Restricted Payments; Certain Payments of Indebtedness (a) No Loan Party will, nor will it permit any Subsidiary to, declare or make, or agree to declare or make, directly or indirectly, any Restricted Payment, or enter into any transaction that has a substantially similar effect or incur any obligation (contingent or otherwise) to do so, except (i) the Borrowers may declare and pay dividends with respect to its common stock payable solely in additional shares of its common stock, and, with respect to its preferred stock, payable solely in additional shares of such preferred stock or in shares of its common stock, (ii) so long as there exists no Event of Default, the Borrowers may, to the extent required by law, repurchase fractional shares of Borrowers’ Equity Interests up to an aggregate repurchase total for all fractional shares repurchased of $500,000, (iii) the Borrowers may issue its common stock pursuant to the Borrowers’ stock option plan existing on the Effective Date, (iv) so long as there exists no Event of Default, during the period beginning on the Effective Date and continuing to and including the Maturity Date, the Borrowers may purchase shares of Borrowers’ Equity Interests up to an aggregate purchase total for all shares repurchased of $3,000,000; and (v) the Borrowers may declare and pay dividends so long as there exists no Event of Default.
(b) No Loan Party will, nor will it permit any Subsidiary to, make or agree to pay or make, directly or indirectly, any payment or other distribution (whether in cash, securities or other property) of or in respect of principal of or interest on any Indebtedness, or any payment or other distribution (whether in cash, securities or other property), including any sinking fund or similar deposit, on account of the purchase, redemption, retirement, acquisition, cancellation or termination of any Indebtedness, except:
(i) payment of Indebtedness created under the Loan Documents;
(ii) payment of regularly scheduled interest and principal payments as and when due in respect of any Indebtedness permitted under Section 6.01, other than payments in respect of the Subordinated Indebtedness prohibited by the subordination provisions thereof;
(iii) refinancings of Indebtedness to the extent permitted by Section 6.01; and
(iv) payment of secured Indebtedness that becomes due as a result of the voluntary sale or transfer of the property or assets securing such Indebtedness.
Limitation on Restricted Payments (a) The Borrower shall not, and shall not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly:
(I) declare or pay any dividend or make any payment or distribution on account of the Borrower’s or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries’ Equity Interests, including any dividend or distribution payable in connection with any merger or consolidation, other than:
(A) dividends or distributions by the Borrower payable solely in Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Borrower; or
(B) dividends or distributions by a Restricted Subsidiary; provided that, in the case of any dividend or distribution payable on or in respect of any class or series of securities issued by a Restricted Subsidiary other than a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary, the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary receives at least its pro rata share of such dividend or distribution in accordance with its Equity Interests in such class or series of securities;
(II) purchase, redeem, defease or otherwise acquire or retire for value any Equity Interests of the Borrower, or any direct or indirect parent of the Borrower, including any purchase, redemption, defeasance, acquisition or retirement, in connection with any merger or consolidation;
(III) make any principal payment on, or redeem, repurchase, defease or otherwise acquire or retire for value, in each case prior to any scheduled repayment, sinking fund payment or maturity, any Subordinated Indebtedness, other than:
(a) Indebtedness permitted under clauses (7) and (8) of Section 7.03(b) hereof; or
(b) the purchase, repurchase or other acquisition of such Subordinated Indebtedness purchased in anticipation of satisfying a sinking fund obligation, principal installment or final maturity, in each case due within one year of the date of purchase, repurchase or acquisition; or
(IV) make any Restricted Investment (all such payments and other actions set forth in clauses (I) through (IV) above (other than any exceptions thereof) being collectively referred to as “Restricted Payments”), unless, at the time of such Restricted Payment:
(1) no Default shall have occurred and be continuing or would occur as a consequence thereof;
(2) immediately after giving effect to such transaction on a pro forma basis, the Borrower could incur $1.00 of additional Indebtedness under the provisions of Section 7.03(a) hereof; and
(3) such Restricted Payment, together with the aggregate amount of all other Restricted Payments made by the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries after the Issue Date (including Restricted Payments permitted by clauses (1), (2) (with respect to the payment of dividends on Refunding Capital Stock pursuant to clause (b) thereof only), (6)(c), (7), (9) and (14) (to the extent not deducted in calculating Consolidated Net Income) of Section 7.06(b) hereof, but excluding all other Restricted Payments permitted by Section 7.06(b) hereof), is less than the sum of (without duplication):
(a) 50% of the Consolidated Net Income of the Borrower for the period (taken as one accounting period) beginning on January 1, 2011 to the end of the Borrower’s most recently ended fiscal quarter for which internal financial statements are available at the time of such Restricted Payment, or, in the case such Consolidated Net Income for such period is a deficit, minus 100% of such deficit; plus
(b) 100% of the aggregate net cash proceeds and the fair market value of marketable securities or other property received by the Borrower since the Issue Date (other than net cash proceeds to the extent such net cash proceeds have been used to incur Indebtedness, Disqualified Stock or Preferred Stock pursuant to clause (12)(a) of Section 7.03(b) hereof) from the issue or sale of:
(i) (A) Equity Interests of the Borrower, including Treasury Capital Stock, but excluding cash proceeds and the fair market value of marketable securities or other property received from the sale of:
Permitted Payments Until such time as all of the Senior Indebtedness has been Paid in Full, Borrower may pay to the Subordinated Creditors, and the Subordinated Creditors may accept from the Borrower (collectively, the “Permitted Payments”) only:
(i) Any payments of interest with respect to the Subordinated Indebtedness that are paid “in kind,” whether capitalized and added to then outstanding principal amount of the Subordinated Indebtedness or accrued or accreted as unpaid interest so long as such payments “in kind” do not become obligations for payment of cash, securities or any other form of payment (other than in each case in the form of Subordinated Securities) until the earlier of (x) after all of the Senior Indebtedness has been Paid in Full or (y) the scheduled maturity date of the Subordinated Indebtedness (it being acknowledged and agreed by the Subordinated Creditors that such scheduled maturity date will be automatically extended (without any action by the Borrower or any Subordinated Creditor) by a number of days that the maturity date of the Senior Indebtedness is extended provided that such scheduled maturity date may not be extended by more than 180 days without the consent of each Subordinated Creditor);
(ii) Payment of all or any portion of principal or interest on the Subordinated Indebtedness, so long as on the date of any proposed payment, (x) Quarterly Adjusted Continuing Business EBITDA for the two immediately preceding calendar quarters was greater than $5,000,000 for each such quarter, (y) Borrower is in compliance with all covenants and requirements set forth in the Senior Loan Agreement without giving effect to the amendments to the Senior Loan Agreement set forth in Section 4 of the First Amendment, and (z) no default or event of default exists under the Senior Loan Agreement or any other Loan Document, and no default would occur under the Senior Loan Agreement or any other Loan Document as a result of such payment;
(iii) Payments of principal and accreted or accrued interest upon the occurrence of a Change in Control (as defined in the Subordinated Documents as in effect on the date hereof) and the declaration of an “Event of Default” under the Subordinated Documents in accordance with the terms thereof, but only to the extent that the Senior Creditor has consented in writing to such Change in Control or has waived (or agreed to forbear from exercising remedies in connection with) in writing any Event of Default under the Loan Documents that may have occurred as a result of such Change in Control; and
(iv) Reimbursement of reasonable out-of-pocket costs and expenses (including without limitation, attorney fees) due and owing to any Subordinated Creditor; provided, in the case of clauses (iii) and (iv) only if such payments are payments made in accordance with the terms of the Subordinated Documents as in effect on the date hereof or as modified in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.
Limitation on Additional Indebtedness The Issuer acknowledges that the Borrower has incurred the Senior Debt which is prior as to payment and security to the payment of the Loan and all amounts payable hereunder by the Borrower. The Borrower may incur additional Long Term Debt on a parity with or prior to the Loan as to payment and security (“Additional Parity Indebtedness”) for any business purpose subject to the following conditions: DRAFT
(i) Prior to incurring such Additional Parity Indebtedness, the Borrower must deliver to the Issuer a written certificate of the Chief Financial Officer of the Borrower stating (A) that the net Revenues Available for Debt Service of the Borrower for each of the last 2 Fiscal Years preceding the date on which the proposed long Term Debt is to be incurred were at least 100% of the Principal and Interest Requirements on all then- existing Long Term Debt for such Fiscal Years, and (B) that the projected Net Revenues Available for Debt Service of the Borrower for each Fiscal Year beginning after the Fiscal Year in which the proposed Long Term Debt is to be incurred, but before the final stated maturity of the Bonds, will not be less than 100% of the Principal and Interest Requirements on all Long Term Debt (including such requirements for the proposed Long Term Debt but excluding such requirements for any then outstanding Long Term Debt to be refinanced by the proposed Long Term Debt) for such Fiscal Year.
(ii) This Loan Agreement shall be in effect and no Event of Default shall exist hereunder.
(iii) The Additional Parity Indebtedness shall not cause impairment of the security given to the Issuer by the Collateral Account Security Agreement and Account Control Agreement.
Failure to Charge Not Subsequent Waiver Any decision by the Administrative Agent or any Lender not to require payment of any interest (including interest arising under Section 3.7), fee, cost or other amount payable under any Loan Document, or to calculate any amount payable by a particular method, on any occasion shall in no way limit or be deemed a waiver of the Administrative Agent’s or such Lender’s right to require full payment of any interest (including interest arising under Section 3.7), fee, cost or other amount payable under any Loan Document, or to calculate an amount payable by another method that is not inconsistent with this Agreement, on any other or subsequent occasion, except as provided in Sections 3.5 and 3.6.