(b) Except to the extent consistent with its ordinary course of business practice as in effect on the Restatement Effective Date or not disadvantageous to the Lenders in any material respect, permit (i) any Subsidiary that is not a Loan Party or (ii) any Sonion Loan Party to own any trade receivables arising from the provision of goods or services by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries.
the Company beginning with the fiscal quarter ending on June 27, 2008, a ratio of Consolidated EBITDA to Consolidated Fixed Charges for the four consecutive fiscal quarters ending on the last day of such fiscal quarter not less than (i) 1.50 to 1.00, in the case of any fiscal quarter of the Company ending prior to March 27, 2009, (ii) 2.00 to 1.00, in the case of the fiscal quarter of the Company ending on March 27, 2009 or June 26, 2009, (iii) 1.75 to 1.00, in the case of any fiscal quarter of the Company ending after June 26, 2009 and on or prior to March 26, 2010, (iv) 1.50 to 1.00, in the case of any fiscal quarter of the Company ending after March 26, 2010 and on or prior to December 31, 2010 and (v) 1.25 to 1.00, in the case of any fiscal quarter of the Company ending after December 31, 2010.
(b) Consolidated Leverage Ratio. Fail to maintain on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP, at the end of each fiscal quarter of the Company beginning with the fiscal quarter ending on June 27, 2008, a ratio (the “Consolidated Leverage Ratio”) of Consolidated Funded Debt at the end of such fiscal quarter to Consolidated EBITDA for the four consecutive fiscal quarters ending on the last day of such fiscal quarter not exceeding (i) 3.50 to 1.00, in the case of any fiscal quarter of the Company ending on or prior to December 26, 2008, (ii) 4.50 to 1.00, in the case of any fiscal quarter of the Company ending after December 26, 2008 and on or prior to December 25, 2009, (iii) 4.00 to 1.00, in the case of the fiscal quarter of the Company ending on March 26, 2010, (iv) 3.75 to 1.00, in the case of the fiscal quarter of the Company ending on June 25, 2010, (v) 3.50 to 1.00, in the case of the fiscal quarter of the Company ending on October 1, 2010 and (vi) 3.00 to 1.00, in the case of any fiscal quarter of the Company ending after October 1, 2010.
(c) Minimum Consolidated EBITDA. Permit the Consolidated EBITDA (i) for the fiscal quarter of the Company ending June 26, 2009 to be less than $10,000,000 or (ii) for the two consecutive fiscal quarters of the Company ending on the last day of any fiscal quarter of the Company ending after June 26, 2009 to be less than $20,000,000.
7.12 Capital Expenditures. Make or become legally obligated to make any expenditure in respect of the purchase or other acquisition of any fixed or capital asset (excluding (a) normal replacements and maintenance which are properly charged to current operations and (b) any such capital expenditure that is also a Permitted Acquisition), except for capital expenditures in the ordinary course of business not exceeding in the aggregate (i) the sum of $50,000,000 and the Existing CapEx Carry-Over Amount, in the case of any such expenditures made during the fiscal year 2008, (ii) $25,000,000, in the case of any such expenditures made during the fiscal year 2009, (iii) $30,000,000, in the case of any such expenditures made during the fiscal year 2010, (iv) $40,000,000, in the case of any such expenditures made during the fiscal year 2011 and (v) $45,000,000, in the case of any such expenditures made in any fiscal year of the Company ending after December 31, 2011; provided, however, that so long as no Default has occurred and is continuing or would result from such expenditure, any portion of the amount set forth above, if not expended in a given fiscal year, may be carried over for expenditure in the next following fiscal year.
7.13 Leases. Create, incur, assume, or suffer to exist any obligation as lessee for the rental or hire of any real or personal property, except (a) Capital Leases and Synthetic Leases
permitted by Section 7.03, (b) leases existing on the Closing Date and any extensions or renewals thereof disclosed on Schedule 7.13, (c) leases (other than Capital Leases) entered into by the Company and its Subsidiaries which do not in the aggregate require the Company and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis to make payments (including taxes, insurance, maintenance, and similar expense which the Company or any Subsidiary is required to pay under the terms of any lease) in any fiscal year of the Company in excess of $35,000,000, (d) leases among the Company and its Subsidiaries and (e) leases of precious, semi-precious, or other metals in the nature of consignment agreements for inventory in the ordinary course of business.
7.14 Hazardous Materials; Indemnification. Use, generate, treat, store, release, dispose of or otherwise introduce any Hazardous Materials into or on any real property owned or leased by any of them and will not, and will not permit any Subsidiary to, cause, suffer, allow or permit anyone else to do so, except in material compliance with applicable Environmental Laws. Each Domestic Borrower hereby agrees to indemnify, reimburse, defend and hold harmless each Agent, the Arranger, each Lender and their respective directors, officers, agents and employees (collectively, the “Indemnified Parties”) for, from and against all demands, liabilities, damages, costs, claims, suits, actions, legal or administrative proceedings, interest, losses, expenses and reasonable attorney’s fees (including any such fees and expenses incurred in enforcing this indemnity) asserted against, imposed on or incurred by any of the Indemnified Parties, directly or indirectly pursuant to or in connection with the application of any Environmental Law to acts or omissions occurring at any time on or in connection with any real estate owned or leased by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or any business conducted thereon. Each Foreign Borrower hereby agrees to indemnify, reimburse, defend and hold harmless the Indemnified Parties for, from and against all demands, liabilities, damages, costs, claims, suits, actions, legal or administrative proceedings, interest, losses, expenses and reasonable attorney’s fees (including any such fees and expenses incurred in enforcing this indemnity) asserted against, imposed on or incurred by any of the Indemnified Parties, directly or indirectly pursuant to or in connection with the application of any Environmental Law to acts or omissions occurring at any time on or in connection with any real estate owned or leased by such Foreign Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries or any business conducted thereon.
7.15 Prepayment of Indebtedness, Etc. Prepay, redeem, purchase, defease or otherwise satisfy prior to the scheduled maturity thereof in any manner any Subordinated Indebtedness, other than as permitted under the applicable subordination agreement relating thereto.
7.16 Fiscal Year. Change its fiscal year for accounting or financial reporting purposes from that in effect on the Closing Date.
7.17 Sonion Intercompany Loan. (a) Prepay or repay any portion of the Sonion Intercompany Loan; provided, that Pulse Components may make a repayment or prepayment, in whole or in part, of the Sonion Intercompany Loan so long as (i) concurrently with such repayment or prepayment, Pulse Denmark makes a prepayment of the Committed Primary Revolving Loans (other than the Specified Committed Primary Revolving Borrowing) made to it in an amount at least equal to the amount of such repayment or prepayment of the Sonion Intercompany Loan or (ii) in the event that at the time of such repayment or prepayment no Committed Primary Revolving Loans (other than the Specified Committed Primary Revolving
Borrowing) shall be outstanding, Pulse Denmark applies the proceeds of such repayment or prepayment of the Sonion Intercompany Loan for a purpose other than the repayment of Indebtedness incurred to finance the Sonion Acquisition or related interest, fees or expenses, and delivers to the Administrative Agent evidence reasonably satisfactory to it of such application. In furtherance of the foregoing, in the event of any repayment or prepayment of the Sonion Intercompany Loan (other than in circumstances referred to in clause (ii) above), (A) the Company shall deliver, on behalf of Pulse Denmark and in accordance with Section 2.05(a) and this subsection (a), a notice of prepayment of such Committed Primary Revolving Loans and (B) Pulse Components shall, and the Company shall cause Pulse Components to, deliver, on behalf of Pulse Denmark, to the Administrative Agent the full amount of such prepayment of the Sonion Intercompany Loan, such funds to be applied to such prepayment of the Committed Primary Revolving Loans.
(b) Amend, supplement or otherwise modify the Sonion Intercompany Loan, or any agreement, document or instrument evidencing or otherwise relating to the Sonion Intercompany Loan, in a manner that is adverse in any material respect to the interests of the Lenders.
ARTICLE VIII.
EVENTS OF DEFAULT AND REMEDIES
| 8.01 | Events of Default. Any of the following shall constitute an Event of Default: |
(a) Non-Payment. Any Borrower or any other Loan Party fails to pay (i) when and as required to be paid herein, and in the currency required hereunder, any amount of principal of any Loan or any reimbursement obligation in respect of any L/C Disbursement, or (ii) within five days after the same becomes due, any interest on any Loan or any L/C Disbursement, or any fees due pursuant to Section 2.03 or 2.09, or (iii) any other fee or any other amount payable hereunder or under any other Loan Document on the date on which the same shall be due and payable and, in the case of clause (iii), such failure shall continue for five days following the date the Company receives written notice from the Administrative Agent that such payment is due (which notice shall be given at the request of the Required Lenders);
(b) Specific Covenants. The Company fails to perform or observe any term, covenant or agreement contained in Section 6.01, 6.02(a) through (f), 6.03, 6.05 (with respect to the existence of any Borrower), 6.10, 6.11 or 6.13 or Article VII (other than Section 7.14);
(c) Other Defaults. Any Loan Party fails to perform or observe any other covenant or agreement (not specified in subsection (a) or (b) above) contained in any Loan Document on its part to be performed or observed and such failure continues for 30 days after the earlier of the Company’s or any Subsidiary’s knowledge thereof or written notice thereof from the Administrative Agent to the Company (which notice shall be given at the request of the Required Lenders);
(d) Representations and Warranties. Any representation, warranty, certification or statement of fact made or deemed made by or on behalf of the Company or any other Loan Party herein, in any other Loan Document, or in any document delivered in connection herewith or therewith shall be incorrect or misleading in any material respect when made or deemed made;
(e) Cross-Default. (i) The Company or any Subsidiary, subject to any applicable notice and grace periods, if any, (A) fails to make any payment when due (whether by scheduled maturity, required prepayment, acceleration, demand or otherwise) in respect of any Indebtedness or Guarantee (other than Indebtedness hereunder and Indebtedness under Swap Contracts) having an aggregate principal amount (including undrawn letters of credit) of more than the Threshold Amount or (B) fails to observe or perform any other agreement or condition relating to any such Indebtedness or Guarantee or contained in any instrument or agreement evidencing, securing or relating thereto, or any other event occurs, the effect of which failure or such other event is to cause, or to permit the holder or holders of such Indebtedness or the beneficiary or beneficiaries of such Guarantee (or a trustee or agent on behalf of such holder or holders or beneficiary or beneficiaries) to cause, with the giving of notice if required, such Indebtedness to be demanded or to become due or to be repurchased, prepaid, defeased or redeemed (automatically or otherwise), or an offer to repurchase, prepay, defease or redeem such Indebtedness to be made, prior to its stated maturity, or such Guarantee to become payable or cash collateral in respect thereof to be demanded; or (ii) there occurs under any Swap Contract an Early Termination Date (as defined in such Swap Contract) resulting from (A) any event of default under such Swap Contract as to which the Company or any Subsidiary is the Defaulting Party (as defined in such Swap Contract) or (B) any Termination Event (as so defined) under such Swap Contract as to which the Company or any Subsidiary is an Affected Party (as so defined) and, in either event, the Swap Termination Value owed by the Company or such Subsidiary as a result thereof is greater than the Threshold Amount; or (iii) occurrence of any default or defaults under any precious, semi-precious or other metal lease or leases, consignment or consignments or similar arrangements described in Section 7.13(e) from any financial institution (and its Affiliates) for a period of 60 days or more, which defaulted lease or leases, consignment or consignments and similar arrangements involve amounts outstanding in excess of $20,000,000 in the aggregate;
(f) Insolvency Proceedings, Etc. The Company, any other Borrower or any Material Subsidiary institutes or consents to the institution of any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law, or makes an assignment for the benefit of creditors; applies for or consents to the appointment of any receiver, trustee, custodian, conservator, liquidator, rehabilitator or similar officer for it or for all or any material part of its property; any receiver, trustee, custodian, conservator, liquidator, rehabilitator or similar officer is appointed without the application or consent of such Person and the appointment continues undischarged or unstayed for 90 calendar days; or any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law relating to any such Person or to all or any material part of its property is instituted without the consent of such Person and continues undismissed or unstayed for 90 calendar days, or an order for relief is entered in any such proceeding;
(g) Inability to Pay Debts; Attachment. (i) The Company, any other Borrower or any Material Subsidiary becomes unable or admits in writing its inability or fails generally to pay its debts as they become due or (ii) any writ or warrant of attachment or execution or similar process is issued or levied against all or any material part of the property of the Company or any Subsidiary for any amount in excess of the Threshold Amount and is not released, vacated or fully bonded within 90 days after its issue or levy;
(h) Judgments. There is entered against the Company or any Subsidiary (i) a final judgment or order for the payment of money in an aggregate amount exceeding the Threshold Amount (to the extent not covered by independent third-party insurance as to which the insurer has been notified of the potential claim and does not dispute coverage) or (ii) any one or more non-monetary final judgments that have, or could reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect and, in either case, such judgment has not been paid or otherwise discharged or enforcement proceedings with respect thereto have not been stayed by reason of a pending appeal or otherwise, and either (A) 90 days shall have elapsed after the entry of such judgment or (B) enforcement proceedings shall have been commenced by any creditor upon such judgment or order and shall be continuing;
(i) ERISA. (i) An ERISA Event occurs with respect to a Pension Plan or Multiemployer Plan which has resulted or could reasonably be expected to result in liability of the Company under Title IV of ERISA to the Pension Plan, Multiemployer Plan or the PBGC in an aggregate amount in excess of the Threshold Amount and such liability shall not have been discharged within 30 days, or (ii) the Company or any ERISA Affiliate fails to pay when due, after the expiration of any applicable grace period, any installment payment with respect to its Withdrawal Liability under a Multiemployer Plan in an aggregate amount in excess of the Threshold Amount;
(j) Invalidity of Loan Documents. Any material provision of any Loan Document, at any time after its execution and delivery and for any reason other than as expressly permitted hereunder or satisfaction in full of all the Loan Documents Obligations, ceases to be in full force and effect; or any Loan Party (or any other Person in any material way) contests in any manner the validity or enforceability of any provision of any Loan Document; or any Loan Party denies that it has any or further liability or obligation under any Loan Document, or purports to revoke, terminate or rescind any provision of any Loan Document;
| (k) | Change of Control. There occurs any Change of Control; |
(l) Lien. Any Lien purported to be created under any Security Document shall cease to be a valid and perfected Lien on any material Collateral or shall be asserted by any Loan Party not to be a valid and perfected Lien on any Collateral, in each case with the priority required by the applicable Security Document, except (i) as expressly provided in Section 10.20 or (ii) as a result of the Administrative Agent’s failure to maintain possession of any stock certificate, promissory note or other instrument delivered to it pursuant to any Security Document or to take any other action within its
control (other than as a result of any breach by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries of their obligations under the Loan Documents); or
(m) Guarantee. Any Guarantee purported to be created under the Guarantee Agreement shall cease to be, or shall be asserted by any Loan Party not to be, in full force and effect, except as expressly provided in Section 10.20.
8.02 Remedies Upon Event of Default. If any Event of Default occurs and is continuing, the Administrative Agent may, and at the request of the Required Lenders shall, take any or all of the following actions:
(a) declare the Commitment of each Lender to make Loans and any obligation of any L/C Issuer to make L/C Credit Extensions to be terminated, whereupon such Commitments and obligation shall be terminated;
(b) declare the unpaid principal amount of all outstanding Loans, 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 the Borrowers;
(c) require that each Primary Revolving Borrower Cash Collateralize L/C Obligations of such Primary Revolving Borrower (in an amount equal to the then Outstanding Amount thereof); and
(d) exercise on behalf of itself and the Lenders all rights and remedies available to it and the Lenders under the Loan Documents;
provided, however, that upon the occurrence of any Event of Default with respect to any Borrower described in Section 8.01(f), the Commitments shall automatically terminate, the unpaid principal amount of all outstanding Loans and all interest and other amounts as aforesaid shall automatically become due and payable, and the obligation of each Primary Revolving Borrowers to Cash Collateralize L/C Obligations of such Primary Revolving Borrower as aforesaid shall automatically become effective, in each case without further act of the Administrative Agent or any Lender.
ARTICLE IX.
THE AGENTS
9.01 Appointment and Authority. Each of the Lenders and the L/C Issuers hereby irrevocably appoints JPMCB to act on its behalf as the Administrative Agent hereunder and under the other Loan Documents and authorizes the Administrative Agent to take such actions on its behalf and to exercise such powers as are delegated to the Administrative Agent by the terms hereof or thereof, together with such actions and powers as are reasonably incidental thereto. Each of the Lenders and the L/C Issuers hereby irrevocably appoints (a) J.P. Morgan Europe Limited to act on its behalf as the London Administrative Agent and (b) JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., Hong Kong branch, to act on its behalf as the Singapore Administrative Agent, in each case, under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents and authorizes the London
Administrative Agent and the Singapore Administrative Agent to take such actions on its behalf and to exercise such powers as are delegated to such Agent by the terms hereof or thereof, together with such actions and powers as are reasonably incidental thereto. The Lenders acknowledge and agree that JPMCB may appoint any other Affiliate or branch of JPMCB to act as the London Administrative Agent or the Singapore Administrative Agent, and each Lender hereby irrevocably appoints such other Affiliate or branch to act on its behalf as the London Administrative Agent or the Singapore Administrative Agent under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents and authorizes such other Affiliate or branch to take such actions on its behalf and to exercise such powers as are delegated to such Agent by the terms hereof or thereof, together with such actions and powers as are reasonably incidental thereto. Each Affiliate or a branch of JPMCB that is acting as an Agent shall be an express third party beneficiary of the provisions of this Article IX and all the other exculpatory, reimbursement, indemnification and like provisions set forth for the benefit of an Agent in this Agreement or any other Loan Document. The provisions of this Article are solely for the benefit of the Agents, the Lenders and the L/C Issuers, and neither any Borrower nor any other Loan Party shall have rights as a third party beneficiary of any of such provisions.
9.02 Rights as a Lender or L/C Issuer. Each Person serving as an Agent hereunder shall have the same rights and powers in its capacity, if any, as a Lender or an L/C Issuer as any other Lender or L/C Issuer and may exercise the same as though it were not an Agent and the terms “Lender”, “Lenders”, “L/C Issuer” or “L/C Issuers” shall, unless otherwise expressly indicated or unless the context otherwise requires, include each Person serving as an Agent hereunder in its individual capacity. Such Person and its Affiliates may accept deposits from, lend money to, act as the financial advisor or in any other advisory capacity for and generally engage in any kind of business with the Borrowers or any Subsidiary or other Affiliate thereof as if such Person were not an Agent hereunder and without any duty to account therefor to the Lenders.
9.03 Exculpatory Provisions. No Agent shall have any duties or obligations except those expressly set forth herein and in the other Loan Documents. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, no Agent:
(a) shall be subject to any fiduciary or other implied duties, regardless of whether a Default has occurred and is continuing;
(b) shall 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 such 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 no Agent shall be required to take any action that, in its opinion or the opinion of its counsel, may expose such Agent to liability or that is contrary to any Loan Document or applicable law; and
(c) shall, except as expressly set forth herein and in the other Loan Documents, have any duty to disclose, or shall be liable for the failure to disclose, any information relating to any of the Borrowers or any of their respective Subsidiaries or
Affiliates that is communicated to or obtained by the Person serving as an Agent or any of its Affiliates in any capacity.
No Agent shall be liable for any action taken or not taken by it (i) with the consent or at the request of the Required Lenders, the Required Term Lenders, the Required Primary Revolving Lenders or the Required Singapore Revolving Lenders, as applicable (or such other number or percentage of the Lenders as shall be necessary, or as such Agent shall believe in good faith shall be necessary, under the circumstances as provided in Sections 8.02 and 10.01) or (ii) in the absence of its own gross negligence or willful misconduct. Each Agent shall be deemed not to have knowledge of any Default unless and until notice describing such Default is given to such Agent by the Company, a Lender or an L/C Issuer.
No Agent shall be responsible for or have any duty to ascertain or inquire into (i) any statement, warranty or representation made in or in connection with this Agreement or any other Loan Document, (ii) the contents of any certificate, report or other document delivered hereunder or thereunder or in connection herewith or therewith, (iii) the performance or observance of any of the covenants, agreements or other terms or conditions set forth herein or therein or the occurrence of any Default, (iv) the validity, enforceability, effectiveness or genuineness of this Agreement, any other Loan Document or any other agreement, instrument or document or (v) the satisfaction of any condition set forth in Article IV or elsewhere in any Loan Document, other than, in the case of the Administrative Agent, to confirm receipt of items expressly required to be delivered to the Administrative Agent. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the Administrative Agent shall not have any liability arising from confirmations of the Outstanding Amount of any Loan Documents Obligations.
9.04 Reliance by Agents. Each Agent shall be entitled to rely upon, and shall not incur any liability for relying upon, any notice, request, certificate, consent, statement, instrument, document or other writing (including any electronic message, Internet or intranet website posting or other distribution) believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed, sent or otherwise authenticated by the proper Person (including, if applicable, a Responsible Officer). Each Agent also may rely upon any statement made to it orally or by telephone and believed by it to have been made by the proper Person, and shall not incur any liability for relying thereon. In determining compliance with any condition hereunder to the making of a Loan, or the issuance of a Letter of Credit, that by its terms must be fulfilled to the satisfaction of a Lender or an L/C Issuer, each Agent may presume that such condition is satisfactory to such Lender or such L/C Issuer unless such Agent shall have received notice to the contrary from such Lender or such L/C Issuer prior to the making of such Loan or the issuance of such Letter of Credit. Each Agent may consult with legal counsel (who may be counsel for the Company), independent accountants and other experts selected by it, and shall not be liable for any action taken or not taken by it in accordance with the advice of any such counsel, accountants or experts.
9.05 Delegation of Duties. Each Agent may perform any and all of its duties and exercise its rights and powers hereunder or under any other Loan Document by or through any one or more sub-agents appointed by such Agent. Each Agent and any such sub-agent may perform any and all of its duties and exercise its rights and powers by or through their respective Related Parties. The exculpatory provisions of this Article shall apply to any such sub-agent and to the Related Parties of each Agent and any such sub-agent, and shall apply to their respective
activities in connection with the syndication of the credit facilities provided for herein as well as activities as an Agent.
9.06 Resignation of Agents. The Administrative Agent may at any time give notice of its resignation to the Lenders, the L/C Issuers and the Company. Upon receipt of any such notice of resignation, the Required Lenders shall have the right, in consultation with the Company, to appoint a successor. Any successor Administrative Agent shall be a bank with an office in the United States, or an Affiliate of any such bank with an office in the United States. If no such successor shall have been so appointed by the Required Lenders and shall have accepted such appointment within 30 days after the retiring Agent gives notice of its resignation, then the retiring Administrative Agent may on behalf of the Lenders and the L/C Issuers, appoint a successor Administrative Agent meeting the qualifications set forth above; provided that if the retiring Administrative Agent shall notify the Company and the Lenders that no qualifying Person has accepted such appointment, then such resignation shall nonetheless become effective in accordance with such notice and (a) the retiring Administrative Agent shall be discharged from its duties and obligations hereunder and under the other Loan Documents and (b) all payments, communications and determinations provided to be made by, to or through the Administrative Agent (or any of its Affiliates acting as Agents hereunder) shall instead be made by or to each Lender and each L/C Issuer directly, until such time as the Required Lenders appoint a successor Administrative Agent as provided for above in this Section. Any resignation by the Administrative Agent pursuant to this Section shall also constitute the resignation of each Affiliate or branch of the Administrative Agent that has been appointed in such capacity from being the London Administrative Agent or the Singapore Administrative Agent. Upon the acceptance of a successor’s appointment as an Administrative Agent hereunder, such successor shall succeed to and become vested with all of the rights, powers, privileges and duties of the retiring (or retired) Agents, and each retiring Agent shall be discharged from all of its duties and obligations hereunder or under the other Loan Documents (if not already discharged therefrom as provided above in this Section). The fees payable by the Company to a successor Administrative Agent shall be the same as those payable to its predecessor unless otherwise agreed between the Company and such successor. After a retiring Agent’s resignation hereunder and under the other Loan Documents, the provisions of this Article and Section 10.04 shall continue in effect for the benefit of such retiring Agent, its sub-agents and their respective Related Parties in respect of any actions taken or omitted to be taken by any of them while such retiring Agent was acting as an Agent.
Any resignation by JPMCB as Administrative Agent pursuant to this Section shall also constitute its resignation as L/C Issuer and Swing Line Lender. Upon the acceptance of a successor’s appointment as Administrative Agent hereunder, (a) such successor shall succeed to and become vested with all of the rights, powers, privileges and duties of such retiring L/C Issuer and Swing Line Lender, (b) such retiring L/C Issuer and Swing Line Lender shall be discharged from all of their respective duties and obligations hereunder or under the other Loan Documents, and (c) such successor L/C Issuer shall issue letters of credit in substitution for the Letters of Credit, if any, outstanding at the time of such succession or make other arrangements satisfactory to such L/C Issuer to effectively assume the obligations of such retiring L/C Issuer with respect to such Letters of Credit.
9.07 Non-Reliance on Agents and Other Lenders. Each Lender and each L/C Issuer acknowledges that it has, independently and without reliance upon the Arranger, any Agent or any other Lender or any of their Related Parties and based on such documents and information as it has deemed appropriate, made its own credit analysis and decision to enter into this Agreement. Each Lender and each L/C Issuer also acknowledges that it will, independently and without reliance upon any Agent or any other Lender or any of their Related Parties and based on such documents and information as it shall from time to time deem appropriate, continue to make its own decisions in taking or not taking action under or based upon this Agreement, any other Loan Document or any related agreement or any document furnished hereunder or thereunder.
9.08 No Other Duties, Etc. Anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding, none of the Arranger, Syndication Agent or Co-Documentation Agents listed on the cover page hereof shall have any powers, duties or responsibilities under this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents, except in its capacity, as applicable, as a Lender or an L/C Issuer hereunder.
9.09 Administrative Agent May File Proofs of Claim. In case of the pendency of any receivership, insolvency, liquidation, bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, adjustment, composition or other judicial proceeding relative to any Loan Party, the Administrative Agent (irrespective of whether the principal of any Loan or L/C Obligation shall then be due and payable as herein expressed or by declaration or otherwise and irrespective of whether the Administrative Agent shall have made any demand on any Borrower) shall be entitled and empowered, by intervention in such proceeding or otherwise
(a) to file and prove a claim for the whole amount of the principal and interest owing and unpaid in respect of the Loans, L/C Obligations and all other Loan Documents Obligations that are owing and unpaid and to file such other documents as may be necessary or advisable in order to have the claims of the Lenders, the L/C Issuers and the Agents (including any claim for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Lenders, the L/C Issuers and the Agents and their respective agents and counsel and all other amounts due the Lenders, the L/C Issuers and the Agents under Sections 2.03(i), 2.03(j), 2.09 and 10.04) allowed in such judicial proceeding; and
(b) to collect and receive any monies or other property payable or deliverable on any such claims and to distribute the same;
and any custodian, receiver, assignee, trustee, liquidator, sequestrator or other similar official in any such judicial proceeding is hereby authorized by each Lender and each L/C Issuer to make such payments to the Administrative Agent and, in the event that the Administrative Agent shall consent to the making of such payments directly to the Lenders and the L/C Issuers, to pay to the Administrative Agent any amount due for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Administrative Agent and its agents and counsel, and any other amounts due the Administrative Agent under Sections 2.03(i), 2.03(j), 2.09 and 10.04.
Nothing contained herein shall be deemed to authorize the Administrative Agent to authorize or consent to or accept or adopt on behalf of any Lender or any L/C Issuer any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition affecting the Loan Documents
Obligations or the rights of any Lender or to authorize the Administrative Agent to vote in respect of the claim of any Lender in any such proceeding.
| 9.10 | Collateral and Guarantee Matters. |
(a) Each of the Lenders, the L/C Issuers, the London Administrative Agent and the Singapore Administrative Agent hereby irrevocably authorizes (and each other Guaranteed Party or Secured Party, whether or not a party hereto, shall be deemed, by its acceptance of the benefits of the Guarantees provided for under the Guarantee Agreement and the security interest provided for under the Security Documents, to have irrevocably authorized) the Administrative Agent to execute and deliver, on behalf of itself and the other Guaranteed Parties or Secured Parties, as the case may be, the Guarantee Agreement and the Security Documents and to take such actions on its behalf and to exercise such powers as are delegated to the Administrative Agent by the terms hereof or thereof, together with such actions and powers as are reasonably incidental thereto.
(b) No Guaranteed Party shall have any right individually to enforce any Guarantee provided under the Guarantee Agreement, and no Secured Party shall have any right individually to realize upon any of the Collateral provided under the Security Documents, it being understood and agreed that all powers, rights and remedies under the Loan Documents may be exercised solely by the Administrative Agent on behalf of the Guaranteed Parties and Secured Parties, as the case may be, in accordance with the terms thereof. In the event of a foreclosure by the Administrative Agent on any of the Collateral pursuant to a public or private sale or other disposition, the Administrative Agent or any Lender may be the purchaser or licensor of any or all of such Collateral at any such sale or other disposition, and the Administrative Agent, as agent for and representative of the Secured Parties (but not any Lender or Lenders in its or their respective individual capacities unless Required Lenders shall otherwise agree in writing) shall be entitled, for the purpose of bidding and making settlement or payment of the purchase price for all or any portion of the Collateral sold at any such public sale, to use and apply any of the Loan Documents Obligations as a credit on account of the purchase price for any collateral payable by the Administrative Agent, on behalf of the Secured Parties, at such sale or other disposition. Each Guaranteed Party and each Secured Party, whether or not a party hereto, will be deemed, by its acceptance of the benefits of the Guarantees provided under the Guarantee Agreement and the Collateral provided under the Security Documents, to have agreed to the foregoing provisions.
ARTICLE X.
MISCELLANEOUS
10.01 Amendments, Etc. No amendment or waiver of any provision of this Agreement or of any other Loan Document, and no consent to any departure by the Company or any other Loan Party therefrom, shall be effective unless pursuant to an agreement or agreements in writing signed by the Required Lenders and the Company or the applicable Loan Party, as the case may be, and acknowledged by the Administrative Agent, and each such amendment, waiver or consent shall be effective only in the specific instance and for the specific purpose for which
given; provided,however, that (a) any provision of this Agreement or any other Loan Document may be amended, by an agreement in writing signed by the Company and the Administrative Agent, to cure any ambiguity, omission, defect or inconsistency so long as, in each case, such amendment does not adversely affect the rights of any Lender or any L/C Issuer and (b) no such amendment, waiver or consent shall:
(i) extend or increase any Commitment of any Lender (or reinstate any Commitment terminated pursuant to Section 2.06 or 8.02) without the written consent of such Lender (it being understood that no amendment, modification, termination, waiver or consent with respect to any condition precedent, covenant or Default shall constitute an increase in the Commitment of any Lender);
(ii) postpone the scheduled date of maturity of any Loan, or any scheduled date of payment of the principal amount of any Term Loan under Section 2.07, or the required date of reimbursement of any L/C Disbursement or any date fixed by this Agreement or any other Loan Document for any payment of any interest, fees or other amounts due to the Lenders (or any of them) hereunder or under any other Loan Document, or waive or excuse any such payment or reimbursement, without the written consent of each Lender directly affected thereby;
(iii) reduce the principal amount of, or the rate of interest specified herein on, any Loan or L/C Disbursement, or any fees or other amounts payable hereunder or under any other Loan Document, in each case without the written consent of each Lender directly affected thereby; provided, however, that only the consent of the Required Lenders shall be necessary to amend the definition of “Default Rate” or to waive any obligation of any Borrower to pay interest or Letter of Credit Fees at the Default Rate;
(iv) change Section 2.13 in a manner that would alter the pro rata sharing of payments required thereby without the written consent of each Lender;
(v) change the currency in which Committed Loans of any Lender are available to be made without the written consent of such Lender;
(vi) change any provision of this Section or the percentage set forth in the definitions of the terms “Required Lenders”, “Required Term Lenders”, “Required Primary Revolving Lenders” or “Required Singapore Revolving Lenders” or any other provision of any Loan Document specifying the number or percentage of Lenders required to amend, waive or otherwise modify any rights thereunder or make any determination or grant any consent thereunder without the written consent of each Lender (or (A) in the case of any change to the percentage set forth in the definitions of the terms “Required Term Lenders”, “Required Primary Revolving Lenders” or “Required Singapore Revolving Lenders”, each Term Lender, Primary Revolving Lender or Singapore Revolving Lender, as the case may be, and (B) in the case of any change to any such other provision of any Loan Document specifying the number or percentage of Lenders of any Class, each Lender of such Class); provided that, with the consent of the Required Lenders, the provisions of this Section and the definition of the term “Required
Lenders” may be amended to include references to any new class of loans created under this Agreement (or to lenders extending such loans) on substantially the same basis as the corresponding references relating to the Term Facility, Primary Revolving Subfacility or Singapore Revolving Subfacility;
(vii) release (A) the Company or any Subsidiary Guarantor from its Guarantee under the Guarantee Agreement, except, in the case of a Subsidiary Guarantor, as expressly provided in Section 10.20, or (B) limit their liability in respect of such Guarantee, in each case, without the written consent of each Lender; provided, however, that, if a Change in Law shall have occurred and, as a result thereof, any payment by a Foreign Subsidiary under its Guarantee under the Guarantee Agreement would result in tax consequences that are materially adverse to the Company and its Subsidiaries (which tax consequences would not have existed were such payment made on the Closing Date), then, with the consent of the Required Lenders, the liability of such Foreign Subsidiary in respect of its Guarantee under the Guarantee Agreement may be limited to the extent necessary to avoid such tax consequences;
(viii) release all or substantially all the Collateral from the Liens of the Security Documents, without the written consent of each Lender, except as expressly provided in Section 10.20; or
(ix) change the relative rights of the Term Lenders, Primary Revolving Lenders and the Singapore Revolving Lenders, in each case in a manner adverse to the Term Lenders, Primary Revolving Lenders or the Singapore Revolving Lenders, without the written consent of the Required Term Lenders, Required Primary Revolving Lenders or the Required Singapore Revolving Lenders, respectively;
and, provided further that (A) no amendment, waiver or consent shall, unless in writing and signed by an L/C Issuer, affect the rights or duties of such L/C Issuer under this Agreement or any other Loan Document relating to any Letter of Credit issued or to be issued by it; (B) no amendment, waiver or consent shall, unless in writing and signed by the Swing Line Lender, affect the rights or duties of the Swing Line Lender under this Agreement or any other Loan Document; (C) no amendment, waiver or consent shall, unless in writing and signed by the Administrative Agent, affect the rights or duties of any Agent under this Agreement or any other Loan Document; and (D) any waiver, amendment or modification of this Agreement that by its terms affects the rights or duties under this Agreement of the Lenders of a particular Class (but not the Lenders of any other Class) may be effected by an agreement or agreements in writing entered into by the Company and the requisite number or percentage in interest of the affected Class of Lenders that would be required to consent thereto under this Section 10.01 if such Class of Lenders were the only Class of Lenders hereunder at the time.
10.02 Notices; Effectiveness; Electronic Communication. (a) Notices Generally. Except in the case of notices and other communications expressly permitted to be given by telephone (and except as provided in subsection (b) below), all notices and other communications provided for herein shall be in writing and shall be delivered by hand or overnight courier service, mailed by certified or registered mail or sent by facsimile as follows,
and all notices and other communications expressly permitted hereunder to be given by telephone shall be made to the applicable telephone number, as follows:
(i) if to any Borrower, any Agent, any L/C Issuer or the Swing Line Lender, to the address, facsimile number, electronic mail address or telephone number specified for such Person on Schedule 10.02; and
(ii) if to any Lender, to the address, facsimile number, electronic mail address or telephone number specified in its Administrative Questionnaire.
Notices sent by hand or overnight courier service, or mailed by certified or registered mail, shall be deemed to have been given when received; notices sent by facsimile shall be deemed to have been given when sent (except that, if not given during normal business hours for the recipient, shall be deemed to have been given at the opening of business on the next business day for the recipient). Notices delivered through electronic communications as provided in subsection (b) below shall be effective as provided in such subsection.
(b) Electronic Communications. Notices and other communications to the Lenders and the L/C Issuers hereunder may be delivered or furnished by electronic communication (including e-mail and Internet or intranet websites) pursuant to procedures approved by the Applicable Agent; provided that the foregoing shall not apply to notices to any Lender or any L/C Issuer pursuant to Article II if such Lender or such L/C Issuer, as applicable, has notified the Applicable Agent that it is incapable of receiving notices under such Article by electronic communication. Any Agent or the Company may, in its discretion, agree to accept notices and other communications to it hereunder by electronic communications pursuant to procedures approved by it; provided that approval of such procedures may be limited to particular notices or communications.
Unless the Administrative Agent otherwise prescribes, (i) notices and other communications sent to an e-mail address shall be deemed received upon the sender’s receipt of an acknowledgment from the intended recipient (such as by the “return receipt requested” function, return e-mail or other written acknowledgment), provided that if such notice or other communication is not sent during the normal business hours of the recipient, such notice or communication shall be deemed to have been sent at the opening of business on the next business day for the recipient, and (ii) notices or other communications posted to an Internet or intranet website shall be deemed received upon receipt by the intended recipient at its e-mail address of notification that such notice or other communication is available and identifying the website address therefor.
(c) The Platform. THE PLATFORM IS PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE.” THE AGENT PARTIES (AS DEFINED BELOW) DO NOT WARRANT THE ACCURACY OR COMPLETENESS OF THE BORROWER MATERIALS OR THE ADEQUACY OF THE PLATFORM, AND EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM LIABILITY FOR ERRORS IN OR OMISSIONS FROM THE BORROWER MATERIALS. NO WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING ANY WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT OF THIRD
PARTY RIGHTS OR FREEDOM FROM VIRUSES OR OTHER CODE DEFECTS, IS MADE BY ANY AGENT PARTY IN CONNECTION WITH THE BORROWER MATERIALS OR THE PLATFORM. In no event shall any Agent or any of its Related Parties (collectively, the “Agent Parties”) have any liability to any Borrower, any other Agent, any Lender, any L/C Issuer or any other Person for losses, claims, damages, liabilities or expenses of any kind (whether in tort, contract or otherwise) arising out of any Borrower’s or Agent’s transmission of Borrower Materials through the Internet, except to the extent that such losses, claims, damages, liabilities or expenses are determined by a court of competent jurisdiction by a final and nonappealable judgment to have resulted from the gross negligence or willful misconduct of such Agent Party; provided, however, that in no event shall any Agent Party have any liability to any Borrower, any other Agent, any Lender, any L/C Issuer or any other Person for indirect, special, incidental, consequential or punitive damages (as opposed to direct or actual damages).
(d) Change of Address, Etc. Each Borrower, each Agent, each L/C Issuer and the Swing Line Lender may change its address, facsimile or telephone number for notices and other communications hereunder by notice to the other parties hereto. Each other Lender may change its address, facsimile or telephone number for notices and other communications hereunder by notice to the Company, the Agents, the L/C Issuers and the Swing Line Lender. In addition, each Lender agrees to notify each Agent from time to time to ensure that such Agent has on record (i) an effective address, contact name, telephone number, facsimile number and electronic mail address to which notices and other communications may be sent and (ii) accurate wire instructions for such Lender.
(e) Reliance by Agents, L/C Issuer and Lenders.Each Agent, each L/C Issuer and each Lender shall be entitled to rely and act upon any notices (including telephonic notices) purportedly given by or on behalf of any Borrower and in good faith believed by the recipient to be genuine, even if (i) such notices were not made in a manner specified herein, were incomplete or were not preceded or followed by any other form of notice specified herein or (ii) the terms thereof, as understood by the recipient, varied from any confirmation thereof. The Company shall indemnify each Agent, each L/C Issuer, each Lender and the Related Parties of each of them from all losses, costs, expenses and liabilities resulting from the reliance by such Person on each notice purportedly given by or on behalf of any Borrower. All telephonic notices to and other telephonic communications with any Agent may be recorded by such Agent, and each of the parties hereto hereby consents to such recording.
10.03 No Waiver; Cumulative Remedies. No failure by any Lender, any Agent or any L/C Issuer to exercise, and no delay by any such Person in exercising, any right, remedy, power or privilege hereunder shall operate as a waiver thereof; nor shall any single or partial exercise of any right, remedy, power or privilege hereunder preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right, remedy, power or privilege. The rights, remedies, powers and privileges hereunder and under the other Loan Documents are cumulative and not exclusive of any rights, remedies, powers and privileges provided by law. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the making of any Credit Extension shall not be construed as a waiver of any
Default, regardless of whether any Agent, any Lender or any L/C Issuer may have had notice or knowledge of such Default at the time.
10.04 Expenses; Indemnity; Damage Waiver. (a) Costs and Expenses. The Company shall pay (i) all reasonable and actual out-of-pocket expenses incurred by the Agents and their respective Affiliates (including the reasonable fees, charges and disbursements of counsel for the Agents) in connection with the syndication of the credit facilities provided for herein, the preparation, negotiation, execution, delivery and administration of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents or any amendments, modifications or waivers of the provisions hereof or thereof (whether or not the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby shall be consummated), (ii) all reasonable and actual out-of-pocket expenses incurred by an L/C Issuer in connection with the issuance, amendment, renewal or extension of any Letter of Credit or any demand for payment thereunder and (iii) all actual out-of-pocket expenses incurred by any Agent, any Lender or any L/C Issuer (including the fees, charges and disbursements of any counsel for any Agent, any Lender or any L/C Issuer), and shall pay all fees and time charges for attorneys who may be employees of any Agent, any Lender or any L/C Issuer, in connection with the enforcement or protection of its rights (A) in connection with this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, including its rights under this Section 10.04, or (B) in connection with the Loans made or Letters of Credit issued hereunder, including all such out-of-pocket expenses incurred during any workout, restructuring or negotiations in respect of such Loans or Letters of Credit.
(b) Indemnification by the Company. The Company shall indemnify each Agent (and any sub-agent thereof), each Lender and each L/C Issuer, and each Related Party of any of the foregoing Persons (each such Person being called an “Indemnitee”), against, and hold each Indemnitee harmless from, any and all losses, claims, damages, penalties, liabilities and related expenses (including the fees, charges and disbursements of any counsel for any Indemnitee), and shall indemnify and hold harmless each Indemnitee from all fees and time charges and disbursements for attorneys who may be employees of any Indemnitee, incurred by any Indemnitee or asserted against any Indemnitee by any third party or by any Borrower or any other Loan Party arising out of, in connection with, or as a result of (i) the execution or delivery of this Agreement, any other Loan Document or any agreement or instrument contemplated hereby or thereby, the performance by the parties hereto of their respective obligations hereunder or thereunder, the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby, or, in the case of the Agents (and any sub-agent thereof) and their respective Related Parties only, the administration of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, (ii) any Loan or Letter of Credit or the use or proposed use of the proceeds therefrom (including any refusal by any L/C Issuer to honor a demand for payment under a Letter of Credit if the documents presented in connection with such demand do not strictly comply with the terms of such Letter of Credit), (iii) any actual or alleged presence or release of Hazardous Materials on or from any property currently or formerly owned or operated by any Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, or any Environmental Liability related in any way to any Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, or (iv) any actual or prospective claim, litigation, investigation or proceeding relating to any of the foregoing, whether based on contract, tort or any other theory, regardless of whether brought by a third party or by the Company or any Affiliate thereof, and regardless of whether any Indemnitee is a party
thereto, in all cases, whether or not caused by or arising, in whole or in part, out of the comparative, contributory or sole negligence of the Indemnitee; provided that such indemnity shall not, as to any Indemnitee, be available to the extent that such losses, claims, damages, penalties, liabilities or related expenses (x) are determined by a court of competent jurisdiction by final and nonappealable judgment to have resulted from the gross negligence or willful misconduct of such Indemnitee or (y) result from a claim brought by the Company or any other Loan Party against an Indemnitee for breach in bad faith of such Indemnitee’s obligations hereunder or under any other Loan Document, if the Company or such other Loan Party has obtained a final and nonappealable judgment in its favor on such claim as determined by a court of competent jurisdiction.
(c) Reimbursement by Lenders. To the extent that the Company for any reason fails to indefeasibly pay any amount required under subsection (a) or (b) of this Section to be paid by it to any Agent (or any sub-agent thereof), any L/C Issuer or any Related Party of any of the foregoing, each Lender severally agrees to pay to such Agent (or any such sub-agent), such L/C Issuer or such Related Party, as the case may be, such Lender’s pro rata share (determined as of the time that the applicable unreimbursed expense or indemnity payment is sought) of such unpaid amount, provided that the unreimbursed expense or indemnified loss, claim, damage, liability or related expense, as the case may be, was incurred by or asserted against such Agent (or any such sub-agent) or such L/C Issuer in its capacity as such, or against any Related Party of any of the foregoing acting for such Agent (or any such sub-agent) or L/C Issuer in connection with such capacity. The obligations of the Lenders under this subsection (c) are subject to the provisions of Section 2.12(d). For purposes of this subsection, a Lender’s “pro rata share” shall be determined based upon its share of the sum of the Outstanding Amount of the Term Loans, the Total Primary Revolving Outstandings, the Total Singapore Revolving Outstandings and the unused Commitments at the time.
(d) Waiver of Consequential Damages, Etc. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, no Borrower shall assert, and hereby waives, any claim against any Indemnitee, on any theory of liability, for special, indirect, consequential or punitive damages (as opposed to direct or actual damages) arising out of, in connection with, or as a result of, this Agreement, any other Loan Document or any agreement or instrument contemplated hereby, the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby, any Loan or Letter of Credit or the use of the proceeds thereof. No Indemnitee shall be liable for any damages arising from the use by unintended recipients of any information or other materials distributed by it through telecommunications, electronic or other information transmission systems (including the Internet) in connection with this Agreement or the other Loan Documents or the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby.
(e) Payments. All amounts due under this Section 10.04 shall be payable not later than ten Business Days after demand therefor.
(f) Survival. The agreements in this Section 10.04 shall survive the resignation of the Agents and the L/C Issuers, the replacement of any Lender, the termination of the Aggregate Commitments and the repayment, satisfaction or discharge of all the other Loan Documents Obligations.
10.05 Payments Set Aside. To the extent that any payment by or on behalf of any Borrower is made to any Agent, any L/C Issuer or any Lender, or any Agent, any L/C Issuer or any Lender exercises its right of setoff, and such payment or the proceeds of such setoff or any part thereof is subsequently invalidated, declared to be fraudulent or preferential, set aside or required (including pursuant to any settlement entered into by any Agent, any L/C Issuer or such Lender in its discretion) to be repaid to a trustee, receiver or any other party, in connection with any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law or otherwise, then (a) to the extent of such recovery, the obligation or part thereof originally intended to be satisfied shall be revived and continued in full force and effect as if such payment had not been made or such setoff had not occurred and (b) each Lender and each L/C Issuer severally agrees to pay to each Agent upon demand its applicable share (without duplication) of any amount so recovered from or repaid by such Agent, plus interest thereon from the date of such demand to the date such payment is made at a rate per annum equal to the applicable Overnight Rate from time to time in effect, in the applicable currency of such recovery or payment. The obligations of the Lenders and the L/C Issuers under clause (b) of the preceding sentence shall survive the payment in full of the Loan Documents Obligations and the termination of this Agreement.
10.06 Successors and Assigns. (a) Successors and Assigns Generally. The provisions of this Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective successors and assigns permitted hereby, except that (i) no Loan Party may assign or otherwise transfer any of its rights or obligations hereunder without the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent and each Lender and (ii) no Lender may assign or otherwise transfer any of its rights or obligations hereunder except (A) to an Eligible Assignee in accordance with the provisions of subsection (b) of this Section, (B) by way of participation in accordance with the provisions of subsection (d) of this Section or (C) by way of pledge or assignment of a security interest subject to the restrictions of subsection (f) of this Section (and any other attempted assignment or transfer by any party hereto shall be null and void). Nothing in this Agreement, expressed or implied, shall be construed to confer upon any Person (other than the parties hereto, their respective successors and assigns permitted hereby, Participants to the extent provided in subsection (d) of this Section and, to the extent expressly contemplated hereby, the Related Parties of each of the Agents, the L/C Issuers and the Lenders) any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under or by reason of this Agreement.
(b) Assignments by Lenders. Any Lender may at any time assign to one or more Eligible Assignees all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including all or a portion of its Commitment and the Loans (including for purposes of this subsection (b), participations in L/C Obligations and in Swing Line Loans) at the time owing to it); provided that:
(i) except in the case of (A) an assignment of the entire remaining amount of the assigning Lender’s Commitment or Loans of any Class or (B) an assignment to a Lender, an Affiliate of a Lender or an Approved Fund, the aggregate amount of the Commitment of such Class (which for this purpose includes Loans outstanding thereunder) or, if the Commitment of any Class is not then in effect, the principal outstanding balance of the Loans of such Class of the assigning Lender subject to each such assignment, determined as of the date the Assignment and Assumption with respect to such assignment is delivered to the Administrative Agent, shall not be less than
(x) $1,000,000, in the case of assignments under the Term Facility, and (y) $5,000,000, in the case of assignments under the Primary Revolving Subfacility or the Singapore Revolving Subfacility, unless, in each case, each of the Administrative Agent and, so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Company otherwise consents (each such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed); provided, however, that concurrent assignments to members of an Assignee Group and concurrent assignments from members of an Assignee Group to a single Eligible Assignee (or to an Eligible Assignee and members of its Assignee Group) will be treated as a single assignment for purposes of determining whether such minimum amount has been met; provided further, however, that, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 10.06, no assignment shall be permitted that would result in the transfer of any outstanding Committed Primary Revolving Loan made to a Dutch Borrower in a principal amount less than €50,000 unless the Eligible Assignee to which such assignment is made shall be a Primary Revolving Lender that shall theretofore have made a Committed Primary Revolving Loan to a Borrower in a principal amount not less than €50,000;
(ii) each partial assignment shall be made as an assignment of a proportionate part of all the assigning Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement with respect to the Loans or the Commitment of the Class being assigned, except that this clause (ii) shall not be construed to prohibit the assignment of a proportionate part of all the assigning Lender’s rights and obligations in respect of one Class of Commitments or Loans;
(iii) each such assignment shall require prior written consent (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld) of:
(A) the Company, provided that no consent of the Company shall be required for an assignment to (x) a Lender, an Affiliate of a Lender or an Approved Fund or (y) if an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, any other Eligible Assignee; and
(B) the Administrative Agent, provided that no consent of the Administrative Agent shall be required for an assignment of any Term Loan to a Lender, an Affiliate of a Lender or an Approved Fund;
(iv) the parties to each assignment shall execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent an Assignment and Assumption, together with a processing and recordation fee of $3,500; and
(v) the Eligible Assignee, if it shall not be a Lender, shall deliver to the Administrative Agent an Administrative Questionnaire in which such Eligible Assignee designates one or more credit contacts to whom all syndicate-level information (which may contain material non-public information about the Company, its Subsidiaries and its and their Related Parties or securities) will be made available and who may receive such information in accordance with the assignee’s compliance procedures and applicable laws, including Securities Laws.
Subject to acceptance and recording thereof by the Administrative Agent pursuant to subsection (c) of this Section, from and after the effective date specified in each Assignment and Assumption, the Eligible Assignee thereunder shall be a party to this Agreement and, to the extent of the interest assigned by such Assignment and Assumption, have the rights and obligations of a Lender under this Agreement, and the assigning Lender thereunder shall, to the extent of the interest assigned by such Assignment and Assumption, be released from its obligations under this Agreement (and, in the case of an Assignment and Assumption covering all of the assigning Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement, such Lender shall cease to be a party hereto and shall deliver to the Company the Note, if any, in its favor marked “cancelled”) but shall continue to be entitled to the benefits of Sections 3.01, 3.04, 3.05, and 10.04 with respect to facts and circumstances occurring prior to the effective date of such assignment. Upon request, each Borrower (at its expense) shall execute and deliver a Note to the assignee Lender. Any assignment or transfer by a Lender of rights or obligations under this Agreement that does not comply with this subsection shall be treated for purposes of this Agreement as a sale by such Lender of a participation in such rights and obligations in accordance with subsection (d) of this Section.
(c) Register. The Administrative Agent, acting solely for this purpose as an agent of the Borrowers, shall maintain at one of its offices a copy of each Assignment and Assumption delivered to it and a register for the recordation of the names and addresses of the Lenders, and the Commitments of, and principal amounts of the Loans and L/C Obligations owing to, each Lender pursuant to the terms hereof from time to time (the “Register”). The entries in the Register shall be conclusive, and the Borrowers, the Agents and the Lenders may treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Register pursuant to the terms hereof as a Lender hereunder for all purposes of this Agreement, notwithstanding notice to the contrary. The Register shall be available for inspection by each of the Borrowers, the Lenders and the L/C Issuers at any reasonable time and from time to time upon reasonable prior notice.
(d) Participations. Any Lender may at any time, without the consent of, or notice to, any Borrower, any Agent, any L/C Issuer or the Swing Line Lender, sell participations to any Person (other than a natural person or the Company or any Subsidiary) (each, a “Participant”) in all or a portion of such Lender’s rights and/or obligations under this Agreement (including all or a portion of its Commitment and/or the Loans (including such Lender’s participations in L/C Obligations and/or Swing Line Loans) owing to it); provided that (i) such Lender’s obligations under this Agreement shall remain unchanged, (ii) such Lender shall remain solely responsible to the other parties hereto for the performance of such obligations and (iii) the Borrowers, the Agents, the other Lenders and the L/C Issuers shall continue to deal solely and directly with such Lender in connection with such Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement.
Any agreement or instrument pursuant to which a Lender sells such a participation shall provide that such Lender shall retain the sole right to enforce this Agreement and to approve any amendment, modification or waiver of any provision of this Agreement; provided that such agreement or instrument may provide that such Lender will not, without the consent of the Participant, agree to any amendment, waiver or other modification described in the first proviso
to Section 10.01 that affects such Participant. Subject to subsection (e) of this Section, each Borrower agrees that each Participant shall be entitled to the benefits of Sections 3.01, 3.04 and 3.05 to the same extent as if it were a Lender and had acquired its interest by assignment pursuant to subsection (b) of this Section. To the extent permitted by law, each Participant also shall be entitled to the benefits of Section 10.08 as though it were a Lender, provided such Participant agrees to be subject to Section 2.13 as though it were a Lender.
(e) Limitation upon Participant Rights. A Participant shall not be entitled to receive any greater payment under Section 3.01 or 3.04than the applicable Lender would have been entitled to receive with respect to the participation sold to such Participant, unless the sale of the participation to such Participant is made with the Company’s prior written consent. A Participant that would be a Foreign Lender if it were a Lender shall not be entitled to the benefits of Section 3.01 unless the Company is notified of the participation sold to such Participant and such Participant agrees, for the benefit of the Borrowers, to comply with Section 3.01(e) as though it were a Lender.
(f) Certain Pledges. Any Lender may at any time pledge or assign a security interest in all or any portion of its rights under this Agreement (including under its Note(s), if any) to secure obligations of such Lender, including any pledge or assignment to secure obligations to a Federal Reserve Bank, and this Section shall not apply to any such pledge or assignment of a security interest; provided that no such pledge or assignment shall release such Lender from any of its obligations hereunder or substitute any such pledgee or assignee for such Lender as a party hereto.
(g) Electronic Execution of Assignments. The words “execution,” “signed,” “signature,” and words of like import in any Assignment and Assumption shall be deemed to include electronic signatures or the keeping of records in electronic form, each of which shall be of the same legal effect, validity or enforceability as a manually executed signature or the use of a paper-based recordkeeping system, as the case may be, to the extent and as provided for in any applicable law, including the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act, the New York State Electronic Signatures and Records Act, or any other similar state laws based on the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act.
10.07 Treatment of Certain Information; Confidentiality. Each of the Agents, the Lenders and the L/C Issuers agrees to maintain the confidentiality of the Information (as defined below), except that Information may be disclosed (a) to its Affiliates and to its and its Affiliates’ respective partners, directors, officers, employees, agents, advisors and representatives (it being understood that the Persons to whom such disclosure is made will be informed of the confidential nature of such Information and instructed to keep such Information confidential), (b) to the extent requested by any regulatory authority purporting to have jurisdiction over it (including any self-regulatory authority, such as the National Association of Insurance Commissioners), (c) to the extent required by applicable laws or regulations or by any subpoena or similar legal process, (d) to any other party hereto, (e) in connection with the exercise of any remedies hereunder or under any other Loan Document or any action or proceeding relating to this Agreement or any other Loan Document or the enforcement of rights hereunder or thereunder, (f) subject to an agreement containing provisions substantially the same as those of
this Section, to (i) any assignee of or Participant in, or any prospective assignee of or prospective Participant in, any of its rights or obligations under this Agreement or (ii) any actual or prospective counterparty (or its advisors) to any swap or derivative transaction relating to a Borrower and its obligations, (g) with the consent of the Company or (h) to the extent such Information (x) becomes publicly available other than as a result of a breach of this Section or (y) becomes available to any Agent, any Lender, any L/C Issuer or any of their respective Affiliates on a nonconfidential basis from a source other than the Company.
For purposes of this Section, “Information” means all information received from the Company or any Subsidiary relating to the Company or any Subsidiary or any of their respective businesses, other than any such information that is available to any Agent, any Lender or any L/C Issuer on a nonconfidential basis prior to disclosure by the Company or any Subsidiary; provided that, in the case of information received from the Company or any Subsidiary after the Closing Date, such information is clearly identified at the time of delivery as confidential. Any Person required to maintain the confidentiality of Information as provided in this Section shall be considered to have complied with its obligation to do so if such Person has exercised the same degree of care to maintain the confidentiality of such Information as such Person would accord to its own confidential information.
Each of the Agents, the Lenders and the L/C Issuers acknowledges that (a) the Information may include material non-public information concerning the Company or a Subsidiary, as the case may be, (b) it has developed compliance procedures regarding the use of material non-public information and (c) it will handle such material non-public information in accordance with applicable Law, including Federal and state securities Laws. All such information, including requests for waivers and amendments, furnished by the Company or the Administrative Agent pursuant to, or in the course of administering, this Agreement will be syndicate-level information, which may contain material non-public information concerning the Company and the Subsidiaries and their securities. Accordingly, each Lender represents to the Company and the Administrative Agent that it has identified in its Administrative Questionnaire a credit contact who may receive information that may contain material non-public information in accordance with its compliance procedures and applicable law, including Federal, state and foreign securities laws.
10.08 Right of Setoff. If an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, each Lender, each L/C Issuer and each of their respective Affiliates is hereby authorized at any time and from time to time, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, to set off and apply any and all deposits (general or special, time or demand, provisional or final, in whatever currency) at any time held and other obligations (in whatever currency) at any time owing by such Lender, such L/C Issuer or any such Affiliate to or for the credit or the account of any Borrower against any and all of the obligations then due of such Borrower now or hereafter existing under this Agreement or any other Loan Document held by such Lender or such L/C Issuer, irrespective of whether or not such Lender or such L/C Issuer shall have made any demand under this Agreement or any other Loan Document and although such obligations of such Borrower are owed to a branch or office of such Lender or such L/C Issuer different from the branch or office holding such deposit or obligated on such indebtedness. The rights of each Lender, each L/C Issuer and their respective Affiliates under this Section are in addition to other rights and remedies (including other rights of setoff) that such Lender, such L/C Issuer or their
respective Affiliates may have. Each Lender and each L/C Issuer agrees to notify the Company and the Administrative Agent promptly after any such setoff and application; provided that the failure to give such notice shall not affect the validity of such setoff and application.
10.09 Interest Rate Limitation. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in any Loan Document, the interest paid or agreed to be paid under the Loan Documents shall not exceed the maximum rate of non-usurious interest permitted by applicable Law (the “Maximum Rate”). If any Agent or any Lender shall receive interest in an amount that exceeds the Maximum Rate, the excess interest shall be applied to the principal of the Loans or, if it exceeds such unpaid principal, refunded to the Company. In determining whether the interest contracted for, charged, or received by an Agent or a Lender exceeds the Maximum Rate, such Person may, to the extent permitted by applicable Law, (a) characterize any payment that is not principal as an expense, fee, or premium rather than interest, (b) exclude voluntary prepayments and the effects thereof and (c) amortize, prorate, allocate and spread in equal or unequal parts the total amount of interest throughout the contemplated term of the Loan Documents Obligations hereunder.
10.10 Counterparts; Integration; Effectiveness. This Agreement may be executed in counterparts (and by different parties hereto in different counterparts), each of which shall constitute an original, but all of which when taken together shall constitute a single contract. This Agreement, the other Loan Documents and any separate letter agreements with respect to fees payable to the Administrative Agent constitute the entire contract among the parties relating to the subject matter hereof and supersede any and all previous agreements and understandings, oral or written, relating to the subject matter hereof. Except as provided in Section 4.01, this Agreement shall become effective when it shall have been executed by the Administrative Agent and when the Administrative Agent shall have received counterparts hereof that, when taken together, bear the signatures of each of the other parties hereto, and thereafter shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto (and any Affiliate or branch of JPMCB acting as an Agent) and their respective successors and assigns. Delivery of an executed counterpart of a signature page of this Agreement by facsimile shall be effective as delivery of a manually executed counterpart of this Agreement.
10.11 Survival. All covenants, agreements, representations and warranties made by the Loan Parties in the Loan Documents and in the certificates or other instruments delivered in connection with or pursuant to this Agreement or any other Loan Document shall be considered to have been relied upon by the other parties hereto and shall survive the execution and delivery of the Loan Documents and the making of any Loans and issuance of any Letters of Credit, regardless of any investigation made by any such other party or on its behalf and notwithstanding that any Agent, any L/C Issuer or any Lender may have had notice or knowledge of any Default or incorrect representation or warranty at the time of any Credit Extension, and shall continue in full force and effect as long as the principal of or any accrued interest on any Loan or any fee or any other amount payable under this Agreement is outstanding and unpaid or any Letter of Credit (other than, following the Letter of Credit Expiration Date, any Extended Letter of Credit) is outstanding and so long as the Commitments have not expired or terminated. The provisions of Sections 3.01, 3.04, 3.05 and 10.04 and Article IX shall survive and remain in full force and effect regardless of the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby, the repayment of
the Loans, the expiration or termination of the Letters of Credit and the Commitments or the termination of this Agreement or any provision hereof.
10.12 Severability. If any provision of this Agreement or the other Loan Documents is held to be illegal, invalid or unenforceable, (a) the legality, validity and enforceability of the remaining provisions of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents shall not be affected or impaired thereby and (b) the parties shall endeavor in good faith negotiations to replace the illegal, invalid or unenforceable provisions with valid provisions the economic effect of which comes as close as possible to that of the illegal, invalid or unenforceable provisions. The invalidity of a provision in a particular jurisdiction shall not invalidate or render unenforceable such provision in any other jurisdiction.
10.13 Replacement of Lenders. If any Lender requests compensation under Section 3.04, or if any Borrower is required to pay any additional amount to any Lender or any Governmental Authority for the account of any Lender pursuant to Section 3.01, or if any Lender is a Defaulting Lender, or if any Lender has failed to consent to a proposed amendment, waiver, modification, discharge or termination which pursuant to the terms of Section 10.01 requires the consent of all the Lenders or each Lender affected thereby and with respect to which the Required Lenders have granted their consent or if any other circumstance exists hereunder that gives the Company the right to replace a Lender as a party hereto, then the Company may, at its sole expense and effort, upon notice to such Lender and the Administrative Agent, require such Lender to assign and delegate, without recourse (in accordance with and subject to the restrictions contained in, and consents required by, Section 10.06), all of its interests, rights and obligations under this Agreement and the related Loan Documents to an assignee that shall assume such obligations (which assignee may be another Lender, if a Lender accepts such assignment); provided that:
(a) the Company shall have received the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent;
(b) the Company shall have paid (or caused another Loan Party to pay) to the Administrative Agent the assignment fee specified in Section 10.06(b);
(c) such Lender shall have received payment of an amount equal to the outstanding principal of its Loans, L/C Advances and funded risk participations in Swing Line Loans, accrued interest thereon, accrued fees and all other amounts payable to it hereunder and under the other Loan Documents (including any amounts under Section 3.05) from the assignee (to the extent of such outstanding principal, L/C Advances, participations and accrued interest and fees) or the Company or other applicable Borrower (in the case of all other amounts);
(d) in the case of any such assignment resulting from a claim for compensation under Section 3.04 or payments required to be made pursuant to Section 3.01, such assignment will result in a reduction in such compensation or payments;
(e) in the case of any such assignment resulting from a failure to provide a consent, the assignee shall have given such consent; and
| (f) | such assignment does not conflict with applicable Laws. |
A Lender shall not be required to make any such assignment or delegation if prior thereto, as a result of a waiver by such Lender (if not a Defaulting Lender) or otherwise, the circumstances entitling the Company to require such assignment and delegation cease to apply.
10.14 Governing Law; Jurisdiction; Etc. (a) GOVERNING LAW. THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.
(b) SUBMISSION TO JURISDICTION. EACH BORROWER IRREVOCABLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY SUBMITS, FOR ITSELF AND ITS PROPERTY, TO THE NONEXCLUSIVE JURISDICTION OF THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK SITTING IN THE COUNTY OF NEW YORK AND OF THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT OF THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK, AND ANY APPELLATE COURT FROM ANY THEREOF, IN ANY ACTION OR PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT, OR FOR RECOGNITION OR ENFORCEMENT OF ANY JUDGMENT, AND EACH OF THE PARTIES HERETO IRREVOCABLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY AGREES THAT ALL CLAIMS IN RESPECT OF ANY SUCH ACTION OR PROCEEDING MAY BE HEARD AND DETERMINED IN SUCH NEW YORK STATE COURT OR, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN SUCH FEDERAL COURT. EACH OF THE PARTIES HERETO 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. NOTHING IN THIS AGREEMENT OR IN ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT SHALL AFFECT ANY RIGHT THAT ANY AGENT, ANY LENDER OR ANY L/C ISSUER MAY OTHERWISE HAVE TO BRING ANY ACTION OR PROCEEDING RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT AGAINST ANY BORROWER OR ITS PROPERTIES IN THE COURTS OF ANY JURISDICTION.
(c) WAIVER OF VENUE. EACH BORROWER IRREVOCABLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY OBJECTION THAT IT MAY NOW OR HEREAFTER HAVE TO THE LAYING OF VENUE OF ANY SUIT, ACTION OR PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT IN ANY COURT REFERRED TO IN SUBSECTION (B) ABOVE. EACH OF THE PARTIES HERETO HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, THE DEFENSE OF AN INCONVENIENT FORUM TO THE MAINTENANCE OF SUCH ACTION OR PROCEEDING IN ANY SUCH COURT.
(d) SERVICE OF PROCESS. EACH PARTY HERETO IRREVOCABLY CONSENTS TO SERVICE OF PROCESS IN THE MANNER PROVIDED FOR NOTICES IN SECTION 10.02. NOTHING IN THIS AGREEMENT WILL AFFECT THE RIGHT OF ANY PARTY HERETO TO SERVE PROCESS IN ANY OTHER MANNER PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW.
(e) APPOINTMENT OF SERVICE OF PROCESS AGENT. EACH FOREIGN BORROWER HEREBY IRREVOCABLY DESIGNATES, APPOINTS AND EMPOWERS THE COMPANY AS ITS DESIGNEE, APPOINTEE AND AGENT TO RECEIVE, ACCEPT AND ACKNOWLEDGE FOR AND ON ITS BEHALF, AND IN RESPECT OF ITS PROPERTY, SERVICE OF ANY AND ALL LEGAL PROCESS, SUMMONS, NOTICES AND DOCUMENTS WHICH MAY BE SERVED IN ANY SUCH ACTION OR PROCEEDING.
10.15 Waiver of Jury Trial. EACH PARTY HERETO HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY RIGHT IT MAY HAVE TO A TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY LEGAL PROCEEDING DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY OR THEREBY (WHETHER BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT OR ANY OTHER THEORY). EACH PARTY HERETO (A) CERTIFIES THAT NO REPRESENTATIVE, AGENT OR ATTORNEY OF ANY OTHER PERSON HAS REPRESENTED, EXPRESSLY OR OTHERWISE, THAT SUCH OTHER PERSON WOULD NOT, IN THE EVENT OF LITIGATION, SEEK TO ENFORCE THE FOREGOING WAIVER AND (B) ACKNOWLEDGES THAT IT AND THE OTHER PARTIES HERETO HAVE BEEN INDUCED TO ENTER INTO THIS AGREEMENT AND THE OTHER LOAN DOCUMENTS BY, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THE MUTUAL WAIVERS AND CERTIFICATIONS IN THIS SECTION.
10.16 USA PATRIOT Act Notice. Each Lender that is subject to the Act (as hereinafter defined) and the Administrative Agent (for itself and not on behalf of any Lender) hereby notifies the Borrowers that pursuant to the requirements of the Patriot Act, it is required to obtain, verify and record information that identifies the Borrowers, which information includes the name and address of each Borrower and other information that will allow such Lender or any Agent, as applicable, to identify such Borrower in accordance with the Patriot Act.
10.17 Judgment Currency. If, for the purposes of obtaining judgment in any court, it is necessary to convert a sum due hereunder or any other Loan Document in one currency into another currency, the rate of exchange used shall be that at which in accordance with normal banking procedures the Administrative Agent could purchase the first currency with such other currency on the Business Day preceding that on which final judgment is given. The obligation of each Borrower in respect of any such sum due from it to the Administrative Agent or the Lenders hereunder or under the other Loan Documents shall, notwithstanding any judgment in a currency (the “Judgment Currency”) other than that in which such sum is denominated in accordance with the applicable provisions of this Agreement (the “Agreement Currency”), be discharged only to the extent that on the Business Day following receipt by the Administrative Agent of any sum adjudged to be so due in the Judgment Currency, the Administrative Agent
may in accordance with normal banking procedures purchase the Agreement Currency with the Judgment Currency. If the amount of the Agreement Currency so purchased is less than the sum originally due to the Administrative Agent from any Borrower in the Agreement Currency, such Borrower agrees, as a separate obligation and notwithstanding any such judgment, to indemnify the Administrative Agent or the Person to whom such obligation was owing against such loss. If the amount of the Agreement Currency so purchased is greater than the sum originally due to the Administrative Agent in such currency, the Administrative Agent agrees to return the amount of any excess to such Borrower (or to any other Person who may be entitled thereto under applicable law).
10.18 No Fiduciary Duty. Each Borrower, on behalf of itself and its Subsidiaries, agrees that in connection with all aspects of the transactions contemplated hereby and any communications in connection therewith, the Company, its Subsidiaries and their Affiliates, on the one hand, and the Agents, the Lenders, the L/C Issuers and their Affiliates, on the other hand, will have a business relationship that does not create, by implication or otherwise, any fiduciary duty on the part of the Agents, the Lenders, the L/C Issuers or their Affiliates, and no such duty will be deemed to have arisen in connection with any such transactions or communications.
10.19 Concerning Sonion Loan Parties. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, the obligations of any Sonion Loan Party under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents (other than any obligations in respect of Credit Extensions made to such Sonion Loan Party) shall be deemed not to be assumed or shall be limited, as the case may be, to the extent required for the such obligations not to constitute unlawful financial assistance within the meaning of Sections 115(1) and (2) of the Danish Public Companies Act (Aktieselskabsloven), Consolidation Act No. 649 of 15 June 2006 and Sections 49(1) and (2) of the Danish Private Companies Act (Anpartselskabsloven), Consolidation Act No. 650 of 15 June 2006, except to the extent that Danish law would otherwise uphold such obligations of such Sonion Loan Party.
10.20 Release of Liens and Guarantees. (a) Notwithstanding any contrary provision herein or in any other Loan Document, (i) upon any Disposition by any Loan Party of any Collateral consisting of inventory or obsolete or worn-out property, in each case in the ordinary course of business in a transaction permitted under Section 7.05(a) or 7.05(b), the security interests in such Collateral created by the Security Documents shall be automatically released, and (ii) if the Company shall request the release under the Guarantee Agreement of any Guarantee of, or under any Security Document of any Collateral owned by, any Subsidiary Guarantor (other than a Borrower) upon the consummation of any transaction permitted by this Agreement (as in effect from time to time) as a result of which such Subsidiary Guarantor ceases to be a Subsidiary (or, in the case of any Subsidiary Guarantor that is a Domestic Holding Company, becomes a Subsidiary of a Foreign Subsidiary), or the release under any Security Document of any Collateral not referred to in the preceding clause (i) to be Disposed of by any Loan Party (other than to any other Loan Party), in each case in a transaction permitted under the terms of this Agreement (as in effect from time to time), and shall in either case under this clause (ii) deliver to the Administrative Agent a certificate to the effect that such transaction and, if applicable, the application of the proceeds thereof will comply with the terms of this Agreement, the Administrative Agent, if satisfied that the applicable certificate is correct, shall, without the
consent of any Secured Party and at the Company’s expense, execute and deliver all documents that the Company shall reasonably request to evidence such release.
(b) Notwithstanding any contrary provision herein or in any other Loan Document, the Guarantees provided under the Guarantee Agreement and the Liens created under the Security Documents shall terminate when all the Loan Documents Obligations (other than contingent obligations for indemnification, expense reimbursement, tax gross-up or yield protection as to which no claim has been made) have been indefeasibly paid in full, all Commitments have terminated or expired, the L/C Obligations have been reduced to zero and the L/C Issuers have no further obligations to issue Letters of Credit hereunder. In connection with any such termination, the Administrative Agent shall execute and deliver to the Company, at the Company’s expense, all documents that the Company shall reasonably request to evidence such termination.
(c) Notwithstanding any contrary provision herein or in any other Loan Document, but subject to subsection (d) below, if (i) the Consolidated Leverage Ratio as of the end of each of the two consecutive fiscal quarters of the Company most recently ended prior to the time of such request shall have been less than 2.50 to 1.00, and provided that the Administrative Agent shall have received financial statements delivered pursuant to Section 6.01(a) or 6.01(b) with respect to each such fiscal quarter, (ii) the Company shall have provided notice to the Administrative Agent of a request to release the Liens created under the Security Documents specifying the date of such proposed release (which shall be a Business Day at least 15 days after such notice) (the “Release Date”), (iii) no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing on the Release Date and (iv) on the Release Date, the Administrative Agent shall have received a certificate, dated the Release Date and executed on behalf of the Company by a Responsible Officer thereof, confirming the satisfaction of each of the conditions set forth in clauses (i) and (iii) above, then (A) the Administrative Agent, shall, without the consent of any Secured Party and at the Company’s expense, execute and deliver all documents that the Company shall reasonably request to evidence such release, (B) the provisions of the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement, insofar as they relate to the creation and perfection of Liens under the Security Documents, shall be deemed to be ineffective and (C) all other provisions of this Agreement, insofar as they relate to the creation and perfection of Liens under the Security Documents, shall be deemed to be ineffective.
(d) In the event that, subsequent to the release of Liens under the Security Documents pursuant to subsection (c) above, the Consolidated Leverage Ratio at the end of any fiscal quarter of the Company shall exceed 2.50 to 1.00, (i) the provisions of the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement and each other provision of this Agreement that has been deemed to be ineffective pursuant to subsection (c) above shall cease to be ineffective and shall be deemed to be reinstated and in full force and effect, (ii) the Company shall cause the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement to be satisfied as promptly as practicable after the end of such fiscal quarter and in any event within 30 days thereunder and (iii) the provisions of subsection (c) above shall be deemed to be ineffective. In connection with the foregoing, the Company shall, and shall cause the
Subsidiary Guarantors to, deliver such perfection certificates, lien searches, opinions and other documents and certificates as the Administrative Agent may reasonably request.
(e) Any execution and delivery of documents by the Administrative Agent pursuant to this Section 10.20 shall be without recourse to or warranty by the Administrative Agent.
10.21 Defaulting Lenders. Notwithstanding any provision of this Agreement to the contrary but without limitation of any other provision of this Agreement relating to Defaulting Lenders, if one or more Swing Line Loans are outstanding or any L/C Obligations exist at the time a Lender is a Defaulting Lender, the Primary Revolving Borrowers shall, within one Business Day following notice to that effect by the Administrative Agent, (a) prepay such Swing Line Loans in full or, if agreed by the Swing Line Lender, cash collateralize the Defaulting Lender’s risk participation in such Swing Line Loans on terms satisfactory to the Swing Line Lender and (b) cash collateralize the Defaulting Lender’s risk participation in such L/C Obligations on terms satisfactory to such L/C Issuer for so long as such participation is outstanding.
ARTICLE XI.
COLLECTION ALLOCATION MECHANISM
(a) On the CAM Exchange Date, (i) the Commitments shall automatically and without further act be terminated as provided in Article VIII and (ii) the Lenders shall automatically and without further act be deemed to have made reciprocal purchases of interests in the Designated Obligations such that, in lieu of the interests of each Lender in the particular Designated Obligations that it shall own as of such date and immediately prior to the CAM Exchange, such Lender shall own an interest equal to such Lender’s CAM Percentage in each Designated Obligation. Each Lender, each Person acquiring a participation from any Lender as contemplated by Section 10.06 and each Borrower hereby consents and agrees to the CAM Exchange. Each Borrower and each Lender agrees from time to time to execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent all such Notes and other instruments and documents as the Administrative Agent shall reasonably request to evidence and confirm the respective interests and obligations of the Lenders after giving effect to the CAM Exchange, and each Lender agrees to surrender any Notes originally received by it hereunder to the Administrative Agent against delivery of any Notes so executed and delivered; provided that the failure of any Borrower to execute or deliver or of any Lender to accept any such Note, instrument or document shall not affect the validity or effectiveness of the CAM Exchange.
(b) As a result of the CAM Exchange, on and after the CAM Exchange Date, each payment received by any Agent pursuant to any Loan Document in respect of the Designated Obligations shall be distributed to the Lenders pro rata in accordance with their respective CAM Percentages (to be redetermined as of each such date of payment or distribution to the extent required by subsection (c) below).
(c) In the event that, after the CAM Exchange, the aggregate amount of the Designated Obligations shall change as a result of the making of an L/C Disbursement
by an L/C Issuer that is not reimbursed by the applicable Primary Revolving Borrower, then (i) each Primary Revolving Lender shall, in accordance with Section 2.03(c), make an L/C Advance to the applicable L/C Issuer in the amount equal to such Lender’s Applicable Primary Revolving Percentage of such L/C Disbursement (without giving effect to the CAM Exchange), (ii) the Administrative Agent shall redetermine the CAM Percentages after giving effect to such L/C Disbursement and the L/C Advances made by the Primary Revolving Lenders (using the applicable Spot Rates in effect at or around the time of such L/C Disbursement solely for the purpose of determining the amount of the Designated Obligations resulting therefrom), and the Lenders shall automatically and without further act be deemed to have made reciprocal purchases of interests in the Designated Obligations such that each Lender shall own an interest equal to such Lender’s CAM Percentage (as so redetermined) in each of the Designated Obligations and (iii) in the event distributions shall have been made in accordance with subsection (b) above, the Lenders shall make such payments to one another as shall be necessary in order that the amounts received by them shall be equal to the amounts they would have received had each L/C Disbursement been outstanding immediately prior to the CAM Exchange. Each such redetermination shall be binding on each Lender and its successors and assigns and shall be conclusive absent manifest error.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have duly executed this Credit Agreement as of the day and year first above written.