Credit-Linked Deposits. As of the Restatement Effective Date each Lender that is a CL Lender on such date has paid to the Deposit Bank such CL Lender’s Credit-Linked Deposit in the amount of its Credit-Linked Commitment. The Credit-Linked Deposits shall be held by the Deposit Bank in (or credited to) the Credit-Linked Deposit Account, and no Person other than the Deposit Bank shall have a right of withdrawal from the Credit-Linked Deposit Account or any other right or power with respect to the Credit-Linked Deposits. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the funding obligation of each CL Lender in respect of its participation in CL Credit Events shall be satisfied in full upon the funding of its Credit-Linked Deposit. Each of the Deposit Bank, the Administrative Agent, each Issuing Bank and each CL Lender hereby acknowledges and agrees (i) that each CL Lender is funding its Credit-Linked Deposit to the Deposit Bank for application in the manner contemplated by Section 2.06(a) and/or 2.05(e), (ii) the Deposit Bank may invest the Credit-Linked Deposits in such investments as may be determined from time to time by the Deposit Bank and (iii) the Deposit Bank has agreed to pay to each CL Lender a return on its Credit-Linked Deposit (except (x) during periods when such Credit-Linked Deposits are used to (x) fund CL Loans or (y) reimburse an Issuing Lender with respect to Drawings on CL Letters of Credit or (y) as otherwise provided in Sections 2.02(B)(c) and (d)) equal at any time to the Adjusted LIBO Rate for Dollar Term Loans for the Interest Period in effect for the Credit-Linked Deposits at such time less the Credit-Linked Deposit Cost Amount at such time. Such interest will be paid to the CL Lenders by the Deposit Bank at the applicable Adjusted LIBO Rate for an Interest Period of one month (or at an amount determined in accordance with Section 2.02(B)(c) or (d), as applicable) less, in each case, the Credit-Linked Deposit Cost Amount in arrears on each CL Interest Payment Date.
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Sources: Credit Agreement (Celanese CORP)
Credit-Linked Deposits. As (a) On the Closing Date, and subject to the satisfaction of the Restatement Effective Date conditions precedent set forth in Article IV, each Lender that is a CL Lender on such date has paid shall pay to the Deposit Bank such CL Lender’s 's Credit-Linked Deposit in the amount of its Credit-Linked Commitment. The Credit-Linked Deposits shall be held by the Deposit Bank in (or credited to) the Credit-Linked Deposit Account, and no Person other than the Deposit Bank shall have a right of withdrawal from the Credit-Linked Deposit Account or any other right or power with respect to the Credit-Linked Deposits. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the funding obligation of each CL Lender in respect of its participation in CL Credit Events shall be satisfied in full upon the funding of its Credit-Linked Deposit. Each of the Deposit Bank, the Administrative Agent, each Issuing Bank and each CL Lender hereby acknowledges and agrees (i) that each CL Lender is funding its Credit-Linked Deposit to the Deposit Bank for application in the manner contemplated by Section 2.06(a) and/or 2.05(e), (ii) the Deposit Bank may invest the Credit-Linked Deposits in such investments as may be determined from time to time by the Deposit Bank and (iii) the Deposit Bank has agreed to pay to each CL Lender a return on its Credit-Linked Deposit (except (x) during periods when such Credit-Linked Deposits are used to (x) fund CL Loans or (y) reimburse an Issuing Lender with respect to Drawings on CL Letters of Credit or (y) as otherwise provided in Sections 2.02(B)(c) and (d)) equal at any time to the Adjusted LIBO Rate for Dollar Term Loans for the Interest Period in effect for the Credit-Linked Deposits at such time less the Credit-Linked Deposit Cost Amount at such time. Such interest will be paid to the CL Lenders by the Deposit Bank at the applicable Adjusted LIBO Rate for an Interest Period of one month (or at an amount determined in accordance with Section 2.02(B)(c) or (d), as applicable) less, in each case, the Credit-Linked Deposit Cost Amount in arrears on each CL Interest Payment Date.
(b) No Loan Party shall have any right, title or interest in or to the Credit-Linked Deposit Account or the Credit-Linked Deposits and no obligations with respect thereto (except to repay CL Loans and to refund portions thereof used to reimburse an Issuing Lender with respect to Drawings on CL Letters of Credit as provided in Section 2.05(e)), it being acknowledged and agreed by the parties hereto that the funding of the Credit-Linked Deposits by the CL Lenders, and the application of the Credit-Linked Deposits in the manner contemplated by Section 2.05(e) constitute agreements among the Deposit Bank, the Administrative Agent, each Issuing Bank and each CL Lender with respect to the participation in the CL Letters of Credit and do not constitute any loan or extension of credit to any Borrower.
(c) If the Deposit Bank is not offering Dollar deposits (in the applicable amounts) in the London interbank market, or the Deposit Bank determines that adequate and fair means do not otherwise exist for ascertaining the Adjusted LIBO Rate for the Credit-Linked Deposits (or any part thereof), then the Credit-Linked Deposits (or such parts, as applicable) shall be invested so as to earn a return equal to the greater of the Federal Funds Rate and a rate determined by the Deposit Bank in accordance with banking industry rules on interbank compensation.
(d) If any CL Loan is repaid by the respective CL Borrower, or if any L/C Disbursement under a CL Letter of Credit that has been funded by the CL Lenders from the Credit-Linked Deposits as provided in Section 2.05(e) shall be reimbursed by the respective CL Borrower, on a day other than on the last day of an Interest Period applicable to the Credit-Linked Deposits, the Administrative Agent shall, upon receipt thereof, pay over such amounts to the Deposit Bank which will invest such amounts in overnight or short-term cash equivalent investments until the end of the Interest Period at the time in effect and respective CL Borrower shall pay to the Deposit Bank, upon the Deposit Bank's request therefor, the amount, if any, by which the interest accrued on a like amount of the Credit-Linked Deposits at the Adjusted LIBO Rate for Term Loans for the Interest Period in effect therefor shall exceed the interest earned through the investment of the amount so reimbursed for the period from the date of such reimbursement through the end of the applicable Interest Period, as determined by the Deposit Bank (such determination shall, absent manifest error, be presumed correct and binding on all parties hereto) and set forth in the request for payment delivered to CAC. In the event that the respective CL Borrower shall fail to pay any amount due under this Section 2.02(B)(d), the interest payable by the Deposit Bank to the CL Lenders on their Credit-Linked Deposits under Section 2.02 (B)(a) shall be correspondingly reduced and the CL Lenders shall without further act succeed, ratably in accordance with their CL Percentages, to the rights of the Deposit Bank with respect to such amount due from the respective CL Borrower. All repayments of CL Loans and all reimbursements of L/C Disbursements under a CL Letter of Credit that has been funded by the CL Lenders from the Credit-Linked Deposits, in each case received by the Administrative Agent prior to the termination of the Total Credit-Linked Commitment, shall be paid over to the Deposit Bank which will deposit same in the Credit-Linked Deposit Account.
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