Utilisation 4.1 Conditions to Utilisation Save as otherwise provided in this Agreement, an Advance will be made by the Lenders to a Borrower or a Documentary Credit will be issued by an L/C Bank at a Borrower’s (other than the US Borrower’s) request if:
(a) in the case of an Advance, the Facility Agent has received from such Borrower a duly completed Utilisation Request in the relevant form, and in the case of a Documentary Credit, both the Facility Agent and the L/C Bank have received from a Borrower (other than the US Borrower) a duly completed Utilisation Request in the relevant form, in each case, no earlier than the day which is 10 Business Days and no later than 2:00 p.m. on the day which is 3 Business Days (or in the case of any Documentary Credit which is not or will not be in the form of Schedule 12 (Form of Documentary Credit), no later than 2:00 p.m. on the day which is 5 Business Days) prior to the proposed Utilisation Date for such Advance or Documentary Credit, receipt of which shall oblige such Borrower to utilise the amount requested on the Utilisation Date stated therein upon the terms and subject to the conditions contained in this Agreement;
(b) the proposed Utilisation Date is a Business Day for the proposed currency of the Advance or Documentary Credit, as the case may be, which is or precedes the relevant Termination Date;
(c) in the case of a Utilisation by way of Term Facility Advance, such Utilisation would result in the maximum principal amount of the Term Facility Advance being utilised, or in the case of a Utilisation by way of a Revolving Facility Advance, such Utilisation occurs on or after the maximum principal amount of the Term Facility being utilised and, the proposed Sterling Amount of such Revolving Facility Advance is (i) equal to the amount of the Available Revolving Facility Commitment at such time, or (ii) less than such amount but equal to a minimum of £5 million, or an integral multiple of £1 million;
(d) in the case of a Utilisation by way of Documentary Credit, the proposed Sterling Amount of such Documentary Credit is (i) equal to the amount of the Available Revolving Facility or (ii) less than such amount but equal to or more than £1 million or such lesser amount as the L/C Bank may agree;
(e) in the case of a Utilisation by way of a Revolving Facility Advance, immediately after the making of such Advance there will be no more than 10 Revolving Facility Advances then outstanding;
(f) in the case of a Utilisation by way of a Documentary Credit, the proposed Term of the Documentary Credit ends on or before the Termination Date in respect of the Revolving Facility;
(g) in the case of a Utilisation by way of a Revolving Facility Advance, the proposed Term of such Advance is a period of 1, 2, 3 or 6 months or such other period of up to 12 months as all the Lenders having a Revolving Facility Commitment may agree prior to submission of the relevant Utilisation Request, and ends on or before the Final Maturity Date in respect of the Revolving Facility provided that, save as the Bookrunners may otherwise agree, prior to the Syndication Date, the Term of each Revolving Facility Advance shall be 1 month (or, if less, such duration as is necessary to ensure that such Term ends on the Syndication Date);
(h) in the case of a Utilisation by way of an Advance (other than a Rollover Advance), the interest rate applicable to such Advance’s first Interest Period or Term (as the case may be) will not have to be determined under Clause 15 (Market Disruption and Alternative Interest Rates);
(i) in the case of a Utilisation by way of a Documentary Credit which is not substantially in the form set out in Schedule 12 (Form of Documentary Credit), the L/C Bank shall have approved the terms of such Documentary Credit (acting reasonably); and
(j) in the case of any Utilisation, on the date of the Utilisation Request, the date of any Conversion Notice and the proposed Utilisation Date:
(i) in the case of a Rollover Advance or a Documentary Credit which is being renewed pursuant to Clause 5.2 (Renewal of Documentary Credits), the Facility Agent shall not have received instructions from a Revolving Facility Instructing Group requiring the Facility Agent to refuse such rollover or renewal of a Documentary Credit by reason of an Event of Default having occurred which is continuing or would result from the proposed Rollover Advance or the renewal of that Documentary Credit; or
(ii) in the case of any Utilisation other than that referred to in sub-paragraph (i):
(A) in the case of the first Utilisation of any Facility, subject to the provisions of Clause 3.5 (Vanilla Certain Funds Period), all representations set out in Clause 21 (Representations and Warranties) made by each of the persons identified as making those representations are true in all material respects by reference to the circumstances then existing and no Default is continuing or would result from the proposed Utilisation;
(B) in the case of any Utilisation under the A1 Facility and B1 Facility, subject to the provisions of Clause 3.6 (Baseball Certain Funds Period), the Repeating Representations made by the persons identified as making those representations are true in all material respects by reference to the circumstances then existing and no Default is continuing or would result from the proposed Utilisation;
(C) in the case of any Utilisation under the B2 Facility, B3 Facility, B4 Facility, B5 Facility and B6 Facility, the Repeating Representations made by the persons identified as making those representations are true in all material respects by reference to the circumstances then existing and no Default is continuing or would result from the proposed Utilisation; or
(D) in the case of any Utilisation under the C Facility, the Repeating Representations made by the persons identified as making those representations are true in all material respects by reference to the circumstances then existing and no Default is continuing or would result from the proposed Utilisation.
Request for Borrowing The applicable Borrower shall give Administrative Agent notice of (i) each requested Borrowing hereunder, which notice shall be in writing (a “Request for Borrowing”), in the form of Exhibit B hereto. Each Request for Borrowing shall be irrevocable and effective upon receipt by Administrative Agent and shall be furnished to Administrative Agent:
(i) three (3) Business Days prior to the proposed Borrowing Date with respect to the making of Loans denominated in Dollars to which the Term SOFR or Daily Simple SOFR Option applies;
(ii) three (3) Business Days prior to the proposed Borrowing Date with respect to the making of Loans denominated in Alternative Currencies to which the Eurocurrency Rate Option applies;
(iii) three (3) Business Days prior to the proposed Borrowing Date with respect to the making of Loans denominated in Alternative Currencies to which the Daily Simple RFR Option applies; and/or
(iv) the same Business Day of the proposed Borrowing Date with respect to the making of a Loan to which the Base Rate Option applies or the last day of the preceding Interest Period with respect to the conversion to the Base Rate Option for any Loan, provided that any such request received by Administrative Agent after 3:00 p.m. (Eastern time) ( 12 noon for Base Rate Option) shall be deemed to have been given by Borrowers on the next succeeding Business Day. Each Request for Borrowing shall specify (A) the amount of such Borrowing, (B) the date of such Borrowing, which shall be a Business Day, (C) the Interest Rate Option, and if applicable, the Interest Period, (D) the Borrowers making the Request for Borrowing, and (E) the amount of each Loan attributable to each Borrower (if applicable); and shall be accompanied or preceded by (x) a duly executed Borrowing Base Certificate dated the date of such Request for Borrowing, (y) such documents as are required to satisfy any applicable conditions precedent as provided in Section 6.2, and (z) an Investment Report dated the date of such Request for Borrowing. Administrative Agent shall promptly give notice of each Request for Borrowing to the Lenders. Each Request for Borrowing submitted by the Borrowers shall be deemed to be a representation and warranty that the conditions specified in Sections 6.1 and 6.2 and, to the extent applicable, Section 6.3, have been satisfied on and as of the date of the applicable Borrowing. No Request for Borrowing shall be valid hereunder for any purpose unless it shall have been accompanied or preceded by the information and other documents required to be delivered in accordance with this Section 2.3.
