing to Agent;
(c) (i) transactions among the Credit Parties or a Person that becomes a Credit Party as a result of such transaction and (ii) transactions among Subsidiaries that are not Credit Parties;
(d) employment and severance arrangements between the Borrower and its Subsidiaries and their respective officers and employees in the Ordinary Course of Business;
(e) the payment of customary fees, compensation and reasonable out of pocket costs to, and indemnities provided on behalf of, directors, officers and employees of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries in the Ordinary Course of Business;
(f) loans or advances to employees of Credit Parties for travel, entertainment and relocation expenses and other ordinary business purposes in the Ordinary Course of Business not to exceed $5,000,000 in the aggregate outstanding at any time;
(g) non-cash loans or advances made by Borrower to employees of Credit Parties that are simultaneously used by such Persons to purchase Stock or Stock Equivalents of Borrower; and
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(h) such other transactions existing as of the Closing Date which are described inSchedule 5.6.
5.7 [Reserved].
5.8Margin Stock; Use of Proceeds. No Credit Party shall, and no Credit Party shall suffer or permit any of its Subsidiaries to, use any portion of the Term Loan proceeds, directly or indirectly, to purchase or carry Margin Stock or repay or otherwise refinance Indebtedness of any Credit Party or others incurred to purchase or carry Margin Stock, or otherwise in any manner which is in contravention of any Requirement of Law or in violation of this Agreement.
5.9Contingent Obligations. No Credit Party shall, and no Credit Party shall suffer or permit any of its Subsidiaries to, create, incur, assume or suffer to exist any Contingent Obligations except in respect of the Obligations and except:
(a) endorsements for collection or deposit in the Ordinary Course of Business;
(b) Rate Contracts entered into in the Ordinary Course of Business for bona fide hedging purposes and not for speculation;
(c) Contingent Obligations of the Credit Parties and their Subsidiaries existing as of the Closing Date and listed inSchedule 5.9, including extension, renewals and replacements thereof which do not increase the amount of such Contingent Obligations or impose materially more restrictive or adverse terms on the Credit Parties or their Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, as compared to the terms of the Contingent Obligation being renewed or extended;
(d) Contingent Obligations arising under indemnity agreements to title insurers to cause such title insurers to issue to Agent title insurance policies;
(e) Contingent Obligations arising with respect to customary indemnification obligations in favor of (i) sellers in connection with Acquisitions not prohibited hereunder and (ii) purchasers (other than a Credit Party or any Subsidiary thereof) in connection with dispositions permitted undersubsection 5.2;
(f) Contingent Obligations arising under Letters of Credit;
(g) Contingent Obligations arising under guaranties made in the Ordinary Course of Business of obligations of any Credit Party, which obligations, if Indebtedness, are otherwise permitted bySection 5.5 (other thanSection 5.5(b)); provided that if such obligation is subordinated to the Obligations, such guaranty shall be subordinated to the same extent; and
(h) Contingent Obligations relating to surety and appeal bonds, performance bonds and other obligations of a like nature incurred in the Ordinary Course of Business (including in connection with the construction or improvement of retail stores), including guarantees or obligations with respect to letters of credit supporting such surety, appeal or performance bond.
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5.10Compliance with ERISA. No ERISA Affiliate shall cause or suffer to exist (a) any event that could reasonably be expected to result in the imposition of a Lien on any asset of a Credit Party or a Subsidiary of a Credit Party with respect to any Title IV Plan or Multiemployer Plan or (b) any other ERISA Event, that would, in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect or result in unsecured Liabilities in excess of $10,000,000. No Credit Party shall cause or suffer to exist any event that could reasonably be expected to result in the imposition of a Lien with respect to any Benefit Plan.
5.11Restricted Payments. No Credit Party shall, and no Credit Party shall suffer or permit any of its Subsidiaries to, (i) declare or make any dividend payment or other distribution of assets, properties, cash, rights, obligations or securities on account of any Stock or Stock Equivalent, (ii) purchase, redeem or otherwise acquire for value any Stock or Stock Equivalent now or hereafter outstanding or (iii) make any payment or prepayment of principal of, premium, if any, interest, fees, redemption, exchange, purchase, retirement, defeasance, sinking fund or similar payment with respect to, Subordinated Indebtedness (the items described inclauses (i),(ii) and(iii) above are referred to as “Restricted Payments”); except that any Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of the Borrower may declare and pay dividends to the Borrower or any Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of the Borrower, and except that:
(a) Borrower may declare and make dividend payments or other distributions payable solely in its Stock or Stock Equivalents;
(b) the Borrower may issue and sell its common capital Stock;
(c) as long as no Default or Event of Default hereof exists or would arise therefrom, and immediately after giving effect thereto, the Borrower shall have Availability of not less than $175,000,000, the Credit Parties and their Subsidiaries may make Restricted Payments in an aggregate amount not to exceed $5,000,000 in any Fiscal Year;
(d) the Credit Parties may pay, as and when due and payable, regularly scheduled payments of interest only at the non-default rate on the Subordinated Indebtedness, to the extent permitted under any Subordination Agreement;
(e) the Borrower may make cash payments in lieu of fractional shares in connection with the exercise of warrants, options or other securities convertible into or exchangeable for Stock and Stock Equivalents; provided that any such cash payment shall not be for the purpose of evading the limitations of this Agreement; and
(f) the Borrower may repurchase its Stock upon exercise of stock options or warrants if such Stock represents a portion of the exercise price for applicable withholding taxes.
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5.12Change in Business. No Credit Party shall, and no Credit Party shall permit any of its Subsidiaries to, engage in any line of business substantially different from those lines of business carried on by it on the Closing Date and other activities reasonably related or incidental thereto.
5.13Change in Structure. Except as expressly permitted underSections 5.2,5.3 and5.4, no Credit Party shall, and no Credit Party shall permit any of its Subsidiaries to, make any material changes in its equity capital structure or amend any of its Organization Documents in any material respect and, in each case, in any respect adverse to Agent or Lenders.
5.14Changes in Accounting, Name or Jurisdiction of Organization. No Credit Party shall, and no Credit Party shall suffer or permit any of its Subsidiaries to, (i) make any significant change in accounting treatment or reporting practices, except as required by GAAP, (ii) change the Fiscal Year or method for determining Fiscal Quarters of any Credit Party or of any Consolidated Subsidiary of any Credit Party unless such change shall be reasonably acceptable to the Required Lenders (it being understood and agreed that a change of the Borrower’s Fiscal Year to a period ending on the Saturday closest to the last day of January, and corresponding changes to the Borrower’s Fiscal Quarters and Fiscal Months are reasonably acceptable to the Required Lenders), (iii) change its name as it appears in official filings in its jurisdiction of organization or (iv) change its jurisdiction of organization, in the case ofclauses (iii) and(iv), without at least ten (10) days’ prior written notice to Agent and the acknowledgement of Agent that all actions required by Agent, including those to continue the perfection of its Liens, have been completed.
5.15Amendments to Other Agreements and Subordinated Indebtedness.
(a) No Credit Party shall, and no Credit Party shall permit any of its Subsidiaries to, (i) amend, supplement, waive or otherwise modify any provision of (A) any ABL Loan Document in a manner prohibited by the Intercreditor Agreement, (B) any lease for any of the Credit Parties’ distribution centers or warehouses or any Material Contract (excluding Wireless Carrier Contracts) which would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, (C) any Wireless Carrier Contract in any manner without the consent of the Agent or (D) the Residual Agreement in any manner without the consent of the Agent, or (ii) take or fail to take any action under any ABL Loan Document, any Wireless Carrier Contract, any lease for any of the Credit Parties’ distribution centers or warehouses or any other Material Contract that would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. No Credit Party shall, and no Credit Party shall permit any of its Subsidiaries to, terminate, or commit any material default under any Wireless Carrier Contract without the consent of the Agent.
(b) No Credit Party shall, and no Credit Party shall permit any of its Subsidiaries directly or indirectly to, change or amend the terms of any (i) Subordinated Indebtedness Documents except to the extent permitted by any Subordination Agreement or (ii) any other Subordinated Indebtedness not subject to a Subordination Agreement, if the effect of such change or amendment is to: (A) increase the interest rate on such
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Indebtedness by more than 200 basis points per annum (other than in connection with the implementation of default interest, which default interest shall not exceed 200 basis points); (B) shorten the dates upon which payments of principal or interest are due on such Indebtedness; (C) add or change in a manner adverse to the Credit Parties any event of default or covenant with respect to such Indebtedness that makes such event of default or covenant more restrictive, taken as a whole, than those contained in the Loan Documents; (D) change in a manner adverse to the Credit Parties the prepayment provisions of such Indebtedness; (E) change the subordination provisions thereof (or the subordination terms of any guaranty thereof); or (F) change or amend any other term if such change or amendment would materially increase the obligations of the Credit Parties or confer additional material rights on the holder of such Indebtedness in a manner adverse to the Credit Parties, Agent or Lenders; provided that this clause (F) shall not prohibit changes otherwise permitted by this clause (b).
5.16No Negative Pledges.
No Credit Party shall, and no Credit Party shall permit any of its Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, create or otherwise cause or suffer to exist or become effective any consensual restriction or encumbrance of any kind on the ability of any Subsidiary of a Credit Party to pay dividends or make any other distribution on any of such Subsidiary’s Stock or Stock Equivalents or to pay fees, including management fees, or make other payments and distributions to the Borrower or any other Credit Party, except for (a) any restriction in the Loan Documents, ABL Loan Documents and the 6.75% Notes Indenture, (b) customary provisions in joint venture agreements and other similar agreements applicable to joint ventures and applicable solely to such joint venture entered into in the Ordinary Course of Business, (c) restrictions existing pursuant to applicable law, (d) restrictions binding upon a Subsidiary at the time the Subsidiary becomes a Subsidiary so long as such obligation was not entered into in contemplation of such Person becoming a Subsidiary, and (e) restrictions binding upon any Foreign Subsidiary in connection with the incurrence of any Indebtedness permitted hereunder. No Credit Party shall directly or indirectly, enter into, assume or become subject to any Contractual Obligation prohibiting or otherwise restricting the existence of any Lien upon any of its assets in favor of Agent, whether now owned or hereafter acquired except (a) in connection with any document or instrument governing Liens permitted pursuant tosubsections 5.1(h),5.1(i) and5.1(r) provided that any such restriction contained therein relates only to the asset or assets subject to such permitted Liens, (b) customary restrictions in leases, subleases, licenses or asset sale agreements otherwise not prohibited hereby so long as such restrictions relate to the assets subject thereto, (c) prohibitions existing pursuant to applicable law, (d) restrictions binding upon a Subsidiary at the time the Subsidiary becomes a Subsidiary so long as such obligation was not entered into in contemplation of such Person becoming a Subsidiary, and (v) restrictions binding upon any Foreign Subsidiary in connection with the incurrence of any Indebtedness permitted hereunder.
5.17OFAC; Patriot Act. No Credit Party shall, and no Credit Party shall permit any of its Subsidiaries to fail to comply with the laws, regulations and executive orders referred to inSections 3.28 and3.29.
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5.18Sale-Leasebacks. No Credit Party shall, and no Credit Party shall permit any of its Subsidiaries to, engage in a sale leaseback, synthetic lease or similar transaction involving any of its assets.
5.19Hazardous Materials. No Credit Party shall, and no Credit Party shall permit any of its Subsidiaries to, cause or suffer to exist any Release of any Hazardous Material at, to or from any Real Estate that would violate any Environmental Law, form the basis for any Environmental Liabilities or otherwise adversely affect the value or marketability of any Real Estate (whether or not owned by any Credit Party or any Subsidiary of any Credit Party).
5.20Prepayments of Other Indebtedness. No Credit Party shall and no Credit Party shall permit any of its Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, voluntarily purchase, redeem, defease or prepay any principal of, premium, if any, interest or other amount payable in respect of any Indebtedness prior to its scheduled maturity, other than (a) the Obligations, (b) Indebtedness secured by a Permitted Lien if the asset securing such Indebtedness has been sold or otherwise disposed of in a transaction permitted hereunder, (c) a Permitted Refinancing of Indebtedness permitted undersubsection 5.5(c),(d) or (h), (d) prepayment of intercompany Indebtedness to Credit Parties, (e) prepayments of ABL Obligations, (f) payments of principal (including mandatory prepayments, redemptions and repurchases) and interest as and when due in respect of any Indebtedness permitted bySection 5.5 (other than Subordinated Indebtedness unless such payment is otherwise permitted bysubsections 5.11(c)), and (g) prepayments by Foreign Subsidiaries (other than with proceeds of permitted Investments or intercompany loans from Credit Parties) of Indebtedness permitted undersubsection 5.5(i).
5.21Mexican Subsidiary Actions. Unless 65% of the Stock thereof has been pledged to Agent in accordance withSection 4.20, the Credit Parties shall not permit Worldwide Electronics, S.A. de C.V. to (a) own or acquire any assets, (b) incur any Indebtedness or Liens or (c) conduct any business other than in connection with the dissolution of such Foreign Subsidiary.
ARTICLE VI.
[RESERVED]
ARTICLE VII.
EVENTS OF DEFAULT
7.1Events of Default. Any of the following shall constitute an “Event of Default”:
(a)Non-Payment. Any Credit Party fails (i) to pay when and as required to be paid herein, any amount of principal of the Term Loan, including after maturity of the Term Loan, or (ii) to pay within three (3) Business Days after the same shall become due, any fee, interest or any other amount payable hereunder or pursuant to any other Loan Document;
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(b)Representation or Warranty. (i) Any representation, warranty or certification by or on behalf of any Credit Party or any of its Subsidiaries made or deemed made herein, in any other Loan Document, or which is contained in any certificate, document or financial or other statement by any such Person, or their respective Responsible Officers, furnished at any time under this Agreement, or in or under any other Loan Document, shall prove to have been incorrect in any material respect (without duplication of other materiality qualifiers contained therein) on or as of the date made or deemed made or (ii) any information contained in any Borrowing Base Certificate is untrue or incorrect in any respect (other than (A) inadvertent, immaterial errors not exceeding $750,000 in the aggregate in any Borrowing Base Certificate, (B) errors understating the Revolving Borrowing Base or the ABL Term Loan Borrowing Base and (C) errors occurring when Availability continues to exceed $175,000,000 after giving effect to the correction of such errors);
(c)Specific Defaults. (i) Any Credit Party fails to perform or observe any term, covenant or agreement contained in any ofsubsection 4.2(a),4.2(b),4.2(d),4.3(a),4.3(e),4.3(g),4.4(a),4.4(b),4.4(d) or9.10(d),Section 4.1,4.6,4.9,4.10,4.11,4.16 or4.21 or Article V or the Fee Letter or (ii) any Credit Party fails to perform or observe any term, covenant or agreement contained in any ofsubsection 4.2(f),4.2(g),4.2(i),4.2(j),4.2(l),4.2(n) or4.3(k) and such default shall continue unremedied for a period of five (5) Business Days;
(d)Other Defaults. Any Credit Party or Subsidiary of any Credit Party fails to perform or observe any other term, covenant or agreement contained in this Agreement or any other Loan Document, and such default shall continue unremedied for a period of thirty (30) days after the earlier to occur of (i) the date upon which a Responsible Officer of any Credit Party becomes aware of such default and (ii) the date upon which written notice thereof is given to the Borrower by Agent or Required Lenders;
(e)Cross-Default. (i) An “Event of Default” shall occur under and as defined in any ABL Loan Document or (ii) any Credit Party or any Subsidiary of any Credit Party (A) fails to make any payment in respect of any Indebtedness (other than the Obligations) or Contingent Obligation (other than the Obligations), Rate Contract or Bank Product having an aggregate principal amount (including undrawn committed or available amounts and including amounts owing to all creditors under any combined or syndicated credit arrangement) of more than $10,000,000 when due (whether by scheduled maturity, required prepayment, acceleration, demand, or otherwise) and such failure continues after the applicable grace or notice period, if any, specified in the document relating thereto on the date of such failure; or (B) fails to perform or observe any other condition or covenant, or any other event shall occur or condition exist, under any agreement or instrument relating to any such Indebtedness or Contingent Obligation (other than Contingent Obligations owing by one Credit Party with respect to the obligations of another Credit Party permitted hereunder), if the effect of such failure, event or condition is to cause, or to permit the holder or holders of such Indebtedness or beneficiary or beneficiaries of such Indebtedness (or a trustee or agent on behalf of such holder or holders or beneficiary or beneficiaries) to cause such Indebtedness to be declared to be due and payable prior to its stated maturity (without regard to any subordination terms with respect thereto), or such Contingent Obligation to become payable or cash collateral in respect thereof to be demanded;
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(f)Insolvency; Voluntary Proceedings. Any Credit Party or any Subsidiary of any Credit Party (other than Immaterial Subsidiaries that are not Credit Parties, except in connection with a voluntary Insolvency proceeding pursuant to clauses (iii) or (iv) below; provided that no Credit Party shall incur any liability (contingent or otherwise) in respect thereof): (i) generally fails to pay, or admits in writing its inability to pay, its debts as they become due, subject to applicable grace periods, if any, whether at stated maturity or otherwise; (ii) except as expressly permitted underSection 5.3, voluntarily ceases to conduct its business in the ordinary course; (iii) commences any Insolvency Proceeding with respect to itself; or (iv) takes any action to effectuate or authorize any of the foregoing;
(g)Involuntary Proceedings. (i) Any involuntary Insolvency Proceeding is commenced or filed against any Credit Party or any Subsidiary of any Credit Party, or any writ, judgment, warrant of attachment, execution or similar process, is issued or levied against any such Person’s Properties and any such proceeding or petition shall not be dismissed, or such writ, judgment, warrant of attachment, execution or similar process shall not be released, vacated or fully bonded within sixty (60) days after commencement, filing or levy; (ii) any Credit Party or Subsidiary of any Credit Party admits the material allegations of a petition against it in any Insolvency Proceeding, or an order for relief (or similar order under non-U.S. law) is ordered in any Insolvency Proceeding; or (iii) any Credit Party or any Subsidiary of any Credit Party acquiesces in the appointment of a receiver, trustee, custodian, conservator, liquidator, mortgagee in possession (or agent therefor), or other similar Person for itself or a substantial portion of its Property or business;
(h)Monetary Judgments. One or more judgments, non-interlocutory orders, decrees or arbitration awards shall be entered against any one or more of the Credit Parties or any of their respective Subsidiaries involving in the aggregate a liability of $10,000,000 or more (to the extent not covered by independent third-party insurance as to which the insurer is rated at least “A” by A.M. Best Company, has been notified of the potential claim and does not dispute coverage), and the same shall remain unsatisfied, unvacated and unstayed pending appeal for a period of twenty (20) days after the entry thereof;
(i)Non-Monetary Judgments. One or more non-monetary judgments, orders or decrees shall be rendered against any one or more of the Credit Parties or any of their respective Subsidiaries which has or would reasonably be expected to have, either individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect, and there shall be any period of ten (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;
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(j)Collateral. Any material provision of any Loan Document shall for any reason cease to be valid and binding on or enforceable against any Credit Party or any Subsidiary of any Credit Party party thereto or any Credit Party or any Subsidiary of any Credit Party shall so state in writing or bring an action to limit its obligations or liabilities thereunder; or any Collateral Document shall for any reason (other than pursuant to the terms thereof) cease to create a valid security interest in the Collateral purported to be covered thereby or such security interest shall for any reason cease to be a perfected and first priority security interest subject only to Permitted Liens;
(k)Ownership. (i) There occurs any Change in Control or (ii) “Change of Control” (as defined in the ABL Credit Agreement) shall occur;
(l)Invalidity of Subordination Provisions. The subordination provisions of any Subordination Agreement or any other agreement or instrument governing any Subordinated Indebtedness shall for any reason be revoked or invalidated, or otherwise cease to be in full force and effect, or any Person shall contest in any manner the validity or enforceability thereof or deny that it has any further liability or obligation thereunder, or the Obligations, for any reason shall not have the priority contemplated by this Agreement or such subordination provisions;
(m)Damage; Casualty. Any casualty or damage occurs to any portion of the Collateral in excess of $5,000,000 (to the extent not covered by independent third-party insurance as to which the insurer is rated at least “A” by A.M. Best Company, has been notified of the potential claim and does not dispute coverage);
(n)Material Agreements. Any default or breach by any Credit Party or any Subsidiary thereof occurs in respect of any Wireless Carrier Contract, any lease for any of the Credit Parties’ distribution centers or warehouses or any other Material Contract in a manner adverse to Agent or Lenders or which would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect; or
(o)Tax Proceedings. A Final Determination shall be made in any Tax Proceeding which results in a Liability for Taxes of a Credit Party in excess of $50,000,000 and (i) either (A) the same shall remain unpaid for a period of thirty (30) days after such Liability is required to be paid pursuant to such Final Determination or (B) immediately after giving effect to any payment thereof Availability (without reduction for any Reserves imposed under the ABL Credit Agreement with respect to any actual or potential Liability for Taxes in connection with any Tax Proceeding) shall be less than $200,000,000 or (ii) a notice of Lien in connection with such Liability for Taxes of a Credit Party is filed by a Taxing Authority.
7.2Remedies. Upon the occurrence and during the continuance of any Event of Default, Agent shall at the request of the Required Lenders:
(a) declare all or any portion of the unpaid principal amount of the Term Loan, all interest accrued and unpaid thereon, and all other amounts owing or payable hereunder or under any other Loan Document to be immediately due and payable; without presentment, demand, protest or other notice of any kind, all of which are hereby expressly waived by each Credit Party; and/or
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(b) exercise on behalf of itself and the Lenders all rights and remedies available to it and the Lenders under the Loan Documents or applicable law;
provided, however, that upon the occurrence of any event specified insubsection 7.1(f) or7.1(g) above (in the case ofclause (i) ofsubsection 7.1(g) upon the expiration of the sixty (60) day period mentioned therein), the unpaid principal amount of the Term Loan and all interest and other amounts as aforesaid shall automatically become due and payable without further act of Agent or any Lender.
7.3Rights Not Exclusive. The rights provided for in this Agreement and the other Loan Documents are cumulative and are not exclusive of any other rights, powers, privileges or remedies provided by law or in equity, or under any other instrument, document or agreement now existing or hereafter arising.
ARTICLE VIII.
THE AGENT
8.1Appointment and Duties.
(a)Appointment of Agent. Each Lender hereby appoints Salus (together with any successor Agent pursuant toSection 8.9) as Agent hereunder and authorizes Agent to (i) execute and deliver the Loan Documents and accept delivery thereof on its behalf from any Credit Party, (ii) take such action on its behalf and to exercise all rights, powers and remedies and perform the duties as are expressly delegated to Agent under such Loan Documents and (iii) exercise such powers as are incidental thereto.
(b)Duties as Collateral and Disbursing Agent. Without limiting the generality ofclause (a) above, Agent shall have the sole and exclusive right and authority (to the exclusion of the Lenders), and is hereby authorized, to (i) act as the disbursing and collecting agent for the Lenders with respect to all payments and collections arising in connection with the Loan Documents (including in any proceeding described insubsection 7.1(g) or any other Insolvency Proceeding or similar proceeding), and each Person making any payment in connection with any Loan Document to any Secured Party is hereby authorized to make such payment to Agent, (ii) file and prove claims and file other documents necessary or desirable to allow the claims of the Secured Parties with respect to any Obligation in any proceeding described insubsection 7.1(f) or (g) or any other bankruptcy, insolvency or similar proceeding (but not to vote, consent or otherwise act on behalf of such Person), (iii) act as collateral agent for each Secured Party for purposes of the perfection of all Liens created by such agreements and all other purposes stated therein, (iv) manage, supervise and otherwise deal with the Collateral, (v) take such other action as is necessary or desirable to maintain the perfection and priority of the Liens created or purported to be created by the Loan Documents, (vi) except as may be otherwise specified in any Loan Document, exercise all remedies given to Agent and the other Secured Parties with respect to the Collateral, whether under the Loan Documents, applicable Requirements of Law or otherwise and (vii) execute any amendment, consent or waiver under the Loan Documents on behalf of any Lender that
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has consented in writing to such amendment, consent or waiver; provided, however, that Agent hereby appoints, authorizes and directs each Lender to act as collateral sub-agent for the Secured Parties for purposes of the perfection of Liens with respect to any deposit account maintained by a Credit Party with, and cash and Cash Equivalents held by, such Lender, and may further authorize and direct the Lenders to take further actions as collateral sub-agents for purposes of enforcing such Liens or otherwise to transfer the Collateral subject thereto to Agent, and each Lender hereby agrees to take such further actions to the extent, and only to the extent, so authorized and directed. Without limiting the foregoing, Agent shall be required to, and hereby agrees to, promptly (and in any event within one (1) Business Day) following receipt thereof, deliver to each Lender a copy of documents, reports and other information received by Agent under or pursuant to the Loan Documents to the extent not otherwise delivered to such Lender by any Credit Party.
(c)Limited Duties. Under the Loan Documents, Agent (i) is acting solely on behalf of the Secured Parties (except to the limited extent provided insubsection 1.4(b) with respect to the Register), with duties that are entirely administrative in nature, notwithstanding the use of the defined term “Agent”, the terms “agent”, “Agent” and “collateral agent” and similar terms in any Loan Document to refer to Agent, which terms are used for title purposes only, (ii) is not assuming any obligation under any Loan Document other than as expressly set forth therein or any role as agent, fiduciary or trustee of or for any Lender or any other Person and (iii) shall have no implied functions, responsibilities, duties, obligations or other liabilities under any Loan Document, and each Secured Party, by accepting the benefits of the Loan Documents, hereby waives and agrees not to assert any claim against Agent based on the roles, duties and legal relationships expressly disclaimed inclauses (i) through(iii) above.
8.2Binding Effect. Each Secured Party, by accepting the benefits of the Loan Documents, agrees that (i) any action taken by Agent or the Required Lenders (or, if expressly required hereby, a greater proportion of the Lenders) in accordance with the provisions of the Loan Documents, (ii) any action taken by Agent in reliance upon the instructions of Required Lenders (or, where so required, such greater proportion) and (iii) the exercise by Agent or the Required Lenders (or, where so required, such greater proportion) of the powers set forth herein or therein, together with such other powers as are incidental thereto, shall be authorized and binding upon all of the Secured Parties.
8.3Use of Discretion.
(a) Agent shall not have any duty to take any discretionary action or exercise any discretionary powers, except discretionary rights and powers expressly contemplated hereby or by the other Loan Documents that Agent is required to exercise as directed in writing by the Required Lenders (or such other number or percentage of the Lenders as shall be expressly provided for herein or in the other Loan Documents); provided, that Agent shall not be required to take any action that, in its opinion or the opinion of its counsel, may expose Agent to liability or that is contrary to any Loan Document or applicable Requirement of Law; and
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(b) Agent shall not, except as expressly set forth herein and in the other Loan Documents (includingSection 8.1(b)), have any duty to disclose, and shall not be liable for the failure to disclose, any information relating to any Credit Party or its Affiliates that is communicated to or obtained by Agent or any of its Affiliates in any capacity.
(c) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein or in any other Loan Document, the authority to enforce rights and remedies hereunder and under the other Loan Documents against the Credit Parties or any of them shall be vested exclusively in, and all actions and proceedings at law in connection with such enforcement shall be instituted and maintained exclusively by, Agent in accordance with the Loan Documents for the benefit of all the Lenders; provided that the foregoing shall not prohibit (i) Agent from exercising on its own behalf the rights and remedies that inure to its benefit (solely in its capacity as Agent) hereunder and under the other Loan Documents, (ii) any Lender from exercising setoff rights in accordance withSection 9.11 or (iii) any Lender from filing proofs of claim or appearing and filing pleadings on its own behalf during the pendency of a proceeding relative to any Credit Party under any bankruptcy or other debtor relief law; and provided further that if at any time there is no Person acting as Agent hereunder and under the other Loan Documents, then (A) the Required Lenders shall have the rights otherwise ascribed to Agent pursuant toSection 7.2 and (B) in addition to the matters set forth inclauses (ii) and(iii) of the preceding proviso and subject toSection 9.11, any Lender may, with the consent of the Required Lenders, enforce any rights and remedies available to it and as authorized by the Required Lenders.
8.4Delegation of Rights and Duties. Agent may, upon any term or condition it specifies, delegate or exercise any of its rights, powers and remedies under, and delegate or perform any of its duties or any other action with respect to, any Loan Document by or through any trustee, co-agent, employee, attorney-in-fact and any other Person (including any Secured Party). Any such Person shall benefit from thisArticle VIII to the extent provided by Agent.
8.5Reliance and Liability.
(a) Agent may, without incurring any liability hereunder, (i) treat the payee of any Note as its holder until such Note has been assigned in accordance withSection 9.9, (ii) rely on the Register to the extent set forth inSection 1.4, (iii) consult with any of its Related Persons and, whether or not selected by it, any other advisors, accountants and other experts (including advisors to, and accountants and experts engaged by, any Credit Party) and (iv) rely and act upon any document and information (including those transmitted by Electronic Transmission) and any telephone message or conversation, in each case believed by it to be genuine and transmitted, signed or otherwise authenticated by the appropriate parties.
(b) None of Agent and its Related Persons shall be liable for any action taken or omitted to be taken by any of them under or in connection with any Loan Document, and each Secured Party, the Borrower and each other Credit Party hereby
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waive and shall not assert (and the Borrower shall cause each other Credit Party to waive and agree not to assert) any right, claim or cause of action based thereon, except to the extent of liabilities resulting primarily from the gross negligence or willful misconduct of Agent or, as the case may be, such Related Person (each as determined in a final, non-appealable judgment by a court of competent jurisdiction) in connection with the duties expressly set forth herein. Without limiting the foregoing, Agent:
(i) shall not be responsible or otherwise incur liability for any action or omission taken in reliance upon the instructions of the Required Lenders or for the actions or omissions of any of its Related Persons selected with reasonable care (other than employees, officers and directors of Agent, when acting on behalf of Agent);
(ii) shall not be responsible to any Lender or other Person for the due execution, legality, validity, enforceability, effectiveness, 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, any Loan Document;
(iii) makes no warranty or representation, and shall not be responsible, to any Lender or other Person for any statement, document, information, representation or warranty made or furnished by or on behalf of any Credit Party or any Related Person of any Credit Party in connection with any Loan Document or any transaction contemplated therein or any other document or information with respect to any Credit Party, whether or not transmitted or (except for documents expressly required under any Loan Document to be transmitted to the Lenders) omitted to be transmitted by Agent, including as to completeness, accuracy, scope or adequacy thereof, or for the scope, nature or results of any due diligence performed by Agent in connection with the Loan Documents; and
(iv) shall not have any duty to ascertain or to inquire as to the performance or observance of any provision of any Loan Document, whether any condition set forth in any Loan Document is satisfied or waived, as to the financial condition of any Credit Party or as to the existence or continuation or possible occurrence or continuation of any Default or Event of Default and shall not be deemed to have notice or knowledge of such occurrence or continuation unless it has received a notice from the Borrower or any Lender describing such Default or Event of Default clearly labeled “notice of default” (in which case Agent shall promptly give notice of such receipt to all Lenders);
and, for each of the items set forth inclauses (i) through(iv) above, each Lender and the Borrower hereby waives and agrees not to assert (and the Borrower shall cause each other Credit Party to waive and agree not to assert) any right, claim or cause of action it might have against Agent based thereon.
(c) Each Lender (i) acknowledges that it has performed and will continue to perform its own diligence and has made and will continue to make its own independent investigation of the operations, financial conditions and affairs of the Credit Parties and (ii) agrees that is shall not rely on any audit or other report provided by Agent
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or its Related Persons (an “Agent Report”). Each Lender further acknowledges that any Agent Report (i) is provided to the Lenders solely as a courtesy, without consideration, and based upon the understanding that such Lender will not rely on such Agent Report, (ii) was prepared by Agent or its Related Persons based upon information provided by the Credit Parties solely for Agent’s own internal use, (iii) may not be complete and may not reflect all information and findings obtained by Agent or its Related Persons regarding the operations and condition of the Credit Parties. Neither Agent nor any of its Related Persons makes any representations or warranties of any kind with respect to (i) any existing or proposed financing, (ii) the accuracy or completeness of the information contained in any Agent Report or in any related documentation, (iii) the scope or adequacy of Agent’s and its Related Persons’ due diligence, or the presence or absence of any errors or omissions contained in any Agent Report or in any related documentation, and (iv) any work performed by Agent or Agent’s Related Persons in connection with or using any Agent Report or any related documentation.
(d) Neither Agent nor any of its Related Persons shall have any duties or obligations in connection with or as a result of any Lender receiving a copy of any Agent Report. Without limiting the generality of the forgoing, neither Agent nor any of its Related Persons shall have any responsibility for the accuracy or completeness of any Agent Report, or the appropriateness of any Agent Report for any Lender’s purposes, and shall have no duty or responsibility to correct or update any Agent Report or disclose to any Lender any other information not embodied in any Agent Report, including any supplemental information obtained after the date of any Agent Report. Each Lender releases, and agrees that it will not assert, any claim against Agent or its Related Persons that in any way relates to any Agent Report or arises out of any Lender having access to any Agent Report or any discussion of its contents, and agrees to indemnify and hold harmless Agent and its Related Persons from all claims, liabilities and expenses relating to a breach by any Lender arising out of such Lender’s access to any Agent Report or any discussion of its contents.
8.6Agent Individually. To the extent Agent or any of its Affiliates makes any portion of the Term Loan or otherwise becomes a Lender hereunder, it shall have and may exercise the same rights and powers hereunder and shall be subject to the same obligations and liabilities as any other Lender and the terms “Lender”, “Required Lender” and any similar terms shall, except where otherwise expressly provided in any Loan Document, include, without limitation, Agent or such Affiliate, as the case may be, in its individual capacity as Lender or as one of the Required Lenders, respectively.
8.7Lender Credit Decision.
(a) Each Lender acknowledges that it shall, independently and without reliance upon Agent, any Lender or any of their Related Persons or upon any document (including any offering and disclosure materials in connection with the syndication of the Term Loan) solely or in part because such document was transmitted by Agent or any of its Related Persons, conduct its own independent investigation of the financial condition and affairs of each Credit Party and make and continue to make its own credit decisions in connection with entering into, and taking or not taking any action under, any Loan
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Document or with respect to any transaction contemplated in any Loan Document, in each case based on such documents and information as it shall deem appropriate. Except for documents expressly required by any Loan Document to be transmitted by Agent to the Lenders or as provided in Section 8.1(b), Agent shall not have any duty or responsibility to provide any Lender with any credit or other information concerning the business, prospects, operations, Property, financial and other condition or creditworthiness of any Credit Party or any Affiliate of any Credit Party that may come in to the possession of Agent or any of its Related Persons.
(b) If any Lender has elected to abstain from receiving MNPI concerning the Credit Parties or their Affiliates, such Lender acknowledges that, notwithstanding such election, Agent and/or the Credit Parties will, from time to time, make available syndicate-information (which may contain MNPI) as required by the terms of, or in the course of administering the Term Loan to the credit contact(s) identified for receipt of such information on the Lender’s administrative questionnaire who are able to receive and use all syndicate-level information (which may contain MNPI) in accordance with such Lender’s compliance policies and contractual obligations and any Requirement of Law, including federal and state securities laws; provided, that if such contact is not so identified in such questionnaire, the relevant Lender hereby agrees to promptly (and in any event within one (1) Business Day) provide such a contact to Agent and the Credit Parties upon request therefor by Agent or the Credit Parties. Notwithstanding such Lender’s election to abstain from receiving MNPI, such Lender acknowledges that if such Lender chooses to communicate with Agent, it assumes the risk of receiving MNPI concerning the Credit Parties or their Affiliates.
8.8Expenses; Indemnities; Withholding.
(a) Each Lender agrees to reimburse Agent and each of its Related Persons (to the extent not reimbursed by any Credit Party) promptly upon demand, severally and ratably, for any costs and expenses (including fees, charges and disbursements of financial, legal and other advisors and Other Taxes paid in the name of, or on behalf of, any Credit Party) that may be incurred by Agent or any of its Related Persons in connection with the preparation, syndication, execution, delivery, administration, modification, consent, waiver or enforcement of, or the taking of any other action (whether through negotiations, through any work-out, bankruptcy, restructuring or other legal or other proceeding (including, without limitation, preparation for and/or response to any subpoena or request for document production relating thereto) or otherwise) in respect of, or legal advice with respect to its rights or responsibilities under, any Loan Document.
(b) Each Lender further agrees to indemnify Agent and each of its Related Persons (to the extent not reimbursed by any Credit Party), severally and ratably, from and against Liabilities (including, to the extent not indemnified pursuant toSection 8.8(c), taxes, interests and penalties imposed for not properly withholding or backup withholding on payments made to or for the account of any Lender) that may be imposed on, incurred by or asserted against Agent or any of its Related Persons in any matter relating to or arising out of, in connection with or as a result of any Loan
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Document, any Related Document or any other act, event or transaction related, contemplated in or attendant to any such document, or, in each case, any action taken or omitted to be taken by Agent or any of its Related Persons under or with respect to any of the foregoing; provided, however, that no Lender shall be liable to Agent or any of its Related Persons to the extent such liability has resulted primarily from the gross negligence or willful misconduct of Agent or, as the case may be, such Related Person, as determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in a final non-appealable judgment or order.
(c) To the extent required by any applicable law, Agent may withhold from any payment to any Lender under a Loan Document an amount equal to any applicable withholding tax. If the IRS or any other Governmental Authority asserts a claim that Agent did not properly withhold tax from amounts paid to or for the account of any Lender (because the appropriate certification form was not delivered, was not properly executed, or fails to establish an exemption from, or reduction of, withholding tax with respect to a particular type of payment, or because such Lender failed to notify Agent or any other Person of a change in circumstances which rendered the exemption from, or reduction of, withholding tax ineffective, or for any other reason), or Agent reasonably determines that it was required to withhold taxes from a prior payment but failed to do so, such Lender shall promptly indemnify Agent fully for all amounts paid, directly or indirectly, by such Agent as tax or otherwise, including penalties and interest, and together with all expenses incurred by Agent, including legal expenses, allocated internal costs and out-of-pocket expenses. Agent may offset against any payment to any Lender under a Loan Document, any applicable withholding tax that was required to be withheld from any prior payment to such Lender but which was not so withheld, as well as any other amounts for which Agent is entitled to indemnification from such Lender under thisSection 8.8(c).
8.9Resignation of Agent.
(a) Agent may resign at any time by delivering notice of such resignation to the Lenders and the Borrower, effective on the date set forth in such notice or, if no such date is set forth therein, upon the date such notice shall be effective in accordance with the terms of thisSection 8.9. If Agent delivers any such notice, the Required Lenders shall have the right to appoint a successor Agent. If, after 30 days after the date of retiring Agent’s notice of resignation, no successor Agent has been appointed by the Required Lenders that has accepted such appointment, then the retiring Agent may, on behalf of the Lenders, appoint a successor Agent from among the Lenders. Each appointment under thisclause (a) shall be subject to the prior consent of the Borrower, which may not be unreasonably withheld but shall not be required during the continuance of an Event of Default.
(b) Effective immediately upon its resignation, (i) the retiring Agent shall be discharged from its duties and obligations under the Loan Documents, (ii) the Lenders shall assume and perform all of the duties of Agent until a successor Agent shall have accepted a valid appointment hereunder, (iii) the retiring Agent and its Related Persons shall no longer have the benefit of any provision of any Loan Document other
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than with respect to any actions taken or omitted to be taken while such retiring Agent was, or because such Agent had been, validly acting as Agent under the Loan Documents and (iv) subject to its rights underSection 8.3, the retiring Agent shall take such action as may be reasonably necessary to assign to the successor Agent its rights as Agent under the Loan Documents. Effective immediately upon its acceptance of a valid appointment as Agent, a successor Agent shall succeed to, and become vested with, all the rights, powers, privileges and duties of the retiring Agent under the Loan Documents.
8.10Release of Collateral or Guarantors. Each Lender hereby consents to the release and hereby directs Agent to release (or, in the case ofclause (b)(ii) below, release or subordinate) the following:
(a) any Subsidiary of the Borrower from its guaranty of any Obligation if all of the Stock and Stock Equivalents of such Subsidiary owned by any Credit Party are sold or transferred in a transaction permitted under the Loan Documents (including pursuant to a waiver or consent); and
(b) subject to the terms of the Intercreditor Agreement, any Lien held by Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties against (i) any Collateral that is sold, transferred, conveyed or otherwise disposed of by a Credit Party in a transaction permitted by the Loan Documents (including pursuant to a waiver or consent), (ii) any Property subject to a Lien permitted hereunder in reliance uponsubsection 5.1(h) or5.1(i) and (iii) all of the Collateral and all Credit Parties, upon (A) payment and satisfaction in full of the Term Loan and all other Obligations under the Loan Documents, (B) deposit of cash collateral with respect to all contingent Obligations, in amounts and on terms and conditions and with parties satisfactory to Agent and the Required Lenders and each Indemnitee that is, or may be, owed such Obligations (excluding contingent Obligations as to which no claim has been asserted) and (C) to the extent requested by Agent, receipt by Agent and the Secured Parties of liability releases from the Credit Parties each in form and substance acceptable to Agent.
Each Lender hereby directs Agent, and Agent hereby agrees, upon receipt of at least three (3) Business Days’ advance notice from the Borrower, to execute and deliver or file such documents and to perform other actions reasonably necessary to release the guaranties and Liens when and as directed in thisSection 8.10.
8.11Intercreditor Agreement. Each Lender hereby (a) agrees that this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, and the rights and remedies of the Agent and the Lenders hereunder and thereunder, are subject to the terms of the Intercreditor Agreement (and to the extent any terms of this Agreement or any other Loan Document conflicts or is inconsistent with the terms thereof, the terms of the Intercreditor Agreement shall control), (b) agrees that it will be bound by and will take no actions contrary to the provisions of the Intercreditor Agreement, and (c) hereby authorizes and instructs the Agent to enter into the Intercreditor Agreement.
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ARTICLE IX.
MISCELLANEOUS
9.1Amendments and Waivers.
(a) No amendment or waiver of any provision of this Agreement or any other Loan Document, and no consent with respect to any departure by any Credit Party therefrom, shall be effective unless the same shall be in writing and signed by the Required Lenders (or by Agent with the consent of the Required Lenders), and the Borrower, and then such waiver shall be effective only in the specific instance and for the specific purpose for which given; provided, however, that no such waiver, amendment, or consent shall, unless in writing and signed by all the Lenders directly affected thereby (or by Agent with the consent of all the Lenders directly affected thereby), in addition to the Required Lenders (or by Agent with the consent of the Required Lenders) and the Borrower, do any of the following:
(i) increase or extend the Commitment of any Lender (or reinstate any Commitment terminated pursuant tosubsection 7.2(a));
(ii) postpone or delay any date fixed for, or reduce or waive, any scheduled installment of principal or any payment of interest (other than default interest pursuant tosubsection 1.3(c), which may be reduced or waived with the consent of the Required Lenders), fees or other amounts (other than principal) due to the Lenders (or any of them) hereunder or under any other Loan Document (for the avoidance of doubt, mandatory prepayments pursuant toSection 1.8 (other than payment at maturity undersubsection 1.8(a)) may be postponed, delayed, reduced, waived or modified with the consent of Required Lenders);
(iii) reduce the principal of, or the rate of interest specified herein or the amount of interest payable in cash specified herein on the Term Loan, or of any fees or other amounts payable hereunder or under any other Loan Document;
(iv) amend or modifysubsection 1.10(c)(i) or(ii) or any provision of this Agreement or any other Loan Document requiring payment to be made in accordance withsubsection 1.10(c)(i) or(ii);
(v) change the percentage of the Commitments or of the aggregate unpaid principal amount of the Term Loan which shall be required for the Lenders or any of them to take any action hereunder;
(vi) amend thisSection 9.1 or, subject tosubsection 9.1(e) below, the definition of Required Lenders or any provision providing for consent or other action by all Lenders; or
(vii) discharge any Credit Party from its respective payment Obligations under the Loan Documents, release all or substantially all of the Collateral, subordinate the Obligations or the Liens securing the Obligations, except as otherwise may be provided in this Agreement or the other Loan Documents;
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it being agreed that all Lenders shall be deemed to be directly affected by an amendment or waiver of the type described in the precedingclauses (v),(vi) and(vii).
(b) No amendment, waiver or consent shall, unless in writing and signed by Agent, in addition to the Required Lenders or all Lenders directly affected thereby, as the case may be (or by Agent with the consent of the Required Lenders or all the Lenders directly affected thereby, as the case may be), affect the rights or duties of Agent under this Agreement or any other Loan Document.
(c) If any amendment or modification to the ABL Loan Documents amends or modifies any covenant (including any financial covenant) or event of default contained in the ABL Loan Documents (or any related definitions), in each case, in a manner that is more restrictive than the applicable provisions permit as of the date thereof, or if any amendment or modification to the ABL Credit Agreement or other ABL Loan Document adds an additional covenant or event of default therein, the Credit Parties acknowledge and agree that this Agreement or the other Loan Documents, as the case may be, subject to the approval of the Required Lenders (and each Lender directly affected thereby to the extentsubsection 9.1(a) requires the approval of such Lender to amend or modify such term), shall be automatically amended or modified to affect similar amendments or modifications with respect to this Agreement or such other Loan Documents, without the need for any further action or consent by any Credit Party or any other party. In furtherance of the foregoing, the Credit Parties shall permit the Agent and Lenders to document each such similar amendment or modification to this Agreement or such other Loan Document or insert a corresponding new covenant or event of default in this Agreement or such other Loan Document without any need for any further action or consent by the Credit Parties.
(d) Notwithstanding anything set forth herein to the contrary, this Agreement may be amended with the written consent of Agent, the Borrower and the Required Lenders to (i) add one or more additional credit facilities to this Agreement and to permit the extensions of credit from time to time outstanding thereunder and the outstanding principal and accrued interest and fees in respect thereof to share ratably in the benefits of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents with the Term Loan and the accrued interest and fees in respect thereof and (ii) include appropriately the Lenders holding such credit facilities in any determination of the Required Lenders.
(e) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in thisSection 9.1, (i) the Borrower may amendSchedules 3.16,3.19,3.20,3.21,3.23 and3.25 upon written notice to Agent, and (ii) Agent and the Borrower may amend or modify this Agreement and any other Loan Document to (1) upon not less than five (5) Business Days’ notice to each Lender and so long as no Lender has objected thereto prior to the consummation of such amendment or modification, cure any ambiguity, omission, defect or inconsistency therein, or (2) grant a new Lien for the benefit of the Secured Parties, extend an existing Lien over additional Property for the benefit of the Secured Parties or join additional Persons as Credit Parties.
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(f) Notwithstanding anything in thisSection 9.1 to the contrary and to the extent permitted by applicable law, for purposes of determining whether at least fifty percent (50%) of the number of Lenders have approved a plan of reorganization of any Credit Party in an Insolvency Proceeding, each Lender and its Affiliates and Approved Funds will be deemed one Lender.
9.2Notices.
(a)Addresses. All notices and other communications required or expressly authorized to be made by this Agreement shall be given in writing, unless otherwise expressly specified herein, and (i) addressed to the address set forth on the applicable signature page hereto, (ii) posted to Intralinks® (to the extent such system is available and set up by or at the direction of Agent prior to posting) in an appropriate location by uploading such notice, demand, request, direction or other communication to www.intralinks.com or using such other means of posting to Intralinks® as may be available and reasonably acceptable to Agent prior to such posting, (iii) posted to any other E-System approved by or set up by or at the direction of Agent or (iv) addressed to such other address as shall be notified in writing (A) in the case of the Borrower and Agent, to the other parties hereto and (B) in the case of all other parties, to the Borrower and Agent. Any notice or other communication provided by Agent to any Lender may be provided by posting to (i) Intralinks® (to the extent such system is available and set up by or at the direction of Agent prior to posting) or (ii) any other E-System approved by or set up by or at the direction of Agent. Transmissions made by electronic mail or E-Fax to Agent shall be effective only (x) for notices where such transmission is specifically authorized by this Agreement, (y) if such transmission is delivered in compliance with procedures of Agent applicable at the time and previously communicated to Borrower, and (z) if receipt of such transmission is acknowledged by Agent.
(b)Effectiveness. (i) All communications described inclause (a) above and all other notices, demands, requests and other communications made in connection with this Agreement shall be effective and be deemed to have been received (i) if delivered by hand, upon personal delivery, (ii) if delivered by overnight courier service, one (1) Business Day after delivery to such courier service, (iii) if delivered by mail, three (3) Business Days after deposit in the mail, (iv) if delivered by facsimile (other than to post to an E-System pursuant toclause (a)(ii) or(a)(iii) above), upon sender’s receipt of confirmation of proper transmission, and (v) if delivered by posting to any E-System, on the later of the Business Day of such posting and the Business Day access to such posting is given to the recipient thereof in accordance with the standard procedures applicable to such E-System; provided, however, that no communications to Agent pursuant toArticle I shall be effective until received by Agent.
(ii) The posting, completion and/or submission by any Credit Party of any communication pursuant to anE-System shall constitute a representation and warranty by the Credit Parties that any representation, warranty, certification or other similar statement required by the Loan Documents to be provided, given or made by a Credit Party in connection with any such communication is true, correct and complete except as expressly noted in such communication or E-System.
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(c) Each Lender shall notify Agent in writing of any changes in the address to which notices to such Lender should be directed, of addresses of its Lending Office, of payment instructions in respect of all payments to be made to it hereunder and of such other administrative information as Agent shall reasonably request.
9.3Electronic Transmissions.
(a)Authorization. Subject to the provisions ofsubsection 9.2(a), each of Agent, Lenders, each Credit Party and each of their Related Persons, is authorized (but not required) to transmit, post or otherwise make or communicate, in its sole discretion, Electronic Transmissions in connection with any Loan Document and the transactions contemplated therein. Each Credit Party and each Secured Party hereto acknowledges and agrees that the use of Electronic Transmissions is not necessarily secure and that there are risks associated with such use, including risks of interception, disclosure and abuse and each indicates it assumes and accepts such risks by hereby authorizing the transmission of Electronic Transmissions.
(b)Signatures. Subject to the provisions ofsubsection 9.2(a), (i)(A) no posting to any E-System shall be denied legal effect merely because it is made electronically, (B) eachE-Signature on any such posting shall be deemed sufficient to satisfy any requirement for a “signature” and (C) each such posting shall be deemed sufficient to satisfy any requirement for a “writing”, in each case including pursuant to any Loan Document, any applicable provision of any UCC, the federal Uniform Electronic Transactions Act, the Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act and any substantive or procedural Requirement of Law governing such subject matter, (ii) each such posting that is not readily capable of bearing either a signature or a reproduction of a signature may be signed, and shall be deemed signed, by attaching to, or logically associating with such posting, an E-Signature, upon which Agent, each Secured Party and each Credit Party may rely and assume the authenticity thereof, (iii) each such posting containing a signature, a reproduction of a signature or an E-Signature shall, for all intents and purposes, have the same effect and weight as a signed paper original and (iv) each party hereto or beneficiary hereto agrees not to contest the validity or enforceability of any posting on any E-System or E-Signature on any such posting under the provisions of any applicable Requirement of Law requiring certain documents to be in writing or signed; provided, however, that nothing herein shall limit such party’s or beneficiary’s right to contest whether any posting to any E-System or E-Signature has been altered after transmission.
(c)Separate Agreements. All uses of an E-System shall be governed by and subject to, in addition toSection 9.2 and thisSection 9.3, the separate terms, conditions and privacy policy posted or referenced in such E-System (or such terms, conditions and privacy policy as may be updated from time to time, including on suchE-System) and related Contractual Obligations executed by Agent and Credit Parties in connection with the use of such E-System.
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(d)LIMITATION OF LIABILITY. ALL E-SYSTEMS AND ELECTRONIC TRANSMISSIONS SHALL BE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE”. NONE OF AGENT, ANY LENDER OR ANY OF THEIR RELATED PERSONS WARRANTS THE ACCURACY, ADEQUACY OR COMPLETENESS OF ANY E-SYSTEMS OR ELECTRONIC TRANSMISSION AND DISCLAIMS ALL LIABILITY FOR ERRORS OR OMISSIONS THEREIN. NO WARRANTY OF ANY KIND IS MADE BY AGENT, ANY LENDER OR ANY OF THEIR RELATED PERSONS IN CONNECTION WITH ANYE-SYSTEMS OR ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION, INCLUDING ANY WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT OF THIRD-PARTY RIGHTS OR FREEDOM FROM VIRUSES OR OTHER CODE DEFECTS. Each of the Borrower, each other Credit Party executing this Agreement and each Secured Party agrees that Agent has no responsibility for maintaining or providing any equipment, software, services or any testing required in connection with any Electronic Transmission or otherwise required for any E-System.
9.4No Waiver; Cumulative Remedies. No failure to exercise and no delay in exercising, on the part of 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. No course of dealing between any Credit Party, any Affiliate of any Credit Party, Agent or any Lender shall be effective to amend, modify or discharge any provision of this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents.
9.5Costs and Expenses. Any action taken by any Credit Party under or with respect to any Loan Document, even if required under any Loan Document or at the request of Agent or Required Lenders, shall be at the expense of such Credit Party, and neither Agent nor any other Secured Party shall be required under any Loan Document to reimburse any Credit Party or any Subsidiary of any Credit Party therefor except as expressly provided therein. In addition, the Borrower agrees to pay or reimburse upon demand (a) the Agent for all reasonable out-of-pocket costs and expenses incurred by it or any of its Related Persons, in connection with the investigation, development, preparation, negotiation, syndication, execution, interpretation or administration of, any modification of any term of or termination of, any Loan Document, any commitment or proposal letter therefor, any other document prepared in connection therewith or the consummation and administration of any transaction contemplated therein, including, without limitation, all fees or expenses incurred in connection with obtaining credit ratings for the Agreement and the Term Loans, all customary fees and charges (as adjusted from time to time) of the Agent with respect to access to online Term Loan information, the disbursement of funds (or the receipt of funds) to or for the account of Credit Parties (whether by wire transfer or otherwise), together with any out-of-pocket costs and expenses incurred in connection therewith, in each case including Attorney Costs of one legal counsel for the Agent and, to the extent necessary, one local counsel in each relevant jurisdiction and regulatory counsel for the Agent, the cost of environmental audits, Collateral audits and appraisals, background checks, out-of-pocket costs and expenses in connection with the engagement or retention of any consultants or advisors and any other out-of-pocket costs and expenses similar to any of the foregoing, in each case subject to any cap on such costs and expenses agreed to by the Borrower and such
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Person (b) Agent for all reasonable costs and expenses incurred by it or any of its Related Persons in connection with internal audit reviews, field examinations and Collateral examinations (which shall be reimbursed, in addition to the out-of-pocket costs and expenses of such examiners, at the per diem rate per individual charged by Agent for its examiners), (c) each of Agent and its Related Persons for all costs and expenses incurred in connection with (i) any refinancing or restructuring of the credit arrangements provided hereunder in the nature of a “work-out”, (ii) the enforcement or preservation of any right or remedy under any Loan Document, any Obligation, with respect to the Collateral or any other related right or remedy or (iii) the commencement, defense, conduct of, intervention in, or the taking of any other action (including, without limitation, preparation for and/or response to any subpoena or request for document production relating thereto) with respect to, any proceeding (including any bankruptcy or insolvency proceeding) related to any Credit Party, any Subsidiary of any Credit Party, Loan Document or Obligation, including Attorney Costs and (d) fees and disbursements of Attorney Costs of one additional law firm on behalf of all Lenders (other than Agent) incurred in connection with any of the matters referred to inclause (c) above, which law firm shall be designated by the Cerberus Entities so long as any Cerberus Entity remains a Lender under this Agreement.
9.6Indemnity.
(a) Each Credit Party agrees to indemnify, hold harmless and defend Agent, each Lender and each of their respective Related Persons (each such Person being an “Indemnitee”) from and against all Liabilities (including brokerage commissions, fees and other compensation) that may be imposed on, incurred by or asserted against any such Indemnitee in any matter relating to or arising out of, in connection with or as a result of (i) any Loan Document, any Obligation (or the repayment thereof), the use or intended use of the proceeds of the Term Loan or any securities filing of, or with respect to, any Credit Party, (ii) any commitment letter, proposal letter or term sheet with any Person or any Contractual Obligation, arrangement or understanding with any broker, finder or consultant, in each case entered into by or on behalf of any Credit Party or any Affiliate of any of them in connection with any of the foregoing and any Contractual Obligation entered into in connection with any E-Systems or other Electronic Transmissions, (iii) any actual or prospective investigation, litigation or other proceeding, whether or not brought by any such Indemnitee or any of its Related Persons, any holders of securities or creditors (and including attorneys’ fees in any case), whether or not any such Indemnitee, Related Person, holder or creditor is a party thereto, and whether or not based on any securities or commercial law or regulation or any other Requirement of Law or theory thereof, including common law, equity, contract, tort or otherwise or (iv) any other act, event or transaction related, contemplated in or attendant to any of the foregoing (collectively, the “Indemnified Matters”); provided, however, that no Credit Party shall have any liability under thisSection 9.6 to any Indemnitee with respect to any Indemnified Matter, and no Indemnitee shall have any liability with respect to any Indemnified Matter other than (to the extent otherwise liable), to the extent such liability has resulted primarily from the gross negligence or willful misconduct of such Indemnitee, as determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in a final non-appealable judgment or order. Furthermore, each of the Borrower and each other Credit Party
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executing this Agreement waives and agrees not to assert against any Indemnitee, and shall cause each other Credit Party to waive and not assert against any Indemnitee, any right of contribution with respect to any Liabilities that may be imposed on, incurred by or asserted against any Related Person.
(b) Without limiting the foregoing, “Indemnified Matters” includes all Environmental Liabilities, including those arising from, or otherwise involving, any Property of any Credit Party or any Related Person of any Credit Party or any actual, alleged or prospective damage to 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 natural resource or any Property on or contiguous to any Real Estate of any Credit Party or any Related Person of any Credit Party, whether or not, with respect to any such Environmental Liabilities, any Indemnitee is a mortgagee pursuant to any leasehold mortgage, a mortgagee in possession, the successor-in-interest to any Credit Party or any Related Person of any Credit Party or the owner, lessee or operator of any Property of any Related Person through any foreclosure action, in each case except to the extent such Environmental Liabilities (i) are incurred solely following foreclosure by Agent or following Agent or any Lender having become the successor-in-interest to any Credit Party or any Related Person of any Credit Party and (ii) are attributable solely to acts of such Indemnitee.
(c) ThisSection 9.6 shall not apply with respect to Taxes other than any Taxes that represent losses, claims, damages, etc. arising from any non-Tax claim.
9.7Marshaling; Payments Set Aside. No Secured Party shall be under any obligation to marshal any Property in favor of any Credit Party or any other Person or against or in payment of any Obligation. To the extent that any Secured Party receives a payment from the Borrower, from any other Credit Party, from the proceeds of the Collateral, from the exercise of its rights of setoff, any enforcement action or otherwise, and such payment is subsequently, in whole or in part, invalidated, declared to be fraudulent or preferential, set aside or required to be repaid to a trustee, receiver or any other party, then to the extent of such recovery, the obligation or part thereof originally intended to be satisfied, and all Liens, rights and remedies therefor, shall be revived and continued in full force and effect as if such payment had not occurred.
9.8Successors and Assigns. The provisions of this Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective successors and assigns; provided that any assignment by any Lender shall be subject to the provisions ofSection 9.9, and provided further that the Borrower may not assign or transfer any of its rights or obligations under this Agreement without the prior written consent of Agent and each Lender.
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9.9Assignments and Participations; Binding Effect.
(a)Binding Effect. This Agreement shall become effective when it shall have been executed by the Borrower, the other Credit Parties signatory hereto and Agent and when Agent shall have been notified by each Lender that such Lender has executed it. Thereafter, it shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of, but only to the benefit of, the Borrower, the other Credit Parties hereto (in each case except forArticle VIII), Agent and each Lender receiving the benefits of the Loan Documents and, in each case, their respective successors and permitted assigns. Except as expressly provided in any Loan Document (including inSection 8.9), none of the Borrower, any other Credit Party or Agent shall have the right to assign any rights or obligations hereunder or any interest herein.
(b)Right to Assign. Each Lender may sell, transfer, negotiate or assign (a “Sale”) all or a portion of its rights and obligations hereunder (including all or a portion of its Commitments and its rights and obligations with respect to the Term Loan) to (i) any existing Lender, (ii) any Affiliate or Approved Fund of any existing Lender or (iii) any other Person acceptable (which acceptance shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed) to the Agent; provided, however, that (x) no Sale shall be made to the Persons identified in writing to the Agent prior to the date hereof, (y) for each portion of the Term Loan, the aggregate outstanding principal amount (determined as of the effective date of the applicable Assignment) of the Term Loan and Commitments subject to any such Sale shall be in a minimum amount of $1,000,000, unless such Sale is made to an existing Lender or an Affiliate or Approved Fund of any existing Lender, is of the assignor’s (together with its Affiliates and Approved Funds) entire interest in such facility or is made with the prior consent of the Agent, and (z) such Sales shall be effective only upon the acknowledgement in writing of such Sale by Agent. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no sale may be made to a Credit Party, a Subsidiary or Affiliate of a Credit Party, a holder of Subordinated Debt or an Affiliate of such a holder.
(c)Procedure. The parties to each Sale made in reliance onsubsection (b) above (other than those described insubsection (e) or(f) below) shall execute and deliver to Agent an Assignment via an electronic settlement system designated by Agent (or, if previously agreed with Agent, via a manual execution and delivery of the Assignment) evidencing such Sale, together with any existing Note subject to such Sale (or any affidavit of loss therefor acceptable to Agent), any tax forms required to be delivered pursuant toSection 10.1 and payment of an assignment fee in the amount of $3,500 to Agent, unless waived or reduced by Agent; provided, that (i) if a Sale by a Lender is made to an Affiliate or an Approved Fund of such assigning Lender, then no assignment fee shall be due in connection with such Sale, and (ii) if a Sale by a Lender is made to an assignee that is not an Affiliate or Approved Fund of such assignor Lender, and concurrently to one or more Affiliates or Approved Funds of such Assignee, then only one assignment fee of $3,500 shall be due in connection with such Sale (unless waived or reduced by Agent). Upon receipt of all the foregoing, and conditioned upon such receipt and, if such Assignment is made in accordance withclause (iii) ofsubsection 9.9(b), upon Agent consenting to such Assignment, from and after the effective date specified in such Assignment, Agent shall record or cause to be recorded in the Register the information contained in such Assignment.
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(d)Effectiveness. Subject to the recording of an Assignment by Agent in the Register pursuant tosubsection 1.4(b), (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, shall have the rights and obligations of a Lender, (ii) any applicable Note shall be transferred to such assignee through such entry 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, relinquish its rights (except for those surviving the termination of the Commitments and the payment in full of the 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 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).
(e)Grant of Security Interests. In addition to the other rights provided in thisSection 9.9, each Lender may grant a security interest in, or otherwise assign as collateral, any of its rights under this Agreement, whether now owned or hereafter acquired (including rights to payments of principal or interest on the Term Loan), to (A) any federal reserve bank (pursuant to Regulation A of the Federal Reserve Board), without notice to Agent or (B) any holder of, or trustee for the benefit of the holders of, such Lender’s Indebtedness or equity securities, by notice to Agent; provided, however, that no such holder or trustee, whether because of such grant or assignment or any foreclosure thereon (unless such foreclosure is made through an assignment in accordance withclause (b) above), shall be entitled to any rights of such Lender hereunder and no such Lender shall be relieved of any of its obligations hereunder.
(f)Participants and SPVs. In addition to the other rights provided in thisSection 9.9, each Lender may, (x) with notice to Agent, grant to an SPV the option to make all or any part of any portion of the Term Loan that such Lender would otherwise be required to make hereunder (and the exercise of such option by such SPV and the making of such portion of the Term Loan pursuant thereto shall satisfy the obligation of such Lender to make such portion of the Term Loan hereunder) and such SPV may assign to such Lender the right to receive payment with respect to any Obligation, (y) with notice to Agent, assign to an SPV all or any portion of its Term Loan without the consent of any Person or the payment of a fee, by execution of a written assignment agreement in form agreed to by such Lender and such SPV and (z) without notice to or consent from Agent or the Borrower, 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 the Term Loan); provided, however, that, whether as a result of any term of any Loan Document or of such grant, assignment or participation, (i) no such SPV or participant shall have a commitment, or be deemed to have made an offer to commit, to make any portion of the Term Loan hereunder, and, except as provided in the applicable option or assignment agreement, none shall be liable for any obligation of such Lender hereunder, (ii) such Lender’s rights and obligations, and the rights and obligations of the Credit Parties and the Secured Parties towards such Lender, under any Loan Document shall remain unchanged and each other party hereto shall continue to deal solely with such Lender, which shall remain the holder of the Obligations in the Register, except that (A) each such participant and SPV shall be entitled to the benefit ofArticle X, but, with respect toSection 10.1, only to the extent such participant or SPV delivers the tax forms such Lender is required to collect pursuant
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tosubsection 10.1(f) and then only to the extent of any amount to which such Lender would be entitled in the absence of any such grant, assignment or participation and (B) each such SPV may receive other payments that would otherwise be made to such Lender with respect to the Term Loan funded by such SPV to the extent provided in the applicable option or assignment agreement and set forth in a notice provided to Agent by such SPV and such Lender, provided, however, that in no case (including pursuant toclause (A) or(B) above) shall an SPV or participant have the right to enforce any of the terms of any Loan Document, and (iii) the consent of such SPV or participant shall not be required (either directly, as a restraint on such Lender’s ability to consent hereunder or otherwise) for any amendments, waivers or consents with respect to any Loan Document or to exercise or refrain from exercising any powers or rights such Lender may have under or in respect of the Loan Documents (including the right to enforce or direct enforcement of the Obligations), except for those described inclauses (ii) and(iii) ofsubsection 9.1(a) with respect to amounts, or dates fixed for payment of amounts, to which such participant or SPV would otherwise be entitled and, in the case of participants, except for those described inclause (vi) ofsubsection 9.1(a). No party hereto shall institute (and the Borrower shall cause each other Credit Party not to institute) against any SPV grantee of an option or assignment pursuant to thisclause (f) any bankruptcy, reorganization, insolvency, liquidation or similar proceeding, prior to the date that is one year and one day after the payment in full of all outstanding commercial paper of such SPV; provided, however, that each Lender having designated an SPV as such agrees to indemnify each Indemnitee against any Liability that may be incurred by, or asserted against, such Indemnitee as a result of failing to institute such proceeding (including a failure to be reimbursed by such SPV for any such Liability). The agreement in the preceding sentence shall survive the termination of the Commitments and the payment in full of the Obligations. Each Lender that sells a participation shall, acting solely for this purpose as a non-fiduciary agent of the Borrower, maintain a register on which it enters the name and address of each participant and the principal amounts of and stated interest on each participant’s interest in the Term Loan or other Obligations under the Loan Documents (the “Participant Register”); provided that no Lender shall have any obligation to disclose all or any portion of the Participant Register (including the identity of any participant or any information relating to a participant’s interest in any Commitments, the Term Loan or its other Obligations under any Loan Document) to any Person except to the extent that such disclosure is necessary to establish that such Commitment, Term Loan or other Obligation is in registered form under Section 5f.103-1(c) of the United States Treasury Regulations. The entries in the Participant Register shall be conclusive absent manifest error, and such Lender shall treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Participant Register as the owner of such participation for all purposes of this Agreement notwithstanding any notice to the contrary. For the avoidance of doubt, the Agent (in its capacity as Agent) shall have no responsibility for maintaining a Participant Register.
Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement or any other Loan Document to the contrary, (A) neither Salus nor any Affiliate thereof (each, a “Salus Entity”) shall be required to comply with thisSection 9.9 in connection with any transaction involving any other Salus Entity or any of its or their lenders or funding or financing sources, and no Salus Entity shall have any obligation to disclose any such transaction to any Person, and (B) there
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shall be no limitation or restriction on (i) the ability of any Salus Entity to assign or otherwise transfer its rights and/or obligations under this Agreement or any other Loan Document, any Commitment, any portion of the Term Loan, or any other Obligation to any other Salus Entity or any lender or financing or funding source of a Salus Entity or (ii) any such lender’s or funding or financing source’s ability to assign or otherwise transfer its rights and/or obligations under this Agreement or any other Loan Document, any Commitment, any portion of the Term Loan, or any other Obligation;provided,however, that Salus shall continue to be liable as a “Lender” under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents unless such other Person complies with the provisions of this Agreement to become a “Lender”;provided, further, however, that any such assignment or other transfer shall be recorded in the Register or the Participant Register, as the case may be, and any such assignee or other transferee shall deliver to the Borrower or the Lender, as the case may be, the tax forms required to be collected thereby pursuant toSection 10.1(f).
Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement or any other Loan Document to the contrary, (A) neither Cerberus Capital Management, L.P. nor any Affiliate or Approved Fund thereof (each, a “Cerberus Entity”) shall be required to comply with thisSection 9.9 in connection with any transaction involving any other Cerberus Entity or any of its or their lenders or funding or financing sources, and no Cerberus Entity shall have any obligation to disclose any such transaction to any Person, and (B) there shall be no limitation or restriction on (i) the ability of any Cerberus Entity to assign or otherwise transfer its rights and/or obligations under this Agreement or any other Loan Document, any Commitment, any portion of the Term Loan, or any other Obligation to any other Cerberus Entity or any lender or financing or funding source of a Cerberus Entity or (ii) any such lender’s or funding or financing source’s ability to assign or otherwise transfer its rights and/or obligations under this Agreement or any other Loan Document, any Commitment, any portion of the Term Loan, or any other Obligation;provided,however, that such Cerberus Entity shall continue to be liable as a “Lender” under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents unless such other Person complies with the provisions of this Agreement to become a “Lender”;provided, further, however, that any such assignment or other transfer shall be recorded in the Register or the Participant Register, as the case may be, and any such assignee or other transferee shall deliver to the Borrower or the Lender, as the case may be, the tax forms required to be collected thereby pursuant toSection 10.1(f)
9.10Non-Public Information; Confidentiality.
(a)Non-Public Information. Each of Agent and each Lender acknowledges and agrees that it may receive material non-public information (“MNPI”) hereunder concerning the Credit Parties and their Affiliates and agrees to use such information in compliance with all relevant policies, procedures and applicable Requirements of Laws (including United States federal and state security laws and regulations).
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(b)Confidential Information. Each of Agent and each Lender agrees to use all reasonable efforts to maintain, in accordance with its customary practices, the confidentiality of information obtained by it pursuant to any Loan Document and designated in writing by any Credit Party as confidential, except that such information may be disclosed (i) with the Borrower’s consent, (ii) to Related Persons of such Lender or Agent, as the case may be, that are advised of the confidential nature of such information and are instructed to keep such information confidential in accordance with the terms hereof, (iii) to the extent such information presently is or hereafter becomes (A) publicly available other than as a result of a breach of thisSection 9.10 or (B) available to such Lender or Agent or any of their Related Persons, as the case may be, from a source (other than any Credit Party) not known by them to be subject to disclosure restrictions, (iv) to the extent disclosure is required by applicable Requirements of Law or other legal process or requested or demanded by any Governmental Authority, (v) to the extent necessary or customary for inclusion in league table measurements, (vi) (A) to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners or any similar organization, any examiner or any nationally recognized rating agency or (B) otherwise to the extent consisting of general portfolio information that does not identify Credit Parties, (vii) to current or prospective assignees, SPVs (including the investors or prospective investors therein), lenders or servicers under a securitization, or participants and to their respective Related Persons, in each case to the extent such assignees, SPVs, investors, lenders, servicers, participants or Related Persons agree to be bound by provisions substantially similar to the provisions of thisSection 9.10 (and such Person may disclose information to their respective Related Persons in accordance withclause (ii) above), (viii) to any other party hereto, and (ix) in connection with the exercise or enforcement of any right or remedy under any Loan Document, in connection with any litigation or other proceeding to which such Lender or Agent or any of their Related Persons is a party or bound, or to the extent necessary to respond to public statements or disclosures by Credit Parties or their Related Persons referring to a Lender or Agent or any of their Related Persons. In the event of any conflict between the terms of thisSection 9.10 and those of any other Contractual Obligation entered into with any Credit Party (whether or not a Loan Document), the terms of thisSection 9.10 shall govern.
(c)Tombstones. Each Credit Party consents to the publication by Agent or any Lender of any press releases, tombstones, advertising or other promotional materials (including, without limitation, via any Electronic Transmission) relating to the financing transactions contemplated by this Agreement using such Credit Party’s name, product photographs, logo or trademark.
(d)Press Release and Related Matters. No Credit Party shall, and no Credit Party shall permit any of its Affiliates to, issue any press release or other public disclosure (other than any document filed with any Governmental Authority relating to a public offering of securities of any Credit Party) using the name, logo or otherwise referring to any Lender or of any of its respective Affiliates, the Loan Documents or any transaction contemplated herein or therein to which such Lender or any of its respective affiliates is party without the prior written consent of such Lender or such Affiliate except to the extent required to do so under applicable Requirements of Law and then, only after consulting with such Lender or such Affiliate.
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(e)Distribution of Materials to Lenders. The Credit Parties acknowledge and agree that the Loan Documents and all reports, notices, communications and other information or materials provided or delivered by, or on behalf of, the Credit Parties hereunder (collectively, the “Borrower Materials”) may be disseminated by, or on behalf of, Agent, and made available, to the Lenders by posting such Borrower Materials on an E-System. The Credit Parties authorize Agent to download copies of their logos from its website and post copies thereof on an E-System.
(f)Material Non-Public Information. The Credit Parties hereby agree that if either they, any parent company or any Subsidiary of the Credit Parties has publicly traded equity or debt securities in the U.S., they shall (and shall cause such parent company or Subsidiary, as the case may be, to) (i) identify in writing, and (ii) to the extent reasonably practicable, clearly and conspicuously mark such Borrower Materials that contain only information that is publicly available or that is not material for purposes of U.S. federal and state securities laws as “PUBLIC”. The Credit Parties agree that by identifying such Borrower Materials as “PUBLIC” or publicly filing such Borrower Materials with the Securities and Exchange Commission, then Agent and the Lenders shall be entitled to treat such Borrower Materials as not containing any MNPI for purposes of U.S. federal and state securities laws. The Credit Parties further represent, warrant, acknowledge and agree that the following documents and materials shall be deemed to be PUBLIC, whether or not so marked, and do not contain any MNPI: (A) the Loan Documents, including the schedules and exhibits attached thereto, and (B) administrative materials of a customary nature prepared by the Credit Parties or Agent (including, Notices of Borrowing and any similar requests or notices posted on or through an E-System). Before distribution of any Borrower Materials, the Credit Parties agree to execute and deliver to Agent a letter authorizing distribution of the evaluation materials to prospective Lenders and their employees willing to receive MNPI, and a separate letter authorizing distribution of evaluation materials that do not contain MNPI and represent that no MNPI is contained therein.
9.11Set-off; Sharing of Payments.
(a)Right of Setoff. Each of Agent, each Lender and each Affiliate (including each branch office thereof) of any of them is hereby authorized, without notice or demand (each of which is hereby waived by each Credit Party), at any time and from time to time during the continuance of any Event of Default and to the fullest extent permitted by applicable Requirements of Law, to set off and apply any and all deposits (whether general or special, time or demand, provisional or final) at any time held and other Indebtedness, claims or other obligations at any time owing by Agent, such Lender or any of their respective Affiliates to or for the credit or the account of the Borrower or any other Credit Party against any Obligation of any Credit Party now or hereafter existing, whether or not any demand was made under any Loan Document with respect to such Obligation and even though such Obligation may be unmatured. No Lender shall exercise any such right of setoff without the prior consent of Agent or Required Lenders. Each of Agent and each Lender agrees promptly to notify the Borrower and Agent after any such setoff and application made by such Lender or its Affiliates; provided, however, that the failure to give such notice shall not affect the validity of such setoff and application. The rights under thisSection 9.11 are in addition to any other rights and remedies (including other rights of setoff) that Agent, the Lenders, their Affiliates and the other Secured Parties, may have.
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(b)Sharing of Payments, Etc. If any Lender, directly or through an Affiliate or branch office thereof, obtains any payment of any Obligation of any Credit Party (whether voluntary, involuntary or through the exercise of any right of setoff or the receipt of any Collateral or “proceeds” (as defined under the applicable UCC) of Collateral) other than pursuant toSection 9.9 orArticle X and such payment exceeds the amount such Lender would have been entitled to receive if all payments had gone to, and been distributed by, Agent in accordance with the provisions of the Loan Documents, such Lender shall purchase for cash from other Lenders such participations in their Obligations as necessary for such Lender to share such excess payment with such Lenders to ensure such payment is applied as though it had been received by Agent and applied in accordance with this Agreement (or, if such application would then be at the discretion of the Borrower, applied to repay the Obligations in accordance herewith); provided, however, that (i) if such payment is rescinded or otherwise recovered from such Lender in whole or in part, such purchase shall be rescinded and the purchase price therefor shall be returned to such Lender without interest and (ii) such Lender shall, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable Requirements of Law, be able to exercise all its rights of payment (including the right of setoff) with respect to such participation as fully as if such Lender were the direct creditor of the applicable Credit Party in the amount of such participation.
9.12Counterparts; Facsimile Signature. This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts and by different parties in separate counterparts, each of which when so executed shall be deemed to be an original and all of which taken together shall constitute one and the same agreement. Signature pages may be detached from multiple separate counterparts and attached to a single counterpart. Delivery of an executed signature page of this Agreement by facsimile transmission or Electronic Transmission shall be as effective as delivery of a manually executed counterpart hereof.
9.13Severability. The illegality or unenforceability of any provision of this Agreement or any instrument or agreement required hereunder shall not in any way affect or impair the legality or enforceability of the remaining provisions of this Agreement or any instrument or agreement required hereunder.
9.14Captions. The captions and headings of this Agreement are for convenience of reference only and shall not affect the interpretation of this Agreement.
9.15Independence of Provisions . The parties hereto acknowledge that this Agreement and the other Loan Documents may use several different limitations, tests or measurements to regulate the same or similar matters, and that such limitations, tests and measurements are cumulative and must each be performed, except as expressly stated to the contrary in this Agreement.
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9.16Interpretation. This Agreement is the result of negotiations among and has been reviewed by counsel to Credit Parties, Agent, each Lender and other parties hereto, and is the product of all parties hereto. Accordingly, this Agreement and the other Loan Documents shall not be construed against the Lenders or Agent merely because of Agent’s or Lenders’ involvement in the preparation of such documents and agreements. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each of the parties hereto has had the advice of counsel with respect toSections 9.18 and9.19.
9.17No Third Parties Benefited. This Agreement is made and entered into for the sole protection and legal benefit of the Borrower, the Lenders, Agent, and their permitted successors and assigns, and no other Person shall be a direct or indirect legal beneficiary of, or have any direct or indirect cause of action or claim in connection with, this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents. Neither Agent nor any Lender shall have any obligation to any Person not a party to this Agreement or the other Loan Documents.
9.18Governing Law and Jurisdiction.
(a)Governing Law. The laws of the State of New York shall govern all matters arising out of, in connection with or relating to this Agreement, including, without limitation, its validity, interpretation, construction, performance and enforcement (including, without limitation, any claims sounding in contract or tort law arising out of the subject matter hereof and any determinations with respect to post-judgment interest).
(b)Submission to Jurisdiction. Any legal action or proceeding with respect to any Loan Document shall be brought exclusively in the courts of the State of New York located in the City of New York, Borough of Manhattan, or of the United States of America for the Southern District of New York and, by execution and delivery of this Agreement, the Borrower and each other Credit Party executing this Agreement hereby accepts for itself and in respect of its Property, generally and unconditionally, the jurisdiction of the aforesaid courts; provided that nothing in this Agreement shall limit the right of Agent to commence any proceeding in the federal or state courts of any other jurisdiction to the extent Agent determines that such action is necessary or appropriate to exercise its rights or remedies under the Loan Documents. The parties hereto (and, to the extent set forth in any other Loan Document, each other Credit Party) hereby irrevocably waive any objection, including any objection to the laying of venue or based on the grounds of forum non conveniens, that any of them may now or hereafter have to the bringing of any such action or proceeding in such jurisdictions.
(c)Service of Process. Each Credit Party hereby irrevocably waives personal service of any and all legal process, summons, notices and other documents and other service of process of any kind and consents to such service in any suit, action or proceeding brought in the United States of America with respect to or otherwise arising out of or in connection with any Loan Document by any means permitted by applicable Requirements of Law, including by the mailing thereof (by registered or certified mail, postage prepaid) to the address of the Borrower specified herein (and shall be effective when such mailing shall be effective, as provided therein). Each Credit Party agrees that a final judgment in any such action or proceeding shall be conclusive and may be enforced in other jurisdictions by suit on the judgment or in any other manner provided by law.
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(d)Non-Exclusive Jurisdiction. Nothing contained in thisSection 9.18 shall affect the right of Agent or any Lender to serve process in any other manner permitted by applicable Requirements of Law or commence legal proceedings or otherwise proceed against any Credit Party in any other jurisdiction.
9.19Waiver of Jury Trial. THE PARTIES HERETO, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, WAIVE ALL RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY ACTION, SUIT, OR PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF, IN CONNECTION WITH OR RELATING TO, THIS AGREEMENT, THE OTHER LOAN DOCUMENTS AND ANY OTHER TRANSACTION CONTEMPLATED HEREBY AND THEREBY. THIS WAIVER APPLIES TO ANY ACTION, SUIT OR PROCEEDING WHETHER SOUNDING IN TORT, CONTRACT OR OTHERWISE.
9.20Entire Agreement; Release; Survival.
(a) THE LOAN DOCUMENTS EMBODY THE ENTIRE AGREEMENT OF THE PARTIES AND SUPERSEDE ALL PRIOR AGREEMENTS AND UNDERSTANDINGS RELATING TO THE SUBJECT MATTER THEREOF AND ANY PRIOR LETTER OF INTEREST, COMMITMENT LETTER, CONFIDENTIALITY AND SIMILAR AGREEMENTS INVOLVING ANY CREDIT PARTY AND ANY LENDER OR ANY OF THEIR RESPECTIVE AFFILIATES RELATING TO A FINANCING OF SUBSTANTIALLY SIMILAR FORM, PURPOSE OR EFFECT OTHER THAN THE FEE LETTER. IN THE EVENT OF ANY CONFLICT BETWEEN THE TERMS OF THIS AGREEMENT AND ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT, THE TERMS OF THIS AGREEMENT SHALL GOVERN (UNLESS OTHERWISE EXPRESSLY STATED IN SUCH OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT OR SUCH TERMS OF SUCH OTHER LOAN DOCUMENTS ARE NECESSARY TO COMPLY WITH APPLICABLE REQUIREMENTS OF LAW, IN WHICH CASE SUCH TERMS SHALL GOVERN TO THE EXTENT NECESSARY TO COMPLY THEREWITH).
(b) Execution of this Agreement by the Credit Parties constitutes a full, complete and irrevocable release of any and all claims which each Credit Party may have at law or in equity in respect of all prior discussions and understandings, oral or written, relating to the subject matter of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents. In no event shall any Indemnitee be liable on any theory of liability for any special, indirect, consequential or punitive damages (including any loss of profits, business or anticipated savings). Each of the Borrower and each other Credit Party signatory hereto hereby waives, releases and agrees (and shall cause each other Credit Party to waive, release and agree) 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.
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(c) (i) Any indemnification or other protection provided to any Indemnitee pursuant to thisSection 9.20,Sections 9.5 (Costs and Expenses) and9.6 (Indemnity) andArticle VIII(Agent) andArticle X (Taxes, Yield Protection and Illegality) and (ii) the provisions ofSection 8.1 of the Guaranty and Security Agreement, in each case, shall (x) survive the termination of the Commitments and the payment in full of all other Obligations and (y) with respect toclause (i) above, inure to the benefit of any Person that at any time held a right thereunder (as an Indemnitee or otherwise) and, thereafter, its successors and permitted assigns.
9.21Patriot Act. Each Lender that is subject to the Patriot Act hereby notifies the Credit Parties that pursuant to the requirements of the Patriot Act, it is required to obtain, verify and record information that identifies each Credit Party, which information includes the name and address of each Credit Party and other information that will allow such Lender to identify each Credit Party in accordance with the Patriot Act.
9.22Replacement of Lender. Within forty-five days after: (i) receipt by the Borrower of written notice and demand from any Lender (other than Agent, an Affiliate of Agent or an Affiliate or Approved Fund of Cerberus Capital Management, L.P.) (an “Affected Lender”) for payment of additional costs as provided inSections 10.1,10.3 and/or10.6; or (ii) any failure by any Lender (other than Agent, an Affiliate of Agent or an Affiliate or Approved Fund of Cerberus Capital Management, L.P.) to consent to a requested amendment, waiver or modification to any Loan Document in which Required Lenders have already consented to such amendment, waiver or modification but the consent of each Lender (or each Lender directly affected thereby, as applicable) is required with respect thereto, the Borrower may, at its option, notify Agent and such Affected Lender (or such non-consenting Lender) of the Borrower’s intention to obtain, at the Borrower’s expense, a replacement Lender (“Replacement Lender”) for such Affected Lender (or such non-consenting Lender), which Replacement Lender shall be reasonably satisfactory to Agent. In the event the Borrower obtains a Replacement Lender within forty-five (45) days following notice of its intention to do so, the Affected Lender (or such non-consenting Lender) shall sell and assign its portion of the Term Loan and Commitments to such Replacement Lender, at par, provided that the Borrower has reimbursed such Affected Lender for its increased costs for which it is entitled to reimbursement under this Agreement through the date of such sale and assignment. In the event that a replaced Lender does not execute an Assignment pursuant toSection 9.9 within five (5) Business Days after receipt by such replaced Lender of notice of replacement pursuant to thisSection 9.22 and presentation to such replaced Lender of an Assignment evidencing an assignment pursuant to thisSection 9.22, the Borrower shall be entitled (but not obligated) to execute such an Assignment on behalf of such replaced Lender, and any such Assignment so executed by the Borrower, the Replacement Lender and Agent, shall be effective for purposes of thisSection 9.22 andSection 9.9. Upon any such assignment and payment and compliance with the other provisions ofSection 9.9, such replaced Lender shall no longer constitute a “Lender” for purposes hereof; provided, any rights of such replaced Lender to indemnification hereunder shall survive.
9.23Joint and Several. The obligations of the Credit Parties hereunder and under the other Loan Documents are joint and several.
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9.24Creditor-Debtor Relationship. The relationship between Agent and each Lender, on the one hand, and the Credit Parties, on the other hand, is solely that of creditor and debtor. No Secured Party has any fiduciary relationship or duty to any Credit Party arising out of or in connection with, and there is no agency, tenancy or joint venture relationship between the Secured Parties and the Credit Parties by virtue of, any Loan Document or any transaction contemplated therein.
9.25Actions in Concert. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, each Lender hereby agrees with each other Lender that no Lender shall take any action to protect or enforce its rights against any Credit Party arising out of this Agreement or any other Loan Document (including exercising any rights of setoff) without first obtaining the prior written consent of Required Lenders, it being the intent of Lenders that any such action to protect or enforce rights under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents shall be taken in concert and at the direction or with the consent of Required Lenders.
9.26Credit Parties’ Acknowledgement of Matters Regarding the Revolving Borrowing Base and the Inventory Sale Reserve. Each of the Credit Parties acknowledges and agrees that, for purposes of determining the Inventory Sale Reserve under the ABL Credit Agreement, the Agent may provide written direction to the ABL Agent regarding the imposition thereof and shall be entitled to provide an Inventory Sale Reserve Correction Notice in accordance with the terms of Section 9.26 of the ABL Credit Agreement as in effect on the date hereof.
ARTICLE X.
TAXES, YIELD PROTECTION AND ILLEGALITY
10.1Taxes.
(a) Except as otherwise provided in thisSection 10.1, each payment by any Credit Party under any Loan Document shall be made without deduction or withholding for all Taxes imposed by any Governmental Authority, except as required by any Requirement of Law.
(b) If any Taxes shall be required by any Requirement of Law (as determined in the good faith discretion of any Credit Party or Agent) to be deducted or withheld from any amount payable under any Loan Document to any Recipient (i) if such Tax is an Indemnified Tax, such amount shall be increased as necessary to ensure that, after all required deductions for Taxes are made (including deductions applicable to any increases to any amount under thisSection 10.1), such Recipient receives the amount it would have received had no such deductions been made, (ii) the relevant Credit Party shall make such deductions, (iii) the relevant Credit Party shall timely pay the full amount deducted to the relevant taxing authority or other authority in accordance with applicable Requirements of Law and (iv) as soon as practicable after such payment is made, the relevant Credit Party shall deliver to Agent an original or certified copy of a receipt evidencing such payment or other evidence of payment reasonably satisfactory to Agent.
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(c) In addition, the Borrower agrees to pay, and authorizes Agent to pay any Other Taxes. As soon as practicable after the date of any payment of Other Taxes by any Credit Party, the Borrower shall furnish to Agent, at its address referred to inSection 9.2, the original or a certified copy of a receipt evidencing payment thereof or other evidence of payment reasonably satisfactory to Agent.
(d) The Borrower shall reimburse and indemnify, within 30 days after receipt of demand therefor (with copy to Agent), each Recipient for all Indemnified Taxes (including any Indemnified Taxes imposed by any jurisdiction on amounts payable under thisSection 10.1) paid by such Recipient and any reasonable expenses arising therefrom or with respect thereto, whether or not such Indemnified Taxes were correctly or legally asserted. A certificate of the Recipient (or of Agent on behalf of such Recipient) claiming any compensation under thisclause (d), setting forth the amounts to be paid thereunder and delivered to the Borrower with copy to Agent, shall be conclusive, binding and final for all purposes, absent manifest error.
(e) Any Lender claiming any additional amounts payable pursuant to thisSection 10.1 shall use its commercially reasonable efforts (consistent with its internal policies and Requirements of Law) to change the jurisdiction of its Lending Office if such a change would reduce any such additional amounts (or any similar amount that may thereafter accrue) and would not, in the sole determination of such Lender, be otherwise disadvantageous to such Lender.
(f) Any Lender that is entitled to an exemption from withholding Tax or is subject to such withholding Tax at a reduced rate under an applicable tax treaty, shall deliver to the Borrower and the Agent, at the time or times requested by the Borrower or the Agent, such properly completed and executed documentation requested by the Borrower or the Agent as will permit payments to be made without withholding or at a reduced rate of withholding. In addition, any Lender, if reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Agent, shall deliver such other documentation prescribed by Requirements of Law or requested by the Borrower or the Agent as will enable the Borrower or the Agent to determine whether or not such Lender is subject to backup withholding or information reporting requirements. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing:
(i) Each Non-U.S. Lender Party that, at any of the following times, is entitled to an exemption from United States withholding Tax or is subject to such withholding Tax at a reduced rate under an applicable tax treaty, shall (w) on or prior to the date such Non-U.S. Lender Party becomes a “Non-U.S. Lender Party” hereunder, (x) on or prior to the date on which any such form or certification expires or becomes obsolete, (y) after the occurrence of any event requiring a change in the most recent form or certification previously delivered by it pursuant to thisclause (i) and (z) from time to time if requested by the Borrower or Agent (or, in the case of a participant or SPV, the relevant Lender), provide Agent and the Borrower (or, in the case of a participant or SPV, the relevant Lender) with two completed originals of each of the following, as applicable: (A) (i) Forms W-8ECI (claiming exemption from U.S. withholding Tax because the income is effectively connected with a U.S. trade or business), W-8BEN (claiming
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exemption from, or a reduction of, U.S. withholding Tax under an income tax treaty) and/or W-8IMY (together with appropriate forms, certifications and supporting statements) or any successor forms, or (ii) in the case of a Non-U.S. Lender Party claiming exemption under Sections 871(h) or 881(c) of the Code, Form W-8BEN (claiming exemption from U.S. withholding Tax under the portfolio interest exemption) or any successor form and a certificate in form and substance acceptable to Agent and Borrower that such Non-U.S. Lender Party is not (1) a “bank” within the meaning of Section 881(c)(3)(A) of the Code, (2) a “10 percent shareholder” of the Borrower within the meaning of Section 881(c)(3)(B) of the Code or (3) a “controlled foreign corporation” described in Section 881(c)(3)(C) of the Code, and (B) any other applicable document prescribed by the IRS certifying as to the entitlement of such Non-U.S. Lender Party to such exemption from United States withholding tax or reduced rate with respect to all payments to be made to such Non-U.S. Lender Party under the Loan Documents. Unless the Borrower and Agent have received forms or other documents satisfactory to them indicating that payments under any Loan Document to or for a Lender are not subject to withholding tax or are subject to such tax at a rate reduced by an applicable tax treaty, the Credit Parties and Agent shall withhold amounts required to be withheld by applicable Requirements of Law from such payments at the applicable statutory rate.
(ii) Each U.S. Lender Party shall (A) on or prior to the date such U.S. Lender Party becomes a “U.S. Lender Party” hereunder, (B) on or prior to the date on which any such form or certification expires or becomes obsolete, (C) after the occurrence of any event requiring a change in the most recent form or certification previously delivered by it pursuant to thisclause (f) and (D) from time to time if requested by the Borrower or Agent (or, in the case of a participant or SPV, the relevant Lender), provide Agent and the Borrower (or, in the case of a participant or SPV, the relevant Lender) with two completed originals of Form W-9 (certifying that such U.S. Lender Party is entitled to an exemption from U.S. backup withholding tax) or any successor form.
(iii) Each Lender having sold a participation in any of its Obligations or identified an SPV as such to Agent shall collect from such participant or SPV the documents described in thisclause (f) and provide them to Agent.
(iv) If a payment made to a Lender under any Loan Document would be subject to United States federal withholding Tax imposed by FATCA if such Lender Party fails to comply with the applicable reporting requirements of FATCA (including those contained in Section 1471(b) or 1472(b) of the Code, as applicable), such Lender shall deliver to Agent and Borrower any documentation under any Requirement of Law or reasonably requested by Agent or Borrower sufficient for Agent or Borrower to comply with their obligations under FATCA and to determine that such Lender has complied with such applicable reporting requirements. or to determine the amount to deduct or withhold from such payment. Solely for purposes of this paragraph (iv), “FATCA” shall include any amendments made to FATCA after the date of this Agreement.
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(v) If any party determines, in its sole discretion exercised in good faith, that it has received a refund of any Taxes as to which it has been indemnified pursuant to thisSection 10.1 (including by the payment of additional amounts pursuant to thisSection 10.1), it shall pay to the indemnifying party an amount equal to such refund (but only to the extent of indemnity payments made under this Section with respect to the Taxes giving rise to such refund), net of all out-of-pocket expenses (including Taxes) of such indemnified party and without interest (other than any interest paid by the relevant Governmental Authority with respect to such refund). Such indemnifying party, upon the request of such indemnified party, shall repay to such indemnified party the amount paid over pursuant to this paragraph (v) (plus any penalties, interest or other charges imposed by the relevant Governmental Authority) in the event that such indemnified party is required to repay such refund to such Governmental Authority. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this paragraph (v), in no event will the indemnified party be required to pay any amount to an indemnifying party pursuant to this paragraph (v) the payment of which would place the indemnified party in a less favorable net after-Tax position than the indemnified party would have been in if the Tax subject to indemnification and giving rise to such refund had not been deducted, withheld or otherwise imposed and the indemnification payments or additional amounts giving rise to such refund had never been paid. This paragraph shall not be construed to require any indemnified party to make available its Tax returns (or any other information relating to its Taxes that it deems confidential) to the indemnifying party or any other Person.
(g) Each party’s obligations under thisSection 10.1 shall survive the resignation or replacement of the Agent or any assignment of rights by, or the replacement of, a Lender, the termination of the Commitments and the repayment, satisfaction or discharge of all Obligations under any Loan Document.
10.2Illegality. If after the date hereof any Lender shall determine that the introduction of any Requirement of Law, or any change in any Requirement of Law or in the interpretation or administration thereof, has made it unlawful, or that any central bank or other Governmental Authority has asserted that it is unlawful, for any Lender or its Lending Office to make LIBOR Rate Loans, then, on notice thereof by such Lender to the Borrower through Agent, the obligation of that Lender to make LIBOR Rate Loans shall be suspended until such Lender shall have notified Agent and the Borrower that the circumstances giving rise to such determination no longer exists.
(a) Subject toclause (c) below, if any Lender shall determine that it is unlawful to maintain any LIBOR Rate Loan, the Borrower shall prepay in full all LIBOR Rate Loans of such Lender then outstanding, together with interest accrued thereon, either on the next Interest Payment Date if such Lender may lawfully continue to maintain such LIBOR Rate Loans to such day, or immediately, if such Lender may not lawfully continue to maintain such LIBOR Rate Loans, together with any amounts required to be paid in connection therewith pursuant toSection 10.4.
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(b) If the obligation of any Lender to make or maintain LIBOR Rate Loans has been terminated, the Borrower may elect, by giving notice to such Lender through Agent that all portions of the Term Loan which would otherwise be made by any such Lender as LIBOR Rate Loans shall be instead Base Rate Loans.
(c) Before giving any notice to Agent pursuant to thisSection 10.2, the affected Lender shall designate a different Lending Office with respect to its LIBOR Rate Loans if such designation will avoid the need for giving such notice or making such demand and will not, in the judgment of the Lender, be illegal or otherwise disadvantageous to the Lender.
10.3Increased Costs and Reduction of Return.
(a) If any Lender shall determine that, due to either (i) the introduction of, or any change in, or in the interpretation of, any Requirement of Law or (ii) the compliance with any guideline or request from any central bank or other Governmental Authority (whether or not having the force of law), in the case of eitherclause (i) or(ii) subsequent to the date hereof, there shall be any increase in the cost to such Lender of agreeing to make or making, funding or maintaining any LIBOR Rate Loans, other than as a result of Taxes (other than Indemnified Taxes), then the Borrower shall be liable for, and shall from time to time, within thirty (30) days of demand therefor by such Lender (with a copy of such demand to Agent), pay to Agent for the account of such Lender, additional amounts as are sufficient to compensate such Lender for such increased costs; provided, that the Borrower shall not be required to compensate any Lender pursuant to thissubsection 10.3(a) for any increased costs incurred more than 180 days prior to the date that such Lender notifies the Borrower, in writing of the increased costs and of such Lender’s intention to claim compensation thereof; provided, further, that if the circumstance giving rise to such increased costs is retroactive, then the 180-day period referred to above shall be extended to include the period of retroactive effect thereof.
(b) If any Lender shall have determined that:
(i) the introduction of any Capital Adequacy Regulation;
(ii) any change in any Capital Adequacy Regulation;
(iii) any change in the interpretation or administration of any Capital Adequacy Regulation by any central bank or other Governmental Authority charged with the interpretation or administration thereof; or
(iv) compliance by such Lender (or its Lending Office) or any entity controlling the Lender, with any Capital Adequacy Regulation;
affects the amount of capital required or expected to be maintained by such Lender or any entity controlling such Lender and (taking into consideration such Lender’s or such entities’ policies with respect to capital adequacy and such Lender’s desired return on capital) determines that the amount of such capital is increased as a consequence of its Commitment(s), loans, credits or obligations under this Agreement, then, within thirty (30) days of demand of such Lender (with a copy to Agent), the Borrower shall pay to such Lender, from time to time as specified by such Lender, additional amounts sufficient
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to compensate such Lender (or the entity controlling the Lender) for such increase; provided, that the Borrower shall not be required to compensate any Lender pursuant to thissubsection 10.3(b) for any amounts incurred more than 180 days prior to the date that such Lender notifies the Borrower, in writing of the amounts and of such Lender’s intention to claim compensation thereof; provided, further, that if the event giving rise to such increase is retroactive, then the 180-day period referred to above shall be extended to include the period of retroactive effect thereof.
(c) Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, (i) the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and all requests, rules, guidelines or directives thereunder or issued in connection therewith and (ii) all requests, rules, guidelines, requirements and directives promulgated by the Bank for International Settlements, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (or any successor or similar authority) or the United States or foreign regulatory authorities, in each case pursuant to Basel III, shall be deemed to be a change in a Requirement of Law undersubsection 10.3(a) above and/or a change in a Capital Adequacy Regulation undersubsection 10.3(b) above, as applicable, regardless of the date enacted, adopted or issued.
10.4Funding Losses. The Borrower agrees to reimburse each Lender and to hold each Lender harmless from any loss or expense which such Lender may sustain or incur as a consequence of:
(a) the failure of the Borrower to make any payment or mandatory prepayment of principal of any LIBOR Rate Loan (including payments made after any acceleration thereof); or
(b) the failure of the Borrower to make any prepayment after it has given a notice in accordance withSection 1.7;
including any such loss or expense arising from the liquidation or reemployment of funds obtained by it to maintain its LIBOR Rate Loans hereunder or from fees payable to terminate the deposits from which such funds were obtained; provided that, with respect to the expenses described inclauses (d) and(e) above, such Lender shall have notified Agent of any such expense within two (2) Business Days of the date on which such expense was incurred. Solely for purposes of calculating amounts payable by the Borrower to the Lenders under thisSection 10.4 and undersubsection 10.3(a): each LIBOR Rate Loan made by a Lender (and each related reserve, special deposit or similar requirement) shall be conclusively deemed to have been funded at the LIBOR used in determining the interest rate for such LIBOR Rate Loan by a matching deposit or other borrowing in the interbank Eurodollar market for a comparable amount and for a comparable period, whether or not such LIBOR Rate Loan is in fact so funded.
10.5Inability to Determine Rates. If Agent shall have determined in good faith that for any reason adequate and reasonable means do not exist for ascertaining LIBOR with respect to a proposed LIBOR Rate Loan or that LIBOR applicable pursuant tosubsection 1.3(a) with respect to a proposed LIBOR Rate Loan does not adequately and fairly reflect the cost to the Lenders of funding or maintaining such portion of the Term
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Loan, Agent will forthwith give notice of such determination to the Borrower and each Lender and all LIBOR Rate Loans shall be promptly converted to Base Rate Loans. Thereafter, the obligation of the Lenders to make or maintain LIBOR Rate Loans hereunder shall be suspended until Agent revokes such notice in writing.
10.6Reserves on LIBOR Rate Loans. The Borrower shall pay to each Lender, as long as such Lender shall be required under regulations of the Federal Reserve Board to maintain reserves with respect to liabilities or assets consisting of or including Eurocurrency funds or deposits (currently known as “Eurocurrency liabilities”), additional costs on the unpaid principal amount of each LIBOR Rate Loan equal to actual costs of such reserves allocated to such portion of the Term Loan by such Lender (as determined by such Lender in good faith, which determination shall be conclusive absent manifest error), payable on each date on which interest is payable on such portion of the Term Loan provided the Borrower shall have received at least fifteen (15) days’ prior written notice (with a copy to Agent) of such additional interest from the Lender. If a Lender fails to give notice fifteen (15) days prior to the relevant Interest Payment Date, such additional interest shall be payable fifteen (15) days from receipt of such notice.
10.7Certificates of Lenders. Any Lender claiming reimbursement or compensation pursuant to thisArticle X shall deliver to the Borrower (with a copy to Agent) a certificate setting forth in reasonable detail the amount payable to such Lender hereunder and such certificate shall be conclusive and binding on the Borrower in the absence of manifest error.
ARTICLE XI.
DEFINITIONS
11.1Defined Terms. The following terms are defined in the Sections or subsections referenced opposite such terms:
“Affected Lender” | 9.22 | |||
“Agent Report” | 8.5(c) | |||
“Aggregate Excess Funding Amount” | 1.11(e) | |||
“Agreement” | Preamble | |||
“Borrower” | Preamble | |||
“Borrower Materials” | 9.10(e) | |||
“Blocked Account” | 4.11(b) | |||
“Blocked Account Agreement” | 4.11(b) | |||
“Cerberus Entity” | 9.9 | |||
“Credit Card Notification” | 4.11(a) | |||
“dispositions” | 5.2 | |||
“Event of Default” | 7.1 | |||
“Excluded DDAs” | 4.11(e) | |||
“Fee Letter” | 1.9(a) | |||
“Immaterial Subsidiary” | 4.13(b) | |||
“Indemnified Matters” | 9.6 | |||
“Indemnitees” | 9.6 |
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“Intercompany Note” | 5.4(b) | |||
“Investments” | 5.4 | |||
“Lender” | Preamble | |||
“Maximum Lawful Rate” | 1.3(d) | |||
“MNPI” | 9.10(a) | |||
“OFAC” | 3.28 | |||
“Other Lender” | 1.11(e) | |||
“Participant Register” | 9.9(f) | |||
“Permitted Indebtedness” | 5.5 | |||
“Permitted Investments” | 5.4 | |||
“Permitted Liens” | 5.1 | |||
“Preliminary Borrowing Base Report” | 4.2(d) | |||
“Projections” | 4.2(g) | |||
“Protective Advances” | 1.1(a) | |||
“Register” | 1.4(b) | |||
“Replacement Lender” | 9.22 | |||
“Residual Account Blocked Account Agreement” | 4.11(i) | |||
“Residual Account Deposit Account” | 4.11(i) | |||
“Restricted Payments” | 5.11 | |||
“Sale” | 9.9(b) | |||
“Salus” | Preamble | |||
“SDN List” | 3.28 | |||
“Settlement Date” | 1.11(b) | |||
“Tax Returns” | 3.10 | |||
“Term Loan” | 1.1(a) | |||
“Term Loan Commitment” | 1.1(a) | |||
“Salus Entity” | 9.9 |
In addition to the terms defined elsewhere in this Agreement, the following terms have the following meanings:
“6.75% Notes” means the Borrower’s 6.75% Senior Unsecured Notes due 2019 issued pursuant to the 6.75% Notes Indenture.
“6.75% Notes Indenture” means that certain Indenture, dated as of May 3, 2011, among the Borrower, the guarantors named therein and Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., as trustee, as amended or supplemented from time to time.
“ABL Agent” has the meaning set forth in the Intercreditor Agreement.
“ABL Credit Agreement” means that certain Credit Agreement, dated as of the Closing Date, among the Credit Parties, the lenders from time to time party thereto and the ABL Agent, as amended, modified, supplemented or restated from time to time in accordance with the terms of the Intercreditor Agreement.
“ABL Loan Documents” has the meaning set forth in the Intercreditor Agreement.
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“ABL Obligations” means the “Obligations” as defined in the ABL Credit Agreement as in effect on the Closing Date.
“ABL Priority Collateral” has the meaning set forth in the Intercreditor Agreement.
“ABL Term Loan” means the term loan made pursuant to the ABL Credit Agreement in the initial principal amount of $50,000,000.
“ABL Term Loan Borrowing Base” has the meaning set forth in the ABL Credit Agreement as in effect on the Closing Date.
“Account” means, as at any date of determination, all “accounts” (as such term is defined in the UCC) of the Credit Parties, including, without limitation, the unpaid portion of the obligation of a customer of a Credit Party in respect of Inventory purchased by and shipped to such customer and/or the rendition of services by a Credit Party, as stated on the respective invoice of a Credit Party.
“Account Debtor” means the customer of a Credit Party who is obligated on or under an Account.
“Acquired EBITDA” means, with respect to any Person or business acquired pursuant to a Permitted Acquisition for any period, the amount for such period of Consolidated EBITDA of such Person or business so acquired (determined using such definitions as if references to the Borrower and its Subsidiaries therein were to such Person or business), all as determined on a Consolidated basis in a manner consistent with GAAP.
“Acquisition” means any transaction or series of related transactions for the purpose of or resulting, directly or indirectly, in (a) the acquisition of all or substantially all of the assets of a Person, or of any business or division of a Person, (b) the acquisition of in excess of fifty percent (50%) of the Stock and Stock Equivalents of any Person or otherwise causing any Person to become a Subsidiary of the Borrower, or (c) a merger or consolidation or any other combination with another Person that results in a transaction described in clauses (a) or (b) above.
“Affiliate” means, with respect to any Person, each officer, director, general partner or joint-venturer of such Person and any other Person that directly or indirectly controls, controlled by, or is under common control with, such Person; provided, however, that no Secured Party shall be an Affiliate of any Credit Party or of any Subsidiary of any Credit Party solely by reason of the provisions of the Loan Documents. For purposes of this definition, “control” means the possession of (a) solely for purposes ofSection 5.6, the power to vote, or the beneficial ownership of, ten percent (10%) or more of the voting Stock of such Person (either directly or through the ownership of Stock Equivalents) or (b) the power to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of such Person, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise.
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“Agent” means Salus in its capacity as administrative agent for the Lenders hereunder, and any successor administrative agent.
“Agent’s Account” means the account of Agent, as set forth on Agent’s signature page hereto or as otherwise notified in writing to the Borrower by Agent.
“Aggregate Revolving Loan Commitment” has the meaning set forth in the ABL Credit Agreement.
“Aggregate Term Loan Commitment” means the combined Term Loan Commitments of the Lenders, which shall initially be in the amount of $250,000,000, as such amount may be reduced from time to time pursuant to this Agreement.
“Applicable Margin” means (x) if a Base Rate Loan, ten percent (10.00%) per annum and (y) if a LIBOR Rate Loan, eleven percent (11.00%) per annum.
“Approved Fund” means, with respect to any Lender, any Person (other than a natural Person) that (a) (i) is or will be engaged in making, purchasing, holding or otherwise investing in commercial loans and similar extensions of credit in the Ordinary Course of Business or (ii) temporarily warehouses loans for any Lender or any Person described inclause (i) above and (b) is advised or managed by (i) such Lender, (ii) any Affiliate of such Lender or (iii) any Person (other than an individual) or any Affiliate of any Person (other than an individual) that administers or manages such Lender.
“Assignment” means an assignment agreement entered into by a Lender, as assignor, and any Person, as assignee, pursuant to the terms and provisions ofSection 9.9 (with the consent of any party whose consent is required bySection 9.9), accepted by Agent, substantially in the form ofExhibit 11.1(a).
“Attorney Costs” means and includes all reasonable and documented (in summary form) fees and disbursements of any law firm or other external counsel.
“Availability” has the meaning set forth in the ABL Credit Agreement as in effect on the Closing Date.
“Bank Product” has the meaning set forth in the ABL Credit Agreement.
“Bankruptcy Code” means the Federal Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978.
“Base Rate” means, for any day, a rate per annum equal to the highest of (a) the rate last quoted byThe Wall Street Journal as the “Prime Rate” in the United States or, ifThe Wall Street Journal ceases to quote such rate, the highest per annum interest rate published by the Federal Reserve Board in Federal Reserve Statistical Release H.15 (519) (Selected Interest Rates) as the “bank prime loan” rate or, if such rate is no longer quoted therein, any similar rate quoted therein (as determined by Agent) or any similar release by the Federal Reserve Board (as determined by Agent), (b) the sum of 0.50% per annum and the Federal Funds Rate, and (c) the sum of (x) LIBOR calculated for each such day based on an interest period of one month determined two (2) Business Days prior to such
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day, plus (y) the excess of the Applicable Margin for LIBOR Rate Loans over the Applicable Margin for Base Rate Loans, in each instance, as of such day. Any change in the Base Rate due to a change in any of the foregoing shall be effective on the effective date of such change in the Federal Funds Rate or LIBOR for an interest period of one month.
“Base Rate Loan” means a portion of the Term Loan that bears interest based on the Base Rate.
“Benefit Plan” means any employee benefit plan as defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA (whether governed by the laws of the United States or otherwise) to which any Credit Party incurs or otherwise has any obligation or liability, contingent or otherwise.
“Blocked Account Banks” means the banks with whom deposit accounts are maintained in which funds of any of the Credit Parties from one or more DDAs are deposited and with whom a Blocked Account Agreement has been, or is required to be, executed in accordance with the terms hereof.
“Borrowing” means a borrowing hereunder consisting of the Term Loan made to or for the benefit of the Borrower on the same day by the Lenders pursuant toArticle I.
“Borrowing Base Certificate” has the meaning set forth in the ABL Credit Agreement.
“Business Day” means any day that is not a Saturday, Sunday or a day on which banks are required or authorized to close in New York City and, when determined in connection with notices and determinations in respect of LIBOR or any LIBOR Rate Loan or any funding, conversion or payment of any LIBOR Rate Loan, that is also a day on which dealings in Dollar deposits are carried on in the London interbank market.
“Capital Adequacy Regulation” means any guideline, request or directive of any central bank or other Governmental Authority, or any other law, rule or regulation, whether or not having the force of law, in each case, regarding capital adequacy of any Lender or of any corporation controlling a Lender.
“Capital Expenditures” means, with respect to the Credit Parties and their Subsidiaries for any period, any expenditure in respect of the purchase or other acquisition of any fixed or capital asset (excluding normal replacements and maintenance which are properly charged to current operations); provided, that the term “Capital Expenditures” shall not include:
(a) expenditures made in connection with the replacement, substitution, restoration or repair of assets to the extent of the amount financed from (i) insurance proceeds or compensation awards paid on account of any damage to, destruction of or other casualty or loss involving any property or asset or (ii) proceeds from any seizure, condemnation, confiscation or taking under the power of eminent domain of, or any requisition of title or use of or relating to, or any similar event in respect of, any property or asset;
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(b) the purchase price of equipment that is purchased simultaneously with the trade-in of existing equipment to the extent that the gross amount of such purchase price is reduced by the credit granted by the seller of such equipment for the equipment being traded in at such time;
(c) expenditures that constitute any part of rental expenses of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries during such period under operating leases for real or personal property;
(d) expenditures that are accounted for as capital expenditures by the Borrower and its Subsidiaries and that actually are paid for by a Person other than the Borrower or any Subsidiary and for which neither the Borrower nor any Subsidiary has provided or is required to provide or incur, directly or indirectly, any consideration or obligation to such Person or any other Person (whether before, during or after such period, it being understood, however, that only the amount of expenditures actually provided or incurred by the Borrower or any Subsidiary in such period and not the amount required to be provided or incurred in any future period shall constitute “Capital Expenditures” in the applicable period);
(e) Investments consisting of Permitted Acquisitions that would otherwise constitute a Capital Expenditure; or
(f) any non-cash capitalized interest and non-cash internal costs reflected as additions to property, plant or equipment in the Consolidated balance sheet of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries for such period.
“Capital Lease” means, with respect to any Person, any lease of, or other arrangement conveying the right to use, any Property by such Person as lessee that has been or should be accounted for as a capital lease on a balance sheet of such Person prepared in accordance with GAAP.
“Capital Lease Obligations” means, at any time, with respect to any Capital Lease, any lease entered into as part of any sale leaseback transaction of any Person or any synthetic lease, the amount of all obligations of such Person that is (or that would be, if such synthetic lease or other lease were accounted for as a Capital Lease) capitalized on a balance sheet of such Person prepared in accordance with GAAP.
“Cash Dominion Event” means any of (a) the occurrence and continuance of any Event of Default or (b) the failure of the Borrower to maintain Availability at least equal to fifteen percent (15%) of the Revolving Borrowing Base. For purposes of this Agreement, the occurrence of a Cash Dominion Event shall be deemed continuing (x) so long as such Event of Default is continuing or has not been waived, and/or (y) if the Cash Dominion Event arises as a result of the Borrower’s failure to achieve Availability as required underclause (b) above, until Availability has exceeded the amount required byclause (b) above for forty-five (45) consecutive days, in which case a Cash Dominion Event shall no longer be deemed to be continuing for purposes of this Agreement; provided that a Cash Dominion Event may not be so cured on more than one time in any twelve month period.
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“Cash Equivalents” means (a) any readily-marketable securities (i) issued by, or directly, unconditionally and fully guaranteed or insured by the United States federal government or (ii) issued by any agency of the United States federal government the obligations of which are fully backed by the full faith and credit of the United States federal government, (b) any readily-marketable direct obligations issued by any other agency of the United States federal government, any state of the United States or any political subdivision of any such state or any public instrumentality thereof, in each case having a rating of at least “A-1” from S&P or at least “P-1” from Moody’s, (c) any commercial paper rated at least “A-1” by S&P or “P-1” by Moody’s and issued by any Person organized under the laws of any state of the United States, (d) any Dollar-denominated time deposit, insured certificate of deposit, overnight bank deposit or bankers’ acceptance issued or accepted by (i) any Lender or (ii) any commercial bank that is (A) organized under the laws of the United States, any state thereof or the District of Columbia, (B) “adequately capitalized” (as defined in the regulations of its primary federal banking regulators) and (C) has Tier 1 capital (as defined in such regulations) in excess of $250,000,000 and (e) shares of any United States money market fund that (i) has substantially all of its assets invested continuously in the types of investments referred to inclause (a),(b),(c) or(d) above with maturities as set forth in the proviso below, (ii) has net assets in excess of $500,000,000 and (iii) has obtained from either S&P or Moody’s the highest rating obtainable for money market funds in the United States; provided, however, that the maturities of all obligations specified in any ofclauses (a),(b),(c) or(d) above shall not exceed 365 days.
“Change in Control” means an event or series of events by which:
(a) any “person” or “group” (as such terms are used in Sections 13(d) and 14(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, but excluding any employee benefit plan of such person or its subsidiaries, and any person or entity acting in its capacity as trustee, agent or other fiduciary or administrator of any such plan) becomes the “beneficial owner” (as defined in Rules 13d-3 and 13d-5 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934), directly or indirectly, of 35% or more of the equity securities of the Borrower entitled to vote for members of the board of directors or equivalent governing body of the Borrower on a fully-diluted basis;
(b) during any period of 12 consecutive months, a majority of the members of the board of directors or other equivalent governing body of the Borrower cease to be composed of individuals (i) who were members of that board or equivalent governing body on the first day of such period, (ii) whose election or nomination to that board or equivalent governing body was approved by individuals referred to inclause (i) above constituting at the time of such election or nomination at least a majority of that board or equivalent governing body or (iii) whose election or nomination to that board or other equivalent governing body was approved by individuals referred to inclauses (i) and(ii) above constituting at the time of such election or nomination at least a majority of that board or equivalent governing body (excluding, in the case of bothclause (ii) andclause (iii), any individual whose initial nomination for, or assumption of office as, a member of that board or equivalent governing body occurs as a result of an actual or threatened solicitation of proxies or consents for the election or removal of one or more directors by any person or group other than a solicitation for the election of one or more directors by or on behalf of the board of directors); or
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(c) a “Change in Control” occurs under and as defined in the ABL Loan Documents.
“Citi Private Label Credit Card” means a credit card subject to that certain Amended and Restated Merchant Services Agreement by and between RadioShack Corporation and Citibank (South Dakota), N.A., as successor to Citibank (USA), N.A., as successor in interest to Hurley State Bank, dated as of July 1, 2000, as amended, and any successor arrangement with a financial institution (that is not an Affiliate of the Borrower or any Subsidiary of the Borrower) reasonably acceptable to Agent.
“Closing Date” means December 10, 2013.
“Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.
“Collateral” means all Property and interests in Property and proceeds thereof now owned or hereafter acquired by any Credit Party or any other Person who has granted a Lien to Agent, in or upon which a Lien is granted or purported to be granted or now or hereafter exists in favor of any Lender or Agent for the benefit of Agent, Lenders and other Secured Parties, whether under this Agreement or under any other documents executed by any such Persons and delivered to Agent.
“Collateral Access Agreement” means an agreement reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the Agent executed by (a) a bailee or other Person in possession of Inventory, including, without limitation, any warehouseman and (b) a landlord of Real Estate leased by any Credit Party (including, without limitation, any warehouse or distribution center), pursuant to which such Person (i) acknowledges the Agent’s Lien on the Inventory, (ii) releases or subordinates such Person’s Liens in the Inventory held by such Person or located on such Real Estate, (iii) agrees to furnish the Agent with access to the Inventory in such Person’s possession or on the Real Estate for the purposes of conducting a Liquidation, and (iv) makes such other agreements with the Agent as the Agent may reasonably require.
“Collateral Documents” means, collectively, the Guaranty and Security Agreement, the Mortgages, each Collateral Access Agreement, each Control Agreement and all other security agreements, pledge agreements, patent and trademark security agreements, lease assignments, guaranties and other similar agreements, and all amendments, restatements, modifications or supplements thereof or thereto, by or between any one or more of any Credit Party or any other Person pledging or granting a lien on Collateral or guarantying the payment and performance of the Obligations, and any Lender or Agent for the benefit of Agent, the Lenders and other Secured Parties now or hereafter delivered to the Lenders or Agent pursuant to or in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby, and all financing statements (or comparable documents now or hereafter filed in accordance with the UCC or comparable law) against any such Person as debtor in favor of any Lender or Agent for the benefit of Agent, the Lenders and the other Secured Parties, as secured party, as any of the foregoing may be amended, restated and/or modified from time to time.
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“Commitment” means, for each Lender, the sum of its Term Loan Commitment.
“Commitment Percentage” means, as to any Lender, the percentage equivalent of such Lender’s Term Loan Commitment, divided by the Aggregate Term Loan Commitment; provided that after the Term Loan has been funded, Commitment Percentages shall be determined for the Term Loan by reference to the outstanding principal balance thereof as of any date of determination rather than the Commitments therefor; provided, further, that following acceleration of the Term Loan, such term means, as to any Lender, the percentage equivalent of the principal amount of the Term Loan held by such Lender, divided by the aggregate principal amount of the Term Loan held by all Lenders.
“Consolidated” means, when used to modify a financial term, test, statement, or report of a Person, the application or preparation of such term, test, statement or report (as applicable) based upon the consolidation, in accordance with GAAP, of the financial position, cash flows, or operating results of such Person and its Subsidiaries.
“Consolidated EBITDA” means, with respect to any Person for any period, the Consolidated Net Income of such Person for such periodplus (without duplication of either (x) any item described in any other clause below, or (y) any item excluded in the calculation of Consolidated Net Income) (a) the following to the extent deducted in calculating such Consolidated Net Income: (i) Consolidated Interest Expense, (ii) the provision for federal, state, local and foreign income Taxes, (iii) depreciation and amortization expense, (iv) (A) non-cash stock compensation expenses, (B) non-cash charges comprising losses on non-ordinary course asset sales, disposals or abandonments and losses from investments recorded using the equity method, and (C) other non-recurring expenses or losses reducing such Consolidated Net Income which do not represent a cash item in such period (provided, that if any such non-cash charges, expenses or losses referred to insubclauses (A) through(C) of thisclause (iv) represent an accrual or reserve for potential cash items in any future period, the cash payment in respect thereof in such future period shall be subtracted from Consolidated EBITDA to such extent), (v) any restructuring or similar expenses or charges (including expenses or charges associated with store closures, termination of contracts and kiosk arrangements and severance) in an amount not to exceed (A) $50,000,000 during any four fiscal quarter period ending during the Borrower’s Fiscal Year ending on or closest to December 31, 2014, (B) $25,000,000 during any four fiscal quarter period ending during the Borrower’s Fiscal Year ending on or closest to December 31, 2015 and (C) $10,000,000 during any four fiscal quarter period ending thereafter, and (vi) non-recurring and customary financing fees and commissions, debt discounts, prepayment premiums, debt issuance costs and other similar fees, costs and expenses related to any incurrence or repayment of Indebtedness,minus (b) the following to the extent included in calculating such Consolidated Net Income: (i) federal, state, local and foreign income tax credits and (ii) non-cash gains increasing Consolidated Net Income (excluding any non-cash gain to the extent it represents the reversal of an accrual or reserve for a potential cash item that reduced Consolidated Net Income or Consolidated EBITDA in any prior period), all as determined on a Consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP; provided, that:
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(x) to the extent included in Consolidated Net Income, there shall be excluded in determining Consolidated EBITDA currency transaction gains and losses (including the net loss or gain resulting from Rate Contracts for currency exchange risk);
(y) there shall be included in determining Consolidated EBITDA for any period, without duplication, the Acquired EBITDA of any Person or business, or attributable to any property or asset, acquired by any Credit Party during such period (but not the Acquired EBITDA of any related Person or business or any Acquired EBITDA attributable to any assets or property, in each case to the extent not so acquired) to the extent not subsequently sold, transferred, abandoned or otherwise disposed by such Credit Party, based on the actual Acquired EBITDA of such acquired entity or business for such period (including the portion thereof occurring prior to such acquisition or conversion); and
(z) to the extent included in Consolidated Net Income, there shall be excluded in determining Consolidated EBITDA for any period the Disposed EBITDA of any Person, property, business or asset sold, transferred, abandoned or otherwise disposed of, closed or classified as discontinued operations by a Credit Party during such period based on the actual Disposed EBITDA of such sold entity or business for such period (including the portion thereof occurring prior to such sale, transfer or disposition or conversion).
“Consolidated Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio” means, with respect to the Borrower and its Subsidiaries for any period, the ratio of (a) (i) Consolidated EBITDA for such periodminus (ii) the sum of (A) Capital Expenditures paid in cash during such period (other than any Capital Expenditures financed with the proceeds of Indebtedness) plus (B) the aggregate amount of federal, state, local and foreign income taxes paid in cash during such period to (b) the sum of (i) Debt Service Charges paid in cash during such period plus (ii) Restricted Payments constituting dividends paid in cash during such period pursuant tosubsection 5.11(c).
“Consolidated Interest Expense” means, with respect to the Borrower and its Subsidiaries on a Consolidated basis for any period (calculated net of cash interest income for such period), (a) all interest, premium payments, debt discount, fees, charges and related expenses in connection with borrowed money (including capitalized interest) or in connection with the deferred purchase price of assets, in each case to the extent treated as interest in accordance with GAAP, (b) all interest paid or payable with respect to discontinued operations, (c) the portion of rent expense under Capital Leases that is treated as interest in accordance with GAAP, and (d) any losses on hedging obligations or other derivative instruments entered into for the purpose of hedging interest rate risk; provided, that Consolidated Interest Expense shall in no event be an amount less than zero (0).
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“Consolidated Net Income” means, with respect to the Borrower for any period, the aggregate of the net income (loss) of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries for such period, on a Consolidated basis, and otherwise determined in accordance with GAAP; provided, that Consolidated Net Income shall exclude (a) extraordinary gains and extraordinary losses for such period, (b) the net income of any Subsidiary that is not a Credit Party during such period to the extent that the declaration or payment of dividends or similar distributions by such Subsidiary of such income is not permitted by operation of the terms of its Organization Documents or any agreement, instrument or Requirement of Law applicable to such Subsidiary during such period, except that the Borrower’s equity in any net loss of any such Subsidiary for such period shall be included in determining Consolidated Net Income and (c) any income (or loss) for such period of any Person if such Person is not a Subsidiary, except that the Borrower’s equity in the net income of any such Person for such period shall be included in Consolidated Net Income up to the aggregate amount of cash actually distributed by such Person during such period to the Borrower or a Subsidiary as a dividend or other distribution (and in the case of a dividend or other distribution to a Subsidiary, such Subsidiary is not precluded from further distributing such amount to the Borrower as described inclause (b) of this proviso).
“Contingent Obligation” means, as to any Person, any direct or indirect liability, contingent or otherwise, of that Person: (a) with respect to any Indebtedness, lease, dividend or other obligation of another Person if the primary purpose or intent of the Person incurring such liability, or the primary effect thereof, is to provide assurance to the obligee of such liability that such liability will be paid or discharged, or that any agreements relating thereto will be complied with, or that the holders of such liability will be protected (in whole or in part) against loss with respect thereto; (b) with respect to any letter of credit issued for the account of that Person or as to which that Person is otherwise liable for reimbursement of drawings; (c) under any Rate Contracts; (d) to make take-or-pay or similar payments if required regardless of nonperformance by any other party or parties to an agreement; or (e) for the obligations of another Person through any agreement to purchase, repurchase or otherwise acquire such obligation or any Property constituting security therefor, to provide funds for the payment or discharge of such obligation or to maintain the solvency, financial condition or any balance sheet item or level of income of another Person. The amount of any Contingent Obligation shall be equal to the amount of the obligation so guarantied or otherwise supported or if lower, the stated maximum amount for which such Person may be liable or, if not a fixed and determined amount, the maximum amount so guarantied or supported.
“Contractual Obligations” means, as to any Person, any provision of any security (whether in the nature of Stock, Stock Equivalents or otherwise) issued by such Person or of any agreement, undertaking, contract, indenture, mortgage, deed of trust or other instrument, document or agreement (other than a Loan Document) to which such Person is a party or by which it or any of its Property is bound or to which any of its Property is subject.
“Control Agreement” means, with respect to any deposit account, securities account, commodity account, securities entitlement or commodity contract, an agreement, in form and substance satisfactory to Agent, among Agent, the financial institution or other Person at which such account is maintained or with which such entitlement or contract is carried and the Credit Party maintaining such account, effective to grant “control” (within the meaning of Articles 8 and 9 under the applicable UCC) over such account to Agent.
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“Copyrights” means all rights, title and interests (and all related IP Ancillary Rights) arising under any Requirement of Law in or relating to copyrights and all mask work, database and design rights, whether or not registered or published, all registrations and recordations thereof and all applications in connection therewith.
“Cost” means the cost of Credit Parties’ Inventory determined according to the accounting policies used in the preparation of Borrower’s audited financial statements; provided that, in all events, such determination is consistent with the determination of Cost used by the appraiser in the most recent appraisal to determine Net Orderly Liquidation Value.
“Credit Parties” means the Borrower and each other Person (i) which executes a guaranty of the Obligations or (ii) which grants a Lien on all or substantially all of its assets to secure payment of the Obligations.
“DDAs” means any checking or other demand deposit account maintained by the Credit Parties. All funds in such DDAs shall be conclusively presumed to be Collateral and proceeds of Collateral and the Agent or the Lenders shall have no duty to inquire as to the source of the amounts on deposit in the DDAs.
“Debt Service Charges” means, for any period, the sum of (a) Consolidated Interest Expenseplus (b) scheduled principal payments made or required to be made (other than any principal payments required to be made at maturity and after giving effect to optional redemptions or prepayments) on account of Indebtedness for borrowed money (including, without limitation, obligations with respect to Capital Leases) for such period, in each case determined in accordance with GAAP.
“Dealer Store” means any retail store located in the United States, Puerto Rico or the U.S. Virgin Islands (which includes any real property, Fixtures, Equipment, Inventory and other property related thereto), operated or to be operated, by any Person party to a dealer agreement with a Credit Party, including those retail stores listed onSchedule 1.1(c) (as such Schedule may be updated from time to time), along with the contact information for such Person.
“Default” means any event or circumstance that, with the passing of time or the giving of notice or both, would (if not cured or otherwise remedied during such time) become an Event of Default.
“Disposed EBITDA” means, with respect to any sold entity or business for any period, the amount for such period of Consolidated EBITDA of such sold entity or business (determined as if references to the Borrower and its Subsidiaries in the definition of the term “Consolidated EBITDA” (and in the component financial definitions used therein) were references to such sold entity or business), all as determined on a Consolidated basis for such sold entity or business in a manner consistent with GAAP.
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“Disposition” means (a) the sale, lease, conveyance or other disposition of Property, other than sales or other dispositions expressly permitted undersubsections 5.2(a),(b),(c),(h) and(i) and (b) the sale or transfer by the Borrower or any Subsidiary of the Borrower of any Stock or Stock Equivalent issued by any Subsidiary of the Borrower and held by such transferor Person.
“Dollars”, “dollars” and “$” each mean lawful money of the United States of America.
“Domestic Subsidiary” means each Subsidiary that is organized under the laws of the United States, any state, territory or district thereof or any other jurisdiction within the United States.
“Drawn” has the meaning set forth in the ABL Credit Agreement.
“Electronic Transmission” means each document, instruction, authorization, file, information and any other communication transmitted, posted or otherwise made or communicated by e-mail or E-Fax, or otherwise to or from an E-System.
“Environmental Laws” means all Requirements of Law and Permits imposing liability or standards of conduct for or relating to the regulation and protection of human health, safety, the environment and natural resources, and including public notification requirements and environmental transfer of ownership, notification or approval statutes.
“Environmental Liabilities” means all Liabilities (including costs of Remedial Actions, natural resource damages and costs and expenses of investigation and feasibility studies, including the cost of environmental consultants and the cost of attorney’s fees) that may be imposed on, incurred by or asserted against any Credit Party or any Subsidiary of any Credit Party as a result of, or related to, any claim, suit, action, investigation, proceeding or demand by any Person, whether based in contract, tort, implied or express warranty, strict liability, criminal or civil statute or common law or otherwise, arising under any Environmental Law or in connection with any environmental, health or safety condition or with any Release and resulting from the ownership, lease, sublease or other operation or occupation of property by any Credit Party or any Subsidiary of any Credit Party, whether on, prior or after the date hereof.
“Equipment” means all “equipment,” as such term is defined in the UCC, now owned or hereafter acquired by any Credit Party, wherever located.
“Excluded Subsidiary” means (a) any Immaterial Subsidiary, (b) Tandy Life Insurance, (c) such Domestic Subsidiaries owned indirectly through a Foreign Subsidiary and (d) any Foreign Subsidiary.
“ERISA” means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974.
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“ERISA Affiliate” means, collectively, any Credit Party and any Person under common control or treated as a single employer with, any Credit Party, within the meaning of Section 414(b), (c), (m) or (o) of the Code.
“ERISA Event” means any of the following: (a) a reportable event described in Section 4043(b) of ERISA (or, unless the 30-day notice requirement has been duly waived under the applicable regulations, Section 4043(c) of ERISA) with respect to a Title IV Plan; (b) the withdrawal of any ERISA Affiliate from a Title IV Plan subject to Section 4063 of ERISA during a plan year in which it was a substantial employer, as defined in Section 4001(a)(2) of ERISA; (c) the complete or partial withdrawal of any ERISA Affiliate from any Multiemployer Plan; (d) with respect to any Multiemployer Plan, the filing of a notice of reorganization, insolvency or termination (or treatment of a plan amendment as termination) under Section 4041A of ERISA; (e) the filing of a notice of intent to terminate a Title IV Plan (or treatment of a plan amendment as termination) under Section 4041 of ERISA; (f) the institution of proceedings to terminate a Title IV Plan or Multiemployer Plan by the PBGC; (g) the failure to make any required contribution to any Title IV Plan or Multiemployer Plan when due; (h) the imposition of a lien under Section 412 or 430(k) of the Code or Section 303 or 4068 of ERISA on any property (or rights to property, whether real or personal) of any ERISA Affiliate; (i) the failure of a Benefit Plan or any trust thereunder intended to qualify for tax exempt status under Section 401 or 501 of the Code or other Requirements of Law to qualify thereunder; (j) a Title IV plan is in “at risk” status within the meaning of Code Section 430(i); (k) a Multiemployer Plan is in “endangered status” or “critical status” within the meaning of Section 432(b) of the Code; and (l) any other event or condition that might reasonably be expected to constitute grounds under Section 4042 of ERISA for the termination of, or the appointment of a trustee to administer, any Title IV Plan or Multiemployer Plan or for the imposition of any material liability upon any ERISA Affiliate under Title IV of ERISA other than for PBGC premiums due but not delinquent.
“Event of Loss” means, with respect to any Property, any of the following: (a) any loss, destruction or damage of such Property; (b) any pending or threatened institution of any proceedings for the condemnation or seizure of such Property or for the exercise of any right of eminent domain; or (c) any actual condemnation, seizure or taking, by exercise of the power of eminent domain or otherwise, of such Property, or confiscation of such Property or the requisition of the use of such Property.
“Excluded Tax” means with respect to any Recipient (a) Taxes imposed on or measured by net income (however denominated), branch profits Taxes, and franchise Taxes, in each case, (i) imposed as a result of such Recipient being organized under the laws of, or having its principal office or, in the case of any Lender, its Lending Office located in, the jurisdiction imposing such Tax (or any political subdivision thereof) or (ii) that are Other Connection Taxes; (b) withholding Taxes to the extent that the obligation to withhold amounts existed on the date that such Person became a “Recipient” under this Agreement or designates a new Lending Office, except in each case to the extent such Person is a direct or indirect assignee (other than pursuant toSection 9.22) of any other Recipient that was entitled, at the time the assignment to such Person became effective, to receive additional amounts underSection 10.1(b); (c) Taxes attributable to the failure by such Recipient to comply withSection 10.1(f), and (d) any United States federal withholding Taxes imposed under FATCA.
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“E-Fax” means any system used to receive or transmit faxes electronically.
“E-Signature” means the process of attaching to or logically associating with an Electronic Transmission an electronic symbol, encryption, digital signature or process (including the name or an abbreviation of the name of the party transmitting the Electronic Transmission) with the intent to sign, authenticate or accept such Electronic Transmission.
“E-System” means any electronic system approved by Agent, including Intralinks® and ClearPar® and any other Internet or extranet-based site, whether such electronic system is owned, operated or hosted by Agent, any of its Related Persons or any other Person, providing for access to data protected by passcodes or other security system.
“Fair Market Value” means, with respect to any real property, as of the date of determination, the fee simple “go-dark” value or equivalent value for vacant premises, which shall be based upon an appraisal conducted in accordance withSection 4.2.
“FATCA” means Sections 1471 through 1474 of the Code, as of the date of this Agreement (or any amended or successor version that is substantively comparable and not materially more onerous to comply with), any current or future regulations or official interpretations thereof and any agreements entered into pursuant to Section 1471(b)(1) of the Code.
“Federal Flood Insurance” means federally backed Flood Insurance available under the National Flood Insurance Program to owners of real property improvements located in Special Flood Hazard Areas in a community participating in the National Flood Insurance Program.
“Federal Funds Rate” means, for any period, a fluctuating interest rate per annum equal for each day during such period to the weighted average of the rates on overnight federal funds transactions with members of the Federal Reserve System arranged by federal funds brokers, as determined by Agent in a commercially reasonable manner.
“Federal Reserve Board” means the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, or any entity succeeding to any of its principal functions.
“FEMA” means the Federal Emergency Management Agency, a component of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security that administers the National Flood Insurance Program.
“Final Determination” means, with respect to any Tax Proceeding, (a) a decision, judgment, decree or other order by any court of competent jurisdiction, which decision, judgment, decree or other order has become final and not subject to further appeal, (b) a closing agreement (whether or not entered into under Section 7121 of the Code) or any
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other binding settlement agreement (whether or not with the IRS) entered into in connection with such Tax Proceeding, (c) the completion of the highest level of administrative proceedings if a judicial contest is not or is no longer available, or (d) any other final disposition, including by reason of the expiration of the applicable statute of limitations or any other event that the relevant parties to such Tax Proceeding agree in writing is a final and irrevocable determination of the liability at issue.
“FIRREA” means the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery and Enforcement Act of 1989.
“First Tier Foreign Subsidiary” means a Foreign Subsidiary held directly by a Credit Party or indirectly by a Credit Party through one or more Domestic Subsidiaries.
“Fiscal Month” means any of the monthly accounting periods of the Credit Parties, ending on the last day of such monthly account period for such month, of each year.
“Fiscal Quarter” means any of the quarterly accounting periods of the Credit Parties, ending on March 31, June 30, September 30 and December 31 of each year (or such other dates as provided by the Borrower to the Agent in accordance withsubsection 4.3(q)) (it being understood that the Credit Parties may change their quarterly accounting periods so that each Fiscal Year ends on the Saturday closest to the last day of January and so that there are corresponding changes to their Fiscal Quarters upon notice to the Agent pursuant tosubsection 4.3(q) without additional consent of the Lenders or the Agent).
“Fiscal Year” means any of the annual accounting period of the Credit Parties ending on December 31 of each year or such other dates as provided by the Borrower to the Agent in accordance withsubsection 4.3(q) (it being understood that the Credit Parties may change their annual accounting period so that it ends on the Saturday closest to the last day of January upon notice to the Agent pursuant tosubsection 4.3(q) without additional consent of the Lenders or the Agent).
“Flood Insurance” means, for any Real Estate located in a Special Flood Hazard Area, Federal Flood Insurance or private insurance that (a) meets the requirements set forth by FEMA in itsMandatory Purchase of Flood Insurance Guidelinesand (b) shall be in an amount equal to the full, unpaid balance of the Term Loan and any prior liens on the Real Estate up to the maximum policy limits set under the National Flood Insurance Program, or as otherwise required by Agent, with deductibles not to exceed $50,000.
“Foreign Subsidiary” means, with respect to any Person, a Subsidiary of such Person that is a “controlled foreign corporation” under Section 957 of the Code or any other Subsidiary that is not a Domestic Subsidiary.
“Foreign Subsidiary Holding Company” means any Subsidiary all or substantially all of the assets of which consist of equity interests in one or more Foreign Subsidiaries.
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“Franchise Store” means any retail store located in the United States, Puerto Rico or the U.S. Virgin Islands (which includes any real property, Fixtures, Equipment, Inventory and other property related thereto), operated, or to be operated, by a Person party to a franchise agreement with a Credit Party, including those retail stores listed onSchedule 1.1(d) (as such Schedule may be updated from time to time), along with the contact information for such Person.
“GAAP” means generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America, as in effect from time to time, set forth in the opinions and pronouncements of the Accounting Principles Board and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, in the statements and pronouncements of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (or agencies with similar functions and comparable stature and authority within the accounting profession) that are applicable to the circumstances as of the date of determination. Subject toSection 11.3, all references to “GAAP” shall be to GAAP applied consistently with the principles used in the preparation of the financial statements described insubsection 3.11(a).
“Governmental Authority” means any nation, sovereign or government, any state or other political subdivision thereof, any agency, authority or instrumentality thereof and any entity or authority exercising executive, legislative, taxing, judicial, regulatory or administrative functions of or pertaining to government, including any central bank, stock exchange, regulatory body, arbitrator, public sector entity, supra-national entity (including the European Union and the European Central Bank) and any self-regulatory organization (including the National Association of Insurance Commissioners).
“Guaranty and Security Agreement” means that certain Guaranty and Security Agreement, dated as of even date herewith, in form and substance reasonably acceptable to the Required Lenders and the Borrower, made by the Credit Parties in favor of Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, as the same may be amended, restated and/or modified from time to time.
“Hazardous Material” means any substance, material or waste that is classified, regulated or otherwise characterized under any Environmental Law as hazardous, toxic, a contaminant or a pollutant or by other words of similar meaning or regulatory effect, including, without limitation, petroleum or any fraction thereof, asbestos, polychlorinated biphenyls and radioactive substances.
“Indebtedness” of any Person means, without duplication: (a) all indebtedness for borrowed money; (b) all obligations issued, undertaken or assumed as the deferred purchase price of Property or services (other than trade payables entered into in the Ordinary Course of Business); (c) the face amount of all letters of credit issued for the account of such Person and without duplication, all drafts drawn thereunder and all reimbursement or payment obligations with respect to letters of credit, surety bonds and other similar instruments issued by such Person; (d) all obligations evidenced by notes, bonds, debentures or similar instruments, including obligations so evidenced incurred in connection with the acquisition of Property, assets or businesses; (e) all indebtedness created or arising under any conditional sale or other title retention agreement, or
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incurred as financing, in either case with respect to Property acquired by such Person (even though the rights and remedies of the seller or lender under such agreement in the event of default are limited to repossession or sale of such Property); (f) all Capital Lease Obligations; (g) the principal balance outstanding under any synthetic lease, off-balance sheet loan or similar off balance sheet financing product; (h) all obligations, whether or not contingent, to purchase, redeem, retire, defease or otherwise acquire for value any of its own Stock or Stock Equivalents (or any Stock or Stock Equivalent of a direct or indirect parent entity thereof) prior to the date that is 180 days after the Maturity Date, valued at, in the case of redeemable preferred Stock, the greater of the voluntary liquidation preference and the involuntary liquidation preference of such Stock plus accrued and unpaid dividends; (i) all indebtedness referred to inclauses (a) through(h) above secured by (or for which the holder of such Indebtedness has an existing right, contingent or otherwise, to be secured by) any Lien upon or in Property (including accounts and contracts rights) owned by such Person, even though such Person has not assumed or become liable for the payment of such indebtedness, but limited to the fair market value of Property secured and the amount of indebtedness secured; and (j) all Contingent Obligations described inclause (a) of the definition thereof in respect of indebtedness or obligations of others of the kinds referred to inclauses (a) through(i) above.
“Indemnified Taxes” means Taxes other than Excluded Taxes.
“Insolvency Proceeding” means (a) any case, action or proceeding before any court or other Governmental Authority relating to bankruptcy, reorganization, insolvency, liquidation, receivership, dissolution, winding-up or relief of debtors, or (b) any general assignment for the benefit of creditors, composition, marshaling of assets for creditors, or other, similar arrangement in respect of its creditors generally or any substantial portion of its creditors; in each case in (a) and (b) above, undertaken under U.S. federal, state or foreign law, including the Bankruptcy Code.
“Intellectual Property” means all rights, title and interests in or relating to intellectual property and industrial property arising under any Requirement of Law and all IP Ancillary Rights relating thereto, including all Copyrights, Patents, Trademarks, Internet Domain Names, Trade Secrets, IP Licenses and all intellectual property rights in computer software and computer software products (including source codes, object codes, data and related documentation).
“Intercreditor Agreement” means that certain Intercreditor Agreement, dated as of the Closing Date, between the Agent and the ABL Agent and acknowledged by the Credit Parties, as amended, modified, supplemented or restated from time to time in accordance with the terms thereof.
“Interest Payment Date” means the first day after the end of each month.
“Internet Domain Name” means all right, title and interest (and all related IP Ancillary Rights) arising under any Requirement of Law in or relating to internet domain names and associated URL addresses.
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“Inventory” means all of the “inventory” (as such term is defined in the UCC) of the Credit Parties, including, but not limited to, all merchandise, raw materials, parts, supplies,work-in-process and finished goods intended for sale, together with all the containers, packing, packaging, shipping and similar materials related thereto, and including such inventory as is temporarily out of a Credit Party’s custody or possession, including inventory on the premises of others and items in transit.
“Inventory Sale Reserve” means the “SCP Inventory Sale Reserve” as defined in the ABL Credit Agreement as in effect on the date hereof.
“Inventory Sale Reserve Correction Notice” means the “Inventory Sale Reserve Correction Notice” as defined in the ABL Credit Agreement as in effect on the date hereof.
“IP Ancillary Rights” means, with respect to any Intellectual Property, as applicable, all foreign counterparts to, and all divisionals, reversions, continuations, continuations-in-part, reissues, reexaminations, renewals and extensions of, such Intellectual Property and all income, royalties, proceeds and Liabilities at any time due or payable or asserted under or with respect to any of the foregoing or otherwise with respect to such Intellectual Property, including all rights to sue or recover at law or in equity for any past, present or future infringement, misappropriation, dilution, violation or other impairment thereof, and, in each case, all rights to obtain any other IP Ancillary Right.
“IP License” means all Contractual Obligations (and all related IP Ancillary Rights), whether written or oral, granting any right, title and interest in or relating to any Intellectual Property.
“IRS” means the Internal Revenue Service of the United States and any successor thereto.
“Issue”, “Issued” and “Issuance” shall have the meanings set forth in the ABL Credit Agreement.
“Landlord Lien State” means any state in which a landlord’s claim for rent has priority by operation of any Requirement of Law over the Lien of the Agent in any of the Collateral, including, without limitation, the states of Pennsylvania, Virginia and Washington.
“Lending Office” means, with respect to any Lender, the office or offices of such Lender specified as its “Lending Office” beneath its name on the applicable signature page hereto, or such other office or offices of such Lender as it may from time to time notify the Borrower and Agent.
“Letter of Credit” has the meaning set forth in the ABL Credit Agreement.
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“Liabilities” means all claims, actions, suits, judgments, damages, losses, liability, obligations, responsibilities, fines, penalties, sanctions, costs, fees, taxes, commissions, charges, disbursements and expenses (including, without limitation, those incurred upon any appeal or in connection with the preparation for and/or response to any subpoena or request for document production relating thereto), in each case of any kind or nature (including interest accrued thereon or as a result thereto and fees, charges and disbursements of financial, legal and other advisors and consultants), whether joint or several, whether or not indirect, contingent, consequential, actual, punitive, treble or otherwise.
“LIBOR” means, as of any date of determination, the greater of (a) 0.50% per annum, and (b) the rate per annum for LIBOR as published bywww.bankrate.com (or other commercially available source providing quotations of LIBOR as designated by Agent from time to time) for an interest period of thirty (30) days. If such rate is not available at such time for any reason, then “LIBOR” shall be the rate per annum determined by Agent to be the rate at which deposits in Dollars in the approximate outstanding amount of the Term Loan would be offered to major banks in the London interbank eurodollar market in which Salus participates for an interest period of thirty (30) days.
“LIBOR Rate Loan” means a portion of the Term Loan that bears interest based on LIBOR.
“Lien” means any mortgage, deed of trust, pledge, hypothecation, assignment, charge, deposit arrangement, encumbrance, easement, lien (statutory or otherwise), security interest or other security arrangement and any other preference, priority or preferential arrangement of any kind or nature whatsoever (including those created by, arising under or evidenced by any conditional sale contract or other title retention agreement, the interest of a lessor under a Capital Lease and any synthetic or other financing lease having substantially the same economic effect as any of the foregoing.
“Liquidation” means the exercise by the Agent of those rights and remedies accorded to the Agent under the Loan Documents and any Requirement of Law as a creditor of the Credit Parties, including (after the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default) the conduct by any or all of the Credit Parties, acting with the consent of the Required Lenders, of any public, private or “Going-Out-Of-Business Sale” or other disposition of Collateral for the purpose of liquidating the Collateral. Derivatives of the word “Liquidation” (such as “Liquidate”) are used with like meaning in this Agreement.
“Loan Account” means an account maintained by the Agent on its books in the name of the Borrower which will reflect (i) the Term Loan and other advances made by the Lenders to the Borrower or for the Borrower’s account, (ii) all fees and interest that have become payable as herein set forth, and (iii) any and all other monetary Obligations that have become payable. The Loan Account will be credited with all amounts received by the Agent from the Borrower or from other Persons for the Borrower’s account, including all amounts received in the Agent’s Account from the Blocked Account Banks, and the amounts so credited shall be applied as set forth in and to the extent required bySections 1.8 and1.10(c), as applicable. After the end of each calendar month, the Agent
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shall send to the Borrower a statement accounting for the charges (including interest), loans, advances and other transactions occurring among and between the Agent, the Lenders and the Borrower during such calendar month. The monthly statements, absent manifest error, shall be deemed presumptively correct.
“Loan Documents” means this Agreement, the Notes, the Fee Letter, the Collateral Documents, the Intercreditor Agreement, the Residual Account Side Letter and all documents delivered to Agent and/or any Lender in connection with any of the foregoing.
“Margin Stock” means “margin stock” as such term is defined in Regulation T, U or X of the Federal Reserve Board.
“Material Adverse Effect” means a material adverse change in any of (a) the condition (financial or otherwise) or business, performance, operations or Property of the Credit Parties and their Subsidiaries taken as a whole; (b) the ability of any Credit Party, any Subsidiary of any Credit Party or any other Person (other than Agent or Lenders) to perform its obligations under any Loan Document; or (c) the validity or enforceability of any Loan Document or the rights and remedies of Agent, the Lenders and the other Secured Parties under any Loan Document.
“Material Contract” means any contract or agreement, the loss of the benefits under which could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.
“Maturity Date” means December 10, 2018.
“Mortgage” means any deed of trust, leasehold deed of trust, mortgage, leasehold mortgage, deed to secure debt, leasehold deed to secure debt or other document creating a Lien on Real Estate or any interest in Real Estate.
“Multiemployer Plan” means any multiemployer plan, as defined in Section 3(37) or 4001(a)(3) of ERISA, as to which any ERISA Affiliate incurs or otherwise has any obligation or liability, contingent or otherwise.
“National Flood Insurance Program” means the program created by the U.S. Congress pursuant to the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 and the Flood Disaster Protection Act of 1973, as revised by the National Flood Insurance Reform Act of 1994 and the Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2012, that mandates the purchase of flood insurance to cover real property improvements located in Special Flood Hazard Areas in participating communities and provides protection to property owners through a federal insurance program.
“Net Orderly Liquidation Value” means the cash proceeds of Inventory, which could be obtained in an orderly liquidation (net of all liquidation expenses, costs of sale, operating expenses and retrieval and related costs), as determined pursuant to the most recent third-party appraisal of such Inventory delivered to Agent by an appraiser reasonably acceptable to the Required Lenders; provided that the Agent shall use commercially reasonable efforts to cause any such independent appraiser to include wireless commissions associated with the sale of cell phones in its determination of such net orderly liquidation value.
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“Net Proceeds” means proceeds in cash, checks or other cash equivalent financial instruments (including Cash Equivalents) as and when received by the Person making a Disposition, as well as insurance proceeds and condemnation and similar awards received on account of an Event of Loss, net of: (a) in the event of a Disposition (i) the direct costs and expenses relating to such Disposition excluding amounts payable to the Borrower or any Affiliate of the Borrower, (ii) sale, use or other taxes paid or payable as a result thereof, and (iii) amounts required to be applied to repay principal, interest and prepayment premiums and penalties on Indebtedness secured by a Lien on the asset which is the subject of such Disposition and (b) in the event of an Event of Loss, (i) all of the costs and expenses reasonably incurred in connection with the collection of such proceeds, award or other payments, and (ii) any amounts retained by or paid to parties having superior rights to such proceeds, awards or other payments.
“NOLV Factor” means, as of the date of the appraisal of Inventory most recently received by Agent, the quotient of the Net Orderly Liquidation Value of Inventory divided by the Cost of Inventory, expressed as a percentage. The NOLV Factor will be increased or reduced promptly upon receipt by Agent of each updated appraisal.
“Non-U.S. Lender Party” means each of Agent, each Lender, each SPV and each participant, in each case that is not a United States person as defined in Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code.
“Note” means any Term Note and “Notes” means all such Notes.
“Obligations” means the Term Loan, Protective Advances and other Indebtedness, advances, debts, liabilities, obligations, covenants and duties owing by any Credit Party to any Lender, Agent or any other Person required to be indemnified, that arises under any Loan Document, whether or not for the payment of money, whether arising by reason of an extension of credit, loan, guaranty, indemnification or in any other manner, whether direct or indirect (including those acquired by assignment), absolute or contingent, due or to become due, now existing or hereafter arising and however acquired.
“Ordinary Course of Business” means, in respect of any transaction involving any Person, the ordinary course of such Person’s business, as conducted by any such Person in accordance with past practice or normal retail business practices and undertaken by such Person in good faith and not for purposes of evading any covenant or restriction in any Loan Document.
“Organization Documents” means, (a) for any corporation, the certificate or articles of incorporation, the bylaws, any certificate of determination or instrument relating to the rights of preferred shareholders of such corporation and any shareholder rights agreement, (b) for any partnership, the partnership agreement and, if applicable, certificate of limited partnership, (c) for any limited liability company, the operating
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agreement and articles or certificate of formation or (d) any other document setting forth the manner of election or duties of the officers, directors, managers or other similar persons, or the designation, amount or relative rights, limitations and preference of the Stock of a Person.
“Other Connection Taxes” means, with respect to any Recipient, Taxes imposed as a result of a present or former connection between such Recipient and the jurisdiction imposing such Tax (other than connections arising from such Recipient having executed, delivered, become a party to, performed its obligations under, received payments under, received or perfected a security interest under, engaged in any other transaction pursuant to or enforced any Loan Document, or sold or assigned an interest in any Loan or Loan Document).
“Other Taxes” means all present or future stamp, court or documentary, intangible, recording, filing or similar taxes that arise from any payment made under, from the execution, delivery, performance, enforcement or registration of, from the receipt or perfection of a security interest under, or otherwise with respect to, any Loan Document, except any such Taxes that are Other Connection Taxes imposed with respect to an assignment (other than an assignment made pursuant toSection 9.22).
“Overadvance” has the meaning set forth in the ABL Credit Agreement.
“Patents” means all rights, title and interests (and all related IP Ancillary Rights) arising under any Requirement of Law in or relating to letters patent and applications therefor.
“Patriot Act” means the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001, P.L. 107-56.
“Payment Conditions” means, at the time of determination with respect to a Specified Payment, that (a) no Default or Event of Default then exists or would arise as a result of the entering into such transaction or the making of such payment, (b) the Pro Forma Availability Condition shall have been satisfied after giving effect to such Specified Payment, and (c) after giving effect to such Specified Payment, the Consolidated Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio, on a Pro Forma Basis for the four Fiscal Quarters most recently preceding such transaction or payment (provided that, if any such transaction or payment is to be consummated within thirty (30) days after the end of any Fiscal Quarter, such calculation shall be made with respect to the four Fiscal Quarters most recently preceding such transaction or payment for which financial statements have been required to be delivered pursuant tosubsections 4.1(a) and(b)), is equal to or greater than 1.00:1.00. In accordance withsubsection 4.2(n), at least five (5) Business Days prior to the making of any Specified Payment, the Credit Parties shall deliver to the Agent evidence reasonably satisfactory to the Agent and Required Lenders that the conditions contained inclauses (b) and(c) have been satisfied.
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“PBGC” means the United States Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation and any successor thereto.
“Permits” means, with respect to any Person, any permit, approval, authorization, license, registration, certificate, concession, grant, franchise, variance or permission from, and any other Contractual Obligations with, any Governmental Authority, in each case whether or not having the force of law and applicable to or binding upon such Person or any of its property or to which such Person or any of its property is subject.
“Permitted Acquisition” means any Acquisition by (i) a Credit Party of substantially all of the assets of a Target, which assets are located in the United States or (ii) a Credit Party of 100% of the Stock and Stock Equivalents of a Target organized under the laws of any State in the United States or the District of Columbia, in each case, to the extent that each of the following conditions shall have been satisfied:
(a) [Reserved];
(b) the Borrower shall have notified Agent and Lenders of such proposed Acquisition at least fifteen (15) days prior to the consummation thereof and furnished to Agent and Lenders at least five (5) days prior to the consummation thereof (1) an executed term sheet and/or letter of intent (setting forth in reasonable detail the terms and conditions of such Acquisition) (if any) or summary of the transaction and, at the request of Agent, such other information and documents that Agent may request, including, without limitation, executed counterparts of the respective agreements, documents or instruments pursuant to which such Acquisition is to be consummated (including, without limitation, any related management, non-compete, employment, option or other material agreements), any schedules to such agreements, documents or instruments and all other material ancillary agreements, instruments and documents to be executed or delivered in connection therewith, (2) pro forma financial statements of Borrower and its Subsidiaries after giving effect to the consummation of such Acquisition and (3) copies of such other agreements, instruments and other documents as Agent reasonably shall request;
(c) the Borrower and its Subsidiaries (including any new Subsidiary) shall execute and deliver the agreements, instruments and other documents required bySection 4.13 and Agent shall have received, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, a collateral assignment of the seller’s representations, warranties and indemnities to the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries under the acquisition documents;
(d) such Acquisition shall not be hostile and shall have been approved by the board of directors (or other similar body) and/or the stockholders or other equityholders of the Target;
(e) the Borrower shall have satisfied the Payment Conditions;
(f) the Target has Pro Forma EBITDA, subject to pro forma adjustments acceptable to Agent, for the most recent four quarters prior to the acquisition date for which financial statements are available, greater than zero; and
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(g) the total consideration paid or payable (including without limitation, all transaction costs, Indebtedness incurred, assumed and/or reflected on a consolidated balance sheet of the Credit Parties and their Subsidiaries after giving effect to such Acquisition and the maximum amount of all deferred payments (including earnouts)) for all such Acquisitions shall not exceed $10,000,000 in the aggregate.
“Permitted Discretion” means a determination made in good faith and in the exercise of reasonable judgment.
“Permitted Refinancing” means Indebtedness constituting a refinancing or extension of Indebtedness that (a) has an aggregate outstanding principal amount (or accreted value, if applicable) not greater than the aggregate principal amount of the Indebtedness being refinanced or extended, except by an amount equal to unpaid accrued interest and premium thereon and fees and expenses reasonably incurred in connection therewith and by an amount equal to any existing commitments unutilized thereunder, (b) has a weighted average maturity (measured as of the date of such refinancing or extension) and maturity no shorter than that of the Indebtedness being refinanced or extended, (c) is not entered into as part of a sale leaseback transaction, (d) is not secured by a Lien on any assets other than the collateral securing the Indebtedness being refinanced or extended, (e) the obligors of which are the same as the obligors of the Indebtedness being refinanced or extended and (f) is otherwise on terms no less favorable to the Credit Parties and their Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, than those of the Indebtedness being refinanced or extended.
“Person” means any individual, partnership, corporation (including a business trust and a public benefit corporation), joint stock company, estate, association, firm, enterprise, trust, limited liability company, unincorporated association, joint venture and any other entity or Governmental Authority.
“Pledged Collateral” has the meaning specified in the Guaranty and Security Agreement and shall include any other Collateral required to be delivered to Agent pursuant to the terms of any Collateral Document.
“Prior Indebtedness” means the Indebtedness and obligations specified in Schedule11.1 hereto.
“Prior Lender” means each lender and agent party to any agreement governing Prior Indebtedness.
“Pro Forma Availability” means, for any date of calculation, Availability as of the date of any Specified Payment and the projected Availability at the end of each Fiscal Month during the immediately succeeding six (6) Fiscal Month period.
“Pro Forma Availability Condition” means, for any date of calculation with respect to any Specified Payment, the Pro Forma Availability following, and after giving effect to, such Specified Payment, shall be equal to or greater than thirty percent (30%) of the Revolving Borrowing Base.
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“Pro Forma Basis”, “Pro Forma Compliance” and “Pro Forma Effect” means, in connection with determining compliance with any test or covenant hereunder, calculating such test or covenant as if all Specified Transactions and all of the following transactions in connection with such Specified Transaction occurred as of the first day of the applicable period of measurement in such test or covenant: (a) income statement items (whether positive or negative) attributable to the property or Person subject to such Specified Transaction shall be (i) excluded, in the case of a Disposition of all or substantially all common capital Stock in or assets of any Subsidiary of the Borrower or any division, business unit, line of business or facility used for operations of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, and (ii) included, in the case of a Permitted Acquisition or Investment described in the definition of “Specified Transaction”, (b) any retirement of Indebtedness of the Borrower or its Subsidiaries, and (c) any Indebtedness incurred or assumed by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries in connection therewith and if such Indebtedness has a floating or formula rate, shall have an implied rate of interest for the applicable period for purposes of this definition determined by utilizing the rate which is or would be in effect with respect to such Indebtedness as at the relevant date of determination.
“Pro Forma EBITDA” means, with respect to any Target, Consolidated EBITDA for such Target for the most recent twelve (12) Fiscal Month period for which financial statements are available at the time of determination thereof, adjusted by verifiable expense reductions, including excess owner compensation, if any, which are expected to be realized, in each case calculated by the Borrower and approved by Agent and Required Lenders.
“Property” means any interest in any kind of property or asset, whether real, personal or mixed, and whether tangible or intangible.
“Rate Contracts” means swap agreements (as such term is defined in Section 101 of the Bankruptcy Code) and any other agreements or arrangements designed to provide protection against fluctuations in interest or currency exchange rates.
“Real Estate” means any real estate owned, leased, subleased or otherwise operated or occupied by any Credit Party or any Subsidiary of any Credit Party.
“Recipient” means Agent or any Lender, as applicable.
“Related Persons” means, with respect to any Person, each Affiliate of such Person and each director, officer, employee, agent, trustee, representative, attorney, accountant and each insurance, environmental, legal, financial and other advisor (including those retained in connection with the satisfaction or attempted satisfaction of any condition set forth inArticle II) and other consultants and agents of or to such Person or any of its Affiliates.
“Releases” means any release, threatened release, spill, emission, leaking, pumping, pouring, emitting, emptying, escape, injection, deposit, disposal, discharge, dispersal, dumping, leaching or migration of Hazardous Material into or through the environment.
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“Remedial Action” means all actions required to (a) clean up, remove, treat or in any other way address any Hazardous Material in the indoor or outdoor environment, (b) prevent or minimize any Release so that a Hazardous Material does not migrate or endanger or threaten to endanger public health or welfare or the indoor or outdoor environment or (c) perform pre remedial studies and investigations and post-remedial monitoring and care with respect to any Hazardous Material.
“Rent Reserves” has the meaning set forth in the ABL Credit Agreement.
“Required Lenders” means at any time Lenders then holding more than fifty percent (50%) of the sum of the aggregate unpaid principal amount of the Term Loan then outstanding.
“Requirement of Law” means with respect to any Person, the common law and any federal, state, local, foreign, multinational or international laws, statutes, codes, treaties, standards, rules and regulations, guidelines, ordinances, orders, judgments, writs, injunctions, decrees (including administrative or judicial precedents or authorities) and the interpretation or administration thereof by, and other determinations, directives, requirements or requests of, any Governmental Authority, in each case whether or not having the force of law and that are applicable to or binding upon such Person or any of its Property or to which such Person or any of its Property is subject.
“Reserves” has the meaning set forth in the ABL Credit Agreement.
“Residual Account Side Letter” shall mean that certain side letter agreement, dated as of the date hereof, entitled “Residual Account Side Letter” by and among the Agent, the ABL Agent and the Borrower.
“Residual Accounts” has the meaning set forth in the Residual Account Side Letter.
“Residual Agreement” has the meaning set forth in the Residual Account Side Letter.
“Responsible Officer” means the chief executive officer or the president of the Borrower or any other officer having substantially the same authority and responsibility; or, with respect to compliance with Availability covenants or delivery of financial information, the chief financial officer or the treasurer of the Borrower or any other officer having substantially the same authority and responsibility.
“Revolving Borrowing Base” has the meaning set forth in the ABL Credit Agreement as in effect on the Closing Date.
“SCP Priority Collateral” has the meaning set forth in the Intercreditor Agreement.
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“Secured Parties” means Agent, each Lender, each other Indemnitee and each other holder of any Obligation of a Credit Party; provided, that, such parties are sometimes referred to herein individually as a “Secured Party”.
“Software” means (a) all computer programs, including source code and object code versions, (b) all data, databases and compilations of data, whether machine readable or otherwise, and (c) all documentation, training materials and configurations related to any of the foregoing.
“Solvent” means, with respect to any Person as of any date of determination, that, as of such date, (a) the value of the assets of such Person (both at fair value and present fair saleable value) is greater than the total amount of liabilities (including contingent and unliquidated liabilities) of such Person, (b) such Person is able to pay all liabilities of such Person as such liabilities mature and (c) such Person does not have unreasonably small capital. In computing the amount of contingent or unliquidated liabilities at any time, such liabilities shall be computed at the amount that, in light of all the facts and circumstances existing at such time, represents the amount that can reasonably be expected to become an actual or matured liability.
“Special Flood Hazard Area” means an area that FEMA’s current flood maps indicate has at least a one percent (1%) chance of a flood equal to or exceeding the base flood elevation (a 100-year flood) in any given year.
“Specified Payment” means any Permitted Acquisition or Permitted Investment, in each case, where such event is subject to satisfaction of the Payment Conditions or any component thereof, pursuant to the terms of this Agreement.
“Specified Transaction” means, with respect to any period, any Investment, Disposition of all or substantially all of the common capital Stock in or assets of any Subsidiary of the Borrower or any division, business unit, line of business or facility used for the operations of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, incurrence or repayment of Indebtedness, the making of any Restricted Payment, or any asset classified as discontinued operations by the Borrower or any Subsidiary that by the terms of this Agreement requires “Pro Forma Compliance” with a test or covenant hereunder or requires such test or covenant to be tested on a “Pro Forma Basis.”
“Specified Wireless Provider” means each of Sprint Nextel Corporation (and/or Sprint Solutions Inc.), AT&T Inc. (and/or AT&T Mobility LLC), Cellco Partnership d/b/a Verizon Wireless and other service providers (both postpaid and no contract prepaid providers) in the wireless telephone industry reasonably approved by the Required Lenders.
“SPV” means any special purpose funding vehicle identified as such in a writing by any Lender to Agent.
“Stock” means all shares of capital stock (whether denominated as common stock or preferred stock), equity interests, beneficial, partnership or membership interests, joint venture interests, participations or other ownership or profit interests in or equivalents (regardless of how designated) of or in a Person (other than an individual), whether voting or non-voting.
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“Stock Equivalents” means all securities convertible into or exchangeable for Stock or any other Stock Equivalent and all warrants, options or other rights to purchase, subscribe for or otherwise acquire any Stock or any other Stock Equivalent, whether or not presently convertible, exchangeable or exercisable.
“Store” means any retail store (which includes any real property, fixtures, equipment, inventory and other property related thereto), operated, or to be operated, by any Credit Party.
“Subordinated Indebtedness” means Indebtedness of any Credit Party or any Subsidiary of any Credit Party which is subordinated to the Obligations as to right and time of payment and as to other rights and remedies thereunder and having such other terms as are, in each case, reasonably satisfactory to Required Lenders including, without limitation, Indebtedness incurred in connection with Permitted Acquisitions.
“Subordinated Indebtedness Documents” means any note agreement, note purchase agreement, credit agreement, notes or other agreements, certificates and documents related to Subordinated Indebtedness.
“Subordination Agreement” means any Subordination Agreement by and among Agent, the Credit Parties and any holders of Subordinated Indebtedness, in form and substance satisfactory to the Agent.
“Subsidiary” means, with respect to any Person, any corporation, partnership, joint venture, limited liability company, association or other entity, the management of which is, directly or indirectly, controlled by, or of which an aggregate of more than fifty percent (50%) of the voting Stock is, at the time, owned or controlled directly or indirectly by, such Person or one or more Subsidiaries of such Person.
“Target” means any Person or business unit or asset group of any Person acquired or proposed to be acquired in an Acquisition.
“Taxes” means all present or future taxes, levies, imposts, duties, deductions, withholdings (including backup withholding), assessments, fees or other charges imposed by any Governmental Authority, including any interest, additions to tax or penalties applicable thereto.
“Tax Affiliate” means, (a) the Borrower and its Subsidiaries and (b) any Affiliate of the Borrower with which the Borrower files or is eligible to file Consolidated, combined or unitary tax returns.
“Tax Proceeding” means any audit, examination, investigation, action, suit, claim, assessment, appeal, or other administrative or judicial proceeding relating to Taxes of any Tax Affiliate.
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“Taxing Authority” means the IRS or any other Governmental Authority responsible for the imposition, administration or collection of any Taxes.
“Term Note” means a promissory note of the Borrower payable to a Lender, in substantially the form ofExhibit 11.1(f) hereto, evidencing the Indebtedness of the Borrower to such Lender resulting from the Term Loan made to the Borrower by such Lender or its predecessor(s).
“Title IV Plan” means a pension plan subject to Title IV of ERISA, other than a Multiemployer Plan, to which any ERISA Affiliate incurs or otherwise has any obligation or liability, contingent or otherwise.
“Total Liquidity” means the sum of (a) Availabilityplus (b) cash of the Credit Parties reflected in their most recent financial statements.
“Trade Secrets” means all right, title and interest (and all related IP Ancillary Rights) arising under any Requirement of Law in or relating to trade secrets.
“Trademark” means all rights, title and interests (and all related IP Ancillary Rights) arising under any Requirement of Law in or relating to trademarks, trade names, corporate names, company names, business names, fictitious business names, trade styles, service marks, logos and other source or business identifiers and, in each case, all goodwill associated therewith, all registrations and recordations thereof and all applications in connection therewith.
“UCC” means the Uniform Commercial Code of any applicable jurisdiction and, if the applicable jurisdiction shall not have any Uniform Commercial Code, the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect from time to time in the State of New York.
“United States” and “U.S.” each means the United States of America.
“U.S. Lender Party” means each of Agent, each Lender, each SPV and each participant, in each case that is a United States person as defined in Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code.
“Wholly-Owned Subsidiary” of a Person means any Subsidiary of such Person, all of the Stock and Stock Equivalents of which (other than directors’ qualifying shares required by law) are owned by such Person, either directly or through one or more Wholly-Owned Subsidiaries of such Person.
“Wireless Carrier Contract” means any contract between a Credit Party and a Specified Wireless Provider.
11.2Other Interpretive Provisions.
(a)Defined Terms. Unless otherwise specified herein or therein, all terms defined in this Agreement or in any other Loan Document shall have the defined meanings when used in any certificate or other document made or delivered pursuant hereto. The meanings of defined terms shall be equally applicable to the singular and plural forms of the defined terms. Terms (including uncapitalized terms) not otherwise defined herein and that are defined in the UCC shall have the meanings therein described.
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(b)The Agreement. The words “hereof”, “herein”, “hereunder” and words of similar import when used in this Agreement or any other Loan Document shall refer to this Agreement or such other Loan Document as a whole and not to any particular provision of this Agreement or such other Loan Document; and subsection, section, schedule and exhibit references are to this Agreement or such other Loan Documents unless otherwise specified.
(c)Certain Common Terms. The term “documents” includes any and all instruments, documents, agreements, certificates, indentures, notices and other writings, however evidenced. The term “including” is not limiting and means “including without limitation.”
(d)Performance; Time. Whenever any performance obligation hereunder or under any other Loan Document (other than a payment obligation) shall be stated to be due or required to be satisfied on a day other than a Business Day, such performance shall be made or satisfied on the next succeeding Business Day. For the avoidance of doubt, the initial payments of interest and fees relating to the Obligations (other than amounts due on the Closing Date) shall be due and paid on the first day of the first month or quarter, as applicable, following the entry of the Obligations onto the operations systems of Agent, but in no event later than the first day of the second month or quarter, as applicable, following the Closing Date. In the computation of periods of time from a specified date to a later specified date, the word “from” means “from and including”; the words “to” and “until” each mean “to but excluding”, and the word “through” means “to and including.” If any provision of this Agreement or any other Loan Document refers to any action taken or to be taken by any Person, or which such Person is prohibited from taking, such provision shall be interpreted to encompass any and all means, direct or indirect, of taking, or not taking, such action.
(e)Contracts. Unless otherwise expressly provided herein or in any other Loan Document, references to agreements and other contractual instruments, including this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, shall be deemed to include all subsequent amendments, thereto, restatements and substitutions thereof and other modifications and supplements thereto which are in effect from time to time, but only to the extent such amendments and other modifications are not prohibited by the terms of any Loan Document.
(f)Laws. References to any statute or regulation may be made by using either the common or public name thereof or a specific cite reference and are to be construed as including all statutory and regulatory provisions related thereto or consolidating, amending, replacing, supplementing or interpreting the statute or regulation.
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11.3Accounting Terms and Principles. All accounting determinations required to be made pursuant hereto shall, unless expressly otherwise provided herein, be made in accordance with GAAP. No change in the accounting principles used in the preparation of any financial statement hereafter adopted by the Borrower shall be given effect for purposes of measuring compliance with any provision ofArticle V unless the Borrower, Agent and the Required Lenders agree to modify such provisions to reflect such changes in GAAP and, unless such provisions are modified, all financial statements, Compliance Certificates and similar documents provided hereunder shall be provided together with a reconciliation between the calculations and amounts set forth therein before and after giving effect to such change in GAAP. Notwithstanding any other provision contained herein, all terms of an accounting or financial nature used herein shall be construed, and all computations of amounts and ratios referred to inArticle V shall be made, without giving effect to any election under Accounting Standards Codification 825-10 (or any other Financial Accounting Standard having a similar result or effect) to value any Indebtedness or other liabilities of any Credit Party or any Subsidiary of any Credit Party at “fair value”.
11.4Payments. Agent may set up standards and procedures to determine or redetermine the equivalent in Dollars of any amount expressed in any currency other than Dollars and otherwise may, but shall not be obligated to, rely on any determination made by any Credit Party. Any such determination or redetermination by Agent shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error. No determination or redetermination by any Secured Party or any Credit Party and no other currency conversion shall change or release any obligation of any Credit Party or of any Secured Party (other than Agent and its Related Persons) under any Loan Document, each of which agrees to pay separately for any shortfall remaining after any conversion and payment of the amount as converted. Agent may round up or down, and may set up appropriate mechanisms to round up or down, any amount hereunder to nearest higher or lower amounts and may determine reasonable de minimis payment thresholds.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be duly executed and delivered by their duly authorized officers as of the day and year first above written.
BORROWER: | ||
RADIOSHACK CORPORATION | ||
By: | /s/ Holly F. Etlin | |
Name: | Holly F. Etlin | |
Title: | Interim Chief Financial Officer | |
Address for notices: | ||
[Address deleted.] |
[Signature Page to Credit Agreement]
CREDIT PARTIES: |
ITC SERVICES, INC. |
RADIOSHACK GLOBAL SOURCING CORPORATION |
RADIOSHACK GLOBAL SOURCING, INC. |
TANDY FINANCE CORPORATION |
TANDY INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION |
TANDY HOLDINGS, INC. |
By:/s/ Robert C. Donohoo |
Name: Robert C. Donohoo |
Title: President and Secretary |
RADIOSHACK GLOBAL SOURCING LIMITED PARTNERSHIP |
TE ELECTRONICS LP |
IGNITION L.P. |
By: RadioShack Corporation, its general partner |
By:/s/ Robert C. Donohoo |
Name: Robert C. Donohoo |
Title: Vice President, Corporate Secretary, and General Counsel |
RADIOSHACK CUSTOMER SERVICE LLC |
By:/s/ Robert C. Donohoo |
Name: Robert C. Donohoo |
Title: Vice President and Secretary |
[Signature Page to Credit Agreement]
TRS QUALITY, INC. |
By:/s/ Joel H. Tiede |
Name: Joel H. Tiede |
Title: President |
MERCHANDISING SUPPORT SERVICES, INC. |
By:/s/ William R. Russum |
Name: William R. Russum |
Title: President |
Address for notices for all Credit Parties: |
[Address deleted.] |
[Signature Page to Credit Agreement]
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be duly executed and delivered by their duly authorized officers as of the day and year first above written.
SALUS CAPITAL PARTNERS, LLC, as Agent and as a Lender |
By:/s/ Marc. S. Price |
Name: Marc. S. Price |
Title: Executive Vice President |
Address for Notices: [Address deleted.] |
Address for payments: |
[Account information deleted.] |
[Signature Page to Credit Agreement]
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be duly executed and delivered by their duly authorized officers as of the day and year first above written
SALUS CLO 2012-1, LTD., |
as a Lender |
By: Salus Capital Partners II, LLC |
Its: Collateral Manager |
By:/s/ Daniel F. O’Rourke |
Name: Daniel F. O’Rourke |
Title: Authorized Officer |
Address for notices: |
[Address deleted.] |
Lending office: |
[Address deleted.] |
[Signature Page to Credit Agreement]
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be duly executed and delivered by their duly authorized officers as of the day and year first above written
CERBERUS LEVERED LOAN OPPORTUNITIES FUND II, L.P., |
as a Lender |
By: Cerberus Levered Opportunities II GP, LLC |
By:/s/ Kevin P. Genda |
Name: Kevin P. Genda |
Title: Senior Managing Director |
Address for notices: |
[Address deleted.] |
Lending office: |
[Address deleted.] |
[Signature Page to Credit Agreement]
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be duly executed and delivered by their duly authorized officers as of the day and year first above written
CERBERUS NJ CREDIT OPPORTUNITIES FUND, L.P., |
as a Lender |
By: Cerberus NJ Credit Opportunities GP, LLC |
Its: General Partner |
By:/s/ Kevin P. Genda |
Name: Kevin P. Genda |
Title: Senior Managing Director |
Address for notices: |
[Address deleted.] |
Lending office: |
[Address deleted.] |
[Signature Page to Credit Agreement]
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be duly executed and delivered by their duly authorized officers as of the day and year first above written
CERBERUS ASRS HOLDINGS LLC, |
as a Lender |
By:/s/ Kevin P. Genda |
Name: Kevin P. Genda |
Title: Vice President |
Address for notices: |
[Address deleted.] |
Lending office: |
[Address deleted.] |
[Signature Page to Credit Agreement]