Integration; Effectiveness This Agreement, the other Loan Documents, and any separate letter agreements with respect to fees payable to the Administrative Agent or any L/C Issuer, 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 their respective successors and assigns.
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 and the other Loan Documents 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. Delivery of an executed counterpart of a signature page of this Agreement by telecopy or other electronic imaging means shall be effective as delivery of a manually executed counterpart of this Agreement.
Continuing Effectiveness As hereby amended, the Credit Agreement shall remain in full force and effect and is hereby ratified and confirmed in all respects. After the effectiveness hereof, all references in the Credit Agreement or other Loan Documents to the “Agreement”, the “Credit Agreement” or similar terms shall refer to the Credit Agreement as amended hereby. This Amendment is a Loan Document.
Conditions of Effectiveness This Amendment shall become effective when, and only when, all of the following have occurred:
(a) the Company, the Subsidiary Borrower and the Required Lenders shall have executed a counterpart hereof and delivered the same to the Administrative Agent or, in the case of any Lender as to which an executed counterpart hereof shall not have been so delivered, the Administrative Agent shall have received written confirmation by telecopy or other similar writing from such Lender of execution of a counterpart hereof by such Lender;
(b) the Company has terminated all commitments and paid in full all amounts outstanding under that certain $250,000,000 Credit Agreement dated as of February 22, 2006 among the Company, the lenders party thereto and Wachovia Bank, National Association, as administrative agent;
(c) if requested by any Lender, a new Committed Note and a Competitive Note executed by the Company and payable to the order of such Lender;
(d) a certificate of an officer and of the secretary or an assistant secretary of the Delegate, certifying, inter alia (A) true and complete copies of each of the limited liability company agreement of the Delegate, the certificate of incorporation, as amended and in effect, of the General Partner, the partnership agreements, each as amended and in effect, of the Borrowers, the bylaws, as amended and in effect, of the General Partner and the resolutions adopted by the Board of Directors of the Delegate (1) authorizing the execution, delivery and performance by each Borrower of this Amendment and, in the case of the Company, the Borrowings to be made and the Letters of Credit to be issued under the Credit Agreement, as amended hereby, (2) approving the forms of this Amendment and (3) authorizing officers of the Delegate to execute and deliver this Amendment, (B) the incumbency and specimen signatures of the officers of the Delegate executing this Amendment and (C) (1) that the representations and warranties made by such Borrower in each Loan Document to which such Borrower is a party and which will be delivered at or prior to the initial Borrowing Date are true and correct in all material respects, (2) the absence of any proceedings for the dissolution or liquidation of such Borrower and (3) the absence of the occurrence and continuance of any Default or Event of Default;
(e) a favorable, signed opinion addressed to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders from Bracewell & Giuliani LLP, counsel to the Borrowers, given upon the ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇nst▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ of the Borrowers; and
(f) certificates of appropriate public officials as to the existence, good standing and qualification to do business as a foreign entity of each Borrower, the General Partner and the Delegate in the States of Texas and Delaware.
Termination Effectiveness This Agreement and the Proxy shall terminate and shall have no further force or effect as of the Expiration Date. Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing set forth in this Section 11 or elsewhere in this Agreement shall relieve either party hereto from any liability, or otherwise limit the liability of either party hereto, for any breach of this Agreement. The effectiveness of this Agreement is conditioned upon the execution and delivery of the Merger Agreement by the parties thereto.