Mandatory Prepayments Section 2.20 of the Loan Agreement shall be amended by amending Section 2.20(a) and adding a new Section 2.20(d), each as follows:
(1) Section 2.20(a) shall be amended and restated in its entirety as follows:
(a) Subject to Section 7.1 hereof, when any Borrower sells or otherwise disposes of any Collateral other than Inventory in the Ordinary Course of Business, Borrowers shall repay the Advances in an amount equal to the net proceeds of such sale (i.e., gross proceeds less the reasonable direct costs of such sales or other dispositions), such repayments to be made promptly but in no event more than three (3) Business Days following receipt of such net proceeds, and until the date of payment, such proceeds shall be held in trust for Agent. The foregoing shall not be deemed to be implied consent to any such sale otherwise prohibited by the terms and conditions hereof. Such repayments shall be applied to the outstanding Advances (x) first, to the outstanding principal installments of the Term Loans in the inverse order of the maturities thereof, (y) second, to the outstanding principal installments of the Equipment Loans in the inverse order of the maturities thereof, and (z) third, to the remaining Advances (including cash collateralization of all Obligations relating to any outstanding Letters of Credit in accordance with the provisions of Section 3.2(b), provided however that if no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, such repayments shall be applied to cash collateralize any Obligations related to outstanding Letters of Credit last) in such order as Agent may determine, subject to Borrowers’ ability to reborrow Revolving Advances in accordance with the terms hereof.
(2) a new Section 2.20(d) shall be added as follows:
Application of Mandatory Prepayments (a) Subject to paragraph (b), prepayments made pursuant to this Clause 10 (Mandatory Prepayment) or Clause 25.21 (Notes Purchases) shall be applied in the following order:
(i) first, in cancellation of the Available Commitments (and the Available Commitment of the Lenders will be cancelled rateably) (such cancellation shall be deemed to be a prepayment even though no cash is paid by the Borrower to the Lenders);
(ii) secondly, in permanent prepayment and cancellation of Utilisations and cancellation of Commitments; and
(iii) thirdly, in repayment and cancellation of the Ancillary Outstandings and Ancillary Commitments.
(b) Unless the Company makes an election under paragraph (c) below, the Borrowers shall make prepayments and cancellations under this Clause 10 or Clause 25.21 (Notes Purchases) at the following times:
(i) in the case of Net Cash Proceeds (if any) required to be applied pursuant to Clause 10.2 (Disposals), within 364 days following receipt of those Net Cash Proceeds; and
(ii) in the case of amounts required to be prepaid pursuant to Clause 25.21 (Notes Purchases), on or prior to the date of completion of the Notes Purchase in relation to which such prepayment is required.
(c) Subject to paragraph (d) below, the Company may elect, by no less than two (2) Business Days’ notice in writing to the Agent (or such shorter period as the Majority Lenders may agree), that any prepayment of a Utilisation due under Clause 25.21 (Notes Purchases), to the extent it will be applied under any sub-clause other than sub-clause “first” of Clause 10.4(a) (Application of mandatory prepayments), may be made on the last day of the Interest Period relating to that Utilisation. If the Company makes that election then an amount of the Utilisation equal to the amount of the relevant prepayment shall be due and payable on the last day of its Interest Period.
(d) If the Company has made an election under paragraph (c) above but an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, that election shall no longer apply and a proportion of the Utilisation in respect of which the election was made equal to the amount of the relevant prepayment shall be immediately due and payable (unless the Majority Lenders otherwise agree).
(e) Subject to paragraphs (f) to (h) below, if monies are required to be applied in prepayment or repayment of Utilisations under Clause 10 (Mandatory Prepayment) but, in order to be so applied, need to be upstreamed or otherwise transferred from one member of the Group to another member of the Group to effect that payment, no amounts shall be payable under that Clause:
(i) to the extent that the upstreaming or transfer of funds to make the relevant payment:
(A) is prohibited by the local law of the jurisdiction from which the upstreaming (or other transfer) is to be made or the local law of the jurisdiction to which the upstreaming (or other transfer) should be made (in each case including, without limitation, any corporate benefit, capital maintenance, general legal or statutory limitations, financial assistance, fraudulent preference or laws or regulations (or analogous restrictions));
(B) would result in a risk to the officers or directors of the relevant member of the Group of contravention of their fiduciary or officers’ or directors’ duties and/or of civil or criminal liability; or
(ii) in circumstances where the Taxes or other costs to the Group of the upstreaming (or other transfer) of funds to make the relevant payment is equal to or exceeds five per cent of the amount to be upstreamed or transferred.
(f) Each Obligor shall (and the Company shall procure that each relevant member of the Group will) use all commercially reasonable endeavours to overcome any restrictions (including without limitation by seeking to upstream or otherwise transfer the relevant monies to one or more other members of the Group) and/or minimise any Taxes or other costs of any upstreaming (or other transfer). If at any time those restrictions are removed or (as the case may be) those Taxes or costs are reduced, the Company must procure that an amount equal to the relevant proceeds will be applied in prepayment of the Facility in accordance with this Agreement at the end of the next Interest Period.
(g) If cash required for making such prepayment is available to any other member of the Restricted Group and such cash is not projected to be required by any member of the Restricted Group during the next 12 Months (“Free Cash”) and sub-paragraphs (e)(i) and (ii) above would not apply to any prepayment made using Free Cash, any such other members of the Restricted Group shall (to the extent it is able to do so without breaching any legal restriction applicable to it (including, without limitation, any financial assistance prohibition), having used all commercially reasonable endeavours to overcome any such restriction), apply the amount of Free Cash towards any applicable prepayment (or, as applicable, towards upstreaming (or otherwise transferring) such Free Cash to a Borrower to enable it to make that prepayment).
(h) The obligation to make a mandatory prepayment under Clause 10.1 (Exit) shall not be subject to any limitation set out under paragraph (e) above.
Mandatory Prepayments and Commitment Reductions (a) If any Capital Stock shall be issued by the US Borrower (other than as set forth below with respect to Excluded Proceeds) or (ii) if any Indebtedness shall be incurred by any Group Member, excluding any Indebtedness incurred in accordance with Section 7.2 as in effect on the Closing Date (except Indebtedness incurred pursuant to Section 7.2(g)(i)(x)), then on the date of such issuance or incurrence, the Term Loans shall be prepaid, and/or the Revolving Credit Loans shall be repaid, by an amount equal to, in the case of an issuance of Capital Stock, 50% of the Net Cash Proceeds thereof, or in the case of Indebtedness, 100% of the Net Cash Proceeds, other than any Excluded Proceeds, of such issuance or incurrence, as set forth in Section 2.13(d). The provisions of this Section do not constitute a consent to the issuance of any equity securities by any entity whose equity securities are pledged pursuant to the Guarantee and US Collateral Agreement or the Canadian Collateral Agreement, or a consent to the incurrence of any Indebtedness by any Group Member.
(b) If on any date any Group Member shall receive Net Cash Proceeds from any Asset Sale, Purchase Price Refund or Recovery Event then, except as provided in the following sentence, unless a Reinvestment Notice shall be delivered in respect thereof, on the date of receipt by such Group Member of such Net Cash Proceeds, the Term Loans shall be prepaid, and/or the Revolving Credit Loans shall be repaid, by an amount equal to the amount of such Net Cash Proceeds, as set forth in Section 2.13(d); provided, that, notwithstanding the foregoing, (i) the aggregate Net Cash Proceeds of Asset Sales and Recovery Events that may be excluded from the foregoing requirement pursuant to one or more Reinvestment Notices and pending reinvestment at any given time shall not exceed $40,000,000 and (ii) on each Reinvestment Prepayment Date the Term Loans shall be prepaid, and/or the Revolving Credit Loans shall be repaid, by an amount equal to the Reinvestment Prepayment Amount with respect to the relevant Reinvestment Event, as set forth in Section 2.13(d). Notwithstanding the foregoing, Net Cash Proceeds received from dispositions permitted by Section 7.5(e) shall be applied on the date of receipt to repay outstanding Revolving Loans. The provisions of this Section do not constitute a consent to the consummation of any Disposition not permitted by Section 7.5.
(c) If for any fiscal year of the US Borrower commencing with the fiscal year ending December 31, 2009 there shall be Excess Cash Flow, then, on the relevant Excess Cash Flow Application Date, the Term Loans shall be prepaid and/or the Revolving Credit Loans shall be repaid, by an amount equal to 50% of such Excess Cash Flow, as set forth in Section 2.13(d). Each such prepayment shall be made on a date (an “Excess Cash Flow Application Date”) no later than five days after the earlier of (i) the date on which the financial statements of the US Borrower referred to in Section 6.1(a), for the fiscal year with respect to which such prepayment is made, are required to be delivered to the Lenders and (ii) the date such financial statements are actually delivered.
(d) Except as otherwise provided in clause (b) above with respect to Net Cash Proceeds received from dispositions permitted by Section 7.5(e), amounts to be applied in connection with prepayments and Commitment reductions made pursuant to this Section 2.13 shall be applied, first, to the prepayment of the Term Loans and, second, to the repayment of the Revolving Credit Loans, as provided in Section 2.19. Any repayment of Revolving Credit Loans pursuant to this Section 2.13 shall not result in a reduction of the Revolving Credit Commitments.
(e) If at any time the Dollar Equivalent of the total aggregate amount of the Revolving US/CA Extensions of Credit exceeds the Total Revolving Credit US/CA Commitments, the Borrowers shall repay Revolving Credit US/CA Loans and/or Swing Line Loans to such extent; provided that if the aggregate principal amount of Revolving Credit US/CA Loans and Swing Line Loans is less than such excess (because L/C Obligations constitute a portion thereof), the Borrowers shall, to the extent of the balance of such excess, replace outstanding Letters of Credit and/or deposit an amount in a cash collateral account established with the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties on terms and conditions satisfactory to the Administrative Agent. If at any time the total aggregate amount of the Revolving CA Extensions of Credit exceeds the Total Revolving Credit CA Commitments, the Canadian Borrower shall repay Revolving Credit CA Loans and/or Swing Line Loans to such extent; provided that if the aggregate principal amount of Revolving Credit CA Loans and Swing Line Loans to the Canadian Borrower is less than such excess (because L/C Obligations of the Canadian Borrower constitute a portion thereof), the Canadian Borrower shall, to the extent of the balance of such excess, replace its outstanding Letters or Credit and/or deposit an amount in a cash collateral account established with the Canadian Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties on terms and conditions satisfactory to the Canadian Agent.
(f) If at any time the Dollar Equivalent of the aggregate amount of the Total Extensions of Credit exceeds the Total Revolving Credit Commitment, the Borrowers shall repay Revolving Credit Loans and/or Swing Line Loans to such extent; provided that if the aggregate principal amount of Revolving Credit Loans and Swing Line Loans is less than such excess (because L/C Obligations constitute a portion thereof), the Borrowers shall to the extent of the balance of such excess, replace outstanding Letters of Credit and/or deposit an amount in a cash collateral account established with the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties on terms and conditions satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.
Asset Dispositions Make any Asset Disposition, except:
(a) the sale of obsolete, worn-out or surplus assets no longer used or usable in the business of the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries;
(i) non-exclusive licenses and sublicenses of intellectual property rights in the ordinary course of business not interfering, individually or in the aggregate, in any material respect with the conduct of the business of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, (ii) exclusive licenses and sublicenses of intellectual property rights and other Asset Dispositions with respect to intellectual property granted or made in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice or (iii) exclusive licenses and sublicenses, assignments of intellectual property rights and other Asset Dispositions with respect to intellectual property granted or made in the exercise of the Borrower’s reasonable business judgment, where such exclusive license, assignment or other Asset Disposition is not reasonably expected to have a Material Adverse Effect;
(c) leases, subleases, licenses or sublicenses of real or personal property granted by the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to others in the ordinary course of business not interfering in any material respect with the business of the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries;
(d) Asset Dispositions in connection with Insurance and Condemnation Events; provided that the requirements of Section 4.4(b) are complied with in connection therewith;
(e) Assets Dispositions in connection with transactions expressly permitted by Section 9.4;
(f) Asset Dispositions not otherwise permitted pursuant to this Section; provided that (i) at the time of such Asset Disposition, no Event of Default shall exist or would result from such Asset Disposition and (ii) such Asset Disposition is made for Fair Market Value and the consideration received shall not be less than 75% in cash or Cash Equivalents; and
(g) Asset Dispositions of accounts receivable transferred as part of a Permitted A/R Financing.
Mandatory Prepayments Commitment Reductions (a) No later than the tenth calendar day following the date of receipt by any Obligor or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of any Net Asset Sale Cash Proceeds from any Asset Sale, the Company shall apply all such Net Asset Sale Cash Proceeds to repay any outstanding Loans as set forth in Section 2.13(a); provided that, if the Borrower provides written notice to the Administrative Agent within seven calendar days of the date any such Net Asset Sale Cash Proceeds are so received of its intention to undertake such an investment, then so long as no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the Company shall have the option, directly or indirectly or through one or more of its Restricted Subsidiaries, to invest such Net Asset Sale Cash Proceeds within twelve months of receipt thereof in assets of the general type used in the business of the Parent and its Restricted Subsidiaries; provided, further, that, if any portion of such Net Asset Sale Cash Proceeds have not been so reinvested at the end of such twelve-month period, the Borrower shall apply an amount equal to the amount of Net Asset Sale Cash Proceeds that have not been so reinvested as set forth in Section 2.13(a).
(b) No later than the tenth Business Day following the date of receipt by any Obligor or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of any Net Equity Issuance Event Cash Proceeds from any Equity Issuance Event, the Company shall apply 33% of all such Net Equity Issuance Event Cash Proceeds (such amount, the “Equity Prepayment Amount”) to repay any outstanding Loans as set forth in Section 2.13(a), and each such prepayment shall be accompanied by a permanent reduction of the Revolving Commitments in an amount equal to such Equity Prepayment Amount.
(c) If at any time, the Aggregate Total Exposure exceeds the aggregate Revolving Commitments then in effect, the Borrower shall forthwith prepay first, Loans, and second Cash Collateralize the outstanding amount of Letter of Credit Usage at the Agreed L/C Cash Collateral Amount, to the extent necessary so that the Aggregate Total Exposure shall not exceed the Revolving Commitments then in effect (or, in the case of Letter of Credit Usage, such amounts are fully Cash Collateralized in compliance with the Agreed Cash Collateral Amount).
(d) If, after giving effect to any termination of or reduction of the Revolving Commitments, the Letter of Credit Sublimit exceeds the amount of the Revolving Commitments, such sublimit shall be automatically reduced by the amount of such excess (including a corresponding reduction to each Issuing Bank’s Letter of Credit Issuer Sublimit (ratably) unless otherwise agreed by the Borrower and each applicable Issuing Bank).