Common use of Assignments and Participations Clause in Contracts

Assignments and Participations. (a) Each Lender may assign to one or more Persons all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, all or a portion of its Commitment, the Advance owing to it and the Note or Notes held by it); provided, however, that (i) each such assignment shall be of a constant, and not a varying, percentage of all rights and obligations under this Agreement, (ii) except in the case of an assignment to a Person that, immediately prior to such assignment, was a Lender or an assignment of all of a Lender's rights and obligations under this Agreement, the amount of the Commitment of the assigning Lender being assigned pursuant to each such assignment (determined as of the date of the Assignment and Acceptance with respect to such assignment) shall in no event be less than $5,000,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof, (iii) each such assignment shall be to an Eligible Assignee, and (iv) the parties to each such assignment shall execute and deliver to the Agent, for its acceptance and recording in the Register, an Assignment and Acceptance, together with any Note subject to such assignment. Upon such execution, delivery, acceptance and recording, from and after the effective date specified in each Assignment and Acceptance, (A) the assignee thereunder shall be a party hereto and, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned to it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance, have the rights and obligations of a Lender hereunder and (B) the Lender assignor thereunder shall, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned by it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance, relinquish its rights and be released from its obligations under this Agreement (and, in the case of an Assignment and Acceptance covering all or the remaining portion of an assigning Lender's rights and obligations under this Agreement, such Lender shall cease to be a party hereto). (b) By executing and delivering an Assignment and Acceptance, the Lender assignor thereunder and the assignee thereunder confirm to and agree with each other and the other parties hereto as follows: (i) other than as provided in such Assignment and Acceptance, such assigning Lender makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to any statements, warranties or representations made in or in connection with this Agreement or the execution, legality, validity, enforceability, genuineness, sufficiency or value of this Agreement or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant hereto; (ii) such assigning Lender makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to the financial condition of the Borrower or the performance or observance by the Borrower of any of its obligations under this Agreement or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant hereto; (iii) such assignee confirms that it has received a copy of this Agreement, together with copies of the financial statements referred to in Section 4.01 and such other documents and information as it has deemed appropriate to make its own credit analysis and decision to enter into such Assignment and Acceptance; (iv) such assignee will, independently and without reliance upon the Agent, such assigning Lender or any other Lender and based on such documents and information as it shall deem appropriate at the time, continue to make its own credit decisions in taking or not taking action under this Agreement; (v) such assignee confirms that it is an Eligible Assignee; (vi) such assignee appoints and authorizes the Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers and discretion under this Agreement as are delegated to the Agent by the terms hereof, together with such powers and discretion as are reasonably incidental thereto; and (vii) such assignee agrees that it will perform in accordance with their terms all of the obligations that by the terms of this Agreement are required to be performed by it as a Lender. (c) The Agent shall maintain at its address referred to in Section 8.02 a copy of each Assignment and Acceptance delivered to and accepted by it and a register for the recordation of the names and addresses of the Lenders and the Commitment of, and principal amount of the Advances owing to, each Lender from time to time (the "Register"). The entries in the Register shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error, and the Borrower, the Agent and the Lenders may treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Register as a Lender hereunder for all purposes of this Agreement. The Register shall be available for inspection by the Borrower or any Lender at any reasonable time and from time to time upon reasonable prior notice. (d) Upon its receipt of an Assignment and Acceptance executed by an assigning Lender and an assignee representing that it is an Eligible Assignee, together with any Note or Notes subject to such assignment, the Agent shall, if such Assignment and Acceptance has been completed and is in substantially the form of Exhibit C hereto, (i) accept such Assignment and Acceptance, (ii) record the information contained therein in the Register and (iii) give prompt notice thereof to the Borrower. Within five Business Days after its receipt of such notice, the Borrower, at its own expense, shall execute and deliver to the Agent in exchange for the surrendered Note a new Note to the order of such Eligible Assignee in an amount equal to the Commitment assumed by it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance and, if the assigning Lender has retained a Commitment hereunder, a new Note to the order of the assigning Lender in an amount equal to the Commitment retained by it hereunder. Such new Note or Notes shall be in an aggregate principal amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of such surrendered Note or Notes, shall be dated the effective date of such Assignment and Acceptance and shall otherwise be in substantially the form of Exhibit A hereto. (e) Each Lender may sell participations to one or more banks or other entities (other than the Borrower or any of its Affiliates) in or to all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, all or a portion of its Commitment, the Advances owing to it and the Note or Notes held by it); provided, however, that (i) such Lender's obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, its Commitment to the Borrower hereunder) shall remain unchanged, (ii) such Lender shall remain solely responsible to the other parties hereto for the performance of such obligations, (iii) such Lender shall remain the holder of any such Note for all purposes of this Agreement, (iv) the Borrower, the Agent and the other Lenders shall continue to deal solely and directly with such Lender in connection with such Lender's rights and obligations under this Agreement and (v) no participant under any such participation shall have any right to approve any amendment or waiver of any provision of this Agreement or any Note, or any consent to any departure by the Borrower therefrom, except to the extent that such amendment, waiver or consent would reduce the principal of, or interest on, the Notes or any fees or other amounts payable hereunder, in each case to the extent subject to such participation, or postpone any date fixed for any payment of principal of, or interest on, the Notes or any fees or other amounts payable hereunder, in each case to the extent subject to such participation. (f) Any Lender may, in connection with any assignment or participation or proposed assignment or participation pursuant to this Section 8.07, disclose to the assignee or participant or proposed assignee or participant, any information relating to the Borrower furnished to such Lender by or on behalf of the Borrower; provided that, prior to any such disclosure, the assignee or participant or proposed assignee or participant shall agree to preserve the confidentiality of any Confidential Information relating to the Borrower received by it from such Lender. (g) Notwithstanding any other provision set forth in this Agreement, any Lender may at any time create a security interest in all or any portion of its rights under this Agreement (including, without limitation, the Advances owing to it and the Note held by it) in favor of any Federal Reserve Bank in accordance with Regulation A of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. (h) In connection with the initial assignment or proposed initial assignment by the Initial Lender pursuant to this Section 8.07, the Borrower shall, upon the request of the Initial Lender, furnish to the Initial Lender a favorable opinion of counsel for the Borrower acceptable to the Initial Lender, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Initial Lender.

Assignments and Participations. (a) Each Lender may may, with the written consent (unless such assignment is to a Lender, a wholly owned Affiliate of such Lender or a wholly owned Affiliate of the assigning Lender, in which case no such consent, and only notice to the Administrative Agent and AEP shall be required) of the Administrative Agent, AEP (unless a Default shall have occurred and be continuing), the Swingline Bank and each LC Issuing Bank (in each case, with each consent not to be unreasonably withheld), assign to one or more Persons all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, all or a portion of its Commitment, Commitment and the Advance Advances owing to it and the Note or Notes held by it); provided, however, that (i) each such assignment shall be of a constant, and not a varying, percentage of all rights and obligations under this Agreement, (ii) except in the case of an assignment to a Person that, immediately prior to such assignment, was a Lender or an assignment of all of a Lender's ’s rights and obligations under this Agreement, the amount of the Commitment of the assigning Lender being assigned pursuant to each such assignment (determined as of the date of the Assignment and Acceptance with respect to such assignment) shall in no event be less than $5,000,000 10,000,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof, (iii) each such assignment shall be to an Eligible Assignee, and (iv) the parties to each such assignment shall execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent, for its acceptance and recording in the Register, an Assignment and Acceptance, together with any Note subject a processing and recordation fee of $3,500 (to such assignmentbe paid by the assigning Lender or, in the case of an assignment pursuant to Section 8.07(i), AEP). Upon such execution, delivery, acceptance and recording, from and after the effective date specified in each Assignment and Acceptance, (Ax) the assignee thereunder shall be a party hereto and, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned to it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance, have the rights and obligations of a Lender hereunder and (By) the Lender assignor thereunder shall, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned by it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance, relinquish its rights and be released from its obligations under this Agreement (and, in the case of an Assignment and Acceptance covering all or the remaining portion of an assigning Lender's ’s rights and obligations under this Agreement, such Lender shall cease to be a party hereto). (b) By executing and delivering an Assignment and Acceptance, the Lender assignor thereunder and the assignee thereunder confirm to and agree with each other and the other parties hereto as follows: (i) other than as provided in such Assignment and Acceptance, such assigning Lender makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to any statements, warranties or representations made in or in connection with this Agreement or the execution, legality, validity, enforceability, genuineness, sufficiency or value of this Agreement or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant hereto; (ii) such assigning Lender makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to the financial condition of the any Borrower or the performance or observance by the any Borrower of any of its obligations under this Agreement or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant hereto; (iii) such assignee confirms that it has received a copy of this Agreement, together with copies of the financial statements referred to in Section 4.01 and such other documents and information as it has deemed appropriate to make its own credit analysis and decision to enter into such Assignment and Acceptance; (iv) such assignee will, independently and without reliance upon the Administrative Agent, such assigning Lender or any other Lender and based on such documents and information as it shall deem appropriate at the time, continue to make its own credit decisions in taking or not taking action under this Agreement; (v) such assignee confirms that it is an Eligible Assignee; (vi) such assignee appoints and authorizes the Administrative Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers and discretion under this Agreement as are delegated to the Administrative Agent by the terms hereof, together with such powers and discretion as are reasonably incidental thereto; and (vii) such assignee agrees that it will perform in accordance with their terms all of the obligations that by the terms of this Agreement are required to be performed by it as a Lender. (c) Upon its receipt of an Assignment and Acceptance executed by an assigning Lender and an assignee representing that it is an Eligible Assignee, the Administrative Agent shall, if such Assignment and Acceptance has been completed and is in substantially the form of Exhibit C hereto, accept such Assignment and Acceptance, record the information contained therein in the Register and forward a copy thereof to the Borrowers. (d) The Administrative Agent shall maintain at its address referred to in Section 8.02 a copy of each Assignment and Acceptance delivered to and accepted by it and a register for the recordation of the names and addresses of the Lenders and and, the Commitment of, and principal amount of the Advances owing to, each Lender by each Borrower from time to time (the "“Register"”). The entries in the Register shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error, and the each Borrower, the Administrative Agent and the Lenders may treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Register as a Lender hereunder for all purposes of this Agreement. The Register shall be available for inspection by each Borrower, the Borrower Administrative Agent or any Lender at any reasonable time and from time to time upon reasonable prior notice. (d) Upon its receipt of an Assignment and Acceptance executed by an assigning Lender and an assignee representing that it is an Eligible Assignee, together with any Note or Notes subject to such assignment, the Agent shall, if such Assignment and Acceptance has been completed and is in substantially the form of Exhibit C hereto, (i) accept such Assignment and Acceptance, (ii) record the information contained therein in the Register and (iii) give prompt notice thereof to the Borrower. Within five Business Days after its receipt of such notice, the Borrower, at its own expense, shall execute and deliver to the Agent in exchange for the surrendered Note a new Note to the order of such Eligible Assignee in an amount equal to the Commitment assumed by it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance and, if the assigning Lender has retained a Commitment hereunder, a new Note to the order of the assigning Lender in an amount equal to the Commitment retained by it hereunder. Such new Note or Notes shall be in an aggregate principal amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of such surrendered Note or Notes, shall be dated the effective date of such Assignment and Acceptance and shall otherwise be in substantially the form of Exhibit A hereto. (e) Each Lender may sell participations to one or more banks or other entities (other than the Borrower Borrowers or any of its their Affiliates) in or to all or a portion of its rights and and/or obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, all or a portion of its CommitmentCommitment and the Advances) without the consent of AEP, the Advances owing to it and the Note Administrative Agent or Notes held by it)any Lender; provided, however, that (i) such Lender's ’s obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, its Commitment to the Borrower hereunder) shall remain unchanged, (ii) such Lender shall remain solely responsible to the other parties hereto for the performance of such obligations, (iii) such Lender shall remain the holder of any such Note for all purposes of this Agreement, (iv) the each Borrower, the Agent Administrative Agent, the Swingline Bank, the LC Issuing Banks and the other Lenders shall continue to deal solely and directly with such Lender in connection with such Lender's ’s rights and obligations under this Agreement and (viv) no participant Lender shall be entitled to receive any greater amount pursuant to Section 2.13 or 2.16 than such Lender would have been entitled to receive had such Lender not sold such participation. No Lender may grant to any holder of a participation in the rights and obligations of such Lender hereunder the right to require such Lender to take or omit to take any action under this Agreement, except that such Lender may grant to any such participation shall have any holder the right to approve any amendment or waiver of any provision of this Agreement or any Note, or any require such holder’s consent to any departure by the Borrower therefrom, except to the extent that such amendment, waiver or consent would (i) reduce the principal of, of or interest on, on the Notes outstanding Borrowings or any the fees or other amounts payable to such Lender hereunder, in each case to the extent subject to such participation, or (ii) postpone any date fixed for any payment of principal of, of or interest onon the outstanding Borrowings or the fees payable to such Lender hereunder or (iii) permit any Borrower to assign any of its obligations under this Agreement to any other Person. Each holder of a participation in any rights and obligations under this Agreement, the Notes or any fees or other amounts payable hereunder, in each case if and to the extent the applicable participation agreement so provides, shall, with respect to such participation, be entitled to all of the rights of a Lender as fully as though it were a Lender under Sections 2.09(c), 2.13, 2.16 8.01, 8.04(b) and 8.04(c) (subject to any conditions imposed on each Lender hereunder with respect thereto, including delivery of the forms and certificates required under Section 2.16(e)); provided, however, that no holder of a participation shall be entitled to any amounts that would otherwise be payable to it with respect to its participation under Section 2.13(a) or 2.16 unless (x) such amounts are payable in respect of a Regulatory Change enacted after the date the applicable participation agreement was executed or (y) such amounts would have been payable to the Lender that granted such participation if such participation had not been granted. Each Lender selling or granting a participation shall indemnify each Borrower and the Administrative Agent for any liabilities for Taxes that such Borrower or the Administrative Agent, as the case may be, might incur as a result of such Lender’s failure to withhold and pay any Taxes applicable to payments by such Lender to its participant in respect of such participation. (f) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, any Lender (a “Granting Lender”) may grant to a special purpose funding vehicle (an “SPV”) of such Granting Lender identified as such in writing from time to time by the Granting Lender to the Administrative Agent and the Borrowers, the option to provide to any Borrower all or any part of any Advance that such Granting Lender would otherwise be obligated to make to such Borrower pursuant to this Agreement; provided that (i) nothing herein shall constitute a commitment by any such SPV to make any Advance, (ii) if such SPV elects not to exercise such option or otherwise fails to provide all or any part of such Advance, the Granting Lender shall be obligated to make such Advance pursuant to the terms hereof and (iii) no SPV or Granting Lender shall be entitled to receive any greater amount pursuant to Section 2.09(c), 2.13 or 2.16 than the Granting Lender would have been entitled to receive had the Granting Lender not otherwise granted such SPV the option to provide any Advance to such Borrower. The making of an Advance by an SPV hereunder shall utilize the Commitment of the Granting Lender to the same extent, and as if, such Advance were made by such Granting Lender. Each party hereto hereby agrees that no SPV shall be liable for any indemnity or similar payment obligation under this Agreement for which a Lender would otherwise be liable so long as, and to the extent that, the related Granting Lender provides such indemnity or makes such payment. In furtherance of the foregoing, each party hereto hereby agrees (which agreement shall survive the termination of this Agreement) that, prior to the date that is one year and one day after the payment in full of all outstanding commercial paper or other senior indebtedness of any SPV, it will not institute against or join any other Person in instituting against such SPV any bankruptcy, reorganization, reorganization, arrangement, insolvency or liquidation proceedings under the laws of the United States or any State thereof. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Granting Lender unconditionally agrees to indemnify each Borrower, the Administrative Agent and each Lender against all liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments, suits, costs, expenses or disbursements of any kind or nature whatsoever which may be incurred by or asserted against such Borrower, the Administrative Agent or such Lender, as the case may be, in any way relating to or arising as a consequence of any such forbearance or delay in the initiation of any such proceeding against its SPV. Each party hereto hereby acknowledges and agrees that no SPV shall have the rights of a Lender hereunder, such rights being retained by the applicable Granting Lender. Accordingly, and without limiting the foregoing, each party hereby further acknowledges and agrees that no SPV shall have any voting rights hereunder and that the voting rights attributable to any Advance made by an SPV shall be exercised only by the relevant Granting Lender and that each Granting Lender shall serve as the administrative agent and attorney-in-fact for its SPV and shall on behalf of its SPV receive any and all payments made for the benefit of such SPV and take all actions hereunder to the extent, if any, such SPV shall have any rights hereunder. In addition, notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement any SPV may (i) with notice to, but without the prior written consent of any other party hereto, assign all or a portion of its interest in any Advances to the Granting Lender and (ii) in accordance with Section 8.08, disclose on a confidential basis any Confidential Information relating to its Advances to any rating agency, commercial paper dealer or provider of any surety, guarantee or credit or liquidity enhancement to such SPV. This Section may not be amended without the prior written consent of each Granting Lender, all or any part of whose Advance is being funded by an SPV at the time of such amendment. (g) Any Lender may, in connection with any assignment or assignment, designation, participation or grant to an SPV or proposed assignment assignment, designation, participation or participation grant to an SPV pursuant to this Section 8.07, disclose to the assignee assignee, designee or participant or proposed assignee assignee, designee or participant, any information relating to the any Borrower furnished to such Lender by or on behalf of the such Borrower; provided that, prior to any such disclosure, the assignee assignee, designee or participant or proposed assignee assignee, designee or participant shall agree to preserve the confidentiality of any Confidential Information relating to the any Borrower received by it from such Lender. (gh) Notwithstanding any other provision set forth in this Agreement, any Lender may at any time create a security interest in all or any portion of its rights under this Agreement (including, without limitation, the Advances owing to it and the Note held by it) in favor of any Federal Reserve Bank in accordance with Regulation A of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. (hi) In connection with the initial assignment event that any Lender, or proposed initial assignment by the Initial any participant of such Lender pursuant to Section 8.07(e), shall have delivered a notice or certificate pursuant to Section 2.14, or any Borrower shall be required to make additional payments to any Lender under Section 2.09(c), 2.13 or 2.16, AEP shall have the right, at its own expense, upon notice to such Lender, to require such Lender to transfer and assign without recourse (in accordance with and subject to the restrictions contained in this Section 8.07) all such Lender’s interests, rights and obligations under this Agreement to another Eligible Assignee identified by AEP and approved by the Administrative Agent, the Borrower shallSwingline Bank and each LC Issuing Bank (which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld), upon the request which financial institution shall assume such obligations of the Initial Lender, furnish such Lender for consideration equal to the Initial Lender a favorable opinion outstanding principal amount of counsel such Lender’s Advances, and if satisfactory arrangements are made for the Borrower acceptable payment to such Lender of interest and fees accrued hereunder to the Initial Lender, in form date of such transfer and substance reasonably satisfactory all other amounts payable hereunder to such Lender on or prior to the Initial Lenderdate of such transfer; provided that (i) no Default shall have occurred and be continuing, (ii) no such assignment shall conflict with any law, rule or regulation or order of any governmental authority and (iii) the relevant Borrower shall have paid to the assignor in immediately available funds on or prior to the date of such assignment all amounts accrued for the account of such Lender or owed to it under Section 2.09(c), 2.13 or 2.16.

Assignments and Participations. (a) Each Lender may assign to one or more Persons banks or other financial institutions all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, all or a portion of its Commitment, the Advance Advances owing to it and the Note or Notes held by it); provided, however, that (i) each such assignment shall be of a constant, and not a varying, percentage of all rights and obligations under this Agreement, (ii) except in the case of an assignment to a Person that, immediately prior to such assignment, was a Lender or an assignment of all of a Lender's rights and obligations under this Agreement, the amount of the Commitment of the assigning Lender being assigned pursuant to each such assignment (determined as of the date of the Assignment and Acceptance with respect to such assignment) shall in no event be less than $5,000,000 or 15,000,000 (or, if less, the entire Commitment of the assigning Lender) and shall be an integral multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof1,000,000, (iii) each such assignment shall be to an Eligible Assignee, and (iv) the parties to each such assignment shall execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent, for its acceptance and recording in the Register, an Assignment and Acceptance, together with any Note Notes subject to such assignmentassignment and a processing and recordation fee of $2,500, and shall send to the Company an executed counterpart of such Assignment and Acceptance. Upon such execution, delivery, acceptance and recording, from and after the effective date specified in each Assignment and Acceptance, (A) the assignee thereunder shall be a party hereto and, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned to it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance, have the rights and obligations of a Lender hereunder and (B) the assigning Lender assignor thereunder shall, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned by it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance, relinquish its rights and be released from its obligations under this Agreement (and, in the case of an Assignment and Acceptance covering all or the remaining portion of an assigning Lender's rights and obligations under this Agreement, such Lender shall cease to be a party hereto). (b) By executing and delivering an Assignment and Acceptance, the each Lender assignor thereunder and the assignee thereunder confirm to and agree with each other and the other parties hereto as follows: (i) other than as provided in such Assignment and Acceptance, such assigning Lender makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to any statements, warranties or representations made in or in connection with this Agreement or the execution, legality, validity, enforceability, genuineness, sufficiency or value of this Agreement or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant hereto; (ii) such assigning Lender makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to the financial condition of the each Borrower or the performance or observance by the each Borrower of any of its obligations under this Agreement or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant hereto; (iii) such assignee confirms 76 72 that it has received a copy of this Agreement, together with copies of the financial statements referred to in Section 4.01 4.1 and such other documents and information as it has deemed appropriate to make its own credit analysis and decision to enter into such Assignment and Acceptance; (iv) such assignee will, independently and without reliance upon the Administrative Agent, the CAF Advance Agent, such assigning Lender or any other Lender and based on such documents and information as it shall deem appropriate at the time, continue to make its own credit decisions in taking or not taking action under this Agreement; (v) such assignee confirms that it is an Eligible Assignee; (vi) such assignee appoints and authorizes the Administrative Agent and the CAF Advance Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers and discretion under this Agreement as are delegated to the Administrative Agent and the CAF Advance Agent by the terms hereof, together with such powers and discretion as are reasonably incidental thereto; and (vii) such assignee agrees that it will perform in accordance with their terms all of the obligations that which by the terms of this Agreement are required to be performed by it as a Lender. (c) The Administrative Agent shall maintain at its address referred to in Section 8.02 9.2 a copy of each Assignment and Acceptance delivered to and accepted by it and a register for the recordation of the names and addresses of the Lenders and the Commitment of, and principal amount of the Advances owing to, each Lender from time to time (the "Register"). The entries in the Register shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error, and the each Borrower, the Administrative Agent, the CAF Advance Agent and the Lenders may treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Register as a Lender hereunder for all purposes of this Agreement. The Register shall be available for inspection by the any Borrower or any Lender at any reasonable time and from time to time upon reasonable prior notice. Upon the acceptance of any Assignment and Acceptance for recordation in the Register, Schedule I hereto shall be deemed to be amended to reflect the revised Commitments of the Lenders parties to such Assignment and Acceptance as well as administrative information with respect to any new Lender as such information is recorded in the Register. (d) Upon its receipt of an Assignment and Acceptance executed by an assigning Lender and an as assignee representing that it is an Eligible Assignee, together with any Note or Notes subject to such assignment, the Administrative Agent shall, if such Assignment and Acceptance has been completed and is in substantially the form of Exhibit C G hereto, (i) accept such Assignment and Acceptance, (ii) record the information contained therein in the Register and (iii) give prompt notice thereof to the Borrower. Within Company; within five Business Days after its receipt of such noticenotice and its receipt of an executed counterpart of such Assignment and Acceptance, the BorrowerBorrowers, at its their own expense, shall execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent in exchange for the surrendered Note a Notes, if any, new Note Notes to the order of such Eligible Assignee Assignee, if requested, in an amount equal to the Commitment assumed by it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance and, if the assigning Lender has retained a Commitment hereunder, a new Note Notes, if requested, to the order of the assigning Lender in an amount equal to the Commitment retained by it hereunder. Such new Note or Notes Notes, if any, shall be in an aggregate principal amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of such surrendered Note or Notes, if any, shall be dated (A) in the effective case of Notes made by EPNGC, the Closing Date and (B) in the case of Notes made by any other Borrower, the date of such Assignment other Borrower executes and Acceptance delivers its Joinder Agreement, and shall otherwise be in substantially the form of Exhibit A hereto.A. (e) Each Lender may sell participations to one or more banks or other entities (other than the Borrower or any of its Affiliates) in or to all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, all or a portion of its Commitment, and the Advances owing to it and the Note or Notes held by it); provided, however, that (i) such Lender's obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, its Commitment to the Borrower Borrowers hereunder) shall remain unchanged, (ii) such Lender shall remain solely responsible to the other parties hereto for the performance of such obligations, (iii) such Lender shall remain the holder of any such Note Notes for all purposes of this Agreement, (iv) the BorrowerBorrowers, the Administrative Agent, the CAF Advance Agent and the other Lenders shall continue to deal solely and directly with such Lender in connection with such Lender's rights and obligations under this Agreement and Agreement, (v) no participant under such Lender shall continue to be able to agree to any such participation shall have any right to approve any modification or amendment or waiver of any provision of this Agreement or any Notewaiver hereunder without the consent, approval or vote of any consent to any departure by the Borrower therefromsuch participant or group of participants, except to the extent that such amendmentother than modifications, waiver or consent would reduce the principal of, or interest on, the Notes or any fees or other amounts payable hereunder, in each case to the extent subject to such participation, or amendments and waivers which (A) postpone any date fixed for any payment of principal of, or reduce any payment of, principal of or interest on, the on such Lender's Advances or Notes or any facility fees payable under this Agreement, or other amounts (B) increase the amount of such Lender's Commitment in a manner which would have the effect of increasing the amount of a participant's participation, or (C) reduce the interest rate payable hereunderunder this Agreement and such Lender's Notes, in each case or (D) consent to the extent subject assignment or the transfer by any Borrower of any of its rights and obligations under the Agreement, and (vi) except as contemplated by the immediately preceding clause (v), no participant shall be deemed to such participationbe or to have any of the rights or obligations of a "Lender" hereunder. (f) Any Lender may, in connection with any assignment or participation or proposed assignment or participation pursuant to this Section 8.079.7, disclose to the assignee or participant or proposed assignee or participant, any information relating to the Borrower Borrowers furnished to such Lender by or on behalf of the BorrowerBorrowers; provided that, prior to any such disclosure, the assignee or participant or proposed assignee or participant shall agree in writing for the benefit of the Borrowers to preserve the confidentiality of any Confidential Information confidential information relating to the Borrower Borrowers received by it from such LenderLender in a manner consistent with Section 9.8. (g) Notwithstanding any other provision set forth Anything in this AgreementAgreement to the contrary notwithstanding, any Lender may at any time create a security interest in all or any portion of its rights under this Agreement (including, without limitation, the Advances owing to it it) and the Note held by it) Notes issued to it hereunder in favor of any Federal Reserve Bank in accordance with Regulation A of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve SystemSystem (or any successor regulation) and the applicable operating circular of such Federal Reserve Bank. (h) In connection with the initial assignment or proposed initial assignment by the Initial Lender pursuant to this Section 8.07, the Borrower shall, upon the request of the Initial Lender, furnish to the Initial Lender a favorable opinion of counsel for the Borrower acceptable to the Initial Lender, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Initial Lender.

Assignments and Participations. (a) Each The Lender may assign to one or more Persons all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, all or a portion of its Commitment, the Advance Loan owing to it and the Promissory Note or Notes held by it); provided, however, that (i) each such assignment shall be of a constant, and not a varying, varying percentage of all rights and obligations under this AgreementAgreement and in principal amount not less than $10,000,000, (ii) except in the case of an assignment to a Person that, immediately prior to such assignment, was a Lender or an assignment of all of a Lender's rights and obligations under this Agreement, the amount of the Commitment of the assigning Lender being assigned pursuant to each such assignment (determined as of the date of the Assignment and Acceptance with respect to such assignment) shall in no event be less than $5,000,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof, (iii) each such assignment shall be to an Eligible Assignee, and (iv) the parties to each such assignment shall execute and deliver to the Agent, for its acceptance and recording in the Register, an Assignment and Acceptance, together with any the Promissory Note subject to such assignment, and (iii) unless (A) the assignment is to an Affiliate or successor of the Lender, including without limitation Coinbase Asset Management, or (B) there exists at such time a Default or Event of Default, the prior written consent of the Borrower to such assignment is required (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed). Upon such execution, execution and delivery, acceptance and recording, from and after the effective date Effective Date of Assignment and Acceptance specified in each Assignment and Acceptance, (Ax) the assignee thereunder shall be a party hereto and, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned to it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance, have the such rights and obligations of a the Lender hereunder and (By) the Lender assignor thereunder shall, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned by it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance, relinquish such rights (other than its rights under Section 2.09, Section 2.12 and Section 7.04 to the extent any claim thereunder relates to an event arising prior to such assignment) and be released from its such obligations under this Agreement (and, in the case of an Assignment and Acceptance covering all or the remaining portion of an assigning the Lender's rights and obligations under this Agreement, such the Lender shall cease to be a party hereto). If the Lender transfers or assigns any portion or all of its rights under the Loan Documents to any other Person, any reference to the Lender in each Loan Document shall thereafter refer to the Lender and to such other Person to the extent of their respective interests, as if such other Person had been a party to this Agreement as of the date hereof up to and including the date of such transfer or assignment. (b) By executing and delivering an Assignment and Acceptance, the Lender assignor thereunder and the assignee thereunder confirm to and agree with each other and the other parties hereto as follows: (i) other than as provided in such Assignment and Acceptance, such assigning Lender makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to any statements, warranties or representations made in or in connection with this Agreement or the execution, legality, validity, enforceability, genuineness, sufficiency or value of, or the perfection or priority of any lien or security interest created or purported to be created under or in connection with, this Agreement or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant hereto; (ii) such assigning Lender makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to the financial condition of the Borrower or the performance or observance by the Borrower of any of its obligations under this Agreement or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant hereto; (iii) such assignee confirms that it has received a copy of this Agreement, together with copies of the financial statements referred to in Section 4.01 5.01(j) and such other documents and information as it has deemed appropriate to make its own credit analysis and decision to enter into such Assignment and Acceptance; (iv) such assignee will, independently and without reliance upon the Agent, such assigning Lender or any other Lender and based on such documents and information as it shall deem appropriate at the time, continue to make its own credit decisions in taking or not taking action under this Agreement; and (v) such assignee confirms that it is an Eligible Assignee; (vi) such assignee appoints and authorizes the Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers and discretion under this Agreement as are delegated to the Agent by the terms hereof, together with such powers and discretion as are reasonably incidental thereto; and (vii) such assignee agrees that it will perform in accordance with their terms all of the obligations that by the terms of this Agreement are required to be performed by it as a the Lender. (c) The Agent shall maintain at its address referred to in Section 8.02 a copy of each Assignment and Acceptance delivered to and accepted by it and a register for the recordation of the names and addresses of the Lenders and the Commitment of, and principal amount of the Advances owing to, each Lender from time to time (the "Register"). The entries in the Register shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error, and the Borrower, the Agent and the Lenders may treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Register as a Lender hereunder for all purposes of this Agreement. The Register shall be available for inspection by the Borrower or any Lender at any reasonable time and from time to time upon reasonable prior notice. (d) Upon its receipt of an Assignment and Acceptance executed by an assigning Lender and an assignee representing that it is an Eligible Assignee, together with any Note or Notes subject to such assignment, the Agent shall, if such Assignment and Acceptance has been completed and is in substantially the form of Exhibit C hereto, (i) accept such Assignment and Acceptance, (ii) record the information contained therein in the Register and (iii) give prompt notice thereof to the Borrower. Within five Business Days after its receipt of notice of an assignment hereunder and the Promissory Note(s) subject to such noticeassignment, the Borrower, Borrower at its own expense, expense shall execute and deliver to the Agent Lender assignee, in exchange for the each surrendered Note Promissory Note, a new Promissory Note to the order of such Eligible Assignee assignee in an amount equal to the Commitment outstanding amount of the Promissory Note assumed by it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance and, if the assigning Lender L▇▇▇▇▇ has retained a Commitment hereunderportion of the Loan, a new Promissory Note to the order of the assigning Lender in an amount equal to its portion of the Commitment retained by it hereunderLoan. Such new Promissory Note or Promissory Notes shall be in an aggregate principal amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of such the surrendered Note or NotesPromissory Note, shall be dated the effective date of such Assignment and Acceptance and shall otherwise be in substantially the form of Exhibit A hereto. (ed) Each The Lender may sell participations at any time, without the consent of, or notice, to the Borrower, to one or more banks or other entities (other than the Borrower Guarantor or any of its Affiliates) in or to all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, all or a portion of its Commitment, the Advances Loan owing to it and the Promissory Note or Promissory Notes held by it); provided, however, that (i) such the Lender's obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, its Commitment to the Borrower hereunder) shall remain unchanged, (ii) such the Lender shall remain solely responsible to the other parties hereto for the performance of such obligations, (iii) such the Lender shall remain the holder of any such Promissory Note for all purposes of this Agreement, (iv) the Borrower, the Agent and the other Lenders Borrower shall continue to deal solely and directly with such the Lender in connection with such the Lender's rights and obligations under this Agreement and (v) no participant under any such participation shall have any right to approve any amendment or waiver of any provision of this Agreement Agreement, the Collateral Documents or any Promissory Note, or any consent to any departure by the Borrower therefrom, except to the extent that such amendment, waiver or consent would reduce the principal of, or interest on, the Notes such Promissory Note or any fees or other amounts payable hereunder, in each case to the extent subject to such participation, or release a material portion of the Collateral, or postpone any date fixed for any payment of principal of, or interest on, the Notes such Promissory Note or any fees or other amounts payable hereunder, in each case to the extent subject to such participation. The Borrower agrees that each participant shall be entitled to the benefits of Section 2.09, Section 2.12 and Section 7.04(c) (subject to the requirements and limitations therein, including the requirements under Section 2.09(f) (it being understood that the documentation required under Section 2.09(f) shall be delivered to the participating Lender)) to the same extent as if it were a Lender and had acquired its interest by assignment pursuant to paragraph (b) of this Section; provided that such participant shall not be entitled to receive any greater payment under Section 2.09 and Section 2.12 than 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 Borrower's prior written consent or such entitlement to a greater payment results from a Change in Law after the sale of the participation takes place. (fe) Any The Lender may, in connection with any assignment or participation or Risk Transfer or proposed assignment or participation or Risk Transfer pursuant to this Section 8.077.06, disclose to the assignee or participant or party to a Risk Transfer or proposed assignee or participantparticipant or party to a Risk Transfer, any information relating to the Borrower furnished to such the Lender by or on behalf of the Borrower; provided that, prior to any such disclosure, the assignee or participant or proposed assignee or participant shall agree to preserve the confidentiality of any Confidential Information relating to the Borrower received by it from such Lender. (gf) Notwithstanding any other provision set forth in this Agreement, any the Lender may at any time create a security interest in all or any portion of its rights under this Agreement (including, without limitation, the Advances Loan owing to it and the any Promissory Note held by it) in favor of including any pledge or assignment to secure obligations to a Federal Reserve Bank in accordance with Regulation A of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve Systemor other central banking authority. (h) In connection with the initial assignment or proposed initial assignment by the Initial Lender pursuant to this Section 8.07, the Borrower shall, upon the request of the Initial Lender, furnish to the Initial Lender a favorable opinion of counsel for the Borrower acceptable to the Initial Lender, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Initial Lender.

Assignments and Participations. (a) Each 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) the Borrower may not assign or otherwise transfer any of its rights or obligations hereunder without the prior written consent of each Lender (and any attempted assignment or transfer by the Borrower without such consent shall be null and void) and (ii) no Lender may assign or otherwise transfer its rights or obligations hereunder except in accordance with this Section. (i) Subject to the conditions set forth in paragraph (b)(ii) below, any Lender may assign to one or more Persons assignees (each, an “Assignee”) all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, including all or a portion of its Commitment, Commitments and the Advance Loans at the time owing to it it) with the prior written consent (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed) of: (A) the Borrower, provided that no consent of the Borrower shall be required for an assignment to a Lender, an affiliate of a Lender, an Approved Fund (as defined below) or, if an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, any other Person (in which case the Note or Notes held Borrower shall instead be promptly notified of such assignment by itthe assigning Lender unless the Assignee is an Affiliate of such assigning Lender); providedand (B) the Administrative Agent, however, provided that (i) each such assignment no consent of the Administrative Agent shall be required for an assignment to a Lender, an affiliate of a constant, and not a varying, percentage of all rights and obligations under this Agreement, Lender or an Approved Fund (as defined below). (ii) Assignments shall be subject to the following additional conditions: (A) except in the case of an assignment to a Person thatLender, immediately prior to such assignment, was an affiliate of a Lender or an Approved Fund or an assignment of all the entire remaining amount of a the assigning Lender's rights and obligations ’s Commitments or Loans under this Agreementany Facility, the amount of the Commitment Commitments or Loans of the assigning Lender being assigned pursuant subject to each such assignment (determined as of the date of the Assignment and Acceptance Assumption with respect to such assignmentassignment is delivered to the Administrative Agent) shall in no event not be less than $5,000,000 or an integral multiple unless each of $1,000,000 in excess thereofthe Borrower and the Administrative Agent otherwise consent, provided that (iii1) each no such assignment consent of the Borrower shall be to required if an Eligible Assignee, Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and (iv2) such amounts shall be aggregated in respect of each Lender and its affiliates or Approved Funds, if any; (B) the parties to each such assignment shall execute and deliver to the Agent, for its acceptance and recording in the Register, Administrative Agent an Assignment and AcceptanceAssumption, together with any Note subject to such assignment. Upon such execution, delivery, acceptance a processing and recording, from and after recordation fee of $3,500 (which fee shall not be reimbursed by the effective date specified in each Assignment and Acceptance, Borrower); and (AC) the assignee thereunder Assignee, if it shall not be a party hereto and, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned to it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance, have the rights and obligations of a Lender hereunder and (B) the Lender assignor thereunder shall, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned by it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance, relinquish its rights and be released from its obligations under this Agreement (and, in the case of an Assignment and Acceptance covering all or the remaining portion of an assigning Lender's rights and obligations under this Agreement, such Lender shall cease to be a party hereto). (b) By executing and delivering an Assignment and Acceptance, the Lender assignor thereunder and the assignee thereunder confirm to and agree with each other and the other parties hereto as follows: (i) other than as provided in such Assignment and Acceptance, such assigning Lender makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to any statements, warranties or representations made in or in connection with this Agreement or the execution, legality, validity, enforceability, genuineness, sufficiency or value of this Agreement or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant hereto; (ii) such assigning Lender makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to the financial condition of the Borrower or the performance or observance by the Borrower of any of its obligations under this Agreement or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant hereto; (iii) such assignee confirms that it has received a copy of this Agreement, together with copies of the financial statements referred to in Section 4.01 and such other documents and information as it has deemed appropriate to make its own credit analysis and decision to enter into such Assignment and Acceptance; (iv) such assignee will, independently and without reliance upon the Agent, such assigning Lender or any other Lender and based on such documents and information as it shall deem appropriate at the time, continue to make its own credit decisions in taking or not taking action under this Agreement; (v) such assignee confirms that it is an Eligible Assignee; (vi) such assignee appoints and authorizes the Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers and discretion under this Agreement as are delegated to the Agent by the terms hereof, together with such powers and discretion as are reasonably incidental thereto; and (vii) such assignee agrees that it will perform in accordance with their terms all of the obligations that by the terms of this Agreement are required to be performed by it as a Lender. (c) The Agent shall maintain at its address referred to in Section 8.02 a copy of each Assignment and Acceptance delivered to and accepted by it and a register for the recordation of the names and addresses of the Lenders and the Commitment of, and principal amount of the Advances owing to, each Lender from time to time (the "Register"). The entries in the Register shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error, and the Borrower, the Agent and the Lenders may treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Register as a Lender hereunder for all purposes of this Agreement. The Register shall be available for inspection by the Borrower or any Lender at any reasonable time and from time to time upon reasonable prior notice. (d) Upon its receipt of an Assignment and Acceptance executed by an assigning Lender and an assignee representing that it is an Eligible Assignee, together with any Note or Notes subject to such assignment, the Agent shall, if such Assignment and Acceptance has been completed and is in substantially the form of Exhibit C hereto, (i) accept such Assignment and Acceptance, (ii) record the information contained therein in the Register and (iii) give prompt notice thereof to the Borrower. Within five Business Days after its receipt of such notice, the Borrower, at its own expense, shall execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent in exchange for the surrendered Note a new Note to the order of such Eligible Assignee in an amount equal to the Commitment assumed by it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance and, if the assigning Lender has retained a Commitment hereunder, a new Note to the order of the assigning Lender in an amount equal to the Commitment retained by it hereunder. Such new Note or Notes shall be in an aggregate principal amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of such surrendered Note or Notes, shall be dated the effective date of such Assignment and Acceptance and shall otherwise be in substantially the form of Exhibit A heretoadministrative questionnaire. (e) Each Lender may sell participations to one or more banks or other entities (other than the Borrower or any of its Affiliates) in or to all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, all or a portion of its Commitment, the Advances owing to it and the Note or Notes held by it); provided, however, that (i) such Lender's obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, its Commitment to the Borrower hereunder) shall remain unchanged, (ii) such Lender shall remain solely responsible to the other parties hereto for the performance of such obligations, (iii) such Lender shall remain the holder of any such Note for all purposes of this Agreement, (iv) the Borrower, the Agent and the other Lenders shall continue to deal solely and directly with such Lender in connection with such Lender's rights and obligations under this Agreement and (v) no participant under any such participation shall have any right to approve any amendment or waiver of any provision of this Agreement or any Note, or any consent to any departure by the Borrower therefrom, except to the extent that such amendment, waiver or consent would reduce the principal of, or interest on, the Notes or any fees or other amounts payable hereunder, in each case to the extent subject to such participation, or postpone any date fixed for any payment of principal of, or interest on, the Notes or any fees or other amounts payable hereunder, in each case to the extent subject to such participation. (f) Any Lender may, in connection with any assignment or participation or proposed assignment or participation pursuant to this Section 8.07, disclose to the assignee or participant or proposed assignee or participant, any information relating to the Borrower furnished to such Lender by or on behalf of the Borrower; provided that, prior to any such disclosure, the assignee or participant or proposed assignee or participant shall agree to preserve the confidentiality of any Confidential Information relating to the Borrower received by it from such Lender. (g) Notwithstanding any other provision set forth in this Agreement, any Lender may at any time create a security interest in all or any portion of its rights under this Agreement (including, without limitation, the Advances owing to it and the Note held by it) in favor of any Federal Reserve Bank in accordance with Regulation A of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. (h) In connection with the initial assignment or proposed initial assignment by the Initial Lender pursuant to this Section 8.07, the Borrower shall, upon the request of the Initial Lender, furnish to the Initial Lender a favorable opinion of counsel for the Borrower acceptable to the Initial Lender, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Initial Lender.

Assignments and Participations. (a) Each Lender may assign to one or more Persons all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, all or a portion of its Commitment, the Advance owing to it and the Note or Notes held by it); provided, however, that (i) each such assignment shall be of a constant, and not a varying, percentage of all rights and obligations under this Agreement, (ii) except in the case of an assignment to a Person that, immediately prior to such assignment, was a Lender or an assignment of all of a Lender's rights and obligations under this Agreement, the amount of the Commitment of the assigning Lender being assigned pursuant to each such assignment (determined as of the date of the Assignment and Acceptance with respect to such assignment) shall in no event be less than $5,000,000 Yen 500,000,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000,000 Yen 100,000,000 in excess thereof, (iii) each such assignment shall be to an Eligible Assignee, and (iv) the parties to each such assignment shall execute and deliver to the Agent, for its acceptance and recording in the Register, an Assignment and Acceptance, together with any Note subject to such assignment. Upon such execution, delivery, acceptance and recording, from and after the effective date specified in each Assignment and Acceptance, (A) the assignee thereunder shall be a party hereto and, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned to it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance, have the rights and obligations of a Lender hereunder and (B) the Lender assignor thereunder shall, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned by it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance, relinquish its rights and be released from its obligations under this Agreement (and, in the case of an Assignment and Acceptance covering all or the remaining portion of an assigning Lender's rights and obligations under this Agreement, such Lender shall cease to be a party hereto). (b) By executing and delivering an Assignment and Acceptance, the Lender assignor thereunder and the assignee thereunder confirm to and agree with each other and the other parties hereto as follows: (i) other than as provided in such Assignment and Acceptance, such assigning Lender makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to any statements, warranties or representations made in or in connection with this Agreement or the execution, legality, validity, enforceability, genuineness, sufficiency or value of this Agreement or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant hereto; (ii) such assigning Lender makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to the financial condition of the Borrower or the performance or observance by the Borrower of any of its obligations under this Agreement or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant hereto; (iii) such assignee confirms that it has received a copy of this Agreement, together with copies of the financial statements referred to in Section 4.01 and such other documents and information as it has deemed appropriate to make its own credit analysis and decision to enter into such Assignment and Acceptance; (iv) such assignee will, independently and without reliance upon the Agent, such assigning Lender or any other Lender and based on such documents and information as it shall deem appropriate at the time, continue to make its own credit decisions in taking or not taking action under this Agreement; (v) such assignee confirms that it is an Eligible Assignee; (vi) such assignee appoints and authorizes the Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers and discretion under this Agreement as are delegated to the Agent by the terms hereof, together with such powers and discretion as are reasonably incidental thereto; and (vii) such assignee agrees that it will perform in accordance with their terms all of the obligations that by the terms of this Agreement are required to be performed by it as a Lender. (c) The Agent shall maintain at its address referred to in Section 8.02 a copy of each Assignment and Acceptance delivered to and accepted by it and a register for the recordation of the names and addresses of the Lenders and the Commitment of, and principal amount of the Advances owing to, each Lender from time to time (the "Register"). The entries in the Register shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error, and the Borrower, the Agent and the Lenders may treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Register as a Lender hereunder for all purposes of this Agreement. The Register shall be available for inspection by the Borrower or any Lender at any reasonable time and from time to time upon reasonable prior notice. (d) Upon its receipt of an Assignment and Acceptance executed by an assigning Lender and an assignee representing that it is an Eligible Assignee, together with any Note or Notes subject to such assignment, the Agent shall, if such Assignment and Acceptance has been completed and is in substantially the form of Exhibit C hereto, (i) accept such Assignment and Acceptance, (ii) record the information contained therein in the Register and (iii) give prompt notice thereof to the Borrower. Within five Business Days after its receipt of such notice, the Borrower, at its own expense, shall execute and deliver to the Agent in exchange for the surrendered Note a new Note to the order of such Eligible Assignee in an amount equal to the Commitment assumed by it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance and, if the assigning Lender has retained a Commitment hereunder, a new Note to the order of the assigning Lender in an amount equal to the Commitment retained by it hereunder. Such new Note or Notes shall be in an aggregate principal amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of such surrendered Note or Notes, shall be dated the effective date of such Assignment and Acceptance and shall otherwise be in substantially the form of Exhibit A hereto. (e) Each Lender may sell participations to one or more banks or other entities (other than the Borrower or any of its Affiliates) in or to all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, all or a portion of its Commitment, the Advances owing to it and the Note or Notes held by it); provided, however, that (i) such Lender's obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, its Commitment to the Borrower hereunder) shall remain unchanged, (ii) such Lender shall remain solely responsible to the other parties hereto for the performance of such obligations, (iii) such Lender shall remain the holder of any such Note for all purposes of this Agreement, (iv) the Borrower, the Agent and the other Lenders shall continue to deal solely and directly with such Lender in connection with such Lender's rights and obligations under this Agreement and (v) no participant under any such participation shall have any right to approve any amendment or waiver of any provision of this Agreement or any Note, or any consent to any departure by the Borrower therefrom, except to the extent that such amendment, waiver or consent would reduce the principal of, or interest on, the Notes or any fees or other amounts payable hereunder, in each case to the extent subject to such participation, or postpone any date fixed for any payment of principal of, or interest on, the Notes or any fees or other amounts payable hereunder, in each case to the extent subject to such participation. (f) Any Lender may, in connection with any assignment or participation or proposed assignment or participation pursuant to this Section 8.07, disclose to the assignee or participant or proposed assignee or participant, any information relating to the Borrower furnished to such Lender by or on behalf of the Borrower; provided that, prior to any such disclosure, the assignee or participant or proposed assignee or participant shall agree to preserve the confidentiality of any Confidential Information relating to the Borrower received by it from such Lender. (g) Notwithstanding any other provision set forth in this Agreement, any Lender may at any time create a security interest in all or any portion of its rights under this Agreement (including, without limitation, the Advances owing to it and the Note held by it) in favor of any Federal Reserve Bank in accordance with Regulation A of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. (h) In connection with the initial assignment or proposed initial assignment by the Initial Lender pursuant to this Section 8.07, the Borrower shall, upon the request of the Initial Lender, furnish to the Initial Lender a favorable opinion of counsel for the Borrower acceptable to the Initial Lender, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Initial Lender.

Assignments and Participations. (a) Each Lender may assign to one or more Persons all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, all or a portion of its Commitment, the Advance Revolving Advances owing to it and the Note or Notes Notes, if any, held by it); provided, however, that (i) each such assignment shall be of a constant, and not a varying, percentage of all rights and obligations under this AgreementAgreement (other than any right to make CAF Advances, CAF Advances owing to it and CAF Note or CAF Notes, if any), (ii) except in the case of an assignment to a Person that, immediately prior to such assignment, was a Lender or an assignment of all of a Lender's ’s rights and obligations under this Agreement, the amount of the Commitment of the assigning Lender being assigned pursuant to each such assignment (determined as of the date of the Assignment and Acceptance with respect to such assignment) shall in no event be less than $5,000,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof, (iii) each such assignment shall be to an Eligible Assignee, and (iv) the parties to each such assignment shall execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent, for its acceptance and recording in the Register, an Assignment and Acceptance, together with any Note Note, if any, subject to such assignment, and (v) the parties to each such assignment shall deliver to the Administrative Agent a processing and recordation fee of $3,500. Upon such execution, delivery, acceptance and recording, from and after the effective date specified in each Assignment and Acceptance, (Ax) the assignee thereunder shall be a party hereto and, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned to it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance, have the rights and obligations of a Lender hereunder and (By) the Lender assignor thereunder shall, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned by it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance, relinquish its rights (other than its rights under Sections 2.14, 2.17 and 8.04 to the extent any claim thereunder relates to an event arising prior to such assignment) and be released from its obligations under this Agreement (and, in the case of an Assignment and Acceptance covering all or the remaining portion of an assigning Lender's ’s rights and obligations under this Agreement, such Lender shall cease to be a party hereto). (b) By executing and delivering an Assignment and Acceptance, the Lender assignor thereunder and the assignee thereunder confirm to and agree with each other and the other parties hereto as follows: (i) other than as provided in such Assignment and Acceptance, such assigning Lender makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to any statements, warranties or representations made in or in connection with this Agreement or the execution, legality, validity, enforceability, genuineness, sufficiency or value of this Agreement or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant hereto; (ii) such assigning Lender makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to the financial condition of the Borrower or the performance or observance by the Borrower of any of its obligations under this Agreement or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant hereto; (iii) such assignee confirms that it has received a copy of this Agreement, together with copies of the financial statements referred to in Section 4.01 and such other documents and information as it has deemed appropriate to make its own credit analysis and decision to enter into such Assignment and Acceptance; (iv) such assignee will, independently and without reliance upon the Administrative Agent, such assigning Lender or any other Lender and based on such documents and information as it shall deem appropriate at the time, continue to make its own credit decisions in taking or not taking action under this Agreement; (v) such assignee confirms that it is an Eligible Assignee; (vi) such assignee appoints and authorizes the Administrative Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers and discretion under this Agreement as are delegated to the Administrative Agent by the terms hereof, together with such powers and discretion as are reasonably incidental thereto; and (vii) such assignee agrees that it will perform in accordance with their terms all of the obligations that by the terms of this Agreement are required to be performed by it as a Lender. (c) The Administrative Agent shall maintain at its address referred to in Section 8.02 a copy of each Assignment and Acceptance delivered to and accepted by it and a register for the recordation of the names and addresses of the Lenders and the Commitment of, and principal amount of the Advances owing to, each Lender from time to time (the "“Register"”). The entries in the Register shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest errorprima facie evidence of the correctness thereof, and the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and the Lenders may treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Register as a Lender hereunder for all purposes of this Agreement. The Register shall be available for inspection by the Borrower or any Lender at any reasonable time and from time to time upon reasonable prior notice. (d) Upon its receipt of an Assignment and Acceptance executed by an assigning Lender and an assignee representing that it is an Eligible Assignee, together with any Note or Notes Note, if any, subject to such assignment, the Administrative Agent shall, if such Assignment and Acceptance has been completed and is in substantially the form of Exhibit C hereto, (i) accept such Assignment and Acceptance, (ii) record the information contained therein in the Register and (iii) give prompt notice thereof to the Borrower. Within five Business Days after its receipt of such notice, the Borrower, at its own expense, shall execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent in exchange for the surrendered Note a new Note to the order of such Eligible Assignee in an amount equal to the Commitment assumed by it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance and, if the assigning Lender has retained a Commitment hereunder, a new Note to the order of the assigning Lender in an amount equal to the Commitment retained by it hereunder. Such new Note or Notes shall be in an aggregate principal amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of such surrendered Note or Notes, shall be dated the effective date of such Assignment and Acceptance and shall otherwise be in substantially the form of Exhibit A A-1 or Exhibit A-2 hereto. (e) Each Issuing Bank may assign to one or more Eligible Assignees all or a portion of its rights and obligations under the undrawn portion of its Letter of Credit Commitment at any time; provided, however, that (i) except in the case of an assignment to a Person that immediately prior to such assignment was an Issuing Bank or an assignment of all of an Issuing Bank’s rights and obligations under this Agreement, the amount of the Letter of Credit Commitment of the assigning Issuing Bank being assigned pursuant to each such assignment (determined as of the date of the Assignment and Acceptance with respect to such assignment) shall in no event be less than $5,000,000 and shall be in an integral multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof, (ii) each such assignment shall be to an Eligible Assignee and (iii) the parties to each such assignment shall execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent, for its acceptance and recording in the Register, an Assignment and Acceptance, together with a processing and recordation fee of $3,500. (f) Each Lender may sell participations to one or more banks or other entities (other than the Borrower or any of its Affiliates) in or to all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, all or a portion of its Commitment, the Advances owing to it and the Note or Notes Notes, if any, held by it); provided, however, that (i) such Lender's ’s obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, its Commitment to the Borrower hereunder) shall remain unchanged, (ii) such Lender shall remain solely responsible to the other parties hereto for the performance of such obligations, (iii) such Lender shall remain the holder of any such Note for all purposes of this Agreement, (iv) the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and the other Lenders shall continue to deal solely and directly with such Lender in connection with such Lender's ’s rights and obligations under this Agreement and (v) no participant under any such participation shall have any right to approve any amendment or waiver of any provision of this Agreement or any Note, or any consent to any departure by the Borrower therefrom, except to the extent that such amendment, waiver or consent would reduce the principal of, or interest on, the Notes or any fees or other amounts payable hereunder, in each case to the extent subject to such participation, or postpone any date fixed for any payment of principal of, or interest on, the Notes or any fees or other amounts payable hereunder, in each case to the extent subject to such participation. A Participant shall not be entitled to receive any greater payment under Sections 2.14 than 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 Borrower’s prior written consent. (fg) Any Lender may, in connection with any assignment or participation or proposed assignment or participation pursuant to this Section 8.07, disclose to the assignee or participant or proposed assignee or participant, any information relating to the Borrower furnished to such Lender by or on behalf of the Borrower; provided that, prior to any such disclosure, the assignee or participant or proposed assignee or participant shall agree to preserve the confidentiality of any Confidential Information relating to the Borrower received by it from such Lender. (gh) Notwithstanding any other provision set forth in this Agreement, any Lender may at any time and without the consent of the Borrower or the Administrative Agent (i) create a security interest in all or any portion of its rights under this Agreement (including, without limitation, the Advances owing to it and the Note or Notes held by it) in favor of any Federal Reserve Bank in accordance with Regulation A of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, and (ii) with notice to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent, assign all or part of its rights and obligations under this Agreement to any of its Affiliates. (hi) In connection with the initial assignment event that any Lender requests payments of reimbursement, compensation or proposed initial assignment by indemnification from the Initial Lender Borrower pursuant to Sections 2.02, 2.14 or 2.17 herein, then the Borrower shall have the right, but not the obligation, at its own expense, upon 5 Business Days notice to such Lender and the Administrative Agent, to replace such Lender with an assignee (in accordance with and subject to the restrictions contained in paragraphs (a) and (b) above), and such Lender hereby agrees to transfer and assign without recourse (in accordance with and subject to the restrictions contained in paragraphs (a) and (b) above) all its interests, rights and obligations in respect of its Commitment to such assignee; provided, however, that (i) no such assignment shall conflict with any law, rule and regulation or order of any governmental authority, (ii) no Default has occurred or is continuing, (iii) the Borrower has satisfied all of its obligations under this Section 8.07Agreement relating to such assigning Lender through the date of such assignment, (iv) the Borrower shall pay to the Administrative Agent the administrative fee in the amount of $3,500 if such replacement Lender assignee is not an existing Lender, and (v) such assignee shall pay to such assigning Lender in immediately available funds on the date of such assignment the principal of and interest accrued to the date of payment on the Advances made by such Lender hereunder and the Borrower, the Borrower shallAdministrative Agent or such assignee, upon the request of the Initial as applicable, shall pay to such Lender all other amounts accrued for such Lender, furnish ’s account or owed to the Initial Lender a favorable opinion of counsel for the Borrower acceptable to the Initial Lender, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Initial Lenderit hereunder.

Assignments and Participations. (a) Each Lender may assign to one or more Persons Eligible Assignees all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement the Loan Documents (including, without limitation, all or a portion of its Commitment, the Advance Advances owing to it and the Note or Notes (if any) held by it); provided, however, that (i) each such assignment shall be of a constant, and not a varying, percentage of all rights and obligations under this Agreement, (ii) except in of the case of an assignment to a Person that, immediately prior to such assignment, was a Lender or an assignment of all of a assigning Lender's rights and obligations under this Agreementthe Loan Documents, (ii) the amount of the Commitment of the assigning Lender being assigned pursuant to each such assignment (determined as of the date of the Lender Assignment and Acceptance with respect to such assignment) shall in no event be less than the lesser of the amount of such Lender's then remaining Commitment and $5,000,000 or an integral any whole multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereofthereof (except in the case of assignments between Lenders at the time already parties hereto and between a Lender and an Affiliate of such Lender), (iii) each the Agent, the LC Issuing Bank and, so long as no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the Borrower, shall have consented to such assignment shall (in each case, which may not be to an Eligible Assigneeunreasonably withheld or delayed), and (iv) the parties to each such assignment shall execute and deliver to the Agent, for its acceptance and recording in the Register, an Assignment and Acceptancea Lender Assignment, together with any Note or Notes (if any) subject to such assignmentassignment and a processing and recordation fee of $3,500. Promptly following its receipt of such Lender Assignment, Note or Notes (if any) and fee, the Agent shall accept and record such Lender Assignment in the Register. Upon such execution, delivery, acceptance and recording, from and after the effective date specified in each Assignment and AcceptanceLender Assignment, (Ax) the assignee thereunder shall be a party hereto and, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned to it pursuant to such Assignment and AcceptanceLender Assignment, have the rights and obligations of a Lender hereunder and (By) the Lender assignor thereunder shall, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned by it pursuant to such Assignment and AcceptanceLender Assignment, relinquish its rights and be released from its obligations under this Agreement (and, in the case of an a Lender Assignment and Acceptance covering all or the remaining portion of an assigning Lender's rights and obligations under this Agreement, such Lender shall cease to be a party hereto). Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, any Lender may at any time, with notice to the Borrower, the Agent and the LC Issuing Bank, assign all or any portion of the Advances owing to it to any other Lender or any Affiliate of a Lender. No such assignment, other than to an Eligible Assignee, a Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender, shall release the assigning Lender from its obligations hereunder. (b) By executing and delivering an Assignment and Acceptancea Lender Assignment, the Lender assignor thereunder and the assignee thereunder confirm to and agree with each other and the other parties hereto as follows: (i) other than as provided in such Assignment and AcceptanceLender Assignment, such assigning Lender makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to any statements, warranties or representations made in or in connection with this Agreement any Loan Document or the execution, legality, validity, enforceability, genuineness, sufficiency or value of this Agreement any Loan Document or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant heretothereto; (ii) such assigning Lender makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to the financial condition of the Borrower or the performance or observance by the Borrower of any of its obligations under this Agreement any Loan Document or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant heretothereto; (iii) such assignee confirms that it has received a copy of this Agreementeach Loan Document, together with copies of the financial statements referred to in Section 4.01 4.01(f) hereof and such other documents and information as it has deemed appropriate to make its own credit analysis and decision to enter into such Assignment and AcceptanceLender Assignment; (iv) such assignee will, independently and without reliance upon the Agent, such assigning Lender or any other Lender and based on such documents and information as it shall deem appropriate at the time, continue to make its own credit decisions in taking or not taking action under this Agreementthe Loan Documents; (v) such assignee confirms that it is an Eligible Assignee; (vi) such assignee appoints and authorizes the Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers and discretion under this Agreement the Loan Documents as are delegated to the Agent by the terms hereofthereof, together with such powers and discretion as are reasonably incidental thereto; and (vii) such assignee agrees that it will perform in accordance with their terms all of the obligations that which by the terms of this Agreement the Loan Documents are required to be performed by it as a Lender. (c) The Agent shall maintain at its address referred to in Section 8.02 a copy of each Lender Assignment and Acceptance delivered to and accepted by it and a register for the recordation of the names and addresses of the Lenders and the Commitment of, and principal amount of the Advances owing to, each Lender from time to time (the "RegisterREGISTER"). The entries in the Register shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error, and the Borrower, the Agent and the Lenders may treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Register as a Lender hereunder for all purposes of this Agreement. The Register shall be available for inspection by the Borrower or any Lender at any reasonable time and from time to time upon reasonable prior notice. (d) Upon its receipt of an a Lender Assignment and Acceptance executed by an assigning Lender and an assignee representing that it is an Eligible Assignee, together with any Note or Notes (if any) subject to such assignment, the Agent shall, if such Lender Assignment and Acceptance has been completed and is in substantially the form of Exhibit C 8.07 hereto, (i) accept such Assignment and AcceptanceLender Assignment, (ii) record the information contained therein in the Register and (iii) give prompt notice thereof to the Borrower. Within five Business Days after its receipt of such notice, the Borrower, at its own expense, shall execute and deliver to the Agent in exchange for the surrendered Note a new Note to the order of such Eligible Assignee in an amount equal to the Commitment assumed by it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance and, if the assigning Lender has retained a Commitment hereunder, a new Note to the order of the assigning Lender in an amount equal to the Commitment retained by it hereunder. Such new Note or Notes shall be in an aggregate principal amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of such surrendered Note or Notes, shall be dated the effective date of such Assignment and Acceptance and shall otherwise be in substantially the form of Exhibit A hereto. (e) Each Lender may sell participations to one or more banks banks, financial institutions or other entities (other than the Borrower or any of its Affiliates) in or to all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement the Loan Documents (including, without limitation, all or a portion of its Commitment, the Advances owing to it and the Note or Notes (if any) held by it); provided, however, that (i) such Lender's obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, its Commitment to the Borrower hereunder) shall remain unchanged, (ii) such Lender shall remain solely responsible to the other parties hereto for the performance of such obligations, (iii) such Lender shall remain the holder of any such Note (if any) for all purposes of this Agreement, and (iv) the Borrower, the Agent and the other Lenders shall continue to deal solely and directly with such Lender in connection with such Lender's rights and obligations under this Agreement and (v) no participant under any such participation shall have any right to approve any amendment or waiver of any provision of this Agreement or any Note, or any consent to any departure by the Borrower therefrom, except to the extent that such amendment, waiver or consent would reduce the principal of, or interest on, the Notes or any fees or other amounts payable hereunder, in each case to the extent subject to such participation, or postpone any date fixed for any payment of principal of, or interest on, the Notes or any fees or other amounts payable hereunder, in each case to the extent subject to such participationAgreement. (f) Any Lender may, in connection with any assignment or participation or proposed assignment or participation pursuant to this Section 8.07, disclose to the assignee or participant or proposed assignee or participant, any information relating to the Borrower furnished to such Lender by or on behalf of the Borrower; provided that, prior to any such disclosure, the assignee or participant or proposed assignee or participant shall agree agree, in accordance with the terms of Section 8.08, to preserve the confidentiality of any Confidential Information relating to the Borrower received by it from such Lender. (g) Notwithstanding If any Lender (or any bank, financial institution, or other provision set forth entity to which such Lender has sold a participation) shall (i) make any demand for payment under Section 2.08 or 2.12 or (ii) give notice to the Agent pursuant to Section 2.13, then within 30 days after any such demand or occurrence (if, but only if, in the case of any demanded payment described in clause (i), such demanded payment has been made by the Borrower), the Borrower may, with the approval of the Agent and the LC Issuing Bank (which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld), and provided that no Event of Default or Unmatured Default shall then have occurred and be continuing, demand that such Lender assign in accordance with this Section 8.07 to one or more Eligible Assignees designated by the Borrower all (but not less than all) of such Lender's Commitment and the Advances owing to it within the period ending on the later to occur of (x) the last day in the 30-day period described above and (y) the last day of the longest of the then-current Interest Periods for such Advances. If any such Eligible Assignee designated by the Borrower shall fail to consummate such assignment on terms acceptable to such Lender, or if the Borrower shall fail to designate any such Eligible Assignees for all or part of such Lender's Commitment or Advances, then such demand by the Borrower shall become ineffective; it being understood for purposes of this subsection (g) that such assignment shall be conclusively deemed to be on terms acceptable to such Lender, and such Lender shall be compelled to consummate such assignment to an Eligible Assignee designated by the Borrower, if such Eligible Assignee (1) shall agree to such assignment by entering into a Lender Assignment with such Lender and (2) shall offer compensation to such Lender in an amount equal to all amounts then owing by the Borrower to such Lender hereunder, whether for principal, interest, fees, costs or expenses (other than the demanded payment referred to above and payable by the Borrower as a condition to the Borrower's right to demand such assignment), or otherwise. (h) Anything in this AgreementSection 8.07 to the contrary notwithstanding, any Lender may at any time create a security interest in assign and pledge all or any portion of its rights under this Agreement (including, without limitation, Commitment and the Advances owing to it and the Note held by it) in favor of to any Federal Reserve Bank in accordance with (and its transferees) as collateral security pursuant to Regulation A of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve SystemSystem and any Operating Circular issued by such Federal Reserve Bank. No such assignment shall release the assigning Lender from its obligations hereunder. (hi) In connection with Notwithstanding anything to the initial assignment or proposed initial assignment contrary contained herein, any Lender (a "GRANTING LENDER") may grant to a special purpose funding vehicle (an "SPC") of such Granting Lender identified as such in writing from time to time by the Initial Granting Lender to the Agent, the LC Issuing Bank and the Borrower, the option to provide to the Borrower all or any part of any Advance that such Granting Lender would otherwise be obligated to make to the Borrower pursuant to this Section 8.07Agreement; provided that (i) nothing herein shall constitute a commitment by any such SPC to make any Advance, (ii) if such SPC elects not to exercise such option or otherwise fails to provide all or any part of such Advance, the Borrower shall, upon Granting Lender shall be obligated to make such Advance pursuant to the request terms hereof and (iii) no SPC or Granting Lender shall be entitled to receive any greater amount pursuant to Section 2.12 or 8.04(b) than the Granting Lender would have been entitled to receive had the Granting Lender not otherwise granted such SPC the option to provide any Advance to the Borrower. The making of an Advance by an SPC hereunder shall utilize the Commitment of the Initial Granting Lender to the same extent, and as if, such Advance were made by such Granting Lender. Each party hereto hereby agrees that no SPC shall be liable for any indemnity or similar payment obligation under this Agreement for which a Lender would otherwise be liable so long as, and to the extent that, the related Granting Lender provides such indemnity or makes such payment. In furtherance of the foregoing, each party hereto hereby agrees (which agreement shall survive the termination of this Agreement) that, prior to the date that is one year and one day after the payment in full of all outstanding commercial paper or other senior indebtedness of any SPC, it will not institute against or join any other person in instituting against such SPC any bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, insolvency or liquidation proceedings under the laws of the United States or any State thereof. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Granting Lender unconditionally agrees to indemnify the Borrower, the LC Issuing Bank, the Agent and each Lender against all liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments, suits, costs, expenses or disbursements of any kind or nature whatsoever which may be incurred by or asserted against the Borrower, the LC Issuing Bank, the Agent or such Lender, furnish as the case may be, in any way relating to or arising as a consequence of any such forbearance or delay in the initiation of any such proceeding against its SPC. Each party hereto hereby acknowledges and agrees that no SPC shall have the rights of a Lender hereunder, such rights being retained by the applicable Granting Lender. Accordingly, and without limiting the foregoing, each party hereby further acknowledges and agrees that no SPC shall have any voting rights hereunder and that the voting rights attributable to any Advance made by an SPC shall be exercised only by the relevant Granting Lender and that each Granting Lender shall serve as the administrative agent and attorney-in-fact for its SPC and shall on behalf of its SPC receive any and all payments made for the benefit of such SPC and take all actions hereunder to the Initial Lender a favorable opinion of counsel for the Borrower acceptable extent, if any, such SPC shall have any rights hereunder. In addition, notwithstanding anything to the Initial contrary contained in this Agreement any SPC may (i) with notice to, but without the prior written consent of any other party hereto, assign all or a portion of its interest in any Advances to the Granting Lender and (ii) disclose on a confidential basis any information relating to its Advances to any rating agency, commercial paper dealer or provider of any surety, guarantee or credit or liquidity enhancement to such SPC. This Section 8.07(i) may not be amended without the prior written consent of each Granting Lender, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to all or any part of whose Advance is being funded by an SPC at the Initial Lendertime of such amendment.

Assignments and Participations. (a) Each At any time after the Closing Date each Lender may may, with the prior consent of the Borrower (so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing) and the Agent, which consents shall not be unreasonably withheld, assign to one or more Persons banks or financial institutions all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement the Loan Documents (including, without limitation, all or a portion of any Note payable to its Commitment, the Advance owing to it and the Note or Notes held by itorder); provided, however, that (i) each such assignment shall be of a constant, constant and not a varying, varying percentage of all rights and obligations under this Agreement, (ii) except in of the case of an assignment to a Person that, immediately prior to such assignment, was a Lender or an assignment of all of a assigning Lender's rights and obligations under this Agreementhereunder, (ii) for each assignment involving the amount issuance and transfer of the Commitment of a Note, the assigning Lender being assigned pursuant to each such assignment (determined as of the date of the shall execute an Assignment and Acceptance with respect and the Borrower hereby agrees to such execute a replacement Note to give effect to the assignment) shall in no event be less than $5,000,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof, (iii) each such assignment the minimum aggregate amount of a Revolving Credit Commitment that shall be to assigned is $5,000,000, (iv) such assignee shall have an Eligible Assigneeoffice located in the United States, and (ivv) no consent of the parties to each such assignment Borrower or the Agent shall execute and deliver to the Agent, for its acceptance and recording be required in the Register, an Assignment and Acceptance, together connection with any Note subject assignment by a Lender to such assignmentanother Lender or to an Affiliate of any Lender. Upon such execution, delivery, acceptance approval and recordingacceptance, from and after the effective date specified in each Assignment and Acceptance, (Ax) the assignee thereunder shall be a party hereto and, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder or under any such Note have been assigned or negotiated to it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance, have the rights and obligations of a Lender hereunder and a holder of such Note and (By) the Lender assignor thereunder shall, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder or under such Note have been assigned or negotiated by it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance, relinquish its rights and be released from its obligations under this Agreement (and, in the case of an Assignment and Acceptance covering all or the remaining portion of an assigning Lender's rights and obligations under this Agreement, such Lender shall cease to be a party hereto). (b) By executing and delivering an Assignment and Acceptance, the Lender assignor thereunder and the assignee thereunder confirm to and agree with each other and the other parties hereto as follows: (i) other than as provided in the assignment made under such Assignment and Acceptance, Acceptance is made under such assigning Lender makes no representation or warranty Assignment and assumes no responsibility with respect to any statements, warranties or representations made in or in connection with this Agreement or the execution, legality, validity, enforceability, genuineness, sufficiency or value of this Agreement or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant heretoAcceptance without recourse; (ii) such assigning Lender makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to the financial condition of the Borrower or its Subsidiaries or the performance or observance by the Borrower of any of its obligations under this Agreement any Loan Document or any other instrument or document Document furnished pursuant hereto; (iii) such assignee confirms that it has received a copy of this Agreement, together with copies of the financial statements referred to in Section 4.01 and such other documents and information as it has deemed appropriate to make its own credit analysis and decision to enter into such Assignment and Acceptance; (iv) such assignee will, independently and without reliance upon the Agent, such assigning Lender or any other Lender and based on such documents and information as it shall deem appropriate at the time, continue to make its own credit decisions in taking or not taking action under this Agreement; (v) such assignee confirms that it is an Eligible Assignee; (vi) such assignee appoints and authorizes the Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers and discretion under this Agreement as are delegated to the Agent by the terms hereof, together with such powers and discretion as are reasonably incidental thereto; and (vii) such assignee agrees that it will perform in accordance with their terms all of the obligations that by the terms of this Agreement are required to be performed by it as a Lender.delivered pursuant to (c) The Agent shall maintain at its address referred to in Section 8.02 herein a copy of each Assignment and Acceptance delivered to and accepted by it and a register for the recordation of the names and addresses of the Lenders and the Commitment of, and principal amount of the Advances owing to, each Lender from time to time (the "Register"). The entries in the Register shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error, and the Borrower, the Agent and the Lenders may treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Register as a Lender hereunder for all purposes of this Agreement. The Register shall be available for inspection by the Borrower or any Lender at any reasonable time and from time to time upon reasonable prior noticeit. (d) Upon its receipt of an Assignment and Acceptance executed by an assigning Lender and an assignee representing that it is an Eligible Assignee, together with any Note or Notes subject to such assignmentLender, the Agent shall, if such Assignment and Acceptance has been completed and is in substantially the form of Exhibit C hereto, (i) accept such Assignment and Acceptance, (ii) record the information contained therein in the Register and (iii) shall give prompt notice thereof to the Borrower. Within five Business Days after its receipt of such notice, the Borrower, at its own expense, shall execute and deliver to the Agent in exchange for the surrendered Note a new Note to the order of such Eligible Assignee in an amount equal to the Commitment assumed by it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance and, if the assigning Lender has retained a Commitment hereunder, a new Note to the order of the assigning Lender in an amount equal to the Commitment retained by it hereunder. Such new Note or Notes shall be in an aggregate principal amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of such surrendered Note or Notes, shall be dated the effective date of such Assignment and Acceptance and shall otherwise be in substantially the form of Exhibit A hereto. (e) Nothing herein shall prohibit any Lender from pledging or assigning, without notice to or consent of the Borrower, any Note to any Federal Reserve Bank in accordance with applicable law. (f) Each Lender may sell participations at its expense to one or more banks or other entities (other than the Borrower or any of its Affiliates) in or as to all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, all or a portion of its Commitment, the Advances owing to it and the Note or Notes held by it)Agreement; provided, however, that (i) such Lender's obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, its Commitment to the Borrower hereunder) shall remain unchanged, (ii) such Lender shall remain solely responsible to the other parties hereto for the performance of such obligations, (iii) such Lender shall remain the holder of any such Note issued to it for all purposes the purpose of this Agreement, (iv) the Borrower, the Agent and the other Lenders shall continue to deal solely and directly with such Lender in connection with such Lender's rights and obligations under this Agreement and with regard to any and all payments to be made under this Agreement and (v) no participant under the sale of any such participation shall have any right participations that require Borrower to approve any amendment file a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission or waiver under the securities regulations or laws of any provision of this Agreement or any Note, or any consent to any departure by the Borrower therefrom, except to the extent that such amendment, waiver or consent would reduce the principal of, or interest on, the Notes or any fees or other amounts payable hereunder, in each case to the extent subject to such participation, or postpone any date fixed for any payment of principal of, or interest on, the Notes or any fees or other amounts payable hereunder, in each case to the extent subject to such participation. (f) Any Lender may, in connection with any assignment or participation or proposed assignment or participation pursuant to this Section 8.07, disclose to the assignee or participant or proposed assignee or participant, any information relating to the Borrower furnished to such Lender by or on behalf of the Borrower; provided that, prior to any such disclosure, the assignee or participant or proposed assignee or participant state shall agree to preserve the confidentiality of any Confidential Information relating to the Borrower received by it from such Lendernot be permitted. (g) Notwithstanding The Borrower may not assign any other provision set forth in this Agreementrights, any Lender may at any time create a security interest in all powers, duties or any portion of its rights obligations under this Agreement (including, or the other Loan Documents without limitation, the Advances owing to it and prior written consent of all the Note held by it) in favor of any Federal Reserve Bank in accordance with Regulation A of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve SystemLenders. (h) In connection with the initial assignment or proposed initial assignment by the Initial Lender pursuant to this Section 8.07, the Borrower shall, upon the request of the Initial Lender, furnish to the Initial Lender a favorable opinion of counsel for the Borrower acceptable to the Initial Lender, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Initial Lender.

Assignments and Participations. (a) Each Lender may may, with notice to and the consent of the Administrative Agent and, unless an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the Borrower (such consents not to be unreasonably withheld), assign to one or more Persons banks or other entities all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, all or a portion of its Commitment, Commitment and the Advance Advances owing to it and the Note or Notes held by it); provided, however, that provided that: (i) each such assignment shall be of a constant, and not a varying, percentage of all rights and obligations of the assigning Lender under this Agreement, , (ii) except in the case of an assignment to a Person that, immediately prior to such assignment, was by a Lender to one of its Affiliates or an assignment of all of a to another Lender's rights and obligations under this Agreement, the amount of the Commitment of the assigning Lender being assigned pursuant to each such assignment (determined as of the date of the Assignment and Acceptance with respect to such assignment) shall in no event (unless the Borrower and the Administrative Agent otherwise agree) be less than the lesser of (x) such Lender’s Commitment hereunder and (y) $5,000,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof, , (iii) each such assignment shall be to an Eligible Assignee, and , (iv) the parties to each such assignment shall execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent, for its acceptance and recording in the Register, an Assignment and Acceptance, together with any Note subject and (v) the parties to each such assignmentassignment (other than the Borrower) shall deliver to the Administrative Agent a processing and recordation fee of $3,500. Upon such execution, delivery, acceptance and recording, from and after the effective date Closing Date specified in each Assignment and Acceptance, (Ax) the assignee thereunder shall be a party hereto and, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned to it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance, have the rights and obligations of a Lender hereunder and (By) the Lender assignor thereunder shall, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned by it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance, relinquish its rights and be released from its obligations under this Agreement (and, in the case of an Assignment and Acceptance covering all or the remaining portion of an assigning Lender's ’s rights and obligations under this Agreement, such Lender shall cease to be a party hereto). (b) By executing and delivering an Assignment and Acceptance, the Lender assignor thereunder and the assignee thereunder confirm to and agree with each other and the other parties hereto as follows: (i) other than as provided in such Assignment and Acceptance, such assigning Lender makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to any statements, warranties or representations made in or in connection with this Agreement or the execution, legality, validity, enforceability, genuineness, sufficiency or value of this Agreement or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant hereto; (ii) such assigning Lender makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to the financial condition of the Borrower or the performance or observance by the Borrower of any of its obligations under this Agreement or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant hereto; (iii) such assignee confirms that it has received a copy of this Agreement, together with copies of the financial statements referred to in Section 4.01 and such other documents and information as it has deemed appropriate to make its own credit analysis and decision to enter into such Assignment and Acceptance; (iv) such assignee will, independently and without reliance upon the Administrative Agent, such assigning Lender or any other Lender and based on such documents and information as it shall deem appropriate at the time, continue to make its own credit decisions in taking or not taking action under this Agreement; (v) such assignee confirms that it is an Eligible Assignee; (vi) such assignee appoints and authorizes the Administrative Agent to take such action as administrative agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers and discretion under this Agreement as are delegated to the Administrative Agent by the terms hereof, together with such powers and discretion as are reasonably incidental thereto; and (vii) such assignee agrees that it will perform in accordance with their terms all of the obligations that which by the terms of this Agreement are required to be performed by it as a Lender. (c) Upon its receipt of an Assignment and Acceptance executed by an assigning Lender and an assignee representing that it is an Eligible Assignee, the Administrative Agent shall, if such Assignment and Acceptance has been completed (and the Borrower and the Administrative Agent shall have consented to the relevant assignment) and is in substantially the form of Exhibit B hereto, (i) accept such Assignment and Acceptance, (ii) record the information contained therein in the Register and (iii) give prompt notice thereof to the Borrower. (d) The Administrative Agent shall maintain at its address referred to in Section 8.02 a copy of each Assignment and Acceptance delivered to and accepted by it and a register for the recordation of the names and addresses of each of the Lenders and and, with respect to Lenders, the Commitment of, and principal amount of the Advances owing to, each such Lender from time to time (the "“Register"”). The entries in the Register shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error, and the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and the Lenders may treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Register as a Lender hereunder for all the purposes of this Agreement. The Register shall be available for inspection by the Borrower or any Lender at any reasonable time and from time to time upon reasonable prior notice. (d) Upon its receipt of an Assignment and Acceptance executed by an assigning Lender and an assignee representing that it is an Eligible Assignee, together with any Note or Notes subject to such assignment, the Agent shall, if such Assignment and Acceptance has been completed and is in substantially the form of Exhibit C hereto, (i) accept such Assignment and Acceptance, (ii) record the information contained therein in the Register and (iii) give prompt notice thereof to the Borrower. Within five Business Days after its receipt of such notice, the Borrower, at its own expense, shall execute and deliver to the Agent in exchange for the surrendered Note a new Note to the order of such Eligible Assignee in an amount equal to the Commitment assumed by it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance and, if the assigning Lender has retained a Commitment hereunder, a new Note to the order of the assigning Lender in an amount equal to the Commitment retained by it hereunder. Such new Note or Notes shall be in an aggregate principal amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of such surrendered Note or Notes, shall be dated the effective date of such Assignment and Acceptance and shall otherwise be in substantially the form of Exhibit A hereto. (e) Each Lender may sell participations to one or more banks or other entities (other than the Borrower or any of its Affiliates) Persons in or to all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, all or a portion of its Commitment, Commitment and the Advances owing to it and the Note or Notes held by it); provided, however, that (i) such Lender's ’s obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, its Commitment to the Borrower hereunder) shall remain unchanged, (ii) such Lender shall remain solely responsible to the other parties hereto for the performance of such obligations, (iii) such Lender shall remain the holder of any such Note for all purposes of this Agreement, (iv) the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and the other Lenders shall continue to deal solely and directly with such Lender in connection with such Lender's ’s rights and obligations under this Agreement Agreement, (iv) in any proceeding under the Federal Bankruptcy Code in respect of the Borrower, such Lender shall remain and be, to the fullest extent permitted by law, the sole representative with respect to the rights and obligations held in the name of such Lender (whether such rights or obligations are for such Lender’s own account or for the account of any participant) and (v) no participant under any such participation agreement shall have any right to approve any amendment or waiver of any provision of this Agreement or any NoteAgreement, or any to consent to any departure by the Borrower therefrom, except to the extent that any such amendment, waiver or consent would (x) reduce the principal of, or interest on, the Notes or any fees or other amounts payable hereunderNotes, in each case to the extent the same are subject to such participation, or (y) postpone any date fixed for any the payment of principal of, or interest on, the Notes or any fees or other amounts payable hereunderAdvances, in each case to the extent the same are subject to such participation. (f) Any Lender may, in connection with any permitted assignment or participation or proposed assignment or participation pursuant to this Section 8.078.06 and subject to the provisions of Section 8.12, disclose to the assignee or participant or proposed assignee or participant, participant any information relating to the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries or Affiliates furnished to such Lender by or on behalf of the Borrower; provided that, prior to any such disclosure, the assignee or participant or proposed assignee or participant shall agree to preserve the confidentiality of any Confidential Information relating to the Borrower received by it from such Lender. (g) Notwithstanding any other provision set forth in this Agreement, any Lender may at any time time, without the consent of the Administrative Agent or the Borrower, create a security interest in all or any portion of its rights under this Agreement (including, without limitation, the Advances owing to it and the Note held by it) in favor of any Federal Reserve Bank in accordance with Regulation A of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. (h) In connection with Notwithstanding any other provision set forth in this Agreement, any Lender may at any time, without the initial assignment or proposed initial assignment by the Initial Lender pursuant to this Section 8.07, the Borrower shall, upon the request consent of the Initial LenderAdministrative Agent or the Borrower, furnish assign to the Initial an Affiliate of such Lender a favorable opinion all or any portion of counsel for the Borrower acceptable to the Initial Lender, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Initial Lenderits rights (but not its obligations) under this Agreement.

Assignments and Participations. (a) Each The Lender may assign to one or more Persons Person all or a portion (but no less than all) of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, including all or a portion of its Commitment, the Advance Advances owing to it and the Note or Notes held by it); provided, however, that (i) each such assignment shall be assignee is an Affiliate of a constant, DTV and not a varying, percentage of all rights and obligations under this Agreement, (ii) except in the case of an assignment to a Person that, immediately prior to such assignment, was a Lender or an assignment of all of a Lender's rights and obligations under this Agreement, the amount of the Commitment of the assigning Lender being assigned pursuant to each such assignment (determined as of the date of the Assignment and Acceptance with respect to such assignment) shall in no event be less than $5,000,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof, (iii) each such assignment shall be to an Eligible Assignee, and (iv) the parties to each such assignment shall execute and deliver to the Agent, for its acceptance and recording in the Register, an Assignment and Acceptance, together with any Note Note(s) subject to such assignment; provided, further, that if such assignee is a wholly-owned subsidiary of DTV, DTV shall remain liable for the performance by such assignee of its obligations as a Lender hereunder; provided, further, that if such assignee is not a wholly-owned subsidiary of DTV, such assignee shall be subject to the prior written consent of the Borrower (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed). Upon such execution, execution and delivery, acceptance and recording, from and after the effective date specified in each Assignment and Acceptance, (Ax) the assignee thereunder shall be a party hereto and, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned to it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance, have the rights and obligations of a the Lender hereunder and (By) the Lender assignor thereunder shall, shall relinquish its rights (other than its rights under Section 7.04 to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned by it pursuant any claim thereunder relates to an event arising prior to such Assignment and Acceptance, relinquish its rights assignment) and be released from its obligations under this Agreement (and, in the case of an Assignment and Acceptance covering all or the remaining portion of an assigning Lender's rights and obligations under this Agreement, such Lender shall cease to be a party hereto). (b) By executing and delivering an Assignment and Acceptance, the Lender assignor thereunder and the assignee thereunder confirm to and agree with each other and the other parties hereto as follows: (i) other than as provided in such Assignment and Acceptance, such assigning Lender makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to any statements, warranties or representations made in or in connection with this Agreement or the execution, legality, validity, enforceability, genuineness, sufficiency or value of this Agreement or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant hereto; (ii) such assigning Lender makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to the financial condition of the Borrower or the performance or observance by the Borrower of any of its obligations under this Agreement or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant hereto; (iii) such assignee confirms that it has received a copy of this Agreement, together with copies of the financial statements referred to in Section 4.01 and such other documents and information as it has deemed appropriate to make its own credit analysis and decision to enter into such Assignment and Acceptance; (iv) such assignee will, independently and without reliance upon the Agent, such assigning Lender or any other Lender and based on such documents and information as it shall deem appropriate at the time, continue to make its own credit decisions in taking or not taking action under this Agreement; (v) such assignee confirms that it is an Eligible Assignee; (vi) such assignee appoints and authorizes the Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers and discretion under this Agreement as are delegated to the Agent by the terms hereof, together with such powers and discretion as are reasonably incidental thereto; and (vii) such assignee agrees that it will perform in accordance with their terms all of the obligations that by the terms of this Agreement are required to be performed by it as a Lender. (c) The Agent shall maintain at its address referred to in Section 8.02 a copy of each Assignment and Acceptance delivered to and accepted by it and a register for the recordation of the names and addresses of the Lenders and the Commitment of, and principal amount of the Advances owing to, each Lender from time to time (the "Register"). The entries in the Register shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error, and the Borrower, the Agent and the Lenders may treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Register as a Lender hereunder for all purposes of this Agreement. The Register shall be available for inspection by the Borrower or any Lender at any reasonable time and from time to time upon reasonable prior notice. (d) Upon its receipt of an Assignment and Acceptance executed by an assigning Lender and an assignee representing that it is an Eligible Assignee, together with any Note or Notes subject to such assignment, the Agent shall, if such Assignment and Acceptance has been completed and is in substantially the form of Exhibit C hereto, (i) accept such Assignment and Acceptance, (ii) record the information contained therein in the Register and (iii) give prompt notice thereof to the Borrower. Within five Business Days after its receipt of notice of an assignment hereunder and any Note(s) subject to such noticeassignment, the Borrower, at its own expense, shall execute and deliver to the Agent Lender assignee in exchange for the each surrendered Note Note(s) a new Note to the order of such Eligible Assignee assignee in an amount equal to the Commitment outstanding amount of the Note(s) assumed by it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance and, if the assigning Lender has retained a Commitment hereunder, a new Note to the order of the assigning Lender in an amount equal to the Commitment retained by it hereunderAcceptance. Such new Note or Notes shall be in an aggregate principal amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of such surrendered Note or NotesNote(s), shall be dated the effective date of such Assignment and Acceptance and shall otherwise be in substantially the form of Exhibit A hereto. (ec) Each Lender may sell participations to one or more banks or other entities (other than the Borrower or any of its Affiliates) in or to all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, all or a portion of its Commitment, the Advances owing to it and the Note or Notes held by it); provided, however, that (i) such Lender's obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, its Commitment to the Borrower hereunder) shall remain unchanged, (ii) such Lender shall remain solely responsible to the other parties hereto for the performance of such obligations, (iii) such Lender shall remain the holder of any such Note for all purposes of this Agreement, (iv) the Borrower, the Agent and the other Lenders shall continue to deal solely and directly with such Lender in connection with such Lender's rights and obligations under this Agreement and (v) no participant under any such participation shall have any right to approve any amendment or waiver of any provision of this Agreement or any Note, or any consent to any departure by the Borrower therefrom, except to the extent that such amendment, waiver or consent would reduce the principal of, or interest on, the Notes or any fees or other amounts payable hereunder, in each case to the extent subject to such participation, or postpone any date fixed for any payment of principal of, or interest on, the Notes or any fees or other amounts payable hereunder, in each case to the extent subject to such participation. (f) Any The Lender may, in connection with any assignment or participation or proposed assignment or participation pursuant to this Section 8.077.07, disclose to the assignee or participant or proposed assignee or participant, any information relating to the Borrower furnished to such the Lender by or on behalf of the Borrower; provided that, prior to any such disclosure, the assignee or participant or proposed assignee or participant shall agree to preserve the confidentiality of any Confidential Information relating to the Borrower received by it from such Lender. (g) Notwithstanding any other provision set forth in this Agreement, any Lender may at any time create a security interest in all or any portion of its rights under this Agreement (including, without limitation, the Advances owing to it and the Note held by it) in favor of any Federal Reserve Bank in accordance with Regulation A of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. (h) In connection with the initial assignment or proposed initial assignment by the Initial Lender pursuant to this Section 8.07, the Borrower shall, upon the request of the Initial Lender, furnish to the Initial Lender a favorable opinion of counsel for the Borrower acceptable to the Initial Lender, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Initial Lender.

Assignments and Participations. (a) Each Lender may assign to one or more Persons Eligible Assignees all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement the Loan Documents (including, without limitation, all or a portion of its Commitment, the Advance Advances owing to it it, its participations in Letters of Credit and Swingline Advances, and the Note or Notes (if any) held by it); provided, however, that (i) each such assignment shall be of a constant, and not a varying, percentage of all of the assigning Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreementthe Loan Documents, (ii) except in the case of an assignment to a Person that, immediately prior to such assignment, was a Lender or an assignment of all of a Lender's rights and obligations under this Agreement, the amount of the Commitment of the assigning Lender being assigned pursuant to each such assignment (determined as of the date of the Lender Assignment and Acceptance with respect to such assignment) shall in no event be less than the lesser of the amount of such Lender’s then remaining Commitment and $5,000,000 or an integral any whole multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereofthereof (except in the case of assignments between Lenders at the time already parties hereto and between a Lender and an Affiliate of such Lender), (iii) each the Agent, the LC Issuing Bank and, so long as no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the Borrower, shall have consented to such assignment shall (in each case, which may not be to an Eligible Assigneeunreasonably withheld or delayed), and (iv) the parties to each such assignment shall execute and deliver to the Agent, for its acceptance and recording in the Register, an Assignment and Acceptancea Lender Assignment, together with any Note or Notes (if any) subject to such assignmentassignment and a processing and recordation fee of $3,500. Promptly following its receipt of such Lender Assignment, Note or Notes (if any) and fee, the Agent shall accept and record such Lender Assignment in the Register. Upon such execution, delivery, acceptance and recording, from and after the effective date specified in each Assignment and AcceptanceLender Assignment, (Ax) the assignee thereunder shall be a party hereto and, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned to it pursuant to such Assignment and AcceptanceLender Assignment, have the rights and obligations of a Lender hereunder and (By) the Lender assignor thereunder shall, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned by it pursuant to such Assignment and AcceptanceLender Assignment, relinquish its rights and be released from its obligations under this Agreement (and, in the case of an a Lender Assignment and Acceptance covering all or the remaining portion of an assigning Lender's ’s rights and obligations under this Agreement, such Lender shall cease to be a party hereto, but shall continue to be entitled to the benefits of Section 2.13(a), Section 2.13(b), Section 2.17, and Section 8.4 with respect to facts and circumstances occurring prior to the effective date of such assignment). Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, any Lender may at any time, with notice to the Borrower, the Agent and the LC Issuing Bank, assign all or any portion of the Advances owing to it to any other Lender or any Affiliate of a Lender. No such assignment, other than to an Eligible Assignee, a Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender, shall release the assigning Lender from its obligations hereunder. (b) By executing and delivering an Assignment and Acceptancea Lender Assignment, the Lender assignor thereunder and the assignee thereunder confirm to and agree with each other and the other parties hereto as follows: (i) other than as provided in such Assignment and AcceptanceLender Assignment, such assigning Lender makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to any statements, warranties or representations made in or in connection with this Agreement any Loan Document or the execution, legality, validity, enforceability, genuineness, sufficiency or value of this Agreement any Loan Document or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant heretothereto; (ii) such assigning Lender makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to the financial condition of the Borrower or the performance or observance by the Borrower of any of its obligations under this Agreement any Loan Document or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant heretothereto; (iii) such assignee confirms that it has received a copy of this Agreementeach Loan Document, together with copies of the financial statements referred to in Section 4.01 4.1(f)) hereof and such other documents and information as it has deemed appropriate to make its own credit analysis and decision to enter into such Assignment and AcceptanceLender Assignment; (iv) such assignee will, independently and without reliance upon the Agent, such assigning Lender or any other Lender and based on such documents and information as it shall deem appropriate at the time, continue to make its own credit decisions in taking or not taking action under this Agreementthe Loan Documents; (v) such assignee confirms that it is an Eligible Assignee; (vi) such assignee appoints and authorizes the Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers and discretion under this Agreement the Loan Documents as are delegated to the Agent by the terms hereofthereof, together with such powers and discretion as are reasonably incidental thereto; and (vii) such assignee agrees that it will perform in accordance with their terms all of the obligations that which by the terms of this Agreement the Loan Documents are required to be performed by it as a Lender. (c) The Agent shall maintain at its address referred to in Section 8.02 8.2 a copy of each Lender Assignment and Acceptance delivered to and accepted by it and a register for the recordation of the names and addresses of the Lenders and the Commitment of, and principal amount of the Advances owing to, each Lender from time to time (the "“Register"”). The entries in the Register shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error, and the Borrower, the Agent and the Lenders may treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Register as a Lender hereunder for all purposes of this Agreement. The Register shall be available for inspection by the Borrower or any Lender at any reasonable time and from time to time upon reasonable prior notice. (d) Upon its receipt of an a Lender Assignment and Acceptance executed by an assigning Lender and an assignee representing that it is an Eligible Assignee, together with any Note or Notes (if any) subject to such assignment, the Agent shall, if such Lender Assignment and Acceptance has been completed and is in substantially the form of Exhibit C 8.7 hereto, (i) accept such Assignment and AcceptanceLender Assignment, (ii) record the information contained therein in the Register and (iii) give prompt notice thereof to the Borrower. Within five Business Days after its receipt of such notice, the Borrower, at its own expense, shall execute and deliver to the Agent in exchange for the surrendered Note a new Note to the order of such Eligible Assignee in an amount equal to the Commitment assumed by it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance and, if the assigning Lender has retained a Commitment hereunder, a new Note to the order of the assigning Lender in an amount equal to the Commitment retained by it hereunder. Such new Note or Notes shall be in an aggregate principal amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of such surrendered Note or Notes, shall be dated the effective date of such Assignment and Acceptance and shall otherwise be in substantially the form of Exhibit A hereto. (e) Each Lender may sell participations to one or more banks banks, financial institutions or other entities (other than the Borrower or any of its Affiliates) in or to all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement the Loan Documents (including, without limitation, all or a portion of its Commitment, the Advances owing to it it, its participations in Letters of Credit or Swingline Advances, and the Note or Notes (if any) held by it); provided, however, that (i) such Lender's ’s obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, its Commitment to the Borrower hereunder) shall remain unchanged, (ii) such Lender shall remain solely responsible to the other parties hereto for the performance of such obligations, (iii) such Lender shall remain the holder of any such Note (if any) for all purposes of this Agreement, and (iv) the Borrower, the Agent and the other Lenders shall continue to deal solely and directly with such Lender in connection with such Lender's ’s rights and obligations under this Agreement and (v) no participant under any such participation shall have any right to approve any amendment or waiver of any provision of this Agreement or any Note, or any consent to any departure by the Borrower therefrom, except to the extent that such amendment, waiver or consent would reduce the principal of, or interest on, the Notes or any fees or other amounts payable hereunder, in each case to the extent subject to such participation, or postpone any date fixed for any payment of principal of, or interest on, the Notes or any fees or other amounts payable hereunder, in each case to the extent subject to such participationAgreement. (f) Any Lender may, in connection with any assignment or participation or proposed assignment or participation pursuant to this Section 8.078.7, disclose to the assignee or participant or proposed assignee or participant, any information relating to the Borrower furnished to such Lender by or on behalf of the Borrower; provided that, prior to any such disclosure, the assignee or participant or proposed assignee or participant shall agree agree, in accordance with the terms of Section 8.8, to preserve the confidentiality of any Confidential Information relating to the Borrower received by it from such Lender. (g) Notwithstanding If any Lender (or any bank, financial institution, or other provision set forth entity to which such Lender has sold a participation) shall (i) make any demand for payment under Section 2.9, Section 2.13 or Section 2.17 or (ii) give notice to the Agent pursuant to Section 2.14, then within 30 days after any such demand or occurrence (if, but only if, in the case of any demanded payment described in clause (i), such demanded payment has been made by the Borrower), the Borrower may, with the approval of the Agent and the LC Issuing Bank (which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld), and provided that no Event of Default or Unmatured Default shall then have occurred and be continuing, demand that such Lender assign in accordance with this Section 8.7 to one or more Eligible Assignees designated by the Borrower all (but not less than all) of such Lender’s Commitment, its participations in Letters of Credit and Swingline Advances and the Advances owing to it within the period ending on the later to occur of (x) the last day in the 30-day period described above and (y) the last day of the longest of the then-current Interest Periods for such Advances. If any such Eligible Assignee designated by the Borrower shall fail to consummate such assignment on terms acceptable to such Lender, or if the Borrower shall fail to designate any such Eligible Assignees for all or part of such Lender’s Commitment or Advances, then such demand by the Borrower shall become ineffective; it being understood for purposes of this Section 8.7(g) that such assignment shall be conclusively deemed to be on terms acceptable to such Lender, and such Lender shall be compelled to consummate such assignment to an Eligible Assignee designated by the Borrower, if such Eligible Assignee (1) shall agree to such assignment by entering into a Lender Assignment with such Lender and (2) shall offer compensation to such Lender in an amount equal to all amounts then owing by the Borrower to such Lender hereunder, whether for principal, interest, fees, costs or expenses (other than the demanded payment referred to above and payable by the Borrower as a condition to the Borrower’s right to demand such assignment), or otherwise. (h) Anything in this AgreementSection 8.7 to the contrary notwithstanding, any Lender may at any time create a security interest in assign and pledge all or any portion of its rights under this Agreement (including, without limitation, Commitment and the Advances owing to it and the Note held by it) in favor of to any Federal Reserve Bank in accordance with (and its transferees) as collateral security pursuant to Regulation A of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve SystemSystem and any Operating Circular issued by such Federal Reserve Bank. No such assignment shall release the assigning Lender from its obligations hereunder. (hi) In connection with Notwithstanding anything to the initial assignment or proposed initial assignment contrary contained herein, any Lender (a “Granting Lender”) may grant to a special purpose funding vehicle (an “SPC”) of such Granting Lender identified as such in writing from time to time by the Initial Granting Lender to the Agent, the LC Issuing Bank and the Borrower, the option to provide to the Borrower all or any part of any Advance that such Granting Lender would otherwise be obligated to make to the Borrower pursuant to this Section 8.07Agreement; provided that (i) nothing herein shall constitute a commitment by any such SPC to make any Advance, (ii) if such SPC elects not to exercise such option or otherwise fails to provide all or any part of such Advance, the Borrower shall, upon Granting Lender shall be obligated to make such Advance pursuant to the request terms hereof and (iii) no SPC or Granting Lender shall be entitled to receive any greater amount pursuant to Section 2.13 or Section 8.4 than the Granting Lender would have been entitled to receive had the Granting Lender not otherwise granted such SPC the option to provide any Advance to the Borrower. The making of an Advance by an SPC hereunder shall utilize the Commitment of the Initial Granting Lender to the same extent, and as if, such Advance were made by such Granting Lender. Each party hereto hereby agrees that no SPC shall be liable for any indemnity or similar payment obligation under this Agreement for which a Lender would otherwise be liable so long as, and to the extent that, the related Granting Lender provides such indemnity or makes such payment. In furtherance of the foregoing, each party hereto hereby agrees (which agreement shall survive the termination of this Agreement) that, prior to the date that is one year and one day after the payment in full of all outstanding commercial paper or other senior indebtedness of any SPC, it will not institute against or join any other person in instituting against such SPC any bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, insolvency or liquidation proceedings under the laws of the United States or any State thereof. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Granting Lender unconditionally agrees to indemnify the Borrower, the LC Issuing Bank, the Agent and each Lender against all liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments, suits, costs, expenses or disbursements of any kind or nature whatsoever which may be incurred by or asserted against the Borrower, the LC Issuing Bank, the Agent or such Lender, furnish as the case may be, in any way relating to or arising as a consequence of any such forbearance or delay in the initiation of any such proceeding against its SPC. Each party hereto hereby acknowledges and agrees that no SPC shall have the rights of a Lender hereunder, such rights being retained by the applicable Granting Lender. Accordingly, and without limiting the foregoing, each party hereby further acknowledges and agrees that no SPC shall have any voting rights hereunder and that the voting rights attributable to any Advance made by an SPC shall be exercised only by the relevant Granting Lender and that each Granting Lender shall serve as the administrative agent and attorney-in-fact for its SPC and shall on behalf of its SPC receive any and all payments made for the benefit of such SPC and take all actions hereunder to the Initial Lender a favorable opinion of counsel for the Borrower acceptable extent, if any, such SPC shall have any rights hereunder. In addition, notwithstanding anything to the Initial contrary contained in this Agreement any SPC may (i) with notice to, but without the prior written consent of any other party hereto, assign all or a portion of its interest in any Advances to the Granting Lender and (ii) disclose on a confidential basis any information relating to its Advances to any rating agency, commercial paper dealer or provider of any surety, guarantee or credit or liquidity enhancement to such SPC. This Section 8.7(i) may not be amended without the prior written consent of each Granting Lender, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to all or any part of whose Advance is being funded by an SPC at the Initial Lendertime of such amendment.

Assignments and Participations. (a) Each Lender may assign to one or more Persons all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, all or a portion of its Commitment, the Advance Revolving Advances owing to it and the Note or Notes Notes, if any, held by it); provided, however, that (i) each such assignment shall be of a constant, and not a varying, percentage of all rights and obligations under this AgreementAgreement (other than any right to make CAF Advances, CAF Advances owing to it and CAF Note or CAF Notes, if any), (ii) except in the case of an assignment to a Person that, immediately prior to such assignment, was a Lender or an assignment of all of a Lender's rights and obligations under this Agreement, the amount of the Commitment of the assigning Lender being assigned pursuant to each such assignment (determined as of the date of the Assignment and Acceptance with respect to such assignment) shall in no event be less than $5,000,000 10,000,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof, (iii) each such assignment shall be to an Eligible Assignee, and (iv) the parties to each such assignment shall execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent, for its acceptance and recording in the Register, an Assignment and Acceptance, together with any Note Note, if any, subject to such assignment, and (v) the parties to each such assignment shall deliver to the Administrative Agent a processing and recordation fee of $3,500. Upon such execution, delivery, acceptance and recording, from and after the effective date specified in each Assignment and Acceptance, (Ax) the assignee thereunder shall be a party hereto and, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned to it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance, have the rights and obligations of a Lender hereunder and (By) the Lender assignor thereunder shall, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned by it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance, relinquish its rights (other than its rights under Sections 2.13, 2.16 and 8.04 to the extent any claim thereunder relates to an event arising prior to such assignment) and be released from its obligations under this Agreement (and, in the case of an Assignment and Acceptance covering all or the remaining portion of an assigning Lender's rights and obligations under this Agreement, such Lender shall cease to be a party hereto). (b) . By executing and delivering an Assignment and Acceptance, the Lender assignor thereunder and the assignee thereunder confirm to and agree with each other and the other parties hereto as follows: (i) other than as provided in such Assignment and Acceptance, such assigning Lender makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to any statements, warranties or representations made in or in connection with this Agreement or the execution, legality, validity, enforceability, genuineness, sufficiency or value of this Agreement or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant hereto; (ii) such assigning Lender makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to the financial condition of the Borrower or the performance or observance by the Borrower of any of its obligations under this Agreement or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant hereto; (iii) such assignee confirms that it has received a copy of this Agreement, together with copies of the financial statements referred to in Section 4.01 and such other documents and information as it has deemed appropriate to make its own credit analysis and decision to enter into such Assignment and Acceptance; (iv) such assignee will, independently and without reliance upon the Administrative Agent, such assigning Lender or any other Lender and based on such documents and information as it shall deem appropriate at the time, continue to make its own credit decisions in taking or not taking action under this Agreement; (v) such assignee confirms that it is an Eligible Assignee; (vi) such assignee appoints and authorizes the Administrative Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers and discretion under this Agreement as are delegated to the Administrative Agent by the terms hereof, together with such powers and discretion as are reasonably incidental thereto; and (vii) such assignee agrees that it will perform in accordance with their terms all of the obligations that by the terms of this Agreement are required to be performed by it as a Lender. (c) . The Administrative Agent shall maintain at its address referred to in Section 8.02 a copy of each Assignment and Acceptance delivered to and accepted by it and a register for the recordation of the names and addresses of the Lenders and the Commitment of, and principal amount of the Advances owing to, each Lender from time to time (the "Register"). The entries in the Register shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest errorprima facie evidence of the correctness thereof, and the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and the Lenders may treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Register as a Lender hereunder for all purposes of this Agreement. The Register shall be available for inspection by the Borrower or any Lender at any reasonable time and from time to time upon reasonable prior notice. (d) . Upon its receipt of an Assignment and Acceptance executed by an assigning Lender and an assignee representing that it is an Eligible Assignee, together with any Note or Notes Note, if any, subject to such assignment, the Administrative Agent shall, if such Assignment and Acceptance has been completed and is in substantially the form of Exhibit C hereto, (i) accept such Assignment and Acceptance, (ii) record the information contained therein in the Register and (iii) give prompt notice thereof to the Borrower. Within five Business Days after its receipt of such notice, the Borrower, at its own expense, shall execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent in exchange for the surrendered Note a new Note to the order of such Eligible Assignee in an amount equal to the Commitment assumed by it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance and, if the assigning Lender has retained a Commitment hereunder, a new Note to the order of the assigning Lender in an amount equal to the Commitment retained by it hereunder. Such new Note or Notes shall be in an aggregate principal amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of such surrendered Note or Notes, shall be dated the effective date of such Assignment and Acceptance and shall otherwise be in substantially the form of Exhibit A hereto. (e) . Each Lender may sell participations to one or more banks or other entities (other than the Borrower or any of its Affiliates) in or to all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, all or a portion of its Commitment, the Advances owing to it and the Note or Notes Notes, if any, held by it); provided, however, that (i) such Lender's obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, its Commitment to the Borrower hereunder) shall remain unchanged, (ii) such Lender shall remain solely responsible to the other parties hereto for the performance of such obligations, (iii) such Lender shall remain the holder of any such Note for all purposes of this Agreement, (iv) the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and the other Lenders shall continue to deal solely and directly with such Lender in connection with such Lender's rights and obligations under this Agreement and (v) no participant under any such participation shall have any right to approve any amendment or waiver of any provision of this Agreement or any Note, or any consent to any departure by the Borrower therefrom, except to the extent that such amendment, waiver or consent would reduce the principal of, or interest on, the Notes or any fees or other amounts payable hereunder, in each case to the extent subject to such participation, or postpone any date fixed for any payment of principal of, or interest on, the Notes or any fees or other amounts payable hereunder, in each case to the extent subject to such participation. (f) . Any Lender may, in connection with any assignment or participation or proposed assignment or participation pursuant to this Section 8.07, disclose to the assignee or participant or proposed assignee or participant, any information relating to the Borrower furnished to such Lender by or on behalf of the Borrower; provided that, prior to any such disclosure, the assignee or participant or proposed assignee or participant shall agree to preserve the confidentiality of any Confidential Information relating to the Borrower received by it from such Lender. (g) . Notwithstanding any other provision set forth in this Agreement, any Lender may at any time and without the consent of the Borrower or the Administrative Agent (i) create a security interest in all or any portion of its rights under this Agreement (including, without limitation, the Advances owing to it and the Note or Notes held by it) in favor of any Federal Reserve Bank in accordance with Regulation A of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. , and (hii) with notice to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent, assign all or part of its rights and obligations under this Agreement to any of its Affiliates. In connection with the initial assignment event that any Lender requests payments of reimbursement, compensation or proposed initial assignment by indemnification from the Initial Lender Borrower pursuant to Sections 2.02, 2.12 or 2.15 herein, then the Borrower shall have the right, but not the obligation, at its own expense, upon 5 Business Days notice to such Lender and the Administrative Agent, to replace such Lender with an assignee (in accordance with and subject to the restrictions contained in paragraphs (a) and (b) above), and such Lender hereby agrees to transfer and assign without recourse (in accordance with and subject to the restrictions contained in paragraphs (a) and (b) above) all its interests, rights and obligations in respect of its Commitment to such assignee; provided, however, that (i) no such assignment shall conflict with any law, rule and regulation or order of any governmental authority, (ii) no Default has occurred or is continuing, (iii) the Borrower has satisfied all of its obligations under this Section 8.07Agreement relating to such assigning Lender through the date of such assignment, (iv) the Borrower shall pay to the Administrative Agent the administrative fee in the amount of $3,500 if such replacement Lender assignee is not an existing Lender, and (v) such assignee shall pay to such assigning Lender in immediately available funds on the date of such assignment the principal of and interest accrued to the date of payment on the Advances made by such Lender hereunder and the Borrower, the Borrower shallAdministrative Agent or such assignee, upon the request of the Initial as applicable, shall pay to such Lender all other amounts accrued for such Lender, furnish 's account or owed to the Initial Lender a favorable opinion of counsel for the Borrower acceptable to the Initial Lender, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Initial Lenderit hereunder.

Assignments and Participations. (a) Each Lender may assign to (i) one or more Persons Eligible Assignees with the approval of the Agent and, in the case of any Eligible Assignee not listed in clause (i) of the definition of "Eligible Assignee", the Borrower (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed) and (ii) one or more other entities with the approval of the Borrower and the Agent, all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, all or a portion of its Commitment, the Advance Advances owing to it and the Note or Notes held by it); provided, however, that (i) each such assignment shall be of a constant, and not a varying, percentage of all rights and obligations under this Agreement, (ii) except in the case of an assignment to a Person that, immediately prior to such assignment, was a Lender or an assignment of all of a Lender's rights and obligations under this Agreement, the amount of the Commitment of the assigning Lender being assigned pursuant to each such assignment (determined as of the date of the Assignment and Acceptance with respect to such assignment) shall in no event be less than $5,000,000 or an a larger integral multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof, (iii) each such assignment shall be to an Eligible Assignee1,000,000, and (iviii) the parties to each such assignment shall execute and deliver to the Agent, for its acceptance and recording in the Register, and, if the relevant Eligible Assignee is not listed in clause (i) of the definition of "Eligible Assignee", to the Borrower for its acceptance, an appropriate Assignment and Acceptance, together with any Note subject to such assignmentassignment and, in the case of an Assignment and Acceptance not entered into to effect the General Syndication, a processing and recordation fee of $3,000. Upon such execution, delivery, acceptance and recording, from and after the effective date specified in each Assignment and Acceptance, (Ax) the assignee thereunder shall be a party hereto and, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned to it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance, have the rights and obligations of a Lender hereunder and (By) the Lender assignor thereunder shall, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned by it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance, relinquish its rights and be released from its obligations under this Agreement (other than under Sections 2.13(f), 8.07(g) and 8.08) (and, in the case of an Assignment and Acceptance covering all or the remaining portion of an assigning Lender's rights and obligations under this Agreement, such Lender shall cease to be a party hereto). (b) If any Lender (i) shall make a demand under Section 8.04(d) for payment in respect of a claim under Section 2.10 or shall give a notice under Section 2.11 of any unlawfulness or assertion of unlawfulness contemplated by such Section or any demand shall be made or any amount shall be payable with respect to any Lender under Section 2.13, the Borrower may, by written notice given to such Lender within 45 days of the making by such Lender of such demand, the giving by such Lender of such notice or such Lender becoming a Non-Consenting Lender, require by written notice to such Lender that such Lender assign, by executing and delivering an Acceptance and Assignment, within 15 days of the giving by the Borrower of such notice but on at least three Business Days' notice to one or more Persons in accordance with Section 8.07(a) such Lender's Commitment and its Advances against payment to such Lender in immediately available funds of the principal amount of such Advances, all interest accrued thereon to the date of payment, all fees accrued by such Lender to the date of payment, any amounts payable to such Lender under Section 8.04(c) and all other amounts payable hereunder to such Lender. (c) By executing and delivering an Assignment and Acceptance, the Lender assignor thereunder and the assignee thereunder confirm to and agree with each other and the other parties hereto as follows: (i) other than as provided in such Assignment and Acceptance, such assigning Lender makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to any statements, warranties or representations made in or in connection with this Agreement or the execution, legality, validity, enforceability, genuineness, sufficiency or value of this Agreement or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant hereto; (ii) such assigning Lender makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to the financial condition of the Borrower or the performance or observance by the Borrower of any of its obligations under this Agreement or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant hereto; (iii) such assignee confirms that it has received a copy of this Agreement, together with copies of the financial statements referred to in Section 4.01 and such other documents and information as it has deemed appropriate to make its own credit analysis and decision to enter into such Assignment and Acceptance; (iv) such assignee will, independently and without reliance upon the Agent, such assigning Lender or any other Lender and based on such documents and information as it shall deem appropriate at the time, continue to make its own credit decisions in taking or not taking action under this Agreement; (v) such assignee confirms that it is an Eligible AssigneeAssignee or that it is an entity that has been approved by the Borrower and the Agent under Section 8.07(a); (vi) such assignee appoints and authorizes the Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers and discretion under this Agreement as are delegated to the Agent by the terms hereof, together with such powers and discretion as are reasonably incidental thereto; and (vii) such assignee agrees that it will perform in accordance with their terms all of the obligations that by the terms of this Agreement are required to be performed by it as a Lender. (cd) The Agent shall maintain at its address referred to in Section 8.02 a copy of each Assignment and Acceptance delivered to and accepted by it and a register for the recordation of the names and addresses of the Lenders and the Commitment of, and principal amount of the Advances owing to, each Lender from time to time (the "Register"). The entries in the Register shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error, and the Borrower, the Agent and the Lenders may treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Register as a Lender hereunder for all purposes of this Agreement. The Register shall be available for inspection by the Borrower or any Lender at any reasonable time and from time to time upon reasonable prior notice. (de) Upon its receipt of an Assignment and Acceptance executed by an assigning Lender and an assignee representing that it is an Eligible AssigneeAssignee or that it is an entity that has been approved by the Borrower and the Agent under Section 8.07(a), together with any Note or Notes subject to such assignment, the Agent shall, if such Assignment and Acceptance has been completed and is in substantially the form of Exhibit C hereto, (i) accept such Assignment and Acceptance, (ii) record the information contained therein in the Register and (iii) promptly give prompt notice and a copy thereof to the Borrower. Within five Business Days after its receipt of such notice, the Borrower, at its own expense, shall execute and deliver to the Agent in exchange for the surrendered Note a new Note to the order of such Eligible Assignee or other entity in an amount equal to the Commitment assumed by it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance and, if the assigning Lender has retained a Commitment hereunder, a new Note to the order of the assigning Lender in an amount equal to the Commitment retained by it hereunder. Such new Note or Notes shall be in an aggregate principal amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of such surrendered Note or Notes, shall be dated the effective date of such Assignment and Acceptance and shall otherwise be in substantially the form of Exhibit A hereto. (ef) Each Lender may sell participations to one or more banks or other entities (other than the Borrower or any of its Affiliates) in or to all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, all or a portion of its Commitment, the Advances owing to it and the Note or Notes held by it); provided, however, that (i) such Lender's obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, its Commitment to the Borrower hereunder) shall remain unchanged, (ii) such Lender shall remain solely responsible to the other parties hereto for the performance of such obligations, (iii) such Lender shall remain the holder of any such Note for all purposes of this Agreement, (iv) the Borrower, the Agent and the other Lenders shall continue to deal solely and directly with such Lender in connection with such Lender's rights and obligations under this Agreement and (v) no participant under any such participation shall have any right to approve any amendment or waiver of any provision of this Agreement or any Note, or any consent to any departure by the Borrower therefrom, except to the extent that such amendment, waiver or consent would reduce the principal of, or interest on, the Notes or any fees or other amounts payable hereunder, in each case to the extent subject to such participation, or postpone any date fixed for any payment of principal of, or interest on, the Notes or any fees or other amounts payable hereunder, in each case to the extent subject to such participation. Each Lender selling participations shall provide prompt notice to the Borrower and the Agent of such participations and the purchasers of such participations. (f) Any Lender may, in connection with any assignment or participation or proposed assignment or participation pursuant to this Section 8.07, disclose to the assignee or participant or proposed assignee or participant, any information relating to the Borrower furnished to such Lender by or on behalf of the Borrower; provided that, prior to any such disclosure, the assignee or participant or proposed assignee or participant shall agree to preserve the confidentiality of any Confidential Information relating to the Borrower received by it from such Lender. (gh) Notwithstanding any other provision set forth in this Agreement, any Lender may at any time create a security interest in all or any portion of its rights under this Agreement (including, without limitation, the Advances owing to it and the Note held by it) in favor of any Federal Reserve Bank in accordance with Regulation A of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. (i) Any Lender may at any time designate with the prior written consent of the Borrower (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed) not more than one Designated Lender to fund Advances on behalf of such Designating Lender subject to the terms of this Section 8.07(i) and the provisions of Sections 8.07(a) through (h) In connection with the initial assignment or proposed initial assignment shall not apply to such designation. No Lender may have more than one Designated Lender at any time. Such designation may occur either by the Initial execution before the Funds Availability Date of the signature pages of an Assignment and Acceptance by such Lender and Designated Lender next to the appropriate "Designating Lender" and "Designated Lender" captions, or by execution by such parties of a Designation Agreement on or after the Funds Availability Date; provided, that any Lender and its Designated Lender executing the signature pages of any Assignment and Acceptance as "Designating Lender" and "Designated Lender", respectively, before the Funds Availability Date shall be deemed to have executed a Designation Agreement, and shall be bound by the respective representations, warranties and covenants contained therein. The parties to each such designation occurring on or after the Funds Availability Date shall execute and deliver to the Agent and the Borrower for their acceptance a Designation Agreement. Upon such receipt of an appropriately completed Designation Agreement executed by a Designating Lender and a designee representing that it is a Designated Lender and consented to by the Borrower, the Agent will accept such Designation Agreement and will give prompt notice thereof to the Borrower and the other Lenders, whereupon (i) the Borrower shall execute and deliver to the Designating Lender a Designated Lender Note payable to the order of the Designated Lender, (ii) from and after the effective date specified in the Designation Agreement, the Designated Lender shall become a party to this Agreement with a right to make Advances on behalf of its Designating Lender pursuant to Section 2.01(b) and (iii) the Designated Lender shall not be required to make payments with respect to any obligations in this Section 8.07Agreement except to the extent of excess cash flow of such Designated Lender which is not otherwise required to repay obligations of such Designated Lender which are then due and payable; provided, however, that regardless of such designation and assumption by the Designated Lender, the Borrower shallDesignating Lender shall be and remain obligated to the Borrower, upon the request Agent and the Lenders for each and every of the Initial obligations of the Designating Lender and its related Designated Lender with respect to this Agreement, including, without limitation, any indemnification obligations under Section 7.05 hereof, and any sums otherwise payable to the Borrower by the Designated Lender. Each Designating Lender, furnish to or specified branch or affiliate thereof, shall serve as the Initial administrative agent of its Designated Lender a favorable opinion and shall on behalf of counsel its Designated Lender: (i) receive any and all payments made for the Borrower acceptable benefit of such Designated Lender and (ii) give and receive all communications and notices and take all actions hereunder, including, without limitation, votes, approvals, waivers, consents and amendments under or relating to the Initial this Credit Agreement. Any such notice, communication, vote, approval, waiver, consent or amendment shall be signed by a Designating Lender, or specified branch or affiliate thereof, as administrative agent for its Designated Lender and need not be signed by such Designated Lender on its own behalf. The Borrower, the Agent and the Lenders may rely thereon without any requirement that the Designated Lender sign or acknowledge the same. No Designated Lender may assign or transfer all or any portion of its interest hereunder, other than via an assignment to its Designating Lender or Liquidity Lender, if any, or otherwise in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to accordance with the Initial Lenderprovisions of Section 8.07(a) through (h) hereof.

Assignments and Participations. (a) Each Lender may assign to one or more Persons all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, including all or a portion of its Commitment, the Advance Advances owing to it and the Note or Notes held by it); provided, however, that (i) each such assignment shall be of a constant, and not a varying, percentage of all rights and obligations under this Agreement, (ii) except in the case of an assignment to a Person that, immediately prior to such assignment, was a Lender or an assignment of all of a Lender's ’s rights and obligations under this Agreement, the amount of the Commitment of the assigning Lender being assigned pursuant to each such assignment (determined as of the date of the Assignment and Acceptance with respect to such assignment) shall in no event be less than $5,000,000 U.S.$5,000,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000,000 U.S.$1,000,000 in excess thereof, (iii) each such assignment shall be to an Eligible Assignee, (iv) each such assignment made as a result of a demand by the Borrower pursuant to Section 2.16 shall be arranged by the Borrower after consultation with the Administrative Agent and shall be either an assignment of all of the rights and obligations of the assigning Lender under this Agreement or an assignment of a portion of such rights and obligations made concurrently with another such assignment or other such assignments that together cover all of the rights and obligations of the assigning Lender under this Agreement, (v) no Lender shall be obligated to make any such assignment as a result of a demand by the Borrower pursuant to Section 2.16 unless and until such Lender shall have received one or more payments from either the Borrower or one or more Eligible Assignees in an aggregate amount at least equal to the amount specified in Section 2.16 and (ivvi) the parties to each such assignment shall execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent, for its acceptance and recording in the Register, an Assignment and Acceptance, together with any Note subject to such assignmentassignment and a processing and recordation fee of U.S.$3,500; provided, however, that for each such assignment made as a result of a demand by the Borrower pursuant to Section 2.16, the Borrower shall pay to the Administrative Agent the applicable processing and recordation fee. Upon such execution, delivery, acceptance and recording, from and after the effective date specified in each Assignment and Acceptance, (A) the assignee thereunder shall be a party hereto and, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned to it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance, have the rights and obligations of a Lender hereunder and (B) the 57 GyM Credit Agreement Lender assignor thereunder shall, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned by it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance, relinquish its rights (other than its rights under Sections 2.09, 2.10, 2.12, 2.13 and 8.04 to the extent any claim thereunder relates to an event arising prior to such assignment) and be released from its obligations under this Agreement (and, in the case of an Assignment and Acceptance covering all or the remaining portion of an assigning Lender's ’s rights and obligations under this Agreement, such Lender shall cease to be a party hereto). (b) By executing and delivering an Assignment and Acceptance, the Lender assignor thereunder and the assignee thereunder confirm to and agree with each other and the other parties hereto as follows: (i) other than as provided in such Assignment and Acceptance, such assigning Lender makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to any statements, warranties or representations made in or in connection with this Agreement any Loan Document or the execution, legality, validity, enforceability, genuineness, sufficiency or value of, or the perfection or priority of this Agreement any lien or security interest created or purported to be created under or in connection with, any Loan Document or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant hereto; , (ii) such assigning Lender makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to the financial condition of the Borrower any Loan Party or the performance or observance by the Borrower any Loan Party of any of its obligations under this Agreement any Loan Document or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant hereto; , (iii) such assignee confirms that it has received a copy of this Agreement, together with copies of the financial statements referred to in Section 4.01 and such other documents and information as it has deemed appropriate to make its own credit analysis and decision to enter into such Assignment and Acceptance; , (iv) such assignee will, independently and without reliance upon the any Agent, such assigning Lender or any other Lender and based on such documents and information as it shall deem appropriate at the time, continue to make its own credit decisions in taking or not taking action under this Agreement; , (v) such assignee confirms that it is an Eligible Assignee; , (vi) such assignee appoints and authorizes the each Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers and discretion under this Agreement the Loan Documents as are delegated to the such Agent by the terms hereofhereof and thereof, together with such powers and discretion as are reasonably incidental thereto; thereto and (vii) such assignee agrees that it will perform in accordance with their terms all of the obligations that by the terms of this Agreement are required to be performed by it as a Lender. (c) The Administrative Agent shall maintain at its address referred to in Section 8.02 a copy of each Assignment and Acceptance delivered to and accepted by it and a register for the recordation of the names and addresses of the Lenders and the Commitment of, and principal amount of the Advances owing to, each Lender from time to time (the "“Register"”). The entries in the Register shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error, and the Borrower, the each Agent and the Lenders may treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Register as a Lender hereunder for all purposes of this Agreement. The Register shall be available for inspection by the Borrower or any Lender at any reasonable time and from time to time upon reasonable prior notice. (d) Upon its receipt of an Assignment and Acceptance executed by an assigning Lender and an assignee representing that it is an Eligible Assignee, together with any Note or Notes subject to such assignment, the Administrative Agent shall, if such Assignment and Acceptance has been completed and is in substantially the form of Exhibit C heretoC, (i) accept such Assignment and Acceptance, (ii) record the information contained therein in the Register and (iii) give prompt notice thereof to the Borrower. Within five Business Days after its receipt of such notice, the Borrower, at its own expense, shall execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent in exchange for the surrendered Note a new Note to the order of such Eligible Assignee in an amount equal to and the Commitment assumed by it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance relevant Note Filling Agreement and, if the assigning Lender has retained a Commitment hereunder, a new Note to the order of the assigning Lender and the relevant Note Filling Agreement, in an amount equal each case, with respect to the Commitment retained Notes, with por aval guarantee executed by it hereundereach Guarantor. Such Each such new Note or Notes shall be in an aggregate principal amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of such surrendered and Note Filling Agreement or Notes, Note Filling Agreements shall be dated the effective date of such Assignment and Acceptance and shall otherwise be in substantially the form of Exhibit A heretoA-1 and Exhibit A-2, respectively. (e) Each Lender may sell participations to one or more banks or other entities (other than the Borrower or any of its Affiliates) in or to all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, including all or a portion of its Commitment, the Advances owing to it and the Note or Notes held by it); provided, however, that (i) such Lender's ’s obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, including its Commitment to the Borrower hereunder) shall remain unchanged, (ii) such Lender shall remain solely responsible to the other parties hereto for the performance of such obligations, (iii) such Lender shall remain the holder of any such Note for all purposes of this Agreement, (iv) the Borrower, the Agent Agents and the other Lenders shall continue to deal solely and directly with such Lender in connection with such Lender's ’s rights and obligations under this Agreement and (v) no participant under any such participation shall have any right to approve any amendment or waiver of any provision of this Agreement or any NoteLoan Document, or any consent to any departure by the Borrower therefrom, except to the extent that such amendment, waiver or consent would reduce the principal of, or interest on, the Notes Advances or any fees or other amounts payable hereunder, in each case to the extent subject to such participation, or postpone any date fixed for any payment of principal of, or interest on, the Notes Advances or any fees or other amounts payable hereunder, in each case to the extent subject to such participation, or release all or substantially all of the Collateral or the value of the Guaranties. The Borrower agrees that each participant shall be entitled to the benefits of Sections 2.09 and 2.12 (subject to the requirements and limitations therein, including the requirements under Section 2.12(g) (it being understood that the documentation required under Section 2.12(g) shall be delivered to the participating Lender)) to the same extent as if it were a Lender and had acquired its interest by assignment pursuant to Section 8.07(a); provided that such participant (A) agrees to be subject to the provisions of Section 2.16 as if it were an assignee under Section 8.07(a) and (B) shall not be entitled to receive any greater payment under Section 2.09 or 2.12, with respect to any participation, than its participating Lender would have been entitled to receive, except to the extent such entitlement to receive a greater payment results from a Change of Law that occurs after the participant acquired the applicable participation. (f) Any Lender may, in connection with any assignment or participation or proposed assignment or participation pursuant to this Section 8.07Section, disclose to the assignee or participant or proposed assignee or participant, any information relating to the Borrower furnished to such Lender by or on behalf of the Borrower; provided that, prior to any such disclosure, the assignee or participant or proposed assignee or participant shall agree to preserve the confidentiality of any Confidential Information relating to the Borrower received by it from such Lender. (g) Notwithstanding any other provision set forth in this Agreement, any Lender may at any time create a security interest in all or any portion of its rights under this Agreement (including, without limitation, the Advances owing to it and the Note held by it) in favor of any Federal Reserve Bank in accordance with Regulation A of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. (h) In connection with the initial assignment or proposed initial assignment by the Initial Lender pursuant to this Section 8.07, the Borrower shall, upon the request of the Initial Lender, furnish to the Initial Lender a favorable opinion of counsel for the Borrower acceptable to the Initial Lender, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Initial Lender.

Assignments and Participations. (a) Each Lender may assign to one or more Persons Eligible Transferees all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, all or a portion of its CommitmentUS Loans, its Note, and its Percentage Share of the Advance owing to it and the Note or Notes held by itUS Maximum Credit Amount); provided, however, that that (i) each such assignment shall be to an Eligible Transferee; (ii) together with each such assignment of a constant, and not a varying, percentage of all its rights and obligations under this Agreement, such Lender shall assign the same Percentage Share of its rights and obligations under the Canadian Agreement to the same Eligible Transferee or an Affiliate of such Eligible Transferee. (iiiii) except in the case of such an assignment to a Person that, immediately prior to such assignment, was a another Lender or an assignment of all of a Lender's rights and obligations under this Agreement, any partial assignment of such Lender's rights and obligations under this Agreement and under the Canadian Agreement shall be in a collective amount of the Commitment of the assigning Lender being assigned pursuant at least equal to each such assignment (determined as of the date of the Assignment and Acceptance with respect to such assignment) shall in no event be less than US $5,000,000 20,000,000 or an integral multiple of US $1,000,000 5,000,000 in excess thereof, ; (iiiiv) each such assignment by a Lender shall be to an Eligible Assigneeof a constant, and not varying, percentage of all of its rights and obligations under the US Loan Documents; (ivv) the parties to each such assignment shall execute and deliver to the Agent, US Agent for its acceptance and recording in the Register, an Assignment and AcceptanceAcceptance in the form of Exhibit F hereto, together with any Note subject to such assignment. assignment and a processing fee of US $3,500; and Upon such execution, delivery, and acceptance and recording, from and after the effective date specified in each of such Assignment and Acceptance, (A) the assignee thereunder shall be a party hereto and, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned to it pursuant to of such Assignment and Acceptanceassignment, have the rights obligations, rights, and obligations benefits of a Lender hereunder and (B) the assigning Lender assignor thereunder shall, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned by it pursuant to of such Assignment and Acceptanceassignment, relinquish its rights and be released from its obligations under this Agreement (andAgreement. Upon the consummation of any assignment pursuant to this section, the assignor, US Agent and US Borrower shall make appropriate arrangements so that, if required, new US Notes are issued to the assignor and the assignee. If the assignee is not incorporated under the Laws of the United States of America or a state thereof, it shall deliver to US Borrower and US Agent certification as to exemption from deduction or withholding of Taxes in the case of an Assignment and Acceptance covering all or the remaining portion of an assigning Lender's rights and obligations under this Agreement, such Lender shall cease to be a party hereto)accordance with Section 3.10. (b) By executing and delivering an Assignment and Acceptance, the Lender assignor thereunder and the assignee thereunder confirm to and agree with each other and the other parties hereto as follows: (i) other than as provided in such Assignment and Acceptance, such assigning Lender makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to any statements, warranties or representations made in or in connection with this Agreement or the execution, legality, validity, enforceability, genuineness, sufficiency or value of this Agreement or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant hereto; (ii) such assigning Lender makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to the financial condition of the Borrower or the performance or observance by the Borrower of any of its obligations under this Agreement or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant hereto; (iii) such assignee confirms that it has received a copy of this Agreement, together with copies of the financial statements referred to in Section 4.01 and such other documents and information as it has deemed appropriate to make its own credit analysis and decision to enter into such Assignment and Acceptance; (iv) such assignee will, independently and without reliance upon the Agent, such assigning Lender or any other Lender and based on such documents and information as it shall deem appropriate at the time, continue to make its own credit decisions in taking or not taking action under this Agreement; (v) such assignee confirms that it is an Eligible Assignee; (vi) such assignee appoints and authorizes the Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers and discretion under this Agreement as are delegated to the Agent by the terms hereof, together with such powers and discretion as are reasonably incidental thereto; and (vii) such assignee agrees that it will perform in accordance with their terms all of the obligations that by the terms of this Agreement are required to be performed by it as a Lender. (c) The US Agent shall maintain at its address referred to in Section 8.02 10.3 a copy of each Assignment and Acceptance delivered to and accepted by it and a register for the recordation of the names and addresses of the Lenders and their Percentage Share of the Commitment US Maximum Credit Amount of, and principal amount of the Advances US Loans owing to, each Lender from time to time (the "Register"). The entries in the Register shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error, and the US Borrower, the US Agent and the Lenders may treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Register as a Lender hereunder for all purposes of this Agreement. The Register shall be available for inspection by the US Borrower or any Lender at any reasonable time and from time to time upon reasonable prior notice. (dc) Upon its receipt of an Assignment and Acceptance executed by an assigning Lender and an assignee representing that it is an Eligible Assigneethe parties thereto, together with any Note or Notes subject to such assignmentassignment and payment of the processing fee, the US Agent shall, if such Assignment and Acceptance has been completed and is in substantially the form of Exhibit C F hereto, (i) accept such Assignment and Acceptance, (ii) record the information contained therein in the Register and (iii) give prompt notice thereof to the Borrower. Within five Business Days after its receipt of such notice, the Borrower, at its own expense, shall execute and deliver to the Agent in exchange for the surrendered Note a new Note to the order of such Eligible Assignee in an amount equal to the Commitment assumed by it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance and, if the assigning Lender has retained a Commitment hereunder, a new Note to the order of the assigning Lender in an amount equal to the Commitment retained by it hereunder. Such new Note or Notes shall be in an aggregate principal amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of such surrendered Note or Notes, shall be dated the effective date of such Assignment and Acceptance and shall otherwise be in substantially the form of Exhibit A heretoparties thereto. (ed) Each Lender may sell participations to one or more banks or other entities (other than the Borrower or any of its Affiliates) Persons that are Eligible Transferees in or to all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, including all or a portion of its Commitment, the Advances owing to it US Maximum Credit Amount and the Note or Notes held by itits US Loans); provided, however, that (i) such Lender's obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, its Commitment to the Borrower hereunder) shall remain unchanged, (ii) such Lender shall remain solely responsible to the other parties hereto for the performance of such obligations, (iii) such Lender the participant shall remain be entitled to the holder benefit of any such Note for all purposes the yield protection provisions contained in Article III and the right of this Agreementoffset contained in Section 6.14, and (iv) the Borrower, the Agent and the other Lenders US Borrower shall continue to deal solely and directly with such Lender in connection with such Lender's rights and obligations under this Agreement Agreement, and (v) no participant under any such participation Lender shall have any retain the sole right to enforce the obligations of US Borrower relating to its US Loans and its Note and to approve any amendment amendment, modification, or waiver of any provision of this Agreement (other than amendments, modifications, or waivers decreasing the amount of principal of or the rate at which interest is payable on such US Loans or Note, extending any scheduled principal payment date or date fixed for the payment of interest on such US Loans or Note, or any consent to any departure by the Borrower therefrom, except to the extent that such amendment, waiver or consent would reduce the principal of, or interest on, the Notes or any fees or other amounts payable hereunder, in each case to the extent subject to such participation, or postpone any date fixed for any payment of principal of, or interest on, the Notes or any fees or other amounts payable hereunder, in each case to the extent subject to such participationextending its US Maximum Credit Amount). (f) Any Lender may, in connection with any assignment or participation or proposed assignment or participation pursuant to this Section 8.07, disclose to the assignee or participant or proposed assignee or participant, any information relating to the Borrower furnished to such Lender by or on behalf of the Borrower; provided that, prior to any such disclosure, the assignee or participant or proposed assignee or participant shall agree to preserve the confidentiality of any Confidential Information relating to the Borrower received by it from such Lender. (ge) Notwithstanding any other provision set forth in this Agreement, any Lender may at any time create a security interest in assign and pledge all or any portion of its rights under this Agreement (including, without limitation, the Advances owing US Loans and its Note to it and the Note held by it) in favor of any Federal Reserve Bank in accordance with as collateral security pursuant to Regulation A of the Board of Governors of the and any Operating Circular issued by such Federal Reserve SystemBank. No such assignment shall release the assigning Lender from its obligations hereunder. (hf) In connection with Any Lender may furnish any information concerning US Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries in the initial assignment or proposed initial assignment by the Initial possession of such Lender pursuant from time to this Section 8.07time to assignees and participants (including prospective assignees and participants), the Borrower shallsubject, upon the request of the Initial Lenderhowever, furnish to the Initial Lender a favorable opinion provisions of counsel for the Borrower acceptable to the Initial Lender, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Initial LenderSection 10.7 hereof.

Assignments and Participations. (a) Each Lender may assign to one or more Persons Eligible Assignees all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement the Loan Documents (including, without limitation, all or a portion of its Commitment, the Advance Advances owing to it it, its participations in Letters of Credit and the Note or Notes (if any) held by it); provided, however, that (i) each such assignment shall be of a constant, and not a varying, percentage of all of the assigning Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreementthe Loan Documents, (ii) except in the case of an assignment to a Person that, immediately prior to such assignment, was a Lender or an assignment of all of a Lender's rights and obligations under this Agreement, the amount of the Commitment of the assigning Lender being assigned pursuant to each such assignment (determined as of the date of the Lender Assignment and Acceptance with respect to such assignment) shall in no event be less than the lesser of the amount of such Lender’s then remaining Commitment and $5,000,000 or an integral any whole multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereofthereof (except in the case of assignments between Lenders at the time already parties hereto and between a Lender and an Affiliate of such Lender), (iii) each the Agent, the LC Issuing Bank and, so long as no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the Borrower, shall have consented to such assignment shall (in each case, which may not be to an Eligible Assigneeunreasonably withheld or delayed), and (iv) the parties to each such assignment shall execute and deliver to the Agent, for its acceptance and recording in the Register, an Assignment and Acceptancea Lender Assignment, together with any Note or Notes (if any) subject to such assignmentassignment and a processing and recordation fee of $3,500. Promptly following its receipt of such Lender Assignment, Note or Notes (if any) and fee, the Agent shall accept and record such Lender Assignment in the Register. Upon such execution, delivery, acceptance and recording, from and after the effective date specified in each Assignment and AcceptanceLender Assignment, (Ax) the assignee thereunder shall be a party hereto and, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned to it pursuant to such Assignment and AcceptanceLender Assignment, have the rights and obligations of a Lender hereunder and (By) the Lender assignor thereunder shall, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned by it pursuant to such Assignment and AcceptanceLender Assignment, relinquish its rights and be released from its obligations under this Agreement (and, in the case of an a Lender Assignment and Acceptance covering all or the remaining portion of an assigning Lender's ’s rights and obligations under this Agreement, such Lender shall cease to be a party hereto). (b) By executing and delivering an Assignment and Acceptance, the Lender assignor thereunder and the assignee thereunder confirm to and agree with each other and the other parties hereto as follows: (i) other than as provided in such Assignment and Acceptance, such assigning Lender makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to any statements, warranties or representations made in or in connection with this Agreement or the execution, legality, validity, enforceability, genuineness, sufficiency or value of this Agreement or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant hereto; (ii) such assigning Lender makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to the financial condition of the Borrower or the performance or observance by the Borrower of any of its obligations under this Agreement or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant hereto; (iii) such assignee confirms that it has received a copy of this Agreement, together with copies of the financial statements referred to in Section 4.01 and such other documents and information as it has deemed appropriate to make its own credit analysis and decision to enter into such Assignment and Acceptance; (iv) such assignee will, independently and without reliance upon the Agent, such assigning Lender or any other Lender and based on such documents and information as it shall deem appropriate at the time, continue to make its own credit decisions in taking or not taking action under this Agreement; (v) such assignee confirms that it is an Eligible Assignee; (vi) such assignee appoints and authorizes the Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers and discretion under this Agreement as are delegated to the Agent by the terms hereof, together with such powers and discretion as are reasonably incidental thereto; and (vii) such assignee agrees that it will perform in accordance with their terms all of the obligations that by the terms of this Agreement are required to be performed by it as a Lender. (c) The Agent shall maintain at its address referred to in Section 8.02 a copy of each Assignment and Acceptance delivered to and accepted by it and a register for the recordation of the names and addresses of the Lenders and the Commitment of, and principal amount of the Advances owing to, each Lender from time to time (the "Register"). The entries in the Register shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error, and the Borrower, the Agent and the Lenders may treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Register as a Lender hereunder for all purposes of this Agreement. The Register shall be available for inspection by the Borrower or any Lender at any reasonable time and from time to time upon reasonable prior notice. (d) Upon its receipt of an Assignment and Acceptance executed by an assigning Lender and an assignee representing that it is an Eligible Assignee, together with any Note or Notes subject to such assignment, the Agent shall, if such Assignment and Acceptance has been completed and is in substantially the form of Exhibit C hereto, (i) accept such Assignment and Acceptance, (ii) record the information contained therein in the Register and (iii) give prompt notice thereof to the Borrower. Within five Business Days after its receipt of such notice, the Borrower, at its own expense, shall execute and deliver to the Agent in exchange for the surrendered Note a new Note to the order of such Eligible Assignee in an amount equal to the Commitment assumed by it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance and, if the assigning Lender has retained a Commitment hereunder, a new Note to the order of the assigning Lender in an amount equal to the Commitment retained by it hereunder. Such new Note or Notes shall be in an aggregate principal amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of such surrendered Note or Notes, shall be dated the effective date of such Assignment and Acceptance and shall otherwise be in substantially the form of Exhibit A hereto. (e) Each Lender may sell participations to one or more banks or other entities (other than the Borrower or any of its Affiliates) in or to all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, all or a portion of its Commitment, the Advances owing to it and the Note or Notes held by it); provided, however, that (i) such Lender's obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, its Commitment to the Borrower hereunder) shall remain unchanged, (ii) such Lender shall remain solely responsible to the other parties hereto for the performance of such obligations, (iii) such Lender shall remain the holder of any such Note for all purposes of this Agreement, (iv) the Borrower, the Agent and the other Lenders but shall continue to deal solely and directly with such Lender in connection with such Lender's rights and obligations under this Agreement and (v) no participant under any such participation shall have any right to approve any amendment or waiver of any provision of this Agreement or any Note, or any consent to any departure by the Borrower therefrom, except be entitled to the extent that such amendmentbenefits of Section 2.12(a), waiver or consent would reduce the principal of, or interest on, the Notes or any fees or other amounts payable hereunder, in each case to the extent subject to such participation, or postpone any date fixed for any payment of principal of, or interest on, the Notes or any fees or other amounts payable hereunder, in each case to the extent subject to such participation. (f) Any Lender may, in connection with any assignment or participation or proposed assignment or participation pursuant to this Section 8.07, disclose to the assignee or participant or proposed assignee or participant, any information relating to the Borrower furnished to such Lender by or on behalf of the Borrower; provided that, prior to any such disclosure, the assignee or participant or proposed assignee or participant shall agree to preserve the confidentiality of any Confidential Information relating to the Borrower received by it from such Lender. (g) Notwithstanding any other provision set forth in this Agreement, any Lender may at any time create a security interest in all or any portion of its rights under this Agreement (including, without limitation, the Advances owing to it and the Note held by it) in favor of any Federal Reserve Bank in accordance with Regulation A of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. (h) In connection with the initial assignment or proposed initial assignment by the Initial Lender pursuant to this Section 8.07, the Borrower shall, upon the request of the Initial Lender, furnish to the Initial Lender a favorable opinion of counsel for the Borrower acceptable to the Initial Lender, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Initial Lender.2.12

Assignments and Participations. (a) Each Lender may assign to one or more Persons Eligible Assignees all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, all or a portion of its CommitmentCommitment or Commitments, the Advance Advances owing to it and the Note or Notes held by it); provided, however, that (i) each such assignment shall be of a constant, and not a varying, percentage of all rights and obligations under this Agreement, (ii) except in the case of an assignment to a Person that, immediately prior to such assignment, was a Lender, an Affiliate of any Lender or an Approved Fund of any Lender or an assignment of all of a Lender's rights and obligations under this Agreement, the aggregate amount of the Commitment of the assigning Lender Commitments being assigned to such Eligible Assignee pursuant to each such assignment (determined as of the date of the Assignment and Acceptance with respect to such assignment) shall in no event be less than $5,000,000 1,000,000 (or an integral multiple such lesser amount as shall be approved by the Administrative Agent and, so long as no Event of $1,000,000 Default shall have occurred and be continuing at the time of effectiveness of such assignment, the Borrower, such approval, in excess thereofthe case of the Borrower, not to be unreasonably withheld), (iiiii) each such assignment shall be to an Eligible Assignee, and (iviii) the parties to each such assignment shall execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent, for its acceptance and recording in the Register, an Assignment and Acceptance, together with any Note or Notes subject to such assignment. No processing and recordation fee shall be due. (b) Upon such execution, delivery, consent, acceptance and recording, from and after the effective date specified in each such Assignment and Acceptance, (Ai) the assignee thereunder shall be a party hereto and, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned to it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance, have the rights and obligations of a Lender hereunder and (Bii) the Lender assignor thereunder shall, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned by it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance, relinquish its rights (other than its rights under Sections 2.09, 2.10 and 9.04 to the extent any claim thereunder relates to an event arising prior to such assignment) and be released from its obligations under this Agreement (and, in the case of an Assignment and Acceptance covering all or of the remaining portion of an assigning Lender's rights and obligations under this Agreement, such Lender shall cease to be a party hereto). (bc) By executing and delivering an Assignment and Acceptance, the each Lender Party assignor thereunder and the each assignee thereunder confirm to and agree with each other and the other parties thereto and hereto as follows: (i) other than as provided in such Assignment and Acceptance, such assigning Lender Party makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to any statements, warranties or representations made in or in connection with this Agreement any Loan Document or the execution, legality, validity, enforceability, genuineness, sufficiency or value of, or the perfection or priority of this Agreement any lien or security interest created or purported to be created under or in connection with, any Loan Document or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant heretothereto; (ii) such assigning Lender Party makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to the financial condition of the Borrower any Loan Party or the performance or observance by the Borrower any Loan Party of any of its obligations under this Agreement any Loan Document or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant heretothereto; (iii) such assignee confirms that it has received a copy of this Agreement, together with copies of the financial statements referred to in Section 4.01 and such other documents and information as it has deemed appropriate to make its own credit analysis and decision to enter into such Assignment and Acceptance; (iv) such assignee will, independently and without reliance upon the any Agent, such assigning Lender Party or any other Lender Party and based on such documents and information as it shall deem appropriate at the time, continue to make its own credit decisions in taking or not taking action under this Agreement; (v) such assignee confirms that it is an Eligible Assignee; (vi) such assignee appoints and authorizes the each Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers and discretion under this Agreement the Loan Documents as are delegated to the such Agent by the terms hereofhereof and thereof, together with such powers and discretion as are reasonably incidental thereto; and (vii) such assignee agrees that it will perform in accordance with their terms all of the obligations that by the terms of this Agreement are required to be performed by it as a Lender, as the case may be. (cd) The Administrative Agent shall maintain at its address referred to in Section 8.02 9.02 a copy of each Assignment and Acceptance delivered to and accepted by it and a register for the recordation of the names and addresses of the Lenders and the Commitment of, and principal amount of the Advances owing to, each Lender from time to time (the "Register"). The entries in the Register shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error, and the Borrower, the Agent and the Lenders may treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Register as a Lender hereunder for all purposes of this Agreement. The Register shall be available for inspection by the Borrower or any Lender at any reasonable time and from time to time upon reasonable prior noticeit. (de) Upon its receipt of an Assignment and Acceptance executed by an assigning Lender Party and an assignee representing that it is an Eligible Assigneeassignee, together with any Note or Notes subject to such assignment, the Administrative Agent shall, if such Assignment and Acceptance has been completed and is in substantially the form of Exhibit C hereto, (i) accept such Assignment and Acceptance, (ii) record the information contained therein in the Register and (iii) give prompt notice thereof to the BorrowerBorrower and each other Agent. Within In the case of any assignment by a Lender, within five Business Days after its receipt of such notice, the Borrower, at its own expense, shall execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent in exchange for the surrendered Note or Notes a new Note to the order of such Eligible Assignee in an amount equal to the Commitment assumed by it under each Facility pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance and, if the any assigning Lender has retained a Commitment hereunderhereunder under such Facility, a new Note to the order of the such assigning Lender in an amount equal to the Commitment retained by it hereunder. Such new Note or Notes shall be in an aggregate principal amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of such surrendered Note or Notes, shall be dated the effective date of such Assignment and Acceptance and shall otherwise be in substantially the form of Exhibit A A-1 or A-2 hereto, as the case may be. (ef) Each Lender Party may sell participations to one or more banks or other entities Persons (other than the Borrower any Loan Party or any of its Affiliates) in or to all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, all or a portion of its CommitmentCommitments, the Advances owing to it and the Note or Notes (if any) held by it); provided, however, that (i) such LenderLender Party's obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, its Commitment to the Borrower hereunderCommitments) shall remain unchanged, (ii) such Lender Party shall remain solely responsible to the other parties hereto for the performance of such obligations, (iii) such Lender Party shall remain the holder of any such Note for all purposes of this Agreement, (iv) the Borrower, the Agent Agents and the other Lenders Lender Parties shall continue to deal solely and directly with such Lender Party in connection with such LenderLender Party's rights and obligations under this Agreement and (v) no participant under any such participation shall have any right to approve any amendment or waiver of any provision of this Agreement or any NoteLoan Document, or any consent to any departure by the Borrower any Loan Party therefrom, except to the extent that such amendment, waiver or consent would reduce the principal of, or interest on, the Notes or any fees or other amounts payable hereunder, in each case to the extent subject to such participation, or postpone any date fixed for any payment of principal of, or interest on, the Notes or any fees or other amounts payable hereunder, in each case to the extent subject to such participation, or release all or substantially all of the Collateral. (fg) Any Lender Party may, in connection with any assignment or participation or proposed assignment or participation pursuant to this Section 8.079.07, disclose to the assignee or participant or proposed assignee or participant, participant any information relating to the Borrower furnished to such Lender Party by or on behalf of the Borrower; provided provided, however, that, prior to any such disclosure, the assignee or participant or proposed assignee or participant shall agree to preserve the confidentiality of any Confidential Information relating to the Borrower received by it from such LenderLender Party. (gh) Notwithstanding any other provision set forth in this Agreement, any Lender Party may at any time create a security interest in all or any portion of its rights under this Agreement (including, without limitation, the Advances owing to it and the Note or Notes held by it) in favor of any Federal Reserve Bank in accordance with Regulation A of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. (h) In connection with the initial assignment or proposed initial assignment by the Initial Lender pursuant to this Section 8.07, the Borrower shall, upon the request of the Initial Lender, furnish to the Initial Lender a favorable opinion of counsel for the Borrower acceptable to the Initial Lender, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Initial Lender.

Assignments and Participations. (a) Each Lender may sell, transfer, negotiate or assign to one or more Persons Eligible Assignees all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, all or a portion of its Commitment, the Advance owing to it and the Note or Notes held by it)hereunder; provided, however, that (i) each such assignment shall be of a constant, and not a varying, percentage of all rights and obligations under this Agreement, (ii) except in the case of an assignment to a Person that, immediately prior to such assignment, was a Lender or an assignment of all of a Lender's rights and obligations under this Agreement, the aggregate amount of the Commitment of the assigning Lender being assigned pursuant to each such assignment (determined as of the date of the Assignment and Acceptance with respect to such assignment) shall in no event (if less than the Assignor’s entire interest) be less than $5,000,000 1,000,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof, except, (iiiA) each with the consent of the Administrative Agent or (B) if such assignment is being made to a Lender or an Affiliate or Approved Fund of such Lender, and (ii) if such Eligible Assignee is not, prior to the date of such assignment, a Lender or an Affiliate or Approved Fund of a Lender, such assignment shall be subject to an Eligible Assignee, and the prior consent of the Administrative Agent (ivwhich consent shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed). (b) the The parties to each such assignment shall execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent, for its acceptance and recording in the Registerrecording, an Assignment and Acceptance, together with any Term Loan Note (if the assigning Lender’s Term Loans are evidenced by a Term Loan Note) subject to such assignment. Upon such execution, delivery, acceptance and recordingrecording of any Assignment and Acceptance or Assumption Agreement, as the case may be, and, other than in respect of assignment made pursuant to Section 2.16 and Section 10.1(c), the receipt by the Administrative Agent from the assignee of an assignment/assumption fee in the amount of $3,500 (with only one such fee payable in connection with simultaneous assignments to or by two or more separate Approved Funds), then from and after the effective date specified in each such Assignment and AcceptanceAcceptance or Assumption Agreement, as the case may be, (Ai) the assignee thereunder shall be become a party hereto and, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder under the Loan Documents have been assigned to it such assignee pursuant to such Assignment and AcceptanceAcceptance or assumed by such assuming party pursuant to such Assumption Agreement, have the rights and obligations of a Lender hereunder and (Bii) the Lender assignor thereunder under an Assignment and Acceptance shall, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder under this Agreement have been assigned by it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance, relinquish its rights (except for those surviving the payment in full of the Obligations) and be released from its obligations under this Agreement the Loan Documents, other than those relating to events or circumstances occurring prior to such assignment (and, in the case of an Assignment and Acceptance covering all or the remaining portion of an assigning Lender's ’s rights and obligations under this Agreementthe Loan Documents, such Lender shall cease to be a party hereto). (b) By executing and delivering an Assignment and Acceptance, the Lender assignor thereunder and the assignee thereunder confirm to and agree with each other and the other parties hereto as follows: (i) other than as provided in such Assignment and Acceptance, such assigning Lender makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to any statements, warranties or representations made in or in connection with this Agreement or the execution, legality, validity, enforceability, genuineness, sufficiency or value of this Agreement or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant hereto; (ii) such assigning Lender makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to the financial condition of the Borrower or the performance or observance by the Borrower of any of its obligations under this Agreement or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant hereto; (iii) such assignee confirms that it has received a copy of this Agreement, together with copies of the financial statements referred to in Section 4.01 and such other documents and information as it has deemed appropriate to make its own credit analysis and decision to enter into such Assignment and Acceptance; (iv) such assignee will, independently and without reliance upon the Agent, such assigning Lender or any other Lender and based on such documents and information as it shall deem appropriate at the time, continue to make its own credit decisions in taking or not taking action under this Agreement; (v) such assignee confirms that it is an Eligible Assignee; (vi) such assignee appoints and authorizes the Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers and discretion under this Agreement as are delegated to the Agent by the terms hereof, together with such powers and discretion as are reasonably incidental thereto; and (vii) such assignee agrees that it will perform in accordance with their terms all of the obligations that by the terms of this Agreement are required to be performed by it as a Lender. (c) The Administrative Agent shall maintain at its address referred to in Section 8.02 10.8 a copy of each Assignment and Acceptance and each Assumption Agreement delivered to and accepted by it and a register for the recordation recording of the names and addresses of the Lenders and the Commitment of, Term Loan Commitments of and principal amount of and accrued and unpaid interest on the Advances Term Loans owing to, to each Lender from time to time (the "“Register"”). Any assignment pursuant to this Section 10.2 shall not be effective until such assignment is recorded in the Register. The entries in the Register shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error, and the BorrowerLoan Parties, the Administrative Agent and the Lenders may shall treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Register as a Lender hereunder for all purposes of this Agreement. The Register shall be available for inspection by the Borrower Administrative Borrower, the Administrative Agent or any Lender at any reasonable time and from time to time upon reasonable prior notice. (d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in clause (b) above, the Term Loans (including the Term Loan Notes evidencing such Term Loans) are registered obligations and the right, title, and interest of the Lenders and their assignees in and to such Term Loans shall be transferable only upon notation of such transfer in the Register. A Term Loan Note shall only evidence the Lender’s or an assignee’s right, title and interest in and to the related Term Loan, and in no event is any such Term Loan Note to be considered a bearer instrument or obligation. This Section 10.2 shall be construed so that the Term Loans are at all times maintained in “registered form” within the meaning of Sections 163(f), 871(h)(2) and 881(c)(2) of the Code or such regulations. Solely for purposes of this and for tax purposes only, the Administrative Agent shall act as the Borrowers’ agent for purposes of maintaining such notations of transfer in the Register. (e) Upon its receipt of an Assignment and Acceptance executed by an assigning Lender and an assignee representing that it is or an Assumption Agreement executed by the Administrative Borrower and a Lender or an Eligible Assignee, together with any Note or Notes subject to such assignment, the Administrative Agent shall, if such Assignment and Acceptance or Assumption Agreement has been completed and is in substantially the form of Exhibit C heretocompleted, (i) accept such Assignment and AcceptanceAcceptance or Assumption Agreement, (ii) record the information contained therein in the Register and (iii) in the case of an Assignment and Acceptance, give prompt notice thereof to the Administrative Borrower. Within five Business Days after its receipt of such notice, the Borrower, Borrowers at its their own expense, shall shall, if requested by such assignee, execute and deliver to the Agent in exchange for the surrendered Note a Administrative Agent, new Note Term Loan Notes to the order of such Eligible Assignee assignee in an amount equal to the Commitment Term Loans assumed by it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance or Assumption Agreement and, if the assigning Lender Lender, in the case of an Assignment and Acceptance, has surrendered any Term Loan Note for exchange in connection with the assignment and has retained a Commitment Term Loans hereunder, a new Note Term Loan Notes to the order of the assigning Lender in an amount equal to the Commitment Term Loans retained by it hereunder. Such new Note or Term Loan Notes shall be in an aggregate principal amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of such surrendered Note or Notes, shall be dated the effective same date of such Assignment as the surrendered Term Loan Notes and Acceptance and shall otherwise be in substantially the form of Exhibit C. (f) In addition to the other assignment rights provided in this Section 10.2, each Lender may collaterally assign, as collateral or otherwise, any of its rights under this Agreement, whether now owned or hereafter acquired (including rights to payments of principal or interest on the Term Loans), to (x) any Federal Reserve Bank pursuant to Regulation A of the Federal Reserve Board without notice to or consent of the Borrowers or (y) in the case of any Lender that is a Fund, any holders of obligations owed or Securities issued by such Lender as security for such obligations or Securities or any trustee for, or other representative of, such holders, and this Section 10.1 shall not apply to any such pledge or grant of a security interest; provided, however, that no such assignment shall release the assigning Lender from any of its obligations hereunder or substitute any such pledgee or assignee for such Lender as a party hereto. (eg) Each Lender may sell participations to one or more banks or other entities (other than the Borrower or any of its Affiliates) Persons in or to all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement the Loan Documents (includingincluding all its rights and obligations with respect to the Term Loans). The terms of such participation shall not, without limitationin any event, all require the participant’s consent to any amendments, waivers or a portion other modifications of its Commitmentany provision of any Loan Documents, the Advances owing consent to it and any departure by any Loan Party therefrom, or to the Note exercising or Notes held refraining from exercising any powers or rights such Lender may have under or in respect of the Loan Documents (including the right to enforce the obligations of the Loan Parties), except if any such amendment, waiver or other modification or consent would reduce the amount, or postpone any date fixed for, any amount (whether of principal, interest or fees) payable to such participant under the Loan Documents, to which such participant would otherwise be entitled under such participation. In the event of the sale of any participation by it); providedany Lender, however, that (iw) such Lender's ’s obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, its Commitment to the Borrower hereunder) Loan Documents shall remain unchanged, (iix) such Lender shall remain solely responsible to the other parties hereto for the performance of such obligations, (iiiy) such Lender shall remain the holder of any such Note Obligations for all purposes of this Agreement, and (ivz) the BorrowerBorrowers, the Administrative Agent and the other Lenders shall continue to deal solely and directly with such Lender in connection with such Lender's ’s rights and obligations under this Agreement Agreement. Each Lender that sells a participation shall, acting solely for this purpose as a non-fiduciary agent of the Borrowers, maintain a register on which it enters the name and address of each participant and the principal amounts (vand accrued and unpaid interest) no participant under any of each participant’s interest in the Term Loans held by it (the “Participant Register”). The entries in the Participant Register shall be conclusive, absent manifest error, and such participation Lender shall have any right to approve any amendment treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Participant Register as the owner of such Term Loan or waiver of any provision other obligation hereunder and as the owner thereof for all purposes of this Agreement or notwithstanding any Note, or any consent to any departure by the Borrower therefrom, except notice to the extent contrary. Each participant shall be entitled to the benefits of Section 2.14 and Section 2.15 and of Section 2.13(c) as if it were a Lender; provided, however, that such amendment, waiver or consent would reduce anything herein to the principal of, or interest oncontrary notwithstanding, the Notes Borrowers shall not, at any time, be obligated to make any payment under Section 2.14, Section 2.15 or any fees or other amounts payable hereunder, in each case Section 2.13(c) to the extent subject participant in the rights and obligations of any Lender (together with such Lender) in excess of the amount the Borrowers would have been obligated to such participation, or postpone any date fixed for any payment of principal of, or interest on, the Notes or any fees or other amounts payable hereunder, in each case to the extent subject to such participation. (f) Any Lender may, in connection with any assignment or participation or proposed assignment or participation pursuant to this Section 8.07, disclose to the assignee or participant or proposed assignee or participant, any information relating to the Borrower furnished pay to such Lender by or on behalf in respect of such interest had such participation not been sold unless the sale of the Borrower; provided that, prior to any such disclosure, the assignee or participant or proposed assignee or participant shall agree to preserve the confidentiality of any Confidential Information relating to the Borrower received by it from such Lender. (g) Notwithstanding any other provision set forth in this Agreement, any Lender may at any time create a security interest in all or any portion of its rights under this Agreement (including, without limitation, the Advances owing to it and the Note held by it) in favor of any Federal Reserve Bank in accordance with Regulation A of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. (h) In connection participation is made with the initial assignment Administrative Borrower’s prior written consent or proposed initial assignment by the Initial Lender pursuant right to this Section 8.07a greater payment results from a change in law (including any statute, the Borrower shall, upon the request of the Initial Lender, furnish to the Initial Lender treaty or regulation) after such participant becomes a favorable opinion of counsel for the Borrower acceptable to the Initial Lender, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Initial Lenderparticipant.

Assignments and Participations. (a) Each Lender may assign to one or more Persons Eligible Assignees all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, all or a portion of its Commitment, the Advance Advances owing to it and the Note or Notes held by it); provided, however, that (i) each such assignment shall be of a constant, and not a varying, percentage of all rights and obligations under this Agreement, (ii) except in the case of an assignment to a Person that, immediately prior to such assignment, was a Lender or an assignment of all of a Lender's rights and obligations under this Agreement, the amount of the Commitment or Advances of the assigning Lender being assigned pursuant to each such assignment (determined as of the date of the Assignment and Acceptance with respect to such assignment) shall in no event be less than $5,000,000 15,000,000 (or $5,000,000, in the case of an integral multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereofassignment to an existing Lender), (iiiii) each such assignment shall be to an Eligible Assignee, Assignee and (iviii) the parties to each such assignment shall execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent, for its acceptance and recording in the Register, an Assignment and Acceptance, together with any Note or Notes subject to such assignment. assignment and a processing and recordation fee of $3,500. (b) Upon such execution, delivery, acceptance and recording, from and after the effective date specified in each such Assignment and Acceptance, (Ax) the assignee thereunder shall be a party hereto and, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned to it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance, have the rights and obligations of a Lender hereunder and (By) the Lender assignor thereunder shall, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned by it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance, relinquish its rights and be released from its obligations under this Agreement (and, in the case of an Assignment and Acceptance covering all or the remaining portion of an assigning Lender's rights and obligations under this Agreement, such Lender shall cease to be a party hereto). (bc) By executing and delivering an Assignment and Acceptance, the Lender Party assignor thereunder and the assignee thereunder confirm to and agree with each other and the other parties hereto as follows: (i) other than as provided in such Assignment and Acceptance, such assigning Lender Party makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to any statements, warranties or representations made in or in connection with this Agreement or any other Loan Document or the execution, legality, validity, enforceability, genuineness, sufficiency or value of of, this Agreement or any other Loan Document or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant heretohereto or thereto; (ii) such assigning Lender Party makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to the financial condition of the Borrower or any other Loan Party or the performance or observance by the Borrower of any of its obligations under this Agreement any Loan Document or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant heretothereto; (iii) such assignee confirms that it has received a copy of this Agreement, together with copies of the financial statements referred to in Section 4.01 and such other documents and information as it has deemed appropriate to make its own credit analysis and decision to enter into such Assignment and Acceptance; (iv) such assignee will, independently and without reliance upon the Administrative Agent, such assigning Lender Party or any other Lender Party and based on such documents and information as it shall deem appropriate at the time, continue to make its own credit decisions in taking or not taking action under this Agreement; (v) such assignee confirms that it is an Eligible Assignee; (vi) such assignee appoints and authorizes the Administrative Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers and discretion under this Agreement the Loan Documents as are delegated to the Administrative Agent by the terms hereof, together with such powers and discretion as are reasonably incidental thereto; and (vii) such assignee agrees that it will perform in accordance with their terms all of the obligations that which by the terms of this Agreement are required to be performed by it as a Lender. (cd) The Administrative Agent acting for this purpose (but only for this purpose) as the agent of the Borrower, shall maintain at its address referred to in Section 8.02 a copy of each Assignment and Acceptance delivered to and accepted by it and a register for the recordation of the names and addresses of the Lenders Lender Parties and the Commitment of, and principal amount of the Advances owing to, each Lender Party from time to time (the "Register"). The entries in the Register shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error, and the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and the Lenders may Lender Parties shall treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Register as a Lender Party hereunder for all purposes of this Agreement. The Register shall be available for inspection by the Borrower or any Lender Party at any reasonable time and from time to time upon reasonable prior notice. (de) Upon its receipt of an Assignment and Acceptance executed by an assigning Lender Party and an assignee representing that it is an Eligible Assigneeassignee, together with any Note or Notes subject to such assignment, the Administrative Agent shall, if such Assignment and Acceptance has been completed and is in substantially the form of Exhibit C hereto, (i) accept such Assignment and Acceptance, (ii) record the information contained therein in the Register and (iii) give prompt notice thereof to the Borrower. Within five In the case of any assignment by a Lender, within 15 Business Days after its receipt of such notice, the Borrower, at its own expense, shall execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent in exchange for the surrendered Note a new Note to the order of such Eligible Assignee in an amount equal to the Commitment or, after the Funding Date, the principal amount of the outstanding Advance assumed by it under the Facility pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance and, if the assigning Lender has retained a Commitment hereunderor a portion of the principal amount of its outstanding Advance under the Facility, a new Note to the order of the assigning Lender in an amount equal to the Commitment or portion of such Advance retained by it hereunder. Such new Note or Notes shall be in an aggregate principal amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of such surrendered Note or NotesNote, shall be dated the effective date of such Assignment and Acceptance and shall otherwise be in substantially the form of Exhibit A hereto. (ef) No assignee, participant or other transferee of any Lender Party's rights shall be entitled to receive any greater payment under Section 2.09 or 2.11 than such Lender Party would have been entitled to receive with respect to the rights transferred, unless such transfer is made with the Borrower's prior written consent or by reason of the provisions of Section 2.09 or 2.11 requiring such Lender to designate a different Applicable Lending Office under certain circumstances or at a time when the circumstances giving rise to such greater payment did not exist. (g) Each Lender Party may sell participations to one or more banks or other entities Persons (other than the Borrower or any of its Affiliates) in or to all or a portion of its rights, obligations, or rights and obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, all or a portion of its Commitment, the Advances owing to it and the Note or Notes (if any) held by it); provided, however, that (i) such LenderLender Party's obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, its Commitment to the Borrower hereunderCommitment) shall remain unchanged, (ii) such Lender Party shall remain solely responsible to the other parties hereto for the performance of such obligations, (iii) such Lender Party shall remain the holder of any such Note for all purposes of this Agreement, (iv) the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and the other Lenders Lender Parties shall continue to deal solely and directly with such Lender Party in connection with such LenderLender Party's rights and obligations under this Agreement and (v) no participant under any such participation shall have any right to approve any amendment or waiver of any provision of this Agreement or any NoteLoan Document, or any consent to any departure by the Borrower therefrom, except to the extent that such amendment, waiver or consent would reduce the principal of, or interest on, the Notes Note or any fees or other amounts payable hereunder, in each case to the extent subject to such participation, or postpone any date fixed under Section 2.04 for any payment of principal of, or fixed under Section 2.05 or 2.06 for any payment of interest on, on the Notes Note or fixed under Section 2.07 for any payment of any fees or other amounts payable hereunder, in each case to the extent subject to such participation. (fh) Any Lender Party may, in connection with any assignment or participation or proposed assignment or participation pursuant to this Section 8.07, disclose to the assignee or participant or proposed assignee or participant, any information relating to the Borrower furnished to such Lender Party by or on behalf of the Borrower; provided provided, however, that, prior to any such disclosure, the assignee or participant or proposed assignee or participant shall agree in writing to preserve the confidentiality of any Confidential Information relating to the Borrower received by it from such Lender. (g) Notwithstanding any other provision set forth in this Agreement, any Lender may at any time create a security interest in all or any portion of its rights under this Agreement (including, without limitation, the Advances owing to it and the Note held by it) in favor of any Federal Reserve Bank Party in accordance with Regulation A of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. (h) In connection with the initial assignment or proposed initial assignment by the Initial Lender pursuant to this Section 8.07, the Borrower shall, upon the request of the Initial Lender, furnish to the Initial Lender a favorable opinion of counsel for the Borrower acceptable to the Initial Lender, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Initial Lender.8.09

Assignments and Participations. (a) Each Lender may assign to one or more Persons of its Affiliates all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement the Loan Documents (including, without limitation, all or a portion of its Commitment, the Advance Loans owing to it and the Note or Notes held by it); provided, however, that (i) each such assignment shall be of a constant, and not a varying, percentage of all rights and obligations under this Agreement, the Loan Documents and (ii) except in the case of an assignment to a Person that, immediately prior to such assignment, was a Lender or an assignment of all of a Lender's rights and obligations under this Agreement, the amount of the Commitment of the assigning Lender being assigned pursuant to each such assignment (determined as of the date of the Assignment and Acceptance with respect to such assignment) shall in no event be less than $5,000,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof, (iii) each such assignment shall be to an Eligible Assignee, and (iv) the parties to each such assignment shall execute and deliver to the AgentLender which maintains the Register, for its acceptance and recording in the Register, an Assignment and Acceptance, together with any Note subject to such assignment. Upon such execution, delivery, acceptance and recording, from and after the effective date specified in each Assignment and Acceptance, (Ax) the assignee thereunder shall be a party hereto and, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned to it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance, have the rights and obligations of a Lender hereunder and (By) the Lender assignor thereunder shall, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned by it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance, relinquish its rights and be released from its obligations under this Agreement (and, in the case of an Assignment and Acceptance covering all or the remaining portion of an assigning Lender's ’s rights and obligations under this Agreement, such Lender shall cease to be a party hereto). (b) By executing and delivering an Assignment and Acceptance, the Lender assignor thereunder and the assignee thereunder confirm to and agree with each other and the other parties hereto as follows: (i) other than as provided in such Assignment and Acceptance, such assigning Lender makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to any statements, warranties or representations made in or in connection with this Agreement any Loan Document or the execution, legality, validity, enforceability, genuineness, sufficiency or value of this Agreement or any other Loan Document or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant hereto; (ii) such assigning Lender makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to the financial condition of the Borrower Borrowers or the performance or observance by the Borrower Borrowers of any of its their obligations under this Agreement Agreement, any other Loan Document or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant hereto; (iii) such assignee confirms that it has received a copy of this AgreementAgreement and the other Loan Documents, together with copies of the financial statements referred to in Section 4.01 and such other documents and information as it has deemed appropriate to make its own credit analysis and decision to enter into such Assignment and Acceptance; (iv) such assignee will, independently and without reliance upon the Agent, such assigning Lender or any other Lender and based on such documents and information as it shall deem appropriate at the time, continue to make its own credit decisions in taking or not taking action under this Agreement; (v) such assignee confirms that it is an Eligible Assignee; (vi) such assignee appoints and authorizes the Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers and discretion under this Agreement as are delegated to the Agent by the terms hereof, together with such powers and discretion as are reasonably incidental theretoor any other Loan Document; and (viiv) such assignee agrees that it will perform in accordance with their terms all of the obligations that by the terms of this Agreement or any other Loan Document are required to be performed by it as a Lender. (c) The Agent shall maintain at its address referred to in Section 8.02 a copy of each Assignment and Acceptance delivered to and accepted by it and a register for the recordation of the names and addresses of the Lenders and the Commitment of, and principal amount of the Advances owing to, each Lender from time to time (the "Register"). The entries in the Register shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error, and the Borrower, the Agent and the Lenders may treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Register as a Lender hereunder for all purposes of this Agreement. The Register shall be available for inspection by the Borrower or any Lender at any reasonable time and from time to time upon reasonable prior notice. (d) Upon its receipt of an Assignment and Acceptance executed by an assigning Lender and an assignee representing that it is an Eligible Assignee, together with any Note or Notes subject to such assignment, the Agent Lender which maintains the Register shall, if such Assignment and Acceptance has been completed and is in substantially the form of Exhibit C heretocompleted, (i) accept such Assignment and Acceptance, (ii) record the information contained therein in the Register and (iii) give prompt notice forward a copy thereof to the Borrower. Within five Business Days after its receipt of such notice, Borrowers. (d) The Lender which maintains the Borrower, Register shall maintain at its own expense, shall execute and deliver address referred to the Agent in exchange for the surrendered Note Section 5.02 a new Note to the order copy of such Eligible Assignee in an amount equal to the Commitment assumed by it pursuant to such each Assignment and Acceptance and, if the assigning Lender has retained a Commitment hereunder, a new Note delivered to the order of the assigning Lender in an amount equal to the Commitment retained and accepted by it hereunder. Such new Note or Notes shall be in an aggregate principal amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of such surrendered Note or Notes, shall be dated the effective date of such Assignment and Acceptance and shall otherwise be in substantially the form of Exhibit A heretoit. (e) Each Lender may sell participations to one or more banks or other entities (other than the Borrower or any of its Affiliates) in or to all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, all or a portion of its Commitment, the Advances owing to it and the Note or Notes held by it); provided, however, that (i) such Lender's obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, its Commitment to the Borrower hereunder) shall remain unchanged, (ii) such Lender shall remain solely responsible to the other parties hereto for the performance of such obligations, (iii) such Lender shall remain the holder of any such Note for all purposes of this Agreement, (iv) the Borrower, the Agent and the other The Lenders shall continue to deal solely and directly with such Lender in connection with such Lender's rights and obligations under this Agreement and (v) no participant under any such participation shall have any right to approve any amendment or waiver of any provision of this Agreement or any Note, or any consent to any departure by the Borrower therefrom, except to the extent that such amendment, waiver or consent would reduce the principal of, or interest on, the Notes or any fees or other amounts payable hereunder, in each case to the extent subject to such participation, or postpone any date fixed for any payment of principal of, or interest on, the Notes or any fees or other amounts payable hereunder, in each case to the extent subject to such participation. (f) Any Lender may, in connection with any assignment or participation or proposed assignment or participation pursuant to this Section 8.07Section, disclose to the assignee assignee, designee or participant or proposed assignee or participant, any information relating to the Borrower Borrowers furnished to such Lender the Lenders by or on behalf of the BorrowerBorrowers; provided that, prior to any such disclosure, the assignee or participant or proposed assignee or participant shall agree in writing in favor of (and delivered to) the Borrowers to preserve the confidentiality of any Confidential Information relating to the Borrower received by it from such Lenderon terms substantially similar to those set forth in Section 5.08. (gf) Notwithstanding any other provision set forth in this Agreement, any each Lender may at any time create a security interest in all or any portion of its rights under this Agreement (including, without limitation, the Advances owing to it and the Note held by it) Loan Documents in favor of any Federal Reserve Bank in accordance with Regulation A of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. (g) In the event that the Borrowers shall be required to make additional payments to any Lender under Section 2.08, the Borrowers shall have the right, at their own expense, upon notice to such Lender, to require such Lender to transfer and assign without recourse (in accordance with and subject to the restrictions contained in this Section) all of such Lender’s interests, rights and obligations under this Agreement or any other Loan Document to another Lender identified by the Borrowers and approved by the continuing Lenders (which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld), which financial institution shall assume such obligations of such Lender for consideration equal to the outstanding principal amount of such Lender’s Loans, and if satisfactory arrangements are made for the payment to such Lender of interest and fees accrued hereunder to the date of such transfer and all other amounts payable hereunder to such Lender on or prior to the date of such transfer; provided that (i) no Default shall have occurred and be continuing, (ii) no such assignment shall conflict with any law, rule or regulation or order of any governmental authority and (iii) the Borrowers shall have paid to the assignor in immediately available funds on or prior to the date of such assignment all amounts accrued for the account of such Lender or owed to it under Section 2.08. (h) In connection with The Foreign Borrower may assign to one or more of its Affiliates which is a subsidiary of the initial U.S. Borrower all or a portion of its rights and obligations under the Loan Documents; provided, however, that (i) the parties to such assignment or proposed initial assignment by shall execute and deliver to the Initial Lender which maintains the Register a copy of such assignment. Upon such execution and delivery, from and after the effective date specified in such assignment, (x) the assignee thereunder shall be a party hereto and, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned to it pursuant to this Section 8.07such assignment, have the rights and obligations of the Foreign Borrower hereunder and (y) the Foreign Borrower assignor thereunder shall, upon to the request extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned by it pursuant to such assignment, relinquish its rights and be released from its obligations under this Agreement (and, in the case of an assignment covering all or the remaining portion of the Initial Lenderassigning Foreign Borrower’s rights and obligations under this Agreement, furnish such Foreign Borrower shall cease to the Initial Lender be a favorable opinion of counsel for the Borrower acceptable to the Initial Lender, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Initial Lenderparty hereto).

Assignments and Participations. (a) Each Lender may assign to one or more Persons banks or other entities all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, all or a portion of its CommitmentCommitments, the Advance owing to it and Advances, the Note or Notes held by itit and the remaining Loan Documents); provided, however, that (i) each such assignment shall be of a constant, and not a varying, percentage of all rights and obligations under this Agreement, (ii) except in the case of an assignment to a Person that, immediately prior to such assignment, was a Lender or an assignment of all of a Lender's rights and obligations under this Agreement, the amount of the Commitment of the assigning Lender being assigned pursuant to each such assignment (determined as of the date of the Assignment and Acceptance (as hereinafter defined) with respect to such assignment) shall in no event be less than $5,000,000 1,000,000 (unless such lesser amount is the entire amount of such assigning Lender's Commitment or outstanding Advances) and shall be an integral multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof100,000, (iiiii) each such assignment shall be to an Eligible AssigneeAssignee or to an Affiliate of the assignor, and (iviii) the parties to each such assignment shall execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent, for its acceptance and recording in the Register, an Assignment and Acceptance, together with any Note or Notes subject to such assignmentassignment and a processing fee of $2,500.00. Upon such execution, delivery, acceptance delivery and recordingacceptance, from and after the effective date specified in each Assignment and Acceptance, (A) the assignee thereunder shall be a party hereto and, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned to it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance, have the rights and obligations of a Lender hereunder and (B) the Lender assignor thereunder shall, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned by it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance, relinquish its rights and be released from its obligations under this Agreement (and, in the case of an Assignment and Acceptance covering all or the remaining portion of an assigning Lender's rights and obligations under this Agreement, such Lender shall cease to be a party hereto). (ba) By executing and delivering an Assignment and Acceptance, the Lender assignor thereunder and the assignee thereunder confirm to and agree with each other and the other parties hereto as follows: (i) other than as provided in such Assignment and Acceptance, such assigning Lender makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to any statements, warranties or representations made in or in connection with this Agreement or the execution, legality, validity, enforceability, genuineness, sufficiency or value of this Agreement or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant hereto; (ii) such assigning Lender makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to the financial condition of the Borrower any Loan Party or the performance or observance by the Borrower any Loan Party of any of its their respective obligations under this Agreement or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant hereto; (iii) such assignee confirms that it has received a copy of this Agreement, together with copies of the financial statements referred to in Section 4.01 4.01(e) and such other documents and information as it has deemed appropriate to make its own credit analysis and decision to enter into such Assignment and Acceptance; (iv) such assignee will, independently and without reliance upon the Administrative Agent, such assigning Lender or any other Lender and based on such documents and information as it shall deem appropriate at the time, continue to make its own credit decisions in taking or not taking action under this Agreement; (v) such assignee confirms that it is an Eligible Assignee; (vi) such assignee appoints and authorizes the Administrative Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers and discretion under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents as are delegated to the Administrative Agent by the terms hereofhereof and thereof, together with such powers and discretion as are reasonably incidental thereto; and (vii) such assignee agrees that it will perform in accordance with their terms all of the obligations that which by the terms of this Agreement are required to be performed by it as a Lender. (c) The Agent shall maintain at its address referred to in Section 8.02 a copy of each Assignment and Acceptance delivered to and accepted by it and a register for the recordation of the names and addresses of the Lenders and the Commitment of, and principal amount of the Advances owing to, each Lender from time to time (the "Register"). The entries in the Register shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error, and the Borrower, the Agent and the Lenders may treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Register as a Lender hereunder for all purposes of this Agreement. The Register shall be available for inspection by the Borrower or any Lender at any reasonable time and from time to time upon reasonable prior notice. (db) Upon its receipt of an Assignment and Acceptance in substantially the form of Exhibit E hereto (the "Assignment and Acceptance") executed by an assigning Lender and an assignee representing that it is an Eligible Assignee, together with any Note or Notes subject to such assignment, the Administrative Agent shall, if such Assignment and Acceptance has been completed and is in substantially the form of Exhibit C heretoduly completed, (i) accept such Assignment and Acceptance, Acceptance and (ii) record the information contained therein in the Register and (iii) give prompt notice thereof to the Borrower. Within five (5) Business Days after its receipt of such notice, the Borrower, at its their own expense, shall execute and deliver to the Agent Administrative Agent, in exchange for the surrendered Note or Notes, a new Note or new Notes to the order of such Eligible Assignee in an amount equal to the Commitment Commitments assumed by it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance and, if the assigning Lender has retained a Commitment hereunder, a new Note or new Notes to the order of the assigning Lender in an amount equal to the Commitment Commitment(s) retained by it hereunder. Such new Note or Notes shall be in an aggregate principal amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of such surrendered Note or Notes, shall be dated the effective date of such Assignment and Acceptance and shall otherwise be in substantially the form of Exhibit A hereto.A. (ec) Each Lender may sell participations to one or more banks or other entities (other than the Borrower or any of its Affiliates) in or to all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, all or a portion of its Commitment, the Advances owing to it and the Note or Notes held by it); provided, however, that (i) such Lender's obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, its Commitment to the Borrower hereunder) shall remain unchanged, (ii) such Lender shall remain solely responsible to the other parties hereto for the performance of such obligations, (iii) such Lender shall remain the holder of any such Note for all purposes of this Agreement, Agreement and (iv) the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and the other Lenders shall continue to deal solely and directly with such Lender in connection with such Lender's rights and obligations under this Agreement and Agreement, (v) no participant under any such participation shall have any right to approve any amendment or waiver of any provision of this Agreement or any Note, or any consent to any departure by the Borrower therefrom, except that a Lender may agree with a participant as to the manner in which the Lender shall exercise the Lender's rights to approve any amendment, waiver or consent to the extent that such amendment, waiver or consent would reduce the principal of, or interest on, the Notes or any fees or other amounts payable hereunder, in each case to the extent subject to such participation, or postpone any date fixed for any payment of principal of, or interest on, the Notes or any fees or other amounts payable hereunder, in each case to the extent subject to such participation. (fd) Any Lender may, in connection with any assignment or participation or proposed assignment or participation pursuant to this Section 8.07, disclose to the assignee or participant or proposed assignee or participant, any information relating to the Borrower furnished to such Lender by or on behalf of the Borrower; provided that, prior to any such disclosure, the assignee or participant or proposed assignee or participant shall agree to preserve the confidentiality of any Confidential Information relating to the Borrower received by it from such Lender. (g) Notwithstanding any other provision set forth in this Agreement, any Lender may at any time time, without the consent of the Administrative Agent or the Borrower, create a security interest in all or any portion of its rights under this Agreement (including, without limitation, the Advances owing to it and the Note or Notes held by it) in favor of any Federal Reserve Bank in accordance with Regulation A of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. (h) In connection with , provided, however, that no such assignment shall have the initial assignment or proposed initial assignment effect of increasing the costs payable by the Initial Lender pursuant to this Section 8.07, the Borrower shall, upon the request of the Initial Lender, furnish to the Initial Lender a favorable opinion of counsel for the Borrower acceptable to the Initial Lender, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Initial LenderBorrower.

Assignments and Participations. (a) Each Lender may assign to one or more Persons Eligible Assignees all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, all or a portion of its CommitmentCommitment or Commitments, the Advance Advances owing to it and the Note or Notes held by it); provided, however, that (i) each such assignment shall be of a constant, and not a varying, percentage of all rights and obligations under this Agreement, (ii) except in the case of an assignment to a Person that, immediately prior to such assignment, was a Lender or an assignment of all of a Lender's ’s rights and obligations under this Agreement, the aggregate amount of the Commitment of the assigning Lender Commitments being assigned to such Eligible Assignee pursuant to each such assignment (determined as of the date of the Assignment and Acceptance with respect to such assignment) shall in no event be less than $5,000,000 (or an integral multiple such lesser amount as shall be approved by the Administrative Agent and, so long as no Default shall have occurred and be continuing at the time of $1,000,000 in excess thereofeffectiveness of such assignment, the Borrower), (iiiii) each such assignment shall be to an Eligible Assignee, and (iviii) the parties to each such assignment shall execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent, for its acceptance and recording in the Register, an Assignment and Acceptance, together with any Note or Notes (if any) subject to such assignment. assignment and a processing and recordation fee of $3,500. (b) Upon such execution, delivery, acceptance and recording, from and after the effective date specified in each such Assignment and Acceptance, (Ai) the assignee thereunder shall be a party hereto and, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned to it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance, have the rights and obligations of a Lender hereunder and (Bii) the Lender assignor thereunder shall, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned by it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance, relinquish its rights (other than its rights under Sections 2.08, 2.10 and 9.04 to the extent any claim thereunder relates to an event arising prior to such assignment) and be released from its obligations under this Agreement (and, in the case of an Assignment and Acceptance covering all or of the remaining portion of an assigning Lender's ’s rights and obligations under this Agreement, such Lender shall cease to be a party hereto). (bc) By executing and delivering an Assignment and Acceptance, the each Lender assignor thereunder and the each assignee thereunder confirm to and agree with each other and the other parties thereto and hereto as follows: (i) other than as provided in such Assignment and Acceptance, such assigning Lender makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to any statements, warranties or representations made in or in connection with this Agreement any Loan Document or the execution, legality, validity, enforceability, genuineness, sufficiency or value of, or the perfection or priority of this Agreement any lien or security interest created or purported to be created under or in connection with, any Loan Document or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant heretothereto; (ii) such assigning Lender makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to the financial condition of the Borrower any Loan Party or the performance or observance by the Borrower any Loan Party of any of its obligations under this Agreement any Loan Document or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant heretothereto; (iii) such assignee confirms that it has received a copy of this Agreement, together with copies of the financial statements referred to in Section 4.01 and such other documents and information as it has deemed appropriate to make its own credit analysis and decision to enter into such Assignment and Acceptance; (iv) such assignee will, independently and without reliance upon the any Agent, such assigning Lender or any other Lender and based on such documents and information as it shall deem appropriate at the time, continue to make its own credit decisions in taking or not taking action under this Agreement; (v) such assignee confirms that it is an Eligible Assignee; (vi) such assignee appoints and authorizes the each Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers and discretion under this Agreement the Loan Documents as are delegated to the such Agent by the terms hereofhereof and thereof, together with such powers and discretion as are reasonably incidental thereto; and (vii) such assignee agrees that it will perform in accordance with their terms all of the obligations that by the terms of this Agreement are required to be performed by it as a Lender, as the case may be. (cd) The Agent Administrative Agent, acting for this purpose (but only for this purpose) as the agent of the Borrower, shall maintain at its address referred to in Section 8.02 9.02 a copy of each Assignment and Acceptance delivered to and accepted by it and a register for the recordation of the names and addresses of the Lenders and the Commitment of, and principal amount of the Advances owing to, each Lender from time to time (the "“Register"”). The entries in the Register shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error, and the Borrower, the Agent Agents and the Lenders may Lender shall treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Register as a Lender hereunder for all purposes of this Agreement. The Register shall be available for inspection by the Borrower or any Agent or any Lender at any reasonable time and from time to time upon reasonable prior notice. (de) Upon its receipt of an Assignment and Acceptance executed by an assigning Lender and an assignee representing that it is an Eligible Assigneeassignee, together with any Note or Notes (if any) subject to such assignment, the Administrative Agent shall, if such Assignment and Acceptance has been completed and is in substantially the form of Exhibit C hereto, (i) accept such Assignment and Acceptance, (ii) record the information contained therein in the Register and (iii) give prompt notice thereof to the BorrowerBorrower and each other Agent. Within In the case of any assignment by a Lender, within five Business Days after its receipt of such notice, the Borrower, at its own expense, shall execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent in exchange for the surrendered Note or Notes (if any) a new Note to the order of such Eligible Assignee in an amount equal to the Commitment assumed by it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance and, if the any assigning Lender that had a Note or Notes prior to such assignment has retained a Commitment hereunder, a new Note to the order of the such assigning Lender in an amount equal to the Commitment retained by it hereunder. Such new Note or Notes shall be in an aggregate principal amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of such surrendered Note or Notes, shall be dated the effective date of such Assignment and Acceptance and shall otherwise be in substantially the form of Exhibit A hereto. (ef) Each Lender may sell participations to one or more banks or other entities Persons (other than the Borrower any Loan Party or any of its Affiliates) in or to all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, all or a portion of its CommitmentCommitments, the Advances owing to it and the Note or Notes (if any) held by it); provided, however, that (i) such Lender's ’s obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, its Commitment to the Borrower hereunderCommitments) shall remain unchanged, (ii) such Lender shall remain solely responsible to the other parties hereto for the performance of such obligations, (iii) such Lender shall remain the holder of any such Note for all purposes of this Agreement, (iv) the Borrower, the Agent Agents and the other Lenders shall continue to deal solely and directly with such Lender in connection with such Lender's ’s rights and obligations under this Agreement and (v) no participant under any such participation shall have any right to approve any amendment or waiver of any provision of this Agreement or any NoteLoan Document, or any consent to any departure by the Borrower any Loan Party therefrom, except to the extent that such amendment, waiver or consent would reduce the principal of, or interest on, the Notes Advances or any fees or other amounts payable hereunder, in each case to the extent subject to such participation, postpone any date fixed for any payment of principal of, or interest on, the Advances or any fees or other amounts payable hereunder, in each case to the extent subject to such participation, or postpone any date fixed for any payment release a material portion of principal of, the Collateral or interest on, the Notes or any fees or other amounts payable hereunder, in each case to value of the extent subject to such participationGuaranty. (fg) Any Lender may, in connection with any assignment or participation or proposed assignment or participation pursuant to this Section 8.079.07, disclose to the assignee or participant or proposed assignee or participant, participant any information relating to the Borrower furnished to such Lender by or on behalf of the Borrower; provided provided, however, that, prior to any such disclosure, the assignee or participant or proposed assignee or participant shall agree to preserve the confidentiality of any Confidential Information relating to the Borrower received by it from such Lender. (gh) Notwithstanding any other provision set forth in this Agreement, any Lender may at any time create a security interest in all or any portion of its rights under this Agreement (including, without limitation, the Advances owing to it and the Note or Notes (if any) held by it) in favor of any Federal Reserve Bank in accordance with Regulation A of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. (hi) In connection Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, any Lender that is a Fund may create a security interest in all or any portion of the Advances owing to it and any Note or Notes held by it to the trustee for holders of obligations owed, or securities issued, by such Fund as security for such obligations or securities; provided that, unless and until such trustee actually becomes a Lender in compliance with the initial assignment other provisions of this Section 9.07, (i) no such pledge shall release the pledging Lender from any of its obligations under the Loan Documents and (ii) such trustee shall not be entitled to exercise any of the rights of a Lender under the Loan Documents even though such trustee may have acquired ownership rights with respect to the pledged interest through foreclosure or proposed initial assignment otherwise. (j) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, any Lender (a “Granting Lender”) may grant to a special purpose funding vehicle identified as such in writing from time to time by the Initial Granting Lender to the Administrative Agent and the Borrower (an “SPC”) the option to provide all or any part of any Advance that such Granting Lender would otherwise be obligated to make pursuant to this Agreement; provided that (i) nothing herein shall constitute a commitment by any SPC to fund any Advance and (ii) if an SPC elects not to exercise such option or otherwise fails to make all or any part of such Advance, the Granting Lender shall be obligated to make such Advance pursuant to the terms hereof. The making of an Advance by an SPC hereunder shall utilize the Commitment of the Granting Lender to the same extent, and as if, such Advance were made by such Granting Lender. Each party hereto hereby agrees that (i) no SPC shall be liable for any indemnity or similar payment obligation under this Agreement for which a Lender would be liable, (ii) no SPC shall be entitled to the benefits of Sections 2.08 and 2.10 (or any other increased costs protection provision), (iii) the Granting Lender shall for all purposes, including, without limitation, the approval of any amendment or waiver of any provision of any Loan Document, remain the Lender of record hereunder and (iv) the Granting Lender shall not be entitled to the benefit of Section 8.072.10 hereof, to the extent any amount payable pursuant to such Section 2.10 exceeds the amount which would have been payable pursuant to Section 2.10 hereof if the SPC had not provided any portion of such Advance. In furtherance of the foregoing, each party hereto hereby agrees (which agreement shall survive the termination of this Agreement) that, prior to the date that is one year and one day after the payment in full of all outstanding commercial paper or other senior Debt of any SPC, it will not institute against, or join any other person in instituting against, such SPC any bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, insolvency or liquidation proceeding under the laws of the United States or any State thereof. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, any SPC may (i) with notice to, but without prior consent of, the Borrower shalland the Administrative Agent and without paying any processing fee therefor, upon assign all or any portion of its interest in any Advance to the request Granting Lender and (ii) disclose on a confidential basis any non-public information relating to its funding of Advances to any rating agency, commercial paper dealer or provider of any surety or guarantee or credit or liquidity enhancement to such SPC. This subsection (j) may not be amended without the Initial prior written consent of each Granting Lender, furnish to all or any part of whose Advances are being funded by the Initial Lender a favorable opinion SPC at the time of counsel for the Borrower acceptable to the Initial Lender, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Initial Lendersuch amendment.

Assignments and Participations. (a) Each Lender may (and, so long as no Default shall have occurred and be continuing, if demanded by Crompton Corp. (following a demand by such Lender pursuant to Section 2.12 or 2.15 or if such Lender shall be a Defaulting Lender) assign to one or more Persons Eligible Assignees all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, all or a portion of its CommitmentCommitment or Commitments, the Advance Advances owing to it and the Note or Notes held by it); provided, however, that (i) each such assignment shall be of a constantuniform, and not a varying, percentage of all rights and obligations under this Agreementand in respect of all of the Facilities, (ii) except in the case of an assignment to a Person that, immediately prior to such assignment, was a Lender or an assignment of all of a Lender's rights and obligations under this Agreement, the amount of the Commitment of the assigning Lender being assigned pursuant to each such assignment (determined as of the date of the Assignment and Acceptance with respect to such assignment) shall in no event be less than $5,000,000 or an integral multiple US$20,000,000 or, if the aggregate amount of $1,000,000 in excess thereofthe Commitment of such assigning Lender is less than US$20,000,000, all of such Lender's Commitment, (iii) each such assignment shall be to an Eligible Assignee, (iv) each such assignment made as a result of a demand by Crompton Corp. pursuant to this Section 8.07(a) shall be arranged by Crompton Corp. after consultation with the Agent and shall be either an assignment of all of the rights and obligations of the assigning Lender under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents or an assignment of a portion of such rights and obligations made concurrently with another such assignment or other such assignments that together cover all of the rights and obligations of the assigning Lender under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, (v) no Lender shall be obligated to make any such assignment as a result of a demand by Crompton Corp. pursuant to this Section 8.07(a) unless and until such Lender shall have received one or more payments from either the applicable Borrowers or one or more Eligible Assignees in an aggregate amount at least equal to the aggregate outstanding principal amount of the Advances owing to such Lender, together with accrued interest thereon to the date of payment of such principal amount and all other amounts payable to such Lender under this Agreement, (vi) no such assignments shall be permitted without the consent of the Agent until the Agent shall have notified the Lender Parties that syndication of the Commitments hereunder has been completed, and (ivvii) the parties to each such assignment shall execute and deliver to the Agent, for its acceptance and recording in the Register, an Assignment and Acceptance, together with any Note or Notes subject to such assignment. assignment and a processing and recordation fee of US$3,500; provided further that for the purposes of making Working Capital B-2 Advances, any Working Capital B-2 Lender may assign its rights and obligations under the Working Capital B-2 Facility to any Affiliate of such Working Capital B-2 Lender. (b) Upon such execution, delivery, acceptance and recording, from and after the effective date specified in each such Assignment and Acceptance, (Ax) the assignee thereunder shall be a party hereto and, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned to it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance, have the rights and obligations of a Lender or Issuing Bank, as the case may be, hereunder and (By) the Lender or Issuing Bank assignor thereunder shall, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned by it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance, relinquish its rights and be released from its obligations under this Agreement (and, in the case of an Assignment and Acceptance covering all or the remaining portion of an assigning Lender's or Issuing Bank's rights and obligations under this Agreement, such Lender or Issuing Bank shall cease to be a party hereto). (bc) By executing and delivering an Assignment and Acceptance, the Lender Party assignor thereunder and the assignee thereunder confirm to and agree with each other and the other parties hereto as follows: (i) other than as provided in such Assignment and Acceptance, such assigning Lender Party makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to any statements, warranties or representations made in or in connection with this Agreement or any other Loan Document or the execution, legality, validity, enforceability, genuineness, sufficiency or value of, or the perfection or priority of any lien or security interest created or purported to be created under or in connection with, this Agreement or any other Loan Document or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant heretohereto or thereto; (ii) such assigning Lender Party makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to the financial condition of the any Borrower or any other Loan Party or the performance or observance by the Borrower any Loan Party of any of its obligations under this Agreement any Loan Document or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant heretothereto; (iii) such assignee confirms that it has received a copy of this Agreement, together with copies of the financial statements referred to in Section 4.01 and such other documents and information as it has deemed appropriate to make its own credit analysis and decision to enter into such Assignment and Acceptance; (iv) such assignee will, independently and without reliance upon the Agent, such assigning Lender Party or any other Lender Party and based on such documents and information as it shall deem appropriate at the time, continue to make its own credit decisions in taking or not taking action under this Agreement; (v) such assignee confirms that it is an Eligible Assignee; (vi) such assignee appoints and authorizes the Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers and discretion under this Agreement the Loan Documents as are delegated to the Agent by the terms hereofthereof, together with such powers and discretion as are reasonably incidental thereto; and (vii) such assignee agrees that it will perform in accordance with their terms all of the obligations that which by the terms of this Agreement are required to be performed by it as a LenderLender or Issuing Bank, as the case may be. (cd) The Agent shall maintain at its address referred to in Section 8.02 a copy of each Assignment and Acceptance and Italian Lender Joinder Agreement delivered to and accepted by it and a register for the recordation of the names and addresses of the Lenders Lender Parties and the Commitment under each Facility of, and principal amount of the Advances owing under each Facility to, each Lender Party from time to time (the "Register"). The entries in the Register shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error, and the BorrowerBorrowers, the Agent and the Lenders may Lender Parties shall treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Register as a Lender Party hereunder for all purposes of this Agreement. The Register shall be available for inspection by the any Borrower or any Lender Party at any reasonable time and from time to time upon reasonable prior notice. (de) Upon its receipt of an Assignment and Acceptance and, in the case of an assignment of any Working Capital B-3 Commitment, an Italian Lender Joinder Agreement, in each case executed by an assigning Lender Party and an assignee representing that it is an Eligible Assigneeassignee, together with any Note or Notes subject to such assignment, the Agent shall, if each such Assignment and Acceptance and Italian Lender Joinder Agreement (if applicable) has been completed and is in substantially the form of Exhibit C hereto, (i) accept such Assignment and AcceptanceAcceptance and such Italian Lender Joinder Agreement (if applicable), (ii) record the information contained therein in the Register and (iii) give prompt notice thereof to the BorrowerBorrowers. Within In the case of any assignment by a Lender, within five Business Days after its receipt of such notice, the each Borrower, at its own expense, shall execute and deliver to the Agent in exchange for the surrendered Note or Notes a new Note to the order of such Eligible Assignee in an amount equal to the Commitment assumed by it under a Facility pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance and, if the assigning Lender has retained a Commitment hereunderhereunder under such Facility, a new Note to the order of the assigning Lender in an amount equal to the Commitment retained by it hereunder. Such new Note or Notes shall be in an aggregate principal amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of such surrendered Note or Notes, shall be dated the effective date of such Assignment and Acceptance and shall otherwise be in substantially the form of Exhibit A A-1, A-2, A-3, A-4 or A-5 hereto, as the case may be. (e▇) Each Issuing Bank may assign to one or more Eligible Assignees all or a portion of its rights and obligations under the undrawn portion of its Letter of Credit Commitment at any time; provided, however, that (i) except in the case of an assignment to a Person that immediately prior to such assignment was an Issuing Bank or an assignment of all of an Issuing Bank's rights and obligations under this Agreement, the amount of the Letter of Credit Commitment of the assigning Issuing Bank being assigned pursuant to each such assignment (determined as of the date of the Assignment and Acceptance with respect to such assignment) shall in no event be less than US$10,000,000 and shall be in an integral multiple of US$1,000,000 in excess thereof, (ii) each such assignment shall be to an Eligible Assignee and (iii) the parties to each such assignment shall execute and deliver to the Agent, for its acceptance and recording in the Register, an Assignment and Acceptance, together with a processing and recordation fee of US$3,500. (g) Each Lender Party may sell participations to one or more banks or other entities Persons (other than the Borrower any Loan Party or any of its Affiliates) in or to all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, all or a portion of its CommitmentCommitments, the Advances owing to it and the Note or Notes (if any) held by it); provided, however, that (i) such LenderLender Party's obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, its Commitment to the Borrower hereunderCommitments) shall remain unchanged, (ii) such Lender Party shall remain solely responsible to the other parties hereto for the performance of such obligations, (iii) such Lender Party shall remain the holder of any such Note for all purposes of this Agreement, (iv) the BorrowerBorrowers, the Agent and the other Lenders Lender Parties shall continue to deal solely and directly with such Lender Party in connection with such LenderLender Party's rights and obligations under this Agreement and (v) no participant under any such participation shall have any right to approve any amendment or waiver of any provision of this Agreement or any NoteLoan Document, or any consent to any departure by the Borrower any Loan Party therefrom, except to the extent that such amendment, waiver or consent would reduce the principal of, or interest on, the Notes or any fees or other amounts payable hereunder, in each case to the extent subject to such participation, or postpone any date fixed for any payment of principal of, or interest on, the Notes or any fees or other amounts payable hereunder, in each case to the extent subject to such participation, or release all or substantially all of the Collateral. (fh) Any Lender Party may, in connection with any assignment or participation or proposed assignment or participation pursuant to this Section 8.07, disclose to the assignee or participant or proposed assignee or participant, any information relating to the Borrower Borrowers furnished to such Lender Party by or on behalf of the BorrowerBorrowers; provided provided, however, that, prior to any such disclosure, the assignee or participant or proposed assignee or participant shall agree to preserve the confidentiality of any Confidential Information relating to the Borrower received by it from such LenderLender Party. (gi) Notwithstanding any other provision set forth in this Agreement, any Lender Party may at any time create a security interest in all or any portion of its rights under this Agreement (including, without limitation, the Advances owing to it and the Note or Notes held by it) in favor of any Federal Reserve Bank in accordance with Regulation A of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. (h) In connection with the initial assignment or proposed initial assignment by the Initial Lender pursuant to this Section 8.07, the Borrower shall, upon the request of the Initial Lender, furnish to the Initial Lender a favorable opinion of counsel for the Borrower acceptable to the Initial Lender, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Initial Lender.

Assignments and Participations. (a) Each Lender may assign to one or more Persons banks or other entities all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, all or a portion of its Commitment, Commitment and the Advance Advances owing to it and the Note or Notes held by it); provided, however, that (i) the Borrower (unless a Prepayment Event or an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing) and the Administrative Agent shall have consented to such assignment (with each such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed) by signing the Assignment and Acceptance referred to in clause (iv) below; (ii) each such assignment shall be of a constant, and not a varying, percentage of all rights and obligations under this Agreement, ; (iiiii) except in the case of an assignment to a Person that, immediately prior to such assignment, was a Lender or an assignment of all of a Lender's rights and obligations under this Agreement, the amount of the Commitment of the assigning Lender being assigned pursuant to each such assignment (determined as of the date of the Assignment and Acceptance with respect to such assignment) shall in no event be less than $5,000,000 or 10,000,000 and shall be an integral multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof, (iii) each such assignment or shall be to an Eligible Assignee, the total amount of the assigning Lender's Commitment); and (iv) the parties to each such assignment shall execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent, for its acceptance and recording in the Register, an Assignment and Acceptance, together with any Note subject promissory notes held by the assigning Lender and a processing and recordation fee of $3,500 (plus an amount equal to out-of-pocket legal expenses of the Administrative Agent, estimated by the Administrative Agent and advised to such assignmentparties). Upon such execution, delivery, acceptance and recording, from and after the effective date specified in each Assignment and Acceptance, (Ax) the assignee thereunder shall be a party hereto and, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned to it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance, have the rights and obligations of a Lender hereunder and (By) the Lender assignor thereunder shall, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned by it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance, relinquish its rights and be released from its obligations under this Agreement (and, in the case of an Assignment and Acceptance covering all or the remaining portion of an assigning Lender's rights and obligations under this Agreement, such Lender shall cease to be a party hereto). (b) . Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, any Lender at any time may assign all or any portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement to any Affiliate or Approved Fund of such Lender. By executing and delivering an Assignment and Acceptance, the Lender assignor thereunder and the assignee thereunder confirm to and agree with each other and the other parties hereto as follows: (i) other than as provided in such Assignment and Acceptance, such assigning Lender makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to any statements, warranties or representations made in or in connection with this Agreement or the execution, legality, validity, enforceability, genuineness, sufficiency or value of this Agreement or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant hereto; (ii) such assigning Lender makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to the financial condition of the Borrower or the performance or observance by the Borrower of any of its obligations under this Agreement or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant hereto; (iii) such assignee confirms that it has received a copy of this Agreement, together with copies of the financial statements referred to in Section 4.01 4.01(e) and such other documents and information as it has deemed appropriate to make its own credit analysis and decision to enter into such Assignment and Acceptance; (iv) such assignee will, independently and without reliance upon the Administrative Agent, such assigning Lender or any other Lender and based on such documents and information as it shall deem appropriate at the time, continue to make its own credit decisions in taking or not taking action under this Agreement; (v) such assignee confirms that it is an Eligible Assignee; (vi) such assignee appoints and authorizes the Administrative Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers and discretion under this Agreement as are delegated to the Administrative Agent by the terms hereof, together with such powers and discretion as are reasonably incidental thereto; and (viivi) such assignee agrees that it will perform in accordance with their terms all of the obligations that which by the terms of this Agreement are required to be performed by it as a Lender. (c) . The Administrative Agent shall maintain at its address referred to in Section 8.02 a copy of each Assignment and Acceptance delivered to and accepted by it and a register for the recordation of the names and addresses of the Lenders and the Commitment of, and principal amount of the Advances owing to, each Lender from time to time (the "Register"). The entries in the Register shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error, and the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and the Lenders may treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Register as a Lender hereunder for all purposes of this Agreement. The Register shall be available for inspection by the Borrower or any Lender at any reasonable time and from time to time upon reasonable prior notice. (d) . Upon its receipt of an Assignment and Acceptance executed by an assigning Lender and an assignee representing that it is an Eligible Assigneeassignee, together with any Note or Notes subject to such assignmentpromissory notes held by the assigning Lender, the Administrative Agent shall, if such Assignment and Acceptance has been completed and is in substantially the form of Exhibit C B hereto, (i) accept such Assignment and Acceptance, (ii) record the information contained therein in the Register and (iii) give prompt notice thereof to the Borrower. Within five Business Days after its receipt of such notice, the Borrower, at its own expense, shall execute and deliver to the Agent in exchange for the surrendered Note a new Note to the order of such Eligible Assignee in an amount equal to the Commitment assumed by it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance and, if the assigning Lender has retained a Commitment hereunder, a new Note to the order of the assigning Lender in an amount equal to the Commitment retained by it hereunder. Such new Note or Notes shall be in an aggregate principal amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of such surrendered Note or Notes, shall be dated the effective date of such Assignment and Acceptance and shall otherwise be in substantially the form of Exhibit A hereto. (e) Each Lender may sell participations to one or more banks banks, financial institutions or other entities (other than the Borrower or any of its Affiliates) in or to all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, all or a portion of its Commitment, Commitment and the Advances owing to it and the Note or Notes held by it); provided, however, that (i) such Lender's obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, its Commitment to the Borrower hereunder) shall remain unchanged, (ii) such Lender shall remain solely responsible to the other parties hereto for the performance of such obligations, (iii) such Lender shall remain the holder maker of any such Note Advance for all purposes of this Agreement, Agreement and (iv) the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and the other Lenders shall continue to deal solely and directly with such Lender in connection with such Lender's rights and obligations under this Agreement and (v) no participant under any such participation shall have any right to approve any amendment or waiver of any provision of this Agreement or any Note, or any consent to any departure by the Borrower therefrom, except to the extent that such amendment, waiver or consent would reduce the principal of, or interest on, the Notes or any fees or other amounts payable hereunder, in each case to the extent subject to such participation, or postpone any date fixed for any payment of principal of, or interest on, the Notes or any fees or other amounts payable hereunder, in each case to the extent subject to such participation. (f) Agreement. Any Lender may, in connection with any assignment or participation or proposed assignment or participation pursuant to this Section 8.07, disclose to the assignee or participant or proposed assignee or participant, any information relating to the Borrower furnished to such Lender by or on behalf of the Borrower; provided that, prior to any such disclosure, the assignee or participant or proposed assignee or participant shall agree to preserve the confidentiality of any Confidential Information confidential information relating to the Borrower received by it from such Lender. . If any Lender shall make any demand for payment under Section 2.10 or 2.13, or if any Lender shall be the subject of any notification or assertion of illegality under Section 2.11, then within 30 days after any such demand (gif, but only if, such demanded payment has been made by the Borrower) or notification or assertion, the Borrower may, with the approval of the Administrative Agent (which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld) and provided that no Prepayment Event, Event of Default or event that, with the giving of notice or lapse of time or both, would constitute an Event of Default, shall then have occurred and be continuing, demand that such Lender assign in accordance with this Section 8.07 to one or more assignees designated by the Borrower and acceptable to the Administrative Agent all (but not less than all) of such Lender's Commitment and the Advances owing to it within the period ending on the later to occur of such 30th day and the last day of the longest of the then current Interest Periods for such Advances; provided, however, that the Borrower shall pay to the Administrative Agent the $3,500 administrative fee payable pursuant to clause (iv) of subsection (a) above if such assignee is not a Lender immediately prior to such assignment. If any such assignee designated by the Borrower and approved by the Administrative Agent shall fail to consummate such assignment on terms acceptable to such Lender, or if the Borrower shall fail to designate any such assignees acceptable to the Administrative Agent for all or part of such Lender's Commitment or Advances, then such demand by the Borrower shall become ineffective; it being understood for purposes of this subsection (h) that such assignment shall be conclusively deemed to be on terms acceptable to such Lender, and such Lender shall be compelled to consummate such assignment to an Eligible Assignee designated by the Borrower, if such Eligible Assignee (A) shall agree to such assignment by entering into an Assignment and Acceptance with such Lender and (B) shall offer compensation to such Lender in an amount equal to all amounts then owing by the Borrower to such Lender hereunder, whether for principal, interest, fees, costs or expenses (other than the demanded payment referred to above and payable by the Borrower as a condition to the Borrower's right to demand such assignment), or otherwise. In addition, in the event that the Borrower shall be entitled to demand the replacement of any Lender pursuant to this subsection (h), the Borrower may, in the case of any such Lender, with the approval of the Administrative Agent (which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld) and provided that no Prepayment Event, Event of Default or event that, with the giving of notice or lapse of time or both, would constitute an Event of Default, shall then have occurred and be continuing, terminate all (but not less than all) such Lender's Commitment and prepay all (but not less than all) such Lender's Advances not so assigned, together with all interest accrued thereon to the date of such prepayment and all fees, costs and expenses and other amounts then owing by the Borrower to such Lender hereunder, at any time from and after such later occurring day in accordance with Section 2.09 hereof (but without the requirement stated therein for ratable treatment of the other Lenders), if and only if, after giving effect to such termination and prepayment, the sum of the aggregate principal amount of the Advances of all Lenders then outstanding does not exceed the then remaining Commitments of the Lenders. Notwithstanding any other provision anything set forth above in this Agreementsubsection (h) to the contrary, the Borrower shall not be entitled to compel the assignment by any Lender demanding payment under Section 2.10(a) of its Commitment and Advances or terminate and prepay the Commitment and Advances of such Lender if, prior to or promptly following any such demand by the Borrower, such Lender shall have changed or shall change, as the case may be, its Applicable Lending Office for its Eurodollar Rate Advances so as to eliminate the further incurrence of such increased cost. In furtherance of the foregoing, any such Lender demanding payment or giving notice as provided above agrees to use reasonable efforts to so change its Applicable Lending Office if, to do so, would not result in the incurrence by such Lender of additional costs or expenses which it deems material or, in the sole judgment of such Lender, be inadvisable for regulatory, competitive or internal management reasons. Anything in this Section 8.07 to the contrary notwithstanding, any Lender may at any time create a security interest in assign and pledge all or any portion of its rights under this Agreement (including, without limitation, Commitment and the Advances owing to it and the Note held by it) in favor of to any Federal Reserve Bank in accordance with (and its transferees) as collateral security pursuant to Regulation A of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. System and any Operating Circular issued by such Federal Reserve Bank. No such assignment shall release the assigning Lender from its obligations hereunder. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, any Lender (ha "Granting Lender") In connection with the initial assignment or proposed initial assignment may grant to a special purpose funding vehicle (an "SPC") of such Granting Lender identified as such in writing from time to time by the Initial Granting Lender to the Administrative Agent and the Borrower, the option to provide to the Borrower all or any part of any Advance that such Granting Lender would otherwise be obligated to make to the Borrower pursuant to this Section 8.07Agreement; provided that (i) nothing herein shall constitute a commitment by any such SPC to make any Advance, (ii) if such SPC elects not to exercise such option or otherwise fails to provide all or any part of such Advance, the Borrower shall, upon Granting Lender shall be obligated to make such Advance pursuant to the request terms hereof and (iii) no SPC or Granting Lender shall be entitled to receive any greater amount pursuant to Section 2.10 or 8.04(b) than the Granting Lender would have been entitled to receive had the Granting Lender not otherwise granted such SPC the option to provide any Advance to the Borrower. The making of an Advance by an SPC hereunder shall utilize the Commitment of the Initial Granting Lender to the same extent, and as if, such Advance were made by such Granting Lender. Each party hereto hereby agrees that no SPC shall be liable for any indemnity or similar payment obligation under this Agreement for which a Lender would otherwise be liable so long as, and to the extent that, the related Granting Lender provides such indemnity or makes such payment. In furtherance of the foregoing, each party hereto hereby agrees (which agreement shall survive the termination of this Agreement) that, prior to the date that is one year and one day after the payment in full of all outstanding commercial paper or other senior indebtedness of any SPC, it will not institute against or join any other person in instituting against such SPC any bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, insolvency or liquidation proceedings under the laws of the United States or any State thereof. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Granting Lender unconditionally agrees to indemnify the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and each Lender against all liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments, suits, costs, expenses or disbursements of any kind or nature whatsoever which may be incurred by or asserted against the Borrower, the Administrative Agent or such Lender, furnish as the case may be, in any way relating to or arising as a consequence of any such forbearance or delay in the initiation of any such proceeding against its SPC. Each party hereto hereby acknowledges and agrees that no SPC shall have the rights of a Lender hereunder, such rights being retained by the applicable Granting Lender. Accordingly, and without limiting the foregoing, each party hereby further acknowledges and agrees that no SPC shall have any voting rights hereunder and that the voting rights attributable to any Advance made by an SPC shall be exercised only by the relevant Granting Lender and that each Granting Lender shall serve as the administrative agent and attorney-in-fact for its SPC and shall on behalf of its SPC receive any and all payments made for the benefit of such SPC and take all actions hereunder to the Initial Lender a favorable opinion of counsel for the Borrower acceptable extent, if any, such SPC shall have any rights hereunder. In addition, notwithstanding anything to the Initial contrary contained in this Agreement any SPC may (i) with notice to, but without the prior written consent of any other party hereto, assign all or a portion of its interest in any Advances to the Granting Lender and (ii) disclose on a confidential basis any information relating to its Advances to any rating agency, commercial paper dealer or provider of any surety, guarantee or credit or liquidity enhancement to such SPC. This Section 8.07(i) may not be amended without the prior written consent of each Granting Lender, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to all or any part of whose Advance is being funded by an SPC at the Initial Lendertime of such amendment.

Assignments and Participations. (a) Each Lender may assign to one or more Persons assignees all or a portion of its interests, rights and obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, including all or a portion of its Commitment, Commitment and the Advance Loans at the time owing to it and the Note or Notes held by it); provided, however, that (i) each such assignment shall be of a constant, and not a varying, percentage of all rights and obligations under this Agreement, (ii) except in the case of an assignment to a Person that, immediately prior to such assignment, was a Lender or an affiliate of a Lender, the Borrower and the Administrative Agent must give their prior written consent to such assignment (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed; provided that no consent of the Borrower shall be required if an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing), (ii) each such assignment shall be of a constant percentage of all of a the assigning Lender's rights and obligations under this Agreementthe Commitments and Loans, (iii) the amount of the Commitment of the assigning Lender being assigned pursuant subject to each such assignment (determined as of the date of the Assignment and Acceptance with respect to such assignmentassignment is delivered to the Administrative Agent) shall in no event not be less than $5,000,000 and the amount of the Commitment of such Lender remaining after such assignment shall not be less than $5,000,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof, (iii) each such assignment shall be to an Eligible Assigneezero, and (iv) the parties to each such assignment shall execute and deliver to the Agent, for its Administrative Agent an Assignment and Acceptance and a processing and recordation fee of $3,000. Upon acceptance and recording in the Register, an Assignment and Acceptance, together with any Note subject pursuant to such assignment. Upon such execution, delivery, acceptance and recordingparagraph (c) of this Section 8.5, from and after the effective date specified in each Assignment and Acceptance, which effective date shall be at least five (5) Business Days after the execution thereof, (A) the assignee thereunder shall be a party hereto and, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been of the interest assigned to it pursuant to by such Assignment and Acceptance, have the rights and obligations of a Lender hereunder under this Agreement and (B) the assigning Lender assignor thereunder shall, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been of the interest assigned by it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance, relinquish its rights and be released from its obligations under this Agreement (and, in the case of an Assignment and Acceptance covering all or the remaining portion of an assigning Lender's rights and obligations under this Agreement, such Lender shall cease to be a party hereto (but shall continue to be entitled to the benefits of Sections 2.17, 2.18, 2.19, 2.23 and 8.4, as well as to any Facility Fees accrued for its account hereunder and not yet paid)). Notwithstanding the foregoing, any Lender assigning its rights and obligations under this Agreement may retain any Competitive Bid Loans or Negotiated Bid Loans made by it outstanding at such time, and in such case shall retain its rights hereunder in respect of any Loans so retained until such Loans have been repaid in full in accordance with this Agreement. In connection with any assignment pursuant hereto), the transferor Lender, the Administrative Agent and the Borrower shall make appropriate arrangements to deliver new Notes from the Borrower to the transferor Lender and the transferee to evidence their relative Commitments. (b) By executing and delivering an Assignment and Acceptance, the assigning Lender assignor thereunder and the assignee thereunder shall be deemed to confirm to and agree with each other and the other parties hereto as follows: (i) other than such assigning Lender warrants that it is the legal and beneficial owner of the interest being assigned thereby free and clear of any adverse claim and that its Commitment, and the outstanding balances of its Loans thereunder, in each case without giving effect to assignments thereof which have not become effective, are as provided set forth in such Assignment and Acceptance, (ii) except as set forth in (i) above, such assigning Lender makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to any statements, warranties or representations made in or in connection with this Agreement Agreement, or the execution, legality, validity, enforceability, genuineness, sufficiency or value of this Agreement or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant hereto; (ii) such assigning Lender makes no representation hereto or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to the financial condition of the Borrower or any Subsidiary or the performance or observance by the Borrower or any Subsidiary of any of its obligations under this Agreement or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant hereto; (iii) such assignee represents and warrants that it is legally authorized to enter into such Assignment and Acceptance; (iv) such assignee confirms that it has received a copy of this Agreement, together with copies of the most recent financial statements referred to in Section 4.01 delivered pursuant hereto and such other documents and information as it has deemed appropriate to make its own credit analysis and decision to enter into such Assignment and Acceptance; (ivv) such assignee will, will independently and without reliance upon the Administrative Agent, the Documentation Agent, the Managing Agents, such assigning Lender or any other Lender and based on such documents and information as it shall deem appropriate at the time, continue to make its own credit decisions in taking or not taking action under this Agreement; (v) such assignee confirms that it is an Eligible Assignee; (vi) such assignee appoints and authorizes the Administrative Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers and discretion under this Agreement as are delegated to the Administrative Agent by the terms hereof, together with such powers and discretion as are reasonably incidental thereto; and (vii) such assignee agrees that it will perform in accordance with their terms all of the obligations that which by the terms of this Agreement are required to be performed by it as a Lender. (c) The Administrative Agent shall maintain at one of its address referred to offices in Section 8.02 The City of New York a copy of each Assignment and Acceptance delivered to and accepted by it and a register for the recordation of the names and addresses of the Lenders Lenders, and the Commitment of, and principal amount of the Advances Loans owing to, each Lender pursuant to the terms hereof from time to time (the "Register"). The entries in the Register shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent in the absence of manifest error, error and the Borrower, the Administrative Agent 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. The Register shall be available for inspection by the Borrower or and any Lender at any reasonable time and from time to time upon reasonable prior notice. (d) Upon its receipt of an a duly completed Assignment and Acceptance executed by an assigning Lender and an assignee representing that it is an Eligible Assigneeassignee, together with any Note or Notes subject the processing and recordation fee referred to in paragraph (a) above and, if required, the written consent of the Borrower and the Administrative Agent to such assignment, the Administrative Agent shall, if such Assignment and Acceptance has been completed and is in substantially the form of Exhibit C hereto, shall (i) accept such Assignment and Acceptance, (ii) record the information contained therein in the Register and (iii) give prompt notice thereof to the Borrower. Within five Business Days after its receipt of such notice, Lenders and the Borrower, at its own expense, shall execute and deliver to the Agent in exchange for the surrendered Note a new Note to the order of such Eligible Assignee in an amount equal to the Commitment assumed by it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance and, if the assigning Lender has retained a Commitment hereunder, a new Note to the order of the assigning Lender in an amount equal to the Commitment retained by it hereunder. Such new Note or Notes shall be in an aggregate principal amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of such surrendered Note or Notes, shall be dated the effective date of such Assignment and Acceptance and shall otherwise be in substantially the form of Exhibit A hereto. (e) Each Lender may may, in the ordinary course of its commercial banking business and in accordance with applicable law, at any time sell participations to one or more banks or other entities (other than "Participants") participating interests in any Loans owing to such Lender, any Note held by such Lender, the Borrower Commitment of such Lender or any other interest of its Affiliates) in or such Lender hereunder. In the event of any such sale by any Lender of participating interests to all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (includingParticipant, without limitation, all or a portion of its Commitment, the Advances owing to it and the Note or Notes held by it); provided, however, that (i) such Lender's obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, its Commitment to the Borrower hereunder) shall remain unchanged, (ii) such the Lender shall remain solely responsible to the other parties hereto for the performance of such obligationsthereof, (iii) such the Lender shall remain the holder of any such Note for all purposes of under this Agreement, (iv) the Borrower, the Agent and the other Lenders Borrower shall continue to deal solely and directly with such the Lender in connection with such the Lender's rights and obligations under this Agreement. The Borrower agrees that if amounts outstanding under this Agreement and (v) no participant under or any such participation Note are due or unpaid, or shall have been declared or shall have become due and payable upon the occurrence of an Event of Default, each Participant shall be deemed to have the right of setoff in respect of its participating interest in amounts owing under this Agreement or any right Note to approve any amendment or waiver the same extent as if the amount of any provision of its participating interest were owing directly to it as a Lender under this Agreement or any Note, or any consent to any departure by the . The Borrower therefrom, except also agrees that each Participant shall be entitled to the extent benefits of Sections 2.17, 2.18, 2.19, 2.23 and 8.4 with respect to its participation in the Commitment or Commitments and the Loans outstanding from time to time; PROVIDED, that such amendment, waiver or consent would reduce the principal of, or interest on, the Notes or no Participant shall be entitled to receive any fees or other amounts payable hereunder, in each case to the extent subject greater amount pursuant to such participation, or postpone any date fixed for any payment sections than the Lender which sold it the participation would have been entitled to receive in respect of principal of, or interest on, the Notes or any fees or other amounts payable hereunder, in each case to amount of the extent subject participation transferred by such Lender to such participationparticipant had no such transfer occurred. (f) Any The Borrower authorizes each Lender may, in connection with any assignment or participation or proposed assignment or participation pursuant to this Section 8.07, disclose to the any Participant or prospective Participant or assignee or participant or proposed prospective assignee or participantany and all financial and other information in such Lender's possession concerning the Borrower, any information relating to the Borrower furnished its Subsidiaries and its Affiliates which has been delivered to such Lender by or on behalf of the Borrower pursuant to this Agreement or which has been delivered to such Lender by or on behalf of the Borrower in connection with such Lender's credit evaluation of the Borrower; provided that, its Subsidiaries and its Affiliates prior to any such disclosure, the assignee or participant or proposed assignee or participant shall agree becoming a party to preserve the confidentiality of any Confidential Information relating to the Borrower received by it from such Lenderthis Agreement. (g) Notwithstanding If, pursuant to this section, any other provision set forth interest in this Agreement, Agreement or a Note is transferred to any Lender may at assignee or Participant which is organized under the laws of any time create a security interest in all jurisdiction other than the United States or any portion of its rights under this Agreement (including, without limitationstate thereof, the Advances owing Lender making such assignment or selling such participation shall cause such assignee or Participant, as the case may be, concurrently with the effectiveness of such transfer, (i) to it represent to such Lender (for the benefit of such Lender and the Note held Borrower) that under applicable law and treaties no taxes will be required to be withheld by itthe Borrower (or such Lender in the case of a Participant) with respect to any payments to be made to such assignee Participant in favor respect of the Loans, (ii) to furnish to such Lender either U.S. Internal Revenue Service Form 4224 or U.S. Internal Revenue Service Form 1001 (wherein such assignee or Participant claims entitlement to complete exemption from U.S. federal withholding tax on all interest payments hereunder) and (iii) to agree (for the benefit of such Lender and the Borrower) to provide such Lender (in the case of a Participant) or the Borrower (in the case of an assignee) a new Form 4224 or Form 1001 upon the expiration or obsolescence of any Federal Reserve Bank previously delivered form and comparable statements in accordance with Regulation A applicable U.S. laws and regulations and amendments, duly executed and completed by such Participant or assignee, and to comply from time to time with all applicable U.S. laws and regulations with regard to such withholding tax exemption (with the express understanding that an assigning Lender shall have no responsibility for the compliance of the Board of Governors assignee with any such agreement following the effective date of the Federal Reserve Systemassignment). (h) In connection with the initial assignment or proposed initial assignment by the Initial Lender pursuant to this Section 8.07, the Borrower shall, upon the request of the Initial Lender, furnish to the Initial Lender a favorable opinion of counsel for the Borrower acceptable to the Initial Lender, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Initial Lender.

Assignments and Participations. (a) Each Lender may assign to one or more Persons banks or other entities all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, all or a portion of its Commitment, Commitment and the Advance Advances owing to it and the Note or Notes held by it); provided, however, that (i) the Borrower (unless a Prepayment Event or an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing), each LC Issuing Bank and the Administrative Agent shall have consented to such assignment (in the case of the Administrative Agent and the Borrower, with each such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed) by signing the Assignment and Acceptance referred to in clause (iv) below; (ii) each such assignment shall be of a constant, and not a varying, percentage of all rights and obligations under this Agreement, ; (iiiii) except in the case of an assignment to a Person that, immediately prior to such assignment, was a Lender or an assignment of all of a Lender's rights and obligations under this Agreement, the amount of the Commitment of the assigning Lender being assigned pursuant to each such assignment (determined as of the date of the Assignment and Acceptance with respect to such assignment) shall in no event be less than $5,000,000 or 10,000,000 and shall be an integral multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof, (iii) each such assignment or shall be to an Eligible Assignee, the total amount of the assigning Lender's Commitment); and (iv) the parties to each such assignment shall execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent, for its acceptance and recording in the Register, an Assignment and Acceptance, together with any Note subject promissory notes held by the assigning Lender and a processing and recordation fee of $3,500 (plus an amount equal to out-of-pocket legal expenses of the Administrative Agent, estimated by the Administrative Agent and advised to such assignmentparties). Upon such execution, delivery, acceptance and recording, from and after the effective date specified in each Assignment and Acceptance, (Ax) the assignee thereunder shall be a party hereto and, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned to it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance, have the rights and obligations of a Lender hereunder and (By) the Lender assignor thereunder shall, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned by it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance, relinquish its rights and be released from its obligations under this Agreement (and, in the case of an Assignment and Acceptance covering all or the remaining portion of an assigning Lender's rights and obligations under this Agreement, such Lender shall cease to be a party hereto). Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, any Lender at any time may assign all or any portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement to any Affiliate or Approved Fund of such Lender. (b) By executing and delivering an Assignment and Acceptance, the Lender assignor thereunder and the assignee thereunder confirm to and agree with each other and the other parties hereto as follows: (i) other than as provided in such Assignment and Acceptance, such assigning Lender makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to any statements, warranties or representations made in or in connection with this Agreement or the execution, legality, validity, enforceability, genuineness, sufficiency or value of this Agreement or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant hereto; (ii) such assigning Lender makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to the financial condition of the Borrower or the performance or observance by the Borrower of any of its obligations under this Agreement or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant hereto; (iii) such assignee confirms that it has received a copy of this Agreement, together with copies of the financial statements referred to in Section 4.01 4.01(e) and such other documents and information as it has deemed appropriate to make its own credit analysis and decision to enter into such Assignment and Acceptance; (iv) such assignee will, independently and without reliance upon the Administrative Agent, such assigning Lender or any other Lender and based on such documents and information as it shall deem appropriate at the time, continue to make its own credit decisions in taking or not taking action under this Agreement; (v) such assignee confirms that it is an Eligible Assignee; (vi) such assignee appoints and authorizes the Administrative Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers and discretion under this Agreement as are delegated to the Administrative Agent by the terms hereof, together with such powers and discretion as are reasonably incidental thereto; and (viivi) such assignee agrees that it will perform in accordance with their terms all of the obligations that which by the terms of this Agreement are required to be performed by it as a Lender. (c) The Administrative Agent shall maintain at its address referred to in Section 8.02 a copy of each Assignment and Acceptance delivered to and accepted by it and a register for the recordation of the names and addresses of the Lenders and the Commitment of, and principal amount of the Advances owing to, each Lender from time to time (the "Register"). The entries in the Register shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error, and the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and the Lenders may treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Register as a Lender hereunder for all purposes of this Agreement. The Register shall be available for inspection by the Borrower or any Lender at any reasonable time and from time to time upon reasonable prior notice. (d) Upon its receipt of an Assignment and Acceptance executed by an assigning Lender and an assignee representing that it is an Eligible Assigneeassignee, together with any Note or Notes subject to such assignmentpromissory notes held by the assigning Lender, the Administrative Agent shall, if such Assignment and Acceptance has been completed and is in substantially the form of Exhibit C B hereto, (i) accept such Assignment and Acceptance, (ii) record the information contained therein in the Register and (iii) give prompt notice thereof to the Borrower. Within five Business Days after its receipt of such notice, the Borrower, at its own expense, shall execute and deliver to the Agent in exchange for the surrendered Note a new Note to the order of such Eligible Assignee in an amount equal to the Commitment assumed by it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance and, if the assigning Lender has retained a Commitment hereunder, a new Note to the order of the assigning Lender in an amount equal to the Commitment retained by it hereunder. Such new Note or Notes shall be in an aggregate principal amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of such surrendered Note or Notes, shall be dated the effective date of such Assignment and Acceptance and shall otherwise be in substantially the form of Exhibit A hereto. (e) Each Lender may sell participations to one or more banks banks, financial institutions or other entities (other than the Borrower or any of its Affiliates) in or to all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, all or a portion of its Commitment, Commitment and the Advances owing to it and the Note or Notes held by it); provided, however, that (i) such Lender's obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, its Commitment to the Borrower hereunder) shall remain unchanged, (ii) such Lender shall remain solely responsible to the other parties hereto for the performance of such obligations, (iii) such Lender shall remain the holder maker of any such Note Advance for all purposes of this Agreement, Agreement and (iv) the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and the other Lenders shall continue to deal solely and directly with such Lender in connection with such Lender's rights and obligations under this Agreement and (v) no participant under any such participation shall have any right to approve any amendment or waiver of any provision of this Agreement or any Note, or any consent to any departure by the Borrower therefrom, except to the extent that such amendment, waiver or consent would reduce the principal of, or interest on, the Notes or any fees or other amounts payable hereunder, in each case to the extent subject to such participation, or postpone any date fixed for any payment of principal of, or interest on, the Notes or any fees or other amounts payable hereunder, in each case to the extent subject to such participationAgreement. (f) Any Lender may, in connection with any assignment or participation or proposed assignment or participation pursuant to this Section 8.07, disclose to the assignee or participant or proposed assignee or participant, any information relating to the Borrower furnished to such Lender by or on behalf of the Borrower; provided that, prior to any such disclosure, the assignee or participant or proposed assignee or participant shall agree to preserve the confidentiality of any Confidential Information confidential information relating to the Borrower received by it from such Lender. (g) If any Lender shall make any demand for payment under Section 2.12 or 2.15, or if any Lender shall be the subject of any notification or assertion of illegality under Section 2.13, then within 30 days after any such demand (if, but only if, such demanded payment has been made by the Borrower) or notification or assertion, the Borrower may, with the approval of the Administrative Agent and the LC Issuing Banks (which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld) and provided that no Prepayment Event, Event of Default or event that, with the giving of notice or lapse of time or both, would constitute an Event of Default, shall then have occurred and be continuing, demand that such Lender assign in accordance with this Section 8.07 to one or more assignees designated by the Borrower and acceptable to the Administrative Agent all (but not less than all) of such Lender's Commitment and the Advances owing to it within the period ending on the later to occur of such 30th day and the last day of the longest of the then current Interest Periods for such Advances; provided, however, that the Borrower shall pay to the Administrative Agent the $3,500 administrative fee payable pursuant to clause (iv) of subsection (a) above if such assignee is not a Lender immediately prior to such assignment. If any such assignee designated by the Borrower and approved by the Administrative Agent shall fail to consummate such assignment on terms acceptable to such Lender, or if the Borrower shall fail to designate any such assignees acceptable to the Administrative Agent for all or part of such Lender's Commitment or Advances, then such demand by the Borrower shall become ineffective; it being understood for purposes of this subsection (h) that such assignment shall be conclusively deemed to be on terms acceptable to such Lender, and such Lender shall be compelled to consummate such assignment to an Eligible Assignee designated by the Borrower, if such Eligible Assignee (A) shall agree to such assignment by entering into an Assignment and Acceptance with such Lender and (B) shall offer compensation to such Lender in an amount equal to all amounts then owing by the Borrower to such Lender hereunder, whether for principal, interest, fees, costs or expenses (other than the demanded payment referred to above and payable by the Borrower as a condition to the Borrower's right to demand such assignment), or otherwise. In addition, in the event that the Borrower shall be entitled to demand the replacement of any Lender pursuant to this subsection (h), the Borrower may, in the case of any such Lender, with the approval of the Administrative Agent (which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld) and provided that no Prepayment Event, Event of Default or event that, with the giving of notice or lapse of time or both, would constitute an Event of Default, shall then have occurred and be continuing, terminate all (but not less than all) such Lender's Commitment and prepay all (but not less than all) such Lender's Advances not so assigned, together with all interest accrued thereon to the date of such prepayment and all fees, costs and expenses and other amounts then owing by the Borrower to such Lender hereunder, at any time from and after such later occurring day in accordance with Sections 2.05 and 2.11 hereof (but without the requirement stated therein for ratable treatment of the other Lenders), if and only if, after giving effect to such termination and prepayment, the sum of the aggregate principal amount of the Advances of all Lenders then outstanding does not exceed the then remaining Commitments of the Lenders. Notwithstanding any other provision anything set forth above in this Agreementsubsection (h) to the contrary, the Borrower shall not be entitled to compel the assignment by any Lender demanding payment under Section 2.12(a) of its Commitment and Advances or terminate and prepay the Commitment and Advances of such Lender if, prior to or promptly following any such demand by the Borrower, such Lender shall have changed or shall change, as the case may be, its Applicable Lending Office for its Eurodollar Rate Advances so as to eliminate the further incurrence of such increased cost. In furtherance of the foregoing, any such Lender demanding payment or giving notice as provided above agrees to use reasonable efforts to so change its Applicable Lending Office if, to do so, would not result in the incurrence by such Lender of additional costs or expenses which it deems material or, in the sole judgment of such Lender, be inadvisable for regulatory, competitive or internal management reasons. (h) Anything in this Section 8.07 to the contrary notwithstanding, any Lender may at any time create a security interest in assign and pledge all or any portion of its rights under this Agreement (including, without limitation, Commitment and the Advances owing to it and the Note held by it) in favor of to any Federal Reserve Bank in accordance with (and its transferees) as collateral security pursuant to Regulation A of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve SystemSystem and any Operating Circular issued by such Federal Reserve Bank. No such assignment shall release the assigning Lender from its obligations hereunder. (hi) In connection with Notwithstanding anything to the initial assignment or proposed initial assignment contrary contained herein, any Lender (a "Granting Lender") may grant to a special purpose funding vehicle (an "SPC") of such Granting Lender identified as such in writing from time to time by the Initial Granting Lender to the Administrative Agent, the LC Issuing Banks and the Borrower, the option to provide to the Borrower all or any part of any Advance that such Granting Lender would otherwise be obligated to make to the Borrower pursuant to this Section 8.07Agreement; provided that (i) nothing herein shall constitute a commitment by any such SPC to make any Advance, (ii) if such SPC elects not to exercise such option or otherwise fails to provide all or any part of such Advance, the Borrower shall, upon Granting Lender shall be obligated to make such Advance pursuant to the request terms hereof and (iii) no SPC or Granting Lender shall be entitled to receive any greater amount pursuant to Section 2.12 or 8.04(b) than the Granting Lender would have been entitled to receive had the Granting Lender not otherwise granted such SPC the option to provide any Advance to the Borrower. The making of an Advance by an SPC hereunder shall utilize the Commitment of the Initial Granting Lender to the same extent, and as if, such Advance were made by such Granting Lender. Each party hereto hereby agrees that no SPC shall be liable for any indemnity or similar payment obligation under this Agreement for which a Lender would otherwise be liable so long as, and to the extent that, the related Granting Lender provides such indemnity or makes such payment. In furtherance of the foregoing, each party hereto hereby agrees (which agreement shall survive the termination of this Agreement) that, prior to the date that is one year and one day after the payment in full of all outstanding commercial paper or other senior indebtedness of any SPC, it will not institute against or join any other person in instituting against such SPC any bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, insolvency or liquidation proceedings under the laws of the United States or any State thereof. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Granting Lender unconditionally agrees to indemnify the Borrower, the LC Issuing Banks, the Administrative Agent and each Lender against all liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments, suits, costs, expenses or disbursements of any kind or nature whatsoever which may be incurred by or asserted against the Borrower, the LC Issuing Banks, the Administrative Agent or such Lender, furnish as the case may be, in any way relating to or arising as a consequence of any such forbearance or delay in the initiation of any such proceeding against its SPC. Each party hereto hereby acknowledges and agrees that no SPC shall have the rights of a Lender hereunder, such rights being retained by the applicable Granting Lender. Accordingly, and without limiting the foregoing, each party hereby further acknowledges and agrees that no SPC shall have any voting rights hereunder and that the voting rights attributable to any Advance made by an SPC shall be exercised only by the relevant Granting Lender and that each Granting Lender shall serve as the administrative agent and attorney-in-fact for its SPC and shall on behalf of its SPC receive any and all payments made for the benefit of such SPC and take all actions hereunder to the Initial Lender a favorable opinion of counsel for the Borrower acceptable extent, if any, such SPC shall have any rights hereunder. In addition, notwithstanding anything to the Initial Lendercontrary contained in this Agreement any SPC may (i) with notice to, but without the prior written consent of any other party hereto, assign all or a portion of its interest in form and substance reasonably satisfactory any Advances to the Initial Lender.Granting Lender and (ii) disclose on a confidential basis any information relating to its Advances to any rating agency, commercial paper dealer or provider of any surety, guarantee or credit or liquidity enhancement to such SPC. This Section 8.07(i) may not be amended without the pr

Assignments and Participations. (a) Each Lender may may, upon notice to the Borrowers and the Agent and with the consent, not to be unreasonably withheld, of the Agent, and, unless an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Borrowers, assign to one or more Persons all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, including all or a portion of its Commitment, the Advance Advances and other amounts owing to it and the any Note or Notes held by it); provided, however, that (i) no assignment may be made by an Extending Lender to a Non-Extending Lender unless such Non-Extending Lender shall agree to become an Extending Lender for purposes of the assigned rights and obligations pursuant to documentation acceptable to the Agent and the Borrowers; (ii) any assignment by a Non-Extending Lender to an Extending Lender shall, without further action, result in the Commitments so assigned being extended to the Extended Termination Date and otherwise entitle such Lender to the rights and obligations of Commitments of Extending Lenders hereunder (including the applicable fee and interest rates), (iii) each such assignment shall be of a constant, and not a varying, percentage of all rights and obligations under this Agreement, (iiiv) except in the case of an assignment to a Person that, immediately prior to such assignment, was a Lender, an Affiliate of a Lender or an Approved Fund or an assignment of all of a Lender's ’s rights and obligations under this Agreement, the amount of the Commitment of the assigning Lender being assigned pursuant to each such assignment (determined as of the date of the Assignment and Acceptance with respect to such assignment) shall in no event be less than $5,000,000 10,000,000 (unless an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, in which case not less than $5,000,000) or an integral multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereofthereof unless the Borrowers and the Agent otherwise agree, (iiiv) each such assignment shall be to an Eligible Assignee, and (ivvi) the parties to each such assignment shall execute and deliver to the Agent, for its acceptance and recording in the Register, an Assignment and Acceptance, and the parties to such assignment (other than the Borrowers and the Agent) shall deliver together with therewith any Note subject to such assignmentassignment and a processing and recordation fee of $3,500 (except no such fee shall be payable for assignments to a Lender, an Affiliate of a Lender or an Approved Fund), and (vii) any Lender may, without the approval of the Borrowers, but with notice to the Borrowers, assign all or a portion of its rights and obligations to any of its Affiliates or to another Lender. Upon such execution, delivery, acceptance and recording, from and after the effective date specified in each Assignment and Acceptance, (Ax) the assignee thereunder shall be a party hereto and, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned to it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance, have the rights and obligations of a Lender hereunder and (By) the Lender assignor thereunder shall, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned by it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance, relinquish its rights (other than its rights under Section 2.12, 2.15 and 9.04 to the extent any claim thereunder relates to an event arising prior such assignment) and be released from its obligations under this Agreement (and, in the case of an Assignment and Acceptance covering all or the remaining portion of an assigning Lender's ’s rights and obligations under this Agreement, such Lender shall cease to be a party hereto). (b) By executing and delivering an Assignment and Acceptance, the Lender assignor thereunder and the assignee thereunder confirm to and agree with each other and the other parties hereto as follows: (i) other than as provided in such Assignment and Acceptance, such assigning Lender makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to any statements, warranties or representations made in or in connection with this Agreement or the other Loan Documents or the execution, legality, validity, enforceability, genuineness, sufficiency or value of this Agreement or the other Loan Documents or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant heretohereto or thereto; (ii) such assigning Lender makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to the financial condition of the Borrower Loan Parties or the performance or observance by the Borrower Borrowers of any of its their obligations under this Agreement or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant hereto; (iii) such assignee confirms that it has received a copy of this Agreement, together with copies of the financial statements referred to in Section 4.01 5.01 and such other documents and information as it has deemed appropriate to make its own credit analysis and decision to enter into such Assignment and Acceptance; (iv) such assignee will, independently and without reliance upon the Agent, such assigning Lender or any other Lender and based on such documents and information as it shall deem appropriate at the time, continue to make its own credit decisions in taking or not taking action under this AgreementAgreement and the other Loan Documents; (v) such assignee confirms that it is an Eligible Assignee; (vi) such assignee appoints and authorizes the Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers and discretion under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents as are delegated to the Agent by the terms hereofhereof and thereof, together with such powers and discretion as are reasonably incidental thereto; and (vii) such assignee agrees that it will perform in accordance with their terms all of the obligations that by the terms of this Agreement are required to be performed by it as a Lender. (c) The Agent shall maintain at its address referred to in Section 8.02 a copy of each Assignment and Acceptance delivered to and accepted by it and a register for the recordation of the names and addresses of the Lenders and the Commitment of, and principal amount of the Advances owing to, each Lender from time to time (the "Register"). The entries in the Register shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error, and the Borrower, the Agent and the Lenders may treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Register as a Lender hereunder for all purposes of this Agreement. The Register shall be available for inspection by the Borrower or any Lender at any reasonable time and from time to time upon reasonable prior notice. (d) Upon its receipt of an Assignment and Acceptance executed by an assigning Lender and an assignee representing that it is an Eligible Assignee, together with any Note or Notes subject to such assignment, the Agent shall, if such Assignment and Acceptance has been completed and is in substantially the form of Exhibit C B hereto, (i) accept such Assignment and Acceptance, (ii) record the information contained therein in the Register and (iii) give prompt notice thereof to the Borrower. Within five Business Days after its receipt of such notice, the Borrower, Borrowers. (d) The Agent shall maintain at its own expense, shall execute and deliver address referred to the Agent in exchange for the surrendered Note Section 9.02 a new Note to the order copy of such Eligible Assignee in an amount equal to the Commitment assumed by it pursuant to such each Assignment and Acceptance and, if delivered to and accepted by it and a register for the assigning Lender has retained a Commitment hereunder, a new Note to the order recordation of the assigning Lender in an amount equal to names and addresses of the Lenders and the Commitment retained by it hereunder. Such new Note or Notes shall be in an aggregate principal amount equal to the aggregate of, and principal amount of such surrendered Note or Notesthe Advances and L/C Obligations owing to, each Lender from time to time (the “Register”). The entries in the Register shall be dated conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error, and the effective date Borrowers, the Agent and the Lenders may treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Register as a Lender hereunder for all purposes of such Assignment this Agreement. The Register shall be available for inspection by the Borrowers or any Lender at any reasonable time and Acceptance and shall otherwise be in substantially the form of Exhibit A heretofrom time to time upon reasonable prior notice. (e) Each Lender may may, without the consent of the Agent or any Loan Party, sell participations to one or more banks or other entities (other than the Borrower Borrowers or any of its their Affiliates) in or to all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, including all or a portion of its Commitment, the Advances owing to it and the any Note or Notes held by it); provided, however, that (i) such Lender's ’s obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, including its Commitment to the Borrower Borrowers and its obligations to the Swingline Lender and the Issuing Lender hereunder) shall remain unchanged, (ii) such Lender shall remain solely responsible to the other parties hereto for the performance of such obligations, (iii) such Lender shall remain the holder of any such Note for all purposes of this Agreement, (iv) the BorrowerBorrowers, the Agent Agent, the Co-Collateral Agents and the other Lenders shall continue to deal solely and directly with such Lender in connection with such Lender's ’s rights and obligations under this Agreement and (v) no participant under any such participation shall have any right to approve any amendment or waiver of any provision of this Agreement or any NoteLoan Document, or any consent to any departure by the any Borrower therefrom, except to the extent that such amendment, waiver or consent would reduce require the principal of, or interest on, affirmative vote of the Notes or any fees or other amounts payable hereunder, in each case Lender from which it purchased its participation pursuant to the extent subject to such participation, or postpone any date fixed for any payment of principal of, or interest on, the Notes or any fees or other amounts payable hereunder, in each case to the extent subject to such participationSection 9.01(a). (f) Any Lender may, in connection with any assignment or participation or proposed assignment or participation pursuant to this Section 8.079.07, disclose to the assignee or participant or proposed assignee or participant, any information relating to Holdings, the Borrower Borrowers or their Subsidiaries furnished to such Lender by or on behalf of the BorrowerBorrowers; provided that, prior to any such disclosure, the assignee or participant or proposed assignee or participant shall agree to preserve the confidentiality of any Confidential Borrower Information relating to Holdings, the Borrower Borrowers or their Subsidiaries received by it from such LenderLender in accordance with Section 9.08. (g) Notwithstanding any other provision set forth in this Agreement, any Lender may at any time create a security interest in all or any portion of its rights under this Agreement (including, without limitation, including the Advances owing to it and the Note any Notes held by it) ), including, without limitation, in favor of any Federal Reserve Bank in accordance with Regulation A of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. (h) In connection with The Borrowers, upon receipt of written notice from the initial assignment relevant Lender, agree to issue Notes to any Lender to facilitate transactions of the type described in paragraph (g) above. (i) Neither Holdings nor any Borrower shall have the right to assign its rights hereunder or proposed initial assignment by any interest herein without the Initial Lender prior written consent of each of the Lenders (except, in the case of SRAC, pursuant to this Section 8.07, the Borrower shall, upon the request of the Initial Lender, furnish to the Initial Lender a favorable opinion of counsel for the Borrower acceptable to the Initial Lender, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Initial Lender6.01(d)).

Assignments and Participations. (a) Each Lender may may, with the written consent (unless such assignment is to an Affiliate of such Lender, in which case no such consent, and only notice to the Borrower, shall be required) of the Administrative Agent, the Borrower (unless a Default shall have occurred and be continuing) and each LC Issuing Bank (which consents shall not be unreasonably withheld), assign to one or more Persons all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, all or a portion of its Commitment, Commitment and the Advance Advances owing to it and the Note or Notes held by it); provided, however, that (i) each such assignment shall be of a constant, and not a varying, percentage of all rights and obligations under this Agreement, (ii) except in the case of an assignment to a Person that, immediately prior to such assignment, was a Lender or an assignment of all of a Lender's ’s rights and obligations under this Agreement, the amount of the Commitment of the assigning Lender being assigned pursuant to each such assignment (determined as of the date of the Assignment and Acceptance with respect to such assignment) shall in no event be less than $5,000,000 10,000,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof, (iii) each such assignment shall be to an Eligible Assignee, and (iv) the parties to each such assignment shall execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent, for its acceptance and recording in the Register, an Assignment and Acceptance, together with any Note subject a processing and recordation fee of $3,500 (to such assignmentbe paid by the assigning Lender or, in the case of an assignment pursuant to Section 8.07(i), the Borrower). Upon such execution, delivery, acceptance and recording, from and after the effective date specified in each Assignment and Acceptance, (Ax) the assignee thereunder shall be a party hereto and, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned to it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance, have the rights and obligations of a Lender hereunder and (By) the Lender assignor thereunder shall, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned by it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance, relinquish its rights and be released from its obligations under this Agreement (and, in the case of an Assignment and Acceptance covering all or the remaining portion of an assigning Lender's ’s rights and obligations under this Agreement, such Lender shall cease to be a party hereto). (b) By executing and delivering an Assignment and Acceptance, the Lender assignor thereunder and the assignee thereunder confirm to and agree with each other and the other parties hereto as follows: (i) other than as provided in such Assignment and Acceptance, such assigning Lender makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to any statements, warranties or representations made in or in connection with this Agreement or the execution, legality, validity, enforceability, genuineness, sufficiency or value of this Agreement or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant hereto; (ii) such assigning Lender makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to the financial condition of the Borrower or the performance or observance by the Borrower of any of its obligations under this Agreement or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant hereto; (iii) such assignee confirms that it has received a copy of this Agreement, together with copies of the financial statements referred to in Section 4.01 and such other documents and information as it has deemed appropriate to make its own credit analysis and decision to enter into such Assignment and Acceptance; (iv) such assignee will, independently and without reliance upon the Administrative Agent, such assigning Lender or any other Lender and based on such documents and information as it shall deem appropriate at the time, continue to make its own credit decisions in taking or not taking action under this Agreement; (v) such assignee confirms that it is an Eligible Assignee; (vi) such assignee appoints and authorizes the Administrative Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers and discretion under this Agreement as are delegated to the Administrative Agent by the terms hereof, together with such powers and discretion as are reasonably incidental thereto; and (vii) such assignee agrees that it will perform in accordance with their terms all of the obligations that by the terms of this Agreement are required to be performed by it as a Lender. (c) Upon its receipt of an Assignment and Acceptance executed by an assigning Lender and an assignee representing that it is an Eligible Assignee, the Administrative Agent shall, if such Assignment and Acceptance has been completed and is in substantially the form of Exhibit C hereto, accept such Assignment and Acceptance, record the information contained therein in the Register and forward a copy thereof to the Borrower. (d) The Administrative Agent shall maintain at its address referred to in Section 8.02 a copy of each Assignment and Acceptance delivered to and accepted by it and a register for the recordation of the names and addresses of the Lenders and and, the Commitment of, and principal amount of the Advances owing to, each Lender from time to time (the "“Register"”). The entries in the Register shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error, and the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and the Lenders may treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Register as a Lender hereunder for all purposes of this Agreement. The Register shall be available for inspection by the Borrower Borrower, the Administrative Agent or any Lender at any reasonable time and from time to time upon reasonable prior notice. (de) Upon its receipt of an Assignment and Acceptance executed by an assigning Lender and an assignee representing that it is an Eligible Assignee, together with any Note or Notes subject to such assignment, the Agent shall, if such Assignment and Acceptance has been completed and is in substantially the form of Exhibit C hereto, (i) accept such Assignment and Acceptance, (ii) record the information contained therein in the Register and (iii) give prompt written notice thereof to the Borrower. Within five Business Days after its receipt of such noticeBorrower and the Administrative Agent, the Borrower, at its own expense, shall execute and deliver to the Agent in exchange for the surrendered Note a new Note to the order of such Eligible Assignee in an amount equal to the Commitment assumed by it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance and, if the assigning Lender has retained a Commitment hereunder, a new Note to the order of the assigning Lender in an amount equal to the Commitment retained by it hereunder. Such new Note or Notes shall be in an aggregate principal amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of such surrendered Note or Notes, shall be dated the effective date of such Assignment and Acceptance and shall otherwise be in substantially the form of Exhibit A hereto. (e) Each each Lender may sell participations to one or more banks or other entities (other than the Borrower or any of its Affiliates) in or to all or a portion of its rights and and/or obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, all or a portion of its CommitmentCommitment and the Advances) without the consent of the Borrower, the Advances owing to it and the Note Administrative Agent or Notes held by it)any Lender; provided, however, that (i) such Lender's ’s obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, its Commitment to the Borrower hereunder) shall remain unchanged, (ii) such Lender shall remain solely responsible to the other parties hereto for the performance of such obligations, (iii) such Lender shall remain the holder of any such Note for all purposes of this Agreement, (iv) the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and the other Lenders shall continue to deal solely and directly with such Lender in connection with such Lender's ’s rights and obligations under this Agreement and (viv) no participant Lender shall be entitled to receive any greater amount pursuant to Section 2.14 or 2.17 than such Lender would have been entitled to receive had such Lender not sold such participation. No Lender may grant to any holder of a participation in the rights and obligations of such Lender hereunder the right to require such Lender to take or omit to take any action under this Agreement, except that such Lender may grant to any such participation shall have any holder the right to approve any amendment or waiver of any provision of this Agreement or any Note, or any require such holder’s consent to any departure by the Borrower therefrom, except to the extent that such amendment, waiver or consent would (i) reduce the principal of, of or interest on, on the Notes outstanding Borrowings or any the fees or other amounts payable to such Lender hereunder, in each case to the extent subject to such participation, or (ii) postpone any date fixed for any payment of principal of, of or interest onon the outstanding Borrowings or the fees payable to such Lender hereunder or (iii) permit the Borrower to assign any of its obligations under this Agreement to any other Person. Each holder of a participation in any rights and obligations under this Agreement, the Notes or any fees or other amounts payable hereunder, in each case if and to the extent the applicable participation agreement so provides, shall, with respect to such participation, be entitled to all of the rights of a Lender as fully as though it were a Lender under Sections 2.10(c), 2.14, 2.17 8.01, 8.04(b) and 8.04(c) (subject to any conditions imposed on each Lender hereunder with respect thereto, including delivery of the forms and certificates required under Section 2.17(e)); provided, however, that no holder of a participation shall be entitled to any amounts that would otherwise be payable to it with respect to its participation under Section 2.14(a) or 2.17 unless (x) such amounts are payable in respect of a Regulatory Change enacted after the date the applicable participation agreement was executed or (y) such amounts would have been payable to the Lender that granted such participation if such participation had not been granted. Each Lender selling or granting a participation shall indemnify the Borrower and the Administrative Agent for any liabilities for Taxes that the Borrower or the Administrative Agent, as the case may be, might incur as a result of such Lender’s failure to withhold and pay any Taxes applicable to payments by such Lender to its participant in respect of such participation. (f) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, any Lender (a “Granting Lender”) may grant to a special purpose funding vehicle (an “SPV”) of such Granting Lender identified as such in writing from time to time by the Granting Lender to the Administrative Agent and the Borrower, the option to provide to the Borrower all or any part of any Advance that such Granting Lender would otherwise be obligated to make to the Borrower pursuant to this Agreement; provided that (i) nothing herein shall constitute a commitment by any such SPV to make any Advance, (ii) if such SPV elects not to exercise such option or otherwise fails to provide all or any part of such Advance, the Granting Lender shall be obligated to make such Advance pursuant to the terms hereof and (iii) no SPV or Granting Lender shall be entitled to receive any greater amount pursuant to Section 2.10(c), 2.14 or 2.17 than the Granting Lender would have been entitled to receive had the Granting Lender not otherwise granted such SPV the option to provide any Advance to the Borrower. The making of an Advance by an SPV hereunder shall utilize the Commitment of the Granting Lender to the same extent, and as if, such Advance were made by such Granting Lender. Each party hereto hereby agrees that no SPV shall be liable for any indemnity or similar payment obligation under this Agreement for which a Lender would otherwise be liable so long as, and to the extent that, the related Granting Lender provides such indemnity or makes such payment. In furtherance of the foregoing, each party hereto hereby agrees (which agreement shall survive the termination of this Agreement) that, prior to the date that is one year and one day after the payment in full of all outstanding commercial paper or other senior indebtedness of any SPV, it will not institute against or join any other Person in instituting against such SPV any bankruptcy, reorganization, reorganization, arrangement, insolvency or liquidation proceedings under the laws of the United States or any State thereof. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Granting Lender unconditionally agrees to indemnify the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and each Lender against all liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments, suits, costs, expenses or disbursements of any kind or nature whatsoever which may be incurred by or asserted against the Borrower, the Administrative Agent or such Lender, as the case may be, in any way relating to or arising as a consequence of any such forbearance or delay in the initiation of any such proceeding against its SPV. Each party hereto hereby acknowledges and agrees that no SPV shall have the rights of a Lender hereunder, such rights being retained by the applicable Granting Lender. Accordingly, and without limiting the foregoing, each party hereby further acknowledges and agrees that no SPV shall have any voting rights hereunder and that the voting rights attributable to any Advance made by an SPV shall be exercised only by the relevant Granting Lender and that each Granting Lender shall serve as the administrative agent and attorney-in-fact for its SPV and shall on behalf of its SPV receive any and all payments made for the benefit of such SPV and take all actions hereunder to the extent, if any, such SPV shall have any rights hereunder. In addition, notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement any SPV may (i) with notice to, but without the prior written consent of any other party hereto, assign all or a portion of its interest in any Advances to the Granting Lender and (ii) in accordance with Section 8.08, disclose on a confidential basis any Confidential Information relating to its Advances to any rating agency, commercial paper dealer or provider of any surety, guarantee or credit or liquidity enhancement to such SPV. This Section may not be amended without the prior written consent of each Granting Lender, all or any part of whose Advance is being funded by an SPV at the time of such amendment. (g) Any Lender may, in connection with any assignment or assignment, designation, participation or grant to an SPV or proposed assignment assignment, designation, participation or participation grant to an SPV pursuant to this Section 8.07, disclose to the assignee assignee, designee or participant or proposed assignee assignee, designee or participant, any information relating to the Borrower furnished to such Lender by or on behalf of the Borrower; provided that, prior to any such disclosure, the assignee assignee, designee or participant or proposed assignee assignee, designee or participant shall agree to preserve the confidentiality of any Confidential Information relating to the Borrower received by it from such Lender. (gh) Notwithstanding any other provision set forth in this Agreement, any Lender may at any time create a security interest in all or any portion of its rights under this Agreement (including, without limitation, the Advances owing to it and the Note held by it) in favor of any Federal Reserve Bank in accordance with Regulation A of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. (hi) In connection with the initial assignment event that any Lender, or proposed initial assignment by the Initial any participant of such Lender pursuant to Section 8.07(e), shall have delivered a notice or certificate pursuant to Section 2.15, or the Borrower shall be required to make additional payments to any Lender under Section 2.10(c), 2.14 or 2.17, or any Lender shall be a Declining Lender, the Borrower shall have the right, at its own expense, upon notice to such Lender, to require such Lender to transfer and assign without recourse (in accordance with and subject to the restrictions contained in this Section 8.07) all such Lender’s interests, rights and obligations under this Agreement to another Eligible Assignee identified by the Borrower shalland approved by the Administrative Agent and each LC Issuing Bank (which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld), upon the request which financial institution shall assume such obligations of the Initial Lender, furnish such Lender for consideration equal to the Initial Lender a favorable opinion outstanding principal amount of counsel such Lender’s Advances, and if satisfactory arrangements are made for the Borrower acceptable payment to such Lender of interest and fees accrued hereunder to the Initial Lender, in form date of such transfer and substance reasonably satisfactory all other amounts payable hereunder to such Lender on or prior to the Initial Lenderdate of such transfer; provided that (i) no Default shall have occurred and be continuing, (ii) no such assignment shall conflict with any law, rule or regulation or order of any governmental authority and (iii) the Borrower shall have paid to the assignor in immediately available funds on or prior to the date of such assignment all amounts accrued for the account of such Lender or owed to it under Section 2.10(c), 2.14 or 2.17.

Assignments and Participations. (a) Each Lender may (and, so long as no Default shall have occurred and be continuing, if demanded by Crompton Corp. (following a demand by such Lender pursuant to Section 2.10 or 2.12 or if such Lender shall be a Defaulting Lender) assign to one or more Persons Eligible Assignees all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, all or a portion of its CommitmentCommitment or Commitments, the Advance Advances owing to it and the Note or Notes held by it); provided, however, that (i) each such assignment shall be of a constantuniform, and not a varying, percentage of all rights and obligations under this Agreementand in respect of all of the Facilities, (ii) except in the case of an assignment to a Person that, immediately prior to such assignment, was a Lender or an assignment of all of a Lender's rights and obligations under this Agreement, the amount of the Commitment of the assigning Lender being assigned pursuant to each such assignment (determined as of the date of the Assignment and Acceptance with respect to such assignment) shall in no event be less than $5,000,000 or an integral multiple 20,000,000 or, if the aggregate amount of $1,000,000 in excess thereofthe Commitment of such assigning Lender is less than 20,000,000, all of such Lender's Commitment, (iii) each such assignment shall be to an Eligible Assignee, (iv) each such assignment made as a result of a demand by Crompton Corp. pursuant to this Section 8.07(a) shall be arranged by Crompton Corp. after consultation with the Administrative Agent and shall be either an assignment of all of the rights and obligations of the assigning Lender under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents or an assignment of a portion of such rights and obligations made concurrently with another such assignment or other such assignments that together cover all of the rights and obligations of the assigning Lender under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, (v) no Lender shall be obligated to make any such assignment as a result of a demand by Crompton Corp. pursuant to this Section 8.07(a) unless and until such Lender shall have received one or more payments from either the applicable Borrowers or one or more Eligible Assignees in an aggregate amount at least equal to the aggregate outstanding principal amount of the Advances owing to such Lender, together with accrued interest thereon to the date of payment of such principal amount and all other amounts payable to such Lender under this Agreement, (vi) no such assignments shall be permitted without the consent of the Agent until the Agent shall have notified the Lender Parties that syndication of the Commitments hereunder has been completed, and (ivvii) the parties to each such assignment shall execute and deliver to the Agent, for its acceptance and recording in the Register, an Assignment and Acceptance, together with any Note or Notes subject to such assignment. assignment and a processing and recordation fee of $3,500. (b) Upon such execution, delivery, acceptance and recording, from and after the effective date specified in each such Assignment and Acceptance, (Ax) the assignee thereunder shall be a party hereto and, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned to it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance, have the rights and obligations of a Lender or Issuing Bank, as the case may be, hereunder and (By) the Lender or Issuing Bank assignor thereunder shall, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned by it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance, relinquish its rights and be released from its obligations under this Agreement (and, in the case of an Assignment and Acceptance covering all or the remaining portion of an assigning Lender's or Issuing Bank's rights and obligations under this Agreement, such Lender or Issuing Bank shall cease to be a party hereto). (bc) By executing and delivering an Assignment and Acceptance, the Lender Party assignor thereunder and the assignee thereunder confirm to and agree with each other and the other parties hereto as follows: (i) other than as provided in such Assignment and Acceptance, such assigning Lender Party makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to any statements, warranties or representations made in or in connection with this Agreement or any other Loan Document or the execution, legality, validity, enforceability, genuineness, sufficiency or value of, or the perfection or priority of any lien or security interest created or purported to be created under or in connection with, this Agreement or any other Loan Document or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant heretohereto or thereto; (ii) such assigning Lender Party makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to the financial condition of the any Borrower or any other Loan Party or the performance or observance by the Borrower any Loan Party of any of its obligations under this Agreement any Loan Document or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant heretothereto; (iii) such assignee confirms that it has received a copy of this Agreement, together with copies of the financial statements referred to in Section 4.01 and such other documents and information as it has deemed appropriate to make its own credit analysis and decision to enter into such Assignment and Acceptance; (iv) such assignee will, independently and without reliance upon the Agent, such assigning Lender Party or any other Lender Party and based on such documents and information as it shall deem appropriate at the time, continue to make its own credit decisions in taking or not taking action under this Agreement; (v) such assignee confirms that it is an Eligible Assignee; (vi) such assignee appoints and authorizes the Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers and discretion under this Agreement the Loan Documents as are delegated to the Agent by the terms hereofthereof, together with such powers and discretion as are reasonably incidental thereto; and (vii) such assignee agrees that it will perform in accordance with their terms all of the obligations that which by the terms of this Agreement are required to be performed by it as a LenderLender or Issuing Bank, as the case may be. (cd) The Agent shall maintain at its address referred to in Section 8.02 a copy of each Assignment and Acceptance delivered to and accepted by it and a register for the recordation of the names and addresses of the Lenders Lender Parties and the Commitment under each Facility of, and principal amount of the Advances owing under each Facility to, each Lender Party from time to time (the "Register"). The entries in the Register shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error, and the BorrowerBorrowers, the Agent and the Lenders may Lender Parties shall treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Register as a Lender Party hereunder for all purposes of this Agreement. The Register shall be available for inspection by the any Borrower or any Lender Party at any reasonable time and from time to time upon reasonable prior notice. (de) Upon its receipt of an Assignment and Acceptance executed by an assigning Lender Party and an assignee representing that it is an Eligible Assigneeassignee, together with any Note or Notes subject to such assignment, the Agent shall, if such Assignment and Acceptance has been completed and is in substantially the form of Exhibit C hereto, (i) accept such Assignment and Acceptance, (ii) record the information contained therein in the Register and (iii) give prompt notice thereof to the BorrowerBorrowers. Within In the case of any assignment by a Lender, within five Business Days after its receipt of such notice, the each Borrower, at its own expense, shall execute and deliver to the Agent in exchange for the surrendered Note or Notes a new Note to the order of such Eligible Assignee in an amount equal to the Commitment assumed by it under a Facility pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance and, if the assigning Lender has retained a Commitment hereunderhereunder under such Facility, a new Note to the order of the assigning Lender in an amount equal to the Commitment retained by it hereunder. Such new Note or Notes shall be in an aggregate principal amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of such surrendered Note or Notes, shall be dated the effective date of such Assignment and Acceptance and shall otherwise be in substantially the form of Exhibit A A-▇, ▇-▇ or A-3 hereto, as the case may be. (e) Each Lender may sell participations to one or more banks or other entities (other than the Borrower or any of its Affiliates) in or to all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, all or a portion of its Commitment, the Advances owing to it and the Note or Notes held by it); provided, however, that (i) such Lender's obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, its Commitment to the Borrower hereunder) shall remain unchanged, (ii) such Lender shall remain solely responsible to the other parties hereto for the performance of such obligations, (iii) such Lender shall remain the holder of any such Note for all purposes of this Agreement, (iv) the Borrower, the Agent and the other Lenders shall continue to deal solely and directly with such Lender in connection with such Lender's rights and obligations under this Agreement and (v) no participant under any such participation shall have any right to approve any amendment or waiver of any provision of this Agreement or any Note, or any consent to any departure by the Borrower therefrom, except to the extent that such amendment, waiver or consent would reduce the principal of, or interest on, the Notes or any fees or other amounts payable hereunder, in each case to the extent subject to such participation, or postpone any date fixed for any payment of principal of, or interest on, the Notes or any fees or other amounts payable hereunder, in each case to the extent subject to such participation. (f) Any Lender may, in connection with any assignment or participation or proposed assignment or participation pursuant to this Section 8.07, disclose to the assignee or participant or proposed assignee or participant, any information relating to the Borrower furnished to such Lender by or on behalf of the Borrower; provided that, prior to any such disclosure, the assignee or participant or proposed assignee or participant shall agree to preserve the confidentiality of any Confidential Information relating to the Borrower received by it from such Lender. (g) Notwithstanding any other provision set forth in this Agreement, any Lender may at any time create a security interest in all or any portion of its rights under this Agreement (including, without limitation, the Advances owing to it and the Note held by it) in favor of any Federal Reserve Bank in accordance with Regulation A of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. (h) In connection with the initial assignment or proposed initial assignment by the Initial Lender pursuant to this Section 8.07, the Borrower shall, upon the request of the Initial Lender, furnish to the Initial Lender a favorable opinion of counsel for the Borrower acceptable to the Initial Lender, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Initial Lender.

Assignments and Participations. (a) Each Lender may assign to one or more Persons all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, all or a portion of its Commitment, the Advance owing to it and the Note or Notes held by it); provided, however, that (i) each such assignment shall be of a constant, and not a varying, percentage of all rights and obligations under this Agreement, (ii) except in the case of an assignment to a Person that, immediately prior to such assignment, was a Lender or an assignment of all of a Lender's rights and obligations under this Agreement, the amount of the Commitment of the assigning Lender being assigned pursuant to each such assignment (determined as of the date of the Assignment and Acceptance with respect to such assignment) shall in no event be less than $Euro 5,000,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000,000 Euro 100,000 in excess thereof, (iii) each such assignment shall be to an Eligible Assignee, and (iv) the parties to each such assignment shall execute and deliver to the Agent, for its acceptance and recording in the Register, an Assignment and Acceptance, together with any Note subject to such assignment. Upon such execution, delivery, acceptance and recording, from and after the effective date specified in each Assignment and Acceptance, (A) the assignee thereunder shall be a party hereto and, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned to it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance, have the rights and obligations of a Lender hereunder and (B) the Lender assignor thereunder shall, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned by it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance, relinquish its rights and be released from its obligations under this Agreement (and, in the case of an Assignment and Acceptance covering all or the remaining portion of an assigning Lender's rights and obligations under this Agreement, such Lender shall cease to be a party hereto). (b) By executing and delivering an Assignment and Acceptance, the Lender assignor thereunder and the assignee thereunder confirm to and agree with each other and the other parties hereto as follows: (i) other than as provided in such Assignment and Acceptance, such assigning Lender makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to any statements, warranties or representations made in or in connection with this Agreement or the Guaranty or the execution, legality, validity, enforceability, genuineness, sufficiency or value of this Agreement or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant hereto; (ii) such assigning Lender makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to the financial condition of the Borrower or the Guarantor or the performance or observance by the Borrower or the Guarantor of any of its obligations under this Agreement or the Guaranty or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant hereto; (iii) such assignee confirms that it has received a copy of this Agreement, together with copies of the financial statements referred to in Section 4.01 and such other documents and information as it has deemed appropriate to make its own credit analysis and decision to enter into such Assignment and Acceptance; (iv) such assignee will, independently and without reliance upon the Agent, such assigning Lender or any other Lender and based on such documents and information as it shall deem appropriate at the time, continue to make its own credit decisions in taking or not taking action under this Agreement; (v) such assignee confirms that it is an Eligible Assignee; (vi) such assignee appoints and authorizes the Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers and discretion under this Agreement as are delegated to the Agent by the terms hereof, together with such powers and discretion as are reasonably incidental thereto; and (vii) such assignee agrees that it will perform in accordance with their terms all of the obligations that by the terms of this Agreement are required to be performed by it as a Lender. (c) The Agent shall maintain at its address referred to in Section 8.02 a copy of each Assignment and Acceptance delivered to and accepted by it and a register for the recordation of the names and addresses of the Lenders and the Commitment of, and principal amount of the Advances owing to, each Lender from time to time (the "Register"). The entries in the Register shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error, and the Borrower, the Agent and the Lenders may treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Register as a Lender hereunder for all purposes of this Agreement. The Register shall be available for inspection by the Borrower or any Lender at any reasonable time and from time to time upon reasonable prior notice. (d) Upon its receipt of an Assignment and Acceptance executed by an assigning Lender and an assignee representing that it is an Eligible Assignee, together with any Note or Notes subject to such assignment, the Agent shall, if such Assignment and Acceptance has been completed and is in substantially the form of Exhibit C hereto, (i) accept such Assignment and Acceptance, (ii) record the information contained therein in the Register and (iii) give prompt notice thereof to the Borrower. Within five Business Days after its receipt of such notice, the Borrower, at its own expense, shall execute and deliver to the Agent in exchange for the surrendered Note a new Note to the order of such Eligible Assignee in an amount equal to the Commitment assumed by it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance and, if the assigning Lender has retained a Commitment hereunder, a new Note to the order of the assigning Lender in an amount equal to the Commitment retained by it hereunder. Such new Note or Notes shall be in an aggregate principal amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of such surrendered Note or Notes, shall be dated the effective date of such Assignment and Acceptance and shall otherwise be in substantially the form of Exhibit A hereto. (e) Each Lender may sell participations to one or more banks or other entities (other than the Borrower or any of its Affiliates) in or to all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, all or a portion of its Commitment, the Advances owing to it and the Note or Notes held by it); provided, however, that (i) such Lender's obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, its Commitment to the Borrower hereunder) shall remain unchanged, (ii) such Lender shall remain solely responsible to the other parties hereto for the performance of such obligations, (iii) such Lender shall remain the holder of any such Note for all purposes of this Agreement, (iv) the Borrower, the Agent and the other Lenders shall continue to deal solely and directly with such Lender in connection with such Lender's rights and obligations under this Agreement and (v) no participant under any such participation shall have any right to approve any amendment or waiver of any provision of this Agreement or any Note, or any consent to any departure by the Borrower therefrom, except to the extent that such amendment, waiver or consent would reduce the principal of, or interest on, the Notes or any fees or other amounts payable hereunder, in each case to the extent subject to such participation, or postpone any date fixed for any payment of principal of, or interest on, the Notes or any fees or other amounts payable hereunder, in each case to the extent subject to such participation. (f) Any Lender may, in connection with any assignment or participation or proposed assignment or participation pursuant to this Section 8.07, disclose to the assignee or participant or proposed assignee or participant, any information relating to the Borrower furnished to such Lender by or on behalf of the Borrower; provided that, prior to any such disclosure, the assignee or participant or proposed assignee or participant shall agree to preserve the confidentiality of any Confidential Information relating to the Borrower received by it from such Lender. (g) Notwithstanding any other provision set forth in this Agreement, any Lender may at any time create a security interest in all or any portion of its rights under this Agreement (including, without limitation, the Advances owing to it and the Note held by it) in favor of any Federal Reserve Bank in accordance with Regulation A of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. (h) In connection with the initial assignment or proposed initial assignment by the Initial Lender pursuant to this Section 8.07, the Borrower shall, upon the request of the Initial Lender, furnish to the Initial Lender a favorable opinion of counsel for the Borrower acceptable to the Initial Lender, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Initial Lender.

Assignments and Participations. (a) Each Lender may assign to one or more Persons Eligible Assignees all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement the Loan Documents (including, without limitation, all or a portion of its Commitment, the Advance Advances owing to it and the Note or Notes (if any) held by it); provided, however, that (i) each such assignment shall be of a constant, and not a varying, percentage of all of the assigning Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreementthe Loan Documents, (ii) except in the case of an assignment to a Person that, immediately prior to such assignment, was a Lender or an assignment of all of a Lender's rights and obligations under this Agreement, the amount of the Commitment of the assigning Lender being assigned pursuant to each such assignment (determined as of the date of the Lender Assignment and Acceptance with respect to such assignment) shall in no event be less than the lesser of the amount of such Lender’s then remaining Commitment and $5,000,000 or an integral any whole multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereofthereof (except in the case of assignments between Lenders at the time already parties hereto and between a Lender and an Affiliate of such Lender), (iii) each the Agent, the LC Issuing Bank and, so long as no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the Borrower, shall have consented to such assignment shall (which may not be to an Eligible Assigneeunreasonably withheld or delayed), and (iv) the parties to each such assignment shall execute and deliver to the Agent, for its acceptance and recording in the Register, an Assignment and Acceptancea Lender Assignment, together with any Note or Notes (if any) subject to such assignmentassignment and a processing and recordation fee of $3,500. Promptly following its receipt of such Lender Assignment, Note or Notes (if any) and fee, the Agent shall accept and record such Lender Assignment in the Register. Upon such execution, delivery, acceptance and recording, from and after the effective date specified in each Assignment and AcceptanceLender Assignment, (Ax) the assignee thereunder shall be a party hereto and, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned to it pursuant to such Assignment and AcceptanceLender Assignment, have the rights and obligations of a Lender hereunder and (By) the Lender assignor thereunder shall, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned by it pursuant to such Assignment and AcceptanceLender Assignment, relinquish its rights and be released from its obligations under this Agreement (and, in the case of an a Lender Assignment and Acceptance covering all or the remaining portion of an assigning Lender's ’s rights and obligations under this Agreement, such Lender shall cease to be a party hereto). Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, any Lender may at any time, with notice to the Borrower, the Agent and the LC Issuing Bank, assign all or any portion of the Advances owing to it to any other Lender or any Affiliate of a Lender. No such assignment, other than to an Eligible Assignee, a Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender, shall release the assigning Lender from its obligations hereunder. (b) By executing and delivering an Assignment and Acceptancea Lender Assignment, the Lender assignor thereunder and the assignee thereunder confirm to and agree with each other and the other parties hereto as follows: (i) other than as provided in such Assignment and AcceptanceLender Assignment, such assigning Lender makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to any statements, warranties or representations made in or in connection with this Agreement any Loan Document or the execution, legality, validity, enforceability, genuineness, sufficiency or value of this Agreement any Loan Document or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant heretothereto; (ii) such assigning Lender makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to the financial condition of the Borrower or the performance or observance by the Borrower of any of its obligations under this Agreement any Loan Document or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant heretothereto; (iii) such assignee confirms that it has received a copy of this Agreementeach Loan Document, together with copies of the financial statements referred to in Section 4.01 4.01(f) hereof and such other documents and information as it has deemed appropriate to make its own credit analysis and decision to enter into such Assignment and AcceptanceLender Assignment; (iv) such assignee will, independently and without reliance upon the Agent, such assigning Lender or any other Lender and based on such documents and information as it shall deem appropriate at the time, continue to make its own credit decisions in taking or not taking action under this Agreementthe Loan Documents; (v) such assignee confirms that it is an Eligible Assignee; (vi) such assignee appoints and authorizes the Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers and discretion under this Agreement the Loan Documents as are delegated to the Agent by the terms hereofthereof, together with such powers and discretion as are reasonably incidental thereto; and (vii) such assignee agrees that it will perform in accordance with their terms all of the obligations that which by the terms of this Agreement the Loan Documents are required to be performed by it as a Lender. (c) The Agent shall maintain at its address referred to in Section 8.02 a copy of each Lender Assignment and Acceptance delivered to and accepted by it and a register for the recordation of the names and addresses of the Lenders and the Commitment of, and principal amount of the Advances owing to, each Lender from time to time (the "“Register"”). The entries in the Register shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error, and the Borrower, the Agent and the Lenders may treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Register as a Lender hereunder for all purposes of this Agreement. The Register shall be available for inspection by the Borrower or any Lender at any reasonable time and from time to time upon reasonable prior notice. (d) Upon its receipt of an a Lender Assignment and Acceptance executed by an assigning Lender and an assignee representing that it is an Eligible Assignee, together with any Note or Notes (if any) subject to such assignment, the Agent shall, if such Lender Assignment and Acceptance has been completed and is in substantially the form of Exhibit C 8.07 hereto, (i) accept such Assignment and AcceptanceLender Assignment, (ii) record the information contained therein in the Register and (iii) give prompt notice thereof to the Borrower. Within five Business Days after its receipt of such notice, the Borrower, at its own expense, shall execute and deliver to the Agent in exchange for the surrendered Note a new Note to the order of such Eligible Assignee in an amount equal to the Commitment assumed by it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance and, if the assigning Lender has retained a Commitment hereunder, a new Note to the order of the assigning Lender in an amount equal to the Commitment retained by it hereunder. Such new Note or Notes shall be in an aggregate principal amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of such surrendered Note or Notes, shall be dated the effective date of such Assignment and Acceptance and shall otherwise be in substantially the form of Exhibit A hereto. (e) Each Lender may sell participations to one or more banks banks, financial institutions or other entities (other than the Borrower or any of its Affiliates) in or to all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement the Loan Documents (including, without limitation, all or a portion of its Commitment, the Advances owing to it and the Note or Notes (if any) held by it); provided, however, that (i) such Lender's ’s obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, its Commitment to the Borrower hereunder) shall remain unchanged, (ii) such Lender shall remain solely responsible to the other parties hereto for the performance of such obligations, (iii) such Lender shall remain the holder of any such Note (if any) for all purposes of this Agreement, and (iv) the Borrower, the Agent and the other Lenders shall continue to deal solely and directly with such Lender in connection with such Lender's ’s rights and obligations under this Agreement and (v) no participant under any such participation shall have any right to approve any amendment or waiver of any provision of this Agreement or any Note, or any consent to any departure by the Borrower therefrom, except to the extent that such amendment, waiver or consent would reduce the principal of, or interest on, the Notes or any fees or other amounts payable hereunder, in each case to the extent subject to such participation, or postpone any date fixed for any payment of principal of, or interest on, the Notes or any fees or other amounts payable hereunder, in each case to the extent subject to such participationAgreement. (f) Any Lender may, in connection with any assignment or participation or proposed assignment or participation pursuant to this Section 8.07, disclose to the assignee or participant or proposed assignee or participant, any information relating to the Borrower furnished to such Lender by or on behalf of the Borrower; provided that, prior to any such disclosure, the assignee or participant or proposed assignee or participant shall agree agree, in accordance with the terms of Section 8.08, to preserve the confidentiality of any Confidential Information relating to the Borrower received by it from such Lender. (g) Notwithstanding If any Lender (or any bank, financial institution, or other provision set forth entity to which such Lender has sold a participation) shall (i) make any demand for payment under Section 2.08 or 2.12, (ii) give notice to the Agent pursuant to Section 2.13 or (iii) determine not to extend the Revolving Commitment Termination Date in response to any request by the Borrower pursuant to Section 2.18, then (A) in the case of any demand made under clause (i) above, or the occurrence of the event described in clause (ii) above, within 30 days after any such demand or occurrence (if, but only if, in the case of any demanded payment described in clause (i), such demanded payment has been made by the Borrower), and (B) in the case of the occurrence of the event described in clause (iii) above, at any time prior to the then-scheduled Revolving Commitment Termination Date, the Borrower may, with the approval of the Agent and the LC Issuing Bank (which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld), and provided that no Event of Default or Unmatured Default shall then have occurred and be continuing, demand that such Lender assign in accordance with this Section 8.07 to one or more Eligible Assignees designated by the Borrower all (but not less than all) of such Lender’s Commitment and the Advances owing to it within the period ending on the latest to occur of (x) the last day in the period described in clause (A) or (B) above, as applicable, and (y) the last day of the longest of the then current Interest Periods for such Advances. If any such Eligible Assignee designated by the Borrower shall fail to consummate such assignment on terms acceptable to such Lender, or if the Borrower shall fail to designate any such Eligible Assignees for all or part of such Lender’s Commitment or Advances, then such demand by the Borrower shall become ineffective; it being understood for purposes of this subsection (g) that such assignment shall be conclusively deemed to be on terms acceptable to such Lender, and such Lender shall be compelled to consummate such assignment to an Eligible Assignee designated by the Borrower, if such Eligible Assignee (1) shall agree to such assignment by entering into a Lender Assignment with such Lender and (2) shall offer compensation to such Lender in an amount equal to all amounts then owing by the Borrower to such Lender hereunder, whether for principal, interest, fees, costs or expenses (other than the demanded payment referred to above and payable by the Borrower as a condition to the Borrower’s right to demand such assignment), or otherwise. (h) Anything in this AgreementSection 8.07 to the contrary notwithstanding, any Lender may at any time create a security interest in assign and pledge all or any portion of its rights under this Agreement (including, without limitation, Commitment and the Advances owing to it and the Note held by it) in favor of to any Federal Reserve Bank in accordance with (and its transferees) as collateral security pursuant to Regulation A of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve SystemSystem and any Operating Circular issued by such Federal Reserve Bank. No such assignment shall release the assigning Lender from its obligations hereunder. (hi) In connection with Notwithstanding anything to the initial assignment or proposed initial assignment contrary contained herein, any Lender (a “Granting Lender”) may grant to a special purpose funding vehicle (an “SPC”) of such Granting Lender identified as such in writing from time to time by the Initial Granting Lender to the Agent, the LC Issuing Bank and the Borrower, the option to provide to the Borrower all or any part of any Advance that such Granting Lender would otherwise be obligated to make to the Borrower pursuant to this Section 8.07Agreement; provided that (i) nothing herein shall constitute a commitment by any such SPC to make any Advance, (ii) if such SPC elects not to exercise such option or otherwise fails to provide all or any part of such Advance, the Borrower shall, upon Granting Lender shall be obligated to make such Advance pursuant to the request terms hereof and (iii) no SPC or Granting Lender shall be entitled to receive any greater amount pursuant to Section 2.12 or 8.04(b) than the Granting Lender would have been entitled to receive had the Granting Lender not otherwise granted such SPC the option to provide any Advance to the Borrower. The making of an Advance by an SPC hereunder shall utilize the Commitment of the Initial Granting Lender to the same extent, and as if, such Advance were made by such Granting Lender. Each party hereto hereby agrees that no SPC shall be liable for any indemnity or similar payment obligation under this Agreement for which a Lender would otherwise be liable so long as, and to the extent that, the related Granting Lender provides such indemnity or makes such payment. In furtherance of the foregoing, each party hereto hereby agrees (which agreement shall survive the termination of this Agreement) that, prior to the date that is one year and one day after the payment in full of all outstanding commercial paper or other senior indebtedness of any SPC, it will not institute against or join any other person in instituting against such SPC any bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, insolvency or liquidation proceedings under the laws of the United States or any State thereof. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Granting Lender unconditionally agrees to indemnify the Borrower, the LC Issuing Bank, the Agent and each Lender against all liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments, suits, costs, expenses or disbursements of any kind or nature whatsoever which may be incurred by or asserted against the Borrower, the LC Issuing Bank, the Agent or such Lender, furnish as the case may be, in any way relating to or arising as a consequence of any such forbearance or delay in the initiation of any such proceeding against its SPC. Each party hereto hereby acknowledges and agrees that no SPC shall have the rights of a Lender hereunder, such rights being retained by the applicable Granting Lender. Accordingly, and without limiting the foregoing, each party hereby further acknowledges and agrees that no SPC shall have any voting rights hereunder and that the voting rights attributable to any Advance made by an SPC shall be exercised only by the relevant Granting Lender and that each Granting Lender shall serve as the administrative agent and attorney-in-fact for its SPC and shall on behalf of its SPC receive any and all payments made for the benefit of such SPC and take all actions hereunder to the Initial Lender a favorable opinion of counsel for the Borrower acceptable extent, if any, such SPC shall have any rights hereunder. In addition, notwithstanding anything to the Initial contrary contained in this Agreement any SPC may (i) with notice to, but without the prior written consent of any other party hereto, assign all or a portion of its interest in any Advances to the Granting Lender and (ii) disclose on a confidential basis any information relating to its Advances to any rating agency, commercial paper dealer or provider of any surety, guarantee or credit or liquidity enhancement to such SPC. This Section 8.07(i) may not be amended without the prior written consent of each Granting Lender, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to all or any part of whose Advance is being funded by an SPC at the Initial Lendertime of such amendment.

Assignments and Participations. (a) Each Lender (other than a Designated Bidder) may assign to one or more Persons banks or other entities all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, including all or a portion of its Commitment, the Advance A Advances owing to it and the Note or Notes held by it); provided, however, that (i) each such assignment shall be of a constant, and not a varying, percentage of all rights and obligations under this Agreement, (ii) except in the case of an assignment to a Person that, immediately prior to such assignment, was a Lender or an assignment of all of a Lender's rights and obligations under this Agreement, the amount of the Commitment of the assigning Lender being assigned pursuant to each such assignment (determined as of the date of the Assignment and Acceptance with respect to such assignment) shall in no event be less than $5,000,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof, (iii) each such assignment shall be to an Eligible Assignee, and (iv) the parties to each such assignment shall execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent, for its acceptance and recording in the Register, an Assignment and Acceptance, together with any Note or Notes subject to such assignmentassignment and, except in the case of an assignment to a Lender Affiliate, a processing and recordation fee of $3,000, and shall send to the Borrower an executed counterpart of such Assignment and Acceptance, and provided further, however, that (i) the sum of (x) the amount of the Commitment of the assigning Lender being assigned to the assignee pursuant to each such assignment (determined as of the date of the Assignment) plus (y) the amount of the "Commitment" of the assigning Lender under the Long-Term Revolving Credit Agreement and/or the Canadian Credit Agreement contemporaneously assigned by such assigning Lender to such assignee as contemplated by clause (iii) of this sentence must be equal to or greater than $25,000,000, or if less, the entire amount of such assigning Lender's "Commitment" (unless the Borrower and the Administrative Agent shall otherwise consent, which consent may be withheld for any reason) and must be an integral multiple of $1,000,000, (ii) any assignment to a Lender Affiliate will not relieve the assigning Lender of its obligation to make Advances hereunder timely in accordance with the terms hereof in the event such Lender Affiliate shall fail to do so and (iii) except in the case of an assignment to a Lender Affiliate or as required by the Borrower pursuant Section 2.21(d) or 2.22, each such assignment shall be of a constant, and not a varying, percentage of all such Lender's rights and obligations under this Agreement (other than any right to make B Advances, any B Advances or any Notes) and the same constant percentage of all such Lender's rights and obligations, if any, under the Long-Term Revolving Credit Agreement and the Canadian Credit Agreement unless the Long-Term Revolving Credit Agreement or the Canadian Agreement, as the case may be, has been terminated, shall be contemporaneously assigned by such assigning Lender to the same assignee pursuant to Section 8.07(a) of the Long-Term Revolving Credit Agreement and Section 9.07(a) of the Canadian Credit Agreement. Upon such the execution, delivery, acceptance and recordingrecording of each Assignment and Acceptance by the parties thereto, from and after the effective date specified in each such Assignment and Acceptance, (Ax) the assignee thereunder shall be a party hereto and, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned to it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance, have the rights and obligations of a Lender hereunder and (By) except as otherwise provided in clause (ii) above, the Lender assignor thereunder shall, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned by it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance, relinquish its rights and be released from its obligations under this Agreement (and, except in the circumstances contemplated by clause (ii) above, in the case of an Assignment and Acceptance covering all or the remaining portion of an assigning Lender's rights and obligations under this Agreement, such Lender shall cease to be a party hereto, provided, however, that such assigning Lender shall retain any claim with respect to any fee, interest, cost, expense or indemnity which accrues, or relates to an event that occurs, prior to the date of such assignment pursuant to Section 2.03, 2.06, 2.07, 2.11, 2.12, 2.15 or 8.04). (b) By executing and delivering an Assignment and Acceptance, the each Lender assignor thereunder and the assignee thereunder confirm to and agree with each other and the other parties hereto as follows: (i) other than as provided in such Assignment and Acceptance, such assigning Lender makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to any statements, warranties or representations made in or in connection with this Agreement or the execution, legality, validity, enforceability, genuineness, sufficiency or value of this Agreement or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant hereto; (ii) such assigning Lender makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to the financial condition of the Borrower or the performance or observance by the Borrower of any of its obligations under this Agreement or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant hereto; (iii) such assignee confirms that it has received a copy of this Agreement, together with copies of the financial statements referred to in Section 4.01 and such other documents and information as it has deemed appropriate to make its own credit analysis and decision to enter into such Assignment and Acceptance; (iv) such assignee will, independently and without reliance upon the Administrative Agent, such assigning Lender or any other Lender and based on such documents and information as it shall deem appropriate at the time, continue to make its own credit decisions in taking or not taking action under this Agreement; (v) such assignee confirms that it is (subject to approval in writing by the Borrower and the Administrative Agent to the extent required) an Eligible Assignee; (vi) such assignee appoints and authorizes the Administrative Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers and discretion under this Agreement as are delegated to the Administrative Agent by the terms hereof, together with such powers and discretion as are reasonably incidental thereto; and (vii) such assignee agrees that it will perform in accordance with their terms all of the obligations that which by the terms of this Agreement are required to be performed by it as a Lender. (c) The Administrative Agent shall maintain at its address referred to in Section 8.02 a copy of each Assignment and Acceptance Acceptance, each Designation Agreement, each New Lender Agreement and each Commitment Increase Agreement delivered to and accepted by it and a register for the recordation of the names and addresses of the Lenders and and, with respect to Lenders other than Designated Bidders, the Commitment of, and principal amount of the A Advances owing to, each Lender from time to time (the "RegisterREGISTER"). The entries in the Register shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error, and the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and the Lenders may treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Register as a Lender hereunder for all purposes of this Agreement. The Register shall be available for inspection by the Borrower or any Lender at any reasonable time and from time to time upon reasonable prior notice. (d) Upon its receipt of an Assignment and Acceptance executed by an assigning Lender and an assignee representing that it is an Eligible Assignee, together with any Note or Notes subject to such assignment, the Administrative Agent shall, if such Assignment and Acceptance has been completed and is in substantially the form of Exhibit C D hereto, (i) accept such Assignment and Acceptance, (ii) record the information contained therein in the Register and (iii) give prompt notice thereof to the Borrower. Within five Business Days after its receipt of such noticenotice and its receipt of an executed counterpart of such Assignment and Acceptance, the Borrower, at its own expense, shall execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent in exchange for the any surrendered Note or Notes a new Note to the order of such Eligible Assignee in an amount equal to the Commitment assumed by it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance and, if the assigning Lender has retained a Commitment hereunder, a new Note to the order of the assigning Lender in an amount equal to the Commitment retained by it hereunderLender. Such Any such new Note or Notes shall be in an aggregate principal amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of such surrendered Note or Notes, shall be dated the effective date of such Assignment and Acceptance and shall otherwise be in substantially the form of Exhibit A hereto. (e) Each Lender (other than a Designated Bidder) may designate one or more banks or other entities to have a right to make B Advances as a Lender pursuant to Section 2.19; provided that (i) such Lender shall have obtained the written consent of the Administrative Agent and the Borrower, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld, (ii) no such Lender shall be entitled to make more than two such designations, (iii) each such Lender making one or more of such designations shall retain the right to make B Advances as a Lender pursuant to Section 2.19, (iv) each such designation shall be to a Designated Bidder and (v) the parties to each such designation shall execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent, for its acceptance and recording in the Register, a Designation Agreement. Upon such execution, delivery, acceptance and recording, from and after the effective date specified in each Designation Agreement, the designee thereunder shall be a party hereto with a right to make B Advances as a Lender pursuant to Section 2.19 and the obligations related thereto. (f) By executing and delivering a Designation Agreement, the Lender making the designation thereunder and its designee thereunder confirm and agree with each other and the other parties hereto as follows: (i) such Lender makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to any statements, warranties or representations made in or in connection with this Agreement or the execution, legality, validity, enforceability, genuineness, sufficiency or value of this Agreement or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant hereto, (ii) such Lender makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to the financial condition of the Borrower or the performance or observance by the Borrower of any of its obligations under this Agreement or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant hereto; (iii) such designee confirms that it has received a copy of this Agreement, together with copies of the financial statements referred to in Section 4.01 and such other documents and information as it has deemed appropriate to make its own credit analysis and decision to enter into the Designation Agreement; (iv) such designee will, independently and without reliance upon the Administrative Agent, such designating Lender or any other Lender and based on such documents and information as it shall deem appropriate at the time, continue to make its own credit decisions in taking or not taking action under this Agreement; (v) such designee confirms that it is a Designated Bidder; (vi) such designee appoints and authorizes the Administrative Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers under this Agreement as are delegated to the Administrative Agent by the terms hereof, together with such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto, and (vii) such designee agrees that it will perform in accordance with their terms all of the obligations which by the terms of this Agreement are required to be performed by it as a Lender. (g) Upon its receipt of a Designation Agreement executed by a designating Lender and a designee representing that it is a Designated Bidder, the Administrative Agent shall, if such Designation Agreement has been completed and is substantially in the form of Exhibit J hereto, (i) accept such Designation Agreement, (ii) record the information contained therein in the Register and (iii) give prompt notice thereof to the Borrower. (h) Each Lender may sell participations to one or more banks or other entities (other than the Borrower or any of its Affiliates) in or to all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, including all or a portion of its Commitment, and the Advances owing to it and the Note or Notes held by it); provided, however, that (i) such Lender's obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, including its Commitment to the Borrower hereunder) shall remain unchanged, (ii) such Lender shall remain solely responsible to the other parties hereto for the performance of such obligations, (iii) such Lender shall remain the holder of any such Note for all purposes of this Agreement, (iv) the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and the other Lenders shall continue to deal solely and directly with such Lender in connection with such Lender's rights and obligations under this Agreement and Agreement, (v) no participant under such Lender shall continue to be able to agree to any such participation shall have any right to approve any modification or amendment or waiver of any provision of this Agreement or any Notewaiver hereunder without the consent, approval or vote of any consent to any departure by the Borrower therefromsuch participant or group of participants, except to the extent that such amendmentother than modifications, waiver or consent would reduce the principal of, or interest on, the Notes or any fees or other amounts payable hereunder, in each case to the extent subject to such participation, or amendments and waivers which (A) postpone any date fixed for any payment of principal of, or reduce any payment of, principal of or interest on, the Notes on such Lender's Advances or any facility fees or other amounts utilization fees payable hereunderunder this Agreement, or (B) increase the amount of such Lender's Commitment in each case a manner which would have the effect of increasing the amount of a participant's participation, or (C) reduce the interest rate payable under this Agreement and such Lender's Advances, or (D) consent to the extent subject assignment or the transfer by the Borrower of any of its rights and obligations under the Agreement, and (vi) except as contemplated by the immediately preceding clause (v), no participant shall be deemed to such participationbe or to have any of the rights or obligations of a "Lender" hereunder. (fi) Any Lender may, in connection with any assignment assignment, designation or participation or proposed assignment assignment, designation or participation pursuant to this Section 8.07, disclose to the assignee assignee, designee or participant or proposed assignee assignee, designee or participant, any information relating to the Borrower furnished to such Lender by or on behalf of the Borrower; provided that, prior to any such disclosure, the assignee assignee, designee or participant or proposed assignee assignee, designee or participant shall agree in writing for the benefit of the Borrower to preserve the confidentiality of any Confidential Information confidential information relating to the Borrower received by it from such LenderLender in a manner consistent with Section 8.08. (gj) Notwithstanding any other provision set forth Anything in this AgreementAgreement to the contrary notwithstanding, any Lender may at any time create a security interest in all or any portion of its rights under this Agreement (including, without limitation, including the Advances owing to it it) and the Note held by it) Notes, if any, issued to it hereunder in favor of any Federal Reserve Bank in accordance with Regulation A of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve SystemSystem (or any successor regulation) and the applicable operating circular of such Federal Reserve Bank. (h) In connection with the initial assignment or proposed initial assignment by the Initial Lender pursuant to this Section 8.07, the Borrower shall, upon the request of the Initial Lender, furnish to the Initial Lender a favorable opinion of counsel for the Borrower acceptable to the Initial Lender, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Initial Lender.

Assignments and Participations. (a) Each Lender Bank may assign to one or more Persons banks or other entities all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, all or a portion of its Commitment, the Advance Advances owing to it and the Note or Notes held by it); provided, however, that (i) each such assignment shall be of a constant, and not a varying, percentage of all rights and obligations under this Agreement, (ii) except in the case of an assignment to a Person that, immediately prior to such assignment, was a Lender or an assignment of all of a LenderBank's rights and obligations under this Agreement, the amount of the Commitment of the assigning Lender Bank being assigned pursuant to each such assignment (determined as of the date of the Assignment and Acceptance with respect to such assignment) shall in no event be less than $5,000,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof5,000,000, (iii) each such assignment shall be to an Eligible Assignee, and (iv) the parties to each such assignment shall execute and deliver to the Agent, for its acceptance and recording in the Register, an Assignment and Acceptance, together with any Note the Notes subject to such assignmentassignment and a processing and recordation fee of $3,000. Upon such execution, delivery, acceptance and recording, from and after the effective date specified in each Assignment and Acceptance, (Ax) the assignee thereunder shall be a party hereto and, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned to it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance, have the rights and obligations of a Lender Bank hereunder and (By) the Lender Bank assignor thereunder shall, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned by it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance, relinquish its rights and be released from its obligations under this Agreement (and, in the case of an Assignment and Acceptance covering all or the remaining portion of an assigning LenderBank's rights and obligations under this Agreement, such Lender Bank shall cease to be a party hereto). (b) By executing and delivering an Assignment and Acceptance, the Lender Bank assignor thereunder and the assignee thereunder confirm to and agree with each other and the other parties hereto as follows: (i) other than as provided in such Assignment and Acceptance, such assigning Lender Bank makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to any statements, warranties or representations made in or in connection with this Agreement any Loan Document or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant hereto or in connection herewith or the execution, legality, validity, enforceability, genuineness, sufficiency or value of this Agreement any Loan Document or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant heretohereto or in connection herewith; (ii) such assigning Lender Bank makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to the financial condition of the Borrower or any other Person or the performance or observance by the Borrower or any other Person of any of its respective obligations under this Agreement any Loan Document or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant heretohereto or in connection herewith; (iii) such assignee confirms that it has received a copy of this Agreement, together with copies of the financial statements referred to in Section 4.01 Financial Statements and such other documents and information as it has deemed appropriate to make its own credit analysis and decision to enter into such Assignment and Acceptance; (iv) such assignee will, independently and without reliance upon the Agent, such assigning Lender Bank or any other Lender Bank and based on such documents and information as it shall deem appropriate at the time, continue to make its own credit decisions in taking or not taking action under this Agreement, any of the other Loan Documents or any other instrument or document; (v) such assignee confirms that it is an Eligible Assignee; (vi) such assignee appoints and authorizes the Agent to take such action as agent Agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers and discretion under this Agreement the Loan Documents as are delegated to the Agent by the terms hereofhereof or thereof, together with such powers and discretion as are reasonably incidental thereto; (vii) such assignee appoints and authorizes the Agent to take such action as the Agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers and discretion under the Loan Documents as are delegated to the Agent by the terms hereof or thereof, together with such powers and discretion as are reasonably incidental thereto and (viiviii) such assignee agrees that it will perform in accordance with their terms all of the obligations that which by the terms of this Agreement are required to be performed by it as a LenderBank. (c) The Agent shall maintain at its address referred to in Section 8.02 a copy of each Assignment and Acceptance delivered to and accepted by it and a register for the recordation of the names and addresses of the Lenders Banks and the Commitment of, and the principal amount of the Revolving Credit Advances owing to, each Lender Bank from time to time (the "Register"). The entries in the Register shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error, and the Borrower, the Agent and the Lenders Banks may treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Register as a Lender Bank hereunder for all purposes of this Agreement. The Register shall be available for inspection by the Borrower or any Lender Bank at any reasonable time and from time to time upon reasonable prior notice. (d) Upon its receipt of an Assignment and Acceptance executed by an assigning Lender Bank and an assignee representing that it is an Eligible Assignee, together with any Note or the Notes subject to such assignment, the Agent shall, if such Assignment and Acceptance has been completed and is in substantially the form of Exhibit C heretoE, (i) accept such Assignment and Acceptance, (ii) record the information contained therein in the Register and (iii) give prompt notice thereof to the Borrower. Within five Business Days after its receipt of such notice, the Borrower, at its own expense, Borrower shall execute and deliver to the Agent in exchange for the surrendered Note Notes a new Note payable to the order of such Eligible Assignee in an amount equal to the Commitment assumed by it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance and, if the assigning Lender Bank has retained a Commitment hereunder, a new Note payable to the order of the assigning Lender Bank in an amount equal to the Commitment retained by it hereunder. Such hereunder (such new Note or Notes shall be in an aggregate principal amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of such surrendered Note or Notes, shall be dated the effective date of such Assignment and Acceptance and shall otherwise be in substantially the form of Exhibit A heretoA). (e) Each Lender Bank may sell participations to one or more banks or other entities (other than the Borrower or any of its Affiliates) in or to all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, all or a portion of its Commitment, the Advances owing to it and the Note or Notes held by it); provided, however, that (i) such LenderBank's obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, its Commitment to the Borrower hereunder) shall remain unchanged, (ii) such Lender Bank shall remain solely responsible to the other parties hereto for the performance of such obligations, (iii) such Lender Bank shall remain the holder of any such Note Notes for all purposes of this Agreement, (iv) the Borrower, the Agent and the other Lenders Banks shall continue to deal solely and directly with such Lender Bank in connection with such LenderBank's rights and obligations under this Agreement Agreement, and (v) no participant under the terms of any such participation shall have any right not restrict such Bank's ability to approve make any amendment or waiver of any provision of this Agreement or any Note, Note or any such Bank's ability to consent to any departure by the Borrower therefromtherefrom without the approval of the participant, except that the approval of the participant may be required to the extent that such amendment, waiver or consent would reduce the principal of, or interest on, the Notes or any fees or other amounts payable hereunder, in each case to the extent subject to such participation, or postpone any date fixed for any payment of principal of, or interest on, the Notes or any fees or other amounts payable hereunder, in each case to the extent subject to such participation. (f) Each Issuing Bank may assign to an Eligible Assignee all of its rights and obligations under the undrawn portion of its Letter of Credit Commitment at any time; provided, however, that (i) each such assignment shall be to an Eligible Assignee and (ii) the parties to each such assignment shall execute and deliver to the Agent, for its acceptance and recording in the Register, an Assignment and Acceptance, together with a processing and recordation fee of $3,500. (g) Any Lender Bank may, in connection with any assignment or participation or proposed assignment or participation pursuant to this Section 8.078.08, disclose to the assignee or participant or proposed assignee or participant, any information relating to the Borrower any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries furnished to such Lender Bank by or on behalf of the BorrowerBorrower or any of its Subsidiaries; provided that, prior to any such disclosure, the assignee or participant or proposed assignee or participant shall agree to preserve the confidentiality of any Confidential Information relating to the Borrower received by it from such Lendercomply with Section 8.15. (gh) Notwithstanding any other provision set forth in this Agreement, any Lender Bank may at any time create a security interest in all or any portion of its rights under this Agreement (including, without limitation, the Revolving Credit Advances owing to it and the Note or Notes held by it) in favor of any Federal Reserve Bank in accordance with Regulation A of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve SystemBoard. (h) In connection with the initial assignment or proposed initial assignment by the Initial Lender pursuant to this Section 8.07, the Borrower shall, upon the request of the Initial Lender, furnish to the Initial Lender a favorable opinion of counsel for the Borrower acceptable to the Initial Lender, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Initial Lender.

Assignments and Participations. (a) Each Lender Subject to the prior written consent of the Agent and the Borrower, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld, each Bank may assign to one or more Persons any financial institution (the "ASSIGNEE") all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, all or a portion of its Commitment, the Advance owing to it Commitments and the Note or Notes held by it); providedPROVIDED, howeverHOWEVER, that (i) each such assignment shall be of a constant, and not a varying, percentage of all rights and obligations under this Agreement, (ii) except in the case of an assignment to a Person that, immediately prior to such assignment, was a Lender or an assignment of all of a Lender's rights and obligations under this Agreement, the amount of the Commitment of the assigning Lender being assigned pursuant to each such assignment (determined as of the date of the Assignment and Acceptance with respect to such assignment) shall in no event be less than $5,000,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof, (iii) each such assignment shall be to an Eligible Assignee, and (iv) the parties to each such assignment shall execute and deliver to the Agent, for its acceptance and recording in the Register, an Assignment and AcceptanceAcceptance Agreement in form and substance satisfactory to the Agent (the "ASSIGNMENT AND ACCEPTANCE"), together with any Note subject to such assignmentassignment and a processing fee of $2,500; and FURTHER PROVIDED HOWEVER, that (i) each such assignment shall be of a constant, and not a varying, percentage of all of the assigning Bank's rights and obligations under this Agreement, and (ii) the amount of the Commitments so assigned shall equal or exceed the lesser of (x) $10,000,000, or (y) the remaining Commitments held by the assigning Bank. Upon such execution, delivery, acceptance acceptance, and recordingrecordation by the Agent of such Assignment and Acceptance, from and after the effective date specified in each Assignment and Acceptance, which effective date shall be the date on which such Assignment and Acceptance is accepted by the Agent, (A) the assignee Assignee thereunder shall be a party hereto and, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned to it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance, have the rights and obligations of a Lender hereunder Bank under the Loan Documents, and (B) the Lender Bank assignor thereunder shall, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned by it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance, relinquish its rights and be released from its obligations under this Agreement the Loan Documents (and, in the case of an Assignment and Acceptance covering all or the remaining portion of an assigning LenderBank's rights and obligations under this Agreementthe Loan Documents, such Lender Bank shall cease to be a party heretothereto). (b) By executing and delivering an Assignment and Acceptance, the Lender Bank assignor thereunder and the assignee thereunder Assignee (by execution and delivery of the Assignment and Acceptance pursuant to this Section 10.07) confirm to and agree with each other and the other parties hereto as follows: (i) other than as provided in such Assignment and Acceptance, such assigning Lender Bank makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to any statements, warranties warranties, or representations made in or in connection with this Agreement any Loan Document or the execution, legality, validity, enforceability, genuineness, sufficiency sufficiency, or value of this Agreement any Loan Document or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant heretothereto; (ii) such assigning Lender Bank makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to the financial condition of the Borrower or the performance or observance by the Borrower of any of its respective obligations under this Agreement any Loan Document or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant heretothereto; (iii) such assignee Assignee confirms that it has received a copy of this Agreementthe Loan Documents, together with copies of the financial statements referred to in Section 4.01 5.07 and such other documents and information as it has deemed appropriate to make its own credit analysis and decision to enter into such Assignment and Acceptance; (iv) such assignee willAssignee, independently and without reliance upon the Agent, such assigning Lender Bank, or any other Lender Bank and based on such documents and information as it shall deem appropriate at the time, will continue to make its own credit decisions in taking or not taking action under this Agreement; (v) such assignee confirms that it is an Eligible Assignee; (vi) such assignee Assignee appoints and authorizes the Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers and discretion under this Agreement any Loan Document as are delegated to the Agent by the terms hereofthereof, together with such powers and discretion as are reasonably incidental thereto; and (viivi) such assignee Assignee agrees that it will perform in accordance with their terms all of the obligations that which by the terms of this Agreement any Loan Document are required to be performed by it as a LenderBank. (c) The Agent shall maintain at its address referred to in Section 8.02 10.02 a copy of each Assignment and Acceptance delivered to and accepted by it and a register for the recordation of the names and addresses of the Lenders Banks and the Commitment of, and principal amount of the Advances Borrowings owing to, each Lender Bank from time to time (the "RegisterREGISTER"). The entries in the Register shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error, and the Borrower, the Agent Agent, and the Lenders Banks may treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Register as a Lender Bank hereunder for all purposes of this Agreementthe Loan Documents. The Register shall be available for inspection by the Borrower or any Lender Bank at any reasonable time and from time to time upon reasonable prior notice. (d) Upon its receipt of an Assignment and Acceptance executed by an assigning Lender and an assignee representing that it is an Eligible AssigneeBank, together with any Note or Notes subject to such assignmentassignment and a processing fee of $2,500, the Agent shallAgent, if such Assignment and Acceptance has been completed and is in substantially the form of Exhibit C hereto, shall (i) accept such Assignment and Acceptance, ; (ii) record the information contained therein in the Register Register; and (iii) give prompt notice thereof to the Borrower. Within five Business Days after Simultaneously upon its receipt of such notice, the Borrower, Borrower at its own expense, shall execute and deliver to the Agent in exchange for the each surrendered Note a new Note payable to the order of such Eligible Assignee in an amount equal to the Commitment assumed by it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance and, if the assigning Lender Bank has retained a Commitment Commitments hereunder, a new Note Notes payable to the order of the assigning Lender Bank in an amount equal to the Commitment Commitments retained by it hereunder. Such The new Note or Notes shall be in an aggregate principal amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of such the surrendered Note or Notes, shall be dated the effective date of such Assignment and Acceptance and shall otherwise be in substantially the form of Exhibit A heretoEXHIBIT F. Upon receipt by the Agent of each such new Note conforming to the requirements set forth in the preceding sentences, the Agent shall return to the Borrower each such surrendered Note marked to show that each such surrendered Note has been replaced, renewed, and extended by such new Note. (e) Each Lender Bank may sell participations to one or more banks or other entities (other than the Borrower or any of its Affiliates) financial institutions in or to all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, all or a portion of its Commitment, the Advances owing to it Commitments and the Note or Notes held by it); provided, howeverPROVIDED, HOWEVER, that (i) an agreement in respect of a participation hereunder may not restrict such LenderBank's obligations under this Agreement (includingvoting rights hereunder, without limitationother than in respect of a change in the principal of and interest on a Note, its Commitment the Collateral securing the Note and the maturity date of each such Note. A participant holding an interest in a Note shall be entitled to the Borrower hereunder) shall remain unchangedbenefits of Sections 2.07, (ii) such Lender shall remain solely responsible to the other parties hereto for the performance of such obligations2.10, (iii) such Lender shall remain the holder of any such Note for all purposes 3.01 and 3.03 of this Agreement; PROVIDED, (iv) the BorrowerFURTHER, the Agent and the other Lenders shall continue to deal solely and directly with such Lender in connection with such Lender's rights and obligations under this Agreement and (v) that no participant shall be entitled to recover under any such participation shall have any right to approve any amendment or waiver of any provision of this Agreement or any Note, or any consent to any departure by the Borrower therefrom, except to the extent that such amendment, waiver or consent would reduce the principal of, or interest on, the Notes or any fees or other amounts payable hereunder, aforedescribed provisions an amount in each case to the extent subject to such participation, or postpone any date fixed for any payment of principal of, or interest on, the Notes or any fees or other amounts payable hereunder, in each case to the extent subject to such participation. (f) Any Lender may, in connection with any assignment or participation or proposed assignment or participation pursuant to this Section 8.07, disclose to the assignee or participant or proposed assignee or participant, any information relating to the Borrower furnished to such Lender by or on behalf excess of the Borrower; provided that, prior to any proportionate share which such disclosure, the assignee or participant or proposed assignee or participant shall agree to preserve the confidentiality of any Confidential Information relating to the Borrower received by it from such Lender. (g) Notwithstanding any other provision set forth in this Agreement, any Lender may at any time create a security interest in all or any portion of its rights under this Agreement (including, without limitation, the Advances owing to it and the Note held by it) in favor of any Federal Reserve Bank in accordance with Regulation A holds of the Board of Governors of original aggregate principal amount hereunder to which the Federal Reserve Systemselling Bank would otherwise have been entitled. (h) In connection with the initial assignment or proposed initial assignment by the Initial Lender pursuant to this Section 8.07, the Borrower shall, upon the request of the Initial Lender, furnish to the Initial Lender a favorable opinion of counsel for the Borrower acceptable to the Initial Lender, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Initial Lender.

Assignments and Participations. (a) Each Lender may assign to one or more Persons Eligible Assignees all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, all or a portion of its Commitment, the Advance Advances owing to it and the Note or Notes held by it); provided, however, that (i) each such assignment shall be of a constant, and not a varying, percentage of all of the assigning Lender's rights and obligations under this Agreement, (ii) except in the case of an assignment to a Person that, immediately prior to such assignment, was a Lender or an assignment of all of a Lender's rights and obligations under this Agreement, the amount of the Commitment of the assigning Lender being assigned pursuant to each such assignment (determined as of the date of the Lender Assignment and Acceptance with respect to such assignment) shall in no event be less than the lesser of the amount of such Lender's then remaining Commitment and $5,000,000 or an integral multiple (except in the case of $1,000,000 in excess thereof, (iii) each such assignment shall be to an Eligible Assigneeassignments between Lenders at the time already parties hereto), and (iviii) the parties to each such assignment shall execute and deliver to the Agent, for its acceptance and recording in the Register, an Assignment and Acceptancea Lender Assignment, together with any Note or Notes subject to such assignmentassignment and a processing and recordation fee of $3,000. Promptly following its receipt of such Lender Assignment, Note or Notes and fee, the Agent shall accept and record such Lender Assignment in the Register. Upon such execution, delivery, acceptance and recording, from and after the effective date specified in each Assignment and AcceptanceLender Assignment, (Ax) the assignee thereunder shall be a party hereto and, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned to it pursuant to such Assignment and AcceptanceLender Assignment, have the rights and obligations of a Lender hereunder and (By) the Lender assignor thereunder shall, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned by it pursuant to such Assignment and AcceptanceLender Assignment, relinquish its rights and be released from its obligations under this Agreement (and, in the case of an a Lender Assignment and Acceptance covering all or the remaining portion of an assigning Lender's rights and obligations under this Agreement, such Lender shall cease to be a party hereto). Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, any Lender may at any time assign all or any portion of the Advances owing to it to any Affiliate of such Lender. No such assignment, other than to an Eligible Assignee, shall release the assigning Lender from its obligations hereunder. (b) By executing and delivering an Assignment and Acceptancea Lender Assignment, the Lender assignor thereunder and the assignee thereunder confirm to and agree with each other and the other parties hereto as follows: (i) other than as provided in such Assignment and AcceptanceLender Assignment, such assigning Lender makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to any statements, warranties or representations made in or in connection with this Agreement any Loan Document or the execution, legality, validity, enforceability, genuineness, sufficiency or value of this Agreement any Loan Document or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant heretothereto; (ii) such assigning Lender makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to the financial condition of the Borrower or the Parent or the performance or observance by the Borrower or the Parent of any of its obligations under this Agreement any Loan Document or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant heretothereto; (iii) such assignee confirms that it has received a copy of this Agreementeach Loan Document, together with copies of the financial statements referred to in Section 4.01 5(d) of the Support Agreement and such other documents and information as it has deemed appropriate to make its own credit analysis and decision to enter into such Assignment and AcceptanceLender Assignment; (iv) such assignee will, independently and without reliance upon the Agent, such assigning Lender or any other Lender and based on such documents and information as it shall deem appropriate at the time, continue to make its own credit decisions in taking or not taking action under this Agreementthe Loan Documents; (v) such assignee confirms that it is an Eligible Assignee; (vi) such assignee appoints and authorizes the Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers and discretion under this Agreement the Loan Documents as are delegated to the Agent by the terms hereofthereof, together with such powers and discretion as are reasonably incidental thereto; and (vii) such assignee agrees that it will perform in accordance with their terms all of the obligations that which by the terms of this Agreement the Loan Documents are required to be performed by it as a Lender. (c) The Agent shall maintain at its address referred to in Section 8.02 a copy of each Lender Assignment and Acceptance delivered to and accepted by it and a register for the recordation of the names and addresses of the Lenders and the Commitment of, and principal amount of the Advances owing to, each Lender from time to time (the "Register"). The entries in the Register shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error, and the Borrower, the Parent, the Agent and the Lenders may treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Register as a Lender hereunder for all purposes of this Agreement. The Register shall be available for inspection by the Borrower or any Lender at any reasonable time and from time to time upon reasonable prior notice. (d) Upon its receipt of an a Lender Assignment and Acceptance executed by an assigning Lender and an assignee representing that it is an Eligible Assignee, together with any Note or Notes subject to such assignment, the Agent shall, if such Lender Assignment and Acceptance has been completed and is in substantially the form of Exhibit C 8.07 hereto, (i) accept such Assignment and AcceptanceLender Assignment, (ii) record the information contained therein in the Register and (iii) give prompt notice thereof to the Borrower. Within five 10 Business Days after its receipt of such notice, the Borrower, at its own expense, shall execute and deliver to the Agent in exchange for the surrendered Note or Notes a new Note to the order of such Eligible Assignee in an amount equal to the Commitment assumed by it pursuant to such Lender Assignment and Acceptance and, if the assigning Lender has retained a Commitment hereunder, a new Note to the order of the assigning Lender in an amount equal to the Commitment retained by it hereunder. Such new Note or Notes shall be in an aggregate principal amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of such surrendered Note or Notes, shall be dated the effective date of such Lender Assignment and Acceptance and shall otherwise be in substantially the form of Exhibit A 1.01A-1 hereto. (e) Each Lender may sell participations to one or more banks banks, financial institutions or other entities (other than the Borrower or any of its Affiliates) in or to all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement the Loan Documents (including, without limitation, all or a portion of its Commitment, the Advances owing to it and the Note or Notes held by it); provided, however, that (i) such Lender's obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, its Commitment to the Borrower hereunder) shall remain unchanged, (ii) such Lender shall remain solely responsible to the other parties hereto for the performance of such obligations, (iii) such Lender shall remain the holder of any such Note for all purposes of this Agreement, and (iv) the Borrower, the Agent and the other Lenders shall continue to deal solely and directly with such Lender in connection with such Lender's rights and obligations under this Agreement and (v) no participant under any such participation shall have any right to approve any amendment or waiver of any provision of this Agreement or any Note, or any consent to any departure by the Borrower therefrom, except to the extent that such amendment, waiver or consent would reduce the principal of, or interest on, the Notes or any fees or other amounts payable hereunder, in each case to the extent subject to such participation, or postpone any date fixed for any payment of principal of, or interest on, the Notes or any fees or other amounts payable hereunder, in each case to the extent subject to such participationAgreement. (f) Any Lender may, in connection with any assignment or participation or proposed assignment or participation pursuant to this Section 8.07, disclose to the assignee or participant or proposed assignee or participant, any information relating to the Borrower or the Parent furnished to such Lender by or on behalf of the BorrowerBorrower or the Parent; provided that, prior to any such disclosure, the assignee or participant or proposed assignee or participant shall agree agree, in accordance with the terms of Section 8.08, to preserve the confidentiality of any Confidential Information relating to the Borrower or the Parent received by it from such Lender. (g) Notwithstanding If any Lender (or any bank, financial institution, or other provision set forth entity to which such Lender has sold a participation) shall (i) make any demand for payment under Section 2.08 or 2.13, (ii) give notice to the Agent pursuant to Section 2.14 or (iii) determine not to extend the Termination Date in response to any request by the Borrower pursuant to Section 2.18, then (A) in the case of any demand made under clause (i), above, or the occurrence of the event described in clause (ii), above, within 30 days after any such demand or occurrence (if, but only if, in the case of any demanded payment described in clause (i), such demanded payment has been made by the Borrower), and (B) in the case of the occurrence of the event described in clause (iii), above, at any time prior to the then-scheduled Termination Date, the Borrower may, with the approval of the Agent (which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld), and provided that no Event of Default or Unmatured Default shall then have occurred and be continuing, demand that such Lender assign in accordance with this Section 8.07 to one or more Eligible Assignees designated by the Borrower all (but not less than all) of such Lender's Commitment and the Advances owing to it within the period ending on the latest to occur of (x) the last day in the period described in clause (A) or (B), above, as applicable, (y) the last day of the longest of the then current Interest Periods for such Advances, and (z) the latest maturity date of any B Advances owing to such Lender. If any such Eligible Assignee designated by the Borrower shall fail to consummate such assignment on terms acceptable to such Lender, or if the Borrower shall fail to designate any such Eligible Assignees for all or part of such Lender's Commitment or Advances, then such demand by the Borrower shall become ineffective; it being understood for purposes of this subsection (g) that such assignment shall be conclusively deemed to be on terms acceptable to such Lender, and such Lender shall be compelled to consummate such assignment to an Eligible Assignee designated by the Borrower, if such Eligible Assignee (1) shall agree to such assignment by entering into a Lender Assignment with such Lender and (2) shall offer compensation to such Lender in an amount equal to all amounts then owing by the Borrower to such Lender hereunder and under the Note made by the Borrower to such Lender, whether for principal, interest, fees, costs or expenses (other than the demanded payment referred to above and payable by the Borrower as a condition to the Borrower's right to demand such assignment), or otherwise. (h) Anything in this AgreementSection 8.07 to the contrary notwithstanding, any Lender may at any time create a security interest in assign and pledge all or any portion of its rights under this Agreement (including, without limitation, Commitment and the Advances owing to it and the Note held by it) in favor of to any Federal Reserve Bank in accordance with (and its transferees) as collateral security pursuant to Regulation A of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve SystemSystem and any Operating Circular issued by such Federal Reserve Bank. No such assignment shall release the assigning Lender from its obligations hereunder. (h) In connection with the initial assignment or proposed initial assignment by the Initial Lender pursuant to this Section 8.07, the Borrower shall, upon the request of the Initial Lender, furnish to the Initial Lender a favorable opinion of counsel for the Borrower acceptable to the Initial Lender, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Initial Lender.

Assignments and Participations. (a) Each Lender may assign to one or more Persons Eligible Assignees all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, all or a portion of its Commitment, the Advance Advances owing to it and the Note or Notes held by it); provided, however, that (i) each such assignment shall be of a constantuniform, and not a varying, percentage of all rights and obligations under this Agreementand in respect of the Facility, (ii) except in the case of an assignment to a Person that, immediately prior to such assignment, was a Lender or an assignment of all of a Lender's rights and obligations under this Agreement, the aggregate amount of the Commitment of the assigning Lender Advances being assigned to such Eligible Assignee pursuant to each such assignment (determined as of the date of the Assignment and Acceptance with respect to such assignment) shall in no event be less than $5,000,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof1,000,000, (iii) each such assignment shall be to an Eligible Assignee, and (iv) the parties to each such assignment shall execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent, for its acceptance and recording in the Register, an Assignment and Acceptance, together with any Note or Notes, if applicable, subject to such assignment. assignment and a processing and recordation fee of $3,500. (a) Upon such execution, delivery, acceptance and recording, from and after the effective date Effective Date specified in each such Assignment and Acceptance, (Ai) the assignee thereunder shall be a party hereto and, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned to it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance, have the rights and obligations of a Lender hereunder and (Bii) the Lender assignor thereunder shall, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned by it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance, relinquish its rights (other than its rights under Sections 2.07 and 8.04 to the extent any claim thereunder relates to an event arising prior to such assignment) and be released from its obligations under this Agreement (and, in the case of an Assignment and Acceptance covering all or of the remaining portion of an assigning Lender's ’s rights and obligations under this Agreement, such Lender shall cease to be a party hereto). (b) By executing and delivering an Assignment and Acceptance, the each Lender assignor thereunder and the each assignee thereunder confirm to and agree with each other and the other parties thereto and hereto as follows: (i) other than as provided in such Assignment and Acceptance, such assigning Lender makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to any statements, warranties or representations made in or in connection with this Agreement any Loan Document or the execution, legality, validity, enforceability, genuineness, sufficiency or value of, or the perfection or priority of this Agreement any lien or security interest created or purported to be created under or in connection with, any Loan Document or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant heretothereto; (ii) such assigning Lender makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to the financial condition of the Borrower or the performance or observance by the Borrower of any of its obligations under this Agreement any Loan Document or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant heretothereto; (iii) such assignee confirms that it has received a copy of this Agreement, together with copies of the financial statements referred to in Section 4.01 and such other documents and information as it has deemed appropriate to make its own credit analysis and decision to enter into such Assignment and Acceptance; (iv) such assignee will, independently and without reliance upon the any Agent, such assigning Lender or any other Lender and based on such documents and information as it shall deem appropriate at the time, continue to make its own credit decisions in taking or not taking action under this Agreement; (v) such assignee confirms that it is an Eligible Assignee; (vi) such assignee appoints and authorizes the each Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers and discretion under this Agreement the Loan Documents as are delegated to the such Agent by the terms hereofhereof and thereof, together with such powers and discretion as are reasonably incidental thereto; and (vii) such assignee agrees that it will perform in accordance with their terms all of the obligations that by the terms of this Agreement are required to be performed by it as a Lender. (c) The Administrative Agent shall maintain at its address referred to in Section 8.02 a copy of each Assignment and Acceptance delivered to and accepted by it and a register for the recordation of the names and addresses of the Lenders and the Commitment of, and principal amount of the Advances owing to, each Lender from time to time (the "“Register"”). The entries in the Register shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error, and the Borrower, the Agent Agents and the Lenders may treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Register as a Lender hereunder for all purposes of this Agreement. The Register shall be available for inspection by the Borrower or any Lender at any reasonable time and from time to time upon reasonable prior notice. (d) Upon its receipt of an Assignment and Acceptance executed by an assigning Lender and an assignee representing that it is an Eligible Assignee, together with any Note or Notes subject to such assignment, the Agent shall, if such Assignment and Acceptance has been completed and is in substantially the form of Exhibit C hereto, (i) accept such Assignment and Acceptance, (ii) record the information contained therein in the Register and (iii) give prompt notice thereof to the Borrower. Within five Business Days after its receipt of such notice, the Borrower, at its own expense, shall execute and deliver to the Agent in exchange for the surrendered Note a new Note to the order of such Eligible Assignee in an amount equal to the Commitment assumed by it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance and, if the assigning Lender has retained a Commitment hereunder, a new Note to the order of the assigning Lender in an amount equal to the Commitment retained by it hereunder. Such new Note or Notes shall be in an aggregate principal amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of such surrendered Note or Notes, shall be dated the effective date of such Assignment and Acceptance and shall otherwise be in substantially the form of Exhibit A hereto. (e) Each Lender may sell participations to one or more banks or other entities (other than the Borrower or any of its Affiliates) in or to all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, all or a portion of its Commitment, the Advances owing to it and the Note or Notes held by it); provided, however, that (i) such Lender's obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, its Commitment to the Borrower hereunder) shall remain unchanged, (ii) such Lender shall remain solely responsible to the other parties hereto for the performance of such obligations, (iii) such Lender shall remain the holder of any such Note for all purposes of this Agreement, (iv) the Borrower, the Agent and the other Lenders shall continue to deal solely and directly with such Lender in connection with such Lender's rights and obligations under this Agreement and (v) no participant under any such participation shall have any right to approve any amendment or waiver of any provision of this Agreement or any Note, or any consent to any departure by the Borrower therefrom, except to the extent that such amendment, waiver or consent would reduce the principal of, or interest on, the Notes or any fees or other amounts payable hereunder, in each case to the extent subject to such participation, or postpone any date fixed for any payment of principal of, or interest on, the Notes or any fees or other amounts payable hereunder, in each case to the extent subject to such participation. (f) Any Lender may, in connection with any assignment or participation or proposed assignment or participation pursuant to this Section 8.07, disclose to the assignee or participant or proposed assignee or participant, any information relating to the Borrower furnished to such Lender by or on behalf of the Borrower; provided that, prior to any such disclosure, the assignee or participant or proposed assignee or participant shall agree to preserve the confidentiality of any Confidential Information relating to the Borrower received by it from such Lender. (g) Notwithstanding any other provision set forth in this Agreement, any Lender may at any time create a security interest in all or any portion of its rights under this Agreement (including, without limitation, the Advances owing to it and the Note held by it) in favor of any Federal Reserve Bank in accordance with Regulation A of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. (h) In connection with the initial assignment or proposed initial assignment by the Initial Lender pursuant to this Section 8.07, the Borrower shall, upon the request of the Initial Lender, furnish to the Initial Lender a favorable opinion of counsel for the Borrower acceptable to the Initial Lender, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Initial Lender.this

Assignments and Participations. (a) Each Lender may assign to one or more Persons Eligible Assignees all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, all or a portion of its Commitment, Commitment and the Advance Advances owing to it and the Note or Notes held by it); provided, however, that (i) each such assignment shall be of a constant, and not a varying, percentage of all of the assigning Lender's rights and obligations under this Agreement, (ii) except in the case of an assignment after giving effect to a Person that, immediately prior to any such assignment, was a (1) the assigning Lender shall no longer have any Commitment or an assignment of all of a Lender's rights and obligations under this Agreement, (2) the amount of the Commitment of both the assigning Lender being assigned pursuant and the Eligible Assignee party to each such assignment (in each case determined as of the date of the Assignment and Acceptance with respect to such assignment) shall in no event not be less than $5,000,000 or an integral multiple and assigned amounts must be in increments of $1,000,000 in excess thereof1,000,000, (iii) each such assignment shall be to an Eligible Assignee, and (iv) the parties to each such assignment shall execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent, for its acceptance and recording in the Register, an Assignment and Acceptance, together with any Note subject and a processing and recordation fee of $3,500 to the Administrative Agent, and (v) the Company and the Administrative Agent shall have consented to such assignment, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld; except that such consent shall not be required for an assignment to another Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender and such consent by the Company shall not be required if an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing. Upon such execution, delivery, acceptance and recording, from and after the effective date specified in each Assignment and Acceptance, (Ax) the assignee thereunder shall be a party hereto and, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned to it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance, have the rights and obligations of a Lender hereunder and (By) the Lender assignor thereunder shall, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned by it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance, relinquish its rights and be released from its obligations under this Agreement (and, in the case of an Assignment and Acceptance covering all or the remaining portion of an assigning Lender's rights and obligations under this Agreement, such Lender shall cease to be a party hereto); provided that with respect to any amounts payable as of the date of such assignment pursuant to Sections 2.09, 2.11 or 9.04, the Borrowers shall have no greater obligation to the assignee than it had to the assignor. Any Lender may at any time pledge or assign all or any portion of its rights hereunder to a Federal Reserve Bank; provided, that no such pledge or assignment shall release such Lender from any of its obligations hereunder. (b) By executing and delivering an Assignment and Acceptance, the Lender assignor thereunder and the assignee thereunder confirm to and agree with each other and the other parties hereto as follows: (i) other than as provided in such Assignment and Acceptance, such assigning Lender makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to any statements, warranties or representations made in or in connection with this Agreement any of the Loan Documents or the execution, legality, validity, enforceability, genuineness, sufficiency or value of this Agreement any of the Loan Documents or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant heretohereto or thereto; (ii) such assigning Lender makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to the financial condition of the Borrower Borrowers or the Guarantor or the performance or observance by the Borrower Borrowers or the Guarantor of any of its their obligations under this Agreement any of the Loan Documents or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant heretohereto or thereto; (iii) such assignee confirms that it has received a copy of this Agreementthe Loan Documents, together with copies of the financial statements referred to in Section 4.01 and such other documents and information as it has deemed appropriate to make its own credit analysis and decision to enter into such Assignment and Acceptance; (iv) such assignee will, independently and without reliance upon the AgentAgents, such assigning Lender or any other Lender and based on such documents and information as it shall deem appropriate at the time, continue to make its own credit decisions in taking or not taking action under this Agreementthe Loan Documents; (v) such assignee confirms that it is an Eligible Assignee; (vi) such assignee appoints and authorizes the each Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers and discretion under this Agreement the Loan Documents as are delegated to the such Agent by the terms hereof, together with such powers and discretion as are reasonably incidental thereto; and (vii) such assignee agrees that it will perform in accordance with their terms all of the obligations that which by the terms of this Agreement the Loan Documents are required to be performed by it as a Lender. (c) Within five (5) days of its receipt of an Assignment and Acceptance executed by an assigning Lender and an assignee representing that it is an Eligible Assignee (together with a processing and recordation fee of $3,500 with respect thereto) and upon evidence of consent of the Company and the Agent thereto, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld, the Agent shall, if such Assignment and Acceptance has been completed and is in substantially the form of Exhibit B hereto, (1) accept such Assignment and Acceptance and (2) record the information contained therein in the Register. All communications with the Company with respect to such consent of the Company shall be sent pursuant to Section 9.02. (d) The Agent shall maintain at its address referred to in Section 8.02 9.02 a copy of each Assignment and Acceptance delivered to and accepted by it and a register for the recordation of the names and addresses of the Lenders and the Commitment of, the Commitment Termination Date of, and with respect to each Borrower, the principal amount of the Advances owing to, each such Lender from time to time (the "Register"). The entries in the Register shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error, and the BorrowerBorrowers, the Agent Agents and the Lenders may treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Register as a Lender hereunder for all purposes of this Agreementthe Loan Documents. The Register shall be available for inspection by the Borrower Borrowers or any Lender at any reasonable time and from time to time upon reasonable prior notice. (d) Upon its receipt of an Assignment and Acceptance executed by an assigning Lender and an assignee representing that it is an Eligible Assignee, together with any Note or Notes subject to such assignment, the Agent shall, if such Assignment and Acceptance has been completed and is in substantially the form of Exhibit C hereto, (i) accept such Assignment and Acceptance, (ii) record the information contained therein in the Register and (iii) give prompt notice thereof to the Borrower. Within five Business Days after its receipt of such notice, the Borrower, at its own expense, shall execute and deliver to the Agent in exchange for the surrendered Note a new Note to the order of such Eligible Assignee in an amount equal to the Commitment assumed by it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance and, if the assigning Lender has retained a Commitment hereunder, a new Note to the order of the assigning Lender in an amount equal to the Commitment retained by it hereunder. Such new Note or Notes shall be in an aggregate principal amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of such surrendered Note or Notes, shall be dated the effective date of such Assignment and Acceptance and shall otherwise be in substantially the form of Exhibit A hereto. (e) Each Lender may sell participations to one or more banks or other entities (other than the Borrower or any of its Affiliates) in or to all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, all or a portion of its Commitment, Commitment and the Advances owing to it and the Note or Notes held by it); provided, however, that (i) such Lender's obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, its Commitment to the Borrower Borrowers hereunder) shall remain unchanged, (ii) such Lender shall remain solely responsible to the other parties hereto for the performance of such obligations, (iii) such Lender shall remain the holder of any such Note Advance for all purposes of this Agreement, (iv) the BorrowerBorrowers, the Agent Agents and the other Lenders shall continue to deal solely and directly with such Lender in connection with such Lender's rights and obligations under this Agreement and the Loan Documents, (v) no Lender shall grant any participation under which the participant under any such participation shall have rights to require such Lender to take or omit to take any right to action hereunder or under the other Loan Documents or approve any amendment to or waiver of any provision of this Agreement or any Note, or any consent to any departure by the Borrower therefromother Loan Documents, except to the extent such amendment or waiver would: (A) extend the Termination Date of such Lender; or (B) reduce the interest rate or the amount of principal or fees applicable to Advances or the Commitment in which such participant is participating or change the date on which interest, principal or fees applicable to Advances or the Commitment in which such participant is participating are payable, (vi) such Lender shall notify the Borrowers of the sale of the participation; except that such amendmentnotice shall not be required for a sale of a participation to an Affiliate of a Lender, waiver or consent would reduce and (vii) the principal of, or interest on, the Notes or Person purchasing such participation shall not have any fees or other amounts payable hereunder, in each case rights under this Agreement and shall agree to customary provisions relating to the extent subject to confidentiality of non-public information received by such participation, or postpone any date fixed for any payment Person in connection with its purchase of principal of, or interest on, the Notes or any fees or other amounts payable hereunder, in each case to the extent subject to such participation. (f) Any Lender may, in connection with any assignment or participation or proposed assignment or participation pursuant to this Section 8.079.07, disclose to the assignee or participant or proposed assignee or participant, any information relating to the Borrower Borrowers or the Guarantor furnished to such Lender by or on behalf of the BorrowerBorrowers or the Guarantor; provided that, prior to any such disclosure, the assignee or participant Participant or proposed assignee or participant shall agree to preserve the confidentiality of any Confidential Information confidential information relating to the Borrower Borrowers or the Guarantor received by it from such Lender. (g) Notwithstanding any other provision set forth in this Agreement, any Lender may at any time create a security interest in all or any portion of its rights under this Agreement (including, without limitation, the Advances owing to it and the Note held by it) in favor of any Federal Reserve Bank in accordance with Regulation A of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. (h) In connection with the initial assignment or proposed initial assignment by the Initial Lender pursuant to this Section 8.07, the Borrower shall, upon the request of the Initial Lender, furnish to the Initial Lender a favorable opinion of counsel for the Borrower acceptable to the Initial Lender, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Initial Lender.

Assignments and Participations. (a) Each Lender may may, with the written consent (unless such assignment is to a Lender or a wholly-owned Affiliate of such Lender, in which case only the consent, not to be unreasonably delayed, of the Swingline Bank and each LC Issuing Bank and notice to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent, shall be required) of the Administrative Agent, the Swingline Bank, the Borrower (unless a Default shall have occurred and be continuing) and each LC Issuing Bank (which consents shall not be unreasonably delayed and, in the case of the Borrower, the Borrower shall be deemed to have consented to any such assignment unless it shall object thereto by written notice to the Administrative Agent within ten Business Days after having received notice of such proposed assignment), assign to one or more Persons all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, all or a portion of its Commitment, Commitment and the Advance Advances owing to it and the Note or Notes held by it); provided, however, that (i) each such assignment shall be of a constant, and not a varying, percentage of all rights and obligations under this Agreement, (ii) except in the case of an assignment to a Person that, immediately prior to such assignment, was a Lender or an assignment of all of a Lender's ’s rights and obligations under this Agreement, the amount of the Commitment of the assigning Lender being assigned pursuant to each such assignment (determined as of the date of the Assignment and Acceptance Assumption with respect to such assignment) shall in no event be less than $5,000,000 10,000,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof, (iii) each such assignment shall be to an Eligible Assignee, and (iv) the parties to each such assignment shall execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent, for its acceptance and recording in the Register, an Assignment and AcceptanceAssumption, together with any Note subject a processing and recordation fee of $3,500 (to such assignmentbe paid by the assigning Lender or, in the case of an assignment pursuant to Section 8.07(i), the Borrower). Upon such execution, delivery, acceptance and recording, from and after the effective date specified in each Assignment and AcceptanceAssumption, (Ax) the assignee thereunder shall be a party hereto and, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned to it pursuant to such Assignment and AcceptanceAssumption, have the rights and obligations of a Lender hereunder and (By) the Lender assignor thereunder shall, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned by it pursuant to such Assignment and AcceptanceAssumption, relinquish its rights and be released from its obligations under this Agreement (and, in the case of an Assignment and Acceptance Assumption covering all or the remaining portion of an assigning Lender's ’s rights and obligations under this Agreement, such Lender shall cease to be a party hereto). (b) By executing and delivering an Assignment and AcceptanceAssumption, the Lender assignor thereunder and the assignee thereunder confirm to and agree with each other and the other parties hereto as follows: (i) other than as provided in such Assignment and AcceptanceAssumption, such assigning Lender makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to any statements, warranties or representations made in or in connection with this Agreement or the execution, legality, validity, enforceability, genuineness, sufficiency or value of this Agreement or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant hereto; (ii) such assigning Lender makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to the financial condition of the Borrower or the performance or observance by the Borrower of any of its obligations under this Agreement or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant hereto; (iii) such assignee confirms it has full power and authority, and has taken all action necessary, to execute and deliver such Assignment and Assumption and to consummate the transactions contemplated thereby and to become a Lender under this Agreement, (ii) such assignee confirms that it is an “Eligible Assignee”, (iii) such assignee confirms that it is sophisticated with respect to decisions to acquire assets of the type represented by the rights and obligations assigned to it under such Assignment and Assumption and either it, or the person exercising discretion in making its decision to acquire such rights and obligations, is experienced in acquiring assets of such type, (iv) it has received a copy of this Agreement, together with and has received or has been accorded the opportunity to receive copies of the most recent financial statements referred delivered pursuant to in Section 4.01 5.01(i)(i) and (ii), as applicable, and such other documents and information as it has deemed deems appropriate to make its own credit analysis and decision to enter into such Assignment and Acceptance; Assumption and to purchase the rights and obligations assigned thereunder, and (ivv) such assignee willit has, independently and without reliance upon the Administrative Agent, such assigning Lender or any other Lender and based on such documents and information as it has deemed appropriate, made its own credit analysis and decision to enter into the Assignment and Assumption and to purchase the rights and obligations assigned thereunder; (vi) such assignee agrees that it will, independently and without reliance on the Administrative Agent, such assigning Lender or any other Lender, and based on such documents and information as it shall deem appropriate at the time, continue to make its own credit decisions in taking or not taking action under this Agreement; , (vvii) such assignee confirms agrees that it is an Eligible Assignee; will perform in accordance with their terms all of the obligations which by the terms of this Agreement are required to be performed by it as a Lender and (viviii) such assignee appoints and authorizes the Administrative Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers and discretion under this Agreement as are delegated to the Administrative Agent by the terms hereof, together with such powers and discretion as are reasonably incidental thereto; and (vii) such assignee agrees that it will perform in accordance with their terms all of the obligations that by the terms of this Agreement are required to be performed by it as a Lender. (c) Upon its receipt of an Assignment and Assumption executed by an assigning Lender and an assignee representing that it is an Eligible Assignee, the Administrative Agent shall, if such Assignment and Assumption has been completed and is in substantially the form of Exhibit C hereto, accept such Assignment and Assumption, record the information contained therein in the Register and forward a copy thereof to the Borrower. (d) The Administrative Agent shall maintain at its address referred to in Section 8.02 a copy of each Assignment and Acceptance Assumption delivered to and accepted by it and a register for the recordation of the names and addresses of the Lenders and and, the Commitment of, and principal amount of the Advances owing to, each Lender from time to time (the "“Register"”). The entries in the Register shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error, and the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and the Lenders may treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Register as a Lender hereunder for all purposes of this Agreement. The Register shall be available for inspection by the Borrower Borrower, the Administrative Agent or any Lender at any reasonable time and from time to time upon reasonable prior notice. (de) Upon its receipt of an Assignment and Acceptance executed by an assigning Lender and an assignee representing that it is an Eligible Assignee, together with any Note or Notes subject to such assignment, the Agent shall, if such Assignment and Acceptance has been completed and is in substantially the form of Exhibit C hereto, (i) accept such Assignment and Acceptance, (ii) record the information contained therein in the Register and (iii) give prompt written notice thereof to the Borrower. Within five Business Days after its receipt of such noticeBorrower and the Administrative Agent, the Borrower, at its own expense, shall execute and deliver to the Agent in exchange for the surrendered Note a new Note to the order of such Eligible Assignee in an amount equal to the Commitment assumed by it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance and, if the assigning Lender has retained a Commitment hereunder, a new Note to the order of the assigning Lender in an amount equal to the Commitment retained by it hereunder. Such new Note or Notes shall be in an aggregate principal amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of such surrendered Note or Notes, shall be dated the effective date of such Assignment and Acceptance and shall otherwise be in substantially the form of Exhibit A hereto. (e) Each each Lender may sell participations to one or more banks or other entities (other than the Borrower or any of its Affiliates) in or to all or a portion of its rights and and/or obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, all or a portion of its CommitmentCommitment and the Advances) without the consent of the Borrower, the Advances owing to it and Administrative Agent, the Note Swingline Bank, any LC Issuing Bank or Notes held by it)any Lender; provided, however, that (i) such Lender's ’s obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, its Commitment to the Borrower hereunder) shall remain unchanged, (ii) such Lender shall remain solely responsible to the other parties hereto for the performance of such obligations, (iii) such Lender shall remain the holder of any such Note for all purposes of this Agreement, (iv) the Borrower, the Agent Administrative Agent, the Swingline Bank, the LC Issuing Banks and the other Lenders shall continue to deal solely and directly with such Lender in connection with such Lender's ’s rights and obligations under this Agreement and (viv) no participant Lender shall be entitled to receive any greater amount pursuant to Section 2.15 or 2.18 than such Lender would have been entitled to receive had such Lender not sold such participation. No Lender may grant to any holder of a participation in the rights and obligations of such Lender hereunder the right to require such Lender to take or omit to take any action under this Agreement, except that such Lender may grant to any such participation shall have any holder the right to approve any amendment or waiver of any provision of this Agreement or any Note, or any require such holder’s consent to any departure by the Borrower therefrom, except to the extent that such amendment, waiver or consent would (i) reduce the principal of, of or interest on, on the Notes outstanding Borrowings or any the fees or other amounts payable to such Lender hereunder, in each case to the extent subject to such participation, or (ii) postpone any date fixed for any payment of principal of, of or interest onon the outstanding Borrowings or the fees payable to such Lender hereunder or (iii) permit the Borrower to assign any of its obligations under this Agreement to any other Person. Each holder of a participation in any rights and obligations under this Agreement, the Notes or any fees or other amounts payable hereunder, in each case if and to the extent the applicable participation agreement so provides, shall, with respect to such participation, be entitled to all of the rights of a Lender as fully as though it were a Lender under Sections 2.11(c), 2.15, 2.18 8.01, 8.04(b) and 8.04(c) (subject to any conditions imposed on each Lender hereunder with respect thereto, including delivery of the forms and certificates required under Section 2.18(e)); provided, however, that no holder of a participation shall be entitled to any amounts that would otherwise be payable to it with respect to its participation under Section 2.15(a) or 2.18 unless (x) such amounts are payable in respect of a Regulatory Change enacted after the date the applicable participation agreement was executed or (y) such amounts would have been payable to the Lender that granted such participation if such participation had not been granted. Each Lender selling or granting a participation shall indemnify the Borrower and the Administrative Agent for any liabilities for Taxes that the Borrower or the Administrative Agent, as the case may be, might incur as a result of such Lender’s failure to withhold and pay any Taxes applicable to payments by such Lender to its participant in respect of such participation. (f) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, any Lender (a “Granting Lender”) may grant to a special purpose funding vehicle (an “SPV”) of such Granting Lender identified as such in writing from time to time by the Granting Lender to the Administrative Agent and the Borrower, the option to provide to the Borrower all or any part of any Advance that such Granting Lender would otherwise be obligated to make to the Borrower pursuant to this Agreement; provided that (i) nothing herein shall constitute a commitment by any such SPV to make any Advance, (ii) if such SPV elects not to exercise such option or otherwise fails to provide all or any part of such Advance, the Granting Lender shall be obligated to make such Advance pursuant to the terms hereof and (iii) no SPV or Granting Lender shall be entitled to receive any greater amount pursuant to Section 2.11(c), 2.15 or 2.18 than the Granting Lender would have been entitled to receive had the Granting Lender not otherwise granted such SPV the option to provide any Advance to the Borrower. The making of an Advance by an SPV hereunder shall utilize the Commitment of the Granting Lender to the same extent, and as if, such Advance were made by such Granting Lender. Each party hereto hereby agrees that no SPV shall be liable for any indemnity or similar payment obligation under this Agreement for which a Lender would otherwise be liable so long as, and to the extent that, the related Granting Lender provides such indemnity or makes such payment. In furtherance of the foregoing, each party hereto hereby agrees (which agreement shall survive the termination of this Agreement) that, prior to the date that is one year and one day after the payment in full of all outstanding commercial paper or other senior indebtedness of any SPV, it will not institute against or join any other Person in instituting against such SPV any bankruptcy, reorganization, reorganization, arrangement, insolvency or liquidation proceedings under the laws of the United States or any State thereof. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Granting Lender unconditionally agrees to indemnify the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and each Lender against all liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments, suits, costs, expenses or disbursements of any kind or nature whatsoever which may be incurred by or asserted against the Borrower, the Administrative Agent or such Lender, as the case may be, in any way relating to or arising as a consequence of any such forbearance or delay in the initiation of any such proceeding against its SPV. Each party hereto hereby acknowledges and agrees that no SPV shall have the rights of a Lender hereunder, such rights being retained by the applicable Granting Lender. Accordingly, and without limiting the foregoing, each party hereby further acknowledges and agrees that no SPV shall have any voting rights hereunder and that the voting rights attributable to any Advance made by an SPV shall be exercised only by the relevant Granting Lender and that each Granting Lender shall serve as the administrative agent and attorney-in-fact for its SPV and shall on behalf of its SPV receive any and all payments made for the benefit of such SPV and take all actions hereunder to the extent, if any, such SPV shall have any rights hereunder. In addition, notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement any SPV may (i) with notice to, but without the prior written consent of any other party hereto, assign all or a portion of its interest in any Advances to the Granting Lender and (ii) in accordance with Section 8.08, disclose on a confidential basis any Confidential Information relating to its Advances to any rating agency, commercial paper dealer or provider of any surety, guarantee or credit or liquidity enhancement to such SPV. This Section may not be amended without the prior written consent of each Granting Lender, all or any part of whose Advance is being funded by an SPV at the time of such amendment. (g) Any Lender may, in connection with any assignment or assignment, designation, participation or grant to an SPV or proposed assignment assignment, designation, participation or participation grant to an SPV pursuant to this Section 8.07, disclose to the assignee assignee, designee or participant or proposed assignee assignee, designee or participant, any information relating to the Borrower furnished to such Lender by or on behalf of the Borrower; provided that, prior to any such disclosure, the assignee assignee, designee or participant or proposed assignee assignee, designee or participant shall agree to preserve the confidentiality of any Confidential Information relating to the Borrower received by it from such Lender. (gh) Notwithstanding any other provision set forth in this Agreement, any Lender may at any time time, without the consent of the Borrower, any LC Issuing Bank, the Swingline Bank or the Administrative Agent, create a security interest in all or any portion of its rights under this Agreement (including, without limitation, the Advances owing to it and the Note held by it) in favor of any Federal Reserve Bank in accordance with Regulation A of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. (hi) In connection with the initial assignment event that any Lender, or proposed initial assignment by the Initial any participant of such Lender pursuant to Section 8.07(e), shall have delivered a notice or certificate pursuant to Section 2.16, or the Borrower shall be required to make additional payments to any Lender under Section 2.11(c), 2.15 or 2.18, or any Lender shall be a Declining Lender or a Defaulting Lender, the Borrower shall have the right, at its own expense, upon notice to such Lender, to require such Lender to transfer and assign without recourse (in accordance with and subject to the restrictions contained in this Section 8.07) all such Lender’s interests, the Borrower shall, upon the request of the Initial Lender, furnish rights and obligations under this Agreement to the Initial Lender a favorable opinion of counsel for the Borrower acceptable to the Initial Lender, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Initial Lender.another Eligible Assignee identified by the

Assignments and Participations. (a) This Agreement and the other Loan Documents shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the Borrower and each Agent and each Lender and their respective successors and assigns; provided, however, that Borrower may not assign or transfer any of its rights hereunder or under the other Loan Documents without the prior written consent of each Lender and any such assignment without the Lenders’ prior written consent shall be null and void. (b) Each Lender may with the written consent of the Collateral Agent, assign to one or more Persons other lenders or other entities all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, with respect to all or a portion of its Commitment, the Advance owing to Term Loan Commitment and any Term Loan made by it and the Note or Notes held by it)and; provided, however, that (i) each such assignment shall be is in an amount which is at least $1,000,000 (or the remainder of a constant, and not a varying, percentage of all rights and obligations under this Agreementsuch Lender’s Commitment), (ii) except in the case of an assignment to a Person that, immediately prior to such assignment, was a Lender or an assignment of all of a Lender's rights and obligations under this Agreement, the amount of the Commitment of the assigning Lender being assigned pursuant to each such assignment (determined as of the date of the Assignment and Acceptance with respect to such assignment) shall in no event be less than $5,000,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof, (iii) each such assignment shall be to an Eligible Assignee, and (iv) that the parties to each such assignment shall execute and deliver to the Agent, for its acceptance and recording in the Register, Collateral Agent an Assignment and Acceptance, together with any Note promissory note subject to such assignment. Upon such execution, delivery, acceptance delivery and recordingacceptance, from and after the effective date specified in each Assignment and AcceptanceAcceptance and recordation on the Register, (A) the assignee thereunder shall be become a party hereto “Lender” hereunder and, in addition to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder held by it immediately prior to such effective date, have the rights and obligations hereunder that have been assigned to it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance, have the rights and obligations of a Lender hereunder Acceptance and (B) the assigning Lender assignor thereunder shall, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned by it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance, relinquish its rights and be released from its obligations under this Agreement (and, in the case of an Assignment and Acceptance covering all or the remaining portion of an assigning Lender's ’s rights and obligations under this Agreement, such Lender shall cease to be a party hereto). (bc) By executing and delivering an Assignment and Acceptance, the assigning Lender assignor thereunder and the assignee thereunder confirm to and agree with each other and the other parties hereto as follows: (i) other than as provided in such Assignment and Acceptance, such the assigning Lender makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to any statements, warranties or representations made in or in connection with this Agreement or any other Loan Document or the execution, legality, validity, enforceability, genuineness, sufficiency or value of this Agreement or any other instrument or document Loan Document furnished pursuant hereto; (ii) such the assigning Lender makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to the financial condition of the Borrower or the performance or observance by the Borrower of any of its obligations under this Agreement or any other instrument or document Loan Document furnished pursuant hereto; (iii) such assignee confirms that it has received a copy of this AgreementAgreement and the other Loan Documents, together with copies of the financial statements referred to in Section 4.01 and such other documents and information as it has deemed appropriate to make its own credit analysis and decision to enter into such Assignment and Acceptance; (iv) such assignee will, independently and without reliance upon the Agentassigning Lender, such assigning Lender any Agent or any other Lender and based on such documents and information as it shall deem appropriate at the time, continue to make its own credit decisions in taking or not taking action under this AgreementAgreement and the other Loan Documents; (v) such assignee confirms that it is an Eligible Assignee; (vi) such assignee appoints and authorizes the Agent Agents to take such action as agent agents on its behalf and to exercise such powers and discretion under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents as are delegated to the Agent Agents by the terms hereofhereof and thereof, together with such powers and discretion as are reasonably incidental hereto and thereto; and (viivi) such assignee agrees that it will perform in accordance with their terms all of the obligations that which by the terms of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents are required to be performed by it as a Lender. (cd) The Administrative Agent shall maintain shall, acting solely for this purpose as a non-fiduciary agent of the Borrower, maintain, or cause to be maintained at its address referred to in Section 8.02 the Payment Office, a copy of each Assignment and Acceptance delivered to and accepted by it and a register (the “Register”) for the recordation of the names and addresses of the Lenders and the Commitment Commitments of, and the principal amount of the Advances owing to, each Lender from time to time Loans (and stated interest thereon) (the "Register"“Registered Loans”). The entries in the Register shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error, and the Borrower, the Agent Agents and the Lenders may treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Register as a Lender hereunder for all purposes of this Agreement. The Register shall be available for inspection by the Borrower or and any Lender at any reasonable time and from time to time upon reasonable prior notice. (de) Upon its receipt by the Administrative Agent of an Assignment and Acceptance executed by an assigning Lender and an assignee representing that it is an Eligible Assignee, together with any Note or Notes subject to such assignment, the Agent shall, if such Assignment and Acceptance has been a completed and is in substantially the form of Exhibit C hereto, (i) accept such Assignment and Acceptance, (ii) the Administrative Agent shall accept such assignment and record the information contained therein in the Register. (f) A Registered Loan (and the registered note, if any, evidencing the same) may be assigned or sold in whole or in part only by registration of such assignment or sale on the Register (and each registered note shall expressly so provide). Any assignment or sale of all or part of such Registered Loan (iiiand the registered note, if any, evidencing the same) give prompt notice thereof may be effected only by registration of such assignment or sale on the Register, together with the surrender of the registered note, if any, evidencing the same duly endorsed by (or accompanied by a written instrument of assignment or sale duly executed by) the holder of such registered note, whereupon, at the request of the designated assignee(s) or transferee(s), one or more new registered notes in the same aggregate principal amount shall be issued to the Borrowerdesignated assignee(s) or transferee(s). Within five Business Days after its receipt Prior to the registration of assignment or sale of any Registered Loan (and the registered note, if any, evidencing the same), the Agents shall treat the Person in whose name such noticeRegistered Loan (and the registered note, if any, evidencing the same) is registered on the Register as the owner thereof for the purpose of receiving all payments thereon, notwithstanding notice to the contrary. (g) In the event that any Lender sells participations in a Registered Loan, such Lender shall, acting for this purpose as a non-fiduciary agent on behalf of the Borrower, at its own expensemaintain, shall execute or cause to be maintained, a register on which it enters the name of all participants in the Registered Loans held by it and deliver to the Agent principal amount (and stated interest thereon) of the portion of the Registered Loan that is the subject of the participation (the “Participant Register”). A Registered Loan (and the registered note, if any, evidencing the same) may be participated in exchange for the surrendered Note a new Note to the order whole or in part only by registration of such Eligible Assignee in an amount equal to participation on the Commitment assumed by it pursuant to Participant Register (and each registered note shall expressly so provide). Any participation of such Assignment Registered Loan (and Acceptance andthe registered note, if any, evidencing the assigning Lender has retained a Commitment hereunder, a new Note to same) may be effected only by the order registration of such participation on the assigning Lender in an amount equal to the Commitment retained by it hereunderParticipant Register. Such new Note or Notes The Participant Register shall be in an aggregate principal amount equal available for inspection by the Borrower and any Lender at any reasonable time and from time to the aggregate principal amount of such surrendered Note or Notes, shall be dated the effective date of such Assignment and Acceptance and shall otherwise be in substantially the form of Exhibit A heretotime upon reasonable prior notice. (eh) Any Non-U. S. Lender who purchases or is assigned or participates in any portion of such Registered Loan shall comply with Section 2.08(d). (i) Each Lender may sell participations to one or more banks or other entities (other than the Borrower or any of its Affiliates) in or to all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents (including, without limitation, all or a portion of its CommitmentCommitments, the Advances owing to it and the Note or Notes held Loans made by it); provided, however, that (i) such Lender's ’s obligations under this Agreement (including, including without limitation, its Commitment to the Borrower Commitments hereunder) and the other Loan Documents shall remain unchanged, ; (ii) such Lender shall remain solely responsible to the other parties hereto for the performance of such obligations, (iii) such Lender shall remain the holder of any such Note for all purposes of this Agreement, (iv) and the Borrower, the Agent Agents and the other Lenders shall continue to deal solely and directly with such Lender in connection with such Lender's ’s rights and obligations under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents; and (viii) no a participant shall not be entitled to require such Lender to take or omit to take any action hereunder except (A) action directly effecting an extension of the maturity dates or decrease in the principal amount of the Loans, (B) action directly effecting an extension of the due dates or a decrease in the rate of interest payable on the Loans or the fees payable under any such participation shall have any right to approve any amendment this Agreement, or waiver (C) actions directly effecting a release of any provision all or a substantial portion of the Collateral or the Borrower (except as set forth in Section 10.08 of this Agreement or any Note, or any consent to any departure by the other Loan Document). The Borrower therefrom, except agrees that each participant shall be entitled to the extent that such amendment, waiver or consent would reduce the principal of, or interest on, the Notes or any fees or other amounts payable hereunder, benefits of Section 2.08 and Section 4.04 of this Agreement with respect to its participation in each case to the extent subject to such participation, or postpone any date fixed for any payment of principal of, or interest on, the Notes or any fees or other amounts payable hereunder, in each case to the extent subject to such participation. (f) Any Lender may, in connection with any assignment or participation or proposed assignment or participation pursuant to this Section 8.07, disclose to the assignee or participant or proposed assignee or participant, any information relating to the Borrower furnished to such Lender by or on behalf of the Borrower; provided that, prior to any such disclosure, the assignee or participant or proposed assignee or participant shall agree to preserve the confidentiality of any Confidential Information relating to the Borrower received by it from such Lender. (g) Notwithstanding any other provision set forth in this Agreement, any Lender may at any time create a security interest in all or any portion of its rights under this Agreement (including, without limitation, the Advances owing to it Commitments and the Note held by it) in favor of any Federal Reserve Bank in accordance with Regulation A of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. (h) In connection with the initial assignment or proposed initial assignment by the Initial Lender pursuant to this Section 8.07, the Borrower shall, upon the request of the Initial Lender, furnish to the Initial Lender Loans as if it was a favorable opinion of counsel for the Borrower acceptable to the Initial Lender, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Initial Lender.

Assignments and Participations. (a) Each Lender may assign to one or more Persons Eligible Assignees all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, all or a portion of its Commitment, the Advance Advances owing to it and the Note or Notes held by it); provided, however, that (i) each such assignment shall be of a constant, and not a varying, percentage of all rights and obligations under this Agreement, (ii) except in the case of an assignment to a Person that, immediately prior to such assignment, was a Lender Lender, or an assignment of all of a Lender's ’s rights and obligations under this Agreement, the aggregate amount of the Commitment of the assigning Lender Commitments being assigned to such Eligible Assignee pursuant to each such assignment (determined as of the date of the Assignment and Acceptance with respect to such assignment) shall in no event be less than $5,000,000 3,000,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000,000 100,000 in excess thereof, (iiiii) each such assignment shall be to an Eligible Assignee, and (iii) no such assignments shall be permitted without the consent of the Administrative Agent until the Administrative Agent shall have notified the Lenders that syndication of the Commitments hereunder has been completed, (iv) each assignee must register with the Secretaria de Hacienda y Crédito Público, (v) the parties to each such assignment shall execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent, for its acceptance and recording in the Register, an Assignment and Acceptance, together with any Note or Notes subject to such assignment. assignment and a processing and recordation fee of $2,500 and (vi) each such assignment shall be of a constant, and not a varying, percentage of all rights and obligations under this Agreement. (b) Upon such execution, delivery, acceptance and recordingrecording and, if applicable, after registration with the Secretaria de Hacienda y Crédito Público, from and after the effective date specified in each such Assignment and Acceptance, (Ai) the assignee thereunder shall be a party hereto to this Agreement and, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned to it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance, have the rights and obligations of a Lender hereunder under this Agreement and (Bii) the Lender assignor thereunder shall, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder under this Agreement have been assigned by it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance, relinquish its rights (other than its rights under Sections 2.08, 2.10 and 11.04 to the extent any claim thereunder relates to an event arising prior to such assignment) and be released from its obligations under this Agreement (and, in the case of an Assignment and Acceptance covering all or of the remaining portion of an assigning Lender's ’s rights and obligations under this Agreement, such Lender shall cease to be a party heretoof this Agreement). (bc) By executing and delivering an Assignment and Acceptance, the each Lender assignor thereunder and the each assignee thereunder confirm to and agree with each other and the other parties hereto thereto and to this Agreement as follows: (i) other than as provided in such Assignment and Acceptance, such assigning Lender makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to any statements, warranties or representations made in or in connection with this Agreement or the execution, legality, validity, enforceability, genuineness, sufficiency or value of, or the perfection or priority of this Agreement any lien or security interest created or purported to be created under or in connection with, any Collateral Document or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant heretothereto; (ii) such assigning Lender makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to the financial condition of the Borrower Borrowers or the performance or observance by the Borrower Borrowers of any of its obligations under this Agreement any Loan Document to which it is a party or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant heretothereto; (iii) such assignee confirms that it has received a copy of this Agreement, together with copies of the financial statements referred to in Section 4.01 and such other documents and information as it has deemed appropriate to make its own credit analysis and decision to enter into such Assignment and Acceptance; (iv) such assignee will, independently and without reliance upon the any Agent, such assigning Lender or any other Lender and based on such documents and information as it shall deem appropriate at the time, continue to make its own credit decisions in taking or not taking action under this Agreement; (v) such assignee confirms that it is an Eligible Assignee; (vi) such assignee appoints and authorizes the each Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers and discretion under this Agreement as are delegated to the such Agent by the terms hereofhereof and thereof, together with such powers and discretion as are reasonably incidental thereto; and (vii) such assignee agrees that it will perform in accordance with their terms all of the obligations that by the terms of this Agreement are required to be performed by it as a Lender, as the case may be. (cd) The Agent Administrative Agent, acting for this purpose (but only for this purpose) as the agent of the Borrowers, shall maintain at its address referred to in Section 8.02 11.02 a copy of each Assignment and Acceptance delivered to and accepted by it and a register for the recordation of the names and addresses of the Lenders and the Commitment of, and principal amount of the Advances owing to, each Lender from time to time (the "“Register"”). The entries in the Register shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error, and the Borrower, the Agent Agents and the Lenders may shall treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Register as a Lender hereunder for all purposes of this Agreement. The Register shall be available for inspection by the Borrower Borrowers or any Agent or any Lender at any reasonable time and from time to time upon reasonable prior notice. (de) Upon its receipt of an Assignment and Acceptance executed by an assigning Lender and an assignee representing that it is an Eligible Assigneeassignee, together with any Note or Notes subject to such assignment, the Administrative Agent shall, if such Assignment and Acceptance has been completed and is in substantially the form of Exhibit C heretoof this Agreement, (i) accept such Assignment and Acceptance, (ii) record the information contained therein in the Register and (iii) give prompt notice thereof to the BorrowerBorrowers and each other Agent. Within In the case of any assignment by a Lender, within five Business Days after its receipt of such notice, the BorrowerBorrowers, at its own expense, shall execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent in exchange for the surrendered Note or Notes a new Note to the order of such Eligible Assignee in an amount equal to the Commitment assumed by it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance and, if the any assigning Lender has retained a Commitment hereunderunder this Agreement, a new Note to the order of the such assigning Lender in an amount equal to the Commitment retained by it hereunderunder this Agreement. Such new Note or Notes shall be in an aggregate principal amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of such surrendered Note or Notes, shall be dated the effective date of such Assignment and Acceptance and shall otherwise be in substantially the form of Exhibit A heretoof this Agreement, as the case may be. (ef) Each Lender may sell participations to one or more banks or other entities Persons (other than the Borrower Borrowers or any of its their Affiliates) in or to all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, all or a portion of its CommitmentCommitments, the Advances owing to it and the Note or Notes (if any) held by it); provided, however, that (i) such Lender's ’s obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, its Commitment to the Borrower hereunderCommitments) shall remain unchanged, (ii) such Lender shall remain solely responsible to the other parties hereto to this Agreement for the performance of such obligations, (iii) such Lender shall remain the holder of any such Note for all purposes of this Agreement, (iv) the BorrowerBorrowers, the Agent Agents and the other Lenders shall continue to deal solely and directly with such Lender in connection with such Lender's ’s rights and obligations under this Agreement and (v) no participant under any such participation shall have any right to approve any amendment or waiver of any provision of this Agreement or any NoteAgreement, or any consent to any departure by the Borrower Borrowers therefrom, except to the extent that such amendment, waiver or consent would reduce the principal of, or interest on, the Notes or any fees or other amounts payable hereunderunder this Agreement, in each case to the extent subject to such participation, or postpone any date fixed for any payment of principal of, or interest on, the Notes or any fees or other amounts payable hereunderunder this Agreement, in each case to the extent subject to such participation, or release all or substantially all of the Pledged Collateral. (fg) Any Lender may, in connection with any assignment or participation or proposed assignment or participation pursuant to this Section 8.0711.07, disclose to the assignee or participant or proposed assignee or participant, participant any information relating to the Borrower Borrowers furnished to such Lender by or on behalf of the BorrowerBorrowers; provided provided, however, that, prior to any such disclosure, the assignee or participant or proposed assignee or participant shall agree to preserve the confidentiality of any Confidential Information relating to the Borrower received by it from such Lender. (gh) Notwithstanding any other provision set forth in this Agreement, any Lender may at any time create a security interest in all or any portion of its rights under this Agreement (including, without limitation, the Advances owing to it and the Note or Notes held by it) in favor of any Federal Reserve Bank in accordance with Regulation A of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. (h) In connection with the initial assignment or proposed initial assignment by the Initial Lender pursuant to this Section 8.07, the Borrower shall, upon the request of the Initial Lender, furnish to the Initial Lender a favorable opinion of counsel for the Borrower acceptable to the Initial Lender, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Initial Lender.

Assignments and Participations. (a) Each Lender may assign to one or more Persons Eligible Assignees all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, all or a portion of its Commitment, the Advance Advances owing to it and the Note or Notes held by it); provided, however, that (i) each such assignment shall be of a constant, and not a varying, percentage of all rights and obligations under this Agreement, (ii) except in the case of an assignment to a Person that, immediately prior to such assignment, was a Lender, an Affiliate of any Lender or an Approved Fund of any Lender or an assignment of all of a Lender's ’s rights and obligations under this Agreement, the aggregate amount of the Commitment of the assigning Lender Commitments being assigned to such Eligible Assignee pursuant to each such assignment (determined as of the date of the Assignment and Acceptance Assumption with respect to such assignment) shall in no event be less than $5,000,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof1,000,000, (iiiii) each such assignment shall be to an Eligible Assignee, (iii) no such assignments shall be permitted without the consent of the Administrative Agent until the Administrative Agent shall have notified the Lender Parties that syndication of the Commitments hereunder has been completed and (iv) the parties to each such assignment shall execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent, for its acceptance and recording in the Register, an Assignment and AcceptanceAssumption, together with any Note subject to such assignment. or Notes (if any). (b) Upon such execution, delivery, acceptance and recording, from and after the effective date specified in each such Assignment and AcceptanceAssumption, (Ai) the assignee thereunder shall be a party hereto and, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned to it pursuant to such Assignment and AcceptanceAssumption, have the rights and obligations of a Lender Lender, as the case may be, hereunder and (Bii) the Lender assignor thereunder shall, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned by it pursuant to such Assignment and AcceptanceAssumption, relinquish its rights (other than its rights under Sections 2.08, 2.10 and 9.04 to the extent any claim thereunder relates to an event arising prior to such assignment) and be released from its obligations under this Agreement (and, in the case of an Assignment and Acceptance Assumption covering all or of the remaining portion of an assigning Lender's ’s rights and obligations under this Agreement, such Lender shall cease to be a party hereto). (bc) By executing and delivering an Assignment and AcceptanceAssumption, the each Lender Party assignor thereunder and the each assignee thereunder confirm to and agree with each other and the other parties thereto and hereto as follows: (i) other than as provided in such Assignment and AcceptanceAssumption, such assigning Lender Party makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to any statements, warranties or representations made in or in connection with this Agreement any Loan Document or the execution, legality, validity, enforceability, genuineness, sufficiency or value of, or the perfection or priority of this Agreement any lien or security interest created or purported to be created under or in connection with, any Loan Document or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant heretothereto; (ii) such assigning Lender Party makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to the financial condition of the Borrower any Loan Party or the performance or observance by the Borrower any Loan Party of any of its obligations under this Agreement any Loan Document or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant heretothereto; (iii) such assignee confirms that it has received a copy of this Agreement, together with copies of the financial statements referred to in Section 4.01 and such other documents and information as it has deemed appropriate to make its own credit analysis and decision to enter into such Assignment and AcceptanceAssumption; (iv) such assignee will, independently and without reliance upon the any Agent, such assigning Lender Party or any other Lender Party and based on such documents and information as it shall deem appropriate at the time, continue to make its own credit decisions in taking or not taking action under this Agreement; (v) such assignee confirms that it is an Eligible Assignee; (vi) such assignee appoints and authorizes the each Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers and discretion under this Agreement the Loan Documents as are delegated to the such Agent by the terms hereofhereof and thereof, together with such powers and discretion as are reasonably incidental thereto; and (vii) such assignee agrees that it will perform in accordance with their terms all of the obligations that by the terms of this Agreement are required to be performed by it as a Lender. (cd) The Agent Administrative Agent, acting for this purpose (but only for this purpose) as the agent of the Borrower, shall maintain at its address referred to in Section 8.02 9.02 a copy of each Assignment and Acceptance Assumption delivered to and accepted by it and a register for the recordation of the names and addresses of the Lenders Lender Parties and the Commitment under the Facility of, and principal amount of the Advances owing under the Facility to, each Lender Party from time to time (the "“Register"”). The entries in the Register shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error, and the Borrower, the Agent Agents and the Lenders may Lender Parties shall treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Register as a Lender Party hereunder for all purposes of this Agreement. The Register shall be available for inspection by the Borrower or any Agent or any Lender Party at any reasonable time and from time to time upon reasonable prior notice. (de) Upon its receipt of an Assignment and Acceptance Assumption executed by an assigning Lender Party and an assignee representing that it is an Eligible Assigneeassignee, together with any Note or Notes (if any) subject to such assignment, the Administrative Agent shall, if such Assignment and Acceptance Assumption has been completed and is in substantially the form of Exhibit C hereto, (i) accept such Assignment and AcceptanceAssumption, (ii) record the information contained therein in the Register and (iii) give prompt notice thereof to the BorrowerBorrower and each other Agent. Within In the case of any assignment by a Lender, within five Business Days after its receipt of such notice, the Borrower, at its own expense, shall execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent in exchange for the surrendered Note or Notes (if any) a new Note to the order of such Eligible Assignee in an amount equal to the Commitment assumed by it under the Facility pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance Assumption and, if the any assigning Lender that had a Note or Notes prior to such assignment has retained a Commitment hereunder, a new Note to the order of the such assigning Lender in an amount equal to the Commitment retained by it hereunder. Such new Note or Notes shall be in an aggregate principal amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of such surrendered Note or Notes, shall be dated the effective date of such Assignment and Acceptance Assumption and shall otherwise be in substantially the form of Exhibit A hereto. (ef) Each Lender Party may sell participations to one or more banks or other entities Persons (other than the Borrower any Loan Party or any of its Affiliates) in or to all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, all or a portion of its CommitmentCommitments, the Advances owing to it and the Note or Notes (if any) held by it); provided, however, that (i) such Lender's Lender Party’s obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, its Commitment to the Borrower hereunderCommitments) shall remain unchanged, (ii) such Lender Party shall remain solely responsible to the other parties hereto for the performance of such obligations, (iii) such Lender Party shall remain the holder of any such Note for all purposes of this Agreement, (iv) the Borrower, the Agent Agents and the other Lenders Lender Parties shall continue to deal solely and directly with such Lender Party in connection with such Lender's Lender Party’s rights and obligations under this Agreement and (v) no participant under any such participation shall have any right to approve any amendment or waiver of any provision of this Agreement or any NoteLoan Document, or any consent to any departure by the Borrower any Loan Party therefrom, except to the extent that such amendment, waiver or consent would reduce the principal of, or interest on, the Notes Advances or any fees or other amounts payable hereunder, in each case to the extent subject to such participation, postpone any date fixed for any payment of principal of, or interest on, the Advances or any fees or other amounts payable hereunder, in each case to the extent subject to such participation, or postpone any date fixed for any payment release all or substantially all of principal of, the Collateral or interest on, the Notes or any fees or other amounts payable hereunder, in each case to value of the extent subject to such participationGuaranties. (fg) Any Lender Party may, in connection with any assignment or participation or proposed assignment or participation pursuant to this Section 8.079.07, disclose to the assignee or participant or proposed assignee or participant, participant any information relating to the Borrower furnished to such Lender Party by or on behalf of the Borrower; provided provided, however, that, prior to any such disclosure, the assignee or participant or proposed assignee or participant shall agree to preserve the confidentiality of any Confidential Information relating to the Borrower received by it from such LenderLender Party. (gh) Notwithstanding any other provision set forth in this Agreement, any Lender Party may at any time create a security interest in all or any portion of its rights under this Agreement (including, without limitation, the Advances owing to it and the Note or Notes (if any) held by it) in favor of any Federal Reserve Bank in accordance with Regulation A of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. (hi) In connection Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, any Lender that is a Fund may create a security interest in all or any portion of the Advances owing to it and any Note or Notes held by it to the trustee for holders of obligations owed, or securities issued, by such Fund as security for such obligations or securities; provided that, unless and until such trustee actually becomes a Lender in compliance with the initial assignment other provisions of this Section 9.07, (i) no such pledge shall release the pledging Lender from any of its obligations under the Loan Documents and (ii) such trustee shall not be entitled to exercise any of the rights of a Lender under the Loan Documents even though such trustee may have acquired ownership rights with respect to the pledged interest through foreclosure or proposed initial assignment otherwise. (j) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, any Lender Party (a “Granting Lender”) may grant to a special purpose funding vehicle identified as such in writing from time to time by the Initial Granting Lender to the Administrative Agent and the Borrower (an “SPC”) the option to provide all or any part of any Advance that such Granting Lender would otherwise be obligated to make pursuant to this Section 8.07Agreement; provided that (i) nothing herein shall constitute a commitment by any SPC to fund any Advance and (ii) if an SPC elects not to exercise such option or otherwise fails to make all or any part of such Advance, the Granting Lender shall be obligated to make such Advance pursuant to the terms hereof. The making of an Advance by an SPC hereunder shall utilize the Commitment of the Granting Lender to the same extent, and as if, such Advance were made by such Granting Lender. Each party hereto hereby agrees that (i) no SPC shall be liable for any indemnity or similar payment obligation under this Agreement for which a Lender Party would be liable, (ii) no SPC shall be entitled to the benefits of Sections 2.08 and 2.10 (or any other increased costs protection provision) and (iii) the Granting Lender shall for all purposes, including, without limitation, the approval of any amendment or waiver of any provision of any Loan Document, remain the Lender Party of record hereunder. In furtherance of the foregoing, each party hereto hereby agrees (which agreement shall survive the termination of this Agreement) that, prior to the date that is one year and one day after the payment in full of all outstanding commercial paper or other senior Debt of any SPC, it will not institute against, or join any other person in instituting against, such SPC any bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, insolvency or liquidation proceeding under the laws of the United States or any State thereof. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, any SPC may (i) with notice to, but without prior consent of, the Borrower shalland the Administrative Agent, upon assign all or any portion of its interest in any Advance to the request Granting Lender and (ii) disclose on a confidential basis any non-public information relating to its funding of Advances to any rating agency, commercial paper dealer or provider of any surety or guarantee or credit or liquidity enhancement to such SPC. This subsection (j) may not be amended without the Initial prior written consent of each Granting Lender, furnish to all or any part of whose Advances are being funded by the Initial Lender a favorable opinion SPC at the time of counsel for the Borrower acceptable to the Initial Lender, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Initial Lendersuch amendment.

Assignments and Participations. (a) Each Lender may may, with the prior written consent of the Borrower and the Administrative Agent (neither of which consents shall be unreasonably withheld or delayed), and if demanded by the Borrower pursuant to subsection (g) hereof shall to the extent required by such subsection (g), assign to one or more Persons banks or other entities all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, all or a portion of its Commitment, the Advance Advances owing to it and the Note or Notes held by it); provided, however, that (i) each such assignment shall be of a constant, and not a varying, percentage of all of the assigning Lender's rights and obligations under this Agreement, (ii) except in the case of an assignment to a Person that, immediately prior to such assignment, was a Lender or an assignment of all of a Lender's rights and obligations under this Agreement, the amount of the Commitment of the assigning Lender being assigned pursuant to each such assignment (determined as of the date of the Assignment and Acceptance with respect to such assignment) shall in no event be less than $5,000,000 or 10,000,000 or, if less, the entire amount of such Lender's Commitment, and shall be an integral multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereofor such Lender's entire Commitment, (iii) each such assignment shall be to an Eligible Assignee, and (iv) the parties to each such assignment shall execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent, for its acceptance and recording in the Register, an Assignment and Acceptance, together with any Note or Notes subject to such assignmentassignment and a processing and recordation fee of $3,500 (which shall be payable by one or more of the parties to the Assignment and Acceptance, and not by the Borrower, and shall not be payable if the assignee is a Bank, any Affiliate of any Bank or the Federal Reserve Bank), and (v) the consent of the Borrower shall not be required after the occurrence and during the continuance of any Event of Default. Upon such execution, delivery, acceptance and recording, from and after the effective date specified in each Assignment and Acceptance, (Ax) the assignee thereunder shall be a party hereto and, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned to it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance, have the rights and obligations of a Lender hereunder and (By) the Lender assignor thereunder shall, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned by it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance, relinquish its rights and be released from its obligations under this Agreement (and, in the case of an Assignment and Acceptance covering all or the remaining portion of an assigning Lender's rights and obligations under this Agreement, such Lender shall cease to be a party heretohereto (although an assigning Lender shall continue to be entitled to indemnification pursuant to Section 8.04(c)). Notwithstanding anything contained in this Section 8.07(a) to the contrary, (A) the consent of the Borrower and the Administrative Agent shall not be required with respect to any assignment by any Lender to an Affiliate of such Lender or to another Lender and (B) any Lender may at any time, without the consent of the Borrower or the Administrative Agent, and without any requirement to have an Assignment and Acceptance executed, assign all or any part of its rights under this Agreement and its Notes to a Federal Reserve Bank, provided that such assignment does not release the transferor Lender from any of its obligations hereunder. (b) By executing and delivering an Assignment and Acceptance, the Lender assignor thereunder and the assignee thereunder confirm to and agree with each other and the other parties hereto as follows: (i) other than as provided in such Assignment and Acceptance, such assigning Lender makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to any statements, warranties or representations made in or in connection with this Agreement or the execution, legality, validity, enforceability, genuineness, sufficiency or value of this Agreement or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant hereto; (ii) such assigning Lender makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to the financial condition of the Borrower or the performance or observance by the Borrower of any of its obligations under this Agreement or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant hereto; (iii) such assignee confirms that it has received a copy of this Agreement, together with copies of the financial statements referred to in Section 4.01 4.01(e) and such other documents and information as it has deemed appropriate to make its own credit analysis and decision to enter into such Assignment and Acceptance; (iv) such assignee will, independently and without reliance upon the Administrative Agent, such assigning Lender or any other Lender and based on such documents and information as it shall deem appropriate at the time, continue to make its own credit decisions in taking or not taking action under this Agreement; (v) such assignee confirms that it is an Eligible Assignee; (vi) such assignee appoints and authorizes the Administrative Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers and discretion under this Agreement as are delegated to the Administrative Agent by the terms hereof, together with such powers and discretion as are reasonably incidental thereto; and (vii) such assignee agrees that it will perform in accordance with their terms all of the obligations that which by the terms of this Agreement are required to be performed by it as a Lender. (c) The Administrative Agent shall maintain at its address referred to in Section 8.02 a copy of each Assignment and Acceptance and each Additional Lender Supplement delivered to and accepted by it and a register for the recordation of the names and addresses of the Lenders and the Commitment of, and principal amount of the Advances owing to, each Lender from time to time (the "Register"). The entries in the Register shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error, and the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and the Lenders may treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Register as a Lender hereunder for all purposes of this Agreement. The Register shall be available for inspection by the Borrower or any Lender at any reasonable time and from time to time upon reasonable prior notice. (d) Upon its receipt of an Assignment and Acceptance executed by an assigning Lender and an assignee representing that it is an Eligible Assignee, together with any Note or Notes subject to such assignment, the Administrative Agent shall, if such Assignment and Acceptance has been completed and is in substantially the form of Exhibit C hereto, (i) accept such Assignment and Acceptance, (ii) record the information contained therein in the Register and (iii) give prompt notice thereof to the Borrower. Within five Business Days after its receipt of such notice, the Borrower, at its own expense, shall execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent in exchange for the surrendered Note or Notes a new Note to the order of such Eligible Assignee in an amount equal to the Commitment assumed by it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance and, if the assigning Lender has retained a Commitment hereunder, a new Note to the order of the assigning Lender in an amount equal to the Commitment retained by it hereunder. Such new Note or Notes shall be in an aggregate principal amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of such surrendered Note or Notes, shall be dated the effective date of such Assignment and Acceptance and shall otherwise be in substantially the form of Exhibit A hereto. (e) Each Lender may sell participations to one or more banks or other entities (other than the Borrower or any of its Affiliateseach, a "Participant") in or to all or a portion of its rights and and/or obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, all or a portion of its Commitment, the Advances owing to it and the Note or Notes held by it); provided, however, that (i) such Lender's obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, its Commitment to the Borrower hereunder) shall remain unchanged, (ii) such Lender shall remain solely responsible to the other parties hereto for the performance of such obligations, (iii) such Lender shall remain the holder of any such Note for all purposes of this Agreement, (iv) the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and the other Lenders shall continue to deal solely and directly with such Lender in connection with such Lender's rights and obligations under this Agreement and (v) no participant under any such participation Lender shall have any retain the sole right to approve approve, without the consent of any amendment Participant, any amendment, modification or waiver of any provision of this Agreement or the Note or Notes held by such Lender, other than any Note, or any consent to any departure by the Borrower therefrom, except to the extent that such amendment, modification or waiver with respect to any Advance or consent would reduce the principal ofCommitment in which such Participant has an interest that forgives principal, interest or interest on, the Notes or any fees or other amounts reduces the interest rate or fees payable hereunderwith respect to any such Advance or Commitment, in each case to the extent subject to such participation, or postpone postpones any date fixed for any regularly scheduled payment of principal of, or interest or fees on, the Notes any such Advance or Commitment, releases any fees guarantor of any such Advance or other amounts payable hereunderreleases any substantial portion of collateral, in each case to the extent subject to if any, securing any such participationAdvance. (f) Any Lender may, in connection with any assignment or participation or proposed assignment or participation pursuant to this Section 8.07, disclose to the assignee or participant or proposed assignee or participant, any information relating to the Borrower furnished to such Lender by or on behalf of the Borrower; provided that, prior to any such disclosure, the assignee or participant or proposed assignee or participant shall agree to preserve the confidentiality of any Confidential Information confidential information relating to the Borrower received by it from such LenderLender (subject to customary exceptions regarding regulatory requirements, compliance with legal process and other requirements of law). (g) Notwithstanding If (i) any other provision set forth Lender shall make demand for payment under Section 2.11(a), 2.11(b) or 2.14, or (ii) shall deliver any notice to the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 2.12 resulting in this Agreementthe suspension of certain obligations of the Lenders with respect to Eurodollar Rate Advances or (iii) shall fail to consent to, or shall revoke its consent to, the extension of any Termination Date pursuant to Section 2.16 or (iv) shall fail to consent to, or shall revoke its consent to, any Lender may at any time create a security interest extension of the "Termination Date" (as defined in all the 364-Day Credit Agreement) requested by the Borrower pursuant to Section 2.16 of the 364-Day Credit Agreement as originally constituted (or any portion successor provision of its rights similar import), then (in the case of clause (i)) within 60 days after such demand (if, but only if, such payment demanded under Section 2.11(a), 2.11(b) or 2.14 has been made by the Borrower), or (in the case of clause (ii)) within 60 days after such notice (if such suspension is still in effect), or (in the case of clauses (iii) and (iv)) no later than 10 days prior to the then effective Termination Date, as the case may be, the Borrower may demand that such Lender assign in accordance with this Agreement Section 8.07 to one or more Eligible Assignees designated by the Borrower and reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent all (including, without limitation, but not less than all) of such Lender's Commitment and the Advances owing to it within the next succeeding 30 days (in the case of clause (i) or clause (ii)), or within the next succeeding 5 days (in the case of clauses (iii) and (iv)) . If any such Eligible Assignee designated by the Note held by itBorrower shall fail to consummate such assignment on terms acceptable to such Lender, or if the Borrower shall fail to designate any such Eligible Assignee for all of such Lender's Commitment or Advances, then such Lender may (but shall not be required to) in favor of assign such Commitment and Advances to any Federal Reserve Bank other Eligible Assignee in accordance with Regulation A of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve Systemthis Section 8.07 during such period. (h) In connection with Notwithstanding anything to the initial assignment or proposed initial assignment contrary contained herein, any Lender (a "Granting Bank") may grant to a special purpose funding vehicle (an "SPC"), identified as such in writing from time to time by the Initial Lender Granting Bank to the Administrative Agent and the Borrower, the option to provide to the Borrower all or any part of any Advance that such Granting Bank would otherwise be obligated to make to the Borrower pursuant to this Agreement; provided that (i) nothing herein shall constitute a commitment by any SPC to make any Advance, (ii) if an SPC elects not to exercise such option or otherwise fails to provide all or any part of such Advance, the Granting Bank shall be obligated to make such Advance pursuant to the terms hereof. The making of an Advance by an SPC hereunder shall utilize the Commitment of the Granting Bank to the same extent, and as if, such Advance were made by such Granting Bank. Each party hereto hereby agrees that no SPC shall be liable for any indemnity or similar payment obligation under this Agreement (all liability for which shall remain with the Granting Bank). In furtherance of the foregoing, each party hereto hereby agrees (which agreement shall survive the termination of this Agreement) that, prior to the date that is one year and one day after the payment in full of all outstanding commercial paper or other senior indebtedness of any SPC, it will not institute against, or join any other person in instituting against, such SPC any bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, insolvency or liquidation proceedings under the laws of the United States or any State thereof. In addition, notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Section 8.078.07(h), any SPC may (i) with notice to, but without the prior written consent of, the Borrower shalland the Administrative Agent and without paying any processing fee therefor, upon assign all or a portion of its interests in any Advances to the request Granting Bank or to any financial institutions (consented to by the Borrower and Administrative Agent) providing liquidity and/or credit support to or for the account of such SPC to support the funding or maintenance of Advances and (ii) disclose on a confidential basis any non-public information relating to its Advances to any rating agency, commercial paper dealer or provider of any surety, guarantee or credit or liquidity enhancement to such SPC. This Section may not be amended without the written consent of the Initial Lender, furnish to the Initial Lender a favorable opinion of counsel for the Borrower acceptable to the Initial Lender, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Initial LenderGranting Bank.

Assignments and Participations. (a) Each The Lender may assign to one or more Persons Person all or a portion (but no less than all) of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, including all or a portion of its Commitment, the Advance Advances owing to it and the Note or Notes held by it); provided, however, that (i) each such assignment shall be assignee is an Affiliate of a constant, LMC and not a varying, percentage of all rights and obligations under this Agreement, (ii) except in the case of an assignment to a Person that, immediately prior to such assignment, was a Lender or an assignment of all of a Lender's rights and obligations under this Agreement, the amount of the Commitment of the assigning Lender being assigned pursuant to each such assignment (determined as of the date of the Assignment and Acceptance with respect to such assignment) shall in no event be less than $5,000,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof, (iii) each such assignment shall be to an Eligible Assignee, and (iv) the parties to each such assignment shall execute and deliver to the Agent, for its acceptance and recording in the Register, an Assignment and Acceptance, together with any Note Note(s) subject to such assignment. Upon such execution, execution and delivery, acceptance and recording, from and after the effective date specified in each Assignment and Acceptance, (Ax) the assignee thereunder shall be a party hereto and, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned to it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance, have the rights and obligations of a the Lender hereunder and (By) the Lender assignor thereunder shall, shall relinquish its rights (other than its rights under Section 7.04 to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned by it pursuant any claim thereunder relates to an event arising prior to such Assignment and Acceptance, relinquish its rights assignment) and be released from its obligations under this Agreement (and, in the case of an Assignment and Acceptance covering all or the remaining portion of an assigning Lender's rights and obligations under this Agreement, such Lender shall cease to be a party hereto). (b) By executing and delivering an Assignment and Acceptance, the Lender assignor thereunder and the assignee thereunder confirm to and agree with each other and the other parties hereto as follows: (i) other than as provided in such Assignment and Acceptance, such assigning Lender makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to any statements, warranties or representations made in or in connection with this Agreement or the execution, legality, validity, enforceability, genuineness, sufficiency or value of this Agreement or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant hereto; (ii) such assigning Lender makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to the financial condition of the Borrower or the performance or observance by the Borrower of any of its obligations under this Agreement or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant hereto; (iii) such assignee confirms that it has received a copy of this Agreement, together with copies of the financial statements referred to in Section 4.01 and such other documents and information as it has deemed appropriate to make its own credit analysis and decision to enter into such Assignment and Acceptance; (iv) such assignee will, independently and without reliance upon the Agent, such assigning Lender or any other Lender and based on such documents and information as it shall deem appropriate at the time, continue to make its own credit decisions in taking or not taking action under this Agreement; (v) such assignee confirms that it is an Eligible Assignee; (vi) such assignee appoints and authorizes the Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers and discretion under this Agreement as are delegated to the Agent by the terms hereof, together with such powers and discretion as are reasonably incidental thereto; and (vii) such assignee agrees that it will perform in accordance with their terms all of the obligations that by the terms of this Agreement are required to be performed by it as a Lender. (c) The Agent shall maintain at its address referred to in Section 8.02 a copy of each Assignment and Acceptance delivered to and accepted by it and a register for the recordation of the names and addresses of the Lenders and the Commitment of, and principal amount of the Advances owing to, each Lender from time to time (the "Register"). The entries in the Register shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error, and the Borrower, the Agent and the Lenders may treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Register as a Lender hereunder for all purposes of this Agreement. The Register shall be available for inspection by the Borrower or any Lender at any reasonable time and from time to time upon reasonable prior notice. (d) Upon its receipt of an Assignment and Acceptance executed by an assigning Lender and an assignee representing that it is an Eligible Assignee, together with any Note or Notes subject to such assignment, the Agent shall, if such Assignment and Acceptance has been completed and is in substantially the form of Exhibit C hereto, (i) accept such Assignment and Acceptance, (ii) record the information contained therein in the Register and (iii) give prompt notice thereof to the Borrower. Within five Business Days after its receipt of notice of an assignment hereunder and any Note(s) subject to such noticeassignment, the Borrower, at its own expense, Borrower shall execute and deliver to the Agent Lender assignee in exchange for the each surrendered Note Note(s) a new Note to the order of such Eligible Assignee assignee in an amount equal to the Commitment outstanding amount of the Note(s) assumed by it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance and, if the assigning Lender has retained a Commitment hereunder, a new Note to the order of the assigning Lender in an amount equal to the Commitment retained by it hereunderAcceptance. Such new Note or Notes shall be in an aggregate principal amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of such surrendered Note or NotesNote(s), shall be dated the effective date of such Assignment and Acceptance and shall otherwise be in substantially the form of Exhibit A hereto. (ec) Each Lender may sell participations to one or more banks or other entities (other than the Borrower or any of its Affiliates) in or to all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, all or a portion of its Commitment, the Advances owing to it and the Note or Notes held by it); provided, however, that (i) such Lender's obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, its Commitment to the Borrower hereunder) shall remain unchanged, (ii) such Lender shall remain solely responsible to the other parties hereto for the performance of such obligations, (iii) such Lender shall remain the holder of any such Note for all purposes of this Agreement, (iv) the Borrower, the Agent and the other Lenders shall continue to deal solely and directly with such Lender in connection with such Lender's rights and obligations under this Agreement and (v) no participant under any such participation shall have any right to approve any amendment or waiver of any provision of this Agreement or any Note, or any consent to any departure by the Borrower therefrom, except to the extent that such amendment, waiver or consent would reduce the principal of, or interest on, the Notes or any fees or other amounts payable hereunder, in each case to the extent subject to such participation, or postpone any date fixed for any payment of principal of, or interest on, the Notes or any fees or other amounts payable hereunder, in each case to the extent subject to such participation. (f) Any The Lender may, in connection with any assignment or participation or proposed assignment or participation pursuant to this Section 8.077.07, disclose to the assignee or participant or proposed assignee or participant, any information relating to the Borrower furnished to such the Lender by or on behalf of the Borrower; provided that, prior to any such disclosure, the assignee or participant or proposed assignee or participant shall agree to preserve the confidentiality of any Confidential Information relating to the Borrower received by it from such Lender. (g) Notwithstanding any other provision set forth in this Agreement, any Lender may at any time create a security interest in all or any portion of its rights under this Agreement (including, without limitation, the Advances owing to it and the Note held by it) in favor of any Federal Reserve Bank in accordance with Regulation A of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. (h) In connection with the initial assignment or proposed initial assignment by the Initial Lender pursuant to this Section 8.07, the Borrower shall, upon the request of the Initial Lender, furnish to the Initial Lender a favorable opinion of counsel for the Borrower acceptable to the Initial Lender, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Initial Lender.

Assignments and Participations. (a) Each Lender may assign to (i) one or more Persons Eligible Assignees with the approval of the Agent and, in the case of any Eligible Assignee not listed in clause (i) of the definition of "Eligible Assignee", the Borrower (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed) and (ii) one or more other entities with the approval of the Borrower and the Agent, all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, all or a portion of its Commitment, the Advance Advances owing to it and the Note or Notes held by it); provided, however, that (i) each such assignment shall be of a constant, and not a varying, percentage of all rights and obligations under this Agreement, (ii) except in the case of an assignment to a Person that, immediately prior to such assignment, was a Lender or an assignment of all of a Lender's rights and obligations under this Agreement, the amount of the Commitment of the assigning Lender being assigned pursuant to each such assignment (determined as of the date of the Assignment and Acceptance with respect to such assignment) shall in no event be less than $5,000,000 or an a larger integral multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof, (iii) each such assignment shall be to an Eligible Assignee1,000,000, and (iviii) the parties to each such assignment shall execute and deliver to the Agent, for its acceptance and recording in the Register, and, if the relevant Eligible Assignee is not listed in clause (i) of the definition of "Eligible Assignee", to the Borrower for its acceptance, an appropriate Assignment and Acceptance, together with any Note subject to such assignmentassignment and, in the case of an Assignment and Acceptance not entered into to effect the General Syndication, a processing and recordation fee of $3,000. Upon such execution, delivery, acceptance and recording, from and after the effective date specified in each Assignment and Acceptance, (Ax) the assignee thereunder shall be a party hereto and, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned to it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance, have the rights and obligations of a Lender hereunder and (By) the Lender assignor thereunder shall, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned by it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance, relinquish its rights and be released from its obligations under this Agreement (other than under Sections 2.13(f), 8.07(g) and 8.08) (and, in the case of an Assignment and Acceptance covering all or the remaining portion of an assigning Lender's rights and obligations under this Agreement, such Lender shall cease to be a party hereto). (b) By If any Lender (i) shall make a demand under Section 8.04(d) for payment in respect of a claim under Section 2.10 or shall give a notice under Section 2.11 of any unlawfulness or assertion of unlawfulness contemplated by such Section or any demand shall be made or any amount shall be payable with respect to any Lender under Section 2.13, the Borrower may, by written notice given to such Lender within 45 days of the making by such Lender of such demand, the giving by such Lender of such notice or such Lender becoming a Non-Consenting Lender, require by written notice to such Lender that such Lender assign, by executing and delivering an Assignment Acceptance and AcceptanceAssignment, the Lender assignor thereunder and the assignee thereunder confirm to and agree with each other and the other parties hereto as follows: (i) other than as provided in such Assignment and Acceptance, such assigning Lender makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to any statements, warranties or representations made in or in connection with this Agreement or the execution, legality, validity, enforceability, genuineness, sufficiency or value of this Agreement or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant hereto; (ii) such assigning Lender makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to the financial condition within 15 days of the Borrower or the performance or observance giving by the Borrower of any of its obligations under this Agreement such notice but on at least three Business Days' notice to one or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant hereto; (iii) such assignee confirms that it has received a copy of this Agreement, together with copies of the financial statements referred to in Section 4.01 and such other documents and information as it has deemed appropriate to make its own credit analysis and decision to enter into such Assignment and Acceptance; (iv) such assignee will, independently and without reliance upon the Agent, such assigning Lender or any other Lender and based on such documents and information as it shall deem appropriate at the time, continue to make its own credit decisions in taking or not taking action under this Agreement; (v) such assignee confirms that it is an Eligible Assignee; (vi) such assignee appoints and authorizes the Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers and discretion under this Agreement as are delegated to the Agent by the terms hereof, together with such powers and discretion as are reasonably incidental thereto; and (vii) such assignee agrees that it will perform more Persons in accordance with their terms all Section 8.07(a) such Lender's Commitment and its Advances against payment to such Lender in immediately available funds of the obligations that by the terms of this Agreement are required to be performed by it as a Lender. (c) The Agent shall maintain at its address referred to in Section 8.02 a copy of each Assignment and Acceptance delivered to and accepted by it and a register for the recordation of the names and addresses of the Lenders and the Commitment of, and principal amount of the Advances owing to, each Lender from time to time (the "Register"). The entries in the Register shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error, and the Borrower, the Agent and the Lenders may treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Register as a Lender hereunder for all purposes of this Agreement. The Register shall be available for inspection by the Borrower or any Lender at any reasonable time and from time to time upon reasonable prior notice. (d) Upon its receipt of an Assignment and Acceptance executed by an assigning Lender and an assignee representing that it is an Eligible Assignee, together with any Note or Notes subject to such assignment, the Agent shall, if such Assignment and Acceptance has been completed and is in substantially the form of Exhibit C hereto, (i) accept such Assignment and Acceptance, (ii) record the information contained therein in the Register and (iii) give prompt notice thereof to the Borrower. Within five Business Days after its receipt of such notice, the Borrower, at its own expense, shall execute and deliver to the Agent in exchange for the surrendered Note a new Note to the order of such Eligible Assignee in an amount equal to the Commitment assumed by it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance and, if the assigning Lender has retained a Commitment hereunder, a new Note to the order of the assigning Lender in an amount equal to the Commitment retained by it hereunder. Such new Note or Notes shall be in an aggregate principal amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of such surrendered Note or NotesAdvances, shall be dated all interest accrued thereon to the effective date of such Assignment and Acceptance and shall otherwise be in substantially the form of Exhibit A hereto. (e) Each Lender may sell participations to one or more banks or other entities (other than the Borrower or any of its Affiliates) in or to all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitationpayment, all or a portion of its Commitment, the Advances owing to it and the Note or Notes held fees accrued by it); provided, however, that (i) such Lender's obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, its Commitment Lender to the Borrower hereunder) shall remain unchangeddate of payment, (ii) any amounts payable to such Lender shall remain solely responsible to the other parties hereto for the performance of such obligations, (iiiunder Section 8.04(c) such Lender shall remain the holder of any such Note for and all purposes of this Agreement, (iv) the Borrower, the Agent and the other Lenders shall continue to deal solely and directly with such Lender in connection with such Lender's rights and obligations under this Agreement and (v) no participant under any such participation shall have any right to approve any amendment or waiver of any provision of this Agreement or any Note, or any consent to any departure by the Borrower therefrom, except to the extent that such amendment, waiver or consent would reduce the principal of, or interest on, the Notes or any fees or other amounts payable hereunder, in each case hereunder to the extent subject to such participation, or postpone any date fixed for any payment of principal of, or interest on, the Notes or any fees or other amounts payable hereunder, in each case to the extent subject to such participation. (f) Any Lender may, in connection with any assignment or participation or proposed assignment or participation pursuant to this Section 8.07, disclose to the assignee or participant or proposed assignee or participant, any information relating to the Borrower furnished to such Lender by or on behalf of the Borrower; provided that, prior to any such disclosure, the assignee or participant or proposed assignee or participant shall agree to preserve the confidentiality of any Confidential Information relating to the Borrower received by it from such Lender. (g) Notwithstanding any other provision set forth in this Agreement, any Lender may at any time create a security interest in all or any portion of its rights under this Agreement (including, without limitation, the Advances owing to it and the Note held by it) in favor of any Federal Reserve Bank in accordance with Regulation A of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. (h) In connection with the initial assignment or proposed initial assignment by the Initial Lender pursuant to this Section 8.07, the Borrower shall, upon the request of the Initial Lender, furnish to the Initial Lender a favorable opinion of counsel for the Borrower acceptable to the Initial Lender, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Initial Lender.

Assignments and Participations. (a) Each Lender may assign to one or more Persons all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, all or a portion of its Commitment, the Advance Advances owing to it and the Note or Notes held by it); provided, however, that (i) each such assignment shall be of a constant, and not a varying, percentage of all rights and obligations under this Agreement, (ii) except in the case of an assignment to a Person that, immediately prior to such assignment, was a Lender or an assignment of all of a Lender's ’s rights and obligations under this Agreement, the amount of the Commitment of the assigning Lender being assigned pursuant to each such assignment (determined as of the date of the Assignment and Acceptance with respect to such assignment) shall in no event be less than $5,000,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof10,000,000, (iii) each such assignment shall be to an Eligible Assignee, and (iv) the parties to each such assignment shall execute and deliver to the Agent, for its acceptance and recording in the Register, an Assignment and Acceptance, together with any Note subject to such assignmentassignment and a processing and recordation fee of $3,500.00. Upon such execution, delivery, acceptance and recording, from and after the effective date specified in each Assignment and Acceptance, (Ax) the assignee thereunder shall be a party hereto and, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned to it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance, have the rights and obligations of a Lender hereunder and (By) the Lender assignor thereunder shall, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned by it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance, relinquish its rights (other than its rights under Sections 2.11, 2.14 and 8.04 to the extent any claim thereunder relates to an event arising prior to such assignment) and be released from its obligations under this Agreement (and, in the case of an Assignment and Acceptance covering all or the remaining portion of an assigning Lender's ’s rights and obligations under this Agreement, such Lender shall cease to be a party hereto). (b) By executing and delivering an Assignment and Acceptance, the Lender assignor thereunder and the assignee thereunder confirm to and agree with each other and the other parties hereto as follows: (i) other than as provided in such Assignment and Acceptance, such assigning Lender makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to any statements, warranties or representations made in or in connection with this Agreement or the execution, legality, validity, enforceability, genuineness, sufficiency or value of, or the perfection or priority of any lien or security interest created or purported to be created under or in connection with, this Agreement or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant hereto; (ii) such assigning Lender makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to the financial condition of the Borrower or the performance or observance by the Borrower of any of its obligations under this Agreement or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant hereto; (iii) such assignee confirms that it has received a copy of this Agreement, together with copies of the financial statements referred to in Section 4.01 and such other documents and information as it has deemed appropriate to make its own credit analysis and decision to enter into such Assignment and Acceptance; (iv) such assignee will, independently and without reliance upon the Agent, such assigning Lender or any other Lender and based on such documents and information as it shall deem appropriate at the time, continue to make its own credit decisions in taking or not taking action under this Agreement; (v) such assignee confirms that it is an Eligible Assignee; (vi) such assignee appoints and authorizes the Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers and discretion under this Agreement as are delegated to the Agent by the terms hereof, together with such powers and discretion as are reasonably incidental thereto; and (vii) such assignee agrees that it will perform in accordance with their terms all of the obligations that by the terms of this Agreement are required to be performed by it as a Lender. (c) The Agent shall maintain at its address referred to in Section 8.02 a copy of each Assignment and Acceptance delivered to and accepted by it and a register for the recordation of the names and addresses of the Lenders and the Commitment of, and principal amount of the Advances owing to, each Lender from time to time (the "“Register"”). The entries in the Register shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error, and the Borrower, the Agent and the Lenders may treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Register as a Lender hereunder for all purposes of this Agreement. The Register shall be available for inspection by the Borrower or any Lender at any reasonable time and from time to time upon reasonable prior notice. (d) Upon its receipt of an Assignment and Acceptance executed by an assigning Lender and an assignee representing that it is an Eligible Assignee, together with any Note or Notes subject to such assignment, the Agent shall, if such Assignment and Acceptance has been completed and is in substantially the form of Exhibit C hereto, (i) accept such Assignment and Acceptance, (ii) record the information contained therein in the Register and (iii) give prompt notice thereof to the Borrower. Within five Business Days after its receipt of such notice, the Borrower, at its own expense, shall execute and deliver to the Agent in exchange for the surrendered Note a new Note to the order of such Eligible Assignee in an amount equal to the Commitment assumed by it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance and, if the assigning Lender has retained a Commitment hereunder, a new Note to the order of the assigning Lender in an amount equal to the Commitment retained by it hereunder. Such new Note or Notes shall be in an aggregate principal amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of such surrendered Note or Notes, shall be dated the effective date of such Assignment and Acceptance and shall otherwise be in substantially the form of Exhibit A hereto. (e) Each Lender may sell participations to one or more banks or other entities (other than the Borrower or any of its Affiliates) in or to all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, all or a portion of its Commitment, the Advances owing to it and the Note or Notes held by it); provided, however, that (i) such Lender's ’s obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, its Commitment to the Borrower hereunder) shall remain unchanged, (ii) such Lender shall remain solely responsible to the other parties hereto for the performance of such obligations, (iii) such Lender shall remain the holder of any such Note for all purposes of this Agreement, (iv) the Borrower, the Agent and the other Lenders shall continue to deal solely and directly with such Lender in connection with such Lender's ’s rights and obligations under this Agreement and (v) no participant under any such participation shall have any right to approve any amendment or waiver of any provision of this Agreement or any NoteNote or any other Loan Document, or any consent to any departure by the Borrower therefrom, except to the extent that such amendment, waiver or consent would reduce the principal of, or interest on, the Notes or any fees or other amounts payable hereunder, in each case to the extent subject to such participation, or postpone any date fixed for any payment of principal of, or interest on, the Notes or any fees or other amounts payable hereunder, in each case to the extent subject to such participation. (f) Any Lender may, in connection with any assignment or participation or proposed assignment or participation pursuant to this Section 8.07, disclose to the assignee or participant or proposed assignee or participant, any information relating to the Borrower furnished to such Lender by or on behalf of the Borrower; provided that, prior to any such disclosure, the assignee or participant or proposed assignee or participant shall agree to preserve the confidentiality of any Confidential Information relating to the Borrower received by it from such Lender. (g) Notwithstanding any other provision set forth in this Agreement, any Lender may at any time create a security interest in all or any portion of its rights under this Agreement (including, without limitation, the Advances owing to it and the Note held by it) in favor of any Federal Reserve Bank in accordance with Regulation A of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. (h) In connection with the initial assignment or proposed initial assignment by the Initial Lender pursuant to this Section 8.07, the Borrower shall, upon the request of the Initial Lender, furnish to the Initial Lender a favorable opinion of counsel for the Borrower acceptable to the Initial Lender, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Initial Lender.

Assignments and Participations. (a) Each Lender may may, with the prior written consent of Exelon, the LC Issuer and the Administrative Agent (which consents shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed), and if demanded by a Borrower pursuant to Section 8.07(g) shall to the extent required by such Section, assign to one or more Persons banks or other entities all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, including all or a portion of its Commitment, the Advance Advances owing to it it, its participation in Facility LCs and the any Note or Notes held by it); provided, however, provided that (i) each such assignment shall be of a constant, and not a varying, percentage of all of the assigning Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement, (ii) except in the case of an assignment to a Person that, immediately prior to such assignment, was a Lender or an assignment of all of a Lender's rights and obligations under this Agreement, the amount of the Commitment Amount of the assigning Lender being assigned pursuant to each such assignment (determined as of the date of the Assignment and Acceptance with respect to such assignment) shall in no event be less than $5,000,000 or or, if less, the entire amount of such Lender’s Commitment, and shall be an integral multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereofor such Lender’s entire Commitment, (iii) each such assignment shall be to an Eligible Assignee, and (iv) the parties to each such assignment shall execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent, for its acceptance and recording in the Register, an Assignment and Acceptance, together with any Note or Notes subject to such assignmentassignment and a processing and recordation fee of $4,000 (which shall be payable by one or more of the parties to the Assignment and Acceptance, and not by any Borrower, and shall not be payable if the assignee is a Federal Reserve Bank), and (v) the consent of Exelon shall not be required after the occurrence and during the continuance of any Event of Default. Upon such execution, delivery, acceptance and recording, from and after the effective date specified in each Assignment and Acceptance, (Ax) the assignee thereunder shall be a party hereto and, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned to it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance, have the rights and obligations of a Lender hereunder and (By) the Lender assignor thereunder shall, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned by it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance, relinquish its rights and be released from its obligations under this Agreement (and, in the case of an Assignment and Acceptance covering all or the remaining portion of an assigning Lender's ’s rights and obligations under this Agreement, such Lender shall cease to be a party heretohereto (although an assigning Lender shall continue to be entitled to indemnification pursuant to Section 8.04(c)). Notwithstanding anything contained in this Section 8.07(a) to the contrary, (A) the consent of Exelon, the LC Issuer and the Administrative Agent shall not be required with respect to any assignment by any Lender to an Affiliate of such Lender or to another Lender and (B) any Lender may at any time, without the consent of Exelon, the LC Issuer or the Administrative Agent, and without any requirement to have an Assignment and Acceptance executed, assign all or any part of its rights under this Agreement and any Note to a Federal Reserve Bank, provided that no such assignment shall release the transferor Lender from any of its obligations hereunder. (b) By executing and delivering an Assignment and Acceptance, the Lender assignor thereunder and the assignee thereunder confirm to and agree with each other and the other parties hereto as follows: (i) other than as provided in such Assignment and Acceptance, such assigning Lender makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to any statements, warranties or representations made in or in connection with this Agreement or the execution, legality, validity, enforceability, genuineness, sufficiency or value of this Agreement or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant hereto; (ii) such assigning Lender makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to the financial condition of the any Borrower or the performance or observance by the any Borrower of any of its obligations under this Agreement or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant hereto; (iii) such assignee confirms that it has received a copy of this Agreement, together with copies of the financial statements referred to in Section 4.01 4.01(e) and such other documents and information as it has deemed appropriate to make its own credit analysis and decision to enter into such Assignment and Acceptance; (iv) such assignee will, independently and without reliance upon the Administrative Agent, such assigning Lender or any other Lender and based on such documents and information as it shall deem appropriate at the time, continue to make its own credit decisions in taking or not taking action under this Agreement; (v) such assignee confirms that it is an Eligible Assignee; (vi) such assignee appoints and authorizes the Administrative Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers and discretion under this Agreement as are delegated to the Administrative Agent by the terms hereof, together with such powers and discretion as are reasonably incidental thereto; and (vii) such assignee agrees that it will perform in accordance with their terms all of the obligations that which by the terms of this Agreement are required to be performed by it as a Lender. (c) The Administrative Agent shall maintain at its address referred to in Section 8.02 a copy of each Assignment and Acceptance delivered to and accepted by it and a register for the recordation of the names and addresses of the Lenders and the Commitment Amount of, and principal amount of the Advances owing by each Borrower to, each Lender from time to time (the "“Register"”). The entries in the Register shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error, and the each Borrower, the Administrative Agent and the Lenders may treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Register as a Lender hereunder for all purposes of this Agreement. The Register shall be available for inspection by the any Borrower or any Lender at any reasonable time and from time to time upon reasonable prior notice. (d) Upon its receipt of an Assignment and Acceptance executed by an assigning Lender and an assignee representing that it is an Eligible Assignee, together with any Note or Notes all Notes, if any, subject to such assignment, the Administrative Agent shall, if such Assignment and Acceptance has been completed and is in substantially the form of Exhibit C heretoC, (i) accept such Assignment and Acceptance, (ii) record the information contained therein in the Register and (iii) give prompt notice thereof to the Borrower. Within five Business Days after its receipt of such notice, the Borrower, at its own expense, shall execute and deliver to the Agent in exchange for the surrendered Note a new Note to the order of such Eligible Assignee in an amount equal to the Commitment assumed by it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance and, if the assigning Lender has retained a Commitment hereunder, a new Note to the order of the assigning Lender in an amount equal to the Commitment retained by it hereunder. Such new Note or Notes shall be in an aggregate principal amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of such surrendered Note or Notes, shall be dated the effective date of such Assignment and Acceptance and shall otherwise be in substantially the form of Exhibit A heretoBorrowers. (e) Each Lender may sell participations to one or more banks or other entities (other than the Borrower or any of its Affiliateseach, a “Participant”) in or to all or a portion of its rights and and/or obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, including all or a portion of its Commitment, the Advances owing to it it, its participation in Facility LCs and the any Note or Notes held by it); provided, however, provided that (i) such Lender's ’s obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, its Commitment to the Borrower hereunder) shall remain unchanged, (ii) such Lender shall remain solely responsible to the other parties hereto for the performance of such obligations, (iii) such Lender shall remain the holder of any such Note for all purposes of this Agreement, (iv) the BorrowerBorrowers, the Administrative Agent and the other Lenders shall continue to deal solely and directly with such Lender in connection with such Lender's ’s rights and obligations under this Agreement and (v) no participant under any such participation Lender shall have any retain the sole right to approve approve, without the consent of any amendment Participant, any amendment, modification or waiver of any provision of this Agreement or any NoteNote held by such Lender, or other than any consent to any departure by the Borrower therefrom, except to the extent that such amendment, modification or waiver with respect to any Advance or consent would reduce the principal ofCommitment in which such Participant has an interest that forgives principal, interest or interest on, the Notes or any fees or other amounts reduces the interest rate or fees payable hereunderwith respect to any such Advance or Commitment, in each case to the extent subject to such participation, or postpone postpones any date fixed for any regularly scheduled payment of principal of, or interest or fees on, the Notes any such Advance or Commitment, extends any fees Commitment, releases any guarantor of any such Advance or other amounts payable hereunderreleases any substantial portion of collateral, in each case to the extent subject to if any, securing any such participationAdvance. (f) Any Lender may, in connection with any assignment or participation or proposed assignment or participation pursuant to this Section 8.07, disclose to the assignee or participant or proposed assignee or participant, any information relating to the Borrower Borrowers furnished to such Lender by or on behalf of the BorrowerBorrowers; provided that, prior to any such disclosure, the assignee or participant or proposed assignee or participant shall agree to preserve the confidentiality of any Confidential Information confidential information relating to the Borrower Borrowers received by it from such LenderLender (subject to customary exceptions regarding regulatory requirements, compliance with legal process and other requirements of law). (g) Notwithstanding any other provision set forth in this Agreement, If (i) any Lender shall make demand for payment under Section 2.11(a), 2.11(b) or 2.14, or (ii) shall deliver any notice to the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 2.12 resulting in the suspension of certain obligations of the Lenders with respect to Eurodollar Rate Advances, then (in the case of clause (i)) within 60 days after such demand (if, but only if, such payment demanded under Section 2.11(a), 2.11(b) or 2.14 has been made by the applicable Borrower) or (in the case of clause (ii)) within 60 days after such notice (if such suspension is still in effect), as the case may at any time create a security interest be, the Borrowers may demand that such Lender assign in accordance with this Section 8.07 to one or more Eligible Assignees designated by the Borrowers and reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent all or any portion (but not less than all) of its rights under this Agreement (including, without limitationsuch Lender’s Commitment, the Advances owing to it and its participation in the Note held Facility LCs within the next succeeding 30 days. If any such Eligible Assignee designated by itthe Borrowers shall fail to consummate such assignment on terms acceptable to such Lender, or if the Borrowers shall fail to designate any such Eligible Assignee for all of such Lender’s Commitment, Advances and participation in Facility LCs, then such Lender may (but shall not be required to) in favor of assign such Commitment and Advances to any Federal Reserve Bank other Eligible Assignee in accordance with Regulation A of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve Systemthis Section 8.07 during such period. (h) In connection Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, any Lender (a “Granting Bank”) may grant to a special purpose funding vehicle (an “SPC”), identified as such in writing from time to time by the Granting Bank to the Administrative Agent and the Borrowers, the option to provide to any Borrower all or any part of any Advance that such Granting Bank would otherwise be obligated to make to such Borrower pursuant to this Agreement; provided that (i) nothing herein shall constitute a commitment by any SPC to make any Advance, (ii) if an SPC elects not to exercise such option or otherwise fails to provide all or any part of such Advance, the Granting Bank shall be obligated to make such Advance pursuant to the terms hereof. The making of an Advance by an SPC hereunder shall utilize the Commitment of the Granting Bank to the same extent, and as if, such Advance were made by such Granting Bank. Each party hereto hereby agrees that no SPC shall be liable for any indemnity or similar payment obligation under this Agreement (all liability for which shall remain with the initial assignment Granting Bank). In furtherance of the foregoing, each party hereto hereby agrees (which agreement shall survive the termination of this Agreement) that, prior to the date that is one year and one day after the payment in full of all outstanding commercial paper or proposed initial assignment by other senior indebtedness of any SPC, it will not institute against, or join any other person in instituting against, such SPC any bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, insolvency or liquidation proceedings under the Initial Lender pursuant laws of the United States or any State thereof. In addition, notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Section 8.07, any SPC may (i) with notice to, but without the prior written consent of, the Borrower shalland the Administrative Agent and without paying any processing fee therefor, upon the request assign all or a portion of the Initial Lender, furnish its interests in any Advances to the Initial Lender a favorable opinion Granting Bank or to any financial institutions (consented to by such Borrower and Administrative Agent, neither of counsel which consents shall be unreasonably withheld or delayed) providing liquidity and/or credit support to or for the Borrower acceptable account of such SPC to support the Initial Lenderfunding or maintenance of Advances and (ii) disclose on a confidential basis any non-public information relating to its Advances to any rating agency, commercial paper dealer or provider of any surety, guarantee or credit or liquidity enhancement to such SPC. This Section 8.07(h) may not be amended in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to any manner which adversely affects a Granting Bank or an SPC without the Initial Lenderwritten consent of such Granting Bank or SPC.

Assignments and Participations. (a) Each Lender may may, with the prior written consent of the Borrower and the Administrative Agent (neither of which consents shall be unreasonably withheld or delayed), and if demanded by the Borrower pursuant to subsection (g) hereof shall to the extent required by such subsection (g), assign to one or more Persons banks or other entities all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, all or a portion of its Commitment, the Advance Advances owing to it and the Note or Notes held by it); provided, however, that (i) each such assignment shall be of a constant, and not a varying, percentage of all of the assigning Lender's rights and obligations under this Agreement, (ii) except in the case of an assignment to a Person that, immediately prior to such assignment, was a Lender or an assignment of all of a Lender's rights and obligations under this Agreement, the amount of the Commitment of the assigning Lender being assigned pursuant to each such assignment (determined as of the date of the Assignment and Acceptance with respect to such assignment) shall in no event be less than $5,000,000 or 10,000,000 or, if less, the entire amount of such Lender's Commitment, and shall be an integral multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereofor such Lender's entire Commitment, (iii) each such assignment shall be to an Eligible Assignee, and (iv) the parties to each such assignment shall execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent, for its acceptance and recording in the Register, an Assignment and Acceptance, together with any Note or Notes subject to such assignmentassignment and a processing and recordation fee of $3,500 (which shall be payable by one or more of the parties to the Assignment and Acceptance, and not by the Borrower, and shall not be payable if the assignee is a Bank, any Affiliate of any Bank or the Federal Reserve Bank), and (v) the consent of the Borrower shall not be required after the occurrence and during the continuance of any Event of Default. Upon such execution, delivery, acceptance and recording, from and after the effective date specified in each Assignment and Acceptance, (Ax) the assignee thereunder shall be a party hereto and, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned to it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance, have the rights and obligations of a Lender hereunder and (By) the Lender assignor thereunder shall, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned by it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance, relinquish its rights and be released from its obligations under this Agreement (and, in the case of an Assignment and Acceptance covering all or the remaining portion of an assigning Lender's rights and obligations under this Agreement, such Lender shall cease to be a party heretohereto (although an assigning Lender shall continue to be entitled to indemnification pursuant to Section 8.04(c)). Notwithstanding anything contained in this Section 8.07(a) to the contrary, (A) the consent of the Borrower and the Administrative Agent shall not be required with respect to any assignment by any Lender to an Affiliate of such Lender or to another Lender and (B) any Lender may at any time, without the consent of the Borrower or the Administrative Agent, and without any requirement to have an Assignment and Acceptance executed, assign all or any part of its rights under this Agreement and its Notes to a Federal Reserve Bank, provided that such assignment does not release the transferor Lender from any of its obligations hereunder. (b) By executing and delivering an Assignment and Acceptance, the Lender assignor thereunder and the assignee thereunder confirm to and agree with each other and the other parties hereto as follows: (i) other than as provided in such Assignment and Acceptance, such assigning Lender makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to any statements, warranties or representations made in or in connection with this Agreement or the execution, legality, validity, enforceability, genuineness, sufficiency or value of this Agreement or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant hereto; (ii) such assigning Lender makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to the financial condition of the Borrower or the performance or observance by the Borrower of any of its obligations under this Agreement or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant hereto; (iii) such assignee confirms that it has received a copy of this Agreement, together with copies of the financial statements referred to in Section 4.01 4.01(e) and such other documents and information as it has deemed appropriate to make its own credit analysis and decision to enter into such Assignment and Acceptance; (iv) such assignee will, independently and without reliance upon the Administrative Agent, such assigning Lender or any other Lender and based on such documents and information as it shall deem appropriate at the time, continue to make its own credit decisions in taking or not taking action under this Agreement; (v) such assignee confirms that it is an Eligible Assignee; (vi) such assignee appoints and authorizes the Administrative Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers and discretion under this Agreement as are delegated to the Administrative Agent by the terms hereof, together with such powers and discretion as are reasonably incidental thereto; and (vii) such assignee agrees that it will perform in accordance with their terms all of the obligations that which by the terms of this Agreement are required to be performed by it as a Lender. (c) The Administrative Agent shall maintain at its address referred to in Section 8.02 a copy of each Assignment and Acceptance and each Additional Lender Supplement delivered to and accepted by it and a register for the recordation of the names and addresses of the Lenders and the Commitment of, and principal amount of the Advances owing to, each Lender from time to time (the "Register"). The entries in the Register shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error, and the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and the Lenders may treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Register as a Lender hereunder for all purposes of this Agreement. The Register shall be available for inspection by the Borrower or any Lender at any reasonable time and from time to time upon reasonable prior notice. (d) Upon its receipt of an Assignment and Acceptance executed by an assigning Lender and an assignee representing that it is an Eligible Assignee, together with any Note or Notes subject to such assignment, the Administrative Agent shall, if such Assignment and Acceptance has been completed and is in substantially the form of Exhibit C hereto, (i) accept such Assignment and Acceptance, (ii) record the information contained therein in the Register and (iii) give prompt notice thereof to the Borrower. Within five Business Days after its receipt of such notice, the Borrower, at its own expense, shall execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent in exchange for the surrendered Note or Notes a new Note to the order of such Eligible Assignee in an amount equal to the Commitment assumed by it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance and, if the assigning Lender has retained a Commitment hereunder, a new Note to the order of the assigning Lender in an amount equal to the Commitment retained by it hereunder. Such new Note or Notes shall be in an aggregate principal amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of such surrendered Note or Notes, shall be dated the effective date of such Assignment and Acceptance and shall otherwise be in substantially the form of Exhibit A hereto. (e) Each Lender may sell participations to one or more banks or other entities (other than the Borrower or any of its Affiliateseach, a "Participant") in or to all or a portion of its rights and and/or obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, all or a portion of its Commitment, the Advances owing to it and the Note or Notes held by it); provided, however, that (i) such Lender's obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, its Commitment to the Borrower hereunder) shall remain unchanged, (ii) such Lender shall remain solely responsible to the other parties hereto for the performance of such obligations, (iii) such Lender shall remain the holder of any such Note for all purposes of this Agreement, (iv) the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and the other Lenders shall continue to deal solely and directly with such Lender in connection with such Lender's rights and obligations under this Agreement and (v) no participant under any such participation Lender shall have any retain the sole right to approve approve, without the consent of any amendment Participant, any amendment, modification or waiver of any provision of this Agreement or the Note or Notes held by such Lender, other than any Note, or any consent to any departure by the Borrower therefrom, except to the extent that such amendment, modification or waiver with respect to any Advance or consent would reduce the principal ofCommitment in which such Participant has an interest that forgives principal, interest or interest on, the Notes or any fees or other amounts reduces the interest rate or fees payable hereunderwith respect to any such Advance or Commitment, in each case to the extent subject to such participation, or postpone postpones any date fixed for any regularly scheduled payment of principal of, or interest or fees on, the Notes any such Advance or Commitment, releases any fees guarantor of any such Advance or other amounts payable hereunderreleases any substantial portion of collateral, in each case to the extent subject to if any, securing any such participationAdvance. (f) Any Lender may, in connection with any assignment or participation or proposed assignment or participation pursuant to this Section 8.07, disclose to the assignee or participant or proposed assignee or participant, any information relating to the Borrower furnished to such Lender by or on behalf of the Borrower; provided that, prior to any such disclosure, the assignee or participant or proposed assignee or participant shall agree to preserve the confidentiality of any Confidential Information confidential information relating to the Borrower received by it from such LenderLender (subject to customary exceptions regarding regulatory requirements, compliance with legal process and other requirements of law). (g) Notwithstanding If (i) any other provision set forth Lender shall make demand for payment under Section 2.11(a), 2.11(b) or 2.14, or (ii) shall deliver any notice to the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 2.12 resulting in this Agreementthe suspension of certain obligations of the Lenders with respect to Eurodollar Rate Advances or (iii) shall fail to consent to, or shall revoke its consent to, the extension of any Termination Date pursuant to Section 2.16 or (iv) shall fail to consent to, or shall revoke its consent to, any Lender may at any time create a security interest extension of the "Termination Date" (as defined in all the Revolving Credit Agreement) requested by the Borrower pursuant to Section 2.16 of the Revolving Credit Agreement as originally constituted (or any portion successor provision of its rights similar import), then (in the case of clause (i)) within 60 days after such demand (if, but only if, such payment demanded under Section 2.11(a), 2.11(b) or 2.14 has been made by the Borrower), or (in the case of clause (ii)) within 60 days after such notice (if such suspension is still in effect), or (in the case of clauses (iii) and (iv)) no later than 10 days prior to the then effective Termination Date, as the case may be, the Borrower may demand that such Lender assign in accordance with this Agreement Section 8.07 to one or more Eligible Assignees designated by the Borrower and reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent all (including, without limitation, but not less than all) of such Lender's Commitment and the Advances owing to it within the next succeeding 30 days (in the case of clause (i) or clause (ii)), or within the next succeeding 5 days (in the case of clauses (iii) and (iv)) . If any such Eligible Assignee designated by the Note held by itBorrower shall fail to consummate such assignment on terms acceptable to such Lender, or if the Borrower shall fail to designate any such Eligible Assignee for all of such Lender's Commitment or Advances, then such Lender may (but shall not be required to) in favor of assign such Commitment and Advances to any Federal Reserve Bank other Eligible Assignee in accordance with Regulation A of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve Systemthis Section 8.07 during such period. (h) In connection with Notwithstanding anything to the initial assignment or proposed initial assignment contrary contained herein, any Lender (a "Granting Bank") may grant to a special purpose funding vehicle (an "SPC"), identified as such in writing from time to time by the Initial Lender Granting Bank to the Administrative Agent and the Borrower, the option to provide to the Borrower all or any part of any Advance that such Granting Bank would otherwise be obligated to make to the Borrower pursuant to this Agreement; provided that (i) nothing herein shall constitute a commitment by any SPC to make any Advance, (ii) if an SPC elects not to exercise such option or otherwise fails to provide all or any part of such Advance, the Granting Bank shall be obligated to make such Advance pursuant to the terms hereof. The making of an Advance by an SPC hereunder shall utilize the Commitment of the Granting Bank to the same extent, and as if, such Advance were made by such Granting Bank. Each party hereto hereby agrees that no SPC shall be liable for any indemnity or similar payment obligation under this Agreement (all liability for which shall remain with the Granting Bank). In furtherance of the foregoing, each party hereto hereby agrees (which agreement shall survive the termination of this Agreement) that, prior to the date that is one year and one day after the payment in full of all outstanding commercial paper or other senior indebtedness of any SPC, it will not institute against, or join any other person in instituting against, such SPC any bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, insolvency or liquidation proceedings under the laws of the United States or any State thereof. In addition, notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Section 8.078.07(h), any SPC may (i) with notice to, but without the prior written consent of, the Borrower shalland the Administrative Agent and without paying any processing fee therefor, upon assign all or a portion of its interests in any Advances to the request Granting Bank or to any financial institutions (consented to by the Borrower and Administrative Agent) providing liquidity and/or credit support to or for the account of such SPC to support the funding or maintenance of Advances and (ii) disclose on a confidential basis any non-public information relating to its Advances to any rating agency, commercial paper dealer or provider of any surety, guarantee or credit or liquidity enhancement to such SPC. This Section may not be amended without the written consent of the Initial Lender, furnish to the Initial Lender a favorable opinion of counsel for the Borrower acceptable to the Initial Lender, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Initial LenderGranting Bank.

Assignments and Participations. (aA) Each Lender may assign to one or more Persons all or a portion may, upon the written consent of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, all or a portion of its Commitment, the Advance owing to it Administrative Agent and the Note or Notes held by it); provided, however, that Borrower (i) each such assignment shall consent not to be of a constant, and not a varying, percentage of all rights and obligations under this Agreement, (ii) except in the case of an assignment to a Person that, immediately prior to such assignment, was a Lender or an assignment of all of a Lender's rights and obligations under this Agreement, the amount of the Commitment of the assigning Lender being assigned pursuant to each such assignment (determined as of the date of the Assignment and Acceptance with respect to such assignment) shall in no event be less than $5,000,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof, (iii) each such assignment shall be to an Eligible Assignee, and (iv) the parties to each such assignment shall execute and deliver to the Agent, for its acceptance and recording in the Register, an Assignment and Acceptance, together with any Note subject to such assignment. Upon such execution, delivery, acceptance and recording, from and after the effective date specified in each Assignment and Acceptance, (A) the assignee thereunder shall be a party hereto and, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned to it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance, have the rights and obligations of a Lender hereunder and (B) the Lender assignor thereunder shall, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned by it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance, relinquish its rights and be released from its obligations under this Agreement (unreasonably withheld and, in the case of an Assignment and Acceptance covering all or the remaining portion of an assigning Lender's rights and obligations under this Agreement, such Lender shall cease to be a party hereto). (b) By executing and delivering an Assignment and Acceptance, the Lender assignor thereunder and the assignee thereunder confirm to and agree with each other and the other parties hereto as follows: (i) other than as provided in such Assignment and Acceptance, such assigning Lender makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to any statements, warranties or representations made in or in connection with this Agreement or the execution, legality, validity, enforceability, genuineness, sufficiency or value of this Agreement or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant hereto; (ii) such assigning Lender makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to the financial condition of the Borrower or the performance or observance by the Borrower of any of its obligations under this Agreement or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant hereto; (iii) such assignee confirms that it has received a copy of this Agreement, together with copies of the financial statements referred to in Section 4.01 and such other documents and information as it has deemed appropriate to make its own credit analysis and decision to enter into such Assignment and Acceptance; (iv) such assignee will, independently and without reliance upon the Agent, such assigning Lender or any other Lender and based on such documents and information as it shall deem appropriate at the time, continue to make its own credit decisions in taking or not taking action under this Agreement; (v) such assignee confirms that it is an Eligible Assignee; (vi) such assignee appoints and authorizes the Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers and discretion under this Agreement as are delegated to the Agent by the terms hereof, together with such powers and discretion as are reasonably incidental thereto; and (vii) such assignee agrees that it will perform in accordance with their terms all of the obligations that by the terms of this Agreement are required to be performed by it as a Lender. (c) The Agent shall maintain at its address referred to in Section 8.02 a copy of each Assignment and Acceptance delivered to and accepted by it and a register for the recordation of the names and addresses of the Lenders and the Commitment of, and principal amount of the Advances owing to, each Lender from time to time (the "Register"). The entries in the Register shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error, and the Borrower, the Agent and the Lenders may treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Register as a Lender hereunder for all purposes not to be required if an Event of this Agreement. The Register shall be available for inspection by the Borrower or any Lender at any reasonable time and from time to time upon reasonable prior notice. (d) Upon its receipt of an Assignment and Acceptance executed by an assigning Lender and an assignee representing that it is an Eligible AssigneeDefault exists), together with any Note or Notes subject to such assignment, the Agent shall, if such Assignment and Acceptance has been completed and is in substantially the form of Exhibit C hereto, (i) accept such Assignment and Acceptance, (ii) record the information contained therein in the Register and (iii) give prompt notice thereof to the Borrower. Within five Business Days after its receipt of such notice, the Borrower, at its own expense, shall execute and deliver to the Agent in exchange for the surrendered Note a new Note to the order of such Eligible Assignee in an amount equal to the Commitment assumed by it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance and, if the assigning Lender has retained a Commitment hereunder, a new Note to the order of the assigning Lender in an amount equal to the Commitment retained by it hereunder. Such new Note or Notes shall be in an aggregate principal amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of such surrendered Note or Notes, shall be dated the effective date of such Assignment and Acceptance and shall otherwise be in substantially the form of Exhibit A hereto. (e) Each Lender may sell participations assign to one or more banks or other entities (other than the Borrower or any of its Affiliates) in or to Eligible Assignees all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, all or a portion of its Commitment, the Advances owing to it and the Note or Notes held by it); provided, however, that (i) each such Lender's obligations under this Agreement (includingassignment shall be of a constant, without limitationand not a varying, its Commitment to percentage of all of the Borrower hereunder) shall remain unchanged, (ii) such Lender shall remain solely responsible to the other parties hereto for the performance of such obligations, (iii) such Lender shall remain the holder of any such Note for all purposes of this Agreement, (iv) the Borrower, the Agent and the other Lenders shall continue to deal solely and directly with such Lender in connection with such assigning Lender's rights and obligations under this Agreement Agreement, (ii) the amount of the Commitment of the assigning Lender being assigned pursuant to each such assignment (determined as of the date of the Lender Assignment with respect to such assignment) shall in no event be less than the lesser of the amount of such Lender's then remaining Commitment and $15,000,000 (except in the case of assignments between Lenders at the time already parties hereto), and (viii) no participant under the parties to each such assignment shall execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent, for its acceptance and recording in the Register, a Lender Assignment, together with any Note or Notes subject to such participation assignment and a processing and recordation fee of $3,000. Promptly following its receipt of such Lender Assignment, Note or Notes and fee, the Administrative Agent shall have any right to approve any amendment or waiver of any provision of this Agreement or any Noteaccept and record such Lender Assignment in the Register. Upon such execution, or any consent to any departure by delivery, acceptance and recording, from and after the Borrower therefromeffective date specified in each Lender Assignment, except (x) the assignee thereunder shall be a party hereto and, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned to it pursuant to such amendmentLender Assignment, waiver or consent would reduce have the principal ofrights and obligations of a Lender hereunder and (y) the Lender assignor thereunder shall, or interest on, the Notes or any fees or other amounts payable hereunder, in each case to the extent subject to such participation, or postpone any date fixed for any payment of principal of, or interest on, the Notes or any fees or other amounts payable hereunder, in each case to the extent subject to such participation. (f) Any Lender may, in connection with any assignment or participation or proposed assignment or participation that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned by it pursuant to this Section 8.07, disclose to the assignee or participant or proposed assignee or participant, any information relating to the Borrower furnished to such Lender by Assignment, relinquish its rights and be released from its obligations under this Agreement (and, in the case of a Lender Assignment covering all or on behalf the remaining portion of the Borrower; provided thatan assigning Lender's rights and obligations under this Agreement, prior such Lender shall cease to any such disclosure, the assignee or participant or proposed assignee or participant shall agree to preserve the confidentiality of any Confidential Information relating be a party hereto). Notwithstanding anything to the Borrower received by it from such Lender. (g) Notwithstanding any other provision set forth contrary contained in this Agreement, any Lender may at any time create a security interest in assign all or any portion of its rights under this Agreement (including, without limitation, the Advances owing to it and to any Affiliate of such Lender. No such assignment, other than to an Eligible Assignee, shall release the Note held by it) in favor of any Federal Reserve Bank in accordance with Regulation A of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve Systemassigning Lender from its obligations hereunder. (h) In connection with the initial assignment or proposed initial assignment by the Initial Lender pursuant to this Section 8.07, the Borrower shall, upon the request of the Initial Lender, furnish to the Initial Lender a favorable opinion of counsel for the Borrower acceptable to the Initial Lender, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Initial Lender.

Assignments and Participations. (a) Each Lender may assign to one or more Persons Eligible Assignees all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, all or a portion of its Loans, its Note, and its Revolving Credit Commitment, the Advance owing to it and the Note or Notes held by it); providedPROVIDED, howeverHOWEVER, that that (i) each such assignment shall be of a constant, and not a varying, percentage of all rights and obligations under this Agreement, to an Eligible Assignee; (ii) except in the case of an assignment to a Person that, immediately prior to such assignment, was a another Lender or an assignment of all of a Lender's rights and obligations under this Agreement and the Southwest Agreement, any such partial assignment under this Agreement and the Southwest Agreement shall be in an amount of the Commitment of the assigning Lender being assigned pursuant at least equal to each such assignment (determined as of the date of the Assignment and Acceptance with respect to such assignment) shall in no event be less than $5,000,000 10,000,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof, ; (iii) any assignment by a Lender of all or a portion of its Revolving Credit Commitment shall include an assignment of a similar percentage of its Revolving Credit Commitment under the Southwest Agreement; (iv) each such assignment by a Lender shall be to an Eligible Assigneeof a constant, and not varying, percentage of all of its rights and obligations under this Agreement and the Note; and (ivv) the parties to each such assignment shall execute and deliver to the Agent, Agent for its acceptance and recording in the Register, an Assignment and AcceptanceAcceptance in the form of EXHIBIT B hereto, together with any Note subject to such assignmentassignment and a processing fee of $3,500. Upon such execution, delivery, and acceptance and recording, from and after the effective date specified in each of such Assignment and Acceptance, (A) the assignee thereunder shall be a party hereto and, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned to it pursuant to of such Assignment and Acceptanceassignment, have the rights obligations, rights, and obligations benefits of a Lender hereunder and (B) the assigning Lender assignor thereunder shall, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned by it pursuant to of such Assignment and Acceptanceassignment, relinquish its rights and be released from its obligations under this Agreement (andAgreement. Upon the consummation of any assignment pursuant to this Section, the assignor, the Agent and the Borrower shall make appropriate arrangements so that, if required, new Notes are issued to the assignor and the assignee. If the assignee is not incorporated under the laws of the United States of America or a state thereof, it shall deliver to the Borrower and the Agent certification as to exemption from deduction or withholding of Taxes in the case of an Assignment and Acceptance covering all or the remaining portion of an assigning Lender's rights and obligations under this Agreement, such Lender shall cease to be a party hereto)accordance with SECTION 5.6. (b) By executing and delivering an Assignment and Acceptance, the Lender assignor thereunder and the assignee thereunder confirm to and agree with each other and the other parties hereto as follows: (i) other than as provided in such Assignment and Acceptance, such assigning Lender makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to any statements, warranties or representations made in or in connection with this Agreement or the execution, legality, validity, enforceability, genuineness, sufficiency or value of this Agreement or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant hereto; (ii) such assigning Lender makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to the financial condition of the Borrower or the performance or observance by the Borrower of any of its obligations under this Agreement or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant hereto; (iii) such assignee confirms that it has received a copy of this Agreement, together with copies of the financial statements referred to in Section 4.01 and such other documents and information as it has deemed appropriate to make its own credit analysis and decision to enter into such Assignment and Acceptance; (iv) such assignee will, independently and without reliance upon the Agent, such assigning Lender or any other Lender and based on such documents and information as it shall deem appropriate at the time, continue to make its own credit decisions in taking or not taking action under this Agreement; (v) such assignee confirms that it is an Eligible Assignee; (vi) such assignee appoints and authorizes the Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers and discretion under this Agreement as are delegated to the Agent by the terms hereof, together with such powers and discretion as are reasonably incidental thereto; and (vii) such assignee agrees that it will perform in accordance with their terms all of the obligations that by the terms of this Agreement are required to be performed by it as a Lender. (c) The Agent shall maintain at its address referred to in Section 8.02 SECTION 12.2 a copy of each Assignment and Acceptance delivered to and accepted by it and a register for the recordation of the names and addresses of the Lenders and the Revolving Credit Commitment of, and principal amount of the Advances Loans owing to, each Lender from time to time (the "Register"). The entries in the Register shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error, and the Borrower, the Agent and the Lenders may treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Register as a Lender hereunder for all purposes of this Agreement. The Register shall be available for inspection by the Borrower or any Lender at any reasonable time and from time to time upon reasonable prior notice. (dc) Upon its receipt of an Assignment and Acceptance executed by an assigning Lender and an assignee representing that it is an Eligible Assigneethe parties thereto, together with any Note or Notes subject to such assignmentassignment and payment of the processing fee, the Agent shall, if such Assignment and Acceptance has been completed and is in substantially the form of Exhibit C EXHIBIT B hereto, (i) accept such Assignment and Acceptance, (ii) record the information contained therein in the Register and (iii) give prompt notice thereof to the Borrower. Within five Business Days after its receipt of such notice, the Borrower, at its own expense, shall execute and deliver to the Agent in exchange for the surrendered Note a new Note to the order of such Eligible Assignee in an amount equal to the Commitment assumed by it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance and, if the assigning Lender has retained a Commitment hereunder, a new Note to the order of the assigning Lender in an amount equal to the Commitment retained by it hereunder. Such new Note or Notes shall be in an aggregate principal amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of such surrendered Note or Notes, shall be dated the effective date of such Assignment and Acceptance and shall otherwise be in substantially the form of Exhibit A heretoparties thereto. (ed) Each Lender may sell participations to one or more banks or other entities (other than the Borrower or any of its Affiliates) Persons in or to all or a portion of its rights, obligations or rights and obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, including all or a portion of its Commitment, the Advances owing to it and the Note Revolving Credit Commitment or Notes held by itits Loans); providedPROVIDED, howeverHOWEVER, that (i) such Lender's obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, its Commitment to the Borrower hereunder) shall remain unchanged, (ii) such Lender shall remain solely responsible to the other parties hereto for the performance of such obligations, (iii) the participant shall be entitled to the benefit of the yield protection provisions contained in ARTICLE V to the extent such Lender shall remain is entitled to make a claim by reason of such benefit and the holder right of any such Note for all purposes of this Agreementset-off contained in SECTION 12.3, and (iv) the Borrower, the Agent and the other Lenders Borrower shall continue to deal solely and directly with such Lender in connection with such Lender's rights and obligations under this Agreement Agreement, and (v) no participant under any such participation Lender shall have any retain the sole right to enforce the obligations of the Borrower relating to its Loans and its Note and to approve any amendment amendment, modification, or waiver of any provision of this Agreement (other than amendments, modifications, or waivers decreasing the amount of principal of or the rate at which interest is payable on such Loans or Note, extending any scheduled principal payment date or date fixed for the payment of interest on such Loans or Note, or any consent to any departure by the Borrower therefrom, except to the extent that such amendment, waiver or consent would reduce the principal of, or interest on, the Notes or any fees or other amounts payable hereunder, in each case to the extent subject to such participation, or postpone any date fixed for any payment of principal of, or interest on, the Notes or any fees or other amounts payable hereunder, in each case to the extent subject to such participationextending its Revolving Credit Commitment). (f) Any Lender may, in connection with any assignment or participation or proposed assignment or participation pursuant to this Section 8.07, disclose to the assignee or participant or proposed assignee or participant, any information relating to the Borrower furnished to such Lender by or on behalf of the Borrower; provided that, prior to any such disclosure, the assignee or participant or proposed assignee or participant shall agree to preserve the confidentiality of any Confidential Information relating to the Borrower received by it from such Lender. (ge) Notwithstanding any other provision set forth in this Agreement, any Lender may at any time create a security interest in assign and pledge all or any portion of its rights under this Agreement (including, without limitation, the Advances owing Loans and its Note to it and the Note held by it) in favor of any Federal Reserve Bank in accordance with as collateral security pursuant to Regulation A of the Board of Governors of the and any Operating Circular issued by such Federal Reserve SystemBank. No such assignment shall release the assigning Lender from its obligations hereunder. (hf) In connection with the initial assignment or proposed initial assignment by the Initial Any Lender pursuant to this Section 8.07, may furnish any information concerning the Borrower shall, upon the request or any of the Initial Lender, furnish Subsidiaries in the possession of such Lender from time to time to assignees and participants (including prospective assignees and participants) to the Initial Lender a favorable opinion of counsel for the Borrower acceptable to the Initial Lender, extent provided in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Initial LenderSECTION 8.1.